Moogle Cavern Injokes:

Alex Gayhat

Origin: When Scott Prower was asked to show Neil Lafrenais his picture over AOL Instant Messanger, he sent him a picture of himself wearing a hat, so as to cover his curly hair (which he was then supposedly embarrassed of). Neil, in mock outrage, proclaimed the hat to be a "gay hat" and then referred to Scott as "Alex Gayhat". 

Useage: Shortly after this incident, Neil mocked up a new ezBoard account called "Alex Gayhat", going to the trouble of making a mock sig using the infamous picture. Lafrenais rampaged around the Fluff Forum for a day or so, screaming that "ZAHN IS MY BROTETEHERR!!11 :) :) :)" and other nonsense. 

Also used occasionally in sprite comics, Paulo J. Machintosh/Eyrd Parker wormed his way into the joke, by actually being gay, and thusly shooting Scott and stealing the hat in H Hog's sprite comic, "The Horror". 

Status: Used infrequently. More of an injoke between Neil and Scott more than anything. Also, an interesting tidbit is that Scott no longer posesses the "gay hat", which has long since been buried in his back garden by his dog.

Alright, Here We Go! 

Purpose: The one and only purpose for the thread Alright, Here We Go! (Hereby known as "AHWG") is to get the largest amount of replies to one topic. 

The Story: Back in the day of EZBoard (Someone else can put a specific time), Knuxedo Mask (Now known as Zhan Dvega) started the AHWG topic, encouraging others to reply to the topic like mad. It worked, and eventually piled up to a total of 10, 031 replies. Along the way, copycats sprung up (See "Hi Peoples"), but it always stayed at the highest reply count of the forum. However, the original AHWG was deleted by EzBoard for unknown reasons. A newer version (Started August 14, 2003) was made by AJ, and it now has 2700+ replies. 

I think that's how it went. Not positive on the details, though. 

Arse Wars, The 
For reasons as yet unknown to sane mankind, Kulock once created a new forum at the MC named "Amplitude's Arse Forum". The inspiration was apparently a "climbing ladder" sprite of Amplitude, a Mega Man-based character created by (and similar in appearance to) Andrusi, which happened to prominently feature the character's butt. Within days it had become "The Arse Wars", the second arse being that of Jamie Swiftrunner, and Jamie and Andrusi had mod powers in it (which they abused horribly, as would be expected). But all good things must come to an end, and so must all really bizarre things, and so the forum was locked and renamed "Such is the Price of War". 

Ayeka Sprites 
also, Sexy Goggles 
Once upon a time, there was a "copycat" fad at the MC, in which people would copy others' avatars and tweak them slightly to represent themselves. Naturally Andrusi participated in this, first copying Kulock, then Scott, who had for his avatar a sprite of "Rapied Ayeka" from a game which the writer of this entry has forgotten. Andrusi recolored the sprite to match his own, and added his trademark yellow goggles. When a few other MCers similarly copied Scott (who, ironically, had gotten the idea from Fadflamer), this became a fad in itself. (Andrusi, upon noticing this, performed a more in-depth edit, which became the subject of another injoke between himself and several friends on the Bob and George boards.) NeroMan then started a "beauty contest" involving these sprites, with the end result that dozens of Ayeka edits were produced by the MC's most talented spriters. During this contest (which was ultimately abandoned by NeroMan, who has not been forgiven for this crime), an argument began over who was the sexiest; Andrusi, for his part, claimed that because of the goggles, his "Andria" was sexier than the others. This joke lay dormant for a while, then reached "mandatory mention" status when Andrusi reused it, almost without realizing it, in a comic strip (now attributing the discovery that "goggles = sexy" to a particular goggled Transformer, a favorite of Andrusi's by the name of Stakeout). 

Cheese Racer 

Origin: This little joke originated at the "Bob and George" forums. 
To "blend in with the crowd", H Hog attempted to make a megaman-related sprite comic, planning to eventually have "Dolby Surround" make an appearance, this being his Megaman-based character. 
The first comic has since been lost forever, but it was the origin of the Cheesewedge Mobile - take the wheels of a yellow car that appeared in a Megaman game, then crudely draw a cheesewedge with a hole, a steering wheel and an exhaust pipe on it. 
Voila. 
The back of the car seemed somewhat empty, so H Hog slightly tweaked the H Met sprite Neo made for him, then added it to the back of the car, as a cheese wedge would of course require machinery to run correctly. 

Cheese Racer re-appeared eventually in H Hog's "Random Signature Chatter", a periodically updated feature that had H Hog utter some random quote of the moment. 

The following three images are the "story" of Cheese Racer... 
http://coldflame.echidnoyle.org/images/random/randomchatter18.gif

http://coldflame.echidnoyle.org/images/random/randomchatter19.gif

http://coldflame.echidnoyle.org/images/random/randomchatter21.gif

Cornelius 

Origin: Long long ago, there was a man who went by the online persona of "HM Elechinda", HM being short for "Hyper Mac". 
He talked around with his friends at the Perfect Chaos Group forum, and to a lesser extent, at the Moogle Cavern. 
Until one fateful day, his messageboard account got hacked by one of the guys at his school, he wreaked (wroke?) havoc on the unsuspecting forumers... by making strange insults, typing rather oddly, and almost driving HM to take his own life. 
This thankfully did not happen, and after some time, Cornelius simply "went away". 
Eventually, about two years and several namechanges later, HM, since going by the name of "Staroxide", had to get everything off his chest, it would have turned out that Cornelius and he were one and the same person all along. 

He has since apologized, though not a single person was angry with him in the first place, so it all turned out good in the end. 

DADDY WOULD YOU LIKE SOME SAUSAGE!? 
This was a repeating WAV file embedded into an ezBoard post on the old MC. HM Elechidna was proclaiming that he was going to commit suicide, and a user said "Here, this'll cheer you up" and posted that WAV. One user asked what that was, and Tenniru explained that it was a clip from a new movie called "Freddy Got Fingered". (Well, it was.) He asked "Freddy got what now?" But nobody really looked into it. The fad died quickly.

Eggleton 
Kulock's real name is David Eggleton. 
Fun Fact During an early "What's Your Real Name" thread, a reluctant Kulock said his name was Edmond D(something) 

Eggleton is my favourite weird 

One of Andrusi's zany lines. 

Presumed origin: 
It is assumed that one fateful day, Andrusi was hanging around Googlism.com, searching for the real-life last name of Kulock. 
Due to "Googlism" 's inability to display commas in generated search results, the phrase got cut off prematurely, while more adjectives would actually have followed after "weird". 

G- 
Purpose: Generally when referencing old fads, as it is one of the oldest injokes. The original community it was created on is now scattered, but it lives on. 

Origin: During the 'golden age' of Simon Wai's Sonic 2 Beta Page (spring-summer 1999), KnuxFive was typing a post on the S2B MB about G-Sonic (Sonic Blast), and accidentally hit the enter key on the post with G- as the title, and a blank author and message body (one did not have to register to post). Theories on missing zones and other Sonic related mysteries were abundant on the MB at the time, and so this topic gave birth to many theories and jokes on the nature of G- and its relation to the meaning of life and other such indepth topics. 

Gatter 
In 2000, one of Andrusi's real-life friends decided that geable alone simply wasn't good enough for all the geabling that needed to be geabled. With this in mind, he invented "gatter". Geable and gatter are apparently mortal enemies, which of course meant gatter had to be evil since geable had already been decided to be good. Gatter is very rare compared to geable, but it still pops up at the Moogle Cavern, usually without warning. 

Geable 
Years ago, Andrusi and some of his family were tired and bored. Andrusi decided to make up a song out of nonsense syllables, coming up with "Gee gee geable geable, geable goo". It would have been quickly forgotten like most things Andrusi thinks up, except he made a WAV of himself singing it. After a brief "test run" at his school, Andrusi revealed the newly invented "geable" to the Moogle Cavern. One thing quickly led to another, and before long geable had become a common saying among MCers. At first, attempts were made to assign a meaning to the word, but these ceased when Andrusi realized the word was much more useful as a "filler" word. Variations include "geabgoostic" (roughly equivalent to "cool"), and "Geablist/Geablism" (used when specifying a religion; roughly equivalent to "I dunno"). Geable with a capital G usually refers to Andrusi's various sprite comics, which have a tendency to have the word in their titles. 

Hold your arm out, it makes you sexy 
When Andrusi works on the comic strip Geable Geable Goo, he generally takes a random word, image, observation, or sprite, and goes with the very first idea that comes to mind. In one case he dug up his old Andria sprite and a few related edits of other characters from the same game, and decided that one had observed that the others were sexy while she herself was not. Andrusi noted that the "non-sexy" one was the only one of the three not holding out her arms, and so made the punchline an assertation that this was the difference between sexy and unsexy. It caught on like a starving fish, and references to "holding one's arm out" became the norm whenever Andrusi or sexiness was a concern. 

I'm eating a hot pocket!
First used as a topic title by Jamie Swiftrunner.
Useless fact: The hot pocket she was eating was BBQ.

Johnny Turbo 

One fateful day in the NES gaming community, a young man who went by the online persona of "Sardius" had dug through his old collection of videogame magazines. 
In which, he found a 3-part comic series, as part of an advertisement of the "Turbo Duo" CD game system. 
Said comic took games company "Sega" as its scapegoat, claiming the Turbo Duo was the first CD game system on the market, as opposed to Sega's "Mega CD". 
The lengths this character went through to make his point known was hilarious, and "H Hog" stumbled upon said webpage while hunting for pirate NES roms. (Eheheh.) 
He saw the comic, laughed his rump off, and proceeded to share the hilarity with his friends at the Moogle Cavern. 
The site in question is located at http://sardius.fefea.org . 

Kulock is a Hot Babe 

The Story: Back in the day of EZBoard, Kulock checked his EZBoard profile, and for some reason, a known errer listed him as "female". He then made a topic called "I am a hot babe", which pointed out the error.

Leo's Breasts 

WAY back in the old days, A man named "Crazy Mr. Leo" entered the Moogle Cavern. 
It was a day he would never ever forget. 
To represent himself, he used a picture of a silhouette of a man with his arms folded over his chest. 
Since the picture was monochrome, details could not be seen, and as a result, it looked like the man in the image had an enormous bosom. 

MC Comics 
Purpose: When speaking of 'MC comics', people are generally referring to the explosion of MC-based comic strips made by MCers in mid-2001. These comics included, but were not limited to: 
-The Moment (the first) 
-Moogle 
-Mooglation 
-Blasphemy 
-The Horror 
-A Form of Cheese 
-Everybody Loves Ramen 
-Name this Comic 
-I suck at Golf 
-44 Seconds To Pie 
-and others (can be added as well) 

Origin: The MC comic explosion started when Leo decided to create a MC comic called "Moogle". It gained steam thanks to Matrixx's comic sprites, which allowed even those with less artistic ability to ponder making a comic. Furthermore, the original comics were very good, leading to inspired efforts from many MCers to create excellent comics. 

n00 

Origin: When Neil Lafrenais quoted a few lines from a then popular Feeder song, Buck Rodgers, in the Fluff Forum, using the word "n00" instead of "new". This caused a mild outbreak of similiar song quotations. 

Example: "Papa's got a brand n00 bag." (from Zhan Dvega) 

Also used in a post craze started by user "Princess Garnett", but the real origin is still questioned.

Example: "I've got a n00 something."

Status: Defunct. 

Omochap 

A combination of a fad and a typo, Omochap was created while H Hog attempted to type "Omochao". 
The chap part increased the fun of said typo, especially when referencing "Teh Jolly Good Chap", a character by Drak. 
[Also see: "Jolly Good Chap, Teh"] 

Pen Rueben 
In August of 2001, the fanimutation "Gunya Gunya Gasu Gasu" by ANTDocEvil was released. At the begginingg of the song, their is the line "How's Your Pen Groovin Today?". Despite the video's simplicity, Toxic really liked it (proabably due to it's crazy song) and posted it on the MC. However, from the first couple of listenings Toxic though it sounded more like "How's Your Pen Rueben Today" and knowing H Hog's real name is Rueben, he decided to use it as the topic title. Interestingly enough, this was actually Toxic's very first instance of actually posting a (f)animutation on the MC, since everyone else kept beating him to them. 

Pork Hog 

Origin: H Hog had a certain sprite-edit of himself in which the H shaped on his chest looked more like a K. 
In the middle of a conversation, Yajirobe brought this up and then Keith, using netspeak, said "POR K HOG". 
An anynonymous Moogler decided to join the POR and the K, and thus Pork Hog was born in the shape of a H Hog sprite edit (changing only the colour from Orange to a Pinky-red). 

Purpose: Pork Hog likes to pop up during random times making topics in the Fluff Forum which talk about red meat and/or the meals he cooks (since he proclaimed himself the Official Moogle Cavern chef). 

Fun Facts: He hates vegetarians with a passion, and he also once had an appereance during The Arse Wars in which he joined forced with Meat Knight (write that one down too ;P), after a ferociuos fight, to defeat the abusing mods and the ones who disliked meat.

Pyro's Parents 

Purpose: References to PyroSonic's/CyStorm's/etc. parents are infrequently posted at random. There is little other purpose in it than to make fun of him/his parents in the "haha yu0r parnts aer sex0rnig" kind of way - it's more like the semi-obligatory type of joke (for example, if Pyro happens to post in a topic about or including references to sex). 

Origin: One night in 2001(2?), Pyro mentioned in The Great MC Chat that he could hear a loud noise in his house, which was intentionally taken out of context to infer that his parents were rocking the casbah. Of course, the noise was actually just his dad snoring, but that only further contributed to the humor of the situation anyway.

Such is the price of war
A phrase Kulock used from a show called Pokey. Also see Arse Wars

Sz = Pasta 

The day when H Hog learned not to leave his AOL Instant Messenger running overnight. 
One fateful moment, Andrusi had messaged H Hog while he was sleeping. 
He was obviously bored, and though he got no reply, Andrusi remained talking. 
At a certain moment, he said the following: 
"H" 
"TELL YOUR BUDDY SZ HE IS PASTA" 
It stuck ever since. 

"Tenniru Can't Have a Spaceship" 

Usually, when addressing the user Tenniru while in a bad mood, some refer to him as "Mr. Can't Have a Spaceship". 

The Orgin: During the era of EZBoard, there was a series of add-ons called "The Moogle Cavern Saga". During this story, Tenniru came in as the captain of the Starship Enterprise from the TV series "Star Trek". This completely derailed the plot, and set the comic orbiting around Tenniru. Many users became confused and could not follow the Star Trek-esque plot, and the add-on ended promptly. When the new Moogle Cavern board was launched, Tenniru attempted to place the spaceship into another add-on. The user Crazy Mr. Leo exclaimed "TENNIRU CAN'T HAVE A SPACESHIP". After a series of negotions with the moderator H Hog, it was agreed that the most powerful vessel Tenniru was allowed to have was a small fighter jet.

There were no survivors
A common war or sci-fi movie line (Maybe from Pokey) used by Kulock

Tom Jones 
Purpose: The name of this famous Welsh singer, known for his hits like "It's Not Unusual" and "What's New Pussy Cat", tends to often radomlly appear normally in la large list of repeted word or phrase. 
Origins: This was started by Toxic the Machine back in late 1999, proabably even before he even started going to the MC. It was mostly used in evil long evil laughs and long lists of pleases. 

"We are v-r-r-iends! Ouch!" 
Origin: In the 1930s, a man named Stanley Weinbaum wrote a science fiction story entitled "A Martian Odyssey", featuring an astronaut who, stranded on Mars, attempts to survive and summon help from his ship with the assistance of a local. The last segment of the story involved the pair's encounter with an unusual species which, upon hearing the astronaut first attempt what would now be replaced by "We come in peace" and then react to being struck in the nose, constantly said "We are v-r-r-iends! Ouch!" throughout the rest of the story. More recently, Andrusi read the story in question, got a chuckle out of the line, and repeated it in a chat room. 

Purpose: Although "v-r-r-iends" never reached fad status, it can still be seen at times, primarily in Andrusi's "newbie welcome" posts. 

Yellow Scarf 
When the current incarnation of MoogleMB was first created, the "no avatar" icon was a blacked-out image of Protoman, as seen in the game "Mega Man & Bass". It was pointed out that this looked more like one of the Mega Man 8 bosses than Protoman, so Kulock edited the image, returning Protoman's scarf to its normal yellow while leaving the rest black. While editing, Kulock noticed that the scarf was drawn just right to be placed on the neck of a Kulock sprite, and so his own avatar also wore the scarf. At the same time, the OekakiBBS opened, and unsurprisingly the now scarf-clad Kulock was a popular subject to draw. Kulock expressed concern about every drawing of him now giving him a scarf, and so naturally it became even more common, especially since it helped distinguish him visually from other, lesser moogles. Despite Kulock's best efforts, the scarf is still occasionally featured in Oekaki drawings to this day. 

You guys need girlfriends!, Jesus roller skating Christ!

Purpose: Used sometimes when someone says something really nerdy. 

Origin: During a fad, in which everyone at the Moogle Cavern Message Board was using risque avatars, many people started complaining about it. In a topic about the avatars, the member Keith 2002 stated in a post that they should stop complaining that they're seeing naked women, and that they should get girlfriends if they don't know what a woman looks like. Another memer by the name Gold Sonic made fun of this in a later post, in which he said that Keith 2002's reaction to every subject was "You guys need girlfriends!" Keith 2002 then actually starting using this as his opinion to every subject. This angered and/or confused most of the caverners. Later, DiscoChao told Keith 2002 to stop using the phrase, and since then Keith 2002 hasn't used the phrase much, except in rare situations at the Moogle Cavern.