all your base are belong to us

In 2001, this amusing mistranslation spread virally through the Internet,
bringing with it a slew of JPEGs and a movie of hacked photographs, each
showing a street sign, store front, package label, etc. hacked to read All
your base are belong to us or one of the other many supremely dopey lines
from the game (such as Somebody set up usthe bomb!!! or What happen? ). When
these phrases are used properly, the overall effect is both screamingly
funny and somewhat chilling, reminiscent of the B movie They Live. The
original has been generalized to All your X are belong to us , where X is
filled in to connote a sinister takeover of some sort. Thus, When Joe signed
up for his new job at Yoyodyne, he had to sign a draconian NDA. It basically
said: All your code are belong to us. Has many of the connotations of
Resistance is futile; you will be assimilated (see Borg ). Considered silly,
and most likely to be used by the type of person that finds Jeff K.
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