2014-04-26 14:52:28 +00:00
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warlording
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2014-04-26 15:54:15 +00:00
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v. [from the Usenet group alt.fan.warlord ] The act of excoriating a
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bloated, ugly, or derivative sig block. Common grounds for warlording
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include the presence of a signature rendered in a BUAF , over-used or
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cliched sig quote s, ugly ASCII art , or simply excessive size. The original
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Warlord was a B1FF -like newbie c.1991 who featured in his sig a
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particularly large and obnoxious ASCII graphic resembling the sword of Conan
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the Barbarian in the 1981 John Milius movie; the group name alt.fan.warlord
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was sarcasm, and the characteristic mode of warlording is devastatingly
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sarcastic praise. See also McQuary limit.
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