Did Rich created Kilonazis?

[Bluelantern]

I found this on wizards forum and was curious

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i10/magon_p/motivator6773480.jpg

[Lord Zentei]

Did you get the date that post was made/last edited?

[Kurald Galain]

That poster doesn't really make sense to me... what is it supposed to represent?

[Lord Zentei]

That poster doesn't really make sense to me... what is it supposed to represent?

I'd say that like 90% of all home-made "motivator" posters, it's simply poorly thought out nonsense. So: it's not worth speculating about. :smallwink:

[Bluelantern]

It is recent, but I was surprised to see the term again, so it occured to me that maybe rich was not the creator. It is funny but sounds very much like a "regular" internet slang

[sihnfahl]

It is recent, but I was surprised to see the term again, so it occured to me that maybe rich was not the creator. It is funny but sounds very much like a "regular" internet slang
Google it, whydontcha?

Kilonazis in Internet posts don't show up until after the comic.

[Maratanos]

It's true, but the idea of measuring evil in terms of the Third Reich is not unique to this strip.

I know an author that was writing a story where good and evil were physical properties and materials, measured in "gandhis" and "hitlers". One hitler was the amount of evil necessary to conquer the world twice, commit genocide twice, or one of each.


I forget how much a gandhi was.

[Porthos]

I remember seeing a hit (via Google) for kilonazi that was a couple of years old in some random message board thread (ETA: though I can't seem to find it now - not surprising considering how things can fall off of Google).

This is just a case of Independent Development, otherwise known as Great Minds Think Alike. :smallsmile:

NB: The picture is obviously post OotS kilonazi, so I would be shocked if it wasn't derived from Rich's idea.

[elliott20]

it's like futurama where coolness is measured by megafonzies

[NikkTheTrick]

But I doubt we ever had a graph where an Axis of Evil was measured in Kilonazis.

[Artector]

He might have, but that's something to ask him.

For reference: The post (http://forums.gleemax.com/showpost.php?p=14247789&postcount=1282) The thread (http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=860380) and the Public Profile (http://forums.gleemax.com/member.php?u=502737). All on the WOTC site.

My suggestion, ask Magon where he took Kilonazis from. His photobucket album was set to private so I can't see when he uploaded it, but I bet you it was recent.

Oh. And according to the Urban Dictionary (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kilonazi) "kilonazi" comes from oots.

And there's this article (http://www.viciousandevil.net/2007/10/27/vicious-guid-to-alternative-physics-fragment-i/) that refers to kilonazis. Its dated Oct 27. Anyone remember when OOTS 480 came out?

[Yendor]

Here's (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.kibology/browse_frm/thread/b71b656bd167acda/1eb8be99e2e91b99) the solitary use of "kilonazis" found on Google Groups, dating from 2003.

[geekyhedgehog]

if you actuall can find it appearing before that stip was published, it's probably just a case of independant evolution (great minds think alike)

[sihnfahl]

Oh. And according to the Urban Dictionary (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kilonazi) "kilonazi" comes from oots.
Like Wikipedia, though, Urban Dictionary is user-supported. Just because someone says 'this word comes from X' doesn't necessarily mean it. It's up to other users to add / correct entries.


And there's this article (http://www.viciousandevil.net/2007/10/27/vicious-guid-to-alternative-physics-fragment-i/) that refers to kilonazis. Its dated Oct 27. Anyone remember when OOTS 480 came out?
Re-read the article. He's added a footnote.

And 489 (where we see Kilonazis) came out late September - before this article.

[Porthos]

Here's (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.kibology/browse_frm/thread/b71b656bd167acda/1eb8be99e2e91b99) the solitary use of "kilonazis" found on Google Groups, dating from 2003.

Thanks. I knew I'd seen it somewhere on a stray Google Hit.

Regardless, Rich (after independently coming up with it) is certainly the one who popularized the term. :smallsmile:

[Artector]

Like Wikipedia, though, Urban Dictionary is user-supported. Just because someone says 'this word comes from X' doesn't necessarily mean it. It's up to other users to add / correct entries.


Meant to say it as more of a curiousity. Whatever.




Re-read the article. He's added a footnote.

And 489 (where we see Kilonazis) came out late September - before this article.

Missed the footnote there, I was just looking for publication date and kilonazi.

[MCerberus]

One day we will look back and wonder how we lived without a mathematical measure for evil.