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posted by rio at 12:25 AM on July 11, 2001
The RoR is probably an abbreviation for R____ of R_____, but what those words are I don't know.
In any case it seems to be a private joke by this Doctor Murdock guy that he threw into everything for deliberate Discordian nonsense purposes.
posted by dhartung at 12:29 AM on July 11, 2001
posted by southisup at 12:58 AM on July 11, 2001
But I agree with dhartung that it's mostly a stupid hacker joke term, like inserting "fnord" into paragraphs, which probably seems monstrously clever when you're 16, socially inept, and hopped up on mountain dew and doritos... :) Actually, it also kinda reminds me of this Straight Dope column about the whole Necronomicon/ Cthulhu thing, how basically a group of writers including H.P. Lovecraft and Robert Howard all decided to use some of the same names and mythos in all their novels, a sort of spine-chilling backstory, to give their novels a sense of eerie authenticity- a sense that some people mistake for a real occult history to this day. Interestingly, making fun of that sort of thing, and people's willingness to believe it, is pretty much the point of the Illuminatus trilogy- rather ironic. It does exactly this- drop enough seemingly related clues to make it seem like a glimpse at some "secret" that you are fortunate to now be privy to, when really there is no "there" there.
Oop- just previewed my post, and saw in the page refresh southisup's post- and in his second-to-last link another meaning of ROR is an in-development online RPG called "Realm of Ralnar" (sounds more fitting than AoE). That's could be what it is- but I guess the point of my above ramblings is that we may never know and it doesn't really matter... if I said to you "b-sunoco" or "fingah sandwiches!", there's maybe 5 or 6 people who know how funny that once was... but I don't use it as a sig for the same reason!
posted by hincandenza at 1:15 AM on July 11, 2001
I grew up about 20 minutes from the brewery, and we used to sit around and debate this in High School...not a bad beer either...
posted by canoeguide at 1:34 AM on July 11, 2001
Would that be anything like being hopped up on Dristan No-Doze and shots of dark rum? I tells ya, that definitely makes everything seem monstrously clever...
Highly recommend Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco as a massively entertaining (and monstrously clever) piss-take on the whole secret society thing, amongst other stuff.
The real Secret of It All, of course, was clumsily revealed in your post, hincadenza : There Is No "There" There.
begin mantra now...There Is No "There" There...There Is No "There" There...
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:34 AM on July 11, 2001
posted by Kino at 5:15 AM on July 11, 2001
posted by MonkeyMeat at 6:55 AM on July 11, 2001
posted by tweebiscuit at 7:30 AM on July 11, 2001
posted by kindall at 9:02 AM on July 11, 2001
Zippity BOP™ doesn't figure in here. Zippity BOP™ is timeless.
posted by daveadams at 9:27 AM on July 11, 2001
I don't know why I know this.
posted by Dreama at 10:11 AM on July 11, 2001
One of the R's is probably Rat or Ratsnatcher, a handle for one of the writers and his BBS. It's used as an expression -- "RoR, Man" -- at least once, seeming to mean "your mileage may vary" or "watch what you're doing".
posted by dhartung at 11:36 AM on July 11, 2001
Did anyone here used to frequent the old bay area BBSs? I've always wondered what happened to those guys. Especially this one guy, Blue Bandit, he stole my USRobotics HST Dual Standard.
posted by perplexed at 12:03 PM on July 11, 2001
From what I remember, RoR was a play on words from BoB. Bob -> Rob -> RoR. Or something.
Speaking of BBSing 10 years ago, does anyone remember ANSi? Any ex-members from MiRAGE or TRiBE? Heh, heh, heh...
posted by littleyellowdifferent at 12:51 PM on July 11, 2001
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