[DECtalk] How many of you are familiar with the Talking IRC Inside Jokes

[Ulysses Garcia]

Hi,
I have the DECtalk archive backed up on an external hard drive. What is 
this talking IRC site that you are referring to? Isn't BOFH an 
abbreviation for a Bossed operator from somewhere? I do recall the cat 
Leet, but I don't remember hearing any parodies of the Beach Boys. 
There's one called IRC Court which I thought was kind of interesting.
Further clarification would greatly be appreciated.
-Ulysses
On 13/10/2015 02:58, Tyler Zahnke via Dectalk wrote:
> I remember, several years ago, when the DECtalk Archive was a public
> website, the Miscellaneous folder had all these little odds and ends,
> and some of them were just totally off the wall, including a song that
> says "CutieCat is leet". The Vocalwriter section had a parody of the
> Beach Boys song "Fun Fun Fun" about the BOFH (which stands for
> something I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say on this list). Now, I
> kind of knew about the BOFH stories as they were originally written,
> and I knew about LOLcats and other silly cat pictures, but not
> CutieCat, and I knew about people calling things leet (or l33t, or
> 1337) and I knew about n00bs, probably because I felt like one. But I
> didn't really understand what context these particular bits were in.
> But today I discovered the Talking IRC site, which includes files of
> synthesizers using leet language, including the CutieCat song and the
> BOFH song. Were any of you mailing list members familiar with this
> Talking IRC culture? Someone who was good with making DECtalk sing was
> picking on people for not being leet, and it almost always used the
> same format; "He sucks, he sucks, he suuuuuuuuuucks". Who were these
> users getting picked on? I'm guessing they were part of the
> #talkingirc channel. They must have been some rather annoying users to
> get that treatment. How many of you were part of this, or were at
> least familiar with this? And who was the DECtalk programmer telling
> people they were leet or not leet (more often not leet) using songs?
> Tyler Z
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