Though it's still funny, I think.

OK, it was good for a chuckle, one time.

I still never got why it became such a guaranteed laugh line among dorks, to the point of ad nauseam repetition on a level with Monty Python catchphrases.

I mean, it's not like there aren't much funnier examples of "Engrish" out there.

I think part of the reason it's grew funny is because of the repetition. There's a part of humor that relies upon insistence to become funny, and after a time, the insistence results in funniness (or complete annoyance).

It's also just generally funny when people seize upon something and spend lots of man-hours building bits around it. It's partly funny because of all that useless wasted effort.

Like, you know, Paul Anka.

Paul Anka - now that's some fuckin' comedy. "All your base" ain't in the same league, ain't the same ballpark, ain't even the same sport.

I looked for the humor, I really did.

I didn't find it, sorry.

Golden Boy,

Do you know the backstory? It's some bad "Engrish" from a lame eighties video game. People thought it was funny, and "All your base" became a dork catchphrase like "Ni!"

Then independent record producers, like house music sorts of guys, started laying the sound down into their tracks.

It's not really funny because it's inherently funny; it's more funny because of all this effort spent to turn a silly bit of badly-translated English into a whole thing.

Hey, I run a blog with "Geek" in the title, and I finally had to break down and google this one after seeing that line a gazillion times and not knowing what the hell it meant.

Although I did find the star wars kid before you, so I'm not a total loss.

Sorry, Ace.

Not funny.

And if something needs two paragraphs of explanation, it's really NOT funny.

But hey, different strokes and all that...

You have to appreciate the photoshops that everybody poured out on this thing. Otherwise, you're right. It's not very funny. I'm ashamed to admit that I still have an AYB t-shirt. Along with the "Got DeCSS" shirt.

Wind,

Granted, if you have to explain a joke, it's not funny.

I'm just saying, had you "been there" and not really needed the explanation, you might have had a chuckle.

Not the funniest thing ever, but it was amusing, I thought, when it first became omnipresent, sometime in late 1974.

Vietnam, Watergate... the nation needed a laugh, and All Your Base Are Belong To Us provided us some much-needed mirth.

All the new guys have -zero- sense of humor.

As a great philosopher once said, "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke".

(That they're bitching at you in the comments about it too is like SUPER-DUPER-EXTRA-OLLIVER-WILLIS-WITH-A-SHORT-LIVED-TWINKIE retarded)

They're not bitching, Fat Kid. They're just saying they don't think it's funny. It's a you-had-to-be-there kind of thing, like the Tourist Guy, or like that new Star Wars kid thing that's all the rage.

The reason it's not funny is because you had to be in on all the silly shit that went along with it, including the migration of Democrats into the GOP fold resulting in the phenomenon known as "Reagan Democrats". Thus their base now belongs to us, see?

Well, it was a chuckle at the time. It appears its purpose these days is to draw out the dorks who are even less tuned in than our host. Let's ridicule the new guys!

I'm not new here. I just think Ace rattles off funnier throwaway lines on hist worst days.

Golden Boy,

From now on when we make fun of you on this blog, I want you to keep one thought in mind:

"All your debasement are belong to us."

"All Your Base Are Belong to Us" is one of the very few Internet "bits" that *is* still funny, at least to me. So help me, I still chuckle every time I see a reference to it. Exactly why, I don't know.

agreed, i still thinks its amusing....i even contributed a photoshop back on the thread that it started on, dumb, but funny

Johnny,

Which one was yours?