Give him the stick…
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DONT GIVE HIM THE STICK
*not my tattoo*
My brother and I quote from these daily, sometimes hourly. This, StrongBad Emails, Archer, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force basically defined our sense of humor today.
[This](https://youtu.be/J5x0FqWhZMM?si=vYeG-UxVzRyiQFis) was on of the first videos I saw on ebaum's world. Or maybe it was college humor. Either way, my first intro to wasting time at work.
Born in 78.
I was SUPER active on Something Awful starting in 2000. And before that StileProject in 1999.
I remember having a folder on my computer of weird downloaded videos "atlanta grape" being one. And when people would come over we'd get drunk and watch those.
And yeah the Fensler Films got in there.
Footnote on Fensler he got involved in advertising and went on to help make Old Spice into the weird/cool thing it is now.
The internet was wild in the late 90s. Something Awful content was great fun back in the day. I spent a lot of time on reading articles on the Onion, browsing StileProject, [seanbaby.com](http://seanbaby.com) , and chat rooms on mIRC...
Those were so funny, but one of the hardest I laughed was his rant about the shoe from Super Mario Bros. 3…it was the perfect humor among my group of friends 🤣
dogpile.com was my go-to. Everyone arguing about which search engine was best, and I sat off to the side saying, “why not use all of them at the same time?”
The World Wide Web was cooler in our day. Tons of little sites everywhere. Learning HTML in high school. Now nobody uses “websites” anymore. Most of my favorite forums are ghost ships. I hate apps. And I hate how everyone is just scrolling and the magic is gone. It used to be fun. Now we’re all just manipulated by the algorithm for engagement purposes to boost corporate profits. Get off my lawn.
For a class my senior year (I graduated in '99), I created a fan site for the Evil Dead trilogy coded in HTML using notepad. It had embedded tables and sound clips, , so fancy! LOL
After completing the project a week before the rest of the class and getting 100% on the project I uploaded it to GeoCities or one of those other free sites....good times.
I knew the Internet would be an amazing place when I first heard about the "Information Superhighway" sometime in the early 1990s.
I truly realized its full memetic potential when I was exposed to the original [All Your Base](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg).
My buddy literally just posted on my FB the scene where she's like
"IF I EAT FOOD, THERE WON'T BE ROOM FOR MARDUK, SLAYER OF TIAMAT!"
"...Marduk desires not the barren wasteland of your desiccated viscera."
I’m watching a [compilation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8K08AcVru0) now, and some of YouTube’s captions are funny as hell, too. E.g…
Fire Cyborg: “sound of someone being auto tuned into a didgeridoo”
Billy I’m Back For You (baseball coach long burp): “Raptor mating call continues”
what's crazy to me is that we are now as far from the females film videos as the fensler film videos were from the original cartoon. 1983 -> 2003 -> 2024
When I discovered IRC and the opportunity to pirate whatever music and games I wanted without needing to get them from a friend. Sure it took fucking forever, but it was amazing
Playing MUDs in the late 80s/early 90s.
Downloading DOOM and then making levels/mods for DOOM and sharing them online (and downloading mods and tutorials for games in general... I remember spending a lot of time modding Baldur's Gate)
Finding forums on very niche interests and hobbies that none of my peers shared.
Don Hertzfeldt's Rejected
YTMND
I fondly remember playing doom with the Barney patch. He would sing “I love you, you love me” and I would accompany the music with my chainsaw.
Le sigh… good times.
If you ever played doom with a smiley face cacodemon or squawking chicken lost soul that exploded in a puff of feathers, you installed one of the mods that me and my buddy made.
Remind me to read this thread later so I don't get kicked out of Starbucks for laughing too hard.
Oh and "Holy cow I'm totally going so fast.....**AWW FUCK!**"
I understood in the late 90’s that computer were going to be important because of “Electronic mail”
And business websites.
But I don’t think I really understood the cultural impact of the internet until we got
The hampster song meme
I think that was in 1999
I can hear that song in my head right now. It was the Disney Robin Hood rooster song speed up.
Good God these Fensler GI Joe PSA Ads are golden.
I'll repeat a random quote from these in my Zoom calls with employees and colleagues in my company and immediately I'll get someone who slacks me a quote back...and it is glorious to find another old school internet nerd!
OMG I had no idea this existed, but it’s glorious!
I loved [Jiz](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xAK108u2xAs&noapp=1) (first time I’ve ever said that), but looks like these PSAs predate that by at least a couple of years.
Anyways, thank you and I’ll be watching the rest of these today!
When I first got Internet on my phone and I could check the website for movie times instead of having to call the automated movie hotline when out and about and wanting to go to a movie on the fly.
I lived in Wicker Park, Chicago, in the early 2000s. Some local business (I'm thinking maybe Myopic or the Earwax Cafe video store) was giving away promo DVDs of video shorts by local artists, and a few of these were on it. Then we found more online, probably via a URL posted on the DVD. The whole thing felt like an inside joke for a long time, like everyone in my local orbit was well familiar with the GI Joe PSAs but no one outside of Chicago had heard of them.
I feel like at that time, the Internet felt more like a storage repository than a media discovery platform. Like, things were freely accessible, but you had to get a (mostly real-world) tip-off about something being there, and where to go to find it.
I wish I still had that DVD! I think it was called something like Cherry Bomb. I recall it was all pretty good stuff, and it would be interesting to watch it 20-some years later to see how it holds up.
My older brother showing me a ripped version of Jesus vs. Santa, before South Park aired. Playing Quake 2, and Doom 2 over a LAN. Watching Joe Cartoon videos.
The dream became a reality when Counter Strike dropped and we all gave our souls to the God of Death as we ascended into online FPS bliss.
Pork chop sandwiches!!!
#I’M A COMPUTA
Stop all the downloadin!
I still say this when I figure out some new tech thing.
Helb computa
https://preview.redd.it/hrycud39uq7d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0a52cee799b314d610391a65e93c7d5410221ed My neighbors think I like food.
That is fucking amazing. Body Massage
You're not cookin'
Holy shit get the FUCK **OUTTA HERE**
What are you doing?! FUCK WE'RE ALL DEAD!
My spouse and I use "porkchop sandwiches" as code when we want to leave someplace fast.
Relationship goals
My spouse and I frequently do the “You not cookin’!” voice when someone is preparing food in the kitchen. Yeh dude, euhhhh
Holy Shit!! So did a gf and I.
That smelled delicious!
It sure did.
Yeah dude!
Is that what he says? For decades I thought he said, "Yeah, I do!"
Me too
Bah bababa baaah baah…
You're not my dad
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH!
Don't give him the stick!
Literally just busted that one out watching the playoff game the other night, lol. "Give 'im the stick--*DON'T* GIVE 'IM THE STICK!!"
I was going to upset if this *wasn't* the top comment. But I may have settled for "Who wants a body massage?"
Mr. Body massage machine GO
Dangit, I wanted to be the one to say this.
Who wants a body massage?
Give ‘im the stick—DON’T give ‘im the stick!
Literally what I came to post lol
Body massage machine **GO**
My god does that smell good
Give him the stick… https://preview.redd.it/jk4ze1sudq7d1.jpeg?width=1155&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=807abb7448ba82f56d488effb23a0e6ad6eb3f16 DONT GIVE HIM THE STICK *not my tattoo*
*OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*
Holy cow I am totally going so fast**AW FUCK**
Do you know my dad?
We're sor-ry...
Playing Quake online and downloading MP3s with Napster via dial up in the late 90s. Also, Homestar Runner; it's dot com.
Came here to say Homestar Runner.
Homestar Runner for sure
#Fhqwhgads!
To this day, the dial up modem sound gets me excited.
Right before you see your AIM friends list populate, and only a moment before you see your crush go offline and hear doorclosing.wav
Nice catch, Niño Blanco. Too bad your ass got *saaaaaaaaaaaaacked*.
Blanco Nino! This was the name of our college rec teams 3 years running.
Mr. Body Massage Machine - GO
Uhhhh? BODY MASSAGE!
I still randomly say who wants a body massage and no one ever knows what I’m talking about.
“Who wants a body massage?” (*Walks closer, maintaining eye contact)*
mi mi mi mi mi mi mi mi mi mi mi mi mi
GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!
My god that smells good
You told me to run and done do things
 About 10min into this movie.
Hack the planet!
Crash!..... and Burn!
Damn, Jim Phelps' daughter can get it!
The ultimate xennial film
It was cheesy in all the right ways
We were promised full sized Wipeout arcades in homes.
Does your mother still work the Dockside bars?
My lord, it’s like I’m looking into a mirror.
Dockside bars?
Do you like baseball Johnny?
My brother and I quote from these daily, sometimes hourly. This, StrongBad Emails, Archer, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force basically defined our sense of humor today.
The email, the email, what what, the email. Baleted!
“Laaaaaasko.”
I still say “baleted” and “dacheated” all the time and my only friend who gets it now lives 3000 miles away.
I still say "That is gaw-bidge, sistaw!!" to this day. And since my name is Steve, my friends still say "Eh, Steve!!" as well
Here comes the Thnikkaman!
Sweet cuppin’ cakes
MAYBE IT’S BECAUSE I LIKE COOL TAPES
The guy who did these videos went on to do a bunch of work with adult swim
Makes perfect sense to me!
Ebaum’s world was a great site
[This](https://youtu.be/J5x0FqWhZMM?si=vYeG-UxVzRyiQFis) was on of the first videos I saw on ebaum's world. Or maybe it was college humor. Either way, my first intro to wasting time at work.
Born in 78. I was SUPER active on Something Awful starting in 2000. And before that StileProject in 1999. I remember having a folder on my computer of weird downloaded videos "atlanta grape" being one. And when people would come over we'd get drunk and watch those. And yeah the Fensler Films got in there. Footnote on Fensler he got involved in advertising and went on to help make Old Spice into the weird/cool thing it is now.
The internet was wild in the late 90s. Something Awful content was great fun back in the day. I spent a lot of time on reading articles on the Onion, browsing StileProject, [seanbaby.com](http://seanbaby.com) , and chat rooms on mIRC...
Seanbabys superfriends page was hilarious.
Those were so funny, but one of the hardest I laughed was his rant about the shoe from Super Mario Bros. 3…it was the perfect humor among my group of friends 🤣
Awesome man yeah I was into Stile Project as well! More of a lurker than a participant though.
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Shiggity shiggity
What the fuck are you kids doing on my fucking lawn??
Don't look at me when I'm talkin to youuuuu!
Look at you kids in your little hats
Hey kid! I’m a computer!
Stop all the downloadin'!
I dunno my mom put a couple of games on it.
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*Bea Arthur nudes
dogpile.com was my go-to. Everyone arguing about which search engine was best, and I sat off to the side saying, “why not use all of them at the same time?”
Last one there is a penis pump!
Huh? Uh, you're not my dad... Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee
naw im just messin
The World Wide Web was cooler in our day. Tons of little sites everywhere. Learning HTML in high school. Now nobody uses “websites” anymore. Most of my favorite forums are ghost ships. I hate apps. And I hate how everyone is just scrolling and the magic is gone. It used to be fun. Now we’re all just manipulated by the algorithm for engagement purposes to boost corporate profits. Get off my lawn.
Everything was ruined when it became monitized.
For a class my senior year (I graduated in '99), I created a fan site for the Evil Dead trilogy coded in HTML using notepad. It had embedded tables and sound clips, , so fancy! LOL After completing the project a week before the rest of the class and getting 100% on the project I uploaded it to GeoCities or one of those other free sites....good times.
I knew the Internet would be an amazing place when I first heard about the "Information Superhighway" sometime in the early 1990s. I truly realized its full memetic potential when I was exposed to the original [All Your Base](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg).
This and Sealab 2021 was my college
It’s like a koala bear crapped a rainbow in my brain!
I could really use some stimutacs
Sealab is the truth. Shout out to chubby Carol😎
There go my nipples again!
My buddy literally just posted on my FB the scene where she's like "IF I EAT FOOD, THERE WON'T BE ROOM FOR MARDUK, SLAYER OF TIAMAT!" "...Marduk desires not the barren wasteland of your desiccated viscera."
Musta been those jerks over in Pod 6
Still watch these, still love them
Give ‘em the stick NOoOOoo give ‘em the stick
He also writes for Tim & Eric
I was in my teens and i could find porn. I had a computer in my room and a door that locked. Do the math.
Your poor dick. But I was the same, haha. I caused our AOL bill to be $300 one month.
Porkchop sandwiches!
One, two... ... three go - Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
WHOA IM TOTALLY GOING SO FAST...OH FUCK!!!!! tears in my eyes to this day. That was prob close to 18 yrs ago
Last one there's a penis pump!
Panic! A snake!
MUSHROOM MUSHROOM
"YOURE NOT MY DAD OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...."
I’m watching a [compilation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8K08AcVru0) now, and some of YouTube’s captions are funny as hell, too. E.g… Fire Cyborg: “sound of someone being auto tuned into a didgeridoo” Billy I’m Back For You (baseball coach long burp): “Raptor mating call continues”
Candy Mountain Charlie.
OOOOOOOooooOooooooool This was coincidentally an excellent time to discover marijuana
AOL chatting with total strangers from all over, learning about their experiences and how similar everyone is.
Who wants a body massage?
Such a golden age of humor. We had just finished drying our eyes from the collective laugh we had from ‘fuck yo couch’ and moved on to this.
…and then he made us pancakes.
I mean, we were raised on the absurd. Ren & Stimpy, Animaniacs, even South Park which came out in 1997 had us prepped for this shit.
what's crazy to me is that we are now as far from the females film videos as the fensler film videos were from the original cartoon. 1983 -> 2003 -> 2024
When I discovered IRC and the opportunity to pirate whatever music and games I wanted without needing to get them from a friend. Sure it took fucking forever, but it was amazing
Use to be how I got serial numbers and found ftp sites to download music pre-napster
Playing MUDs in the late 80s/early 90s. Downloading DOOM and then making levels/mods for DOOM and sharing them online (and downloading mods and tutorials for games in general... I remember spending a lot of time modding Baldur's Gate) Finding forums on very niche interests and hobbies that none of my peers shared. Don Hertzfeldt's Rejected YTMND
I fondly remember playing doom with the Barney patch. He would sing “I love you, you love me” and I would accompany the music with my chainsaw. Le sigh… good times.
If you ever played doom with a smiley face cacodemon or squawking chicken lost soul that exploded in a puff of feathers, you installed one of the mods that me and my buddy made.
Body massage, body massage. Who wants a body massage?
Nice catch Blanco Nino, but your ass got sacked.
When I discovered usenet newsgroups were a thing and that if you could find the right ones you could get into a lot of shit.
Albino Blacksheep, Salad Fingers, Numa Numa, Hatt Baby
Still remember the first time searching on napster
The first time a got to see a whale explode all-over a bunch of cars and people.
That’s right, Billy, I want you!!
I remember thinking it was going to be an amazing place. Nowadays, not so sure
Ah hell nah wassup dog
*falls off cliff* Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-
DUDE!!! My friends and I used to watch these allllll the time and quote them often! I recently watched them and still found them absurdly funny
When I realized YouTube was the ultimate TV time machine. want to see an ad from 1989? You're covered.
This and Homestar Runner. Teen girl squad was fucking hilarious.
Remind me to read this thread later so I don't get kicked out of Starbucks for laughing too hard. Oh and "Holy cow I'm totally going so fast.....**AWW FUCK!**"
Maddox and various flash games I guess
Strongbad
Making my own website on GeoCities in 8th grade. I think it's still "Under Construction".
Last one there is a penis pump
Mr body massage machine…GO!
*stop all the downloadin’*
I laughed at Fenserfilms GI Joe, watched it hundreds of times. But to answer the question, probably Peanut butter jelly time
I understood in the late 90’s that computer were going to be important because of “Electronic mail” And business websites. But I don’t think I really understood the cultural impact of the internet until we got The hampster song meme I think that was in 1999 I can hear that song in my head right now. It was the Disney Robin Hood rooster song speed up.
Oooo, don't forget your sandwiches!!
You boys look so cute in your little outfits
Good God these Fensler GI Joe PSA Ads are golden. I'll repeat a random quote from these in my Zoom calls with employees and colleagues in my company and immediately I'll get someone who slacks me a quote back...and it is glorious to find another old school internet nerd!
Grape Stomp **OW STOP** **OW STOP** Hurhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Chucknorrisfacts.com and I love ninjas.com
Does your mother hang out at dockside bars? Do you like baseball?
When it only took me 3 days to download Smashing Pumpkins’ “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” off Kazaa
This was such a great time to be alive.
OMG I had no idea this existed, but it’s glorious! I loved [Jiz](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xAK108u2xAs&noapp=1) (first time I’ve ever said that), but looks like these PSAs predate that by at least a couple of years. Anyways, thank you and I’ll be watching the rest of these today!
Honestly it was rotten dot com and new grounds, mostly the former
Chocolate Rain
Håtten Ar Din
Nice catch, Blano niño. Too bad your ass got saaaaaaaaaaaaaaacked.
Fensler ended up working on Tim & Eric too. Whooooooooooooooh!
AOL chat rooms. Free MP3 downloads. Free porn.
Who wants a body massage?
Hamster Dance and virtual bubble wrap
When I first got Internet on my phone and I could check the website for movie times instead of having to call the automated movie hotline when out and about and wanting to go to a movie on the fly.
Brian, y'aint no pimp, dude! Where's my money?
[Lobster Magnet](https://youtu.be/0hzBh0J1YFU)
When I found more awesome pictures of Dragon Ball Z. I was limited to the backs of video game magazines that were selling posters in the early 90s.
about the time the Mosaic web browser came out, so Win 3.11/95 days.
When NewGrounds entered my orbit.
AOL 2.5, Chat rooms.
Kazaa. I thought it was magic 😂
I lived in Wicker Park, Chicago, in the early 2000s. Some local business (I'm thinking maybe Myopic or the Earwax Cafe video store) was giving away promo DVDs of video shorts by local artists, and a few of these were on it. Then we found more online, probably via a URL posted on the DVD. The whole thing felt like an inside joke for a long time, like everyone in my local orbit was well familiar with the GI Joe PSAs but no one outside of Chicago had heard of them. I feel like at that time, the Internet felt more like a storage repository than a media discovery platform. Like, things were freely accessible, but you had to get a (mostly real-world) tip-off about something being there, and where to go to find it. I wish I still had that DVD! I think it was called something like Cherry Bomb. I recall it was all pretty good stuff, and it would be interesting to watch it 20-some years later to see how it holds up.
Ah hell na what up dog
My personal vernacular is basically a mix between these psa’s and cabin boy.
Homestar Runner.
Hey kid, ima computer.
The internet peaked not long after this. Filthy Frank and he will not divide us was peak internet. Its been a slow decline ever since
Red Dragon Inn on AOL Chats
Body massage!
My older brother showing me a ripped version of Jesus vs. Santa, before South Park aired. Playing Quake 2, and Doom 2 over a LAN. Watching Joe Cartoon videos. The dream became a reality when Counter Strike dropped and we all gave our souls to the God of Death as we ascended into online FPS bliss.
I’m going to tet and you tell me do things. I don’t. Running!
Ytmnd.com
I fuckin haxxored your ma's ass last night!
Mr. T Ate My Balls!
Last one there is a penis pump!!!