May 15, 2003

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Spot the reference. Used in scary devil monastery to mark the witticism one just uttered as a quote from some work of art or literature, the more obscure the better. Those who know where the reference comes from reply in the form You are $CHARACTER, and you owe me $ITEM, where $CHARACTER is a character from the story being referenced and $ITEM is something associated with that character. This acronym is never actually expanded to its proper meaning in the newsgroup; posters instead use obscure expansions, the most common being slurp the robot, leading to comments like I pulled my hair out, but couldn't figure out which robot you're slurping.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:28 AM

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