Breakfast Topic: In-Jokes
by Matthew Rossi 
Jan 23rd 2010 at 8:00AM
Unfortunately, I chose to tell this story while tanking Jaraxxus who was, at the time, serious business. Several of the DPS found the tale of my apicidal beard so amusing that they ended up not running to the portal in time and we had two annoying sisters instead of just one. Since then, the tale of my beard has grown in guild to the point that people ask me the block value of said beard, or insist I get my beard enchanted with Armsman.
So I turn to you in an attempt to distract from my own constant humiliation (you wouldn't believe the amount of 'furry warrior' jokes I hear in a raid week) to ask what your WoW in-jokes are.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Guilds, Breakfast Topics
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 13)
Vorken Jan 23rd 2010 8:07AM
my guild, back in naxx era pugged in a boomkin to help out. He stops the raid right before the pull and insists on giving everyone in the raid Thorns, saying that the little extra damage could help. Halfway through the fight, like most boomkins he runs out of mana and says "OOM...Im going in!" and proceeds to go melee the boss.
Now if we wipe in a raid or instance, its usually because we didn't have thorns on, and the cries of "THORNS!" is widespread.
Solanum Jan 23rd 2010 12:34PM
Ha! I have a similar boomkin story. We were in Kara and somehow our boomkin and our rogue got separated from the rest of us as we snuck through the entire library. So they are on the far side and we're on the ramp on the way out. The rogue keys up and says, "How the hell are we going to get over there?"
So the boomkin, for no particular reason, throws thorn on her and goes, "There you go, thorns. We're fine now. Just go."
Now it's a whole big thing. Tanks refusing to pull if that particular boomkin is in group until he gives them thorns. Even if another druid put thorns on them. They won't pull until they have HIS thorns.
Maybe there's a secret boomkin chatline where they come up with jokes to play on all of us.
Cyanea Jan 23rd 2010 7:29PM
Another Boomkin story!
When we, as a guild, were still mastering the art of the Auriaya pull, we were trying it with Shaman totems. We forced the boss to despawn (don't really remember how) for a few seconds. I didn't want to run out and drop antother totem until she respawned. The boomkin in our raid said, "Ah, don't worry! She respawns over by the jungly crap!" (Meaning, the entrance to Freya's room). I said, "Oh! Okay!" ran out to drop my totem and promptly got squashed by an Auriaya respawn on my head.
So now "the jungly crap" is a guild injoke for when things go wrong. We blame it on that.
Yvl Jan 23rd 2010 8:15AM
So we were going over the strategy for Kologarn back in 3.1, and we're being told to dps the right arm. So some genius in the guild asks "Which right, our right or Kologarn's right?" Never mind the fact that the arms ARE NAMED RIGHT ARM AND LEFT ARM.
Yvl Jan 23rd 2010 8:18AM
Oh, and it shouldn't need to be said, but every time we're talking about some direction, it has to be done in relation to kologarn now. "Who's north, our north, the boss' north Kologarn's north...?"
araquen Jan 23rd 2010 9:45AM
On our Kologarn fight, our RL says, okay, DPS the Right Arm...good, now you can DPS the Middle Arm...
...that ended up becoming his guild note.
aaronthecow Jan 23rd 2010 10:12AM
Right arm... reminds me of this one-off time when i heard a middle aged woman talking in vent and said, "Sweet accent" (it was a southern american apparently (I'm australian)) and she replied, in the most serious of tones, "both hands on keyboard, mister" that was one EPIC ToC 25-man run :)
Keith Barriere Jan 23rd 2010 11:23AM
I've always ripped an old Dane Cook joke saying "We DPS Kologarn's Right arm, Our left"
RiverDragon Jan 23rd 2010 11:38AM
Sticking with the Ulduar theme here...
In my current guild a while back, when we were doing hard modes, our raid leader said over vent - "Ok guys, get on your mains. We are going to do some hard men"
Needless to say everyone that was in that run has some form of "Hard men/man" tag in their guild note...
We also happened to do the Disarmed achieve that night... (gotta stick a bit with Kolo eh?)
Noralith Jan 23rd 2010 12:38PM
Kologarn used to be the boss that we'd have to fight four, five times to down in our guild. I got so frustrated (and tired) one night, that I began yelling back at him over Vent. He'd yell Oblivion, I'd yell Oblivion. And every time we wiped, it became a little more scrambled, eventually becoming "Obibweooooooooon!"
Now I'm expected to say that anytime we go even near Ulduar.
Mike Jan 23rd 2010 1:55PM
When we were still doing Ulduar in our weekend raids, we concluded that anyone who was unfortunate enough to fall off the edge at the start of the Kologarn fight fell victim to his "Third Arm".
Scomparsa Jan 23rd 2010 4:21PM
My guild and I were doing hardmodes in Ulduar, and one of our fury warriors kept dying.
I mean, repeatedly. Eventually our raidleader just yells into Vent "JOE! GIVE SAIRES VIGILANCE!" As if him not having vigilance was the cause.
Needless to say, any time Saires or Joe are on, at least 5 people ask "Joe, did you give Saires vigilance?" Or "Saires, do you have vigilance?"
It's become a really stupid yet amusing inside joke.
Caelys Jan 24th 2010 12:23AM
Our VERY first night in Ulduar 10man, before our 25man group, we go past XT and decided to take a go at Council. We're running through that hallway, durp durp durp, and someone asks, "Which way is council?"
RL: "I think Council's up the stairs."
*We all trod up the stairs*
Kologarn: "OOOOOBBBBBLLLIIIIVION!"
Us: "...LOL *ded*"
For a very long time, "Hey guys, I think council's up the stairs" was our joke. With Blood Council now, I really hope that comes back lol. :D
Zalvi24 Jan 23rd 2010 8:19AM
this one time at band camp..............................
Clydtsdk-Rivendare Jan 23rd 2010 9:34AM
Wait, that's a meme? Thought it was just an injoke at the high school...
Nerdscore -10%
Alanid Jan 23rd 2010 9:47AM
made me think of the Warcraft 3 version "And this one time at bandit camp..."
IrishWoW Jan 23rd 2010 8:27AM
A few months ago back when Ulduar was the shizz, I joined up with a raiding guild (one of the oldest on our server) and was brought in for a 10man run.
We got as far as Xt when the raid leader at the time was calling out the positioning he wanted us in for the fight, when he got to me and after 20seconds or so of try to say my character name (grahlan) he simply calls out on vent, "ok greylan, your name sorta hurts my face so from now on im gonna call you shammy g."
Needless to say the name stuck, and for the next 3months or so that I raided with him I was shammy g to everyone in the raid.
Btw, if you read this Kaos, where have you been?
Healabit Jan 23rd 2010 9:15AM
similar to this, we had a hunter in our guild whose name, Gumano or something, we struggled to pronounce so one day on vent my hubby (our raid leader) said, ok mr hunter, we are gonna call you Bob. He has been Bob ever since, no matter what alt he is playing on :)
Namus Jan 23rd 2010 11:13AM
A friend of mine joined my guild and his name was a bit difficult to pronounce for the english speakers, so instead of calling him jlozano they ended calling him j-lo.
Eddy Jan 23rd 2010 12:49PM
Name woes are like, the best. My raid leader friend couldn't (and still can't) pronounce my toon's name. The problem is, while I'd prefer everyone pronounce Lese with a focus on the first e (as in lease) everyone seems to focus on the s (so, Lessie.) The deep and awkward part of the nickname Lessie is that I'm a lesbian.
So when I correct people I'm always worried they think i'm being irritating about how to pronounce it, but I'd just prefer not being the victim of what I think is an awkward pun.