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I am seeing it all over the place. I just saw it on a feminist site. I know the moran story. And oh noes!!! But I am clueless about this.
Thanks.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,267 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Posts look like ransom notes from those old TV series where someone would cut letters out of a magazine and glue them to a sheet of paper.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,145 posts)It's from a Spongebob meme:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mocking-spongebob
LizBeth
(9,946 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Like titling a video of a kitten playfully attacking a person with the title:
ViCiOuS PrEdItOr AtTaCkS HeLpLeSs HuMaN
LizBeth
(9,946 posts)TlalocW
(15,358 posts)But it was used before that for Torgo-speak by MST3K fans.
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LizBeth
(9,946 posts)TlalocW
(15,358 posts)First on Comedy Central then Sci-Fi in the late 80s/all of the 90s, and then brought back onto Netflix through crowd-sourcing for a couple of seasons. Basically, the premise is that some mad scientists are trying to find the worst movie in the world in order to take over the world, and the first guy they shot up into a satellite built him some robots to help him (and subsequent test subjects) keep his sanity by making fun of the movies.
Torgo is from one of their more infamous episodes where they watched a movie called, "Manos: The Hands of Fate," which I could write an essay on but won't.
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guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)lapucelle
(18,037 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,212 posts)of someone's property. Not at all as excessive as your example, but enough uppercase letters to make it unattractive for someone to borrow as their own work
UTUSN
(70,494 posts)I capitalize surnames. In the Navy surnames were capitalized in memos, transfer orders, and such - helps for standing out in the mass of typed material and keeping track of who is the subject of the mass of typed material. A bit of nostalgia about the Navy. Nostalgia is better than being back in the day.
But in the body of posts, I use it for EMPHASIS, since I'm usually in a hurry and don't know the shortcuts and don't want to use the buttons.
The O.P.'s example is specific about caps in scattered letters of words, so doesn't apply to me, haha!1
tavernier
(12,322 posts)from time to time it will inexplicably use capital letters here and there. I like to read over my writing before I post it but I know not everyone does that.
LizBeth
(9,946 posts)And a lot of time i am not wearing glasses so can't see it anyway. Siri has it, I send and then later re read it and think wtf? LOL. Bad bad. I need to get in that habit of editing.
Wounded Bear
(58,436 posts)like some of the weird fonts, and staccato spacing you see in them.
Any post/email/twit that utilizes that kind of shit I tend to avoid.
electric_blue68
(14,598 posts).....
PreSidEnt trUmp ruInS AmEriCa iN fOuR YeArs!
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