Orly??

[Maerad of Pellinor]

I've read through several threads in this forum looking for an explanation, but haven't found one: why is "orly" so funny/not funny/cliched/whatever? What is it a pun on in the first place??

Thanks!

[Rawhide]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_RLY%3F

[Maerad of Pellinor]

Ok, thanks!

I think it would have been much more funny if I'd gotten it from the start; now I've spent so much time wondering that it seems to contrived....*sigh* It is funny though.

[Om]

I really do hate that bird. Yet it seems that in all my travels across the internet, desperately fleeing that moronic winged creature, I missed the oasis of GitP where, apparently, not a soul has heard of this phenomenon.

[TinSoldier]

Originally Posted by Om

I really do hate that bird. Yet it seems that in all my travels across the internet, desperately fleeing that moronic winged creature, I missed the oasis of GitP where, apparently, not a soul has heard of this phenomenon.

Interestingly enough, GitP is the only place I had ever seen it before. Well before Erfworld joined us.

[Demented]

I'd be surprised if it hasn't popped up in Friendly Banter or Silly Message Board Games.

[DarkLightDragon]

Originally Posted by Rawhide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_RLY%3F

They have it in videogames now? Never knew it went that far!

[AmoDman]

I don't even have that POS on my machine. Only the quintissential response -

[Rawhide]

(just for the sake of completeness)