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  • Gah!

    25 49.02%
  • In Gah! we trust

    18 35.29%
  • Gah! love

    10 19.61%
  • There is no Gah! but Gah!

    11 21.57%
  • I'm undecided on the existence of Gah!

    8 15.69%
  • Nietzsche says Gah! is dead, and he's German, so it's true

    19 37.25%
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    Nobody expects the Senior Member Lemur's Avatar
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    Default Gah?

    You can answer the poll with multiple choices. Declare where you stand on Gah.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lemurmania
    You can answer the poll with multiple choices. Declare where you stand on Gah.
    Gah!
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    I GAH! voted GAH! for GAH! all! GAH!

    but GAH! who's GAH! Nietzsche? GAH!
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheSilverKnight
    I GAH! voted GAH! for GAH! all! GAH!

    but GAH! who's GAH! Nietzsche? GAH!
    *GASPS* I have only one thing to say to you, you evil gah-man.

    GAH!
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    Gah!
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    GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.
    INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Silver Rusher
    *GASPS* I have only one thing to say to you, you evil gah-man.

    GAH!
    ...you GAH! dare GAH! challenge GAH! my GAH! HONOUR!!! GAAAHHH!!!
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    Gah!

    Which I got no idea what it is
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    Gah!
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    In Gah! we trust

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    GAH! Cut off Heads! Make Head Soup! GAH!

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    GAH!



    Hehe, in 20 years time when we're all playing MTW5 I can just imagine a hardcore of veteran vets posting GAH! everywhere and no-one knowing what the strange old blokes are on about
    "I request permanent reassignment to the Gallic frontier. Nay, I demand reassignment. Perhaps it is improper to say so, but I refuse to fight against the Greeks or Macedonians any more. Give my command to another, for I cannot, I will not, lead an army into battle against a civilized nation so long as the Gauls survive. I am not the young man I once was, but I swear before Jupiter Optimus Maximus that I shall see a world without Gauls before I take my final breath."

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    Yar...err... GAH!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mount Suribachi
    GAH!



    Hehe, in 20 years time when we're all playing MTW5 I can just imagine a hardcore of veteran vets posting GAH! everywhere and no-one knowing what the strange old blokes are on about
    Never my friend...we shall indoctrinate the newbies into the art of GAH!!!!!...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mount Suribachi
    Hehe, in 20 years time when we're all playing MTW5 I can just imagine a hardcore of veteran vets posting GAH! everywhere and no-one knowing what the strange old blokes are on about
    That said, what's GAH (originally)?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mouzafphaerre
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    That said, what's GAH (originally)?
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    I'm so happy that someone else dares to post this question.

    Thanks Mouza.

    :keeps an eye on this thread:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mouzafphaerre
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    That said, what's GAH (originally)?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tricky Lady
    I'm so happy that someone else dares to post this question.

    Thanks Mouza.

    :keeps an eye on this thread:
    GAH! Head soup all round boys! We have a choice of flavours, Mouzafphaerre Head Soup and Tricky Lady Head Soup

    GAH!
    "I request permanent reassignment to the Gallic frontier. Nay, I demand reassignment. Perhaps it is improper to say so, but I refuse to fight against the Greeks or Macedonians any more. Give my command to another, for I cannot, I will not, lead an army into battle against a civilized nation so long as the Gauls survive. I am not the young man I once was, but I swear before Jupiter Optimus Maximus that I shall see a world without Gauls before I take my final breath."

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    Nietzsche said Gah , so he is a dead German .

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    For GAH! Errr! Someone knows not Gah. Vanya would have their heads cut off.


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    A brief history of Gah!:

    Somone posted a poll, can't begin to tell you who it was or what it was about. One of those, "Here's a controversial subject, I'll give you three unsatisfactory options." But in a stroke of pure genius, the pollster added a fourth option: GAH! And well, the thread took on a life of its own, and everybody just started talking about Gah!, and there you have it.

    Ever since then, it's been sort of obligatory to have a Gah! option in any poll. And when we had a mock-election in the backroom, the Gah! party fielded not one but two candidates.

    I guess it's not so funny once it's explained. Jokes are like cats -- they die when dissected. But now you know.

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    Gah!

    Lemurmania either you been lurking for a loooong time or you've known something I didn't know.

    AFAIK Gah started to be used by Vanya around early 2002 (I checked old posts) by some reason and it has been spread afterwards.

    Only the real veterans knows exactly why.
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    Yeah, Vanya puts one at the beginning and end of his every post. So, was it he that started GAH?

    GAH!
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    Ah, so I was giving a false and incomplete history of Gah. Well then, i was just relating the first time I saw it. Made sense to me. I mean, what's to argue with when someone shouts "Gah"?

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    I was under the impression that it was either Vanya or Krasturak who coined the term "Gah!". They roleplay as barbarians here at the Org, and have been using the "GAH!" expletive since the original Shogun days.

    I like using it because it feels good and sounds better than a swear word, while serving the same purpose. Problem is, I've been using it outside of the Org too, and people react to me as if I were a nut or something. I am, but still ... gah!
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    Quote Originally Posted by TogakureOjonin
    Problem is, I've been using it outside of the Org too, and people react to me as if I were a nut or something. I am, but still ... gah!
    Why does this sound so familiar to me?
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    Just plain Gah!
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    Quote Originally Posted by TogakureOjonin
    I was under the impression that it was either Vanya or Krasturak who coined the term "Gah!". They roleplay as barbarians here at the Org, and have been using the "GAH!" expletive since the original Shogun days.

    I like using it because it feels good and sounds better than a swear word, while serving the same purpose. Problem is, I've been using it outside of the Org too, and people react to me as if I were a nut or something. I am, but still ... gah!
    GAH!
    Additionally I remember that Vanya once explained that GAH! stands for "Great Annual Hunt", some kind of celebration of the Mongols. During this hunt, Heads are collected (Shogun gives you the number of killed enemies as "Heads taken") which are then made into Head-Soup, of course. (Or, so they say.) Which makes sense in connection to Barbarians and Shogun.

    Before I signed in at the .Org I already lurked for months and I have the impression that GAH! is here since at least early 2002.
    GAH!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mount Suribachi
    GAH! Head soup all round boys! We have a choice of flavours, Mouzafphaerre Head Soup and Tricky Lady Head Soup

    GAH!
    Quote Originally Posted by R'as al Ghul
    GAH!
    Additionally I remember that Vanya once explained that GAH! stands for "Great Annual Hunt", some kind of celebration of the Mongols. During this hunt, Heads are collected (Shogun gives you the number of killed enemies as "Heads taken") which are then made into Head-Soup, of course.
    Now it makes sense. GAH all around!
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    there is no constant Gah, it may appear so but is constantly changing in line with the universal effect of dialectics - the present Gah overlords shall be overthrown for a newer, better society...Gah'ers of the world unite! you have only your sanity to lose!
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