mailscanner-mrtg: strange message?

[Gerry Doris]

> At 05:27 19/09/2003, you wrote:
>>On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Lee Garner wrote:
>> >                     ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!
>>
>>It's an old internet joke.  A while back a message was posted by someone
>>whose mother tongue wasn't English that included that text.  If I
>> remember
>>correctly it was supposed to be a threat but ended up with everyone
>>doubled in laughter.
>
> I hate to have to correct you, but it's from the Japanese game "Zero Wing"
> which was translated very badly by someone who knew almost no English.
>
> This is probably the right movie:
> http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/AYB2.swf
>
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> Julian Field
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Hey, you're right!  I stand corrected.  I first ran into it on a
compuserve gamers forum many years ago.  I hadn't realized it came from
that video game.

Gerry