Bash.org

Bash.org is a site where people submit quotes from chat rooms (IRC, AIM, MSN, etc.) It is moderated, which theoretically helps keep the quality up and the spamming down, and has buttons to vote quotes up or down, thus giving a rough measure of how quality a quote is. It has spawned a number of imitators.

Since chat rooms tend to be a microcosm of real life, bash.org exhibits a number of tropes. However, as there are over 20,000 quotes on the site, we cannot exhibit them all, so please pick the ones that best exemplify the trope in question.

For funny quotes from the Troper IRC Channel, see Troper IRC Channel Quotes.


 * Actually Pretty Funny: Possibly this, depending on the intentions of the officer in question.
 * Adult Fear: This quote.
 * All Men Are Perverts: This.
 * Also, the whole site.
 * And a Diet Coke: Here.
 * Appliance Defenestration: This needless destruction.
 * Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: This quote.
 * Artificial Stupidity: The page quote.
 * ASCII Art: A particularly triumphant example.
 * Caught with Your Pants Down: The page quote.
 * Cereal Vice Reward: A truly epic rant on the subject.
 * Christmas Cake: Heather Locklear.
 * Could Say It, But...: Combines this with False Reassurance.
 * Double Standard: Combined with two instances of A Date with Rosie Palms.
 * Extreme Graphical Representation : Discussed here.
 * Eyepatch of Power: The appeal explained at length here.
 * Follow the Leader: MS Paint Adventures fandom set up a similar website for Pesterchum logs, and not only that, you can submit a quote directly from Pesterchum.
 * Freudian Slip: There are many examples, including this one.
 * Geeky Analogy: This entry.
 * Henway: One of the best examples of the trope.
 * Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure: This (intentionally) creepy example.
 * Hoist by His Own Petard: A mod accidently kicks themself from chat.
 * I Am Spartacus: This provides the page quote.
 * Incredibly Lame Pun: This
 * Item Get: A particularly hilarious and naughty occurrence.
 * Literal Genie: Conversed here.
 * Metaphorgotten: Here. Another is combined with Creepy Uncle.
 * Noodle Implements: This.
 * Not What It Looks Like: A bottle of Coke is mistaken for... something else.
 * N-Word Privileges: This.
 * Percussive Maintenance: With hammers.
 * The Problem with Pen Island: He shot his girlfriend?
 * Rank Up: Here.
 * Robe and Wizard Hat: Trope Namer, here.
 * Scunthorpe Problem: Autokicks are a pain.
 * Self-Deprecation: The assumption that every chatroom user is a hopelessly geeky Basement Dweller who will never know the touch of a woman seems very common, mostly applied to oneself.
 * Sophisticated As Hell: Here.
 * Stop Copying Me: Efficiently neutralized.
 * Straw Vegetarian: Featured here.
 * The Tetris Effect: This guy has been playing too many platformers.
 * That Came Out Wrong: Thousands upon thousands of them. For example.
 * Tonka Tough: In this quote.
 * Too Dumb to Live: Billions and billions of them. This is among the more notable.
 * Totally Radical: a hilarious variation.
 * Who's on First?: But Watts was in The Ring.
 * A Worldwide Punomenon: This, also, this and this.
 * Yum Yum: Unpleasantly combined with Share the Male Pain.