This is an import from the old memes thread, and not entirely sure what belongs here @abarker TRWTF is PHP Also known as TRWTF is Java, TRWTF is Javascript, TRTWF is VB, or TRWTF is PERL. This is brought on by haters who don't know the language well enough. Most functional programmers think with a stick up their behind part. So any other language is TRWTF. TRWTF (The Real What the Fuck) No specific origin Also known as TR‌. Expression used in article comments (and sometimes in forums topics presenting a WTF) to denote that the commenter thinks there is a detail in the story even more egregious than the ostensibly presented WTF, this detail being considered TRWTF; the poster may or may not be dismissing the "original" WTF as not really being a WTF, but expresses that TRWTF tops it. Wooden Table origin: Web 0.1 Expression used as a shorthand to designate (as a WTF) a rube-goldbergian publishing process, typically on a web site (sometimes actually involving a wooden table, as in the original post, but not necessarily). Also used for emphasis when discussing a rube-goldbergian process in general: "it only lacks a wooden table", for instance. Notable for having been used by Raymond Chen outside of TDWTF. "Brillant" Paula Bean origin: The Brillant Paula Bean Often simply brillant. Typically used as an exclamation for emphasis in response to WTF code. Note the lack of the second "i"; putting it in is similar to failing a triforce on 4chan. FileNotFound origin: What Is Truth? Also FILE_NOT_FOUND, file_not_found, etc. The mythical ternary truth value; you can count on there being a comment remarking the lack of this alternative whenever booleans are discussed (and sometimes when they are not). Clbuttic origin: The Clbuttic Mistake Exclaimed at least once in response to all search-and-replace censorship reports. FTFY (Fixed That For You) no specific origin This is typically a quoted reply to a post, with subtle changes made to the quote for comedic effect. Irish Girl origin: BustedTees ad campaign, circa start of 2008; here is the T-shirt product page Before Alex switched to hand-picked sponsors, an ad campaign from BustedTees ran on The Daily WTF. It pictured the "Irish I were drunk" tee on a model, a lovely redhead (named Erica Sullivan). She was an immediate hit with The Daily WTF readers. She has been referenced (under the fan nickname Irish Girl) and her image appeared in a variety of contexts in the community, but a persistent one was the (image) comments to Mandatory Fun Day (see that entry). The Daily WTF is not the only community on which she made an impression, many others noticed her, often before she became a meme on The Daily WTF, such as the College Humor community, which led to a College Humor interview with her; she is most often known elsewhere as the "BustedTees Girl" (the "Irish" tee having probably been released in 2008, therefore after these communities noticed her) Mandatory Fun Day origin: webcomic series Written by Alex, drawn by George E. McDougall, then Mark Bowytz. Some (like me) liked it, others did not, but is still referenced to this day. A lot of image manipulation and meme creativity occurred in its comments, culminating in Magenta Kong. Frames Securely Mediate, By Design origin: I am right and the entire Industry is wrong Also Secure multi-mediation is the future of all webbing, etc. "Advice" is given in an email to liberally use HTML frames, culminating with the following: Frames securely mediate, by design. Secure multi-mediation is the future of all webbing. The expressions get instantly adopted by the community, often put as a humorous way to solve whatever problem it is posted in response to. President's Sick Daughter origin: Human Heat Sink Also just president's daughter. Notional damsel in distress involved in many imagined plots, the sillier the better; she must often be saved from a fatal disease, but she can also be kidnapped, or in other danger, or can even be the adversary. Proven Fix origin: The Proven Fix A fix which has been mathematically proven (on paper) to be correct, and therefore needs no testing before putting into production, but turns out to not actually work. Suggesting that there may have been an error in the claimant's proof usually leads to defensive maneuvers, a blathering meltdown, and ragequit over having to work on a defective system that still didn't work after it had been fixed, even when the fix was proven to be correct. Embedded System origin: nice_num, mean_programmer and The c-bitmap Also without a filesystem, no filesystem, etc. Most visitors of The Daily WTF program enterprise software, and that is where most WTFs tend to come from. But The Daily WTF is read by programmers (and even non-programmers!) of all backgrounds. "nice_num", for once, seemed to come from the embedded world., and reaction to it was binary: some commenters piled on the "WTFs", while others who had some embedded background said this was exactly the way to go to implement that functionality if there was no built-in way to do it (which was impossible to tell from the context provided) and the "WTF" was thus not a WTF. But when the "C-bitmap" was posted, this time the background was clearly an embedded project, and commenters with an embedded background all piled on to say this was a perfectly reasonable solution for an embedded system, which probably didn't have any filesystem and so any other way to load resource data. Unfortunately, it was then picked up as a snide remark by some to ironically justify WTFs afterwards (sometimes just referencing the embedded bit, sometimes also referencing the lack of a filesystem), including and especially if the WTF had nothing to do with embedded constraints and the lack of a filesystem in particular. Full disclosure: I am an embedded developer and it may have colored the description of the meme, but I am right nonetheless. Lyle Can Do Better origin: Anything You Can Do Lyle Can Do Better Now What? origin: Hypothetical Question No Quack origin: No, We Need a Neural Network SSDS origin: Why is Everybody so clueless…, and this for the background Bert Glanstron origin: Tables Turned Also In case you can’t tell, this is a grown-up place, banned from your mommy and daddy’s modem, etc. X Is Y. Z, But It Is (Still) Y origin: forum topic columny name Directive 595 Part 4 Is As Follows origin: Directive 595 TDEMSYR Don't ask. This doesn't even make sense you retard! NodeBB ( ) "no baby", the unofficial emojified NodeBB logo/name. [X] is a barrier to reading Snarky response to any disliked Discourse feature or misfeature, real or imagined. E.g. "next page buttons are a barrier to reading". sexy Everything is sexy. Especially dinner plates. Community Server (Former) backend software used for the Daily WTF forums. "Not taken seriously by the community" would be a nice way to put it: it is constantly abused (with such constructs as "signature guy", see that entry), mocked, blamed for everything, etc. Kept being used for a long time at least in part due to a lack of alternative forum software available on the .NET platform. Post Cunt Spelling mistake typically made by Nagesh. This is in spite of fact that Nagesh knows how to spell count correctly. Post count is an overrated feature of forum sometimes used to distinguish old-timer from noobies. This of course is not a correct representation of this forum. Pendantry Ironic misspelling of pedantry, often accompanied by images of pendants.