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The Chatterbox is an amazing incubator of creative thought, randomness, and intelligent ideas for readers of Cricket, their friends, cousins, and siblings. It's a place to RP, state "What are You Wearing?", and profess your nerdiness/Nerdfighteriness (not a word...yet--DFTBA!) to those of equal nerdiness/Nerdfigheriness. A place to fangirl/boy (is there a gender-neutral verb? Please inform me), write, and create. A place in which many have found a safe place to talk about their problems.
So let's make a dictionary with all of the terminology that has come out of it!
It's amazing how many unique terms people have coined out of the Chatterbox (Actually, many things spring out of MuseBlog, but they have become a part of the ChatterBox nonetheless), probably because of the minor amounts of intervention and heaping servings of encouragement from Admins (A free market forum!) and the brilliant ideas of users. Some notable examples: Pie Wars, Middle Pages, "What Are You Wearing?" thread, Silly Stupid Smiley Story, DTRA, TCCP, Spammy, Debate Era, TOP/Gloop/Poke, the Author Pairs, SI, Lemming War, Warriors RP Era, Smiley Buddies, the world domination through jellybean thread, Random Thread, Add-On...the list goes on and on.
So why go through with this project? One, it will be an amazing testament to the Chatterbox. Two, new users could use it to decipher much of the randomness that floats around threads. And three, perhaps, with lots of help from users old and new, we could finish it in time for the anniversary of the first posts on the Chatterbox (June 18th, 2008)!
My idea: We all post our terms (they can be inside jokes, names of famous threads, popular books or topics amongst Chatterbox users, or simply legendary CB terminology--anything that pertains to the Chatterbox in some way) with definitions to this page. Then, we alphabetize them and post them, in alphabetical order, on another thread for the public to see after editing and whatnot.
Who's in? I am!
How about fan/person?
Admin
submitted by WritingWarrior
(April 13, 2013 - 9:50 am)
(April 13, 2013 - 9:50 am)
Thank you.
(June 20, 2013 - 11:12 am)
Tridentity SI: SI in which someone pretends to be a character, and someone guesses who their second character is, and then their third, and then, finally, who they really are.
(May 11, 2013 - 4:36 pm)
Character lounge: A bunch of characters that we own come and meet each other
Warriors era - I wasn't there at the time, but it's when Wrriors threads dominated BaB and there were a bunch of disputes concerning that.
(May 16, 2013 - 12:33 am)
TOP!!! TOP!!!!!!
(June 8, 2013 - 11:38 am)
Even though the Cricket birthday has passed, can we keep doing this?
(July 15, 2013 - 9:38 am)
Toppittee toppitee top--TOP!!!
(July 15, 2013 - 9:39 am)
When someone goes on and comments "Top" or "goop" or a nonsense word, They are commenting in order to bring the thread to the top of the page and get more views/comments.
(July 15, 2013 - 9:41 am)
I'm reviving this! There's plenty more terminology out there now...
Pie Wars - An old event on the CB where CBers would make threads, make teams, and throw pies at each other by posting this: [} They would construct more elaborate pies and use pictures as the wars got more intense. Some of the most well-known Pie Warriors were the great TNO and Jenni Queen of Pieland.
Middle Pages - The pages in the middle of each section that are rarely visited anymore. Term coined by Tiffany.
Silly Stupid
Smiley Story - A story told entirely in smiley faces, often in a laughably simplistic manner. Like so:
Hey, I'm Bob!
And I'm Mortified!
And this is a Silly Stupid Smiley Story!
I'm so cool.
Oh, John, you're so dreamy.
Leave her alone, John!
And so on. (For some reason, there's always a love triangle in these.)
DTRA - Dead Thread Revival Agency; a thread created to top popular old threads worth saving. DTRA Agents got code names and were assigned to threads.
TCCP - The Chatterbox Currency Project; a project where CBers got a certain amount in virtual seed money and started their own businesses on a thread. The project grew to include a bank and mall.
Spammy - The nickname for the CAPTCHA box (though (s)he goes by many others). A popular thread topic is "Spammy Says", where CBers try to find some coherent word in the randomness of the CAPTCHA.
Debate Era - A CB era of fierce debates in every category about everything from presidents to global warming to creation vs. evolution. Threads began appearing called "stop the debates" and "not a debate". Eventually it died down as people ran out of topics and argumentative users left.
Author
Pairs - A project which paired up CBers by writing level and interests. They would then write a story or poems together.
World Domination - Before Red's Great Lemming War...there was ZNZ's Conquest. ZNZ formed an army of people for world domination. Only one obstacle stood in her way...the formidable, logical Ima and her combination of Pokemon and CB allies. ZNZ used jellybeans to take over the world, while Ima used pies. The thread is still one of the most posted on in Down to Earth, and is highly entertaining.
More later!
(July 15, 2014 - 7:07 pm)
Some definitions copied from various users from this page: http://www.cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox/chirpatcricket/node/92119
Smiley Threads: You know what smilies are, probably.
These things, in case you don't: :) :D :P :( :'( etc. Smiley Threads
are exhibitions of sorts where people display their smiley knowledge.
RP: Short for roleplay. Each person picks a character
to be, then everyone creates a world. Each time someone posts, they
write about battles or meeting someone or riding a dragon or WHATEVER
people do in their world from their point of view. Popular RP Topics:
Fantasy, Harry Potter (Harry Potter=HP), Hunger Games, Warriors (Stay
away from Warriors RPs-we'll discuss why later), dragons, dystopia, etc.
Smiley Wars: Same as Pie Wars, but with smilies.
Wordie Gurdies: Also known as Hink Pinks. You come up
with a question, and the answer rhymes. Example: What do you call a beginning dessert? A rookie cookie!
NaNoWriMo: Stands for National Novel Writing Month. It's an activity with its own
website that lots of people here are involved in. You have to write
50,000 words in one month to win prizes.
YWP: Young Writer's Program. NaNoWriMo for underage people. You can set your own word count. Prizes still apply.
Charrie: Character.
Letters to Your Charries: A thread where CBers write letters to characters in their stories, offering advice--and criticism. Example: "Dear [Charrie Name], Wow, you're such a Mary Sue! (see below) And of course, to top it all off, you have perfect, shimmering blond hair. Go figure."
FF: Fanfiction (story written with the world and characters of a book, movie, TV show, etc. often with a twist).
Canon: The original book that you're writing the fanfiction off of.
Mary-sue: A character that lacks development or personality of any kind.
Known for their conspicuous lack of flaws. Boring to read about.
Gary-stu: A male Mary-sue.
Anti-sue: A Villain with no redeeming qualities at all. Pure wickedness
at all times, without any real explanation. Stereotypical.
(July 18, 2014 - 7:04 pm)
Top! I think this needs to be topped. This is awesome!
(November 29, 2015 - 1:54 pm)