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[https://web.archive.org/web/20131109170057/http://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 [[Follow the Leader|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 [[Archive Panic|over 20,000 quotes]] on the site, we cannot exhibit them all, so please pick the ones that best exemplify the trope in question.

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* [[Actually Pretty Funny]]: Possibly [http://bash.org/?929905 this], depending on the intentions of the officer in question.
* [[Adult Fear]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529005127/http://bash.org/?32509 This] quote. 
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130530104454/http://bash.org/?915703 This.]
** Also, the whole site.
* [[And a Diet Coke]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529110258/http://bash.org/?750735 Here].
* [[Appliance Defenestration]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130807031251/http://bash.org/?416857 This] needless destruction.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130530092038/http://bash.org/?908573 This quote.]
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101203650/http://bash.org/?240849 The page quote.]
* [[ASCII Art]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130530092111/http://bash.org/?926329 A particularly triumphant example.]
* [[Caught with Your Pants Down]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130806215929/http://bash.org/?217453 The page quote.]
* [[Cereal Vice Reward]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130806220441/http://bash.org/?75154 A truly epic rant on the subject.]
* [[Christmas Cake]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529005132/http://bash.org/?3319 Heather Locklear].
* [[Could Say It, But...]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130807040637/http://bash.org/?21516 Combines this] with [[False Reassurance]].
* [[Double Standard]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130806215929/http://bash.org/?217453 Combined with] two instances of [[A Date with Rosie Palms]].
* [[Extreme Graphical Representation]] : Discussed [https://web.archive.org/web/20130530104238/http://bash.org/?673372 here.]
* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: The appeal explained at length [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529112042/http://bash.org/?309343 here.]
* [[Follow the Leader]]: ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'' fandom set up a [https://web.archive.org/web/20111219122527/http://pesterchum.net/qdb/index.php similar website for Pesterchum logs,] and not only that, you can submit a quote directly from Pesterchum.
* [[Freudian Slip]]: There are many examples, including [https://web.archive.org/web/20130823020423/http://bash.org/?229 this one.]
* [[Geeky Analogy]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130807161430/http://bash.org/?761414 This entry].
* [[Henway]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130528130628/http://bash.org/?270224 One of the best examples of the trope.]
* [[Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529112037/http://www.bash.org/?12407 This] (intentionally) creepy example.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: A mod accidently [https://web.archive.org/web/20130807002606/http://bash.org/?217425 kicks themself from chat.]
* [[I Am Spartacus]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130806180111/http://bash.org/?328464 This] provides the page quote.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529112109/http://bash.org/?917681 This]
* [[Item Get]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529005157/http://bash.org/?925464 A particularly hilarious and naughty occurrence.]
* [[Literal Genie]]: Conversed [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529005147/http://bash.org/?626110 here].
* [[Metaphorgotten]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130924233200/http://bash.org/?414593 Here.] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529112115/http://bash.org/?921416 Another] is combined with [[Creepy Uncle]].
* [[Noodle Implements]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130530104459/http://www.bash.org/?945388 This.]
* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: A bottle of Coke is mistaken for... [https://web.archive.org/web/20131202165200/http://bash.org/?207373 something] [[A Date with Rosie Palms|else.]]
* [[N-Word Privileges]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130721044548/http://bash.org/?739936 This.]
* [[Percussive Maintenance]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130528123609/http://bash.org/?314921 With hammers].
* [[The Problem with Pen Island]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130806215559/http://bash.org/?574642 He shot his girlfriend?]
* [[Rank Up]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130530104449/http://www.bash.org/?80783 Here.]
* [[Robe and Wizard Hat]]: [[Trope Namer]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20131220005948/http://bash.org/?104383 here].
* [[Scunthorpe Problem]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20131103123732/http://bash.org/?178890 Autokicks] are a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130528124017/http://bash.org/?52731 pain].
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: The assumption that every chatroom user is a hopelessly [[Geek|geeky]] [[Basement Dweller]] who will never know the touch of a woman seems very common, mostly applied to oneself.
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529112048/http://bash.org/?43438 Here.]
* [[Stop Copying Me]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130807064733/http://bash.org/?245718 Efficiently neutralized.]
* [[Straw Vegetarian]]: Featured [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529110200/http://www.bash.org/?604861 here].
* [[The Tetris Effect]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529005137/http://bash.org/?42949 This guy] has been playing too many platformers.
* [[That Came Out Wrong]]: Thousands upon thousands of them. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529005142/http://bash.org/?592351 For example.]
* [[Tonka Tough]]: In [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529112104/http://bash.org/?803011 this quote].
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: [[Carl Sagan|Billions and billions]] of them. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131113143846/http://www.bash.org/?244321 This] is among the more notable.
* [[Totally Radical]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130528130646/http://bash.org/?57829 a hilarious variation.]
* [[Who's on First?]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130530092032/http://www.bash.org/?114352 But Watts was in] ''[[The Ring]]''.
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529005219/http://bash.org/?930885 This], also, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529112150/http://bash.org/?927499 this] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529112141/http://bash.org/?925847 this].
* [[Yum Yum]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529005114/http://www.bash.org/?107985 Unpleasantly combined] with [[Share the Male Pain]].

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