🍰 Cake Beside My Name?

Segue was in there somewhere.

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Like with a lot of what I read on Twitter, I tend to just see the second-level meta discussion of a meme that I mostly missed. I guess this is the origin story:

And an example:
https://twitter.com/settern/status/1282512060287336448?s=20

And this:
https://twitter.com/GlennF/status/1282422385547698176?s=20

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Apparently Marie Antoinette did NOT say “let them eat cake”
she really said “let there BE cake” (and there was NONE) and hence she lost her head, french people are SERIOUS about their cake !

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I just read that in an AC/DC tone, and it totally rocked!

“Let there be CAKE!”

Awesome!

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“Cake” was the black carbon residue left in the ovens. She was being a right you know what.

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On a side note, how do I view my own join date?

Which phase was the one that used to have Arrogant Hours for snooty ABC professionals??

I think Oriented moving forward maybe?

Phase URL Time Notes
Phase 1 ORIENTED.org 1998-2001 IPO Happy Hours, uBB by Infopop
Phase 2 Segue.com.tw 2001-2002 Forumosa domain name registered Summer 2002 in Chicago, switch to phpBB2, ORIENTED.com launches its Happy Hours in Shanghai
Phase 3 Forumosa.com 2002 to present Switch from phpBB3 to Discourse
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Just click on your avatar somewhere, you should see it on the pop-up

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You’re the best, Boss.
I was working with that young lady at the time :wink:

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I found forumosa sometime after
Leaving Taiwan for the USA and it’s been my connection to the rock since

Thanks

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Wow, baked bear and cake too? :bear: :yum: :cake:

She was what she was, but she didn’t say it.

Yes apparently the whole cake thing was fake news

The French wanted her head they didn’t care for what reason