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I should have pinged you on my reply as well...

Q: "I am a long time lurker and new poster, somewhere along the line I missed the "All your (whatever) are belong to us" reference. Just curious as to where it's from. Carry on."

A: Baghdad Bob, the information minister for Saddam, used the "All your (your noun here) are belong to us" during the few days of the Iraq war.

Um, no. IIRC it was a Japanese official speaking about our bases in Okinawa after some Marines did some bad things to the locals. He wanted to kick us off Japanese soil and claim the land. He was quoted as saying (paraphrased due to the passage of time...), "All your bases are belong to us."

"Um, no. IIRC it was a Japanese official speaking about our bases in Okinawa after some Marines did some bad things to the locals. He wanted to kick us off Japanese soil and claim the land. He was quoted as saying (paraphrased due to the passage of time...), "All your bases are belong to us."

Um, you're way off, I'm afraid. It come from a Japanese video game. It was from the late '80's, early 90's I think, and the translation to English of the "intro" of the game was so bad it was hilariously funny. Along with other phrases such as "Make your time" and "Someone set us up the bomb!", it reached the status of internet legend.

I'll try to find a link for you. There's been some hilarious photoshop collages making fun of it that include snapshots of the video game that the whole "All your bases are belong to us" comes from.

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