History of the /bebe Macro

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
a tale of a fateful slip.
That started from this tiny mud,
above my shiny lip.
The mate was a mighty hackin' man,
the skipper prone to giggle.
Five letter macro set sail that day,
for a six BeBe wiggle, a six BeBe wiggle.
...
Here on Zoro's Island.

A long, long time ago, in a distant place, known as Islandia, a player named OliverJones liked to wiggle his fingers over his lips in a humorous fashion. So he created a macro in tinytalk to do it more easily. However, another player named Zoro would borrow OJ's tinytalk configuration scripts. Zoro took to using this macro occasionally, between his sayings of 'Zoro is confused'. Eventually the macro caught on with the entire UCSDSIC group. At a large party held in San Diego (spring 1991?), the UCSDSIC crowd did a live wiggle for the visiting CaveMUCK people. If you visit the right muds, you'll find that saying 'ucsd count' can make a whole bunch of people immediately trigger and do a /bebe.

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Document date 5/18/95.

David Moore, dmoore@ucsd.edu