You know, the weird thing about word of mouth media explosions is that only a relatively small number of people actually witnessed the sparking incident. When "WHASSSSSAAAAAAPPPP!!" was everywhere, it took a few weeks of beseiging before I actually asked anyone where the heck that came from.

I'm sure the "Not!" phenom was the same for lots of people. One week it's an SNL skit, the next it's the latest ideosynchracy of the American dialect... not.

So suddenly, in a dozen places in the last 48 hours, I come across references to

"All your base are belong to us."

Google searches come up with lots of leads, but they all use it as a descriptor of something else, never defining it or saying from whence this thing came. I can guess it was a mistranslation, either intentionally put in a TV show or game, or it was a mistake by someone in power. (Realize that if you don't know where it comes from, I sound interesting, and if you do, I sound stupid and clueless. That's exactly why the message travels so much further and faster than the meaning.)

So what's up with this one?