I found an old newspaper.

CabooseCaboose title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
<img src="http://xs116.xs.to/xs116/07232/leeroy.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />

Yes, Leeroy Jenkins is from Boulder Colorado. And was on the cover of the third largest newspaper in Colorado.

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  • XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
    I want to punch "Joel Warner" in the face.

    Do people still think that video was real or in ANYWAY accurate to WoW(Other then rampant stupidity)?
  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    Hero?

    Uh try laughing stock... oh and add in icon for all those stupid gamers.
  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    It was amusing, and every WoW player has seen it - what more could you ask for? =p it IS a bad use of the word 'hero' though <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/nerd-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::nerdy::" border="0" alt="nerd-fix.gif" />
  • cshank4cshank4 Join Date: 2003-02-11 Member: 13425Members
    Too bad he isn't an hero.
  • CabooseCaboose title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1631541:date=Jun 5 2007, 03:22 PM:name=cshank4)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(cshank4 @ Jun 5 2007, 03:22 PM) [snapback]1631541[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Too bad he isn't an hero.
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    Hehe.
  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    edited June 2007
    Did anybody else find it funny that they magically assume the character should be black? Giving into stereotypes much? I take offense to this racially charged statement.
  • CabooseCaboose title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1631565:date=Jun 5 2007, 04:42 PM:name=Testament)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Testament @ Jun 5 2007, 04:42 PM) [snapback]1631565[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Did anybody else find it funny that they magically assume the character should be black? Giving into stereotypes much? I take offense to this racially charged statement.
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    They assumed nothing.
    <a href="http://www.westword.com/2007-03-08/news/the-legend-of-leeroy-jenkins/" target="_blank">The Article</a>

    <!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->One forty-ounce-malt-liquor-fueled night when he was getting his electrical-engineering degree at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Ben and his friends decided to create the most culturally inappropriate character names imaginable for a bunch of white guys playing video games. Out of Ben's inebriated mouth tumbled "Leeroy Jenkins," a moniker so amusing that he decided to use it for his characters in assorted games -- and, ultimately, World of Warcraft.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    Except for the drawing of a huge black guy with a bucket of chicken.
  • CabooseCaboose title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
    You have watched the video, right? He says at the end. "At least I've got chicken."
  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    edited June 2007
    *really not cool* --Comprox
  • CabooseCaboose title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
    It's World of Warcraft, they're all huge... And in the video, yes, he is black.
    <img src="http://www.aestheticsofplay.org/imgs/lowood/leeroy1.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
  • cshank4cshank4 Join Date: 2003-02-11 Member: 13425Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1631578:date=Jun 5 2007, 07:04 PM:name=Testament)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Testament @ Jun 5 2007, 07:04 PM) [snapback]1631578[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Yes, I saw it the first week it existed. Does that mean he's black? And huge?
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    Like a horse.
  • DrfuzzyDrfuzzy FEW... MORE.... INCHES... Join Date: 2003-09-21 Member: 21094Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1631579:date=Jun 5 2007, 07:06 PM:name=Xyth)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Xyth @ Jun 5 2007, 07:06 PM) [snapback]1631579[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    <img src="http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i65/jacestar911/thats_racist.gif" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
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    <img src="http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/d00m3dd00d/thatsracistsdw.gif" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1631582:date=Jun 5 2007, 04:09 PM:name=cshank4)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(cshank4 @ Jun 5 2007, 04:09 PM) [snapback]1631582[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Like a horse.
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    Yes.
  • cshank4cshank4 Join Date: 2003-02-11 Member: 13425Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1631583:date=Jun 5 2007, 07:19 PM:name=Drfuzzy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Drfuzzy @ Jun 5 2007, 07:19 PM) [snapback]1631583[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    <img src="http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/d00m3dd00d/thatsracistsdw.gif" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
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    OLAWDY IS TAT SUM LAZRBEEMZ!?
  • XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
    I want to kill both of you so hard right now... <i>so hard</i>.
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    I'd like to point out that <i>every</i> character in WoW is technically a hero.
  • HazeHaze O RLY? Join Date: 2003-07-07 Member: 18018Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1631601:date=Jun 5 2007, 08:09 PM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Jun 5 2007, 08:09 PM) [snapback]1631601[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    I'd like to point out that <i>every</i> character in WoW is technically a hero.
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    Seems like you and I are the only ones to catch onto that. xD Once you quest to level 70 even Thrall can't put a candle to your accomplishments.
  • StarchyStarchy Join Date: 2003-04-21 Member: 15727Members, Constellation
    LOL??? Give me a break, slow news week I see.
  • SmoodCrooznSmoodCroozn Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22310Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1631580:date=Jun 5 2007, 04:07 PM:name=Caboose)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Caboose @ Jun 5 2007, 04:07 PM) [snapback]1631580[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    It's World of Warcraft, they're all huge... And in the video, yes, he is black.
    <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->There are no black people in WoW. Or Warcraft III.

    And even Starcraft has only Duran in it.

    So the question is, is Blizzard racist?
  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1631599:date=Jun 5 2007, 06:07 PM:name=Xyth)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Xyth @ Jun 5 2007, 06:07 PM) [snapback]1631599[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    I want to kill both of you so hard right now... <i>so hard</i>.
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    I'm really curious as to why, I thought it was hilarious.
  • UltimaGeckoUltimaGecko hates endnotes Join Date: 2003-05-14 Member: 16320Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1631747:date=Jun 6 2007, 07:19 AM:name=Liku)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Liku @ Jun 6 2007, 07:19 AM) [snapback]1631747[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    I'm really curious as to why, I thought it was hilarious.
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    Xyth is a violent guy, and he likes to kill people as hard as possible.
  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1631715:date=Jun 6 2007, 09:50 AM:name=SmoodCroozn)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(SmoodCroozn @ Jun 6 2007, 09:50 AM) [snapback]1631715[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    There are no black people in WoW.
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    Because the option of making your character on Human black means there are none? :/

    Damn next you will say down with Blizzard for racism because you can't play as an Orange orc.
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    The trolls are Jamaican, mon.
  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1631814:date=Jun 6 2007, 10:52 AM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Jun 6 2007, 10:52 AM) [snapback]1631814[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    The trolls are Jamaican, mon.
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    Wada yah mean what typa accent is this?!? Isa TROLL accent


    Ja macin me crazy man
  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--quoteo(post=1631607:date=Jun 5 2007, 05:18 PM:name=Haze)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Haze @ Jun 5 2007, 05:18 PM) [snapback]1631607[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Seems like you and I are the only ones to catch onto that. xD Once you quest to level 70 even Thrall can't put a candle to your accomplishments.
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    Wait, so you've liberated a people, freed them from a massive curse and ended the genocide of millions?

    I haven't done that quest yet...
  • XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1631904:date=Jun 6 2007, 02:59 PM:name=Quaunaut)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Quaunaut @ Jun 6 2007, 02:59 PM) [snapback]1631904[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Wait, so you've liberated a people, freed them from a massive curse and ended the genocide of millions?

    I haven't done that quest yet...
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    It's in the noobie area, man.
  • ComproxComprox *chortle* Canada Join Date: 2002-01-23 Member: 7Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Developer, Subnautica Playtester, Pistachionauts
    Jebus, never knew so much crap could make it into one thread overnight. Sigh, totally locked.
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