Hey hey! On May Ten, we aim to say it all in one, or two, or one and two. We say it's Mad Ape Day, for the way of gab we dub "Mad Ape Den". Say a wee bit and you may get a pal to go "Ha! Ha!" See our pad on the web for a lot of Mad Ape fun on May Ten!
That paragraph is written in Mad Ape Den, a word-game/pseudo-language that requires you to only use words of three letters or less. By now, you've decided whether it's uproariously clever or the most annoying thing you've ever seen in your life. If it's the latter, you definitely won't want to stop by here this Sunday. We'll mark the occasion with all-MAD product descriptions on at least two Woot sites, including the main one. Yay! Rad! And this Sunday won't be the first time MAD has raised its three-letter head on Woot, as Wootcast fans may recall.
A couple of us, and some friends, came up with this ridiculous crap many years ago when one of the friends needed to write a 500-word paper for school the next morning. Somebody suggested it'd be quicker to write it all in short words, and a geeked-out geekified geek-trip was born. We even set up a site with movie reviews, nature articles, and other pieces written entirely in the Mad Ape way. Much of our old MAD output has vanished, but here's our original guide to the rules of the language (by our pal Ezz). We also found this verification tool to ensure Mad Ape Den compliance. (We didn't put that together, but we thank the guy who did.) Finally, there's our embryonic Mad Ape Den twitter feed, although we promise nothing in terms of future content.
Warning: uncontrolled Mad Ape Den abuse has been known to cause friction in at least one marriage. Use with caution. See you on May Ten, Mad Ape mob!
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