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President Obama, Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh, and the Lord's Resistance Army

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simoom3/08/2012 1:21:08 am PST

re: #219 Ministry of Fairness and Balance

I was curious if there was a wikipedia page for it. I suppose it would have been more surprising if there wasn’t :P.

en.wikipedia.org

Leeroy Jenkins, sometimes misspelled Leroy Jenkins and often elongated with numerous additional letters, is an Internet phenomenon named for a player character created by Ben Schulz in Blizzard Entertainment’s MMORPG, World of Warcraft. The character became popular due to a video of the game that circulated around the Internet.

The video was released by the World of Warcraft player guild “PALS FOR LIFE”. It features a group of players discussing a detailed battle strategy for the next encounter while one of their party members, Leeroy, is away from his computer. Their plan is ruined when Leeroy returns and, ignorant of the strategy, immediately charges headlong into battle shouting his own name in a stylized battle cry. His companions rush to help, but Leeroy’s actions ruin the meticulous plan, and all of the group members are killed.

When asked about his actions in the video by National Public Radio, Ben Schulz said the players “were drinking 40s and just yelling at each other.”

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