The Origin of the Jjaro Boxers
"He-hee, well yeah. I tend to do random stuff like that"
"He-hee, well yeah. I tend to do random stuff like that"
This origin story starts out innocently enough.
A blissful balmy evening on June 28, 2001. The faithful denizens of the halo.bungie.org forum
have waited patiently all day for the HBO news page to be updated with the latest Halo tidbits.
Patience wears thin... wafer thin... a lone voice speaks out... "No news?"
Louis Wu (aka Claude Errera), Master and Commander of HBO, stirs, raising a finger, he adds a new
desktop pic to the HBO news page.
Pallor (aka Meg Sagi) responds, whip-like, the air crackles and arcs...
"Can't you flex your journalistic muscles and scrape together some scoop like the type of cereal that Marty eats (Grape Nuts I am assuming), or the shield battery volts for those thingies in the e3 map, or the color of Matt Soell's favorite t-shirt, or the type of shoes the marines are wearing, or perhaps the personal names given to the Covenants, or the type of underwear the marines are issued (briefs, boxers or boxer briefs, one wonders these things)."
Sound of Onion (aka Onion) adds a Marathon-related twist to Pallor's imagery:
"In the heat of battle, winning is a matter of superior undergarments. It's not the guns, the numbers, or even the technology... it's the underwear that counts. (This is why the Mjolnir Cyborg in the Marathon trilogy kicked so much ass -- he was wearing the best underpants in the known universe. In fact, his underwear is actually of Jjaro technology.)"
Jokes abound about rampant 'self-folding' undergarments traveling through time with or without the wearer.
Less than a day later an extraordinary event happens.
IAN (aka Ian McConville, aka Mr. Mac Hall) posts the following:
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Deathwhore (aka Whore of Death) remarks on the creative effort involved:
"Only in the Bungie fan community would someone take the time to create a cartoon about a
character wearing underpants, just to post it on a message board."
IAN again responds in his own inimitable way:
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::: Only in the Bungie fan community would someone take the time to create a cartoon about a character wearing underpants, just to post it on a message board. He-hee, well yeah. I tend to do random stuff like that. --- IAN^2 |
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Are you wearing yours?
So there you have it folks. The origin (aka dirty laundry) of the Jjaro Boxers.
Thanks to EB, Louis Wu, Pallor, Sound of Onion, Mark Levin, mnemesis, Deathwhore, and IAN
for contributing to this brief origin story.