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Big discussion in 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6087935

Smaller one in 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1320310

Helpful explanation of its origins: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6088168

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Wow, I had no idea this was of SA-origin. Crazy how influential that website has been for internet culture

It says SA in the first sentence, and mentions it several other times, even addressing "SA friends".

Also mention of the phrase "do you have stairs in your house"

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-terrible-secret-of-space

SA is something awful forum apparently. We should define these terms!

One of the great things about the internet is you can search for the meaning of things you don't know. I know everyone on HN loves to use these[0][1], but not everything needs to be cited.

[0] meaningless footnotes

[1] you're not writing a term paper

Nobody asked for a citation, and good luck googling two-letter abbreviations unless you're lucky with guessing the right context words.

Even duckduckgo knows that 'sa forums' is Something Awful. Also TFA writes out Something Awful several times throughout and doesn't exclusively use the abbreviation.

Thankfully somebody said forum. Googling "SA forum" will have correct top result.

It's also here for safekeeping: http://archive.is/SNn1i.

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