44Nifty's Awesome Website Of Awesomeness, Coolness, Tubularity, Insanity, and 50 other useless adjectives!
Yes, the title being unnecessarily long WAS necessary.
Splash text on the Index page
| TEXT | EXPLANATION |
|---|---|
| Still better than Twitter! | It's fun to bully Twitter, especially when it's run by Melon Husk |
| Still better than 𝕏! | |
| Y2K Compliant! | In the buildup to Y2K, products were advertising themselves as "Y2K safe!" (i.e. they wouldn't break on midnight, 1/1/2000.) |
| Y2038 Compliant! | Playing off of the Y2K Compliant thing. At 03:14:08 AM on January 19, 2038, UNIX time running on a signed 32 bit integer will overflow from 231−1 seconds since midnight, 1/1/1970, to -(231) seconds since, making it count as 8:45:52 PM on December 13 1901. |
| Come on, fhqwhgads! | Fhqwhgads is a nonsense word from Homestar Runner. |
| Filling up my basket with Oscar Meyer! | Lyrics from "Weird Al" Yankovic's "My Bologna". |
| Big bowl of sauerkraut! | Lyrics from "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Albuquerque". |
| Virginetic! | "Virginetic" is used as an adjective in Stupid Nintendo Games. |
| Colormatic 2! | The "colormatic" splash in Minecraft has all the letters as different colors. This is a sequel to that splash, that cycles through all colors. |
| 182! | Joke about blink-182, and the long-deprecated <blink> tag. |
| This site blows! | Reference to Scott The Woz's opinion on Chibi Robo Zip Lash: "This game blows!" |
| Holy shit, is that a motherfucking Minecraft reference?! | The splash text feature is a reference to Minecraft. |
| Irrelevant! | This site isn't relevant in the grand scheme of the Internet. |
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Rated AO! | Scott the Woz reference. |
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PORN | |
| WHEN THE 44NIFTY.COM | If you don't get this one, you're stupid. |
| Somehow My Music Taste Got Worse! | Subtitle of Various Tracks 2. |
| OH GOD IT'S BACK! | Subtitle of Various Tracks 3. |
| MULTIDIMENSIONAL!! | Subtitle of Various Tracks 4. |
| Noise For Ears | Subtitle of Various Tracks 5. |
| In 3-D! | Title of "Weird Al" Yankovic's 2nd album, as well as the subtitle of the fictional horror film "Nature Trail To Hell" that was posited in the album's final track. |
| They had it on eBay... | Lyrics from "Weird Al" Yankovic's "eBay". |
| 44Nifty was NotDansk, now its 44Nifty, not NotDansk, been a long time gone, NotDansk, not a Danish delight on a moonlit night... | Lyrics from They Might Be Giants' "Istanbul (not Constantinople)", altered to reflect the name change the website (and my online persona) went under in 2021. |
| It's about 20% cooler than your site! | Reference to a line from Rainbow Dash in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - "It needs to be about 20% cooler." |
| Also try Polka Your Eyes Out! | Reference to various splash texts in Minecraft that read "Also try..." followed by various indie games. In this instance, they're replaced with other websites on Neocities. |
| Also try Troy Sucks! | |
| Also try Eatyourburger! | |
| Also try Drop n' Spin Dash! | |
| Also try Key's Klubhouse! | |
| Also try Chipsweb! | |
| Also try Lime360! | |
| Also try The Absolute Realm! | |
| Also try Jamie's Epic Web Zone! | |
| Also try Nickolox's Web Corner! | |
| Help! I'm running out of ideas for splash text! | I was running out of ideas for splash text when I wrote this. |
| Bargle nawdle zouss! | Lyrics from Weird Al Yankovic's "Smells Like Nirvana". |
| Like my balls... real big. | Lyrics from Your Favorite Martian's "Tig Ol' Bitties", which itself was a reference to another song they wrote, "My Balls." |
| Little children, near and far, don't know where your parents are Cry directly in this jar, and I will drink it at the bar | Lyrics from Your Favorite Martian's "Orphan Tears". |
| Computer over?! Virus = very yes?! That's not a good prize!! | Quote from Homestar Runner 'toon Virus. |
| iamverybadazz | Lyrics from, and title of, Your Favorite Martian's "iamverybadazz". |
| The way it was intended! | Only appears if viewing the site on a high-enough resolution for it to display as intended. Otherwise, it displays "Pocket edition!" |
| Pocket edition! | Reference to mobile ports of games branding themselves as "pocket edition"-- e.g. Minecraft: Pocket Edition. Only appears if viewing the site on a low enough resolution that the site doesn't appear as intended-- typically a mobile browser. Otherwise, it displays "The way it was intended!" |
| Gotta boogie! | Lyrics from, and title of, "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Gotta Boogie". |
| WHAT THE FUCK IS A ''GOZNER''?! | Reference to the somewhat frequent mishearing of "Better give me all your gauze, nurse" in "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Like A Surgeon" as "Better give me all your gozners." |
| WHAT THE FUCK IS A ''SELTZER DISPULSE''?! | Reference to the "at-least-one-instance" mishearing of "And I have to use the self-service pumps" in "Weird Al" Yankovic's "One More Minute" as "And I have to use the seltzer dispulse". |
| Ass barf barf ass barf piss! Barf piss ass ass barf! Barf piss ass ass piss! | Lyrics from Your Favorite Martian's "Epileptic Techno". |
Special occasion splashes
During certain times of year, I'll replace the usual rotation of splash text with seasonally relevant splash text. These are those splashes.
| OCCASION | |
|---|---|
| TEXT | EXPLANATION |
| February 16th - Website creation date | |
| Yuge! | Reference to an old update ticker from the 2021 v1 of the site, where I described a redesign of it as "yuge"-- which, in turn, was a mockery of 45th United States president Donald J. Trump. |
| Say no to vaxines! | Reference to sayno2vax, the very first side-site I made with Neocities supporter. |
| 50 adjectives! | The full title of the site is "44Nifty's Awesome Website Of Awesomeness, Coolness, Tubularity, Insanity, and 50 other useless adjectives!". This is a reference to the "50 other useless adjectives" part. |
| HP! | Reference to Niftows HP, the 3rd version of the site, and arguably the coolest damn one I've ever made. Unfortunately, it was also very laggy. |
| I love playing the Nintendo Wii! | Reference to I Love Playing The Nintendo Wii, a very repetitive Nintendo Wii fansite I maintain. |
| Ninjas! | Reference to a very old site I made on my computer when I was in elementary school using Mozilla SeaMonkey. I remember absolutely nothing about it other than that it was themed around ninjas because someone at school liked ninjas. I'm... not 100% sure what I was cooking there. |
| October 27th-31st - Halloween | |
| Coming | Soon |
| November 21st - my birthday! | |
| It's time to celebrate your birthday; it happens every year! | Lyrics from "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Happy Birthday". |
| We'll eat a lot of broccoli and drink a lot of beer! | |
| There's garbage in the water, there's poison in the sky! | |
| It doesn't take a military genius to see, we'll all be crispy critters after World War 3! | |
| If you think it's scary; if it's more than you can take, just blow out the candles and have a piece of cake! | |
| Cake gear from Roblox. Audio comes from a reskin of the same item released for the 10th anniversary of Roblox. |
| December 15th-25th - Christmas | |
| Coming | Soon |