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Bad Thing
Highlights a particularly bad thing.

Example: "You have to use both keyboard and joystick. This is a Bad Thing."
Secret origin: Comes from (or was at least popularised by) the book 1066 And All That. Introduced by Matt Bielby. Revived by Cam.
Note 1: The capitals are important. Otherwise it is merely ordinarily bad.
Note 2: See also Good Thing.

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X! It's back (back! Back!)
Indicating something has returned.

Example: "Plus! Gloom 2! It's back (back! Back!)"
Secret origin: Traditional, dating from YS.
Note: Also "X is back (back! Back!)"

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Basically
Essentially; in short.

Example: "It's a platform game, basically."
Secret origin: Traditional.
First used: AP-Zero.
Note: A vocabulary atom.

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'Be' X
Relating to tedious game lore.

Example: "Dear AP, tell me how to 'be' Goro."
Secret origin: Coined in sister magazine Gamesmaster by Andy Lowe.
Note: Really sound that bilabial consonant.

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Best X ever in the history of all things
See The best X ever in the history of all things.

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Bingo!
Expressing pleasure that something is correct, or that something has succeeded.

Example: "The missing page. Bingo!"
Secret origin: From the announcer in the Smash TV coin-op. Taken for his own by Dave Green.
Note: Must follow the original explosive pronunciation: as if you are introducing that member of The Banana Splits.

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Bludgeoning with a rowing oar
Physical criticism.

Example: "He introduces the author of the save game routine. I bludgeon him with a rowing oar."
Secret origin: A set-piece of Man's Best Friend, the episode of Ren and Stimpy considered too unpleasant to broadcast. Commandeered for AP by Jonathan Nash.
Note: "You useless cretinous morons" with attitude.

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X bugs my knackers
Focusing attention on something annoying.

Example: "And I'll tell you what really bugs my knackers - tiny wires."
Secret origin: Coined by Stuart Campbell.

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But anyway
Ends a tangential remark without explanation. Always used as a separate paragraph.

Example: "ROGER MOORE (off): Another miraculous escape! Bastard!"
"But anyway."
Secret origin: Traditional. First used in AP by Stuart Campbell. Revived by Jonathan Davies. Adopted by Jonathan Nash to introduce relevant part of review.

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But not as X as something I've just thought of
Deflation joke.

Example: "That's really funny! But not as funny as something I've just thought of."
Secret origin: Coined by Josse Bilson of Sega Zone.

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But that's another unfunny in-joke
Ironically, an in-joke.

Example: "Appallingly, the game comes on eleven million disks. Actually, it comes on five, but that's another unfunny in-joke."
Secret origin: Evolved from "But that's another story" via AP's gene pool.

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