Talk:Blub

Keep &amp; improve
Before someone VfD's this article:

As of a few minutes ago, I knew nothing about this. However, based on some quick searching, it appears to be an actual widespread cultural phenomenon, primarily among German speakers. Thus, I think it deserves a Wikipedia article. Of course, the current article is stunningly inadequate. (And, sadly, my German is not good enough to get the info necessary to improve it.)

&mdash; Nowhither 01:12, 9 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Even if it is some phenomneon, which appears to be unrelated to this pseudo-emoticon that is being discussed, the article seems to give all credit to this one (English) website. This is a non-notable subject that I'm sure little care about other than in this one (small) site. The article itself notes that "Blub has become popular among the Cemetech.net forum members, though his existence is limited or nonexistent beyond this scope."'
 * Allynfolksjr 23:47, 21 September 2005 (UTC)


 * At the very least, all the references to cemetech should be removed. Wikipedia is not a links depot, and Cemetech has a history of spamming... stuff. Examples: He uses his news feed as a blog, which then floods everyone who uses the TI-News.net Conglomorate Feed. He's also posted self-promoting articles on Wikipedia in the past. --Andy Janata 21:57, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Fish?
The "Blub emotions" section talks about "fins up", etc. Does that mean Blub is supposed to be a fish? If so, I can assure all of you Blub experts out there that some of us find this highly non-obvious. A note about what the characters are supposed to represent would be appropriate at the beginning of the article. &mdash; Nowhither 23:11, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Finding Blub on Google
User:Jp3z wrote on my talk page:"Where were you able to find Blub? I found no references to him anywhere when searching Google. Let's talk on the discussion page." I was watching the Recent changes list when the Blub article was created. It looked to me like a pretty clear candidate for speedy deletion. But I did a Google search for "blub club" and turned up a number of hits, most in German. I therefore concluded that "blub" seemed to be a real phenomenon, and not a candidate for speedy deletion. And I wrote the note at the top of this page.

It is possible that those German hits have nothing to do with the Blub article. And it is possible the Blub article ought to be deleted. I have no particular interest in it; if it is VfD'd, I might even vote to delete. I just wanted to point out that it was at least worth some brief consideration and so should not be speedy deleted. (Note: Back on September 9, I did not yet understand the difference between speedy delete and VfD/AfD. Thus the mention of "VfD" in my original note. I should have said "speedy delete".)

&mdash; Nowhither 22:19, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * The Blub Club links in German are referring to a German Night Club, it seems, and completely unrelated to this "Blub Club" mentioned in the article.
 * Allynfolksjr 00:43, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Meaning in German
To get a rough idea about what the word actually refers to in German: I think it originates in the verb "blubbern" which means "to bubble". Blub could be the "sound" of a sinking ship (like you say "blub blub blub") or of anything related to water and bubbles. Also you say fishes do "blub" when they let out bubbles of air although they don't make any sounds of course. So in general it's partly a onomatopoeic word often used without any sense (you could say "blub" if you are bored). And yes, the Blub Club refered to in google has nothing to do with the one described in the article, I think they just called the first one like this because they thought it's a nice pun. There also seem to be a hotel and a 'swimmming paradise' called after it. --Shepard 18:56, 26 November 2005 (UTC)