User:IamFanelli/Subtle Ref

Subtle Ref new article content ... :Indented line A subtle ref, is a term of great popularity amongst young tastemakers on the North East coast of America. More commonly known, in the parlance of our day, as a "ref." Interestingly enough, there are many subtleties to making "a subtle ref." Before one may ref, as it were, one most know the origin of the first ref, and how it subtly began. First we must understand subtlety, see
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No one really knows when or how the first ref was made, but one thing is certain, it was done so subtly that, current Bard student, Rob Levities (class of '12) began to tear. Yes, he was indeed, tearing up, bro. Steve Martin (Bard '12) of the popular sludgecore band, Peoples (who have played venues of great repute, such as Bard College's SMOG, and Brooklyn, New York's, iconic DIY venue, Shea Stadium, where the Personality Crisis event is held monthly) is recognized by all as the first man ever to ref. It is therefore understood that the most subtle of all refs (inevitably made anytime a ref is reffed) is to ref Steve Martin himself. The man is now inextricably linked to his myth. When one refs, they ref Steve Martin.
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Reffing spread from Steve Martin throughout the hallowed halls of Bard College, until one day, what is perhaps one of the most important refs ever made, second only to Steve Martin's groundbreaking first ref, reached the ears of Mark Fletcher (Bard '12). This ref is of great importance, because it is the first ref Mark Fletcher heard, and being the social butterfly, and purloiner that he is, he took the term with him on the Metro North Railway, and brought it all the way down the Hudson Valley to the sweat soaked walls of Funkadelic Studios, where his band, SHAPES rehearses quite frequently. It was there that the first true Manhattan ref was made, thus ushering in a new chapter in the history of reffing.
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Reffing was at first met with great skepticism in New York City. The locales were unsure of its origins. Manhattanites are very weary, and rightfully so, of the incestuous cocoon of cool that Bard students cultivate for themselves. Mark Fletcher, a famously persistent young man of Chilean descent, did not give up on reffing, and eventually infamous NYC Gutter-Glam band, SHAPES, adopted the term as their own. Steve Martin will always be the father of reffing, but Mark Fletcher & his band SHAPES are innovators, purveyors, and protectors of the subtle ref.
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Indeed reffing has grown in popularity. It has now been known to flutter about in the famously flouncy, yet prestigious, halls of Brooklyn's Pratt Institute. Both Julia Monk (of the band SHAPES), and Sue Williamson, a southern debutante, are widely believed to be among the first Pratt students ever to make a ref. Bea Weiland & Meredith Lyon, both acclaimed design students who showed a dress made out of paper in the windows of Macy's on 34th street, are known to have been present for some of the very first, and undeniably seminal "Manhattan Refs," and it should be noted that the "Manhattan Refs" is a ref to the very specific time of May-August of 2010, where the first generation of reffing in NYC was made. The Manhattan Reffers, so to speak, include all members of SHAPES, Bea Weiland, Meredith Lyon, SHAPES' Spiritual Advisor, leader of Call Me Warthog, and lauded conceptual artist Enrique Umberto Bordoni Urrutia. Mamma Fanelli is also known to have ref at times. While Sue Williamson is not one of the original Manhattan Reffers, she is known to have been the first to introduce a new type of reffing. It is known as, "the Sue ref," or more simpy "Sue." To Sue, or make a Sue ref, is to make a ref, that is not so much a ref by actually being a ref; rather it passes for a ref, based on the cuteness and conviction of the reffer in question.
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Reffing is simple to do, in fact, Wikipedia asks you to ref when making an article. Yes, it's true! They ask you to post a link of your main reference and you must place on either side of the link. There is perhaps no better example of how deeply the ref has now run. Reffing is done on a daily basis. A ref could be, an inside joke, an object, a word or phrase, a picture, a song, a shared memory, a movie, a TV show, a failed sexual experience, a dead cat, your uncle's pink furry handcuffs, and those pictures of you, that you didn't know he had. A ref is anything that results in two or more parties coughing up smoke, slapping their knees, and having the communal, "word" moment where "word" is either said or felt emphatically. This Wikipedia article... Yeah, it's now a ref.