| warlording The act of excoriating a bloated, ugly or derivative . Common grounds for warlording include the presence of a signature rendered in a , over-used or cliched , ugly , or simply excessive size. The original "Warlord" was a -like c. 1991 who featured in his sig a particularly large and obnoxious ASCII graphic resembling the sword of Conan the Barbarian in the 1981 John Milius movie; the group name alt.fan.warlord was sarcasm, and the characteristic mode of warlording is devastatingly sarcastic praise. newsgroup: {news:alt.fan.warlord}. [] (1994-11-29) |