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Back when Bungie worked in Chicago, their office was right next to a busy intersection. Everyday they would hear car brakes screech, but there was no crash, so some employees started going, "Blam!" to pretend the cars crashed.

I got this from Xbox360 and it made me laugh so I though I'd post it.

  • 11.10.2005 4:39 PM PDT

Phrog pilots, reckless and free. We would strap into our birds, set the engines on fire, and leave these earthly bonds with a chorus of WHOP WHOP WHOP. Akin to beating your chest and howling in defiance at the rest of the world.
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That's also in The Art of Halo. I believe it said that Robt Mclees coined the phrase.

  • 11.10.2005 4:43 PM PDT
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  • 11.10.2005 4:47 PM PDT
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It's true. The origin of Dink, however, is much more obscure.

  • 11.10.2005 4:51 PM PDT

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Posted by: Recon Number 54
I remember when "blam" was a number.


If "blam" were... "translated" into a normal number of today's decimal system, what number would it be?

  • 11.10.2005 4:57 PM PDT
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Maybe 77.777777, just guessing.

[Edited on 11/10/2005]

  • 11.10.2005 5:12 PM PDT

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yeah definatley 7 something







blam-- Original name of Halo?? lol no

  • 11.10.2005 5:12 PM PDT
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Your not that old are you?


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  • 11.10.2005 5:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: Recon Number 54
Not as old as The Elder, but old enough that he was likely the cool guy that bought me and my friends beer when we were not quite old enough.







* Those were different days, I would NEVER recommend or advocate giving alcohol to minors.

Of course not, now that you can get it legally, you'd hate to have us kids taking your booze.

  • 11.10.2005 5:51 PM PDT
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*hic* stfu befor i pwn joo *hic*


In the beginning was the word, and the word was... BLAM!.

Bungie Software's association with the word blam or blam! can be traced back to 1995. More recently however it was the codename for Halo.

It is perhaps apt that Bungie should have chosen the word blam as the codename since it is, to quote Alexander Seropian (Bungie CEO), one of the "immortal phrases". Introduced by Rob McLees (Art Director) blam is commonly used by Bungie folks as "an exclamation upon decisively killing someone in a netgame".

The word itself has also featured in a number of odd places. Many of these occurrences have been reported to the Marathon's Story page over the years. Since there have been alot it would seem appropriate to gather these up into one section. Thus below in chronological order are the many submissions made to the Story page on the subject of blam or blam!.

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  • 11.10.2005 5:58 PM PDT
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Posted by: Recon Number 54
uh oh, I researched and it was not a number, but rather a letter.

The senility option appears to be the correct one.


Don't feel bad, senile people get totz on tuesday.

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  • 11.10.2005 6:47 PM PDT
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The 27th letter of teh alphabet has been discovered!

It comes after b it is blam

  • 11.10.2005 6:57 PM PDT

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2B || !2B - Why don't you look Inside the Machine?

Anything translated from word to number is always 7. Just because Bungie can do that.

  • 11.10.2005 7:17 PM PDT