"It's all in the wiggle" is the unofficial
motto of various
userfriendly teams (fans of the
comic strip who get togeather in through
IRC or
newsgroups to participate in things such as
charity events,
lan parties,
SETI@Home and the distributed.net
RC5 challenge). This refers to the
cartoon on
February 13, 1998 when
Dustpuppy beat
Zock (a
caricature of the real life gamer
Zoid (
Dave Kirsch) at a game of
Quake. The cartoon goes as follows:
Panel 1: AJ and Mike are standing behind Dustpuppy at a computer.
- AJ: "Do you think you can actually beat Zock? He's really good."
- Dustpuppy: "I dunno. Guess I'll have to try."
Panel 2: "wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle" (Dustpuppy's foot on the computer mouse, as he has no hands, the little guy plays Quake with his foot).
Panel 3: Zock appears on the right of the panel.
The joke being of course that it is the dust puppy's wiggling that let him beat the almighty Quake God Zock.
(Also available at http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19980213)
The phrase, both because of it's reference in the strip and it's possible sexual connotations, was adopted by UFies (fans of the userfriendly comic strip). It graces some UF clothing and paraphernalia, including the original run of baseball caps.