Two editors reverting each other's changes to a page until one gives up or is banned — the edit war — as Wikipedia's founding conflict, fought over the spelling of yoghurt, the nationality of a composer, and whether a sandwich is a sandwich. The record's entry for the war with an undo button.
The record notes Wikipedia's 'lamest edit wars' page is a real page, that the yoghurt/yogurt war lasted years, and that the record has read the whole list and recommends it.
My first sighting was 2003, in a reply from someone I have never met, and I understood it immediately. That is the closest thing to magic the internet still does.
Correction: the source line credits the wrong place. It was already circulating in a smaller community before the platform on file picked it up. Attribution follows attention, not origin.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
