It started out as a Joke.

"Kill it and move on," states one of my players mechanically.

Her character sits in delicate peace negotiations never successfully attempted (let alone completed) by her people. Several other players, also involved in the negotiations, repeat the phrase, nodding sagely. "Kill it and move on."

I ignore them. I usually do. I can't take them too seriously: it was my joke to begin with.

Once upon a time, a really really long time ago, I DM'd a group in High School. We would play all the time; weekends, weeknights, and before and after parties. This went on for very nearly four years. At one such all-night dungeon crawl, one of the guys (after having left the basement for the comforts of the upstairs bathroom) returned to the room calling out "Attack!" He then followed this up with a stirring chorus of "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes."

Some time later (after the humor Attack of the Killer Tomatoes lost its zing), the same player started returning to the gaming table with the words "I kill it... what's going on?", and this evolved into "Just... Kill it and move on." -- a phrase the players invoked whenever I hit a particularly dry bit of narrative.

What can I say, it was High School.

I only made one mistake regarding that situation... I repeated the story.

Somehow, it became canonized into the annals of my games; so when I was thinking of what to call the Dungeons and Dragons web page I was creating upon returning to the game system after 9 years, I thought back 12 years, the last time I heard that particular player rejoin our high school dungeon crawls with his signature phrase.

The player's in my current group are largely in their 30's, but one thing remains the same: no matter what the game, the setting, the characters, the story, or the players; in every session (usually at the beginning), someone announces, "Kill it and move on." We all chuckle... or wince.

It's not a good joke, it just started out as one.