Breakfast topic: Your server's [item]
At least once a day, the trade chat of my home server, Magtheridon, is filled with people linking [Skullflame Shield] for some reason. For a while, I thought it was caused by some sort of sociological mass brain spasm unique to Mag, kind of like Chuck Norris jokes or being an Ohio State fan (/duck).
But Phyllixia of Proudmoore has broken my theory. It seems like every server has its own item to link in trade. Notable "server items" include:
Warp Slicer on Gorgonnash
Sulfuron Ingot on Sargeras
Force Reactive Disk on Hellscream
A random level 34 stick with a Mongoose enchant on Thunderlord
The Black Stalk and the Crimson Shocker on Maiev
Elementium Bar on Tichondrius
Fight Club on Kirin Tor
Foror's Compedium of Dragonslaying on several realms
Simple Wood on Blackwater Raiders
The Nicker on Maelstrom
So far, it seems that a lot of the items have a long history (Foror's), a weird presentation (Thunderlord's stick) or sexual connotations (Crimson Shocker and Simple Wood.) I have NO IDEA where this desire to repeatedly link one item comes from. What's your realm's item? Why do you think this trade chat linkage is so widespread?