Yet another classic example of Internet humor at work. In this case, the classic formula of describing something decidedly non-intellectual in an intellectual manner. Never gets old.
Oh, and BOFH is still going strong. So go read that if you haven't yet. The official archives are down, but there are mirrors, of you want to read '95-'99.
In general, people in community A talking about disparate community B in the language of community A will find it funny.
For example, programmers at a baseball game talking about baseball in terms of programming, like calling one team emacs and the other vi or one Linux and the other Windows, and then following where it goes.
"ignition" filetype:pdf