MST
Initialism of Mountain Standard Time.
Proper noun
- Initialism of Mountain Standard Time.
Noun graph theory, mathematics
- Initialism of minimum spanning tree.
Forms
Noun lifestyle
- A parody fanfic created in this manner.
- The commentary in the MSTs may have been nasty and uncalled for; but it was not plagiarism. - 1999 March 10, Teddi Litman, “Re: THE ACID DESK: Vol 1, No 9 - Plagarism^([sic]) Proof”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
- The only MSTs I've seen (on alt.drwho.creative) have been of perfectly good fan fiction, deliberately cut about to make it look silly (truncating a character's words in the middle to create an^([sic]) non-existent...
- Goodbye Catherine! Come back soon! We'll all miss your unique style of MSTs! I know i will!! ;_; - 2003 June 18, Craig McMartin, “Re: Hasta!”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
Origin
From the sci-fi comedy television series Mystery Science Theater 3000, commonly known as MST3K, which features an audience of fictional characters (a man stranded in space and his robot companions) riffing real B movies.
Forms
Verb
- To mock a work (typically a fanfic) by inserting satirical commentary.
- But you can't quote large chunks, and MSTing a story would seem to me to be across the line into infringement. - 1998 September 26, Brandon Ray, “Re: What is Fair Use?”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
- Maybe that's why its^([sic]) considered bad etiquette to MST without permission. - 2002 August 3, ForwardPast, “Re: Blanket Permission To MST 3”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):
- Look it up and see if you don't agree that this story deserves to be MSTed, if not completely erased from existance^([sic])... - 2003 April 5, Frank White, “Re: Fan fics?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):