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"Finally, someone that can finally translate this ancient document!"
It's just the ASCII art header for a gamefaqs guide from 1998.
"...and this, what does this mean? Our best scholars are unable to decipher it. Is it a code? a hieroglyph? Or a heretofore unknown related language? We have deciphered the text below as referring to "soi", is it about a bountiful harvest? A precursor to the Soy "Jack"?"
"Hmm. Yes, I believe this is what the people at the time refer to as a "Roflcopter". The caption "my roflcopter goes soi soi soi" does not refer to the soy plant nor the soyjack, but an onomatopoeia of a helicopter, a now defunct method of air travel with an abnormally high fatality rate"