THE RULES:
1) THE BASIC IDEA: Post to this thread, if no one posts after you for 7 days, you win!
2) Posts that are not direct responses to one of the five preceding posts are ineligible to win. The topic can drift, but no complete non-sequitors. Posts that are responses to non-sequitors are also ineligible to win. Posts that are responses to responses to non-sequitors, and responses to those posts, etc., become eligible, however.
3) In the event that this thread is locked, there shall be no winner unless a new thread is started for the contest. Furthemrore, any post that results in the banning of the poster shall also be ineligible to win.
4) So, more precisely, one wins if one makes a post, and then no one makes another post that's eligible to win for seven days.
5) Additional rules to be announced as I think 'em up!
ENJOY!
ha
i can kill any post
i've got a long track record of being the last post.
Okay, the new kid is gonna try to break your record!
you're gonna have to kill many a thread.
I'm just concerned about this one!
I'll play. What's this about posts having to be germaine to the topic? That is surely not within the Parliamentary Rules of Order 'round Legion World.
You haven't met On-Topic Angel, have you?
rules or not i don't think this is a fair display of my thread killing ability. in a genuine thread i could bore and confound all the other posters wih my quite authentic (yet annoying) attempt to participate.
the competitive nature of this thread inspires people to interact with me far beyond their normal tolerance.
DB, anyone can kill an ordinary thread. This thread is a challenge to kill. That's the fun of it.
On-Topic Angel is somewhat of a legend around these parts. She hasn't been seen much recently, but who knows when she will show up again, carrying out the divine wrath on those who dare to take threads off-topic!
Originally posted by Disaster Boy:
rules or not i don't think this is a fair display of my thread killing ability. in a genuine thread i could bore and confound all the other posters wih my quite authentic (yet annoying) attempt to participate.
the competitive nature of this thread inspires people to interact with me far beyond their normal tolerance.
Gee, you seem to be a perfectly nice fellow to me.
You know, I can really kill this thread. Or at least guarantee no one can post to it for seven days.
![[Linked Image]](http://www.legionworld.net/ubb/close_topic.gif)
True but in case an admin closed the topic, wouldn't the referee just rule that the admin action was non-sequiter?
Only if another admin didn't come along and reopen it.
You know, this is a little unfair to me. Being as popular as I am around here, my comments almost certainly bring plenty of other people's comments, usually as they rush to have the the chance to interact with the legendary Cobalt Kid.
ill just wait until you get bored
Cobie is the Yoda of Legion World!
Boredom is the reason I come to Legion World in the first place!
Seeking it or fleeing it?
A contest I must enter! I've killed many a thread with unanswerable questions, the persistent inclusion of Brainiac 5 in any topic and appeals to obscure Legion characters.
(The ref could kill this thread easily by making a rule that some obscure Legion World member, or even the great Thomas Fatsi himself, be the next to post here. If he wanted to throw his referee weight around, that is.)
At my high school's "Grad Night" function people could throw their weight around by putting on fat suits and sumo wrestle as one of the games.
Wait a minute - you want me to lick WHERE?
*Looks up*
Oops sorry - wrong thread.
In fact wrong message board ........
Hm...I may just make each new post in this thread more and more of part of an inside joke, and see if rampant elitism helps kills this thread...
i will wait till day 6 from now on and at the last possible moment bring this thread back to life
I have no intensions of winning
What I'm worried about is, what if someone comes along and posts a certain dreaded picture just to kill this thread?
dedman will just come back in 6 days to keep that poster from winning.
Now there is a pic I want to see. I've heard about it ever since I started posting..
I think it goes without saying that anything that gets a poster banned disqualifies him or her.
And Vu, you don't really want to see the pic. Trust.
Hey Eryk, what does the winner win?
Ok, but one day...I still won't see it.
What does the winner get EDE?
Ok, but one day...I still won't see it.
What does the winner get EDE?
I think double posts should totally disqualify a person
There's lots of fabulous prizes available!
Right now, you can choose between:
a) 100 Reward Points on the DCMBs!
b) My respect and admiration
c) Artwork featuring your favorite Legionnaire, hand-drawn by me!
Wow what a great list of prizes. This should be a 70s Canadian gameshow.
But don't you think the prizes are too generous. Respect and admiration should definately be withheld until someone is 5 time champion.
MMMMMMM rewards points aaaaaahhhhhh
Ill give the winner a sketch of themselves in LMBP form. Oh wait. Ill probably end uo doing one anyway.
why does it not surprise me that this thread is wildly successful
Oh it is only hip because of its newness.
100 Reward Points on the DCMBs can actually buy you moderator status on the Milestone forum!
fools. i will kill this thread long after you've all lost interest.
That's what you think!! MWAHAHA~
In other news -- Cobie!! That new icon is... special...
The key to winning this game is strategy. One sunday morning I'll post to this thread, and then make posts to 50 other treads in this forum. This will bury this thread so far down the list you'll all forget it existed MWA-HA-HA
Nuts... I shouldn't have announced my nefarious strategy. Straight to the head of the class for aspiring Super-Villains for me. Nuts.
I actually think Cobie was using the best strategy in his last post. He's not considered to be the most legendary of all posters for nothing...
Thanks EDE! They don't call you the most nelliest for nothing either! Top Poster indeed!*
*minor examples of my strategy at work
it's all about friday nights when legionworld is quiet, too quiet.
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
*minor examples of my strategy at work
Exactly!
Like the time Middlefinger IV came a-knockin'!
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.:
I think double posts should totally disqualify a person It was an accident! I swear!
The LMB has relied upon Cobie's brilliant strategic mind at a number of points in its history, the battle with Middlefinger IV being a notable example!
Ironically enough, another part of my body has served the enemies of the LMB on various occassions too!
Originally posted by RTVU2:
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.:
[b]I think double posts should totally disqualify a person
Also use of the quote feature should disqualify a poster.
Oh wait... darn!!!!!
Both served and serviced!
Gulp! Everyone, Hrun just stole all the jewels off the LW statues! And now he's battling Stoopid Cat!
Oh wait...that was last summer...
Ooh serviced?? How do I get that one Eryk??
Cal, hon, I'm probably not the one you want to ask for tips on seducing men! Wait till MLLASH gets back!
*snerk* Well, that's not exactly what I meant but... I may just do that anyway!
Does anyone have any advice on seducing women? Subject to the minor constraint:
Budget=$0.00
Haha. As a woman, I can only say...
...we're not really predictable like men. High strung and emotional are more the norm over here. So... g'luck!!
And just remember that all women are crazy, you're best bet is to not question them or remind them of this fact.
(Advice might be better if you offered money.
)
Well it's a given that all women are crazy. It's a biological imperative. Alas I like my women direct and to the point. Rassafrackin' Stoopid evolution.
women are predictable. They will be high strung and emotional
*snerk* Go with those theories boys.
So, I had a casual female acquaintance tell me earlier this summer that she had this whole close friendship with me planned out in her imagination.
I'm wondering if I should take it as some sort of wake-up call that apparently women are fantasizing about being "just good friends" with me...
The fact that irrationality and emotional unpredictability is the default that a man has no chance to win against a woman. The best we could do is to hedge everything and break even.
This implies we'd pay the transaction costs to make the counter bets and play to not make things worse. I understand the need for men to make gifts of flowers, candy and jewelery.
Awww, poor Eryk!! Well, lots of girls like to be friends with boys they like first and let it grow...
And, yes Tamper Lad, men do need to give the gifts of flowers, candy and diam- er, jewelry. It's just the way it is.
most of my girl friends just want a guy who likes them and is without issues. so many guys get my friends number or don't call, if they date the give mixed signals, like saying they want a casual relationship but they are the ones that become obssesed and needy.
my girl friends would appreciate someone straight forward, who wasnt a total loser.
I fell for a guy who had his own washing machine. And a cat. I thought it was a good sign. That strikes me as pretty rational. We still have the washing machine. Good luck, Tamper Lad.
The thread that would not die....
Disaster. That's because men and women value a relationship differently. Men don't call because its not something that makes sense.
In finance terms.
Men generally see the relationship as call-option on fun (not necessarily limited to sex).
Women see the relationship as a put-option on against being alone.
Hmm I wonder if I could get funding to write this one up as a study.
Crap! I knew my lack of a washing machine and cat was my fatal flaw!
I have a hard enough time understanding my own sex! If I had to date the opposite sex I'd be really confused!
That's a DQ -- your post doesn't relate to anything above.
Unless you referring to the wet cat smell I keep envisioning with the combination of washing machines and cats...
As opposed to the popularity of a dog who rolls around in something bad in a dumpyard, Caliente?
Difference is that the dog is rolling in that stuff voluntarily.
It's really, really hard to get a cat into a washing machine. I speak from experience.
DQ?
Response to the first word of the post two above mine which was responded to which was responded to which is perfectly in line with the rules as EDE will be updating them the post before the last one according to rockhopper.
Does that mean you were responding to the word "crap"? Now I'm
really confused!
Yeah, I think I'll join you in the confusion thang bro.
BB has mastered the language of bureaucracy. I, for one, am impressed.
Non-sequiter clarification required. Is there a purpose in putting a cat in a Maytag?
Because it keeps jumping out of the bathtub?
I thought cats preferred the dryer.
Too much static makes the cat stick to the roof of the dog's mouth.
Wow, only three posts to go before the end.
No, he said three posts.
He's deliberately trying to confuse us to win.
*Boldly striding out* My strategic vision will lead us through his obsfucation. We will mitigate the uncertainty and attain the stated goals before this thread ends.
I think what we need is a five-year strategic plan.
Success required LMBPers THAT COULD COUNT!!!!
I knew I should have posted when the Brits were on.
Y'know, sometimes, reading Tamper Lad's posts reminds me of the days of SAT words...
...and I can too count!! Oh, wait. I'm not British.
I have good teeth too.
I think we better get a couple pages of posts on here before the Brits wake back up or they're going to be upse....
Uh Oh, this just came over the wire:
From Shakes Bar: stop
Masked Mad Man: stop
Re: Legion World Message Board: stop
The Kill-This-Thread-Contest thread: stop
One more post and this bottle of rum gets it: stop
Very well STRATEGIC PLAN for this thread.
Part 1 - Vision, Mission, Objectives
Vision
This thread will be the premiere repository of erudite thinking anywhere on the Internet.
Mission
This thread will discuss timely subjects of the highest import and promote the sharing of groundbreaking ideas.
Objectives
By the 500th reply, 5 posters on this thread will have had their ideas been published in leading academic journals.
By the 1000th reply, the United Nations will have transcended world poverty and war.
By the crowning of a winner in this contest humanity will have transcended existence on Earth.
Do you by any chance work in HR, TL?
OMG!!!!!
There IS NO HUMANITY
Shakes Bar!!!
Oh, I think I'm going to be ill
We can only hope not RL.
No RHL, but my graduate degree is in strategy and marketing.
We have a mission statement?
Now I'm going to be ill....
This reductionist strategy will not help you, BB.
Since the last 5 posts are clearly about strategic planning and we've hammered out the strategic framework for this thread, let's get to work on fufilling the objectives as outlined.
After all we now have less than 400 posts to get our representatives published in leading journals.
Here is our to do list:
- Positioning statement
- Develop key performance indicators
- Review environmental Factors/trends
- Review our major strategic issues
- SWOT analysis
- Strategic Action Plans
- Outline functiona requirements
- Summary of major programs
- HR summary
- Financial projections
Any volunteers?
groan. tamper lad is an evil genius....
Nah, too much like work for me TL.
Drat, thought I could get everybody in the bar and sneak in a <span style="font-size: 6px;">little</span> thought.
Alright back to work DB.
And you too BB. We need those financials.
uh,...,right
*snerk* I'm still a student -- if you expect me to work...
Heaven help us! We've morphed into the Legion of Super-Dilberts!
We'll have to see if MEL can run us up some brochures for the LSDs
DB this process will leverage your talents to build this thread.
Cali, think of this as an invaluable lesson on the futility of strategic planning.
RL Discussions about cartoons are not germaine to the strategic planning process.
If it's futile, then why bother?
...don't answer that.
If discussions about cartoons aren't germaine, why are we on a comics-themed board?
Don't answer that either.
Because the strategic process gives the various stakeholders a vision mission to reach for in the context of building the organization, in this case the thread.
Secondly it helps build talent and capability within the org by creating "stretch" goals for individuals and functional and business units to strive towards.
RL: I refer you to EDE's rules for this game.
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There is a similarity? Rockhopper you may be on to something!
I toldja not to answer Tamper Lad!!
Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and war?
Strategic planning seems to be as much fun as creating a viable way of keeping track of Legion chronology....it keeps changing with every reboot!!!
Outta steam for this evening, well it was an alright gambit don't ya think.
I think that I could try it again at some point. There's nothing more hated than Strategic Planning. And By extension strategists, who are generally regarded as do-nothing dilletantes who dream up grand schemes and never have to implement them. I guess we're the pseudo-intellectuals of the business world.
Sure there are.
-- Reboots
-- Jean Grey coming back from the dead
-- ...President Bush
To name a few!
But it was a good strategy Tamper Lad.
It was a fine strategy, indeed.
I always though that topiary bushes are an interesting form of sculpture. You get to use chainsaws, that's pretty wicked.
there have been a lot of massacres in Texas using a chainsaw...
I've only been to Dallas once and I didn't kill anyone!
whew that was a close one
Close it may have been, but one thing is certain: Blockade Boy and Tamper Lad have evil, brillant minds!
Even Lex Luthor would have been impressed...
Really? I identify more with the Computer Tyrants of Colu. Or if we're talking Marvel the High Evolutionary.
Well I see this evil (trying to link to the previous 5 posts) thread grew several pages overnight. Is there a side bet of how many page it will have when it does die?
The smart money is on "When humans transcend existence on Earth" as per the strategic objective 3 outlined on Page 7.
You guys figure it out - im going to hit the sack!
/evil mode on "ahh, but it shall not die......when it approaches the brink of death, i shall somehow resurrect it....noone will ever win!!!!!! BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" /end evil mode
So dedman, will you even keep yourself from winning?
indeed i will........i shall even take victory away from myself if need be.
of course this seems to be quite the healthy thread anyways......
Flighty, impatient and evil children: you'll all soon go on to the next hot topic, yet I shall endure....
I, madam, am neither flighty, impatient, nor evil.
evil's not so bad.
this thread is incredibly fast growing...who knew!
Well, I am flighty, impatient, and evil and I've got tons of other good qualities to boot. For one, look at all the customers I recruited over to Shakes! Somebody owes me commission.
Would someone slow the growth of this thread? It should be capped with this post until the 21st of August.
Wouldn't it be cool if post #247 was the post that killed this thread?
Do I actually have to read any of this thread before I kill it?
No but you just gave an open invitation to reintroduce anything from previous posts to the current topic. Thank You.
I'll bore everyone out of this thread if it's the last thing I do. BWA-HAHA
Your evil laughter does not frighten me!
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.:
Your evil laughter does not frighten me!
That's especially funny with your avatar.
Are you saying my avatar is funny?????
Why I ought to...
I think your avatar is cute, Quislet. Though I just realised that that thing by Krypto's mouth is a bead of sweat, not a cigarette! I don't know why I thought Krypto would be smoking.
Why is Krypto sweating? Did a french poodle make a pass at him or something?
I didn't know Krypto could sweat!
I didn't know Krypto could smoke - but I like the idea. When Super-pets go bad...
Dogs can't sweat they shed excess heat by panting. Wasn't there a story where red kryptonite created a female super dog and Krypto and had a super dog relationship?
There was a story where Krypto passed through a red kryptonite cloud and became a collie, Tamper Lad..
Maybe Kryptonian dogs, unlike their terran counterparts, do sweat. But then, under what circumstances would that happen? Maybe if he's in a Krypton-like environment?
That's the one I was thinking of LAM.
So is everyone happy to have Krypto back in the current DCU? Granted he's just a dog with super powers now, no thought balloons or intelligence.
The dog with thought balloons thing made him too much like Snoopy. It just seemed like it was crying out for a DCU/Peanuts crossover, the thought of which is making Schulz turn in his grave, I'm sure.
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Just FYI, this image is from "The Super-Dog that replaced Krypto!" SUPERBOY #109, DEC 1963. Krypto has just woken from a dream in which Superboy is playing with his rival Swifty while Krypto is chained with a kryptonite leash.
Awww...poor Krypto - so what was Swifty? a dream or was he actually real?
oooo i love the new teleporting icon!!!
I notice the default avatars got bigger overnight too.
Originally posted by legionadventureman:
Awww...poor Krypto - so what was Swifty? a dream or was he actually real?
Real. This issue was the second time that he got temporary super-powers.
Speaking about dog companions of the super-heroes. Am I alone i thinking what the current Batman needs is Ace the Bathound?
Batman is already depressed enuff not to have to worry about cleaning up after his pooch
I think walking around the park at 4am with a little plastic baggie might teach batman some humility.
only if he has to leave his utility belt behind. Aren't utility belts handy?
They are.
DC Direct once had plans to sell them, but I haven't seen any.
As far as cleaning up after Ace goes, I'm sure that Bats will just hand that job off to Alfred.
Originally posted by Outdoor Miner:
As far as cleaning up after Ace goes, I'm sure that Bats will just hand that job off to Alfred.
Yep! I know how that works...
Well, Ace has appeared once post-crisis!
He was in Shadow of the Bat #6-8, where Batman fights Catman, Killer Moth and...wait for it...Calender Man! It's actually one of the better Batman stories of the 90's IMO.
Of course, Ace doesn't think or wear a mask or anything, but it's still cool...
Calendar Man rocks! He should totally be used more!
He kicked ass in "The Long Halloween" too! They made him all 'Hannibal Lector' and it was pretty damn cool!
Poor Killer Moth should get more attention too!
I dont know much about Killer Moth, but at last a thread I can use my tag team killing powers on!
I think one of my ealiest memories of a batman comic (as opposed to the tv show) featured Callender Man.
Hmm... actually I'm not sure I've really read anything with the Calendar Man, but he was the favorite Bat-villain of a friend of mine growing up, and he certainly sounds like he has a cool schtick...
The two stories I pointed out, IMO, are his two best ever, so you should check them out!
I see no reason why all of Bat's foes should be all Joker-bent-on-killing-innocents or Ra's Al Ghul-kill-the-world type deals. Calender Man is unique is his own way!
I demand he return, to at least plague Robin!
Plaguing Robin is Crazy Quilt's job.
Now there's a villain that needs to make a comeback...
robin could kill this thread
I think a 'Robin Vs. Crazy Quilt' mini-series written by Chris Claremont and drawn by Rob Liefield might just be surreal enough to make even me speechless.
Maybe a TPB with a forward by Jay, of 'Jay and Silent Bob' fame?
The villain that I want to see brought back the most is probably Carl Krueger, leader of the "Scarlet Horde" from Detective #33. He's kind of a Golden Age version of the Dirigible Dictator.
Poison Ivy was one deadly chicky-babe too.
Altho i didnt like how she was rendered in the Batman cartoon of the early 90's, much preferred the mid-60's version of her looking like a pouty seductive wood-nymph...
This is why i like the Villians United mimi so much, you get to see so many long vanished villians.....
I want to be the villian that kills this thread.
Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
Calendar Man rocks! He should totally be used more!
He's not as cool as Colander Man.
Though there always seem to be a few holes in his nefarious plans.
Oh you invertibrate punster you.
What is an invertibrate punster, you ask?
Why it is someone who is spinelessly unable to resist a pun. so slug me!
maybe it was punintentional
Did I hear the word villain. I have the villainy to end this thread.
I still think puns will kill this thread
maybe a punny villain.
there's always the possibility of political discourse ruining this thread. maybe we coudl talk about religion.
Bah I will dish out so much PUN-ishment that you will wish you had surrendered this thread to me.
pUn-y Tamper Lad i shall teach you villainy.
bwahahahahahahahahahaha
"Knowing me, knowing you (ah-haa)
There is nothing we can do
Knowing me, knowing you (ah-haa)
We just have to face it, this time we're through"
why do pantomine villains always say
Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha?
Where did that tradition start?
i stole mine from giffen and maguire's justice league
Did they invent it or get from someone else, because I always sort of see an impressivly mustachioed man in top hat and cloak with a girl tied to the railway tracks when I see that on the page.
really. very interesting...they probably did pick it up from somewhere. skeletor of he-man fame also had a good evil laugh but i cant remember it exactly now.
Mmm.. sexy av DB.
And I dunno where bwahaha came from but I'm more of a mwah fan than bwah. Just sayin'...
How do you pronounce Mwah?
Trade secrets are protected by intellectual property law.
So what is the secret to killing this thread?
Originally posted by Abin Quank:
So what is the secret to killing this thread?
The person who posts next (after me) gets banned for a week.
Darn! I just got banned for the week!
Jillikers! Has Nightie banned himself again?
maybe a chain letter can kill this thread.
hmmmm
So Gary or Scott could ban us all for a week and win the thread.
That would be an excessive use of their authority, don't you think?
Remember what's at stake in this thread!
MMM steak
Oh wait... nevermind!
The stakes are high, the situation desperate. We need to retain some consultants to evaluate our direction an make sure we are on the right track.
The stakes are high, the situation desperate. We need to retain some consultants to evaluate our direction an make sure we are on the right track.
dosn't repeat posts disqualify you?
Actually that second post was by the Anti-spin TamperLad from the other side of the big bang. We have successfully invented faster than light communication. See the lies thread for details.
Which just confirms my long-held suspicion that Tamper Lad = The U.S. Military.
Yep those D.A.R.P.A. cheques sure are sweet.
*gasp* It's all so clear now...
yet another reason to ban tamper lad.
Unless he's really the U.S. military, in which case we shouldn't make him angry.
Yeah, he might say that Legion World is a weapon of mass destruction or something!! *gasp*
I assure you only my anti-spin counterpart would do those bad things... I am but a humble strategist, plain and simple.
Tamper Lad, are you sure you don't sell used cars?
Oh let's not dicker over the sticker price. I'll be happy to let that go for 10 per cent below the asking price.
No I've not been been a used car sales man but I have recieved media training from PR coaches.
Shall i threaten to do a streak through Legion World - will that kill this thread???
I think we would have to take a few posts to point and laugh first.
would you laugh if LASH did the full-frontal thing?
Honestly nudity does not bother me. Now if someone cut through their abdominal wall and then streaked across legion world as their entrails oozed out, and they finally collapsed as they tripped over their intestines, that might bother me.
"Might"?
I should probably point out here that I don't mean "laugh" to mean "mock".
I don't think nudity or gore are gonna cut it. What this thread needs to kill it is a nice discussion about the Dewey Decimal system! I particualarly find the 793s to be a lot of fun, don't you?
So long as the discussion isnt about Donald Duck's nephew having math probs in high school...
Comics are in the 741s. Education is in the 370s. Birds are 598.
Ahh the Dewey Decimal system. My university's library system used the Library of Congress system instead I think.
Do you happen to know what the prevalence of each happens to be.
Has it got anything to do with cosines or quadratic equations?
i do prefer the library of congress method but....
those 794's are hot.
For the most part LC is used in academic and research libraries and Dewey is used in public and school libraries. I know both, of course, but as a public librarian, I work with Dewey every day.
There are pluses and minuses to both systems. LC was designed to accomodate one library's collection--the Library of Congress. This is why whole letters are given to things such as "naval history" (V).
On the other hand, Dewey tries to fit everything into just ten categories.
Neither one is particularly useful for cross-disciplinary fields, such as women's studies.
Both systems show a strong US cultural bias. In Dewey, for example, the 200s are religion. 210 to 289 is Christianity. All other religions are wedged into the 290s.
Have I killed the thread yet?
Oh I'm just looking at my copy of Leading Change by John Kotter.
Apparently Strategic Planning is HD58.8K65 in the Library of Congress and 658.4'06 under Dewey.
Will guys wearing spandex g-strings make it back to the beaches in summer?
The 658s. I know them well. We get a lot of people looking to start a small business.
Well I honestly don't know how much a lot of those books could help a small business person starting out. They tend to be good reference material but they dont hammer at what they need to know.
1) sell something for more than it cost you to buy. Don't forget that the gross has to cover your period costs.
2) be careful of expanding too fast and tying up all your cash in inventory/capital goods. That sinks a lot of people.
3) Figure out who your selling to, don't try to be all things to all people.
I didn't say they were all successful.
Pretty much always, "Keep it Simple Stupid" works as the best teaching philosopy.
Ah...that old KISS saying. I wonder who thought it up?
How about this. I will reset to zero the post count of the next five posters to this thread. Think that will stop the posting?
**Meow**
OK, Go ahead...
I Double Dog Dare Ya!
**Meow**
And I just hit 1000 too!!
...oops...
Congrats on hitting the century mark, Cali!
Honest answer LL No!
Oh no I posted I didnt mean to, dont.........
No I'm Shrinking........Shrinking...........
Throw caution to the wind and post.
Disaster Boy avoids the post count reset as he was 6th poster not in the first five.
you didn't really think i would risk my post count did you? i just made 1000 man!
I think the winner will be the person who makes the 2500th post after which the thread has to be locked.
is 2500 posts the thread limit?
The 2500th post or 2500th reply?
always thinkin' tamper lad.
never too early to plan for the endgame.
can i be on your team. oh wait it's every poster for themself.
That's a depressing outlook DB!
fine, why don't some of us join forces to terminate this thread. obviously none of us can end this thread on our own. the enemy of my enemy is my..., you know the lesser of the two evil's bit.
ohhh ohhhh I know some great team building exercises.
So everyone gets two minutes to talk about themselves and the team takes notes. Then after collating all of them the talker gets down on his/her knees in front of the team spokesperson, who tells her/him 10 positive ajectives about that they've learned about that person. This process is repeated for the whole team.
I vote we boot Tamper Lad from the thread because all he does is traumatize us with team building and plans of DOOM.
we could do ice breakers instead. or get in touch with our primitive gendered selves. i think i have a "talking stick" we could pass around. does somebody have a bongo drum?
Kill this thread, eh?
Fart juice.
Pregnant outtie navel suckling.
Body-building females on steroids.
eeeccchhhh!
If this doesn't do it, just lemme know, i can get infinately worse.
that's disgusting
Well, we could also resort to your basic Usenet thread-killer.
Here goes:
Hitler
Jeepers! I still think "I'll conquer the Earth and rename it New Germany!" has to be one of silliest lines ever spoken in a Legion book!
Hmmm. 36 minutes. Not bad. Maybe it just needs more juice.
Hitler
Hitler
Hitler
That's a simplistic strategy dont you think.
That just a bit offensive. Not funny at all.
this is true. so let's move on to a funny topic. I nominate comparative biology. For example did you know rabbits have a two-pass digestive system?
What amuses me, though, is that it was working.
Can we do comparative biology before lunchtime?
drat
Forget biology. Won't work. If confrontation won't work, biology won't work. You tried boring before, remember?
By constantly repeating the strategy of being boring, he is being boring on a whole new level! However, I find his meta-boringness an interesting strategy, so it is self-defeating!
Anytime is a good time for comparative biology.
So rabbits eat their poo to get the nutrients out. The bacteria and digestive enzymes of their gut break down the cellulose but by that time it's too late to absorb the sugar so they must eat it again.
Rodents on the other hand have a higly developed Caecum (the area of the ascending colon where the small intestine joins the colon) where bacteria break down plant matter. Humans of course have a vestigial organ known as the appendix because we dont digest cellulose.
Ruminants such as cows solve the problem by having a bacterial filled rumen where cellulose is decomposed. Periodically the material is regurgitated into the mouth where it is chewed some more (chewing the cud). So when the material enters the true stomach and intestines it is ready for digestion.
drat
confrontation still not working. Anyhow forget that. No point in trying to stop the thread while there's possibility of a great discussion of "boring."
I think "meta-boring" would constitute a discussion of "what is boring," not being really, really boring though of course this discussion would be boring.
We should have this discussion.
How can this comp bio be boring? I know people who make careers of this stuff. Mostly on the molecular level these days but same stuff different scale.
And as to my strategy, I'm a big believer in core-competencies as opposed to diversification. Sure think outside the box, but make sure what you plan is within the skill-set.
Biology. That's the 570s.
I would have figured it was the L-7s.
Now library science... that's boring
Au contraire! It's fascinating! For example, did you know that, according to the current version of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, the composer, not the lyricist, is considered the primary author of a muscial play? For example, Frederick Loewe, not Alan Jay Lerner, is considered the primary author of Camelot, for purposes of cataloguing. I would have thought it to be the other way around, myself.
Boring! This thread now officially DESERVES to Die!
I know something that will interest you all!
In addition to buying all kinds of property and casualty insurance, one can also purchase 'umbrella' insurance. Such a thing exists to act as one larger insurance policy in case any claim exceeds the underlying insurance policies, which may or may not include various other property insurance policies or casualty insurance policies. Umbrella insurance can often be done on an excess basis, which is the recomended route, as one can purchase something along the lines of two hundred thousand dollars in excess of two hundred thousand dollars, often at a very low rate because of such a high limit in the policy. Yet, for this small premium owed, you can be covered at up to five hundred thousand dollars. What in the world would create a five hundred thousand dollar claim on general casualty insurance you ask? Obviously, you've never pulled an all-nighter with Cobalt Kid.
Cobalt Kid: Chief of Security to Policy Pam?
Say it isnt so!
Good luck with that DB...
someone needs to kill this thread, i dont even care who anymore.
your Disaster Boy...do something
All everyone has to do to kill this thread is to let me win.
Your intransigence has forced a return to the negotiating table. All LW members with a stake in the outcome are invited to be parties of the proceedings.
Please post your comments to:
The Kill-This-Thread Contest!
c/o Mission Monitor Board
Legion Clubhouse
Legion World
*snerk*
If I weren't already engaged to Actor Lad, I'd definitely propose to you Tamper Lad. Just sayin'...
(Don't worry Luna, we can still keep having sleepovers after I tie the knot.
)
A Legion World wedding? Where have I been to have missed this?
And Cali--did you know that once me and Luna were gonna be married? Loooooooooooooong story...
Marriage. A lovely institution.
As I was saying, according to the second edition of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, section 1.1b4:
Abridge a long title proper only if this can be done without loss of essential information. Never omit any of the first five words of a title proper (excluding the alternative title). Indicate omissions by the mark of omission.
See? Cataloguing isn't just the most fascinating thing since the accordian, it's fun besides!
Section 1.02G of AACR2 states:
Add accents and other diacritical marks that are not present in the data found in the source of information in accordance with the usage of the language used in the context.
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Section 1.1F9 states:
Replace symbols or other matter that cannot be reproduced by the facilities available with the cataloguer's description in square brackets. Make an explanatory note if necessary.
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Section 4.7B5
Make notes on titles borne by the item other than the title proper. Optionally, give a romanization of the title proper.
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Section 5.3A1
Precede this area by a full stop, space, dash, space.
So, I take it other countries have their own cataloguing systems that they use for their libraries? Have there been major movements to internationalize cataloguing systems?
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Not that I'm aware. The major English-speaking countries all use some form of AACR.
Ah, I remember when I was in grad school taking cataloguing. The prof would begin each class with a 15-minute monologue about her Bedlington terriers, followed by two and a half hours about descriptive cataloguing or whatever the subject of the day was.
I remember the day we had a tornado and she just looked out the window and said "Don't worry, the sky's not green enough" and droned on about something to do with periodicals. *snif* Those were good times.
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We often heard about the Bedlington terriers' obedience trials. Their names were Farnsworth and Dudley Do-Right. I almost felt as if I knew them.
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And when she talked about serials! It made me wish every meal was breakfast!
That auto-reply feature sure is nifty!
Sure is, but not as nifty as cataloguing, Bedlington terriers and Library of Congress subject headings!
Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
That auto-reply feature sure is nifty!
Heh... that's not the word
I was going to use to describe it...
And, no, Cobie, I was unaware!! Anytine you wanna tell it, I'm up for a good story. ^_^
Originally posted by Caliente:
And, no, Cobie, I was unaware!! Anytine you wanna tell it, I'm up for a good story. ^_^
It's merely the first chapter in the exciting LMB Saga,
The Good, The Dark, and The Dead!
Oooh, I'm so there~
*snaps uncooly like the white girl she is*
Gosh geewillikers this nifty old style slang sure is swell, fellas.
For a second there I thought I was listening to Jack Benny's singing sidekicks Dennis or Kenny on the Jello Program.
How about an old style rumble in song?
JETS
The Jets are gonna have their day
Tonight
The Jets are gonna have their way
Tonight
The Puerto Ricans grumble
'Fair fight'
But if they start a rumble
We'll rumble'em right
SHARKS
We're gonna hand'em a surprise
Tonight
We're gonna cut'em down to size
Tonight
We said 'OK no rumpus
No tricks'
But just in case they jump us
We're ready to mix
Tonight
JETS
We're gonna rock it tonight
We're gonna jazz it up
And have us a ball
SHARKS
They're gonna get it tonight
The more they turn it on
The harder they'll fall
JETS
Well they began it
SHARKS
Well they began it
JETS & SHARKS
And we're the ones to stop'em once and for all
Tonight
ANITA
Anita's gonna get her kicks
Tonight
We'll have our private little mix
Tonight
He'll walk in hot and tired
Poor dear!
Don't matter if he's tired
As long as he's near
Tonight
TONY
Tonight, tonight
Won't be just any night
Tonight there will be no morning star
Tonight, tonight
I'll see my love tonight
And for us stars will stop
Where they are
MARIA
Today the minutes seem like hours
The hours go so slowly
And still the sky is light
Oh moon
Grow bright
And make this endless day
Endless night
JETS
The Jets are coming out on top
Tonight
We're gonna watch Bernardo drop
Tonight
That Puerto Rican punk'll
Go down
And when he's hollered Uncle
We'll tear up the town
RIFF : We'll be backing you boy
ICE : Right
RIFF : You're gonna flat him good
ICE : Right
MARIA
Tonight, tonight
Won't be just any night
Tonight there will be no morning star
Tonight, tonight
I'll see my love tonight
And for us stars will stop
Where they are
SHARKS
We're gonna rock it tonight
We're gonna jazz it tonight
They're gonna get it tonight
Tonight
ANITA
Tonight,
Late tonight
We're gonna mix it tonight JETS & SHARKS
But they began it
They began it
They began it
TONY & MARIA
Tonight the minutes seem like hours
The hours go so slowly
And still the sky is light
Oh moon
Grow bright
And make this endless day
Endless night...
ANITA
Tonight
Anita's gonna have her day
Bernardo's gonna have his way...
JETS & SHARKS
And we're the ones to stop'em once and for all
The Jets/The Sharks are gonna have their way
The Jets/The Sharks are gonna have their day
We're gonna rock it tonight...
ALL
...Tonight
Bah, not all heterosexual men are intimidated by showtunes.
Now a show tune in one of those old Hollywood musicals where they're all doing the synchronized swimming and there's like feather boas and stuff... That might keep me away.
An Esther Williams movie?
As I said I don't stay long enough to get the name of the movie that contains such drivel. I do note that such movies are on sunday afternoons when the weather is bad preventing me from going on my trips in the outdoors.
You'd know better than me.
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TL, it's good to know that there are some straight men out there with an appreciation for show tunes.
Quislet, thank you, I'll be singing "Tonight" all day!
I'm always glad to discuss musicals, which as I stated earlier, use the composer, not the lyricist as the primary access point in cataloguing.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order.
Abin Quank's posts to this thread are clearly non-sequiter and are ineligiable to win the contest.
I ask that they be ruled out of order. I ask further that the posts in question be expunged from the record, and that he be barred from making any further comment.
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Obviously negotiations have broken down, stronger measures must be taken.
alcohol will cure anything
I'll drink to that!!
I'd rather drink it than catalog it! I'm a reference librarian, anyway!
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why not use your scizzors, Abin? LOL
Ummm... They're broken?
Yeah, that's it... They're Broken!
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I'll not surrender this thread to the ravages of non-sequiter posts. Stand with me lads. I'll not live to see idiocy astride our people.
Amen! No non sequiturs in "Kill This Thread"!
Join me in another drink?
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How come I never activate the autoresponse?? I think I'm almost maybe kind of hurt...
Hey, it could happen!!
Rally round the flag of freedom. Fight the evil power.
We must live free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
That Milton held.
- Wordsworth
And, segueing into Blake:
"And did those feet, in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green..."
Come on, kids, sing along!
.... I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.
Oh say can you see
By the dawn's early light...
*Sing up, Louise!*
Allons, enfants de le patrie, le jour de gloire est arrive!
"Your day of glory has arrived"...but i dont get the bit before that
Come, children of the fatherland the day of glory has arrived.
Against us the bloody standard of the tyranny is raised.
Literally, it's "Let's go, children of the fatherland, the day of glory is arrived." It's the first line of "La Marseillaise", the French national anthem.
NON!!!
Vive le Roi !
Vive la Reine !
Mais oui, TL.
Vive tous les reines!
God Save our Noble Queen.
God save our gracious queen.
God save the Queen.
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious
Long to reign over us
God save the Queen.
O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
In days of yore
from Britain's shore
Wolfe the dauntless hero came
And planted firm Britannia's flag
on Canada's fair domain.
Here may it wave
our boast our pride
and joined in love together
the thistle shamrock rose entwined
The maple leaf forever.
The maple leaf our emblem dear
The maple leaf forever
God save our Queen and heaven bless
The maple leaf forever
And the only one for my own country that I really like:
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain;
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood,
From sea to shining sea.
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness,
And every gain divine.
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam,
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self control,
Thy liberty in law.
Merci beaucoup, mon ami Jean
whats up with the anthems?
The 'Beer Song' lyrics
by Mark Kaye
Beer's great. Beer's a kick.
I like to drink beer 'til I get sick.
I drink Beer 'til I fall on the floor,
Then I crawl to the fridge and I drink some more.
I try to drink Beer 'til I think I'm dyin'
But I never do so I just keep tryin'.
Maybe one day I'll quit drinking Beer...
...But probably not.
Miller Lite, Bud Light, Coors Light, Heineken
Tell me it's Beer and I'll drink just about anything.
A few cans of Keystone and I lose track of time.
I'd walk a hundred miles for Corona with lime.
I never turn down a Beer when it's offered
'Cause Beer makes ugly girls look like Cindy Crawford.
Orange Juice has Vitamin C, Milk does the body good
But Beer gets you drunk
Now I like liquor, and I like wine.
But my watch says it's Miller Time.
Barley, Hops, and Yeast fermented.
Bring me a beer and I'll be contented.
In a can, or from the tap
Or in a bottle with a cap
Early in the morning or late at night
I never drank a beer that I didn't like.
Beer's great, Beer's a kick.
I like to drink Beer 'til I get sick.
Beer makes you have to go pee.
And Beer nearly cost me my college degree.
They say Beer can give you a gut.
Well so what! They can kiss my butt!
I don't think I'll ever quit drinking beer.
'Cause Beer is great!
Originally posted by Caliente:
How come I never activate the autoresponse?? I think I'm almost maybe kind of hurt...
Hey, it could happen!!
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A song about beer will not drive people out of this thread.
Awww...
Abin.
And, also, amen to no more singing/whatever the heck that was last page.
It was too scary.
This thread will not be killed easily but as you all know,
I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In Legion World's green and pleasant land.
"Jerusalem Boogie" to us, perhaps, but to the birds it meant "Supper's Ready".
I prefer to see the hymn it in terms that the British social democrats see it. The song was a favorite of T.C. Douglas, father of Canadian Medicare.
And it's just plain fun to sing! Unfortunately, outside of England, it makes very little sense.
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Alright time for some CANADIAN POLITICAL QUOTATIONS
Man can fly through the air like a bird.
He can swim beneath the sea like a fish.
He can burrow beneath the ground like a mole.
Now if only he could walk the Earth like a man,
This would be paradise.
TC Douglas
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Yes he's it's the only thing I've ever seen that dislikes Tommy Douglas.
I like it here at Legion World
the patrons here are fun and jolly
just wish some posters reply
when i don't commit a folly
I like it here at Legion World
my mind is in a whirl
Some posters have male names
even tho they be girls
I like it here at Legion World
with subjects wide and varied
I can mix with all different types
and those who were Drew Carey'd
I like it here at Legion World
my mind is filled with dread
could it be my bad poetry
Finally kills this thread???
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If nothing else, you gotta admire his tenacity!
Tommy Douglas gave us Canadians medicare. He was a Baptist minister that became a politician. (Imagine a left-wing Baptist). I excerpted a speech of his in a previous post.
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-74-851-4958/people/tommy_douglas/clip4 Fortunately he was never in charge of the government, what a disaster that would have been.
Actually, Baptists were originally left-wing radicals.
But things change...
Well Canada used to be more conservative than the US too ya know? Now we practically look on the verge of an anarchist revolution compared to you guys.
What would really cinch it is if there was a picture of the Queen smoking a huge joint, eyes glazed reaching for the nachos with her other hand.
Originally posted by Abin Quank:
Caliente
Yes??
Originally posted by Caliente:
Originally posted by Abin Quank:
[b] Caliente
OOPS, Something else else deactivated my auto response... Dang now I have to think out actual responses to this thread...
No Fair!
Sixty years ago, Tarrant County, Texas (Fort Worth), was the most heavily Democratic county in the US. That most certainly has changed!
Die! You bastiches! Dieeeeee!
Originally posted by Abin Quank:
OOPS, Something else else deactivated my auto response... Dang now I have to think out actual responses to this thread...
No Fair!
That's life kid. I like that my name's the first thing you said after the auto-response was deactivated, though... makes me feel all honorable-like.
Originally posted by Caliente:
Originally posted by Abin Quank:
[b]OOPS, Something else else deactivated my auto response... Dang now I have to think out actual responses to this thread...
No Fair!
So it was you who thwarted my clever scheme to KILL THIS THREAD!
And I thought you liked me, *snif*
Huzzah! Three cheers for Caliente and her feminine wiles!
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All Fixed Now!
Oh drat! I must have fixed it accidentally. Augh! Caliente, could you come over here for a sec? We need you again!
with a tiny bit of encouragement from moi, dude!
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
Sixty years ago, Tarrant County, Texas (Fort Worth), was the most heavily Democratic county in the US. That most certainly has changed!
But southern Dems from that era were generally conservative and segregationalist. Back then there were Republicans in the North East who were fairly liberal.
Hee, me and my whiles are needed, are they?? I wasn't even aware I had any...
And I
do like you Abin... can't you tell? *pouts*
True enough. Our two-party system has a very weird history.
Originally posted by Caliente:
Hee, me and my whiles are needed, are they?? I wasn't even aware I had any...
And I do like you Abin... can't you tell? *pouts* Awww... Don't pout...
Damm she did it again!
Y'know you love it Abin...
I have just detected Abin's attempt to push this thread off the front page by bumping a series of semi-dormant threads.
This strategy has failed.
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Tamper Lad, you *are* an evil genius!
Damn you Tamper Lad!! After all my hard work...
...looks like I'll have to find some new wiles or something...
Don't encourage him LAM!! *sigh* Boys...
I like eccentric people, Cali
Still here - and thinking of activating my stash of posts that killed threads in the past....
oh my...don't jinx it now!
Hmm maybe someone with lots of time should tally who had the last post on all the threads in Legion World.
This is the last post on the last thread (I could find) on the Mission Monitor Board
Originally posted by Thriftshop Debutante:
And I'm a debutante. We're a perfect match.
And this is 200!
Maybe a good stiff drink will help you along, Quis...
I'll take the stiff, but I don't drink. O:
well, have a coffee at SHAKES - my treat!
The state of this thread is acceptable. I see no need to change anything right now.
Your proposal to count all the last posts sounds like a precurser to a tiebreaker. Counting all the threads on LW gives an advantage to long-time members. I reject the slippery slope of even looking at threads beyond the 2 most-recent pages of posts.
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Oh, they're always running the same old movie on this channel!
Johnny Dangerously, as I recall.
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
Oh, they're always running the same old movie on this channel!
Johnny Dangerously, as I recall. You Sir are an Icehole and a Corksoaker...
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I think Abin could use one of Mother's Little Helpers
I'm assuming you mean the ones you take with water as opposed to the ones that require batteries.
29 pages were worth it for that alone.
Would the battery powered devices Outdoor Miner's talking about be sometimes called Battery Operated Boyfriends?
Originally posted by Outdoor Miner:
I'm assuming you mean the ones you take with water as opposed to the ones that require batteries.
We can all go home now, OM WINS AGAIN!!!
Really! He was clearly talking about a flashlight!
OM did not kill the tread
Okay, cross that idea off the list...
Originally posted by Abin Quank:
We can all go home now, OM WINS AGAIN!!!
Words to live by.
I don't think it was sincere OM, I think he was playing:
Counter Off-Miner to the weak side out of a Strong-I set. Fortunately our linebacker's were not fooled by the misdirection of his lead block and stopped him for no gain.
Even football, powerfully boring as it is, can't kill this thread!
It would be more interesting if the game was played by hairy men wearing jockstraps and ball protectors
What about black leather and ball-gags instead?
Hey, at least in Australia, the football players are wearing very little. American football involves shoulder pads that would put Joan Crawford to shame so you can't tell what their bodies look like!
Alright then let's try other forms of football. Let's start with Association Football (or Soccer as we call it), I saw on the web that Maradona admitted that there was no Hand of God and that he in fact punched the ball into the net against England in in 1986.
Soccer players always look great in those little shorts!
And US football would have resembled soccer, if Canadians had not introduced a version of rugby that evolved into American football. I believe that a team from Harvard was at McGill and liked that version of the game so much they took it home with them.
The only thing the game does not allow is to have a camera crew finding out who REALLY dropped that soap!
I dont see anything to take blame for. Football is awesome. I've always wanted to see a game at the Rose Bowl.
I like Rugby too, but it's too hard to follow as a spectator. More than 3/4ths of the time you can't even see which team has posession.
I've never been able to wrap my brain around football. It's like German. I've tried, but I just can't get the way the grammar works.
Football is a natural game for evil geniuses because
a) there's so much strategy (genius aspect)
b) people are paid to inflict pain on each other for your entertainment (evil aspect)
That must be why I've never cared for it: I'm not evil.
What about Hulk Hogan and his team of roughnecking pugilists?
True but that's not "real" although I'm sure they're soaking in ice at the end of a show. I watched it a bit as a kid, the show aspect was always more interesting to me than the "fighting" aspect.
Actually I'm not much for the real martial arts fighting either because those matches are just a civilized death match.
Man, I
~
...and I was a cheerleader to go to all the games free...
I was in the band so I got in games for free. Anyone want to hear the "Hey song"?
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
True but that's not "real" although I'm sure they're soaking in ice at the end of a show. I watched it a bit as a kid, the show aspect was always more interesting to me than the "fighting" aspect.
Actually I'm not much for the real martial arts fighting either because those matches are just a civilized death match.
So you werent Kung Fu Fighting along with everyone else, TL?
Sure I was, but even as a kid I knew that martial sports has always been a rehersal for actually life and death combat.
No, most go with the idea that you learn them so you don't have to use them.
*just came back from his karate lesson*
True but we also built 50,000 nuclear weapons over 40 years on the same principle, if only a different scale.
Bush is all gung ho into dragging everybody into battle against the Taliban, like its his own personal crusade or something
Originally posted by ActorLad:
I was in the band so I got in games for free. Anyone want to hear the "Hey song"?
I know a cheer dance to that... ><
...we should play it at our reception!!
It'd be good times.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
So Cali, does every girl in America want to be a cheerleader?
Not the butch lesbians or the goth girls.
Now those cheerleaders I would pay money to see!
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Goths will now perform the latest number called
"I hate you all but I cant be bothered to kill you"
Mmmm United States Prime Cheerleaders, certified tattoo, piercing, and disease free by the USDA.
Sorry, Sorry I jest, but I know a lot of squads have rules like this. I find it funny, now back to my regularly scheduled program.
MMmmmm Cheerleaders....
Originally posted by Faraway Lad:
So Cali, does every girl in America want to be a cheerleader?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say, "No." In fact, at my high school, almost no one wanted to do it.
Ironically, though, there are two other cheerleaders in my chemistry lab class and we laugh about the old days sometimes...
And, also,
to Tamper Lad. Because I can.
You're still upset over my earlier comments, aren't you? I bow my head in shame.
Hee. Good, you should!!
And, also, because you made cheerleaders sound like the main course at a steakhouse. Also shameful...
Hey if George W. Bush ever wanted to fix the United States' merchandise trade and current account deficit...
Let me think here though?
Cheerleaders = nice
Steak = nice
Howcome shamefull?
Hahaha. Well, I happen to think...
Cheerleaders = lame
Steak = gross
...but that's just me.
That's just un-American.
How would you know Canuck?
Canada is just like the US only the labels are half-French, everything's Metric and taxes are higher.
Wow...
...sucks for you!!
(Kidding, I joke because I
)
Has no-one managed to kill this thread yet?
I thought everyone would have given up by now.
Hmm... I know !
Unclean ! Unclean !
Keep Clear - Biohazard !
Nuclear Waste !
Bubonic Plague !
Ebola !!!!!!!!
Maybe that'll work.
I really miss Abin's "Die you bastich thread"
Originally posted by Ghost of Numf-El:
Has no-one managed to kill this thread yet?
I thought everyone would have given up by now.
Hmm... I know !
Unclean ! Unclean !
Keep Clear - Biohazard !
Nuclear Waste !
Bubonic Plague !
Ebola !!!!!!!!
Maybe that'll work.
Nope it didn't.
Maybe if Semi & I got into a long and multiple post discussion of some esoteric aspect of the law, then we would drive everyone else away and we can share the glory of killing this thread.
I'm rather fond of 29 U.S.C. ERISA.
with, of course, an emphasis on Title IV -- Plan Termination Insurance, not that Titles I - III are anything less than fascinating.
Oh don't get me started on ERISA!
(that was the actual law subject I was thinking of)
There are other laws worthy of this thread? I think not!
Nope and isn't this section just pure poetry?
TITLE 29 > CHAPTER 18 > SUBCHAPTER III > Subtitle B > § 1322b
§ 1322b. Aggregate limit on benefits guaranteed; criteria applicable
Release date: 2004-10-27
(a) Notwithstanding sections 1322 and 1322a of this title, no person shall receive from the corporation pursuant to a guarantee by the corporation of basic benefits with respect to a participant under all multiemployer and single employer plans an amount, or amounts, with an actuarial value which exceeds the actuarial value of a monthly benefit in the form of a life annuity commencing at age 65 equal to the amount determined under section 1322 (b)(3)(B) of this title as of the date of the last plan termination.
I actually wrote the PBGC's operating policy implementing this section of the law. 26 pages, including detailed numerical examples, of awe-inspiring bureaucratic beauty.
I never expected a legion World thread to be home to:
Generally, a Payee’s benefit in the Prior Plan will be calculated in both the automatic form for married participants and the automatic form for unmarried participants, but only one will be used in any given Current Plan calculation. For example, if a Payee’s benefit is being calculated as the QJSA in the Current Plan, the assumed Prior Plan benefit calculated in the Prior Plan’s automatic form for married participants would be used in the calculation of the Aggregate Limit. If a Payee’s benefit is being calculated as a PBGC-offered 5C&C, the assumed Prior Plan benefit calculated in the Prior Plan’s automatic form for unmarried participants would be used in the calculation of the Aggregate Limit. Only the portion of the assumed annuity payable after the annuity starting date of the benefit from the Current Plan will be considered.
Great stuff! How does this relate to Workers Compensation Insurance? It does somehow...
Indirectly, at most. If a terminated plan has an offset for worker's comp -- not atypical in heavy industries -- then the aggregate limit would, of course, apply to the net unfunded guaranteed benefits provided under all trusteed plans in which the covered participant earned a benefit. The amount payable under any component plan of the aggregate would be subject to its own provisions relating to worker's comp. Excellent question. There may be an opening in our Kokomo field office for you.
this may work, I'm getting sleepy alrea......
Hee.
BB!!
If only because I can understand your post...
You might want to look at
www.pbgc.gov to get a basic understanding of the US gov't's pension reinsurance program adminstered under Title IV of ERISA.
Who exactly are they reinsuring?
I only just woken up....maybe i should go back to sleep again...
So can some one explain to me the differences between the different types of pension plans.
Defined benefits, Defined Contribution, etc. I think I know but a wise prof once told me "If you need to mess around with pension accounting, hire someone."
Originally posted by legionadventureman:
I really miss Abin's "Die you bastich thread"
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DIE YOU BASTICH THREAD!!!!!
DIE, DIE, DIE!!!!!
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Damn, Abin, i was only bluffing...
We were doing so well with the cheerleader talk and then they had to switch off to pension plan reinsurance in the United States.
Yeah man. You should know that cheerleaders > all.
Obviously. (Seeing how I was one.
)
....and Caliente snags the 500th post in this thread.
Fine then I will change topics and I will ask: How do you guys think the Sarbanes-Oxley Act will effect innovation in the high tech industry of the United States.
I am particularly interested in how you think the requirement to use a quantitative valuation method like the Black-Scholes formula to expense the grant of options on the income statement.
Were u a pom pom or a baton waver, Cali?
Wow, go team me!! 500!! *cheers*
I was a pom pom-er LAM. We did cheer and cheer dance. I can't twirl a baton to save my life!!
Hey 500... Did we get three of our posters published in leading Journals of knowledge yet? Or are we falling behind our strategic goals?
*ignores Tamper Lad as EVERYONE SHOULD*
(But, seriously, y'know I
the eeevil.)
Caliente coming from Palo Alto, do you have an opinion on the requirement to use Black-Shcoles to value and then expense employee stock options on the income statement?
Hmmm...
...
...going with the safe answer here: no.
Hey! You ruined my ignoring gig... shame. Shame on you~
I know
, I've been told I would make a very evil university professor.
And you are aware of the long-term negative effect this will have on property values in the Palo Alto area aren't you?
Man, property values in Palo Alto have a long way to fall before they're at Malibu-level... I'm not overly concerned, y'know??
*mutters darkly about mortgage rates*
Yes there is a simple mathematical formula to calculate the effect of mortgate rate on expected property values. Ceteris Paribus of course, ie sticky wages and constant unemployment of course.
For a straight guy, Tamper Lad can be at times, fascinating to listen to...
*goes back to the ignoring thing*
I think she finds economics boring...
Well they don't call it the dismal science for nothing... My kingdom for a woman who appreciates a good session of balance of payment accounting.
Originally posted by legionadventureman:
Damn, Abin, i was only bluffing...
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DIE, DIE, DIE!!!!!
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Abin!
Stop That! It's Annoying!
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(and it's not funny anymore!)
Space Ranger, I think you're my new hero!
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
Space Ranger, I think you're my new hero!
Queen Connie wanders into the room; glances at 35 pages of pure silliness; daintily squats and leaves a fragrant puddle in her wake as she exits with her head, ears and tail all perky.
There! That should put an end to this!
This is a perfect segueway to continue our discussion of comparative anatomy. This time we'll start with the urinary system. Specifically a question we all asked as kids...
Do the fishies need to pee.
I never asked that question.
And before you start, I don't need the answer now either.
Originally posted by Queen Connie:
Queen Connie wanders into the room; glances at 35 pages of pure silliness; daintily squats and leaves a fragrant puddle in her wake as she exits with her head, ears and tail all perky.
There! That should put an end to this!
Oh Queenie, you are such a pretty puss...
Oh right, fish...
There are three types of urinary systems in fish. Two of these, as you would expect, are freshwater and saltwater.
Freshwater fish spend their lives in a profoundly hypotonic solution. What would happen if you spend time in a hypotonic solution? I bet you've all done it. Anyone?
Well let's keep the class moving, however I should remind you that 75% of your final grade will be based on relevant contributions to our topics.
Surely you've all gotten "prune hands" when sitting in the bath for an extended period of time. This is what freshwater fish deal with all the time. They must shed water continuously to stay from inflating like a water baloon.
Conversely salt-water fish struggle against an outflowing osmotic gradient, and their system is adapted to trying to retain water.
Now that we've covered the two expected types of fish, can anyone name an example of a fish with the third type of of urinary system?
So, did anyone find out what was bothering that cat to begin with?
Sure seemed irritated.
She was offended by somebody taking her cream...
Poor kitty.
What kind of horrible person steals a cat's cream??
Ask Space Ranger - he dunnit!
More likely the cream went sour and rancid and someone threw it out.
Connie knows that. She is just using it as Casus Belli. Cats are evil, you know?
Now back to the fish that concentrate urea. They are an ancient species. The have no bones. Can anyone name an example? Bueller... Bueller?
Do you cat owners know if it's generally better to let a cat sulk or should to try to calm it down when these things happen.
I just melted when Queen Connie's feline orbs pleaded with me to give her some more imported cream....
hello soon to be dead thread ive missed you so.
There's too many pages to this thread to read. Can someone please summarize it all for me?
there's not much to summarize
SLK has just given me carte blanche to explore topics in this thread that I find especially relevant.
I will say that we've failed to deliver our first key metric of our strategic plan on page 7. We've also discussed such fascinating topics as ERISA and the possible reprecussions of Sarbanes-Oxley's options expensing requirement for Financial reporting on the future of high-technology industries in the US. This was a nice lead in to an exploration of my cheerleader fetish.
Currently the thread is exploring the dynamic and exciting topic of comparative urinary systems in three types of fish. Now an example of that third type of fish, another hint they have no bones but have an alternate skeletal material.
Shut up Tamper Lad.
I say this with love.
**Meow**
Can I play with this thread for a while BEFORE I kill it?
That's always fun!
**Purr**
Can Tamper Lad help it if he has a well-ordered and analytical way of expressing himself?
You may all now thank LAM for talking me into reactivating this...
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Oh great...
*sigh* Boys.
Damn auto-activations...
Originally posted by Abin Quank:
You may all now thank LAM for talking me into reactivating this...
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I was temporarily swayed to the Dark Side by Tamper Lad, so i was mildly bonkers when i let you loose from your strait-jacket, Abin...
Now repeat after me: Threads are good, threads are good...it is the bastiches who must die...
But leave the "good" ones alone...
Originally posted by Caliente:
*sigh* Boys.
Damn auto-activations...Boys activate automatically because every thirty seconds our pituitary glands sends a signal inducing an androgenic response. Ie a release of testosterone. This is why males think about sex constantly.
Strangely enough libido in females is also driven by testosterone. This makes no intuitive sense which is strangely apropos as females generally make no sense either. The setup in females is wonderfully baroque.
What is very unusual is that testosterone is is the chemical precursor to estrogen. The pituitary in females (humans at least) does not deliver a regular pulse of gonadotropic factors. Release of follicle stimulating hormone in females is controlled by a negative feedback loop tied to the level of estrogen. Estrogen levels stimulate the production of Lutenizing hormone which of course causes the follicle containing the ovum to rupture releasing the egg into the fallopian tube.
Oh Tamper Lad, you are such a wealth of information...How come you never got wealthy from it?
this thread isnt dead yet?
Nope, I actually have a handy rule to maintain the status quo. It works becuase I'm male of course.
When I first sit down at the computer, the first time I think about sex in that session, I do a quick check of this thread to make sure its alive.
If the thread needs attention I generally pull an interesting story that has to do with one of the past five posts to post.
so you have connected sex with this thread......
Sex never kills a thread...it only makes one want to get up and find the rest of the rope...
I have connected the androgenic time signal generated by my pituitary gland to this thread yes.
If any one can kill this thread, Tamper Lad will do it...
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
Boys activate automatically because every thirty seconds our pituitary glands sends a signal inducing an androgenic response. Ie a release of testosterone. This is why males think about sex constantly.
Strangely enough libido in females is also driven by testosterone. This makes no intuitive sense which is strangely apropos as females generally make no sense either. The setup in females is wonderfully baroque.
What is very unusual is that testosterone is is the chemical precursor to estrogen. The pituitary in females (humans at least) does not deliver a regular pulse of gonadotropic factors. Release of follicle stimulating hormone in females is controlled by a negative feedback loop tied to the level of estrogen. Estrogen levels stimulate the production of Lutenizing hormone which of course causes the follicle containing the ovum to rupture releasing the egg into the fallopian tube.
Shush dear... you're much cuter with your mouth shut.
Originally posted by Caliente:
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
[b]Boys activate automatically because every thirty seconds our pituitary glands sends a signal inducing an androgenic response. Ie a release of testosterone. This is why males think about sex constantly.
Strangely enough libido in females is also driven by testosterone. This makes no intuitive sense which is strangely apropos as females generally make no sense either. The setup in females is wonderfully baroque.
What is very unusual is that testosterone is is the chemical precursor to estrogen. The pituitary in females (humans at least) does not deliver a regular pulse of gonadotropic factors. Release of follicle stimulating hormone in females is controlled by a negative feedback loop tied to the level of estrogen. Estrogen levels stimulate the production of Lutenizing hormone which of course causes the follicle containing the ovum to rupture releasing the egg into the fallopian tube.
It's so rewarding to watch the younger generation as they learn to use Proper Management Techniques
I try. <evil cheerleader hairflip>
<pats Tamper Lad> Such a good evil genius...
Oh Cali, what have those big tits done to you? *gasp of dismay*
She's so cute when she tries.
<strokes Cali's newly flipped hair>
Posting in this thread MUST violate some rule or regulation...
Truth and Justice shall Prevail
(Even if I have to make it up)
Watching Tamper Lad and Cali interact is so voyeuristic - i feel so unclean, now...
Perhaps public displays of affection can kill this thread.
Nope
Lash?
Truth and Justice shall Prevail
(Perhaps misplaced copies of Abin's humor can kill this thread)
Well we can try, all the same.
<nibbles Caliente's ear while whispering the proposed constitutional restrictions on the office of security.>
Originally posted by Space Ranger:
Nope
Lash?
Truth and Justice shall Prevail
(Perhaps misplaced copies of Abin's humor can kill this thread)
Have your finely honed Xenonian senses gone into burnout overdrive, Ranger? This isnt a "Guess Who" moment...
Will you have one lump or two with your coffee, Tamper?
Originally posted by legionadventureman:
Oh Cali, what have those big tits done to you? *gasp of dismay*
Hey, they were always big!! I just didn't accentuate as much before...
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
She's so cute when she tries.
<strokes Cali's newly flipped hair> Oh yeah, I could get used to this...
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
Perhaps public displays of affection can kill this thread.
Only one way to find out...
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
Well we can try, all the same.
<nibbles Caliente's ear while whispering the proposed constitutional restrictions on the office of security.>
*sigh* The nibble's all good but we're going to have to do something about that talking...
<steals Tamper Lad into a corner for a bit more privacy while she gives him her proposition>
I think you'll find it to your liking...
Oh look...I accidentally took the key to Tamper's office...well, must allow two evil geniuses some privacy, eh?
Now Tamper Lad has a new hobby - necrophilia
Originally posted by Caliente:
Oh. My. God.
*dies*
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(but why?????)
Originally posted by legionadventureman:
Now Tamper Lad has a new hobby - necrophilia
EWWWWW!!!
Only kidding around, hon...
Originally posted by legionadventureman:
Now Tamper Lad has a new hobby - necrophilia
*note to self - avoid tamper lad at all costs
Its all okay, Cali has the magical ability to re-animate her life force...no harm was done...Tamper Lad still has a chance...
Not even inneuendo about necrophillia can kill this thread.
But I have a feeling that the molecular biology of muscle activation might. Actin and Myosin filaments anybody?
Originally posted by dedman:
Originally posted by legionadventureman:
[b] Now Tamper Lad has a new hobby - necrophilia
You worry me Cobie... really, you do.
This thread just will not die
I know what will kill it.
I was just laughing b/c I thought "now would be the perfect time for Dedman to pop in..."
My worries stem from fear that the Caliente/Tamper Lad alliance has no love for Cobalt Kid...
Not jealous, as I'm desperately trying to curb my female relations on LW these days--just absolutely tired of people bothering my Security Office stuff...
was that supposed to be "Staff"?, Cobie?
Well, turning this conversation into one about my 'staff' isn't going to help me control the kind of relations I'm talking about...
Well we did try to free jailbait lass from her servitude this morning.
Jailbait Lass and I have been friends for many years, Tamper. She works there on her own free will, and is very well paid I might add. She can pick and choose her own hours, and surprisingly, this has led her to work even more--I'd like to think that as my personal intern, she has grown fond of me.
Her people do not age past 16 years old, you see, so often they are denied the right to work outside of their home planet. When I met her when I was 19, we hit it off very well.
When the Red Bee buried her alive a few months back, not only did I help save her, I visited her every day in the hospital.
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
Well, turning this conversation into one about my 'staff' isn't going to help me control the kind of relations I'm talking about... I was thinking of "staff" in the employee-employer context...what were you thinking i meant, dude?
Mayavale does not understand the point of this thread.
Ahhhh... Caliente, you here? I need you to explain some dialogue to me.
Originally posted by Doctor Mayavale:
Mayavale does not understand the point of this thread.
Ay, there's the rub. This thread is all about pointlessness.
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
Ahhhh... Caliente, you here? I need you to explain some dialogue to me.
Sorry!! I had my last chem lab of DOOM for this quarter. Whoo-hooo, no more!! :cheerleader:
Anyway, ask away at your earliest convienence but if it's relating to Cobie in any way, shape or form then the answer's no. Just... no. Always with the no.
(Love ya Cobies!! Really!!)
Jeepers! Will this thread actually slip off the first page?
Oops... I guess not!
Then we will just have to offer Cobalt more love to make up for it.
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(Just to make sure Caliente doesn't win...)
Wow! Great minds and all that...
Was this the biggest lapse of time between posts?
I think it went close to twenty-four hours without a post once before, but I could be mistaken.
Ahh sweet chemistry lab, I think in 4 terms of Undergraduate Chem Lab I must have broken $5000 in the glass-wear.
It's still a running joke amongst my circle of scientific friends nearly 10 years later. That and the severity of my latex allergy.
So you had to make a few
rash decisions about that allergy, Tamper Lad?
Originally posted by Space Ranger:
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(Just to make sure Caliente doesn't win...)
Wow! Great minds and all that... Hmmph!! I'm glad you got turned into a grease stain. Jerk.
Hmmm... As Cobie would say...
Cali you sure are cute when you are angry!
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(Why not, she can't like me any less because of that remark)
I'd avoid antagonizing her Ranger.
Yes LAM latex is like kryptonite to me. Nitrile and Urethane are the only ways to go. Extreme price premium though, especially on Urethane products.
Originally posted by Space Ranger:
Cali you sure are cute when you are angry!
Okay. I suppose you can live... but I will kill this thread. Someday.
Before you do, Cali, have another Twinkie
Trying to fatten me up??
'Cause it's working.
Must not comment...
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(I ain't that stupid)
Aww, hon, would i do that? I couldn't ruin that girlish figure - as i did mine
Twinkies Nutrition Facts
Serving Size
43.00g
Amount per Serving of
1 Cake
Calories
150.0
Calories from Fat
45.0
% Daily Values**
Total Fat 5.0g
8%
Saturated Fat 2.0g
10%
Cholesterol 20.0g
8%
Sodium 200.0mg
8%
Total Carbohydrate 25.0g
8%
Sugar
14.0g
Protein
1.0g
** Percent daily values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs:
And Tamper Lad's list is another reason why i ignored warnings about eating junk food...
Originally posted by legionadventureman:
Aww, hon, would i do that? I couldn't ruin that girlish figure - as i did mine Aww, thanks!!
And smart move Ranger. (For once.)
The nutrition facts are nowhere near as bad as I thought. Could even have one if you'd been good the rest of the day.
When we are reduced to talking about Twinkies, there is only one answer...
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Aww, Abin.
I'd such hope for you... even trying to prevent your obliteration a la Tamper Lad. Don't throw it all away now...
Well Abin did duck behind Pagan Lass pretty quick this evening.
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
Well Abin did duck behind Pagan Lass pretty quick this evening.
When was that?
Oh, I remember, my wife slapped you down because she thought you were beneath my notice...
If you have a problem with that I suggest you complain to someone who cares.
My analysis of the last 8 pages of the Kill This Thread Contest is now complete. It shows that the reason I have failed to kill this thread recently were the numerous public displays of affection and indeed the influence of Caliente wrecking havoc on my true evil genius monologue. Now that this has been restored, I may now rededicate myself to killing this thread.
Resuming, the cartiligineous fish are the type of fish that have a urinary system which concentrates urea in the blood. These fish which include sharkes, rays skates etc are amongst the most ancient vertebrates.
Sharks are incredibly frightening animals.
Ah Abin, always the jolly lunatic...Pagan Lass must be so proud...
:rolleyes:
hey abin can i borrow your power ring? ....it does have a kill setting right?
waht, your own powers not up for the job?
Originally posted by legionadventureman:
Originally posted by Abin Quank:
[b] When we are reduced to talking about Twinkies, there is only one answer...
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Yes, She Is.
Pagans have persisted throughout the Christian era in Europe. In fact organized Christianity as we know it did not reach parts of Europe until 1000 years into the Christian calendar.
Pagan influences on modern society can be seen in various rituals such as Hallowe'en. Even the phrase Hocus Pocus is believed to be a pagan corruption of the Latin Phrase Hoc est enim corpus meum (This is truly my body)
Aww, Pagan and Abin... feel the
!!
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Uh, did Abin and Pagan Lass have a tiff last night?
I think Abin and Pagan are fine.
Mebbe i should put the poor man back in the strait-jacket again...
Caliente asked how I valued my relationship with her at 100 tera-spacebucks.
While I do wish to once again assert my Genius, I feel that a full description of the Black-Scholes real options methodology would be beyond the audience in this thread. Instead, I will give a brief summary here, those interested may look up Black-Scholes on the internet for a more detailed treatment.
I built a probability tree containing all the possible terminal conditions of my relationship with Caliente over 64,000 in all.
Then I calculated the relative probablities of each terminal condition using a variety of Bayesian statistical techniques.
Then I discounted the terminal condition using the the estimated risk-free rate-of-return for investments on Legion World (Ie LW Central Bank Bonds.)
Summing this and making the adjustments I arrived at an option price of 30 tera-space bucks which I added 70 tera-SB to compensate for my pain and suffering and extreme emotional distress.
Huh. I wasn't aware evil people suffered emotional distress. Or is it a kermit-thing? You know, i't's not easy being green' and all that jazz.
Also, you are a very, very large dork. To do all that work. Geek.
There are delegates to the constitutional convention who will testify to my extreme emotional distress this morning.
And really it was no work at all, it's all a matter of having the proper Excel Templates.
1st of all if you do go through with suing me I could just counter-sue and I have a better leg to stand on since she was my fiance to begin with. Your ego inflated the "relationship" to more than it was.
I think you've all been infected by some kind of reality TV virus.
I should have moved to Jersey.
*snerk* Because obviously that's the lesser of two evils...
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
There are delegates to the constitutional convention who will testify to my extreme emotional distress this morning.
And really it was no work at all, it's all a matter of having the proper Excel Templates.
Really? I heard something about that from Cali - she said you smelled.
And, like I said before, 'Geek.'
Originally posted by ActorLad:
1st of all if you do go through with suing me I could just counter-sue and I have a better leg to stand on since she was my fiance to begin with. Your ego inflated the "relationship" to more than it was.
FTR you have no case, she seduced me. The record will show I rejected her advance once, but the second time was just too much it was the evil cheerleader thing.
Reality TV? Well I have thought about trying out for The Real World a few times.
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
Originally posted by ActorLad:
[b]1st of all if you do go through with suing me I could just counter-sue and I have a better leg to stand on since she was my fiance to begin with. Your ego inflated the "relationship" to more than it was.
Of course Luna, Bast and those other interfering harpies didnt help matters either, TL
Originally posted by ActorLad:
Well I have thought about trying out for The Real World a few times.
Out of curiosity, what's stopping you?
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
FTR you have no case, she seduced me. The record will show I rejected her advance once, but the second time was just too much it was the evil cheerleader thing.
I was under Pagan Lasses influence!!
And if you were so disinterested, why're you the one who's all wrecked?
Originally posted by Outdoor Miner:
Originally posted by ActorLad:
[b] Well I have thought about trying out for The Real World a few times.
No camcorder to make a audition tape. Also the chances I might have to go on Road Rules instead. Some of the stuff they do on that show is a bit nutty.
Does Road Rules still exist? Haven't seen ads for it in a while.
I think it does but I then I don't watch MTV as much as I used to.
How about the follow-up...Road Rage - the affliction that anybody can catch!
Eighteen hours without a post is long enough. I see that there was talk of video tape so I want to revisit the age of video tape.
Picture it... Sony Headquarters, ca. 1975. The age of colour television is now in full swing around the world. Thanks to your expertise in electronics you are about to pass the US TV manufacturers who have spent the last decade not improving their electronics but by buying cabinet makers. (Younger readers will not remember that TVs in North America were once considered furniture.) You want to create a device to make it easy to record images. Tape machines had been used in professional settings for almost a decade.
You decide to do things the Japanese way and invite all you competitors in to the design meeting. You settle on a compact cassette format, utilizing analog helical scan technology. You invent the Betamax. Your competitors are excited, they take samples back to the their HQs for their R&D freaks to look at. They anxiously work on Betamax machines of their own.
Picture it... Sony Headquarters, 1985. The Video Wars are winding down. What happened, everything was lining up their way, but Betamax is dying. How did we get here?
Coz of a little innovation called VHS?
Originally posted by RTVU2:
waht, your own powers not up for the job? i wasn't talking about this thread.
We interupt this thread with a broadcast from Tamper's Secure Unidisclosed Location.
The sky is green, a bright day flares.
We love Tamper and his icy stare.
'Cross the world, he'll save our lands
Huzzah Hurray,
Genius, by his mighty hands
Pictures, that reminds me to get back to the story of Sony.
The launch of the VHS consortium was especially galling to Sony because JVC the lead technology developer for VHS was in attendance at the original Beta VCR demonstration and design group meetings. They had committed to produce Beta until Sony announced the technology licensing royalties for their VCR.
The VHS technology was also nearly identical in concept to Beta, in a slightly larger form factor.
Hrun enters and uses his axe to smash every mention of Video tape technology in this thread. Slashing and burning the headquaters of Sony Legion World.
In a beserker rage he turns his axe on the very fabric of the thread itself.
"Die thread! die you beast"
Wow. Manly. Thank goodness I don't find that attractive... (No green.
)
Yah, I'm really sure goodness has something to do with it.
Oh, darn. Wrong thread. ><
Ha-ha! Double post = disqualification. Dork.
Hrun not even your weaponry can pierce the fabric of this thread. I believe that it is made from the very hopes and dreams of the people here.
And since I hope to not only win the contest, and rule the universe amongst several larger goals you can't ever destroy this thread.
Can i help you *snerk, snort*, Masss-terrrr???
Now that is just going too far.
You're not supposed to display not office friendly content like that Bee. LW rules say you have to link it instead.
Tamper Lad's friendly reminder brought to you by the Letters T, L and the number 3.
Now I have to look at the thing again to find the non-office-friendly content. Thanks so much.
I must admit, the package is both dirty...and fascinating at the same time
ARRRRRRGGGGGGGG!!!!!!
DIE YOU BASTICH THREAD!!!!!
DIE, DIE, DIE!!!!!
(You have activated the Auto-reply feature of Abin's Computer, on your head lie the consequences!)
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Abin!!!! Are you Houdini??? How'd you get out of your strait-jacket?
(Original Post destroyed by an alien invasion of Abin's computer...)
WE, THE MORALITY LEAGUE OF QWARD DEMAND THAT ALL EMOTICONS AND/OR SMILIES BE PROPERLY CLOTHED AT ALL TIMES...
TO ENSURE THAT OUR DEMANDS ARE MET, WE HAVE TAKEN ABIN QUANK HOSTAGE. HE WILL BE RETURNED TO LEGION WORLD WHEN ALL EMOTICONS AND/OR SMILIES ARE DRESSED IN PROPER VICTORIAN ERA CLOTHING AND ALL FEMALE EMOTICONS AND/OR SMILIES ARE WEARING SUNBONNETS.
YOU MAY NOW RETURN TO YOUR NORMAL POSTING...
We must not give in to bandits and anarchists (noble as their goals might be). I say we surrender Abin's life. It's a small price to pay to maintain our freedom.
Happy birthday, Tamper Lad!
Hrun descends on the head office of the morality league of Qward.
His axe sings as he despatches the guards and the legions of weaponer's defending the heavily padded cell. Singing lustily Hrun cuts, thrusts and parries. soon he is inside the building leaving a trail of destruction behind him. Even the feared warriors of Qward quake before him.
Entering the cell holding a bound Abin Quank Hrun quickly cuts him free.
"No one takes an member of the LMB and a housecarl of the security office prisoner” he says and the two prepare to leave
LAM enters...and curses the Time Trapper for mixing up the time zones
Speaking of timezones Brazil is GMT -3.
On the South American continent Brazil is a giant, dominating its neighbours in terms of area, population and overall size of the economy (Brazil’s GNP is 767.6B versus second place Argentina with GNP 290.3B USD, 1998)3. However in the context of the Americas its economy is dwarfed when compared to the United States (US GNP 7,903B USD, 1998). Brazil’s recent actions seem to indicate that it is unwilling to follow the lead of the US, seeming to prefer being first amongst equals in MERCOSUR rather than agreeing to be a junior partner in a FTAA.
Given the animosity amongst members of MERCOSUR towards Brazil, what would Brazil do if its MERCOSUR partners accept a FTAA that Brazil could not accept, and such an agreement diverted trade allowing MERCOSUR partners (14.1% of exports and 13.7% of imports as of 1999) to gain with trade with North America at Brazil’s detriment? Is Brazil better off as a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big pond?
Can we kill this thread with non sequiturs or what?
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
Speaking of timezones Brazil is GMT -3.
On the South American continent Brazil is a giant, dominating its neighbours in terms of area, population and overall size of the economy (Brazil’s GNP is 767.6B versus second place Argentina with GNP 290.3B USD, 1998)3. However in the context of the Americas its economy is dwarfed when compared to the United States (US GNP 7,903B USD, 1998). Brazil’s recent actions seem to indicate that it is unwilling to follow the lead of the US, seeming to prefer being first amongst equals in MERCOSUR rather than agreeing to be a junior partner in a FTAA.
Given the animosity amongst members of MERCOSUR towards Brazil, what would Brazil do if its MERCOSUR partners accept a FTAA that Brazil could not accept, and such an agreement diverted trade allowing MERCOSUR partners (14.1% of exports and 13.7% of imports as of 1999) to gain with trade with North America at Brazil’s detriment? Is Brazil better off as a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big pond?
Originally posted by legionadventureman:
Can we kill this thread with non sequiturs or what?
What are you talking non-sequiters that's some of my best stuff. It's perfectly clear. Answer the question.
Mind your manners, Coluan or i will go to Tenazor-4 and kidnap your damn monkey - and make you pay ME to send it away again! Heh Heh Heh...
I'd go with joining the FTAA if it were me. The problem with being the big fish is that the smaller fish are generally looking for a way to dethrone you.
Sounds as if this FTAA biz is hot stuff...what is it, exactly?
Free Trade Agreement of the Americas, now on indefinite hold.
Trouble for Brazil was they always wanted it both ways. They wanted a united front against the US but always in the context of being first amongst equals in South America.
The other South Americans never could have it this way.
Speaking of "Brazil", has anyone seen Terry Gilliam's new movie, "The Brothers Grimm"? Most of the reviews I've read haven't been particularly positive, but I'm curious about it.
Ooh! Ooh! I wanna see that movie!! Is it out already? Must go soon...
I've never put much stock in what reviewers say. Bunch of pseudo intellectuals who couldn't be real journalists.
Could the movie distributors "bribe" the reviewers into giving their pet projects a good rating, even tho it might be construed as being a tad unethical?
I think one of the studios just got caught making up a reviewer and giving themselves good reviews. Big fine in the States over it.
Edit: It was Sony
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4741259.stm
I think it's generally a good bet that a movie produced by a major studio is likely to get better reviews in newspapers/magazines owned by the same parent company as the studio.
Inherent conflict of interest, but with the concentration of ownership these days it's not likely to get better anytime soon.
Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
I think it's generally a good bet that a movie produced by a major studio is likely to get better reviews in newspapers/magazines owned by the same parent company as the studio.
Even if they had irreutable proof that the movie is crap?
I've often wondered if Entertainment Weekly (Time-Warner) charged an internal transfer price to Warner Brothers pictures for pages used for articles on crap WB movies.
Obviously the accountants do charge for "house ads" right. Do anti-trust laws allow the ITP to be different than the rate charged to an outside buyer?
What about the poor slobs who 'burn movies they were told were good, but by the time they see just how long the movie drags BEFORE the credits start to roll, is it still a case of 'caveat emptor' on a non-refundable download?
From a managerial accounting point of view billing a film's article in EW as advertising makes sense because there is an opportunity cost of putting a different movie/TV show on the cover or in the article.
Dude, no one cares about a managerial accounting point of view. Not even managerial accountants...
But the P & Ls
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Oh, Shut Up!
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(Yak, Yak, Sprocking Yak...)
Never!
Relativism and Vengence shall Prevail (CP)
(You know it to be true.)
Sentient, You... Just Shut Up!
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(I don't even know what Relativism is...)
You and me both Ranger man.
If i say something - will i be told to shut up, too???
Shut up!
Well you asked for that.
Didn't you?
I'll not yield this thread because of verbal intimidation.
Tamper Lad is the best evil genius Legion World could ever hope for...
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
I'll not yield this thread because of verbal intimidation.
Okay Sentient, how about physical intimidation?
<Begins a random campaign of flicking TL's Ears and giving him noogies and wedgies...>
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(Nah-Nah, "I'll
Not Yield..."
Yeah, right...)
And that sort of thing is also why rumours get started...*Ahem*
Nothing to see here, Sentient, Move On... Move On...
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(Mebbie I'll run you up the Legion World Flagpole, TL...)
Space Range! You are needed over at the Security Office. I'll hold down the fort here.
Okay Quiz, if you promise not to hurt TL too much...
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(Just annoy the Cacadodo out of him, like he does to everyone else...)
I'll not yield to that either.
Don't yield, back SHIELD!
(So stop "fronting" already TL!)
Hahaha. I think he's overcompensating.
Y'know the saying -- Big words, small...
Evil geniuses always find something to compensate for that which they don't have...and Tamper Lad always has something up his sleeve...
What is this talk of overcompensation? Evil geniuses are never overcompensated.
Ech you mean I'm overcompensating for an anatomical shortcoming. How distasteful, and Freudian of you Caliente. Next you'll say that you remind me of my mother.
Hmmm, so the death of Actor Lad by my mighty hands will be the fulfillment of my Oedipus complex. Well,
"Mommy" I'll play along and test this theory of yours. Tell me Actor Lad do you prefer cervical dislocation or the guillotine?
Tamper, will you please Shut UP!!
<Erects energy globe around TL's head that prevents anyone from hearing him>
The answer to your request in the word, "NUTS"
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
What is this talk of overcompensation? Evil geniuses are never overcompensated.
Ech you mean I'm overcompensating for an anatomical shortcoming. How distasteful, and Freudian of you Caliente. Next you'll say that you remind me of my mother.
Hmmm, so the death of Actor Lad by my mighty hands will be the fulfillment of my Oedipus complex. Well, "Mommy" I'll play along and test this theory of yours. Tell me Actor Lad do you prefer cervical dislocation or the guillotine? Grooooooooss. I am
not your mother. ><
And stay away from Actor Lad!! Don't make me take away all your pointy toys because I will!!
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
The answer to your request in the word, "NUTS"
<Puts open hand next to ear, smiles>
Sorry, couldn't hear you, what was that you said?
<throws a hand-full of walnuts at AQ>
<brings a yellow phallic fruit to mouth popping the bubble?
NUTS
Nope, that impurity got fixed long ago...
But it is a cute image...
Ticks enter this thread intending to drain all experience from it. They head for Tamper Lads open mouth
Originally posted by Caliente:
Grooooooooss. I am not your mother. ><
And stay away from Actor Lad!! Don't make me take away all your pointy toys because I will!!
NO, Can I get a spanking?
**Purr**
She can't hear you...
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**Purr**
Hmm.
Looks like people are really getting into the "kill" part of the header.
OM as the Freudian analyst said:
His phallic dream has such a strange twist
the awful destiny he can't resist
his father he'll kill
his mother he'll drill
The Oedipus future will then exist.
What have i gotten into now? Oedipal complexes? Mistaken identities? Assaults on evil geniuses?
What's next?????
Tamper Lad needs to head over to the limericks thread in the Spaceopoly forum.
Until the injuries to his 'nads heal, Quis, TL ain't goin' no place!
Let's see here, we're reduced to talking about Oedipal complexes and/or Tamper's Nads...
Yep it's time...
AAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!
Die You Bastich Thread! DIE!! DIE!! DIE!!(You have re-activated the auto-reply feature on Abin's Computer... It's all Tamper Lad's Fault!!)<marquee behavior=alternate>
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How's this my fault, I never once talked about my nads in this thread.
And my Oedipal complex was the result of Caliente introducing Freudian analysis.
<Blasts the Lun-i-ticks, infesting the thread>
Sentient, it is your fault because you just won't Shut Up!
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(Yak, Yak, Sprocking Yak...)
AQ and SR provide much needed levity to this thread because they in fact know how futile their request is.
I will in fact not shut up, it is not in my nature.
The three certainties of life: death, taxes and Tamper Lad not shutting up.
I am familiar with that quote but I think we should open a discourse into whether it's right that Franklin be embellished in this manner.
What does Franklin have to do with any of this?
![[Linked Image]](http://www.rebirthman.de/peanuts/peanuts_franklin.gif)
Well, those kids in Peanuts said some pretty smart things.
BTW, are you aware that the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch on Hallowe'en night and flies through the air to bring toys to all the good little children in the world?
No, but that would explain why I never got any toys on Halloween night.
Originally posted by Loser Lad:
What does Franklin have to do with any of this?
![[Linked Image]](http://www.rebirthman.de/peanuts/peanuts_lucy.gif)
Ummm Loser, That's not Franklin, that's lucy...
Originally posted by Loser Lad:
What does Franklin have to do with any of this?
![[Linked Image]](http://www.rebirthman.de/peanuts/peanuts_linus.gif)
Oh Wait, now it's Linus...
Originally posted by Loser Lad:
What does Franklin have to do with any of this?
![[Linked Image]](http://www.rebirthman.de/peanuts/peanuts_pigpen.gif)
Now just cut that out...
Hmmm. I don't know about the Linus and Pig-Pen things, but regarding Lucy: Why do I suddenly have a Beatles song running through my head?
Heh. We're totally gonna rape that Peanuts guy's bandwidth...
Originally posted by Loser Lad:
What does Franklin have to do with any of this?
![[Linked Image]](http://www.rebirthman.de/peanuts/peanuts_schroeder.gif)
Lou, isn't enough, enough?
Originally posted by Loser Lad:
![[Linked Image]](http://www.rebirthman.de/peanuts/peanuts_snoopyani3.gif)
Kewl! How'd ya do that?
It's at the bottom of the page where you're pulling the other Peanuts pics from. Right next to this one...
![[Linked Image]](http://www.rebirthman.de/peanuts/peanuts_snoopyani4.gif)
Originally posted by Loser Lad:
It's at the bottom of the page where you're pulling the other Peanuts pics from. Right next to this one...
![[Linked Image]](http://www.rebirthman.de/peanuts/peanuts_snoopyani2.gif)
OOPS, you caught me, I'm not pulling anything from the other site, I'm just changing the code in your posts when I reply...
It's a little hit or miss...
Originally posted by Loser Lad:
It's at the bottom of the page where you're pulling the other Peanuts pics from. Right next to this one...
![[Linked Image]](http://www.rebirthman.de/peanuts/peanuts_snoopyani1.gif)
See, I just changed 4 to 1 and presto...
Here, this should save you a little guessing...
http://www.rebirthman.de/peanutspage.html
Woodstock was always my favorite.
![[Linked Image]](http://www.rebirthman.de/peanuts/peanuts_woodstockani.gif)
Originally posted by Loser Lad:
Woodstock was always my favorite.
![[Linked Image]](http://www.rebirthman.de/peanuts/peanuts_woodstock.gif)
Yep!
Awww....is Woodstock the name of that yellow bird? I really thought it was "Tweety"
I always loved it when Woodstock and his little friends would play hockey on the frozen bird bath every winter.
Wrong cartoon LAM. Woodstock is the bird from Peanuts, Tweety is the bird from the Warner Brothers cartoons.
![[Linked Image]](http://www.verfrisser.net/tweety/pictures/0107.jpg)
Originally posted by Loser Lad:
Wrong cartoon LAM. Woodstock is the bird from Peanuts, Tweety is the bird from the Warner Brothers cartoons.
I was kidding, Lou
...of course that wasn't
really Tweety - but he WAS yellow...
Ah tweety voiced by Mel Blanc. Now there was a voice actor.
Nobody did Bugs Bunny like Mr Blanc did, TL, not even the odd lady bunny...
I like Porky Pig best, and I like Bugs, Daffy and Elmer a lot too. I never cared for Yosemite Sam, Taz or Road Runner (which is my ISP, oddly enough) as much. The first two are too loud and as for Road Runner, he's just obnoxious! I always root for the Coyote!
In Australia, when you "root" for someone it either means you want sex or you want their baby...
Take me out
to the ball game.
Take me out
to the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts
and crackerjacks.
I don't care if
I never get back.
We'll root, root, root,
For the home team.
If they don't win
It's a shame.
Cause it's one, two,
three strikes you're out
at the old ball game
Hmm. I always
support the Coyote. Does that translate Down Under?
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
We'll root, root, root,
For the home team.
If they don't win
It's a shame.
Cause it's one, two,
three strikes you're out
at the old ball game
I'm not a big baseball fan, but there are some hotties who play for the Astros.
Hmmm...well, at least the relationship between u and Wile E. won't seem so "strange"
Not even homo-erotic innuendo about baseball and Wile E. Coyote (A fellow member evil genius society BTW) can kill this thread. For the record Wile E.'s orientation has not been established. He's just another one of those ambiguous evil geniuses.
Can Daffy Duck be included in the vast echelon of scheming over-achievers? The duck is always in this never ending pledge to one-up a certain grey bunny...
Death to Daffy, Vive L'Elmer.
I like original crazy Daffy to the greedy Daffy
Originally posted by Loser Lad:
Wrong cartoon LAM. Woodstock is the bird from Peanuts, Tweety is the bird from the Warner Brothers cartoons. I've always liked Tweety. Here are a pair of pics from my private collection...
![[Linked Image]](http://www.verfrisser.net/tweety/pictures/0104.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](http://www.verfrisser.net/tweety/pictures/0106.jpg)
Does Spellbinder know about this?
Cartoon canary fetishists are quite common actually.
My ex-roommate's coworker was one.
No lie.
That's not surprising. There's a whole class of related illnesses relating to cartoon animals.
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
Cartoon canary fetishists are quite common actually.
And that comment makes it official.
Yep it's time...
AAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!
Die You Bastich Thread! DIE!! DIE!! DIE!!(You have re-activated the auto-reply feature on Abin's Computer... It's all Tamper Lad's Fault!!)<marquee behavior=alternate>
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Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
Hmmm. I don't know about the Linus and Pig-Pen things, but regarding Lucy: Why do I suddenly have a Beatles song running through my head?
Like...Lucy Is The Guy With Diamonds?
Originally posted by legionadventureman:
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
[b] Hmmm. I don't know about the Linus and Pig-Pen things, but regarding Lucy: Why do I suddenly have a Beatles song running through my head?
LAM, That's just
not right.
Is that the version sung by Will Shatner?
OMG - William Shatner sings???
Believe me, you don't know what cringing is until you've heard William Shatner singing.
I bought a friend (who was into this stuff) the record of The Odd Couple Sings
Hi Legion World. Can't read through all this, but I see that you can't get Tamper Lad to shut up. We've only been trying for 10 years, so good luck.
This works for a while sometimes.
SHUT UP TAMPER LAD! 1996, barbarian helmet, a big bottle of vodka and no pants. Don't make me dig out the pics. (I think your new friends want to see)
Since I know for a fact that you have all the photos from those years in chronological order, I'll ask whether that occured before or after the night you became "Too Drunk to Leave Bed to Puke Lass". My filing system isn't as good as yours but I remember where I keep those photos.
I believe that we have reached an understanding, haven't we???
PS. I see that your hubby just drove past the window looking for a spot so I guess its time to pack it up.
Originally posted by Nova:
Hi Legion World. Can't read through all this, but I see that you can't get Tamper Lad to shut up. We've only been trying for 10 years, so good luck.
This works for a while sometimes.
SHUT UP TAMPER LAD! 1996, barbarian helmet, a big bottle of vodka and no pants. Don't make me dig out the pics. (I think your new friends want to see)
![[Linked Image]](http://sabreslegends.com/lw/pics.gif)
Isn't it though? However the actual photo in question is somewhat disapointing after that description.
You got drunk at a party, Tamper Lad? So what we are seeing (re: avatar) is your actual face before that blessed upchucking event?
I've never thrown up in another person's presence from the drink. My distinguished colleague, on the other hand, I won't speak for.
I know I did. (Since I don't think she'll be back round here I'll add that my colleague was not know for an iron gut back in the day
) But "I'll not speak" is one of those polite sleights that politicians use all the time. Like "with all due respect".
Seriously what does that mean?
Exactly what it says, surprisingly.
The trick is trying to work out exactly how much respect the speaker thinks the target is actually due.
It's also foreshadowing that lets the audience know that the speaker is going to seriously disagree with whatever point the other person's just made.
Sometimes its easy.
1) W.A.D.R. professor, you've taught me a lot but I want to branch out into this new area of study.
2) W.A.D.R you are a convicted pedophile likely to re-offend.
But when it's:
W.A.D.R. Ambassador, our countries will have to agree to disagree.
The audience has something to think about. Usually we tune it out not even thinking about what s/he really means. I lean more to the side that they're saying "Hey donkey butt, you're a moron..."
Were you in hot W.A.D.R. after that, TL?
Why? I wasn't the one who was too drunk to leave bed to throw up.
Sorry, just a little - and weak - joke, mate
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
I know I did. (Since I don't think she'll be back round here I'll add that my colleague was not know for an iron gut back in the day ) But "I'll not speak" is one of those polite sleights that politicians use all the time. Like "with all due respect".
Seriously what does that mean?Ahem! Something else else about polite insults TL, I'm still here?
With all due respect, shouldn't you be going home with Throbbing Boy? Don't you two have computers of your own?
THROBBING BOY?!? lol lol
There's a name for him, eh?
Heck if I was with you all these years, parts of me would be throbbing too. (Most likely my mouth from all the times you'd smack me across it.
)
You'd be lucky if she aimed high enough to hit the mouth. If it were me... well... you do the math.
Barbie say's math is hard, yo!
YIKES, there's no stereotyping in that one AL.
However studies do show there are subsets of mathematics that are favoured by the sexes respectively. Some believe that this has to do with gender role specialization going as far back as the hunter-gatherer societies.
Males are generally better at spatial geometry, owing to the need to know how to hunt. Planning interception angles etc.
(Note I say generally, poor Rosalind Franklin was never recognized for her X-ray crystallography work on DNA, without which Watson and Crick could never have defined the double helix. She died of cancer, from the X-ray machines no doubt.)
Females seem to be better at arithmetic used most commonly in budgeting. This could be a vestige of their role in gathering and rationing goods for the family unit.
So under this hypothesis the reason girls fall behind in math as they age is that increasingly math turns to algebra and geometry in high school.
Of course there is an alternate hypothesis that girls only start being dumb in math in high school because guys like'em that way. Of course I've never felt that way, I've always needed a budgeting realist to balance my kooky dreamer nature.
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
Of course there is an alternate hypothesis that girls only start being dumb in math in high school because guys like'em that way. Of course I've never felt that way, I've always needed a budgeting realist to balance my kooky dreamer nature.
Hmm. I was out with friends last night and we were talking about math skills. Most of the women at the table couldn't do math well at all; however, one had an excellent head for business. I'm pretty good at basic math, but I can't balance my checkbook. I can multiply on paper faster than some people can on a calculator, but I can't apply it to finances.
I used to hang out at the engineering school a lot back in the day. Obviously women were a minority (growing though). It was interesting how many of them selected Chemical over say Electrical or Computer Engineering, (Mechanical I can understand). I don't know why but this is true at every engineering school i've visited.
Personally if I had a daughter I would strongly discourage her from the following fields.
1) Chem Eng
2) Chemistry
3) Medical Science
Funny that these are all the "soft" sciences women seem to end up. The chemical exposure in these field is horrible. Since women's reproductive cells are fixed (unlike males who constantly make new sperm) they run the risk of issues not only of their own reproductive health but health of their future kids.
Yes it's not as bad as drycleaning but its darn close.
Ah shucks, can I offer you a drink of Carbon Tetrafluoride?
Shoot I meant Carbon Tetrachloride, don't know why I said Freon-14, (Used in ULT fridges), I wanted offer that old dry-cleaning solvent.
Can I have a slice of lemon in it?
To get the full liver effects, you should take a split of vodka with it.
you don't know where that vodka's been
Carbon tetrachloride? Didnt the producers of Lost In Space use it in an episode once?
Not really a hard science show, that one.
What? Do you mean carrots can't talk??? I'm disillusioned!
I'm sorry you had to find out this way, Rockhopper.
I know it's hard now, but someday, when you've had time to reflect on all this, you'll thank me.
What bothers me is now I can't figure out where the voices I heard were coming from during all those conversations in the produce section of my local supermarket. I'd talk to the carrots and I know I heard them answer.
Of course that might explain why no one ever wants to go grocery shopping with me.
Silly Rockhopper.
Clearly the tomatoes were having a joke at your expense.
Maybe. But you always have to be careful in the produce section. Corn has ears, potatoes have eyes and beans talk.
And the onions will make you cry.
The irritant in onions that makes you cry is actually only formed in a chemical reaction between air and two constituents of the onion.
This is especially severe if you cross-section the onion. Longitudinal cuts or tearing the onion slows the release of this noxious substance considerably.
In Como agua para chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate), Laura Esquivel recommends slicing an end off the onion and placing it on your head while you cut the rest. I've tried it and it seems to work pretty well.
Or you can just cut the thing so darned fast by the time the chem reaction starts you're already done.
If I did this, I'd have no fingers but my evil chef siblings can do this easily. Their knife skill actually always blows the ladies away if they show up early to help at one of their dinner parties.
Wait, wait. Onions have constituents?
I didn't even know they were politically active.
Cutting it under running water also works, but again, it requires a certain level of skill with a knife.
Oh yes onions have constituents. They represent the so-called smelly vegetables. Long have these vegetables been denigrated by what have traditionally known as the polite society of vegetables.
No longer, onions aided by garlic have now begun a non-violent campaign for civil rights on the dinner table.
Oh, yes, I've heard of that movement: ERSCLOG (Equal Rights for Shallots, Chives, Leeks, Onions and Garlic).
In short, there will be another Great Vegetable Rebellion happening soon...
AAAARRRRGGGG!!!!!DIE YOU BASTICH THREAD! DIE! DIE! DIE!(The auto-reply feature of Abin's computer has shorted out; He had to type this one out manually!)<marquee behavior=alternate>
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(But it's still all Tamper Lad's fault)
Abin, you still crack me up, dude
Oooh, pretty colors in the post of badness from Abin.
*is distracted by shiny things*
Ah, the wonders of insane technology, Cali...
It's a known fact that men and women are distracted by different types of shiny things. This can be summed up as "Women shop at Tiffany's, Men shop at Home Depot"
Women are distracted by Diamonds, Gold, etc...
Shopper: "How does it look."
Sales Associate: "This expensive piece really brings out the sparkle in your eyes."
Men are distracted by Chrome, Brushed Stainless Steel, Flashing LED's ...
Shopper: "How many BTUssssse does it got?"
Hope Depot Guy: It's got more than enough to make up for your lack of manliness.
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
"Women shop at Tiffany's, Men shop at Home Depot"
That's funny because most of the women I know who have Tiffany's anything had said jewelry given to them as a gift by a man. Which meant that a man had to go in and buy it.
Likewise, most of the people I know who work at Home Depot deal with women more frequently than men. Yes, that's right, women more than men. Mind boggling, isn't it?
Very true... I know a confused young fool who went into Tiffany's without a plan...
Let me tell you he got taken.
This, I believe. Not just any shmuck can navigate that hallowed establishment.
Poor, poor shmuck.
(It was you, right?
)
I saw Breakfast at Tiffany's a long time ago...is it more upmarket compared to the five-and-dime aspect when George Peppard and Audrey Hepburn ventured into Tiffany's to pilfer a couple of animal masks?
Originally posted by Caliente:
This, I believe. Not just any shmuck can navigate that hallowed establishment.
Poor, poor shmuck.
(It was you, right? )Plausible deniability, plausible deniability.
Yes LAM, it's quite an upscale retailer of jewelery and giftware, where women conspire with the sales staff to extract extreme displays of affection from their men.
Bartering and bribery...what could be more romantic than that?
That said if any of you would see fit to buy me a nice set of Tiffany cufflinks for my next special occasion I'll not object. *hint* *hint*
I used to watch Saved By The Bell which had Tiffani Amber Thiessen in it.
Hey, me too!!
Though, I must admit, I was more of a Mark-Paul Gosselaar fan.
Hey remember that ep when Jessie got hooked on "Pep-pills" and she broke down crying in Zack's arms singing "I'm So Excited"?
Hahaha.
No, I think I've blocked it.
I remember the episode where Kelly liked Screech, though.
And the one where Jessie tried to help Zack learn to dance to impress Kelly for the dance competition but Zack picked Jessie instead.
And the early ones with the other girl and guy who got replaced by Jessie and Slater. Heather and Max in Miss Bliss's class.
Yeah, those other kids weren't really that well developed. Miss Bliss was cool though. Remember how a pre-90210 Tori Spelling played Screech's girlfriend Violet for awhile?
Hahaha. I dooo. It was funny. I laughed. That sort of role suits her much better IMHO~
*is mean*
How ironic that Tiffany Thiessen joined her later, huh? (Or did I image that?? I can never remember. So wasn't my show.)
Heh, I agree.
IMDB says your right, (it wasn't my show either I only watched the 1st ep).
I found it kind of depressing that that actress that played Jessie went from "Saved By The Bell" to "Showgirls".
That would be Elizabeth Berkley, yes?
No thanks I don't enjoy being whipped (well maybe by Caliente) but I surprise, surpise I have an anecdote about whipping.
Back in the middle ages, pious church-goers looking to escape the black death started a cult of self-flagellation. It was believed that God would spare those who inflicted pain on themselves.
Course, I have another anecdote about whipping too. It involves discipline in the Royal Navy. I believe it was the Chief Petty Officer's duty to administer the lashes using the cat o'nine tails.
Man that Royal Navy had some cool disciplinary procedures. I really can appreciate the keelhauling (being bound and dragged under the ship across the keel from one side of the ship to the opposite side. I also like the one where they tie the offender to the bow of the ship (I forget what that's called).
Now as to why it's called the Royal Navy, it's because the British Constitution allowed for the Monarch to levy taxes in order to build a navy without the consent of the Parliament. The Stuart Monarchy's use of this power to collect general revenues without the consent of Parliament precipitated a constitutional crisis which led to the English Civil War.
I Tried not to do this, I really did, but he's just too much...
AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!
DIE YOU BASTICH THREAD!!!! DIE!!! DIE!!! DIE!!!!
(SOB, I can't stop doing this and It's ALL Tamper Lad's Fault!!!!)
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
No thanks I don't enjoy being whipped (well maybe by Caliente) but I surprise, surpise I have an anecdote about whipping. Back in the middle ages, pious church-goers looking to escape the black death started a cult of self-flagellation.
Too much whipping it and your cream will curdle, TL
Originally posted by Abin Quank:
I Tried not to do this, I really did, but he's just too much...
AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!
[b]DIE YOU BASTICH THREAD!!!! DIE!!! DIE!!! DIE!!!!
(SOB, I can't stop doing this and It's ALL Tamper Lad's Fault!!!!) [/b]
Ooh! and we get it all in glorious living colour, too!
The curdling seen during the agitation of milk/cream is due to complex reaction within the cream/milk.
Milk solids consisting of protein and lipids are in fact very hydrophobic. This is the case despite the fact that milk is made up mostly of water. Amazingly the glycoproteins and liproteins in the milk manage to keep milk solids solvated in the watery part of the milk (know as the whey).
When agitated, the conformation of the proteins is altered exposing the hydrophobic chains of the lipids and proteins. This denaturation of the proteins causes a cascade effect as the solids clump together forming curds.
Ohmygod this is a game right? And you win by saying someting so stupid that no one will reply to it, right? So why do people keep replying to that green guy? I don't get it.
Shush, TL likes the sound of his own voice. Yes, he actually says what he types as he types it. He edits on the fly too so he says some parts many, many times.
Yes I'll smack him the next time I see him.
Humph, Nova has expressed a preference for men she can keep gagged and chained such as the often mentioned but never seen Throbbing Boy. Ignore her.
Now Everyday Girl, I reply to people, not because I enjoy my own voice but because I have come to bring the flame of knowledge to Legion World like a latter-day Prometheus.
The others reply out of spite to prevent me from winning, because clearly they can add little to my glorious contribution.
Ohmygod, Are you saying they hate you because you're a pompus windbag?
You poor thing, you.
Of course, in real life, you can't be that green or that insufferable...its part of the Tamper Lad persona, right?
I said no such thing. I think you're misunderstanding my writing.
Ohmygod, You're from Austrailia aren't you? Is it true that toilets flush backwards down there?
LAM in real life he's the same but different.
We cant tell him to shut up cuz it's rude. We leave that to Hangover Kid, I see Abin Quank does it here.
Gawd Everyday Girl, that's the type of comment that gets TL started.
Ohmygod, He butts in when you ask other people questions? That's rude.
Everyday Girl that discussion has been covered in-depth. Execute a search of Coriolis Effect.
And I do not butt in. I answer questions that have well-known answers to save time. Would it be rude if I had a band but decided to play all the the instrumental parts when it came time to record an album? If I could do it exactly the way I wanted in one session, I think not.
Ohmygod, what happened to the Austrailian Guy? He sounded cute.
Who's asking about Coriolis Effects? I didn't want to find out about funny lights in the sky, I wanted to find out which way toilets swirl in Austrailia.
You should see him drunk. Sloppy, spills everywhere even more stupid facts.
Did I mention the Barbarian helmet?
NOVA! Go home to Throbbing Boy this instant, this conversation is over.
Ohmygod, You're Rude and mean too.
GoodNight TL. Thursday right? North T.O. Station location.
Ah peace at last.
Thursday is named after Thor.
Ohmygod, you mean they spelled it wrong? Cause then it would be Thorsday, right?
Ohmygod, that is so not a word. Only old middle aged 30ish guys say things like that!
Do not mistake age for infirmity child. The cunning and treachery of experience will always beat youtful enthusiasm.
Now shouldn't you be running along so you can play sidekick to grown up heroes, or maybe training to be a trophy wife depending on your talents.
Ohmygod, You are rude!
Gramps did teach me a side kick, but it looks like your nose has seen that trick already.
Trophy Wife? For you it'd be a dog show trophy.
Originally posted by Everyday Girl:
Ohmygod, You're from Austrailia aren't you? Is it true that toilets flush backwards down there?
I really haven't given it much thought, Everyday Girl...you must be new here, welcome to Legion World!
This thread is old now. Hasn't it died yet?
Only Abin Quank has the capability to kill this thread, Quis...He is a dedicated "troublemaker"
Ohmygod, Hi Austrailian Guy! Didya check that toilet thing for me?
Stop it. I'm sure Tamper Lad is preparing a long winded explanation now.
Yes Ev-Girl...it swirls backwards. Please, call me LAM...
Angular momentum, it has to do with angular momentum.
Picture yourself high above the north pole looking at a point revolve 'round the axis over a day. It'd be going counter-clockwise.
Do the same at the south pole and you'd see points go clockwise about the pole.
Ohmygod, so if your at the north pole and if I put my foot on your nose you'll see stars going clockwise around your head. Did I get that right?
Ohmygod, I forgot, Gramps says I'm supposed to warn annoying people that I got my first black belt when I was nine.
Well the universe does revolve about my head, dear. As for whether it's clockwise or counter clockwise, that would depend on which hemisphere of my head you are standing on.
And FTR no one touches my brain case.
Hello Everyday Girl.
Still seeing ghosts?
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Ohmygod, Their not ghosts... Even Gramps says their not ghosts, and he should know...
Ohmygod, I forgot, your on the do not bother warning list...
Ghosts are believed to be the souls of the dead who are unable to leave their previous lives because of some trauma. They are bound to the site of their injury unable to rest.
Ohmygod, don't guys ever listen. Their NOT Ghosts!
They're Demons!
Oh my, Demons in the Kill-this-Thread Contest? This crisis just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Sorry I'm not in much of a position to help you, the occult isn't really my thing.
Ohmygod, their not crisis demons their my demons.
My personal demons, No One and Nobody. Their invisible and they follow me around, except that Nobody looks a little like EDE but invisible.
What! What! What!
Did TL just admit he didn't know something? Will wonders ever cease? Shoot, my pocket Delphi predicts that TL shutting up is a sign of the apocolypse.
Feh, Personal demons are a myth...
Ohmygod, and how would you know Mr. Smarty-Pants.
Quiet TL! Excuse him, EverydayG he's so dense sometimes. It's like he's constipated or needs a girlfriend, or something.
So your demons sound like they go way back in the history of the LMB? Why don't you explain it to Spinich Face Lad and me.
Ohmygod, that's hard to explain cause they've always been with me. And, well... I haven't read it myself but Gramps tells me that the story is in the Ongoing Tag Team Thread...
But I haven't been able to find it yet...
See TL, try listening for once. *sigh* The trouble with men, eh EG?
Ohmygod, *giggle* even the green ones... *giggle*
Feh enough of this man hating festival.
I have already illucidated the differences in design concept between males and females in this very thread. If there are additional issues that were not covered then I will be glad to cover them now.
Remember it has to do with the limbic system? The hypothallamus? Gonadotropins?
If not I suggest that Nova go do some research if you're so interested in this child's problem.
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
Feh, Personal demons are a myth...
Like Shangri-La and Kashmir?
Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
[b]Feh, Personal demons are a myth...
No like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Every Ten Years Monster, black Republicans and Alt-IDs
How about Brigadoon and basically the entire Star Trek franchise? If you want to suspend disbelief at such concepts, then Kirk and co will be glad to oblige...
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
Feh enough of this man hating festival.
I have already illucidated the differences in design concept between males and females in this very thread...
Ohmygod, Look you big rude green weenie, that was so not a man-hating festival, which wouldn't concern
you anyway, it was just girl talk between me and Nova, so scat, ugly cat!
Enough, you two have derailed this thread enough. This thread exists to bring boring facts to light.
I thought it existed to be killed.
That is an interesting phillosophical question Miner. In a way all things that have an existence do reach a day when they cease to exist.
You and I are destined to die. Well at least you are, my brilliance will live on in my numerous offspring derived from genetic manipulation of the DNA I've stolen from female Legion Worlders, and purified essence of Tamper Lad.
Does that mean you and the flesh bag that encompasses my current existence are born to be killed? I think not.
Damm, I really, really, hate having to do this so often but Tamper leaves me no choice...
AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!DIE YOU BASTICH THREAD!!!! DIE! DIE! DIE! (Abin's computer is in the shop, he's sending this message using his power ring and a broken toaster)
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I think Abin's plenty of fun. But it is true, like Miner said, that this thread exists to be killed.
What happens if the thread has enough posts to close it out? Does the last poster win by default?
Ohmygod, does that mean threads can die of old age?
Originally posted by ferroboy:
What happens if the thread has enough posts to close it out? Does the last poster win by default?
I'm surprised it took so long for someone to ask this question.
D'oh! Of course! The last to post on the thread officially "kills" it and so is proclaimed the winner!
Doesn't the person who started this thread/game have to make that determination? Who was that anyway?
My position is for it to be left ambiguous. We'll let the lawyers decide. Quislet's Super Law Firm... of Space deserves our patronage after-all.
Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
Originally posted by ferroboy:
[b]What happens if the thread has enough posts to close it out? Does the last poster win by default?
August 17th page 18
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.:
I think the winner will be the person who makes the 2500th post after which the thread has to be locked.
You didn't phrase it in the form of question, Quis.
And remember:
Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
4) Additional rules to be announced as I think 'em up!
I tried to learn to play piano by ear, but I kept getting earwax on the keys.
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
I tried to learn to play piano by ear, but I kept getting earwax on the keys.
Ohmygod, that is
so gross!
No, a gross is a dozen dozen.
So what is a Baker's Dozen? Is that gross, too?
A baker's dozen is 13. It's related to an old superstition that it was lucky to include one more.
But I think it was just a ploy by early marketers of the whole buy 12 get one free spiel.
So, what is a Devil's Dozen?
Ohmygod, isn't that like a baker's dozen chocolate chip cookies? (A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips, and junk like that?)
I thought a Devil's dozen was just six.
Oh my goodness 30 hours without a post to this thread... that left just 138 hours or 8280 minutes more before Quislet would have won the contest.
The reason there are 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds to the minute is because the ancient babylonians used a sexagesimal numbering system to keep accounts. This numbering system used a 60 as a base in the same way binary uses 2 or decimal uses 10.
During the French Revolution an attempt was made to convert to a revolutionary clock with a day divided into 10 hours made up of 100 minutes each. This followed the example of the revolutionary calendar which divided the year into 36 decades (weeks) of 10 days each with festivals in the 5 remaining days between years.
Today's Revolutionary date is 2 Vendémiaire CCXIV. This in fact means that yesterday was the French Revolutionary New Year.
Happy Revolutionary New Year. Liberté Egalité Fraterité... and To the lantern with the Aristocrat, we will hang them every one.
Bonne année, tous le monde!
Vive le differance, n'est pas?
¿Pero tu habla español, no, Cali?
Oh, poop. I didn't mean to post twice.
Si, hablo un pequeno espanol.
Double post DQ~!!
Is pequeno Spanish for "penguin", Cali?
No. I said, "I speak a little Spanish."
Pequeno = little
Though, technically, it should have a tilde on top of the 'n'. Unfortunately my computer doesn't have that as a key.
Parlez en francais si vous plait.
Is French a difficult language to master, NG?
Like any language it's hard to pick up as a second language. It's mandatory for civil servants up here to know French and English. A lot of parents in English Canada send their kids to immersion schools where they teach everything in French.
Oh yes, i forgot that Canada has a broad French-speaking province of its own - Montreal? Quebec?
LAM you did it now, you opened a can of worms. TL's gonna type out what his opinion of Quebec and the Meech Lake Accord was as a 13 year-old boy now.
Hey TL what do you think of Newman's Mulroney book?
Yikes! How is TL gonna focus with a double-whammy of hangover and 'nads mutilation?
Ewwwww. There's a mental image I never needed.
What? Hangover?
Nova I'd never, ever inflict the Meech Lake Accord on non-Canadians. At least not people I didn't hate.
As for the Peter Newmann biography what a couple of jerks. I mean both PCN and BM. Taping a supposed friend and using the tapes for a juicy book, and BM sure knows how to pick friends.
How many posts will it take to quote chapter and verse of this "Meech Lake Accord" - and this was a rhetorical question
I'm going to kill you through this screen if you keep inviting doom LAM.
Easy, Easy, NG... Down Girl.
LAM you don't want to know. The Accord itself is not long. It's the stuff that surrounds it that kill this thread.
Sorry, Nova Girl, but there is this tiny imp inside me that can't help causing "mischief" - and as i said, my previous query was supposed to be rhetorical - Tamper Lad shouldn't have to answer to everything...
Yo hablo un poco tambien.
LAM, un baiser pour toi/un beso para te.
Te adore, mon ami...quel dommage...
LAM, I do believe you speak fluent Espranglais.
Just lucky, i guess, dude
Tho "Spanglish" with Adam Sandler is a movie i havent seen yet...
Still it must be hard for those in foreign countries to get used to the way things are done after they migrate to a new land, with new customs, social protocol, etc.
Ohmygod, what's Espranglais?
Ummm...a mix of English and Spanish?
Espranglais sounds like Espanol, Francais and Anglais to me. Sort of like Esperanto I guess. Everyone know Franglais is the best language. Shoot la rondelle, tabarnak.
Mille remerciments, Monsieur TL...
Ohmygod, so all you guys parlayvou francay?
LAM, Tamper just told you to shoot the puck and then cursed the the tabernacle.
Then you rethanked him 1000 times.
Espranglais is indeed espagnol+francais+anglais (using the French spelling for all three). I'm a native speaker of English who speaks French and Spanish on a very basic level. My French is a better than my Spanish, but I have to use Spanish more often. So, when I attempt to speak Spanish, I often unconsciously fill in words I don't know--or mometarily forget--with French words. Things like "Un momento, s'il vous plait." And, occasionally, I throw an English word in there too. The result is Espranglais.
Ohmygod, and people say I talk funny!
If you think that's funny, EG, check out my hilarious discussion of the Dewey Decimal Classification system on page 17 of this thread and my knee-slapping discussion of
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules on page 21! Library Science is a million laughs!
Wierd, this thread has gotten just plain wierd...
Originally posted by Abin Quank:
Wierd, this thread has gotten just plain wierd...
You say that as if it's a recent change, have you read the past 64 pages?
**Meow**
Greenie, Shut Up! Just Shut Up!
**Meow**
What a darling little kitty.
I don't think the little green man understands what you want.
Originally posted by Nova Girl:
LAM, Tamper just told you to shoot the puck and then cursed the the tabernacle.
Then you rethanked him 1000 times. Nova Girl, nobody's perfect
Originally posted by Nova Girl:
What a darling little kitty.
I don't think the little green man understands what you want.
Mebbe the pussy cat isn't as "stoopid" as he claims to be, Nova Girl - and besides i like cats in general, they show a good judge of character.
Uh-oh, you double posted LAM. That's a DQ.
Two seperate queries don't count, Frio
Whatever the penalty is, i'll pay it...
Will that penalty be paid in Australian dollars, Canadian dollars, US dollars, GB pounds or Philippine pesos? We're an international group here. What other countries (and currencies) are represented here?
Will my body be payment enuff, Rockhopper Lad?
Let's just call it community service.
Oh my goodness! Almost 48 hours without a Tamper Lad post to Killing-this-Thread. How could it have come to this. Dread not, I have returned to once be the fount of erudition for this thread and Legion World.
Speaking of penalties, the reason I post so much to this thread is because I use a managegerial accounting technique to assign a cost associated with not posting to this thread. Much as a store running an inventory system assigns a cost in lost business associated with a stock out.
In my model LW suffers a loss of $100 for every hour without my spreading these wonderful posts. So in the 47 hours since my last post, the cost of the lost knowledge/entertainment to Legion World is approximately $4700.
Ohmygod, **Yawn** What's the like cost in so many lost brain cells for those of us who like try to read your boring posts?
There is no activity-based costing valuation assigned for brain cell loss. I do assign a cost of 50 cents a minute for everyone who reads my post.
For the above post reading time is 0.5 minutes. So when you read the post I costed it at 25 cents. As a proxy for total cost I multiply by 1000 representing LW membership and the unregistered world beyond. Ergo the cost total of the above post is $25.
Based on this I should make a post like the previous one every 15 minutes to maximize the utility to Legion World.
Abin Quank....please "kill this bastich thread" -it is making me so depressed already...
Oh would you look at that it's been an hour since my last thread post. Thus to maximize LW Utility I need to make a post four times as long as the one on page 65. Hole on I need to find a classic from yesteryear. I posted the Brazil Free Trade FTAA/MERCOSUR one already right?
As luck would have it all that goodness is on my other compy a laptop which regrettably is in the shop getting a new CPU fan this week. Thus you will have to make due with my rambling narrative for the rest of this week.
Abin Quank.....we neeeeeed yoooooou....
Eating those chocolate-covered espresso beans again, huh?
The pen is mightier than the sword - except when the boss is looking over your shoulder
Almost two hours again. Alright Legion World now I must give you $200 dollars worth of Tamperish goodness. I will say though I've been known to eat espresso beans, I tend to avoid it because the do really make me hyper.
Tell me what you want me to discuss, and in my next post I'll give you 200$ worth plus the 4700$ worth I owe you for not posting in this thread for 47 hours. Remember the first post on this page was only worth 25 bucks.
If this doesn't kill this thread nothing will.
Except you have about 1500 more posts to do it in, dude...even you havent got enough interesting factoids to go that far...
Nova and the others who know Tamper in real life who've been subjected to a ten year email thread that looks surprising like Killing-this-thread would disagree.
The first post on this page is 130 words. If that's $25 bucks worth. I owe you 130 x 19,600 words in my next post or about 250,000 words. EDIT: Correction about 2.5 million words.
Now pick your doom Legion World or surrender victory to me.
Hmm... perhaps we should redirect Telly to Cobies "Inane 1000 word posts thread"?
Shoot I miscalculated the number of words by an order of magnitude. It's actually 2.5 million.
Is that the New Math, TL?
It's nice to be needed!
AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!DIE YOU BASTICH THREAD!!!DIE!!! DIE!!! DIE!!!(You asked for it, You got it! Only this time it's LAM's Fault)
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If I had to pick the lesser of two evils, bud, it wouldnt be Tamper Lad...
If I am to be part of an axis of evil. It is good to be on top.
Ohmygod, You are such a rude jerk...
Everyday girl would like to be part of an axis of evil someday.
Ohmygod, Only if I get to break it over your stinky head.
Getting back off the topic of Everyday Girl's attempt to hijack this thread and on topic of killing this thread. The ability to spin thread from natural fibres was one of the first industries in civilization.
It's rise led to the rise of animal husbandry especially of goats and sheep.
Everyday Girl is a sweetie, don't knock her, dude!
Ohmygod, Mr. LAM you are so Sweet! And Mr. Stinky-Head Green Puss is so Rude!
Animal husbandry means the possession and mastery of animals. Someday, when Everyday Girl has a husband of her own, she may find rigour and discipline in domestic life.
Give her a bit of time to grow up first - at the moment she's having lots of fun with her loaded guns...
Alright I wasn't going to post any more but I have to. I'm honor bound because this is the:
<span style="font-size: 18px;">1000th Post in response to EDE's Challenge. </span>
Happy Aniversary Killing-this-thread. May you have many more, and carry over as many times as SHAKES (pending rule clarifications)
To use an Ev-Gir1-ism: Ohmygod!
Tamper Lad wasn't going to post anymore??
Gee, who believes that one...?
Not me
Without TL here, I guess I'm going to have to try to bore everyone in his place. Where shall begin?
Library of Congress subject headings?
Dewey Decimal Classification?
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules?
Stupid patron stories ("Do you have a book on how to write criteria?"; "Do you have a book that lists all the Roman Catholic Presidents of the United States?")?
Everyone knows there was only one Catholic President. JFK
Writing criteria in many contexts is not easy there should be books on it.
How about...10 most likely fat millionaire delusional geriatrics, who think wearing a dental-floss g-string will enable them to get laid on that very same day?
I would like an in depth discussion with various posters explaining that Paul McCartney did in fact die and was replaced by a body double.
Explain away please.
No taking the other side.
Originally posted by legionadventureman:
How about...10 most likely fat millionaire delusional geriatrics, who think wearing a dental-floss g-string will enable them to get laid on that very same day?
Don't be ridiculous every geriatric millionaire knows to get laid you flash the Rolex, and show the blonde gold-digger just how many oxygen canisters you require per day.
Addendum: the more canisters you say you need the more vigourous the lay.
and the more Viagra you need that day
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
Everyone knows there was only one Catholic President. JFK
Writing criteria in many contexts is not easy there should be books on it.
Actually, TL (didn't think you could stay away), these are actual questions I got at the reference desk several years ago.
The woman couldn't understand how there could have been only one RC president. She protested "There must have been more than one!"
As for the criteria woman, my first question was "criteria for what" and the answer was "just in general".
*sigh*
Ohmygod, you guys are like seriously sick. Especially you Mr. Stinky-Head Green Puss.
Now everyday girl since you're obviously the type of girl who would be a gold-digger. I just wanna tell you that my previous post was made to explain the complex negotiation taking place in the gold digger/sugar daddy arbitrage.
Ohmygod, Since you obviously the type dude who don't need complete sentences to tell story you never gonna be a sugah daddy...
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
[b]Everyone knows there was only one Catholic President. JFK
Writing criteria in many contexts is not easy there should be books on it.
The woman couldn't understand how there could have been only one RC president. She protested "There must have been more than one!"
As for the criteria woman, my first question was "criteria for what" and the answer was "just in general".
*sigh* [/b]How about a discussion on how many Roman catholic popes who held office...who actually weren't Roman?
Verbs are for losers Ev-G. I like to keep my readers sharp by making them infer the verb. If my gold-digger was a brat like Ev-G, I wouldn't want to be a sugah daddy either.
Ohmygod, Mr. Stinky-Head Green Puss you is a Collige Graduite with a responsibility poistion in life, isn't you? So why kan't you spek the langrage real good?
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
Verbs are for losers Ev-G. I like to keep my readers sharp by making them infer the verb. If my gold-digger was a brat like Ev-G, I wouldn't want to be a sugah daddy either.
If not for verbs, I could speak French and Spanish fluently.
There are things that people do in which words are not needed, Rockhopper
**Purr**
Humans are so much fun to watch...
**Purr**
Aww, i really missed you, Stoopid Cat - nice kitty *strokes furry chin*
Cats really make good companions, they are so soft and cuddly
I'm a dog person, myself. They require more care, but the return is worth the investment.
It depends on the nature of the owner, rather than the nature of the beast...
This is a surprise...Tamper Lad hasnt posted in a while - could this be a good omen?
This thread should be put on hold while we're in Boston. It's only proper.
Ohmygod, caught!
Ohmygod, that is so wrong! Just cause you guys went to that stinky convention and we couldn't cause we have mean Gramps's or whatever, now you want to take our games away too? You're all stinky heads...
Hmm. Now I know how Lois Lane felt when Clark revealed his identity to her.
Well, Lois would have been happier if Clark had revealed
"something else" to her, too...
No no no, the reason this game hasn't been going on is because I have been running out of things to say. Not really it's really because I was away from the computer most of the day and did not have time to think of a post.
But now that I've recovered from single malt disease. I will set up this evening's conversation about the history of analgesia...
Ga-ross.
P.S. What was that you were saying about shoes earlier TL?
The only time Tamper ever mentions shoes is when he's making fun of my collection. Of course he's one to talk, he cant go to a department store without buying a necktie. I think its a psychological disease.
Hahaha. Oh, the trauma of it all.
bah, what i put around my neck is my own business which reminds me of a story about men's fashion accessories.
The origin of the flag of Austria.
There once was a Austrian Duke who went off to the Crusades in the holy land. He wore a white tunic and a thick belt. His army was engaged in heavy fighting against the arab armies. In the midst of the battle his forces' standard (colours) was lost. Taking off his belt he raised his tunic as a new standard.
Except the battle had been so bloody, the white garment had been stained red, except the area covered by the belt.
Bah! This thread is no longer worth killing...
Tamper's story remind me of an incident that happened several years ago when I lived in Boston.
I was in a clothing store and a woman was squawking to her husband and 13-year-old-or-so son about men being incapapble of picking out their own ties. "Their wives have to pick them out for them. I pick out all your father's ties and someday your wife will have to pick out yours, because men are incapapble of picking out their own ties!"
I can only take so much man-bashing. I walked up to a nearby tie rack, looked it up and down for about ten seconds. Picked out a lovely necktie and, as I passed by the woman, made sure that she got a very good view of it.
Can't pick out our own ties indeed!
AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!
DIE YOU BASTICH THREAD!!!!!
DIE! DIE! DIE!
(This message brought to you by one member of the Boston Group, Other messages to follow...)
I'd never let a woman pick out any article of business or dress clothing for me. Unless I needed to somehow match her outfit for some event. *sigh* How did men become accessories of their dates...
I actually love shopping for clothes. If you go to a good store where the guy across the counter knows his stuff, You learn so much about fit, style, fabric, and your body type.
Yes I like to talk shop with the suit guy. I know they love it, just like the college student girls at Starbuks love to tell me what they know about the proper brewing temperature and pressure in their espresso maker. (I always pretend i don't know something about the machine, it makes them feel smart and happy till next time I come in.)
Where do you come up with your little factoids, Tamper Lad?
He keeps 'em stored in his over-sized head. Either that or he's reeeeeally good with the internet search engines. For all we know, he could be a big fat faker!!
Who moi? And here I thought my head was normal sized. (actually my nickname at school was big-head) There was a big-headed girl too. We had to stay in separate rooms lest the gravity generated by our crania interact forming a black hole.
AAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!
DIE YOU BASTICH THREAD!!!!!
DIE! DIE! DIE!
(This message brought to you by one member of the Boston Group, Other messages to follow...)
Though I am by no means a patient man... I am very determined that by the end of this thread, it will be I who have killed it.
Now on to why Boston is known as Beantown. Well it's because of the signature dish. Mollasses-Baked Beans. But why is this the signature dish? Mollasses was plentiful in Boston because of its location on the trade route between the Caribbean colonies and Britain. Thus the origin of Boston's connection with this dish.
Sentient, Please repeat after me:
AAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!
DIE YOU BASTICH THREAD!!!!!
DIE! DIE! DIE!
(This message brought to you by one member of the Boston Group, Other messages to follow...)
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(Personally, I think he's drunk...)
As we all know, Justice is female, just like Winged-Victory. And she's not drunk, she's blind.
Oh and I believe I mispelled Molasses above.
Actually, Tamper, speaking as a Massachusetts native (albeit one who hasn't lived there in a long time), Bostonians generally don't like their city to be referred to as "Beantown". It's kinda like "Frisco".
i cringe whenever i hear someone say frisco. makes my hackles rise.
I havent heard "Frisco" being referred to as such, since that Village People movie "Can't Stop The Music"...
Most US cities do have nicknames. Some are common and accepted (NYC as the "Big Apple"; Philadelphia as the "City of Brotherly Love"; Detroit as "Motor City" or "Motown"). Others are shortened forms (LA, Philly). Some are used only by local journalists for reasons known only to them (Houston as "Bayou City"; worse yet Orlando as "The City Beautiful" :rolleyes: [Nothing against Orlando--it's just a really dumb name]). And then you get the nicknames that exist mostly to annoy people from there (Frisco and Beantown being the best-known)
Still better than the city I live in. We can choose between Hogtown (the stockyards have been closed for years now, they're putting up townhouses), or the Big Smoke.
Whereabouts in Canada do you live, Tamper Lad, if its not too personal a question?
Toronto, oh I just remembered the third derogatory nickname for the city. Canadians outside TOronto call it the "Centre of the Universe"
Frisco... gross...
Love the place. Hate that nickname.
Where did the name come from? It sounds almost like something you cook French Fries in...
Rice a Roni the San Francisco treat.
Where does "Beef-a-roni" come into it?
Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco treat!
Rice-A-Roni, it's flavour can't be beat!
One pan, no boiling, cooking ease!
A flavour that is sure to please!
*ding ding*
Rice-A-Roni the San Francisco treat!
One of the great commercial jingles of all time!
Originally posted by legionadventureman:
Where does "Beef-a-roni" come into it?
Beefaroni, on the other hand is a Chef-Boy-Ar-Dee canned pasta which is about 17 degrees beyond vile.
Oh poop! I just double-posted!
I dont get what all the fuss is about double-posting...I've done it loads of times in my haste to get my points across...
Ohmygod, that's exactly the point, LAM!
To kill this thread with Seinfeld-like logic...i.e. create a discussion about "nothing"?
Very well I am more than capable of moderating a conversation about nothing...
Nothing. Nada. Rien. Niente.
The state of not being.
Non-existance.
You forgot zilch, dude...
ARRRRRRGGGGGGGG!!!!!!
DIE YOU BASTICH THREAD!!!!!
DIE, DIE, DIE!!!!!
(You have activated the Auto-reply feature of Abin's Computer, on your head lie the consequences!)
Ohmygod. Did Abin get my login now too?!?
Hard to tell.
Your spelling's usually fine.
too!
ARRRRRRGGGGGGGG!!!!!!
DIE YOU BASTICH THREAD!!!!!
DIE, DIE, DIE!!!!!
(You have activated the Auto-reply feature of Abin's Computer, on your head lie the consequences!)
I really miss those hilarious Ze Tongues scrolling back and forth across the screen
I must have gotten an earlier version of the Quank virus on my computer.
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I really walked into that one, didnt I, Lou?
It happens from time to time.
Villainous but not enough to kill this thread. I saw a bumper sticker today that said "more trees, less bush".
As for the middle-aged fat man. whatever happened to that TV guy, Rush Limbaugh? Is he still on. I used to watch his show at like 6:30 in the morning before school.
Die Superboy, Die...
What I had no idea Christmas was a religious observance. I thought it was just a way for retailers to make money.
I don't think pictures are going to kill this thread, no matter how hideous (Especially that second one. Blecch!
I'll have nightmares tonight!)
Limbaugh's TV show is toast, but he remains a popular figure on talk radio.
Who was that Santa Claus-like dude? Is he in need of a bustier IMHO....
Haha! I know how to kill this thread! Let's talk politics, religion AND race. It works every time. It may take a few posts, but I think you'll be able to point back to this as the beginning of the end.
Surprisingly enough, I can talk ad nauseum about Race, Politics, etc. Hmmm what should my first torpedo be?
*ponders*
It won't matter. Not even William Bennett could kill this thread.
I'll bet Randolph Scott could Kill this Thread...
I've got it....
This guy and his flawed science will kill this thread or send me to blazes for even mentioning him. The science is horribly flawed but what can I say, according to him I'm a superior specimen.
Phillipe Rushton
I didn't see a column on his chart for green faced monkeys.
I was speaking for my human alter-ego for once. It is rare that I do, but I do provide that service for him at times. Some day I'll be rid of his influence permenantly and be free to wreck havoc on Legion World. *ahem*
Of course if I were speaking for myself as a Coluan, we'd be masters of both alternate mating strategies. This assumes his methodology is correct, which is like navigating the ocean assuming the Earth is flat. How did that fool ever get tenure?
P.S. My alter-ego has just informed that the answer to my rhetorical question lies in the institution he's a professor at. My AE cannot bring himself to name that place.
Excuse me Mr. Evil Genius sir, but have you seen a large Red Bee around here?
<Pulls VLK Pistol from shoulder holster activating laser targeting and ranging device, points at Evil Genius Inc. poster on far wall, pulls trigger, dots I>
Tell him I want him to try...
I'm afraid I can't help you missy. I haven't seen the Bee this fine evening. I suppose I could ask my alter-ego. Excuse me a second.
No my alter-ego hasn't see the Red Bee or any of his alter-egos this evening either. Sorry Miss Everyday.
Go blast him one for me too. That dorky Ranger guy was a real law-man.
<Points VLK at Tamper, placing laser dot just above his heart>
The safety is on right now Mr. Tamper but if I find out Evil Genius Inc. is doing business with the Red Bee or the Riddler...
...I just may have to Kill This Thread.
I'm pretty sure killing Tamper won't end this thread, either.
But it may turn off Abin's automated responses.
Id really like to see you crack a smile one of these days, OM...
Beware of smiling miners, outdoor or underground. In my experience they are usually drunk from drinking lots of beer.
So miners are like everybody else who drink from the beer glass...only to discover that everybody looks damn hot!
Minors shouldn't be drinking. It's illegal in most places.
I know: bad puns will not kill this thread.
Minors will never know the sheer buzz one gets from drinking a grape Nehi
When I was about knee-high to my grandfather I got a Marine-style buzz cut.
I hope nobody made any "cutting" remarks, LB
Some religious groups require that males be cut even before they are knee-high. This is probably a good thing, I can't imagine the pain of doing that particular ritual as an adult. I know some converts have to do this.
Some people can be a little circumspect about circumcision, dude
While others might circumflect circumscription or Cirque du Soleil
"And the circle of life gives a little tingle in your fingers"....
Ahhhh what's with the hang-ups. It's a simple medical procedure which just happens to have religious significance to certain religions. There's nothing to be circumspect about, it's purely a technical discussion.
The texts all say that the procedure is painful as an adult but relatively painless when done to babies. Now I wonder which doctor conducted the interviews of the babies that had this procedure done to see how much pain they experienced.
Perhaps even more intriguing, not to imply that your clinical discussion of circumcision is anything less than fully intriguing, is the procedure of elective foreskin restoration. I can hardly wait to hear other members' considerations.
I would prefer to be cut, so that otherwise, it means i have to keep the area in question free of dirt and free of disease
On the other hand I really hate Cirque de Soleil. When I think of how much taxpayer money has into this venture enriching their shareholders, I shudder. We built them a clown and mime college, I rest my case.
The circus must have been fun for you as a kid, Tamper Lad, it is understandable for you to be less wild about it as you grow to adulthood...
I wonder if any Cirque du Soleil performers have undergone elective foreskin restoration at taxpayer expense.
I never heard of the procedure being done at the taxpayer's expense - so it must be expensive, indeed...
I wonder whether the internal revenue code of the US contains explicit guidance on the deductibility of out-of-pocket expenses related to elective foreskin restoration of circus performers. The code is generally very detailed.
Where there is a tax deduction write-off, im sure there would be a loophole to allow for foreskin restoration to be counted...
So if you were a star in the adult film industry could your foreskin re-construction be termed a legitimate business expense?
Could you argue that it's in style this year and get it deducted from your pre-tax earnings?
PS When Abin sees this past page, I know what his answer will be.
Tamper, just SHUT UP!
Mmmmm... No that's not it...
AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!DIE YOU BASTICH THREAD!!!!!!!
DIE!! DIE!! DIE!!(Everyday Girl put a bullet into Abin's auto-response generator, so he typed this himself)
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Yep, that was it!
Aw...no Ze Tongues flitting across the page?
It just wouldn't be Abin if there weren't flying
s making their way across the screen. It's why we love him... really... I swear...
Hm...for all this killing that supposed to be happening in this thread, all we have is a pretty boring bunch.
Bees are a social insect, like ants and termites. To me they've always been fascinating because left alone all fertilized eggs develop into sterile females. They need hormonal stimulation to develop into fertile females. This is provided by feeding the larvae royal jelly.
Drones like Reddy up here develop from unfertilized eggs.
I don't know if I'd want to be a bee. Male bees just hang around looking bored then they all go chasing after some queen so they can have sex. None of them really benefits from it. It's like living in a gay bar.
I heard Everyday Girl had the perfect opportunity to shoot Red Bee right up his stinger - how come she went PG-13 instead of rated R?
'Cause that's what heroes do, silly. Great-Uncle Space Ranger would be spinning in his grave if I killed someone in his name. He always found a way to do the right thing and he expected me to do the same thing.
You're absolutely right, Ev-Girl - and what you did, i now realise, made a whole lot of sense...
It would have turned you into another "Willow" had you gone through with bumping off the Red Bee...
Mmm, this thread's still alive? Sadness... and here I'd had such hope that the Red Bee would put it out of its misery.
No villain (aside from myself of course) could possibly bring redemption to this thread by killing it.
The Buddhists amongst us believe that this thread is indeed bound for an easy go of it in its next incarnation having suffered so heinously in this one.
We have Buddhists among us? Crazy.
I am nominally a Buddhist of the meat-eating, alcohol-consuming, bug-stomping, gambling, non-meditating variety.
Often when I use the footpath near the local Catholic high school, I observe to see who can fail in living up to their nominal religion more. It's a close call between moi and some of those hedonistic teenagers.
Okay, now we're talking religion. I think we've already done politics. I can only think of one other "forbidden" subject, so here goes:
Are you aware that the Great Pumpkin rises out of the most sincere pumpkin patch on Halloween night and flies through the air to bring toys to all the good children in the world?
And i heard the Great Pumpkin was working for Peanuts these days...
And i heard the Great Pumpkin was working for Peanuts these days...
There is no such thing as the great pumpkin. The belief that he brings toys is a lie perpetuated by retailers on a unsuspecting public. They wish to increase commerce in the early fall period. In general Hallmark Holidays are sucky excuses to spend money. Let me list them now.
Sweetest Day 10/15/05
Boss's Day 10/16/05
Mother in-law's Day 10/23/05
Halloween 10/31/05
Valentine's Day 2/14/06
Women's History Month 3/06
April Fools' Day 4/1/06
Earth Day 4/22/06
National Volunteer Week 4/23 - 4/29/06
Administrative Professional's Day 4/26/06
National Teacher Appreciation Week 4/30 - 5/6/06
Nurses Day 5/6/06
Mother's Day 5/14/06
Father's Day 6/18/06
Grandparents Day 9/10/06
Business Women's Day
They aren't holidays. If I don't get the day off work, they aren't holidays.
There is only one true holiday in my world:
Leap Year's Day. It's my favorite day ever.
I would post something snarky but I will refrain from cynicism today because it is Canadian Thanksgiving.
Ie. I promise that I will make no smart remarks about politics/politicians, the machinations of marketers or how stupid I think people are in general. Now excuse me, I decided to make a turkey after-all, though it's just me this year.
Ohmygod, you cooked yourself? Or is making a turkey one of those wierd sexual references that I haven't learned yet?
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
There is only one true holiday in my world:
Leap Year's Day. It's my favorite day ever.
You know what they say about leap year lasses!
They come only one every four years?
I've begun dreading leap years. We have our presidential elections here in the States in leap years. Those are becoming quite painful.
I have been remiss in my duties to this thread. I promise to honour my pledge to win this competition.
Do elections really end in the States? Seems when I watch TV, there's always some inane ad for a judge election or county prosecutor or sheriff. How novel, elected judges and prosecutors.
Elected judges are not universal. It varies from state to state. I think it's kinda dumb myself. Then again, most US politicians are pretty dumb.
Here in Houston, we have a city election (mayor and council) every odd-numbered year. Add that to the gubernatorial, congressional and presidential elections and we have one every November.
I love reading those stories about Boss Tweed in Tammany Hall and Richard Daly in Chicago etc. Now those boys could rig an election.
Election rigging? Gee, that never happens in the good ol' US of A any more! :rolleyes:
If I were you guys, I would've accepted Fidel's offer to send election monitors to Florida in 2004.
Just for laughs. I wanna know what they would report.
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
If I were you guys, I would've accepted Fidel's offer to send election monitors to Florida in 2004.
Just for laughs. I wanna know what they would report.
I expect I know what they would have found--though I think Ohio is the state where there was more fraud this time.
To prevent fraud they should bring back unsecret ballots where you had to announce your vote on stage.
Then at the far end of the stage the rival gangs of ruffians could be waiting with kegs of beer and casks of whisky for their supporters and baseball bats for those who reneged on their promise of support.
That couldn't possibly be worse than the mess we have now!
Ohmygod, I wish Gramps would get home from his business trip, this thread needs a good dose of his outrage.
*snerk* Hon, I don't think anyone needs that...
But it is good for a laugh!!
So I approve.
My favorite lawyer joke is:
What is the difference between a catfish and a lawyer?
One is a scum sucking bottom feeder. The other is a fish.
Some of my best friends are lawyers.
Really. They are useful at times.
Lawyers can be very handy. When someone asks us a legal question at the reference desk, we can tell them "You need to speak to a lawyer."
Whenever we think there is a traffic issue that could be resolved by adding speed hump to a local roadway, we say "let's get a lawyer."
AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!
DIE YOU BASTICH THREAD!!
DIE!!! DIE!!! DIE!!!
(Abin's Auto-Responses brought to you by: Evil Genius Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tamper Screwed It Up Inc.)
(SO IT'S STILL TAMPER'S FAULT!!!)
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
Some of my best friends are lawyers.
Really. They are useful at times.
Yeah, but are they not also parasites who prey on human misery?
And prey very expensively too.
Lets be honest, sewage workers can be very useful at times, but they're not quite as expensive.
Sure. But as long as I can shape their self-interest, I know the human misery they prey on will be someone else's.
Can it backfire? Yeah keeping lawyers around could be the equivalent of selling arms to a tin pot dictator but I'd like to think I'm a better judge of character than Intelligence Agencies.
Originally posted by Ghost of Numf-El:
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
[b] Some of my best friends are lawyers.
Really. They are useful at times.
And prey very expensively too.
Lets be honest, sewage workers can be very useful at times, but they're not quite as expensive. [/b]In fairness to lawyers, they do tend to smell better than sewage workers. Well, some of them, anyway.
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
In fairness to lawyers, they do tend to smell better than sewage workers. Well, some of them, anyway. True, but they both have the ability to leave you up to your neck in a whole world of shit!
hehehehehe now I can sue you all for defamation of character
Such a suit cannot be tried by a judge who no doubt is a lawyer. I demand a jury trial for this defamation suit.
Further it must be composed of people that I consider to be peers. Thus the list is restricted to people I'm intimately familiar with and would sooner suck on a poisonous tree frog than support a lawyer's claims over me.
Originally posted by Almost But Not Quite New Kid in the classic Ongoing Tag-Team Thread:
In Space, Low Above Legion World
The Brood Battle Cruiser prepares for an assault. Instruments aboard that ship have detected the imminent hatching of the egg implanted in Space Ranger's butt by the now destroyed John A. Misnomer. Marvin the senior officer aboard the ship has decided that he is tired of waiting for his Hummer, or Yugo, as the case may be, and is preparing to take direct action against our stalwart heros.
Unfortunately for the Brood however, an unresolved plot line from the previous adventure (See LMBP The fight against Thora for details) is about to raise it's ugly head, or to put it more accurately, make a big STINK!!!
For several time parts (Time duration in these stories is only slightly less fuzzy than the plot) a mixture of Sauerkraut, 9 Alarm Chili and Bratwurst has been rumbling in the Ranger's guts. Add the fact that his recent "Talent Competition" with Danny Blane was fueled by approximately 3 cases of Michelob, and a quart of JWB, things in the Ranger's intestinal tract have reached what can mildly be described as a "Critical Mass."
Mantis is the first to notice the rather strange expression when it appears on the Ranger's face She does not understand what is happening but her cosmic awareness is screaming at her to vacate the area, FAST. Also to bury her head in the nearest pile of Bull Manure she can find. She Knows better than to argue with her somewhat vague talent. It always pops up later and says "Nah, Nah, Told Ya So!!"
Moving quickly she grabs the other LMBPers and heads for Raging Bull's barn where she knows, again because her talent has said "Git in the barn, Bitch!", the protective layer of Bull Manure will be the thickest.
Behind them they can hear the faint but very, very, extremely, drunk voice of the Ranger giggling as he says, "Pull my finger"
Marvin, the senior Brood officer, watches in disbelief as the LMBPers flee the area where his ship has just landed. Not only are the LMBPers cowards he thinks as they dive head first into a pile of Male Bovine Animal Excrement, but they left the admittedly encapacitated prize undefended.
"Go ahaid, silly, just pull my finger!"
Marvin turns to see the Space Ranger bent over with his ass pointed at the Brood Battle Cruiser and one hand with index finger extended stretched out in his direction. Curiously he reaches out and gives that finger a small tug.
As he touches the Ranger's finger a small voice in the back of Marvin's head can be heard repeating the immortal phrase "You're really fucked now, Brood Boy..."
Moments later after the Echoes of the Ranger's incredible BRAPPP, FIZZST, BBRRAAPPPP, Ahhhh What a relief that was, have resounded two and 16/24ths of the way around Legion World (twice) our stalwart heros begin to crawl out of the huge pile of Male Bovine Animal Excrement that saved their lives. They do however (On the advice of ABNQNK, who has been through the aftermaths of Rangers binges before) stuff their noses with said Male Bovine Animal Excrement in order to ensure that they will have a reasonably breatheable air supply.
The scene they witness is...
Thank you for sharing, Abin. Is there gonna be a quiz?
Just one of the many classic moments in LMBP History.
Oh Tamper Lad almost had it
OK I guess he didn't almost have it. It was only two days since he posted.
Oh, who will the lucky winner be?
There will be no winner, only hours of wasted time. And megabytes of wasted server space and bandwidth.
Ohmygod, then just stop posting. Make your last post your last post (in this thread).
No! This thread is too good a platform for my nonsensical rantings.
Ohmygod, there are plenty of threads which deserve a dose of your nonsensical rantings.
Most of them are on the DC Boards...
I get too angry over there, my rage causes me to accuse pissant posters of being double hand amputees.
Well then, don't read the threads - just post.
I think that's what most people on the DC boards do. That and yell at each other and write nasty things about each other. There was one jerkwit there who said he wasn't shouting: he just liked writing in all caps.
Whatever.
It seems to be what they want out of online communication.
To each their own, I guess.
You can work out what you personally want from online communication by constructing a utility function which sums up what you want from your online experience. From that you can work out your constraint curves.
To maximize your utility you should look for the combination of variables that maximizes the distance from the point of origin.
Or you can just visit sites you like and practice good netiquette.
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
I think that's what most people on the DC boards do. That and yell at each other and write nasty things about each other. There was one jerkwit there who said he wasn't shouting: he just liked writing in all caps.
Whatever.
When I first started posting on-line, I also like to post all in caps. However, when I realized that it wasn't good netiquette, I stopped doing it.
And now you even post in a Victorian Flirting Thread here at Legion World.
Im glad to see this thread hasnt been killed yet - I really missed Abin Quank's "insane" auto-response messages...
Ohmygod, I think Gramps has a new tactic for killing thi thread. Whenever it like annoys hom enough he's gonna re-post some of the funniest bits from the "Ongoing Tag Team Thread" here.
But he promises never to re-post any part of (and I quote) Cobie's Stupid Friggin Giant Ant Story (end quote)
Well, if it's that stupid, maybe it would kill the thread.
Not a chance. Stupidity is ingrained in this thread.
For example, my ISP is currently unable to connect to Legion World. I suspect that when LW has those problems like we've seen the last couple days, my ISP's routers try a whole lot of creative routing to attempt to get a connection. However this leads to really convoluted routes that cannot reach LW from my computer before the timeout occurs somewhere along the line.
I know everything is fine with LW, because I am using an anonymous web proxy to connect and log on so that I may kill this thread.
Maybe your ISP is trying to kill this thread, and by posting here, you're preventing that.
I doubt it. Consider my use of convoluted web technology to continue to contribuit to this thread as a statement of strategic intent to take this thread and win the contest.
I will find a way to post to this thread no matter what circumstance I find myself in. So short of me getting stranded in the arctic with a tin-can phone as my only communications device I will not lose this contest.
I admire your determination.
Or worry about your obsessiveness.
I haven't decided yet.
This was originally posted in the Ongoing Tag Team Thread.
Enjoy!
As is the case with all really stupendous undertakings, which this wasn’t but the LMBPers didn’t know that yet, the first thing that the “Baker’s Dozen” chose to do was stop for lunch on the way. Now it may seem like stopping for lunch would be a very minor detail, not worthy of inclusion in a story of this magnitude. I mean Legion World was being invaded by an army of giant ants with a really bad name and we’re recording the details of the LMBP’s decision on where to stop for Lunch?
Does it sound to you like the LMBP was taking the threat lightly? Well they were. But, in all fairness how would you react to the same threat? Me, I’d call the tallest Orkin Man in town and go back to thinking up really nasty things to do to Cobie’s statue. But, that’s just me.
And that is essentially what the LMBPers did. Well, all except for Abin Quank that is. He was on galley duty that day and didn’t feel like cooking. So, he cornered Cobie and got all duty bound on him. It took a few minutes but he convinced the Security Chief that they really should verify that the Orkin Man did his job properly. Personally, I think it was the stop for dinner on the way line that convinced Cobie and I know it was the deciding factor for the rest of the LMBPers. They were already arguing over where to call for take out.
But where do you stop for dinner that could handle such a diverse group? Ah, that was the question.
Harbinger (and Numf-El) had a hankering for Haggis.
Lash wanted to stop at Mistress Paul’s Powerful Pizza Dungeon.
Semi and Vee wanted to have Wildebeest Steaks at the Starfield Room.
Lard Lad wanted Big Belly Burgers in Big Belly Sauce.
Icefire and Shark Lad Insisted on Swordfish steaks at Cap’n Sharky’s Seafood Shish Kabob Hut.
Cobie wanted Black Raspberry ice cream for desert.
Space Ranger wanted somewhere that served authentic foot long Bratwurst Chili and Sauerkraut Specials (By the dozen, with Michelob chasers).
Fat Cramer wanted to try something called Ant Brood Tacos from Jose’s Entomology Emporium.
The less said about Hummer lass’s choice the better, except that she didn’t need to go anywhere for THAT meal.
Abin Quank didn’t care as long as he didn’t have to cook.
They argued for an hour before reaching a single conclusion. The conclusion was that none of them were going to let the Space Ranger get anywhere near authentic foot long Bratwurst Chili and Sauerkraut Specials (By the dozen, with Michelob chasers). They also decided that Hummer Lass could eat anything she wanted, but not inside the restaurant. This caused Lardy to start singing the parking lot song.
Unfortunately, their argument was brought to a conclusion without resolution when the mangled body of Bob the Orkin Man was flung thru the front door…
I feel this thread dying already.
The thread is not dying; it's just sucking the life out of everything around it.
That must be the sound I heard. I thought it was a vacuum cleaner.
Oh great. So this thread is now a vampire.
I feel better already.
It is an idea vampire for sure.
We've probably sacrificed about a dozen great threads in pursuit of shutting this one down.
Oh, the horror.
It is horrible!! I agree.
Well then... Call me Ishmael. The beast must be slain, my sense of propriety demands it.
I kabibbled once.
It wasn't pretty.
Does it require any flexibility?
No, you can do it anytime.
Anytime any where, just don't do it alone.
Anyone see the Aristocrats?
Was that the movie with the talking cats?
Sorry LAM.
No it was the documentary about comedians telling a joke.
The talking cats was The AristoCATS!
I knew that, CJ...
just pulling your proverbial leg, fellah!
**Meow**
<Silent Cat Laughter>
Yeah, Right!
**Meow**
Methinks it's now official ...
you people are nuts!!!!
=Þ
(Maybe that's how come I like it so much here?????)
New Legion World Avatar:
Originally posted by Lad Boy:
New Legion World Avatar:
As long as you don't use it to replace your avatar, Lad Boy!
Yours is one of my favourites!
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
It is an idea vampire for sure.
Coz it sucks big time?
Peanuts serve as a host to species of fungus which produce a compound known as Beta-Aflatoxin. This would only be a minor problem except that B-Aflatoxin is one of the most carcinogenic substances known to science.
Additionally the stuff is toxic in the short term. In Baboons the lethal dose of B1-aflatoxin is only 2 mg/kg of body weight.
Note to self: Don't feed peanuts to pet baboon.
Yep, save those moldy peanuts for people you want to get liver cancer. I would suggest people that suggest you could go to hell for teaching evolution might like some peanut butter.
Anyway, we all know he probably doesn't believe in the Ames test for carcinogenicity either so there.
I guess the best "Peanuts" are Charlie Brown and the gang.
<span style="font-size: 30px;">AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!</span>
DIE YOU BASTICH THREAD!!!!!
DIE!!! DIE!!! DIE!!!
(Abin's computer auto response generator has been repaired, FINALLY! Now Abin never has to read this thread again. His computer will automaticly respond to Tamper Lad's posts as determined by random number generation.)
<pets Abin>
Poor guy. He's going to give himself a hernia one of these days...
Maybe he should eat peanuts!! That might help... right?
Well, it would get his mind off this thread at least.
Particularly if we told him they *might* be tainted, about 6 hours after he ate them.
Cute...
Slightly Digusting...
But Cute!
Sickos
Leave Mr. Quank alone...His sliding Ze Tongues are both gross...and funny!
What's a Ze Tongue?
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this thread will outlive me.
It will outlive us all DB.
The thread is only approaching middle age
As long as we are foolish enough to think that we are more intransigent than our LW peers. This thread will live on.
I, for one, am certain that I will win this contest.
See, that's what is keeping this thing going.
If you would just concede, this would end mercifully.
It's too late for mercy. Besides, we come here to revel in the glorious carnage of wasted intellect.
I only post on here to see what intellectual "triviality" Tamper Lad or Abin Quank will come up with next
Ohmygod, I know what will eventually happen to this thread.
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DIE YOU BASTICH THREAD!!!!!
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How does Ev-G know what will happen to this thread? Is the future immutable. The Ancient Greeks certainly believed so. The Puritans also believed in the pre-destination of the soul.
Ahh Puritan philosophy...
Yeah, those Puritans. Gooood stuff. :rolleyes:
There view was that material success was a sign of divine favour and thus an earthly prelude to entry into the heavenly kingdom.
Thus my impending conquest of the universe means both heaven in this life and the next.
'There views'? Don't you mean 'their views'? Some Evil Genius you make...
Feh!!! Spelling is for the sadistic little man or woman known as my editor. S/He will fix my oversights but will punish others. I have someone in mind for the position, he literally derives pleasure from fixing typos and punishing the transgressor.
You are welcome to apply for the position as well. My Grammar Gulag will need many administrators.
Psh. As if I would lower myself to such a position.
(Oh, the burning innuendo.
)
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
Feh!!! Spelling is for the sadistic little man or woman known as my editor. S/He will fix my oversights but will punish others. I have someone in mind for the position, he literally derives pleasure from fixing typos and punishing the transgressor.
You are welcome to apply for the position as well. My Grammar Gulag will need many administrators.
Ohmygod, I know Mr. Eddie Tor, he's one of Gramps' friends. I like chatting with his sexytary Miss Trixie Pixie, when they come over. She always has the best gossip.
But anyway he wouldn't correct your spelling, he'd sent the copy back with nasty notes blue penciled all over it.
And I know how this thread will end 'cuz Gramps told me so.
And I believe him.
I never met Mr Quank, but he seems like a wild and crazy guy - when he posts on here, life is never ever dull...
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
There view was that material success was a sign of divine favour and thus an earthly prelude to entry into the heavenly kingdom.
So they were Republicans. Big deal.
Originally posted by Everyday Girl:
And I know how this thread will end 'cuz Gramps told me so.
But does he know when?
No one knows when. That's the annoying part.
It just goes on and on my friend. Some people starting posting in it not knowing what it was, and they'll continue to posting in it forever just because.
<marquee behavior=alternate><span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">Ohmygod, this thread actually ended on page 5, Miss Caliente won.
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That is patently untrue Ev-G.
Ohmygod, who told you?
<marquee behavior=alternate><span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">I bet it was Miss Nova, and that's why she's not around anymore.
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With Everyday Girl's post (number 1250), this thread is now halfway over, whether it's killed or not.
It's the Vandal Savage of threads!!
her.
(But not like that you dirty boys. I saw you thinking it!!)
Ohmygod, they were thinking that!
It's written all over their faces...
Brittany! Quit trying to start trouble and go clean your room.
Right Now, Young Lady!
Actually, I don't think being post 2500 automatically means you win according to the rules.
We would have to start another thread and keep going.
No one wants this.
So, in the name of all that's decent, let it end here.
The executive committee has recommended that I reject this latest offer.
I will not quote their actual comment on this proposal as it is quite incendiary.
This thread continues. Reply 1257.
There's an executive committee?
Yes, my posts in this thread are done at their behest. They inform me that I must secure an unambiguous victory in the contest.
Originally posted by Outdoor Miner:
Actually, I don't think being post 2500 automatically means you win according to the rules.
We would have to start another thread and keep going.
Incidentally, this is correct. Victory cannot be achieved through the thread being closed for any reason.
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
Yes, my posts in this thread are done at their behest. They inform me that I must secure an unambiguous victory in the contest.
Rumor has it that the Executive Committee consists of three Cacks and a sock puppet named Mr. Smelly.
I wouldn't know, I've never met them.
They communicate their instructions to me, through my real world alter-ego who acts as their intermediary.
They seem rather mysterious. Secret cabal and all that.
Three Cacks and a sock puppet? Nothing mysterious about that!
Nope nothing at all...
Two?
What, did you knock off one of the Cacks?
Killing this thread will now be easy now that the Four Stooges have hit the road.
So, is Paul Martin the sock puppet or one of the Cacks?
Since Stephen Harper is the guy who sounds like he's got someone's arm up his butt when he's making a speech, I'll go with one of the Cacks.
It's gonna be a painful 8 weeks. Usually these things are only 5.
I've often wondered what would happen if the US adopted a "No Confidence" clause similar to the one used in the Canadian system?
Would we be spared the painful "Lame Duck Syndromes" that seem to infect 2nd term presidencies?
Originally posted by Abin Quank:
Three Cacks and a sock puppet? Nothing mysterious about that!
Speaking of sock puppets, is it true that Lamb Chop has risen from the grave?
Yes.
He's been outfitted with a cybernetic arm and is currently hunting down Shari Lewis.
this thread needs an atom girl to explode out of it.
<marquee behavior=alternate><span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">aaarrrggghhh!!!
DIE YOU BASTICH THREAD!
DIE! DIE! DIE!
(JUST IN CASE YOU HADN'T NOTICED,
THIS AUTO-REPLY BROUGHT TO YOU BY ABIN'S COMPUTER,
CURTESY OF TAMPER LAD AND DISASTER BOY)
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NEXT: While chasing a velociraptor
(worth a try - it worked in the limericks thread)
Ohmygod, We're doing limericks now? Kewl Beans!
While chasing a velociraptor
TL saw Cali and Trap'er
it didn't work out
she kicked in his snout
and he swore off women thereafter
NEXT: LIKE, KILL THIS THREAD, PLEASE
Your assertion that TL trapt'er is incorrect.
Since you were not here on LW at that time I'll allow this inaccuracy as a product of your knowledge of those times being based solely on hearsay.
Now, you will never speak of that incident again.
Ohmygod, you're like giving me orders?
And like you think I'm gonna listen and like obey?
And you're like an evil genius, Right?
Why are all these teenage girls on LW always so impudent?
Ohmygod, *giggle* maybe cuz all the old men on Legion World are so *giggle* Im... *giggle* Imp... *giggle*
Omygod, *giggle* I just can't say it without
But, like you know...
Well I really didn't need to know *that* about your Gramps. Shouldn't that be a matter just for him and your Grams to deal with?
All the old men on Legion World are so ... impecunious?
Only Poverty Lad meets that specification.
Imperious, perhaps? Tamper is sometimes, but we love him for it. It's part of his charm.
Ohmygod, I was thinking Improbable, and it still makes me *giggle*
Originally posted by Everyday Girl:
Ohmygod, I was thinking Improbable, and it still makes me *giggle*
Ev-Girl - you are the coolest - you and your Gramps makes me laugh!
Flattery will not kill this thread.
No, but it's almost always appreciated by the flatteree.
Let's not give short shrift to the idea that flatuence can kill this thread.
Merck Manual Section 3, Chapter 32, Topic 2, Subheading
Flatulence: Among those who are flatulent, the quantity and frequency of gas passage shows great variability. As with stool frequency, persons who complain of flatulence often have a misconception of what is normal. In a study of eight normal men aged 25 to 35 yr, the average number of gas passages was 13 ± 4/day with an upper limit of 21/day, which overlapped with many persons who complained of excess flatus. Hence, objectively recording flatus frequency (using a diary kept by the patient) should be the first step in evaluating a complaint of excessive flatulence.
Despite the flammable nature of the H2 and CH4 in flatulence, working near open flames is not hazardous. Children have been known to make a game of expelling gas over a match flame. However, gas explosion, rarely with fatal outcome, has been reported during jejunal and colonic surgery and even when diathermy was used during endoscopic procedures in poorly evacuated patients.
Because symptoms of excessive gas are nonspecific and commonly overlap with IBS (see above) and with organic disease, a detailed history is essential to guide the extent of medical evaluation. Long-standing symptoms in a young person who is otherwise well and has not lost weight are unlikely to be caused by serious organic disease. The older person, especially with the onset of new symptoms, merits more thorough examination before excessive gas, real or imagined, is treated. It is not uncommon for patients with eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia) to misperceive and be particularly stressed by symptoms such as bloating and belching. Clinicians should explore for the possible presence of an eating disorder in patients, particularly young women with these symptoms.
Tamper, how many times do we have to tell you? Just say "excuse me" and drop it.
The study was intriguing, now i know i'll be counting the occurrences over the next 24 hours. Perhaps we should do our own study and collect the results in a poll?
<marquee behavior=alternate><span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">Tamper you can fold that study until it's all corners, tick it where the sun don't shine, and light it with a match...
Oh, wait a minute, that's what the study is about.
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**Purr**
Humans are so wierd...
**Purr**
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Well, that will certainly kill something.
Not this thread but something.
Liefeld's art helped inspire a good portion of my Ongoing Tag posts
BTW--I've discovered another way to win this thread. Simply post here and then cause the boards to shut down for a week. Maybe I can pay off Scooter or Nighty...
Which is one reason I enjoyed hijacking your ideas and running off in different directions with them.
Or at least trying to...
Hrrumpfh, Stupig Fri**en Giant Ants, Hrrumpfh!
Originally posted by Stoopid Cat:
**Purr**
Humans are so wierd...
**Purr**
Would you like a bowl of cream, Stoopid Cat? You look hungry, pal!
Wow, I must have really gotten distracted, allowing this to slip to page 2.
Fixed now!
Lemme get this straight....
Abin's gone from "Die, You Bastich Thread" to "saving" it from Page 2 obscurity?
That's like Donald Sutherland at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Truly there is no hope.
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
Wow, LAM almost won!
Come off it - 3 days isn't even CLOSE to winning. It may just be the best yet, but it's still not even half way there.
How many posts til total Armageddon?
I take full responsibility for allowing LAM's post to remain at the top of the stack for almost 3 days.
But you usually have a lot to say, dude
Which is why he blames himself.
I blame him too.
I'm sure the young Tamper Lad has his good points
Blame always falls upon the innocent
Rain falls on the just and the unjust. That, as Linus said, is a good system.
Tamper Lad is always innocent
And by "always", we mean "never".
No, i still mean "always"
Just to ensure LAM doesn't win while everyone is recovering from the overindulgences of the holidays, I bump this thread.
Mmmm-Hmmm... Yep, we believe you... Yep!
Jeepers you try to take one for the team and all you get are barbs and innuendo.
all i want for christmas is the death of this thread.
please santa please!!
Since it's christmas morning all I have to do is <span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">Post and forget about it</span></span>
The thread took a little Christmas break, but now it's back and better than ever!
Curses... Foiled Again!!!
This thread isn't dead yet?
I've tried and tried...
But this Bastich Thread just won't die...
It has been going since August 10, 2005.
I wonder if we will reach 2500 posts before next August 10th.
its race to the finish time
i so declare!
Setting measurable goals and objectives will not Kill this Thread. We've already seen that.
And a bit of underhand background scheming couldn't hurt....
I think this is my first-ever post on this thread.
I demand a bottle of champaign be opened at once!
No?
OK, how about a bottle of Boone's, then?
Would you settle for a bottle of Annie Greensprings?
Annie Greensprings? Isn't that Little Orphan's favourite watering-hole?
Four days without response? My halitosis ain't THAT bad
Dude, you could have won. And ended it.
Do we really want this thread to end?
We say we do, but I no longer believe it.
I now have decided I will work proactively with Tamper to help him win this thread if it means this thread will cease to exist.
Like an alternate earth where Batman of the current post multitple earths DC universe accepted the Superman of Earth 2's proposal to recreate Earth-2, which then allowed him to beat Superboy of Earth Prime and Alexander Luthor of Earth-3, and the Anti-Monitor, whom I believe is controlling one of those two, and the two world's finest heroes then went on to make the DCU universe all rosey and better--thereby making all DC's books all optimistic and better--thereby making people grow bored and stop collecting comics--thereby causing DC to go under and be bought out by Joel Schumacher, who relaunches it with a Frank Miller All-Star Batman and Robin type company wide theme, beginning with "B'Wanna Beast: Sex and Violence Maxi-series".
Waitaminute. What am I talking about?
You were making perfect sense until you got to the "I now have decided..." part.
I refuse to work with anyone to end this thread. Victory must be mine and mine alone.
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
I now have decided I will work proactively with Tamper to help him win this thread if it means this thread will cease to exist.
Like an alternate earth where Batman of the current post multitple earths DC universe accepted the Superman of Earth 2's proposal to recreate Earth-2, which then allowed him to beat Superboy of Earth Prime and Alexander Luthor of Earth-3, and the Anti-Monitor, whom I believe is controlling one of those two, and the two world's finest heroes then went on to make the DCU universe all rosey and better--thereby making all DC's books all optimistic and better--thereby making people grow bored and stop collecting comics--thereby causing DC to go under and be bought out by Joel Schumacher, who relaunches it with a Frank Miller All-Star Batman and Robin type company wide theme, beginning with "B'Wanna Beast: Sex and Violence Maxi-series".
Waitaminute. What am I talking about?
Female Logic, Apparently...
Originally posted by Abin Quank:
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
[b] I now have decided I will work proactively with Tamper to help him win this thread if it means this thread will cease to exist.
Like an alternate earth where Batman of the current post multitple earths DC universe accepted the Superman of Earth 2's proposal to recreate Earth-2, which then allowed him to beat Superboy of Earth Prime and Alexander Luthor of Earth-3, and the Anti-Monitor, whom I believe is controlling one of those two, and the two world's finest heroes then went on to make the DCU universe all rosey and better--thereby making all DC's books all optimistic and better--thereby making people grow bored and stop collecting comics--thereby causing DC to go under and be bought out by Joel Schumacher, who relaunches it with a Frank Miller All-Star Batman and Robin type company wide theme, beginning with "B'Wanna Beast: Sex and Violence Maxi-series".
Waitaminute. What am I talking about?
Female Logic
Surely thats an oxymoron
An oxymoron? Isnt that someone who doesn't realise he/she needs air to breathe?
Females are very logical. However their logic is often based on extraneous information that is totally irrelevant to the problem at hand.
I will also say that the 1 per cent of the time the extra information they consider is not extraneous, they come off making me er I mean some male I know look like a blithering idiot.
Are you referring to Nova Girl, perchance?
Originally posted by Faraway Lad:
Originally posted by Abin Quank:
[b] Female Logic, Apparently...
Surely thats an oxymoron [/b]Uh, guys? It's the thread we're trying to get killed here, not us.
Since LW has the male/female ratio (although thankfully not the smell) of finer gentlemen's establishments the world over, I think we can chance it.
Originally posted by Outdoor Miner:
[QUOTE]Uh, guys? It's the thread we're trying to get killed here, not us. Listen to the wise bug, gentlemen.
Venom rarely leaves any splatter.
Well, something is needed to kill this thread...
As I said earlier, I don't think we really want this thread to be killed.
Quickness is a relative term. Are we talking in terms of subatomic particles or geological time scales here?
Does Tamper Lad research all this cool stuff he comes up with?
No, it's beamed to him via the chip placed in his head.
Is that a North American chip (what the British call a "crisp") or a British chip (what North Americans call "French fries")?
It is a chip like the guy from "My Three Sons".
Ewww...I hated him! Don Grady forever!
Look on the bright side.....we could have gone with Uncle Charlie.
Well, by then I could have said "Goodbye Charlie"
What about Bonny Prince Charlie.
He turned out to be a queen, right?
I thought "Bonny" was his first name.
In that case...maybe he WAS a queen after all
LAM, are you suggesting that there might be
homoxuals in a royal family somewhere?
"Homoxual"?
Isn't that a snack chip?
No...but "Lays" are...
"Homoxual" came from a short-lived '90s sitcom, The Single Guy. During the obligatory "Straight Guy is Mistaken for Gay and Learns a Lesson in Tolerance" episode, the lead character's best friend mentioned that his grandmother referred to gay people as "homoxuals". The show was forgettable, but that sorta stuck.
You learn somethin' new every day.
"Truff"? Short for truffle, perhaps?
one of my favorite jokes is this.
A cowboy is riding out on the plains. From the other direction comes a dog. As they pass each other, the dog says "Hello. How are you doing?" The cowboy is stunned but replies "Fine. and you?" The dog says "Fine" and continues on his way. The cowboy continues to think about the encounter and says out loud "I never knew dogs could talk." His horse turns around and says "You learn something new every day."
I used to tell a joke about two talking racehorses that ended with the "punchline" "Hey, talking dogs."
The idea was to keep the joke going for as long as possible. I'd worked it out for about 12 minutes before I got sick of it. Kinda like The Aristocrats without the filth.
Whenever I hear someone mention that Aristocrats movie, I always think they're talking about the Disney cartoon where Eva Gabor voiced a housecat.
What a difference an "r" makes!
Actually that was my first though reading Miner's post as well.
Slight slip of the typing finger, perchance?
I think it's more like I knew of the Aristocats before I knew the word "aristocrat".
But then, RHL, you are one cool cat!
Les aristocrates à la lanterne!
Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira,
Les aristocrates, on les pendra!
Le despotisme expirera,
La liberté triomphera,
Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira,
Nous n'avions plus ni nobles, ni prêtres,
Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira,
L'égalité partout régnera.
L'esclave autrichien le suivra,
Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira,
I thought I was a penguin.
Originally posted by legionadventureman:
But then, RHL, you are one cool cat! I thought I was a penguin.
Oh bugger! I thought I was editing that!
Maybe you just really, really thought you were a penguion.
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
Les aristocrates à la lanterne!
Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira,
Les aristocrates, on les pendra!
Le despotisme expirera,
La liberté triomphera,
Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira,
Nous n'avions plus ni nobles, ni prêtres,
Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira,
L'égalité partout régnera.
L'esclave autrichien le suivra,
Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira,
My, we are in a revolutionary mood, aren't we?
Is this stupid thread still alive?
Umm... Don't answer that...
Revolutionary no. I just thought that by sowing social disorder, we could make a few extra bucks by raising prices on necessities.
Don't you have to control the necessities fitst?
Tamper, could we have the English translation to your poem?
It part of the "lantern song" sung by Republican mobs during the French Revolution. I haven't read up on it in quite a while so I can't remember what faction but it's fairly early on before the King's flight and the establishment of the Republic, the terror and all that. (and I'm too lazy to google).
Roughly Translated into English (Apologies to all French speakers):
Aristocrats to the Lantern
Yes, This will pass, this will pass....
Aristocrats, they will hang
Despotism will expire,
Liberty will triumph.
Yes! This will pass, this will pass....
We'll have no nobles, no priests
Yes, This will pass
Liberty will reign everywhere
We'll get the Austrian (Marie Antoinette) too
Yes! This will pass....
Not exactly the same kind of song, but didn't we have "La Marseillaise" and some other patriotic anthems in this thread some time ago?
I don't recall, and I don't have the strength to go back through this miasma to find out.
Yeah, I checked back and saw it. This is a silly thread. That's why I like it.
What could one think of while under the alkafluence of incahol?
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Hmmm. "Through the curtsy of Fred's two feet." I like that.
Ah!....the automated response and the little heads poking their tongues out - how I missed them
I think you may be alone in the missing, LAM.
We could run a poll, but I don't think that would be necessary.
Anybody want a pole dance?
Originally posted by Brainiac 5:
Courtesy? Or curtsy?
I should have never given Cobie that Log-on....
That's one way to stir up trouble, giving someone your ID and they say something that really shakes things up...and they think "Abin Quank" did it...
Well, to be fair, I've also got his,
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Haha! Ever wonder if Pov is really talking to himself? Wonder no more--Pov is a shared Alt ID that Abin and I use to annoy one another!
Omigod! It's SOOOOO true!
(Ooooops.)
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
Haha! Ever wonder if Pov is really talking to himself? Wonder no more--Pov is a shared Alt ID that Abin and I use to annoy one another! The real question is: which of the people with access to the "Cobie" account posted that?
It wathn't me!
...THITH time... ;o)-
Jeepers! Who gave Bucky, the Super-Beaver access to the "Cobie" account? I bet it was that darn Giant Robotic Lesbian! She always did like that beaver!
Abin gave access to the Cobie account to Bucky when I refused to pay him his quarterly dividends...I guess I better do it this time, considering he's threatened to give it to Umber if I don't...
Nope. It was my Supergirl Robot.
All right, enough's enough.
Time for the heavy artillery.
Anybody posts after me, and I put up pics of my colonoscopy.
Fine with me.
I'm the only one who'll get the warning.
Crap, now I gotta book one...
DARN YOU, MINER! DARN YOU LIKE A HOLEY SOCK!!
Called your bluff, didn't I?
:smug:
Originally posted by Pov:
All right, enough's enough.
Time for the heavy artillery.
Anybody posts after me, and I put up pics of my colonoscopy.
You forgot? You had one in Dallas! Arlington PD administered it.
Anyway, here's the picture of what they found up inside Pov:
Pov\'s innards
Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare:
Originally posted by Pov:
[b]All right, enough's enough.
Time for the heavy artillery.
Anybody posts after me, and I put up pics of my colonoscopy.
Anyway, here's the picture of what they found up inside Pov: Pov\'s innards [/b]Time for a technicolour yawn, yes?
Oh gross!
I was reading that if we switched from a decimal counting system to a duodecimal or dozenal counting system (that is, base 12), the word for the number represented by "100" would be "gross". A gross of something is 144 in decimal. That would be kinda cool. 187 (decimal), for example, would be 137: One gross three dozen seven. Neat, huh?
All well and good.
But how does it relate to Pov's Borgninescopy?
It doesn't directly, but LAM did say "gross".
Well, I wish Pov the best of luck getting all that out of his system.
How did you enjoy your vomit milkshake, OM?
Looks like this thread went zombie long ago.
Night of the Living Thread?
It does seem to be descending into Scary Movie territory
That post came from... inside the house!
Don't look under the bed - there's a homicidal clown lurking!
I'm not worried - the monsters will get him.
Yeah, every Friday the 13th...
The Hockey Song (Smith, James, Good and Phillips) ©1992
Performed & written by Jughead.
So there I was, over in Paris
Eating wine and drinking cheese
And this guy comes up to me and he says
“ Where are you from?”
Well, I says “Yeah, I’m from Canada”
And he says “Zoot Allure, mon Dieu, you are from Canada? Do you play hockey?”
And I says “Do I play hockey?
Chorus
Well, I play Air hockey, Ball hockey, Barn Hockey, Bubble Hockey, Field hockey,
Floor hockey, Ice hockey, Kitchen hockey, Road hockey,Roller hockey, Table hockey, Twist hockey
And I play hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey,
hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey,hockey all the time!
Take shots!
So there I was way out in California
And this guy comes up to me and he says
“ Where are you from dude?”
Well, I says “Yeah, I’m from Canada”
And he says "Wow! Where are you from dude?”
And I says "Look I'm from Canada"
And he says “Wow. If you’re from Canada? Do you like, play hockey?”
And I says “Do I play hockey?
Chorus
So there I was way down under in Australia
And this guy comes up to me and he says
“ Where are you from?”
Well, I says “Yeah, I’m from Canada”
And he says “Do right, honey child. If you’re from Canada? Do you play hockey?”
And I says “Do I play hockey?
Chorus
He shoots. He scores!
Jughead? Didn't he play the drums in the Archies?
Yes, and Veronica played the organ.
Man, this thread's still alive?!?!
Heartbreaking.
Anyway, my brother loves hockey. He'd always say, "A nice friendly game of hockey." An inside joke, I guess.
I've never really gotten into it...
Although, I do have a soft spot for the Mighty Ducks movies. I know, I know. But they were so cute!! And I was young... shhhh....
I went to a fight once and a hockey game broke out.
I'm back to kill this thread. But I predict it will live until my beloved Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup.
Regarding "A nice friendly game of hockey" he may have been refering to the exhibition game between the Philadelphia Flyers and Soviet Red Army on January 11th 1976.
I know it was friendly cuz I think Schultz was teaching Kharlamov how to kiss by bringing that elbow to his face.
edit: It wasn't Shultz but this was a team whose captain broke the leg of Russia's best player with his stick in 1972 so Canada to give us a chance to win the summit series.
There should be an "Ask a Canadian" thread.
I'd rather ask a Sabre...
Loser, now would be a good time for your return to regular posting, I need some help here...
Actually, Tamper, he was refering to a coworker he'd once had who wasn't a fan of violent sporting events. So, naturally, he would usually turn down my brother and his other coworkers for watching sporting events.
Anyway, one day, my brother says to him, "Hey, you wanna watch the hockey game tonight?" as a total joke.
The guy thought about it for a moment, then smiled. "Hockey? Sure. A nice, friendly game of hockey..."
Needless to say, he was traumatized.
I'm not much of a hockey fan myself, but I must confess a fondness for a certain team from Pittsburgh.
So who among us watched/will watch the Oscars last night/tonight?
I did not.
Did a hockey game break out?
Canadians produced the best picture... so hockey at the after party is possible.
Personally I wouldn't mind if some of those near anorexic holly starlets started showing off toothless grins and noses broken so many times not even the best nose doctor can rhinoplasty it straight.
I never heard of "Crash" per se...but I heard "Brokeback Mountain" did rather well at the awards...
Non-relevant aside: Thank God Sandra Dee was remembered in the In Memoriam retrospective - considering she had been dead for over a year now. Maybe Jack Wild will get a post-humous mention next year
I saw "Crash" on DVD recently... truly an AMAZING film. It would have been a crime for it not to have won.
It seems to be that the Academy was fairly divided on the films and just wanted to make sure most of the nominees got something.
I wonder if there's an award for thread-kiling...
Well, I for one, hope you win this, RHL!
Whoever wins - I'll be happy
Don't forget that the prize for killing this thread includes a drawing of your favorite Legionnaire by yours truly!
Hey the thread lost my post, does that win a prize?
I did not know this.
Consider my efforts redoubled.
If you win, OM, I'll buy you a (non-alcoholic) drink!
He'll be off the wagon by then. don't worry.
I would imagine going through the withdrawl stage is one heavy experience, yes?
"Withdrawl"? Is that how you describe the speech of someone from the Southern United States?
leave it to Cramer to make the first bright comment on this thread.
Well, that's our streak put to bed then.
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
"Withdrawl"? Is that how you describe the speech of someone from the Southern United States? Or else Foghorn Leghorn, RHL
Originally posted by legionadventureman:
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
[b] "Withdrawl"? Is that how you describe the speech of someone from the Southern United States?
That's a joke, son. Why ain't ya laughin'? Nice kid, but about as sharp as a sack o' wet liver.
Ohmygod, is this stupid thread still like hanging on?
That's it!
Everybody OUT! Like Now, People! or else I go all like Katie-Ka-Boom on ya!
Ohmygod, that is soooo cute!
But you still have to like leave, Now Mister!
Out, Out, Out!
A good many of us here are already out.
Time for Abin Quank's auto response...
Nope Lash?
Was that Bat Lash's chaste sister?
Oh, she was chased all right.
Right into the *wink* *wink* private back room of Miss Kitty's Western Saloon and Burlesque Revue.
Is that where Miss Kitty and Marshal Dillon used to go during the commercial breaks?
where do you think sindication originated?
I heard Miss Kitty batted for the other team
Honestly, I never did understand the appeal of westerns--unless you count Wild Wild West or Brisco County.
Think of a nice ice slide in a cool ocean dip, snacthing a fish as you zip back on the 'berg.
Westerns are like that, only in a warmer climate.
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
Honestly, I never did understand the appeal of westerns--unless you count Wild Wild West or Brisco County.
Wild Wild West? I had such a thing for Robert Conrad - in every scene where he takes his shirt off - yum!
never liked WWW.
I liked most westerns as a kid, but they've lost their appeal.
The Magnificent Seven may be my all-time favorite film.
Have you noticed we're on the 100th page of this thing?
Does that surprise you, OM? This thread hasn't jumped the shark - yet. It's all up to you...
That's an awful lot of responsibility. I'll be glad to help Outdoor Miner shoulder the burden.
That's mighty nice of you, RhL.
I suspect he has ulterior motives.
I attribute the success of this thread to the desire of Legion Worlders to obtain the fabulous prize of their favorite Legionnaire drawn by me!
All the Krypto/Wonder Woman porn you can handle.
That's a lot of porn.
Did I say that out loud?
No, actually, you wrote it out loud.
for you, not the rest of us.
Peas be with you, my son.
Oh....peas let's change the subject!
Not a fan of goober peas.
Peanuts is a good comic strip
Ohmygod, You guys can't say I didn't warn you...
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Ohmygod, Mr. Miner, How did I know you were gonna be the one to say that? <giggle>
It's a good thing you're such a cute like bug type person, or I might just go like all Katie-Ka-Boom, again...
Bah, I've lost interest in this competition.
Ohmygod, You guys can't gang up on
ME like this...
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Now, everybody out! OR I'LL DO IT AGAIN!
No - Mint Imperials are better.
Altoids are curiously strong.
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Stop patting yourself on the back. We've realized EG is actually YOUR alt-ID!
I think Alt-IDs are the most confusing thing to new people here. It took me a while to catch on. I may have to get one of my own.
Alt-IDs are a myth, like Dr. Pepper being made from prune juice or arsenic being bad for you.
The Whistling River - so named because twice a day, it reared up to a height of two hundred feet and let loose a whistle that could be heard for over six hundred miles - was the most ornery river in the U.S. of A. It took a fiendish delight in plaguing the life out of the loggers who worked it. It would tie their logs into knots, flip men into the water then toss them back out onto the banks, and break apart whole rafts of logs as soon as the loggers put them together.
This fact by itself might not have been enough by itself to get Paul Bunyan involved. But one day Paul was sitting on a hill by the river combing his beard with a large pine tree when without warning the river reared up and spat four hundred and nineteen gallons of muddy water onto his beard. This startled Paul somewhat, but he figured if he ignored the river, it would go away and leave him alone. But that ornery river jest reared up again and spat five thousand and nineteen gallons of muddy water onto his beard, adding a batch of mud turtles, several large fish and a muskrat into the mix. Paul Bunyan was so mad he jumped up and let out a yell that caused a landslide all the way out in Pike's Peak.
"By jingo, I am gonna tame that river or bust a gut trying!" he cried.
So Paul sat for four days eating popcorn and trying to figure out how to tame that river. He ate so much popcorn that the air was soon filled with white bits and the ground for three miles around was covered with eighteen inches of popcorn scraps. This caused several hundred small animals and a few dozen birds to conclude that they were in a blizzard and so they froze to death. This furnished the loggers at the camp with pot pies for several days.
Just as he ran out of popcorn, Paul decided that the way to tame the river was to pull out the kinks. He would hitch the river to Babe the Blue Ox and let him yank it straight. Of course, Paul knew that an ordinary log chain and the skid hook wouldn't work with water. So he and Babe took a short walk up to the North Pole. There, Paul made a box trap baited with icicles that he set near a blizzard trail. Then he and Babe wandered away. Paul started to throw icebergs out into the ocean so Babe could play fetch. But he had to stop the game since each time Babe jumped into the water a tidal wave threatened to swamp the coast of Florida. After lunch, Paul went back to check the trap. He had caught six young blizzards and an old nor'wester. He put two of the young blizzards in his sack and released the rest. Then he and Babe went back to their camp.
As he walked into camp, Paul yelled to Ole, the Big Swede to build him the largest log chain that's ever been built. Then he staked out the two blizzards, one on each side of the river. Right away, the river began to freeze. By morning, the river had a tough time rearing up to whistle because it was frozen solid for more than seventeen miles. When Paul Bunyan finished his breakfast, he harnessed Babe and wrapped the chain seventy-two times around the foot of the frozen Whistle River. Yelling to the men to stand clear, he shouted at Babe to pull. Babe pulled that chain into a solid bar and sank knee deep into solid rock, but that ornery river refused to budge. So Paul grabbed the chain and he and Babe gave such a yank that the river jerked loose from its banks and they dragged it across the prairie so fast it smoked. After a while, Paul looked back and saw the river was as straight as a gun barrel. But the river was much shorter with the kinks out, and all the extra lengths that used to be in the kinks were running wild out on the prairie. So Paul got his big cross-cut saw and a lot of baling wire and sawed the extra lengths of river into nine-mile pieces, rolled them up and tied them off with the baling wire. He later used them to float his logs when he logged out the desert.
But now that it was straight, the Whistling River lost its gimp and refused to whistle. Which made everyone mad at Paul Bunyan, because now they didn't know when to wake up in the morning. Paul might have been in real trouble if Squeaky Swanson hadn't showed up right about then. Squeaky's speaking voice was no louder than a whisper. But when he yelled, you could hear him clean out in Kansas. So each morning Squeaky got up at the crack of dawn and yelled the blankets off of every bed in camp. Naturally, the men found it hard to sleep in the cold without their blankets, so they got up. Squeaky was a great success, and for the rest of his life he did nothing but get up at dawn and let out one really loud yell.
Wow. Quislet certainly is thorough.
There's not much left to say.
So don't say anything and let me kill this thread
Okay Quiz... You certainly won't hear anything at all from me.
Oh.
Sure thing, buddy!!!
Sorry.
Beagz is always so polite.
which Superboy do you mean? Kon-el? Kal-el? Superboy of Earth-Prime?
It's not which Superboy I mean; it's which Superboy Beagz means.
I realized too late that asking a question is not the way to kill this thread.
I answer questions for a living. Hey, I posted something about cataloguing 'way back. That was fun. It was Dewey Decimal Fun!
Can we get Tamper Lad and Lad Boy to talk about things like insurance, the census, taxes and stuff again?
I'm not looking to win or anything, I just want you all to suffer a little.
Policy Pam could help that conversation, too!
Where's she been? We haven't seen her in a while.
Jeepers! She hasn't posted since September!
This thread cannot be kiled, it is protected by the vast power of the Ancient Pre-Egyptian Goddess Bast.
Unless she's lost interest in it, anyway, she does have the attention span of a cat...
So if you guys were to start a shiny new thread to catch her attention maybe she'd forget about protecting this one and you could finally kill it.
Egyptian mythology. That's 299.31.
Is that in dollars, euros or pesos?
International currency would be in the 332.405 Dewey area.
Currency is only interesting when I'm in possession of it. Since I'm not, I say we just let the thread die. Come on, all the cool kids are doing it!
And if all the cool kids were jumping off buildings, would you do that too?
(this is a rhetorical question and does not require an answer)
The life or death of this thread is an issue of free-will. But this does not preclude the discussion of Free Willy.
Personal finance 332.024
Building construction 690
Existentialism 142.78
Orcas 599.536
Dang! Is this thread still hanging?
Hanging would be at 364.66.
Statistics are a good sleep inducer
Wakey Wakey!
Now how many posts do we have left until the software causes us to crash?
Statistics 519.5
Self-control 179.9
Software 005 and 006
I had a stats class once. One of the easiest A's I ever received in Uni...
The first graduate level course I ever took was Philosophy of Statistics and Experimental Inference. Not an easy class at all.
Ironically enough, the first undergraduate thing I did was Experimental Influences. Quite an easy thing to accomplish!
I took an undergraduate course in remedial remediating in my first attempt at attending college.
It was boring and repetitive...
I never took stats in undergrad--not a requirement for English majors. I had a course in grad school in which statistical methods were covered. The professor actually wrote the textbook for the class, which was an interesting experience.
I once took a statistics class which was based on Lebesgue measures. It was twice as stimulating as I had anticpated it would be.
I learned how to yawn with my mouth closed in Statistics
Yes its a very good idea to avoid any class where the professor also wrote the textbook for the class.
Stats and experimental design are fun and quite useful except that the notion of an impartial observer is totally fallacious.
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.:
I learned how to yawn with my mouth closed in Statistics
A most useful talent.
I also "learned" how to bend the knuckle near the end of my finger while keeping the other knuckle straight.
I learned that taking piano lessons. Unfortunately, the bending wasn't always voluntary.
Must have been some pretty harsh chords.
5 days without a post. Pretty impressive!
I should bring up my piano lessons more often.
I should have waited another day for maximum impact.
Well I tried to keep the impact pretty light so I wouldn't get those oddly bent fingers when I played piano.
I wish I'd kept it up.
I can play enough to help teach myself a choir part, but I'm really out of practice.
I tried Piano when I was younger. Mom tried teaching me. So you can imagine how that went over.
I do, however, play drums and bass guitar rather well.
At the same time?
That's quite impressive!
Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare:
At the same time?
That's quite impressive! Well i can play the kick drum and play bass at the same time.
hehe.
I should lock this thread. It might get me fired as a moderator, but it'd be worth it
well it would definitely be the 'killer' of the thread.
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
I should lock this thread. It might get me fired as a moderator, but it'd be worth it DO IT COBIE!!!
Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
THE RULES:
3) In the event that this thread is locked, there shall be no winner unless a new thread is started for the contest. Furthermore, any post that results in the banning of the poster shall also be ineligible to win.
bye bye rules.
Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
THE RULES:
1) The rules to this game do not apply to Cobalt Kid, whose legendary status as a poster on Legion World often make him above the rules.
Jeepers! Cobie sure is a handsome, er, legendary poster!
*choke*
Thanks Eryk!
Unfortunately, the rule stating that no rules apply to Cobalt Kid does not apply to Cobalt Kid! Which means he is subject to the same rules as everyone else!
Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
Unfortunately, the rule stating that no rules apply to Cobalt Kid does not apply to Cobalt Kid! Which means he is subject to the same rules as everyone else!
HUH???
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I think Tamper Lad has stock in one of the companies that makes headache pills. That last post gave me a doozy.
And after Cobie promised:
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
I'll never post a paredox in one of your threads again, EDE! And I'll even learn how to spell paredox!
Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
That's OK Cobie! You can post whatever you like, as long as you be your ever charming self!
B-but Eryk...you said it was OK!
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
Bah! This Eryk Davis Ester/Cobalt Kid alliance will be the death of us all!
Even Tamper Lad thought you were very generous!
Hmmm. a paradox.
A paradox, a paradox a most ingenious paradox.
I
Gilbert and Sullivan!
My current favorite paradox is Curry's Paradox.
There's always room for Jell-O.
The actual fruity Jell-O or the pudding?
I believe that referred to the gelatine dessert. Their next advertising campaign was a bit more memorable:
Watch it wiggle,
See it jiggle,
Cool and fruity,
It's Jell-O Brand Gelatine.
Of all desserts you'll love the one
That moves and shakes and makes such fun!
Make Jell-O Brand Gelatine
And make some fun!
J-E-L-L-O!But who remembers such things?
What about the Shake and Vac woman?
Do The Shake and Vac and put the freshness back
Do The Shake and Vac and put the freshness back.
When your carpet smells fresh, your room does too
Every time you vacuum, remember what to do.
Do the shake and vac and put the freshness back.
Put the freshness back!
Anyone? No?
So it's just me then.
I'll be singing this all day now
Oh goody!
This is a singing thread again!
This is the '70s version of a classic. Being a tenor, I can't really hit the "boom booms", but how about:
Ajax! Boom! Boom!
The blue-dot cleanser!
Booma-booma-boom boom!
With the extra strength right down the drain!
Booma-booma-boom-boom!
Okay, how about Cadbury's Fudge:
A finger of fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat!
A finger of fudge is just enough untill it's time to eat!
It's full of cadbury's goodness,
But very small and neat!
A finger of fudge is just enough to give you kids a treat!
(and no smutty jokes the back of the class please)
Aaaaw! I've come over all nostalgic.
That one was shown on both sides of the Atlantic, though I imagine is not as well-remembered here.
Here's one for this crowd:
Wearing Underoos is fun.
And you can choose from more than one:
There's Veronica and Betty, too,
Wonder Woman, Supergirl, which one are you?
Okay, you might get this...Im not sure if this is the full vesion but it's all I remember.
Any time, any place, any where!
It's the wonderful taste we all share!
It's the right one! It's the bright one!
That's Martiniiiiii!
I thank you.
And speaking of
Classics...
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Was it something I said?
Some people just have no appreciation for fine music.
And on that note...what about this one RHL?
Like a bolt of lightning flashing across the sky.
Like a single arrow whizzing from a bow.
Like a mighty cannonball that seems to fly,
You'll hear about him everywhere you go.
The time will come when everyone will know,
the name of CHAMPION THE WONDER HORSE!
CHAMPION THE WONDER HOOOOOORSE!!
Aaah...happy days.
The only theme I can remember starred a certain M.C.
Now this is the story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down
and I'd like to take a minute
just sit right there
I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air
Now. That was what I called a Classic
Parents just don't understand.
Or to put it another way
"Eat it Grandpa."
Or is that one taken?
EDE, I'm a parent and that remark is totally true I dont understand?
not long before I'm drooling in my tea and forgetting things.
That's not because your old.
Drooling in your tea is just one of the side affects of running after your kids all day.
It's a fun way to relax, and gross them out.
You have to listen to their music, watch their TV programmes, get stuffed by them at Playstation, THEY have to watch you drool into your tea.
Oh to see the look on their little faces.
Children are a great appetizer. <grin>
And here I thought that the poor man with his tiny little stinger was still locked away. Could he have escaped during the recent assault on Takron-Galtos?
Sage from Groo the Wanderer had a good quote concerning children:
CHILDREN ARE LIKE ELEPHANTS,
THEY'RE FUN TO LOOK AT WHEN THEY BELONG TO SOME ONE ELSE.
There speaks a wise man
*sigh* The revolving door prison system of Legion World. When I run the correction system i'll have felons atomized.
My mother once said that children, like this thread, are notoriously hard to kill.
Name a thread with the world 'kill' in it and you should expect the more colorful elements of Legion World society to show up...
<grin>
Jeepers! I'm surprised Mayavale hasn't posted yet to tell us how in another lifetime he was a thread and one of us killed him!
That reminds me of the day I shot you through the back Ester. Cobalt Kid as well, and then buried Jailbait Lass alive before going on my first Legion World killing spree.
We're like old friends you and I
Yeah, the good old days! Hey.. remember that time you came to Greg Evigan Island and we kicked your ass? We'll have to do that again sometime!
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
*sigh* The revolving door prison system of Legion World. When I run the correction system i'll have felons atomized.
Well, prison reform was one of the goals of the late, lamented LMB constitution, but everyone seemed to preoccupied with senseless debating to ever get to it.
(I know quotes aren't allowed here, but I'm not trying to win the game, just keep you all from winning
)
My mother once said:
"Stop doing that! It rots your brain and you'll go blind."
Silly woman! There's nothing wrong with my brain.
Now, where did I put my glasses...I don't know, memory like a..a..thingy...got holes in it...a tea bag?...snooker table?...forget my own whatchamacallit next!
Although I'm fond of many of you, I do have a favorite now. I wonder where Everyday Girl is these days? I bet she'll grow up to be a fine young lass...
Maybe I'll have my own bride someday? <grin>
I promise to try and attend Quislet and Royal Inquisitor's wedding too if I can make it...
And Cobalt Kid, shouldn't you be seeing your secretary off to therapy now? I'm afraid she's become a bit...timid after my last few run-ins with her <grin>
Shouldn't that be
<grins wolfishly>
It has more panache
Originally posted by The Red Bee:
Although I'm fond of many of you, I do have a favorite now. I wonder where Everyday Girl is these days? I bet she'll grow up to be a fine young lass...
Maybe I'll have my own bride someday? <grin>
I promise to try and attend Quislet and Royal Inquisitor's wedding too if I can make it... Ohmygod!!! So I'm like your favorite now? But you know that's like sweet and junk and like if I'm your favorite then I guess my friends don't have to worry much.
'Cuz I'm like the
One person here who can be counted on to Kick Your Stupid Butt anytime you show your Ugly Face!!!!
Come around me or my friends and the
NEXT bullet I put in you won't be aimed at your
KNEE!
It'll be aimed just a little bit higher...
Originally posted by The Red Bee:
And Cobalt Kid, shouldn't you be seeing your secretary off to therapy now? I'm afraid she's become a bit...timid after my last few run-ins with her <grin>
Ohmygod, Mr. Bee, you don't need to worry about Mr. Cobalt 'cuz if you get anywhere near 'lita she's got a few new tricks to show you.
I'll just like sit and watch while she
KICKS YOUR UGLY BUTT!
Then I'll put a bullet where it'll do you the like least good...
Everyday Girl,
Mum?...Is that you?
Ohmygod! Hi Mr. walkwithcrowds!
Yep, I'm like Me! No I'm not your Mum I've never even ... Ummm... You Know... <cute blush>
Nice to meet you.
Hello Miss Girl.
It is indeed a pleasure to meet some-one of such obvious breeding.
My that IS a big gun you have.
# Sigh # If only you carried a switchblade and pair of knuckle-dusters you would be just like a good-old-fashioned Glasgow girl.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!
I WIN, I WIN, I WIN, WIN, WIN, WIN, WIN!!!!
# holding back the tears - just #
I...I just want to thank everybody who made this possible. My fellow LMBers, my parents - without whom - Derek, the invisible blue camel who lives under my bed, (I know he's blue because he told me - and Derek wouldn't lie about a thing like that) Navi, my Irn Bru "supplier" and the Fonz, for making short guys cool.
Thank you, I love you all!
What happens now?
Jeepers! I totally forgot to tell walkwithcrowds about the fabulous prizes he won for winning this contest!
Huh, what, prize, what, what, what, what??????
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