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The Succubus

2010-08-14, 06:26 PM

And we begin again, with a new thread for some of the strangest conversation ever displayed via the medium of electron.

Da' Rules You readz these! :smallannoyed:

1. Spam. For the purposes of RB, one word posts are generally considered spam. Likewise, posts that are nothing but *actions like this* are also be considered spam. Remember that the quality of the post's content is much better than the speed of your response.

2. This isn't the Play by Post or Town forum, nor is it the Silly Message Board Games or Structured Games forum. Please avoid continuous roleplay or mock battles and fights such as the "competition for control of the universe".

3. If it's already a thread, don't bring it to RB. RB has such a huge range of subject matter even restricted to the little snippets that probably don't warrant their own thread, it doesn't need legitimate thread topics cluttering it up as well. The exception to this is to bring something that is off-topic from one thread, but on-topic for RB and the subject doesn't warrant a thread of its own.

4. Don't advertise other threads in RB. Just because these new threads move at speeds more appropriate to a message board than an IM session doesn't mean you need to come over to RB and brow beat people into posting in your latest brainchild.

5. Please don't post single line posts alerting us to your current status -- as in "I'm back." This is Random Banter, not "How to stalk Random GitP forum members."

6. Don't poke, kick or bump the thread. It will move at whatever pace it wants to. Also, please refrain from Captain Obvious comments akin to "My, the thread is fast today."

7. Random Banter can only be as good, or as entertaining, as you make it. Demands to be entertained will fall on deaf ears unless you can add something more meaningful to the conversation.

8. As this is a public forum, where the current topic is nicely recorded for you, and not a conversation where you could have missed the beginning, please refrain from asking something to the effect of "What's the topic?". Please take the time to read up a bit first.

9. Thread Creator must include the words "Random" and "Banter" as well as the thread #. Try to be concise as well.

10. Every post should contain two visible, legible complete sentences, Subject and Predicate. C'mon, make your old English teachers proud.

11. Remember, Random Banter is not your IM client. If you want to have a back and forth discussion with just one person, look in their contact information for IM details.

12. Whenever a new thread is created, all "first post", "first page", and all posts of that nature will be deleted by the administrators. Please avoid doing this, as it is frustrating for them to deal with one-lined posts like this.

13. Double-posting is not your friend. We have edit buttons for a reason.

14. Once you have made a Random Banter thread, you must wait 50 threads before making another one.

Previous Threads:
Amotis' Random Banter #1 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13484)
Dhavaer's Random Banter #2 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13401)
PhoeKun's Random Banter #3 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13319)
Rei Jin's Random Banter #4 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13205)
Toxic Avenger's Random Banter #5 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13146)
Jibar's Random Banter #6 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13026)
Ego Slayer's Surrogate Random Banter #7 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12939)
Sneak's Random Barroom Brawl #8 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12918)
Sophistemon's Solemnly Random Banter #9 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12855)
Vaynor's Very Random Banter #10 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12834)
Bookman's Blathering Random Banter #11 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12809)
Gralamin's Glorious Random Banter #12 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12785)
Rilik's Resplendently Random Raillery #13 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12766)
Gezina's Growling Grazing Random Banter #14 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12747)
The Zerglings Utterly And Geeky Random Banter #15 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12740)
jaqueses Truthfully Randomly Fireside Banter # 16 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12735)
Jack Squat’s Jubilantly Quixotic Random Banter #17 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12693)
Cardel's Banter of Cookie Jubilation #18 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12668)
Archonic's Chaotically Random Banter of Rods #19 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12657)
The Rod's Inanimate Temple of RANDOM banter #20 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12638)
Lucky’s Loquaciously Loud-Mouthed Random Banter#21 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12630)
Deckmaster's Divinely Delightful Random Banter #22 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12614)
Saithis' Soliloquy of Random Banter #23 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12598)
Loveable Lianae's Ludicrous Lampooning Lottery #24 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12578)
NEO|Phyte's Neolithic Nest of Weasel Banter #25 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12544)
Target's Random Banter of "non-violence" #26 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12533)
Tarnag40k's Random banter of "grammar errors" #27 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12515)
Kyrian's Random Banter of ADHDness #28 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12507)
El Jaspero's Random Drunken Ramblings #29 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12503)
Boss Smiley's Eloquently Eggy Banter #30 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12494)
Lykan's Looney Explosionarama & Random Banter #31 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12482)
Iames's Iambic Yarn of Yammering #32 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12468)
Dispozition's Deviously Distressed Banter #33 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12458)
CP's Copiously Combusting Banter of Carnage #34 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12445)
Alarra's Altar of Random Banter #35 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12432)
Eloquent Rune's Electrifying Rambling Banter #36 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12423)
E_P's Very Own Quite Popular Random Banter #37 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12419)
Hydrogelic's Foolish Mortal Random Banter #38 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12413)
Ink's Smudgy Splotchy Random Banter #39 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12405)
Azrael's Big Black Book of Banter #40 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12397)
The Logic Vampire's Rational Random Banter #41 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12387)
Shiny's Shimmering Space-hitchin Random Banter #42 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12376)
ZombieRockStar's Random Banter #43 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12360)
Nostrabel's Realm of Cookies and Random Banter #44 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12342)
Charity's Cheery Chatter Circle #45 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12328)
Samiam's Spontaneous Scintillating Soliloquy #46 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12310)
LLama's Masked Mysterious Random Banter #47 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26599)
Ravishing Rydia's Recumbentibus ^_^ Random Banter #48 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27622)
Penguinizers Perilous Random Banter #49 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28083)
Death's delightfully morbid surrogate random banter #50 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28444)
Wayril's wonderfully weird surrogate random banter #51 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28990)
Rawhide's Deck of Random Banter (52 Cards) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29697)
Korith's Sorrogate Random Banter of Zombie Killing #53 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30353)
Surrogate thread of random Bor-dom #54 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31109)
Rex Idiotarum's Painfully Pogoing Thread #55 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31512)
The Wrath of KHAAAAAANtalas’s William Shatner Flavored Random Banter # 56 (Surrogate) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32080)
EmeraldRose's Random Banter of Lashing Wit #57 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32494)
Captain van der Decken's Surrogate Ship of Random Loot (Banter) #58 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32847)
SDF's Neverending I-Don't-Have-an-OotS-Avatar-Yet Story Banter #59 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33465)
Mauril's Surrogate Dwelf Banter of Fantasy Race Confusion 60th Edition (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34165)
Rockphed's Dice Rolling Toga Party of 61 Drunken CIA Analysts (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34568)
var Lord_Magtok = Random(Banter*62) + Surrogate (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34801)
Jibar's Retro Random Banter #63 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35014)
Malina's Random Spanish Banter #64 of morphical annoyance (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35256)
Mr. E's Random Banter #65 of Cane Toting and Hat Tipping (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35418)
Ego Slayer's Hellishly Random Banter #66.6 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35596)
Purple Gelatinous Cube o' Doom's bowl of bantery j-e-ll-o randomness #67 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35859)
Zephra's Random Banter of Ghostly Wailings, and Howling Fun#68 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36317)
Cobra Ikari's Random Banter #69 of Rampant Hugging, Guttermindedness, and ;-) Kinky. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36977)
Scorpina's Random Banter #70 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37480)
Raistlin1040's Super Special Awesome Random Banter #71(Now with 20% more tacos) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37824)
Uberblah's Random Banter #72 Of Caffeine And Sleep Deprivation Induced Randomness (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38225)
Lucky’s Random Banter #73 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38987)
Castaras's Random Banter #74 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37836)
D'anna Biers RB #75 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39495)
Zeb The Troll's RB#76 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39801)
Eldpollard's RB #77 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40128)
Gezina's and Calamity's Random banter #78 of double entendre and doom (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40410)
Random Banter #79 In Loving Memory of Hexa_Regina (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40909)
Zeratul's random banter #80 of throwing puppies off bridges (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41778)
Vespe's Random Banter #81 of singing dolphins and mostly harmless planets. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43254)
CSK's Giant in the Playground Forums Addicted Anonymous, Random Banter #82 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44919)
Iames's Ramblingly Erratic Belldandy-Charged Random Banter #83 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47592)
Serpentine's Scintillating Sensually and Sinuously Seductive Stochastic Satire #84 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49048)
Radikalskippy's Random Banter #85 of lost ideas and where to find them... (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50658)
Moon Called's Random Banter #86 of Sexy Anime Boys and Fangirl Squeals (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51825)
Lilly's Lovely Random Banter #87 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52783)
FdL's Fuzzbox-Fueled Random Banter #88 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54612)
SweetRein's Sugary Restrained Random Banter #89 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59668)
Midnight's Mutant Motorcycle Madness Random Banter #90 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62430)
Em's Extremely Extraordinarily Epic Random Banter #91 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65645)
Dragonrider's Random Banter in Conjunction with the Weighted Cube #92 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67629)
Bushranger's Bodaciously Buffed Random Banter-y Rooster #93 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69425)
Haruki's Historically Hilarious Honey-covered Random Banter #94 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71161)
North's Maple Syrup Flavored Non-Alliterative Random Banter #95 Eh? (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73464)
Wadledo's Weirdly Warbling Watercress Watching Washing Machine Only Random Banter #96 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75946)
SMEE's Random Banter #97 of gender bending and closet bursting (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78694)
Raiser's Rambunctiously Rambling Random Banter #98 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81626)
Dr. Bath's Random Banter, dripping with daring deeds of dastardly deipnosophists #99 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84068)
VOTE, the Democracy Demon's Devilishly Devious and Decidedly Diabolical Desultory Derision (Random Banter) #100 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84914)
Jack Squat's Justlessly Juxtaposed Random Banter #101 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=87577)
Dallas-Dakota's Dundering Dandelion's Devilish Damsel's Distress Random Banter #102 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4790602#post4790602)
Destro Yersul's Dangerously Distracting and Doubtlessly Disturbing Random Banter #103 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4903962#post4903962)
Aziraphiles Actually Alliterative and Awesomely Affluent Random Banter #104 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92718)
Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94491)
Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95905)
Slayer's Seemingly Sweet and Socially Silly Random Banter # 107 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97703)
Zero's ambrosial and aberrantly adventitious, abstemiously erudite Random Banter #108 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99100)
Coplantor's Completely Creative Cautious and Contemplative Random Banter #109 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=100414)
Rutskarn's Roly-Poly Rebellious and Rejected Random Banter #110 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101156)
TwoBitWriter's Tubular Tracts of Thought-Talking Random Banter #111 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5600540#post5600540)
Phase's Phully Phormed, Phalangeal, and Phantasmagorical Random Banter #112 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101988)
Wolfbane's Wonderfully Wacky and Wildly Wandom Random Banter #113 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=102865)
The Kiwi's Kinkily Knotted and Kookily Kickass Random Banter #114 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=103674)
Jude's Judgmental Jugular Jab and Jibber Jabbery Random Banter #115 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104480)
The Throne of Thufir's Thoroughly Theoretical and Therapeutic Random Banter #116 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=105584)
Random Banter #117 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106698)
Dragonprime's Dynamically Dangerous Dextrous and Destructive Random Banter #118 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=107882)
Farmer Felix's Fantastic FRandom FBanter #119 (may contain traces of fnuts) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109007)
Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness (part one) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110963&page=50)
Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness (part two) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113197)
Mrmud's Mixed-Up and Minimally Mechanized Random Banter #121 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114623)
Dogmantra's Dastardly, Despotic and Dangerous Random Banter #122 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116660)
Alteran's Amazingly Anachronistic, Altruistic, and Antagonistic Random Banter #123
(http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118380)Admiral Euphoria's Random Banter Thread of Delusional Grandeur #124 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6614894)
Fred's Flying Fishy, Fighting, Fiery, Fantastic Face Off Random Banter #125 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121385)
Cyrano’s Non-Alliterative Inaugurational Random Banter #126 To Usher In The Future (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122977)
Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
loopy's Legendary and Long-Awaited Lollipop Fuelled Random Banter #128 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123816)
Shadow's Shady Shop of Sharks, Shingles, Shammies, Shiny and Random Banter #129 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=125667)
KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=126557)
Supagoof's Supa-Sensational Silly Symphonies Set Sizzingly On Fire Random Banter #131 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=128570)
Pyrian's Pyrotechnic Pyre of Pyrrhic Pyros with Pyrotic Pythics Random Banter #132! (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130459)
Perenelle's Pleasantly Playful and Passionately Peculiar Random Banter #133 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131814)
Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7373844#post7373844)
Il'deav Ilah'naie's Indiscreet Intimacies on Indigo Iceboats Random Banter #135 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134438)
Recaiden's Resplendent and Rotating Realistic Random Banter #136 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=136879)
Jibar's Random Banter #137: Return of the Cat-muffin (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=138879)
Edge's Effluence of Extravagant and Effulgent Random Banter #138 (”http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7876065”)
Zeb The Troll's Zecond Go At Ze Random Banter #139 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=8061505&postcount=1)
Curly's Rambunctious and Erudite Random Banter #140
Deth Muncher's Destructive and Meandering Random Banter #141 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=150904)
A Thread in Which Banter Most Random is Expulsed Into Existence, By Ravens_cry #142 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=156548)
Several Silly Sealions Stuffed Seaweed Southward Swiftly (Or, Random Banter #143) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=159998)
The thread that changed name one last time, with style. (Random Banter #144) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=161407)
Banjo’s Bodacious & Boosted Bumper Bulletproof Box of Banter Most Random #145 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=162819)

At the end of #145:
We were wondering what ION meant, discussing college applications and considering the merits of The Expendables.

Let the banter commence!

Dogmantra

2010-08-14, 06:28 PM

Might want to copypaste the first post of the last RB before it gets locked so you can keep the archive going and all that.

YPU

2010-08-14, 06:30 PM

And dont forget to ad the last topic to the list as well.

The Succubus

2010-08-14, 06:32 PM

Aaaand done, with Banjo's thread enshrined in glory for all eternity. In a spoiler box.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-14, 06:40 PM

Phooey. Next time it hits 50, Im totally grabbing it for mine :smallbiggrin:

Cobalt

2010-08-14, 06:42 PM

We all say that eventually. And get shot down.

Except for me, obviously, because momma didn't raise no fool and I realize the Playground cannot be beaten. And thus do not try.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-14, 06:44 PM

We all say that eventually. And get shot down.

Except for me, obviously, because momma didn't raise no fool and I realize the Playground cannot be beaten. And thus do not try.

I will not dissapoint my lord again. I mean my mother.

Dallas-Dakota

2010-08-14, 06:55 PM

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-14, 07:36 PM

Well I tried to claim it once. And then Vote flew in and claimed hundred.

One cannot defeat The MegaMod.

Since then I've just crawled in a little hidey hole and took 101, waiting for 151 to come....

Good luck DD. DeeDee.

Bah. I have discovered one of the internets greatest garded secrets/ Dallas-Dekota is DeeDee from Dexter's Labratory.

Dallas-Dakota

2010-08-14, 07:48 PM

Aha, one more has found out my secret.

A many before you exlaimed their wit at finding that out.

DeeDee is but one of my many forms of cheery annoyingness.:smallbiggrin:

2010-08-14, 08:21 PM

I don't believe it! Another one! What are you guys talking about?

Dogmantra

2010-08-14, 08:23 PM

I don't believe it! Another one! What are you guys talking about?

About how we secretly hate you.

Except when we know you're on line, we edit our posts into meaningless drivel.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-14, 08:38 PM

Dogman lies we love X2. Maybe.

Thufir

2010-08-14, 08:42 PM

Man, I missed a load of stuff I could've commented on and now the old thread's locked so I can't quote them. Damn this party cutting into my internet time with its enioyable social interactions!
So instead of a quotestorm, iust one little bit I copy/pasted:

Entirely accidental reference then, I've still yet to read it.

The word 'frood' comes from Hitchhiker's. You didn't know that?

ION: Oh yeah, I've been at a party this evening, if you didn't catch that.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-14, 09:17 PM

You could still quote them, it's just be a pain in the neck to do so.

2010-08-14, 09:29 PM

Dogman lies we love X2. Maybe.

Awwww... I've never met you but from first impressions I love you too! :smallsmile:

Dogmantra

2010-08-14, 09:30 PM

Awwww... I've never met you but from first impressions I love you too! :smallsmile:

Remember those edits I was talking about?
:smalltongue:

Starfols

2010-08-14, 09:38 PM

You know, I don't think I've been on the first page before.

It's all the Brits in here, with their different schedule. :smalltongue:

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-14, 09:45 PM

Awwww... I've never met you but from first impressions I love you too! :smallsmile:

Everything has gone according to my design

Remember those edits I was talking about?
:smalltongue:

Quiet Lord Vader

Starfols

2010-08-14, 10:01 PM

Quiet Lord Vader

I pictured him as more of a Count Rugen guy, myself.

Zeb The Troll

2010-08-14, 10:06 PM

le GASP!!

What does ION mean anyway?In Other News

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-14, 10:11 PM

I pictured him as more of a Count Rugen guy, myself.

Who is Count Rugen

ION: I discovered YTAS and my mind has died a horrible death

Starfols

2010-08-14, 10:18 PM

Who is Count Rugen

ION: I discovered YTAS and my mind has died a horrible death

:smallfurious:

You haven't seen this? That's...INCONCEIVABLE! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6m7NR6iYjg&feature=related)

Dogmantra

2010-08-14, 10:21 PM

:smallfurious:

You haven't seen this? That's...INCONCEIVABLE! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6m7NR6iYjg&feature=related)

You keep using that word...
CAN'T RESIST
I... I don't think...
RESIST DARN IT RESIST
It means...
WILLPOWER
What you think it means.

ALSO: I am blaming They Might Be Giants again for keeping me up much longer than I intended to. If I ever meet them I might have to have a harsh word with them. Maybe. After I explode with excitement.

KilltheToy

2010-08-14, 11:05 PM

Oooooh, a new Random Banter.

*dances with glee*

Phase

2010-08-14, 11:11 PM

After I explode with excitement.

Either excitement, or maybe C4. The suspense is killing me! It isn't killing you, though, that'd be the C4. Man, the world sure is exciting once I start lacing everyone's food with explosives! You never know what might happen! (Except exploding, that will probably happen.)

2010-08-15, 12:37 AM

Everything has gone according to my design

...okay? :smallconfused:

Starfols

2010-08-15, 02:08 AM

I made up a somewhat comprehensive bedtime story as I was telling it, nonstop, while sleep deprived. I feel as though I've actually done something impressive. :smallsmile:

randman22222

2010-08-15, 02:45 AM

Sleep deprivation does some impressive things. I've written bio lab reports on far less sleep than I should've had, and had them turn out quite insightful. :smallconfused:

Of course, I only noticed in the morning after.

Rawhide

2010-08-15, 03:56 AM

Any time spent with a cat on your lap has not been entirely wasted.

The Succubus

2010-08-15, 04:07 AM

Any time spent with a cat on your lap has not been entirely wasted.

For the cat, certainly. I prefer not risking a mauling if I try to get up for a cup of tea though.

Jibar

2010-08-15, 04:50 AM

Any time spent with a cat on your lap has not been entirely wasted.

What about cat on head?

A Cat-Hat, if you will.

Also,

*BOOGIE!*

Rawhide

2010-08-15, 05:05 AM

:confused: (http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/CubScouts/Cub%20Scouts/UniformsAndAwards/sanda/video_games.aspx) (The smiley is a link, btw)

Lioness

2010-08-15, 05:09 AM

Cats are epic. Except when they dribble on you. Like mine just did.

When he does that I kick him off my lap. I hope I can classically condition him, but it doesn't seem to be working.

Gan The Grey

2010-08-15, 05:14 AM

I'm tired, wired, and slightly inebriated.

On another note, I could really go for a snowcone right now.

Archonic Energy

2010-08-15, 05:40 AM

I am blaming They Might Be Giants again for keeping me up much longer than I intended to. If I ever meet them I might have to have a harsh word with them. Maybe. After I explode with excitement.

there's a picture opposite me,
of my primitive ancestry,
which stood on rocky shores,
and kept the beaches shipwreck free.

When he does that I kick him off my lap. I hope I can classically condition him, but it doesn't seem to be working.

squirt gun... training with negative re-inforcement is quicker

randman22222

2010-08-15, 06:18 AM

there's a picture opposite me,
of my primitive ancestry,
which stood on rocky shores,
and kept the beaches shipwreck free.

squirt gun... training with negative re-inforcement is quicker

Even though I respect that a lot
I'd be fired if that were my job
After killing Jason off,
And countless, screaming Argonauts...

Also, I may be mistaken, but I think 'classically' and kicking him off of laps counts as negative.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-15, 06:46 AM

:smallfurious:

You haven't seen this? That's...INCONCEIVABLE! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6m7NR6iYjg&feature=related)

Now, now. how are YTAS and the Princess Bride related?

Archonic Energy

2010-08-15, 06:59 AM

Also, I may be mistaken, but I think 'classically' and kicking him off of laps counts as negative.

yes, but there may be other reasons you may want to make the cat move. however if you spray it only when it does something wrong it soon learns not to do that. :smallamused:

Phase

2010-08-15, 07:28 AM

Even though I respect that a lot
I'd be fired if that were my job
After killing Jason off,
And countless, screaming Argonauts...

Bluebird of friendliness!
Like guardian angels its always near
Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch
Who watches over you
Make a little birdhouse in your soul

Also Troll, it's related to your comment about Count Rugen, the six fingered man.

Project_Mayhem

2010-08-15, 07:39 AM

Perversely, the cat who lived in my house last year tried to condition me by biting me when he/she* wanted me to stop stroking

*never bothered to find out. It was always 'You, cat'

Dogmantra

2010-08-15, 07:53 AM

there's a picture opposite me,
of my primitive ancestry,
which stood on rocky shores,
and kept the beaches shipwreck free.

Even though I respect that a lot
I'd be fired if that were my job
After killing Jason off,
And countless, screaming Argonauts...

Bluebird of friendliness!
Like guardian angels its always near
Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch
Who watches over you
Make a little birdhouse in your soul
Pffffft.
I only listened to that once. And it was Jonathan Coulton covering it at PAX. Mostly it was the very catchy venue songs, especially The Egg, hence the worrisome lack of fire exits.

Either excitement, or maybe C4. The suspense is killing me! It isn't killing you, though, that'd be the C4. Man, the world sure is exciting once I start lacing everyone's food with explosives! You never know what might happen! (Except exploding, that will probably happen.)
Phase if you ever kill me I will call the moral victory.

Teddy

2010-08-15, 08:00 AM

Ahh, a new thread, just as I predicted.

What about cat on head?

A Cat-Hat, if you will.

Very early yesterday morning, I actually walked down an empty street wearing a cat on my shoulders. That wouldn't really make it a Cat-Hat, though, but more of a Cat-Scarf...

ION: Cutovers are cutovers, and should be clearly displayed as such on the map, and not as ordinary forests, even if there are a few small trees growing on them. If I ever encounter the maker of that map, I'm going to have a few choice words for him. Orienteering with a deficient map is like writing on a computer with only half of the screen functioning - you have no idea of where you're going.

IOON: I've learned the painful way that, apparently, my right foot hasn't fully healed yet.

Thufir

2010-08-15, 08:30 AM

You know, I don't think I've been on the first page before.

It's all the Brits in here, with their different schedule. :smalltongue:

You mean our schedule of staying up until 3-5 am?

Any time spent with a cat on your lap has not been entirely wasted.

This man, he speaks the truth.

Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch

No no no. It was Professor Plum in the Conservatory with the Lead Piping.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-15, 11:43 AM

You mean our schedule of staying up until 3-5 am?

It's true. We have the willpower to stay up until dawn, but the downside is losing the morning.

ION:
Dad iust made me rererereorganise his bookshelf. Even though he knows that Little Brother and Little Sister have purloined many of the books that belong on it.
I have discovered the following things:
1) Little Brother and Little Sister have, between them, manaaged to rip the covers off about three-quarters of mum's paperback WoT series. And have mangled about a third of our total hardback's dustiackets. And several more are iust missing entirely.
They. Will. Be. Punished.
2) Dad has nicked all of my Discworld books bar three for his own collection. They are being taken back today.
3) Dad was also the one who stole my entire ASoIaF series. They will now be in Little Brother and Sister's rooms. They will be taken back today. And if they are damaged They. Will. Be. Punished. Severely.
4) There are a total of ten miscellaneous books that belong to me that are on his bookshelves. They are being reclaimed. As are the ones in the rest of the series' in the siblings rooms.
5) FOr some reason Dad has two copies of almost every single Belgariad and Mallorean book. And three of The Demon Lord of Karanda.
6) My Dad has almost every single Terry Brooks book he ever published. Well, I rediscovered this one. The same goes for David Gemmel and Terry Goodkind.
7) He's going to flip his lip when he sees what's happened to his (and mum's) books.
8) His old book club almost always sent him a free book which was one of the middle of a series or in two cases, the third book in a trilogy.
9) My Dad kept a soldering iron and a saw snaffled away at the very back of the bookcase. They are now on the floor where they belong.
10) I needed to get this list up to ten so I will mention that we have too many of those oddly sized paperbacks which are, in many cases larger than the hardback versions of the same books.

I am dusty, sweaty, hot, displeased and contemplating some serious vengeance.
The angry Curly avvie is coming out.

Trobby

2010-08-15, 11:52 AM

*Sneaks in*

THREAD BLESSING!

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b244/Introbulus/Boogietrobulus.png

...;w; I'mma miss you guys for the next week or two.

*Ninja's out*

Archonic Energy

2010-08-15, 12:02 PM

blah
blah
blah
blah

I am dusty, sweaty, hot, displeased and contemplating some serious vengeance.
The angry Curly avvie is coming out.

:smalleek:
quick everyone out of the thread!

THIS IS NOT A DRILL...

http://www.createthefuturecontest.com/uploads/NTB/1390/power-drill-1.jpg
this is!

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-15, 12:05 PM

:smalleek:
quick everyone out of the thread!

THIS IS NOT A DRILL...

http://www.createthefuturecontest.com/uploads/NTB/1390/power-drill-1.jpg
this is!

Red Dwarf reference.
Called it.
Awesome.

Archonic Energy

2010-08-15, 12:06 PM

Red Dwarf reference.
Called it.
Awesome.

am i really that predictable? :smallsigh:

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-15, 12:12 PM

Am I really that predictable? :smallsigh:

Nope. But when I saw "evacuate the thread

THIS IS NOT A DRILL!"

I thought, 'AE's a Britlander. What're the chances he pulled a Dwarf reference? Pretty high I think.'

Besides, when I hear I "THIS IS NOT A DRILL" I tend to think to myself This is a drill"

Thufir

2010-08-15, 12:14 PM

Wow. Brazeneck accepts female students? Very modern of them.

ION:: Forgot to mention, on friday I learned how to solve a 4x4 or most of a 5x5 rubiks cube!

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-15, 12:24 PM

Wow. Brazeneck accepts female students? Very modern of them.

Well the Archchacellor feels that, as the archchancellor of the UU is so traditionalist, he'll attract more students if he accepts female students.
There are rumours that the UU, under a previous archchancellor, accepted one female student. But as the Archchancellor was there (albeit visiting his aunt at the time she supposedly gained acceptance) for so long, and hasn't seen a single female student, we dismiss the rumours as complete hokum.

Thufir

2010-08-15, 12:30 PM

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-15, 12:40 PM

I name myself me. And as my first declaration as myself, I declare everyone can has a free interneta and Arbys.

Trog

2010-08-15, 12:54 PM

I name myself me. And as my first declaration as myself, I declare everyone can has a free interneta and Arbys.
Sweet! :smallbiggrin: *loads up on Beef-N-Cheddars & Curly fries* P=

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-15, 01:04 PM

But isn't he concerned that this will increase the risk of sourcery?* And this time he won't find it so easy to claim he was visiting his aunt and therefore had nothing to do with it.

*Given the average wizard, the risk probably isn't that significant, however also given the average wizard, very few wizards will realise this.

We still have single sex halls and there are charms preventing oppostite sex access.
Except for the cleaning ladies and the bledlows of course.
But as they're not magical it doesn't matter.
In addition there is a Dorm Mistress (somewhat akin to Mrs. Ludlow) and a Dorm Master.
Even a wizard knows not to cross them or the bledlows and the maids.

Too many things can go missing otherwise.
Especially as there's a meagre five courses at every meal.
:smallamused:

PhoeKun

2010-08-15, 01:19 PM

So, today I survived the following: explosions, gas leaks, and swarms of bees.

I'm not sure, but I think I might be an action hero. And there are no words in English to describe how incredibly awesome it would be to have Arbys right now. I would gorge myself to the point of bursting, then keep another week's worth of sandwiches in my fridge to nom with reckless abandon.

Not the least of reasons being I'm tired of being told that I don't eat enough, and that I look thin and unhealthy. I'm equally tired of seeing photographs people have taken of me and recoiling in horror at what I see.

No, this doesn't belong in the Depression thread or anything like that. It's just a small ramble. Enjoy the rest of your day, folks.

Jibar

2010-08-15, 01:22 PM

So, today I survived the following: explosions, gas leaks, and swarms of bees.

No no no, you don't get to just post that and then go.

ELABORATE, vile fiend.

Trog

2010-08-15, 01:24 PM

So, today I survived the following: explosions, gas leaks, and swarms of bees.
Meep! :smalleek:

Mauve sent the bees, didn't she? >_>

It's always Mauve. <_<

I'm not sure, but I think I might be an action hero.
Did you remember not to look at the explosion?

Teddy

2010-08-15, 01:30 PM

So, today I survived the following: explosions, gas leaks, and swarms of bees.

Envy in a coolness-sense! The only thing I've survived today was poor maps, stoney forests and blueberry pie. Actually, I could go for even more blueberry pie. Good thing that we now have a quite large supply of blueberries, thanks to my spontanious berry-picking expeditions the last week.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-15, 01:44 PM

Now that my motion for Arbys has been carried, I say we Nuke the Sun in an attempt to get rid of global warming. Whose with me?

PhoeKun

2010-08-15, 01:54 PM

No no no, you don't get to just post that and then go.

ELABORATE, vile fiend.

Meep! :smalleek:

Mauve sent the bees, didn't she? >_>

It's always Mauve. <_<

Did you remember not to look at the explosion?

Does it count if the reason I didn't look at the explosion is because I was asleep? Because that's what woke me up; a very loud, concussive "Boom". After which there was a rush of static-like hissing and eventually, the telltale rotten egg smell they add to gas lines so that you can tell when your apartment is being flooded with noxious fumes.

The premises were vacated, and emergency services were notified (on foot, mind you. I don't have a phone right now), and that got cleared up while for whatever stupid reason the rest of the complex just slept. Also, where was my landlord? He lives in the same building. Nowhere to be found.

Whatever. Crisis averted, let's go back inside and slee--... bees. I haven't seen more than like 4 or 5 bees in the entire time I've been living here in Michigan (about 9 months). Now I know why - they were all lying in wait for this moment, so that they could live in my apartment. Did you know bees are attracted to lights? I did not. But they kept ramming themselves against my ceiling light when they weren't buzzing around my head for daring to get to close. Hours pass. At long last, all the bees have been killed (I tried long and hard to make them leave. This just caused more bees to enter). I try to go back to sleep, but nothing doing.

So I'm operating on about 4 hours right now. Fun!

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-15, 02:14 PM

Does it count if the reason I didn't look at the explosion is because I was asleep? Because that's what woke me up; a very loud, concussive "Boom". After which there was a rush of static-like hissing and eventually, the telltale rotten egg smell they add to gas lines so that you can tell when your apartment is being flooded with noxious fumes.

The premises were vacated, and emergency services were notified (on foot, mind you. I don't have a phone right now), and that got cleared up while for whatever stupid reason the rest of the complex just slept. Also, where was my landlord? He lives in the same building. Nowhere to be found.

Whatever. Crisis averted, let's go back inside and slee--... bees. I haven't seen more than like 4 or 5 bees in the entire time I've been living here in Michigan (about 9 months). Now I know why - they were all lying in wait for this moment, so that they could live in my apartment. Did you know bees are attracted to lights? I did not. But they kept ramming themselves against my ceiling light when they weren't buzzing around my head for daring to get to close. Hours pass. At long last, all the bees have been killed (I tried long and hard to make them leave. This just caused more bees to enter). I try to go back to sleep, but nothing doing.

So I'm operating on about 4 hours right now. Fun!

Oh Phoe-sama, that's dreaful. But at least you're okay.
*hugs*
May you have a great night's sleep tonight.

Tiger Duck

2010-08-15, 02:18 PM

:confused: (http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/CubScouts/Cub%20Scouts/UniformsAndAwards/sanda/video_games.aspx) (The smiley is a link, btw)

That is so very wrong :smallmad:

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-15, 02:21 PM

That is so very wrong :smallmad:

Nah. ACTAUL Boy Scouts can't get it. Its for Cub Scouts.

Tiger Duck

2010-08-15, 02:39 PM

yeah, I don't know the difference ...

Thufir

2010-08-15, 02:43 PM

Cub scouts are a younger version.

Phase

2010-08-15, 03:44 PM

Now that my motion for Arbys has been carried, I say we Nuke the Sun in an attempt to get rid of global warming. Whose with me?

Arby's? Meh.

Nuking that bastard Sol? Now we're on the right track! We're gonna need a better plan, though, boyo. The Sun's already a giant fusion reaction, we aren't about to blow him with all the fiddly nuclear explosives the world has to offer. I'd say we have to go the Black Hole route...

Teddy

2010-08-15, 04:09 PM

I suggest supernova. We want "BOOM!", not some whimpy "shloorp".

Calamity

2010-08-15, 04:21 PM

We could just somehow accquire immortality and wait until the sun expires naturally.

Though I do suggest finding something to do while we wait... that won't get boring easily. :smalltongue:

Teddy

2010-08-15, 04:29 PM

We could just somehow accquire immortality and wait until the sun expires naturally.

Though I do suggest finding something to do while we wait... that won't get boring easily. :smalltongue:

"Later that evening eon..." (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0155.html)

Calamity

2010-08-15, 04:38 PM

"Later that evening eon..." (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0155.html)

Don't do that, I still have important stuff to do by the end of this eon!

Went out for another drive today with my dad, again, 95% of people who were on the road would've failed their test, I noticed. It's really quite alarming just how many people break the rules all the time.

Cobalt

2010-08-15, 04:38 PM

Goldfish crackers.

Great snack? Or the greatest snack that smiles back

KuReshtin

2010-08-15, 05:42 PM

I'm hoping that I'll be able to get out of bed tomorrow morning.
My legs don't seem to want to work too well right now.
And my ankles too.

I'm not built to ne running about for six hours straight.

Also: New Thread! Woohoo!!!

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-15, 05:53 PM

We could just somehow accquire immortality and wait until the sun expires naturally.

Though I do suggest finding something to do while we wait... that won't get boring easily. :smalltongue:

We're blowing the sun up to destroy global warming. Why else would we do it?

Play DnD? :smallbiggrin:

Dallas-Dakota

2010-08-15, 06:16 PM

You know, sometimes I write something for RB, and then I think, naaaah, just too weird. You'l freak out if I post that.:smalltongue:

I just wrote something like that and deleted it, instead posting this.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-15, 06:18 PM

Post it. Though, I've done the same before. But, not on this forum.

Dallas-Dakota

2010-08-15, 06:23 PM

And you see, this is my homebase, my normal sane forum. Even though we're all a bit insane, that's what makes this sane. And friendly and fun.

I've gotta stick in-character man!:smalltongue: Anyway, I'm off. Maaaybe, I'l post it. Sometime, ever.

...
...
...
..
It's not that weird. Eww, sick perverts.

:smalltongue:

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-15, 06:29 PM

Their (There?) was nothing wrong with your post. Besides your intentions of course.

Rawhide

2010-08-15, 09:59 PM

OMG WANT (http://www.popjolly.com/nobody-will-mess-with-you-unless-it-rains-877)

Archonic Energy

2010-08-16, 04:54 AM

OMG WANT (http://www.popjolly.com/nobody-will-mess-with-you-unless-it-rains-877)

call me back when there's an extendable lightsabre umbrella...

that gives me an idea...

Lioness

2010-08-16, 05:07 AM

KuReshtin

2010-08-16, 05:13 AM

I have a brilliant idea.

Unfortunately, I don't think it will go down too well with my Japanese class.

See, Kyoto is in the Kansai region. And I'm doing a travel thing that involves Kyoto. However, the Kansai region is also called the Kinki region.

Totally want to prefix that section of my speech with "Getting Kinki"

But I don't think my Japanese teacher would appreciate it :smallfrown:

Do it! It's too good a pun to pass up.

ION: I actually made it out of bed today, and my knees aren't as bad as I thought they'd be. I attribute that to the blessed effects of the deep freeze spray I perused quite a bit last night.

Archonic Energy

2010-08-16, 06:49 AM

ION: I actually made it out of bed today, and my knees aren't as bad as I thought they'd be. I attribute that to the blessed effects of the deep freeze spray I perused quite a bit last night.

have i laughed yet today?

Phase

2010-08-16, 07:00 AM

Alright, I'm off to the far away land of Pennsylvania! Wish me luck on my travels, I may just access this frequency at some point in the future.

KuReshtin

2010-08-16, 07:03 AM

have i laughed yet today?

As I recall it, you have laughed quite extensively today, yes.

Archonic Energy

2010-08-16, 07:06 AM

@^ hahahahahaha

ION: does anyone know if there is such a thing as a "scientific Keyboard" ie one with all the groovy symbols mapped (like Ω) to specific butons?

because i want one.

Lioness

2010-08-16, 07:12 AM

Not sure, but you can get a Periodic table (http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs635.snc3/31862_1293794868562_1341007125_686852_7292760_n.jp g).

KuReshtin

2010-08-16, 07:17 AM

Not sure, but you can get a Periodic table (http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs635.snc3/31862_1293794868562_1341007125_686852_7292760_n.jp g).

Hehehehe.. Brilliant.

Archonic Energy

2010-08-16, 07:19 AM

Not sure, but you can get a Periodic table (http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs635.snc3/31862_1293794868562_1341007125_686852_7292760_n.jp g).

that's pretty damn cool!

i found this...
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/12/19/double-keyboard/
only problem is there isn't a modern version.

ION: i'm patenting a D1 and calling it a Möbius Dice.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-16, 08:25 AM

Periodic table (http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs635.snc3/31862_1293794868562_1341007125_686852_7292760_n.jp g).

Ewww. Girl stuff.

Thufir

2010-08-16, 08:28 AM

Ewww. Girl stuff.

...What? :smallconfused: Did you actually click the link, or iust make an erroneous assumption as to what it was?

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-16, 08:30 AM

...What? :smallconfused: Did you actually click the link, or iust make an erroneous assumption as to what it was?

TV related joke. Think about it.

Fifty-Eyed Fred

2010-08-16, 09:08 AM

I assumed it was a biological joke, actually.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-16, 09:09 AM

I assumed it was a biological joke, actually.

yes, but I go it from TV

KuReshtin

2010-08-16, 09:16 AM

Ewww. Girl stuff.

TV related joke. Think about it.

:confused: I don't get it.

Archonic Energy

2010-08-16, 09:39 AM

:confused: I don't get it.

i suppose someone should tell him

BAGGSY NOT ME

PhoeKun

2010-08-16, 09:44 AM

:confused: I don't get it.

I think the joke here is that science is for girls. :smallwink:

...Ok, it really isn't, but I like it better that way. Sue me.

Neko Toast

2010-08-16, 09:48 AM

Saw this on Facebook when I woke up this morning.

[person I know]: I can understanding wanting to put out a video quickly.... but Jesuotaku from the nostalgia critic site.... is a f***ing idiot. http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/ir/jo/cd/27484-spvstw I really dislike jesuotaku. I would elaberate but honestly very few people would care.

I've spent the rest of the morning trying to resist the urge to tell this person off for bad grammar, among other things.

Quincunx

2010-08-16, 10:22 AM

[EDIT: Oh gods no, the tap water supply's gone again and I was already guzzling the stuff. I think we have bottled water left from the last time (last time?!) but my gods, clean water, it's not a luxury like the internet or dare I say it, even the power. . .]

I think the joke here is that science is for girls. :smallwink:

...Ok, it really isn't, but I like it better that way. Sue me.

Joke? My high school classroom ratios supported the idea all the way up to AP Chemistry, and then inverted. Then again, also up into AP-level there was at least two scheduled class periods for each science subject, so the boys may have been segregated into the other period. (College ratios were also supportive of the idea, but the entire student body was 2:1 female:not so the baseline itself was skewed.) For boys there were practical programs like drafting and the non-visual, noisy arts.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-16, 10:32 AM

What have I done!?

Kneenibble

2010-08-16, 12:00 PM

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-16, 12:38 PM

I just met a self-described 'specialist in mass death' doing archival research on small-town Canadian plagues. I am so glad I get to work in the archives for a couple of weeks, God bless the Academy.

*prances in the dust*

Why do you need the specialist? Planning on killing innnocent Canadians?

KuReshtin

2010-08-16, 12:52 PM

Why do you need the specialist? Planning on killing innnocent Canadians?

There are no innocent Canadians. :smallwink:

Thufir

2010-08-16, 01:02 PM

I have completely exited my student house. Now I have too much stuff. I need to get a iob so I can afford to get a flat or something.

Kneenibble

2010-08-16, 01:23 PM

There are no innocent Canadians. :smallwink:
You took the words right out of my dirty, dirty mouth.

I have completely exited my student house. Now I have too much stuff. I need to get a iob so I can afford to get a flat or something.
You are under a parental roof now? My only advice is to simplify as much as possible. Excise all junk.

"Special Collections: Unknown capes"
Box No. 1: Title: Unknown red cape
Box No. 2: Title: Unknown red cape

This job is awesome.

SpiderMew

2010-08-16, 01:26 PM

I want a cape! Can I have a blue cape?

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-16, 01:32 PM

You took the words right out of my dirty, dirty mouth.

What a perv

Lyesmith

2010-08-16, 01:37 PM

I just met a self-described 'specialist in mass death' doing archival research on small-town Canadian plagues. I am so glad I get to work in the archives for a couple of weeks, God bless the Academy.

*prances in the dust*

...You're far too jolly and frivolous around the subject matter of mass death. Been listening to The Decemberists, have we?

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-16, 02:37 PM

Hooboy.
Today has been a day of heavy lifting. The central third of the CurlyParent's wardrobe has been removed from the house entirely. It's now lurking in the back lane (whole) in the hopes that someone'll come along and nick it before we go dump tomorrow or Wednesday.
It's in good condition, and very good quality, so chances are fairly high. And it's not all that heavy as two people can carry it with ease.
'Course, the space where the central part of the wardrobe was (we split it into it's thirds years ago) now has iust under a third of my books in it.
They come up to armpit height.
And there's a bag of clothes on top.
So aside from hauling that wardrobe around and evacuating my books from Littlest Brother's room I've been rummaging through old bags of hand-me-downs shopping for new clothes.
I found a skirt I would willing wear. T-shirts, tops, a iumper and some ieans.
A good haul.
The bag of clothes on my books are the stuff that I try on again end of next month to see if I've lost enough weight to wear them.

IO(S-R)N (In Other (Semi-Related) News):
My Bibble arrived yesterday.
It's a good three inches thick! And is now officially the thickest book I own; that's right, it's even thicker than my LotR omnibus. Iust.
Which lead me onto toying how unusual a system it would be if I organised my books by thickness rather than alphabetical, genre or other.
It would be an amusing system; but quite flawed in many respects.

Keld Denar

2010-08-16, 02:39 PM

I noticed going through engineering school that most of the girls tended to gravitate toward the chemistry/biology based engineerings, while guys tended to gravitate toward the physics based engineerings. Again, my own observations.

That, and I can honestly say that in my sophomore year of college, I dated 1/3 of the girls in the Computer Science program...at the same time. It was epic.

Thufir

2010-08-16, 02:55 PM

That, and I can honestly say that in my sophomore year of college, I dated 1/3 of the girls in the Computer Science program...at the same time. It was epic.

Were there, perchance, exactly 3 girls on said program?

Keld Denar

2010-08-16, 03:03 PM

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! It sounds sooooo much cooler my way.

SpiderMew

2010-08-16, 03:04 PM

Ive always wondered, what you taste like.

Asta Kask

2010-08-16, 03:13 PM

Life became much easier once I realized that the people who write stuff like the Secret and What the Bleep are just stealing material from old Star Trek episodes.

Teddy

2010-08-16, 03:40 PM

Which lead me onto toying how unusual a system it would be if I organised my books by thickness rather than alphabetical, genre or other.
It would be an amusing system; but quite flawed in many respects.

You see flaws - I see opportunities. For example: If your house is being attacked by... giant... cockroaches, then you'll know exactly what book will do the greatest damage to their stupidly resilient bodies when you drop it on them, and won't have to spend 10 valuable seconds finding something heavy enough to use as an improvised weapon.

...
You can't call yourself a true book-nerd unless you've got Weapon Focus (books).
...
Man, I now wish to invent a martial art based around using books as weapons, and reading them aloud while fighting your opponent. My academy would be a huge library, where the young students would study the wisdom of the preceeding generations.

Please, you must help me come up with a name for it.

I noticed going through engineering school that most of the girls tended to gravitate toward the chemistry/biology based engineerings, while guys tended to gravitate toward the physics based engineerings. Again, my own observations.

I've noticed it too. While the science programme is more popular among boys in overall, the girls who're in it tend to verge towards biology/chemistry, while the boys verge towards physics/computers.

The Succubus

2010-08-16, 03:49 PM

Ive always wondered, what you taste like.

I'm guessing like mint choc chip that reaches out of the tub and strangles you with its delicious icy tentacles of death.

Thufir

2010-08-16, 03:56 PM

Pyrian

2010-08-16, 03:58 PM

Man, I now wish to invent a martial art based around using books as weapons, and reading them aloud while fighting your opponent. My academy would be a huge library, where the young students would study the wisdom of the preceeding generations.

Please, you must help me come up with a name for it.Tome Skim Do - Way of the Speeding Book :smallbiggrin:

Phase

2010-08-16, 04:30 PM

I'm guessing like mint choc chip that reaches out of the tub and strangles you with its delicious icy tentacles of death.

He tastes like madness.

Teddy

2010-08-16, 04:38 PM

That would damage the books. :smallmad: Bad Teddy.

Oh no, God Sensei forbid. The youngs students will have to go through years of training to make sure that they don't damage the books. Only the oldest, wisest and best practitioners will be allowed to use the oldest and most fragile books, which will remain unharmed even after the most heated battles. Before they reach any respectable age and abilty, they'll have to do with poor-quality teenager literature scribble.

Keld Denar

2010-08-16, 04:44 PM

Cobalt

2010-08-16, 04:44 PM

aaaaw...

There's a kitten sitting on the other end of the couch. Sitting on mah feets.

And I lieks it.

Though it may just be the fact that I'm tired and cold and hungry and this kitten makes all of these problems very much less so.

KuReshtin

2010-08-16, 04:48 PM

Though it may just be the fact that I'm tired and cold and hungry and this kitten makes all of these problems very much less so.

The kitten makes you less hungry? You planning to eat it?:smallwink::smallbiggrin:

Cobalt

2010-08-16, 04:52 PM

Apparently not.

It jumped off…

Sad face. (:smallfrown:)

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-16, 05:34 PM

You see flaws - I see opportunities. For example: If your house is being attacked by... giant... cockroaches, then you'll know exactly what book will do the greatest damage to their stupidly resilient bodies when you drop it on them, and won't have to spend 10 valuable seconds finding something heavy enough to use as an improvised weapon.

...
You can't call yourself a true book-nerd unless you've got Weapon Focus (books).
...
Man, I now wish to invent a martial art based around using books as weapons, and reading them aloud while fighting your opponent. My academy would be a huge library, where the young students would study the wisdom of the preceeding generations.

Please, you must help me come up with a name for it.

That is quite awesome. We would have to make sure there weren't any stains left on the books though.

Tome Skim Do - Way of the Speeding Book :smallbiggrin:

I endorse this name. It gives me giggles.

That would damage the books. :smallmad: Bad Teddy.

Oh no, God Sensei forbid. The youngs students will have to go through years of training to make sure that they don't damage the books. Only the oldest, wisest and best practitioners will be allowed to use the oldest and most fragile books, which will remain unharmed even after the most heated battles. Before they reach any respectable age and abilty, they'll have to do with poor-qualty teenager literature scribble.

He has a point, especially as I've iust adopted Tome Skim Do as the preferred fighting style of Koorly, GOddess of the Written Word.
Trainees start of with book imitations made of word or some other material, graduating to actual books after four to seven years of training.

*brings book overhead and attacks with decending Twilight strike*

*spins with a flourish, stepping back into Left Behind stance*

*brings book sweeping across at head level, initiating a Harry Potter block*

This Tome Skim Do...I likes it!

EDIT:

After much meditation and practice, I have devised the ultimate anti-gamer attack. BEHOLD!

*rapidly attacks with Jack Chick Dungeons of Darkness Tract Assault*

It is very effective.

*applause*

Teddy

2010-08-16, 05:53 PM

*brings book overhead and attacks with decending Twilight strike*

*spins with a flourish, stepping back into Left Behind stance*

*brings book sweeping across at head level, initiating a Harry Potter block*

This Tome Skim Do...I likes it!

EDIT:

After much meditation and practice, I have devised the ultimate anti-gamer attack. BEHOLD!

*rapidly attacks with Jack Chick Dungeons of Darkness Tract Assault*

It is very effective.

Once you advance in the art of Tome Skim Do (which is an awesome name, BTW :smallbiggrin:), you'll learn some of the more powerful techniques, using political writings and science books for strikes such as the powerful "Impact of De Motu Corporum In Gyrum" and the dreaded "Splitting of Das Kapital".

There are also the darker paths of Tome Skim Do, forbidden to study and known by few, its practitioners are evil megalomaniacs who study the world-shattering technique known as "Das Kampf of the Übermench".

Keld Denar

2010-08-16, 06:03 PM

Teddy

2010-08-16, 06:15 PM

What about more scientific persuits? I have a few engineering textbooks that, when truely unlocked for their inner and outer potential, could unleash hell.

I mean, think about it. If the book is called "Mechanics of Deformable Solids", and you struck someone with it, and it deformed their solids...wouldn't that be epic?

Of course it would! They call it the "Mechanics of Deformable Solids' Collision".

Also, in case you didn't know (which is quite probable - I had to use Wikipedia to find it), De Motu Corporum In Gyrum was a manuscript by Isaac Newton where he first explained what would later become known as Newton's law of universal gravitation.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

2010-08-16, 10:04 PM

I was watching So You Think You Can Dance Canada just now, and discovered that the hostess? The one I always thought was just the pretty slightly funny face? She's actually a dancer too. And not a bad one either. Huh.

Phase

2010-08-16, 10:08 PM

Cealocanth

2010-08-16, 10:46 PM

arguskos

2010-08-17, 12:15 AM

Jibar

2010-08-17, 03:59 AM

Thufir

2010-08-17, 07:02 AM

Oh no, God Sensei Curly forbid.

Fixed that for you.
In a couple of hours or so, I will be departing for a multiple days long party/gathering. Woo.

KuReshtin

2010-08-17, 07:25 AM

*brings book overhead and attacks with decending Twilight strike*

*spins with a flourish, stepping back into Left Behind stance*

*brings book sweeping across at head level, initiating a Harry Potter block*

This Tome Skim Do...I likes it!

EDIT:

After much meditation and practice, I have devised the ultimate anti-gamer attack. BEHOLD!

*rapidly attacks with Jack Chick Dungeons of Darkness Tract Assault*

It is very effective.

I will counter your Tome Skim Do with my Nyu-su-te. The combat art that uses rolled up news papers as implements of inducing pain to others.
The advantage of this combat style is that there are potential weapons available almost everywhere, sometimes even free.

My Nyu-su-te practitioners will best your Tome Skim Do practitioners, you mark my words!

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-17, 07:37 AM

My Leather Pants beats you all.

SpiderMew

2010-08-17, 08:28 AM

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-17, 08:29 AM

Carefull, she may wish to distroy you so that in the future, humanity cannot build a base on the moon.

We already have. It's all a conspiracy man. Elvis is their partying with MJ and JFK as we speak. :smallannoyed:

Keld Denar

2010-08-17, 10:57 AM

My Nyu-su-te practitioners will best your Tome Skim Do practitioners, you mark my words!

I don't see how this is possible, given that newspapers are an endangered species, in direct competition with the free internetz. I've NEVER bought a newspaper, and seldom even read the paper version when they were giving them away for free on campus(and then only because I was waiting for class and was between books).

Printed media as a whole is on the decline, and newspapers will be the first major casualty.

Pyrian

2010-08-17, 11:51 AM

So... Who's up for Kindle-Fu, then? :smalltongue: Or perhaps Laptopoeira?

Phase

2010-08-17, 04:44 PM

Creepy things I have discovered at University of Pennsylvania:

-Terminators (see above)
-A book bound in human skin (assume it's the Necronomicon)
-A forest that smells EXACTLY LIKE JELLY DONUTS

Dr. Bath

2010-08-17, 04:45 PM

Okay, weirdest thing ever happen this afternoon.

Alright, so I'm out of town, right? And I was eating in the middle of a random restaurant in chinatown, and when I'm leaving, someone calls my name. This girl who was in the restaurant apparently met me at a party a couple years ago through a mutual friend. We'd only met once and I didn't remember her whatsoever. And apparently we're both in town from NYC to do the same thing tomorrow morning at ten AM.

It's freakish. I think she must be a Terminator. An attractive Terminator.

Are you saying the Ah-nold is not attractive? Fie on you sir! FIE!

I think I've had slightly freakier. Basically a friend of mine was going on an surveying trip to Svalbard earlier this year, not only is he going on it but strangely another entirely unconnected friend is as well. It also turns out they are in the same group of 6. Uncanny! BUT THAT'S NOT ALL. He was trying to phone one of the coordinators for the trip about a week before he was to leave, but he did not reach the coordinator. He reached my mobile. My mobile which had got a new number the day before. A number I had not given out to anyone yet.

PRETTY WEIRD YOU GUYS.

HMS Victory smells of toast on days with fine weather, and marmite on rainy days. Yes, I have been there too often.

Dallas-Dakota

2010-08-17, 05:01 PM

Creepy things I have discovered at University of Pennsylvania:

-A forest that smells EXACTLY LIKE JELLY DONUTS
This is not creepy, this sounds cool and oddly delicious.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-17, 07:45 PM

This is not creepy, this sounds cool and oddly delicious.

If by odd, you mean awesome

randman22222

2010-08-17, 11:34 PM

Are you saying the Ah-nold is not attractive? Fie on you sir! FIE!

I think I've had slightly freakier. Basically a friend of mine was going on an surveying trip to Svalbard earlier this year, not only is he going on it but strangely another entirely unconnected friend is as well. It also turns out they are in the same group of 6. Uncanny! BUT THAT'S NOT ALL. He was trying to phone one of the coordinators for the trip about a week before he was to leave, but he did not reach the coordinator. He reached my mobile. My mobile which had got a new number the day before. A number I had not given out to anyone yet.

PRETTY WEIRD YOU GUYS.

HMS Victory smells of toast on days with fine weather, and marmite on rainy days. Yes, I have been there too often.

Whaaaat? The chances of these things happening are... No. This ceases to be chance. No.

No.

You broke my brain.

Jibar

2010-08-18, 03:27 AM

Man, as much as I was starting to like the fuzz and as much as I hate doing it, nothing beats a good clean shave.

Rawhide

2010-08-18, 03:31 AM

Man, as much as I was starting to like the fuzz and as much as I hate doing it, nothing beats a good clean shave.

Pics, or it never existed.

Jibar

2010-08-18, 03:48 AM

Pics, or it never existed.

What... the fuzz or the shave?
'cos it's hard to take photos of the past when I left my Time Travel Camera in the Renaissance.
I sure hope Leonardo Da Vinci isn't abusing the powers of his new toy.

The Succubus

2010-08-18, 03:49 AM

Meh, I hate shaving. No matter what type of blade I use I'm always left with tiny traces of stubble here and there that no amount of bladework can get rid of. Electric shavers are even worse - barely do anything =/

The most annoying bit is that my hair is receeding on top and seems to be making a bee-line for my chin. >:(

Rawhide

2010-08-18, 03:50 AM

Jibar

2010-08-18, 03:53 AM

The fuzz, or even before and after shots. Pity.

Next time I go three weeks without shaving, I'll try to remember to do this.
And by next time, I mean three weeks from now.

Quincunx

2010-08-18, 03:54 AM

What... the fuzz or the shave?
'cos it's hard to take photos of the past when I left my Time Travel Camera in the Renaissance.
I sure hope Leonardo Da Vinci isn't abusing the powers of his new toy.

And they say Caravaggio may have been the first to use the camera obscura to project an image later to be traced for a painting's cartoon. Piffle and tchah. Question is, was his left-handedness right brain strange enough to cope with the projected image being upside-down? For all we know, that flying machine may instead have been a drilling machine.

Lyesmith

2010-08-18, 05:08 AM

Shaving is my WORST ENEMY. I have thick, coarse hair which translates into ungodly razor burn. And it refuses to grow into anything decent-looking, as well.
I recently invested in an electric razor, so I just keep it basically-shaved instead of actually-shaved to offset the itch.

My cheeks are an exception. They are shaved WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE.

Recaiden

2010-08-18, 07:51 AM

Whaaaat? The chances of these things happening are... No. This ceases to be chance. No.

No.

You broke my brain.

... such that it is unlikely to happen in any one situation, but somewhere, it must have. So why not here?

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-18, 07:56 AM

Shaving is my WORST ENEMY.

Mine to, I started shaving this year, and I am cutting myself way too much. Damn my horrible dexterity. I did buy an electric razor yesterday, maybe that will solve my problems.

Archonic Energy

2010-08-18, 09:45 AM

Hello,
Good Afternoon,
and as always,
REMAIN INDOORS

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-18, 09:46 AM

Hello,
Good Afternoon,
and as always,
REMAIN INDOORS

I have (near) all summer. Except for when I was in DC for a week. It was 102 degrees :smallfurious:

Fifty-Eyed Fred

2010-08-18, 10:27 AM

Hello,
Good Afternoon,
and as always,
REMAIN INDOORS

God, imagine the Event happening again! NO! DO NOT IMAGINE THE EVENT HAPPENING AGAIN! IT WILL CAUSE DISTRESS! THE EVENT IS IN THE PAST!
*REMAIN INDOORS*

Lyesmith

2010-08-18, 11:17 AM

Dr. Bath

2010-08-18, 11:29 AM

Dammit. Gonna have to get the electrocurative chair out again. Stupid THE EVENT.

SpiderMew

2010-08-18, 11:32 AM

That show hasnt even started yet out here, has it? Or did the UK get their own The Event before we get ours?

Jibar

2010-08-18, 11:36 AM

I am making Lego video game sprites.

I have already made a Question Mark Box, and a Super Mushroom.

I have a whole bunch of red and blue left, along with a serviceable amount of yellow.

What should I make next?

Dr. Bath

2010-08-18, 11:36 AM

A very different THE EVENT (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnd1jKcfBRE)

Yesss, purchased 6 hours of delicious Oliver Postgate animation yesterday. It is the best thing of all ever.

@^ Optimus Prumblebee

Atreyu the Masked LLama

2010-08-18, 12:12 PM

I only watched one hour of NBC last night, and I am already sick to near death* of hearing about "The Event!"

*Okay, well, I did wake up with the sniffles, which I blame on THE EVENT!

^ Your "The Event" sounds more interesting.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-18, 12:18 PM

What is "the Event"?

Oh, and Chautauqua

Atreyu the Masked LLama

2010-08-18, 12:49 PM

Lyesmith

2010-08-18, 12:56 PM

I need a new topic: How can I tell if a walrus is ripe enough to be taken home?

Repeated brutal beatings with a shovel. If it ripples, the walrus is ripe.

PhoeKun

2010-08-18, 01:07 PM

I don't know if you have American TV in Atlanta or if you'd heard of a show called LOST, but it is a show that starts with a giant mystery or 8 and throughout the series, it adds more mysteries and occassionally solves some of the mysterious mysteries that are going on.

"The Event" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Event_(TV_series)) is a show on a network channel that will air tonight. It is yet another attempt to take the formula for LOST and try to turn it into another hit show.

Apparently a young man stumbles onto a government cover-up so big that it will change the face of all man-kind forever and ever, and destroy civilivations if it ever comes to light. I bet that its "The Hilton tape was faked."

I need a new topic: How can I tell if a walrus is ripe enough to be taken home?

The phrase "The Event" is quickly turning into one of those things that makes me instantly want to put my fist through something. Of course I never will, because whatever I broke would inevitably be too expensive to replace, but... gah. Most irritating advertising campaign in a long while, and without having watched a second of it I can tell you that they've already built "The Event" up into something so big that whatever it winds up being will never be able to live up to the hype in a thousand million years.

I'm not really even sure how I would have fixed that. I think it's just one of those shows that's a failed concept from day one, and they didn't have anybody on staff with the foresight to shoot it down before it reached the public.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-18, 01:08 PM

I don't live in Atlanta. No one lives in Atlanta. It was destroyed by the Nuclear Fallout 10 years ago.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-18, 01:55 PM

Supagoof

2010-08-18, 02:01 PM

I don't know if you have American TV in Atlanta or if you'd heard of a show called LOST, but it is a show that starts with a giant mystery or 8 and throughout the series, it adds more mysteries and occassionally solves some of the mysterious mysteries that are going on.

"The Event" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Event_(TV_series)) is a show on a network channel that will air tonight. It is yet another attempt to take the formula for LOST and try to turn it into another hit show.

Apparently a young man stumbles onto a government cover-up so big that it will change the face of all man-kind forever and ever, and destroy civilivations if it ever comes to light. I bet that its "The Hilton tape was faked."

I need a new topic: How can I tell if a walrus is ripe enough to be taken home?
And here you are supporting the hype! :smalltongue:

Part of me is intrigued, because it could be something cool like Heroes - where some mystery before it led into a great show (for the first season anyway. After that it went downhill....). But my intrigue is past the point of not needed to see commercials every commercial break for it, and in those ad snippets during the show that run on the bottom of the screen.

PS. Hilton was faking it during the taping - does that count? :smallamused:

Atreyu the Masked LLama

2010-08-18, 02:03 PM

Repeated brutal beatings with a shovel. If it ripples, the walrus is ripe.

Thanks! Its tuskburgers for supper tonight!!

The phrase "The Event" is quickly turning into one of those things that makes me instantly want to put my fist through something. Of course I never will, because whatever I broke would inevitably be too expensive to replace, but... gah. Most irritating advertising campaign in a long while, and without having watched a second of it I can tell you that they've already built "The Event" up into something so big that whatever it winds up being will never be able to live up to the hype in a thousand million years.

I'm not really even sure how I would have fixed that. I think it's just one of those shows that's a failed concept from day one, and they didn't have anybody on staff with the foresight to shoot it down before it reached the public.

They are trying to recapture the LOST crowd. Even from the things they've said on the Wiki, they promise to answer the mysteries. I do agree that they are hping this up so much that it can't live up to its expectations, so I wager the reveal is going to be so off the wall that its insulting to the viewer's intelligence that they are supposed to believe its plausible.

I don't live in Atlanta. No one lives in Atlanta. It was destroyed by the Nuclear Fallout 10 years ago. I swear I wrote Atlantis and Rawhide snuck in and changed my post.

And for the record, yes, the creatures living in the web would eventually descend to devour us all in a rather upsetting manner.

It won't be that upsetting. The melodious songs of his web will have lulled us all into a passive trancelike state. It will be like being dissolved from the insides in your sleep.

And here you are supporting the hype! :smalltongue:

That's why we've moved the conversation to smacking walrus with a shovel and how pleasant it is to be eaten by a space spider.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-18, 02:05 PM

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-18, 02:13 PM

It won't be that upsetting. The melodious songs of his web will have lulled us all into a passive trancelike state. It will be like being dissolved from the insides in your sleep.

It's a series of webs. Those web that house colonies of spiders - there can be over ten thousandof those spiders in one colony.
So we're talking about eighty five thousand space spider about to eat us all.
I do like the trance theory though.
But it'd be funner somehow if it merely paralysed you, and then you kind of suffered from locked-in syndrome, so you would see and distantly feel what was happening. Being perfectly aware of it the entire time.

What are yoou talking about?

About a species of colonial spiders that live on crystalline webs that drift throught the universe destroying evrything in their path as they migrate from galaxy to galaxy in search of new prey.
So it seems they would sing.
So the distant ringing that you hear sometimes?
That's the spiders,laying their traps and floating down to the surface of this green land in silken parachutes, awaiting for the chord that will end us and all life on this planet.
Whether or not water-dwellers will be spared is undecided at this time.

Duh.

Atreyu the Masked LLama

2010-08-18, 02:28 PM

It's a series of webs. Those web that house colonies of spiders - there can be over ten thousandof those spiders in one colony.
So we're talking about eighty five thousand space spider about to eat us all.
I do like the trance theory though.
But it'd be funner somehow if it merely paralysed you, and then you kind of suffered from locked-in syndrome, so you would see and distantly feel what was happening. Being perfectly aware of it the entire time.

About a species of colonial spiders that live on crystalline webs that drift throught the universe destroying evrything in their path as they migrate from galaxy to galaxy in search of new prey.
So it seems they would sing.
So the distant ringing that you hear sometimes?
That's the spiders,laying their traps and floating down to the surface of this green land in silken parachutes, awaiting for the chord that will end us and all life on this planet.
Whether or not water-dwellers will be spared is undecided at this time.

Duh.

If the spiders can survive the vaccuum of space, I imagine that water wouldn't be a problem, unless they severly hamper the spider's manuverability.

Hmmmm...I thought we were talking about 1 ultra giant big spider the size of Kilomanjaro, but I think I could survive 85,000 smaller ones. I have some experience fighting giant spider hordes after "The Event." Although the thought of being paralyzed and feeling everything really creeps me out. :smalleek::smalleek:

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-18, 03:00 PM

If the spiders can survive the vaccuum of space, I imagine that water wouldn't be a problem, unless they severly hamper the spider's manuverability.

Hmmmm...I thought we were talking about 1 ultra giant big spider the size of Kilomanjaro, but I think I could survive 85,000 smaller ones. I have some experience fighting giant spider hordes after "The Event." Although the thought of being paralyzed and feeling everything really creeps me out. :smalleek::smalleek:

Space isn't exactly water though, so while it would impede a spider's manoueverability, probably not enough to Save the Seals, Whales, Sharks or Dolphins. The deep sea pressure may preserve life though.

Well, eighty five thousand small space-spiders would still be fairly big.
If they can survive your years floating amiably through space, maybe the size of a human? Certainly not much bigger than a house at any rate.

I'm glad you appreciate my creepy death scenario, there's nothing more terrifying than seeing something happening to your body, but not actually being present enough to feel it properly or do anything about it.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-18, 03:04 PM

I swear I wrote Atlantis and Rawhide snuck in and changed my post.

Ohhhh. Living in Atlantis would make much more sense. Silly Rawhide changing posts so they don't make any sense.

Lyesmith

2010-08-18, 03:11 PM

I'm glad you appreciate my creepy death scenario, there's nothing more terrifying than seeing something happening to your body, but not actually being present enough to feel it properly or do anything about it.

Related : Mitchell & Webb's sherlock holmes sketch.:smallfrown:

So, results day tomorrow. Scared. So scared.

SpiderMew

2010-08-18, 03:24 PM

If, in thirty years, the small crystalline spider webs that drift through the blueness of space with nary a whisper approach this miniscule and insignificant part of the universe, intent on entrapping us in all in their etheral rainbowing beauty, do you think it's possible they would sing?
Crystals resonate and sing if struck after all.
But there's no sound in space.

Now, it's obvious that the crystal webs would resonate given the high amount of space rubbish in orbit around us; but at what point would the non-sound of space become the sound of an atmosphere?

Yes, this is quite inspired by that episode in TNG. No. I don't know why I started thinking of it.
I was writing a story, and got stuck on a detail. And now I've lost track of the plot - and in fact, the entire story - but whimsical and odd minds wish to know.

And for the record, yes, the creatures living in the web would eventually descend to devour us all in a rather upsetting manner.

In space they might not resonate with a sound, but perhaps solar winds would cause a unique frequency to be broadcast that could be picked up by highend recevers. Vibration dosnt strickly cause sounds, it can cause radio signals, infact thats how radiowaves are put out, vibrations.
So a supercomplex living crystal creature, should put out some sort of frequency, even if we dont have the equipment to hear it yet.

The Succubus

2010-08-18, 03:30 PM

See medicine thread re: arachnatherapy.

Kneenibble

2010-08-18, 03:53 PM

In space they might not resonate with a sound, but perhaps solar winds would cause a unique frequency to be broadcast that could be picked up by highend recevers. Vibration dosnt strickly cause sounds, it can cause radio signals, infact thats how radiowaves are put out, vibrations.
So a supercomplex living crystal creature, should put out some sort of frequency, even if we dont have the equipment to hear it yet.

The man speaks wisdom.

Apropos this very idea, NASA recorded the EM frequencies of various planets, and converted them -- I know not how -- into audible sound. The result is strange and haunting music with deep and subtle patterns.

Lyesmith

2010-08-18, 03:56 PM

The man speaks wisdom.

Apropos this very idea, NASA recorded the EM frequencies of various planets, and converted them -- I know not how -- into audible sound. The result is strange and haunting music with deep and subtle patterns.

Alas, poor Pluto.

Kneenibble

2010-08-18, 03:58 PM

Lyesmith

2010-08-18, 04:02 PM

I don't think they did Pluto actually, although this was before the poor chthonic bastard was demoted.

I still like Pluto. My third act as Supreme Ruler will be re-instating it.

Dr. Bath

2010-08-18, 04:06 PM

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-18, 04:07 PM

In space they might not resonate with a sound, but perhaps solar winds would cause a unique frequency to be broadcast that could be picked up by highend recevers. Vibration doesn't strickly cause sounds, it can cause radio signals, in fact that's how radiowaves are put out, vibrations.
So a supercomplex living crystal creature should put out some sort of frequency, even if we dont have the equipment to hear it yet.

That makes sense, I never really understood the concept of solar winds (science is not a strong point of mine).
So would other alien species and planets be able to pick up these vibrations or no?

The man speaks wisdom.

Apropos this very idea, NASA recorded the EM frequencies of various planets, and converted them -- I know not how -- into audible sound. The result is strange and haunting music with deep and subtle patterns.

Ooooh, any links?
And now I have an answer of sorts to my question ^. Planets could pick up the spider vibrations.

Alas, poor Pluto.

Alas, poor Pluto, I knew him Iupiter.

I don't think they did Pluto actually, although this was before the poor chthonic bastard was demoted.

Not to mention many people believe he was named after Mickey's dog.
Pluto's situation couldn't get any worse unless we suddenly reclassified him as a very large asteroid.
Or possibly that it's Charon which is the dwarf planet, and Pluto the moon.

Dr. Bath

2010-08-18, 04:13 PM

I don't think they did Pluto actually, although this was before the poor chthonic bastard was demoted.

edit
In perusing an accounts book from 1900 at work today, I found between the pages a few loose papers fastened with a pin that has turned to rust and stained the pages between which it is sandwiched. What is correct, to remove the pin and save further damage to the paper, or keep it the way it is for ... I don't know, historical accuracy?

Best to remove it I think. You could put it in a little bag and store it along with the loose papers, for completions sake.

Rusty pins are pretty cool though. Actually most rusty stuff. As long as you're not, say, relying on it to hold your weight or not kill you or something.

Kneenibble

2010-08-18, 04:15 PM

I still like Pluto. My third act as Supreme Ruler will be re-instating it.
Sir, I foresee tyrant madness the likes of Mr. Burns and his casino and the Spruce Moose incident.

Ooooh, any links?
And now I have an answer of sorts to my question ^. Planets could pick up the spider vibrations.
Jupiter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3fqE01YYWs) is my favourite. Amazon.com has .mp3s for sale, although being the rebel dredges that they are, they won't sell digital music to Canada.

Best to remove it I think. You could put it in a little bag and store it along with the loose papers, for completions sake.

Rusty pins are pretty cool though. Actually most rusty stuff. As long as you're not, say, relying on it to hold your weight or not kill you or something.
That's a good idea, and I agree about rust. Although now I'm going to have to caress it with my salad fingers and creep out the poor student assistant at the next desk.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-18, 04:23 PM

On the topic of haunting music, if you slow down Justin Bieber 800% you get... this (http://soundcloud.com/shamantis/j-biebz-u-smile-800-slower). An etheric journey through sound. (note: it is quite long)

I have no idea who this chap is, but that's very pretty music that.

Best to remove it I think. You could put it in a little bag and store it along with the loose papers, for completions sake.

Rusty pins are pretty cool though. Actually most rusty stuff. As long as you're not, say, relying on it to hold your weight or not kill you or something.

Not to mention tetanus.
Best thing to do is to put it in a bag with a little note saying where the pin was found. Posterity and all.

EDIT:
I also think that rust can harm books.
*headdesk*
Foxed. The book will become more foxed. And being foxed is a bad thing.
Plus eventually the decay will allow you to get high from the old books.

Jupiter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3fqE01YYWs) is my favourite. Amazon.com has .mp3s for sale, although being the rebel dredges that they are, they won't sell digital music to Canada.

More prettiness. Iupiter sounds a lot like Bieber actually.
Therefore: Bieber is from Iupiter.

My logic is impeccable.

Teddy

2010-08-18, 04:34 PM

If, in thirty years, the small crystalline spider webs that drift through the blueness of space with nary a whisper approach this miniscule and insignificant part of the universe, intent on entrapping us in all in their etheral rainbowing beauty, do you think it's possible they would sing?
Crystals resonate and sing if struck after all.
But there's no sound in space.

Now, it's obvious that the crystal webs would resonate given the high amount of space rubbish in orbit around us; but at what point would the non-sound of space become the sound of an atmosphere?

I see that Spidermew already has given some mumbo-jumbo pseudoscience answer to this (:rolleyes::smalltongue:), but I can at least say that sound waves requires that molecules hit molecules for the sound to spread. In vacuum, there's obviously nothing to hit, but when there starts to be a thin atmosphere, molecules will start hitting (on*) eachother, and soundwaves can spread. The denser the atmosphere, the easier will it be to hit something, allowing the sound to travel faster and, since there will be more molecules to start the chain with, be louder.

*Sorry, I just had to sneak that in there for the giggles. :smallwink:

More prettiness. Iupiter sounds a lot like Bieber actually.
Therefore: Bieber is from Iupiter.

My logic is impeccable.

We'll have to speed Jupiter up 800% and see if they still sound like each other. For SCIENCE!

Lyesmith

2010-08-18, 04:46 PM

We'll have to speed Jupiter up 800% and see if they still sound like each other. For SCIENCE!

Bieber slowed 800% is apparently extremely epic.

Teddy

2010-08-18, 05:20 PM

Bieber slowed 800% is apparently extremely epic.

Yeah, I listened through the entire song. It's over half an hour long (I was doing other stuff while listening), and at the end feels like it doesn't actually have an ending, because everytime you think it ends, it starts again. But yeah, it's epic. :smallbiggrin:

EDIT: Started listening to the original song, and it certainly isn't epic. This poses a new question: Will slowing down any song by 800% automatically make it epic no matter what song it is, or are there exceptions?

Phase

2010-08-18, 05:37 PM

I would think that the space-spiders, once finished with all life on the planet, would move on to consume the very crust, leaving the body itself to drift apart. Of course this is a more terrifying situation for me, because then this web would affect me as well.

I'm glad you appreciate my creepy death scenario, there's nothing more terrifying than seeing something happening to your body, but not actually being present enough to feel it properly or do anything about it.

Yeah. That's what I assume happens to victims of Headcrabs, they can feel and sense everything, they just don't have any control as their body is mutilated and they beat their friends to death with their bare hands.

SpiderMew

2010-08-18, 07:31 PM

That makes sense, I never really understood the concept of solar winds (science is not a strong point of mine).
So would other alien species and planets be able to pick up these vibrations or no?

I would say yes. Perhaps if there was some sort of muti-species, space faring society, the signal caused by those creatures and their crystalline structure would end up becoming some cosmic legend, as a warning of their approach.

What if such creatures were drawn towards the radio and television type frequency's we use today. Any race that develops radio or television technology and doesn't keep the signals from going out into space, draws their attention. What if they feed on it?

Fifty-Eyed Fred

2010-08-19, 02:07 AM

Who's happy with his A-level results?

English Lit - A*
History - A*
German - A*

Yep, I'm happy with my A-level results. /gloat

The Succubus

2010-08-19, 02:26 AM

Grats on the A*-Level results Fred :smallbiggrin:

Jupiter is one of the weaker songs from The Planets, at least in my opinion. It goes on for too long and doesn't really stick to a theme, unlike Mars, with its thundering horns or Neptune with it's cold and distant twinkling sounds. Neptune is probably my favourite.

Lyesmith

2010-08-19, 02:30 AM

Who's happy with his A-level results?

English Lit - A*
History - A*
German - A*

Yep, I'm happy with my A-level results. /gloat

Swot!

But I don't care what I actually got.
I GOT INTO SUSSEX I HAVE NEVER BEEN THIS OVERJOYED!:biggrin:

Fifty-Eyed Fred

2010-08-19, 02:45 AM

Swot!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KnfQgPpM2eg/So3Ea_MOinI/AAAAAAAAARY/hs_QJBEnXQU/s320/Awesome+Face.png
I'm going to Exeter. I am very happy indeed.

Rawhide

2010-08-19, 03:07 AM

Fifty-Eyed Fred: tvtropes does not allow hotlinking of images.

Fifty-Eyed Fred

2010-08-19, 03:10 AM

Fifty-Eyed Fred: tvtropes does not allow hotlinking of images.

Bah, I only used it because it was the first one that showed up on Google Images. I'll fix it.

Edit: There. Awesome.

randman22222

2010-08-19, 03:36 AM

Archonic Energy

2010-08-19, 04:29 AM

God, imagine the Event happening again! NO! DO NOT IMAGINE THE EVENT HAPPENING AGAIN! IT WILL CAUSE DISTRESS! THE EVENT IS IN THE PAST!
*REMAIN INDOORS*

AHHH
AHHHHHH
AHHH
THE EVENT AHHHH

REMAIN INDOORS REMAIN INDOORS REMAIN INDOORS
UNLESS INFECTED

Dammit. Gonna have to get the electrocurative chair out again. Stupid THE EVENT.
YES,

A very different THE EVENT (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnd1jKcfBRE)

Scratching only makes it worse

^ Your "The Event" sounds more interesting.
DO NOT THINK ABOUT THE EVENT

Related : Mitchell & Webb's sherlock holmes sketch.:smallfrown:

i know watson... i know. the fog...
:smallfrown:

Anyway ION:

Sorry, I just had to sneak that in there for the giggles. :smallwink:

methinks it's time for some out of context quoting!

KuReshtin

2010-08-19, 05:11 AM

Congratulations, guys. :smallbiggrin:

I suppose I'm not allowed to celebrate my getting into Strathclyde quite as joyously as you guys, seeing as I was only switching unis, not getting into one? :smalltongue:

You can still celebrate it.
Also, if you'll be in the neighbourhood at around the UKitP winter meet, you can tag along to that as well.
That's always a joyous occasion. :smallsmile:

randman22222

2010-08-19, 05:16 AM

You can still celebrate it.
Also, if you'll be in the neighbourhood at around the UKitP winter meet, you can tag along to that as well.
That's always a joyous occasion. :smallsmile:

Yes. This would be awesome! :smallbiggrin:

When does it usually happen? I have to plan out my flights way ahead of time... :smallsigh:

Archonic Energy

2010-08-19, 05:23 AM

the date hasn't been "decided" yet
we usually end up with a mega large table with everyone's available dates and go for the one that has the most yesses

Rawhide

2010-08-19, 06:20 AM

If you notice this notice you will soon notice that this notice is a notice that was not worth noticing at all.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-19, 06:42 AM

My mom has some random German friend coming over for the next two days. Should I avoid watching Fawlty Towers?

KuReshtin

2010-08-19, 06:48 AM

My mom has some random German friend coming over for the next two days. Should I avoid watching Fawlty Towers?

I don't see how watching the episode with the Germans would in any way increase the possibility of you making an inappropriate comment, since you already know about the episode in question and have thought about it.

Lioness

2010-08-19, 06:50 AM

My family made me eat cake.

Now I'm sad, because cake is the last thing I need right now.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-19, 06:54 AM

I don't see how watching the episode with the Germans would in any way increase the possibility of you making an inappropriate comment, since you already know about the episode in question and have thought about it.

True, true. Have you seen Valkyrie? Surprisingly good movie.

My family made me eat cake.

Now I'm sad, because cake is the last thing I need right now.

B-But it's cake. How can you not want it.

Lioness

2010-08-19, 06:59 AM

B-But it's cake. How can you not want it.

Because I'm attempting to not get fat. Also, it was ice cream and cream cake. And I don't like cream, and only like ice cream when it's not absolutely freezing!

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-19, 07:08 AM

Because I'm attempting to not get fat. Also, it was ice cream and cream cake. And I don't like cream, and only like ice cream when it's not absolutely freezing!

Then just eat the cake. Not wanting to be fat isn't a reason not to eat cake. Do exercise later and eat veggies, just don't skip on the cake. Unless the cake is a lie. Then you should skip on the cake.

Teddy

2010-08-19, 07:41 AM

I woke up half past twelve in the afternoon today. That should be a new record for me. I feel like such a rebel. :smallbiggrin:

A minor problem, however, is that school starts at Monday, and I need to kick back my sleep scedule at least 3 hours until then. :smallwink:

ION: Littlest brother came home from school due to illness and now he's making repeated trips between the couch and the toilet. Poor guy - I certainly don't miss being sick in my younger days.

EDIT:

Unless the cake is a lie. Then you should skip on the cake.

You know, I've always wondered what lies taste like. I've imagined it as licorice with a sort of sour aftertaste, but I'm not sure about that.

KuReshtin

2010-08-19, 07:42 AM

True, true. Have you seen Valkyrie? Surprisingly good movie.

I actually haven't seen it yet.
I have it on DVD at home, just not got round to watching it.
I've got a whole bunch of DVDs that i've not got round to watching, and then they've started showing on TV, so I don't need to bring out the DVD to watch it.

I procrastinate a lot.

Archonic Energy

2010-08-19, 08:13 AM

I procrastinate a lot.

yeah you d.... meh i'll finish that later

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-19, 10:21 AM

CONGRATS FRED!

Yeah, I got nothing else now, except you know, envy.

Oh, and this site is apparently the only thing I can access on the internet aside from Google's homepage and the MSN newspage.
Woo.

Here's hoping I can post, as I've tried restarting, I'm actually on MSN, so it's not anything MSN's picking up, I've tried everything.
I'mma go screem noaw.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-19, 10:23 AM

I actually haven't seen it yet.
I have it on DVD at home, just not got round to watching it.
I've got a whole bunch of DVDs that i've not got round to watching, and then they've started showing on TV, so I don't need to bring out the DVD to watch it.

I procrastinate a lot.

Watch it. I mean, why waste your money on DVDs if you aren't going to going to watch them?

PhoeKun

2010-08-19, 10:26 AM

Watch it. I mean, why waste your money on DVDs if you aren't going to going to watch them?

Drink coasters? Clay pigeons? Frisbees? Amusing stoned people? Really tacky chandeliers? Ineffective wind chimes? To microwave it and observe the plasma?

The list goes on. If I bought Valkyrie, the last reason would be so that I could watch it.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-19, 10:30 AM

Watch it. I mean, why waste your money on DVDs if you aren't going to going to watch them?

Because sometimes there's always something else to watch, or do. Or maybe you're saving it for a special occasion.
There're always reasons why x can't be read or watched at this specifice moment in time.

However, Troll, I do recommend that you watch Fawlty Towers, especially the German episode.
ANd for the record, Fawlty Towers is very popular in Germany, so watch the frellin' episode!
Or use headphones. Put it on your laptop or computer and isolate yourself away from the world while you watch hilarious British comedy from the late 1970s.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-19, 10:36 AM

Because sometimes there's always something else to watch, or do. Or maybe you're saving it for a special occasion.
There're always reasons why x can't be read or watched at this specifice moment in time.

Curses. Foiled again.

However, Troll, I do recommend that you watch Fawlty Towers, especially the German episode.
ANd for the record, Fawlty Towers is very popular in Germany, so watch the frellin' episode!
Or use headphones. Put it on your laptop or computer and isolate yourself away from the world while you watch hilarious British comedy from the late 1970s.

AtlanteanTroll to you. Billy Joel knows all, and then some. Also, I can't put it on my laptop. I'm far too stupid to know how.

EDIT: Am I the ony one scared of Mr. Popo?

Kneenibble

2010-08-19, 11:29 AM

EDIT:
I also think that rust can harm books.
*headdesk*
Foxed. The book will become more foxed. And being foxed is a bad thing.
Plus eventually the decay will allow you to get high from the old books.

Foxing, unless I am badly mistaken, is the mysterious discolouration of paper over time -- I do not think a purely mechanical discolouration such as the slowly bleeding stain from a rusty pin would be called foxing. Am I wrong?

I do, however, have access to a lot of old books until September: please instruct me how to get high from them.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-19, 11:36 AM

Foxing, unless I am badly mistaken, is the mysterious discolouration of paper over time -- I do not think a purely mechanical discolouration such as the slowly bleeding stain from a rusty pin would be called foxing. Am I wrong?

The reason it's called FOXing is because of Ferrous Oxide - rust. So I'm assuming concentrated foxing would be bad as it discolours the paper and can lead to damage being easier to cause.
WHile the rusting pin damage isn't technically foxing, I don't think I'm too wrong in assuming that it would be similar.

I do, however, have access to a lot of old books until September: please instruct me how to get high from them.

QI says that when books et older, discoloured and a bit tatty there are certain spores that can be given off by the books.
These spores are hallucinogenic.
It would probably take a fair amount of exposure, but it is theoretically possible. It's another theory for the weird and tippy poetry and literature some writers end up producing.

Kneenibble

2010-08-19, 11:57 AM

The reason it's called FOXing is because of Ferrous Oxide - rust. So I'm assuming concentrated foxing would be bad as it discolours the paper and can lead to damage being easier to cause.
WHile the rusting pin damage isn't technically foxing, I don't think I'm too wrong in assuming that it would be similar.

I don't think it's that simple, if you'll please pardon my making an issue of it:

Two significant differences between foxed and clean areas of a paper are the higher proportion of acid and iron in the former, although there does not seem to be any clear and definitive relationship between iron and foxing. (Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books (http://cool.conservation-us.org/don/dt/dt1434.html))

However, since you'll likely find me face-first in some ratty centenarian accounting ledgers in the next few days trying to catch a buzz, my credibility is pretty low.

SpiderMew

2010-08-19, 12:00 PM

I don't think it's that simple, if you'll please pardon my making an issue of it:

However, since you'll likely find me face-first in some ratty centenarian accounting ledgers in the next few days trying to catch a buzz, my credibility is pretty low.

Dude if you really want a good trip, i can hook you up :smallwink:
You got to come down here though lol.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-19, 12:10 PM

Down here being Australia, Mexico, or somewhere else?

Kneenibble

2010-08-19, 12:15 PM

Dude if you really want a good trip, i can hook you up :smallwink:
You got to come down here though lol.
I do not doubt you for a minute, sweet SpiderMew, but I have a feeling I would burn out like a star down there, or at least get eaten alive.

SpiderMew

2010-08-19, 12:29 PM

Los Angeles.

You would get plently of opportunities to pratice self controll :smalltongue:

Phase

2010-08-19, 01:36 PM

Oh, hey, Curls, I found something at Princeton that I thought you'd enjoy.

Apparently they have six libraries on campus, the main library being Firestone, which is three stories high, has three sub-basement levels, spans underneath the whole campus for about 500 meters, and contains 6.8 million books.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-19, 01:44 PM

I don't think it's that simple, if you'll please pardon my making an issue of it:

Originally Posted by foxing
Two significant differences between foxed and clean areas of a paper are the higher proportion of acid and iron in the former, although there does not seem to be any clear and definitive relationship between iron and foxing. (Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books (http://cool.conservation-us.org/don/dt/dt1434.html))

However, since you'll likely find me face-first in some ratty centenarian accounting ledgers in the next few days trying to catch a buzz, my credibility is pretty low.

Well, I'm certainly not known for my skills in science, in fact, I'd call them mediocre at best.
And yet there's this show called The Big Bang Theory that I've only iust started watching; it's supposedly very geeky, especially when it comes to science and math etc.
I can understand more than seventy-five percent of the science/math based iokes.
But I digress, that's a lovely site and I shall be nicking it. Wish my course offered that kind of thing, they kind of almost do, but not really. Which is a shame. A crying one.

Oh, hey, Curls, I found something at Princeton that I thought you'd enjoy.

Apparently they have six libraries on campus, the main library being Firestone, which is three stories high, has three sub-basement levels, spans underneath the whole campus for about 500 meters, and contains 6.8 million books.

^_^
I love places with big libraries; how'd you find out about it?
Also, I know Princeton is on the east coast of Trogland, and apparently somewhere near the home of a certain kind of cheesecake, but I know not exactly where.
So where is it?

When I come to Trogland for whatever reason I intend to visit some libraries or universities.
Heh, I'm tempted to do some silly.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-19, 01:49 PM

T-Trogland? WTF is Trogland.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-19, 01:53 PM

T-Trogland? WTF is Trogland.

Trogland is Trogland.

It's where Trog lives.

It is the land in which Trog has lived.

That is what Trogland is.

Trogland is where Trog may be found.

KuReshtin

2010-08-19, 01:57 PM

Watch it. I mean, why waste your money on DVDs if you aren't going to going to watch them?

Who said I wasted money on it? :smallwink:

When I buy DVDs, I tend to buy three or four at a time, often trawling through bargain bins for older films that I liked before DVDs weren't available, and that have now been released on DVD.

Then I maybe watch one of them, and leave the other lying about for ages.

T-Trogland? WTF is Trogland.

Also, mind your language, please. There are minors about.

Keld Denar

2010-08-19, 02:03 PM

Koorly, Big Bang Theory is amazing! I'm glad you like it. Jim Parson (the guy who plays Sheldon) is up for a couple awards. Plus, the gal in it is HAWT! Almost all of the humor is math/science/engineering/comic/videogame based, with all of the lovely subcultural steroetypes that comes with them. Nearly all of the characters, despite being rather over-the-top, are still endearing and relatable.

Also, huge libraries are awesome. Getting lost in the stacks with a special someone is a great way to spend an evening!

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-19, 02:16 PM

Who said I wasted money on it? :smallwink:

When I buy DVDs, I tend to buy three or four at a time, often trawling through bargain bins for older films that I liked before DVDs weren't available, and that have now been released on DVD.

Then I maybe watch one of them, and leave the other lying about for ages.

Wheeee! We do the same. We've got so many weird films lurking around that it's a wonder you can find the film you wanted to find.

Koorly, Big Bang Theory is amazing! I'm glad you like it. Jim Parson (the guy who plays Sheldon) is up for a couple awards. Plus, the gal in it is HAWT! Almost all of the humor is math/science/engineering/comic/videogame based, with all of the lovely subcultural steroetypes that comes with them. Nearly all of the characters, despite being rather over-the-top, are still endearing and relatable.

Also, huge libraries are awesome. Getting lost in the stacks with a special someone is a great way to spend an evening!

I swear Sheldon has Aspie's. Or something similar to it.
But he is funny anyway, especially his Spock technobabble speech. And he has a fun singing voice.
Penny is pretty hot, I recognise her from that 8 Simple Rules show I've seen once or twice. I like the contrast between academic smarts and normal smarts.
And a comedy about geeks is a fun thing. Especially the humour. And the stereotypes.
Stereotypes are good fun.

I've never been lost in a large library, I've iust never been able to. Plus the stacks are veyr hard to find.
Can't see the stacks for the books.

Phase

2010-08-19, 02:19 PM

^_^
I love places with big libraries; how'd you find out about it?
Also, I know Princeton is on the east coast of Trogland, and apparently somewhere near the home of a certain kind of cheesecake, but I know not exactly where.
So where is it?

When I come to Trogland for whatever reason I intend to visit some libraries or universities.
Heh, I'm tempted to do some silly.

Princeton is in New Jersey. The tour guide I had said the only concern for her own safety she ever had on Princeton's campus was getting lost in the basement of Firestone.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-19, 02:22 PM

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-19, 02:24 PM

Princeton is in New Jersey. The tour guide I had said the only concern for her own safety she ever had on Princeton's campus was getting lost in the basement of Firestone.

. . .

This university has tours. It has a large, large library.
Hello Princeton.
Hello Princeton Tour Guide.
What? This camping set? Well, I'm going camping with some of my friends, I hope you don't mind me carrying it around.
Oh, so this is the library is it? It's very big isn't it.
What's that over th-

Goooooodbyyyyyyeeeee Princeton Tour Guide.
:smallsmile:

So do all unis offer tours then? Because only some of the older ones offer them in Britland.

Keld Denar

2010-08-19, 02:26 PM

I've never been lost in a large library, I've iust never been able to. Plus the stacks are veyr hard to find.

You obviously haven't been trying hard enough, or with the right company! :smalltongue:

EDIT: The funny thing is, I've seen interviews with the guy who plays Sheldon (Jim Parson), and he said he barely understands any of the stuff, either physics related or geek culture related. Most of it her just memorizes. Which is pretty remarkable acting, if you ask me. Really rediculously remarkable acting, considering how well he pulls it off!

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-19, 02:26 PM

Genious.

Genius is not that. Clever thinking yes, but genius no.

*Opens and closes mouth like a fish*

I. Who. What. But. Thats why it's an abbreviation. :smallannoyed:

A very common one which is easily understood.
I also think you might need to be taught that understated Britlander humour.
It's understated.
And Britlandish.

And shut your mouth before you swallow a fly.

EDIT:

You obviously haven't been trying hard enough, or with the right company! :smalltongue:

I no has girlfriend. I has no boyfriend.

And down here I has no friends with whom I can get lost in a library with. And the libraries are pants.

EDIT EDIT in response to Keld's EDIT:
That is very good acting then. I'm more impressed with the meorisation skills though as some of the things he has to say at CrAzY Sheldon paces are very complicated.
Plus his looks and acts of condescension and derision are gold. As are his attemps at social acting.
Also painfully embarrassing in a way that has you cringing.
*nodnod*

Keld Denar

2010-08-19, 02:31 PM

And the libraries are pants diamonds.

I'm on a horse!

Doo do doo do do dododo! Old Spice guy strikes again!

Phase

2010-08-19, 02:31 PM

I have a friend who uses the first two letters of the abbreviation, then stops abbreviating. I once asked him "What's the point of abbreviating at all if you're just gonna curse?" He replied that it was faster.

Anyway, Curls, I don't know how often they have tours, but it's easy enough to just go there and get access to the library for visiting or research purposes.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-19, 02:32 PM

Genius is not that. Clever thinking yes, but genius no.

Bahumbug.

A very common one which is easily understood.
I also think you might need to be taught that understated Britlander humour.
It's understated.
And Britlandish.

Yes. So? It wasn't direct, and if you understand it you understand it. If you don't know the word, you wont. And isn't Monty Python British humor? It's not under-stated at all.

And shut your mouth before you swallow a fly.

*Blinks* No. You aren't my mother. Are you?

KuReshtin

2010-08-19, 02:33 PM

Wheeee! We do the same. We've got so many weird films lurking around that it's a wonder you can find the film you wanted to find.

This is true. I have a whole bag full of DVDs that I got from a colleague when he moved back to Sweden. He was giving them away to a guy that was just going to go to Cash Converter and sell them, so I got to go through them and found a whole heap of films.
They're still in the same bag that I got them home in, almost four months later.

I swear Sheldon has Aspie's. Or something similar to it.
But he is funny anyway, especially his Spock technobabble speech. And he has a fun singing voice.
Penny is pretty hot, I recognise her from that 8 Simple Rules show I've seen once or twice. I like the contrast between academic smarts and normal smarts.
And a comedy about geeks is a fun thing. Especially the humour. And the stereotypes.
Stereotypes are good fun.

Big Bang Theory is great. The geeky stereotypes are so over the top, and yet so fitting to the characters.
And yes, Penny is HAWT!

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-19, 03:03 PM

I'm on a horse!

Doo do doo do do dododo! Old Spice guy strikes again!

And I am the walrus. Koo koo. Ka choo.

Also, the libraries in my local area are pants. To call them diamonds would be an insult to the ferns from which the diamonds came.

Anyway, Curls, I don't know how often they have tours, but it's easy enough to just go there and get access to the library for visiting or research purposes.

A happy Goddess is a good thing.
*bestows blessings upon*

Yes. So? It wasn't direct, and if you understand it you understand it. If you don't know the word, you won't. And isn't Monty Python British humor? It's not under-stated at all.

Eh?
I was exercising understated British humour there. And tautologies.

Also: Python runs the gamut of humour. From understated and subtle to . . . well, asplosions, beating people up with fish, grannies mugging people and the Inquisition.
You can't classify Python. That is why there is now the term 'Pythonesque'.

*Blinks* No. You aren't my mother. Are you?

Perhaps.
And no need to get needlessly antagonistic.

This is true. I have a whole bag full of DVDs that I got from a colleague when he moved back to Sweden. He was giving them away to a guy that was just going to go to Cash Converter and sell them, so I got to go through them and found a whole heap of films.
They're still in the same bag that I got them home in, almost four months later.

Amazon or charity shops for us. I think I've even got a version of Amelie from Sweden - it comes with default Swedish subtitles.

Big Bang Theory is great. The geeky stereotypes are so over the top, and yet so fitting to the characters.
And yes, Penny is HAWT!

I'm not normally a fan of blondes, but I'd date Penny. She's got a great personality, is still quite smart and she has a bleddy great sense of humour. Plus she's actually geeky and honestly, if she hangs around with those four, she's probably assimilated a lot of 'smart knowledge'.
I also like how the four play into the stereotypes and define four levels of geek.
The 'realistic geek' aka Leonard.
The quintessential geek aka Sheldon.
The hopelessly deluded geek aka Howard and
The shy foreign geek aka Raj.
Shame about the lack of female scientists. Or,you know, females who aren't love interests or Penny. But I see why they did it.
STEREOTYPES! :smallsmile:

Jibar

2010-08-19, 03:35 PM

Ignoring making any comment on how appalling I think Big Bang Theory is so as to keep my conspiracy theorist side out:

Man, friends and the Playground.
At Uni, since I made friends so gradually and didn't get on with my housemates, I became way more involved here and got really into the Steam community and such like. Since I got home, talking to my friends it's been like:
"Oh, there was this really funny comment on- well, you don't read it."
"Man, you shoulda seen this weird thread that- oh, uh, nevermind..."
"I was talking to BlackFox last night and it was like- yeah, you don't know her... actually..."
"So I was playing with... right. Let's not even try there."
I mean, Playgrounders are like my biggest social circle. I probably talk to more Playgrounders on Facebook than I do folks I've actually met. I play games with no one but the Steam folks online now.
And now I have to try and tell my best friend why he can't join a game I'm playing with Rutskarn. "Listen, nothing personal, but you don't know these guys and I just wanna play a game with my best friend... who isn't you."

Keld Denar

2010-08-19, 03:46 PM

Ignoring making any comment on how appalling I think Big Bang Theory is so as to keep my conspiracy theorist side out

BLASPHEMY! BURN ZEE HERITIC! BURN HIM NAO!

And Big Bang Theory does have guest appearances from Leslie Winkler, Bernadette, and Leonard's mother, all very geeky women in their own respects!

Best episode ever was when the new hot chick moved in upstairs and Penny was trying to show how "one of the guys" she was by telling a HILLARIOUS quantum physics joke that she didn't even understand until late in the show...

AtlanteanTroll

2010-08-19, 03:56 PM

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-19, 04:04 PM

And Big Bang Theory does have guest appearances from Leslie Winkler, Bernadette, and Leonard's mother, all very geeky women in their own respects!

Best episode ever was when the new hot chick moved in upstairs and Penny was trying to show how "one of the guys" she was by telling a HILLARIOUS quantum physics joke that she didn't even understand until late in the show...

Haven't seen that one yet. I await it eagerly.

You have Facebook friends that you don't know in real life? Huh.

You don't?
You've not been on here long enough. All but seven of my Facebook friends I know fom here. Admittedly I've now met several of my Playground friends, so it's a crossover now.

Quincunx

2010-08-19, 04:07 PM

Jibar: And heavens help you if internet group A overlaps at all with internet group B.

(after telling anecdote with real names omitted to protect the innocent)
". . .huh, that seemed out of character for Arwen--"
"--oh geez, not our Arwen. That Arwynn spells it with a 'y' and two 'n's. She's dyslexic. . ."
"Yeah, that's Arwen--"
"--no, it isn't!"

(another time, another outsider)
". . .so you mean the one that's actually related to Peredhil?"
"No. The related ones are all guys. And don't roleplay girls."
(look of blank horror)
". . .no, you didn't flirt with any of the guys who are roleplaying girls."

"Because it doesn't scan, that's why! We can just about get away with singing Faldona because it's a near-rhyme and that makes up for the excess syllable, but you and your dactyllic moniker do. not. scan!--
"Oh. You haven't met Faldona. Well, what can I say that I haven't already implied? . . ."