320.2! 301.5, 311.3, 65.4

[Ragnarok]

Narf, you need to post in here more. Creating your own threads of non-sense isn't helping our cause for getting back in the lead for largest thread around. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

hmm...

i was the mouse that cut the wire!

[Loser]

It is the intro from The Dark Crytsal, but I was quoting the opening of The Crystal Method - Trip Like I Do (http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Pit/3080/lyrics/trip_like_i_do.html).

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i just sneezed. allergies.

[ October 28, 2003, 22:05: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Oh no! The admins are coming in and secretly changing the name of the thread at night! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

(You know, that actually sounds kind of plausible, given the thread's most recent title...) <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">They have been doing that for months (ever since this abomination began, in fact)...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

They have been doing that for months (ever since this abomination began, in fact)...
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">this is the thread that never dies,
yes it's a undead thread,
and your gonna get caught,
in it's evil hypnotic web,
and this thread will just go on cause,

[Kamog]

It's somebody named Ahtaur who keeps changing the name of the thread.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

the Last one was SJ.

[Jack Simth]

Near as I can tell, the Last two were SJ.

[DavidG]

Originally posted by Jack Simth:
Oh, I get it - Rutha can't change it anymore, due to the time limits the new software has for going back and editing things. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Was this fixed? I've recently edited a post older than the first post in this thread.

[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by DavidG:
Was this fixed? I've recently edited a post older than the first post in this thread. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I belive so.

[Loser]

interesting quotes from one man

http://www.damntheworld.com/archives/cat_obiter_dicktum.php

Not sure about the 'Canada' thing. I've never heard of that one before.

[Loser]

If you hear him howling around your kitchen door
Better not let him in
Little old lady got mutilated late Last night
Werewolves of London again

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i have a pumpkin,
he has one eye,
his name is Cy,
he has a horse,
why?
so he can go clop, clop, clop.

[mottlee]

Drinks on MEEEE!


oops wrong post http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[Loser]

Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl,
but she doesn't have a lot to say
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl
but she changes from day to day

I want to tell her that I love her a lot
But I gotta get a bellyful of wine
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl
Someday I'm going to make her mine, oh yeh,
someday I'm going to make her mine.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i got a new job today. my back is dead and is out for revenge. i probably won't post much until i adjust.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
i got a new job today. my back is dead and is out for revenge. i probably won't post much until i adjust. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">What kind of job, may I ask? Curiosity gets the best of me at times. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
my back is dead and is out for revenge.<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That could inspire a B movie: Revenge of the Undead Back
... or not.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

What kind of job, may I ask? Curiosity gets the best of me at times.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">i'll answer that with what is, truthfully, what i remember of much of today...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain

luck is nice...pain relief is better. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[ November 05, 2003, 00:34: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Ed Kolis]

My job has lots of boxes... text boxes, and list boxes, and dropdown boxes, and check boxes http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Oh yes, my job! I'd better get back to doing it! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
My job has lots of boxes... text boxes, and list boxes, and dropdown boxes, and check boxes http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Oh yes, my job! I'd better get back to doing it! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I didn't think about looking at my job in that light. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif Heck, I'm working in a box right now. Textbox for this forum anyways. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

I do handle some actual boxes though. Whenever I recieve new servers or computers or parts, etc.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i wanna kill you both.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">
What kind of job, may I ask? Curiosity gets the best of me at times.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">i'll answer that with what is, truthfully, what i remember of much of today...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain...boxes...and pain

luck is nice...pain relief is better. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I despise boxes. That's why I like my job, not too many boxes to deal with. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Jack Simth]

Narf - you might want to look into investing in a good back brace.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

oh, my back actually doesn't hurt that bad anymore. it's my feet now. waddya think? knife in the back? poison in the food? anvil above the doorway?

[Loser]

Who can dance to 140+ beats-per-minute?
But who can help but move?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

an apropriate post.

[Taz-in-Space]

...Taz peeks in here briefly...

Yep! Still has a high insanity level. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

It's nice to know somethings never change... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Ragnarok]

I would prefer the anvil if I'm going to die... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Ed Kolis]

Just make sure it's positioned an infinite distance above your head... sure, it will have infinite velocity when it hits you, but when will it hit you? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Loser]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Just make sure it's positioned an infinite distance above your head... sure, it will have infinite velocity when it hits you...<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">There are rules agaisnt that sort of thing, I'm just having some trouble figuring it out.

Increased velocity means increased mass, which would require more gravity to accellerate, but the increased mass will also increase the gravtational attraction, which will increase the acceleration.

Really it's a good thing that hasn't happened yet, I don't think it would be good for the universe.

[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Just make sure it's positioned an infinite distance above your head... sure, it will have infinite velocity when it hits you, but when will it hit you? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Actually, if it somehow managed to eventually hit you, it would have a finite velocity. As the acceleration falls off proportional to the square of the distance, integrating from infinity to a non-zero distance does not give an infinite result. Using the Earth as the gravitational source (ignoring the rest of the universe and Earth's atmosphere) if an anvil did fall from an infinite distance to hit you, it would hit at Earth's escape velocity - approximately 11.2 km/s.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

nah, it'd have infinite speed. i don't know why. and increase mass/acceleration balences itself out. that's why i'd stick it on top of the doorframe.

[Kamog]

That would hurt! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

And the obvious award goes to...Kamog! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ November 07, 2003, 18:56: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Jack Simth]

It would not hurt if it hit your head; you would be dead long before you could feel it.

Oh, wait - he's referring to the one placed on top of the door. Oops. Um, well, in that case, you would likely break the door before someone walked under it. Yah. That's the ticket.


Not that it would actually happen....

[ November 11, 2003, 05:26: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

aww, come on. can't i be semi-psychotic while in pain? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[Jack Simth]

Were you in pain four days ago?


Besides, when has not being in pain stopped you from being semi-psychotic?

[ November 11, 2003, 05:57: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

headache.

and what's wrong with virtual hammering?

[Jack Simth]

In and of itself? Nothing; that's why it's only semi-psychotic. However, there is some correlation between a person commiting virtual violence and a person commiting real violence, and that makes it mildly worrysome. I'm pretty sure you are harmless, however.

By the way - Is it still your turn in the MOTMA thread?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

yes, it is. i will post. as soon as my head doesn't feel like it's frying.

well, i do have a temper. a rather bad one. and i tend to be sarcastic. i know my sarcasm is a way for me to let off steam, but i never really thought about the hammer's like that. thanks.

despite my temper being my worst problem, it's also the one i've got the best grip on. i'm not sure this is reassuring, but once i was blessed with self-control, i never hit anyone more than once, and never anyone who hadn't made a deliberate attempt to provoke me. before that, i was a spaz-kid.

so, i guess making jokes about it is my way of defusing tension.

uh, on a side not to everyone, if i ever insist you 'shut up', it'd be a good idea. that's the stage, part of my self-control, right before i hit someone.

i wonder if i'm scaring Atrocities again? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

^and more humorous defusement^

i suppose it helps that i really am a nice guy with a good sense of humor.

[Jack Simth]

Don't worry about it too much; it's only some correlation, not a lot, and corrolation is a very far cry from causation.

Also, symbolic violence is just one of a list of twenty or thirty warning signs; if someone only has five or six of them, it's a very low probability danger. If someone has half or more, it almost certainly is a problem. As far as I know, you've got maybe two or three. Don't sweat it too much.

Besides, you live in Canada, right? I'm like a thousand miles away. What could you possibly do to me in RL?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Besides, you live in Canada, right? I'm like a thousand miles away. What could you possibly do to me in RL?
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">wouldn't you like to know? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

heh. i'd love to brush my temper off as something small, but, i live with it.

[Loser]

On a lighter note (http://members.shaw.ca/tom.t/unh/u05.html)

[DavidG]

Originally posted by Jack Simth:
Don't worry about it too much; it's only some correlation, not a lot, and corrolation is a very far cry from causation.

Also, symbolic violence is just one of a list of twenty or thirty warning signs; if someone only has five or six of them, it's a very low probability danger. If someone has half or more, it almost certainly is a problem. As far as I know, you've got maybe two or three. Don't sweat it too much.

Besides, you live in Canada, right? I'm like a thousand miles away. What could you possibly do to me in RL? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hmm this sound a bit like some semi serious non-nonsense in the nonsense thread. Think you'd better get your hammer our narf. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Loser]

Funny words from that accursed Live Journal (http://www.livejournal.com/community/customers_suck/3424997.html#cutid1)

Go there.

Read them.

Share this, it's great.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Hmm this sound a bit like some semi serious non-nonsense in the nonsense thread. Think you'd better get your hammer our narf.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">well, i would, but i'd have to hit myself and my head already hurts. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Loser]

Read the funny.

It is funny.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

yep, the funny is funny. funny, funny, funnies.

[ November 11, 2003, 16:09: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Kamog]

Reply #1800! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Kamog]

Yay! I've been trying to get a century post on this thread for about a year now, and finally got one. I'm super happy now. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Erax]

The Psychic thing would be funny if it weren't so sad. Some of you may see this the other way around.

[ November 12, 2003, 13:17: Message edited by: Erax ]

[Loser]

Aww Erax, it's just a story. I bet dollars to carbohydrates that it's complete fiction. Just laugh at the characters invented for your amusement and have a good time with the rest of us.

That Beatitudes Tarot deck really cracked me up.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

L, the official homepage of the flat earth society:
http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm

there is no concept, idea, principle, person, action or whatever other descriptive terms might be put down, no matter how obviously wrong or right, that won't be respected and disrespected.

does 'Amonkrie' make anyone else think of 'a monkey'?

[ November 12, 2003, 18:04: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Loser]

I've wondered this for a long time, but I'm going to ask it here.

What the bleep happened to Leonard Cohen's voice!?!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

who's Leanard Cohen?

[Taera]

WOOOOHOOO! NO ADMIIIIINNNNNSSSS HEEEERRREEEEEEE!!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

of course. *looks absolutly innocent* and water isn't wet and the moon is made out of green cheeze and gravity is a push.

[ November 13, 2003, 05:05: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Taera]

thats right, gravity is a PUSH!
put in scientific terms, every action has a corresponding, and equal, reaction. so the attraction of gravity creates a PUSH!
Besides, if you put an anvil on a button, it would push the button. Hence, anvil+gravity=anvil+push, hence gravity=push http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

uh-huh. and why, just this morning i figured out that if i divide my money by zero, M/0, i'll have infinite money!

[Taera]

no, it dissapears if you even try to do it. sorry.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

*pouts*

[Taera]

okay, dont pout, here is your money
*money appears, hovering above a 2d line hovering above a CIRCLE aka ZERO, then all fall to the ground. the line and zero make a metal *CLING!**

[narf poit chez BOOM]

MONEY MONEY MONEY! now i can buy that new dread...i mean, computer. yeah, that's it, computer. thank you!

is the idea of a forum masquarade, with people trading of avatar's, names and sig's with someone else and everyone else tries to 'guess who?' wacky? or good? or good and wacky? or not good and wacky? or not wacky and good? or not wacky and not good?

you know, i've been wondering who's got member # 1 a bit.

[ November 14, 2003, 21:14: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I WANT...A SHRUBBERY.

[Kamog]

It gets dark so soon now. By the time it's time to go home after work, it's completely dark outside.

[DavidG]

Face it guys. The 'name changing' thread is dead.

[Loser]

http://us.st5.yimg.com/store4.yimg.com/I/demotivators_1766_7392161 (http://www.despair.com/persistence.html)

[narf poit chez BOOM]

no, it's not dead.

IT'S UNDEAD!

this is the thread that never dies,
yes it's an undead thread,
and your gonna get caught,
in it's evil hypnotic web,
and this thread will just go on cause,

[Kamog]

Yeah, this thread has seen better days. At one time, this was the largest thread in the entire forum...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

it's raining so hard here the sewers are probably flooding. i say probably because it's dark and i can't really see them.

[Taera]

pst, here's a tip for you prophets of the dead thread, never ever say that its dead

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i keep telling you all, it's undead.

either that or powered by energizer batteries.

now that i think about it, that's scarrier than undead! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/blush.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Loser]

The muffin man is seated at the table in the laboratory of the utility muffin Research kitchen... reaching for an oversized chrome spoon he gathers an Intimate quantity of dried muffin remnants and brushing his scapular aside Procceds to dump these inside of his shirt... He turns to us and speaks:

"some people like cupcakes better. I for one care less for them!"

Arrogantly twisting the sterile canvas snoot of a fully charged icing Anointment utensil he poots forth a quarter-ounce green rosette Near the summit of a dense but radiant muffin of his own design.

Later he says:

"some people... some people like cupcakes exclusively, while myself, I say There is naught nor ought there be nothing so exalted on the face of god’s grey Earth as that prince of foods... the muffin!"

Girl you thought he was a man
But he was a muffin
He hung around till you found
That he didn’t know nuthin’

Girl you thought he was a man
But he only was a-puffin’
No cries is heard in the night
As a result of him stuffin’

[narf poit chez BOOM]

*Hands L a nonsense award*

[Kamog]

Well, I haven't had a cupcake in many years. I don't know where to buy them. Muffins, I have them every so often because they are on sale all over the place.
Which do you like better, a bagel or a donut...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

who's Frank Zappa?

[Loser]

*passes award to Frank Zappa*

[mottlee]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
who's Frank Zappa? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/confused.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/confused.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/confused.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/confused.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

[Loser]

He keeps doing that, too. I often wonder if he just had a very sheltered childhood, or if he's pulling our leg.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22Frank+Zappa%22

[mottlee]

Originally posted by Loser:
He keeps doing that, too. I often wonder if he just had a very sheltered childhood, or if he's pulling our leg.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22Frank+Zappa%22 <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">well IF I was a cartoon I may not know either http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Loser]

Point.

[Kamog]

I never heard of Frank Zappa either.

[Loser]

Eh?

Kids these day, no sense of history.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

thanks. just because you know alot about a celebrity doesn't mean someone else does. if the media doesn't put that person into the spotlight, knowing about that person often depends on chance.

and if it's before my time, well, the only reason i know about say, Red Skelton, is because my Mom and Dad had mentioned him and one of the tv stations occasionally puts on reruns.

[ December 04, 2003, 01:47: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Loser]

He's not just any celebrity, though, he was a musician, a satirist, an anti-censorship activist (in interesting ways), and one of the greatest rock concert entertainers ever. What would the world be like without Dancing Fool?

Gratuitous cut-and-paste from highly accessible FAQ on another site
2.3. I find some of Zappa's lyrics to be offensive. Is Zappa a sex-
ist?


Zappa has written many songs that seem to ``attack'' a particular
lifestyle or belief system. Most people will find at least one of
these songs to be directed at them personally. The best advice for
those offended: Lighten up!. Zappa seems to believe that if you cannot
laugh at yourself, then you are taking yourself too seriously.

From The Real Frank Zappa Book, Chapter Am I A 'Sexist' - Or What?

If you were to take all the lyrics I've ever written and
analyze how many songs are about `women in demeaning posi-
tions,' as opposed to `men in demaning positions' you would
find that most of the songs are about stupid men.


The songs I write about women are not gratuitous attacks on
them, but statements of fact. The song ``Jewish Princess''
caused the Anti- Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith to
complain bitterly and demand an apology. I did not apologize
then and refuse to do so now because, unlike `The Unicorn',
such creatures do exist - and deserve to be `commemorated'
with their own special opus.

The basic function of any ethnic protective PR organization
is to do what Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-California)
suggested on the `Larry King show' - ``maintain the
fiction.'' (He used it in context of protecting the Reagan
administration during the Iran-contra scandal, suggesting it
was our duty as Americans to support the President by
looking the other way.)

Italians have an organization to `maintain the fiction' that
no Italians are in the Mafia, nor do they sell drugs while
engaging in murder for hire. If you want to believe that,
fine - welcome to Fantasy Land. If you want to believe that
wrestling is real, go for it - and if you want to believe
that women are a wonderful species that: 1 never goes to the
toilet; 2 can't possibly do anything wrong; 3 is completely
superior to men, then believe it - whatever makes you feel
good.


2.4. What are the names of Frank Zappa's kids?


Frank's wife is Gail and his kids are named: Moon Unit, Dweezil,
Ahmet, and Diva Muffin.


Dweezil and Ahmet have a rock 'n roll band named Z.


From The Real Frank Zappa Book:

When Dweezil was born, Gail decided to have `natural child-
birth'. At that time, the only hospital in Los Angeles that
would allow this process to occur with a Dad in the delivery
room was Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital.


When it was time for the Big Delivery, we experienced a
slight delay - we had to fill out a mass of papers before
they'd let us in, riddled with irrelevant questions like:
``What religion are you?''

Gail looked at me and said ``What do we put?'' I said,
``Musician.''

That was the first thing that upset the admitting nurse. The
second thing to spoil her afternoon was when she asked:
``What are you going to name the child?'' Gail said,
``Dweezil.''

Gail's got a funny looking toe which had been the source of
family amusement so often that it had aquired a `technical
name': it wasn't really a toe - it was a ``Dweezil.'' I
thought then and continue to think today, that Dweezil is a
nice name. **** the nurse if she didn't like it.

The nurse pleaded and pleaded with us not to name the child
Dweezil. Labor pains and all, she was going to make Gail
stand there unless we gave her another name to put on the
form. I couldn't see letting Gail suffer just to argue the
point, so I rattled off an assortment of names of guys we
knew: IAN (Underwood) DON (van Vliet) CALVIN (Schenkel)
EUCLID (James ``Moterhead'' Sherwood) As a result Dweezil's
original birth certificate name was Ian Donald Calvin Euclid
Zappa. The nurse thought that was okay.

In spite of this harrowing experince, we always called him
Dweezil. He was five years old when he discovered the `real
names' on his birth certificate.

Dweezil was very upset, and demanded that steps be taken to
rectify this tragedy. We hired an attorney and had his name
legally changed to Dweezil.


From the April 1993 Playboy Interview:

PLAYBOY: Would they have been different had you named them
Sally or John?


ZAPPA: It's the Last name that get's them in trouble.

PLAYBOY: How?

ZAPPA: I'm viewed as being weird. When somebody calls you
weird, then anything you touch becomes weird. On the other
hand, they like being weird.<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">

[ December 04, 2003, 16:22: Message edited by: Loser ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i have no idea. and personally, i've never been a fan of 'subliminal education'. besides never being a fan of subliminal anything, i think: 1: that most of the people who actually need to learn something are just going to hear/see the surface and 2: ah man, i forgot 2. but there was a two. maybe i'll remember it.

what am i doing, going senile? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i'd like to take this moment to note that as of this message, the avatar thread is 1337.

*whaps self for bad joke*

[Loser]

fixed

[Loser]

I am officially in my late twenties...

woot

[narf poit chez BOOM]

woot. happy birthday to you.

[Wardad]

Happy Birthday. woot

here's to ur edycation....

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If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises wearing their most revealing underwear.

If being chased through town, you can usually take cover in a passing St Patrick's Day parade - at any time of the year.

All beds have special L-shaped top sheets that reach up to armpit level on a woman but only waist level on the man lying beside her.

All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French bread.

It's easy for anyone to land a plane, providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.

Once applied, lipstick will never rub off - even while scuba diving.

The ventilation system of any building is a perfect hiding place. No one will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building without difficulty.

You're likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of you sweetheart back home.

Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German accent will do.

The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window of any building in Paris.

People of TV never finish their drinks.

A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.

The chief of police is always black.

When paying for a taxi, never look at your wallet as you take out a note - just grab one at random and hand it over. It will always be the exact fare.

If you lose a hand, it will cause the stump of your arm to grow by 15cm.

Kitchens don't have light switches. When entering a kitchen at night, you should open the fridge door and use that light instead.

During all police investigations, it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once.

Mothers routinely cook eggs, bacon and waffles for their family every morning, even though the husband and children never have time to eat them.

Cars and trucks that crash will almost always burst into flames.

Wearing a singlet or stripping to the waist can make a man invulnerable to bullets.

A single match will be sufficient to light up a room the size of a football stadium.

If a killer is lurking in your house, it's easy to find him. Just relax and run a bath - even if it's the middle of the afternoon.

Medieval peasants had perfect teeth.

Although in the 20th century it is possible to fire weapons at an object out of visual range, people of the 23rd century will have lost this technology.

All single women have a cat.

Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and pant.

Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments.

One man shooting at 20 men has a better chance of killing them all than 20 men firing at one.

Creepy music coming from a graveyard should always be closely investigated.

If a phone line is broken, communication can be restored by frantically beating the cradle and saying, "Hello?, Hello?"

Most people keep a scrapbook of newspaper cutting - especially if any of their family or friends has died in a strange boat in an accident.

It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts - your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessor.

During a very emotional confrontation, instead of facing the person you are speaking to, it is customary to stand behind them and talk to their back.

When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your room will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.

Dogs always know who's bad and will naturally bark at them.

Police departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite.

When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.

Action heroes never face charges for manslaughter or criminal damage despite laying entire cities to waste.

No matter how badly a spaceship is attacked, its internal gravity system is never damaged.

If there is a deranged killer on the loose, this will coincide with a thunderstorm that has brought down all the power and phone lines in the vicinity.

You can always find a chainsaw whenever you're likely to need one.

Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their arch-enemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gases, lasers and man eating sharks that will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.

Having a job of any kind will make all fathers forget their son's eighth birthday.

Many musical instruments - especially wind instruments and accordions - can be played without moving the fingers.

All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.

It is always possible to park directly outside the building you are visiting.

Guns are like disposable razors - if you run out of bullets, just throw the gun away. You can always buy a new one.

Make-up can safely be worn to bed without smudging.

A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.

If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you bump into will know all the steps.


And here are some more for the list:

51. If a man chews gum, he will be killed, but if a woman chews gum she will be laid.

52. TV telephones ring more frequently than real life phones.

53. When you turn a TV, it comes on at the start of a news story, not at the end or during a commercial.

54. Walking by yourself in the dark always leads to disaster.

55. All watches and clocks are syncronized to the second.

56. Building ventilation ducts are always clean.

57. Corollary to 15. If you loose an arm, your chest will expand on the same side.

58. No matter how fuzzy the photograph, it can be enlarged and enhanced to show the finest detail.

[Kamog]

It is possible to build bombs by using stuff found in a kitchen, like peanut butter and oven cleaner.

If you train to be a ninja, you can do a standing jump from the ground onto a roof.

When deactivating a time bomb, there will always be a red and blue wire, one of which shuts off the bomb if cut, and the other which makes the timer count down super fast.

If somebody fires a laser, you will see a bar of light fly through the air and hit the target.

All phone numbers begin with 555.

Every single person who lives in Hong Kong knows kung fu.

When running away from a dangerous killer, a teenager will always clumsily stumble and fall.

If an animal is exposed to radiation, it never just gets cancer or dies, it always mutates into a giant monster.

There is a taxi conveniently available whenever you need one.

If you have a set of samurai swords in your living room, somebody will always break in and try to steal them.

In every kung fu school, there is always a rack of pole arms and spears which nobody ever uses, but if a fight ever breaks out, the rack is the first thing that gets knocked over.

Martial arts students don't ever have to work for a living. All they do is train every day and occasionally get into a fight.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

all guns have an infinite supply of amunition.

any railing will stop bullets - as long as your the hero.

yes, you can dodge bullets.

never pick up a weapon in a martial arts fight. if you do, it means you die.

[deccan]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:

never pick up a weapon in a martial arts fight. if you do, it means you die. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Don't know about this. Jackie Chan is famous for improvising with weapons isn't he?

[President_Elect_Shang]

I was laughing to hard to finish reading, but did anyone include:

All aliens want to conquar the Earth becouse they burnt out their home planet.

All intelligent machines want to exterminate mankind.

[Suicide Junkie]

Originally posted by deccan:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:

never pick up a weapon in a martial arts fight. if you do, it means you die. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Don't know about this. Jackie Chan is famous for improvising with weapons isn't he? </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">A gun, at least. For every random non-weapon item you use in the fight, your chance of success increases.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

perhaps 'bladed weapon' would be more accurate. although it only applies to some martial arts movie's. in other's, bladed weapons are fair game.

[TerranC]

Originally posted by deccan:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:

never pick up a weapon in a martial arts fight. if you do, it means you die. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Don't know about this. Jackie Chan is famous for improvising with weapons isn't he? </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Bruce Lee is famous for improvising with weapons. Haven't you ever seen that picture with Bruce holding 2 Nunchuks(sp?)? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Nodachi]

If you're a hero any vehicle you drive automaticly gains 500 horsepower and can drive away from insane stunts.

Any computer can be hacked in less than a minute.

All computers are networked.

Villians can use underlings as ablative armor without losing the others' loyalty.

Detectives are either super-intelligent or totally incompetent.

The laws of physics are merely suggestions.

The bad guys always use the same type of ammo you do.

If you wear a bulletproof vest you'll always be shot in the chest but not have to worry about kinetic energy.

You can carry on a conversation in the middle of a firefight without shouting.

You can jump or fall from great heights without injury as long as you roll when you hit.

[Loser]

Rank change?

[edit: Yep, I'm a doggone Lieutenant Colonel now. whoo hoo.]

[ December 18, 2003, 15:57: Message edited by: Loser ]

[Loser]

It's four in the morning, the end of December
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better
New York is cold, but I like where I'm living
There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening.

I hear that you're building your little house deep in the desert
You're living for nothing now, I hope you're keeping some kind of record.

Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
Did you ever go clear?

Ah, the Last time we saw you you looked so much older
Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
You'd been to the station to meet every train
And you came home without Lili Marlene

And you treated my woman to a flake of your life
And when she came back she was nobody's wife.

Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth
One more thin gypsy thief
Well I see Jane's awake --

She sends her regards.
And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
What can I possibly say?
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you
I'm glad you stood in my way.

If you ever come by here, for Jane or for me
Your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free.

Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
I thought it was there for good so I never tried.

And Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear

-- Sincerely, L. Cohen

[Kamog]

No white Christmas this year...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

EET LLIIIIVVESSSS! EET LLIIIVVESSSSS!

[Kamog]

Well, it lives but only barely. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif It keeps descending to the brink of death and somebody resuscitates it just before it goes into oblivion.

[mottlee]

Originally posted by Kamog:
Well, it lives but only barely. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif It keeps descending to the brink of death and somebody resuscitates it just before it goes into oblivion. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">well I think it needs a name change again http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i got a hair cut today.

*holds up a hair*

see, cut!

*holds up another hair*

an'is one, an'is one, an'is one, an'is one, an'is one...*hold on, folks. this could take a while*

[Loser]

Oh it ain't gonna rain no more no more
It ain gonnaa rain no more
How in the heck can I wash my neck, if it ain't gonna rain no more?

Man lay by the sewer
And by the sewer he died
And when they wrote the town report
They called it suir-cide.

Oh it ain't gonna rain no more no more
It ain gonnaa rain no more
How in the heck can I wash my neck, if it ain't gonna rain no more?

Oh Mary had a little lamp
That little lamp was stout
But when company came callin' over
That little lamp went out

Oh it ain't gonna rain no more no more
It ain gonnaa rain no more
How in the heck can I wash my neck, if it ain't gonna rain no more?


Anyone else know any verses?

[ December 31, 2003, 00:48: Message edited by: Loser ]

[Kamog]

Democritus must have been an incredibly smart guy, to have that sort of insight in 400 BC!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Democritus, as far as i know, was the first guy to propose the idea that everything is divisable down to an 'atom', or a unit of matter that can't be divided further. while that theory hasn't been proven, and the things we call atoms aren't, it was better than the other theory, which is that everything is made up of fire, air, earth and water.

[TerranC]

Originally posted by Kamog:
Democritus must have been an incredibly smart guy, to have that sort of insight in 400 BC! <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It was just too bad that Aristotles was around at the same time. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Kamog]

TALUR: Fire, rock, sky, and water are the basic elements of the universe. They can be found in every object, every person, every animal -- everything.

TALUR: The rock in this wood can be felt by its weight and by its hardness. If we expose the wood to flame...

TALUR: We can encourage the fire in the wood to show itself. We also see smoke, which is a part of the sky. But, the water in wood is very difficult to see. Sometimes the basic elements can be hidden deep within objects, but all four elements are always there.

TALUR: Yes, Jayden?

DATA: I do not believe that is correct.

TALUR: Oh?

DATA: I believe you are reasoning by analogy -- classifying objects and phenomena according to superficial observation rather than by empirical evidence. For example, wood does not contain fire simply because it is combustible. Nor does it contain rock simply because it is heavy. Wood, like any complex organic form, is composed of thousands of different chemical compounds, none of which is fire.

[Ragnarok]

So this thread still lurks along, eh? It's died time and time again but keeps getting resurrected. Perhaps someday it will return to its former glory and be the largest thread on the forums.

[Loser]

8:36 p.m. An Alliance Road resident had words with someone who’d parked in his parking spot. Subsequently, notes appeared on the man’s car stating, "I’ll kick your @#$." Just how impacting an "at" symbol, a cross-hatch mark and a dollar sign with a foot would bring closure to the parking space dispute is unclear.<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana"> (http://www.arcataeye.com/police/031222police.shtml)

[narf poit chez BOOM]

happy new year to all those people for whom this is the new year! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

5 more hours or thereabouts here.

[Kamog]

Happy New Year! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Narratio]

The subcontractors are not working. The contractors are not working. Our client is not working. We're upto our armpits in snow and it's cold than sin.

What in the name of Rogers and Hammerstein am I doing in the office? Happy New Year people... I gotta' get me another coffee. It's gonna' be a Loooong day! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

here's a thought: why does it take no organics to make an Organics Farm Facility?

[Loser]

The Organics must come from the planet itself.

[Kamog]

How can those Solar Generators in crystalline tech generate minerals, organics, and radioactives from sunlight? Does it convert energy into matter in accordance with E=mc^2? It must collect a LOT of sunlight to generate any significant amount of matter...

[Ed Kolis]

Yeah, and they're pretty useless anyway... how about making them into cheap resupply depots?

[TerranC]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
here's a thought: why does it take no organics to make an Organics Farm Facility? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Cause you don't build (edit) futuristic barns and sprinklers with corn stalks. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ January 03, 2004, 01:17: Message edited by: TerranC ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

the barns are wood. you'd need seeds.

[TerranC]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
you'd need seeds. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">which would amount to about 5 organics IMHO.

[ January 03, 2004, 01:17: Message edited by: TerranC ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

true, but that's still some... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Kamog]

Why doesn't it take any organics to produce medical bays or boarding parties?
No radioactives to make a quantum reactor?

[Renegade 13]

Boarding parties at least should have some organics. People are organic. They are people (sort of).

[narf poit chez BOOM]

No radioactives to make a quantum reactor?
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">it most indefinitly does! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Loser]

Thinking 'ouside the box' to get inside the box. (http://www.chippewa.com/articles/2004/01/04/news/news3.txt)(safe)

[Member 4148]

Originally posted by Loser:
Thinking 'ouside the box' to get inside the box. (http://www.chippewa.com/articles/2004/01/04/news/news3.txt)(safe) <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No mention of who saw the boy crawl in - perhaps they just assumed that's how he got in - do you think he was actually doing experiments with matter transmission? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

[Loser]

You just wish your dad was this cool. (http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/education/2751680/detail.html)

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i'd have barfed.

[PvK]

Kids these days must be wimps. The school Boards certainly seem to be. In my grade school, we saw brains, hearts, eyeballs, slaughtering live salmon, dissecting rats...

PvK

[PvK]

Originally posted by Kamog:
Why doesn't it take any organics to produce medical bays or boarding parties?
No radioactives to make a quantum reactor? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Because Malfador gets la-z sometimes mb. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

PvK

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Kids these days must be wimps. The school Boards certainly seem to be. In my grade school, we saw brains, hearts, eyeballs, slaughtering live salmon, dissecting rats...
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">people have psychological weaknesses. we're born with them.

[Kamog]

In my elementary school, in grade 6, we incubated a bunch of eggs and opened them up at various stages, to study the development of the embryo. After that, I did not eat eggs for about a year.

In Grade 7, we dissected a pig foetus. We got into Groups of 3-4 students and we each got a pig, but it was more like random mutilation rather than dissecting that we did. (Years later, in high school biology class, we dissected a pig foetus again, but this time it was very methodical, we looked for various organs and features, and we documented each step and drew diagrams. We also dissected starfish, worms, and sheep brains.)

Edit: typos

[ January 11, 2004, 01:17: Message edited by: Kamog ]

[Fyron]

I think it is the percent signs. There are many characters that UBB can not handle in URLs. Just use the vastly superior html equivalent. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;"> &lt;a href=&quot;http://search.stores.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=1%2F6+SCALE+
CUSTOM&amp;srchdesc=y&amp;sid=897898&amp;store=Diver4%27s+Trea sure+Chest&amp;colorid=6&amp;fp=
0&amp;st=2&quot; target=&quot;_new&quot;&gt;Check out these great heads&lt;/a&gt;!!! </pre><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Check out these great heads (http://search.stores.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=1%2F6+SCALE+CUSTOM&srchdesc=y&sid=897898&store=Diver4%27s+Treasure+Chest&colorid=6&fp=0&st=2)


EDIT: Moderator edited for better page formatting

[ January 13, 2004, 18:22: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Loser]

Thanks, Fyron.

Check these things out!
http://www.coastalart.net/ebay/travolta1.jpg (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3169435782&Category=348)
http://www.coastalart.net/ebay/jackson1.jpg (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3169435820&Category=348)

[Loser]

Check out these great heads ( http://search.stores.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=1%2F6+SCALE+CUSTOM&srchdesc=y&sid=897898&store=Diver4%27s+Treasure+Chest&colorid=6&fp=0&st=2)!!!


Can anyone tell me why this UBB Code isn't working?

[ January 13, 2004, 12:25: Message edited by: Loser ]

[Kamog]

I don't recognize the faces. Couldn't imagine why anybody would want to buy heads like these... what do you do, put them up on the mantelpiece?

...wait. wait. --- I know who they are now, after looking at them for a while. It's John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson...

[Fyron]

I didn't say my post could be edited for "better page formatting." The post prior to it messes up page formatting as well. Why was it not edited? There have been many Posts on this forum that have messed up page formatting that the Moderators never edited. Why is mine a special case? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

those heads look slimy.

[Loser]

amazing pavement art (http://www.livejournal.com/Users/bouncechrissy/155638.html?)

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
I didn't say my post could be edited for "better page formatting." The post prior to it messes up page formatting as well. Why was it not edited? There have been many Posts on this forum that have messed up page formatting that the Moderators never edited. Why is mine a special case? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I edited yours because I saw that it was messing up the formatting of the screen. I don't edit every post that does that, because I do not see every post that does it. But when I see one I tweak it. I did not change the content of your post. What are you upset about?

Geoschmo

[Loser]

Originally posted by Kamog:
Couldn't imagine why anybody would want to buy heads like these... what do you do, put them up on the mantelpiece?<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">They are small. G.I. Joe size. It's for 'action figure' nuts, I'd guess.

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
those heads look slimy. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That's just the substance from which they are made. They just need to be painted.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

amazing pavement art
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">i didn't see any.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
I edited yours because I saw that it was messing up the formatting of the screen. I don't edit every post that does that, because I do not see every post that does it. But when I see one I tweak it. I did not change the content of your post. What are you upset about?

Geoschmo <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Loser's is still messing up the formatting of the screen... But either way, Moderators should not have the right to just go editing Posts willy-nilly. Their powers of moderation should be strictly limited to only the most crucial of cases. You could have asked me to alter the formatting of my post, and I probably would have done so.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
But either way, Moderators should not have the right to just go editing Posts willy-nilly. Their powers of moderation should be strictly limited to only the most crucial of cases.<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That seems odd to me. It seems to me that Moderators have the power to edit Posts to correct formatting all they want, afterall, they moderate the forum, not just individual content. As long as they don't edit content there is nothing wrong with it, IMO.

[Kamog]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
those heads look slimy. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif ROFL!! Yeah, they're GLISTENING with slime! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Kamog]

Post # 1900! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Yippee, another century post! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Fyron]

Poser. They mean nothing when you are not stealing them from a dozen or so people somehow 10 times in a row. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[TerranC]

testing

[TerranC]

Edit: Doh! The name reverted back.

[ January 18, 2004, 02:27: Message edited by: TerranC ]

[Loser]

http://www.adastragames.com/graphics/Shirts/SCAM_Full_Front.jpg (http://www.adastragames.com/orders_main.html#shirts)
Best. T-Shirts. Ever.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

get your name in a SystemNames.txt file: http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=23;t=010706

[narf poit chez BOOM]

*bump* what is this thread doing on the second page, anyway?

[Greybeard]

I really don't think that it's that far...

Greybeard http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

so maybe i should have said 'what was'.

*whaps Graybeard with a trout* http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

nitpicker. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Loser]

I am Bhutan!

http://bluepyramid.org/ia/bhut.gif

<font face="Georgia Ref, Verdana, Eurostile, Tahoma, Arial" size="5">You're Bhutan!

<font size="3">With the body of a gnat and the mind of a dragon, you are a bundle of energy. You enjoy mountain-climbing, rock-climbing, stair-climbing, pretty much any kind of climbing you can manage. This has lifted you into the clouds in more than one way, helping you achieve some inner peace above the fray of madness all around you. People would seek you out for advice if they could ever find you.</font>
<font size="2">Take the Country Quiz (http://bluepyramid.org/ia/cquiz.htm) at the Blue Pyramid (http://bluepyramid.org)</font></font><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">

[ January 29, 2004, 13:02: Message edited by: Loser ]

[Greybeard]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
so maybe i should have said 'what was'.

*whaps Graybeard with a trout* http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

nitpicker. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Tipp-a-rary, what did you think?

Yummy trout...Greybeard

[Wardad]

WOW, Just 303 Posts and we catch up to the Koth thread count, again.

[Greybeard]

Speaking of Tipparary, did anyone else enjoy the movie Das Boot?

I also saw "The Boat", but I thought it wasn't as good with the Germans speaking English. The movie was much better with subtitles.

Greybeard

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Tipp-a-rary, what did you think?
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">it's a city somewhere, right? never been there.

[Loser]

Odd note on U.S. Presidents (http://www.ncbuy.com/news/2004-01-29/1008811.html)

[narf poit chez BOOM]

*gives the forum a poke*

[Greybeard]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">
Tipp-a-rary, what did you think?
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">it's a city somewhere, right? never been there. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I haven't been there either, but it's the subject of a song, "It's a long way to Tipp-a-rary, a long, long way...."

Does anyone know right off where it is??

Greybeard

[minipol]

Did you guys reach Tipp-a-rary all ready?

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by minipol:
Did you guys reach Tipp-a-rary all ready? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No, cause it's along way... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Loser]

The English have some explaining to do. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/35186.html)

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Loser:
The English have some explaining to do. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/35186.html) <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hey! Se4 fans aren't the geekiest people in the world afterall. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I haven't been there either, but it's the subject of a song, "It's a long way to Tipp-a-rary, a long, long way...."
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">yeah, i know that much. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ January 30, 2004, 16:28: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Greybeard]

I found some information on Tipperary:

"Tipperary is Ireland's largest inland county."

So, it is a loooonnng way from Kansas...Greybeard

[narf poit chez BOOM]

a long way from bc, to.

[minipol]

yes, yes, but are they there yet?
anyway, even if the voyage there takes a long time, i don't care because i stole a nice big piece of neverending cheese back in the avatar thread from that mousy thingie. Muhaha, muhahaha, muhahahahahaha.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i hate to tell you, but that isn't neverending cheese. like a certain rabbit, i can pluck my favorite food out of thin air. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif ptptptptptptb

[Kamog]

I want to be a Jedi, too! Those powers to see the future, telekinetically move objects, and control weaker minds could come in handy in all sorts of situations. Those light saber and acrobatics skills would be nice, too. Although I don't like some of their rules, like the one forbidding marriage.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

yet another mind-numbing game: http://www.mtbireland.com/dodge.html

[Loser]

Wrong, wrong, wrong (http://www.lilgnr.com/)

[Ragnarok]

Slowly this thread begins to fade...

The span between Posts is getting larger and larger. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

*starts building a bridge*

ok, that was a bad joke.

[Loser]

http://www.mensjournal.com/feature/0403/toughguys.html

[Loser]

Colonel?

[edit: yep. whoo-hoo.]

[ February 11, 2004, 19:48: Message edited by: Loser ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

corn?

*for non-english speakers, colonel is actually pronounce kernel. Engish!*

[Ragnarok]

Man, it's been a slow day on the forums... I'm bored.

[Loser]

http://home.tele2.fr/kcv/pinguin.swf

[narf poit chez BOOM]

257, 300, 199.4, 192, 296.2, 86.8, 222.1, 261, 243.3, 296.4, 246.2, 204.2, 253.1, 75.8, 264.9, 200.3

6 misses.
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

post your scores, expand this thread. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ February 13, 2004, 22:24: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[geoschmo]

316.9! Woo Hoo!

EDIT: Ooo, I'm in the zone now. On consecutive tries I got 316.3 and 323.4! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ February 13, 2004, 22:37: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

320.2! 301.5, 311.3, 65.4, it sped up does that if you flip between windows sometimes. 307.6

[Ragnarok]

I've only managed to get 316.6...How in the world do you get 3000+?!

[geoschmo]

I think David's playing a different game?

[DavidG]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
I think David's playing a different game? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yup. There are multiple Versions of this game out there. This one you can get about 325, another you can get 700+ and yet another you can get 3000+

PS do a search for 'smack the penguin' and you'll see what i mean. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ February 14, 2004, 16:43: Message edited by: DavidG ]

[Loser]

the friend who sent me this posted his score, 323.4. My own best is 321.1.

[Unknown_Enemy]

Just wanted to post my wife's scores :

0 - 0 - 0 - 181.6 - 0 - "How can you spend your time on such silly games ?"

[DavidG]

3000+.

This little game was amusing untill guys starting making Versions that went to 700+ then 3000+ Then it just got silly.

[Loser]

Originally posted by some blasphemous funny-guy (http://askjesus.blogdrive.com/)
Dear J.C.
I was wondering why you and your Father let people suffer? I mean my Uncle, who is a Minister is in terrible pain - his Doctors can't seem to figure out what is causing his back pain, and after several surgeries, he is now paralized from the waste down and with little hope of ever walking again. Now why would a man who has devoted his life to teaching others about you have to deal with this type of pain?

Just wondering where you are.
-Craig C.

Dear Craig,
This reminds me of an old parable of a man and his shoes. You see he had two pairs of shoes. One of them he never used and the other he wore wherever he went. One day the old shoes fell apart and the new shoes said, “Haha sucker, you don’t look as good as I do.” But, then the man threw away both pairs of shoes anyway. I hope that clears things up for you.
Sincerely,
Live Free or Die
-Jesus Christ<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">

[narf poit chez BOOM]

no pain, no joy. have to have an opposite.

[Ragnarok]

*resurrection*

[Caduceus]

I bet he would go farther with an organic shielding mod...

Wildcard

[Loser]

"Top 10 Cancled Shows" (http://entertainment.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=150652) or something like that.

But they didn't mention Strange Luck, the bastards.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

no Special Unit 2, either. man, that show was hilarious.

i'm not even sure how to describe it, except as a cop show with monsters, made by somebody after three days of no sleep.

anybody know if there's a dvd?

[ February 25, 2004, 18:43: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Kit]

*looks into this room* Hrrm... *blinks* Oh HI YA! ^-^ *has no idea what this forum in about lol*

[minipol]

* ssshhhttt * they have no idea either

[narf poit chez BOOM]

the hoky poky, of course! what else? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/confused.gif

[Kamog]

Oh, I thought we just posted random nonsense here when we're bored.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

oh, well, then i wasn't breaking any trends.

except i'm not bored.

well, sorta.

[zen.]

Aight, followed this link narf posted from the Last thread. Special Unit 2 was awesome! I'm hoping for a DVD set some time.

And that new Stephen King show on tonight, Kingdom Hospital... did anyone catch it the first time when it was called 'All Souls'? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif Apparently I'm the only one of all the people I know who remember that short-lived show. Tell me I'm not imagining things.

zen

[TerranC]

Testing.

Bumping.

And so on and so forth...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

this thread makes the energizer bunny look puny, man.

[Loser]

<a href=http://diesel2035.free.fr/geek/geek.htm?BDecode=decode&geek=A+Se%2B+GdY+%24%2B%2B+Fr%21+C-+Csc+Sf+Ai+AuO+M%2B%2B+MpTFdM+S+Ss+RSH+Pw+Fq+Nd%2B %2B+RP%2B+G%2B%2B%2B+Mm%2B%2B%2B+Bb%2B%2B%2B+L%2B% 2B+>A Se+ GdY $++ Fr! C- Csc Sf Ai AuO M++ MpTFdM S Ss RSH Pw Fq Nd++ RP+ G+++ Mm+++Bb+++ L++</a>

Grr... If this works here, why doesn't it work in my sig.

[edit]

Testing the sig changes, again

see, it puts the code in there, but ignores the '<' a href '>' wrapped around it.

[edit; testing again]

[ March 16, 2004, 14:05: Message edited by: Loser ]

[geoschmo]

Loser, you can't put regular html tags in your sig line. The board will only accept UBB links in your sig profile. It will accept either UBB or html in a post here though.

You can try putting the link in your sig as a UBB link, but I don't think it will work right with all the +### stuff in it. You can post your code as text and then a simple UBB link to the decode page. People can then cut+paste your code into the box on the decode page. I don't think you can do it all in one shot though.

[ March 16, 2004, 14:08: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Member 4148]

question for the day: what does the text in the image in my signiture say?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Originally posted by Member 4148:
question for the day: what does the text in the image in my signiture say? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I consider that an intrusion.

[Member 4148]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Originally posted by Member 4148:
question for the day: what does the text in the image in my signiture say? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I consider that an intrusion. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">so what does the Last line say? no identifiable info there
the rest you broadcast every time you load anything in your browser

[ April 03, 2004, 22:18: Message edited by: Member 4148 ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Originally posted by Member 4148:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Originally posted by Member 4148:
question for the day: what does the text in the image in my signiture say? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I consider that an intrusion. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">so what does the Last line say? no identifiable info there
the rest you broadcast every time you load anything in your browser </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You comedy line is working.

[Ed Kolis]

Hey, thanks! Now I know what my REAL IP address it, not the one masked by my ISP! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[CNCRaymond]

THAT is too cool. Nice Sig Member4148. No ban him please. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Atrocities]

I guess the question is that thing storing the info that it is collecting? If it is not then I would say no harm no foul, but if it is keeping the info then I would request that you discontinue using it.

http://www.danasoft.com

[ April 04, 2004, 03:16: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Jack Simth]

It's hard to say if they are collecting the information or not - they have a Privacy Policy (http://www.danasoft.com/privacy.php) posted, and it mentions the sig image briefly:

Signature Graphic: Some Users on Internet web sites link to our signature graphic. When a person views the signature graphic, they see their own IP address and other information only. It is not possible for your information to be viewed by others, as your IP address and other information are dynamically added to the graphic which is shown to you and to you alone when your web browser loads the signature graphic for our web server. The purpose of the graphic is to raise awareness about what types of information every Internet collects about you.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">... but it doesn't say squat about whether or not they save the info.

But if you think about it for a bit, they are pointing out that any time you load anything Online, you broadcast that info - they just make you aware that they recieve it. Of course, what is really fun, is that it is the servers that normally deal with the info - usually just to send a page back to the requester, sure - but there's no particular reason the server itself couldn't trap the info and store it somewhere - and you would never know. If you are too terribly paranoid about it, don't go Online; or, if you'd like, you could try one of the anonomous browsing services, such as @nonymouse.com (http://anonymouse.ws/anonwww.html) - which makes the graphic return a different IP and removes the OS, ISP, and browser info - of course, then you are filtering it all through a single site, and you can't be sure they aren't collecting the information.

Of course, tracking people's IP addresses doesn't really help an advertiser, as most Internet Service Providers use DHCP, which causes the IP address of a client to change periodically, so that the IP address can't be readily used to track a potential customer without the ISP's cooperation.

Edit: Also, I might point out that these Boards store your IP address....

[ April 04, 2004, 07:08: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]

[PvK]

The Operating System and browser Version are handed over by your web browser software - blame them for doing so. Some browsers (e.g. Opera) let you identify as other browser types. Also, you can insert a program which will intercept these communications and fill in with whatever data you want. Microsoft seems to think no one would ever want to not share this information with everyone though, so IE has no such options.

PvK

[Atrocities]

Excellent point Jack. I guess with all the identity theft and on line scams people, include myself, have grown a bit paranoid.

[Atrocities]

I should point out that Shrapnel as well as many forums have blocks in place to prevent IP hiding or spoofing. So the anonymous IP won't work here. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Jack Simth]

Atrocities:
I'm curious - are you still of the opinion that collecting and storing such information as IP addresses is wrong, as you seemed to state earlier:

Originally posted by Atrocities:
I guess the question is that thing storing the info that it is collecting? If it is not then I would say no harm no foul, but if it is keeping the info then I would request that you discontinue using it.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana"><hr>
Originally posted by Atrocities:
I should point out that Shrapnel as well as many forums have blocks in place to prevent IP hiding or spoofing. So the anonymous IP won't work here. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">*shrug* there is no such thing as a perfect block, just as there is no such thing as a perfect hide or a perfect spoof; whether or not a particular set of blocks stops a particular set of hiding/spoofing methods depends on how the members of each set work. E.g., a browser-level IP spoofer/hider still must send out the true IP address somewhere, otherwise the data doesn't come back to the browser for viewing; a block to stop that is fairly straightforward - match all possible locations of the IP address up. However, a remote machine, set with an imaginary directory structure that causes the remote machine to attempt to find, load, and store a web page based on the directory structure requested could concieveably send a true IP address to the page in question, then relay the page to the browser as though the page came from the remote machine could concieveably defeat such a block by giving the page the IP of the remote machine. That hiding, in turn, could potentially be defeated by a script in the page that sends the browser's IP directly to the originating web page, which in turn could be defeated by a browser that recognizes and disables such scripts, et cetera, et cetera; the old "make some armor that will stop this bullet; okay, now make a bullet that will penetrate that armor" et infinium.

The only way to be sure Shrapnel's set of blocks stops @nonymouse's set of spoofing/hiding would be to test them against each other - make a fake ID temporarily on the Boards operating through nonymouse, and then have an admin or moderator report the logged IP and compare that to the IP of the known originating machine from the post, or the IP of @nonymouse.

[ April 04, 2004, 07:50: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]

[Atrocities]

Ya I just discovered that Jack. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif Oh well, I guess we now have something new for the programers to concentrate upon.

If no info is stored then I have no problem with it. If info is being stored then I am slightly concerned but can live with it.

So long as my bank account is not touched, no viruses put on my machine, and my identity remains private I am a happy camper.

(Damn Dial Up)

[ April 04, 2004, 08:27: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
Ya I just discovered that Jack. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif Oh well, I guess we now have something new for the programers to concentrate upon.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I take it @nonymouse worked then? Originally posted by Atrocities:

If no info is stored then I have no problem with it. If info is being stored then I am slightly concerned but can live with it.

So long as my bank account is not touched, no viruses put on my machine, and my identity remains private I am a happy camper.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Fair enough. Originally posted by Atrocities:

(**** Dial Up) <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">And you a moderator! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif