Timewaster's Guide Archive
General => Everything Else => Topic started by: stacer on November 08, 2003, 05:26:19 PM
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Blah blah blah--took the pics off because they weren't working anyway. Try this link:
http://www.geocities.com/stacer90/Halloween.html
There really was a Luke there!
(or, at least, some sort of Jedi)
And just to see if you can guess who my roommates were, they're on the bottom right.
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it won't load the pictures unless I agree to sign up for an MSN passport, which I refuse to do on principle. Is there someone else I can see them?
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Augh! It was working for me. But I have a hotmail account. How else can you load pictures onto the forum? Don't they have to have some url?
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yeah, they do have to be online somewhere, and if all you have is an MSN account, then I guess I'll just have to suffer. I'm just being a stickler for that. I inherantly mistrust the idea of having one login (run by microsoft) that automatically logs me into so many different things.
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If you send them to me, Stacer, I can upload on them onto the site for a week or so. I'll take them down afterward for space and privacy reasons.
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Done. Thanks, Fell.
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Hey, I think this might work.
http://www.geocities.com/stacer90/Halloween.html
So Fell, don't worry about posting them yourself. Thanks anyway.
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Hey! Where's the light saber?
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Post more pictures of the girl who dressed up as Belle.
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Yeah, I always have issues with the people who take pictures of me. My 4th roommate took pictures of the 3 of us who dressed up and got more of the ceiling than of our costumes. And the girl who took the pic at the dance ended up cutting off the lightsaber. >:(
And hey, Tage, I can introduce you if you like. She's an opera singer.
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which means she has powerful lungs and lips. ;)
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Nonono, Saint, you have it all wrong. It's horn players (like me ;D) who have strong lungs (well, diafragms) and lips. Opera singers are strong on lung.
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I was just trying to make her appealing. So what you're saying is that she has all the bad points (she can yell at ya good) but none of hte good one (she can lip wrestle skillfully). Oh well. I'm married already.
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Ok Saint, you know what I'm doing? I'm kicking you out of this ball game! You're out of here!
And stacer, thank you for the pictures. I enjoyed them immensely. Which isn't to say I was a bad boy about them. I just found them to be humorous in the sense that yes, people do still dress up for this holiday.
Rub a dub dub, thanks for the grub.
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I'm sure the introduction would go well, since we're, what, 4000 miles apart?
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Tage, more like 3000, but yeah
Gemm, when you have the authority to do anything like that, I'll let you know.
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Oh, c'mon Tage, you're gonna let a piddly little 3000 miles stop you? :D
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Yeah, well. I'll give you authority! More like Anarchy!
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You know what that reminds me of? That episode of News Radio where the wimpy guy tries to go punk and makes a (bigger) arse of himself. You funny. Here's a monkey treat. Go be good now.
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3000 miles is perfect for a long distance relationship. One, she can't kill you Tage without nukes or something. Two, if she does like you Tage, she won't realize how short you are until it's too late. You can start emailing and if you lose interest you can just mark her emails as spam.
Despite the taboos of long distant relationships, I know several people who have made it work. One being my older brother and another is a friend of mine who's only successful marriage came from a long distance courtship.
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"only successful marriage..." heheh
the thing about LDR: you don't have to actually take anyone out. Also, however, you don't get lippage. Your call.
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MMmmmm, newsy, and radioy. My two favorite flavors.
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The majority of the courtship between my wife (of three months) and myself took place inter-state. You'd be surprised how fast things can move with email and letters.
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well, yeah, if you're all gonna be serious about it: most of my wooing of my wife was long distance (primarily mail, then phone). Email can only accelerate or aggravate that. But we started in person. I can't begin to think of how I'd start dating/relating to someone in an earnest manner when I've only seen one picture of them, and that while they were dressed like a Disney character. It sounds wrong.
Of course, once everyone is against me, and/or if someone went ahead with this idea, I would immediately change my stance to something more supportive, and deny I ever was against it.
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Tage, take me away! I want so much more than this provincial Boston life! and FYI opera singers have great lips :-*
How short are you?
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Wait, Boston eh? C'mon, I'm sooooo much closer than Tage. And I have more potential. What with the stuff and such and whatnot.
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Doubtful unless your LDS. But I wish you luck if you try.
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Unless of course this Belle person is just someone of my imagination and I'm making this all up, to myself. Everyone else see's Belle's post, yes?
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I don't know what you're talking about Gemm.
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Ah, and now the great guessing game begins: is Belle really Belle? Whether she is or not, I just hope that this doesn't turn into an online dating service--or more likely, since Gemm is here, and online propositioning service.
But I'll tell you this, Belle (if you really are Belle): getting a response out of Tage is a verrry difficult thing to do. Even dressed as a Disney character.
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I'm not sure whether the idea of Tage being attracted to a disney character, or the idea of Gemm probably being the one impersonating one, is more unnerving
Probably is a weird fusion of the two.
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I hope not. A weird fusion of those two ideas would result in Tage being attracted to Gemm, at which point the universe would collapse in onitself under the weight of it's inherent unbelievability. And we'd all be dead, or at least very crowded.
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So you CAN see why terror grips my heart like the icy fist of death.
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Ew! That's just . . . not right. . . . :-[
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To quell your fears, I should point out that Belle does have an email address with a feminine name. Sure, someone could have made it up, but that seems like an awfu lot of work for old Gemm, considering how busy he is trying to write a novel (we hope).
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I dunno, it smells funny to me.
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A funny smell would definitely imply Gemm's involvement.
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I have to admit that I'm suspicious.
But, if she is real, someone tell her which thread she can go to warp Tage's face. How could she not fall for him after she's stretched his nose halfway across the screen a few times?
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I'll tell you what. It isn't me. I have only half a mind, and half of that mind wouldn't even bother with such a thing. And I'm not that clever, or at least I wasn't. So no worries about your flightless universe collapsing in upon itself. I still think I'm the only one that can see this "Belle" though.
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The easiest way is just for an admin to check the IP addresses. Those are logged, right? But then, that would remove the mystery from the situation.
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Dude, I'm telling you, it isn't me. I swear! Why would I do that to myself? I'm already enough on edge, I needen't anymore of that stuff on my shoulders. I think we should get to the bottom of this situation and ask stacer herself!
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Dance, monkey, dance!
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No! I do not want to dance! Don't make me! You will be sorry-er than you could ever imagine!
And NO! I willn't sing for you!
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"Thou dost protest too much"
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Thou doth wisheth to geteth my footeth up thou behindeth.
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Who was protesting? It really isn't me, I swear. I promise. I tell you. Um, ran out of synonyms.
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I affirm. I testify. I confirm. I declare. I witness. (just helping out)
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But I might know who did.
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ah HA! So Stacer is behind this!
That doesn't make sense. I thought only Gemm would call Boston "provincial."
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Provincial? Isn't that like a providence, but with more... provisions.... Yes.
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I didn't say I was behind this. Beside it, more like.
(P.S. Olly-olly-oxen-free! Belle, come out of hiding!)
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Anyone would call Boston provincial if they were quoting the movie. Uncultured swine.
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Quote the movie? Why would I do something like that.
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Wow. I'm away from the board for an evening and miss all the excitement. I do hope there's more to this story. (everybody loves a happy ending ;D)
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ok, no. This is where I draw the line.
1) I did know he/she/it was quoting the movie, I just found it an amusing incongruity with Boston
2) Even if I didn't, not knowing the lyrics to a song from WIMPY DISNEY FILM does not, has never, and never will constitute uncultured or swinehood.
Feh.
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So... I'm not uncultured? or swinely-like?
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woah now! Let's not go overboard! You're putting words in my mouth here.
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Hey, I am a real person! :'(
And yes, I am hiding behind the facade, name and photo of a Disney character but how is this very different from eveyone on this site... "Tage", "Gemm"?
"Mistress of Darkness"??
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I don't hide. I really am a saint.
Let me be clear: you should probably discount 90% of what I say, especially if there's a way to take what I said as humor.
But also, I hope I didn't say there was something inherently wrong as using a disney character as a moniker. I didn't mean to. I just said there was something wrong with using familiarity with Disney as a basis for cultural literacy.
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And while I may not be a mad or a medical Dr., I am in fact Jeffe,
Or Jeffry if you prefer...
Please to meet you and thak you for Delurking ;D
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I also 'Thak' you for turning up. Maybe you will make Tage do something amusing. I like my entertainment.
Ignore Gemm. I am unconvinced as to his membership of the human race.
Ignore Saint. He's a bad man. Almost English teacher bad.
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Someone should tell you not to bother with the scottish brit. He's crap. I on the other hand, particularly the right, am a happy go lucky, paranoid, humor loving guy. And Entropy is wrong since I have my liscense to be a member of the human race.
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I never do anything amusing. Why do you think I'm only level 13 and SE is 48?
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are you saying I'm here for your amusement?
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Ok, so it turns out I missed two whole pages of this thread because I habitually just click on the last page of any given thread.
On another forum I frequent, we have a title (like our levels) called "Shut Up." I think most of you need that in your title somewhere. Stop posting so much!
The real question is, then, why does Belle want out of Boston? From what I hear, it's a great place.
And I'm 5'8".
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Want some cheese with that?
It's not our fault that you post once in a blue moon and don't pay attention to what you're reading. Sounds personal.
So STOP PERSECUTING ME!
/me cries
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Hey, you know, we're going to be in Boston next summer....
Actually, Stacer, if that other girl in the photo is your other roommate, then you have quite the lovely apartment.
Say, I've got three unmarried roommates.... (Tage being one of them, FYI.)
Of course, there's also me. I, however--as everyone knows--am a confirmed bachelor.
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I think we should unconfirm you. Having experience with it, Marriage is an institutionalization... er... institution I highly recommend.
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Actually, Stacer, if that other girl in the photo is your other roommate, then you have quite the lovely apartment.
Why, thank you, kind sir. <curtsy> We try. You've seen 3 out of 4. The other one didn't get dressed up for Halloween.
I don't think I know your other two roommates, since 42 moved out. Or were you even roommates? Maybe it was neighbors. I could never keep it straight.
And Tage, Belle really was just quoting the movie. Unless you feel like playing the swooping-in knight, I suppose (though I really can't speak for her).
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Of course, there's also me. I, however--as everyone knows--am a confirmed bachelor.
Ah, but remember EUOL, you broke that myth for us sometime last month. You admitted that you date. That's not confirmed. That's no Matthew Cuthbert or C.S. Lewis.
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heh, we just need to get him lippage
BTW, i recommend the swooping in knight in shining armor thing. Chicks dig it
Also, the whole unconvnetional "to heck with 'em" attitude about public shame and enjoying yourself. If you're having fun without being offensive, even if it's "not cool" chicks dig it
and none will admit it, but they all know that stolen flowers are better than ones from the store
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Ah, but remember EUOL, you broke that myth for us sometime last month. You admitted that you date.
That was, of course, my alter ego speaking. EUOL never dates. Brandon Sanderson, however....
If you haven't learned by now that I reserve the right to be multiple people at once, and argue both sides at once, then you need to pay attention a little bit better. :)
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I think, for the safety of the female race, that BS should remain a confirmed bachelor. However, I also thought that about Morag, and thing seem to have turned out well.
And Belle, Mistress of Darkness is my name because I aspire to one day becoming the Mistress of All EVIL (see Sleeping Beauty). But I realize that I still have a long way to go. For one thing I need to gain control of those ultra-cool green flames.
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Well that and a new Icon like Malificent or something, somehow tigger just doens't strike fear in the hearts of mankind.
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yeah, that's because you don't hear "The Wonderful Thing about Tiggers" a dozen times a day.
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Oh yes it does. Tigger is quite the tactical scare. If done right. You must take a stuffed Tigger, which is hard to find since they are an endangered species. Then speak to a group of kids, and WHAM! Tear the head off and begin to throw the innards at them! Hahhaha!
Well, this may throw Tage off being on a new page and all.
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Gemm, I'm only going to say this once before I release the hounds:
Stay AWAY from my children.
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goping? that sounds a lot like gropping
But yeah, Gemm, stay the hell away from my children, when I have them, because they will have stuffed Tiggers.
Jeffe: yeah, I've been asking a friend of mine with a video card in his computer to get one for me for a long time now. Hasn't happened. I'd be right pleased if someone could get me one.
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"goping?" I don't even know what you're talking about
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Hey, I'm still young. I've got time. Give it a chance.
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MoD, do you mean somthing like this (http://www.saintehlers.com/misc/izzy/malificent)?
Amazing what an image.google search will get you.
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That is way cool. I just need to get my friend to square the dimensions of the picture in photoshop and there I will have it!!
/me jumps up and down in an excited manner
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Saint fixed it! I'm not thrilled with the pic quality, but then I hardly ever am. :)
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cry me a river. for the mistress of all evil, you sure are whiney.
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Like I said, still in training.
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For a few seconds there I tried to think of something that would put this thread back on topic. I'm not that inventive.
You know, if you look at that new Malificent icon right, it looks like one of those guardian-dog things from Samurai Jack. Anybody else see it?
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heh, yeah.
ALthough, you could pull it back on topic by flirting at Belle
We just got on a Disney tangent
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Hahaha, dangit, she changed her icon again. How are we supposed to make fun of it if you keep changing it, MoD?
Man I haven't done any online flirting in a long time. But in all fairness, I suppose I can at least ask Belle how tall she is.
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I blame myself. I told her I'd found some new ones
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I have a feeling Belle will be offline today. She has a concert tonight. Which I am going to. It's the Three-Penny Opera, if you've ever heard of it. Apparently, it's French Caberet style.
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Well at least take a camera, stacer.
And since Belle was kind enough to ask "What kind of name is Tage?" I looked around for an answer. Originally (meaning, when I was 16) I looked up the name in a scandinavian history book, but until today I'd forgotten who he was, exactly. Well, here you go:
from http://www.algonet.se/~sylve_a/e_tronas.htm
Tage Thott was in 1562 inherited by his sons Anders, who didn't leave any children behind him, and Otte, who in his marriage with Sophie Brahe had a son, Tage Thott. This son inherited the estate in 1588. He was in 1603 made court nobleman and was then feoffor at Laholm, Sölvesborg, Landskrona and finally Malmöhus. In his military career he advanced to cavalry captain and distinguished himself by succesfully defending Malmöhus Castle during the war of Horn in 1643. He was appointed to counsel of realm and was one of few noblemen who in 1657 opposed the declaration of war towards Sweden. Through inheritance, marriage and purchase Tage Thott came into possession of several major estates, among others Ericsholm, Skabersjö, Barsebäck, Värpinge, Bjersjöholm and Herrestad, and was called "The Scanian King" because of his wealth and power. Despite this he was a pretty simple country gentleman and was on a good footing with the lower Estates. He is also supposed to have been literary intrerested and gave the poet Vitus Bering free board and lodging at Skabersjö. Tage Ottesen Thott died in 1658, a few days before Skåne was ceded to Sweden, and was buried at St. Peter's church in Malmö.
I got the name from Tage Ottesen Thott. Perceptive readers may have noticed his mother's name. There's some interesting info on her here:
http://www.landskrona.se/kultur/tychobrahe02/sis.html
Sophie Brahe was born in 1556 at Knutstorp. When she was 17 years old, she became Tycho's assistant and helped him with observations during a lunar eclipse. In 1577, she married Otto Thott of Eriksholm, the present Trolleholm. After 11 years of marriage, Otto Thott died, and afterwards Sophie managed the estate and raised their son, Tage Ottesen Thott. She visited her brother on the island of Hven 5-6 times a year, and might stay at Uraniborg for several weeks at a time. Tycho regarded her as his colleague and called her his "learned sister". She provided him with someone to have an intelligent conversation with.
Now that I didn't know. Having found this out, from now on I shall refer to Tycho from Penny Arcade as "Uncle Tycho."
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What did you think of Princess Leah?
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So is Tage an ancestor, or did he just strike your fancy as you were pouring through a detailed history of Scandinavia?
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Wait a sec--we just had another new poster.
Tabea, are you another Stacer-roomate, or just a random lurker?
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Carefully, EUOL, or someone might accuse you of caring.
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[in really cheesy announcer's voice]
That's right, EUOL, you too can be introduced to one of stacer's roommates.
[/announcer]
Hmmm--this can turn into not only Tage's dating thread, but also EUOL's. Roommates--roommates. Hmmm.
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And only 3000 miles away. Hell, i am probably almost as close to boston as tage is.
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Actually Tage just struck my fancy. Seems like a cool name to me.
And Tabea, don't try to fool us, we already know that Leia was stacer.
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I vote we send Gemm with a digital camera to boston to investigate this apartment.
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I don't think they've done anything to deserve that.
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yeah, I think you have to violate multiple UN resolutions to warrant that. Even Bush kept Gemm out of Iraq...
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Hey! I resent some of those things. I didn't get to go to Iraq because I wasn't old enough to be in the "Secret Ballot" draft. Which only me, Bush, and a few other special people know about.
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"special" indeed. Is this "Short bus" special?
Or maybe more like "butterfly ballot" special.
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I like to think of them all as "Anatomically Incorrect Special."
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Hum. Girl=3,000 miles away.
Yes, that seems about perfect for my purposes.
(http://www.timewastersguide.com/gross11.gif)
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/me laughs
That's very good. But I don't think even your spit wads will travel that far.
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* stacer seconds that laugh
Yep, I'd say most of the guys I know are quite Calvin-esque.
And BTW, Tage, no photography allowed in Jordan Hall. >:( It would have been really cool, with Emily's hair all piled up on her head and her shooting nasty looks at her costars. She played a MEAN girl! Good concert.
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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Mean Girl!!!
Argrgrgraraararrrar!
(http://www.pearl-jam.com/simpsons/sihmahh.jpg)
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*I* like NICE girls.
and then I corrupt them
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*looks at Eric skeptically*
Sure you do. How many girls have you corrupted, or are you just planning to slowly corrupt your daughters?
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see, it's working already. you think I'm a nice guy.
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Tage darling,
I am 5'8'' as well, it is the perfect height don't you think? Men however, tend to add an inch (or two) to their hieght, so you may really be 5'7'', no?
The next pictures that Stacy has will be embarrassing. I fear that niether accurately represent me, Emily, but then I am a singing-actress so what do I expect? I WAS thrilled though that you could recognize me as Belle for Halloween. Some people had a hard time and I got guesses like "Omish?" But now Belle can live on forever as accurately perceived by Tage in the Time Waster's Guide ;D
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/me assumes Middle School mode
Ohhh she called you darling!! Your gonna marry!!
/me resumes normal cynical mode
Wewh, thats outta my system.
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/me is eager to see embarassing pictures.
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Wow, Stacers brought two girls in to the world of Nurddom.
/me bows repeatedly
"Im not worthy, Im not worthy"
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Today at Fell's house, Tage was watching Beauty and the Beast. Granted, both of Fell's toddlers were there, but I think Tage talked them into it.
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This is now my favorite thread.
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We love you too Kije.
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Are you speaking for the group, or did your personality pull a mitosis on you?
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No no. We don't do mitosis. We do osmosis.
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You all better watch who you hang out with, then.