Timewaster's Guide Archive
General => Everything Else => Topic started by: Mr_Pleasington on December 01, 2005, 03:07:58 AM
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With all the new people posting, it dawned on me just how long I've been a member here. It's had to be three or four years now. You'd think that strange considering the only person on the forum I've actually met was JP.
So let's post some TWG forum trivia for the new folks.
Or something.
I'll start.
1. My sig is from a long-defunct superhero play-by-post forum game. Fell was the GM and it was set in high-school. Sprig's quote comes from the fact that his character was the only one with a low charisma. The humor comes from the classic Sprig typo.
2. There was a time, long ago, when I was in the top 5 posters here. This was before SE and Jeffe started their post-run and before the writing group started. Back, when there weren't any females around too, I think.
Just some random memories.
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Trivia is supposed to be questions. (I just had to point that out. Please don't hurt me!)
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Actually, no it's not.
"trivia"
n : something of small importance [syn: triviality, trifle, small beer]
Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University
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Yes, but most often in today's society, unless specified by 'trivial' or things like unto it, it carries the connotation of being a question. Consider it slanged.
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TRIVIA
This is the 3rd version of the website with the first being really ugly and green.
This the the second forum.
Tage's secret identity is Jimmy.
here's the formula for determining your life in the forum game :
playerBaseHP=toughness*10+endurance*5+strength*1+Mental Fortitude*10;
And this is Flash Fell (http://www.legacieslost.com/flash/movies/dan5.html)
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Lol ;D
And go investigate, to die! :D
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Dr P has actually only been around like 2 years or something. I remember when he joined :P
Trivia: SE is a smelly dog.
Trivia: Me and SE once statted up the ninja monkies.
Trivia: When I joined I was a hapless newb, but there wasn't any policing so I got away with it. I didn't use capitals - if you look way back in the tabletop section you can see some of my attempts at paragraphs back when I first joined.
Trivia: The first time I slammed a newbie down, Tage told me to stop. My defense? 'He shouldn't have said fallout 2 wasn't a good game'. :D
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Back, when there weren't any females around too, I think.
I was the second female to sign up on the boards, with fuzzyoctopus being the first. Both of us long before Mr_Pleasington signed up. ;)
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But this is the first time you've posted in approximately 4 months :P
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I was the second female to sign up on the boards, with fuzzyoctopus being the first. Both of us long before Mr_Pleasington signed up. ;)
I thought Fuzzy came after me. No. I don't remember.
And I've been around for longer than 2 years...it's been at least 3 if not 4. I met my wife 2 years ago and I can still remember the post about internet dating I put up here.
Let's see...here's my first review...
http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=358
Dated 11/02. And I know I was here at least a few months, if not longer, before I submitted a review.
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Written by Entropy on May 28th, 2002
That's my first review - I joined the site when my first review went up. Wierd. Though i'd only been around here for 2 odd years. :s
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Fact: Mr. P registered on Jul 29th, 2002, 12:10am. He's been around over 3 years.
Fact: Entropy registered on May 24th, 2002, 3:20pm. He's only been around 2 months longer than Mr. P
Fact: I was the 7th or 8th person to register on this forum. But I promptly forgot my login and ignored the site for 2 years or so, only sending my articles to Fell every now and then. I started lurking again in January-ish of 2003. and de-lurked a month later.
Fact: the Fell flash animation is from the infamous AORP game I ran. I came up with the Grey Knight concept, though EUOL made it his. I take no responsibility whatsoever for Sir Carl.
Fact: AORP is also why i'm often referred to as SE.
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My picture comes from Piers Anthony's Apprentice Adept series. The black unicorn's name is Neysa. I always pronounced it like my nickname, Nessa, although that may not be the pronounciation Mr. Anthony intended.
That is why I use that picture.
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1. SE stands for Saint Ehlers, which is one of the many fictional saints created by Brother John--the con artist priest character I played in AORP.
2. AORP is older than TWG, but eventually merged with TWG.
3. TWG started as an article written for the Leading Edge (http://www.leadingedgemagazine.com/) Issue 41 April 2001.
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Trivia: The first time I slammed a newbie down, Tage told me to stop. My defense? 'He shouldn't have said fallout 2 wasn't a good game'. :D
Trivia: The first time Entropy slapped around a newbie, I told him to stop. Nowadays, whenever a newbie annoys me I call upon Entropy to slap him/her around. That reminds me, RaoCar needs some humble pie, I think. Also, Entropy provided the quote for my sig probably over two years ago, and I haven't ever changed it.
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Trivia is supposed to be questions. (I just had to point that out. Please don't hurt me!)
*hurts OneEyedGreenPerson*
For once, you are quite wrong. Trivia questions are not trivia. The answers to trivia questions are trivia. You're mistaken about the connotation.
--The lowest-numbered registered forum user who does not have an @timewastersguide.com email address and has never written an article for it.
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Trivia: TWG sprang forth Athenastically from TLE, as has been mentioned; the originator of the concept was Skar, for which he shall always be remembered as a genius.
Trivia: EUOL is pronounced "yool," and stands for Evil Undead Overlord.
Trivia: Tage has used that nickname for every Final Fantasy character he's ever created. It is only since AORP, in fact, that he stopped using Tage in every video game and started using Cadamis instead.
Trivia: House_of_Mustard has never seen a pie he didn't like.
Trivia: Entropy came to TWG because of our heavy Games Workshop focus. He used to complain when that focus disappeared, but now I think he's given up hope.
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fact: i'm pretty sure that "Athenastically" is not a made up word
fact: Fell only used that word to try and make you feel inferior. Yes. YOU. You know who you are.
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fact: Everything Fell does is intended, on some level, to make somebody else feel inferior.
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Alright, here's some historical trivia for you.
Trivia: This site is not, in fact, the third version of timewastersguide.com. The first was the green monster, seen here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010720190749/http://www.timewastersguide.com/
I believe this site was coded by Fell himself, using plain HTML. Who says he can't code?
The second version of the site was very similar (static pages updated by hand) but had the brown clock theme done by the amazing Jeff Creer (42).
The third version of the site was actually created with PHP-Nuke (http://www.phpnuke.org/). This was the first version of the site with a dynamic backend, using PHP and MySQL. PHP-Nuke turned out to be not quite right for our needs, though, so I coded the current version up when I had free time at work. (That particular summer I had a LOT of free time at work.)
I don't think we counted the middle version as a new version simply because it was just a graphics overhaul. It did, however, have a cute little javascript clock that told you what time it was.
We have also attempted, at some point, to have a clock that would tell you how much time you'd wasted browsing the site.
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We have also attempted, at some point, to have a clock that would tell you how much time you'd wasted browsing the site.
Frankly, I'm glad that we don't have that easy access to such incriminating evidence.
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Also, since Fell brought it up...
Trivia: I've been using Tage as a nick since I was 16. Tage and Cadamis are the only two nicknames I have that weren't given to me by Fell.
Trivia: Fell has notoriously avoided a good nickname all his life, despite constantly coming up with them for other people. "Fellfrosch" is the name of a Rammstein song, and it means "dire frog" in German.
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Fact: Mr. P registered on Jul 29th, 2002, 12:10am. He's been around over 3 years.
Fact: Entropy registered on May 24th, 2002, 3:20pm. He's only been around 2 months longer than Mr. P
Can I get a boo-yah?
Boo-yah! In your face Entropy!
:D
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Trivia: Tage's other nicknames include Rick Stranger, Benjamo, Jim, Jimmy, Jimothy, Jimbo, James, and The Almighty Pronoun.
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Trivia: If I recall correctly, I was the first person to post on the forum.
Trivia: Fell was 6 and I was 5, he convinced me to run away from home. I swear I had no idea that we'd get in trouble, because I had (and continue to have) complete faith in every word he says.
Trivia: My wife was the third female to register, and has never posted once.
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That's my first review - I joined the site when my first review went up. Wierd. Though i'd only been around here for 2 odd years. :s
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Since we moved from site Version 2.0 every article from before that time has the same date.
Fact:
Both Mr. P and Entropy were registered before we switched to this current forum so they've re-registered like everyone else and the dates don't reflect the time before that switch.
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Entropy was one of the first, if not the first, non-Utah/Mormon TWG forum member and has been around for about 4 years or so.
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Can I get a boo-yah?
Do you watch Kim Possible? Cause I just had a total Ron Stoppable image flash through my mind when I read that.
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In my defense, Mustard and I both ran away. It's not like I just convinced him to leave and then sat back with a triumphant smile. Although that would have been cool.
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Hey good catch, Sprig. I'd forgotten about all those date-stamps being the same. Do you guys remember hand importing all the old articles into the 2.0 site?
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There was that Isimir/lord of me guy who was around when I first joined. Or did he join soon after me? He was from glasgow or something I think...
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Fact: Skar germinated the idea for an article entitled "The Time Waster's Guide" for TLE issue 41 with the sole purpose in mind of getting hold of Diablo 2 for free. It worked. They sent him a review copy in exchange for the article, on spec. Later they also sent him the Expansion Pack.
Months or years (some time) after that he discovered to his great surprise and satisfaction that Fell and others had run with the concept, created a website by the same name, and were harvesting free stuff galore from all sorts of game companies.
Now he just screens the occasional movie, for free. Ha Ha!
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I still miss Lord of Me once in a while. He was the very first punching bag on the forum.
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Trivia: This site is not, in fact, the third version of timewastersguide.com. The first was the green monster, seen here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010720190749/http://www.timewastersguide.com/
Gah! I'm blind!
I'm glad you all went with something less offensive this version. ;)
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My eyes! :o They burn! :D
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Okay, trivia...let's see.
HoM was the first person on the forums to get published and paid a professional wage for his fiction.
The TWG started as a website, in part, because Fell (with some of the rest of us) felt sad having to leave The Leading Edge, a sf/f magazine on BYU campus, behind and move on with our lives.
The forum names and titles were designed by Fell and myself. Which reminds me. Tage, now that I've moved to a different computer, my version of smartftp no longer has the login/username memorized, so I can't update forum titles or put people in the corner any more. Could you email me the login info?
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That reminds me, RaoCar needs some humble pie, I think.
I'm working on it.
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Oh, and another nifty one. HoM has the only custom forum class--one that you can't pick when you join. I did it for him a while back, maybe a year ago. I don't know if he ever noticed.
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Trivia: My wife was the third female to register, and has never posted once.
Possibly.
Fact: I registered long, long ago, but then my account got all screwed up, so I had to delete it and re-register. Tage then (after deletion) told me he could have fixed it for me had I said something. So I've been around far longer than my registration implies. I think I was even on the first page of members, or at least right at the top of the second page. :(
But also...
Fact: I never posted till I noticed Izzy (Mistress of Darkness) complaining that she was the only girl who ever posted.
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Trivia: multiple forum members, including myself and GuJiaXian and SE (and almost certainly more than that), have applied for various jobs at Wizards of the Coast. We were all rejected. Then Stacer came in out of left field and got hired there, despite not being a rabid geek. The injustice....
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Inconceivable! ;)
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despite not being a rabid geek.
You're just jealous. ;)
But I still claim that I'm as much a nerd as anyone here, just about different things. :) And EUOL has bestowed nerd status on me according to TWG standards for as long as I work at Wizards. I'm an honorary geek, apparently.
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Hey good catch, Sprig. I'd forgotten about all those date-stamps being the same. Do you guys remember hand importing all the old articles into the 2.0 site?
I rememeber I helped.
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The weird thing about me meeting Mr. P is I'm probably furthest away from him out of anybody.
Trivia: The forum has had essentially three subgroups: TWG East, TWG Utah, and TWG Aus, which is basically a bunch of people I know who started posting here, and seemed to have left a little before I did.
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Technically there's also TWG Gateway...
...but I guess that's just me.
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Trivia: Almost every woman on this forum has, at one point or another, been attracted to EUOL. Despite this, Ookla and I are the only ones to have shared a bed with him.
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That was one I didn't expect to see.
...Aaaaanyway, as far as TWG groups goes, though, when I moved to Seattle, Mistress of Darkness and I became our own little TWG West. Though, funny enough, our schedules matched more on IM when I lived in Boston. :)
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Fact: I have more ninja monkeys than you will ever have.
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Trivia: The forum has had essentially three subgroups: TWG East, TWG Utah, and TWG Aus, which is basically a bunch of people I know who started posting here, and seemed to have left a little before I did.
I miss TWG Aus. They added much needed variety.
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Technically there's also TWG Gateway...
...but I guess that's just me.
I used to live in St. Louis (Olivette area). Does that count?
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Oh, and another nifty one. HoM has the only custom forum class--one that you can't pick when you join. I did it for him a while back, maybe a year ago. I don't know if he ever noticed.
What? Really? I thought I was still Student of Honor?
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Nope, your Student of Dishonor. ;D
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...Aaaaanyway, as far as TWG groups goes, though, when I moved to Seattle, Mistress of Darkness and I became our own little TWG West.
...but MoD lives MUCH closer to me than to you...
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Oops. I forgot we're a group of three. :-[
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Trivia: Almost every woman on this forum has, at one point or another, been attracted to EUOL.
I deny everything.
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Denial is the first step, acceptance is the second.
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Well, I can definitely honestly say that I am not, nor have ever been, attracted to EUOL (no offence :)). This is a very good thing since I am married and that would just be wrong!
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Just like two guys making out would be wrong?
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mmmkay back to Trivia.
Superfly is a designation for the aimless threads of talk inspired by my insomnia and bizarre posting habits when I worked the 10pm to 6 am shift here at the NRC. The idea is to emulate AIM or Yahoo messenger by going with a stream of rapidfire posts. Yes it sort of violates the FAQ. Thats the point and why we're still in the corner, however some great discussions happened because of it. So nyahhh
Any meandering rambling conversations belong there.
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Okay, this doesn't really have to do with TWG but it is still trivia: two days ago my brother was hit by a car. On his mission. He only had a hurt knee and a sprained ankel, and he is going to be teaching the lady that hit him.
Ohhh. now I see what you meant.
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Fact: the Superfly Night Crew is actually no longer in the corner.
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Yes, I was going to point out the fact that I am the only one who is in said corner.
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and you always will be...
MUHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH!
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and you always will be...
MUHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH!
It's not nice to laugh at other people's misfortune.
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sure it is... in fact I think we expressly put it somewhere in the bylaws...
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Which bylaws where? How can it ever be nice to make someone feel bad? I'm telling me metiforical psycotic friend on you. He knows where you sleep, or at least he soon will...
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Which bylaws where? How can it ever be nice to make someone feel bad? I'm telling me metiforical psycotic friend on you. He knows where you sleep, or at least he soon will...
uh... what?
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If you don't understand I have no way to help you.
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Okay, this doesn't really have to do with TWG but it is still trivia: two days ago my brother was hit by a car. On his mission. He only had a hurt knee and a sprained ankel, and he is going to be teaching the lady that hit him.
That exact thing happened to me. I had contusions, that was it. The car was a LIncoln Town Car. And it had rolled over my leg and bike.
The express bylaws are not written, as they are sacred.
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The mere existence of the corner is evidence that it's okay to laugh at anyone in it. Why would it be there otherwise? We'd just make the website round.
Also: I'm telling me metiforical psycotic friend on you.
I take back anything I may have said about your l33t writing skillz.
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The corner can either be a place of disgrace or of distinction. It really depends on your attitude. I put myself there for the heck of it once.
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That doesn't mean we didn't laugh at you.
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And your laughter made me stronger, just as it makes OneEye stronger!
Though, honestly, laws of the corner have been broken. I always put why the person was put in the corner. IE, I post "Currently in the corner for being one eyed: OneEyeGreenPerson" or something like that.
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I don't even know how to put people in the corner, other than snapping my fingers and watching the minions scurry. I think this time the minion was Tage, so blame him.
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Weren't you the one that put him in the corner?
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Yes, via finger-snapping. I'm like a Godfather: I tell Tage to handle something for me and he does, and the less I know about his methods the better.
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That's funny--I was asking EUOL, but you must have posted at the same time as me. I thought it was EUOL who did your finger-snapping bidding. Not that I was paying very close attention, so it could have been the ninja monkeys, for all I know.
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Maybe like a fairy godfather.
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Oh and one more piece of trivia...
Im the guy who started changing names for Christmas around here. :)
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Yes, via finger-snapping. I'm like a Godfather: I tell Tage to handle something for me and he does, and the less I know about his methods the better.
There must be repurcussions for such statements.
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and what might they be "Tage the heralds sweetly sing".....
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Hark, Harold! The angels sing!
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Oh and one more piece of trivia...
Im the guy who started changing names for Christmas around here. :)
What a holly jolly idea. :D I was just wondering about that, actually. Let's see, from henceforth until 2006 is upon us, I think I'll be... 8 Flying Shraindeer.
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Oh and one more piece of trivia...
Im the guy who started changing names for Christmas around here. :)
And what a jolly good tradition it is!
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Aww, why does everyone else have names that can be easily adapted for Chrismas
Edit: Actually, never mind, I hadn't seen the names like "on the twelfth day of mustard" and "christmas e", so I guess you don't really need an adaptable name to think up a good cristmas one (though, how good is "chrismas e")
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Christmasy, Christmas Eve, etc.
I was Stacer the Reindeer last year, which wasn't very good. I need a good one this year, and e (or should I say, Christmas e) couldn't think of one either. Not that I've thought too hard. But suggestions welcome.
Edit: I figured it out.
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I cannot for the life of me remember what my nick was last Christmas.
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From what I hear E is always better around Christmas.... and just wait till you chase it with some eggnog... best darn eggnog you ever had.
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Tek the halls worked well for me last year. Why change perfection?
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Trivia: Almost every woman on this forum has, at one point or another, been attracted to EUOL. Despite this, Ookla and I are the only ones to have shared a bed with him.
I think that Jade Knight finds EUOL more attractive than I do.
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Can someone tell me what the corner is?
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Scroll all the way down to the bottom and look on the left while you are in a thread and you should see it. Right now it says:
Currently in the corner for being too "snappy": Fellfrosch
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WHAT??!??!! I do NOT see--!
Oh, you mean the bottom right. I've never noticed that before. 8)
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From what I hear E is always better around Christmas.... and just wait till you chase it with some eggnog... best darn eggnog you ever had.
You could then start an Egg Nog Blog (http://jimburgessdesign.com/comics/index.php?comic=426)
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Despite multiple mentions of it, I fail to see the fascination with an egg nog blog.
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it RHYMES!
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Secretly, I've always wanted to be in the corner. Sadly, I have yet to achieve the distinction.
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I have been in the corner, but I can't remember why.
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Secretly, I've always wanted to be in the corner. Sadly, I have yet to achieve the distinction.
Keep trying. You'll get there eventually.
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I didn't even know we had a corner.
Well, I doubt I'll ever get put there. I'm much too cute and cuddly. (Let's see if reverse pyschology really works ;))
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But I *like* things that are cute and cuddly.
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Then I guess I'll never get put in the corner. Curse my cute cuddliness! ;) :P
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Then I guess I'll never get put in the corner. Curse my cute cuddliness! ;) :P
JuSST MAkE A PostS Lik THis And MHAKE it Go oN FoR EvERs
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LiK Ds? ! Want 2 b !Nda corner! 2!!!1 Bhowld mI L33T Sp33kEn CkilZ!!!!!1 ThA wH!l HaV knoWw chOYse BUt 2 puT mE !n DA crnr!!
You'd probably be able to go in the corner too if you started posting in different languages like this:
Tout le monde qui peut comprendre ce que j'ecrit peut ecrire des messages dans code est personne va te comprende (avec francais pour la code évidemment)
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You seem entirely too natural at that form of 'writing' for you not to have lots of experiance in it.
Also the laguage thing isn't true. Look on page 12 or 13 of the Advice thread and you will see a post that lays this theory to rest.
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You know, if you annoy the admins enough, they'll bypass the corner and go straight to erasing your profile. Or sending the ninja monkeys. Or something like that.
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They wouldn't do that, would they? :'(
Anything but that!
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They wouldn't do that, would they? :'(
Anything but that!
Gutter-Crawler. :P
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Actually, there were plans for a "Student of Annoying the Admins" class. The idea was that if you annoyed us enough, we'd change your profile to that class (it wasn't one you could pick.) Then, the class titles would all be embarrassing and/or stupid things.
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That's hilarious! You guys should have done that, (Just not to me.)
:)
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Too late; Cosplayer already got put into a different class. =þ
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Who is that?
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Actually, ninja monkeys are pretty much a first response. We rarely wait till we're terribly annoyed to employ them.