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General => Suggestions Box => Topic started by: Spriggan on March 19, 2003, 05:49:29 PM
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haha this is probaly one of your best Fell ;D
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:o Is that appropiate? I'm one of those "long time readers, first time posters." But I must say that the current number of votes is the oddest I've seen in a poll yet. Is there any such explanation for this on anyone's part?
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First off thanks for reading Gemm ;D. I was wondering that myself so I checked our site statistics and on moday and tuesday we got over 4,200 hits on monday alone. So I'm wondering if Fell or Tage got a link posted on another site. Last time we had this flux a friend at www.toriyamaworld.com posted a link for a few days.
Hum just found out that SublimeTimes a part of Sublimedirectorys.com had us as the top site of the week. www.sublimedirectory.com/stimes/
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TWG has been making the rounds of a lot of blogs recently; Sublime Directory is the largest so far, and the only one who's readers have participated in the poll. So thank you, all you Sublime Times people out there! Feel free to stick around and click doughnut-related radio buttons.
By the way, Gemm, I'd like to add that you're truly outrageous. Truly, truly, truly outrageous.
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We have long-time readers, first-time posters? Wow, and here I thought the world at large was ignoring our humble little forum.
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Outrageous huh? Well hey, thats compliment enough for me. Thank you Fell. ...wonder why Fell called me that. Oh well. And Tage, I read the articles more than I do the forum, but I'll try to get around to the forums more :P So ya, I guess that makes sense, even though I must say, "it doesn't." Anywho, thanks for the answer.
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Gemm, were you kidding about not being sure why Fell said you were truly outrageous? It's hard to tell with text. If you truly don't know, he's referring to the Gem (or was it Jemm?) cartoon from the mid-80s, the girl with pink hair that had a band. Man, I loved that cartoon. It was on right after Thundercats, which was another fav. The Gem theme went "Gem! Truly outrageous..." etc. Can't really remember the rest, or at least, I won't admit to it.
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I bet yesterdayland.com has it somewhere. At the very least, you could find out about the series. Remember, though, that Jem wasn't just a girl with a band--she was an 80s business woman who used a magic/alien/cybernetic (I don't know) ring to transform into her secret alter ego as rock star. I'm embarrassed to know that much about the show...
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OHh....how about that. I don't think I was around for that...ummm ok then. Sure.
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Fell, uh... we're ALL embarassed you know that much..
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Don't deny that you were singing the theme song in your head. I know...
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Come to think of it, Fell, I do remember the business woman with a magic ring thing. She was cool. And, of course, you can't forget the black and green haired girl band who were always trying to beat Jem and her band. I even had a sticker book, like the Barbie ones in which you can change their outfits etc. It's like a glorified coloring book--a coloring book for the sophisticated 5th grader.
Ah, those were the days, looking forward to Jem after school, imagining *I* could be her. Or that when I grew up I'd live on another planet like the Thundercats. Or find a magic sword like She-Ra. Oh yeah, man. 8) But I refuse to acknowledge that I knew anything about GI Joe or He-Man--that was boy stuff. :P
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I never imagined that I was Jem, thank goodness, but I always got to be Panthro when we played Thudercats. For some reason, though, the games of Thundercats were always ruined because I'd spend the whole time trying to figure out why everyone else wasn't clamoring to be Panthro as well--I mean, he's obviously the best one, so what was wrong with all of these people?
We'd usually end up playing Go-Bots instead, and I'd be Loco because he was one of the only ones I owned, and because I thought the name was funny. There was this one kid who always wanted to be two Go-Bots, and he'd spend the whole time switching into one persona and then asking where the other one was. No one ever answered him, the little geek. I always used to think that breakdancing and beatboxing were invented by kids trying to emulate the sound and motion of Go-bots transforming, but I suppose we may never know.
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I was strictly a Star Wars man. Ok, yes, it was aldultrated slightly by GI Joe and Transformers, but never GoBots or Thunder Cats. We, like everyone, argued about who got to be luke. Until I realized that although he didn't use the Force, Han Solo was infinitely cooler, and got the girl anyway. Suddenly there were no conflicts.
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We usually solved that problem by saying that Han Solo got a lightsaber too. And Leia always had a sister.
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We had a fairly significant collection of the Star Wars toys, but, for some reason, we never had a Luke. So Luke was almost always in disguise. Sometimes he was a stormtrooper, but usually he was the drove the AT-AT.
Fell, dare I tell the infamous Wonder Woman story?
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I remember that we often wanted to be Wonder Woman, but I don't remember any specific stories. Pray tell.
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I remember that we often wanted to be Wonder Woman.
I'm suddenly VERY VERY glad I'm a couple thousand miles away from you now.
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Hey, who wouldn't want to be Wonder Woman? She could deflect bullets with her wrists. No man I know can do that.
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I had to go with the obligatory Misfit toys one. I think Indiana Jones would have quite the time fighting off Abominable Snowmen and helping to save the misfit toys. Now there's movie/book material!
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Gosh, I'm bored.
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That's so sick and yet so funny, 42. Did you do that yourself?
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Yes, like I said I've been kinda bored, so this is what I came up with based off of the current poll idea and book thread of combining 80's cartoons.
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Man, this thread is making me realize something about my life as a fringe speculative fiction fan. I have always been very interested in the genre and everything that goes along with it, but I was always late on the trends and never had the right friends for long enough. I read about you guys playing Star Wars and Thundercats...the friends in my neighborhood had just moved in from Minnesota and their grandpa owned a semi, so when we played let's pretend it was pick your favorite Milwaukee Brewer and then we'd bust out the toy trucks and go truckin'. As Brewers. I never knew anything about the Brewers, so I picked Paul Molitor (3B, now retired) and stayed with him, I think because of his name. It reminded me of monitor lizards and Komodo dragons. In a wierd way it made me proud many years later when Paul had a record-breaking hitting streak. I felt a part of it. But I digress. So anyways, I don't mean to whine, but I wish I had had friends that wanted play Thundercats.
I have to give some post-mother's-day thanks to my mom, though. When I was six and we lived south of San Francisco she drove me all the way across the bay to Oakland so I could see Godzilla vs. the Monster from Planet X. Even though nobody else we knew was aware that the movie even existed, she supported me.
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Oh, and did anyone else think Cheetara was hot? Maybe I was just at that age, but I always wondered about the group dynamics with there being only one lady-cat and the rest of them toms, so to speak. I really don't mean to get off-color here, so it's not my fault if you go there.
And Fell, I always thought Tigra was the coolest. I didn't like Panthro as much because he was purple.
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HOnestly, I hated the cartoon. I could never sit and watch it. I would have rather sat around for Voltron or something.
Now, if we could do 80's v. 90s, we could ahve Voltron come in and teach the MMPR how to REALLY handle a giant robot...
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Kije, you're welcome to play Thundercats with us any time you want. As long as I get to be Panthro, or possibly Mum-Ra.
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**warm, fuzzy feeling**
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First, shame on you.
Second, I need help.
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We never played Thundercats or Starwars or GI Joe. We had our own.. erm, thing.. called "Blaster Kids." It was actually pretty impressive, for a bunch of kids... there was this wizard that gave us various save-the-world type assignments, which were invariably interrupted by hordes of goblins. Although it wasn't fantasy, if anything it was sci-fi. We even had our own ranking system.
Although we invented it about 10 years prior to the show, I suppose it was sort of like Powerangers -- though it didn't involve transforming into various gigantic robots and fighting towering Godzilla dolls. Frankly, it was much, much cooler than Powerrangers. And I don't just say that because I'm biased.
We also didn't need stupid catch phrases or pathetic colorful costumes. We figured we were cool enough already.
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Where's Waldo...ur...Dale?
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It's always the third one that doesn't come out as well.
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42, we've always thought you needed help, but none of us were qualified to render it to you...
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I seem to recall that Sprig and I spent a lot of time with LEGOs. Of course, legos were wonderful for cross-genre, since they didn't really have a genre themselves. We always mixed lightsabers, transforming ships, and evil androids. Of course, the guys with the swords and the armor always kicked everyone's buts. Maybe that's because we had so few swords, or maybe I was a just a fantasy fan in embrio.
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SE there's not much that can help me.
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I spent a lot of time playing with legos too, but I invariably made the Starship Enterprise and went flying around blasting Klingons (remember, this was original Star Trek). BTW, is anyone else jealous of how cool Legos are today compared to the Legos of the 80s?
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PS: i want everyone to notice that i just reached lvl 2!
WOOHOOO!
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You know I don't really see a difference. They are more expensive and have more special parts.
I remember making secret hideouts with jet fighters, tanks and all sorts of stuff out of legos. Then I would take all my cool stuff and destroy my twin's hideout. Then he would destroy my hideout. Then we would usually end up in a fight until our parents or one of our older siblings would break it up. Then our legos would be confiscated until we created a plan to sneak them out and start the whole thing over again.
How did we get on the topic of legos? Though I think our next poll should be about legos.
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The special parts are exactly what I mean. You know how cool the Enterprise would have been if I would have had some of those lasers from the 'space age' Lego series of today.
Of course, at the the same time, the Legos of today make for less creativity. If the piece actually LOOKS like a laser, then it can only BE a laser, know what I mean?
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How did we get on the topic of legos? Though I think our next poll should be about legos.
The same way we ever get on any subject. I think the poll should be something like "Legos?" and the answer should be "How many?" "Of what sort?" "mmmmm" etc.
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Actually, I think most of the legos today are kind of lame. Have you seen the star wars ones? It seems like they come with about five pieces. Sure, those pieces are cool, but they're very specific and don't lend themselves well to imagination. Great if you want to build Anakin's fighter from Episode one, but terrible if you want to build anything else.
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...but... but... my favorite Jar-Jar Binks lego guy!
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Yep. Having a Star Wars, or a Harry Potter Lego set takes away what EUOL pointed out as their greatest strength: that they can't be tied down, that you can make them into anything.
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Of course, having the Jar Jar piece--so you can use his head to fuel your ship's reactor, or something like that--does have its allure.
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Ok seth green is so Fell. I was going to vote for kermit but that would be too obvious.
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I voted for Harrison Ford. Guess i was in a good mood. If i was doing a teenager and feeling angsty i would probably have voted Leanardo Di Caprio. Although i bet fell was hoping for Chow Yun Fat, considering his love of Crouching tiger hidden dragon.
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I wanted to vote for Martin Short, or John Lovitz. sadly, it was not to be.
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Yeah. If I were really picky, though, I'd have a 1/2 Lovitz, 1/2 Benjamin Bratt clone.
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I would never be so presumptuous as to put myself in the same category as John Lovitz. Benjamin Bratt seems like a weird choice, though...maybe I'm thinking of the wrong guy.
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Don't be afraid of your inner machismo.
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Yeah, Lovitz/Bratt = wierd. I think all the stress of multiple impending major life changes (new job, new home, new marital status) is manifesting itself in general wierdness on my part. The other morning in the shower I spontaneously sang these two lines to the tune of Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me":
Hellfire and damnation couldn't keep me away;
I was once a magic muffin, now I'm born to slay.
Isn't acknowledgement the first step on the road to recovery?
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Fell is so Mr. T. Thats who Fell is. Mr. T. To a t if I should say so myself.
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Isn't acknowledgement the first step on the road to recovery?
Not when it scares the hell out of everyone who knows you...
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To be honest, I hadn't given serious thought to what I had said until your reaction. It does have a Fatal Attraction sound to it. Mixed with a little bit of LSD, I guess. Sorry to go all psycho on everyone. I'll keep the voices quiet from now on. I promise. shut up! Really.
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I think we should have Fellfrosch, as Sir Carl, write the rest of that song. Then we make it the official TWG song.
What could go wrong?
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/me shudders at the thought
You mean BESIDES the gates of the abyss opening and releasing all their minions to torment us?
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I thought we were the minions of the gates of the abyss!
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We're more like the escapees of the gates of the abyss
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Well now you've gone and made me quote MST3K:
"What is it about the mouth of hell that makes people want to jump into it?"
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It's the shineys. Definitely the shineys
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Well that and the free car.
Oh wait, its a Yugo.
Well at least theres shineys!
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The latest poll on Tage's weight is really mean. I don't know if he is really overweight or not, but it wasn't very nice to pick on somebody's flaws like that. Well, that's as preachy as I get. Peace out, all.
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Actually, Tage is really thin. So I hope Tage sees it as a joke. Unless he's anorexic, then I'm afraid we've encouraged him in the wrong direction.
Now some other people on the board are in the plus sizes, but it's all muscle.
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I thought the options were really funny. Although is it just me, or is Tage the subject of a lot of polls?
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Fell loves Tage
We just hope he doesn't *love* him.
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This... THIS is what I get for blowing off Fell this week. Every single week, usually on Monday, Fell opens our daily AIM chat with, "I need a new poll." Then he expects me to come up with ideas for him. So this week I was busy, and now look what happens.
And where did you get those, Fell? They're way too funny for you to have made up. I mean, you're clever and all, but not THAT clever.
And no, I'm not at all offended by it. It's actually really funny if you've ever met me.
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It's amazing what you can find when you type "fat jokes" into Google. Though most of these, I admit, are corrupted "Yo mama" jokes.
And Tage: you better have some ideas ready for next week's poll.
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How about "Yo momma's booty so big, she gotta use a boomerang to get her belt on."
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new poll ideas ala slashdot
Slashdot Poll
Favorite Color?
Money
Fear
Magic
Thought
Law
Autumn
Happiness
Plaid
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I prefer "Yo mama's a dodecahedron." "Yo mama has four corners." Is also good.
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sorry, the polls at /. annoy the heck out of me. Please don't ever expose me to them again.
Besides, you forgot to make a meaningless "in-joke" reference to Cowboy Neal.
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It seems like the front-runners are taking the position that dinosaurs are a bad thing or a punishment ("eat the pansies"). I like to look at dinosaurs a more of a garnish - something to add a little flavor and excitement to the ordinary. I'd like to hear Clint Black sing about saddlin' up a stegosaurus.
And anyways, even if the first thing you think of is a T-Rex, they're not all carnivorous. But the exciting ones are, I guess...okay, Clint Black singing about how a velociraptor stole his woman and now he wants revenge. Although I would like to hear how he manages to saddle that stegosaurus.
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Law and Order
Dinosaur crimes unit....
I wish I'd seen that one before France....
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I was going to vote for Clinton's book, but then I realized that would be redundant.
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I almost voted WW2. Boy that would make a cool minature game. But I decided that if it was to truly happen Ben Afleck must die some how. Now if you send Ben Afleck back to WW2 times and have him killed by the dinosaurs back then that would be even better.
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And it could happen in France...
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And the opposing army could be led by Hilary Clinton. (She'd have to die too. The two are in a one-on-one battle with the T-Rex shows up and injests them both, freeing their separate armies of unwilling minions.)
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Yes, Hilary Clinton would have to die. Does anyone actually find her biography interesting? I mean how could you read it unless you knew there were dinosaurs in it somewhere, preferably eating somebody?
Yes . . . I am very . . . whatever you're going to say.
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I think i would prefer torture and large machine guns (not at once, that doesn't really work) being used against hillary.
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Hey what about "Blackula"? why isn't it on the poll? Common it's got Eddie Murphy!
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"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" isn't on there either. How can you deny Pee Wee Herman performance in that flick?
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Buffy certainly has my favorite death scene in any movie, simply because it takes him forever to die. That cracks me up every time. And the principal...ah, I love that movie.
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So much better then the TV series.
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for those of you who want "Wisdom" from your "life is like" jokes:
Life is like:
A mop: it's what you use to clean up other people's mistakes
A collectible spoon: Not very interesting to most other people
A blank CD: you can either back up your illegal mp3s or chuck it about
Chili fries: Tasty at first, but full of GI troubles later on.
A mountain: Scenic, but tougher to climb than you'd think
Seven swans a-swimming: Look, if you chose this one you're a fruit.
Hair spray: Full of naked people you can't see
A Woody Allen movie: Inexplicable and generally of poor cooth
A Dolph Lundgren movie: Action packed, but senseless
A crystal stair: Transparent, but useful
Meat: You'll end up being eaten when the Elder Gods return.
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Hair spray: Full of naked people you can't see
explain?
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The musical
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oh. never seen it
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I'm so glad the poll function is back. Nothing like a good absurdist exercise to spark absurdist conversation.
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Ninjas.
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which raises the question: Why isn't there an option to choose that Life is like a wild horde of screaming Ninja monkey assassin priests?
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Becasue Ninja monkey assassin priests are soooo last year. 2004 is the year of Dolph Lundgren.
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My horde of screaming Ninja monkey assassin priests will dine on Dolph Lundgren's intestines and play a game of jacks using his eyes for the ball and finger bones for jacks. They will make a nice little briefcase out of his liver and use his pancreas for a dish rag!
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I'm sorry kid but the market research show that Ninja Monkeys are stale meat. Working with one will ruin your carear. ThoseMTV kids just don't care for Ninja Monkeys any more, I hate to tell you this kid but I just don't think your monkeys can get any work in this town anymore. Now I know you've got lots of mouths to feed, so maybe you can get a gig in Vegas. People there love retro acts.
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my ninja monkeys will also use the pancreas of these "MTV kids" as a dish rag. That will remove them as a market factor.
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I know you're bitter kid, maybe you should go home and get some rest, and think about your future before decideing to go on a killing spree.
The above has been a historical re-inactment intented to educate readers as to the origination of the current ninja monkey killing spree.
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THe world will thank me. You'll see. History will see me as a benefactor for mankind.
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Talking it over with Entropy, I realized I should have added to the list: "grateful French girls."
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Don't you mean Norwiegian girls?
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How about European and Polynesian girls
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I admit it, today's poll is a result of realizing I don't have enough time to start a new project, and all my other projects are done, and I leave in half an hour.
I hope it's not as lame as I suspect it is.
Note: this is also a ploy to get me to be the winner of a poll.
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I think you've allready lost to Tage. The irony of us telling him to shut up won't be lost on most of TWG's regulars.
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I see that my utterances are as beautiful and treasured as ever.
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you're not senior staff, Entropy. I kept it to sr. staff to make sure that no one got picked on, besides those who could take it, and not look like I was picking favorites.
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And yet the monkey is winning.
Hey, I voted for Spriggan.
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Nice job with the poll, SE. In fact, nice job all around. You're the man.
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er. thanks. I appreciate it.
and curse those monkeys. They make all that screeching and must be silenced!
Note that if you add up the "SaintEhlers" options, I have way more votes than any REAL person. Of course, the monkeys have more than 50% of all votes.
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I'm just surpreised that EUOL and JP haven't gotten any votes, well I can understand JP not getting any.
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Yeah. Everyone likes what I want to say.
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/me disagrees
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Yet you havn't told me to shut up?
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someone really wants SPrig to shut up
He's gotten like, 7 votes in the last hour.
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It is his birthday... maybe someone organized all the bored people at work to vote for him... after all a vote for Eric is a vote for lame....
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see, that's my reverse psychology. Voting for Eric means voting for eric to shut up. So Eric shutting up is lame. Yay!
I tend to think, however, that someone is cheating and voting repeatedly for the same person. *shrug* Not like they're scientific.
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I have a feeling your going to end up statisticly ahead anyway.
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actually, I've only got something like 5 votes if you add them all up. Sprig and the Monkeys (Incidentally, that would make a great band name </Dave Barry>) each beat me by more than a factor of 2.
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Yeah but Im still deciding if your mean, or just egotistical
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You see, there is 5 elements. Water, Earth, Fire, Air and then, SaintEhlers, the elemental force of Narcissim.
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Well I posted my article over at the WK forums and have been posting there the past week or so, I'm figureing that some of those votes are comming from that. The rest are, well, because "a vote for Eric is a vote for lame", that stament is just so true.
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Thanks.
I think.
Wait....
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You know I'm actualy surprised that I'm tied with the ninja monkies, I've never felt so popular before.
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SKREE!!!!!!!
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Well I posted my article over at the WK forums
What's WK?
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Wizkids, they're the company that makes the game (heroclix) that my article this week was about.
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I voted for you!
Uh, it's suppozed to be a compement. Mostly, I clicked that one because it also says that a vote for Eric is a vote for lame, and I'm just not down wit being lame.
Sam don't do that.
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All I can say is that I'm quite upset about the Ninja Monkeys pulling ahead of me at the last minute, but I guess if I have to loose to someone it might as well be a honerable opponite.
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i was going to let it run for another week, actually. Which I guess means two more weeks. Maybe I'll kill it on Friday.
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Up to you, I assumed it was dieing this week.
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Keep it up longer and I'll do some real damage... ;)
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*sigh* the ninja monkeys are now 5 ahead of me, they've gain 2 votes over me since this morning.
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I voted for Tage. Not that he'll ever know.
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So did I, but that dosen't mean I'm not dissapointed.
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Well, I am because he isn't winning. You aren't because you are actually competable. Unlike Tage now.
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I'm pleased to see that at least in the early runnings, Ginger Rogers is more popular than Ninja Monkeys.
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Less polls about Saint please.
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ehn. I was wondering how many ego trips I could get in. I already know what my next idea for a poll is though. and my name or alias does not appear in it.
the poll after that mocks Entropy.
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This is finally a poll where I feel comfortable voting Ginger ca. '36. Thanks SE!
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Were we scraping the bottom of the barrel today?
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whine whine whine. that's all I hear from you people.
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Less polls about Ginger Rogers, Please.
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now you're just being a jerk
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No, if I was a jerk I would have requested less polls about Ninja Monkeys and Giant Robots.
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Yes, less polls with ninja monkeys and giant robots (without Ginger Rogers).
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I'd like to give a formal apology for the poll. SE only does them because I don't do them on time, which is mostly because I'm not on IM very much so Tage doesn't remind me. If you seek freedom from the steely grip of SE's polls, send me an email Thursday night and I will do a new one on Friday. Or possibly on Thursday night when I'm thinking about it.
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if he doesn't, the next poll will feature only four choices: ninja monkies, giant robots, Ginger ROgers ca. 1936, and SaintEhlers
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I think that's akin to abuseing your power SE.
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I think that's akin to abusing children.
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i honestly don't see the problem with Ginger Rogers.
I think Gemm's just chiming in.
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I don't see aproblem with Ginger Rogers at all. Excpet for the fact that she was born about 60 years too early for me.
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Yeah, she finally won a poll, but she had to recruit a ninja monkey AND a giant robot to do it. Still not a good track record.
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but come on, how can you NOT think Ginger ROgers and a ninja monkey in a giant robot is super mega cool?
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Because I don't actually have any idea who Ginger Rogers *is*.
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Are you serious? Go out right now and rent some classics, like Bachelor Mother. Just hit the imdb and take whatever's in her history--it's all good.
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Best Ginger Rogers comedy: Monkey Business with Cary Grant. Also has a very young Marilyn Monroe in it. Best Ginger Rogers drama: it's a toss-up, mainly because I have seen mostly her Fred Estaire matchups, which are okay, but don't showcase her enough. But I love Stage Door, which also has Katherine Hepburn in it.
The Gay Divorcee is also a good comedy.
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On a somewhat related note: How can someone named Ingrid Bergman be as good looking as she is?
Also: who would name a kid Greer?
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I might. If it weren't my kid.
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There should totally be a way to name other people's kids. All those people that give their kids screwy names could use it, and still have a statistically likely chance of coming up with a better name than Jaidan.
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I choose anabolic. Out of having to do things in alphabetical order. Only for this poll though.
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But I love Stage Door, which also has Katherine Hepburn in it.
and Lucille Ball
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Just so you know, if you mix your horrid Star Trek characters with my Spider-Man by letting Q win I *will* kill someone. Such a thought is too detestable to entertain, even humorously.
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Maybe I'll declare Q the honorary winner, even if he loses. That would be funny.
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if you do, I would retaliate with more polls featuring only me and ninja monkeys
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Which Q are you refering too, the Star Trek one or the James Bond one?
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that's a good question. The James Bond one would be much less offensive to my sensibilities. But he's not a villain, so that would be weird.
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Although I have always been a fan of Q, I thought Shredder was a much better choice in this case.
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So, since he forgot to do it, Fell told me to make the poll today. I decided on a several week idea: Building the next presidential administration. This week is VP. Of course, the final week will be Pres, but we'll probably toss in Secretary of Defense and National Security Advisor. Any other suggestions? Of course, we could go through the whole cabinet, but that'd be boring, and no one wants to vote on the next Secretary of the Interior anyway.
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Aragorn would make a good Sec. of the Interior.
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First Lady, Attourney General, Sec. of State.
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I hadn't even thought of First Lady -- that's a good one.
I'm not sure how much comedy is likely to come from SecState, though.
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New poll is up. You all voted in Yoshi as VP. Shame on you.
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shame on you for leaving us with that option.
At least, however, we got more choices than the real election's losers.
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So by the end we'll have an official TWG administration. How democratic we are! Just make sure nobody kills the president, whoever it is. President Yoshi's foreign policy would consist of laying multicolored eggs.
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Yeah, I'm thinking that next week we'll do First Lady, and then President the week after. We could have a lot of fun with other positions, but it's already going to be four weeks long, and more than that will probably get boring.
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And 400.32581379 weeks of SE never got boring.
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there were TWO polls that had my name. What, are you retarded that two seems like a drastically high number?
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With you, yes. :P
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well, i KNEW you were retarded Entropy. It was Gemm I was asking.
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And it was Entropy who answered. I think there is a difference between exagerating and the subltety in how you put it.
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Poll's up.
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yeah, and I was really tempted to pick ms. rogers. but wonder woman beat her out.
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I know that Eve is just a pun, but it amuses me to no end.
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well, it was clever. I'll definitely give you that.
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Hey you programming types: why is the poll at the bottom of the page?
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uhm... because your browser's broken?
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Hmmm, why is Ginger Rogers not winning?
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The new poll will be up tomorrow. Today's too busy.
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everyone! Vote for Freddy Mercury! We can't let Dana Scully beat him for first lady!
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This is actually one of the most exciting polls in recent memory. When was the last time we had a three-way split, or even a close two-way split? And what kind of freakish nerds are we when the three women in question are Amidala, Scully and Freddy Mercury?
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Grace Kelly, ca. 1936 is always the answer. To every question. Why can't anybody realize that?
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It's rather humorous how no-one has voted for the ketchup lady.
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It's also rather funny that we use Ginger Rogers in about 40% of our polls, and Kije just referred to her Grace Kelly. Grace Kelly in 1936 was nowhere near as hot as Ginger Rogers in 1936.
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So, are you doing these Fell? I have to say, when I saw Freddie Mercury on there, I nearly fell out of my chair with laughter. Well done!
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I've actually been doing this series, since Fell always forgets.
New poll's up.
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Kije, you're a pedophile: Grace Kelly was 7 years old in 1936.
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heh, the next poll should be which cabinet position Jar Jar gets.
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The one most likely to be assasinated.
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Then, HoM, I salute your cleverness. Well done!
And you people are idiots, by the way. You haven't picked any of my choices. I thought Freddie was a shoe-in for First Lady! Princess Amidalla...what are you thinking? She's not even a Jedi!
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I encouraged everyone to chose Mr... uhm... ms.. . uh... Freddie Mercury.
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Thank you EUOL. Although my choice was different, I salute you.
If Freddy Mercury wins the presidency I will personally come to each of the TWG staff's door(s) and proudly proclaim to them and their neighbors that they support the Plague. You most certainly don't want that on your shoulders.
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actually, I'd like to see you try and make good on that threat. Everyone vote Freddie Mercury.
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But aha, as you have not perceived within your own threat, I did not hereunto post a date unto which I will complete said task. Doesn't mean I can't start taking names now. I do, as of now, have some years to complete my task.
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yes, i thought as much. Weasel.
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SE will be happy: Freddy Mercury has been declared President.
New poll's up, and it's pleasantly non-political.
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yay for tormenting Gemm!
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Poll's up.
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Keeping in mind that Fell lost a baby and nearly a wife I thought,...wow, I really hate the poll this week. Then I thought that I felt a little offended, considering how serious the situation was. So I decided that Im not going to vote.
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well, remember that HoM is Fell's brother, so probably knows a lot more about what is permissible than the rest of us, and the fact that Fell has seemed to be in good spirits, I really don't think it's offensive
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It just struck me as wrong is all.
If Astrid, had emergency surgery a couple of days ago, after she collapsed on the kitchen floor right in front of me and lost our baby (assuming she was pregnant) I would freak out at something like that.
Freak out.
But I can see how Fell might be different.
Still I dont like it that much and I figured I'd say why.
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I see it as comic relief--their family has gone through this very scary thing, and now everything's going to be okay, so they need to laugh about something. Wouldn't you need to laugh about something at a time like that--knowing everything's okay? Perhaps not about the same subject matter, because your sense of humor would be different, etc., but I'd wager you might feel like you need to feel good feelings again.
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Oh I do indeed see the need for humor, but its the subject matter for me. Itd be a couple of months before I could laugh at something like that. I'd have put up a poll with the most inappropriate sportscaster comments at the olympics or something... you know something completely 180 degrees from the near tragedy that happened.
I get why it was done. I just dont fell great about participating right now.
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I respect your decision not to participate. I will point out, however, that my wife thinks the poll is hilarious, and voted for the laser pointer.
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You two are a very strange pair of people, Fell.
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The situation is actually more serious that even Jeffe thinks: less than a week before Fell's wife had the surgery and lost the baby, my wife and I discovered that our baby (my wife was 3 months pregnant) had a fatal heart condition. Within two days of that discovery, the baby/fetus died.
I think that this poll is more for Fell and I than for anybody else--a way to take a very rough couple of weeks and try to lighten the mood.
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That's so sad. It has to be so hard to go through a miscarriage, even if you know the baby couldn't have survived with the condition it had. My cousin had one? two? (can't remember) miscarriages before she was able to carry a pregnancy to full term. That pregnancy, twins, made her have to be on bed rest the last 3 months. (Man, was she bored! She was in the hospital, and couldn't get up at all.) Anyway, my point is that it must be a very hard thing. I hope your wife is well, too.
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She's doing much better, thanks. We're actually glad she miscarried--the condition was an aplastic heart. Basically, the baby develops and grows just fine, but the heart doesn't develop at all. It's not uncommon for babies to go full term with the problem. A fetus doesn't use it's own heart--the mom handles blood flow--so the babies are perfectly fine, and then they're born and immediately die. So miscarrying at 3 months was better, in our minds, than going full term.
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see, I'm much better at the humor end of this sort of thing than I am at the empathic flow of emotions. So.. God bless, but I don't know how to make that sound/feel more heartfelt. You guys are great, so I'm really glad to hear you're all doing well.
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I love you, SE.
(See, was that so hard? You non-empathic oaf.)
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to add levity to the atmosphere, I just noticed that Gemm first posted on this thread. a year and 5 months ago (or nearly so) and he is still truly, truly, truly outrageous.
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and only a handful of people know about him and his holograms...
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Thanks for giving away the secret.
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I voted as well for the laser pointer. Why is that "Stronger, Better, Faster" one doing so well? I find that the least interesting. Unless you like bionicle women or Daft Punk. Bunch of looneys I tell you. And not the Tooneys.
And now that SE has brought it up, I am now wondering why Fell called me "Truly, truly, truly outrageous." Not that there's much surprise for it now, but why then?
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Didn't we already have this conversation? Stacer explains it in the...seventh post on this thread.
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AHh, I see. The text was real small-like and I started to read it but then just sort of stopped. Yeah...
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Which is why I pronounce Gemm with a hard G instead of a J.
Jem will always be the 80's rock star will pink hair and killer makeup. I'd love to do a Jem costume for Halloween sometime...
I voted for the Harry Potter one.
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I can't believe the correct answer is not included on the 'orange' poll!
Spriggan, back me up on this one - Orange rhymes with range.
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I dont know if this is part of my accent or not but I pronounce range to rhyme with mange, and orange is pronounced orn-j or orin-j (forgive the crude phonetics, I don't know the pronunciation symbols).
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I honestly can't remember where you're from, so I can't say how your accent affects it.
All I know is the Japanese band is called Orange Range and when you say it the Japanese way, it rhymes. O-ran-gee Ran-gee.
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Ya Fuzzy is right with that. The words are pronounced the same, the "range" part is pronounced like "rain-gee" then just put a "Oh" sound in front for orange.
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Don't worry about it Fuzzy, I am from Michigan.
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If you're from Michigan you probably sound extremely normal to me, considering I'm from Ohio.
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Poll's up.
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There are too many good messages to choose, I ended up picking "guns don't kill people...." but I like "religion is the opiate of the masses" too. A lot of good stuff, and I havent seen the movie so that makes it even harder.
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When they look back and weigh everything he's done they will realize
Nixon's the one!
Nixon's the One!
Nixon's the oneee!
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"Never get into a land war in Asia"...
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New poll's up. And, get ready for the big news: we've decided to switch to two polls a week -- tentatively scheduled to change Mondays and Thursdays.
Note: This says Fellfrosch, but I'm actually HoM.
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That's a lot of bilk for such a small amount of filk.
But really, there's so many references this week to young shapely women. I wonder what Fell (actually HoMsar) was up to then.
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Gemm, I have to ask, did you forget your password or something? Whenever you're hither or thither or yon you have a new Alias, and then you delete it. It's endlessly entertaining, I'm just wondering why.
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you don't have to register to post, so he's not actually creating or deleting accounts
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In your words (not well construed) I was hither nor thither, because I was elsewhere. As of last friday the school has decided to shut the dorms access off to the interweb and is now (just now) starting to install the accomodations needed for the new influx of students that they have. Since they built a new, 5 floors, dorm building and have increased in the number of students dorming. I would like to include here now where my explictives should go. @(&*#($^*. Thank you.
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Actually, my question pertained more to the fact that you can sign on as "Gemm" anywhere, but you don't. Therefor I am just curious as to why you don't always use that name.
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hey what about "guns dont kill people... but I like religon" ?
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The problem is that, no offense to the religious people of the board, I dont like religion.
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I don't take offense, because i've never met anyone who didn't like religion in general who wasn't basing that decision on a few specific cases of religious malpractice and ignoring large classes of people who help improve the world because of their religion.
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I love Mike Mulligan and his Steamshovel! For the uninitiated it's a kind of children's version of the basic John Henry story (man vs. technology, but with a happy ending.)
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And it's just got great illustrations. It ranks up there as one of the great picture books of all time.
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I knew Stacer had to be one of those votes, and of course Mustard mentions that ending every time I ask him for writing advice, but I wasn't sure about the third vote. Glad to see that Kije is a fellow Mike Mulliganite.
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That poll is just confusing all over.
I think I ended up voting for the sweaters.
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Actually, I think I voted for that thing exing the machina. But Mike Mulligan came second.
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Dogs with the shifty eyes is where it is at, fools
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Haha, Frodo is Keyser Soze! This is one of my favorite polls ever.
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Any day that I can make Tage laugh is a day I consider well-spent. And I'm glad people are voting for the sweaters, though I bet there's only one or two of you at most who get the joke.
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I don't get the sweater joke, which is sad, because I usually get your jokes. Is it a Hitchhiker's reference?
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All of the answers were good, but I just had to go for the sweaters. Didn't any of you watch the old Bob Newhart show? Where he owned an inn in Vermont? That poll answer made me laugh so hard.
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Yay! Somebody got it!
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I thought that's what it was--the dream part at least. But the sweaters threw me off. But now that I think about it, he did wear a lot of sweaters.
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It wasn't that he wore sweaters -- it was that his wife (on Newhart) wore a lot of sweaters. He was recommending to the wife he woke up with (the old wife from The Bob Newhart Show) that she ought to wear more so she would look like the other. Confusing?
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Don't be fooled by how smart Mustard is trying to look. He only knows that because I told him.
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No poll? Or is it just not working on my end?
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there is no current poll. I'm assuming that Fell or HoM is working on it. If not. I'll make something up. I promise, no direct references to me, my dog, my online persona, or even worldcon.
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it's up!
and HoM, I'm exceedingly disappointed teh Aayla Secura isn't on the list.
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I don't even know who that is. Actually, I don't think that any of the answers are all that funny, until you think of Darth Maul rooting through the fridge, ala Kramer. Or Grand Moff Tarkin just loafing on the couch with his feet up on the table. That image makes me laugh.
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she's the sexiest Jedi to ever ... uh.. Jedi. Of course, she's BLUE too, but hey, no one's perfect.
You need a sexy neighbor on these shows.
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MMMm....Blue Women.
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You are one weird man.
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Actually I like Grey women better. But that's only because I've seen too much Farscape.
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Heh. You shoulda tried going to school with him. Or even just talking to him on msn. It can be.... freaky. Very freaky.
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SE -- I saw your note on the admin page. Do you want today? Or do you want Thursday? Today would be great, because my brain just ain't working.
And by the way, I'm saddened by all the people that voted for Salacious Crumb.
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yeah, I'll do it now.
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k, tis up
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ugg, more Ginger Rogers. Next time you get a hankoring to use her just place in Gemm instead, trust me it'll be funnier.
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I'm going to have to defer to Fell on this one to explain to you the virtues of Ginger Rogers.
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or I could just point this out to you:
Of paramount importance to any study of Ginger Rogers, circa 1936 within its context, is understanding the ideals of society. Society says that every man must find their own truth. While one sees Ginger Rogers, circa 1936, another may see monkeys playing tennis.
the random essay generator told me that. Can beat those apples, can ya? (though perhaps if they were ninja monkeys...)
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As long as there is Ginger, there is hope.
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man, here's another option for the poll. (http://www.reallifecomics.com/index.php?do_command=show_strip&strip_id=1282&auth=00000-00000-11111-00000-00000)
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New poll's up. I'm very pleased with this one, if I do say so myself.
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BWA HA! I likes. Are we doing two polls a week now?
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Yeah -- for the last couple of weeks we've been updating every Monday and Thursday. Generally, 80% of voters vote within the first two or three days, so we thought it would be nice to rotate more often.
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cool
I delievered as promised, right? Relevant, non ego driven options. Though it was tempting to have a Ninja Monkey Captain. THAT would be cool. And a cool option for this one is "Chewbacca is now a Ninja Monkey Jedi."
Yeah, you'll disagree, but you know I'm right. Jackie Chan playing Chewie would RULE. Though some LotR-esque film tricks would have to be employed.
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great poll! I wanted to pick five or six of them.
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There was only one that I could really see myself disliking as an addition to Star Wars. All the other ones I would have found rather attractive.
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I think there needs to be a Ninja Money/Ginger Rogers Circa 1939 or similar option last on every poll, like a CowBoyNeal thing.
As for this one, I can't decide yet. It's too hard. Although I must say the one with leia and the Tusken Raiders is intriguing. Mmmm, Gold Bikini.
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Probaly the best poll since "Why dosen't someone pay Tage to play Metroid."
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Fell and I have really been trying to steer clear of Ginger Rogers and Ninja Monkeys. Just for a while, though.
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You abandon the ways of Ginger Rogers and her amazing Ninja Monkeys?! Your life is forfeit!
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Poll's up.
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hrm... I don't complain much, but there's too much Super Mario reference there. And two for Diablo II. At the very least, the "gold coins" could have been "gold rings" to make it a Sonic reference. Coulda been a table top ref, too, something like one player moving at a time till all players have moved.
But it's a very amusing idea.
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It was thrown together quickly today. There'll be something better Thursday (or Friday).
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Well look who's making fun of the polls, mister Ninja Monkey man.
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i wasn't making fun!
but even if I was, and I'm so bad at writing them, wouldn't that be a sign of weakness?
anyway, I want to know what's wrong with Ginger Rogers and ninja monkeys.
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anyway, I want to know what's wrong with Ginger Rogers and ninja monkeys.
That sort of thing is illegal.
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Another nice, hard to choose poll! I think I'll have to go for the Konami code, but the princess is still in another castle.
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New poll.
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Poll's up. Better than last week's.
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yes indeed. I'm giving a nmsoa (ninja monkey seal of approval) to this poll.
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Does that come with a certificate or something?
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Marines in mecha. Ooooo.
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No certificate, but the seal itself is smeared with bananas and wasabi.
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also, it mysteriously appears on your desk when you're not looking, having arrived by stealth and avoided all security systems, watch dogs, and even errant plumbers trying to save princesses.
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Gaah! I can't decide which one to pick! This one was way too funny. ;D
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New poll.
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Everyone knows that Fistful of Dice is going to be the new Rock group that chases away the crappy pop and weird techno and fake punks and brings Rock and Roll back to top the charts!
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I think "Critical Hit" is what they'll call the #1 single that any of those other bands gets.
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I think that any band by the name of "Critical Hit" is way too pretentious to be listened to. And if they're just role-playing geeks who don't understand the otherwise normal implications of the name, well - tough luck.
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For some reason, "line of sight" sounds like one of those awful mormon boy bands to me.
Then again, it's probably not naive enough. I still find it hard to believe that there's an LDS band called "afterglow." I mean really.
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New poll.
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... which was obviously written by a male.
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And that's a problem?
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I think she's just surprised, given the rampant femininity of our other polls.
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not that obviously, after all the scariest movie of all time was left of it. Gigli.
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New poll
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I chose the tuna.
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Yeah, I wasn't really going for tripe. Cow's tongue is not my thing.
EDIT: Perhaps my Spanish isn't so good as I thought. Tripa seems to be sausage? I don't know.
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Tripa is just tripe, which is intestine. If you stuff it with something you would, presumably, get sausage, but if it comes pre-stuffed you would, presumably, not eat it.
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well, sausage also has to be spiced to be sausage.
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The coolest choice: camaron maldicho. I feel like I'd get some evil superpower if I ate it. That, or I'd become possessed by the ghost of a malevolent, spineless sea creature.
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I had to pick the carne descarnecido. There just wasn't any other option for me.
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Dog language.
I voted for #12, because I got a 12 when I rolled my D12...
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New poll
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um...
*Offers HoM a cookie.*
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I think you're irritated because you have the sort of taste that makes you like Nicole Kidman. Oh, and pro wrestling.
adn to resurrect an old topic that was on this thread: remember 42's thundercats parodies? Well, Queen of Wands posted something similar but unrelated. (http://www.queenofwands.net/comics/20041018.jpg)
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As far as the old Kidman/Jolie debate, Esquire magazine recently named Angelina Jolie the sexiest woman of the year. I think that this is what the scriptures are talking about when they say that men will call good evil, and evil good. The end is near.
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*Accepts the cookie.
Gets irritated that there is no milk to go with it.
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See, I don't think EITHER of them are sexy.
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Well, on one count you're right. On the other, you're wrong. We've had this thread before.
Incidentally, I went to the dollar theater on Saturday and saw the Village again. That Bryce Howard -- she's a cutie.
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wait, so you're saying that Angelina Jolie IS hot?
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No no no... The count where you're right is: Jolie is not sexy. Where you're wrong: Kidman is.
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I can see you're a very confused young man. I thought I had straightened you out on this issue.
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Alright, name five so that I can understand your flawed tastes.
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five what? confused people? You, Fell, Gemm (he's actually the most confused), Entropy, and JamPaladin
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See how you are?
You know what I mean: five women that you DO find sexy, so that the rest of us, more enlightened thinkers can deride your choices.
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yeah, I'm pretty snarky, ain't I?
THAT I'd have to think about. Famous people you mean, I assume. That I'm not married to so you won't feel like a jerk when you make fun of them. Hrm... I'm gonna have to think. I like Miranda Otto, (Eowyn in LotR). I can probably go so far as to say she's sexy, if in a non-traditional way. I kinda think that Liv Tyler's cute, but not Sexy. (I used to, but I don't currently, same with what's her bucket who played Mary Jane. We had a fight about that one two, so I'm sure you'll latch onto it, even though I don't think she's sexy currently. There are a lot of people who are attractive, but that aren't really "sexy." Though Ms. Kidman is really neither in my book.
Uhm.. I have to think about it. I'll get back to you.
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oo! oo! have one! Amy Allen (http://www.imdb.com/gallery/hh/1116989/HH/1116989/20404amy2.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Allen,%20Amy%20(II)). She played Aayla Secura (http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0121765/Ss/0121765/EP2_IA_68541_R.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Allen,%20Amy%20(II)) in Attack of hte Clones (to be reprised in Revenge of the Sith). Yeah, that's only semi famous, I know. She's a blue Twi'lek jedi chick.
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Got any nominations that ARN'T from the latest geek films?
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Okay, well I very much agree with you on the Miranda Otto. Liv Tyler, as I've said before, has a too-big mouth.
Kirsten Dunst (Mary Jane) is attractive, although I always feel guilty about saying it because in my mind she's still 13 years old.
And I'm not too impressed with Amy Allen. Honestly, SE, I guess there's no accounting for taste. With all the great beauties in the world you pick these four? What's wrong with you?
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Fairuza Balk. MMMMMMMM Goth=yummy.
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I'm not confused! Zhang Ziyi, Alyssa Milano, Jessica Alba, Mena Suvari, Jerri Ryan. In no particular order.
See, I'm less confused than SE.
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see, now YOU'RE deliberately misunderstanding me. I said specifically that I don't think that Liv Tyler or Kirsten DUnst are "sexy."
and wow, you're just dead wrong on Amy ALlen
I think I have to round out my list with Judy Garland, AUdey Hepburn, and Ginger Rogers. Not CURRENTLY sexy, but sexy in their movie days.
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Amy Allen is nice, but Alyssa Milano? I mean...Alyssa Milano? Maybe my brain is seared by years of who's teh Boss, but I can't bring myself to think that she might ever be considered sexy. Sorry. Now, how about Jennifer McConnelly? I defy you to find anyone in hollywood who's sexier (not counting Ginger Rogers, who's dead, so that's cheating).
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It's Connelly, not McConnelly. You think a slip like that will endear her to you? You should just kiss your polygamous chances goodbye, my friend.
And I have to disagree with Judy Garland, though I will grant that Audrey Hepburn looked good. As long as we're talking about the lovely ladies of black-and-white film, how about Greer Garson? Awful name, but oh-so-pretty.
Or what about Eva Marie Saint?
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Oh yeah -- and Grace Kelly.
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Ok, i'll concur with you about Judy Garland for niceities sake. I'm not attached to her.
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Agreed.
*Shakes SE's hand.
It's a pleasure doing business with you.
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Now, about this presidential business
(KIDDING!)
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I usually like how I can tell how many others have also picked the one I picked. But when it's just me.... well that makes me sad. Especially when it is the real reason he was irritated.
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Hooray for Jolie!
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The new poll has arrived. Try not to get it sticky.
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I am both disturbed and pleased that MTV is winning.
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I don't think it's fair to call EUOL's books "screwy", but you're right, I am better looking. ;)
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har har har
The day that EUOL includes a vampire version of Jane Austen in one of his books is the day I start writing sex scenes in my LDS fiction.
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heh, ya by the time I goto the singing barberian I realised that all the choices but the last 2 were characters from Fell's books.
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Doesn't everyone, deep down, just want to be Mustard?
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I know I do, that's why I keep a picture of him on me at all times.
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Woot, I took the clean-up vote. (#4). I will be, the Listless Poet! Whatever praytell that means.
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Doesn't everyone, deep down, just want to be Mustard?
Let me tell you, guys: it's pretty awesome.
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Oh, I certainly do. That's why I've started a long process of plastic surgery to look like him. And why I've been abducting his family members and friends to indoctrinate them. And why he'll be assassinated soon so I can take his place.
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The day that EUOL includes a vampire version of Jane Austen in one of his books is the day I start writing sex scenes in my LDS fiction.
Is that a promise?
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Uh... no.
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Good poll Fell.
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Actually Mustard did this one. But what he doesn't realize is that he's the screwy author, and I'm teh good looking brother. There's nothing screwy about my books at all (and nothing good looking about him).
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That's it. I'm writing my NaNo about Ginger Rogers and a secret team of ninja monkeys piloting a giant robot.
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It was a toss-up for me between Ginger and Tolkien's Pokemon...but in the end it's always Ginger. Although I do like the sound of...
You cannot pass! I am a servant of the secret fire, wielder of the Flame of Anor. Pikachu, I choose you!
**Gandalf hurls his mighty Pokeball at the Bridge of Khazad-dum in front of the Balrog.
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don't you think a Squirtle would work better against a creature of smoke and flame?
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Nah. Jiggly-Puff (with a suitable Elven name) would trump even a Balrog. And I'd like to see it scribble on the Balrog's face once it falls asleep.
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But would it trum a ballhog?
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*sigh*
But would it trump a ballhog?
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depends, does this ballhog play NBA or church ball?
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I want to make fun of ballhog, but he spelled it the same way twice. This makes the mockery a risky investment, because if he might have intended to spell it that way in which case the mockery fails, but if it's actually wrong then the mockery pays off big. What to do, what to do...
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Wow, he is named after a rock band....
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see, I thought it was intentional, since it would be a pointless post if it were just a misspelling. NOt that this is out of hte realm of possibility, but I felt generous. So instead of making fun of the post, I took it seriously and developed it.
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The ballhog I was speaking of resides in "Bored of the Rings" a spoof of Tolkien's work, which I thought everyone would have heard of.
The drumming in the underground caves where the party heard him coming went, "dribble dribble dribble swish, dribble dribble swish, dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble swish"
I was only about 10 when my dad read me bored of the rings and I felt guilty for laughing so much after having liked the original so much.
SE, I would have to say church ball because dark winged flaming ballhogs invariably cheat.
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Wow, he is named after a rock band....
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the new poll. You'll understnad.
If it's a church ball playing ballhog, then probably the jigglypuff can't touch it.
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Mmmm, Political D&D gestation.
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Yeah, and guess who's the villain in our campaign? I'm playing a half-GreenParty rogue.
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Guess I'll be the Right-Wing-Conservative-Cleric.
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New Poll
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Obviously it's the unwilling receptacle of a dark wizard's soul.
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That third option (The "time to make the doughnuts" guy) reminds me of the movie Tough Guys, where the one guy has to work at an ice cream parlor. I only caught the first 30 minutes of it, but it was a pretty funny movie. It was on AMC.
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No, that's a trick answer. The key word there is "unwilling." We all know that if some dark wizard came knocking on Fell's door Fell would be begging to be the receptable of his soul.
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Did Fellfrosch actually get a new non-crap job then? If he did, congrats to him.
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He got a writing job, very similar to what he's doing now, except that he'll be writing propaganda for scrapbook supplies instead of fitness equipment. There was a little more money, and now he's the Senior Writer. Plus, he won't live in Logan anymore.
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You know, working for a scrapbook company isn't so different than being the vessel of a dark wizard's soul...hmmm. :)
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Will he move back down to Provo, then? That'll be good for all you Provo-Oremites.
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You know, working for a scrapbook company isn't so different than being the vessel of a dark wizard's soul
Part of my next book is that a nation-wide scrapbook company is just a front for a terrorist organization.
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I believe that the only scrapbooking companies that exist are in Provo-Orem.
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Actually, as I have recently learned, the biggest scrapbooking company in the US is currently based in California.
And yes, to answer a previous question, we are moving back to Utah Valley. Yay! I don't know when, but probably not until after I've commuted for a week or two at least.
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feh. no one can exaggerate anymore. What kind of non-Utah Mormon would I be if I didn't make fun of Utah Mormons every now and then?
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A charitable one. :)
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Welcome back, Fell!
By the way, where was the option for a willing receptacle for a dark wizard's soul? I would've voted for a willing one. Hehe.
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See, by "Unwilling", we all know that the Unwilling part was a cover and he was really willing. Hence we all voted that.
Also, Missing Option: Ninja Monkey, Circa 1938
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So Fell, Tage, EUOL and Kije might end up liveing next to each other, wow I can just imagine all the time wasteing that will take place.
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Congrats, Fell!
You should have started a new thread on the board to talk about this.
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I was going to, but then I spent the weekend writing novels and caulking windows. I'll go start one.
Also, I'd like to not that you were all fooled--I'm the dark wizard, and you're my unwilling (or willing) receptacles. Everyone who voted for that option is now in my thrall. Thanks for your support.
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So I'm not the only one who is depressed in the mornings.
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can't stands mornings. Ironically, however, I'm in a better mood than in the evening.
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I'm disappointed that "A working lightsaber" isn't on the list. Although since that's what every geek wants, it isn't that creative, it is something we'd vote for and it's at least as original as "a million dollars." Though less than the related "A clone army"
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Testing 123
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4-5-6?
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A working lightsaber would be far too dangerous for the layperson. Just touching the nasty part gets you in trouble.
That's why you need self control first!
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self control is highly over rated. I think I want a billion 99 cent burgers.
actually, "I want to be the fastest draw in the wild, wild West
In boot and spurs and a ten-gallon hat I'll be well dressed
I'll catch the bandits and throw them in jail
I'll win a shootout at the OK Corral
Oh bury me not on the lone prairie don't fence me in, Roy
I want to be a cowboy
And you can be Steer Man, my trusty sidekick."
"Hey Cowboy, my horse-sense is tingling."
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25 or 6 to 4
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What would you even do with a working lightsaber? Trim the hedges?
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reverse engineer the design, then mass produce them and distribute them to my ninja monkeys. Why? What else is there to do with them?
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You'd wave it around, realize it's not quite as cool as you thought because light makes no sound when you wave it around in the air, and then resort to making the vorpal sounds yourself while waving it around. Then feel stupid.
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maybe that's what YOU'D do. But ninja rely on stealth. If the weapon doesn't make any noise as it decapitates you, so much the better.
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Yeah, but sneaking up on someone in the dark, carrying a massive flashlight isn't very stealthy either.
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silent, yes. But it's hard to be stealthy when you're waving around the equivalent of a neon light.
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hah!
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jinx!
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man, i'm glad I didn't hire you guys as assassins. You'd screw it all up. The thing turns off, you know, the only time it has to be on is when you actually are running someone through. You could even fake 'em out. y'know, shove this handle at someone, and the'll laugh at you cuz you're trying to threaten them with, like, nothing but a handle. BUt as soon as it's close enough, you turn it on and the blade comes out and goes right through them. then you turn it off and sneak out. Duh.
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You just better hope you're holding it rightside out when you're turning it on in the dark. That'd be a neat trick if your monkey ran himself through right in front of his target.
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yeah, but seeing as they're not retarded, I'm sure they can handle that.
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Retarded or no, they're still monkeys. They'd probably be more prone to throw poop at each other than to kill anybody.
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they throw poop at their targets. Not each other. They're TRAINED ninja monkeys. You're just mad because I have a better grip on how to actually make good use of a lightsaber than you.
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Yeah - give it to a monkey. That's the best use of a lightsaber I've ever heard.
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We had a working lightsaber option on a "what I want for Christmas" poll a few years ago, and as you know we try never to repeat anything. Except the lovely and talented Ginger Rogers, circa 1936.
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Now she could work wonders with a lightsaber.
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Who are the three thankful for pants? I, for one, am thankful for no pants.
Whhooooo! No pants!
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Yeah, wasn't me for a change. I was thankful for the Poley...polytechnical war. You know... the war that was fought over how many angles are actually in two adjoining triangles, which made the advancements in radiotechology.
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/me declares this No Pants Thanksgiving and removes his own.
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Yeah, wasn't me for a change. I was thankful for the Poley...polytechnical war. You know... the war that was fought over how many angles are actually in two adjoining triangles, which made the advancements in radiotechology.
Many brave warriors died in that war.
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well, they were really just the army corps of engineers, but still, I think that counts.
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I thought they were Bothans.
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Bothan army corp enigneers equipped with deadly neckties and pocket protectors.
Soon to be aired on the history channel.
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I just emailed some random gods of TWG at the address listed on their profile (xyz at timewasters...) with something about the poll.
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Consider it done. Thanks.
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holy smokes this poll is funny.
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Please direct all poll-related praise to Kije, who proved that it's possible to write one without resorting to ninjas, monkeys, or self-aggrandizement. Maybe we can have him write a manual.
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who proved that it's possible to write one without resorting to ninjas, monkeys, or self-aggrandizement
Oh, but I was tempted.
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two thumbs up.
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The new poll is decidedly lacking a "Flipping out and chopping off people's heads ALL THE TIME!!" option
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That's because it's about a topic which ceased to be amusing several months ago. Take that, Ninjas!
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And I'm not wearing any pants.
Mainly because it's too hot, but also because I'm a Ninja, and people can't see me, so does it really matter if I wear pants or not?
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yeah, the poll was hurried. But yeah, flipping out and chopping people's heads off should have been on there.
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Maybe I should flip out and chop the head off whoever's responsible.
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I second the motion.
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You need to be a ninja to second the motion - else you'll end up breaking something when you try to twist it in a way only a ninja can.
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Ookla's a ninja. Didn't you ever watch the show?
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The best thing about anything that gives you free food is free food, as long as it's pizza.
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I can put my feet behind my head...and I can also dislocate my left shoulder at will. How's that for twisty ninja skills?
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I refuse to answer the poll on the basis that the number 42 is not one of the answers. ;)
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we didnt want to give him a bigger head than he already had...
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I refuse to reply to the poll since 13 does not appear, and 13 is undoubtedly the best number known to man. As well as my lucky number (my birthday backwards, my moms and friends birthday forwards, and my soccer number)
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Eris wants you to vote for 5. Of course, if you don't vote for 3, the Atevi will assassinate you.
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see, this DOES beg the question of "best for what?" Maybe it means best for losers. In which case, 13 SHOULD appear. :D
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Yes, I agree. 3 Should be picked because it is the best of what.
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It's not asking which one is best, it's asking which one is correct.
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then change the word "best" to "correct" in my previous post and it still stands. IF the question is "Which answer is the correct loser number" etc.
Things are not objectively correct outside of a context.
Thus I can still mock people.
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Being correct only creates a better setting for 3! The best of which is being correct!
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Hey y'all: there is no spoon, okay?
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There is a spoon, it's just really, really small.
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4 is the only answer that had its own quantity of people vote for it. Thus it is the correct answer, regardless of Christmas presents.
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I like a lot of choices today for the poll, but luscious just has such a nice round sultry sound to it.