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Heloooooooo, Hyppo.
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Hello.
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Hey everyone.. (Ninti here)
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Goood Byyyyyyyyyye!

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What's with the "deleted"s?

Hiy'all, anyway. :lol:



(Did Hyppo decide to leave and delete all her posts?)
Nevermind...found the answer. Oh well. :(
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Well I don't know the answer dammit! lol, smells like internet drama.

Never mind, found it. That's the reason I don't hang out over there.. too much no, no, no. :)
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What's with the "deleted"s?

Hiy'all, anyway. :lol:



(Did Hyppo decide to leave and delete all her posts?)
Nevermind...found the answer. Oh well. :(
I hope she will come back some day, once she realizes that I didnt ever say the things that were running through her head, or even think them.
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Well...I liked that she shut down Byron's new smartass thread, but I'd hate to see the other one get shut down before Byron responds. (If he responds.)

This new BS line about us not wanting to discuss things...who does he expect to fool with that, really?

Sheesh. :roll:
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SandChigger wrote:Well...I liked that she shut down Byron's new smartass thread, but I'd hate to see the other one get shut down before Byron responds. (If he responds.)

This new BS line about us not wanting to discuss things...who does he expect to fool with that, really?

Sheesh. :roll:
Id like to see his response too. I'm guessing its gonna be pretty conspiracy sounding too.
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Yeah, pisses me off. I think Crys and I have been more than willing to discuss, he just doesn't want to face up to the reality that he is dead wrong! :wink:
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I almost guarantee you we'll never see a response in Mr. Teg's thread on Arrakeen. This won't be the first time Byron's tucked tail when confronted with actually answering a question.
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I guess we will know for sure the next time he posts in the "BEER" thread. :wink:
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Would I be correct in my assumption that Byron has not posted on Arrakeen since the meow-meow thread?


(By the way, who is AnnopsyKaphop? His/Her WWW link is a bit of a bother; tried to download software onto my computer. Was an exe file, so it wouldn't have done anything on a Mac...but that's generally fairly shitty behavior.)
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SandChigger wrote:Would I be correct in my assumption that Byron has not posted on Arrakeen since the meow-meow thread?


(By the way, who is AnnopsyKaphop? His/Her WWW link is a bit of a bother; tried to download software onto my computer. Was an exe file, so it wouldn't have done anything on a Mac...but that's generally fairly shitty behavior.)
Dirty fucking spammer. I have to nuke them all the god damn time. Say toodeeloo to this one.
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Omph.. this is phpbb2 right? I know there are mods to block spambots.

Check this one out http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 5&t=465600

Read through the thread, there may be new updates.
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Thanks Mandy! Ill go through that stuff this weekend for sure!
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Sorry, I forgot that the names of people who have tried to register show up in the Members list whether they've been approved yet or not.

I haven't run an installation of this boardware in the open for a long time, so I forget exactly how it works, but as admin don't you get some sort of notification that there are registrations pending? Or do you stay out of the admin control area and let Ragabash handle that stuff? ;)

(Ragabash is your bro, right? I seem to remember that from somewhere....)
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Hello... :)
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Hellooooooooooooooo, Mr. Teg!
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Hey Liege!
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Hello everyone.
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Hellooooooooooooooooo, CL!
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Liege-Killer wrote:HELLO!
Howdy! :D

I don't think I know you, but everybody else seems to...???

DN BBS refugee? Or from somewhere else?


(And hey, Chaniluv. Are you holidayed out yet? ;) )
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SandChigger wrote:DN BBS refugee? Or from somewhere else
Worm's. I think he was a member at DoD too, right?
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Teg, L-K, and ChaniLuv, Oh, My! Howdy Ho everybody!!!
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Hello everyone!! :)
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Godgirl wrote:Hello everyone!! :)
Hi Alia!
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Hi Godgirl, nice to meet you.
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Hellooooooooooo, Alia/Godgirl. Is that the hottie that played Alia in the Lynch movie? Hubba Hubba!
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Omphalos wrote:Is that the hottie that played Alia in the Lynch movie? Hubba Hubba!
Alicia Witt, yeah.
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Yeah... since I noticed no one was using real pics, I decided to go the full monty on the whole avatar thing.

I always had a fondness for the actress that played that little freak (and in a weird coincidence, she has the same initials as me--ARW), so I though using her all grown up would be fun...

Anyone want to explain their pics?
(Chig, I keep meaning to ask--what's up with the red laser-sight? Are you part borg, or just about to attack the death star??)
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Godgirl wrote:Anyone want to explain their pics?
KJA & BH have been nicknamed Pinky & The Brian because of their plan to take over the Duniverse.

Thus, Pinky and the Brain.
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I don't know Liege-Killer or Godgirl/Alia, but hello to the both of you.

I obviously don't have an avatar at the moment, so nothing to explain. I usually use something random that happens to be appealing for whatever reason. But I haven't found anything that fits those criteria, so I remain avatar-less.
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Godgirl wrote:Anyone want to explain their pics?
Mine is the French cover of God Emperor of Dune. Can you see the sandtrout being cast off around the edges? Some detail got cut out when Chig shrunk the pic for me.
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Godgirl wrote:(Chig, I keep meaning to ask--what's up with the red laser-sight? Are you part borg, or just about to attack the death star??)
Id like to know what is up with that joint in SC's avatar's mouth.
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Oh--the joint is obvious. And he'd better pass that shit over if he knows whats good for him.

Fantastic pic.
and what about the story of your respective usernames??

(mine actually has nothing to do with dune, but everyone thought it did--and liked it--so I kept it!)
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Username is a bit different. The Omphalos was part of the Oracle at Delphi. It was a pit in the ground and was referred to as the navel of the world, because it resembled a belly button. Since it had philosophical significance the word "omphalos" which in ancient Greek only meant belly button came to signify the center of the world, just as the navel is the center of the body. Eventually it came to mean the center of anything, but I liked it and took it as a name because politically I am a centrist.

Its also the name of a cool ship in Phillip K. Dick's book The Unteleported Man.
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Geez, step away from the keyboard for a few hours and I miss all the fun.

Is that Alia from MySpace? Hey, Lady!

Avatar pix and user names, huh?

I made the "TechnoBug" one on some website I've since misplaced the URL for. Since the one I first started using is an image I grabbed from the Web, it's use is really a copyright violation, so I wanted something that was uniquely mine in case anyone ever calls me on the first one.

As for the user name, went I first visited the old, lousy-boardware BBS they had over on Dune Novels, I was kinda put off by all the people who were using names from the books. (I hope that doesn't offend anyone. [quickly checks Memberlist link]) I kinda already knew I was gonna be a gadfly, but that's not very evocative of Dune, so the first thing that came to mind was "sand chigger". I looked around and found that a guy name of Bryce had already used it, but it looked at the time like most of his accounts had been inactive for a while, so I swiped it. (Turns out he had just been occupied with other things and eventually "returned"; sent me a funny "I'M SANDCHIGGER, DAMMIT!" email on Myspace. :) )

Sorry to waffle on so long.

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When I first saw your username I thought it was a racial slur against desert dwelling people of mixed Arab-Asian decent.
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When I saw his user name I immediately thought of sand fleas. :)

My name is Mandy, I am a member of so many boards I just thought it would be nice to use my RL nickname. Most everyone here knows me as Ninti, from WSFH.

I put my avatar together at http://www.tektek.org/dream/dream.php for a story that is being written about the members of the Flat Earth Society. I thought the alien antennae and the baby seal house shoes were cute so I am using it at several different places. I'll probably get sick of it soon and find something else.
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Freakzilla wrote:When I first saw your username I thought it was a racial slur against desert dwelling people of mixed Arab-Asian decent.
No, I use a different slur for them. Involves headwear.

Mandy...those are shoes? Thank goodness!

I thought you were committing a crime against nature, involving your feet and their...well, never mind. :shock:
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SandChigger wrote:Geez, step away from the keyboard for a few hours and I miss all the fun.

Is that Alia from MySpace? Hey, Lady!

Avatar pix and user names, huh?

I made the "TechnoBug" one on some website I've since misplaced the URL for. Since the one I first started using is an image I grabbed from the Web, it's use is really a copyright violation, so I wanted something that was uniquely mine in case anyone ever calls me on the first one.

As for the user name, went I first visited the old, lousy-boardware BBS they had over on Dune Novels, I was kinda put off by all the people who were using names from the books. (I hope that doesn't offend anyone. [quickly checks Memberlist link]) I kinda already knew I was gonna be a gadfly, but that's not very evocative of Dune, so the first thing that came to mind was "sand chigger". I looked around and found that a guy name of Bryce had already used it, but it looked at the time like most of his accounts had been inactive for a while, so I swiped it. (Turns out he had just been occupied with other things and eventually "returned"; sent me a funny "I'M SANDCHIGGER, DAMMIT!" email on Myspace. :) )

Sorry to waffle on so long.

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But, since I was on myspace for OTHER reasons (Chig: "What other reasons could there possibly be??"), I wasn't going to change my handle just to post (hence my "no it really is my name and I'm not just a poser, really" warnings).

But, of course, now that ya'll know I'm me (except only Chig and Op would have cared) I gotta find some new, clever, sensational tagline for my ole signiture field here. Damn... and me fresh out of brain cells.
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Wanna try one of these here spice cigs? ;)
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I don't know where mine came from, I was going to call myself Hayt on Dunenovels but someone beat me to it. Then I just typed chanilover for some reason, I don't know why. Someone on Dunenovels thought it was a reference to Muad'Dib which I thought was quite clever so I just pretended it was so people would be amazed at how smart and original I was.
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chanilover wrote:I don't know where mine came from, I was going to call myself Hayt on Dunenovels but someone beat me to it. Then I just typed chanilover for some reason, I don't know why. Someone on Dunenovels thought it was a reference to Muad'Dib which I thought was quite clever so I just pretended it was so people would be amazed at how smart and original I was.
Well you fooled me. That's why I thought you picked it.
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Godgirl wrote:and what about the story of your respective usernames??
My secret is that I'm actually kind of a philosophy geek.

When I'm not doing physics, computer science, chemistry, literature, (or something else), that is.
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SandChigger wrote:Wanna try one of these here spice cigs? ;)
puff puff give, baby.

;)
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Godgirl wrote:
SandChigger wrote:Wanna try one of these here spice cigs? ;)
puff puff give, baby.

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Godgirl wrote:Yeah... since I noticed no one was using real pics, I decided to go the full monty on the whole avatar thing.

I always had a fondness for the actress that played that little freak (and in a weird coincidence, she has the same initials as me--ARW), so I though using her all grown up would be fun...
I did not know that Alicia Witt has a regular role as a detective on Law & Order: Criminal Intent. I rarely watch that show, but I might give it a whirl now. Does anyone know if she is the partner of the weird guy or the old guy?
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That trouble maker Omph sent me an invite :) So here I am. Hello again everyone.
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Helloooooooooo! I'm already thinking of ways to bastardize your handle. Perhaps 'Gamez Playa?' Naw! That's not short enough.
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HATE YOU! :)
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Hehehe, well I could take the first letters of your nick and your name to start calling you OG :) Hahahaha! :lol:

cue White and Nerdy :)
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OG? Cue up I'm Gonna Git You, Sucka!

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Hahahaha, I really have to see that flick :)
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So, Player, how game are you?

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Anyway, glad to see you again!

Does this mean I can make Vulcan jokes about the old name now?! :D
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Hehehe. Sometimes an internet handle is just an internet handle :)

It's good to be here. Regarding TPOG, you can address me as GamePlayer since it's my fremen name :) :lol:
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Im getting ready to read all of the Culture novels, probably in February when I dig down to them.
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Better hurry because a new Banks novel is coming out in 2008. It's a Culture novel as well and it's titled Matter. Though, knowing Banks, you've probably got a good long while before it comes out this new year :)
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I had heard that. That will be, IIRC, the tenth book if you count the anthology he put out where the Culture comes to Earth in the 1970's.
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Hiya GamePlayer, it's good to see you here. I've read a lot of your posts at DN.. so I kinda feel like I already know you.
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Ompf
Matter will be the eighth Culture book, since State of the Art is a single book (despite being a collection of short stories). But you can count it either way. I still need to finish Inversions and Look To Winward. My problem is I keep reading Player of Games, Consider Phlebas and Use of Weapons over and over again :)

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Hi there, Rob! You should be all set to go now. If not, when I get home tonight Ill just click on the system genereated e-mail to approve you, but I think youre all set to go now.

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Woohoooo I got the whisky so who's ready to get frisky :twisted:

I know most of you's already and am still here despite that :wink: For the rest I'm Rob known for not wearing pants and being surrounded by numerous nubile nymph's.

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Robspierre wrote:Woohoooo I got the whisky so who's ready to get frisky :twisted:

I know most of you's already and am still here despite that :wink: For the rest I'm Rob known for not wearing pants and being surrounded by numerous nubile nymph's.

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That and the booze.
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That actress in your avatar (totally beautiful, but I forget her name) is in a movie soon with the guy who played Leto in Children of Dune. I suppose it would be foolish to point out that one is on your list, as they all seem to be on your list these days, no?
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Keira Knightley in ATONEMENT based on the book by Ian McEwan which I thoroughly enjoyed. Sadly it is in limited release around 300 screens at the moment so it looks like those of us out in the boonies will have to wait for dvd to see it.

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Well, it doesnt look like my cup of tea, so Im sure I will see it only when my wife gets it on DVD, but they keep ranting about how good it is, so maybe it will come to more screens soon?
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The distributor is playing up the Oscar buzz. The film had already made back all of its budget overseas before opening in the US so there isn't much of a push to maximize gross. Its also very British in its dealings with class and class relations something Americans have difficulty with grasping I've found, we as a country seem to turn everything class related into sex or gender.


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Robspierre wrote:The distributor is playing up the Oscar buzz. The film had already made back all of its budget overseas before opening in the US so there isn't much of a push to maximize gross. Its also very British in its dealings with class and class relations something Americans have difficulty with grasping I've found, we as a country seem to turn everything class related into sex or gender.


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Greetings Robspierre (still love that name). I actually want to see Atonement (and his name is James McAvoy Ompf and he rocks, so remember it!). However, I went to see "Juno" instead, which was fantastic and one of the best of the year. Now, "There Will Be Blood" is next on my list.
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Hi Rob, nice to meet you. :)
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GamePlayer wrote:Greetings Robspierre (still love that name). I actually want to see Atonement (and his name is James McAvoy Ompf and he rocks, so remember it!). However, I went to see "Juno" instead, which was fantastic and one of the best of the year. Now, "There Will Be Blood" is next on my list.
I liked him in Children, but I have this silly image of him roaring like a lion in the last scene, and that still cracks me up.
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He's a really good actor and might be on the verge of main stream stardom. He has his own film this year, a big blockbuster action flick. I'm hoping it won't suck because I'm an action film junkie, but good on McAvoy for landing the bucks. He deserves it more than most (yes Cruise, that was a dig against you).
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I would agree that he is destined for greater things. Plus, CL says that he has a big wiener, so he's go that going for him.
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Hi Mandy!! 8)


GP, You'll love There Will Be Blood, a mate in New York got to see an advance screening with a Q and A with PTA And Daniel Day-Lewis afterword and he loved the film.He knows how picky I am as well and we talk film a lot (his grandfather was William Redfield) and he said the movie hits all the right notes.

If you haven't see No Country for Old Men. Excellent movie with an ending that really screws with Hollywood formula.

Also Macavoy was in Last King of Scotland and held his own against Forrest Whitaker. He's a fine actor who has a promising career yet to come.

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Gah! I can't know that!

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I've got mixed feelings about Paul Thomas Anderson's films. However, I think There Will Be Blood looks great and I'll take any chance I can get to see Daniel Day Lewis act. The script itself sounds unapologetically brutal and many have made comparisons to Taxi Driver for the immorality of it's main character. It sounds like just the kind of film I like. Must see it.

I've heard nothing but great things about No Country For Old Men as well. I also like Miller's Crossing and Fargo, great Cohen films. I'll check it out.
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The portrayal of a man who's single minded pursuit for oil fueled by his greed is very powerful.

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Cohen Bros films are great. I though Miller's Crossing dragged though. But my favorite scene in that movie was when the mook was driven up to the boarding house and he was telling his driver to use cold water on a razor blade for a closer shave. Two minutes later he was a dead man. I thought that was a pretty brilliant way of showing how mundane death can be.
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Omphalos wrote:I would agree that he is destined for greater things. Plus, CL says that he has a big wiener, so he's go that going for him.
He really reminds me of this Scottish guy I dated, who was equally hot and a great shag. He was an arrogant prick and really mouthy, but that's the sort of guy I tend to go for. I used to love it when he wore his kilt.
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GamePlayer wrote:I went to see "Juno" instead, which was fantastic and one of the best of the year.
Agreed!
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I really like Jason Reitman's directing. He's a solid talent that I'm going to watch for again and again. I've absolutely loved both of his last two films, Juno and Thank You For Smoking. The characters and dialog are just top notch and the stories are both very interesting dramatically.
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I dont think Ive ever seen anything by him. Is he Ivan Reitman's son?
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He is indeed. He's done a string of funny short films, but Thank You For Smoking and Juno are his first features. So I'm not surprised you may not have seen his stuff, since he's relatively new on the scene. I'd definitely encourage you to watch both those films. They are quality productions.
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I remember Thank You For Not Smoking got a lot of press because of your favorite scientologist, GamePlayer.
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I actually didn't know she converted. Regardless, I never thought highly of her to begin with, so no big loss. After all, she married the evil emperor :)
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GamePlayer wrote:I actually didn't know she converted. Regardless, I never thought highly of her to begin with, so no big loss. After all, she married the evil emperor :)
I was actually referring to the Evil Emperor. I recall the rumor that he threw his weight around and got her nude scene pulled.
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Oh, my mistake. I don't know if that rumor is true, but it wouldn't surprise me. Cruise has definitely gone off the deep end and his religious moral presumption strikes me as true to form.
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I'm BAAA-AAAA-CCCCCKKKKK! :twisted:
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Welcome! I told you I would never delete your account. By the way, we dont have too many rules around here. So if you get in over your head, be sure to ask for help! :lol:

Really, I have to ask. Why are you here? Common sense would tell me that this is the last place you would wish to come, given recent events. Are you here to make trouble? Or perhaps to apologize and make peace?
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Peace offering, I suppose... I would appreciate not being flamed or complained at for admin decisions I make at Arrakeen.

I post my troublemaking snarks at SandChigger's.

But if you allow anti-KJA/BH snarks here, I've got lots to share. Some of it I don't post at Arrakeen because I can predict Byron's reaction: a spitting mad PM, screaming at me about insulting his family, etc.

Such a shame you can't install custom smileys here... :P

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It's Kev working on his latest international best-seller, Blahblah of Dune!
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LOL @ Eru :) :lol:

As for Hyppo, read the dedicated thread and leave it at that. I want to enjoy my time here, specifically the good 'n proper wasting of it :)
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Long time lurker, 2nd time poster. Hi everyone, I can't begin our journey across the wilderness and not see it all the way through. Looks like this is the new place to be.
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Hi Nekhrun. Havent seen much of you. I figured that the school year is keeping you really busy.
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Welcome Nekhrun. I 'member ya from da old 'hood :)
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Woot! The old gang s coming back. Let the snarkyness begin!

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Omphalos wrote:Hi Nekhrun. Havent seen much of you. I figured that the school year is keeping you really busy.
While that it true, I've made it a point to keep myself up to date on all of the drama. Man, you guys can get pissy. I love it.
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Damn, nice place here Omph! I stoped in a while ago when it was new(lost the link) and now it looks pretty busy. Good to see most people are already here! :) Sorry I'm late to the show., but Hi everyone!
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Thanks Omph. I'm also bringing the Slurpee with me! Hey, you knew it'd come back at some point, right! :D
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Hey, Crys!

I see the "wardrobe malfunction" got fixed. ;)
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Greetings Crysknife. It's funny to see everyone back. It's like DN "take two" here. :)
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Ho, Nekhrun, Crysknife!
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Hey Crys, long time no see.

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Robspierre wrote:As you wish:

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I always meant to ask you, Rob. Is this shot supposed to be like the Heinlein cover? Not Friday. Um......Time Enough for Love? I think? Anyway, whichever it is, were you all trying to make this shot look like a Heinlein cover? Because it really does look like one, but I just cant remember which one this second.
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GamePlayer wrote:Greetings Crysknife. It's funny to see everyone back. It's like DN "take two" here. :)
Only w/o Byron! Or Sloey. Though I do miss that little fuck sometimes.
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I don't; sloeman was an idot.

I do miss Byron, but he's just too close to the business to run an unfettered forum. But like I've always said, official websites are junk and always have been. It doesn't matter if it's Dune, Star Wars, or Martha-fucking-Stewart, official websites are extensions of the business and will ALWAYS have an agenda that conflicts with the needs of fans to express their own opinions.

The real, worthwhile action has always been at the fan sites.
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It is a take off of TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE, though there were other shots from that shoot that you will nae ever see :twisted:

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Hi, everyone :) I'm Ragabash, Omphalos' little brother. I maintain and host this and his other web sites. He's forcing me at gunpoint to contribute to the site, so Hi. :D

I'm not much of a Dune fan, although I've read the first novel. I'm more into other SF authors, like Iain Banks and Lovecraft. But, I hope to contribute to the site anyway.

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Hellooooooooo, my brotha! Welcome to the Thunderdome. Two men in. One man out.

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Ragabash wrote:I'm more into other SF authors, like Iain Banks
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I just read today that a new Banks SF novel is coming out next month, and it's going to be a Culture novel. Very excited!
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Hey, Ragabash!

So...spill the dirt. What was it like growing up with Omph as an older brother? :D
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SandChigger wrote:Hey, Ragabash!

So...spill the dirt. What was it like growing up with Omph as an older brother? :D
My treat Pancake Circus if you spill the beans! :)
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Ragabash wrote:Thank you, and you're welcome :D

I just read today that a new Banks SF novel is coming out next month, and it's going to be a Culture novel. Very excited!
Oh, I'm on it. I just hope it comes out sooner this year rather than later :)
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SandChigger wrote:Hey, Ragabash!

So...spill the dirt. What was it like growing up with Omph as an older brother? :D
My treat Pancake Circus if you spill the beans! :)
Oh, yea. Bro was asking about other Sactown residents. I think we have a visitor or former resident here, as he seems to know all. Or at least where to get good sushi and crappy coffee. :P
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Hi Ragabash, nice to finally meet you.
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Omphalos wrote:
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SandChigger wrote:Hey, Ragabash!

So...spill the dirt. What was it like growing up with Omph as an older brother? :D
My treat Pancake Circus if you spill the beans! :)
Oh, yea. Bro was asking about other Sactown residents. I think we have a visitor or former resident here, as he seems to know all. Or at least where to get good sushi and crappy coffee. :P
Crappy coffee? :evil:
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Oh, Dur, now you've done it, gone and mentioned coffee! :shock:
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Mr. Teg wrote:
Omphalos wrote:
Mr. Teg wrote:
SandChigger wrote:Hey, Ragabash!

So...spill the dirt. What was it like growing up with Omph as an older brother? :D
My treat Pancake Circus if you spill the beans! :)
Oh, yea. Bro was asking about other Sactown residents. I think we have a visitor or former resident here, as he seems to know all. Or at least where to get good sushi and crappy coffee. :P
Crappy coffee? :evil:
Pancake Circus. I live 2 blocks from there. Everything there is sticky, including the coffee.
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You REALLY should see Teg put away the coffee.

It's...awe-inspiring. :shock:
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Hi and welcome. So Omphalos's mini-me has turned up.
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Omphalos wrote:
Mr. Teg wrote:
Omphalos wrote:
Mr. Teg wrote:
SandChigger wrote:Hey, Ragabash!

So...spill the dirt. What was it like growing up with Omph as an older brother? :D
My treat Pancake Circus if you spill the beans! :)
Oh, yea. Bro was asking about other Sactown residents. I think we have a visitor or former resident here, as he seems to know all. Or at least where to get good sushi and crappy coffee. :P
Crappy coffee? :evil:
Pancake Circus. I live 2 blocks from there. Everything there is sticky, including the coffee.
Sticky? Um, I meant the restaurant downtown not the establishments across the county line. :wink:
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Mr. Teg wrote:
Omphalos wrote:
Mr. Teg wrote:
Omphalos wrote:
Mr. Teg wrote:
SandChigger wrote:Hey, Ragabash!

So...spill the dirt. What was it like growing up with Omph as an older brother? :D
My treat Pancake Circus if you spill the beans! :)
Oh, yea. Bro was asking about other Sactown residents. I think we have a visitor or former resident here, as he seems to know all. Or at least where to get good sushi and crappy coffee. :P
Crappy coffee? :evil:
Pancake Circus. I live 2 blocks from there. Everything there is sticky, including the coffee.
Sticky? Um, I meant the restaurant downtown not the establishments across the county line. :wink:
Well, you have been gone for a while. We keep our brothels well in town here in Sacto. :P

But I am talking of course about the restaurant on 21st and Broadway. The entire place has a thin layer of pancake syrup on every surface (and in the coffee). Good thing that stuff is not flammable! Ragabash and I both live very close to that place.
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I think we need a rule for quoting. After all, the thread is right here for all to read. No need to repost a dozen+ replies except the last post to which you are replying :) :wink:
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GamePlayer wrote:I think we need a rule for quoting. After all, the thread is right here for all to read. No need to repost a dozen+ replies except the last post to which you are replying :) :wink:
I'm just doing it in hopes it'll grow into something silly, like in the old days. :D
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GamePlayer wrote:I think we need a rule for quoting. After all, the thread is right here for all to read. No need to repost a dozen+ replies except the last post to which you are replying :) :wink:
I'm not much of one for rules, GamePlayer. That is something Hyppo would try to do. Besides, if I implement a rule like that, what is going to happen when its broken? I ban someone? I don't think so. And I don't feel like doing a Hyppo-like response, with all caps, big letters all in red. Just not my style.
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GamePlayer wrote:I think we need a rule for quoting. After all, the thread is right here for all to read. No need to repost a dozen+ replies except the last post to which you are replying :) :wink:
Feeling left out :wink: :wink:
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Omphalos wrote:But I am talking of course about the restaurant on 21st and Broadway. The entire place has a thin layer of pancake syrup on every surface (and in the coffee). Good thing that stuff is not flammable! Ragabash and I both live very close to that place.
So, where do you go for coffee?
Starbucks? LaBou? Freeport Bakery?
I'm still mourning Cafe Melange... :cry:
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SandChigger wrote:
GamePlayer wrote:I think we need a rule for quoting. After all, the thread is right here for all to read. No need to repost a dozen+ replies except the last post to which you are replying :) :wink:
I'm just doing it in hopes it'll grow into something silly, like in the old days. :D
I was always secretly disappointed in all of you for not following through with our games of shrinky. :evil:
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Nekhrun wrote:
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GamePlayer wrote:I think we need a rule for quoting. After all, the thread is right here for all to read. No need to repost a dozen+ replies except the last post to which you are replying :) :wink:
I'm just doing it in hopes it'll grow into something silly, like in the old days. :D
I was always secretly disappointed in all of you for not following through with our games of shrinky. :evil:
I think there should be a rule against people suggesting or mentioning THE RULES.
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I think we should make it into a drinking game.

Anyone who mentions RULES henceforth should have to drink something.

:shock:

I'll drink to that! :D
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Mr. Teg wrote:
Omphalos wrote:But I am talking of course about the restaurant on 21st and Broadway. The entire place has a thin layer of pancake syrup on every surface (and in the coffee). Good thing that stuff is not flammable! Ragabash and I both live very close to that place.
So, where do you go for coffee?
Starbucks? LaBou? Freeport Bakery?
I'm still mourning Cafe Melange... :cry:
I'm not picky. I am going to Starbucks today, but the automat machine in my building is just fine with me. All I need is the chemical. It doesn't necessarily need to be delivered to me in a $6 vehicle. :wink:
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I think you could probably support a methamphetmine habbit for cheaper than going to Starbucks.

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SandChigger wrote:I think we should make it into a drinking game.

Anyone who mentions RULES henceforth should have to drink something.

:shock:

I'll drink to that! :D
Rules are for chumps.

*drinks*

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Freakzilla wrote:I think you could probably support a methamphetmine habbit for cheaper than going to Starbucks.

:P
I did the math one day. For a 25 year old person, if you take the amount of money that one typically spends on Starbucks every day, and subtracted the amount that it costs to make coffee at home, with cream and sugar, then invested the difference at 8%, by the time you retire you would have an additional $158,000 in your retirement account. Ive seen others do the math and come up with $500K before too.
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You all can keep your coffee, I'll stick to my tea thank you very much.

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Robspierre wrote:You all can keep your coffee, I'll stick to my tea thank you very much.

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Robspierre wrote:You all can keep your coffee, I'll stick to my tea thank you very much.

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Actually, I drink coffee and tea sometimes, but my thing is Coke. Im addicted.
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I just can't stand the taste of coffee at all. Irish Breakfast in th morning with Jasmine white in the afternoon and red tea in the evening.

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Industrial-strength Mandheling in the morning. (Bint & I both like something stiff to get us going...ahem! :oops: ) I get my beans from a place called Mame Koubou (The Bean Factory) in downtown Iwaki, run by a guy named Aoyama ("Blue Mountain"...how great a name for a coffee seller is that?! :D ).

I take along a Starbucks carcup-full on the road with me down to the office. During the day, I get hot lemon tea or green tea in cans out of the vending machine in the Humanities Bldg lobby. (I used to make coffee or tea, but with the shared office sitch, it's just too much of a pain. Can't wait to get back into an office of my own...come March or April.)

In the evening, it's either soft drinks or tea. :D

(Off-topic: The office sitch is one of the main reasons Teg and I haven't been doing more podcasts. The rennovations also mean that there aren't any free classrooms for us to hijack, either. But stay tuned! ;) )
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Omphalos wrote:I'm not much of one for rules, GamePlayer. That is something Hyppo would try to do. Besides, if I implement a rule like that, what is going to happen when its broken? I ban someone? I don't think so. And I don't feel like doing a Hyppo-like response, with all caps, big letters all in red. Just not my style.
Bit melodramatic don't you think? It's no slippery slope and news flash, not everyone in authority is an undisciplined, power hungry, attention seeking cat person. I'm sure you'd do fine. Believe it or not, I'm on older message boards that have had more fun than DN, Arrakeen and AU (so far) all combined and they have such rules. Digressing, it was just a suggestion and nothing more.
chanilover wrote:I think there should be a rule against people suggesting or mentioning THE RULES.
Yeah, and a rule against the knee-jerk too. Methinks some thicker skins mayhap be thy destiny, mighty warrior. :P :wink:
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GamePlayer wrote:
Omphalos wrote:I'm not much of one for rules, GamePlayer. That is something Hyppo would try to do. Besides, if I implement a rule like that, what is going to happen when its broken? I ban someone? I don't think so. And I don't feel like doing a Hyppo-like response, with all caps, big letters all in red. Just not my style.
Bit melodramatic don't you think? It's no slippery slope and news flash, not everyone in authority is an undisciplined, power hungry, attention seeking cat person. I'm sure you'd do fine. Believe it or not, I'm on older message boards that have had more fun than DN, Arrakeen and AU (so far) all combined and they have such rules. Digressing, it was just a suggestion and nothing more.
OK. That's how I took it. And no, I don't personally think my response was melodramatic, but pardon me if I still have her on my mind. I was just trying to answer you completely, that's all.
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And I was just taking the piss.

I think any moderating should be done here in red bold text, just so everyone knows you mean business and it's no laughing matter.

I like capuccino and latte, but I usually drink tea in work as the coffee tastes like piss.
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Omphalos wrote:Actually, I drink coffee and tea sometimes, but my thing is Coke. Im addicted.
That's nothin'. I'm drinking coffee and chasing it with coke.

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Fair enough all.

But it can't be coffee, unless there's lots of chocolate milk and a ton of sugar :)

"He was full of pep. Must've had his grande latte enema."

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I'm really pissed off at Starbucks Japan. They've got three shops in Kohriyama, inland from here, but can't be fooked to open one here in Iwaki.

Down in Mito, there are two or three, but they're all WAY off my route coming or going. (Getting down to the one by the station is a nightmare. I really don't get it, after we did them the favor of clearing all the urban sprawl during the war, what do they do but rebuild with the same crazy castle-town roads. Argh!)

But Teg put me on to one in Hitachi-Naka yesterday, that I could swing by on my way home. Maybe I'll check it out tomorrow (today). :)
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Starbucks is the anti-christ.

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Robspierre wrote:Starbucks is the anti-christ.

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"The Devil's Americano?" :)

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(Groan)


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"Oh, come on! That was damn funny."

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I usually drink coffee, but lately I've been feeling a bit under the weather, so I've been drinking a tea concoction I came up with at work. It's a mixture of Green and Peppermint teas with a splash of Irish Cream Syrup and Half&Half. Tonight, though, I wish I had some real Irish Cream :wink: I'm closing tonight and going straight from work to volunteer at the local Rocky Horror Picture Show. I'll be lucky if I get home by 3 A.M. Maybe if it's slow tonight we'll get a couple of beers at the local convenience store to make work more bearable :lol:
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Eru wrote:I've been drinking a tea concoction I came up with at work. It's a mixture of Green and Peppermint teas with a splash of Irish Cream Syrup and Half&Half.
:shock:

Ah, to have once again the gastric fortitude of youth. :(
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No kidding. Though I did have a bowl of chili for lunch today that is pretty much granting me the solace I so desire.
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Mmmm...chili. :D

There's something I haven't had in a while. Will have to check the cabinets to see if there are any beans. Mmmmmm.
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Robspierre wrote:Starbucks is the anti-christ.
:twisted:

Well, in all fairness, Starbucks is great in Japan, but I pretty much stayed away from SB back in the states, unfortunately all the great local cafes have pretty much closed down.

Tully's and Seattle's Best are here as well.

Starbucks pretty much owns all the train stations, and Tully's is very strong in the business districts leaving Seattle's Best to scramble for the crumbs. I think Seattle's Best is the best, but Tully's marketing approach has all but knocked out Seattle's Best.
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Well, tell 'em Iwaki is wide open for SOMEBODY to move in. :cry:

All we got is Dotoru.

Which as everybody over here knows is named after the sound their coffee makes as they pour it.

Do-do-do-ttooooru. (Sorta like pouring mud?) :D
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Welcome to the board, The Phantom. Getting that guy approved was a bitch and a half. (I thought he was a spammer for a long time. :oops: )
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The name looks familiar for some reason. Is/Was he on the other boards?

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DN. Occasional poster, from what I can see.
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Hi The Phantom, whoever you are.
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(Btw, where's the 'Ru gotten to? Haven't seen him around for a few days.)
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I guess he's been busy. He poked his nose in a few days ago after a few days away from everywhere, and has been AWOL since.
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Wow! :shock:

Three more from the DN/Arrakeen Scattering have returned to us today!
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Hello everyone, tweety here. :)

Not sure how often I'll be posting around here, but for now I just wanted to say hi. Been watching and reading of your 'battles' so to speak (involved a LOT of lurking!), and I am cheering for you all and your victories. Keep fighting the good fight!
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Hello Sparafucile.
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Hi Sparafucile! I saw some tracks you left over at Chronicles a long time ago. Great to see you again.
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Hi Sparafucile, nice to meet you.
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Welcome, Monster 7of9!

I believe this is the person who is putting together the Dune conference in Miami in April, so if anyone has any questions, please start a thread and hopefully Monster7of9 can fill us in.
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Omphalos wrote:Welcome, Monster 7of9!

I believe this is the person who is putting together the Dune conference in Miami in April, so if anyone has any questions, please start a thread and hopefully Monster7of9 can fill us in.
Aschlan, wasachlan!

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BTW, and sorry for being rude, hello and welcome to tanzeelat and Serkanner, as well! Good to see you guys again!
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Already said howdy to "Tweety" on the 'Keen thread and sent Tanz a PM. Howdy again, Serkanner and a howdy-doody to Monster7of9! (Do you have an interesting hairdo?)

(As I've explained to Phaedrus, it's nearly 3:00 AM here and I'm wasting time here instead of adding some code to my student website for my first class this morning...Argh!)
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Hello everybody. Managed to find you all again :P Thanks for letting me in Omphalos
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Serkanner wrote:Hello everybody. Managed to find you all again :P Thanks for letting me in Omphalos
No problem. BTW, loved the comment about the Dutch translations of the new books that Chig referenced in a post recently. Something about them taking so long to be published there because the translators were laughing too hard as they read them in English! Classic!
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Hi everyone. I don't really post anything on DN or Arrakeen but will try here. Everyone on here seems to know alot about Dune and I think I can learn more about it from you all.
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Welcome, Anthony19! I see that you stumped our good Freakzilla for a post or two on Dune Trivia a while back. There are some of us here who have never accomplished that.
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I don't have any recollection of that ever happening!

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Welcome everyone!! Good to see some old faces back!
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Thanks for the warm welcome and I think stumping Freakzilla was just luck. 8)
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Freakzilla wrote:I don't have any recollection of that ever happening!

:wink:

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Omphalos wrote:
Freakzilla wrote:I don't have any recollection of that ever happening!

:wink:

Never let it be said that I don't help the forgetful. :wink:
Hey, I got it on my second guess!
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Freakzilla wrote:
Omphalos wrote:
Freakzilla wrote:I don't have any recollection of that ever happening!

:wink:

Never let it be said that I don't help the forgetful. :wink:
Hey, I got it on my second guess!
And, chiming in with the "Its good enough for government work..." response.....

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I know everything!

(I just can't remember it all at once :cry: )
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Aww Freak, you're still the King of Dune. :P

Hello new people, nice to meet ya.
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Oh wow! Lots of new faces woot! Welcome!!!!!!!

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Welcome all you new peoples :)
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Hi everyone, I know some of you guys. :D
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Hey Tanzeelat, welcome, good to see you here!!! What ya been up to?
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Real Life, I guess :-)

Didn't like Arrakeen - aie! the goggles they no work... So I stopped dropping by.
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I run into you occasionally at Chronicles. I just hang there occasionally, though.
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Welcome, inhuien!
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sffchronicles isn't bad. Bit too much "which is the best spaceship in Star Wars" and "which Ajah would you be in WoT", but there are some good people there.
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tanzeelat wrote:sffchronicles isn't bad. Bit too much "which is the best spaceship in Star Wars" and "which Ajah would you be in WoT", but there are some good people there.
That sounds about right, but with more emphasis on WoT than ST.
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Well it may(did) take me a while to get here, but good things come to those who blah yadda blah

Helllooo to everyone, I'm catchin' up on the old posts right now, so hope to see you round the old campfire for a blether later.
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Hi Inhuien, welcome aboard! This place is starting to attract quite a few people now.
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Omphalos, your avatar is scary.
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Nah. INHULEN's is scary. :shock:
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Phaedrus wrote:Omphalos, your avatar is scary.
I loved Hal in the movie. But maybe it is tad large. I will shrink him a bit when I get home tonight.
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Omphalos wrote:
Phaedrus wrote:Omphalos, your avatar is scary.
I loved Hal in the movie. But maybe it is tad large. I will shrink him a bit when I get home tonight.
Dude, everything looks bigger on the screen :wink:

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It would look better with a black background.
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GamePlayer wrote:It would look better with a black background.
I have a black one too. Ill try it later. I also have one with the red light turned off, for when Im on vacation. :wink:
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A man who plans ahead :)
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Lovin' it. :D
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OK, Wow. Ten new members in the last few days. I would thank Hymaintenance for the gift, if I weren't so busy laughing at her. But really, thanks to Chig for putting up the announcement directing members from the latest Scattering to End All Scatterings on his blog, as well as anyone else who has spread the word of this place.

I'm beginning to think I should have called this forum Carthag, or the Pyon Villages, so I could collect those who flee from the fallen Atreides capitol.
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My pleasure.

I see Boom-Boom Skibum is here now, too.

Hey, guys! :D
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SandChigger wrote:Nah. INHULEN's is scary. :shock:
I think we can all agree that chanilover's is the scariest, though.
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Welcome, Skibum & Star Dust. You guys should be approved and ready to go!
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this is actually arnoldo.....

or is it...... :shock:
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(*I* get it. :D )
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Howdy howdy!

Got wind from a nameless member I know from other board(s). Another I know and a few screenies I recognize. Now just as soon as I figure out all the acronyms I may be able to weigh in on something.

I'm a scifi/fantasy geek who thinks that Dune is probably the greatest book ever written (although GEoD is my favorite of the cannon), that I embarrass myself that I even know who Kevin J Anderson is, that Battlestar Galactica is greater than sliced bread, and that Kate and Juliette need to get it on. BUT THAT'S JUST ME!

Oh, and cursing is allowed here, which is bitchin' (how 70's was that?!)
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Welcome. It's nice to see a new face. These other guys have been pissy lately. 8)
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We have not, you fucking stupid sonofabitch! :wink:

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Star Dust wrote:Howdy howdy!

Got wind from a nameless member I know from other board(s).
I get the same from beans and beer. BUT THAT'S JUST ME! :D

But seriously...how did someone register on any board without a user name? :shock:

Just kidding! Anyone who uses Bill the Cat (Ack! Plththth!) as their avatar has to be OK! Howdy!
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Hey up people!

I've posted a couple of times on DN and a fair few other places over the years as DuneFishUK. But a link from a SandChigger's blog (semi-regular lurker :D) lead me here... and I'm intrigued...
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Greetings new person.

*slaps Himachil with a sandtrout*

You have been initiated :)
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Heeeelloooooooooo!
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Hey Dunefish!

I remember you :wink:
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Himachil wrote:Hey up people!

I've posted a couple of times on DN and a fair few other places over the years as DuneFishUK. But a link from a SandChigger's blog (semi-regular lurker :D) lead me here... and I'm intrigued...
Hello.

I remember seeing that user name. :)

And was wondering who some of those UK accesses were. ;)
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Speaking of site accesses, I just saw one which leads me to believe it's safe to assume Chanilover and family made it to their destination safely. ;)
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Must be lagged though. That's a rough flight. But I guess he went East?
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Welcome, SimonH. You should be good to go now.
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Howdy, SimonH.

Happier to see you than I would be the other Simon on DN...although he can draw. :D
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Welcome, Loremaster. Sorry, I was out of town for the last two days!
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With one post just saying "hi" and this second post in which IO rather only post curse words I am "happy" to announce to I have invested too much time and too much money in getting my computer working again. A short-circuit in my power supply fried my motherboard, processor, graphics card and hard drive :S

Ah well ... Frank had it right all the time: JIHAD!!!!
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Welcome to the Sietch, queotic. Very glad to have you here!
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Hey, queotic! :D
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SandChigger wrote:The name looks familiar for some reason. Is/Was he on the other boards?

(Hi, The Phantom!)

Hi everyone. I was occasionally on DN and gave my two cents whenever I felt I had something to contribute. Havn't posted there in a long time and now browse and occasionally add to Jacurutu. Glad to be included among the ranks of Orthodox Herbertians
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Hello again! :)
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Well, well, look who has wandered back to our sands. Hellooooooooo, GS! Long time no see!
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Omphalos wrote:Welcome, SimonH. You should be good to go now.
how rude am i? didn't see this till today. Belated hi all!

not finding much time to post, but am enjoying the drama across the dune boards as usual. though the dune bb seems pretty boring at the moment eh?
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SimonH wrote:
Omphalos wrote:Welcome, SimonH. You should be good to go now.
how rude am i? didn't see this till today. Belated hi all!

not finding much time to post, but am enjoying the drama across the dune boards as usual. though the dune bb seems pretty boring at the moment eh?
I think its gonna be a loooooooong time before that ever changes.
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Omphalos wrote:Well, well, look who has wandered back to our sands. Hellooooooooo, GS! Long time no see!
Hola Omph, and to all. Sorry I didn't get here sooner. It took awhile for my ghola to grow back. :P
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It's about bleeding time! :twisted:


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Goya Solidar wrote:
Omphalos wrote:Well, well, look who has wandered back to our sands. Hellooooooooo, GS! Long time no see!
Hola Omph, and to all. Sorry I didn't get here sooner. It took awhile for my ghola to grow back. :P
Yeah! Glad you made it here!!! :D
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Omphalos wrote:Welcome, 13athroom!
well, FANK you very much.

quite proper of you to welcome a bloke who 'adnt musterd the balls to say 'ello 'imself.

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Greetings, Worm! Very, very glad to have you drop by and register. I certainly don't run anywhere near as tight a ship as you do, but I hope you will have fun and come by some!
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Now that's freaky :shock: . You welcoming me before I made my first post.

Quick send me the powerball lottery numbers. :wink:

Had to stop by and say howdy to the fine folks here. It's the very least I can do considering the amount of input you put in at Haven.

If I can help you with anything regarding templates or graphics.. whatever, don't hesitate to ask.
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My brother hosts this place and Jacurutu. He's setting us up with db access today or tomorrow, so I will get to work on a skin then. Can't wait!
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Hello everyone.

As I think said over at Jacurutu, I'm a long time lurker and enjoy your converstaions. I thought I was well versed in sci-fi before I start lurking here. Wow, I got some reading to do. I hope I can keep up.

If you can't tell by the name, I'm a big Star Wars fan. My wife calls it an obsession but I disagree (her problem anyway, she married me :D) I realize it is not nearly as deep or complicated as Dune is, but it's still my passion and I make no apologies for it.

Anyway, nice to meet you all and I look forward to talking with you.
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Heya again! :)
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Hey gang!

Some of you may know me from Jacurutu or DNBBS...for those of you who don't, I enjoy whiskey, cars, writers having hicking accidents, BBQ, Pink Floyd, laughing at Arnoldo, movies, BSG,etc...

See ya! :P
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Hicking accidents?

Would that be like, Kevin going off the road in Kentucky and getting molested by a clan of inbred hillbilly hicks...who mistook him for Stephen King? :shock:

:lol:

(Sorry, Rakis, couldn't resist! :P )
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Hehehe...Let's get KJA together with the gang from Deliverance...We'll see if they also find him "awesome"... :twisted:
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SQUEAL like a piggay for me, little lady man! :twisted:
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Omphalos wrote:Yew gotta mighty purdy dictaphone!
OMG.. that cracked me up for some reason. :D
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Mandy wrote:
Omphalos wrote:Yew gotta mighty purdy dictaphone!
OMG.. that cracked me up for some reason. :D
Yeah... she likes dictaphones. I knew it! :wink:
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subakh ul kuhar

I am here in service of the Bedwine Ichwan,
the Brotherhood of all Fremen on Arrakis

and I hope this is an oasis and not the drumsands that many other dune forums seem often to be.

I recognise a few of you here from lurking around other sites.
Needless to say I am big into Dune, the originals, not the blasphemies of Pinky and the Brain

who is Naib around here?
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Our Naib is He who Snipes from Behind the All-Seeing Eye of al-Hal 9800, Oomphal OMphalos, Lint of the Bellybutton of the World, whose name reverberates till the ends of the Universe! :D
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SandChigger wrote:Our Naib is He who Snipes from Behind the All-Seeing Eye of al-Hal 9800, Oomphal OMphalos, Lint of the Bellybutton of the World, whose name reverberates till the ends of the Universe! :D
And BEYOND>>>

Hi Kangamouse :)
Look, I'm not much good at big speeches, and I know I haven't always been an easy guy to get on with, and I know, that given the choice, I wouldn't have chosen you as friends, but I just want to say, that over the years, I have come to regard you as people I met.

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SandChigger wrote:Our Naib is He who Snipes from Behind the All-Seeing Eye of al-Hal 9800, Oomphal OMphalos, Lint of the Bellybutton of the World, whose name reverberates till the ends of the Universe! :D
You forgot to add "crapper of worlds," as can be seen elsewhere here. But thanks for the fanfare otherwise!
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(I thought that sounded too close to "Crapper of Whirls", one of Kevin's epithets. Didn't want to risk offending! :D )
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Whoa, look out, A Thing Of Eternity on board! :shock:


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It's nice that when one of us gets tired of that New Dune bullshit someone else steps up and rekindles my hatred of those fucking books. I owe him one.
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I'm glad he's here. He has an impressive knowledge of SF other than Dune.
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Hello Thing!
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Yeah, I like him. :)
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Now I feel all warm and fuzzy inside! I hadn't even said hello yet. :D
Seriously though, I'm just getting started on serious SF, what I don't know makes what I do know into virtually nothing. I just happen to enjoy the technical aspects more than some people so it makes it look like I know what I'm talking about. I'm actually speaking out my ass much of the time

It's really nice having people to talk to about SF though, I don't get much of that on the outside.
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Beats the hell out of talking to your cat, huh?
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I wish I had a cat to talk to.
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A Thing of Eternity wrote:Now I feel all warm and fuzzy inside! I hadn't even said hello yet. :D
Seriously though, I'm just getting started on serious SF, what I don't know makes what I do know into virtually nothing. I just happen to enjoy the technical aspects more than some people so it makes it look like I know what I'm talking about. I'm actually speaking out my ass much of the time

It's really nice having people to talk to about SF though, I don't get much of that on the outside.
Neither do I. My friend just laughs at me (though last week he did ask me for a pile of the review books that they send me, so there's hope!) You've come to the right place.
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A Thing of Eternity wrote:I'm actually speaking out my ass much of the time
You really should talk to Mastah B then. The BT now have a full line of sphincteral enhancements that will REALLY blow your mileage out the door! I don't know where I'd be without the turbo minijets they installed in two of my sphincters.

Why, they even helped me come first place in last month's Spring TriAsslon! :P
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How long have you been waiting for the proper setup to use that one?! :lol:
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Honestly?

It just popped into my head as I was posting. I'm kinda sad I never thought of it before.

But I'm sure that Hyppothalamic, were she able to post here, would tell us that someone used it in a book somewhere, somewhen before. ;)


(Btw, I didn't come up with either Sadworms or Grunters. Just a heads up, 'cause I'm sure she will correct you on it.)
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I read it in Doon.
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OH SHIT! I knew I should have reread that by now!

Damn...Doon is just...such a classic! Now, doan you go dissin' no Doon now, ya hear?

Oh, yeah, that reminds me: that first bloodin' of the sword on Grunman, that's REALLY significant...'cause in a warrior culture, that sort of thing is IMPORTANT.

Gah! :roll:
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A Thing of Eternity, a silly wee yello bouncin' man says howdy.
Look, I'm not much good at big speeches, and I know I haven't always been an easy guy to get on with, and I know, that given the choice, I wouldn't have chosen you as friends, but I just want to say, that over the years, I have come to regard you as people I met.

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Your Avatar brings me joy. :D
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Welcome Dune Nerd

Welcome Jovicevic
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Heya, Noid! :D

And Jovicevic!

(Interesting name. Looks Slavic...pronounced as if written "Yovichevich" in English orthography? :) )
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Hello Nerd and Jovicevic.
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SandChigger wrote:Heya, Noid! :D

And Jovicevic!

(Interesting name. Looks Slavic...pronounced as if written "Yovichevich" in English orthography? :) )
Location is Novi Sad. Id say you were on to something.
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Hi new peeps and hi orald.
Look, I'm not much good at big speeches, and I know I haven't always been an easy guy to get on with, and I know, that given the choice, I wouldn't have chosen you as friends, but I just want to say, that over the years, I have come to regard you as people I met.

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Hi orald.
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OH NOES! lol.. hi Orald.
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I'm half asleep...fucking job... :cry:
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There, as they say, went the neighborhood.
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orald wrote:I'm half asleep...fucking job... :cry:
Pumping wears you out? Pansy.
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SandChigger wrote:There, as they say, went the neighborhood.
My thoughts precisely, yet I couldn't think of a way to express it...
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Omphalos wrote:
orald wrote:I'm half asleep...fucking job... :cry:
Pumping wears you out? Pansy.
Yeah, no shit. Grow a pair sissy :P
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It's the standing and running around that wears me down.

But I guess sitting around in your air-conditioned office eating donuts and surfing for porn instead of doing your work does wear a man down as well. :roll:
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Who would that be in reference to?
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orald wrote:It's the standing and running around that wears me down.

But I guess sitting around in your air-conditioned office eating donuts and surfing for porn instead of doing your work does wear a man down as well. :roll:
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orald wrote:It's the standing and running around that wears me down.

But I guess sitting around in your air-conditioned office eating donuts and surfing for porn instead of doing your work does wear a man down as well. :roll:
Pffffffttt! I have people I hire to sit around for me! I have it even better than that, what with the ex-Olympic female swimmers team mates I have hired to fan me and feed me grapes.
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orald wrote:It's the standing and running around that wears me down.

But I guess sitting around in your air-conditioned office eating donuts and surfing for porn instead of doing your work does wear a man down as well. :roll:

Amateur! Get you some minions, I have two.

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SandChigger wrote:Who would that be in reference to?
Everyone except you, of course.













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"Hi there." Did you ever say that to somebody? "Hi there. Hi, there, because I'm not saying hi to you here. I'll say hi to you, but not when you're here, only when you're there." "Hi there. Hi there." What does this mean? "Goodbye there!" Isn't that what you really want to say?

"Goodbye there."


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GamePlayer wrote:"Hi there." Did you ever say that to somebody? "Hi there. Hi, there, because I'm not saying hi to you here. I'll say hi to you, but not when you're here, only when you're there." "Hi there. Hi there." What does this mean? "Goodbye there!" Isn't that what you really want to say?

"Goodbye there."


:P :lol:
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Carlin?
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It's a paraphrase from Seinfeld :) In the skit he talks about the phrase "Take care now"

Take care now.
Take care now.
Take off, isn't that what you really want to say?


I'm just running out of greetings. I've used them all a dozen times over now. Hi, hello, greetings, pleased ta meet ya...so I had to try something else. :)
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Have you used...

WAAZZZZZZUUUUUPPPPPPPPPP?
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The phrase "played out" comes to mind :)
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No way, we've got to bring that fucker back!
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Hello Lisan.
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Hey, Vox From Out da Box! :wink:
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Omphalos wrote:
orald wrote:It's the standing and running around that wears me down.

But I guess sitting around in your air-conditioned office eating donuts and surfing for porn instead of doing your work does wear a man down as well. :roll:
Pffffffttt! I have people I hire to sit around for me! I have it even better than that, what with the ex-Olympic female swimmers team mates I have hired to fan me and feed me grapes.
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Your dream is to feed Omph grapes? :shock:


KINKAY! :lol:
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Who wouldn't want to feed him grapes, after seeing that picture on him on the loo? There really are no words to describe that pic.
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"What does "Dumb Fuck" mean?"

Hilarious film :)
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hey everyone... FYI, former ________is this new name...
wanted to get rid of something with any vestige of the last name.
i've asked for the same on Jacurutu and my apparently reinstated DN account
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Baraka Bryan wrote:... and my apparently reinstated DN account
Come again? :shock:
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Rakis wrote:
Baraka Bryan wrote:... and my apparently reinstated DN account
Come again? :shock:

i know! I tried to check it at home and was still IP blocked and when I accessed it with a proxy I was checking to see if my old posts showed up or if I should take steps to do the same there as I am here, removing vestiges of the old screen name and then when i saw a bunch of my posts i checked the member list and my name was back again.... very strange.. i plan to blaze out again soon :)
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We'll be sure to have Phaedrus count you twice. :wink:
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Baraka Bryan wrote:
Rakis wrote:
Baraka Bryan wrote:... and my apparently reinstated DN account
Come again? :shock:

i know! I tried to check it at home and was still IP blocked and when I accessed it with a proxy I was checking to see if my old posts showed up or if I should take steps to do the same there as I am here, removing vestiges of the old screen name and then when i saw a bunch of my posts i checked the member list and my name was back again.... very strange.. i plan to blaze out again soon :)
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Yo d00ds and d00dettes.

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Hi.
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How?

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Hellooooooooooooooooo
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GamePlayer wrote:It's a paraphrase from Seinfeld :) In the skit he talks about the phrase "Take care now"

Take care now.
Take care now.
Take off, isn't that what you really want to say?


I'm just running out of greetings. I've used them all a dozen times over now. Hi, hello, greetings, pleased ta meet ya...so I had to try something else. :)

What about "Howdy Dooty Rooty Tooty"
SpacemanSpiff here wandering over from Worms.
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Hellooooooooooooooo!!!!!
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Howdy howdy howdy.

(You're the "good" SpacemanSpiff, right, not the one that pooped on my blog? :wink: )
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Hi ! :P
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Here is a tough trivia question for the group.

What does my avatar and Omphalos's avatar have in common?
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Both are circular in nature.
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HoosierDaddy wrote:I chose the avatar as a trivia question for the group.

What does my avatar and Omphalos's avatar have in common?
They...are...round? :?

I don't know that Indian Chief...
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I'm banking that Chigger will get this.
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Native north americans came up with the mythology that "omphalos" came from?
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HoosierDaddy wrote:Yo d00ds and d00dettes.

:P
May the Poop be with you...temporarily. ;)

Welcome!

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A Thing of Eternity wrote:Native north americans came up with the mythology that "omphalos" came from?
Nope. Next?
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SpacemanSpiff wrote:
GamePlayer wrote:It's a paraphrase from Seinfeld :) In the skit he talks about the phrase "Take care now"

Take care now.
Take care now.
Take off, isn't that what you really want to say?


I'm just running out of greetings. I've used them all a dozen times over now. Hi, hello, greetings, pleased ta meet ya...so I had to try something else. :)

What about "Howdy Dooty Rooty Tooty"
SpacemanSpiff here wandering over from Worms.
Howdy Spiff, welcome aboard!

(I'm Star Dust over at Worm's)

EDIT: and here, too, apparantly. :oops:
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Hint: It has to do with the movie.
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HAL secretly wanted to be an Illini alum?
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Star Dust wrote:HAL secretly wanted to an Illini alum?
Very warm! And Go Illini!
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HoosierDaddy wrote:
Star Dust wrote:HAL secretly wanted to be an Illini alum?
Very warm! And Go Illini!
HAL was developed at UI.

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Star Dust wrote:
SpacemanSpiff wrote:
GamePlayer wrote:It's a paraphrase from Seinfeld :) In the skit he talks about the phrase "Take care now"

Take care now.
Take care now.
Take off, isn't that what you really want to say?


I'm just running out of greetings. I've used them all a dozen times over now. Hi, hello, greetings, pleased ta meet ya...so I had to try something else. :)

What about "Howdy Dooty Rooty Tooty"
SpacemanSpiff here wandering over from Worms.
Howdy Spiff, welcome aboard!

(I'm Star Dust over at Worm's)

EDIT: and here, too, apparantly. :oops:
:lol:
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Star Dust wrote:
HoosierDaddy wrote:
Star Dust wrote:HAL secretly wanted to be an Illini alum?
Very warm! And Go Illini!
HAL was developed at UI.

Go Tigers!!
I watched "2001" for the 2nd time at a Friday "midnight movie" on campus at UI in 1974. The people that attended were either coming home from the bars drunk, or high and had nothing else to do. I was in the latter group IIRC.

At the end of the movie when HAL is being dismantled, he starts singing "Daisy" and then describes his birthplace at Urbana Illinois. The entire auditorium wakes up, and erupts in pandemonium.

Sweet memories...



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HoosierDaddy wrote:
Star Dust wrote:
HoosierDaddy wrote:
Star Dust wrote:HAL secretly wanted to be an Illini alum?
Very warm! And Go Illini!
HAL was developed at UI.

Go Tigers!!
I watched "2001" for the 2nd time at a Friday "midnight movie" on campus at UI in 1974. The people that attended were either coming home from the bars drunk, or high and had nothing else to do. I was in the latter group IIRC.

At the end of the movie when HAL is being dismantled, he starts singing "Daisy" and then describes his birthplace at Urbana Illinois. The entire auditorium wakes up, and erupts in pandemonium.

Sweet memories...

:P
I have a sweet memory of an MU 90+ yard fumble recovery for a TD in last year's tilt. ;)

Seriously, the opener should be a great game, a tough early test for both teams.
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Star Dust wrote:
HoosierDaddy wrote:
Star Dust wrote:
HoosierDaddy wrote:
Star Dust wrote:HAL secretly wanted to be an Illini alum?
Very warm! And Go Illini!
HAL was developed at UI.

Go Tigers!!
I watched "2001" for the 2nd time at a Friday "midnight movie" on campus at UI in 1974. The people that attended were either coming home from the bars drunk, or high and had nothing else to do. I was in the latter group IIRC.

At the end of the movie when HAL is being dismantled, he starts singing "Daisy" and then describes his birthplace at Urbana Illinois. The entire auditorium wakes up, and erupts in pandemonium.

Sweet memories...

:P
I have a sweet memory of an MU 90+ yard fumble recovery for a TD in last year's tilt. ;)

Seriously, the opener should be a great game, a tough early test for both teams.
What's Quinn Snyder doing these days? Queue up the popcorn video.

:P
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Mizzou ex-head basketball coach Quinn Snyder, who likes to slick his hair back, gets some help from his own fans after a loss to the Fighting Illini:

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hihihi HoosierDaddy:)
Look, I'm not much good at big speeches, and I know I haven't always been an easy guy to get on with, and I know, that given the choice, I wouldn't have chosen you as friends, but I just want to say, that over the years, I have come to regard you as people I met.

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HoosierDaddy wrote:Mizzou ex-head basketball coach Quinn Snyder, who likes to slick his hair back, gets some help from his own fans after a loss to the Fighting Illini:


8)
pfffffttt!!

It is IMPOSSIBLE, by every and any definition of the word, to rile me up over
anything having to do with basketball. If there was never another game of
basketball played, at any level, I would be fine with that. And I live in
Lawrence, KS - which may be the greatest irony of all.

Now if you went after my Cardinals, well then we'd have a *serious* problem. ;)
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SpacemanSpiff wrote:What about "Howdy Dooty Rooty Tooty"
SpacemanSpiff here wandering over from Worms.
Okay :)
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Spiff has WORMS!!!!

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Hey Spiffster!
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Hello to anyone who's new.
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Star Dust wrote: It is IMPOSSIBLE, by every and any definition of the word, to rile me up over
anything having to do with basketball. If there was never another game of
basketball played, at any level, I would be fine with that. And I live in
Lawrence, KS - which may be the greatest irony of all.

Now if you went after my Cardinals, well then we'd have a *serious* problem. ;)
I'm big into Illini basketball, and I like the new Mizzou basketball coach Anderson. When he gets his own players in he will bring back the program.

Baseball ain't my sport, but I was a Cubs fan at one point in my life, which explains why I don't follow baseball anymore.

Speaking of Quinny Snyder, did you follow his firing a couple of years ago? The Mizzou AD Alden had the team radio announcer tell him he was fired. Alden almost got fired himself after that story came out.

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I'm waiting for Chigger to pop into the football discussion, as he is a tOSU alum IIRC.

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All three of the previously mentioned sports compete for lamest sport ever. Yeah, I said it. :D

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Sports? Ha ha ha ha ha.

Keep waiting.

I was never athletically gifted and soon learned to avoid any sort of sport activity. (I was the kid who was always the last one picked when choosing teams, the one that provoked Richter-Scale groans when the gym class teacher MADE a team take me.) I'll go and watch a game or match if invited, and I had season football tickets with a bunch of friends my sophomore (or was it my junior?) year at State, but I really just went for the company, laughs, and the band show at halftime. AND the flasks we snuck in under our coats. ;)

To this day I have no idea how a football game is even scored; couldn't explain the rules of the game if my life depended on it. Something about touching down and dance-prancing around? And something called yardage? About all I know about football is the word means soccer in the civilized world and

WE DON'T GIVE A DAMN FOR THE WHOLE STATE OF MICHIGAN,
WHOLE STATE OF MICHIGAN, WHOLE STATE OF MICHIGAN!
WE DON'T GIVE A DAMN FOR THE WHOLE STATE OF MICHIGAN,
WE'RE FROM O-HI-O!
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(Sorry, Indiana and parts west were never even really on my radar. I did get that we didn't like Michigan, though. ;) )
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So Chig, you didn't flinch at last year's football game, when the Fighting Illini beat tOSU at home?

Maybe not, but are you one of those guys that does the gay 4 people pose spelling "OHIO" on camera?

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American sports are variations of games played by girls in the UK.

Basketball = netball
Baseball = rounders
American football = a load of wank
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HoosierDaddy wrote:So Chig, you didn't flinch at last year's football game, when the Fighting Illini beat tOSU at home?

Maybe not, but are you one of those guys that does the gay 4 people pose spelling "OHIO" on camera?

:P
Beat State, eh? At home even. Huh. First I'd heard of it.

How was the halftime show that day?

I don't recall ever having been party to a pose-spelling of our beloved state's name...but I do have rather fuzzy half-memories of having body-spelled Y-M-C-A to the song while tipsy, which is altogether much, much gayer, I'm sure you'll agree. :D
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chanilover wrote:American sports are variations of games played by girls in the UK.

Basketball = netball
Baseball = rounders
American football = a load of wank
Indeed. Even if basketball is actually Canadian it's still weak.
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chanilover wrote:American sports are variations of games played by girls in the UK.

Basketball = netball
Baseball = rounders
American football = a load of wank
I played chess in high school, what have you guys got?
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Phaedrus wrote:
chanilover wrote:American sports are variations of games played by girls in the UK.

Basketball = netball
Baseball = rounders
American football = a load of wank
I played chess in high school, what have you guys got?
Checkers?
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I ran cross country. I hate team sports. Except for minor league baseball, and we have an awesome team here in Sacto.
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Rounders is still better than cricket :lol:

I do enjoy watching a game of footie every now and then and I try to get in a few games of New Mexico States Women's rugby team, talk about fun! Crazy chicks trying to hurt each other :D

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Rugby's cool, Lacross is cool, Football (Soccer) is cool, Hockey is cool. I don't play any of them anymore, but I used to play hockey and lacross. Other team sports... not so cool.
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chanilover wrote:American sports are variations of games played by girls in the UK.

Basketball = netball
Baseball = rounders
American football = a load of wank
When I was in the UK on business, the only sports on TV were the snooker championships, and a little cricket. Besides an occasional wicked googlie, it was a load of wank.

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I play darts. Good beer sport.
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Freakzilla wrote:I play darts. Good beer sport.
I always wondered whose bright idea it was to fill drinking establishments with sharp objects meant to be thrown... I'm surprised that doesn't end in disaster more often :wink:
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SandChigger wrote: I don't recall ever having been party to a pose-spelling of our beloved state's name...but I do have rather fuzzy half-memories of having body-spelled Y-M-C-A to the song while tipsy, which is altogether much, much gayer, I'm sure you'll agree. :D
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A Thing of Eternity wrote:
Freakzilla wrote:I play darts. Good beer sport.
I always wondered whose bright idea it was to fill drinking establishments with sharp objects meant to be thrown... I'm surprised that doesn't end in disaster more often :wink:
...or billiard tables, for that matter.

A lot of places are switching over to the plastic tip darts and I hate 'em.

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I did track and badminton. doubles... so it's kind of a team sport.
and played soccer for the first 18 years of my life or so.
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The girls tennis team at my high school was HOT! :P
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I actually did badminton too. My opponent was Charlie Wessels in VA. He was Olympic level. Games were fun with him. And I played about 16 seasons of soccer (from 5 to 14 or so). Outgrew that game though, and as always, HATED team sports.
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HoosierDaddy wrote:
chanilover wrote:American sports are variations of games played by girls in the UK.

Basketball = netball
Baseball = rounders
American football = a load of wank
When I was in the UK on business, the only sports on TV were the snooker championships, and a little cricket. Besides an occasional wicked googlie, it was a load of wank.

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Cricket is played in summer, outside the football season. No one watches it on TV, you have to go to watch it in person. It's more about standing around and getting drunk than the game itself.
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Phaedrus wrote:
chanilover wrote:American sports are variations of games played by girls in the UK.

Basketball = netball
Baseball = rounders
American football = a load of wank
I played chess in high school, what have you guys got?
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HoosierDaddy wrote:Image
Huh?

O - U - wishbone (or Russian church cuppola) - O?

What the hookin' fell does that spell? :shock:


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I played softball from about the age of 5 till I was 16.
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SandChigger wrote:
HoosierDaddy wrote:Image
Huh?

O - U - wishbone (or Russian church cuppola) - O?

What the hookin' fell does that spell? :shock:


(Hey, I played chess in high school, too! :P But my true-love sport was...QUIZ BOWL! :D )
I got kicked out of quiz bowl for making a joke out of things.

I did play tennis in high school as well.
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chanilover wrote:American sports are variations of games played by girls in the UK.

Basketball = netball
Baseball = rounders
American football = a load of wank
Just because y'all would sell your firstborn for your local FC to win the CL
doesn't mean you get to monopolize the whole "only we know what good
sports are" pissing match. To me it smacks of a touch of hypocrisy. Us
Yanks are always wooped on for dismissing what we don't understand. If you
think a guy hitting in the 4 spot on a MLB lineup is somehow less skilled than
an elite cricket batsman (terminology?), then you obviously don't understand
baseball. Now, I'll be the first to admit that I know very little about cricket,
but I DON'T go around saying how unimpressive it is that cricket dudes with 6
inch wide oars can hit a bouncing ball. I may WANT to, but I won't say it. :D

Besides, none of it matters as ice hockey is easily the sport with the most
impressive athletes on the planet. By far. If soccer was played with
skates on ice, I might reconsider.
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I'd really like to start playing golf again. Its been years, maybe ten, since I started law school. Id have to get some new sticks.
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chanilover wrote:Cricket is played in summer, outside the football season. No one watches it on TV, you have to go to watch it in person. It's more about standing around and getting drunk than the game itself.
In that regard it is EXACTLY like baseball. :)
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Freakzilla wrote:I play darts. Good beer sport.
So what's the out on 157 in a game of 301?
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Star Dust wrote:
Freakzilla wrote:I play darts. Good beer sport.
So what's the out on 157 in a game of 301?
There's more than one I'm sure, but I'd go for tripple 20, tripple 19, double 20.
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Lot of chess players here. List your last/recent rating (and then I'll make fun of you).

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Who was the guy on DN who was the lightning-Minefield player? Was that the guy from Australia who wanted his girlfriend to slap him with a riding crop? Erck, or something?
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chanilover wrote: Cricket is played in summer, outside the football season. No one watches it on TV, you have to go to watch it in person. It's more about standing around and getting drunk than the game itself.
That pretty much describes all spectator sports in the US, except we have places to sit while we drink.

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HoosierDaddy wrote:Lot of chess players here. List your last/recent rating (and then I'll make fun of you).

8)
Anybody belong to RedHotPawn.com? If so, look me up, screen name
PunchDrunk. If not, check it out. I'm currently rated around 1500.
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Freakzilla wrote:
Star Dust wrote:
Freakzilla wrote:I play darts. Good beer sport.
So what's the out on 157 in a game of 301?
There's more than one I'm sure, but I'd go for tripple 20, tripple 19, double 20.
ding! ding! ding! we have a winner!

Actually that's the only out (3 dart out, that is).

I used to throw in three leagues a week, got a handful of plaques and
trophy's and stuff, but that was 15 years ago. I can still reem the asses of
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Star Dust wrote: Anybody belong to RedHotPawn.com? If so, look me up, screen name
PunchDrunk. If not, check it out. I'm currently rated around 1500.
USCF rating?
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HoosierDaddy wrote:
Star Dust wrote: Anybody belong to RedHotPawn.com? If so, look me up, screen name
PunchDrunk. If not, check it out. I'm currently rated around 1500.
USCF rating?
Oh hell no. Just a rating the website tracks. I'm sure there's a fancy
formula for it, but it all needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Check out
the website and you'll see what I mean. It's like postal chess adapted for
the internet. Here's one of my current games (I'm White):

[Event "Challenge"]
[Site "http://www.playtheimmortalgame.com"]
[Date "2008.06.27"]
[Round "?"]
[White "PunchDrunk"]
[Black "logicalsong"]
[WhiteRating "1500"]
[BlackRating "1458"]
[WhiteELO "1500"]
[BlackELO "1458"]
[Result "*"]
[GameId "5156790"]

1. Ng1f3 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e3 b5 4. a4 c6 5. d4 Bc8e6 6. Nb1c3 b4 7. Nc3e4 Nb8a6
8. Ne4g5 Qd8d6 9. Ng5xe6 Qd6xe6 10. Nf3e5 Ng8h6 11. Bf1xc4 Qe6c8 12. e4 f6
13. Bc1xh6 fxe5 14. Qd1h5 g6 15. Qh5xe5 Bf8xh6 16. Qe5xh8 Bh6f8 17. Qh8xh7 Qc8g4
18. Bc4xa6 Qg4xg2 19. O-O-O b3 20. Qh7h4 g5 21. Rh1g1 Qg2f3 22. Rg1xg5 Ke8d8
23. Rg5f5 *
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Star Dust wrote:
Freakzilla wrote:
Star Dust wrote:
Freakzilla wrote:I play darts. Good beer sport.
So what's the out on 157 in a game of 301?
There's more than one I'm sure, but I'd go for tripple 20, tripple 19, double 20.
ding! ding! ding! we have a winner!

Actually that's the only out (3 dart out, that is).

I used to throw in three leagues a week, got a handful of plaques and
trophy's and stuff, but that was 15 years ago. I can still reem the asses of
those pussy soft-tip throwers.
I had to think about that one for a while, Cricket is my game (I prefer sloppy with points). That's why I'd go for 20s and 19s first. I've played in several bar leagues and tournaments but it's been years. I hope that one day soon I'll be able to afford to join another leaague. It'd be nice just to get out of the house and have a few beers.

I've always loved playing chess, the Indian kid across the street would whip my butt on a daily basis in high school. I wish I could play more but I never seem to have the time.
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Star Dust wrote: Oh hell no. Just a rating the website tracks. I'm sure there's a fancy
formula for it, but it all needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Check out
the website and you'll see what I mean. It's like postal chess adapted for
the internet. Here's one of my current games (I'm White):

[Event "Challenge"]
[Site "http://www.playtheimmortalgame.com"]
[Date "2008.06.27"]
[Round "?"]
[White "PunchDrunk"]
[Black "logicalsong"]
[WhiteRating "1500"]
[BlackRating "1458"]
[WhiteELO "1500"]
[BlackELO "1458"]
[Result "*"]
[GameId "5156790"]

1. Ng1f3 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e3 b5 4. a4 c6 5. d4 Bc8e6 6. Nb1c3 b4 7. Nc3e4 Nb8a6
8. Ne4g5 Qd8d6 9. Ng5xe6 Qd6xe6 10. Nf3e5 Ng8h6 11. Bf1xc4 Qe6c8 12. e4 f6
13. Bc1xh6 fxe5 14. Qd1h5 g6 15. Qh5xe5 Bf8xh6 16. Qe5xh8 Bh6f8 17. Qh8xh7 Qc8g4
18. Bc4xa6 Qg4xg2 19. O-O-O b3 20. Qh7h4 g5 21. Rh1g1 Qg2f3 22. Rg1xg5 Ke8d8
23. Rg5f5 *
Are these games on the honor system, or can you openly use a computer?

:?:
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HoosierDaddy wrote:
Are these games on the honor system, or can you openly use a computer?

:?:
Ah, therein lies the rub. Honor system. The site admins take it pretty
seriously though and supposedly have methods for finding cheaters, and
they regularly ban people. I have 194 games played since joining and
maybe on two occasions did I suspect a cheat. By and large it's on the up
and up, but I don't deny that people probably cheat.
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Star Dust wrote: Oh hell no. Just a rating the website tracks. I'm sure there's a fancy
formula for it, but it all needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Check out
the website and you'll see what I mean. It's like postal chess adapted for
the internet. Here's one of my current games (I'm White):

[Event "Challenge"]
[Site "http://www.playtheimmortalgame.com"]
[Date "2008.06.27"]
[Round "?"]
[White "PunchDrunk"]
[Black "logicalsong"]
[WhiteRating "1500"]
[BlackRating "1458"]
[WhiteELO "1500"]
[BlackELO "1458"]
[Result "*"]
[GameId "5156790"]

1. Ng1f3 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e3 b5 4. a4 c6 5. d4 Bc8e6 6. Nb1c3 b4 7. Nc3e4 Nb8a6
8. Ne4g5 Qd8d6 9. Ng5xe6 Qd6xe6 10. Nf3e5 Ng8h6 11. Bf1xc4 Qe6c8 12. e4 f6
13. Bc1xh6 fxe5 14. Qd1h5 g6 15. Qh5xe5 Bf8xh6 16. Qe5xh8 Bh6f8 17. Qh8xh7 Qc8g4
18. Bc4xa6 Qg4xg2 19. O-O-O b3 20. Qh7h4 g5 21. Rh1g1 Qg2f3 22. Rg1xg5 Ke8d8
23. Rg5f5 *
Well just playing through the first 15 moves, black certainly isn't using a computer.

:roll:
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HoosierDaddy wrote:Lot of chess players here. List your last/recent rating (and then I'll make fun of you).

8)
I don't have an official rating, but I was that guy the chess team got to play random spots on the B team my senior year. I didn't lose a game, but I'm not an incredibly devoted player. I was never serious enough about the game to play A team, but I'm a better player than most of my friends(we're all pretty casual, self-taught players. More intuition than logic in our playstyles). The team captain handed me my ass, though.

I'm an alright player, but nothing special by any means. It's one of my favorite games, but I've never really gotten too serious about it.
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Freakzilla wrote:I've always wanted to carve a Dune chess set.
Didn't you start a topic about that on a dead site somewhere?
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HoosierDaddy wrote:
Well just playing through the first 15 moves, black certainly isn't using a computer.

:roll:
LOL

that guy was my best man at my wedding, we ALWAYS have a game going,
but yeah, I kinda own him (looking up our results): I'm 33-16-2 against him.
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Phaedrus wrote:
Freakzilla wrote:I've always wanted to carve a Dune chess set.
Didn't you start a topic about that on a dead site somewhere?
Yeah, I forgot what that site was called...
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Star Dust wrote: Ah, therein lies the rub. Honor system. The site admins take it pretty
seriously though and supposedly have methods for finding cheaters, and
they regularly ban people. I have 194 games played since joining and
maybe on two occasions did I suspect a cheat. By and large it's on the up
and up, but I don't deny that people probably cheat.
Maybe 10 years or so, Yahoo had a chess "club" that kept ratings. I played a few 5 minute games there, and then noticed players that had like 2800 ELO ratings, and one person that had a rating in the 3000's. Turned out there was a hack that allowed people to move the opponents pieces around (amongst others).

I never played there again, figuring the hackers can hack each other.

:P
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Do any of you chess players ever play "team chess"?

Me and a guy back in HS used to go to various clubs in the Chicago area, and play for quarters against all takers. Two on a team, two boards, alternating color. If you take a piece on one board, you give it to your partner, who can then place it anywhere on his board as his "move". 5 minute clock game. It also helped that my buddy was around a 1900 rating in the 1970's.

Typical strategy would be to sacrifice like crazy on one board, and chop wood on the other. Many games came down to which team had the most time left, since if mate was forced on one board, he would stop moving, and whichever board had the most time left won (or had to continue alone as a normal game).

We had several "book" attacks and strategies. I remember games like 1. Nf3 any 2. Ng5 any 3. Nxf7 and then slamming down everything but the kitchen sink at black, mating shortly.
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Ever play cylindrical chess?
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Freakzilla wrote:Ever play cylindrical chess?
I had to google it, never heard of it before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder_chess
The game is played as if there is no edge on the side of the board. When a piece goes off the right edge of the board in cylinder chess, it reappears on the left edge; when a piece goes off the left edge, it reappears on the right edge.[2]

It is legal to move a rook from a3 to h3, even if there is a piece on b3, since the rook can move left from a3. A bishop on c1 can go to h4, by moving from c1 to a3, and then going up and left from a3 to h4. Moves that do not change the position, like rook a3-a3 (assuming 3rd rank is empty), are usually not allowed, but sometimes they are in some problems. It is allowed to capture en passant over the board edge. For example, if white has a pawn on a5, black on h7 and black plays h7-h5, white can capture it: a5xh6.

Bishops are more valuable in this variant. And, unlike in standard chess, king and rook cannot enforce checkmate against the lone king on the cylindrical board.
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It's a fun variant that adds another dimesion to the game. Give it a try sometime.
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Freakzilla wrote:It's a fun variant that adds another dimesion to the game. Give it a try sometime.
Have you ever played it? Seems pretty easy to learn, although it would take a few games to adjust to the new rules.

I'm up for trying it out if there are any sites that have it. Phaedrus? Star Dust? Chigger?
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Don' look at me, Boss!

Other than the OS X Chess app, I haven't even played normal chess in oh, a good six or seven years. (Used to get together back then for a game about once a month with a German guy here in town who taught parttime at the same school I used to work at, but he had to return to Germany for six months—his kids were in school there and he and his wife alternated being with them half of the year—and after he came back we didn't pick up with our games again.) :(

Go or mahjiang are more my speed now! :P


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SandChigger wrote:Don' look at me, Boss!

Other than the OS X Chess app, I haven't even played normal chess in oh, a good six or seven years. (Used to get together back then for a game about once a month with a German guy here in town who taught parttime at the same school I used to work at, but he had to return to Germany for six months—his kids were in school there and he and his wife alternated being with them half of the year—and after he came back we didn't pick up with our games again.) :(

Go or mahjiang are more my speed now! :P


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I use ot have someone to play GO with me, they live in Austin, Texas that is, and no one is interested, I do enoy a game or two with some good Jasmine White tea and scones.

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HoosierDaddy wrote:Do any of you chess players ever play "team chess"?

Me and a guy back in HS used to go to various clubs in the Chicago area, and play for quarters against all takers. Two on a team, two boards, alternating color. If you take a piece on one board, you give it to your partner, who can then place it anywhere on his board as his "move". 5 minute clock game. It also helped that my buddy was around a 1900 rating in the 1970's.

Typical strategy would be to sacrifice like crazy on one board, and chop wood on the other. Many games came down to which team had the most time left, since if mate was forced on one board, he would stop moving, and whichever board had the most time left won (or had to continue alone as a normal game).

We had several "book" attacks and strategies. I remember games like 1. Nf3 any 2. Ng5 any 3. Nxf7 and then slamming down everything but the kitchen sink at black, mating shortly.
My art teacher called that "bughouse." Except we didn't time the games, and if checkmate was made on one board, the losing team lost the entire game.

You see a lot more piece trades in bughouse, I notice.
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Thought I'd say hello before the board crash. Hello.

Now I have to go sand my plank, don't want any splinters while boarding. :)
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Hey Mahn.
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Joya Havlah, nice ta see ya!

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Hello Mahnmut !! :P
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whatever happened to hoosierdaddy? did omph run him off? ;)
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Star Dust wrote:whatever happened to hoosierdaddy? did omph run him off? ;)
I sent him a note asking if I would apologize to him. No reply. I went looking for him over on a.f.d. one day to do that too, and I could not find hide nor hair of him.

I was a bit of an ass. I'm sorry.

Though that idea he was championing was the goddam stupidest shit I had heard in a long time.
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Star Dust wrote:whatever happened to hoosierdaddy? did omph run him off? ;)
I sent him a note asking if I would apologize to him. No reply. I went looking for him over on a.f.d. one day to do that too, and I could not find hide nor hair of him.

I was a bit of an ass. I'm sorry.

Though that idea he was championing was the goddam stupidest shit I had heard in a long time.
As Internet disagreements go, it wasn't all THAT bad. I mean, nothing to quit over.
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I was glad he went when he did. He whined that I deleted his posts over at Jacurutu and accused me of a few other things, I cant even remember what now. I had posted on both boards and sent him a PM pointing out that I deleted nothing that he said, and still he went and bitched about me doing just that. Hapless little wanker.

Oh, I mean, I'm sorry. :wink: :roll:
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Hello, Hello, Again!
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Hi Eru!!! Welcome back to the Promised Land!!!

BTW, we have two Promised Lands now!!!
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hihihi Eru :)
Look, I'm not much good at big speeches, and I know I haven't always been an easy guy to get on with, and I know, that given the choice, I wouldn't have chosen you as friends, but I just want to say, that over the years, I have come to regard you as people I met.

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Hulllllllooooooooo! :)
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hihihi jack :)
Look, I'm not much good at big speeches, and I know I haven't always been an easy guy to get on with, and I know, that given the choice, I wouldn't have chosen you as friends, but I just want to say, that over the years, I have come to regard you as people I met.

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Hi all! Remember me? :twisted:
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Nope :)

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Hi.
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Hey, Seraphan... :)
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hihihi Seraphan :)
Look, I'm not much good at big speeches, and I know I haven't always been an easy guy to get on with, and I know, that given the choice, I wouldn't have chosen you as friends, but I just want to say, that over the years, I have come to regard you as people I met.

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Welcome Nejibanana!
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"Screwed Banana"?!

That can't be right. :?

:D

Welcome anyway! :lol:
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I'm betting its Illogical Banana.
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But there was someone named Nejibana at 'Keen, right? Become...something else here? Something to do with feesh? :D
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I just looked. Same e-mail. Its Illogical Banana.
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SandChigger wrote:But there was someone named Nejibana at 'Keen, right? Become...something else here? Something to do with feesh? :D
I'm not aware of any feeshy characters around here.
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I registered a while back but only just started posting. So Hi everyone.

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Urk! Thay're goes da neighbahoood! :roll:

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Hey Hunchback. Look forward to getting to know you better. I've read many of your posts that you have put up over at Jacurutu. Take care and post often both here and there.
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Hiya. You know me, right?
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Yeah, there are some familiar faces here, to be sure. Good to see you all.

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hihihi Hunchback Jack, good to see ya 'round these parts :)
Look, I'm not much good at big speeches, and I know I haven't always been an easy guy to get on with, and I know, that given the choice, I wouldn't have chosen you as friends, but I just want to say, that over the years, I have come to regard you as people I met.

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Subah al Noor ! Hi everyone ! :D


How rude am I ? :oops: didn't see this thread till today. Long time lurker, 2nd time poster. I have discovered this forum thanks to Sandchigger :wink: and my friend Leto...and the great list of Dune secondary sources by Omphalos (in Worms Sci fi Haven Forum).


Some of you may know me from Facebook or Myspace...& for those of you who don't, I enjoy SF, Hard Rock, Monty Python's, Kafka, Orwell, Lynch, Nietzsche, Thoreau, Borat ! ... !!crazy!!


....AND DUNE of course !!! I'm a Dunalcoholic talifan, and I'm proud to be ! !!crazy!!

As David Miller said, Herbert is certainly "an author who follows the same metaphysical questions in sequential books". He investigates and re-explores a whole gallery of topics, approaching them from different perspectives and in various permutations.

That's why I'm a great fan of all herbertian stuff (novels, short stories, poems, articles, scripts, audio-books...)...and many apocryphas (McNelly, Lynch, Jodo, Schoenherr, Iron Maiden, Giger...)...


Me and some herbertians froggies are involved in many projects :
* a french -annotated- translation of the DE (almost finished) ,
* a computer Concordance of the FH's Hexalogy (with stats, synopsis and lexicography - project in progress) ,
* a bilingual bibliographic database of FH's works and Duniverse (with quotes, links, images, reviews and analysis - project in progress, 1st lists on The Almost Undeleted)),
* an interactive (multimedia) quiz (plans),
* some sociological studies (about fandom, SF writing, cyberculture, game design, virtual communities, "xeno-encyclopedia"....: plans again, some synopsis in progress.)
Etc..Etc...Etc... Crazy, isn't it ? French....! !!crazy!! crazy!! !!crazy!!
It's just a beginning (except for the translation) and I hope share many ideas with you. :idea: :idea: :idea:
[ It's a beginning, very modest but we have faith on Orthodoxy ! Damn the Preeks ! Unfortunately, with the copyright stuff and HLP, you can't see nothing in public (hidden threads). You must register and apply for add (like the Sand's projects here).]


As Leto247 says :" I must warn you of one thing: if sometimes you see that what i´m saying doesn´t make sense you must not think it is due my almost-forgotten english notions. It sure will be an elaborated zensunni koan designed to open your mind !!!"


Very, very, very glad to be included among the ranks of Orthodox Herbertians. Looks like this is the new place to be. Nice to meet you all and I look forward to talking with you. :wink:


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      Welcome :)




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      Bonjour, mon ami. Welcome and please forgive my French. That's about all I can remember.

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      Hi, again! And welcome back Rakis. How's diaper duty treating you?
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      Omphalos wrote:Hi, again! And welcome back Rakis. How's diaper duty treating you?
      It's treating me like shit ! :P

      Nah, it's not so bad, the little guy is in good health, that's what matters...he sleeps a lot more now, so i have time posting...and i finally have the internet at work... :lol:
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          Sorry Askaris de Dar, I forgot to say Hi. Hi :)
          Look, I'm not much good at big speeches, and I know I haven't always been an easy guy to get on with, and I know, that given the choice, I wouldn't have chosen you as friends, but I just want to say, that over the years, I have come to regard you as people I met.

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                  Fresh meat for the grinder, how wonderful.

                  hihihi ionah :)
                  Look, I'm not much good at big speeches, and I know I haven't always been an easy guy to get on with, and I know, that given the choice, I wouldn't have chosen you as friends, but I just want to say, that over the years, I have come to regard you as people I met.

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                  à l'huile !






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                  ionah wrote:à l'huile !






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                  All Hail the ... um ... flashy neon beastie! :P
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                  I'm not talkin' to him as I covet his avatar. er... em. I mean hiya man :P
                  Look, I'm not much good at big speeches, and I know I haven't always been an easy guy to get on with, and I know, that given the choice, I wouldn't have chosen you as friends, but I just want to say, that over the years, I have come to regard you as people I met.

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                  Awww, don't worry inhuien. You know you're our favorite bouncing boy :romance-inlove: :wink:

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                  Omphalos wrote:I still say that fucking thing is running backwards.
                  Well I don't think I would have used those exact words, but yeah. It looks like it's running backward to me also.
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                  Eyes High wrote:
                  Omphalos wrote:I still say that fucking thing is running backwards.
                  Well I don't think I would have used those exact words, but yeah. It looks like it's running backward to me also.
                  ya i agree.

                  oh and ya Omph, get the wording right. what you should have said is:
                  "that fucking thing is prancing backwards"

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                  Baraka Bryan wrote:
                  Eyes High wrote:
                  Omphalos wrote:I still say that fucking thing is running backwards.
                  Well I don't think I would have used those exact words, but yeah. It looks like it's running backward to me also.
                  ya i agree.

                  oh and ya Omph, get the wording right. what you should have said is:
                  "that fucking thing is prancing backwards"

                  ;)
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                  Eyes High wrote:
                  Baraka Bryan wrote:
                  Eyes High wrote:
                  Omphalos wrote:I still say that fucking thing is running backwards.
                  Well I don't think I would have used those exact words, but yeah. It looks like it's running backward to me also.
                  ya i agree.

                  oh and ya Omph, get the wording right. what you should have said is:
                  "that fucking thing is prancing backwards"

                  ;)
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                  Omphalos wrote:I still say that fucking thing is running backwards.
                  Maybe its running sideways?
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                  It's not of this world. :?
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                  SandChigger wrote:It's not of this world. :?
                  agreed








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                  ^^^Unless that neck and head arrangement is really a tail with an evolved defencive pattern, ala butterflies, and it's eyes are in it's ass as it were.
                  Look, I'm not much good at big speeches, and I know I haven't always been an easy guy to get on with, and I know, that given the choice, I wouldn't have chosen you as friends, but I just want to say, that over the years, I have come to regard you as people I met.

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                  To those of us who deal with McDune, things having eyes, brains, what-have-you! in their asses is nothing new.

                  ;)
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                  And there was me thunkin' I had an original thought. :( :( ;)
                  Look, I'm not much good at big speeches, and I know I haven't always been an easy guy to get on with, and I know, that given the choice, I wouldn't have chosen you as friends, but I just want to say, that over the years, I have come to regard you as people I met.

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                  Greetings!

                  I'm Duke (yes, it's a nickname ... no, I never tell anyone my given name) from lovely Reno, Nev., a strange (but mostly pretty cool) little burg on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

                  My interests include quality literature, cycling and other lung-busting activities, family stuff, and sexing the wife up every so often. My hobbies include mocking Kevin J. Anderson and The Other Guy relentlessly and fervently wishing they would both take a one-way trip to Neptune. I find it therapeutic to occasionally post my feelings about Anderjacket and Bobo at http://www.jacurutu.com. :wink:

                  I've almost signed up here like 15 times over the past year or so ... not sure why I didn't. Other than pure laziness, of course.
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                  TheDukester wrote:lovely Reno, Nev., a strange (but mostly pretty cool) little burg on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains
                  SaLOOT!

                  (Is it sick to miss "Hee Haw" occasionally? :? )
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                  RFD-TV runs 2 episodes of Hee-Haw every week - each episode is shown 3 times
                  during the week, too, so if you didn't get "finished" when Loretta or Tayna Tucker
                  was on, you got another coupla chances ....

                  Junior Samples was the best redneck comic ever; Larry the Cable Guy
                  (aka Dan Whitney) is a rank amateur in comparison .... but after what
                  happened to Stringbean, it's a little weird and depressing to see him ...

                  and Duke:
                  'bout time.
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                  That settles it, then. Between the shit weather (I'm fucking tired of living in a place with NO CENTRAL HEATING) and shit job and shit TV (seriously, almost everything I watch is American or European TV anyway) and lack of political humor (in a country whose government is crying out to be laugh-raped) AND NO HEE-HAW, I'm ready to come home. :twisted:
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                  The Duke, at last. Welcome!! :)=
                  Look, I'm not much good at big speeches, and I know I haven't always been an easy guy to get on with, and I know, that given the choice, I wouldn't have chosen you as friends, but I just want to say, that over the years, I have come to regard you as people I met.

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                  Welcome Duke, other than a couple of people you pretty much know everyone here already.
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                  about freaking time you knothead. your water is already ours and you know I love my Duke (John Wayne of course :shhh: ) So welome to the club house.
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                  "Knothead"? :think:

                  :lol:

                  Yeah, pure laziness. Omph mentioned it to me a handful of times over the past few weeks/months. Finally, it reached the top of the "Shit That Should Get Done" list. Oh, and I was embarrassed about missing the whole attempted sting on Prester Idiot. Big "duh" on that one.

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                  Weren't there some knotheads in Watchmen?
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                  wierd, I'd even forgotten to come back here after returning to Jacurutu until I saw SR mention the 'clubhouse' again. Very happy to see the title banner I'd designed still in use here :)
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                  I can't see it - I'm using whatever the dark skin is ...
                  just like that other board, the admins are too busy ordering snobby scotch online
                  and searching for semi-nude photos of underaged starlets to give us a choice in
                  the appearance ... oh no, wait, that's Microsoft Engineers ....



                  [edit]
                  also: why does the author of this thread read "Hyppo" ?
                  I thought the word-filter was set to render Hyppo as "Hyppo" ...
                  does that only apply to text ?
                  [/edit]
                  [edit_2]
                  this is interesting ... if you "quote" my post, Hyppo is rendered as Hyppo in the post-reply box ...
                  but if I "edit" my own post, Hyppo still appears as "Hyppo" in the edit-post box ...
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                  it's the theme with the banner that Omph has in his jacurutu signature.
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                  SandRider wrote:I can't see it - I'm using whatever the dark skin is ...
                  Who's "the dark skin"? :?
                  SandRider wrote: [edit]
                  also: why does the author of this thread read "Hyppo" ?
                  I thought the word-filter was set to render Hyppo as "Hyppo" ...
                  does that only apply to text ?
                  [/edit]
                  [edit_2]
                  this is interesting ... if you "quote" my post, Hyppo is rendered as Hyppo in the post-reply box ...
                  but if I "edit" my own post, Hyppo still appears as "Hyppo" in the edit-post box ...
                  [/edit_2]
                  I don't think italicizing it is doing what you want it to do. Either way, that's a mess 'o' Hyppos.


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                  Hunchback Jack wrote:Who's "the dark skin"? :?
                  I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and assume he meant Black Pearl. You remember her, right? ;)

                  [=One of the board themes?]
                  I don't think italicizing it is doing what you want it to do. Either way, that's a mess 'o' Hyppos.

                  HBJ,
                  trying for a "hippopotamus" pun, but failing.
                  What the HELL has gotten into you lately? :twisted:


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                  Hi all! :D

                  Since I just presented myself on Jacurutu, I thought it was also a good idea to say hello in this nice forum.

                  May Shai-Hulud clear the path before you. ;)

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                  Hello again! It's been a long time! :)
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                  Benvenuto nel nostro Sietch Rymoah, ti auguriamo una lunga e buona permanenza in nostra compagnia :D .
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                      Welcome again.
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                      Hi again Rymoah.
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                      Hello!
                      I just introduced myself on Jacurutu!
                      My name is Claudio and I'm glad to be here! :D
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                      Kloud wrote:Hello!
                      I just introduced myself on Jacurutu!
                      My name is Claudio and I'm glad to be here! :D
                      Welcome, twice welcome again, caro conterraneo. ;)

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                      Kloud wrote:Hello!
                      I just introduced myself on Jacurutu!
                      My name is Claudio and I'm glad to be here! :D
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                          Ahh... ecco dov'era il thread dei saluti e presentazioni... SGRUNT!! :x
                          ( Ahh... here is were the thread of greetings and presentations... )

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                              Welcome on board to all the new members. Looking forward to getting to know you.

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                              Hey everyone, just saying "hi" for a second time. I've been around Jacurutu for almost a year, albeit a not very active member. Got a pretty busy life with PhD in sight, and besides I feel like a Dune newbie around people like you. I have only read the whole series once and rereading it right now (CoD presently), with the exception of Dune which I've gone through three times. I've also been collecting & learning about FH stuff out there and hopefully some of my knowledge could be useful to this community. As matter of fact, I'll start a new thread regarding D:V which I found out more about at the library of congress in DC. I happen to live virtually next door to that library, so if somebody wants my assistance in looking of up stuff there, don't hesitate to ask. It's one of the largest libraries in the world with lots and lots of resources.
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                              Welcome Twice welcome :D You are a friend of Kwisatz, isn't it ? Well ... "the friend of my friend is my friend" :dance:
                              ULFsurfer wrote:As matter of fact, I'll start a new thread regarding D:V which I found out more about at the library of congress in DC. I happen to live virtually next door to that library, so if somebody wants my assistance in looking of up stuff there, don't hesitate to ask. It's one of the largest libraries in the world with lots and lots of resources.

                              It did not fall on deaf ears. :lol:
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                                  MdC wrote:
                                  ULFsurfer wrote:As matter of fact, I'll start a new thread regarding D:V which I found out more about at the library of congress in DC. I happen to live virtually next door to that library, so if somebody wants my assistance in looking of up stuff there, don't hesitate to ask. It's one of the largest libraries in the world with lots and lots of resources.

                                  It did not fall on deaf ears. :lol:
                                  Thanks, and by all means, yeah just ask.
                                  However, I should have mentioned that my life is pretty turbulent and I will only remain in DC until end of May, with a strong possibility to move back in August or September. So please ask me sooner than later. :)=
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                                  ULFsurfer wrote:. As matter of fact, I'll start a new thread regarding D:V which I found out more about at the library of congress in DC. I happen to live virtually next door to that library, so if somebody wants my assistance in looking of up stuff there, don't hesitate to ask. It's one of the largest libraries in the world with lots and lots of resources.
                                  Hi, and welcome. I was born and raised in DC. I used to use the LoC just like a school library when I was in high school and college. It is a remarkable system, isn't it.
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                                  Omphalos wrote:Hi, and welcome. I was born and raised in DC. I used to use the LoC just like a school library when I was in high school and college. It is a remarkable system, isn't it.
                                  Ah, cool! Which university did you attend to? My wife is a grad student at GWU.
                                  Yeah, I love the library. Very helpful & friendly staff. Jefferson building is the most beautiful building that I've seen at least on this side of the great pond. The exhibitions are stunning! A pretty unknown gem to most tourists coming here..
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                                  :text-welcomewave: look forward to getting to know you better.
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                                  ULFsurfer wrote:
                                  Omphalos wrote:Hi, and welcome. I was born and raised in DC. I used to use the LoC just like a school library when I was in high school and college. It is a remarkable system, isn't it.
                                  Ah, cool! Which university did you attend to? My wife is a grad student at GWU.
                                  Yeah, I love the library. Very helpful & friendly staff. Jefferson building is the most beautiful building that I've seen at least on this side of the great pond. The exhibitions are stunning! A pretty unknown gem to most tourists coming here..
                                  I graduated from George Mason University. My dad was a GW law grad and taught there for a bit too. Nice campus. Sometimes I really miss the culture of that town, then I think of the weather and smile over the fact that I am now away from it.
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                                  Omphalos wrote: Sometimes I really miss the culture of that town, then I think of the weather and smile over the fact that I am now away from it.
                                  75 F right now.. 84 F tomorrow. I ain't complaining. :-)
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                                  Hello all :D

                                  Befor i start i want to apologize for my really bad english, i hope i'm gonna be able to communicate here :)
                                  So presume this is the place to introduce my self, i'm Seindfu, i come from France and i'm Zeulh's padawan 8)=

                                  If you have any question, just aske me :)

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                                  Bonjour ami. Sorry, I can't remember the word for welcome. :oops:

                                  Looking forward to getting to know you better. What, or who, brings you to these hallowed halls?
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                                  Eyes High wrote: What, or who, brings you to these hallowed halls?
                                  A (french) bookworm ? :wink:

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                                      Should have known. :text-lol:

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                                      welcome
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                                      Achlan wasachlan! :)
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