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The saying "hello" thread.
The saying "hello" thread.
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Heloooooooo, Hyppo.
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Goood Byyyyyyyyyye!
![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon/razz.gif)
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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.What's with the "deleted"s?
Hiy'all, anyway.
(Did Hyppo decide to leave and delete all her posts?)
Nevermind...found the answer. Oh well.
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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Id like to see his response too. I'm guessing its gonna be pretty conspiracy sounding too.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.
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I guess we will know for sure the next time he posts in the "BEER" thread. ![Wink :wink:](./images/smilies/icon/wink.gif)
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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.)
(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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Dirty fucking spammer. I have to nuke them all the god damn time. Say toodeeloo to this one.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.)
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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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.
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?![Wink ;)](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
(Ragabash is your bro, right? I seem to remember that from somewhere....)
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?
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(Ragabash is your bro, right? I seem to remember that from somewhere....)
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Hellooooooooooooooo, Mr. Teg!
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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Helloooooooooo, L-K!
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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Hellooooooooooooooooo, CL!
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Hellooooooooooo, Alia/Godgirl. Is that the hottie that played Alia in the Lynch movie? Hubba Hubba!
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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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??)
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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KJA & BH have been nicknamed Pinky & The Brian because of their plan to take over the Duniverse.Godgirl wrote:Anyone want to explain their pics?
Thus, Pinky and the Brain.
They were destroyed because they lied pretentiously. Have no fear that my wrath
will fall upon you because of your innocent mistakes.
~Leto II, God Emperor
will fall upon you because of your innocent mistakes.
~Leto II, God Emperor
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.
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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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.Godgirl wrote:Anyone want to explain their pics?
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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Id like to know what is up with that joint in SC's avatar's mouth.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??)
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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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!)
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.
Its also the name of a cool ship in Phillip K. Dick's book The Unteleported Man.
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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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.
I am and remain your loyal insectoid servant. Welcome!![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon/biggrin.gif)
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.
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Sorry to waffle on so long.
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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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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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No, I use a different slur for them. Involves headwear.Freakzilla wrote:When I first saw your username I thought it was a racial slur against desert dwelling people of mixed Arab-Asian decent.
Mandy...those are shoes? Thank goodness!
I thought you were committing a crime against nature, involving your feet and their...well, never mind.
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I understand, my dear bug. It's quite the clever little name. I always think it's weird to take one of the book names too...which is why i always feel weird going on a Dune website without a pseudonym. I was actually reading the Dune group on myspace for quite a while before joining because...well.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.
I am and remain your loyal insectoid servant. Welcome!
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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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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Well you fooled me. That's why I thought you picked it.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.
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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My secret is that I'm actually kind of a philosophy geek.Godgirl wrote:and what about the story of your respective usernames??
When I'm not doing physics, computer science, chemistry, literature, (or something else), that is.
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Don't bogart that joint, my friend! Pass it over to me!
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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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?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...
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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Helloooooooooo! I'm already thinking of ways to bastardize your handle. Perhaps 'Gamez Playa?' Naw! That's not short enough.
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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Hehehe, well I could take the first letters of your nick and your name to start calling you OG
Hahahaha! ![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon/lol.gif)
cue White and Nerdy![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
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cue White and Nerdy
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"The books of Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert lie in a realm of uncertainty between self-conscious absurdity and genuine failure"
"The books of Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert lie in a realm of uncertainty between self-conscious absurdity and genuine failure"
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OG? Cue up I'm Gonna Git You, Sucka!
"How he go to da bat-room with all dat on?"
"How he go to da bat-room with all dat on?"
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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Hehehe. Sometimes an internet handle is just an internet handle ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
It's good to be here. Regarding TPOG, you can address me as GamePlayer since it's my fremen name
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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 ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
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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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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![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
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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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I think you'd better post a photo or two and clear things up here, now.Robspierre wrote:Woohoooo I got the whisky so who's ready to get frisky![]()
I know most of you's already and am still here despite thatFor 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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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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Or friend or enemy, which is why I think that UK films do OK here.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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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.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.
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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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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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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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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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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.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.
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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 ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
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I was actually referring to the Evil Emperor. I recall the rumor that he threw his weight around and got her nude scene pulled.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
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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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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! ![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon/lol.gif)
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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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...![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon/razz.gif)
Anyway, enjoy:
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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...
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LOL @ Eru
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![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
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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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Hi Nekhrun. Havent seen much of you. I figured that the school year is keeping you really busy.
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Helloooooooooooo, Crys! Thanks, and welcome.
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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.Robspierre wrote:As you wish:
though i think you just like looking at the girls![]()
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Only w/o Byron! Or Sloey. Though I do miss that little fuck sometimes.GamePlayer wrote:Greetings Crysknife. It's funny to see everyone back. It's like DN "take two" here.
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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.
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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Greetin's n' such
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. ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon/biggrin.gif)
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.
Oh, sorry, I momentarily went to Alice Springs there for a moment!
Oh, sorry, I momentarily went to Alice Springs there for a moment!
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Re: Greetin's n' such
A man with good tasteRagabash wrote:I'm more into other SF authors, like Iain Banks
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Thank you, and you're welcomeGamePlayer wrote:A man with good tasteRagabash wrote:I'm more into other SF authors, like Iain BanksWelcome and thanks for giving us a home!
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Oh, I'm on it. I just hope it comes out sooner this year rather than laterRagabash wrote:Thank you, and you're welcome
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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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.Mr. Teg wrote:My treat Pancake Circus if you spill the beans!SandChigger wrote:Hey, Ragabash!
So...spill the dirt. What was it like growing up with Omph as an older brother?
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Crappy coffee?Omphalos wrote: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.Mr. Teg wrote:My treat Pancake Circus if you spill the beans!SandChigger wrote:Hey, Ragabash!
So...spill the dirt. What was it like growing up with Omph as an older brother?
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Pancake Circus. I live 2 blocks from there. Everything there is sticky, including the coffee.Mr. Teg wrote:Crappy coffee?Omphalos wrote: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.Mr. Teg wrote:My treat Pancake Circus if you spill the beans!SandChigger wrote:Hey, Ragabash!
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Sticky? Um, I meant the restaurant downtown not the establishments across the county line.Omphalos wrote:Pancake Circus. I live 2 blocks from there. Everything there is sticky, including the coffee.Mr. Teg wrote:Crappy coffee?Omphalos wrote: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.Mr. Teg wrote:My treat Pancake Circus if you spill the beans!SandChigger wrote:Hey, Ragabash!
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Well, you have been gone for a while. We keep our brothels well in town here in Sacto.Mr. Teg wrote:Sticky? Um, I meant the restaurant downtown not the establishments across the county line.Omphalos wrote:Pancake Circus. I live 2 blocks from there. Everything there is sticky, including the coffee.Mr. Teg wrote:Crappy coffee?Omphalos wrote: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.Mr. Teg wrote:My treat Pancake Circus if you spill the beans!SandChigger wrote:Hey, Ragabash!
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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
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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.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![]()
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So, where do you go for coffee?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.
Starbucks? LaBou? Freeport Bakery?
I'm still mourning Cafe Melange...
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I was always secretly disappointed in all of you for not following through with our games of shrinky.SandChigger wrote:I'm just doing it in hopes it'll grow into something silly, like in the old days.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![]()
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I think there should be a rule against people suggesting or mentioning THE RULES.Nekhrun wrote:I was always secretly disappointed in all of you for not following through with our games of shrinky.SandChigger wrote:I'm just doing it in hopes it'll grow into something silly, like in the old days.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![]()
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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.Mr. Teg wrote:So, where do you go for coffee?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.
Starbucks? LaBou? Freeport Bakery?
I'm still mourning Cafe Melange...
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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.Freakzilla wrote:I think you could probably support a methamphetmine habbit for cheaper than going to Starbucks.
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Actually, I drink coffee and tea sometimes, but my thing is Coke. Im addicted.
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Industrial-strength Mandheling in the morning. (Bint & I both like something stiff to get us going...ahem!
) 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?!
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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.)
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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.
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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.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.
Yeah, and a rule against the knee-jerk too. Methinks some thicker skins mayhap be thy destiny, mighty warrior.chanilover wrote:I think there should be a rule against people suggesting or mentioning THE RULES.
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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.GamePlayer wrote: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.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.
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That's nothin'. I'm drinking coffee and chasing it with coke.Omphalos wrote:Actually, I drink coffee and tea sometimes, but my thing is Coke. Im addicted.
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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![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
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But it can't be coffee, unless there's lots of chocolate milk and a ton of sugar
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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).![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
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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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
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 ![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon/lol.gif)
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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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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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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.
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DN. Occasional poster, from what I can see.
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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!
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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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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.
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.
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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Aschlan, wasachlan!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.
I'm looking forward to the conference!
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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!)
(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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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!Serkanner wrote:Hello everybody. Managed to find you all againThanks for letting me in Omphalos
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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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Freakzilla wrote:I don't have any recollection of that ever happening!
Never let it be said that I don't help the forgetful.
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Hey, I got it on my second guess!Omphalos wrote:Freakzilla wrote:I don't have any recollection of that ever happening!
Never let it be said that I don't help the forgetful.
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And, chiming in with the "Its good enough for government work..." response.....Freakzilla wrote:Hey, I got it on my second guess!Omphalos wrote:Freakzilla wrote:I don't have any recollection of that ever happening!
Never let it be said that I don't help the forgetful.
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I run into you occasionally at Chronicles. I just hang there occasionally, though.
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That sounds about right, but with more emphasis on WoT than ST.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.
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I loved Hal in the movie. But maybe it is tad large. I will shrink him a bit when I get home tonight.Phaedrus wrote:Omphalos, your avatar is scary.
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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.GamePlayer wrote:It would look better with a black background.
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The Arrakeen Scattering
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.
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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Welcome, Skibum & Star Dust. You guys should be approved and ready to go!
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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?!)
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 aboard, Star Dust!
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I get the same from beans and beer. BUT THAT'S JUST ME!Star Dust wrote:Howdy howdy!
Got wind from a nameless member I know from other board(s).
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But seriously...how did someone register on any board without a user name?
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Just kidding! Anyone who uses Bill the Cat (Ack! Plththth!) as their avatar has to be OK! Howdy!
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Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
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
) lead me here... and I'm intrigued...
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
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And that, children, is how the little bunny rabbit got his fluffy white tail.
As a minimum, we must demand from SF that it be wiser than the world it speaks to.
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As a minimum, we must demand from SF that it be wiser than the world it speaks to.
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Heeeelloooooooooo!
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Hello.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) lead me here... and I'm intrigued...
I remember seeing that user name.
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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. ![Wink ;)](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
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Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
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Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
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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.![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon/biggrin.gif)
Happier to see you than I would be the other Simon on DN...although he can draw.
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Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
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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!!!!
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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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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Well, well, look who has wandered back to our sands. Hellooooooooo, GS! Long time no see!
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I think its gonna be a loooooooong time before that ever changes.SimonH wrote:how rude am i? didn't see this till today. Belated hi all!Omphalos wrote:Welcome, SimonH. You should be good to go now.
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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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!
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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Now that's freaky
. You welcoming me before I made my first post.
Quick send me the powerball lottery numbers.
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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Quick send me the powerball lottery numbers.
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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!
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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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
) 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.
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
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon/biggrin.gif)
Anyway, nice to meet you all and I look forward to talking with you.
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Hellooooooooooooo!
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Hellooooooooooooo!
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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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?![Shocked :shock:](./images/smilies/icon/eek.gif)
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(Sorry, Rakis, couldn't resist!
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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?
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(Sorry, Rakis, couldn't resist!
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"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
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Yew gotta mighty purdy dictaphone!
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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Yeah... she likes dictaphones. I knew it!Mandy wrote:OMG.. that cracked me up for some reason.Omphalos wrote:Yew gotta mighty purdy dictaphone!
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They were destroyed because they lied pretentiously. Have no fear that my wrath
will fall upon you because of your innocent mistakes.
~Leto II, God Emperor
will fall upon you because of your innocent mistakes.
~Leto II, God Emperor
subakh ul kuhar
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?
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! ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon/biggrin.gif)
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"Chancho...sometimes when you are a man...you wear stretchy pants...in your room...alone."
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
And BEYOND>>>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!
Hi Kangamouse
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
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.
-Rimmer’s farewell speech
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You forgot to add "crapper of worlds," as can be seen elsewhere here. But thanks for the fanfare otherwise!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!
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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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!
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"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
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I'm glad he's here. He has an impressive knowledge of SF other than Dune.
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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Now I feel all warm and fuzzy inside! I hadn't even said hello yet.
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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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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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.A Thing of Eternity wrote:Now I feel all warm and fuzzy inside! I hadn't even said hello yet.![]()
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.
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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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.A Thing of Eternity wrote:I'm actually speaking out my ass much of the time
Why, they even helped me come first place in last month's Spring TriAsslon!
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"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
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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.![Wink ;)](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
(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.)
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.
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(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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"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
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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!![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon/rolleyes.gif)
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!
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"Chancho...sometimes when you are a man...you wear stretchy pants...in your room...alone."
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
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.
-Rimmer’s farewell speech
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Welcome Dune Nerd
Welcome Jovicevic
Welcome Jovicevic
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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Heya, Noid! ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon/biggrin.gif)
And Jovicevic!
(Interesting name. Looks Slavic...pronounced as if written "Yovichevich" in English orthography?
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And Jovicevic!
(Interesting name. Looks Slavic...pronounced as if written "Yovichevich" in English orthography?
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"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
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Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
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Location is Novi Sad. Id say you were on to something.SandChigger wrote:Heya, Noid!
And Jovicevic!
(Interesting name. Looks Slavic...pronounced as if written "Yovichevich" in English orthography?)
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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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.
-Rimmer’s farewell speech
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Hi orald
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Pumping wears you out? Pansy.orald wrote:I'm half asleep...fucking job...
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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.![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon/rolleyes.gif)
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.
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"Brian! Brian! Brian!" goes the refrain. "A million deaths were not enough for Brian!"
I'm awake! God help me, I'm awake!
I'm awake! God help me, I'm awake!
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I only wish I could surf porn at work.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.
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They were destroyed because they lied pretentiously. Have no fear that my wrath
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will fall upon you because of your innocent mistakes.
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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.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.
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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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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"Goodbye there."
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Sounds like Seinfeld, but if its not, Im stumped.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."
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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.![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
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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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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.
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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
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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Rakis wrote:Come again?Baraka Bryan wrote:... and my apparently reinstated DN account
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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Can't waitBaraka Bryan wrote:Rakis wrote:Come again?Baraka Bryan wrote:... and my apparently reinstated DN account
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GamePlayer wrote:It's a paraphrase from SeinfeldIn 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"
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Howdy howdy howdy.
(You're the "good" SpacemanSpiff, right, not the one that pooped on my blog?
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(You're the "good" SpacemanSpiff, right, not the one that pooped on my blog?
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Howdy Spiff, welcome aboard!SpacemanSpiff wrote:GamePlayer wrote:It's a paraphrase from SeinfeldIn 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.
(I'm Star Dust over at Worm's)
EDIT: and here, too, apparantly.
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Star Dust wrote:Howdy Spiff, welcome aboard!SpacemanSpiff wrote:GamePlayer wrote:It's a paraphrase from SeinfeldIn 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.
(I'm Star Dust over at Worm's)
EDIT: and here, too, apparantly.
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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.Star Dust wrote:HAL was developed at UI.HoosierDaddy wrote:Very warm! And Go Illini!Star Dust wrote:HAL secretly wanted to be an Illini alum?
Go Tigers!!
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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I have a sweet memory of an MU 90+ yard fumble recovery for a TD in last year's tilt.HoosierDaddy wrote: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.Star Dust wrote:HAL was developed at UI.HoosierDaddy wrote:Very warm! And Go Illini!Star Dust wrote:HAL secretly wanted to be an Illini alum?
Go Tigers!!
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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Seriously, the opener should be a great game, a tough early test for both teams.
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What's Quinn Snyder doing these days? Queue up the popcorn video.Star Dust wrote:I have a sweet memory of an MU 90+ yard fumble recovery for a TD in last year's tilt.HoosierDaddy wrote: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.Star Dust wrote:HAL was developed at UI.HoosierDaddy wrote:Very warm! And Go Illini!Star Dust wrote:HAL secretly wanted to be an Illini alum?
Go Tigers!!
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...
Seriously, the opener should be a great game, a tough early test for both teams.
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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.
-Rimmer’s farewell speech
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pfffffttt!!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)
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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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.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.
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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All three of the previously mentioned sports compete for lamest sport ever. Yeah, I said it. ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon/biggrin.gif)
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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.![Wink ;)](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
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!![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon/biggrin.gif)
(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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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.
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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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Beat State, eh? At home even. Huh. First I'd heard of it.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?
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.
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Indeed. Even if basketball is actually Canadian it's still weak.chanilover wrote: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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Checkers?Phaedrus wrote:I played chess in high school, what have you guys got?chanilover wrote: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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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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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.
I deleted some of your posts because they were derailing the topic and not focusing on the issues asked, and instead going after the authors or their material. That's why. ~ BM
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.chanilover wrote:American sports are variations of games played by girls in the UK.
Basketball = netball
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American football = a load of wank
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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 oftenFreakzilla wrote:I play darts. Good beer sport.
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I'm not sure.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.
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...or billiard tables, for that matter.A Thing of Eternity wrote: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 oftenFreakzilla wrote:I play darts. Good beer sport.
A lot of places are switching over to the plastic tip darts and I hate 'em.
If it falls out it shouldn't count.
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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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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.HoosierDaddy wrote: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.chanilover wrote: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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Huh?HoosierDaddy wrote:
O - U - wishbone (or Russian church cuppola) - O?
What the hookin' fell does that spell?
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(Hey, I played chess in high school, too!
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"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
I got kicked out of quiz bowl for making a joke out of things.SandChigger wrote:Huh?HoosierDaddy wrote:
O - U - wishbone (or Russian church cuppola) - O?
What the hookin' fell does that spell?
(Hey, I played chess in high school, too!But my true-love sport was...QUIZ BOWL!
)
I did play tennis in high school as well.
Just because y'all would sell your firstborn for your local FC to win the CLchanilover wrote:American sports are variations of games played by girls in the UK.
Basketball = netball
Baseball = rounders
American football = a load of wank
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.
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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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There's more than one I'm sure, but I'd go for tripple 20, tripple 19, double 20.Star Dust wrote:So what's the out on 157 in a game of 301?Freakzilla wrote:I play darts. Good beer sport.
They were destroyed because they lied pretentiously. Have no fear that my wrath
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will fall upon you because of your innocent mistakes.
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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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That pretty much describes all spectator sports in the US, except we have places to sit while we drink.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.
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ding! ding! ding! we have a winner!Freakzilla wrote:There's more than one I'm sure, but I'd go for tripple 20, tripple 19, double 20.Star Dust wrote:So what's the out on 157 in a game of 301?Freakzilla wrote:I play darts. Good beer sport.
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.
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Oh hell no. Just a rating the website tracks. I'm sure there's a fancyHoosierDaddy wrote:USCF rating?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.
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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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.Star Dust wrote:ding! ding! ding! we have a winner!Freakzilla wrote:There's more than one I'm sure, but I'd go for tripple 20, tripple 19, double 20.Star Dust wrote:So what's the out on 157 in a game of 301?Freakzilla wrote:I play darts. Good beer sport.
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'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.
They were destroyed because they lied pretentiously. Have no fear that my wrath
will fall upon you because of your innocent mistakes.
~Leto II, God Emperor
will fall upon you because of your innocent mistakes.
~Leto II, God Emperor
Are these games on the honor system, or can you openly use a computer?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 *
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Ah, therein lies the rub. Honor system. The site admins take it prettyHoosierDaddy wrote:
Are these games on the honor system, or can you openly use a computer?
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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Well just playing through the first 15 moves, black certainly isn't using a computer.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 *
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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.HoosierDaddy wrote:Lot of chess players here. List your last/recent rating (and then I'll make fun of you).
8)
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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LOLHoosierDaddy wrote:
Well just playing through the first 15 moves, black certainly isn't using a computer.
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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Yeah, I forgot what that site was called...Phaedrus wrote:Didn't you start a topic about that on a dead site somewhere?Freakzilla wrote:I've always wanted to carve a Dune chess set.
They were destroyed because they lied pretentiously. Have no fear that my wrath
will fall upon you because of your innocent mistakes.
~Leto II, God Emperor
will fall upon you because of your innocent mistakes.
~Leto II, God Emperor
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).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.
I never played there again, figuring the hackers can hack each other.
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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.
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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I had to google it, never heard of it before.Freakzilla wrote:Ever play cylindrical chess?
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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Have you ever played it? Seems pretty easy to learn, although it would take a few games to adjust to the new rules.Freakzilla wrote:It's a fun variant that adds another dimesion to the game. Give it a try sometime.
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.)![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon/sad.gif)
Go or mahjiang are more my speed now!![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon/razz.gif)
(Btw, don't take this the wrong way, but...a 2.8 MB avatar? It's funny as hell, really, but....)
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.)
![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon/sad.gif)
Go or mahjiang are more my speed now!
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(Btw, don't take this the wrong way, but...a 2.8 MB avatar? It's funny as hell, really, but....)
"Chancho...sometimes when you are a man...you wear stretchy pants...in your room...alone."
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
Sorry, but I do like to show off all my new avatars (and my cable internet connection). Doesn't wifi in Japan give you enough speed?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!
(Btw, don't take this the wrong way, but...a 2.8 MB avatar? It's funny as hell, really, but....)
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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.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.
You see a lot more piece trades in bughouse, I notice.
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Hellooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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Joya Havlah, nice ta see ya!
(Don't ask. I'm up 15 minutes and it's a weeeeeird morning already!
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(Don't ask. I'm up 15 minutes and it's a weeeeeird morning already!
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"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
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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.Star Dust wrote:whatever happened to hoosierdaddy? did omph run him off?
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.
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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As Internet disagreements go, it wasn't all THAT bad. I mean, nothing to quit over.Omphalos wrote: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.Star Dust wrote:whatever happened to hoosierdaddy? did omph run him off?
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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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.
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Oh, I mean, I'm sorry.
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Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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Hi Eru!!! Welcome back to the Promised Land!!!
BTW, we have two Promised Lands now!!!
BTW, we have two Promised Lands now!!!
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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hihihi Eru ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
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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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hihihi jack ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
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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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Helloooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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hihihi Seraphan ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
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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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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? ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon/biggrin.gif)
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I just looked. Same e-mail. Its Illogical Banana.
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I'm not aware of any feeshy characters around here.SandChigger wrote:But there was someone named Nejibana at 'Keen, right? Become...something else here? Something to do with feesh?
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hihihi Hunchback Jack, good to see ya 'round these parts ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
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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 !
How rude am I ?
didn't see this thread till today. Long time lurker, 2nd time poster. I have discovered this forum thanks to Sandchigger
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.
[ 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 :wink:](./images/smilies/icon/wink.gif)
Obviously my water belongs to the tribe of the O.H.J. !
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How rude am I ?
![Embarrassed :oops:](./images/smilies/icon/redface.gif)
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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:](./images/smilies/icon/idea.gif)
![Idea :idea:](./images/smilies/icon/idea.gif)
![Idea :idea:](./images/smilies/icon/idea.gif)
[ 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.
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Obviously my water belongs to the tribe of the O.H.J. !
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"My uncle was a police frogman... no, sorry, that's wrong... My uncle was a french policeman..."
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Hi, again! And welcome back Rakis. How's diaper duty treating you?
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It's treating me like shit !Omphalos wrote:Hi, again! And welcome back Rakis. How's diaper duty treating you?
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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...
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Sorry Askaris de Dar, I forgot to say Hi. Hi ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
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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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Re: The saying "hello" thread.
Bienvenue mon ami ! (mais où est son post ?
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Welcome! ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
(eBay!)
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(eBay!)
"Chancho...sometimes when you are a man...you wear stretchy pants...in your room...alone."
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
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Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
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...& Jacurutu ?
[*boude*]
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Hellooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: The saying "hello" thread.
Welcome.
I deleted some of your posts because they were derailing the topic and not focusing on the issues asked, and instead going after the authors or their material. That's why. ~ BM
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merci à vous tous pour l'accueil
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fanque iou véri meu'tch for i-or vellecome
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Fresh meat for the grinder, how wonderful.
hihihi ionah![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
hihihi ionah
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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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Hello, Bonjour. Welcome. Howdy.
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Allo allo!
And that, children, is how the little bunny rabbit got his fluffy white tail.
As a minimum, we must demand from SF that it be wiser than the world it speaks to.
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The eternal student has returned to us!!!
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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All Hail the ... um ... flashy neon beastie! ![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon/razz.gif)
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"Chancho...sometimes when you are a man...you wear stretchy pants...in your room...alone."
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
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I'm not talkin' to him as I covet his avatar. er... em. I mean hiya man ![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon/razz.gif)
![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon/razz.gif)
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
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Hi Skibum!![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
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Hi Skibum!
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I still say that fucking thing is running backwards.
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Well I don't think I would have used those exact words, but yeah. It looks like it's running backward to me also.Omphalos wrote:I still say that fucking thing is running backwards.
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ya i agree.Eyes High wrote:Well I don't think I would have used those exact words, but yeah. It looks like it's running backward to me also.Omphalos wrote:I still say that fucking thing is running backwards.
oh and ya Omph, get the wording right. what you should have said is:
"that fucking thing is prancing backwards"
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Bryan, one of these days I'm going to whip you.Baraka Bryan wrote:ya i agree.Eyes High wrote:Well I don't think I would have used those exact words, but yeah. It looks like it's running backward to me also.Omphalos wrote:I still say that fucking thing is running backwards.
oh and ya Omph, get the wording right. what you should have said is:
"that fucking thing is prancing backwards"
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Safety's just danger out of place.
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Re: The saying "hello" thread.
Only if I get the film rightsEyes High wrote:Bryan, one of these days I'm going to whip you.Baraka Bryan wrote:ya i agree.Eyes High wrote:Well I don't think I would have used those exact words, but yeah. It looks like it's running backward to me also.Omphalos wrote:I still say that fucking thing is running backwards.
oh and ya Omph, get the wording right. what you should have said is:
"that fucking thing is prancing backwards"
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"The books of Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert lie in a realm of uncertainty between self-conscious absurdity and genuine failure"
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Maybe its running sideways?Omphalos wrote:I still say that fucking thing is running backwards.
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It's not of this world. ![Confused :?](./images/smilies/icon/confused.gif)
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"Chancho...sometimes when you are a man...you wear stretchy pants...in your room...alone."
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
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agreedSandChigger wrote:It's not of this world.
and it's running backwards
"On the Eight day, God created Wizards because he knew he'd have to retconn some crazy shit."
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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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"Chancho...sometimes when you are a man...you wear stretchy pants...in your room...alone."
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
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And there was me thunkin' I had an original thought.
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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 :wink:](./images/smilies/icon/wink.gif)
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.
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.
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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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SaLOOT!TheDukester wrote:lovely Reno, Nev., a strange (but mostly pretty cool) little burg on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains
(Is it sick to miss "Hee Haw" occasionally?
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"Chancho...sometimes when you are a man...you wear stretchy pants...in your room...alone."
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
Re: The saying "hello" thread.
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.
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 Evil :twisted:](./images/smilies/icon/twisted.gif)
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Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
Re: The saying "hello" thread.
The Duke, at last. Welcome!! ![Smile :)=](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
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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.
-Rimmer’s farewell speech
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Re: The saying "hello" thread.
Welcome Duke, other than a couple of people you pretty much know everyone here already.
I deleted some of your posts because they were derailing the topic and not focusing on the issues asked, and instead going after the authors or their material. That's why. ~ BM
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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
) So welome to the club house.
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Re: The saying "hello" thread.
"Knothead"?
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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.
If I'd known how much fun y'all were having, I would have dropped by sooner.
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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.
If I'd known how much fun y'all were having, I would have dropped by sooner.
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Weren't there some knotheads in Watchmen?
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Knothead and Splinter were Woody Woodpecker's niece and nephew.
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will fall upon you because of your innocent mistakes.
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Re: The saying "hello" thread.
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 ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
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Re: The saying "hello" thread.
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 ...
[/edit_2]
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 ...
[/edit_2]
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it's the theme with the banner that Omph has in his jacurutu signature.
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Who's "the dark skin"?SandRider wrote:I can't see it - I'm using whatever the dark skin is ...
![Confused :?](./images/smilies/icon/confused.gif)
I don't think italicizing it is doing what you want it to do. Either way, that's a mess 'o' Hyppos.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]
HBJ,
trying for a "hippopotamus" pun, but failing.
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I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and assume he meant Black Pearl. You remember her, right?Hunchback Jack wrote:Who's "the dark skin"?![]()
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[=One of the board themes?]
What the HELL has gotten into you lately?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.
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Whatever it is, I LIKES it!
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Hi all! ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon/biggrin.gif)
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.![Wink ;)](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
Rymoah
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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! ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
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Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
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Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
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Benvenuto nel nostro Sietch Rymoah, ti auguriamo una lunga e buona permanenza in nostra compagnia
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Re: The saying "hello" thread.
Welcome again.
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Hi again Rymoah.
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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Re: The saying "hello" thread.
Hello!
I just introduced myself on Jacurutu!
My name is Claudio and I'm glad to be here!![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon/biggrin.gif)
I just introduced myself on Jacurutu!
My name is Claudio and I'm glad to be here!
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon/biggrin.gif)
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Welcome, twice welcome again, caro conterraneo.Kloud wrote:Hello!
I just introduced myself on Jacurutu!
My name is Claudio and I'm glad to be here!
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Achlan wasachlanKloud wrote:Hello!
I just introduced myself on Jacurutu!
My name is Claudio and I'm glad to be here!
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Re: The saying "hello" thread.
Ahh... ecco dov'era il thread dei saluti e presentazioni... SGRUNT!!
( Ahh... here is were the thread of greetings and presentations... )
Ok, I'm Pier and I've just left my greetings on Jacurutu.
I'm very honored to be part of this Community of Orthodox Dunians.
Maybe the Shaj-Hulud Lux enlighten You on your Golden Path ( Via Aurea )![Wink :wink:](./images/smilies/icon/wink.gif)
![Mad :x](./images/smilies/icon/mad.gif)
( Ahh... here is were the thread of greetings and presentations... )
Ok, I'm Pier and I've just left my greetings on Jacurutu.
I'm very honored to be part of this Community of Orthodox Dunians.
Maybe the Shaj-Hulud Lux enlighten You on your Golden Path ( Via Aurea )
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Re: The saying "hello" thread.
Welcome on board to all the new members. Looking forward to getting to know you.
Or to get reaquainted.
Or to get reaquainted.
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Re: The saying "hello" thread.
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
You are a friend of Kwisatz, isn't it ? Well ... "the friend of my friend is my friend"
It did not fall on deaf ears.![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon/lol.gif)
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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.
It did not fall on deaf ears.
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Re: The saying "hello" thread.
Thanks, and by all means, yeah just ask.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.
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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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.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.
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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Re: The saying "hello" thread.
Ah, cool! Which university did you attend to? My wife is a grad student at GWU.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.
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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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.ULFsurfer wrote:Ah, cool! Which university did you attend to? My wife is a grad student at GWU.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.
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..
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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Re: The saying "hello" thread.
75 F right now.. 84 F tomorrow. I ain't complaining.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.
![Smile :-)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
I kind of like the tropical Summers here.
Re: The saying "hello" thread.
Hello all
Befor i start i want to apologize for my really bad english, i hope i'm gonna be able to communicate here![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
So presume this is the place to introduce my self, i'm Seindfu, i come from France and i'm Zeulh's padawan
If you have any question, just aske me![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
Seindfu
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Befor i start i want to apologize for my really bad english, i hope i'm gonna be able to communicate here
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So presume this is the place to introduce my self, i'm Seindfu, i come from France and i'm Zeulh's padawan
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If you have any question, just aske me
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Welcome aboard!
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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Bonjour ami. Sorry, I can't remember the word for welcome.
Looking forward to getting to know you better. What, or who, brings you to these hallowed halls?
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Looking forward to getting to know you better. What, or who, brings you to these hallowed halls?
I shall lift up my eyes unto the glory of the Lord.
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A (french) bookworm ?Eyes High wrote: What, or who, brings you to these hallowed halls?
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Should have known. ![Lol! :text-lol:](./images/smilies/text/lol.gif)
Je t'aimé mon cher ami.
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Je t'aimé mon cher ami.
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Welcome Home!
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welcome
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Achlan wasachlan! ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon/smile.gif)
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