P.O.T.D.

CoworkerLurker · Post by **CoworkerLurker** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:41 am

Thanks, DVD. That might leave a five-year-old confused, still, but it's fairly clear. You're pretty much saying, "Please leave that negative attitude behind when you go to Burning Man, because it's not a wise way to go. I'm going to Burning Man this year, and want no part of that attitude."

Can you see where people might not catch that meaning when you say something that sounds more like, "I don't like your attitude, young man, and if we cross paths, I'm gonna show you unwise that attitude is! I can handle myself pretty well, and I take no guff!"

Thanks for humoring my "slow motion" request.

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 9:27 am

CoworkerLurker wrote: Can you see where people might not catch that meaning when you say something that sounds more like, "I don't like your attitude, young man, and if we cross paths, I'm gonna show you unwise that attitude is! I can handle myself pretty well, and I take no guff!"

Thanks for humoring my "slow motion" request.

A five year old yes but not a mature adult.....Maybe it's a west coast thing.
the west tend to have a diffrent way of thinking that tends to be rather "beat around the bush" instead of straight to the point.

People from the east dont whine as much.

But thanks. You did a great job at understandin and got the point very well.

Btw, that is a very funny way that you put it.

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 9:54 am

People from the east dont whine as much.

That cracks me up!

Oh, you were serious....

buckethead alien · Post by **buckethead alien** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 9:59 am

samtzu wrote:
People from the east dont whine as much.
That cracks me up!

Oh, you were serious....

Yeah. I saw that, too. Try the NY BM list for 2 seconds. That'll clear up this little misconception.

Tancorix · Post by **Tancorix** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:19 am

That post is just begging for an Isotopia response. You'll find whiners everywhere, it's not only a West Coast thing. It's an American thing.

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:30 am

That post is just begging for an Isotopia response. You'll find whiners everywhere, it's not only a West Coast thing. It's an American thing.

Uhhhh.... it's a 'human' thing....

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
Without ever having felt sorry for itself

D.H. Lawrence

Martiansky · Post by **Martiansky** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:18 am

Whales weep not.............

D.H. Lawrence

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:19 am

Martiansky wrote:Whales weep not.............

D.H. Lawrence

sure they do.

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:20 am

Hey, ya know those would do good on "In three words."

Martiansky · Post by **Martiansky** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:21 am

I'm sure they do.......but who can tell?

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:53 pm

badger wrote

Sexy Leprosy Shingles

and I fucking lost it

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 8:34 am

From Bluenightowl:

"Cheetah bit me whenever he could. The [Tarzan] apes were all homosexuals, eager to wrap their paws around Johnny Weismuller's thighs. They were jealous of me, and I loathed them."
* Maureen O'Sullivan
(05/17/1911 – 06/23/1998)

Unless someone comes up with something better, this is the POTD...

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 11:37 am

there are plenty of days on which this would be a serious contender.

Rabbi Dali Rick wrote:Hi everybody. Glad you're all here. Anybody else out there?...... Come on we see you lurking around. Speak up and say hi!! Don't make me show up at your house, dress you up in black and white horizontaly striped socks, a sequined thong and a Pink Boa and floresent body paint, and make you go around to all you're neighbors begging for a cup of Crisco for you're camp project at this years Burningman. Now say Hi damnit and tell us about you're badself.

you're bestest pal,
the rebbi

Man the visuals invoked. . .

Rian Jackson · Post by **Rian Jackson** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 3:50 pm

Lee-dee-ah wrote: Type: Custerian Last Stand
Subject: Smilies

buckethead alien · Post by **buckethead alien** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 3:56 am

Zulegoona wrote:1 Registered, 2 Hidden and 5 Guests out of 7807 registered users
At least I'm up front about not having a life the other 7 people can't admit it.

Saturday night lament

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 5:02 am

buckethead alien wrote:
Zulegoona wrote:1 Registered, 2 Hidden and 5 Guests out of 7807 registered users
At least I'm up front about not having a life the other 7 people can't admit it.
Saturday night lament

Ditto.

I saw that too, about the time he said it.

NTS:.......

Rob the Wop · Post by **Rob the Wop** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:36 am

Donita wrote:Who comes up with this stuff??

A study at the University of Missouri shows that the type of facial features that a woman finds attractive can differ, depending upon where she is at in her menstrual cycle. For example:

If a woman is ovulating, she is attracted to men with rugged and masculine features.

If she is menstruating or menopausal, she is more prone to be attracted to a man with scissors jammed in his temple and a bat shoved up his ass while he is on fire.

Nomination. Just made the 'funny/witty' girl list for me.

nipples · Post by **nipples** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:06 pm

First time I ever had Yukon Jack was from a big livestock innoculation syringe from in an insulated thermos, at below freezing temperatures

(Ranger Genius)

Ranger Genius · Post by **Ranger Genius** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 9:41 am

robotland wrote:
Ranger Genius wrote:Good god, Robo, you should really get some medication or something. Keep making posts like that and you'll be in danger of having Harlan Ellison come over personally to kneecap you.
Let him come- I'll twist his other glass teat until he WISHES he had a mouth to scream with.

Rian Jackson · Post by **Rian Jackson** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 7:55 am

you don't get any pity, rob, until the cat that's snoozing on your lap startles awake, slicing clean lines into your unclad legs and ripping apart your pleather chair as it scrambles in confusion and fear from your working self.

Then I might laugh.

and feel sorry for your chair.

Guin, for getting Rob good. I never thoguht it would happen.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 4:50 pm

In "the nerve of that" way

the fire elf wrote:i operate from the source out...directly opposite from your natural flow...when you interact with me, you win

[/quote]

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 5:32 pm

rodent wrote:If you put 2 grams of peanut butter, 4 cc's of battery acid and 1 drop of Visine into a small copper pot and heat to 105 degrees farenheit...

... nothing happens.

well... you gotta check these things out... once in a while... just to make sure...

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rodent (putting the eek in geek)

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:07 pm

Ranger Genius wrote:You know. it's been scientifically proven that you can get as drunk on water as you can on land.

I know it's dumb, but I thought it was fucking funny.

Ranger Genius · Post by **Ranger Genius** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:25 pm

Whaddaya mean, dumb?

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:27 pm

well, it's just soo simple that it's funny, it's the simple play on words. Hey, I liked it! Isn't that enough?

rodent · Post by **rodent** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:14 pm

blueniteowl wrote:well, it's just soo simple that it's funny, it's the simple play on words. Hey, I liked it! Isn't that enough?

again, I have to agree with blue... as soon as I read that... I copy'n'pasted that to my notepad for future use.

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rodent (putting the eek in geek)

Simply Joel · Post by **Simply Joel** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:21 am

bullD wrote:
Simply Joel wrote:
Rian Jackson wrote:fuck! everything i own smells like onions.
never cook lots of onions in a small apartment.
so now you know what it feels like to be French.
believe me, to be French is far more smelly than a few onions, and on many fronts...

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 4:00 pm

actiongrl

I'm really glad she made mention of what the thread was supposed to be about in the first place.

( I should have put this in the crush thread really.)

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:14 pm

geekster wrote:Dear Network Vendor:

When a packet is sent from one internal net to another internal net that are both clearly marked "ip nat inside", thou shalt not NAT the source address of the packets to an outside address. It confuses people and makes things behave in unexpected ways.

Rian Jackson · Post by **Rian Jackson** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:38 pm

You're going to fucking hell for that. Sally is my very Catholic, oblivious, rose-tinted glasses wearing, in denial, well intentioned but thick, toe-trodding, foot in mouth, sister-in-law. Clueless is a start.

For example, when larry was out on the road and I needed a handholder to accompany me to out patient surgery, I had Ranger Genius go with me rather than my only available family member, Sally. I would have gotten out of the gurney and strangled her at some point before or after the procedure, anethesia being the only reason I would not have gone for her throat DURING the procedure. She's a very sweet woman, or worse, a "good Christian woman", but she drives me fucking BATSHIT. Her best quality is that she loves my brother.

my favorite parts are hilighted.
thanks, antiM. and tell Sally i say hi.

P.O.T.D.

it is early, but i nominate RJ's and BD's posts