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Post by gyre » Wed Mar 04, 2009 4:18 am

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Post by gyre » Sat Mar 07, 2009 2:59 am

"We must make use of our lives.
Make them into little works of art.

And as you know, a work of art needs a set of rules.
Even if they are to be broken."


from the film Joanna

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Post by Dork » Sat Mar 07, 2009 4:36 am

I'm getting tired of people googling me, finding someone else with my name, then mentioning something that guy said/did thinking it was me. Because my name is so friggin rare!

No, friend from high school/potential employer/potential date/stalker, that guy with the glasses and ponytail who happens to also be in the software business is not me. Nor are the 4 other software guys I've found so far with my name. Or the DJ/producer. Or any of the dentists. Interestingly, those seem to be the only professions available when you have my name. More research is clearly warranted.

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Post by theCryptofishist » Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:18 pm

That;s more than a little creepy, Dork.
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Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri

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Post by mojo » Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:26 pm

I have an addendum to Murphy's Law...

Things that are otherwise unconnected choose the same time to go flying off the tracks. My bad luck comes in bunches, like banannas

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Post by gyre » Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:28 pm

The dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

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Post by OregonRed » Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:57 pm

Lemon drops ROCK! Both the candy and the cocktail!

Sadly, I'm not consuming either nearly as much as I want to as I'm back on Weight Watchers... However, I'm down 22lbs. so its working.

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Post by mayavin » Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:26 am

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Post by MozyBonz » Mon Mar 16, 2009 3:09 pm

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Post by Ugly Dougly » Mon Mar 16, 2009 3:37 pm

If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.

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Post by oneeyeddick » Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:53 pm

Where is Captain Goddammit these days ?
We have an obligation to make space for everyone, we have no obligation to make that space pleasant.

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Post by mojo » Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:50 pm

mojo wrote:I have an addendum to Murphy's Law...

Things that are otherwise unconnected choose the same time to go flying off the tracks. My bad luck comes in bunches, like banannas
The day after I typed this, Friday the fucking 13th, I accidentally ran over my own fucking iphone.

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Post by theCryptofishist » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:10 pm

mojo wrote:
mojo wrote:I have an addendum to Murphy's Law...

Things that are otherwise unconnected choose the same time to go flying off the tracks. My bad luck comes in bunches, like banannas
The day after I typed this, Friday the fucking 13th, I accidentally ran over my own fucking iphone.
Well, at least you weren't talking while driving.


At least I hope not.



I take the fact taht you posted as a good sign in this matter.
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Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri

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Post by mojo » Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:53 am

theCryptofishist wrote:
mojo wrote:
mojo wrote:I have an addendum to Murphy's Law...

Things that are otherwise unconnected choose the same time to go flying off the tracks. My bad luck comes in bunches, like banannas
The day after I typed this, Friday the fucking 13th, I accidentally ran over my own fucking iphone.
Well, at least you weren't talking while driving.


At least I hope not.



I take the fact taht you posted as a good sign in this matter.
Correct - thanks for the perspective Fishy.

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Post by Ugly Dougly » Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:17 pm

With the industry-university-government cooperation project research and development scenario driven for innovational creation, “nightmare (the valley of death)â€

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Post by EvilDustBooger » Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:45 pm

Kurt Vonnegut move over.

The writings of Ted Kaczynski.
Now that is some intense, genre bending literature for you.

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Post by Ugly Dougly » Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:56 pm

[quote="Ugly Dougly"]With the industry-university-government cooperation project research and development scenario driven for innovational creation, “nightmare (the valley of death)â€

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Post by EvilDustBooger » Thu Mar 19, 2009 4:02 pm

i saw that robo-chick the other night on a tech show.
Uber freaky.
They have really worked on her "cutesy" facial nuances, but she walks like she has a capacitor shoved up her ass.

"WestWorld" here we come.

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Post by mdmf007 » Thu Mar 19, 2009 5:39 pm

EvilDustBooger wrote:i saw that robo-chick the other night on a tech show.
Uber freaky.
They have really worked on her "cutesy" facial nuances, but she walks like she has a capacitor shoved up her ass.

"WestWorld" here we come.
That a robot can walk at all is an accomplishment.

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Post by oneeyeddick » Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:21 am

the big question is...........

Can she open a beer with her teeth ?
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Post by mayavin » Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:43 am

out of work?

pick up a phone book, call categories where you've got experience, and find whose hiring

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Post by gyre » Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:53 pm

A dj is running Madagascar now.

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Post by oneeyeddick » Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:59 pm

I feel like I am too old to hide but yet here I am sneaking around like a child.
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Post by Sensei » Mon Mar 23, 2009 1:04 pm

A friend of mine was recently busted by his mother for smoking cigarettes.

He's 47.

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Post by the fire elf » Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:58 am

gently flies the nadir
'pon wings of rife and trust

with hopes hollow false
like smilling anger, fear

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Post by lordgrizz » Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:20 am

Chapter Sixteen Verse 4-6

BE IT EVER SO HUMBLE THERE’S NO TRUTH LIKE PIE

4. I stood for the space of many minutes, amazed, at the words of Walter, who was touched. And I said unto him, having recovered my wherewithal, lo, this is a blessing, for She wot done it all has surely spoken through you.

5. I shall go forth and do as you have said, yea, that I may attain followers. And we shall bring forth unto all of the peoples of the world, the Washed and the Unwashed, and also the Fancy and the Hoity- Toity, and the Stodgy and the Touched and the Hairy and also the Smooth of Belly, a new truth. That is to say an old truth that is new again. Rather a universal if intermittent truth that sort of comes and goes willy-nilly.

6. Nevertheless, it shall be brought forth and written on the walls of public places, verily, on the walls of bathroom stalls. And spoken also, in whispers and in vain. It shall be shouted from the windows of fast moving cars and grumbled in slow moving checkout lines, yea, until it is known again throughout the heavens and the earth.

7. Walter did then spit upon the ground, and being one who was touched, did grin as a ninny. He then said your bus is here and did leave.
Bullshit makes the flowers grow, and that's beautiful.

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Post by Oldguy » Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:43 am

It is widely held that bovine flatulence produces a major portion of atmospheric methane gas. I am wondering what other gasses are produced by a human fart, ex. carbon dioxide and other gasseous byproducts of digestion like water vapor to be sure. But has there or is there a scientist who specializes in fartology?
I remember as a nurse checking stool samples for occult blood evidencing GI tract bleeds. I think perhaps there is a high percentage of organic compounds in farts. Ill persons' stool really does stink. OK, you've all heard of the person who thinks they are so cool they think their shit doesn't stink. Who's shit doesn't stink?

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Post by theCryptofishist » Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:32 pm

Even before it hits the stink gland and gets the shit smell, shit smells.
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Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri

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