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skilletaudio
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Machiavelli wrote:


I say, That's a joke, son, a joke... I'm pitchin' em, but you ain't catchin' em. (There's an obscure pop-culture reference for you... Pipe full of fun kit #7)



Foghorn Leghorn, I'd stake my life on it!

PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 5:28 pm
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drseuss90
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Phaedra wrote:
ironchefmike wrote:
Phaedra wrote:
yteRYCCE wrote:
lol, I was never able to go axon hunting but I do miss constantly reloading the recipe page, the unfiction boards, and looking for transcripts. It gave me something fun to do on Tuesdays. Now I actually have to try and do work. Oh well back to being productive.


<sigh> I've discovered that I really don't *want* to be productive.

The discussions on the forum have made me realize how much I miss writing...now, what I really want to do is go write a thesis of some sort.


Trade ya. I've got a thesis due around June next year. I'd rather be a productive member of society right now.



Hah. Have you ever been out of school since you went?

The "real" work world is a nightmarish place where very few people care about anything of interest, there's almost no one to talk to (you know what I mean by "talk," yes?), those that are willing to talk usually don't know how, people are put off by word-play, and no one's read anything interesting lately.

There are a few havens: the arts, publishing...the arts...publishing...

Blech. All my professors assumed I'd be a professor...and I'm starting to think they knew better than I did. The ivory tower's looking lovely right about now.

So, yes, I'd be willing to trade you.



I agree, now that I've been in "the real world", people are just not as interesting. The only thing I have in common with anyone at work is, well, work. I can't even get any of em to play halo 2.....
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Ozy_y2k
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Machiavelli wrote:

Here is a question for you: Are there any blogs that allow you to do pictoral blogging? As in, post a string of .jpgs?

I have an odd fascination with 'empty places'. Urban places that people rarely go and almost never see. I think it might soothe my creative urges if I was able to create an Empty Places blog.


Well, here's a couple of starters just off the top of my head:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/explorer/
http://www.livejournal.com/community/urban_decay

Also, you might be amused to dig through the ARG graveyard and check out Lockjaw. The main group of characters, the DC Metrocrawlers, in that saga were a group of urban explorers. Very Happy

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skilletaudio
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 		Heck, even some of the "fun" careers that get you around like minded people have their problems.
Take the video game industry...crazy people you love to hang around with, for the most part, but no matter where you work, you're in for some sleepless weeks here and there, and the prospect of going to bed one day, and waking up without a job the next, depending on publishers, economy, etc.

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Kali
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drseuss90 wrote:


I agree, now that I've been in "the real world", people are just not as interesting. The only thing I have in common with anyone at work is, well, work. I can't even get any of em to play halo 2.....


At least YOU can try to get them into it. If you're female, well, by the gods, you'd better not mention you like video games. Make THAT fatal mistake, and suddenly, you're a pariah. You suddenly become childish, stupid, a freak and many other undesirable things.

Okay, maybe that's not QUITE true. For instance, I did feel comfortable telling one of my bosses why I left work early last Thursday, but that's only because I'd already discovered she LOVES Buffy. I'd never tell my coworkers about it. Thank G-d no one saw me answer my cell on Tuesdays!

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Machiavelli
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johnny_Nitro wrote:
The quote button is a wonderful thing.


Isn't it, though? Some people like to go as far as to separate the quotes, so others know what specific piece of a letter they are addressing (but not replying TO).

johnny_Nitro wrote:
If you're going to flame someone, try to make sure the flame isn't misdirected, or some poor sod is futily searching his post to find non existent hanging prepositons (as opposed to dangling chads)


Ain't the Internet Grand?
I'm sorry if you took my remarks as a flame. I've already apologized for that, once. Two is all you'll get out of me.

My comments were not directed at any one individual, but several who had committed the error over the course of the discussion. Like Phaedra said, though, there are some usages that are technically incorrect, but are 'commonly accepted' in everyday speech because correcting them makes a sentence overly cumbersome.

The joke, of course, was that I was ending a sentence about dangling prepositions with a dangling preposition. If you missed the fact that I did it on purpose, you missed the joke. That, as Alanis Morissette could stand to learn, is Irony.

johnny_Nitro wrote:

As for your obscure cultural reference, are you quoting F. Leghorn or are you old enough to be quoting Senator Claghorn?


Mr. Leghorn, of course. I tried to differentiate with the "pipe full of fun kit" reference. To my knowledge, the ficticious Senator never referred to any such item *grin* I'm positively not old enough to have remembered him first hand, anyway.

Admittedly, that reference wasn't terribly obscure, but I live and work every day with people who stare blankly if I say "Spear and Magic Helmet". I make a great many references, and if noone else gets them... Well, they amuse the hell out of ME.


So... Have I come across as insufferably arrogant, yet?
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krystyn
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Ozy_y2k wrote:
to appreciate the semi-washed masses around you for what they are, which could be any combination of: (a) fun; (b) whacked; (c) cute; (d) annoying as hell; (e) worrisome; (f) accepting; (g) criminally dangerous.


Ozy, you sweet-talker, you. OK, maybe I'll buy you nachos sometime, after all.

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Eclipse
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 		Make sure you plan for the Fall Wink It's a bit brisk, but amazing Smile
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Machiavelli
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 		Yes, I'm posting a lot this afternoon. It's about the only thing I can do while on a three-hour conference call.


Kali wrote:
At least YOU can try to get them into it. If you're female, well, by the gods, you'd better not mention you like video games. Make THAT fatal mistake, and suddenly, you're a pariah. You suddenly become childish, stupid, a freak and many other undesirable things.


Is it really that bad? I kind of assumed that since it was becoming more socially acceptable for men to be geeks, that the same applied to women.]

I would think that if you mentioned you liked video games, you'd have a horde of drooling geeks around you faster than you could say Mxyzptlk. (There, a little more obscure) Not that a horde of drooling geeks is desirable, but I'd think it would be marginally preferable to 'appalled horror'.
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Ozy_y2k
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krystyn wrote:
Ozy_y2k wrote:
to appreciate the semi-washed masses around you for what they are, which could be any combination of: (a) fun; (b) whacked; (c) cute; (d) annoying as hell; (e) worrisome; (f) accepting; (g) criminally dangerous.


Ozy, you sweet-talker, you. OK, maybe I'll buy you nachos sometime, after all.


Well, you qualify as all of the above, darlin'. Wink

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johnny5
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Machiavelli wrote:
johnny_Nitro wrote:
The quote button is a wonderful thing.

Isn't it, though? Some people like to go as far as to separate the quotes, so others know what specific piece of a letter they are addressing (but not replying TO).

Only when I see a need.

Machiavelli wrote:

johnny_Nitro wrote:
If you're going to flame someone, try to make sure the flame isn't misdirected, or some poor sod is futily searching his post to find non existent hanging prepositons (as opposed to dangling chads)

The joke, of course, was that I was ending a sentence about dangling prepositions with a dangling preposition. If you missed the fact that I did it on purpose, you missed the joke. That, as Alanis Morissette could stand to learn, is Irony.

Noted. "hick-speak" notwithstanding, intentions are difficult to convey in text.
Machiavelli wrote:

Admittedly, that reference wasn't terribly obscure, but I live and work every day with people who stare blankly if I say "Spear and Magic Helmet".


It doesn't come across as well unless you sing it brother.

Machiavelli wrote:

So... Have I come across as insufferably arrogant, yet?

Step up to the intellectual podium (or is that intellekshul) and claim your prize. Smile



IB4TL

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johnny5
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Machiavelli wrote:
faster than you could say Mxyzptlk.


Be sure to enunciate: Mix-yez-spit-lick.

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krystyn
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johnny_Nitro wrote:

johnny_Nitro wrote:
If you're going to flame someone, try to make sure the flame isn't misdirected, or some poor sod is futily searching his post to find non existent hanging prepositons (as opposed to dangling chads)


I've heard that the plural for "chad" is "chad."

Where's my freaking gold star???

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drseuss90
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Kali wrote:

At least YOU can try to get them into it. If you're female, well, by the gods, you'd better not mention you like video games. Make THAT fatal mistake, and suddenly, you're a pariah. You suddenly become childish, stupid, a freak and many other undesirable things.


Man, if a girl tells me she likes video games (specifically Halo) then thats an extra 10 hotness points in my book. Id love to meet a gril that would play on live with me.
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 		But then, they get camo shields and whack the crap out of you!

(I think that was you, right?)

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