Is there Anyone here now? - I want to ask an important question

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Please tell me you are here.[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I'm here. This question is going to be about Andromeda fivers, isn't it?[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I'm here too. But only if it's not ;)
(I don't know anything about Andromeda.)[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]This question is going to be about Andromeda fivers, isn't it?[/quote:post_uid0]

The sig is a pretty big giveaway.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Ain't nobody here but us chickens.

Bawk-bawk.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]A fellow Radio 2 listener! I like you more and more.[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Chickens go buc buc buc buc-kaw! Thank you. ::curtseys::[/color:post_uid0]

[Michiel]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]I don't know anything about Andromeda.[/quote:post_uid0]

Me neither, in fact, I've never seen it. Is it worth watching? (Objective answer, please. :))

Oh, I'm here too. And last time I checked, it was "No one here but us galliforms".[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]From what I've seen, yes, it is. I have noticed that in the later episode that I've seen that although the [i:post_uid0]Andromeda[/i:post_uid0] does have a crew, they only hover around in the background and never actually do anything - even get killed.[/color:post_uid0]

[Opium]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Okay, well, I've got an unimportant question: How do you change the line of text under your name, like the "It's Sa-ar chastic!" and "Eviler than this cat"?

Thanks[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If that question was directed at Zeke, he's got some way of fiddling with the software to do it.

If it was directed at the rest of us, the answer is "we don't, because Zeke's got some kind of psychic-control dampening field surrounding him at all times". ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Draknek]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]*posts, just to see what his title is*[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]::taps her mind control device:: Crap! It's stoped working. :crying:

And is everyone going to have pictures in their sig now? Cause it slows down the loading of the boards process. -_-[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]No fear! I remember all too well back in the bad old days when I was stuck with a cruddy 56K dial-up. But no longer.

And in answer to Opium's question about the member titles - once uppon a time (way back when I first joined in fact) it was possible to change it youself, but Zeke in his indefinite wisdom (think 'soon' ) decided to change it so that he (and possibly the other administrators; I don't know) can change it. The one I have at the moment I actually thought up myself and suggested to Zeke a while back - I was actually a bit surprised when he changed after the accidental reset of the forums. If you can think of a decent one, then by all means suggest it to him, but I've observed that most of the people who do have member titles also have avatars, and since it's now possible to upload you own....

Just a suggestion for the non-titled among us.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Ain't nobody here but us chickens.

Bawk-bawk.[/quote:post_uid0]
[quote:post_uid0]A fellow Radio 2 listener! I like you more and more.[/quote:post_uid0]
Okay, what does that have to do with Radio 2? :S[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]It's a song they've played couple of time in the last few weeks. Of course it's possible he heard it somewhere else, but I think that Radio 2 is the most likely place he heard it.[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[quote:post_uid0="Celeste"][color=#000000:post_uid0]::taps her mind control device:: Crap! It's stoped working. Â :crying:

And is everyone going to have pictures in their sig now? Cause it slows down the loading of the boards process. -_-[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0][i:post_uid0]Sig pictures?[/i:post_uid0] Who has sig pictures?[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]A fellow Radio 2 listener! I like you more and more.[/quote:post_uid0]

Thanks, I think, but there's a sizable curve of planet between me and the Radio 2 broadcasting facilities. Also consider that my computer access has been sporadic of late, and streaming audio is not an option on a public access terminal.

Right now I'm back at my trusty old...damn, I've forgotten the name. With any luck, I'll be taking it with me back to my grungy little basement suite.

Other than that, glad you liked the reference, even if it has nothing to do with Radio 2. Strange things float to the surface from the dim recesses of my mind.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]^ It's probably a new version of the song that Radio 2 is playing. The song itself is old (and based on an even older, decidedly non-PC joke), originally recorded in 1946 by Louis Jordan and covered by many since, including Asleep at the Wheel and Lisa Stansfield. There also seem to have been a couple of remixes lately.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]19 replies in and the question that started the thread hasn't been asked yet.

As for the chicken song, I first encountered it on the Elephant Show.

It was a show about three people who sing kids songs for a living, another guy who sings kids songs for a living, and a bunch of kids.

Oh, and an elephant. Can't forget the elephant.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]It was very definitely the original that they were playing.

[quote:post_uid0]19 replies in and the question that started the thread hasn't been asked yet.[/quote:post_uid0]

And that surprises you in some way? Come, on, I thought you knew the 5MV forums better than that.[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[quote:post_uid0="Zeke"][color=#000000:post_uid0][i:post_uid0]Sig pictures?[/i:post_uid0] Who has sig pictures?[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Looks like no one, now ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Standback]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I am in a quantum state, in which I am simultaneously here and not here.

And if we're on the topic (Topic? Vas iz dis "topic"?), Zeke may not have seen my thankee for giving me an Official Member Status (since it was in one of the mass-post misc. threads) so here it is again - Thankee, Zeke! Kender [i:post_uid0]rule[/i:post_uid0]! Well, kinda. And gnomes. And definitely Zekes.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[quote:post_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"][color=#000000:post_uid0]It was very definitely the original that they were playing.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Thinking again, I shouldn't be surprised. Radio and the pop charts behave entirely differently in the UK.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Especially on Radio 2. All the charty stuff is on Radio 1. Radio 2 plays a mix of old and new tunes.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[quote:post_uid0="Celeste"][color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Zeke"][i:post_uid0]Sig pictures?[/i:post_uid0] Â Who has sig pictures?[/quote:post_uid0]
Looks like no one, now ;)[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]I suppose i should be feeling guilty *ducks and runs*


and... who the frell on this board is a chicken? i have a baguette specially made for chicken-thwapping, considering how i have several friends who claim to be chickens and they annoy me on purpose quite a bit...[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][color=white:post_uid0].[/color:post_uid0]


I came across one of those Kippers of Thwapping (Kipper of Thwappings? Naw...) PHJ talks about. :D

*scoots a little farther from taya, just in case*[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]*looks incredulously at NAH*

et tu, brute? *gasp* i'm surrounded by chickens, i tell you, SURROUNDED! :P[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]There WAS a question to be asked, right? ;)

Hi there, Arzosah. :)[/color:post_uid0]

[Captain Galactic]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Hello there, Mr. Arosah!

You will get used to us and them, if you stay for about 3 months I guess the formula is 3 months because Sa'ar says so, and he's got a bachelor's degree in Chemistry, so he is right, and it's been 3 months since I joined up, and I'd say most people know my ever-dancing avatar, and...GAAAH!

Too much coffee at my grandmother's company picnic thing. How fun. Pouring rain, and buisnessmen eating barbeque. Which is not to say I hate barbeque.

Welcome to the insanity.[/color:post_uid0]

[Standback]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Hey, cool! Nan changed her Avatar! It's certainly mysterious, and it's definitely a head. I suppose the "5MSG" bit is somewhat difficult...[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Eh - to be honest I kinda prefer the old one. CG's appears to have changed too, though I'm not exactly sure what it's supposed to be.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I rather liked the old one, as well. Nifty color on the new one, though (or [i:post_uid0]colour[/i:post_uid0], if you're so inclined.)[/color:post_uid0]

[Captain Galactic]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]My new avatar is College Tux, from college linux, which is supposed to be a really good distro. I don't use it, because it doesn't support my monitor, but the logo is awesome.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oh, I thought it had something to do with the Matrix.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Matrix, Linux, same difference.[/color:post_uid0]

[Standback]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oh my god! The Machines are using penguins as their energy sources! This changes everything![/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Oh my god! The Machines are using penguins as their energy sources! This changes everything![/quote:post_uid0]

Either that, or they're all running as terminals from a single server.

It would explain why Machines never crash, though. No Windoze.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[quote:post_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Either that, or they're all running as terminals from a single server.

It would explain why Machines never crash, though. Â No Windoze.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]But if they're terminal they're going to have to crash sooner or later. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="taya17"][quote:post_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"]Either that, or they're all running as terminals from a single server.

It would explain why Machines never crash, though. Â No Windoze.[/quote:post_uid0]
But if they're terminal they're going to have to crash sooner or later. :D[/quote:post_uid0]
Sooner, if Sampras is doing the serving...[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Who wants to hit him first?[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Uh... hi. For all you people out there, I would just like to mention that I am a girl. (i don't take offence, you couldn't have known) my question was actually going to be: 'What is so bad about multiple !'s?' But yeah... Girl, okay?

:zzz: I am exhausted.[/color:post_uid0]

[Saxamaphone]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Az - You will find the answer here. (http://3sygma.com/fiveminute/about/submissions.html)[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]so it's just a pet peeve? Is there no actual reason, like, I dunno, a double exclamation mark tried to kill him or something? well i suppose i should delete the one in my birthday message to Kira... uh... don't mention that to anyone, ok?[/color:post_uid0]

[Saxamaphone]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Naw I'd leave it alone, it is just a pet peeve. Besides, there's just something about how effective asides are in a textual medium ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]note the change from: ( .!. ) to: ( no triple exclamation mark here! )

If he noticed it before, i think this is better. Maybe I should just slip another triple ! in somewhere and see if he notices? ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Standback"][/quote:post_uid0]
[quote:post_uid0]Hey, cool! Nan changed her Avatar! It's certainly mysterious, and it's definitely a head. I suppose the "5MSG" bit is somewhat difficult...[/quote:post_uid0]

It's actually the same picture as my previous one, altered in PSP. :D

Difficult?

[quote:post_uid0]Eh - to be honest I kinda prefer the old one.[/quote:post_uid0]
But I haven't been blonde-ish for months. ;)

[quote:post_uid0]Nifty color on the new one, though (or colour, if you're so inclined.)[/quote:post_uid0]
I am so inclined. ;)

(It's O-U! O-U I SAY! ;)

[quote:post_uid0]Maybe I should just slip another triple ! in somewhere and see if he notices? ;) [/quote:post_uid0]

Someone get the first aid kit. His head may explode. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[quote:post_uid0="NAHTMMM"][color=#000000:post_uid0]"I feel heaps of ouchie."
--Dan Jackson in Draknek's "Upgrades" fiver[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Actually, I think I wrote that. :)[/color:post_uid0]

[Things Are Good]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]To answer the title, yes, there are people here. You can ask your important question now. You have my permission.[/color:post_uid0]

[Opium]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]HEY ZEKE!
Can you change that thingy under my name from "Of the People" to "Of The Masses" or "Poppyseed of the masses" or something like that? Thanks :D[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[quote:post_uid0="Things Are Good"][color=#000000:post_uid0]To answer the title, yes, there are people here. Â You can ask your important question now. Â You have my permission.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]There are people? There are PEOPLE?!

And here I thought there were only maniacs. Well, you learn something new everyday. :)[/color:post_uid0]

[Saxamaphone]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oh, well I'm a people -- um, person. People person?[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]That's almost a Freudian slip.[/color:post_uid0]

[MmeBlueberry]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]The title didn't ask if there were [i:post_uid0]people[/i:post_uid0] here, just if there was [i:post_uid0]anyone[/i:post_uid0] here.

I'm here. I think, anyway.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0](8) is there anyone out there/ there must be somebody somewhere (8)


Prize for the person who can identify the above song (highly unlikely)[/color:post_uid0]

[Opium]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]It's the song that probably inspired the song ""Is anybody home/has anybody wasted tears on loneliness/that everyone becomes""
My mom knows the song you're talking about, because she the above song sounded like it copied it.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Really? How old is the song you just mentioned? The one I'm talking about can't be more than... say, five or six years old, and it's a somewhat obscure electro-acoustic song.

Or at least, I think it's obscure :)[/color:post_uid0]

[Opium]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, the "Is Anybody There" is OLP circa 1999/2000. Maybe the one I'm thinking you're talking about isnt the one I think you're talking about, because it was a classic. The one I thought you were talking about went "is there anybody in there" or something like that. Like Pink Floyd or other classic. My mistake. 8|[/color:post_uid0]

[Saxamaphone]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]"Anyone Out There" -- Rialto[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]okay, so it isn't as obscure as I thought :wrinkles nose:

well it is in my country anyway.

:hands Sax a cookie:[/color:post_uid0]

[Saxamaphone]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Whee![/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]We should start a "Can-anybody-identify-this-obscurish-ong" thread. Then maybe we'll figure out who on the board has the same obscurish taste in music as ourselves.

Gah. Pluralistic grammar killing me. :falls over:

:lol:[/color:post_uid0]

[entei]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]You would never identify some of the music I listen to. Mainly because it's about as unmainstream as you can get. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]"when you turn you - you turn inside - when you burn, you - you burn alive"


nobody i've asked has ever heard of this band until i introduced it to them. anyone here recognize this? one of my favourite songs.[/color:post_uid0]

[Saxamaphone]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well - I went and looked them up, looked interesting :) I'm downloading some of their stuff off KaZaA now, but haven't listened to it - hope it's good.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]o/~ He was a famous trumpet player up Chicago way,
He had a boogie style that no one else could play.
He was the top man in his craft,
and then his number came up and he was gone with the draft o/~

Anyone?[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]~ He's in the army now, blowing revelry
He's the boogie woogie bugle boy of company B
He's sooooome boogie woogie bugle boy of company B ~

hehe. (too bad I can't spell)[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Celeste's suonds like it could be Glenn Miller, but it probably isn't. I haven't got a clue about any of the others.

And now for my own (although it's not really that obscure):

I've looked at the ocean
tried hard to imagine
The way you felt the day you sailed
from Wester Ross to Nova Scotia.
We should have held you
we should have told you[/color:post_uid0]

[Saxamaphone]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][i:post_uid0]Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy[/i:post_uid0] got it's debut in the movie [i:post_uid0]Buck Privates,[/i:post_uid0] won the Academy Award that year (1941) for best original song, and went on to be further popularize by The Andrews Sisters.

That's off the top of my head -- mighta got some wrong.


Um, I think it's [i:post_uid0]Letter from America[/i:post_uid0] PHJ, if I remeber the title correctly.

-/- Love is like a neverending melody
Poets have compared it to a symphony -\-[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Dead on, Sax. It's by The Proclaimers, who aren't terribly well known, but whom I happen to like.[/color:post_uid0]

[MmeBlueberry]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][i:post_uid0]Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy[/i:post_uid0] was sung by me and two of my friends at the regional literary competition in 11th grade. We won. I can't remember if that was the year our trio won at state or not. The main thing I remember is that the girl who sang 2nd soprano never smiled while we were singing it.

I don't know any of the other songs that've been mentioned.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Celeste's suonds like it could be Glenn Miller, but it probably isn't. I haven't got a clue about any of the others.
[/quote:post_uid0]

It's actually the continuation of mine (psst...it's 'Revaille'...although it's been running through my head for the past few days, and I keep hearing that word as "Beverly" for some reason).

[quote:post_uid0]It's by The Proclaimers, who aren't terribly well known, but whom I happen to like.[/quote:post_uid0]

The Scottish Twits! Who can forget them, and their single solitary hit? (OK, two if you count "Ah'm On Muh Whee".)[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Shouldn't that A be an E?[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Yeah I hate spelling.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]The Scottish Twits! Â Who can forget them, and their single solitary hit? Â (OK, two if you count "Ah'm On Muh Whee".)[/quote:post_uid0]

*Thwaps Sa'ar repeatedly with his Haddock of Thwapping*

They were certainly more successful on my side of the Atlantic than they were on yours, but then the US/Canadian music buying public seems to be singularaly unable to appreciate British music anyway (with the major exception of The Beatles of course who just happen to be the best band of all time).[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]*Thwaps Sa'ar repeatedly with his Haddock of Thwapping*
[/quote:post_uid0]

Tease :P



[quote:post_uid0]They were certainly more successful on my side of the Atlantic than they were on yours, but then the US/Canadian music buying public seems to be singularaly unable to appreciate British music anyway [/quote:post_uid0]

I actually first heard The Scottish Twits (which is what Dad called them) in Australia in 1988 or so. Then the dropped off the charts like a rock, and when I got back to Canada they'd been obscure for a while. 500 Miles (I'm Gonna Be) got used on a movie soundtrack, and then everyone remembered them. That was a good song. I butchered it once at karaoke.



[quote:post_uid0]with the major exception of The Beatles of course who just happen to be the best band of all time).

[/quote:post_uid0]

The Beatles, the Stones, Pet Clark, Herman's Hermits, etc. I have a three-CD set of British Invasion tunes, usually recorded several years or more after their heyday and consisting of the suckier songs of the era.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]My dad's favourite song is... Give Me Shelter, I think....

He still know the words to old Platters songs.

But then, the Platters rule. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]:sits amusedly and watches scores of obscure lyrics fly by:

this could be fun. :snh snh snh:[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]How did this become all musicly? *shrugs* oh well

a random song from my cd player:

....

....

ok, my cd player is broken.

hmm.

oh
working

she's liqoured up
and laquered down
she's got the biggest hair in town
she's liqoured up
and laquered down
me and my baby gonna make the rounds

I don't even know what this is
the tune is good
...
strange song this[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]OK, this is a bit more obscure than my last one:

Then it's easy to believe
Somebody's been lying to me
But when the wrong word goes in the right ear
I know you've been lying to me
It's getting rough, off the cuff I've got to say enough's enough[/color:post_uid0]

[Saxamaphone]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Hehe - no one's got mine yet :D


And, I don't know the last two :S[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]hell, I don't know the last two, and one of them was mine![/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]note the time, and tell me if anyone is here *now*[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]note the time, and tell me if anyone is here *now*
[/quote:post_uid0]

I'm here *now*, or at least I was here at the *then* that you call *now*. When you posted that *then*, my *now* was half an hour past midnight.

Strictly speaking, I should be in bed.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I willan-have-on-been present when you haven-willan-did...

Bah. I can't be bothered. No is what I'm trying to say.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]I willan-have-on-been present when you haven-willan-did...[/quote:post_uid0]
I don't know where your thoughts were when you wrote this... Except maybe on [i:post_uid0]The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy[/i:post_uid0]... But it really doesn't make sense, not even when you think HHGttG ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]That implies that the stuff that I say normally actually does make sense! Woo-hoo!

Finally - conclusive proof that pills really are working.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[quote:post_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"][color=#000000:post_uid0]That implies that the stuff that I say normally actually does make sense! Woo-hoo!

Finally - conclusive proof that pills really are working.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]I said not [i:post_uid0]even[/i:post_uid0], so I really [i:post_uid0]wasn't[/i:post_uid0] implying that.

And the fact you noted this, proofs the pills are NOT working. HA! :D[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Rats. Well, the pharmaceutical scientist chaps are going to be happy any way.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Well, the pharmaceutical scientist chaps are going to be happy any way.[/quote:post_uid0]

As well as the people who catch and dry the frogs.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][i:post_uid0]Dude[/i:post_uid0]. Gleah![/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[quote:post_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"][color=#000000:post_uid0]As well as the people who catch and dry the frogs.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Awwwwww, [i:post_uid0]lame![/i:post_uid0][/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, I thought it was somewhat amusing.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Yes, it is, but that still doesn't eclipse the fact that it is, at the same time, also quite lame. :D

Uhm, Sa'ar? Why are you coming at me with that double-headed axe? Uhm... help?

:runs:[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Sa'ar with an axe? Well, it could be worse. Someone could have told the Librarian that you called him the 'm' word.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]What, "monkey"?

Oops. Something tells me I shouldn't have said that out loud.

O.o;

AAAAAaaaaaaRRRRrrGGGGGHHHhhhhHHH! *runs for her life*[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I gave up on the double-headed axe. It kept arguing with itself (although the tandem snoring was quite amusing).



[quote:post_uid0]Uhm... help?

[/quote:post_uid0]

Fear the guy with twin suns for eyes.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]:retrieves Quoth from high orbit and sets him after Sa'ar:

:P Neener neener![/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]someone, anyone, talk to me, please! (!!)
You are never here when i am, any of you![/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I'm Here!!! :D[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Me too. Although I might be late...

The point is, you're never here when anybody else is. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]You are never here when i am, any of you![/quote:post_uid0]

It's your own fault for being 16.5 hours ahead :P

Silly Adelaidian.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]No-one is 16.5 hours ahead! They can't be. Right PHJ? :D[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I personally wouldn't know. I always seem to be about three days behind everyone else.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Time-zones.

I mean if someone would be 16.5 hours ahead, they would actually be 7.5 hours behind.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, thinking about it, if you were halfway arcross a timezone, then technically you could add .5 when talking about har far ahead or behind you are compared to someone else.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]That would be between two timezones, not halfway. If you're halfway, you're in the middle of that timezone.

I wasn't talking about the .5 but about the 16. Since Greenwich is the [i:post_uid0]international[/i:post_uid0]...
Ohh nevermind :([/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Have I ever mentioned how much I dislike time-zones?[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Not in the time I've been here.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oh. Well...now you know.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Some time zones are half an hour out of sync with the rest...Newfoundland, for example, or the centre slice of Australia (where Arzosah lives).

When you're 8 hours behind GMT, 16.5 hours is only a little more than halfway around the planet, rather than seven hours into yesterday, or however it works out.

I hate temporal mechanics.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oh you too? Does everybody or something?
Really, I find nothing wrong with them.[/color:post_uid0]

[Opium]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I guess if you're a Newfie, everyone is either 1/2 ahead, or a 1/2 behind...nope, I looked it up, 1/2 ahead...

*braces for hits b/c of bad Newfie joke*[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Where exactly is 'Newfie' when it's at home?[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Newfoundland is that fair-sized island east of Quebec that, with Nova Scotia, PEI and the mainland, defines the Gulf of St. Lawrence. (The province of Newfoundland also includes Labrador, on the mainland, but that part isn't exactly populous.) Newfies are ... well, you get it.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Newfie jokes are the Polish jokes of the New World.

The name of the province was recently changed to "Newfoundland & Labrador" in an effort to appease the half-dozen or so mainland Newfoundlanders who felt slighted, or something. Now they can proudly say that they live in "And Labrador".[/color:post_uid0]

[Saxamaphone]

[quote:post_uid0="Katy Jane"][color=#000000:post_uid0]In Wisconsin we just tease the Minnesotans. We call them mudducks. but alls fair because they call us cheese heads. but we dont mind being called cheese heads so we win  :D[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Damn straight!

[quote:post_uid0]As for Americans...[/quote:post_uid0]

Pfft, Canucks[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, everyone makes fun of the Americans. And the Aussies. But they make fun of us, so that's ok.[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I like to hear the different insults and jokes people come up with for us Aussies.
But i don't know where they get 'G'day' because i've never heard anyone say that without it being on purpose. It's not a common greeting.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]It's the same with kilts. I mean, you should see the looks someone gets if they [i:post_uid0]do[/i:post_uid0] wear a kilt out in public in Scotland. It's really pretty funny.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]But i don't know where they get 'G'day' because i've never heard anyone say that without it being on purpose.[/quote:post_uid0]

Or 'Eh?' I used to say it as an affectation, but I think it's grown on me.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]^ Think that one's really from Minnes[b:post_uid0]o[/b:post_uid0]ta.[/color:post_uid0]

[Saxamaphone]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]It's Canadian too, I had a friend who used to do it all the time from Canada, but he kept getting teased about it, so he tried to stop using it. But, yeah, it's a common thing in Canada - I think, kind of like Americans and "like."[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]And then there's "GAH!" I picked up "GAH!" from the members of this forum. (or rather, a certain member of this forum...) It's stuck with me now...

As I told Sa'ar, the Psi Corps has got to be lurking somewhere...[/color:post_uid0]

[Opium]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Eh is pretty common, eh, but not like Americans use, eh, we use it more naturally, eh. Do you get what I'm saying, eh, do yah?[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]As I told Sa'ar, the Psi Corps has got to be lurking somewhere...[/quote:post_uid0]

The Corps is Mother. The Corps is Father. Eat your vegetables.[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I use Eh all the time which could have to do with my proximity to Canada or my proximity to Minnesota, the votes still out.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]It's Canadian too, I had a friend who used to do it all the time from Canada, but he kept getting teased about it, so he tried to stop using it.[/quote:post_uid0]

I can empaphise - when I first moved to Lewis everyone picked up on the fact that I pronounced 'h' like 'aich', rather than 'haich'. Drove me nuts, especially as there's one in my name, and of course I had to spell it out to every teacher in the school what felt like three times over.[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]you mean just pronouncing the letter h? i say it aich too how ive never heard it any other way[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Yup - apparently that's the Lewisian norm.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"]British Columbians deride Albertans as flatlanders.[/quote:post_uid0]
My dad found a limerick about them in a stall at a rest stop near the BC-ALTA border.

It was crass and involved digestive function.

[quote:post_uid0]I'm not sure what they call us.[/quote:post_uid0]
Pot-smoking bitter-hippies, I would think. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[quote:post_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Yup - apparently that's the Lewisian norm.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]It's not just Lewis, though. (http://www.users.bigpond.com/burnside/Words21.htm) I know I've run across it in Dickens at least once ([i:post_uid0]David Copperfield[/i:post_uid0], I think, but don't hold me to that) and I'm pretty sure elsewhere.[/color:post_uid0]