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As promised (if technically a couple of hours late), here's content. Content! Remember a month ago when we marked the TOS Season 2 DVD set's release with two fivers at 5MST? Well, we're marking the Season 3 release with... okay, one fiver, but it's really good. Check out Wowbagger's Five-Minute "Requiem For Methuselah (../startrek/fiver.php?ep=requiemformethuselah)."
And come back tonight for the start of something big. Something bold. Something with barbecue sauce. It's the weeklong event you've all been waiting for and didn't even know it. Prepare your world for a rockin'....
(Can I hype or can I hype?)
Derek
12-15-2004, 06:09 PM
Da Vinci: Hi, I'm Flint.
Kirk: But your speaker credit --
Da Vinci: Is irrelevant.
Flint's speaker credits were hilarious. Arby's Oven Mitt indeed.
Nice fiver, Wowbagger.
Rayinne
12-15-2004, 06:44 PM
Hey, a fiver.
McCoy: Look, Rytalyn!
Kirk: I thought we were curing Rigellian fever, not ADHD.
Da Vinci: Hi, I'm Flint.
Kirk: But your speaker credit --
Da Vinci: Is irrelevant.
Gutenberg: I won't mention, then, that I am FLINT: THE INFINITELY PROLONGED! Whoops. Now I need to punish you.
Kirk: You just want a new ornament for your Christmas tree, don't you?
Gutenberg: I think you'll go very well next to the Voyager ornament Q sent me last year.
Spock: Well said, sir. It was a brilliant plan, aggravating the Logic Gods and hoping they would miss their target.
Kirk: But they hit their target.
Spock: No, captain, I'm quite sure they didn't.
(Hoping to cure Kirk's itchy, stuffy, sneezy nose, the Enterprise warps away to Planet Claritin at Ludicrous Speed)
Well done, Wowbagger.
Hey, a fiver.
I swear that's not going to be something out of the ordinary anymore.
PointyHairedJedi
12-15-2004, 09:41 PM
Okay, that was a real cracker. Flint the Infinitely Prolonged indeed. ;)
Ginga
12-15-2004, 10:48 PM
BBQ sauce? Mmm. Can't wait. :3 This event wouldn't happen to be that thing you hinted at on AIM the other day, would it? The one you said I would love? :D
Xeroc
12-15-2004, 11:49 PM
Cool! An update! Wooo! :D
Awesome fiver, Wowbagger! :thumb'sup:
KillerGodMan
12-16-2004, 12:54 AM
BBQ sauce? Mmm. Can't wait. :3 This event wouldn't happen to be that thing you hinted at on AIM the other day, would it? The one you said I would love? :D
I sence a VOY fiver!
admiral sab
12-16-2004, 02:31 AM
Hey, a fiver.
LOL I don't know why but I found this hysterical! lol And Zeke your reply- so sincere. Ok maybe I'm the only one this affected. I think rest is required.
PS Zeke you might want to take something for that cough...
NAHTMMM
12-16-2004, 02:46 AM
Da Vinci: Hi, I'm Flint.
Kirk: But your speaker credit --
Da Vinci: Is irrelevant.
Shakespeare:
Bwahahaha! :D :twisted:
Kirk: You just want a new ornament for your Christmas tree, don't you?
Gutenberg: I think you'll go very well next to the Voyager ornament Q sent me last year.
Heheheh.
Arby's Oven Mitt:
BWAHAHAHAHAAA! :lol: :lol:
Kirk: And that sounds strangely like a scene from Spaceballs: The Isolinear Disk.
Mel Brooks rules! and I love the shifting speaker credits. Very funny.
BTW, Picard's Aunt Adele's ginger tea really does work for colds. I've been holding one at bay for a week now with two cups a day.
ETA: we all lost our titles? :( I'll skip the flag if I can have my title back.
The custom title mod was lost in a necessary phpbb upgrade, and will be restored as soon as I have the time. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Anonymous
12-16-2004, 07:43 PM
Nice work, wowbagger! and nice to see a fiver again - it's been a while...
Hey, Zeke, in your signature: Babies *are* a good source of rice - on rebounds. Not that I've tried it on our most recent family addition, but our oldest son has always a talent for spreading rice around... just a casual observation from the one who always ends up tidying the food table.
Kristina
12-16-2004, 07:50 PM
Am I preoccupied or am I preoccupied? Sorry about that, forgot to log in... the "guest" above was me. I blame it on the baby (but don't eat him).
Sa'ar Chasm
12-16-2004, 08:09 PM
Hey, Zeke, in your signature: Babies *are* a good source of rice - on rebounds.
That was me. SiliceousY is a zeolite rapper I made up for Halloween (lamest costume ever).
The custom title mod was lost in a necessary phpbb upgrade, and will be restored as soon as I have the time. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Oh! okay then. No rush. I'm just glad they're restorable.
Wowbagger
12-17-2004, 03:09 AM
Thank you all for your kind words.
My main purpose here, however, is to mention that "Pining for the Forge" had me very strangely but very intensely amused.
This "weeklong event," however, has me thinking... could the end of Enterprise "Week" have finally arrived?
No. That's next on the agenda after this, though.
Apologies for the delay with the event of which I spoke -- I've had a major crisis in my Master's program. Also 500 exams to mark. I'll make the update when I get home from this evening's Pure Math end-of-term party.
this evening's Pure Math end-of-term party
I bet that one's always a real barn-burner.
>> this evening's Pure Math end-of-term party <<
In one of his short stories, Arthur C. Clarke mentions a joke toast by (as I recall) a mathematician at a party full of engineers: "Here's to pure mathematics. May it never be of any use to anyone."
In G. H. Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology, he raises that point quite seriously in defense of mathematics as a career choice. The book was written not long after World War II, when applied science had just proven its ability to kill millions in an instant; Hardy was a fierce opponent of the war and found comfort in the fact that no one will ever be killed by a transcendental number or a definite integral.
I bet that one's always a real barn-burner.
As opposed to those always-hopping microbiology parties?
Hence why I felt at liberty to mock, though I'll have you know the guest speaker at our last lab meeting before Christmas was Captain Morgan (http://www.captainmorgan.com).
The end-of-semester Graphic Design party was pretty rockin'.
A game of drunken Pictionary is deeply entertaining. :D
Sa'ar Chasm
12-18-2004, 07:32 AM
Also 500 exams to mark.
I can personally attest that marking exams is like fighting the Hydra. As soon as you finish one pile, two more pop up. I need a kid with a torch to just set fire to them all.
Anonymous
12-18-2004, 08:32 AM
Also 500 exams to mark.
I can personally attest that marking exams is like fighting the Hydra. As soon as you finish one pile, two more pop up. I need a kid with a torch to just set fire to them all.
:D hahahahaha, wow, i wish the kids who poured thier hearts into thier exams could see this.
"Ahhhh, teacher is going to read that exam and he'll be so impressed with the dedication and thought that I put into it . . . . huh? HE DID WHAT?!"
Sa'ar Chasm
12-18-2004, 06:04 PM
Ahhhh, teacher is going to read that exam and he'll be so impressed with the dedication and thought that I put into it
Emphasis mine.
You're obviously not reading the same exams I was. <g>
NAHTMMM
12-18-2004, 07:08 PM
...the fact that no one will ever be killed by a transcendental number or a definite integral.
I'll be very disappointed if nobody jumps on this. :D ;)
richardson
12-18-2004, 08:44 PM
...the fact that no one will ever be killed by a transcendental number or a definite integral.
I'll be very disappointed if nobody jumps on this. :D ;)
*gets killed by a transcendal number.* I hope you're hap-GAK!
Okay, last "delay explanation" post... when I got home from that party last night, I was just too exhausted from a day of marking 500 exams and partying to make the update. ('Cause it's something of a big one, see.) So I will make it when I get home, and I'm leaving in a few minutes. This event will be worth the wait, promise.
Wowbagger
12-19-2004, 01:06 AM
Okay, last "delay explanation" post... when I got home from that party last night, I was just too exhausted from a day of marking 500 exams and partying to make the update. ('Cause it's something of a big one, see.) So I will make it when I get home, and I'm leaving in a few minutes. This event will be worth the wait, promise.
Dude, that's like... now. Sweet!
And exam week is definitely horrible for teachers. We feel your pain, even as we try to get over our own.
How many teachers do we have here, anyway?
Sa'ar Chasm
12-19-2004, 01:39 AM
I'm not a teacher, I'm a teaching assistant - aka grad student rented mule. I get to play babysitter for a lab section or two, mark their reports, proctor an exam (which involves escorting people to the bathroom for three hours) and then marking said exam.
Here's hoping I get voted Best TA. There's money involved, apparently.
I'm the same kind of teacher Sa'ar is, without the potential Best TA award as far as I know. But I know a fellow marker who should totally get the Best T&A award.
richardson
12-19-2004, 02:24 AM
Ahem, I think I speak for everyone at FMV, when I say, WE WANT FIVERS, WE WANT FIVERS! :!:
Okay, but what do the people at 5MV want?
richardson
12-19-2004, 03:01 AM
D'oh! :roll: Now that was a stupid mis-spelling.
Okay, I'll have to fix that.
Ahem, I think I speak for everyone at 5MV, when I say, WE WANT FIVERS, WE WANT FIVERS!
Sa'ar Chasm
12-19-2004, 03:02 AM
Top Ten Lists.
MmeBlueberry
12-19-2004, 03:03 AM
How many teachers do we have here, anyway?
<delurk>Me! Me! But I only have one set of exams to grade - I teach 7th, 8th, and 9th grades, and only the 9th graders take semester exams at my school. I've spent most of today procrastinating to keep from grading them, though.</delurk>
Oh my god! Did you see that? YOU JUST MISSED ELVIS!
No, wait, that was Blueberry.
;)
Ahem, I think I speak for everyone at 5MV, when I say, WE WANT FIVERS, WE WANT FIVERS!
LIES! I want pie. Mmm. Pie.
Scooter
12-19-2004, 04:08 AM
Teachers
Right now I'm just a lowly grad student, but next year I'll be trying to convince undergrad students of my very own that ancient history really is interesting and relevant. And yes, you have to take the final. And how many dead grandmothers have you had this semester, anyway? ;)
But I'm looking forward to it.
Scooter
12-19-2004, 04:09 AM
D'oh! :roll: Now that was a stupid mis-spelling.
Okay, I'll have to fix that.
Ahem, I think I speak for everyone at 5MV, when I say, WE WANT FIVERS, WE WANT FIVERS!
And Hazels and Bigwigs too!
(sorry, sorry)
PointyHairedJedi
12-19-2004, 11:24 PM
Fivers? Pfft. I'll tell you what I want -
Truth! Justice! Freedom! And a Hard-boiled Egg!
Sa'ar Chasm
12-20-2004, 12:28 AM
You forgot Reasonably Priced Love.
KillerGodMan
12-20-2004, 03:26 AM
and pie!
PointyHairedJedi
12-20-2004, 02:25 PM
You forgot Reasonably Priced Love.
Well, shoot. I'm always forgetting that one.
As for pie.... Well, I refer you to my sig.
Opium
12-20-2004, 10:12 PM
Top Ten Lists.
:D There are lots of TopTenLists in the misc forum! Good ones! :D
Anyways...many of us know how the end of the semester is...even without being a TA, just with T&A, it's a lot of work. :P Let the fivers come when the time is right.
even without being a TA, just with T&A, it's a lot of work.
Bowm-chicka bowm bowm!
Scooter
12-21-2004, 02:59 AM
:D There are lots of TopTenLists in the misc forum! Good ones! :D
Even a compendium of them ;)
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