ewww! daddy, make her stop that!
i mean, i've heard of scaring things out of people (i almost said the "d" + "ung" word, but i've never heard of amusing it out of people.
a couple of the comments i've gotten lately concern me, because people have indicated i made them blow various solid or liquid matter from various orifices all over their computers. my humor may be cheap, but your electronics aren't, so i am considering putting one of those warning labels or something like they have on medicine bottles at the beginning of my posts. something like, "danger, will robinson! the below message may have unpredictable effects on you, ranging from annoyance to ennui production to incredulity to the most serious potential effect, blowing chunks of masticated (can i say that?) material all over your electronics. for this reason, we must insist that you not operate heavy OR light machinery when reading this dung. thank you.
<signed>
mismanagement"
so, what do you think? actually, in the modern age, it doesn't matter what any of us think. what do you think our lawyers will think?
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Posted 11 November 2008 - 01:26 AM
Holy Guacamole, Batman!
I used to be a tour guide in Washington, DC and my rule of thumb was, if I wouldn't use a word in front of a toddler or my grandmother, it wasn't fit for speaking in public. I think my worst utterances over a microphone to a busload of 7th or 8th graders were, "Dog breath" and "Pig lips." They worked pretty well as euphemisms for stronger language.
I used to be a tour guide in Washington, DC and my rule of thumb was, if I wouldn't use a word in front of a toddler or my grandmother, it wasn't fit for speaking in public. I think my worst utterances over a microphone to a busload of 7th or 8th graders were, "Dog breath" and "Pig lips." They worked pretty well as euphemisms for stronger language.
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Posted 11 November 2008 - 02:00 AM
Let's make a list:
"Bull Shark!"
"Schist!"
"(Point A) Dam!"
"Bull Shark!"
"Schist!"
"(Point A) Dam!"
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Posted 12 December 2008 - 12:45 AM
let me splain the otherwise apparently random bump that just occurred right there above me (look up). this guy, who shall remain nameless but his initials are "nicholas", is making this thread/conversation/whatever go to the top to remind those of you who sling pejoratives and blue language and potty mouthisms around like there was no *&#$@ tomorrow that you can't do that here, because it offends the kids that work here emptying the ashtrays and picking up the broken beer bottles. (hey, um, anson can i say stuff like that being funny or am i being too bad an influence on the yute of the motherland? i mean, so far my loving child tj hasn't knocked over any liquor stores but that could be to his mother's credit instead of mine; i don't know.)
anyway, if you're just walking across a forum or chatroom here and stub your toe on something, you can hop around all you want, but you can't swear, even if you're dying. the most you can do is scream, "poofus puddle!" that goes too if you're leaving the parking lot and somebody runs you into the ditch, since the windows are left open here sometimes to cut down on electricity bills for the a/c.
so anyway, nicholas, if anybody asked me, i'd swear you do a fine job keepin this place in line. you know what i meant...
anyway, if you're just walking across a forum or chatroom here and stub your toe on something, you can hop around all you want, but you can't swear, even if you're dying. the most you can do is scream, "poofus puddle!" that goes too if you're leaving the parking lot and somebody runs you into the ditch, since the windows are left open here sometimes to cut down on electricity bills for the a/c.
so anyway, nicholas, if anybody asked me, i'd swear you do a fine job keepin this place in line. you know what i meant...
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tracer, on Dec 11 2008, 10:45 PM, said:
let me splain the otherwise apparently random bump that just occurred right there above me (look up). this guy, who shall remain nameless but his initials are "nicholas", is making this thread/conversation/whatever go to the top to remind those of you who sling pejoratives and blue language and potty mouthisms around like there was no *&#$@ tomorrow that you can't do that here, because it offends the kids that work here emptying the ashtrays and picking up the broken beer bottles. (hey, um, anson can i say stuff like that being funny or am i being too bad an influence on the yute of the motherland? i mean, so far my loving child tj hasn't knocked over any liquor stores but that could be to his mother's credit instead of mine; i don't know.)
anyway, if you're just walking across a forum or chatroom here and stub your toe on something, you can hop around all you want, but you can't swear, even if you're dying. the most you can do is scream, "poofus puddle!" that goes too if you're leaving the parking lot and somebody runs you into the ditch, since the windows are left open here sometimes to cut down on electricity bills for the a/c.
so anyway, nicholas, if anybody asked me, i'd swear you do a fine job keepin this place in line. you know what i meant...
anyway, if you're just walking across a forum or chatroom here and stub your toe on something, you can hop around all you want, but you can't swear, even if you're dying. the most you can do is scream, "poofus puddle!" that goes too if you're leaving the parking lot and somebody runs you into the ditch, since the windows are left open here sometimes to cut down on electricity bills for the a/c.
so anyway, nicholas, if anybody asked me, i'd swear you do a fine job keepin this place in line. you know what i meant...
You scare me sometimes Tracer...
I decided to bump just for a reminder for old members, and reference for new ones. I've been checking carefully and the number of forbidden words on the forum has dropped significantly. This is both a result of members being more mindful and moderators/admins painstakingly(it really is quite painful sometimes.) change all the forbidden words to a more General rated saying.
Great job!
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Posted 12 December 2008 - 09:35 AM
really, though, nicholas, you have to really watch the cause and effect inferusions around here, as you as a future scifientist know. i'm thinkin' that it's just that more people have joined who, when they get mad, swear with their eyes closed, which makes it hard to keyboard.
in my imagination, they just are reading along, soakin' in the fossil fineness, the sun is shining, the birds are singing (when they're not looking around through their tiny binoculars hoping to catch a glimpse of auspex), and then WHAM - they come across one of my lame posts, close their eyes, ball their fists, and start verbally spewing extended ascii characters until they're smurfy looking.
they they go back to surfing the threads. which can lead to only one conclusion.
"tracer" is a word in the silurian language which means "cathartic"
have a nice poofus-puddling day!
in my imagination, they just are reading along, soakin' in the fossil fineness, the sun is shining, the birds are singing (when they're not looking around through their tiny binoculars hoping to catch a glimpse of auspex), and then WHAM - they come across one of my lame posts, close their eyes, ball their fists, and start verbally spewing extended ascii characters until they're smurfy looking.
they they go back to surfing the threads. which can lead to only one conclusion.
"tracer" is a word in the silurian language which means "cathartic"
have a nice poofus-puddling day!
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Posted 12 December 2008 - 12:22 PM
I Googled "poofus-puddling" and got no hits!
I have to conclude that it is completely novel and with neither connotation nor denotation, and thus innocuous (for now), or that it is so heinous a phrase as to have been expunged from the universe.
(Personally, I think it's cute).
I have to conclude that it is completely novel and with neither connotation nor denotation, and thus innocuous (for now), or that it is so heinous a phrase as to have been expunged from the universe.
(Personally, I think it's cute).
"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about."
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Posted 12 December 2008 - 01:13 PM
Tracer, I have been trying to figure you out.
I must say I thought you were speaking (Sus scrofa domestica) Latin (politically correct) all this time
Some times your make me feel Participe présent du verbe imputer. in computational lexicology.
I must say I thought you were speaking (Sus scrofa domestica) Latin (politically correct) all this time
Some times your make me feel Participe présent du verbe imputer. in computational lexicology.
v = 0.25 * g0.5 * SL1.67 * h-1.17
Over my head so I will just get some popcorn and watch or um listen? 
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Posted 12 December 2008 - 01:29 PM
Dave Daniel AKA (Bones), on Dec 12 2008, 02:22 PM, said:
Got to learn to use google for this kind of stuff.
So do any of us have real jobs, or do we just sit around talking?
So do any of us have real jobs, or do we just sit around talking?
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Posted 12 December 2008 - 02:58 PM
Dave Daniel AKA (Bones), on Dec 12 2008, 09:13 AM, said:
Tracer, I have been trying to figure you out.
I must say I thought you were speaking (Sus scrofa domestica) Latin (politically correct) all this time
Some times your make me feel Participe présent du verbe imputer. in computational lexicology.
I must say I thought you were speaking (Sus scrofa domestica) Latin (politically correct) all this time
Some times your make me feel Participe présent du verbe imputer. in computational lexicology.
imputation of any meaning or origin to my verbalizations, however scrofulous they may seem, is dangerous. they are exclusively the products of a mind which rarely follows any true paradigms from which you could evoke a credible out-figuring. to understand me would be to think like me, and who would really want to go there?
p.s. - if you wish to understand me in computational terms, keep the code tight, and use assembly language. i prefer to be old-school and don't want to have to run with a bunch of ram. and part of the reason you can't get there is that we're dealing with a very processor-specific coding situation.
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Posted 12 September 2009 - 11:38 AM
I would like to direct this to the distinguished members of the panel: You lousy cork-soakers. You have violated my farging rights. Dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin iceholes... like yourselves.
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tracer, on 09 November 2008 - 11:04 AM, said:
ewww! daddy, make her stop that!
i mean, i've heard of scaring things out of people (i almost said the "d" + "ung" word, but i've never heard of amusing it out of people.
a couple of the comments i've gotten lately concern me, because people have indicated i made them blow various solid or liquid matter from various orifices all over their computers. my humor may be cheap, but your electronics aren't, so i am considering putting one of those warning labels or something like they have on medicine bottles at the beginning of my posts. something like, "danger, will robinson! the below message may have unpredictable effects on you, ranging from annoyance to ennui production to incredulity to the most serious potential effect, blowing chunks of masticated (can i say that?) material all over your electronics. for this reason, we must insist that you not operate heavy OR light machinery when reading this dung. thank you.
<signed>
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so, what do you think? actually, in the modern age, it doesn't matter what any of us think. what do you think our lawyers will think?
i mean, i've heard of scaring things out of people (i almost said the "d" + "ung" word, but i've never heard of amusing it out of people.
a couple of the comments i've gotten lately concern me, because people have indicated i made them blow various solid or liquid matter from various orifices all over their computers. my humor may be cheap, but your electronics aren't, so i am considering putting one of those warning labels or something like they have on medicine bottles at the beginning of my posts. something like, "danger, will robinson! the below message may have unpredictable effects on you, ranging from annoyance to ennui production to incredulity to the most serious potential effect, blowing chunks of masticated (can i say that?) material all over your electronics. for this reason, we must insist that you not operate heavy OR light machinery when reading this dung. thank you.
<signed>
mismanagement"
so, what do you think? actually, in the modern age, it doesn't matter what any of us think. what do you think our lawyers will think?
tracer...
You do the doodoo that we knew so well....
Be true to the reality you create.
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