Descendre ma pelouse vous enfants!
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Sebastian would surely offer his services!Oka I was participating in the Beta test of D&D On-Line for a while. I dropped it because it was eatting up too much of my time. :) However, before I stopped I witnessed a chat exchange between two of the other testers. One of them commented "This game is boring. It's nothing like WoW." The other one replied "Well what do you expect from an rpg based on Magic the Gathering." If I could have reached through the interweb andstrangled them both right then and there, I would be posting this from prison instead of my kitchen.No court in the land would convict you, trust me.
On which side? And which side would work out better for Mr Fryer?
On which side? And which side would work out better for Mr Fryer?Sebastian would surely offer his services!Oka I was participating in the Beta test of D&D On-Line for a while. I dropped it because it was eatting up too much of my time. :) However, before I stopped I witnessed a chat exchange between two of the other testers. One of them commented "This game is boring. It's nothing like WoW." The other one replied "Well what do you expect from an rpg based on Magic the Gathering." If I could have reached through the interweb andstrangled them both right then and there, I would be posting this from prison instead of my kitchen.No court in the land would convict you, trust me.
Thats a good point!
I listen to a lot of music, including a lot of covers (you have to know it before you can do it, and all that). Case in point: I know a f#%!load of people who think that "I Fought the Law" is either a Clash song or a Green Day song. These people get smacked by me. I have heard no less than seven versions of this song (in chronological order):
1. Sonny Curtis and the Crickets
2. The Bobby Fuller Four
3. Bob Marley and the Wailers
4. The Clash
5. The Teen Idles
6. Green Day
7. Bouncing Souls
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I listen to alot of the older, original songs rather than covers...the covers tend to rarely do justice to the songs.
I once heard an interview with Shania Twain though...after she did the song.."Take a little peice of My Heart" (not sure if that is the title). This song was done by Janis Joplin....but according to Shania she thought it had been written for her...she had no idea that someone else had done it before her!!!! I could have died!
Ow. My head hurts.
It's okay. Shania's pretty enough to be dumb.
It's okay. Shania's pretty enough to be dumb.
That kind of applies to all pop-country female stars, Taylor not-so-Swift for example.
Ya can't have everything.
Some blonde American Idol creation; I don't know what she sings.
Hey, with int for a dump stat, do you think she could hit a guy with a .22 squirrel rifle at 500 yards, or she just doesn't get sick? I know she can't wup Hulk Hogan arm rasslin.
If she can keep looking pretty and bring home millions she doesn’t need to be able to do anything else.
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If she can keep looking pretty and bring home millions she doesn’t need to be able to do anything else.Some blonde American Idol creation; I don't know what she sings.
Hey, with int for a dump stat, do you think she could hit a guy with a .22 squirrel rifle at 500 yards, or she just doesn't get sick? I know she can't wup Hulk Hogan arm rasslin.
Meh....she'll end up on a reality show with Flava Flav thinking like that.
She doesn't have to think...she can already buy and sell Flava Flav. She has people on staff paid to do the thinking.
[Sarcasm]She surrounds herself with Christian advisors and everybody knows Christians don't steal. She's going to be rich and pretty forever [/sarcasm]
Little bastards.
Little bastards.
Well,
Now, anyone who doesn't know who Iron Maiden is, should, as a punishment, be made to watch the film "Chemical Wedding" from begining to end, sober
Reminds me when I was in the Navy at Great Mistakes. All the guys kept telling that the movie, The Wall was the best movie EVAR!!! Now, I am one of those rare individuals that has never done drugs. I just nodded my head & went about my business. One weekend before payday, somebody had rented a VCR & The Wall. I sat all thru that BORING A## movie thinking, "It HAS to get better." After it was over, the general consensus among all of these guys that THOUGHT it was a good movie was, "I don't remember it sucking like that. Guess you have to be stoned to get it."
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Play Rock Band with your teenagers and be amazed when they stare at you for knowing the words to the songs.
I was teaching a group of future ESL teacher how to use songs in their ESL classrooms. One of the songs I was using was The Zombies 'Walking in the Sun'. At the lyrics, "You will lie and walk with me, And we will share our ecstasy" one of the teacher candidates objected.
She said, "Share our ecstasy? Should we really be promoting drug use in our classes?"
She wasn't joking.
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More than 20 years ago now (and I'm stunned to realize that!) I was working in a Crown Books. High School kid comes in, looking for a copy of Romeo and Juliet for class, and cannot find it.
I direct her to the section with plays and classic works. Her comment? "Oh, it's not new?" before she wanders over to find the book.
Much muttering and shaking of head from me and no help from my co-worker who is sitting on the floor behind the counter laughing. (We were both English majors!)
Girl comes back up with the book, and now asks, "This Shakespeare guy, he wrote a lot of books, huh?" I nod, ignoring co-worker who is rolling on the floor now, out of sight of clueless customer -- and out of kicking reach of me :)
Clincher? "So, he written anything new lately?"
Resisting urge to strangle, I tell her that no, he died some years ago, ring her up and get her out of the store before going after my co-worker for all his help :)
I'm in a bookstore. Two gum-clacking girls come in. "Hey," says one. "Does 'fiction' mean 'real' or 'not-real'?"
"Real," says the other in a 'you-idiot' tone.
"Wow! So 'The Bourne Identity' really happened!?!!!"
Back in my day we had to actually read books! Up hill! Both ways!
And we liked it!
That's right! Not to metion, we had to chop down our own trees and make them into the paper the books were printed on - during the dead of winter, with 3 feet of snow on the ground. And we were barefoot.
And we were happy to do it!
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You know, I'm really glad I had that Music class in 6th grade. We didn't learn instruments. We learned about modern music. We started in the 50's, moved to the 60's, and on into the 70's. I forget if we went any further before the end of the year, which was devoted entirely to Wierd Al. Ah, good times. Nowadays I doubt anyone knows what the Duck Walk was or who did it.
People what don't know their Chuck Berry otter be FLOGGED!
You know, I'm really glad I had that Music class in 6th grade. We didn't learn instruments. We learned about modern music. We started in the 50's, moved to the 60's, and on into the 70's. I forget if we went any further before the end of the year, which was devoted entirely to Wierd Al. Ah, good times. Nowadays I doubt anyone knows what the Duck Walk was or who did it.
Now that would have been some kind of music education! Our teachers had either childish stuff meant to introduce us to music, but was boring as hell, or some classic stuff where the teachers themselves got ecstatic about but did not manage to impress upon us why this is any good music at all - in the era where the Neue Deutsche Welle was hugely popular. But the hopelessly old-fashioned teachers we had would never even consider to use stuff like this in their lessons - I guess being old-fashioned was required for teachers at our school for the most part. So, I got rid of music education as soon as possible. (Well, as an aside, if your school has a tradition as a school, with quite some changes of course, dating back to 1225 as a church school, I guess it will be old-fashioned.)
Stefan
You whippersnappers these days have it too easy in school. Back in my day, you were given an instrument, and if you couldn't play it by the end of the day, they beat the crap out of you. Not to mention that we took notes on stone slabs, using a hammer and chisel. And we had to go out and catch our own mascot every year - a grizzly bear!
You were given an instrument? We had to make our own and learn to play it by days end or you were executed.
Yeah, but did you have to write your own music?
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You know, I'm really glad I had that Music class in 6th grade. We didn't learn instruments. We learned about modern music. We started in the 50's, moved to the 60's, and on into the 70's. I forget if we went any further before the end of the year, which was devoted entirely to Wierd Al. Ah, good times. Nowadays I doubt anyone knows what the Duck Walk was or who did it.
Middle school music teacher here:
Did Louis Jordan, Big Joe Turner, Cab Calloway and (early) Ray Charles last week.
Did Little Richard Monday. Chuck Berry yesterday (complete with duck walk). Doing Jerry Lee Lewis today (Wednesday). Elvis tomorrow.
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More than 20 years ago now (and I'm stunned to realize that!) I was working in a Crown Books. High School kid comes in, looking for a copy of Romeo and Juliet for class, and cannot find it.
I direct her to the section with plays and classic works. Her comment? "Oh, it's not new?" before she wanders over to find the book.Much muttering and shaking of head from me and no help from my co-worker who is sitting on the floor behind the counter laughing. (We were both English majors!)
Girl comes back up with the book, and now asks, "This Shakespeare guy, he wrote a lot of books, huh?" I nod, ignoring co-worker who is rolling on the floor now, out of sight of clueless customer -- and out of kicking reach of me :)
Clincher? "So, he written anything new lately?"
Resisting urge to strangle, I tell her that no, he died some years ago, ring her up and get her out of the store before going after my co-worker for all his help :)
Okay, very late to this thread, but this is exactly what I have done in book and record stores for years. Frequently I will mispronounce a name for added effect.
As a matter of fact, Sunday afternoon I was in a not-so-F FLGS. I was looking at the (ten year old) RIFT stuff and the girl that worked there asked me if she could help me find something. I asked her if they carried "that...ummm....dragons and dungeons game?"
When she showed me the books, I said, "Oh, I thought it was a game." I let her explain to me that it was a rule book and I pointed at the Paizo map packs and asked if those were the game boards. When she said, "They can be," I looked skeptical.
My wife says I am going to the underworld.
Get the hell off my lawn!
It's a free world!
My shotgun says differently punk!
My shotgun says differently punk!
Yeah, but your eyesight is probably so bad that you can't hit the broadside of a barn.
I just read all these posts instead of working on my campaign.
It made me feel right for being an older and grognardy anti MMORPG gamer
but in reading it all I got nothing acomplished that an old school dood with a big game to run on Saturday should be doing.
Oh the Irony.
I should have just spent the time playing Nethack.
And Whats worse... Im still gunna follow this thread...
oh and ... So understand
Dont waste your time always
Searching for those wasted years
Face up... make your stand
And realise youre living in the golden years
In our own blood.You were given an instrument? We had to make our own and learn to play it by days end or you were executed.Yeah, but did you have to write your own music?
Just blood? We had to use a combination of blood and spinal fluid.
We hadn't evolved spines yet.
Tell me about it. When I was going to school, we had to walk barefoot across the still-not-cool, molten surface of the earth. Uphill! Both ways!
It's okay. Shania's pretty enough to be dumb.That kind of applies to all pop-country female stars, Taylor not-so-Swift for example.
YO I'MA LET YOU FINISH BUT I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT SHANIA DID DUMB-PRETTY BETTER.
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Okay, very late to this thread, but this is exactly what I have done in book and record stores for years. Frequently I will mispronounce a name for added effect.As a matter of fact, Sunday afternoon I was in a not-so-F FLGS. I was looking at the (ten year old) RIFT stuff and the girl that worked there asked me if she could help me find something. I asked her if they carried "that...ummm....dragons and dungeons game?"
When she showed me the books, I said, "Oh, I thought it was a game." I let her explain to me that it was a rule book and I pointed at the Paizo map packs and asked if those were the game boards. When she said, "They can be," I looked skeptical.
My wife says I am going to the underworld.
You from around the St. Charles MO area? That sounds just so incredibly familiar to me for some reason.
With age comes wisdom, and higher perception modifiers as a result.My shotgun says differently punk!Yeah, but your eyesight is probably so bad that you can't hit the broadside of a barn.
As demonstrated here.