This Summer...


Off-Topic Discussions

251 to 300 of 409 << first < prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | next > last >>

5 people marked this as a favorite.
NobodysHome wrote:
Wei Ji the Learner wrote:
Kjeldorn, glad to hear you're still with us!

Ditto!

Wei Ji the Learner wrote:

On Topic:

This summer I...

...went to my very first concert (They Might Be Giants, at GenCon)...

Awesome!!! Love them!

Istanbul (Not Constantinople) is the most played song on my ITunes.

Both Pea Bear's and Tiny T-Rex's eyes light up when that first horn section starts fading in.

Funny thing is, I discovered them trying to find the theme song for Malcolm In The Middle.


1 person marked this as a favorite.
captain yesterday wrote:
Angry Durgon wrote:

This summer I learnt that Captain yesterday owns the Pharasma alias

I am jealous now. >.>

She was one of my first aliases.

I was surprised no one else had been doing it before me.

Or since.

As for why my deity aliases are always in bold, you can thank The Simpsons for that, with god always speaking in a loud booming voice.

It was one of the first things I thought to do but I knew from lurking that some god aliases already existed including Pharasma xD


4 people marked this as a favorite.

Everyone already knows I'm old.

We had to make the decision as to whether to buy Flood on cassette or CD, because our car only had a cassette player.

Yeah.


3 people marked this as a favorite.

I still remember how excited I was when 'Hurrah For Mafeking' by Queen Victoria's Mahogany Rush came out on wax cylinder.


5 people marked this as a favorite.

Piffle! Modern terflukery, I say!

I recall waiting in line outside Notre Dame for three days back in 1293, just to hear Petrus de Cruce drop some hot polyphony. Now that was music.


3 people marked this as a favorite.

I don't even know what a Wax cylinder is xD


2 people marked this as a favorite.

Maybe he meant waxed cylinder (or as it's commonly referred to in Europe "futball").


5 people marked this as a favorite.
Captain Yesterday's Phallacy wrote:
Maybe he meant waxed cylinder (or as it's commonly referred to in Europe "futball").

Or, as the Native Americans called it, "maize".


1 person marked this as a favorite.

It's amazing what a Stickbot (with app), some play doh, and one episode of Robot Chicken will do for a thirteen year old's creativity.

I highly recommend them.

Both kids love them.


2 people marked this as a favorite.
Chromantic Durgon <3 wrote:
I don't even know what a Wax cylinder is xD

Like one of those new-fangled shellac gramophone discs, except you can carry it around under your top hat, up your nose, or in your muff.


1 person marked this as a favorite.

I can't keep up with all the newfangled technology these younguns are fooling around with these days.

Well back down to the library to me to find out what a "gramophone" is.


3 people marked this as a favorite.
Old Durgon wrote:
Well back down to the library to me to find out what a "gramophone" is.

It's what you use to call your parent's mother. HiYO!


4 people marked this as a favorite.

I learned that when I wear my Pearl Jam Alive Tour shirt, people can't resist telling me how much they love Pearl Jam.

I'm sure my resemblance to Eddie Vedder has nothing to do with it.


3 people marked this as a favorite.
captain yesterday wrote:

I learned that when I wear my Pearl Jam Alive Tour shirt, people can't resist telling me how much they love Pearl Jam.

I'm sure my resemblance to Eddie Vedder has nothing to do with it.

Awww. Do I need to knit you a sweater?


2 people marked this as a favorite.

In case that reference wasn't screamingly obvious...


lisamarlene wrote:
In case that reference wasn't screamingly obvious...

Er...

Quote:
404 Not Found

Sorry!


1 person marked this as a favorite.

A friend of mine introduced that song to me after I started dating his ex girlfriend. :-)

I've also been compared to Brad Pitt in Legends of the Fall, Jesus Christ (Superstar), Chris Cornell, Antonio Banderas, Weird Al, and Norwood Fisher (from Fishbone).

I also get "Do you know Ted, you like someone I know!" or variations thereof all the time.


2 people marked this as a favorite.

Oooh, speaking of bad driving, NobodysWife got the whole gamut yesterday:

  • At the Bay Bridge toll plaza, two cars had the classic "bumper bump", so they of course had to stop RIGHT THERE and have it out. It has become such an epidemic of stupidity that every 200 yards along the entire 20-mile corridor is a sign that says, "No one injured? Pull to the side!"
    But nah, blocking a lane of the Bay Bridge during rush hour is just what some people DO
  • On the way to Pacifica, a police officer had pulled someone over IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. Didn't matter. Everyone had to slow down from the 65 speed limit to 35-40 to gape in awe at this miraculous occurrence
  • On the way home from Pacifica, a car stalled out. Instead of anyone bothering to offer to help them push their car out of the road, everyone minded their own business, reducing the traffic to a single lane until an officer could show up.

  • So I'll excuse the third one -- not everyone wants to get involved, and not everyone is in the physical shape to push a car out of the road. But the first two? NobodysWife and I agree they all deserve $1000 fines and public spankings.


    6 people marked this as a favorite.

    You'd think we here in Arkansas don't have traffic jams, but we do. The 1-40 corridor going into Little Rock (capitol city, for those who don't know, as well as the largest) in the mornings can take over an hour for what would normally be a 20 minute trip. One morning when I was still able to work I was stuck in traffic 2 hours while people got out, gawked, talked, photographed, and pontificated over the carcass of an immense feral hog that had been hit and killed on the road.

    For all the excitement I was hoping it was the Razorback mascot. Sadly, it was not.


    4 people marked this as a favorite.
    DungeonmasterCal wrote:
    For all the excitement I was hoping it was the Razorback mascot. Sadly, it was not.

    *debeverages*


    3 people marked this as a favorite.

    Someone going to mop up that puddle of beverage Quibble left...at least a wet floor sign.


    5 people marked this as a favorite.

    Today is my 50th Birthday. I'm not asking for anything, as I've already got the best friends I could ever find. But if anyone wants to buy me a cheap PDF as a gift, I won't say no.


    2 people marked this as a favorite.

    Happy Birthday, John!


    2 people marked this as a favorite.

    I shall waken myself enough to join the chorus.

    Happy birthday John.


    1 person marked this as a favorite.

    Thanks, Syrus.

    Thanks, Kjel.


    1 person marked this as a favorite.

    Happy birthday, John! Hope you had/are having a goodun :)


    1 person marked this as a favorite.

    Thanks, Limey. Doing my best to have a good day.


    1 person marked this as a favorite.

    To clarify limey = English?


    Tremendously.


    1 person marked this as a favorite.

    And why might I ask is that? XD


    1 person marked this as a favorite.
    Chromantic Durgon <3 wrote:
    To clarify limey = English?

    I believe so, but I use it as an abbreviation of his Avatar name, just like I use Kjel for Kjeldorn.


    1 person marked this as a favorite.

    I'm sure :)

    I'm not worried about any previously offensive implications whether or not they do or don't exist. I'm simply curious as to their origins.

    I am in no way judging you.


    1 person marked this as a favorite.

    Thanks, CD. There are days where my fingers hurt from arthritis, and I want to keep the typing to a minimum.


    1 person marked this as a favorite.

    You're quite welcome for whatever it is I did.

    I hope your pain decreases.


    1 person marked this as a favorite.

    It is what it is. The days when a severe storm comes through Pittsburgh are when they hurt the worst.


    1 person marked this as a favorite.

    That's very literary
    I quite enjoy the feeling severe weather in ones bones trope.


    1 person marked this as a favorite.

    I tend to get stabbing pain in all my knuckles when a low pressure system comes through.


    Chromantic Durgon <3 wrote:

    And why might I ask is that? XD

    0) his name

    1) references
    2) pies
    3) history
    4) sabers
    -<and so on>-
    9,999,999,998) his name
    9,999,999,999) he's from England Britain (and I think England, but am not sure enough, hence the clarification


    1 person marked this as a favorite.

    I'd like to amend my statement (I'm very drunk)

    I quite enjoy the trope of feeling the weather in ones bones. I've never actually felt the weather.

    The trope is what interests me. The old and wise becoming more connected with the natural world is interesting as the other idea that's dominante is that the old become less.


    1 person marked this as a favorite.

    The fact that every word has a u after the o except when befoure an e.


    1 person marked this as a favorite.

    A rare alias has been sighted and I want it, I want it to be mine, all mines.


    3 people marked this as a favorite.
    Chromantic Durgon <3 wrote:

    I'd like to amend my statement (I'm very drunk)

    I quite enjoy the trope of feeling the weather in ones bones. I've never actually felt the weather.

    The trope is what interests me. The old and wise becoming more connected with the natural world is interesting as the other idea that's dominante is that the old become less.

    You simply must travel to the midwest then.

    Not only can you feel the weather in your bones, you're also never far from a nice warm cow to keep oneself warm on those long winter nights.


    1 person marked this as a favorite.

    I read Fanny Trollope's guide to traveling the US but I feel I could be better informed.


    4 people marked this as a favorite.

    Happy Birthday John!

    Yesterday i celebrated my 1 year-versary of, 'I'm not dead!'. (had a stroke last year on the 1st.)


    1 person marked this as a favorite.

    Thank you, Rath. And I'm glad you're feeling better.


    1 person marked this as a favorite.

    We also have booze and cheese curds, so much booze and cheese curds.

    And all you can eat beer battered fish fries, guaranteed every Friday night.

    Also booze and cheese curds.


    1 person marked this as a favorite.

    I would like to move in and not move out
    I'm glad that's an arrangement we have made.
    A binding arrangement.


    1 person marked this as a favorite.

    Wisconsin, where Cap lives, is the defacto cheese capitol of the United States. They also brew a lot of beer there. And catch a lot of fish in the North end of the state, which is up against Lake Superior.


    Rathendar wrote:

    Happy Birthday John!

    Yesterday i celebrated my 1 year-versary of, 'I'm not dead!'. (had a stroke last year on the 1st.)

    I'm glad you're okay!


    1 person marked this as a favorite.
    Lime In The Coconut wrote:
    The fact that every word has a u after the o except when befoure an e.

    I would like to make it absolutely clear that I have never been in a coconut.

    I do have a coconut - someone gave it to me for Christmas a couple of years ago and I have been working out what to do with it - but, svelte as I am, it's still much too small for me.

    And I am from England. More precisely, that bit, over there.

    251 to 300 of 409 << first < prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | next > last >>
    Community / Forums / Gamer Life / Off-Topic Discussions / This Summer... All Messageboards

    Want to post a reply? Sign in.