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Topic: Impressions
Posted By: dude
Subject: Impressions
Date Posted: April 02 2004 at 08:50
Following on from a similar thread, What do you think of this forum overall in terms of information, conduct ,manners, humour, freindliness etc...please indulge me i am curious,i have been to forums that are worse than this in terms of conduct!!
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: April 02 2004 at 09:03
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I am a member of several forums for various different fields of interest.
Too many times, the forums are taken over by strong personalities, who do not know the difference between holding a strong opinion, and being self opinionated. Happily, this forum appears to be the exception which proves the rule (if that's not a contradiction in terms). Most of the contributors to this site seem to be intelligent people, open to new ideas, opinions etc, and all seem to have that most essential of qualities in reasoned and intelligent debate, a sense of humour. The moderators of the site are even handed, and obviously know their subject matter, the reviewers (whilst I may not always agree with individual reviews) are articulate, and again, know their prog rock. In the time this forum has been going, I have learned much about several bands I previously knew only by name, and would like to think have shared information with other members, expanding their prog knowledge. All in all, I think Max & the gang should be proud of their achievement with this site - long may it continue and expand.  ------------- 
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Posted By: dude
Date Posted: April 02 2004 at 09:11
While i understand it is still early days yet this forum is,in my opinion, developing a unique personality that makes it different to others of a similar vein that is why i enjoy coming here and that is why i asked the question.....and i beleive ,judging by other prog sites,that this could be the PREMIER prog site on the net....TAKE A BOW MAX AND CO...
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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: April 02 2004 at 10:25
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Thankfully, this forum is humorous and not overly interested in the technical aspects of musicianship. At other forums, things get bogged down when arguments occur. We here share a bit of wit, but don't take offense at criticism. Cheers to Max and crew........
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Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: April 02 2004 at 14:46
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I only saw a few other fora, but this one is the best (by far)! There's humour, intelligent people I love all of you! |
. And nobody is rude. I discovered a lot of new and old bands with your help. Thanks to Max and of course to ALL OF YOU. Posted By: StarshipTrooper
Date Posted: April 02 2004 at 15:02
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I have already sung the praises of this forum. I really like this one and the members are knowledgible (unlike me, just check that spelling) and helpful. I hope it continues in this way as i also have been on forums where you have those strong personalities that don't believe in debate...Because they are always right, and everyone else is wrong. The only thing I am struggleing with is that i am relatively new to the prog genre so my knowledge is limited. I would like to get to know about lots of prog bands but especially British ones, as I would like to see some of these bands in concert and I doubt whether many of the American bands will make the trip across the pond to England. ------------- 
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Posted By: Verisimilitude
Date Posted: April 03 2004 at 02:18
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The site really helped me to gather information on a few bands when I needed it... Since then, the forum started up and has given people the opportunity to share their knowledge, experience and passion for progressive music... And as far as I'm concerned that's a great opportunity that Max has given... On a side note, as soon as I get a new computer and will have more than fleeting minutes to check email, visit this site and do all the other administrative things, then I'll be back with more reviews... I apologise to my league of fans who await such a time... |
Posted By: will
Date Posted: April 03 2004 at 10:01
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This forum is by far the best forum that I have ever been a member of. The laid-back atmosphere of the forum makes it a pleasure to visit. Alot of thought and effort has gone into the reviews on the site and they have helped me to discover new bands and increased my Prog knowledge. I hope the forum will continue to grow without losing its laid back atmosphere.
------------- Long live progression. Will |
Posted By: Glass-Prison
Date Posted: April 03 2004 at 18:34
| first of all, kudos to max, and all the moderators. second, kudos to everyone who participates for being intelligent, opinionated(but not closed to dissent), witty and humorous. The personalities are what make a forum great, and all the great info on prog can't hurt |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: April 04 2004 at 12:22
| I think this forum is becoming too overated. Juuuuuuuust kidding. I like it for the reviews. I like to hear what other people think of this kind of music. The only other person I know who is into this stuff lives in Hungary! I know my dogs like it but they are not capable of speech so my prog rock discussions with them are rather one-sided. I'm working on the kid who lives next door but he favours stuff in the Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Ministry vein. |
Posted By: dude
Date Posted: April 04 2004 at 22:49
perhaps he is thinking of forming his own band and calling it " The Ministry for nine inch Tools"....................sorry about the joke 
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 01:03
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Ha! good one as usual, Dewd! Many modern band names (Barenaked Ladies, Finger 11, Swollen Members, Nine Inch Tools, etc.) leave little or nothing to the imagination! But in the 70s, bands really knew how to not be too "up front" about their sick obsessions or predelictions. Consider, for example, Three Dog Night. Now what, exactly, would that be? Yowwwwl!
"Dirty deeds, done with sheep.... electric fences! High voltage!" And is anyone else familiar with Guadalcanal Diary's immortal sensitive love ballad, "Cattle Prod?" "There's a certain kind of lovin' that my wife don't know -- rump so tender it just falls off the bone.... Got a cattle prod!" One for the download list -- pure prog majesty! (Whoops! My conduct is slipping -- again!) ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
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Posted By: dude
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 01:49
we have a band here in Australia called the "Chocolate Starfish" its a slang term for....................well it rhymes with "glass"
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 02:00
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Thanks for that. Remind me not to ask for any of those on my sundae if I'm ever ordering dessert in your quaint, sun-blasted little upside down continent! (Incontinent?) ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: dude
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 04:09
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SO NOW YOU KNOW!!!.......never ask for a chocolate starfish in Australia,that way you wont get a......er...Bum..Steer?!!(oh GAWD did i actually say that!!!)
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Posted By: Stormcrow
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 05:03
Peter, Peter, Peter. A Canadian personage who thinks a "Three Dog Night" has a *AHEM* CARNAL connotation, yet refers to himself as PETER What DO you do with those Cuban cigars????? |
Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 06:34
Too late! My mind has been perverted! AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHHHHHHHH
I'll tell my parents YOU did it! BE CURSED, PETER! |
Posted By: dude
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 08:09
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cool!! we broke his brain....actually no, i had nothing to do with it...lets ALL blame PETER!!! NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY MAN
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Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 09:54
Is there a possibility to BAN a member here? 
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 11:56
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Maybe not a ban, but certainly a damned good flogging - it's what we did to his type in my day!! Filthy Pervert! You disgust me, Rideout, you hear me?
And you're no better, so called Dude, and Stormcrow - my God! you've corrupted a poor innocent like Joren, and jest about it!! - What kind of men are you for God's sake?? My slavering indignation knows no bounds - I pray for your filthy, heinous, slime covered souls that even Satan himself would reject for being "a bit on the dodgy side" - Heaven will not have you, Hell will not have you, tht just leaves.......... WALES!! Just remember, you tainted ones, as far as I'm concerned (and I'm sure this goes for all my English compadres on this forum) no-one can call himself a man unless he can take a hot muffin between the buttocks without blubbing - did us no harm at Eton, what, what!! Hah!! -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 12:38
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Suddenly my remarks I made regarding the effects of a well fingered Hammond organ, pale in comparison. Maani, what have they done to your site? Vagabonds, one and all. This site is no longer safe for women and children. |
" hot steamy lunches and "nine inch tools." Peter, oh saint Peter, three..... in one NIGHT!!!! One can only wonder what you do with those cigars. 
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 16:43
It's not even safe from women and children! ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 18:43
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When will the vile depravitiy stop?
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Posted By: Stormcrow
Date Posted: April 05 2004 at 19:55
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Ah, Whales... they're so big and.... slick and.... flippery? And golly gee, if I've done anything to corrupt Joren, I didn't mean muffin by it. As to a proper, damned good flogging, I don't think whales in general deserve that. Seals either, for that matter. In fact when taking pinnipeds and marine mammals in general into consideration, only dolphins deserve such a fate. Speaking to the concept of Muffin Men, Master Garten, that's just so totally chenille. Unless you've indeed already stolen the margarine. Of course abusing the sausage patties reveals, not to mention exposes, all the lovely fried pork fat which can be used as a comforting balm for not only boundless slavering, but also weasel ripped flesh. By the by, Sir Garten, do they still wear those cute little jackets there at Eton? |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: April 06 2004 at 03:13
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Those "cute little jackets" are our solitary armour of moral fortitude, the straw hats, our helmets of righteousness........ the striding masters in their long cloaks are the guardians of our souls......... the obsequious porters, there to guard against invasions of the vast unwashed chattering classes, hell bent on corrupting our pure whiter than white, and above all BLUE BLOODED British souls.
And the school mascot (Ronald the goat) - there for a damned good rogering after tea! Huzzah for England! This green and pleasant land full of stout yeomen such as myself, charged by God to uphold moral standards in a world gone mad, armed only with a copy of the Times, the stiffest of upper lips, and a small bulldog named Gerald! Ahem..... Eeerr... sorry..... What was this thread originally about, again? -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Stormcrow
Date Posted: April 06 2004 at 07:26
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Dragging Joren, kicking and screaming, into a never-ending purgatory of slightly icky moral corruption (not to mention turpitude) - so that he wakes every morning vaguely hungoverish with an uncomfortable blurry notion that somewhere in a remote past or unseen future, somehow that weasels have or will ripped/rip his flesh. |
Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: April 06 2004 at 07:33
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Weasels Ripped My Flesh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love that album! But I think this forum should have a warning sign: ADULTS ONLY You guys are driving me crazy! |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: April 06 2004 at 08:04
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Aha!!
Crazy and corrupted....... We only need corpulent, crapulous & Canadian & we'll have turned you into Peter Rideout
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: dude
Date Posted: April 06 2004 at 09:24
| POOR JOREN..pure of heart and full of youthful enthusiasm,has wandered into this abode of the damned and been forever corrupted STOP!..............."BUT I WANT TO SEE IT" STOP IT!..NOT YET(sorry its my new girlfreind!)....LEAVE IT ALONE...."BUT I HEARD ITS SO BIG!!".......NOT YET IM TALKING TO THESE PEOPLE..LOOK, LEAVE THAT ZIPPER ALONE...."BUT I REALLY WANT TO SEE IT!......OH ALL RIGHT LET ME GET IT OUT FOR YOU.....ZZZZZIIIIIIIIPPP!!.....PLOP!!....."OOOOH ITS DROPPED ALL THE WAY TO THE GROUND!! I AM IMPRESSED!"....YEAH I KNOW,HERE LET ME PUT IT ON THE TABLE FOR YOU.............PLONK!! WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ONE LIKE THAT BEFORE!!?...."OOOH THATS THE BIGGEST CRICKET BAT I HAVE EVER SEEN...............................COUGH!! |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: April 06 2004 at 09:42
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But I thought you used Wom-bats out there
Yes, that noble and ancient game of Wom, where an innocent young Netherlander is beaten around the Wom-Pitch by crazed Australians, until forced to cry "PING" at the top of his voice, whereupon the next (English) team attempt to do the same with a somewhat less innocent Canadian, lasting approximately 5 minutes, before succumbing to the usual middle order Wom-batting collapse, retire to the bar & proceed to drink huge amounts of Kangaroo urine, under the mis-apprehension that the Australian brewing industry has suddenly discovered a better recipe..... -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Radioactive Toy
Date Posted: April 06 2004 at 09:44
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"OOOH THATS THE BIGGEST CRICKET BAT I HAVE EVER SEEN" Ive just read 1 line of your post (yeah the last one) and I ehm..well.. ergh..so.. -------------  
Reed's failed joke counter: ||||| R.I.P. You could have reached infinity.... |
Posted By: Stormcrow
Date Posted: April 06 2004 at 12:05
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I for one have never felt the need to use a cricket bat. They're just not that big. I find a fly swatter is more than enough for cricket control. Especially as I have the strength of ten. Incidently, they (fly swatters) are quite efficacious in the control of the occasional odd house fly, in case you were not aware. For the occasional even house fly, I suggest a right handed fly swatter only. Now Malasian cockroaches! Those icky rotters need to be beaten about the head and shoulders with a bat. But a womb bat? No I'm sorry, I just don't see the need for that. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: April 06 2004 at 13:49
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Crapulous? Well, prog makes me lose control of certain basic bodily functions.... Garten, thou great git, I swear by Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria and E=MC2 that I will be avenged! Smithers, re-grease the hounds! ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Corpulent? I'll have you know, you English toffee-nosed, malodorous, greasy-haired, low-browed, pie-eyed, cloth-eared, bone-headed, pea-brained, tea-stained, foul-mouthed, green-tongued, snaggle-toothed (no floride in the water, kids), stoop-shouldered, slope-backed, bandy-legged, knock-kneed, stink-footed, pigeon-toed, cotton-picking, corn-shucking, chicken plucking, egg sucking, scabrous, scrofulous, syphlitic, pustulent, flea-bitten, boozy, in-bred, tweed-wearing, Thatcher-voting, lager-louting, footie-rioting, sweets-addicted, twiggy ale-guzzling, sarnie-eating, wrong side of the road-driving, aristocrat ar*e-kissing, leg-humping, lawn-befouling, alley-slashing, one-off-the-wrist-taking, mincing, prancing and nouveau disco-dancing (dancing? Ha!) fool, (deep breath)... that far from being corpulent, I am tall (6'3'') and slim (210lbs), with a physiognomy akin to a suppurating pimple on Brad Pitt's posterior!
Is there any shame in that? Nay! Neigh I say!Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 03:05
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Sticks and stones, dear boy, sticks and stones - did I perhaps touch a nerve with the word:
CORPULENT? Hmmmmmm?? -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: dude
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 04:17
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!!!!, IN THIS CORNER WE HAVE PETER(IM SORRY FOR BEING SO CORPULENT WOULD YOU PLEASE PASS ME THE ROAST CHICKEN)RIDEOUT......and in the opposite corner is JIM(is it time for my fortnightly bath?...WE English like to keep clean you know!!)GARTEN...in a match scheduled for 8 rounds........in the event of a tie the winner will be determined by a game of "rock scissors, paper" your referee will be DUDE(THE DINGO STOLE MY NINE INCH CIGAR)INSERT LAST NAME HERE |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 09:29
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Poo head! -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 09:37
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Hey, hey, settle down, OLDTIMERS!
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 09:56
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This don't concern you, youngster - this is man's stuff!! -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: dude
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 10:03
| AND NOW, A WORD FROM OUR SPONSER....... |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 11:17
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No one could possibly survive a beating like that -- I mean, I pummelled him from (bone) head to (pigeon) foot! Could you start the count now? ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Uh, ref, I think he's already beaten. Look at how flaccid his responses are.Posted By: dude
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 11:46
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no, i think the MANS STUFF bit means theres life in the old boy yet!!!! |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 11:53
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Right - time to bring out the big guns......
fatty fatty fatty fatty fatty fatty fatty fatty fatty, ner ner ner ner ner!!!!!!!! Yah Boo Shucks, you moose buggering, mountie mounting ("we always get our man" - yeah right!!), King Charles Spaniel fellating, er, er, er, Bum-Headed, ummmmmm, CORPULENT Crapulous, Colonial, erm, um, I'm sure there's another insult beginning with C but I can't think of it just now Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrr...... BUGGER OK, OK, Round one to you, Peter........ This is only the first battle, but for you, ze var will soon be over!! I have no time for this just now, I'm just re-heating last year's bathwater for my annual wallow (you see, us Englishmen have a bath every year, whether we need it or not!!) Hah! Result - I can wear my underpants for a 3rd year running (the rule being, if you hit them with a stick & they don't hit back, they're clean - and when they're dirty, you just turn them inside out & voila, a new pair!!). Right, now if you'll excuse me, I'll just break the crust on the bathwater and relax.... ........Mmmmmmmmmm - slimy!!!!!!!! -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 12:12
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I bet you also use your handkerchiefs till they BREAK?
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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 12:41
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That quote comes from the mouth of a TEENAGER, he'd know |
Posted By: M@X
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 12:56
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THANK YOU ALL
Our main mission is to create a dynamic community of prog maniac and I can say we already HAVE a GREAT and INTELLIGENT community. You guys RULES
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Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 13:09
We would love to have an INTELLIGENT community, but Jim, Peter and dude spoil it with their dirty language
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Posted By: M@X
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 14:14
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... indeed ------------- Prog On ! |
Posted By: Stormcrow
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 18:07
I haven't spoiled it yet? Damn. Hmmmm Must. Learn. Some. Curse. Words. Shucks. Poopy. Rat Fink.... Hmmmmm A work in progress, I fear. |
Posted By: Glass-Prison
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 20:56
| We're all insane to some extent. some more than others, that should be evident. I like cheese. Do you like cheese? |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: April 08 2004 at 03:02
What's a hankerchief?? Doesn't everyone use the curtains, then?? -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: dude
Date Posted: April 08 2004 at 05:58
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WHATS A HANDKERCHEIF?
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Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: April 08 2004 at 11:24
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Yeah, I'm a freak too, and I LOVE cheese! |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: April 09 2004 at 00:33
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Stormcrow wrote: "Ah, Whales... they're so big and.... slick and.... flippery? Ha! Good one! And golly gee, if I've done anything to corrupt Joren, I didn't mean muffin by it. Ha, I say! As to a proper, damned good flogging, I don't think whales in general deserve that. Seals either, for that matter. In fact when taking pinnipeds and marine mammals in general into consideration, only dolphins deserve such a fate."
We'll use their oil to power big, post apocalyptic, Mad-Maxian dirt bikes! ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Stormcrow
Date Posted: April 09 2004 at 15:35
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Peter. Peter. Peter. SAVE the whales!....
And trade them for valuable prizes! |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: April 09 2004 at 15:41
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(Edit: Whoops, didn't see the last line of your post, at first, Storm. Please, don't put your "punchline" too far down -- too easy to miss!) ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: May 11 2004 at 01:57
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Speaking of almost free rein, remember this offensive (well, I tried to offend Jim) thread? ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: May 11 2004 at 03:14
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I've been saving whales for many years - the problem is, my garage is now full, and the environmental health authority are complaining; must find a way of disposing of approximately 37 tonnes of rotting whale blubber - even MacDonalds say they have enough of my 'chef's special sauce' to be going on with.
There is nothing for it - I'll just have to pack them all into my private Hercules transport plane (why I ever bought an aircraft specifically for transporting a mythical Greek character, I'll never know), fly it all across the Pond, and (you know what's coming, don't you, Peter?) arrange a little aerial redecoration of my favorite 6'3", 210lb English Professor's domicile.... Little hint, Peter - close your windows this Saturday! By the way - never fear, Dude, there will be plenty of fuel left for me to get to that little patch of floating desert you call home & dispose of the entrails...... DON'T look up on Sunday morning, that's all I'm saying. -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |