Logfile from ifmud. ************************************************************************ ** ** ** Welcome to ifMUD! ** ** ** ************************************************************************ FAQ: http://www.allthingsjacq.com/ifMUDfaq/ IP: 66.114.68.227 MONKEY: Ook. If you... have an account Type "connect name password" to log in need an account Go to http://ifmud.port4000.com:4001/ and apply are just visiting Type "connect guest guest" to login as Guest want to see who's on Type "who" for a list of players online have problems Email markm - mark.musante@gmail.com TYPE connect, who, or quit: Login Succeeded ifMUD An interactive real time social network chat bulletin board quotebook url database with a parrot bot Copyright 1997-2007 by Loungent Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of rec.[arts|games].int-fiction; All rights reserved. Release 4 / Serial number 990908 / perlMUD v2.1z "The characters were mostly of the cardboard cutout variety. I wanted to punch everyone except the one Scottish guy." --Jearl NOTE: Whenever a fix or enhancement is in place, it will be announced on the channel '#mud-updates'. OTHER NOTE: There is a mailing list where people can say things like "hey, the mud's down, what's up with that?" In fact, since this is the only thing the list is used for, you should join it if you are interested in this subject. To join, go to http://groups.google.com/group/ifmud/ or talk to Steve. Robinson Manor A gracious, welcoming, airy space. Music drifts in from unseen speakers. A picture window on the southern wall provides a pleasant source of light and a sense of openness. You can see: teleporter, a picture window, comfy sofa, Jeopardy podium, buzzer1, buzzer2, buzzer3, Jota greets Rob Visible Exits: west, east "I was picturing it as a tv show in my head while hearing it all go on" No new channels have been created since your last check. Adventurer's Lounge Candles on the wood-panelled walls create a comfortably dark atmosphere. Hand-drawn maps are taped to nearly every surface -- the walls, the ceiling, the trophy case in the corner. Seating is plentiful. A small storage closet is to the north. You can see: new laundry list, Birthday Calendar, magic laundry list, banner reading "Happy birthday Jaybird, vimes and Whizzard!", Even Newer World Map, charset sampler, Automeeter, TheMasterTheorem player names, time zones, MUD Client Wish List Players: Alex, markm, Bishop, Doug, GDorn, Touchy, DorianX, Jearl, Psmith, lpsmith, annabianca, Whizzard, Allen, Ryan, Dave, Grocible, baf, McMartin, vaporware, Matthew, DavidW, vimes, maga, Johnny, jpt, Jon, Fang, Storme, Marktwo, genericgeekgirl, zarf, Gunther, K-Y, marc, Richie, two-star, Roger, josh_g, Jota, inky, Recchi, Ellison Visible Exits: north, west, southwest, southeast, up, east Rob comes right on in. Recapping 332 of 2485 lines from recent channels: [lounge]/10:53 Rob comes right on in. [lounge]|10:53 Rob says, "bizet" [lounge]|10:54 Rob says, "well, so far so good" [lounge]|10:54 Gunther has a complicated history with pants. [lounge]|10:54 Gunther says, "re" [lounge]|10:54 Rob says, "doctor takes a look at ear, says, 'that looks like it's doing fine! if it goes weird, call me!' then I pay ninety dollars" [lounge]|10:55 Rob says, "I guess what I was paying for was professional reassurance" [lounge]|10:55 Richie says, "CRB" [lounge]|10:55 zarf says, "And risk reduction" [lounge]|10:55 Richie ambles off. [lounge]|10:55 Rob says, "hm yes that too" [lounge]|10:55 Rob says, "also having someone to call in case weirdness happens" [lounge]|10:56 Rob says, "obviating the need for the 'uh oh weirdness! bad weirdness! what do I do? who can I call? ahhh' scene" [lounge]|10:56 Rob says, "the backstory is that my ear swelled up like a water balloon had inflated" [lounge]|10:56 Tale's first civilian job after World War I was at the Oxford English Dictionary, where he worked mainly on the history and etymology of words of Germanic origin beginning with the letter W. [lounge]|10:56 Rob says, "went to ER, got it poked, it swelled up again" [lounge]|10:57 Rob says, "back to ER, different doctor is more engaged with it as a treatment to properly be figured out, including follow-through with a specialist she knows" [lounge]|10:57 Rob says, "the main thing they're trying to head off being cauliflower ear" [lounge]|10:58 Rob says, "so now after all that, we come back to where we started, where specialist says 'looks good! bye'" [lounge]|10:58 Storme says, "man" [lounge]|10:58 Storme asks, "and they don't know why?" [lounge]|10:58 Rob says, "nobody knows why" [lounge]|10:59 Rob says, "I was suffering the symptoms of having taken a blunt trauma to the ear, bursting a blood vessel in my outer ear" [lounge]|10:59 Rob says, "but I kept shrugging and saying, 'I have had no such blunt trauma occur'" [lounge]|10:59 K-Y's apocalyptic flotsam included the emergence of figures of such dazzling dementia as to momentarily mesmerize even thinking people. [lounge]|10:59 Tale says, "I told you to go easy on the hardcore roleplaying" [lounge]|10:59 Storme asks, "any chance that happened and the blow also knocked out the memory of getting hit?" [lounge]|10:59 Rob says, "heh it's possible" [lounge]|11:00 zarf says, "Ceta Alpha eel larva" [lounge]|11:00 Gunther asks, "isn't blunt trauma when you smoke dope that's been laced with something bad?" [lounge]|11:00 Rob says (to zarf), "aiieee" [lounge]|11:00 Dave says, "morning" [lounge]|11:00 Rob says (to Gunther), "that too" [lounge]|11:00 Rob says, "g'Dave" [lounge]|11:01 K-Y says, "wow, ear" [lounge]|11:01 Rob says, "the interesting thing is that everyone I've met in these three hospital/clinic visits has been awesome and friendly and professional" [lounge]|11:02 Rob says, "I posted a picture of me with my ear bandaged up on facebook yesterday and caused a small stir" [lounge]|11:02 K-Y says, "now, there's always the possibility of spontaneous psychic powers" [lounge]|11:03 Rob says, "yesterday I was waiting in an ER curtain-cubicle on a bed for about an hour and a half (I was the lowest-priority case during a busy tuesday morning)" [lounge]|11:03 Rob says, "but I could hear all the conversations between the staff and patients, and the staff amongst themselves, as they tackled case after case" [lounge]|11:03 Rob says, "it was like a radio version of Scrubs" [lounge]|11:04 Rob says, "there was a cantankerous 82 year old woman who couldn't remember whether or not she'd ever had a tenanus shot, which would require them giving her a second type of serum in addition to the tetanus shot, which they had to figure out and research and see if they had around" [lounge]|11:04 Rob says, "but the lady was cranky about waiting so long" [workplace]|11:04 Allen says, "the yahoo home page takeover for Pepsi is live today" [workplace]|11:04 Allen says, "it's obnoxious! Go to yahoo.com. It fills your screen with pepsi (for a moment)" [workplace]|11:05 Gunther says, "nope, it doesn't" [workplace]|11:05 K-Y says, "I can do that all by myself with mud jokes" [lounge]|11:05 Rob says, "and some nurse got snarky with her at one point and said, 'we're doing the best we can, we're all very busy -- do you see anyone sitting around?'" [workplace]|11:05 Gunther says, "ad block, you're the best" [lounge]|11:05 Gunther says, "YES! MYSELF!" [lounge]|11:05 Lionheart can see a dream in your dance. Lionheart can see tomorrow in your dance. We can call it, "our hope"! [workplace]|11:05 Allen says, "curse you for taking away our ad revenue" [lounge]|11:05 Rob says, "I was picturing it as a tv show in my head while hearing it all go on" [workplace]|11:05 K-Y says, "and in that case at least it's funny" [lounge]|11:05 Rob says, "and wondering how House would diagnose my mysterious ear problem" [money]|11:05 Allen says, "man, how sucky:" [money]|11:05 Allen | An Arkansas woman who cashed a $1 million lottery ticket may have to give up the winnings to a woman who threw away the ticket after she bought it, according to a judge's ruling Tuesday. [workplace]|11:05 Gunther says (to Allen), "don't worry, I don't go to Yahoo or Pepsi" [money]|11:06 Gunther says, "that's shitty" [money]|11:06 Fang says, "er, huh" [writing]|11:06 Rob says, "I finally got paid a royalty check for writing something" [lounge]|11:06 K-Y says, "well, first it would turn into horrible crippling symptoms" [writing]|11:06 Rob says, "an article about IF, no less" [money]|11:06 Fang says, "that seems to be an unreasonable judgement" [lounge]|11:07 Gunther says, "they'd put you in an MRI, at which point your stomach would explode through your eardrums" [writing]|11:07 Rob says, "I've actually earned a ledgerable amount of money from my IF career" [writing]|11:07 Rob says, "not enough to live on, but higher than nonexistent" [writing]|11:07 Gunther says, "hooray" [lounge]|11:07 Tale says, "You would be diagnosed with something harmless by Wilson, and House would go hmm, next day you're back in and in a coma" [writing]|11:07 Rob says, "more than from comics or drawing" [writing]|11:07 Rob says, "less than from movies" [money]|11:07 Allen | Simpson noted that Duncan testified she threw away the ticket after the read-out on a ticket scanner said, "Sorry. Not a winner." [writing]|11:07 Rob says, "I used to know in my head what the total IF earnings were but I don't any more" [money]|11:07 Allen says, "that sounds like a reason to sue the state for their crappy scanners..." [money]|11:07 Allen says, "or the store" [money]|11:08 Gunther says, "oh, don't worry, the person giving up the money now will do that" [writing]|11:08 Rob says, "of course, the friendships are priceless" [music]|11:08 Gunther says, "40 years after everyone else I am getting into Pink Floyd" [writing]|11:09 Rob says, "made more friends from IF than from other creative careers, too" [music]|11:09 Rob says, "hooray" [music]|11:09 Rob says, "what's your path of getting into it" [music]|11:09 Gunther says, "YouTube" [music]|11:09 Rob says, "I'm a fan of only a small slice of it" [music]|11:09 Rob says, "I have two albums, Dark Side of the Moon, and Piper at the Gates of Dawn" [music]|11:09 Gunther says, "and the sheer drug-induced anarchic insanity" [music]|11:09 Allen asks, "you like Piper at the Gtaes of Dawn?" [music]|11:10 Rob says, "I remember ddyte once complimenting my taste, and he was a big floyd fan" [music]|11:10 Rob says, "I said I have it, I didn't say what I thought of it" [dreams]|11:10 Dave says, "I love these dreams" [music]|11:10 Allen says, "is that the one with the little ditty "I've got a mouse and he doesn't have a house I don't know why I call him gerald"" [dreams]|11:10 Dave says, "it's the dream where you're writing a story" [music]|11:10 Rob says, "it's not really that listenable, but it's very interesting" [music]|11:10 Rob says, "and offered the occasional track pick for a mix tape" [music]|11:10 Rob says (to Allen), "yes!" [music]|11:10 Allen says, "30 years after I got into pink floyd and owned everything (on cassette or LP), the only thing I find listenable to today is Dark Side" [dreams]|11:11 Dave says, "and the first word holds all the granduer and emotions of the entire story and everyone is amazed at how I thought of that word to start my story" [music]|11:11 Rob says, "I've occasionally heard tracks from it like Interstellar Overdrive playing in coffeehouses and such and thought, 'yay, I know what this is, that's how hip I am'" [tangent]|11:11 Tale says, "I will soon be making money from IF! 50 Euro and a t-shirt" [music]|11:11 Rob says, "I still haven't done the wizard of oz thing with it" [music]|11:11 Allen says, "occasionally I give something a short listen. I got a hankering for Animals a few months ago" [music]|11:11 Rob says, "maybe I should try that someday" [music]|11:11 Tale says (to rob), "That would interest me, too" [music]|11:11 Rob says, "I also have one Roger Waters solo album, from the early 90s" [music]|11:11 Allen says, "oh, and Echoes, from Meddle" [music]|11:11 Rob says, "reminds me of my grad school years" [music]|11:12 Allen says, "I don't have that one. I have one of his 80s albums" [music]|11:12 Rob says, "since that's when I got it" [music]|11:12 Allen says, "two of them" [music]|11:12 Rob says, "it's called Amused to Death" [music]|11:12 Allen says, "the one after the falkland war..." [music]|11:12 Ryan says, "I have two Gilmour solo albums." [music]|11:12 K-Y says, "I think I could just get the compilation from 2001 and be set" [music]|11:12 Allen says, "the only memorable ttrack on that one is Two Suns in the Sunset." [music]|11:12 Rob says, "I put a track from it on the mix CD I made for a Steve-sponsored ifMUD mix CD swap fest" [music]|11:12 Allen says, "and I had Radio Kaos, but hated it and gave it away" [music]|11:12 Gunther says, "the live Floyd stuff I've heard is basically Throbbing Gristle with people who know their instruments" [music]|11:12 Rob says, "the only Gilmour I have is when he plays on the occasional Paul McCartney track" [music]|11:13 Rob says, "he does some pretty good stuff for mccartney though. the styles mix" [music]|11:13 K-Y says, "Two Suns is Pink Floyd" [music]|11:13 K-Y says, "although it's hard to tell" [music]|11:13 Allen says (to K-Y), "oh, that's right" [music]|11:13 Allen says, "yeah, I forgot. That album is *so* Roger Waters" [music]|11:13 Rob says, "there was just a fancy remastered package set of pink floyd's the wall" [music]|11:13 Rob says, "that I saw a review of in my local weekly" [music]|11:14 Gunther says, "yeah" [music]|11:14 Allen asks, "has any of their past 25 years stuff been any good?" [music]|11:14 Rob says, "they were like, 'some stuff, awesome! other stuff, meh'" [music]|11:14 Ryan says, "Division Bell was the first PF album I heard, and I loved it." [music]|11:14 Rob asks, "what has there been in the past 25 years?" [writing]|11:14 Storme says, "my IF involvement helped me get my job" [music]|11:14 Rob says, "I thought their last album was like in 1987" [music]|11:14 Allen says, "oh, huh, they've only had one album" [writing]|11:14 Storme says, "and I've not exactly written anything non-jokey" [music]|11:15 Rob says, "I can picture the cover art but not remember the name of it" [music]|11:15 Gunther says, "what I'm listening to now is 'Live at Pompeii'" [music]|11:15 Allen says, "yeah, momentary lapse of reason is the last I bought" [music]|11:15 Allen asks (of Gunther), "that's actually good. That has Echoes, right?" [music]|11:15 Gunther asks (of Rob), "Pulse?" [music]|11:15 Gunther says (to Allen), "yes, both parts, 20 minutes long or so" [music]|11:15 K-Y says, "we've almost got to the point where the 'last 25 years' is - timing" [writing]|11:15 Rob says, "hasn't helped me get any jobs, except for the above-mentioned chance to write an article for a book" [music]|11:15 Allen asks, "I've only seen the film. Was there an album?" [writing]|11:15 Tale asks (of strome), "How so?" [music]|11:16 Rob asks, "of the wall?" [music]|11:16 Rob says, "yeah" [music]|11:16 K-Y says, "Division Bell seems to be more notable for the proto-ARG than for the music" [music]|11:16 Allen says (to Rob), "of Live at Pompeii" [music]|11:16 Rob says, "oh" [writing]|11:16 Storme says (to tale), "came up during my interview because I write what are basically very boring-and-FAQ-focused NPCs" [music]|11:16 Rob says, "wow pompeii" [music]|11:17 Rob says, "good ol caecilius" [music]|11:17 Allen says, "funny about the Wall: I have two side twos" [music]|11:17 Gunther says, " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1yxNjU7u_8 " [music]|11:17 K-Y says, "stuff like 'why does the LP have slightly different art than the CD'" [writing]|11:17 Rob says, "and now you have a whole career" [music]|11:17 Allen says, "I went to a party in 1988, and took my new cd version of the wall there" [writing]|11:17 Tale asks, "They asked about it?" [writing]|11:17 Storme says, "being able to talk about conversational IF sold my boss on my ability to do that" [music]|11:17 Allen says, "it was played. Then we left. Then a couple days later, I discovered I had two side 2's" [writing]|11:17 Tale says, "ah" [writing]|11:17 Storme says, "yeah; screw everyone who says not to put hobbies on your cv" [writing]|11:17 Rob says, "huzzah" [music]|11:17 Allen says, "I asked and never found the person with two side 1s." [music]|11:18 Allen says, "but that ok. Side 2 is the best. Disc 2." [music]|11:18 Rob says, "heh" [NYC]|11:19 Gunther | Starting next year, New York will become the first state to require lawyers to perform unpaid work before being licensed to practice, the state’s chief judge announced on Tuesday, describing the rule as a way to help the growing number of people who cannot afford legal services. [music]|11:19 Allen says, "when I read Julian May's Pleiocene books, I listened to Echoes on repeat for hours on end" [lounge]|11:19 Rob says, "back in a bit" [music]|11:19 Allen says, "it kinda fit" [lounge]|11:19 Rob moseys right on out. [music]|11:20 K-Y says, "I like Learning to Fly, which I guess is exactly within the last 25 years" [music]|11:20 K-Y says, "and I like it as a pop single basically" [NYC]|11:20 K-Y says, "they were totally hinting at this when we got licensed, it occurs to me" [lounge]|11:22 marc in the land of the lounge lizards. [jobs]|11:22 marc says, "another boring and deeply frustrating day" [NYC]|11:23 K-Y says, "but at the time they could only recommend it persuasively" [music]|11:24 K-Y says, "it occurs to me, though, that I've almost completely phased out Pink Floyd" [IntroComp]|11:25 Tale says, "Ohh, tempted. Like every year." [music]|11:25 Allen says, "I never get tired of Dark Side" [lounge]|11:27 vimes added himself to the banner. [lounge]|11:27 Gunther says (to vimes), "uh oh" [lounge]|11:27 genericgeekgirl says, "Happy birthday, vimes." [lounge]|11:28 Gunther says (to vimes), "1) happy birthday, 2) sorry this was your last login ever" [lounge]|11:28 genericgeekgirl says, "Haha" [music]|11:28 K-Y says, "I associate it all with this dark period for me" [music]|11:28 K-Y says, "and I've moved past that now" [lounge]|11:28 vimes says, "yep, time to go quietly die in the street, alone, unloved, unsung" [lounge]|11:28 Tale says, "Happy Birthday vimes" [lounge]|11:28 vimes says, "at least i pray i am unsung, because nobody can carry a note, much less a tune or a key, when they're singing happy birthday" [lounge]|11:29 Gunther says (to vimes), "because we'd get sued otherwise" [jobs]|11:31 marc says, "okay, frustration deepens -- completely sick of this shit" [jobs]|11:31 Gunther asks, "is it hibernate?" [jobs]|11:31 marc says, "datanucleus, sqs, a bunch of other stuff" [jobs]|11:32 marc says, "this particular problem, datanucleus" [jobs]|11:32 marc says, "deeper problem: the job" [music]|11:32 K-Y says, "except for Arnold Layne" [music]|11:32 K-Y says, "which is hilarious" [music]|11:33 K-Y says, "I particularly recommend the recent Gilmour/Bowie version" [jobs]|11:33 marc says, "just feeling burned out, etc." [lounge]|11:39 Richie is here! [jobs]|11:43 Ryan asks, "Where do you work atm?" [jobs]|11:45 marc says, "at a startup specialising in recommendation tech" [jobs]|11:45 marc says, "been here since 1 august" [lounge]|11:45 zaphod goes home. [lounge]|11:45 * zaphod has disconnected. [lounge]|11:49 inky is mostly just chilling, trying to avoid pollution and forest fires. [lounge]|11:49 two-star sought a woman and found a monkey. Well, it happens. [lounge]|11:49 inky says, "good morning" [lounge]|11:49 inky says, "popular birthday day today I see" [lounge]|11:50 vimes says, "i always forget whizzard and i share a birthday" [lounge]|11:50 Tale is fired from breathing. [lounge]|11:50 * Tale has disconnected. [teaching]|12:00 Bishop finished grading cacl. No Fs this year! [teaching]|12:00 Bishop says, "Er, calc." [teaching]|12:00 Gunther says, "pathetic" [music]|12:01 olethros says, "ah, PF." [music]|12:01 olethros says, "you should watch The Wall movie" [music]|12:01 Gunther says, "I am" [music]|12:01 olethros asks, "as we speak?" [music]|12:01 Gunther says, "as we speak" [music]|12:01 olethros says, "excellent!" [music]|12:01 Gunther says, "however I prefer random mumbling and screaming over improvised insanity" [music]|12:01 Allen says, "it's over the top" [music]|12:02 Allen asks, "need a rip of a Country & Western version of the Wall?" [music]|12:02 olethros says, "pompeii is already a pretty weird place to be" [music]|12:02 olethros says, "imagine being there with floyd playing light shows" [music]|12:02 Allen says, "'Are there any deer in the audience tonight? Get 'em up against the wall. There's one in my headlights, he don't look right to me, get 'em up against the wall'" [music]|12:02 olethros says (to allen), "yeah, listened to that" [music]|12:03 Allen says, "the pompeii concert was like from 1971, before their big spectacle concerts" [music]|12:03 olethros says, "ok, it'd still be cool listening to this stuff while wandering around pompeii" [music]|12:03 olethros asks, "whatever happened to Syd Barrett btw?" [music]|12:05 olethros says, "oh, dead" [music]|12:07 K-Y says, "that was a little while before that final reunion" [music]|12:09 K-Y says, "they would always get very touchy about that subject in recent years" [music]|12:10 K-Y says, "just on the assumption of morbid tabloid curiosity" [lounge]|12:16 Roger is a distinctive orange, as a result of his uranium content. [headlines]|12:16 Roger | Instructor accused of eating key evidence in Canadian woman's hang-glider death [music]|12:18 Gunther asks, "wait, the PAX greeting is the fascist greeting from The Wall?" [lounge]|12:18 Roger says, "mmhmm" [music]|12:18 olethros asks, "what was that?" [music]|12:19 Gunther says, "arms crossed in front of breast" [music]|12:20 olethros asks, "what, roger waters put the movie up on youtube?" [music]|12:20 Roger says, "That's just standard anti-con-flu protocol" [music]|12:20 Roger says, "The giant inflatable pig is harder to defend" [music]|12:21 olethros says, "ha ha, avian pig flu" [lounge]|12:27 josh_g is protected by public incredulity. [lounge]|12:31 olethros has ordered three mega-generators to be installed in his boathouse. [headlines]|12:35 inky asks, "what was the evidence?" [headlines]|12:36 Roger says, "Well the hang-glider of course" [headlines]|12:36 inky asks, "wait, what?" [headlines]|12:37 Roger says, "Okay that might not strictly be "true"" [headlines]|12:37 Ryan says, "This headline is misleading. It's actually an aerial cannibalism case." [headlines]|12:37 Roger says, "Possibly it was more like a memory card from a digital camera" [headlines]|12:37 Roger says, "But that's no fun" [headlines]|12:38 inky says, "hee hee" [headlines]|12:38 inky says, "ok, but in any case it's not a sandwich or something" [headlines]|12:38 inky says, "which is what I was hoping" [headlines]|12:39 inky says, "your honor, the prosecution will prove that the defendant knowingly and with malice aforethought handed the victim a "sloppy joe" sandwich, making her hands too slippery to retain their grip on the hangglider she was flying at the time" [law]|12:40 Gunther says, "#wtf http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17924190 " [health]|12:40 marc says, "ha ha" [headlines]|12:40 marc says, "ha ha" [health]|12:40 marc says, "er, ilac" [law]|12:41 inky says, "hmm" [videogames]|12:41 markm says, "LSL remake funded. Woot." [videogames]|12:41 Gunther says, "past 650K too" [videogames]|12:42 markm says, "looking forward to seeing it made" [videogames]|12:42 Gunther says, "now fund Grim Dawn, damn you all" [videogames]|12:42 markm says, "Sounds too grim." [videogames]|12:43 Gunther says, "BUT THOU MUST" [lounge]|12:43 Jota arrives from the east. [lounge]|12:43 Jota greets. [videogames]|12:44 markm looks at it [videogames]|12:44 markm asks, "arpg, eh?" [videogames]|12:44 Gunther says, "ayup" [videogames]|12:44 inky asks, "a?" [videogames]|12:44 Alex says (to inky), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that A IS A." [lounge]|12:44 inky says, "hey hey" [videogames]|12:45 Gunther says, "ction" [videogames]|12:45 Gunther says, "== Diablo clone" [videogames]|12:45 Gunther says, "or the even better "Loot 'em up"" [videogames]|12:45 inky says, "oh aha" [videogames]|12:45 markm | At its core, Grim Dawn strives to perfect the magical formula of fast-paced, satisfying combat, strategic character development and frenzied loot collection that defines the genre. [lounge]|12:46 inky heads east. [lounge]|12:46 inky arrives from the east. [videogames]|12:46 Roger says, "woo grimderp" [tangent]|12:47 Ryan says, "There should be a YA novel titled "Alice Aforethought"." [videogames]|12:47 Gunther says (to markm), "it's by the guys who did Titan Quest" [videogames]|12:47 markm says, "looks like it's nearly funded." [videogames]|12:47 Gunther says, "sure, if YOU chip in 40K" [videogames]|12:47 marc says, "grim dawn is also an apt description of waking up next to larry laffer" [videogames]|12:47 markm chips it in. [lounge]|12:48 (From Gunther) markm KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK [lounge]|12:48 Gunther says, "sigh, ilac" [videogames]|12:48 markm says, "heh" [apropos-of-nothing]|12:52 markm says, "meanwhile I've been spending my morning looking at Yakety Sax videos" [apropos-of-nothing]|12:53 markm says, "this one's nice, if you like #minecraft - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W866DUbZMSk " [apropos-of-nothing]|12:53 Gunther says, "is there such a thing as too many yakety sax videos? There is not." [apropos-of-nothing]|12:53 markm says, "yay" [apropos-of-nothing]|12:53 inky asks (of Gunther), "so are you saying it is impossible to hit yakety max?" [apropos-of-nothing]|12:53 Ryan says, "I bet Yakety Dubstep exists." [apropos-of-nothing]|12:53 Gunther says (to inky), "I am indeed" [eeeagh]|12:54 Jota says, "This image: http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/02/11500434-new-jersey-mom-arrested-after-allegedly-taking-daughter-5-into-tanning-booth?lite&google_editors_picks=true " [eeeagh]|12:54 Gunther says, "yes" [eeeagh]|12:54 Jota says, "(I assume it's a video, but I'm not going to watch it.)" [eeeagh]|12:54 Gunther says, "I can only warn everyone not to click" [eeeagh]|12:55 Gunther says, "but that should be a given on this channel" [eeeagh]|12:55 Gunther says, "(I saw it earlier, "thanks" to Google News)" [apropos-of-nothing]|12:55 Gunther says (to markm), " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yHLH77oAdQ#t=1m10 " [eeeagh]|12:55 inky says, "man" [eeeagh]|12:56 Roger says, "Hunh" [apropos-of-nothing]|12:56 markm says, "ha ha, awesome" [apropos-of-nothing]|12:56 Gunther says, "this is another thing that will never not be funny" [eeeagh]|12:57 Roger says, "Perhaps we'll also see people arrested for allegedly taking their children outside on sunny days" [eeeagh]|12:57 Gunther says, "the sun doesn't turn you into a monstrosity like this" [eeeagh]|12:57 inky says, "hmm" [eeeagh]|12:57 Ryan says, "I shared that image with someone and they asked, "blackface?"" [eeeagh]|12:57 inky says, "if you repeatedly let your kid get a sunburn that might theoretically be considered child endangerment, I guess" [eeeagh]|12:57 inky says, "ha ha" [eeeagh]|12:57 inky says, "orangefacre" [eeeagh]|12:57 inky says, "er, -r" [eeeagh]|12:58 Gunther says, "ha ha facre" [eeeagh]|12:58 Gunther says, "WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOUR FACRE" [eeeagh]|12:58 Ryan says, "orangefarce" [eeeagh]|12:58 Gunther says, "that too" [eeeagh]|12:59 Roger says, "Hmmm perhaps we're overdue for #jersey" [lounge]|12:59 Recchi enters the lounge, triumphantly hoisting object #31337. [lounge]|13:03 Ellison has appeared in three Bigfoot/Abominable Snowman-themed movies: Bigfoot: The Unforgettable Encounter, Little Bigfoot and Abominable. [lounge]|13:03 Ellison says, "hey all" [lounge]|13:03 Ryan says, "hey one" [lounge]|13:05 Recchi says, "Hey everyone" [lounge]|13:06 Ellison says, "heh" [lounge]|13:06 Rob comes right on in. Recapped 332 of 2485 lines from recent channels. Current time: Wednesday, 2 May 2012, 01:06:51 PM EDT Gunther says, "are you really quoting yourself in your connect rob" Roger says, "Yo dawg I heard you like Rob" Ellison says, "hola Rob" Field set. Jon says (to Gunther), "you like to come right on in too, though." Rob says, "no, but I forget where I got it from" Rob says, "but I've already changed it to a new quote I just came across" Rob says, "a happier one" Rob says, "now that the ear parasite from ceti alpha 5 has been destroyed, I am free from evil mind control" Gunther says, "hooray" zarf says, "Only the best mind control from now on" Rob says, "huzzah" Rob says, "seriously, my mood does feel strangely coincidentally better" Tale's first civilian job after World War I was at the Oxford English Dictionary, where he worked mainly on the history and etymology of words of Germanic origin beginning with the letter W. [robmumble] Rob says, "although I did have a fight with my mom right after I got home from the doctor :C" ghira viene a bordo, cazzo ghira says, "meep" [robmumble] Rob says, "she picks the weirdest moments to make verbal jabs at me" [robmumble] Rob says, "'thank god you're all right, now let me lay into you with my knives'" Gunther says (to Rob), "you're feeling better because the mind control parasite you """removed""" wants you to" [robmumble] Rob says, "I have an interesting mother" Rob says, "nah, it's feckin dead" Rob says, "on the anniversary of osama bin laden's eye shot no less" [videogames] Gunther says, "this video of Trials Evolution is hilarious" [robmumble] Ellison says, "aw" [videogames] Tale says, "IRTA Trains, making it more hilarious" [videogames] Gunther says, ""my girlfriend literally said the words "I don't want to be here" last night"" [videogames] Rob says, "I still want to edit my movie of the last battle of Shadow of the Colossus, which I videotaped" [robmumble] Roger says, "Yes good to hear you're all right" [videogames] Rob says, "but which took me so many tries to get through I have lots of footage" [robmumble] Tale says, "That was one scary ass picture." [robmumble] Ellison says, "also, you are such an asshole" [videogames] Rob says, "enough to make it look like a movie, since I did different camera moves every 'take'" [tale] Tale says, "Hm, gf messaged me today "I'll be gone till friday.Bye!"" [robmumble] Rob says, "I didn't mean to cause so much alarm, though I can tell I was looking for a sympathy vote" [robmumble] Rob says (to Ellison), "yeah oh well" [tale] Tale says, "I know we have a weekend relationsship, but c'mon, woman!" [robmumble] Rob says, "I've been feeling horrible for weeks and weeks" [robmumble] Ellison says, "I didn't hear what led up to this, but whatever it was, I'm glad it was nothing." [videogames] Gunther says, " http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-supplemental-trials-evolution/17-5938/ " [robmumble] Ellison says, "man" [robmumble] Rob says, "a portion of my outer ear, normally concave, swelled up like a water balloon over the span of last week" [robmumble] Rob says, "last saturday I went to a nearby hospital and they poked it with a needle and it deflated" [robmumble] Rob says, "it was all blood, and they said 'it's a hematoma'" [kickstarter] Gunther | A video game retelling of a girl's epic run to the gas station to get eggs and the epic failure in translation that ensued... Part Two. [robmumble] Rob says, "then over the past few days it reinflated" [kickstarter] Gunther says, "frack off" [robmumble] Rob says, "but I kinda felt the itchy/tingly sensations of something healing in there, whatever blood vessel had burst" [tale] inky says, "heh" [tale] Roger says, "I'm not sure I understand the nature of your complaint" [robmumble] Rob says, "but I started feeling icky and weird yesterday morning, like I had to get it taken care of again right away" [robmumble] inky says, "wow" [robmumble] Rob says, "so I called a different doctor, but they said, go back to the ER, since they treated you already and have your records and know what happened" [robmumble] Roger says, "A different, worse doctor directed me to the bait shop" [robmumble] Rob says, "so I went back there and (as I said earlier in the lounge) listened to a radio episode of Scrubs going on behind a curtain" [robmumble] Roger asks, "So anyway, anyone want to be fined a leech?" [robmumble] Gunther says, "which was when you uttered your erstwhile connect!!!!!1" [robmumble] Rob says, "then a nice lady doctor showed up and she poked it again but then said hrm, this isn't sufficient" [robmumble] Ellison says, "you never did figure out who Shirley was..." [videogames] zarf says, "that would be interesting" [robmumble] Rob says, "and I could hear her puzzling it through" [workplace] baf exclaims, "Bath towel in desk drawer: not just an essential part of one's emergency all-nighter kit, also really handy when you spill water on your desk!" [robmumble] Rob says, "what she was afraid of was it getting to the point where I'd have a deformed ear" [board-games] Gunther says, "what http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/500894669/serpents-tongue-a-new-magick-experience " [board-games] Gunther says, "1) magi is plural, goddammit" [robmumble] Rob says, "and she figured she should lance it with a scalpel and let it drain and relax for a day, then let a plastic surgeon look at it" [robmumble] Rob says, "so she called a plastic surgeon in the same medical complex and pre-approved my calling for an appointment, and she had a chat with this doctor that I could overhear" [robmumble] inky says, "hunh" [robmumble] Rob says, "and he approved lancing it, so she came back to scalpel me open" [robmumble] Rob says, "and weirdly, I apparently have really tough ear-skin" [robmumble] Rob says, "it wasn't just this clean slice where skin parts like butter under a hot knife, she had to sort of saw and tug to get it open" [robmumble] vimes says, "guh" [robmumble] Jota says, "Bring out the hackscalpel." [robmumble] Rob says, "even though I was under a local lidocaine anesthetic, I could feel the pulling and hear a tearing noise (since it's my ear), kind of a disconcerting rr-r-r--rip" [robmumble] vimes says, "yeah, the pulling is a really weird sensation" [robmumble] Rob says, "but it was a relief to have it happen after it happened" [robmumble] Roger says, "It's all cartilidgy in there" [ads] lpsmith says, "From a friend: http://spod-central.org/~lpsmith/pandora_ad_conjunction.jpg " [robmumble] Rob says, "apparently what she and the plastic surgeon were looking out for is blood clotting onto the cartilege, which is how you get a cauliflower ear" [ads] inky says, "ha ha" marc goes home. marc has disconnected. [ads] Jota says, "Yay." [robmumble] Rob says, "but the guy this morning said 'oh, she did great work, it's just fine, but call me if it gets weird'" [ads] Ryan says, "Hah, that almost seems intentional." [robmumble] Rob says, "also that ears heal really fast because there's a lot of blood vessels there" [robmumble] Rob says, "ironically I guess since that was the problem in the first place" [robmumble] Ellison says, "interesting" [robmumble] Rob says, "it is still a mystery to everyone why I had a broken blood vessel in my ear somewhere" [ads] Jota says, "New Soylent Lawn and Garden." [robmumble] Rob says, "I have the symptoms of someone taking a blunt trauma like a punch or a bash to the ear, but that hasn't happened" [robmumble] inky says, "if your ear burns that means someone is talking about you" [robmumble] vimes says, "ha ha" [robmumble] vimes says, "someone was making pointed remarks about you" [robmumble] Jota says (to Rob), "That you *know* of." [robmumble] Rob says (to Jota), "yeah" [robmumble] vimes says, "or blunt remarks, i guess" [robmumble] inky says, "if a blood vessel in your ear breaks, that means someone is writing a racy three-part expose in the national enquirer" [robmumble] Jota asks (of Rob), "Have you checked yourself for any mysterious new tattoos?" [robmumble] Rob says, "I can't wait to read it" [robmumble] inky says, "DON'T TRUST JOHN W" [robmumble] Roger asks, "Which ear was this again?" [workplace] Jon says, "it's sad you have to have an emergency all-nighter kit" [robmumble] Rob says, "funny you should say that since for the past few days I've had to go by the legal medical insurance name of John Wheeler" [robmumble] vimes asks, "YOU CAN TRUST A BANK, CAN'T YOU, BUT YOU CAN'T BANK A TRUST, CAN YOU?" [robmumble] Rob says, "and remember to react when someone across the room says 'John?'" [robmumble] vimes says, "er, reverse 'trust' and 'bank', maybe" [robmumble] Rob says, "I tried to call myself Rob Wheeler to the receptionist for the doctor this morning but it resulted in her calling me back to say that she couldn't find my in my insurance company's records" [robmumble] Rob says (to Roger), "my right ear" [robmumble] Jota says, "BANK TRUST, CAN A EWE" [robmumble] Rob says, "take it to #nm's-jokes-explained" [robmumble] Roger says, "Ah in that case I would guess that you unintentionally exerted high psi against it with a phone" [robmumble] Jota asks, "ETRUSCAN BOB EUBANKS?" [robmumble] Jota says, "OK never mind." [robmumble] Rob says, "I should paste everything I've said about this on ifmud this morning to facebook, to calm everyone I alarmed yesterday" [tale] Tale says (to roger), "I have no additional info whatsoever" [tale] Roger says, "Oh" [tale] Roger says, "Well then" [tale] Roger says, "Guess someone will be having the best cinco de mayo ever" [robmumble] Rob says, "my brother made a panicked call to my mother, which is partly what prompted her to unload on me this morning" [robmumble] vimes says, "EAR FULL OF BLOOD STOP DOC DRAINING STOP NO WORRIES EH STOP" [news] Allen asks, "oh hey, what has happened to the Occupy General Strike today?" [news] Allen asks, "has work shutdown all over the country?" [news] vimes asks, "wasn't it yesterday?" [robmumble] Rob says, "it was pure maternal fear and anxiety converted into guilt-daggers instead of hugs" [robmumble] Rob says, "but that's how she goes about it, for some reason" [robmumble] Jota RTA 'quilt-daggers' [news] Rob asks, "was that supposed to be a thing that happened?" [news] Allen says, "oh, it was" [news] Allen says, "april only has 30 days" [news] Rob says, "shouldn't they have chosen May Day as a sort of Labour movement touchstone" [news] Gunther asks, "omg, is that why everything was closed here yesterday?" [robmumble] Rob says, "daggers in the quilt of my life" [news] Gunther says, "wait, no, it's because of May Day" [news] Allen says, "I saw a proposal to make May 1st "International Victims of Communism Day"" [WWIII] Allen | A few months before Osama bin Laden's death, Web sites linked to al-Qaeda ran excited commentary about a proposed new killing machine dubbed the "human lawn mower." The idea was to attach rotating blades to the front of a pickup truck and drive the contraption into crowds. [robmumble] Rob says, "my mom is sort of a catholic mother crossed with a jewish mother, which is rather odd considering she's chinese-american" [WWIII] Allen | While some jihadists admired the idea, one graying veteran of the terrorist movement took a stand against it. That was bin Laden himself, by then living out his twilight years in a Pakistani villa with ample time to think about his legacy. The man who famously ordered jetliners flown into skyscrapers drew the line at cutting down humans like weeds. [robmumble] Rob says, "also, don't tell her I called her chinese-american or she'd hate it" [tale] Ellison says (to Tale), "oh hey, I don't know how much you like Star Wars, but on the Clone Wars, they brought back Darth Maul. I watched the the first couple episodes of it with my brother and one of them made me think of you. if it works for you (and are curious), you should check it out at: http://www.starwars.com/explore/the-clone-wars/ep421/ " [robmumble] Jota asks, "Does she ever read ifMUD quotebooks?" [robmumble] Rob says, "nope" [tale] Rob asks, "in a recent episode?" [tale] Rob says, "what season are they on" Quotations: Rob (quoted by Jota, 02-May-12): [robmumble] Rob says, "my mom is sort of a catholic mother crossed with a jewish mother, which is rather odd considering she's chinese-american" [quotebooks] Rob says, "heh" Gunther says, "ker-CSB!!!!" Gunther was like watching the world's most boring car crash, and then someone with a monotone voice overanalyzing it. You cannot become a viking overnight, unless you are a viking, in which case you can. [WWIII] Roger says, "It doesn't really sound very practical" [tale] Ellison says, "season four, I take it, but I'm pretty sure they, like, first tried to do the show and then took a break and then started again some years back" [tale] Ellison says, "I don't really know, though." [news] inky says, "there was some scuffling in downtown seattle" [news] Jota asks, "Hipsterfights?" [tale] Rob says, "I feel a little too grown-up to get really into it, though I like what they're doing and sample it on occasion" Oh, I'm sorry, was it a *private* distress signal? Gunther has a complicated history with pants. Invalid range format: "-last" [tale] Roger says, "I found I kinda liked it a bit more as a radio play" [tale] Ellison says, "I didn't think it was horribly bad, but yeah, it also isn't especially interesting... but luckily, I had my nephew's enthusiasm to ride on" # From Date Subject 55 Jacqueline 31-Aug-09 04:49 IntroComp09 Games Now Available 56 Jacqueline 05-Sep-09 14:27 Voting Form Now Online 57 Jacqueline 12-Sep-09 18:13 Votes Due Soon 58 Jacqueline 15-Sep-09 11:50 Reminder, Last Day to Vote! 59 Jacqueline 19-Sep-09 01:20 IntroComp09 Awards Ceremony 60 Jacqueline 05-Oct-09 15:45 IntroComp 09 Results & Transcript 61 Jacqueline 02-Apr-10 10:45 IntroComp 2010 Underway 62 Jacqueline 08-May-10 16:19 Reminder - 2010 IntroComp Intent to Enter 63 Jacqueline 07-Jul-10 12:18 IntroComp10 Voting Now Underway 64 maga 07-Aug-10 17:28 Voting Reminder 65 maga 09-Aug-10 00:16 Voting deadline extended 24 hours 66 Jacqueline 13-Aug-10 22:07 REMINDER - IntroComp Awards on ifMUD - Au 67 Jacqueline 16-Aug-10 11:56 Awards Ceremony Transcript 68 Jacqueline 01-May-11 13:13 Intent to Enter Deadline One Month Away 69 Jacqueline 01-Jul-11 18:00 Intros Available, Voting Open 70 Jacqueline 03-Jul-11 21:18 Stalling for Time 71 Jacqueline 20-Jul-11 23:19 Awards Ceremony 2011 72 Jacqueline 24-Jul-11 17:19 Results for 2011 73 Jacqueline 01-May-12 20:12 IntroComp 2012 Deadlines #73 [if/comps/IntroComp] From: Jacqueline Date: 01-May-12 20:12 Subject: IntroComp 2012 Deadlines Hello, everyone. Though the website will not be updated for a few days yet because I am traveling, I wanted to make your May Day by posting the deadlines for the 2012 IntroComp, should you be mulling over the idea of entering. Intents to enter will be due by the end of the month of May, introductions due by the end of June, voting will be in July (with a voting period length determined by the number of entries). The rules for the introductions themselves won't change from previous years, though there will be some slight changes to the voting process and possibly also some slight changes to the awards. Stay tuned for another announcement about the website being updated, because all intents to enter will be taken by signing up at the site (as opposed to e-mail). More soon! [wtf] Allen says, "mascot at a dental office:" [wtf] Allen | http://i.imgur.com/VXkAQ.jpg [robmumble] Rob says, "I'm feelling so sunny I am contemplating entering IntroComp" [robmumble] Ellison says, "right on" [wtf] Jota exclaims, "Eeeeagh!" [robmumble] maga says, "hooray" [wtf] inky says, "yo dawg I heard you like teeth" [robmumble] Rob says, "I've got quite a few things I've started" [wtf] markm says, "geez" [wtf] genericgeekgirl says, "Yikes." [robmumble] Rob says, "that I could probably polish a bit and enter" [wtf] Jota says, "Get it out get it out PULL THEM ALL NOW AND BURN THEM" [robmumble] Rob says, "who knows" [WWIII] josh_g says, "yeah, I mean clearly running into people with a truck is pretty harmful whether or not you attach spinning blades of death" [robmumble] Rob says, "I tend to have down days following up days, so tomorrow I might say bleagh what's the point" [robmumble] Ellison says, "for me, the great thing about IntroComp is that when I saw the announcement, I thought, hey, I could enter the game I almost entered last year (but didn't)- I've barely made any progress on it anyway!" [robmumble] Rob says, "though it would be *super* nice if I didn't feel that way tomorrow" [WWIII] josh_g says, "OTOH it totally sounds like something that the terrorist factions of Command and Conquer would use" [robmumble] Rob says (to Ellison), "well, maybe we can make a pact" [robmumble] K-Y says, "'does she ever read ifMUD quotebooks' is so often the key question" [robmumble] inky says (to Ellison), "hee hee" [WWIII] josh_g says, "I'll bet Bin Laden nixed the cyborg bears too" [WWIII] Roger says, "Right, or some sort of anti-zombie device" [robmumble] Rob says, "also, ear-lancing-day was at the same time royalty-check-for-writing-about-IF day" [robmumble] Rob says, "which makes me feel nicer" [tale] Tale says, "Hey thanks!" [tale] Tale says, "i was about to ask about something completely different, though..." [robmumble] Rob says, "it looked like either junk mail or a bill, then there was money in it" [tale] Tale asks, "What is a good starting point to try out the 3 stooges?" [robmumble] Rob says, "almost enough to cover one of the three medical visit copays" [tale] Rob says, "hooray" [tale] Tale says (to Ellison), "ALso, not available outside the US" [tale] inky says, "well, amateurs should probably begin with the pie in the face, leaving eye-poking for the experts" [tale] Rob says, "well there's a good dvd series" [tale] Rob says, "you should watch some classic curly, maybe the set where they make fun of hitler and mussolini" [tale] Rob says, "(the first overt satire of hitler anyone dared to do, before the US entered the war)" [tale] Rob says, "do not watch the recent farrelly brothers movie" [robmumble] Ellison says (to Tale), "ok, well, this will give you an idea of why I thought of you: http://www.bigshinyrobot.com/reviews/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/darthmaul_detail.jpg " [robmumble] Ellison says, "dang it" [tale] Ellison says (to Tale), "ok, well, this will give you an idea of why I thought of you: http://www.bigshinyrobot.com/reviews/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/darthmaul_detail.jpg " [tale] Jota asks, "Is there one famous one where they were plumbers, or does it just seem that way because there were a dozen of them where they were plumbers and they all blend together?" [tale] Rob says, "I have the dvd set where curly departs and shemp appears, and have developed an appreciation for shemp (the kind one can only accrue when one reads biographies of the stooges and who they all were)" [robmumble] Rob says, "but but then why did you think of me ellison" [robmumble] Rob says, "where's my link" [tale] Rob says, "the episode where they're ... hrm" [tale] Rob says, "I could do a little research and find actual titles of episodes" [tale] Rob says, "but I don't know that I'm feeling that gumptious" [robmumble] inky says (to Rob), " http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/368zlf/ " [robmumble] Rob says, "am I a meme now? that was quick" [tale] Jota says, "Ah, according to Wikipedia:" [tale] Jota | Several routines from A Plumbing We Will Go would be recycled several times throughout the Stooges long career. [tale] Jota says, "So I guess the answer is 'both'." [tale] Rob says, "ah yeah" [tale] Rob says, "the plumbing episode is must-see stooges" [tale] Rob says, "it's must-see comedy, really" [tale] Tale says (to Ellison), "Aiii I hate you" [kitties] katre says, "yay, going to pick up my cat this afternoon" [tale] Tale says, "Plumbing it is! And afterwards I'll watch this *nyuk nyuk*" [tale] Rob says, "yeah it's a famous one where they purport to be plumbers" [tale] Rob says, "but are completely incompetent" [tale] Rob says, "in three different ways" [tale] inky says, "ha ha" [tale] Rob says, "a lot of the funny is that they have this misguided self-confidence that they know what they're doing, and on top of it" [tale] Rob says, "the other part is the comic timing that's decades-of-vaudeville-audiences-acute" [tale] Rob says, "the other other part is the sound effects, which I now appreciate more when I realize that they started making shorts in the early-early sound era" [teaching] josh_g says, "yay row games" [tale] Rob says, "so they were innovators in sound editing, and in recording all the sound effects they used and re-used" [teaching] josh_g says, "kids are mostly productive right now on a self-checking exercise; I get to finish reading crazy articles on statistical analysis and basketball" [tale] inky says, "hunh" [tale] Rob says, "the farrelly brothers failed to recreate with modern means the zip and pow of the original sfx, so they digitally cleaned up copies of the originals" [teaching] josh_g says, "the only reason I have to get up is to make sure the guys mildly goofing off on the right realize I'm still aware of this" [tale] Rob says, "my favorite one is the glug-glug-glugging-into-an-empty-vat sound effect they used when curly would drink something" [tale] Rob says, "you wouldn't think I'd know this much about the three stooges, but there you go" [tale] Rob says, "now Tale can watch them slapping and poking with a full background" [tale] Jota says, "Oddly, I think I would think that you would know that much about the three stooges." [tale] Rob says, "my last theory, which was invented to explain the fact that almost no women and almost exclusively men enjoy the three stooges, is that they are male self-parody" [tale] Ellison says, "yeah, I thought people were divided into Marx Brothers vs. 3 Stooges camps" [tale] Rob says (to Jota), "hooray" [tale] Rob says, "I like both for wildly different reasons" [tale] Ellison says, "I don't like the 3 Stooges but once was given a dvd set of them by a woman" [comics] Rob says, "Dave Sim drew both the Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges into the Cerebus storyline as characters " [tale] inky says, "ha ha" [tale] inky says, "a strange and romantic tale" [tale] Rob says, "I have one of those stories that goes 'I used to watch them every day before school while eating cereal' thus explaining fondness" [tale] Rob says, "but even all grown up and over-serious I take a stooge break now and then and laugh out loud a lot" [tale] Tale says (to inky), "My new nickname" [tale] Ellison says, "the funny thing was your misguided self-confidence about your cereal-eating" [comics] baf says, "Also Keith Richards and Margaret Thatcher and Ernest Hemingway." [tale] * Tale has changed the topic to: [tale] inky says, "a strange and romantic tale" [tale] Rob says, "speaking of nicknames, I just saw a quote that I wanted to report to ifmud while inky was around, because it revolved around the nickname 'inky'" [comics] Rob says, "indeed so" [comics] zarf says, "and then Dave Sim's id, ego, and superego" [comics] Rob says, "and F Scott Fitzgerald, the volume of which is at my elbow, waiting for me to stop mudding so I can read it" [tale] Tale says, "These seem a bit more, hm, violent then the Marxes" [tale] Rob says, "cartoonishly" [comics] Jearl asks, "huh, when did he do Fitzgerald?" [tale] Rob says, "Harpo used a lot of scissors and choke-holds" [comics] Jearl says, "I sort of liked the Oscar Wilde one" [comics] Rob says, "Going Home" [comics] Jearl says, "oh" [comics] Rob says, "Fall and the River" [comics] Jearl says, "that was where I finally stopped getting the floppies" [comics] Rob says, "Cerebus and Jaka take a slow boat ride with F Stop Fitzgerald" [comics] Rob says, "I have the whole set" [comics] Rob says, "in fact, I didn't have the last phone book, but Dave Sim traded me one for a copy of Q MAN" [comics] Jearl says, "because I was in the store looking at it and I couldn't tell any difference between it and the previous one, or say what happened in the previous one, which seemed like a pretty clear signal to throw in the towel" [comics] Rob says, "which was really swell of him" [comics] Jearl says, "wow, nice" [comics] Rob says, "yeah" [comics] Rob says, "he is actually a nice guy -- or has been, to me, anyway" [tale] Jota says (to Tale), "Yeah, the slapstick is more on the level of Tom and Jerry than the Marx Brothers." [comics] Jearl says, "welp" [comics] Jearl says, "sure, a lot of people are nice" [comics] Rob says, "a little paranoid that people will turn on him who purport to be his friends still" [comics] Jearl says, "but when they spend years writing how you're not a person, it's hard to trust them" [comics] Rob says, "he did five really swell things for me in talking to me, then wrote one last letter that basically pre-accused me of turning on him and ditching him" [comics] Jearl says, "aw" [comics] Rob says, "but I let it go because his actions were better than his words" [comics] McMartin says, "Dear sir: Done and done" [comics] Rob says, "he's a guy who purports to be rational and not have feelings, but who acts like someone whose feelings have gotten hurt over and over again" [comics] Rob says, "don't tell him I said that" [tale] Tale asks, "Wait, whoa! is one of them making the Zoidberg sound?" Tetris may hold the key to stopping cannibalism. [tale] Rob says, "yes !" [comics] Jearl asks, "what is he looks at the quotebook!?" olethros was so annoyed he sat down and angrily wobbled his jowls for a full 45 minutes. [comics] Rob says, "oh dear" [tale] Ellison says, "you know, Tale, it wasn't always called the Zoidberg sound..." [tale] Rob says, "it used to be known as the Jabberjaw sound" [tale] Jota says, "Ha ha." [tale] Rob says (to Rob), "yay" Rob says, "'thros" No quotations available. And that's why to this day I can't watch the Golf Channel without getting angry and peeing a little bit. boucher likes you, yeah he likes you, and you can see his name now if you type "who". Rob says, "hey boucher" Rob says, "whzup" Rob says, "oops, it's time to take a pill" Rob says, "good thing boucher entered or I wouldn't have glanced at the clock" boucher says, "Just finished morning physical therapy sessions myself." Rob says, "what kind"" markm says, "take a chill pill" boucher says, "Various arm exercises, climbing stairs." [tale] Tale says, "Woo, learning stuff" [jobs] vimes loads a 1.5gb database for three minutes of testing [jobs] markm says, ".5gb/min!" [videogames] markm asks (of vimes), "did you get my ascension invite?" [videogames] vimes says, "oh, ha ha, i entirely forgot to look, one sec" [tale] Rob says, "moe 'moses' 'moshe' horowitz -> howard, jerome 'jerry' 'babe' 'curly' howard, and shemp (dunno) howard, were all brothers, shemp the oldest, curly the youngest" [robmumble] Ellison says (to Rob), "anyhow, yeah, it is possible I'll make that pact with you, but I won't commit right away as I need to sit down with all of my WIP babies and see if one of them is ready to grow up" [tale] Rob says, "larry fine developed a callous on the side of his face after decades of taking slaps" [robmumble] Rob says, "yeah me too" [videogames] markm says, "woot" [videogames] vimes says, "look at that, there's an invite" [tale] Rob says, "they all started as a group of stooges to a big straight man named Ted Healy" [videogames] markm says, "your go" [videogames] vimes says, "there was a (1) but the game didn't show up in the list the first time" [tale] Rob says, "who would slap all three of them around" [videogames] markm says, "huh" [tale] Rob says, "then they decided, screw this guy, moe can slap us all around and then we don't need him" [tale] Rob says, "and then they got the job at columbia doing shorts without him" [tale] Rob says, "curly has a pronounced limp, due to a gunshot wound he got as a kid when horsing around" [tale] Rob says, "but he uses it in his physical comedy" [tale] Rob says, "during the years Shemp was out of the act, he worked as a character actor in hollywood, appearing as bartenders and goofball thugs" [tale] Rob says, "Curly had a stroke during the filming of one episode in the early 40s, and Shemp rejoined the group to keep the work going" [tale] Rob says, "then Shemp had a heart attack a few years later" [tale] Jota says, "I am not sure whether or not it would be tasteless at this point to say 'paging Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine and Dr. Howard...'." [tale] Rob says, "then they hired Joe Besser as a third stooge, another comic character actor with his own shtick. then joe 'curly joe' DeRita for their remaining decades of making terrible movies like 'the three stooges on mars' and the late 60s partly animated tv series" [tale] Rob says, "larry spent his last few years in an actor's nursing home" [tale] Rob says, "I dunno why I'm saying all this, I think it's just because I know it" [twitter] markm says (to Ryan), "ha ha" [tale] Tale says, "Samm Raimi uses the term "Fake Shemp" in his horror movies" [tale] Rob says, "and when I watch the three stooges now, I watch it knowing all this" [tale] Rob asks (of Tale), "oh yeah? how/where?" [tale] Rob says, "Larry was a violinist" [tale] Tale says, " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_Shemp " [tale] Rob says, "what a great url" [tale] Rob says, "oh yeah, I just remembered again" [house-of-cards] olethros says, "K still has ork troubles" [house-of-cards] Tale asks, "Wow?" [house-of-cards] olethros says, "mainly: autistic boss" [house-of-cards] Alex says (to Tale), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that wow is when Alex says something clever." [newchannel] Johnny says, "#ludumdare" [house-of-cards] olethros says, "she also claims that everyone hates her in her lab" [inky-sux] Rob | Then he told me a story he heard years ago from a gaffer about Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry, aka Stepin Fetchit, the first millionaire black film star, whose roles as "the laziest man in the world" have been so reviled by African-Americans that they seldom appear on TV anymore. Perry, who made 54 films between 1925 and 1976, presented certain problems on a set. The light used to illuminate the faces of white actors didn’t fare as well with black faces. So a new, smaller and more intense light was developed to illuminate black skin. One day, Perry took his place for a scene, and the director called for "the [N-word] light." Perry walked off the set and refused to return until the name of that light was changed. It has been known ever since as the inky. (Until he heard this story, Jackson said, he always thought 'inky' was short for "incandescent.") [ludumdare] * Rob has joined the channel. #games/ludumdare: Game making competition Created: 02-May-12 14:00:19 Last message: Never Users: Jearl +Johnny Rob Tale There are no new messages on #games/ludumdare. [ludumdare] Rob asks, "whazzis?" [inky-sux] Rob says, " http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/magazine/how-samuel-l-jackson-became-his-own-genre.html " [newchannel] Johnny says, "A game making competition. The last one had 1400 entries." [newchannel] Johnny says, "ilac" [jobs] Dave says, "I'm an ass" [ludumdare] Rob says, "what kinda games" [jobs] Rob says, "why's that" [ludumdare] Jearl says, "all of them" [jobs] Dave says, "I had a sort of exit lunch with the manager here" [ludumdare] Rob says, "well, let" [ludumdare] Jearl asks, "whatever you can make in 48 hours?" [house-of-cards] Tale says, "I can't believe that" [ludumdare] Rob says, "'s get together on this and kick some ass" [jobs] Dave says, "and one of the issues people see is his hiring practicies" [house-of-cards] Tale says, "Nobody liking her, I mean" [newchannel] Johnny says, "There's a theme. This one was 'Tiny World'" [jobs] Dave says, "everyone he hires is almost always an Indian...like 99% of the time" [newchannel] Johnny says, "damn it" [ludumdare] Rob says, "oh one of those types" [jobs] Rob asks, "is he an Indian?" [jobs] Dave says, "so I mentioned that perception to him and he got really defensive" [jobs] Dave says, "yes" [jobs] Rob says, "aha" [ludumdare] * markm has joined the channel. [jobs] Rob says, "bzzt I'm callin' you out dude" [jobs] Dave says, "yeah - he wasn't happy" [jobs] Rob says, "if he got really defensive that means on some level he knows it" [tale] Tale says (to rob), "You know what, it's that kind of day, think I'll watch the Krone Experiment" [tale] Rob says, "hooray" [tale] Rob says, "listen to the amazing commentary track" [jobs] Dave says, "I he said "I'm not a racist", but it's not racism" [videogames] McMartin says, "#belated 'Loot 'em up' is excellent, I am looting the crap out of that phrase" [jobs] Dave says, "it's leaning too much towards your comfort-zone" [tale] Rob says, "search for the 'rob records the black hole sound effect' easter egg" [jobs] Dave says, "a lot of managers do it and it's not always race as the filter" [ludumdare] * zarf has joined the channel. [tale] Rob says, "I may watch the doctor who episode 'The Face of Evil'" [jobs] Dave says, "sometimes it's college, gender, height, weight, or some other grouping" [videogames] K-Y says, "however, the loot mostly comprises whole cooked chickens inexplicably found in oil drums or phone booths" [videogames] Rob says, "and dry white toast" Rob says, "ok, time to go off and do something else-ish" Rob heads right on out. Find release from your cares. have a good time. Seeya later.