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, fake_Robb_Sherwin Visible Exits: west, east When he said that, it gave me the ending of my book. 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 nothings!", Even Newer World Map, charset sampler, Automeeter, TheMasterTheorem player names, time zones, MUD Client Wish List, battle.net battletags, madlibs, Anything Finder, Sarcasm Detector, Gene Ray Players: Alex, markm, Touchy, small, Ryan, GDorn, jpt, Bishop, Allen, ctmiller, baf, Jon, DorianX, Matthew, genericgeekgirl, Otis, Jearl, vimes, Psmith, lpsmith, zaphod, McMartin, Dave, marc, ghira, Marktwo, annabianca, BrenBarn, DavidW, boucher, Lucea, jenrexrode, Whizzard, vaporware, Johnny, Petrosilius, Nitku, salty-horse Visible Exits: north, west, southwest, southeast, up, east Rob comes right on in. Recapping 207 of 2421 lines from recent channels: [music]/00:25 K-Y says, "a friend once linked me to a Japanese version of Last Christmas" [music]|00:25 K-Y says, "I maintain that it is more listenable" [lounge]|00:34 Gerynar says "bloop" and shrinks down into a little dot, then winks out...just like those old-fashioned B&w televisions. [lounge]|00:34 * Gerynar has disconnected. [lounge]|00:34 Jota turns into a slimy toad! [lounge]|00:41 Emily goes home. [lounge]|00:41 * Emily has disconnected. [peanut-gallery]|00:42 K-Y asks, "did Roger say what he was getting up to?" [kitties]|00:50 jenrexrode | http://mlkshk.com/r/5AOQ [kitties]|01:04 vimes says, "laura says "....sure! why not!"" [kitties]|01:04 inky says, "wow, ruthven" [lounge]|01:11 ghira wakes [lounge]|01:11 jenrexrode says, "hi" [lounge]|01:22 vaporware used to work on the dock. Union's been on strike, he's down on his luck. It's tough. [lounge]|01:23 jenrexrode says, "hi" [lounge]|01:23 vaporware says, "ahoowa hoowa hoo hoo hoy" [lounge]|01:24 Ellison unidles [lounge]|01:38 inky says, "ha ha" [lounge]|01:43 Johnny insisted that the mobile hot-dog-on-a-bun did nothing wrong. [lounge]|01:43 Johnny says, "Hello" [lounge]|01:44 Ellison says, "hey Johnny" [lounge]|01:44 jenrexrode says, "hi" [lounge]|01:44 Johnny says, "Yo Ellison" [lounge]|01:44 Johnny says, "Faith and begorrah jen" [begood]|01:49 Ellison asks, "what's the good word?" [begood]|01:50 Johnny says, "Nothing new." [begood]|01:50 Johnny says, "The good word is doog." [lounge]|01:50 olethros was sworn in by robed priests on Thursday morning. [lounge]|01:50 olethros says, "re" [begood]|01:50 Johnny says, "Doogie is acceptable and Howser is allowed." [lounge]|01:50 Johnny says, "Hi olethros" [begood]|01:51 Johnny asks, "So, are Borderlands and Rage basically the same game?" [lounge]|01:51 jenrexrode says, "hey" [lounge]|01:51 Rob comes right on in. [lounge]|01:51 Rob says, "zrx" [lounge]|01:51 Johnny says, "Hi Robcicle" [dreams]|01:51 Rob says, "action-adventure dream" [lounge]|01:52 jenrexrode says, "hey rob" [dreams]|01:52 Rob says, "I was sort of being stalked by this big dude that started out merely bullying but then got more and more menacing" [dreams]|01:52 Rob says, "and terminator like just kept coming" [lounge]|01:53 ghira says, "wurr wurr" [dreams]|01:53 Rob says, "I was deploying as many defensive tactics as I could scramble to think of, and even managed to grab a bundle of sharp sticks at one point and tried jabbing him in the chest and face, and he wasn't fazed" [dreams]|01:53 Rob says, "kind of inhumanly" [begood]|01:53 Ellison says, "you know, people don't say it, but yeah, I think they basically are" [dreams]|01:53 Rob says, "and in the dream at one point when I realized I was in trouble I started shouting, 'help! help! help help help! help! help!'" [begood]|01:53 Ellison says, "I have to admit that I've played further into Borderlands but want to like Rage more" [begood]|01:53 Johnny says, "I sunk several hours into Borderlands and I once saw some Rage footage." [begood]|01:54 Johnny says, "Today." [dreams]|01:54 Rob says, "nothing happened so I scrambled away again, and just as the guy caught up to me, my friend arrived and helped me grapple with him" [begood]|01:54 Ellison says, "(I didn't play very far into the Rage demo)" [dreams]|01:54 inky says, "awright" [dreams]|01:54 Rob says, "we sort of got him under control and then three guys dressed as cops showed up and kind of rassle-cuffed the guy and hauled him away and I woke up" [dreams]|01:54 Rob says, "ok but the friend of mine is a guy who died 3 years ago" [dreams]|01:54 Rob says, "but I was glad he heard me yell for help !" [dreams]|01:54 inky says, "wow" [dreams]|01:55 Rob says, "the end... or is it" [dreams]|01:55 Ellison says, "he's late for his own funeral but not an ass-whooping" [dreams]|01:55 jenrexrode says, "wow, I had an action adventure dream, too" [dreams]|01:55 Rob says, "sometimes in slightly scary dreams like this I try to shout and nothing comes out" [dreams]|01:56 jenrexrode says, "you'd have to recap" [dreams]|01:56 Rob says, "actually I wasn't so much scared as too busy moment to moment to have much time to think" [dreams]|01:56 Johnny says, "I like how you said "three guys dressed as cops"." [dreams]|01:57 Johnny says, "Like, they're really milk men." [dreams]|01:57 Rob says, "that's how it seemed! like they'd put on costumes so I'd recognize them as cops" [dreams]|01:57 jenrexrode says (to Johnny), "hehe" [begood]|01:57 Ellison says, "I really hated the controls in Rage, but I was pleased with the world-building they tried to do. like, it took forever to find where to find my first mission, but I was intrigued by the starting area. Borderland's fighting and missions just bores me to tears. Rage's fighting kind of pissed me off for whatever reason, but I want to believe that it has more depth than Borderlands." [dreams]|01:59 Johnny says, "So, Gearbox apparently calls Borderlands a "role-playing shooter" or something." [dreams]|01:59 Johnny says, "ilac" [lounge]|01:59 Petrosilius arrives from the east. [lounge]|01:59 Petrosilius says, "Hey all." [begood]|01:59 Johnny says, "So, Gearbox apparently calls Borderlands a "role-playing shooter" or something." [lounge]|02:00 Johnny says, "Hi Petrosilius" [lounge]|02:00 zarf walks off through the wall; blinding white light flares briefly around him. [begood]|02:00 Johnny says, "The main thing I dislike is that nothing seems to matter." [begood]|02:00 Johnny says, "Also, there are some fetch quests where the thing to fetch is near impossible to find." [dreams]|02:01 Rob says, "eagh plastic surgery cat lady" [begood]|02:01 Johnny says, "Compared to the Fallouts or whatever else. I was going after a key to get into a mine to kill some dude called Sledge." [begood]|02:02 Johnny says, "And it all seems meaningless." [begood]|02:02 Johnny says, "Like, it's "take out this dude for the good of whoever, and to open up more of the map"." [dreams]|02:02 jenrexrode says, "heh heh" [dreams]|02:02 Rob says, "I find it horrible that the people who have this kind of repeated surgery and end up with these stretched and bloated freaky faces think it makes them look beautiful somehow" [videogames]|02:03 Rob says, "I decided I felt like playing psychonauts again" [videogames]|02:03 Rob says, "and it took 3 hours to download it via xbox live, so it became much less of an impulse buy and play than I was expecting" [begood]|02:03 Ellison says, "yeah... and maybe I didn't upgrade enough, but it almost seems like you're expected to die while fighting bosses and just run back from the nearest spawn point." [lounge]|02:03 olethros says, "beach-time" [lounge]|02:03 olethros has ordered three mega-generators to be installed in his boathouse. [lounge]|02:04 Rob says, "beach? huh" [begood]|02:04 Johnny says, "And respawning enemies." [videogames]|02:04 Ellison says, "dang" [lounge]|02:04 inky says, "he's on vacation" [lounge]|02:04 inky says, "elsewhere in greece" [lounge]|02:04 inky says, "on Naxos, which I think is one of the evil transformers" [begood]|02:04 Johnny says, "There was some robot in the safe house that needs repair, so I'm running around like an idiot looking for the repair kit, and the bastards keep respawning." [whiz-games]|02:05 Whizzard stretches. [whiz-games]|02:05 Whizzard says, "Whew." [videogames]|02:05 Ellison says, "unfortunately, I have played that so many times that it's not quite the escape it used to be for me" [begood]|02:05 Johnny says, "Including these huge bastards with a ton of health and a rocket launcher." [lounge]|02:05 Ellison says, "heh" [whiz-games]|02:05 Whizzard says, "Almost done painting my Vauban, and I added some star decals to my bombers and blimps." [begood]|02:06 Ellison says, "I think you basically need to play with friends to get anywhere" [movie]|02:06 Rob says, "the first total recall movie had verhoeven's weird sense of humor going for it, this new one looks like it has no sense of humor about itself at all" [begood]|02:06 Johnny says, "Yeah." [movie]|02:06 Ellison says, "yeah" [whiz-games]|02:06 Whizzard says, "I tried adding some lettering to my Battleship for its name, but it was literally so damn small I lost it." [begood]|02:06 Johnny says, "And ultimately enemies." [lounge]|02:07 Rob says, "heh" [videogames]|02:07 Rob says, "I've played it through twice" [movie]|02:07 Ellison says, "both of the reviews I've read were written by people who think the first movie was just okay (they give Verhoeven credit, sure, and the movie is not without its flaws but I think time has just made the cool Verhoeven stuff even cooler)" [videogames]|02:07 Rob says, "I'm enjoying the early bits but I'm having a dawning recollection coming on of levels I really always hate that I'm looming near to encountering again" [whiz-games]|02:08 Whizzard says, "I got it onto my putty tool, then tried to slide it onto the ship, and I was all..."Huh. Abracadabra. Nope, too small for me to do this."" [videogames]|02:08 Rob says, "also I'm really annoyed at the -- it's a platformer, so you have to do a lot of jumping from platform to platform, and it seems like the edge of every platform has an invisible stripe on it such that if your foot is on this stripe the jump button doesn't register" [videogames]|02:09 Rob says, "and I tend to run to the edge of things and then hit jump, and often end up falling to my doom. I need to recalibrate and jump slightly before that every time" [begood]|02:09 Ellison says, "and even the GOTY edition only gives you codes that can be used for one instance of the DLC, not letting you share the DLC with whoever you want (at least for the 360 version)" [begood]|02:09 Ellison says, "definitely a game to be avoided" [videogames]|02:09 Rob says, "but it makes me miserable, because I'm hitting the dang button and the character is not jumping, and the whole game is about this" [begood]|02:09 Johnny says, "Well, I think I got my four dollars worth." [begood]|02:09 Johnny says, "And now I'm not Rage either." [begood]|02:10 Johnny says, "So, really, I saved money in the long run." [begood]|02:10 Johnny says, "Er, not getting Rage" [videogames]|02:10 Ellison says, "the 360 controller doesn't seem as responsive as the original x-box. there's that bonus punching game that I've only beaten on the original x-box." [videogames]|02:10 Rob says, "actually I guess I played it through once to the finish, somehow; the second time I stopped when I reached the meat circus" [begood]|02:11 Ellison says, "well, there should be a demo for Rage somewhere. still, they've been apologizing for the pc version lately so maybe it's still not up to par." [videogames]|02:11 Rob says, "as long as my character has a foot on a platform, I don't understand why the jump button isn't registering. it's like the game thinks, 'oh, he wants to run off the edge right now, that's what he's up to, cancel jump button reading'" [videogames]|02:11 Rob says, "that's what it *feels* like anyway" [begood]|02:11 Johnny says, "I read about driver problems when it first came out." [videogames]|02:12 Ellison says, "yeah, I can't envision exactly what you're talking about but I'm generally not a fan of platformers. luckily, Psychonauts has enough other stuff going on for me to overlook that." [videogames]|02:12 Rob says, "there's this one early level with a 'shortcut', but the shortcut was this series of platforms and I had to redo and redo and redo and redo all the jumps up to the last one for seven minutes, grumbling and grousing the whole time" [videogames]|02:12 Ellison says, "huh, weird" [videogames]|02:12 Rob says, "yeah the problem is I actually like treasure hunts and psychonauts is the biggest game like that I know of" [videogames]|02:13 Rob says, "I'm going to try to pretend there's this edge stripe and see if I reduce my percentage of misses at all" [videogames]|02:14 Rob says, "this is also a genre of game I'd like to be able to play in 3D so I can actually gauge the distance of jumps better than I can in 2D" [lounge]|02:14 Nitku doesn't even know what glutz is! [videogames]|02:14 Rob says, "sometimes it's hard to tell a single jump from a double jump, or (even more annoying) do a double-jump and overshoot a single-jump and fall off the far side" [videogames]|02:14 Rob says, "'oh, that was closer than I thought. thanks.'" [lounge]|02:14 Rob says, "Nitku" [videogames]|02:15 K-Y says, "I don't think it's a very good platformer or action game" [lounge]|02:15 Nitku says, "hi" [videogames]|02:15 K-Y says, "it's like, they want to incorporate those elements, but they don't have the experience to begin with" [videogames]|02:15 Rob says, "well there's the whole tim schaefer effect" [videogames]|02:16 Rob says, "I'm not sure I know what a 'good' platformer is any more" [videogames]|02:16 Rob says, "I had fun with every odd numbered ratchet&clank game until they moved it to PS3 (at which point I couldn't play them any more)" [videogames]|02:16 Rob says, "I've never had a nintendo system so I haven't any experience with mario anything" [videogames]|02:17 K-Y asks, "good platformers these days?" [videogames]|02:17 Rob says, "these days or at all, I guess, as long as we're talking about them" [videogames]|02:17 K-Y says, "maybe Ubisoft" [lounge]|02:17 inky says, "ok zz" [lounge]|02:17 inky has been a constant source of support, of nourishment, and also of Lego robots. [videogames]|02:17 Rob says, "the first batman game, the first assassin's creed" [videogames]|02:18 Johnny says, "I don't think 3-D platformers ever *really* got there." [videogames]|02:18 Johnny asks, "Those are platformers?" [videogames]|02:18 K-Y says, "I have this impression that most platformer developers, which also happen to be indie developers, are trying their damndest to fail to learn anything from past platformers" [videogames]|02:18 Rob says, "Splosion Man revealed itself to be actually fun in its two-player version in a way that its one-player didn't" [videogames]|02:18 Rob says, "I could agree with that" [videogames]|02:18 K-Y says, "which is also a result of the fact that everyone wants to make a platformer" [videogames]|02:18 Rob says, "it seems like I should ask myself what I would make a platformer be like" [videogames]|02:19 Rob says, "but I feel like I've never actually studied them, I was too busy wrangling with playing the" [videogames]|02:19 Rob says, "m" [videogames]|02:19 Rob says, "and yet it's a genre I seem to be attracted to" [videogames]|02:19 Ellison says, "I'd say Psychonauts is picky about where you time your double jump, but it's not so bad about having to jump at the last moment like all of the platformers I can't stand" [videogames]|02:20 Rob says, "yeah, but note I said my problem is I keep trying to jump at the last moment, and it appears to be one moment too late for it" [videogames]|02:20 Ellison says, "yeah, so don't do that! (jk)" [videogames]|02:20 Rob says, "one thing is better about playing on the xbox: the load times for different sections of the game is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay shorter than on the PS2" [videogames]|02:21 Rob says, "that was the biggest drag back when I originally played it" [videogames]|02:21 K-Y says, "I'm sure experienced developers have some kind of custom routine for detecting trying to jump at the last second" [videogames]|02:21 Rob says, "ok let me go to the store x 3 to get to the campground and then go in the cabin" [videogames]|02:21 Rob says (to KY), "that's what it seems like it should be !!" [videogames]|02:22 Rob says, "I'm tired of yelling 'didn't you guys test this?' at my television" [videogames]|02:22 K-Y says, "I mean, if you wanted to be extra forgiving you could detect a range of fumbled jumps and fudge them to work out" [videogames]|02:23 K-Y says, "I assume there are games that do this" [videogames]|02:23 Rob says, "I wish they would" [videogames]|02:23 Rob says, "or have an Easy mode where they finesse your bungling" [lounge]|02:23 Rob says, "ok I've kind of psyched myself up to play this some more" [videogames]|02:23 K-Y says, "and not even fumbled so much as 'compensate for the difference between hand-eye-brain coordination'" [lounge]|02:23 Rob says, "if my jumping works out I'll be gone for hours. if I get really frustrated and die a lot I'll be back sooner" [videogames]|02:24 Rob says, "maybe some of that tech that went into getting rock band type games to sync for players" [videogames]|02:24 Rob says, "which dfan was in charge of at one point" [videogames]|02:24 K-Y says, "now, they only sync your dance moves with those of Usher's" [videogames]|02:25 Rob says, "heh" [lounge]|02:25 Rob says, "gzboingf" [lounge]|02:25 Rob moseys right on out. [videogames]|02:25 K-Y says, "(if he is a secret character in Dance Central 3 it will all be worth it)" [lounge]|02:26 salty-horse explores strange new rooms, seeks out new lounges and new conversations, and boldly goes where most ifMUDders have gone before. [lounge]|02:26 Ellison says, "hey salty" [lounge]|02:26 salty-horse says, "hey :)" [lounge]|02:27 salty-horse says, "anyone seen this? http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/833829/gaucho-an-interactive-geek-western-july-29th-a " [lounge]|02:27 Petrosilius says, "Heya." [lounge]|02:28 Johnny says, "Hi salty-horse" [lounge]|02:30 Ellison says, "I don't recall hearing about this, but I know some regulars here also frequent boardgamegeek.com" [lounge]|02:30 salty-horse says, "BTW, Werewolf just got into the "Hall of Fame" in one of the big board game best-of-the-year awards" [lounge]|02:31 Johnny says (to Ellison), "You can just saw BGG" [lounge]|02:31 Johnny says, "*say" [lounge]|02:32 salty-horse says, "I have to say, their contests are pretty addictive" [lounge]|02:32 Ellison says (to Johnny), "then people like me would see it and have to think for five minutes about what BBG means" [lounge]|02:35 Ellison says, "nice to see that it got such a favorable response. I'm also suprised people didn't go straight to textdumping, as there was money involved." [lounge]|02:36 salty-horse says, "geekgold isn't money per se - it's currency for use on BGG" [lounge]|02:36 Johnny asks, "Gs can buy BGs?" [lounge]|02:36 Johnny asks, "Or, like, BGG merchandise?" [lounge]|02:37 salty-horse says, "it can buy microbadges (flair for your account) and remove ads. and a bit more, I think" [lounge]|02:38 salty-horse says, "oh wait, gift certificates are money :)" [lounge]|02:41 Ellison says, "the name makes me think of guncho" [lounge]|02:45 Johnny says, "Guncho Marx" [lounge]/03:04 Ellison says, "zzz" [lounge]|03:04 Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. [lounge]|03:04 * Ellison has disconnected. [lounge]/03:22 K-Y then looked around and came to the conclusion that pretty much no one in this lounge even lifts. [lounge]|03:22 * K-Y has disconnected. [lounge]|03:22 Rob comes right on in. Recapped 207 of 2421 lines from recent channels. Current time: Sunday, 5 Aug 2012, 03:22:51 AM EDT There is one new message on #if/programming/T3. There is one new message on #misc/personal/zarfplan. [videogames] Rob says, "videogaming with my brother has improved my skills marketedly in any game with shooter-style levels" [videogames] Rob says, "hands reflexively going for left-trigger aiming and right-trigger firing" Johnny says, "reRob" [videogames] Rob says, "also the sense of getting as fast as you can towards, in this case, shooting the target that ends the level. knock out whoever's in the way of the shortest path, but run at it" [videogames] Rob says, "I used to spend ages in these levels I just raced through, because I was meandering and having too many skirmish fights with everything" Tale is perhaps the only example of a Western filmed entirely in Wales. Tale says, "hi" [videogames] Rob says, "I was playing like an adventure gamer rather than an action shooter gamer" [videogames] Rob says, "this is very amusing somehow" jenrexrode says, "hi" [videogames] Rob says, "I should go back and play mass effect again" Johnny says, "HI Tale" Petrosilius says, "Hey." [tale] Tale says, "In packing for my vacation, I've decided to not pack my netbook" [tale] Tale says, "Which feels more and more like exactly the right thing" [tale] Rob says, "good move" [tale] Rob says, "where are you vacationing" [tale] Rob says, "take a vacation from electrons" [tale] Tale says, "City called Bamberg in southern Germany" [tale] Rob says, "bamberg eh" [tale] Rob says, "nice this time of year is it" [tale] Rob says, "is there a lake involved" [tale] Tale says, "No, but a river." [tale] Tale says, "A And lots and lots of historical stuff to see. And once you've had enough of that, there is some nice landscape." [tale] Rob says, "will you find yourself in an innertube at any point" I like above all the railway vehicle! I love baseball after! I also cast magic ball! Gunther apparently summons the Ruins of Old Magincia onto the Town of New Magincia, crushing everyone beneath piles of completely inexplicable towers. Gunther says, "zomp" Rob says, "blamf" BrenBarn flashes the "catch you later" handsign. I realize that nobody wants me to stab them and sell there shoes through the black market or anything horrible like that. [tale] Tale asks, "Huh?" [tale] Rob says, "heh" [tale] Rob says, "'cos that's what we do with rivers 'round hyar in texas" Johnny says, "Hi Gunther" [tale] Tale asks, "Don't people shooot the innertubes all the time?" [tale] Rob says, "heck no" [tale] Gunther says, "they're kevlar tubes" [tale] Rob says, "heh" [tale] jenrexrode says, "like in that game Toobin'" [tale] Tale says, ""Dem boys are 'tubing down that there river again, sheriff"" [whiz-games] Whizzard stretches. [tale] Gunther says, "s/boys/immigrants" [whiz-games] Whizzard says, "beebl." [whiz-games] Gunther says, "plop" [whiz-games] Whizzard asks, "How goes the weekend?" [whiz-games] Gunther says, "too quickly" [Texas] Rob says, "I guess for tubing you need lazy rivers" [Texas] Rob says, "that ain't in sech a hurry" [whiz-games] Whizzard says, "Yar." [Texas] Tale says, "I thought everything was a bit slower over yonder" [whiz-games] Whizzard says, "Sigh. Geez, neighbors getting freaky." [whiz-games] Rob says, "how so" [Texas] Rob says, "yep'm" [whiz-games] Whizzard says, "You know. Getting their freak on, loudly." [Texas] Rob says, "freaky" [Texas] Rob says, "oop" [whiz-games] Rob says, "oh that kind of freaky" [whiz-games] Rob says, "not Rear Window or Blue Velvet kind of freaky" [whiz-games] Gunther says (to Whizzard), "time to bring out the jackhammer" [whiz-games] Rob says, "that's what the neighbor is doing!" [whiz-games] ghira says, "is "to get one's freak on" a common expression? this is only the second time I've heard it." [whiz-games] Rob says, "common enough american slang since the late 90s or so" [whiz-games] Whizzard says, "It's kind of an old fashioned expression now." [whiz-games] Rob says, "probably from urban culture" [whiz-games] Rob says, "yeah it's a little stale now" [whiz-games] ghira says, "the first time i heard it was in the context of some TSA person leaving a note in someone's luggage" [whiz-games] Gunther says, " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Ur_Freak_On " [whiz-games] Rob says, "see also, get freaky. compare: 'freak out' from the 1970s disco era" [whiz-games] ghira says, "I don't think I'd have realised "get freaky" meant that" [whiz-games] Gunther says, "however, it means dancing crazily, not having sex, there" [whiz-games] Gunther says, "there as in the Missy Elliot song" [whiz-games] Rob says, "but in rock and pop, dancing is always a metaphor for sex, so they can play the song on the radio" Tale is fired from breathing. Tale has disconnected. Rob heads right on out. Find release from your cares. have a good time. Seeya later.