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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5475 on: July 14, 2011, 08:51:20 AM »

You're a newbie again.
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Yes, but a wise one. With P0vv3rz!
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5476 on: July 19, 2011, 07:24:24 PM »

I may have to kill a friend I've had for 18 years.  He just "liked Michele Bachman" on Facebook.   :-o
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5477 on: July 19, 2011, 08:01:09 PM »

Maybe your friend appreciates her unintended humor.

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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5478 on: July 19, 2011, 08:58:58 PM »

No, I can pretty much rest assured that it's her politics.  Disappointing.  * Vespertine slowly shakes head
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5479 on: July 19, 2011, 10:03:49 PM »

... >>> He <<< just "liked Michele Bachman" on Facebook.   :-o

 Sure it wasn't just her ass or something?
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5480 on: July 20, 2011, 01:00:45 AM »

No.  Again, I'm sure it's her politics.  I've known for years that he's extremely conservative.  But, he's never really been big into religion, so I was suprised about it.  Also, he's had too many positive examples of strong women in his life to justify her "women should be subservient to their men/husbands" crap...it's just weird.
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5481 on: July 20, 2011, 08:33:26 AM »

Hmm. That's odd alright.
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5482 on: August 01, 2011, 04:06:13 AM »

Uh..changing the subject. I like mints. and crappy computer games.
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5483 on: August 08, 2011, 03:29:19 PM »

Funniest headline I've read in a looooooong time.

"GOP chief wants Weiner out"

UPDATE: I found a new funniest headline.   :-D

"Police urge holster use after man shoots penis"
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5484 on: August 09, 2011, 06:51:20 AM »

UPDATE: I found a new funniest headline.   :-D

"Police urge holster use after man shoots penis"

You can still shoot your penis even if it's holstered. That's why God made pockets.

I mean... what? I didn't say anything go away.

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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5485 on: August 09, 2011, 12:08:19 PM »

double tap, rinse, repeat.

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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5486 on: August 09, 2011, 01:32:50 PM »

Lather, rinse, and repeat. Always repeat
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5487 on: August 10, 2011, 12:13:52 AM »

I love your new name, by the way. :)
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5488 on: August 10, 2011, 06:09:20 PM »

I want Bananaskittles back.

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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5489 on: August 10, 2011, 07:27:23 PM »

I love your new name, by the way. :)

Me too!

I want Bananaskittles back.

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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5490 on: August 10, 2011, 08:45:09 PM »

If spiders achieved levels for every inch in diameter there would be a level 3 spider in my laundry room. 

Found it last night and should have dealt with it then because this morning it is above the door to the laundry room instead of in the corner over the washer. 
I thought about smashing it with a broom to cause 'Knock Down' disabling it for at least 5 seconds depending on my attribute distribution but then realized it would be within striking distance of my feet and my boots have crappy runes. 
I considered using the vacuum but the nozzle is less than two feet long and the handicap of high DPS tends to be easy interruptions and if it moves or God-forbid doesn't fit in the end of the nozzle I'll be screaming like a little girl and yesterday's load of darks will continue to rot until my roommate wakes up, if the screaming doesn't do it for her.   

Someone suggested catching it in a towel but I'm out of sugary speed buffs.  Any suggestions?
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5491 on: August 10, 2011, 10:44:24 PM »

If spiders achieved levels for every inch in diameter there would be a level 3 spider in my laundry room. 

Found it last night and should have dealt with it then because this morning it is above the door to the laundry room instead of in the corner over the washer. 
I thought about smashing it with a broom to cause 'Knock Down' disabling it for at least 5 seconds depending on my attribute distribution but then realized it would be within striking distance of my feet and my boots have crappy runes. 
I considered using the vacuum but the nozzle is less than two feet long and the handicap of high DPS tends to be easy interruptions and if it moves or God-forbid doesn't fit in the end of the nozzle I'll be screaming like a little girl and yesterday's load of darks will continue to rot until my roommate wakes up, if the screaming doesn't do it for her.   

Someone suggested catching it in a towel but I'm out of sugary speed buffs.  Any suggestions?

I think the situation calls for a combination poison-based DoT, and ranged attack.  I'd recommend bug spray that can spray up to 10 feet.  It falls.  It rots.  You loot the body after the danger has passed.
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5492 on: August 10, 2011, 11:11:14 PM »

Spiders are insect predators.  They are our friends.

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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5493 on: August 10, 2011, 11:36:13 PM »

  Consider him your personal Pest Control Officer. Then you can lay out guidelines for the Pest Control crews to follow. (ie;, battlefields, hunting grounds, and living quarters are to remain OUTSIDE of the Human living quarters, There will be NO Pest Control crew members make themselves visible to any human within the Human Living Quarters, Pest Control crew members are to attempt to eliminate ANY and ALL insects and insect-like beings from the premises; regardless of how outsized said crew members may be, etc.)
  They are usually - with proper supervision and guidance - extremely effective entomological entrepreneurs. Cheap, and more reliable than Orkin.
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5494 on: August 10, 2011, 11:37:59 PM »

Oh - and they are NON-UNION.
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5495 on: August 11, 2011, 12:30:54 AM »

Bug Spray is a great idea, Vespertine.  I would have used some after your suggestion but we don't have any so it is now on a shopping list, ty ^^.  Also, what kind of loot do you think a spider would carry?
I agree with spiders being excellent pest control but I wish God had made them cuter and look less like they crawled out of which ever circle of Hell left a window open.   
The idea of a personal army of giant spiders that work silently in the night and that I don't have to look at gave me a delightful shiver.  I will consider the utility of non union arachnids but I might need a translator before any kind of contract can be negotiated.  If snakes speak Parseltongue, what do spiders speak? 
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5496 on: August 11, 2011, 02:35:50 AM »

  Also, what kind of loot do you think a spider would carry?

 Why, silk, of course! :-)

If snakes speak Parseltongue, what do spiders speak? 

 Vibrator, and sign language

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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5497 on: August 11, 2011, 11:00:09 AM »

I'll thank you not to refer to me as something that crawled out of whatever circle of hell left the window open. I walked out the front door. I have the damn keys.
*scoffs and skitters away*
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #5498 on: August 11, 2011, 12:15:33 PM »

Sure, they're non-union -- now. But soon they'll twig to the fact that The Man has the power to hire, and he has the power to stomp. To live at the whim of some greedy arachnophobe who suffers your existence only so far as the fruits of your labor please him, always on the brink of sudden death by bug spray, is not to live at all.

There is safety -- and bargaining power -- in numbers.

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« Reply #5499 on: August 11, 2011, 12:16:03 PM »

I mean THEY. THEY are legion.
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