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@flabdablet said in why not ?:
@Tsaukpaetra said in why not ?:
the best I can guess is "Man found poles, man talked to woman about poles, man talked to other man about the woman who he talked about the poles with, and man killed the man he talked with about the women he talked about the poles with."
And yet that somehow fails to convey a clear meaning to you?
Meaning? Maybe. Clear? Nope.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in why not ?:
man talked to woman about poles
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@Tsaukpaetra said in why not ?:
man talked to woman about poles
Yeah. Murky as hell!
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@ben_lubar said in why not ?:
how many died?
Most of the people who fought in the revolutionary war died.
I should think they all died.
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@boomzilla said in why not ?:
I should think they all died.
No zombie George Washington? I am disappoint…
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@boomzilla said in why not ?:
@ben_lubar said in why not ?:
how many died?
Most of the people who fought in the revolutionary war died.
I should think they all died.
Depends on which country's revolutionary war we are talking about, really.
Filed Under: Though if you mean South Sudan's, yeah, probably, given the state of the place
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FONN-0uoTHI
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@ScholRLEA said in why not ?:
Depends on which country's revolutionary war we are talking about, really.
It's like you don't know me.
No zombie George Washington? I am disappoint…
Depends on the kind of zombie you were thinking about, I suppose. But seems to me that before you can be undead you have to be dead first.
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No zombie George Washington? I am disappoint…
Since George Washington was just a fictional character* anyway, we can make up a fictional Zombie George Washington if it makes you happy.
*created by Robert Anson Wilson as a thinly disguised proxy for Adam Weishaupt, in his famous "Cerebus the Aardvark" series of graphic novels
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@flabdablet said in why not ?:
Since George Washington was just a fictional character* anyway
Other fictional characters include:
- The name of the artist formerly known as Prince
- Stephen Colbert, 2008/2012 presidential candidate
- Shiinfo Ironbrand
- tlh
- President Lincoln Chafee (just arrived)
- @morbiuswilters
- 30 billion Sunni terrorists
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@ben_lubar said in why not ?:
Other fictional characters include
Also anything in the Klingon alphabet. Fortunately, you can describe that all using Tengwar, so you won't offend anyone too much.
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anything in the Klingon alphabet
That's not fictional. It's been part of Unicode since Ritchie Kernighan added it in May 2001.
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@flabdablet said in why not ?:
anything in the Klingon alphabet
That's not fictional. It's been part of Unicode since Ritchie Kernighan added it in May 2001.
Hah. Unicode. Good one.
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@flabdablet I sank it! I sank the
Adam WeishauptGeorge Washington Bridge!And this, which I wrote several years ago on Loserjournal:
Top 5 Weirdest Kennedy Conspiracy Theories
- Suicide
- A very quick gunfight between Kennedy and Connally
- Jackie did it
- Beheaded with a katana by Yukio Mishima as revenge for WWII
- Jack never existed - the 'Kennedy Administration' is nothing but an archaic Sun King myth
(Didn't Ben Bova write a book like that?)
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@ScholRLEA I always liked the theory that he went back in time from where it all went wrong to kill himself so that he'd be remembered as a great president instead of as the idiot who triggered a world war.
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@dkf The later series of Red Dwarf occasionally had an interesting plot, yes.
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@flabdablet said in why not ?:
anything in the Klingon alphabet
That's not fictional. It's been part of Unicode since Ritchie Kernighan added it in May 2001.
Uh huh...
Couldn't find a font that actually displayed more than boxes, except...
Of course, Symbol and the Dings family would!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in why not ?:
Couldn't find a font that actually displayed more than boxes
It's fairly well understood that Windows is not yet ready for the desktop.
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@flabdablet try running on that Lunix hardware from this year's 'year of the Linux desktop' thing.
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@Arantor Which year is that going to be, again?
Filed Under: Yes, I am a fucking hypocrite, but I have raisins for running Linux as my desktop that don't apply to most people
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@bb36e Wat?
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@Jaloopa miscarriages LOL
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ctrl+alt+del...Loss
Uh, yeah, that was in the comic.
Ctrl+Alt+Del - Loss (2008-06-02)
OK...so that puts those words together, at least.
miscarriages LOL
Eh...now how does that tie into "financially speaking?" Is that supposed to be a funny comic or is it just trying to coast on references to better comics that cool readers are presumed to be familiar with?
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@boomzilla said in why not ?:
financially speaking
I assume that's just an attempt to shoehorn the loss reference in
@boomzilla said in why not ?:
it just trying to coast on references to better comics that cool readers are presumed to be familiar with?
Looks like it. When @bb36e emphasised loss I figured it was something about ctrl+alt+delete potentially losing your data, since there was no obvious (to me) connection to the comic
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When @bb36e emphasised loss I figured it was something about ctrl+alt+delete potentially losing your data, since there was no obvious (to me) connection to the comic
Ditto. Especially since I wasn't aware of the comic's existence.
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@boomzilla In conclusion: an unfunny reference to a comic episode that's not as well known as the author of the reference thinks it is. The episode appears to be an attempt to be all srs because the author is a grown up and doesn't just want to post comics about games
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that's not as well known as the author of the reference thinks it is
It was a pretty big scandal, but that was literally years ago. The internet sometimes has a short memory.
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@Yamikuronue said in why not ?:
The internet sometimes has a short memory.
It sure do… oooh, a squirrel!
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@Yamikuronue I've never read more than the occasional strip from the comic. Never really struck a chord with me. Seems like something that's super easy to miss if you're not actively following it
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@Jaloopa I only read it off and on, but at the time I was reading other gamer comics, many of whom did a strip or two referencing it. So if you were into the right sort of comics at the time, it was impossible to miss. But then it all kind of went away, as people realized "meh, in the long run, people making art I don't care for isn't that big a deal."
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@Yamikuronue said in why not ?:
It was a pretty big scandal, but that was literally years ago. The internet sometimes has a short memory.
I'm sure it was a big scandal in some circles. Do you mean that the cartoon itself was a scandal? This is the first that the word "scandal" has been connected to this conversation and I'm as in the dark about this as I was with the original reference. Maybe I heard about it back in the day (probably here, if anywhere).
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@boomzilla The strip had been a funny comic, generally with gag-a-day. Then, out of nowhere, bam, miscarriage plot. Maybe scandal is the wrong word, but fans felt betrayed: this wasn't what they signed up for, there was no indication it was going to become a serious strip or get dark, it was like, one day "lol xbox sucks", the next day it was about the pain and suffering a couple goes through as they lose a pregnancy. Terribly poor form.
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@Yamikuronue said in why not ?:
Then, out of nowhere, bam, miscarriage plot.
Oh, it was that comic? That particular internet-storm-in-a-teacup was always very “meh” for the world at large, whatever the personal tragedy at the core.