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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Su-tehp on July 28, 2003, 12:00:56 am
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OMG, this was a fun trip! Since Sandwich was going to be in New York, he invited me to meet up with him and his kid brother Jed (AKA Splinter) and we managed to get GE on board as well. We' planned this trip for over a month. Let's just say there were...complications when me, Sandwich and Jed went to meet GE at Penn Station...
Okay, get this. I drove up to Sandwich's uncle's place in New Rochelle from my dorm in White Plains. The three of us take the train from New Rochelle to Penn Station (via Grand Central) and we get there around 11am; we were supposed to meet GE at Penn Station around 11:30. So we wait a half-hour, then head over to where GE's train is supposed to be getting in.
We ask the conducter there if this place is where the passengers from Philly are supposed to exit the train. He replies that that spot is only where the passengers in the front of the train get off and that the passengers at the end of the train exit somewhere else. He gives us some vague directions about where this other waiting area is and we try to find this place. We don't find it (for those of you who have never been to Penn Station, the place is huge) and so we're wandering around for another half-hour just killing time. We go into a bookstore to kill some time when we hear the PA page Sandwich by his real name. "Michael Cohen, please meet your party in the main waiting area. Michael Cohen, please meet your party in the main waiting area." The three of us spend another 40 minutes looking for this mythical main waiting area and fail to find it. So we head over to the customer service area and decide to try and page GE ourselves and have him come to us.
Now, keep in mind, that none of us had ever met GE in person before. Our main assumption was that GE would recognize Sandwich because everone here has seen the "Serious Sandwich" pics, making Sandwich easily recognizable. (I had no trouble recognizing Sandwich when I first met him, so we figured GE wouldn't either.) Unbeknownst to GE, I had PM'ed him my cell phone number in case he had any trouble. Unbeknownst to I or Sandwich, GE had PM'ed Sandwich that he would be wearing a Hawaiian shirt to make him recognizable. (I was wearing my ThinkGeek.com binary joke T-shirt to make myself more distinctive, BTW. There's another story that involved that shirt that happened later that day, but that story will be told later.) So we were wondering why GE wasn't calling me on my cell. After paging GE by his real name, we waited a half-hour, then paged him again and waited another half-hour. By this time, it's almost 1pm and we've been in Penn Station waiting for almost two hours. Finally and reluctantly (because we had no desire to diss GE since he had come up from Philly to see us, but we couldn't wait all day), we decide to leave.
As we're leaving, Jed says he has to go to the bathroom, so we wait for him. Not a minute later, we see a 20-something guy weaing a Hawaiian shirt and carrying airport-notice-style a notebook marked in big black magic-marker with the letters "HLP". Sandwich says to the guy "GE, is that you?" and the guy looks over, instantly recognizes Sandwich and replies "Sandwich?"
And that's how me and Sandwich met GalacticEmperor face-to-face. :D
(It turns out that GE has also paged us three times, but since we were on different floors at the time, we never heard the second or third messages for us.)
I'll leave my ThinkGeek.com binary joke T-shirt story for either GE or Sandwich to tell. :nervous: :cool: :D
Oh, and here's a memorable quote from that day when the four of us were waiting in a REALLY long line for the Skyride in the Empire State Building...
GalacticEmperor: Do not try to ride the ride. That's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth.
Me: What truth?
Me and GalacticEmperor (in unison): There is no ride.
:D :D :D
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I have a sudden urge to pin GE to the floor and just keep slappin' him.
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and New York will never be the same...
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Lol.....funny stuff:D
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hehe, at least the story had a happy ending... ... ... so far :D
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let's hope they don't visit australia :nervous:
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W007! Me is back safe and sound in good old Israel, and quite pooped. Too pooped to add to the story, to be honest. Perhaps by the time GE gets around to replying and adding in his 2 pence, I'll have recovered enough to both contribute my bit of the story as well as post some pics! ;)
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Just a question: Was Su still doing his 18-year old bonde virgin routine, or did he finally grow up?
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
and New York will never be the same...
LOL i forgot su-teph lives in upstate NY. so thats who i saw in the "winter-bagle" car.... :p
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:lol: Ah yes, the Skyride. For those of you who haven't been to NYC, the Skyride is a two-minute long motion simulator over the Manhattan skyline on the second floor of the Empire State Building. It costs $9 and the line is over an hour long. :blah: But hey, how were they supposed to know?
But it was quality time. Anyway, the story is that Su was wearing his shirt...
(http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/zoom/binary-people.jpg)
And while we were in line, a young woman about our age standing in front of us stares at the shirt and says "What does that mean?" The three of us burst out in giggles and attempt to explain about computer languages, on/off states, and number base systems unsuccessfully. Finally she gets the hint 'It's a computer thing' and turns back to her companions. (They were cute, too. We should have hit on them. But I digress...) So we progress a few feet, and the line splits. Su says, "What, there are two lines?" and then our friend here says, "No, there are 10."
We all crack up, naturally.
Yeah, that was cool. I'll wait for Sandwich here to post his pics, then we can chat about them.
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It wouldn't be "ten", though, it'd be "one oh".
And it's a rare girl you can hit on after explaining binary to, or while wearing a T-shirt with a geek joke (or, in fact, most any of the sort of jokes that appear on T-shirts) on it. Unless she's absolutely plastered, but at that point you could be wearing a shirt made out of your grandmother's skin then and still successfully chat 'er up.
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Originally posted by GalacticEmperor
And while we were in line, a young woman about our age standing in front of us stares at the shirt and says "What does that mean?" The three of us burst out in giggles and attempt to explain about computer languages, on/off states, and number base systems unsuccessfully. Finally she gets the hint 'It's a computer thing' and turns back to her companions. (They were cute, too. We should have hit on them. But I digress...) So we progress a few feet, and the line splits. Su says, "What, there are two lines?" and then our friend here says, "No, there are 10."
We all crack up, naturally.
Yeah, that was cool. I'll wait for Sandwich here to post his pics, then we can chat about them.
Actually, she asked what "binary" was, and I was the one to remark on how there were two lines converging into one at the one point. But you get the gist. ;)
Lesee, pics.... pics... gotta optimize them first. Be back in a few.
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Haha, you guys are funnies. :D
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Ok, here's a couple of pics for you. First, Su-tehp, me, and GE posing on top of the Empire State Building:
(http://staff.hard-light.net/sandwich/photos/su-sand-ge.jpg)
Second, we have GE posing in front of, well... his building! ;) (Can you see it? ;7)
(http://staff.hard-light.net/sandwich/photos/ge's-bldg.jpg)
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well now... now i know what you guys look like, i'll know when to run:p
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ARGH! My eyes!
*cries blood*
Also, y'know that feeling of pinning GE down and smacking him? Well it's now spread to include all three of you.
Talking to girls about BINARY! For **** sake. If I had the cash and some knives you'd all be bleeding profusely by now.
It's people like you that give geeks like me a bad name.......Well, I give me a bad name too, but that's beside the point.
*goes back to making a Q3A clone entirely out of ASM*
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Originally posted by an0n
Talking to girls about BINARY! For **** sake. If I had the cash and some knives you'd all be bleeding profusely by now.
She's the one who asked in the first place. :p
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And that makes it okay?
The correct respond to "What does that T-Shirt mean?" is ALWAYS:
"It means you've got the most beautiful eyes I have ever had the pleasure of being lost in and, as they say, the eyes are the window to the soul. You must be one amazing young woman. Do you wanna maybe go get a bite to eat?"
Doesn't matter who asks. Hot girl, ugly girl, gay guy, your mom. ALWAYS the same answer.
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Originally posted by an0n
And that makes it okay?
The correct respond to "What does that T-Shirt mean?" is ALWAYS:
"It means you've got the most beautiful eyes I have ever had the pleasure of being lost in and, as they say, the eyes are the window to the soul. You must be one amazing young woman. Do you wanna maybe go get a bite to eat?"
Doesn't matter who asks. Hot girl, ugly girl, gay guy, your mom. ALWAYS the same answer.
Hah! I'd have loved to see you put your money where your foot is in that case, buddy-boy! :lol:
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You think I'd bother hitting on sight-seeing chicks? Hell no. As always, I'm the exception to the rule. I'd have been more like:
Girl: What's that T-Shirt mean?
Me: It means "**** off and turn the hell back around."
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Where'd that thread with you guys cursing in middle-ages clean, inventive tongue go? I can't find it....
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Just do a search for 'incalcitrant', 'malcontent' or 'prostitute'.
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taht's great! next time you come anywhere south let me know
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Originally posted by an0n
Just do a search for 'incalcitrant', 'malcontent' or 'prostitute'.
Ahh... the first two didn't find anything except for the above post, but 'prostitute' found it - great stuff. See page 3 (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=13176.40). :D :lol:
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Phear my eloquence, mortals!
All that verbal trickery an tom-foolery, yet I've failed GCSE English......twice. Hopefully not a third time though.
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Thou knavish flap-mouthed gudgeon.
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I just got back from NYC a month ago, stayed in that hotel across the street from Penn Station. Got lost inside the station and couldn't figure out how to get out for about a good half hour... Musta been one of those days :blah:
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Su's got "hehe, look at me! I've been up for the last 48 hours straight studying for my law thingy. hahahaha!" written all over his face.
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GE looks evil in the second pick. The *I'll take over the world in a fe moments look*:D
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Aaargh! Why didn't anyone tell me my face was that color! Sandwich, I demand you recolor that portion of the image to reflect my own mental self-image!
In other news... I looked up the scaling info for you guys. At the height we were at, we would be eye-level with the nose of a Mentu, if it had been sitting on its engines. The Rakshasa's main beam turrets would have towered above us.
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Now it all makes sense...
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...GAH! So much to... make fun of... here... can't... work out... where to... start!
[head explodes]
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Originally posted by GalacticEmperor
In other news... I looked up the scaling info for you guys. At the height we were at, we would be eye-level with the nose of a Mentu, if it had been sitting on its engines. The Rakshasa's main beam turrets would have towered above us.
Gahh!!! *goes to torture the SCP guys into reworking the in-game perspective once and for all*
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Originally posted by GalacticEmperor
Aaargh! Why didn't anyone tell me my face was that color! Sandwich, I demand you recolor that portion of the image to reflect my own mental self-image!
Photoshopping time!
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Sandwich, you are a giant. :D Looks like y'all had fun.
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Firstly, I though "Oooh, Vulcan!" which turned into "Oooh, Andorian!" which turned into "Oooh, ****, antennae are hard to do!"
(http://www.fattonys.com/images/ge2.jpg)
Then I went kinda Matrix-esq.
(http://www.fattonys.com/images/ge3.jpg)
I also de-fattened his head in that one.
I would do something more elaborate, but I'm not that bored.
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Hmm.
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Originally posted by an0n
Firstly, I though "Oooh, Vulcan!" which turned into "Oooh, Andorian!" which turned into "Oooh, ****, antennae are hard to do!"
That reminds me more of a male version of Mystique than of an Andorian, but meh. Andorians are in a lighter blue. :p
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Originally posted by Styxx
That reminds me more of a male version of Mystique than of an Andorian, but meh. Andorians are in a lighter blue. :p
(http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/movie/xmen/mystique.jpg)
Hmmmm...
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Eueurghrgeheueurgehugr.
Is it just me, or is there a higher prevelance of extremely attractive women in films lately?
A few years back, the best you could do woul be like Meg Ryan. Now every film has at least 2 unknown women who are so damn hot you'd butcher your first born if they asked you to.
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The actress who plays Mystique is a professional supermodel, AFAIK.
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Yeah but she's hardly a household name. Neither is Famke Jansen, or Kristanna Loken, or Kiera Nightly, or a metric fuck-load of others.
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Originally posted by an0n
Neither is Famke Jansen
Just a few she played in:
X-Men 2
I-Spy
X-Men
House on Haunted Hill
The Faculty
Deep Rising
Snitch
GoldenEye
Relentless IV: Ashes to Ashes
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Originally posted by TheCelestialOne
Just a few she played in:
X-Men 2 DUH!
I-Spy WTF?
X-Men Meh.
House on Haunted Hill That was a piece of crap
The Faculty Eh? Was she the teacher?
Deep Rising What?
Snitch What?
GoldenEye Really?
Relentless IV: Ashes to Ashes You made that one up, right?
If you'd asked anyone before X-Men came out "Who the **** is Famke Jansen?" you'd have been hard-pressed to find someone who actually knew.
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Originally posted by an0n
If you'd asked anyone before X-Men came out "Who the **** is Famke Jansen?" you'd have been hard-pressed to find someone who actually knew.
Not really... but maybe its because shes Dutch. So she is pretty known here :D
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Interestingly enough, she was Xenia Onnatop in Goldeneye. You know, the bad chick who strangles people with her theighs? ;7
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That was her...?! Damn. Evil b10tch
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I hereby proclaim that anyone who takes a trip and meets with fellow HLP-ers must post all about it in the forum, especially pictures.
This is the most enjoyable reading I've seen in some time now, and aside from being SLIGHTLY hijacked here at the end, very good stuff...
My favorite part is GE holding the sign with HLP on it, looking all lost in such a big world... ;)
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i'm going to NYC in mid-august for a day or so. havent been there since '96.
hehe, my brother was intervied by katie couric while we were there. lucky little....;)
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
Interestingly enough, she was Xenia Onnatop in Goldeneye. You know, the bad chick who strangles people with her theighs? ;7
she didn't look too good in it, tho. scorupco looked a lot hotter.
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Originally posted by Black Ace
My favorite part is GE holding the sign with HLP on it, looking all lost in such a big world... ;)
I could imagine people were looking at him thinking he didn't know how to spell 'HeLP'... ;)
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:lol:
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curious, tho, Su, did you call each other by your real names or your HLP names? :D
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They just called each other Larry, Curly and Moe.
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Originally posted by Unknown Target
curious, tho, Su, did you call each other by your real names or your HLP names? :D
I called Sandwich by his HLP name when it was just the four of us; when we were in front of his parents, I called him "Michael." Although I did slip up once and call him "Sandwich" in front of his parents while he was in the next room. For some odd reason, they laughed when I called him that...:blah:
As for GalacticEmperor, I just called him "GE."
I didn't know that Sandwich's brother Jed sometimes posts here under the handle "Splinter" until later, so I just called him "Jed."
Yo, Sandwich! When are you going to post that pic of me with my graduation present? ;7 :D
And I knew I wasn't going to look very photogenic in that ESB pic; In almost every pic of me, my eyes always wind up looking lopsided... :doubt:
EDIT: it is now 24 hours since I walked out of hell and finished the bar exam!!! WOOT!!!!
And now I get a well-deserved vacation for the entire month of August. And with a little luck, I'll be able to spend the fall and winter (from September to January) in Argentina with all the fine-looking women...;7 :D :thepimp:
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Originally posted by Su-tehp
I'll be able to spend the fall and winter (from September to January) in Argentina with all the fine-looking women...;7 :D :thepimp:
They like 'em lop-sided, eh?
And dude, it's not that noticable, really.
(http://www.fattonys.com/images/sutehp.jpg)
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Originally posted by Su-tehp
And now I get a well-deserved vacation for the entire month of August. And with a little luck, I'll be able to spend the fall and winter (from September to January) in Argentina with all the fine-looking women...;7 :D :thepimp:
Are you going to visit Mister Sticks?
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Erm...doesn't sticks live in brazil? Or am i just rambling?
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I live in Brazil, but it's relatively close to Argentina (a few hours drive), depending on where he's going to stay there. :p
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hey, if anyone comes down to the carribean for a vacation, make sure to visit me ;)
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Originally posted by Unknown Target
hey, if anyone comes down to the carribean for a vacation, make sure to visit me ;)
So you can tell me a bedtime story?:p
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no, so I can cut your air hose if you ever go SCUBA diving with me :D :p
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Originally posted by Su-tehp
I called Sandwich by his HLP name when it was just the four of us; when we were in front of his parents, I called him "Michael." Although I did slip up once and call him "Sandwich" in front of his parents while he was in the next room. For some odd reason, they laughed when I called him that...:blah:
That's because they know quite well that my nickname in the army was "Sandwich", and that I adopted it as my internet/screen/email name, too. :D
Originally posted by Su-tehp
Yo, Sandwich! When are you going to post that pic of me with my graduation present? ;7 :D
What, this? :p
(http://staff.hard-light.net/sandwich/photos/su-beamer.jpg)
Also ( :thepimp: ), here's a shot of the Statue of Liberty from the top of the Empire States Building. This was at my camera's maximum zoom (both optical and smart digital, which does not "invent" pixels), and except for adjusting the levels of the image, is untouched. Nice, eh? :D
(http://staff.hard-light.net/sandwich/photos/lady-liberty.jpg)
And lastly, as we were coming out of the Emipre States Building, we came across a Frozen Yogurt shop that supports Freespace! Look!
(http://staff.hard-light.net/sandwich/photos/alpha1-yogurt.jpg)
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:lol:
*wants some Alpha 1 frozen yogurt*
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totally missed alpha 1.. *was too busy chuckling at the salad tossing bar
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
totally missed alpha 1.. *was too busy chuckling at the salad tossing bar
Oh, you think that's funny? Hah! Wait for the next pic. :D
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Bah... BMW... Get a Mitsubishi. :rolleyes:
Oh if I must... "nice car."
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Ok... right next door to the Alpha 1 Frozen Yogurt shop was this:
(http://staff.hard-light.net/sandwich/photos/omelettes.jpg)
It took me a while, but once I realized what was written there and got out my camera, other people started stopping to see what we were looking at... as you can see. :)
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:lol: grammar is your friend...
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Great...
Where do they find these people?
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Originally posted by an0n
...lop-sided, eh?
And dude, it's not that noticable, really.
Wow, that's so funny I forgot to laugh. Very nice touch-up of my pic, really. :rolleyes:
Am I the only one who thinks an0n is a lame-brained moron with no life?
And as for this pic...
(http://staff.hard-light.net/sandwich/photos/su-beamer.jpg)
Raa Tor'h, I prefer German engineering to Japanese engineering (my family owned nothing but Hondas for 23 years until we got this Beamer), but to each his own. :D
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Haha.
*laughs at something related to, but not directly mentioned in, Su-tehp's post*
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Originally posted by an0n
Haha.
*laughs at something related to, but not directly mentioned in, Su-tehp's post*
*laughs directly at an0n*
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*laughs at Su-tehp's 'candle-face'*
*is sick of arguing with 'tards*
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Oh, Anon, thou knotty-pated prankster! Thy jests are most ebbulent!
Aaaanyway. Sandwich, you go attack them SCP guys for me, wouldja? Do it for the Star Destroyers.
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Originally posted by Unknown Target
no, so I can cut your air hose if you ever go SCUBA diving with me :D :p
I'll need to remind my self not to go scuba diving with you:D
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Lol, I can't believe that Alpha 1 yoghurt place was happened upon by three FreeSpacers. :D
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And no pictures?
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Originally posted by an0n
They like 'em lop-sided, eh?
And dude, it's not that noticable, really.
Image removed // Sandwich
Su you look beated
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Originally posted by Holy Imperial Gloriano
Su you look beated
erm....dude, an0n retouched that pic in photoshop or whatever he used.
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oh...sorry
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Su, Ge - should I post the video we took right before Ground Zero?
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Originally posted by Darkage
erm....dude, an0n retouched that pic in photoshop or whatever he used.
Has no mofo noticed the T-Shirt?
THAT's what I was laughing at. I found it most amusing.
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Originally posted by an0n
Has no mofo noticed the T-Shirt?
THAT's what I was laughing at. I found it most amusing.
Your sense of humor is certainly...unique, an0n.
Probably explains why no one else is laughing along with you... :rolleyes:
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Nnnnno. They weren't laughing because they never saw the T-Shirt. I mean, it's hillarious :blah:.
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I noticed an0n.
Hmm...a vid sandy? can we see?:D
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Originally posted by Darkage
I noticed an0n.
Hmm...a vid sandy? can we see?:D
Hmm... bug me in about 20 hours from now... I should be home by that time. :)
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Originally posted by Sandwich
Hmm... bug me in about 20 hours from now... I should be home by that time. :)
I'll be working then:D
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Originally posted by an0n
Nnnnno. They weren't laughing because they never saw the T-Shirt. I mean, it's hillarious :blah:.
The shirt looks like it got touched up by you as well; in your pic of me, it reads "1 kinds of people..." instead of the the way it's supposed to look, namely "10 kinds of people..."
Yeah, the joke is hilarious, but is it any wonder people didn't notice the shirt since you mangled that pic of my face? :rolleyes:
Sandwich, since you're an admin, is there any way you can have an0n's pics of me with my face *altered* removed/edited out from this thread? They're REALLY starting to annoy me. Not to mention, I find them HUGELY offensive.
As for the vid, yeah, I'd like to see it too, even though I was there. :D
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Y'know, you coulda just asked me to remove them.
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Originally posted by an0n
Y'know, you coulda just asked me to remove them.
You could have refrained from altering and re-posting them in the first place. How did you think I was going to react to having a pic of my face disfigured and posted here for all to see, an0n? With a laugh and a smile? :rolleyes:
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With a laugh, and a smile and a....err..something that rhymes with 'smile' and has 3 syllables.
:wtf:
Editting posts is BAD!
And your face was already pretty d........No. I'll be nice......For now.
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(http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/zoom/binary-people.jpg)
edit... the pic of him with the deformed face turned into a dog... :wtf:
Those shirts are different... The one he's wearing makes more sense...
EDIT 2; am dumbfounded... i thouht i saw his shir saying only 1 type of person... contrastd to the 10 types posted be GE, but then the pic of the 1 type turned into the dog... :wtf:
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I guess that'll teach you to clear your damn cache once in a while.
AHAHAAHA! Cool. I've got him thinking he's crazy.
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:lol: :lol:
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KILL THE PENIS! THE PENIS MUST DIE!
woowooowooowooowooowoowoowooowooowooo...
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Originally posted by an0n
And your face was already pretty d........No. I'll be nice......For now.
Gee, thanks. Your magnaminity is truly boundless, an0n.
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This should go straight to the Classics. :)