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Title: How Old are we?
Post by: Megadude on July 08, 2002, 01:17:19 pm: Thunder just had his 18th birthday. And that had me wondering: How old are we?
Title: Re: How Old are we?
Post by: Reaper on July 08, 2002, 01:19:50 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Megadude
Thunder just had his 18th birthday. And that had me wondering: How old are we?

Ask your "WE"
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Post by: Megadude on July 08, 2002, 01:21:38 pm: :confused:

I'm 17
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Post by: vyper on July 08, 2002, 02:06:47 pm: This "we" implies an oppressive collectiveness.
(http://www.westwoodi.net/~smilies/contrib/blackeye/2ar15smilie.gif)

Sings Alice Cooper: #I'm 18, and I don't know what I want...
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Post by: Blue Lion on July 08, 2002, 02:12:12 pm: 21....didn't we do this some time ago?
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Post by: Unknown Target on July 08, 2002, 02:16:53 pm: dunno...
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Post by: an0n on July 08, 2002, 02:48:14 pm: According to Monopoly I'm between the ages of 8 and 80.
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Post by: Unknown Target on July 08, 2002, 02:53:21 pm: I'm betting 8 :p
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Post by: Zeronet on July 08, 2002, 02:54:24 pm: When 900 years you reach, look as good you will not! 900 years old i am.

EDIT: 3800 posts yay, a few posts back :D.
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Post by: SlipStream on July 08, 2002, 02:58:35 pm: I am 22 here.
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Post by: Darkage on July 08, 2002, 02:59:45 pm: I am 18 here.
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Post by: JR2000Z on July 08, 2002, 03:16:42 pm: Lost count.
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Post by: Knight Templar on July 08, 2002, 03:19:44 pm: would anyone beleive me if i said i was a 48 year old asain pervert from libya?
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Post by: Unknown Target on July 08, 2002, 03:21:19 pm: Probably not...
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Post by: Redfang on July 08, 2002, 03:21:22 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Knight Templar
would anyone beleive me if i said i was a 48 year old asain pervert from libya?

Should I? :wtf:
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Post by: Knight Templar on July 08, 2002, 03:24:03 pm: only if u like fruity pebbles, mr. 666 post.

sorry that was completely useless post. oh well. won't happen again, now will it? :D :D
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Post by: Zeronet on July 08, 2002, 03:25:23 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Redfang

Should I? :wtf:

Doomed you are, Mr 666 post, sleep you must not until postcount changes, or bad things happen they will.
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Post by: Redfang on July 08, 2002, 03:31:36 pm: NO! I'm evil! Post now, I have to. :shaking:

:p

All you with more than 666 posts have passed that mark... :nervous:
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Post by: CP5670 on July 08, 2002, 03:45:07 pm: I'm soon going to reach that 3000 mark... ;7

Anyway, I am 15.84657534.
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Post by: an0n on July 08, 2002, 03:46:48 pm: Quote
Originally posted by CP5670
I'm soon going to reach that 3000 mark... ;7

Anyway, I am 15.84657534.

*beats the crap outta CP precisely 12 times*
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Post by: Redfang on July 08, 2002, 03:46:52 pm: :ha: When I saw CP's post I knew he would put the decimals...
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Post by: Zeronet on July 08, 2002, 03:50:53 pm: Quote
Originally posted by CP5670
I'm soon going to reach that 3000 mark... ;7

Anyway, I am 15.84657534.

Actually thats not how old you are now. You'll have to keep telling us your age if your gonna narrow it down so much.
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Post by: Dark_4ce on July 08, 2002, 03:51:48 pm: 22
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Post by: Thorn on July 08, 2002, 03:58:52 pm: Just about 19...
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Post by: Warlock on July 08, 2002, 04:11:26 pm: 28 last time I checked.
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Post by: LtNarol on July 08, 2002, 04:16:20 pm: old enough to know better and young enough not to care
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Post by: aldo_14 on July 08, 2002, 04:16:55 pm: 20 in September.

(God, I'm feeling old.......... :D )
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Post by: Dark_4ce on July 08, 2002, 04:21:51 pm: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14

(God, I'm feeling old.......... :D )

I know how you feel. 8 more years and I'm 30. And the years are just flying by. Damn... :D
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Post by: penguin on July 08, 2002, 06:08:17 pm: I am 38. I can't really be the oldest one here, can I?? :nervous:

*penguin slowly hobbles away for a refreshing glass of prune juice*
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Post by: Blue Lion on July 08, 2002, 06:24:44 pm: Damn Warlock......how old is Fred? 60? I don't even remember
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Post by: Joey_21 on July 08, 2002, 06:32:17 pm: Will be 18 in on Aug 7. :)
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Post by: Alikchi on July 08, 2002, 06:36:56 pm: 14, male, single. ;7
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Post by: Warlock on July 08, 2002, 06:37:21 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Blue Lion
Damn Warlock......how old is Fred? 60? I don't even remember

Who ?
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Post by: LtNarol on July 08, 2002, 06:58:00 pm: Fred from FS2 online...probably 40s or 50s
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Post by: Blue Lion on July 08, 2002, 07:23:12 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Warlock

Who ?

Fred, really old guy, never played SW just kinda hung around
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Post by: Blue Lion on July 08, 2002, 07:24:53 pm: Quote
Originally posted by LtNarol
Fred from FS2 online...probably 40s or 50s

Nah he was more like 50-60's he used to tell me how the game was for his grandson :p
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Post by: an0n on July 08, 2002, 07:27:04 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Blue Lion

Fred, really old guy, never played SW just kinda hung around

:wtf:
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Post by: LtNarol on July 08, 2002, 07:33:26 pm: and of course, BL doesnt play anything other than squadwar :p

seriously though, i dont think Fred is in his 60s....he doesnt talk like he's that old; then again, he could just be like my step-father who at the age of 40 hasnt grown past 18
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Post by: Blue Lion on July 08, 2002, 07:45:50 pm: Quote
Originally posted by LtNarol
and of course, BL doesnt play anything other than squadwar :p

I do too!

*search for thwack smilie*

Dammit...

*thwack*
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Post by: Inquisitor on July 08, 2002, 07:55:07 pm: "We" are 32.

And since Fred seems to be Dead (had to, sorry), that makes Penguin old man of the moment!

w00t!
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Post by: delta_7890 on July 08, 2002, 08:36:40 pm: :lol: I'm sixteen myself. ^^;;
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Post by: Stealth on July 08, 2002, 08:42:01 pm: 17 in a few days, and
ARE YOU AFRAID TO EAT BITTER!?
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Post by: CODEDOG ND on July 08, 2002, 09:01:04 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Stealth
19 in a few days
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Post by: Sesquipedalian on July 08, 2002, 09:18:03 pm: 23. There, aren't you happy to know that? ;)
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Post by: Warlock on July 08, 2002, 09:23:29 pm: Well blue...Viper on DA was in his 40's ,...hell most of DA was 30-35 or so. I think the only 3 younger than myself were Shoa...low 20s and Blick,..14.

:D

Now you know our secret ....sorry but you all must now die.
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Post by: penguin on July 08, 2002, 09:27:59 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Inquisitor
And since Fred seems to be Dead (had to, sorry), that makes Penguin old man of the moment!

w00t!
:mad: dammit, I am bitter :mad:
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Post by: Stryke 9 on July 08, 2002, 09:52:32 pm: As old as time itself.
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Post by: an0n on July 08, 2002, 09:55:32 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
As old as time itself.

Prove it. Prove it without using quantum theory.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on July 08, 2002, 10:01:45 pm: All the atoms I'm composed of have always existed, or at least as long as the universe. First Law of Thermodynamics or summat.
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Post by: an0n on July 08, 2002, 10:04:58 pm: Ah yes, but can ones being be defined merely by it's parts, or is it the very process of interaction between the components which gives us our being?
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Post by: Stryke 9 on July 08, 2002, 10:42:36 pm: Is a rock still a rock when you cut it in half? Nothing is new about my body, and, if we are to believe a theory I happen to despise utterly and yet reluctantly admit as possible, none of my thoughts are new, either.
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Post by: Stealth on July 09, 2002, 12:55:56 am: Quote
Originally posted by CODEDOG ND
19 in a few days

but i said i was going to be 17 in a few days... not 19
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Post by: Gortef on July 09, 2002, 04:24:08 am: 22...
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Post by: JBX-Phoenix on July 09, 2002, 06:59:13 am: 15 and some
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Post by: Sandwich on July 09, 2002, 07:42:41 am: 24 I will be in 1.6 months. Ouch...

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Originally posted by penguin
I am 38. I can't really be the oldest one here, can I?? :nervous:

*penguin slowly hobbles away for a refreshing glass of prune juice*

Worry not, Psycho's here (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,7587.0.html)! :D
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Post by: Ryx on July 09, 2002, 07:43:23 am: 23 this year *checks forum calendar*... yep 23 (http://w1.520.telia.com/~u52019065/smiley/buttrock.gif)
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Post by: Kitsune on July 09, 2002, 08:04:45 am: *looks at his Oklahoma and Washington ID's*
Damn, born in 8/26/78.
So I'll be 24 this year.

*looks at his california ID*
According to them, I was born in 8/28/76.
Stupid people can't read over there.

And what's sad? They had it right on the little black and white temporary ID, and still screwed up the final one!

(Told me they'd send me a new one, dad still hasn't seen anything in the mail.)
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Post by: an0n on July 09, 2002, 08:13:43 am: According to my drivers license I'm 15.
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Post by: CP5670 on July 09, 2002, 09:45:03 am: Quote
Actually thats not how old you are now. You'll have to keep telling us your age if your gonna narrow it down so much.

Yeah, it has increased since I posted that, but hey at least it's better than only having one or two decimal places. :p

I happened to have a little bit of free time a few months ago and made a little Mathematica program that calculates the time between two dates in seconds, so I just use that whenever one of these age threads comes up. :D
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Post by: Anaz on July 09, 2002, 10:17:30 am: I is 14 right now, and will be 15 on the 26th of July
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Post by: DragonClaw on July 09, 2002, 11:18:57 am: 15, and I drive around in an F50(I wish ) ^^;;
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Post by: Ace Pace on July 09, 2002, 11:52:40 am: 12.423 , now whos the youngest?:D
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Post by: Stryke 9 on July 09, 2002, 12:02:56 pm: Ah- got you there, too- I am also less than a second old, as at every instant the human body (as with most things) changes imperceptibly, and only the me in the instantaneous present is, strictly speaking, the true "me".:D
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Post by: Ace Pace on July 09, 2002, 12:16:59 pm: by that count, we are all the same age.
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Post by: Redfang on July 09, 2002, 12:25:21 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Ace Pace
by that count, we are all the same age.

Why? Everything doesn't happen at the same time...
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Post by: Ace Pace on July 09, 2002, 12:26:38 pm: sience all the time , we cahnge then we (acording to stryke) are constantly born.
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Post by: Redfang on July 09, 2002, 12:29:37 pm: Blah... Stryke... :D

But if you'd be reborn every second, we still wouldn't be exactly "as old" as others around here. But almost... :)
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Post by: CP5670 on July 09, 2002, 12:34:06 pm: Actually, yeah, we then would be equally old, since all the matter/energy in the universe is thought to be of the same age. :D
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Post by: Redfang on July 09, 2002, 01:21:19 pm: Quote
Originally posted by CP5670
Actually, yeah, we then would be equally old, since all the matter/energy in the universe is thought to be of the same age. :D

Thought... :p

But all the atoms aren't of the same age...
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Post by: Zeronet on July 09, 2002, 01:25:11 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
Ah- got you there, too- I am also less than a second old, as at every instant the human body (as with most things) changes imperceptibly, and only the me in the instantaneous present is, strictly speaking, the true "me".:D

Your DNA doesnt change, ah sussed!:ha:
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Post by: Stryke 9 on July 09, 2002, 01:53:25 pm: So? I move, my chemical composition changes (digestion, respiration, et al.) I'm never precisely the same person from one instant to the next. Thus, the person I am currently is less than an instant old.:D
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Post by: Sandwich on July 09, 2002, 04:38:58 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Kitsune
*looks at his Oklahoma and Washington ID's*
Damn, born in 8/26/78.
So I'll be 24 this year.

:eek: You mean.... you were born one day before I was?? :lol:

Hmm... Washington ID, eh? You weren't born in Washington State by any chance, were you? :D
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Post by: CP5670 on July 09, 2002, 04:47:56 pm: Quote

Thought... :p

But all the atoms aren't of the same age...

Well it couldn't really be otherwise going by the law of energy conservation; the atoms are of different ages but the quarks and leptons would be equal. :p
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Post by: beatspete on July 09, 2002, 05:38:31 pm: I'm 16 currently, 17 in september. We should have had a poll for this with age ranges to choose.
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Post by: JC Denton on July 09, 2002, 09:46:04 pm: You f00lz talking quantum shmack about the human body recreating itself every instant of Planck time are getting annoying.

It's starting to read like something from "Thief of Time," one of the latest in the Discworld series. Y'all sound too much like Wen the Eternally Surprised...

As of sometime 6 months ago, I am 18.

And this makes how many times we've seen this topic in one form or another spring up here?
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Post by: Blue Lion on July 09, 2002, 10:58:12 pm: Quote
Originally posted by JC Denton

And this makes how many times we've seen this topic in one form or another spring up here?

Seems like 300....
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Post by: Kitsune on July 10, 2002, 12:11:21 am: Nope, was born in Atlanta, Ga.
Spent 3 months there, moved to florida for 2 years, then to oklahoma till I turned 18, then Navy, then back to OK, then to CA, back to OK (dad, I have issues with now...) Then up to wa.

Around the world in 24 years...
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Post by: Kamikaze on July 10, 2002, 04:12:07 am: woo, I'm 13, youngest so far? :D (although there are some other 13s on HLP...)
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Post by: Ace Pace on July 10, 2002, 04:16:43 am: nope i'm 12.
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Post by: TheCelestialOne on July 10, 2002, 04:34:30 am: ...2o...20...2O!
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Post by: Stunaep on July 10, 2002, 06:57:54 am: Quote
Originally posted by Blue Lion
21....didn't we do this some time ago?

sure, but we have done the show me your desktop routine too about 4-5 times. I'm sure all of us have aged during that time.

what? Age? Age is irrelevant. It is the person inside that matters.:p
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Post by: Sandwich on July 10, 2002, 07:06:44 am: Quote
Originally posted by Stunaep

sure, but we have done the show me your desktop routine too about 4-5 times. I'm sure all of us have aged during that time.

As well as changed our desktops.... :D
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Post by: Redfang on July 10, 2002, 07:20:15 am: Age is at least more interesting to know than what desktop does everyone have... I answer to neither of them. :ha:
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Post by: Stunaep on July 10, 2002, 07:26:24 am: Quote
Age is at least more interesting to know than what desktop does everyone have...

DON'T tempt me.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on July 10, 2002, 10:34:59 am: ...And come to think of it, are we ever really even of ONE age? I mean, if you go on the molecular scale, yeah, different things are forming and breaking down all the time. Which molecule is us? Or is it all of them, and thus we end up being scattered across much of the planet?
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Post by: CP5670 on July 10, 2002, 12:36:45 pm: Yeah, there is no clear way to define the concept of an individual over long periods of time. The concept of "I" has no absolute meaning really.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on July 10, 2002, 03:46:20 pm: THe shorter the word, the more difficult the definition.:D
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Post by: Sandwich on July 10, 2002, 07:12:02 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
THe shorter the word, the more difficult the definition.:D

True - just look at pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. :D
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Post by: Kitsune on July 10, 2002, 09:31:40 pm: A respiratory disease caused by inhaling fine particles strewn into the air by a volcano?

How'd we get onto this subject?
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Post by: Stryke 9 on July 10, 2002, 09:35:08 pm: How else?
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Post by: an0n on July 10, 2002, 09:36:15 pm: Quote
Originally posted by sandwich
True - just look at pneu(air)mono(single)ultra(extreme)micro(tiny)scopic(scope)silico(silicon)volcano(volcano)coni(?)osis(classification). :D

Choking on tiny bits of volcano silicon or silicon dust.
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Post by: Sandwich on July 11, 2002, 06:27:07 am: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
THe shorter the word, the more difficult the definition.:D

Quote
Originally posted by Kitsune
A respiratory disease caused by inhaling fine particles strewn into the air by a volcano?

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Originally posted by an0n
Choking on tiny bits of volcano silicon or silicon dust.

Not too shabby... :D

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pneu•mo•no•ul•tra•mi•cro•scop•ic•sil•i•co•vol•ca•no•co•ni•o•sis

Pronunciation: (nOO'mu-nO-ul"tru-mI"kru-skop"ik-sil'i-kO"vol-kA"nO-kO"nE-O'sis, nyOO'-),
—n.
an obscure term ostensibly referring to a lung disease caused by silica dust, sometimes cited as one of the longest words in the English language.
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Post by: Zarax on July 11, 2002, 08:20:03 am: Nanosoft president, wich is my alter-ego, should be 47 by now...
My actual body is 20...
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Post by: CP5670 on July 11, 2002, 10:30:20 am: I knew that the longest words in the English language would have to be some biology or medical term; they are good at making up nice-sounding words. :D
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Post by: Kitsune on July 11, 2002, 12:39:16 pm: Eh, I remember it from watching a science show way back when i was in high school... (AHH! Class of '96! Yay! Now I feel old!)

anyone else remember Beakman's world?
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Post by: Sandwich on July 11, 2002, 05:14:34 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Kitsune
Eh, I remember it from watching a science show way back when i was in high school... (AHH! Class of '96! Yay! Now I feel old!)

anyone else remember Beakman's world?

'97 here, but because I stayed back a year to learn Hebrew when I first came here. :D

Yeah, Beakman's World - definetly rings a bell, although I'm sure I would remember it better had I actually had a TV for the past 13 years. :D
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Post by: Unknown Target on July 12, 2002, 10:37:13 am: *Never mind, won't let me delete this post*
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Post by: Sandwich on July 12, 2002, 07:44:40 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Unkown Target
*Never mind, won't let me delete this post*

Ahhh, so does it qualify as a Non-Bump? :p :lol:
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Post by: Sesquipedalian on July 13, 2002, 12:09:27 am: Forsooth, 'tis an unmitigatedly and incontrovertibly delectable sensation to enunciate such marvellously polysyllabaic expressions as pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Philological dilitenttes and sundry enthusiasts of subtle irony may partake of delicious etymological drollery by following my signatory hypertext link. :D
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Post by: Stryke 9 on July 13, 2002, 12:10:54 am: You've taken all the time since your last post to think that one up, haven't you?
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Post by: Sesquipedalian on July 13, 2002, 12:30:18 am: I daresay not, my slightly sardonic acquaintance. Linguistic expression is indubitably one of the most entertaining of playthings.
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Post by: Sandwich on July 13, 2002, 06:39:31 am: Quote
Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
Forsooth, 'tis an unmitigatedly and incontrovertibly delectable sensation to enunciate such marvellously polysyllabaic expressions as pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Philological dilitenttes and sundry enthusiasts of subtle irony may partake of delicious etymological drollery by following my signatory hypertext link. :D

Uhm... any admins around? Have you guys moved this thread into the 12th century or sumptin? Hello??

*reaches under seat and pulls out crossbow*

Help? :nervous:
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Post by: Stryke 9 on July 13, 2002, 06:13:27 pm: [Puts on a funny horned hat, loots and pillages a small town]
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Post by: an0n on July 13, 2002, 06:35:13 pm: *conjours up some mystical dragons and lays waste to the ancient world with fire and magic*
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Post by: Blue Lion on July 13, 2002, 06:37:02 pm: *watches thread get locked*
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Post by: Stryke 9 on July 13, 2002, 06:38:47 pm: [leaps about naked with a half-gnawed bone in one hand, grunting and smashing things]
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Post by: an0n on July 13, 2002, 06:41:51 pm: I refuse to take part in any spamming with you due to what happened last time.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on July 13, 2002, 07:05:08 pm: And same to you, buddy.

[stomps off in a huff, right into a wall]

[stomps off again, this time in correct direction]
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Post by: Sandwich on July 13, 2002, 07:21:09 pm: Oh, man - we almost had the showdown of all times! Stryke 9 vs. an0n! Dag-nabbit!

FISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:p