Topic awaiting preservation: Any One From Texas?(Stolen Idea)

Who here is from TX?

umm errr...
I think.

that is it might be a possilbiliy that I recall that wes might be.

but really I dunno

he does have this site



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

*waves cautiously, not sure what he's volunteering himself for*

I'm hesitant to lend myself to an idea that is apparently stolen.

I think im the only Irish person here, is there any way of searching ?

Hugh: I don't think there is a way to search, but there is a few here that like Guinness , that's a start in the right direction.

COPEY

I'll kinda go with the crowd here, and hesitantly raise my hand... Think you could give us a bit more info, before we realize we're in over our head?


[edit2: I might learn how to type eventually... Then again maybe not...

-- Unoriginal Cell 693 --


[This message has been edited by Lord_Fukutoku (edited 02-25-2003).]

Family's from outside of Kilkenny...but I'm a Canuck. So the Irish are in the house, just not the homeland, Hugh

for some reason I keep thinking that dude in the black coat is talking to me...

if so... screw him.

Did someone say Guinness?

And was there a point to this thread? Not that it matters, I'm just confused... again.

Good Lord what is wrong with people recently - there seems to be a shocking lack of people getting to the point!!

Right my guess is that RazorX is in Texas and was wondering if (inspired I'm sure by krets - the Asylum's Phillius Fogg) you Texans could all meet up.

Now lets talk about going to visit Hugh!!

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

Yea, I kinda figured that too, but I didn't want to say anything

However, this:

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the Asylum's Phillius Fogg

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has me kinda confused... Is Emperor showing his age, or did I just miss something?


-- Unoriginal Cell 693 --

"Around the World In 80 Days" ring a bell?

I'm going to assume Emps meant Phineas Fogg, which would lead me to believe that he is referring to the protagonist of Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days," thus implying that krets is an accomplished world traveler. Either that or he is an anal retentive chap who makes outrageous wagers. Not sure which.

[edit: Skaarjj, you fiend! You snuck that in while I was typing my witty and slightly sarcastic response. Aaaargghh!]

[This message has been edited by Suho1004 (edited 02-25-2003).]

Suho1004: Well spotted - at least Skaarjj knew what I was talking about (although I'm still unsure if that is any consolation ).

I just did a check to see if there were any other people out there like me and as well as finding the answer to be yes:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Phillius+Fogg

I also found this:

Phileas Fogg - 11,200 results

Phineas Fogg - 766 results

So...............

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

Did you just accuse me of being handsy Emps?

Bastage!

would this help?

Emps: Interesting... I was sure it was Phineas. After examining some of the results from Google ("Around the world in 80 days" + Phineas / "Around the world in 80 days" + Phileas), it appears that Phineas may have been the name of the character in the movie version, while Phileas may have been the original name in the novel. It's been so long since I've read the book that I'll be darned if I can remember which is which. I could dig further to find out the truth, but I'm just not sufficiently motivated.

At any rate, it's definitely not Phillius...

Suho1004:

krets:

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

Oh, hey, while we're talking about pointless crap, I noticed this morning that the second through seventh digits in my ICQ number can be rearranged to form my birthday. On a related note, my wife's birthday and my birthday have the same 6 digits. Spooky...



[This message has been edited by Suho1004 (edited 02-25-2003).]

bangs head on desk ... Ah much better. It's nice to have those couple brain cells that are still awake talk to each other on occasion.

Max: When/If you get a chance to add me to the Locator:
'Lord_Fukutoku', 32.017, -102.367, 'occamsrazor@ftml.net', 'http://peke23.150m.com'


-- Unoriginal Cell 693 --

[This message has been edited by Lord_Fukutoku (edited 02-25-2003).]

My big toe itches like a son-of-a-bitch.

Just thought I'd add something with a point to this conversation

*pant* *pant* *pant* *pant* *pant* *pant* *pant* *pant* *pant* *pant* *pant* *pant* *pant* *pant* *pant* *pant* *pant* *pant* *pant* *pant* *pant* *pant* *pant* *pant*
*thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump* *thump*

*turns around...*

ooppss... sorry, don't mind me, I only have fleas.

[edit by slime: added spaces between thumps]

[This message has been edited by Slime (edited 02-25-2003).]

...... No wonder this place is called the asylum .......

*Shouts nurse!!!! more meds for this lot!! and some flea spray for Wolfen*, but syaing that I guess we all have fleas so give all a dose of it :P.

COPEY

*stops by cell, looks in*

Texans sure are a strange lot...

*Quickly disappears down the hall*


WebShaman

Hey, now wai...

...yeah, okay.

Holy crap, this forum exploded since I last looked. Emperor was right. I was imspired by krets thread. I live in Grapevine Texas. And holy crap the heavens dumped some ice last night. I was up till 1:00 AM in the morning searching out streets with big hills to slide down in my rubermaid storage bin(Yeah that sounds kinda wierd, but it was fun). Ive only lived here five years, but ive never scene so much ice on the ground.



[This message has been edited by RazorX (edited 02-25-2003).]

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[This message has been edited by Lord_Fukutoku (edited 02-25-2003).]

RazorX: Well paint me pink and call me Susan - is there no end to this?? I at least thought that when you replied it would actually be to nail this down!! But no

Allow me:

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Hey all you crazy Texan inmates do you fancy getting together some time as there are a number of us from around those parts - db and Fig live relatively close together in the south of the state so perhaps they might like to suggest a common venue (if they are interested).

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

starts looking for the can of pink paint ... I know we used it for something not too long ago... Now where'd it go...

* Sits in the corner painting my finger & toe nails pink.... *cough*....ermmm? runs over to Lord_Fukutoku..... *

Here you go Lord_Fukutoku, now go and cache Emp.... hehe.... ;P

*Runs away far way to wash of the pink paint off, before anyone notices my nice pink hair nails ;P..... Dam them pills, there turning my all weird again*

COPEY

yes... now i know who did it... Lord_F painted the black pills pink... this is how we all got tricked

"Freedom of speech is by no means freedom to insult others" from the Razorart goodbye letter.

RazorX: You thrive on mystery, don't you.

Susan: How about if we just scribble all over you with blue crayons?

Professor Plum.

In the Library.

With a wrench.

=)

I win.

In his best Nixon imitation... (which isn't so good) ... I cannot tell a lie.

OK, ok, I admit it... But I didn't inhale... 4 score and 7 years ago, I did not have sexual relations with that girl... unfortunately...


wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, lead based paint is fun

Heyyyyyy, where'd Emps go?

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Professor Plum.

In the Library.

With a wrench.

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On that note, did anyone else ever get bothered when it was revealed that your character was the one who committed the murder? Or was it just me?

And then there is always the logical contradiction of discovering that your character is the murderer, yet you have to reveal yourself to win the game. Wouldn't it be much more interesting if, once you found out that you were the murderer, you had to go around and make sure you were never discovered?

No, the really shitty bit about having your character commit the murder is when everyone calls you to that same frigin room over and fucking over again just to make sure they got the right frigin character.

Not that I got bitter about it or anything.

Oh yeah, there is that, too. I had forgotten about that. It's been a while since I've played Clue...

Don`t have a clue.

And as much as I`d like to get in on this Premium Social Event, I live in Colorado, now. Probably won`t make it .

Bummer.

Wowzers did it again. You cant go sliding down streets in plastic bins without the thread exploding again. But yes, I live in Texas and was wondering if anyone wanted to get together some time or something of the sorts. I live in Grapevine, which Im sure anyone in Texas knows where it is. Unfortunately TX is huge, so as far as me being there is concerned there would have to be some people in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Oh, and yeah I do thrive on mystery. I thought yall would get the idea when I said I stole krets thread idea, but I hope this makes things clear, peace.


[This message has been edited by RazorX (edited 02-26-2003).]

Aw, why'd you have to go and spoil all the fun?

Sorry, I didnt intend on all the fun. Its just that I live in the metroplex here and ive never seen this much ice/snow all over the place and there are these rubermaid plastic bins(fairly large) and some streets on big hills, and yeah ive been outside quite a bit. Im quite soar now. After smacking into curbs, then continueing to roll on the curb, and hitting a stop sign, im in some pain. It hurts to rotate my shoulder. Pain just shoots down my back. Big fun though. I would recomend sliding down city streets in big plastic bins to anyone. Just wear a leather jacket, cause when you are rolling/flipping along a curb you want some protection from the concrete and ice. And other materials will most likely rip.

You want to talk ice? Let's talk ice.

As some may not know, I work with the morning news at CBS in Dallas-Fort Worth. (The studio is actually in Fort Worth.)

Ice started to hit Monday night. I got a call at 7 PM telling me to be in at 2 AM. I normally get there around 4 AM.

I drove to work the next morning, and with the ice on the highway, it took me 45 minutes to travel what normally takes me 15. We did our normal morning show from 5 AM to 7 AM and cut-ins from 7 to 9. Ice ice ice. Don't go to work. Yadda yadda yadda.

Next was the noon show. Ice ice ice.

Then came the calls from crew saying they weren't coming in. I was asked to stay. Sure, why not.

While normally we do two half-hour shows at 5 and 6, management decided we should also do a special one-hour 4 o'clock. An hour and a half from 4 to 5:30, then back again at 6 for another half hour. Ice ice ice. Weather weather weather. Traffic traffic traffic.

I finally left at 6:45 PM after working almost 17 hours. It took me an hour to get home, I ate some soup, got about 5 hours sleep and was back to work again at 4 AM after an even longer drive, because by then the ice was worse. Almost couldn't make it up the hill into the parking lot. (Some people got stuck after sliding back down.)

Then, get this, we go on at 5 AM, as usual, but stayed on for 5 hours straight. Ice ice ice. Ice ice ice. Ice ice ice. Didn't even get fed. Didn't even get a lunch break. (The evening crew got two meals, courtesy CBS 11, as they also did the night before.)

The roads, at least where I was going, were a little better by 12:45 when I went home. Only took me a half hour to do a 15-minute drive.

Then I slept. Then I ate. Then I slept again.

[i]Edit typo: "Norming" show"? What the hell's a "norming" show?



[This message has been edited by Wes (edited 02-27-2003).]

did you complain to someone? I know ever here it's illegal for your emplyer to get you to do a 17-hour shift without

A) Providing one 15 minute break for every 4 hours worked

and

2) Providing a one hour meal break every 8 hours worked

I believe Texas is a work at will state. So Wes, I guess that means you live in the metroplex, right? Well, of course you do. But where abouts this jungle do you live?

Besides, it's just the business I work in. The hours weren't what bothered me, anyway. It was the disregard for us as not only dedicated employees, but also as hungry people. Evening crew gets two meals two nights in a row and we can't even get some fucking bagels?

mmmm...Bagels...with creamcheese and green onions *drools*

Can't get them in Germany...dammit! Look what you did, got me hungry for something I can't buy here...damn you Wes!

*Mourns over Bagels*

No bagels in Germany? Ah, the irony.

The whatroplex?

*kicks Wes*
Send some o' those thar Bagels this way, partner!

Oh man...last time I had Bagels was last year, in Florida...*drools*

You know, hot out of the oven...*slurrrp!*

With lots of cream cheese...

I hate you.

What's even funnier is that, although I didn't mention it at the time, I was honestly eating a bagel when I wrote that last reply. With cream cheese.

Skaarjj - The Metroplex is a strange term used in reference to greater Dallas-Fort Worth. From what I've read, it's unique to the area. Although the origin of the term is difficult to determine, it's apparently a combination of the informal metro (metropolitan) and the suffix plex (divided into a specified number of parts).

Heh...funnily enough, the American Heritage Dictionary uses DFW in its definition of metropolitan:

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Of or constituting a large city or urbanized area, including adjacent suburbs and towns: the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area; a metropolitan county.

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Dupy do. No bagels for you? Dang that must SUCK. Why cant you get bagels there? And wes, where abouts the metroplex do you live?

WS: If I can get bagels here in Korea, I guarantee that you'll be able to find them somewhere in Germany (although, granted, maybe not in your neighborhood). It is quite a pain in the neck to get what you want sometimes, though. I've been wanting to make manicotti for the past year or so, but I haven't gotten around to getting the ingredients yet...

*Kicks Master Suho*

Yeah...I'd have to f**king drive all the way to Frankfurt...just to visit the American comissary there...man, I'm in Ostfriesland! Mention the word Bagel, and they look at you funny...and no, you can't get Bagels anywhere near here...I've hunted high and low, believe me!!!

Can't believe you get to eat Bagels there... *sulks*

Aw man, of all the unfair things...my kingdom for a Bagel! Please? Gimmee gimme gimme!

Damn.

ummmm....ws....can't you just get someone to send you some bagles?? i would gladly send you bagles if you'll quit whining lol

I don't think you can send bagels through the mail... I guess WS is just going to have to suffer until the next time he visits Korea...

*Grumpily drinks his German beer*

Bagels by air? No, they have to be fresh...then they taste the best! And actually, I'm not sure if they would get through customs here...hmm...

You know Master Suho...Korea is sounding better and better...

ws.. try salomon bagels in Berlin. don't know how often you get there though, but the bagels are fresh

WS: You know you're welcome any time. Just make sure you bring some of that German beer with you.

Make some!

  http://www.lunched.co.uk/Breads/bagels.html

Psst, Wes! I'm trying to work out a trade here, if you don't mind!

Hey, now that's not a bad idea, Wes...thanks for the link!

Suho - Make some!

  http://byo.com/recipe/915.html