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Postby CezeN » Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:28 pm

...Ship me... back to Africa?

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Postby Gravity Defier » Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:32 pm

Well, Kunta, I think you have to have been in Africa in order to be sent "back."

He meant it this way.
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Postby CezeN » Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:37 pm

Yeah... I know what he meant.

I thought it an appropriately ironic response, after reading the Race Relations Thread. :wink:

btw- My parents took me to Africa when I was little.
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Postby Gravity Defier » Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:48 pm

btw- My parents took me to Africa when I was little.
And I've been to Mexico. That doesn't mean, if someone told me to "go back to where came from," playing on racial statements, that it'd be accurate for me to throw out the "motherland" only having been there and not having lived there.

But I missed that you were trying to be ironic and/or funny. So, yeah.
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Postby CezeN » Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:59 pm

What you did not miss was my red herring.

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Postby Mich » Mon Mar 07, 2011 12:51 am

And I've been shipped to Germany! But not Ireland. And definitely not half to Germany and half to Ireland.

So that's settled! I feel like we've all learned something today, and grown a little bit closer.
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Postby Jebus » Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:23 am

You're all a bunch of dirty immigrants.

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Postby Eaquae Legit » Wed Mar 09, 2011 6:14 pm

So are you, you filthy Milesian.
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Postby Nehali Sophia » Thu Mar 10, 2011 7:37 pm

The rain & the fog tonight remind me of England, which reminds me of EL & Rei.
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Postby Bean_wannabe » Sat Mar 12, 2011 4:16 pm

It's not actually raining over here, actually.

You must have ours.
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Postby Paul » Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:46 pm

This one goes out to Lilbee...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfv1QtZDirY

Why? Because its called Little Bees, duh. It really has nothing to do with her. In fact its a promotional video for a group of players in Eve Online (a video game).

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Postby Paul » Sat Mar 19, 2011 10:14 am

Now its Dr Mobius's turn, because he has one of the coolest names here on pweb. Just some links ive saved up about moebius strips...

Bach canon played as a moebius strip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUHQ2ybT ... r_embedded

Möbius Doughnut
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/1 ... ughnu.html

BIG Architects Unveil Massive Mobius Strip Library for Kazakhstan
http://inhabitat.com/big-unveil-massive ... azakhstan/

Trio of nested Klein bottles
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/01/tr ... klein.html

Mobius Strip Apartments for High-Density Urban Privacy
http://io9.com/#!374911/mobius-strip-ap ... an-privacy

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Postby Gravity Defier » Sat Mar 26, 2011 12:52 am

I was hanging out with some friends tonight and mentioned, within context of the conversation, that I had never seen Shaun of the Dead but that I had wanted to for a long time and heard lots of good stuff about it. Luckily, the person whose apartment we were at owned it and she slapped that puppy in.

I thought of Nomi pretty much the entire time.
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Postby Luet » Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:17 am

What did you think? The funny thing is, I only saw it a couple years ago when we taped it off Comedy Central since that way we could finally see an edited version of it. Same thing with Hot Fuzz. :)
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Postby Gravity Defier » Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:10 pm

I thought it was fun and smart, in a very understated way. The use of music/sound was brilliant and part of what made it so funny was how realistic it was in places throughout.
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Postby zeroguy » Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:05 am

I feel like jota asked this same question around here, or at least a similar one.
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Postby Dr. Mobius » Sat Apr 09, 2011 5:41 pm

A friend of mine got a pet chameleon recently which made me think of Nomi and Pheeny.
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Postby Luet » Sat Apr 09, 2011 5:44 pm

Cool but I hope he takes good care of it! Chameleons are pretty high maintenance.
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Postby Dr. Mobius » Sat Apr 09, 2011 5:48 pm

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'd kill one of those without even trying, but he and his fiance seem to know what they're doing.
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Postby starlooker » Sun Apr 24, 2011 10:38 am

But then I would have to punch him for that horrible accent, and I'd feel a little bad punching Dick Van Dyke.
Watching Mary Poppins today made me think of Ali :)

Fortunately, I have no urge to punch Dick van Dyke, not having any first hand knowledge that his accent is horrible.
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Postby Dr. Mobius » Tue May 10, 2011 6:17 pm

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Postby Eaquae Legit » Thu May 12, 2011 7:27 am

Whenever Cracked does an article on "N Things From the 1980s" it makes me think of Alea.
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Postby Rei » Fri May 13, 2011 5:49 pm

Having a kid reminds me of Jan and Caspian, Steph and Brian, and Ela.
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Postby Eaquae Legit » Fri May 13, 2011 6:31 pm

Jan and Paul are a ray of optimism to me. Grad student parents!

Steph and Brian are too.

You parenty-types rock.
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Postby Caspian » Sat May 14, 2011 7:34 am

Parenting while studying is a breeze. Kids are totally able and willing to work around your schedule. /lies
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Postby Eaquae Legit » Sat May 14, 2011 7:39 am

I'm hoping I can get to almost done while the Tiny One is small enough I can carry it around and park it somewhere. A pipe dream, I know.
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Postby Dr. Mobius » Mon May 16, 2011 6:01 pm

So, I was in Tennessee this weekend. Drove awfully close to a certain someone who's been AWOL for quite some time now.

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Postby Young Val » Sat May 21, 2011 5:05 pm

Nomi, I bought Birkenstocks today!

I used to live in Birkenstocks but when my last pair gave out 7 years ago I couldn't afford to buy a new pair. If I'm honest with myself, I can't exactly afford it right now, either, but my feet have suffered long enough and at least now I've got a healthy savings account, whereas before I was living pay check to pay check.

Anyway, Nomi, Birks will always remind me of you; they're one of the first things we bonded over! :D
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Postby Luet » Sat May 21, 2011 6:03 pm

Yay! I don't remember if I ever told you the site I buy from but it's direct from Germany and at least half the price of retail; free shipping though it takes about six weeks to arrive.

This was the last pair that I bought. I think they cost about $45 at the time. I've had them a couple years. I love them!
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Postby Dr. Mobius » Fri May 27, 2011 12:14 am

I was channel surfing the new channels* today and came across one showing Daria, which kept me entertained for the next hour. Also, apparently it's available on DVD now.

*We were forced to upgrade our dish and reciever box last week since the satellite the old one was pointed at is going to fall out of the sky soon and it supposedly wasn't compatible with the new satellite. The new basic package has more channels than our old one did too.
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Postby Petrie » Fri May 27, 2011 12:37 am

Daria
woo! Err, I mean, la la la la la?
Also, apparently it's available on DVD now.
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Postby VelvetElvis » Sat May 28, 2011 10:56 am

So, I was in Tennessee this weekend. Drove awfully close to a certain someone who's been AWOL for quite some time now.

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I live in Cookeville instead of Sparta now... you were THREE miles from me.
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Postby Dr. Mobius » Sun May 29, 2011 12:47 am

So, I was in Tennessee this weekend. Drove awfully close to a certain someone who's been AWOL for quite some time now.

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I live in Cookeville instead of Sparta now... you were THREE miles from me.
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Also we misread your sign at first and thought it said Cookieville. We've decided that Cookieville is a much better name than Cookeville, so you might want to look into getting it changed.
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Postby VelvetElvis » Sun May 29, 2011 12:25 pm

bah, that's what everyone calls it anyway. How was the party? Gatlinburg is my favorite spring break destination.
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Postby Dr. Mobius » Sun May 29, 2011 9:07 pm

It was fun. We had a big cabin with an awesome view right off Wears Valley Road and we mostly stayed there except for the white water rafting saturday afternoon and a couple of trips to Kroger for supplies (read: burgers, brats and beer).
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