Silliness So what are you doing RIGHT NOW? - Page 1835

kindlekitten · 02-08-2011, 01:13 AM

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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate

I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit;
Upon the slitted sheet I sit.

nicely done

devilsadvocate · 02-08-2011, 01:45 AM

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Originally Posted by montsnmags

I've had a few people cruelly say that my name sounds like a dog with a hair-lip ("Marc! Marc! Marc").

Has evolution ensured that those people don't reproduce, or did this happen in grade school?

Mark is a cool name; when spelled with a C it's just Holden-Monaro-with-a-supercharger awesome. That is all.

montsnmags · 02-08-2011, 01:59 AM

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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate

Has evolution ensured that those people don't reproduce, or did this happen in grade school?

Mark is a cool name; when spelled with a C it's just Holden-Monaro-with-a-supercharger awesome. That is all.

Like this?

Cheers,
MARC! MARC! MARC!

montsnmags · 02-08-2011, 02:03 AM

Or this old time muscle car?

Cheers,
Marc (A Holden man from a Holden Kingswood family)

devilsadvocate · 02-08-2011, 02:13 AM

The first one. The older one is cool but that's more of a "Jeff" I think.

That first one has a Chevy badge on the front of it! Oh, General Motors screwed up in the States on so many levels.

montsnmags · 02-08-2011, 02:35 AM

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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate

The first one. The older one is cool but that's more of a "Jeff" I think.

That first one has a Chevy badge on the front of it! Oh, General Motors screwed up in the States on so many levels.

Yes, for some reason some HSV (Holden Special Vehicles) owners occasionally replace the standard Holden badge with the Chevy one. I mean, I know the connection, but I never really understood how this enhanced the car. Not that I'm criticising Chevy, but I don't understand how it's any better than a Holden badge. And it goes against every "Holden family"'s basic ethic - the long term polarised slur against the Ford Falcon (and a "Ford family") was its American-ness (just your usual, insular nationalism, never obscured by little things like facts

).

Mind you, when the SsangYong Musso came out in Australia, some of the owners who bought it with the Merc' diesel in it replaced their front and rear badges with Merc badges. I can understand that Merc' might be considered a better vehicle manufacturer than SsangYong, but I'm pretty sure that anyone who knew it had a Merc' engine in thought this owner-rebadging pretty tragic, and anyone who didn't know wondered who the owner thought they were fooling. I think that car was definitely a "Clarence".

Cheers,
Marc

montsnmags · 02-08-2011, 02:42 AM

Oh, incidentally, we grew up, and travelled many, long thousands of kilometres (as a RAAF family) in the back of a Holden Kingswood (1970 HT), from which the early Monaro was cropped (in the same way the later was cropped from the Commodore). It features huge in my memory, because we spent so much time travelling a thousand kilometres or so on holidays to relatives, driving long distances to the beach (we were also a beach family) or just moving a 1000 or more kilometers to a new RAAF base. I still call some songs (think E.L.O, Meatloaf, etc.) "Avalon songs", because they're songs I remember playing on the long, hot, summer trips to and from Avalon Beach, me and my two brothers in the back, and mum & dad and my sister in the front.

Cheers,
Marc

vivaldirules · 02-08-2011, 06:54 AM

Sphygmomanometer, Sphygmomanometer, Sphygmomanometer.

Just cuz there are no forum rules that say I can't.

kennyc · 02-08-2011, 07:09 AM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Sphygmomanometer, Sphygmomanometer, Sphygmomanometer.

Just cuz there are no forum rules that say I can't.

Just don't put it in your sig!

beppe · 02-08-2011, 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Sphygmomanometer, Sphygmomanometer, Sphygmomanometer.

Just cuz there are no forum rules that say I can't.

just not to break any forum rules i am stitching my lips ...

vivaldirules · 02-08-2011, 07:22 AM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

Just don't put it in your sig!

Heaven's no.

pholy · 02-08-2011, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by montsnmags

Like this?

Cheers,
MARC! MARC! MARC!

Need I say more?

maianhvk · 02-08-2011, 09:14 AM

I'm surfing the web right now - there are many interesting things I found today:
Google new doodle;
JacksonPollock.org;
Fluid painter and BioLab by Peter Blaskovic (he has many interesting doodling stuffs!)

tubemonkey · 02-08-2011, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by maianhvk

I'm surfing the web right now - there are many interesting things I found today:
Google new doodle;

Happy birthday to my favorite author - Jules Verne.

kennyc · 02-08-2011, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Happy birthday to my favorite author - Jules Verne.

Not necessarily my favorite, but extremely significant and certainly in my top 10 I'd say.

02-08-2011, 02:03 AM	#27514
montsnmags Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,155 Karma: 4632658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	Or this old time muscle car? Cheers, Marc (A Holden man from a Holden Kingswood family)

02-08-2011, 02:13 AM	#27515
devilsadvocate Complicated Warlock Posts: 677 Karma: 160970 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Madiganistan Device: HP Mini 1101, Droid X rooted, GTab rooted/VEGAnTAB Ginger Edition/CM7	The first one. The older one is cool but that's more of a "Jeff" I think. That first one has a Chevy badge on the front of it! Oh, General Motors screwed up in the States on so many levels.

02-08-2011, 02:42 AM	#27517
montsnmags Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,155 Karma: 4632658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	Oh, incidentally, we grew up, and travelled many, long thousands of kilometres (as a RAAF family) in the back of a Holden Kingswood (1970 HT), from which the early Monaro was cropped (in the same way the later was cropped from the Commodore). It features huge in my memory, because we spent so much time travelling a thousand kilometres or so on holidays to relatives, driving long distances to the beach (we were also a beach family) or just moving a 1000 or more kilometers to a new RAAF base. I still call some songs (think E.L.O, Meatloaf, etc.) "Avalon songs", because they're songs I remember playing on the long, hot, summer trips to and from Avalon Beach, me and my two brothers in the back, and mum & dad and my sister in the front. Cheers, Marc

02-08-2011, 06:54 AM	#27518
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	Sphygmomanometer, Sphygmomanometer, Sphygmomanometer. Just cuz there are no forum rules that say I can't.

02-08-2011, 09:14 AM	#27523
maianhvk whimsical Posts: 2,779 Karma: 88193939 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: in darkness Device: current: PPW 4. brick: K3 & Voyage.	I'm surfing the web right now - there are many interesting things I found today: Google new doodle; JacksonPollock.org; Fluid painter and BioLab by Peter Blaskovic (he has many interesting doodling stuffs!)