Silliness So what are you doing RIGHT NOW? - Page 137

GeoffC · 12-14-2008, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

I'm with you! Just lead the way!

Okay - what say you , this way or that ....

vivaldirules · 12-14-2008, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

Okay - what say you , this way or that ....

FIRE! No, I mean, YES!

GeoffC · 12-14-2008, 11:33 AM

Fire, where?
duck, quick,
head for the exit...
keep close to the floor....

montsnmags · 12-14-2008, 07:45 PM

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Finally, an honest lawyer to represent my majestic trademarks and fiduciary glory!

"Honest lawyer". I'm pretty sure I didn't hire any of them. I like to win (except when a short-term loss leads to a long-term "Dancing on their graves").

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Aww, what a charmer! That gibbon would say the sweetest things, if it could talk. I'm considering having it strid across worlds with me, you know, after the apocalypse thingy is tidied up.

He prefers to swing rather than stride. Thus his proficiency at dance.

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A statement of truth requires no gratitude.

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They wasted your inventory by trebucheting them at me as I strode across worlds leaving ddestruction in my fearsome wake. I merely swatted them aside and the heck hounds feasted on their bloodied corpses. Oopsie!

Oh, my Dearest...do you really think I would allow the Montsnmags PNS Marc III editions to fall into the hands of these lay people? That I would permit my cute, cuddly, little furry Von-Neumann machines to be used as simple projectiles? That these tribbles of terror could be released into this universe so ripe for consumption and filling (the universe will end not with a bang, but with the coughing up of this reality's biggest furball...basically, much the way it started)?

No, when one deals from all eleventy sides of the deck, sure one provides one's customers with some reasonably impressive munitions, but only a complete and utter moron would supply a potential enemy with weapons of mass destruction (especially the ultimate weapon of mass destruction).

So, do not fear to have "wasted" my inventory, any more than "wasting" ammunition - you are simply ensuring that production continues (it generally being standard military thinking that, if you shoot something and it remains completely unharmed, shoot it a lot more). You are contributing to profit! Keeping the wheels of the economy (well, my economy) in motion.

Meanwhile, I keep the big guns (or, rather, the small, specialised, enhanced, indestructible, ravenous, unstoppable, waves of universe-munching, furry fecundity) to myself. Everything else is just supply-meeting-demand, at a very reasonable price ("reasonable" to me, that is).

Incidentally, I just baked some puppy-cookies (made from the livers of some MPAA and RIAA executives). Do you mind if I treat your heck-hounds?

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Yes, run. That never fails to refresh my hunting instincts on such a lovely morning as this one. I'll give you a head start, seeing as how I'm am in such a good mood this morning. ON YER MARK! GET SET! GO!

Contrary to popular belief, my legal department does have a sense of humour, vis-a-vis their recommendations.

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RELEASE THE HECK HOUNDS!!

Wait...Fluffy didn't get a cookie. Here, Fluffy! There you go, boy. Okay, off with you lot, and you make sure you do whatever mother says, okay?

Cheers,
Marc III
CEO Montsnmags Enterprises

nekokami · 12-15-2008, 09:56 AM

Wow. Look what I missed because of the ice storm. It's tragic! It's terrible! It's terribly dramatic!

(Anyone want to clue me in as to what happened to DixieGal? Not that I'm criticizing-- never!)

Anyhoo, for those who don't know, we got socked with an ice storm last Thursday night that left 300,000 customers without power in tiny NH alone (including us, of course). Presumably the two trees lying across our road, powerlines etc pinned neatly underneath, had something to do with that. Or maybe the utility pole at the end of the road, snapped in two places and dangling cables precariously over the intersection, had something to do with it. It's a good thing we have a wood stove with a cooking surface. Now we just need a hand pump for the well.

I have discovered that I prefer blizzards to ice storms because it's easier to get water for drinking and washing afterward.

I'm back at work today (the campus has power, even if my house still doesn't, and the university has kindly opened the shower facilities of its gymnasium to local residents) but trying frantically to catch up with the paper I was supposed to write over the weekend, so it'll still be a few days before I can participate much in MR (or anything else fun). But I wanted to wave "hi" to everyone, at least.

Now, I really need to go make a pot of tea.

desertgrandma · 12-15-2008, 11:16 AM

Babysitting a sick granddaughter........

badgoodDeb · 12-15-2008, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by DixieGal

ON YER MARK! GET SET! GO!

Well, he's not really *my* Marc, in any sense of the term, but if you say so .....

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Originally Posted by DixieGal

RELEASE THE HECK HOUNDS!!

Ok, I'm running, I'm running. Care to take a jog through our 1 degree Farenheit temperature? That's -17 degrees Celcius. My dog walk was fairly short this morning. But I'll run as far as need be, to assuage The Dixie Gal.

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Originally Posted by nekokami

Wow. Look what I missed because of the ice storm. It's tragic! It's terrible! It's terribly dramatic!

(Anyone want to clue me in as to what happened to DixieGal? Not that I'm criticizing-- never!)

Near as I can figger, her meds were delayed by mail service and she was having mood swings. Hence the alternating BIG RED NASTY with pleasant, normal DixieGal comments.

Oh, and she's reading Pratchett on witches, so that directed the negative moods.

badgoodDeb · 12-15-2008, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by montsnmags

Wait...Fluffy didn't get a cookie. Here, Fluffy! There you go, boy. Okay, off with you lot, and you make sure you do whatever mother says, okay?

Cheers,
Marc III
CEO Montsnmags Enterprises

Poor Fluffy. Glad he did get his cookie! Would you like me to walk Fluffy and the other guys, while I'm walking my shih tzus? In this 1F temperature? (-17C)

nekokami · 12-15-2008, 04:27 PM

Pictures of our ice storm, in case anyone is curious:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/psnh/

zelda_pinwheel · 12-15-2008, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by nekokami

Pictures of our ice storm, in case anyone is curious:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/psnh/

wow.

scary. i'm glad you are all right.

DixieGal · 12-15-2008, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Poor Fluffy. Glad he did get his cookie! Would you like me to walk Fluffy and the other guys, while I'm walking my shih tzus? In this 1F temperature? (-17C)

Sure, you may "walk" the other guys. The cookies were just appetizers anyway. Shih tzus are Chinese, aren't they? Does that mean the heck hounds will be hungry again an hour later?

Watch out when you feed Fluffy. Chinese food gives him gas that will singe the lands and render the rivers foul as he bounds houndlike across the world, trailing noxious fumes and desolation in his mighty wake. Yada yada yada etc.

DixieGal · 12-15-2008, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by nekokami

Pictures of our ice storm, in case anyone is curious:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/psnh/

I know it was scary and caused all sorts of problems, but honestly, the pics of the ice coated trees and bushes are very beautiful. Looks like a fairy land rendered in glass.

Glad you were able to check in and let us know you are OK!

nekokami · 12-15-2008, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by DixieGal

I know it was scary and caused all sorts of problems, but honestly, the pics of the ice coated trees and bushes are very beautiful. Looks like a fairy land rendered in glass.

Oh, I quite agree! That was part of why I posted the link to the images.

I'm going to try to get a shot of the utility pole at the end of our road tomorrow. Snapped in two places- but not quite all the way through in either. Something to do with eigenvalues and the distance between the pole and the two trees that fell across the lines (and the road) early Friday morning, I'm sure. If I can't find a working camera, I'll at least try for a sketch, but the image is quite impressive. (And that pole has a lot to do with the fact that I am secretly camping out in my office tonight to finish a term paper, rather than sleeping at home with my cuddly husband.

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RickyMaveety · 12-15-2008, 10:59 PM

We are expecting an ice storm to hit here tomorrow or very late tonight. It's about 29 degrees F at the moment, and supposed to drop down to 26 or below by morning. The forecast shows either freezing rain or snow.

However, by the weekend, it is supposed to be 77 degrees. Meanwhile, I guess that means I won't be painting my bookshelves for the next few days. I hope they are ok out on the porch .... I may see about pulling them in as close to the house as I can.

RWood · 12-15-2008, 11:04 PM

Right now I'm recovering from having a tooth pulled today. Im not too sure what is worse, the original pain or the medicine to ease the pain. Time to fold my tent and turn off the light. See you all tomorrow.

12-14-2008, 11:33 AM	#2043
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	Fire, where? duck, quick, head for the exit... keep close to the floor....

12-15-2008, 09:56 AM	#2045
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	Wow. Look what I missed because of the ice storm. It's tragic! It's terrible! It's terribly dramatic! (Anyone want to clue me in as to what happened to DixieGal? Not that I'm criticizing-- never!) Anyhoo, for those who don't know, we got socked with an ice storm last Thursday night that left 300,000 customers without power in tiny NH alone (including us, of course). Presumably the two trees lying across our road, powerlines etc pinned neatly underneath, had something to do with that. Or maybe the utility pole at the end of the road, snapped in two places and dangling cables precariously over the intersection, had something to do with it. It's a good thing we have a wood stove with a cooking surface. Now we just need a hand pump for the well. I have discovered that I prefer blizzards to ice storms because it's easier to get water for drinking and washing afterward. I'm back at work today (the campus has power, even if my house still doesn't, and the university has kindly opened the shower facilities of its gymnasium to local residents) but trying frantically to catch up with the paper I was supposed to write over the weekend, so it'll still be a few days before I can participate much in MR (or anything else fun). But I wanted to wave "hi" to everyone, at least. Now, I really need to go make a pot of tea.

12-15-2008, 11:16 AM	#2046
desertgrandma Enjoying the show.... Posts: 14,270 Karma: 10462843 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Arizona Device: A K1, Kindle Paperwhite, an Ipod, IPad2, Iphone, an Ipad Mini & macAir	Babysitting a sick granddaughter........

12-15-2008, 04:27 PM	#2049
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	Pictures of our ice storm, in case anyone is curious: http://www.flickr.com/photos/psnh/

12-15-2008, 10:59 PM	#2054
RickyMaveety Holy S**T!!! Posts: 5,213 Karma: 108401 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: San Diego, California!! Device: Kindle and iPad	We are expecting an ice storm to hit here tomorrow or very late tonight. It's about 29 degrees F at the moment, and supposed to drop down to 26 or below by morning. The forecast shows either freezing rain or snow. However, by the weekend, it is supposed to be 77 degrees. Meanwhile, I guess that means I won't be painting my bookshelves for the next few days. I hope they are ok out on the porch .... I may see about pulling them in as close to the house as I can.

12-15-2008, 11:04 PM	#2055
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	Right now I'm recovering from having a tooth pulled today. Im not too sure what is worse, the original pain or the medicine to ease the pain. Time to fold my tent and turn off the light. See you all tomorrow.