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Reply #2100 on: September 29, 2014, 04:14:14 AM
Ok, I guess I was wrong...

What a poorly trained example.

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Reply #2101 on: September 29, 2014, 04:36:24 AM
What a poorly trained example.



Maybe there just wasn't any toilet seats nearby in the woods?

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Reply #2102 on: September 29, 2014, 05:03:23 AM
Maybe there just wasn't any toilet seats nearby in the woods?

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Reply #2103 on: September 29, 2014, 05:05:53 AM




How many of those have I heard pointed at music?   ::)
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Reply #2104 on: September 29, 2014, 05:10:50 AM
How many of those have I heard pointed at music?   ::)

Excuses or Nike ads?
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Reply #2105 on: September 29, 2014, 05:12:10 AM
Excuses.  I've only got insurance ad slogans thrown at me in music lessons.  That was a weird day.  First student.... insurance ad slogan spoken.   Second one... on and on.  I got really sick of it.
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Reply #2106 on: September 29, 2014, 05:25:13 AM
I've only got insurance ad slogans thrown at me in music lessons. 

You should be grateful. Rocks, knives, law suits all would be worse.
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Reply #2107 on: September 29, 2014, 12:14:41 PM
I've been near/semi-worked in an environment with a live bullet and a machete.  ;D

Bob:  "Hey!  If anyone brings a machete to school again.... You're going to lose your recess for that day.  I mean it."




Parent, defending student who brought a machete to school:  "Yes, 'knives,' but the rules don't mention anything specifically about a machete.  How were we supposed to know that wasn't allowed?"
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Reply #2108 on: September 29, 2014, 08:03:17 PM


On my way to this "soul" country.  If I could render her expanse, it would look like this.
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come

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Reply #2109 on: September 29, 2014, 10:48:44 PM
On my way to this "soul" country.  If I could render her expanse, it would look like this.

So which one are you?

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Reply #2110 on: September 29, 2014, 11:14:16 PM
They aren't too big on technological innovation in Middle Earth.  How much time passes for all those stories?  Over the whole epic storyline... thousands of years I think.  For The Hobbit and LOR, a hundred years or so?  Always the same Medieval level of things.
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Reply #2111 on: September 29, 2014, 11:28:18 PM
They aren't too big on technological innovation in Middle Earth.  How much time passes for all those stories?  Over the whole epic storyline... thousands of years I think.  For The Hobbit and LOR, a hundred years or so?  Always the same Medieval level of things.

Isn't the Ring itself a technological innovation. You could see how they might be nervous about more of it.
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Reply #2112 on: September 30, 2014, 12:10:41 AM
That was something like a thousand years before The Hobbit and LOR still.

I remember this idea from somewhere else.... What was interesting technology -- Those plantirs, however it's spelled.  The communication/crystal ball things.  Communication over any distance. 
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Reply #2113 on: September 30, 2014, 12:15:40 AM
Communication over any distance. 

No evidence at all that it could communicate outside the (relatively small) bounds of Middle Earth.

And it was bugged by Sauron, so hardly ideal.
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Reply #2114 on: September 30, 2014, 02:39:07 AM
So which one are you?



I'm the one in the back, as it's taken me awhile to catch up, or at least it seems.
It's been a long journey, but I'm picking up speed even now.

*Looks for more red doge in the cooler*
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Reply #2115 on: September 30, 2014, 03:07:00 AM
*Looks for more red doge in the cooler*

Here, have some dead rogue instead....

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Reply #2116 on: October 03, 2014, 05:28:01 AM
My neice ate some of my sheet music today.... Im waiting for it to come out the other end, might resemble some kind of atonal music.
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Reply #2117 on: October 03, 2014, 09:16:05 AM
My neice ate some of my sheet music today.... Im waiting for it to come out the other end, might resemble some kind of atonal music.

We might soon have another great composer!

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Reply #2118 on: October 03, 2014, 11:39:40 PM
My neice ate some of my sheet music today.... Im waiting for it to come out the other end, might resemble some kind of atonal music.

That should be put on a bumper sticker my friend - that quote was EPIC!!!

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Reply #2119 on: October 04, 2014, 04:27:28 AM
Lol thanks, would be a long bumper sticker huh!
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Reply #2120 on: October 04, 2014, 04:28:10 AM
We might soon have another great composer!
I think it was better than some!
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Reply #2121 on: October 04, 2014, 07:35:07 AM
You could listen to the Bach Kopi Luwak Cantata with sipping Kopi Luwak coffee....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak



I bet someone would actually pay money for that experience.
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Reply #2122 on: October 04, 2014, 10:31:33 AM
Lol thanks, would be a long bumper sticker huh!

Don't care - worth it.

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Reply #2123 on: October 07, 2014, 12:28:47 AM
Sigh. The world has been overrun by philistines.  :(
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Reply #2124 on: October 07, 2014, 12:34:36 AM
Hey... I have a deep love for culture and the arts... just not the shitty 20th and 21st century stuff that people claim is art.



I mean, to me that looks like someone swallowed a huge batch of paint, sat over a canvas and had a bad case of explosive diarrhea.    ;D

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Reply #2125 on: October 07, 2014, 12:39:25 AM
Hey... I have a deep love for culture and the arts... just not the shitty 20th and 21st century stuff that people claim is art.

OK, so nostalgic philistines then.  :P
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Reply #2126 on: October 07, 2014, 02:21:10 AM
Hey... I have a deep love for culture and the arts... just not the shitty 20th and 21st century stuff that people claim is art.



I mean, to me that looks like someone swallowed a huge batch of paint, sat over a canvas and had a bad case of explosive diarrhea.    ;D

Reminds me of tiramisu.



*Bob wonders if it's possible to create a tiny black hole that would take out this thread, leaving the last poster the winner finally.*
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Reply #2127 on: October 07, 2014, 02:29:35 AM
*Bob wonders if it's possible to create a tiny black hole that would take out this thread, leaving the last poster the winner finally.*

It is, it's already happened in the future. 

Spoiler alert. I win.
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Reply #2128 on: October 07, 2014, 03:48:28 AM
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Reply #2129 on: October 07, 2014, 03:58:10 AM
Hey... I have a deep love for culture and the arts... just not the shitty 20th and 21st century stuff that people claim is art.



I mean, to me that looks like someone swallowed a huge batch of paint, sat over a canvas and had a bad case of explosive diarrhea.    ;D

But what a lovely result that made!

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Reply #2130 on: October 07, 2014, 04:11:53 AM
It is, it's already happened in the future. 

Spoiler alert. I win.

Now it's all making some sense.....  Finally.  I see what happens now.  This black hole messes with time somehow, or maybe dimensions, resulting in this situation.... Someone I'm here in the present but my future self is in the future but seeing that as his present....   (And apparently in a mythical land called Austria-Land...)


I wonder why I didn't just pick Bob2....  That sounds more like something I'd do.  Why did I pick jmenz as a new username?  And what happened to Bob?  Why didn't I keep using that?  I guess with the time issue going on "Bob" the profile would still exist.  I'm using that now.  Unless the account expired. 

And now that I've become aware of the black hole situation... Why do I still do it?  Maybe I don't.  Maybe I do nothing and it still happens.  Or maybe something else causes the effect of having a future self.
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Reply #2131 on: October 07, 2014, 04:45:06 AM


The one shot by the Pierce Brosnan James Bond? As if I care what he thinks.  ::)
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Reply #2132 on: October 07, 2014, 05:04:00 AM
I wonder why I didn't just pick Bob2....  That sounds more like something I'd do.  Why did I pick jmenz as a new username?  


Bob13 is unlucky.

And what happened to Bob? 

You really don't want to know. Don't be there if you can avoid it. **shudders**
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Reply #2133 on: October 07, 2014, 10:11:42 AM
It is, it's already happened in the future. 

Spoiler alert. I win.

No offense but you're all forgetting about my post from the future.

I WIN!!!

I've won this thread for the next 2,000,000,000 years. Just give up and admit DEFEAT!!!

Considering in time I shall come back and post that thread in the last possible second before the site crashes... You know that I have won and that nothing you can say shall ever beat it!!!

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Reply #2134 on: October 07, 2014, 10:00:12 PM
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Reply #2135 on: October 08, 2014, 12:25:57 AM
So that's how you want it???

I'm really jealous of perfect_pitch's awesome epicness, and I know that no matter what - perfect_pitch has the audacity, the tenacity and the will to win this thread, no matter how hard I try. I bow down to his awesome greatness...



ALL HAIL PERFECT_PITCH!!!

Clarified your post.

You're welcome.    ;D

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Reply #2136 on: October 08, 2014, 12:55:03 AM
Clarified your post.

Hmm....  Ooops, seems:



Sorry people.

Now go get some pitchforks and torches. Quickly now!
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Reply #2137 on: October 08, 2014, 01:52:42 AM
To think you thought I was off my meds... Of course not. There are some very happy people who take care of my in my padded cell and if I don't take my meds, they shoot me up a syringe full of what I call 'happy juice' and I suddenly feel so pleasant again.

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Reply #2138 on: October 08, 2014, 01:59:00 AM
I'm glad to see they finally arrived.
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Reply #2139 on: October 08, 2014, 01:01:55 PM
I'm just going to dismiss that as your jealousy, as I scoff more happy pills.

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Reply #2140 on: October 08, 2014, 09:38:16 PM
I'm just going to dismiss that as your jealousy, as I scoff more happy pills.

Do they have ones contra el tono_perfecto?
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Reply #2141 on: October 09, 2014, 12:49:47 AM
Do they have ones contra el tono_perfecto?

Yeah... I slipped a couple into your coffee when you weren't looking.   

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Reply #2142 on: October 09, 2014, 12:55:44 AM
Yeah... I slipped a couple into your coffee when you weren't looking.   

They appear to have worn off.  :(
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Reply #2143 on: October 09, 2014, 07:16:56 AM
They appear??? I think if you had perfect pitch, you would know for sure.

Appearances can be deceiving...

(BTW... I seem to notice a pattern between the last 10 posts on this thread).

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Reply #2144 on: October 09, 2014, 08:48:01 AM
Isn't the Ring itself a technological innovation.
Ask any bona fide Wagner scholar...

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Reply #2145 on: October 09, 2014, 08:49:39 AM
My neice ate some of my sheet music today.... Im waiting for it to come out the other end, might resemble some kind of atonal music.
Leaving asdie the "i before e except after [not before, you note] c" rule, what might you expect that result to be had she consumed some atonal sheet music?

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Reply #2146 on: October 09, 2014, 08:51:18 AM
Sigh. The world has been overrun by philistines.  :(
"Overrun"? No. It's just that there are a lot of them about.

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Reply #2147 on: October 09, 2014, 11:42:53 AM
Leaving asdie the "i before e except after [not before, you note] c" rule, what might you expect that result to be had she consumed some atonal sheet music?

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Leaving aside? Why bother commenting on it then, you still understood what I meant i hope, i really hope, in fact my life dpends on your understanding neice meaning niece. Oh please i hope you didnt get confused! Omg :(

What came out certainly sounded a bit like Sorabji :)
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Reply #2148 on: October 09, 2014, 01:48:50 PM
Reminds me of tiramisu.

Thank you Bob - I don't know why I didn't see this before but thanks to you, I cannot eat Tiramasu anymore. I hate you...

 >:(

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Reply #2149 on: October 09, 2014, 01:50:55 PM
Thank you Bob - I don't know why I didn't see this before but thanks to you, I cannot eat Tiramasu anymore.


I'd love to have some right now :)
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