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Algernon Sydney is Dead
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by Algernon Sydney is Dead » Thu Dec 10, 2009 12:53 am
dreamrock wrote:I see your name everywhere. It hurts me so much. I believed your parents hated you. Now I know they preemptively hated me.
Very nice! Morally despicable but twabble-y delicious.
Do you need to edit the title? "The" what?
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by dreamrock » Thu Dec 10, 2009 1:30 am
Algernon Sydney is Dead wrote:Do you need to edit the title? "The" what?
Her name is "The."

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by TheJebi » Thu Dec 10, 2009 1:32 am
dreamrock wrote:Algernon Sydney is Dead wrote:Do you need to edit the title? "The" what?
Her name is "The."

Wow, that's great, made me LOL.
But only after you explained it, guess it was over our heads...
“I’m not TheJebi because I like the hum of a lightsaber in my hand… and I’m not TheJebi because I like being TheJebi. I’m TheJebi because the Galaxy needs me to be TheJebi.”
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Algernon Sydney is Dead
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by Algernon Sydney is Dead » Thu Dec 10, 2009 1:34 am
dreamrock wrote:Algernon Sydney is Dead wrote:Do you need to edit the title? "The" what?
Her name is "The."

That's either too cute to live or over my head. Sure it's not "Thee"?
Edit: I guess not. This is like the first version of the "who's on first" joke -- doesn't really stand scrutiny but, hey, it was before
The Simpsons.
How to fix without killing the joke? ... "A girl named 'The'"?
Not counting the name confusion, this is still a great twabble.
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by dreamrock » Thu Dec 10, 2009 2:10 am
TheJebi wrote:But only after you explained it, guess it was over our heads...

I suspect it was more under rather than over. It's closely related to a pun in a sense.
Algernon Sydney is Dead wrote:That's either too cute to live or over my head. Sure it's not "Thee"?
Edit: I guess not. This is like the first version of the "who's on first" joke -- doesn't really stand scrutiny but, hey, it was before The Simpsons.
How to fix without killing the joke? ... "A girl named 'The'"?
Not counting the name confusion, this is still a great twabble.
I hope it's just too cute to live.

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by tbaker2500 » Thu Dec 10, 2009 2:17 am
Algernon Sydney is Dead wrote:I haven't played much Chinese "Go" (Used to play Redneck "Go" all the time... Momma would point at the front door and say, "Go! ... And don't come back 'til supper time!")
I don't think that the Ko Rule would apply here, unless it's possible to re-embowel someone?
Actually, some of the most painful disembowelment happens during Ko's. You think you're just fighting over .5 points, then he kills your whole dragon.
You're my quasi-ichthian angel, you're my half-amphibian queen...
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by Algernon Sydney is Dead » Thu Dec 10, 2009 2:44 am
She'd dodged the water and offed the brat. Now she snarled, "Why are buckets, of my one weakness, all about this castle."
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by m_a_kelly » Thu Dec 10, 2009 10:51 am
We'll be sad if dogs and cats transcend sapience and leave Earth. What will we do with their squeaky toys and catnip mice?
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by m_a_kelly » Thu Dec 10, 2009 10:56 am
The help desk people didn't inform me that when I zapped my PRAM, it might zap me back. Now my brain is stuck in 'safe mode.'
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by Algernon Sydney is Dead » Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:44 am
m_a_kelly wrote:Those help desk techs didn't inform me that when I zapped my PRAM, it might zap me back. Now my brain is stuck in 'safe mode.'
Good one!
It's 101 characters, though.
m_a_kelly wrote:We'll be sad if dogs and cats transcend sapience and leave Earth. What will we do with their squeaky toys and catnip mice?
Remember that when the cats and dogs are gone, people will foolishly take chimpanzees, apes, etc. for pets.
We all know
where that leads!
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by m_a_kelly » Thu Dec 10, 2009 1:00 pm
Algernon Sydney is Dead wrote:
Good one!
It's 101 characters, though.
I bet I missed the period at the end. Thanks for the catch!

I have revised.
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by m_a_kelly » Thu Dec 10, 2009 1:09 pm
Algernon Sydney is Dead wrote:Remember that when the cats and dogs are gone, people will foolishly take chimpanzees, apes, etc. for pets.
We all know
where that leads!
One of my 2 favorite classics. The other being:
Soylent Green is people? Shut up, Charlie, I'm trying to eat!

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by moonowl » Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:17 pm
Algernon Sydney is Dead wrote:She'd dodged the water and offed the brat. Now she snarled, "Why are buckets, of my one weakness, all about this castle."
Ha! Watch out for the flying monkeys!
You can't keep a soul in a box. You gotta wear it proud. It's gotta be yours, not someone else's. -Sing
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by The PMS Avenger » Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:16 am
This one is a little too autobiolgraphical, but I guess you have to go with what inspires you.
Images of champagne and kisses filled her as she made final tweaks to the Machine. All she needed was some of Norm's hair.
Communism was just a red herring!
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by Algernon Sydney is Dead » Fri Dec 11, 2009 10:26 am
The PMS Avenger wrote:This one is a little too autobiolgraphical, but I guess you have to go with what inspires you.
Images of champagne and kisses filled her as she made final tweaks to the Machine. All she needed was some of Norm's hair.
Excellent! Your first post to the forum is our first stalker-twabble.
Welcome aboard. Norm's a lucky guy.

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by strawman » Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:47 pm
Great pic to go with "All I needed was some of Norm's hair"
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by The PMS Avenger » Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:25 pm
Thanks! xD I'm thinking about writing all of my twitfics about Norm, at least until he gets creeped out and bans me. Or I was thinking about this one:
Garin recalled their last night together, her grip on his bare shoulders, his sighs, and her passionate cry: "Oh Norm!"
You don't think I'm being a little too forward with Norm, do you?
Communism was just a red herring!
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by tbaker2500 » Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:00 pm
You're right, she is very Norma-esque.
You're my quasi-ichthian angel, you're my half-amphibian queen...
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by eric_marsh » Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:13 pm
tbaker2500 wrote:You're right, she is very Norma-esque.
She's a high-priestess of the druidical temple of Esus?