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Jabberwonky wrote:If I had only known when I was in Afghanistan. I could have captured some of the free range cobras and made a few somalians on the side.
I didn't realize they commuted that far... :twisted:
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Dave wrote:
Jabberwonky wrote:If I had only known when I was in Afghanistan. I could have captured some of the free range cobras and made a few somalians on the side.
I didn't realize they commuted that far... :twisted:
*hears something whistling as it flies overhead*

Huh?
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GlytchMeister wrote:
Dave wrote:
Jabberwonky wrote:If I had only known when I was in Afghanistan. I could have captured some of the free range cobras and made a few somalians on the side.
I didn't realize they commuted that far... :twisted:
*hears something whistling as it flies overhead*

Huh?
Somalians

Those other things, recycled
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Sgt. Howard wrote:
TazManiac wrote:VW Bug?
Yes, a '74 non-super beetle
my son says to lightly punch you in the arm and shout, "SLUG BUUUUUUG!"
Yanno how some people have Angels/Devils for a conscience? I have a Dark Elf ShadowKnight and a Half Elf Ranger for mine. The really bad part is when they agree on something.

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DinkyInky wrote:
Sgt. Howard wrote:
TazManiac wrote:VW Bug?
Yes, a '74 non-super beetle
my son says to lightly punch you in the arm and shout, "SLUG BUUUUUUG!"
Oh, Jeeze... I haven't played that game in years... I'm starting to have these moments where I feel old more and more frequently nowadays...
He's mister GlytchMeister, he's mister code
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
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GlytchMeister wrote:
DinkyInky wrote:
Sgt. Howard wrote: Yes, a '74 non-super beetle
my son says to lightly punch you in the arm and shout, "SLUG BUUUUUUG!"
Oh, Jeeze... I haven't played that game in years... I'm starting to have these moments where I feel old more and more frequently nowadays...
Sledgehammer, Kiss, and Sara were popular 30 years ago,

As was the Original Legend of Zelda, for the original Nintendo...

*shakes a shillelagh at you while yelling 'get off my lawn'*

You were saying something?

I'm sure there are a few old enough to remember the Doors, the Who, and the little fab four group that blew through here in the 60's...


Welcome to the club, Glytchie!
Yanno how some people have Angels/Devils for a conscience? I have a Dark Elf ShadowKnight and a Half Elf Ranger for mine. The really bad part is when they agree on something.

Aphyon chu kissa whol l'jaed.
--Safyr Drathmir
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Hey, I may not have been alive for those in their heyday, but I've played duck hunt/Super Mario Bros. on the NES. I actually got pretty good at both. And the Doors and the Who occasionally turn up on one of my Pandora stations.
Yeah, that's right, I can kick it old school too. I remember being the remote control for the TV.
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GlytchMeister wrote: Yeah, that's right, I can kick it old school too. I remember being the remote control for the TV.
Ah yes. The child remote. I was the oldest, and was normally exempt... I usually traded remote duties with my siblings for the privilege of getting to watch my shows first.

Stupid smart tv's these days are paperweights without them. Needs buttons....prolly created by the designated remote child.

They need to make retro smart tv's...buttons for everything...stick the flatscreen in a console box...send the kids to change yhe channels... :P ;)
Yanno how some people have Angels/Devils for a conscience? I have a Dark Elf ShadowKnight and a Half Elf Ranger for mine. The really bad part is when they agree on something.

Aphyon chu kissa whol l'jaed.
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Warrl wrote:
GlytchMeister wrote:*hears something whistling as it flies overhead*

Huh?
Somalians

Those other things, recycled
Bingo. Combine that little typo with the fact that "made" has a wonderful dual meaning ("earned" vs. "induced to have sexual interview with") and I couldn't resist acknowledging the unintentional pun. Not that I tried hard, mind you.
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DinkyInky wrote:They need to make retro smart tv's...buttons for everything...stick the flatscreen in a console box...send the kids to change yhe channels... :P ;)
How about reinventing one of the first-generation remotes? They used ultrasonic sound rather than infrared light. There was actually a set of little tunng forks in the remote, which would go "boing" when struck by the key, and a tiny microphone circuit in the TV would turn it on or step the channel up or down.

You could get those TVs to change channels by jingling your keychain.

The kids these days do have keychains, don't they? It's not all electronic locks yet, right?
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Dave wrote:
DinkyInky wrote:They need to make retro smart tv's...buttons for everything...stick the flatscreen in a console box...send the kids to change yhe channels... :P ;)
How about reinventing one of the first-generation remotes? They used ultrasonic sound rather than infrared light. There was actually a set of little tunng forks in the remote, which would go "boing" when struck by the key, and a tiny microphone circuit in the TV would turn it on or step the channel up or down.

You could get those TVs to change channels by jingling your keychain.

The kids these days do have keychains, don't they? It's not all electronic locks yet, right?
I've seen a four foot tall, one hundred fifty pound ten year old.

She got that way because her whey blooded, pudding gut lazy mum couldn't say no, too lazy to cook, nor put the remote out of reach and shove her daughter outside.

The reason I say go retro, is the lazy spoiled rotten brats have to get up off their arse and work for that telly.

I currently have CRT televisions. While there is a remote, anyone wishing to watch the telly must turn it on at the source because I hid the remote. Technically there is a play and eject on the dvd player so I could hide that one too.

I am a kind sort of mean.
Yanno how some people have Angels/Devils for a conscience? I have a Dark Elf ShadowKnight and a Half Elf Ranger for mine. The really bad part is when they agree on something.

Aphyon chu kissa whol l'jaed.
--Safyr Drathmir
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Dave wrote:
Jabberwonky wrote:If I had only known when I was in Afghanistan. I could have captured some of the free range cobras and made a few somalians on the side.
I didn't realize they commuted that far... :twisted:
I've heard stories of those commuting between bases in during the Viet Nam conflict on C-130s. The stories usually echo the excitement that would ensue when such a stow-away would be discovered in the air...
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