Super Squirrel Posted February 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER This next segment in "You Gotta Have Culture" is fun to write. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Are you writing the one on Maine now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER . . . I don't need things to talk about right now. I'm just riding the post-Olympic-Men's-Ice-Hockey-Gold bliss . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Squirrel Posted February 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Yes. I've been jotting down snippets of ideas between calls at work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER . . . I don't need things to talk about right now. I'm just riding the post-Olympic-Men's-Ice-Hockey-Gold bliss . . . Oh, they won? I wasn't paying attention to the Olympics. It would've required turning on a TV somewhere. I'd been hearing the US hockey team was sucking majorly, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Oh, they did alright. They just weren't the best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER No argument here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER The Olympics were on? Oh, that's right, some Canadian won a Gold medal for Australia and the papers were full of the fact he was a millionaire from Internet porn. Soon we'll be overrun with news of the Commonwealth Games, where Australia gets to outperform all the countries in the world that can't play sport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatinKitty Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Huh ????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Oh, that's right, some Canadian won a Gold medal for Australia and the papers were full of the fact he was a millionaire from Internet porn.A Canadian-born Australian citizen won a gold medal in some skiing event. Since its only the third Winter Olympic medal we won, it was big news... at first. At first he was just a "Canadian", then a "millionaire Canadian", then "a Canadian who made millions from the internet", then "a Canadian who made millions from his internet-based business interests which he won't discuss" with a heavy nudge-nudge wink-wink slant that these business interests involved porn. However, his business interests became the focus of interviews with him - I don't think it unreasonable that he didn't want to talk about his business at these interviews, no-one ever quizzed other medallists about their day jobs - and the focus on news stories about him. The full story is that he and his brother run a company that deals in pop-under ads and spyware (some of which is used on porn sites). They used the money from this business to move to Australia and take out citizenship so they could compete in the Olympics - apparently the Australian Winter Olympics team is run better than the Canadian one, go figure - but they spend most of their time skiing their way across Europe. Soon we'll be overrun with news of the Commonwealth Games, where Australia gets to outperform all the countries in the world that can't play sport.The Commonwealth Games are like the Olympics, but only for countries that are part of the former British Empire. Australia romps away with most of the Gold Medals at these games, since we are world powers in most events (swimming, for example) but no other Commonwealth countries are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Soon we'll be overrun with news of the Commonwealth Games' date=' where Australia gets to outperform all the countries in the world that can't play sport.[/quote'] I'll be doing my best to avoid it. Channel 9 promises something like 12 hour days of CG programming -- morning, noon, afternoon and night. CG was a big deal to me with the 83 Brisbane games, but I was young then -- it was fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Sven and Ole walk into a pet shop near Brainerd. They head to the bird section and Sven says to Ole, "Dat's dem." The owner comes over and asks if he can help them. "Yah sure! , ve'll take four of dem dere little budgies in dat cage up dere," says Sven. The owner puts the budgies in a paper bag. Ole and Sven pay for the birds, leave the shop, get into Sven's pick-up, and drive to the top of some big cliffs near Brainerd Lake. At the cliffs, Sven looks down at the 1000 foot drop and says, "Dis looks like a grand place." He takes two birds out of the bag, puts them on his shoulders and jumps off the cliff. Ole watches as Sven falls all the way to the bottom, killing himself dead. Looking down at the remains of his best pal, Ole shakes his head and says, "By yumpin' yiminy, dis budgie jumping is too dangerous for me." VAIT!!! Dere's MORE! Moments later Knute arrives up at the cliffs. He's been to the pet shop, too, and walks up to the edge of the cliff carrying another paper bag in one hand and a shotgun in the other. "Hey, Ole. Vatch dis," Knute says. He takes a parrot from the bag and throws himself over the edge of the cliff. Ole watches as half way down, Knute takes the gun and blasts the parrot. Knute continues to plummet down and down until he hits the bottom and breaks every bone in his body. Ole shakes his head and says, "And I'm never trying dat parrotshooting either." BUT VAIT!!! Dere's MORE, you betcha!! Ole is just getting over the shock of losing two friends when Lars appears. He's also been to the pet shop and is carrying a paper bag, out of which he pulls a chicken. Larson grasps the chicken by the legs, holds it over his head, and hurls himself off the cliff and disappears down and down until he hits a rock and breaks his spine. Once more Ole shakes his head and laments, "First der was Sven with his budgie jumping, den Knute parrotshooting, and now Larson hengliding." RPMiller 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER . . . Those guys must be of Norwegian descent . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER As was once popular (?) in a certain district of Seattle, known for its heavily Scandinavian immigrant population: What's five blocks long and has an IQ of 57? A Sons of Norway parade!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER That's the only way Swedes and Norwegians fight at all these days (except, of course, for cross-country skiing) - bad, bad jokes . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER And they start Flame Wars over whether the Swedish Chef in the Muppet Show was actually Swedish or Norwegian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER . . . Those guys must be of Norwegian descent . . . Ja, That they be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER And they start Flame Wars over whether the Swedish Chef in the Muppet Show was actually Swedish or Norwegian. . . . I thought that that was the Danes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER So how many of you actually were on the Usenet when alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork originated? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savinien Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I am nearing a post count of 665. I'm playing with the idea of never posting out of NGD again once I reach it. It is part of my paintball team's name, 665 Almost Evil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Never's a very long time. You could, instead, get a screen shot of all of the posts you post under post count 665. Or, you could go to the member list, sort by post count, and get a screen shot of your rankings. Or, you could just do what you want. *shrugs* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER So how many of you actually were on the Usenet when alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork originated? Yep. I remember when you could read usenet in a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER . . . What's Usenet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archermoo Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER So how many of you actually were on the Usenet when alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork originated? Well, I don't remember it, but then again I wouldn't have necessarily noticed it. I do remember when talk.origins became moderated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER . . . What's Usenet? Kids nowadays. I bet you don't even remember when records came made of reddish plastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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