A Thread for Random Musings

[Cancer]

Spent an hour or so reading old posts in the Longest Running thread. Had an inspiration. I should create a campaign where all the PCs are other-dimensional monsters, and an important choice in character creation is what color your blood/ichor/precious bodily fluids are.

 

Nothing more than that to it as yet....

[Hermit]

It has been well over ten minutes since I last put up a post on the superdraft thread with my rough draft unedited slapdash attempts at fiction.

 

Still no likes.

 

The withdrawal has kicked in. Without the adulation of people who have never met me, I begin to shake. My mouth grows dry, and the symptoms are getting worse.

if , if I don't make it..., send my wealth to the bad fan fic society.

 

They'll...they'll carry on my work.

[Cancer]

Empirical Discovery #29054, category: Uncorrelated.

 

All that is necessary to make it rain in Vancouver, BC, is to send Cancer there without his raincoat. By the end of the third day, rain will fall.

[Lawnmower Boy]

So I read the 25th August 1947 number of Newsweek today. Bet you can't guess what the cover story is!

 

. . . . 

If you guessed Jinx Falkenburg's television talk show, congratulations! What the heck, guys?

[Cancer]

Rereading an old chatroom transcript from the late 1990s when a set of thieves in England got delayed revenge after being set to planting flower beds as part of their community service ... come spring, masses of daffodils came up along the main road into town and in letters 1.3 meters long spelled out "BOLLOCKS", "SHAG", etc.

[Cancer]

Just spent a fascinating few minutes watching a hummingbird in the top of a holly tree next door catch flies in the twilight. I knew they ate insects, but I hadn't seen it so obviously before.

[Logan D. Hurricanes]

I did a podcast!

 

An old college friend contacted me two nights ago and said she had a time slot and needed to come up with something to fill it. So last minute we put together an awful movie extravaganza.

 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thegatewayradionetwork/2017/10/05/funny-floating-with-neuman-the-human

[Cancer]

Happened to notice one of these on the beer I just opened.

 

"Universal language of beer."

[Pariah]

Twirly whirly!

[Cancer]

Superheroes almost never answer their emails from trolls. Supervillains however not only reply but usually track down and give the sender the same answer: Painful Death.

OK, I have grown old, tired, and cynical, but I still want to be a supervillain.

[Cancer]

The cats strongly approve of the reinstallation of the electric throw blanket on the bed.

[Vondy]

I was born and raised in America, but find I feel like a stranger in a strange land these days.

 

Ancestral roots dating back to the 1630s does not a home make.

 

Five year plan: Rehovot or bust. It's time for a second go.

[Pariah]

No feet on faces!

[tkdguy]

Would you drink milk that looked like orange juice?

 

This is from a TV show, but it got me thinking.

[Cancer]

I derive some small pleasure in watching a browser tab twitch while the ad-blocker does its thing to the untold megabytes of utter dreck the commercial sites try shoving onto my hard drive.

[Vondy]

I was recently told I'm "pithy." I was initially offended, but then looked it up. I am pithy.

 

Even when you possess a vast and rococo vocabulary there are words you need to learn.

[Pariah]

What would happen if you piloted a Tardis through a Stargate?

[Lucius]

 

She: You're wasting your time here.

Me: Nor am I the only one, I suspect.

 

Lucius Alexander

 

Sometimes I waste the palindromedary's time.

[Hermit]

So, some folks see any shape remotely like a circle as an invite to sit down and beat their drum even i they only know one tune. 

 

*Sigh* 

 

OH well semi free country

[Bazza]

It's been over 12 and a half years since anyone seen or heard from Rachel or Kara...

[L. Marcus]

"Likelihood, eh? That most likely means something that resembles truth. However if something is likely, it isn’t really as true as truth.

 

Now it appears that we don’t really know if something will happen, so we have to be satisfied with calculations of probability. That’s a shame, because such calculations are not as good as knowing what will happen. Calculations just aren’t as reliable as seeing for yourself. For example such calculations can vary greatly before and after.

 

I mean, before Harrisburg, it was highly improbable that what happened in Harrisburg would happen, but as soon as it did, the probability happened to go up to no less than 100 percent, so it was almost so probable that it had happened.

 

But only almost probable. That is what is so strange. It is as if they mean that what happened in Harrisburg was so completely improbable that really, it probably didn’t happen.

 

In reality, the entire Social Democratic party went and waited for over half a year to find out whether what happened in Harrisburg had or had not happened, before they could decide whether they should be of the opinion that nuclear power is as dangerous as it would be if what happened in Harrisburg had actually happened. Now they have decided at last and evidently reached the conclusion that what happened in Harrisburg didn’t happen, but that we, on the other hand, should institute much better safety measures so that it won’t happen here as well.

 

Of course you understand their hesitation, for such an accident occurs, according to all calculations of likelihood, just once every several thousand years, and thus of course it isn’t likely that it has already happened, but it is rather in this case more likely that it did occur in the future. And then it becomes an entirely different matter. For of course we can’t pass judgment on it now. Then. Or….?

 

As well, if what happened in Harrisburg really happened, contrary to expectations, then of course the likelihood that it will happen again is so extremely, ridiculously, very small, that in a way you could say that it was almost good that what happened in Harrisburg happened, if it in fact did happen. I mean then you can almost certainly say that it won’t happen again.

 

In any case not in Harrisburg, and certainly not at the same time as the last time.

 

The likelihood of a recurrence is so small that it is negligible. This invites one to believe that it doesn’t exist, except just a little.

 

Now this is really complicated for the ordinary person, so really there is no point in having a referendum about such things here. Of course, people in general think in their simple way that what happened in Harrisburg really happened. They accept it as the truth. Always tell the truth, children. That is what our parents told us. We can’t tell our children that though. We have to teach them to always tell about the likelihood - the likelihood, the whole likelihood and nothing but the likelihood.

 

So that they understand that what happened in Harrisburg can’t happen here, as it didn’t even happen there, which would have been much more likely, considering that it was there that it happened." -- Tage Danielsson, Swedish humorist, on the eve of the nuklear power referendum

[Tech priest support]

What if the warhammer 40,000 universe is real and we're just characters in a RPG in it about a wonderful universe free from the horrors if the warp?

[death tribble]

Roy Dotrice has died at the age of 94. He was in the Beauty and the Beast series with Linda Hamilton and appeared in Game of Thrones

 

An Irish comedian called Sean Hughes also died and he was 51. I saw him out on the streets twice as he lived locally to me. Once in a fish and chips shop and once going into a house seeing a friend.

[Old Man]

The salad that I got from the drive-thru came with a distinct absence of forks.  It's a good thing I just brought it back to the office where I can make up for the fork shortage in the bag, but seriously, is there some law or something that requires that they screw up at least one aspect of every drive-thru order?

[Pariah]

Forgot the protocol again.