James Gillen

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?
 
CBS Radio Mystery Theater - The Return of the Moresbys.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Objects in the beer-veiw mirror may be uglier than they appear.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
In retrospect, watching "The 40 year old Virgin" with my mom might not have been the most impressive bit of reasoning.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
No sire, I don't believe I have a use for rubber nipples.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Go! Books about Evanescence (Are not punk rock!)
Guns ‘n Roses watches (Are not punk rock!)
Hello Kitty iPod cases (Are not punk rock!)
Rob Zombie lunch boxes (Are not punk rock!)
Slipknot binder paper (Is not punk rock!)
Tinkerbell pillow cases (Are not punk rock!)
Led Zeppelin air fresheners (Are not punk rock!)
Tupac incense burners (Are not punk rock!)
 
Hot Topic is not punk rock!
Hot Topic is not punk rock!
Hot Topic is not punk rock!
Hot Topic is not punk rock!
 
Misfits candle tins (Are not punk rock!)
ICP throw blankets (Are not punk rock!)
Beaded Elvis curtains (Are not punk rock!)
Talking Lambchop plush dolls (Are not punk rock!)
AC/DC hair clips (Are not punk rock!)
Spongebob wristbands (Are not punk rock!)
Sex Pistols boxer shorts (Are not punk rock!)
Disco back catalog (Okay. Maybe that’s punk rock.)
Dischord back catalog (Okay. Maybe that’s punk rock.)
 
Hot Topic is not punk rock! (Hot Topic!)
Hot Topic is not punk rock! (Hot Topic!)
Hot Topic is not punk rock! (Hot Topic!)
Hot Topic is not punk rock! (Hot Topic!)
 
Hot Topic is a contrived identification with youth subcultures to manufacture an anti-authoritarian identity and make millions. The $8 you paid for the Mudvayne poster would be better spent used to see your brother’s friend’s band.
 
DIY ethics are punk rock
Starting your own label is punk rock
G.G. Allin was punk rock.
 
But when a crass corporate vulture feeds on mass-consumer culture, this spending mommy’s money is not punk rock!

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
There were a lot of ones from various games this weekend; some of them were a bit...risque, and I'll try to make sure they can make it past the censors.
 
 
Champions Game
 
"And the geek shall inherit the Earth."
 
 
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"Yeah, he's really an anomaly wrapped in an enigma."
 
"Uhm...considering I saw Dr. Anomaly and Enigma coming out of the same bedroom this morning before breakfast, you might want to think about choosing a different turn of phrase for that problem..."
 
 
Teen Champions
 
"I didn't fall over because I have a very low center of gravity."
 
"You do? How low?"
 
"The center of the Earth."
 
 
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"Wait a minute! You're a Buddist monk...who knows about baseball?!?"
 
 
Dark Conspiricy-esque Game
 
Travis: "Somehow, I never thought that planning out my wedding would end up including deciding on what kinds of tortures myself and my bride would be performing on each other for the audience of wedding guests."
 
Dan: "Travis, there's a reason most would refer to your fiance's people as dark elves..."
 
 
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Travis: "Dan, considering I'm the one who just zinged Terry, would you please explain to me how I came out on the losing end of that conversation?"
 
Terry: "It's simple...I'm a woman, which means I have t*ts."
 
Travis: "Well, I'm a man, which means that I have..."
 
Dan: "Travis, unlike poker, this is a game where a Pair beats an Ace High Straight."
 
 
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"Who would have guessed that a being capable of assuming any shape imaginable would turn out to be a sex fiend?"

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
"So there are artists who surprise me, but there are none who shock me, and that's because shock is dead. In the seventies I used to cut my head off with a guillotine on stage and people would ooh and aah, it was so extreme. Today you can turn on the TV and see a terrorist with a knife do it for real. When the nightly news is more bizarre than Alice Cooper's imagination, shock is dead." --Alice Cooper

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?
 
Your's Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Liard Douglas Matter.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?
 

Ah the Pussycat Dolls, because the Spice Girls didn't suck enough the first time.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Top six moments from last night's Champions game:
 
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GM: "Do you have Demolitions skill?"
 
Kali: "I blew up a science lab once."
 
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GM: "He's walking back inside." (pause) "Going once." (long pause) "Going twice..." (really long pause)
 
Ryucin: "Okay, I'll blast him."
 
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Solar: "We like the bad guys. They give us something to fight."
 
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GM: "First damage roll... darn, that was crappy."
 
Kendrick: (the target) "Good."
 
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Kendrick: (after about four real-time hours in battle at 1:30 am, soliloquolizing for all he's worth twice and then failing the ECV roll to hit with his Mind Control, and trying for the third time on the opponent, Hex) "Hex... I need to make this f*cking roll!"
 
(The GM allowed it. Kendrick failed that roll, as well.)
 
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GM: (After the battle, describing the after-effects on Iron Maiden) "You hurt in places that should never receive damage."

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
[Team is fighting mentally controled Disney characters]
Stalker: I really wish Kim Possible was here
Raven: Um, dude, you know she's a cartoon character right?
Stalker: We're being attacked by Mickey Mouse and Goofey, your saying this is real life?

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
In Yesterday's D&D game, Aaron the GM is describing this scene out of the module where a female Barbarian is fending off a group of Orcs, she sees us and then yells for us to come down and help her. After her speech, she swings her axe and cuts down one Orc and hits another with the same swing.
 
I say, "She must have the Cleave feat. Maybe even Great Cleave."
 
Don says, "Yeah, she's got some Great Cleavage."
 
JG

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
In Yesterday's D&D game, Aaron the GM is describing this scene out of the module where a female Barbarian is fending off a group of Orcs, she sees us and then yells for us to come down and help her. After her speech, she swings her axe and cuts down one Orc and hits another with the same swing.
 
I say, "She must have the Cleave feat. Maybe even Great Cleave."
 
Don says, "Yeah, she's got some Great Cleavage."
 
JG

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
I would like to thank Trained Chicken for his succinct review of the Pink Panther movie and the restraint he uses in telling us how he feels.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Things I Learned From Watching The Shield:
 
#13- Glory holes and rat traps are a BAD combination.
 
jg

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

I'll have yours, but you ain't getting my blowjob.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?
 
Tear You Apart by She Wants Revenge.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
In our new Fantasy HERO game Wednesday, the group's Half-Orc Cleric received a couple of pet NPCs: a tough Orc bodyguard and a rather sniffy cloistered scribe who wrote down *everything* the Cleric said (right down to 'Stop writing down everything I say') and otherwise antagonized people for various things, including the "peasant" like behavior of the female PCs. It got to where the Cleric volunteered to spend a gold piece for him to get entertained by a prostitute (which shows you how great a Cleric he is) but the scribe righteously refused.
 
Anyway, the group was on the road and in the middle of the night some demonic assassin bypassed the camp watch. The Rogue PC looked around and found the scribe's head roasting in the campfire with his ribcage cut open and stretched (what the Norse would call a 'blood eagle').
 
With this gruesome death, the Rogue immediately ran over to the Cleric's bedroll and had to shake him awake. She said, "Abbot, Abbot! Your scribe is dead!"
 
The Cleric said. "Ah, so my dream came true. I'm checking my sword for bloodstains."
 
JG

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Playing a silly pick-up game. I'm a hard-boiled detective whose internal monologue isn't very internal at all -- he narrates everything that he thinks, does, and even says. My wife is playing a teenaged Buffy-type character. We meet for the first time...
 
Me: (deadpan) Yeah, she was a looker all right. Legs that went all the way up and then back down the other side. A body that would make a bishop kick out a stained glass window. She was a little young for me, but you know what they say -- if there's grass on the field, play ball.
Tammy: (disgusted) Do you always talk like that?
Me: (deadpan) ...she asked in a disgusted tone. Yes, I replied. It's what I do.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Dan Savage:
"For future reference, HH, the next time you want an advice columnist's full attention -- when you want him to, say, stop beating off about a three-way with Saturday Night Live's Andy Samberg and Daniel V. from Project Runway and focus instead like a laser beam on your problems -- you might not want to open your letter with an insult such as, "I generally don't agree with the advice you give but I need help." If you were being assaulted would you call 911 and scream, "F the pigs!"?"
 
[Please Note: This applies equally well when you're calling Tech Support. ]
 
jg

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Team F-up have defeated a bar full of vampire cops with the help of Madelyn the Third-From-Last Vampire Hunter. Odd thing is, it is common knowledge that Madelyn's grandfather killed the last vampire and the race was extinct.
 
Captian Mysterion asks where the curent infestation came from.
 
Madelyn: "I've traced the first missing cops to the impound lot. The only odd fact I found was that half a panel van was impounded the night of the first disappearance."
 
Capt. M: "Huh. We accidentally brought back half a van from that vampire dimension."
 
Madelyn: "And no one thought to check if the van was empty?"
 
OOG: There's a reason why we're not called "Team Sufficiently Competent".