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    AliceTheOwl reacted to BoneDaddy in Musings on Random Musings   
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    So True - they frequently wind up with a four-cheeked look, with two upper buttocks and two lower ones, attractive only to South Park's five-butted monkey. Alternatively, if the girl has more curves than the denim will allow, you wind up with muffin tops. Nothin' wrong with a little curve here and there. Flattering it is what counts. Mauling it is a bad thing.
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    AliceTheOwl got a reaction from zornwil in Musings on Random Musings   
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    A rock to wind a string around?
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    AliceTheOwl reacted to death tribble in A Thread for Random Musings   
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    I'm Only Happy When it Rains - Garbage
     
    I’m only happy when it rains
    I’m only happy when its complicated
    And though I know you can’t appreciate it
    I’m only happy when it rains
     
    You know I love it when the news is bad
    Why it feels so good to feel so sad
    I’m only happy when it rains
     
    Pour your misery down
    Pour your misery down, on me
    Pour your misery down
    Pour your misery down on me
     
    I'm only happy when it rains
    I feel good when things are going wrong
    I only listen to the sad, sad songs
    I'm only happy when it pain
     
    I only smile in the dark
    My only comfort is the night gone black
    I didn’t accidentally tell you that
    I’m only happy when it rains
     
    You'll get the message by the time I'm through
    When I finally get to me and you
    I'm only happy when it rains
     
    Pour your misery down
    pour your misery down
    Pour your misery down on me
    pour your misery down
    Pour your misery down
    pour your misery down
    Pour your misery down on me
    pour your misery down
    Pour your misery down
    pour your misery down
    Pour your misery down on me
    pour your misery down
    Pour your misery down
    pour
     
    You can keep me company
    As long as you don't care
     
    I'm only happy when it rains
    You want to hear about my new obsession ?
    I'm riding high upon a deep depression
    I'm only happy when it rains
     
    pour some misery down on me
    I'm only happy when it rains
    pour some misery down on me
    I'm only happy when it rains
    pour some misery down on me
    I'm only happy when it rains
    pour some misery down on me
    I'm only happy when it rains
    pour some misery down on me
    pour some misery down on me
    pour some misery down on me
    pour some misery down on me
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    AliceTheOwl reacted to lemming in Musings on Random Musings   
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    AliceTheOwl reacted to James Gillen in A Thread for Random Musings   
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    On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?
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    AliceTheOwl reacted to Dr. Anomaly in A Thread for Random Musings   
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    My cat just walked in, sat down, sneezed on me three times in quick succession, then got up and walked out again.
     
    I've become Kitty Kleenex.
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    AliceTheOwl reacted to Old Man in Musings on Random Musings   
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    I'll vote 'exhale' but only because there is no 'laugh out loud' option.
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    AliceTheOwl got a reaction from L. Marcus in Longest Running Thread EVER   
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    248.
     
    *is impatient*
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    AliceTheOwl got a reaction from Old Man in Longest Running Thread EVER   
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    Thirty-five to go!
     
    So who wants to be the one to ascend me? Josh just repped me the other day.
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    AliceTheOwl reacted to teh bunneh in "Neat" Pictures   
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    Here's some shots from Slaughter Canyon. They used to mine Slaughter Canyon cave for bat guano (used in gunpowder). There's still a bunch of abandoned mining equipment in there, but it hasn't been used this way since (IIRC) just after WWII. It's about a 5 mile hike uphill to get to the cave, so if you're in bad shape this isn't the cave for you.
     
    First piccie is The Klansman, a rock formation. I seem to recall that they changed the name recently, but I can't remember to what. Calcium carbonate (IIRC) dripped over an extant formation, forming the white shroud over the top. It's huge, and rather spooky up-close.
     
    Second, looking up at the entrance of the cave from inside. I'm standing probably about 200 yards from the entrance when I took that shot.
     
    Third is a formation known as "The Great Wall of China." It's what they call a rimwall formation. It's actually only about 2 inches high, and maybe 40 feet long. It's supposed to be the longest rimwall formation in the world. Rimwalls form only in very wet caves, though Slaughter Canyon cave is completely dry now.
     
    Fourth is some mining equipment abandoned by the miners when the operation was shut down. The cave is really dirty and dusty because of the mining that was done here.
     
    Anyone interested in any of my other cave pics?
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    AliceTheOwl got a reaction from RPMiller in Longest Running Thread EVER   
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    Mwaha. ^ v ^
     
    In other news, it looks like, at this rate, zornwil's gonna ascend before I do.
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    AliceTheOwl got a reaction from Super Squirrel in Musings on Random Musings   
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    I'd like to know that myself, actually.
     
    The humidity levels, maybe? Or it might be a core temperature thing.
     
    Hmmmm.
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    AliceTheOwl reacted to austenandrews in A Thread for Random Musings   
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    15 years of marriage as of today, and happy for it. Unfortunately I look, sound and feel like death warmed over. The anniversary night out may not go so hot this year.
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    AliceTheOwl reacted to zornwil in Musings on Random Musings   
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    That's what everybody wants.
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    AliceTheOwl reacted to archermoo in A Thread for Random Musings   
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    You know, even the flamewar political threads here are much more pleasent than most other boards out there. If I read one more thread posted by some cretin complaining that he cannot get Civ IV running on his computer that meets NONE of the posted minimum system requirements I'll...I'll...well...stop reading them...
     

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    AliceTheOwl reacted to Susano in Champions Jargon   
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    Wow... found another list of jargon. No idea who this is from (actually, it looks to be from multiple people).
     
    Brick a roll: (to miss by a WHOLE bunch). Taken from the tendancy of low dex bricks (especialy those without many skill levels) to miss when not using cars or other scenery.
     
    Rolled a three: Used in RL..Doing something well. Ex. seeing a really well directed movie. "Ridley Scott sure rolled a three there"
     
    Area Effect Orc Destruction: FH- comments about the powerfull PC group.
     
    Area Effect Pizza Destruction: (Pretty Self Explanitory)
     
    "Shut UP, Westly": Taken from the early seasons of ST:TNG. Said (usually by a group of people) when someone makes an irrelivant or annoying comment, expecially in the midst of a very intense scene or combat.
     
    You appear on a grassy knoll...: Used by myself inadvertantly three times in a row to describe the entrance scence from dimensional hops.. now used to tell someone they have been teleported or EDMed.
     
    "Shoulder wound!" From the tendency in cop shows for the hero to get shot in the arm/shoulder and still function without a problem. Used to denote either a flubbed roll (What's your damage? Shoulder wound. Too bad....) or minimal damage (Yes! He only got me in the shoulder!)
     
    "20 to 200" From an early Star Frontiers campaign where the players went way out of the adventure, it was late and I was badly improvising. The party came across an enemy base, sized it up, reconned for a day and then asked how many there are inside. My response was 20-200. Their response was moans of derision and a hail of pointy dice aimed at me. And quite rightly so. Now used whenever a quantity is needed (How large a Pepsi do you want? 20 to 200.)
     
    No of Death: In 92' a few of us got together and decided to come up with some new phrases that made no sense just to see how many people we could get to use the phrases. No of death was one of these phrases which replaced the words cool, awesome ,and the sort. They are now used in the game by the players quite regularly with even the new players cathcing on very quickly.
     
    Ruling of Death: see No of Death
     
    Booped out of existence: Another one of our phrases that we created replacing getting blown out of the water by something that is either painful or amazing. "I'm booped out of existence that hero guy is actually the main villian."
     
    Hosed: I believe that this one was already covered by someone else.
     
    Kneecap Bob: We had a player that during an interrogation decided to threaten the criminal with shooting his kneecap if he did not talk. The criminal not truly expecting the "hero" to actually do this did not talk. Unfortunately the character was not all that good and blew off the guy's knee. Now any character that is not necessarily good when the GM asks for heroes is refered to as a kneecap Bob character.
     
    Booping/Booped: go to someone else's message and read hosed
     
    Children (only for anime games): In our anime games, children take on a whole new meaning. Almost all of the children that our teams have encountered have nearly devestated our teams with their raw power. All you will see is a look of fear across the player's faces when they hear the word child in one of our anime games.
     
    Lawyers are dying off now a days: Caught breaking in to a lawyer's personal office and even worse the lawyer's personal files, the character knowing that she was not in any physical trouble, but possibly in law trouble made the statement "I hear that lawyers are dying off these days." As the stunned table of players recovered we all got a good laugh. We now fill in the blank for lawyers depending on what kind of trouble we are in. "I hear that Orcs are dying off now a days" etc.
     
    Antimunchkin: The antimunchkin reasons that if munchkins are bad, doing exactly the opposite of munchkins must be good. Thus, the antimunchkin creates pathetically weak and wretched characters... and comes out nearly as annoying as the munchkin.
     
    Blue Bolts: Arbitrary and unplanned action taken by a GM against a player, such as that PC suddenly tripping a trap that hadn't existed in that spot on the GM's map until he made a smart-*** remark about never failing "Detect Traps" rolls. Taken from a reference in the first edition DungeonMaster's Handbook for AD&D, in which "blue bolts from heaven" strike a disruptive character.
     
    Evil Chaos Dice: Specifically, a set of Chessex red-inked black dice with a octo-arrow design on them; more generally, any sinister-looking set of dice that seem to be rolling strange. I have a history of making strange rolls with ECDs -- some esoteric number repeated 3 times, the one result on a random table that has a "must roll twice" instruction, and so on. Bad wierdness is attributed to insufficient sacrifices (and are usually followed by a series of ECD jokes equivalent to the Happy Fun Ball quips -- "Evil Chaos Dice talk to you at night..."); good wierdness is appropriately followed with a villainous laugh.
     
    Experimental Loaf One: of the gamers at the club I used to be a member of is a professional chemist. He also bakes as a hobby, and brought fresh bread to Monday game sessions. At least once, he brought two loaves to a game, and labeled one "Experimental Loaf", the other "Control Loaf". Since then, any extensive wierdness during a game session was explained away with "Experimental Loaf". Only Erol could tell you if the Experimental Loaf still lives.
     
    Gymp: A gamer who plays RPGs but does not roleplay; one who does not even try to stay "in character", or worse yet, does not believe it is possible to play a character fundementally different from oneself. A rather talented group of gamers in Normal, IL called themselves the "Dead Gymp Society".
     
    1D6 RKA, Incantations, Gestures, OAF Bic: A fancy way of saying a character isn't going to be allowed. The incantation is, of course, "Not in my campaign".
     
    Point Envy” The feeling that your character is massively less useful than one or more other characters on the team. For example, a player whose PC was the leader of the team created a new character and retired the old one; he tended to mumble "point envy!" every time the team brick did something after he'd (the new character) been knocked unconscious.
     
    Shub-shub-niggurath, All Hail Lord Naga-Naga: The generic occultist phrase, beating out anything dealing with Flames of Faltine or Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth. Ironically, I don't think it started as anything occult -- during a Suicide Squad campaign, one of the PCs was trying to infiltrate the villain Kobra's forces, and got pressed for a password. This phrase was his inspired attempt.
     
    Supernova Bob: This one I got from Roger Moore's "Living Galaxy" articles for Polyhedron (for a long time the sole reason I bothered staying in the RPGA). It refers to a GM whose campaign is non-interactive -- the PCs are essentially taken for a ride, and told not to touch anything. Supernova Bobs tend to create massively complex and powerful NPCs which actually do all the WORK in the campaign, while the PCs ooh and aah at their prowess.
     
    Tazer: Not so much a separate term as the local pronunciation for the print term "T$R".
     
    Transvesdie: I coined this one for a player who seems to insist on playing characters of the opposite sex, usually lethally competent versions of his/her dream date. Can also be used to refer to such characters. You'd think this would be a term of limited usage, but I've known at least three while in the same group.
     
    PING: An attack that fails to do damage. Usually annouced by the recieving character's owner PING!!!
     
    PINGK: An attack that only does a few points of stun. Announced by the recieving character's owner PINGK!.
     
    THUD: An attack that does a reasonable amount of damage. Announced by the recieving character's owner THUD!
     
    I'M/HE'S/SHE'S DOWN: Announced character's owner when the character is knocked unconiscious.
     
    KABOOM/KABANG: An attack that does lots of damage. Announced by the recieving characters owner KABOOM! This term is also used to announce large explosions.
     
    GUMMO: Any character who is knocked out, and doesn't get recoveries. The state of being GUMBY.
     
    GUMBY: Any thing that is useless. That's a gumby attack. It can also be used to describe powers, or characters that you disapprove of. That's a gumby character, or that's a gumby power. Properly interpeted as a mild insult.
     
    CHA-CHING!: (sound of cash register or slot machine) rolling _very_ well, lots of damage
     
    Bonk: no or little damage done
     
    Crispy Critters: end result of overkill (Originally becauce of using 10d6 Fireball on band of 20 Orcs.)
     
    Thud: character is unconsious, dead, or heavily stunned, character falls over
     
    GOMER!: (acronym: Get Our Med-Evac Ready, also name of our NPC pilot who always stayed with the vehicle) said out of desperation as characters start running down corridors shooting at anything that moves to get away.
     
    Mumble-Mumble: (var.: Robble-Robble, Homina-Homina, Mutta-Mutta) starting to cast a spell. Add -Zoof and you are actually casting the spell.
     
    A Tick Moment: saying or doing something that, taken out of content, leads to funny stares in your direction (At a con, lots of noise from close tables, we're playing FH and one character was turned into a pink monkey (Why? Frogs were passe
     
    Tick Mode On/Off: to start/stop make long winded speaches, or exaggerate ('...it's then that you notice that you notice that is no ordinary fork lift, but ONE CRAFTED FROM THE VERY FABRIC OF TIME AND SPACE!)
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    AliceTheOwl got a reaction from Bazza in "Neat" Pictures   
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    Definitely. I'm thinking of avatarring it, but it would be a deviation from my usual theme.
     
    Edit: *notes Enforcer84's rep power*
    The race is ON!
     
    Well, no, not really. I'm pretty sure you'll win.
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    AliceTheOwl got a reaction from Basil in Quote of the Week from my gaming group...   
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    From Sophia, as played by Eoywin, who's playing a necromancer, looking for bodyguards: "I'm looking for a better class of barbarian!"
     
    Later, there was talk of 'barbarian shopping.'
     
    Much giggling was done by all. ^ v ^
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    AliceTheOwl reacted to Enforcer84 in A Thread for Random Musings   
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    I'm glad I have a chance to catch up to Zorn.
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    AliceTheOwl got a reaction from Dr. Anomaly in Longest Running Thread EVER   
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    Another LJ icon:
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    AliceTheOwl reacted to Trencher in "Neat" Pictures   
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    Allright Lightray! I start out with a Griffon.
     
     
    A BABY GRIFFON! HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT?
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    AliceTheOwl got a reaction from death tribble in "Neat" Pictures   
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    A quail chick, newborn:

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    And a few more:

     

     

     

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