RPMiller

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I don't know about "practical" or "feasible". It would be "frustrating" for some, at the very least, and, for people like me, it would be "hilarious". Just imagine: Leftist posts horribly biased article. Righty tries to respond, but is modded by Leftist thread starter. So Righty starts his own thread which he is mod of to respond to Leftist's thread. The problem blooms, everyone is posting and responding to their own threads. Then Mightybec starts a thread...sanity is lost by all.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 
Why don't you guys go take your "roleplaying" outside, ok kids?
 
This is thread is for the Storn show, and it is about to start again (hopefully. ) so sit down and be quiet or go outside.

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Now have another...

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Have a pic...

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High Five Bro!!!! We did it!!!!

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Edit: Okay, I managed to fill every line, but goodness knows I'm open to suggestions for improvement!
 
 
Welcome to the Forum NGD
 
Welcome to the Forum NGD
Such a lovely board
Find a common chord
Plenty of threads at the Forum NGD
Any time of year, you can find them here
 
'Bec's mind is totally twisted, Hermit's got the funny polls
Pup's got a lot of pretty, pretty pics, daily is his goal
How they post in the forums, argue and fret.
Some post to remember, some post to forget
 
So I called up Ben Seeman,
'Where's negative rep?'
He said, 'we haven't had that option here since before your first step'
And still that keyboard is calling from far away,
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to post and say...
 
Welcome to the Forum NGD
Such a lovely board
Find a common chord
They're flamin’ it big at the Forum NGD
With the grand designs, bring your party lines!
 
Flamers on the forums,
The trolls posting twice
And Alice said 'we are all just posters here, because we have no life'
And in the GM’s chat room,
They gathered for the game
They shake and roll their ivory dice,
But they just can’t dodge the blame
 
Last thing I remember, I was
Searching -- such a chore!
I had to find the linkage back
To the thread I had before
’relax,’ said Dan Simon,
We are programmed to receive.
You can logout any time you like,
But you can never leave!

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It was an Apple you know, "Comparing apples and oranges"

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WHY ARE WE THERE?
 
Every day there are news reports about more deaths. Every night on TV there are photos of death and destruction.
Why are we still there?
 
We occupied this land, which we had to take by force, but it causes us nothing but trouble.
Why are we still there?
 
Many of our children go there and never come back.
Why are we still there?
 
Their government is unstable, and they have loopy leadership.
Why are we still there?
 
Many of their people are uncivilized.
Why are we still there?
 
The place is subject to natural disasters, which we are supposed to bail them out of.
Why are we still there?
 
There are more than 1000 religious sects, which we do not understand.
Why are we still there?
 
Their folkways, foods and fads are unfathomable to ordinary Americans.
Why are we still there?
 
We can't even secure the borders.
Why are we still there?
 
They are billions of dollars in debt and it will cost billions more to
rebuild, which we can't afford.
Why are we still there?
 
It is becoming clear..
 
 
WE MUST PULL OUT OF CALIFORNIA

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WHY ARE WE THERE?
 
Every day there are news reports about more deaths. Every night on TV there are photos of death and destruction.
Why are we still there?
 
We occupied this land, which we had to take by force, but it causes us nothing but trouble.
Why are we still there?
 
Many of our children go there and never come back.
Why are we still there?
 
Their government is unstable, and they have loopy leadership.
Why are we still there?
 
Many of their people are uncivilized.
Why are we still there?
 
The place is subject to natural disasters, which we are supposed to bail them out of.
Why are we still there?
 
There are more than 1000 religious sects, which we do not understand.
Why are we still there?
 
Their folkways, foods and fads are unfathomable to ordinary Americans.
Why are we still there?
 
We can't even secure the borders.
Why are we still there?
 
They are billions of dollars in debt and it will cost billions more to
rebuild, which we can't afford.
Why are we still there?
 
It is becoming clear..
 
 
WE MUST PULL OUT OF CALIFORNIA

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Oh, Dr. A, I'm going to up load the pic I mentioned to my space on your server. Feel free to move it to the body art page afterward.

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NEWS FLASH- Arkansas' worst air disaster occurred when a small two-seater Cessna 150 plane, piloted by two University of Arkansas students, crashed into a cemetery earlier today.
Search and rescue workers have recovered 300 bodies so far and expect the number to climb as digging continues into the evening. The pilot and copilot survived and are helping in the recovery efforts.

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Time for some post padding and humor making...
 
A group of Arkansas friends went deer hunting and paired off in twos for the day. that night, one of the hunters returned alone, staggering under the weight of an eight-point buck.
"Where's Henry?" the others asked.
"Henry had a stroke of some kind. He's a couple of miles back up the trail," the successful hunter replied.
"You left Henry laying out there and carried the deer back?" they inquired.
"A tough call," nodded the hunter. "But I figured no one is going to steal Henry!"

Re: f/u Grab: Throwing & Squeezing after initial Grab
 
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "either" roll. If a character attempts a Grab and misses, he's never going to get to the "Throw" stage of things in the first place, so the Throw rules don't come into play. Only if the character has to make an Attack Roll with his Throw -- either to perform it at all, or if he's trying to hit a specific target with the Thrown character/object -- are the "miss" rules going to come into play.
 
If what you're asking is, "Can a character Throw a Grabbed person in an effort to hit another target (such as another character or a specific hex), miss that target, but still inflict Throw damage on the Thrown person?", then the answer is "No." There aren't any provisions in the rules for that; a miss is a miss. The GM could alter that if he likes, but generally the rules don't let a character miss/fail and still obtain some measure of success.

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And for you too! I'm dying. :lol:

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Y'know, I'm not nearly as upset at the stupid, untalented skanks as I am the people who pay them the attention that makes these actions worth it.
 
Seriously, if I ever meet someone who says, "Oh, I LOVE Paris Hilton!" I'm screaming, "So YOU're the one!" and smacking the hell out of her. Or him.

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She also has offended the military for using night vision technology and film in such a combination.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 
Here is another commission, La Espijima (The Mirage).
 
http://forum.rpg.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=12052

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I'm just saying... it is a stretch I know, but...

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OK. I know we aren't supposed to post pictures that are adult in nature, nor should we post links to such websites. But there is this very cool site with excellent very pencil art I'd love to share with the boards. It involves many nudes of super-heroes (well, heroines mostly - and drawn very top-heavy at that - with Supergirl, Batgirl and Wonder Woman as frequent favorites...) and other hot cartoon characters (Liberty Meadow's anyone?). It also involves them in highly explicit activities.
 
Thing is... is it permissable for me to even reference that kind of link here?

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Bubba was bragging to his boss one day, "You know, I know everyone there is to know. Just name someone, anyone, and I know them."
 
Tired of his boasting, his boss called his bluff, "OK, Bubba how about Tom Cruise?" "Sure, yes, Tom and I are old friends, and I can prove it."
 
So Bubba and his boss fly out to Hollywood and knock on Tom Cruise's door, and sure enough, Tom Cruise, shouts, "Bubba! Great to see you! You and your friend come right in and join me for lunch!" Although impressed, Bubba's boss is still skeptical. After they leave Cruise's house, he tells Bubba that he thinks Bubba's knowing Cruise was just lucky.
 
"No, no, just name anyone else," Bubba says. "President Bush," his boss quickly retorts. "Yes," Bubba says, "I know him, let's fly out to Washington." And off they go. At the White House, Bush spots Bubba on the tour and motions him and his boss over, saying, "Bubba, what a surprise, I was just on my way to a meeting, but you and your friend come on in and let's have a cup of coffee first and catch up."
 
Well, the boss is very shaken by now, but still not totally convinced. After they leave the White House grounds, he expresses his doubts to Bubba, who again implores him to name anyone else.
 
"The Pope," his boss replies. "Sure!" says Bubba. "My folks are from Poland, and I've known the Pope a long time." Off they fly to Rome. Bubba and his boss are assembled with the masses in Vatican Square when Bubba says, "This will never work. I can't catch the Pope's eye among all these people. Tell you what, I know all the guards so let me just go upstairs and I'll come out on the balcony with the Pope."
 
Bubba disappears into the crowd headed toward the Vatican. Sure enough, half an hour later Bubba emerges with the Pope on the balcony. By the time Bubba returns, he finds that his boss has had a heart attack and is surrounded by paramedics. Working his way to his boss' side, Bubba asks him, "What happened?"
 
His boss looks up and says, "I was doing fine until you and the Pope came out on the balcony and the man next to me said, " Who's that on the balcony with Bubba?

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Bubba was bragging to his boss one day, "You know, I know everyone there is to know. Just name someone, anyone, and I know them."
 
Tired of his boasting, his boss called his bluff, "OK, Bubba how about Tom Cruise?" "Sure, yes, Tom and I are old friends, and I can prove it."
 
So Bubba and his boss fly out to Hollywood and knock on Tom Cruise's door, and sure enough, Tom Cruise, shouts, "Bubba! Great to see you! You and your friend come right in and join me for lunch!" Although impressed, Bubba's boss is still skeptical. After they leave Cruise's house, he tells Bubba that he thinks Bubba's knowing Cruise was just lucky.
 
"No, no, just name anyone else," Bubba says. "President Bush," his boss quickly retorts. "Yes," Bubba says, "I know him, let's fly out to Washington." And off they go. At the White House, Bush spots Bubba on the tour and motions him and his boss over, saying, "Bubba, what a surprise, I was just on my way to a meeting, but you and your friend come on in and let's have a cup of coffee first and catch up."
 
Well, the boss is very shaken by now, but still not totally convinced. After they leave the White House grounds, he expresses his doubts to Bubba, who again implores him to name anyone else.
 
"The Pope," his boss replies. "Sure!" says Bubba. "My folks are from Poland, and I've known the Pope a long time." Off they fly to Rome. Bubba and his boss are assembled with the masses in Vatican Square when Bubba says, "This will never work. I can't catch the Pope's eye among all these people. Tell you what, I know all the guards so let me just go upstairs and I'll come out on the balcony with the Pope."
 
Bubba disappears into the crowd headed toward the Vatican. Sure enough, half an hour later Bubba emerges with the Pope on the balcony. By the time Bubba returns, he finds that his boss has had a heart attack and is surrounded by paramedics. Working his way to his boss' side, Bubba asks him, "What happened?"
 
His boss looks up and says, "I was doing fine until you and the Pope came out on the balcony and the man next to me said, " Who's that on the balcony with Bubba?

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 
There now follows a LOT of information on the Demoness. So if you don't want to read it go the next post. She was one of my signature characters of the Protectors (GB) campaign which began in 1984. This is highly detailed and mayhaps boring to some but is the character history.
 
The Demoness
 
Aka Cosmic Girl, Hospitalier.
 
Real Name. Caroline Turner. Carol for short.
 
Age. 36
 
Nationality: British
 
Height 5' 7½" Weight (You never ask a woman her weight)
 
Hair: Light brown with red tints or all red (scarlet)
 
Eyes: Brown with red tinge or completely red w/no pupil
 
Appearance: The Demoness is an attractive woman of medium height with brown hair and eyes flecked with scarlet. She can however appear with scarlet red hair and red eyes with no visible pupil. She tends toward simple dresses and now favours dark colours particularly with the Hospitalier cross an organisation of which she is now a member. Her smile is often wintery towards the criminal element and those she dislikes.
 
Personality: Calm and controlled except when she flies off into a rage or is being dominated by the demonic portion of her soul. She despises people who kill and uses her soul touch to make them suffer. Her true hatred is for those who use the dark arts like the Pentacle (homebrew organisation), Demon and Nightmare (homebrew villain who sold her soul and is thus immune to the Demoness's soul touch). She is devoted to her friends and her children.
 
Background: Carol was never going to have an easy life. Her grandfather schemed to create a vessel capable of handling powerful magics and thus enchanted his own son and his daughter in law prior to Carol's birth. After Carol's birth her grandfather finished the final enchantment so the infant child would grow into a power to be reckoned with in the mystical world. All that was needed now was a lifetime of indoctrination into the occult and service to the powers of evil.
Unfortunately her parents were not happy with this design for their daughter's life and so took her and fled. They spent the next decade and a bit on the run from the various Covens who wanted their child as a pawn in their power games. Finally their luck ran out and they were recaptured. Carol saw both her mother and father killed during a satanic orgy. She escaped as those who should have been guarding her were caught up in the ceremony. Drawn to the Lake District she came to the attention of the Magician's mentor and thus sanctuary. The Magician had returned to the world of Superheroing with the advent of the formation of the Protectors (GB) in late 1984.
The Magician took her on as a disciple teaching her the principles and practices of magic whilst also drawing her out of her shell. Her fugitive lifestyle had left her no time to make friends although her mother and father had schooled her as best they could in educational subjects and the school of life.
Carol became enamoured of the Avenger who was just a normal man and Crimebuster who she could tell was dieing. She assisted on some cases acquiring the name Cosmic Girl when she asked team mates for a suitable name.
The settled lifestyle could not last long as the Protectors headed into space on a quest to stop the Destroyer from returning and taking all life with him. Carol was abducted whilst trying to get to the Lake District and held captive by the newly formed Pentacle headed by the Warlock one of the Protectors' archfoes. They were assisted by Kordos a powerful wizard and foe of the Magician. She was tortured physically and mentally and her soul was bonded with that of a demon. This left a demon with a partly human soul in its body and Carol with a partly demonic soul in hers.
Two major events also happened that would shape her future. The Magician had to give his life in order to stop a mystical menace breaking into the earth dimension using the Destroyer as cover, and the Avenger murdered the Cobra who had in turn previously been responsible for the deaths of his parents. The Pentacle tortured her with these snippets of information but she steadfastly refused to believe both.
When the Protectors returned they managed an attack on the Pentacle's base. In the chaos they recovered the demon with Carol's soul whilst Carol herself managed to slip away in the confusion. She was unaware of the Protectors attempted rescue. And so tried returning to London. Despite their efforts the Demon with the part human soul died. The Magician was also able to return to life as well. However there was little he could do to restore the Demon to life or return Carol's soul to normal. Reaching London Carol was reunited with The Magician but found to her dismay that the reports of the Avenger were true. She was heart broken. The team was hunting him down but had little success, which was due in part to some of the team covertly aiding him.
Carol felt that she could no longer use the team Cosmic Girl. She now projected an aura of evil so she chose the name The Demoness after reading some of Batman's origin and methods. This did not sit well with some of the others and her relationships with some of them went into free fall. Principally these included Wolfclaw (Wolverine clone) whose 'kill first if they hate mutants' attitude angered her and Crimebuster whose laissez faire attitude and support of the Avenger soured their relationship. Some of her senses had been heightened by her ordeal so that she could now see clearly a person's soul. In turn this made her judgemental of certain people Wolfclaw especially.
She would also become enraged and armour piercing bolts of energy would come from her eyes.
 
While recovering she also met a new recruit to the Protectors, The Great Alfonso whose mentor was the Magnetic Mistress, a reformed criminal. She fell in love and they became intimate. Neither knew at the time that Kordos had implanted a subliminal suggestion in both. However she did become pregnant. Tragically Alfonso was killed by Master Spite a member of the Pentacle and formally Arsenic of the Chemical Compound. As Arsenic he had once wounded the Magnetic Mistress and so had been obliterated by Alfonso who flew into an enraged state as a result. Carol was able to hide her condition but did confide in the Magnetic Mistress that she was carrying Alfonso's child.
 
This became public when the Voidwalker pushed through a 'No Secrecy' rule to the Protector's charter. The Magnetic Mistress felt she had to divulge the truth but the Demoness reserved her anger for the Voidwalker. The amendment had been specifically targeted at the Magician and this was enough to set her against the alien Protector. Especially later when the Voidwalker kept secret from his team mates the induction of planet Earth into the Galactic Council.
 
Carol gave birth to a baby boy who she named Alfonso after his father. He showed no signs of superpowers or any defects and has done to this day. However his mother had to put up with continued speculation that The Magician was the father.
 
Carol knuckled down to becoming a full time Protector whilst rearing her son. The Magician was dismissed from the Protectors after killing Dr Magic in a duel after the latter murdered The Magician's assistants. As one of the ones who sat in judgement of the case was the Voidwalker it did harden her attitude towards him.
 
Tragedy still dogged her as the Magnetic Mistress was later killed by a villain called Kaotik. Carol had lost the one person who could tell her son what his father was really like. And then Morgan Le Fey caught her.
 
Le Fey crafted a soul construct which set the Demoness into a pure demon from with wings and claws but governed by a servant of hers whose soul provided the glue that held it together. Le Fey had her new servant kill people until the Protectors were able to free Carol with an unexpected ally. Her mother.
 
Her mother had been expelled from Hell as a consequence of the use of a wish device. It had caused other problems as well but this one benefited the Protectors. She first came to the attention of the team after Nightraven stopped a mugger from assaulting her. Having neither memory nor grasp of what had happened to her child since her death she attempted to enlist his aid in tracking Carol down. This was helped by the fact that she was dead and had the lack of pulse and stab wound to prove it and little Alfonso's resemblance to her. The Protectors were thus able to go on the offensive for a change although they were kept at bay by Le Fey and her minions. The shock of seeing her mother broke Le Fey's control and the construct was destroyed. Le Fey got away. Carol spent some considerable time recuperating partly due to the psychic shocks of being reunited with her mother and of killing people.
 
Returning to service the Demoness balanced bringing up her child, performing her duty as a Protector and educating herself. She had healing abilities and so tried to amalgamate this with medicinal knowledge in order to help people without resort to magic.
 
Controversy still dogged her. Particularly when she became pregnant again this time with quads at the hands of Foil, the greatest swordsman in the world. Foil was not actually the father but neither Carol nor the real father could come clean about it due the dangers it would pose to them. The real father was Dr Density the leader of the North East Protectors based in Newcastle. After the Fearmaster broke him, the Demoness went into his mind and brought him back. The two had a tentative tryst which resulted in Carol's second pregnancy. Despite Dr Density's wish 'to do the right thing' which required no prompting at all, Carol felt she had to turn him down as the kids would be used as a weapon against him. He was (and still is) viewed as one of the best of the Protectors and indeed superheroes all over the world. Step forward Foil. Although an 'enemy' of the team he claimed to be the father which explained why Carol could not say anything. The fact that he was more adventurer than the usual gallery of homicidal maniacs the team usually fought was the reason Carol's sight had not clued her in. This glib explanation has stood the test of time although it has made visiting rights for both fathers interesting. Two of the children have highly visible powers. One is a water breather who looks more lizard than human and another is a pyrokinetic.
 
Carol also became deputy team leader of the main London team and then leader after Crimebuster had to step down. Finally she was able to implement some plans of her own. She had become sick and tired of an attitude that prevailed which said that 'only those being hunted could go after their hunters'. Thus for example the Mutants could go after Genocide and X-Terminate but no-one else could. She felt this was rubbish. The team had banded together to get her free why not really go after those that were hunting them ? Although unpopular as an ideal to some of the team she got her way and it was successful winning grudging support from the naysayers.
 
Cobra had reconstituted at this time and the Protectors had particular reason to go after them. Boa, one of the second wave of members to the team, had been brainwashed and had gone off with them. Her husband, Moonlight Shadow, searched all over the world for her in a solo quest. Carol and the other members of the team were able to help by staging attacks on Cobra outposts worldwide whilst he and the Demoness broke into one of the main bases in Canada and abducted Boa. They were then able to restore her to normal.
 
The Magician was able to return to the Protectors and was also to marry but was assassinated (with his wife) in 1997 just after the election. The Demoness was distraught. Within a week the Unicorn was also dead after unbelieveably falling off a tower block. A friend of the Magician and close to many of the Protectors it proved a final breaking point. Particularly when the Avenger returned as well.
 
At The Magician's funeral Carol refused point blank to allow the Voidwalker to be present. She also sided with the Flame when Crimebuster insisted that he and he alone avenge the Unicorn and when the Flame insisted that the only way that the Avenger would return was over his 'dead body'. The Flame maintained that the Avenger had betrayed the team and his own code by murdering the Cobra who had been defeated and rendered into a vegetive state. Reading his soul and remembering her own bitterness the Demoness backed the Flame. Despite the fact the Avenger had served time in prison for the crime he had not faced discipline from his team mates (some of whom like Crimebuster and Moonlight Shadow kept his whereabouts secret). It resulted in a fight between the two during which the Flame burned the Avenger. Carol chose not to aid him as he felt no guilt at the murder of the Cobra.
 
The team split with some of the martial artists and others leaving. These also included people who Carol did not get on with so she happily stayed.
 
As the Millennium approached attempts were made by some of the occult organisations and by demons to kill the Pope. Carol was involved in thwarting a few of these but it culminated in a battle in Vatican City which almost killed her. The end result of these exertions saw her given special Papal status and an invite to join the Hospitalier organisation.
 
These days she still fights crime and lives off base in a Gothic mansion in London with her mother and her brood.
 
Due to her partly demonic nature Carol is unsuitable as Earth's archmage. She prefers to go after anyone who is a threat from people like Dr Destroyer to the Monster. No crime is too small, no threat to large to escape her notice.
Most of the magic community steer clear of her. She despises most of the Vandaleur clan including Adrian who tried to seduce Energiser (another Protector and friend of The Magican), and also tried to hit on her.

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Bubba was bragging to his boss one day, "You know, I know everyone there is to know. Just name someone, anyone, and I know them."
 
Tired of his boasting, his boss called his bluff, "OK, Bubba how about Tom Cruise?" "Sure, yes, Tom and I are old friends, and I can prove it."
 
So Bubba and his boss fly out to Hollywood and knock on Tom Cruise's door, and sure enough, Tom Cruise, shouts, "Bubba! Great to see you! You and your friend come right in and join me for lunch!" Although impressed, Bubba's boss is still skeptical. After they leave Cruise's house, he tells Bubba that he thinks Bubba's knowing Cruise was just lucky.
 
"No, no, just name anyone else," Bubba says. "President Bush," his boss quickly retorts. "Yes," Bubba says, "I know him, let's fly out to Washington." And off they go. At the White House, Bush spots Bubba on the tour and motions him and his boss over, saying, "Bubba, what a surprise, I was just on my way to a meeting, but you and your friend come on in and let's have a cup of coffee first and catch up."
 
Well, the boss is very shaken by now, but still not totally convinced. After they leave the White House grounds, he expresses his doubts to Bubba, who again implores him to name anyone else.
 
"The Pope," his boss replies. "Sure!" says Bubba. "My folks are from Poland, and I've known the Pope a long time." Off they fly to Rome. Bubba and his boss are assembled with the masses in Vatican Square when Bubba says, "This will never work. I can't catch the Pope's eye among all these people. Tell you what, I know all the guards so let me just go upstairs and I'll come out on the balcony with the Pope."
 
Bubba disappears into the crowd headed toward the Vatican. Sure enough, half an hour later Bubba emerges with the Pope on the balcony. By the time Bubba returns, he finds that his boss has had a heart attack and is surrounded by paramedics. Working his way to his boss' side, Bubba asks him, "What happened?"
 
His boss looks up and says, "I was doing fine until you and the Pope came out on the balcony and the man next to me said, " Who's that on the balcony with Bubba?

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Never leave a battery lying loose on your desk.
 
http://www.jhprod.com/mpegs/Pile_Eng_480x360.mov

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http://www.makingfiends.com
 
No, I didn't type the url wrong.
 
Go. Be amused.
 
Or be yourself, entertained. Whatever.