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  2. NGD Scenes from a Hat

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    Pie-eating contests. The guy who can take the most pies to the face wins. Shaving cream not permitted.

    As long as they're cement pies, fired at the politician from air cannons, I support this idea wholeheartedly.

     

    NT: Subtle signs that the Saudi ambassador no longer finds your antics amusing.

    He shows you that he's going commando under those robes.

     

    NT: Most mind-numbing thing to come out of CNN / Fox News / MSNBC this week.

  4. Quote of the Week From My Life.

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    At least they didn't think he wrote a long series of fantasy novels with a central character that's a muscular barbarian whom he named after himself.

     

    The first time I read this, I thought it said, "a musical barbarian" and had mental images of Schwartzenneger singing and dancing while fighting snake cultists.

  5. NGD Scenes from a Hat

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    He passes legislation making your union illegal' date=' buys your company, lays off you and all your friends, awarding himself your next year's salary as an executive bonus, and has all you illegal union members arrested and sentenced to hard labor in his company shops.[/quote']

     

    And this would be different from his normal modus opperandi exactly how?

     

    NT: Subtle signs Mitt Romney no longer finds your antics amusing.

     

    The Rmoneybot's "alternate programming" kicks in, he puts on sunglasses, and says in a thick Austrian accent, "I'll be back."

     

    NT: Subtle signs that Jim Lehrer no longer finds your debate antics amusing.

  6. NGD Scenes from a Hat

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    Supply him with plenty of chocolate-coated Quatro Triticale.

     

    NT: I have a stomach bug so can't eat out or go out and walk far and OddHat is bored. He is sick too. How can I entertain him ?

     

    Teach the stomach bug to juggle and do other tricks.

     

    And I don't see why the bug has to stay on your stomach. Why don't you set it on a table for a while? :winkgrin:

  7. NGD Scenes from a Hat

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    NT: In light of Pariah's comment above and the Tribble's penchent for both revenge and sadism' date=' what will Pariah need to do to placate the Tribble.[/quote']

     

    Stop being a Peeping Pariah on the Tribble's mom, for one thing. Bringing him the head of teh Bunneh would be a nice gesture, though.

  10. NGD Scenes from a Hat

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    NT: Subtle signs that you really shouldn't have sent your eight-year-old son out trick-or-treating on his own (Difficulty: he's perfectly fine afterwards).

     

    "Daddy! I met some funny ladies! But what did they mean when I asked if they were trick-or-treating, and they said they were turnin' tricks?"

  11. Quote of the Week From My Life.

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    My family is watching the 4th season finale for Warehouse 13, and my youngest daughter is worried it'll end on a down note.

     

    Her: "I mean, they ended on a downer last season. They can't do that two times in a row." (Pauses as she remembers how they ended Season 2.) "Okay, three times." (Pauses as she remembers how they ended Season 1.) "Four times! Curse you!"

  16. Why Don't The Villains Kill?

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    Most of my villains do not kill, whether PC heroes or NPC supers or NPC normals. For most, it's just not their way (as someone else said, they're thieves, not murderers). For others, they fear the consequences of bumping somebody off. Same thing with VIPER agents, really, since most of them understand the repercussions if they do kill somebody.

     

    That said, I do have bad guys who will kill if it's absolutely necessary, others who would kill if it fits their plan or the money's right, and others who would kill because it's Tuesday or they simply didn't like the guy's eye color. It all depends upon the psychological makeup of the individual.

     

    I've even had entire villain groups who were casual killers. Combats involving them can be difficult, because I don't like to kill off player characters based on something stupid like the dice just not going their way that particular night. (I had this happen early in my GM-ing carreer, and it left a bad taste in everybody's mouth.) In general, those villains don't appear to pull their punches so much, but rather make some tactical errors in who they target or what they attack them with.

  17. "Neat" Pictures

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    I just changed my cell number' date=' because I was constantly harrassed by debt collectors going after someone who had the number before me. Which means now I get calls asking for a different person. I hope it's a net gain, statistically.[/quote']

     

    We've gotten calls from debt collectors going after my wife's ex-husband -- and they were divorced nearly 25 years ago. After the third time we explaining the situation, I told them that (1) my number is on the Do Not Call registry, (2) nobody in our house has EVER been a customer of them or their client, and (3) they should make a note of this and cease calling us or I would report and sue them if they called me again. They stopped calling.

     

    And y'know, it could be worse. Our home number was once a company's fax number. Even though it's been a private home number for over 5 years, we still get calls at 2 am with that warbling fax tone, and you can't even tell them to take a flying leap because there's nobody there to hear you scream.

     

    However, since this is the Neat Pictures thread, I should probably post a picture just to get us pack on track.

     

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  21. NGD Scenes from a Hat

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    New Topic: Ways to relieve your frustration after your sports team of choice loses yet another game in disappointing fashion. (Difficulty: No booze or other chemical remedies.)

     

    Man, I'm from Detroit. That sounds like a reason to riot. (Also a reason to riot if the team of choice wins a game. Or trades a player. Or it's Thursday.)

  23. "Neat" Pictures

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    Abe Lincoln on Mars:

     

    Part of the calibration plaque on the Mars rover Curiosity includes a US penny for size comparison. (I assume for laymen and the media. I'm sure NASA knows how big their plaque is.)

     

    Here's a recent photograph of the penny, attached to the rover, and partially covered in dust from Mars.

     

    I wonder why they used a 1909 penny, and not one minted the year it was being launched.

  25. NGD Scenes from a Hat

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    NT: With Jerry 'the King' Lawler out of action who is going to do commentary for the WWE (the more insane the suggestion the better)

    Elvis 'the King' Presley. "Ohhh, that move left the Russian Rotweiller.... uh-huh, he's all shook up. Guess he's nothin' but a hound dog..."

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