The Syndicate

I don't know or care what that is.

I'm pretty sure our plane is out of fuel by now.

Two Simpsons jokes stick out in my mind as being my favorite kind of joke. It's when a character has clearly missed an opportunity, but nobody except the audience notices.

1. Arnie Pye, the traffic reporter has a show called "Arnie in the Sky."
2. The founder of Shelbyville's name is Shelbyville Manhattan.

I don't know why, but these two jokes make me laugh endlessly, and they are made better by the fact that no one ever points them out. They just sort of slide by unless you're paying attention.

One final scene before bed that never fails to reduce me to tears of laughter for its sheer stupidity.
Bart is confronting an animatronic Smokey the Bear, who asks:
"Only who can prevent forest fires?"
Bart presses a button labeled "You" instead of the one labeled "Me."
Smokey: "You have selected 'you,' referring to me. That is incorrect. The correct answer is 'you.'"

And I was totally on his side when he stole a trillion dollars from the U.S. government.

I like Mr. Burns because his evil rants are eerily persuasive. It' a good reminder that evil people never think they are evil. Their actions have a certain logic in their own heads. Another of my favorites:
"Why should the race always go to the swift or the jumble to the quick-witted? Why should they succeed simply because of the gifts God gave them? I say, cheating is the gift man gives himself!"

He kind of has a point.

MovingPictures07 wrote:The Simpsons was absolute genius at its prime during Seasons 3 through 9.

Discuss.

What is there to discuss? This is widely acknowledged fact.

My favorite characters have evolved a lot over the years, but I think my current favs show a certain mature appreciation of subtle comedy. They are Milhouse and Superintendent Chalmers.

"I thought you said we were having steamed clams."
"Oh no, I said steamed hams. That's what I call hamburgers."
"You call hamburgers steamed hams?"
"Yes, it's a regional dialect."
"What region?"
"Upstate New York."
"Well I'm from Albany and I've never heard the expression steamed hams."
"Oh no, not in Albany. It's more of a Utica thing."
"Uh huh. And you call them steamed hams, despite the fact that they are obviously grilled."

Metalmarsh89 wrote: But if inh is having time issues on his end, that is a different can of snakes (which I did not bring on the plane).

I think if people miss their actions, they simply do nothing that round. No sense letting them hold the rest of us hostage (oops! Bad metaphor for this game!) while we wait for them.

insertnamehere wrote: I just disproved your theory, Llama.

Rats.

I have no house in the country. I have no motorcar.

DharmaHelper wrote:

Snow Dog wrote:Can we not mention anything about the game here? If not why does this thread exist?

Why do any of us exist?

Finally an easy question from DH.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

DharmaHelper wrote:Does anyone know an indirect/direct way of asking the host where the main thread objective is?

No, I do not.


Oh look what I found, an answer.

That's not an answer. It's a non-sequitur.

DH's question is like asking "how many sides does green have?" or "what's the square root of vanilla?" Anything you pose as an answer doesn't make sense because the question is unanswerable.

DharmaHelper wrote:There are infinite possible answers. Whether or not any of them are correct or even coherent, completely different story.

The question is unanswerable. Therefore no answer is possible.

DharmaHelper wrote:

thellama73 wrote:

DharmaHelper wrote:

thellama73 wrote:

DharmaHelper wrote:

DharmaHelper wrote:Does anyone know an indirect/direct way of asking the host where the main thread objective is? Hypothetically asking for a friend.

Don't ask questions that can't be answered.

Is the answer to this question no?

It can't be answered, so it has no answer.

You assume the only possible answers are "yes" and "no"

I make no such assumption. There are zero possible answers.

DharmaHelper wrote:

thellama73 wrote:

DharmaHelper wrote:

DharmaHelper wrote:Does anyone know an indirect/direct way of asking the host where the main thread objective is? Hypothetically asking for a friend.

Don't ask questions that can't be answered.

Is the answer to this question no?

It can't be answered, so it has no answer.

DharmaHelper wrote:

DharmaHelper wrote:Does anyone know an indirect/direct way of asking the host where the main thread objective is? Hypothetically asking for a friend.

Don't ask questions that can't be answered.

DharmaHelper wrote:No but really, Flight was pretty good.

No it wasn't. It was a preachy, tedious condemnation of the glories of alcohol.

There's someone on the wing!

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Why are there combat rules for this plane? I just wanted a safe, tranquil flight.

I have many questions about the combat rules.

insertnamehere wrote: A player with an Aim stat of 6 PM's me saying that he wants to shoot another player in the head with a gun from their inventory. At this point, I'll use http://www.random.org's random number generator. If the number is lower than six, the player's aim stat, the result will be a success, and the person they were aiming at will instantly die. If the number is 7, 8, 9, or 10, the bullet will miss.

Does this mean that the odds of success are the same regardless of the target/distance? If the person being shot in the head is an arm's length away, shouldn't that require an easier roll than someone on the other side of the plane? Likewise, shouldn't aiming for a person's eyeball be harder than aiming at their torso? How is this taken into account if at all? If you miss your target, is there a chance of hitting a bystander? Explosive decompression is largely a myth, but what effect do bullets passing through the hull of the plane have? Do you have to roll for aim if the target is yourself? How is suicide viewed in this game anyway? Can I ask one more question? What happens if you say "no" and I've already asked it, like I just did?

I'm pretty sure the main objective right now is "derail the game."

DharmaHelper wrote:Eva Green is like, number one.

Eva Green, Eva Braun, Eva Gabor. Discuss.

Unusual weather we're having, ain't it?