The Syndicate

Metalmarsh89 wrote:MattMatt, I can't find any words (or smilies) that can describe the cuteness of that llama.

Simon wrote:I lost my 5th tooth during Math today!

Am I the only one who thinks these new curricula are unnecessarily violent?

Metalmarsh89 wrote: I live in a subculture where people don't do things like that

Furries?

Epignosis wrote:I got to spend my morning in a middle school gymnasium with about a thousand bodies is what.

If there is a bomb, why put all the people crammed together in a small space? Are you intentionally trying to maximize casualties?

Epignosis wrote:Hooray for bomb threats.

Why did you make a bomb threat?

Just hit refresh, Alison.

Epignosis wrote:A Person has the other record quoted, and I don't edit people's quotes unless necessary, so blah.

IT WAS STILL FUNNY DAMN IT.

No argument here.

If Un Deux Trois cat cinq, doesn't that mean 123 cat won, and your daughter was right?

I am also extremely skeptical that that would work as advertised.

S~V~S wrote:I bet Llama uses one of these:

Flase. I just wax it every morning.

Mongoose wrote:This has truly been the weirdest week of my life.

I've known you long enough to know that there is no way that is true.

Epignosis wrote:RIP Joan Rivers.

Can we talk?.... about how sad we are that Joan Rivers is dead?

Mongoose wrote:I want to start a probate law firm one day and call it"

* Puttin on Heirs

I'm going to open a competing one right across the street. It will be called:

SPLITTIN' HEIRS
For when every minor detail has to be taken care of just so

Mongoose wrote:
thellama73 wrote:
bea wrote:Diggz's grandparents have stickers on the backs of EVERTYTHING in their homes with names on them. It's who they want to get what when they die.

I'm not even joking. It's absurd and brilliant at the same time.

China cabnets, Jewlery, pictures, the recepie box, everything.
I would find that system virtually irresistible to mess with. The possibilities for humorous relabeling are simply too great
explain?

I would constantly be changing the labels to be names of fictional characters, or celebrities, or animals. Or I might put riddles on them like "this item shall go to the first person who didn't not discover that the label hadn't been changed."

bea wrote:Diggz's grandparents have stickers on the backs of EVERTYTHING in their homes with names on them. It's who they want to get what when they die.

I'm not even joking. It's absurd and brilliant at the same time.

China cabnets, Jewlery, pictures, the recepie box, everything.

I would find that system virtually irresistible to mess with. The possibilities for humorous relabeling are simply too great

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm warned us about Wicked Stepmothers centuries ago. Their words remain as true today as ever.

S~V~S wrote:Welcome to OT land, where you don't have to worry about everyone scrutinizing and overanalyzing everything that you say & do.

What do you mean by that?!

Epignosis wrote:
Mongoose wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
Mongoose wrote:
Epignosis wrote:I'm going to bed.

I am ready to teach tomorrow.
How is it going?
Journalism is looking sharp.
Maybe you are teaching a future Christiane Amanpour in there.
We're more Hunter S. Thompsons here.

I like H. L. Mencken.

Just make sure you don't get rope BURN! Ahahaahaha! Get it? Because it is a ropes course!

Mongoose wrote:I am doing a Ropes Course tomorrow. I won't die, right?

Probably not.

Mongoose wrote: So now if you want to come visit me (and my garden tub), you'll have to come to the great Florida capital of Tallahassee.

I cannot get there from here.

Mongoose wrote:
thellama73 wrote:
Mongoose wrote:I am considering eating a mango for my dessert. If you'd like to weigh in on this taboo topic, let me know by 6pm EDT whether or not you think I should consume this tropical fruit.

Thanks,
Purveyor of Prime Peaches
Mangoes are delicious. Absolutely eat one.

My advice: Don't bother trying to cut it up into pieces. Way too much work. Just peel it and eat it with your hands and deal with the sticky sweet juicepocalypse later.

But I'm at work! Juice and books don't go well together k. Does the fact that I also possess a grapefruit change your mind?

Nothing changes my mind ever.

Mongoose wrote:I am considering eating a mango for my dessert. If you'd like to weigh in on this taboo topic, let me know by 6pm EDT whether or not you think I should consume this tropical fruit.

Thanks,
Purveyor of Prime Peaches

Mangoes are delicious. Absolutely eat one.

My advice: Don't bother trying to cut it up into pieces. Way too much work. Just peel it and eat it with your hands and deal with the sticky sweet juicepocalypse later.

Mister Rearranger wrote:Thanks, Epi, SVS, and Bea.

I haven't sipped anything since that post. I'm doing it less for giving up a vice and more to save some cash up and get healthier. I had a trip to the hospital a couple weeks ago for my aortic arch condition (ironically, it was due to working out too intensely, haha), so I'm trying to cut back on some things and go for healthier options, plus I'ma need extra cash for a new apartment + car later this year.

Oh yeah, another fun fact: I'm very likely getting a huge promotion in the next few months!

So trying to get healthier has already landed you in the hospital? Have you learned nothing?

BoatsBoatsBoats wrote:alcohol ruins lives k

Alcohol is the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

Vompatti wrote:

tfw planet earth is blue and there's nothing I can do

Take your protein pill and put your wombat on!

Vompatti wrote:Dear Partner,

Good day to you, I am Lasha Morchiladze the personal assistant to Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili. Our regime is about to over and the new Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili planed to jail us for causing 2008 war of which we stole a lot of money.

I want to send all my money to you (380,000,000$) little by little, and run away from this country after the nest elections which come up soon.

Please let every thing be secret between us.

Reply me if you are interested.

Thanks,
Mr. Lasha Morchiladze.

Wow! Lucky you! That sounds totally legit and not like a scam at all!

Mongoose wrote: It's too bad that Reel Big Fish is the all time worst band of any band in the entire galaxy but the others aren't bad.

I didn't say I was proud of what I listened to as a teenager in the 90s.

Mongoose wrote:
thellama73 wrote:
MovingPictures07 wrote: Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Radiohead, Neutral Milk Hotel, Wu-Tang Clan, Sigur Ros, Portishead, A Tribe Called Quest, Belle and Sebastian, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Flaming Lips, R.E.M., Dream Theater, Opeth...
I don't like any of those bands.
Not one!? Not even Neutral Milk Hotel? Or Sigur Ros?

I haven't heard much Neutral Milk Hotel, but Sigur Ros I find really annoying. I generally think the 2000s are a stronger decade musically than the wasteland that was the nineties. Here are the bands I listened to in that period that I plus a few I discovered later: No Doubt, Reel Big Fish, The Presidents of the United States of America, The Refreshments, Megadeth, Melvins, that is about it.

MovingPictures07 wrote: Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Radiohead, Neutral Milk Hotel, Wu-Tang Clan, Sigur Ros, Portishead, A Tribe Called Quest, Belle and Sebastian, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Flaming Lips, R.E.M., Dream Theater, Opeth...

I don't like any of those bands.

I've had beef tongue, and while I can't say it is my favorite thing in the world, it was certainly not as revolting as you might imagine. Just sort of chewy.

Mongoose wrote:oh I thought you had said you were serving jellied moose nose. My bad. I misread that. Upon second reflection, I see you said "Vegetarian nachos." My bad.

The only one of those I've had was Black Pudding and it was perfectly tasty. Most of them look inedible though, except for Cockscomb which I bet is okay.

Yep, although to be fair, I have been out of town a lot since then.

I like Heather Graham because she is tall, but she is not as beautiful as fellow Austin Powers star Elizabeth Hurley.

My alphabetical tour through my music library by song title has brought me as far as "A Christmas Camel" by Procol Harum. It falls under C and not A, but still, this is taking forever.

When I spent New Year's in Vienna, I was astonished to find that everyone knew all the words to a whole host of Nena songs. I guess she is bigger over there than her one hit wonder status here.

Epignosis wrote:Guys get in your car right now.

You still have time to make it!

I totally would if I hadn't just started a new job and volunteered to help a friend move this weekend.

linki: we just have similarly awesome taste.

Epignosis wrote:I vetoed Rock Lobster on account of the year. I'll add it in anyway since I fudged a few other things. But if I do that, then John Anderson's "Straight Tequila Night" goes right in.

Good point. I always forget. "Strobe Light" then. 1980.

OMG the Goonies theme is Cyndi Lauper's finest hour! Especially the music video.

Lots of great stuff on there. Here's a few I always insist on having whenever I am playing 80s music.

"Dancing With Myself" Billy Idol
"Mexican Radio" Wall of Voodoo
"Rock Lobster" B-52's
"Jessie's Girl" Rick Springfield
"Money" The Flying Lizards
"99 Luftballons" Nena
Anything by Oingo Boingo
"You Don't Own Me" Klaus Nomi (Just for fun. Nothing like a gay, German opera singer interpreting 60's girl groups)

linki: 80s Queen recs: Radio GaGa, maybe? The Works is my favorite album of theirs from that period.

Epignosis wrote:
Mongoose wrote:I think you should put some Pat Benatar on there and some Roxette and some B52s and "We Built This City and Queen Stones Bowie.
Do you want to see my playlist as it is now?

Very much. Maybe I can make a few recommendations.

Mongoose wrote:We had AYCE spaghetti on my 30th at Spaghetti Warehouse, but I filled up on salad (infinite refills!) and HOT SOURDOUGH BREAD (yes did you hear me, yes I did say hot sourdough bread), so I barely had any room for spaghetti.

linki Llama - I know you think I hate everything... but I hate cloves and nutmeg. I really want to make a punch though. Can you think of any that don't contain:cinnamon, mint, nutmeg, cloves, cardamom (and ginger I can stand but don't love). Also what is port.

No. All good punch contains the things you don't like.

Port is a fortified wine that derives its name from Portugal where it was originally produced. It is sweet, and typically served as an after dinner drink. It comes in Ruby and Tawny varieties, with tawny being lighter in color, more thoroughly aged and with a richer, more complex flavor. I really like port.

Mongoose wrote: What are y'all having again? Veg nachos and chicken something? Are you having birthday punch? I want to make punch.

Make English Bishop Punch. It is my favorite.

Basically, you heat some port wine, roast an orange over a flame until it turns brown, quarter it, add it to the port, add cloves to taste and serve hot with a light dusting of nutmeg.

In my youth, I regarded Play-Doh as almost as delicious as cake.

Mongoose wrote:holy crap - is that fondant?!?!

It's mostly Play-Doh.

Mongoose wrote:
I am envious of people that can eat whatever they want, ha. I certainly cannot, but I don't believe in deprivation either.

James's new job at the party store is working as the Pinata Maker. He basically eats candy all day long.

If someone told me their job was "Pinata Maker" I would not believe them.

Mongoose wrote:
thellama73 wrote:
Epignosis wrote:"Legs" by ZZ Top
Whatever that music is that they used for the mall montage in Mannequin.

Why are you dieting? I don't like dieting.
I didn't say I was dieting!

Just working out, but not crazy amounts.

I don't like thta either. Just rest and eat whatever you want. That's what I do!

Epignosis wrote:"Legs" by ZZ Top

Whatever that music is that they used for the mall montage in Mannequin.

Why are you dieting? I don't like dieting.

That's funny. I find Aubrey Plaza quite fetching.

To be fair, I think their real mother had died and he was merely filling in.

The only thing I remember about that class was that the study of animal behavior is called "Ethology" and that Konrad Lorenz tricked some ducks into thinking he was their mother.

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