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Jorn Barger

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Aug 13, 2002, 4:28:17 AM8/13/02
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Ever notice how arkd00dz are all like "I know I'll never be as funny
as Kibo if I live a million years but maybe if I apply myself, someday
I'll say something almost as funny as Joe Bay on an off day"?

And arkchyx are all like "These are the people at my Cool Table and
I am the Queen of my Cool Table and this is my personal message for
one of the people at my Cool Table that I'm posting to the newsgroup
at large to remind evereyone else how Cool we are"?

What's up with that?

(Not bitter.)

E Teflon Piano

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Aug 13, 2002, 9:05:19 AM8/13/02
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In article <16e613ec.02081...@posting.google.com>, Jorn
Barger <jo...@enteract.com> wrote:

This is answered in the famous Southern Man koan:

Why did God give women pussies?
.
.
.
So men would talk to them.

--
Institute for Misapplied Psychometry fellow E Teflon Piano is founder of the
Internet 'Lectronic Legal Society. Teflon is a mark owned by duPont. E is E
poly(TFE) Piano Enterprises' [dibs] for ironic hyperbole and elitist satire.
ŠE[dibs] 1994-2002

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Glenn Knickerbocker

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Aug 13, 2002, 11:16:39 AM8/13/02
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Jonathan Benney wrote:
> pretending that something funny is unfunny; and b) pretending that
> something unfunny is funny HAW HAW!!!!!111!!.

You are sufferring the misapprehension that we are pretending.
Cf. Jarry, Cummings, Ionesco, Beckett, my little sister.

泉nR

Oh, and don't forget to post the results of your comparison.

HarCo Industries

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Aug 13, 2002, 12:52:01 PM8/13/02
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jo...@enteract.com (Jorn Barger) wrote in message news:<16e613ec.02081...@posting.google.com>...

If it makes you feel better, I am not now, nor have I ever been, Cool.

Ask anybody.

Joseph Michael Bay

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Aug 13, 2002, 1:07:27 PM8/13/02
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j...@student.unimelb.edu.au (Jonathan Benney) writes:

>Jorn Barger <jo...@enteract.com> wrote:

>> Ever notice how arkd00dz are all like "I know I'll never be as funny
>> as Kibo if I live a million years but maybe if I apply myself, someday
>> I'll say something almost as funny as Joe Bay on an off day"?

>George Orwell said that anyone who used "not un-" should be forced to
>write out "A not unbrown dog chased a not unwhite rabbit across a not
>ungreen field." ten xillion times.

And then he said "I am not undead. BRAAAAIIIIIIIIIIINS! YUM, BRAINS!"

>I don't think this is true, and, allowedness aside, the central reason I
>try and read every post in a.r.k., and sometimes even post myself, is
>that I like the ethereal and unmapped purgatory between "funny" and "not
>unfunny" that we seem to have going here.

It's not infrequently called "litotes".

>It follows that two of the commonest techniques used by arkdoodz are a)


>pretending that something funny is unfunny; and b) pretending that
>something unfunny is funny HAW HAW!!!!!111!!.

>I can't comment on the chyx because I was scarred by various
>babysitters.

HAW HAW!

--
Joseph M. Bay Lamont Sanford Junior University
www.stanford.edu/~jmbay/ DO NOT PRESS

Chris McGonnell

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Aug 13, 2002, 1:15:57 PM8/13/02
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"Jorn Barger" wrote ...

> Ever notice how arkd00dz are all like "I know I'll never be as funny
> as Kibo if I live a million years but maybe if I apply myself, someday
> I'll say something almost as funny as Joe Bay on an off day"?

Hey, I'm twice as funny as Kibo, but David Pacheco *might* be funnier.

> And arkchyx are all like "These are the people at my Cool Table and
> I am the Queen of my Cool Table and this is my personal message for
> one of the people at my Cool Table that I'm posting to the newsgroup
> at large to remind evereyone else how Cool we are"?
>
> What's up with that?

Nothing. Go on about your business, Mister Lookie-loo!

>
> (Not bitter.)

Like the dregs of Friday's coffee left on "warm" throughout the weekend "Not
Bitter?"

--
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Chris McGonnell

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Aug 13, 2002, 1:19:09 PM8/13/02
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"HarCo Industries" wrote ...

Yeah, right. You're so cool you're FRIGID!

magical truthsaying bastard roney!

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Aug 13, 2002, 2:34:57 PM8/13/02
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In article <1fgvm6o.ulemxe3daey8N%j...@student.unimelb.edu.au>,

Jonathan Benney <j...@student.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>I can't comment on the chyx because I was scarred by various
>babysitters.

Never let your babysitters give you home-made tattoos.

rone
--
{Reagan's} presidency always reminded me of a remark made by a woman to
Heywood Broun following Secretariat's victory in the Triple Crown. After the
trauma of Vietnam and Watergate, she said, Secretariat had "restored her faith
in humanity." I like to think Reagan was the Secretariat of the eighties.
- Garry Trudeau

magical truthsaying bastard roney!

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Aug 13, 2002, 2:47:07 PM8/13/02
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Ah, can there be any doubt? Spring is here! The sun shines,
flowers bloom, and the dominant members of the herd try once again
to establish the pecking order, regardless of the eventual
futility of it, and the vaguely unclean feeling they know they
will have at the conclusion of the ceremony.

- Matt Brown

Eventual futility, vaguely unclean feeling... Welcome to Usenet!

>(Not bitter.)

You misspelled "not unbitter."

Jeremy Impson

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Aug 13, 2002, 3:28:53 PM8/13/02
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On 13 Aug 2002, HarCo Industries wrote:

>
> If it makes you feel better, I am not now, nor have I ever been, Cool.
>
> Ask anybody.

In the context of ARK, I think you are one of the "cooler" ones, because
you have your own meme-action. Only Kibo and Teo (whoever that is) have
one besides you.

--Jeremy

--

Jeremy Impson
jdim...@acm.org
http://impson.tzo.com/~jdimpson

Professor Zamumba

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Aug 13, 2002, 3:56:10 PM8/13/02
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Jorn Barger come on down:

No, actually. Why?

--
"'Usenet' is this big thing with the things and the other stuff,
plus nerds."- David Pacheco

Professor Zamumba

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Aug 13, 2002, 3:57:18 PM8/13/02
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Chris McGonnell come on down:

>"HarCo Industries" wrote ...
>> jo...@enteract.com (Jorn Barger) wrote in message
>news:<16e613ec.02081...@posting.google.com>...
>> > Ever notice how arkd00dz are all like "I know I'll never be as funny
>> > as Kibo if I live a million years but maybe if I apply myself, someday
>> > I'll say something almost as funny as Joe Bay on an off day"?
>> >
>> > And arkchyx are all like "These are the people at my Cool Table and
>> > I am the Queen of my Cool Table and this is my personal message for
>> > one of the people at my Cool Table that I'm posting to the newsgroup
>> > at large to remind evereyone else how Cool we are"?
>> >
>> > What's up with that?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > (Not bitter.)
>>
>> If it makes you feel better, I am not now, nor have I ever been, Cool.
>>
>> Ask anybody.
>
>Yeah, right. You're so cool you're FRIGID!

I'm MORE FRIGID.

Paula

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Aug 13, 2002, 4:41:16 PM8/13/02
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HarCo Industries <tdwi...@earthlink.net> wrote:

> jo...@enteract.com (Jorn Barger) wrote in message news: > Ever notice how


> arkd00dz are all like "I know I'll never be as funny > as Kibo if I live a
> million years but maybe if I apply myself, someday > I'll say something
> almost as funny as Joe Bay on an off day"? > > And arkchyx are all like
> "These are the people at my Cool Table and > I am the Queen of my Cool
> Table and this is my personal message for > one of the people at my Cool
> Table that I'm posting to the newsgroup > at large to remind evereyone
> else how Cool we are"? > > What's up with that? > > > > (Not bitter.)
>
> If it makes you feel better, I am not now, nor have I ever been, Cool.
>
> Ask anybody.

HAW HAW! You are SO uncool!

You have brought up a good point. You only post to make me insanely
jealous about your horses, so, like, you are the keeper of the cool
barn, I guess. I only poste to tell you how much I hate you and your
whole way too nice and horse-blessed family. I don't have time to
configurate a cool table because I'm too busy with the hate table. And
ducks. And chocolate. So who is in charge of the cool table these
days?

--
Paula
My lines are too short to netbox with Kibo.
"Nobody is the most beautiful. They just
think they are." ---Mimi, age 4

Shiro Akaishi

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Aug 13, 2002, 4:43:00 PM8/13/02
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on 13 Aug 2002, HarCo Industries did this!

> Ask anybody. ^
i


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) \. ------------- LL SigDuck!
/.

Joseph Michael Bay

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Aug 13, 2002, 4:41:03 PM8/13/02
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Rich Holmes <rsholme...@mailbox.syr.edu> writes:

>jm...@Stanford.EDU (Joseph Michael Bay) writes:

>> j...@student.unimelb.edu.au (Jonathan Benney) writes:

>> >I can't comment on the chyx because I was scarred by various
>> >babysitters.

>> HAW HAW!

>That's NOT funny.

Steve Christensen

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Aug 13, 2002, 5:53:17 PM8/13/02
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Professor Zamumba wrote:
>Chris McGonnell come on down:
>>Yeah, right. You're so cool you're FRIGID!
>
>I'm MORE FRIGID.
^^^^^^^^^^^
not unfrigid.


-Steve
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REFERENCE TO DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS PARAPHENALIA. PHEAR ME.
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Matt McIrvin

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Aug 13, 2002, 8:04:30 PM8/13/02
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In article <1fgvm6o.ulemxe3daey8N%j...@student.unimelb.edu.au>,
j...@student.unimelb.edu.au (Jonathan Benney) wrote:

> George Orwell said that anyone who used "not un-" should be forced to
> write out "A not unbrown dog chased a not unwhite rabbit across a not
> ungreen field." ten xillion times.

I have started trying to eliminate these coy double negatives from my
writing because I read Orwell's "Politics and the English Language," an
essay that pretends to be about politics but is actually a concise and
brilliant style guide:

http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/patee.html

I believe that political writing has actually improved from the
wretched examples that he gives, apart from academic work. The sins he
lists are all common today nevertheless.

--
Matt McIrvin http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/

Ben Allard

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Aug 13, 2002, 8:29:25 PM8/13/02
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Jeremy Impson <jdim...@acm.org> wrote:

> On 13 Aug 2002, HarCo Industries wrote:
>> If it makes you feel better, I am not now, nor have I ever been,
>> Cool.
>>
>> Ask anybody.
>
> In the context of ARK, I think you are one of the "cooler" ones,
> because you have your own meme-action. Only Kibo and Teo (whoever
> that is) have one besides you.

Kibo: Quick, Terri, he's figured us out!

TDWillis: BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

Kibo: Grab his wallet, Teo.

Teo: Jackpot, Kibo! With this gold card we can finally pay for all that
drilling equipment!

Kibo: Call Tanzania, Teo; it's free beer tonight!

--ben

Theresa Willis

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Aug 13, 2002, 9:34:20 PM8/13/02
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On 13 Aug 2002 11:34:57 -0700, "magical truthsaying bastard roney!"
<^#*&$@ennui.org> wrote:

Everytime I see "magical truthsaying bastard roney" an image of teh
anime version of rone is thrust into my brane, where it scalds and
burns.

Just thought it would please you to know that.

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David DeLaney

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Aug 13, 2002, 10:28:50 PM8/13/02
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Jeremy Impson <jdim...@acm.org> wrote:
>On 13 Aug 2002, HarCo Industries wrote:
>> If it makes you feel better, I am not now, nor have I ever been, Cool.
>>
>> Ask anybody.
>
>In the context of ARK, I think you are one of the "cooler" ones, because
>you have your own meme-action. Only Kibo and Teo (whoever that is) have
>one besides you.

And Matt, and lcrl, and Jim the ~~Dead Guy, and w e d n e s d a y, and
Lewis Stiller, and Lee Bumgarner, and...

Well, suffice it to say that eventually -everybody's- Avatar shows through
and influences everyone else at least mildly.

Dave "the faster we go the rounder we get" DeLaney
--
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It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see
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Jeremy Impson

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Aug 13, 2002, 11:23:26 PM8/13/02
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On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Theresa Willis wrote:

> On 13 Aug 2002 11:34:57 -0700, "magical truthsaying bastard roney!"
> <^#*&$@ennui.org> wrote:
>
> Everytime I see "magical truthsaying bastard roney" an image of teh
> anime version of rone is thrust into my brane, where it scalds and
> burns.

PLZ POST MENTAL .GIF.

Jeremy Impson

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Aug 13, 2002, 11:27:28 PM8/13/02
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On 13 Aug 2002, David DeLaney wrote:

> Jeremy Impson <jdim...@acm.org> wrote:
> >On 13 Aug 2002, HarCo Industries wrote:
> >> If it makes you feel better, I am not now, nor have I ever been, Cool.
> >>
> >> Ask anybody.
> >
> >In the context of ARK, I think you are one of the "cooler" ones, because
> >you have your own meme-action. Only Kibo and Teo (whoever that is) have
> >one besides you.
>
> And Matt, and lcrl, and Jim the ~~Dead Guy, and w e d n e s d a y, and
> Lewis Stiller, and Lee Bumgarner, and...

To my knowledge, these folks don't have meme-*actions*. Do they?

> Dave "the faster we go the rounder we get" DeLaney

The rounder I get the slower I run.

magical truthsaying bastard roney!

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Aug 14, 2002, 12:31:53 AM8/14/02
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.020813...@monster.apt.net>,

Jeremy Impson <jdim...@acm.org> wrote:
>On 13 Aug 2002, David DeLaney wrote:
>> Jeremy Impson <jdim...@acm.org> wrote:
>> >On 13 Aug 2002, HarCo Industries wrote:
>> >> If it makes you feel better, I am not now, nor have I ever been, Cool.
>> >> Ask anybody.
>> >In the context of ARK, I think you are one of the "cooler" ones, because
>> >you have your own meme-action. Only Kibo and Teo (whoever that is) have
>> >one besides you.
>> And Matt, and lcrl, and Jim the ~~Dead Guy, and w e d n e s d a y, and
>> Lewis Stiller, and Lee Bumgarner, and...
>To my knowledge, these folks don't have meme-*actions*. Do they?

Some of us have meme passions. Scorn the meme passion at your own risk.

>> Dave "the faster we go the rounder we get" DeLaney
>The rounder I get the slower I run.

But the faster you roll.

Mark Hill

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Aug 14, 2002, 12:46:50 AM8/14/02
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Jonathan Benney wrote:
> After sort of thinking about this I arrived at the conclusion that you
> are somewhat correct, but the flavour of intrauseweb communication
> always involves a certain disingenuousness.

It is not undisingenuous.

WHOSE TITAN ELBOW

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Aug 14, 2002, 12:48:41 AM8/14/02
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[Jorn Barger, alt.religion.kibology, Tue, 13 Aug 2002
08:28:17 GMT]

> Ever notice how arkd00dz are all like "I know I'll never be
> as funny as Kibo

You mean "funny-HAHA" (f) or "funny-
PECULIAR"(fP)??????????????????? Maybe f is a special case of
fP?

--
``Although xylitol has a relatively long organic chemical
history, the first half of this century was rather eventless
from xylitol's point of view...'' -- Professor Kauko K.
Mäkinen

WHOSE TITAN ELBOW

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Aug 14, 2002, 12:57:34 AM8/14/02
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[Theresa Willis, alt.religion.kibology, Wed, 14 Aug 2002
01:34:20 GMT]

> Everytime I see "magical truthsaying bastard roney" an
> image of teh anime version of rone is thrust into my brane,
> where it scalds and burns.

It made me remember the "Two Ronnies" teevee show, which I
remember as a not unfunny compromise between Benny Hill and
Monty Python, but that could be wrong, and I would not be
unhappy if it were on the teevee again sometime again very soon.
Now I miss the old KSTW.

Jim Vandewalker

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Aug 14, 2002, 11:04:18 AM8/14/02
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.020813...@monster.apt.net>,
Jeremy Impson <jdim...@acm.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Theresa Willis wrote:
>
> > On 13 Aug 2002 11:34:57 -0700, "magical truthsaying bastard roney!"
> > <^#*&$@ennui.org> wrote:
> >
> > Everytime I see "magical truthsaying bastard roney" an image of teh
> > anime version of rone is thrust into my brane, where it scalds and
> > burns.
>
> PLZ POST MENTAL .GIF.
>

Here ya go: http://revjack.net/usenet/ark/gallery/1029336825.html

--
Jim the Dead Guy

I saw a PDP once under the stairs.
--Andrew Pearson in alt.religion.kibology

Joe Manfre

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Aug 14, 2002, 1:11:05 PM8/14/02
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WHOSE TITAN ELBOW (crgre+...@newsguy.com) wrote:
>[Jorn Barger, alt.religion.kibology, Tue, 13 Aug 2002
>08:28:17 GMT]
>
>> Ever notice how arkd00dz are all like "I know I'll never be
>> as funny as Kibo
>
>You mean "funny-HAHA" (f) or "funny-
>PECULIAR"(fP)??????????????????? Maybe f is a special case of
>fP?

But! What about funnyL-HAHA (fL) or funnyL-PECULIAR (fLP)?!?! How
does fL rank compared to fP?? Does fLP ever lead to f? Do they
balance out on a FORCE TABLE?? Can I put these formulas on a cheat
sheet to use during the test?1?!


JM

WHOSE TITAN ELBOW

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Aug 14, 2002, 2:39:09 PM8/14/02
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[Joe Manfre, alt.religion.kibology, Wed, 14 Aug 2002 17:11:05
GMT]

WHAT IS THE STALL NUMBER OF AN UNENCUMBERED KIBOZO??? Probably
something like:

<Gravolti|Urlap> = ( |füt>,|plex> )

Phil (the Extreme One)

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Aug 14, 2002, 4:47:29 PM8/14/02
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On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 11:31:48 +1000, after hours of intense interrogation,
j...@student.unimelb.edu.au (Jonathan Benney) finally admitted that:

>Glenn Knickerbocker <No...@bestweb.net> wrote:
>
>> Jonathan Benney wrote:
>> > pretending that something funny is unfunny; and b) pretending that
>> > something unfunny is funny HAW HAW!!!!!111!!.
>>
>> You are sufferring the misapprehension that we are pretending.
>> Cf. Jarry, Cummings, Ionesco, Beckett, my little sister.


>
>After sort of thinking about this I arrived at the conclusion that you
>are somewhat correct, but the flavour of intrauseweb communication
>always involves a certain disingenuousness.
>

>> Oh, and don't forget to post the results of your comparison.
>
>*****************
>********
>**********
>***********************
>***
>****************
>
> _____________
> | | |
>|-------------| | |-----|
> |_____|______|
>
>
> ___
> .-~" | "~-.
> / | \
>Y | Y
>|------. |
>l \ !
> \ \ /
> "-.,___,.-"

Yay! Just 15 seconds until quittin' time!

--
Phil
nolemurz-at-earthlink-dot-net
http://www.acmeforces.com <=== chronically incomplete
"Just once I'd like to go to a party and not be set on fire" -Dilbert

Glenn Knickerbocker

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Aug 14, 2002, 5:28:46 PM8/14/02
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"Phil (the Extreme One)" wrote:
> > .-~" | "~-.
> > / | \
> >Y | Y
> >|------. |
> >l \ !
> > \ \ /
> > "-.,___,.-"
>
> Yay! Just 15 seconds until quittin' time!

That or nuclear disarmament.

ŹR

Glenn Knickerbocker

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Aug 14, 2002, 5:29:06 PM8/14/02
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"Phil (the Extreme One)" wrote:
> > .-~" | "~-.
> > / | \
> >Y | Y
> >|------. |
> >l \ !
> > \ \ /
> > "-.,___,.-"
>
> Yay! Just 15 seconds until quittin' time!

That or nuclear disarmament.

ŹR

David DeLaney

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Aug 14, 2002, 10:08:56 PM8/14/02
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Jeremy Impson <jdim...@acm.org> wrote:

>On 13 Aug 2002, David DeLaney wrote:
>> >In the context of ARK, I think you are one of the "cooler" ones, because
>> >you have your own meme-action. Only Kibo and Teo (whoever that is) have
>> >one besides you.
>>
>> And Matt, and lcrl, and Jim the ~~Dead Guy, and w e d n e s d a y, and
>> Lewis Stiller, and Lee Bumgarner, and...
>
>To my knowledge, these folks don't have meme-*actions*. Do they?

Has Matt not Explained The Joke since you've been here? Wednesday spaces.
Lee... well, Lee was Leelike en masse each time.

>> Dave "the faster we go the rounder we get" DeLaney
>
>The rounder I get the slower I run.

Dave "well, perhaps the BEST butter would suit your gears" DeLaney

magical truthsaying bastard roney!

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Aug 15, 2002, 1:38:32 AM8/15/02
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In article <Xns9269DD94C8...@216.148.53.95>,

WHOSE TITAN ELBOW <crgre+...@newsguy.com> wrote:
>[Jorn Barger, alt.religion.kibology, Tue, 13 Aug 2002
>08:28:17 GMT]
>> Ever notice how arkd00dz are all like "I know I'll never be
>> as funny as Kibo
>You mean "funny-HAHA" (f) or "funny-
>PECULIAR"(fP)??????????????????? Maybe f is a special case of
>fP?

No, it is a special case of fB. The metric unit of funniness is now
the femtobenvenuto!

magical truthsaying bastard roney!

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Aug 15, 2002, 1:36:52 AM8/15/02
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In article <jim.vandewalker-F5...@news.fu-berlin.de>,

Jim Vandewalker <jim.van...@verizon.net> wrote:
>In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.020813...@monster.apt.net>,
> Jeremy Impson <jdim...@acm.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Theresa Willis wrote:
>> > Everytime I see "magical truthsaying bastard roney" an image of teh
>> > anime version of rone is thrust into my brane, where it scalds and
>> > burns.
>> PLZ POST MENTAL .GIF.
>Here ya go: http://revjack.net/usenet/ark/gallery/1029336825.html

I am greatly frightened.

You coulda made my finger shoot something, though.

E Teflon Piano

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Aug 15, 2002, 8:46:33 AM8/15/02
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In article <3D5ACBA2...@bestweb.net>, Glenn Knickerbocker
<No...@bestweb.net> wrote:

Either yer Mercades is going over a cliff, or yer peace sign needs
work.

--
Institute for Misapplied Psychometry fellow E Teflon Piano is founder of the
Internet 'Lectronic Legal Society. Teflon is a mark owned by duPont. E is E
poly(TFE) Piano Enterprises' [dibs] for ironic hyperbole and elitist satire.
ŠE[dibs] 1994-2002

E Teflon Piano

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Aug 15, 2002, 8:44:08 AM8/15/02
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In article <jim.vandewalker-F5...@news.fu-berlin.de>,
Jim Vandewalker <jim.van...@verizon.net> wrote:


}> > Everytime I see "magical truthsaying bastard roney" an image of teh
}> > anime version of rone is thrust into my brane, where it scalds and
}> > burns.
}>
}> PLZ POST MENTAL .GIF.
}>
}Here ya go: http://revjack.net/usenet/ark/gallery/1029336825.html

TLK would would throw flaming kittens at PETA rally to beable to draw
like that.

Jeeze, so would I, come to think of it.

E Teflon Piano

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In article <rone.ajfeoo$2q9u$1...@ennui.org>, magical truthsaying bastard
roney! <^#*&$@ennui.org> wrote:

}In article <Xns9269DD94C8...@216.148.53.95>,
}WHOSE TITAN ELBOW <crgre+...@newsguy.com> wrote:
}>[Jorn Barger, alt.religion.kibology, Tue, 13 Aug 2002
}>08:28:17 GMT]
}>> Ever notice how arkd00dz are all like "I know I'll never be
}>> as funny as Kibo
}>You mean "funny-HAHA" (f) or "funny-
}>PECULIAR"(fP)??????????????????? Maybe f is a special case of
}>fP?
}
}No, it is a special case of fB. The metric unit of funniness is now
}the femtobenvenuto!

While we're on the subject: I'd like to propose a new metric unit to
measure gayness called the Lowell, as in Christoper Lowell, the gayest
man on television. Lowells are kind of like a radioactive half-life, in
that mass and duration and persistence of gayness are factors. The
formula would be one minute of Christoper Lowell arranging a spray of
pastel silk sea oats is equal to one lowell.

Something massive but fleeting, such as Christoper Lowell running
across the stage to get his staple gun, would be like 1 milli-lowell.
Therefore, Charles Osgood introducing a Greta Garbo retrospective on
Turner Classic Movie channel would be around a kilo-lowell.

Jacob W. Haller

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Aug 15, 2002, 9:38:16 AM8/15/02
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Glenn Knickerbocker <No...@bestweb.net> wrote:

WHY I AM STUPID:

For many hours I thought the above was a reference to the Doomsday Clock
of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
<http://www.bullatomsci.org/clock/doomsdayclock.html>

Then, a minute ago, I thought, "The Doomsday Clock doesn't have a second
hand!"

Then I realized that Glenn was probably just talking about the peace
sign.

-jwgh <-- NOT FUNNY

--
"Tip: It's a good idea to familiarize yourself with the Windows Registry
in case it becomes corrupted. The advanced programmer periodically
deletes the Registry and retypes it from memory."
-Carlton Egremont III, /Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX/

Jacob W. Haller

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Aug 15, 2002, 9:45:04 AM8/15/02
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E Teflon Piano <e...@The-Institute.firm> wrote:

> While we're on the subject: I'd like to propose a new metric unit to
> measure gayness called the Lowell,

Kibo learned how to make yarn in Lowell, you know.

> as in Christoper Lowell,

Oh. Never mind.

There's a very good Vietnamese restaurant in Lowell, if by 'very good
restaurant' you mean 'a place that makes quite tasty food' and not 'a
place that is any good at remembering to give you plates and utensils
and such and keeping track of the things you ordered and bringing them
to you in the proper order'. But as long as you are on your toes, you
can get some very good food, eventually.

Andy Z. will now describe the durian milkshake he got there.

-jwgh

Jorn Barger

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Aug 15, 2002, 9:59:53 AM8/15/02
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WHOSE TITAN ELBOW <crgre+...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> > Ever notice how arkd00dz are all like "I know I'll never be
> > as funny as Kibo
>
> You mean "funny-HAHA" (f) or "funny-PECULIAR"
> (fP)???????????????????

More like when, in a dream, Steve Jobs is digging thru a heap of
old NeXTs and he finds an oscilloscope marked 'smells funny' (fPU).

Pugg

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Previously on ark, we heard sp...@jwgh.org (Jacob W. Haller) say:

>Glenn Knickerbocker <No...@bestweb.net> wrote:
>
>> "Phil (the Extreme One)" wrote:
>> > > .-~" | "~-.
>> > > / | \
>> > >Y | Y
>> > >|------. |
>> > >l \ !
>> > > \ \ /
>> > > "-.,___,.-"
>> >
>> > Yay! Just 15 seconds until quittin' time!
>>
>> That or nuclear disarmament.
>
>WHY I AM STUPID:
>
>For many hours I thought the above was a reference to the Doomsday Clock
>of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
><http://www.bullatomsci.org/clock/doomsdayclock.html>

M33 T00!

>Then, a minute ago, I thought, "The Doomsday Clock doesn't have a second
>hand!"

It doesn't? But the Doomsday Clock would be MUCH cooler if it did have
a second hand. Just think, then we could say things like, "That's it,
Pakistan! You just moved the Clock another fifteen seconds closer to
whoop-ass!" Or, "Hey Saddam! You're about five seconds away from
colonoscopy via smart-bomb!" Yeah, that's what we could say if we had
a COOL Doomsday Clock.

And, while I'm on the subject, someone should tell all those
smarty-smart men of SCEINCE over at Atomic Science Monthly that
Doomsday Clocks just don't move like that! I mean really, it's been
dancing back and forth between quarter- and five- til the hour for
over fifty years!

Any halfway decent Doomsday Clock would have destroyed the Earth YEARS
ago. Stupid scienctists.

>-jwgh <-- NOT FUNNY
HAW HAW!

pugg
[Not UnFunny]
--

Paul N. Shillinger, Jr. MA, LRK
Lighting Design & Special Effects

**ARK's Least Remote Kibologist**

Jacob W. Haller

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Aug 15, 2002, 12:35:01 PM8/15/02
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Pugg <pugg71e...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> >Then, a minute ago, I thought, "The Doomsday Clock doesn't have a second
> >hand!"
>
> It doesn't? But the Doomsday Clock would be MUCH cooler if it did have
> a second hand. Just think, then we could say things like, "That's it,
> Pakistan! You just moved the Clock another fifteen seconds closer to
> whoop-ass!" Or, "Hey Saddam! You're about five seconds away from
> colonoscopy via smart-bomb!" Yeah, that's what we could say if we had
> a COOL Doomsday Clock.

The Doomsday Clock only has two hands, and on one hand the word "HATE"
is written across the knuckles, and on the other hand the word "HATE" is
also written across the knuckles, because, hey, Doomsday Clock, and on
the gripping hand it's too nonexistent to write!

> And, while I'm on the subject, someone should tell all those
> smarty-smart men of SCEINCE over at Atomic Science Monthly that
> Doomsday Clocks just don't move like that! I mean really, it's been
> dancing back and forth between quarter- and five- til the hour for
> over fifty years!

I KNOW! Every time they move the hands AWAY from midnight they're just
admitting that all their previous issues have been WRONG! I demand MORE
ACCURATE DOOMSDAY CLOCKS because FREE WILL IS TOO DULL!

-jwgh

--
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standards." --Chris Rovers <cdrovers-news at ennui.biomass.to> in
alt.sysadmin.recovery on 12 Dec 2000, <91606l$uhd$1...@ennui.biomass.to>

Leo Sgouros

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Aug 15, 2002, 1:01:41 PM8/15/02
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"Jacob W. Haller" <sp...@jwgh.org> wrote in message
news:1fgyild.1b0w9285253i8N%sp...@jwgh.org...

> Pugg <pugg71e...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >Then, a minute ago, I thought, "The Doomsday Clock doesn't have a
second
> > >hand!"
> >
> > It doesn't? But the Doomsday Clock would be MUCH cooler if it did have
> > a second hand. Just think, then we could say things like, "That's it,
> > Pakistan! You just moved the Clock another fifteen seconds closer to
> > whoop-ass!" Or, "Hey Saddam! You're about five seconds away from
> > colonoscopy via smart-bomb!" Yeah, that's what we could say if we had
> > a COOL Doomsday Clock.
>
> The Doomsday Clock only has two hands, and on one hand the word "HATE"
> is written across the knuckles, and on the other hand the word "HATE" is
> also written across the knuckles, because, hey, Doomsday Clock, and on
> the gripping hand it's too nonexistent to write!
>

I had a roomate briefly in Califronia that was a bricklayer from Fleet-he
had "love" tatoo'd on one knuckle(below the knuckle on the finger between
knuckle and first finger bone) and "hate" on the other.
Theres nothing else here to see citizen, move along now.


HarCo Industries

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Jim Vandewalker <jim.van...@verizon.net> wrote in message news:<jim.vandewalker-F5...@news.fu-berlin.de>...

> In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.020813...@monster.apt.net>,
> Jeremy Impson <jdim...@acm.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Theresa Willis wrote:
> >
> > > On 13 Aug 2002 11:34:57 -0700, "magical truthsaying bastard roney!"
> > > <^#*&$@ennui.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Everytime I see "magical truthsaying bastard roney" an image of teh
> > > anime version of rone is thrust into my brane, where it scalds and
> > > burns.
> >
> > PLZ POST MENTAL .GIF.
> >
> Here ya go: http://revjack.net/usenet/ark/gallery/1029336825.html

Yep. That's it. Except maybe he's pointing the wrong finger.

--Terri

HarCo Industries

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Aug 15, 2002, 1:45:19 PM8/15/02
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Jeremy Impson <jdim...@acm.org> wrote in message news:<Pine.LNX.4.44.020813...@monster.apt.net>...

> On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Theresa Willis wrote:
>
> > On 13 Aug 2002 11:34:57 -0700, "magical truthsaying bastard roney!"
> > <^#*&$@ennui.org> wrote:
> >
> > Everytime I see "magical truthsaying bastard roney" an image of teh
> > anime version of rone is thrust into my brane, where it scalds and
> > burns.
>
> PLZ POST MENTAL .GIF.
>
> --Jeremy

Of which? Anime Rone or my poor scalded burnt brane?

Jim Vandewalker

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Aug 15, 2002, 2:08:39 PM8/15/02
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In article <rone.ajfelk$2q4b$1...@ennui.org>,

"magical truthsaying bastard roney!" <^#*&$@ennui.org> wrote:

> In article <jim.vandewalker-F5...@news.fu-berlin.de>,
> Jim Vandewalker <jim.van...@verizon.net> wrote:
> >In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.020813...@monster.apt.net>,
> > Jeremy Impson <jdim...@acm.org> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Theresa Willis wrote:
> >> > Everytime I see "magical truthsaying bastard roney" an image of teh
> >> > anime version of rone is thrust into my brane, where it scalds and
> >> > burns.
> >> PLZ POST MENTAL .GIF.
> >Here ya go: http://revjack.net/usenet/ark/gallery/1029336825.html
>
> I am greatly frightened.
>
> You coulda made my finger shoot something, though.
>

What about the hard-plastic-shell jockey shorts, though? And what's up
with anime dudes (and chyxxors too, I guess) always wearing boots that
give 'em giant ankles and feet, looks like high-tech elephantiasis?

AND THE RONE-FONT??? HAH??/? HOW ABOUT THAT??11!!

magical truthsaying bastard roney!

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In article <jim.vandewalker-8F...@news.fu-berlin.de>,

Jim Vandewalker <jim.van...@verizon.net> wrote:
>What about the hard-plastic-shell jockey shorts, though?

Hey, my jockey shorts already have a hard shell! Er.

>AND THE RONE-FONT??? HAH??/? HOW ABOUT THAT??11!!

Make the whole typeface and you'll sell MILLYUNZ!!!

Zixia

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Aug 15, 2002, 5:32:56 PM8/15/02
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Jacob W. Haller devised a cunning plan:

> Pugg <pugg71e...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> >Then, a minute ago, I thought, "The Doomsday Clock doesn't have
>> >a second hand!"

I, too, thought that it referred to the Doomsday Clock, and I, too,
wondered why a second hand was drawn.

But then I forgot about it, as I was distracted by a shiny new message
to read. Ooh, shiny!

>> And, while I'm on the subject, someone should tell all those
>> smarty-smart men of SCEINCE over at Atomic Science Monthly that
>> Doomsday Clocks just don't move like that! I mean really, it's
>> been dancing back and forth between quarter- and five- til the
>> hour for over fifty years!
>
> I KNOW! Every time they move the hands AWAY from midnight they're
> just admitting that all their previous issues have been WRONG! I
> demand MORE ACCURATE DOOMSDAY CLOCKS because FREE WILL IS TOO
> DULL!

Maybe the Doomsday Clock is actually measuring the time it takes to
copy some importantly large files between partitions on a Windows
system. That would adequately explain why the time keeps on changing
backwards and forwards, seemingly at random.

--
@+-------------+@
_o)| I can see |(o_
/\\| Invisible |//\
_\_V|_____________|V_/_

David DeLaney

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Rich Holmes <rsholme...@mailbox.syr.edu> wrote:

>E Teflon Piano <e...@The-Institute.firm> writes:
>> TLK would would throw flaming kittens at PETA rally to beable to draw
>> like that.
>>
>> Jeeze, so would I, come to think of it.
>
>I'd do it for the sheer heck of it, provided they were fake kittens.
>And real flames.

We keep coming back to 'surrounded by cats in flames' one way or another.
This one's the Kitten-powered Barbecue, right?

>Or real puppies and real flames, of course.

Dave "'everything's funnier when it's ON FIRE' - Brian Neal" DeLaney

David DeLaney

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Leo Sgouros <hpa...@comcast.net> wrote:
>"Jacob W. Haller" <sp...@jwgh.org> wrote in message
>> The Doomsday Clock only has two hands, and on one hand the word "HATE"
>> is written across the knuckles, and on the other hand the word "HATE" is
>> also written across the knuckles, because, hey, Doomsday Clock, and on
>> the gripping hand it's too nonexistent to write!
>
>I had a roomate briefly in Califronia that was a bricklayer from Fleet-he
>had "love" tatoo'd on one knuckle(below the knuckle on the finger between
>knuckle and first finger bone) and "hate" on the other.

Suddenly I'm forced to reevaluate Leo's (sordid) past.

>Theres nothing else here to see citizen, move along now.

That is all.

Dave "further bulletins as nonevents warrant" DeLaney

fB

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Aug 15, 2002, 11:28:53 AM8/15/02
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In article <rone.ajfeoo$2q9u$1...@ennui.org>, the esteemed "magical truthsaying bastard roney!" <^#*&$@ennui.org> wrote:
> In article <Xns9269DD94C8...@216.148.53.95>,
> WHOSE TITAN ELBOW <crgre+...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> >[Jorn Barger, alt.religion.kibology, Tue, 13 Aug 2002
> >08:28:17 GMT]
> >> Ever notice how arkd00dz are all like "I know I'll never be
> >> as funny as Kibo
> >You mean "funny-HAHA" (f) or "funny-
> >PECULIAR"(fP)??????????????????? Maybe f is a special case of
> >fP?
>
> No, it is a special case of fB. The metric unit of funniness is now
> the femtobenvenuto!

Which is peculiar, since I haven't posted anything funny on ARK
(provided I ever have) since at least 1999, or so.

I posted more brilliantly back when my real life kind of sucked,
switching jobs and nations - even if by mere inches - made me happier,
but adversely affected my online persona. Cosmic balance, probably.

Regularly reading Italian newsgroups might have something to do
with this as well, given that I find them quite depressing,
including the funny ones.

*Or* it could be Kibo's fault: since he doesn't like one-liners,
always my favorite kind of expression, I now tend to avoid posting them,
since I take Kibo too seriously.

Damn you, Kibo!
--
fB "In the alphabet, all 26 of the letters appear in alphabetical order:
coincidence?" - David Pacheco

fB

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In article <slrnalpap...@gatekeeper.vic.com>, the esteemed d...@gatekeeper.vic.com (David DeLaney) wrote:

> Dave "'everything's funnier when it's ON FIRE' - Brian Neal" DeLaney

Everything's funnier when it's on fire IN BED!

Phil (the Extreme One)

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On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 17:29:06 -0400, after hours of intense interrogation,
Glenn Knickerbocker <No...@bestweb.net> finally admitted that:

I vote for quittin' time.

magical truthsaying bastard roney!

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In article <ajghbl$3bj$1...@fb-pc.blameit.net>, fB <spam...@blameit.net> wrote:
>In article <rone.ajfeoo$2q9u$1...@ennui.org>, the esteemed "magical truthsaying bastard roney!" <^#*&$@ennui.org> wrote:
>> In article <Xns9269DD94C8...@216.148.53.95>,
>> WHOSE TITAN ELBOW <crgre+...@newsguy.com> wrote:
>> >[Jorn Barger, alt.religion.kibology, Tue, 13 Aug 2002
>> >08:28:17 GMT]
>> >> Ever notice how arkd00dz are all like "I know I'll never be
>> >> as funny as Kibo
>> >You mean "funny-HAHA" (f) or "funny-
>> >PECULIAR"(fP)??????????????????? Maybe f is a special case of
>> >fP?
>> No, it is a special case of fB. The metric unit of funniness is now
>> the femtobenvenuto!
>Which is peculiar, since I haven't posted anything funny on ARK
>(provided I ever have) since at least 1999, or so.

You are a filthy heretic.

>*Or* it could be Kibo's fault: since he doesn't like one-liners,
>always my favorite kind of expression, I now tend to avoid posting them,
>since I take Kibo too seriously.

Do what i do: post two-liners!

James Kibo Parry

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Aug 17, 2002, 5:13:23 AM8/17/02
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"fB" (spam...@blameit.net) wrote:
>
> "the esteemed 'magical truthsaying bastard roney!'" (^#*&$@ennui.org) wrote:
> >
> > [...] The metric unit of funniness is now the femtobenvenuto!

>
> Which is peculiar, since I haven't posted anything funny on ARK
> (provided I ever have) since at least 1999, or so.
>
> I posted more brilliantly back when my real life kind of sucked,
> switching jobs and nations - even if by mere inches - made me happier,
> but adversely affected my online persona. Cosmic balance, probably.

I think that frustration is the impetus behind a lot of wackiness.
That and procrastination. I used to write such long wackies when
I had a term paper due because term papers involve lots of writing
and I'd do anything to avoid that. Once I even sold a short story
I wrote the night before something was due for "Voice & Articulation"
class. When faced with a challenge like explaining why it's fun to
read "Old Possum's Book Of Something Cats" aloud, of course you're
going to discover you can think laterally to get out of it!

And I apologize for forgetting the middle of T.S. Eliot's title.
All I know about the book is that it inspired a Broadway show from which
one of the costumes from the touring company is on display in the antique
textile mill museum in Lowell, Massachusetts (high-speed steam-powered loom,
high-speed steam-powered loom, high-speed steam-powered loom, turn corner,
ACK GIANT CAT!) and of course bits of the book were quoted by Peter Ustinov
in "Logan's Run" because he was the only man in the world old enough to
remember when people enjoyed reading poetry instead of just watching
people prancing around in kitty-colored leotards.

> Regularly reading Italian newsgroups might have something to do
> with this as well, given that I find them quite depressing,
> including the funny ones.

I find it depressing that there ARE funny Italian newsgroups because
I can't read enough Italian to know whether or not people would think
I were stupid if I admitted liking the supposedly funny ones.

> *Or* it could be Kibo's fault: since he doesn't like one-liners,
> always my favorite kind of expression, I now tend to avoid posting them,
> since I take Kibo too seriously.
>
> Damn you, Kibo!

Hey, I like one-liners plenty, especially if there are fifty different
ones in the same article.

It's just that a serious scientific analysis of over a billion
alt.religion.kibology articles (50% by me, fifty percent by an average
user who was selected at random on the basis of height) has shown
that articles with only one line of new content tend to contain
fewer total funnies than a two-thousand-line essay by Dennis Miller
written a few hours after he slipped on a banana peel and falls into a
vat of Dippin' Dots.

On the other hand, a one-liner usually contains a higher density
of funnies per square inch than a long article, but density is unimportant
because I do not demand that articles have any specific gravity.
I think wacky articles are inherently wackier than serious articles,
but that remains to be proven, especially as I often find the serious
ones plenty funny because there's something seriously wrong with me.

So please keep on posting all the one-liners you want. Just don't
be surprised if I say to myself "I will follow up to Francesco Benvenuto's
article about how he thinks I hate one-liners with a positively
devastatingly brilliant one-liner, such as 'Wuh?', except that I just
thought of another hundred or so lines I want to include so I'll put
them all in just to shame and humiliate him over the length of his
puny one-liner. These fools of Earth will be crushed by my fantastical
word-cannon that just doesn't know when to quit! And when I turn it
on it goes 'EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE' slightly off-key just to torture all
the people who have perfect pitch, and then I point to a very quiet
owl who's passed out from the summer heat and say it's 'TOO HOT TO HOOT'
and all the people who have perfect palindrome sense are lulled into
a false sense of security and then I go for the kill and say 'TOMATO'
written horizontally and they all scream 'AAAAAAGH! THAT'S ALMOST A
SORT OF PALINDROME IF YOU WRITE IT VERTICALLY BUT IT ISN'T EVEN VERTICAL
SO IT'S ALMOST ALMOST A PALINDROME!' and their heads swell up and pop.
And that's how I will conquer the world by harnessing the power of
your one-liners, Francesco Benvenuto!" and if that doesn't do it
I'll yell "BOW DOWN BEFORE ME EM EROFEB NOWD WOB" and all the people
with perfect palindrome sense would yell "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON"
and furthermore as a backup plan I could always start a game of
"Simon Says" with them because then the only thing they'd be allowed
to do is syas nomis, whatever that is, or whoever, possibly the
illegitamite offspring of Silas Marner and Leonard Nimoy, and as
long as he didn't grow up to be an extra-boring Vulcan who points
out that I don't know how to spell "illegitimate" I'd RULE THE WORLD!

Now if you'll excuse me, I'll have to copy all those almost-palindromes
into my secret notebook inscribed with the mystical incantation,
TOW RITEP ALINDRO MESON!

TOW MATO!

OTAM WOT ANA SIAM!

SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA MSIE ICAB MOZILLA!

!InNoCpOaReRwEtCsTePtAaLeIrNgDyRmOeMrEaS

!TEE HEE HEE HEE HEE T!

Oops, please forget I said "T!", K?

-- K.

| I am the reason drug tests
| are falsely accused of
| giving false negatives.
| Really, I truly am negative
| right now. If you don't
| believe me, remember,
| WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

Lleah

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"James "Kibo" Parry" <ki...@world.std.com> wrote in message
news:kibo-17080...@ppp0b146.std.com...


>Once I even sold a short story
> I wrote the night before something was due for "Voice & Articulation"
> class. When faced with a challenge like explaining why it's fun to
> read "Old Possum's Book Of Something Cats" aloud, of course you're
> going to discover you can think laterally to get out of it!

So tell us about the short story, or post it, or tell us where we can find
it, and what was it about, Kibo, hunh? Was it wacky? Was it about Spot?
Was it about giant bugs traveling through space with anti-heros at the
helm??

> And I apologize for forgetting the middle of T.S. Eliot's title.
> All I know about the book is that it inspired a Broadway show from which
> one of the costumes from the touring company is on display in the antique
> textile mill museum in Lowell, Massachusetts (high-speed steam-powered
loom,
> high-speed steam-powered loom, high-speed steam-powered loom, turn corner,
> ACK GIANT CAT!) and of course bits of the book were quoted by Peter
Ustinov
> in "Logan's Run" because he was the only man in the world old enough to
> remember when people enjoyed reading poetry instead of just watching
> people prancing around in kitty-colored leotards.

This brings up many kooky memories for me, because I was obsessed with said
musical when I was young and all into theatre and said stuff like "Oh, have
you seen Phantom?" all the time. And every halloween I would dress up in a
kitty-colored leotard and go to school and all the draculas and frankenstein
monsters would point and laugh and go "Nice kitty costume, geek!" and I'd
just look at them and say "Oh, but have you seen Phantom?" and then they'd
look confused and go pick on that kid with the Darth Vader bib and plastic
mask.

> Hey, I like one-liners plenty, especially if there are fifty different
> ones in the same article.

It would be SO great if I could come up with fifty different one-liners
right now, all about how one-liners are either funny or not-funny depending
on who posts them. But it's early and I'm still drinking coffee. LUCKY FOR
YOU.

> On the other hand, a one-liner usually contains a higher density
> of funnies per square inch than a long article, but density is unimportant
> because I do not demand that articles have any specific gravity.
> I think wacky articles are inherently wackier than serious articles,
> but that remains to be proven, especially as I often find the serious
> ones plenty funny because there's something seriously wrong with me.

There's nothing wrong with you that a good dose of wacky one-liners couldn't
fix.

And then this happens:

>
> So please keep on posting all the one-liners you want. Just don't
> be surprised if I say to myself "I will follow up to Francesco Benvenuto's
> article about how he thinks I hate one-liners with a positively

> devastatingly brilliant one-liner, such as 'Wuh?', ......
(etc etc etc)
> ........out that I don't know how to spell "illegitimate" I'd RULE THE
WORLD!

KIBO! PUT. the GATORADE. DOWN.

>
> | I am the reason drug tests
> | are falsely accused of
> | giving false negatives.
> | Really, I truly am negative
> | right now. If you don't
> | believe me, remember,
> | WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

Kibo's all negative because he can't come up with any good one-liners for
when he finally meets Tucker Smallwood.
Also, it's true that Kibo doesn't do drugs or drink alcohol. What you are
witnessing is the result of watching Hamtaro for fifteen hours straight
while eating Quorn chicken bits.
Either that or the remnants of his bitter gourd plant have finally figured
out how to post to Usenet.

-Leha

fB

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Aug 17, 2002, 7:35:11 AM8/17/02
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In article <kibo-17080...@ppp0b146.std.com>, the esteemed ki...@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) wrote:

> I think that frustration is the impetus behind a lot of wackiness.

This theory is slightly cursed because I did not really get frustrated
about my job in Como until late 1997. Luckily I left before things
went completely down the drain. I will now dance a little while
performing the "Ha ha! I told you!" routine which I automatically
get into when thinking about the University of Perry Como.

Not that my current workplace isn't on the verge of explodiating
through various political and high-management conflicts, but this
is what I should expect from working for a foreign government.
I feel uncharacteristically optimistic, though.

> That and procrastination.

I still procrastinate a lot, while mysteriously managing to get
the job done.

> So please keep on posting all the one-liners you want.

Wuh?

Matt McIrvin

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Aug 18, 2002, 12:55:03 PM8/18/02
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In article <5Fv79.180611$uj.2...@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net>,
"Lleah" <leah...@attbi.com> wrote:

> This brings up many kooky memories for me, because I was obsessed with said
> musical when I was young and all into theatre and said stuff like "Oh, have
> you seen Phantom?" all the time. And every halloween I would dress up in a
> kitty-colored leotard and go to school and all the draculas and frankenstein
> monsters would point and laugh and go "Nice kitty costume, geek!" and I'd
> just look at them and say "Oh, but have you seen Phantom?" and then they'd
> look confused and go pick on that kid with the Darth Vader bib and plastic
> mask.

And then you'd punch them with your skull ring and demand to be called
Ms. Walker* until they cried uncle and stopped trying to destabilize the
government of Bangalla.

*For the ghost who walks.

--
Matt McIrvin http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/

The Avocado Avenger

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Aug 18, 2002, 3:23:55 PM8/18/02
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ki...@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) writes:

>"fB" (spam...@blameit.net) wrote:
>>
>> Which is peculiar, since I haven't posted anything funny on ARK
>> (provided I ever have) since at least 1999, or so.

The funniest thing you ever posted was that I deserved an apology from
you but you'd never give me one because you were a real fucking loser
asshole poser fuckchop goobershit knobknocker.
Oh, wait, that's not funny. Sorry! I will cease to be bitter and
hateful and I will stop remembering things that happened years ago before
most current ARK posters were even born.

>articles with only one line of new content tend to contain
>fewer total funnies than a two-thousand-line essay by Dennis Miller
>written a few hours after he slipped on a banana peel and falls into a
>vat of Dippin' Dots.

If there are any wacky hitmen out there, the type who wear rainbow wigs
and red bulb noses which honk, please contact me ASAP so I can negotiate
with you a price for causing the above to happen to Dennis Miller.
Dippin' Dots is people!

> | Really, I truly am negative
> | right now.

This post is all about hate.


Stacia * The Avocado Avenger * Life is a tale told by an idiot;
http://world.std.com/~stacia/ * Full of sound and fury,
There is no guacamole anywhere. * Signifying nothing.

fB

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Aug 18, 2002, 4:38:50 PM8/18/02
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In article <H120J...@world.std.com>, the esteemed sta...@world.std.com (The Avocado Avenger) wrote:
> ki...@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) writes:
> >"fB" (spam...@blameit.net) wrote:
> >>
> >> Which is peculiar, since I haven't posted anything funny on ARK
> >> (provided I ever have) since at least 1999, or so.
>
> The funniest thing you ever posted was that I deserved an apology from
> you but you'd never give me one because you were a real fucking loser
> asshole poser fuckchop goobershit knobknocker.

I had exactly that series of episodes in mind, but the actual wording
must have been slightly different, for example "poser" is not something
that I would ever say about myself, not even in my sleep. At the
very least I would spell it "poseur" and refer it to my evil double.

The crystal clear message that would have contained a perfect
explanation and would have settled everything never materialized:
I had nothing to say and did not say it, I wish I had realized
that earlier.

Had I offered you an apology out of the blue in one of my moments
of temporary insanity caused by the nuclear explosion on the moon?
Do you think I still owe you one or not? I would claim a truce and
apologize in any case but my heart is no longer in it and neither
of us would care anyway.

For some reason we do not seem to get along, let's leave it at that
and sincerely adore each other from a safe distance, burning incense
under our respective images.

> Oh, wait, that's not funny.

Well, perhaps not for the two of us, but there are some very sick
people out there; to them we might look as amusing as clowns fighting
with water pistols, something only marginally less funny than Bob Hope.

> Sorry!

Hate means to always say you are sorry.

> I will cease to be bitter and
> hateful and I will stop remembering things that happened years ago before
> most current ARK posters were even born.

Please do, bitter guacamole is bad enough, hateful guacamole is just
one tiny step above guacamole full of spit.

> This post is all about hate.

Yet you did not mention Mariah Carey even once, that was a bit of
a letdown.
--
fB <vague hints of Zen Arcade, track 3>

Jeremy Impson

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Aug 19, 2002, 8:55:16 AM8/19/02
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On 18 Aug 2002, fB wrote:

> In article <H120J...@world.std.com>, the esteemed sta...@world.std.com (The Avocado Avenger) wrote:
> > ki...@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) writes:
> > >"fB" (spam...@blameit.net) wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Which is peculiar, since I haven't posted anything funny on ARK
> > >> (provided I ever have) since at least 1999, or so.
> >
> > The funniest thing you ever posted was that I deserved an apology from
> > you but you'd never give me one because you were a real fucking loser
> > asshole poser fuckchop goobershit knobknocker.

[...]

> For some reason we do not seem to get along, let's leave it at that
> and sincerely adore each other from a safe distance, burning incense
> under our respective images.
>
> > Oh, wait, that's not funny.
>
> Well, perhaps not for the two of us, but there are some very sick
> people out there; to them we might look as amusing as clowns fighting
> with water pistols, something only marginally less funny than Bob Hope.

Yeah, I am *totally* getting off on all of this.


--Jeremy

--

Jeremy Impson
jdim...@acm.org
http://impson.tzo.com/~jdimpson

fB

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Aug 19, 2002, 8:57:37 AM8/19/02
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Next time, try teetotally.

Goya Kod

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Sep 10, 2002, 12:58:16 AM9/10/02
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On 13 Aug 2002 01:28:17 -0700, jo...@enteract.com (Jorn Barger) wrote:

>Ever notice how arkd00dz are all like "I know I'll never be as funny

>as Kibo if I live a million years but maybe if I apply myself, someday
>I'll say something almost as funny as Joe Bay on an off day"?

I don't know, ever since it was deterimined that a.r.k posts had to be
fun'ni, the group hasn't been as much fun for me. Or maybe it was just
me. You HATE ME you really HATE ME.

Goya Kod

ø¤º°`°º¤ø,,,,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,,,,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,,,,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,,,,ø¤º
"Successful writers are not the ones who write the best
sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are
the ones who discover what is most important and strangest
and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing
despite the difficulties."...Bonnie Friedman
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David DeLaney

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Sep 12, 2002, 6:50:40 PM9/12/02
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Goya Kod <goya_kodatyahoo.com> wrote:
>jo...@enteract.com (Jorn Barger) wrote:
>>Ever notice how arkd00dz are all like "I know I'll never be as funny
>>as Kibo if I live a million years but maybe if I apply myself, someday
>>I'll say something almost as funny as Joe Bay on an off day"?
>
>I don't know, ever since it was deterimined that a.r.k posts had to be
>fun'ni, the group hasn't been as much fun for me. Or maybe it was just
>me. You HATE ME you really HATE ME.

No no, that's Jorn's job. The rest of us have the other emotions of the
spectrum assigned.

Dave "plus yer allowed" DeLaney

Kevin S. Wilson

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Sep 13, 2002, 10:48:32 AM9/13/02
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On 12 Sep 2002 18:50:40 -0400, d...@gatekeeper.vic.com (David DeLaney)
wrote:

>Goya Kod <goya_kodatyahoo.com> wrote:
>>jo...@enteract.com (Jorn Barger) wrote:
>>>Ever notice how arkd00dz are all like "I know I'll never be as funny
>>>as Kibo if I live a million years but maybe if I apply myself, someday
>>>I'll say something almost as funny as Joe Bay on an off day"?
>>
>>I don't know, ever since it was deterimined that a.r.k posts had to be
>>fun'ni, the group hasn't been as much fun for me. Or maybe it was just
>>me. You HATE ME you really HATE ME.
>
>No no, that's Jorn's job. The rest of us have the other emotions of the
>spectrum assigned.
>

Dibs on the seething resentment of the peasant.
--
Kevin S. Wilson
Tech Writer at a University Somewhere in Idaho
"You can safely ignore Kevin in order to
maximise life's experience." --A. Loon, in alt.religion.kibology

Lots42

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Sep 14, 2002, 6:50:22 PM9/14/02
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>>>I don't know, ever since it was deterimined that a.r.k posts had to be
>>>fun'ni, the group hasn't been as much fun for me. Or maybe it was just
>>>me. You HATE ME you really HATE ME.
>>
>>No no, that's Jorn's job. The rest of us have the other emotions of the
>>spectrum assigned.
>>
>
>Dibs on the seething resentment of the peasant.
>--
>Kevin S. Wilson

Dibs on lust!


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