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Words and phrases that really bug us

2008-12-05T11:45:55-05:00

Actually, this started from another unrelated thread, but i thought i’d throw it out here.

It really lands harshly on my ear when somebody uses the word ‘proximity’ with the useless descriptive appendage of ‘close’

brebro:

You know what bugs me? “SAFE haven.”

zen:
And of course we’re in redundancyLand where i’ve heard “ink pen,” “cash money” and “ATM machine.”

What are your word annoyances?

The add-a-paragraph Story

2009-11-10T12:54:21-05:00

So, this is thee story you get to add to.

It starts off with a dashingly handsome young man, with big hands and even bigger feet, typing away at his desktop mac. Beside him is an unrolled cigarette of some kind, and a steaming cup of a dark-colored, bitter tea. His screens flickers an ugly image of white, green, pale blue and brown, and black type. He takes a deep, appreciative sip from the bitter, warm brew and lights the cigarette. Staring out the nearby window in a self-conscious ‘thoughtful’ pose, he pulls air deeply from the lit end of the cigarette into his lungs, holds for just a moment, and exhales with a calm sigh…

“Alright, let’s get to Boarding”, he mutters with a grin, and logs in to his account…

NaNoWriMo

2009-10-08T22:31:28-05:00

Has anyone heard of this? Is anyone doing it? I’m going to do it.

Wednsday - er, Thursday is New Comics Day!

2008-09-04T13:41:28-05:00

I’m pretty sure I’m not the only comics reader here, so I thought it would be fun to discuss what comics I/we are picking up this week.

Here’s my pull list for 9/4:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer #18
The Boys #22
Amazing Spider-Man #569 (missed last week due to UPS screwing up Chris’ order) & 570
Invincible Iron Man #5
Secret Invasion Front Line #3
X-Men Manifest Destiny #1 (Please don’t suck please don’t suck please don’t suck)

Plus whatever catches my eye or Chris at Pastimes highly recommends.
I was pretty cynical about the new Spidey plots (a freaking parkour criminal? Really?) but with the daughter of Kraven storyline and now having Romita on board for a while my opinion has changed.
I’m also psyched about Iron Man, a series I passed over initially as the usual money grubbing from Marvel. But my son spotted it one day as his comic of the week choice and after reading the first issue I grabbed the rest. Good stuff in there.

Will be avoiding like the plague: Marvel Monkeys. Monkeys? They ain’t no zombies, that’s for sure.

How about you guys?

FLAWG (Five Letters And Words Game)

2009-11-05T15:07:20-05:00

Here’s a favorite game of mine that I used to play long ago at another board, out at which, I hung.

You state a five-letter word, for example:

GROPE

Then the next poster makes a five-word sentence using the last poster’s word as an acronym, for example:

Grabbing rumps on purpose excites!

(You get extra cred if your sentence relates to the word, though that’s not absolutely necessary.)

After writing your sentence, you then posit another 5-letter word for the next person out of which, to make a sentence. Such as:

CLUMP

Then the next poster writes something like:

Can’t Lysol® Unclog My Plumbing?

...and so on.. until hilarity ensues.

So, I’ll start it off with this word:

MARSH

Black Lanterns

2009-07-21T16:34:20-05:00

Who’s reading this? Holy $#!+

Terrible, terrible jokes

2009-11-08T00:14:48-05:00

I thought we could use a bad joke thread. I don’t mean cruel jokes, or dirty jokes, just really bad ones.

For instance ...

What do you get if you cross Dracula with Sir Lancelot?
A bite in shining armour.

And ...

A policeman stopped a man who was walking along with a bear and ordered him to take it to the zoo at once. The next day the policeman saw the same man with the same bear.

“I thought I told you to take that bear to the zoo,” he said.

“I did,” said the man, “and now I’m taking him to see a movie.”

So, let’s hear your favorite terrible jokes.

Good Books

2009-01-30T01:29:12-05:00

The last really good book I read was “1491”. Anyone else read that?

Post the title of the book you’re currently reading

2009-08-04T19:09:58-05:00

Me? I’m working my way through Niall Ferguson’s Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire. I’m also stalled halfway through Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer.

Create Your Own Marvel Web Comic!

2009-10-21T21:38:54-05:00

This is so freakin awesome. I just started on a a comic strip, but you can create your own full comic book using Marvel’s little world of fun. I’d love to see what brebro and Bugg can do with this.

http://superherosquad.marvel.com/create_your_own_comic