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| Displayed name | Custer |
| Member number | 3151 |
| Title | Bob's Big Date |
| Postcount | 2367 |
| Homepage | http://desperance.net |
| Registered | Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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Bob's Big Date
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written Friday, October 29 2004 12:42
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The difference in security and functionality between comparable Apple and Microsoft machines is negligible. A moron will happily compromise any system's integrity, after all. [ Friday, October 29, 2004 12:42: Message edited by: Fear Uncertainty and Custer ] -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, October 29 2004 12:40
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Homeland is a terrible game and SW didn't make it. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, October 28 2004 19:31
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You guys want a scary story? Here. In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency. The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'' Credit where credit is due. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, October 28 2004 19:24
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I don't know about you, but I'm certainly not going to vote for a man who's going to let the wolves get us. The spooky, spooky wolves. I remember a story about a boy who liked to warn people about wolves, but I forget how it goes. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, October 27 2004 19:47
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Maybe he resolved not to spend any more time with you freaks. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, October 26 2004 19:30
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"Can't find it." "What do you mean, can't find it?" The figure was still arrayed completely in the most bizzare armor you'd ever seen; the face and upper chest were enclosed in metal but all the vital parts seemed to be covered with what looked like silk, and little metal plates studded it for what seemed like no better reason than flow of material. One arm was mailed in plate, as normal, and the other was silk and studding as the rest of the armor, ending in what looked very like a fist mailed in velvet. "I gave you specific instructions. This isn't usual." "Can't find it, said I. Certain of the type?" "Long-tooth, yes." (An A would be two little fang marks, a C would have the drain at the wrist or temples.) "It can't be far." "It is." The figure stared off. "Hmm. Very well." The woods darkened again. "Chershu? What's on?" "Another body..." The armored figure sighed a harsh, metallic sigh. "Another investigation. We've got a real damn tricky one on our hands." -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, October 26 2004 16:28
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1996 or 7. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, October 26 2004 16:19
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A sharp concussion split the air. "Shoo!" The armored figure had appeared out of seemingly nowhere, brandishing a paddle on a stick. Another swift slip of the paddle and it crashed again, startling several of the sheep away. "Shoo, you!" The sheep fled obligingly. "I told them sheep that fed on carrion were a bad idea, but would they listen? No..." The figure approached the corpses and, with a steady hand, investigated. "Money's all there, no signs of struggle or physical remnants of conjugation. Okay, another one of the Gods-damned Tepis cases; two wounds to the neck, several victims of unmixed gender. The vampire isn't far. Chasseu?" A voice from the shadows, definitely female -- unlike the figure's, which is all iron and no tone -- replies, "Yes?" "Type B, recently female. Track it down and come back to me. If it notices you, dissociate. I'll be plying the tavern and I'll know if something comes up." "Acknowledged." The woods suddenly become a shade lighter. The figure pulls out a red stick and plunges it into the earth, then places upon it a simple placard: HUNTER INVESTIGATION IN PROGRESS -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, October 25 2004 19:44
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BSC is part of the vocal anti-Chavez minority in Venezuela. After the third time a group of them, backed by the US, attempted by semi-legal means to coup the government, apparently they began jailing quite a few as seditionists. This happened relatively recently, Q2/3 2004 or so. If he was visiting the States, it probably turned into an extended visit. If not, he might well be in a Caracas gaol. No way to be sure, but it's certainly something to be considered. Chavez is no Pinochet, so he's probably coming back relatively soon and not less his thumbs or anything if that's what happened. [ Monday, October 25, 2004 19:47: Message edited by: Fear Uncertainty and Custer ] -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, October 24 2004 18:10
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My profile is usually just an artistic statement. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, October 24 2004 18:02
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'Screw you', on the other hand, is belittling, in addition to the particular employment of language violating this: + Using vulgarity in any language (whether it's in the open, masked, or abbreviated) You're also going against this: + Repeated posting of off-topic material on non-Miscellaneous forums. and + Flooding the forums with lots of topics and posts about nothing legitimate. And, of course, since Imby is undebatably innocent: + Faulty accusation of a member or moderator, including calling for the leaving or banning of a member that is innocent of infraction. Hint: Don't try and drag the CoC into an argument against a moderator, especially if you're culpable and they aren't. It also doesn't help that the people you are trying to CoC-slap have, at various points, helped to write the CoC, and are intelligent and valued members besides; you, on the other hand, are a moron who invaded someone else's topic to increase his post count. [ Sunday, October 24, 2004 18:04: Message edited by: Fear Uncertainty and Custer ] -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, October 24 2004 13:52
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You are possibly the stupidest person I have ever had the displeasure of running into. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, October 22 2004 17:27
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A man, let's say a mercenary, from a certain part of the world is (although this is admittedly rare) a Buena Vistan mercenary, a San Franciscan mercenary, a Californian mercenary, an American mercenary, a Western mercenary -- and yet he can't concievably be a Human mercenary? I can't say I get it. I still like my theory. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, October 22 2004 04:45
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quote:So I guess that makes you a quarter-wit, eh? -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, October 22 2004 03:28
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Battle for Wesnoth looks sorta Fantasy General-esque, which is neat. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, October 21 2004 19:01
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Whenever there is more than one sapient species, they become nationalistically proper. That is why you will hear about human beings but, upon entering sci-fi, immediately stumble across Human ships. In other words, if there's more than one genetic group who have a. fire and b. sex for the right reasons, you capitalize them as if they are a country or a person. Only one? Don't bother. And there's never any such thing as a Goat tool, unless Goat is a nickname or goats have suddenly become sapient or something. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, October 21 2004 15:32
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quote:Are you kidding? Virginia is, according to most electoral projections whose methodology doesn't involve making a pretty, pretty map in which Bush wins, a swing state. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, October 21 2004 04:08
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Saunders gets it half-right. A photo is something taken by a camera, like this:  Whereas an image is just any visual representation of something -- it can be either a photo or something like  or this. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, October 21 2004 04:01
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Arafat does not represent the Palestinian people and perhaps it's time to stop pretending he does. He is an old terrorist who started the PLO by undemocratic, uncivilized means, and his mode of thinking has no more place in the peace process than Sharon's. Again, unilateral action would probably help here; if Arafat tries to resist a settlement which actually, authoritatively gives Palestine its own land and territory, where is he with the people he claims to represent? -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, October 20 2004 16:13
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There's no counterpart to Hannity (if that's the conservative one) and Limbaugh in the left wing. We just don't have the belligerent, hypocritical moron element, evidently, and even if we did, the media are too right-wing to get aboard something like that. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, October 20 2004 13:46
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He's also the only major political commentator on record as having ethnically slurred a caller, but that was early in his career so it doesn't count. Really, I don't much like Moore either. He's sorta like the anti-Limbaugh. So here's the question: why is it that even most Democrats don't like Moore-types, and yet most Republicans just eat the garbage that spews from Limbaugh's mouth right up? If we're on political pundits, my personal favorite in the left-wing mainstream (well, besides Garrison Keillor, whose political affiliation -- or, indeed, the fact that he's still alive -- remains unknown to most) is Al Franken. He's a bit of a Clintonphile for my tastes, but otherwise I'm fond of him and his work. [ Wednesday, October 20, 2004 13:48: Message edited by: Fear Uncertainty and Custer ] -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, October 19 2004 18:28
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Last weekend, I was dressed up in a two-piece suit and tie for a forensics tournament. The suit was black, the shirt was black, and the tie was wine-red. This was an exceptional occasion. Generally, I wear the same thing irrespective of weather, fashion, or 'spirit days': two one-color or simple-pattern shirts, one smaller than the other, and both dominated by a subdued (dark blue, gray, black, &c) color, and scrub pants of varying shades of blue. I hang around with everyone; countercultures are nothing to me. I defy categorization, and it does not defy me. I know everyone worth knowing and have pissed each of them off at least once. I listen to rap, I listen to emo, I listen to classic rock. I write poetry and I write prose and I write it as I speak, with run-ons sometimes and fragments sometimes, and the occasional veiled point to Shakespeare, and the occasional metaphor, but each in moderation. I am the smartest person you have ever met, and I am not afraid to say it. I am not afraid to plan for it. I am what you would call passively ambitious. I plan for my future by not planning for my future; I am easily the most Zen person in the tri-county area, which is exceptional because I believe the tri-county area includes Orange County. I am raffish and I make a habit of acclimatizing everyone around me to seduction. I gave myself a nickname and that nickname is Freaky Rico and people generally use it. I have no credit card, I don't drive, I've never smoked, I don't drink, and the closest I come to drug use is albuterol. I don't go to concerts, I don't go to movies, I don't go to parties, and I don't consider myself a Democrat. I am a professional gadfly; I eat red meat, I drink Snapple, and I speak French mais pas tres bien. I plan to ask a girl to the prom with a salacious limerick, and I'm not sure if we've ever been properly introduced. I am half of the band 'Porno the Magnificent'; the other half is from Seattle. I don't take notes and I still ruin the curve for everyone else. I'd say that I'm most proud of the fact that I can make anyone -- Hindu, Vegan, Atkins, you name it -- a damn fine sandwich. I am Alexander Charles Kyras, and some day my smiling face will gaze down upon every public square. [ Tuesday, October 19, 2004 18:29: Message edited by: Fear Uncertainty and Custer ] -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, October 19 2004 18:09
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There is an Alexandrine solution to Israel: US mandate. Right through the Gordian knot with one stroke, that. Since we basically have Israel's balls in our hands, they're not exactly in a position to protest if we hand a Palestinian government a green-red-white flag and the West Bank; since the Palestines are, otherwise, getting jack, they're not in a position to protest either. Our willingness to support Israel no matter what is very dangerous to both Palestinians and Israelis; the Israelis are gradually becoming what they fled Europe to avoid, and I think it's terrible. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, October 19 2004 04:55
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Both Israel and Palestine have committed atrocities. Since the Israelis are, by and large, European colonists who established a nation on land which the Palestinians' families had occupied for centuries, I have a little trouble feeling more sympathetic for Israel than I do, say, the pre-Apartheid government of South Africa. If there is any coherent argument for the US-style pro-Israel intransigence which doesn't involve waving the Holocaust card for twenty minutes, I'd like to hear it. [ Tuesday, October 19, 2004 04:57: Message edited by: Fear Uncertainty and Custer ] -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, October 17 2004 10:03
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When I hear the debate team's 'libertarian' Bushie say that the directors of something which is supposed to be satirical have an uncomfortably right-wing bias, I tend to pass. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |