Profile for Erika Maroonmark
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| Member number | 5969 |
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written Thursday, April 27 2006 12:42
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1) Rentar-Ihrno beats Madonna. Anyone can make better music than Madonna, which probably includes Vahnatai; therefore, Madonna loses at life. XD 2) The Wizard of Oz wins because I have no idea who Kefka is. (If it were Kafka, he would win because his consciousness is streamier. *nods wisely*) 3) X. Just because he made the Xian (every time I see that I still try to pronounce it like a Chinese word) Skull. "I used to cry because I had no hat. Until I met a man who had no head." 4) Guy Fawkes. How many people do you know who have a holiday named after them? -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Thursday, April 27 2006 11:47
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After Quasimodo died, Notre Dame needed a new bell ringer. So a "Help Wanted" sign was put up on the door, and before long a man came in. However, he had no arms. The owner didn't know how he would do as a bell ringer, not having any arms, so he said "Let's see you ring that bell." So the guy ran at it headfirst, collided with it, fell down, and died. The police came over, saw the dead guy, and asked the owner, "Do you know this man?" The reply: "No, but his face rings a bell." The next day, another man came in, and he didn't have any arms either. "I'm the brother of the guy who came here yesterday," he said. "And let me tell you, I'm way better at ringing bells than he is." "OK," said the owner, "ring that bell over there." The man ran at it headfirst, just like the one before, and also died. When the police came, they saw him lying there and said, "This man looks familiar." The owner said, "Yeah, he's a dead ringer for his brother." -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Thursday, April 27 2006 11:37
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quote:*pokes Thuryl* Now the suspense is really killing me. :D -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Thursday, April 27 2006 11:36
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o_O Hypergraphia is pretty weird. -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Thursday, April 27 2006 11:32
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I think it was added in Exile I version 2.0– I also have 1.1.3, and it's not in there. Must have been updated with the graphics. -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, April 26 2006 12:12
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Acids are proton donors. If the positive charge on the proton can be taken as the analog of positive feelings (e.g. happiness and having fun), then yes, Exile is like an acid. :P -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, April 26 2006 11:32
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I've heard that an Oedipus complex is a root cause of obesity… some people will look at just about anything and decide that it's Oedipal. The integral of dcabin/cabin is ln {pronounced "log"} (cabin) + c = houseboat. Two musicians are walking down the street. One of them says to the other, "Who was that piccolo I saw you with the other night?" The other says, "That was no piccolo, that was my fife." What is the range of a piccolo? About twenty yards if you've got a good arm. An orchestra is giving a performance of Beethoven's ninth symphony. Between the third and fourth movements, the two double bass players decide to sneak out. They drop their instruments, which land on the cello players who sit in front of them. The unfortunate two are unconscious for the remainder of the concert. So they sneak into a nearby bar and meet their friend, a European nobleman. They all get really drunk and eventually one of the bass players says, "Shouldn't we be getting back?" and the other one says, "No, it's fine… right before we left, I tied up the last couple of pages of the conductor's music with a piece of string. It'll take him a while to untangle it." So when it's finally time to start, the conductor is looking really nervous. Someone in the audience says, "Why is the conductor so nervous?" and the guy next to him says, "Well, it's the last of the ninth, the score is tied, two men are out, the basses are loaded, and the count is full." A C, an E flat, and a G walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Sorry, we don't serve minors…" So the E flat leaves and the bartender asks the G, who is the more dominant of the two personalities, "Do you want some gin with your tonic?" And the G says "Sure!" and the C and the G have an open fifth between them. And, finally, an Exile-related one. A C, an E flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin runs up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, April 26 2006 11:21
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quote:Or, "I'm taking a lich." However, it is not to be. But it makes my inner linguist happy. XD -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, April 25 2006 18:30
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Maybe the point was not the descriptions at all, but the speculations about what the point was… :D -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, April 25 2006 17:13
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And more viruses. :P Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, April 25 2006 17:09
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I think it does apply to everything. However, in many cases it can make things sound very stilted, which isn't surprising, considering that (ITLPIHTOTWCIIHCAIIRC– if that linguistics prof I heard that one time was correct, if I heard correctly, and if I recall correctly :D ) these rules were made up during the Renaissance by a bunch of guys who decided that since Latin is a great language, we should ape its word order– even though English didn't quite work that way, then or now. "Mom, what did you bring that book I don't like to be read to out of about Down Under up for?" [ Tuesday, April 25, 2006 17:10: Message edited by: Erika Maroonmark ] -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, April 25 2006 15:39
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(XD That's pretty funny.) My ideal afterlife would incorporate lots of thought, and existence in general. So it would be like living forever, just going somewhere else at a certain point. The main reason for my fear of death (probably most people's, come to think of it) is ceasing to exist– never being able to think about anything again, or experience things like music. So that would take the death out of death. XD -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, April 25 2006 11:22
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quote:Or you can (facetiously) excuse the splitting by saying that "more than double" is a single verb. :P -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Monday, April 24 2006 15:20
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I saw this really scary thing on Nova or something the other night, about "global dimming" (increased cloudage due to particles floating around in the air because of pollution) and how it's actually counteracting global warming, and if not for global dimming, global warming would speed way up and we'd all be very screwed over. Makes me wonder how we're still going to live when I grow up. -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Monday, April 24 2006 13:39
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In my reply, I will endeavour to use as many of my favourite words (i.e. those that change spelling in Britain, and/or are more commonly used in Britain, as well as just awesome long words) as I can, and to be facetious and say something that I think is humourous and you probably think is silly. Recently, I got my mum and dad to buy me the Exile Trilogy CD, figuring that if they said no, I could go on with my sneakier plan (to buy it clandestinely with my own money, involving "going for a walk" on several occasions), but if it wasn't necessary, I didn't have to go to such great lengths to acquire some of my favourite computer programmes, the lack of which I have been bemoaning for aeons (in that one thread, if you happened to read it). Which it wasn't. They were surprisingly OK with it. Re-reading this, it sounds nothing like my usual posts. But they do tend to be variable, I guess– I ought to set them equal to x and solve for it. (Required failed attempt at humour. Probably nobody cares anyway.) [ Monday, April 24, 2006 15:14: Message edited by: Erika Maroonmark ] -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Monday, April 24 2006 13:25
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Awesome. I shall have to start doing that more often. (This year's English teacher maintained that exclamation and question marks go inside, but she's also said several stupid and ridiculous things, so it now occurs to me that she might be wrong and somehow managed to have us convinced… :D ) -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Monday, April 24 2006 13:22
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Favourite foreign words: German: Schifffahrt (gotta love the spelling reform) Pikkoloflöte quergegenüber daß anything that has a ß in it Latin: peto (just because when it means "attack" you can facetiously translate it as "seek", and when it means "seek" you can facetiously translate it as "attack" and it's even funnier) "gavisus sum" venustus Old English: æglæca anything that has an æ in it -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Monday, April 24 2006 13:12
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How old is that book? Such things might be old-fashioned as well as British, and we're being taught in school now not to do them… although I remain a frequent perpetrator. Just not on school assignments where "spelling counts". :) -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Monday, April 24 2006 12:22
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quote:*dies laughing* XD! *totally loves you* Another convention I learned "wrong" (I have no idea how none of my elementary school teachers realised that they were teaching us the British way {think it's British, at least, because I have seen it in the real world, even though the MLA says it's wrong}) was the apostrophe used to make abbreviations and numbers plural. I leaned things like 1980's and CD's, but the MLA says you have to say 1980s and CDs. >>;;; Yes, I have always lived in New York. Another thing the MLA says (I think they changed it recently, because my ninth-grade English teacher was always talking about the MLA and told us differently about this) is that you should write things like "Dickens's", not "Dickens'". It still makes me cringe every time. XD -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 23 2006 14:57
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Some of my favourite words: tiddlywinks genuflect floccinaucinihilipilification sinecure spanghew grey :D [ Sunday, April 23, 2006 14:57: Message edited by: Erika Maroonmark ] -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 23 2006 14:52
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quote:FYOT. -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 23 2006 05:24
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quote:*sob* "Tyres"? I've never seen that one before… that's cool too. XD -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 23 2006 05:21
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quote:Really? Cool. (Jesus is in this thread, too? I didn't see his post! :P ) -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Saturday, April 22 2006 18:09
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I believe "back up your save files" is shift + (7,8,9,0). -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |
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written Saturday, April 22 2006 10:36
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quote:It makes me furious with Noah Webster. I read in my US History textbook that, during the very nationalistic Jeffersonian era, he devised an American spelling system that "made more sense". >>;;; Words like that got evolved backwards so they would resemble their Latin ancestors. This is quite boring, especially if you're interested in linguistics and how things change over time. Although I'd like to know how "gray" came about. -------------------- A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi. Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!" Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me." Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00 |