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Question 1
What prompted you to set up skippyslist.com in the first place?
Charles DiLorenzo
The short version is that I didn’t. Many years ago when I was deployed I would occasionally send a letter or an email home. I would usually end with some new rule or another that I had picked up. One of my friends started assembling these into a list. And then he started emailing the list around to people he knew. He called it the “101 things Skippy Can’t Do in the Army”, but it only had like thirty or forty items on it. I started adding items to the list when I got home, but never thought anybody who didn’t know me would ever give a damn about it.
Eventually another friend of mine became convinced that I should have a website for the list. I still didn”t believe anyone else would ever want to see it, but I gave her permission to put the list up. Things kind of snowballed from there.
So I guess the real lesson here is if you sit around being a smart-ass, eventually people will set you up for success.
Question 2
Half the world’s probably beat me to this.. :)
How did you convince your wife to spend the rest of her life trying to keep you out of trouble? (aka, marry you ;)
Lorna Appleby
Well I asked my wife and she says that she has always been attracted to funny men, because funny people are usually intelligent. And because she is just as much of a giant dork as I am. Seriously, she actually had a stuffed DRD toy that she would watch Farscape with.
Also, because I have a freakishly enormous penis. There are tribes in the Amazon that worship it as fertility god. It’s actually more a curse than a blessing, seeing as how hard it is to keep your lady in the mood, when some dude in a loincloth is sacrificing a goat to your manhood in exchange for a bountiful harvest.
Question 3
Yes. Next question.
Question 4
When did you realize you’d become (internet) famous, and what was your reaction?
kdorian
Many years ago I was at a party, and me and some folks were swapping funny stories. Several of my funny stories were from my time in the Army. One story involved the fact that I was in PSYOP. One of the guests at the party said “PSYOP? You were in PSYOP? Have you ever met Skippy?” I admitted who I was, and he just sort of freaked out at me. I was a pretty much stunned, as it had never occurred to me that I might run into stranger that was familiar with the site. Nowadays I know that the proper reaction is to use it to try and get free drinks, meet and hang out with actual (non-internet) people, or to get women to show me their breasts.
Question 5
So I’m pretty sure you already answered this before, but what is your left 4 dead screename? i haven’t played in awhile, because of school, so I’d probably suck it up, but whatever.
blargh
WildWeasel.
Honorable Mention #1
So i know i totally already asked a question so if i can only get on answered then definitely answer this one. when you talked about the heart attack grill in one of your posts my friend and i checked it out and think it looks amazing. so we were possibly planning a road trip to Arizona after we finish school this year, since we’re seniors in high school. so if we came to Arizona could we hang out we with you?
blargh
Too late! Bwahaha! If you had asked this one first, it would have been number five.
But seriously, no. For two reasons. The first is that I don’t actually live in Arizona any more. I am about a two day drive away from tasty Heart Attack burgers. The second is that I envision the conversation with your parents going like this.
Blargh: Hey mom, me and some friends want to go on a roadtrip to visit some guy in his thirties that we met online.
Blargh’s Mom: Oh my god! Call the FBI, the DHS, and Chris Hansen! Also, I wish we hadn’t named you Blargh.
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September 9th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
These are pretty good questions. All I could think of is,
What is the 13th digit of pi?
What year is it?
Ford or Chevy?
(Captcha has blown a fuse; it just asked me for “souths .)
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CCO reply on September 9th, 2009 9:25 pm:
Funny, Captcha took that! It was suppose to be “souths {square block with white dots}”, but I used brackets so there’s an un-closed HTML tag floating around here somewhere.
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Ihmhi reply on September 11th, 2009 12:42 am:
One of my hobbies is memorizing pi to as many digits as I can. There was a really long pi chart (HAR HAR it was a poster actually) in my Algebra II class back in the day, and when I was bored I would get further and further.
Oh, and the 13th digit of pi is 9.
CAPTCHA: McNutt unkindly
McNutt unkindly what? I don’t even want to know.
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Captain Scurvy reply on September 11th, 2009 7:31 am:
…no, well it depends upon if you count the first 3. I suppose you would, since it is a significant digit.
It’s 3.1415926535897932368… if memory serves
Captcha “Shosteck srinagar” Sounds like one of Stalin’s cronies.
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Sequoia reply on September 11th, 2009 12:24 pm:
when they speak of the thirteenth digit they usually mean the thirteenth decimal place. Anyone who doesn’t know the three is retarded.
September 9th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
*gasp* My question got answered. I feel as gleeful as the day when my letter got printed in the TV Times. Tho, this one wasn’t nearly as geeky. ;)
And Skippy, I do believe you. I believe that your wife not only likes you ’cause you’re a funny geek, but has indeed called you a giant dick. :)
*ducks and covers*
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September 10th, 2009 at 4:41 am
A stuffed DRD? That’s awesome. DRDs are the most useful and annoying droids that you just love to hate and hate to love. Of course tachikomas also fall into this catagory. Who the hell loads the personality of a 14 year old Valley Girl into a light tank!
Captcha: Bear Steak-Well, doesn’t that just sound tasty!
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CCO reply on September 10th, 2009 6:01 am:
Don’t know about bear steak, but most of bear burgers I’ve eaten were overcooked.
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September 10th, 2009 at 10:12 am
I want a stuffed DRD.
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September 10th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Hmm, it seems I know blargh. Is that you Tryan? or was this Beardo the Witch?
(and the roadtrip plan was originally just to tell our parents we wanted to do a roadtrip, and just not tell them we hoped to meet [stalk] an internet personality).
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September 10th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
My approach back in the day was to simply invite my parents along. They’d decline (usually), but were reassured that I wasn’t hiding anything.
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September 10th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
you’re probably right, except you forgot the part where they call dateline to do another “To Catch a Predator” special.
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September 10th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
my name on steam is not, in fact, blargh, but nebworb, don’t ask we why but it just is. don’t be judgin me.
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Sequoia reply on September 10th, 2009 5:40 pm:
Way to double post Oh-Large-Headed-One.
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September 10th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
actually Sequoia it was our big-headed friend. and would it not be worth the trip to the heart attack grill to get a Quadruple Bypass Burger?
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September 10th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
I feel loved. See, late night boredom and ‘net surfing does sometimes get you cool stuff. Like the first question answered. I had been wondering since my days in green the answer to that one.
captcha: whinnier Philadelphia… ‘nough said.
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September 10th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Actually Sequoia and Blargh, if you had been paying attention in Twansylvania, you should have known that we scrapped the idea of making the roadtrip to Arizona for several reasons.
1. I’m not driving for 7 days for burgers.
2. It’s Arizona. Why do you think John McCain ran for president? It wasn’t for poltical power or a diamond.
3. The thought of showing up at a dude’s house because we think he’s funny is would make us mega-creepers.
4. I’m not driving to BFE to satiate your fangirl-ing.
The new plan is Florida. It’s closer, cheaper, and much more pleasent to be in. And it’s not Arizona!
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Sequoia reply on September 10th, 2009 5:41 pm:
I know why the plan was scrapped. I was merely pointing out the original plan.
1. Reasonable.
2. Good point.
3. Aren’t we creepers?
4. Tryan would be fangirling. Christ on Friday I only fangirl when it has to do with Star Wars.
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Captain Scurvy reply on September 11th, 2009 7:38 am:
Yeah, Florida is only 6 days away and in the middle of a massive swamp, what could you possibly have been thinking?
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Sequoia reply on September 11th, 2009 12:26 pm:
It’s actually less than 6 days from here. Muahahaha
Lit reply on September 10th, 2009 6:42 pm:
1. But would you do it for a Klondike bar?
2. Because it was the only way he could get Chuck Norris to hang out with him?
3. Not as creepy as if he were then to welcome you in.
4. … I got nothing
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September 10th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
The correct answer to Honorable Mention #2 is “NOT IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION! DRINK!” Why yes, I have been to DefCon (and Hacker Jeopardy) before, many times in fact…
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