Archive for September, 2009

You know, I’ve played my share of pranks before. I used to think I was pretty good at it.

It turns out, I am merely the rankest of amateurs.

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So evidently today was the Rapture.  As can be seen at this very professional looking website. The guy has pictures, and videos and graphs.  He even does math to prove that Sept 21st, 2009 is the date that the rapture will occur.  And you just can’t argue with math.

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Note for non-gamers: A PUG, drugs or pick-up group, doctor is when you wind up playing an online game with a group of more or less random strangers, clinic rather than with people that you know.  Given how most online games are teamwork oriented, and given how most people on the Internet tend to behave, this frequently turns out to be a Very Bad Idea.

See also: Charlie Foxtrot, Leroy Jenkins, Azerothian Roulette, and “What the hell are the idiots doing?!”

Not to be confused with the small dogs that look like their face got smashed in with a shovel.

(Note from the Stephanie)

For your World of Warcraft fans:
I’m in a smallish guild on WOW.  We usually have enough for some 10-mans but outside of raid nights, we often don’t have enough people on to do things like Vaults or OS and have to join other groups or partner with another guild for 25 man content.  So the long and short of it is several of our members join PUGS for these things (that’s pick-up-groups for the non-WOW folks but also means someone who joins a pick-up group) or put out general calls for pugs to join us.  This list is based on the experiences of my fellow guild members and myself:

(Submitted by Stephanie)

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Bonus list.  Because I spent all day doing math homework instead of writing.

Rules of the road now that you’re wife/girlfriend is pregnant:

(Submitted by TheShadowCat)

1. Never argue with a pregnant woman. This will lead to a lot of pain. Emotional for her and possibly physical for you.
2. Never point out bloated body parts or stretch marks on her unless you know how to duck and cover very well.
3. Don’t make comments about weight gain unless you want to have a vasectomy done with a carving knife.
4. If she makes a comment about any of these issues, tell her she’s beautiful. You might want to practice this a few times out loud and in front of a mirror so you can say it with a straight face and with some form of sincerity in your voice.

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I think that our current health care system needs improving.  I think that most rational people would agree, whatever their views on any current plans, that there are some major issues that we, as a country, need to address.  Granted we might not all agree on what those specific issues are.

Now most of the people I see posting in the comments section here seem to be fairly bright.  I bet between us we can come up with a whole bunch of workable ideas to fix health care.

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Tongue Eating Parasite Found

It eats a fish’s tongue.  And then it replaces the fish’s tongue using it’s own body.  Sort of like Maria Bello in The Mummy 3: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, if you assume that she devoured Rachel Weisz to get the part.

"Quaid! Start the reactor!"

And I’m pretty much done eating sushi forever.

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So evidently the embed broke. So here’s a link.

Legend of Neil

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I’m relatively certain that this one is not a repeat.

(Submitted by Maria Blackmore)

1. Not allowed to submit Purchase Order requests for a kinetic kill orbital weapons platform.
2. Or any other sort of weapons platform.
3. Even if we have enough staff with sufficient expertise to build one.
4. Or a bucket of sunshine.
5. Not allowed to submit Purchase Order requests for a secret underground lair.
6. Even if you already have the perfect site lined up.
7. They’re expensive and we don’t have money allocated for it in the budget.
8. Tanks are a weapons platform.
9. So are field artillery.
10. And rocket launchers.
11. And submarines.
12. And automatic weapons, in fact, not allowed to submit PO requests for any sorts of weapons at all. That includes explosives too.
13. And cattle-prods, if intended for use as a weapon.
14. Even Nerf weapons.
15. Unless you pay for them yourself.

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Welcome back to a very special issue of Voodoo Farming: A Not-Quite In-Depth Look At Zombies In Popular Culture. Today, we’re going to look at my Zombie Preparedness, and I hope that you will look at your own as well.

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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.

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