Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Day 76 - The Symbol Is Pronounced "The Games Formally Known As The Olympics", Non-lethal Weapon And Marital Aid, The Seans We Know, And Imogen Poots


10:11 AM Mr. Silver
10:12 AM Mr. Blue
"Roller coaster as designed by Ms. Moffet's 2nd grade class."
10:13 AM Mr. Silver
"We decided we needed to put up a symbol of the state of the world.  So
#1 it needed to cost a lot. 
#2 we wanted a "red-tape" pile in an unappealing shape and color..."
10:13 AM Mr. Blue
"#3 we wanted it to have absolutely no function what-so-ever."
10:13 AM Mr. Silver
"#4 it would need to be incomprehensible to the world at large so we picked math most people couldn't "get" if they tried."
10:13 AM Mr. Silver
"#5 it needed to be really really big to represent the whole human race and state of earth."
"#6 we wanted it in a prominent location so thousands of live international representatives and billions of TV viewers would have to look at it constantly for 2 weeks."
"We were actually considering leaving it unfinished for the additional irony, but we didn't think anyone would be able to tell the difference and we'd already paid the money."
10:18 AM Mr. Blue
And it's named after a conglomerate
Just needs a McDonald's arches on top of it
10:42 AM Mr. Blue
10:43 AM Mr. Silver
The thing at the top in the first picture does look rather like a cheeseburger.  Perhaps if that part was painted in realistic colors?
10:50 AM Mr. Silver
It's a true testament to the power of an individual's charisma to get funding from a council
(council) "This thing is a worthless eyesore." 
(artist) "It's challenging and significant." 
(council) "You seem passionate and attractive.  Ok, take $19 million."
(artist) "I'll need 22." 
(council) "No way." 
(artist) "Please?  For me?" 
(council) "Well...when you put it that way.  Take 23."
(rep late to meeting walks in) "What the HELL is THAT piece of crap?"
10:55 AM Mr. Silver
(council) "Cretin!  Don't insult this fine, passionate, attractive artist!"
10:55 AM Mr. Blue
"The Arcelor Mittal Orbit - sponsored by Kia!"



11:39 AM Mr. Blue

11:41 AM Mr. Silver
“Poseidon approved”.
11:43 AM Mr. Silver
Just look at it...
Eee!
"As featured in the shower scene of the film 'Debbie Does The Colerain Township Police Department'"
11:45 AM Mr. Blue
Not the "trident" I have pictured in my head.
11:45 AM Mr. Silver
Nope.
11:47 AM Mr. Gray
Nice
Swiss Army Knife of Non-Lethal Weapons LOL!
12:40 PM Mr. Yellow
It is a fitting description



12:05 PM Mr. Blue
If a woman says her name is "shawn", would that probably be "Chan"?
12:13 PM Mr. Silver
Like Sean Young?
12:16 PM Mr. Blue
Yeah
Or Chan Marshall
12:44 PM Mr. Silver
(Sings) "These are the Seans I know I know.  These are the Seans I know."
12:49 PM Mr. Blue
"Sean Young was in Bladerunn-er, then she became a drunk.  …  These are the Seans I know I know, these are the Seans I know."
12:49 PM Mr. Silver
"Sean Bean...you'd think his name would rhyme.  But he's not a bon and he's not a seen, but I still call him Seen Bean."
"These are the Seans I know I know.  These are the Seans I know."
12:52 PM Mr. Blue
"Chan Marshall, she is so darned cute … but she's a drunk too… These are the Chans I know I know, these are the Chans I know."
12:53 PM Mr. Silver
"Sean Connery, man he's quite a guy.  He used to box and the babes love him and I've seen him 007 times."
"These are the Seans I know I know.  These are the Seans I know."
1:10 PM Mr. Silver
"Sean Penn, is an Oscar winning guy. But he used to be married to Madonna and punched photographers a lot."
"These are the Seans I know I know.  These are the Seans I know."
1:12 PM Mr. Blue
"Sean Hannity is a total blowhard, on radio and TV. He seems like a douche and I'd don't really like him. These are the Seans I know I know, these are the Seans I know."
(Sudden segue.  Incidentally, that bit was inspired by this bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LrlMoIzSjw – Mr. Silver)
1:13 PM Mr. Orange
“Tonight on Hannity's America...why does it take so freakin' long to get my services back up after a hurricane?!  I demand to know!”
1:14 PM Mr. Silver
I'm guessing he'll blame Obama and the Democrats.
Just a hunch
1:14 PM Mr. Orange
“Listen.  Obama blocked everything from being brought online sooner.
Lets get Carl Rove in here for a comment...”
“YOU’RE RIGHT SEAN! TOTAL GARBAGE! I MEAN FIRST HEALTHCARE...NOW BASIC POWER SERVICE!”
1:15 PM Mr. Silver
I was gonna say
(Rove) "I don't know why you people keep asking my opinion...I've been saying you people are all idiots recently."
1:15 PM Mr. Orange
I have to be honest....its like pro wrestling...I tune in for a bit...become entertained...and tune out.
1:16 PM Mr. Blue
heheh
There is some shock value to it.
I listen to talk radio a lot, purely for the laughs. Or the religious-y channels
1:19 PM Mr. Orange
I wish Sean D was in this chat
1:19 PM Mr. Silver
Ugh
Sean D. is a sunemore
(“Sunemore” - intelligent fool. As opposed to sophomore – wise fool. A sunemore is a clearly intelligent person who is easily led to believe and defend blatantly stupid causes, ideas, theories and positions. Adored by propagandists as sunemores make no effort to investigate the validity of what they are told, reject facts and logical argument in favor of emotional appeals and conspiracy, and are therefore virtually impossible to re-educate. - Mr. Silver)
1:19 PM Mr. Blue
Sean is kind of a hypocrite
Calling Obama a Marxist... meanwhile, he's participating in a union labor strike.
1:20 PM Mr. Orange
I tuned into that Savage guy before because he plays Metallica as his bump music and I thought I'd switched to a rock station.
1:22 PM Mr. Blue
That guy is literally bat-poop crazy
1:22 PM Mr. Silver
Sean or Savage?
or both?
1:22 PM Mr. Blue
Savage
1:23 PM Mr. Orange
He was playing “Creeping Death” or something, then it goes to silence, and then he went off about how all of his rights were gone and he was gonna be deported due to his views.
1:23 PM Mr. Silver
I've listened to enough of him to find him a 25 carat fool.
“Savage Nation” was a good choice of name for the show...
“Feral Poop Fling” was considered, but Savage didn't understand it.
1:28 PM Mr. Orange
Speaking of Sean D. on strike: he looked super uncomfortable in that picture.
1:29 PM Mr. Silver
As he should be, considering his loudly professed beliefs.



1:46 PM Mr. Blue
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imogen_Poots  <<Probably shoulda used a pseudonym.
1:47 PM Mr. Silver
I know!  "Imogen" just invites career killing ridicule.
2:07 PM Mr. Silver
Too bad Sean Bean didn't have a son so they could be married and she could be Mrs. Imogen Gay Bean-Poots.
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Day 75 - A Herd Of Walnuts, Word Games Make Mr. Brown Play With Razors, Josh Wept, And Ms. Rosebud Needs Goats


Mr. Blue
Went on a nature tour yesterday on a bus. The tour guide said "If you look over to the left you can see some of our black walnut trees." I look over, I see an apple tree – bright red apples. I said, loud enough for the people nearby to hear it "Those are some of the ripest, juiciest walnuts I’ve ever seen!" and then that turned into a running gag all day.
"Miss, when do we get to pet the walnuts?"
"How much hay do the walnuts eat?"
10:31 AM Mr. Silver
lol
10:35 AM Mr. Blue
The walnut trees were right next to them. I saw them, I just thought it was funny.
10:35 AM Mr. Silver
BEAU-tiful!
Was worried you hassled her for nothing (except the jokes, which were excellent)



9:10 AM Mr. Silver
Morning Ms. Rosebud
(le headache)
9:21 AM Mr. Silver
Double headache
9:24 AM Mr. Pink
Double rainbow
9:28 AM Mr. Silver
Looks like one of my old games for long drives...
9:36 AM Mr. Silver
Take a pair of words, next person replaces the first one with a new one at the end. Go until you can't think of a replacement word or someone repeats.
9:38 AM Ms. Rosebud
I’m terrible at games like that, haha!
10:13 AM Mr. Silver
Double rainbow - rainbow trout - trout fishing - fishing pole - pole cat -
10:14 AM Mr. Brown
cat nip
10:17 AM Mr. Pink
I think catnip is 1 word.
10:18 AM Mr. Silver
So is nip ple.
10:18 AM Mr. Brown
Cat balls
10:18 AM Mr. Silver
Something to shout when angry, that one.
10:19 AM Mr. Brown
Cat box
Box cutter
Cutter girl
10:22 AM Mr. Pink
Cutter girl is sick
10:25 AM Mr. Silver
So...this is an emo superhero?
10:26 AM Mr. Pink
Haha, I guess you could say that!
10:26 AM Mr. Silver
"You'll never stop me, Cutter Girl!"
"...sigh...yeah...(nick)"
"Eww...what are you doing?"
"...You wouldn't understand...no one understands...(nick)"
"That's...stop that!"
"Hey...I didn't tell you to look..."
10:28 AM Ms. Rosebud
Hahaha
10:45 AM Mr. Blue
What's this, take the last word and add something to it?
10:46 AM Mr. Silver
Yeah
(Not going to show most of the play - not worth reading - but I'll leave in rule comments and good bits – Mr. Silver)

10:50 AM Mr. Pink
Catnip is void, it's 1 word.
10:50 AM Mr. Silver
Well, I hadn't really gone over many rules
It is a legitimate play because, even though it's compound, cat and nip are both words on their own
"Bat man" would often come up, for instance.
10:52 AM Mr. Brown
Loophole
10:52 AM Mr. Silver
No...just a very casual game

11:00 AM Mr. Silver
There was a version of this where you'd write down a target word pair and try to get someone to say it.

11:01 AM Mr. Brown
catcher glove
11:01 AM Mr. Silver
(note...putting an s on catcher wouldn't cause anyone to blink an eye)
11:02 AM Mr. Blue
glove box
11:03 AM Mr. Brown
box cutter
11:06 AM Mr. Silver
Mr. Brown, do you have a cutting problem?
We've gotten here twice now
11:06 AM Mr. Pink
Cutter is a tough one
11:06 AM Mr. Blue
Should be able to drop the -er
11:08 AM Mr. Silver
Plays on words are fair. If you took "cut" and could do a word that started "er"
11:08 AM Mr. Silver
Also re-spelling tricks can work. Cut er-bove – Cut above

11:48 AM Mr. Pink
record breaker
11:50 AM Mr. Brown
Breaker breaker
11:55 AM Mr. Silver
Breaker Box
11:55 AM Mr. Blue
Box cutter
11:55 AM Mr. Silver
Mr. Brown? That's your cue...
11:57 AM Mr. Pink
Lets hear it
This is your time to shine, Mr. Brown.
"box cutter" … then … ?




1:56 PM Mr. Blue
2:01 PM Mr. Silver
Josh Christ
2:13 PM Mr. Blue
No surname, of course, so just Josh



2:44 PM Mr. Blue
2:46 PM Mr. Silver
I made a lottery number picking program in BASIC in the 80s designed to pick every other number and you were to play the remaining.
Assuming any you'd pick would be wrong.
2:47 PM Ms. Rosebud
What if I’d rather have a goat than a car?
2:49 PM Mr. Blue
Then you might be from Kazakhstan
2:53 PM Ms. Rosebud
How did you know?
3:36 PM Mr. Silver
Don'tcha believe in math?
3:36 PM Ms. Rosebud
I don't believe in math. I don't think its real.
3:38 PM Mr. Blue
She's Kazakh; she follows the hawk
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Day 74 - Caffeine Shakes By Attrition, Shaky Zoning Decisions And Earwax, You Have To Crack A Few Eggs To Make An Apocalypse, The New Fall Fashion Line From Elmers Glue, What'chu Talkin' 'Bout NASA?, And Mr. Blue's Brain Surgery Recipies


7:02 AM Mr. Silver
yawn
7:03 AM Mr. Brown
I slept well last night, but most likely I will get tired.
7:03 AM Mr. Silver
I went caffeine-free this morning.
7:06 AM Mr. Brown
Well I started drinking decaf coffee in the morning
Then I'll have green tea later.
Then just tea after that
7:07 AM Mr. Silver
Then espresso...then No-Doz at bedtime.
7:08 AM Mr. Brown
lol



7:34 AM Mr. Silver
7:35 AM Mr. Silver
“The North Anna plant, which was near the epicenter of Tuesday's quake, is reportedly located on a fault line. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission rates the plant as the seventh most likely to receive core damage from a quake. But they say the chances of that are only 1 in 22,727.”
I think those odds have changed a bit, considering they were probably based on the likelihood of there ever being an earthquake there at all.
7:36 AM Mr. Brown
Chance is bullcrap at times.
You know it will happen sooner or later
We have been overdue for quakes in this area
8:03 AM Mr. Silver
So we're all doomed in the earthquakapocalypse.
8:05 AM Mr. Silver
I'd think "on a fault line" would be grounds for not building a nuke plant at a location.
8:05 AM Mr. Brown
Yeah, well building whole cities on top of a fault line is a bad idea too.
8:07 AM Mr. Silver
Generally speaking, fault line geology came well after cities and well before nuke plants.  But yes.
8:08 AM Mr. Brown
Yeah, that is true.
But you think we would do something about it by now.
Like shut down the plant and build a new one somewhere else.
8:27 AM Mr. Silver
(Realtor) "Well, technically, at any moment this particular property could split in half, demolishing anything on it."
"Any way of predicting it?"
"Not really, just statistical guesses, but it's certain to go some day."
"Land cheap?"
"Heck yes! No one would build anything important here."
"Random inevitable regional doom...but its cheap...I think this sounds like a good option."
And a nuke plant costs many billions. You can't just move them or throw down a spare, Mr. Brown.
8:29 AM Mr. Mauve
If the cost is so high, all the better reason to put it in a sound location initially.
8:29 AM Mr. Silver
Yup
8:29 AM Mr. Mauve
Seismically sound... yeah that's it.
^ I love alliteration
8:30 AM Mr. Silver
Then you should A'love Alliteration.
8:30 AM Mr. Mauve
Haha! I see what you did there.
8:30 AM Mr. Silver
A'love A Little Alliteration
8:31 AM Mr. Mauve
Whoa, whoa, stop... my brain might orgasm!
And that's how earwax is made
Well, maybe not earwax... Wrong consistency... I’m going to stop now.
8:34 AM Mr. Silver
Please



12:55 PM Mr. Blue
So. All the people in the USA that felt that the earthquake yesterday was a message from god or a sign of the apocalypse. If they all dropped dead today, would the world be a better or worse place?
1:10 PM Mr. Silver
For the world a better place question...
You're suggesting a not inconsiderable number of superstitious apocalyptics just leaving the roles, eh?
Honestly? Better.
A few reasons.
1:12 PM Mr. Blue
They're wastes of air and resources - don't need much more than that.
1:13 PM Mr. Silver
Oh, I'm not saying some innocents wouldn't go, but you picked the set
1:14 PM Mr. Blue
You have to crack eggs in order to make an omelet.
1:14 PM Mr. Silver
One: Like any swooping plague, there'd suddenly be a ton of resources and work.
Probably enough to finish off the whole "unemployment" and “resources” questions entirely.
1:15 PM Mr. Blue
Unlike a plague though, which targets the poor but not necessarily the non-contributing or non-intelligent, wiping out all the religious extremists would dump almost entirely idiots.
1:15 PM Mr. Silver
Believing such things doesn't make one an extremist or a total moron.
1:15 PM Mr. Blue
I mean, people that think that a mild earthquake is god's way of telling Washington DC that he doesn't like our policy on gay marriage, or Israel, or whatever.. that's a dim bulb.
You're either extreme or you're extremely stupid.
1:16 PM Mr. Silver
Well regardless, the extremists would go, and they're poisonous to societies and always have been.
Voice gone...votes gone...good riddance.
1:16 PM Mr. Blue
They don't think much, and when they do it's wrong, and when they talk they're loud.
This would be BETTER than a plague, but a plague would be good too, for humanity.
But that would risk the lives of people that I might know and care about.
1:17 PM Mr. Silver
We're playing a game, not judging society.
You asked for the results.
1:17 PM Mr. Blue
Yes, but now I’m entertaining the idea of a massive plague.
1:17 PM Mr. Silver
I had such great hopes in my youth for such.   I really didn't want to see the world go feudal again, which is where it seems to be going.



2:47 PM Mr. Blue
"She will boast the only clothing line in history that has a best-by date AND needs refrigerated."
2:48 PM Mr. Mauve
"Hey mom, did you see my Lady Gaga meat dress? I can't find it in the fridge."
2:52 PM Mr. Apple
lol
2:52 PM Mr. Blue
Cover yourself in glue, roll around on the floor of an abandoned house, call it the latest Gaga outfit.
Heck, roll around anywhere!
A gravel driveway, a corn field
2:53 PM Mr. Silver
A million seller! Just comes in a big pot with the Elmer's Glue trademark under her picture.



3:18 PM Mr. Blue
http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/24/the-coolest-objects-yet/?hpt=hp_c2  Only on the first paragraph, but I wonder if a cold sun could support life on its own surface?
3:20 PM Mr. Silver
A difficult prospect.
I wonder how many gravs one of those pulls.
3:21 PM Mr. Blue
I guess stars don't really have a surface as we know it, not sure about cold ones though.
3:22 PM Mr. Silver
You'd need some sort of...boat
3:22 PM Mr. Blue
I dub this brown dwarf Gary Coleman
3:22 PM Mr. Apple
lol
3:24 PM Mr. Silver
It's in the Arnold System: a binary with a larger star called Willis



Mr. Silver
That sucks.
3:41 PM Mr. Blue
I probably wouldn't have done much better.
"Nurse, get me an ice-cream scooper. And a waffle cone."
3:42 PM Mr. Silver
"Excellent. Skull's open. So...that's a brain."
"Yes, Doctor Blue."
(Hehe...I was gonna do the ice-cream scooper next line.)
3:43 PM Mr. Blue
Debated on that or melon baller.
3:43 PM Mr. Silver
Yup, me too. 
"A melon-baller for this man's melon, please, nurse."
"I don't have one, Doctor Blue!"
3:44 PM Mr. Blue
"Well, I don't see any tumors, but I sure can't close him up empty handed..."
3:44 PM Mr. Silver
"The patient can wait til you get one...try the cafeteria. Take 5 everyone."
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Day 73 - Pause For Portal Puzzling, Hoards Of Lizards And Children, A Typical Copy Of Internet Explorer, And The Drink 9 Out of 10 Dentists Recommend Spitting And Rinsing

6:58 AM Mr. Brown
This makes me think
7:01 AM Mr. Silver
Interesting
7:01 AM Mr. Brown
There is a lot of thought into that one
lol
7:02 AM Mr. Silver
Some answers seem readily apparent
7:04 AM Mr. Silver
A - Though you obviously can't see it, you've created a hoop that has no curve
If you were to put orange and blue back-to-back and put a hoop through and join the ends, you get pretty much the same effect.
7:08 AM Mr. Silver
Anyway...gravity would still pull the mass down, so the rod will fall until it hits its terminal velocity and continue til the rod broke or melted, which I see it doing - heating up as it tries to tumble naturally but is forced back in place to correct the "hoop".
7:08 AM Mr. Brown
So would get red hot then melt.
7:08 AM Mr. Silver
Think so.
7:11 AM Mr. Brown
So the same would happen if you dropped a ball bearing into the one portal?
or maybe that would fly off course at some point.
7:12 AM Mr. Silver
The ball would just keep dropping normally.
7:16 AM Mr. Brown
The one problem I see is how would you be sure the portals are perfectly aligned
7:19 AM Mr. Silver
Well, the setup begins assuming the join was possible, and only changes it afterwards.
B and C requires compressing, stretching and bending the rod.
Considering it's going to be heating up anyway, if done carefully enough, in case C you could end up with a segment of, or complete version of, my physical hoop instead of the virtual hoop.
7:25 AM Mr. Silver
But I see catastrophic failure, really...the whole thing just breaks or melts from the stresses.



11:05 AM Mr. Blue
I like this sentence: The reptiles are underweight which because they haven’t been properly fed they are not happy.
11:08 AM Mr. Blue
Sounds like a Russian-to-English Babelfish translation
11:08 AM Ms. Rosebud
Well, you wouldn't be happy if you were being hoarded either, haha
11:08 AM Mr. Blue
Speaking of hoarding, I went on a drive yesterday and saw a LOT of hoarders.
Toy cars, not kids.
11:14 AM Ms. Rosebud
It'd be funny if they were hoarding children though.
11:14 AM Mr. Blue
“Yeah, keep 'em. There's too many as is.”
11:15 AM Mr. Pink
Were you abused as a young child, Mr. Blue?
11:16 AM Mr. Blue
I did the abusing



12:11 PM Ms. Rosebud
http://imgur.com/gallery/X7ipc <--- This is how I imagine regular people's computers
12:11 PM Mr. Blue
lmao
12:11 PM Mr. Apple
lol
12:12 PM Mr. Pink
That looks about right for Win XP
12:12 PM Mr. Apple
That could be a contest - How many toolbars can be installed in IE
12:12 PM Ms. Rosebud
haha
12:13 PM Mr. Pink
The only thing that picture is missing is about 50 copies of IE opened up
12:15 PM Mr. Blue
They actually have an address bar.
12:31 PM Mr. Silver
True, but you know it doesn't work.
I'd like to actually see if their desktop is just IE shortcuts to everything they go to.



1:54 PM Mr. Pink
Did you ever see that cinnamon challenge on Tosh.0
1:54 PM Ms. Rosebud
haha Yes
2:05 PM Mr. Apple
Yes lol
I've seen multiple people try it and most of them puke! lol
2:08 PM Mr. Silver
Lemme guess: "What's the problem? It'll taste good! AUGH! BURNS! WATER!"
2:11 PM Mr. Apple
lol
2:12 PM Mr. Pink
Cinnamon is nasty to begin with.
I got trashed off Goldschlager once and haven’t liked cinnamon since.
2:13 PM Ms. Rosebud
I agree
2:14 PM Mr. Apple
Never had it
2:15 PM Ms. Rosebud
Its kinda terrible, but that’s mainly cause I’ve never liked cinnamon.
2:17 PM Mr. Silver
I always looked at Goldschlager's consistency, flavor, and the gold flecks as something distilled from a dentist’s collection of spit and toothpaste from a botched fillings job.
2:20 PM Mr. Pink
lol, sick!
2:20 PM Ms. Rosebud
Well, that’s another reason to never drink it again.
Haha
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