Mr.
Brown
1:47
PM Mr. Silver
1:47
PM Mr. Brown
It
is true though
1:48
PM Mr. Silver
I
used my sisters' one for years.
1:48
PM Mr. Brown
Guys
need a Easy Bake to learn how to be a baker later in life.
All
we got was the bug makers.
Maybe
they should have been edible bugs.
1:49
PM Mr. Silver
I
just liked cooking stuff. I still do.
1:49
PM Mr. Brown
Yeah,
it is kind of one-sided. They could be making a lot more money if
they made a boy one too, so they don't feel stupid using a pink one.
I
remember the smelting one. You could make skull rings and pendants
and such.
1:54
PM Mr. Silver
The
ancient one I played with was green.
2:00
PM Mr. Silver
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"Just
like Mom's!"
Mr.
Brown
3:01
PM Mr. Silver
3:01
PM Mr. Brown
I
should should market a drink named that.
3:04
PM Mr. Silver
Yes.
3:05
PM Mr. Brown
“When
you can say the name right, you're just right!”
3:05
PM Mr. Silver
"After
1, you won't remember anyone at the party. After 2, you won't
remember where you are. After 3, you won't remember who you
are. Don't have 4."
Too
bad I don't go to Pennsic anymore. That sounds like a drink title to
make a very successful swamp party out of.
3:07
PM Mr. Brown
3:07
PM Mr. Silver
"Triple
filtered through more alcohol for a clean fresh drunk"
3:09
PM Mr. Brown
“Screw
diamond filtering, and triple distilling; here at Alshhiemersh, we
like to take the time to filter our stuff thoroughly through more
alcohol.”
3:10
PM Mr. Silver
We'll
spell it differently all over the bottle.
3:10
PM Mr. Brown
Mr.
Yellow
Thom
10:01
AM Mr. Gray
Tom,
even.
10:02
AM Mr. Yellow
Yes,
that is what I tried to type.
10:02
AM Mr. Yellow
But
my fingers are rebels.
They
like to go their own way.
10:02
AM Mr. Gray
We've
long ago mastered your mysterious cryptography.
10:03
AM Mr. Yellow
I
love when I confuse Spellcheck.
10:04
AM Mr. Silver
"You
rebel scum fingers"
10:04
AM Mr. Yellow
10:05
AM Mr. Silver
"Soon
we'll find the location of your hidden palm."
Mr.
Yellow
So
I asked about that test I took, and I was in the red.
So
I would not make a good fit for the position, but I have no idea if I
missed any questions.
The
only data we got back from the test is a graph on how good a fit you
would be for it.
2:09
PM Mr. Yellow
Could
it judge you not a good fit because you could be too smart ? I don’t
know, but now I am pissed. I am not mad I was in the red; I just I
want to know my score and there is no way to know.
I
consider myself pretty smart and I really feel I did not miss any of
the questions I answered.
2:10
PM Mr. Silver
2:10
PM Mr. Silver
I
reminds me of my test for funding.
I
missed a point on something and wondered what it was.
I
kept asking about it and was sent to different people.
I
finally found out I'd scored so high the tester was too intimidated
to talk to me and was hiding. I felt bad when she finally came
out...almost hugged her.
2:12
PM Mr. Gray
2:14
PM Mr. Silver
I
know what my IQ supposedly is. Depending on the day, I feel like
I've about lost half.
But
yes, you could have done too well to pass. It happened to my dad.
The
military had him in for recruitment and they sent him home.
2:16
PM Mr. Gray
2:17
PM Mr. Silver
They
said something like "We need people like you at home, figuring
stuff out."
2:18
PM Mr. Gray
"Sorry,
you are too smart for the military. You'll realize everything we're
sending you to do is stupid and pointless and it will cause morale
issues when you point it out to the sergeant and other soldiers."
2:19
PM Mr. Silver
Probably.
:-)
Mr.
Gray
See....that’s
what I like about a well-crafted game plot. It fills in the gaps and
makes back-story better.
Like,
what if it ends up being Mr. Yellow's character, later on, who was
working with Bothans to smuggle the plans to the Corellian ship Vader
captures Leia on? Things like that where the player gets to say
"Yeah...I made that happen *giggle*"
11:53
AM Mr. Silver
My
Jedi is going to survive Order 66 and be the guy that told Red Leader to let that bumpkin
cropduster, Luke Skywalker, have an X-Wing and take the last run at
the Death Star.
"That
untrained kid who just showed up? Are you insane?"
11:53
AM Mr. Gray
I
could see that!
11:53
AM Mr. Silver
"Fortunately
not. (waves hand) You will
let
him have a fighter and take a run if you fail."
"I
will."
11:53
AM Mr. Gray
11:54
AM Mr. Silver
11:54
AM Mr. Gray
11:58
AM Mr. Silver
Giving
him an X-Wing was utter madness...someone there looked at him and knew.
11:58
AM Mr. Gray
Someone
had too.
"Have
any starfighter experience, kid?”
“Well,
I drove a land speeder on Tattooine...and flew T-16s in Beggar's
Canyon there."
"Yeah....well, how about you just drive that speeder loaded with ordinance to each of the teams in the hanger bay and let the fighter pilots do the easy stuff this time, okay?"
"Yeah....well, how about you just drive that speeder loaded with ordinance to each of the teams in the hanger bay and let the fighter pilots do the easy stuff this time, okay?"
12:01
PM Mr. Silver
12:01
PM Mr. Gray
12:02
PM Mr. Blue
12:05
PM Mr. Silver
Those
are quite fantastic names!
I
initially thought they were supposed to be net handles.
Taco
Bell's "B.M. Monster" burrito not a new invention,
unfortunately...I've eaten a few of them over the years.
12:07
PM Mr. Blue
"Paging
Doctor Monster.. Doctor Taco B.M. Monster to surgery."
12:13
PM Mr. Silver
(Peeking
head in door, receptionist looks up) "Uh...I was given this
suite number for the specialist? Is this?"
(Receptionist)
"This is right...come on in."
"It's
just...the name..."
"Oh
I know! It happens all the time. Have a seat. You have
your insurance card and the forms we sent? Good."
"Huh?"
"Today's
margarita special is mango."
12:50
PM Mr. Blue
Mr.
Silver
I
think run-of-the-mill anti-tax anti-government dorks are rather
clueless about how small they are compared to these barons they are
protecting from “evil un-American taxes”.
2:57
PM Mr. Silver
A
rough example:
Suppose
I have, oh, $10 million in the bank.
2:57
PM Mr. Silver
And
I make a modest $300000 a year, just from my job salary...we'll
ignore the investments, and benefits and freebies and bonuses and
such. Raw salary.
2:57
PM Mr. Silver
And
then, in claiming the need to save the country from disaster, the
evil government sets my tax bracket at a flat 75%!
Horrors!!!
I'd
have a mere $75,000 left over from my salary after taxes!!! That's
only $25000 dollars more than the median household income of
the USA...before taxes of course...
That
would give me only $10,075,000 to live on! (Not counting the
investments, and benefits and freebies and bonuses and such.)
2:58
PM Mr. Brown
Yeah.
People are acting like taxing the rich will make things worse.
2:58
PM Mr. Silver
2:58
PM Mr. Blue
Because
the rich are threatening to take it out on employees.
Well,
trickle down obviously didn't work, so I don't see the difference in
either excuse they give for screwing people.
2:59
PM Mr. Silver
That's
the other fraud. Here's some more oversimplified math to show the
lie:
Say
my business I'm an executive for (or even own) posted a profit of $150 million this year.
And
I personally take a salary of $300000 as stated...and that's a
business expense just like all the other employee pay is.
Make
no mistake - even with me getting paid the posted salary, plus
all the extras and expense accounts and perks and such, the business
is $150 million in the black.
And
then my taxes go up!
Guess
what?
The business
still made $150 million.
So
an executive/owner threatening to take it out on employees over personal
income taxes is just that person being a callous bastard in order to extort compliance from politicians to keep more money he doesn't need, now, instead of contributing to the survival of the USA.
Which, incidentally, would lift the USA out of the crapper and make him more money in the long run.
3:01
PM Mr. Brown
Yes,
exactly.
