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sidar
04-30-2004, 05:38 PM
sorry, i think some people overlooked this: EDIT:

nevermind, im posting another thread...

HBK4178
04-30-2004, 05:44 PM
For years, I had the exact opposite problem. Everyone thought I was an asshole until they met me.

I'm not entirely sure anything has changed....

How is that possible, you are one of the most cordial MTG players I know Chris.

Bob
04-30-2004, 05:50 PM
For all the Maine/Mass people, anyone heard off TJ collectables?
Hey dumbass, there is a state in between.

Liuj1
04-30-2004, 05:54 PM
How sad is this? I've SEEN cade and md, but i didn't KNOW they were cade and MD. Hell, I didn't recognize ben rubin or ken ho from that PTQ or GP Oakland. I didn't even recognize peter szigeti. (until the other judges pointed them out)

But I will be at Regionals, and I do agree that the Marriott in Oakland > Rickey Hyatt (sounds like a bad pro wrestler name). I'll be a judge peon, and wish all you tingers gl,hf.

Darkdaemon
04-30-2004, 06:36 PM
illvec since I'm too lazy to find your post I'll just say this outright, yes I have been to TJs collectables.

TristanTer
04-30-2004, 07:00 PM
There was a time when Preston Poulter and I were going to start a team called, "Most Misunderstood Assholes"

Preston...There's a judge who doesn't judge much anymore...

TristanTer
04-30-2004, 07:15 PM
Yeah ever since he did that whole "Family" thing... whatever! ;)

If you ever see him around, give him a hello for me!

I think he played in the Team PTQ a while ago...

EDIT: Or I could be remembering another Preston.

The Muffin Man
04-30-2004, 07:35 PM
I've never met any tingers IRL. Maybe cause I don't play the game and live in Austria. Or nobody wants to meet me.

TristanTer
04-30-2004, 07:39 PM
I've never met any tingers IRL. Maybe cause I don't play the game and live in Austria. Or nobody wants to meet me.

I would enjoy meeting you, kiddo.

Mordoc
04-30-2004, 07:43 PM
Does anyone live in the triangle area of NC?
I need a new cardshop and I can't find any.

The Muffin Man
04-30-2004, 07:44 PM
I would enjoy meeting you, kiddo.
I actually checked that post for invisitext :(

antihelei
04-30-2004, 07:49 PM
Anyone from the Massachusetts area, what towns are you guys in? I live in North Andover, which is below Lawrence and near Beverly, Danvers, Middleton, and probably some other towns, but I've been living here for like 8 years and don't know them, so I won't expect you to :)

Fluctuator
04-30-2004, 07:54 PM
Anyone from the Massachusetts area, what towns are you guys in? I live in North Andover, which is below Lawrence and near Beverly, Danvers, Middleton, and probably some other towns, but I've been living here for like 8 years and don't know them, so I won't expect you to :)
I always think you're Estel, and then wonder why an Estel post had content.

antihelei
04-30-2004, 07:58 PM
I always think you're Estel, and then wonder why an Estel post had content.


What if I was estel?

Fluctuator
04-30-2004, 07:59 PM
What if I was estel?
Sup Rahal.

KnightofTheWord
04-30-2004, 08:01 PM
Addendum, I'll be the one DQ'ed from the tourney and wearing a blue t-shirt that you can't read because it's covered in the bloody remains of Bob's former head...

If Bob has the stones to walk up to me and identify himself that is.
Dammit. I was gonna do that. I don't even have a deck play with, I will come just for the pleasure of killing Bob in a cold rage. Or possibly a fiery rage. I don't care which, as long as he's dead at the end. I will also skullfuck his dead body while screaming obscenities at the top of my lungs. And then I will scatter the bloody jellied remains of his brain, eyes, and my semen, all over the room, while laughing maniacly. The funny part is that you think I'm kidding.

On topic. I have met Crunchums, Darkdaemon, .World.Builder. (he was necrobanned), and, I think, antihelei, but I'm not certain.

Mordoc
04-30-2004, 08:16 PM
Dammit. I was gonna do that. I don't even have a deck play with, I will come just for the pleasure of killing Bob in a cold rage. Or possibly a fiery rage. I don't care which, as long as he's dead at the end. I will also skullfuck his dead body while screaming obscenities at the top of my lungs. And then I will scatter the bloody jellied remains of his brain, eyes, and my semen, all over the room, while laughing maniacly. The funny part is that you think I'm kidding.

On topic. I have met Crunchums, Darkdaemon, .World.Builder. (he was necrobanned), and, I think, antihelei, but I'm not certain.

Pot, Kettle

And the pot can't spell.

Edit: But Bob is worse than kotw, I'll grant

KnightofTheWord
04-30-2004, 08:30 PM
Pot, Kettle

And the pot can't spell.

Edit: But Bob is worse than kotw, I'll grant
No, I can not spell. Wanna cry about it? Neither can dar, or many other respected posters. Go fuck yourself.

TristanTer
04-30-2004, 08:32 PM
I actually checked that post for invisitext :(

:( You doubted my sincerity?

Mordoc
04-30-2004, 08:38 PM
No, I can not spell. Wanna cry about it? Neither can dar, or many other respected posters. Go fuck yourself.

Willing ignorance of communication methods is a sign of willing ignorance of the world around you.

I respect your dislike of bob. Once you have earned my respect for your skills and worth as a poster, perhaps I will take your advice.

But until then, I'll just sit here posting, drinking a vanilla Coke, and not fucking myself.

Erytnicam
04-30-2004, 08:48 PM
I wish my country was smaller, as it is unlikely that even if a tinger is from Australia, the odds are not good that I'd ever meet them out in this remote nowhere.

deathsorcerer
04-30-2004, 08:52 PM
I don't think that any posters here would be actually interested in meeting me or have actually met me. Right now I live In Worcester Mass. where I'm attending college. The rest of the time I live in sunny Puerto Rico. That's an island in the Carribean southeast of Florida and east of central merica in the Caribean sea for all those that don't know their geography.

KnightofTheWord
04-30-2004, 08:56 PM
Willing ignorance of communication methods is a sign of willing ignorance of the world around you.

I respect your dislike of bob. Once you have earned my respect for your skills and worth as a poster, perhaps I will take your advice.

But until then, I'll just sit here posting, drinking a vanilla Coke, and not fucking myself.
Vanilla Coke is svg tech. :trey:

@Tristan: I would never doubt you.

*huggles Tristan*

Arc
04-30-2004, 09:33 PM
Hey dumbass, there is a state in between.

Perhaps he's alluding to the fact that they were once one state.

Headstone
04-30-2004, 09:39 PM
I wish my country was smaller, as it is unlikely that even if a tinger is from Australia, the odds are not good that I'd ever meet them out in this remote nowhere.

I love how, despite there being four times as many Australian as there are New Zealanders, there are so many more of us here on Misetings.

Arc
04-30-2004, 10:15 PM
I love how, despite there being four times as many Australian as there are New Zealanders, there are so many more of us here on Misetings.

NZ obviously has a larger geek population.

Headstone
04-30-2004, 10:18 PM
NZ obviously has a larger geek population.

Obv.

Erytnicam
04-30-2004, 11:13 PM
I love how, despite there being four times as many Australian as there are New Zealanders, there are so many more of us here on Misetings.
Woo.
Because you can never have enough Kiwis.

Headstone
04-30-2004, 11:14 PM
Woo.
Because you can never have enough Kiwis.

Of course!

When there's enough of us, we're going to invade Aussie and claim it as our own.

blisterguy
04-30-2004, 11:22 PM
When there's enough of us, we're going to invade Aussie and claim it as our own.
never been there, huh?

Erytnicam
04-30-2004, 11:24 PM
Of course!

When there's enough of us, we're going to invade Aussie and claim it as our own.
I'm unsure if you've read Terry Pratchett, but it would have the same effect as invading Ankh-Morpork. Within the day you'd just be another minority group. Ive always thought of New Zealand as being Australias slightly slower cousin. Good fun to mock, but their more reliable then the rest of the jackass countries out there.

DigiEmissary
04-30-2004, 11:26 PM
Of course!

When there's enough of us, we're going to invade Aussie and claim it as our own.

The Lizards took over Australia, then somebody exploded a big ginger bomb on them and they all had sex for like, days.

Headstone
04-30-2004, 11:27 PM
never been there, huh?

Sure I have!

I was going to live there, but instead we came back to New Zealand.

It was the right decision...









really.

No, really.

avatarofdumb
04-30-2004, 11:29 PM
Willing ignorance of communication methods is a sign of willing ignorance of the world around you.

I respect your dislike of bob. Once you have earned my respect for your skills and worth as a poster, perhaps I will take your advice.

But until then, I'll just sit here posting, drinking a vanilla Coke, and not fucking myself.

because all of the people i know who suck at spelling are also completely oblivious to world events and utterly apathetic individuals, and our periodic discussions of happenings in other places mean nothing, amirite?

aren't the koalas taking over australia?

Arc
04-30-2004, 11:30 PM
The Lizards took over Australia, then somebody exploded a big ginger bomb on them and they all had sex for like, days.

Then we built a spaceship that slowly started inching around in space.

DigiEmissary
04-30-2004, 11:32 PM
Then we built a spaceship that slowly started inching around in space.

And then Warren killed himself. And Jonathan Yeager got to teach a girl how to have sex for around a month. And we made asteroids move.

Jo-IN-rbs
04-30-2004, 11:39 PM
i met jo-in-rbs :)

I met Estel once.

He was in the computer lab posting on misetings from a proxy because the site had been blocked from our school for some reason.

Then we had sex.

Then I lost my girl because of it.

Cooked up plan with friends to get her back.

Ended up singing 'I LOVE YOU BAAAAYBEEE' over the speaker-system during track practice.

With marching band support at all.

She was like, 'That was so sweet, now I shall perform sexual favors for you until you fall into a peaceful sleep.'

And all I could think about the entire time was 'I wish I was still fucking Estel.'

Arc
05-01-2004, 12:17 AM
And then Warren killed himself. And Jonathan Yeager got to teach a girl how to have sex for around a month. And we made asteroids move.

And the Confederacy won the Civil War!

And the second civil war!

And WW1!

And then turned into Nazis!

DigiEmissary
05-01-2004, 12:24 AM
And the Confederacy won the Civil War!

And the second civil war!

And WW1!

And then turned into Nazis!

Stop crossing universes on me.

Arc
05-01-2004, 12:26 AM
Stop crossing universes on me.

Fuck you, you occupied Pollack!

DigiEmissary
05-01-2004, 12:27 AM
Fuck you, you occupied Pollack!

...that must come from one of his series i haven't gotten around to reading.

Arc
05-01-2004, 12:39 AM
...that must come from one of his series i haven't gotten around to reading.

Nope. The lizards occupied Poland as a buffer between the Nazis and the Soviets.

DigiEmissary
05-01-2004, 12:40 AM
Nope. The lizards occupied Poland as a buffer between the Nazis and the Soviets.

Oh, i knew that, i just didn't recognize the word Pollack.

theorgg
05-01-2004, 12:47 AM
've met Dirty, according to him, though I don't remember him specifically...

Try giving catalogs and trying to get over four hundred people to play games with you in a twelve-hour period and succeeding in playing games with at least a hundred of them, and THEN remember one guy that played only one game.
...though I did get him to send in his $15 for GMTB, so at least he was a sucess story for my demo career...

Lucky_Donut
05-01-2004, 01:59 AM
Engaged to Arc and met Psygno once. It would be interesting to meet several people here, though. :)

Uncle Istvan
05-01-2004, 03:23 AM
Wow. Terry Pratchett and Harry Turtledove are both savage authors. Any thread that pulls them both in is absolutely top notch.

EDIT: a Turtledove book a lot of people seem never to have read is "The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump." Really funny, and a completely different kind of alternate history novel.

Erytnicam
05-01-2004, 03:52 AM
Wow. Terry Pratchett and Harry Turtledove are both savage authors. Any thread that pulls them both in is absolutely top notch.

EDIT: a Turtledove book a lot of people seem never to have read is "The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump." Really funny, and a completely different kind of alternate history novel.
Terry Pratchett is a second rate Douglas Adams. Now that man was funny, god rest his soul.

Uncle Istvan
05-01-2004, 04:04 AM
Terry Pratchett is a second rate Douglas Adams. Now that man was funny, god rest his soul.
This, on the other hand, will never be my sig, even if the forums were nuked and all but one post were deleted and this very post ended up being the only remaining post in MiseTings for all the rest of time. :mad:

Although I very much liked Douglas Adams as well. I think the Dirk Gentry novels were very underappreciated. It's just that Terry Pratchett is magnificant. Sorry, but it's true.

Arc
05-01-2004, 04:10 AM
This, on the other hand, will never be my sig, even if the forums were nuked and all but one post were deleted and this very post ended up being the only remaining post in MiseTings for all the rest of time. :mad:


If that were the last post and it would stand forever, why would you quote it here? Besides, no one's going to pay attention to your sig if you have no posts!

Erytnicam
05-01-2004, 05:30 AM
This, on the other hand, will never be my sig, even if the forums were nuked and all but one post were deleted and this very post ended up being the only remaining post in MiseTings for all the rest of time. :mad:

Although I very much liked Douglas Adams as well. I think the Dirk Gentry novels were very underappreciated. It's just that Terry Pratchett is magnificant. Sorry, but it's true.
Dirk Gently is horribly underappreciated, but other than the 5th HHGTTG book, Adams never slipped up. Pratchett has created a lot of chaff amongst his work. That's not to say I don't laugh when I read his stuff, it's simply that his approach to humor has been done better, merely in a different setting. If you can't see Adams's influence in Pratchetts work, you aren't looking. You are in essence stating a preference to carob over chocolate.

blisterguy
05-01-2004, 06:22 AM
pratchett > adams

(but "last chance to see" is fantastic!)

FlowstoneBuddha
05-01-2004, 09:29 AM
The restaurant>Strata.
However:
Color of Magic>All douglas except last chance.

In my opinion stick to reading the books.

darigaaz
05-01-2004, 09:33 AM
The restaurant>Strata.
However:
Color of Magic>All douglas except last chance.

In my opinion stick to reading the books.

I wish you would just stfu already.

you add nothing to these boards.

Chicken-Bringer
05-01-2004, 09:46 AM
Haven't met anyone from these board although I have spent some time in the same building as :wise: (during his brief stay in the UK).

Anyone from the UK planning on going to the London 5th Dawn Pre-release? It would be nice to put a face to at least one name.

sidar
05-01-2004, 09:51 AM
Anyone from the UK planning on going to the London 5th Dawn Pre-release? It would be nice to put a face to at least one name.
naw, I'd have to travel across the ocean.

:trey:

any tingers from Spain? because I'm going there this summer... then again, the chances of running across one person in a large city are slim.

scrub
05-01-2004, 01:28 PM
Any tingers from NE Ohio?
Yep.

BTW, I loved Game Trader for hosting prereleases, instead of having to go to Columbus, but then they shut down ...
Game Trader (www.gametraderonline.com) is back, and they're trying to get prereleases again.



Spliff is from Ohio, and I may be planning a trip to Ohio next month.

The armageddon cometh...

Btw, I'm three in. It's about time to get rowdy.


Smash this state with METAL POWER

bekel
05-01-2004, 01:50 PM
Second edit:


:(
Originally Posted by bekel
People who I'd like to meet IRL: (there's a lot more, but space prohibits me from listing them)...Did you read this part?

That list was off the top of my head. I probably shouldn't have posted that, as I was afraid that someone would be offended.

Sorry JBH. You are a person I want to meet, if you want to be seen with someone who is older than your mom. :trey: Dontcha know old people smell funny?

Arc
05-01-2004, 01:51 PM
naw, I'd have to travel across the ocean.

:trey:

any tingers from Spain? because I'm going there this summer... then again, the chances of running across one person in a large city are slim.

At least you're off to a country with magic is rather popular.

I think.

A Spanish exchange student at my high school taught me the game.

Name
05-01-2004, 02:28 PM
I just remembered, there was someone named John Liu playing at my local store for a while. I don't know if they are the same person, his bio on SCG says that he is from the Bay Area...

and I beat them at the 8th pre-release thing.

Uncle Istvan
05-01-2004, 02:38 PM
If that were the last post and it would stand forever, why would you quote it here? Besides, no one's going to pay attention to your sig if you have no posts!
Hell, who pays attention to my sig in the best of circumstances?

Still, I guess my brain was a little overheated at 2 am or whatever time it was that I posted that last night. It made a lot more sense then than now.


EDIT: Since the thread from which I did lift my sig from has seemingly disappeared into the aether, I guess what follows is the only remaining evidence it ever existed in the first place. Which, considering the thread, is high justice.

bekel
05-01-2004, 02:49 PM
EDIT: Since the thread from which I did lift my sig from has seemingly disappeared into the aether, I guess what follows is the only remaining evidence it ever existed in the first place. Which, considering the thread, is high justice.

*dusts hands off* I'm just surprised that PeV didn't soft delete it (a soft delete is when you can see the title and the reason it was deleted. A hard delete is when it is gone and there isn't any trace it ever was here.)

darigaaz
05-01-2004, 04:27 PM
Smash this state with METAL POWER


It's Ohio, wont be that hard to do[/pokingbeehivewithastick]

Aelyn
05-01-2004, 04:43 PM
The restaurant>Strata.
However:
Color of Magic>All douglas except last chance.

In my opinion stick to reading the books.
Color of magic = worst Discworld other than Eric and possibly Wee Free Men.

Thief of Time > All other books, with the possible exception of the His Dark Materials trilogy, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Hitchhiker's Guide quinterogy (real word?) and The Surious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which I am reading at the moment.

DigiEmissary
05-01-2004, 04:47 PM
Color of magic = worst Discworld other than Eric and possibly Wee Free Men.

Thief of Time > All other books, with the possible exception of the His Dark Materials trilogy, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Hitchhiker's Guide quinterogy (real word?) and The Surious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which I am reading at the moment.

That is a highly incomplete list. If you're going for just trilogical-ish books, you need to add A Song of Ice and Fire to that list, at least.

Arc
05-01-2004, 04:54 PM
*dusts hands off* I'm just surprised that PeV didn't soft delete it (a soft delete is when you can see the title and the reason it was deleted. A hard delete is when it is gone and there isn't any trace it ever was here.)

Bah. We all know PeV only pretends to be hardcore. :rolleyes:

Hardcore dances on thin ice

blisterguy
05-01-2004, 06:21 PM
i dunno, i though only we could see the soft deletes?

Killjoy
05-01-2004, 07:19 PM
m0ped, and I am an aquaintance of moridar, but he never posts anymore.

Oh, did get a phone call from Mongrel, but he pussied out and never left me a sassy message.
But you wuz out :(

Sorry, I will duly attempt to incorparate horrible sexual innuendo into my next message, so that if you listen to your phone messages and your daughters/fiancee are around they'll give me funny looks and hide if I visit.

Either that or they'll fuck me up with METAL POWER.

I've been trying to keep an eye out for m0ped for months, but I haven't seen him ANYWHERE. It's not like Guelph is THAT big, but it's big enough for two people to miss each other. I'm sure it's not helped by the fact that I've heard he doesn't go out much because he tries to avoid his ex-wife (it's why he wasn't at Gryphcon this year anyway...). *FROWN*

EDIT: I've never met anyone from the boards IRL... dammit! I wish I could... :(
I almost went to annoy Taeme, but just didn't feel like biking out to... Milton wasn't it? Maybe this summer sometimes. And I'll be moving to Oakville at the end of summer, so I'll be much closer I suppose. That and a friend from Cambridge and I want to get mopeds, form a moped gang to open a chapter of the moped army (http://www.mopedarmy.com) (yes, I'm actually serious).

Oddity
05-01-2004, 07:21 PM
*dusts hands off* I'm just surprised that PeV didn't soft delete it (a soft delete is when you can see the title and the reason it was deleted. A hard delete is when it is gone and there isn't any trace it ever was here.)

I've never seen something like that before.

Killjoy
05-01-2004, 07:26 PM
I've never seen something like that before.
Yeah, I think it's a mod-only thing.

Erytnicam
05-01-2004, 07:55 PM
Color of magic = worst Discworld other than Eric and possibly Wee Free Men.

Thief of Time > All other books, with the possible exception of the His Dark Materials trilogy, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Hitchhiker's Guide quinterogy (real word?) and The Surious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which I am reading at the moment.
I'll give all you Pratchett fans this, Thief of Time was a very clever, well thought out book. It was a very good read, and ranks among Pratchetts best. However, one book does not a better author make.

sidar
05-01-2004, 07:56 PM
Game Trader (www.gametraderonline.com) is back, and they're trying to get prereleases again.

Smash this state with METAL POWER
awesome! no trips to Columbus for prereleases... anyway, if they do get them, I guarantee that I'll be there.

/me dusts off DCI card from prerelease of Destiny

avatarofdumb
05-01-2004, 10:56 PM
pratchett > adams

(but "last chance to see" is fantastic!)

i read an excerpt of that once...it was brilliant.

why does everyone here hate Mostly Harmless?

sidar
05-01-2004, 10:59 PM
why does everyone here hate Mostly Harmless?
i have yet to read that... im in the middle of So long and thanks for all the fish...

Erytnicam
05-01-2004, 11:01 PM
i read an excerpt of that once...it was brilliant.

why does everyone here hate Mostly Harmless?
It wasn't neccesary. I got the distinct impression while writing it that he only did it to silence the fans that clamoured for a new book.
I can't really say more without spoilers, but it probably would have been alright if viewed on its own, but when compared to HHGTTG, it was disappointing.

PsychoFreak
05-01-2004, 11:03 PM
It didn't seem to be focused on being funny as much as the other books. It's nice to have more to read about the characters though.

avatarofdumb
05-02-2004, 12:27 AM
It wasn't neccesary. I got the distinct impression while writing it that he only did it to silence the fans that clamoured for a new book.
I can't really say more without spoilers, but it probably would have been alright if viewed on its own, but when compared to HHGTTG, it was disappointing.

you're right, i suppose...given the ending of slatfatf (looks sorta like slartibartfast), the series didn't really need another book.

the thing is, i was first introduced to the series because of a free book giveaway at the library a few years back, and the free book they gave me was...Mostly Harmless. so, i read the series last book first, which i guess explains why i enjoy it more than others do. it has the usual short asides, ongoing in-jokes, one paragraph chapters and actual plot of the other ones, but i think it ties them all together better than the others. :shrugs:

also, every time i read the description of the sandwich maker at work, i feel soothed.

blisterguy
05-02-2004, 12:37 AM
"good omens". nothing tops "good omens"

theorgg
05-02-2004, 12:40 AM
How can you take an entire work of fiction without knowing all of its parts?

I cannot really say if the Discworld series is ~BETTER~ than the Hichiker's Guides, incompassing Mostly Harmless. All classics require Death. What truly classic work of literature does not feature the end of life at the end of the book? It brings closure to the characters.

If 'The Last Hero' was indeed the FINAL Discworld book, and assuming the Witch books(that I cannot get my hands on) are as high in quality as all the rest of Pratchett's Discworld books(yes, I've read all the others, and OWN most of them, as well, as I do with the Hichiker's books)... I'd have to say I prefer Terry Pratchett.

However, the Discworld has not ended. I cannot say if it'll remain at the level enstablished, or if it will lesson in quality. I hope that it remains consistant. If not, however...

Well, I guess we'll see.

Pickle Trauma
05-02-2004, 12:45 AM
It wasn't neccesary. I got the distinct impression while writing it that he only did it to silence the fans that clamoured for a new book.
I can't really say more without spoilers, but it probably would have been alright if viewed on its own, but when compared to HHGTTG, it was disappointing.
Well i just got done reading "The Salmon of Doubt" and it kinda explains why "Mostly Harmless" was so god awful, it was because in the year that he wrote it he was having a god awful time a number of unmentioned things went sour for him and it ended up making his entire year stink, and the book reflects that. i would recomned readin "The Salmon of Doubt" to any one who likes adams and well no every one. its not so much of a book as a seudo-autobiography its quite interesting.

EDIT: oh and mostly harmless wasnt going to be the end of the trillogy there was going to be a 6th, but alas he died :(

dirty
05-02-2004, 01:02 AM
OT: I have now met Twin, Jukebox Hero, Sikes, Ricky and d0rk.

avatarofdumb
05-02-2004, 01:25 AM
"good omens". nothing tops "good omens"

no better way to pass your time in fucking houston around asshole relatives in a room that's been air-conditioned to arctic levels than with good omens.


In 2004: 3-0, 25 IP, 18 K, 2.73 ERA, oh, and he's hitting .243 too. :D

edited for truthery

not that i can say much for the sharks today...grumble grumble

Erytnicam
05-02-2004, 03:15 AM
"good omens". nothing tops "good omens"
Good omens is an awesome book. Simply awesome. Can't remember who cowrote it though.

dirty
05-02-2004, 03:18 AM
Good omens is an awesome book. Simply awesome. Can't remember who cowrote it though.Terry Pratchett. Good Omens (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0441003257/qid=1083485526/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/104-8765313-2387927?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)

Lurking Evil
05-02-2004, 03:21 AM
Neil Fucking Gaiman.

Osmosisch
05-02-2004, 09:26 AM
the Discworld trilogy
:west:

Dude !

lalala931243732
05-02-2004, 02:42 PM
Sam Vimes > Arthur Dent.
Lu Tze > Zaphod Beeblebrox.
There, I said it.

I reread HGTTG recently, and it somehow lost the magic it had had for me when I first read it several years ago. I pretty much stopped at the beginning of Mostly Harmless, but nobody can blame me for that.

Angel Attack
05-02-2004, 02:47 PM
I got the complete Guide in one book recently. I am taking others' advice and skipping Mostly Harmless.

Uncle Istvan
05-02-2004, 08:55 PM
Color of magic = worst Discworld other than Eric and possibly Wee Free Men.

Thief of Time > All other books, with the possible exception of the His Dark Materials trilogy, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Hitchhiker's Guide quinterogy (real word?) and The Surious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which I am reading at the moment.
The list of best Discworld novels would have to include Small Gods, Night Watch and really almost all of the Watch novels.

You are listing one book I have never heard of. What is The Surious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time? Who wrote it, etc.?


That is a highly incomplete list. If you're going for just trilogical-ish books, you need to add A Song of Ice and Fire to that list, at least.
A fine series, but it's starting to look a little too much like The Wheel of Time series, in that it doesn't seem to be ending any time soon. However, I really liked how A Storm of Swords started aggressively clearing out the landscape. I appreciate an author who is not afraid to kill off key characters. One of my favorite series of all time, Michael Moorcock's Elric series, culminated with pretty much everyone dying. It was awesome.


"good omens". nothing tops "good omens"
Neil Gaiman is great in his own right. I really liked Neverwhere, mostly because I have always been fascinated by the London Underground system.

Jo-IN-rbs
05-02-2004, 09:21 PM
Terry Prattchet never climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in a rhino suit.

lalala931243732
05-02-2004, 09:32 PM
Terry Prattchet never climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in a rhino suit.Douglas Adams really didn't like writing. I can see why, I think.

Jo-IN-rbs
05-02-2004, 09:50 PM
What would happen if I played echoing ruin targeting the Bible?

DigiEmissary
05-02-2004, 09:51 PM
What would happen if I played echoing ruin targeting the Bible?

I'd give you money?

Edit: if it worked, that is.

antihelei
05-02-2004, 10:05 PM
This thread went downhill faster than the Olsen twins dress sizes...

psyburat
05-02-2004, 10:07 PM
This thread went downhill faster than the Olsen twins dress sizes...

She's almost as skinny as me. :west:

lalala931243732
05-02-2004, 10:51 PM
What would happen if I played echoing ruin targeting the Bible?I think you mean Barreling Attack?

Arc
05-02-2004, 11:00 PM
This thread went downhill faster than the Olsen twins dress sizes...

That disgusts me. If I had been there, I would have told her she's fat.

Suenteus Po
05-02-2004, 11:06 PM
That disgusts me. If I had been there, I would have told her she's fat.

She probably still thought she was.

Arc
05-02-2004, 11:15 PM
She probably still thought she was.

That whore.

lalala931243732
05-02-2004, 11:17 PM
She probably still thought she was.You mean you don't think they are?
"There are those who end their sentences with prepositions, up with which I will not put." -Winston Churchill

BobtheJunkie
05-02-2004, 11:24 PM
Have met:

Taeme
Tristanter
DarkRedeemer
Psygno
Dragon Whelpy

Have Met, Defeated, and Humiliated in Glorious Santioned Battle:
Random-Miser

Would Like to Meet:
The Olsen Twins as Soon as Legality Permits.