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Re: The Book Of Lore, Volume 1: Rough Draft « Reply #45 on Feb 23, 2006, 11:00pm »
Nah, just let it be known that trolls are people who intentionally aggravate, irritate, SPAM inappropriately, offend and break rules. Also let it be known that trolls have been banned with great aplomb by our fleet of Poobahs (Admins and Mods).
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Re: The Book Of Lore, Volume 1: Rough Draft « Reply #46 on Feb 24, 2006, 1:08am »
Some of the long-standing "in-jokes" come from the early days when we first started discussing music.
Phantom, Mighty Jack, TS69, and I (and some others) were sharing our musical likes and dislikes which led to the Great RUSH war of '03. If I recall correctly, TS69 was pro-RUSH, and phantom was anti-RUSH. (correct me if I'm wrong on that count).
It also led to my reveal that I have an intense dislike for Bob Dylan, which is blasphemy to one Phantom Engineer.
It's not so much that I have a dislike of Dylan himself, but for the hype he receives and for how often I'm told that as a musician, I should like him, even though I've tried repeatedly and found him lacking.
It remains a sore spot between phantom and me. But I'll take the title of asshat on this one, since I started it.
It should be noted that nerdgroupie has had a similar experience with This is Spinal Tap. Somehow she doesn't find it funny, and hates it when people tell her she just doesn't "get it". Maybe it's the subtlety...
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Re: The Book Of Lore, Volume 1: Rough Draft « Reply #47 on Feb 25, 2006, 3:06am »
A random tidbit that occurred to me, Phantom allegedly invented me. I don't even dispute the point anymore; but rather, embrace it. Better me than you, right?
Well you shouldn't be calling her a gimp now, dickweed.
-Servo, 322
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Re: The Book Of Lore, Volume 1: Rough Draft « Reply #48 on Feb 25, 2006, 1:44pm »
There were a few mini gender wars in the first year of this board's existence, when we were all getting to know each other and a couple vocal females, MaryTRobot and myself, made their presence known on this male-dominated board. This is one of the more important, yet somewhat silly, arguments, the great "babe" debate. This thread contains some important points about sensitivity that we all could still heed, and perhaps the first suggestion of a board meet-up:
After this flare-up, everyone was a lot more easygoing and the gender wars were left in the past. We can all laugh about it now. People didn't make gender-divisive threads anymore and that was a good thing.
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Re: The Book Of Lore, Volume 1: Rough Draft « Reply #49 on Feb 25, 2006, 8:10pm »
Led by VanHagar's drive, the board eventually had its first Town Meeting at http://forrestcrow.proboards47.com/index....read=1140570909 on Tuesday, February 21st. At this meeting it was decided that things were, for the most part, pretty nifty.
But people said that the Book Of Lore needed more updating.
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Re: The Book Of Lore, Volume 1: Rough Draft « Reply #50 on May 1, 2006, 12:22pm »
Typos are usually embraced with good humor. We all make mistakes. Some have resulted in longstanding board in-jokes, like Tot-G and Pual.
However, there are some spelling and grammar pet peeves that can cause some newbies ridicule. These aren't rules, just tendencies that make up our board's rich tapestry.
Firstly, IM-shorthand (like w00t, l33t, etc) is severely frowned upon. You might get away with a "lol" from time to time, but conventional opinion around here is that if you can't spell a real word, you're an idiot.
Secondly, there are some common MST-related errors that surprisingly come from otherwise intelligent people. For example, "Sacrifice" is spelled with two "I"s, and one "A". Anyone who references the hilarious episode as "Final Sacrafice" will be taken out back and shot. Also- the duet of brilliant seasonal episodes feature a character called "Santa Claus", not "Santa Clause". The latter is a duet of terribly unfunny Tim Allen movies.
Finally, for some unknown reason, spelling the word "lose" as "loose" will cause Mr. Atari's head to explode. There's simply no way to justify this error. They are two completely different words, for the love of God! GET IT RIGHT, PEOPLE!
At first, the tap-dancing on the ceiling was implied through the phrase "tappity tappity tappity," but people became confused about the reference. He eventually changed it to "tappa tappa tappa" counting on the Simpsons' reference to make it more recognizable as tap dancing.
It still might not be clear when Affy does this that he's tap dancing on the ceiling of that particular thread. But he is. Oh, he is.
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Re: The Book Of Lore, Volume 1: Rough Draft « Reply #53 on Sept 28, 2006, 3:28pm »
CAREY MCCARE: THE DARK NAME OF DAVE WALKER'S PAST
During a discussion pertaining to lava monsters and gears, Dave Walker stated that he firmly didn't care. So fervent was his apathy that Affy deemed it neccessary to rename him "Carey McCare" at http://forrestcrow.proboards47.com/index....7404553&page=2, a name that Phantom believed would "stick."
Half-heartedly mentioned a few times since then, the name didn't truly seem like it would stick...
Until, that is, it was revealed that Deathy McDeath was a relative of Carey McCare at http://forrestcrow.proboards47.com/index....88380&page=133, along with another relation by marriage. Bemoaning the fact that he couldn't locate the original mention of Carey McCare, Affy lamented his lack of foresight in not putting Carey into the Book Of Lore instantly for future reference.
Ratso commented on Affy's (admittedly) poor memory, and pointed everyone in the direction of the (fairly recent) post from which Carey first arose. Dave Walker attempted to make the claim that Carey McCare didn't belong in the Book Of Lore, but this just convinced Affy to mention him in it right away.
Mr. W decided to share this little video with us one day and we're still recovering. This song is annoying, and it WILL get stuck in your head no matter how hard you try to fight it. You will also find yourself saying MOSKAU! MOSKAU! either in public, the privacy of your own home, or both! this song also destroyed Van Hagar's life. He was at one point watching this video about 60 times a day, and fell in love with one of the woman in the band. The fact is this song is evil, addictive, and a part of board history.
Somewhere in the deep recesses for Sloane lies a dark thread that has twisted several of these board members into cursed foulings who should not be allowed to walk the earth.
It started innocently enough. An odd member—the redundancy present there completely coincidental--here or there would find a product sold on Amazon that looked very strange against their usual “available used or new from $x.xx” tag proudly posted next to it.
screenshot images highlighting the potential comedy of used toilet paper, condoms, and tampons immediately became the norm, and yours truly began a search for plungers. When I searched for “toilet” at Amazon, this little appeared:
And if ever a product review sold a product, this is the one that would do it:
“[four stars] great googly moogly, January 6, 2006 C.Hann I had the pleasure of encountering a toilet monstor [sic] over the holidays. I came home from a drunken escapade and found my self [sic] getting sick on the way up the stairs to my bedroom. I felt the gurgle of puke start to come up so I high tailed [sic] it to the john. As I lifted the toilet cover the vomit was already on its way out. I shut my eyes as the vomit spued [sic] out of my mouth and nose. After 10 seconds of a solid stream of beer/peanuts/chili mix, I opened my eyes to this f*#king thing looking at me like "RAAAAAARRRRRRRR" with vomit all over him. Seriously, the vomit made this even more scarier [sic]. I had to throw this one out but we ended up buying another.”
And with that ringing endorsement, a Toilet Monster was on it’s way via 2-day air to Texas.
Being a natural insomniac, the little, fitful sleep I usually could get was robbed by me anticipating springing the Toilet Monster trap on my wife when she wanders sleepily into the can somewhere around 2.00am. Bear in mind, this is a woman who has endured my man-crush on Joe Don Baker, who has watched Mitchell with me—uncut, who puts up with the fact that I cannot get into a commercial aircraft without pulling out my computer and spinning up the MST3K’d San Francisco International, and whenever she goes with my for a preflight aircraft check, I ALWAYS say the nosewheel feels mushy even if it’s completely fine. So, she really doesn’t deserve the toilet monster, but seeing as how she is really the only woman whose toilet habits I can reasonably predict, there is no other real target.
I drive home from work significantly above the speed limit, giddy as Ralphy when he finally got his Orphan Annie decoder ring. Similarly to Ralphy, I was disappointed when the monster turned out to be venting off a noxious fume. The rubber was still curing. This would in no way work. Making the bathroom smell like the waste tank at the Trojan factory would be a clue that I was up to something. The toilet monster went into the garage with a fan blowing on him.
The big night finally arrived. My wife didn’t manage to see that I affixed the toilet monster under the seat. I had proudly proclaimed my plans in Sloane, and I believe a pool on my life expectancy was being bid out. The issue with the toilet monster was that he was a bit smushy, so the previously well-fitting lid now just kind of rested at an odd angle like a book with too many bookmarks crammed into it. At night it really wouldn’t matter though.
To calm my excitement, I had to close a Labatt Blue or three out of existence. My wife finally went to sleep. The wait was on! I put in Girl in Gold Boots into the DVD player and nestled into the couch for the trap to be sprung.
Midnight. One. Two. Three. NOTHING. Blackness followed as the beer wore off and the couch became very comfortable.
I woke up, the sun was shining, the birds were singing, it was a hap-hap-happy day. I did my usual morning routine, which included the usual morning pee. Walking back to the sink to get my toothbrush, it hit me: WHERE THE HECK IS THE TOILET MONSTER?
IT WAS GONE!
Now I was paralyzed with fear. The toilet monster clearly had come to life and was lurking somewhere around my house. I brushed my teeth, rinsed, and left the bathroom. Back into the bedroom, my wife was looking at me with a look that says “you are an asshat.”
I asked her about what happened. She basically said that she went into the bathroom to use the toilet and sat on the lid. Point of note number one, while the toilet seats themselves are in a state of perpetual motion, the lids are almost never down. So she lifted the lid, in the dark, and began to sit down. This is when she claims “I felt something squishy on my butt cheeks.” She turned on the lights, and in a fit of bravery, RIPPED the toilet monster out of his home. (Originally she said she carefully peeled him off, but seeing as how he was missing suction cups that were still affixed to the underside of the toilet seat, the facts speak otherwise.)
I asked “Well, where is it now?”
She showed me. She had crammed the toilet monster INTO my pillow case. If I had managed to come to bed, as soon as my head hit the pillow I would have been dancing cheek-to-cheek with something that had been in my toilet as recently as fifteen seconds before.
I, of course, did the only thing one can really do with a toilet monster that is missing half of his suction cups, I stuck him on my bathroom mirror as a sort of Rick Sloane themed bathroom decoration. My wife IMMEDIATELY threatened to throw him away.
This is when my good friends here on the MST3K board came to the rescue. Many people wanted to help the toilet monster, but only Dr. Z stepped up and decided to give him a new home!
I gave the Dr. Bung a nice, sanitizing bubble bath, packaged him up, and shipped him off to Florida. I photographed the entire process Alfred-Eisenstaedt-style, which led to yet another entire discussion about my mental health.
Several days later, Dr. Z posted a picture of Dr. Bung, thoughtfully living on his bathroom mirror. It was decided by a majority of Mads here on the board that the toilet monster must visit every Sloanite at least once in their lifetime, and preferably, Dave Walker twice.
Well you shouldn't be calling her a gimp now, dickweed.
-Servo, 322
Was I talking? Could they hear me?
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Re: The Book Of Lore, Volume 1: Rough Draft « Reply #56 on Oct 26, 2006, 11:38am »
A common discussion topic around here is whether or not one can hate the movie, but love the episode. Or possibly like the episode because the movie is more watchable than, say, Manos.
That's why phantom engineer created The Phantom Rule (aka "Phantom's Law").
The Phantom Rule: One's reaction to the movie may influence one's reaction to the episode
This is a highly important rule when discussing episodes. Many people tend to prefer eps that contain watchable movies. Other poor souls tend to prefer eps that contain the worst movies. The Phantom Rule at work.
This Rule has come under fire by some (like Mighty Jack) who claim that the riffing is what an episode should be judged on, the movie is just ballast.
After such discussion, a new Rule was posited: The Atari Corollary.
The Atari Corollary- Upon repeated viewings of an episode, the effect of the Phantom Rule diminishes.
Essentially, the more one watches an episode, the less the movie affects the experience. One gets accustomed to the film, and is able to focus more attention on the riffing, thereby being able to judge the episode more on the Brains' contributions and less on the movie's inherent watchability.
This should not be confused with Atari's Rule of List Threads, which states that LIST THREADS ARE BORING!
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Re: The Book Of Lore, Volume 1: Rough Draft « Reply #57 on Jan 25, 2007, 12:10pm »
From December of 2006 to January of 2007, Ratso held nominations and elections for the 2006 Sloane Awards (which are also the First Annual Sloane Awards, hopefully), with categories ranging from Funniest Poster to Man Of The Year to Most Creative *cough, cough* to Best Thread.
Don't get me started on poop. In the nursing field you see more then fair share. Well I have many poop stories. Once after I cleaned up someone who was incontinent I walked around all day with a smear of poop in my hair. Lucky the poop was orange so it kinda blended into my blonde hair. Also talk about big poop, how about long poop? Once someone at work turded something like a foot and a halfer all in one continous coil in the toilet(just a educated guess, none of us actually measured it) Oh the joys of nursing.
And I want to point out that DQ was nominated twice in this category and still lost.
And that's 2006 folks! Lets hope 2007 is better.
Then, after some small fuss was made about how long to keep the results up, someone, possibly Mr. Atari, made this very post. We'll never know for sure. But we do know that the voting/results thread can be unstickied.
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Re: The Book Of Lore, Volume 1: Rough Draft « Reply #58 on Jan 1, 2009, 1:40am »
In the Year of the Lord 2008, On the 25th of November, an historic event came to pass when Mr. Atari unveiled the 5-Year Anniversary Super-Mega Contest, celebrating the fifth anniversary of this message board and the 20th anniversary of the bit of television history that we all come here to appreciate.
The contest consisted of 100 trivia questions relating to the message board's history, trivia about MST3K, BBI, Rifftrax, and even the dark, disturbing secrets of several board members.
The ultimate prize winners (winning MST3K episodes) of this grandiose quiz?
Quote:
#1 (10 DVDs) - wedestroymyths (98) #2 (5 DVDs) - chibodeecrocket (92.5) #3 (3 DVDs) - he tor a red hat (aka torjohnson1) (87)
Those wishing to challenge themselves to the 100 trivia questions feel free to click the link above! But beware the second page, for answers were displayed...you have been warned.
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Re: The Book Of Lore, Volume 1: Rough Draft « Reply #59 on Apr 2, 2011, 1:52am »
On January 11th, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Poobah Torgo suggested to the rest of the Poobahs in Poobah World (Which DOES NOT EXIST) that they consider doing special things for April 1st. One of the suggested ideas that took root was the possibility of using the board's censorship feature and some clever changing of banners to make the board a Twilight fan board for just a day.
The idea was not discussed for a few months until middle/late March, and then it was picked up again. Plans were put into place, people decided to do things (such as placing a couple of carefully worded conversations in various forums), and after midnight of April 1st the board went from a population of MSTies to a population of TwiHards. The resulting mayhem was summarized well at http://forrestcrow.proboards.com/index.c....3&page=2#930439 along with links to some memorable threads.
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