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Post by Coast2CoastHoya on Feb 20, 2009 18:03:48 GMT -5
In response to the B&G board's tendency toward yelling about things people hate, like perceived slights, bad grammar, dastardly corporations, or politicians that associate with the wrong party, I've decided to create a touchy-feely thread about all the ways we're all average folks trying to make it in the world.
To start it off, I invented a word --- wikiphoria --- that describes the feeling one gets when one spends time at the office clicking from wikipedia page to wikipedia page just reading and reading about semi- or non-related topics. Ahhhhhh....wikiphoria.
Posting types welcomed and encouraged on this thread: the drunk post, the "i just can't take it anymore" post, the "i always wanted to admit this" post, and the post-of-shame.
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EasyEd
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Post by EasyEd on Feb 20, 2009 19:32:52 GMT -5
I HATE THIS THREAD.
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Post by Boz on Feb 20, 2009 19:45:42 GMT -5
I'll do my best to file a drunk post at some point this weekend.
Hey, you never know. It could be a combination drunk post/post of shame.
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Post by SirSaxa on Feb 21, 2009 3:17:37 GMT -5
I'll do my best to file a drunk post at some point this weekend. Hey, you never know. It could be a combination drunk post/post of shame.Ahh... the true Classic: Drunk post/post of shame combo. It can be followed up with the equally classic, rueful I didn't really mean it when I told you ____ post! Go Boz... looking forward to it. And COAST -- great suggestion! |
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Post by strummer8526 on Feb 21, 2009 8:48:21 GMT -5
Coast--one way to make wikiphoria competitive is to play the game that a friend of mine came up w/ in '06: The Six Degrees of Wikipedia. Basically, you just pick two wildly different things (think: communism and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man), and then you compete to see who can get from one to the other fastest (either fastest time or fewest clicks). There are all sorts of rules that you can add or subtract (like whether it counts as a click to use links that just connect you to parts of the same larger article, and whether Control + F is permitted).
Ah, that was wikiphoric.
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Post by kghoya on Feb 22, 2009 22:21:44 GMT -5
hey boz i was kinda hoping to read a drunk post/post of shame
what gives?
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Bando
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Post by Bando on Feb 23, 2009 0:16:27 GMT -5
Wikiphoria in comic form: LinkAnd LOL, ed. |
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Post by Boz on Feb 23, 2009 10:13:19 GMT -5
Sorry. What can I say? Sometimes the late night parties don't always go as planned and people don't show up/leave earlier than expected. My only comment for the board is: get used to disappointment. God knows I have.  I now must spend the next few hours researching fatal hilarity thanks to Bando.  |
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Post by Coast2CoastHoya on Feb 23, 2009 14:45:37 GMT -5
Good start to the thread!!
ed -- hilarious
Boz -- we had a similar issue with people leaving earlier than expected. Folks were exhausted from the stupid game....no matter, fun times are still fun times.
strummer -- love it, will do it.
Sir -- gracias, senor
Bando -- nice! And thanks for showing me the Internet this weekend. Didn't know what I was missing!
I also want to give Bando the INOYNOBTO Thread Award for SMART Goals. If you're not a project management nerd ball like me, look it up. He's the man.
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Boz
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Post by Boz on Feb 23, 2009 15:19:54 GMT -5
Two words for average folks trying to make it in the world*:
Falling Balls.
(only applies to "average folks" who also happen to be iPhone or iPod Touch owners).
If you're not playing this right now, you should be.
If you're not addicted to this right now, you will be.
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Also, a few words about the British show, 'Look Around You,' now airing on Adult Swim:
Laugh. Out. Loud. Hilarious.
(of course, I am a sucker for almost anything British, but still, it's pretty damn funny.)
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Post by hoyatables on Feb 24, 2009 9:45:39 GMT -5
I hate to admit it, but I've been sucked into this season of the Bachelor. I've never been a fan of reality TV -- in fact, I routinely avoid it because it has consistently pushed the sitcoms and dramas that I love off the air (I'm looking at everything on Fox that killed Undeclared and Arrested Development). But my wife started watching it and I got hooked.
I've also become a big fan of much of the evening stuff on the Food network. Good zone-out TV in 1/2 hour chunks.
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Post by badgerhoya on Feb 24, 2009 12:03:02 GMT -5
I hate to admit it, but I've been sucked into this season of the Bachelor. I've never been a fan of reality TV -- in fact, I routinely avoid it because it has consistently pushed the sitcoms and dramas that I love off the air (I'm looking at everything on Fox that killed Undeclared and Arrested Development). But my wife started watching it and I got hooked. I've also become a big fan of much of the evening stuff on the Food network. Good zone-out TV in 1/2 hour chunks. And that sound you just heard was 'tables manhood taking its last dying breaths... |
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Post by hoyatables on Feb 24, 2009 14:02:35 GMT -5
I hate to admit it, but I've been sucked into this season of the Bachelor. I've never been a fan of reality TV -- in fact, I routinely avoid it because it has consistently pushed the sitcoms and dramas that I love off the air (I'm looking at everything on Fox that killed Undeclared and Arrested Development). But my wife started watching it and I got hooked. I've also become a big fan of much of the evening stuff on the Food network. Good zone-out TV in 1/2 hour chunks. And that sound you just heard was 'tables manhood taking its last dying breaths... Let's face it, it was on life support for some time now  . |
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Post by Bando on Feb 24, 2009 14:15:09 GMT -5
And that sound you just heard was 'tables manhood taking its last dying breaths... Let's face it, it was on life support for some time now . Tables' manhood is the sole property of Mrs. Tables. She's currently renting it to him.  |
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Post by hoyatables on Feb 24, 2009 15:31:58 GMT -5
Let's face it, it was on life support for some time now . Tables' manhood is the sole property of Mrs. Tables. She's currently renting it to him. That's true -- it is portioned out so that I don't get too overwhelmed. I'm allowed 2 hours of manhood a night for video games, comic books, and sports. Four hours on days when the Hoyas have a game. |
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Post by Filo on Feb 25, 2009 11:40:15 GMT -5
Sorry. What can I say? Sometimes the late night parties don't always go as planned and people don't show up/leave earlier than expected. My only comment for the board is: get used to disappointment. God knows I have. I now must spend the next few hours researching fatal hilarity thanks to Bando. Boz, you get a free pass for weeks given the genius of your "Bobo's petals" post on the main board. |
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Post by Coast2CoastHoya on Feb 27, 2009 13:26:08 GMT -5
Bobo's petals? Thread link please.
Anybody else but me have Prof. Bobo for math @ GU? That dude was a trip.
Next topic: Next week I get to go to Portland and I hear there're lots of craftbrew places. Pretty stoked. Any suggestions?
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Post by tashoya on Feb 27, 2009 15:09:16 GMT -5
I had Bobo for a semester. I remember him marking answers of mine incorrect due to the fact that I refused to work them out his way. And I sat next to a girl with acid tabs taped to her wrists every class. Weird all around.
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Post by Coast2CoastHoya on Feb 27, 2009 17:04:06 GMT -5
I had Bobo for a semester. I remember him marking answers of mine incorrect due to the fact that I refused to work them out his way. And I sat next to a girl with acid tabs taped to her wrists every class. Weird all around. I liked how every few lessons, we'd do music instead of math. And how after Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, and Vivaldi, we studied the Greatful Dead. And how all grades except finals were based on group work. |
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Post by Boz on Mar 1, 2009 2:48:10 GMT -5
3 a.m.and the Jamaican ten speeds are flowing. Shame post to come later...or maybe not.
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