# new-ness! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 27, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123 "2002-10-27T17:00:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 37
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/721 "2005-05-23T21:37:40Z")
Out? That’s where they do battle. 😃 Last tirrel or squiger in the tree is Supreme Ruler. It says so in the rule book. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/722 "2005-05-23T22:33:57Z")
Trees? We have trees now? ---
**Author:** ![Atheist\_Princess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@Atheist\_Princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atheist_Princess)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/723 "2005-05-23T23:24:23Z")
Those doors remind me of Get Smart. Does that make me 99? I feel another costume change coming on! Cool. Trees??? ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/724 "2005-05-23T23:44:09Z")
> [@Improbability](#): > > I’m still here! I just really can’t keep up with all the posting yet! 🙂 **Improbability** - Welcome to the nuthouse. As you can plainly see, the inmates are running the place. You may well have the distiction (however dubious) of the most off-the-wall welcome initation I’ve ever seen. For awhile there I thought you may have been killed. Again, welcome. ---
**Author:** ![sneezy5660](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sneezy5660](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sneezy5660)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/725 "2005-05-24T07:53:39Z")
> [@Nicodemus2004](#): > > **Improbability** - Welcome to the nuthouse. As you can plainly see, the inmates are running the place. You may well have the distiction (however dubious) of the most off-the-wall welcome initation I’ve ever seen. For awhile there I thought you may have been killed. > Again, welcome. My newbie thread was gettin’ kinda flaky there for a second, but everybody jumped ship for this thread. Does that mean I’m through being initiated? Woo-hoo! Tirrels and squigers, nuthin’, I want some squckaroos! Hoppin’ tentacles! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/726 "2005-05-24T10:39:23Z")
> [@sneezy5660](#): > > My newbie thread was gettin’ kinda flaky there for a second, but everybody jumped ship for this thread. Does that mean I’m through being initiated? Woo-hoo! > > Tirrels and squigers, nuthin’, I want some squckaroos! Hoppin’ tentacles! 😃 Oh dear Og. Don’t go givin’ them _ideas_… ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/727 "2005-05-24T11:37:36Z")
How about squoati mundis? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/728 "2005-05-24T15:00:32Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Trees? We have trees now? I brought the trees. Sorry, it was getting a little stuff in here… Would you like them removed? I don’t know the rules yet. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/729 "2005-05-24T15:59:33Z")
No, no, the trees are fine. They give me somewhere to hide when the tentacles get a bit much. ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/730 "2005-05-24T16:52:12Z")
I’m good with trees. Although they do tend to follow me around now and then… ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/731 "2005-05-26T18:41:07Z")
I just came in here to ask Hal Briston if he was done with my order for 20 Ourangatangaroosturgeons yet. Well? ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/732 "2005-05-26T20:05:20Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > I just came in here to ask Hal Briston if he was done with my order for 20 Ourangatangaroosturgeons yet. > > Well? Oh, yeah. He wanted me to ask you: Did you want those with the interchangable vice-grip plier claws? Bear in mind: it adds a week to the processing, 'coz they come in from out-of-state… ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/733 "2005-05-26T20:24:35Z")
I also need to know if you want them to have venom sacs or not…you never checked that yes/no box on the order form. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/734 "2005-05-26T22:27:46Z")
What the- Are you kidding me? How hard is it to produce a freakin’ orangutan-kangaroo-rooster-sturgeon hybrid? NO VENOM SACKS! NO VICE-GRIP PLIER CLAWS! Do I have to draw you a diagram? Sheesh! ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/735 "2005-05-27T01:36:01Z")
I’d like to see some diagrams, yes. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/736 "2005-05-27T01:49:42Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > What the- > > Are you kidding me? > > How hard is it to produce a freakin’ orangutan-kangaroo-rooster-sturgeon hybrid? > > NO VENOM SACKS! > NO VICE-GRIP PLIER CLAWS! > Do I have to draw you a diagram? > > Sheesh! This is _exactly_ why I got out of customer service… ---
**Author:** ![the4thmooncat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce7236/32.png) [@the4thmooncat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the4thmooncat)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/737 "2005-05-27T01:56:28Z")
It lives! It LIVES! This is what I get for thinking the thread was dead. ~sniff sniff~ So who stole my pizza? Dammit! > [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > NO VICE-GRIP PLIER CLAWS! ~sniffles~ B-but… I wanna do claws! Please please please??? ~whines~ Puhleeze? I wanna make the claws! ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/738 "2005-05-27T03:24:45Z")
> [@Spatial Rift 47](#): > > I’d like to see some diagrams, yes. As you wish. ```auto ------- |--------< (Orangutan Arms) | | | |> | | (Sturgeon body with fin) | | ( ( ____ |_| (kangaroo legs and feet) ``` ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/739 "2005-05-27T04:33:02Z")
And how tall/long is it again? I need to know in order to, um, calibrate the tank. Yeah, that’s it. ‘Calibrate the tank’. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/740 "2005-05-27T13:44:25Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > And how tall/long is it again? > > I need to know in order to, um, calibrate the tank. Yeah, that’s it. ‘Calibrate the tank’. 1.8 m, or roughly the size of a full grown male Red Kangaroo, also known as the _Macropus rufus_. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123.md?page=36) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123.md?page=38)