You’d better START being clever andfunny Ex. This is a competition you know. And it’s always style over substance. So you know.
That’s your problem right there, Ex. The Betty is real. So is that universe. The SDMB is the universe which we have invented. You must have put on your reality backwards when you woke up this morning.
Whaddya think your President of the You-nited States or somethin’? You can’t just go around inventorizing words like that!
The non-smoking is going well, except for having to get rid of the body parts, thanks for asking Rue.
Now, then, based on your explanation of the drip issue, I’d have to change my answer to the dual-haircuts. No person in his right mind is going to go get a haircut at the same time as his wife, unless there’s a Starbucks or a bikini competition nearby.
As for letting the muse move you:
Muse to King 4. Check.
Knight to King 4. Other knight to King 4. And Both the bishops too. Gang bang on the Muse! (She likes that.)
I got in trouble at work yesterday. Somebody asked me a question about packet switching and I answered “Paraguay.” That didn’t go over too well. Thanks a lot, Rue.
Upon further reflection, I withdraw my “hold the hijacks” request.
I got nothin’.
I tried clicking on the Rue thread link. I really did 'cuz I generally like to know what the heck people are talking about and I’m really confused about this one. But the hampsters hate me. Really HATE me. They won’t speak to my computer sometimes. I mean my modem is cheesy and I need to reinstall the driver (like that’s ever gonna happen) but the SDMB hampsters really make my modem sweat. So in a nutshell I have no idea what Bettie is.
Sorry, Exgineer. Sorry, Rue. I won’t ever hijack again.
::slinks off to open Word to type that 200 times::
But isn’t sad that the astronauts can’t dunk their Poptarts? I mean, if they did they’d be breathing Tang infested air.
SORRY, so sorry. I did it again.
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I think I got it now.
Admit it, guys; this thread never happened.
Rue wins again!
Rue, you used to clip poodles, right? Why don’t you cut the Little Woman’s hair? You’d save lotsa cash wherefore to buy lotsa Toilet Paper valves and marital harmony would reign.
StG
As it so happens Germain (what wereyour two miracles by the way?) I had two pooches show up just this morning for a wash and 'do. They looked fabulous when they left. And I didcut her hair the last time. She looked fabulous too. As we were leaving the hair cutting place she actually admitted she should have let me cut her hair this last time.
But we have plenty of T&P’s right now, thanks. Although I do have my eye on a set of lawn flamingoes. They will look fabulous at the new place. Even though I can’t play the harmonica.
Hey, Rue, you’re not going to move over to our neighborhood, are you? Just checking. Not that the flamingo comment made me nervous, not at all, no sirree!
Funny you should mention that Shibb. Once we get the wheel back on our house we’ll be living right up the street from YOU! Don’t worry, I’ll invite you over for a grill out now and again.
Wheels. You have to put all the wheels on the house before you move it. Otherwise one side would drag and no one wants that.
Why do I suddenly feel like Mrs. Drysdale in the Beverly Hillbillies?
I dunno, I thinl a unicycle type mobile home would be kinda cool and entertaining at the same time.
So Shibb, you angling for a dip in the see-ment pond? Just not on Tuesday. That’s when we does our warshin’ up.
So did you get the link to work Copper? I hope so because that was really my best work ever. Not counting the threads that got eaten in the Winter of Our Missed Content. A couple of those were outstanding.
And my appologies to Mel Brooks. (Since I mangled the steal so badly.)
well, dang, here I am, your #1 Special Friend, and I haven’t gotten an invite to a grill out or a dip in the see-ment pond or nothin’.
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How about a RueDope?
We could all do the grill out thing and take a dip in the see-ment pond , except you’d all need to wait until I was done swimmin’ and got out to make room for the rest of you. Then maybe we could take the house out for a spin.
That was a clever bit of home design there, Rue. That way you’ll never get too far from the fridge or the bathroom if you ever decide to do that Dope To Your Door thing again. Plus, you could bring the dog. I like dogs.
RueDope… I like your thinking Ex. A Dopefest all about ME! Yeah! Do I get a dias and throne combo to sit on? Will there be cake? Will there be dancing girls… I mean dancing women- don’t want to be demeaning.
Oh! And there could be a Ms. Rue Contest! Yeah! With a swimsuit round and a suimsuit round and the tallent portion of the contest (Mandatory tallent- make Rue a sammich, then an optional tallent- like mud wrasslin’ or some such.)
Yes. This could be a GOOOOOOD idea you had Ex.
Did I mention it was Ex’s idea? I just embellished. A little.
I’m real glad you had a lot of fun at the Jounce Run Rue, and I’m sorry I didn’t have a chance to attend this year. I had my chrono set to Rigellian time, and the danged thing didn’t convert to Universal. I think the power cells were low. Besides, the MacSwaazi brothers give me the creeps.
Before I get into the update on my sweet little show vehicle, let me make a few statements in my own defense:
[ul]1) She’s not flying any more. I kinda-sorta wrecked her.
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Any information concerning smuggling or any other illegal activities you may have recieved are simply baseless rumors started by my enemies in an effort to discredit me.
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I would never do anything illegal, I swear on the Book of Z’nnagrth.[/ul]
The short story is that I had an accident. The long story is longer.
See, that incident on Wolf537 Prime was just a big misunderstanding. I blew out of Chalmas when the patrol thought I was smuggling, which I wasn’t, but they were shooting at me, so what was I supposed to do? Anyway, my cargo got trashed and my ship wasn’t much better, so I set down on Wolfie.
While I was having a nice little conversation about salvage rights and import duties with the Port Warden, the Customs Police decide to start some target practice. You know how it is.
That cargo handler I had to hire You remember Skip, the reptilian with all the scale flaking and scars from his youthful mishaps. thought they were shooting at him and opened up with the main battery. That was the missile array, if you will recall, which is intended for moving targets in vacuum and not ground strikes. The Customs Police returned fire, and my beautiful ship got all fragmented and melty. I’m sure Skip got out okay, he had really great reflexes.
The Port Warden got real busy about then, so I just left. I didn’t want to bother him with formal goodbyes and such. So now I’m back home, and on the dirt.
My new restoration project is an old Grunder-class fast packet courier dating from the old Verinugan Empire. You remember those guys. Everybody ignored them and they just sort of faded away.
Anyhow, all I really have is the hull. Unfortunately, you just can’t get parts for Verinugan ships, 'cause noboy’s made 'em in about five hundred years.
I was thinking of substituting some modern components and going to shows like you do.
For instance, I could put in a pair of Whitcomb-G’zzarth drive units and just alter the contour of the outlets. That would look stock, wouldn’t it?
That much go-juice would require a little frame stiffening, but I thing I can get around that with a little of the that new crystoplast armor plating. Just to maintain structural integrity, of course.
I’ve got a problem with replicating the weaponry. At this point, I figure I ought to put in a couple of the new Mark IX Garibaldis in place of the Junger fusers that ought to be there. For the point defence pozzes, I’m thinking about Jackson-Udo x-ray lasers in swivel mounts. Of course, I’ll de-mill the chambers in the Garibaldis, and disable the emitters in the Jakson_Udo’s, because to do otherwise would be illegal, and just plain wrong.
I figure I can manipulate the shielding and the stealth suite (did I mention that?) to make it “look” just like what it looks like.
What do you think?
I need to start using the “post reply” button instead of just typing in the “quick reply” box. All this hand coding is killing me.
Ha ha! You got served the old hot lunch by Barnies out on Wolf! What a Sam. (No I’m not laughing at you. Wait. Yes I am.)
But you get some major dust points for that Grunder. I had to scoot archives to find out what the heck you were spouting on.
You might want to chat up Kilt or lno since they are two of the biggest history pimps I know, but if I were you, I’d run a full AI (yeah, like Bettiewouldn’t go into a snit if I said different) instead of the auto-perifs. You loose a little on the set-up and you got to run the conduit, but really, on a ship that size you gain a lot of flex online.
The Whitcomb-G’zzarths are nice if you want plain and tall, but if you want to run some short and kinky look at a couple of reconned D’Glackies or Orion VII’s. Good legs for the creds without bustin’ your head on upkeep. It’s all a compromise, so whatever comes up first in your range should do you nicely. Just be sure your dampers can cut it. Or brace with mono-fil carb struts. No show from the outside with the new struts but heavy dampers can give you some wiggle on tight V’s.
And you know how I feel about the Garibaldis. Niners. Sweet.