# Stand Alone Complex - "Test" Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 10, 2013, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974 "2013-05-10T11:34:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/21 "2013-05-10T14:26:23Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Spartacus? You called? ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/22 "2013-05-10T14:29:01Z")
No, _I’m_ Spartacus! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/23 "2013-05-10T14:31:16Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > No, _I’m_ Spartacus! No-you’re Anna Livia. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/24 "2013-05-10T14:31:52Z")
Pretty sure I’m Humphry Chimpden… But I could be mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/25 "2013-05-10T14:34:26Z")
_I’m_ Spartacus, and so is my wife! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/26 "2013-05-10T14:45:40Z")
I just saw Spartacus for the first time the other day. I mean hell, it was about an ancient Roman right, so I figured what’s the hurry. I think they made the right choice to call him Spartacus instead of Dimples McGee. I mean Dimples McGee probably could have inspired loyalty too but you’d not have as many others sashaying around saying \*“I am Dimples McGee… I am Dimples McGee… I am Dimples McGee.” \* So there’s that. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/27 "2013-05-10T14:48:30Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > I just saw Spartacus for the first time the other day. I mean hell, it was about an ancient Roman right, so I figured what’s the hurry. I think they made the right choice to call him Spartacus instead of Dimples McGee. I mean Dimples McGee probably could have inspired loyalty too but you’d not have as many others sashaying around saying \*“I am Dimples McGee… I am Dimples McGee… I am Dimples McGee.” \* So there’s that. It would have made the gay subtext a little more bearable, though. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/28 "2013-05-10T15:33:20Z")
Can we get to the pop-quantum-mechanics portion of the inchoate ramblings, please? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/29 "2013-05-10T15:53:29Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > Can we get to the pop-quantum-mechanics portion of the inchoate ramblings, please? But if we determine that the thread is heading in that direction, we won’t be able to tell where it is now. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/30 "2013-05-10T16:16:07Z")
You are here. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/31 "2013-05-10T16:19:05Z")
I used to take that too, getting off of it was a bitch. Good luck on your journey. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/32 "2013-05-10T16:20:24Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend > of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to > Howth Castle and Environs. > Sir Tristram, violer d’amores, fr’over the short sea, had passen- > core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy > isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor > had topsawyer’s rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse > to Laurens County’s gorgios while they went doublin their mumper > all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to > tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a > kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all’s fair in > vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a > peck of pa’s malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory > end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface. > The fall ( **bababadalghar\*\*\*\*agh** takamminarronnkonnbronntonner- > ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur- > nuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later > on life down through all christian minstrelsy. The great fall of the > offwall entailed at such short notice the pftjschute of Finnegan, > erse solid man, that the humptyhillhead of humself prumptly sends > an unquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes: > and their upturnpikepointandplace is at the knock out in the park > where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green since dev- > linsfirst loved livvy. God damn it. NO SPOILERS! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/33 "2013-05-10T17:05:40Z")
Can somebody set that to music? I think we could have a best-seller here! ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/34 "2013-05-10T18:05:17Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > But if we determine that the thread is heading in that direction, we won’t be able to tell where it is now. > > Regards, > Shodan ~golf clap~ ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/35 "2013-05-10T21:54:16Z")
There’s at least a couple of references to the Ghost in the Shell anime in there, am I right? What do I win! ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/36 "2013-05-10T21:57:01Z")
Yep, SAC is straight up 1st gig. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/37 "2013-05-11T00:43:46Z")
By the way bababadalgharagh, welcome to the board. You’ve obviously got a good bit of brain juice, and you’ve got good taste in arts and entertainment. But, lurk more, post less for a while. This is a board that celebrates (and occasionally immolates) quirky, talkative, oddballs. But it’s a board culture which highly values coherence, elaboration, clarity, **writing in proper SAE paragraphs and sentences** , etc… Your text really does sound like something someone on psychedelics might write. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But it will inspire general mockery and for whatever you actually wanted to discuss, to be lost by the wayside. Learn the lay of the land and then come back to post whatever you’d like. And as long as you’re doing it in a manner in which people can actually _figure out what the fuck you’re going on about, and then discuss it with you_, you should be fine. /$.02 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/38 "2013-05-11T07:50:44Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > You are here. Everywhere you go, there you are. ---
**Author:** ![bababadalgharagh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@bababadalgharagh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bababadalgharagh)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/39 "2013-05-11T13:55:10Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > But, lurk more, post less for a while. Got it, Pip 😛 Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![scratch\_llll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@scratch\_llll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch_llll)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/40 "2013-05-11T14:11:14Z")
Jabberwocky is still king. Test failure. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974.md?page=3)