# The Control-V game
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [August 12, 2003, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722 "2003-08-12T20:35:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/1 "2003-08-12T20:35:32Z")
Here, we play the Control-V game. The rules are simple. You hit Control-V, which pastes whatever you have on your clipboard, the last thing you copied, and post it. Here’s mine:
UMCALIMA CASAR! UMCALIMA CASAR!
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/2 "2003-08-12T20:40:20Z")
f s
Yes, that’s right. f s
I was IMing with my mother and quoted her. She uses a different font and color, so I went to copy a few of my letters so I could resume my own font and color.
Eat f s, ignorance.
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### Author:  [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/3 "2003-08-12T20:41:15Z")
I’d have to agree with **Neurotik**. . .people just like nicknames. The baseball Cardinals are also called the Cards, or “The Redbirds” (also three syllables), but not usually any more often than they are referred to as the Cardinals (of course, this 3-syllable word itself often ends up shortened to Card’nals, 2 syllables, but nevermind that 🙂 ).
_I copied that because the server was being flaky a bit ago. . .it’s a reply to another thread._
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### Author:  [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/4 "2003-08-12T20:42:54Z")
you’d all hate me.
_Huh. I don’t where THAT came from._
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### Author:  [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/5 "2003-08-12T20:43:31Z")
A:visited {text-decoration: underline; color:#666666;}
A:link {text-decoration: underline; color:#000099;}
A:hover {text-decoration: underline; color:#000000;}
.leading { line-height: 105%}
Wow, that’s even more boring than I thought my entry would be. Oh, it’s an exciting life I lead, it is!
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### Author:  [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/6 "2003-08-12T20:57:21Z")
Nothing. Really, I have not copied and pasted anything since I turned on my computer after I got back from the mall around 1:30.
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### Author:  [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/7 "2003-08-12T21:00:36Z")
“i suppose u cud get me a red hot chili peppers poster from our price…dunno how much it is tho…or theres a rolling stones poster with a giant mouth licking (like the 40 licks greatest hits) which is cool…i dunno u decide”
Nothing particularly interesting
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### Author:  [@Parrothead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Parrothead)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/8 "2003-08-12T21:03:00Z")
Did you know: It takes 27 muscles to frown, but only 3 to pull a trigger.
I had forgotten that I even copied that.
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### Author:  [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/9 "2003-08-12T21:05:25Z")
[“Print Gallery”](http://www.worldofescher.com/store/P13.html)
(For [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=204016))
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### Author:  [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/10 "2003-08-12T21:05:54Z")
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Roxar tells you ‘No no…It’d be annual, i’d have a new strip per week or so.’
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Vamu has entered the world.
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_Ah, I have a habit of click’n’dragging in active windows, I don’t know where this highlighting compulsion comes from, but it usually ends up in my copying the contents of my MUD log as I review it._
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/11 "2003-08-12T21:06:28Z")
“sant\_new3.hrz\_cat”
No, it’s not kitty porn.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/12 "2003-08-12T21:08:08Z")
LAGUNA BEACH, CA 92651
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### Author:  [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/13 "2003-08-12T21:13:15Z")
_my husband won’t know a thing. And he just made me beneficiary in that huge life insurance policy. Sucker._
Guess I’d better keep an eye on wifey! :eek:
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### Author:  [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/14 "2003-08-12T21:14:13Z")
```auto
Array printed_text --> 64;
[ DrawStatusLine i j;
i = 0->33;
font off;
@split_window 1; @buffer_mode 0; @set_window 1;
style reverse; @set_cursor 1 1; spaces(i);
@output_stream 3 printed_text;
print (name) location;
@output_stream -3;
j = (i-(printed_text-->0))/2;
@set_cursor 1 j; print (name) location; spaces(j-1);
style roman;
@buffer_mode 1; @set_window 0; font on;
```
Apparently I’m just as exciting as **Beadalin**.
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### Author:  [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/15 "2003-08-12T21:16:48Z")
simony
Don’t ask.
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### Author:  [@ladydisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladydisco)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/16 "2003-08-12T21:17:58Z")
08/12/03 3:30pm est
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### Author:  [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/17 "2003-08-12T21:33:09Z")
Heather Carolin
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Ummmm, boobies link at Fark. Curses!
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### Author:  [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/18 "2003-08-12T21:34:40Z")
In “/opt/muss” there are two directories: “cc” and “k”. These both should be owned by weblogic in the weblogic group, with permissions 770. That’s how it’s set up on other servers.
Sorry I couldn’t be more entertaining.
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### Author:  [@Shaolinrabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shaolinrabbit)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/19 "2003-08-12T21:39:30Z")
_\_
Heh, apparently I copied one of my posts from a Pit thread. 😃 Sorry.
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/20 "2003-08-12T22:10:19Z")
ost3834252
Whoa, what the hell does that mean?
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