# The Control-V game **URL:** \ **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:** 11
**Author:** ![HerMajestyLorna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7cd45c/32.png) [@HerMajestyLorna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HerMajestyLorna)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/201 "2003-08-18T06:39:45Z")
[Note: I don’t think the link above actually works] ---
**Author:** ![The\_MacDairmuid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_MacDairmuid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_MacDairmuid)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/202 "2003-08-18T06:55:38Z")
At some point far in the past, Hamm’s was my dad’s favorite beer. I loved the commercials on TV, partly because I could recognize the product as one my dad liked and partly because of the neat animated bear. Straight from the “Commercial Jingles You Remember” thread. ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/203 "2003-08-18T07:26:53Z")
I’m on a new laptop. So I hit ctrl+v and behold: * * * Hmm . . . I really haven’t done much yet. Copy/paste is generally my best friend. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/204 "2003-08-18T07:49:02Z")
> [@](#): > > I do understand how you could be “wielded out” by the entire concept. > \< Included very long post deleted \> > Well, it isn’t professional. It’s personal. > > Tris I use an off line editor, and cut and paste to the reply window. That was from my immediate prior post, in the pit. Tris ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/205 "2003-08-18T08:23:50Z")
Reclamation Ministries I was reading an [article](http://www.theonion.com/onion3407/churchhomosexual.html) in The Onion that mentioned Reclamation Ministries and I wanted to see if it was a real organization or not. Unfortunately, as I found out, it [is](http://www.reclamationrc.org/). ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Osakadave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@Osakadave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osakadave)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/206 "2003-08-18T08:27:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Daerlyn \* > \*\*I’m on a new laptop. So I hit ctrl+v and behold: > > * * * > > Hmm . . . I really haven’t done much yet. Copy/paste is generally my best friend. \*\* Looks much like what I got after just now logging on to the internet cafe computer. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/207 "2003-08-18T09:37:32Z")
From the generator: **Buck Vegas** Now that’s cool! ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/208 "2003-08-18T10:59:51Z")
340376 Seriously. I guess you should know that my ctrl-v would be a number. pan ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/209 "2003-08-18T11:05:15Z")
AS030287 I’m in work. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/210 "2003-08-18T23:21:25Z")
> [@](#): > > can anyone listen to the song “The Vines - Get Free” without being reminded of the movie “Charlie’s Angels - Full Throttle”? > can anyone listen to the song “Blur - Song 2” without being reminded of a car ad? > can anyone listen to the song “Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice” without being reminded of a really BAD channel 9 station promo…? > > damn I hate when they do that… > perfectly good songs, ruined when they’re used to sell products we don’t want… > :: Spoz 5:36 AM [+] :: > … Blog entry of **Spoz** ’s… I have no idea why I copied it to my clipboard, though. F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/211 "2003-08-18T23:30:59Z")
> [@](#): > > can anyone listen to the song “The Vines - Get Free” without being reminded of the movie “Charlie’s Angels - Full Throttle”? > can anyone listen to the song “Blur - Song 2” without being reminded of a car ad? > can anyone listen to the song “Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice” without being reminded of a really BAD channel 9 station promo…? > > damn I hate when they do that… > perfectly good songs, ruined when they’re used to sell products we don’t want… > :: Spoz 5:36 AM [+] :: > … Blog entry of **Spoz** ’s… I have no idea why I copied it to my clipboard, though. F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/212 "2003-08-18T23:36:33Z")
Argh… what is with all these doubleposts and non-submitted posts I keep having? (had some yesterday on a totally different comuter, and some today so far on my home computer… aiya!) F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/213 "2003-08-19T04:55:03Z")
i think all that need published now is The Man With the Golden Gun, and Octopussy ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/214 "2003-08-20T23:51:08Z")
“Hahaha… that’s the most distinctive feature about you… he’ll remember you, trust me…” While I do want to be remembered, that is SO not true… the most distinctive feature about me, my eye! ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/215 "2003-08-21T03:19:20Z")
Alien Sex Fiend - I Walk The Line (I’m digitizing my record collection.) ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/216 "2003-08-21T05:11:43Z")
Sallie Mae Servicing PO Box 9500 WILKES-BARRE, PA 18773-9500 I’m too lazy to actually write addresses. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/217 "2003-08-21T05:20:26Z")
[This](http://www.thespark.com/gendertest/) is another guess my gender geared site,. (It’s a four-page quiz from [www.thespark.com](http://www.thespark.com)). It also seems to pick female every time. With my family it got 2 out of 3; it said that my father was a woman…with 80% certainty! A post I copied from word into [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=206037). ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/218 "2003-08-21T05:22:32Z")
BRISK ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/219 "2003-08-21T05:46:54Z")
[http://kevan.org/proce55ing/zombies/](http://kevan.org/proce55ing/zombies/) It’s a zombie game. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722/220 "2003-08-21T06:18:52Z")
[http://copyone.blogspot.com](http://copyone.blogspot.com) That’s a blog by one of **Spoz** ’s friends, Stuckey. (aka Copie One, the MC for their band Subwoofer) F\_X [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-control-v-game/194722.md?page=12)