Thread Killer Champions: Franzbear & Moonbear

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The discussion revolves around the humorous concept of "thread killers" on a forum, where participants analyze who tends to end conversations with their posts. The top offenders identified include franznietzsche, Moonbear, and tribdog, with a playful tone suggesting a competition for the title of "thread killer." Participants debate the validity of counting last posts as a measure of thread-killing ability, arguing that it should be adjusted based on the total number of posts each user has made. The conversation shifts into a light-hearted narrative, likening thread-killing to a horror movie scenario, with participants playfully accusing each other of sabotaging discussions and attempting to "steal" the thread. The banter includes references to fictional scenarios involving dramatic rescues and humorous characterizations, maintaining a light and comedic atmosphere throughout.
  • #4,301
Evo said:
Artman said:
Just reread that one. It was great!

ROAD TRIP!
Yep, we need to get the gang back together for another trip. :smile: With Danger, SOS and Huck along... :bugeye:
WOOHOOO! Halloween is my favorite. :devil:
 
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  • #4,302
Danger said:
I will when all of you guys are off-line. Can't turn my back on you long enough while you're active.:-p
I've been meaning to tell you, I like your comics, Danger. Reminds me a little of the "Far Side" stuff.
 
  • #4,303
Evo said:
Yep, we need to get the gang back together for another trip. :smile: With Danger, SOS and Huck along... :bugeye:
Just don't forget me this time.
 
  • #4,304
say..

do you guys think its worth it getting a EMT-basic and then EMT-paramedic training if you wanted to apply to med school later?

like do you think they would consider that as a valuable experience
 
  • #4,305
Evo said:
I love it! :-p
Artman said:
I've been meaning to tell you, I like your comics, Danger. Reminds me a little of the "Far Side" stuff.
Thanks. You're too kind. :blushing:
A lot of them aren't very good, but you're eventually going to see them anyhow. This is the only chance I have to account for the time I spent doing them when I hoped to make a career of it (I was despondently unemployed at the time).
The 'Far Side' reference is gratifying; I was very disappointed when Gary Larsen stopped drawing them. It also surprised me when I saw one which involved a picture-within-a-picture. That sucker was one incredible artist when he wanted to be.
 
  • #4,306
SOS2008 said:
Artman's French Maid story and MIH's pic of the super model was hilarious! So if I get a gown to wear can I go on the Christmas trip?
Oh yeah. :approve: Don't forget the clogs and socks though. :biggrin:

Artman said:
Just don't forget me this time.
Next time, don't spend so much time fussing with your garter belt. :-p I will make sure we swing by and pick you up. :smile:
 
  • #4,307
cronxeh said:
like do you think they would consider that as a valuable experience
I don't know about the academic credential side of it, but it'll certainly give a better head-start than mere book-larnin'. They'll also know that you're serious about your intentions if you have prior real-world experience. It certainly can't hurt any. :approve:
 
  • #4,308
Evo said:
Next time, don't spend so much time fussing with your garter belt. :-p I will make sure we swing by and pick you up. :smile:
No undie's is definitely faster, but I'm not that kind of girl. :blushing:
 
  • #4,309
Artman said:
No undie's is definitely faster, but I'm not that kind of girl. :blushing:
:bugeye:

You did mention the sight when your skirt was lifted. (covers her eyes)
 
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Danger said:
Thanks. You're too kind. :blushing:
A lot of them aren't very good, but you're eventually going to see them anyhow. This is the only chance I have to account for the time I spent doing them when I hoped to make a career of it (I was despondently unemployed at the time).
The 'Far Side' reference is gratifying; I was very disappointed when Gary Larsen stopped drawing them. It also surprised me when I saw one which involved a picture-within-a-picture. That sucker was one incredible artist when he wanted to be.
Hilariously funny sometimes as well. He drew this one where a guy is being carried off a castle battlement eith a bunch of arrows sticking out of his butt. his buddy says to another guy "So, I says to Lars, let's moon thos e huns." :biggrin: I still get a kick out of that one. :smile:
 
  • #4,311
Evo said:
I used to have a horned toad too.

LOL! That reminds me that when I was a kid, I called them "horny toads." :smile:

And the little toads in the backyard that I used to catch, I called "hoppy toads." :biggrin: I have no idea what kind of toad they were, but there used to be tons of them around when I was a kid and it was quite a challenge to run after them and catch them, usually in mid-hop (they can hop pretty quickly when pursued by a small child). Mom tried to tell me they'd give me warts, and I told her no, that's only frogs, not toads. See how smart I was? :approve: At least she only instilled a fear of spiders in me, not toads. :-p
 
  • #4,312
cronxeh said:
say..

do you guys think its worth it getting a EMT-basic and then EMT-paramedic training if you wanted to apply to med school later?

like do you think they would consider that as a valuable experience

If you have the time for it, absolutely! Also a good experience to find out if you can really handle the blood and guts side of things.
 
  • #4,313
It's raining.
 
  • #4,314
BicycleTree said:
It's raining.
I think I see a future philosopher. :biggrin:
 
  • #4,315
Evo said:
Ok, everyone has to read this thread. Knock, knock, knock


:smile: Woo hoo, time for another...

ROAD TRIP![/size]

We'll just swing around and pick up the rest of the crowd on the way to rescue Cronxeh and DocToxyn, and we can drop back in on Greenwich Village! :biggrin:
 
  • #4,316
Artman said:
Hilariously funny sometimes as well.
More than sometimes. I figure about five percent of them were absolute gut-busters, a quarter were hilarious, and the rest were at least highly amusing. Although I didn't see most of them (the wrong Calgary paper carried it), I can honestly say that there were none that I didn't get a chuckle out of. That and 'Out of Bounds' were my two main inspirations. :biggrin:

BicycleTree said:
It's raining.
No it's not. I just looked.

Huckleberry said:
I think I see a future philosopher. :biggrin:
Or at least a weather-girl.

No, wait... that's Smurf.
 
  • #4,317
I see rain,
through the window pane.
I hope it keeps raining,
for rain doesn't stain,
and for it is not mundane.

*bongos*
Thank You.
 
  • #4,318
Danger said:
Or at least a weather-girl.
I'm a guy.
 
  • #4,319
Danger said:
No it's not. I just looked.

Not here either. There was even a hint of warmth to the day again today!

If I act especially delirious tomorrow (more than usual), I'm not going to sleep tonight. I've managed to gradually become nocturnal over the past few weeks (good thing I know a bit about circadian rhythms so I can...well...what good does it do me? Oh, right, I can speculate about what sort of mutant hamster I most resemble...oh, wait...maybe that's not right...um...what good is researching something when I can't even use it to cure my own weird sleep habits?)...anywhooo...the only way to straighten myself out and get back on a normal schedule is to treat it like jet lag and just not go to sleep one night so tomorrow night I'll pass out as soon as my head hits the pillow. Best to do this over a weekend when nobody expects me to be functional. :rolleyes: But that means I'll probably be pretty loopy by tomorrow afternoon. :-p
 
  • #4,320
I used to do that in the summers. I'd go to sleep later and later and then eventually cycle through the full day.
 
  • #4,321
There is a time, late at night, when the fog of fatigue lifts. Then a few hours later you crash again.
 
  • #4,322
BicycleTree said:
I'm a guy.
Hence the Smurf reference.

Moonbear said:
But that means I'll probably be pretty loopy by tomorrow afternoon. :-p
Are you trying to tell me that by your standards, you haven't been loopy all these past few months? :bugeye:
 
  • #4,323
What made you think I'm a guy, Danger, before I mentioned it a little bit ago?
 
  • #4,324
BicycleTree said:
What made you think I'm a guy, Danger, before I mentioned it a little bit ago?
Just stuff from previous posts. I can't remember anything specific. Probably a reference to a girlfriend or something.
 
  • #4,325
BicycleTree said:
There is a time, late at night, when the fog of fatigue lifts. Then a few hours later you crash again.

Yep, for me that's around sunrise. If I can make it until the sun is fully up, and if I do stuff that keeps me active instead of sitting around doing thinking work, then I can get through the day. I never realized how well my experiment schedule used to work for my crazy sleep habits. I used to need to do a lot of experiments in the middle of the night (I'd take the 10 pm to 4 am shifts on 24 h experiments), so my nocturnal habits didn't seem odd to people. I can't get away with it any more though, so need to get myself back on a normal schedule.
 
  • #4,326
The rain muffles all the sounds of the city. It's good.
 
  • #4,327
Moonbear said:
I can't get away with it any more though, so need to get myself back on a normal schedule.
Speaking of which, I've got day-shift tomorrow and a party all night, so I'm hitting the springs now. 'Night all.
 
  • #4,328
Danger said:
Are you trying to tell me that by your standards, you haven't been loopy all these past few months? :bugeye:

Not as loopy. Just wait until you see the sort of replies I post by tomorrow night! They'll make your head spin! :smile:

Oh, I just remembered the sort of emails I used to send to one of my friends when I was still in grad school and would be writing to him while trying to keep myself awake through all-night experiments. I'd get these replies back like, "What the hell was that?" I'd have sent emails about 4 or 5 pages long that just jumped from one topic to another in a stream of consciousness style about the most mundane topics that you'd think nobody could spend 4 pages writing about.

Then again, I could just claim I was practicing to be professorial. :smile: Speaking of which, I got a review back on a manuscript this week with the most bizarre lecture about nomenclature! The journal changed their policy on nomenclature since I submitted it (it's really new because the articles even in the most recent issue don't reflect this change yet, so it's not like I could have known this before submitting the article), so all I needed to be provided was a link to the site with the approved nomenclature and a sentence informing me of the policy. The editor went on for about 5 paragraphs about the importance of nomenclature (nevermind that when I did a search using the nomenclature they want me to use, only 9 articles came up out of the thousands on the topic...I don't know what nitwit renamed everything, but apparently this journal wants us to play along. :rolleyes: I'll just make sure I define both the new nomenclature and the protein names everyone actually knows and uses). When I sent the comments out to my co-authors, ALL of them replied with some pretty funny remarks about the lecture. There has GOT to be a better use of one's time! Oh well, I got a good laugh about it and the reviewers' comments were incredibly minimal, so there should be no problem making the revisions and finally getting it published.

After the manuscript is accepted, I'll talk to the editor about his over-the-top lecture...it could be construed as incredibly condescending; I just happen to know he's the sort of person who would get hung up on details like that so don't take it personally, but someone else might not take it as well.

(Ha ha...see, I'm already rambling!)
 
  • #4,329
Danger said:
Speaking of which, I've got day-shift tomorrow and a party all night, so I'm hitting the springs now. 'Night all.

Sleep well! And have fun at the party tomorrow!
 
  • #4,330
Do you realize that every fact you share with someone online is like giving away a little piece of your soul?
 
  • #4,331
Moonbear said:
Not here either. There was even a hint of warmth to the day again today!

If I act especially delirious tomorrow (more than usual), I'm not going to sleep tonight. I've managed to gradually become nocturnal over the past few weeks (good thing I know a bit about circadian rhythms so I can...well...what good does it do me? Oh, right, I can speculate about what sort of mutant hamster I most resemble...oh, wait...maybe that's not right...um...what good is researching something when I can't even use it to cure my own weird sleep habits?)...anywhooo...the only way to straighten myself out and get back on a normal schedule is to treat it like jet lag and just not go to sleep one night so tomorrow night I'll pass out as soon as my head hits the pillow. Best to do this over a weekend when nobody expects me to be functional. :rolleyes: But that means I'll probably be pretty loopy by tomorrow afternoon. :-p

ALRIGHT! Everyone, save all your best stuff for Moonbear tomorrow. I can't wait to see what Moonbear is like when she's loopy. This oughta be good! :biggrin:
 
  • #4,332
BicycleTree said:
Do you realize that every fact you share with someone online is like giving away a little piece of your soul?
Or maybe anything about yourself that you share with nobody is like starving a child.
 
  • #4,333
Only YOU five still keep this thread alive, huckleberry, danger, mk, moonbear, and bicycletree. Sad.. :frown:
 
  • #4,334
Carry on.10[/color]
 
  • #4,335
Huckleberry said:
ALRIGHT! Everyone, save all your best stuff for Moonbear tomorrow. I can't wait to see what Moonbear is like when she's loopy. This oughta be good! :biggrin:

LOL! Okay, I might be exaggerating my potential loopiness a bit. We'll see. I guess I'm pretty loopy with you guys already. But if I really let my hair down and loosen the garter belt, who knows what might happen. :smile:
 
  • #4,336
yomamma said:
Only YOU five still keep this thread alive, huckleberry, danger, mk, moonbear, and bicycletree. Sad.. :frown:
Everybody needs a hobby, and a home. :biggrin:
 
  • #4,337
BicycleTree said:
Do you realize that every fact you share with someone online is like giving away a little piece of your soul?

Giving it away, or just sharing it? I prefer to think of it as sharing. I don't lose anything for it. Though, I'm not sure if anyone gains anything for it either. :rolleyes:
 
  • #4,338
yomamma said:
Only YOU five still keep this thread alive, huckleberry, danger, mk, moonbear, and bicycletree. Sad.. :frown:

Stayin' alive, stayin' alive, ah ah ah ah, stayin ali i i i ive! :biggrin: (Did that just date me?)
 
  • #4,339
The more information others have about you, the more stock shares they hold in your soul.
 
  • #4,340
Why, then, if there is no substance to the fact, do you not share your truly deepest secrets and most emotional personal experiences with those online?
 
  • #4,341
BicycleTree said:
The more information others have about you, the more stock shares they hold in your soul.

And I thought I was the one at risk of loopiness! Nobody holds stock in my soul, I already deeded it to the devil! :devil:
 
  • #4,342
Ah, but I supported that post.
 
  • #4,343
BicycleTree said:
Why, then, if there is no substance to the fact, do you not share your truly deepest secrets and most emotional personal experiences with those online?

How do you know I don't? Well, I do share emotional, personal experiences online, with some people, but being personal, I don't share them out in the open. As for secrets, well, they're secrets. If I told you, it wouldn't be a secret anymore, would it? My deepest, darkest secrets will go with me to my grave. So will the secrets others have entrusted to me. I'm really good at keeping secrets.
 
  • #4,344
Of course--I do not mean secrets on principle entrusted to you, but personal experiences and secrets of an emotional nature. You do share these with others, but only with those you trust well. Wonder why? Because they are the essence of your humanity and everyone who knows them has spiritual power over you.
 
  • #4,345
BicycleTree said:
Of course--I do not mean secrets on principle entrusted to you, but personal experiences and secrets of an emotional nature. You do share these with others, but only with those you trust well. Wonder why? Because they are the essence of your humanity and everyone who knows them has spiritual power over you.

Nah, more that they can be used as incriminating evidence or blackmail. This is a traceable, written record afterall.
 
  • #4,346
You know there's more to it than that.
 
  • #4,347
BicycleTree said:
You know there's more to it than that.

Not really. Maybe I'm just weird, but I'm more likely to share those experiences with total strangers than with people I've known my whole life. This isn't the particular forum where I share those things, but I do in other places that are more suitable for such topics. Or maybe I just don't have much to hide.
 
  • #4,348
Moonbear said:
Sleep well! And have fun at the party tomorrow!
Sleeping well... accomplished, thank you. Getting ready for work now (ie: drinking coffee until I'm awake enough to have breakfast).
The party is guaranteed to be fun. :biggrin: :devil:

BicycleTree said:
Do you realize that every fact you share with someone online is like giving away a little piece of your soul?
Good thing I'm an atheist, then; I don't have one.

yomamma said:
Only YOU five still keep this thread alive, huckleberry, danger, mk, moonbear, and bicycletree. Sad.. :frown:
I'm pretty sure that you just participated, or was that my imagination? And how on Earth could you fail to notice Artman and Cronxeh and DocToxin and Evo and SOS and Ivan and Integral and Tsu and... (I haven't forgotten the rest; I'm just getting tired of typing.)

Moonbear said:
if I really let my hair down and loosen the garter belt, who knows what might happen. :smile:
I can make a pretty fair prediction of what would happen if I'm there when you do it. :-p

BicycleTree said:
Why, then, if there is no substance to the fact, do you not share your truly deepest secrets and most emotional personal experiences with those online?
I do, as much as I do with anyone. That's what PM is for.

Moonbear said:
Nobody holds stock in my soul, I already deeded it to the devil! :devil:
:devil: And I'm really looking forward to collecting... :devil:

Moonbear said:
Nah, more that they can be used as incriminating evidence or blackmail. This is a traceable, written record afterall.
Agreed. I've already pushed that one a couple of times.
 
  • #4,349
Moonbear said:
:smile: Woo hoo, time for another...

ROAD TRIP![/size]

We'll just swing around and pick up the rest of the crowd on the way to rescue Cronxeh and DocToxyn, and we can drop back in on Greenwich Village! :biggrin:
Yeh, and MIH! Where is she? :frown:
 
  • #4,350
SOS2008 said:
Yeh, and MIH! Where is she? :frown:
Here I am. I'll chip in for gas, but I'm not driving! I want to ride shot gun so I can operate that bazooka Tsu installed on the roof!
 

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