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Opposable thumbs up for the UK
Gold medal for Beth.
Whoa, not! I got beat out by Farfalla! Congratulations on getting first post! Well, I got silver — not bad.
Pirates can do anything if they set their minds to it! Arrrrrrr!
Pure luck, just came off the discussion forum, but thanks.
yes! arr! also, @wb did you see my offer on the pirate demonstration page re my soul bank?
it may help with your souls
RAmen
Excellent news :)))
Another push bites the dust!
RAmen
To Her Most Serene Highness Lady Octarine1 the Undulant of Hopton Goosnargh… yes, m’lady, I did see your post and I responded right away.
Hope we get our blue name links back soon….
Hi Wench Beth :)
Happy to go without mine if I can keep seeing news like this :))))))
RAmen
Happy day :)))
oh well. my company, soulland inc.™ also have a wide range of useful tools for dealing with fundies, including the fundiebuster3000, the only argument negator that comes with a faith vacuum, power steering and profanity detector, perfect to deal with fundies who just get too annoying to deal with personally.
anyone know any pastafarians in adelaide, australia? also, where is thumper™ the rabbit? he hasnt posted in a while.
ramen
Hi Lady Octarine :)
“oh well. my company, soulland inc.™ also have a wide range of useful tools for dealing with fundies”
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Excellent! Will keep that in mind. :)
Not in Adelaide, but in Nth QLD.
Thumper was around a day or say ago. I’m sure he’ll turn up sooner or later :))))
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Her Exalted Highness Duchess Nikki the Mystical of Giggleswick under Table
RAmen
Ooooh…what I really meant to say was: Based in QLD, the home of the Mighty Maroons :))
RAmen
Hmmm….being as you are from Adelaide, perhaps I should have said “Home of the Brisbane Bears” :))
I’m out of here again I’m afraid. May be around a little later this evening. (OZ time :))
RAmen
Morning Nikkiee, if you are still here.
Hi Lady Octarine, do we know you?
By the way, we were all shortening our names down again in celebration of RECENT COMMENTS being back! (Although it is of course very lovely!)
Short name restored!
I bet some of you Americans are regretting that whole independence thing as being a bit rash now!
It would be nice if we, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, made a similar decision.
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@۞: But the United States Constitution is so wonderfully quotable, as evidenced only a few lines up!
-Avatar of Reason
Avatar,
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The declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights are fine documents.
You need to lose the bearing arms thing or at least re-interpret it in a way more appropriate for the modern world, but other than than that they are a brilliant attempt to establish a society based on freedom and equality including religious freedom and equality.
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You really don’t spend enough time with your fore-fathers!
۞ Jun 23rd, 2007 at 2:21 am
“I bet some of you Americans are regretting that whole independence thing as being a bit rash now!”
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Hahahahahahaha…could have only come from an Englisman :)
Yeah, well you ozzies are a different story.
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You lot are obviously just Englishmen a long way from home and run your country accordingly. However the Yanks have gone off on a couple of very bad ideas here and there!
Bad Yanks, we are… bad Yanks :(
C’mon, Cut us some slack
we are pretty new to the whole country business. England has had like a thousand year headstart.
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And…
I was reading the wiki page on England to see exactly when england was started (accuracy is my is my third middle name to the left, right after jephsiutaphem)
and I guess who I found were bed-mates.
England and god.
that’s right
England
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Motto
Dieu et mon droit (French)
“God and my right”
theorgo,
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Some people believe that God actually spent 5 days on Yorkshire alone, knocked up the rest of England in half a day and the rest of the world in what was left over.
۞ Jun 23rd, 2007 at 2:54 am
“You lot are obviously just Englishmen a long way from home….”
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Hahahahahaha…I’d whisper that one if I were you :))
Seriously though our traditions are definately English/Irish and we still use a lot of the same English slang. But then when it comes to things like sport, oh take for example.. Cricket,(:p) we are totally different…we tend to win :))))
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“Some people”
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Named Alchemist? :))
This God guy is a pretty shifty character. Go figure… I mean, he lets his own son get killed, takes a vacation on Yorkshire, messes with the rest of the world for two days, and now is talking to the president of the U.S. like they’re best pals and telling HIM how to run the world. Is God thinking of retiring or something?
i have never played cricket
It’s like baseball, right?
I think it’s similar. Brits, confirmation?
Of course baseball is the best sport on earth so cricket can’t be that far off!
I have to say I’m more English on the sports front
Huge soccer aficionado i am
Where I live soccer is definitely the sport of choice! (As it is in most other countries of the world.) Wonder why most of the U.S. is behind in this respect?
Baseball is like cricket, but you hold the bat pointing down and there is only one ‘base’ and two players are in at a time.
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Oh and I’ll get hung for this, Cricket is very very very BORING.
I’m really BORING. You can play for five days and it still ends in a draw.
It is incredibly, fantastically, mind numbingly DULL beyond imagination unless you’ve been there.
@۞
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51/2 days. He knocked the rest of the Universe up on a wet Saturday afternoon. I imagine the Cricket was rained off.
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Cricket like baseball? Well, they both use a hard ball and a bat but that’s about it. I forget who said this but they described cricket as the only game that lasts 5 days and still ends up as a draw!
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It’s not a game, it’s Cricket!
it is one of the failings that rub al hinz was speaking about earlier.
I think its probably because we invented a bunch of the other ball sports and so we have alot of choices
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also americans as a whole aren’t all that fond of running, another failing
Running! Most of your fellow countrymen aren’t that keen on walking!
@۞
Oh and I’ll get hung for this, Cricket is very very very BORING.
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It’s hanged! :D Hey, if you’ve ever been to a match you’d know it’s not about who’s winning on the pitch but who’s supporters can drink more beer! As demonstrated by the length of the plastic beer mug snakes formed in the crowd.
5 days of solid drinking! No wonder we lost the Empire :)
You’re not going to tell me it doesn’t show!
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Remember we believe the FSM got the whole job done in around 2 seconds.
Hell, I’ll believe anything if it has beer :)
thesorgo Jun 23rd, 2007 at 3:52 am
“i have never played cricket It’s like baseball, right?”
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Hehehehehehe
Here you go sorgo, this will explain the game (thanks again Booty :))
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Rules of Cricket:
* You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.
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* Each man that’s in the side that’s in the field goes out and when he’s out comes in and the next man goes in until he’s out.
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* When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.
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* When they are all out, the side that’s out comes in and the side that’s been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out.
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* Sometimes, there are men still in and not out.
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* There are men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.
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* Depending on the weather and the light, the umpires can also send everybody in, no matter if they’re in or out.
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* When both sides have been in and all the men are out (including those who are not out), then the game is finished.
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:p
Just like Baseball :)))
Alchemist
“I forget who said this but they described cricket as the only game that lasts 5 days and still ends up as a draw!”
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Except when Aust. plays England! :p))
Remind me Nikkiee - Did Oz retain the Ashes or regain them? :D
Alchemist,
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Watch this and then tell me English Cricket is better than Australian.
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http://www.bikinicricket.com/
@Alchemist
“Remind me Nikkiee - Did Oz retain the Ashes or regain them? :D”
I have to desert you here Alchemist. If you’ve come to the point where you have to trump Englands only Ashes win in like 2 decades then Nikkiees point about Oz beating the crap out of England is well made.
Btw, when Oz regained the Ashes, did they not do it so convincingly as to end that debate for the rest of this decade? I remember something about a 5-0 white wash.
hahaha - yeah, I can’t see Flintoff wearing that (actually, he probably would if he was pissed).
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Did notice that the keeper was standing pretty close to the stumps and the bikini batsman was making a wild waft down to square leg that would probably be caught.
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(now, that’s sad!)
You what Alchemist. No I didn’t notice any of that.
@DPG
“If you’ve come to the point where you have to trump Englands only Ashes win in like 2 decades then Nikkiees point about Oz beating the crap out of England is well made.
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Yup :) 31:28 to the Aussies. Not so clear cut when you take in the whole picture.
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Damn. I love statistics - so pliable :)
(oh yeah - they’ve been ahead of us since the ’80s - good time then. Strong England, strong Australia and a legendary West Indies team. I sincerely hope we can put up a decent team for the next Series. Nothing short of humiliation this time. Useless tossers!)
Alchemist Jun 23rd, 2007 at 5:38 am
“Remind me Nikkiee - Did Oz retain the Ashes or regain them? :D”
Bloody hell, you win the Ashes for the first time in a brazillion years (:p)) and we never here the end of it! :))) But that’s Ok :)) Understandable that you guys want to hold that victory foremost in your minds….under the circumstances :p))))))
Sorry…have to leave you with that. :)
Gotta sleep :(
p.s. pup now thinks it’s gymnastic lion. Launches itself into the air like a cat going spastic when it’s playing! Have more sympathy for those bitemark holes in your arms now. :)) Memories of having a young pup around are all coming back to me again!
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Catch you all later. Have a good morning/afternoon/evening all
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Hahahahaha…didn’t see DPGs post before I submitted mine :)
Night all
Ohhhh cricket :D
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The awesome displays of talent, rivetting drama, and even an exciting game in Perth (I didn’t know it was possible!!), topped off by the “Talking Boony”**, made this the best ashes ever. Except for possibly the other time Aussies drove England into the ground 5-0 (but I doubt any of us were alive back then, so this kinda wins).
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@۞, duly favourited :D
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**VB, the beer of the gods themselves, had a marketing promotion where you could get these two 15cm high plastic statuettes, of David Boon and Ian Botham, (Ozzy and Pommy cricketers respectively from around the 80s-90s). What was special was they where synchronized to the games, and would crack out jokes and taunts all game. Did you poms get anything like this?
Hy Nikkiee, Bye Nikkiee
after looking at the rules for cricket i have decided that i must not be meant to understand it. (that’s how i rationalize everything i don’t get)
I’d have to watch it to understand
Hi Jingles - nice to see you again. You on holiday now (I have no idea about your term times, you have three or two?)
No - nothing like that that I remember - sounds a laugh though. Wonder why they didn’t do one of Geoff Boycott ?
@thesorgo
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“I’d have to watch it to understand”
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I wouldn’t bet. I’ve been playing and watching cricket for most of my life and I still have problems with the rules.
2 semesters, started “holiday” last thursday, and have already racked up 32 hours of work :S
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@thesorgo
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If you can wear a somberero (sp?) or a melon hat, can drinkcopious (and I mean COPIOUS) quantities of booze, and can come up with loud, preferably hilarious, drunken chants, you will be as equipped to watch the game as Richie Bernaud.
bohemian rhapsody! stairway to heaven! dark side of the moon!(pink floyd) these are some of the things you will hear on triple m!
now, down to buisiness. 1 can pirates wear kaftans/capes? moustaches are obviously in
i need to be able to celebrate caperil, MOvember and kaftan day as a pirate!
please, ask what those are!
2 video games- must… be… able… to play…METROID!!! it may help to know that IDiot gamers are rare. um… i think… er… maybe.
and lastly, weaponry. can we bring our own?
i have lots! i smith em myself!
swords/daggers mostly. very piratey! arr!
also, to booty, nope, you dont know me, havent posted before today lol
also, for a while i had a 1-person religion as a pepsi demon, (we have only 2 weaknesses, first to guess em wins or was listening to spoony about superstitions lol)
so, i only started posting toady but read it for ages. i know all the jokes about rowing (oars - need i say more?)
ill list what i listen to on triple m
john & jane (breakfast show)
get this - tony martin, ed kavalee and richard marsland
“those idiots cr**ing on about kaftans” - tony martin.
spoonman
“nothing is sacred, no topic taboo.
what do you wanna talk about”
sig- remember, if the world didn’t suck, we’d all fall off
g’day
dont remember who posted it but we aussies arent englishmen a long way from home.
what englishman would put a perfectly good pie in mushy peas? none, even while drunk. lol
there you have it, mate.
i agree with nikkee - we do tend to win @ cricket
sig - (something i say myself sometimes just to sound insane)
“the pepsi-cheese will rule the world!”
what do you think? is it insane-sounding?
Be careful when you mention peas… there is someone here who will make you walk the plank for it!
my name. im cutting back for health reasons
now, who do you mean beth
if they want ill sign a peas treaty
hmm. not sure i know who you mean.
i have inner peas since i discovered fsm
sig - and … world peas!
So WO, another Aussie ey?
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I’m gonna guess an eastern stater? Love your taste in music btw :D
people eating pasta on beaches in pirate regalia… that is a noodlist beach
¦-)
Ho Ho!
Wench Octarine (Pratchett fan?)
what englishman would put a perfectly good pie in mushy peas? none, even while drunk. lol
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The infamous floater eh? I’ve made some interesting drunk food but you’re right, never that.
I hate mushy peas - which is a bit like hating soccer (hate that too) where I live!
wench octarine
“put a perfectly good pie in mushy peas? none, even while drunk. lol”
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We don’t really have those in QLD. Maybe can get it here and there…but rare.
Think it’s more a SA….maybe WA too(?) tradition. Heard about them, but sure I’ve never seen one. Can’t imagine what technique would be used to eat it :)))
Just found this on Wiki…..
“In 2003, the pie floater was recognised as a South Australian Heritage Icon by the National Trust of Australia.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_floater
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Hahahahaha - Heritage Icon?
Don’t laugh…they recently added Cane Toads to that list, much to the outrage of the population. Not sure if they since removed the entry!
I only know one thing as a floater. And that looks about as appetising.
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I rest my case. The Aussies are like the Brits on a permanent holiday.
They are soooo laid back.
I can imagine a bit of outrage - if they carry on like they were you’ll be knee deep in toads in a few years. You’d think myxomatosis would have given folks a heads up.
“Knee Deep In Toads” — that’d be a great name for a band!
Quick register the domain name.
The sad thing is, as laid back as we are, we have one of the highest rates of unpaid overtime in any western country :(
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We do know how to drink though, which I suppose is something you might learn on holiday?
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Anyway, pie floaters are a sacrilege. Meat pies are awesome, peas are divine, but never shall the twain meet.
Mmmmm, I was thinking of going to Australia next year, but know…..
just goin through old threads to answer questions
@ alchemist - yes i am a pratchett fan
and it is infamous… terry got it right on the back of last continent about rincewind being the only person to eat a pie floater while sober…
@ nikkee - technique involves lots of boose. a (mis)quote from john howard - “obviously thousands of gigalitres” lol.
ramen