Q: I've got a couple of pictures of my (wedding / child's birth / prom / root canal) and was wondering if this is the appropriate place to post them?
A:
Only if they can easily be made into bad puns, tasteless jokes, or involve girlfriends dressed up like cartoon heroes in short dresses.
We may be easily amused, but even we have standards.
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Q: What's up with that GunnerX guy? He's on IRC constantly?
A:
GunnerX is actually a research project by the Canadian government to study Artificial Intelligence through human interaction in a semi-controlled environment such as internet relay chat. There were problems with previous experiments in the line. GunnerV, for instance, ran amok, killing seventeen innocent bystanders. Even worse, GunnerVII escaped and took over the Gamespy servers, leading to the current forum problems due to it's faulty MySQL programing.
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Q: Why are there so many posts involving poop?
A:
In order to offset the highcosts of running such a popular server, Gamespy took on the responsibility of serving non-gaming sites. One of these sites is PlanetFeces. Unfortunetely, every once in awhile the forum databases screw up and switch messages from there to here.
If you think it's bad here, you should see the hilarity that ensues when the people on PlanetFeces' ButtMunch forum get a post entitled "Why Patch 4xx sux" and argue about wether or not spackling their behinds is such a good idea.
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Q: Where did that USS Eternity thread come from?
A:
All we can say is that the "War on Drugs" is losing. Badly.
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Q: How can I get one of those little pictures under my name?
A:
<sound of PUF death squads beeting person to death>
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Q: Is this a good place to tell that joke I heard from the secretary down the hall?
A: Only if it's a funny joke. And Skumboy doesn't count.
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Q: What are these words everyone uses, like "woot", "yull" and "blork"?
A:
Woot is old latin for "Say there, I am extremely happy. Please let me express my joy verbally in a loud manner".
Yull is from the southern portion of the United States and is usually meant to mean "Hello there, fellow farming worker. I've just come into the room from feeding the pigs their swill. Hello!".
Blork. There is no blork.
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Q: I'm afraid of posting something that might be considered obscene. What's the standard for OffTopic?
A:
Here in OffTopic we've had any semblence of good taste removed in a surgical procedure involving large amounts of anesthetic and LiquiD_SiN posts. If your Mom grounds you for anything less than three months for posting what you did, then it's fine for us.
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Q: Why all the obsession over those sigs at the end of posts?
A:
Failure to comply with OffTopic's posted minimum .sig laws is punishible by either death, or Dopefish. Most people chose death.
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Q: What happens when an "OnTopic" post turns up in "OffTopic"?
A:
Do not panic, citizen. This situation, while not uncommon, can be scary. However, thanks to modern developments in Internet Legal Technologies (ie "we got Boom drunk, and sat him in front of the keyboard") we have developed the unholy terror that is Goshen's Law, which simply states that "any post or thread which contains a Goshen head will immediately be considered OffTopic for the rest of time and a day, so help us god."
In order to facilitate the timely use of Goshen's Law by civilians, we here at OffTopic Central have developed the easy to use image for placement in dangerously OnTopic conversations.
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Q: What's the deal with that Goshen head thing anyways?
A: It's an Ohio State University Buckey Football thing. You wouldn't understand.
A:
Only if they can easily be made into bad puns, tasteless jokes, or involve girlfriends dressed up like cartoon heroes in short dresses.
We may be easily amused, but even we have standards.
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Q: What's up with that GunnerX guy? He's on IRC constantly?
A:
GunnerX is actually a research project by the Canadian government to study Artificial Intelligence through human interaction in a semi-controlled environment such as internet relay chat. There were problems with previous experiments in the line. GunnerV, for instance, ran amok, killing seventeen innocent bystanders. Even worse, GunnerVII escaped and took over the Gamespy servers, leading to the current forum problems due to it's faulty MySQL programing.
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Q: Why are there so many posts involving poop?
A:
In order to offset the highcosts of running such a popular server, Gamespy took on the responsibility of serving non-gaming sites. One of these sites is PlanetFeces. Unfortunetely, every once in awhile the forum databases screw up and switch messages from there to here.
If you think it's bad here, you should see the hilarity that ensues when the people on PlanetFeces' ButtMunch forum get a post entitled "Why Patch 4xx sux" and argue about wether or not spackling their behinds is such a good idea.
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Q: Where did that USS Eternity thread come from?
A:
All we can say is that the "War on Drugs" is losing. Badly.
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Q: How can I get one of those little pictures under my name?
A:
<sound of PUF death squads beeting person to death>
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Q: Is this a good place to tell that joke I heard from the secretary down the hall?
A: Only if it's a funny joke. And Skumboy doesn't count.
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Q: What are these words everyone uses, like "woot", "yull" and "blork"?
A:
Woot is old latin for "Say there, I am extremely happy. Please let me express my joy verbally in a loud manner".
Yull is from the southern portion of the United States and is usually meant to mean "Hello there, fellow farming worker. I've just come into the room from feeding the pigs their swill. Hello!".
Blork. There is no blork.
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Q: I'm afraid of posting something that might be considered obscene. What's the standard for OffTopic?
A:
Here in OffTopic we've had any semblence of good taste removed in a surgical procedure involving large amounts of anesthetic and LiquiD_SiN posts. If your Mom grounds you for anything less than three months for posting what you did, then it's fine for us.
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Q: Why all the obsession over those sigs at the end of posts?
A:
Failure to comply with OffTopic's posted minimum .sig laws is punishible by either death, or Dopefish. Most people chose death.
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Q: What happens when an "OnTopic" post turns up in "OffTopic"?
A:
Do not panic, citizen. This situation, while not uncommon, can be scary. However, thanks to modern developments in Internet Legal Technologies (ie "we got Boom drunk, and sat him in front of the keyboard") we have developed the unholy terror that is Goshen's Law, which simply states that "any post or thread which contains a Goshen head will immediately be considered OffTopic for the rest of time and a day, so help us god."
In order to facilitate the timely use of Goshen's Law by civilians, we here at OffTopic Central have developed the easy to use image for placement in dangerously OnTopic conversations.
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Q: What's the deal with that Goshen head thing anyways?
A: It's an Ohio State University Buckey Football thing. You wouldn't understand.
