Gas Shortage 2016

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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby geonuc » Sun Sep 25, 2016 12:22 pm

Well, the good news is, despite the zombie/vampire overrun of the pumping station, the gas shortage seems to be minimal.
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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby Sigma_Orionis » Sun Sep 25, 2016 12:23 pm

They're deceiving you, the only way to make sure is to nuke them from orbit.
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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby geonuc » Sun Sep 25, 2016 12:34 pm

Sigma_Orionis wrote:They're deceiving you, the only way to make sure is to nuke them from orbit.


Quite a deception. "Let's make the humans think there isn't a gas shortage by providing them with adequate supplies of gas! Bwahahaha!"

Stupid zombies. Vampires. Whatever.
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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby Sigma_Orionis » Sun Sep 25, 2016 12:36 pm

geonuc wrote:
Sigma_Orionis wrote:They're deceiving you, the only way to make sure is to nuke them from orbit.


Quite a deception. "Let's make the humans think there isn't a gas shortage by providing them with adequate supplies of gas! Bwahahaha!"

Stupid zombies. Vampires. Whatever.


See? THAT is what they want you to think to catch you unawares :P
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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby pumpkinpi » Mon Sep 26, 2016 6:26 pm

Parrothead wrote:Thanks, my memory may be working the same way. Haven't found any Salem's Lot '04 amongst my vhs tapes. I do have part 2 of It (They've been shooting the re-make in town), The Shining '97, Bag of Bones, The Stand and The Tommyknockers.


Ah-ha! Another King fan! I'm re-reading The Dark Tower series (3rd time through at least) before the movie comes out next winter.

I don't even remember Bag of Bones being made into a movie. On TV too?

That's so cool that It is being filmed in your town. Have you seen any signs of it? The filming, that is. Not the actual It.
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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby SciFiFisher » Mon Sep 26, 2016 7:14 pm

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Parrothead wrote:Thanks, my memory may be working the same way. Haven't found any Salem's Lot '04 amongst my vhs tapes. I do have part 2 of It (They've been shooting the re-make in town), The Shining '97, Bag of Bones, The Stand and The Tommyknockers.


Ah-ha! Another King fan! I'm re-reading The Dark Tower series (3rd time through at least) before the movie comes out next winter.

I don't even remember Bag of Bones being made into a movie. On TV too?

That's so cool that It is being filmed in your town. Have you seen any signs of it? The filming, that is. Not the actual It.


I have never really looked at clowns the same way since reading It. :)
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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby SciFi Chick » Mon Sep 26, 2016 7:56 pm

SciFiFisher wrote:
I have never really looked at clowns the same way since reading It. :)


Funny, It completely reinforced my thinking on clowns. :D
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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby vendic » Mon Sep 26, 2016 10:38 pm

It made me hungry.
Thanks for all the fish.
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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby SciFi Chick » Tue Sep 27, 2016 5:43 am

vendic wrote:It made me hungry.


Too vague for me to understand...
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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby Sigma_Orionis » Tue Sep 27, 2016 1:17 pm

SciFi Chick wrote:
vendic wrote:It made me hungry.


Too vague for me to understand...


I think he confused "Clown" with "Chicken" :P
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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby vendic » Tue Sep 27, 2016 1:35 pm

It was all about a giant lonely spider that no one understood.
He hadn't had a decent meal in so long he was going insane.
Then the humans banded together and killed him.
It was very sad.
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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby Swift » Tue Sep 27, 2016 2:02 pm

vendic wrote:It was all about a giant lonely spider that no one understood.
He hadn't had a decent meal in so long he was going insane.
Then the humans banded together and killed him.
It was very sad.

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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby Thumper » Tue Sep 27, 2016 5:19 pm

Brilliant and sad.
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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby SciFi Chick » Tue Sep 27, 2016 6:44 pm

I'll add hilarious and sad. I particularly like, "Did you just spray me with furniture polish? You crazy bitch!"

Oddly enough, I let spiders live in Australia. It's the snakes you have to watch out for there. Here, the spiders are damn aggressive and a number of them are venomous.
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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby geonuc » Tue Sep 27, 2016 8:12 pm

SciFi Chick wrote:I'll add hilarious and sad. I particularly like, "Did you just spray me with furniture polish? You crazy bitch!"

Oddly enough, I let spiders live in Australia. It's the snakes you have to watch out for there. Here, the spiders are damn aggressive and a number of them are venomous.


So, you're fine with pet funnel web spiders? :shock:
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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby SciFi Chick » Tue Sep 27, 2016 10:02 pm

geonuc wrote:
SciFi Chick wrote:I'll add hilarious and sad. I particularly like, "Did you just spray me with furniture polish? You crazy bitch!"

Oddly enough, I let spiders live in Australia. It's the snakes you have to watch out for there. Here, the spiders are damn aggressive and a number of them are venomous.


So, you're fine with pet funnel web spiders? :shock:


Not at all, but it's only the Sydney ones that are deadly, and I don't plan to live there. :D
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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby code monkey » Wed Sep 28, 2016 12:59 am

Elliot always insisted that we leave spiders alone or take them outside. I still do this.

today's his birthday. he would have been 27.
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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby Thumper » Wed Sep 28, 2016 11:26 am

When I shooo a spider outside tonight, now I'll think of him.
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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby pumpkinpi » Wed Sep 28, 2016 2:14 pm

code monkey wrote:Elliot always insisted that we leave spiders alone or take them outside. I still do this.

today's his birthday. he would have been 27.


We always leave them alone. When Buster was a wee one, we had a daddy longlegs that lived under his crib. He named it Freddie.

Golden birthday, 27 on the 27th. Hugs to you.
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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby SciFi Chick » Wed Sep 28, 2016 3:27 pm

We used to leave them alone until one bit vendic. He had a pretty bad reaction to it. I swear - the insects here want to kill him!

Today, however, if I see one, we'll shoo it outside in honor of Elliot.
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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby geonuc » Wed Sep 28, 2016 5:17 pm

My house is labeled "Death Zone" on spider maps.
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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby SciFi Chick » Wed Sep 28, 2016 5:30 pm

geonuc wrote:My house is labeled "Death Zone" on spider maps.


My name is SciFi Chick, and I approve of this message. :D
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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby geonuc » Wed Sep 28, 2016 5:46 pm

Speaking of Australian spiders ...

A 21-year-old Australian tradesman has been bitten by a venomous spider on the penis for a second time.
The man was using a portable toilet on a Sydney building site on Tuesday, when he suffered a repeat of the incident five months ago.


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia ... 51?SThisFB
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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby Thumper » Thu Sep 29, 2016 11:45 am

I heard about the first incident. I'm starting to think this guy likes it. :shock:
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Re: Gas Shortage 2016

Postby SciFi Chick » Thu Sep 29, 2016 1:21 pm

And this is why I would rather squat outside than use a bush toilet.
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