Invisible wrote:
> Should I admit to owning the Pokemon Trainer's Handbook? Nah, I guess 
> that would be a bit sad...

Very ...

> What can I say? It was the least boring thing on TV. Later they added 
> Yu-gi-oh, which was generally more interesting. (Hmm, I'm not really 
> helping my case here, am I?)

I saw yu-gi-oh or some such (I think it was at least) for a brief few 
minutes while flipping channels one day. All it seemed to be was a big 
ad for the trading card game "My such and such tempest dragon whizbang 
has 42 hit points, 80 attach points, and 30 defense points and can beat 
the snot out of your overdeveloped domestic cat"

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Mike Raiford wrote:

> I saw yu-gi-oh or some such (I think it was at least) for a brief few 
> minutes while flipping channels one day. All it seemed to be was a big 
> ad for the trading card game "My such and such tempest dragon whizbang 
> has 42 hit points, 80 attach points, and 30 defense points and can beat 
> the snot out of your overdeveloped domestic cat"

...which is amusing, since (AFAIK) the cards featured aren't actually on 
sale anywhere. (There's a Bash.org quote about this, but I can't find it 
right now since the site is still down.)

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On 02-Sep-08 19:19, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Doctor John wrote:
> 
>> Quick! Dried frog pills, now!!
> 
> "A hallucinogen, used by the Bursar of Unseen University. The pills are 
> carefully designed to make him hallucinate that he is sane. The main 
> side-effect is that he also hallucinates an ability to fly. Fortunately 
> the Bursar is a wizard and the only action necessary to deal with this 
> belief is to keep him from going higher than the walls."
> 
thanks, but I think I knew that ;)

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andrel wrote:

> thanks, but I think I knew that ;)

Hell *I* didn't.

And reading it, you start wondering if whoever came up with it should 
maybe start taking something... o_O

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On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:13:26 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Parametric polymorphism, I choose you!
> 
>> Now polymorph, type-safe high-order function attack!
> 
>   Would that be the generic programming trading cards, anime, or
>   computer
> games? Have you collected them all?
> 
>   Although at your age... sheesh. The target audience of those paradigms
> is really preteen children, you know.

Oh, christ, you mean you NEVER do silly things?  Ever?

Give Andy a break.  Why do you feel it is your duty to attack him when he 
does something silly?

Jim

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"Mike Raiford" <mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message 
news:48bd859e$1@news.povray.org...
> Invisible wrote:
>> Should I admit to owning the Pokemon Trainer's Handbook? Nah, I guess 
>> that would be a bit sad...
>
> Very ...
>
>> What can I say? It was the least boring thing on TV. Later they added 
>> Yu-gi-oh, which was generally more interesting. (Hmm, I'm not really 
>> helping my case here, am I?)
>
> I saw yu-gi-oh or some such (I think it was at least) for a brief few 
> minutes while flipping channels one day. All it seemed to be was a big ad 
> for the trading card game "My such and such tempest dragon whizbang has 42 
> hit points, 80 attach points, and 30 defense points and can beat the snot 
> out of your overdeveloped domestic cat"


 Had to LOL at that... :)

     ~Steve~

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"Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message 
news:48bdabc6$1@news.povray.org...
> On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:13:26 -0400, Warp wrote:
>
>> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> Parametric polymorphism, I choose you!
>>
>>> Now polymorph, type-safe high-order function attack!
>>
>>   Would that be the generic programming trading cards, anime, or
>>   computer
>> games? Have you collected them all?
>>
>>   Although at your age... sheesh. The target audience of those paradigms
>> is really preteen children, you know.
>
> Oh, christ, you mean you NEVER do silly things?  Ever?
>
> Give Andy a break.  Why do you feel it is your duty to attack him when he
> does something silly?

     Jim, with our vast knowledge around here in all types of lifestyles, 
let Warp have his opinion.

     We've all done silly things, and I'm no exception. I've done my fair 
share for sure. But it's like Andrew *needs* to listen to others' thoughts 
and experiences?

      That's all.

          ~Steve~


>
> Jim

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St. <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:

> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message 
> news:48bdabc6$1@news.povray.org...
> > On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:13:26 -0400, Warp wrote:
> >
> >> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >>> Parametric polymorphism, I choose you!
> >>
> >>> Now polymorph, type-safe high-order function attack!
> >>
> >>   Would that be the generic programming trading cards, anime, or
> >>   computer
> >> games? Have you collected them all?
> >>
> >>   Although at your age... sheesh. The target audience of those paradigms
> >> is really preteen children, you know.
> >
> > Oh, christ, you mean you NEVER do silly things?  Ever?
> >
> > Give Andy a break.  Why do you feel it is your duty to attack him when he
> > does something silly?

>      Jim, with our vast knowledge around here in all types of lifestyles, 
> let Warp have his opinion.

>      We've all done silly things, and I'm no exception. I've done my fair 
> share for sure. But it's like Andrew *needs* to listen to others' thoughts 
> and experiences?

  Now I'm *completely* puzzled. How on earth could my response be anything
else than a humorous response in the same spirit as the original post? :-o

  Do you really think I wrote things like "generic programming trading
cards" as some kind of reproach or attack, rather than a joke?

  I knew that people will always interpret things in the worst possible way,
but this is just ridiculous.

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                                                          - Warp

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"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
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> St. <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
>
>> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message
>> news:48bdabc6$1@news.povray.org...
>> > On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:13:26 -0400, Warp wrote:
>> >
>> >> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> >>> Parametric polymorphism, I choose you!
>> >>
>> >>> Now polymorph, type-safe high-order function attack!
>> >>
>> >>   Would that be the generic programming trading cards, anime, or
>> >>   computer
>> >> games? Have you collected them all?
>> >>
>> >>   Although at your age... sheesh. The target audience of those 
>> >> paradigms
>> >> is really preteen children, you know.
>> >
>> > Oh, christ, you mean you NEVER do silly things?  Ever?
>> >
>> > Give Andy a break.  Why do you feel it is your duty to attack him when 
>> > he
>> > does something silly?
>
>>      Jim, with our vast knowledge around here in all types of lifestyles,
>> let Warp have his opinion.
>
>>      We've all done silly things, and I'm no exception. I've done my fair
>> share for sure. But it's like Andrew *needs* to listen to others' 
>> thoughts
>> and experiences?
>
>  Now I'm *completely* puzzled. How on earth could my response be anything
> else than a humorous response in the same spirit as the original post? :-o
>
>  Do you really think I wrote things like "generic programming trading
> cards" as some kind of reproach or attack, rather than a joke?
>
>  I knew that people will always interpret things in the worst possible 
> way,
> but this is just ridiculous.


       You posted a link? Cool. I didn't know that because I didn't read the 
whole thread. Damn me. I assumed Jim was replying to one of your many 
putdowns of various people around here, (including myself now), heh... ;)

  I should just butt out and let you misfits get on with it for my enjoyable 
reading.

    <lesson #145,632 learnt>

    ~Steve~



>
> -- 
>                                                          - Warp

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> And reading it, you start wondering if whoever came up with it should 
> maybe start taking something... o_O
> 

Well, Terry Pratchett created the complete Disc World (Disciverse?) 
...and as for taking something, I understand that he was recently 
diagnosed as suffering from early Alzheimer's :-( so he is probably 
taking something for that.
Anyhow, surely Stephen, St, Phil Cook and myself have mentioned Dried 
Frog Pills often enough in this outpost of Unseen Uni? (Not to mention 
Klatchian Spirit Weed)

John

-- 
"Eppur si muove" - Galileo Galilei

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