Miscellany

[ThaBenMan]

Triva: witch finger does altiar from assassin's creed have missing from his right hand.

Middle?
Question: Which kind of bear is best?

A grizzley bear.

False, black bear

Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.

Tigers. Broccoli. Firefly.

Does anyone ever think that they might have latent psychic abilities? I think I may have a tiny bit of psychic power, but it's not practical in any way. For instance, on wednesday, this random phrase kept going through my mind all day at work: "Dokapon Journey" (it's a game, I guess, that I must've heard of somewhere). Then, when I got home, I looked at the new Penny Arcade comic, and it was about Dokapon Journey! I know nothing about this game, may have heard about it briefly once somewhere, but it just dominated my thoughts that day, and I couldn't even remember what it was exactly at the time. So I was rather shocked when it was the subject of the comic. And this sort of thing happens rather frequently - I'll be thinking of a certain song or episode of a tv show, and then later that day it'll be on the radio or tv!

 

[ThaBenMan]

I just read a pretty funny little thing in one of the volumes of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader (great books, btw) - a guy was being tried for robbing a bank, but a mistrial was declared because the judge thought his name might have adversely affected the jury's decision. His name? Rob Banks. He was retried under an alias...

I like to think that alias was something like "Innocent McNotGuilty"

 

[Clashero]

Why is it that when schizophrenic or other insane people "hear voices in their heads", it's always teling them to shoot everyone in sight, or to set something on fire.
I think madness could really evolve if the voices in their heads could tell them something like "Do your laundry, go to work, and go visit your parents already."

 

[Beffudled Sheep]

How much alcohol would I have to consume to actually reverse it all to make myself sober, realising I am actually alittle inebriated, I realise this is a stupid idea. Also, How stoned would I need to be to float away like Roger the Alien does on American Dad?

Plus how many ninjas would it take to kill Chuck Norris?

1) a million shots of whiskey.
2) Very!
3) Impossible.

random thought: What was the name of that weird doll maker guy from LoK: Blood Omen?
And what the fuck did his parents look like?

 

[scotth266]

Mmmmm Fudge Ripple ice cream. That stuff is good.

I would like to ask: does anyone else think that glass-bottle Coca-Colas are better than the plastic bottle ones?

EDIT: As a response to the sandwich question: Have the meat sandwich be tied together with bacon for support.

 

[JC175]

Why is it that when schizophrenic or other insane people "hear voices in their heads", it's always teling them to shoot everyone in sight, or to set something on fire.
I think madness could really evolve if the voices in their heads could tell them something like "Do your laundry, go to work, and go visit your parents already."

I'm sure it does, many people suffer from very mild cases of schizophrenia or autism without realising it. I'm pretty sure a cataylst for realising you have a mental illness are voices telling you to set things alight.

 

[ThaBenMan]

Ok, time for some level 20 Necromancy

Another fascinating story from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader (seriously awesome books, every bathroom should have a couple of them):

The Collyer Brothers [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers] were two brothers who lived in New York city in the early 20th century. Sons of a wealthy gynecologist, they inherited a mansion in Harlem (then a fashionable area). Homer worked as a lawyer, and Langley possessed an engineering degree.

As the neighborhood changed from a wealthy area to a crime-ridden ghetto, the brothers grew very eccentric and withdrawn. They started amassing huge amounts of junk - newspapers, furniture, pianos, and more - and storing it in their house. Homer stopped working, and so their bills piled up, until their utilities were all shut off. Langley started turning his engineering skills to devising booby traps to defend their home from invaders, such as huge piles of newspapers rigged with tripwires to crush intruders.

Homer later became ill, wheelchair bound and blind. His brother Langley would bring him food, believing a diet of black bread, peanut butter, and 100 oranges a week would help his condition. He would bring back their water from a park 4 blocks away.

On March 21, 1947, an anonymous tipster informed the police that there was a dead body in the Collyer's house. Attempts to investigate were hampered by a nearly impenetrable wall of junk just inside the door of the house. After breaking into a second-story window and wriggling through the mass of detritus, a patrolman finally found the body of Homer Collyer. Medical examiners determined that he had died of starvation. There was no sign of Langley.

On April 8th, after extensive cleanup and removal of tons of garbage, Langley's body was found. He was about 10 feet away from where his brother died - he was bringing him food when one of his own traps collapsed, crushing him under huge bundles of newspapers.

In total, 103 tons of junk were removed from the Collyers' home:

Items removed from the house included a horse's jawbone, an early X-ray machine, baby carriages, a doll carriage, rusted bicycles, old food, potato peelers, a collection of guns, glass chandeliers, bowling balls, camera equipment, the folding top of a horse-drawn carriage, a sawhorse, three dressmaking dummies, painted portraits, pinup girl photos, plaster busts, Mrs. Collyer's hope chests, rusty bed springs, the kerosene stove, a child's chair (the brothers were lifelong bachelors and childless), more than 25,000 books (including thousands about medicine and engineering and more than 2,500 on law), human organs pickled in jars, eight live cats, the chassis of the old Model T Langley had been tinkering with, tapestries, hundreds of yards of unused silks and fabric, clocks, fourteen pianos (both grand and upright), a clavichord, two organs, banjos, violins, bugles, accordions, a gramophone and records, and countless bundles of newspapers and magazines, some of them decades old. Near the spot where Homer died, police also found 34 bank account passbooks, with a total of $3,007.18.

The site on which the house stood is now a small park named after the Collyer brothers.

This just blew my mind when I read it.

 

[Fightgarr]

Another fascinating story from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader (seriously awesome books, every bathroom should have a couple of them)

That's why I'm glad that I have a couple and my roommate owns about 4. Too bad our bathroom is falling apart around us. Good reading though.

 

[ThaBenMan]

Another fascinating story from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader (seriously awesome books, every bathroom should have a couple of them)

That's why I'm glad that I have a couple and my roommate owns about 4. Too bad our bathroom is falling apart around us. Good reading though.

Awesome. I have 2 and plan on getting more, especially since I've almost read all the way through them. They lasted a good long while, though.

And what exactly do you mean by your bathroom falling apart?

 

[Angus565]

Which to you prefer? 1.Flame-throwing chainsaws or Chain-throwing flamesaws? 2.Hand-Grenades or Grenade-Hands? 3.Chain Guns or Gun Chains? 4.A Tactical Nuclear strike or... The Cake? And that is all for my Misc questions for now. Thank you and Goodnight!

 

[The Great Fa]

How much alcohol would I have to consume to actually reverse it all to make myself sober, realising I am actually alittle inebriated, I realise this is a stupid idea. Also, How stoned would I need to be to float away like Roger the Alien does on American Dad?

Plus how many ninjas would it take to kill Chuck Norris?

1) a million shots of whiskey.
2) Very!
3) Impossible.

random thought: What was the name of that weird doll maker guy from LoK: Blood Omen?
And what the fuck did his parents look like?

I do believe it was Elzevir (Elzivir?) the Dollmaker.
....
.........
..............
....I love Lok!

 

[Beffudled Sheep]

How much alcohol would I have to consume to actually reverse it all to make myself sober, realising I am actually alittle inebriated, I realise this is a stupid idea. Also, How stoned would I need to be to float away like Roger the Alien does on American Dad?

Plus how many ninjas would it take to kill Chuck Norris?

1) a million shots of whiskey.
2) Very!
3) Impossible.

random thought: What was the name of that weird doll maker guy from LoK: Blood Omen?
And what the fuck did his parents look like?

I do believe it was Elzevir (Elzivir?) the Dollmaker.
....
.........
..............
....I love Lok!

Thank you and who doesn't love Lok?

 

[Fightgarr]

And what exactly do you mean by your bathroom falling apart?

The handle of the toilet falls off every time you use it. Every time you manage to flush the toilet it has to be stopped manually. The toilet seat is slowly shifting to the right. The shower head is shot to shit... various reasons.

 

[Diablini]

I love playing Garry's Mod and you should try it!
How's that for randomness?

 

[Dr.Poisonfreak]

what would the perfect sandwich contain? i ask because I'm hungry

Meat.
Just meat.

Just bacon

Bacon and fried eggs. I've tried it. It is good.

All of the above? With cheese?

now i feel really hungry, but im a bit drunk so if i eat i will probably throw up lol

 

[scotth266]

Ok, time for some level 20 Necromancy.

It was well-deserved.

My random question is: does anyone know of some good photoshop tutorials? That's not exactly thread material, so I'd thought I'd post it here.

 

[lolmynamewastaken]

who was the first guy to discover you could get milk from a cow and that it was drinkable?
and what the HELL was he doing to it?!