08-17-2008, 07:02 PM
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"Jatsie is amazing." - Jazhara "My mental image of Jat is a gentleman sitting in a leather armchair, wearing a robe. The light in the room is dim and strangely he's not sitting in front of a computer, but next to a small, round table with a box of cigars on." - Jelena |
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08-17-2008, 07:14 PM
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The Greater
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kentucky
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Fine. Whatever, I'll tell. But if I tell this story, and I hear a single joke about it later on, I'm going to go all Full Metal Jacket on you guys. Seriously.
Our story begins a few days ago, when cows from a nearby cattle farm (that's the countryside for you) escaped from their enclosure, and proceeded to trample all over the yard, eating the lawn and leaving cow pies all over the yard. (The owners are still AWOL, and thus the cows are still out. Looks like the police are going to have to deal with it. It's unreal. However, they're no longer in our yard, anyway.) Fast forward a few days; someone I know had suggested to me that I go to a local church's youth group meeting, meet some people, you know. I did, and it went well. Anyway, at the end of the meeting, suddenly everyone stood up, circled, and held hands. The group has a prayer at the end of the meeting. I'm the new guy, so they ask me if I have anyone I'd like to pray. Well, it's a bit of a bind. I really don't feel like praying in front of all these people, but I can't say "No, I don't have anyone I'd like to pray for", now, can I? It would sound pretty bad. So I say, "sure, my family." And then the whole group bows their heads. After a moment, I realize they're waiting for me to pray. Shit, that ain't good. So I start off, then stammer a bit, then go a bit further, trying to fake the blanks that my mind keeps drawing. "Uh, I'd like to pray that, uh, the neighbors come to, uh................................ clean up their cows' crap in the back yard so my mom doesn't have to do it. Amen." So, now you know. Now that that's out of the way, I'm going to slink off and kill myself quietly. Last edited by Giligan; 08-17-2008 at 07:28 PM. |
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08-17-2008, 07:23 PM
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Lovable rogue
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Haha, that's brilliant!
No need to be embarrassed, that's just comedy gold. 
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"Jatsie is amazing." - Jazhara "My mental image of Jat is a gentleman sitting in a leather armchair, wearing a robe. The light in the room is dim and strangely he's not sitting in front of a computer, but next to a small, round table with a box of cigars on." - Jelena |
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08-17-2008, 07:29 PM
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The Greater
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kentucky
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That gold would be a lot more brilliant if it happened to someone else, and I could simply be one of the guys listening who laughed afterwards. I have the worst luck in the world.
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08-18-2008, 01:31 AM
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Super Scottish Hero
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Edinburgh, UK
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Don't worry, St Peter puts bleeps in on prayers before God gets to hear them.
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08-18-2008, 02:21 AM
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Ale! And keep 'em coming!
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Beyond the Pattern of Reality...or Germany
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Don't worry, I've embarrased myself in much worse ways, and sometimes I didn't have the luck of having it be in front of people that would just laugh about it, and then forget it, but instead in front of people who would take a word to taunt you with it for the rest of the school year, because they thought it was funny. These days I know it was ridiculous they did that (actually, I did know that even then, but it didn't really help much), and it's in the past. Other times, I did something really embarrassing, and was lucky to have understanding and good folks be the audience to it, luckily. So yeah, I've made a bigger embarrassment of myself more often than I can count. - 
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- "esc(x) cot(x) dx = -csc(x)!" Dennis added, and the wizard's robe caught on fire. "Gosh," Dennis said, "and some people say higher math isn't relevant." >>>Inventor of the Mail order-Assassin<<< And *This*...is a Black Hole - BYE! |
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08-18-2008, 03:36 AM
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Super Scottish Hero
Join Date: Feb 2006
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I remember the time I confused non-hydrogenated amorphous diamond-like carbon films with hydrogenated amorphous carbon films (which are obviously substantially less dense than the non-hydrogenated films, thereby affecting the transmission of light to a greater degree than denser materials that more closely approximate the density of diamond).
Now THAT was really embarrassing. Oh, how we laughed. |
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08-18-2008, 03:59 AM
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Lovable rogue
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Great Britain
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Did it negatively affect the operation of your time machine?
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"Jatsie is amazing." - Jazhara "My mental image of Jat is a gentleman sitting in a leather armchair, wearing a robe. The light in the room is dim and strangely he's not sitting in front of a computer, but next to a small, round table with a box of cigars on." - Jelena |
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08-18-2008, 04:22 AM
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Freeware Co-ordinator
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: South East England.
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I once had to record in a building site accident book "Hit self on nose with hammer". In my defence I had a very good reason for doing so. Still worth submitting to Darwin though.
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No Nonsense Nonsonnets #43 Cold Topic A thread most controversial, that’s what I want to start Full of impassioned arguments, of posting from the heart And for this stimulation all will be thankful to me On come on everybody it won’t work if you agree |
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08-18-2008, 05:52 AM
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Lovable rogue
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Great Britain
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Our humble accountant, on a building site, with a hammer. The plot thickens...
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"Jatsie is amazing." - Jazhara "My mental image of Jat is a gentleman sitting in a leather armchair, wearing a robe. The light in the room is dim and strangely he's not sitting in front of a computer, but next to a small, round table with a box of cigars on." - Jelena |
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08-18-2008, 06:16 AM
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Ale! And keep 'em coming!
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I am not lying! Seriously, my classmates in 8th grade in German public school were awful. - 
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- "esc(x) cot(x) dx = -csc(x)!" Dennis added, and the wizard's robe caught on fire. "Gosh," Dennis said, "and some people say higher math isn't relevant." >>>Inventor of the Mail order-Assassin<<< And *This*...is a Black Hole - BYE! |
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08-18-2008, 06:31 AM
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Lovable rogue
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Great Britain
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Luckily there was a spastic in my class at school, so everyone just made fun of that.
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"Jatsie is amazing." - Jazhara "My mental image of Jat is a gentleman sitting in a leather armchair, wearing a robe. The light in the room is dim and strangely he's not sitting in front of a computer, but next to a small, round table with a box of cigars on." - Jelena |
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08-18-2008, 06:36 AM
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Ale! And keep 'em coming!
Join Date: Oct 2004
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I could have dealt with being made fun of. But what the ones in that class did bordered on harrassing. But enough about that, it's in the past and those people are really not worth thinking about. - 
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- "esc(x) cot(x) dx = -csc(x)!" Dennis added, and the wizard's robe caught on fire. "Gosh," Dennis said, "and some people say higher math isn't relevant." >>>Inventor of the Mail order-Assassin<<< And *This*...is a Black Hole - BYE! |
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