the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW

[Quirk]

[jonesthecurl]

Ok, so to catch up a little on the Jones vacation - the kids were at camp horseriding, rockclimbing, fishing, a whole lot of other stuff (envious dad). So we did a mini-tour of the states.

To take the last first, we spent the last three nights in NYC, and on the Thursday Mrs Curl went into work while I spent a last day nosing.

Of course, I bought books and comics. One of the finest purchases was a volume of Dan Dare from the ancient Eagle comic, discounted to $9.

Our NYC hotel was in the Chelsea district, we were on the 21st floor and had the most stereotypical NYC view imaginable: on the roof across the street was a gaggle of watertowers that made you expect a knock-down drag-out fight involving DD or Spidey at any moment.

IN the middle distance was a a new skyscraper being constructed, and behind that probably NYC's two most famous buildings - the Empire State and the CHrysler.

We ate some excellent meals out - THai and Indian and Italian, and two excellent breakfasts in a nearby diner. ONly duff meal was the room service breakfast which we allowed ourselves on the last morning as the final luxury. You coulda played baseball with the poached eggs, and it took me over a minute to find the burnt sausage amongst the burnt homefries, because it was the size of a homefry: the smallest sausage in the universe.

We paid our first visit to the Metropolitan Museum, and I was cultured out after only about 5% of it. There will certainly be more visits. I was very proud of spotting that a portrait by John Singer Sergeant was by him just by the style, and sorry there weren't more. (I once went to an exhibition of his pencil drawings in London, he is vastly under-rated).

Also went into the NYC library for the first time, it is awe-inspiring. I got a list of exhibitions, lectures, etc held in various library locations, all of which are either already past, or happening while I'm busy. I shall try to keep an eye on what else they have in the future.

We went to a stand-up comedy show one evening, and I'm gonna sign up for some classes that they run there in the next few months when I work out exactly when I can spare the time.

We tried to get tickets for the free "Shakespeare in the Park", only to find that some of the people that'd been queuing since 8am failed to get in.

We went to the South East Seaport or whatever its called, very dissapointing, just a small and dull shopping mall really.

We walked through Chinatown and Little Italy, Chelsea and the East Village, and lots more.

WE walked our legs off. With only one subway trip and no other transport, we hit the Staten Island Ferry entrance and 93rd Street, as the Southern and Northern extremes, and the Chelsea piers & 1st avenue as the western and eastern extremes. Altogether I calculate we wlaked about 40 miles while we were there.

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Where were you at?

I went to the lake for a while.

That is not a valid excuse.

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Where were you at?

I went to the lake for a while.

Is that where you smuggle the children across the border?

That's where he smuggles bones.

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By the way, feel free to reply to my posts as if I was still here (asking me stuff, ect.), because I WILL be doing the shitload of catchup posting that will be waiting for me when I get back.

OK everybody, you know the deal where we will all be online to post in the middle of target's catch up posts so it don't look like he is spamming? Same thing goes for Lurcure.

It would be easier to just tell someone when they are spaming so they can edit there post.

*sigh*

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Damn! No catchphrase.

You decided to git rid of yours.

*sigh again*

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Cheerios!

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Ok, so to catch up a little on the Jones vacation - the kids were at camp horseriding, rockclimbing, fishing, a whole lot of other stuff (envious dad). So we did a mini-tour of the states.

To take the last first, we spent the last three nights in NYC, and on the Thursday Mrs Curl went into work while I spent a last day nosing.

Of course, I bought books and comics. One of the finest purchases was a volume of Dan Dare from the ancient Eagle comic, discounted to $9.

Our NYC hotel was in the Chelsea district, we were on the 21st floor and had the most stereotypical NYC view imaginable: on the roof across the street was a gaggle of watertowers that made you expect a knock-down drag-out fight involving DD or Spidey at any moment.

IN the middle distance was a a new skyscraper being constructed, and behind that probably NYC's two most famous buildings - the Empire State and the CHrysler.

We ate some excellent meals out - THai and Indian and Italian, and two excellent breakfasts in a nearby diner. ONly duff meal was the room service breakfast which we allowed ourselves on the last morning as the final luxury. You coulda played baseball with the poached eggs, and it took me over a minute to find the burnt sausage amongst the burnt homefries, because it was the size of a homefry: the smallest sausage in the universe.

We paid our first visit to the Metropolitan Museum, and I was cultured out after only about 5% of it. There will certainly be more visits. I was very proud of spotting that a portrait by John Singer Sergeant was by him just by the style, and sorry there weren't more. (I once went to an exhibition of his pencil drawings in London, he is vastly under-rated).

Also went into the NYC library for the first time, it is awe-inspiring. I got a list of exhibitions, lectures, etc held in various library locations, all of which are either already past, or happening while I'm busy. I shall try to keep an eye on what else they have in the future.

We went to a stand-up comedy show one evening, and I'm gonna sign up for some classes that they run there in the next few months when I work out exactly when I can spare the time.

We tried to get tickets for the free "Shakespeare in the Park", only to find that some of the people that'd been queuing since 8am failed to get in.

We went to the South East Seaport or whatever its called, very dissapointing, just a small and dull shopping mall really.

We walked through Chinatown and Little Italy, Chelsea and the East Village, and lots more.

WE walked our legs off. With only one subway trip and no other transport, we hit the Staten Island Ferry entrance and 93rd Street, as the Southern and Northern extremes, and the Chelsea piers & 1st avenue as the western and eastern extremes. Altogether I calculate we wlaked about 40 miles while we were there.

Great update. I found the final room service breakfast account to be highly interesting.

[strike wolf]

so i am leaving have fun with out me

prepares for mega-catchup=athon upon your return.

[strike wolf]

I'd like to see how great we could make fighter planes now of days seeing as we can now make carbon into forms stronger than diamond. I mean think about it. It would be relatively lightweight but super-durable. Than again I'm sure someone's already working on something like that...

Problem is that aircraft can already perform past the limits that humans can endure in the cockpit.

Robot pilots? Not the artificially intelligent kind necessarily but maybe ones that are controlled by pilots in a simulator...

Not the same. For accurate control one needs tactile feedback. Just think of the difference between really driving a car and a simulator. Much easier to keep a car under control when you have inertia and other external stimuli to help you calculate maneuvers.

True...Maybe we just need to start breeding better pilots then...

[strike wolf]

so i am leaving have fun with out me

What?

Jimbo!

you made it bakc. How was the crazy horde of mutant man-eating plants?

[Skittles!]

Where were you at?

I went to the lake for a while.

Is that where you smuggle the children across the border?

That's where he smuggles bones.

Excellent. Is that where he has sexual intercourse with the newly dead as well?

[strike wolf]

so i am leaving have fun with out me

What?

Jimbo!

What does he mean. He leaving for vacation or leaving CC.

A top secret assassin mission to take out the president of madeupistan. I mean um...vacation.

[strike wolf]

So, I made my own motivational poster for lulz.

So what does lulz stand for.

I believe it's similar to shits and giggles.

[strike wolf]

Where were you at?

I went to the lake for a while.

Funny the only lake on that planet is filled with those dangerous seaweed plants...

[strike wolf]

Where were you at?

I went to the lake for a while.

Is that where you smuggle the children across the border?

I find the best children to come from countries without child labor laws as they don't require training when I put them into the factories...

[strike wolf]

By the way, feel free to reply to my posts as if I was still here (asking me stuff, ect.), because I WILL be doing the shitload of catchup posting that will be waiting for me when I get back.

OK everybody, you know the deal where we will all be online to post in the middle of target's catch up posts so it don't look like he is spamming? Same thing goes for Lurcure.

It would be easier to just tell someone when they are spaming so they can edit there post.

No what we're saying is prevent a massive posting streak that would take on the form of what looks to be spamming. To prevent it we interrupt his long catch up frenzy so that it looks less like spam.

[strike wolf]

Ok, so to catch up a little on the Jones vacation - the kids were at camp horseriding, rockclimbing, fishing, a whole lot of other stuff (envious dad). So we did a mini-tour of the states.

To take the last first, we spent the last three nights in NYC, and on the Thursday Mrs Curl went into work while I spent a last day nosing.

Of course, I bought books and comics. One of the finest purchases was a volume of Dan Dare from the ancient Eagle comic, discounted to $9.

Our NYC hotel was in the Chelsea district, we were on the 21st floor and had the most stereotypical NYC view imaginable: on the roof across the street was a gaggle of watertowers that made you expect a knock-down drag-out fight involving DD or Spidey at any moment.

IN the middle distance was a a new skyscraper being constructed, and behind that probably NYC's two most famous buildings - the Empire State and the CHrysler.

We ate some excellent meals out - THai and Indian and Italian, and two excellent breakfasts in a nearby diner. ONly duff meal was the room service breakfast which we allowed ourselves on the last morning as the final luxury. You coulda played baseball with the poached eggs, and it took me over a minute to find the burnt sausage amongst the burnt homefries, because it was the size of a homefry: the smallest sausage in the universe.

We paid our first visit to the Metropolitan Museum, and I was cultured out after only about 5% of it. There will certainly be more visits. I was very proud of spotting that a portrait by John Singer Sergeant was by him just by the style, and sorry there weren't more. (I once went to an exhibition of his pencil drawings in London, he is vastly under-rated).

Also went into the NYC library for the first time, it is awe-inspiring. I got a list of exhibitions, lectures, etc held in various library locations, all of which are either already past, or happening while I'm busy. I shall try to keep an eye on what else they have in the future.

We went to a stand-up comedy show one evening, and I'm gonna sign up for some classes that they run there in the next few months when I work out exactly when I can spare the time.

We tried to get tickets for the free "Shakespeare in the Park", only to find that some of the people that'd been queuing since 8am failed to get in.

We went to the South East Seaport or whatever its called, very dissapointing, just a small and dull shopping mall really.

We walked through Chinatown and Little Italy, Chelsea and the East Village, and lots more.

WE walked our legs off. With only one subway trip and no other transport, we hit the Staten Island Ferry entrance and 93rd Street, as the Southern and Northern extremes, and the Chelsea piers & 1st avenue as the western and eastern extremes. Altogether I calculate we wlaked about 40 miles while we were there.

I didn't have time to read this whole thing so I just read teh first few words of every paragraph. Unfortunately that just lead to epic confusion as to what you were saying.

[strike wolf]

It's time for strike's movie line of the week.

This week's movie line comes from a movie (a very good movie I might add) called Fractured (actually if you haven't seen this movie you might not want to read this post as it does have a minor spoiler) starring Anthony Hopkins as the diabolical murder suspect and Ryan Gosling the prosecuting lawyer trying to convict him...

Anyways the line in question comes from one of the trial scenes where the cop that arrested Hopkins and Hopkins sudenly objects...

"Well I'm not quite sure how to put this legally but.."

"maybe you can put it into lamence terms"

"Fucking the victim"

[2dimes]

New page...

New page so...

Best New Page EVAR!!!

Wow I must have some how missed that. This should be the new thread picture...

*looks at the twins*

Look, we can't thank you enough for what you've done for this company I mean really you've been a staple for a long long time but unfortunately we're gonna have to let you go...you see well there's no easy way to say this but...that plane's just better than you. I hope you don't take this too personally.

[2dimes]

I'd like to see how great we could make fighter planes now of days seeing as we can now make carbon into forms stronger than diamond. I mean think about it. It would be relatively lightweight but super-durable. Than again I'm sure someone's already working on something like that...

Problem is that aircraft can already perform past the limits that humans can endure in the cockpit.

Those guys are pussies, I'll fly it!

[Quirk]

Cheerios!

Yep, he loves his Cheerios. I like this pic because you can see how strong his arm is. For an 8 month old he has some guns. He hit his mom in the eye yesterday and almost gave her a black eye.

[autoload]

I'd like to see how great we could make fighter planes now of days seeing as we can now make carbon into forms stronger than diamond. I mean think about it. It would be relatively lightweight but super-durable. Than again I'm sure someone's already working on something like that...

Problem is that aircraft can already perform past the limits that humans can endure in the cockpit.

Robot pilots? Not the artificially intelligent kind necessarily but maybe ones that are controlled by pilots in a simulator...

Not the same. For accurate control one needs tactile feedback. Just think of the difference between really driving a car and a simulator. Much easier to keep a car under control when you have inertia and other external stimuli to help you calculate maneuvers.

True...Maybe we just need to start breeding better pilots then...

Not good either. Then those "super humans" will take over the world.

[autoload]

Where were you at?

I went to the lake for a while.

Is that where you smuggle the children across the border?

That's where he smuggles bones.

Excellent. Is that where he has sexual intercourse with the newly dead as well?

You know it. Freshly dead and still piping hot from being in the cargo container in the desert heat.

[autoload]

It's time for strike's movie line of the week.

This week's movie line comes from a movie (a very good movie I might add) called Fractured (actually if you haven't seen this movie you might not want to read this post as it does have a minor spoiler) starring Anthony Hopkins as the diabolical murder suspect and Ryan Gosling the prosecuting lawyer trying to convict him...

Anyways the line in question comes from one of the trial scenes where the cop that arrested Hopkins and Hopkins sudenly objects...

"Well I'm not quite sure how to put this legally but.."

"maybe you can put it into lamence terms"

"Fucking the victim"

Never heard of this movie. Probably won't watch it. Ever.