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#1 2009-09-19 01:18:05

Genisis X
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QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

New mint time!

After three weeks eating ration packs and carrying around half my body weight I am eating an utterly amazing amount of food.

I went to mcdonalds yesterday and (warning: this is quite disgusting) ate a large big mac meal, a double quarter pounder, a Mcchicken burger and 20 chicken nuggets by myself and then went out for Chinese 3 hours later and had crispy skin chicken and special fried rice.

Seriously. I think I've turned into a plague locust.

To eat, or not to eat? That is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the aches and pangs of outrageous hunger, or to take up cutlery against a sea of cake!

Dig in!

-X


Cyan on the merits of Dubstep: "That's not music. That's a patchwork quilt made by a blind iron worker."

My new webcomic of sarcasm and profanity!

 

#2 2009-09-19 05:54:31

Magpie
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Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

*groan*

I should have started studying two hours ago... but I just couldn't get out of bed.


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#3 2009-09-19 06:42:47

Em
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Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

Scottish Games today!!!


"Ho, Ho," says the Keeper of the Beat. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#4 2009-09-19 07:25:35

Em
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Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

Time to go see men in skirts!


"Ho, Ho," says the Keeper of the Beat. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#5 2009-09-19 07:43:51

Magpie
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Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

Sounds like more fun than my plans for the rest of the day. *gathers up papers and books to go to the park again*


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#6 2009-09-19 10:49:46

cyenti
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From: Austin, TX
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Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

Em wrote:

Time to go see men in skirts!

Woohoo! ;)

With weather actually in the high 80s in Austin Texas, it's time to pump up my flat bicycle tire and go for a ride!


-- Clannad Yenti

"At ease, Ensign, before you sprain something." -- Captain Janeway

 

#7 2009-09-19 11:46:36

U.N Owen
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From: UBC Okanagan
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Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

Yay family reunion; I get to see my family and I'm going to get real food, not cafeteria food, but real food that's made with love and best of all I don't have to pay for it.


To quote my chemistry proff "don't mix hydrogen gas with florine gas, it will explode and kill you in the face."

 

#8 2009-09-19 12:12:15

Magpie
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Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

Yay for real food.
Now if only this wouldn't make me think about the more disgusting things from my cafeteria... the only good thing about it was the computer lab in the same building where I discovered Smarch.


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#9 2009-09-19 13:15:09

Em
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Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

Men in skirts.
Scotch.
Bagpipes.
Scotch.
Celtic rock band.
Scotch.
Dogs herding sheep and geese.
Scotch.
NO HAGGIS!!!!

.... and ....

More scotch!!!!


"Ho, Ho," says the Keeper of the Beat. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#10 2009-09-19 13:56:49

Magpie
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Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

*giggles, remembering a silly pun from the medieval fair in Purgstall*
It's very sad that it's utterly untranslatable, as it involves both scotsman and pirate-talk.

I'm still procrastinating instead of studying. And I'm beginning to feel quite scared.


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#11 2009-09-19 15:04:52

Magpie
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Posts: 20045
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Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

I just ate a whole jar of olives.


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#12 2009-09-19 15:06:52

Em
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From: somewhere left of reality
Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42304

Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

Magpie wrote:

I just ate a whole jar of olives.

Black or green?


"Ho, Ho," says the Keeper of the Beat. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#13 2009-09-19 15:19:17

Magpie
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Posts: 20045
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Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

Black.

I should have kept one for Gandalf - he loves olives.


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#14 2009-09-19 16:08:54

Em
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From: somewhere left of reality
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Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

I like olives. Green, black, greek, whatev ....


"Ho, Ho," says the Keeper of the Beat. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#15 2009-09-19 16:24:43

Genisis X
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From: Canberra
Registered: 2005-05-08
Posts: 12520
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Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

Sicilian green olives stuffed with fetta and sundried tomato.... Mmmmmm....

Anywho, It's 8 oclock and I've just woken up! Yaaay!

Much better than getting up at a quarter past five I'd have to say.

-X


Cyan on the merits of Dubstep: "That's not music. That's a patchwork quilt made by a blind iron worker."

My new webcomic of sarcasm and profanity!

 

#16 2009-09-19 17:04:57

Em
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Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42304

Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

*waves a triple-decker egg mcmuffin with a side of a big breakfast on the side under Gen's nose*


"Ho, Ho," says the Keeper of the Beat. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#17 2009-09-19 18:03:44

Em
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Posts: 42304

Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

The best way to eat olives is with a martini wrapped around 'em..


"Ho, Ho," says the Keeper of the Beat. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#18 2009-09-19 22:11:10

U.N Owen
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From: UBC Okanagan
Registered: 2008-09-08
Posts: 119

Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

Just got back from the reunion, I'm fed; but a little sad, I won't be seeing any of the family again until I go home for Thanksgiving.


To quote my chemistry proff "don't mix hydrogen gas with florine gas, it will explode and kill you in the face."

 

#19 2009-09-19 23:19:41

Genisis X
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From: Canberra
Registered: 2005-05-08
Posts: 12520
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Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

Blargh.

Trying to do some research for an essay on Attaturk which is due on friday.

-X


Cyan on the merits of Dubstep: "That's not music. That's a patchwork quilt made by a blind iron worker."

My new webcomic of sarcasm and profanity!

 

#20 2009-09-20 08:53:48

Magpie
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From: the town of thistly flowerbeds
Registered: 2006-03-27
Posts: 20045
Website

Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

I've been a good girl, spent three hours in the park soaking up sunshine and studying. I still think the park is ugly.


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#21 2009-09-20 09:32:48

Em
Mantis
From: somewhere left of reality
Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42304

Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

Making lasagne.


"Ho, Ho," says the Keeper of the Beat. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#22 2009-09-20 09:38:10

cyenti
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From: Austin, TX
Registered: 2001-08-18
Posts: 156
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Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

Fighting a hangover. :)


-- Clannad Yenti

"At ease, Ensign, before you sprain something." -- Captain Janeway

 

#23 2009-09-20 11:20:41

Magpie
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Registered: 2006-03-27
Posts: 20045
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Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

Reading through my work journal again. I have no idea what they'll ask at the exam, but apparently many of the questions will be based on the journal. So I suppose I should know what I've written there, right?


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#24 2009-09-20 12:19:33

Magpie
Mantis
From: the town of thistly flowerbeds
Registered: 2006-03-27
Posts: 20045
Website

Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

OK, I think I do now have some idea of what we've done when with what plant, so I can get ready for work. Blergh.
I'm so taking the afternoon off tomorrow. And if they won't let me, I think I shall have to throw a tantrum.


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#25 2009-09-20 18:31:09

Em
Mantis
From: somewhere left of reality
Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42304

Re: QM - The 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet. Now with soft serve Icecream!

Watching the Emmys. Rather, watching the commercials, which are interrupted every so often for the Emmys.


"Ho, Ho," says the Keeper of the Beat. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

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