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#601 2007-04-04 10:49:00

Em
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From: somewhere left of reality
Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42283

Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

I'm getting close to 23456!


Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#602 2007-04-04 11:48:00

Stuart
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From: Yorkshire
Registered: 2002-07-08
Posts: 3736

Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

All this talk of numbers is making me hungry, I fancy a slice of pi.


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#603 2007-04-04 11:48:00

Kiema
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Registered: 2004-12-29
Posts: 560

Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

Anybody else having Electric Company moments flash through their brain?

 

#604 2007-04-04 11:52:00

Stuart
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From: Yorkshire
Registered: 2002-07-08
Posts: 3736

Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

Nope, maybe you have the monopoly on that one?


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#605 2007-04-04 11:53:00

Aan`allein
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From: The Netherlands - occasionally
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Posts: 5637
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Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

Y'know, I think that in honor of the last page of this thread, and to help completely and utterly refute Williams Law, we should spend the rest of this thread being as solemn and non-silly as possible.
Who's with me?!


Mozilla developer comment of the however long it'll be this time:
<Mossop> run for the hills!
<Boriss> i can't, i'm at a local maximum!


Just Imagine...

 

#606 2007-04-04 11:55:00

Kiema
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Registered: 2004-12-29
Posts: 560

Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

Stuart wrote:

Nope, maybe you have the monopoly on that one?

That is, in some ways, strangely satisfying that my form of crazy is still at least one notch off the norm.

As to being solemn and unsilly, I think it is a stacked deck against it, but I'm ready to be proven wrong.

 

#607 2007-04-04 11:55:00

Em
Mantis
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Posts: 42283

Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

Stuart wrote:

Nope, maybe you have the monopoly on that one?

I'm always the top hat.

Dibs on Broadway!


Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#608 2007-04-04 12:07:00

Stuart
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From: Yorkshire
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Posts: 3736

Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

Well Aan, it was worth a try.

Bow-wow
Chi-hua-hua-hua-hua-hua!
Dog, bad dog, bad dog, best dog
Bow-wow-wow-wow-wow
Chi-hua-hua-hua-hua-hua!

It were aliens who started this green popularity
Sure were aliens

They are green
Want everything
Green and brown
No mistake
New demand
Will be made
All must be green
Everything

When they land
The aliens would be made the laughing stock of planet earth
They are green
They intend
To occupy
Planet earth
They have green
Want everything
Green and brown

Just a bit of relevant insanity from the little pixie we all love and know as Bjork, to make you all feel sane again.

...and now for something completely sensible.


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#609 2007-04-04 12:10:00

Magpie
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From: the town of thistly flowerbeds
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Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

*watches Stuart with a very solemn face*

*shakes with suppressed laughter*


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

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#610 2007-04-04 12:28:00

Tad
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From: California
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Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

How much hua
Would a huahua chi
If a huahua could chi hua?

("hua" here is pronounced "wa".  We refer to the new creature as "the wawa".)

(Also occasionally as "Owlbait" or "CC" for "Cupcake Coyote.")

(I have also been known to call him "Wall-eyed Dingo Rat", but this is more a description than a poetic nickname.)


"God bless your crooked little heart."

- Tom Waits

 

#611 2007-04-04 12:30:00

Em
Mantis
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Posts: 42283

Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

*makes faces at Magpie behind Stuart's back*


Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#612 2007-04-04 12:36:00

Magpie
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Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

*face begins to twitch*
*makes funny grunting noises*
*doesn't laugh*

I have a lot of training, oh yes... try working with the people I work with.


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

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#613 2007-04-04 12:48:00

Em
Mantis
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Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42283

Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

*dumps an English dessert over Stuart*

See, I'm trifling with Stuart.


Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#614 2007-04-04 12:53:00

Stuart
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From: Yorkshire
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Posts: 3736

Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

Mmm, sauce anglaise, ma petit pois, mange-tout rodney, mange-tout.


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#615 2007-04-04 13:20:00

Jendaiya
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From: Canada
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Posts: 21821
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Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

We should be silly to the point of insanity right now. I just don't feel the crazy, dudes.


Beauty will save the world.

~Prince Myshkin,

The Idiot, by Dostoevsky

 

#616 2007-04-04 13:31:00

Em
Mantis
From: somewhere left of reality
Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42283

Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

Tad wrote:

I have also been known to call him "Wall-eyed Dingo Rat", but this is more a description than a poetic nickname.

I hope not to his face! He's very tempermental. Or some sort of mental.

*shares Stuarts trifle with everyone*


Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#617 2007-04-04 13:33:00

Magpie
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Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

I'll never be able to look at a chihuahua without laughing silently. "dingo rat" is just such a lovely description.
Dogs smaller than cats are just plain WRONG.


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

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#618 2007-04-04 13:37:00

Em
Mantis
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Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42283

Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

Luau!

If you're hungry for a hunk of fat and juicy meat
Eat my buddy here because he is a treat
Come on down and dine
On this tasty swine
All you have to do is get in line!

Are you achin'
(Yup, yup, yup)
For some bacon?
(Yup, yup, yup)
He's a big pig
(Yup, yup)
You can be a big pig, too
Oi!


Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#619 2007-04-04 13:55:00

Miiru
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Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

strangeshe wrote:


Two in one blow, eh, Miiru? You truly are evil. I guess staying in Tad's shed'll do that to ya.

I is what I is and I does what I does; ain't no reason why, guess it's just because.


Ted Kennedy in a speedo is just another sign of the coming apocalypse.
-wiked

 

#620 2007-04-04 13:57:00

Miiru
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Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

Also, "Owlbait" is possibly the best name /ever/ for a chihuahua.


Ted Kennedy in a speedo is just another sign of the coming apocalypse.
-wiked

 

#621 2007-04-04 14:50:00

Sahi
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From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
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Posts: 37884
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Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

Definitely!

yalahii.


"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#622 2007-04-04 15:03:00

Ren
Pilgrim
From: Austin, Tx
Registered: 2001-07-29
Posts: 14966

Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

"Wall-eyed Dingo Rat"...yes that is one to remember...8)

Though I have seen a dog smaller, yes smaller than a Chihuahua...a miniature daschund. And By miniature I mean ITTY-BITTY...it was maybe all of 8 inches long...fully grown.
It wasn't an outdoor or indoor dog, it was a Desktop Dog...just what we all need, a dog that fits on your Desktop...8)
If you could only train it to write for you...

Though I think it should be an ownership requirment to give it a name so long that when written out in 12pt Times New Roman Font it wouls literally be longer than said dog...and if you can do that with 'bob', it's prolly a fetus...

and bwahahahahahaha for the magical counting post count; 12345!


"You know, if you ate more comfort food you'd probably kill less people"
- Hurley, Lost

 

#623 2007-04-04 17:32:00

Tad
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From: California
Registered: 2001-05-30
Posts: 6981
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Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

I have decided that Frankie Big Ears is not a boring old chihuahua, but one of the fancy new hybrids, a la "labradoodles" and "buggles".  Thus, he is either a "ringo" -- the aforementioned rat-dingo cross -- or a "hackal", hamster + jackal.

(Could also be a "jamster", I suppose.)


"God bless your crooked little heart."

- Tom Waits

 

#624 2007-04-04 17:51:00

Em
Mantis
From: somewhere left of reality
Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42283

Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

D'rat?


Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#625 2007-04-05 06:08:00

Viduus
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From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: 2006-06-09
Posts: 131
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Re: DOGBLOG: Underwater Man vs. the Chihuahua of Doom

I used to call my X's chihuahua "field goal" or "Football Dog". I'll let you guess why...


Kamiko:
"Yeah, the power of Gods. That's why we do this writing stuff anyway :P"

Cackalacky Matt Jay:
"It's to appease our inner megalomaniacs. ;-)"

 

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