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A Forum 9 Trustee Territory (Rook & Aan`allein)
Downtown Southmarch. Dusk is merely a memory. The oblivion of full night is accompanied by a whimsical fog. Appearing out of nowhere, it takes over the city. A feeling of unease creeps over the land. Empty streets.
Cobble-lined alleys. Clammy walls are nearly touching each other. The sounds of muffled footsteps disappear as quickly as they're made. A brave owl's hooting vanishes in the distance. A moonless sky presses down on everything. Desolate passages.
Abrupt end to the road. A building is looming up ahead. The front door opens, and suddenly the night is transformed. Warm yellow light comes pouring out of the building. Gone is the chill brought on by the fog, gone are the memories of the harsh weather. Red and golden leaves rustle beneath your feet as a warm wind caresses you. Taking a deep breath you notice the seasons seem to have turned and brought you to an early autumn. The door to the building up ahead is still open in welcome. As you enter between the white marble pillars of the manor, you hear the sound of the good life coming from within. A deep, resonant voice is orating somewhere to your left, and the hearth in the hallway you've now come to is crackling merrily.
As you once again take a deep breath, a squad of hamsters comes running through the open doorway to your right. Stopping just beside you, they quickly hop on to each other until they reach as high as your shoulder. Deftly they take your coat. A bump to the back of your leg and the sound of purring inform you that a resident cat would like some attention. Still looking at the hamsters with unabashed wonder, you absentmindedly scratch the cat's head. As the hamsters disappear with your coat and you look down, you notice that your hand has been scratching nothing but the air...
Blinking at that strange occurence, you venture deeper within the building. A plaque next to a door up ahead informs you that continental breakfasts will be served each morning. You take note of the fact, but quickly enter the small corridor on your left, leading to a cozy room from which the sounds of orating seem to be coming. The words come with ever greater speed and vigor as the voice whips itself (and its audience) up to a frenzy of mad, maniacal ranting.
Just as you enter the room, the voice comes to a halt, saying "...and that, my friends, will be all for now. However, there is no need to despair, for we will rant for you every Monday and Thursday night in a great while. Come and spend some time with us when next we take a look at the delightful and capricious wonders of life itself. Come and spend some time with us as we pound on your minds and infuse the insidious ideas in them that will expand the influence of Forum 9 all over the world. Come, and see how fun evil can be! Who knows, you might just have what it takes to be considered worthy to dwell amongst the memories of the Croissant of Evil..."
You smile as you realize you've found a new home, here at a Forum 9 Trustee Territory!
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Ye Wastelande Rant the Fourty Seventh of Yuletide and randome thoughts of being written by Rook
First of all, welcome back to the new incarnation of the Forum 9 Trustee Territory. Like Gandalf (or as some of you like to call him "Mithrandr", I think) we come back from death more powerful than before. Except we haven't changed colors really. Still the same drab grey, blue, and white.
Second, Merry Christmas to everyone. Remember to spread the joy by inviting your local space alien on a Christmas spree and turning him off to the holiday forever. No, seriously, Christmas is a grand time of year, and it's not the time to be worrying about materialistic goods or parking spaces or whatnot. Just go grab the latest George Foreman doodad for your parents and call it a day!
I'll be taking off for my old stomping grounds in Detroit tonight, so I shan't be here all week. While there, I shall be petitioning the building of the Great Croissant Memorial. As silly as that may seem, remember, this is a city that has both a Levitating Fist and a 12-ton tire, so a giant croissant would look pretty normal.
I'll spread more Christmas cheer, but first to thoughts that are first and foremost in our minds….
----- The Two Towers
Yeah, yeah, there's another thread where the Red Eye of Mordor is alive and well, but I wanted to throw together a list of pointless thoughts and questions:
THE TWO TOWERS POINTLESS THOUGHTS LIST
1) When the Fellowship first arrives in Rohan, was I the only person who thought, "God, they're rip-offs of the Thrithings!"?
2) Similarly, did anyone else think that the Cave Trolls were rip-offs of the Hunan?
3) Does anyone else think that the "Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!" was the single most Peter Jacksonish scene in the whole movie?
4) Why would anyone ever want to cross-breed orcs with goblins? Orcs are easily hacked into pieces; same with goblins. So somehow you main fighting force is composed of a bunch of warriors who fall apart when you poke 'em?
5) If you can't tell dwarven women apart from dwarven men, how do we know Gimli isn't a woman?
6) Are they ever going to reform Isildur's sword, or is it doomed forever as a museum set piece?
Now for the Two Towers awards:
The Lady Byng Memorial Trophy (award for the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct): Aragorn, of course, for being a real gentlemen to frighten young soldiers, old kings, tomboy nieces to old kings, and a badly acted elf woman. He's also nice to his grandma-to-be (Galadriel).
Maurice Richards Award (top scorer): As I recall, in the book Gimli does beat Legolas for body counts. But for sheer carnage, it's hard to beat Eomer. The vistory is not his own, to be sure, but his Rohirrim line does beat an Uruk-hai and the early goings and ends on a strong note by smacking down some 10,000 Isengard forces.
Calder Trophy (rookie of the year): Eowyn made a pretty good impression, especially since she easily matched last year's MVP Aragorn for swordplay. I see significant improvements in her performance for next year, perhaps even taking the place of Theoden (a good player for his age, but looks to be replaced soon).
Norris Trophy (top defenseman): Theoden. While the defense strategy remains highly questionable, there's no disputing the old adage: "Offense brings in the ratings, but defense wins games". While the old king's gambit at Helm's Deep seemed folly at first, you do have to ask the question: if you were supposed to wait for Gandalf until dawn, would you wait for him at the flammable halls in Edoras or on the road (Helm's Deep), where Rohan has yet proved undefeated?
Hart Memorial Trophy (MVP): Gimli. There is no equal. Moriarty from AICN put it best: that little guy is like a grenade. Toss him into a battle, and he explodes. I doubt Helm's Deep would have lasted until Gandalf's arrival if not for his unflagging bloodlust.
Conn Smythe Trophy (Playoff MVP): The final battle has yet to be waged, so this award is still up for grabs. Among the potential candidates: Aragorn (nee "Strider", nee "Elessar", nee "The True Blue Super Ranger"), whose play up till now has been stellar, but could push himself over the top should he claim his legacy. Another front runner is Frodo Baggins, who's play up till now has been disappointing, (current body count: zero), but can come up big in the end game (at least that's what our resident white-robed wizard says).
Rumors, though, are that one of the other players from either Gondor, Rohan, or the Fellowship may yet pull an upset. Among the names mentioned: former gardener Samwise Gamgee, the current Calder Trophy winner Eowyn, and even that schizophrenic veteran Gollum/Smeagol, who scored big some 5,000 years ago, but hasn't been up to form since his years in Mordor. Even highly revered wizard Gandalf suspects that Gollum may yet be useful. This writer has doubts.
Closing thoughts: what is up with Mordor? They spend the big bucks to form a strong 10,000 team army and they still lose? Were I Sauron, Mordor's current owner, I'd drop Saruman like hotcakes and see if I could somehow persuade up-and-coming star Gandalf to manage the Isengard franchise. But we all know that big egos are at play here, and Sauron, especially, hates admitting that he made a mistake. I say, cut your losses now, or you're going to sink your franchise into the ground.
Also, see if you can release the Nazgul. While they are definitely team players, Mordor is running into salary cap issues when nine of the players are former Kings of Men. See if you can pick up a few of the rising stars from Rohan or Gondor. Faramir seemed like such a good prospect, but the scouting dropped the ball somewhere in Osillgath.
----- …and a merry Christmas!
The one thing I love about Christmas are the Christmas songs. No, not the ones you hear by current pop artists that are overplayed on the mall circuit until your ears fall off. I speak of a wonderful phonograph record we have back in Detroit that cannot be topped. There are old songs by Johnny Cash, Bing Crosby, Jim Nabors, and a whole bunch of others in a three phonograph set that bring back old sentiments of Christmas past.
I mean, what is Christmas, if not sentiments?
OK, yes, there is the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but an atheistic Indian friend once correctly said that Christmas is now a secular holiday, observed all over the world for non-religious reasons.
Our family will observe Christmas religiously, but if you're a non-Christian, that means you shouldn't be left out of the fun. Enjoy those Christmas songs! Give and receive presentses! There aren't many times in the year to feel like a child again.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
[ December 23, 2002: Message edited by: Rook: The Third Tower ]
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Re: A Forum 9 Trustee Territory (Rook & Aan`allein)
*chuckles mirthfully* love the play-by-play, Rook ;) Rook: The Third Tower wrote:3) Does anyone else think that the "Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!" was the single most Peter Jacksonish scene in the whole movie?
No way, that has to go to the Dead Marshes scene - exceptionally Jacksonesque.
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*appluads rant* I like Bing Crosby christmas songs too - got my dad a whole album of them! Also a very merry un-birthday to you. Since I uh, sort of missed yours. But look! here's an IOU, good at any of our outlet stores. Um, you know, of evil?
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Bandit wrote:*appluads rant* I like Bing Crosby christmas songs too - got my dad a whole album of them! Also a very merry un-birthday to you. Since I uh, sort of missed yours. But look! here's an IOU, good at any of our outlet stores. Um, you know, of evil?
And a happy happy unbirthday to you, too! Of course I'd be glad to redeem your IOU at the closest evil outlet store. Unfortunately, most are, at their worst, amoral.
* begins searching yellow pages for stores that sell evil hamsters *
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Ohno! Iwas away, and now that I*mbacvk, I don#t veen have a Birthingday present forRook! *covers ears* but, since I'vejust seen The Two Towers and have to devour the ongoingdiscussion, I don't have any energy left to look for something even moreoutrageous than the dancing hampster company...dancing croissants would be it, no? Anyway, it's already the 24th here, so merry merry christmas!
*hugs*
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a new territory! so, what about the croissant? continental breakfast does include a (more or less) evil croissant, doesn´t it??
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Re: A Forum 9 Trustee Territory (Rook & Aan`allein)
I thought I posted in here?! I must have just intended to.
*leaves a huge basket of fruits on the breakfast table*
Yalahii.
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Happy 01-02-03! (At least, that's what the date looks like by American reckoning.)
* my pathetic comeback for missing y'all on Christmas & New Year's *
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And little less than a month we can celebrate that date again. :) Happy new year Rook!
yalahii.
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Wasteland Rant #48 Throw your life away for justice by Rook
Welcome back to this rant of rants! I don't do this for money but … eh … why should I?
I'll tell you why. I was watching the news the other day, and there's apparently a teenage girl who basically keeps an online diary on the net, then charges people to check it out. Membership is, like, $5.95/month. Now, allegedly, there's no porn on the site, but there's "disturbing" pictures: that is, pictures of her with words written on her skin and what now. And she gets something like $2000 a month.
Mah gawd! So why am I doing this for free?
Oh, right. I'm not cute.
Let's just say that if Tad was a cute teenage girl, the Shadowmarch story would still be going on today. And I'd actually read it. Um, no, actually I'd be lurking in the art section.
----- NationStates
If you haven't seen it yet, Paragon got a bunch of us hooked onto a little game called Nationstates. It all amounts to the latest attempt at internet advertising, this time for the book "Jennifer Government". Then again, so was that Dancing Baby, and look where that went. Ally McBeal! Ally … frikkin' … McBeal! And its half-hour spin-off "Ally"!
There's even a Shadowmarch region, and Sahi is our glorious and beautiful leader. Long live Queen Sahi! All hail Sahistan! May your fields be green and fragrant.
By the way, that bluish logo on Paragon's "Unwashed" flag is a soap bar. Cheeky.
Depending on how successful the Shadowmarch region is, I might go ahead and create me a custom scenario in Civ3 to see how it would play out in a turn-based world, because, frankly, you can't wage war on the website. Oh, you can start some sort of message board text-based war, but you'd look pretty darned lame. And Forum 9 cannot survive without the War Machine. No sirree bob.
Anyway, if you're down there, look up the Forum 9 Wasteland, where you can meet great and evil CEO, Rooklius R. Rook, successor of previous evil CEOs Bill Gates, Pius XIII, and Doink the Clown.
----- YOUR car of the future
If you're from the Motor City, YOU know what time of year it is … time for the North American International Auto Show! And despite all the anti-SUV hype --- ranging from the sacrilegious-sounding "What Would Jesus Drive?" to the sacrilegious-sounding "If you drive an SUV, the terrorists have won" --- cars are getting bigger, brawner, and pollutier.
A look at some of the cars you'll see clogging America's freeways:
The Cadillac Sixteen - Because ten cylinders weren't enough! I mean, really: sixteen cylinders? The era of excess is back, baby.
The Pontiac GTO - This one's modified from a Holden Monaro, so this time it's the Australians' fault! A return of the classic American muscle car by way of the South Pacific.
The Ford Mustang - It seems a lot of American gals dig guys with 'stangs, so desperate guys should check this one out.
The Toyota FJ Cruiser - Note to Toyota: the Hummer is not the design you want to copy
The Dodge Kahuna - Surf's up! This one, I actually like. Because it looks like a funky space alien.
The Honda Studio E - How can you watch TV if it's facing the rear?
And finally….
The Dodge Tomahawk - Now, if you skip the obvious questions, such as "What is a motorcycle doing at an auto show?", the next logical question is: "Who in the world would stick a Viper V10 engine onto a motorcycle frame" And then "How do you lean?" And then "What do you do when it falls on you?"
These … are your cars of the future!
---- Il… Kim Jong Il
I submit to you an article from the Wall Street Journal entitled "The Man With the Golden Gun". According to filmmaker Shin Sang Ok, North Korean President Kim Jong Il is a huge James Bond fan. And, if you haven't seen "Die Another Day", the latest Bond flick, Korea is not portrayed in a very positive light. (In fact, it's being protested in South Korea --- the free Korea! --- and may be a leading factor in Korea's current anti-American sentiments. Well, along with that speed skater that got "cheated" by Washington resident Apolo Ohno.)
But think about this: you're the Prez, you're a Bond fan, and the latest Bond film makes your country look like a horrible, blasted-out wasteland. No doubt all of it your fault. Think of the betrayal! I imagine Mr. Il wept many bitter tears and smashed his entire stock of James Bond paraphernalia.
I know I'd be crying for days if Forum 9 got portrayed anywhere in the news as a tropical paradise. I know I had nightmares when NationStates had us pegged as a New York Times Democracy. That took a whole lot of ice cream to choke down that feeling of disappointment.
(I'm going to be very fair to the Koreans too…. If Americans got represented in Korean films as a bunch of gun-slinging dummies, then we'd probably take mucho offense. But in the end, it is just a movie.)
----- Global Warming
I realized I was fortunate enough to get a White Christmas in Detroit, because it was unseasonably warm directly before and after the day. Here in Seattle, it's nice moderate weather too. I start to think about global warming.
Then my aunt from Norway calls and tell me that it was 10 degrees Celcius in the Philippines. TEN DEGREES! I mean, the Philippines is supposed to be some sort of tropical paradise all year long, and now the poor folk are shivering in their shortpants. She then tells me that she took a train to the Philippines, and the landscape from Siberia all the way down to China and Hong Kong was covered in snow.
Really bizarre weather we've been having. REALLY bizarre.
----- Bad movie watch
Here's a site I stumbled across that may be of interest to fans of cheesy movies: The New Orleans Worst Films Festival. Don't miss the FoyWonder's articles. He does hilarious reviews of Bat Attack!, Beneath Loch Ness, and the Christian fundamentalist train wreck Megiddo: Omega Code 2. All are super-cheesy movies, and all would probably have made it to MST3K had the show survived.
----- Whatever and ever amen
Looks like I've caught the Wrestlemania XIX bug and I'll be watching a bunch of overweight, half-naked men grapple each other … right here … in Seattle! Grabbed the tix on Ticketmaster earlier this week using the password. Lord have mercy on my soul.
Speaking of needing mercy, I'll be down at Mt. Rainier this weekend learning how to ski for the first time. I spoke to someone at work who skied last week, and he showed me the cast on his knee, which will be there for the next six months. And he's an athletic guy!
Mercy!
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I believe that the weird weather and the American propensity for big ugly jagganath-cars are linked...
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I was taking an english placement exam today and the topic was, "What was something that happened to you in the last 24 hours that is indicative of your character, values, or personality?" Thanks to the extra-whitening powers of A Forum 9 Trustee Territory(tm) I was able to take this dull topic and turn it into a loving paean to evil! Thanks Forum 9! (great rant Rooklius)
Crow: I think Ray Liotta would make an okay werewolf. Tom Servo: No, he smells like apples. - MST3K
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Rook, evil CEO with a twist wrote:Thanks!
....
I think. /:(
You think, therefore you are thanks? :D
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Wasteland #49 Now with giant airbourne lasers! by Rook
Or… one rant before the great Fiftieth Wasteland Rant Spectacular!
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
Now, it's generally known (at least on Nation States) that Forum 9 boasts both the largest military and the nicest citizens. But really: what good is a large military if everyone's nice? I mean, Iraq had the fifth largest army in the world in 1990, and the US pretty much rolled them up like a sushi sampler. (Interesting blurb: a co-worker is convinced that the US used a form of top-secret subsonic sound wave to make the Iraqis more submissive, hence their eagerness to surrender. However, that's another rant for another time … plus I haven't done any research on it so I have no idea if the claim is a legit proposition from a former secret projects member or some sort of Raelian propoganda.)
So I have no choice but to somehow toughen my Hamster Elite up for the sake of National Defense. This will involve a lot of punching. PETA will no doubt throw a hissy fit, but they're not welcome in Forum 9, now, are they? And to demonstrate, I --- Rooklius R. Rook, Evil CEO and Chairman of Forum 9 --- will do it first hand … RIGHT HERE … IN THIS VERY RANT!
Alright, young one, step right up to the platform. Don't … don't give me that look … I don't want to make this harder than it already is….
Ok, here it goes …
….
Awww, they're so cute! I … I can't do it.
Sigh.
Ah, well. Any rogue nations can feel free to run slipshod all over my country now.
----- … and I shall call it: The Death Star
There was a company memo release recently that caught my eye: apparently there were job openings in some project called the "Airbourne Laser." Naturally, I thought that this was some sort of cream-puff project. Lasers in the twentieth century have been grossly underutilized. Sure, they fix nearsightedness and point to important agenda bullets, but so far we have not met the futuristic potential promised to us in Buck Rogers serials.
To my surprise, this laser really does live up to its billing. It's heavy duty, it's mounted to the front of a modified Boeing 747, and it can take down missiles. Finally, I can hold my head up in pride to the bright future promised to us in "Empire Strikes Back" and "Terminator 2".
Click this link to see what I'm talking about: Airbourne Laser.
Of course, this is the sort of project I'd be interested in. First of all, think of how "stratospheric military laser engineer" could spice up your resume, and perhaps your autobiography should you try to write one later in life. Secondly, think of the kinds of employers you'd attract: secret cabalistic organizations, desperate military dictators, and --- just maybe --- Darth Vader.
God have mercy if I ever get transferred to this project. I've got big plans. And those glaciers in Iceland are so darned sliceable.
----- Whom Rook is rooting for in this football weekend
Professional sports are, of course, chock full of millionaire athletes who contribute absolutely nothing whatsoever to society and may --- perhaps --- contribute to the Western culture's decline.
Be that as it may, you've got to root for the Oakland Raiders.
Now, as the Evil CEO of Forum 9, we do our best to uphold everything that is most evil. Oakland is hardly the most evil football team. The Detroit Lions are quite evil in that they break Rook's heart year after year, and the Baltimore Ravens --- who already possess an evil name as they were named after Edgar Allan Poe's "Nevermore" bird --- have, among their ranks, an athlete who somehow weaseled out of a double homicide hearing.
Still, Forum 9 does not endorse boring evil or horrible infraction-of-justice evil but rather fun evil, thus Forum 9 stands firmly behind the Oakland Raiders because they have the most evil FANS. If you're not familiar with the Oakland fans, they revel in evil. They're known as "The Black Hole". Inspired by the gothic team colors of black and silver, they dress up like souls even Hell would reject: skeletons, bikers, zombies, Voodoo diety Baron Samedi (my personal favorite), gorillas, and YES even as fans with black and silver face-paint. That last one is rather lame compared to the rather elaborate costumes of their Raider brethren.
Hence, Rook would like to see the Raiders make it to the Superbowl just so that their Fans of the Damned can have their day on national airtime.
Oh, sure, the Philadelphia Eagles fans once pelted Santa with snowballs. That's pretty evil.
But none of 'em ever dressed up as Darth Vader.
----- Misc misc misc … goose
Update on my brother's "dating sim" game … he found out that he's been mentioned on a French website, so he's pretty happy that he has interested fans overseas. Or he would be if a huge majority of fans weren't otaku looking for cheap hentai.
"SimCity 4" looks fun … but if you don't have 256 MB of RAM, forget about it. I'm going to have to stop by CompUSA tonight just to get my game to run. And, by the way, wasn't 256 MB the size of most hard drives just 10 years ago? Anyway, I'll probably need it … I'm trying to learn VB.net, and I'll need the processing power for my home copy. Yeahhh… that's it….
Last weekend, I skied for the first time at the Crystal Mountain resort. As Washington is suffering from a nunseasonable stretch of sunniness, it was nice to go up in the mountains to see some snow. No broken bones yet… though next week I'll be back up there with my more accomplished 16-year old cousin, and I have a feeling that he'll egg me into the more professional trails.
Darth Vader have mercy.
[ January 17, 2003: Message edited by: Rook ]
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Re: A Forum 9 Trustee Territory (Rook & Aan`allein)
Rook wrote:Wasteland #49 [i](Interesting blurb: a co-worker is convinced that the US used a form of top-secret subsonic sound wave to make the Iraqis more submissive, hence their eagerness to surrender. However, that's another rant for another time … plus I haven't done any research on it so I have no idea if the claim is a legit proposition from a former secret projects member or some sort of Raelian propoganda.)
Ah, the wonderful world of Psy-ops psychoacoustics.
This little page no longer exists on the web, so thank goodness for Google Cache.
This one gives a fairly good overview of the conspiracy.
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paragon wrote: Ah, the wonderful world of Psy-ops psychoacoustics.
This little page no longer exists on the web, so thank goodness for Google Cache.
Ah! The coverup continues. I noticed that Waco was mentioned.... I wondered about those screaming rabbit noises they played at the Branch Davidian ... thanks, friendly Nu Zilder! :P
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*** SEGWAY UPDATE ***
San Francisco bans the Segway
A tremendous blow for you folks in the Bay area. It seems that Oakland is going to follow suit, too. Frankly, this surprises me. Out of all the cities in the US, doesn't tech-friendly Frisco just scream Segway? That and Seattle.
I can see why, though. With all the hills in San Francisco, if a Segway loses control (like it did in Atlanta), you may just have 70-lbs. of pure Human Transporter cracking your shins.
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- fangler
- Pilgrim
- From: New Oldtown
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Re: A Forum 9 Trustee Territory (Rook & Aan`allein)
a segway lost control in atlanta? are they now banned there, too? i'd love to hear more details about that. i was thinking of getting my father one for his b'day, and he lives in atlanta.
- fangler
- Pilgrim
- From: New Oldtown
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Re: A Forum 9 Trustee Territory (Rook & Aan`allein)
thanks. i wonder if the segway was at fault or if the guy was an idiot and didn't know how to hold on.
oh, btw, i'll be in hell later.
- Damon
- Pilgrim
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Re: A Forum 9 Trustee Territory (Rook & Aan`allein)
Meh. If people had the same attitude to Segway injuries as they did to early car injuries, we'd still be walking and riding horses. Of course, that may be a good thing...
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- fangler
- Pilgrim
- From: New Oldtown
- Registered: 2001-09-30
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Re: A Forum 9 Trustee Territory (Rook & Aan`allein)
no way. horses smell funny. not like my pretty, pretty car. mmmmmmmmmm sweet exhaust.
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