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#1 2005-07-01 01:18:00

Tad
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DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

Okay, I named this one after my other kid, who never stops talking, night or day, about cards that he collects.  Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, beginning to dabble in baseball cards.

He's insane.  He is a cartomaniac.  Hours of this, every day, "Daddy, the thing that's so cool about Biggloburgle is that he's a third level E-X!  And when he evolves, his weakness is water magic!  Do you want to see him again!  See, it even says that he's a rare-type dirkdiggler!"

Anyway, welcome to the new Dogblog.  If you look carefully, you'll see that it's a special collectible holofoil edition.


"God bless your crooked little heart."

- Tom Waits

 

#2 2005-07-01 02:57:00

dragondawn
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From: mi vida loca
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Posts: 13543

Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

*flies in*

*circles the place a few times*

*dips wings to tad in greeting*

*flies out*


My religion is to live and die without regret. ~ Milarepa

 

#3 2005-07-01 03:09:00

Olaf
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

*makes himself at home*

Nice here...should I bring my cards?

 

#4 2005-07-01 05:47:00

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

Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

rare-type dirkdiggler?

ROTFLMAO

*visions of porn-based card-game*

Oh wait it already exists...

*looks at stack of XXXenophile cards*

So Glad I got out of that racket...freed myself form the "Flat-crack" addiction (Flat-Crack being a term some friends came up with for the CCG market)...I sold off my best collection for a Paltry $600...it was in full value worth maybe $8000...but there was no way in heck I was getting anywhere even close to that for it...8P
Oh well, no more Flat-Crack for me...now if I can just get rid of my Warhammer Army.
Hey Tad any chance you want to get Connor interested in Wargames instead?


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

 

#5 2005-07-01 05:55:00

Hiragana
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

I could never figure out cardgames, although the Magic: The Gathering cards intrigued me. Nice pictures :p

 

#6 2005-07-01 06:41:00

Ren
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From: Austin, Tx
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Posts: 14966

Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

Well that IS one benefit of the CCG Market, a Lot of starving Artist landed regular work, so Kudos in that department...8)


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

 

#7 2005-07-01 06:54:00

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

Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

*wanders in with top hat in one hand and deck of cards in the other*

*sets hat down on the floor*

*walks a few feet away and starts flipping cards into hat*

This is MY kind of card game!


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

 

#8 2005-07-01 07:22:00

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

Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

I read an article in New Scientist (I think) many years ago suggesting that being male was almost automatically a mild form of autism as we are so obsessed with the specifications of equipment or the utterly meaninless list of facts about bizarre trivia.  It's a plausible theory, father to son conversations of miles per gallon or radiator bleeding frequency spring to mind.  Card games like Top Trumps, stop giggling at the back.  Car magazines, and not magazines with articles about cars, we're back to dirkdiggler territory there.

If I'm displaying severe levels of ignorance on the interpretation or understanding of the male psyche, please forgive me, no-one will give me any statistics to quote.


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#9 2005-07-01 07:51:00

Lunar
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

Tad wrote:

Okay, I named this one after my other kid, who never stops talking, night or day, about cards that he collects.  Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, beginning to dabble in baseball cards.

He's insane.  He is a cartomaniac.  Hours of this, every day, "Daddy, the thing that's so cool about Biggloburgle is that he's a third level E-X!  And when he evolves, his weakness is water magic!  Do you want to see him again!  See, it even says that he's a rare-type dirkdiggler!"

Anyway, welcome to the new Dogblog.  If you look carefully, you'll see that it's a special collectible holofoil edition.

*lol* I´ve got somebody home here who does exactly the same -the difference is that he is 23 and my boyfriend...we are moving tomorow in a new flat and I´m really curious where he will spread all his cards *g+
other couples might argue about socks on the floor we might have trouble with trading cards everywhere...*g*
we had separate rooms until now cause we were lkiving with roommates but now...we will see maybee I should buy him a hugh treasure chest were he can put them all....


"This heart gets stronger, this skin gets thicker, this mouth gets louder"

 

#10 2005-07-01 08:07:00

Jaime
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From: Wilmington, NC
Registered: 2001-06-01
Posts: 11441

Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

I've still got a box of Magic cards somewhere that I keep trying to sell, but no one will ever take them.  I only PLAYED like three times in college.

I also have one deck of LotR cards that I bought at the Fantasy Fair in Utrecht because it had Boromir on them... they haven't left my bookshelf since I got home.


Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again.

-- Heinlein

 

#11 2005-07-01 10:40:00

Jendaiya
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From: Canada
Registered: 2001-06-01
Posts: 21821
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

I just bought myself two packs of Pirates of the Spanish Main. The cool thing about these cards is that they come with little punch-out contructable SHIPS!

I now have four different pirate ships sitting on my desk. They are so wild. You should see all the masts on my flag ship, The Shadow. She's a thing of beauty.

*ponders*

I wonder if they float...?


Um, yeah, in this game there are five different classes of ship from three main groups: Spanish, British and Pirate. My four pirate ships each have different abilities and attacks and specifications...

I'm going to need more. Then I'll need a shelf to display them.

Oh, and yesterday, I saw a real working steam engine train. It was so awesome. It stopped in our town for a bit and I abandoned my car and ran across the road to go see it. Wow. Talk about COOL. A real steam engine. They sound so different from our modern trains and they smell a bit like a car radiator with a hint off added smoke.

I like trains and ships...

*sheepish*

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Beauty will save the world.

~Prince Myshkin,

The Idiot, by Dostoevsky

 

#12 2005-07-01 12:07:00

chamberk
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From: Athens, GA
Registered: 2001-12-29
Posts: 3219

Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

I was one of those hopeless addicts to Magic back in the day... it'll pass, someday.

Oh, and having looked over the last few pages of the last Dogblog, I'm incensed that no one ever mentioned the Oscar Wilde sketch of Monty Python's... and Biggles Dictates a Letter is a personal favorite, though it's sort of obscure.


"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."  - Bob Dylan

 

#13 2005-07-01 12:21:00

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

Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

Oooh Jen I did buy about 7 packs of those about christmas time intending to play with my friends...assembled all the ships (with some breakage) and never, ever played...though there are two newer sets out so i may snag some more nect time I go...problem is that they are a PAIN to store especially with the info cards that are aprt of the game.
I actually got them thought to use with the 7th Sea Role-playing Game next time I run a Sea-Battle...yaar!
Who can resist playing Pirates?

Need to find a copy of the cool Pirate Boardgame my buddy Monty has...lots of fun...8)


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

 

#14 2005-07-01 14:24:00

spiritusvult
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From: Sunnyvale, CA
Registered: 2005-01-19
Posts: 25
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

I have a lot of questions I'd like to ask, but this doesn't really seem like the place for that. So, I tried to think of something really cool, or relevant to say, but this is all I could come up with. I hope it doesn't stand out too much.

[ July 01, 2005: Message edited by: spiritusvult ]


"The goat might look dimly on that."
—Robert Scott

 

#15 2005-07-01 15:25:00

Jendaiya
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

Nah, doesn't stand out. Just say what ya want, doesn't matter. Well, so long as it isn't something that will make us blush or cover our eyes. ;)

If you need help just let us know. :)

Welcome!


Beauty will save the world.

~Prince Myshkin,

The Idiot, by Dostoevsky

 

#16 2005-07-01 15:30:00

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

Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

Jendaiya wrote:

....so long as it isn't something that will make us blush or cover our eyes ...

If you do need to say something that will make us blush or cover our eyes, come to the Mint! Party's always going on.

Welcome!


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

 

#17 2005-07-01 15:35:00

cyan
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Posts: 22782

Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

OPB Marth:
[b]If you do need to say something that will make us blush or cover our eyes, come to the Mint! Party's always going on.

Be warned, though, that you might occasionally feel the need to cover your eyes...  there lurks a kilt-wearing shrub who flashes us sometimes...


"Reality is for those people who can't handle fantasy!" - Genisis X

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#18 2005-07-02 01:21:00

Sahi
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

Go ahead and ask. We love railing off-topic. :)

And I've got a pretty big (well for someone who isn't a fervent collector) collection of magic cards.

I loved the idea of Pirates, but some friends of mine said it wasn't worth my while.

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.

 

#19 2005-07-02 02:01:00

Hiragana
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Registered: 2003-02-07
Posts: 9121

Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

Neat quote, spiritus. I'm a Crowded House fan, currently pining after the newest Finn Brothers CD (not available here).

 

#20 2005-07-02 02:21:00

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

Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

Should have bought it on your recent trip?

It would be cheap enough to buy and post to you if you wanted that, although that depends on how cheap CDs are as we are often termed rip-off Britain when it comes to the price of such things.

Finn brothers CD and DVD (if you need the DVD another region just shout I can do that)


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#21 2005-07-02 02:28:00

Hiragana
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

Aye, I should have had the sense to look for it then but I kept doing currency conversion in my head and figuring I could get CDs for cheaper here. I'm going to Singapore in August though so may look for it there.

*eyes amazon.co.uk link*

 

#22 2005-07-02 02:30:00

Hiragana
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Registered: 2003-02-07
Posts: 9121

Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

ps: Oops, I just reread your post.

Thanks Stuart, it's a very sweet offer but it's alright. I don't like bothering/taking advantage of people :)

 

#23 2005-07-02 10:49:00

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

Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

It's up to you, but like "The Hoff", it's no hassle!


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#24 2005-07-02 11:01:00

Hiragana
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

What's "The Hoff"? o . O

 

#25 2005-07-02 11:08:00

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

Re: DOGBLOG: The Cartomanic Monologist

This is my 2001th post so it must have timpani, bom, bom, bom bom, bom.

Seems suitable to include a very poor pun, but I believe the story goes.

David Hasslehoff arrives on the set of Sponge Bob Squarepants and tells the director he wants everyone to call him "The Hoff", to which the Director replies, -yes Dave, no hassle!

Clearly an urban myth, but you'd like it to be true.


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