LaLa's Laughably Silly Random Banter Thread - RB #158

[LaZodiac]

Greetings and salutations, my friends. Welcome to the 158th edition of the Random Banter Thread. Be sure to have fun. Today, we are serving some copy/pasta.

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Past Random Banters

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Amotis' Random Banter #1
Dhavaer's Random Banter #2
PhoeKun's Random Banter #3
Rei Jin's Random Banter #4
Toxic Avenger's Random Banter #5
Jibar's Random Banter #6
Ego Slayer's Surrogate Random Banter #7
Sneak's Random Barroom Brawl #8
Sophistemon's Solemnly Random Banter #9
Vaynor's Very Random Banter #10
Bookman's Blathering Random Banter #11
Gralamin's Glorious Random Banter #12
Rilik's Resplendently Random Raillery #13
Gezina's Growling Grazing Random Banter #14
The Zerglings Utterly And Geeky Random Banter #15
jaqueses Truthfully Randomly Fireside Banter # 16
Jack Squat’s Jubilantly Quixotic Random Banter #17
Cardel's Banter of Cookie Jubilation #18
Archonic's Chaotically Random Banter of Rods #19
The Rod's Inanimate Temple of RANDOM banter #20
Lucky’s Loquaciously Loud-Mouthed Random Banter#21
Deckmaster's Divinely Delightful Random Banter #22
Saithis' Soliloquy of Random Banter #23
Loveable Lianae's Ludicrous Lampooning Lottery #24
NEO|Phyte's Neolithic Nest of Weasel Banter #25
Target's Random Banter of "non-violence" #26
Tarnag40k's Random banter of "grammar errors" #27
Kyrian's Random Banter of ADHDness #28
El Jaspero's Random Drunken Ramblings #29
Boss Smiley's Eloquently Eggy Banter #30
Lykan's Looney Explosionarama & Random Banter #31
Iames's Iambic Yarn of Yammering #32
Dispozition's Deviously Distressed Banter #33
CP's Copiously Combusting Banter of Carnage #34
Alarra's Altar of Random Banter #35
Eloquent Rune's Electrifying Rambling Banter #36
E_P's Very Own Quite Popular Random Banter #37
Hydrogelic's Foolish Mortal Random Banter #38
Ink's Smudgy Splotchy Random Banter #39
Azrael's Big Black Book of Banter #40
The Logic Vampire's Rational Random Banter #41
Shiny's Shimmering Space-hitchin Random Banter #42
ZombieRockStar's Random Banter #43
Nostrabel's Realm of Cookies and Random Banter #44
Charity's Cheery Chatter Circle #45
Samiam's Spontaneous Scintillating Soliloquy #46
LLama's Masked Mysterious Random Banter #47
Ravishing Rydia's Recumbentibus ^_^ Random Banter #48
Penguinizers Perilous Random Banter #49
Death's delightfully morbid surrogate random banter #50
Wayril's wonderfully weird surrogate random banter #51
Rawhide's Deck of Random Banter (52 Cards)
Korith's Sorrogate Random Banter of Zombie Killing #53
Surrogate thread of random Bor-dom #54
Rex Idiotarum's Painfully Pogoing Thread #55
The Wrath of KHAAAAAANtalas’s William Shatner Flavored Random Banter # 56 (Surrogate)
EmeraldRose's Random Banter of Lashing Wit #57
Captain van der Decken's Surrogate Ship of Random Loot (Banter) #58
SDF's Neverending I-Don't-Have-an-OotS-Avatar-Yet Story Banter #59
Mauril's Surrogate Dwelf Banter of Fantasy Race Confusion 60th Edition
Rockphed's Dice Rolling Toga Party of 61 Drunken CIA Analysts
var Lord_Magtok = Random(Banter*62) + Surrogate
Jibar's Retro Random Banter #63
Malina's Random Spanish Banter #64 of morphical annoyance
Mr. E's Random Banter #65 of Cane Toting and Hat Tipping
Ego Slayer's Hellishly Random Banter #66.6
Purple Gelatinous Cube o' Doom's bowl of bantery j-e-ll-o randomness #67
Zephra's Random Banter of Ghostly Wailings, and Howling Fun#68
Cobra Ikari's Random Banter #69 of Rampant Hugging, Guttermindedness, and ;-) Kinky.
Scorpina's Random Banter #70
Raistlin1040's Super Special Awesome Random Banter #71(Now with 20% more tacos)
Uberblah's Random Banter #72 Of Caffeine And Sleep Deprivation Induced Randomness
Lucky’s Random Banter #73
Castaras's Random Banter #74
D'anna Biers RB #75
Zeb The Troll's RB#76
Eldpollard's RB #77
Gezina's and Calamity's Random banter #78 of double entendre and doom
Random Banter #79 In Loving Memory of Hexa_Regina
Zeratul's random banter #80 of throwing puppies off bridges
Vespe's Random Banter #81 of singing dolphins and mostly harmless planets.
CSK's Giant in the Playground Forums Addicted Anonymous, Random Banter #82
Iames's Ramblingly Erratic Belldandy-Charged Random Banter #83
Serpentine's Scintillating Sensually and Sinuously Seductive Stochastic Satire #84
Radikalskippy's Random Banter #85 of lost ideas and where to find them...
Moon Called's Random Banter #86 of Sexy Anime Boys and Fangirl Squeals
Lilly's Lovely Random Banter #87
FdL's Fuzzbox-Fueled Random Banter #88
SweetRein's Sugary Restrained Random Banter #89
Midnight's Mutant Motorcycle Madness Random Banter #90
Em's Extremely Extraordinarily Epic Random Banter #91
Dragonrider's Random Banter in Conjunction with the Weighted Cube #92
Bushranger's Bodaciously Buffed Random Banter-y Rooster #93
Haruki's Historically Hilarious Honey-covered Random Banter #94
North's Maple Syrup Flavored Non-Alliterative Random Banter #95 Eh?
Wadledo's Weirdly Warbling Watercress Watching Washing Machine Only Random Banter #96
SMEE's Random Banter #97 of gender bending and closet bursting
Raiser's Rambunctiously Rambling Random Banter #98
Dr. Bath's Random Banter, dripping with daring deeds of dastardly deipnosophists #99
VOTE, the Democracy Demon's Devilishly Devious and Decidedly Diabolical Desultory Derision (Random Banter) #100
Jack Squat's Justlessly Juxtaposed Random Banter #101
Dallas-Dakota's Dundering Dandelion's Devilish Damsel's Distress Random Banter #102
Destro Yersul's Dangerously Distracting and Doubtlessly Disturbing Random Banter #103
Aziraphiles Actually Alliterative and Awesomely Affluent Random Banter #104
Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
Slayer's Seemingly Sweet and Socially Silly Random Banter # 107
Zero's ambrosial and aberrantly adventitious, abstemiously erudite Random Banter #108
Coplantor's Completely Creative Cautious and Contemplative Random Banter #109
Rutskarn's Roly-Poly Rebellious and Rejected Random Banter #110
TwoBitWriter's Tubular Tracts of Thought-Talking Random Banter #111
Phase's Phully Phormed, Phalangeal, and Phantasmagorical Random Banter #112
Wolfbane's Wonderfully Wacky and Wildly Wandom Random Banter #113
The Kiwi's Kinkily Knotted and Kookily Kickass Random Banter #114
Jude's Judgmental Jugular Jab and Jibber Jabbery Random Banter #115
The Throne of Thufir's Thoroughly Theoretical and Therapeutic Random Banter #116
Random Banter #117
Dragonprime's Dynamically Dangerous Dextrous and Destructive Random Banter #118
Farmer Felix's Fantastic FRandom FBanter #119 (may contain traces of fnuts)
Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness (part one)
Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness (part two)
Mrmud's Mixed-Up and Minimally Mechanized Random Banter #121
Dogmantra's Dastardly, Despotic and Dangerous Random Banter #122
Alteran's Amazingly Anachronistic, Altruistic, and Antagonistic Random Banter #123
Admiral Euphoria's Random Banter Thread of Delusional Grandeur #124
Fred's Flying Fishy, Fighting, Fiery, Fantastic Face Off Random Banter #125
Cyrano’s Non-Alliterative Inaugurational Random Banter #126 To Usher In The Future
Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
loopy's Legendary and Long-Awaited Lollipop Fuelled Random Banter #128
Shadow's Shady Shop of Sharks, Shingles, Shammies, Shiny and Random Banter #129
KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130
Supagoof's Supa-Sensational Silly Symphonies Set Sizzingly On Fire Random Banter #131
Pyrian's Pyrotechnic Pyre of Pyrrhic Pyros with Pyrotic Pythics Random Banter #132!
Perenelle's Pleasantly Playful and Passionately Peculiar Random Banter #133
Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
Il'deav Ilah'naie's Indiscreet Intimacies on Indigo Iceboats Random Banter #135
Recaiden's Resplendent and Rotating Realistic Random Banter #136
Jibar's Random Banter #137: Return of the Cat-muffin
Edge's Effluence of Extravagant and Effulgent Random Banter #138
Zeb The Troll's Zecond Go At Ze Random Banter #139
Curly's Rambunctious and Erudite Random Banter #140
Deth Muncher's Destructive and Meandering Random Banter #141
A Thread in Which Banter Most Random is Expulsed Into Existence, By Ravens_cry #142
Several Silly Sealions Stuffed Seaweed Southward Swiftly (Or, Random Banter #143)
The thread that changed name one last time, with style. (Random Banter #144)
Banjo’s Bodacious & Boosted Bumper Bulletproof Box of Banter Most Random #145
Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
Archonic's Archaic Acronymical Antidisestablishmentarianism Random Banter - #148
Skeppio's Splendidly Strange & Superbly Scintillating Random Banter - #149
Teddy's Turbulent and Topicless Random Banter #150
Fifty-Eyed Fred's Ferociously Fanatical and Fabulously Fascinating Random Banter #151
Rae's Really Rascally and Ridiculously Rowdy Random Banter #152
Haruki's Hot n' Holy Random Banter #153
MoonCat's Magnificently Mythopoeic Random Banter #154
Eadin's Exchange of Extraterrestrial Excuses AKA Random Banter #155
Happy HalfTangible's Horrific Hail of Random Banter #156
AtlanteanTroll's Atrocious and Terrific Arcade of Terror - RB #157

And with that, let us commence the boogie-ing. Hope I did this right

[KuReshtin]

Aaaaahh.. I love that 'New Thread Smell'™.

I'm guessing there will be a whole host of people who won't recognise me now.

[rakkoon]

You're the Scottish Stig, right?

[LaZodiac]

I recognized the name, but you are no longer the enigmatic race car driver I know you to be. Now...you're a thing. What is that avatar of, anyway?

[Zaydos]

You look like you want to break a few backs, Ku.

[Fredaintdead]

*breathes in the new thread smell*
Yep, that's a new thread.

@KuReshtin: STIG IS NOT STIG! AAAAAAAAAAAAH! *flees*

[Haruki-kun]

Personally I prefer constant avatars, or at least a constant character in my avatars. Otherwise people forget me.

I usually make the avatars based on something that happened in real life or... or something that I just felt like doing.

[Archonic Energy]

Amongst many others.
Interobulosity; Interbobby; Interterry and many others all for the same person; Cassie Lassie; Cyssy Myssy; Fifty-Fredded; and well, the less said about me the better.

*waves hi*

ION:
Wow. Troll finally got his RB, it's been what? Twenty times since he first tried?

IOON:
Sweet holy muffins Rose Tyler is such a whiny little brat! Never has there been a companion who got on my tits more than she.
Ever.

OMG CKG's home! yay!

Also: Rose was the worse thing to happen to Dr Who for a while... the Doctor shouldn't fall for his companions.

[LaZodiac]

Oh Dr Who. I really don't think I can get into you. To expansive and scary, for one. On the other hand, I saw an episode involving the robot dog, and it seemed to take place in the same world all british shows tend to take place in. A weird, slightly over saturated with light place, where everyone sounds like they are in a comedy, but the lines don't match up with how they sound, and generally it just feels weird.

I've always been more a trekkie, myself.

[KuReshtin]

I recognized the name, but you are no longer the enigmatic race car driver I know you to be. Now...you're a thing. What is that avatar of, anyway?

It's the avatar I used back during the Super Hero/Villain week.
It's The Violator from Spawn. I like it beccause it's deliciously gruesome.

You look like you want to break a few backs, Ku.

It probably wouldn't hurt.... much.

@KuReshtin: STIG IS NOT STIG! AAAAAAAAAAAAH! *flees*

The Stigatar has been put on the back burner for a while. I'm sure it will arise again when the inevitable discussion comes back with someone asking who The Stig is, and only gets a load of cryptic Stig Facts™.

[LaZodiac]

Ahh, a Spawn villain. Awesome. Spawn is pretty cool.

[Zaydos]

It's the avatar I used back during the Super Hero/Villain week.
It's The Violator from Spawn. I like it beccause it's deliciously gruesome.



It probably wouldn't hurt.... much.

Couldn't remember the name. I used to have a toy of a four-armed version whose name meant it broke backs. I think it was the Violator's brother or something. Never really read Spawn; my older brother had the original comics but he wouldn't let me look at them.

[Thufir]

I do remember really enjoying the origin book for those green spikey dudes (can't remember their name at all.)

Hork-Bajir, and yeah, that's a good book.
I really need to read the whole series sometime.

Also: Decided on the only avvie that I don't have as a mini in my sig.

You should probably change the avatar credit in your sig to go with the avatar.

@KuReshtin: STIG IS NOT STIG! AAAAAAAAAAAAH! *flees*

Ku isn't the Stig anyway. Edge is the Stig.

Also: Rose was the worst thing to happen to Doctor Who for a while... the Doctor shouldn't fall for his companions.

The falling for his companions thing is not actually an inherent trait of Rose.
Also, I don't feel you can really say Rose was the worst thing to happen to Who for a while, since she was part of restarting the series. You can say it could have been better with a different companion, but her happening was part of going from no Who to some Who, which was definitely a good thing.

[KuReshtin]

Ahh, a Spawn villain. Awesome. Spawn is pretty cool.

He is in deed. The comics were good, but the movie was absolutely terrible.
I reaffirmed that at the time I got the avatar by actually watching it again, and i simply cannot understate the terribleness of that movie.

Even the Dolph Lundgren incarnation of The Punisher was positively brilliant in comparison.

Couldn't remember the name. I used to have a toy of a four-armed version whose name meant it broke backs. I think it was the Violator's brother or something. Never really read Spawn; my older brother had the original comics but he wouldn't let me look at them.

I haven't actually read the comics for years and years (not since before I moved to Scotland, in fact), so I can't remember whether Violator had a brother or not. Then again, he is a lower-level demon, so the four-armed version could have been another demon, I guess.


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You should probably change the avatar credit in your sig to go with the avatar.

I don't know what you're talking about...

Ku isn't the Stig anyway. Edge is the Stig.

Some say his tongue is a digital thermometer and that he sleeps with a Norwegian accent. All we know is...

[ZombyWoof]

Elfangor was right to not kill those yeerks, by the way. As mediocrely written as the end to the series was, it brought a very interesting point with it:

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The yeerks only really wanted to be free of their own pitiful existence. Sure there were the evil ones who wanted to stop at nothing to control the galaxy, but for the most part those were the ones in charge and they got there by being ruthless jerks, so it's unsurprising that they're, you know, ruthless jerks.

It's kind of a commentary in a way: who rises to the top? The ones that want power. Then it turns out that the morphing technology that the Andalites were hiding desperately is the solution to the entire war: offer terms of peace, allow the yeerks to become nothlits in bodies they prefer, and BAM. Yes, you've caused mass extinction of a sentient species but on the other hand you've managed to make that entire species happy.

They didn't want war: they didn't want to be trapped.

Friggin' love Applegate. If there had only been 10 books that were each 400-500 pages long, we'd all be saying "Harry who?"

[Serpentine]

You wanna make a thread and start that argument again or somethin'?
I'd really, really like to see them compiled into about 5 good-sized books with all the repetition and stuff edited out.

I think I got into RA Salvatore shortly after starting the Animorphs line, which kinda sucked up all my time. I do remember really enjoying the origin book for those green spikey dudes (can't remember their name at all.)

Hork-B- Aw, beaten to it Hork-Bajir Chronicles, specifically, anyway.

[Ranger Mattos]

Yay new thread!

ION: Ugh. I'm at least two days behind on my rat dissection in bio. Everyone else is already on the digestive system, I still haven't gotten the respiratory system out. Now I'll have to come in 3 times per day for the next two days

[Haruki-kun]

I just had a massive "I want to kill him" moment with a teacher. He sent us this e-mail saying "remember your exam is on Tuesday, May 12." I felt like my insides suddenly disappeared and I bolted upright. I missed the final Exam? What?

Then.... "Wait.... Tuesday May 12?" Checked the calendar. Tuesday was May 10. The exam is tomorrow.

He nearly gave me a heart attack!

[grimbold]

Aaaaahh.. I love that 'New Thread Smell'™.

I'm guessing there will be a whole host of people who won't recognise me now.

AHMIGAD
you changed you avvy!!!
*Head explodes*

[ZombyWoof]

You wanna make a thread and start that argument again or somethin'?
I'd really, really like to see them compiled into about 5 good-sized books with all the repetition and stuff edited out.Hork-B- Aw, beaten to it Hork-Bajir Chronicles, specifically, anyway.

A very beautiful book imo. I loved the way it took the simple Hork-Bajir and gave them... a tradition. A depth that wasn't ever intended (from their design standpoint). That story really hi-lighted that the possibility of being a Seer wasn't something that you gain but rather the symbolism of losing whatever it is that prevents their intelligence.

Which is awesome.

Plus it was amazingly well written and brought together the storylines amazingly.

And the Ellimist is just friggen' awesome. One of my favorite characters in a story ever from a design perspective, if just because every time he's accused of being omnipotent he says, "Maybe from your limited perspective."

[Serpentine]

Justifies every not-infrequent deus-ex-machina, too

[LaZodiac]

Yay new thread!

ION: Ugh. I'm at least two days behind on my rat dissection in bio. Everyone else is already on the digestive system, I still haven't gotten the respiratory system out. Now I'll have to come in 3 times per day for the next two days

Is that because it is difficult, or because it is really really really really gross and ew and bad? Because I can get behind both of those. I'm lucky to have never had to dissect anything in my life other then plots of video games.

[Serpentine]

I've dissected:
- A bunch of rats.
- A trout (it was delicious P:)
- Various sheep bits, including eyeball.
- 2 or so flying foxes (both female, although I was meant to do one of each)
- an earthworm
- A pigeon
- Cane toads
- Whatever else I've forgotten.
I have pictures online, too

[LaZodiac]

Serpentine you scare me now =(

[Serpentine]

For your viewing pleasure: flying fox and rat bits.

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[LaZodiac]

Why did I loooook ;_;

Atleast it wasn't real life pictures. If it's real life pictures I'd literally be throwing up right now.

[Ranger Mattos]

Is that because it is difficult, or because it is really really really really gross and ew and bad? Because I can get behind both of those. I'm lucky to have never had to dissect anything in my life other then plots of video games.

Just because it's difficult.

[ZombyWoof]

Justifies every not-infrequent deus-ex-machina, too

I'm trying to think of all the times that the Ellimist actually deus-ex'd them. Like straight up deus-ex'd them.

There was Book 7 where he went all tricky-tricky on Rachel to show her where the Kandrona was? That was flipping awesome. But it was so shrouded what his actual goal was... I dunno I don't really count that as Deus-Ex.

He intervened in the free hork-bajiir, but the extent of his intervention is... unknown.

In The Attack he was just an over-glorified Transporter from Star Trek.

It *is* revealed that he masterminded the entire team coming together which is pretty bad-ass but that's not so much "deus-ex" as it is the chess match between Crayak and Ellimist. Which is so bloody cool.

Like I said from a design perspective the Ellimist is probably the single greatest character I've ever encountered.

[Serpentine]

The main one that comes to my mind is when he froze time to "give them an alternative reality"/(give them time to think of a way out).
Didn't he also bring back their memories in the super-timetravel Megamorph?

[ZombyWoof]

In Megamorphs 4? Or the one where they get the time matrix? When they get the matrix I'm pretty sure that they were given back their memories as part of the deal between Crayak and the Ellimist: neither wanted Visser Four running around with the Matrix and the only solution they agreed upon was reverting history to its normal state. The best plan they could agree on was to let the Animorphs go after Visser Four.