My Little Pony XXXVIII: Nopony Expects Sponish Pinquisition!

[Raz_Fox]

None of the ethical ones work. xD

Clearly, you must then use all the ethical ones blended together.

It has to work.

[Pokonic]

But won't only Lyra have the comfy chair?

Nah, they tried to get Lyra off the chair, but she liked it so much that she took it.

[Lix Lorn]

Ethics? Bah, what are those in the face of SHIPPING!?

The last thing keeping me on this end of the alignment scale.

Clearly, you must then use all the ethical ones blended together.

It has to work.

SOUNDS LEGIT
OH BLEAKBAAAAANE

[Pendulous]

New thread name confuses me (I know the line, but don't get the pony transfer)

Anyway, pre-ordered My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic: The Friendship Express. Episode list could be better, but it has my favorite, The Last Roundup. I can't for the life of me find out where I saw it listed, but the extras seemed good enough to blows $10 on it.

[Bayonet Priest]

Yay! New thread!

*leaps on ponythread and gives it a slightly inebriated hug*

[erikun]

I read the title as "Nopony expects Spoonish inquisition!"
To be fair, if spoons did start an inquisition, I wouldn't have expected it at all.

Funny, I read the same thing... or rather, wondered why "Spoonish" was misspelled.

Clearly, this calls for a Silver Spoon image dump.

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[Soras Teva Gee]

I find it interesting that the old thread was locked after we abandoned it like normal.

[Triscuitable]

Holy cow, only 98 pages left to the 40th Thread! We'll need a Pony-Versary, and we'll need cupcakes, and we'll need some sort of crazy Grand Galloping Galla of some sort!

I find it interesting that the old thread was locked after we abandoned it like normal.

Eh, it lets Mark stretch his modding biceps. He likes to do it, and it hath done no harm.

[MCerberus]

Holy cow, only 98 pages left to the 40th Thread! We'll need a Pony-Versary, and we'll need cupcakes, and we'll need some sort of crazy Grand Galloping Galla of some sort!

Did somepony say party?

[Pokonic]

Holy cow, only 98 pages left to the 40th Thread! We'll need a Pony-Versary, and we'll need cupcakes, and we'll need some sort of crazy Grand Galloping Galla of some sort!

The Glorious Gigantic Galla?

[Anarion]

So, does anyone find it odd that Bronycon felt the need to do a press release stating, essentially "all the things we said before are still true, probably?"
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/0...s-release.html

[PhoeKun]

So, does anyone find it odd that Bronycon felt the need to do a press release stating, essentially "all the things we said before are still true, probably?"
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/0...s-release.html

I have been trying to hint at this for a while now...

[thubby]

wow this thread moves fast.

[Kyouhen]

So, does anyone find it odd that Bronycon felt the need to do a press release stating, essentially "all the things we said before are still true, probably?"
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/0...s-release.html

I don't find it very odd. Hasbro had released a big statement about trying to set up an official policy about letting the voice actors go and do these things and Bronycon just wanted to confirm that this hasn't affected anything.

[Triscuitable]

The Glorious Gigantic Galla?

NOT GLORIOUS ENOUGH!

IT NEEDS MORE PINK!

GLORIOUS GIGANTIC GALLA!

Can I be the thread OP for Thread 40, to make sure that comes out right?

[Pokonic]

Can I be the thread OP for Thread 40, to make sure that comes out right?

Hahahahaha. You know what happened last time there was a different OP for this thread, right?

[Triscuitable]

Hahahahaha. You know what happened last time there was a different OP for this thread, right?

I believe this below is what occurred.

No one!

OP to be placed here later, too tired now...

So, maybe we'll have a little contest to make OPic fitting this theme? Tried as I did, only found one mediocre pic :<

[Starscream]

I read the title as "Nopony expects Spoonish inquisition!"
To be fair, if spoons did start an inquisition, I wouldn't have expected it at all.

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Don't be pushin' his buttons, yo.

[Thanqol]

I sent the Operation: Indiscriminate Friendship email! Because you guys are legit, here's the text preview:

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<Cover image: http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/545/130044970520.png >

Hi, I'm Thanqol. I like ponies.

As some of you may know, March 1st is Derpy Day, the greatest holiday of all time. Derpy Day has the following rules:

- You must eat a muffin.
- You must take a picture of yourself walleyed.
- You must write someone a letter.


I, however, want to give something more back to this wonderful, messed-up world and all it's folks. You know the saying that there's no such thing as a free lunch? Screw that.

The world should totally be a place where you get a free lunch. The world should totally be a place where awesome things happen to you for no reason. And if the world isn't like that already, I'm going to do what I can to make it like that. That's why I'm running Operation: Indiscriminate Friendship.

THE RULES:

- I must distribute 50+ muffins to random passers by on the street.
- I must convince as many random strangers as possible to sing Pinkie Pie's "Singing Telegram" for the camera, which will be compiled into a video which will be uploaded to Youtube
- I must collect as many nice, hopeful and inspirational letters from people from the internet as possible and distribute these to random mailboxes all over town.


To prove I'm not bluffing, here's the link to last year's Derpy Day, where the song of choice was "Evil Enchantress" http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...eature=mh_lolz


Where you come in:

I want you all to write a letter to a stranger. You'll have no idea who you're writing to because it'll be printed off and dropped into a random mailbox somewhere in Canberra. Maybe it won't get read, but maybe it will, and if it does it might just bring a smile to someone's face.

You can make them as long or as short as you'd like, but try to keep them less than an A4 page each. I'll also be collecting all these letters into a big document to put up for everyone to read at the end of the event.

Send all of these letters to [email protected]

(Note: Don't send attachments; put the text in the body of the email)

Optional Objectives:

If you feel I'm onto something, here are some things you can do to help make this event a little more indiscriminate.

- I need a poster image. I can design one myself but it'll be mediocre. It needs to promise free muffins in big, eye catching letters and not be too obviously pony related. I'll put any submissions in the compilation post.
- Sing "Singing Telegram" yourself, or convince any friends or passerby to do so on your behalf. If you know anyone with an awesome voice now's the time to call in a favour. I'll add any such videos to the completed Youtube playlist; email the links to the same email address.
- Print off and distribute your own copies of the Letters to a Stranger
- Hold your own parallel Derpy Day where you distribute your own set of free muffins.


Thank you for your time, everypony. Let's make the best pony proud.

Yours truly,

- Thanqol


Disclaimers:
- The pegasus ponies have been bonkers here recently, with summer hail and everything, so the event might be delayed a few days. Depending on volume of responses, I'm hoping to get everything compiled within a week of the event's end.

[kpenguin]

I have to object. This would be, from memory, the fifth or sixth time that despite an in-thread 'election', we get a thread title someone brought up to you in private that was never discussed. These titles would be fine for the private correspondence they come up in, but it's kind of rude to name the thread something you prefer after the rest of the thread goes through the trouble of picking what it wants the next iteration to be, fairly and publicly.[/color]

I have to concur here. The first priority should be what the thread, as a whole, picks. If our anonymous threadname contributor would like to name a thread, they should present it before the thread. and they definitely should not have their names have priority over others.

[SiuiS]

I find it interesting that the old thread was locked after we abandoned it like normal.

Ah, nuts.

Holy cow, only 98 pages left to the 40th Thread! We'll need a Pony-Versary, and we'll need cupcakes, and we'll need some sort of crazy Grand Galloping Galla of some sort!

Hm. Sounds like a plan!
And when/if we finally overtake and surpass the Deegan Threads, we should name it "Our Rein Shall Last Forever!"

Eh, it lets Mark stretch his modding biceps. He likes to do it, and it hath done no harm.

Aye. It adds like, maybe fifteen seconds to Nypony dedicated to quoting said thread (ie me). We can make due.

I have been trying to hint at this for a while now...

and we appreciate it, thank you. ^^

NOT GLORIOUS ENOUGH!

IT NEEDS MORE PINK!

GLORIOUS GIGANTIC GALLA!

Can I be the thread OP for Thread 40, to make sure that comes out right?

Hahahahaha. You know what happened last time there was a different OP for this thread, right?

the last time that happened, there was a good 25 pages of passive aggressive (and some aggressive) infighting and bullying, eventually leading two ponies to leave (only one of which returned), and two thread XXs under the fabrication of one being an errata or addendum of the other. The repercussions are still felt in small ways.

That being said, as you're asking politely beforehand and citing the reason why, I'm pretty sure there won't be any fuss.

So. Gonna read this here BronyCon thing, then get back to thread-a-majigging.

As some of you may know, March 1st is Derpy Day, the greatest holiday of all time. Derpy Day has the following rules:

- You must eat a muffin.
- You must take a picture of yourself walleyed.
- You must write someone a letter.


I, however, want to give something more back to this wonderful, messed-up world and all it's folks. You know the saying that there's no such thing as a free lunch? Screw that.

The world should totally be a place where you get a free lunch. The world should totally be a place where awesome things happen to you for no reason. And if the world isn't like that already, I'm going to do what I can to make it like that. That's why I'm running Operation: Indiscriminate Friendship.

Stars and Fire but that is inspirational.

[Grif]

I have to object. This would be, from memory, the fifth or sixth time that despite an in-thread 'election', we get a thread title someone brought up to you in private that was never discussed. These titles would be fine for the private correspondence they come up in, but it's kind of rude to name the thread something you prefer after the rest of the thread goes through the trouble of picking what it wants the next iteration to be, fairly and publicly.

Pretty much what our modguin said.

Just posting to here for the record.

[Aotrs Commander]

First wish (this may or may not be the pattern of a deranged mind).

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I wish to see the results of Lixie casting a shipping spell on Bleakbane.

Ethics? Bah, what are those in the face of SHIPPING!?

Clearly, you must then use all the ethical ones blended together.

It has to work.

First of all, as I believe I may have occasionally mentioned, IMMUNE. TO. MIND.-AFFECTING. EFFECTS.

Second of all, it's so very noble of you all to volenteer to undergo the mind-splintering, soul-shattering and really quite excruciating agony of being the test victims of my new Mass Violently Explosive Intestinal Dispersion spell.

[Rebelhero]

First of all, as I believe I may have occasionally mentioned, IMMUNE. TO. MIND.-AFFECTING. EFFECTS.

Second of all, it's so very noble of you all to volenteer to undergo the mind-splintering, soul-shattering and really quite excruciating agony of being the test victims of my new Mass Violently Explosive Intestinal Dispersion spell.

But what if Lixie is immune to your immunity?
Unstoppable force meets immovable object...

[SiuiS]

But what if Lixie is immune to your immunity?
Unstoppable force meets immovable object...

Related, one could note that using wish or limited wish to replicate Enchantment spells bypasses standard immunity by removing the [mind-affecting] tag from the spell in question.

Or to uncouch the relevant terms; when one is hacking the universe, one does not expect things to go as smoothly as "effect failed due to unspecified host address".

Of course, the sheer magnitude of sub an undertaking is more likely to covertly slip the caster into an artificial reality built on faulty premises which allow for the end result, rater than rewrite reality to one's whims.

Magic is as magic does. Just funny that way.

[Aotrs Commander]

But what if Lixie is immune to your immunity?
Unstoppable force meets immovable object...

I have a psychotic Pikachu and Lixie is not immune to lightning.



And I remind you how quite remarkably petty and vindictive I am, so that even if the impossible happens I will make quite certain that I take everyone else down with me, in as excessively violent way as I can think of; and I am very creative in that regard...

[Thanqol]

I have a psychotic Pikachu and Lixie is not immune to lightning.



And I remind you how quite remarkably petty and vindictive I am, so that even if the impossible happens I will make quite certain that I take everyone else down with me, in as excessively violent way as I can think of; and I am very creative in that regard...

Awwwww lookit the little chibi-lich and his widdle death thweats, awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

(The answer to unstoppable force meets immovable object is the unstoppable force bounces off and keeps going; both conditions remain true)

[SiuiS]

I have a psychotic Pikachu and Lixie is not immune to lightning.

Hm.

I say we cross the streams. Ship Lixie and the Pikachu.
Lix gets shipping, and electrocuted! Everypony wins! Even Lix, because shipping (and who knows how far a Pikachu will go... For love?)

Also Thanqol you answered a rhetorical question those are designed to make you think not to be answered do not do that thanqol

[Shadow of the Sun]

Ponythread:

I would like to draw your attention to the fact that one of our members recently lost a treasured family member.

RoninHiroX recently lost his mother. I ask that the entirety of the ponythread keep him in their thoughts and hearts, and that those inclined too pray for him.

Thank you.