Jack Squat's Justlessly Juxtaposed Random Banter #101

Jack Squat · 08-12-2008, 04:26 PM

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Please Read Them!

In order to try and keep these threads from becoming unmanageable, some rules have been created, and they accent the forum rules. Please read those first.

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This thread is for random discussion, not random chit chat. People have set up an unofficial IRC chat thingy for that sort of thing. Not only will you not annoy the people here, you will also help increase the popularity of the IRC chat. It's win/win/win!

Friends! Playgrounders! Forumites! Lend me your banter.

So yeah...I'm in a hurry; I'll get an actual title up sometime tonight.

zeratul · 08-12-2008, 04:41 PM

Mmmmm, I do love that new thread smell. *Ceremonially breaks a bottle of champaign e over the hull of the thread.....if a thread can have a hull*

The Bushranger · 08-12-2008, 04:54 PM

Ah now where were we? Ah yes, dreams.

Cristo - Don't want sand in them, eh? *knows why*

*ahem*

Anyway, yes, I've had a GitP themed dream. Fueled also by my having gotten the Stargate season 1 and 2 DVDs and Ark of Truth (by that point - now have Continuum as well). Myself and Mauve Shirt being pursued through the SGC by killer bees - I mean must have been Gou'ald enhanced bees or something, one-sting-and-you're-DEAD critters, not like the "real" "killer" bees - but anyway, rushing through the corridors, blast doors closing, yelling over a comm for Thor to beam us out of there before the bees got us, finally as they closed in he did...

...and then I woke up.

Odd that I remember all that, most of my dreams I don't remember, when I dream at all, which is rare.

Amiria · 08-12-2008, 05:08 PM

Gitp-inspired dreams ? No, sadly I almost never remember my dreams. My most vivid dreams are fever dreams when I am really ill. But I'm not really looking forward to the next ones ...

I'm a bit ill at the moment, something flu-like apparently, light fever, cough and the sniffles, but not enough for dreams. If anything, it keeps me from falling asleep because I can't really breath through my nose and just roll from one side to the other the whole night.

EmeraldRose · 08-12-2008, 05:44 PM

Illness huh?

Hope you feel better Amiria. I've been home most of the day with a kid with pink eye. Hopefully I can convice him to keep doing the eye drops so I can go back to work by lunchtime tomorrow.

The Bushranger · 08-12-2008, 05:56 PM

Aw, sorry to hear that you're sick. *makes some chicken noodle soup for the Countess*.

I know exactly how you feel, I hate that, you lay on one side and your nose stuffs up, roll over and the other side stuffs up....ew.

Haruki-kun · 08-12-2008, 06:00 PM

Hey, Jack? Can you remove the QUOTE tags from the first post? If not, whoever starts the next thread won't be able to quote it...

Also, get well soon, Amiria.

Phase · 08-12-2008, 06:51 PM

Hey, does anyone here know how to join the Giantitp Steam group?

Also, yay! New thread!

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Felixaar · 08-12-2008, 06:53 PM

Hmm. No GitP dreams on my behalf though since we've been talking about them I'll probably get one tonight... my sub-conscious is the highly suggestible type.

Tragic_Comedian · 08-12-2008, 06:55 PM

Did you miss me?

Cristo Meyers · 08-12-2008, 06:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Tragic_Comedian

Did you miss me?

You were gone?

I kid, I kid. Welcome back!

Tragic_Comedian · 08-12-2008, 06:57 PM

This is kinda cool...

Sneak · 08-12-2008, 06:58 PM

*sneak attack!*

I think I vaguely remember having a GitP inspired dream...as in a dream about the forums/people on the forums, not as in a dream about OOTS (honestly, if everything but the boards got removed from this site, including the comics, I wouldn't really care all that much). But I don't remember the specifics, unfortunately...I do remember being happy about what was going on in the dream, though...

Dragonrider · 08-12-2008, 07:30 PM

I once had an X-Men dream. Actually, I've had more than one, which is weird, because I don't even remember the movie very well. I could make myself invisible, my brother could turn into a purple wolf, our cousin could turn into a trash monkey (don't ask me...) and the three of us were running through a university building (khaki walls, gray carpet) trying to get to Professor X.

yeah. It was weird.

Felixaar · 08-12-2008, 07:43 PM

I wish I could turn into a Trash Monkey. Then I could have nice things...

Cristo Meyers · 08-12-2008, 07:46 PM

My dreams vary wildly. There's the ones that can't really be discussed here, the ones that go completely surreal and strange (think RE 3's Nemesis in a tutu...), and the only one I can really remember...my one and only nightmare.

It wasn't even original, either. Look in the rearview mirror and OHMYGOD THERE SHE IS! Some reason scared the living hell out of me...

Lupy · 08-12-2008, 08:04 PM

I've had Oots and Town themed dreams, do they count?

Phase · 08-12-2008, 08:18 PM

I have not dreamt in a long time...

I miss that...

Felixaar · 08-12-2008, 08:24 PM

Nightmare's, ugh. I had the weirdest dream... or really more of a mid-wake freakout, that my head was crushed under a mack truck.

I mean, ouch.

Shall we move onto something else, then?

Sneak · 08-12-2008, 08:41 PM

I haven't had a nightmare (that I remember, at least) in years and years. The last one that I remember was when I was fairly little. All I remember of it is a short albino woman standing on a red carpet in a train, cackling. I have no idea what was so terrifying about it.

I don't really remember most of my dreams. But most of the ones I do remember, I remember vividly for a long time.

Ego Slayer · 08-12-2008, 08:44 PM

The only thing I remember about last night's dream was an xkcd strip that involved cake.

o_O;

Sneak · 08-12-2008, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Ego Slayer

The only thing I remember about last night's dream was an xkcd strip that involved cake.

o_O;

Let's hope it was prophetic. I love xkcd, and I love cake.

Mr. Mud · 08-12-2008, 08:47 PM

I have been trying to have the same dream of her for like 4 nights, and it isn't working!! I need something to help me... Like one of those special pillows, or vikadin. (I fractured my spine)

Sneak · 08-12-2008, 08:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mrmud

I have been trying to have the same dream of her for like 4 nights, and it isn't working!! I need something to help me... Like one of those special pillows, or vikadin. (I fractured my spine)

Take shots of maple syrup and tonic water. That's always worked for me. Oh, and spreading jelly on your face before you go to sleep can't hurt.

Cristo Meyers · 08-12-2008, 08:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sneak

Take shots of maple syrup and tonic water. That's always worked for me. Oh, and spreading jelly on your face before you go to sleep can't hurt.

Unless you have a hungry dog, then it might hurt...

...or you'll just end up with a really sticky face...either way

Mr. Mud · 08-12-2008, 08:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sneak

Take shots of maple syrup and tonic water. That's always worked for me. Oh, and spreading jelly on your face before you go to sleep can't hurt.

The sad part is I'm now considering that...

. Forget the pain. How to I choose what I dream?

Ego Slayer · 08-12-2008, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Sneak

Let's hope it was prophetic. I love xkcd, and I love cake.

What with the dream involving boomerangs the night before that boomerangs xkcd strip (which still seriously creeps me out), I'm totally waiting to see cake in tomorrow's strip.

Jack Squat · 08-12-2008, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Haruki-kun

Hey, Jack? Can you remove the QUOTE tags from the first post? If not, whoever starts the next thread won't be able to quote it...

I'll get around to it when I change the title...just got back from a class I was rushing out the door to get to when I put this up.

...did someone mention cake?

Haruki-kun · 08-12-2008, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Jack Squat

...did someone mention cake?

I am inclined to believe that the cake has been established as a deceit.

That was not an internet Meme just now.

nothingclever · 08-12-2008, 09:18 PM

Yeah, it really isn't a meme unless you specifically called the cake a lie.

Anyways cherry cheesecake is my favourite kind.