The Silly and Tiny Dungeon Master Christmas Story

Selie · Post by **Selie** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 9:10 am

I am still amazed that we're managing to put the right parts of speech in a sensible order, even if the sentences themselves are a bit wonky.

Is the thread slowing down again? I suspect that New Years won't have the same crazy rash of posting that we had on Christmas Eve, if this is any indication. Either that, or things have been fast the rest of the day and I'm just online at an odd hour...

Post by **PaulH** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 10:52 pm

There are some difficult to follow posting on the thread!

Florent · Post by **Florent** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 1:04 pm

Hey what's going on, who's talking in the massive thread ?

Florent · Post by **Florent** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 3:38 pm

Looks like someone opened quotation marks inside another quotation mark !!! Woooooot ?

Post by **PaulH** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 4:06 pm

We may be able to get away with it. You can open a new speech mark within others if it begins a new paragraph, as you do not end the previous paragraph with a mark if the same person is still speaking.
Or a moderator needs to get the knife out. I am stumped how to carry on!

Post by **Gambit37** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 12:31 pm

Heh, it does kind work as it stands, but in the summary at the top of this thread, I've added ["] where the closing one should be. I also had to edit a JCG post to remove an incorrect ?

<pedant>The thing that really doesn't work in my opinion, and it's happened a lot, is when an unidentified person finishes talking and it's then followed by a completely random sentence that states a fact. Even though we all know this thread is nonsense, I think it spoils the flow as the person remains unidentified -- it's poor grammar. For example:

"Toadstools marinated in spinach juice taste like Stamm's home-made worm-round soup." Potions mixed with mammoth DNA often ferment dangerously into nonsensical pachydermic cucumbers.

Yes, we all want to be the one writing the fun words, but sometimes we need to add "said Stamm" or whatever.</pedant>

BTW, if other moderators are so inclined, please feel free to update the summary as the story grows as I'm not always around and having to type in 5 or 6 pages at a time is a pain.

JCG · Post by **JCG** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 4:25 pm

I guess this has to happen in his kind of exercise. Not only the lines of thoughts, but the initial grammatical construction can be derailed when some words are added, forcing the revision of the previous punctuation. At one point I tried to lead the thread into a conversation but it didn't work.
So, don't hesitate to revise the punctuation.

Gambit37 wrote:Yes, we all want to be the one writing the fun words, but sometimes we need to add "said Stamm" or whatever

That's true, but you'll notice that plenty of minor words are also dropped (articles, pronouns, conjunctions...).

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 5:54 pm

did you realise the story thread says 1337 for replies...?

JCG · Post by **JCG** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 8:15 pm

Anonymous wrote:did you realise the story thread says 1337 for replies...?

...and counting !

Post by **Gambit37** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 8:23 pm

1337? What's that got to do with anything? Oh God, it's not that crappy hacker speak is it?

Post by **PaulH** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 8:37 pm

1337
Hacker "Sp33k" for leet, or elite. Originating from 31337 "eleet", the UDP port used by Dead Cow Cult, a hacker group, to access Windows 95 using Back Orifice, a notorious hacking program.

2. 1337
An internet hacker language, often used to confuse those who do not know it.

A=4
B=8
C=(
D=|)
E=3
F=ph
G=6
H=|-|
I=!
J=_|
K=|<
L=1
M=/\/\
N=/\/
O=0
P=|>
Q=0,
R=|2,|-
S=5
T=7
U=|_|
V=\/
W=\/\/
X=><
Y=`/
Z=see

Yawn... I thought it derived from the number of braincells these people possess.

Post by **Gambit37** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 8:42 pm

Yeah, I was being sarcastic! It never works written down.... I can't believe you actually bothered to post the entire alphabet. Shame on you!

Post by **PaulH** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 8:44 pm

Yeah, so was I... Twas just a quick 'copy 'n' paste', no way do I know that crap.

Post by **Gambit37** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 8:45 pm

Thank fruity goodness you don't! Phew!

Post by **PaulH** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 8:56 pm

I hate hackers. Most of them are spotty 1st year university students with no friends, who have strange interests in dead animals and think themselves to be amazingly intelligent. Get a life.

Post by **PaulH** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 9:15 pm

... he says, frantically downloading a new firewall...

Post by **Gambit37** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 10:11 pm

Just to keep you informed, I have edited several posts today to correct a lot of silly grammatical mistakes -- to those of you wondering how your posts changed by themselves.

JCG · Post by **JCG** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 10:19 pm

PaulH wrote:1337
Hacker "Sp33k" for leet, or elite.

Well, the Hacker 1337 didn't last long on the forum. Only 3 minutes before being pulverized away.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 2:51 am

hey! it's beowuuf on holiday, please don't rip apart my only comment!
also, i may be very, very drunk...

JCG · Post by **JCG** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 3:23 am

70 7|-|3 |>0!/\/7 `/0|_| (4/\/7 |23/\/\3/\/\83|2 `/0|_||2 106!/\/ |>455\/\/0|2|) ?

Post by **Gambit37** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 12:57 pm

Can't believe I actually translated this, but there you go:

To the point you can't remember your login password?

Why anyone would create a language that takes MORE key presses to type is a bit bizarre...

BloodFromStone · Post by **BloodFromStone** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 3:16 pm

b3c4u54 17 m4k3z j00 c00l lolz

BloodFromStone · Post by **BloodFromStone** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 3:17 pm

Or that least that is how I usually see it used.

I rarely see someone actually use every letter, but I know they're out there.

Post by **PaulH** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 11:06 pm

By Librasulus, what have I started? Anything, even Welsh is better!

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:52 pm

lol, i didn't want to log in as i've noticed that sometimes that resets all your 'unread' indicators to read....beign away five days, i didn't want to have to remember dates!

sorry, i just happened to come passed and thought it was really funny it said 1337...maybe it's the geek in me

Gambit, i tend to keep a runnign list of the story to make it easier to read, so i sometimes update with that. If you ever want it yourself for uopdating, yell. It might take a while to add to it for the gap just now though!

The last though about leetspeak should come from bash, i think:
http://bash.org/?66959

Post by **Gambit37** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 10:28 pm

Damn you Beo-bones, I just wasted 15 mins laughing inanely at the latest on bash. I forget how entertaining that can be....

Code: Select all

#3630 +(2998)- [X]
<blazemore> omg i love this song
<blazemore> Now playing: Unknown Artist - Track 2 @ 128 Kbps. (0:47/3:24)
<Javi> blazemore:  yeah, that's a bad ass song

I dunno -- made me laugh. Must be the geek in me.

OT Master? Please tell me you haven't gone all L. Ron Hubbard on us...

BloodFromStone · Post by **BloodFromStone** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 10:34 pm

Bash.org is hilarious. I waste so much time browsing that site.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 10:54 pm

yup, bash can be damn hi-larious at times

and yeah, i just read the whole beo-bones sentence... i'm afraid now...very afraid... : )

Suddenly, Mophus barbecued Wuuf.
"Delicious!" he groaned, "Chargrilled fleas, however, produce Beo-bones that melt into cunning Scots."

well, happy new year, great to read everyone's stuff...*runs*

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 11:21 pm

Man, the thread has definitely got more structured lunacy since people speaking are being identified! Woohoo to grammar!

Post by **PaulH** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 11:24 pm

Its getting rather long, maybe time to cull it soon