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Post by Jupiter on Sept 1, 2006 7:11:14 GMT -5
OK, I've been collecting these ideas for a while and it may or may not spark any you've noticed, but here's a few HLR related things that are making me do a doubletake in real life.
As many of you know, I work for Alltel. They changed their logo (see where I'm going) a while back and we all have company determined screensavers. For the last 8 months or so, it was a group of people standing in the shape of the logo and it said Alltel Human Logo. Nothing like cracking up everytime I saw my screensaver.
Also, has anyone noticed when you look through Powerpoint templates it has some Latin phrases to model the format.
Lorem Ipsum
Delor sit amet consectetuor ad piscing elt sed diem
or something
Or how about sitting in church and hearing Monk spells. I'm pretty sure that's not a good thing. In fact there is a song on the Christian radio station that has a line "Once again I'm in need of Resurrection" which I am pretty sure should be someone's in game motto.
I swear there was more, but I've got to get back to work.
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Post by Khunlin on Sept 1, 2006 8:06:12 GMT -5
Or how about sitting in church and hearing Monk spells. Hehehehehe... I know I've had some of these come up... a hilariously worded Physics problem involving Jupiter, for instance... or the marvelously timed exclamations in some texts in my Lit classes, such as "I will avenge you!", which threw our protagonist into a fighting rage in which he attacked faster and harder, and didn't seem to mind his wounds. Although, now that it has been brought up, I'm sure I'll be seeing them everywhere...  |
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Post by Logo on Sept 1, 2006 10:09:21 GMT -5
I'm always reminded of great HLR stories when I'm talking to people in real life, and it's always so sad that I can't tell them. The poor fools just wouldn't understand. The problem is, I can't help myself from laughing anyway.
Then let's say we're talking about rugby. I know nothing about rugby, but in order to keep the conversation going, I'll say, "Oh yeah, I know someone who plays rugby!" and wring out whatever information I've gathered from our resident canadian. The problem comes with the inevitable, "Oh, who's that?" To which I respond with a healthy awkward silence.
Sometimes I'll reference some obscure guild joke ("I find you quite shallow and pedantious!") which will invariably be followed by a blank stare. I also have an uncontrollable urge to yell "BEEF OF MY BEEF" whenever I'm having beef.
What's nice is that some of my friends actually play Guild Wars, or at least WoW, which is similar, so they could at least understand when I raved about my new 15k armor... but calling them purple pajamas doesn't work at all. I've even had a real discussion about the proper pronunciation of "o rly!?" with someone - he thought it was grunted/yelled, and I thought it should be said with a charming British accent. So there are others out there with dark, geeky secrets, if you just open up your heart...
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Post by Triia on Sept 1, 2006 10:59:45 GMT -5
So there are others out there with dark, geeky secrets, if you just open up your heart... ...noooooo  *sniffle* Ok... We were driving around a while ago and my husband pointed out that we needed to turn on the street ahead. It was called Fisher and the second he said it, my brain chimed in with "Of Woe!" afterwards. D: Quite often, things people have said pop into my head at inappropriate times and make me giggle..... er... chuckle, I mean. The other day, someone was talking to me about trying to find improvments for a boring activity and I had a nearly unresistable urge to repeat a Khulinism that has always stuck in my head: "Yeah, everything is better when when you're doing stuff with an army of undead behind you." And "pedantious", yeah... that one has almost got me in trouble a few times; I absolutely cannot resist laughing when I think of it. Hehe, I'm sure I have more, too. |
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Post by Jupiter on Nov 13, 2006 21:08:35 GMT -5
OK so big trip this weekend right?
Well, we drove through Jupiter, NC and saw Dunkard, PA (I swear it looked like Dunkoro) there was even a Jodie, WV! ;D I know that's not GW/HLR but it was a shocker nonetheless.
Then we even saw a FAAAAAT guy on a bike. If you know what I mean?
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Post by Khunlin on Nov 13, 2006 21:33:52 GMT -5
Alright... some crazy, some embarrasing... some just weird... -In the week before Nightfall, while we were thinking up names for new characters, I was so obsessed I put "Kholden Icewind" as my name on an exam. And no, it wasn't on purpose. -I don't know how this happened, but "Dastardly Kurzick" is now popular insult in my circles. -This one is kind of backwards... more of a RL in GW, but... we once had a very foolish History teacher by the name of Mr. Yamron. Such a fool that it was decided that he could not truly be that much of a fool, but a genius in disguise. Or a man of great power. I recently discovered Yammiron, Ether Lord... a dastardly Mesmer who drains the life and soul out of his foes! MY HISTORY TEACHER IS A MESMER ETHER LORD BOSS! That is all, for now... |
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Post by Jupiter on Dec 21, 2006 10:48:06 GMT -5
I knew this was coming and I'm just thankful it happened in my head and not out loud. For about half this year I reported to someone named Tyra and I was thinking through a situation that involved her (she's now on military leave) which ended up sounding like this...
"That was back under Triia...no...Trrrrr...no...TRIII...dang it...TYRIA...GAH!...TYYYYYYYYYYRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAA. *phew*"
I'm so very glad there's a wall outside of my cube so no one witnessed what must've been some looks of great consternation. Thinking about what I must've looked like is funnier than the situation itself.
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Post by Kaiser on Dec 21, 2006 11:32:03 GMT -5
Blar!
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Post by Khunlin on Dec 27, 2006 11:51:42 GMT -5
Bah! Curse you, Katie Couric Lookalike Woman!
The Today Show was on in the living room this morning... and I was walking through... and they were talking about upcoming performances. The next one was some dance group whose name escapes me, and they cut to clips of the dance... and lo!
The men were doing the Male Paragon Dance! (Surprisingly enough, they didn't look even 1/2 as gay doing it!)
And thus, being stunned by my unexpected discovery and still slightly dazed and confused, having woken up only three minutes prior... I did what I do best. I made up a Robin-esque exclamation to describe my emotions!
And upon crying out "Holy Digital Homosexuals, Batman!"... I proceeded to get very weird looks from my dad, who was standing next to me.
Damn you, Katie Couric Lookalike Woman.
I am now digging frantically to find the name of that group...
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Post by Jupiter on Feb 16, 2007 12:18:51 GMT -5
So, I'm browsing patterns today at lunch and come across a pilloghan and my brain reels trying to figure out what kind of paragon that could be.
btw...I'm sure all you guys really want to know, but a pilloghan is a pillow/afghan combination.
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Post by Malae on Apr 8, 2007 19:28:49 GMT -5
I woke up this morning and as usual I sat down in front of my computer and fired up the forum. This is when I notice.. the birthday thing above online users.
Holy crap it's my brothers birthday!
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Post by norm on Apr 8, 2007 19:37:48 GMT -5
You are a horrible brother Malae!
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Post by Liadan on May 7, 2007 19:29:04 GMT -5
I just read through this thread. It's good to know that I'm not alone. >.> I'm simply going to relate one incident, and that's where I and one unnamed other person spent a class period going through Guild Wars-related subject material and how it could possibly contribute to expanding our vocabulary.
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Post by Khunlin on May 7, 2007 22:03:20 GMT -5
Hey, "Benediction" is a big word.
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Post by Jupiter on Oct 16, 2007 15:15:07 GMT -5
OK so meeting with 2 reps from Oracle this morning, there's this guy named Dave who, by the way, has some very cool accent. Anyway, as I'm talking to him about some of our tools (read: presentation) that they may have solutions for I am suddenly taken with the fact that his glasses are the perfect RL replicas of SLIM SPECTACLES. I couldn't NOT look at them and then had the hardest time keeping a straight face!
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*sniffle*
