Session Start: Sat May 07 06:51:54 2005 Session Ident: #sevtrek [07:10] 4starting with sunday contest [07:10] <**EofS**> Hi Iris [07:10] (Glorendil: not me, sorry) [07:11] 4please vote cut/keep (just in case you didn't know) :-) [07:11] 4By ye gods, he´s even ANNOYING to himself! [07:11] cut [07:11] cut [07:11] keep [07:11] cut [07:11] would probably edit the 'by ye gods' [07:11] keep [07:11] I didn't miss any comps yet, did I? [07:11] I don't think you'll need to. [07:11] <**EofS**> Keep with the edit [07:11] (Iris: nope) [07:11] iris: just started [07:12] good, I love the x-men one, would have hated to miss that ;-) [07:12] johan: are you voting this morning? [07:12] "morning"??? [07:12] well, late evening for most of you :-) [07:12] <**EofS**> (Not least because ye means "you" ;0) [07:12] try midnight. [07:12] I just looked at the contests - sorry guys but I think I'll pass on this collectin [07:12] gaby dragged me out of bad this morning, otherwise I mightn't have made it [07:12] Sleep well everyone [07:12] bye jim [07:13] bye! [07:13] night [07:13] bye guido glorendil michelle and others! [07:13] * DarthPlushie has quit IRC (Quit: "THERE IS NO MORE CAKE!") [07:13] <**EofS**> I woke at 5 o'clock this morning curled up round my laptop. Noted my constituency still hadn't called... Shut everything down and went back to sleep ;0) [07:13] Aww ;) [07:14] (looks like 3-3) [07:14] 4ANNOYING is kept for now (3-3 tie) [07:14] does that mean you woke with a keyboard face? [07:14] 4Should we BREAK it up before he starts beating himself up? [07:14] keep [07:14] keep [07:14] keep [07:14] <**EofS**> Cut [07:14] glorendil: she said around the laptio, not on the laptop [07:14] keep [07:14] cut [07:14] 4BREAK is kept [07:14] 4Forget the precious...what he needs is a marriage COUNSELOR! [07:14] <**EofS**> No :0P I was laying in bed ;0) My head was on the pillow [07:14] <**EofS**> Cut [07:14] cut [07:14] keep [07:14] cut [07:15] cut [07:15] cut [07:15] 4COUNSELOR is cut [07:15] 4Hey! Don't DRAG us into your argument! [07:15] keep [07:15] keep [07:15] * Leander has joined #sevtrek [07:15] <**EofS**> I had intended to fall asleep [07:15] Hi Leander [07:15] <**EofS**> Keep [07:15] (heya Leander) [07:15] keep [07:15] hey :-) [07:15] keep [07:15] cut [07:15] hi leander [07:16] sorry, I decided to watch a tv recording of the fellowship of the ring in "semi-fast forward mode". quite an interesting experience, though slightly rushed. ;-) [07:16] Emma: Still, it's the closest I heard to getting a keyboard face... :-) [07:16] Hi Leander [07:16] heh ;) [07:16] <**EofS**> It was on here last weekend. Weird seeing the short version again [07:16] Leander: at least you get through Orlando Bloom's scenes quicker :-) [07:16] lol ;) [07:16] oh yes [07:16] lol [07:17] lol [07:17] <**EofS**> John - in Fellowship they're bearable. It's in the later films that they get so bad in my opinion [07:17] 4DRAG has been dragged into the final round (a convoluted way of saying it's kept - gotta work on my puns) [07:17] *g* [07:17] 4The funny part is when he LOSES the Argument. [07:17] keep [07:17] cut [07:17] cut [07:18] speaking of blooming business, which comp are we doing, the smeargel one? [07:18] <**EofS**> Cut [07:18] cut [07:18] Leander: yeah [07:18] leander: yes [07:18] <**EofS**> John - how long have you been running a cartoon website for? :0 [07:18] E: about a decade, I think [07:18] keep [07:18] I think it was around 1994, 1995 [07:18] <**EofS**> Should maybe have worked on your puns about a decade ago then ;0) [07:18] cut [07:18] No, hang on, I got married in 1994 and started it a year or so afterwards [07:18] so yeah, about a decade [07:19] lol @ emma [07:19] when was the first LOTR parody? [07:19] EofS: you only get good at punning when you become a father so I've only had 5 years practice [07:19] <**EofS**> I went and cooked my evening meal through the Rivendell stuff when it was on ;0) [07:19] (Emma: hehe!) [07:19] 4LOSES is cut [07:19] 4If we're lucky, he'll NAG himself to death... [07:19] must've been in the year 2247 of the FOURth age. *runs* [07:19] keep [07:19] keep [07:19] <**EofS**> "LOSES is lost" :0P [07:19] in other words LOSES loses...? :P ;) [07:19] cut [07:19] <**EofS**> Cut [07:20] doh, I can't believe I passed on that punning opportunity [07:20] cut [07:20] cut [07:20] lol [07:20] age, or a...eh, something with an r, can't think and spell right now. [07:20] heh ;) [07:20] cut [07:20] it didn't win last week, so there shouldn't be a surprise [07:20] (loses, not nag) [07:20] 4NAG has been nagged to death (that is such a lame pun) :-( [07:20] 4We may have to SEPARATE them... [07:20] keep [07:21] <**EofS**> I wouldn't really call it a pun... It's hardly a play on two meanings of a word, or two words that sound alike [07:21] neutral [07:21] leep [07:21] cut [07:21] <**EofS**> Cut [07:21] keep [07:21] cut [07:21] keep even [07:21] wiz: leep? never seen that one before :-) [07:21] it's the leep of faith... :-) [07:21] <**EofS**> Forgive him, he's using a crazy kezboard ;0) [07:21] * oO[NOVA]Oo has quit IRC (Quit: Good Sev!) [07:22] what, a non-german one? :-O [07:22] 4SEPARATE is kept (I give up on the puns - it would've been easier if it'd been cut) [07:22] 4Should we get him a SHRINK or a marriage councilor? [07:22] hey! [07:22] cut [07:22] cut [07:22] cut [07:22] keep [07:22] cut [07:22] "separate got separated from the losers" where's the probelm? :P [07:22] cut [07:22] wiz: you can run the session next week [07:22] :-) [07:22] <**EofS**> Guido - not won a comp in a while have you ;0) [07:22] one man's keyboard is another man's...eh...well, not that man's keyboard, or it wouldn't be the keyboard of the first guy...oh never mind [07:23] one of the known pranks is changing the location of the keys on a keyboard. it can drive someone completely nuts... [07:23] <**EofS**> Cut [07:23] 4SHRINK has shrunk [07:23] 4how long before one of them gets to sleep in the 'SOFA'? [07:23] cut [07:23] cut [07:23] cut [07:23] neutral [07:23] <**EofS**> Did you hear about the mass case of that Glorendil? [07:23] keep [07:23] cut [07:23] no... [07:23] <**EofS**> Cut [07:23] 4SOFA is sleeping on the sofa [07:23] what was that case? [07:24] <**EofS**> Someone changed every keyboard in Germany so the y and the z are the wrong way round [07:24] SOFA, so bad [07:24] 4now into the final vote round... [07:24] <**EofS**> *Runs. Fast* [07:24] lol [07:24] :P [07:24] oh sneakie [07:24] * TheAmnesiacOne thwaps EofS [07:24] <**EofS**> See, WS made a pun there *nods* [07:24] 4don't vote till I've posted all 4 finalists... [07:24] 4 [07:24] 4By ye gods, he´s even ANNOYING to himself! [07:24] 4Should we BREAK it up before he starts beating himself up? [07:24] 4Hey! Don't DRAG us into your argument! [07:25] 4We may have to SEPARATE them... [07:25] 4ok, you can vote4 now [07:25] vote4 separate [07:25] vote4 break [07:25] vote4 break [07:25] vote4 drag [07:25] <**EofS**> vote4 annoying (if it loses "by ye gods") [07:25] vote4 drag [07:26] <**EofS**> Although it apparently won't be a problem... ;0) [07:26] vote4 annoying (with "by ye gods" removed) [07:26] 4final vote: separate 1, break 2, drag 2, annoying 2 [07:26] sevqueen? [07:26] i see no point in changing my vote... [07:26] ah good to see we're almost unanimous once more. :-P [07:26] hehe [07:27] yep, sevqueen (who's asleep right now) [07:27] you can always unleash the Gab monster on her... :-P [07:27] now see, *that's* evil ;) [07:27] glor: hmm, gaby's nearly old enough to start selecting winners. [07:27] <**EofS**> Hei John - it's spiffy how if you're logged into Ratsy and go to submit a punchline your name is already there. Is that on purpose? ;0) [07:28] EofS: yes [07:28] the next step is you don't even have to login - it'll do it automatically [07:28] so SevPrincess? [07:28] I hate having to login [07:28] especially to view the current punchlines, that's a real pain [07:28] <**EofS**> It's spiffy *nods* Never noticed it before - on my computer I have it fill the field automagically ;0) [07:28] 4moving onto the Pits contest [07:28] ah. i wondered why you found out only now ;) [07:29] 4note - what we want is just the movie title (many submissions didn't seem to understand that during the week) [07:29] 4Illegally BLAND [07:29] keep [07:29] cut [07:29] cut [07:29] jc: illiteracy is quite common among internet users [07:29] cut [07:29] <**EofS**> I only submit once in a blue moon anyway. Well more now there's Mi§c of course [07:29] <**EofS**> Keep [07:29] keep [07:29] keep [07:30] 4BLAND is kept [07:30] 4The Compassionate BOYFRIEND - A Fairy Tale [07:30] cut [07:30] keep [07:30] cut [07:30] keep [07:30] in retrospect, too long [07:30] keep [07:30] keep [07:30] too long imo [07:30] although I can always shrink Lance [07:30] <**EofS**> NEutral [07:31] <**EofS**> It's funny, but it's long [07:31] Note - he's not connected to any background so he's easily resizeable [07:31] Why do I get the feeling Lance wouldn't appreciate that... [07:31] ;) [07:31] lol [07:31] :-) [07:31] oh lol, lance, for a second I thought you wanted to shrink herman....eek. :-P [07:31] I'm guessing it was submitted by a female [07:31] <**EofS**> Controlling our size - that's one of the brain's functions isn't it? :0D [07:31] Lance going to a shrink sounds like a brand new Pits thread... [07:31] 4BOYFRIEND is kept for now (lucky guy) [07:31] Glor: it does sound like a nice idea [07:31] Size matters not. Judge me by my size, do you? [07:32] <**EofS**> John - well if it was submitted by a male they'd need to have empathy to realise how entirely useless their sex is ;0) [07:32] ;) [07:32] 4A DECENT Proposal [07:32] keep [07:32] keep [07:32] cut [07:32] <**EofS**> Keep [07:32] EofS: well, we do serve some functions [07:32] keep [07:32] keep [07:32] <**EofS**> But not famously empathy :0P [07:32] E: no, I'll grant that [07:32] :-) [07:33] 4DECENT is decent (hmm, wiz, can you help me out here?) [07:33] 4My Best Friends' FUNERAL [07:33] cut [07:33] cut [07:33] <**EofS**> Cut [07:33] oh you naughty punchline! [07:33] cut [07:33] neutral [07:33] keep [07:33] <**EofS**> *Is naughty* *Passes round mint aero* [07:33] mint aero!!! [07:33] !!!! [07:34] !!! [07:34] (I'll stop ;)) [07:34] 4FUNERAL is dead and buried [07:34] warning: she told me earlier that it'S 70 years old ;) [07:34] 4LOVE, Loss, and Laughter [07:34] cut [07:34] meep ;) [07:34] cut [07:34] cut [07:34] keep [07:34] cut [07:34] cut [07:34] 4LOVE is unfortunately not loved [07:34] 4MATELESS in Manhattan [07:34] keep [07:34] keep [07:34] cut [07:34] neutral [07:34] keep [07:34] cut [07:35] <**EofS**> You need to finish the rest of the story :0P [07:35] <**EofS**> Cut [07:35] 4MATELESS is kept [07:35] 4PHANTOM of the Soap Opera [07:35] keep [07:35] neutral [07:35] cut [07:35] keep [07:35] cut [07:35] <**EofS**> Cut [07:35] cut [07:35] change to keep [07:36] 4PHANTOM has been spirited away (sorry Leander, 4-3) [07:36] 4SENSELESS Sensibilities [07:36] cut [07:36] keep [07:36] <**EofS**> You see, *that*'s a pun [07:36] keep [07:36] cut [07:36] cut [07:36] neutral [07:36] EofS: yes, thank goodness it was cut, I had no pun if it was kept [07:37] <**EofS**> My point is that the others haven't been puns :0P [07:37] <**EofS**> Not a matter of good or bad puns, they plain haven't been them ;0) [07:37] 4SENSELESS has been beat... well... senseless [07:37] 4The SENSITIVE Hunk [07:37] cut [07:37] cut [07:37] senseless has become nonsense [07:37] cut [07:37] cut [07:38] cut [07:38] keep [07:38] okay, now I'm confused...difference between puns and punch(line)? [07:38] <**EofS**> Keep [07:38] 4SENSITIVE is... um... err.... it's cut, ok [07:38] Leander, a pun is a wordplay [07:38] 4Sleepless on the SOFA [07:38] cut [07:38] keep [07:38] keep [07:38] keep [07:38] keep [07:38] keep [07:38] it's too early in the morning for me to come up with good puns [07:38] <**EofS**> A pun is a play on words - either two words that sound the same or one word with two meanings [07:38] <**EofS**> Neutral [07:39] 4SOFA is kept and getting comfy [07:39] 4Love STORY VIII -- The Next Generation [07:39] SOFA, so good *RUNS* [07:39] ah, now I remember again....it's just that sometimes I see "pun" as being short for punchline or something like that, I think. [07:39] cut [07:39] keep [07:39] cut [07:39] lol, ws! ;-) [07:39] <**EofS**> So "GHOST has been spirited away" is a pun because it plays with the two meanings of spirited - as "spirited away" it means "taken away quickly" but the "spirit" part links with the fact that the punchline is called "ghost" [07:40] <**EofS**> Cut [07:40] whitestar: lol, you're running the session next week! [07:40] cut [07:40] keep [07:40] <**EofS**> "SOFA, so good" is a pun for the other reason - sofa sounds like so far, and the expression is usually "so far, so good" [07:40] keep [07:40] 4STORY has been edited [07:40] (yeah, well, I adapted it to "SOFA, so bad" earlier :P ;) ) [07:40] 4moving onto vote4 stage [07:41] 4Illegally BLAND [07:41] 4The Compassionate BOYFRIEND - A Fairy Tale [07:41] 4A DECENT Proposal [07:41] 4MATELESS in Manhattan [07:41] 4Sleepless on the SOFA [07:41] 4you can vote4 now (but don't just vote4 boyfriend cause you've had a bad boyfriend in the past :-) [07:41] <**EofS**> vote4 bland [07:41] vote4 decent [07:41] vote4 sofa [07:42] vote4 boyfriend [07:42] vote4 sofa [07:42] john, don't worry, I never had a boyfriend before. :-P [07:42] <**EofS**> Can I vote4 boyfriend because men suck generally *looks angelic* [07:42] vote4 mateless [07:42] EofS: since you put it that way... [07:42] vote4 boyfriend [07:43] 4final vote: bland 1, decent 1, sofa 2, boyfriend 2 [07:43] 4how about EofS, Wizz revote for sofa or boyfriend? [07:43] E: Can it be that your men suck specifically? [07:43] * Wizzard abstains in that case [07:43] wait, and mateless? [07:43] <**EofS**> vote4 boyfriend [07:43] sorry L! [07:44] 4MATELESS 1 so could you revote too, Leander? [07:44] ah, thank you :-P [07:44] vote4 sofa [07:44] YEA! [07:45] 4final vote SOFA 1 BOYFRIEND 1 [07:45] <**EofS**> You know, Illegally Bland is a pun... [07:45] I'll have to pass this one onto SevQueen too [07:45] Note - I would probably change Boyfriend to Man, makes it more general [07:45] shorter too [07:46] it'll be interesting to see which one Wendy chooses [07:46] or Guy? [07:46] but it won't be the original... [07:46] <**EofS**> John changes punchlines all the time [07:46] glorendil: I edit the punchlines all the time though [07:46] I know. [07:46] thanx E :-) [07:46] <**EofS**> Except when the original punchline MAKES NO SENSE [07:46] lol, such quick confirmation. :-P [07:46] LOL@ [07:46] let's not go there right now [07:47] <**EofS**> *Looks angelic* [07:47] mmmm, good idea [07:47] 4moving onto the X-Men toon [07:47] 4Properly decoded, it will either summon Cthulthu or give a realy great BROWNIE recipe! [07:47] I love this comp [07:47] keep [07:47] keep [07:47] keep [07:47] cut [07:47] cut [07:47] keep [07:47] is cthulthu a real character or just a made up name? [07:47] <**EofS**> Cut [07:47] it's from H.P. Lovecraft novels I think [07:47] H P Lovecraft, I think? [07:47] What Iris said [07:47] <**EofS**> He's from an HP Lovecraft novel [07:48] yup [07:48] yup [07:48] hehe [07:48] I haven't read any of his work, but you can't escape good old Cthulthu if you use Livejournal... ;-) [07:48] *sigh* more book stuff. :-P [07:48] lol [07:48] Didn't read it, though, but I heard it's good. [07:48] 4BROWNIE is kept [07:48] I've never read it [07:48] has anyone read it? ;) [07:48] *g* [07:48] 4It's how I used to CHEAT on my astronomy tests [07:49] keep [07:49] cut [07:49] cut [07:49] cut [07:49] neutral [07:49] no, never heard of it, and managed to use livejournal fine without it so far! :-P [07:49] keep [07:49] <**EofS**> I've never met anyone who has... I bet the people who had "Vote Cthulthu 2004" bumper stickers hadn't [07:49] lol [07:49] hehehe [07:49] <**EofS**> Neutral [07:49] 4CHEAT has been disqualified [07:49] 4I was CRIBBING for a test, and used a permanent marker [07:50] keep [07:50] cut [07:50] LOL, Emma [07:50] cut [07:50] (yay for puns!) [07:50] cut [07:50] cut [07:50] cut [07:50] <**EofS**> "I am a fish" [07:50] 4CRIBBING is cut [07:50] <**EofS**> Neutrtal [07:50] 4I'm a compulsive DOODLER! [07:50] <**EofS**> *Eats t* [07:50] cut [07:50] cut [07:50] <**EofS**> Cut [07:50] LOL Emma! [07:51] cut [07:51] (you forgot the handprint, though ;) ) [07:51] keep [07:51] cut [07:51] 4DOODLER has been erased [07:51] 4Never fall asleep on a New York City subway! [07:51] keep [07:51] keep [07:51] keep [07:51] keep [07:51] keep [07:51] keep [07:51] <**EofS**> Keep [07:51] (you need to pick a punchword, btw ;)( [07:51] methinks I've found a winner [07:52] doh, no punchword, missed that! [07:52] <**EofS**> Michelle - I hardly took any notes in my lecture earlier, so I don't have much ink on my hand ;0) [07:52] 4SUBWAY is kept [07:52] 4"KICK Me" in 102 languages [07:52] heh ok ;) [07:52] cut [07:52]