Forum: Geeks' Lounge 28 Days Ago |
| Replies: 17 Views: 1,075 Youtube "Larry Goes to the Market". It's a truly first-class short film MADE ENTIRELY from the footage of that dude. It made me LOL. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 20th, 2008 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 418 I am looking to buy a new PC, but have no idea what to get. I want a desktop that is suitable for both gaming and work, and preferably not a Dell. Does anyone have recommendations for me vis a vis... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jul 12th, 2008 |
| Replies: 679 Views: 78,223 Ostriches have been known to eat metal.
This suggests that they can see the metal and know what it is, but are just too dumb to think about whether or not it's a good idea. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 28th, 2008 |
| Replies: 679 Views: 78,223 I'm not sure if this is still true, but when my dad went to the University of Illinois (in the '80s), either Champaign or Urbana had a law on their books requiring all monsters to be out of town by... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 17th, 2008 |
| Replies: 148 Views: 13,950 One great shirt I saw someone wearing at a Steak and Shake:
>cd pub
>more beer |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 16th, 2008 |
| Replies: 679 Views: 78,223 If you say "elephant" over and over again, it invariably turns into "fintella".
Take a look at these fintsella:
Clicky!!! (http://www.deepscience.com/justsilly/fun006.html) |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 13th, 2008 |
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Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 11th, 2008 |
| Replies: 679 Views: 78,223 Could be...
This (http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/05/02/japanese-gamers-draw-customers-with-er-boobs/) is a weird one... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 8th, 2008 |
| Replies: 298 Views: 27,459 Ya know, fierykido, you're getting pretty ad hominem on me. Who are you, Rush Limbaugh??? (I don't actually think you are, pseudoscience doesn't seem to be how he rolls.) But if *you* were... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 7th, 2008 |
| Replies: 679 Views: 78,223 Not only did Willy the Shake come up with coumpound nouns (like "bedroom" or "stovepipe"), he also coined the following terms: hush, puke, anchovy, bandit, manager, glow, alligator, mimic, useless,... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 7th, 2008 |
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Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 7th, 2008 |
| Replies: 298 Views: 27,459 I agree with the above skeptics. Ya know, you talk a lot ("There's lots of evidence...) but you never seem to give one reference to anthing except that one site. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 6th, 2008 |
| Replies: 298 Views: 27,459 There is no such thing as a psychic. Telekinesis has never been reliably demonstrated (i.e., it's hooey in my opinion), and mind-reading is an illusion; human beings just have a remarkable ability to... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 5th, 2008 |
| Replies: 679 Views: 78,223 Where in the Sharia, Hadith, or Koran does it say anything about that??? Suppose it's a women's-only hotel??? |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 5th, 2008 |
| Replies: 298 Views: 27,459 Hey! Put that in the "What Bumper Sticker Would Your Car Wear?" thread. (Kidding!;))
...but good one! |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 5th, 2008 |
| Replies: 298 Views: 27,459 Speaking of viruses, some author or other has written a few zombie books (including World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War). In these books, there is a virus called Solanum that turns humans... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 5th, 2008 |
| Replies: 298 Views: 27,459 I had a sub in High School frosh bio class who kept telling us that viruses were alive.
Fun fact: According to the Mayans, the world will end the day before I reach the legal drinking age in my... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge May 31st, 2008 |
| Replies: 679 Views: 78,223 In my town of Evanston (IL, not WY) it is illegal to go bowling. Also to skip in a bathing suit.
And in Atlanta, GA, it is illegal to tie a giraffe (Giraffa camelopardis) to a telephone pole (Kahniu... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge May 21st, 2008 |
| Replies: 679 Views: 78,223 Sarcophagus and carnivore mean the same thing: flesh eater. One is Greek and the other is Latin |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge May 20th, 2008 |
| Replies: 679 Views: 78,223 No duh...
President Garfield could read a letter in English and simultaneously write two copies in two other languages, one with each hand. Why can't our President today do that? |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge May 17th, 2008 |
| Replies: 679 Views: 78,223 I can assure you that this is true:
I am on the Math Team at my high school, and while doing some logarithm practice, my coach told me about one notoriously malevolent problem that had come up on... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge May 13th, 2008 |
| Replies: 679 Views: 78,223 Just as did kdoiron, I heard that the QWERTY setup was billed as a preventer of jammed keys. This did in effect happen because it took typists a while to adjust from the old ABC configuration. By the... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge May 10th, 2008 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 1,225 Yep, fun pranks. What is the funniest situation involving one of the two that you have personally been in?
I'll start: I Rickrolled the fiendish principal of my middle school...at the school office... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Apr 16th, 2008 |
| Replies: 55 Views: 4,070 How about making a thread against that and the atrocities in Tibet...basically reprimand China |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Apr 1st, 2008 |
| Replies: 148 Views: 13,950 By the time you finish reading this, I will be obso%&l%&e%&t%&e
Please consult the manual to find out what is broken today.
C++ no work, i do basic only, sry
Press Ctrl-Alt-F4-Delete to... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Mar 11th, 2008 |
| Replies: 61 Views: 5,330 Save Trees: Plant a Bush Back in Texas |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Mar 11th, 2008 |
| Replies: 1,554 Views: 205,566 Murphy's Law: If something can go wrong, it will.
"Spigot" is a funny word.
I believe you have my stapler. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Mar 10th, 2008 |
| Replies: 46 Views: 3,993 Evolution...how about that classic example of those finches Darwin discovered???
And if an omniscient creator (whose name rhymes with Todd) *had* created everything, would He have allowed humans to... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Feb 24th, 2008 |
| Replies: 418 Views: 44,379 The worst joke I can think of (which I made up myself):
Q. What's green and has a talk show in the garden?
A. Okra Winfrey!!! *snort*
...I crack myself up sometimes...but don't worry, this is not... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 28th, 2007 |
| Replies: 23 Views: 1,870 I am a high school junior. Last year in my English (as in lit, not ESL) class, four or five students were caught cheating on a quiz. Not only did they all have *very* similar wording on some of the... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 27th, 2007 |
| Replies: 14 Views: 1,954 DimaYasny, since you hail from the great land of Ireland (and I flip the bird to anyone who confuses Ireland and Scotland), I shall refer you to the Darwin Awards:... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 27th, 2007 |
| Replies: 14 Views: 1,954 Dogs have dog breath. Cats, however, have fishbreath, which suggests that breath is better described by the eaten items than by the breath's owner. Ergo, it is indeed a dog-eat-dog world out there.... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 27th, 2007 |
| Replies: 14 Views: 1,954 I shall quote the Evanston Chem/Phys class of 2008:
A computer once beat me at chess but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Ian Finder, please do not kill me for posting that. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 27th, 2007 |
| Replies: 14 Views: 1,954 How about the old "Press any key" joke?
I wonder if people ever did call in looking for the "any" key??? |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 15th, 2007 |
| Replies: 213 Views: 18,276 "Some men are shallow jerks, some women are as well, and the best way to get through life is to not care so much about who you cannot get along with as about who you can befriend."
--Gabriel Shai... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 7th, 2007 |
| Replies: 21 Views: 2,061 Stick it in a computer at work or school and leave it for people to wonder about. Come back next week and see it's still there.
Make like the Mythbusters team would and fire it out of a flintlock... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 1st, 2007 |
| Replies: 213 Views: 18,276 Not even going to answer; she would KILL ME!
(Plus we're both teenagers, so I'd get in trouble with Big Brother Sam). |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 1st, 2007 |
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Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 9th, 2007 |
| Replies: 113 Views: 8,934 With the record amount* of vacation time GWB takes, I think he should have come up with SOME sort of funny gag in his spare time...
*over 400 days!**
**number of hours: OVER NINE THOUSAND! |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Oct 30th, 2007 |
| Replies: 113 Views: 8,934 I take offense at people of any religion who go around trying to convert people. Putting it on national television just gives them extra attention. |