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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: KickTheBobo on August 27, 2007, 12:15:59 PM
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Hi Matt. KTB here (actually my name is Christopher). I hope you didn't quit the board because you felt like you were being attacked for your comments in that recent nonsense thread, or for any other reason. Just give me the chance to run some stuff by you.
Just so you know, I love being a Friend of Tom (as I hope you do too) and really feel like we have a pretty swell bunch of people in our ranks. The one thing that I like about the board is that it is pretty much a "Let Your Freak Flag Fly" environment. Where it does differ from other message boards that I have experienced, is that it lacks a certain antagonism and mean-spiritedness that is all too rampant out there on the web. That doesn't mean that we can't give each other a good poking at now and again.
I guess that I was just perplexed at the idea of a topic/thread being judged as having value or not having value. There are many topics out there, and when I come across one that seems interesting, I participate. When it's something that isn't my bag, I pass it over.
Sarah and mine's intention behind that thread was just to mess around and alleviate some boredom. I don't think we were presenting it as some sort of "piece" which we wanted critiques of. If anyone found it amusing, then that's great, but if they didn't, well there's all sorts of other ways to be entertained. I guess I would have felt differently if we had posted something in the contest thread and asked "what do you think of this? does this need work?"
anyways, I hope that you join the board again. maybe we won't see eye to eye all the time, but as I am want to say "Some Like Vanilla, Some Like Rocky Road".
Yours Truly,
Christopher
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You don't like Rocky Road? SCREW you!
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You don't like Rocky Road? SCREW you!
You LIKE Rocky Road, Dave From Knoxville?! Oh my, your supercaller status may be in jeopardy because of this. Perhaps we need to convene the Friends of Tom Tribunal Board of Judgment (FOTTBOJ) to review your status. We must all have the same thoughts about all things.
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Actually, I am diabetic, so I get a "disabled-guy" pass.
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We must all have the same thoughts about all things.
What do you guys think about fast zombies?
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You're diabetic, Dave? SCREW you!
And, Matt, ditto what KTB said. We were just cheering ourselves up. I was pretty grumpy on Friday and being abused by Christopher's troll alter ego took my mind away from murderous fantasies about the bastard developer who's soon going to be ruining my life. I'd hate for you to be a casualty of Bobo's noble effort to prevent me from committing murder.
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You don't like Rocky Road? SCREW you!
Bah! Rocky Road is for Philistines.
You gots to be down with the Hash to earn my respect.
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You know, I'm just gonna go ahead right now and say that Cold Stone Creamery will turf out as bad as Krispy Kreme doughnuts did. Their whole "Its made on a freezing cold slab of granite" is just a variation on "Our Doughnuts are served warm"
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You don't like Rocky Road? SCREW you!
Bah! Rocky Road is for Philistines.
You gots to be down with the Hash to earn my respect.
(http://kickthebobo.com//heavenlyhash.jpg)
Heavenly Hash? Is it made with real hashish?
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You know, I'm just gonna go ahead right now and say that Cold Stone Creamery will turf out as bad as Krispy Kreme doughnuts did. Their whole "Its made on a freezing cold slab of granite" is just a variation on "Our Doughnuts are served warm"
I'm totally with you on this one, KTB. It's not like they're ice cream "tastes better" for it. It's like a huge pile of sugar that was on a cold rock for thirty seconds. Big deal! Now, if they named all their employees "granite slab technicians" then they'd be in the Subway Sandwiches territory, and they would really have something going.
Also, MATT, COME BACK! I'M SORRY.
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I've never been able to hack Cold Stone Creamery - every time I see one, it's in NYC and the situation inside just looks like a total chaotic clusterfuck*, one of those NY things where you have to be a jerk just to get noticed. I can't imagine any ice cream being worth that.
*Totally my Ben & Jerry's flavor if I ever get to name one
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hey Matt,
if you come back i'll meet you at RU again and show you where the secret Cold Stone Creamery is on campus....(you can't google it, don't even try) followed by a historical tour of the NB campus including a stop at the observatory where a certain *famous band played one of their very first gigs ever,... concluded with a daring climb to the top of the Abe Lincoln sculpture - sounds like fun, right?
rejoin!
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I met Matt and he's a good guy.
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hey Matt,
if you come back i'll meet you at RU again and show you where the secret Cold Stone Creamery is on campus....(you can't google it, don't even try)
Wait, where is it? I'll try it at Rutgers, which is probably a little less insane than Manhattan.
I'll quit and rejoin if that's what it takes.
And just to weigh in, come back, Matt!
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I met Matt and he's a good guy.
I also met Matt and feel the same way.
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Hey Matt, please come back, unless you don't like Rocky Road-loving diabetics, in which case SCREW YOU
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We must all have the same thoughts about all things.
What do you guys think about fast zombies?
There are no fast zombies, you're talking about ghouls. Maybe your screen name should be Lamont, because you're a big dummy.
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I dunno, people on this listserv I'm on are having a long and very passionate argument about them. Didn't that Zack Snyder remake of Dawn of the Dead have fast zombies in it?
I know the bad guys in 28 Days Later are not zombies, but it is for all intents and purposes a zombie movie. And I did see that.
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Although we've been down this road before (or was it on the WFMU board?) I'll humor you, Lamont. I just went to the upstairs bookcase to retrieve the ultimate argument settler: The Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual by Gary Gygax Fourth Edition, August 1979 so here's the thing:
Zombie
Frequency: Rare
No. Appearing: 3-24
Armor Class: 8 (Beat 'em or burn 'em they go up easy)
Move: 6"
Hit Dice: 2
Intelligence:Non-
etc.
"Zombies are slow, always striking last, but always doing 1-8 points of damage when they hit. They always fight until destroyed and nothing short of a cleric can turn them back."
Ghoul
Frequency: Rare
No. Appearing: 2-24
Armor Class: 6
Move: 9"
Hit Dice: 2
Intelligence: Low
etc.
"Ghouls are undead, once human corpses which feed on human and other corpses. Although their change from human to ghoul has deranged and destroyed their minds, ghouls have a terrible cunning which enables them to hunt their prey most effectively. Ghouls attack by clawing with their filthy nails and fangs. Their touch causes humans- including dwarves, gnomes, half-elves and halflings, but excluding elves- to become rigid (paralysis) unless a saving throw versus paralyzation is successful. Any human killed by a ghoulish attack will become a ghoul unless blessed (or blessed and then resurrected)."
Ghouls people. Ken Freedman said it, I've said it before and I'll say it again.
Ghouls.
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So, does that mean that Robert Carlyle's character was a ghast in 28 weeks...?
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If only your research powers can be used for good instead of ghoul!
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Although we've been down this road before (or was it on the WFMU board?) I'll humor you, Lamont. I just went to the upstairs bookcase to retrieve the ultimate argument settler: The Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual by Gary Gygax Fourth Edition, August 1979 so here's the thing:
(snip)
Ghouls people. Ken Freedman said it, I've said it before and I'll say it again.
Ghouls.
I don't know why you keep insisting on calling me Lamont when clearly I am the Redd Foxx in this conversation. You, sir, are clearly a zombie prescriptivist, while I am a zombie descriptivist. To wit:
In zombie studies, prescription is the laying down or prescribing of normative rules for the nomenclature of zombies. For example, rules for what is deemed socially or politically "correct." Prescription is typically contrasted with description, which observes and records how zombies are used in practice, and which is the basis of all zombie research. Serious scholarly descriptive work is usually based on text or corpus analysis, or on field studies, but the term "description" includes each individual's observations of their own zombie experience. Unlike prescription, descriptive zombie studies eschews value judgments and makes no recommendations.
Prescription and description are often seen as opposites, in the sense that one declares what is or is not a zombie while the other declares how zombies are. But they can also be complementary, and usually exist in dynamic tension. Most commentators on zombies show elements of both prescription and description in their thinking, and popular debate on zombies issues frequently revolves around the question of how to balance these.
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Hey Matt, come back to the board!!
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I had no idea zombies were that boring.
Come back, Matt!
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Lamont Sanford: That's the way it used to be, Pop, now adays they give you one of them needles and you don't even know what hit you.
Fred Sanford: Oh, now I know I ain't going.
Lamont Sanford: Why not?
Fred Sanford: Are you kidding? A needle. I don't wanna get hooked on that stuff. It'd change me from Friendly Fred to Junkie Joe.
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Stan, I believe I've spoken to you before about invoking the authority of the Dungeons and Dragons manual.
And, Matt? Come back.
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Stan, are you a dungeon master? NYEEERD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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There's only one Dungeon Master in the Best Show universe, and you'll have to successfully Save against Orange Crates in order to defeat him.
And did Gary Gygax do an entry for Zumbies?
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Stan, are you a dungeon master? NYEEERD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's Uncle Stan, young lady.
Stan, I believe I've spoken to you before about invoking the authority of the Dungeons and Dragons manual.
Yes you have Sarah, but you're no Gary Gygax.
Lamont, please stop trying to overcompensate for not getting into Rutgers in 1989. We all still love you, just a little less.
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Uncle Stan, did you read that article about Gary Gygax in the Believer a few months back?
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Uncle Stan, did you read that article about Gary Gygax in the Believer a few months back?
I have not, but shall endeavor to do so later today. Thanks!
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Right brand, wrong bass. I don't have one of those $20,000 omega cut series basses. Those are for lawyers, church players and new age weenies.
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But all in all, you really seem to be at the top of your game Bobo, excellent post.
Matt, are you not getting the fact that we're all jumping through hoops here? Many of us have left this board, only to return. You'll be back. Or I'm gonna make you eat a lawnmower.
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You mean to say you don't play this one? Please tell me you at least have a coffin case for your bass. (http://www.gearhounds.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=490[/url)
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You mean to say you don't play this one? Please tell me you at least have a coffin case for your bass.
(http://www.gearhounds.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=490[/url)
I can't tell which one you mean because that link was to a whole page of basses. Sadly, I have no coffin cases and I'm guessing that you were trying to link to a picture of a pointy bass, of which I have one in lavender.
Here's the entire bass arsenal:
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I think I talked to Matt more than anyone else at the first Iron Monkey meet-up. He was awesome.
Where'd he go?
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Lamont, please stop trying to overcompensate for not getting into Rutgers in 1989. We all still love you, just a little less.
Lamont, I got over that years ago. If you only knew what I was overcompensating for.
Matt, are you back yet?
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You mean to say you don't play this one? Please tell me you at least have a coffin case for your bass.
(http://www.gearhounds.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=490[/url)
I can't tell which one you mean because that link was to a whole page of basses. Sadly, I have no coffin cases and I'm guessing that you were trying to link to a picture of a pointy bass, of which I have one in lavender.
Here's the entire bass arsenal:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/alembic14/IM000293.jpg)
I meant this one (http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/shop_image/product/65cdf6f13d322620b7149fb90f024165.jpg)! My bad.
The purple one is close enough, but it doesn't have Dimebag's face on it.
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I know the John Junk is still interested in this, but in case anyone else is, too: this from Matt.
"Hey Jason,
I got a bunch (ten, I think) of those 2006 fun kits from Tom at the first
listener party this year. Let me know if anyone else wants one.
Honestly, I have not revisited the FOT board since I deleted my account. I
thought that board members would have posted appropriate pictures on
account of my cowardly withdraw, such as cheap folded umbrellas and/or
people falling on their own swords. Now you tell me that THEY ARE ACTUALLY
WORYING ABOUT ME? Worry not, I am fine. You do not have another teen
Sathington on your hands. In fact, I love The Best Show more than ever.
I would love to come back to the FOT board! However, I found that it was
too time occupying. Last semester, when I was an active poster, I had my
second-worst GPA for my entire stay at Rutgers. I do not blame my board
participation; I blame my prioritizing of other activities over my
schoolwork. Well, I was going to leave the board temporarily eventually.
Yet, I do regret the way I left. I do not have any resentment towards
anyone! Hell, KTB and John Junk are the classiest of class acts. I love
all the FOT! I may return when spring rolls around and when my schedule
becomes less hectic.
FOT Forever!,
Matthew Maher"
As a prof and a putative authority figure (ha), I can't fault him for prioritizing school. And he's got a point. You people are freaking addictive.
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I never liked him.
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Looks like in Matt's world,
College > FOT
What's up with that?
Well, I'm glad he's not offended and that he doesn't hate us. Huzzah!
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College > FOT
Is that an arrow or a greater than sign?
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only grote uses those things as arrows.
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good, my guilt has finally assuaged.
He'll be back soon enough. you cannot resist the lure.
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Mmm... spring rolls.