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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 04:58 PM
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If I post this smiley, will a flamewar come to me?
:popcorn:
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:00 PM
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1. I see your smiley and raise you one.
:popcorn: :popcorn:
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:02 PM
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4. I'll double your bet
:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:04 PM
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6. Ideally, this is what this thread should look like


Me:
:popcorn:













You assholes:
:grr::nuke::grr:
:eyes::shrug::eyes:
:nopity::nopity::nopity:
:crazy::mad::crazy:
:tinfoilhat:















Me again:
:applause:

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TimeChaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:16 PM
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11. That made my day
Thanks :)
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:02 PM
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2. Smiley-posters are a funny bunch
:D
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dolo amber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:02 PM
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3. Iunno
:shrug:
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:13 PM
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8. It's no fun if I start it myself
:cry:
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AVulgarianHue Donating Member (583 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:04 PM
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5. Only if it's Monsanto corn n/t
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:06 PM
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7. No.
You gotta do better than that.

Insult someone's favorite band or say you enjoy killing cute animals or something. That oughtta do it.
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:19 PM
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13. I kick kittens.
Yup, kitten picture threads always get a kick from me.




























































(Pssst... Let's hope this works :popcorn: )
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:24 PM
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17. OK, now I can start a flamewar--I fucking -hate- this kind of post:
Something that needs a defusing and/or humorous smiley















































Defusing and/or humorous smiley.
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:29 PM
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21. It wasn't a defusing and/or humorous smiley...
It's an attempt to push the cynical sarcastic intent of
the post out of eye shot of the would-be reactionary reader.

Such as yourself... Obviously.





























































































Nyah! :P
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:31 PM
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22. I guess we're bitter enemies forever now
x(






























































































No smiley! This was just to maybe sprain your scrolling finger. :P
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:43 PM
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27. Let this be on your head!
I wave the bony finger of blame at your approximate location.























































































And such. :+ (*YES*, I invoked the seldom used and inflammatory "clown face".)
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:43 PM
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28. Holy shit! Clowny finally has some exposure
I think Mr. Hide still has more currency:

:hide:
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:47 PM
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31. Lately, I would agree.
I'm not too fond of the long scroll posts myself.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:14 PM
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9. No, but someone might show a movie.
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BamaLefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:15 PM
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10. War!
:nuke:
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:16 PM
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12. No, but being your normal asshole self might help.
"Oh, look at me! I'm jpgray and I'm the King of Everything! I like Talk Talk, and I like to TALK TALK EVEN MORE than the band Talk Talk! In fact, All I ever do is Talk talk! Wah wah wahhhhh...."
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:19 PM
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14. You dare to mock me? See if you can mock me in the Room of Questions!
Or something. :shrug:
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:20 PM
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15. Yew and yure dawter are dooooomed.
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:22 PM
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16. If you read your first reply in the tones of Mark Hollis and add Casios
That pretty much is their first single.
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:24 PM
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18. I know. You're a hard guy to mock....
I mean, what was I gonna do? Pick on Os Mutantes?
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:25 PM
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19. The J and P stand for Jieronymus Posch
Does that help?
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:27 PM
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20. Um.
What?
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:44 PM
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I am a Garden of Earthly Delights (nt)
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:48 PM
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33. Were you trying to provoke flameage
with your butchering of Bosch's name?
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:52 PM
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34. You can't tie down that post to a single purpose
It's like the wind. Woosh.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:55 PM
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36. dude
this is regoddamndiculous how much u fuckin rawk. u r teh sex.
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 06:17 PM
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41. If I had a cool middle name, I would agree with you (nt)
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:35 PM
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23. I thought it stood for "jejune pretention."
Or "jalepenos 'n' prunes."
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:37 PM
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24. Either way, I may as well have sprung whole from my folks' bongwater
:cry:
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:39 PM
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25. Speaking of having hippie parents.....
Guess my middle name. Go ahead....guess.
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:41 PM
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26. Aquarius? Jerry? Reeftomarleymaumau? (nt)
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:44 PM
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29. Very close, actually.
"Jupiter." It moved into Pisces the day I was born....just as, I'm guessing, a huge cloud of marijuana smoke moved into my dad's lungs.
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:46 PM
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30. That's cool!
Edited on Wed Sep-07-05 05:47 PM by jpgray
Can I call you "Jup," like the servant baboon in The Mysterious Island?

:bounce:
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:48 PM
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32. If you don't mind constant slaps to the face with an open hand, then yes.
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:59 PM
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37. That would harsh my Jup-buzz, yeah.
You must have been the coolest kid in grade school with that middle name. My two first names combine for something popular with recent Popes.
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 05:54 PM
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35. attention whore
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 06:08 PM
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38. Who are you to judge?
:cry:
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 06:09 PM
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39. i'm sorry...
attention slut :D
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 06:16 PM
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40. And who the fuck are you these days, ee cummings?
Post some damn captial letters! :grr::nuke:
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