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Amusing Inspirations
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:50 pm
by Cyril_Dran
You've all seen those Inspiration pictures, like "Serenity" and it shows a drop of water hitting the surface of water and stuff.. My friend showed me these, and I was wondering if anyone else had seen similar pics..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/ ... 603938.jpg
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/959/ ... terrd7.jpg
.. Plus, they make me smile, so I figured I'd share them.
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:24 am
by RandomScribe
There's a whole bunch of them here:
http://despair.com/viewall.html
--RS
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:40 am
by Cyril_Dran
I've got another one referring to the bomb scare over Adult Swim characters, which I'm currently using as my desktop, but I'm not 100% sure it's "safe" material on the political grounds...
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:45 pm
by LoneWolf23k
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:54 pm
by Allan_ecker
That last one... YES.
Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:09 am
by Kesh
That thread is just awesome. I've made a few posters for it myself.
Be warned though, if you go to read it, you'll waste a couple days just clicking through and laughing.
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:26 pm
by GreatLimmick
"Waste"?
Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 8:49 pm
by Alfador
I went there a while back. I'm almost afraid to return.
My roommate printed out the one about "Tyrannosaurs in F-14s!!!" (Exalted: Yeah, it's kinda like that.)
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:28 pm
by Micro_Fur
Bernal's Gun Bunny!
Micro_fur - That is all.
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:10 pm
by Allan_ecker
Micro_Fur wrote:Bernal's Gun Bunny!
Micro_fur - That is all.
..
Cease and desist orders ahoy!
Dead serious about GURPS SPANC. I've even made up a "Rum Table" showing how Rum eventually makes all Ninja rolls nearly impossible but turns you into a super-swashbuckling UberPirate.
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:45 am
by Micro_Fur
allan_ecker wrote:Micro_Fur wrote:Bernal's Gun Bunny!
Micro_fur - That is all.
..
Cease and desist orders ahoy!
Dead serious about GURPS SPANC. I've even made up a "Rum Table" showing how Rum eventually makes all Ninja rolls nearly impossible but turns you into a super-swashbuckling UberPirate.
Arrrr! I be a lookin' to join a pirate crew meself.
Micro_fur - I'm going to get flamed for that. . .
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:04 pm
by Cyril_Dran
Try Limewire.
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:36 pm
by Allan_ecker
Wait--
Is that where the name comes from?
British pirates?
LIMEYS!?!?!?
O.O
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:51 pm
by Micro_Fur
allan_ecker wrote:Wait--
Is that where the name comes from?
British pirates?
LIMEYS!?!?!?
O.O
Actually just sailors who had scurvy.
As it turns out, the term "limey" originally applied to British sailors. In the 17th and 18th centuries, sailors suffered terribly from scurvy, a condition caused by a lack of vitamin C. Vitamin C comes mainly from fresh fruits and vegetables, but these foods aren't exactly easy to come by when you're at sea for months at a time.
So the Royal Navy prescribed lime juice for all sailors to help ward off scurvy -- hence the appellation "limeys." As often happens, the term eventually lost its original context and was applied to all British, whether sailors or landlubbers.
Whereas the term for British pirates is "seadog", coined by Sir Francis Drake in reference to experienced sailors more commonly refered to as "Old Salts"
Micro_fur - World History 201 flashback
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:14 am
by GreatLimmick
Wasn't Drake himself a privateer though? (Which is basically a pirate with a license...)
