Originally Posted By AlienBZ (26 MAR 2012 5:27pm)

Originally Posted By SirDave (22 MAR 2012 11:28pm)

Originally Posted By Val (22 MAR 2012 7:31pm)

Hi Len! Long time, no talk!

How are you and your family. I don't know if you remember me but I used to be Valadmin and the JA+ webmistress.

 

Val? Valadmin?

 

 

I remember you, Valadmin. In fact I remember seeing your name back when I first registered here as "K515" back in early January 2008, and I figured that "Val" was really "Valadmin."

 

Nice seeing you still here - are you still the JA admin?

I remember you!

Originally Posted By Mark (26 MAR 2012 4:13pm)

Originally Posted By Traveller (26 MAR 2012 7:50am)

Anyway, most Americans are now one hour earlier because of daylight saving that turned the clock back 1 hour a few weeks ago.

Actually, Trav, we (well, most of us Americans) lost an hour a few weeks ago. We had to set our clocks ahead one hour, so there's that, yeah.

 

 

Sorry, yes, it suddenly being one hour earlier means you set your clock ahead, but time itself turns back.  An hour ago it was 12 PM and now it's suddenly 12PM again.  That gives the ...Oh wait..  now I'm getting confused... that's the way it goes in Fall... Spring jumps one hour  sorrryyyyy sorrryyy  me half asleep....  

Originally Posted By Traveller (26 MAR 2012 7:50am)
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Sorry, yes, it suddenly being one hour earlier means you set your clock ahead, but time itself turns back.  An hour ago it was 12 PM and now it's suddenly 12PM again.  That gives the ...Oh wait..  now I'm getting confused... that's the way it goes in Fall... Spring jumps one hour  sorrryyyyy sorrryyy  me half asleep....  

 

Any chance we might warp into a space-time continuum? I've been trying to get into one of those for years...but maybe they all loop back onto themselves, creating impenetrable closed systems.

(S-TC says: Ha ha! Joke's on you! You'll never find any of us, loser!)

Edit: See what losing an hour can do to people?

Originally Posted By karla (27 MAR 2012 1:03am)

 

 

Edit: See what losing an hour can do to people?

Yes, it can fry their brains. 

Originally Posted By Traveller (27 MAR 2012 9:24am)

Originally Posted By karla (27 MAR 2012 1:03am)

See what losing an hour can do to people?

Yes, it can fry their brains.

The subject of "Fried Brains" was in Off-Forum. Maybe still there. Ain't lookin' right now for it.

People reading this thread must think we're either drunk, tired, or very bored.  Or all 3.

Waiting for the forum police to move it it to Off Forum.

On second thoughts, Off Topic might be a more sentimentimal but better option.  I choose that option.

Originally Posted By Mark (27 MAR 2012 1:24pm)

 

The subject of "Fried Brains" was in Off-Forum. Maybe still there. Ain't lookin' right now for it.

Now, I know you weren't, because at that moment you were typing: "The subject of "Fried Brains" was in Off-Forum. Maybe still there. Ain't lookin' right now for it. "

..and if you were looking for that subject in Off-Forum right then, at that moment that you were typing it, you had to have:

1) Four hands  2) two screens /dual screen

I won't mention what else you would have needed to have.  Quite a few things, though.  Not thinking of them right now.

I think we are so off topic that there is no longer a topic.  If we had a Babylon forum, I'd move it there.  Since we don't, Off Topic will have to do. 

Originally Posted By Traveller (26 MAR 2012 7:50am)

 

You were really just looking for a chance to use those emoticon images, weren't you?  

 

Anyway, most Americans are now one hour earlier because of daylight saving that turned the clock back 1 hour a few weeks ago. 

    ...but yes, that post of mine does appear to be "in the wee hours", doesn't it?  

  I sneak in when I have the place to myself.    Just to confuse you.   

yeah i finally had the chance to visualise my fantasy war between the heroic european people (*) vs the american fraidy-cats 

Since we also switched to daylight saving time (**), it was indeed the middle of the night for you.

And now i still don't what timezone you're in :s

(*) really ironic this one, as I am in very anti-EU mood today, I've even been wondering whether or not i should emmigrate

(**) please let it be the last time, a recent poll suggests 78% is against changing clocks, it really ruins our internal clocks

Originally Posted By markornikov (27 MAR 2012 2:16pm)

Originally Posted By Traveller (26 MAR 2012 7:50am)

 

You were really just looking for a chance to use those emoticon images, weren't you?  

 

Anyway, most Americans are now one hour earlier because of daylight saving that turned the clock back 1 hour a few weeks ago. 

    ...but yes, that post of mine does appear to be "in the wee hours", doesn't it?  

  I sneak in when I have the place to myself.    Just to confuse you.   

 

yeah i finally had the chance to visualise my fantasy war between the heroic european people (*) vs the american fraidy-cats 

 

Since we also switched to daylight saving time (**), it was indeed the middle of the night for you.

And now i still don't what timezone you're in :s

 

(*) really ironic this one, as I am in very anti-EU mood today, I've even been wondering whether or not i should emmigrate

(**) please let it be the last time, a recent poll suggests 78% is against changing clocks, it really ruins our internal clocks

 

Yes, it really is not good to change one's sleeping cycle so drastically.  Bi-annual jet-lag!

Maybe they should move it to half and hour in the middle of the forward and backward hour, and just leave it at that.  I wonder if that's even possible?  Well, why not, time-keeping is only a man-made concept, anyway.

Originally Posted By Traveller (27 MAR 2012 1:47pm)

Originally Posted By Mark (27 MAR 2012 1:24pm)

 

The subject of "Fried Brains" was in Off-Forum. Maybe still there. Ain't lookin' right now for it.

 

Now, I know you weren't, because at that moment you were typing: "The subject of "Fried Brains" was in Off-Forum. Maybe still there. Ain't lookin' right now for it. "

 

..and if you were looking for that subject in Off-Forum right then, at that moment that you were typing it, you had to have:

1) Four hands  2) two screens /dual screen

 

I won't mention what else you would have needed to have.  Quite a few things, though.  Not thinking of them right now.

As Mark's pc is hooked up to his bicycle (the power company cut him off ages ago) he needs to be feeling fit and energetic to get online.  Which explains why he's barely here nowadays.  Age is catching up with him.  Plus, since the left pedal fell off, and he's too lazy to fix it, it kinda makes the whole stationary bike thing rather difficult and unattractive.  (the unattractive part is the sight of an old man, his long greying locks flowing out behind him, pumping his legs and constantly having his left ankle whacked by the broken pedal shaft because his reflexes are too slow for him to get his leg out of the way quickly enough. 

He sent me a photo of his bruises - it's not pretty.  

So there you have it: the truth of why Mark is only here intermittently now.  

I once spent a summer up in northern Canada, where night lasted only four hours. My internal clock almost exploded.

I wonder how many hours each of us has spent trying to find a particular emoticon? I'm up to around 1193 and counting...

I almost never find the emoticon I'm looking for.  I suspect it's either not there in the first place or it's been blown up  by the very aggressive army of emoticons     that have been billeted to this forum now.  I keep looking though and generally find something totally inappropriate but cute .   It often seems to me that there are new emoticons I've never seen before and I don't know if they've been put there by the mods or have discovered a way to self-generate during the hours of darkness. 

Either way, I have developed a special fondness for this little chap...

And I am anxiously desperate not to miss the one and only opportunity per year to use this little fella.     Although I'm a little baffled by this one and I'm way too lazy to google it and see what comes up.  I thought that was a gun but it seems to be a bottle of grog the amgio is waving at us.

But I did google this one  and I must say, shocked as I am at the rudeness of it, I can perceive of several occasions when it may get an outing.    But I really do miss the winking smiley and the kissing smiley we used to have.  Please, someone find them and bring them back?

Originally Posted By Caroline (27 MAR 2012 4:12pm)

Originally Posted By Traveller (27 MAR 2012 1:47pm)

Originally Posted By Mark (27 MAR 2012 1:24pm)

 

The subject of "Fried Brains" was in Off-Forum. Maybe still there. Ain't lookin' right now for it.

 

Now, I know you weren't, because at that moment you were typing: "The subject of "Fried Brains" was in Off-Forum. Maybe still there. Ain't lookin' right now for it. "

 

..and if you were looking for that subject in Off-Forum right then, at that moment that you were typing it, you had to have:

1) Four hands  2) two screens /dual screen

 

I won't mention what else you would have needed to have.  Quite a few things, though.  Not thinking of them right now.

 

 

As Mark's pc is hooked up to his bicycle (the power company cut him off ages ago) he needs to be feeling fit and energetic to get online.  Which explains why he's barely here nowadays.  Age is catching up with him.  Plus, since the left pedal fell off, and he's too lazy to fix it, it kinda makes the whole stationary bike thing rather difficult and unattractive.  (the unattractive part is the sight of an old man, his long greying locks flowing out behind him, pumping his legs and constantly having his left ankle whacked by the broken pedal shaft because his reflexes are too slow for him to get his leg out of the way quickly enough. 

 

He sent me a photo of his bruises - it's not pretty.  

 

So there you have it: the truth of why Mark is only here intermittently now.  

 

Ok, I really laughed out loud at this one.  Loudly and rudely, while I saw the image in my mind, and it was fun. For a change.  Things have been much too dour aorund here lately. 

Re the smileys: well. I was laughing and in a good mood until I too, googled that spacken one.  I, too was taken aback at it's apparent meaning. No, that's not nice, and not appropriate for this forum, surely.  There are one or two, that are really rather innappropriate, not to mention the tons of violent ones compared to the very small variety in any kind of non-violent form of expression.     One ends up just making do with the first violent one closest to the top of the page that comes closest to what you had wanted to express.  Perhaps not a good culture shift.

..and yes, there are too many. 

Originally Posted By Caroline (28 MAR 2012 1:34am)

  I keep looking though and generally find something totally inappropriate but cute .   It often seems to me that there are new emoticons I've never seen before and I don't know if they've been put there by the mods or have discovered a way to self-generate during the hours of darkness. 

 

I creep in in the wee hours of the night, when nobody else is looking and put them there, just to make you keep searching the smiley page for new ones.           

But yeah, we really need a kissy smiley similar to our old one, and/or a nice "hug" smiley.  And fewer angry ones spattering blood all over the place.    

Originally Posted By Caroline (27 MAR 2012 4:12pm)

As Mark's pc is hooked up to his bicycle (the power company cut him off ages ago) he needs to be feeling fit and energetic to get online.  Which explains why he's barely here nowadays.  Age is catching up with him.  Plus, since the left pedal fell off, and he's too lazy to fix it, it kinda makes the whole stationary bike thing rather difficult and unattractive. 

LOL. Seems like I've been down that very same road myself so I got to thinking...

That's absolutely brilliant, CB -- it gave me a much-needed attack of the sillies!

(I'm too busy right now to look for an emoticon, so just picture me cackling...)

That is one of my favorite commercials, CB!  Row, row, row! 

Such fun!  What a great voice that actor has.

I'm still giggling.

I'm still around just been not replying much as I use too.  Maybe I should change that.

so this is where the party is... libations and emoticons... the headmaster will hear of this!

Originally Posted By Caroline (28 MAR 2012 4:40pm)

Such fun!  What a great voice that actor has.

 

I'm still giggling.

..and here I'd been suspecting you of cribbing off that ad...  but then I suppose it's not an Aussie ad, so you are vindicated from all suspicion of plagiarism. 

Originally Posted By chronotigger65 (28 MAR 2012 5:09pm)

I'm still around just been not replying much as I use too.  Maybe I should change that.

Good to see you, chrono. Now get with the program and help us keep the thread with no topic going, will ya?

As I remember things Chrono, you were more of a topic starter than a responder.   How's Pepsi?