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Re: PROBLEM: I was unlawfully detained by Octogenarian Receipt Nazis
« Reply #60 on: January 22, 2007, 10:41:10 am »
This thread took an abrupt right turn into funny.  :D
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Re: PROBLEM: I was unlawfully detained by Octogenarian Receipt Nazis
« Reply #61 on: January 22, 2007, 02:35:06 pm »
This lends itself to a World of Achewood MMORPG.
Computer Programmers, hop to it.

or maybe even a MUD
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Re: PROBLEM: I was unlawfully detained by Octogenarian Receipt Nazis
« Reply #62 on: January 22, 2007, 02:38:47 pm »
My mom just sewed me a perfect replica of a Wal-Mart vest, and I totally printed off a name tag.  At the Wal-LARP Bi Mon Con I am totally going to buy a Christmas with the Kranks 2 badge, an official re-pro of the 1992 style :) face badge (totally more authentic than the 1995 version.  Totally.), and maybe one of those spray-on cans of the sour smell of loneliness, cat pee and Lean Cuisine.  

Can someone please ask me if there are any more Brita filters in the back, even though there are clearly none on the shelf?  Because that would be so hott.  So hott!  That would get me off +4 harder than announcing a Code Adam over the intercom system.

Also, Fooker, I'm going to need to take a look at your receipt please.  Did you come in with those gloves?

Oh, I am wet.  Down there.
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Re: PROBLEM: I was unlawfully detained by Octogenarian Receipt Nazis
« Reply #63 on: January 22, 2007, 03:08:02 pm »
Hell of can for Smells.
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Re: PROBLEM: I was unlawfully detained by Octogenarian Receipt Nazis
« Reply #64 on: January 22, 2007, 04:00:43 pm »
I hate to admit that I know this, but this was actually a sketch on ***** Chicken. They show a bunch of orcs, elves, etc sitting around a table playing an Office Job RPG. The orc gets a saving throw vs. copier malfunction.
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Re: PROBLEM: I was unlawfully detained by Octogenarian Receipt Nazis
« Reply #65 on: January 22, 2007, 05:25:42 pm »
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They show a bunch of orcs, elves, etc sitting around a table playing an Office Job RPG. The orc gets a saving throw vs. copier malfunction.

Really?

Man, just goes to show, Trouser Chicken finds a funny idea and takes it one step past funny.

The FULL Comic Reversal, having D&D monsters RPG an office job, is too much. Too... pat. Too "whoop-zip!" wacky.

But a bunch of people with semi-decent jobs like... college professors or legal secretaries... role playing as the dude who stands around at the back of the CVS, really only doing anything when the lines are super long whereupon he takes over a register only until the line thins out and then goes back to standing in the back, because he's the manager's loser cousin?

That has just enough of a Kaufmanian/Hicksesque whiff of "rampant despair" to cut the aftertaste of "bad improv show" and really brings out the grassy-with-a-hint-of-vanilla "our very humanity dooms us from the start" hilarity notes.

So much of satire is about knowing when it's funny to go 180 degrees on a comedy reversal and when to go... 105 degrees.

Trouser Chicken has pretty much never gotten the distinction. I blame the partial Seth MacFarlane influence.


ALSO: "Oh, I am wet.  Down there." You must be refering to the condensation on your frosty new CAN.
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Re: PROBLEM: I was unlawfully detained by Octogenarian Receipt Nazis
« Reply #66 on: January 22, 2007, 11:15:44 pm »
Smells, you rock my small, celf-centered universe. I am quite sure that your existence makes Earth a better place.

On the subject of roleplaying experiences in weird, creepy shame, I am compelled to point out that someone is apparently actually going to release a d20 ("slightly more generic Dungeons & Dragons") supplement based on the modern controversy over abortion. Apparently it involves several character classes based on this theme, including "Sidewalk Counselor" (those people who stand on the sidewalk yelling at people going into the clinic, I think?) and "Blogger."

"Blogger."

Truth > Fiction, even such a sublime fiction as Smells's. I weep.
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Re: PROBLEM: I was unlawfully detained by Octogenarian Receipt Nazis
« Reply #67 on: January 23, 2007, 12:22:19 am »
If "Dungeons and Abortions" ever does come out, I dunno, the "Blogger" character class wouldn't be meta enough for me.

How about "Person Who Responds to Blogs But Never Actually Starts A Blog of Their Own"?

"Oh yeah, well I have a +5 Sig File of Recent Comic Book Crossover! It practically puts my Zeitgeist stat to max!"
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Re: PROBLEM: I was unlawfully detained by Octogenarian Receipt Nazis
« Reply #68 on: January 23, 2007, 12:28:56 am »
I'm so hot to roll up my "Message Board Lurker" character.

So looking forward to not going to the regular Saturday night game.
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Re: PROBLEM: I was unlawfully detained by Octogenarian Receipt Nazis
« Reply #69 on: January 23, 2007, 02:36:49 am »
The only LARPing I ever really did was back in high school, fighting with big silly Nerf-like swords and throwing Rock-Paper-Scissors to decide who got what. I don't think I ever did a pencil-and paper RPG.
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Re: PROBLEM: I was unlawfully detained by Octogenarian Receipt Nazis
« Reply #70 on: January 23, 2007, 06:37:03 am »
Quote from: R2DTrousers on January 20, 2007, 11:09:14 pm
You can keep peeling off lawyers - it's lawyers all the way down.

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Re: PROBLEM: I was unlawfully detained by Octogenarian Receipt Nazis
« Reply #71 on: February 05, 2007, 10:39:43 pm »
Is it too late to say that I knew that Fooker was kidding?  Or wasn't kidding?  Or whichever one was true? 

I WAS THE TURKEY THE WHOLE TIME!
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Re: PROBLEM: I was unlawfully detained by Octogenarian Receipt Nazis
« Reply #72 on: February 06, 2007, 12:43:30 am »
I still LARP. I'm a pretty elf female who all the boys are desperately in love with. I am pregnant with my first fantasy half-elf-half-angel-half-demon-half-squid-half-toaster baby, and I wear a pillow and have super powers.
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Re: PROBLEM: I was unlawfully detained by Octogenarian Receipt Nazis
« Reply #73 on: February 06, 2007, 05:59:15 am »
That's a big baby!
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