09-14-2004, 12:20 AM
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| Life handed over
You know that your life has finally been handed over to fencing.net when:
1. You can sit for up to an hour waiting for a new post without being bored, until you finally have to go to bed.
2. When you know the personalities of all the major posters to the point of writing jokes about them
3. You view your rep points as a qualitative measure of your standing in life
4. The time rolls around for your birthday party, and out of the six people that come to mind that you trust most to make this a special day, five of them are fencing.net members. (And one of them is you.)
5. When, if someone gave you flashcards of the various avatars on it, you could tell, by memory, the screenname associated with each avatar.
6. When you can type out the emoticons, for example, :-) (minus the -), without having to click on the links on the right.
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09-14-2004, 12:21 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: My happy place!
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| Hehehe! Darn... the avatar one really gets me, and number one.
7. You get more laughs out of people that (for the most part) you've never met than real people.
8. When you talk about those funny posts to real friends you have to explain a whole long thing about the entire thread and who is in it other than just saying 'well. *blank* blah blah blah blah.'
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Probitas lauditur et alget.
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09-14-2004, 12:36 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Mid Atlantic
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| 9. When you can't talk without your fingers moving. | |
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09-14-2004, 01:27 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2003
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| When you go to a big tournament, and you can identify different people from fencing.net just by what they are saying.
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"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. And from this side only! The flight of a half-man, half-bird. Dinosaurs nuzzling their young in pastures where strip malls should be. Cookies on dowels. All those moment, lost in time. Gone, like eggs off a hooker's stomach. Time to die" -Phil Ken Sebben
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09-14-2004, 05:16 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Savannah, Ga
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| What really bothers me is when people share avatars. When I see the dude with the sabre through the head I automatically think of Inq but sometimes its not Inq, it's say...RogueNine.
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09-14-2004, 08:05 PM
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#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: DC & Vancouver
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| My browser homepage is my F101 control panel, so I can automatically see if theres any new replies to my subscribed threads. Sad, I know.
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My loverboy asked (in American Sign Language) what I was looking at on the computer:
Me: A fencing forum.
LB: A fisting forum?!
Me: God, NO! FENCING!
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09-14-2004, 08:20 PM
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#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: My happy place!
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| Aww! Cornflower, it's not sad.. I know that exact thing. I get my emails so I know exactly when a person replies. It pops up on my screen..
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Sarah
Probitas lauditur et alget.
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09-14-2004, 10:29 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 5,537
| When you hear the name corn, and flower, in a sentence, and you think fencing.
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"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. And from this side only! The flight of a half-man, half-bird. Dinosaurs nuzzling their young in pastures where strip malls should be. Cookies on dowels. All those moment, lost in time. Gone, like eggs off a hooker's stomach. Time to die" -Phil Ken Sebben
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09-14-2004, 11:17 PM
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#9 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: MA
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| When you can type out like a name like D+F+P=Hadouken! without looking at the actual screenname. | |
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09-14-2004, 11:38 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: MA
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| When, after said hour, five or six posts are answered by someone, and you go through and answer EVERY ONE OF THEM, so that by the time you sign off, the first 5 threads in every forum have been last responded to by you. | |
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09-15-2004, 12:22 AM
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#11 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Mid Atlantic
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| I'll confess: I have a three extra buttons on my keyboard. One opens my email, two mutes the sound, and the third opens the browser to fencing.net. | |
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09-15-2004, 12:23 AM
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#12 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: MA
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| When you know the approximate age and skill level of every major board member, on top of the weapon he fences. | |
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09-15-2004, 01:19 AM
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#13 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by D+F+P=Hadouken! When you hear the name corn, and flower, in a sentence, and you think fencing. | I feel SO special... *sighs dreamily*
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My loverboy asked (in American Sign Language) what I was looking at on the computer:
Me: A fencing forum.
LB: A fisting forum?!
Me: God, NO! FENCING!
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09-15-2004, 01:46 AM
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#14 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: My happy place!
Posts: 1,514
| Oh, cornflower, you are special. Everyone loves you! *big hug*
(PS- I hope that I see you at some Tournaments in Vancouver, I'll be up there by the end of this week!)
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Probitas lauditur et alget.
Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
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09-15-2004, 02:24 AM
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#15 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Savannah, Ga
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| I just wanna know how she has so much to say. I mean, joined Aug 2004 and she already has like 414 posts.
EDIT: 416 posts...
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09-15-2004, 02:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Black Jeebus I just wanna know how she has so much to say. I mean, joined Aug 2004 and she already has like 414 posts. | Hah. Mostly crap, and mostly due to me having no life and only three classes to attend ... I should have taken more classes... argh.
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My loverboy asked (in American Sign Language) what I was looking at on the computer:
Me: A fencing forum.
LB: A fisting forum?!
Me: God, NO! FENCING!
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09-15-2004, 02:32 AM
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#17 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Sarah Oh, cornflower, you are special. Everyone loves you! *big hug*
(PS- I hope that I see you at some Tournaments in Vancouver, I'll be up there by the end of this week!) | Awesome! Which club do you plan on joining? I've been looking around, and I think I *MIGHT* join The Musketeers in Burnaby (it's the closest).
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My loverboy asked (in American Sign Language) what I was looking at on the computer:
Me: A fencing forum.
LB: A fisting forum?!
Me: God, NO! FENCING!
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09-15-2004, 06:59 AM
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#18 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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Originally Posted by Black Jeebus What really bothers me is when people share avatars. When I see the dude with the sabre through the head I automatically think of Inq but sometimes its not Inq, it's say...RogueNine. | The avatars available are limited, alas. And I don't have the slightest idea of how to go about getting one from somewhere else, so...  | |
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09-15-2004, 10:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata The avatars available are limited, alas. And I don't have the slightest idea of how to go about getting one from somewhere else, so... | You could always go back to the "classic" Inq look and remove the avatar altogether.
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09-15-2004, 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata The avatars available are limited, alas. And I don't have the slightest idea of how to go about getting one from somewhere else, so... | You can upload any image you want (as long as it isn't illegal, pornographic or otherwise break forum rules) in the user tools section. The image size is small, so you need to use Photoshop or similar software to shrink it.
Fork over $24 for a supporting membership, you get your name in Green, a custom title ( The Churlish Curmudgeon????), and a bigger (100x100 pixel) avatar.
If you fork over the $24, and can't shrink your own image, PM me and I'll do it for you (but only if you support the boards).
MR
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