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**** Official Friday Silliness Thread ****
Today Of Course | Usually BJClinton

Posted on 01/27/2006 6:29:25 AM PST by Xenophobic Alien

Looks like BJClinton decided to sleep in today, so here's the OFST. I told him I would put it up if he was tardy.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: ofst
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To: Xenophobic Alien; Fierce Allegiance
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401 posted on 01/27/2006 9:01:40 AM PST by martin_fierro (Or a Mr. Niftier)
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To: HOTTIEBOY

my goodness, Hottieboy, you are cute.


402 posted on 01/27/2006 9:01:51 AM PST by peacebaby (What's Badonka Don't got to do with Honkey Tonk?)
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To: Xenophobic Alien

I like it.


403 posted on 01/27/2006 9:02:10 AM PST by conservativebabe
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To: The_Victor
You remind people of cans of soup?

That's okay. I remind them of melting clocks.

404 posted on 01/27/2006 9:02:17 AM PST by Chanticleer (May you be gruntled and combobulated in 2006.)
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To: Xenophobic Alien; Dashing Dasher; PaulaB; All

Great Picture!

You are now part of *beefcake Photos*

AWESOOOOOOOOOOOME BIKE!!!!


405 posted on 01/27/2006 9:02:37 AM PST by laney (*never ride your horse faster than your guardian angel can fly*)
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To: retrokitten

I don't say things that I don't mean. You are a blast.


406 posted on 01/27/2006 9:03:10 AM PST by conservativebabe
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To: laney

Is someone grabbing these for the FReeper yearbook?


407 posted on 01/27/2006 9:04:11 AM PST by Chanticleer (May you be gruntled and combobulated in 2006.)
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To: EX52D
Sand Fantasy...really cool movie
408 posted on 01/27/2006 9:05:05 AM PST by MadCharity (Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image!)
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To: Chanticleer

LOL...You never know?


409 posted on 01/27/2006 9:05:32 AM PST by laney (*never ride your horse faster than your guardian angel can fly*)
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To: Maximus of Texas

When it comes to being "king of your domain" there are two types of people. Those who do and those who lie.


410 posted on 01/27/2006 9:05:35 AM PST by HOTTIEBOY (MY FIRST "NEWBIE" BEATDOWN, 1/26/2006!!!!)
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To: Maximus of Texas
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411 posted on 01/27/2006 9:06:21 AM PST by PaulaB (Maybe)
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To: HOTTIEBOY

You've got that right.


412 posted on 01/27/2006 9:07:05 AM PST by conservativebabe
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To: Chanticleer
Salvador Dali actually did some meaningful work.


413 posted on 01/27/2006 9:07:13 AM PST by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: HOTTIEBOY
LOL...I'm out!
414 posted on 01/27/2006 9:07:41 AM PST by EX52D (They say that anger is just love disappointed...)
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To: MadCharity

***Who Should Paint You: Salvador Dali***


You're a complex, intense creature who displays many layers.
There's no way a traditional portrait could ever capture you!


What Artist Should Paint Your Portrait?
http://www.blogthings.com/whatartistshouldpaintyourportraitquiz/


415 posted on 01/27/2006 9:08:32 AM PST by peacebaby (What's Badonka Don't got to do with Honkey Tonk?)
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To: r-q-tek86

Yeah I got it. I sent you an email from my personal email. I'm not sure when I'll be free. We've decided to sell our house and I'm spending all of my time on repairing the fence, painting and landscaping. *sigh*


416 posted on 01/27/2006 9:09:37 AM PST by BJClinton (Anyone have a link for the old "Ducks" thread?)
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To: conservativebabe

Don't worry, it's only lite beer, 2 points per bottle! ;-)

417 posted on 01/27/2006 9:10:24 AM PST by retrokitten (www.retrosrants.blogspot.com)
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To: BJClinton

What's this with FReepers selling their houses? Is there some mass exodus being planned? Was it something I said?


418 posted on 01/27/2006 9:12:01 AM PST by Chanticleer (May you be gruntled and combobulated in 2006.)
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To: MadCharity

On board the ship, everything was as it had been for millennia, deeply dark and Silent.

Click, hum.

At least, almost everything.

Click, click, hum.

Click, hum, click, hum, click, hum.

Click, click, click, click, click, hum.

Hmmm.

A low level supervising program woke up a slightly higher level supervising program deep in the ship's semi-somnolent cyberbrain and reported to it that whenever it went click all it got was a hum.

The higher level supervising program asked it what it was supposed to get, and the low level supervising program said that it couldn't remember exactly, but thought it was probably more of a sort of distant satisfied sigh, wasn't it? It didn't know what this hum was. Click, hum, click, hum. That was all it was getting.

The higher level supervising program considered this and didn't like it. It asked the low level supervising program what exactly it was supervising and the low level supervising program said it couldn't remember that either, just that it was something that was meant to go click, sigh every ten years or so, which usually happened without fail. It had tried to consult its error look-up table but couldn't find it, which was why it had alerted the higher level supervising program to the problem .

The higher level supervising program went to consult one of its own look-up tables to find out what the low level supervising program was meant to be supervising.

It couldn't find the look-up table .

Odd.

It looked again. All it got was an error message. It tried to look up the error message in its error message look-up table and couldn't find that either. It allowed a couple of nanoseconds to go by while it went through all this again. Then it woke up its sector function supervisor.

The sector function supervisor hit immediate problems. It called its supervising agent which hit problems too. Within a few millionths of a second virtual circuits that had lain dormant, some for years, some for centuries, were flaring into life throughout the ship. Something, somewhere, had gone terribly wrong, but none of the supervising programs could tell what it was. At every level, vital instructions were missing, and the instructions about what to do in the event of discovering that vital instructions were missing, were also missing.

Small modules of software --- agents --- surged through the logical pathways, grouping, consulting, re-grouping. They quickly established that the ship's memory, all the way back to its central mission module, was in tatters. No amount of interrogation could determine what it was that had happened. Even the central mission module itself seemed to be damaged.

This made the whole problem very simple to deal with. Replace the central mission module. There was another one, a backup, an exact duplicate of the original. It had to be physically replaced because, for safety reasons, there was no link whatsoever between the original and its backup. Once the central mission module was replaced it could itself supervise the reconstruction of the rest of the system in every detail, and all would be well.

Robots were instructed to bring the backup central mission module from the shielded strong room, where they guarded it, to the ship's logic chamber for installation.

This involved the lengthy exchange of emergency codes and protocols as the robots interrogated the agents as to the authenticity of the instructions. At last the robots were satisfied that all procedures were correct. They unpacked the backup central mission module from its storage housing, carried it out of the storage chamber, fell out of the ship and went spinning off into the void.

This provided the first major clue as to what it was that was wrong.

Further investigation quickly established what it was that had happened. A meteorite had knocked a large hole in the ship. The ship had not previously detected this because the meteorite had neatly knocked out that part of the ship's processing equipment which was supposed to detect if the ship had been hit by a meteorite.

The first thing to do was to try to seal up the hole. This turned out to be impossible, because the ship's sensors couldn't see that there was a hole, and the supervisors which should have said that the sensors weren't working properly weren't working properly and kept saying that the sensors were fine. The ship could only deduce the existence of the hole from the fact that the robots had clearly fallen out of it, taking its spare brain, which would have enabled it to see the hole, with them.


419 posted on 01/27/2006 9:12:20 AM PST by Michael Goldsberry (Lt. Bruce C. Fryar USN 01-02-70 Laos)
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To: The_Victor

I have the same painting but I could not get the pic up?


420 posted on 01/27/2006 9:12:21 AM PST by laney (*never ride your horse faster than your guardian angel can fly*)
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