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Old 30-November-2004, 10:12 PM
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This Geo-pancentrist predicts the following signs of the world coming to an end:
- The coming of the great Spatula
- The pole Flip
- Pats of butter falling from the sky
- The Great Flood of maple syrup
And finally, we will join G*D during the great Ingestive.
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[Snip!]I thought to myself, "Why can't I act trollish at least once in my life? Why can't I misrepresent the "other side" every once in a while?
Well, because we prefer honesty in our communication. It would have been much better if you had used a few emoticons to indicate that you weren't serious about what you were posting.
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[Snip!]I'm a physics major. I sometimes get bored from studying and writing papers so I serf... surf (whichever spelling that's right) around for fun... and possibly to prevent myself from going insane from looking at equations and reading Hegel and his freaking fellow German philosophers all day long.
Ugghh!!! Philosophy! The sooner you can get away from Hegel and such rubbish the better!
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There is a reason for me using a bible verse for my trollish behavior.[Snip!]
I don't think there's any justification for out and out trolling. [-X There are ways to communicate irony, sarcasm, disbelief, etc. that are much better.
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Just in case you have a problem with carrying too heavy a load of pancakes from the stove to the table, can I have half of them if you get Ruptured? 8)
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Old 01-December-2004, 06:38 AM
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Hahaha. Actually, I have quite a few friends (real live ones, not online friends) that are from Singapore. You guys talk funny.
i oso say.

anyway, Nicolas i may be in Singapore but i am from Holland... :wink:
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I don't think there's any justification for out and out trolling. [-X There are ways to communicate irony, sarcasm, disbelief, etc. that are much better.
Well, can't you think of me as the forum clown?
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Old 01-December-2004, 09:24 AM
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...Well, can't you think of me as the forum clown?
Sure, Lam, altho you've got some heavy competition
How close do you think are we to Hagel's Dialectic, by the way?
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I don't think there's any justification for out and out trolling. [-X There are ways to communicate irony, sarcasm, disbelief, etc. that are much better.
Well, can't you think of me as the forum clown?
For some bizarre reason (the fact that it's almost 3:30 a.m.?), this came to mind when I saw that:

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For a clown fish, he's not that funny.
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Pity.
- from "Finding Nemo" - and from memory, so don't complain if the quotes aren't exact.
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If I learned anything from this thread, it is that "lam" means the same in Singapore as it does here in Belgium. (lamb)
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anyway, Nicolas i may be in Singapore but i am from Holland...
Oh, that way.. Well than we have proven once again that there are people speaking Dutch both in Belgium and the Netherlands!
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Well, with your location, if you speak Dutch (and I believe you do), it was already proven 8-[
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Pancake-Earth Geo-pancentrism

Grand woo-woo Unification theory...it ties it all together accepted science and the woo-wooisms:

- The world is indeed flat (it's a giant pancake)
- Geocentrists are correct (we're alone in the center of the pan)
- Plate Tectonics are real (shifting batter caused by uneven heating)
- The Earth is expanding (Earth's batter is expanding as air bubbles form)
- Creationism is right (a higher power made the batter - beware the great spatula!)
- Evolution is right (we evolved on the pancake)
- Earth does have a solid iron core (technically, it's the cast iron skillet under us)
- Earth is internally heated (but it's not from uranium, it's from the heating element below the skillet)
- A race of dinosaurs do live underground (there was a bug in the batter)
- Plant X is real (it's the incoming blueberry toppings)
- The Great Flood really happened (the cook-creator added butter)
- The universe is small and not expanding (the skillet is finite)
- The Water Canopy is real (there is a vast amount of Maple syrup outside the pan)
- Pole flips happen (beware the coming of the great spatula)
- The Big Bang really happened (the skillet was dropped prior to the creation of our pancake)
- The cosmic microwave background is leakage from an improperly sheilded above-range microwave oven.
- Anomolous acceleration of deep space probes is due to them being caught in an uplifting termal pocket.

(I did that in a hurry, did I miss anything?) :wink:

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What I speak is heavily inspired by the Dutch language, yes
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The Earth is not flat... it's a tetrahedron!
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The Earth is not flat... it's a tetrahedron!
I knew that.
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Anyone who's played old RPGs knows that worlds are doughnut-shaped.
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It's a hoax. There are no stars in that picture.
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Sir Bedevere:...and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana shaped
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