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Do you remember the ice storm of "98? the bot wants to know!

#1 User is offline   mink7 

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Posted 24 September 2010 - 08:34 AM

For those of you not in the Northeast, do you remember the TV coverage and how power companies from all over the country came to help?

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Posted 24 September 2010 - 08:51 AM

Now that's a random post to a forum based on "Ice". :) :)

'Bot perhaps?

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Posted 24 September 2010 - 08:52 AM

is this a bot?
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Posted 24 September 2010 - 08:53 AM

Pretty damned creative for a bot, seeing as how I actually remember those ice-storms.

Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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Posted 24 September 2010 - 09:40 AM

I think we need to give the OP the Voight-Kampff test:

Mink7, answer me this:

You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down. You look down and see a tortoise, Mink7. It's crawling toward you... You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping... You're not helping! Why is that, Mink7?

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Posted 24 September 2010 - 09:46 AM

mink7, Aptorian is in the same desert, he comes across a man standing over a tortoise. The tortoise is laying on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without help. Apt looks at you and his thoughts are, "you're not helping... You're not helping! why are you not helping?".

What should Apt do Mink7?
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Posted 24 September 2010 - 02:00 PM

In this desert, along comes a trohl'barahl to eat Apt, the bot/man, and the friggin' turtle. What can you do?

Oh, I can't remember any ice-storm in '98, but there are reasons for that.
HiddenOne. You son of a bitch. You slimy, skulking, low-posting scumbag. You knew it would come to this. Roundabout, maybe. Tortuous, certainly. But here we are, you and me again. I started the train on you so many many hours ago, and now I'm going to finish it. Die HO. Die. This is for last time, and this is for this game too. This is for all the people who died to your backstabbing, treacherous, "I sure don't know what's going on around here" filthy lying, deceitful ways. You son of a bitch. Whatever happens, this is justice. For me, this is justice. Vote HiddenOne Finally, I am at peace.
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Posted 24 September 2010 - 02:03 PM

It's amazing the amount of conversation that can be generated by a programmed forum bot. You guys crack me up. And yes, I'm contributing to this thread that shouldn't exist.
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Posted 24 September 2010 - 02:50 PM

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Posted 24 September 2010 - 03:50 PM

I, for one, WELCOME our random subject search/post bot overlords, and remind them that as a well respected and much loved forum personality i would be overjoyed to regale others with my ribald and amusing stories of all the drinking and sex i did to pass the time during the ice strom of '98, most of which was with other people...


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Posted 24 September 2010 - 03:59 PM

have you got a favourite story then from '98 Abyss? I was in Lanzarote wearing bright orange and blue shorts getting really sun burned
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Posted 24 September 2010 - 03:59 PM

for the full year! :)
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Posted 24 September 2010 - 04:44 PM

Well being from the Northeast, per the OP instructions I am not allowed to answer.

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Posted 24 September 2010 - 05:00 PM

View PostAptorian, on 24 September 2010 - 09:40 AM, said:

I think we need to give the OP the Voight-Kampff test:


Unless it's a Godwin bot, then we have to give it the Mein-Kampf test...
OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.
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Posted 24 September 2010 - 05:34 PM

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
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Posted 24 September 2010 - 05:46 PM

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Posted 24 September 2010 - 06:57 PM

I was there. It was cool.

However, like Bubba, I can't address tv coverage since there was no power haha.
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Posted 24 September 2010 - 08:19 PM

Hey, my post got deleted!! Is that normal?
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Posted 24 September 2010 - 08:32 PM

Yes, we try to delete as many of your posts as we can.
OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.
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Posted 24 September 2010 - 08:34 PM

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