Hyphenated names "always a bad sign?" Don't you guys have any sisters/cousins/nieces/friends who have hyphenated their names? Shame on you. Stick to games please.

Yeah, leave them alone. We all know that people with just ONE name are the real trouble makers. ;)

Hyphenated names are symptomatic of a society in decline. They represent the point where simple cultural choices - such as whose surname a child should take - have been needlessly politicized, demonized, and then replaced with stopgap measures that offer short-term appeasement but are absurd and, more importantly, clearly untenable over time.

I've subjected this naming convention to analysis, and I have discovered that if man a-b marries woman c-d, and their children (a-b-c-d) marry the children of people from an identical naming tree (e-f-g-h), and this trend is continued, the a-b-c-d-e-f-g-h family's great-great grandchildren will be burdened with 256 hyphenated names.

They are "simple cultural choices" only for the reigning patriarch that resists anything that threatens the white male hegemony, of course.

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They are "simple cultural choices" only for the reigning patriarch that resists anything that threatens the white male hegemony, of course.

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The Earthling has analyzed The Analyst's prior dispatches and determined that less caffeine is in order. He has also determined that The Analyst is Erik.

This site is wack.

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The Earthling has analyzed The Analyst's prior dispatches and determined that less caffeine is in order. He has also determined that The Analyst is Erik.

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My only data was exactly what you referred to -- occasional misspellings. Anyone who has enjoyed Erik's comic trifles here at QT3 has also enjoyed his occasional trademark spelling errors. You make them as well.

Thus, the syllogism.

The Earthling is confident in his theory and expects it to be validated heretofore.

The Earthling finds your sudden mentioning of said gaffes a startling, unintentional admission of guilt and demands a sincere apology from both The Analyst and the cabal.

Those who can, do.
Those who can't, analyze.

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My only data was exactly what you referred to -- occasional misspellings. Anyone who has enjoyed Erik's comic trifles here at QT3 has also enjoyed his occasional trademark spelling errors. You make them as well.

Thus, the syllogism.

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"Furthermore, analysis shows that the Earthling misspelled 'patriarchy' in a previous message, therefore proving that the Earthling is also Erik."

And "we" thought "we" had been making such progress in therapy. Sigh.

Let's play GTA3!

What, you mean that Doom clone with cop cars? What ever for?

>The Earthling is confident in his theory and expects it to be validated heretofore.

That doesn't make sense. Look up the meaning of words before you use them.

Stefan

>The Earthling is confident in his theory and expects it to be validated heretofore.

"That doesn't make sense. Look up the meaning of words before you use them."

Dude! I think he was joking! Chill! Why don't you get of your horse!

I take offense at the implication that hyphenated names indicate either maladgustment or boobery. If anything, they indicate steadfastness and dedication (long hyphenated names and multitudes of paperwork needing signatures, for example).

-Jim

Hypenated names only count if Kennedy is one of them.

The Analyst did not post the message "Let's play GTA3!". It may have been posted by *an* analyst, but not *the* Analyst.

After some early experiments, the Analyst has recently adopted a policy of referring to himself only in the third-person. He has a belief - supported by research - that this affectation is the only way to express his frank impartiality to anything but the facts. He would not have said "Let Us" do anything, even if that thing were to be an analysis of some sort.

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Why don't you get of your horse!

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Is there anyone in this conversation that ISN'T Erik?

-Ben Sones-Fellows-Kennedy-Bloomfeld-Krishna

The important question: Can Billy Joel do classical?

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The important question: Can Billy Joel do classical?

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LOL

Davey did your -wife make you post this?

Chet

"Davey did your -wife make you post this?"

No, yours did, after I !*#$!@#$ -ed her.

>Why don't you get of your horse!

That doesn't make sense. Why don't you look up the meaning of words before you use them.

Stefan

How 'bout them Cowboys?

"Why don't you look up the meaning of words before you use them."

Why don't you learn how to punctuate sentences before attempting to write any?

>Why don't you learn how to punctuate sentences before attempting to write any?

Dude! I think he was joking! Chill! Why don't you get of your horse!

Stefan

"Why don't you look up the meaning of words before you use them."

Oh, okay.

desslock (des�lak�) (KEY) - animal or plant that normally possesses both male and female reproductive systems, producing both eggs and sperm. Many plants, including most flowering plants (angiosperms), are hermaphroditic, or monoecious; in these, male and female reproductive structures are present in the same plant, often in the same flower, and many hermaphrodite flowers are self-pollinated. Many lower animals, especially immobile species, are hermaphroditic; in some, such as earthworms, two animals copulate and fertilize each other. Some parasitic species, e.g., the tapeworm, are self-fertile as well as hermaphroditic, insuring reproduction where the parasite may be the only member of its species in the host. Many hermaphrodites are protandrous or protogynous, i.e., gametes of the two sexes are produced in the same organism, sometimes in the same gonad, but at different times; in such organisms (e.g., the oyster and the sage plant) self-fertilization is impossible.

yo all-y'all pretend you hate trolls but all-y'all flame each other like the playahatas all-y'all is, yo you best back off 'fore I lay the smackdown on all-y'all. no props yo

>desslock (des�lak�) (KEY) - animal or plant

I'll kept it simple so you're not overwhelmed:

davey(day�vee�) (KEY) You are poo.

"I'll kept it simple so you're not overwhelmed"

Ummmm ....

"That doesn't make sense. Why don't you look up the meaning of words before you use them."

Dude, you're a fine RPG guru, but "you are poo" isn't going to make anyone's top-10,000 list of insults. Yikes.

Can't we all get along?

>"That doesn't make sense. Why don't you look up the meaning of words before you use them."

Why don't you learn how to punctuate sentences before attempting to write any?

[time loop explodes this thread]

Stefan

Dude, it was in QUOTES. You lose!

shoot, I cam hir lookin fer pussyy and I git thes hi falutin discuions. i'm poorly dispointed.

>Dude, it was in QUOTES. You lose

But I'm apparently a "Dude", since I've been called that three times in this thread (twice by you, so it must be true), which is three times more than I've been called a Hermaphrodite. While you're apparently equally often referred to as "poo", as you are "Dude", so I'm going to call it a draw.

Stefan

I've never been called poo before until today.

(Are you really taking this seriously and getting offended? Please say no.)

>Are you really taking this seriously and getting offended?

'course not. I thought using goofy words instead of my normally eviscerating wit would make it clear that none of this was serious (or at least suggest that I was Steve Bauman posting under one of his many, and ever-changing, aliases).

Peace!

Stefan

Okay, just making sure ... dude.

Maybe The Analyst is actually .... Steve Bauman?

Please don't let this beatiful thread end on such a corny note. Please Analyst, analyze the antagonistic Davey/Desslock relationship!

Is anyone here playing Flying Heroes? I can't get past the 32nd level.

-Tom

Wake up, loosah!

Amanpour

Women, can't live with 'em.

Pass the beer nuts.

"Please don't let this beatiful thread end on such a corny note. Please Analyst, analyze the antagonistic Davey/Desslock relationship!"

Rob (rob') - NOUN. A testicle that has remained within the inguinal canal and has not descended to the scrotum.

I rubbed my boyfriends nuts the other night and now they're all red !

rob
Pronunciation: 'r�b
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): robbed; rob�bing
Etymology: Middle English robben, from Old French rober, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German roubOn to rob -- more at REAVE
Date: 13th century
transitive senses
1 a (1) : to take something away from by force : steal from (2) : to take personal property from by violence or threat b (1) : to remove valuables without right from (a place) (2) : to take the contents of (a receptacle) c : to take away as loot : STEAL
2 a : to deprive of something due, expected, or desired b : to withhold unjustly or injuriously


I knew I always liked Desslock.

"I knew I always liked Desslock."

Sorry 'r�b , I thought you wanted to see the thread continue. I was jes playin -- peace out.

"desslock (des�lak�) "

(Best duck voice)

Aflack!

I'll admit, I had a HUGE crush on Desslock.

I mean the blue guy on "Starblazers". Had a
huge crush on Darth Vader, too. Sick little kid.

Say, who needs therapy when there's the Qt3
board?

Dude.

WELL, if I happen to run into Darth Vader on
the street, and OOPS! I drop some books, and
he says, "Oh, let me help you with
that young lady", and I look up
(my auburn hair falling loose from its bun
in an oh-so-fetching manner) and say "Oh,
silly me, don't worry about it!" and we're both
reaching down to pick up the books and
BONK! his helmet hits me in the head and I'm
knocked senseless (admittedly, not far to
go)...

...anyway, a few candlelit dinners on the Death
Star, some dancing (he's DIVINE at the cha
cha!), and something involving three folding
chairs and a jar of Nutella later, well, IF we get
married, I will NOT hyphenate my name. I will
just be

"Lady Sparky", not

"Lady Sparky-Vader".

So thus we return you to your topic.