Amusing Inspirations

Cyril_Dran · Post by **Cyril_Dran** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:50 pm

You've all seen those Inspiration pictures, like "Serenity" and it shows a drop of water hitting the surface of water and stuff.. My friend showed me these, and I was wondering if anyone else had seen similar pics..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/ ... 603938.jpg
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/959/ ... terrd7.jpg

.. Plus, they make me smile, so I figured I'd share them.

RandomScribe · Post by **RandomScribe** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:24 am

There's a whole bunch of them here: http://despair.com/viewall.html

--RS

Cyril_Dran · Post by **Cyril_Dran** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:40 am

I've got another one referring to the bomb scare over Adult Swim characters, which I'm currently using as my desktop, but I'm not 100% sure it's "safe" material on the political grounds...

LoneWolf23k · Post by **LoneWolf23k** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:45 pm

RPG.Net produced an interesting set of fan-made RPG Inspirational posters as well.. Here are a few I've got:

Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:54 pm

That last one... YES.

Kesh · Post by **Kesh** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:09 am

That thread is just awesome. I've made a few posters for it myself.

Be warned though, if you go to read it, you'll waste a couple days just clicking through and laughing.

GreatLimmick · Post by **GreatLimmick** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:26 pm

"Waste"?

Alfador · Post by **Alfador** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 8:49 pm

I went there a while back. I'm almost afraid to return.

My roommate printed out the one about "Tyrannosaurs in F-14s!!!" (Exalted: Yeah, it's kinda like that.)

Micro_Fur · Post by **Micro_Fur** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:28 pm

Bernal's Gun Bunny!

Micro_fur - That is all.

Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:10 pm

Micro_Fur wrote:Bernal's Gun Bunny!

Micro_fur - That is all.

..

Cease and desist orders ahoy!

Dead serious about GURPS SPANC. I've even made up a "Rum Table" showing how Rum eventually makes all Ninja rolls nearly impossible but turns you into a super-swashbuckling UberPirate.

Micro_Fur · Post by **Micro_Fur** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:45 am

allan_ecker wrote:
Micro_Fur wrote:Bernal's Gun Bunny!

Micro_fur - That is all.
..

Cease and desist orders ahoy!

Dead serious about GURPS SPANC. I've even made up a "Rum Table" showing how Rum eventually makes all Ninja rolls nearly impossible but turns you into a super-swashbuckling UberPirate.

Arrrr! I be a lookin' to join a pirate crew meself.

Micro_fur - I'm going to get flamed for that. . .

Cyril_Dran · Post by **Cyril_Dran** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:04 pm

Try Limewire.

Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:36 pm

Wait--

Is that where the name comes from?

British pirates?

LIMEYS!?!?!?

O.O

Micro_Fur · Post by **Micro_Fur** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:51 pm

allan_ecker wrote:Wait--

Is that where the name comes from?

British pirates?

LIMEYS!?!?!?

O.O

Actually just sailors who had scurvy.

As it turns out, the term "limey" originally applied to British sailors. In the 17th and 18th centuries, sailors suffered terribly from scurvy, a condition caused by a lack of vitamin C. Vitamin C comes mainly from fresh fruits and vegetables, but these foods aren't exactly easy to come by when you're at sea for months at a time.

So the Royal Navy prescribed lime juice for all sailors to help ward off scurvy -- hence the appellation "limeys." As often happens, the term eventually lost its original context and was applied to all British, whether sailors or landlubbers.

Whereas the term for British pirates is "seadog", coined by Sir Francis Drake in reference to experienced sailors more commonly refered to as "Old Salts"

Micro_fur - World History 201 flashback

GreatLimmick · Post by **GreatLimmick** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:14 am

Wasn't Drake himself a privateer though? (Which is basically a pirate with a license...)