
Merchant Max solves the trade problem
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The thing that gave me the idea to do this was a visit to Lowes hardware store. Somtimes, I like to think of commonplace objects in our world that the Rac Cona Daimh might find amazing or useful. Ever since I took that jewelry-making workshop this summer, I've been especially interested in metallurgy.
Anyway, at Lowes I saw some titanium drill bits for sale (probably just titanium-coated, but still), and I thouht how much the racconan smiths would like to get their paws on something like that. So after doing some internet research on titanium, platinum, and tungsten, I realized that you can't just walk into Wal-Mart, go to the smithing aisle, and pick up a couple dozen tungsten ingots. (Now perhaps if you went to Sams Club...
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Later, I went on ebay to search for metals, and I realized how handy-dandy the racconans would find eBay. (assuming that UPS or FedEx can ship to the Seven Villages) But how would the racconans pay for what they purchase? By opening up their own eBay store of lux artifacts, of course. Voila!
Anyway, at Lowes I saw some titanium drill bits for sale (probably just titanium-coated, but still), and I thouht how much the racconan smiths would like to get their paws on something like that. So after doing some internet research on titanium, platinum, and tungsten, I realized that you can't just walk into Wal-Mart, go to the smithing aisle, and pick up a couple dozen tungsten ingots. (Now perhaps if you went to Sams Club...
Later, I went on ebay to search for metals, and I realized how handy-dandy the racconans would find eBay. (assuming that UPS or FedEx can ship to the Seven Villages) But how would the racconans pay for what they purchase? By opening up their own eBay store of lux artifacts, of course. Voila!
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Of course I was refering to Quentyns recently heavily used dung wordYuoofox wrote:Actually, I just typed a random number of symbols. Whenever I type things like @&#@$%*&@%, I'm not trying to represent a particular curse word. It's more like the sort of unintelligable mumbling Yosmite Sam makes on the Bugs Bunny cartoons.I think I know what that six lettered swear word is...
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Great work
Yes, sir. I agree completely. It takes a well-balanced individual... such as yourself to rule the world. No, sir. No one knows that you were the third one... Solidus. ...What should I do about the woman? Yes sir. I'll keep her under surveillance. Yes. Thank you. Good-bye...... Mr. President.
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Thank you. I appreciate you saying that. 
I have another idea for a spoof I'd like to do, but it requires music, so it'd probably have to be a flash animation. I'd like to spoof the beginning scenes of the movie/book 2001: A Space Odyssey. Instead of apes, it would be cave-racconans, and instead of the black stone slab, it would be a large obsidian statue of Mr. Ralph's avatar. Anyway, it would be a joke about how the Rac Cona Daimh first gained lux power. (ie, the same way the monkies in the movie learned to use tools)
P.S. Oh, and I'm pleased to meet you, Ann Vole.
I have another idea for a spoof I'd like to do, but it requires music, so it'd probably have to be a flash animation. I'd like to spoof the beginning scenes of the movie/book 2001: A Space Odyssey. Instead of apes, it would be cave-racconans, and instead of the black stone slab, it would be a large obsidian statue of Mr. Ralph's avatar. Anyway, it would be a joke about how the Rac Cona Daimh first gained lux power. (ie, the same way the monkies in the movie learned to use tools)
P.S. Oh, and I'm pleased to meet you, Ann Vole.
Yuoofox wrote:Actually, I just typed a random number of symbols. Whenever I type things like @&#@$%*&@%, I'm not trying to represent a particular curse word. It's more like the sort of unintelligable mumbling Yosmite Sam makes on the Bugs Bunny cartoons.I think I know what that six lettered swear word is...
FACTOID: Yosemite Sam's "Rassen Frassen" is an actual insult. It comes from the German term "Ratzen Fressen" (sp?) which means "Rat Eater."
"What was that popping noise ?"
"A paradigm shifting without a clutch."
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"A paradigm shifting without a clutch."
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Now I already have a version of "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (2001 theme) that I put together on my keyboards for a vidio that I did for the family to showcase my newest keyboard....if you like I can convert it to MP-3....or is that not the music you had in mind?Yuoofox wrote:Thank you. I appreciate you saying that.
I have another idea for a spoof I'd like to do, but it requires music, so it'd probably have to be a flash animation. I'd like to spoof the beginning scenes of the movie/book 2001: A Space Odyssey. Instead of apes, it would be cave-racconans, and instead of the black stone slab, it would be a large obsidian statue of Mr. Ralph's avatar. Anyway, it would be a joke about how the Rac Cona Daimh first gained lux power. (ie, the same way the monkies in the movie learned to use tools)
P.S. Oh, and I'm pleased to meet you, Ann Vole.
S'aaruuk
We are NOT surrounded.....this is a "target rich" environment!
Did RH just manage to out-geek most of the cartoon buffs on the planet? (But, who told him. . .? This conjures up images of the "Please Please Please Get a Life Foundation".)RHJunior wrote:FACTOID: Yosemite Sam's "Rassen Frassen" is an actual insult. It comes from the German term "Ratzen Fressen" (sp?) which means "Rat Eater."
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Wow, I did not know that.RHJunior wrote:Yuoofox wrote:Actually, I just typed a random number of symbols. Whenever I type things like @&#@$%*&@%, I'm not trying to represent a particular curse word. It's more like the sort of unintelligable mumbling Yosmite Sam makes on the Bugs Bunny cartoons.I think I know what that six lettered swear word is...
FACTOID: Yosemite Sam's "Rassen Frassen" is an actual insult. It comes from the German term "Ratzen Fressen" (sp?) which means "Rat Eater."
Yes, sir. I agree completely. It takes a well-balanced individual... such as yourself to rule the world. No, sir. No one knows that you were the third one... Solidus. ...What should I do about the woman? Yes sir. I'll keep her under surveillance. Yes. Thank you. Good-bye...... Mr. President.
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Yes, it is, butNow I already have a version of "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (2001 theme) that I put together on my keyboards for a vidio that I did for the family to showcase my newest keyboard....if you like I can convert it to MP-3....or is that not the music you had in mind?
Don't worry about it, just let me know when you'd like it. It's a .seq file for my Korg keyboard, but I can re-record it and convert to mp-3 whenever you want it.Yuoofox wrote:Yes, it is, butNow I already have a version of "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (2001 theme) that I put together on my keyboards for a vidio that I did for the family to showcase my newest keyboard....if you like I can convert it to MP-3....or is that not the music you had in mind?I don't know how to make a Flash animation.
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We are NOT surrounded.....this is a "target rich" environment!