Wait, wait, i got it!

Random George · Post by **Random George** » Tue Dec 25, 2001 7:36 am

i figured it out. it's a sudden hygiene epidemic. before you know it, there will be frogs buying hairbrushes, walruses wanting pedicure kits, and snakes buying fingernail polish...i think it's a secret cleanliness plot. who can we blame...the masons? nah, they're responsible for everything else. the illuminati? nope. they get peevish...a political party? no--they lack the influence to make flossing into fowl play...hmmm. think, think, think. oh! of course! bob vila!geo i begin to think i should lay off the christmas cookies before the sugar madness claims me completely...or is sugar madness just a conspiracy dreamed up by the carrot farmers...?

The JAM · Post by **The JAM** » Wed Dec 26, 2001 3:35 am

[...unWARP!!!]Good evening.I think someone had too much......sugar.Still, it sounds reasonable, "Geo". That, or it was only a two-day gag.Until next time, remember:I AM THE J.A.M.Good evening.[WARP!!!]

Mothspiral · Post by **Mothspiral** » Wed Dec 26, 2001 5:39 am

Nonsense. It was the advertisers. "Buy buy buy this even if you don't need it"By the way...if everyone in Ben's world is feathery or furry or scaly...who needs razors at all? Maybe it's just so the teens can shave rude messages into their fur.

Jamestox · Post by **Jamestox** » Wed Dec 26, 2001 7:04 am

It MAY be Bob Vila....or (drum roll, please)
Martha Stewart!!!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! Run Away!! Run Away!!J (somebody stop me before I eat another cookie!!!) T

Random George · Post by **Random George** » Thu Dec 27, 2001 1:07 am

i suppose this is neither the time nor the place to mention my two-year subscripion to "martha stewart living"?geo, who has stopped eating cookies but has found out that if you hang candy canes off the tops of your ears they make festive sideburns...

UncleMonty · Post by **UncleMonty** » Fri Dec 28, 2001 5:16 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Random George:

geo, who has stopped eating cookies but has found out that if you hang candy canes off the tops of your ears they make festive sideburns...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>That's sweet... But twisted!
Just a little punnish-ing candy-pain for you.As for the strange behavior of Ben and co., I think it's due to subliminal banner-ads on comic websites. Yet another reason you should NEVER upgrade your computer...
And remember to wear your aluminum foil hat while web-surfing, to keep the mind-control rays out!!

Jamie Jalecki · Post by **Jamie Jalecki** » Fri Dec 28, 2001 6:06 am

At times like these, some got some nerve playing God. But when comes to upgrading a computer, I guess it too is no exception worth of playing God."IT'S ALIVE, IT'S ALIVE, I'VE CREATED MY MONSTER!!""(*with Alfred Hitchcock's voice*) Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. So be it, in this highly modern day and age, many of us rely on the technology of computers, they are more than just toys. And as we bring you tonight's play, it is a story about playing the lord almighty, in a challenging plot to be a so-called king of computers..."

David Adrian · Post by **David Adrian** » Sat Dec 29, 2001 7:54 am

That's... almost frightening.Not the sentiments - I'm well used to Luddite-style rambling (although I'm almost certain you were spoofing that). But the phrasing and the semantic tone of the post. You can't be old enough to have written copy for the original show... at least, I don't think you can. Yet you captured it perfectly...Next I'm going to start hearing a voice saying "We control the horizontal. We control the vertical. Do not adjust your set. Welcome... to the Outer Limits..."

Jamestox · Post by **Jamestox** » Sat Dec 29, 2001 9:09 am

(Rod Serling voiceover)
"Consider, if you will, the modern age and it's reliance on computer-based technology. The computer - a non-living, calculating and indexing machine that follows instructions implicitly - has increased the productivity and widened the communications of the human race. Fortunately for the thinking, living, feeling creatures responsible for its invention, it is incapable of independent thought or emotion; fear, inspiration, hatred, love, confusion, all are concepts alien to our friendly servant, the personal computer....that is, outside of the Twilight Zone....."
(Fade up theme)------------------
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke

Jamestox · Post by **Jamestox** » Sun Dec 30, 2001 8:24 am

Thanks for the compliment, David!I'll leave as a mystery my age and background....although I do admit having done some writing in my time......JT
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke

Random George · Post by **Random George** » Mon Dec 31, 2001 4:55 am

actually, what amazes me the most is that in this remarkably modern medium, dealing with people from separate continents, cultures, and age groups, i am consistently confronted with imagery from the time before the personal computer...from the three stooges to the twilight zone--i think this just proves that certain aspects of culture are accessible across generational and geographic barriers. i'm not sure whether this speaks to the timelessness of the original concepts, the lack of good contemporary cultural reference points, or the diversity of the interests represented. likely, it's a combination of the above. i personally found myself today explaining bloom county to someone who was 5 years old when the last strip ran...there's really nothing to compare to "basset hounds got long ears"...------------------
*starry-eyed*
he stabbed an orc in the eye with an arrow...and then shot another orc in the head...with the same arrow! i think i'm in love!

David Adrian · Post by **David Adrian** » Mon Dec 31, 2001 8:00 am

What you need to remember, George, is that some of us predate the personal computer. To give you an idea of how recent this thing is, really, let me confess this: I learned about computers (and soldering) by building and playing with an Altair. Nor am I some old fogey: unless they change the rules again, it'll be more than two decades before I collect my first Social Security check. If I ever do. *Ahem* But that's a seperate issue...I kinda wish I still had that old Altair. True, it would be mostly for sentimental value. But it'd be fun to be able to drag it out and say, "Look! It still works!"

Random George · Post by **Random George** » Wed Jan 02, 2002 10:52 am

i wasn't so much saying that computers are confined to the new generation, but that i found it highly amusing that even the older generation such as myself (though it will be some time before i collect social security, the fact is that i owned both a commodore 64 when it was the thing to have, and inherited a mac with no numeric designation from my sister while it was still new enough to be useful to me), has found few cultural benchmarks as enduring as those that existed twenty, forty, or more years ago. i was explaining bloom county to an intern because nothing else could convey my point so well as a neurotic orphaned penguin and a basselope...------------------
*starry-eyed*
he stabbed an orc in the eye with an arrow...and then shot another orc in the head...with the same arrow! i think i'm in love!