Ahhhhhh, stop typing that!

[Tiberius]

Every time I see someone talk about "pwned" or "pwning," I want to shppt them in the tprsp and let them bleed tp death.

That would certainly pwn them.

 

[Goldmoon]

What kind of froo-froo MUD have you been playing?

Get all.
Sac corpse.

I can't believe you got that reference. I am now impresed.

 

[hafrogman]

I can't believe you got that reference. I am now impresed.

MUDs weren't THAT long ago. . .

. . . right?

 

[Goldmoon]

MUDs weren't THAT long ago. . .

. . . right?

1999 for me. Not too long ago I guess......

 

[babomb]

People who use "frak" from BSG in conversation or in their posts. Ridiculous. It's on the same level as saying "May the Force be with you" or "Live long and prosper" with any degree of seriousness. For pity's sake, get a life. Or just swear like a normal person and let the filter FIFY!

Swearing like a normal person is so boring. And they're so overused that most people don't notice anymore. I've been known to drop a mean "narf", "joojooflop", "holy zarquon's singing fish", and when the situation calls for it, even a "Belgium".

Just to nitpick, I think you're off by 49 million...

See, I tried to check this with Google before I posted, and I saw several versions of the same quotation with different numbers. Damned if I know which is the real one.

In RPG discussions it often annoys me how often I heard about cannons. Not the things that go *boom*, but as in "Greyhawk canon."

However, I did get to use them together recently. The recent Xen'drik Expeditions fastplay characters poll has a warforged called "Cannon" supposedly because it's like artillery. However, there isn't gunpowder in Eberron. So I got to point out that "cannons aren't canon in Eberron."

Along similar lines, I'm often amused when people mix up cavalry and Calvary. I have had occasion to point out that there is no such thing as a Calvary saber, though one could make the case for a Calvary spear.

 

[Thunderfoot]

<SNIP>
Along similar lines, I'm often amused when people mix up cavalry and Calvary. I have had occasion to point out that there is no such thing as a Calvary saber, though one could make the case for a Calvary spear.

Preach, my exploding brother! What is really sad is that becuase of the intelligence level of the average cavalry Soldier, most of them don't understand when you correct them on their own branch of service.

Nothing is more frustrating than talking to a member of the 1st CAV DIV who insists on saying "I'm part of the calvary". Sheesh. I've started asking if that's with a big C or a little c? Most folks don;t get it. :\

 

[Style]

Swearing like a normal person is so boring. And they're so overused that most people don't notice anymore.

You are clearly in dire need of a crash-course in advanced obscenity, my friend...

I've been known to drop a mean "narf", "joojooflop", "holy zarquon's singing fish", and when the situation calls for it, even a "Belgium".

Towel or no towel, these are no substitute for proper, grown-up swear words, which are big and clever. The above, by comparison, are toe-curlingly lame. Hoopy, but lame...

...though one could make the case for a Calvary spear.

Genuinely funny. Coolness

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Preach, my exploding brother! What is really sad is that becuase of the intelligence level of the average cavalry Soldier, most of them don't understand when you correct them on their own branch of service.

Nothing is more frustrating than talking to a member of the 1st CAV DIV who insists on saying "I'm part of the calvary". Sheesh. I've started asking if that's with a big C or a little c? Most folks don;t get it. :\

Only moderately less obnoxious is the pronunciation "cavalary". As in: "I'm a member of the 1st Cavalary Division." Sheesh. Soldier, take off your horsey patch until you learn how to pronounce it!

- Olgar, proud Mustang (8th Cavalry Regiment)

 

[Thunderfoot]

Only moderately less obnoxious is the pronunciation "cavalary". As in: "I'm a member of the 1st Cavalary Division." Sheesh. Soldier, take off your horsey patch until you learn how to pronounce it!

- Olgar, proud Mustang (8th Cavalry Regiment)

HOOAH, Olgar!

-Thunderfoot (701st/704th MI BDEs)

 

[Finster]

I actually grew up with the /NOO-kyələr/ pronunciation (on army bases, no less), and didn't lose it until I moved to the south-east as an adult. I also seem to remember it being presented as a valid alternative pronunciation in one of my college dictionaries (I think it was American Heritage, but I could be wrong).

The first instance I can remember of hearing this (mis)pronunciation was on an old TV show called The A-Team. It didn't start getting under my skin until a had a physics professor use Nukyuler in class. That's when I realized it had gont too far!