The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Umbran]

Now. Let's go see how the discussion on "pulpy" games is going...

EDIT: Oh. Yeah, that seems about right.

I've said a bunch of times that this thread really needs to keep at least plausible deniability about what you're referring to.

Please, folks. Because if this thread generates complaints about passive-aggressive snideness, we will have to shut it down.

 

[prabe]

Maybe we shouldn't use that word anymore. No one seems to know what it means.

 

[CleverNickName]

Starbucks: Would you like to try our new macchiato?
Me: Um, that's not a macchiato.
Starbucks: Well it is now! (laughs maniacally)

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Starbucks: Would you like to try our new macchiato?
Me: Um, that's not a macchiato.
Starbucks: Well it is now! (laughs maniacally)

Starbucks: Do you want that Venti?

Me: No. I want that Short.

Starbucks: Um... what?

Me: I don't want it Venti. I don't want it Tall. I don't want it Grande. I don't want it Trenta. I don't want it as a Big Gulp. I don't want it as IV Feed. I don't want it served to me in some made-up Italian word. I WANT IT SHORT.

Starbucks:

 

[CleverNickName]

It can be frustrating when people confuse "aromantic" with "aromatic" but hey, you know that they say: Aros, by any other name, would smell just as sweet.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

It can be frustrating when people confuse "aromantic" with "aromatic" but hey, you know that they say: Aros, by any other name, would smell just as sweet.

Wordplay is the highest form of humor.
-Me, in seventh grade, probably.

He got hit in the crotch! That's the funniest thing I've ever seen!
-Me now in sixth grade.

 

[Gradine]

Starbucks: Do you want that Venti?

Me: No. I want that Short.

Starbucks: Um... what?

Me: I don't want it Venti. I don't want it Tall. I don't want it Grande. I don't want it Trenta. I don't want it as a Big Gulp. I don't want it as IV Feed. I don't want it served to me in some made-up Italian word. I WANT IT SHORT.

Starbucks:

Keep that up you're gonna end up in a court-ordered big brother program getting roped into a LARP camp

 

[CleverNickName]

The new playtest packet dropped and folks are already like

 

[CleverNickName]

Starbucks: Do you want that Venti?

Me: No. I want that Short.

Starbucks: Um... what?

Me: I don't want it Venti. I don't want it Tall. I don't want it Grande. I don't want it Trenta. I don't want it as a Big Gulp. I don't want it as IV Feed. I don't want it served to me in some made-up Italian word. I WANT IT SHORT.

Starbucks:

I'm embarrassed to admit that I read that post at least a dozen times before I got the joke.
No, not that joke, that one is obvious. I'm talking about the other, funnier joke.
That's Martin Short, and he's speaking Italian.

 

[Mad_Jack]

And not even a savings throw!

My wallet made a savings throw over the weekend at the Ren Faire, and rolled a natural 1...