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Off Topic / Re: BLF Advent Calendar V2
« on: December 01, 2013, 12:33:48 PM »
I want electricity.
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Off Topic / Re: Is there any person who is now dead, who you'd want to meet?
« on: November 29, 2013, 01:33:11 PM »
Edward kenway
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Forum Games / Re: [1024x768] Days in the life of Maxx - BOOMMOTHERforgetER
« on: November 28, 2013, 01:42:07 PM »It's meNo it's me!
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Forum Games / Re: Born from the wyvern - An RPG-ish forum adventure (NEW SPRITES?)
« on: November 28, 2013, 01:40:06 PM »
>Jackel: Aim for adam's apple.
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Forum Games / Re: [133x80] Flying Frontier - I don't wanna sound tribal but cacti are murderers
« on: November 28, 2013, 01:37:56 PM »Kick cactus down, go to city
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Forum Games / Re: Blockland Adventure - Faraway (continued)
« on: November 28, 2013, 01:36:55 PM »
Sleep.
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Forum Games / Re: Really Really Insanely Tall Building - COSMIC PAWN? OR FUTURE HERO?
« on: November 28, 2013, 01:32:33 PM »
Floor 501 contains a bed. You get up and discover you're back home. It was all a dream.
You begin to go up the stairs to work.
You begin to go up the stairs to work.
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Games / Re: So I got Link between worlds.
« on: November 27, 2013, 02:21:32 PM »SameI had neither..
Cause I already had oracle of ages and seasons LOL
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Games / Re: So I got Link between worlds.
« on: November 27, 2013, 02:03:48 PM »
I had link between worlds since release date. And I didn't preorder it!
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Forum Games / Re: Incursion - Fantasy text adventure
« on: November 27, 2013, 02:00:29 PM »
Wait a few minutes, if nothing happens, picklock the door.
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Forum Games / Re: The New King of the Hill - 10 PAGES
« on: November 27, 2013, 01:59:29 PM »
I enjoy my island and have some tea.
Still my island.
Still my island.
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Forum Games / Re: Really Really Insanely Tall Building - HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM SLOWPOKE
« on: November 27, 2013, 01:58:27 PM »
Floor 458 is Floor 359, which is floor 1, 1337, and 395 at the same time.
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Forum Games / Re: [200x100] Infinite - goddamnit shell
« on: November 27, 2013, 01:57:41 PM »sorry for double toast, but I made a stuffty bannerTS is not here, but I don't loving care.
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Forum Games / Re: The Better Name Game!
« on: November 27, 2013, 01:55:27 PM »
richard Assman. Yes, you read that right. richard is a gas station owner in Saskatchewan, Canada, whose name made him a minor celebrity when David Letterman found him in 1995. richard pronounced his German lastname as "uzman," but we all know better...
Batman Bin Suparman. This young Javanese man is blessed with being named after not just one, but two superheroes: Batman and Superman. And he's got an identity card to prove it ...
Nicholas Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barbon (1640 - 1698). Nicholas' shall we say "unique" name apparently ran in the family: his father was Praise-God Barbon. No, I'm not kidding - Nicholas was a real guy. He was an English economist, physician and financial speculator. He took part in the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire of 1666 and even founded the city's first fire insurance company. By all accounts, he went by Nicholas throughout his life.
KentuckyFriedCruelty.com. Well, technically, this is not his parents' fault but what Christopher Garnett did was pretty strange so we'll include him on this list.
In 2005, Christopher, a youth outreach worker for the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) agreed to change his name legally to KentuckyFriedCruelty.com to protest animal abuse by the food chain KFC. (Yes, and he's got a driver's license to prove it).
He did promise his mom that he'd change his name back when PETA's campaign against KFC was over in 2006. Throughout all this time, his parents continued to call him Chris (how unsupportive!)
Urhines Kendall Icy Eight Special K. Yes, that's right: a baby named after the illicit drug ketamine. Oh, and that's pronounced "Your Highness," by the way.
Urhiness Kendall was born on Saturday, February 15, 2003, weighing 8 pounds 8 ounces. The baby shared birthdays with another guy with a weird name: Galileo Glilei, who went on to become a famous mathematician and astronomer.
GoldenPalaceDotCom Silverman. In 2005, the Internet casino GoldenPalace.com paid $15,000 to name a baby after itself and got more than it paid for in media attention. Sure most people condemned this sort of outrageous publicity stunt - some even calling it a form of child abuse - but the good news was that GoldenPalaceDotCom Silverman was born healthy at 7 pounds, 10 ounces on May 19, 2005.
Actually, baby Silverman wasn't the only human in the world named after the casino: In the same year, a 33-year-old mother of five named Terri Ilagan auctioned off the right to her name on eBay, which the casino won for a mere $15,199. The re-branded Mrs. GoldenPalace.com said: "To my kids and to my husband, I will always be Terri. My husband is real supportive. He thinks it's funny. As long as they get to call me Mom, they don't care. They are already starting to tease me and call me Goldie."
Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 (Pronounced "albin"). In 1991, Elisabeth Hallin and Lasse Diding wanted to protest the naming law of Sweden, which states that the court can diapprove of names that "for some obvious reason are not suitable as a first name." They were fined 5,000 kronor (about $680 at the time).
The parents claimed that the 43-character name as "a pregnant, expressionistic development that we see as an artistic creation." The court didn't buy it and upheld the fine. Then the parents tried to resubmit the name as "A" (yes, one letter - also pronounced "albin"). The court didn't buy that either, saying that one letter names are prohibited.
The baby finally went with "Albin Hallin" though in his passport his name was given as "Icke namngivet gossebarn" meaning "unnamed little boy."
Joker Arroyo. Don't laugh: Mr. Arroyo is a Senator in the Philippines.
His name "Joker" is derived from his father's fondness for playing cards. His brother is named "Jack." No words if there are any other siblings named Queen or King.
Update 5/29/08: Joker has a daughter whose name is also Joker Arroyo! Thanks Gabor Debreczeni!
Unusual names are pretty common in the Philippines: Bing, Bong, Ping, Ting, Led Zeppelin, Mick Jagger, Nirvana, Jejomar (yes, a combination of Jesus, Joseph and Mary) and Riddler Manila, whose sons are named Himmler and Hess. And no, Riddler Manila is a peaceful guy who doesn't share his namesake's national socialist ideology.
Batman Bin Suparman. This young Javanese man is blessed with being named after not just one, but two superheroes: Batman and Superman. And he's got an identity card to prove it ...
Nicholas Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barbon (1640 - 1698). Nicholas' shall we say "unique" name apparently ran in the family: his father was Praise-God Barbon. No, I'm not kidding - Nicholas was a real guy. He was an English economist, physician and financial speculator. He took part in the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire of 1666 and even founded the city's first fire insurance company. By all accounts, he went by Nicholas throughout his life.
KentuckyFriedCruelty.com. Well, technically, this is not his parents' fault but what Christopher Garnett did was pretty strange so we'll include him on this list.
In 2005, Christopher, a youth outreach worker for the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) agreed to change his name legally to KentuckyFriedCruelty.com to protest animal abuse by the food chain KFC. (Yes, and he's got a driver's license to prove it).
He did promise his mom that he'd change his name back when PETA's campaign against KFC was over in 2006. Throughout all this time, his parents continued to call him Chris (how unsupportive!)
Urhines Kendall Icy Eight Special K. Yes, that's right: a baby named after the illicit drug ketamine. Oh, and that's pronounced "Your Highness," by the way.
Urhiness Kendall was born on Saturday, February 15, 2003, weighing 8 pounds 8 ounces. The baby shared birthdays with another guy with a weird name: Galileo Glilei, who went on to become a famous mathematician and astronomer.
GoldenPalaceDotCom Silverman. In 2005, the Internet casino GoldenPalace.com paid $15,000 to name a baby after itself and got more than it paid for in media attention. Sure most people condemned this sort of outrageous publicity stunt - some even calling it a form of child abuse - but the good news was that GoldenPalaceDotCom Silverman was born healthy at 7 pounds, 10 ounces on May 19, 2005.
Actually, baby Silverman wasn't the only human in the world named after the casino: In the same year, a 33-year-old mother of five named Terri Ilagan auctioned off the right to her name on eBay, which the casino won for a mere $15,199. The re-branded Mrs. GoldenPalace.com said: "To my kids and to my husband, I will always be Terri. My husband is real supportive. He thinks it's funny. As long as they get to call me Mom, they don't care. They are already starting to tease me and call me Goldie."
Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 (Pronounced "albin"). In 1991, Elisabeth Hallin and Lasse Diding wanted to protest the naming law of Sweden, which states that the court can diapprove of names that "for some obvious reason are not suitable as a first name." They were fined 5,000 kronor (about $680 at the time).
The parents claimed that the 43-character name as "a pregnant, expressionistic development that we see as an artistic creation." The court didn't buy it and upheld the fine. Then the parents tried to resubmit the name as "A" (yes, one letter - also pronounced "albin"). The court didn't buy that either, saying that one letter names are prohibited.
The baby finally went with "Albin Hallin" though in his passport his name was given as "Icke namngivet gossebarn" meaning "unnamed little boy."
Joker Arroyo. Don't laugh: Mr. Arroyo is a Senator in the Philippines.
His name "Joker" is derived from his father's fondness for playing cards. His brother is named "Jack." No words if there are any other siblings named Queen or King.
Update 5/29/08: Joker has a daughter whose name is also Joker Arroyo! Thanks Gabor Debreczeni!
Unusual names are pretty common in the Philippines: Bing, Bong, Ping, Ting, Led Zeppelin, Mick Jagger, Nirvana, Jejomar (yes, a combination of Jesus, Joseph and Mary) and Riddler Manila, whose sons are named Himmler and Hess. And no, Riddler Manila is a peaceful guy who doesn't share his namesake's national socialist ideology.
There you go. Happy?
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Forum Games / Re: [133x80] Flying Frontier
« on: November 27, 2013, 01:40:35 PM »Wear the cactus' hat and walk off to the town.