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Liger starts a Lateshift Part Deux

 
  

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Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
00:14 / 20.09.05
Home games are all about chips and beer...and the best way to play them is to have each dealer call the game rather than playing Texas Hold 'em all night. Those are games where people don't go up or down a whole lot, and they're more about luck.

And I hate them.
 
 
Bed Head
00:22 / 20.09.05
Oh dear, really? But, the beer! The dips! The minimal losses and the consolation that it was just bad luck anyway! Why the hate for something so perfectly harmless?
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
00:26 / 20.09.05
Because to me, poker is the same as chess is to those creepy guys who sit in the park and play two or three people at once, and beat them in 20 moves or less.

I like the mathmatical aspects of it, but I also the sheer agression and style of Texas Hold 'em. It's usually not the best hand that wins, but the person who bets most intelligently and the person who knows the math.

I know. I need help.
 
 
Bed Head
00:35 / 20.09.05
I don’t really think you do, it's a pretty groovy attitude, but poker would clearly be a Terrible Mistake as a lateshift activity. Too ferocious. I’m starting to feel that if we were actually playing poker now, you’d instantly take all my money and say I was ‘learning a valuable lesson about poker’ or something like that.

Eek, so no chess, either? That was going to be my fallback lateshift game. How do you feel about backgammon?
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
00:42 / 20.09.05
Backgammon brings back very fond memories of my college girlfriend.

And I don't MIND chess, I'm just no good at it. I'd like to learn, but I think it shall have to wait until after I retire and read all the comics I have bought with the intention of reading them "when I get some spare time."
 
 
Bed Head
00:48 / 20.09.05
‘No good at chess’ = v v good thing. Groovy. None of that ferocious-genius stuff in here. Lateshift chess, it could so work!

And with that, I think I’m going to have to bail out for tonight, I need to be up early ... but another night, perhaps we can exchange bad chess moves.
 
 
alas
01:20 / 20.09.05
Anybody shifting? Just sticking my head into this ferocious poker v. chess battle, which almost the earmarks of another board schism on the order of pirates v. ninjas. (ARRRR! It's still "talk like a pirate day" here in the USA, by the way)....

But I promise I won't make it rhyming night here in the late shift. As that would probably be even more annoying than alliteration night.
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
01:26 / 20.09.05
Poker v chess?

Poker. Every time.

And I'll fight you about it.
 
 
alas
01:30 / 20.09.05
You'd beat me, because I think I'd be an agnostic in this debate: I'm really quite lousy at both.

If forced, however, I'd pick poker simply because it is easier to do the drinks and chips thing with it...

Ok, so scratch the agnostic thing, I think I've just made myself a heretic.
 
 
Liger Null
01:40 / 20.09.05
Poker? Pffffft.

500 Rummy is where it's at.

Don't know if it would translate well to Barbelith though...
 
 
alas
01:44 / 20.09.05
Hearts. Can't we just have a simple game of hearts? And beer. And crisps?
 
 
alas
01:48 / 20.09.05
I must go to bed, as it looks like the chance of scoring beer, chips, crisps, dips, or even a bowl of salted peanuts is pretty slim around here. So, to bed, with a cheap mystery novel and maybe a cup of herbal tea. Sigh!
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
02:31 / 20.09.05
Mmmm...cheap mystery novels. Still here at work, envying you quite a lot.
 
 
Saint Keggers
03:13 / 20.09.05
Hey alls! Am I too late to shift?
I jsut got in from a long day here:
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ah... nothing but the stillness of the lake and the sounds of nature around me. peace. bliss. nice.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
20:54 / 20.09.05
Come and be STRONG in the barbarian thread.
 
 
Bastard Tweed
20:56 / 20.09.05
TRUTH!
 
 
Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER
20:56 / 20.09.05
It's never too late to shift, especially as I seem to have inexplicably ended up with all the episodes of Firefly on my computer without my intervening in any way..
Also, it is my birthday, and I refuse to go to bed until it's properly over.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
20:57 / 20.09.05
STRONG TRUTH!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:00 / 20.09.05
A MAN MAY WISH WITHIEL A HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! AND MAY ALSO WISH WITHIEL MUCH JOY WATCHING FIREFLY. FOR IT ROCKETH.

Ahem.

Happy birthday, Withiel!
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
21:05 / 20.09.05
So Happy Birthday. Merry Hippy Returns. Best Washes! And don't forget to blow out the candle(s).
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:06 / 20.09.05
I've just totally remembered why I love Conan The Barbarian so much.

His conversation with Subotai... about why he never prays to his god... "HE DOESN'T LISTEN". Barbarian wisdom at TEH FINEST!!11!!!!.
 
 
Bed Head
21:10 / 20.09.05
With a little less STRENGTH and TRUTH than those big tough barbarian boys, here, have some soft cake and possibly-wine.



and

 
 
Essential Dazzler
21:10 / 20.09.05
Obviously Firefly is your computer's way of saying Happy Birthday.
 
 
Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER
21:11 / 20.09.05
A MAN MAY MAKE COFFEE IN THE POT OF MANY BOILINGS, BUT IF THE WATER IS COLD, THEN THE COFFEE MAY NOT BE SAVED, EVEN IF THE MIGHTIEST OF CREAM IS ADDED?

/probablyshouldhavehadlesssparkleywine
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:17 / 20.09.05
WHEN DEALING WITH SPARKLY WINE, IS LESS NOT MORE???
IS MORE NOT LESS???
IS THE OFFY STILL OPEN???

THESE ARE THE RIDDLES. HOLD YOU THE KEY????

OR SHOULDST THOU JUST GET WANKERED ABD HAVE A LAUGH???

A MAN MAY MAKE HIS OWN CHOICE...
 
 
Essential Dazzler
21:22 / 20.09.05
MAM SHOULD WAKE UP AFTER CELEBRATION OF BIRTH AS MAN WOKE AFTER BIRTH! SCREAMING AND COVERED IN BLOOD!
 
 
Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER
21:24 / 20.09.05
A MAN WHO CHOOSETH NOT TO GET WANKERED ON THE DAY OF HIS BIRTH IS NO MAN IN THE EYES OF TARQUIN!
 
 
Triplets
21:26 / 20.09.05
I see Stoatie is impersonating that other famous conqueror, Yoda the Barbarian.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
21:30 / 20.09.05
TARQUIN, A MAN DOETH THAT WHICH A MAN WILT AND NO OTHER. IT IS NOT A MAN WHO DRINKETH FILTHBEER BECAUSE LESSER BEINGS URGE HIM WHEN HE WOULD NOT. A MAN DRINKETH A CHI-CHI COCKTAIL OR A BOWL OF MEAD OR NOUGHT WHATSOEVER WHEN IT IS HIS CHOICE. AND ON HIS BIRFDAY TOO.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
21:33 / 20.09.05
Oh, sorry, wrong thread. Joyeux Anniversaire, Tarq.

Evenin' all.

As you were.
 
 
Saint Keggers
21:33 / 20.09.05
ITS ALL FUN AND GAMES TILL ODIN LOSES AN EYE!
 
 
Shrug
21:52 / 20.09.05
Happy Birthday!

I'm just half-remembering the Conan: The Adventure and Conan and the Young Warriors cartoons.

Said in a booming voice:

CONAN THE ADVENTURER
CONAN WARRIOR WITHOUT STEEL
WITH HIS MIGHTY SWORD PROTECTING
THE MIGHTIEST OF WARRIORS IS HEEEEEE
CONAN!!!

TRUTH!!


(apart from the without steel bit I misheard that surely)
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:55 / 20.09.05
Helllo, shiftters. I'm a bit fucked. How are YOU???
 
 
Saint Keggers
21:58 / 20.09.05
Not fucke at all. To what do you owe your fucked state?
 
 
Essential Dazzler
22:00 / 20.09.05
I'm a little bit fucked on Grolsch. Only the best for me
 
  

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