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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#1: Mar 31st 2013 at 1:02:06 PM

OK, here it's still 31th of March, but I assume correctly that this year the joke is all moderators having this avvie?

Cuz this is what I am seeing now.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Madrugada Zzzzzzzzzz Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In season
Zzzzzzzzzz
#2: Mar 31st 2013 at 1:04:33 PM

That's part of it...

Also: i-day...

edited 31st Mar '13 1:04:54 PM by Madrugada

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Raidouthe21st Cool Dude from Whacking trick-or-treating punks Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
Cool Dude
#3: Mar 31st 2013 at 1:07:10 PM

And coming to you live from Alpha Centauri, it's this guy!

No, wait, now it's from Atlantis.

No, wait, now it's saying from Peyton Place.

No, wait, now it's from the dark, since it appears I'm about to be eaten by a gr

We Are Our Avatars Forever (Now on Discord by invitation, PM)
Nocturna Since: May, 2011
#4: Mar 31st 2013 at 1:10:09 PM

As [up] notice, the locations are also randomized. Tel and I (and whoever wants to help) are trying to put together a list of all the locations here.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#5: Mar 31st 2013 at 1:13:54 PM

The avvie is from The Matrix, Mr. Smith, apparently.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
In uffish thought
Rotpar Always 3:00am in the Filth from California (Unlucky Thirteen) Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Always 3:00am in the Filth
#7: Mar 31st 2013 at 1:18:00 PM

Smith infections are the worst, it takes a Messiah to end those.

Room 101? Oh no.

edited 31st Mar '13 1:19:39 PM by Rotpar

"But don't give up hope. Everyone is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall shoot you." - O'Brien, 1984
Madrugada Zzzzzzzzzz Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In season
Zzzzzzzzzz
#8: Mar 31st 2013 at 1:18:09 PM

   mwah-ha-ha-ha-ha   

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
No longer a forum herald
#9: Mar 31st 2013 at 1:57:39 PM

It just said Madrugada is from the depths of Moria. Back, you foxy Balrog, you! tongue

Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
Madrugada Zzzzzzzzzz Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In season
Zzzzzzzzzz
#10: Mar 31st 2013 at 1:58:50 PM

Nope. I'm On the Titanic. Says so right ^ there.

edited 31st Mar '13 1:59:00 PM by Madrugada

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Ultimatum Disasturbator from Second Star to the left (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Disasturbator
#11: Mar 31st 2013 at 2:01:55 PM

...Where am I?..where are my pants?

New theme music also a box
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#12: Mar 31st 2013 at 2:08:28 PM

I am possibly in California and on ship.

I will flip my avvie accordingly.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Artemis92 Cogito Gratia Cogitan from contemplation Since: Dec, 2009
Cogito Gratia Cogitan
#13: Mar 31st 2013 at 2:25:06 PM

I fail to see the connection between Agent Smith and location flux. :/ If the avatar was a Flux Bauble or something similar, it'd make sense.

Ponders too much; thinks too little. Currently goes by Knowlessman.
InsanityPrelude Since: Aug, 2009
#14: Mar 31st 2013 at 2:28:44 PM

edit: never mind, answered my own question

edited 31st Mar '13 2:28:56 PM by InsanityPrelude

Artemis92 Cogito Gratia Cogitan from contemplation Since: Dec, 2009
Cogito Gratia Cogitan
#15: Mar 31st 2013 at 2:31:24 PM

Diggin' the references this time around more than last year, I'll say that much.

Ponders too much; thinks too little. Currently goes by Knowlessman.
JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#16: Mar 31st 2013 at 3:00:09 PM

Dang, I didn't even notice that the locations had been switched around.

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Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Hi
#17: Mar 31st 2013 at 3:30:49 PM

Some of them should've been written to fit the "From ___" format better, but oh well.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#18: Mar 31st 2013 at 3:33:04 PM

The images could use a method to fit them better into the post so that it doesn't look squashed, too, but it's a minor quibble really.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Ozbourne Part-Time Omen of Death from if it fits, I sits (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
Part-Time Omen of Death
#19: Mar 31st 2013 at 5:32:34 PM

Very cute. And it's fun without being disruptive, so points for that. waii

Stupid doomed timeline...
Reflextion from a post-sanity world (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
Thecommander236 Since: Aug, 2011
#21: Mar 31st 2013 at 7:04:08 PM

This sounds like the intro to a porno...

Don't make me destroy you. @ Castle Series
mlsmithca (Edited uphill both ways)
#22: Mar 31st 2013 at 7:23:32 PM

Well, one of the locations is "behind the green door"... I presume that's not an intentional reference to the adult film of the same name from the 1970s, but perhaps I'm wrong...

I've become addicted to refreshing forum pages to see if any new locations show up - I only recognise the source of about two-thirds of them (where there are sources to recognise), but they do seem to encompass every major medium covered on the site. Films, television series, animation both western and (I presume) eastern (wouldn't know a reference to the latter if I fell over one), literature, comic books, music, webcomics, video games, even real life. Colour me very impressed.

(Some of my personal favourites include "having dinner with Hannibal - oh good, fava beans!" (best not to ask about the meat), "in the Sistine Chapel, awaiting conclave" (you will now please address me as "Your Eminence"), "Strolling across Abbey Road" (having just resurrected Paul or on the way to bury him, haven't decided), and "in the dark, likely to be eaten by a grue" (somehow every game of Zork I play ends up there). And I seem to discover new ones all the time...)

(EDITED TO RECORD: When I first made this post, my location showed up for me as "from Russia, with love". If you'll excuse me, Robert Shaw appears to be trying to kill me, must run.)

edited 31st Mar '13 7:26:33 PM by mlsmithca

Nocturna Since: May, 2011
mlsmithca (Edited uphill both ways)
#24: Mar 31st 2013 at 10:53:39 PM

Ooh wow, thanks Nocturna. (I haven't yet seen "the back of the bomb. YAAAAAAHOOOOOOOO!" yet, which is a pity; Dr. Strangelove is one of my favourite films of all time.)

Madrugada Zzzzzzzzzz Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In season
Zzzzzzzzzz
#25: Apr 1st 2013 at 2:57:18 AM

mlsmithca: I 'll give you guys "behind the Green Door", since it does have that reference collision we didn't catch while we were making the list. No, it wasn't intended to refer to the film, I was, rather, thinking of the Jim Lowe song, from 1956:

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However I think that it's great that some of the references that have been identified are not what we had in mind, but are just as valid. It makes me happy to see the breadth of knowledge among tropers. Sometimes it starts feeling like we have very few people who have experience outside a couple of narrow forms of work.

edited 1st Apr '13 2:59:51 AM by Madrugada

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

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