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This is a thread for people who will not be or have not been on the site for a while, whether due to real life or to resist an internet addiction, the latter of which is encouraged within reason. Also, talk about the benefits/whatever of taking a day or a weekend off, or things to do when not online. TV Tropes ruining your life is nothing to be proud of.

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Not that I'm going anywhere, but this is a thread for people who will not be on the forums for a while, whether due to real life or to resist an internet addiction, the latter of which is encouraged within reason. Also, talk about the benefits/whatever of taking a day or a weekend off, or things to do when not online. TV Tropes ruining your life is nothing to be proud of.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 10th 2023 at 3:48:36 AM

TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#19126: Dec 29th 2012 at 12:11:46 PM

Tomu the Angry God of Finance makes a decree.
MAKE SOUND FINANCIAL AND FISCAL DECISIONS ACCORDING TO MY PROPHET KRUGMAN! THOSE WHO DO NOT HEED HIS WORD SHALL BE SLAIN ON MY MONEY ALTAR AND THEIR POCKETS RIFLED THROUGH FOR LOOSE CASH!
The peasants rebelled and cast Tomu down to their new dark god.
All hail Zoidberg!

edited 29th Dec '12 12:12:02 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Who watches the watchmen?
TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#19128: Dec 29th 2012 at 12:19:24 PM

Sorry Tomu just like in real life the peasants are not very interested in finance. They would rather have a crazy incomptent arthropod monster.

Who watches the watchmen?
TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#19130: Dec 29th 2012 at 1:06:17 PM

Exactly.

Who watches the watchmen?
TenTailsBeast The Ultimate Lifeform from The Culture Since: Feb, 2012
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#19132: Dec 29th 2012 at 3:07:11 PM

The clock stays until Eddie comes around to remove it or until he grants moderators clock removal powers.

But until then, it's nice decoration.

edited 29th Dec '12 3:07:56 PM by SeptimusHeap

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
kay4today Princess Ymir's knightess from Austria Since: Jan, 2011
Princess Ymir's knightess
#19133: Dec 29th 2012 at 3:08:03 PM

Wait, why can moderators set clocks but not remove them?!

TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#19134: Dec 29th 2012 at 3:14:07 PM

So that the mods will fight amongst themselves, knowing that only Eddie has true mastery over all of Space/Time.

By which I mean the clock.

kay4today Princess Ymir's knightess from Austria Since: Jan, 2011
Princess Ymir's knightess
#19135: Dec 29th 2012 at 3:16:36 PM

But... why can they set clocks in the first place?!

TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#19136: Dec 29th 2012 at 3:25:33 PM

This is why. Yeah I know toeing the line. tongue

It was then he realized something wasn't right.

It was too late to react.

Who watches the watchmen?
Trivialis Since: Oct, 2011
#19137: Dec 29th 2012 at 3:29:25 PM

Quick do something noteworthy so it will spread over the Internet and become a meme!

carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#19138: Dec 29th 2012 at 3:32:51 PM

wild mass guessThe clock marks the second coming of Janitor, who will ferry all true believers to the land of the Tropeless Tale.wild mass guess

TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#19139: Dec 29th 2012 at 3:35:36 PM

Wouldn't this be more like the third or fifth coming of Janitor?

Fresh-eyed movie blog
TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#19140: Dec 29th 2012 at 3:35:53 PM

The Herald of the Bio-Chem Nerdess. Man it has been a long time since Janitor was around. Imagine she is all busy doing her own thing.

Who watches the watchmen?
TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#19141: Dec 29th 2012 at 3:36:54 PM

Fast Eddie is keeping the clock there just to make us sweat.

TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#19142: Dec 29th 2012 at 3:43:00 PM

She's busy containing the black hole inside the LHC, from what I understand.

Fresh-eyed movie blog
Sixthhokage1 Since: Feb, 2013
#19143: Dec 29th 2012 at 3:45:19 PM

Obviously this is what the clock is for:

TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#19144: Dec 29th 2012 at 4:04:09 PM

Cute: Nice -high five?-

Or she is designing the successor species to humanity so she can rule the world as their goddess.

edited 29th Dec '12 4:04:38 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Who watches the watchmen?
0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
Just awesome like that
#19145: Dec 29th 2012 at 9:24:07 PM

So, tangentially related, what happened to the Assassins thread?

Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.
Tatsumar Since: Mar, 2011
#19146: Dec 29th 2012 at 9:58:18 PM

It was....

-removes sunglasses-

Assassinated

-shot-

Deer
drunkscriblerian Street Writing Man from Castle Geekhaven Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: In season
Street Writing Man
#19147: Dec 29th 2012 at 10:14:44 PM

[up]You were a bad person. were.

-blows smoke from gun, puts sunglasses back on-

If I were to write some of the strange things that come under my eyes they would not be believed. ~Cora M. Strayer~
Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#19149: Dec 30th 2012 at 8:07:20 AM

Huh. I missed that entirely. Not surprising I guess, seeing as how I don't hang around in Just for Fun too much anyway

Grimview Catalytic from British Columbia Since: Mar, 2012
Catalytic
#19150: Dec 30th 2012 at 10:38:12 AM

I return.

"Lock up your girlfriends, lock up your wives, Grim's on the loose so run for your lives." - Pyrite

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