Well after a few weeks break, in which time I seem to have been doing little else that running around a bunch of semi conscious relatives sorting out their rapidly diminishing assets, I thought I might have a round up
So looking around the forum, who are the Icelandic Banks and who are the Australian banks.
On a serious note, since my last round up, poor old t-o-m hit the ether. It seems the powers that be decided there had been a step too far. But hurrah! I see he has made Colonel…well there may be a salutary lesson for all of us there, leave the forums to the trolls and just play the game…
Now one evening this week, I was draining the last of a decanter of some particularly nice Vintage when I saw a thread named ‘color’. Assuming this actually meant colour, I took a quick look. It seems kylegraves1 feels that red and green are boring and the ‘colours’ should be random. I agree…but what if we turned up and all the armies were red? Then again, sometimes I end up trying to attack myself anyway when I’m green and another is grey…or perhaps it is just when I am about to fall into another mighty stupor.
The internet speed test proved so many things on so many levels to me. First it proved what I knew, that my Kitchen is rubbish for mobile internet connection. More importantly congrats to Frop for pointing me in the right direction for a cleaning up program. I whizzed it thru this system of mine and lo and behold, everything worked better. I just want to know where all my blackmail pictures went that I had hidden in my temp files???? Now what am I going to do for income???? Oh well, maybe I’ll get a job.
I see our Blitz has thought up another great wheeze, of course. This time it is CC’s top 16 conkers. Naturally Blitzy has the longest time at the top. But I did chuckle seeing the time our favourite anti-hero JR held the slot. So, moving on, here are my all time top lists showing the first place on each:
1st to 4K score: Blitzy
1st to 3.5K Score: Blitzy
1st to 3K Score + 20 Medals: Blitzy
1st to 2K CC Trifecta-Score/Games/Posts: Blitzy
1st to Winning % 75+ (minimum 500 games): Blitzy
1st to Win 500 Triples Games: Blitzy
1st to Win 50 Maps : Blitzy
I could go on, but I think you get the message dear reader. Yes, indeed, you should bow down in recognition of this Deity who sits astride conky club like a virtual colossus. Blitzy has been, and will be for many eons to come, the one and the only real heavyweight. We mere mortals run around in his shadow like so many worker ants bringing nourishment to the Queen.
Anyway, enough of this. What else has been happening?
Apart from a rash of new congratulatory threads (yawn) wishing well to anyone who has managed to rise in rank to any number of levels. Bob72 says goodbye….twice…and little else, except of course for the meltdown this weekend past. I have to admit to not really noticing until I logged in and saw a rash of threads about it. So what did happen over the last weekend? It seems our furtle turtle was taking a (ahem) well deserved break. Decided we could do without parts of the forum and left it so. Well all I can say is, it’s your toy lack, so you do as you see fit! However, it did bring about a plethora of complaints. Black Elk Speaks (not a multi apparently) had a bit of a go, and later on in the thread posted this:
lol, I'll say it again, I'm not complaining, I am glad that I have free access, because it would suck to pay for this kind of maintenance / support.
Comic Boy responded with a comment that definitely had me reaching for another glass of the Vintage stuff when he said:
You mean suck to pay for the THIRD time Mr_Multi
Meanwhile the rest of GD was like something out of ‘Plague of the Zombies’. I watched with an almost anthropological fascination as the walls of GD crumbled, as withered hands tore them apart and the beings from below poured in. A gentle attempt to pen them all in a thread was made, but this had little effect. Laughing with maniacal delight, the interlopers went round pulling up the roses, making grown children cry, and generally causing carnage. I sighed deeply and poured myself another....
Moving on....As you know dear reader, I see our Blitzy in a certain light. But I almost choked on my Quinta Do Noval Vintage 1960 when I saw his post in the twitching, but near dead, Max thread. Could this be that same nice guy we all know and love, picking over the remnants of a players reputation? Well yes it could actually. It was almost casual in approach, yet one could almost see the glint in his eye as he wrote it…shame on you Blitzy…but nicely done you old rogue.
It was with great sadness I read of the retirement of Optimus (a star of one of my skits some time back) and rebelman. Both team members of note. I shall always recall the glee with which Optimus welcomed a thread about himself. Still, let’s hope he finds happiness and oil aplenty in his retirement home.
Now threading my way through the forum, I touched upon an interesting subject about Copyrights. What caught my attention was the OP purported to be an Italian, with an Irish IP and a distinctly American style of saying ‘doing’. OK, I hear you say, come on Fc there’s loads of Irish Italians living in America, and for sure I would have to agree. But this would seem to be an Italian American, living in Ireland. Now I have to tell you, I often find myself in the bars of Dublin (enough of that another time) and I have never yet met one. Well anyway, Twill stepped in, as he does, and got the padlock out sharpish. His comment got me chortling…
You may want to talk to a real lawyer about such things, 16 year olds on the internet are not a reliable source of information on just about anything
Quite right Twill, maybe T Blair and G Dubya could have taken that advice some years back!
As for posts, congratulation just has to go out to Timminz. A playing member asked the question “How do u get up to a high rank” (sic)…with this memorable post to kick the thread off:
how do really high ranks get there cause i cant get up there IM SO MAD
Our Timminz stepped in with this great piece of advice:
You have 2 options, from what I can tell. You can either win more than 41% of your games, or you can win games that have more than 2 players in them.
Another nice post that got me chortling was this from Mr Changsha
…and even more congratulations to fruitcake for manfully managing to wilfully ignore the quite justified accusations of double standards inherent in this thread!
So very subtle on so very many levels, congrats to you Mr C.
So finally, I come to the end of this round up, but in a thread about excuses for low ranks I noticed some of the posts. And for the very first time, our Paradice has to get the congrats of this round up for his words…
my account was jacked by my pissed of gf
Although running a very close second was a post by our favourite anti hero JR when he said…
I cant afford 25 bucks
JR is so damn good looking
It makes one wonder how much you charge JR????
I'm off to sort out some cash before my Bank collapses under the weight of its own self importance!
