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That was PART of the Question To The Ultimate Answer. Then the scrabble tiles ran out.

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Why didn't they just buy another board?

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Erm... perhaps because it was 2000000 BC and the tiles were made out of stone? Geez, you've never read the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy? (or more accurately the second in the series, The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe.)

Taken from "Howard's Sci-Fi Library" at Schlock Mercenary.

And you're not going to tell me you don't read Schlock Mercenary? Please?

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I have, in fact, read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. That, however, was years ago. I don't read Schlock Mercenary.

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Why does the trilogy have 5 books in it?

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Ooo, sergeant... I got promoted somewhere in the last 22 posts! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Bow before me you underlings!

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Underling!?!? Since when does a Major bow to a lowly Sergeant?? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif

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Feh, I'll get up there some day. But I can order corporals around!

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What the hell. I'll pad my post count to make Lt. Colonel.

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Go post padding!

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Down with post padding!

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No pointless posts!

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Hijack! Well, not really.

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...heQuestion.png

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...said the pointless post. Really, there was no need for that post, not with another post about the same thing from the same poster immediately before it.

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But I thought that pointless post and post padding is what this thread was for....

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Yet my other self tells me that post padding is a very bad things. I confuse myself...

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Like my avatar? I may get it animated http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I like it. How would you animate it? Perhaps a swirling effect?

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Post Padding Poses the Problem of Providing Pointless and Perpetual Posts from People Passing Pre-judgment on People's Passion for Padding Posts.

Please Pass the Purple Peanuts.

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Nah Nah Nah Nah Hey Hey Hey Goodbye

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Only two 'hey's.

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I am quite sure that it entails three heys.

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I think I'll stop buying lottery tickets. I must have wasted a few hundred of dollars over the years, and really the odds of winning are so small. All I have won is $10 two or three times in the last 10 years. It doesn't make sense mathematically.

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There is indeed 3 "hey's".

Kamog, your odds of winning a 50 number lottery where you have to match even just 5 numbers is 1/254,251,200. Put that another way, you have a 0.0000003933% chance of winning the jackpot. Not what I call good odds. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Nope. Two. Unless you happen to be listening to the song?

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Swirling, yup.

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I recently started putting in the lottery pool at work. Even though I know that even with the 20-30 tickets our combined money buys the odds of hitting the jackpot in my lifetime are infenitesimally small. And probably a case could be made that a lottery pool is actually worse than playing alone since it doesn't significantly improve your chances of winning, but does significantly decrease your share of the jackpot if you do win.

I have no expectation of winning. I do have what I believe is a perfectly rational reason for playing though. Instead of greed, it's fear. I don't want to be the poor schlob that get's interviewed by the TV station the day after our group wins... "Sooo, betcha feel stupid now for not playing, right?" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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So swirling is kinda hard... Let's just have this pretty black one.

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I thought you were gonna animate it?

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Great ships, TerranC.

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PADPADPADPADPADPADPADPADPAD.....

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Tried to animate it, but couldn't figure out how.

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I've no experience whatsoever, but I could perhaps suggest rotating the picture only very slightly and saving that pic to place after the starting pic. Go on like this and it will rotate. Once you're done, you could add other effects, but at least it'll rotate.

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TerranC please post more pics like those ships. They rock.

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And what do we do when we have 1k posts? Rename the thread "the race to 2k posts"? I mean, the SEV wishlist has around 2100 posts. We could also rename it the "Race To Surpass The SEV Wish List In Number Of Posts!" as that will get us going for quite some time.

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How about the race to break the fourm with so many posts that the server crashes?

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By the way, you can't post more than 2 times in a row.

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Or the race to increase the database to the point that they have to upgrade the server. Its not like we want anything else from them.

(I think that might be why they have #5 in the forum rules)

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Wonder why this entire topic thingie hasn't been deleted yet.

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Here's some portraits for my race's ships. It's brighter now, yay! Tell me what you think!

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Sorry, forgot the two-times rule. I read it before, but I totally forgot.

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It's OK, but the drone could use a little more brightness still... I could barely see it and had to zoom in (though please note that I'm sitting next to a window)

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We would be in riots if this thread was deleted. There would be demonstrations everywhere, we would make a call to arms, and we would revolt away from our Empire.

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And make a new empire that's just as bad.

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Worse. Think USA and Microsoft COMBINED.

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AAAAAAAAH! IT BURNS!

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as taken from 100 Signs that AT is Bored again.

Fear him.

Combine him with Bush (no offence AT... no really! Aaggh! Nooo! Don't do that! Please! Not the Poker Gun! Plea... AAAAAAAGGGH!!!!!) ...ow, that burns.

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O.o