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The typical forum topic.

This is a paradoxial forum topic.
Here's the deal.

1. You sit down on your couch/spinny office chair/sack of potatoes and power on your laptop/pc/mac/portible media device.

2.Your desktop appears and you click the icon for your web browser, only to be release vain screams and violence towards your computer;It is still starting up and a click too soon triggers the release of the hourglass/spinning rainbow wheel of doom.

3. Eventually, you web browser pops up,showing your orange and white homepage riddled with pictures of other's contraptions and doodads

4. You sign into the web page and are greeted with a yellow-orange bot with a sideways grin and roller skates

5.You have a idea that is buring a hole in your skull, and your deepest desire at the moment is to share it with the people of the internet. You will create... A forum topic.

6.You give the topic a vauge and amiguous title in hopes readers won't understand what is meant and click out of curiosity.

7. You write a long and involved topic message intro,ranting about how some spice from a delicious italian food has destroyed your new shag carpet or perhaps how your dog has the strange habit of dancing to Micheal Jackson Thriller whenever he hears it

8. Your message body complete. You realize you have forgotten to upload pictures you wanted to post, so you copy what you've written to a text editor and begin again after they are uploaded; perhaps a cat covered in feathers with a caption that reads,Was tasty pillow!

9. After a few second of second guesses and spell checks, you click the button that reads "post topic."

10. You add the first post to the topic saying,"Just kick starting the posts" or "Got any ideas?" so it will end up in both "New Topics" and "New Posts."

11.You jump to "Recent Posts" and keep hitting the reload button until someone responds to your topic. You get up, do a little dance and read it.

12.This first post is almost always off topic, but you respond anyway, as you want yours to stay at the top of the posts list.

13.Your topic is not posted-to for a while, and you either wait or post another comment to keep it up top.

14.The top of the list is all of a sudden bombarded with a flodd of posts and topics that you believe have no meaning whatsoever, but this is not true for you are just frustrated.

15.Out of the blue, some body comments, any you find it to be a well written respose to your topic, and are overjoyyed. This joy lasts until the jokers arive and fill you topic with pictures of tomatoes that look like celebrities. Then the knex-artillery guys post a long conversation about trigger mechanisms. you try to regain control, but your posts are to small to be read and it snowballs into a huge stack of posts that is lost and forgotten.

16. You Say goodbye

Happy Hacking!

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Jun 7, 2009. 1:10 AMYerboogieman says:
Since when is a Mac not a Personal Computer?
Sep 25, 2007. 6:28 PMGoodhart says:
maybe less "kicking"? LOL What? Ticking sound? I don't hear no....tick tick tick....oh that....
Dec 18, 2007. 7:58 AMGoodhart says:
Ok, I located the ticking sound, now I have to go locate my Dragon......brb :-)
Dec 18, 2007. 5:41 PMGoodhart says:
None really....I am just being a little crazy tonight.....sorry
Dec 17, 2007. 9:13 PMSunbanks says:
Oh no! Not Clippy!
Dec 17, 2007. 10:02 PMGoodhart says:
I have a "joke" clippy that I turn on sometimes for my wife while she is on Ebay, as it makes random inane remarks about her typing and other such things....it is a hoot.
Nov 1, 2007. 3:52 PMPoisonedV says:
Yo guys check this out
Sep 25, 2007. 6:49 PMWhaleman says:
Sorry.......... I couldn't resist....... there was the picture....... then the photoshop was begging to be opened......
Sep 24, 2007. 7:25 PMSpl1nt3rC3ll says:
Couldn't resist...
Sep 25, 2007. 6:25 PMGoodhart says:
Hmm, I only do what the voices in my wife's head tell me to do *LOL*
Sep 25, 2007. 6:18 PMWhaleman says:
Do you think this is the same cat?
Sep 25, 2007. 2:01 PMits a lion says:
that cat's eyes scare me...
Sep 25, 2007. 7:04 PMWhaleman says:
it wants to eat you.......
Sep 26, 2007. 12:24 PMits a lion says:
!!! *runs and hides in fridge*
Sep 26, 2007. 7:05 PMWhaleman says:
yeah, you better, there is a whole site full of pictures like this!
Sep 25, 2007. 1:46 PMMepain says:
Eggs.
Sep 25, 2007. 3:00 PMMepain says:
Me neither.
Sep 24, 2007. 5:44 PMtomonto says:
!!!!
Sep 24, 2007. 5:50 PMPat Sowers says:
LOL!!!!!!!!
Sep 24, 2007. 6:58 PMPat Sowers says:
i know it looks just like him.
Sep 25, 2007. 2:29 PMTool Using Animal says:
Yeah, but tomatoes are funny.
Sep 25, 2007. 9:52 AMLextone says:
This is stupid....you are stupid.....don't you know posting too much can cause carpal tunnel and leave you disfigured for life!....I know because I know a guy who did it....Im an expert on this ya know....+ i wsh yuo cold do sum thng that blowed up in a huge splosin!!!! I am Mr. Flame, doom and gloom, been there done that, smarty pants, no spell check improper grammar pyromaniac, use lots of dotts between sentences, poster guy!
Sep 24, 2007. 5:47 PMCameronSS says:
Hey everyone! I just invented a cool new K'nex trigger that fires tomatoes shaped like celebrities! You put that one piece that looks like a Robot cursor onto that spinning gear-shaped piece, and it makes sparks, destroys shag carpets, eats pillows, and dances to Michael Jackson! I don't have a camera, but should I post anyway? Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Sep 24, 2007. 5:43 PMPat Sowers says:
uhhhhhhhhhh...
Sep 24, 2007. 5:39 PMBran says:
I'm not sure I understand the point of this....

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