A change is coming. In The Force, I sense it. In swamp, the, taste it I. In the feel air I it.
If interest is sufficient, I'll choose a new Forum Description for the Star Wars section, as most of the other sections are also doing it right about now. I'll even grant you the illusion of democracy, just this once.
So make some snazzy suggestions, Padawans. 10 words is the limit, no bashing or ethnic slurs ("Nemoidians are based on japanese Shemale businessmen and Lucas dreamt them up to fulfill his otaku fantasies!!!").
May my Force be with you.
Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :
That's no forum...it's a Turnip!
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
For the second time, let's not elect Dubya!
Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :
"Private forum for moderator-type issues, and other silly things like that."
Oh, wait. How about: "I find your lack of posts disturbing."
Posted by Ultra Klackrent Zlatan Magnus (Member # 239) on :
It's too bad Star Wars is not good.
Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :
"Ruining the franchise since 1999."
"Because everyone loves Jar Jar."
"Oooo, forums. Meesa sooo happy!"
Posted by Spike (Member # 322) on :
I kinda like the old description.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
"Star Wars-WTF?!?"
Posted by Nim the Fanciful (Member # 205) on :
Me too, Spike, but I felt it prudent to gauge the mood of the crowd, as it were.
Veers: Your first entry sounds more like a header for the Moderator's Forum, when has this place ever dealt with "moderator-type issues"???
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
It is the description for the Mods Forum. I'm sure he was trying to make some sort of joke.
How about, simply, "I've got a bad feeling about this."?
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Didn't we have that one before? I really like Jay's last suggestion. . .
Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nim the Fanciful: Veers: Your first entry sounds more like a header for the Moderator's Forum, when has this place ever dealt with "moderator-type issues"???
Um, that was just a joke. I'm sorry if it confused you...
I don't really have a problem with this forum's description, either.
Posted by Intruder1701 (Member # 880) on :
How about this "Hokey Religions, Colt 45, and Muppets. What more could you ask for??"
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Oh, I got one! "Where Greedo doesn't shoot first."
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"The only forum to make the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs."
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
"You'll never find a more wretched..."
Nah, it's been done. Um...
"An elegant forum, from a more civilized age." "Feel the Forum flowing through you." "No, Luke, _I_ am your Forum!"
Posted by Intruder1701 (Member # 880) on :
"You might be a redneck if you have ever kissed your sister while being chased by men wearing white" or
"May the Force be With Ya'll"
Posted by Bond, James Bond (Member # 1127) on :
"The ability to post does not make you intelligent."
"The forum's dangerous. They all sense it, why can't you?"
"There's no mystical energy field that controls this forum."
"The members are not as forgiving as I am."
"Post! You Rebel scum!"
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
"Y'all"
Posted by Intruder1701 (Member # 880) on :
Well however its spelled Its pretty bad when a southerner doesnt know how to spell Y'all
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
"Midichlorians: ...the fuck?!"
"Discuss a time when Star Wars didint suck so horribly bad."
"Sure to be closed after Ep. III"
Posted by Nim the Fanciful (Member # 205) on :
All bashing remarks are forfeit by default, Hemingway.
Posted by Intruder1701 (Member # 880) on :
"You came in here? You're braver then I thought" "No Disintigrations" "We don't serve your kind here" "Star Wars: Helping George Lucas get rich since 1977"
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
"Ep.II: The search for more money."
"All too easy..."
"Impressive....most impressive."
"Hate, fear, sarcasm...these are the ways of the darkside."
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lee: Oh, I got one! "Where Greedo doesn't shoot first."
That sounds like some sort of porn movie blurb! Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
"So... you have a poster!"
Posted by Nim the Fanciful (Member # 205) on :
This is not bad, people. Keep it up, we've got a few more days to widen the girth of options. Contest closes on thursday evening (Swedish Time Standard, muhahah).
Posted by Intruder1701 (Member # 880) on :
"I feel the posting flowing within you" "Good, our first post of the day"-Star Destroyer Captain, Empire Strikes Back.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nim the Fanciful: This is not bad, people. Keep it up, we've got a few more days to widen the girth of options. Contest closes on thursday evening (Swedish Time Standard, muhahah).
When you crap, do you say it's "Swiss Movement"?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
"Yeah, but most moderators dont rip out a person's arms when the lose..."
Posted by Bond, James Bond (Member # 1127) on :
"Posting leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate... leads to suffering."
"I sense a great disturbance in the forum."
"You don't need to see his password. These aren't the members you're looking for."
"You're all clear kid! Now let's post this thing and go home!"
"Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational forum!"
"TK-421, why aren't you writing a post?"
"The forum has a strong influence on the weak-minded."
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
"Star Wars Episode III: One last chance to not f**k it up"
Darth Vader, Maul, Sidious, Tyrannus, Gerbil?
"This forum seems some-how familiar"
"Mark Hamill IS Nathan Detroit! Pepper Steak IS the Entree! This IS the Star Wars forum!
"Do you speak Bocce?"
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
"Just impacted on the surface."
"The Death Star plans are not in the UBB server."
"Commander, tear this forum apart until you find those plans and bring me the posters. I want them alive."
"What a wonderful smell you've discovered."
Posted by Intruder1701 (Member # 880) on :
"Watch your mouth kid or you're going to find yourself floating home!"
".....then I will see you in hell!!"
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Bond, James Bond: "You're all clear kid! Now let's post this thing and go home!"
Good one.
Posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
"There is a great disturbance within the forum."
"Luke, post in the damn forum already before I bust a Chewbacha on your ass."
"CP3O gives this place two bleeps up."
"So who makes Anakin go to the dark side?"
"The horror... the horror... no... Jar Jar return!"
Posted by Ultra Klackrent Zlatan Magnus (Member # 239) on :
"Star Wars quote with "forum" and/or "post" cleverly inserted. Well, not so cleverly."
Posted by Nim the Fanciful (Member # 205) on :
�you are disillusioned! Posted by Bond, James Bond (Member # 1127) on :
"Where everyone gets a medal... Except the Wookie."
"Posting on this forum ain't like dusting crops boy!"
"Mynocks. Yeah, they're chewin' on the newbies."
Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
"Everything Battlestar Galactica couldn't be."
"The place where even Buck Rodgers thinks Battlestar Galactica is pretty queer."
"Seriously folks, have you seen the movie Battlestar Galactica?"
Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
<----BLINKIES!
Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :
"Commence primary posting."
"That post came from the SW forum! That thing's operational!"
"This forum is too remote to make an effective demonstration."
And: "One thing's for sure--we're all gonna be a lot thinner!"
Posted by Nim the Fanciful (Member # 205) on :
To blinkie: Get off my plane!! *bump*
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
"Watch a tag team wrestling match between the mighty robots of Battlestar Galactica vs. the gay robots of Star Wars!"
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
"Why the hell do we have a Star Wars forum, and yet we DON'T have a Stargate forum?"
Mark
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
For the same reason we dont have a Tron forum.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Because it's twenty years old and a joke? Wait...
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
24 hours to go, padawans. Stretch out with your feelings. Then, we'll eat. Come, good food, come, come.
Posted by Bond, James Bond (Member # 1127) on :
"This forum was our only hope." "No, there is another."
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Stay on topic. Almost there...
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
"When in doubt, add Chewbacca!"
Posted by Bond, James Bond (Member # 1127) on :
"Post! In our moment of triumph? I think you over-estimate their chances."
"I sense the good in the forum, the conflict.""There is no conflict."
"Indeed the forum is powerful, as the Emporer has forseen."
"You tell the slimy piece of worm-ridden filth, he'll get no such posts from us."
"Use whatever means nescessary, but I want the newbies alive. No disintigrations."
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
"-The Newbies are no good to me dead." -The Empire will compensate you if they dont survive."
Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :
"Trekkies. We don't need their scum."
Posted by Ultra 2 Legit 2 Magnus (Member # 239) on :
"Holy crap guys, I love Star Wars."
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
I still think "Oooo, forums. Meesa sooo happy!" is the best.
Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :
Then I've done my little bit to bring peace and understanding to the world.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"Where the most traffic we've had in months was the discussion to come up with this description."
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
And the winner doesn't even look right. The actual quote is "an elegant weapon, for a more civilised age." "An elegant Forum, for a more civilised age" works quite well, but ". . . for the more civilised ages" sucks.
Posted by Futurama IV 8.24.04 (Member # 968) on :
"Who knew you could get so much out of 5 movies?!"
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
Right, contest is over, winner was Omega's quote, with a semantical alteration to match the original movie quote.
Lee: "for the more civilized ages" is what Alec Guiness literally said.
Runner-ups were TSN with "The only forum to make the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs", and Bond, James Bond with "TK-421, why aren't you writing a post?".
Posted by Ultra 2 Legit 2 Magnus (Member # 239) on :
hmm
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
It still sounds like "a". And it's hard to tell whether that 's'-like sound at the end is actually an 's' or not, since the file cuts off there.
Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :
I'd go with "a" if it were up to me.
Which of course it isn't.
[ July 12, 2004, 01:27 AM: Message edited by: Jay the Obscure ]
Posted by Bond, James Bond (Member # 1127) on :
It does sound like "An elegant weapon for the more civilized ages" on the .wav file to me, but that just blows.
I'd just go for "An elegant weapon for a more civilized age" because it sounds better and that's what everyone thinks he says anyway.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
And it'll REALLY annoy the rabid Warsies. 8)
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
There, consensus providis.
Right then, little piggiewigglers, it's been fun, I'll see you when Episode III premiers...
Oh yes; T-Minus 21 days and counting. Thought I'd let you off the hook, didn't you, Lee?
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Oh, threatened by a Swede, how unscary. What you gonna do meatball-boy, lightly birch me? 8)
Posted by Ultra 2 Legit 2 Magnus (Member # 239) on :
WATCH OUT FOR WILD STRAWBERRIES!
Smultronst�llet!
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
Only one who may birch anyone in here is either me or Dolph. *vroom vroom* That'd be Dolph.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lee: And it'll REALLY annoy the rabid Warsies. 8)
Rabid Warsies? I've always known Star Wars fans to be (snicker) level-headed, well adjusted members of (ha HA!) society and....
Oh fuck it: they're all nuts.
Unlike Trek fans, of course.
I'm currently fostering anarchy and possible anuresms over at SSM in their ongoing "Wars vs. Trek" thread of circular argument.
Ahhhhhh....it's so good to be so evil. Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Yeah, definitely. I understand that, before the whole anti-Semitism thing, the Third Reich was founded on the principle of taunting science fiction fans.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Ein geek, ein dork, ein vedgie!
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Not WWII: we're talking more WWI. Recall that a small group of supposedly non-aligned "anarchists" were responsible.
Not that that idea ever set well with me.
besides, it's amusing to see Warsies try to explain Lucas' lack of plausable jargon in ANH. ".5 past lightspeed" indeed. Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Parsecs as a measurement of time, what a hoot!
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
Ah, the old "state an age-old prejudice in the hopes that Warsies will jump on it with stock retorts", eh?
Come now, Beverly, sertainly there are bigger fish to fry.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
I can certainly understand your desire to remain neutral in all this, Nimmychops, but if we wanted to provoke the ire of the Warsies there are several other venues which would be far more ideal for such japery. One of which I know for certain Jason is a member of (although not me, since I said less-than-reverent things about a dead president).
And I've read enough of the articles on G2K's site to know that really life is too short to waste arguing with Star Wars fans! 8)
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
Because the Kessel Run wasn't about delivering wares at the shortest time, but by using the quickest route (putting ship and crew in danger), hence why it was measured in parsecs.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lee: One of which I know for certain Jason is a member of (although not me, since I said less-than-reverent things about a dead president).
Huh? Where is this? I'm only a member of Flare and SSM (I've left Subspace comms- the current members offer very few ship designs there worth looking at any more).
Were you at the old Subspace Comms board?
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
RPF?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
What is RPF?
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
Correct, moving on to final jeopardy.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
I'll take "swords" for $1000.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"The Penis Mightier" for $400.
Posted by Futurama IV Shizzle (Member # 968) on :
the penis might tear her? you have that problem too? i had no idea...
Posted by Capped in Mike (Member # 709) on :
"When this forum does the Kessel Run, it drags on and on, Parsec after Parsec..."
Posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
Geonosians, and Gungans, and Wookies- Oh my!
Posted by Futurama IV Shizzle (Member # 968) on :
Absolute scientific proof that robots are stupid.
Posted by Intruder1701 (Member # 880) on :
The Rapists for $600
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
Absolutely not.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Suck it, Trebek.
Posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
Suck it, then spit it out or swallow?
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
Depends. Would that be a european or an african swallow?
Posted by Ultra 2 Legit 2 Magnus (Member # 239) on :
IT WOULD BE SEMEN IN YOUR MOUTH YOU DOLT
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
No seamen have ever claimed use of my mouth, sir. Mind the bap.
Posted by Futurama IV Shizzle (Member # 968) on :
bread?
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
Bib.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
For tuna?
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
Queequeg.
Posted by Futurama IV Shizzle (Member # 968) on :
A non-white male companion-in-adventure from the Pacific?
Posted by MarianLH (Member # 1102) on :
It's a bit late, but I liked "no disintigrations" best. It's short, succinct, and to the point, and suggests a welcoming, friendly atmosphere.
Or at least, a line beyond which the newb-bashing won't go.
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