Moral
of the Story ---> Pilot, Part Two!
Date: 08/29/2000
From: Blinker
Moral of the Story® is brought to you by Informant's Juice Boxes. "They really whup McCain's ass.™"But first -- WOW! Thanks to the mind-blowingly massive number of folks who turned out for yesterday's game. Here's what you win, gang:
• Ignorant_ (brought Quinn's doodles of the vortex): A spirograph and some amphetamines!
• HurriKain (brought a photo of the Ice World Mallorys): A Papparazzo™ brand attack limo!
• Slider_Quinn21 (brought Schrodinger the Cat): Copies of the "Red Dwarf" and "Doorways" pilots!
• FogBoy (Bennish's glasses): A framed print of "The Last Supper," autographed by Gonzo and Beaker!
• BlinkChick (Wing's notebook): A copy of "Glider," the only Mac action-adventure game I've yet to see in which you pilot a paper airplane!
• JessieMallory (The original Activator equipment): All the *rest* of Quinn's equipment as well... now you've got a perfect set to decorate your basement and/or travel interdimensionally!
• Sabre_Edge (Quinn's basketball): A season pass to the basketball team of your choice!
• TemporalFlux (Michael Hurley): One year's rent, paid for by Computer Boy!
• SliderNum5 (Albino tornado): A copy of Thomas Wolfe's counterculture study, "Electronic Kool-Aid Acidically Twisting Test," or whatever the 7>:-# it was called!
• Prime2099 ("Hyperspace" by Michio Kaku): An engine from the Millennium Falcon!
• Vigeant (Computer Wade talked the businessmen out of purchasing): An Intel 1,300 MHz chip... sorry about the bugginess, but it IS the fastest in the world!
• EustiSlider (Quinn's video diary): A camcorder, fully equipped with several supposedly incriminating tapes of G.W. Bush!
• Dove_Slider (Quinn's mysterious never-again-seen glasses): The Hubble Telescope's lens... let's see NASA fix it THIS time!
• dellyone (Inextinguishable candles from Ice World): An inexhaustible birthday cake!
• ThomasMalthus (Tape of Linda Henning saying "Quinn, don't you have class today?"): A collection of sci-fi TV's greatest rap hits, including the Communist rap, the Library rap, and Quantum Leap's A-B-C rap!
• Slider_Sarah (Remmy's aid ribbons): A copy of the Compleat Executive. Perfect for *tearing* to ribbons!Additionally, ThomasMalthus receives today's GOLD STAR for an exceptionally amusing response. This was far from an easy choice, however, as so many of you went above and beyond the call of duty.
Vig, you didn't want a Gold Star, so you can just have this White Star. Be warned, Sheridan's still on board so you might have to fight him for it. 7:-P
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As for today's game... here's your instruction sheet:
1) Watch the episode. Or don't; it ain't my problem.
2) Post a reply citing something the episode taught you.BLINKER: I learned that rebel forces fighting hopeless battles from grungy bunkers are unfathomably optimistic. First, Commander Welles' death is supposed to destroy their movement; the next, the failed raid is an "incredible shot in the arm"! A shot of what, cyanide??
SYNTHIA: I learned that if someone you have a crush on is utterly, pointedly unaware of your interest, the only way to procure some affection may be to kill one of their doubles and dump the corpse in front of their eyes!
BLINKER: Neat. [shoves dead Blinker double off his lap] Dammit, that's the fifth one this week! I thought you were gonna fix that gaping hole you installed above my chair...
SYNTHIA: Sighhhhhhhhhhhh.
- Blinker 7:-P
http://welcome.to/gate_haven"IT'S MADNESS!!! IT'S DRIVING ME KRAZI!!!!!!!!! LET ME START OFF BY SAYING THAT......AW, SCREW IT. Applesauce Chips, Applesauce Chips, Sweet Wild Cherry Applesauce Chips....." -- The Peckinpah Manifesto, Chapter One, Page One.
The
Pilot taught me...
Date: 08/29/2000
From: Brand_S
Whenever you're frustrated, drop a glass of wine!Your girlfriend left you? Drop a glass of wine!
You got a D on an essay? Drop a glass of wine!
The car won't start? Drop a glass of wine!
Big phone bill this month? Drop a glass of wine!
You're trying to get home and after you thought you did and you really got your hopes up and stuff, your dad who should be dead is alive and walks in? Drop a glass of wine!S
Lesson
Learned:
Date: 08/29/2000
From: DoctorWhy
Judge Wapner is an IRASCIBLE, COLD-HEARTED OLD BITCH. If he and Judge Judy ever have offspring, FEAR FOR YOUR LIVES, my friends.
What
I learned
Date: 08/29/2000
From: EustiSlider
Comrade Wapner's got nothing on Judge Judy!Doug Lewellyn's rug looks just as bad as I remember it.
Always have correct change.
When trying to establish whether someone is your girlfriend's double, sleep with her.
Arturo does occasionally say, "*blithering* idiot."
--Eusti
LOL!
Here's mine...
Date: 08/30/2000
From: Wrong_Arturo
Wheel of Morality -- turn, turn, turn.
Show us the lesson that we should learn!And today's lesson, from The Pilot Part 2 is:
Never promise your semi-platonic female pal, "Trust me, I'm gonna get you home."
In actuality, what will happen to her is that she'll be stuffed into a Kromagg freezer (right next to those tasty Human-Eyeballs-on-a-Stick), wherein she'll learn to open vortexes with her mind, but only before sacrificing herself heroically. But you won't know any different by then anyway, as you'll be the regressed personality inside one of your own doubles who looks and acts nothing like you.In other words, don't make promises you can't keep.
W.A.
Moral
of the story.
Date: 08/30/2000
From: BlinkChick
I learned that it I should imitate my double if it means helping revolutionaries. It doesn't matter whether she is lying, because I won't have enough time to find out. I also learned to make sure it's my double that gets shot.- BlinkChick 7:-*
http://welcome.to/gate_haven"IT'S GENIUS!!! IT'S DRIVING ME LOONI!!!!!!!!! LET ME START ON BY SAYING THAT......AW, KISS IT. Banana Chips, Banana Chips, Sweet Fake Cherry Banana Chips....." -- The Torme Manifesto, Chapter Three, Page Three.
Today's
lesson is...
Date: 08/30/2000
From: TemporalFlux
"Don't worry about the mistakes in life...they'll get edited out when you go to syndication."Example - If the revolutionaries fail the raid, the West coast resistance is broken. The goal was to get Commander Welles out alive. Commander Welles dies...they fail, right? But in the original Pilot airing, the revolutionaires talk about how the raid was a shot in the arm to their cause?!? (all of this happened because the Pilot was filmed with Commander Welles living...the decision to kill her was made after filming and added in with an off screen voiceover - but they originally left in part of the "shot in the arm" scene which led to some confusion and is why this scene got the axe once The Pilot was divided into two parts).
Tf
temporalflux@hotmail.com
http://www.dimensionofcontinuity.com
The
Moral of the story is...
Date: 08/30/2000
From: Vigeant
never go in taxis or any other public transportation or you go to peoples court (or even worse Judge Judy)
Vigeant
Http://insane.50megs.ocm
A
heartwarming message for all...
Date: 08/30/2000
From: ThomasMalthus
TM say, "When traveling through a strange park late at night, always take the time to get rid of any counterfeit money you have on you by giving it to a sleeping crazy homeless man."P.S. Blinker, thanks for the gold star. It almost takes away the pain of having to hear Dean Stockwell's attempts at being "down" with that "crazy rap music these kids listen to nowadays".
ThomasMalthus
The
moral of the story is...
Date: 08/30/2000
From: Real_Slider
Don't walk where you're not supposed to 'cause there may not be someone there with super-human strength to save your little ass.And don't do drugs.
Real_Slider
Hmmm...
Date: 08/30/2000
From: dellyone
Let's see.<dellyone takes a bite out of the inexhaustible birthday cake Blinker gave her. Cake immediately reappears in the now empty space.>
Mmm... chocolate my fave. <wipes mouth>
I'd say the lesson I learned is to not take everything at face value. Appearances can be deceptive. Quinn thought Cmdr Wade was his Wade. Assumptions do have a tendency to screw you up in more ways possible.
Um... Blink, how is this cake inexhaustible? For all I know there's a double of me that's pissed for having to keep up with my insatiable hunger for chocolate. She's probably thinking of a way to get back of my. She probably put some poison in this cake. I wouldn't put it pass hhhhh....eeeee..rrrr....< d1 gets dizzy> Um... damm herr... <falls to the floor unconscious>
dellyone
I
learned that ...
Date: 08/30/2000
From: Stax_
Communism, democracy ... whatever the ideology shoot outs in places of education are an inbuilt part of the human condition.And if this makes absolutely no sense excuse me but I haven't seen the episode in ages .stax
Me.........
Date: 08/30/2000
From: Slider_Quinn21
USE PLASTIC WINE "GLASSES"!!!!!!Or would those be Plastics?
:-)
My
moral
Date: 08/30/2000
From: Sliderman
There's no place like home...
...almost.sliderman
Some
more
Date: 08/30/2000
From: Sliderman
Chubby physics professors can make for ample landing cushions.When you pray to a vortex, you sometimes get an answer.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it may just be that duck's double.
And finally, as my mom used to tell me as a child, "TWO HANDS ON THE GLASS!!!"
sliderman
And
the moral of the story is....
Date: 09/01/2000
From: sliderules
"There's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home!"
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