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11-30-2006, 09:15 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Oakland, CA
Posts: 20
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JoeAverageSF's intro
Hey all. I thought I'd try this one out.
1. What do you do? (Hobbies, job)
Hobbies are just about anything nerd. In particular, I'm a comic book junkie, a RPG fanatic, an avid reader, and a horror movie geek. I also dig clubbing, music, tactical junk, and Italian culture.
As for my job, I'm a field investigator for a private investigation firm. I also write comic books for my own self-publishing company.
2. Where are you from?
Originally I'm from San Francisco, but I now live in Oakland
3. Who is your favorite author?
Garth Ennis
Lawrence Block
Terry Pratchett
Judd Winick
Alan Moore
Joss Whedon
Brian K. Vaughn
James Ellroy
Joe R. Lansdale
Christa Faust
4. What are your favorite films?
Mean Guns
Battle Royale
Black Hawk Down
Big Lebowski
Dawn of the Dead
5. What music do you want played at your wedding?
"Can I have this dance" by Dennis Pavao. Alternately, for the gothic option, the entire Switchblade Symphony catalogue
6. At your funeral?
"Always look on the bright side of life" by Monty Python
7. This IS a gothic website, so... how do you want to die?
5 Billion years from now, watching the sun go out, thinking "Not yet"
8. What kind of casket would you want?
Cryogenic stasis.
9. What's your FAVORITE outfit?
Black suit coat with buttons on the lapels, black fitted tee-shirt, black slacks, nice shoes.
10. What's one thing you miss about being a little kid?
Irresponsibility and a greater acceptance of an imaginary life.
11. What's your favorite band?
Nick Cave
Leonard Cohen
Switchblade Symphony
The Reverend Horton Heat
Tom Waits
12. What kind of education do you have? What is/was/will be your major?
B.A. Criminal Justice.
13. Why did you join?
Because I'm trying to find a gothic newsgroup on the net that is not solely event listings or bickering 14 year olds.
14. If the first 13 questions didn't give it away. What is your gender?
Male.
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11-30-2006, 09:26 PM
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#2
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Wow, I love your answer for the seventh question.
Although I believe the Penis Song by Monty Python would be much better for a funeral.
Welcome.
You might find that more than half of the site is quite young, myself being only seventeen; and I would say we are indeed bickering, if I do understand that bickering means arguing, although I don't feel it's shallow or idiotic fourteen-year old arguments.
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I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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11-30-2006, 09:36 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: With the Zombies
Posts: 2,208
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Welcome.
i think you'll find the selection of 14 year olds here, quite different. There is still bickering, but there is also some intelligent conversation... 
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It's not so much the pain
It's more the actual knife
Pretending the picture is perfect
I cut myself to sleep
I close my eyes for a second
And curse my fragile soul
I scream to hide that I'm lonely
The echo calls my name
*ANIMAL CRACKERS*
http://www.myspace.com/persephone_x
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11-30-2006, 09:57 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Oakland, CA
Posts: 20
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Yep. Y'all are right. It's easy to discount the young because of limited life experience, but some of my best friends are bright young things who are very capable people.
Hell, we're sending our kids to Iraq. That'll grow 'em up quick.
j.
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12-01-2006, 12:03 AM
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#5
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: a'Straiya
Posts: 1,292
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I'm cute and small and 14 and you'll soon understand that I'm the one around here with the cake and the silly pictures.
For you, sir, I have really outdone my self this time:
http://www.guylhem.net/r-photos/qdig...olate-cake.jpg
Have a nice stay.
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Hist. Hark.
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12-01-2006, 12:23 AM
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#6
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 222
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Originally Posted by JoeAverageSF
As for my job, I'm a field investigator for a private investigation firm. I also write comic books for my own self-publishing company.
7. This IS a gothic website, so... how do you want to die?
5 Billion years from now, watching the sun go out, thinking "Not yet"
Male.
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Woot! A real life PI! You're now my # 3.14159265 favorite person on here....
Wait, awesome outlook on life/death (I totally agree, but I need to steal that line for when some future GF asks). Maybe I should round down *ponders*
haha, welcome to the site.... Great group of people here and the forums are so active its actually hard to keep up with sometimes, its insane!!!
See you around
-Rizash
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12-01-2006, 04:45 AM
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#7
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 185
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Hey hey and welcome. I love Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, I like your taste in books/music.
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12-01-2006, 06:28 AM
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#8
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: A box of cookies
Posts: 141
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Originally Posted by JoeAverageSF
11. What's your favorite band?
Nick Cave
Leonard Cohen
Switchblade Symphony
The Reverend Horton Heat
Tom Waits
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Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits? I think I just fell in love with you. 
Welcome!
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12-01-2006, 10:32 AM
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#9
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Oakland, CA
Posts: 20
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Originally Posted by Geisel
Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits? I think I just fell in love with you. |
People tend to.
As for the PI stuff, it's not like in the movies, but it's a blast all the same.
thank you for the welcomes.
j.
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12-01-2006, 11:51 AM
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#10
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Scotland
Posts: 140
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Hey wait a minute I'm 14!!!
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12-01-2006, 05:29 PM
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#11
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 3,421
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You know, I'm just about 15, but I argue like a 23 year old
Reverend Horton Heat is great, I love rockabilly.
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You ain't no punk, you punk; you wanna talk about the real junk?
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12-01-2006, 08:55 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 222
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I'm 23, but I argue like a 15 year old.... sometimes.... other times I just lay the smack down with superior knowledge. At any rate... The PI thing has to be boring as hell 99% of the time, but I'm an attention to detail nut.... If I were to go into a law/investigation career it would be in computer forensics.... talk about tiny details! At any rate the PI joke was just being goofy.... thought you'd laugh since I have a friend that is a mechanical engineer and everybody always goes "woo woo" around him... making fun of one engineer by reminding him of another :-p At any rate.... I still think my PI joke was at least.... worth comment *sighs*
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12-02-2006, 11:36 AM
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#13
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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I am a recycled 14 year old. J/K. Well maybe not. I dunno.
Welcome J.
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12-02-2006, 12:26 PM
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#14
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 185
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I will always be 14. 14 was the age I came across Rage Against The Machine and life will never be the same.
"Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high"
"You're standing in line
Believing the lies
You're bowing down to the flag
You gotta bullet in your head"
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12-02-2006, 04:10 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: the eternal suburbs
Posts: 654
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I forget how old I am, somewhere around 26...
...yeah, because my baby bro's 16...
...and I don't really like to argue because I suck at it. You'd completely kick my ass...
I loved your answer for "preferred way to die" as well...
...and you seem pretty cool so welcome!
(please excuse the fractured thoughts--my mind is on food right now...)
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According to an article in USA Today, children from single parent homes have much better verbal skills than children from two parent homes. However, children from two parent homes are far superior at bitterly sarcastic repertoire.
I'd love to see crowds of kids running away from a greased naked guy with Jesus hair.--c130
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12-02-2006, 04:15 PM
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#16
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Oakland, CA
Posts: 20
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Thank you.
And I'm by no stretch of the imagination clever or spiteful. I just try to be honest about who I am, which usually gives me something that, under dim light, resembles insight.
So, you'd probably "completely kick my ass" at arguments.
j.
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12-05-2006, 09:07 PM
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#17
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: With the Zombies
Posts: 2,208
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CAKE!!!
I'm 19...and i behave like a 6 year old...
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It's not so much the pain
It's more the actual knife
Pretending the picture is perfect
I cut myself to sleep
I close my eyes for a second
And curse my fragile soul
I scream to hide that I'm lonely
The echo calls my name
*ANIMAL CRACKERS*
http://www.myspace.com/persephone_x
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12-06-2006, 02:39 AM
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#18
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Fucking google it
Posts: 347
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Welcome.
Stay away from my rums balls and I won't bite you.
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Come with me on a journey
that is my wearing years,
across the not so flat planes.
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12-06-2006, 02:41 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Fucking google it
Posts: 347
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Originally Posted by PersephoneX
CAKE!!!
I'm 19...and i behave like a 6 year old...
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(Sorry for the double post)
I don't know any 19 year old that doesn't!
*shifty eyes*
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Come with me on a journey
that is my wearing years,
across the not so flat planes.
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12-06-2006, 02:49 AM
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#20
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Get a CT scan and find out
Posts: 373
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Originally Posted by JoeAverageSF
8. What kind of casket would you want?
Cryogenic stasis.
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You fucking Trekkie... 
No, seriously, that's cool. Trekkies rock! (I know... I'm one.)
But seriously, why cryostasis? It would kinda interfere with watching the sun die.
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12-06-2006, 06:49 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Oakland, CA
Posts: 20
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Why cryogenic stasis?
Well, if they haven't invented the immortality upgrade by the time I "temporarily cease biological activity" then stick my ass in the freezer and thaw me out.
It worked so well in Transmetropolitan.
j.
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12-06-2006, 01:48 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Get a CT scan and find out
Posts: 373
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The way I see it, the answer is a mix between cloning and cybernetics. Cloning to create a new me when needed, and cubernetics to transfer all my memories into the new clone. Then I can die, and my clone will take over, and it will be like I never died. IDDQD godmode.
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12-06-2006, 09:03 PM
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#23
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: With the Zombies
Posts: 2,208
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Rum balls?!?! Me wants them.....
__________________
It's not so much the pain
It's more the actual knife
Pretending the picture is perfect
I cut myself to sleep
I close my eyes for a second
And curse my fragile soul
I scream to hide that I'm lonely
The echo calls my name
*ANIMAL CRACKERS*
http://www.myspace.com/persephone_x
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12-07-2006, 11:41 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Oakland, CA
Posts: 20
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Originally Posted by Tumor
The way I see it, the answer is a mix between cloning and cybernetics. Cloning to create a new me when needed, and cubernetics to transfer all my memories into the new clone. Then I can die, and my clone will take over, and it will be like I never died. IDDQD godmode. |
See, I always figured it would be cloning and invasive surgery with some kinda brain mapping on top. Y'know, replace old worn out organs with cloned fresh ones by means of massive surgery and whatnot.
Better yet, y'know.......fuck it. Make me a robot. A big badass gothic robot with rocket launchers in my arm. And a cybernetic jack.
j.
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