Now this might not be just me speaking, if you know what I mean.

But I really respect a lot of the people who have joined the Saloon in the last couple years. While there are the rare 'prodigies' who sort of charge into the Saloon's acceptance (see: Mapppp, Freaky) with great ease, it takes a lot of other people a while to break into the acceptance of the Saloon and really understand the unspoken customs, traditions, styles, and humor of everyday life around here, and while they're still new to it they can get a lot of shit. I really have a ton of respect for everyone who has become a regular in the last couple years, when the Saloon has been most exclusive due to the weird sense of humor that has developed here. So everyone whose name I recognize even though you joined the Saloon in this recent time, I respect you. A lot.

gfgj i wish you loved me

Oh hi there

Who are you?


(I kid, I kid)

Thanks Goofer. I had a rough start here. I probably posted really badly, I've never checked, but it was all good fun.

I know I missed the whole Post Apocalyptic Saloon thing, and I doubt anyone could (or would) give me an explanation...

But how has GD not found that yet?

I was in GD when the bombs fell. Always wondered what that flash was.

My Photoshopping skills are astounding.

That was a fun time. Especially fun when Stoney didn't tell his then-Saloon mod cheesewiz what was going on until after the fact.

I had taken a posting break when that happened. Apparently it was some issue some posters had with the mods.

Somebody change the title of this to "BK is fascinating"

I bookmarked a couple threads in the saloon and thought i'd been banned because they were saying Invalid thread specified.

So it was like being in a commercial airliner heading for X when suddenly X disappears from the map under a giant mushroom cloud. The plane begins to circle, the mushroom cloud heaves into view. You turn around, emergently land in a foreign airport, are whisked off to decontamination and isolation, some guys in lead lined bodysuits come in with geiger counters and scan you. They do this every 4 hours until it's clear you are either hot hot hot or cold cold cold.

Then they wait and watch for you to turn into the Hulk or sommat, and when you don't, they take a bunch of blood samples and try to determine if you're microscopically mutating or headed towards a bone marrow transplant. All the while, you can't get online, and I think that's the worst of it right there - you can't get in touch with your friends and family to find out what FD2 was listening to yesterday, or what Gaurdian's newest smurf is called.

Then, on the 18th day, they come in again, this time wearing ordinary white lab coats. "The saloon took a tactical nuke that day, and all your friends and threads are dead," they coldly announce. "Over the past two weeks, we have been trying to reach survivors and reconstruct the community, but it's still...too...hot in there, and we're pretty sure everyone and everything in the immediate forum is lost." You panic, begin to swivel in your seat, want to run to the Saloon and wake up and it's just a bad dream. "Don't try to go back, we won't allow you out of this room, and if you should go anyway, we will seal you up in the rubble because you will become contaminated."

The other guy eyes you sadly, a tear trickling down the side of his nose and into his trimmed salt-and-pepper mustache. "There's nobody there, Lieutenant," he says softly.

A whole generation of lives flashes before your eyes, and the last image you see before you faint is Jax and Abby holding hands and running, silhouetted against a searing white hot nuclear blast.

[This message has been edited by As_Saffah (edited 08-06-2009 @ 12:24 PM).]

For my 10000th post I would like to congratulate DrNick on getting a former ES member to reply in his utterly silly thread in GD.

That was pretty awesome.

Has the rate throttle been tightened up recently, I keep hitting it.

Who remembers where the original Punjab thread was? I can't fine it.

http://aoe3.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action=ct&f=2,33650,0,all

Nevermind.

Priceless.

Taufiq closed the thread!
Cheesewiz banned the guy!

ALL LAMOS!

*uncloses thread*
*unbans guy*

[This message has been edited by elpea (edited 08-10-2009 @ 08:17 AM).]

You guys need to get back on topic already.

Anterpillar pic time!

Yes, the Punjab thread was good times.

Did you know that the entire colony of the smallest ant can fit on the head of the largest ant?

You know I did not know that.