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Should I stop injuring Bernard/TehL33tDethMstr in a humourous and instructive manner?
Yes 5%  5%  [ 1 ]
No 29%  29%  [ 6 ]
Should I care about a figment of your imagination? 24%  24%  [ 5 ]
Kick him while he's down! 43%  43%  [ 9 ]
Total votes : 21

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12 Mar 2007, 8:15 pm

Anubis wrote:
*Holds dictionary into the air*

By the good book, we will purge 1337 spelling everywhere!!

*Gets out pistols and fires wildly into the air*


The bullets fall through Anubis' head at near the velocity they were fired.



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12 Mar 2007, 8:20 pm

ahayes wrote:
Anubis wrote:
*Holds dictionary into the air*

By the good book, we will purge 1337 spelling everywhere!!

*Gets out pistols and fires wildly into the air*


The bullets fall through Ahayes' head at near the velocity they were fired.


It happens to be raining at the time, and Ahayes has his mouth open, trying to drink the rain. Ouch....

BTW, your signature- it's spelt valley.


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12 Mar 2007, 8:23 pm

Anubis wrote:
ahayes wrote:
Anubis wrote:
*Holds dictionary into the air*

By the good book, we will purge 1337 spelling everywhere!!

*Gets out pistols and fires wildly into the air*


The bullets fall through Ahayes' head at near the velocity they were fired.


It happens to be raining at the time, and Ahayes has his mouth open, trying to drink the rain. Ouch....

BTW, your signature- it's spelt valley.


He does spell it correctly once in the avatar.

Now you too, play nice. Besides, "wildly in the air" does not always mean it'll go straight up and straight down to hit Anubis.


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12 Mar 2007, 8:29 pm

I think AHayes should take part in a tennis game with William Safire and Richard Lederer. As the ball.


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12 Mar 2007, 8:29 pm

Very well, I will preserve my ammo for the hunt.


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13 Mar 2007, 4:18 am

1337 is good as a joke, but it is inappropriate most of the time.


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13 Mar 2007, 4:22 am

All of it should go, even the stuff that should be allowed.



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13 Mar 2007, 4:24 am

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13 Mar 2007, 4:30 am

nutbag wrote:
I think AHayes should take part in a tennis game with William Safire and Richard Lederer. As the ball.


Now, I agree.



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13 Mar 2007, 4:40 am

calandale wrote:
nutbag wrote:
I think AHayes should take part in a tennis game with William Safire and Richard Lederer. As the ball.


Now, I agree.


Yes. Ahayes is inappropriate. FOR WERBERT'S APPROPRIATELY INAPPROPRIATE TOUCHING!


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13 Mar 2007, 11:08 am

1337 speak is perfectly acceptable in the confines of WoW, where you can see and interact with teh noobs in their own language... but it's pretty hard to feign death, drop a trap, send my pet in on ya, and gun ya down, here on WP when you're yammering something i can't understand w/o furrowing my eyebrows.

and there are no emotes here.... so wtf? why bother with 1337 speak?


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13 Mar 2007, 11:38 am

Thank you Quatermass, old chap. I've wanted to make the same point, but didn't want to appear to be an old folgey. Nice touch with the play-acting. Now if we could all speak the King's English for a change, and get our Yank friends to participate, it'd be quite pleasant.


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13 Mar 2007, 11:42 am

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13 Mar 2007, 11:59 am

DoubleFeed wrote:
Add to the list anybody who ends a sentence with "so", "but" or "yeah".


Or "Init" or "Man" or "Bruv."

Damn Chav language. :x

SPEAK PROPER ENGLISH!



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13 Mar 2007, 12:02 pm

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13 Mar 2007, 3:17 pm

Prof_Pretorius wrote:
Thank you Quatermass, old chap. I've wanted to make the same point, but didn't want to appear to be an old folgey. Nice touch with the play-acting. Now if we could all speak the King's English for a change, and get our Yank friends to participate, it'd be quite pleasant.


Yes. That is FTW.


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