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Re: sproaty's responses (Re: What do I have to do to..)
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Tue, 21 Sep 1999 18:32:59 GMT
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johnneal@uswest.net*spamcake*
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Sproaticus wrote:
> Joseph Gonzalez wrote:
> > In lugnet.general, Jeremy Sproat writes:
> > > Yeah -- wait. Todd gets pretty busy sometimes.
> > what???
> > that's it??!??
> > no zany, off-the-wall response??
> > are you okay, sproaty?
>
> One or two people let me know that I'm fantastic, while a select few tell me
> I'm great, some think I'm okay, and others have the unfounded opinion that I
> need professional help. Personally, I select All Of The Above.
>
> What the--?! "Sproaty"? Are you okay, Joe? ;-)
>
> > i look forward to reading your posts (even searching them out from time to
> > time) just to see the bizarre comments you make and all you say is a one-line
> > response?
>
> I'm just glad to know I'm not the only one needing professional help! But
> thanks for helping inflate my ego. :-P
>
> While we're on the topic of "looking forward to", how much longer until you
> dig out your bricks again and build another amazingly cool alternate model?
> Preferrably something Camelot-oriented...? (Not that your Phantom of the
> Opera page wasn't insanely astounding...!) :-,
>
> And while we're on the topic of "dig out your bricks", how long before we
> start up a "Greater Utah Lego People" club?
>
> > okay, you're off the hook for now, but you better say something weird and wacky
> > next time!
>
> Ummm... Hmmm... (confer confer) *ahem* Snarfquest this! Camelot my
> shorts, militant Lego zombie! Clone-heads, I say to you: desist your
> Megablock ways! Lego bricks soothe the City like a beaucoup ABS hammock.
> Spoooooooon!
>
> Not good enough? I will then describe the meaning of the name "Camelot".
>
> It really has to do with Merlin. Everyone knows that Merlin, the wizard
> whose aging mechanism was forever stuck in perverse gear, was a confidant
> and advisor to the infamous King Arthur of England. What isn't so
> well-known is exactly how Merlin's influence caused Camelot to be called
> Camelot.
>
> Merlin, born in 1914 Egypt, quickly became a follower of the necromancers of
> the Temple of Set -- which naturally resulted in his becoming a powerful
> advisor to the Kennedy family. After a nearly-deadly duel with Joe and Rose
> Kennedy involving strip contract bridge, he moved back home to Egypt,
> started a tourist-industry camel rental lot, and again started dabbling in
> the darker arts.
>
> The camel rental business reaped more rewards than Merlin ever dreamed
> possible, and he eventually made a decision to lend his powers to serve good
> instead of evil. He immediately started a plan which would immediately and
> fairly settle the 1967 Suez Canal dispute. Unfortunately, a freak accident
> involving a gamma-particle accelerator and a vat of pure camel DNA caused
> Merlin to shift both in time and space. He ended up in a French Templar
> order dedicated to studying the nature of inebriated swallows.
African or European?
> To help pay
> the bills, they constructed large, wooden tables; the corners of these
> tables were shaved down to cut costs, resulting in a very round shape.
>
> Merlin eventually tired of the monastic life, longing to once again serve a
> royal family. He struck south, hoping that the Basque region might have a
> powerful dynasty to advise. Being a man and therefore completely unable to
> ask for directions, he ended up on England's Cornish coast.
>
> After futilely looking for years for a king to advise, Merlin pops a Mentos,
> snags an urchin from the streets of Uther, and grooms him to be a king.
> After a long and greulling brainstorming session, Merlin names the king
> "Arthur". After constructing a crude sonic disruptor cannon from daubing,
> bronze, and oak staves, they conquored a good-sized chunk of western England
> and settled down to form a kingdom. Arthur acquired several knights along
> the way, and came up with the idea of seating everyone around a
> dodecagonal-shaped table to promote equality amongst themselves. The
> addition of Sir Attuckys of Blight severly crimped this number, and Merlin
> was forced to put an emergency request for a new table from his Templar
> friends in France. An oversight on the invoice resulted in a round table
> being delivered, and the tradition stuck.
>
> The kingdom thrived for a few years, even without a name. However, a
> kingdom without a name makes taxes confusing to submit, and so king Arthur
> declared the area to be known as Corn, named after the region of England.
> Sir Attuckys of Blight was allergic to corn, however, and a new name was
> needed. Merlin, explaining his blissful camel rental days in Egypt,
> suggested "Camel Lot".
Uff-da! I haven't groaned *that* much since my last trip to Africa (Posh, posh, the
traveling life, the traveling life for me...;-)
-John
> The others, never having smelled a camel before,
> immediately agreed.
>
> And the rest is history.
>
> Cheers,
> - jsproat
>
> --
> Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
> Remember -- the enemy's gate is DOWN.
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