CTRL+V THREAD! [part 2] (999)

1 Name:    : 1993-09-5047 15:11

asf, yeah

101 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5057 01:14

102 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5057 01:17

103 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5058 04:02

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104 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5058 04:03

IT'S FUCKING GARBAGE DAY!

105 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5058 04:17

106 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5058 16:45

HERO CABBIE: I KICKED BURNING TERRORIST SO HARD IN BALLS THAT I TORE A TENDON

107 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5058 22:08

Brunhes-Matuyama

108 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5058 22:10

That's it, pool's closed.

109 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5059 01:10

110 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5059 02:32

111 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5059 04:21

>>110
Would be cooler if the band was better.

112 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5059 19:05

The spoken-word section of the song includes the lines "Father/ Yes son?/ I want to kill you/ Mother, I want to...fuck you," (with the last two words screamed unintelligibly). This is often considered a reference to Sophocles' Oedipus the King

113 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5059 19:15

メール拒否

114 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5059 20:01

CRN209809

115 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5059 20:58

>>110
Would be cooler if the band was better.

116 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5059 21:45

Them some hot motherfuckers out there. I got it lucky. I lost a toe last winter to the frost but I ain't out there baking my brain. Hotter than a long tailed cat in a room full of burning rocking chairs. Fuck that shit with a capital F.

Texans got a word for that heat. Call it nutsack sweat. You get so hot you can feel your balls start to get all squishy in your pants. That's a bad feeling. I can still remember the first time I saw a gray hair on my balls. Felt like the goddamn world was coming to an end. Getting old just as bad as having sweaty balls. I had to go into Juarez and spend 4 bucks getting my manhood sucked back to life by a whore named Lucille. Getting old costs money.

I bet Lucille is still out there, probably sweating on somebody else's balls. Mexican whores just don't know no better.

117 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5059 22:37

>>111
No, I don't believe you can get much cooler than that.

also

you suffer

118 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5060 00:38

( ・ิω・ิ)

119 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5060 00:44

120 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5060 07:29

121 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5060 16:03

  _  ∩
( ゚∀゚)彡 Oppai! Oppai!
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122 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5060 20:46

emoemoemoemoemoemoemoemoemoemoemoemo

123 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5060 23:49

124 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5061 00:53

I can't speak for everybody but I own successful companies that are successful because of what they do and how they help other people. In my spare time, I personally play 10 accounts. I see absolutely nothing wrong with that and is about as "normal" as you can get in a world where normal ebbs and flows enough as it is.

125 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5061 01:02

126 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5061 02:22

After doing acid for 6 times or so, I was really tired of having these great revelations and dialogues with the divine, and then having those memories evaporate once I came down. So the seventh trip, I took a notebook along. And I had the usual sort of visions and deep conversations with God and I wrote them all down and drew an illustration of what I saw. When sober, I went back to take a look at the great wisdom I had accumulated. There on the notebook page was a drawing of a man in a dark suit, with an onion for a head, a big grin and only one eye. The text said, over and over again, "The Onion Man is coming! He's going to eat you! Must Hide!"

127 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5061 03:20

Translocator

128 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5061 04:30

Boulders collided, the earth below collapsed, and rocks whizzed by like whispering death threats. This was all the work of the young 15 year old Titan, Terra. With goggles covering her eyes, and gloves protecting thin hands, the female was very powerful. She could do anything with the dirt below your feet, helping the town heroes destroy the villains. Until that one day she admitted something.

She believed, and told herself repeatedly, that she could trust her new friend Beast boy. Trust him enough that she could tell him the one secret the other Titans could never know about…That she couldn't control her gift. Things went well, and she believed her secret would be well kept with the shape shifter…But she was wrong. He had told, and by him betraying her, she betrayed them right back. Terra fled away from the Tower, hoping to find a better place that her gifts would be accepted…and she found that new home with Slade. Slade made Terra believe he would help her control this gift, if she did one little thing for him… Go back to the Tower and find out a few things. Very simple, very easy. But how things would turn from bad to worse like that…

Of course, being the dimwits they were, the Titans took her back, and she got all their faults with ease. Every one of them had a flaw, and she found them out within the first week. The following week was when she hacked at the security on the Tower, easily finding out the p-words and keys for it. Terra reported everything back to Slade each day, but each day the Titans grew more and more suspicious…Finally, the day came. They found out, and once again she fled, leaving a broken heart behind in BB's hand.

After many weeks of hard training, Slade thought Terra was ready to fight…So in came the Titans. In the midst of this battle, Terra realized that she had only betrayed herself. Slade was a fake, and she needed to help the Titans in any way she could. And when she chance came up she took it without hesitation. By stopping the Volcano, she froze her life in a hard encasing of stone. The Titans immidiatly began to try and find cures to free their team mate, but to no avail. Until one day, they found out Terra was free. Terra was now attending a high school, living a normal life. Beast boy, of course, was the first to race off to find her. And when he did it wasn't a happy reunion like he had planned…Terra remembered nothing. She didn't even believe she had powers. The Titans confronted Slade, but he said that there was no way to help. Beast boy tried every thing, even throwing dirt in her face to see if she would stop it like she always had before…But still there was no response. Beast boy wouldn't give up, and he would help his friend until he finally got her to remember the great life she use to have.

So that's where our story begins…Terra, now back at the Tower, is out in the training field, ordered to focus on the rocks on earth around her. 'Try to make them move, try to get them to even shuffle…' she thought, her blue eyes closing as she concentrated. The wind picked up, her blonde hair flailing around her. 'Concentrate…Concentrate…' she thought, squinting her eyes. They quickly opened again though, a frown on her face. "Beast boy, I can't do it!"

129 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5061 04:39

Carlos Mencia

130 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5061 08:36

Richard Dollarhjärta

131 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5062 05:09

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132 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5062 05:55

(Oh, I see.)

133 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5062 10:14

07/11/07(Wed)05:52:54 No.32616917

OP is a fucking retard. Lurk moar, lowlife.

/b/ is not Pizza Hut. Party Van is not a delivery truck.

134 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5062 17:54

135 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5062 18:55

It allows WinAMP to play Genesis GYM.

136 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5062 22:18

I is a squid. Fuck you.

137 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5063 00:29

138 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5063 02:11

#FF7781

139 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5063 03:18

diviiiding driver

140 Name: sage : 1993-09-5063 05:39

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     |⊂     I can dance now !
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     ♪  ☆
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         (  へ)    RANTA RANTA
          く       TAN

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      ヽ(;´Д`)ノ  RANT A TAN
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141 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5063 10:19

"God Moaning. The resist-once have accqo-aired a bum. They are going to ex-plod the whaleway brodge. "

142 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5063 11:00

is this why some (if not all) women and whores who have a thing for Blowjobs are pretty!?

143 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5063 11:40

m kind of progressing learning hiragana, I can read that first line but don't understand it.

"Mitsu! Mitsu! Mirakuri! Mitsukurunrun!!"

What does it mean?
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144 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5063 12:23

145 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5063 14:12

Yes, but consider that GL 15 had over 22000 frames of animation, whereas an important episode in your normal series has around 12000.

I think it still equates to GL's being superior even against a 52 episode animu because even by normal standards it is so infinitely superior.

146 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5063 16:13

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147 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5063 16:42

Thought you might like to know.

148 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5063 17:59

149 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5063 18:43

150 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5063 19:59

ぬるぽ

151 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5064 01:50

slalom etymology
[Norwegian slalåm : slad, sloping + låm, path.]

152 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5064 05:41

thewe is a samba playing on the sambrero aaaaaaandall i wannan do is
dancedancedance

i ave left my backpack on th ebus and must go back to get it but the
rivber is full of fire and ssolder it is veyr emportant though

charlie told me that theres my ZENon the pack so i have to get it
beforte the buus sinks

brian i have never told you this before but cromwell is a very
important man and his head is buriead in cambridge but only 3 peopel
know where it is ok so you have to find it before morning or else it
will be unearthed and i cant have that happen or else it will chew
everything and break the walls and i cant sleep with her then i have
to find a profylaptic - therees something happen and if it
goes wrong i will have a baby

tglark mark straks pick oppen

there is a sound playing and i think policeor thje raidio speaker ahs
to go up sometime

briam YOU HAVE TO FIND THE HED+AS BEFORE MORNING OR tHE sUN Willn't
rise --____________________________--__--___-___--_____________o
ican feel the msuic in my SouL BRIAN SO IS HUNTER AND JUSTIN AND
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153 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5064 05:55

You guys don't even know. At my school there used to be plastic knife fighting gangs. There were tons of different gangs, people got jumped, people got way worse than just cuts. There were no rules. There was this one gang who used pens. They were the kids who sat on the heater by the window. They were called the heat. Eventually, the school stopped putting out knives at lunch.

154 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5064 12:08

No white man has the right to feel unhappy.

155 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5064 19:41

And then the kicker: I looked down at my package and noticed "Little Khalid" was AWOL. As they were loading me into the the police wagon I glanced back over my shoulder and saw what was was left of him charbroiling on the sidewalk. Then one of the bomb sniffing dogs gobbled him down like a snausage. A fat lot of good those 72 virgin are going to me now.

157 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5065 05:55

This is such a passionate story of love and friendship, i even lost my erection around part 3!

158 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5066 04:30

Conversations would never be interesting if everybody completely agreed with each other.

159 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5066 05:14

Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.

160 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5066 14:47

161 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5066 20:26

Teenagers can be very cruel sometimes. I remember how me and my friends would wait by the bathroom, and call little Eddy Dreskin "homo" and "fag" because he was small and didn't dress well. Then, still chuckling, we would all walk into the bathroom and ream each other's assholes with our penises. And never once did the irony of it all occur to us, that we too weren't all that fashionable in our choice of clothing and clothing accessories. Ah, to be so naive again.

162 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5067 01:14

163 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5067 01:23

sagubooru_beta

164 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5067 03:28

165 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5067 04:31

Illegal things are exciting too.

166 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5067 06:41

167 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5067 07:24

168 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5067 14:26

169 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5067 20:38

http://zip.4chan.org/ck/src.cgi/1184614928161.jpg
Hello sirs I just made some AA food! It is pretty easy I just print and cut out mitten clip art and carved it into an omelete. Then I punctured a hole in a plastic bag and used it to squirt out the ketchup. Please enjoy this AA egg.

170 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5068 05:01

So, wanna come over to my house and have raging hot sex tomorrow? Besides our photoshoot.

171 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5068 11:27

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173 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5068 18:50

174 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5071 04:30

The story is about a boy who lives in a cupboard (i.e. "in the closet"). His Aunt and Uncle are ashamed of him because his parents were quite eccentric (i.e. "flaming") and they are deeply concerned and afraid that he will turn out just like them. On his 11th birthday (i.e. roughly at the onset of puberty), the boy discovers that he is actually a "wizard", different in both style and substance from normal people, or "muggles" (i.e. "breeders"). The boy is groomed into his new existence by a large, hairy bear of a man who shows Harry a hidden underground community of "wizards" living right under the noses of the general population (i.e. the gay subculture). Harry's first trip to this subculture involves traveling through "Diagon Alley", a play on the word diagonally (i.e. not straight).

175 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5073 20:25

Teenage Mutant Ninja Dildos

176 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5073 21:11

I am jealous of the first word in this sentence.

177 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5073 22:22

As with nearly any substance, it is possible for people to be allergic to semen. This condition, referred to as human seminal plasma hypersensitivity, is estimated to affect 5% of women. Since semen naturally occurs in the male body, it is quite rare for men to suffer from this condition, though there are reported cases of patients receiving reverse vasectomy operations who have later developed allergies to their own seminal fluids.

178 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5075 03:38

179 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5075 04:39

It was slightly disgusting to see someone actually say something like that.

180 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5075 07:01

181 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5076 05:11

When you turn 18, get me an early present.

182 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5076 12:02

183 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5076 14:33

you aren't curious as to what I'm talking about?

184 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5076 16:02

. Unknown authorities, rubber-stamped onto the page, command us with ridiculous yet familiar immediacy: "DO NOT CIRCUL

185 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5076 16:55

186 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5076 17:33

e6/u/u/d/d/x3

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What else could I say?

187 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5076 22:21

SovietRussia#deadjew

188 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5077 01:52

189 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5077 03:46

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190 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5077 04:18

彡´_⊃`) ドイツ人が開発して
(´_⊃`) アメリカ人が実用化
ミ´_>`) イギリス人が投資し
(・ш・) 日本人が小型化に成功
(´_J`) イタリア人がデザイン
ξ・_>・) フランス人がブランド化
(`ハ´) 中国人が海賊版をつくり
<`A´> 韓国人が起源を主張する

191 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5077 11:41

Evo has the ability to transform into humanoid versions of a bat (similar to Man-Bat), a wolf (similar to a Werewolf), or an amphibian of some kind. In these transformed states he is also able to take on the trait's of these animals, such as flight and enhanced smell.

192 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5077 15:46

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193 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5077 16:38

194 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5077 17:47

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195 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5077 18:22

inexorable

196 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5077 18:52

197 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5077 22:50

A Story About ‘Magic'

Some years ago, I (GLS) was snooping around in the cabinets that housed the MIT AI Lab's PDP-10, and noticed a little switch glued to the frame of one cabinet. It was obviously a homebrew job, added by one of the lab's hardware hackers (no one knows who).

You don't touch an unknown switch on a computer without knowing what it does, because you might crash the computer. The switch was labeled in a most unhelpful way. It had two positions, and scrawled in pencil on the metal switch body were the words ‘magic' and ‘more magic'. The switch was in the ‘more magic' position.

I called another hacker over to look at it. He had never seen the switch before either. Closer examination revealed that the switch had only one wire running to it! The other end of the wire did disappear into the maze of wires inside the computer, but it's a basic fact of electricity that a switch can't do anything unless there are two wires connected to it. This switch had a wire connected on one side and no wire on its other side.

It was clear that this switch was someone's idea of a silly joke. Convinced by our reasoning that the switch was inoperative, we flipped it. The computer instantly crashed.

Imagine our utter astonishment. We wrote it off as coincidence, but nevertheless restored the switch to the ‘more magic’ position before reviving the computer.

A year later, I told this story to yet another hacker, David Moon as I recall. He clearly doubted my sanity, or suspected me of a supernatural belief in the power of this switch, or perhaps thought I was fooling him with a bogus saga. To prove it to him, I showed him the very switch, still glued to the cabinet frame with only one wire connected to it, still in the ‘more magic’ position. We scrutinized the switch and its lone connection, and found that the other end of the wire, though connected to the computer wiring, was connected to a ground pin. That clearly made the switch doubly useless: not only was it electrically nonoperative, but it was connected to a place that couldn't affect anything anyway. So we flipped the switch.

The computer promptly crashed.

This time we ran for Richard Greenblatt, a long-time MIT hacker, who was close at hand. He had never noticed the switch before, either. He inspected it, concluded it was useless, got some diagonal cutters and diked it out. We then revived the computer and it has run fine ever since.

We still don't know how the switch crashed the machine. There is a theory that some circuit near the ground pin was marginal, and flipping the switch changed the electrical capacitance enough to upset the circuit as millionth-of-a-second pulses went through it. But we'll never know for sure; all we can really say is that the switch was magic.

I still have that switch in my basement. Maybe I'm silly, but I usually keep it set on ‘more magic’.

1994: Another explanation of this story has since been offered. Note that the switch body was metal. Suppose that the non-connected side of the switch was connected to the switch body (usually the body is connected to a separate earth lug, but there are exceptions). The body is connected to the computer case, which is, presumably, grounded. Now the circuit ground within the machine isn't necessarily at the same potential as the case ground, so flipping the switch connected the circuit ground to the case ground, causing a voltage drop/jump which reset the machine. This was probably discovered by someone who found out the hard way that there was a potential difference between the two, and who then wired in the switch as a joke.

198 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5077 23:17

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199 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5078 01:45

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200 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5078 03:11

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