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Post by TheSalmonWhisperer on Sept 9, 2004 10:10:14 GMT -5
Chaos eh? So, what if a chaotic salmon quietly butchered you?
....Before flailing it's fins randomly.
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Post by Kassil on Sept 10, 2004 4:38:00 GMT -5
That is not chaotic. Chaotic would be being polymorphed into a salmon and left to asphyxiate in the desert next to a bathtub full of cold water.
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Post by Star_Traveler on Sept 10, 2004 7:06:28 GMT -5
and right before death a troupe of Scotsmen in kilts come over a sand dune playing the Purple People Eater but not with bagpipes but with tiny tincans who then scope up the dying salmon, plop it into a frying pan and start cooking it. As the first Scotsmen, who has a german accent and wearing a clown nose, goes to take their first bite, a rainbow colored meteor falls from a green sky and starts to smash the whole lot of them but a tidal wave washed them all out into a sea which is made of banana and rubber shoe jello where the salamon starts to asphyxiate again.
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Post by Kassil on Sept 10, 2004 14:28:54 GMT -5
I see you've been smacked by the Golden Apple, Star_Traveler.
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Post by TheSalmonWhisperer on Sept 11, 2004 10:36:57 GMT -5
The part about the salmon being cooked made me weep. *Cue the sound of baby jeeeeebus crying*
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Post by Star_Traveler on Sept 11, 2004 21:17:13 GMT -5
Look out! Here comes the Wambulance for baby jeeeeebus!
Wah! Wah! Wah!
Golden Apple? I googled on it but all I found was an reference to a London Escort Agency... the ultimate temptation
and "Golden Apple of Discord, which would be thrown in the middle of a crowd of friends and make them enemies. They'd go running off in a hundr ed different directions, coming back only to do battle. "
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Post by TheSalmonWhisperer on Sept 12, 2004 10:52:12 GMT -5
what on earth is a golden apple? I can't say I've heard of it before, please excuse my stupidity.
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Post by Kassil on Sept 12, 2004 12:08:45 GMT -5
Reference: Eris Kallisti Discordia, upon being snubbed by the other Greek Gods, used a golden apple to get even. The Greeks, being stuck up snobs, all had the women fighting over the apple. Paris was chosen to pick the one to get it, because the apple said 'for the prettiest' - which is what Kallisti means - and the three goddesses all tried to bribe him. Aphrodite's bribe was the most beautiful woman in the world. Paris, being a healthy young man, chose that bribe; Aphordite got the apple, Paris got Helen of Troy, and the Trojan War began.
The apple has since become the symbol of Eris, especially among modern Discordians, who like to take advantage of the pompous and stuck-up natures of civilized people and introduce chaos in an apple-like fashion, with hopes of breaking the shackles of Gruad the Greyface and reminding people that life's purpose is to live it, not to be miserable.
It also induces the Discordians to be innately weird.
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Post by Star_Traveler on Sept 12, 2004 22:21:08 GMT -5
Wow! So it was the Golden Apple of Discord. I'm going to study up on that in more detail. Thanks for the info!
BTW, Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy was an awesome book.
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Post by Kassil on Sept 13, 2004 12:04:07 GMT -5
Yeah, the Apple's picked up a rep of causing violence and fighting. Really, it was just the vanity of the Greek goddesses - though an outspoken faction claims all the Greek gods were fighting over it, even Zeus, and that that is why they got Paris to choose.
The macho punks in the Greeks just hushed up the involvement of the male gods, because everyone knows that "only" women would fight over something that said 'For the Prettiest'!
And yes, HHGttG is an awesome series. So's the Dirk Gently set. Douglas Adams was just a kick-tail writer.
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