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SoupJohnB		2012-11-08 01:43:09 PM

ISO15693: Mama
I just stoned a man
Flung a rock against his head
knocked him down and now he's dead

God said to Abraham, kill me a son - out on Highway 51

/leaves thread for YouTube and a dose of Bob Dylan. Short attention span and easily distracted.

//also, musician

bikerbob59		2012-11-08 01:43:28 PM

dittybopper: Even my first attempts were better:

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I improved with practice:

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Will you be my friend when the end times come??

dittybopper		2012-11-08 01:49:10 PM

bikerbob59: dittybopper: Even my first attempts were better:

[i56.tinypic.com image 640x480]

I improved with practice:

[i56.tinypic.com image 640x480]

[i45.tinypic.com image 320x320]

Will you be my friend when the end times come??

Until I get hungry enough, sure.

hundreddollarman		2012-11-08 01:52:56 PM

whither_apophis: I'm listening to Also Sprach Zarathustra right now so I'm getting a kick out of this.

coedbc.files.wordpress.com

/Better not be obscure.
//WOOOOOOOOOO!

CygnusDarius		2012-11-08 02:43:16 PM

Agent Smiths Laugh: See the best policy is to make rocks real expensive...

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Oh...maybe that's why nobody shoots each other with diamonds...

/me and a friend have a long standing assertion that all mankind has ever really done is kill each other with progressively more impressive rocks

Heathen! It was sticks, not rocks, what made mankind advance!.

/Repent of your rocky ways, and embrace the Church of the Stick!

Avery614		2012-11-08 02:58:44 PM

CygnusDarius: It's all sticks to me.

How did the art of weaponry started? It started with our ancestors holding a giant stick. Then, someone had the idea to add a rock to that giant stick, someone else decided to sharpen that rock in the stick, but it was a stick still the same, and then someone decided to make a longer stick with a pointy end. A few years later, a stick with a string was invented to throw little pointed sticks, and then someone made a sharp stick with metal, and all of a sudden, we foguth against each other with metal pointy, sharpened sticks.

Several years later, someone had the bright idea to make a hollow metal stick, and with black powder, use it to throw even tinier sticks made of lead. Now we have self-propelled sticks that can destroy cities.

So, Hail The Stick!

Thanks for the laugh dude, this was some good shiat..

superfudge73		2012-11-08 03:14:36 PM

iheartscotch: Treygreen13: CygnusDarius: How did the art of weaponry started?

All your base are belong to us?

How is weaponry formed?

dittybopper		2012-11-08 03:17:23 PM

superfudge73: iheartscotch: Treygreen13: CygnusDarius: How did the art of weaponry started?

All your base are belong to us?

How is weaponry formed?

With sticks and stones and conchoidal cones, that's what weapons are made of.

dittybopper		2012-11-08 03:18:10 PM

I'm so old-school, I named my daughter Debbie Taj.

ObscureNameHere		2012-11-08 04:10:36 PM

dcigary: [images4.wikia.nocookie.net image 600x450]

/seriously - do I have to do everything around here?

But your not gonna kill him.

DO YOU HEAR ME?

YOU WON'T KILL HIM!

/one of the better episodes

pottie		2012-11-08 05:05:17 PM

dittybopper: would you be interested in selling some points?
EIP

dittybopper		2012-11-08 07:04:40 PM

pottie: dittybopper: would you be interested in selling some points?
EIP

Nope. Then it would be a job. Plus, I've got to make up enough for next hunting season, and I'm not *THAT* good at it yet. I didn't show all my failures.

dittybopper		2012-11-08 07:09:01 PM

If you want some points, you can buy good ones from 3Rivers Archery.

pottie		2012-11-08 07:42:50 PM

dittybopper: pottie: dittybopper: would you be interested in selling some points?
EIP

Nope. Then it would be a job. Plus, I've got to make up enough for next hunting season, and I'm not *THAT* good at it yet. I didn't show all my failures.

No worries, I understand. I just thought maybe you'd trade a few points for a fossilized ivory halibut carving or some such.
Cheers

pottie		2012-11-08 07:43:41 PM

dittybopper: If you want some points, you can buy good ones from 3Rivers Archery.

By the way, thanks for the link

dittybopper		2012-11-09 06:59:33 AM

pottie: dittybopper: If you want some points, you can buy good ones from 3Rivers Archery.

By the way, thanks for the link

Consider what that link implies: Somewhere, someone is making a living knapping stone projectile points, a skill we've used for at least 100,000 years.

Leeds		2012-11-09 11:26:51 AM

dittybopper: pottie: dittybopper: If you want some points, you can buy good ones from 3Rivers Archery.

By the way, thanks for the link

Consider what that link implies: Somewhere, someone is making a living knapping stone projectile points, a skill we've used for at least 100,000 years.

You know another skill that we've used for 100,000 years? The reach-around. Seriously.

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