Damn, is it time for another gushunt already?

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NellyLunatic1980 · #1 Post by **NellyLunatic1980** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 2:30 pm

We were without Marley and Pea the last time around cuz they had more important personal matters to focus on. Now that they're both back, our posting average is back to normal. We are on our way to reaching the quintuple 3s well before the end of January.

Have fun, everybody.

mrkelley23 · #2 Post by **mrkelley23** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 2:40 pm

Without any weekend games, we would be close on Monday night or Tuesday morning.

peacock2121 · #3 Post by **peacock2121** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:16 pm

I am leaving tomorrow morning.

I will be able to use my m-i-l's compouter.

I may be involved in the gus hunt.

Someone has to promise that aj will get it this time.

VAdame · #4 Post by **VAdame** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:43 pm

I don't think I've ever participated in a gushunt! But I need to show off my new avatar, the adorably handsome John-Angelo

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #5 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:00 pm

If I am around, I will help, but I have a Quiz Bowl Tournament to go to this weekend.

kayrharris · #6 Post by **kayrharris** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:16 pm

If I'm looking at it right, 2600 or so to go, I don't we'll even get close this weekend.

I could be wrong though.

silvercamaro · #7 Post by **silvercamaro** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:21 pm

kayrharris wrote:If I'm looking at it right, 2600 or so to go, I don't we'll even get close this weekend.

I could be wrong though.

You forgot about the sequential gus, 33333.

We're only a thousand away from that. That's still a stretch for a typical weekend, though.

kayrharris · #8 Post by **kayrharris** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:24 pm

You're right, but our posting count has been a bit slow this week.

Sure you don't need to look for another outfit?

#9 Post by **littlebeast13** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:55 pm

silvercamaro wrote:
kayrharris wrote:If I'm looking at it right, 2600 or so to go, I don't we'll even get close this weekend.

I could be wrong though.
You forgot about the sequential gus, 33333.

Actually, that's the repeater gus.

The next sequencial gus will be 123456 (No, 5 digit sequencials are not gusses, except for 12345, which is really 012345). Any early predictions from Nelly or mrkelley on when we reach that mark....?

lb13

silvercamaro · #10 Post by **silvercamaro** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:00 pm

littlebeast13 wrote:
silvercamaro wrote: You forgot about the sequential gus, 33333.

Actually, that's the repeater gus.

The next sequencial gus will be 123456 (No, 5 digit sequencials are not gusses, except for 12345, which is really 012345).

Um, technical terminology is not one of my strong points.

kayrharris · #11 Post by **kayrharris** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:01 pm

Those are usually the ones I end up with by mistake. I think I have one or two from the old days.

#12 Post by **littlebeast13** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:25 pm

silvercamaro wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:
silvercamaro wrote: You forgot about the sequential gus, 33333.

Actually, that's the repeater gus.

The next sequencial gus will be 123456 (No, 5 digit sequencials are not gusses, except for 12345, which is really 012345).
Um, technical terminology is not one of my strong points.

That's OK, nobody else can remember what the gusses are either.

I could make numbers up and people who line up to shoot for them....

lb13

Rexer25 · #13 Post by **Rexer25** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:10 pm

littlebeast13 wrote:
silvercamaro wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:
Actually, that's the repeater gus.

The next sequencial gus will be 123456 (No, 5 digit sequencials are not gusses, except for 12345, which is really 012345).
Um, technical terminology is not one of my strong points.

That's OK, nobody else can remember what the gusses are either.

I could make numbers up and people who line up to shoot for them....

lb13

This is true...

silvercamaro · #14 Post by **silvercamaro** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:11 pm

VAdame wrote:I don't think I've ever participated in a gushunt! But I need to show off my new avatar, the adorably handsome John-Angelo

The adorably handsome John-Angelo is indeed adorable and handsome!
Thank you for introducing him to us.

VAdame · #15 Post by **VAdame** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:21 pm

Glad yinz like him! We finally got some pix of him awake & with his eyes open!

They found a nice apartment & are moving some of their stuff tonight. We'll take the rest tomorrow on our truck. The former landlord isn't giving them any crap about breaking the lease, and he says he'll give their deposit back.

Unfortunately he'll probably paint over the mold & rent the dump to someone else instead of fixing the problem. Johnny's Dad says he'll keep an eye on the place & maybe report it to the Health Department. They found out the tenant downstairs had the mold problem too -- it was in her closet and ruined a bunch of her clothes! I can't imagine why she's still living there unless she really has nowhere else to go. Yuck!

peacock2121 · #16 Post by **peacock2121** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 4:56 am

VAdame wrote:I don't think I've ever participated in a gushunt! But I need to show off my new avatar, the adorably handsome John-Angelo

What an adorable baby!

You and yours are blessed.

peacock2121 · #17 Post by **peacock2121** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 4:58 am

littlebeast13 wrote:
silvercamaro wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:
Actually, that's the repeater gus.

The next sequencial gus will be 123456 (No, 5 digit sequencials are not gusses, except for 12345, which is really 012345).
Um, technical terminology is not one of my strong points.

That's OK, nobody else can remember what the gusses are either.

I could make numbers up and people who line up to shoot for them....

lb13

LOL - You gotta love a man who has power, knows he has power and laughs at those over whom he has power.

peacock2121 · #18 Post by **peacock2121** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:00 am

VAdame wrote:Glad yinz like him! We finally got some pix of him awake & with his eyes open!

They found a nice apartment & are moving some of their stuff tonight. We'll take the rest tomorrow on our truck. The former landlord isn't giving them any crap about breaking the lease, and he says he'll give their deposit back.

Unfortunately he'll probably paint over the mold & rent the dump to someone else instead of fixing the problem. Johnny's Dad says he'll keep an eye on the place & maybe report it to the Health Department. They found out the tenant downstairs had the mold problem too -- it was in her closet and ruined a bunch of her clothes! I can't imagine why she's still living there unless she really has nowhere else to go. Yuck!

I missed the conversation about this.

I will say that mold is dangerous - really dangerous.

Glad they got out.

Sad that some other poor people will be stuck living there.

MarleysGh0st · #19 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:19 am

VAdame wrote:I don't think I've ever participated in a gushunt! But I need to show off my new avatar, the adorably handsome John-Angelo

Thanks for sharing with us.

And it's interesting to see how Beeb's "cheeseburger" meme is spreading across the Bored!

NellyLunatic1980 · #20 Post by **NellyLunatic1980** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:43 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:Thanks for sharing with us.

And it's interesting to see how Beeb's "cheeseburger" meme is spreading across the Bored!

Welcome to the Olympia Cafe, where we serve only cheeseburger and Pepsi.

#21 Post by **littlebeast13** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:07 am

peacock2121 wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:
silvercamaro wrote: Um, technical terminology is not one of my strong points.

That's OK, nobody else can remember what the gusses are either.

I could make numbers up and people who line up to shoot for them....

lb13
LOL - You gotta love a man who has power, knows he has power and laughs at those over whom he has power.

lb13

fantine33 · #22 Post by **fantine33** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:28 am

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:Thanks for sharing with us.

And it's interesting to see how Beeb's "cheeseburger" meme is spreading across the Bored!
Welcome to the Olympia Cafe, where we serve only cheeseburger and Pepsi.

What happened to the chips?

Marley, I've been meaning to ask this for a while (not necessarily of you). What's with the meme? I used to just assume it was used like "la meme chose" but the context doesn't always fit. Sometimes it seems like it's used as "it's all about me me me me me me me", but not always. Lots of times, like your usage above, neither of those seem to make sense.

So what's the word? Besides Thunderbird (see, I know hip phrases that other people don't get. It's just that they don't get them because they're at least 40 years out of style. Ha!).

mrkelley23 · #23 Post by **mrkelley23** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:46 am

fantine33 wrote:
NellyLunatic1980 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:Thanks for sharing with us.

And it's interesting to see how Beeb's "cheeseburger" meme is spreading across the Bored!
Welcome to the Olympia Cafe, where we serve only cheeseburger and Pepsi.
What happened to the chips?

Marley, I've been meaning to ask this for a while (not necessarily of you). What's with the meme? I used to just assume it was used like "la meme chose" but the context doesn't always fit. Sometimes it seems like it's used as "it's all about me me me me me me me", but not always. Lots of times, like your usage above, neither of those seem to make sense.

So what's the word? Besides Thunderbird (see, I know hip phrases that other people don't get. It's just that they don't get them because they're at least 40 years out of style. Ha!).

From the Free Online Dictionary of Computing is the best definition I've seen:

Meme: /meem/ [By analogy with "gene"] Richard Dawkins's term for an idea considered as a replicator, especially with the connotation that memes parasitise people into propagating them much as viruses do.
Memes can be considered the unit of cultural evolution. Ideas can evolve in a way analogous to biological evolution. Some ideas survive better than others; ideas can mutate through, for example, misunderstandings; and two ideas can recombine to produce a new idea involving elements of each parent idea.
The term is used especially in the phrase "meme complex" denoting a group of mutually supporting memes that form an organised belief system, such as a religion. However, "meme" is often misused to mean "meme complex".
Use of the term connotes acceptance of the idea that in humans (and presumably other tool- and language-using sophonts) cultural evolution by selection of adaptive ideas has become more important than biological evolution by selection of hereditary traits. Hackers find this idea congenial for tolerably obvious reasons.
See also memetic algorithm.

Dawkins is a pretty sharp tool, no matter how many people he pisses off.[/b]

ulysses5019 · #24 Post by **ulysses5019** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:00 am

I was curious about Dawkins, so I looked him up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins

Interesting character.

VAdame · #25 Post by **VAdame** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:10 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
VAdame wrote:I don't think I've ever participated in a gushunt! But I need to show off my new avatar, the adorably handsome John-Angelo
Thanks for sharing with us.

And it's interesting to see how Beeb's "cheeseburger" meme is spreading across the Bored!

Oh, you can make your own:

http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/

I made a Lolarmadillo:

http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/View ... 023947.jpg

ETA: Uly had the palindromic Gus: 32423