Last week in Hermit's Cave

Poll Roundup
What will happen when the Capellas Co... In one corner a fat balding man in Speedos, and in the other corner… Ahhhhhh same thing. This is going to get ugly folks. Who am I kidding, this is ugly.

How often do you go shopping at iKea? Whenever possible, who cares if the voting doesn't reflect that. You save money cuz you put it together yourself you know. Cept for the dime bar cakes.

FNG Roll call liz (IAMALWAYSME) TUWALI PETEGZ1 EVERETT20 REDDOG701

Weekly Folly
News Nakedness Well a fairly popular topic was an inquirer article talking of newscasters in their birthday suits. Hello, Connie Chung! Anyways it spawned quite a few threads, including a forum first, one populated entirely by newbies. Somehow, and don't ask me how, the basics of the conversation seemed to revolve around having Mikey be the nakednews representative in the IT world. Guys aren't there a few other more likely candidates? Morely Safer comes to mind. The main thread was derailed rather quickly with talk of sackings in the IT world (a subject near and dear to my wallet). Then a bit of paranoia set in with various saddoes imitating cartoon type characters.

Xmas competition Dr. Spinola Dr. Spinola came on looking for some ideas for a competition to give away some swag. When will the Inquirer editorial staff realize that coming to us for helpful advice/ideas is an exercise in futility? True to form we went off onto various nonsneses. 'Twas the high volume thread of the week. Flounder came in with some whacko ramblings, must have just been back from the pub. Mrs. TCB came up with the lewdest suggestion, funny the men here seem to be obsessed with computer bits and Ikea, while the women… No I can't get into it. Thread ended the week in a bit of a drunken rambling disjointed Word Bloody association. Honorable mention for humor has got to go to Frnht for post 77. Terrible un-PRC.

T O'Plaice forum Uri wanted to know if Hermit's wit was saved for posteriority. Not to worry many confirmed that it was. And I can say that Frnht has done an excellent job of collecting it all, more on that later. Thread stayed on topic, barely, for all of 9 posts, and then Flashy mentioned his grayscale version of Wolfenstien. Which brought all the Wolfenstien fans out of the woodwork. It degenerated into a more general game discussion for 20 posts or so. After the book burner started discussing his scripting problems things went way downhill. About ten posts or so between AP and Flash that made little or no sense. Then it just got too cryptic to be kool. Ended the week on a little ribbing of yours truly over computer languages most likely to crash your browser.

Bob on-topic (was ill-advised movies) If I recall correctly the original thread name was something about trivia, and started by Ms. Flounder. Many posts about various trivia, and arguments about same. Somewhere along the line it turned into a mixed metaphor type thing, cross-correlating directors and movies. Quite humorous all around, but nothing really summarizable. Though the discussion of Royalty and horses makes for some timeless laughs.

Animal Hospital (was is your pc sick) Well it was the first unsolicited Spam of the reign of King Flashy the 1st. The original post topic was rightfully completely ignored, as we led onto the discussion. Basically centered around Flashy's moderator (not to be confused with moderate) persona. All sorts of similarities were advanced. But when the Egyptian hamster god simile was put forth, rather aptly, we digressed onto the social/mating habits of hamsters. You nuts never cease to amaze me. If there was every a topic more boring than Rambus that would be it. Yet many had an opinion. Now for some reason Frnht pulled a complete double reversal full sequitor and posted in German or something thereabouts. Which actually led to allot of discussion about how I would summarize said discussion. All I can say is Achtung! Du bist ein Scheisskopf. Go stick your head in a bucket bitte. SCHNELL SCHNELL.!! Which about runs the gamut of my German, which explains why I got beat up the last time I was there. Little word of advice when your language skills are limited to what you learned in WW II war movies, keep your mouth shut.

Scaring those spammers Essentially the same thread as above, minus the German, and with the addition of various song lyrics.

Bout covers the interesting bits. As mentioned Frnht has been busy grabbing all of Hermie's posts, and done a right good job of it. As requested I will try to create some form of homily to Saint Hermie the Good, kind of a preaching from the mount, something he was fond of during the tourist season. It has also been suggested that a few should be included in each week's summary. So I shall to do my best. Any suggestion on format or theme would be muchly appreciated.

Hermie's Quotable Quotes
To: frnht451
Back to Miss. Lotsa white stuff in jars consumed at local shack in woods, very foggy night. Ground fog, below headlight level and one stayed on the road following the fence posts. Usual thing, fence posts kept going in straight line, road made an abrupt left turn. 52 Kaiser buried in mud and water three inches up past the door sill. No one in car really cared, we still had a couple of quarts to go and the car didn't seem to be sinking any further.

Story was much different in the morning when I had to stagger around for miles looking for some farmer to pull the car out of the swamp.

You boys didn't see no water moccs in there last night! Lord they's thick around here! Oh yeah..

Hermit (D. Martin)

To: MOONCATUK
****and the aliens start sucking his brains out...
The boys in the back said they're more interested in the livers....

Hermit (D. Martin)

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