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Mournblade
Master of Realmslore
USA
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 Posted - 02 Mar 2012 : 15:18:20
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So today I brought my Van der Graaf generator to seal up my unit on static electricity.
While we were playing around with it, a student asked whether it was Van Der Graaf or Vangerdahast generator.
Apparently for the last two periods I had Vangerdahast generator written on the board...
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Eladrinstar
Learned Scribe
USA
196 Posts |
Posted - 02 Mar 2012 : 16:58:07
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36877 Posts |
Posted - 02 Mar 2012 : 17:25:09
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I am amused! 
I had a teacher bring one of those into class... I was hitting every electricity-related pun I could, until even the teacher got tired of it!  |
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Garen Thal
Master of Realmslore
USA
1105 Posts |
Posted - 02 Mar 2012 : 17:30:26
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quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I am amused!
I had a teacher bring one of those into class... I was hitting every electricity-related pun I could, until even the teacher got tired of it!
Really? I'm shocked. |
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Hoondatha
Great Reader
USA
2450 Posts |
Posted - 02 Mar 2012 : 17:51:24
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| That's our Wooly, always bringing his sparkling personality to the boards. |
Doggedly converting 3e back to what D&D should be...
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
3131 Posts |
Posted - 02 Mar 2012 : 18:00:33
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| lol great stuff Mournblade |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 02 Mar 2012 : 18:59:59
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Funny.
Vangerdehast was known to visit Earth - maybe he has had tryst with Van de Graaff's Momma? The double letters do make it sound kinda Realmsish.
So Wooly, would you say your teacher was less then ecstatic? |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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Mournblade
Master of Realmslore
USA
1288 Posts |
Posted - 02 Mar 2012 : 19:36:52
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Originally posted by Markustay
Funny.
Vangerdehast was known to visit Earth - maybe he has had tryst with Van de Graaff's Momma? The double letters do make it sound kinda Realmsish.
So Wooly, would you say your teacher was less then ecstatic?
He certainly could have! Maybe he showed Ms. Van Der Graaf a few shocking grasps.
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Jeremy Grenemyer
Great Reader
USA
2717 Posts |
Posted - 02 Mar 2012 : 19:52:38
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quote:
Originally posted by Mournblade
Apparently for the last two periods I had Vangerdahast generator written on the board...
Teh awesome. |
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Alystra Illianniis
Great Reader
USA
3750 Posts |
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Hoondatha
Great Reader
USA
2450 Posts |
Posted - 02 Mar 2012 : 23:21:19
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| No, this is just a normal buzz. |
Doggedly converting 3e back to what D&D should be...
Sigh... And now 4e as well. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
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Hoondatha
Great Reader
USA
2450 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 01:38:25
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| Jolt? Yeck. That stuff is hair-raising. |
Doggedly converting 3e back to what D&D should be...
Sigh... And now 4e as well. |
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althen artren
Senior Scribe
USA
780 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 04:09:52
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| Omh my gods, these jokes are bad. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 04:30:45
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quote:
Originally posted by Hoondatha
Jolt? Yeck. That stuff is hair-raising.
It's a prerequisite for programmers, unfortunately. Or, at least, it was "back in the day." |
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Eldacar
Senior Scribe
438 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 04:37:08
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Originally posted by althen artren
Omh my gods, these jokes are bad.
I believe the phrase you want is that this is a thunderstorm of bad jokes. |
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Jakk
Great Reader
Canada
2165 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 05:12:52
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Eldacar: No, I think Althen had it right. Of course, one could always find a more current metaphor, and not put up so much resistance...  |
Playing in the Realms since the Old Grey Box (1987)... and *still* having fun with material published before 2008, despite the NDA'd lore.
If it's comparable in power with non-magical abilities, it's not magic. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36877 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 05:13:11
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Originally posted by The Sage
I get my mental voltage from Jolt cola.
Mountain Dew's new-ish flavor Voltage is what charges me up. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36877 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 05:14:15
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quote:
Originally posted by Eldacar
quote:
Originally posted by althen artren
Omh my gods, these jokes are bad.
I believe the phrase you want is that this is a thunderstorm of bad jokes.
Ah, but we're lightning quick to use them! |
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Jakk
Great Reader
Canada
2165 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 05:15:31
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
quote:
Originally posted by The Sage
I get my mental voltage from Jolt cola.
Mountain Dew's new-ish flavor Voltage is what charges me up.
As long as it's not Visa, MasterCard, or AmEx... that's a charge I can do without. 
I think we're finally starting to drain the battery here, folks... although I think I've just found the path of least resistance.  Watt do you think, fellow scribes? |
Playing in the Realms since the Old Grey Box (1987)... and *still* having fun with material published before 2008, despite the NDA'd lore.
If it's comparable in power with non-magical abilities, it's not magic. |
Edited by - Jakk on 03 Mar 2012 05:18:50 |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Jakk
Great Reader
Canada
2165 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 05:22:16
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| There's a reason I was trying to stay out of this thread, and it's to do with my complete lack of resistance to punnery. But I think this one might be the joule of the lot... although I fear that some (by no means all) scribes whose first language isn't English might feel rather insulated from the proceedings. |
Playing in the Realms since the Old Grey Box (1987)... and *still* having fun with material published before 2008, despite the NDA'd lore.
If it's comparable in power with non-magical abilities, it's not magic. |
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Aes Tryl
Learned Scribe
181 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 07:09:24
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| I am positive that all these puns are going to have a negative effect on our mental capacitors soon. Oh well continue to charge on ahead eh. |
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Eladrinstar
Learned Scribe
USA
196 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 07:33:32
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| You people are lucky you don't live in the Realms, Talos would personally destroy each of you for such extended electricity-themed punnery. |
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TBeholder
Great Reader
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Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 10:03:14
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quote:
Originally posted by The Sage
I get my mental voltage from Jolt cola.
Which reminds me. Writing "Vangerdahast generator" once is okay. When you start to calibrate them in kilo-Volhms, it's time to worry...
quote:
Originally posted by Eladrinstar
You people are lucky you don't live in the Realms, Talos would personally destroy each of you for such extended electricity-themed punnery.
And that's just cracking jokes. No one even tried to abuse quotes from Van Der Graaf Generator lyrics yet.  |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36877 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 14:36:02
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Originally posted by Eladrinstar
You people are lucky you don't live in the Realms, Talos would personally destroy each of you for such extended electricity-themed punnery.
Now that's an electrifying concept!
(been waiting to work that one in -- I couldn't resist! )
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
7989 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 17:45:30
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| I gauss I cannot resist being inducted into this current topic, the puns are just too shocking. |
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Jakk
Great Reader
Canada
2165 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 18:13:19
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Originally posted by Ayrik
I gauss I cannot resist being inducted into this current topic, the puns are just too shocking.
Well done, Ayrik! Sometimes you just have to charge right in...
Edit: ... and it just occurred to me that Talos is the only deity who expects resistance to his portfolio. Still, a deity of lightning should be well-grounded in the behaviour of mortals... |
Playing in the Realms since the Old Grey Box (1987)... and *still* having fun with material published before 2008, despite the NDA'd lore.
If it's comparable in power with non-magical abilities, it's not magic. |
Edited by - Jakk on 03 Mar 2012 18:17:02 |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 18:23:38
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| I'm too well grounded to participate in such nonsense. |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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Mournblade
Master of Realmslore
USA
1288 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 20:55:58
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AOhm this is funny!
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Jakk
Great Reader
Canada
2165 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 23:39:03
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Originally posted by Markustay
I'm too well grounded to participate in such nonsense.
Apparently not... you've been caught in the current just like the rest of us. |
Playing in the Realms since the Old Grey Box (1987)... and *still* having fun with material published before 2008, despite the NDA'd lore.
If it's comparable in power with non-magical abilities, it's not magic. |
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Scientists of the Forgotten Realms (joke)
