The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I find myself nostalgic for July and the roadtrip.

    I think when I get home and get to an actual computer I will go look through the photos again.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I wish I could have done something fun.

    Stupidly of me, Grandma offered to take me to Michigan, but I refused because the prospect of going without my mother was something that made me nervous. She says she'll ask again next summer.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I would have missed you anyways. :P
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ...buh.

    I wonder how much control ABC Inc can exert over A+E Networks. I have thought of trying to buy Lifetime outright.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Perhaps if you threaten to steal their "A" they'll give in. After all, who wants to be + E Networks?
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Also if I buy Lionsgate I have no idea what to do with the TV Guide Network. They seem to want to retool it into a women's oriented channel, accomplishing this by airing reruns of sitcoms/dramas they got first dibs on the cable rights to/are too old for higher-profile channels to be interested in anymore. (They own the website that bears the "TV Guide" name too, having bought it with the channel; it focuses on pop-culture and Lionsgate is attempting to sell it now.)
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Random nostalgia of the moment: The now-closed Toys-R-Us on Morse Road in Northland. I have a few vague memories of browsing the place in the mid-'90s (when it still had the rainbow-colored bars on the exterior), one of which involved some kind of Toy Story comic book.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ...the closure of SOAPnet meaning most of the shows it owns the rights to will have no cable home is my impetus for mentally revisiting "Lively" or whatever its name is.

    (The retooled LMN, intended as a rerun hub or something.)
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    The only Toys-R-Us I have nostalgic nostalgia for is one in Clifton Park, New York, and then it's only for a short time circa 1993. When they still had Super NES and Sega Genesis demo consoles up.

    The sheer size of the Toys-R-Us stores used to really wow me, though.
  • edited 2011-11-14 23:07:54
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I have a vague memory of the one closest to the house around the late-90s, maybe early-2000s or so. It was pretty gray inside.
  • edited 2011-11-14 23:14:13
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I have a vague memory of being in a Toys-R-Us in the late '90s or so and seeing boxed PlayStations (the original ones) stacked up very high. As we passed by my mother jokingly said, "want a PlayStation?" Then we realized that the boxes were fake: it was actually one large box printed to look like a stack of PlayStation boxes.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    When it comes down to it, the only retail-type place I have major nostalgia for is the mall my family used to go to when I was a kid. The one with the layout that made absolutely no sense, thereby endearing it to me but (probably) sealing its eventual doom.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    How did it make no sense?
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Hard to explain. It was first built sometime in the 70s, I think, but in later years there were new sections added on. This gave it kind of a random, patched-together feel, without any sense of overall plan. Although, to be fair, the sense of maze-like randomness was probably enhanced by my being a child at the time.
  • edited 2011-11-15 00:06:40
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    So as I was driving home this afternoon, the radio traffic report mentioned an intersection where the lights for all four directions were green at once.

    The mere thought of that scares the crap out of me, ugh.
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    Intersection Roulette!

  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    why would that happen?
  • edited 2011-11-15 00:21:49
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Malfunctioning controller, presumably. Thankfully Columbus PD seems very good about getting officers out quickly to direct traffic at broken signals.

    ...You know I saw a video a few months ago of a malfunctioning signal in Cleveland that cycled through green, yellow, and red all within one second. Let me see if I can find it.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Why does that look so cool?
  • edited 2011-11-15 00:32:04
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    It's like Christmas lights, only with a greater chance of causing car wrecks!
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ...you know, if I were to buy Lionsgate, my first order of business would be to direct them to broaden their offerings beyond their traditional mainly comedy/action/horror mix.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Would you greenlight my Worst Christmas Ever musical?
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I don't know.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    This is how bored I am:
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  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Exit 133?
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    First number that popped into my head.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Because the other stuff is referencing me, so I figured 133 was a reference to me.
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    image
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I wasn't going to include an exit number, originally, but since the sign was so narrow I wanted to experiment with a full-width exit tab.

    Also I meant to make "HAM" blue, but I forgot before I exported the PNG.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Also, I was going to be a smart-ass and ask how "1 MILE" was a reference to you, but then I remembered that you live in Denver.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ...I didn't even notice that.

    Also, why is the "last living human" from "The End of the World" the weirdest thing I've seen in it so far?
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Lady Cassandra? Yeah, she's...she's pretty weird.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    US 50 in southeast Ohio has a lot of signs like this one:

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    They resemble freeway signs, but US 50 isn't a freeway through here...rather, it's a four-lane divided highway, and these signs indicate not grade-separated interchanges but regular at-grade intersections.

    Weirdly, most of the roads that cross US 50 between Athens and Belpre don't have actual names, just "Country Road [number]" or "Township Road [number]".
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ...her presentation of a jukebox as an "iPod" which plays "classical music" made me think of the Futurama gag in which Leela said "Baby Got Back" was classical music.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ...there's a question mark in the title now.
  • i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind
    !
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    It is a mystery.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    FOX?
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    Snake?
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    HI JUSTICE!
  • edited 2011-11-15 23:01:39
    i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind

    Twelve shots.

  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    So I've been listening to Christmas music this week. It calms me down and reminds me that there is still a long break ahead if I can just get through these next three weeks.

    But now it's reminding me of going shopping for Christmas decorations at a certain Kmart when I was a child, but I can't remember which Kmart it was and now that's driving me CRAZY
  • there's a question mark in the title now.

    I'll admit, when the lack of a period was pointed out, adding a question mark instead was my first thought. I didn't do it, but it looks like someone else did...

    without questioning it.

    caruso.youtube

  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I was thinking.

    ABC Inc, Hasbro, Sesame Workshop, and the BBC should team up to involve The Hub in some kind of educational venture. (I was thinking about literacy when I had this thought.)
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I still think you and I need a PBS series.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    What would we do on it?
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Oh come on, I explained this weeks ago!

    ...No, you know what, we should host a kids' show on PBS instead. The show will open with some kind of "mystery", then we'll challenge the viewers to figure out how it's done, then spend most of the episode showing little clips that could help them figure it out. At the end of the show we return to the first story to reveal how it's done.

    So, like, we could do an episode on perception. We'd start by going out to one of the so-called "gravity hills" and letting your car roll "uphill". Then we're like "Can you figure out how we made Gold's car defy gravity? We'll tell you at the end of the show."

    We then present several little segments on perception, including one on the Ames Room. At the end of the show, we're like "So, did you figure out how we made Gold's car roll uphill at the top of the show? If you said magic--well, you kinda missed the point of this show. But if you said the car didn't roll uphill, you're right! You see, this road is actually angled downhill. But the way these trees and telephone poles are angled, it gives the illusion of being angled uphill! It's not camera tricks--it looks that way in real life, too! So because of your perception..."

    Like that.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Oh right.

    ...there should be a TV show devoted to the construction and demonstration of Rube Goldberg devices. They have ones devoted to blowing things up, why not Rube Goldberg devices?
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