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
    ...It's after 8 AM now. My father is in bed and everyone else is at work and school.

    And I feel ready to fall asleep at any momnet.
  • edited 2011-12-12 08:06:43
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I laughed at that. I like singing the 2003 StudioCanal jingle frequently. (Yes, 2003. I fixed the date on CLG Wiki, even!)

    And that logo looks cooler in black-and-white than it does in color, though the original color version is loopier. That music is loopiness incarnate.

    ^I don't.
  • 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
    Ok, the headache has come. Which probably means it's time for me to give up and just go to bed.

    The past couple hours have been a LOT of fun, though. Good night.
  • 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
    really?
  • i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind
    Where can I get that font.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    From your computer.
  • i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind
    My computer does not come with that font.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I thought it was a default system one.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    My computer does not have it either.
  • 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
    Not on Microsoft Windows, I don't think.

    I think I got it with one of the Corel demos I installed months back, when I was first experimenting with road sign drawings.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ...god, I'm tired.
  • 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'm drinking soda.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I'm not.

    And I'm listening to Sonic music!
  • 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 associate "In A Big Country" with February-March now.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Sometimes I want to share the games' music with you, but I think you stopped caring about the franchise after Sonic Adventure 2.

    ...do you wanna know what happened to the truck from City Escape in Sonic Generations?
  • 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
    Was it a cool truck?
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Yeah.

    [It has saws and rocket boosters and chases Sonic along the side of a building. Like before, it still crashes, though. And its music now has a bit of Green Forest's in 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
    My mind has leaped to the Pizza Planet truck and Pixar's tendency to include it in all their feature-length films.
  • edited 2011-12-13 02:48:49
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    There's several I don't think I've noticed it in.

    You know what's weird? Buzz's batteries in Toy Story 3 were made/sold by Buy-N-Large.
  • 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
    Fuck, I still need to watch that movie. It's sitting tin the bottom of my DVR.

    Also I always liked the inclusion of a "Binford" toolbox in the first Toy Story.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Double reference: Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear, and Home Improvement being a product of Disney division Touchstone Television. Eventual triple reference, to not-long-in-the-future corporate cousin ABC.
  • 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 never picked up on the Touchstone Television thing, mainly because at the time I was too young to know who owned what.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I don't think you had the Internet then, and Touchstone is Disney's pseudonym. They purposefully play down their connection to the brand, even though everybody knows it's them. (Also, at the time, Touchstone Television was nothing more than a brand; it would become a full-fledged entity around 2000.)
  • 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 don't even think my family had a computer back then.

    The first computer I remember using was my mother's work computer, around 1996 or so. She worked from home at time the time, so her employer provided her with a computer system and a second phone line, so she could use the dial-up all day without tying up our phone line.

    And the company she worked for was an ISP, so we got free internet access for personal use, too.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    What OS did it run?
  • 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
    Initially, Microsoft Windows 3.1.

    After a few months the company let her upgrade to the then-new Windows 95, but they insisted that she download the installation files from their servers--and keep in mind, this was dial-up--because they didn't want her going out and buying the floppy disk set and charging it to an expense account.
  • 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
    Let's break into Reality Headquarters and steal all their candy
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Reality Headquarters?

    Where is that?
  • 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
    123 Fictional Street
    Anytown, USA
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    But why would Reality Headquarters be there?
  • 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
    Liberal pollution laws.
  • 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 was still here when I visited the mall in 2009, mere days before the mall's closing. By then the Macy's that was once the Kaufmann's was already long gone.

    Note also the poorly-placed apostrophe.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I like seeing remnants of signage/such.
  • 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 do too.

    In this case, I think the fact that so much Kafumann's signage was left behind indicates that Federated knew damn well that City Center was a lost cause. (And indeed, the store only operated as Macy's for a bit over a year before shutting down.)
  • edited 2011-12-13 04:39:42
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ...Wikipedia says that the mall was once under common ownership with Colorado Mills and later the Town Center at Aurora!

    (Simon Property Group continues to own both of them, having bought Columbus City Center and Colorado Mills from the Mills Corporation.)
  • edited 2011-12-13 04:49:00
    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 remember when the City of Columbus tried to evict Simon from their lease on the property; I think in the end the city just ended up buying it outright.

    One of Columbus City Center's more memorable features, to me, was a big enclosed bridge across High Street that connected with the existing Lazarus flagship store.

    After Lazarus closed, the bridge remained open, but with the entrance to the store walled off, so it was basically a hallway leading to nothing. This was the case for a few years until the renovation/restoration of the old Lazarus building started, and the bridge was demolished.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I wish they could have saved the mall.
  • 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 do too.

    And you know what's crazy? It had only been open since 1989! Less than 20 years from open to close.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I wonder how long the Aurora Mall's been around.
  • 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
    According to Wikipedia it opened in 1974 and 1975.

    ...Weirdly, three of the four big remaining malls in the Columbus area are fairly recent. Eastland Mall dates to the '70s, but The Mall at Tuttle Crossing and Easton Town Center opened in the '90s and Polaris Fashion Place in 2001.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Only after that did I think to look for its Wikipedia article.

    Also, the overhaul from Aurora Mall into the Town Center at Aurora had a rather nasty motive with it. Also, notice the Neutraface on the drawing of the mall's prospective new exterior.
  • 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
    You know what's sad? The part that surprises me isn't that they wanted to get rid of black shoppers, but that the leasing agent openly stated that they wanted to get rid of black shoppers.
  • edited 2011-12-13 05:21:17
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I don't understand what's so problematic about people of any race shopping at their mall.

    And I downloaded Sonic Generations's OST (which doesn't include the hub music and I wish it did). I notice that its version of "The Mad Convoy Race" (which is now called "City Escape (GUN Truck)") is barely touched from the original.
  • 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'm not saying I agree with the racist stance, just that it's unfortunately common.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I wasn't trying to hint that you did.
  • 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 know, but I thought I should make that clear, seeing as how this is a publicly-viewable forum and all.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Well then.

    ...ugh, I should be in bed and here I am listening to Sonic Generations music. Even in the game itself its version of Unleashed's Egg Dragoon music underwhelmed me.
  • 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
    And now I'm reminded of the Today show.

    Goddammit, I'm wondering if NBC will can Days of our Lives as soon as they can (next year).
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