Anybody else got stories of MUD-related words causing you misunderstandings?
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Cardy
Words that mean something totally different outside the MUD.
Words that mean something totally different outside the MUD.
Since today's a holiday, am at home watchin the telly. Turned on Game Show Network (they show old game shows all day), and an old Family Feud was on. The question was posed, "Name an item you get restrung", and the first thing I thought of was a sword. -__-
Anybody else got stories of MUD-related words causing you misunderstandings?
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Cardy
Anybody else got stories of MUD-related words causing you misunderstandings?
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Cardy
My friends and I used to frequent an italian restaurant near UCLA called Don Antonio's.
At one point, we had both rolled anti-paladins. We would buy prostitutes from the brothel, then order them to kill the baron's daughter. Being an anti, the guards would assist the prostitute and all hell would break loose. Four or five hours of this, and we'd be rewarded the band of aided flight, which used to be fly spell on finger.
Anyway, you can imagine a small group of us discussing how to perform this feat in a public place... "Just make the prostitute kill the daughter!"
A close second was when I met one of my college friends for lunch. I was with my wife, and he was with his girlfriend. We sat down, ordered, and then the first thing out of his mouth was "I killed the fairy dragon last night...." Oooooookkkkkk...
-Gnerbs
At one point, we had both rolled anti-paladins. We would buy prostitutes from the brothel, then order them to kill the baron's daughter. Being an anti, the guards would assist the prostitute and all hell would break loose. Four or five hours of this, and we'd be rewarded the band of aided flight, which used to be fly spell on finger.
Anyway, you can imagine a small group of us discussing how to perform this feat in a public place... "Just make the prostitute kill the daughter!"
A close second was when I met one of my college friends for lunch. I was with my wife, and he was with his girlfriend. We sat down, ordered, and then the first thing out of his mouth was "I killed the fairy dragon last night...." Oooooookkkkkk...
-Gnerbs
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Sarell:
<B>Every time the person at a fast food place says '3nj0y your meal'
I think they are about to get me spanked so whap them upside the head.</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
LOL
<B>Every time the person at a fast food place says '3nj0y your meal'
I think they are about to get me spanked so whap them upside the head.</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
LOL
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Yayaril:
<B>I like to get my burger 'twinked out' with the works. Sometimes when I'm really hungry, I'll get the entire meal 'powerleveled'.
Yayaril</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
hehe i love you Yaya!
<B>I like to get my burger 'twinked out' with the works. Sometimes when I'm really hungry, I'll get the entire meal 'powerleveled'.
Yayaril</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
hehe i love you Yaya!I was waiting for a jot group to get together one day and my friend asked me on aim what i was doing
I told her i was zoning
and she said 'Well stop staring off into space and come over.'
Another time in college, I asked my lab partner if she memmed the study sheet for the quiz I was wondering why she was looking at me so strangely and had to think back to what i said, hehe
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Jennie
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I told her i was zoning
and she said 'Well stop staring off into space and come over.'
Another time in college, I asked my lab partner if she memmed the study sheet for the quiz
I was wondering why she was looking at me so strangely and had to think back to what i said, hehe------------------
Jennie
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but every time i hear hd i think of chevy trucks heavy duty line, they ar labeled HD.
every time see a movie and someone gets killed i think about looting the corpse
and you should have seen the look my daughter gave me when i cheered ogre doorbash while we were watcing shrek
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every time see a movie and someone gets killed i think about looting the corpse
and you should have seen the look my daughter gave me when i cheered ogre doorbash while we were watcing shrek
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Baikalisan
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hehe good thread....
Saddest thing about it is that I have been workin with a group of ppl for long enough so that even tho none of them have ever even seen the mud...they all know what I am talking about....
Damn, I must be annoying
- da Dorf
PS- About a month and a half ago, while cleaning out the inside of a paint tank, I managed to stab myself in the knee....rather than do any of the standard responses to such an incident, I shouted out, 'Argh....Cleric!' Oddly enough by the time i had hobbled out of the tank...I found one of my coworkers standing there with bandages.
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Saddest thing about it is that I have been workin with a group of ppl for long enough so that even tho none of them have ever even seen the mud...they all know what I am talking about....
Damn, I must be annoying
- da Dorf
PS- About a month and a half ago, while cleaning out the inside of a paint tank, I managed to stab myself in the knee....rather than do any of the standard responses to such an incident, I shouted out, 'Argh....Cleric!' Oddly enough by the time i had hobbled out of the tank...I found one of my coworkers standing there with bandages.
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I had made myself a shopping list of things to buy at the store. Things like bread, shower gel, that type of thing.. the average list of misc. items. SO i went to the store and got everything on my list but the last item at the bottom of the page... it said:
TP
All i could think of was, WHY is turning point on my list? It didnt dawn on me until i got home that TP actually stood for toilet paper...
duh
Nitania
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TP
All i could think of was, WHY is turning point on my list? It didnt dawn on me until i got home that TP actually stood for toilet paper...
duh
Nitania
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My bro had a friend years ago who played a different mud he was playing VERY heavily and one night went out shopping with my bro and a couple other ppl and said, "I don't have enough gold in my satchel for that" and then, later that day they had wandered away from him so he tries catching up to them saying, "Group me guys! group me!" If you get to that point, please, stop playing muds
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Mishri }-Sentinel-{ Shades of Twilight
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Mishri }-Sentinel-{ Shades of Twilight
Quite a few of my friends play D&D. One time I was sitting there playing with them and we were talking about EverCrack.. and then started going into online games and such.. Told them all about Soj3.
Mentioned how my character Elisten, grey elf was married to Nilan, drow elf.
Heh, they all stared at me like I was crazy.
Now why is that so weird, I wonder!?
This other time at work, I was entering an application into the system and the customer lived in Cave City. It's amazing how references to this mud IRL amuse people (like us). I had a good chuckle.
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Anar caluva tielyanna.
- "The sun shall shine upon your path."
Mentioned how my character Elisten, grey elf was married to Nilan, drow elf.
Heh, they all stared at me like I was crazy.
Now why is that so weird, I wonder!?
This other time at work, I was entering an application into the system and the customer lived in Cave City. It's amazing how references to this mud IRL amuse people (like us). I had a good chuckle.
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Anar caluva tielyanna.
- "The sun shall shine upon your path."
I've said 'laugh out loud' a few times myself, luckily only around my gf, hehe. She say 'it's ok, i love you anyways', pats me on the head, and walks off laughing.
My biggest problems with this are chatting on aim, icq, whatever. When I go to tell someone something i almost Always start it with say, gsay, or tell. And that nervous habit of typing l. hehe.
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My biggest problems with this are chatting on aim, icq, whatever. When I go to tell someone something i almost Always start it with say, gsay, or tell. And that nervous habit of typing l. hehe.
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I say words like boggle, snicker, and snort all the time.
Mom says: Have you seen my brush?
Me says: Boggle, why would I know where your brush is, snort!
Mom says: Are you speaking english?
Me says: doh!
Hehehe
Friend says: I was trying to catch my dog and I fell...
Me says: Snicker.
Friend says: Did you just say sneaker?
Me says: Doh!
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Jennie
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Mom says: Have you seen my brush?
Me says: Boggle, why would I know where your brush is, snort!
Mom says: Are you speaking english?
Me says: doh!
Hehehe
Friend says: I was trying to catch my dog and I fell...
Me says: Snicker.
Friend says: Did you just say sneaker?
Me says: Doh!
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Jennie
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TP--- rofl Nit I feel your pain...
As for Boggle, I say it, and after my first explanation, everyone at work accepted it, and it is now used! I guess being one of the "people in the know" at a place has its advantages.
I always have to check myself when typing on Yahoo messenger/ICQ for starting a reply w/ either say, or gsay...
ROFL Mori!
Toplack
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As for Boggle, I say it, and after my first explanation, everyone at work accepted it, and it is now used! I guess being one of the "people in the know" at a place has its advantages.
I always have to check myself when typing on Yahoo messenger/ICQ for starting a reply w/ either say, or gsay...
ROFL Mori!
Toplack
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Iaiken Toransier
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Galkar:
<B>I've said 'laugh out loud' a few times myself, luckily only around my gf, hehe. She say 'it's ok, i love you anyways', pats me on the head, and walks off laughing.
My biggest problems with this are chatting on aim, icq, whatever. When I go to tell someone something i almost Always start it with say, gsay, or tell. And that nervous habit of typing l. hehe.
</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Scary times we live in... I had the EXACT same experience with my GF, also I found myself asking a russian exhange student "How she liked the XP in Canada?" she thought of Windows XP.
As for the GF, when I tell her that I am zoning she responds with. "You certainly are..."
Iaiken, Paladin of Torm.
ps: My PC's(Personal Computer NOT Player Character) HD (Hard-drive for god's sake!) is busted, so I am temporarily unable to mud.
pps: Bump!
<B>I've said 'laugh out loud' a few times myself, luckily only around my gf, hehe. She say 'it's ok, i love you anyways', pats me on the head, and walks off laughing.
My biggest problems with this are chatting on aim, icq, whatever. When I go to tell someone something i almost Always start it with say, gsay, or tell. And that nervous habit of typing l. hehe.
</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Scary times we live in... I had the EXACT same experience with my GF, also I found myself asking a russian exhange student "How she liked the XP in Canada?" she thought of Windows XP.
As for the GF, when I tell her that I am zoning she responds with. "You certainly are..."
Iaiken, Paladin of Torm.
ps: My PC's(Personal Computer NOT Player Character) HD (Hard-drive for god's sake!) is busted, so I am temporarily unable to mud.
pps: Bump!
Sigh for me it's getting even worse. I've gotta deal with everquest commands (which are exactly the same as sojourn except....a '/')
Sigh. What's worse is I'm really addicted to both toril and everquest so i gotta use eqw in two sessions while i have the mud running over them both.
So i end up asking for everquest buffs in my mud group and the exact opposite in everquest.
Example:
My 60 enchanter is in a group in everquest with my 50 monk. We're killin dragons in north temple of veeshawn. I gsay in mud, has everyone got crack?
My mud group goes....HUH?!?
/sigh
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[War 1] Gorkl Break Bones (Troll)
Zuurn tells you 'What Happened?'
You tell Zuurn 'Damn 3 year old found my mapper'
Sigh. What's worse is I'm really addicted to both toril and everquest so i gotta use eqw in two sessions while i have the mud running over them both.
So i end up asking for everquest buffs in my mud group and the exact opposite in everquest.
Example:
My 60 enchanter is in a group in everquest with my 50 monk. We're killin dragons in north temple of veeshawn. I gsay in mud, has everyone got crack?
My mud group goes....HUH?!?
/sigh
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[War 1] Gorkl Break Bones (Troll)
Zuurn tells you 'What Happened?'
You tell Zuurn 'Damn 3 year old found my mapper'
I have used boggle several times as well. I love nog. I use that occasionally, and luckily my friends are all mudders or at least know what we are talking about. I ised it on another BBS for megatokyo and was identified as a mudder. hehe
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Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
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Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
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Ilshadrial
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Once while driving I saw a semi. On the side of the truck in big red letters it said "The CR Team." My first thought was "Man there must have been a major roots spank again to need that kind of CR help!"
If only CR help did come in a semi. Would be nice to see about 40 people pile out of the truck ready to go!
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If only CR help did come in a semi. Would be nice to see about 40 people pile out of the truck ready to go!
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