 Laughs in the Shadows, Jokes with a Shadowrun twist |
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 Jul 10 2006, 09:54 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 135 Joined: 8-November 05 From: Toronto, Ontario - Canada Member No.: 7,934  |
I want to know how you could possibly spin a mysterious explosion in one of your products as a good thing. Let alone one that kills the president of the UCAS, who happens to have had more mojo than half the planet combined. |
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Jul 10 2006, 10:32 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,066 Joined: 5-February 03 Member No.: 4,017 |
"Our cars are so tough that they had to resort to some freaky mage-nuke to take one out."
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Jul 10 2006, 09:38 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 295 Joined: 10-July 05 Member No.: 7,492 |
"If you're not a great dragon, I'm sure you'll be fine"
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Jul 10 2006, 09:50 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,556 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Seattle Member No.: 98 |
What, you haven't seen the car ad where the guy wearing the suicide vest accidentally detonates himself inside of it, and the car just fills with smoke?
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Jul 10 2006, 09:56 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
That wasn't a commercial it was an Al-Qaeda training video entitled "Can you tell what mistake Timmy made today?" The CIA found a copy and started circulating it under the new title "So you want to be a terrorist? Here's how."
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Jul 11 2006, 03:42 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 626 Joined: 1-March 04 Member No.: 6,112 |
If you're not joking, for the love of God give a link.
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Jul 11 2006, 11:17 AM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
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Mar 11 2007, 06:12 AM
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Cybernetic Blood Mage Group: Members Posts: 3,472 Joined: 11-March 06 From: Northeastern Wyoming Member No.: 8,361 |
*REZ BUMP*
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Mar 11 2007, 06:24 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
*slaps hand AGAIN for thread bumping without at least adding something*
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Mar 14 2007, 08:43 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 31-May 06 From: Greater Frankfurt Member No.: 8,628 |
Mr. Johnson: "Sir, would you be prepared to work for a dragon?"
Runner: *sigh* "If it Hestaby..." |
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Mar 14 2007, 03:01 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...my character's response would be to stand up, laugh hysterically put their Predator (loaded with EXEX) to their own temple and fire. Had too many experiences with this in the past. The question is not "are you prepared to work for a dragon?' it is more "you will work for a dragon." |
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Mar 14 2007, 03:09 PM
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Genuine Artificial Intelligence Group: Members Posts: 4,019 Joined: 12-June 03 Member No.: 4,715 |
...or "You have been working for a dragon, and it's already too late to back out." |
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Mar 14 2007, 04:05 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...even more appropriate. Cause for a lot of early "retirements". |
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Mar 16 2007, 06:29 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 26 Joined: 26-July 02 Member No.: 3,039 |
An observation along these lines came up on RPG net several months ago.
Permissive evidence for widespread mental deficency amongst shadowrunners A group of shadowrunners always has a plan A and a plan B for every job. Plan A is fantastically complex and involves research, stealth, specialized equipment and cracker-jack timing. Plan B is simple and involves lots of very large explosions Plan A never works. Plan B always works. The weird thing is that no one ever tries plan B without first failing plan A. |
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Mar 16 2007, 07:14 PM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
Ironically, the team I was running games for had this happen. Their motto "Plan B stands for 'Plan Boom", and eventually named their team Plan B. They were only called first where high collateral was required. Other than that, they were the team called in when another team failed and success was needed at any cost
Plan B:When you care enough to send the second best. |
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Mar 16 2007, 07:23 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
What was the makeup of the team, mostly sams/mercs/gunbunnies?
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Mar 16 2007, 07:44 PM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
One Human street sam, heavy on the cyber - Kempai
One Elf mage/face/part time decker - decent at a lot of things -Gemini One human magician's way adept that fancied himself a ninja - Stealthy adept w/ lots of combat back up and some magical ability - Lo Wang One human long arms specialist - McBane (honestly, he liked the Simpsons) One human hermetic - prefered fire based magic - Fizban, nuff said One human Weapons specialist - Hood One Elven Gunslinger adpet using auto pistols - Hobbs Is it any wonder? They had the skills and the brains to do it other ways. It was mostly that they had little problem with things devolving into a gun battle. They'd usually make it to the end of the run with most of the team is serious damage levels, average of two men down or about to be, and one buidling in bad condition. Luckily they moved around a lot. Needless to say they effectively retired and split up after the law started coming down on them hard. They had to deal with STAR SWAT raiding safe houses and bounties after a while. They were based in Seattle orignially. One moved to the Tir, two moved to the UK, one to Japan, one retired as a fixer in Seattle, you get the idea. But they had a hell of a rep (and some serious notoriety). |
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Mar 16 2007, 07:50 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
:rotfl: ~J |
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Mar 16 2007, 07:58 PM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
He apparently didn't know what it meant at first. We later bought him a flask with it engraved on it for his birthday.
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Mar 16 2007, 08:04 PM
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Genuine Artificial Intelligence Group: Members Posts: 4,019 Joined: 12-June 03 Member No.: 4,715 |
I don't know what it means, either. :-(
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Mar 16 2007, 08:07 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Either "extreme fatigue" or "offering a drink", roughly.
~J |
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Mar 16 2007, 08:08 PM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
He was a heavy drinker. As we understood it at the time, it was "drink up" or something to that effect.
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Mar 16 2007, 08:46 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
Very similar in pronounciation to the chinese toast of Gumbai(?) which roughly means empty cup, basically bottoms up or "over your head or bust your gut" (a chant from college days :-P)
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Mar 16 2007, 09:00 PM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
Gan bei. Literally translates to "dry [a/the/one's] cup"; means to empty one's glass, "bottoms up", etc. Kanpai is the Japanese equivalent. It is often misspelled as Kampai.
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Mar 16 2007, 09:43 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
It's not really "misspelled"—the pronunciation of that character varies between an n-sound and an m-sound based on where it is in a word and what the speaker's accent is like. It's not uncommon for it to have an m-sound when preceding a p-sound.
~J |
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