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People can be funny regardles of origin, and altho some american comedians aren't all that great the american lame to cool ratio is about on par with the rest of the world.
Cept for southpark thats just braindamaged.
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Nosebiter wrote: Codex Space Marine is renamed as Codex Counts As Because I Dont Like To Loose And Gw Hates My Army.
That's one opinion. I'd comment on a comedian from your neck of the woods... If I had ever head of one.
Well dutch comedians aren't like yours, it's called cabaret here, which is often more of a mix of stand up comedy and theatre. Hans Teeuwen is one that has done English shows but he is very NSFW and his kind of show probably wouldn't translate that well to an American crowd.
My top 2 non dutch are Billy Connolly and Eddie Izzard though.
A Hydroblender is a piece of equipment used in Rural Fire Fighting (Wild Fire or Bush Fire Fighting depending on where you are from) its mixes Soap with Water to decrease the surface tension of the water and basically make it wetter and more sticky. I'm a Rural Fire Officer in my day job.
"You smell dat? Do you smell dat? Napalm, son. Nofing else in da galaxy smells like dat. I love da smell of napalm in da morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' 'ummie body. Da smell, you know dat gasoline smell, da whole hill. Smelled like... victory."
Disposable Hero comes from the title of a Metallica song called "Disposable Heroes", which is about the futility and cruelty of war and generals treating their men like cannon fodder.
Interestingly, the name was not always my first choice. Once, when I registered for a forum, I chose the name "WeAreVenom", but my account got accidentaly vaporized due to a glitch of some sort, so I created the Disposable Hero account.
H.B.M.C wrote:
I mean just look at the recent bumbling acts of marketing childishness we've seen in just the past year! Iron Man 2. All the trailers, previews, interviews, Comi-Con panels, tie-ins with burger joints and whatnot. None of that should have happened. The real way to market a movie like Iron Man 2 is to not tell anyone you're making it until a week before its release and then BAM, you hit 'em with the movie. You get everyone to sign NDA's that are punishable by forfeiture of all the person's assets and/or the death penalty, you hire hitmen to kill journalists that sneak in to take photos, you threaten local towns with forced sterilisation should they blab that something's filming in their town, and then then you say nothing about the movie at all and, in fact, even go so far as to deny you're making it.
Avatar. Another great example. All that hype about it being the most expensive movie ever made, the genius of the special effects, and so on. James Cameron should have denied he ever intended to make a movie after Titanic and then zzzzzzzzaaaaaaappp, Avatar - Realease Date - 1 week from now!
That's the real way to market. None of this preview/trailer/hype bull gak. You say nothing, you deny everything, and you leave everyone guessing as to what the hell you're doing until you physically are no longer able to.
Think of just how much money Avatar and Iron Man 2 could have made if we'd never known they existed until they were already in theatres? Hundreds more. Possibly even hundreds of billions more. Why is GW the only one who gets this?
My username would have originally been Pisces.Iscariot (my old steam username) which was a Smashing Pumpkins b-side album but this name is from a NIN song (the opening track of The Downward Spiral). The lyrics are just freaking awesome.
'I take you where you want to go
I give you all you need to know
I drag you down I use you up
Mr. Self-destruct'
Kinda fits my dark, complex and strangely weird personality
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Kabal of the Void Dominator - now with more purple!
"And the moral of the story is: Appreciate what you've got, because basically, I'm fantastic."
I came up with ComputerGeek01 as an alternative to another screen name on a differant site that I have since lost access to, my reputation under this screen name fared much better so I've kept it on mostly all of the sites I go to on a regular basis and have registered it on some that I no longer go to at all. Lucky me it always seems avalible.
Basically it is to keep an identity online so that in the off chance that people recognize me from another forum they know who I am.
EDIT: LOL! I just googled my screenname and found it on one of those matchmaking sites!!!! This is hilarious as I've never had the attention span to go through any of these "matchmaking multipule choice tests"!
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Mine is my name, plus an old reference to an obsession with WW2 I had in middle school....I used it so all my friends would know it was me when I added them on IM.
"If everything on Earth were rational, nothing would ever happen."
~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
~Hanlon's Razor
I'm naturally a smart- and so whenever someone asks me my username I can reply Whatsit Tooya (for you idiots out there "what is it to you"). I also go by Nonya Byniss (None of your Business)
Whatsit Tooya wrote:I'm naturally a smart- and so whenever someone asks me my username I can reply Whatsit Tooya (for you idiots out there "what is it to you"). I also go by Nonya Byniss (None of your Business)
Got to love Sumdumgoy, too. (for those of you who don't know where this is from, watch the Last Dragon).
My username comes from my brother, actually. He made a Khorne Champion he named Slarg the Slaughterer, and his username has a 232 on it, so I became Slarg232
mine is from diablo 2... the archangel Tyreal. dunno why but i feel linked to him in some way
"Those that Dare impersonate the dead are judged to join their ranks!"- Alucard
6970 points of Preheresy Night Lords 7681 points Preheresy thousand sons 8230 points Preheresy Iron Warriors 3230 points Preheresy Death Guard 4940 points preheresy Dark Angels 4888 points preheresy Iron Hands 2030 points preheresy Blood Angels 2280 points preheresy space wolfs 1065 points preheresy white scars 3210 points preheresy sons of Horus 1660 points Grey Knights 628 points Sister of Battle 2960 points adeptus mechanicus 18650 points Titanicus legio Nex Caput capitis 5566 points Imperial Guard 5875 points Preheresy Emperor's Children 3735 points Preheresy World Eaters 1710 points Preheresy Word Bearers 2090 points preheresy Imperial Fists 1570 points preheresy Alpha Legion 4600 points necrons 1420 points prehersy Raven Guard 960 points prehersy Salamanders 6334 points Tau Empire 20942 points tyranids 8722 points eldar 3125 points dark eldar 10745 points Bearers of the Light 1415 points Preheresy Luna Wolves 8508 points Chaos
"They invade our space...and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds...and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And I will make them PAY for what they've done!"
I'm RAF, so my nickname was Maverick to my friends (Yes, that is a topgun reference). I play elysians, so I felt it was at least semi-appropriate haha.
Death From Above. Elysians T.I.D.
Prophecy foretells of a warlord who will destroy all opposition. He will make the websites run red with the pixels of the non-believers! If you support the pelvic thrusting movement, copy and paste this into your sig.
I was reading the paper a few weeks ago and there was this extremist right wing writer talking about how left wing agitators were attempting to discredit Dubya Bush and in alludiing to them being the same as Terrorists he called them Jihadniks. I thought that was the most hilarious term and I've been using it as my Email, gamertag and handle here ever since...
The worst part is that because it is my email address I've had to use it on Resumes a few times and also when doing my taxes...There's nothing funny about having to tell your Turkish accountant that your email address is Jihadnik!
4th company
The Screaming Beagles of Helicia V
Hive Fleet Jumanji
Deathskulls
Logan Grimnar's Great Company
"You smell dat? Do you smell dat? Napalm, son. Nofing else in da galaxy smells like dat. I love da smell of napalm in da morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' 'ummie body. Da smell, you know dat gasoline smell, da whole hill. Smelled like... victory." 
Kabal of the Void Dominator - now with more purple! 
707th Lubyan Aquila Banner Motor Rifle Regiment (6000 pts)
Battlefleet Tomania (2500 pts)
and so whenever someone asks me my username I can reply Whatsit Tooya (for you idiots out there "what is it to you"). I also go by Nonya Byniss (None of your Business) 
6970 points of Preheresy Night Lords
7681 points Preheresy thousand sons
8230 points Preheresy Iron Warriors 
3230 points Preheresy Death Guard 
4940 points preheresy Dark Angels 
4888 points preheresy Iron Hands 
2030 points preheresy Blood Angels 
1660 points Grey Knights 
628 points Sister of Battle 
2960 points adeptus mechanicus 
5566 points Imperial Guard 
5875 points Preheresy Emperor's Children 
2090 points preheresy Imperial Fists 
1570 points preheresy Alpha Legion 
4600 points necrons 
960 points prehersy Salamanders 
20942 points tyranids 
8722 points eldar 
8508 points Chaos
4th company
3k DA WEIRD ORKZES