posted 05-07-99 05:05 AM ET        

The one above that made it to the title of this message (congratulations Trip') is my favorite so far... exact same letters, same order, and it actually made sense. To learn more about it, put your anti-radiation suit on and go read the Uranium235-flame in the thread "AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH !!!!!"

Let's see how creative you can get. Give me some alterations on the name, and maybe an explanation or a silly story to go with it... Try to keep something of the original (letters, sound, whatever). The winner gets a brand new ACME Asbestos Jacket Mk4 !

posted 05-07-99 11:11 AM ET            

An what?

An example of three consonants put together in a list.

Yes, I believe they are MikeH well done. Are you bored?

Yes. That's why I'm posting in this thread, who are you?

I'm MikeH.

but I'm MikeH.

Yes, I'm afraid you are quite mad.

Oh dear, does that mean what I think it means?

Do you think it means you have to go and sit in the corner dribbling and being fed mind altering drugs?

Yes.

Well no then, actually you just have to write gibberish that no-one understands.

I'm doing that already!

Good.

posted 05-07-99 02:06 PM ET            

What this Swiss linguistics whiz has cleverly done is reverse the spelling and thus through an ancient Masonic rite as actually subverted the meaning into something slightly more sinsiter...

While trippin' in his drug induced enlightened state (or was that Trippin' when he sober?) came close to realizing when he stumbled upon A red H ran was not that our Swiss comrade has the mind of a 6 year old, no far from it.

As anyone who has regularly corresponded with this "nice, friendly, pleasant gentleman" can attest whenever one of his emails arrive at your computer a shiver will run down your spine and their is the disturbing scent of something slightly charred.

No, A red H ran is the paraphrase of "A red Hell ran across the Earth" this man is a demon I say! and he will slowly turn us all into is drooling servants. We must arise and stop him,(quick Nell turn him into a newt) we still have the chance before he completes his demonic scheme. Arise I say before A red H' runs across your world.

Goob

posted 05-10-99 12:48 PM ET            

It was about that Greenland born Danish woman, who could tell everything about snow and ice, and had to solve the enigma about a kid falling from a roof, starting from his footprints, and ended with an international x-files like plot.
Your snow-joke seemd like a nearly exact quote paraphrased from that book.

posted 05-10-99 02:25 PM ET            

I am a greenland born Danish woman, (that is what Gooby means in Icelandic...)

posted 05-11-99 04:02 AM ET            

And freely mixing and merging the several inspirations:

Snow A-white and the seven A-red Hrans

(of course Gaia is the stepmother. or was it Cinderella?)

MariOne

posted 05-11-99 07:42 AM ET            

GoobMeister gets it for the coolest story... Have you been inspired by Omen ? (my first name is Damien, for those who don't know) 666 The Number Of The Beast, MWAHAHAHAHA
(now you'll just have to roast in hell for uncovering my machiavelic plan, Goob )

and

JAMstillIS really deserves it for his excellent and highly creative limerick

Both of you will receive a brand new, fully tested Asbestos Jacket Mk4 shortly, through the mail. Let me know when you receive it .

Thanks to all for the good fun...

The red, Duran-Duran fan orang-outang who ran to Hell searching for the asbestos-piercing hot rod he lost on Alderaan

posted 05-11-99 10:43 AM ET            

I haven't checked but it does sound (Aredhran that is) faintly middle earthish. Is it?

posted 05-11-99 11:11 AM ET            

I'm a die-hard AD&D player and Aredhran is my favorite character, I'm still playing it (tonight's the night). He's a 9th level human ranger, started as a 0-level about 5-6 years ago. I could probably write a book with his adventures, but I just don't have the time...

And Goob, you're right it about the Middle-earth reference. But I don't think you'll find it anywhere in the books, I made it up (or at least I *think* I did ). I just tried to make it sound like the names of the heroes in Tolkien's Masterpiece.

posted 05-11-99 12:34 PM ET            

I don't remember anything about colored letters in Tolkien's works. And certainly if they were mentioned, there was nothing about their chosen mode of transport.

Yeah right. Next you'll be telling me that there was a Nazgul named Ablacknflew. Or an elf named Agreyefloated. Get real!

posted 05-11-99 12:43 PM ET            

Maybe the H is short for Hobbit, they were quite the runners... and one that was winded or drunk would be red in the face...

A Drunk Hobbit Ran naked through the trees?

Maybe now we have the real inside story on our good friend here.

posted 05-11-99 02:14 PM ET            

Gee, thanks. And, it's even my size. Actually, it's not a limerick, but who's gonna quibble. BTW, my apologies to Imran, but his name was the only thing that I could come up with to fit the construction I was going for. Notice the first letter and last three letters of each of the first two sentences (not lines) and that'll be clear.

Now, if people would send me pbem turns on a regular basis, I would have less time to flood the forums with bad poetry. Of course, that's assuming that my passwords work reliably.

posted 06-11-99 04:05 AM ET            

Aredhran

posted 06-25-99 08:53 AM ET            

Ran ran red H ran a red H ran
a red H ran ran ran ran a red H ran....

etc.

posted 06-25-99 09:39 AM ET            

JRR, you see, was a staunch Catholic, but not a fundamentalist, being quite prepared to accept pterodactyls and other vastly prehistoric creatures from long before man ever trod the earth. He was a capital-C Conservative, a Tory through and through, but who was sorrowed by the industrial revolution and its pollution, as he loved nature's green fields and forests. He was also a Don of great learning, but was horrified by insensitivity and cruelty.

So, Professor Tolkien was a Believer who eschewed Fundamentalism, a member of the University of Planet who rebelled against its bizarre and unbridled experimentation, a Green who was of the Orthodox political Right, a lover of economic freedom who was gravely concerned by Morgan's negative planet rating, an outspoken supporter of human rights who took issue with the complete lack of censorship and self-restraint espoused by Lal, a person who preferred harmony but could never bear Yang's authoritarian style, and an exponent of the right to defend oneself if push comes to shove but who would not have been comfortable with the Spartans' resort to arms as the first recourse.

I think that Tolkien would have to make his own faction. It would be presumptuous for me to suppose I could match his creative wits, but I suggest that his preferred faction would have a high planet rating, weak industry, moderate research (he didn't mind innovations such as tobacco, and fireworks for entertainment), low population limits, slow growth, and a preference for frontier government, green economy, vanilla values, and eudaimonia.

posted 06-25-99 08:30 PM ET            

A red H ran across the glaciers, blinded by the furious brightness, and swallowed by the expansive whiteness.

A red H ran down the mountain slopes, screaming to the gods, and sighing in the silence.

A red H ran.

A red H ran and ran while his name sake and creator sat watching in bemused quietness as he slowly and calmly drank another lager, and waited for the time he new was yet to come.