Fight Club Pub.

Originally posted by Tuning Spork
... we don't yet have the facility to run the engine of commerce on unicorns and renewable rainbows.

Well I don't know about that!

reply to post by schrodingers dog


There, now we can see that pretty avatar


- Carrot

Sdog, that is more disturbing than the eyeball!

So trying to get back to serious business ...

It looks to me that all the Round 1 debates are done.

Ian is through on a forfeit, so is Maxmars though he's having a no points challenge match, and so is Skeptic1.

The only debate that needs a decision to be made on is I guess The Vagabond vs Tuning Spork.

Well done boys and girls, it was an outstanding round.







[edit on 24 Feb 2009 by schrodingers dog]

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The Vagabond and I aren't done yet. He has one more reply and then our closing arguments.

I haven't caught him online in quite a while. His member page shows that he's been on ATS today, the 24th, but it said that almost 24 hours ago. I hope all is well with him. It doesn't seem like Vag to miss a debate post deadline.

reply to post by Tuning Spork


I agree, it is worrying.

I hope he's ok and posts before his next deadline.

The Vagabond has posted. Woo hoo! We're almost done.

reply to post by Tuning Spork


Sweet, and then that famous period between when the round ends and the results are in.

It's gonna be interesting in da club the next few days with folks losing their minds, anxiety disorders exposed, general crankiness, accusations hurled, significant hair loss, paranoia, random muttering.

And that's just Heike.

reply to post by schrodingers dog


Funny...my time will generally be anxiety free...

reply to post by Tuning Spork


Yeah guys, I'm sorry about missing a post in a debate that started late to begin with.

My brothers and I were all working for our union's political action committee yesterday, which went late, and afterwards we all decided to get intoxicated. Unfortunately I had forgotten to check the time stamp on my opponents previous post, so I didn't realize how little time I would have to sober up and put together a post when I got home.

I'd like to acknowledge Tuning Spork for his sportsmanship in pressing the debate forward without milking the advantage by the way. In both the spirit and the letter of the rules he would have been within his rights to bury me in more new sources and socratic questions than could be responded to in one post, but not exercising that right seems very confident and very classy.

Oh, forgot to mention, we decided to get intoxicated because the union is considering making one of my brothers an organizer and the other one a business agent. So oddly enough my disappearance was the product of good news.

Originally posted by The Vagabond
In both the spirit and the letter of the rules he would have been within his rights to bury me in more new sources and socratic questions than could be responded to in one post,

Believe me, I was tempted. But that kind of effort would have seriously cut into my layin'-around time.

Originally posted by Heike
Not me, obviously. I was busy googling for chicken dogs.

This may be the most sensible political action to take at this juncture in history.

Welcome back Vag! Glad you're okay

And I think SDog's right about the next few days in here. I'm already wondering how long it'll take the judges to make some decisions

reply to post by Ian McLean


thanks ian for the linkt to the vlc player!

usually i prefer quicktime but it doesn.t work for all media



good morning pub



how many times did schro dog changed his avy tonight?

reply to post by schrodingers dog




nice description of the situatuon honey

i dont feel anxiety disorders and all that stuff i just feel bored.


geee non of you guys told me before that i would feel that bored between debates, that it is so adictive and that i can.t stop


i need to go to AF - Anonymous Fighters

WCB vagabond, congrats to your brother


morning dingbat

reply to post by orange-light


Good morning Orange

It's terrible, isn't it? I dragged myself through my last two posts in the Round One debate, finished up not even 24 hours ago, and I'm already jonesing for the next one

Doopeydoopeydoo....

Are there enough of us present to have a silly bandwidth-draining chat-like conversation at our hosts' expense?

To wit: I read the fascinating OneMan24 vs. TruthWithin "penny debate" earlier and I'm wondering if we wanna play judge and jury on that one. Or any others. Or on anything else.

reply to post by Tuning Spork


I think we're not really supposed to play judge and jury until the real judges get a chance to do so. We could probably dissect one of the forfeited matches though, I don't see any harm there.

I'm up for a good bandwidth-draining conversation. I haven't had my coffee yet though, so don't expect much sense out of me.

reply to post by americandingbat


indeed honey


when i am in the middle of a debate i think to myself "what the heck am i doing"
as soon as it is over: "i want more"


we are doomed.

reply to post by Tuning Spork


how much people do you need

1 2 3 many
thats hwat i see when i turn my head


can you cope with 2 girls spork?



edit. spelling

edit:
and i second dingbat.s thoughts in this matter!
dont let us anticipate the judge. s decisions

we could also talk about older debates


[edit on Wed February 25 2009 by orange-light]

[edit on Wed February 25 2009 by orange-light]

Aw, sense shmense.

I posted earlier, in the Board Business forum, about a strange quasi-pornographic ad in the sidebar that -- in addition to it's lewd streaming visual -- included a rather annoyingly repetitive audio file.

I saw, afterward, that you'd already raised an issue with that ad. If my chronic refreshing is any indication, that particular ad seems to have been taken out of rotation.