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  1. [quote name='Indi'][FONT="Arial"][COLOR="Indigo"]Wiki to the rescue: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_tree#Flocking"][U]Flocking[/U][/URL] Also, just so you can see it for yourself, they look like this: [IMG]http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/5905/flocking.jpg[/IMG] For whatever reason, if that stuff is on it, then my allergies don't get clobbered.[/COLOR][/FONT][/QUOTE] [font=trebuchet ms]Okay, so that was about what I came up with. I just... didn't realise that anyone did it. Huh. [/font]
  2. [quote name='Indi'][FONT="Arial"][COLOR="Indigo"]Unfortunately, I'm allergic to a lot of greenery, including pine trees. At the same time, something about flocking a tree makes the point moot. So I can tolerate a flocked tree but not a regular green one. [/COLOR][/FONT][/QUOTE][font=trebuchet ms]I don't understand what you mean by "flocking." The definitions I know don't seem to have anything to do with trees.[/font]
  3. Know a fun [b]fact[/b]*? Share it with us! [size=1]I'll start: [b]Theodor Geisel (better known as Dr. Seuss) had more than one pseudonym.[/b] "Dr. Seuss" was used for stories that he both wrote [i]and[/i] illustrated, and "Theo LeSieg" (and in one instance, "Rosetta Stone") was (were) used for stories that he wrote but did not illustrate. (Like [i]In A People House[/i] and [i][url=http://www.amazon.com/Please-Remember-First-Octember-Beginner/dp/0394835638]Please Try to Remember the First of Octember[/url][/i].) *People who post misinformation will be mercilessly mocked.[/size]
  4. [quote name='Cloud Strife']Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Hey, if you don't like this show, then you have no real since of humor. :D[/QUOTE][font=trebuchet ms]Fortunately for me, my [i]sense[/i] of humor remains unaffected.[/font]
  5. [quote name='Miss Anonymous']... well, I have two out of three of those symptoms (minus the hair growth... I think). Now I'm all paranoid.[/QUOTE][font=trebuchet ms]Well, that sounds like a pretty normal part of being a young adult, so I wouldn't worry too much. Of course, you could also have [url=http://symptoms.wrongdiagnosis.com/cosymptoms/acne/menstrual-irregularities-all.htm][b]menopause, Type II Diabetes, pregnancy, stress, or adrenal cancer.[/b][/url] [Warning: If you aren't already, this site will make you a raging hypochondriac.] But you're probably okay. [/font]
  6. [quote name='Citric']my dad and I are allergic to trees [/QUOTE][font=trebuchet ms]That sounds like the worst. [/font]
  7. [quote name='Gavin'][SIZE="1"]Because male geeks are apparently considerably less attractive (and far more numerous) than their female counterparts thereby forcing us to adopt a more normal outer appearance to attract women. It's not really hiding it, just keeping it in reserve until we're certain they're comfortable with whatever level of geekiness we possess.[/SIZE][/QUOTE][font=trebuchet ms]If someone is only attracted to you when you [strike]hide[/strike] "put in reserve" your interests, do you really [i]want[/i] to attract them? It seems like you're just inconveniencing yourself, and the other person. If she won't date a Star Wars nut, wouldn't you both rather know that beforehand?[/font]
  8. [quote name='Nerdsy'][color=deeppink]That reminds me, its December. It's almost time for the Lich to visit and coat everything in ice while simultaneously robbing everyone in town of electricity for a week. Oh boy![/color][/QUOTE][font=trebuchet ms]I'm trying really hard to decipher this, but I just can't.[/font]
  9. [quote name='Aaryanna's article']During questioning, the woman reportedly told police that her boss had been booked on the flight to Honduras, but she had caused him to be late for the flight. She thought the bomb threat would give her boss time to make it.[/quote][font=trebuchet ms]Man, [i]so[/i] not worth it.[/font]
  10. [font=trebuchet ms]As long as there are blankets, kids will make blanket forts. I wouldn't worry about it too much.[/font]
  11. [quote name='Korey'][FONT="Franklin Gothic Medium"][SIZE="1"][COLOR="Navy"]Or we could take things with a grain of salt. Just sayin' :animesmil[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/QUOTE][font=trebuchet ms]It's not the statement itself, which I acknowledge was made in jest. It's about the underlying sentiment behind the joke, which brands women as a different, impossible-to-understand [i]other[/i] instead of, you know, normal human beings.[/font]
  12. [font=trebuchet ms]What's with all the "I'm a geek, but I try to look normal" replies? Being geeky is just about having passion for something. Your interests make you who you are. Why would you go to lengths to hide that? This sounds like the start of a bad romantic comedy.[/font]
  13. [quote name='Rachmaninoff'][FONT="Trebuchet MS"]Writing up assignments I prefer to use the computer, but for some reason whenever I'm working on a score I prefer to write that out by hand instead of using the software I have for it. I end up later transferring it to the computer but I still prefer to do the initial work on paper. [/FONT][/QUOTE][font=trebuchet ms]Writing on paper is good for working out the kinks in a lot of things, I think. I do a lot of circling paragraphs and moving them around and adding/deleting stuff on paper. It's useful to have everything laid out before I start to type, because then I can do the fine-tuning as I go. By contrast, works that start on the computer are frequently more choppy. It's easy to move stuff around, but it seems to take much more effort to get the transitions to feel right, since there's no set point at which I retype the whole thing.[/font]
  14. [quote name='Gavin'][SIZE=1]With women, you never know.[/SIZE][/QUOTE][font=trebuchet ms]Oh man, girls are so mysterious and they never make sense, am I right? Sexism is super funny![/font]
  15. [quote name='mangamaniack21']we just made a lot of pasta today...I came home with a large bag after failed attempts to give it to people (XDD, it was good! but now we have enough for dinner again XDD)[/QUOTE][font=trebuchet ms]Wait, did you make pasta from scratch and try to give that away, or did you boil up some water and try to get people to take home soggy noodles? Because the first is kind of cool, but the second seems more likely (and I can't blame people for turning it down).[/font]
  16. [font=trebuchet ms]Is this something people are interested in doing?[/font]
  17. [font=trebuchet ms]I think part of the "quiet" feeling (at least in the lounge) is due to PRP, because people who feel like chatting about something simply post there instead of starting a new thread. It means fewer threads in the lounge, and conversations in PRP frequently get lost and forgotten. [quote name='takoyuki']How do you propose we market it? Just tell our friends?[/QUOTE]I've actually been thinking about this a bit, and I have a couple ideas, if others are interested in helping. How would people here feel about orchestrating some kind of "membership drive"? My thought process is basically this: activity on this board goes through phases. It kind of always has. (When there's less going on, people come by less frequently and post less often, leading to even lower levels of activity. It works the other way around, too.) But right now, it seem that the "high activity" levels are hovering around what "low activity" has been in the past. I think it would be neat to have a week-long event where we (and by "we" I mean "people who have the ability to do such things") advertise the site on theOtaku and elsewhere. I know there's a link on the main page of theO, but it's not very prominent, and I think very few people have a reason to check it out. (Why make a new account for a separate site when you're having fun on the main one, where people already know who you are?) In order to entice people to actually join and participate, we'd have a bunch of new threads/events?ones that play to the strengths of the forum format (rather than the "world" or "art database" format. I'm thinking things similar to "Draw my character!" or 55fiction, which have both been really successful in the past (there are other examples, but those are the ones that come to mind for me, because they're the ones with which I'm most familiar). Maybe someone would be willing to cook up an "entry level" RPG?something that's interesting, but easily accessible to people who are new to the boards and the RPG format that's common here. If we could get a small blurb on the main page ("Check out OtakuBoards' special Welcome Week Event! Sign up! Be famous! [i]Win fabulous prizes![/i]") or a couple of prominent Worlds to point people this direction, I think we'd get a fair amount of new blood interested in the site. Maybe the leader of the OB Facebook group could send out a message encouraging old memebers people to stop by as well. I think it could be a lot of fun for everyone involved.[/font]
  18. [quote name='Nomurah!'][SIZE="1"][COLOR="hotPink"]Apparently [B]Jason Earls[/B] from the hit show Hannah Montannah, [I]is[/I] in fact not a teenager. ...he's like 30. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/QUOTE][font=trebuchet ms]I'm not familiar with this person, so I looked him up to see how on earth a person could mistake a thirty-year old for a teenager (or the other way around). There are [url=http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&um=1&ei=TmIBS7bkG8KylAetutC2Cw&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=1&q=jason+earles&spell=1&start=0][b]some pictures[/b] (link)[/url] where I can kind of see it, and some where I'm convinced he's twelve. It cracks me up that there's [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Earles#Birth_date_controversy][b]controversy[/b] (link)[/url] about it.[/font]
  19. [quote name='Nerdsy'][color=deeppink]I am also totally the best at pissing people off by being better than them at things that are entirely inconsequential. Like guitar peripheral-based video games and [b]knowing the difference between "fewer" and "less."[/b][/color][/QUOTE][font=trebuchet ms]Dude, I kick [i]***[/i] at that. Seriously, there's no one better.[/font]
  20. [quote name='Trigun 11'][COLOR="DarkRed"][SIZE="1"] You have to admit, more youth are using digital books (via Kindle, iTouch/Phone, online) during these times. It's irritating, but it's life.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/QUOTE][font=trebuchet ms]Really? I haven't talked to anyone who prefers to read long passages in anything but hard copy. At my university it was not uncommon for people to print off their own copies of online reading materials. [/font]
  21. [font=trebuchet ms]Let's get this straight. This thread isn't about things you are [i]pretty good[/i] at. It's not about thing that you [i]like[/i]. This thread is about superlatives. Of all the people you know, at what activity are you The Best? For example! [b]Of all the people I know, I am [i]The Best[/i] at sneezing.[/b] [center][img]http://www.sustainabilityninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/kleercut-kleenex.jpg[/img] [size=1]If this were actual Kleenex instead of ecological activism, it would add humorous emphasis to my claim[/size][/center] Most amateurs sneeze two, [i]maybe[/i] three times in a row. [b]I laugh at them[/b]. I usually sneeze ten to fifteen times in a row. Thirty sneezes in a row is [i]not uncommon[/i]. In my entire life (all twenty-odd years of existence!), there have only been [i]two instances[/i] in which I sneezed only once. I'm serious. I am The Best at sneezing. Also! [b]Of all the people I know, I am The Best at finding four-leaf clovers.[/b] [center][url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/cerasaragirl/4094888235/][img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2596/4094888235_27b02dd8f4.jpg[/img][/url] [size=1]That's a four-leafer from a [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trifolium_pratense]red clover[/url] plant, and it is huge[/size][/center] I am uncannily good at it. They just seem to pop out at me as I'm walking. This summer, I probably found about forty of them (and now they are pressed in books scattered throughout my apartment, and I cannot find all of them to get an exact count). Sometimes when I tell people that I've found a four-leaf clover, they don't believe me because [i]they don't think four-leaf clovers are real[/i]. But they are real, and they are everywhere, and I am The Best at finding them. What are you The Best at?[/font]
  22. [quote name='Gavin'][SIZE=1]I hate lemsips. I hate them almost as much as a cold which won't go away after 2 and a half months. [/SIZE][/QUOTE][font=trebuchet ms]On a related note, I love Halls honey-Filled Harvest Peach Naturals. They are pretty much the best cough drop ever invented. [img]http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/31/25/46/63/0031254663415_500X500.jpg[/img][/font]
  23. [quote name='Gavin'][SIZE=1]Truth be told I think it started out with us all just copying Sara, of course seeing as that was seven years ago I can't really be sure. [/SIZE][/QUOTE][font=trebuchet ms]My bad. I can stop.[/font]
  24. [quote name='taperson'][SIZE="1"][COLOR="RoyalBlue"]Oh lol, & the TV just told me that my birth control pills might be killing me. Neat.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/QUOTE][size=1]One of my friends recently wound up in the hospital with [url=http://www.emedicinehealth.com/pulmonary_embolism/article_em.htm][b]this[/b] (link)[/url]. It's rare in young people, but one possible cause (and why she had it) is birth control pills. Just be aware of your body.[/size]
  25. [size=1]Well, I used the recipe I linked above and tried to make mayonnaise today. I was a little clumsy in the kitchen and made a big mess, but the stuff turned out pretty good. I would probably cut down the amount of vinegar I use next time, and I'm all out of olive oil now, but it was good experience. Now I have mayo for my sandwiches! I'm pretty pleased with it.[/size]
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