POSTS OF THE MONTH
Stardate: 111971:5281 - Gandolf: Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, which gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
Stardate: 111973:3981 - Aqueous: Husbands are awkward things to deal with
Stardate: 111973:4091 - Aqueous: even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender ---Mary Bockley---
Stardate: 111979:0698 - Aqueous: You don't drown by falling into water, You drown by staying there ---Edwin Lowes Cole---
Stardate: 112001:7311 - Gandolf: Esplanade: v., to attempt an explanation while drunk.
Stardate: 112007:2461 - Gandolf: It's not hard to meet expenses--they're everywhere.
Stardate: 112013:7639 - Freya: The days of the digital watch are numbered.
Stardate: 112022:4292 - Freya: Into every life some rain must fall. Usually when your car windows are down.
Stardate: 112023:0441 - Hazed: The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you can fake anything. - Groucho Marx
Stardate: 112041:0950 - Freya: An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. - Voltaire
Stardate: 112082:6060 - Hazed: Why did the chicken cross the mobius strip? To get to the same side.
Stardate: 112087:9806 - Buddy: Hurricanes are hereby and forever more banned!....Go away, Dennis (the storm, not any individual who may coincidently be named Dennis who happens to play the game or is a friend, acquaintence, family member, pet, etc., of a player)...shoo! Out, cursed storm!
Stardate: 112121:0235 - Art: Elvis Lives! With JFK, in Vegas. Right next door to Big Foot and the Area 51 Aliens!
Stardate: 112121:9529 - Furgas: hey i do not live next door to elvis,jkf and bigfoot
Stardate: 112127:8478 - Freya: That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent. -- Aldous Huxley
Stardate: 112128:6012 - Gandolf: Who notice agree, spread. Machine by sky you piece second big. It, reach all forest. Govern burn nothing. Port unit against dance direct mind, moon. Again, class will. -- Recent Spam
Stardate: 112134:5607 - Hazed: Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy - Orson Welles
Stardate: 112136:7473 - Paul: One of these day's I'm gonna have to sue this Schrodinger fellow to get back all of my stuff that keeps getting stored in his warehouse!
Stardate: 112144:1887 - Freya: Things are only impossible until they're not.
Stardate: 112169:7128 - Freya: The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. -- J. Paul Getty
Stardate: 112180:2679 - Freya: When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. -- Oscar Wilde
Stardate: 112180:9891 - Joseph: Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. --Woody Allen--
Stardate: 112197:1447 - Aqueous: If you are not part of the solution,you'r part of the precipitate. ---Steven Wright---
Stardate: 112198:3755 - Joseph: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. --Arthur C. Clarke--
Stardate: 112203:9758 - Freya: I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. -- George Bernard Shaw
Stardate: 112205:5191 - Aqueous: I am an optimist,but i'm an optimist who carries a raincoat. ---Harold Wilson---
Stardate: 112208:4814 - Squeeky: The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is "lunch." -- Michael Friedman
Stardate: 112212:3440 - Nomad: Factories and Depots falling down, falling down, falling down, Factories and Depots falling down, My shareholders are going to Rebel
Stardate: 112212:4429 - Hazed: Only a mediocre person is always at his best - Sometset Maugham
Stardate: 112220:8654 - Aqueous: Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy days that they arn't enjoying todays sunshine. ---William Feather---
Stardate: 112221:3020 - Djentsch: I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.---Charles de Gaulle
Stardate: 112223:0637 - Phlux: It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. - Winston Churchill
Stardate: 112226:1892 - Art: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
Stardate: 112233:3640 - Aqueous: Like swift water, an active mind never stagnates.
Stardate: 112233:7288 - Freya: In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is strength, in water there is bacteria. - David Auerbach
Stardate: 112238:0132 - Aqueous: God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done
Stardate: 112238:0412 - Hazed: I'm not lazy - I am energetically challenged.
Stardate: 112239:2009 - Freya: I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with computers.
Stardate: 112239:7228 - Djentsch: now THAT is something that I agree with. lets take the ones from the people who don't know how to use them first and go from there
Stardate: 112249:3302 - Stalin: CEOs, don't worry about market factors or business decisions, just hang out in bars and drink ale all day long...
Stardate: 112249:7895 - Arlene: This from a Stalinist. ;)
Stardate: 112250:2885 - Art: Procrastinate Now!
Stardate: 112250:6169 - Paul: Why procrastinate now when you can do it later?
Stardate: 112251:6051 - Buddy: I'll post a reply later
Stardate: 112255:4684 - Art: If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.
MOODS OF THE MONTH
Wearing a Pink Floyd hat, and a tshirt that says, "4 out of 5 voices in my head say go for it", Jessecka has just arrived.
Exploiting illiterates since 1997, an ASCII work of Art has just arrived.
Happy as a pig in slop to be out of the futures market, Moriarty has left.
to be a futures master you must unlearn what you have learned... Robius has just arrived.
This space for rent. Necrose has just arrived.
Lunatic's Anonymous, that's where he belongs Gandolf is here.
A sparkly li'l work of Art is here.
moodless in a moody world Bourbon is here.
Look out, stand aside, his Royal Highness Sleeperagent is coming through, Necrose has just arrived.
Don't panic - the demi-goddess Hazed is here.
Your senses suddenly feel numbed before you notice that a Dork has just arrived.
ploting the worlds destruction Furgas has just arrived.
let's see, is it buy high, sell low, or buy low, give away to the poor,,,, Redone has just arrived.
A little less conversation, a little more action, Moriarty has left.
Living in the land of the lounge lizards.... Robius is here.
Quivering in fear of Trader, but knows she has to do it anyway, Angelfowl has just arrived.
If I'd known then what I know now, I'd still be a merchie... Robius is here.
Humming the Um-Pah song and munching on a gobstopper, Jessecka is here.
Hacking up hairballs on your shoes, Catspaws is here.
Been there, done that, and not remembering most of it, Brookerf has left.
Flinging poo like a monkey in a zoo, Moriarty has left.
Darth Vader disguised as Hazed is here.
A silicon imposter of Freya is here.
Claiming to be the Half-Blood Prince, Buddy is here.
looking for a good itch Scratch has left.
Back in the saddle and back on the sauce, Robius has just arrived.
My remote service only does a price check on Aisle 5, Robius has left.
Looking for a planet rich in catnip and mice, Catspaws is here.
Out of my mind. Back in five minutes. Art has just arrived.
With a yellow post it note on her back reading Kiss Me, Jessecka has arrived.
With a 225 ton contract in waffles (tasty waffles), Albansire is here.
I used to have a handle on life, but it broke. Art is here.
Not a complete idiot -- some parts are missing: Art has just arrived.
Patiently trying to teach AngelFowl some patience, Logical is here.
Often wrong, but never uncertain, Nightdroid is here.
Holding up a cardboard sign that reads, 'will work for nanos," Robius has left.
Dripping from head to toe in spackle Buddy has left.
(insert mood here) Boone has left.
Hoping not to go postal Adventurer Redrum has left.
With the best wishes of 97% of his shareholders, Elar has just arrived.
No, I'm not hungover. I always look like this... Robius has just arrived.
Humming the Jaws theme song as she tosses out all those factories that don't make cash, Jessecka has left.
Brushing up on my industrial espionage to prepare for manufacturer, Robius is here.
Splashing on the shallow end of the gene pool, Jessecka has left.
Wondering which light pole his stockholders will hang him from Furgas has left.
I look like I'm here, but I'm not really here, in any sense of the word.. Roselie is here.
MOOD OF THE FOURTH OF JULY
Waving a sparkler too close to your bay of explosives, Barnstorm is here.
QUESTIONABLE MOOD OF THE MONTH
Chasing airplanes, Gandolf is here.
Jessecka asks, "Ok, Gandolf's mood says he is chasing airplanes....is that like a dog chasing a car?"
Jessecka asks, "and wouldn't hurt if he actually caught one?"
Jessecka asks, "and what will he do with it when he does?"
THEFT OF THE MONTH
Dragging a leather chair he stole from the Lounge, Comrade Stalin has left.
Dragging the chair he stole from the lounge, back to the lounge, Comrade Stalin has just arrived.
QUOTES OF THE MONTH
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, "Every so often we clear out old, unused characters to free up space/free up names."
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Monodefuego, "sobbing:: Please don't delete me!"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, "Are you unused?"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Monodefuego, "Nobody uses the firemonkey!"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, "Then you'd better find yourself a user quick"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Monodefuego, "I'll let you use me, Hazed."
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, "Ok. I think I'll use you as a draft excluder."
Feeling so... used, Monodefuego has just arrived.
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Zappa, "hmmm...now only if I could locate my ship"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Sleeperagent, "just click you little beeper Zappa, then go towards the sound"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Albansire, "I've been pilfered by the taxman!"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Sleeperagent, "oh no !!!!!!"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Sleeperagent, "did he even find your secret stash?"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, "Nonsense. The taxman doesn't pilfer - he carries out his lawful duty in extracting the due amount owed to the Galactic Administration"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Sleeperagent, "looks up taxman in the Oxford English Dictionary ---- Pilfering,, to Pilfer, to steal from those poor Traders,,, see also, Pilfered."
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, "You seem to have your own personalized version of the dictionary that gives unique definitions"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Sleeperagent, "okay, you got me, i did change a 'few' of the definitions ;)"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hobbs, "lo all"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Ryuken, "Hobbs, I wouldn't travel to Venus, because your End is there"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, "Hi darlings"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Redone, "heyas Hazed"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Djentsch, "welcome back Bella"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Roger, "Hello, Demi-Goddess!"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Redone, "The Demi-Gods are gathering, i'm not sure if that's good news or bad news for us mortals. :::shakes with fear::"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, "It's ok, I'm too tired to be wrathful today"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Redone, "WHEW <<<<wipes forhead"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, "Not that I can speak for the others, of course..."
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Redone, "halts in mid-wipe"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, "but so long as you have done nothing to offend, you should be safe"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Redone, "opens up logs for the past 3 months, and starts counting,,,,,,"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Redone, "wonders if those 438 infractions against the rules means anything"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, "Only if you did them where somebody could see"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Redone, "ALRIGHT !!!! now i'm down to 437"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Freya, "Yes but I'm the one you have to worry about in that regard, Redone"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Redone, "darn, back up to 438"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Redone, "There !!! i've done my required 1 AK haul, now the rest of the day is mine !!!"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, "You'd better have a lie down, Redone, after all that hard work"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Redone, "fans self furiously"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Redone, "i think i've pulled a muscle <<<< puts his index finger in a sling"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Art, "Perhaps you'd better slow down."
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Screwtape, "the more incompetent people there are, the more job security you have"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Paul, "You know...forgetting to go down to the planet before you unload a full load of inputs to your depot a couple of times can sure take care of that groat surplus...and keep the tax man away"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Chelsia, "am sitting in an exchange.. watching the prices... are toxicmunchers like scrubbing bubbles? ;)"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Fedradio, "T,C&B intelligence report for Earth: Reports are coming in of an explosion in a musiks factory. Had to eliminate the competition..muhahahaha"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Rowan, "Murphy's Law - Hauling jobs will not appear for the planet you are on when the work board cycles."
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Preacher, "looks at his older brother:: Now we can rule the world."
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Brookerf, "Scary!!!"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Preach, "We MIGHT spare you, Brooke. ;)"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Brookerf, "Please, Preach!"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Preach, "Lol, I love when women beg. ;)"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Brookerf, "Always a first time, eh?"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Preach, "Hurmph."
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Killer, "I like my new rank **giggles**"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, " Congrats Killer"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, " Did you declare bankruptcy?"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Killer, "yes!"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Killer, "that's a good congrats **giggles**"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, " Then my hearty congratulations"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Redone, "wtg Killer, gonna try it again, uh :)"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Killer, "Working capital: 141,713ig. no factories or depots. I didn't stand a chance."
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Killer, "I think I'll make a company, let it decay, then declare bankruptcy every few days."
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Killer, "I'll try and try again!"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, " You could go for the record: largest number of bankruptcies"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Killer, "I think about that. can the game handle infinity?!"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Killer, "a killer in infinity bankruptcy rating."
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Ferreri, "you can't declare bankruptcy an infinte number of times"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Killer, "there is no harm in trying, is there?"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, " It's good to have an ambition"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Neo, "the only way for you to find out isto try"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Ferreri, "no, but it would take you a long long time to do it"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Ferreri, "do the math, what is 3 weeks times infinity?"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Redone, "i wonder, how would you know if you've done an infinite number of bankruptcies?"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, " If it were possible to do one more then you would not have reached infinity"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Screwtape, "3 times infinity is still infinity. Just like 3 times 0 is still 0"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Ferreri, "I just checked my calendar, an infinite number of weeks is a long time"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Killer, "so an infinite number of days is even longer?"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Neo, "there is no infinite"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Neo, "you always have a bigger number"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Ferreri, "even a google-plex number of weeks is a long time"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Screwtape, "but that number sequence never ends. That's what makes it infinite"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Ferreri, "Killer will be Indy forever"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Killer, "an infinite indy!"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Ferreri, "we still tech the Killer technique in Traders class"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Ferreri, "err... teach"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Killer, "I still don't know how futures work"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Ferreri, "I know, we teach... don't do this"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Killer, "my hit and miss method work and that was pure luck"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Ferreri, "try it and you might be an Indy forever"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Cup, "Ever wonder why the foam insulation has to be the outside layer of the Shuttle's fuel tank? I mean... If put the insulation on the outside of my house instead of in the walls, the wind would likely blow it off."
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Cup, "Maybe those boys at Nasa aren't rocket scientists after all ;)"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Gwarrior, "its to keep frost from forming on the exterior of the tank"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Cup, "And you couldn't put a layer of something else over it?"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Nightdroid, "Internal insulation has been done"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Gwarrior, "I have no idea"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Albansire, "Wouldn't it make it too heavy, if you threw a sheet of aluminium on it?"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Nightdroid, "They even stopped painting it to save weight"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Gwarrior, "its worked mostly fine for the last 20 years... I save leave it be"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Art, "So THAT'S why we don't get to paint our ships anymore!"
QUESTION OF THE MONTH
After visiting the Executive Washroom, where the hot tub is described thus:
Apart from the usual equipment to take care of bodily needs, the room contains a hot tub large enough to allow an entire quarzball team to bathe together, and a state-of-the-art anti-grav shower in which you can float while being sprayed with water from all directions.
Bourbon had a question.
Your comm unit signals a tight beam message from Bourbon, "what the heck is a quarzball team ?????"
> tell bourbon It's a team who play quarzball, of course
Your comm unit signals a tight beam message from Bourbon, "then, what the heck is quarzball ????? lol"
> tell bourbon It is the game that quarzball players play
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Bourbon, "that solved the puzzle Hazed,,,,,,,lol"
> com Glad to be of service, Bourbon
> tell bourbon Are you taking a dip in the hot tub?
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Bourbon, "not taking a dip before I know who has been or will be in here....lol"
INCORRECT COMMANDS OF THE MONTH
Stardate: 112015:7601 - Drogar: BOND
Stardate: 112015:7687 - Drogar: OOps! 'post bond' is NOT the right command to become merchant
Stardate: 112015:8798 - Darkangel: LOL, how many times has that happened now?
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Paul, "check price nanofabrics cube"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Paul, "um...sorry about that"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Cup, "I'll get right on it paul ;)"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Moriarty, "Buying at 955, Paul. :)"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Sleeperagent, "too bad i don't have any nanfab in stock"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Paul, "that's alright...I had 15 bays of the stuff taking up room in my depot"
PROTECTIVE CLOTHING OF THE MONTH
Federation II will be closing down for a short while in five minutes time.
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Sleeperagent, "puts on his tinfoil covered helmet"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, "Does it help?"
[THE GAME RESETS]
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Sleeperagent, "woohoo, i'm still alive !!"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Sleeperagent, "so yes, it does help ;)"
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