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Earthdate February 2004


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What was in February 2004's Fed Funnies:

POSTS OF THE MONTH
MOODS OF THE MONTH
QUOTES OF THE MONTH
ACTS OF THE MONTH
TYOP OF THE MONTH
REWARD OF THE MONTH
TRANSFORMATION OF THE MONTH
PURCHASE OF THE MONTH

POSTS OF THE MONTH

212942:617 - Halia: Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?

212942:672 - Wolfyn: The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

212944:612 - Kella: I once was lost... then the holy-rollers disturbed my peaceful slumber.

212945:663 - Mav: First!
212945:699 - Seaurchin: Bounces into second!
212945:728 - Xorith: *falls on third with a ++THUD++*... Oww...
212945:733 - Greyspacewolf: ::kicks it into fourth:: HOWLS!!!
212945:769 - Wilde: Slides it into 5th and crusies into the unknown....
212945:773 - Furgas: slow 6th
212945:784 - Wolfyn: And a rousing 0111. Boolean!

212946:550 - Wilde: Ooooo!! Yippie!! I get to smear the board in paint first!!
212946:585 - Halia: What poor person is tasked with cleaning the board? They remove all sorts of horrors in only about 10 minutes.
212946:650 - Wirebreak: They just use lots and lots of WD-40, the worlds best grease and paint remover.
212947:164 - Vlad: WD-40?....heck, I thought they used WHOOOSH!

212947:606 - Tis: The 2 most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity.

212948:572 - Art: "No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it." --Charles M. Schulz
212948:640 - Kella: You haven't met my parents, obviously... ;)

212948:699 - Wolfyn: If a man found a genie, and the genie granted him a wish, and the man wished that his wish would not be granted, than could the genie grant the wish?
212948:751 - Alfrescoe: No, the genie's head would explode

Stardate:1074904769 - Paladin: No wonder the Mars rover stopped transmitting..it must have rolled under the altar
Stardate:1074917228 - Vlad: Looks like the Martians finally caught up to the Spirit Rover, deciding it has seen enough and pulled the plug;)

Stardate:1074906444 - Freya: Don't hate yourself in the morning, sleep
till noon.

Stardate:1074960882 - Art: I wonder if I should start procrastinating yet?
Stardate:1074966001 - Piper: I'd wait til next week Art

Stardate:1075154243 - Zero: No folks, I'm not a bug in FedII's code. I'm a Randomly Generated Feature with Undefined Behavior. *nods*

Stardate:1075511101 - Freya: Good news is just life's way of keeping you off balance.

212951:725 - Xorith: Sheesh. So much dust. Will Omega Spacelines EVER be on-time? Further, when is Master-Trader Bury going to move his ship?!

212953:610 - Wirebreak: ::takes a look at the empty board and starts sticking little pieces of wire into it:: anyone want to try to write on it now?
212953:622 - Seaurchin: Oooo, a prickly board! :::hugs the board::: :)
212953:740 - Hogrider: The board got wired?? Well dang... it's ahead of me today :::works on gettin' wired::: ;)
212953:793 - Cameljoe: Hmmmm, what would happen if I touched this red wire and this black one.....Ouch!
212953:819 - Greyspacewolf: ::looks at the blinking Camel Joe sign on the board:: see what happens when you get your wires crossed?

Stardate: 107560:8532 - Ruylupez: Note to management: Armstrong Cuthbert offices need a new subscription to Interplanetary Geographic, the issues they have now are massively out of date.

Stardate: 107566:9686 - Zero: People say I'm wrong. I'm not. I'm just correctively challenged.

Stardate: 107569:5214 - Gearhead: invents a auto-dispensing tea hat for the stevedores:: Maybe that will keep 'em on the job.

Stardate: 107622:0763 - Gearhead: Have you ever wondered exactly WHAT they were skinning to get hides on Mercury?
Stardate: 107622:1358 - Bart: VLA members ;)

Stardate: 107626:6173 - Fortex: It's like Fed Changing Rooms around here, you leave for a century and they move everything around, change the drapes, paint the rooms some strange new colour and put that lovely mobile you love in storage.

Stardate: 107637:3136 - Fortex: Waiting for Godot Club: Daily from sunrise to sunset at Godot's on Earth. The unevent event!

Stardate: 107654:4341 - Tuk: Why do I feel like a pregnant hampster on the laboring wheel of life...

Stardate: 107668:2696 - Vlad: Be an organ donor, give her your heart for Valentines Day!

Stardate: 107668:6219 - Hazed: "If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried." - David Brent

Stardate: 107672:2467 - Fortex: My paranoia reminds me that I'm alive, my insecurity reminds me I'm human.

212963:635 - Hazed: "You stroll over to the empty notice board and admire the workmanship..." There appears to be an assumption that the board was created by a man... surely it should be "workoneship" or "workthingship".

212965:707 - Xorith: They say never judge a book by its cover. Well, why not? If the cover reads 'How to breed horses' do you THINK I'm actually going to read it *just* to be sure? I think I'll pass.

212966:612 - Maximuszan: ::notices an empty board and quickly scribbles his name, phone number and promise of a good time all over it:: Good Day Fed!

212966:715 - Xorith: When Programmers go mad: "I've got a FLOPPY DISK... and I KNOW HOW TO USE IT! *flicks the write-protect off* DON'T PUSH IT!"
212966:984 - Halcyon: Floppy disk? What's that? :::eyes Xorith suspiciously:::
212967:041 - Dangergirl: Isn't there medicine for that condition?

212968:166 - Wolfyn: For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

212968:616 - Cptmartin: 8:45 and the board is still blank? What's up with that?
212968:659 - Art: And then you had to go and ruin it by leaving a post...

212970:150 - Tis: The aliens were here, but they left.
212970:166 - Vlad: but not before I sampled their blood;)
212970:171 - Furgas: alien blood is not that great i stick to human

Stardate: 107693:7472 - Vlad: Insert witty remark here: it's monday morning and my brain is not yet functioning to produce any witty banter....
Stardate: 107694:1253 - Tuk: Witty on a Monday morning? You must be referring to someone that is either retired or of pre-school age...

Stardate: 107695:2679 - Freya: Compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Seen on the Fed II board on February 14:
Message of the Day: February 9, 2004:
Comm messages should no longer notify you if any of the players are busy.
Spynet Notices are now issued when a player dies. The means that FedTerm will remove them from the list of extant players.
Stardate: 107677:1129 - Hazed: At least with the Message of the Day, one is never faced with the sight of an empty notice board. I did get bored with admiring its workmanship!
Stardate: 107677:9809 - Paul: But if it is the Message of the Day shouldn't it change from day to day?

Message of the Day: February 21, 2004:
Ship buying has been changed so that you no longer get an option to buy a starter special if you aren't a groundhog. If any problems show up, please mail feedback@ibgames.com.
Stardate: 107750:0243 - Problem: Alright, I showed up. Should I mail feedback now?

212970:661 - Mav: First in Fed. Second to none.

212973:463 - Tis: Anyone who calls themselves well adjusted in such a sick world as this, is someone to be truly worried about.

212977:194 - Zero: People tell me that I'm in Sane. The heck. I don't even know where Sane is.

Stardate: 107790:4775 - Paul: I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message.

Stardate: 107792:3429 - Freya: Doppler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
Stardate: 107793:3881 - Ahal: That explains why politicians always speak quickly.

MOODS OF THE MONTH

Contain your excitement! Halia has just arrived.

You're not being moody enough! Prano has just disappeared.

Your favorite work of Art has just vanished.

Often in error, seldom in doubt Jazir has just arrived.

A walking Oxymoron, Xyli is here.

QUOTES OF THE MONTH

Your comm unit crackles with a message from Sallyme, "why is it when I see 'semiconductors.. I get a vision of a smurf leading a marching band? I really need to get out more... ugh "

Your comm unit crackles with a message from Sallyme, "Art.. here is another... nanofabrics bring to mind a frilly dress made from printed bananas ;)"

Your comm unit crackles with a message from Gwarrior, "hauling haul hauling, keep them ships a hauling, hauling hauling hauling, haul on!"

ACTS OF THE MONTH

Chewbacon has given Flair a firm kiss.
Vlad has visited the dentist to get implants put in so his dentures don't come out with those firm kisses

TYOP OF THE MONTH

Rokyu nosd
Rokyu says, "act nods"
"doh", says Rokyu.
Cruise says, "one more time rokyu"
Rokyu nods
Hazed says, "Third time lucky"
Rokyu ..and blushes

REWARD OF THE MONTH

Fancy smiles, "Well, I think I've explored all of the new solar system. :)"
Almandot gives fancy a cookie.

TRANSFORMATION OF THE MONTH

212969:585 - Art: Meddle not in the affairs of wizards, for <!> ...ribbit.
212969:695 - Seaurchin: Oh noooo! We've lost Art... Send out the frog team to find her... Quick!

It's not easy being green! Art is here.

>ex Art
Don't let the name fool you: She's a frog on a pedestal, and done right, it's ART! 3'9", green skin and a tongue that just won't quit! Ribbit!

PURCHASE OF THE MONTH

"I recently shredded some bills from AOL days --- my AOL bill was often $300 and up!", exclaims Boatkittenboa.
Fancy whistles.
"We had to pay $2.95 an hour"", says Boatkittenboa.
"Yep, I had a couple bills around that range", Mav says.
Boatkittenboa says, ""Some guys were paying a whole lot more -- I stayed at JP for 8 months and still was paying $300"
Mav buys everyone in the bar a small ointment cream, Preparation Z.
Naveespacial asks, "What is that for?"
"For the lingering burn of $300 for 8 months", Mav says.


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