Quote of the Moment Archive

[thestick]

We should probably remove the link to Scooter's PBEM 45 thread... EDIT: Wow, that was fast.

[Qgqqqqq]

the serdoa one was not meant meanly, i wasnt angry at the time

[NobleHelium]

You should probably not have a PBEM 45 spoiler in your signature either...

[Qgqqqqq]

He asked in-thread IIRC

[scooter]

Signature is fine, it's not like those of us in the game can't figure out what's going on.

[NobleHelium]

It suggests motivation for the action. Obviously it doesn't matter at this point because we've all seen it, but it should not be done again. Permission by regoarrarr is largely irrelevant because there isn't supposed to be any forum communication in the game, so rego doesn't have any right to grant permission (yes I do realize I've posted a couple joking things in the tech thread in the same vein).

[thestick]

It seemed fairly innocuous, though I guess explaining why would be another extremely minor spoiler. Apparently even the current QotM is an extremely minor spoiler!

[scooter]

It was totally innocuous and not a problem, NH is just being obsessive :P.

[Qgqqqqq]

I never seem to notice it, when/why was this up KoP?
I probably won't have time to update fora while though :/

(Query for nerd points: is that a hitchikers reference?)

[KingOfPain]

12/21/12 - end of the world
HHGG - end of the world

A towel, it (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost."What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.