Poll: The Off-Topic Topic.

FalloutJack

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Welcome to the Off-Topic Topic discussion. It occurred to me that this forum is in terrible danger of being sucked down a wormhole or exploded into many funny shapes, whatever it is when the laws of physics and nature go astray. Consider this. You are in an Off-Topic forum, discussing the things which do not have anything to do with any other forum here. Whenever somebody goes off topic here, do you not realize the impact it has upon the fabric of the universe?

It's like with Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He says something rather unthinkingly, and then a wormhole in space-time opens up and sends his words into a peace conference on an alien world, starting up a brutal war and you know the rest. (If you don't, read the book or watch the movie. It's a lark, either way.) One day, someone will say the exactly wrong thing in an Off-Topic topic and the universe will convulge, like if somebody knew The Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything...and then knew the answer...when the two aren't allowed to co-exist properly in the same universe.

Speaking of Hitchhiker's Guide, I like the bits in there about towels. Hilarious stuff. I-

OhshitI'mofftopic!

This is a funny/ridiculous discussion, but if the universe actually worked this way (and we have no proof that it doesn't), what would you say the effect would be and what it would take to make it happen?
 

Dragon_of_red

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2012 would happen

Probably people talking on a forum isnt going to unravel the universe, but you know, shit does happen, 10 bucks its one of Max's posts.
 

FalloutJack

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dragon_of_red said:
2012 would happen

Probably people talking on a forum isnt going to unravel the universe, but you know, shit does happen, 10 bucks its one of Max's posts.
You're on.

(Hah, this is the safe bet. I win as long as we're still around.)
 

Kaboose the Moose

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While nothing in the universe is a certainty there are always, how shall I say, "limiting factors" that get thrown in to the equation that makes things very unpredictable. On the Escapist that "limiting factor" takes the form of the moderators. And while such a constant is at play, it makes it quite hard for anyone to to literally end the universe with a post, because anything with a negative influence is shut down

So basically our moderators are the guardians of the universe and keepers of the peace.
 

Ckeesy

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With regards to the pole, I do not believe we are off topic. The Off-topic forum is still a category within the larger forum, so the fact that we are here makes little difference. Also, this thread is labeled as Off-topic, meaning that the topic of this thread is nothing in particular. We are the Sienfeld of The Escapist, right down to our sweatpants and fascination for cleavage. Since we are intended to post something off topic, something about nothing in particular, it can be said (at the time of this writing) that this thread is on topic...In fact, only when a string of people have begun talking about the same topic, or SOMETHING in particular, would we descend into the depths of Off-topic.

Though maybe I'm looking too far into it.

Anyways, I just really got into Bananas. I've always had a bit of a love/hate relationship with bananas, since on the one hand they are delicious, but on the other I feel like I'm performing oral on a well-endowed albino man with a skin condition which causes layers of his skin to peel in three different directions.
 

Ocelot GT

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I like off topic, prrrrrrrr *rubbing against OT*

*fabric of universe begins tearing*


:eek:


Did I do that? :'(
 

sgtshock

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Wait, if we're supposed to go off-topic in this thread, but this thread is about going off-topic, then wouldn't going off-topic mean we were actually on-topic? But then we wouldn't be off-topic, so we wouldn't be on-topic, so-

*head explodes*
 

ChillinMargrave

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sgtshock said:
Wait, if we're supposed to go off-topic in this thread, but this thread is about going off-topic, then wouldn't going off-topic mean we were actually on-topic?

*head explodes*
That's a good point 'ya got there, so if being off-topic is being on-topic how do you go on-topic if the on-topic is the off-topic?

*Stands in line as his head explodes*
 
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Furburt said:
Ocelot GT said:
I like off topic, prrrrrrrr *rubbing against OT*

*fabric of universe begins tearing*


:eek:


Did I do that? :'(
No, only the damned one (max) can light the fires that will lead to our destruction.
How dare you doubt the abilities of a deranged bunny to tear a hole in space/time.
 

Biosophilogical

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ChillinMargrave said:
sgtshock said:
Wait, if we're supposed to go off-topic in this thread, but this thread is about going off-topic, then wouldn't going off-topic mean we were actually on-topic?

*head explodes*
That's a good point 'ya got there, so if being off-topic is being on-topic how do you go on-topic if the on-topic is the off-topic?

*Stands in line as his head explodes*
The thing is, by being off-topic, and therefore, On-Topic, that makes us Off-Topic, so the only way to stay properly Off-Topic is to be Off-Topic (not as in, Off-Topic, like the thread wants us to be, but Off-Topic in a way which is against the desired Off-Topic-ness that the OP was aiming for).

However, seeing as there is no Off-Topic area which can be Off-Topic and not On-Topic (in this thread anyway) ... *Head Explodes unleashing raw power into the universe, which is identical in frequency and wavelength to the universe destroying energy this thread has created but a half phase out, thereby negating the destructive powers*
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That's Right, I just saved the universe by having my head explode. ... Which is Off-Topic ... *Universe is destroyed*

... ... ... ... ... Got a bit carried away there ... a bit 'Off-Topic', *universe destruction is negated* which is Off-Topic etc etc ad nauseum

OT: If the universe worked like that the results would be something likes this ^^
 

xDarc

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I have 2 TB of classic adult films.

Did you know Kill Bill was partially inspired by a 70's porno?
 

Jharry5

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sgtshock said:
Wait, if we're supposed to go off-topic in this thread, but this thread is about going off-topic, then wouldn't going off-topic mean we were actually on-topic? But then we wouldn't be off-topic, so we wouldn't be on-topic, so-

*head explodes*
This is just what I was thinking.
Surely posting an off topic comment on an off topic thread would make it on topic which would mean it was on topi- urrgh...

I'll join you in the cranial explosion... *head explodes as well*
 

Sonicron

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You ever notice how a tumor looks just like cheese?

Lunch time! I'm off to the kitchen.
 

Sonicron

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Furburt said:
Sonicron said:
You ever notice how a tumor looks just like cheese?
Yes! I often mistake them when visiting cancer patients!

They get ever slightly annoyed when I try to chew them.
On the one hand, I guess I wouldn't want Irish bitemarks on me, either.

On the other hand, they should probably be grateful, seeing how you're basically attempting to rid them of the thing that's going to kill them... even if the method is somewhat unorthodox.