we used to have a topic for funny IPO's Lets bring that one back.
PPXXX- This proposition will pay out at POP$100 if more than one third of the playing members of the ppx decide that since the upgrade, their time online is better spent playing with their PP's while looking at XXX .
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...can't believe this topic was left to languish. This was tha' shiznit back in the day. Oh well.
MODBACK - This IPO will pay out if any former moderators that have been gone return by December 1st, 2009.
BITDAY- This proposition will pay out at POP$100 if PPX lasts long enough to actually have a "back in the day"
GOODOLDAYS- This Proposition will pay out at POP$100 if the PPX both lasts long enough and improves enough that by January 1 2050 people like myself, Erick99, M_novotny and Chrisitux are posting actively about the Good Ol' Days
from Louisville, KY
From the posts I've been reading I think BITDAY should halt and payout now.
Back in the day, we didn't let n00bs like you offer an opinion. The peanut gallery is to be seen and not heard, that's what we said. (cough! cough!) Nurse! I need another oxygen tank! (hack!)
from Louisville, KY
Well get used to my comments because I ain't going nowhere.
(The funny thing is that it wasn't even meant to be negative)
DILLWEED - This prop will pay out at $100 if Milkweed110 makes fun of johnny2xo in this thread by May 5, 2008
Ahh... you young whippersnappers and your tricky new IPOs! I suppose you're the same punk that egged my house last year!
What's this I hear about iPods? Back in the day, we used 78s! Know what that is? Didn't think so!
You kids and your tricky USB mice! When I was a young pup, we used PS2 mice! They built charactor!
Did I ever tell you about the funky stuff that went on at woodstock? (Thunk! Milkweed collapses as another nursing-home resident whacks him over the head with an empty oxygen tank)
Ethel: He was never at woodstock. He was off in the war, stationed in Austrailia. Did I ever tell you about how I taught Elanor Roosevelt to fly?
PS2 mice? Back in my day, the mouse wasn't even invented yet.
PPXERR this proposition will pay out at POP$??? if this stock becomes a repeat of the STS122-situation.
The early non-Mac mice were serial. You could use them on your Apple IIe, Commodore64, Atari, or IBM PC.
They pretty much only worked in drawing programs as the GUI had not yet been created by the Commodore Amiga, stolen by the Apple Mac, and butchered by Microsoft yet.
ejcassel
for the record the mac GUI was stolen from Xerox, they had a prototype machine called the ALTO that was where they got the idea for the LISA that preceeded both the Amiga and the Mac
Although it doesn't really matter too much anymore. Within a year of a GUI release, all the others would have gone trying to duplicate it.
NEWMOD: This proposition will pay out at POP$100 if a new web editor and/or administrator is hired for the Popular Science website by June 31, 2008.
Visit the Unofficial PPX Community
from Watsonville, California
If the money's there, I'm there........
FAKEMONEY- This proposition will pay out at POP$100 if the economy continues to erode to the point that our POP$ are worth ore than our US$ by Dec 31 2100, "In Jannot We Trust"
JANCTRL - This proposition will pay out at POP$100 if Mark Jannot becomes a World Controller, reminiscent of Brave New World.
Visit the Unofficial PPX Community
from Vancouver, Wa
CPTKICK - this prop will pay out at POP$100 if Cpt is kicked or censored by June 1, 2008 at 12:00 am.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- why am i not allowed to post new forum topics? gaaaaaah!!!!!
Milkweed says that Vulgarian says "long, long, long!"
Vulgarian says that he never said anything of the sort.
from Vancouver, Wa
btw, havnt you already said that one of ur accounts has been censored for to much spamming? right before the admin quit they made their last stand with you.... ahhh, but you outsmarted them with a second account *nice*
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- why am i not allowed to post new forum topics? gaaaaaah!!!!!
I'll have to go short on CAPTKICK, but if it pays long I'd be extrememly happy.
Also, back in my day, when I tried to use a mouse it bit me.
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It's a good thing Cpt JackHarkness isn't allowed to post new forum topics.
"one of my accounts?" Where the heck is the other one? Is it in my shoulder holster? Or in my boot, like a derringer? If you find another one of mine, I want it back, as its clearly having fun without me.