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SupaDudz Memorial Profile Pic Pick o' the Week: No. 18 - I FEEL LOVE, I FEEL LOVE, I FEEL LOVE, I FE
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@Alec
Milo Yiannopoulos the absurd Neo-Nazi?  The name is certainly Greek, a nom de plume borrowed from his paternal grandmother I think.  Definitely less Greek than ‘dudz 
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**Bsh1's DART Race: Round 1**
i considered making a short, classic Dungeons & Dragons dungeon called "Ramshutu's Tomb." 

I also thought about doing poems but since both of you went poetry (I am not complaining, mind you) I thought I'd go elsewhere.  Here is a poem of mine (not for consideration), written in the Summer of '15 when the New Horizons craft drove past Pluto:

Plutonic

We sensed you before we saw you 
circling cool and dim asunder. We called you 
X and postulated apogees 
from shivers of Neptune,
seizures of Venus.

And when we found you 
finally beyond the marble circus;
we made you one of us and 
king of hell and 
ninth.

Erratic before we knew better, 
exotic as zero,
xerotic, antarctic.

And then you weren't and
so it goes: the kinks unbraid,
the gimmicks fade and now you
are merely unworthy, unworldly;
another berg crowding oblivion, 
another dwarf scorned from our circle.

Today when Tombaugh's ashes
passed you in the velvet void,
perhaps we should confess,
perhaps you'd like to know
we missed you when we missed you
and cast one wistful look abaft,
just pretended not to notice 
your pale heart turning for us.

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@RationalMadman
if only u & Mike met the deadline y single me out as failing?  u must have like my pics, I think.
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SupaDudz Memorial Profile Pic Pick o' the Week: No. 18 - I FEEL LOVE, I FEEL LOVE, I FEEL LOVE, I FE
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@TheRealNihilist
what ain’t it, that’s what I want to know. 
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**Bsh1's DART Race: An All Star Competition**
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@Ramshutu
Ramshutu the many-tentacled will always smell second-best

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**Bsh1's DART Race: Round 1**
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@K_Michael
congratulations, K_Mike!
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@RationalMadman
*cry*
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@Speedrace
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@Speedrace
Every Fri nite/Sat morning- it is the SupaDudz Memorial Profile Pic Pick o' the Week, a sort of game or art project in which I alone have ever expressed any interest and for which I maintain a sort of irrational pride in remembering to update as often as I do.

I might note that the Supadudz Memorial Profile Pic Pick o' the Week can be found in the PERSONAL forum, where it is bothering nobody.  This week's theme is part of our PRIDE MONTH celebraton: I FEEL LOVE, I FEEL LOVE, I FEEL LOVE, I FE


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@Speedrace

Here he comes! Here comes Speed Racer
He's a demon on wheels!
He's a demon and he's gonna be chasin' after someone
He's gainin' on you so you better look alive
He's busy revin' up a powerful Mach 5!
And when the odds are against him and there's
Dangerous work to do
You bet your life speed racer
Will see it though.
Go Speed Racer!
Go Speed Racer!
Go Speed Racer goooo!
He's off and flyin' as he guns the car around the track
He's jammin' down the pedal like he's never coming back
Adventure's waitin' just ahead!
Go Speed Racer!
Go Speed Racer!
Go Speed Racer gooooo!

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@Speedrace
Yeah, neither do I so can't help you there.  Enjoyed yours, tho- u r a demon on wheels
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SupaDudz Memorial Profile Pic Pick o' the Week: No. 18 - I FEEL LOVE, I FEEL LOVE, I FEEL LOVE, I FE
I was going to go with famous Greek homosexuals in honor of supadudz's pride resistence but this felt somewhat nicer.
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@Ramshutu
oh- do a "boxed in, drawn out"
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I started out with a far more erudite notion- Odysseus getting ghosted by Ajax at a gas station in hell but I had trouble making it funny, then  I had some idea of doing the 3 trolls from the Hobbit- Tom, Bill, and Bert sitting on sacks of dwarves and Gandalf suggesting a round-robin debate set up but then I saw Ram's and thought a second reference would seems too copycat so I just crapped this out in the last few minutes.
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Right up until Earth's last minute, nobody saw it coming.  There was, for some, a momentary impression of a column of fire- an orange sort of jet trail expanding already beyond the moon and then the Moon moving away far too fast. Some felt the last of Earth's gravity give just before the quake arrived: one hundred on some richter scale that theoretically survived to register....., that sense of falling unfolding into full knowledge of flight's futility.  

Every rock and grain pulling away from every other rock and grain.  Newark crashing like waves into Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh crashing like waves into Portland.  The Washington Monument piercing the Capitol's tit for just a moment but then all is lost to cataclysm, to mountain made rock made sand made dust expanding out to join Jupiter or melt into the Sun's metal core.

And if we follow that column of fire towering out from the point of impact, stretching beyond the expanding shockwave of broken black glass we find, already two million miles further milkywayward, a silver ship shaped shockingly very nearly like a seven-fingered outstretched hand.  And at the tip of the second thumb of that silver hand a crystal hemisphere acropolis of high command.  And in the High Bowl of the first tier of the high command crystal wallows Ramshutu, first of its names.  Ramshutu, the Many Tentacled, Ramshutu the Secondbest Smelling and Captain by Right of Conquest.

Ramshutu sloops to starboard and flops twelve angry  green eyepods abaft to track the suck of the Moon into the silver ship's fiery-fingered wake.  

Urgently, Ramshutu poops, "What was that?  Another planet?"  Red smoke oozes from the Captain's upper blowhole to indicate, "That's the third planet this week!"

Podderpunk RatMan shits its lemony-moisted indignation, "But that's not fair! My nav-sense is perfectly calibrated!   I can't help it if some planet is not true to its coded trajectory!  That or I'm sure some lesser gelled engineer has been re-tuning the Ion suck!"

Ramshutu the Many Tentacled scrubs its pubic cubes in frustration as the silver ship passes gas just past Jupiter's rings.

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apologies in advance.
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I'm writing total crap like crazy now.  that's why I'm asking how much time do we have?
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time?
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The 3 people in the top 5 who are undefeated should debate each other.
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@RationalMadman
I enjoyed that one too, RatMan.  Your arguments read like mazes with no exit.
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The 3 people in the top 5 who are undefeated should debate each other.
Submitted into evidence: Ragnar kicking my ass in 2013

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The 3 people in the top 5 who are undefeated should debate each other.
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@Alec
Honestly, I'm just super pleased to be included in this conversation.  RatMan calling me creative is about the best compliment I ever got on this site.  And I agree with his assessment that the more formal the debate, the more I'm out of my depth.  I've never had a debate class and all my knowledge of debate terms, tactics, fallacies, etc. comes from DART & DDO before it.

From a strategic point of view, I'd be a fool to accept a moderated debate with a fair number of debaters on this site of superior reason and/or experience, which the leaderboard reflects but partially.  To have any hope of attaining every medaled achievement on this site, I'd have to gain the sexist "King of the Hill" gold medal and soon.  There are many debaters who joined after me who are far more prolific and are winning at rates that make it clear that I won't be near the top of the leaderboard for very long- the rating system rewards productivity and I'm bound to fuck up soon and fall behind.  My best shot is to pick my fights very carefully while hoping that something horrible happens to the chief contenders.

To that end, Alec-  You should consider summiting Everest this weekend- I hear the view is quite spectacular.
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All dudes, methinks. What we need is 3 women. 
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Work
Turn to the left
Work
Now turn to the right
Work
Sashay, shantay

Work
Turn to the left
Work
Now turn to the right
Work
Sashay, shantay

It don't matter what you wear
It doesn't matter what you wear
They're checking out your savior faire
And it don't matter what you do
'Cause everything looks good on you

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SupaDudz's 1st Annual Creative Writing Tournament
Thx 4 invite but I’m doin bsh1’s  contest 
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Happy Pride Month! Gay Avatar Season!
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@Dr.Franklin
Why would you think of the Black version of American history as dividing history?  seems to me we are including a history that was once overlooked.  addition, not division

is this relevant to the gay avatar forum?
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Happy Pride Month! Gay Avatar Season!
Speaking of conformity I might note that my Divine avatar preceded this forum because I am a pioneer
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Happy Pride Month! Gay Avatar Season!
There’s a few places here where people seem not to know or remember that Pride is a protest march that has evolved, an annual commemoration of the Stonewall Riots for which the 50th anniversary is June 28.  Since there were already a fair number of cities with celebrations and parades in late June and much civic resistance to gays parading, and no kind of national Queer leadership, a patchwork of local annual civil rights marches evolved into Pride month.

We might note that Pride in this context connotes self-esteem and rejects state/faith proscribed sexual conformity.  
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SupaDudz Memorial Profile Pic Pick o' the Week: No. 17: DIVINITIES
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Divinity

As men, for fear the stars should sleep and nod,
And trip at night, have spheres supplied;
As if a star were duller than a clod,
Which knows his way without a guide:

Just so the other heav'n they also serve,
Divinity's transcendent sky:
Which with the edge of wit they cut and carve.
Reason triumphs, and faith lies by.

Could not that wisdom, which first broached the wine,
Have thickened it with definitions?
And jagged his seamless coat, had that been fine,
With curious questions and divisions?

But all the doctrine, which he taught and gave,
Was clear as heav'n, from whence it came.
At least those beams of truth, which only save,
Surpass in brightness any flame.

Love God, and love your neighbour. Watch and pray.
Do as ye would be done unto.
O dark instructions; ev'n as dark as day!
Who can these Gordian knots undo?

But he doth bid us take his blood for wine.
Bid what he please; yet I am sure,
To take and taste what he doth there design,
Is all that saves, and not obscure.

Then burn thy Epicycles, foolish man;
Break all thy spheres, and save thy head.
Faith needs no staff of flesh, but stoutly can
To heav'n alone both go, and lead.

-George Herbert
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I'm drinking this what you drinking???
Today?  2 large black McDonald's coffees (to go), half a Clamato Preparado, and a half a gallon Deep Rock distilled water.  I'll pour a Guinness in a bit.

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SupaDudz Memorial Profile Pic Pick o' the Week: No. 16: MEMORIALS
La Gaule unie
Formant une seule nation
Animée d'un même esprit,
Peut défier l'Univers.

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I'm drinking this what you drinking???
Today? Bloody Mary and a perfect Queen City cappucino, fresh squeezed lime margarita: Don Julio anejo + Cointreau- no salt, no ice,  MoonX Pinot Noir
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All Hail King Ramshutu- first of his name
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@Ramshutu
Aye, but paltry few work truly blue.

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All Hail King Ramshutu- first of his name
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@Barney
DART Lord has a nice ring to it- One gold medal for the DART Lord on his DART throne in the land of forums where the shadows lie.

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@Barney
May he decree a better sovereign title than "king."
I'm not sure it is up to him.  The achievement of #1 on the leaderboards for which one gold medal is awarded is titled, "King of the Hill" and that is the king to which this topic refers.   We could change the name of the achievement.... I like Top Dog myself although Master Debater is also fun.  Also...King is fairly sexist, no?

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@Wrick-It-Ralph
don't hold me to it but there's a rumor going around that first prize is OP edit power.
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@Wrick-It-Ralph
Where's Ralph?  He'd be super good at this.
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All Hail King Ramshutu- first of his name
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@Vader
You know what they say about dudes with small feats.

I do think you are the most original poster, we should make you a wastepaper crown.
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All Hail King Ramshutu- first of his name
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@Vader
you mean you meant one day DART will hail you as our most original poster?
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All Hail King Ramshutu- first of his name
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@Vader
izzat so?  you were the first?  now, when was that?
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All Hail King Ramshutu- first of his name

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Ramshutu
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0
93.33%
1644
488
379
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Alec
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20
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68.97%
1637
541
63
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oromagi
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100.00%
1626
136
97
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Ragnar
11
11
0
0
100.00%
1625
155
68
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blamonkey
9
9
0
0
100.00%
1625
52
18

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@David
I think it would be nice to be able to edit the OP. 
Let's make that the prize for winning the DART race: OP edit power.

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@bsh1
you had me at "ram tent"
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SupaDudz Memorial Profile Pic Pick o' the Week: No. 15- ANENOME DEI
Isn't that what you asked for?

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SupaDudz Memorial Profile Pic Pick o' the Week: No. 15- ANENOME DEI
Per the eponymous dear departed
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Who do you think will be 1st by June 1, RM or me(or anyone else)
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@Speedrace
I'm rooting for ya, Speed.
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Who do you think will be 1st by June 1, RM or me(or anyone else)
I second Psycho's admiration for blamo's bates.  I'd also place Psycho & Ragnar with blamo in the ranks of "most deserving".  Still, I think RatMan's theory of quantity before quality is proving out.  My money's on Ratman for Jun 1 and I'm thinking some kind of debate is in order along the the lines of "Noob snipe is the optimal tactic to achieve DART's "King of the Hill" Gold Medal."

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Security Breach in the EDUCATION forum?
That or RatMan has a new alt called certificates

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SupaDudz Memorial Profile Pic Pick o' the Week: No. 14- FLAVOURED GENERIC OAF MUCUS
Per Alec
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Kim Possible Themed Mafia: SIGN UPS
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@Mharman
u recruited me 4 a few games on DDO- levi_smiles
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