[QUOTE=Byzantine]There is no doubt he is overrated, but anyone who dies prematurely is overrated, ex. [b]Abe Lincoln[/b], JFK, Dimebag Darrell. But that doesnt mean he is crap, he was a professional musician. Listen to Orion, or any old stuff you can hear him doin his thing.[/QUOTE]

What the hell do they teach you kids in school? How the heck is Abe Lincoln "overrated"?

I guess you think FDR is overrated too :rolleyes:

[QUOTE=Jake]Man, I hate going to the movies. Eight freaking bucks to get in!?! What the hell?[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I hear you...that's why I rarely ever go to the movies.

Madey: I told you last night you were gonna get banned.

[QUOTE=Jake]So hmm..What's the last song everyone has played on their insturment? For me, Lateralus by Tool. [/QUOTE]

I did an improv blues jam with my granddad the other day :cool:

[QUOTE=Illmatic]What the hell do they teach you kids in school? How the heck is Abe Lincoln "overrated"?[/QUOTE]

YOU would say that. He didn't even go into the war to free the slaves, he went into the war to protect Constitution, he just used that to gain support.

[QUOTE=Illmatic]What the hell do they teach you kids in school? How the heck is Abe Lincoln "overrated"?

I guess you think FDR is overrated too :rolleyes:
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:lol: This whole sequence made me laugh a lot.

NP: The Eleventh House - Adam Smasher

[QUOTE=Dr. Jake Destructo]So hmm..What's the last song everyone has played on their insturment? For me, Lateralus by Tool.

Your turn. :D

Thread revival++[/QUOTE]
last song I sung in a proper way was probably mayhem-freezing moon

last thing on drums was Iron maiden-iron maiden

Ollie, have you guys gotten anything recorded yet?

[QUOTE=Byzantine]YOU would say that. He didn't even go into the war to free the slaves, he went into the war to protect Constitution, he just used that to gain support.[/QUOTE]

He never wanted to free slaves because if he ordered the emancipation of all slaves he'd lose the support of the border states (Kentucky, Delaware, Missouri, Maryland) and losing them to the Confederacy would be a big blow, and if he lost Maryland then Washington DC would have been captured and the Confederacy probably could have won the war.

Sheesh, kids these days.

[QUOTE=Illmatic]He never wanted to free slaves because if he ordered the emancipation of all slaves he'd lose the support of the border states (Kentucky, Delaware, Missouri, Maryland) and losing them to the Confederacy would be a big blow, and if he lost Maryland then Washington DC would have been captured and the Confederacy probably could have won the war.

Sheesh, ignorant people that choose to argue these days.[/QUOTE]

Fix'd. :cool:

Abe was a cool guy. I mean, he got a style of beard named after him. What a rebel.

Last thing I did on guitar was some tapping.

Last REAL song - Wish You Were Here

[QUOTE=Dr. Jake Destructo]Ollie, have you guys gotten anything recorded yet?[/QUOTE]
maiden wise- not yet, when everyone does their parts I'm the last fella to record
july cover wise with chris, he just sent me the finished instrumental bit and I plan to record my vocals over the weekend

Rammstein tomorrow night! :cool: :Germany:

I just got back from the most pointless walk ever. Me and my friend Hannah set of at 10:30 to buy smokes, then go look for the foreign students taking classes in our University over the Summer. We then went to see my mate Nick working the late shift at McDonalds, then came home.

Overall, a good night.

[QUOTE=Arucard]I just got back from the most pointless walk ever. Me and my friend Hannah set of at 10:30 to buy [B]fags[/B], then go look for the foreign students taking classes in our University over the Summer. We then went to see my mate Nick working the late shift at McDonalds, then came home.

Overall, a good night.[/QUOTE]
???????????????

:naughty:

You mean cigarettes, right? Right?

[QUOTE=Arucard]I just got back from the most pointless walk ever. Me and my friend Hannah set of at 10:30 to buy [b]fags[/b], then go look for the foreign students taking classes in our University over the Summer. We then went to see my mate Nick working the late shift at McDonalds, then came home.

Overall, a good night.[/QUOTE]

You Brits kill me.

Yes i do. And thats not funny :angry:

/ICB was for sale.

:shifty:

[QUOTE=Byzantine]YOU would say that. He didn't even go into the war to free the slaves, he went into the war to protect Constitution, he just used that to gain support.[/QUOTE]

That's a disgusting oversimplification. It's true that Abe was reluctant to free the slaves at first, but take it from a diehard Civil War buff: what you say is not accurate at all. The Constitution is not what was being protected: it was the Union itself. He did not make the Emancipation Proclamation as a way to "gain support," as the border Union states of Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and eventually West Virginia all had slavery and Lincoln risked having them join the Confederacy in response to the freeing of the slaves. Lincoln did what he did as a result of his newfound conscience and sympathy, in addition to seeing a way to win the war morally over the Confederacy. Not what you said.

Not every president is a George Bush, manipulating values in order to gain a crass personal acquisition. We have some genuinely great men. Lincoln was one them for sure.

[QUOTE=Cain]That's a disgusting oversimplification. It's true that Abe was reluctant to free the slaves at first, but take it from a diehard Civil War buff: what you say is not accurate at all. The Constitution is not what was being protected: it was the Union itself. He did not make the Emancipation Proclamation as a way to "gain support," as the border Union states of Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and eventually West Virginia all had slavery and Lincoln risked having them join the Confederacy in response to the freeing of the slaves. Lincoln did what he did as a result of his newfound conscience and sympathy, in addition to seeing a way to win the war morally over the Confederacy. Not what you said.

Not every president is a George Bush, manipulating values in order to gain a crass personal acquisition. We have some genuinely great men. Lincoln was one them for sure.[/QUOTE]

Do you read college textbooks for fun? Your vocabulary is very.../searches for good word..expansive. :eng101:

[QUOTE=Illmatic]You Brits kill me.[/QUOTE]
We aim to please :lol:

there are several odd things lingually like this that sound pervy in England and normal in America and vice-versa

"fanny packs" for example you folks say...

Night Thread :wave:

NP- megadeth- FFF

[QUOTE=Lord Abortion]maiden wise- not yet, when everyone does their parts I'm the last fella to record
july cover wise with chris, he just sent me the finished instrumental bit and I plan to record my vocals over the weekend

[B]Rammstein tomorrow night![/B] :cool: :Germany:[/QUOTE]

Awesome, have fun!
We need a headbanging smiley.

Hello all! :wave:
My guitar teacher gave me 5 books today. To work on for the next year and a half. I'm hoping I can beat that statistic. Two classical guitar books; which is good because I need to learn some arpeggios and technique.
Found a really kick [SIZE=2]a[/SIZE]ss Napoleon Dynamite avatar from viski, haluta.



EDIT: how many people have changed their name, now? :lol:

[QUOTE=Cain]That's a disgusting oversimplification. It's true that Abe was reluctant to free the slaves at first, but take it from a diehard Civil War buff: what you say is not accurate at all. The Constitution is not what was being protected: it was the Union itself. He did not make the Emancipation Proclamation as a way to "gain support," as the border Union states of Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and eventually West Virginia all had slavery and Lincoln risked having them join the Confederacy in response to the freeing of the slaves. Lincoln did what he did as a result of his newfound conscience and sympathy, in addition to seeing a way to win the war morally over the Confederacy. Not what you said.

Not every president is a George Bush, manipulating values in order to gain a crass personal acquisition. We have some genuinely great men. Lincoln was one them for sure.[/QUOTE]

Well, I like how you elaborated on what I said (I think he has now been thoroughly pwned), but I don't think West Virginia was a slave state; I believe it broke off from Virginia (a slave state) because of the issue of slavery. I could be wrong though.

In fact, the fourth border state was actually Delaware :eng101:

It is the first and only time in the history of the country that anyone actually worried about what Delaware thought or would do.

Aha, someone who lives there clarified what I said!

[QUOTE=Leah]Found a really kick *** Napoleon Dynamite avatar from viski, haluta.[/QUOTE]

:angry:

I did not like that movie all that much.

Yes, when West Virginia broke away from Virginia, it did so as a free state.

[QUOTE=Lord Abortion]We aim to please :lol:
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That reminds me of this quote type deal that was painted on this resteraunt's wall in their bathroom. I think it was in a place called Rockin' Baja Lobster in California. It said "We aim to please. You aim too, please." It was above the urinals. lololol@playonwords

[QUOTE=Lord Abortion]We aim to please :lol:

there are several odd things lingually like this that sound pervy in England and normal in America and vice-versa

"fanny packs" for example you folks say...

Night Thread :wave:

NP- megadeth- FFF[/QUOTE]

Yes, "fanny pack" always raises a disbelieving laugh or two from people I talk to about America.

Well, most Americans are ashamed of fanny packs, so I doubt anyone really talks about them all that much anymore.

Okay, but from what I was tought when I learned the civil war I remember coming out of that class thinking Abe was extremely overrated.

Well, your history teacher must surely be a bad teacher.

Are you going to trust your cigarrete smoking 4th grade teacher or mxers?

/votes mxers

[QUOTE=Illmatic]
:angry:

I did not like that movie all that much.[/QUOTE]

No? I thought it was funny, but then again I have a really weird sense of humor and I'm easily amused.
It's him dancing.

[QUOTE=Taste_My_Scythe]No? I thought it was funny, but then again I have a really weird sense of humor and I'm easily amused.
It's him dancing.[/QUOTE]

I found most of the characters fairly boring and annoying.

[QUOTE=Dr. Jake Destructo]Do you read college textbooks for fun? Your vocabulary is very.../searches for good word..expansive. :eng101:[/QUOTE]

All my pretentions to intelligence, wit, and eloquence come from a childhood spent reading "Calvin and Hobbes" and asking what all the words meant. That comic strip is easily responsible for a huge degree of my vocabulary, my ability to think for myself and act independently, and certainly nurtured my creative spirit, because I was basically exactly like Calvin when I was his age (six). I drew pictures constantly and loved dinosaurs, buying book after book and learning all there was to know. I did poor to mediocre in school, because to rephrase what Calvin said, "I went to school, but I never learned what I wanted to know." Homework of all kinds was subordinated to the creative stuff I did on my own, throughout my school career. And along the way, I dealt with periods with not so many friends and periods where I gained them by way of the virtues I had gained by not being spoiled by my parents, shunted into endless sports competition, conforming with a crowd just to make fake friends, etc. Just like Calvin. He only had one true friend, and that was Hobbes. While rambunctious and often irreverent and disobedient, Bill Watterson's depiction of Calvin is as an incredibly profound character who sees into all the good places that really count throughout living life, as opposed to social conformity. And it shaped a lot of my childhood, not in the least because my natural temperament was so like Calvin's in the first place.

I mean, my kindergarten teacher thought I had a social learning disability because I would never do the group-sponsored activities she assigned. I always wanted to be off in the corner reading the picture books about sea life and dinosaurs, or drawing pictures. I did so whether she liked it or not. And so she actually said that I was "special" socially. I wasn't, as it turns out, but hey. That explains that. :)

I kind of went into a lot of detail there. Sorry. :) And no, I don't read college textbooks for fun. I do, however, read books for fun. I should have over 300 books in my room alone by now, I should think.

EDIT: Illmatic, you're right. West Virginia broke off in 1863. My mistake...so what was the other border state? I know there were four. I may be a Civil War buff, but it's been admittedly long since the last time I looked at a book on the subject.

Calvin and Hobbes kicks ***. My vocabulary is derived solely from my over-reading of Jeffery Deaver books. But my grammar has the potential to suck.

So do you guys think I should change my name to Gilmour?

:cool: