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Zylo · Postby **Zylo** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 12:29 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> OTG... um, your still getting it wrong.. its Tavis. T - A - V - I - S, no "R" </td></tr></table>  Holy crap, do I feel stupid. I do that a lot--just glance at a name and ASSUME that it's what I think it is and never actually LOOK at it. Well, you know what they say happens when you ASSUME--you make an A$$ out of U and ME. My sincerest apologies to Tavis. From now on, I promise to actually READ names. That happened before too; it took me two weeks before I actally saw the other 'f' in 5hfifty. I'm gonna go slam my face into a brick wall now. :slam, slam, slam, slam, slam::

Dr. Dos · Postby **Dr. Dos** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 12:58 am

For months I just called him Shifty or shift. Then one day I was like "WOAH. THERE'S AN 'F'". Also I think we all thought Tavis was Travis at first...

penguinita · Postby **penguinita** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 1:48 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Dr. Dos @ Dec 10 2003, 10:58 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> For months I just called him Shifty or shift. Then one day I was like "WOAH. THERE'S AN 'F'". Also I think we all thought Tavis was Travis at first...  </td></tr></table>  i think i happened to notice both how tavis's name and 5hfifty's were spelled when i first saw them (altho the 'h' in 5hfifty's always takes me by surpruse for some reason...) i think i noticed that tavis wasn't travis b/c at that time he had an avatar which said 'tavis' on in w/ the letters nice and spaced out. and sometimes knowing i'm a rotten speller makes me more careful- i concously try when i'm new at something to make sure i'm getting it right. which means that now i'm prolly more likely to misspell or not notice ppls names than i was when i joined dc.... yay irony.

Zylo · Postby **Zylo** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 2:03 am

Thanks for confirming that it was an honest, reasonable mistake and not an act of complete idiocy. I've mispelled Tavis numerous times, gotten genders wrong...I've really said some smart things on this board haven't I? And to think I have a 4.1 GPA, I'm a freakin' Einstein, huh?

Tavis · Postby **Tavis** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 3:29 am

Wow.. this has turned into a thread about spelling my name. I'm touched. *Finally hands Ozymandias The Great a t-shirt, now that he got it right* I never had problem's spelling 5hfifty's name, unless you count those really bad typographically-challenged times when I can't even type "teh" correctly. I think the problems people have had with saying and spelling my name correctly has made me much more sensitive than most about correctly spelling stuff. Think about it. If 9 out of 10 people seeing your name on paper for the first time misspelled it and/or mispronounced it, how much attention do you think you would pay to the spelling of other peoples' names? *grabs thingy and stands up on stage behind podium* I'd like to thank the fanbase, the iconeers, the T-shirt manufacturers, and Dr. Dos for actually pounding it into Ozymandias The Great's head that he was still getting my name wrong. I also want to thank my mom! I love you all! *Takes a bow and exits stage right, taking Felix's Diablo after installing a couple other cheat codes and all the available mods, except Sabre and dabomb, of course...* *VROOM*

Burning Sheep Productions · Postby **Burning Sheep Productions** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 4:34 am

Vuh... room?

Zaaphod · Postby **Zaaphod** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 5:33 am

Buh....wha? I got shot by a tank???? And after all I've done for you, this is the tanks I get? *waves magic wand* *Tavis's car turns into a gigantic raspberry* *Tavis is utterly stupefied by this turn of events* *sneaks up and grabs the Thingy while Tavis is standing there slack-jawed* *flies off in a balsa-wood airplane with the Thingy* (This completely wacky game reminds me of a Llewellyn-Ozy exchange: LLEWELLYN: Perpetual mental motion is a wonderful thing. OZY: If your favorite artist is Picasso.)

penguinita · Postby **penguinita** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 6:07 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Ozymandias_the_great @ Dec 10 2003, 12:03 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I'm a freakin' Einstein, huh?</td></tr></table>  didja know einstein would forget to put on his socks.... (so i'm told) and he had a bajillion of the same suits so he wouldn't have to waste brainpower on thinking aobut what clothes to wear. *goes on to further relate stories about famous scientists doing silly things* *zaaphod, hearing these stories somehow, gets distracted and drops the thingy overboard, which lands cooincedently near penguinita* *picks up the thingy* *makes a quite stealthy excape*

Softpaw · Postby **Softpaw** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 6:47 am

[spots the balsa wood plane] How dare you enter my airspace! [fires a barrage of missiles and machine gun fire at the plane, turning it into sawdust] [shoots at Zaaphod's feet] DANCE, BOY, DANCE! [gets bored and flies to the other side of the map to avoid Zaaphod's wrath]

penguinita · Postby **penguinita** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 8:08 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (dnwq @ Oct 29 2003, 01:18 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I need to sign in more often.</td></tr></table>  (and the last time he was last in this thread was 13 nov.) did someone eat dnwq back during the thingy-eating-marathon? tisk, tisk! you know you aren't supposed to eat dc members- not and digest them fully at least!

Foxchild · Postby **Foxchild** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 4:02 pm

I didn't eat him, i only had ONE thingy eating incedent! Hey, maybe Salad Man ate dnwq, and got sick and is bed ridden now! ah-HA! im a genious! or not... i should be doing something more important probably.

Softpaw · Postby **Softpaw** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 6:54 pm

I'm holding him prisoner in my obscenely huge mansion, you must pay $250,000,000,001 to get him back!

penguinita · Postby **penguinita** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 8:38 pm

is that in pesos?

Softpaw · Postby **Softpaw** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 8:54 pm

No, US dollars. The money must be transferred to my account in Switzerland, otherwise you will NEVER SEE DNWQ AGAIN!!!!!! MUAHAHAHAHA[cough cough choke]HAHAHA!!!!!

MidnightRealism · Postby **MidnightRealism** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 9:07 pm

*sits in slack-jawed amazement as he peruses the past few days' posts* *finds penguinita after her stealthy escape* *trips her* *takes thingy*

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