[OT] to cheer everyone up.....

Yes, it's another [OT] posting.....

With all the horror and gloom happening in reality, if you want a bit of
cheering up with something genuinely funny (and TOTALLY unrelated to Current
Affairs) go and take a look at
http://home.nyu.edu/~amw243/diaries/
(you will need a familiarity with LoTR and Bridget Jones' Diary, and a
tolerant attitude to sexual orientation....)

:-)

LOL

Boromir; day 35 definetly the best diary entry, ever.
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> On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Ground Zero Games wrote:

> Yes, it's another [OT] posting.....

Dog... well, now we know why Tolkien left female characters out of LotR,
mostly. They would have been, um, extraneous...

I'm not sure whether to pass this on to LotR-fan friends or not... :)

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 20:10:33 +0000 Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
writes:
> Yes, it's another [OT] posting.....

GMW: Very

and Bridget Jones' Diary,

GMW: Not.

and
> a

GMW: On second thought this eliminates work * and * the public
Library....
> :-)

Gracias,

Uh, Jon, is this something I should not read on a government computer?

As a point of reference we sent an officer to Leavenworth for the material (as
in pictures) he had on two computers (okay it was several hundred, but 6that
was just icing on the cake...)

The only reason he got caught was the one that he "broke" and was marked
'excess' was repaired by a bored hardware guru and reissued to a staff officer
(civilian) who makes a Mormon Bishop look morally loose...

Gracias, Glenn

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 20:10:33 +0000 Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
writes:
> Yes, it's another [OT] posting.....

Who is Bridget Jones? Sounds Welsh.

Gracias, Glenn

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 20:10:33 +0000 Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
writes:
> Yes, it's another [OT] posting.....

Glenn, nothing actually graphic to worry about - certainly no pics
(thankfully!), just well done off-colour LotR satire... OK, very
off-colour... but funny, not obscene!

Glenn, To echo Brian, it'll pass the DOD's scrutiny, it's off color (and funny
as hell) but otherwise ok. Don

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> On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 20:10:33 +0000 Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>

Nothing in there to worry anyone, Glenn - it's all humourous text, very
mild (and funny) - it's just that it has most of the male LotR
characters "interested" in each other, if you get my drift (oh, and it's by a
female writer).

Bridget Jones' Diary is a novel by a UK writer, became a movie a couple of
years back with Hugh Grant and Renee Zellweger - you managed to miss all
the hype it got?  ;-)
It is the novel's unusual and funny diary style that's being parodied here, as
it has in many, many other places. The "LotR secret diaries" are very funny
even if you don't know BJD, but just funnier still if you do....

Just read and chuckle....  ;-)

> On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:44:04AM +0000, Ground Zero Games wrote:

FYI: http://ealasaid.com/misc/vsd/ has some diaries from TTT as well.

Thanks.

Although this might be hard to expalin as 'Research" over my part of the
world.

I'll just use the first rule of Research - don't get caught!

Gracias, Glenn

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 20:09:07 -0800 (PST) Brian Burger
> <yh728@victoria.tc.ca> writes:

Great. I do have to be a tad bit careful after a unclassified search for
pictures of a school building led to a result that resulted in opening
this picture of two young 'school-girls' (in nurses' uniforms????)
disrobing themselves and um, learning anatomy by Hands-free Braille.
The cleanup of the work station was a true PIA. "Delete this, Scan that,
Overwrite 6 million times with a series of 0's through 9's, etc., etc., etc.,
ad nauseum..."

And let's not even talk about hunting for cookies! Like you ever really know
you got them all...

Of course the classic from security was a web site that someone had bookmarked
that opened with a banner that said, "Welcome to [deleted because the web site
URL was just too dern obscene to repeat] Defense
mapping Agency!" - some people just leave a trail of "duh" behind
them.... Guess what contractor employee lost access to the unclassified
system...

Gracias, Glenn

> On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 23:03:12 -0600 "Don M" <dmaddox1@hot.rr.com> writes:

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 08:44:04 +0000 Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
writes: <snip>
> Nothing in there to worry anyone, Glenn - it's all humourous text,

Okay, this i just have to check out. LOL!

> Bridget Jones' Diary is a novel by a UK writer, became a movie a

Oh yeah, the movie/book thing - actually I see about (not counting with
kids) about two movies a year. And, just to reveal a 'secret' dark side' I
used to shock some dear but incredibly uptight evangelical brothers and
sisters by saying (and it's true) that that "...those kinds of movies don't
appeal to me because casual, or formal, sex is not a psectator sport..."
accompanied by a wink.

I only have a TV in the house because the of DVDs and Videos of movies
and the kids/wife like Channel 9 - PBS - and that is monitored heavily.
I have mellowed in my old age though - I let the older girl watch, with
one of the parents, Touched by an Angel (theology is 'weak' but content is
acceptable) and 7th Heaven (I am hard pressed to find anything in that show I
find unacceptably objectional) and [only because Mom approved it
first] Everwood (?) -  (reruns that have been seen and approved are
cleared for solo watching.) the younger girl generally gets to watch with them
unless the subject seems 'marginal' for her age.

> It is the novel's unusual and funny diary style that's being parodied

Okay.

Gracias,