Random: Best FIRST away-messages?

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Posted by Jessica Boucher at 04/25/2001 6:32 PM EST


Student on team #237, Sie-H2O-Bots, from Watertown High School and Eastern Awning Systems & The Siemon Company.



Come on, admit it - you've all used/seen them at some point. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about...away-messages are shown when an aol or aim member is away from the computer or can't be bothered (a little yellow post-it note will pop up next to their name to indicate if they're away). If you im that person, the away message will pop up, and your im is held until that person returns.

I'm an avid fan for interesting away messages, but even better are interesting FIRST messages. Soooo, what are some of your favorites?

-Jessica B, #237

PS - My fav:

"Noooo, silly, I don't wanna watch Silly, I wanna watch Philly" (conversation over whether to watch the Silicon Valley Regional or the Philadelphia Regional)

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Posted by Andrew Rudolph at 04/25/2001 8:06 PM EST


Student on team #168, Charger-Lightning Robotics, from North Miami Beach/Michael Krop Senior High School and NASA Kennedy Space Center/Cordis/HPE Automation.


In Reply to: Random: Best FIRST away-messages?
Posted by Jessica Boucher on 04/25/2001 6:32 PM EST:



This is my present one:

Someone built my pencil upsidedown > !!! Im Away trying to fix it right now, I can't not try and fix it! Some idiot put the eraser where the point goes and the point where the eraser goes. Geeze some people are stupid. Well leave me a message so after I fix this $@#$@#$@#$@# pencil I can get back to you.

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Posted by mike oleary at 04/25/2001 8:44 PM EST


Student on team #419, rambots, from bc high and sponsors are overrated..go pocket-change robots!!!.


In Reply to: Random: Best FIRST away-messages?
Posted by Jessica Boucher on 04/25/2001 6:32 PM EST:



i have quite a few away messages...heres a good one of them:
more monopoly money is printed in a year then real money printed throughout the world....a 10 gallon hat holds 6 pints....if you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you would have produced enough energy to heat 1 cup of coffee....eveytime you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie....if you devide the Great Pyramid's perimeter by 2 times its height you get pi to the 15th digit....the average human eats 70 tons of food in a lifetime...India has 50000000 monkeys...dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year...the average computer user blinks 7 times a minute....a jellyfish is 95% water....august 8th is the start of 'national pickle week'...american car horns beep in the tone of f...the liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma...donkeys kill more people per year than plane crashes...

another is:
The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk,
they're sober.
--William Butler Yeats

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time
with his friends.
--Ernest Hemingway

Drunk is feeling sophisticated when you can't say it.
--Anonymous

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying
himself a pleasure.
--Ambrose Bierce

Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol.
--Anonymous

I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.
--Anonymous

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
--Oscar Wilde

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.
--Tom Waits

of course i know that theyre much too long for anyone to actually read them...

: Come on, admit it - you've all used/seen them at some point. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about...away-messages are shown when an aol or aim member is away from the computer or can't be bothered (a little yellow post-it note will pop up next to their name to indicate if they're away). If you im that person, the away message will pop up, and your im is held until that person returns.

: I'm an avid fan for interesting away messages, but even better are interesting FIRST messages. Soooo, what are some of your favorites?

: -Jessica B, #237

: PS - My fav:

: "Noooo, silly, I don't wanna watch Silly, I wanna watch Philly" (conversation over whether to watch the Silicon Valley Regional or the Philadelphia Regional)

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Posted by Matt Leese at 04/26/2001 12:38 PM EST


College Student on team #73, Tigerbolt, from Edison Technical HS and Alstom & Fiber Technologies & RIT.


In Reply to: Random: Best FIRST away-messages?
Posted by Jessica Boucher on 04/25/2001 6:32 PM EST:



Most of my away messages tend to be rather
uninteresting except for one that I stole from
someone else. It is "Naked!!!!!!!!!!!" You figure
out what it means.

Matt who needs some new away messages....

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Posted by Erin at 04/27/2001 10:47 AM EST


College Student on team #65, Huskie Brigade, from Pontiac Northern High School and GM Powertrain.


In Reply to: Random: Best FIRST away-messages?
Posted by Jessica Boucher on 04/25/2001 6:32 PM EST:



im at work and there is no work, so...

"%n's team is the best!"

classic: put your team's webpage here. people click links.

"building a robot out of dishwasher parts" (people actually believed that one)

"watching battlebots" hehehe

thats about it... i always like kristen's (131)... its always very long and says something about RCU, FIRST, CHAOS and life all in one

erin

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Posted by Matt Leese at 04/27/2001 12:50 PM EST


College Student on team #73, Tigerbolt, from Edison Technical HS and Alstom & Fiber Technologies & RIT.


In Reply to: lack of things to do
Posted by Erin on 04/27/2001 10:47 AM EST:



I also seem to note that the word "wicked" also gets
in there some how...

Matt

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Posted by Lora Knepper at 04/27/2001 1:22 PM EST


Other on team #177, Bobcat Robotics - Adoptee, from South Windsor High School and International Fuel Cells.


In Reply to: Re: lack of things to do
Posted by Matt Leese on 04/27/2001 12:50 PM EST:



: I also seem to note that the word "wicked" also gets
: in there some how...

: Matt

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Posted by Jessica Boucher at 04/27/2001 2:33 PM EST


Student on team #237, Sie-H2O-Bots, from Watertown High School and Eastern Awning Systems & The Siemon Company.


In Reply to: It's a New England thing ;o) EOM
Posted by Lora Knepper on 04/27/2001 1:22 PM EST:



EOM = Energized Ownership Metaphor

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Posted by mike oleary at 04/27/2001 3:11 PM EST


Student on team #419, rambots, from bc high and sponsors are overrated..go pocket-change robots!!!.


In Reply to: Its a NH thing, not New England (EOM)
Posted by Jessica Boucher on 04/27/2001 2:33 PM EST:



saying wicked isnt an nh thing...i dont think anyways
i always thought it was just a boston thing...like 'thats wicked pissah' and 'when i fail classes i feel wicked retahded'

: EOM = Energized Ownership Metaphor

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Posted by Matt Ryan at 04/27/2001 5:05 PM EST


Student on team #69, HYPER, from Quincy Public Schools and Gillette.


In Reply to: Re: Its a NH thing, not New England (EOM)
Posted by mike oleary on 04/27/2001 3:11 PM EST:



"Wicked" IS a Boston thing...those people in NH copied us!

For some reason, wherever I go, I have people ask me to say "I parked the car in Harvard Yard."

I reply, "I pahked the cah in Hahvahd Yahd."

FYI, I only recognize 25 letters in the alphabet...everything except that fake letta "r".

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Posted by mike oleary at 04/27/2001 6:28 PM EST


Student on team #419, rambots, from bc high and sponsors are overrated..go pocket-change robots!!!.


In Reply to: Re: Its a NH thing, not New England (EOM)
Posted by Matt Ryan on 04/27/2001 5:05 PM EST:



no i recognize r...but its only a 1/2 letter...cuz i cuz i use it in words like race but not in words like yahd

: "Wicked" IS a Boston thing...those people in NH copied us!

: For some reason, wherever I go, I have people ask me to say "I parked the car in Harvard Yard."

: I reply, "I pahked the cah in Hahvahd Yahd."

: FYI, I only recognize 25 letters in the alphabet...everything except that fake letta "r".

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Posted by Lora Knepper at 04/28/2001 10:13 AM EST


Other on team #177, Bobcat Robotics - Adoptee, from South Windsor High School and International Fuel Cells.


In Reply to: Re: Its a NH thing, not New England (EOM)
Posted by mike oleary on 04/27/2001 6:28 PM EST:



EOM

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Posted by Matt Ryan at 04/28/2001 11:15 PM EST


Student on team #69, HYPER, from Quincy Public Schools and Gillette.


In Reply to: Re: Its a NH thing, not New England (EOM)
Posted by mike oleary on 04/27/2001 6:28 PM EST:



[EOM]

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Posted by David Kelso at 04/27/2001 11:17 PM EST


Coach on team #131, C.H.A.O.S.-, from Central High School and OSRAM SYLVANIA/ Fleet .


In Reply to: lack of things to do
Posted by Erin on 04/27/2001 10:47 AM EST:



Poor Kris gets "wicked" from her dad who grew up in Lynn, Mass (Lynn, Lynn city of sin.....) and PEA Body Mass...both of which are near BARS TON, Mass.

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Posted by Jessica Boucher at 04/28/2001 9:08 AM EST


Student on team #237, Sie-H2O-Bots, from Watertown High School and Eastern Awning Systems & The Siemon Company.


In Reply to: Re: lack of things to do
Posted by David Kelso on 04/27/2001 11:17 PM EST:



Ohhhhh, i see....I always thought that "wicked" was a NH word, and "ghetto" was a Bostonian word (thanks to Lora)...I dont think CT has any special words, cause we're boring down here in Waterworld

-Jessica B, #237