     By Tofu (Tofu) on Monday, April 26, 1999 - 12:06 am: Edit |
I suppose this group is so that chuck and I can post things that don't really fit in other sections. We can chat about break dancing, food, midgets, and other fun non-sequitors. By the way, I've got some sweat breakin' videos. They're some competitions from a few months ago. There's a sweet battle between Soul Control and Flying Tortillas. Storm was with Flying Tortillas. He's damn good. |
| By Charlie Yi on Monday, April 26, 1999 - 07:30 am: Edit |
Yo! Check it out cuz, I just picked up the ultimate breakin' b-boy tape, Radiotron #6/7. They've got it all on this tape! They start off with: -Historical ol' school breakin' footage from 80's -Air Force Crew performance footage -ol' school poppin'/lockin' competition -b-GIRL break contest! Asia One is so fine!! -human beat box battle -Renegades VS. Style Elements! Here's the link: http://www.bboy.com/shop/radioinfo.html I don't know about you, but I have got to find some way to get the Workman's Outlet to open a store down here in SD! I checked out the one in Pasadena and it was so fresh! Now I just gotta learn how to windmill! |
| By Charlie Yi on Tuesday, April 27, 1999 - 10:36 am: Edit |
Yo Tofu! Check out this site: http://www.newgrounds.com/assassin/index.html It has got the ultimate in borderline psychotic animations and games. Including "Assassinate your most hated pop celebrities" You just need the Shockwave Flash Player plug in to view the animations and games. You can get it here: http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash You have to check this place out!!  |
| By Charlie Yi on Tuesday, April 27, 1999 - 11:14 am: Edit |
OH MY GOD! SWEEEEEEET! THIS F**KING RULES!!! Some crazy geniuses got together and made a "South Park" parody of the "Star Wars Episode I" trailer! It totally kicks ass! It's gonna take you a while to download it (it's about 25 MB, but you can download it at 13MB as a zip file). So it'll take you an hour or two depending on your connection, but it is worth it! I know this isn't swing, but you have to see this thing! Here's the download site: http://sabbeth.com/~menace/specialedition.htm download from mirror site#7 is pretty reliable. It'll be in avi format so you should be able to watch it with your windows movie viewer! |
| By Tofu (Tofu) on Wednesday, April 28, 1999 - 07:28 am: Edit |
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| By Ian (Ian) on Wednesday, April 28, 1999 - 10:45 am: Edit |
I think I do not want to know who Tofu is until the BBQ. I have no idea even what he looks like. Charlie searching for Savoy  |
| By Charlie Yi on Wednesday, April 28, 1999 - 11:12 am: Edit |
Hello everyone! I'd like all of you to meet my latest invention: The TOFU2000! As you can see, TOFU2000 has been designed with the latest technology. TOFU2000, Activate!  TOFU2000, Wave to the folks!  The TOFU2000 is very responsive to commands. Here, I'll show you. TOFU2000, Stand on one leg!  TOFU2000, Sit!  TOFU2000, Lie down!  TOFU200, Stand by for further commands!  |
| By Tofu (Tofu) on Wednesday, April 28, 1999 - 05:51 pm: Edit |
 Where are your adidas? |
| By flyboyjive on Thursday, April 29, 1999 - 03:46 am: Edit |
Hey! It's the new BEANIE BABY- "TOFUadidas"  Charlie, hot pink is not your color! |
| By Charlie Yi on Thursday, April 29, 1999 - 07:38 am: Edit |
Tofu, Good one! Frightening, but a good one. I'm almost afraid to see it, but what did the original pic look like? |
| By Tofu (Tofu) on Tuesday, May 04, 1999 - 05:07 pm: Edit |
It's fun with Charlie!!!!!!!!! hee heee hee   |
| By Charlie Yi on Wednesday, May 05, 1999 - 03:18 pm: Edit |
All right, You got me on that one. Big Ups to Tofu! Be warned disciple of Dean, I shall return in full effect. Serchin' For Savoy... |
| By Tofu (Tofu) on Wednesday, May 05, 1999 - 05:02 pm: Edit |
I await, follower of Frankie, the the results of your creative contortions bourne of mental meanderings. and stuff. |
| By Tofu (Tofu) on Wednesday, July 07, 1999 - 11:25 pm: Edit |
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| By Shadow_charlie (Shadow_charlie) on Thursday, July 08, 1999 - 07:57 am: Edit |
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| By Shawn Hanna on Thursday, July 15, 1999 - 05:38 pm: Edit |
I wasn't sure where to put this, but with apologies to Tofu and Shadow (even Bomp can't top these): 'Obscure bureaucrat' wins bad writing contest Was it "dark and stormy"? Maybe not, but it was night when a bored British civil servant, inspired by tales of gloom and catastrophe, conjured up the winner for an annual bad writing contest. David Chuter, who describes himself as a "harmless and rather obscure bureaucrat," said he wrote the winning sentence in what he called "a moment of total insanity." He was the first non-American to win the top (dis)honor in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. The contest is named after Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, the Victorian novelist famous for the opening sentence "It was a dark and stormy night" from his 1830 novel "Paul Clifford." Competition organizer Scott Rice of California's San Jose State University said Chuter, 47, greased the competition with the following prose: "Through the gathering gloom of a late-October afternoon, along the greasy, cracking paving-stones slick from the sputum of the sky, Stanley Ruddlethorp wearily trudged up the hill from the cemetery where his wife, sister, brother, and three children were all buried, and forced open the door of his decaying house, blissfully unaware of the catastrophe that was soon to devastate his life." Victory is a double-edged sword Chuter said he had mixed feelings about winning. "The first thought I had was 'Oh, good!' The second thought I had was 'Oh, no!'" Chuter, who has a doctorate in English literature, said he would now be deemed totally unreliable. Chuter said he was inspired by stories from England's North Country, a fading industrial region, and John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath." "The interesting thing about parody is how far you can take it before you fall off the edge," he said in a telephone interview from London. "You begin with a certain theme like gloom and doom and death and things and see how long you can continue." Bad writing has planetwide appeal The idea for the bad writing contest emerged in 1983, Rice said. "It started out as kind of a lark," he said in a telephone interview. "Universities are always having literary contests that generate a lot of bad writing, so we decided to sponsor one of our own." Thousands now enter the contest, with entries from as far away as Saudi Arabia and Singapore. Rice whittles down the most promising entries and then presents the best of the worst to a "panel of undistinguished judges" made up of colleagues at the university. 'Best bad writing is by good people' Crafting a winning "bad" sentence is not as easy as it might seem. It's not just your average Joe who can come up with something truly bad, Rice said. "We do get generally bad writers, but the best (bad) writing is by good people," Rice said. Other efforts commended by the judges included: "Her breasts were like ripe strawberries, but much bigger, a completely different color, not as bumpy, and without the little green things on top." "George stared intently across the table which supported the golden-brown fresh-baked cornbread with butter and sizzling cholesterol-laden bacon which could finish blocking his previously hardened arteries at any time, into Margerie's clear-blue eyes and realized that she knew what he knew, and she knew that he knew what she knew, and he must practice carpe diem before angina seized the day." But wait, there's more! David Hirsch of Seattle won in the Purple Prose category with this opening line: "Rain -- violent torrents of it, rain like fetid water from a God-sized pot of pasta strained through a sky-wide colander, rain as Noah knew it, flaying the shuddering trees, whipping the whitecapped waters, violating the sodden firmament, purging purity and filth alike from the land, rain without mercy, without surcease, incontinent rain, turning to intermittent showers overnight with partial clearing Tuesday." And Wendy Lawton of Hilmar, California, captured the children's literature prize with: "The greedy schoolbus crept through the streets devouring clumps of children until its belly groaned with surfeit, then lumbered back to the schoolhouse where it obligingly regurgitated its meal onto the grounds." In keeping with the stature and dignity of the competition, winners receive the traditional award: zilch. |
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