This is it. This tops my "walking down my high school science hall in a toga with a guy dressed up as an 80 year old debating theoretical physics and the existance of parallel worlds."

So, backstory: I never change my pants. Ever. I go on "pant campaigns" and wear them for 3, 4 weeks in a row. Now, I just changed into my /favorite/ pair of pants, and went to this concert thing. I took off my boots, and walked around in my pants all night. (These are zip off-cargoish type pants, the legs are a bit too long and sometimes slide under my feet.) So anyway, they ended up getting really torn up, and the there was a big rip down the backs of the legs, up to about an inch above the ankle. The only thing holding it together was that bottom seam(?). I kept tripping over it, so I decided to cut the seam, and "edit" the pants, (read: cut some more) so they wouldn't get caught under my heel.
Well, it worked pretty well, but whenever I sat on my legs, and then moved them, it ripped more. A big one happened today in chem, and I was tripping a bunch on the way home. So I needed to operate. Again.

Fast forward to 10 minutes ago. I've never sewn anything before, and I decided to teach myself/experiment. So as I was sewing the rip up a bit, I started thinking. How am I going to end this, so the knot doesn't come untied?

The very first thing I thought of. No, it wasn't some special boyscout knot. It was clear there was only one path of action.

The Soldering Iron. That's right. The first thing I thought of when sewing up my pants was to solder it. Unfortunately, my dad has a "No soldering when I'm not there" rule, and so the solder will have to wait for later. But I can't wait..

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

[This message has been edited by happydud (edited March 16, 2004).]

Pft, real men use safety needles and duct tape.

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Roach - I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.--Frank Lloyd Wright

0 of 14.

Um, ok, let me see here:

soldering iron = hot
pants = fabric
fabric + hot = fire

Am I missing something here?

Dont they get a little stinky after 3-4 weeks?

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The Massassi-Map
There is no spoon.

Ah, the joys of cologne.


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Roach - I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.--Frank Lloyd Wright

0 of 14.

I had a pair of shorts when I was in high school that were held together/on my waist with a safety pin... Also, when I did tech crew for the plays, whenever someones pants ripped, we fixed it with gaffers tape. For those who dont know their tapes, if duct tape is the King of the tape world, gaffers tape would undoubtedly be the Queen.

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[This message has been edited by DSettahr (edited March 16, 2004).]

hoorah!

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If you ever want to be hated by your peers, make them look bad. That's what America did.

They don't really get stinky.. And if they do, I change them. Or if they get visably dirty.

Question. I wouldn't be touching the soldering iron to the fabric, so would the metal catch it on fire while it's in it's hot/liquid form?

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

Yeah.

Fire = cool.

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

Just tie off the loose end a few dozen times.


Or hot glue it. Yeah, definatly hot glue.

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

If the pants are made of a synthetic material they might just give off some interesting fumes instead of catching fire.

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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." -Isaac Asimov

but to fire your best(fav) pair of pants?



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My whole life is one omq that was so nerdy moment after another.. though some of them are excuseable, such as trying to explain logic truth tables for my phi113 course in terms of binary bits. Like if you have p and q as your premises:

I naturally think of those as binary 3 2 and 1.

Though probably more inexcusable are things such as describing greek myths in networking terms, like Chyron as a proxy or Cerberos as a firewall or the like.. or Medusa as a faulty hub [note all the radiating line-outs from her head] which tends to bugger and insert 2s into the binary 01010-- strings, causing them to catastrophically fail check-sum upon reaching the client and sending it into cascading page faults, thus hard-freezing the system [ie turned to stone].. yes i really seriously did have a discussion about that a while back, all extemporaenously.

Or several weeks back, i was learning this card game [apples and apples], and in the rules it listed how you gained cards and that you won by getting enough cards but didn't say 'til like a page later how many you needed to win, which irritated me that they weren't together, i was all dude, it's a While-loop you need an upward-bound in the header.. and i got really odd looks.
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Fire is good, fire near the crotch is not so good.

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There are two asses in Massassi... and I'm one of them.
The Matrix Unplugged|The Valley of the Jedi Tower|Smaug's Lair

Words to live by.

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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." -Isaac Asimov

Oh yeah?

Well, I actually went to band camp.
And one day, I skipped school to go to Toronto for a computer festival and afterwards saw the Matrix Revolutions on IMAX...

...with a friend from band camp.

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BV's rendition of Titanic: Let's have sex. I won't let go. I don't need this stone.
The End.
~ Wolfy

This is true. But keep in mind, fire down by your ankles is fine.

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

Oh yeah? Well, we were watching back to the future in german class and as marty brings his fading hand up to his face to look at it, I screamed "HE SO GOT OWNED BY THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM!"

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WOOSH.
-----@%

Soldering it might hold it together, but if it doesn't, it's going to be a mess.

Make some hotpants out of them?

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"Music is the universal language and the
dialect we speak in is Hip Hop!" - King Solomon

I called my teacher a noob, and told my lunch lady that she got owned. That's the epitome of geek.

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That's sooo much more disturbing when you think of "pants" in it's British meaning

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Jagged Conscience: No maeve, don't stand up for Rob, he needs to learn.
Maeve:that's Rob?
Jagged Conscience: He's a Rob

[This message has been edited by Recusant (edited March 17, 2004).]

Is it also nerdy if that sounds like a cool day?



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"Run Away!"

I went as DF Kyle for Halloween, beat that


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<Kroko> Massassi is like Nazi Germany online, only it's not in Germany.

Genki = God.

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Titan A.E.

Didn't Jovan go as Max Payne once?

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Map-Review | Digital Core | The Matrix: Unplugged

Farewell, MaDaVentor. In our hearts, you'll always live on.

Gaffer Tape > *. Utility in a little multicoloured sticky coil.

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The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever.
-- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, The Father of Rocketry

Holy crap Genki.. that's the most beautiful thing.. I've ever read.. Heck I'll be 20 next Halloween but you make me want to do that! Everyone hates Kyle, but as time goes by, I love him more and more.

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Have a good one,
Freelancer

Correction:

Gaffer's Tape ~ Duct Tape>*

It depends on what strength you use. Duct Tape is strong enough to stand in for many metals, but Gaffer's tape is much better for things such as with clothing, or anything where you need some hold, but don't want to leave adheshive behind (or worse yet, rip apart what you had used it on).

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Nes digs around in the trash can.
Nes finds a hamburger!
Nes puts the hamburger in his backpack.

Would be hitting this:



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[="They say music can alter moods and talk to you, but can it load a gun for you and cock it too?" - Eminem=]

Massassian since: March 12, 2001

[This message has been edited by Sol (edited March 17, 2004).]

One time, I went to Halloween as Super Saiyen Goku by putting yellow paint in my hair and gelling it up...No one talked to me...I also had a large stick tho...

And another nerdy moment was when I joined the tennis team at our school, and I was the only one...

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0_o o_0....ur pants fell off.

Well, tennis sux obviously

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There is no signature

So true....

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0_o o_0....ur pants fell off.

Yet you say 2 sentences later: Ahaha. I made a liar out of you. Reminds me of that time I dropped hot solder on my crotch...
...and my ankle
...and my knee
...and my hand
...and my foot
...and my arm

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"Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend."
- Proverbs 27:17

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[This message has been edited by DogSRoOL (edited March 18, 2004).]

Reminds me of that time I dropped hot solder on my crotch...
...and my ankle
...and my knee
...and my hand
...and my foot
...and my arm[/b][/QUOTE]
And the moral? Don't let DogSRoOL anywhere near a soldering iron.


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The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever.
-- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, The Father of Rocketry

Trousers!!!

/me flees from angry mob

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Sweet irony...

Trouser snakes??

AHH!! *runs away*

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

I only have two pairs of pants (By choice, it's not that I can't afford more). I change them every 2 weeks or so. (Or when someone makes me)... So you're not alone!

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"With Great power comes great Responibility. Seems like the converse should be true as well. Now where the heck is my great Power?"

I have... Like, I dunno, 5 pairs of pants? I change them every two days or so.

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Titan A.E.

I wear clean pants every day.

I'm not a neat freak or anything like that, I just respect my image.



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