January 22 (TJIB #4)

[Nate the Great]

Oh, right, sorry. I only get local TV, and I think I'm the only Twin Cityite around here.

I never really visited TripHammered, so I don't know whether it's a tragedy or not. It does strike me as odd, though, that after only two years the subject material has been declared out-of-date and such. I mean, the rest of you guys are still talking Classic Who nine ways to Sunday, right?

[Gatac]

I'm really going to miss TripHammered. The BSG reviews were always insightful, and let's not forget Get Me Rewrite!...

Gatac

[Katy Jane]

Originally Posted by Infinite Improbability

Oh, right, sorry. I only get local TV, and I think I'm the only Twin Cityite around here.

I'm almost a Twin Cityitie.... just the other side of the river.

[Nate the Great]

Snicker. Cityitie. Sounds like a species of Pokemon, or maybe the Tellytubby that the others killed and buried under that absurd rabbithole years ago.

Hey, it's hardly the first time one of us has turned an innocent typo into a joke!

Which river? I assume you mean you're from Wisconsin. If we've covered this territory before, forgive me for forgetting.

[e of pi]

If they mean the twin cities I think they mean, it's Minniapolis-St. Paul, Minnisota, home of Garrison Kiellor(sp). Hey, I never said I could spell...

[Katy Jane]

Originally Posted by Infinite Improbability

Which river? I assume you mean you're from Wisconsin. If we've covered this territory before, forgive me for forgetting.

Yep, i used to work in Hudson, which is on the St Croix river (just north of where the St. Croix and the Mississippi join, so which river depends on which bridge i use to get over to MN ) I'm a little further away now but we still get all your tv.

[Nate the Great]

"If they mean the Twin Cities I think they mean..."

I think that although there are a lot of "twin cities" pairs, only Minneapolis-St. Paul uses "Twin Cities." Other groupings are the Tricities, the Quad Cities, the Grand Cities, and so on.

"If we've covered this territory before..."

I completely did not notice the hidden joke in there. If we(Katy Jane and I)'ve covered this territory (the Upper Midwest) before... Ha ha, I made a funny.

You get my TV? So that's where it went!

[evay]

Thank you, Zeke, for kindly coming to praise TripHammered and not to bury it. Seriously, you've always been TripHammered's biggest cheerleader, and I truly appreciate it. Thanks to all of you for your kind words.

Now I'm going to have to work on using "Ave atque mallet" on a regular basis.

[Nate the Great]

Thanks for the chuckle, evay. "coming to praise TripHammered and not to bury it," brought to mind an old gag from the Reduced Shakespeare Company. In about a minute the troupe covered the plays Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra.

Austin (as Brutus): Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your rears! I've come to bury Caesar, so let's bury him and get on to my play...
Austin and Adam: Antony and Cleopatra!
Adam (as Cleopatra): Is this an asp I see before me? Ouch, oh, I've been bitten by a snake! Beargh!

I have to yet again give full props to the Reduced Shakespeare Company for their role in furthering the popularity growth of the "humor through condensation" genre.

[PointyHairedJedi]

Originally Posted by evay

Seriously, you've always been TripHammered's biggest cheerleader, and I truly appreciate it.

Zeke, as a cheerleader.

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Oh, my poor brain.