Child's Play Charity

never heard of you guys before (sorry) Saw mentioned on Penny Arcade and you geezers doing the charity thang....so bought some of ya stuff (very nice), nice one geezers

Paul

In Response to Lonely Goatherd (#21295):

Man, this guy really doesn't doesn't give a good impression of Penny Arcade (well, it's readers)...he makes my head hurt. But even through his ignorance he's doing a good thing by A. Contributing to a charity and B. Contributing to Goats.

In Response to GeminiCrash (#21304):

please dont think all PA guys are like that... um... geezers....

In Response to Lonely Goatherd (#21306):

HA!

Prove it!

Register, and hang out for a while.

The honor of PA DEMANDS it!

Ha!
(sorry, been watching a lot of Soap recently)

In Response to zamphir (#21307):

There are a ton of asshats over at the PA forums. (myself included) I think after a while you just stop noticing it, and it becomes normal.

I'd never been here before either. I like the "i live in beer" shirt. I'll pick that up, supose i'll pick up the first issue as well, so i can get the back story on it.

In Response to Thaiboxer (#21309):

Well, it depends where you live. (in PA, I mean). D&D's not too bad, for example. And we're not the most welcoming group here, either. So you should feel right at home. Stick around ;-)

I think we're more likely to shun you rather than just argue with you. If you piss us off, of course. But so far you seem...tolerable. And that's high praise coming from me.

Just out of curiosity, are you British? I noticed your use of the word "geezer", and I thought I learned somewhere along the line that Brits have a different definition for that word than Americans. I could be wrong though.

Well I was the orginal poster, so to clear up a few things:-

(a) Yes I am British
(b) I like the word geezer.
(c) This board/place/entity looked good so I'd thought I'd be fairly casual.

(d) Here's a a more formal version:-

Dear Sir,
                  I am a regular reader of the Penny Arcade series of comics, and whilst engaging in their entertaining illuminaries, I found out that as a company you were not only supporting the Childs Play Charity, but also that you produce a fine selection of apparal for my upper body. This I felt was a highly advantagous position as I not only wanted to give to said chairty, I also needed my upper body covered, so I have purchased a multi pack. I wish to thank you for your charitable actions, and upper body apparal designs. I hope to be wearing said 'T-Shirts' as soon as possible wilst wondering through the Gold paved streets of London,

Yours faithfully,

Paul

Oh and geezer means bloke/person/chap/sonny.....can I take it to mean that I've accidentaly insulted someones mother in America?

Paul

In Response to Lonely Goatherd (#21315):

I've just dropped in via Penny Arcade as well, nice looking Goat action here... I'm just browsing the store.

I wanted to drop a quick comment and say that not everybody from England uses the word "geezer". In fact, many of us think it's an utterly ridiculous word.

I just registered so it doesn't get annoying....

Yes geezer is a ridiculous word and not everyone uses it, I think it kind of makes me special, just like my parents said I was.

Christ, I'm just happy I don't use the term 'Macky D's ' to mean McDonalds.....now thats ridiculous.

Paul

In Response to GeezerPaul (#21317):

Geezer was a great word until it became forever sullied by association with Jamie Oliver.

Sorry.

Steve

oops yeah good point, please replace 'geezers' with 'munchkins'

thanks

Paul

In Response to zamphir (#21307):

Is that Irish Spring or Zest...

In Response to GeminiCrash (#21320):

Is that Irish Spring or Zest...

Neither. It's Swedish [imdb.com]

In Response to Lonely Goatherd (#21316):

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

In Response to GeezerPaul (#21319):

Geezer in my part of the US means someone old and feeble. And it's nice to see you register so we aren't being insulted by poop. (Continue reading through the strips and eventually you'll get to it)

Munchkins isn't that great either; think Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz.

In Response to Dynedain (#21333):

yeah slowly reading 'em all now :)

I shall give up trying to replace the word....or maybe dedicate my life to the construction of the pefect word.....it's a tough call....

In Response to Lonely Goatherd (#21334):

dammit wasn't logged in......that was me, up there...proably a inch or 2 above me here now....

In Response to zamphir (#21321):

Very amusing I'm sure...doubt I'd be able to find any of the episodes to rent...probably going to have to buy them, I'm such a cheap bastard.

In Response to GeminiCrash (#21356):

NetFlix has them.

In Response to Lonely Goatherd (#21306):

the world is full of asshats, berating someone for being one doesn't help =P

In Response to Lonely Goatherd (#21366):

Makes us feel better, though.

And that's all that matters.

In Response to zamphir (#21358):

For a while, Comedy Central aired the serial in the wee hours of weekend mornings, so one of my friends would videotape it and we'd have some laughs. When it first aired in the late 1970s, most of it went way over my head (i was in elementary school). As an adult, i found it to be quite droll-- probably equally amusing as 'Allo, 'Allo!

One of the best things about Soap was the narration: as the plot grew thicker and more wildly convoluted, Rod Roddy's weekly summary and cliffhanger questions grew incredibly preposterous; yet somehow, it was satisfying (in a nerdy way) to be able to follow his outline, and i couldn't wait for the next week to bring fresh answers from Katherine Helmond, Robert Guillaume, Billy Crystal, Richard Mulligan, and the rest. Eventually, when Burt was kidnapped by time-travelling aliens and Jessica thought he was stricken with a case of amnesia, i had become a total Soap junky.