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Aug 11, 2005, 01:27 AM
 
as a fridge magnet. No longer your child. Would you still love him?
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 01:31 AM
 
Strangest thread ever.
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Aug 11, 2005, 01:33 AM
 
Dude, I love fridge magnets. I'd probably love him even more.
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Aug 11, 2005, 01:36 AM
 
This is great, just got me thinking about the father of all fridge magnets. I wonder how he looks like.
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 01:55 AM
 
Wtf?
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 02:05 AM
 
Good point, budster. How could the child come home if he were a magnet? Magnets can't walk. This situation makes no sense.
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Aug 11, 2005, 02:18 AM
 
Couldn't happen.

Besides, being a magnet is not natural.
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 02:36 AM
 
Wow. Just wow... I think I'll just post: WTF and let others interpret it from now on.
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 02:56 AM
 
I wonder if he contemplated posting something controversial and then backed out in a subsequent edit.

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Aug 11, 2005, 03:13 AM
 
Ahhh... replace "fridge magnet" with nope, not getting it.

Let's see, can we mix up the letters to get the original messsage? (Running words through the old bat computer)

I have it!

The hidden words is Canadian and Gay... Of course I had to substitute a few letters as his code was incredibly complex...
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 03:18 AM
 
Originally Posted by Big Mac
I wonder if he contemplated posting something controversial and then backed out in a subsequent edit.
This is the same guy who is recruiting people to be his Super Master Juniors or whatever. I think this thread came by the weirdness honestly.

Though seriously, it cracked me up. I was totally expecting something serious, and then it turns out it's about children turning into fridge magnets. Ha!
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Aug 11, 2005, 03:19 AM
 
Hello!.... it was code for "A Gay Canadian"...

Just cracked it a few moments ago.
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 03:41 AM
 
Originally Posted by Chuckit
..was totally expecting something serious.
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 11:46 AM
 
My love is conditional. I would rename my magnet carl.

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Aug 11, 2005, 11:51 AM
 
Originally Posted by dencamp
My love is conditional. I would rename my magnet carl.
That's a stupid name. I would beat it up.

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Aug 11, 2005, 11:56 AM
 
Carl will be proud and upright. He shall take a beating with dignity.

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Aug 11, 2005, 11:56 AM
 
Better yet....

What if your fridge magnet of Jessical Alba came to life?
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 12:06 PM
 
Now we are talking... (looking up who Jessical Alba is)...



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Aug 11, 2005, 12:19 PM
 
Originally Posted by dencamp
Carl will be proud and upright. He shall take a beating with dignity.
Then would you love him? Love him like a son?

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Aug 11, 2005, 02:18 PM
 
As long as he kept his magnetic ass away from my TV.
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 02:21 PM
 
And the hard drive....
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 02:25 PM
 
good point, maybe I'd just put he/she/it on the hood of my car.
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 02:49 PM
 
Carl the magnet. Sounds ok. A fridge magnet child, name of Carl.
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 03:05 PM
 
This is so strange- but this actually happened to a friend of mine. Well really, a friend of a friend. Seriously, his kid came home one day and had turned into a refrigerator magnet. Except it wasn't a refrigerator magnet, it was a pizza. And it wasn't his kid, it was the Domino's guy. And he didn't turn into the pizza, he just brought it. The guy doesn't have kids. The Pizza was wrong. It was supposed to be Hawaiian- but there was no pineapple. He was kind of pissed, but he was hungry. He ate like 6 pieces and then called Domino's and tried to get a whole new Pizza. The manager ended up giving him some chicken wings with his next order, so he finished the pizza and it was ok.

It was really f'ed up.
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Aug 11, 2005, 03:35 PM
 
:d.
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 03:48 PM
 
Originally Posted by Kevin
Couldn't happen.

Besides, being a magnet is not natural.
Huh?

Prove it. Magnetism is a natural phenomena sir.
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 03:51 PM
 
No.. you are teh kidding?
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 03:52 PM
 
Originally Posted by Kevin
No.. you are teh kidding?

     
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Aug 11, 2005, 04:01 PM
 
Wait. I think I'm on to something.

Magnetism is natural.
People are drawn together like magnets.
They get married and become glued together like magnets for life.
Then they have little magnets...

Nope, never mind.
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 04:05 PM
 
budster well that is the natural course of magnets.
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 04:31 PM
 
Explain this "comes home" process, please. I mean, does he hitch a ride on someone's bike or what? I think perhaps I've held a very limited view of what refrigerator magnets could accomplish in life.
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 04:52 PM
 
Looking at Fridge now... I think they've (magnets) are watching me.

STOP STARING AT ME!!!!

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There, that's better.
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 05:44 PM
 
Originally Posted by budster101
Looking at Fridge now... I think they've (magnets) are watching me.

STOP STARING AT ME!!!!

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There, that's better.
They are only appeasing you for the time being, they will SOON have their cold metallic revenge....
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 05:56 PM
 
I believe this is theoretically possible via molecular re-organization. Perhaps a matter-energy teleportation re-constitution accident could produce this result. I have never seen an actual case, however. Perhaps if you have a copy of the original energy pattern you could run the kid/magnet through the teleportation beam again, and it may restore the child to his/her original human form.
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 06:00 PM
 
Or he/she/it could become a willie wonka bar...
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 07:10 PM
 
hell, i'd be more worried about some kid of mine appearing out of my murky past. i'd demand a paternity test. and i'd be cleared, too - not much dna in a magnet, i reckon.

that said, i do have a tendency to sleep with women who are quite attractive and one end and repulsive at the other, so maybe i am his dad...

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Aug 11, 2005, 07:41 PM
 
which end? pics?

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Aug 11, 2005, 07:54 PM
 
Meeeeeeooowwww.
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 07:59 PM
 
Originally Posted by budster101
Or he/she/it could become a willie wonka bar...
I actually like the fridge magnet idea.

The problem is when the positive goes towards the negatives.

You don't want that to happen...

You could grow kids in no time man!!
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 08:20 PM
 
Originally Posted by GranolaBoy
Explain this "comes home" process, please. I mean, does he hitch a ride on someone's bike or what? I think perhaps I've held a very limited view of what refrigerator magnets could accomplish in life.
Suppose it turned into a magnet just as it was passing the family car? It could get stuck to the fender and the parents would find it as they got out the car.

Anyway, a fridge magnet kid sounds much better than an ordinary kid. It wouldn't wander off and get lost, it wouldn't demand a ton of sugary cereal and expensive toys, it wouldn't turn into a troubled teenager and start doing drugs and if you got tired of it, you could throw it in the trash and get a new one for a cheap price.

Come to think of it, why even have kids in the age of fridge magnets? Why does the human race still exist?
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Aug 11, 2005, 08:26 PM
 
Originally Posted by pooka
which end? pics?
Its a hard decison, either an ugly woman with nice feet, or a hot woman with awful feet.

As far as headscratchers go this is a dilly of a pickle....
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 09:29 PM
 
Originally Posted by budster101
Ahhh... replace "fridge magnet" with nope, not getting it.

Let's see, can we mix up the letters to get the original messsage? (Running words through the old bat computer)

I have it!

The hidden words is Canadian and Gay... Of course I had to substitute a few letters as his code was incredibly complex...
ROFLMAO

I don't agree with your sentiment, but the expression was clever and surprising!
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 09:34 PM
 
Originally Posted by budster101
Now we are talking... (looking up who Jessical Alba is)...



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Aug 11, 2005, 09:54 PM
 
Just because animals engage in fridge-magnet transformation doesn't justify that action among mankind. If my child chose to become a fridge-magnet I would have to disown him, because I could not allow such a perversion in my family. What's next for him, would he become a spice rack, or worse, a pineapple?
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 10:01 PM
 
Practice Safe Magnet Reproduction PSMR! This has been a PSA, by a MacNNer, using a Mac.
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 10:07 PM
 
I'd probably wonder how the heck I got a son...

Must have been that wild party in Toronto...

But if I already knew I had a son and he came home as a magnet... I imagine perhaps with someone carrying him. I'd still love him, and probably stick him on the fridge so that his drawings from when he was a boy don't fall down.
     
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Aug 11, 2005, 10:18 PM
 
Originally Posted by Kerrigan
Just because animals engage in fridge-magnet transformation doesn't justify that action among mankind. If my child chose to become a fridge-magnet I would have to disown him, because I could not allow such a perversion in my family. What's next for him, would he become a spice rack, or worse, a pineapple?
And may I point out that this transformation only occurs rarely with the changeling fuzzy bears of the planet Mano-mano. So, even then it is rare.
     
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Originally Posted by sek929
Its a hard decison, either an ugly woman with nice feet, or a hot woman with awful feet.

As far as headscratchers go this is a dilly of a pickle....
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