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by ZhangC1459
Wed Jun 02, 2010 12:30 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119730

Re: Random posts about food

ED DEBEVIC'S FTW I still have my little Sundae cup from like eighth grade. Also, at the Outback in the Marriott, there was a dessert named "Chocolate Thunder from Down Under". Me and Liron both independently decided that it was not a dessert, but the title of a... "fine film". An...
by ZhangC1459
Tue Jun 01, 2010 6:25 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: things that suck...
Replies: 623
Views: 443154

Re: things that suck...

New laptop charger = 99.99.

GAAHHHHH
by ZhangC1459
Tue Jun 01, 2010 6:24 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: HSNCT Predictions
Replies: 44
Views: 12556

Re: HSNCT Predictions

Well, small school playoffs. I recall that three small Missouri schools made it because of the 4-6.
by ZhangC1459
Mon May 31, 2010 12:59 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Things that don't suck
Replies: 620
Views: 694340

Re: Things that don't suck

While Paul, Jeff Hill, Alex, and I were coming back from Chicago tonight, we stopped at a Hardee's in Normal, Illinois, a town that is anything but. Did you know they have the nation's largest Dairy Queen? It's like 3 square feet larger than any other Dairy Queen but my is it EVER impressive. While...
by ZhangC1459
Sun May 30, 2010 7:52 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: HSNCT Predictions
Replies: 44
Views: 12556

Re: HSNCT Predictions

Wait what? Will told me that Helias made it to playoffs!

Anyways, great prediction on number 3, Will... :P and well done to Clayton :)
by ZhangC1459
Sat May 29, 2010 8:16 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: HSNCT Predictions
Replies: 44
Views: 12556

Re: HSNCT Predictions

NICK MISSED A QUESTION THAT INVOLVED SOMETHING NEAR AND DEAR TO HIM
by ZhangC1459
Sat May 29, 2010 6:25 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: lalalalala
Replies: 1030
Views: 544221

Re: lalalalala

dividebyzero wrote:Rigor mortis

*USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST*
That is all.
by ZhangC1459
Fri May 28, 2010 7:53 am
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: HSNCT Predictions
Replies: 44
Views: 12556

Re: HSNCT Predictions

If it's the last tossup and we're up by 55 or more I'm going to neg with the Pokemon theme song. Especially if the room is being recorded.
by ZhangC1459
Fri May 28, 2010 6:11 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: HSNCT tips and tricks
Replies: 31
Views: 4605

Re: HSNCT tips and tricks

WillHack wrote:Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski.
Is that the Polish Anthropologist we kept missing at prenats? >_>

EDIT: Google confirms.
by ZhangC1459
Fri May 28, 2010 6:05 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119730

Re: Random posts about food

Our school sometimes had it for lunch as the expensive option, i.e. 4 dollars for a burrito that was maybe a third of the size of real Qdoba.
by ZhangC1459
Thu May 27, 2010 11:58 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119730

Re: Random posts about food

SHE'S A WITCH! SHE TURNED ME INTO A NEWT!

...I got better...
by ZhangC1459
Thu May 27, 2010 11:32 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Things that don't suck
Replies: 620
Views: 694340

Re: Things that don't suck

I actually just learned minesweeper the other day from playing an MMO that had a minesweeper-style minigame.

This after 10 years of failing to learn it the normal way.
by ZhangC1459
Thu May 27, 2010 11:31 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119730

Re: Random posts about food

What the hell is Taco John's? O.o
by ZhangC1459
Thu May 27, 2010 11:29 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: HSNCT Predictions
Replies: 44
Views: 12556

Re: HSNCT Predictions

Oh hell, our team has a huuuuuge literature hole. Like, if you took a missile of pure literature damage type and fired it at us, boom hull shot and we're dead.

Here's hoping Nick gets that reference.
by ZhangC1459
Thu May 27, 2010 11:26 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: HSNCT Predictions
Replies: 44
Views: 12556

Re: HSNCT Predictions

dividebyzero wrote:Or you know, not had a ridiculous neg on English Civil War.
(^didn't say that out loud)
We're talking about the same thing here, i think.
by ZhangC1459
Thu May 27, 2010 11:25 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119730

Re: Random posts about food

FishyFreshman wrote:Qdoba and Chipotle are both delicious and fantastic.

*USER WAS MADE A MODERATOR FOR THIS POST*
by ZhangC1459
Thu May 27, 2010 11:23 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: HSNCT Predictions
Replies: 44
Views: 12556

Re: HSNCT Predictions

WillHack wrote:If we'd just known Pickett's Charge one tenth of a second earlier, we would have been against Savannah for a play-in into the playoffs.
Yeah, or if someone hadn't negged with Glorious Revolution after hearing Roundheads...
by ZhangC1459
Thu May 27, 2010 11:14 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: HSNCT Predictions
Replies: 44
Views: 12556

Re: HSNCT Predictions

Psh. We ended up going 5-5 last year. That was BS.
by ZhangC1459
Thu May 27, 2010 11:07 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119730

Re: Random posts about food

DeckardCain wrote:
ChippytheSavage wrote:...Chipotle is NASTY.
*USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST*

nononono you're supposed to edit HIS post and put it in there!!! lol but if I could like that like i can on facebook i would
by ZhangC1459
Thu May 27, 2010 11:00 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119730

Re: Random posts about food

Qdoba = Chipotle knockoff.


Btw, Sabrina, I was at IHOP again just now, this time with Nick and other friends and not you. :P
by ZhangC1459
Thu May 27, 2010 10:59 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: things that suck...
Replies: 623
Views: 443154

Re: things that suck...

Wait, wha?
by ZhangC1459
Thu May 27, 2010 10:58 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Things that don't suck
Replies: 620
Views: 694340

Re: Things that don't suck

Machina wrote:^ truuuuth

Things that very much do not suck: HSNCTHSNCTHSNCT
TRUE STORY!!!!!
by ZhangC1459
Thu May 27, 2010 10:57 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: HSNCT Predictions
Replies: 44
Views: 12556

Re: HSNCT Predictions

Negging streak? Charles Hang?

imeanwut?
by ZhangC1459
Thu May 27, 2010 9:26 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: lalalalala
Replies: 1030
Views: 544221

Re: lalalalala

Life is never boring when you have friends, Nerf guns, stolen shopping carts, and nocturnal sleep cycles.
by ZhangC1459
Thu May 27, 2010 9:26 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: HSNCT Predictions
Replies: 44
Views: 12556

Re: HSNCT Predictions

Agree with 1, disagree with 2 and 3, agree with 4 and 5.
by ZhangC1459
Thu May 27, 2010 10:10 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119730

Re: Random posts about food

OH SNAP IHOP.


:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
by ZhangC1459
Thu May 27, 2010 10:09 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: lalalalala
Replies: 1030
Views: 544221

Re: lalalalala

So quizbowl is the one reason I meet some people online before I meet them in real life (and then proceed to meet those people in real life as well). Least now I can put a face with some of these names :lol: Now as opposed to me. I've let online friends in my car immediately after meeting them in p...
by ZhangC1459
Tue May 25, 2010 11:43 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Class schedules for next semester
Replies: 212
Views: 237611

Re: Class schedules for next semester

ashkenaziCD wrote:It's been open for me for months. I remember when I was a freshman, I didn't register for my first semester until I did the summer welcome thing, so that might be when you are supposed to register too.
Ok, that's what I thought. Thanks.
by ZhangC1459
Tue May 25, 2010 8:53 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Things that don't suck
Replies: 620
Views: 694340

Re: Things that don't suck

*USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST* So by posting this in this thread you're saying it wouldn't suck if we banned you for that post? Hmm.... :twisted: Well, the game aside, I realized this after I posted it and laughed at the coincidence. Also, Sabrina pointed out to me how if it had been anybody else ...
by ZhangC1459
Tue May 25, 2010 6:38 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Things that don't suck
Replies: 620
Views: 694340

Re: Things that don't suck


*USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST*
by ZhangC1459
Tue May 25, 2010 6:38 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Class schedules for next semester
Replies: 212
Views: 237611

Re: Class schedules for next semester

Charlie, do you know when Mizzou's class registration opens?
by ZhangC1459
Tue May 25, 2010 4:24 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: Inaugural MOQBA Singles Championship (May 22, 2010)
Replies: 54
Views: 119191

Re: Inaugural MOQBA Singles Championship (May 22, 2010)

dividebyzero wrote:I think that's your total win-loss: initial pool play (where your pool played 7 games each) plus the two games against me and Craig afterward [at least that's what I can interpret from the stats]
Oh rightttt our pool didn't have a bye.
by ZhangC1459
Tue May 25, 2010 10:52 am
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: Inaugural MOQBA Singles Championship (May 22, 2010)
Replies: 54
Views: 119191

Re: Inaugural MOQBA Singles Championship (May 22, 2010)

We did get you a shirt. You just weren't there to receive it because you bailed. Lol at Ammar's quote. Rumple es enfadado. Also, I'd like to comment on the larger-than-usual amount of pop culture stuff on here. It was relieving to finally find out that I'm not carrying around all this knowledge abo...
by ZhangC1459
Tue May 25, 2010 10:52 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119730

Re: Random posts about food

Peanut butter jelly with a healthy side dose of the game. Just for Jeff.
by ZhangC1459
Mon May 24, 2010 5:27 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Announcement
Replies: 18
Views: 2888

Re: Announcement

We love you Paul. And hopefully Scribblenauts can still work.


Good luck at Kent State!
by ZhangC1459
Mon May 24, 2010 5:18 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119730

Re: Random posts about food

Agree with Ammar.

To Sabrina: Chipotle is awesome. It's also about the size of your arm and takes a while to eat.
by ZhangC1459
Mon May 24, 2010 1:36 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: Inaugural MOQBA Singles Championship (May 22, 2010)
Replies: 54
Views: 119191

Re: Inaugural MOQBA Singles Championship (May 22, 2010)

We did get you a shirt. You just weren't there to receive it because you bailed. Lol at Ammar's quote. Rumple es enfadado. Also, I'd like to comment on the larger-than-usual amount of pop culture stuff on here. It was relieving to finally find out that I'm not carrying around all this knowledge abou...
by ZhangC1459
Sun May 23, 2010 11:50 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: 2010 Pre-Nationals Tournament (5/22/2010) @ MU
Replies: 44
Views: 31298

Re: 2010 Pre-Nationals Tournament (5/22/2010) @ MU

CherryCokeStain wrote:Rock Bridge, PCH, and Villa were all within 3 ppg of each other. That's insane. And props to my team for only negging 5 times in 10 games.
3 ppg? seriously? niceeee.

Oh, and I"m proud of myself for finally being the top individual on my team for once this year. Lol.
by ZhangC1459
Sun May 23, 2010 10:23 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: lalalalala
Replies: 1030
Views: 544221

Re: lalalalala

haha true story.

Liron came up to me and was like "who's sean phillips?"
by ZhangC1459
Sun May 23, 2010 2:50 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: Inaugural MOQBA Singles Championship (May 22, 2010)
Replies: 54
Views: 119191

Re: Inaugural MOQBA Singles Championship (May 22, 2010)

Keith Moon wrote:man, i really hate that I missed this, and the main tournament...congrats to all involved!!
Yeah, Rumple, way to bail. You even missed the shirts.
by ZhangC1459
Fri May 21, 2010 10:23 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: Inaugural MOQBA Singles Championship (May 22, 2010)
Replies: 54
Views: 119191

Re: Inaugural MOQBA Singles Championship (May 22, 2010)

Oh, and our ride snafu has been resolved.
by ZhangC1459
Fri May 21, 2010 10:23 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: Inaugural MOQBA Singles Championship (May 22, 2010)
Replies: 54
Views: 119191

Re: Inaugural MOQBA Singles Championship (May 22, 2010)

Oh excellent, that means we won't have to break it to him there after all.
by ZhangC1459
Fri May 21, 2010 8:56 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Things that don't suck
Replies: 620
Views: 694340

Re: Things that don't suck

Someone managed to take that annoying Kesha song and make it semi-decent:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXxsN7QVT40
by ZhangC1459
Fri May 21, 2010 4:07 am
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: 2010 Pre-Nationals Tournament (5/22/2010) @ MU
Replies: 44
Views: 31298

Re: 2010 Pre-Nationals Tournament (5/22/2010) @ MU

Shouldn't it auto-update? I'm still set on UTC-6 for some reason. Imagine that... :shock:
by ZhangC1459
Fri May 21, 2010 12:03 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Things that don't suck
Replies: 620
Views: 694340

Re: Things that don't suck

More like AGUILLOTINESAYSWHAT?

Xkcd anyone?
by ZhangC1459
Fri May 21, 2010 12:02 am
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: 2010 Pre-Nationals Tournament (5/22/2010) @ MU
Replies: 44
Views: 31298

Re: 2010 Pre-Nationals Tournament (5/22/2010) @ MU

Oh, I have board time set differently then? It says 8 for me...
by ZhangC1459
Thu May 20, 2010 11:03 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: 2010 Pre-Nationals Tournament (5/22/2010) @ MU
Replies: 44
Views: 31298

Re: 2010 Pre-Nationals Tournament (5/22/2010) @ MU

Alright, now that I know what board time it is, I'm sorry Liron, but I'm going to have to say no right now. If somebody decides to drop, then I can have you fill in for them, but I announced in the singles thread that the cutoff would be 8 tonight, and because I have a 12 person field, I can't real...