An Ode To Xombies

Situation: The Xombies led by, who other than Nick, have taken a walk into the wilderness and have got lost.

Disclaimer: Usually it's at the end. This byte is purely a work of fiction and in no way indicates my understanding of the character of the protagonists. The content is based on the comments and articles by the various people on Xomba spiced up with some imagination on my part. If someone is offended, blame it on Scotch, Sex and SEO.

Shiva_pdtd: Where r v?

Mamamia: This is getting interesting.

Shiva_pdtd: wow!

DeDom: wow! Is an interjection used to express wonder amazement or great pleasure. It is also sometimes used as a noun expressing an outstanding success. Used as a verb it would mean impress greatly as in wowed the audience.

Kukku: Very handy and informative tips.

Mamamia: Shiva, Are you new here? Welcome.

Shiva_pdtd: I am from Bangalore in Alabama.

Baldwin: Bangalore? In Alabama?

Shiva_pdtd: Both r same.

Kukku: Very handy and informative tips.

Nick (Shaking his head): Amazing!

Binkdonk: It is a vicious cycle when you are first starting out in the workforce...Don't give up! Be consistent and keep trying, even go back to the places you have already tried. You will get a job if you have the other qualifications, some employers like inexperience because it gives them a chance to train somebody who hasn't picked up a lot of bad habits yet. Good luck!

Kukku: Very handy and informative tips.

Idlewild: Whoopee. I am in the wild?

Mythman: In the wild? I thought you were I dell wild.

Sarajoy: mmm… this could be fun.

Nick: Here’s a clearing in this thick jungle.

Les Porter: Not a clearing Nick. These are the ‘white spaces’.

Nick: Uhh.. White spaces?

Rawnak: Some "white spaces" are best left as they are, in order to remain beautiful and continue to be cherished!

Les Porter: I do struggle with the English language at times.

DeDom: White space may be used to denote Resource Scheduling or negative space, the portions of a page left unmarked or, in computer science, characters used to represent white space in text or an esoteric programming language whose syntax consists only of spaces, tabs and newlines or, unused radio frequencies in the VHF and UHF bands allocated to television transmission. or in the Singapore Education System to denote time reserved for teachers' personal reflection and planning. White space is also used for the area between the boxes in an organizational map, often an area where no one is responsible.

Kukku: Very handy and informative tips.

Nick: Alright. Let’s cut some wood and start a fire.

Rawnak: Cut wood? Have you not heard that we have only eight years to save the earth?

Nick: Right now I am too busy working on Xomba. There are so many things I have planned.

Publius: Oh, No!!! The world is going to end!!! Quick...turn off all your lights and hold in your flatulence!!! We only have eight more years!!! Wake up people! There are more important things we need to worry about than "climate change" that we no influence on.

Les Porter: I wonder what affliction of mind is at the bottom of this? I'm willing to bet if the fellow opened his mouth in an interview for a position or job for actual work, there are only a few words about pollutants, waste products, climate warming you would have to make to get him to peg himself.

Kukku: Very handy and informative tips.

Publius: There are no facts. Because they cannot be proven. There are no facts because we don't know enough of the variables, or how they interact in our atmosphere. There are no facts because we can't properly and precisely measure all of the changes in our atmosphere and climate.

Rawnak: I really don't know "what" scientific evidence Pub keeps talking about! What I do know is, that everything that exists on Earth or in the Heavenly galaxies are way beyond the grasp of the human intelligence! What he calls scientific "facts" gathered by data collection is all crap! I know this for a "fact" because I am a science graduate! I have seen and been in the "research" department for some time and know how these "facts" and "figures" are manipulated by one and all for personal satisfaction!

DeDom: Climate is the average and variations of weather in a region over long periods of time. Climate zones can be defined using parameters such as temperature and rainfall to define desert, steppe, rain forest and polar ice cap regimes. Paleoclimatology is the study and description of ancient climates using information from both non-biotic factors such as sediments found in lake beds and ice cores, and biotic factors such as tree rings and coral. Climate models are mathematical models of past, present and future climates and can therefore be used to describe the likely patterns of future changes.

Mythman: ... ummm ... You okay smoking by bring up Al Gore's fairy-tale monster? Next thing you know, you'll be asking me to join the Aryan Whities because Satan and his Unicorn fly for de-segregation and leprosy! Defend your honor.

Les Porter: Eratosthenes, while in Egypt contemplated an obelisk. Like Galilieo, see Copernicus' truth, or the glory of god spread universal of Giordano Bruno -- and the many others who had to be of a different (reformational faith) to see the glory of God expressed in the heavens differently than the platonic dictates adopted by the Church.

Nick (assisted by Baldwin of course, in the meanwhile, has lit the fire): I have miles to go before I sleep.

Mrbronco: I need a friend. Thank goodness there are still five left. (Lights up a cigarette)

Life-is-sweet: Smoking is a crime. Don’t you want to live your life in the best health possible? Anyway I give you a +1.

Publius: Oh yeah. Crime? Only if fat and stupid people are criminals.

Pixilatedxme: Pub you and I need to have a cigarette together. Give me one of those nicotine fairies.

Publius: I don’t smoke.

Pixilatedxme: Oh! The way you were arguing…

Mythman: If sucking on the flaming ash does not increase one's longevity, it is worthless to all but the sucker! Defend your honor.

Jdubhub: I am a civil libertarian and I respect your choice.

Mrbronco: Thanks for respecting me jdubhub.

Jdubhub: I only worry about second hand smoke.

Mrbronco: Second hand smoke! Worry more about global warming.

Rawnak: Actually did we not just do that?

Jdubhub: That’s where your rights end. You may be right and EPA may be wrong. But your rights end there.

Mrbronco: I don’t wanna smell someone’s beer breath. Is that also a crime?

Life-is-sweet: you don’t have to smell my beer breath because I don’t drink.

Mrbronco: I am glad I don’t have to smell your breath.

Jdubhub: let me reiterate that. You don’t get your rights if I don’t get mine, even if I am a libertarian.

DeDom: Libertarianism is a broad spectrum of political philosophies, each sharing the common overall priority of maximum limitation of government combined with optimum possible individual liberty. Its goals, though often varied in detail, prioritize freedom of speech and assembly, freedom of association, freedom to bear arms, freedom of and from religion, Press freedom, economic freedom, and freedom of ownership. Libertarianism rejects the compulsions of socialism and communism, upholding, by contrast, private property, whether held on an individual or group basis. It promotes personal responsibility and private charity, as opposed to welfare statism.

Publius: Actually...there is very little scientific basis to the entire….

Jdubhub: Fact is second hand smoke kills. Your ego is huge, Publius, but do you really expect us to believe your mere opinion trumps FACTS and scientific research of the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Academy of Sciences, and the U.S. Surgeon General?

Publius: Here we go again. The EPA…

Les Porter: Amidst the admissions of superficiality and hubris, seldom is the general audience given a shot at the throat or the heart of the matter. And as with many recent drug tests FDA, EPA, Surgeon General, and other public health officials -- under the current administration there has been serious deleterious editing of the truth. Possibly the sources of Mr. Publius's erroneous information was either old tobacco industry influenced publications or newer climate denialists poison farms publications.

Kukku: Very handy and informative tips.

Publius: Why am I not surprised that jdubhub and Les Porter are questioning my character (again)?

Mythman: Defend your honor.

Mamamia: This discussion goes way above me! I feel compelled to mention it since I s'ppose I started it off.

Mrbronco: That means a lot more water.

Jdubhub: What water?

Publius: you're not listening...which would explain why you can't comprehend the arguments I make.

Les Porter: Mrbronco, Jim, if you listen to him you might want to drink fluid trickled through the ashtrays and butt collection from a smoking pool-playing bar. And if it was pasteurized, heck, it might be good for you. You could improve the "taste" by squeezing the residue from the filters into the mix -- or you might want to only use the portion of the cigarette above the filter, one that someone has already smoked!

Kukku: Very handy and informative tips.

Mrbronco: Thanks guys, I have finished my smoke. The bottom line is when your number's up, it's UP! Maybe you all should light up and then lighten up.

WhatUp: Hey, What UP?

Notconcerned: I am not concerned.

DeDom: I saw someone in a green bra. Strange.

WhatUp: That be Miley Cyrus.

Going2Oahu: I don't see anything wrong with that. I got one too. Aloha. Does that make me Miley Cyrus?

Idlewild: Only if you upload photos of you in a green bra on the Internet.

Sarajoy: I remember laying on my boyfriends lap, and I took some goofing off pics when I was in my first bikini etc. And yet, truthfully, I was a very innocent teenager.

Mamamia: They all start getting fidgety and wanting to "show" more at 16...sigh! I guess that’s normal.

Going2Oahu: Aloha! I am not 16.

Nick: We will slap you with a ban if you are misleading people.

Shiva_pdtd: What ur green bra?

Mamamia: She’s talking about Miley Cyrus in a Green bra.

Going2Oahu: At least she is wearing a bra. Aloha!

Tilak_mbk: Ummm, it was so nice, but nothing wrong with this, thank you, bye

Kukku: Very handy and informative tips.

Freddy57: I saw a purple alien.

Idlewild: I am afraid of purple aliens. Are you sure it is an alien and not Miley Cyrus.

Mythman: A purple alien in Green bra. Defend your honor.

Sarajoy: Hmmm...this could be fun. I can see the headlines now.. "A Purple Alien seen posing in racy, lacy, bright orange underwear, laying in the lap of an unknown homosapien!! Nick, is that you?

Nick: I am too busy right now. Line up for dinner.

Champagnedreams: I can’t, It’s so easy to gain weight but try taking it off. Just not fair to put in all that work, time, and sacrifice to get rid of what took you only minutes to put on.

Mamamia: Ideal diet is the only way i would like to lose weight!

Jdubhub: Are you sure this smoke from the fire is not gonna affect me? It’s getting very warm here.

Les Porter: Warm, true. The prospects of an ice age are very enticing, but maybe not for another 50,000 years.

Publius: THESE GUYS ARE CRAZY!

Baldwin: Don’t use All caps in your statements.

Jdubhub: Even though I am a libertarian, respect everybody’s choices and don’t mind anything, who the hell put us in this situation?

Everyone in Chorus: It was Nick!!!!!!! (followed by abuses)

Nick: I don’t have to take this abuse from you. I’ve got hundreds of people dying to abuse me. And you better listen to what I say, else I will slap a ban on you, through Baldwin, of course. And remember that I am the CEO of this organized wilderness called Xomba.