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Elder Toups



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:00 pm    Post subject: Spectacular Failures (In Real Life)    Reply with quote

When I was about 12 I was at my friend Leo's house while his babysitter (probably around 22?) was trying on dresses or something with Leo's mom. He had snuck into the closet just outside his mother's bedroom door and was spying on this babysitter in states of undress. I can't recall exactly how he managed to get in there while I was someplace else, but I tried to sneak in there too but they saw me. I got up and ran out of the house and literally jumped on my bike and rode home without saying a word. It was never mentioned again.

This was a spectacular failure.
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invisibleyogurt



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:35 pm        Reply with quote

i did something like that once when i was 10 or 11 at a friend's house, except I got away with it.

i can't really think of any SPECTACULAR failures i've done before, but i'm sure i've done many more than i care to remember.
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Elder Toups



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:14 am        Reply with quote

Obviously I am the only person here who ever spectacularly failed at anything. No wonder I am depressed all the time.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:19 am        Reply with quote

Elder Toups wrote:
Obviously I am the only person here who ever spectacularly failed at anything. No wonder I am depressed all the time.


Couldn't you qualify your brother's entire life as a spectacular failure?
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:25 am        Reply with quote

Secret Annexe's album is pretty good Balbanes.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:28 am        Reply with quote

Toups when I was like 8 I used to flash my babysitter. She never came back again after a couple times and I played goofy word games with the next babysitter.

Growing up is a spectacular failure.
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Elder Toups



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:39 am        Reply with quote

Don't talk bad about my brother, the man has created more than 80-90% of you, I would imagine.

I will kick your asses.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:22 am        Reply with quote

90% of my internet projects are spectacular failures, as well this forum should know, by now.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:45 am        Reply with quote

i was going to make a eurobeat/house album, but it didnt happen, it was such a good joke album idea too

fail :(
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:26 am        Reply with quote

I drove 1,369 miles to try and salvage a long distance relationship. It didn't work, and by the time I left to go back I didn't particularly care if it worked out anymore anyway.

Then I drove another 1,369 miles back home again.

This was a spectacular failure. At least when I put it in those terms. There were upsides, too, don't get me wrong. But that's one way of looking at it.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:31 am        Reply with quote

All of the however many posts I've done here between the lurking. Not saying that in a depressed woe is me way, just that my voice in forum writing is fucking awful.

I've had a lot of spectacular near-failures. In elementary school my mom was about to dig through my porn-laden backpack. Got her attention, told her she couldn't look because I had a present in there for her, and never mentioned anything of it ever again.

I've had a dozen or so "____ The Musical!" ideas that would fail to different extents. Camus The Musical was my favorite.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:32 am        Reply with quote

brillo wrote:

I've had a dozen or so "____ The Musical!" ideas that would fail to different extents. Camus The Musical was my favorite.


CAMUSICAL!
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Elder Toups



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:38 pm        Reply with quote

I'm really surprised this thread hasn't taken off. I mean we all have terrible, horrible, embarrassing stories.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 2:19 pm        Reply with quote

i've fantasized about making and directing GOD HAND: THE MUSICAL
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Elder Toups



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:47 pm        Reply with quote

Wow. I just get deep, deep feelings of profound inadequacy but I don't pass out.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:23 pm        Reply with quote

invisibleyogurt wrote:
i've fantasized about making and directing GOD HAND: THE MUSICAL


That'd be the greatest musical of all time.
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CubaLibre
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 5:20 pm        Reply with quote

Jurassic Park: The Musical owns all

Do it Lion King-style, with the sort of open suit/prosthetic things

The Velociraptors would be the dancers! OUTTA SIGHT

Spectacular failure: for all four years of college, pretty much every other weekend I would drive two hours up and two hours back to pick up my long-distance girlfriend on Friday, then on Sunday two hours up and two hours back to drop her off again. Then two months before graduation I suddenly break up with her.

WHOOPS
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 5:48 pm        Reply with quote

I failed getting my university-entrance diploma nearly two times (which would have meant I couldn't have another shot at getting it), though I managed to do so this year - finally. Not a failure then, since I did manage to get it, though some consider (because of wasting 4-5 years) that I did fail ...


A "spectacular" failure then ... would having wasted seven years to get one girl to like me qualify as a spectacular failure (which was "the one and only girl" till now)?



Top Gun: The Musical could be as good as Jurassic park: The Musical, could it? Singing F-14 duelling some MIGs ... wouldn't be as cool as dancing Velocirapters, heh.
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Daphaknee
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:02 pm        Reply with quote

i had a crush on this mormon guy in my german class in highschool and i wanted to write a musical about him becuase his name was keldon and he drove an orange vw and he was MORMON but so cool

i could only figure out two lines for keldon: teh musical though

landkarte means maaaaaaap
keldon knows what landkarte means!

but yeah it failed pretty miserably too
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Gironika



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:02 pm        Reply with quote

Daphaknee wrote:
i had a crush on this mormon guy in my german class in highschool and i wanted to write a musical about him becuase his name was keldon and he drove an orange vw and he was MORMON but so cool

i could only figure out two lines for keldon: teh musical though

landkarte means maaaaaaap
keldon knows what landkarte means!

but yeah it failed pretty miserably too

Why not using SONDERKRAFTFAHRZEUG (nadesico-reference here) and Sturzkampfbomber as well? Add BLITZKRIEG and Kindergarten and you're ready to go.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:11 pm        Reply with quote

none of those are three syllable words that fit with the tune!
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:15 pm        Reply with quote

being social online

its weird most nerd types have trouble talking to people but jump in forums and do pretty well. Im the exact opposite. I find real life relations easy and yet I desire to take part in a forum (this forum) or what have you but just never get how its done. I cant be myself online. I fail at internet.
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Gironika



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:32 pm        Reply with quote

Daphaknee wrote:
none of those are three syllable words that fit with the tune!

That's way harder then.

Schiedsrichter? Nachspielzeit. Oktoberfest (...okay, I cheated with the last one).


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ts weird most nerd types have trouble talking to people but jump in forums and do pretty well. Im the exact opposite. I find real life relations easy and yet I desire to take part in a forum (this forum) or what have you but just never get how its done. I cant be myself online. I fail at internet.

You aren't yourself offline all the time as well, I suppose? Like, you play a different "role" if your boss/whatever is around, whereas you "are yourself" if you are with friends/your significant other.

Being on a forum is exactly the same like having around different people, depending on how well you know them, you adapt differently (though I suppose you'll never talk to people on the interwebs like you would talk to your boss, heh).
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:13 pm        Reply with quote

I had a crush on this girl who lived next door to my best friend.

One year I dressed up as Space Ghost from Space Ghost Coast to Coast for Halloween, which in retrospect is really pretty cool. I looked a lot better than the crappy costume they actually used in Cartoon Planet.

We went over to my friends house and ended up trick or treating with this girl. Somehow the fact I dressed up as Space Ghost made her think so little of me she never talked to me again after that day.
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Elder Toups



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:59 pm        Reply with quote

Don't feel too bad, its just millions of years of evolution conspiring to make you feel like shit if a woman won't let you impregnate her. If you think about it, it doesn't really make sense anymore to worry about it.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:08 pm        Reply with quote

The thing is, all the most spectacular failures in my life have been me treating women like shit rather than the other way around. So if you need to you can live vicariously through my active misogyny.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:37 pm        Reply with quote

showka wrote:
I had a crush on this girl who lived next door to my best friend.

One year I dressed up as Space Ghost from Space Ghost Coast to Coast for Halloween, which in retrospect is really pretty cool. I looked a lot better than the crappy costume they actually used in Cartoon Planet.

We went over to my friends house and ended up trick or treating with this girl. Somehow the fact I dressed up as Space Ghost made her think so little of me she never talked to me again after that day.


jesus christ what a bitch and what a waste

i used to have a campaign that was gettting different guys to dress up like space ghost becuase i used to fucking want space ghost so bad abnd that fat guy on cartoon network just would not cut it

i am so mad someone did this and it didnt work! iw ant to hit that girl hahahaha
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:44 pm        Reply with quote

shnozlak wrote:
being social online

its weird most nerd types have trouble talking to people but jump in forums and do pretty well. Im the exact opposite. I find real life relations easy and yet I desire to take part in a forum (this forum) or what have you but just never get how its done. I cant be myself online. I fail at internet.


Most of the time I post something on the internet these days people think I am harboring deep seeded hatreds/and or sitting in my chair screaming at the monitor.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:31 am        Reply with quote

I failed Physics last semester, by three marks. That's what you get for ignoring 2% weighted quizzes. Tch. If I had taken them seriously, I would have scraped through.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 2:42 am        Reply with quote

Daphaknee wrote:
showka wrote:
I had a crush on this girl who lived next door to my best friend.

One year I dressed up as Space Ghost from Space Ghost Coast to Coast for Halloween, which in retrospect is really pretty cool. I looked a lot better than the crappy costume they actually used in Cartoon Planet.

We went over to my friends house and ended up trick or treating with this girl. Somehow the fact I dressed up as Space Ghost made her think so little of me she never talked to me again after that day.


jesus christ what a bitch and what a waste

i used to have a campaign that was gettting different guys to dress up like space ghost becuase i used to fucking want space ghost so bad abnd that fat guy on cartoon network just would not cut it

i am so mad someone did this and it didnt work! iw ant to hit that girl hahahaha


This was probably the only pop culture fad I was ever too early on (or even on time) on. I did this in seventh grade, which would've been... 1995? She probably had no idea who I was supposed to be and didn't get the joke.

I also didn't quite do the Space Ghost figure justice, but I filled the outfit with lots of paper to simulate muscles and wore sweat pants not tights so there should have been no trouble there.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 2:45 am        Reply with quote

negativedge wrote:
shnozlak wrote:
being social online

its weird most nerd types have trouble talking to people but jump in forums and do pretty well. Im the exact opposite. I find real life relations easy and yet I desire to take part in a forum (this forum) or what have you but just never get how its done. I cant be myself online. I fail at internet.


Most of the time I post something on the internet these days people think I am harboring deep seeded hatreds/and or sitting in my chair screaming at the monitor.


I don't know if internet people honestly assume this or just pretend to so they can bitch about something or pretend your point doesn't count because you were clearly harboring a deep seeded hatred or screaming at your monitor.
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Daphaknee
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:11 am        Reply with quote

yeah i watched space ghost back in 95 too, it was a six year long obsession

remember when space ghost would actaully reply to your emails? oh man, pre adult swim days
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:22 am        Reply with quote

I'm pretty sure Adult Swim ruined everything that Adult Swim was good for

That and when Harry Goz died, man, forget about it
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:26 am        Reply with quote

aw man, im frowning now
yeah adult swim really was over after he died though
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 5:48 am        Reply with quote

grad school.
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On the subject of Adult Swim, Tom Goes To The Mayor was a spectacular failure. But I thought it was great.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:31 am        Reply with quote

Arriving late, without flowers or a good excuse to my girlfriend's birthday.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:50 am    Post subject: gyah I swear it's not emo    Reply with quote

My LIFE.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 1:27 pm        Reply with quote

Losing a full college scholarship by failing a physics class that I never went to.
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Brought a girl home, then couldn't perform the deed. The fact that her puss tasted like copper wiring and made me vomit a little probably didn't help.
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