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What Justice Gray means to me, by D'Arcy Lussier
[ed: If there's only one message we can glean from this guest post, it's JUST SAY NO to drugs.
I received this in E-mail last week. Under normal circumstances, I would have just marked it as spam except that it was from
D'Arcy Lussier
and was titled "Greatest Guest Post EVAR". Little did I know that my opening this E-mail was opening an EPIC. I can't tell you my reaction after reading it, because I am still trying to figure it out. However, one thing I know for certain: I take absolutely
NO RESPONSIBILITY
whatsoever for the content of this guest post. All images, text, and spelling mistakes are explicitly the property of D'Arcy.
This post has forced me to make an addendum to the rules of our guest post contest. Now, you can also win a "Potential Friend of Justice Gray" certificate if
you are able to explain what the heck this guest post is talking about
. I would be touched by the sheer artistry of it, if only I could understand what strange language it is written in - perhaps one of you speaks Winnipegian and can translate??]
"The Adventures of the Mad Mexican and Black Mu-Stache the Sexually-Oriented Questionable French Pirate! (as told to me by the Mad Mexican)", by D'Arcy Lussier
It started out with a poker game between me, Black Mu-stache the Sexually-Oriented Questionable French Pirate, Castro, and
Don Box
in Cuba.
I was up big when the US sent in a special task force to try and assassinate the Cuban dictator, led by Richard Simmons...
...they immediately tried to sweat us out to the oldies, but Black Mu-Stache and I escaped with our lives. We hopped on a freight ship leaving for who-knows where.
We hadn't gotten too far before our ship came under attack! Apparantly Black Mu-stache was somewhat of a ladies man during recent trips to the orient, and now we were under fire from a gang of Asian women-pirates who kept screaming "Why did you dump me at the coffee shop you French whore!?"
Angered that we would bring this upon them, our cuban crew decided that they would throw us overboard. We were only in the water for a few moments before we felt something start to pull us down into the murky depths. We both thought we were gonners.
Until we realized that we weren't! Instead, our heads were surrounded by air bubbles and goth-mermaids were guiding us to an underwater city. They took us in to meet their king! We entered the throne room to be greeted by
King Simser
, leader of the Underwater Spooky Kids!
We relayed our story to the king, and he began to laugh heartily. At this point, his three children entered: his son Zune, his daughter Vista, and his other daughter Excel 2003. Excel 2003 gave out a loud gasp at the site of Black Mu-stache, and exclaimed that he was the one who had tried to get her drunk with cheap sake and convince her that his aquarium at home was big enough.
We figured that our leave was at hand, and raced into the citys sewer system which whisked us away from the underwater city and expunging us...
At Jabba's palace. I had done some wrestling matches for the Hutts before, so I figured this would be safe.
I'd be so wrong...
We entered and found that Jabba was out, but his brother
Donald the Hutt
was holding court. Beside him was his favorite entertainer,
Steven Rockarts
, chained to his side (I always thought Steven in a gold bikini was a little weird, but that's Donald I guess). I greeted Donald and explained that we were looking for a place to party.
Donald was gleefully happy to see us, especially since his shipment of scotch had shown up from Hoth (they don't just make good vodka). I realized that Black-Mu-stache was nowhere to be seen. Worried, I started exploring Donald's pad in hopes of finding him somewhere...and hopefully not in trouble. My hopes were dashed, as I saw him being accosted by some in the court he had offended by insisting that sushi was 10 times better than Indian food any day.
They threw us together in the carbonite chamber, and then everything went black.
We awoke spooning (aaawwwwkwaaaarrrrd), but thawed out. All around us were mushrooms...but they had doors...and windows ...and people living in them...but they weren't people...they were Bellwareurfs...and Native American ones at that!
Thousdands of them descended on us, spears held high above their heads showing that they were interested in one thing, and one thing only: roasting us over an open flame until our eyes melted and our bones became so brittle that they could remove our skulls and drink our boiled brains out with bendy-straws! We ran...we ran for our lives!!!
"If only some BC resident would come swooping down from the sky swearing at me, we might be saved!"
All of a sudden a chorus of loud squawks could be hurd over head, mixed in with f-bombs! the Bellwareufs scatterd as the forest ranger Capt. Zak landed on his gryphon in front of us. Thrilled that we had been saved, we flew back to Victoria with him and caught a Westjet flight to Edmonton. But curses: the plane was hijacked and diverted...BACK TO JAPAN!
Those Asian woman-pirates had found us, and weren't about to let us leave! We decided to jump out of the plane and take our chances. We hit the water and started swimming for our lives. A school of dolphins came and helped carry us to an island, an island called...
*AHHHH, I can't stand the lights...so bright...so bright!!! How can I survive...give me my cow back now! I'm so very angry that you took my cow, give me my cow back now!!!! AHHHH*
...so with the money we got from selling Black Mu-stache's kidney, we chartered a plane from Morrocco to Cuba. We'd wasted enough time, Richard Simmons and his minions should be taken care of, and it was a good chance that Box and Castro were up a few hundred pescos on us. We needed to finish the game.
WHAT DOES JUSTICE GRAY MEAN TO ME? YOU DO THE FREAKING MATH HOSERS!
Monday, January 14, 2008
Comments [24]
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Technical
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1/14/2008 1:23:23 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
I officially renounce my Manitoban status.
Kyle Baley
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kyleAT NOSPAMbaley dot org
1/14/2008 1:41:33 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
I get 12? Is anyone else getting 12? I keep going over my steps for the Math and I'm pretty sure I'm right, but I'm not sure if you're supposed to subtract or get the dot product when dealing with Indian Bellwareurfs. I subtracted.
George W. Clingerman
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clingermangwAT NOSPAMhotmail dot com
1/14/2008 2:31:24 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
Scary. Truly scary.
Tom Opgenorth
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tomAT NOSPAMopgenorth dot net
1/14/2008 4:54:41 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
On behalf of all Winnipeggers, I officially apologize for D'Arcy Lussier's Eipc Story.
He is quite confused as to where his loyalties lie after being a Winnipegger and rooting for Saskatchewan in the Grey Cup, but also due to the fact that he probably has not had the proper amount of Steve Ballmer in recent days, as well as enjoying his Mac and giving some other devotion to the Apple creation of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. It's simply too much Steve for D'Arcy and he gets confused. (And the glare from my bleached hair doesn't help matters either.)
Please do not take the above as an attempt to summarize D'Arcy's somewhat-hetero-love for Justice, but read it more as the failed script plotline for Epic Movie 2. (The Bellwareufs were actually the core protagonists for this movie - they have their own TV pilot currently being optioned by Fox. They'll put anything on the air what with this writer's strike...)
Suffice to say... There will be several Winnipeggers who will collaborate on a guest post in order to:
a) Indicate what Justice Grey truly means to us
b) Translate the mad rantings of an over-Steved Winnipeger
c) Attempt to get some semblance of respect for Winnipeg back from Albertans... although this is the least likely of the above items to happen
Kelly
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kellyAT NOSPAMmindfulsanity dot com
1/14/2008 5:12:38 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
1) "What Justice Gray means to me, by the city of Winnipeg" is a post title THAT MUST HAPPEN.
2) I am impressed by the fact one guest post could so galvanize a province. That's noteworthy in itself!
3) Like Liberace, Elton John, and Rory Blyth, I don't particularly think there's anything even semi-heterosexual about D'Arcy's post above. I mean, come on, Bil Simser complete with genitalia shots?
Wait. Genitalia shots?
I never *actually* thought this would happen, but D'Arcy Lussier has been DISQUALIFIED from the guest post competition for violating the rules! What an unbelievable turn of events.
Justice~!
1/14/2008 7:01:06 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
I'm not so sure I should go to Winterpeg Code Camp now. I'm afraid. I'm very, very afraid.
Bil Simser
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emailmeAT NOSPAMbilsimser dot com
1/14/2008 7:22:25 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
What I feel the worst about is how Steve is going to end up chained to the bed wearing a gold bikini and whipped by Katherine while she screams "Dance for me slave, DANCE!"
Poor, poor Steve...
Oh well.
D
D'Arcy from Winnipeg
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darcy dot lussierAT NOSPAMgmail dot com
1/14/2008 7:25:00 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
D'Arcy: I think you are erroneous in assuming that wasn't happening in the Rockarts house for years prior to this post.
Justice~!
1/14/2008 7:45:28 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
I just uninstalled Paint.NET from my computer. I had no idea the evil that could be done with that tool. After I finish stabbing my eye balls out and throwing up in my mouth, I'm going to make a large withdrawal from the bank and move in with my therapist for a good long while.
Why does the city of Winnipeg hate the world so much? What did we do to deserve this?
Russell Ball
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rt_ballAT NOSPAMyahoo dot com
1/14/2008 7:51:26 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
I do find D'Arcy's earlier commentaries regarding Paint.NET to be cast in a new light after seeing these...these...well, I don't know what these are. I still believe your wife remains the supreme Paint.NETer, however.
Justice~!
1/14/2008 8:08:10 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
Darcy, I'm quite frankly a little offended that you think we would even consider naming a child of ours after something so paltry as an application. We have a strict 'Operating Systems Only' rule in our house.
And just for the record, we already have names picked out for any future children we may have (remember, you heard it here first!)
Boys:
-Dev (short for developer, of course) Odyssey Simser (DOS for short) and
-MacKenzie Optimus Simser (Mac for short… or we may just call him MOS… we haven't decided).
Any future daughters will be:
-Rhapsody Cocoa Simser (RCS) and
-Solaris Memphis Simser (SMS – who will of course be adept at texting by the time she's 6 months old)
By the way, I'd really like to know where you got the boudoir shot of Bil… or is that one of those 'what happens at DevTeach stays at DevTeach" things?
Bil's Better Half
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emailmeAT NOSPAMprincessjenn dot com
1/14/2008 8:21:31 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
"MacKenzie Optimus Simser"
MARRY ME
Justice~!
1/14/2008 8:46:45 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
Who in their right mind would call their kid Justice?
Bil Simser
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emailmeAT NOSPAMbilsimser dot com
1/14/2008 8:50:42 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
Key assumption is "in their right mind".
Justice~!
1/14/2008 9:28:08 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
Justice: I'm afraid Bil came up with 'Optimus', so you'd have to marry him. And that would lead to me having to explain to my daughter why she, all of the sudden, has two daddies.
It's bad enough I already have to explain to her why her father has a shrine set up to worship Bill Gates in his office. Do we really need to confuse her any further??
Bil's Better Half
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emailmeAT NOSPAMprincessjenn dot com
1/14/2008 9:35:25 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
It's not a "shrine" it's a "homage". Due to legal ramifications from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, I am unable to provide photographic evidence of the "homage" but it is done in good taste and no animals were harmed in the making of it.
Bil Simser
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emailmeAT NOSPAMbilsimser dot com
1/15/2008 7:05:00 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
I'd like to point out that not only is my post the *BEST ev-AR* to be blogged on Justice's webblog, but its prompted the *BEST ev-AR* comments discussion that we've seen!
Obviously we now know why Russell packed up his bags and left GeeksWithBlogs: He realized that when it comes to Paint.NET skillz, he's just a timid little boy who has no place at the German disco light show at Uncle Tom's cabin.
DON'T QUESTION BRIAN DICKINSON!
D
D'Arcy from Winnipeg
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darcy dot lussierAT NOSPAMgmail dot com
1/15/2008 8:00:09 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
@D'Arcy - After this trainwreck, not only do I not want to be on the same hosting site with you, but I am seriously considering putting moving to another continent and perhaps even putting an ocean between us.
"Germand disco light show at Uncle Tom's cabin"? - seriously, what do they put in the water in Winnipeg? Has anyone notified the Canadian health or hazardous waste departments?
Russell Ball
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rt_ballAT NOSPAMyahoo dot com
1/15/2008 9:00:02 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
Russell...just like Davey Havok from AFI sang:
"For you, I'd swallow the ocean..."
...of course...if I swallowed that much water, I'd have to pee it outsomewhere, so instead of an ocean of water it would be an ocean of pee. Then we'd be sad, but Justice would go "Hey, why don't we go party at the GERMAN DISCO LIGHT SHOW AT UNCLE TOM'S CABIN?!" and everything would be all right.
D
D'Arcy from Winnipeg
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darcy dot lussierAT NOSPAMgmail dot com
1/15/2008 9:39:44 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
Um...
James W
1/15/2008 12:41:39 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
@D'Arcy - Here's some Twaiku (Twitter Haiku) from me to you.
D'Arcy's post in mind
Must gouge my eyes out right now
Need much therapy
http://twitter.com/CaffeinatedTwit
Russell Ball
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rt_ballAT NOSPAMyahoo dot com
1/18/2008 1:26:42 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
I think D'Arcy had been smoking Peyote for six straight days when he wrote that post. This is his personal Mount Vesuvius.
Dave Harris
1/18/2008 1:33:05 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
Speaking as someone who's suffered work related insanity before... D'Arcy I'm concerned.
Yes the hallucinations are fun, but just because you remember it doesn't make it real.
You can tell it's not a real D'Arcy story because it doesn't start with "One time, in the Pas..."
Cam Smith
1/21/2008 8:49:20 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
OMG...Cam...you made me realize something...I've committed a heinous sin: I did an entire *epic* post without...no...without...really? did I?...without paying hommage to the most amazing musical talent EVER:
David Hassellhoff!
I am shamed.
D'Arcy from Winnipeg
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