From late April 2000.
Treemendous Puns... [playtesters] Lanfear wisped: You prepare to behead the mighty oak with the two-handed axe. The mighty oak exclaims loudly: TIMBER! The mighty oak falls to the ground with a crash, scattering acorns everywhere. [playtesters] MiKasa wisped: you scared it, Lannie [playtesters] Candlewhiff wisped: Be sure to log that ;) [playtesters] Lanfear wisped: No death message tho :) [playtesters] Drakkos wisped: It's just playing possum... [playtesters] Candlewhiff wisped: Maybe it's board. [playtesters] MiKasa wisped: I was typing that, Drakkos! [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: it's waiting for you to leaf :) [playtesters] Lanfear wisped: Uh [playtesters] Sasquatch wisped: Drakkos, out of Mikasa's head [playtesters] Drakkos wisped: Oak-y. [playtesters] Lanfear wisped: *sob* Stop. Please :P [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: Yup that's the root of the problem [playtesters] MiKasa wisped: rather have him in my head than in my bed... *shiver* [playtesters] Candlewhiff wisped: It was probably pining. [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: he's mahogany-ing all the good puns [playtesters] Dasquian wisped: Oh dear Goad. This has gone beyond a joak now. [playtesters] Drakkos wisped: Willow it never end? [playtesters] Saffra wisped: Can someone please get to the root of this conversation? [playtesters] Candlewhiff wisped: Just be sure to tell us what you saw. ;) [playtesters] Drakkos wisped: Perhaps if we axe her nicelt? [playtesters] Twiggy wisped: You wood think so, woodn't you. [playtesters] Dasquian wisped: Yes, Twig-gy :0 [playtesters] Saffra wisped: Let's branch off to a new topic. [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: I'm maple to keep it up all day with elm from my fronds :) [playtesters] Sasquatch wisped: Enough! this is getting ex-tree-mly boring! [playtesters] Saffra wisped: It's sapling our strength away! [playtesters] Twiggy wisped: Hey, leaf my name alone :P [playtesters] Drakkos wisped: Desist, Forest is what we need! [playtesters] Candlewhiff wisped: *roots for Lanfear* [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: the puns are phloem for sure [playtesters] Drakkos wisped: I know it's acorny joke, but... [playtesters] Sasquatch wisped: *barks* [playtesters] Saffra wisped: We belong in an insane a-xylem. [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: Oh look, dogwood! [playtesters] Dasquian wisps: No more puns or I'll be sycamore puns. [playtesters] Candlewhiff wisps: Time to pack the trunk and leave... [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: life's a beech then you arbor malice [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: Oh dear, we're really aspen for it. [playtesters] Dasquian wisped: I hope someone is logging this. [playtesters] Drakkos wisped: You get what you pay fir. [playtesters] Saffra wisped: Really birchy of us. (cre) Sasquatch whines at the tree jokes (cre) Dasquian: I think they've stopped now. (cre) MiKasa: don't bring them HERE! (cre) Drakkos: They're ex-tree-mly firny! (cre) MiKasa: see what you did, Sas?/ (cre) Drakkos: We're punstoppable! :-P [playtesters] Ibblek wisps: whew there don't seem to ebony more.. (cre) Dasquian: No-one log-ged them though :9 [playtesters] Candlewhiff wisps: Ivoready quit. ;) [playtesters] Saffra wisps: We've all run out of trees. Baron Dasquian of Sert cheers enthusiastically at you. Bunny-mutilator Sasquatch D'Amour bombards you with rotten eggs and tomatoes for that pathetic joke. (cre) Twiggy admires the floem of the conversation. You tell Bunny-mutilator Sasquatch D'Amour exclaiming: It wasn't a joke! (cre) Twiggy: Argh, s/phloem, etc. [playtesters] MiKasa wisps: Ashually I've stayed out of it [playtesters] Dasquian wisps: I think Drakkos was larchly resposnsivble. [playtesters] Candlewhiff wisps: OK, so it isn't a tree thing, but someone mentioned ebony... :) [playtesters] Drakkos wisps: Don't birchsmirch my good character, Dasquian! [playtesters] Sasquatch wisps: number one....the larch [playtesters] Ibblek wisps: hm if I go to school am I in macademia?:) [playtesters] Candlewhiff wisps: you're all nuts. [playtesters] Saffra wisps: Ignore the nay-sayers, they're evergreen with envy. [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: No we're not, our minds've just gone plank [playtesters] Candlewhiff wisped: Lanfear, are you still alive? :) [playtesters] MiKasa wisped: she's shot herself [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: Oh no, she committed arboricide? [playtesters] Saffra wisped: Elm-a, you still around? [playtesters] Dasquian wisped: I think we're scraping the bottom of the (wooden) barrel now. [playtesters] MiKasa wisped: ooh, Saffra... good one [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: by gum, not that old chestnut! [playtesters] Drakkos wisped: Heh, wood you believe it, Lanfear is in Gloomy Forest. ;-) [playtesters] Rue wisps: oh my god :P [playtesters] Lanfear wisps: Ug [playtesters] Twiggy wisps: Can't see the forest for the trees, I'd say ;) [playtesters] Dasquian wisps: Yew woodn't think she'd go bark there, wood yew? [playtesters] Rue wisped: just leaf this subject alone [playtesters] Candlewhiff wisped: Well... Tree's company, after all. [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: all these puns making her crabbyapple maybe [playtesters] Twiggy wisped: It's sapping my will to live... [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: *juniper-starts Twiggy's heartwood* [playtesters] Lobo wisped: now you're not being fir [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: Aw you're magnolia all out of proportion [playtesters] Rue wisped: can't you seed we're annoying her? [playtesters] Candlewhiff wisped: I'll go read some boards. [playtesters] Twiggy wisped: I field a faint spell coming on... [playtesters] Dasquian wisped: Ah yes, but we have a cunning plant. [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: Sasquatch is pecan on me! I can't pear it [playtesters] Saffra wisped: Don't worry about Sas, he's walnuts. [playtesters] Rue wisped: rofl! [playtesters] Twiggy wisped: You can call me Almond... [playtesters] Dasquian wisped: I'm so glad I appled to be a cre. [playtesters] Drakkos wisps: Glad we could o-range it for you. [playtesters] Ibblek wisps: Yeah, cuz you're poplar. [playtesters] Twiggy wisped: Well, this is peachy keen. [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: Yea we're mulberry good at it :) [playtesters] Twiggy wisped: We mustard killed the conversation. [playtesters] Saffra wisped: We'll just have to seceed from the rest of the Disc. [playtesters] Rue wisped: I am plum tired of this now [playtesters] Dasquian wisped: Nooo! I sbeech yew! [playtesters] Brighid wisped: Willow stop this? [playtesters] MiKasa wisped: I like we've rubbered her the wrong way [playtesters] Brighid wisped: *took me an hour to think of that pathetic one* [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: Then gingko take a rest and spruce up :) [playtesters] Saffra wisped: Just ash nicely. [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: ash me no querquer-ions and oil tell you no lies [playtesters] Saffra wisped: *sudden silence as everyone wonders what on earth a querquer is* [playtesters] Candlewhiff wisped: All these veneerable tree puns... [playtesters] Dasquian wisped: Oa-K. [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: Sorry, latin for oak [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: *listens to her alders* [playtesters] Brighid wisped: Latin? Does that mean I can use Hebrew too? :) [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: we couldn't cypress you :) [playtesters] Candlewhiff wisped: Please stick to the wood theme, everyone. ;) [playtesters] Twiggy wisped: Sure, why not. I love a good strong he-brew :) [playtesters] Gruper wisped: Learn Hebrew in twelve simple steps! [playtesters] Saffra wisped: Shalom you can, Brighid. [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: s'all driedl with me :) [playtesters] Brighid wisps: But that's not a tree :P [playtesters] Sasquatch wisps: Enough, my history is almost exclusive bombards now :) [playtesters] Rue wisps: oi :P [playtesters] Sasquatch wisped: typing bombard to every chat on here for the last 5 mins isn't easy [playtesters] Gruper wisped: How on Disc could I fit Hebrew in with the wood theme? The burning bush comes to mind, but it lacks a certain something. [playtesters] Saffra wisped: I can't remember the word for tree in Hebrew. :( [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: *is a hawthorn in Sas' side* [playtesters] Drakkos wisped: The burning bush? You get creams for that. [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: something about a cedar seder? [playtesters] Twiggy wisps: The conversation re-cedaring, perhaps? [playtesters] Candlewhiff wisps: re-seeding, more likely... [playtesters] Saffra wisps: If we need a new topic, I Haifa good idea. [playtesters] Candlewhiff wisped: Does anyone have the title "Keeper of the big balsa"? [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: I have a Haida bed.. (aren't you sycamore yet?) [playtesters] Gruper wisped: Does your key*board* have Hebrew characters or, ah, real ones? (board was the closest I could get. sorry.) [playtesters] Brighid wisped: Has both. [playtesters] Drakkos wisped: How ash-tonishing! [playtesters] Twiggy wisped: A woodchip off the old block ;) [playtesters] Sasquatch wisped: mmmm, chips [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: *sees the screen through a hazel of laughter* [playtesters] Lanfear wisped: Hear about the little girl with a splinter in her finger who asked her mom for a glass of cider to put it in? [playtesters] Lanfear wisped: 'cause she heard her sister say that when she gets a prick in her hand she can't wait to get it in cider. [playtesters] Dasquian wisped: No, why don't yew tell us/ [playtesters] Lanfear wisped: *bows* [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: Holly geez, that was bad ;) [playtesters] Rue wisped: that was really vile :) [playtesters] Lanfear wisped: Did it kill the conversation???? :) [playtesters] Dasquian wisped: Yew wish. [playtesters] Drakkos wisped: No, we're elm-xeptionally resistant! [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: Na take more than that to rowan this conversation [playtesters] Lanfear wisped: Dang :) [playtesters] Twiggy wisps: We're resorting to short straws, but it's not that desperate yet. [playtesters] Rue wisped: damn Ibblek is good at this :) [playtesters] Saffra wisped: Never challenge Ibblek to a pun-off...she'll smash you into the ground before your fingers hit the keys. :) [playtesters] Rue wisped: so I see :) [playtesters] Twiggy wisped: *nods cheerfully* Literary Grand Slam. Of course, she makes a bit of a racquet about it. [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: *blush* usually someone kills me before I really get going [playtesters] Saffra wisped: She usually hits all the bases. [playtesters] Gruper wisped: Good idea! [playtesters] Dasquian wisped: Man busy. Man have to work. Mango. [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: Hemlock funny, but talk good. [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: my sides are black and blueberry from all this. *blows raspberry* [playtesters] Brighid wisped: Currant tea-ories say that too many puns are berry bad for you... [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: Oh and sassafrassing lords is bad for heath. We're viburnum-ing all our bridges.. [playtesters] Brighid wisped: I think Lanfear wants to arti-choke me now. [playtesters] Gruper wisped: Gnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. [playtesters] Ibblek wisped: Oh dear this conversation is privet-ing but I must hedge my bets and hide from you all ;)