From late April 2000.

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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 ;)