Saw this done on another forum... thought I'd see how it goes over on the ol' CAOS site.
Here's how it works: I'll kick things off with a short story starter, and then someone else will add to it. Then someone else will add to what they just said, and so on, until we have one big, incoherent mess of a tale.
Ready? Here goes:
Our story begins in the Engineering Building at SIUE... Taz the robot was sitting quietly in his usual spot in the A.I. lab, when all of a sudden...
[d]... he finishes coding his CS 321 program. But wait! It's not due for another week! Wow, he's really ahead of schedule. Looks like he'll be able to go out tonight and ....[/d]
(nm, Jerry posted at the same time, i'll just add another one!)
...Taz twitched. Or at least Andrew thought so. That was odd, Andrew thought since he knew Taz's motor were not enabled. This is a safety feature on most robots that makes sure a robot does not move until you are ready to let it move.
Andrew turned back to his work thinking he had too much CC -codin' and caffiene. At first he had the thought of kickin' off for the night, but what he was working on seemed more interesting than sleep. So he turned back to the screen ...
... and finished his CS 482 program. Whew! What a relief to get that done at all! Dr. White sure is a slave driver when it comes to butterflies and ferns. Having submitted his project to the class dropbox, Andrew turns around and sees that Taz the robot....
... had turned into an Eyebot!!!
(http://caos.siue.edu/uploads/img3f7b1851c497a.jpg)
Andrew watched in horror as the Eyebot zipped out of the lab and began wreaking havoc on the Engineering Building.
...
AAAAAHHH!!!!!!! The horror!!!!
It bumped into everything in signt because it couldn't see where it was going. Its program of destruction was finally thwarted when it made its way into the atrium where it got lost running around in big circles, even though it thought it was going straight...
...
Then M.I.B. Agent J (for Jerry) stepped up to the little Eyebot and picked it up.
(http://caos.siue.edu/uploads/img3f7b18b6239a3.jpg)
"C'mon little guy," he said. "You're coming with me."
With that, he picked up the Eyebot, went out to his car, and headed back to the M.I.B. headquarters to find out what had made the Eyebot go berserk.
Meanwhile, Andrew was still huddling in a corner of the A.I. lab, fearing for his life.
...
Then, over the noise of Andrew’s whimpering came a tremendous roar. â€Ã...“Here I come to save the dayâ€Ã,¦ Super Yu is on his way.â€Ã,Â
[img align=center]http://caos.siue.edu/uploads/img3f7b189ba2b03.jpg[/img]
I’ve been waiting for a chance to use this picture for months.
...And with that, Super Yu saved Andrew from... uh, well, nothing really. :blink:
Elsewhere, Agent J pulled into M.I.B. headquarters. He got out and took Taz into their A.I. specialist, DaleDoe.
"Whell, " said DaleDoe, "it looks as if this Eyebot was programmed to perform erratically until some variable 'OrangeBallOfDoom' detonates."
"Orange Ball of Doom?" said Jerry. "I wonder what the heck that is."
Back at the EB, Dr. Yu and Andrew were walking out of the A.I. lab (both more than a little humiliated), when Andrew noticed an orange ball that the Eyebot had left behind on the floor. He picked it up. "Hmm, " said Andrew. "I wonder what this is?" He put it in his pocket and closed the door behind him...
(http://caos.siue.edu/uploads/img3f7b1872d33ec.jpg)
When in walked Dr. WU walked in and asked:
(http://caos.siue.edu/uploads/img3f7b18cb5979c.jpg)
"This is a whatta?.... Do you know?" He asked Andrew, hoping for an explanation of what had just occurred. But Andrew simply stared back with a puzzled look, not knowing exactly how to explain. Dr. Wu exclaimed: "You do not know. Hmph." and walked away as mysteriously as he entered, leaving Andrew still contemplating what has been going on.
You see, these are not the only strange occurances lately...
...Suddenly the ball gave a lurch and doubled in size. It also turned a menacing red color. Andrew examined it closely for a minute then decided to stick to computer science and tossed it away...
[img align=left]http://home.cs.siue.edu/~lamonica/whatsthis.jpg[/img][img align=right]http://home.cs.siue.edu/~lamonica/toss.jpg[/img]
... "That's funny, " thought The_Drake. "I could have sworn that just a minute ago, Andrew had closed the door behind him!!!"
Aaaaanyway, across town Agent J was speeding along to get to the EB before the ball of doom exploded. :-o
(http://caos.siue.edu/uploads/img3f7b18b6239a3.jpg)
If Andrew had paid more attention to the ball before tossing it away, he would have noticed that it had a timer on it that read 5:00... 4:59... 4:58...
...
I thought you might call me on that one. I’ll take down the pictures.
QuoteI thought you might call me on that one. I’ll take down the pictures.
No, no... Put them back up. It was funnier that way. :-D
This is
supposed to be a mindless story.
... Agent J arrives back at the Engineering Building. He looks around for the orange ball not knowing that it turned red. He finds a red ball with the timer at 3:00... 2:59... He assumes that this is the ball, so he begins to take it apart. Stiffler is behind Ajent J doing one of his infamous "Stiffler Stealths". Stiffler gets right behind Ajent J holding up a paper bag with air in it. Then Stiffler hits the bag with his free hand. BOOM! Ajent J faints with fright. Scared, Stiffler looks around and then runs away...
Not part of the story. I put all the pictures used so far in the image manager, gave everybody access to it, and gave registered users and above permission to upload. To use it, click on the the button marked "Manager", then in teh drop down list select Forum images. Then you can add a file, or scroll down till you see the one you want to add. You might need to scroll over untill you see the align column (the last one) and click on center align. If the image is not inserted, use Internet explorer. The problem people been having about not being able to insert smilies and stuff from the manager is a security related one. Since internet explorer has no security, it allows the crosstalk between two browsers.
I put the images in the image manager so they can't be deleted. Mwahahahaha! Well, I can delete them. Will I? No!
Admin
... only to be stopped by Super Yu!
(http://caos.siue.edu/uploads/img3f7b189ba2b03.jpg)
*cue theme song*
Super Yuuuuuuuu!
Ain't nothing you can dooooo
when he's comin' for youuuuu
*bah da bop bop booweeyoo*
Super Yuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
Super Yu stops Stiffler in his tracks with his Super Forearm of justice! *whack!* All of a sudden, Bill Cosby runs from out of the 2026 lab and comes to Super Yu's aid.
[img align=left]http://myhome.spu.edu/bmansell/sake/cosby.jpg[/img]
"There's always room for Super Yu!"
Just then, Stiffler sneaks off, "You haven't seen the last of me!" Super Yu and Bill Cosby give chase but ...
...Stiffler cloaked and went into Stealth Mode again.
"Darn!" said Bill Cosby. "Rats!" said Super Yu.
Just then, Andrew came running up. "Hey guys! Dr. Waxman needs your help! He's recursively trapped inside his computer!"
(http://www.cs.siue.edu/cswebsite/faculty/images/fullsize_waxman.jpg)
Then the theme music played, and they all went running to help Dr. Waxman.
...
Agent J wakes up and looks at the clock on the partially dismantled red ball. The clock reads ten seconds. Agent J works to disarm the device.
Meanwhile, Bill Cosby and Super Yu are helping Dr. Waxmann.
8...7â€Ã,¦6
Agent J is sweating like crazy.
5â€Ã,¦4â€Ã,¦3
Bill and Super Yu succeed in helping Dr. Waxmann.
2â€Ã,¦1
Disarmed!
The ceremony that follows has Bill Cosby and Super Yu receiving an award for helping Dr. Waxmann. Agent J is furious. He just saved the entire engineering building and everyone in it. Angry at this blatant conspiracy, Agent J storms off toâ€Ã,¦
vent his frustration when he notices a brightly colored green thing hovering above his head following his every move!
[img align=left]http://caos.siue.edu/uploads/img3f7ba1fcdfbaa.jpg[/img]
(Do you guys know where this pic came from)
Agent J suddenly realizes that the orange ball of doom was just a plot to lure him here so that he could be given the green mark of death and thereby reveal his identity as a MIB agent! But meanwhile...
...bcak at the MIB Lab, Taz has been transformed into his old self again. The Agents in the lab start looking looking at the pictures Taz took before he was transformed.
"It can't be him, can it?" Cried one of the Agents.
The MIB Agents printed copies of the picture of the suspect. They race to find Agent J. They catch up with Agent J near the robot lab. They showed him the picture.
Agent J saw a small device that looked similar to a Ray gun being pointed at Taz, but the person holding the device made him gasp...
(DaleDoe - I do not know where that picture came from. *Stiff shakes head*)
... Dr. White!!!
That's right, the evil, diabolical mastermind behind the whole Taz ordeal was Dr. White! :-o
Elsewhere, in a hidden location, Dr. White was working on his next scheme... The Eyeball of Doom!!! (Mu ha ha ha!!!)
(http://www.cs.siue.edu/cswebsite/faculty/images/fullsize_white.jpg)
... which he will assign to his computer graphics class of worker drones to multiply the Eyeball of Doom into 150 variations bouncing around our screens. Some say this is how Waxman got recursively trapped in his computer, but no one has lived through seeing the Eyeball of Doom to validate this theory. Well, there is one person on a mission to do just that and their name is...
(http://www.siue.edu/~hfujino/dsc00004c.jpg)
Lord Fujinoki!
Unbeknownst to LF, a group of well diversified students gathered outside of Woodland hall plotting the ultimate ...
(http://www.siue.edu/PHOTO/IMAGES/image10.gif)
party!
[img align=left]http://www.scvhumane.org/newsletter/winter00/party.jpg[/img]
Um...
I mean Party!!!
[img align=left]http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/people/shows/hefner/images/story.75.party.jpg[/img]
That's more like it.
But Lord Fujinoki will change their plans. He plotting to give everyone a Neverending Test!!! Bwa ha ha ha ha....
(I hope they remember to bring a sandwich.)
The Well Diversified Students anticipated a move like this from LF. The WDS's have been using their Biology 425 senior project to develop some new gene splicing techniques to create a cougar mascot bigger than the Morris University Center.
(http://www.siue.edu/PHOTO/IMAGES/image182.gif)
The WDS's intend to use "Cougar Joe" as the ultimate "my cat ate my homework" excuse for getting a neverending extension on LF's test. If that doesn't work they intend to get Cougar Joe to cough-up huge hairballs that will block the entrances to the Engineering Building.
However, there is an unfortounate downside to 'Operation Harball'.
We must not forget that Dr. White's Eyeball of Doom is still lurching in the bowels of the EB...Waiting to recursively trap unsuspecting students.
Even if notice is given to students to evacuate, the students who have fell asleep during powerpoint lectures, and those who disregard the warning as another bogus fire alarm will be trapped just like Dr. Waxman!
Surely there must be a more humane way to dispose of these unfortounate souls...
A Freshman CS140 student slowly wanders the halls not knowing what he is really doing. He wanders over to the CS lab and finds on ALL of the computers :-o ....
...Microsoft Windows! This could only be the doing of Bill Gates.
The student looked around the room and, to his surprise, saw Bill Gates standing in the corner, dressed as Morpheus (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/17/2231231&mode=thread&tid=109&tid=187&tid=188&tid=200&tid=97). :-?
(http://d135974.u47.fluidhosting.com/gallery/Matrix/IMG_0782.JPG)
The student slowly walked over the Bill Gates a Laptop flying to the 140 students hand when all of a sudden
:huh: :blink: That makes no sense. Could you rephrase that in a more coherent manner? :-?
Slowly the 140 student walked over to Bill Gates who is dressed as Morpheus. As he does so the door of the lost and found opens and disks and laptops fly out towards...
Well, Microsoft Word says that confusing post was correct grammar. Why am I not surprised? Anyway, continuing with the story:
...the floor. As to what exactly happened next, the world may never know. For the only two eyewitnesses were Bill Gates himself and that ill-fated student. But the words echoed throughout the entire engineering building as Gates proclaimed:
"I believe it is our fate to be here. It is our destiny. I believe this night holds, for each and every one of us, the very meaning of our lives. This is a war and we are soldiers. What if tomorrow the war could be over? Isn't that worth fighting for? Isn't that worth dying for?" (Matrix)
You see, he had been planning this for a long time--to break into every computer and overwrite every copy of non-Microsoft software with a Microsoft product!!!:help:
But many theorize that when he tried to overwrite the Eyeball of Doom, [img align=left]http://www.cs.siue.edu/cswebsite/faculty/images/fullsize_white.jpg[/img]
that was when things went wrong. Something terrible happened. Something very terrible.... :shocking:
... he got sucked into the computer and imported into a Scooby-Doo video game!
(http://www.videogamecritic.net/images/snes/scooby_doo_mystery.gif)
"Zoinks, Scoob! Hide the stash!"
(http://www.mugshots.org/misc/bill-gates.jpg)
"Too late! Scoob, get Harvey Birdman on the phone! We need to get out of here before.. "
Just then, Bill Gates turns around to find out that his cell-mate is none other than.........
Paul Allen!! His original partner at Microsoft.
In the next cell was the rest of the Microsoft corporation from the '70s--looking just as they did back then.
[img align=left]http://www.voiceone.com/images/msoft78.jpg[/img]
And they had something sinister planned... But this time it was something more evil than just writing buggy copycat software...
[color=CC3300]Jacko!!![/color] :-o
(http://userfs.cec.wustl.edu/~acd2/JACKO.JPG)
That's right. Microsoft was planning to have Michael Jackson toss all of the world's babies to their doom while Microsoft's employees (dressed so as to frame the Beatles for this sinister act) watched with delight!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHHAAH that picture is priceless!
(http://members.aol.com/mojorisenn/jacko.jpg)
.. and so began the reign of Jacko and the Fab Four, otherwise known as the "Jackson 5" ..... yeah.. so having tossed baby after baby, the group decided to sit down and catch up on their drug experimentation.. meanwhile, there were plans being made to overthrow the Jacko 5 Empire, and there's only 1 man that can stop them.......
And that man... just happened to be... the recently captured Saddam Hussein! He has be planning to use the Jacko 5's Music to...
And that man just happens to be the reacently captured Saddam Hussein! (insert piccy of captured Saddam here...) He plans on using only one thing to over throw the Jacko 5 Empire. His secret weapon is...
He planned to disguise himself as Santa Hussein:
(http://userfs.cec.wustl.edu/~acd2/sadsantalg.jpg)
That way, when the kids that Jacko hadn't yet tossed over the balcony saw him, they would form a stampede and flatten Jacko and the Evil Beatles.
So, Saddam put his plan into motion. He set out in his sleigh for the Jackson 5's hideout. As he approached their lair...
.. he peeped into an open window. Seeing that no one was around, he climbed into the room. He spotted a computer in the corner of the room and took a seat in front of it. He noticed a text file on the desktop named 'topsecret.txt' He opened it up and read:
"miserable failure, are you feeling lucky?"
What does that mean? Is this a personal that Jacko wrote to himself?? Just then, an AIM chat window opened up! It was Evil Ringo!
x3v1LDrum5x: hey jacko, you there? :P
Saddam typed back...
oOxCandY-K1nGxOo: yes, this is me.. wassup? *LoLiEz*
x3v1LDrum5x: can you tell me who are main target was again??? :(
Uh oh... what is he talking about???
x3v1LDrum5x: i lost the topsecret file.. all i remember is you said to get on Google and do a search but i can't remember which 2 words to search or what button to press
Ah HA! Saddam remembers that Google has a search button that reads "I'm feeling lucky"
oOxCandY-K1nGxOo: i'll just send the file again, hold on :P
Saddam has found out their main mission target! All he has to do is get on google, and do a search for "miserable failure" and click the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button!
Saddam goes to google.com... he types in 'miserable failure'.... he hits the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button.....
.... WoW! What a surprise!!!!!!
Saddam hears footsteps! He's gotta hide! Saddam quickly ducks into a nearby closet. Saddam peeps between the closet doors and sees......
All of the Democratic canidates pilling out of the closet all demanding to be heard and all saying pretty much the same thing...
.. "Why do we have to fight?" (http://www.treasurehiding.com/random/why.htm) All the candidates adopted this as their slogan. Well, all of them except one person, and that was...
That was the Unknown Computer Programmer!
(http://www.cnn.com/interactive/world/0010/saudi.hijack.gallery/gallery.masked.ap.jpg)
BUT, the rest of the world re-discovers the lost entertainment of the remarkable Herve Villechaize.
Herve becomes a cultural icon with such hits as Dance with Herve (http://www.tradedforwheat.com/meshugenah/dancingherve.html)
Over the next few months there is Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward Everyone, that is until the Unknow Computer Programmer lets loose his diabolical plan ...
... to put Saddam back in power!!!
(http://home.earthlink.net/~brandon.public/images/saddambum.jpg)
Saddam back in power?!
There's only one man that can stop him. (http://khaaan.com/)