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Grex Test Item 33: Now Is the Time Test
Entered by remmers on Fri Oct 4 10:22:30 UTC 1991:

Now is the time
to enter another stupid item
in the test conference.

57 responses total.

#1 of 57 by remmers on Fri Oct 4 10:22:52 1991:

Stupid response to stupid item.

#2 of 57 by tcc on Sat Oct 5 06:13:29 1991:

Stupid response refuting the prior stupid response to stupid item.

#3 of 57 by rimmy on Tue Feb 18 10:44:33 1997:

dfdfjhdfhj

#4 of 57 by remmers on Tue Feb 18 11:50:32 1997:

At last, after five and a half years -- an intelligent response!

#5 of 57 by lee on Thu Feb 20 05:05:13 1997:

Quoi?

#6 of 57 by orinoco on Fri Feb 21 01:14:30 1997:

Define 'intelligent'
(For that matter, define 'response'...or 'five and a half')

#7 of 57 by remmers on Fri Feb 21 10:53:29 1997:

Intelligence is the ability to make other people look like
idiots.

#8 of 57 by lee on Sat Feb 22 02:38:15 1997:

five and a half : age at which a child resents being labeled as "only a
five year old" but looks silly saying "I will be six next year"

#9 of 57 by orinoco on Tue Feb 25 22:52:05 1997:

Thank you, lee.  You have given meaning to an otherwise meaningless existence.
Admittedly, it's only the existence of the phrase 'five and a half' that
you've given meaning to, but it's a start...

#10 of 57 by lee on Wed Feb 26 04:43:04 1997:

Hey, I had to do something.  Sometimes nobody comes into this
conference for months at a time!

#11 of 57 by remmers on Wed Feb 26 12:25:40 1997:

I wonder if there are any Grexers who were not yet born when
Grex started up.

#12 of 57 by lee on Thu Feb 27 02:01:40 1997:

That depends... when did grex start up?

#13 of 57 by remmers on Thu Feb 27 13:58:42 1997:

July 1991.

#14 of 57 by valerie on Thu Feb 27 16:28:25 1997:

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#15 of 57 by jared on Thu Feb 27 18:56:01 1997:

Hmm.. one year after grex started (plus about 3 months) i got on.. scarry.

#16 of 57 by lee on Fri Feb 28 02:41:24 1997:

Was grex born one a specific day or over an entire month?

#17 of 57 by remmers on Fri Feb 28 14:06:11 1997:

There was one specific day in July 1991 when it opened to the
public. (What was that date again?) So I guess that's the day
it was born. The founders had a little party to celebrate.
Believe I brought some champagne.

Gestation period was about 6 months.

#18 of 57 by lee on Fri Feb 28 21:26:47 1997:

Champagne for grex?
<lee chuckles at the thought of the Sun's that grex runs on asking for
champagne>

#19 of 57 by valerie on Sat Mar 1 05:48:13 1997:

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#20 of 57 by remmers on Sat Mar 1 14:52:12 1997:

As traditional with a birth event I would've passed out cigars,
except that the Grex founders are a notoriously puritanical
bunch of non-smokers. Then too, it would have been audacious of
me to claim fatherhood, as Grex was conceived and gestated by
a 12-person gestalt somewhat reminiscent of the one in Ted
Sturgeon's _More than Human_.

#21 of 57 by jared on Sat Mar 1 21:20:41 1997:

re #19
        Nope.. i was the person causing problems between the 1st and 2nd
years.. sorta like the terible twos.

#22 of 57 by lee on Sat Mar 1 22:57:46 1997:

Re: #20 You could have gotten those chocolate sticks shaped to pretend to be
cigars.

#23 of 57 by remmers on Sun Mar 2 13:53:41 1997:

Hey, you're right. Wish I'd thought of that!

#24 of 57 by orinoco on Sun Mar 2 23:03:56 1997:

Wow...I don't even remember when I joined grex...I mean, it's sort of hard
to imagine *not* being part of grex.
Shouldn't someone put grex's birthday into the automatic birthday wisher?

#25 of 57 by lee on Mon Mar 3 03:58:37 1997:

Does Grex get a surprise party every year?
How do you fit all those grexers in with grex?

#26 of 57 by valerie on Mon Mar 3 14:26:05 1997:

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#27 of 57 by orinoco on Mon Mar 3 23:25:27 1997:

But that's so cruel!  Grex needs a piece of the cake and a chance to blow out
the candles!

#28 of 57 by lee on Wed Mar 5 01:02:18 1997:

<lee ponders how grex would *eat* a piece of cake...>
I don't think you want candles near grex...

#29 of 57 by orinoco on Wed Mar 5 20:59:19 1997:

hrmph....minor details...

#30 of 57 by lee on Thu Mar 6 04:18:59 1997:

<lee strums an E-minor chord on her guitar>

#31 of 57 by orinoco on Thu Mar 6 14:33:21 1997:

<orinoco hums along cheerfully>

#32 of 57 by lee on Fri Mar 7 00:33:43 1997:

<lee strums a G-major chord, since it is the relative major>

#33 of 57 by orinoco on Mon Mar 10 17:08:48 1997:

<orinoco envisions lots of perky little nephews and cousins milling around>

#34 of 57 by lee on Mon Mar 10 20:51:31 1997:

Nieces too.  Don't forget nieces.  And cousins once removed.

#35 of 57 by orinoco on Wed Mar 12 21:22:06 1997:

Of course.  Silly me.

#36 of 57 by lee on Sun Mar 16 04:21:41 1997:

And while you're at it, just include the whole family tree.
<lee sings, "And on this tree there was a branch.  The finest branch
you ever did see.  The branch was on the tree, the tree was in the hole,
the whole was in the ground and the green grass grew all around
around around and the green grass grew all around.">

#37 of 57 by orinoco on Wed Mar 19 00:20:45 1997:

<Orinoco whips out his handy dandy pocket campfire and begins singing
'Kumbaya', to the extreme horror of all present.>

#38 of 57 by lee on Sat Mar 22 03:19:33 1997:

Campfire?
<lee goes to get the marshmallows to make smores>

#39 of 57 by orinoco on Sat Mar 22 18:16:24 1997:

<orinoco dies due to an overdose of marshmallows>