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Carmen Sandiego, and Stealing with Impunity

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LessThree United States78 Posts April 25 2011 04:11 GMT #1 Before I begin, why is the process of creating a blog on TeamLiquid so confusing?!? Carmen Sandiego stole my TeamLiquid blog address!!! Oh well... Anyhow, this was inspired by this post: Where in the World is Tasteless and Artosis? (Forgive me in advance for the largely Americentric post, since I know the TeamLiquid audience is international.) The nostalgia bomb awakened good memories of being a kid watching all the Carmen Sandiego shows. From the PBS game show, "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?": To the cartoon "Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?" on Saturday mornings on Fox: (Trivia: the melody of the cartoon's opening song was taken from "Singt dem großen Bassa Lieder", from Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail): To the second PBS game show, "Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?" (although, I didn't like this one all that much): I liked the cartoon the most because it fleshed out Carmen Sandiego's personality. She thought of the world as her personal playground, taking whatever she wanted to wherever for her own amusement. It didn't matter - from pieces of jewelry, to entire buildings and monuments - she took what she wanted, and there was nothing that could stop her. Now comes the question: if you could take/steal anything you wanted, haul it off to wherever for your own enjoyment, and get away with it, what would you take, where, and why? Scale does not matter. The only limits are your imagination. For my part... well, I haven't thought that far ahead yet.

gogogadgetflow United States2583 Posts April 25 2011 04:18 GMT #2 Taylor Swift

Headlines United States482 Posts April 25 2011 04:55 GMT #3 What a wonderful childhood I had. The Carmen Sandiego spin-offs, Mighty Max, King Arthur & the Knights of Justice, etc. OH GOD!!! I'M TRIPPING ON NOSTALGIA!!! Ah... the 90's. And, gogogadgetflow, I see your Taylor Swift and I will raise you with:

Mortality United States4790 Posts April 25 2011 07:10 GMT #4 Why steal women when you can steal lots of money and buy the very same women, if you so desire? I'll steal the US Federal Tax Receipts. Yes, I know, it's less than it was last year, but who wants to be a billionaire when you can be a trillionaire?

LessThree United States78 Posts April 25 2011 07:18 GMT #5 Right now, I'm in the mood to steal all the gold from Fort Knox and use all that gold to make life-size 24K replicas of various articles of Protoss armor. I'd swing by the Smithsonian and steal the Hope Diamond, using the gold and the diamond to make a Khaydarin Amulet replica that the goddamn Blizzard balance team took out of Starcraft. I'LL HAVE MY KHAYDARIN AMULET ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, BASTARDS! In any case, I'd be rich as hell and have my nerd toys at the same time.

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