Pony Express Issue 59: Jan. 19 - Jan. 26, 2009

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Kau

Canada3502 Posts

January 27 2009 04:30 GMT

The Boring Edition

Letter from the Editors
Dear Readers,

For Pony.

- Kau

Staff
Kau – Editor
Bloodyc0bbler – The Stove
Chill – Strategy
mel_ee – Graphic Designer
Nyovne – IRC Comments
LemonWalrus – Semi-Retired
Physician – Memory Lane
{88}iNcontroL – Troll Booth Willie
Elric_ – Korean Korner
Hawk – Semi-Retired
decaf – Retired
mahnini – Semi-coming-out-of-retirement-but-not-really

Table of Contents

Serious Business and Funsies ................ p1
The Stove .............................................. p2
Chalk Talk ............................................. p3
Semi-Funny IRC Comment of the Week ... p4
Random Image of the Week .................... p5
A Walk Down Memory Lane .................... p6
Korean Korner ........................................ p7
Troll Booth Willie .................................... p8
Best of Blogs ......................................... p9
Ban of the Week .................................... p10

Cream of Brocoli and cheddar Soup

Ingredients
Chicken Stock
Carrots
Celery
Onion
Brocoli
Cheddar cheese
35% cream
Salt and Pepper to taste

Procedure
1. Add chicken stock to pot, add in desired level of water bring to a boil.
2. Cut the onion, celery, broccoli and carrot into smaller pieces, add to the water.
3. when the vegetables are all soft, add in your cream, then puree
4. add pureed soup back to stove, add in your cheese, salt and pepper, then let reduce by 1/3rd
5. Enjoy

- Bloodyc0bbler

- Chill

<Moltke> but once we were a self-confident, virile people, who swept aside millions of orientals with one sweep of the civilized sword

15:34 deekay: but me and carnac
15:34 deekay: we're tight
15:34 deekay: like a 14 year old vagina
15:34 Carnac_: nowadays
15:34 deekay: well nowadays...that could be anything 15:34 Carnac_: we should prolly compare us to
15:34 Carnac_: 10 yo vaginas

Bonus: Super Special Nyovne Endorsed Commercial of Awesome

- Nyovne

- number 60 from NokCha's Starcraft Drawings~

- Physician

Practical Korean 7: Numbers I
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I'm not Korean. I have no Korean blood. I cannot speak Korean fluently. In fact I've only been in Korea for 3 months. So don't go apeshit if I use a ㅔ instead of ㅐ or I offend anyone's acute nationalistic feelings. Rest assured though that I will not teach anything without being 100% that it's right.

Note on Romanization:
(Romanization is where the Korean is phonetically translated into English)
I hate Romanization and I strongly suggest any serious learners of Korean not to use it. It's just for the newbies. The problem with it is that different English speakers will pronounce the syllables differently and on an international forum like this, it's impossible for me to be accurate with it. There are different variations of Romanization and below I do my own version.

A good site to learn the alphabet is here:
http://www.langintro.com/kintro/index.htm

So last week, we looked at the basic 'Please give me XX'
+ Show Spoiler [Remember? No?.. :(] +

XX 주세요 (XX ju-seh-yo)

Please give me beer
맥주 주세요 (mek-ju ju-seh-yo)

So we can all say 'BEER PLEASE' in a rather primitive fashion. This week, I wanted to teach you how to order multiples of things. (E.g. 'three beers please'). But then I realised we needed to learn some numbers first...So this week we're just going to look at them.

In Korean, there are two number systems (pretty gay). Both sets can only be used in their particular situations and can rarely be interchanged (ㅠㅠ). Today we'll look at the set of numbers for talking about physical objects. (So important things like, no. of beer/soju bottles, plates of food, no. of seige tanks, SCVs on gas, korean sluts in a club etc. All these (with a slight extra) use what is called the 'Pure Korean' number system.

LUCKILY! I think most of you already know how to count up to 3!
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hana..tul..set.. [XXX...FIGHTING!!]

To make this really digestable, the beginners try just memorising the first 5..

1 하나 (hana)
2 둘 (tul)
3 셋 (set)
4 넷 (net)
5 다섯 (tah-seot)

Now as practice, every time you watch a VOD, say the numbers with the fangirls. (And keep going to 5/10). The keen ones can study the rest:
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6 여섯 (yoh-seot)
7 일곱 (eel gop)
8 여덟 (yeo dawl)
9 아홉 (ah hop)
10 열 (yeol)

There's not much to say apart from just try and learn them. They're numbers after all... so you won't be wasting your time. With these in hand... next week we'll finally get round to ordering those four beers and the two plates of delicious squid rings..

- Elric

On January 21 2009 19:13 PH wrote:

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With the way RTS games are being made nowadays, it'd be safe to argue that balance IS an innovation... -_____-;;

lol.

On January 23 2009 04:13 CrimsonLotus wrote:
Is this some covert way to brag about your penis? xD.

Raptor trying to imply that like marklarmarklar, he has a giant fucking dick and we all don't.

On January 23 2009 04:42 vGl-CoW wrote:
hahaha
imagine the horrified look on everyone's face when the venezuelan kid suddenly started taking a dump in the drinking fountain

CoW on Raptor's giant dick

On January 23 2009 01:58 Sadist wrote:
lol 70-7 B-

Thats like LastShadow good.

On January 23 2009 16:50 yubee wrote:
lumberjack, are you in the special larpers division of the NSA? you know, the one where you pretend to be a high powered government agent with all your friends and shoot eachother in the wieners with nerf guns

- {88}iNcontroL

Ki_Do was just banned by Manifesto7.

That account was created on 2008-07-08 21:11:05 and had 981 posts.

Reason: Your inability to heed warnings or post positively is astounding. 3 warnings and a week ban before this one.

Go to Disneyland. You aren't welcome here.

Unforgiven_ve was just temp banned for 2 days by zatic.

That account was created on 2004-08-24 14:46:36 and had 1002 posts.

Reason: Because this was probably the worst OP in General and you seem to collect warnings too.

Question of the Week
What happened to all the good threads?

p10

FragKrag

United States11566 Posts

January 27 2009 04:34 GMT

"Gaming leads to Reduced Trauma? Tue"

You're losing your touch!

all the good threads dieddd

Im-JaY

Canada69 Posts

January 27 2009 04:41 GMT

That picture is awesome lol, but its more like Maury then Jerry Springer. Jerry is awesome though, that show always make me laugh.

Maybe it's just a slow week?

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

January 27 2009 04:46 GMT

blogs used to be so glorious

Nitrogen

United States5345 Posts

January 27 2009 05:10 GMT

i love the troll both + random image of this week.

iNcontroL

USA29055 Posts

January 27 2009 05:37 GMT

raptor's blog should be in there if it isn't imo >_<

Kau

Canada3502 Posts

January 27 2009 05:38 GMT

On January 27 2009 13:34 FragKrag wrote:
"Gaming leads to Reduced Trauma? Tue"

You're losing your touch!

all the good threads dieddd

shhh I have hw to do.

ph7

United States72 Posts

January 27 2009 05:42 GMT

On January 27 2009 14:37 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
raptor's blog should be in there if it isn't imo >_<

Agreed.

Also, you know what i feel would make this thread more super awesome? IMHO Add some Tasteless comments/phrases. Im overjoyed with all sorts of good emotions when i hear/read those. lol
Btw, go TL. We need some more good threads, and even though what appears to be mostly newer people(including myself) taking over the threads and making them shit.
We should have a revolution for better threads!! ^^
Anyways good job.

Night[Mare

Mexico4793 Posts

January 27 2009 05:56 GMT

blog section is good :=)

Kau

Canada3502 Posts

January 27 2009 05:59 GMT

#10

Haha added raptor's blog ^^ I miss things when they get closed.

JWD

United States12607 Posts

January 27 2009 06:22 GMT

#11

I nominate JoeSaddles for ban of the week!

Kau

Canada3502 Posts

January 27 2009 06:44 GMT

#12

I was thinking of that, but that would just bring the bandwagoners in here.

thunk

United States6233 Posts

January 27 2009 06:56 GMT

#13

Strategy has gotten better, somewhere else has to get worse I guess.

Fontong

United States6454 Posts

January 27 2009 07:15 GMT

#14

God I need to think of some sort of stats/research thread to do. Mehh, mine didn't get much attention last time though. I don't want to do a big essay because it feels like school outside of school, obviously these projects are a lot to just procrastinate too...

geometryb

United States1249 Posts

January 27 2009 07:23 GMT

#15

i think a short witty introduction to each link would make this a lot better.

Malongo

Chile3472 Posts

January 27 2009 07:28 GMT

#16

After the purge strategy has improved about 100% those koreans guides are gold. And the rest is not that bad, just give it time. I say the worst is blog section but still there are some good ones.