Pull up a land speeder, son, and I'll tell you the short, boring story:

You already know I'm a Pink Floyd fan, correct? Well one of their earliest recorded songs has these lyrics:

Lime and limpid green, a second scene
A fight between the blue you once knew.
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground.
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania.
Neptune, Titan, Stars can frighten.

Blinding signs flap,
Flicker, flicker, flicker blam. Pow, pow.
Stairway scare Dan dare who's there?
Lime and limpid green, the sounds surronds
The icy waters under
Lime and limpid green, the sounds surronds
The icy waters underground.

So way back in the mid '90s, back when this whole crazy World Wide Web thing was just getting off the ground, I chose neptunetitan as my handle everywhere I went. My very first internet email address was neptunetitan@aol.com. And Neptune saw that it was good.

But the internet, being itself, saw that even the faintest glimmer of originality had to punished, because within six months of neptunetitan's genesis, there were 800 gajillion copycat neptunetitans all over the damn place. I couldn't create a new account anywhere with it, because some halfwit had already stolen it from me. So I had to devise something new.

Enter kronosposeidon. Poseidon = Neptune, and Kronos = Ruler of the titans. Now I considered Poseidonkronos at first just to keep the order intact, but that didn't sound as good as kronosposeidon, IMHO. Also if you use it as a replacement in "Astronomy Domine's" lyrics:

Kronos, Poseidon, Stars can frighten

..it almost works, poetically speaking. Astronomically and mythologically speaking, it's a little more of a problem. Hey, I never said I was a genius. I just sell fucking boxes. But on the bright side, kronosposeidon has proven so clunky as a handle that no one but my dumb ass uses it. Believe me, I have accounts all over the intarwebs with kronosposeidon, and I have always had it approved on the first try. Thus my half-assed knowledge of a dead Greek religion has proven useful once in my life. God bless America.

Okay, you can wake up now.



In reply to this comment by schmawy:
You know what I've always wanted to ask you Okiwan Penobie? What's the secret recipe to that mumbojumbo?

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
That's right, padawan. Come on son, join the winning team, or the registrar will be forced to pull your scholarship at the Jedi academy.

AND they'll take away your Photoshop.

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In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Hahahaaaa. Your Gimp powers grow stronger, master. I have no excuse. Such a freekin' freeloader, huh?


kronosposeidon:

Lazy.

Goddam despicable. Ostensibly, speeding tickets are issued for public safety. Confusing public safety with profit margins places law enforcement at the top of a slippery slope indeed. Now, in theory, the more speeders the better. It will be in this company's interest to hoodwink and entrap, not to serve and protect.

This cop tasers someone over a speeding ticket for going about 55 on a straight highway in the middle of a desert with no construction in sight (in a bogus 40 zone that probably only exists for speed traps). The cop started getting ready to pull him over before he even crossed the 40 sign. Then when the driver refused to sign the citation without knowing how fast the cop thinks he was going, the driver was placed under arrest and tasered. This cop should be fired and treated for mental illness, but the Utah Highway Patrol ruled that he "acted reasonably". Fuck the Utah Highway Patrol. This cop seems to think that obedience is the most important thing, and that makes him a fascist.

Your Innocence Is No Protection:
http://www.harrybrowne.org/articles/InnocenceNoProtection.htm
CNN interview:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/11/23/intv.tasered.speeder.speaks.cnn

The model looks like Luke Skywalker's land speeder. Bet that's no coincidence.

awesome! good promote mink, somehow i missed this one before. The animator really channeled the speeder bike scene from return of the jedi, huh?

I could see this happening. See that's why you have a turn lane. You should have to get over a lane (where people look out behind them) and then turn from there. But you can't so the turn lane is the middle lane and that train is flying. If the rail slowed down to half speed near intersection there probably would be as many collisions. Peopl assume the traffic is all moving relatively same speed, ie. I figure out who is behind me in rearview and assume for the next 10 seconds it is relatively unchanged. But super speeders and cops zooming up the road can screw with you and often people move over a lane not knowing someone if going twice their speed from behind.

Anyone else hear the Star Warsesque speeder bike sound effects?

Tags changed from "police, speeders" to "police, speeders, reno 911 in real life" by gold star member intangiblemeg.

Judging from the sound alone, these are clearly speeder bikes. I'm a nerd I guess.