KVR Audio

ouroboros · Post by **ouroboros** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:28 am

munchkin wrote:I just think this guy selling warez is ripping off the people who are buying it. Them I feel sorry for because if they weren't as green as grass they would either buy the real deal or just download warez for free.

' does make you wonder who's buying it don't it?

braj · Post by **braj** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:33 am

ouroboros wrote:
munchkin wrote:I just think this guy selling warez is ripping off the people who are buying it. Them I feel sorry for because if they weren't as green as grass they would either buy the real deal or just download warez for free.
' does make you wonder who's buying it don't it?

I think it's probably 50/50, people who don't understand it's warez and people who do but are too dumb to find it themselves.

John Vulich · Post by **John Vulich** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:34 am

munchkin wrote:I just think this guy selling warez is ripping off the people who are buying it. Them I feel sorry for because if they weren't as green as grass they would either buy the real deal or just download warez for free.

ouroboros wrote:' does make you wonder who's buying it don't it?

braj wrote:I think it's probably 50/50, people who don't understand it's warez and people who do but are too dumb to find it themselves.

ouroboros wrote:sounds right, but what's the demographic of too dumb to find it and don't know it's warez?

the mind boggles.....

Hyuck, hyuck, hyuck... Lookie wha' I jus' gots myself on eBay Bubba.

ouroboros · Post by **ouroboros** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:35 am

sounds right, but what's the demographic of too dumb to find it and don't know it's warez?

the mind boggles.....

ouroboros · Post by **ouroboros** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:36 am

oh man, I gotta post faster!

how'd that pic get in so fast?

John Vulich · Post by **John Vulich** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:39 am

ouroboros wrote:oh man, I gotta post faster!

how'd that pic get in so fast?

Silly rabbit... the hand is quicker than the eye!

It's almost as if I travelled back in time, isn't it?

braj · Post by **braj** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:45 am

EDITED BECAUSE IT JUST WASN't NICE

John Vulich · Post by **John Vulich** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:55 am

braj wrote:EDITED BECAUSE IT JUST WASN't NICE

ouroboros · Post by **ouroboros** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:57 am

braj wrote:EDITED BECAUSE IT JUST WASN't NICE

[que Marlon Perkins] And thar id is: The raarest of awl KVRians. A poster with discreshun. We better get a look quick before he is chased off!

Kudos to you Braj

braj · Post by **braj** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:06 am

JohnVulich wrote:
braj wrote:EDITED BECAUSE IT JUST WASN't NICE

You ever play the dozens? I was gonna crack a joke but thought you deserve more respect.

John Vulich · Post by **John Vulich** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:16 am

braj wrote:
JohnVulich wrote:
braj wrote:EDITED BECAUSE IT JUST WASN't NICE

You ever play the dozens? I was gonna crack a joke but thought you deserve more respect.

Hmmm, I'm touched but I haven't a clue as to what the term "playing the dozens" refers to.

John Vulich · Post by **John Vulich** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:18 am

Oh, ok...

From: The Maven's Word of the Day "the dozens"...

the dozens

phrase from black English that I heard going around some 25 years or so ago, was "doing the dozens," meaning to exchange (mostly) friendly insults, in a kind of rap rhythm. How the heck does "dozens" play into this?
The dozens is a game, especially common among urban blacks, of exchanging insults usually about the mother of the opponent. Skilled playing of the dozens displays verbal improvisation of great originality and wittiness. It also requires a thick skin: you lose the contest if you get upset. The game is often in a stylized, rhythmic form, and the dozens are considered one of the precursors of rap music. Some excellent examples of the dozens can be seen in the movie White Men Can't Jump.

The term dozens is usually used in such phrases as "to play the dozens" or "to do the dozens"; the form dirty dozens is also common. The word dates at least to the 1910s, but the game was probably played considerably earlier. There are examples of this type of game in several other cultures; in sixteenth-century Scotland, a flyting was a battle between poets who exchanged abusive poems; and in the late ninteenth century, American cowboys engaged in "cussing contests," where a saddle would be awarded to the most abusive participant.

The origin of the term is unknown. Some conjectures include: it refers to a throw of 12 in craps, 12 being a difficult number to match; the original form had twelve verses, each one referring to a different sex act; and that inferior slaves were sold in lots of twelve, the number twelve therefore coming to mean 'wretched; inferior' itself. None of these hypotheses has any solid proof, and the origin is likely to remain a mystery.

Some other terms for this type of stylized insulting are capping, jiving, joaning (or joning), sounding, snapping, and signifying.

soulkraka · Post by **soulkraka** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:29 am

playing the dozens = your moms like butter, she spreads real easy....your moms so fat you cant even see her legs, shes just glidin' across the floor......your family is so poor, your father's face is on food stamps....your mommas got playdoh teeth...etc etc etc

my friends and I used to sit around and do that for HOURS.

soulkraka · Post by **soulkraka** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:37 am

BTW, why is this thread in the effects section?

As in the "effects" of software piracy?

John Vulich · Post by **John Vulich** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:41 am

soulkraka wrote:BTW, why is this thread in the effects section?

As in the "effects" of software piracy?

I didn't even notice that...

Maybe because it was about Celomony Melodyne being sold on eBay... I don't know!

How can they get away with selling Warez on ebay ?????