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    commentry requestStarted by:Cousjava, Jun/08/10 07:26 PM
    I know that various people record all
    commentry. I would also like a copy.
    Could someone send a copy of it to me,
    if I gave them my e-mail address?    		  
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    By: Rosin
    Jun/09/10 01:09 AM
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    MS Paint AdventuresStarted by:kazuhiro, Jun/05/10 08:15 PM
    Any other fans here? For those who
    don't know about it, it's... uh... a
    webcomic, sorta? There are three
    "series" plus a silly thing that got
    abandoned, and the latest contains some
    references to the others though it's not
    really required reading. Much     		 
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    By: Cousjava
    Jun/06/10 07:13 PM
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    Island advertising graphicsStarted by:CavemanJoe, Apr/30/10 12:28 AM
    Hey, folks. Some of you have asked for
    banner ads and graphics, so here they
    are: [img]http://www.improbableisland.com/external/ads/banner.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.improbableisland.com/external/ads/button.gif[/img] [img]http://www.improbableisland.c    		  
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    By: Mack
    Apr/30/10 08:10 AM
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    Somewhat incongruous things...Started by:loriel, Apr/07/10 10:16 AM
    ...you've noticed on the Island which
    only happen for you or people similar to
    you (e.g. your character or your friend
    of the same interests or a person of the
    same age or sex or location).* Couldn't
    really come up with a title.** For
    example: The unl    		  
    		2027 5
    By: Reverb
    Apr/08/10 04:23 PM
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    Love BuffStarted by:Aeridus, Nov/19/09 01:24 AM
    What exactly does the Love Buff do? The
    Marriage Buff was definitely hefty, but
    I don't notice anything happening with
    the Love Buff. Except of course my
    partner watching over me. :3 I read in
    the wiki that there was supposed to be a
    substantial buff with     		 
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    By: Reverb
    Nov/20/09 11:10 AM
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    Life imitating art?Started by:Daedalus, Oct/25/09 09:00 AM
    From the (Australian) ABC
    News: [quote]Thousands of 'undead'
    lurched through Brisbane today for the
    fourth annual Brisbane Zombie
    Walk. Zombie brides, zombie doctors
    and nurses, zombie strippers and zombie
    Santas were popular at this year's
    walk.     		 
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    By: Daedalus
    Oct/27/09 03:46 AM
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    new book alert!Started by:XaNe, Oct/09/09 02:14 AM
    I just took a peek at the New York Times
    and got some shocking news. There's a
    sixth book to the Hitchhikers Guide to
    the Galaxy Series. It has been written
    by Eoin Colfer. It shall hit the shelves
    on monday(today is october the 8th where
    I am, thursday    		  
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    By: monsterzero
    Mar/20/10 05:09 PM
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    Did Coleridge ever visit Improbable Isla....Started by:Daedalus, Sep/17/09 09:20 AM
    The early editions of The Rhyme of The
    Ancient Mariner included a passage by T.
    Burnet, (slightly edited by Coleridge)
    that ran thus: [quote][i]Facile
    credo, plures esse Naturas invisibiles
    quam visibiles in rerum universitate.
    Sed horum omnium familiam    		  
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    By: Zekiel
    Sep/17/09 05:15 PM
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    Max duration level in Clan Buffs?Started by:Aeridus, Aug/11/09 01:45 AM
    What is the max duration level at which
    point you can spend a bunch of cigs to
    make the buffs last forever? I know it's
    higher than 20... I'm hoping around 25.    		  
    		1693 5
    By: Cath
    Aug/11/09 03:43 PM
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    Please help me with a word?Started by:Cath, Jul/14/09 03:53 PM
    So, I've been writing a thank you letter
    for a scholarship (which I have to turn
    in tomorrow) and I am having a bit of
    trouble... There's a word that the
    people in this forum use (I've heard it
    other places, too) that is a name for
    the system of charitable    		  
    		1076 5
    By: hajen
    Jul/15/09 01:58 AM
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    Improbable Island on FacebookStarted by:Nadyanilo, Jun/23/09 03:34 PM
    Alright, so i noticed that there were no
    groups on Facebook that involved
    Improbable Island, so I decided to make
    one. if its against any regulations
    of any sort, then I will promptly remove
    it. Otherwise, all of you with a
    Facebook account are more     		 
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    By: LeGrande
    Jul/26/09 01:36 PM
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    Questions I would ask the Watcher if she....Started by:Kolojang, Jan/10/16 06:52 AM
    I've been wanting to do a thread like
    this for a while. So here's the theme of
    this thread. What...we won't call them
    plot holes, but rather..."unexplained
    features" about the Island's story
    tickles your curiosity? This is a place
    to ask these question, di    		  
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    By: Count Sessine
    Jan/18/16 07:56 AM
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    Glorious Guides! Share your guides with ....Started by:Lea.wolfsfeld, Jul/12/15 04:29 PM
    Now, while surfing the wide wonderful
    world of the internet I stumbled across
    this little beauty at
    [url]http://starcre8tor.tumblr.com/post/123854268688/ionlylooklikeahipster-alliaofrph-writing[/url].
    A wonderful masterpost filled with as
    many guides for w    		  
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    By: Zoinks
    Jul/30/15 08:16 PM
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    Erase All Timestamps! (From your logs)Started by:Trowa, Sep/02/13 06:00 AM
    I finished a GDoc template for those of
    you who enjoy logging your scenes from
    the Island into Google Documents. What
    sets this one apart from others is a
    custom script embedded in the document
    that will automatically search and
    replace all timestamps with    		  
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    By: Makiwa
    Sep/05/14 04:17 PM
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    ShenanigansStarted by:Full Metal Lion, Apr/01/12 11:37 PM
    As far as I am aware, it is the first
    day in the month of April and business
    as usual on the island. Where are the
    shenanigans? In another timezone? As a
    luxury of the
    not-$6,000-in-debt-to-the-government?
    Hiding in a bush? In (dramatic ellipses)
    The Futur    		  
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    By: CavemanJoe
    Aug/06/17 04:55 PM
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    This is what happens when you spend too ....Started by:Devorah, Sep/26/11 05:26 AM
    ... Everything starts to look like an II
    reference. I went to the zoo today
    and took a couple of pictures that made
    me think of the Jungle and I felt like
    sharing with you fine folks. Warning:
    Moose on the
    prowl: [img]http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.n    		  
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    By: Daedalus
    Jun/02/12 04:11 AM
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    osu! Newsletter.Started by:Omega, Jun/19/11 08:21 PM
    Ehem. Yes, so I [i]happen [/i]to be an
    editor for [i]The
    [url=http://osu.ppy.sh]osu![/url]
    monthly.[/i] osu!, (Yes, with the
    exclamation mark, no capital letter at
    first -- The creator hates them for
    perplexedly mysterious reasons.) a
    rhythm game that has     		 
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    By: Omega
    Jul/07/11 07:39 PM
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    Dwellings for newbies.Started by:Wolfgang, Apr/21/11 12:49 AM
    ... Okay. SO... Got my hands on a
    dwelling, and i realized that i do not
    know a damn thing about this stuff. the
    keys and the locking and the creation of
    rooms and all that... So it got me
    thinking... is there anywhere a tutorial
    of sorts that will h    		  
    		2373 6
    By: Buddleia
    Apr/25/11 12:07 AM
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    Best 404 Page ErrorStarted by:LadyRavenSkye, Feb/07/11 08:12 PM
    [url]http://thcnet.net/zork/index.php[/url] Browsing
    about online, and stumbled upon this
    internet gem. A PHP version of Zork.
    Some of you probably already know about
    it, yet, some of you never played
    it. As part of text based adventure
    game culture, I f    		  
    		2745 6
    By: D Valentine
    Feb/08/11 02:04 AM
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    Avatars on the forumStarted by:Beeps, Dec/14/10 12:29 AM
    Seems like this is the right place to
    ask... I can't seem to get an avatar to
    work on the forum. After I select a file
    and hit "Save information," it does
    nothing. do I need to enter my password
    on the other page and then hit save,
    or...? I tried that and    		  
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    By: Iriana
    Dec/14/10 04:54 AM
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    gaming can make a better worldStarted by:dex, Mar/19/10 01:36 PM
    watch
    this: [url=http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html]Gaming
    Can Make a Better World[/url] Jane
    McGonigal's 2010 TED talk. - dex    		  
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    By: g_rock
    Apr/05/10 03:46 PM
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    ircStarted by:amouge, Jan/15/10 04:50 PM
    k I cant take it, I need instant
    communication with fellow players.. I
    have made a channel in irc for
    improbable island registered with
    chanserv... the irc server is
    irc.freenode.net and the channel is
    #improbableisland Come join me and talk
    about the g    		  
    		2298 6
    By: amouge
    Jan/16/10 01:42 AM
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    Roleplaying into Season 2Started by:Symar, Jun/05/09 03:41 AM
    I'm curious what people are planning on
    doing, and what's been done in the past,
    when we're going to be starting over
    with the new season. Are people going
    to make new characters? Keep the same
    but start fresh? Pretend nothing ever
    happened? I'm sure    		  
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    By: Giuseppe Lorenzo
    Jun/05/09 10:48 PM
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    The Island's CookbookStarted by:Lea.wolfsfeld, Sep/20/15 01:45 PM
    I wanna create a community made
    cookbook. Filled with two types of
    recipes. One type that you can actually
    make and another that can only exist on
    the island. What do you guys think?
    Should we do something like this? If so,
    how would we do it? I'd imagi    		  
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    By: JonT
    Oct/04/15 10:00 PM
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    Flood assistance?Started by:Twosocks Monkey, Dec/22/12 01:51 PM
    Hey CMJ is there anything (obviously
    short of sending more money which I
    understand to [b]always[/b] be useful)
    that we can do to help you guys recover
    from your flood? IE: Send you
    replacement items you've lost? Gather
    in a circle and sing like Whos     		 
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    By: Full Metal Lion
    Dec/29/12 08:01 PM
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    CMJ's Laptop woes - The Wayward Tea Appe....Started by:Daedalus, May/13/11 09:04 PM
    Okies, I just read the MotD, and I'd
    like to help. It seems to me that the
    best outcome would be for him to upgrade
    to the M400, and if I understand the
    MotD, that needs about US$140. I'll
    kick in $70*. So ... calling on others
    to top that up. @ C    		  
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    By: Daedalus
    May/14/11 11:53 AM
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    New player; Multiple charactersStarted by:Alkerio, Feb/23/11 06:44 AM
    Hello all! I only recently started
    playing this game.
    Two-days-ago-recently. But I've already
    become hooked and can already tell
    you're a nice, intelligent, and silly
    community, and even just reading things
    like the story posts from the
    side-lines, I ca    		  
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    By: Alkerio
    Feb/23/11 04:25 PM
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    How well do you know the Island?Started by:Hairy Mary, Dec/19/10 12:11 AM
    I've put together a little quiz on
    Island trivia, for anybody with a few
    minutes on their hands. See how many you
    can get without going on and
    looking. 1) Which encounter in the
    jungle mentions the "annual military
    expenditure of Sri Lanka"? 2) In     		 
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    By: Reverb
    Dec/28/10 06:07 PM
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    A bizaare query/ requestStarted by:Cherriki Ten, Dec/18/10 04:44 AM
    Okay, so I am going to post this here in
    the hopes that some people will come up
    with creative [i]things[/i]. Yes,
    things! (help!) For those of you who
    know one Mister Ebenezer, I need a small
    blurbish style thingy for him in the
    following format     		 
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    By: Cherriki Ten
    Dec/25/10 06:15 AM
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    World Map Google Chrome ExtensionStarted by:nkorth, Oct/13/10 08:37 PM
    I decided to make a map of the Island,
    and I made it as a Google Chrome
    extension. It displays an icon in the
    address bar whenever you're on the
    Improbable Island site, and the map pops
    up when you click on
    it. [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9353289/ii_wo    		  
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    By: Beeps
    Dec/13/10 11:01 PM
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    WCG; 100!Started by:Reverb, Apr/13/10 02:03 PM
    We've now passed the 100-year mark on
    the World Community Grid folks! And to
    think that, less than half a year ago,
    we were all happy about making
    50.

    [b][size=24]Go WCG IIl    		  
    		1972 7
    By: Count Sessine
    Apr/14/10 03:42 PM
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    Firefox usersStarted by:Ashtu, Feb/03/10 01:32 PM
    Shiny! [url=http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/94134]Personas
    for Firefox | Improbable_Island[/url]    		  
    		1995 7
    By: Mack
    Feb/19/10 06:39 AM
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    Magical Mystery Meat Mount?Started by:Zpatula, Dec/13/09 11:38 PM
    I stumbled into Mike's in Pleasantville
    today and found the 'Magical Mystery
    Meat Mount' for sale. The brochure is
    not particularly helpful in describing
    the... ummm... beast's attributes. Might
    someone offer a little guidance?    		  
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    By: Hairless
    Jan/15/10 05:30 AM
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    This is wrong (NSFH)Started by:Pinche Cabron, Aug/12/09 10:17 AM
    [img]http://www.mspaintadventures.com/storyfiles/hs2/00460_2.gif[/img]    		  
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    By: Symar
    Sep/13/09 05:23 PM
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    LoadersStarted by:CavemanJoe, Jul/23/09 06:14 AM
    Split off from this topic, to avoid
    derailing the thread. I've been
    writing for a while, now. Improbable
    Island is a non-canonical spin-off from     		 
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    By: Cousjava
    Apr/02/10 02:01 PM
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    Things about which I am sadStarted by:Blake, Mar/28/14 06:45 PM
    Hello all! I was here briefly a couple
    of years ago, and just came back a week
    ago, and am readdicted. I had to leave
    for the good of my employment, and I
    will have to find a way to make sure the
    same thing doesn't have to happen again.
    I love this game ve    		  
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    By: Blake
    Apr/14/14 01:43 PM
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    The Iisland as a Tarot DeckStarted by:Assacura, May/31/13 02:32 PM
    This idea has been rattling around in my
    head for a little while. (I did draw
    one...) An Iisland themed tarot deck.
    May not ever become a real physical
    thing, but could also be used by
    characters in game if we wanted. First
    some helpful links. Major Arcana    		  
    		4691 8
    By: Rider
    Jun/06/13 12:49 AM
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    Storm SandyStarted by:Trowa, Oct/29/12 03:05 PM
    I just wanted to send out positive
    thoughts to any of my fellow players
    living in the north-east US were
    Hurricane Sandy is due to strike soon.
    The news it saying it's going to be a
    hard-hitting storm with a lot of rain
    over days, not hours, so there's goi    		  
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    By: Trowa
    Nov/09/12 08:06 PM
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    Map of Places: Land Registry updatedStarted by:Buddleia, Nov/05/11 06:01 PM
    I have been trekking across the map,
    updating the
    [b][url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtPkUdingtHEdEthQ2dDd2tRenhiQnZ2U2RMRTRIYlE&hl=en_GB#gid=2]Land
    Registry[/url][/b] for Places. [IMG
    w=512
    h=312]http://i38.photobucket.com/albums    		  
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    By: Trowa
    May/09/12 12:16 PM
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    Multiple Characters on the same computer....Started by:Meat Cheerios, Sep/22/11 05:29 AM
    I'm currently trying to recruit my
    boyfriend to the game. My question is
    simple. Can there be more than one
    character running off of the same
    computer or internet connection? I
    really really don't want it to look like
    I'm running multiple characters, be    		  
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    By: Raidur
    Sep/23/11 10:38 PM
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