MeQal - Revision history

MeQal at 13:19, 2 October 2010

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Nonqwave at 01:18, 27 June 2008

2008-06-27T01:18:03Z

GersonK: Fixed links

2007-01-24T01:40:03Z

Fixed links

MeQal at 07:38, 5 October 2006

2006-10-05T07:38:35Z

MediaWiki default: linked to piece - it's here on the wiki

2006-06-03T03:50:36Z

linked to piece - it's here on the wiki

MeQal at 03:14, 3 June 2006

2006-06-03T03:14:34Z

MeQal at 01:46, 3 June 2006

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MeQal at 18:13, 1 June 2006

2006-06-01T18:13:56Z

MeQal at 18:12, 1 June 2006

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MeQal at 16:29, 1 June 2006

2006-06-01T16:29:07Z

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	So I guess you could say capping saved my life. Strange how something others would write off as a hobby can do something like that. I gues that is why I see the things I do for the capping community so important to me. Be it screengrabbing films, providing info, or overseeing Project Free Form, I pour myself into it as a labor of love.		So I guess you could say capping saved my life. Strange how something others would write off as a hobby can do something like that. I gues that is why I see the things I do for the capping community so important to me. Be it screengrabbing films, providing info, or overseeing Project Free Form, I pour myself into it as a labor of love.
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		+	'''Epic Riffing'''
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		+	As technology advances so do ways for we as cappers to find new ways to relive our memories of MST3K. In 2010, I found a service called EPIX which is a combonation premium cable channel and online video service through my cable provider. It featured one feature with it's online content which I saw had potential for a lot of fun. A way to view the films they offered online with friends. Even the viewing "room" had features which reminded me of the Caption This! website. So wanting to try it out to see how it would be for riffing a film, I invited four fellow cappers to try out the feature with me, thus a new venue for capping began. Best part is anyone with the premium channel or any other service which offers this can host one of these mini riffing events. Sadly there is a restriction on the number of people a "host" can invite at one viewing and the service I happen to use restricts access to only those living inside the United States.

	'''Personal Views On Capping'''		'''Personal Views On Capping'''

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 '''Personal View On Cappers'''
-Cappers are some of the most caring people on the internet with a vicious sarcastic streak in them. We will riff on each other but will come to the aid of one of our own if there is any way possible. Some prime examples are the labors of love several cappers have taken own themselves to insure that since [[Caption This!]] has passed on into the ages there is still a few venues for capping. Cappers like [[GersonK]], [[GlitterRock]], and [[Jazzsoda]] have websites to keep capping alive. [[Generik]] and [[AgentMoldy]] have kept the spirit alive with their weekly [[Will Cap for Food]] e-mails. And even via snail mail capping continues with [[The Porpoise Project]] postcards mailed out by [[porpoise]] and displayed by [[Weird_1]] on his website.
+Cappers are some of the most caring people on the internet with a vicious sarcastic streak in them. We will riff on each other but will come to the aid of one of our own if there is any way possible. Some prime examples are the labors of love several cappers have taken own themselves to insure that since [[Caption This!]] has passed on into the ages there is still a few venues for capping. Cappers like [[GersonK]], [[GlitterRock]], and [[Jazzsoda]] have websites to keep capping alive. [[Generik]] and [[AgentMoldy]] have kept the spirit alive with their weekly [[Will Cap for Food]] e-mails. And even via snail mail capping continues with [[The Porpoise Project]] postcards mailed out by any capper, forwarded to another capper and that capper forwards to another and when the postcard is filled up it is sent to and displayed by [[Weird_1]] on his website.
 So it is clear that capping is going to be around for some time to come.}}
 *[http://www.capperwiki.com/wiki/index.php/The_Red_X  The Red X]

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 '''Personal View On Cappers'''
-Cappers are some of the most caring people on the internet with a vicious sarcastic streak in them. We will riff on each other but will come to the aid of one of our own if there is any way possible. Some prime examples are the labors of love several cappers have taken own themselves to insure that since [[Caption This!]] has passed on into the ages there is still a few venues for capping. Cappers like [[GersonK]], [[GlitterRock]], and [[Jazzsoda]] have websites to keep capping alive. [[Generik]] and [[AgentMoldy]] have kept the spirit alive with their weekly [[Will Cap for Food]] e-mails. And even via snail mail capping continues with the [[Porpoise Project]] postcards mailed out by [porpoise] and displayed by [W[eird_1]] on his website.
+Cappers are some of the most caring people on the internet with a vicious sarcastic streak in them. We will riff on each other but will come to the aid of one of our own if there is any way possible. Some prime examples are the labors of love several cappers have taken own themselves to insure that since [[Caption This!]] has passed on into the ages there is still a few venues for capping. Cappers like [[GersonK]], [[GlitterRock]], and [[Jazzsoda]] have websites to keep capping alive. [[Generik]] and [[AgentMoldy]] have kept the spirit alive with their weekly [[Will Cap for Food]] e-mails. And even via snail mail capping continues with [[The Porpoise Project]] postcards mailed out by [[porpoise]] and displayed by [[Weird_1]] on his website.
 So it is clear that capping is going to be around for some time to come.}}
 *[http://www.capperwiki.com/wiki/index.php/The_Red_X  The Red X]

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−	{{capper\|ImageName=KOTRicon.jpg\|ImageDescription=I'm living trailer fabulous. \|meQal\|RealName=~~Michael J. Pitts~~\|Birthday=~~Nov. 25, 1969~~\|Occupation=King of the Rednecks\|MaritalInfo=~~Married~~\|Kids=~~3 daughters~~\|HandleOrigin= I was part of a Star Trek club's Klingon division so I had to have a Klingon name. The name means "burns bright" and I have used it ever since.\|AltHandles=The Red X (mostly part of a running gag and occasional Halloween handle. Click link below for info regarding the gag), Purnell"Dope Smoking"Roberts, GoodKingmeQal (Chirstmas Handle)	+	{{capper\|ImageName=KOTRicon.jpg\|ImageDescription=I'm living trailer fabulous. \|meQal\|RealName=meQal\|Birthday=I got one\|Occupation=King of the Rednecks\|MaritalInfo=hitched\|Kids=yes\|HandleOrigin= I was part of a Star Trek club's Klingon division so I had to have a Klingon name. The name means "burns bright" and I have used it ever since.\|AltHandles=The Red X (mostly part of a running gag and occasional Halloween handle. Click link below for info regarding the gag), Purnell"Dope Smoking"Roberts, GoodKingmeQal (Chirstmas Handle)
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 Most capping gags are born because one or two people often find a common humor in something weather they made it up or not. They see an image which might remind them of something that makes them and another laugh. Soon others start to find out the joke and it begins to catch on. Running gags can be based on anything not just something one makes up themselves to be funny in capping.
-In many ways capping is a form of comedy. Some captions have set ups and punchlines, others are one liners, and others involve the running gag. However unlike other forms of comedy, capping is not so much played up to the audiance as it is to the capper. Sure not everyone is going to get or enjoy the joke in a caption. Some might even be offended by it But it is for the entertainment for the capper and not others that the caption was written. This is why I often refer people to read a piece I wrote called [No Cow Is To Sacred To Slaughter] when they feel a caption is flat or offends their taste.
+In many ways capping is a form of comedy. Some captions have set ups and punchlines, others are one liners, and others involve the running gag. However unlike other forms of comedy, capping is not so much played up to the audiance as it is to the capper. Sure not everyone is going to get or enjoy the joke in a caption. Some might even be offended by it But it is for the entertainment for the capper and not others that the caption was written. This is why I often refer people to read a piece I wrote called [[No Cow Is Too Sacred To Slaughter]] when they feel a caption is flat or offends their taste.
 '''Personal View On Cappers'''

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 So I guess you could say capping saved my life. Strange how something others would write off as a hobby can do something like that. I gues that is why I see the things I do for the capping community so important to me. Be it screengrabbing films, providing info, or overseeing Project Free Form, I pour myself into it as a labor of love.
- '''Personal Views On Capping'''
+'''Personal Views On Capping'''
 Capping is both an art form and a form of expression in my opinion. And like all art or expression, not everyone will apreciate the end result. So like most artists, cappers write captions for the sake of capping for their own enjoyment.

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 So while on the mend and in a search for something to do with my time, I rememebred Caption This and returned there. It was still fun and I found it great at reducing my stress while keeping my sanity. I began to say things to other cappers and then tinaw mention antoehr capping site to me which was GersonK's Invinting Situations. This lead to my being told of Glitter's Cap-Page Board. So my road into capping was strange, rocky, dangerous, and almost killed me, yet the reward has been worth it. I have even returned to playing MMORPGs with fellow cappers.
-In October of 2004 the first Cappers Guild in a MMORPG was formed by Scypha, Chebwa, Batqueen, and myself in the MMORPG "Guild Wars" during their beta testing. We have since added my youngest daughter and a friend of mine in real life who is a rare but occasional capper who uses the handle trailer park timmy. We still are around and are now one of the few guilds in the game that has all it's original members. We have been and will always be open to fellow cappers who join the game. We only don't take anyone but cappers, their friends, and family. Yet friends and family will be checked out with the refering capper name given.
+In October of 2004 the first Cappers Guild in a MMORPG was formed by [[Scypha]], [[Chebwa]], [[Batqueen]], and myself in the MMORPG "Guild Wars" during their beta testing. We have since added my youngest daughter and a friend of mine in real life who is a rare but occasional capper who uses the handle trailer park timmy. We still are around and are now one of the few guilds in the game that has all it's original members. We have been and will always be open to fellow cappers who join the game. We only don't take anyone but cappers, their friends, and family. Yet friends and family will be checked out with the refering capper name given.
 So I guess you could say capping saved my life. Strange how something others would write off as a hobby can do something like that. I gues that is why I see the things I do for the capping community so important to me. Be it screengrabbing films, providing info, or overseeing Project Free Form, I pour myself into it as a labor of love.

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 I was born naked and spent over half my life that way. Never stick Mr. Happy in a light socket. Join me in my endless quest for naked pictures of Ann B. Davis.
-'''Adventures'''
+'''Adventures Which Taught Me Lessons'''
-I have been one f those people who's own life is rather strange. Mostly because of my input in it. Often I draw upon these adventures as a basis for my captions and at least one has become a bit of a running gag. Sometimes I swear the TV show "My Name Is Earl" was created by someone who knew me in my younger days.
+I have been one f those people who's own life is rather strange. Mostly because of my input in it. Often I draw upon these adventures as a basis for my captions and at least one has become a bit of a running gag. Sometimes I swear the TV show "My Name Is Earl" was created by someone who knew me in my younger days. Each of the adventures here have been told to some if not all cappers I know and go towards explaining where I draw some of my captions from. It will also show you inside the mind of this capper in my past and my present. Here are two which have bee shared with several cappers.
 '''The Jehovah's Witness Story'''
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 Around the same period of my life when the Jehovah's Witness thing happen, another thing happen involving Star Trek actor James Doohan. A local radio station happen to have him as a guest and set up for a meet and greet outside their station. Again drunk, I happen to heard about this and decided it would be a good idea to go meet him. Well drinking all night and eating who knows what then riding in a car with my brother and 2 other drunks to meet someone famous at 8AM never ends well. We arrived at the station wasted and not really sure where we were anyhow. Well my brother disappeared while I stood in line to get "Scotty"s autograph. Well as I happen to get to the table, the contents of my stomach decided to make an exit, all over the table, James Doohan, the 2 morning DJs, and myself. Meanwhile the station had already called the cops because my brother had walked in and urinated on a potted plant in the reception area. I learned a few things that day. 1. James Doohan did not have a Scotish Accent. 2. He did know several obscenities. 3. Meeting a celebrity after a night of hard drinking is never a good idea. 4. While it is normally alright to pee on a tree, you should never do it in someone's office building. 5. You can dive head first into the open window of a Chevy Nova.
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 *[http://www.capperwiki.com/wiki/index.php/The_Red_X  The Red X]