Skwerlz - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

LePetitChoux · 01-18-2003, 06:30 AM

I know that every time I post a repeat topic, a Skwerl dies, and if I use cht abbrvtn I drive a Skwerl to drink, but what exactly are Skwerlz?

eleanor_niphredil · 01-18-2003, 07:12 AM

skwerlz= arnt they cute little mouse like things with fluffy tails and an unhealthy obsession with nuts?

Birdland · 01-18-2003, 07:44 AM

I don't know if this is the root of the "skwerl" craze at the Downs, but if it is, all I can say is that it's a small Cyber-World, after all: Scary Skwerl World

LePetitChoux · 01-18-2003, 08:51 AM

Fascinating... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

red · 01-18-2003, 08:53 AM

Birdy hit the nail on the head. Also, there is a certain high ranking skwerl that haunts the Downs from time to time. Beware!!

Aylwen Dreamsong · 01-18-2003, 09:04 AM

Ooooh. I can't wait until National skwerl week! Those California Ground Skwerls sure look bloated. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Skwerls... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Aylwen

Edit: When do you think 'Riding in Cars with Skwerls' will hit theatres?

[ January 18, 2003: Message edited by: Aylwen Dreamsong ]

Lush · 01-18-2003, 10:56 AM

Omigod, you people are all on drugs.

Beren87 · 01-18-2003, 12:21 PM

No, we just use them, its very difficult to get on drugs. Bloody little bags and all, extremely difficult to balance.

Estelyn Telcontar · 01-18-2003, 04:12 PM

Credit for the skwerl images goes to The Barrow-Wight! Well-done!

dragoneyes · 01-18-2003, 04:32 PM

I love those little images. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Birdland · 01-18-2003, 04:56 PM

What? You mean B-W actually has something to do with that site? I ran across it months ago while looking up info on...ahem...squirrels.

If B-W is involved with that Sciuridae-bashing site in any way, then I am seriously spooked.

[ January 18, 2003: Message edited by: Birdland ]

burrahobbit · 01-18-2003, 05:14 PM

The estimable Mister Wight is a fanboy.

***The Barrow-Wight*** · 01-18-2003, 05:50 PM

Not knowing what a fanboy is, I must say that I have no affiliation with Scary Skwerl.org, though they were a source of some skwerl pics I used to make our Skwerl banners.

Ithaeliel · 01-18-2003, 08:16 PM

I am forced to agree with Lush; you're all nuts (skwerlz- nuts! Get it?! HAHAHA... oh okay, so I'm nuts too). Where did you get the concept that whenever you post a repeat topic or chat abbreviation, a skwerl (whyever you spell it like that) dies/drinks?!

***The Barrow-Wight*** · 01-18-2003, 10:10 PM

From nature. Skwerlz are really like that!!!

Birdland · 01-18-2003, 10:53 PM

Oh, really? Well I stood right in front of a skwerl just today and said straight to his face "Balrogs have wings!"

He just gave me a look and continued to chew the insulation off the cable wire. No reaction at all.

Gandalf_theGrey · 01-18-2003, 11:25 PM

Methinks the real question is, Birdie,

Whether skwerls have wings, or swings? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

This, like the Balrog question, is open for debate. Now myself, I have personally seen Rocky the Flying Skwerl and am willing to attest to same. However, the skwerl sighting was so mind-bogglingly bizarre that to this day not all who witnessed it are willing to come forward, and this incident happened in 1992!

It all started at 1:50 p.m., on a typical workday afternoon. A factory guy came from down on the plant floor upstairs to my office wearing a big, incriminating grin. (But then, they all did that all the time.) "Open the shade," he indicated with a jog of his shoulder.

I looked across at a co-worker, who looked back, stunned as I was by the suggestion. For the windows were so grimy that cleaning them was considered thousands of times worse than the proverbial torture of washing the inside of a barrow chamber with a toothbrush! (Okay, so I exaggerate just a tad here. But I in no wise exaggerate when it comes to the ABSOLUTE FACT that I saw Rocky the Flying Skwerl, as I am about to report (yes, I'm getting to that part and haven't forgotten it!) So instead I intoned in my best deep vampire-voice, "We are creatures of the night."

"Open the shade," he repeated. It was now 1:55 p.m., and some other factory dudes were heading up the stairs making their daily "reet-reet" pig noises (these guys would put the fighting Uruk-Hai to shame, let me tell you). Finally overcome by a wave of unthinking silliness, I opened the shade.

At exactly 2:00 p.m., break time, sun streaming in best it could through the streaky window, a menacing Shadow fell, hovering. Or more aptly, swinging. For there, attached to the end of a fishing pole, hung in all its infamy, a dead Skwerl!

I saw it. My co-worker saw it. The incriminating grin on the company president's face said that he saw it, though he denied it and said we were crazy. But it was there, dangling from the roof of the building.

I only hope Rocky the Flying Skwerl was roadkill. For this particular place of business was so strange, that a bunch of the production guys were known for bringing guns to work along with their lunch pails, and would sit and polish their weapons on their lunch break.

Ithaeliel · 01-19-2003, 12:06 AM

*After a few more minutes, manages to get up off the floor and breathe normally* Oh dear, Gandalf; if that is not the funniest thing I've ever heard... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Susan Delgado · 01-19-2003, 04:32 PM

Seems to me a better question than "What are skwerlz?" would be "Why should skwerlz be affected by our posting habits here?"

Belin · 01-19-2003, 07:23 PM

They're just more sensitive than the rest of us that read the forum.

--Belin Ibaimendi

[ January 19, 2003: Message edited by: Belin ]

burrahobbit · 01-19-2003, 09:27 PM

FANBOY.

mark12_30 · 01-19-2003, 10:42 PM

"Hey, Rock! Watch me pull a rabbit outa my hat!"

"But that trick NEVER works!"

"This time fer sure. Presto!" Reaches into hat:

"ooooOOOOOOOOYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!"

(crams the misty green thing back into hat)

Rocky scolds: "How did the BARROW WIGHT get into your hat???"

"Uh-- was it a Sqwerl-Wight?"

"FANBOY!"

Lush · 01-20-2003, 01:11 AM

You have all been smoking massive quantities of seriously bad weed. Barrow-Wight included. For shame!

Susan Delgado · 01-20-2003, 03:10 AM

Are you sick, Lush? Are you all right? [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

Ithaeliel · 01-20-2003, 10:11 AM

And Mr. Wight is a fanboy how...? [img]smilies/confused.gif[/img]

burrahobbit · 01-20-2003, 12:10 PM

Tell me, Ithaeliel, how isn't he?

LePetitChoux · 01-20-2003, 01:07 PM

My homage to Skwerlz: A new avatar:

[img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Susan Delgado · 01-20-2003, 02:35 PM

ahh, poor Cletus [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

HerenIstarion · 12-06-2004, 06:17 AM

It's so completely cute and so comletely absurd, it deserves bringing up. Comic relief of sorts

Lhunardawen · 12-21-2004, 04:06 AM

I still don't understand why it has to be skwerlz instead of hamzters or opozzums or whatever. And this is a forum that upholds correct spelling, so why spell it that way? It looks (not to mention sounds) much kewler, though.

HerenIstarion · 12-21-2004, 05:09 AM

Quote:

this is a forum that upholds correct spelling, so why spell it that way?

Comic relief of sorts, as I've said. So to say, rightful place to mispell (on [humorous] purpose).

Why squirrels and not hamsters? I can't help remembering the movie the name of which I forgot, but the storyline was based on that of Crazy Crazy Crazy World (or was it Mad Mad Mad World?) - the chase after hidden treasure. Woopy Goldberg's heroine and heroine's daughter refuse to buy a squirrel off some roadside merchant woman, who, in return, maliciously directs them to some bag end instead of highway. As they fall down the slope in their car, they pass by little info boards reading: You! Should! Have! Bought! A Squirrel!

Whether that has anything to do with skwrlz of current thread, I do not know, just a memory

As for mispelling as comic relief, see also post #59 of the SP(?) Phantom Menace thread

PS Now as I've posted the link, I see that it was you actually to post the following, #60, there

. Let the link stand as it is, though

cheers

HerenIstarion · 12-23-2004, 10:57 AM

In relation to initial post, see also this particular post #6 (Barrow Downs Products (by Lalwendë). Skwrl banners, all together, thanks, Esty

cheers

01-18-2003, 06:30 AM	#1
LePetitChoux Vegetable of Doom Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London Posts: 720	Skwerlz I know that every time I post a repeat topic, a Skwerl dies, and if I use cht abbrvtn I drive a Skwerl to drink, but what exactly are Skwerlz? __________________ je suis une bonne odeur

01-18-2003, 07:12 AM	#2
eleanor_niphredil Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: england Posts: 805	skwerlz= arnt they cute little mouse like things with fluffy tails and an unhealthy obsession with nuts? __________________ Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to spend my time on this forum. And by the way, for any of you turning into a penguin, stop it. ~* I am Pippin took in the Female Fellowship*~

01-18-2003, 08:51 AM	#4
LePetitChoux Vegetable of Doom Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London Posts: 720	Fascinating... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ je suis une bonne odeur

01-18-2003, 10:56 AM	#7
Lush Fair and Cold Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the big onion Posts: 1,770	Omigod, you people are all on drugs. __________________ ~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~

01-18-2003, 04:12 PM	#9
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Credit for the skwerl images goes to The Barrow-Wight! Well-done! __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

01-18-2003, 07:44 AM	#3
Birdland Ghastly Neekerbreeker Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the banks of the mighty Scioto Posts: 1,751	I don't know if this is the root of the "skwerl" craze at the Downs, but if it is, all I can say is that it's a small Cyber-World, after all: Scary Skwerl World

01-18-2003, 08:53 AM	#5
red Spirit of Mischief Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Land of the free and home of the brave Posts: 366	Birdy hit the nail on the head. Also, there is a certain high ranking skwerl that haunts the Downs from time to time. Beware!! __________________ "Cats are like greatness: Some people are born into cat-loving families, some achieve cats, and some have cats thrust upon them." -William H. A. Carr

01-18-2003, 09:04 AM	#6
Aylwen Dreamsong The Melody of Misery Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: The Island of Conclusions (You get there by jumping!)... Posts: 1,147	Ooooh. I can't wait until National skwerl week! Those California Ground Skwerls sure look bloated. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Skwerls... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Aylwen Edit: When do you think 'Riding in Cars with Skwerls' will hit theatres? [ January 18, 2003: Message edited by: Aylwen Dreamsong ] __________________ ...Come down now, they'll say. But everything looks perfect from far away - Come down now! But we'll stay.

01-18-2003, 12:21 PM	#8
Beren87 Master of the Secret Fire Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Between fire and ice, death and life Posts: 2,241	No, we just use them, its very difficult to get on drugs. Bloody little bags and all, extremely difficult to balance.

01-18-2003, 04:32 PM	#10
dragoneyes Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Completely lost track, sorry! Posts: 733	I love those little images. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ "We might succeed in roasting Pippin alive inside." - Frodo.

01-18-2003, 04:56 PM	#11
Birdland Ghastly Neekerbreeker Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the banks of the mighty Scioto Posts: 1,751	What? You mean B-W actually has something to do with that site? I ran across it months ago while looking up info on...ahem...squirrels. If B-W is involved with that Sciuridae-bashing site in any way, then I am seriously spooked. [ January 18, 2003: Message edited by: Birdland ]

01-18-2003, 05:14 PM	#12
burrahobbit Hidden Spirit Join Date: May 2000 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 1,424	The estimable Mister Wight is a fanboy. __________________ What's a burrahobbit got to do with my pocket, anyways?

01-18-2003, 05:50 PM	#13
*The Barrow-Wight* Night In Wight Satin Join Date: May 2000 Posts: 4,043	Not knowing what a fanboy is, I must say that I have no affiliation with Scary Skwerl.org, though they were a source of some skwerl pics I used to make our Skwerl banners. __________________ The Barrow-Wight

01-18-2003, 08:16 PM	#14
Ithaeliel Cornus Caliga Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Five-hundred-twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes from here Posts: 710	I am forced to agree with Lush; you're all nuts (skwerlz- nuts! Get it?! HAHAHA... oh okay, so I'm nuts too). Where did you get the concept that whenever you post a repeat topic or chat abbreviation, a skwerl (whyever you spell it like that) dies/drinks?! __________________ That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. .................William Wordsworth

01-18-2003, 10:10 PM	#15
*The Barrow-Wight* Night In Wight Satin Join Date: May 2000 Posts: 4,043	From nature. Skwerlz are really like that!!! __________________ The Barrow-Wight

01-18-2003, 10:53 PM	#16
Birdland Ghastly Neekerbreeker Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the banks of the mighty Scioto Posts: 1,751	Oh, really? Well I stood right in front of a skwerl just today and said straight to his face "Balrogs have wings!" He just gave me a look and continued to chew the insulation off the cable wire. No reaction at all.

01-18-2003, 11:25 PM	#17
Gandalf_theGrey Visionary Spirit Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 633	Methinks the real question is, Birdie, Whether skwerls have wings, or swings? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] This, like the Balrog question, is open for debate. Now myself, I have personally seen Rocky the Flying Skwerl and am willing to attest to same. However, the skwerl sighting was so mind-bogglingly bizarre that to this day not all who witnessed it are willing to come forward, and this incident happened in 1992! It all started at 1:50 p.m., on a typical workday afternoon. A factory guy came from down on the plant floor upstairs to my office wearing a big, incriminating grin. (But then, they all did that all the time.) "Open the shade," he indicated with a jog of his shoulder. I looked across at a co-worker, who looked back, stunned as I was by the suggestion. For the windows were so grimy that cleaning them was considered thousands of times worse than the proverbial torture of washing the inside of a barrow chamber with a toothbrush! (Okay, so I exaggerate just a tad here. But I in no wise exaggerate when it comes to the ABSOLUTE FACT that I saw Rocky the Flying Skwerl, as I am about to report (yes, I'm getting to that part and haven't forgotten it!) So instead I intoned in my best deep vampire-voice, "We are creatures of the night." "Open the shade," he repeated. It was now 1:55 p.m., and some other factory dudes were heading up the stairs making their daily "reet-reet" pig noises (these guys would put the fighting Uruk-Hai to shame, let me tell you). Finally overcome by a wave of unthinking silliness, I opened the shade. At exactly 2:00 p.m., break time, sun streaming in best it could through the streaky window, a menacing Shadow fell, hovering. Or more aptly, swinging. For there, attached to the end of a fishing pole, hung in all its infamy, a dead Skwerl! I saw it. My co-worker saw it. The incriminating grin on the company president's face said that he saw it, though he denied it and said we were crazy. But it was there, dangling from the roof of the building. I only hope Rocky the Flying Skwerl was roadkill. For this particular place of business was so strange, that a bunch of the production guys were known for bringing guns to work along with their lunch pails, and would sit and polish their weapons on their lunch break.

01-19-2003, 12:06 AM	#18
Ithaeliel Cornus Caliga Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Five-hundred-twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes from here Posts: 710	After a few more minutes, manages to get up off the floor and breathe normally Oh dear, Gandalf; if that is not the funniest thing I've ever heard... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. .................William Wordsworth

01-19-2003, 04:32 PM	#19
Susan Delgado The Perished Flame Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: behind my eyes Posts: 1,096	Seems to me a better question than "What are skwerlz?" would be "Why should skwerlz be affected by our posting habits here?" __________________ "Man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all 'til we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?"

01-19-2003, 07:23 PM	#20
Belin Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: all the wide unfriendly pathways of the world Posts: 330	They're just more sensitive than the rest of us that read the forum. --Belin Ibaimendi [ January 19, 2003: Message edited by: Belin ] __________________ "I hate dignity," cried Scraps, kicking a pebble high in the air and then trying to catch it as it fell. "Half the fools and all the wise folks are dignified, and I'm neither the one nor the other." --L. Frank Baum

01-19-2003, 09:27 PM	#21
burrahobbit Hidden Spirit Join Date: May 2000 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 1,424	FANBOY. __________________ What's a burrahobbit got to do with my pocket, anyways?

01-19-2003, 10:42 PM	#22
mark12_30 Stormdancer of Doom Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars Posts: 4,349	"Hey, Rock! Watch me pull a rabbit outa my hat!" "But that trick NEVER works!" "This time fer sure. Presto!" Reaches into hat: "ooooOOOOOOOOYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!" (crams the misty green thing back into hat) Rocky scolds: "How did the BARROW WIGHT get into your hat???" "Uh-- was it a Sqwerl-Wight?" "FANBOY!" __________________ ...down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve.

01-20-2003, 01:11 AM	#23
Lush Fair and Cold Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the big onion Posts: 1,770	You have all been smoking massive quantities of seriously bad weed. Barrow-Wight included. For shame! __________________ ~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~

01-20-2003, 03:10 AM	#24
Susan Delgado The Perished Flame Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: behind my eyes Posts: 1,096	Are you sick, Lush? Are you all right? [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] __________________ "Man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all 'til we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?"

01-20-2003, 10:11 AM	#25
Ithaeliel Cornus Caliga Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Five-hundred-twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes from here Posts: 710	And Mr. Wight is a fanboy how...? [img]smilies/confused.gif[/img] __________________ That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. .................William Wordsworth

01-20-2003, 12:10 PM	#26
burrahobbit Hidden Spirit Join Date: May 2000 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 1,424	Tell me, Ithaeliel, how isn't he? __________________ What's a burrahobbit got to do with my pocket, anyways?

01-20-2003, 01:07 PM	#27
LePetitChoux Vegetable of Doom Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London Posts: 720	My homage to Skwerlz: A new avatar: [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ je suis une bonne odeur

01-20-2003, 02:35 PM	#28
Susan Delgado The Perished Flame Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: behind my eyes Posts: 1,096	ahh, poor Cletus [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ "Man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all 'til we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?"

12-06-2004, 06:17 AM	#29
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	It's so completely cute and so comletely absurd, it deserves bringing up. Comic relief of sorts __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

12-21-2004, 04:06 AM	#30
Lhunardawen Hauntress of the Havens Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: IN it, but not OF it Posts: 2,538	I still don't understand why it has to be skwerlz instead of hamzters or opozzums or whatever. And this is a forum that upholds correct spelling, so why spell it that way? It looks (not to mention sounds) much kewler, though.

12-23-2004, 10:57 AM	#32
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	In relation to initial post, see also this particular post #6 (Barrow Downs Products (by Lalwendë). Skwrl banners, all together, thanks, Esty cheers __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!