| May 2012 - TE Items! Geeky! | |
| Posted by JT_ on May 05, 2012 6:52 pm | |
| It's Geek Month of course, so we have TE items with a geeky theme. :D Big thanks to Quad and Yam for these lovelies. Circuitry [ 2 TE ]  CLICK HERE FOR SAMPLE! Command, Engineering, or Science Pumafleet Uniform [ 3 TE each ]    These sets include: color themed Pumafleet Jumpsuit, Lynxian Ears, Pumafleet Dress Shoes, Phaser Pistol, and 4 Pumafleet Officer Pips. COMMAND SAMPLE ENGINEERING SAMPLE SCIENCE SAMPLE All are stocking in the TE Items Shop now! :) Enjoy! |
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| May the 4th Be with You! | |
| Posted by JT_ on May 04, 2012 2:18 pm | |
| Today is May 4th, which of course means it is Star Wars Day! (Hopefully you noticed the "pun" of May the 4th and the famous "May the Force Be with You" quote :)) To celebrate, our Geek Month items today are related to Star Wars. Can you find them? :D |
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| Geek Month - MORE! | |
| Posted by JT_ on May 03, 2012 12:54 pm | |
| Today we have something bouncy and poofy, and something poofy and bouncy. What could they be? Two hints: 1. They are in different shops :) 2. The items are related to each other :) Also, one of last year's returning items has been re-released-- this one both helps Puma eyesight and is fashionably Geek-Chic. ;) |
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| Geek Month - Comic Book Release Day | |
| Posted by JT_ on May 02, 2012 7:25 pm | |
| As any comic book fan knows, new releases come out on Wednesdays! The same is true on P3 of course! A brand new shop has opened-- you'll see Buy the Book on our Site Shops list. Enjoy! :) EDIT: Ah, and I just realized I forgot to mention something important. Comics and manga released for Geek Month 2012 will continue to stock until next year! Then they will be retired. :) Edited: 05-02-2012 07:26 pm |
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| Brief Downtimes | |
| Posted by JT_ on May 01, 2012 6:51 pm | |
| I just wanted to give you all a quick FYI-- the server that P3 is hosted on is having some hardware issues over the last 12-24 hours. I'm in contact with the hosting company, and they are working to either repair the hardware, or replace it. We may have further unexpected downtime, so we just ask for your patience. I will try to keep Facebook updated if we have any *extended* downtime, but thus far we have only had brief interruptions around 20-30 minutes. |
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| GEEK MONTH! - May 2012 | |
| Posted by JT_ on May 01, 2012 1:44 am | |
| Welcome to Geek Month 2012! For an entire month, we will celebrate all that is geeky in the world! Science Fiction! Comics! Funny Internet memes! Movies! Manga! Superheros! And pretty much anything you can think of. :) Every weekday, we'll have something new to share with you. All of our announced geeky items will continue to stock until June 15th, so you'll have more than enough time to grab all of your favorites. Some will be retiring this year, some will be returning next year, and some will stick around forever (woohoo!). Today, the Boutique should be stocking the latest in Cyborg technology. Can you find it? In addition, it would appear the Alphas have discovered what Internet memes are... looks like trouble! You better check on them... EDIT: And don't forget to check out Monday Music Madness, right below this post! |
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| Monday Music Madness! | |
| Posted by PhantomFire on Apr 30, 2012 3:05 pm | |
| Hello! And welcome to the Seventh installment of "Monday Music Madness!" This week we have lots of great suggestions from our members. The category is "Songs that reflect YOU" so lets get started! I'm not including a lot of notes with this installment, I'll let folks judge for themselves why these songs mean something.... "You can learn a lot about a person by the songs that mean a lot to them" First from MoonGoddess #127 Band name: Foster the People..."Ruby" Ruby Next up From Kidkeeper #889 Band Name: Rolling Stones...."Get off of my Cloud" Get off of my Cloud From Jordan2 #5767 Band name: Arshad...."Girl on Fire" Girl on Fire From Penguin Girl #7804 Band Name: Mark Wills....."Don't Laugh at me" Don't Laugh At me From Sasha #11 Band name: Westlife...."I Wanna Grow Old With You" I Wanna Grow Old With You From Bella61301 #3274 Band Name: Origa...."Rise" Rise From sienna77 #1863 Band Name: Martina McBride...."Happy Girl" Happy Girl From Kami Mi Ke Neko #72 Band Name: Sara Bareilles.... "King of Anything" King of Anything From Silvery #14 Band name: Tori Amos......"Little Earthquakes" Little Earthquakes From Sebraxis #1053 Band name: Collin Raye - "Love, Me" Love, me From AshDizzle #1204 Band name: Matthew West.... "Family Tree" Family Tree From Allira #8 Band Name: Beyonce'..."Broken Hearted Girl" Broken Hearted girl And lastly....The song that gives me comfort, makes me happy and plays in my head all the time... Band name: Francesca Gagnon..."Alegria" From:Cirque du Soleil Alegria As I stated last week, We want YOUR songs! PLEASE though, don't send more than 2 suggestions at a time. If you find NEW stuff to suggest, feel free to send, just don't keep sending the same song over and over :) If you wish to suggest music, you must PRIVATE message me directly with the link and the subject line "Suggestion for Music". Theme for next week Songs from your childhood!. What does that mean? We all have nostalgic songs, songs your folks played, songs you heard on TV or on radio. Remember bubblegum music?? The Archies? Monkees?? stuff like that! yes, can even be Fred Penner or Sharon, Lois and Bram! :) yay for the stuff we remember wayyyy back when! Congrats to: Allira #8 Kidkeeper #889 AshDizzle #1204 MoonGoddess #127 Penguin Girl #7804 Jordan2 #5767 Sasha #11 Bella61301 #3274 sienna77 #1863 Kami Mi Ke Neko #72 Silvery #14 Sebraxis #1053 Also, Last weeks comments were great guys keep it up! Our three "thoughtful" posters last week are: Usiku #926 DQ #4 oryx #7669 The prizes for Thoughtful posting are Novelty Fibbles you can get NOWHERE on P3 EXCEPT by posting!! Want one?? Get commenting! You go guys! Same rules this week. The top three postings on the music this week will win the prize! Happy listening and get posting! |
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| Monday Music Madness! | |
| Posted by PhantomFire on Apr 23, 2012 11:53 am | |
| Hello! And welcome to the sixth installment of "Monday Music Madness!" This week we have nine music suggestions for you to try for the Novelty song catagory. What IS a novelty song? It's a song that is made to be silly, funny, spoofy or generally poke fun at somethng ( Weird Al's work is a prime example) So, Lets get going!! We start off this week with a suggestion by Allira #8 Song Title: Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport. "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" is a song written by Rolf Harris in 1957 which became a hit across the world in the 1960s in two different recordings (1960 in Australia & United Kingdom the original, and 1963 with a re-recording of his song in the United States). Inspired by Harry Belafonte's calypsos, it is about an Australian stockman on his deathbed. The song is one of the best known and most successful Australian songs. Tie Me Kangaroo Next up ... Weird Al Yankovic with "Constipated". Thank you Kidkeeper #889 Song Title: Constipated. This is a parody of Avril Lavigne's Complicated. Constipated Wildleaf #2806 suggested one of the all time classic novelty songs Performed by Barnes and Barnes "Fish Heads" Song Title: Fish Heads "Fish Heads" is a novelty song by comedy rock duo Barnes and Barnes, featured on their 1980 album Voobaha. It has often been played on the Dr. Demento show, and is the second-most honored song in Demento show history. The song is about fish heads and all the things they can (or, more often, cannot) do, such as playing baseball, wearing sweaters, dancing, playing drums, or being seen drinking cappuccino in Italian restaurants with Oriental women. It is accompanied by a high-pitched chorus, achieved by speeding up the tape, which repeats the original's chorus. Actor Bill Paxton directed and appeared in the music video for the song, which aired on NBC television on Saturday Night Live, on December 6, 1980. Fish Heads Another Classic! Sent in by Wyvern #75 Song Title: The Lumberjack Song "The Lumberjack Song" is a song by the Monty Python comedy troupe. The song was written by Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Fred Tomlinson. It first appeared on the ninth episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, "The Ant: An Introduction" on BBC1 on 14 December 1969. The song has since been performed in several forms, including film, stage, and LP, each time started from a different skit. At an NPR interview in 2007, Michael Palin stated the scene and the whole song were created in about 15 minutes, concluding a day's work, when the Python crew was stuck and unable to come up with a conclusion to the barbershop sketch that preceded it. The Lumberjack song This last classic sent in by Brenne #13 Song Title: I'm too Sexy This song pokes fun at the entire modeling and advertising world by pointing out the absurdity in the industry. Voted both one of the worst all time songs and VH1's Greatest songs of the 90's you can't just watch without cracking a smile at the silliness of the whole thing. I'm Too Sexy Congrats to this weeks Theme winners. If you didn't win this week it doesn't mean the picks were no good, I received so many! I'll get to them eventually! We WILL have more themes upcoming! And now for my picks this week..I LOVE classic Novelty songs!! Let's star out with the all time classic : Bobby Pickett - Monster Mash "Monster Mash" is a 1962 novelty song and the best-known song by Bobby "Boris" Pickett. The song was released as a single on Gary S. Paxton's Garpax Records label in August 1962 along with a full-length LP called The Original Monster Mash, which contained several other monster-themed tunes. The "Monster Mash" single reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on October 20 of that year, just in time for Halloween. It has been a perennial holiday favorite ever since. Monster Mash Up Next, Larry Groce with "Junk Food Junkie"... oddly I know several folks this song fits... Junk Food Junkie is a 1976 novelty song by Larry Groce. Reaching #9 on the Billboard Top 100, it was Groce's only song to chart. The song tells about a man leading a double life. During the day he boasts of his natural diet lifestyle – however, at night, he reveals that he is secretly addicted to junk food. Junk Food Junkie It STINKS!!!! Technicolor man! Loudon Wainwright3rd with "Dead Skunk" "Dead Skunk" is a 1973 novelty song by Loudon Wainwright III. The song is musically a simple folk song based on acoustic guitar, but accompanied by drums and strings. The lyrics, which literally interpreted describe a dead skunk in the middle of a busy road and the smell it produces for pedestrians, have often been seen as an attack on then-president Richard Nixon. Wainwright himself has never confirmed or denied this claim, but has said the song was an accident written in fifteen minutes. Although the single was released in November 1972, it was not until well into 1973 that it caught on with radio stations, and its number sixteen peak on the Billboard Hot 100 chart was not reached until May 1973. It was the only record to chart for Wainwright Dead Skunk And the best known of all Novelty songs this gem from 1958 The Chipmunks Christmas song "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" is a song written by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. (a.k.a. David Seville) in 1958. Although it was written and sung by Bagdasarian (in the form of a high-pitched chipmunk voice), the singing credits are given to The Chipmunks, a fictitious singing group consisting of three chipmunks by the names of Alvin, Simon, and Theodore. The song won three Grammy Awards in 1958: Best Comedy Performance, Best Children's Recording, and Best Engineered Record (non-classical).The song was very successful, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles chart, becoming The Chipmunks' first (and only), as well as David Seville's second and final, No. 1 single. It has the distinction of being the only Christmas record to reach No. 1 on the same chart. The Chipmunk Song As I stated last week, We want YOUR songs! PLEASE though, don't send more than 2 suggestions at a time. If you find NEW stuff to suggest, feel free to send, just don't keep sending the same song over and over :) If you wish to suggest music, you must PRIVATE message me directly with the link and the subject line "Suggestion for Music". Theme for next week Songs that Define YOU. What does that mean? We all have a song that plays in our head when we work, or we go to when we need comfort, or something that makes us feel calmer, happier or simply feels like it was written for YOU. Send me that song!! Congrats to: Allira #8 Kidkeeper #889 Wildleaf # 2806 Wyvern #75 Brenne #13 Also, Last weeks comments were great guys keep it up! Our three "thoughtful" posters last week are: Sasha #11 MrsGunsage #1114 ImBeeZee #1668 The prizes for Thoughtful posting are Novelty Fibbles you can get NOWHERE on P3 EXCEPT by posting!! Want one?? Get commenting! You go guys! Same rules this week. The top three postings on the music this week will win the prize! Happy listening and get posting! |
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| Markings & Paradigms - April 2012 | |
| Posted by JT_ on Apr 16, 2012 5:49 pm | |
| Sorry for all the news updates today, but I've got another one full of goodies for you! :) Markings and Paradigms for April are here, and they are awesome! Thanks to Quad and Yam for these. MARKINGS Caustics Speckled Roan PARADIGMS Blue Speckles Green Speckles Pink Speckles Yellow Speckles Enjoy! And be sure to read the news posts below. :) We have a Monday Music Madness for you today! |
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| Quick Trivia Correction | |
| Posted by JT_ on Apr 16, 2012 1:34 pm | |
| There was a trivia question that had the wrong choice marked as "correct"-- anyone who chose the real correct answer but was told it was wrong due to this typo will be receiving their pence prize momentarily! Your answer will also be marked "correct" so you should see your number of correct answers go up by one. Sorry about that! Go see Monday Music Madness! Right below this post! |
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