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Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: Schatzi on January 08, 2006, 04:47:44 PM
OK, i know this is a noob question and im gonna get laughed at.... BUT:



Could someone explain to me where the 'sheep stories' come from? Any reference to history at all? Or just something that developed in online culture? Is it limited to AH, or a common flight SIM 'joke'? Have the sheep been added to AH1 due to the stories revolving around them, or was it the other way round, did the stories develop because of the presence of the sheep?


And most important..... ARE THERE ANY MALE SHEEP OUT THERE?????????








Seriously, im very curious about where the 'sheep legends' come from.
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: BlueJ1 on January 08, 2006, 05:21:17 PM
Was sheep in Air Warrior. Went Baa went clicked on.
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: Enduro on January 08, 2006, 05:29:35 PM
Scientific evidence suggests that sheep did exist during the years of WWII.  And,  there apparently were sheep creatures in the lands that we call Europe today.  

Now, why do you need a male sheep?  :confused:
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: NoBaddy on January 08, 2006, 06:09:19 PM
The Clanders in AW were called sheep lovers by their enemies. The Cz chose to "go with the flow" and warmed to the title. By the time AW2 came out, sheep were generally associated with the game and were placed on the terrain (was fun, run over one and hear a "baaaaaaaa"). Not sure what person actually originated it (I can think of a few that would qualify :)). But, it was in place when I began in the summer of '90.
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: DoKGonZo on January 08, 2006, 06:13:34 PM
Actually, it's my fault.

Seriously.

In the early days of Air Warrior (1987-1988) the game flew in half-time. This was because we played over 300 baud modems (you remember modems, right?) and you just couldn't send enough update information over that pipe to do the simulation in real time.

Well, that means that the normal climb to 20K could take 15 minutes or more, depending on your plane. So we had time to kill. One night I just started telling jokes and there were some sheep jokes in the mix. I can still remember one of them. In those days we ran on GEnie, so something as off-color as sheep-shagging was noteworthy. For whatever reasons that incident somehow because lore for AW, then WB, and now AH.
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: Kev367th on January 08, 2006, 06:17:43 PM
Also AH1 had sheep in it.

They disappeared with the advent of AH2, along with the UFO and squid.

B'aaaad AH2.
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: NoBaddy on January 08, 2006, 06:30:04 PM
Quote
Originally posted by DoKGonZo
Actually, it's my fault.



:rofl  Dok...you were my first guess. :D
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: Ack-Ack on January 08, 2006, 07:01:16 PM
Quote
Originally posted by DoKGonZo
Actually, it's my fault.

Seriously.

In the early days of Air Warrior (1987-1988) the game flew in half-time. This was because we played over 300 baud modems (you remember modems, right?) and you just couldn't send enough update information over that pipe to do the simulation in real time.

Well, that means that the normal climb to 20K could take 15 minutes or more, depending on your plane. So we had time to kill. One night I just started telling jokes and there were some sheep jokes in the mix. I can still remember one of them. In those days we ran on GEnie, so something as off-color as sheep-shagging was noteworthy. For whatever reasons that incident somehow because lore for AW, then WB, and now AH.


Didn't that lead up to the reason why the "war" was fought in AW?


ack-ack
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: Nightshift82 on January 08, 2006, 07:48:53 PM
now the question is, why doesn't HTC put them in the maps?
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: Schatzi on January 08, 2006, 07:52:10 PM
So basically men were bored, sheep where handy, a good programmer - et voila!!?? :D




Thanks for the heads up guys ;).




PS: Tbolt, MALE sheep 'cause im not really into same sex 'relationships'.
PPS: DokGonZo: yes, i do remember modems... had a 14 kb myself for quite a while - bit by bit ;).
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: DoKGonZo on January 08, 2006, 09:35:11 PM
Quote
Originally posted by NoBaddy
:rofl  Dok...you were my first guess. :D


Hehe ... here's the joke that started it all:

A new shepherd arrives at the farm and is instructed by the owner about his duties. The farm is pretty isolated and there are no women around. So after a couple of weeks the lad asks the owner : "So ... uh ... what do you do when you ... you know ... need a woman?"

The owner replied: "Well, just take one of the sheep behind the trees over there and get your pleasure that way, Sonny."

"Sex with a sheep!?!?! That's disgusting!! Never would I do that!", exclaimed the lad.

"Well. OK. But everyone here eventually breaks down and does it." Replied the owner.

The lad walks away in disbelief. How could grown men do such a thing? But several more weeks go by and the sheep start looking good to him now. He sees the other shepherds walking back behind the trees with sheep, and hears the weird sounds of ovine love going on back there.

"Well, maybe just once. Just to relieve the tension", he tells himself.

With that he selects a sheep from the flock, takes it behind the trees, and has his way with it.

Now a very relaxed lad walks back toward the farm and the owner and the other shepherds are all pointing at him and shouting.

"You sick little bastard!", one shouts.

"What are you guys all yelling about? I've seen you all do the same thing!" the lad shouts.

The old-timer replies: "Sure, but not with the ugliest one in the flock!"
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: Lan784 on January 08, 2006, 09:44:29 PM
Quote
Originally posted by DoKGonZo
Hehe ... here's the joke that started it all:

A new shepherd arrives at the farm and is instructed by the owner about his duties. The farm is pretty isolated and there are no women around. So after a couple of weeks the lad asks the owner : "So ... uh ... what do you do when you ... you know ... need a woman?"

The owner replied: "Well, just take one of the sheep behind the trees over there and get your pleasure that way, Sonny."

"Sex with a sheep!?!?! That's disgusting!! Never would I do that!", exclaimed the lad.

"Well. OK. But everyone here eventually breaks down and does it." Replied the owner.

The lad walks away in disbelief. How could grown men do such a thing? But several more weeks go by and the sheep start looking good to him now. He sees the other shepherds walking back behind the trees with sheep, and hears the weird sounds of ovine love going on back there.

"Well, maybe just once. Just to relieve the tension", he tells himself.

With that he selects a sheep from the flock, takes it behind the trees, and has his way with it.

Now a very relaxed lad walks back toward the farm and the owner and the other shepherds are all pointing at him and shouting.

"You sick little bastard!", one shouts.

"What are you guys all yelling about? I've seen you all do the same thing!" the lad shouts.

The old-timer replies: "Sure, but not with the ugliest one in the flock!"




And you thought i had problems:D
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: NoBaddy on January 08, 2006, 10:20:41 PM
Dok...

Ever hear the one about the Foreign Legion and the camel? Similar setup....different punchline.

COD, really do miss those times. Laughed for hours everytime I played. :)
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: Grits on January 09, 2006, 12:06:16 AM
Actually, either directly or indirectly we can blame DoK for lots of stuff, Bloodpigs, Deathstars, spawncamping before that phrase was even coined, sheep jokes, and probably some other things I have forgotten.
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: DoKGonZo on January 09, 2006, 12:46:20 AM
Ahhh ... the Boeing AB-17G "Blood Dragon" ... the supreme terror weapon.

(http://www.gonzoville.com/portal/content/wb/images/blooddragon.jpg)

I miss Otto ... I used to love chasing down Zekes in the Dragon.


Actually, you can blame the practice of organized vultching on me and my squad too ... we'd skirt the main AW "Valley of Death" furball and hit the rearward fields. Then when the dweebs stopped trying to take off from there, we'd climb and head to the next field. Usually killing the same people all over again.
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: Grits on January 09, 2006, 01:24:12 AM
I never laughed so hard the first time I flew with DD in an A-26 and landed at the end of the runway. I had no idea what we were doing at first, we went NOE and landed at A1, it was sort of my initiation ritual into the Gunfighters. :)
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: Flayed1 on January 09, 2006, 02:49:52 AM
Do we remember modems??? lol  I still have a 3 working C64's handy and a 1200 baud modem :D  lots of games for them also lol.
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: Gianlupo on January 09, 2006, 04:32:57 AM
Who knows why, I always thought that jokes about sheperds and sheeps were typical of Italy.... Sardinia, to be precise.

That was before playing this game, of course. :D
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: Flossy on January 09, 2006, 11:52:52 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Schatzi
PS: Tbolt, MALE sheep 'cause im not really into same sex 'relationships'.
I'm with you, Schatzi.... I've long wondered why there are no male sheep...... or should we say RAMS!  :D
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: Roscoroo on January 09, 2006, 12:05:01 PM
the Sheep were originally (Clutter sheep)  Much perfured to FA's Clutter Rocks.
 they helped with the feeling of flying in a simulated sky .
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: Loddar on January 09, 2006, 12:48:59 PM
In Air Warrior i know a crowd of people say not "Hello" to another.
They use "Baaaaaaaaaaaa" and get a "Baaaaaaaaaa" as answer :D

A few hold this tradition alive here in Aces High


Loddar ---> A.C.C.S (EU) in Airwarrior and short time here in AH
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: SlapShot on January 09, 2006, 04:43:52 PM
PPS: DokGonZo: yes, i do remember modems... had a 14 kb myself for quite a while - bit by bit .

14kb !!! ... damn ... that was near light speed compared to the 300 baud modems ... back in the day.

I wasn't around for this evil con, but didn't HT hook them up with flying sheep that were sporting an evil amount of .50 cals ?
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: icemaw on January 09, 2006, 05:28:08 PM
Quote
Originally posted by BlueJ1
Was sheep in Air Warrior. Went Baa went clicked on.

even better they would explode when you shot um

anyone remeber the code to get the sheep to say me so horny and hello daddy?
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: StarOfAfrica2 on January 09, 2006, 06:08:06 PM
Some things need to stay dead I think.  lol
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: Yippee38 on January 09, 2006, 07:49:39 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Loddar
In Air Warrior i know a crowd of people say not "Hello" to another.
They use "Baaaaaaaaaaaa" and get a "Baaaaaaaaaa" as answer :D

A few hold this tradition alive here in Aces High


Loddar ---> A.C.C.S (EU) in Airwarrior and short time here in AH


Dunno if it's always been that way, but it is now, "Mbaaa".  There is a EQ and WoW guild called "Onorable Order of Ovine" (generally former AW players) who still use that greeting.

Today my wife (who is in this WoW guild) and I were in Ace Hardware.  We were looking for mops.  I saw this plastic bag with some kind of sheepskin scrubber in it.  The bag didn't have any words on it, but just a picture of a sheep.  I pointed it out to my wife, and she very quietly said, "Baaaaah".
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: hubsonfire on January 09, 2006, 07:57:18 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Yippee38
Dunno if it's always been that way, but it is now, "Mbaaa".  There is a EQ and WoW guild called "Onorable Order of Ovine" (generally former AW players) who still use that greeting.

Today my wife (who is in this WoW guild) and I were in Ace Hardware.  We were looking for mops.  I saw this plastic bag with some kind of sheepskin scrubber in it.  The bag didn't have any words on it, but just a picture of a sheep.  I pointed it out to my wife, and she very quietly said, "Baaaaah".


:lol  You married well.
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: Yippee38 on January 09, 2006, 08:17:27 PM
Quote
Originally posted by hubsonfire
:lol  You married well.


Don't I know it!
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: Raptor on January 09, 2006, 08:17:59 PM
They are not totally lost!
(http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/6126/sheep4wx.jpg)
(http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/4457/ufo1vu.jpg)
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: Stang on January 09, 2006, 08:23:53 PM
Yeah Ack-Ack, I remember that story.  Can't remember how it went exactly, but the gist of it was everything in the world was a peace until one of the 3 countries (not sure if it was Az, Bz or Cz) stole another country's sheep and so the 3 country war that persists to this day was begun.  Kinda the creation myth for online flight sims, lol.

Oh, and I bet Dok had something to do with it.

:D
Title: Re: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: betty on January 10, 2006, 08:48:35 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Schatzi
OK, i know this is a noob question and im gonna get laughed at.... BUT:



Could someone explain to me where the 'sheep stories' come from? Any reference to history at all? Or just something that developed in online culture? Is it limited to AH, or a common flight SIM 'joke'? Have the sheep been added to AH1 due to the stories revolving around them, or was it the other way round, did the stories develop because of the presence of the sheep?


And most important..... ARE THERE ANY MALE SHEEP OUT THERE?????????







Seriously, im very curious about where the 'sheep legends' come from.







ROFLMAO:rofl
Title: Re: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: betty on January 10, 2006, 08:49:05 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Schatzi
OK, i know this is a noob question and im gonna get laughed at.... BUT:



Could someone explain to me where the 'sheep stories' come from? Any reference to history at all? Or just something that developed in online culture? Is it limited to AH, or a common flight SIM 'joke'? Have the sheep been added to AH1 due to the stories revolving around them, or was it the other way round, did the stories develop because of the presence of the sheep?


And most important..... ARE THERE ANY MALE SHEEP OUT THERE?????????







Seriously, im very curious about where the 'sheep legends' come from.







ROFLMAO:rofl
Title: Re: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: betty on January 10, 2006, 08:49:05 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Schatzi
OK, i know this is a noob question and im gonna get laughed at.... BUT:



Could someone explain to me where the 'sheep stories' come from? Any reference to history at all? Or just something that developed in online culture? Is it limited to AH, or a common flight SIM 'joke'? Have the sheep been added to AH1 due to the stories revolving around them, or was it the other way round, did the stories develop because of the presence of the sheep?


And most important..... ARE THERE ANY MALE SHEEP OUT THERE?????????







Seriously, im very curious about where the 'sheep legends' come from.







ROFLMAO:rofl
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: Gianlupo on January 10, 2006, 09:04:13 AM
Betty.... you're warping! :D
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: Schatzi on January 10, 2006, 09:07:05 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Flossy
I'm with you, Schatzi.... I've long wondered why there are no male sheep...... or should we say RAMS!  :D




:lol

Not another thread about RAM modelling...:eek:
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: tactic on January 10, 2006, 11:42:57 AM
Ask most any farm boy,... they'll tell ya,  "nothing like a new pair of boots and a nice well groomed ewe"      baaaaaaaaa!        Doh!
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: fuzeman on January 10, 2006, 02:40:57 PM
Quote
Originally posted by icemaw


anyone remeber the code to get the sheep to say me so horny and hello daddy?


Didn't you get that when you clicked or right mouse clicked on the game info box that showed the current version of AW that you had?
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: icemaw on January 12, 2006, 11:41:15 PM
Quote
Originally posted by fuzeman
Didn't you get that when you clicked or right mouse clicked on the game info box that showed the current version of AW that you had?

ya something like that was funny as hell
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: MIShill on January 12, 2006, 11:57:01 PM
I really miss the silliness of AW. Too many score monkeys in AHII try to make this tooooooooooo serious. I do fondly remember our squads Deathstars with 6 gunners & being proud of Flossie, the cz pet sheep.
-MI- {Shillelagh}
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: MIShill on January 12, 2006, 11:57:11 PM
I really miss the silliness of AW. Too many score monkeys in AHII try to make this tooooooooooo serious. I do fondly remember our squads Deathstars with 6 gunners & being proud of Flossie, the cz pet sheep.
-MI- {Shillelagh}
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: MIShill on January 12, 2006, 11:57:26 PM
I really miss the silliness of AW. Too many score monkeys in AHII try to make this tooooooooooo serious. I do fondly remember our squads Deathstars with 6 gunners & being proud of Flossie, the cz pet sheep.
-MI- {Shillelagh}
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: slimey_J on January 12, 2006, 11:57:31 PM
Wow... some of you folks have been doing this since 87?

:eek:
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: MIShill on January 12, 2006, 11:57:35 PM
I really miss the silliness of AW. Too many score monkeys in AHII try to make this tooooooooooo serious. I do fondly remember our squads Deathstars with 6 gunners & being proud of Flossie, the cz pet sheep.
-MI- {Shillelagh}
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: NoBaddy on January 13, 2006, 12:10:46 AM
Quote
Originally posted by MIShill
I really miss the silliness of AW. Too many score monkeys in AHII try to make this tooooooooooo serious. I do fondly remember our squads Deathstars with 6 gunners & being proud of Flossie, the cz pet sheep.
-MI- {Shillelagh}


MI...

You might wanna get that stutter looked at. :)
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: Morpheus on January 13, 2006, 08:05:04 AM
LOL NB

Quote
Originally posted by Raptor01
They are not totally lost!
(http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/6126/sheep4wx.jpg)
(http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/4457/ufo1vu.jpg)



lol nice, AH2 sheep.

Release the Sheep!
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: Tilt on January 13, 2006, 10:03:53 AM
Quote
Originally posted by MIShill
I really miss the silliness of AW. Too many score monkeys in AHII try to make this tooooooooooo serious. I do fondly remember our squads Deathstars with 6 gunners & being proud of Flossie, the cz pet sheep.
-MI- {Shillelagh}


Flos was a snake with a venemous hissssssssss..........


and it definately was not just a cz thing............ the az gene pool had definate ovine modifiers.................the y flew in flocks grazed to the roots and ran away when threatened.
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: ROC on January 13, 2006, 10:58:35 AM
There were sheep at most airfields during the war.  Which, I might add, was DoK's idea as well :)



Mbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa DOK!
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: icemaw on January 13, 2006, 11:02:22 AM
I will never forget the night the maw took owl city. We landed a bunch of a26s and driving them around killing all the buildings we had allready taken every base that could be captured so we was just messing around. For laughs we dropped a load of troops on it and to our suprise it took. The funny thing was the next day when the Az had taken the base back owl citys ack kept shooting them down. It took um a week to figure out what was happening and another week to figure out how to take it back.

OMFG that was funny!!
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: DoKGonZo on January 13, 2006, 12:33:29 PM
Quote
Originally posted by ROC
There were sheep at most airfields during the war.  Which, I might add, was DoK's idea as well :)

Mbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa DOK!


Nope ... I think that was BlueBaron.
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: NoBaddy on January 13, 2006, 04:06:30 PM
Quote
Originally posted by DoKGonZo
Nope ... I think that was BlueBaron.


CC, Dok...it was. I do miss his sense of humor sometimes.
Title: Stupid Noob Question: Sheep
Post by: DoKGonZo on January 13, 2006, 04:58:29 PM
The ultimate AW laugh-yer-arse-off happening had to be the Double Time Travel flights. Jets to WW1 and then WW1 to WW2 after Kelton "fixed things."