Gettyschat
"this means war! "
Gettysburg. A battle of the Civil War. Gettyschat. A battle in a chatroom. It started innocently enough, then progressed to all-out war. Which side truly won? Only history will tell...
The Parentheses:

Yoda: This new mouse kicks @$$
Umar: (what version of PSP do you have?)
Chris: that mouse kicks at two dollars?
Chris: (4)
Roses: yes, it's a violent mouse
Umar: (i have 5, but it should be the same.. i think)
Umar: okay, now click on your main picture
Chris: (done)
Umar: (Edit > Paste > As New Layer)
Roses: (laughs at Umar and Chris, talking in parentheses)
Chris: (not...working..)
Umar: (LOL roses... we're doing it so we can differentiate my PSP convo with the comments)
Chris: (I don't have that option)
Roses: (then you can't do it)
Roses: (I'm being helpful)
Chris: (get out of our brackets, margie)
Umar: well? Chris....?
Chris: hold on...I have an idea..
Roses: I was kicked out of the parentheses
Umar: (brings margie back in)
Roses: I don't even want in your parentheses now
Yoda: aww...I wasn't even in them
Todd: ((zach))
Todd: there you go
Roses: it's okay zach, we'll be the non-parentheses people
Chris: (woohoo!)
Chris: that was woohoo to getting it to work
Chris: not woohoo to you being the non-parenthesis people
Roses: see? Parentheses-people are weird, we don't want to hang out with them
Todd: (so anyway. . )
Yoda: we'll be the brackets people
Yoda: only me and margie are allowed
Roses: no! todd! don't join them!
Todd: i'm so confused it's not funny
Yoda: [hey margie. what's up?]
Umar: they're going brackets!
Todd: i'll just be an outsider. . .
Roses: [hi zach! nothing, you?]
Chris: {HEY TOOD}
Roses: ooh, what are those called?
Chris: wiggly brackets
Roses: lol, wiggly brackets
Umar: < Chris, what did you mean you got it to work? >
Chris: you're talking in my head!
Yoda: > talking outside of head <
Roses: yay for zach!
Todd: i'm just gonna be the normal one here and not talk inside of anything ;-)
Roses: /these are called lines *nod*\
Yoda: |these work nicely|
Yoda: ~or these~

The Question Mark:

Todd: ¿
Todd: I killed the question mark
Todd: hey question mark. how are you?
Todd: ?- fine . . .
Todd: tood- that's good
Todd: ?-yeah
Roses: tood is currently talking to the question mark
Umar: tood - so you're sure you're okay, right?
Todd: ?- let's go eat lunch
Todd: tood - okay
Todd: of course i'm alright, umar
Todd: why wouldn't i be?
Chris: (he's talking to a question mark)
Chris: (for some unknown reason)
Yoda: drugs
Todd: they're picking on us, question mark!
Todd: ? - to hell be them all
Roses: that question mark is rude
Todd: ::kicks question mark in shin::
Roses: yay!
Todd: ¿ - oww. .
Todd: i broke him!
Roses: i suppose it doesn't have a shin, you'd have to kick it in the dot or something

The Battle:

Yoda: ?
Todd: he stole him!
Todd: this means war!
Yoda: die!
Todd: ??????????????? - we will fight for the right of toodmania!
Yoda: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - opposing army
Todd: ?????? - pow!
Yoda: and thus the battle was begun!
Yoda: !?!!!?!?!?!?!?!!
Yoda: --_!(!?!!?!!?1103!!?!?@?!
Yoda: *pow pow*
Yoda: ow, dammit, you stupid exclamation point!
Todd: question markemon! i choose you!
Yoda: !!!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!!! !!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?
Yoda: and the armies were mixed up...
Yoda: history became legend...
Yoda: legend became myth...
Todd: ::stares::
Yoda: and for centuries, the ring rested
Todd: zach's gone over the deep end . . .
Roses: zach, wrong story
Yoda: oops...
Todd: periods are the question marks' ally!
Yoda: and commas ,,,,,,,
Todd: ?????.....?????.......????? !!!!!!
Yoda: are the exclamation points ally
Todd: we out number!
Roses: and I thought I had seen everything
Yoda: \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ <-fire
Roses: but....punctuation wars?
Umar: @%-----
Roses: ooh! me!
Roses: ?!?!?! @%--- ?!?!?!
Roses: I'm surrounded!
Todd: and so the world war .1 was started. . .
Todd: ?????!!!!! pow! ::watches exclamation marks die::
Yoda: *angry look*
Roses: who's going to save me, I'm surrounded!
Todd: ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ??????????
Todd: and reinforcements come!
Roses: wow, that's a lot of question marks
Roses: are they saving me?
Todd: ::saves rose::
Umar: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Umar: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Umar: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Todd: damn you umar!
Umar: the second division has arrived
Todd: mayday! mayday! we need backup!
Todd: ???????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? ????????????????
Todd: ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ??????????
Todd: ???????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????
Roses: we really must have no lives
Umar: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Todd: ???????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????
Umar: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Todd: ???????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????
Umar: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Todd: ???????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????
Umar: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Todd: ???????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????
Umar: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Todd: ???????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????
Umar: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Todd: ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ??????????
Umar: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Umar: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Roses: okay, children!
Umar: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Umar: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Umar: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yoda: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Roses!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Todd: ????????@-->?????????
Roses: now they're fighting over me
Roses: don't kill me!
Yoda: you're surrounded by the army
Roses: ???@??? !!!%---!!!
Roses: I got my head cut off!
Todd: < = bullet
Umar: !!!!???!!?!?!!!!?!!!?????!!!!!!?!?!!!!!! battle ensues

The Capture of Umar:

Todd: @@@@Umar9@@@@@
Roses: Umar's surrounded by roses
Todd: they have Umar!
Roses: how did he get in a flower field?
Todd: they're natives
Roses: ohh
Yoda: the Squatting Flower Tribe
Yoda: *sicks Chief Crouching Daisy on Tood*
Todd: Todd
Todd: see you guys later. .
Yoda: he's surrounded by the natvie amazon transvestites!
Yoda: save him!
Roses: Todd's distracted, no more fighting
Yoda: wait, he appears to be enjoying this...

The Death/Rebirth of Roses:

Roses: Roses
Roses: I died
Yoda: she's being carried away to heaven
Roses: I'm surrounded by angels
Yoda: < - funeral procession
Todd: satan will not just give her away!
Todd: Roses
Roses: so wait, they're fighting over me, too?
Todd: yep
Roses:
Yoda: funeral procession continues
Roses: that happy one's Rosey
Yoda: funeral procession... (necrophiliac)
Umar: Roses
Roses: nooo!!!! No licking!!!!
Yoda: "You're so hot in that black dress with your bood drained from your body"'
Yoda: *sniff* Roses is gone *sniff*
Todd: *hug*
Yoda: I don't like live people...
Yoda: don't hug me, get away
Yoda: die first
Yoda: only rotting corpes turn me on
Todd: ooooookay
Roses: I'm a vampire now, I'm not dead
Yoda: yes! bite me!!
Roses: those are my friends
Yoda: you sexy dead girl
Roses: bite you?
Todd: ::scratches head::
Roses: look at my teeth!
Todd: someone stole my women!
Roses: yes, my vampire friends stole todd's women
Roses: because vampires are cooler than he is ;-)
Yoda: todd never had women
Todd: todding
Yoda: they were men
Roses: oh, transvestites, I remember
Roses: *attacks Zach with teeth* :-D
Zach: Manly women..Like Chyna
Todd: Xena
Yoda: they tie you up and lash you fifty times on your...
Yoda: ...Xena is manly!
Roses: I'm biting you, zach, pay attention to meeeee!!!!!
Yoda: XenaXenaXena Todd XenaXenaXenaXena
Todd: noooo!
Todd: ::throws umar in front of zach::
Yoda: I'm sorry
Yoda: keepy biting
Todd: ::watches roses bite umar::
Roses: Umar is now a vampire, too
Yoda: you're really good with your teeth
Yoda: oh yes!
Roses: WHAT????
Todd: zach, you weren't even bitten
Yoda: give it to me, margie!!!! BITE ME YOU SEX GODDESS!!!
Roses: um...that's not me, I'm biting Umar
Yoda: *cries*
Todd: i'm sorry
Yoda: just because...because...I don't have...*sniff* a 7-inch fang like umar...
Roses: he didn't have any fangs until I bit him
Roses: now he does
Roses: *two* fangs
Yoda: two?!
Yoda: *sniff*
Yoda: < --rejection again
Roses: poor zach
Roses: he couldn't even get bitten

The Battle, Part Two:

Roses: so ends the great battle of Gettyschat (that was a good one, todd ;-))
Umar: the !'s won
Todd: no
Todd: the ?'s won!
Umar: no
Todd: yes
Umar: no
Todd: yes
Umar: the !'s won!
Umar: we had a lot more!
Todd: the ?'s won!
Umar: plus they're pointy and sharp!
Umar: the ?'s are all dull!
Todd: we had less, but we were more talented!
Umar: with your dull points?
Todd: and the generals started having sex and killing roses!
Todd: my question marks stayed in the whole time!
Umar: the ?'s died pitifully to the !'s
Umar: scroll up :-)
Todd: noooo
Umar: and review the battle
Todd: we won
Yoda: ???????????? = last band of ?'s
Umar: all the ?'s died
Todd: ::cries::
Todd: lol, we have no life margie ;-)
Roses: yeah, and I was dead the whole time
Yoda: meanwhile, chris slept through the battle
Umar: The exclamation marks reigned victorious.... at least... for now
Todd: heck no
Yoda: there was a last band of ???? that showed up
Todd: their general was screaming to get bitten
Todd: so he died
Todd: ::forces question marks to have sex::
Todd: ::waits nine months::
Yoda: how *exactly* do they do that?
Todd: ::waits another 16 years::
Todd: ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ??????????
Todd: muhwahahaha!
Yoda: you have to have a ! and ?
Yoda: because when a ! and a ?
Yoda: love each other very much
Yoda: they touch in ways that little ! and ? should never touch each other
Todd: ¿? -- oooh! yes!
Yoda: then the stork brings a baby
Todd: there you go zach
Yoda: lesbians!?
Todd: why do mine have to be the females!?
Umar: because they're curvy

The End

Chris: okay..I'm back..
Chris: what I miss?
Todd: a lot
Roses: the Great Battle of Gettyschat


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