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I really must say I like the way this thread is working out.

This one might be a bit controversial

A little political love from Wisconsin's mascot Bucky to the Iowa Hawkeyes mascot, Herky.

At 4/7/03 07:32 PM, el_foka wrote: Here we go.

Politics Crew pics themselves should be politically neutral as we do not all hold common views. The crew is the regulars of the forum, not a political viewpoint or 'party'. That's why I didn't affix a logo to my gunship picture.

At 4/7/03 07:47 PM, Commander-K25 wrote:

Politics Crew pics themselves should be politically neutral as we do not all hold common views. The crew is the regulars of the forum, not a political viewpoint or 'party'. That's why I didn't affix a logo to my gunship picture.

Ah... I'll keep that in mind. It makes perfect sense, and as such the PC doesn't wish to be seen as one sided.

Old school style.

We're coming.

*falls over laughing*

I like how you added in the Starbucks Logo.

Funny thing is... I work for Starbucks in my spare time, and I've served the guys in the hummers who watch the highway next to the Pentagon. Maybe even the guy in the picture.

Oops. Missed the logo on the side of the car. Mulligan!

Last one for now. I'm going to watch the NCAA Championship. Cheerio!

This is for TheShrike, since he obviously hasn't read it yet, and should enjoy it immensely.
SEATTLE—After a decade of aggressive expansion throughout North America and abroad, Starbucks suddenly and unexpectedly closed its 2,870 worldwide locations Monday to prepare for what company insiders are calling "Phase Two" of the company's long-range plan.

Above: The front of a temporarily closed Starbucks in Canton, OH.
"Starbucks has completed the coffee-distribution and location establishment phase of its operation, and is now ready to move into Phase Two," read a statement from Cynthia Vahlkamp, Starbucks' chief marketing officer. "We have enjoyed furnishing you with coffee-related beverages and are excited about the important role you play in our future plans. Please pardon the inconvenience while we fortify the second wave of our corporate strategy."

Though the coffee chain's specific plans are not known, existing Starbucks franchises across the nation have been locked down with titanium shutters across all windows. In each coffee shop's door hangs the familiar Starbucks logo, slightly altered to present the familiar mermaid figure as a cyclopean mermaid whose all-seeing eye forms the apex of a world-spanning pyramid.

Those living near one of the closed Starbucks outlets have reported strange glowing mists, howling and/or cowering on the part of dogs that pass by, and electromagnetic effects that cause haunting, unearthly images to appear on TV and computer screens within a one-mile radius. Experts have few theories as to what may be causing the low-frequency rumblings, half-glimpsed flashes of light, and periodic electronic beeps emanating from the once-busy shops.

In addition, newly painted trucks marked with the nuclear trefoil, the biohazard warning symbol, and various mystic runes of the Kaballah have been spotted rolling out of Starbucks distribution warehouses.

Above: A Starbucks barista near the Indiana-Ohio border engages in reconnaissance of an undetermined nature.
A spokesman for Hospitality Manufacturing, a restaurant-supply company that does business with Starbucks, provided some insight as to what Phase Two might entail.

"This week, they cancelled their usual 500,000-count order of Java Jackets and ordered 1.2 million Starbucks-insignia armbands instead," Hospitality Manufacturing's Jasper Hennings said. "They also called off their standing order for restaurant-grade first-aid kits, saying they had a heavy-duty source for those now. And, most ominous of all, they've stopped buying stirrers altogether."

"I don't like the looks of this," added Hennings before disappearing late Monday night.

No Starbucks employees were available for comment, as those not laid off in January's "loyalty-based personnel restructuring" or hospitalized in the series of freakish, company-wide milk-steamer malfunctions that severely scalded hundreds of employees, have been sent to re-training centers.

Remaining Starbucks employees earmarked for re-training are being taught revised corporate procedures alongside 15,500 new hires recently recruited from such non-traditional sources as the CIA retirement program, Internet bulletin boards frequented by former Eagle Scouts, and the employment section in the back of Soldier Of Fortune magazine.

More insight into Phase Two was provided by the company's most recent quarterly stockholders' report, which features a map of North America showing the location of every existing Starbucks. Lines drawn between the various stores form geometric patterns across the U.S., including five-pointed stars, Masonic symbols, and, in the Seattle area, the image of a gigantic Oroborous serpent wrapped around an inverted ziggurat.

Starbucks management has been tight-lipped regarding the upcoming changes. No upper-level executives have been seen in public since the first of the month, and no details seem to be forthcoming. Visitors to the Starbucks web site, however, are greeted with a letter from Starbucks founder Howard Schultz reading in part:

"To our valued Starbucks customer: Just wait until you see the exciting changes we've got in store for you as part of our new Phase Two. When you finally see what we've got brewing here at Starbucks, you'll have no choice but to love it."

The Logo speaks for the Crew. I think we can all agree on this statement:

At 4/7/03 09:10 PM, Commander-K25 wrote: The Logo speaks for the Crew. I think we can all agree on this statement:

That's been the only good one so far.

I'd like to see some sources please ted <mockingly>

I don't get the whole 'cookie thing.' Could someone explain?

Here you go, my pathetic first attempt at using photo editing software.

That's good, Judge.
I like it!

On a more important note, however, is anyone having trouble with the login for NG? You click "Remember me" and every single time you come to NG or make a post you have to enter all your info?

At 4/8/03 07:10 AM, Ted_Easton wrote: That's good, Judge.
I like it!

On a more important note, however, is anyone having trouble with the login for NG? You click "Remember me" and every single time you come to NG or make a post you have to enter all your info?

Heh, thanks. I don't have good programs for picture editing on the home PC, but here I have an endless supply of programs and a whole bunch of people with talent to build me the most feared pictures in the world. Mwahaha.

Haha, here's another experimental piece. I'm having trouble fading the square edges of the picture so that it's just the round yin-yang symbol. Eh, I wonder how all of you do it.

I couldn't resist...

You cannot kill the Politics Crew!

How about one incorporating the NG logo?
I was trying to replace all the stars on the american flag with tiny ying yangs, but it seemed nigh on imposible.

At 4/8/03 01:44 PM, TheShrike wrote: You cannot kill the Politics Crew!

Politics Crew are kings of teh BBS!!

Back when someone was running the "Newgrounds: The Gathering" thread, the man was nice enough to make me a card. I figured it'd be slightly relevant.

At 4/8/03 09:53 PM, PreacherJ wrote: Back when someone was running the "Newgrounds: The Gathering" thread, the man was nice enough to make me a card. I figured it'd be slightly relevant.

Any way you could incorporate the logo into that card?

Who hoo for paint!

you gotta make the yin yang the mana dude ;-)

I call this one
"Multiple Personality Disorder"

That one's beautiful.
I've used the hummer-spy one on one of my incursions into the General forums.

Freak has been kind enough to offer us some space on her site for the Politics Crew.
Freak, check your email, I've sent you another email regarding suggestions. (Or I'm about to).

Well I didn't have time to put the logo on and I'm not a member but I found this somewhere on Newgrounds and I had to put it here.