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2 September 2005 @ 10am

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Nemeses Required; Apply Within

Neil and I were talking online (because, you know, we never do that), and we got to discussing how cool it would be to have a nemesis.

Here’s the inevitable chatlog:

Matt: thank god I never use phones
Neil: yeah, you never know where your (fuck what’s the plural of nemesis?) enemies will be.
Matt: nemeses
Matt: definition of it in OS X dictionary is utterly ace
Matt: “the inescapable or implacable agent of someone’s or something’s downfall”
Neil: haha ace
Matt: I want to be the nemesis of more people I think
Neil: Start a “nemesesrequired.com” website and ask people to apply

Accordingly, I’m accepting applications (via the comments here) from those who’d like to be one of my nemeses. I shall be your nemesis in return, of course. It’s a win-win situation, since we both get to refer to each other as “my nemesis” in blog links and stuff, which is cool, but also there’s only the smallest chance that I’ll ever get around to plotting your downfall (small but non-zero, I hasten to add).

I’ll also require one arch-nemesis. Feel free to apply for that too, justifying why you should be given this exalted position. I shall look forward to cursing your name, laughing evilly, and blaming every misfortune in my entire life on your secret meddlings.


5 Comments

Neil
2 September 2005 @ 10am

To be fair, I only ever talk online with you when I’m at work… you’re not worth my time unless I’m getting paid for it ;)


Gary
2 September 2005 @ 12pm

I feel that all of the best nemeses should have a lot in common with their counterpart, tinged with attributes that can never truly be reconciled. Think evil twins, ex-friends split apart by some tiny ideological shift (Goldeneye: 006 Vs. 007), ourselves from the future.

It helps if both parties have mad kung-fu skills.


Derek
2 September 2005 @ 12pm

Damn, does that mean to apply one also has to be able to remember the Seventies?

It’s one of my favourite ironies that age jokes never get old….


spoonie
2 September 2005 @ 3pm

i’m lacking the kung-fu abilities, but i’ve got crazy mad vocal skills for dropping flava and the like. is that any use?


Darcy Reynard
2 September 2005 @ 11pm

You should try to collect as many nemeses as possible but be careful about actually felling them. If you no longer have a nemesis, especially and arch-nemesis, you’ll have no one to pin every life misfortune on. I’d apply but my only kung-fu skills come from watching movies and marrying a beautiful Chinese girl. That makes me half-Chinese! My better half, of course. I’d better skip right to the wacky training regiment. It usually follows after the hero is beaten by the main villain but I need to get a jump on things. On a side note, if you meet your doppelganger, you have to kill it before it kills you.


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