ILX: THE UNDERGROUND COMMUNE

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c'mon, you know you want to

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

can we fill one of the silos with foam?

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

i assumed one of them would be like a giant chuck e cheee ball room

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

fill it with booze instead!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Quite frankly London ILX spends so much time sitting around in dingy underground rooms I doubt anyone would notice the difference.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Built to withstand a 1 MEGATON blast within 3,000 feet and survive!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

What's a Megaton? I assume it's bad shit, right?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

maura: i just worry that some wacko white supremacist group is going to buy it
strongo: like ilx
strongo: or outkast

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

It's, like, a really cool ton, yeah?

Bah it was a rubbish joke anyway.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

can we style it on Underground Resistance.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

ILX Underground Commune = Glasshouse Stores FAP

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Strike Leader Ronan Fitzgerald Leads The ILX Underground Commune Forces: "Death From Below"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

that's pretty crap - i punched my mate with 86 Megatonnes the other night on the Sonic Blast Man machine.

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark, what glasshouse stores FAP??!? I haven't heard of this??!! can you give me details?!?!?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Peace Love and Underground Ruin

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

360 degree view. Few Neighbors. Private, secluded location.

― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

it's like nightbreed

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

(this is like that simpsons where chief wiggum admits to seeing tron, isnt it?)

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm king, of course.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh hush, you capitalist pigdog.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll set my dad's nuclear submarine on you! Wah!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

20 posts and its already going all Lord of the Flies.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

i will participate in anything as long as i can wear a uniform jumpsuit.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i thought we were all going to dress like the love boat

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, if i had the cash, i would totally buy this and outfit the entire thing in some mid-late 60's mod/pop art-thing. Globe lights. Stainless steel. Odd shapes.

think Ken Adam stylee.

― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Ken Adam will always show us the way.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Why but what we can steal!!!!

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Why buy what we can steal!!!!

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Bah

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I still claim dibs on this place.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I just want to post this picture again:

http://www.dandennis.com/secret%20nuclear%20bunker%20sign.jpg

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

wow

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

i thought that underground communes required uniform jumpsuits, but maybe that's just bloodthirsty 70s terrorist cells.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"NOT THE WAY TO SECRET UNDERGROUND LAIR --->"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

baader-mentalists

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, if i had the cash, i would totally buy this and outfit the entire thing in some mid-late 60's mod/pop art-thing. Globe lights. Stainless steel. Odd shapes.

kingfish, between this and the thread about selling yr comics to finance your move, and the whole spacemen 3 thing, i'm convinced you ARE elvis telecom.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

He moves in mysterious ways.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.park-road.u-net.com/nuclear1.jpg

Look, the signs change as you get closer! They've even got Tom Ewing and CarsmileSteve guarding it.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Any fat people here we can whack?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

since when does hobbiton have nuclear bunkers?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

..off to?

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm convinced you ARE elvis telecom. enh. possibly.

i'm taller, tho.

― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah right

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I was gonna say.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

well, how tall is the boy, then?

― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

quite.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Less boyfriend talk, more gigantic subterranean robotic fortress (of death)!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm sure it's quite a roomy subterranean fortress

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

i mean, i'm not plunking 4 mil down on somewhere where i have to duck every time i walk under a bulkhead

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Less boyfriend talk, more gigantic subterranean robotic fortress (of death)!

watch it pal, we were into this secret bunker shit well before any of you.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

somehow i doubt that, knowing my own childhood

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

(so i liked to hide...that doesnt mean i was disturbed...)

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

but i'd be happy to move into a disused fallout shelter in someone's backyard, really.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

the keyword is survival on the new frontier.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

i've got my own bunker off 495 in maine. only holds 8 people. grandaddy kephm was always prepared. don't know if it could survive a megaton attack though.

― kephm, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i'd settle for a blanket fort under the dining room table.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I predict that Jel will be the first person to seriously suggest a bid.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

this is so Y2k

― kephm, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Lauren I so want to make a den under my desk now you're said that.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

A table's as good as a bunker.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

sigh. how magical are blanket forts?

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

not as magical as ones made with sofa cushions.

― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

depends on the blanket

http://www.harm.org/~halbritt/bm/damon/large/Magic%20Carpet.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

those are good, too. don't forget the flashlight and peanut butter crackers.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

my secret fortress was the hall coat closet, under a pile of old coats.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

somebody find me a copy of this, quick!

― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to build an island for Action Force out of rugs and cushions, built the Ark for my Autobots under the sideboard.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Underground tunnel level 5 stories below ground level.
Underground has a constant unheated temperature of 55 degrees.
Wall thicknesses 2 feet to 14 feet.
Built to withstand a 1 MEGATON blast within 3,000 feet and survive!
Private water system with 700' well.
3 Phase High-Voltage Power on site.
Paved Roads.
Original perimeter barbed-wire topped chainlink fence intact.
Original 40' by 100' metal shop above ground.
2 manufactured homes on property.
Ground water level approx. 600 feet below surface.
"KEEP OUT DOG WILL BITE" sign not included.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

If it only it said MEGATRON, I'd buy it!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

You folks are really going to buy something from a person whose email is "barih0tchkiss@c0x.net "?

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes Jeanne, we're really going to buy it.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

why not? he seems reliable.

i mean, really, they just don't hand out comments like "Outstanding Ebayer, A Pleasure, A+A+A+A+A+A+A+A+A+A+A+A+A+A+A+A+A+" everyday...

― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.nywf64photos.com/Photos/T16P50.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I was hoping he'd have other items for sale. Like prefab space stations or limocopters full of Cristal and fly girls in bikinis.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.strategic-air-command.com/missiles/Titan/images/Titan_1_silo_complex.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.silohome.com/1ebc2350.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I have GOT to see this "Extreme Homes" show.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I like this but I like sunlight, more.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

This would end up like that Heaven's Gate cult. Except everyone would be wearing those emo glasses in lieu of sneakers.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

imagine the multi-part secret passwords

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

This would end up like that Heaven's Gate cult.

Dan and I would just laugh at you all and leave.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

there was a news piece on france 3 about people living in former nuclear weapons silos, they were all hippies

― !!!! (amateurist), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"Dude, just go hang out down in the green silo - that's where the reactor core used to be. The radiation'll get you MAD BUZZED BRO."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

"then your hair will fall out and you'll start vomiting blood, but it's totally worth it"

― !!!! (amateurist), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Why has no one yet mentioned the reality television possibilities?

― mouse, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

the ilx life, starring strongo, paris hilton, amateurist, vince neil, nickalicious, and mike "touch" connors

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Buh-dum-buh-duh!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

nobody has suggested doing the obligatory day of the dead reenactment.

I get to be the cool jamaican pilot guy

― hector (hector), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:13 (twenty-two years ago)

oh man it totally has to be DIABOLIK!-style

http://www.webhozt.com/svbelltrailers/vidcaps/diabolik_d.JPG

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

It pays to shop around.

I dig the $1.5mln Titan silo 20 minutes from Denver.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:37 (twenty-two years ago)

hector otm

first reality show starring ZOMBIES

(should clear up that old canard about zombies not being real)

― !!!! (amateurist), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

that's really no way to talk about poor mike connors

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i didn't mean to accuse him of being real, sorry

― !!!! (amateurist), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i am sure at this point he would just be pleased anyone remembers him at all

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

fun fact: i do not know who he is

― !!!! (amateurist), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

he was tv's "mannix"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

still in the dark sorry

― !!!! (amateurist), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Star of Swamp Diamonds

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

(stares ahead, as though comatose)

― !!!! (amateurist), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

dig the $1.5mln Titan silo 20 minutes from Denver

The new kitsch, preparing for the moment major earthquakes leave Denver the highest point in the U.S.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

22 stories underground: Iron Mountain's experimental Room 48

Down a road that winds through the rolling hills of western Pennsylvania, just across from a cow pasture, the bucolic scenery of Butler County is interrupted by a high chain-link fence topped with razor wire.
Cars entering the compound are channeled into gated lanes before being searched by a guard. A short distance beyond the security point, the road disappears into a gaping hole in a cliff face. The hole is sealed off by the thick, steel bars of a tall sliding gate controlled by guards carrying semiautomatic pistols. They are protecting a 25-foot-high passage that leads 22 stories down to Iron Mountain's main archive facility, which takes up 145 acres of a 1,000-acre abandoned limestone mine.

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 10 December 2009 08:03 (sixteen years ago)

The image gallery for that article is worth checking out

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 10 December 2009 08:05 (sixteen years ago)

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