Coplantor's Completly Creative Cautious and Contemplative Random Banter #109

[Coplantor]

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If you believe that there should be something witty written here for your amusemente then you'd be wrong.

Our last topic was: Hankering... A dirty word or it just sounds like one?

[TwoBitWriter]

So, how about them Yankees? :smallwink:

Wrong season, I know.

[Coidzor]

Well, you can't seem to be ambivalent towards them, or people get even more angry with you than if you hated them and they loved them or vice versa. I don't see why I have to abstain from freedom of opinion to satisfy the Yes-No worldview of others. :smallsigh:

Hankering for.... Steakering.... Hmm.. Gotta be something that pairs up with Hankering like bread and butter...

[Coplantor]

Eh? are you talking about the baseball team?

[TwoBitWriter]

Personally, not a Yankees fan. And its not just because they are the evil empire and all that.

I will probably never reveal my favorite baseball team...:smallwink:

I used to play it though. So can I say my Middle School team is my favoirte? (Go Wildcats!) :smallamused:

[Coplantor]

Meh, although baseball look like an intresting sport, it have'nt reached Uruguay.

A funny thing happened while I was with a couple of friends regarding baseball, we were playing wii sports, baseball in wii sports to be more precise. And, except for two of us )who happen to be part of this forum), the other guys never understood how it was played. one of them said: "This sport, typical of the yankies", "Why?" I asked, and she just had nothing to say. Most youths here really hate america.

Come on! Wii sports baseball is so simple that it hurts! What is it to not be easily understandable??????

[EmeraldRose]

I go away for a couple hours, and come back to find everyone has abandoned the old thread, and jumped right in with the new one. Ya bunch of fickle peoples you. :smalltongue:

Wait, I'm posting in the new thread too. Crap.

Anyway, I don't like the hospital computer, because it has an old browser so I can't open multiple tabs, and they block all the fun stuff (calling it games, etc). I'm surprised they haven't blocked GitP...

*hopes the hospital IT people aren't looking at the screen right now*

*realizes this is a regular hospital not a military one*

*figures it doesn't matter anyway*

:smalltongue:

That got a little too paranoid...

*sniffs*

I have determined that this thread smells like cookies and milk.

[Player_Zero]

Heh. I wonder how long that 'row row fight da powah' is gonna' stay there. Most of you goons just copy and paste the first post. That's hardly row row fighting da powah.

Also, I hate Tuesdays. Even when it's the holidays and it means nothing. I hate them.

[Coplantor]

Any particular reason for your hate towards a day of the week or is it just like garfield hating mondays?

[mangosta71]

Heh. I wonder how long that 'row row fight da powah' is gonna' stay there. Most of you goons just copy and paste the first post. That's hardly row row fighting da powah.

Also, I hate Tuesdays. Even when it's the holidays and it means nothing. I hate them.

The true reason for PZ's hatred has been discovered! It means the WoW servers are down for maintenance.

[Recaiden]

Just hide in this cookie flavored thread until the Tuesday goes away. And we need Jibar. Right? I love Tuesdays. It's basically the only weekday I have free time. Except for vacations, of course.

[Player_Zero]

The true reason for PZ's hatred has been discovered! It means the WoW servers are down for maintenance.

That too. I still hate Tuesdays regardless of this though.

It's always the day which I feel the most tired and crummiest. Monday is usually a freaking hassle and then Tuesday kicks you in the teeth.

[Recaiden]

No, Monday's a busy hassle where you can't adjust from the weekend. Then by tuesday you've kind of got thee hang of it. On Wednesday things will invariably get worse somehow.

[Coplantor]

I have a particular dislike for wednesday, is just... too in the middle of the week, that sneaky bastard.

[Jibar]

And we need Jibar.

I have been summoned... and thus I shalt

*BOOGIE!*

And now I'll say, yay! Christmas Eve tomorrow! Good stuff on TV, and I think my sister's boyfriend will be about so we can play lots of Rock Band.
I also keep meaning to write a short story about how our band got formed. Me and my friends even do the Band Drama in between songs whenever we play.

[three08]

I used to play it though. So can I say my Middle School team is my favoirte? (Go Wildcats!) :smallamused:

COACH: Who are we?!
TEAM (chanting in unison): The Wildcats!
COACH: Who're we gonna beat?!
TEAM (chanting in unison): The Wildcats!

[Player_Zero]

Christmas TV is only worth it for the Christmas comedy specials. I care not at all for the movies they show over and over every damn Christmas as if you hadn't seen them more times than the human body can stand.

Also, I'm still schleepie. Just thought you should eb kept up to speed on that one.

[Coplantor]

Christmas movies are for seeing only one time. Although, the original animated "The grinch" is a classic. But the best christmas must be adult swim christmas. Too bad they dont transmit it anymore over here.

[KindaChang]

I like some Christmas movies, I dislike some Christmas movies.

But no Christmas movie deserves a 24 hour marathon. I'm looking at you TBS and your strange obsession with "A Christmas Story."

[Cristo Meyers]

I like some Christmas movies, I dislike some Christmas movies.

But no Christmas movie deserves a 24 hour marathon. I'm looking at you TBS and your strange obsession with "A Christmas Story."

I know, they've been doing that for years and I still don't get it...

Movie really isn't even that good.

[mangosta71]

So, there's a construction crew remodeling one of the labs here at work. Lots of dust and smoke and assorted things with foul aromas. Kind of strange to think that I ducked into the men's room to get a breather. Even working with a bunch of educated professionals (ie people who flush, wash their hands, and don't use the floor) the idea that the air inside the bathroom would be more palatable than that in the corridor is odd.

[TwoBitWriter]

I know, they've been doing that for years and I still don't get it...

Movie really isn't even that good.

It was cute... the first time I saw it...

My wife is obsessed with National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

ugh... :smallsigh:

[Coplantor]

Mmmm, a little confused over here, is that the one about Mr.Scrouge and the ghosts of christmas?

By the way, what are your plans for christmas? Christmas eve I'll be at an aunt's house having dinner with my father side of the family, while the night of the 25th I'll spend it with my mother's side of the family.

[mangosta71]

No, it's the kid who wishes for a Red Ryder BB gun and shoots himself in the eye. It also features a stupid child getting his tongue stuck to a lamppost.

[Thufir]

Mmmm, a little confused over here, is that the one about Mr.Scrouge and the ghosts of christmas?

That's A Christmas Carol. Which, it must be said, there are far too many versions of. I counted: channels 4 & 5 between them are showing 6 different versions of it over the christmas period. :smallconfused:

[Coplantor]

I was talking about "a christmas story", when I started writting my post, kindachang's post was the las one. But I got distracted with other things and it took me a while to post.

EDIT: Dammit! I did it again!

Anyway, wich one is A Christmas Story?

[Rutskarn]

(Sleeps a shameful amount of time)

Whugga? WhaddImiss.

Oh. Everything.

...


Fair enough.

I gotta say, I sympathize with PZ, here, although I'd still say Monday is worse. Tuesday is like a hurdle, but Monday is like a brick wall. With spikes on.

[TwoBitWriter]

My favorite A Christmas Carol is the one with George C. Scott as Scrooge...

Oh, and A Muppet Christmas Carol is fun. But that is because I love Michael Caine, and the muppets.

[Coplantor]

There's a Micheal Cane/muppets christmas movie? Gotta see that.

I actually like the Bill Murray one, because I saw that one when I was a kid and a big fan of the ghostbusters.

[Recaiden]

(Sleeps a shameful amount of time)

I gotta say, I sympathize with PZ, here, although I'd still say Monday is worse. Tuesday is like a hurdle, but Monday is like a brick wall. With spikes on.

No, Tuesday is more like a trampoline, and then Wednesday has people shooting at you as you go over the brick wall. Don't you think so?

[Thufir]

My favorite A Christmas Carol is the one with George C. Scott as Scrooge...

Oh, and A Muppet Christmas Carol is fun. But that is because I love Michael Caine, and the muppets.

The Muppets one is my favourite version of A Christmas Carol. Though, I must admit, this one's pretty good too. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5449279#post5449279)

[CurlyKitGirl]

@TwoBi and three08 (can it be abbreviated to 308 or simpley three?):
. . .
AAAAAAAAAARGH!
Why did you have to mention those accursed films?!
*flees*

But first:


Volund (aka Wayland): now there's (http://www.angelfire.com/on/Wodensharrow/volund.html) a man who knows how to take his revenge well. :smallcool:

"I'm going to pwn you so hard they'll be reading about it centuries hence!"


"Fierce, unsleeping, at his forge he hammered
Making for Nidud marvellous things"
(although I prefer Tom Shippey's translation of the latter line: "Always he beat out the baleful work for Nidud" - you can almost hear the hammerfalls in the cadence).
/northern geekery

If you weren't engaged to Miss Eggy, I'd propose to you. Yeah, I've now got this on favourites.
And to steal an Eggy related thing:

ION: Curly hates doing the Christmas present run. Dropping off two boxes and a bag of stuff at one stop, and another bag at another stop. All up a hill with a 25% gradient. Which I had to walk up almost entirely on my own. Did I mention this hill is just over one mile long. High. Long.
And I had to endure two tea stops; one of which was horribly awkward. Almost three - quarters of an hour long; that kind of awkward. At my granddads', he's almost sixty years older than me, very deaf and I just don't know what to say.
And earlier was my run into town with siblings, pick up twenty pounds of fruit, veg and other and six bags of roast spuds to take home.
My right shoulder hurts. A lot.

[Rutskarn]

No, Tuesday is more like a trampoline, and then Wednesday has people shooting at you as you go over the brick wall. Don't you think so?

Then Thursday is where you sprint away from the helicopter.

Friday? You do a calm slow-motion walk as everything blows up behind you.

[Coplantor]

No, Tuesday is more like a trampoline, and then Wednesday has people shooting at you as you go over the brick wall. Don't you think so?

I always liked to see wednesday as the bridge in the over a pool of acid in wich I'm being followed by a tank and there is an electrified barb wired fence at the end of it, keeping me away from the saturday matress.

[TwoBitWriter]

The Muppets one is my favourite version of A Christmas Carol. Though, I must admit, this one's pretty good too. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5449279#post5449279)

:smallredface:

[Rutskarn]

You all know that this is the best Christmas Carol (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkG3_arilCw).

Screw the yules, I have money.

[Player_Zero]

The Muppets one is my favourite version of A Christmas Carol. Though, I must admit, this one's pretty good too. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5449279#post5449279)

The Muppet Christmas Carol is surprisingly good. Maybe I'm bias on account of it being a childhood favourite.

Also, you're a mean one, Mr. Grinch. (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MPBS7dVrE1U)

[Cristo Meyers]

:smallredface:

Well, with that leading man of yours, how could it not be a hit? :smalltongue:

[Coplantor]

I like the grinch a lot. The cartoon was wonderful and I like the bizarre way in wich it was drawn. The story is a good one, of course, a typical christmasy end.

The movie, well, it could've been better if they had Alec Baldwin, or Chuck Norris.

[three08]

(can it be abbreviated to 308 or simpley three?)

i prefer 308, personally, but i'm not picky.

[Player_Zero]

Wow... I think just watching The Grinch (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6S3KM92s-pg) just gave me a brain aneurysm.

The words... They make no sense... It could drive a man insane...

[Coplantor]

Or in your case it might be sane again

[TwoBitWriter]

Just so you know, I'm just a half hour or so away from posting the last part of A Shipper's Carol.

[Rutskarn]

I await that moment with great lovecraftia (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=5522750&postcount=1369).

[Coplantor]

I think we are all lovecraftianing that moment.
Something funny just happened, I looked at my right side and there it was, a window, and sunlight! Havent seen that thing for a couple of days now.

[Rutskarn]

It's a two-days-before-Christmas mee-rakool.

[Coplantor]

No, is more lika a "today-I-finished-earlier" miracle. I've been spending the last few days in front of a freaking computer from 9 AM to 9 PM, skipping lunch sometimes.

EDIT: Well, I'm going home now, so I'll see yoo either in half an hour or in six hours, depending if my mother is still adicted to facebook or not

[Rutskarn]

Ooh--depending on context,that's either grim punishment or the best Holiday ever.

Fun fact about Rutskarn--sometimes, on my days off, I'll get so wrapped up in something that I completely forget to eat lunch. For some reason, I'm never hungry around that time.

[Player_Zero]

Ooh--depending on context,that's either grim punishment or the best Holiday ever.

Fun fact about Rutskarn--sometimes, on my days off, I'll get so wrapped up in something that I completely forget to eat lunch. For some reason, I'm never hungry around that time.

I'm beginning to suspect you've been watching me for some time in order to emulate me.

[Rutskarn]

Silly, silly PZ.

Why would I hide a camera by your computer and monitor your every move in an attempt to become you, because in my dementia I think that emulating you will make the guards mistake me for a visitor and let me through?

That would be...crazy.

[Player_Zero]

No, crazy would me actually turning out to be you without knowing it. That would be crazy.

Right. That's it. If you're me then you'll know how many fingers I'm holding up and will thereforeeither deliberately say a different number in order to throw me off or in the case in which you don't know you're me you'll be able to tell me how many.

Choose.

[Mr. Mud]

*sniffles* I leave for FOUR DAYS, and you guys made another Random Banter without me? I feel so neglected, so hurt... its time to listen to some Nora Jones... :smalleek:.

[Raiser Blade]

*sniffles* I leave for FOUR DAYS, and you guys made another Random Banter without me? I feel so neglected, so hurt... its time to listen to some Nora Jones... :smalleek:.

To be fair, leaving the internet for four fore days is like not feeding your goldfish for a week and then you come back and find that your fishbowl is infested with catfish.


also rick astley

[Coplantor]

Ooh--depending on context,that's either grim punishment or the best Holiday ever.

Fun fact about Rutskarn--sometimes, on my days off, I'll get so wrapped up in something that I completely forget to eat lunch. For some reason, I'm never hungry around that time.

The same thing happens to me. I'm never hungry at eating times, I jus prepare something to eat whenever I get hungry. I only eat at regular times when there's another human beign making me to

[mangosta71]

*sniffles* I leave for FOUR DAYS, and you guys made another Random Banter without me? I feel so neglected, so hurt... its time to listen to some Nora Jones... :smalleek:.

She has a nice voice. And thi - erm, EYES that I could fall into for days. :smalltongue:

[Jibar]

Ya know, every time I wrap something I feel oddly proud of myself.
Even if, every time, it ends up as one sort of mush of pretty paper.
Still, it's a probably a sign of my gross incompetence that I can feel so proud about one present.

I am doomed when I live alone.

[Groundhog]

Nonsense. The feelings of pride are probably coming from the fact that even though you aren't very good at wrapping presents, you still do it. You could cop out and put everything in gift bags. But no! You push on, against all odds.

[Rutskarn]

I find the alternative is to give the gift that keeps on giving.

Nothing.

(Pretends that makes any sense.)

[Coidzor]

Well, I prefer not to let the Nothing take control of the universe, thank you very much, Mr. Rutskarn.

For one thing, I hate those weird shell-things that preceed it and how emo-stupid everyone gets in the real world while it's busy consuming the child-like empress.

[Thufir]

Fun fact about Rutskarn--sometimes, on my days off, I'll get so wrapped up in something that I completely forget to eat lunch. For some reason, I'm never hungry around that time.

I haven't had lunch yet today... Maybe I'll have it now, I am kinda hungry...

[Coplantor]

What time is it over there?

Back on topic, I dont give gifts because I have no money, and if I had, well, I'm terrible at pcking gifts for other people.

[Dragonrider]

This year instead of buying anything I untangled the Snarl (i.e. the box of yarn that was, erm, overloved by my cats) and am crocheting a hat for every single person.

I have one left to do. Meaning I've made about thirty. :smalltongue:

And I don't think I'm going to stop...I think I'm just going to keep making hats till a) my fingers fall off or b) I run out of yarn....:smallbiggrin:

[bosssmiley]

My favorite A Christmas Carol is the one with George C. Scott as Scrooge...

*PAMFH!*

(that was the sound of my mind being blown by the sheer awesome of this)

Patton <===> Scrooge

:smallcool::smallcool::smallcool:


Oh, and A Muppet Christmas Carol is fun. But that is because I love Michael Caine, and the muppets.

♫ Oh, there goes Mr. Humbug, there goes Mr. Grim.
If they gave a prize for bein mean the winner would be him.
Oh, Scroogey loves his money cause he thinks it gives him power,
If he became a flavor you can bet he would be sour. (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KBthi_An5qQ) ♪♫

@v: there's a Muppet Week planned? When?!?! :smallbiggrin:

[CurlyKitGirl]

♫ Oh, there goes Mr. Humbug, there goes Mr. Grim.
If they gave a prize for bein mean the winner would be him.
Oh, Scroogey loves his money cause he thinks it gives him power,
If he became a flavor you can bet he would be sour. (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KBthi_An5qQ) ♪♫

I love Muppet Christmas Carol, it's prolly my favourite version. I can't remember when it's on/if it's already been on this year which is a shame.
Except that we have it on video and DVD. :smallcool:
And Muppet Treasure Island! The Muppets do excellent films.
I need more Muppety goodness.

Bring on Muppet Week!

[Coidzor]

Muppet week sounds fun. I'm really wanting to watch the rest of the Muppet Chrismas thing now... but also, on the other hand, I'm thinking of how this song could be applied to Mordokai now that he's fallen and whether there's any subtext of that in the Shipping Thread...

...Great, I think you're doing it on purpose now, Made'D'Ride. :smalltongue:

But yeah, there's something fascinating about people knitting/crocheting. I actually started chatting up a girl at a Doctor's office in spite of myself and the setting because of her knitting... Almost got her number, I like to think.

[Dragonrider]

...Great, I think you're doing it on purpose now, Made'D'Ride. :smalltongue:


Doing what now? :smalltongue:


I like to crochet. It's a great way to use my hands while I'm watching a movie or something like that. Or reading. The only trouble is that it's hard to keep the book open, and also I read really fast so I have to keep putting it down to turn pages...so yeah. Mostly for movies.

[Quincunx]

Already has been shown in the U.K., has Muppet Christmas Carol. I wasn't told beforehand either. Sniff.

I was going to continue whimpering about gifts and abused fingertips, but I think Dragonrider takes the prize. Also, the ointment. Also, the gloves warmed over the heater for a few minutes before wearing.

[Dragonrider]

I was going to continue whimpering about gifts and abused fingertips, but I think Dragonrider takes the prize. Also, the ointment. Also, the gloves warmed over the heater for a few minutes before wearing.

Naw. Crocheting isn't fingertip-pokey :smallbiggrin:

[Rutskarn]

I like to crochet. It's a great way to use my hands while I'm watching a movie or something like that. Or reading. The only trouble is that it's hard to keep the book open, and also I read really fast so I have to keep putting it down to turn pages...so yeah. Mostly for movies.

I'm the same way, except with doodling.

Also, I got my unchecked rant of the day in the Rewrite Ending thread.

I feel so lovely and clean.

[Thufir]

I tend to find that my hands get restless. I can happily sit and just think for hours on end, as long as my hands are doing something, e.g. shuffling a pack of cards. If they're not doing anything I get a bit fidgety.

[Rutskarn]

As I read that post, I have my tailbone on the seat, one leg curled up with the ankle resting against the front of the desk, and the other foot propped up on the desk. I have the heel of my sock in one hand and am bopping it up and down on the desk.

What I'm saying is, I'm not so much fidgety when I'm idle as insane.

But then, we already knew that.

[Dragonrider]

I always sit with my right leg tucked under me. Until it falls asleep and my knee cramps up. Then I force it straight, trying not to cry at the pain. :smalltongue:

And then the next time I sit down, I do it again. I can't help it.

[Rutskarn]

I never sit properly.

I almost always sit crouched like a gargoyle, knees up to my armpits. I even do this when I'm sitting in very cramped spaces where this isn't the most comfortable option, like with those chairs that have desks mounted to the top. I've never met anyone who sat the same way, and I'm not sure why I do.

Now, if PZ says, "Hey! That's exactly how I sit!"?

Then I'll be freaked out.

[Groundhog]

Your joints must be pretty good then...if I sat that way, my knees would fall off.

[Rutskarn]

That's the thing--I am not even slightly flexible.

I can't even touch my toes.

[Nychta]

I never sit properly.

I almost always sit crouched like a gargoyle, knees up to my armpits. I even do this when I'm sitting in very cramped spaces where this isn't the most comfortable option, like with those chairs that have desks mounted to the top. I've never met anyone who sat the same way, and I'm not sure why I do.

Now, if PZ says, "Hey! That's exactly how I sit!"?

Then I'll be freaked out.He shan't, for I do believe he has concocted a secret plan to reassert his own terrible identity.
Yes, I have a conspiracy theory for pretty much everyone I know or know of. There is also a portion of my brain dedicated to thinking up nicknames for everyone.

I am also a fidgeter. You know those mouldable art rubbers you can get? I demolish them. Same with blu-tack. I reduce blu-tack (or any cheaper version thereof) to a goopy, warm mass within half an hour. I can't focus without fiddling with something.

Why why why does Firefox not accept 'fidgeter' nor 'mouldable' as a correctly spelled word? I question why it is installed on this computer to start with.

[Phase]

I always sit with my right leg tucked under me. Until it falls asleep and my knee cramps up. Then I force it straight, trying not to cry at the pain. :smalltongue:

Me too! There's never enough room under my desk for all the legs I have, so I'm forced to sit on one!

But, uh... I never cry cause, uh, I'm a manly man...

[Rutskarn]

Me too! There's never enough room under my desk for all the legs I have, so I'm forced to sit on one!

But, uh... I never cry cause, uh, I'm a manly man...

Ooh! Ooh! I'm not!

[Coplantor]

Hey, Rutsy, a question for you that might help us with the RK/P_Z thing, are you a pirate or a ninja?

[Rutskarn]

Coplantor: Are you a pirateninja?

Rutsakrn: I'm a blogger.

Coplantor: You're neither. You're a salesman, sent by selfish impulses, to collect a readership.

In somewhat more seriousness, I prefer ninjas.

[Dragon555]

Me too! There's never enough room under my desk for all the legs I have, so I'm forced to sit on one!

Umm... just to check, how many legs do you have?

Oh, and I tend to sit with my legs crossed; it's really comfortable.

[Coplantor]

Coplantor: Are you a pirateninja?

Rutsakrn: I'm a blogger.

Coplantor: You're neither. You're a salesman, sent by selfish impulses, to collect a readership.

In somewhat more seriousness, I prefer ninjas.

Oh, you prefer ninjas over pirates? OK, problem solved, you are not Player Zero.

[Rutskarn]

Oh, that so enduring a debate be resolved by something so simple.

I still want to do that buddy comedy, though.

[Fostire]

Oh, you prefer ninjas over pirates? OK, problem solved, you are not Player Zero.

It is obvious what's going on here: Rutskarn is Player_Zero's evil twin

[Coplantor]

Yeah, so simple that we forgot asking. He's some kind of pirate king. You being a ninja, well, you can be eternal rivals if you want to.

EDIT:^Hey, you finally joined an RB!

[Fostire]

Hey, you finally joined a RB!

What are you talking about? I post here... sometimes.

[randman22222]

Heh, I tried to teach myself how to crochet, but never managed to be able to do anything other than coasters that didn't work because they soaked up all condensation and got disgusting, and little crocheted strings. :smallconfused:

So now I'm a musician. My creative juice is channeled through notes far better than through yarn. :smalltongue:

[Rutskarn]

Okay, I've got an idea.

Don't stop me until you've heard all of it.

A guitar.

With yarn strings.

Eh? Eh?

[Ego Slayer]

We're still talking about Zero and this... this... new dude? (Hi, btw.)

Oooookay.

Dragon, that's a lotta hats! o.o
I never was good enough at crocheting to do anything... er... complicated in the least. v.v

[randman22222]

Okay, I've got an idea.

Don't stop me until you've heard all of it.

A guitar.

With yarn strings.

Eh? Eh?

I'm not sure yarn can be held that taut properly. :smalltongue:
But when I get another guitar, I'll restring my acoustic with yarn, and let you know how that works out. :smalltongue:

[Coplantor]

OK, may I ask what crocheting is?

[randman22222]

OK, may I ask what crocheting is?

It's like knitting, but only one little stick. And it's easier. The stick has a hook at the end. Crochet. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crochet)

@V I hope you're not that slow while sparring. :smallamused::smalltongue:

[Dragonrider]

crocheting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crochet). It's kinda like knitting, but with a hook instead of needles.

edit: Ninja'd! With an identical link! :smallbiggrin:

As a note, the crochet displayed in the article is primarily lace crochet. I do yarn crochet. Whole 'nother ballgame.

[Rutskarn]

We're still talking about Zero and this... this... new dude? (Hi, btw.)

Oooookay.



What can I say? I'm just that awesome.

/blatant lie

[Coplantor]

What can I say? I'm just that awesome.

/blatant lie

See what he just did? That was a Pzeroian comment

[Rutskarn]

I just can't stop myself, can I?

It's like a fever. But not a fun kind, like dance fever.

Not as bad as yellow fever, though. Hm.

I guess like disco fever. Actually, I guess that might be worse than yellow fever.

What I'm saying is, it's like a troublesome cold!

[Coplantor]

Troublesome cold indeed. So hey, I wanted to know a little bit more about your avatar, what's the story behind the zombie salesman?

[Rutskarn]

You want the full story?

Well...wow, okay, the full story is way too long.

I'll be posting a blog post about it at some point.

Most recently, Rutskarn has been a Dungeons and Dragons character. Here's his backstory.

Warning: Inhumanly Long.

Ruts Karnworth was born to Sahnah Karnsworth, a midwife in a small town in the midst of the farmlands. Neither Ruts nor Sahnah ever saw the tinker again, with only the name “Josiah” to remember him by. Ruts grew up an unusually bright boy, glib and outgoing. Although he and his mother lived in poverty, he managed to scrape up enough money to buy books, with which he learned to read. Ruts became convinced that he was the son of a nobleman, like many of the characters in the stories, stranded by his dallying father in a small town. He viewed his natural charisma as a sign of this, proof that he was born of higher stock. He began to devour information about the local nobles, reading eagerly. Gradually, however, this fantasy began to fade, and by the time he was 15, Ruts had no illusions about his parentage. By the time he was 17, he had learned to grow disgusted at the disparity between the nobility and his family.
Disillusioned and bitter, Ruts was unprepared for the sudden death of his mother, killed by age and disease. Finding himself unable to find any connection to the town he had grown up in—a town that mentally, he had always put himself above—Ruts left.
Ruts traveled for a long while, until he reached a large town at the outskirts of the farmlands. Hungry and weary, Ruts sought employment, eventually taking on a job as a harvester. Ruts survived, through a combination of his meager paycheck and the odd handful of food stolen from the fields. He lodged up in a nearby barn, spending his nights sleeping and observing the animals nesting within. It was then that he began to develop a strange fixation with squirrels, entranced by their form, their grace, their quirky nature. He kept a few as “pets”, which really meant feeding them the occasional nut and tolerating their presence near his designated sleeping area.
This continued more or less uneventfully for five years, until he was 23. Ruts, once an animated, lively soul, became somewhat more subdued, quieter. He had a few friends, but he rarely spent time with them outside work. He fell into a sort of lockstep routine, one of unimaginable tedium. Each day was get up, do labor about the communal farmland, eat a sparse lunch, do more labor, retire to the tavern and retire to bed.
This routine was shattered when he met Lusiana, a local farmgirl whose family owned part of the land Ruts worked upon. Ruts met Lusiana, or “Luce” as she was called, and the two of them found much common ground. Both felt that their lives had been potential squandered, that they were driving their lives into the ground doing repetitive tasks for the rest of their lives. They met more frequently, sometimes ignoring or evading work to talk with one another. Ruts began to save some money, as did Luce, and within a year the two married.
For a year, the two lived and worked happily, living in the town. They were still doing the same work, but they did it together, which made all the difference. Then, just as Luce became pregnant with their first child, Ruts had a meeting with destiny.
He had been attempting to convince his foreman that he deserved more money, being a family man now. The foreman held his ground firmly, but Ruts expended every trick he knew, his persuasive instincts reawakened by his newfound fulfillment. Although he did not get the raise, a nearby plowmaker overheard the conversation...and afterwards, took Ruts aside. He had been impressed with Ruts’ ability to persuade, and offered him a job selling ploughshares for the twice the salary he currently made. Ruts, ecstatic, accepted.
Luce wasn’t terribly happy with Ruts’ decision, which meant that he would be away for long periods of time, but Ruts insisted that it was just a temporary thing. He claimed that he would run out of customers after one go-through, meaning all he had to do was buzz the farmlands once and make a respectable amount of money. Afterwards, he would return to his family. Reluctantly, Luce agreed.
Ruts began his tour of sales, but things didn’t go according to plan. At nearly every town, local businessmen noticed his unique flair and offered him money to sell their products at outlying farmland. Ruts, unable to refuse, began a long campaign of salesmanship, and walked out considerably richer than he walked in.
Ruts returned to his family for a few months, and all seemed well. His child turned out to be children—twin girls, who they named Sahnah and Ovetta. However, at the end of the month, he received a letter from the Guild of Farm Traders. It acknowledged that he was a highly successful salesman who had gotten recommendations from many employers, and offered him membership into their ranks. It offered a very decent salary, in addition to eventual benefits such as discounted land prices and farm equipment. Realizing that he could one day own his own farm, Ruts accepted eagerly, and was given the horseshoe tattoo on his left hand. He and Luce fought bitterly over this decision, with Ruts insisting that he was only doing it long enough to get land of their own.
And for many years, he continued to work as a salesman. At first, he would sell his product for 6 months, then return home for 6 more. However, after a few years, he began to unconsciously spend more time on the job and less with his family. After 5 years of this, at which point he spent a mere 3 months with his family a year, he realized the dark truth: he felt distinctly uncomfortable in his own home. His wife, who he had once loved so dearly, felt distant, and he began to wonder if they had ever had much in common at all. His children he still loved, but as they grew older, he felt more and more that neither party really knew the other. After 11 years of sales, he returned home to his house and found nobody there. He learned, through rumor, whispers, and circumstance, that his wife had taken the children and a good portion of their savings and left.
Ruts, having nothing besides his work to live for, began to throw himself into it more and more. He began to view it as more than a living: it was his sole source of real human contact, where he looked at a person and understood them completely. Still, the stress of his profession began to get to him. At age 49, he suffered a fatal heart attack while en route to the very town he was born in.
And that is where his life turned around.
Ruts opened his eyes on a starry sky, bare back against the grime of an alley. Shocked, he first thought that he had been beaten, robbed, and left to die. However, as he pieced the facts together, his last memory came rushing back to him: clutching his arm, sprawled on a dirt road. He looked up and down his body…and noticed that it was grey and slack, that it hung from his body loosely, tattered and rotted. The shock was immense, and at first, he refused to believe it—until, finding a puddle of water, he saw his own face. The skin was rotted from his lower jaw, leaving bare bone to shine in the moonlight. His skin was drawn and rotted, peeling away in areas and missing in others. Of his hair, only wisps at the sides of his head remained. Finally, his eyes were pitted black sockets, shriveled, lidless, empty.
After he managed to calm down, sure that what he had experienced wasn’t some long, strange nightmare, Ruts sought asylum in the city. He found an arcane college and went inside it, begging to know what was wrong with him. The mages were baffled: they could only assure him that a.) he was not dead, b.) he had died at some point, and c.) he was not evil, and thus did not warrant destruction on general principle. Ruts, still confused, went to a local bank and withdrew his savings, little of which he had ever spent. Ruts used it to put himself up in a room at the college. For a week, he didn’t even leave the room—pondering where to go from there. He realized, on some level, that his death was more than merely accident—it was suicide. He had seen life as more or less hollow, consisting only of the fleeting acquaintances and the mindless grind of his job. On some level, he was determined to work himself until he died. Ruts realized that, since he had in fact died and was not likely to repeat the experience anytime soon, it was time to find new direction in his life.
Ruts, who had never disclosed anything about his life to the baffled mages, quietly left his room. He descended to the ground floor, sought out the head admissions council, plopped down his entire savings, and told them that he was enrolling. He wanted to learn magic, to learn something about the framework of the universe that he thought had tossed him about like a ragdoll. When asked to give his name, he hesitated. He wanted a new identity, something distinct from his old self. However, he found that he could not entirely distance himself from his past. He signed in as Rutskarn de Josiah III, a name consisting of his name, surname, and the surname of his father. The “III” was an afterthought: as he saw it, he had had three lives. The young, idealistic son of a noble, the cynical, hardworking family man, and now the student of magical theory.
Rutskarn threw himself into his studies, applying as a wizard. However, after a while, he began to find that he didn’t care for the pure research aspects. He had an aptitude for it, certainly, but he found the acquisition of arcane knowledge hollow somehow. Perhaps he had never gotten over his earlier pragmatism. At any rate, he reenrolled—this time, as an artificer. He found that he like the creation of items of power, which he rarely used himself, but which he fully enjoyed making. And then, in his fourth year of study, Rutskarn uncovered a book that would mark the third turning point in his life: a book detailing the creation of simple constructs.
When it came time to complete a project that would earn him his diploma, he began work on a construct of his own design. It was small by necessity and largely worthless, but the formulae for its creation came together rapidly. Finally, it came time to design the thing. Remembering his love for squirrels, Rutskarn created a many-jointed, complex body that near-perfectly simulated the movements of squirrels. Finally, he imbued it with life. He named it, “Courier”, because he felt that it brought with it the beginning of a new era. It was imperfect, discolored in patches and cobbled together hastily in some areas, but to Rutskarn it was a work of art. Regardless, it was worthy of a diploma, and Rutskarn graduated.
Rutskarn, somewhat lost, began making and selling scrolls. However, several noble customers took distinct note of his diminutive companion, and offered to buy it from him. The mechanics of the squirrel were such that he couldn’t sell it even if he wanted to—nobody but the “owner” could command or lead the squirrel. However, he began to make more—polished, ornate squirrels that were the toast of the nobility. He started a new fad, and soon, Rutskarn was famous in the city. He had more money than he knew what to do with, buying sets of fancy suits, hats, and mirrored goggles to cover his unsettling eyes. His cloak was a gift from the college for being a distinguished alumnus. On the outside, everything seemed to be perfect for Rutskarn. And yet, there was still something about his business that disgusted him. His 60-year-old grudge against the nobility still existed, and associating with them so frequently turned his stomach.
What happened next was part fiscally motivated, part creative outlet, part inner rebellion, and perhaps a small part self-destructive. Rutskarn began to publish a small gossip magazine, called Squirrel Parade, which ran often damning stories about local nobility. Most of the nobility laughed at the ridicule of their peers, and subscription was high…but among his targets, there was a seething desire for revenge. Several of them banded together and contacted the services of local hitmen, who attempted to kill Rutskarn in his lavish apartment one night. He managed to escape by leaping out a 4-story window. He hid out until daylight, at which time he casually procured his remaining money and merchandise, as well as gear related to survival. He then fled. Since then, Rutskarn has been making a decent living, but has had trouble selling his remaining mechanical squirrel to anyone at the 5000 gold price the item commands. Eager for opportunity, Rutskarn noticed a flyer summoning adventurers to a nearby area. Rutskarn eagerly accepted, thinking there would be rich patsies to sell the squirrel to there.

Yeah. But there's a lot more to it than that. It's actually a really cool story, if I do say so myself. It involves...taking something monotonous and making it fresh and interesting.

[Fostire]

Pretty cool story.
Now I want a mechanical squirrel.

[Coplantor]

Hey! Cool character, nice story man! Sheesh, my backrounds are no longer than one paragraph, ussually because I'm lazy, I have good ideas for characters but lazyness ends up ruining them.

Your story tooked me by surprise, really enjoyed it.

[randman22222]

I usually make my character backgrounds up on the spot. Not very motivated to spend so much time on DnD characters. When I DM, on the other hand...

[Rutskarn]

To clarify: when I said, "really cool story", I actually meant that that backstory emerged from my..."unique" playstyle in another arena.

I'll give you a hint: when I was designing the "look" of Rutskarn, I did this comparison painting:

http://www.decamp.org/images/photoalbum/album_45/3rutskarn.gif

Dun dun dunnn!

[Coplantor]

When I DM is actually worst, I'm never end a session happy, because I have huge plans for the campaigns but because of lazyness and a little bit of shame I end up doing averything different from what I planned, so my sessions are quite mediocre.

[Nychta]

Come now, it became apparent that the new guy was separate from Zero when he joined. Zero would surely have delighted in tormenting us all with two of himself ages and ages back. He would not have put it off for quite so long.

Also, rain? Seven hours before Christmas Day? I demand my sunny, warm Kiwi Christmases of the past.

This just occurred to me: I shall have Christmas before all of you. Indeed, I had today before all of you. And yesterday. And the day before that.
By the time you get your new year, it won't be so new anymore!

@V: Eh?

[Coplantor]

Quick! Edit that post before someone notices! I wont tell anyone so you can get the chance of making your joke!

*Where this post was there's only a black suited man standing*

Move along, there's nothing to see here.

[Rutskarn]

Too late!

I've put the joke in the water supply. By now, the WHOLE CITY WILL BE INFECTED!

*maniacal laughter*

[Coplantor]

*bends knees and shouts*

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! We're too late!!!!!

*cars exploding in the back*

To be Continued

[Nychta]

Too late!

I've put the joke in the water supply. By now, the WHOLE CITY WILL BE INFECTED!

*maniacal laughter*

Aha! But nobody partakes of the water on Christmas, opting instead for rather more indulgent drinks!

Quick, to the Coidzo-mobile! We must use chromatography to separate the joke, and it shall be saved!

Because everyone knows that jokes are a different colour.

[Coplantor]

Well thought! Now hurry, for I shall distract him while you fulfill the plan!

Distraction begins... Now!

So... a horse walks into a bar and te barman says: "Hey, why the long face?"

Done, he should be soangry right now that he will fly into a blind rage attacking me constantly and thus giving you enough time to save the joke!

[Nychta]

One day Coidzor is going to wander in here and demand that I return his Coidzo-mobile.
But I shan't, because I'm mean like that, and because it doesn't exist anyway.

*saves the joke*
Huzzah and such.

[Rutskarn]

*stops, quietly dons a pair of black-striped prison togs*

Curses! You've foiled me this time, meddling fools...but someday, I'll destroy all the possible jokes in the universe...and then, through some nebulously defined and quite probably nonexistent ritual, I will become the true Joke Master!

[Coplantor]

Now, what did we learned fom thsi?
Probably nothing, but now I have a good pair of ideas for a wierd web comic.

[Nychta]

Ah, but in the absence of jokes, we will simply laugh at everything you say.

I need to make up a nickname for Rutskarn here.

[Rutskarn]

Here's a few I've been called.

Ruts

Karnsy

That One Guy

Here's a few I'm surprised that I haven't heard.

Rut the Nut

Nut-skarn

Tutti Rutti

Karnholio

[Coplantor]

Well, you can always go for the obvious and just call him Rutsy or Rusty, and how come that I dont get a nickname?

[Rutskarn]

Because Coplantor already rolls off the tongue.

[Nychta]

Because Coplantor already rolls off the tongue.This is true. I'm still working on it.

Well, I'm not really, but it's running at the back of my mind.

[Rutskarn]

Fair enough. When it hits production, I want to be the first to know.

Especially if it's one on the "surprised-I-haven't-heard-this-one" list.

[Coidzor]

One day Coidzor is going to wander in here and demand that I return his Coidzo-mobile.
But I shan't, because I'm mean like that, and because it doesn't exist anyway.

*saves the joke*
Huzzah and such.

*blink* *blink*

What? You saying I can't blink with only one eye? Hmm, actually, you might be right.

In any event, what's all this then? A body goes to sleep due to having lost time due to everyone else in the area buggering off and suddenly his car (or possibly mobile based off of himself for entertaining babies) is stolen?

Rutskarn certainly is capable of getting our juices flowing for such a dry, dusty sort of fellow.

Isn't crocheting the one which has all of the unfortunate and not very amusing jokes and double entendres about hooking and so on?

Ed: Personally, I kinda like the idea of Ruts with an umlaut, but I can never get those funny symbols to come when I try to summon them. I guess my virgins aren't virginal enough for 'em... bloody pretentious...

[Rutskarn]

I dunno. I wandered off for a while, and when I came back, my Chocolatecar Hammermobile was gone.

Maybe that's because it never existed, but still.

[Phase]

Rusty Yarn? I only had Jibjab, then you took that away.

My prediction? in 2101 A.D., every playgrounder will be exactly like Player_Zero.

[Rutskarn]

Trend is going that way, isn't it?

Playground's going to the dogs, I tell you.

[Coidzor]

You just don't get pixies like you used to, that is a fact. And the dwarves are less dwarvey.

[Nychta]

I'm the same! Just around less than I used to be.

Playground still da best.

[Rutskarn]

Oh, I don't know about the forums in specific.

It's just a fairly safe bet, when you say "everything's going to the dogs," that there will be people that agree.

Which is why I usually take the opposite tack. Just to throw people off.

Damnit, I used up the last of my typing skill reserves on my blog post, and now I can't spell.

[randman22222]

Rusty Yarn? I only had Jibjab, then you took that away.

My prediction? in 2101 A.D., every playgrounder will be exactly like Player_Zero.

Naw, they won't end up like P_Z. They'll end up closer to... Awwe darn. No psychic vibes are coming to me. I got nothing. :smallconfused:

@V: 15:10. No pass for me.

[Rutskarn]

You get a free pass. It's late.

If you live anywhere near where I am, anyway.

[Jibar]

Rusty Yarn? I only had Jibjab, then you took that away.

*explosion*

I have been summoned!
Now I shall...

Go get breakfast. I'm starving man. Then I'll type up a more meaningful and substantial post.

'Cos seriously. I'm booping starving.

[Nychta]

Two hours, twenty minutes till Xmas... Less once I finish typing this.

[bosssmiley]

My prediction? in 2101 A.D., every playgrounder will be exactly like Player_Zero.

That's because PZ's hair is The Singularity. I understand Ray Kurzweil has been seen going through the bins at his barbers looking for ideas again... :smallbiggrin:

[Rawhide]

Rusty Yarn? I only had Jibjab, then you took that away.

My prediction? in 2101 A.D., every playgrounder will be exactly like Player_Zero.

In 2101, war was beginning.

[Lyesmith]

We have no chance to survive, make our time?

[bosssmiley]

It's not time for that yet (http://www.xkcd.com/286/). :smallannoyed:

[Rawhide]

Oh, shush. Somebody set up bosssmiley the bomb already.

[Lyesmith]

Alright, gimmie ten minutes.

Mister Eggman, sir, might I pose a question?
Are all geordies as bizarre as Ross Noble?
I'd like to get a proffesional opinion before I blow you up, is all.

[Jibar]

Oh, shush. Somebody set up bosssmiley the bomb already.

Yes sir.

For great justice!

[Felixaar]

So I was going to send PM's to all my favourite Playgrounders for Chirstmas.

Then I realised, too many of your playgrounders are damned awesome, and I don't have the time to send all the people I want to a PM.

Thanks to all my fellow Playgrounders for being awesome. You guys are the greatest and I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

That's right, I'm talking about you, Dragonrider, Dallas-Dakota, Cobes, Silence, Wolfbane, Silent Night, Naddy, Alarra, Zeb, Midnight, SweetRein, Phoe, Smee, Indy, Joe, Pox, Rabbs, Serpentine, Syka, Coidzoir, Skywalker, Pyrian, Reorith, DeeMan, Beserk Monk, Ceika, Tan, Mauve Shirt, The Rogue Monk... Khan and HiT, though they both left... and no doubt so many others who in the course of my long ramblings have forgotten about.

Merry Christmas, Everyone.
(p.s. I am totally not whacked out on egg nog)

[Rawhide]

Yes sir.

For great justice!

You know what you doing.

Move zig.

[Cristo Meyers]

*looks at list*

...and here I thought you cared...:smalltongue:

Ya know, I used to look forward to Christmas Eve, now it's just another work day.

I think I'm supposed to think that's sad.

[Coplantor]

Same is happeninig to me today, I'm trapped at college for the rest of the day. At least I'll have a family dinner tonight.

[Cristo Meyers]

At least it's warm today. A blistering 32 degrees F :smallbiggrin:

[Coplantor]

Mmmm, if my memory doesnt fail me, and my teacher told me right about Farenheit/Celcius convertions... you are at 0ºC right now? Here is summer, although I have no idea of the actual temperature outside the building. Chances are that I'll get roasted once I get out of the class.

[Felixaar]

*looks at list*

...and here I thought you cared...:smalltongue:

See, this is why I made a provision for people I forgot.

Also: Holy crap, I forgot Monty! I'm sorry, pal. You're awesome too. So's Thufir, Frigs, Randy, Collin, and... BOR! How did I forget Bor? Ohh, I think Felix needs to go to bed.

Night all!

[Player_Zero]

You forgot me too. Unintentially Im sure. Noone could deny my brilliance.

Think I might just sleep from now until Christmas. Seems like the thing to do. I was up all night killing undead and dragons and whatnot.

[Cristo Meyers]

Merry Christmas to you too :smalltongue:


Mmmm, if my memory doesnt fail me, and my teacher told me right about Farenheit/Celcius convertions... you are at 0ºC right now? Here is summer, although I have no idea of the actual temperature outside the building. Chances are that I'll get roasted once I get out of the class.

Yup, roundabout 0 Celcius, and that's warm considering the past few days have been well below zero...

[Thufir]

You're awesome too. So's Thufir,

Yay! I's awesome!

However, crazy Australian time is crazy. It's only 1:40pm for me.

[Coplantor]

Merry Christmas to you too :smalltongue:



Yup, roundabout 0 Celcius, and that's warm considering the past few days have been well below zero...

You know what's funny? Even though most of the population here in Uruguay have never seen snow in their lives and most of them never will, they all asociate christmas with snow. The power of TV huh?

[Cristo Meyers]

Yay! I's awesome!

However, crazy Australian time is crazy. It's only 1:40pm for me.

7:50 am here...

...and look...it's snowing...again...

I want a green Christmas, dammit! It's easier to drive in!

[TwoBitWriter]

7:50 am here...

...and look...it's snowing...again...

I want a green Christmas, dammit! It's easier to drive in!

I have a green Christmas. And I have only had a white Christmas once in my entire life.

[Coplantor]

I never hasd a white christmas, and even if it would be nice, I'm not crazy about it.

[Cristo Meyers]

I'm just not thrilled with the idea of making a 3.5 hour drive in the snow. Everyone's brains just seem to leak out their ears as soon as it starts snowing:

"Hey, a snow-covered and presumably slick road! SUDDEN STOP!"

[TwoBitWriter]

Maybe you should have hosted Christmas this year, like I am. Sure its a big expense in time, money, and effort, but at least I don't have to drive anywhere this year.

@V: Yeah, rub it in! :smalltongue:

[Coplantor]

Well, while some of you have to drive through snow covered roads I can either take a 10 minutes bus or walk under the beautiful sunlight for 20 minutes because with the summer time the sun is completly set at 9:30 pm

[Cristo Meyers]

@^ rub it in...:smalltongue:

We hosted Thanksgiving.

I am not in a hurry to do that again...

[TwoBitWriter]

We hosted Thanksgiving.

I am not in a hurry to do that again...

Lemme guess, siblings with several annoying kids running around screaming. Breaking the normal tranquility of your home. Your parents/in-laws asking when are you going to have children, nagging every single little detail of your home they find off?

Is that kinda close? That's what I'm expecting.

[Cristo Meyers]

Lemme guess, siblings with several annoying kids running around screaming. Breaking the normal tranquility of your home. Your parents/in-laws asking when are you going to have children, nagging every single little detail of your home they find off?

Is that kinda close? That's what I'm expecting.

Nah...that'll be tomorrow...

Thanksgiving was sacrificing my entire vacation to entertaining my in-laws...

[Dragonrider]

My thanksgiving was 22 family members at my aunt's house. :smallbiggrin:

For Christmas, we've only got 16 people.

Also: GAH! It's 6:15 AM and I've been awake since 4! I went to bed at 10! Why? Why? WHYWHYWHY? Normal days I feel like sleeping till 8 or 9, but as soon as I get a holiday...BAM. I'm awake.

Christmas eve. :smalltongue:

[Cristo Meyers]

Yeah...getting up early for Christmas never goes away...

I still can't sleep on Christmas Eve...

[TwoBitWriter]

My thanksgiving was 22 family members at my aunt's house. :smallbiggrin:

For Christmas, we've only got 16 people.

Also: GAH! It's 6:15 AM and I've been awake since 4! I went to bed at 10! Why? Why? WHYWHYWHY? Normal days I feel like sleeping till 8 or 9, but as soon as I get a holiday...BAM. I'm awake.

Christmas eve. :smalltongue:

It's still the kid in you, maybe still excited about Christmas? I remember those days.

One of my fondest christmas memories was when I was about 11, and I slept in the living room couch, because my bed was taken by my grandmother. We had left the radio on and I woke up to the song "I want a Hippopotamous for Christmas." I just lay there and listened to the song, and watched the lights on the tree and the presents sitting so enticingly under it.

Damn you, reality, for making me so damn bitter and cynical. :smalltongue:

[Calamity]

Yeah, Christmas Eve... when was the last time I had more than two hours sleep on this night? Probably when I was too young to understand what Christmas was.

[Cristo Meyers]

Then you get old enough to appreciate holiday parties and the cycle continues...just with liquor...

All I want for Christmas is a hang-o-ver...

[EmeraldRose]

I'm just not thrilled with the idea of making a 3.5 hour drive in the snow. Everyone's brains just seem to leak out their ears as soon as it starts snowing:

"Hey, a snow-covered and presumably slick road! SUDDEN STOP!"

My favorite is "Hark! Snow has fallen upon the grass and trees. This paved pathway appears to have been recently plowed. I feel that I must still drive 30 miles an hour in a 65 MPH zone! Join me!" :smallmad:

Speaking of, it's snowing again, so my drive in to the hospital will surely be something to make my head explode...:smallsigh:

[Cristo Meyers]

My favorite is "Hark! Snow has fallen upon the grass and trees. This paved pathway appears to have been recently plowed. I feel that I must still drive 30 miles an hour in a 65 MPH zone! Join me!" :smallmad:

Speaking of, it's snowing again, so my drive in to the hospital will surely be something to make my head explode...:smallsigh:

Down here it's closer to 15 in a 55...

We just can't catch a break this year, can we? :smalltongue:

[TwoBitWriter]

I was doing about 80 on my way to work this morning. :smalltongue:

It helps when you're listening to The Clash. Makes your blood pump.

[Cristo Meyers]

My car has an idiotic automatic retractable antenna for the radio. Which means that any time it's cold or snowing or could possibly freeze just for the heck of it I can't listen to the radio because the antenna won't extend...

Automation for the sake of automation, gotta love it :smallsigh:

But, now I have my mp3 player going in one ear, kinda makes up for it.

[Phase]

In 2101, war was beginning.

Well, I'm glad SOMEONE noticed the reference.

Happy almost Christmas for those of you who celebrate that. Happy still Channukah for those of you who celebrate it.

I love the playground, everyone is both evil and polite, it reminds me of home! :smallbiggrin:

[TwoBitWriter]

My car has an idiotic automatic retractable antenna for the radio. Which means that any time it's cold or snowing or could possibly freeze just for the heck of it I can't listen to the radio because the antenna won't extend...

Automation for the sake of automation, gotta love it :smallsigh:

But, now I have my mp3 player going in one ear, kinda makes up for it.

I hate those autmatic antennas. I think they are the dumbest dumb that ever did dumb.

I don't have one, because I drive a granny-car. :smallamused:

[CurlyKitGirl]

Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas!! It's nearly Christmas!

And I've been wrapping everyone's (bar my own) pressents and I've been watching pantos on TV since one o'clock and oh, my giddy aunt, we have glazed gammon and mountains of sweets for our party tonight!
And a black forest gateau!
And tonight I'm watching Muppet Christmas Carol, and then Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and then something else.
Don't know what yet, but my typical insomnia is going to be even worse than usual tonight. And I'm getting up early. :smallbiggrin: :smallbiggrin: :smallbiggrin:
I'm too excited for my own good. Especially as we've just opened up our first tin of sweets and we have oh, six or seven two litre bottles of pop somewhere downstairs.

[TwoBitWriter]

And tonight I'm watching Muppet Christmas Carol, and then Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and then something else.


Did you like the link I included in Part 5 of A Shipper's Carol? :smalltongue:

Melts for Michael Caine

[Cristo Meyers]

If this is hyper-Koorli...I'm not sure I want to see caffinated hyper-Koorli...:smalltongue:

[Fostire]

My thanksgiving was 22 family members at my aunt's house. :smallbiggrin:

For Christmas, we've only got 16 people.

I have 5 brothers, 8 uncles and aunts (all but one are married) and 30+ cousins so in tonights family dinner there will be around 40 people. Normal family reunions (birthdays and such) have an attendance of 30ish people.
And that's just my father's side of the family.

[Dragonrider]

yeah, 22 is my dad's side. Three aunts, three uncles, two grandparents, two parents, three siblings, me, and eight cousins. Not even CLOSE to everyone.

Just wait till all the cousins have their OWN kids. :smallamused:

Also...it's on'y Christmas eve morning here, though! I mean, I understand waking up early on Christmas day, but we've still got 24 hours! :smalltongue:

[TwoBitWriter]

yeah, 22 is my dad's side. Three aunts, three uncles, two grandparents, two parents, three siblings, me, and eight cousins. Not even CLOSE to everyone.

Just wait till all the cousins have their OWN kids. :smallamused:

Also...it's on'y Christmas eve morning here, though! I mean, I understand waking up early on Christmas day, but we've still got 24 hours! :smalltongue:

See, my family is super small by comparison. Only one living Grandparent, no aunts or uncles in close proximity, two sisters, parents (divorced.)

Only my sisters, parents will show up to Christmas, along with some family friends and at least one cousin, bringing the count to around a dozen, maybe.

[Player_Zero]

Anyone want to tell me something I can order my brother, who has similar tastes as me, for Christmas so that tomorrow he won't be quite so mardy as he normally is?

[Phase]

Anyone want to tell me something I can order my brother, who has similar tastes as me, for Christmas so that tomorrow he won't be quite so mardy as he normally is?

A Cthulhu Plushie.

[Cristo Meyers]

yeah, 22 is my dad's side. Three aunts, three uncles, two grandparents, two parents, three siblings, me, and eight cousins. Not even CLOSE to everyone.

Just wait till all the cousins have their OWN kids. :smallamused:

Also...it's on'y Christmas eve morning here, though! I mean, I understand waking up early on Christmas day, but we've still got 24 hours! :smalltongue:

Counting aunts, uncles, and cousins the largest gathering numbered around 50 people, I think. That was years ago.

[TwoBitWriter]

Counting aunts, uncles, and cousins the largest gathering numbered around 50 people, I think. That was years ago.

You people and your "families" :smallbiggrin:

[Uncle Festy]

Trend is going that way, isn't it?

Playground's going to the dogs, I tell you.

Nah, it's going to the P0s. :smalltongue:


I love the playground, everyone is both evil and polite, it reminds me of home! :smallbiggrin:

Um…
What?
(Ok, ok, I'm leaving! Like right now!)

[Dallas-Dakota]

yeah, 22 is my dad's side. Three aunts, three uncles, two grandparents, two parents, three siblings, me, and eight cousins. Not even CLOSE to everyone.

Just wait till all the cousins have their OWN kids. :smallamused:

Also...it's on'y Christmas eve morning here, though! I mean, I understand waking up early on Christmas day, but we've still got 24 hours! :smalltongue:
One of my cousins already has a kid.

[Zakama]

Haha, check out this Engrish straight from The Playground:
Do you think IPOD is the best MP4 player in the world? Beautiful looking, multi-function, best quality, best service and support and so on. Really, is there any disadvantage of IPod?

In my opinion, there are still disadvantages of IPod. When I want to upload music on IPod, it needs me to download an Itunes. It brings me troubles. Do you think so? And its screen is so small except IPOD TOUCH. When I watch movie, it makes me so terrible.

So I want to know the pros and cons of your MP4 player. Everyone can get guidance when you post your opinion.


:smallbiggrin:

[Eldpollard]

I have you all beaten in terms of family size. On my Dad's side there's my Dad. On my Mum's side there's her, one uncle and two cousins.
Yeah... small family.

[Cristo Meyers]

I have you all beaten in terms of family size. On my Dad's side there's my Dad. On my Mum's side there's her, one uncle and two cousins.
Yeah... small family.

My wife's side: Dad, Mom, 1 aunt, and 1 sister.

[Dallas-Dakota]

I have you all beaten in terms of family size. On my Dad's side there's my Dad. On my Mum's side there's her, one uncle and two cousins.
Yeah... small family.
*suddenly realizes he has a big family*
I have like umm, three aunts and one uncle on my mothers side alone.:smallamused:

[Zakama]

I have a big enough family on my Dad's side, 1 uncle, 1 aunt, (used to be 2 until last year :smallfrown:) and their families. (just kids for aunt) I only have one sister though, and I want my kids to have a big extended family... Guess I'll have to marry a girl with plenty of siblings. The girl I'm interested in now has like 5 :P

[Coplantor]

Meh, Im spending the night at my aunt's house, we0ll be probably 10, no more than that, we are a small family, at least from my father's side. By the way, 9:45 minutes for christmas

[CurlyKitGirl]

If this is hyper-Koorli...I'm not sure I want to see caffinated hyper-Koorli...:smalltongue:

Noone has ever seen hyper - Koorli. Ever. And I hate coffee, so caffinated hper - Koorli doesn't exist.

On large families. I have some sixty or seventy relations, all bar *counts* twelve live within twenty miles. Actually, forty - five live within five miles.

[Zakama]

On large families. I have some sixty or seventy relations, all bar *counts* twelve live within twenty miles. Actually, forty - five live within five miles.

:smalleek:

You probably win the thread...

[Dragonrider]

One of my cousins already has a kid.

I at 17 am the oldest of all the cousins, making that highly unlikely :smallamused:

Or, if it were to happen, sad.

We seem to have our families in bursts - age clusters. My cousins on my dad's side:

17
15
15

11
11
10

8
8
7

5
4
2

Weird, huh?

We've also got some honorary family members who I call my cousins. I guess if you count them, that adds another seven, two of whom ARE older than I. One is married and one is engaged. :smalltongue: so children-of-cousins ARE possible.

[Coplantor]

Well, my brother an I are the older ones from 6 cousins having 19 years myself(20 in exactly 1 month from this day:smallbiggrin:) and 14 my brother. My cousins have 9, 8, 8 and 7.

[u-gotNOgame]

I guess i come from a decent size family, on my mom's side were fairly small, just 3 aunts and uncles and 2 cousins, but on my dad's side i have still only 2 uncles, but including my sister we have 9 siblings. and we all get together around this time, and its rather fun, because heaven knows my sister isn't :smalltongue:.

-UGNG

[Dragon555]

Meep! Big families. :smalleek:

My immediate family hosts for Christmas and we've got the whole family here most years (this year being a very odd exception). Maternal grandmother, paternal grandparents, both sets of aunts and uncles, and my three first cousins... and that's everyone.

Speaking of cousins though, I love them so much. The oldest is 11 now, her brother is 8 (I think), and my third cousin is 5. They say some of the most amusing things and I really wish I could be around them a little more. Oh, and the 8 year old noticed that a quote on my shirt was from The Dark Knight (even though the shirt was from a comic), which was just awesome. :smallbiggrin:

[Dallas-Dakota]

I at 17 am the oldest of all the cousins, making that highly unlikely :smallamused:

Or, if it were to happen, sad.

We seem to have our families in bursts - age clusters. My cousins on my dad's side:

17
15
15

11
11
10

8
8
7

5
4
2

Weird, huh?

We've also got some honorary family members who I call my cousins. I guess if you count them, that adds another seven, two of whom ARE older than I. One is married and one is engaged. :smalltongue: so children-of-cousins ARE possible.
My oldest cousin is 30 I think and my youngest I think around 7.

[Fostire]

I'm the 4th oldest from my father's side and the 6th oldest from my mother's side. Also from my mother's side the oldest cousin is married and has a 9 month old baby. My youngest cousin is to be born in february.

[Cristo Meyers]

I'm the eldest pretty much across the family. Also, being recently married, that means I'm the prime target for the "when are you going have kids?" barrage :smallsigh:

If they weren't my family...

[TwoBitWriter]

I'm the eldest pretty much across the family. Also, being recently married, that means I'm the prime target for the "when are you going have kids?" barrage :smallsigh:

If they weren't my family...

You and me both brother. We get that all the damn time.

Makes both of us we had continued living in sin and annoying her family. :smallamused:

[Rutskarn]

This year is going to be fairly low-key, as are all my most recent Christmases.

Immediate, local family. Small tree. Gifts.

Freezing our tails off.

Dang it, I'm shivering as I write this. Did my 13 years of living in North Carolina really leave no effect on my environmental tolerances?

[Ego Slayer]

All my relatives on my dad's side are in NY(C), so I really rarely get to see them. For Christmas its just my immediate family, aunt/uncle/cousin, and my grandma.

And ugh. All day so far it feels like I didn't sleep at all. I can hardly keep my eyes open right now. :smallfrown:

And I had a number of weird dreams. One where I was either aware of a previous dream or it was a dream in a dream. Except it was like I was trying to remember a dream to relate a weird coincidence from said dream to something "irl" which... is like "irl" but when you're dreaming...

And it involved Joanna Newsom, but I think only Amotis could appreciate that. xD

[Cristo Meyers]

You and me both brother. We get that all the damn time.

Makes both of us we had continued living in sin and annoying her family. :smallamused:

...and apparently "Over my dead body" is considered a rude answer...

I really, really hate that question.

[Fostire]

...and apparently "Over my dead body" is considered a rude answer...

Well, How are you going to make babies if you're dead? :smalltongue:

[Cristo Meyers]

Well, How are you going to make babies if you're dead? :smalltongue:

Well, a simple "We're not" just doesn't seem to get the point across and just leads to 20 minutes of "But you've got to" and "You'd make such a good father!"

I'd rather shove a rabid cat down my pants...

[TwoBitWriter]

And I had a number of weird dreams. One where I was either aware of a previous dream or it was a dream in a dream. Except it was like I was trying to remember a dream to relate a weird coincidence from said dream to something "irl" which... is like "irl" but when you're dreaming...



Last night I had a dream that me, Ghost_Warlock, Happyturtle, and RHL were standing in an alleyway. It was pouring rain, and I had lost the key to my apartment. So Ghost_Warlock hoisted me up to the fire-escape ladder to my building so I could break into my own apartment. But the steps were cold, metal, and extremely slippery from the rain. So I was climbing, trying to get everybody out of the rain, and the three below were yelling up encouragements at me.

Weird...

[Rutskarn]

Well, the conundrum with parents is, the kind of parents who have kids (typically) are the parents that have a strong desire to perpetuate their species, family line, etc. Usually, this is a pretty internal, emotional drive rather than a logical one, so there's no way to combat it with logic. It'd be like throwing rocks at a charging hippo.

Anyway, these parents had kids, and that fulfilled a deep emotional need for them. Now, they want you to have alllll the same bliss and fulfillment, while satisfying (by proxy) their desire to see new life created in their family.

[Coidzor]

At least you didn't slip and die in the dream.

...Reproduction is weird, that is the truth. Lousy cost-benefit analysis of when to do it too.

So it's raining. The day before christmas, it is raining. This is going to freeze and on christmas day when I'm off having to Glog it up, the frozen roadway will arise in all its glassy, mirrory evil and smite me...

^: Plus, I think there's some kind of genetic drive to at least ensure that one's offspring successfully reproduce as well, in order to truly have done the job right of ensuring genetic survival.

V: on the other hand, if you're doubting your abilities to be a good parent, you'll be more aware of what you're doing and catch on to your faults more quickly/easily than someone who never doubts their abilities and charges in blindly. Choice is key though. I'm just muddling around, don't mind me.

One of my friend's boyfriends is trying to get her to have a baby with him when both of them are deep in debt and she's seriously considering stripping as a third job to get out of the hole. And yet he's deadset against marriage in a similar sort of way.

[Cristo Meyers]

I just think the question is unbelieveably rude, to be frank. Depending on whom you're asking it could also be hurtful.

I also think that children deserve nothing less than two loving, devoted parents who actually wanted to have children. If you have any doubts about having children or what kind of parent you might be, you shouldn't have children.

But that's enough from this child-hating misanthrope.

[Rutskarn]

This more or less goes without saying, Cristo, but your position is entirely warranted and completely reasonable.

[bosssmiley]

/begin quotestorm


Noone has ever seen hyper - Koorli. Ever. And I hate coffee, so caffinated hyper - Koorli doesn't exist.

HyperKoorli - a lot like Speedy Gonzales except -Mexican stereotypes and +iambic pentameter. :smallwink:


And ugh. All day so far it feels like I didn't sleep at all. I can hardly keep my eyes open right now. :smallfrown:

And I had a number of weird dreams. One where I was either aware of a previous dream or it was a dream in a dream. Except it was like I was trying to remember a dream to relate a weird coincidence from said dream to something "irl" which... is like "irl" but when you're dreaming...

Poor Ego. You'll probably spend the day wondering whether you're a butterfly dreaming that you're a philosopher (silly conundrum really, butterflies don't get Xmas prezzies :smallbiggrin: )


At least you didn't slip and die in the dream.

...Reproduction is weird, that is the truth. Lousy cost-benefit analysis of when to do it too.

Richard Dawkins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene) will be around later to bellow drunkenly in a Santa hat while drinking pikey cider (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DTPpzd8U7WE). He does that to people. :smallamused:


I also think that children deserve nothing less than two loving, devoted parents who actually wanted to have children. If you have any doubts about having children or what kind of parent you might be, you shouldn't have children.

+1 this. If you're going to have anklebiters at least have two of you around to keep track of the skittery little beasties. They get into everything!

Annoyingly children seem to find me fascinating. It's like Father Jack and rabbits, only with more rusks. .. :smallconfused:

I had one little chap try to steal my glasses in a shop queue the other day (the look of grim determination on his tiny Winston Churchill face as he REEEEAAAAACHED for them was priceless).

/quotestorm

@v: Twobit! I've been out in the world taking a kicking from the silver horde who want *that* for their Ethel and getting stuck behind every drooling, inbred luddite at the cash machine. I like Christmas, I hate what it does to people. :smallannoyed:

[TwoBitWriter]

I find it amazing that parents generally find a way to get more irritating as you get older.

Maybe I will understand when I have half genetic copies of myself messing up the world even more. :smallamused:

Edit: @Boss, What's going on!?!?! Haven't seen you in ages!

[Zar Peter]

And up there I pop in and wish you a happy Christmas...

My children already unpacked and we are playing the new Wii Mario Kart :smallbiggrin::smallcool:

[Coidzor]

...I am amused, and really shouldn't be by this Trampoclaus thing, Boss.

*sobs at his own weakness* ...Actually, this is reminding me of the Bum reviewing the Twilight Movie.....

[YPU]

Hm, my oldest cousin has a book published, he has followed a local basketball team for a year, going to all their games and done some interviews. Its not really my kind of thing, but im reading it anyway. But in any case, its good to know that while I’m hoping to get something good on paper one day, and perhaps even get it published there are people I know very well doing the same and getting it done. He’s a few years older then me, so its something that gives me hope in a way.
Oh and having people asking if that book they saw was written by family of mine is a nice thing.

[Dallas-Dakota]

I find it amazing that parents generally find a way to get more irritating as you get older.
I hope that isn't the continueing case with my parents.:smalleek:

[YPU]

Nha, twobit is probably overstating things a bit. Parent simply generate a specific amount of irritation. This may vary by time of year and similar factors but it is generally quite steady. As you get older you will start to get away from them for longer times. However irritation can not be disposed of without your presence, thus there will be a large amount of surplus irritation when you do see them. Thus prolonging the time you will take to visit them again, creating a never-ending spiral.

[Cristo Meyers]

Well, they do have to find new ways to irritate. I mean, at 25 "clean your room" really doesn't carry the same level of irritation that it does at 12.

[TwoBitWriter]

Well, they do have to find new ways to irritate. I mean, at 25 "clean your room" really doesn't carry the same level of irritation that it does at 12.

It gets better when you do not financially rely on them anymore, so you can basically do the polite equivalent of "Mom, Dad, go **** ********." :smalltongue:

[ghost_warlock]

My relationship with my parents improved dramatically when I moved 900+ miles away and only talked to them three or four times a year for four years. I highly recommend this tactic.

[TwoBitWriter]

My relationship with my parents improved dramatically when I moved 900+ miles away and only talked to them three or four times a year for four years. I highly recommend this tactic.

Mine got better and they are only about 30 miles away.

[Dragonrider]

My mother is about six feet away from me. :smalltongue:

I actually get along really well with my parents. And I'm one of those people who really, really, really likes kids...maybe it comes from having all the way-younger siblings and cousins. I dunno.

[Coidzor]

ATTACK OF OPPORTUNITY!

Hmm, so they don't use you as a jungle gym and steal your glasses? Because that's totally how they treated me. ...and now they're running the gamut between 5 and 14... Wow. I feel weird now. Not quite old, but... whoa.

V: Constant exposure can definitely dull one's desires. Which is why, though I love my cousins, I am glad I don't seem them as often as I could with living in the same town.

Reproduction is a tangled web of weaving.

[Cristo Meyers]

I think growing up around little children all the time is what tempered me against having children of my own...

[TwoBitWriter]

Yay! Just found out that I get to leave work at 3:00 today!!!! :smallbiggrin:

As opposed to 4:30...

that's in... twenty minutes!

[Coidzor]

Woohoo! Now just avoid the traffic that's going to be gunning for you.

And remember to light the candles for tonight.

[Cristo Meyers]

Traffic's usually not that bad around 3. The closer you get to 4 or 5, though...that's when you get to "Damn I wish I had a grenade launcher" traffic.

[Thufir]

I'd quite like to have children some day. I will be a... strange parent.
And I'm sure, if my parents ever were to pester me about the having of children, it would be a joke on their part.

[Coidzor]

I'm glad I'm the youngest son, so even if I did have kids I wouldn't be carrying on the family line proper-like, so the pressure's off on me. Though that might change after my parents get over their shock at finding out that my oldest bro is a furry and the other one is an engineer.

I really don't want the hopes and dreams for a new generation pinned to me. For one thing, performance anxiety is bad enough as it is...

[TwoBitWriter]

Well, I'm about to leave work, and won't be back until the 30th. I hope everyone has a great and safe holiday week!:smalltongue:

[Jibar]

Best go negotiate with the family about when they want waking up.
Christmas Day I become a living alarm clock for them.

...doesn't help that my room ticks incredibly at night.



I'm also thinking of stealing our odd blue Christmas lights for use in my room. They'd give a groovy glow.

[Coidzor]

That sounds like a plan, do it, monsignor.

Au Revoir Monsieur Tooby! Make the Madam ...M-something.

[Rutskarn]

I'm going to go ahead and join the mismatched, off-key choruses of, "Happy Holdiays!"

It's not even close to the 25'th here, but eh. We're international, might as well be now as ever.

[Thufir]

Blasphemy! Everyone should go by British time! And it's still only 10:18pm, so, no Christmas yet.

[mangosta71]

Mmm, new computer. I must call upon all my powers to summon Jibbers to boogie.

[Coidzor]

And now we get ready for a Christmas Dinner that we didn't know about until 20 minutes ago...

and my 2 key is starting to give me troubles.

Anyone else about on the night before christmas, somehow able to get on despite the prepping and schlepping going on around us?

[Dragon555]

Anyone else about on the night before christmas, somehow able to get on despite the prepping and schlepping going on around us?

Ayup! Even though dinner is going to be soon, I'm not really involved in the preparation so I get a chunk o' free time. I just can't believe tomorrow is Thursday, I wonder where the rest of my week went.

[Thufir]

I'm hanging around for at least a bit longer. Got to stay up until after midnight, and say merry christmas, a bit. After that I go to bed, unless something catches my interest.

[Phase]

Anyone else about on the night before christmas, somehow able to get on despite the prepping and schlepping going on around us?

Don't celebrate Christmas :smallamused:? Just don't go all out. spread goodwill towards your fellow ape-creature, puny human.

[Nychta]

Jeez guys, Christmas is pretty much over already.

I like my parents. I mean, they're good people, and they're usually reasonable with their parenting. There are just some things I can't make them see as reasonable. Like staying up and talking to weird people on the internet whom I've never met.

[Ash08]

^yeah thats the smae way I feel about mine.

[Phase]

I was birthed by a mighty collision, over the eons I congealed into a spherical form. I burned with a fire that didn't die.

I like my parents, though. They're awesome.

[Recaiden]

Jeez guys, Christmas is pretty much over already.

I like my parents. I mean, they're good people, and they're usually reasonable with their parenting. There are just some things I can't make them see as reasonable. Like staying up and talking to weird people on the internet whom I've never met.

Yet, you're still here.:smalltongue: And Christmas hasn't even started here.

Merry Christmas.

[Rutskarn]

Yeah, over here, it's not even dinner, Christmas Eve.

I gotta say, I like the holiday. Winter's a bit like one long sea of grey and cold, and Christmas is like this one party that gives you the energy to get through it.

And the generous amount of days off helps, too.

[TwoBitWriter]

Just opened pretty much all of my presents from my wife/in-laws. Tomorrow my side of the family is coming over to my home for Christmas.

So I get one night of playing The Orange Box on my Xbox before having my family over and then leaving for Indiana to stay with Ash's grandmother for four days. :smallsigh:

But, a friend is letting me borrow his DS in exchange for borrowing my copy of Fallout 3. :smallamused:

Damn, I'm good. :smalltongue:

[Nychta]

Oh, what games do you have for the DS then?

Which in a roundabout way reminds me that we got a PS3 and Littlebigplanet. But we've had it for a couple weeks. Dad couldn't wait for Christmas.

[Ash08]

wait... Ash as in me? Stay anway from my grandmother or she'll stuff you with m'n'ms's ta death. hehe.


actually, she is really quite sweet but she has so many jars with candy around the house staying with her is horrible.

[Rutskarn]

In the interest of full disclosure...

RUTSKARN'S SECRET WEAKNESS.

Put out a jar of Jelly Belly gourmet jelly beans, random assortment.

It'll be all I can do not to grab random handfuls and shove them down my gullet. Yeah, even the crappy ones, like Popcorn and Dr. Pepper flavored ones. I'm addicted.

In fact, I think I'll bop off and draw a pic of Rutskarn hopped up on jelly beans. This has potential.

[Felixaar]

Merry Christmas Again, all.

...More chocolate!

*runs away*

[TwoBitWriter]

wait... Ash as in me? Stay anway from my grandmother or she'll stuff you with m'n'ms's ta death. hehe.

actually, she is really quite sweet but she has so many jars with candy around the house staying with her is horrible.

I just realized that, for the first time, I let slip my wife's name...:smallredface:

@xNadia: hi, I have never really been on when you are, greetings!:smallbiggrin:

And I really don't know what games I will have available. I hope they are good though.

[Dragon555]

I so love my family's ritual watching of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." It truly makes the whole holiday. :smallbiggrin:

Of course, I'm a big fan of Dr. Suess, so that helps. :smalltongue:

[Nychta]

*waves* hi TwoBit!

Well, you might not have been around when I am, but I'm stalking you!
*puts on dark glasses and proceeds to go around enquiring about a TwoBitWriter and Ash*

Ohhh my goodness. Gourmet jellybeans. Or jellybeans in general. I usually grab handfuls and skilfully toss my least favourite to friends. It takes them a while to realise I'm just giving them the terrible flavours.
Okay I have a craving now. I wonder if the buses are operating? And are the shops open? Most probably not. Dang.

One of my best friends is at Taupo. Left without telling me. How sad!

[Coidzor]

In fact, I think I'll bop off and draw a pic of Rutskarn hopped up on jelly beans. This has potential.

Just make sure to give us a heads up about it when it's good and posted.

Y'know, I wonder if couples who live together are capable of enjoying the holidays better or if it's just one of those things to shame the unaligned into finding a mate....

[Rutskarn]

As in all things relationship-related, I imagine that it's highly subjective.

[Uncle Festy]

Like staying up and talking to weird people on the internet whom I've never met.

Hey, I resent that!
I am not people!
:smallwink:


In the interest of full disclosure...

RUTSKARN'S SECRET WEAKNESS.

Put out a jar of Jelly Belly gourmet jelly beans, random assortment.

It'll be all I can do not to grab random handfuls and shove them down my gullet. Yeah, even the crappy ones, like Popcorn and Dr. Pepper flavored ones. I'm addicted.

In fact, I think I'll bop off and draw a pic of Rutskarn hopped up on jelly beans. This has potential.

ZOMG!
Jelly Bellies!
Gimmiegimmiegimmie!
…
*cough*
Hey, Popcorn Jelly Bellies are awesome! But yeah, DP sucks.
In any event, has anyone else been to to the Jelly Belly factory in California? It's like heaven on earth, only tastier. Mmmm…

Well, it's the 25th for me. Merry Christmas, for those who celebrate it! (Aka not me. :smalltongue:)