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Hmmm, we need a topic. How about mental disorders? Or is that too touchy of a subject?
can we post jokes on this thread?
heres a good one: one day a boy is walking his dog. he sees a rabbit along the path. the rabbit says “got any carrots?”. the boy says in suprise “I didn’t know rabbits could talk!”. “Neither did I” the dog said!”
How about…
I know! Maybe something to do with weather, what is going on where you are, or what you do when it is pouring rain.
Like it is right now. I think this is the first “Rain Day” in the history of school
There are many “lakes” in my backyard…
Red-tailed HAWK
3-Let’s ask the GAPAs to revive the old one that was a revived version of the really old one.
There’s a riddle now 
Red-tailed HAWK
I am curently enjoying the first snow day I’ve had sinse I was in first grade! This is one of my favorite bar jokes.
A duck walks into a bar and asks the bart ender “Got any grapes?'” the bar tender replies ” No we don’t this is a bar.” The next day the duck comes back and once again asks ” Got any grapes?” Once again the bar tender say “No we don’t this is a bar.” On the third day the duck comes back and asks “Got any grapes?” The bar tender who is really ticked off with the duck says ” No we don’t this is a bar and if you ask one more time I’ll staple your bill to the counter. The next day the duck comes back to the bar and asks the bar tender “Got any staples?” the bar tender replies “No” The duck then asks “Got any grapes?”
its a snow day for me too!!
A guy walks into a diner and sees a hippo at the counter. The guy stares in shock as the hippo says “what’s wrong? You’ve never seen a hippo serving coffee before?” “It’s not that” said the guy “I just never thought the horse would sell this place.”
another one is: two cockroaches were crawling around in a garbage can. One said to the other”did you hear about the new resturant across the street? Its got a new refridgerator, the kitchen floor is spotless and the shelves are all clean” The other cockroach grmaces and says, “do you mind? Not while I’m eating!”
same here!
I have a SNOW DAY!!!!!
PEACE AND PIE FOR EVERYONE!
tHe wEiRdO iN tHe pOLkAdoT tOp hAt
(2, 3, 5, 6) I’ve created a new Jokes & Riddles thread.
yay!
I just posted a joke on it!
I’d like one on pets, like what if the muses had pets???? Maybe Kokopelli has a….. MONKEY! A monkey that throws BANANA PIES and does…….. does anything Koko tells him! Yeah that’d be cool!
Oh yeah and thanks for making a joke one, a lot of people posted jokes.
13 – Koko already has Devil.
Hey guys why don;’t we theme this thred guessing what other musers look like? T know we used to have a thread like this but it’s not up anymore and I forgot what it was called. *Stare imbarrasedly at the floor*
No need to be embarrassed. Let’s Get Physiognomical would be hard for anyone to remember.
um, how about Larry Gonick? I am reading thru the cartoon history of the universe.
Larry Gonick would be a nice topic.
Ooh, yes, Larry Gonick!
Kiki and I once had a very long conversation about the similarities between the Muses and the characters in his Cartoon Guides, which was shortened for one of the MuseCasts.
(15) I like that! can we do it again??????????
(17) Larry Gonick?????? Ummmm who’s that?
Oh! Maybe we could do one on……. the vietnam war and the hippies! *hint hint* JOHN LENNON!!!!
Oh never mind that what about the theory of evolution or Charles Darwin. Someone who a lot of people know about, or favorite Childhood Memories! Yeah what about that one!
20 – You don’t know who he is?
-dies in horror-
WAIT WAIT I know who he is, I spaced out! He’s the cartoonist of MUSE, KOKO AND CO.!! Sorry if I scared you for a second.
19- I have a picture from the first cartoon history that has Assyrian gods that look a lot like feather.
23 – Okay, just checking. xD My reaction:
ARE YOU A MUSER OR WHAT!?
(25) um yeah……… are you still alive????
26 – Yup. Thankfully. =P
^_^ ~_~ (27) oh good!
I’ve read a bit of his cartoon histories…a bit of his cartoons in muse…his name is on the who’s here page. Has he ever posted on MB???
Larry has posted from time to time, gimanator. In fact, MuseBloggers lured him onto a “Larry Gonick” thread started almost exactly two years ago. The thread’s here: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=175.
(30) I just read it….. I can’t believe they sacrificed the HPB!!
Yay Larry Gonick!
*jumps up and down*
I have nothing more to say.
31- It was a necessary sacrifice.
I LOVE his Cartoon Histories (and the Modern World one too), even more than the Cartoon Guides. That taught me about 80% of what I know about European History.
The Cartoon Histories were HILARIOUS… I hope he’s writing more.
I saw his cartoon guide to physics or something titled similarly. My 9th grade science teacher had it, and one day, when I was bored in class, I read nearly half of it. ‘Twas awesome!
Like I said I was looking for chemistry book for the mentally incapacitated (myself) and I found “The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry”
Much more fun than my chem class.
I checked out the Cartoon Histories but I never had time to read them.
my **korean** friend has a complete set of US history in Korean manga, I was impressed
I just finshed Vol. 1 of universe. Wish he would come out with the next one…
Does anyone think that he is writing a sequel to smart pies?
That’d be awesome, except that I haven’t been able to get the first book yet. But that’s just me.
this is getting kinda boring. can we change the topic?
You may change the topic if you can come up with a new one that people would rather talk about.
I’m changing the topic………to what people act like here…. like Let’s get Physiognomical, instead we try to guess what they act like.
Are they crazy????
Creative???
Always bored????
weird??
Whatever you can think of?????
I wan tto say with larry.
I think MA should use them as textbooks.
I think its funny how ag knows everything in the school textbooks because of reading the cartoon history of the universe books. he even corrected the teacher on a few occasions! i’m still on the second book. (at the end, volume.. 12 or 13)
Yeah, it’s fun. l’m ahead of curriculum.
Agag or C++, Can you get Gim to the Classic pie war thread pronto?
I’m changing the subject for one quick moment…
PATRIOTS ROCK!!!!! Oh and so does Larry Gonick, I love cartoons!!!!!
hmmmmm…. sorry about the double post.
I was watching the superbowl when I saw in the corner of the big screen, a guy. He was playing and I could see his whole jersey for a few seconds when I saw his number and name…… Koko…..pelli???? I must be seeing things!!!!!
Uh-oh.
THE GIANTS WON!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOO!
*wails* The GIANTS won? Meh.
ANYWAY, Mr. Gonick taught me in history. I now can correct my Global Studies teacher accurately, and when he thinks I’m being smart-alecky and says, “Well then, if you know so much, tell us the entire story,” I can, infuriating everybody with me awesome powers of smart-aleckiness.
I still haven’t read the Chemistry one. Too busy. Or the Physics one. Or the Genetics one. Or the Statistics one. Or the…
the giants won!!!! yay
I correct my teachers too. would you believe that my english teacher spelled scary wrong. (she spelled it scarey) scary, isn’t it? plus I got a prize for correcting her!!!
ohmigod……..anyway, I was thinking about the Physionomical thread. Could a subject be actionomical????? I know that’s not a real word, but can we guess what people act like????
*whew* no more pie waring… no more arguing….
hmmm…. subjects…….. puppetry.. mmm….. internet connections that just wont work… umm… computers… hmm.. uh…
hey, can we have another romance and relationships thread? and a subject, how about zombies?
Lets have this thread be about anything supernatural!!!
People always correct my English teacher, no one knows why she is teaching us. She said that you use it’s when its possesive, but I corrected her. Then ahe got annoyed with this kid who was trying to tell her she spelled a word wrong.
does anyone know about, or do letterboxing? Just wondering….
58- not letterboxing, but orienteering.
Did I hear SUPERNATURAL? You mean like Harry Potter?
W00t Harry Potter!!!
57- As in really organic food or scientifically unproven phenomena?
Darn, it seems I’ve killed yet another thread.
Not quite.
Wait, how many threads have you killed?
I noticed in the Feb. issue, there were two pages of K&C. Maybe this means it will be like that from now on!!
Supernatural stuff is cool.
But, it’s all fake. There aren’t any ghosts, but it would be cool if there were.
Really? If ghosts existed, then you might become one. That doesn’t sound like much fun.
65- You are curiously faithless.
Quite honestly, I intend to believe in the supernatural as long as I live. I mean, I’ve never seen a ghost that turned out to actually be a ghost, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t ghosts. There were those wonderful two days when I thought that the thing in the lights booth was a ghost, and then I looked closer.
65- It’s fun to tell ghost stories and to hear about people gullible enough to believe them
68- Just because I believe in ghosts doesn’t mean that I’m gullible.
And I don’t believe in ghosts like, “This guy picked up a hitchhiker who told him about a car crash and then the car crashed and only one person was found.” I believe in ghosts, like, “Look at that thing up in the lights booth.” *looks* *sees shadow-man* *goes up to booth* *sees nothing*
To believe in ghosts you must believe in a soul/body seperation, in turn requires a belief in supreme powers. So, no. I believe nothing of the sort.
70- Not always. I don’t think about souls, bodies, supreme powers, or any of that. Now that I do think about it, ghosts are generally acknowledged to be dead people, but I don’t think of them as dead people. I think of them as just sort of being there.
Whatever. This could quickly turn into an argument, and I don’t want an argument.
69- I don’t see a difference. Seriously, I would like you to clear this up? Is the first an example of urban myth frenzy and the lasyt “I swear there was someone there?”
Hey, just because some people don’t believe in supernatural things doesn’t mean they can’t discuss it for fun.
72- *thinks* The first is a classic ghost story, fine, urban myth if you will. It’s also relating the ghost to death. The second is more like what you said. Also, the ghost didn’t do anything, and the story had nothing to do with dead people, and I saw it.
I don’t believe in the really dramatic type, like where the ghost causes more than a reluctance to go to the place where it is. I do believe in ghosts that are just there.
What are ghosts then, if not the souls of the departed?
75- I don’t know.
76- Ok.
Supernatural, like color changing eyes?
75- shadows of the souls of the departed, like footprints.
63- A few on Bad Astronomy, and maybe the Books in Progress one here.
Much, much research has not turned up proof that there are ghosts, but good scientists must NEVER say “impossible”. Instead, we say UNPROVEN, in that something MAY be, but there is no evidence for it. Ghosts are unproven.
78- Excuse me? My eyes change color overnight, every night, and will change color according to moods. I have blacked, but normally they change between green and grey/blue. Although yesterday they were brownish/green with yellow in them, and today they were light blue. I have never had the same color twice in a row.
Does anyone here believe in the sepperation of body and soul? LKike, ghosts are the souls of the departed?I’d like to hear about it.
I think Bigfoot’s a furtrader out hunting.
Conscienceness is caused by chemicals in your brain. When you die, they cease to exist. Therefore, there’s no such thing as a soul. Therefore, there are no ghosts.
some girls at my old school honestly thought I was a werwolf. It was amusing.
82 – No, people have souls, otherwise they wouldn’t have choices and such.
As far as ghosts go, I believe that when people die their soul seperates from their body, but I think it goes somewhere. There might be some souls that get trapped or stuck or lost, though, and stay on earth – ghosts.
I believe in vampires. *reads Twilight geekishly*
83- Because of something you did, or just out of the blue?
83- well, see, there was this boy, who had a crush on me. one day he asked me out and I very politely said no. Next thing I know, I’m in a headlock. So, I bit down-hard- in his arm, and he starts bleeding pretty badly. I ran across the school to the office, and if you imagine, the bell rings, so there’s tons of students out of class, and I have blood dripping down my face.
84- A dog can make a choice. “do I eat now or sleep now?” What exactly do you mean by choice?
86- Man, those kids jumped to conclusions.
Observation: Blood dripping down Vixen’s face.
Conclusion: She’s a werewolf.
As far as logical reasoning goes, that’s a FAIL!
86 – Don’t animals have souls, too?
I mean…then what are you? Without a soul you still have brain, skin, blood, organs. But you do nothing. If you are alive then you decide things, and do things, and move, and speak, and have emotions and reactions. Isn’t your soul who you are?
88- um, I was under the impression that my brain helps me feel, think, develope personality, and decide. there are several medical cases in which a part of the brain is damaged and the personaltity traits are destroyed in the victim.
87- I couldn’t agree more.
87 – Hehe. Why not a vampire though? That makes more sense.
89 – Sure, your brain helps you, but what causes your brain to think?
90- Chemical reactions in the brain and intelegence.
83- I always thought werewolves were cool. The Discworld kind anyway.
84- possibly the souls that get stuck come into being as something else, or find their dead body again. And that’s how zombies are created (once again the discworld kind)
80- I know this person who’s eyes change color constantly. If you stare at them for ten seconds you can watch them switch between hazel, blue, green, light green, light blue, and blue-green. It was not the light in the room. I’m sure.
92- you believe in zombies?
I like my eyes. It makes finding glasses difficult though. Brown eyes don’t match with brown frames, but blue eyes do.
93- Actually, my friend believes in zombies. I’m not really sure about most of this stuff. (note that I used the word _possibly_ ) except ghosts.
Well, if you believe in ghosts, why not zombies? Or banshees? Or boggarts? or demons? or witch craft? It’s not a long stretch from one to the other.
I do believe in witchcraft acctually. Well, magic. Demons, sort of, and the rest, I don’t know why.
I don’t really know if I believe in ghosts or things like that. I believe in paranormal activity, because that is just things that don’t have a scientific explanation, and there are plenty of those.
I don’t get why people think their eyes change color. A lot of my friends claim that their eyes change with their moods or to match their outfit, but I don’t see the difference even when they point it out. Maybe the light or how dilated the pupils are could change the color a little, but it isn’t noticable.
Me: I believe in a lot of magic, I believe in witchcraft, at least.
Vampires: No.
Demons: No
Giants: No
Zombies: NO
Ghosts: Yes
Animigi: Yes, but not with that name.
Aliens: Yes
Bigfoot/Yeti: Yes
King Kong: No
Chuck Norris: Yes
98-
Vampires: No.
Demons: No
Giants: No
Zombies: NO
Ghosts: Unproven, but leaning towards no.
Animigi: No.
Aliens: Yes, but I don’t think they have visited Earth.
Bigfoot/Yeti: Unproven, but leaning towards no.
King Kong: No
Chuck Norris: Yes
Mummy’s Curse: NO!
84- Choices? The mind makes that. Your personality and ethics help you and others survive. lt’s evolutionary, and helps survival.
88- The brain makes up what the soul isn’t.
98- Vampires: No.
Demons: No
Giants: No.
Zombies: No.
Ghosts: No.
Animigi: No.
Aliens: Yes.
Bigfoot/Yeti: Yes.
King Kong: No.
Chuck Norris: Not as a demigod, no.
Chuck Norris does not need air.
Air needs Chuck Norris.
*random*
Who DOSN’T believe in Chuck Norris? My friend says he an urban legend and dosn’t really exist.
Needless to say, she has been, eh, disposed of. (Kidding…not.)
101- No, Chuck Norris is quite real. He’s just not like a demigod or anything–*is knocked out by Chuck Norris*
101-Chuck Norris disposed of your friend? Oh my.
I feel the urge to make a PoPo about how much i like pie…
I like pie, and i also like Chuck Norris because it helps me stay on topic.
Eh, supernatural things I beleive in:
Vampires: No.
Demons: No
Giants: No
Zombies: NO
Ghosts: In some ways, yes.
Animigi: No.
Aliens: Yes
Bigfoot/Yeti: No.
King Kong: No
Chuck Norris: I have no idea who that is.
Ghosts…..hmm. I have heard too many stories of really little children saying things that make it seem obvious that they saw ghosts. And these kids are way too young to be telling stories just to freak out their parents. I’ve also talked to people who live in haunted houses. I remember one lady in particular who lives in a town near here in this great old house and several people have seen the ghost that is in her house. It’s been the same ghost, but the people who saw it didn’t know beforehand that others had seen it. Yeah, a bit spooky for my liking.
However, I have slept over Civil War graves and never saw a ghost all that night.
Vampires: No.
Demons: Hmm. I don’t believe in Hell, so no.
Giants: No.
Zombies: No.
Ghosts: Yes.
Animigi: What? *looks up* Um… not really.
Aliens: This is my pet peeve. It’s not an alien unless it doesn’t belong. Yes, I believe in life on other planets.
Bigfoot/Yeti: Yes.
King Kong: Um, NO.
Chuck Norris: Wait. Who is he again?
Mummy’s Curse: *thinks* You mean like the curse of the Iceman thingy? Where all the people who touched him DIED inexplicably or something like that? Well, not really.
Life would be much more interesting if magic existed. Therefore I choose to think it does.
102-Hahaha, told you so!
*feels the need to tell a Chuck Norris joke*
Leading hand sanitizers claim to kill 99.9% of germs. Chuck Norris can kill 100% of whatever the heck he wants.
*burts out laughing*
Vampires: No.
Demons: Yes
Giants: No
Zombies: No
Ghosts: Not excactly.
Animigi: What? No, probably.
Aliens: Maybe
God: Yes
Bigfoot/Yeti: No
Loch Ness: No
King Kong: No
Chuck Norris: Yes, but he’s not supernatural
Mummies curse: No
hee. here we go.
Vampires: No… I don’t see how they could…once there was a flying circus where Dracula’s teeth fell out..”You’re no fun anymore”
Demons: I’ve given up on this, but given it a lot of thought also
Giants: Like Hagrid? Cool! no. Unless you count Yao Ming
Zombies: Ah nah barab ahn zambahs((I don’t beleive in zombies-in zombie))
Ghosts: No, but if they did, I would wanna vacuum clean one…I don’t get it. WHALE BLUBBER!
Animigi: Since I don’t know what it is…*drumroll*…sure, why not. Okay not really/
Aliens: Sure, but they’re not here. Roswell was a blimp incident…
Bigfoot/Yeti: No…
King Kong: It’s a movie/remade movie/maybe a book but I don’t know!
Chuck Norris: Yes. Chuck Norris can beat a brick wall at tennis.
Mummies Curse:Why is this on here?
Potato Monsters: They Live in the microwave!
Dust Bunnies:…
Vampires: No
Demons: I agree with giminator
giants: unless you count people like andrei the giant, no
Zombies: No
Ghosts: I don’t think so
Animigi: WHAT???
Aliens: yup but they aren’t here
Bigfoot/yeti: No
KingKong: no
Norris, chuck: yeah
pototatoe monsters: no
108- You’re right, it probably falls under a general heading of “magic and curses”. And, as Zahi Hawass is always saying, there is NO mummy’s curse! (Well, there are curses written on tombs, but they haven’t ever come true.)
I don’t think Extraterrestrials count as being supernatural. The chemicals for life are very common elsewhere in the universe, so life there would be as natural as life here.
What’s the difference between a vampire (which noone here believes in) and ghosts ( which 4 people here do.)? ???
A vampire is a being that used to be human but then became immortal and has to drink blood in order to stay healthy.
A ghost is the soul of a person who has passed away but is trapped on earth.
Sorry for the double post, but I just remembered something!
Once I went on vacation somewhere..I think it was the Florida Keys…and there was this mini-museum thing with a creepy doll, and they said if you took a picture of the doll – whose name was Tom or Thomas – it would steal something from you!
We didn’t take a picture of it, but there were letters from people who had there stuff stolen from them.
They could be fake, but I didn’t take any chances.
111-A vampire is either a person who drinks blood or a zombie that drinks blood. It can sometimes turn into a bat and is solid. It may not have a reflection in mirrors or show up on camera, but it can be seen with the naked eye.
A ghost is the spirit of a person that is still on earth. It is not always seen, but can show up in pictures even if it wasn’t seen at the time. It is not solid, and can go through walls and such.
I don’t believe in vampires and I’m not sure if i believe in ghosts. I think that a lot of it is just a placebo effect.
I believe that there must be intellegent life somewhere else in the universe, but it may or may not have reached earth.
112- How did the vampire become immortal? And why did the ghost get trapped on earth?
113- *shudders*
111- A vampire is physical. A ghost is not.
I believe in magic, but only when something odd happens. The ghost in the lights booth– there was no question that it was a ghost (until, of course, it wasn’t). The bees disappearing– I believed in magic. The end of the world as we know it… sure.
I still think SOMETHING is going to happen in 2012. Probably not something that wipes out the entire human race, but something.
112- I know the technical, but why are there people who believe in one but not the other?
116- The 100th anniversary of the loss of the Titanic will happen in 2012…
For clarification: Animigi is the plural form of Animigus, invented by J.K. Rowling to describe humans that can transform themselves into animals. Werewolves aren’t actually called Animigi because they can’t control their transformations.
Examples: Sirius Black, Minerva McGonagall, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew (known as Wormtail or Scabbers the rat)
Oh, yeah, I forgot.
Sock Gremmlins (the ones who steal ONE of your socks so that you have two mismatched pairs): YES
Wizards/Wizarding kind: Yes
Alchimests: No
Magical Curses/Spells/Potions, etc.: Yes
Funny you should mention the sock gremlins. There is a slightly different thing in my laundry room, a sock monster, which either eats your socks, or chews them beyond repair.
I don’t really believe in supernatural beings (demons, etc.) For me, that’s getting too close to polytheism, which is seriously against my other beliefs.
Sock gremlins and sock monsters? Hmm, I always figured it was my own messiness and the washing machiene that was to blame.
Oh, and Beavo, alchemists did exsist, they were sort of the precourser of modern scientists, however far modern science has come. Alchemists did however find many things in their research. Nicholas Flamel actually did live, and he wrote of discovering a substance that could turn other metals to gold, or at least something resembling it.
Of course, many quack salesmen used illusions and tricks to “demonstrate” turning metals to gold and thus making money off the gullible public.
Ahh! The sock gremlin just stole a sock off my FOOT while I was WEARING IT.
I think we may have to rename them, though, because my resident sock gremlin steals keys and wristbands and CDs and combs too. It stole my wallet!
Oh, wait, there it is, under my desk. Sorry. *picks it up*
Well, I don’t “believe” in ANYTHING. I will know something is real, or I will say that there is not enough evidence. Or I will say it is impossible/improbable/implausable in our space/time.
119- I have hundreds of sock gremlins at my house.
120- I believe that demons are fallen angels. I wouldn’t think of that as polytheism, angels aren’t the same as gods.
113- So, in other words, the people went to Florida, took a picture of this doll, came home, lost something, blamed it on the doll, and wrote a letter?
Man, I wish I could get away with that:
“No, I didn’t misplace it, Mum, the doll stole it!”
125 – I think it was…that they went back to their hotel and realized they lost something, so then their immediate reaction is “It must have been the doll!”
I guess that could work – the people who made it up most have realized that lots of people lose stuff on vacation, so they made up a ghostly story to get more people to come to their museum.
Yeah, his name was Thomas. I remember now.
126- I think the tourist magnet explaination is more logical.
“Occam’s Razor- the philosophical and scientific rule that simple explanations should be preferred to more complicated ones, and that the explanation of a new phenomenon should be based on what is already known”
Definition courtesy of Encarta Dictionary Tools.
127- Well, obviously. A doll can’t possibly steal things while being on display in a museum at the same time.
Dancergirl saw a TV show about the Key West doll and wrote about it last November on the Scary Stories thread. She said the doll’s name was Robert, though. That seems more plausible to me, somehow.
67. Dancergirl13 �|� November 2nd, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Um ok, sorry I havnt been able to get on. Ok so I was watching the travel channel the other day (at Halloween they always show stuff about ‘haunted’ houses, and it so much fun to watch) and this thing came on about a ‘possessed doll’. I copied this from a website to tell everyone. Here it goes:
The story begins in the home of Mr. And Mrs. Thomas Otto. The year1896. It was well known the Otto’s mistreated there servants and were not the kindest of people. One such servant, that aided in the care of the couples son, Robert Eugene Gene,(Gene) was said to be versed in the ways of voodoo. She for one reason or the other became very displeased with the Otto’s, and decided to do something about it. As the story goes the servant gave Gene a doll. The doll standing three feet tall, and stuffed with straw. With life like features, that were at first very endearing to Gene. He decided to name the doll “Robert”.
The doll became a constant companion to Gene. It is said that the Otto’s often heard Gene upstairs talking to the doll. This in it self might not have been so bad? The Otto’s were puzzled to hear the boy answering himself in an entirely different voice than his own?
Many Strange things began to occur in the Otto household. Many neighbors claimed to see Robert move about from window to window, when the family were out. Gene began to blame Robert for mishaps that would occur. The Otto’s claimed to hear the doll giggle, and swear they caught glimpses of the doll running about the house.
Gene began to have nightmares and scream out in the night, when his parents would enter the room, they would find furniture over turned, their child in a fright, and Robert at the foot of the bed, with his glaring gaze! “Robert Did It”…. The doll was eventually put up into the attic. Where he resided for many years.
When Gene’s parents died, and the Otto home came to Gene, Robert was rediscovered in the attic. Robert hold on Gene was strong, and from the moment Gene laid eyes on him, Robert’s influence could be again felt. Well Gene’s wife Robert unsettling. One day she decided she had enough of Roberts glare…and returned him to his attic sanctuary. Gene was displeased, and demanding that Robert needed a room of his own where he could see out of the window. He put Robert in the turret room, by a window. It wasn’t long after that Gene’s sanity was questioned?
The citizens of Key West heard about Robert, and his evil doings. Many people walking by the home reported that the doll watched from the turret room, and mocked them as they passed… School children feared walking by the Otto home , in fear of Roberts mean glare.
Gene, himself reported when visiting the turret room, found Robert him in the rocking chair by the turret room window, displeased with his accommodations…home. Finally Gene himself had enough of
But Robert had other plans. Visitors that entered the house could hear something walking back and forth in the attic, and strange giggling sounds. Guests no longer wanted to visit the Otto home.
Gene Otto died in 1972.The home was sold to a new family, and the tale of Robert had died down…
But Robert waited patiently up in the attic to be discovered, once again. The 10 year old daughter of the new owners. Was quick to find Robert in the attic. It was not long before Robert unleashed his displeasure on the child… The little girl claiming that the doll tortured her, and made her life a hell.. Even after more than thirty years later, she steadfastly claims that ” the doll was alive and wanted to kill her.”
Robert, still dressed in his white sailor’s suit and clutching his stuffed lion, lives quite comfortably, though well guarded, at the Key West Martello Museum. Employs at the museum continue to give accounts of Robert being up to his old tricks still today…
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Isnt that creepy? Whether you believe it could happen or not, its a fun story to tell!!!!
It’s fun, but I don’t believe it. Horror stories are fun.
128-Unless it’s a spirit, where that would be a peice of cake. It all comes down to what you believe.
hmmm….I don’t really belive in this stuff, but i like to hear stories about supernatural things.
Like once my friend was saying how she went to this old house that’s now a museum with her class and they saw a doll blink and a face in a window.
When I was little I was really scared of aleins for some reason. I think it was because we watched a movie at a camp I went to about someone being abducted by aleins.
Regarding aliens, this formula is very important:
N = R* fp ne fl fi fc L
You’re probably going “Say what?” right now. It’s called the Drake Equation, and it was developed by the astronomer Frank Drake to calculate the odds of radio contact with extraterrestrial civilzations.
Here’s the nity-gritty:
N = The number of civilizations in The Milky Way Galaxy whose radio emissions are detectable.
R* = The rate of formation of stars suitable for the development of intelligent life.
fp = The fraction of those stars with planetary systems.
ne = The number of planets, per solar system, with an environment suitable for life.
fl = The fraction of suitable planets on which life actually appears.
fi = The fraction of life bearing planets on which intelligent life emerges.
fc = The fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space.
L = The length of time such civilizations release detectable signals into space.
For estimates of the final “N” value, Google-search “Drake Equation”.
133- I heard of that before. I think it’s neat, but impossible to solve. astronomers discover tons of new planets every day, so it changes constantly.
134- But the unknowness (Is that a word?) of it is very exciting! It is completely possible that SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) could detect a radio signal from ET tomorrow.
As you said, we’re finding new extrasolar planets everyday, and a few of them have been in the Goldilocks Zone (That is, not too hot or too cold for life). In our system alone, we know that there is life on Earth, that it may have existed in the past on Mars, and may exist now on Europa. That’s about three habitable environments in this one system. When it comes to intelligence, we aren’t sure, as there’s only us as an example, but as I said, the unknowness is exciting!
119- acctually, werewolves in the discworld books (Yeah Terry Pratchet!) can turn into wolves at any time. They only have to on full moon.
Also, I believe in Magic
What about poltergeists? Does anyone beleive in them?
135- I don’t think extraterrestial intelligence is very likely. It takes thousands of years of evolution, and Earth is the only planet we know of that has had a life-supporting environment for that amount of time. Planets in the “Goldilocks Zone” might not be too hot or cold, but there are other factors then temperature, such as atmosphere, water and, geography. What if there’s poisonous gases, little or no water, and volcanoes? It makes it very hard for life to develope and evolve.
This is From Douglas Adam’s site:
Where do you stand on alien abduction? Do you believe they’re among us?
I think it’s complete nonsense.
Have you ever been abducted by aliens, to your knowledge?
No.
135- It is probable that we will not get a message tomorrow.
Actually, werwolves are real. only, not werwolves in the “ooh! fullmoon! argh! Here comes a werwolf! ” sense. But lycanthropes, people who deeply believe that they can turn into/are wolves, are real. In fact, one lyvanthrope girl in the 1800’s reportably sprouted body hair thicker than usual and ate raw meat with no stomach problems at all. (Then they locked her up in an asylem and she died six months later. typical.) I think that lycanthropy is labeled a psychosysmatic disease? The mind convincing the body?
139- I said possible, not probable.
140- I know that. Just don’t get your hopes up.
139- Wasn’t there another lycanthrope I heard about…? Not in that book…
I think they’re fascinating. And the effects of untreated diabetes is very simular to the actions of a vampire: gums recede, creating looks of long teeth. The victim starves and is unable to redcieve any nutrition and may have eaten meet and starches like crazy, almost wolflike…The skin pails, the eyes dialate so the victim would find sunlight painful. The victim gives off a sweet smell, and falls into deathlike comas, reviving suddenly as they carried her to the cemetary. Very vampiric….
141- Don’t worry. I feel hopeful that it will happen at some point in the future, but I don’t go into depression every night because SETI didn’t succeed that day. Little by little, we keep on finding more planets, investigating more stars. Little by little, we come closer to contact. What a wonderous time to live in!
144- yeah, well if we live to be seventy, I’ll be happy. I don’t think this is a very fantastic time. Disasterous, more like.
136-Yuss. They rattle stuff and turn off the lights in my basement. And break glasses in my kitchen (although that might be my dog, I’m not sure).
145- Perspective is everything.
146- DON*T BLAME DOGS!!!
147- Too true, too true.
146- You mean, when you’re in the basement? That would be scary! It could be bad or old wiring, such things happen at my school quite often, as we have ’60s-era basic systems that have not been updated. (We had an evacuation because of an electrical fire the other day, and toilets frequently back up.)
What sort of stuff gets rattled?
OLD WIRING IS DANGEROUS!!!! FIX IT.
151- You said it!
150- The person to trust on such matters is Alice!
Vampires: Um, no, not really.
Demons: No.
Giants: Well, Hagrid and Grawp definitely exist, but as for the rest of them, no.
Zombies: Um… no…
Ghosts: Only in the Hogwarts ghosts. Caspar is very suspicious.
Animagi: Of COURSE Sirius and James can transform!!! YES!!!
Aliens: Yes. See Independence Day. (a movie released one day after I was born)
Bigfoot/Yeti: Hm, not too sure on this one.
King Kong: NO.
Chuck Norris: Oh, of course!
Mummies Curse: Um, no?
Potato Monsters: Oh, gosh, this is going to put me off French fries forever.
Dust Bunnies: ???
Vampires: Maybe
Demons: No
Giants: No
Zombies: No
Ghosts: Possible, not very likely.
Animigi: No
Aliens: Maybe
Bigfoot/Yeti: No
Loch Ness: No
King Kong: No
Mummies curse: No
148-If you’re going to blame anyone, it’s going to be my dog. She’s a devil, she is. Don’t be fooled.
I hope our janitors do fix the wires at my school.
I think you should tell your parents to look into the wiring at your house, Beavo, as that may be why the lights act wierd in the basement.
It’s all in your mind.
An old story I heard somewhere-
You know about pa systems, old ones? They sound horrid and the older they get, the less likely it is that they’ll be replaced…There was a high school with one of the aforementioned pa systems and a handful of students who didn’t like the pa system… They decided to do something. Something involved blowing out the speakers. The rumor has it that they got a lovely deep bass humm out of the speakers but didn’t blow them. The next day, the morning announcements were as clean and understandable as could be…
This actually happened. I was not involved.
*evil grin*
Hi guys! I haven’t been on in MONTHS so everyones probably forgotten about me….. I was a regular during summer, but when the school year started I had SOOOOO much HW. How is everybody?
Didn’t Alice start real school? How is that going? I wish you the best of luck!
Will somebody please repond to my post so I can feel happy agian?
Welcome back, bibliorose! This last hour has been on the quiet side, but I’m sure others will be glad to see you.
Hello, bibliorose! It’s been awhile! *welcome pies*
158- Hi, bibliorose!
I think I remember you…from a really long time ago…anyway, have some pie! *pies*
Thanks guys! I missed just having a place where I could talk openly about random stuff that I care deeply about. It’s weird though because I’ve changed so much. I wear makeup now and care what other people think and suddenly boys can’t just be friends…..has anybody else noticed this after entering middle school?
252- Makeup? Ghgghg. :Þ
(Sorry, I just don’t understand why girls need makeup to make themselves look better
).
158- Hey, Biblio! Long time no type! *pies* It’s been since… August I think. September? I don’t know. A long time!
I did indeed start school. It’s . . . different. Actually I fit right in, and I like it for the most part, but having such a set routine is really restrictive. And I’m very thoroughly involved in theater, which is good… Except that as SOON as I get involved in theater, our local theater goes out of business. Luckily the school has a good drama program. But it’s really sad. I loved that theater.
162- That happened to my friend. We were really really good friends despite that fact that she lived in Portland half the time, and then she started wearing makeup and thinking about boys and then we sort of drifted apart . . . Last time I saw her we didn’t really have much in common. We wandered about in the twilight eating blackberries and talking, and then we went in and couldn’t think of anything to say.
I’ve been thinking about her a lot lately. If we were in the same school, with no past memory of each other, would we even be friends?
I still don’t like boys or wear makeup, and the moments when I don’t care what other people think are simply glorious.
(158) Welcome back, BR! It’s been 169 days since your last post.
165- Unless my calculations are incorrect, and they probably are, BiblioRose last posted on September 3rd, 2007.
166- Oops!
I must not remember her, then.
167- Nah, I guess not. I thought that seemed odd. You came in October. There were a LOT of newbies in October and November. I came back and there were like ten new people whom I didn’t know, and you’re the only person who really stayed long enough for me to get to know.
I hated October and November. I would come on MuseBlog after two days and I could only stay for an hour and I had to write while I could, so I never really knew what was going on.
167- Oh well! You know me now!
165- geez, that long! I’m afraid you probably still won’t see much of me during the week. To much HW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
163- Its really only to enhance already good features. Like I have huge, almond shaped hazel eyes and mascara can make them look pretty instead of just strange.
Okay, seeing as this thread is no longer about Supernatural Stuff, I bid you all farewell.
So… if it isn’t about supernatural stuff… what is it about?
171- It seems to have become about makeup.
172 – MAKEUP??? *zips out of here faster than a speeding hot-pink bunny*
I’m gonna try to get us back on topic….
Who believes in supernatural makeup?? *laughs*
no, I’m just joking
173- HPBs can speed? *shudders*
Make-up. Well.
I put on a thin line of eye liner for any concerts I’m doing (cause those lights can wreck havoc with appearances), but other than that, I don’t put on much anything. I mean, maybe some lip gloss or chapstick when I think about it (which is about twice a week), and maybe a bit of blush for any classical music concerts, but yeah, that’s it. I don’t bother most of the time.
I’m really into fragrances, though. I mean, not those strong ones that old people use that make you choke. I like the french L’Occitaine sprays, especially the green tea one, because it’s so light and everyone who hugs me likes it.
I’ll finished now with make-up. *wanders off*
We’re talking about makeup? *scandalized* I don’t wear it. I own lip gloss and lipstick, both very pink and very pretty, which I never wear. Once or twice I got it done by someone else, the first time professionally for a fashion show (age eleven) and the second time by someone who worked at the makeup counter at Macy’s (age thirteen).
I normally don’t wear makeup–except when I’m performing, and that’s stage makeup, it’s a bit different.
I wear lip gloss/chapstick, but mostly because my lips get really dry without it. Otherwise, just stage makeup, which is incredibly fun. One of my favorite uses of eyeliner is to draw mustaches on my sister’s face, (because she wanted to look like Will Turner from POTC) if that tells anything about my makeup-appreciation.
Most people in my school wear way too much…
Oh No! *groans*! I didn’t mean to make this about makeup! Honestly if you saw me you’d never know I’m wearing it. I dont want you guys thinking I’m some appearance obsessed super girly girl or anything!
So lets talk about…… Dogs! I have a seventh month old, black toy poodle named piper! he is adorable, highly intelligent and crazy fast. I luv doggies way more than i will ever like makeup!
Makeup…The only time — literally the ONLY time — I have ever put on makeup is when I put some on to look like a genie for halloween. =) That was funnnn…. And it looked pretty. But my mom doesn’t wear makeup, so as far as I know there’s none in the house. And while I might eventually wear mascara or something if I ever felt like I needed it, that’s the only thing I think I would ever feel like I should wear. Hopefully. And right now I don’t actually think I “need” makeup. Not to be egotistical, more to be self-esteemful. Hope you guys see the difference.
I wear eyeliner every once in a while.
It’s “dark brown” and I wish it was black.
It makes me looks weird..
Oh, yes, I wear TONS of makeup
Lol! I’m sure most people by now have gathered my VERY STRONG opinion on the SUBJECT this thread is currently ABOUT!!!
Hahah, that looks really funny with the caps in some places 
Really, it is your body you’re putting chemicals on, but as a boy, I can guarantee there are some who absolutely won’t care at all if you don’t wear makeup. Or hair dye, for that matter! *Bows*
Red-tailed HAWK
175 – Yes, they can. *zips away faster than a HYPER speeding hot-pink bunny*
183~ No kidding, I never would have guessed that your radiant complexion was due to makeup!
I don’t wear the stuff. My mom doesn’t use it either, so I have no acsess to it, nor would I know what to do with it if I did. A few times my friend Katie and I have gotten our hands on some and just fooled around with it, like the time she put mascara on her eyebrow and it got all black and bushy looking then wouldn’t ash out…..good times, good times…..
Then my friend Danielle who always wears makeup now and then decides that she’s going to give me a makeover and gets out the crling irons, hairspray, makeup, etc. and attacks me. One time she did the whole thing, and I looked okay, but m=not myself. My hair was so laquered with hairspray that it was stif, but it still wouldn’t hold a curl!
When I was 11 I wanted to run away with the circus, so I learned about clown makeup and did that a few times. I settled for an aguste face, if anyone cares. But I doubt that’s entirely on topic…
Oh well, my attempt at changing the subject to dogs was fruitless.
Did you know they took a big survey and 90 something % of boys prefer girls who wear makeup? I’m not basing my decision to wear it off of that, just stating a fact. And this may sound like a lame excuse but I live in the south, in a very small town and EVERYONE wears makup. I mean girls usually start in fifth grade so I was a little late in wearing by those standards.
I just put on a small amount of mascara, blush (i’m super pale) and sheer gloss. Its all natural stuff too.
I’m embarrassed to say that I wear makeup.
But barely.
Only when I feel ugly.
And then it’s just eyeliner or eyeshadow.
I know I’m so girly.
I used to hate makeup and I promised myself that I would never wear it… so much for that.
*sigh, walk away in disgrace*
I like makeup but I’m usually to lazy to put it on.
I could never do my whole face every day for school.
Makeup is something I do when I’m bored and don’t know what else to do.
I like looking nice but it’s not worth the effort most of the time, and I look fine how I normally am.
I dye my hair a lot because I like changing the color of it every few months.
Ooh! This reminds me of a story. If you are meeting your friend’s parents for the first time and it is Halloween and you are dressing as a prom zombie, do not stay in character. I did this recently and now my friend’s mom think’s I’m a stuck up brat who thinks I’m more popular than everyone. I thought it was pretty clear that I was being sarcastic, but either her mom is too gullible, or I’m a better actor than I thought I was.
i never leave the house without at least mascara. if im not in school, i wear eyeliner, but thats it, because my cheeks naturally look like they have blush on them. A couple of times, people have comented that i have put on too much blush, and it is ALOT of fun to tell them that it is natural, and if they don’t like it, they need to get a life. I dont need makeup though – i have the kind of face that makes it look like im wearing makeup when im not, so it makes my mornings alot faster. Also if I’m wearing makeup, i look alot older, and it attracts TOO much attention, and it can be awkward at times.
I only really wear it onstage
I only use mascara when i have to (dance concerts) cuz my eyelashes look good the way they are.
*carefully maneuvers thread in desired direction* Today I had to pick up a great deal of makeup because I had clean up duty. And lots of people left their costumes lying around, so I hid a few of them, Haley’s hospital gown and pajamas and Stella’s nightgown and robe. I’ll un-hide them before they notice tomorrow. I’m weird like that.
I never really wear make up. I just don’t see the point, really. My eyelashes look like they have mascara on already, and I don’t really need any more in my life. If I wanted to look really nice I’d wear make up, but I never really need to.
I only wear lip gloss and stage make-up. I got a lot of funny looks when I came to school wearing make-up yesterday for our performance of Annie so that I wouldn’t be attacked by our make-up “artists”. Almost all the girls in my grade do, but I think putting on make-up is time-consuming and pointless.
193 – Let me guess. They make it waaay too heavy, even though you’re supposed to be compensating for the stage lights. My 9th grade production of Newsies had that problem. We all looked like Oompa-Loompas. (from the old movie)
194 – Not really. They kind of forget that lipstick goes on your lips and not your cheeks…
Last night I was reminded of why I hate make-up. Sitting still for awhile without even being able to speak is agony.
I, don’t, really, wear, makeup…….
makeup?
193 – Yes, I agree.
197 – Yeah. I zipped outta here, but I’m back for one small comment.
My sanctuary has been girlified!
*zips out faster than a speeding HPB that has had twenty gallons of caffeine recently*
How exactly is makeup a discussion topic? I mean, I wear the stuff, but no one here is debating the relative merits of department store vs. Walgreens.
Actually, I don’t wear makeup all that often offstage. (As an aside, my makeup for the last show I was in was so tacky it came out on the other side and actually looked pretty awesome.) Mostly it’s just for when I want to look particularly nice, and even then I go more for subtle–just mascara and gloss usually.
I do, however, love nail polish. Speaking of which, I really need to replenish my stock.
I only wear make-up sparingly and never day to day. I just don’ see the need, and I’m horrified of putting too much on, or of it being too obvious that I’m wearing it. The most make-up I wear is lip-gloss if that counts. I only ever wear much more than that onstage. and grudgingly.
we need a new topic. . .
201- I agree. Um… who’s your favorite comic book superhero? I like Mr. Fantastic.
*changes to video games*
Well, why not? I like Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, and Pokemon Diamond. (Yes! Yes! I know. I am a geek.)
I like the Internet game Bejeweled. It’s very simple, but very fun. You arrange colored jewels in rows or collums of three or more before time runs out, to score points.
A classic: Cruisin’ World
199- I think drugstore makeup can work just as well as department store stuff. I’ve never bought any at walgreens but Target is good. I wear about as much as you do. I love polish too. N.Y.C color makes the best colors in my opinion.
I wonder how wearing nail polish even started. Nails are just there to protect nerves, but I guess one day someone just said “Hey, lets paint these hard little things at the end of our fingers/toes!”
I guess it is just one of lifes great mysteries.
I hate Video games. They bore me. Except for wii tennis (which I play at my bf’s house). I LOVE wii tennis.
The only video game I have ever played is DDR. If that even counts as a video game. And it was only twice, at the house of a family friend. Oh, yeah, and I also watched Kingdom Hearts being played at the same family’s house. That was interesting. We don’t own any kind of game console. I don’t really see the appeal of video games very much. I have a long rant about video games, but I don’t think I’ll go into it right now.
Nail polish: I used to love it, and I still have three bottles of the stuff, but I haven’t used it in ages. Years perhaps, I don’t really pay much attention. For the reasons that (1) it takes too much time to dry-time in which I could be doing something else. (2) It smells horrid when wet and is probably not that great to be breathing. (3) Hot pink (or purple or sparkily) fingernails look really strange with full colonial dress. (Though it would match that one pair of stockings I have…) (4) The aforementioned problem would e less severe if I had nail polish remover, but I don’t. This is probably the worst problem that I have with it.
All that said, I now feel like going and painting my nails…..argh, the power of suggestion.
Nail polish annoys me because I can’t apply it well. I only put it on my toes. Hmmm, my toes are blue.
And as for other makeup, I wear it sometimes. Not a lot.
206 – Wii tennis is awesome!
207 – I think DDR counts… I’ve heard it’s fun, but have never played it.
I like the Wii and Nintendo DS.
Yeah, I don’t play video games that much. But it’s better than talking about makeup.
My brothers like to play video games a lot, though. Sometimes I watch. One really cool game is Super Mario Sunshine. I don’t know much about who the characters are, but how can you beat an ecological mystery on a paradise island?
Video games, huh? Well, the closest I ever got was the ancent GameBoy that my cousin gave me. I don’t even know where the thing is now, but it was one of the really old ones, not even in color! I had two games, and I stank at both.
The best thing about arcades is air hockey. Now that’s something that I can do with reasonable skill.
212- I love air hockey! Especially playing on tables that glow in the dark.
This isn’t a video game, strictly speaking, but… Pinball. Love it.
I like Guitar Hero.
Makeup: I am allergic to most of it. I only wear it for special events like the attending of a wedding.
Video games: The parental units think they’re trash. I have played video games a few times at friends’ houses, and usually my method is to press all the buttons until my character dies so someone else can have a turn. They don’t interest me much.
But computer games! There you have me. Especially Harry Potter computer games. I sincerely believe that my brother and I have explored HP 1 and 2 to their limit. We got the first one when I was nine, I believe, and for years afterwards, I dreamed that I was playing the game or a character in the game.
We have 3, 4 and 5 too, but haven’t played those as much. I like 3, but miss being able to cast spells while running. HP4 is too much like a video game. HP5 is rather boring–the physics are realistic, but the controls are AWFUL and there are no magical beasts to combat or secret places to explore. Does anyone share my sentiments?
213 – I agree. Air hockey rules!
214 – Pinball is okay… as long as it’s on the computer.
215 – What is the DEAL with that game??? Explain!!!
I like pinball! My arcade trinity is air hockey, pinball and Skee Ball.
Folks, you have your video games thread here. Don’t try to change the topic so you have two threads about something, or I’ll ask for the topic to be Zemtee! Now, that wouldn’t be fair either, I hope you understand. But please use the assigned thread for the games discussion…
I come back to speak of the makeup: When I say makeup here, I mean that in a vague sense, and I’m sure you know of more precise terms for different things. But I mean makeup as anything, even hair dyes, lipstick, eyelash gunk, nail polish… anything you apply to yourself to change your appearance.
If you really just want to wear the stuff because you like it, okay. That’s your choice, whatever. But. Do NOT wear it to get attention from boys. Whatever you think of yourself, nice boys won’t care about it and might even find some of it weird. And it could make you look bad when you may already be naturally beautiful. You may not think it is true, but it is the case. If you wait for somebody nice, you won’t need to wear makeup. Makeup will only get our attention in a “what happened? Why did she decide to wear that?!” sort of way, not in a way that will make us like you more. So please don’t.
Please note: If you are a girl and you are not attracted to boys, this notice does not apply to you and I realize that. There is no need to post complaining I am assuming you are attracted to guys.
Red-tailed HAWK
Okay, can we talk about low-tech arcade games like ping-pong?
219- ‘Nice’? Sorry, but I actually like makeup. It’s just when it’s used in excess or when it’s especially not needed is when I dislike it. Also, you say that it ‘could make you look bad when you may already be naturally beautiful’. If it could make you look bad, it also could make you look better, right? Also, you refer to guys as ‘we’. Not all guys share your opinion. And I’m not trying to be mean or anything, I’m just trying to say that there are other opinons as well. If I say, “Why did she wear that?!?” then it’s probably cuz she put on a pound of the stuff and made herself look like a hooker. Sorry, but I found the term ‘nice boys’ kind of offensive. I don’t think of myself as not nice, and I think that it’s a generalization that ‘nice guys’ don’t like makeup at all. This is just my opinion, though, I don’t know how other male MBers feel about it.
216- Technically, computer games are video games. I think you’re thinking of games on a console, like Xbox 360, Wii or something like that. Games on the computer are largely the same, though.
217- Do you mean like what the game’s about? It’s like a rhythm game that you play with a plastic guitar. Or why it’s so popular? It’s really addicting, and that’s why I think it’s so popular.
Oh, Andrew… *Sigh* Of coouuurrrssseee you’re a nice guy, I don’t think it’s possible for a Muser to be otherwise…
I think I’ve been around long enough for people to realize I often don’t make myself completely clear. Although this isn’t great, I really hope people will eventually realize what I’m saying is carefully woven into the post, and may be difficult to understand right away. This is a great example of this. If I can explain it more clearly, you will realize what you’re saying doesn’t have to go against what I’m saying, it really doesn’t.
What I’m saying is girls should not wear makeup exclusively to attract attention from guys. It seems to be tradition around here for most of the girls to dye their hair blond (it often looks like they all used the same color
) and to wear very minimal clothing. This is extremely bad and I’m sure you can agree with that. Also, it is true, even if you like makeup Andrew, that it is not essential for girls to wear it to have boys like them. And whether some makeup MIGHT make you more beautiful is a matter of taste, but I can’t believe you don’t think it possible to be beautiful without makeup.
My point is nice boys (Andrew included here) won’t mind if you don’t wear makeup, even if they don’t mind some makeup. Does that make more sense? Even if you find makeup can make girls more attractive, you don’t mind when girls don’t wear makeup, true? And of course, this is a small part of why nice guys are attracted to girls, a lot is who you are, which makeup usually doesn’t change. And Andrew, please don’t get excited, all nice guys DO find personality the most important part of a relationship, looks are nice, but you can’t just depend on that to like someone.
I’m leaving before I confuse you more!
Red-tailed HAWK
213~ Yesss…..I love those tables, they’re so fun. I love air hockey, it’s the one thing in the arcades that I’m good at. And I do usually beat my contestants a good bit of the time. Not to brag, or anything….
conciously or not, when you apply make-up you’re making a statement about the sort of person you are and the values you hold. you are choosing to use you dollar opwer to support a shallow industry largley founded upon inhumane practices. in addition, you’re trying to ge the wolrd to like you for a entirley superficial characteristic: your apperance, and consequently de-valuing youself in your own eyes. you are saying “my personality, thought, intelligence and spirits are not my most noteworthy or important attributes. the parts of myslef that are most unique aren’t worth being displayed, so instead, here is my shallow little avatar.
please girls, love yoursleves more than that.
guys, care more about your ladyfirends.
Darn it Red-Tailed HAWK, why can’t we have a thread about something less girly than makeup??? We are TRYING to change the topic here.
224-YES! This is what I’m trying to say. Nice guys will be able to fall in love with girls who don’t use makeup. Period. Andrew, I repeat, maybe you do think makeup can make a girl more attractive to you, but if you wouldn’t be able to fall in love with someone who didn’t use makeup because you thought they should have, well… That’s not a nice guy. So I hope you’re not like that. I’m not trying to criticize you or assume what you’re doing or how you feel. But a ways up on this thread someone said 90 some % of boys prefer girls who wear makeup. I believe the nice boys occupy the 10% remaining. You may think makeup looks good, but you don’t shallowly base your decisions by if someone is wearing makeup.
I hope that made sense…
BeMoreAmazed, are you a boy or a girl? I’m just curious, I might guess by the last part you are a girl, but I realize I really don’t know!
Kokonilly, do you have a better place for this? The romance thread? Because this isn’t girly anymore, this is a discussion of whether nice boys can fall in love with someone even if they don’t wear makeup, no matter what your taste is… And are you a girl? Or a boy? I’ve given up on guessing even if I am almost certainly right, somebody always ends up getting mad. What do you think about this, either way?
Red-tailed HAWK
223- I usually win, unless I’m playing against my brother. Playing on a glow-in-the-dark table that makes sc-fi sounds is one of the coolest things I’ve ever done.
It’s time to change the subject. This makeup conversation has led to too many unfair generalizations. And like RtH said, there is already a video games thread.
222, second to last paragraph, last line- I do think it’s possible, and in most cases, I believe it’s true. And I absolutely do not mind if girls do not wear makeup. And I don’t think I have a preference towards girls who do wear makeup, or girls who don’t. Nor do I have a problem with either case, except in girls who wear too much.
226- Don’t worry, it did, and I understand what you mean now. Yeah, I agree, if you don’t like someone based solely on the fact that they don’t, or should, wear makeup, (but would otherwise like them) I don’t want to be friends with you. Or even know you, for that matter. I really don’t want to associate myself with that kind of shallow trash.
228- I second that. I don’t have any ideas, though.
Okay, a new topic. Um… who is your favorite superhero?
OK Andrew, so we’re all in agreement now, it looks like.
And a new topic is here! Favorite Superhero:
Why me of course!
Red-tailed HAWK
What? Sorry about that.
WHOA I didn’t know you could strike through smilies!
Well it makes sense…
Sorry about that…
Red-tailed HAWK
my favorite superheroe is Wolverine for several reasons
Reason 1: he is Canadian
Reason 2: he is insanely attractive.
Reason3: he is soooooo cool.
Reason 4: he is just amazing.
they are not neccessairely in that order (i just spelled that wrong 6 times in a row) anyways. i would never usualy admit reason 2 but none of you know me so it’s okay!
I think Mr. Fantastic is cool. He always uses his brains before his fists.
I like Batman. As in the old TV shows, not the movies. He’s so corny, but that’s why I like him so much.
I think it’s really sad that the first thing I thought of when I saw the new topic was Nietzsche. oh wow. thank you ap euro.
That aside I’m gonna to have to agree with Kagy up there oh yes
226 – Girl.
I don’t know many superheroes, but I would say
INIGO MONTOYA
who technically isn’t superhero, but he says
“Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
(or something of that sort. I read the book last year.)