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309 thoughts on “Muse Convention”
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yes no maybe so?
so…how do we do it?
i personally hink its like the muse acadamy (very improbable)
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hey !
i dont even know if i got first post or not because the GAPA arnt here!
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PLAN FOR THE MUSE CONVENTION:
1) Location: Muse offices in Chicago.
2) Food: Pies. Duh. And doughnuts and vegetables. Consult Feather.
3) People: Musers, Musebloggers, Editorial Staff, and any other interested parties. Parents may come if they must. Sigh.
4) To do: Mingle. Eat. Talk. Throw pies. Develop theories and plan Mostly Harmless.
5) When: Towel Day?
Feel free to denounce this if necessary. Mr. Yoda, if you make the first post here I shall be forced to do something nasty to your internal organs. Pale. Go on, pale. I can tell your complexion is all rosy-cheeked. Ruddy (pun intended) non-tormenters!
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dont worry!
i got it!
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How am I suposed to get to Chicago! I think we should wait until teleportation is invented. I hope it’s soon. Please, be soooooooon!!!!!!!!
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I live in AZ, by the way
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God, you guys are fast. The GAPA are here. Mr. Coontz is present, anyway. And those vapid posts are simply frittering away valuable space we could use for evil-I mean, other-purposes. Tut, tut. Grim show.
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Cool. Soon. In Chicago. That is all.
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i wont denouce it…i was just in a bad mood-anyway sounds cool yet slllllllliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhtttttttttly improbable.
just a little
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from MI to chicago? sounds good .when? better be in summer when thers no skool. ACK!!!!!! i will have to do a ton of favors to wrangle my mom into bringing me. ah well . where theres a will theres a way and NO WAY am i going to stay away
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if there was one by chance, + if it was in chicago then i might actually be able to go, so that would be cool.
hey, we could hav a pie inventing contest! wed eat the ones that turn out ok, + throw the disgusting ones!
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jadestone, you are scaring me. i shall now go further my reputation as a stalker.
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you had a reputation as a stalker?
*runs away screaming help! stalker! help ! save me!*
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I think if we had a MuseBlog convention, with all of us Bloggers, we shouldn’t give our names, and then at the end of the day we’d all guess who was who by their personalities. We’d see how well we know each other from the Blog!
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*switches to alias to aviod stalking*
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cool idea VF
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I would never be able to go, but it would be AMAZING if I could.
If it ever does happen, I’ll give you a clue: I almost always wear red.
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amazing its like a 6 hour drive from where i live but i may be to go. BIG MAYBE THOUGH! my mom says you cant have conventions without lecturers. she doesnt seem to understand that its for musers just to meet each other. but shes not a muser. she says its still a maybe andthe convention may not happen. i like VFs idea,but shouldnt ALL musers come not just bloggers? my mom mwont give me permission until we’re sure this will happen ! of course it will!!!!! the gapas have posted this surely thats in our favor?!? it must be!
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But if they’re not bloggers, how will they know about it? And we’ll all already know each other, so wouldn’t the others feel left out?
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You’d be able to guess me after the donuts. I’d be the one dancing around on tables and singing the Lumberjack Song, generally driving everyone batty and loving it.
Chicago, Muse offices, full security. Any stalker shows up, the receptionist’ll throw ’em out. Either summer or Towel Day sounds good, though I’m leaning summer. Not everyone here lives in IL, after all.
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VF: that would be fun
cmon ppl, lets not abandon hope here
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Throw “’em” out, ha ha haaaaaa. And Em’s a stalker!!!! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA–sorry. Don’t know what got into me.
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Illinois, definitely. Chicago is OK…I don’t live anywhere near either of those places…
There is some rather interesting history about Illinois…
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I just had a dream that i went and pied all of you
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peed or pied? sorry couldnt help it. VF, the answers easy. have the gapas or someone else high up post it in muse mag. then every1 will know.
has anyone considered that a muse convention is just what we need to further the kokonspiracy?
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I had a dream in which I didn’t get pied
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Not Chicago (I live in Canada ) It would be totally cool to have a convention I would try to come but probably couldn’t It would be sooooo much FUN.
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detroit would be closer to canada wouldnt it?
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We should find a place that is in teh middle of where everyone lives, but I reallize that people probably live ALL over. Are we allowed to say where we live?
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I dunno, Chicago is probably farther away. Or is It?????*maniacle laughter*
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*more maniacle laughter*
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Clara,
Giving the name of the state you live in is OK.
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Why isn’t OK spelled ok or o.k. or even O. K.?????
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It is sometimes. By english teachers leering at you through their evil red eyes. O.K. their eyes aren’t really red. But they’re red in spirit…
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RRF (21),
That description could fit almost anyone. I’m sure Juliette and Ebeth at least would also be dancing on the tables singing the Monty Python lumberjack song.
From what you’ve all said about yourselves in the past, I gather that most of the girls on the blog (MG excepted) are short and dark-haired with glasses and braces. You might have trouble telling one another apart even after you’d identified yourselves.
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Chicago is where the Muse offices are located, and a lot of us seem to live in IL. Speaking of which, A-C probably won’t be coming to the convention. Her mom’s totally paranoid about that kind of stuff.
How about we invite all Musers, but have a special room/table set aside for bloggers? Then again, the new office is so small that that might not work.
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hey, I don’t have either glasses or braces.. I am short and dark-haired, though….
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Oh, and technically “OK” should be spelled “O.K.” According to style manuals I’m familiar with, you separate the letters with periods (“full stops” to you Brits; don’t know what Canadians call them) if you pronounce each letter separately, but you leave the periods out if you pronounce the whole thing as a word. That’s why I pronounce GAPA to rhyme with “Frank Zappa.” Right?
Speaking of British vs. American names for punctuation marks, what Americans call “quotation marks” (or informally “quotes”), Brits call “inverted commas.”
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Hey! I don’t have glasses or braces! In fact, I like to make fun of my braces-ed friends, wonderful person that I am.
Oh, he’s a lumberjack and he’s okay
He sleeps all night and he works all day…
[rest of song deleted for references to transvestite-ism]
That was me.
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Well, we could have buckets of temporary glasses and braces available at the door, next to the name tags. And we could identify MuseBloggers with crowns, a la Narnia.
(“Edmund the Just,” indeed! Edmund the Just Plain Obnoxious, if you ask me.)
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( dead parrot sketch)
I never wanted to do this job in the first place!
I… I wanted to be…
A LUMBERJACK!
(piano vamp)
Leaping from tree to tree! As they float down the mighty rivers of
British Columbia! With my best girl by my side!
The Larch!
The Pine!
The Giant Redwood tree!
The Sequoia!
The Little Whopping Rule Tree!
We’d sing! Sing! Sing!
Oh, I’m a lumberjack, and I’m okay,
I sleep all night and I work all day.
CHORUS: He’s a lumberjack, and he’s okay,
He sleeps all night and he works all day.
I cut down trees, I eat my lunch,
I go to the lava-try.
On Wednesdays I go shoppin’
And have buttered scones for tea.
Mounties: He cuts down trees, he eats his lunch,
He goes to the lava-try.
On Wednesdays ‘e goes shoppin’
And has buttered scones for tea.
CHORUS
I cut down trees, I skip and jump,
I like to press wild flowers.
I put on women’s clothing,
And hang around in bars.
Mounties: He cuts down trees, he skips and jumps,
He likes to press wild flowers.
He puts on women’s clothing
And hangs around…. In bars???????
CHORUS
I chop down trees, I wear high heels,
Suspendies and a bra.
I wish I’d been a girlie
Just like my dear papa.
Mounties: He cuts down trees, he wears high heels
Suspendies?? and a …. a Bra????
(spoken, raggedly) What’s this? Wants to be a *girlie*? Oh, My!
And I thought you were so rugged! Poofter!
CHORUS
All: He’s a lumberjack, and he’s okaaaaaaayyy….. (BONG)
Sound Cue: The Liberty Bell March, by John Phillip Sousa.
-or-
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Dear Sir,
I wish to complain on the stronglyest possible terms about the previous
entry in this file about the lumberjack who wears womens’ clothes. Some of
my best friends are lumberjacks, and only a FEW of them are transvestites.
Yours faithfully,
Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong, Mrs.
P.S. I have never kissed the editor of the radio times.
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note to GAPA
censorship’s okay if want to
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I pronounce GAPA the same way they do. I think the Anonymous Conference is a good idea. Everyone would recognize me by the way I ramble on about HG2G for hours at the slightest provocation. And sometimes no provocation, to be frank.
Summer? I have camp in summer! In Maine! I’d have to send someone from my cabinet, and I can’t spare them because they have to rule the country while I’m away! Earth Towel Day sounds much better. Or we could have a Virtual Convention and get the GAPA, those cuddly little dream-rabbits, to pull up a chatroom. Hmm? GAPA, you wonderful darlings?
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The Muse crew should make a note to themselves, to have a deep disscusion on the possiblity of making a Muse movie.
After all, Larry Gonick supports us, so why not take it into considoration?
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summer would be better. i AM dark haired. i do wear glasses. i dont have braces yet, but i will. i AM NOT HOWEVER, short. im considred tall for my age.
i tried to calculate the time it would take to drive from my house to chicago. about 6 hrs if there is bad traffic. 4 1/2 if its good. how long will the convention take, anyhow?
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I have braces….
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I live in Pennsylvania, which is East, but Chicago sounds fine
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Summer is the best time in my opinion, because nobody has school (unless you go to a year-round school). I know people have camp, etc. I go to MI every summer……It would be hard to find a time when everyone can do it. Oh, I don’t know!
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What would a muse movie be about?
sorry to post so many times, I keep forgetting things!
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maybe movie version of attack of the smart pies
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which i havent read yet
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No braces or glasses for me, but I have VERY dark hair (almost black) and I am short.
Maybe we could have a Muse summer camp?
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How ’bout the GAPAs email us special invites? then we’d know who’s a museblogger and who’s a plain old muser. because the musebloggers would have the invites!!!
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HEY!!!!!!!!!! HAs anyone tried to see the Muse ofices from Google earth? That would be cooooool…
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Short and dark hair and glasses are all good, but i don’t have braces. And i have short hair too. And i’d probably be wearing some kind of band geek sweatshirt. Or a muse one if you make them…*puppy dog eyes*
And i would gladly dance on the tables with you, but i sadly have never actually seen/heard the lumberjack song and so could not sing along.
I can recite the entire script of the holy grail by heart though.
It should definitely be in the summer, but not in july. Everything’s always in july. Summer classes-July (Which means i can’t take the UN sim class *is sad*) Blue lake, and plenty of other summer camps-July. August is out too-Band camp for us band geeks, and the orchestra does stuff too, plus that’s when sports start if anybody plays sports…
It’d have to be in June sometime, preferably late/middle-ish in June, obviously after everybody gets out of skool, and hopefully before everybody scurries off to their July frolicking.
Musebloggers could recognize each other by a rather simple method-If somebody says, “Hi, I’m Jill!” they’re probably not a MBer. If somebody says something more along the lines of “Hi, I’m Dark Lord of Darkness!” or “Hi, I’m Jadestone” they’d be easily recognizable.
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I fall under but two of those catagories: Braces and glasses
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Grettings, Rebel, I am the Ultimant Mence of the Jedi, the final Sith, Darth Yoda!
Muhahahahahahaha!
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What’s the address?
I don’t have braces! My teeth are perfect. But I am short and have dark hair and glasses.
Maybe people who are short with dark hair and glasses are smarter than average, so they’re the people who are most attracted to Muse, and are attracted enough to come here on the MuseBlog…… Hmm. More studies are needed.
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#42, in the original TV show it went from the homicidal barber sketch to the lumberjack song
gotta point that out
actually, memphis is the city closest to the center of the United States
that works for those of us who live in horrid TN. (i could stay with my aunt and uncle, who would probably harbor someone else)
but i could stay with my cousin in chicago. she works at a theater there, so we would all have to go out to the red moon theater and see their show…!
not short, no braces. i do have short red hair and glasses though. maybe i should dye it blue…?
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King George- woohoo!! Another AZ Museblogger!
Not short, no braces, no glasses (though I do kinda need them) but I do have dark hair.
Chicago in June… man I want to go to this thing but I probably can’t, my summer’s pretty packed. But I will post ideas anyway. Maybe we could make the convention an annual thing, and move it around so different people would get to go. I like VF’s idea about trying to guess whos who.
Virtual convention would be a great thing for those if us who cant make it! Please GAPAs darling dearests?
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June is the best month for me
I have braces and short reddish hair……
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i am not short 4 the second time!! if lecturers need to be at a cunvention lets get paul baker to lecture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we’ll need to have the convention before july 4th if possible. thats the only time when most of us will be… ummmm… without things to do and places to go
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Yeah, I have summer high school prep in June. But I do live nearby, so getting there won’t be as hard for me.
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We should do it in June, though. If you don’t know why I say this, you have never fried an egg on the sidewalk in Chicago in July. I am only slightly exxagerating, which is the scary part.
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Hullo peoples, just so you know, there is no possible way I could go to this thing. Chicago? Uh uh. And my parents wouldn’t dream of taking me, even if it was only a few hours away.
Yes, I think I’m the only girl on this blog who’s tall with red hair. Everyone would know me.
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NO! We need you, MG! Where/when would be convinient for you and not evilly hard for everyone else?
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I’m not tall, but I have red hair….. Where do you live, MG?
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I have medium dark hair, glasses, and braces that are leaving soon! yay! No more braces soon! I dunno how far away from chicago I live. I live close enough to Chicago though. (4-6 hours away) hmm… summer would work though I’m insanely busy. Maybe part of June that isn’t the last two weeks or maybe the last week of August. I’d also have to pay for it myself probably… Maybe the summer of 2007 would work better to give everyone advance notice as they might have allready planned conflicting activities. When exactally is towel day?
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Would a virtual conventionion be any different from regular Blogging?
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Yeah, I agree with #70, it would be pretty similar
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I live right near chicago, in the great land of OOHI! oh joy. (sarcasm people, sarcasm) June is pretty much the only time in the summer that would work for me though, so any other time and i wouldn’t be there and it would make me saaaaaaaaad…
we should have everybody that’s allowed to tell us the state they live in and then find the average middle ground that would make it equally inconvenient for everybody.
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But I think Chicago is good. I don’t think my parents would let me go, anyway. Unless they came with and could, like, meet Bobby or Rosie beforehand. They aren’t too enthusiastic about the Blog anyway.
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ditto
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Hey I just worked off two digits thinking about possibilities for the convention!!!!!!!!!!
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I live in the land of the long-leaf pine. Guess Which State?????
Oh fine you Bloggers I live in NC.
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Speaking of braces (though I am not a girl) I have teeth worse than An old British guy. Wait none of you are Britts are you????
Oh no Brittish Hot Pink Bunnies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*screams of agony*
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thats a scary thought
they cant even talk
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PB&J’s our resident crazy brit.
Speaking of brits, we watched a weird version of Antigone today in english and the soldier guy who hands her in was HILARIOUS! He’s supposed to be greek right, and yet the whole time he’s talking in this AMAZING cockney accent. it was soooooo funny!!! i barely managed to keep myself from cracking up…
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Watch out Bloggers Brittish Hot Pink Bunnies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lock your virtual doors and windows and put high Brittish Hot Pink Bunnies defense teams on your convention lists!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I think a virtual convention would be best, just remember to Lock your virtual doors and windows and put high Brittish Hot Pink Bunnies defense teams on your convention lists.
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I have message 82 its like my lucky number!!!!! Wait like who cant stop saying like? like
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arent we having a virtual convention already?
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I think a virtual convention kinda defeats the purpose. (The purpose(s) being, meet musers, drag friends along and promote muse, buy STUFF, and throw pies) Heck, if we want a virtual convention, the GAPA can just make another thread and we can talk, just like we do every other day.
Oh yeah and you can’t get autographs online. If there ever is a convention, all you people’d better sign my koko shirt or else i will stalk you down with silver sharpie in hand… lol
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If you are already “Rehabilitated” I think you need to see Em about the Stalker thing
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Ebeth you are totally scaring me. WE might be able to have a convention but no one but the people in the city would come.
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ummmmmmmm………………….
this is noclaf the lurker who just learned how to post yesterday
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… ok i want to say the state i live in, but it would make me feel better if a person or two made a few more guesses! (just b/c i find it oh so entertaining ) well here are some not-relly-that-hard hints
* in my state im considered a “troll”
* at any given point in this state, u are no farther than 80 miles away from water
* our weather sux!
*canada is a favourite weekend destination
* there are so many tourists here that there should be a hunting season for them
*i work at a fudge shop (this could be a dead give away)
*i live in the nations cherry capital!
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oooohhhh someone is posting at the same time as me because that little green loading bar is going on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on….
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nobodydude is my friend
p.s. hot pink buunies should be anihilated
p.p.s. Koko RAWKS!!!!!!
p.p.p.s. Muse blog rules!
p.p.p.p.s. the # 90 is awesome
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U live in Migichan emogrl? Somewhere around mackinac? No..cherries. OH! I know where u live. I think. Is it TC?
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dark lord i agree with you it scares me EM is a stalker.
nobody dude never again in your life will
you laugh maniaclly
( for those who dont know nobodydude is my friend who goes to the same school as me and is the one who introduced me to muse) P.s do they erase the comments here everyday? cause if not there are not a lot of people who blog here
p.p.s. #92 is also equally awesome
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Do you live in Maine?
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Fudge and cherries, not lobster. I’m now fully convinced that it’s TC or mackinac and am preparing to stalk you next time i come up. (lol jk) Am i right? Do tell.
Of course this could all just be my extreme prejudice for all things migichan, and phoenix could be right, leaving me heartily embarrassed. But for the moment i rest secure in my faith in my ability to determine the approximate area from the details given.
Yes, i’m rambling cuz i have no more ideas for my hw. But that’s irrelevant. Or is it?
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Well, here the posts 1 and 42 are the favorites……
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yeah I guess I virtual convention would sorta defeat the purpose. Im just bitter cause I wouldnt be able to go.
I live in Arizona, though Ive already stated that. Im going to be in Oregon/California all of June. But I guess Chicago is the best place to do it. There should be different types of t shirts for sale, like ones referencing the convention, museblog, HPBs, Mostly Harmless and other musish/muse blogessque things.
i am forced to reside in TC. ok, i know many a ppl are told very, very good things about this city, + if you are DONT LISTEN TO ANY OF IT. GOT THAT?
i may just think this b/c i spent the first 14 yrs of my life in a little community of rednecks, but honestly, TC is perfect-which is exactly why i hate it. hmm, how to actually have this rant make sense… ok, so if you went to a place where absolutely nothing goes wrong + everyones all “smile + behappy!” -ish, it would be nice for maybe a few days-then it starts to make you turn insane. + when something actually does go wrong, ppl completely freak out + fabricate it so much that it turns into an entire soap opera of teenage drama. my philosophy: half your life is things going wrong, so one must live w/ it
oh + then theres all the tourist wandering the streets of downtown aimlessly…its so bad in the summer that you literally cant drive dwntwn for most of any given week.
ok finished. thanks for listening to yet another rant.
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I just hope that is the last of them.
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I am seriously doubting that I am going to go to any kind of Muse convention. If anyone really wants to meet me, go to Nation States, send me a telegram, and I’ll decide if I trust you enough to give you my Xanga and sn so you can contact me. Hey, Ebeth, wouldn’t it be the greatest thing ever if you and I could meet? Maybe we can this summer. That would be totally wonderful beyond belief. Of course, I would have to convince my parents that you’re not a stalker, and I’m not sure how easy that’s going to be, but it could be done. Gosh, I had never thought of that possibility before. Anyway, have fun without me at a Muse convention!!!
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At this rate the Muse Convention will be ready in 2017. Hmmm maybe we could do it at the same time as Spiderman 6???????
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the idea of Muse Summer Camp (i.e.53) is a good.
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I wonder how far off topic we can go before the GAPA shut us down? Any Suggestions?
The Lumberjack song is good.
Anything other than that?
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no i dont live in maine
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JV,
Could you please clarify the connection between Em, laura, Professor of the Weird, Gwyn, Whitefire, and you? Thanks.
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Mr. Coontz, I know JV and unless Em, laura, Professor of the Weird, Gwyn and Whitefire are all people who I Know I don’t think there is a connection.
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Does anyone Know Elvin?
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98-Whatever! TC rocks!!! my cousins live there. tis amazing.
But totally not as cool as marquette. Pretty close though.
Of course, my cousins don’t actually live in TC, they live sorta in the middle of nowhere near TC. They have some AMAZING woods. Great cross-country skiing.
100-MG, my mom would freak and my dad would be fine…as long as you’re not a creepy stalker. Which you possible might be!!! OH NO! AAH!!! *screams, panics, and helplessly runs around in circles*
102-that’d be amazing. We should have one next year.
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i like the idea of a virtual convention
it’s actually plausable!
pwease GAPA pwease make a virtual cnvention!
lots of virtual chocklit if you do!
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ND (106),
All their posts seem to be coming from the same place. But it may just mean that they all get online through AOL or something like that.
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Mr. Coontz, JV does have AOL.
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Yes, we need a little pie throw of love. Lost and lonely every day…
I just had a brainwave. Why don’t we ask our friends the magazine staff to print an invitation to the convention in the magazine? Hmm?
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III DO NOT have Aol………
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Queen J. I think you have had an eppifiny. Yeah Big words!
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Tillion of Rhodes, this is kinda creepy. Concernign post 61, or 62, one of those, the one you wrote, about AZ. To the creepy part. I have glasses, braces, dark hair, however, I’m not short.
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Wait… whats the creepy part? Like I said, no glasses, no braces, darkish hair, not short. Is it that weird that we both have dark hair and are not short? Or am i just being stupid and missing your point?
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What part of the state do you live in King.G? (We are allowed to say the part as long as we keep city names out, right GAPAs?)
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What happened to my post? why isnt it here? Why’d it get zapped?
I was just wondering what King G meant in 115. I dont see whats so creepy.
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Its me Trillian of Rhodes, by the way. That is directed at King George. Just to clarify my last post.
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but your not a girl right? i mean if your a king…
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SNB (117),
Hm… All right, but don’t let your curiosity overwhelm your common sense. Remember, anybody on the Web can read what you post here.
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114- epiphany. Wonderful word.
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Hold on a second… scratch what I said in posts 117 an 118. I wasnt being very attentive last night. Sorry.
Any turning to the actual subject of this thread…. exactly what steps would we take to get it to work? I mean, planning it is great and all, but we can only go so far before we run into the problem of actually having to make it happen.
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it is lurker who is lurking again
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didnt they say that we just needed to keep swamping them w/ request letters? w/ all the newbies now, that shouldnt be too hard
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Now isn’t the best time to ask the publishers to try anything big and different. They’re moving some of the magazines and hiring a lot of new people (including a new assistant editor for Muse; everybody say hi to Samantha!). Better to wait until things settle down a little before deluging them with mail.
Meanwhile, I’d say your best move is to bounce the idea off your parents. With their help (and only with their help), it might be possible to arrange some smaller Muse get-togethers through the blog. If there were enough demand in the Washington area, for example, someone could stake out picnic tables in a park at an agreed-upon date and time, and everybody else could show up bearing pies. This is all theoretical at this point, and again, parents would absolutely have to be involved, but it seems like a workable approach.
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that may be the most logical thing anyone has said on this thread
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Hello Samantha, it’s nice to meet you. I agree that it’s best to treat the editors gently at this point.
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By TC do you mean Traverse City?
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36- hahaha! i am a natural blonde!!! without braces!!!!! and i have contacts, so that fixes the glasses-problem!!!!! i am rather short though….*sigh*
chicago’s not too far from where i live (PA)…..
53- muse summer camp….hmm…….i doubt that would work
june would be awesome. besides, we’ll probably be forced into some kind of family vacation during the week of july fourth…i think i have finals on towel day…
Oh, sorry……I was just wondering. I go there every summer.
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wow. cool… how many other people here live in PA?
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I live in Illinois. Towel Day is may 25.
Us (Jadestone and me) are watch March of the Penguins! Yay penguins!
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What do you mean “are watch March of the Penguins”? Shou;d it be watching?
Is towel-day an actual holliday?
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I think I get out of school on towel day.
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#134: its all good. one can nvr be too cautious-most of the time.
what the deus are you supposed to do on towel day?
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Its 11:11
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Yaaaay the witching hour!
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Oooooh now is 11:12
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137- Yes and yes. Muse summer camp! Totally! I would go and bring my friends. Now i will draw a schedual of what we could do.
1) Meet the Muses! And unpack & meet everyone else. And be nice, in honor of Mimi.
2) Go on computer & blog in honor of Aeiou, then invent somthing in honor of Chad
3) Watch cows and learn random facts in honor of Bo, then learn to fence for a while & have a tournement
4) Go rock climbing & plant a garden in honer of Feather\
5)Go try to catch fish/butterflys/birds in honor of Pwt, and then in honor of Craw recite poetry and sing songs all evening
6)Then look at stars & planets in honor of Urania, and make pies for the next day
7) Have an end of the week pie throwing contest/fight in honor of Kokopelli
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Ok, mayve it wasn’t so creepy, but when you see someone say they’re from Arizona, (where I’m from) and then list off some things, and they just happen to be what you look like, you wonder if a stalker is around.
I’m a boy.
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Whew You had me worried for a little bit.
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About March of the Penguins- first 30 minutes: YAY! PENGUINS! Next five or so hours: My god…penguins…zzz…
Sorry. I really did like it.
I’m voting for having the Convention in NYC. East Village! w000t…
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Okay, maybe not.
-sigh- I’d be willing to drive to Chicago for a museConvention. As long as we had really cool t-shirts. ^_^
53: A Muse summer camp would ba awesome. O_O I would
probably refuse to leave. Would we be able to bring intelligent
non-musers?
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I couldn’ do it on Towel day…….that is when my school musical is
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And I thought I stayed up late.
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53- but it would be very expensive to create the camp itself…..of course, there’s always the option of using an entire floor of a hotel….but that would just be weird
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Chicago would probably be easiest for the staff peoples and a lot of Bloggerz live in Chicago or general Illinois. Otherwise, start savin’ up for that Metra ticket.
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Chicago is the best place for me. My parents aren’t very enthusiastic about the blog, so they probably wouldn’t let me go. Maybe if it was close, though.
Maybe the Illinois Musers could meet up in Chicago, and as many people would come as possible, and if any others want a convention somewhere else, they could start one.
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They could just rent a big space somewhere with lots of land and some buildings. Then we’d do the rest ourselves.
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I think that 1 convention would be better.
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152- or just use a public place, like a park…
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Oooh it would be so fun! If everyone gave an entrance fee i suppose it could pay for itself. Rosanne? Robert? What are youe thoughts on the Muse summer camp?
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i vote chicago
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How long would it be? Where would people stay?
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Chicago’s good for me. We could write up a report/minutes and post it on the blog if we wanted to.
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Hmm Chicago is fine, I guess.
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Hey I just thought of something, if you check out the lotr thread it seems like everyone (including me) needs theripy. We could have a theripest at the conventoin. IF YOU DONT HAVE ONE I WILL SLAY YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!! *several slaps* Oh sorry about that again.
*Goes to seek Best Theripest in the World*
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Another place MuseBloggers could get together is at the Pumpkin Drop that West Virginia University holds every October. It’s in Morgantown, not far from Pittsburgh and not that far from Ohio. A couple of years ago, Nancy Kangas and her son Aaron and I took part, as recounted in the Koko Bomb Saga. It was thoroughly Muse-like and great fun.
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That would be awesome!!!
If we go, we can just wear nametags with our Blog names on ’em.
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Uh, sure. west virginia is even farther away than chicago is. i like the idea of having muse conventions in the state. (i live in mi)
we do need to inform other musers about this, even if they dont blog. gapas, no this isnt my computer. its the local libraries. my computer has a faulty modem & i can go online for 2 minutes before i have 2 start the computer again to get back online. this gives me limited oppertunities to blpog, which is why i havent been posting much.
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that would be cool
has anyone ever seen a “fairy” pumpkin-yes there is such thing. theyre like a regular pumpkin only theyre kind of a pastel orange + also a bit more wide than tall… hard to explain…anyway i painted one last halloween + yeah it was fun
…im still bored
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that would be cool. hahaha everyone would wonder about why we have nametags with weird names on them though….
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That’s the piont.
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YAY!!!
We should have one close to Pittsburgh!!!
Yeah, but the muse bloggers wouldn’t think the names were weird, because we see them all the time. We could also then be able to tell the difference between the regular musers and the musebloggers.
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Or we could all memorize the Lumberjack Song and hang around the Donut Table.
Ha I have made the anoying bar come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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and it is in october? excellent! that will mean that there will be ample supplies of headband bunny ears to dye pink!
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OH! Once we planted some pumpkins in our garden. We did regular orange ones, plus some that were white. Only somehow they got cross-bred, because we ended up with pale peach-colored pumpkins. It was cool!
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white pumpkins are neat but i dont think they make very good pies… *wonders*
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170: We planted pumpkins, zuccini, and squash in the same area of our garden and wow, they were WEIRD. We had these big multi-coloured not-quite-zuccini-pumpkin-OR-squash things growing all over the garden. And they never went away! For a couple of years after we stopped messing with the garden, they kept coming back, over and over again. ’twas scary.
And a warning to anyone who wants to plant a garden: Beware of zuccini. It is evil. It will try to take over the world with sheer numbers someday, mark my words.
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We have a compost pile (where we take fruit peels, vegetable shavings, etc. and put them in a pile until they decompose/turn into dirt and then use it as dirt in our garden) and we put our pumpkin “innards” in our compost pile. When it all decomposed, we used it in our garden, and apparantly the seeds didn’t decompose (obviously) and now we have a HUGE pumpkin patch in our garden!
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*runs from evile army of zucchinis creeping out of fridge*
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sry. over active imagination
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Let’s have one in the center of the earth. That way, evdryone is the same distance away, and there won’t be any fighting over where it will be. Of corse, there are a few technical difficulties that needed to be worked out first…
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That is a good idea, or maybe, instead of fixing those technical difficulties, we should use that time to invent some sort of machine type thing that will stop time, etc. so we can have it then.
That probably made absolutely no sense
oh well………..
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wow! remember the issue with all the theories about what’s in the center of the earth….good times, good times…
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Hmmm, never got any of those, must of been before my time.
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You might be able to check out old muses from the library…that’s what I do
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Go Librarys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i ♥ zuccini.
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i used to live in the library during free periods at my olde school along with all the other social outcasts….bothe permanent(sp?) and temporary. it was depressing when the temporary ones just ditched us whenst they came back into social favour. especially if they made fun of us. *sigh*
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I read durring class, since I usually finish before everyone else, and everyone thinks I’m a loser. Not so much anymore, but last year, when I was new at my school.
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I LOVE the library,
our school library is reallly bad, though.
The librarian sends you mean letters if you have a book out for more than 1 week and don’t return it……..
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my librarians are all really cool (there are 2 at skool and three or four at the public library) Sadly, none of them get muse. I used to read back issues when i went to harriet’s though. She had a bunch. *sigh* Oh, pirate issue! I miss you dearly! I long for the day when we shall be reunited in love!!!
XD
of course, the skool library’s really bad….not much fiction. But it’s alright for a skool library i guess…
doesn’t excuse the lack of pratchett and wodehouse and the insane number of stuff like seperate peace and to kill a mockingbird though (we’re reading to kill a mockingbird now. It was only a matter of time i suppose. I’ve read it twice already…but what the heck, that’s english for you)
I’m really bored…
bored bored bored.
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i do my homework during class. yeah, i’m probably one of the world’s biggest slackers. but it works!
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Me too. I leve librarys. i read all the Muse back issues at the school one, but the public library doesn’t get it.
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#186 say what?8-)
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Ebeth said “I’m gonna go make pretty triangles now bye” in Triangle Form #3. #1 is:
T
Tr
Tri
Tria
Trian
Triang
Triangl
Triangle
Triangles
Triangles R
Triangles Ro
Triangles Roc
Triangles Rock
Triangles Rock!
Triangles Rock
Triangles Roc
Triangles Ro
Triangles R
Triangles
Triangle
Triangl
Triang
Trian
Tria
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#2 is when you do this, but stop when you get to the full sentence, making a right triangle;
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Hell
Hello
Hello a
Hello al
Hello all
Hello all!
and #4 is when you do Triangle #3 but again make only a right triangle. I hope this has helped you understand the inner workings of text triangles!
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and the point of triangles is…?
sorry. but i like linessssssssssssssss yay linessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
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I like tr
I like tri
I like tria
I like trian
I like triang
I like triangl
I like triangle
I like triangles
I like triangle
I like triangl
I like triang
I like trian
I like tria
I like tri
I like tr
I like t
I like
I lik
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Is there a less tedious way to make triangles?
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doubt it.
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Has anyone ever tried a different shape? like a circle?
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That really didn’t turn out to good.
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well. it didn’t turn out too well
well=adverb
good-adjective.
sorry, i’m a bit of a good/well grammar nazi.
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Natzi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Run!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*hides in basement
198- not a facist nazi. a GRAMMAR nazi. enforcing proper english! yay, english! i hate when people whine about eng/lit class. it is really not that bad…
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I know. Only I don’t like the spelling tests. Actually, we don’t have spelling tests, but worse. We get a list of 25 roots (like parts of words. i.e. hydro, pyro, mega) and we have to know what they mean (water, fire, large). There are 100-200 roots on each test, and we have to know what they mean to the letter (if you put rock instead of stone its wrong).
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i cannot spell. but i speak very well.
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Can we have a Muse anniversary party for New Year’s of 2007? Thar would be so unbelievably spiffy.
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We have spelling tests, but I passed through all of them in just a few months…now I don’t have to do them anymore!!
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It is amazing how a thread about a muse convention can turn into this!!
hahaha
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Seriously. spelling tests?
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202-didn’t the nazis speak german?
GRAMERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAYE!!!!!
nott spleling thoh.
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i can say, “monday” in german. montag. i feel so incredibly special. that’s the extent of my german. except for the quoting of rammstien(sp?) songs. but i can only tell you the “gist” of what they mean.
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I can say a very rude word for excrement in German, as well as “Duck Bill”.
My English Teacher made us all assume false personas for grammar. Mine is a French artist with a bad accent named Pierre Le Jauque. Weee.
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isn’t guten tagen hello? And then there was this word for your welcome that always made me think of a butter knife. Ha Ha.
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Ha ha, King George. I think you’re thinking of “bitte sehr.” (Sounds like “bittuh zayr.”) Does that make you think of a butter knife?
“Hello” is “hallo.” “Guten Tag” is “good day” — so it’s a way of saying hello during the day.
I’m trying to learn German these days. It’s hard work — at least at my age. The worst part for me is learning (and remembering) the gender of each noun: masculine, feminine or neuter. AAAACK.
“Tag,” which means “day,” is masculine!
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aren’t all german nouns capitalized?
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Yes, frankenfaerie, that’s what German teachers tell me. All the nouns are capitalized.
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Both my parents speak German…
I was fluent as a child (so they tell me) because they spoke it all the time, but now I don’t really rememer anything
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cool. in benjamin franklin’s autobiography, he capitalized all the nouns.
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really? that is cool…I haven’t read it. Although, they also spelled things differently, putting “e’s” at the end of things, etc.
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Skipping skipping Skipper is hyperactive hee hee!~!~!~!~!~!~!
German sounds so unbelievably cool. My friend spent halfa yeer in Germany.
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218- i like putting “e”s on the endes of words. and the occasional “b” on the ende of words ending in “m”
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anyway…back to the convention idea…
how many people do live in pa? because we could have a mini-convention in philly (which is much cooler than harrisburg). like at the arte museum.
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I live in PA, but it’ll take me at least 7 hours to get there…how about a more central location?!?!
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HELP NEEDED!
There are somewhere around 224 bloggers here, not counting the adults.
There are 40 Sundays left this year.
If each of us sent one e-mail to the mag, begging for a Muse movie, there would be 8,960.00 letters, on that subject. The editors won’t know which way to turn.
NOW THAT’S POLITICS PEOPLE!
Good luck.
PS: If you agree to the Sunday thing, please post the following code on the ‘Muse movie?’ thread:
Your blog name/ Sunday commitment
No need to apologize if you miss a few Sundays. I’m sure we all will.
Hope it works.
We can do it Musers.
Oh and mention the the Muse convention idea if you want to.
Good luck to all of us.
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222- central, like state college? and those snazzy caves by it……i went on a tour through them once…
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or maybe in muse, pa…..*gets really excited*
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We could hold a Muse rally in Muse, Pennsylvania, in October and then drive down to Morgantown, West Virginia, to compete in the Pumpkin Drop.
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but people’d be in skool. Like me…*is sad*
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oh yeah… WAM and some other guy did that, i saw the pics… who took the pics, by the way?
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“Other guys,” actually: Nancy, her son Aaron, and me. Nancy and I took the photographs, except for the one we’re all in. One of the other competitors took that. Great fun!
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oh robert did. ha ha, i knew that.
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you’re all in one? hold on-
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oh, you’re weaing dark glasses. very mysterious.
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ooh aaron yeeess… we forgots about him. why isn’t he on here?
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perhaps we could attempt to make it a school field trip?
if it included a chorus concert, i could probably convince them.
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Peoples…just go to the pumkin drop wearing a nametag with your Blog name and ‘Muser’ written under it in bold print.
Ex:
Hello my name is PHOENIX and I am a proud Muser. Kokopelli for president!
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in school, many years ago, we did something similiar, except we used raw eggs.
mine survived.
i had a box.
and poked small holes in four of the sides (not top and bottom; i had to work through somewhere).
then threaded parts of the legs of nylons through one of the holes and tied a knot at the ende.
then put the egg in and tied knots on either side of it.
then pulled the rest of the material through the hole on the opposite side and tied a knot. the nylons were stretched very tightly.
then i slit the material in half and tied it around the egg throughthe other holes.
box drops. egg, neatly suspended, survives.
i hope that made sense.
perhaps two or even three layers of size xxxl nylons could be used for koko bomb two? same princilpe…
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**principle
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Hey hey, all! I just went and asked my mom if we can go to the pumpkin drop! She asked where it was, I told her, and she said, and I quote, “maybe.”
Yaaaaaay!
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FrF (234),
Does your school chorus know the “Something Wicked This Way Comes” song from the third Harry Potter movie?
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no!!!! *cries*
were the lyrics from macbeth?
i think they were…in a way
*googlesearches*
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble
Something wicked this way comes
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing –
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble
Something wicked this way comes
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Fillet of a fenny snake,
Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf;
Witches’ mummy; maw and gulf
(Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.)
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Something wicked this way comes
hmm…i wonder where i could get the sheet music….
wow. i found the notes hither: [snip, snip snip — Rosanne] but it’ll probably get snipped.
well, just type in:
music “something wicked this way comes” harry potter
in google and click on the first link.
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Will there ever be an acual Muse convention where all Muse readers can come? If there is a Muse Rally in Muse pensyvannia, would everybody come, or just the people that lived around Muse?
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OOOOoooohHH! I memorized the witches’ chant! I LOVE THE WITCHES!!!
Still trying to write my Queen Elizabeth speech, but I have writer’s block. Grr…
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Yay for shakespeare! Who has now become the answer to all of life’s questions in english class. Mostly sam’s doing. Ex:
Lamuth: So blahblah gram-gram blahblah is it I or me?
Random person: I
Lamuth: Why is it I and not me?
Sam: Shakespeare!
Or…
Lamuth: So blahblah greek tragedies what is this part from?
Sam: Shakespeare!
So now other people are doing it too. Shakespeare is the answer to all life’s questions.
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aah. snipped againe.
241- well, there definately should be. but we seem to be a bit…disorganized….yay, muse. oh, and scroll up to read on that. yay, scrolling.
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I used to have “Double Trouble” memorized. I sang it in the shower all the time.
Weeee, a whole lovely thread has been created on my idea! We should have the convention somewhere secluded, because we don’t want to disturb the plodding, non-Muse-reading pedestrians. Perhaps the Yukon? We should bring comic books and marshmallow-chocolate-syrup sandwiches.
From analyzing the occasional descriptions of us the bloggers, I’ve gathered the following:
Most bloggers*
-are female
-human
-short
-have some shade of brown hair
-are in possession of glasses, contact lenses, braces, or any combination of those
-like reading insanely much
-know more of a foreign language than most people
-love music
-are not “popular” people
-like Monty Python, Harry Potter, LotR, and other lovely books/movies
-are better at reading/speaking/writing than most people
Those who thinke that I speake truthe shoulde saye “Yea”; those who deny thatte my thoughts are cleare saye “Nay.”
*Note: this is only a statistic. If you are a very tall, illiterate nonhuman with short blue hair and no sense of humor, then that’s fine too.
none at all. we just like pretending. i always envisioned us getting together when we were much older.
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(245)Yea!
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245- maybe we’ll get our own sort of psychological-profile…because we all know the fbi is watching us….*puts on tinfoil hat* YOU CAN”T HEAR MY THOUGHTS!!!
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#224 – No, I live in Southwestern PA,
Let’s have one in MUSE, PA!!!!!!!!
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(245) i think there are a few more males than there were before (only 2 or 3) but there are still more girls.
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(126) i don’t know… i like knowing you solely on the internet.
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252- what? o, dear. what if we hate eachother in real-life? *cries* IMPOSSIBLE. *de-cries*
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ok i was completely psychotic then. and now i have to watch the episode of numb3rs i recorded…i missed it…was it goode?
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Was it the neweth one on laste nighteth? Yeah, pretty goode. Onlye the writers are havinge the FBI peopleth do alle the worketh and Charlie juste goeth oute on dates. He’s getting lesseth mathe-y and moreth romantic. I don’te thinketh he did muche at alle excepteth kissinge prettye Englishe neurologistse who happeneth to be-eth engagede. He seemeth to have givene uppeth completelye on that nice mathmaticiane Anita whoeth he seemeth to liketh so muche before.
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indeed, i hathe made me sadde. ande i lykedth the mathematiciane amita. and of courseth larrye whoeth shouteth “eureka! it’s archemedies againe!” thate madeth it alle bettereth.
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i hope no one with a lisp had to read those last two posts…
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30 Kansas!
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pretty close. # 245 not short, dont know monty python is, dont really like music. love to read all books and most book series too.
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#245 otherwise its all rite compared to me( insanely loving reading doesnt describe that enuff for me).
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hello
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In response to recent comments on the dissing Mr. Joe thread…Let’s make a thread for that PLEASE!
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In response to recent comments on the dissing Mr. Joe thread…Let’s make a thread for that PLEASE!
Yeah a new thread for muse passwords.
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opps!
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seriously, where is everyone?
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I’m here!!!
Oh, and you posted at 11:22 a.m. museblog time, and I was asleep at that time, but then again, museblog time isn’t my time either. Right now it is 4:05 where I live.
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259-don’t know what monty python is?!?!?!?
*dies of shock*
Go. To. Blockbuster. No. Wait. Blockbuster. Sucks. Go. To. Decent. Library/Movie rental place. Find. Holy. Grail. Check. It. Out. Take. Home. Watch. Fall. Madly. In. Love.
Speaking of monty python, Ebeth has finally heard the lumberjack song!!! Yes, it was on Bill’s ipod which Ebeth stole to stare at amazing squishy bright green cover and fell to looking through songs. She has some cool songs on there. Anyhoo, now i can sing it on the tables w/u peoples (21, 36) Yay!
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i found the lumberjack song online. just search for it in YouTube.
sing-alongs will be great fun.
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You can also get it from Netflix, but you have to pay for that too.
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HI!!
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hi!!! *random*
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HI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nobody’s here!
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I AM!!!
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-254-
I am a short male w/red hair. But I know more elvish than any non-museblogger
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red hair is very froody. i loathe being blonde. i’m trying to keep my hair out of the sun to darken it, but that’s not going well…
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to MongomeryGurl (#66) i am also tall, and have reddish hair. so some ppl might confuse us but i sort of doubt it.
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I have red hair, and it lightens a little in the sun, but not really…
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Lol, I don’t have braces or glasses, but I’d be glad to spot glasses and a crown if it went along with the Muse convention spirit! I am short and dark-haired, though. I’m not too far from Chicago; I could probably get there if there were a convention. I could definitely go to the next Pumpkin thing if I know the date ahead of time, I’m pretty sure I could go anyways. Any other Muse fans in the Kentucky-Indiana area around?
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i’m in NEPA. we should have a “states we live[d] in” thread. it would be spiffy.
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That would be cool..I was born in NJ, moved to MA when I was little, and moved to PA when I was 5…still here.
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States we live(d) in? MI and OOHI. Oohi for a grand total of 8 months. Rest of life (ie almost 14 yrs) in Migichan.
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About that list of bloggers, let’s see…
EtA’s checklist:
-are female (yes)
-human (more or less)
-short (yes – 5’2 and probably going to stay that way)
-have some shade of brown hair (darkish brown)
-are in possession of glasses, contact lenses, braces, or any combination of those (nope, but I might have glasses in the future)
-like reading insanely much (yes!)
-know more of a foreign language than most people (probably)
-love music (I don’t play any, but I still love it)
-are not “popular” people (lol, yes, very much yes)
-like Monty Python, Harry Potter, LotR, and other lovely books/movies (yes!)
-are better at reading/speaking/writing than most people (depends, but probably)
yay.
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-are female (yes)
-human (i prefer the term, huwomon)
-short (5’3″, i’d say…)
-have some shade of brown hair (actually, dirty bolnde. if i stay out of the sun)
-are in possession of glasses, contact lenses, braces, or any combination of those (glasses, not braces)
-like reading insanely much (heck yes!)
-know more of a foreign language than most people (probably)
-love music (indeed!)
-are not “popular” people (i don’t think half of the people in my school know that i exist…)
-like Monty Python, Harry Potter, LotR, and other lovely books/movies (yes!)
-are better at reading/speaking/writing than most people (relatively. grammar pwns.)
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All right, the service can be poky. But you have to admit you can’t beat the price.
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hey, we could have a convention at hershey park if anyone else is going to be there with their chorus/band/orchestra.
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I’m not going to Hershey anytime soon, but it’s closer than Chicago!
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It’s terribly selfish of me, I know, but I’d like to request in advance that the Muse Convention, if it occurs this summer, not be held anywhere from June 21-July 10 because I will be in Italy then and I’ll miss it. However, if it must be held when I’m unable to attend I understand; I’ll wish it best of luck while I’m on vacation! : D
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yes, please do not schedule the convention for the week of july4. i’m always on vacation then…
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Lets do it in late August, or mid-june
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292- Mid-June would be bueno…
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Vote Ptolemy over Grant on the Boy’s Power Thread!
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Okay I wrote this about the convention:
Nobodydude was having nightmares again. He hadn’t been able to sleep very well since Frodo replaced him on Museblog. But this time his nightmare was different, because this time it was real. Nobodydude saw a dark room and as his eyes adjusted to the light he could see a chair, he thought that he could see someone in the chair, but his attention was drawn to a person who had come into the room. The person wore fake glasses and braces. As the person bent down on one knee his crown fell off and reaching for it the person said in a low, masculine voice “It has been done Master.†As the man stood up, he could see that the teen (for he was a teen) was wearing a tee-shirt that said in bold letters “Muse Conventionâ€. Still slightly bent down, Nobodydude couldn’t see much more. Swiveling around in the chair, the person in the chair said “Good, number two, good. Now enlist others to our cause. Squinting a little Nobodydude could barely make out the outline of two stick legs and two stick arms. In one of these arms held a flute. “Now go.†said the thing in the chair. Standing up completely, Nobodydude could see that the teen had on a sticker; it said “Hi My Name Is Mutt†on it. As Mutt walked away Nobodydude started to wake up. If only he had told someone the chaos could have been avoided.
Chapter 1:
There was chaos at the Muse Convention…
To be cont.
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A muse convention??? That would be soooo cool! It would be hard for musers to convince their parents to take them out of state, though. Mabe Muse could do a survey of towns where the most readers live and have the convention in a lot of places. There could be cameras so everyone could see what was happening in other cities???
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August 4th. Right by the Muse office building on LaSalle street in chicago.
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Hey, here’s a thought:
In an upcoming issue of Muse, there could be a special vacation package offer.
VACATION FOR MAXIMUM OF 10 TO CHICAGO ILLINOISE!
Come to Chicago on (such and such date) to join us in the festivities of the Muse Convention!
Running from (3rd of something to 6th of something) .
The convention feattures:
A chance to meet the Muse crew, and Larry Gonick.
Help put an issue together.
Exciting hands on projects.
Great food.
A pie throwing contest.
Learn to draw the Muses workshop, by Larry Gonick.
Reading groups (space limited).
Take your picture with your favorite Muse.
Tour of the Muse Offices.
Special Documentary screening:
The History of the Greatest Magazine Since Anything *
* A DVD version of which, will be available as you leave
AND FINALLY:
A three night stay in a nearby Hilton Hotel.
All expenses paid.
Offer ends (such and such date).
So sign up now.
WE PROMISE A GRAND TIME!
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Nice , but you’d have to actually get those things. Who knows if we can really get Larry Gonick to come or Carus to pay for out hotel? (speaking of which, why is it that you the three night stay is the last thing, as though it is the best? I wouldn’t care if I stayed in a ditch in the road, as long as I got to meet other musers) .
I think we should just plan a day to meet at Muse HQ, then find some place to party. You know, make and throw and eat pies, talk about books, plan Mostly Harmless, plan ways to booste Muse, have a talent show or something like that.
It doesn’t need to be so official, I think that would just be hard to organize and expensive.
Fun ideas though! – just perhaps a tad unrealistic (then again, so’s the whole thing, so I guess it doesn’t matter)
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Carus is so incredibly poor that they wouldn’t do that. (Okay, maybe not that poor. But I don’t think they’d do it.) I’d offer up my house as the party location, but then ya’ll would stalk me so bad that my eyes would spin and my head would pop out.
We could go there, bring money for ourselves, and then ‘convince’ an editor or two to drive us around and take us to restaurants and stuff. Sometime in mid-July work for you?
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Yeah. I’ll just sneak away from camp, hitchike from the ranch to the nearest town with an airport, pack myself in a bag and put myself on the next plane to Chicago. Then I’ll sleep in a dumpster, beg for money, catch a bus to Muse HQ, go to the convention, have a great time, hide myself back in a sutcase, fly back to cali, hitchhike back to camp, and be back before they notice I’m gone.
Sounds liek a plan to me, eh?
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w00t.
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55- No! But… where is the offices? Then I’ll look.
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Maybe we should go on August 1? MB’s birthday and GAPA appreciation day!
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All I know is the offices are somewhere in Chicago Illinoise.
I don’t know exactly where.
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The address to the Muse Offices is somewhere in the Mag. I know a lot of us live in the Illinois/Chicago area, Me, Penatonikk, I *think* Queenie J. And maybe Kiki.
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Just e-mail Samantha Sordyl at muse@caruspub.com and invite her to invite you over for tea. She likes Musers. (Doesn’t everybody?)
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I used to be 3 hrs from chicago. Now i’m 6 :'( so sad…
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What does Samantha do?
Is she an editor?
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GUESS WHAT?
We’ve reached 300 posts on the original ‘Muse Movie’ thread.
Furst posTTTTT
yes no maybe so?
so…how do we do it?
i personally hink its like the muse acadamy (very improbable)
hey !
i dont even know if i got first post or not because the GAPA arnt here!
PLAN FOR THE MUSE CONVENTION:
1) Location: Muse offices in Chicago.
2) Food: Pies. Duh. And doughnuts and vegetables. Consult Feather.
3) People: Musers, Musebloggers, Editorial Staff, and any other interested parties. Parents may come if they must. Sigh.
4) To do: Mingle. Eat. Talk. Throw pies. Develop theories and plan Mostly Harmless.
5) When: Towel Day?
Feel free to denounce this if necessary. Mr. Yoda, if you make the first post here I shall be forced to do something nasty to your internal organs. Pale. Go on, pale. I can tell your complexion is all rosy-cheeked. Ruddy (pun intended) non-tormenters!
dont worry!
i got it!
How am I suposed to get to Chicago! I think we should wait until teleportation is invented. I hope it’s soon. Please, be soooooooon!!!!!!!!
I live in AZ, by the way
God, you guys are fast. The GAPA are here. Mr. Coontz is present, anyway. And those vapid posts are simply frittering away valuable space we could use for evil-I mean, other-purposes. Tut, tut. Grim show.
Cool. Soon. In Chicago. That is all.
i wont denouce it…i was just in a bad mood-anyway sounds cool yet slllllllliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhtttttttttly improbable.
just a little
from MI to chicago? sounds good .when? better be in summer when thers no skool. ACK!!!!!! i will have to do a ton of favors to wrangle my mom into bringing me. ah well . where theres a will theres a way and NO WAY am i going to stay away
if there was one by chance, + if it was in chicago then i might actually be able to go, so that would be cool.
hey, we could hav a pie inventing contest! wed eat the ones that turn out ok, + throw the disgusting ones!
jadestone, you are scaring me. i shall now go further my reputation as a stalker.
you had a reputation as a stalker?
*runs away screaming help! stalker! help ! save me!*
I think if we had a MuseBlog convention, with all of us Bloggers, we shouldn’t give our names, and then at the end of the day we’d all guess who was who by their personalities. We’d see how well we know each other from the Blog!
*switches to alias to aviod stalking*
cool idea VF
I would never be able to go, but it would be AMAZING if I could.
If it ever does happen, I’ll give you a clue: I almost always wear red.
amazing its like a 6 hour drive from where i live but i may be to go. BIG MAYBE THOUGH! my mom says you cant have conventions without lecturers. she doesnt seem to understand that its for musers just to meet each other. but shes not a muser. she says its still a maybe andthe convention may not happen. i like VFs idea,but shouldnt ALL musers come not just bloggers? my mom mwont give me permission until we’re sure this will happen ! of course it will!!!!! the gapas have posted this surely thats in our favor?!? it must be!
But if they’re not bloggers, how will they know about it? And we’ll all already know each other, so wouldn’t the others feel left out?
You’d be able to guess me after the donuts. I’d be the one dancing around on tables and singing the Lumberjack Song, generally driving everyone batty and loving it.
Chicago, Muse offices, full security. Any stalker shows up, the receptionist’ll throw ’em out. Either summer or Towel Day sounds good, though I’m leaning summer. Not everyone here lives in IL, after all.
VF: that would be fun
cmon ppl, lets not abandon hope here
Throw “’em” out, ha ha haaaaaa. And Em’s a stalker!!!! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA–sorry. Don’t know what got into me.
Illinois, definitely. Chicago is OK…I don’t live anywhere near either of those places…
There is some rather interesting history about Illinois…
I just had a dream that i went and pied all of you
peed or pied? sorry couldnt help it. VF, the answers easy. have the gapas or someone else high up post it in muse mag. then every1 will know.
has anyone considered that a muse convention is just what we need to further the kokonspiracy?
I had a dream in which I didn’t get pied
Not Chicago (I live in Canada
) It would be totally cool to have a convention I would try to come but probably couldn’t 
It would be sooooo much FUN.
detroit would be closer to canada wouldnt it?
We should find a place that is in teh middle of where everyone lives, but I reallize that people probably live ALL over. Are we allowed to say where we live?
I dunno, Chicago is probably farther away. Or is It?????*maniacle laughter*
*more maniacle laughter*
Clara,
Giving the name of the state you live in is OK.
Why isn’t OK spelled ok or o.k. or even O. K.?????
It is sometimes. By english teachers leering at you through their evil red eyes. O.K. their eyes aren’t really red. But they’re red in spirit…
RRF (21),
That description could fit almost anyone. I’m sure Juliette and Ebeth at least would also be dancing on the tables singing the Monty Python lumberjack song.
From what you’ve all said about yourselves in the past, I gather that most of the girls on the blog (MG excepted) are short and dark-haired with glasses and braces. You might have trouble telling one another apart even after you’d identified yourselves.
Chicago is where the Muse offices are located, and a lot of us seem to live in IL. Speaking of which, A-C probably won’t be coming to the convention. Her mom’s totally paranoid about that kind of stuff.
How about we invite all Musers, but have a special room/table set aside for bloggers? Then again, the new office is so small that that might not work.
hey, I don’t have either glasses or braces.. I am short and dark-haired, though….
Oh, and technically “OK” should be spelled “O.K.” According to style manuals I’m familiar with, you separate the letters with periods (“full stops” to you Brits; don’t know what Canadians call them) if you pronounce each letter separately, but you leave the periods out if you pronounce the whole thing as a word. That’s why I pronounce GAPA to rhyme with “Frank Zappa.” Right?
Speaking of British vs. American names for punctuation marks, what Americans call “quotation marks” (or informally “quotes”), Brits call “inverted commas.”
Hey! I don’t have glasses or braces! In fact, I like to make fun of my braces-ed friends, wonderful person that I am.
Oh, he’s a lumberjack and he’s okay
He sleeps all night and he works all day…
[rest of song deleted for references to transvestite-ism]
That was me.
Well, we could have buckets of temporary glasses and braces available at the door, next to the name tags. And we could identify MuseBloggers with crowns, a la Narnia.
(“Edmund the Just,” indeed! Edmund the Just Plain Obnoxious, if you ask me.)
( dead parrot sketch)
I never wanted to do this job in the first place!
I… I wanted to be…
A LUMBERJACK!
(piano vamp)
Leaping from tree to tree! As they float down the mighty rivers of
British Columbia! With my best girl by my side!
The Larch!
The Pine!
The Giant Redwood tree!
The Sequoia!
The Little Whopping Rule Tree!
We’d sing! Sing! Sing!
Oh, I’m a lumberjack, and I’m okay,
I sleep all night and I work all day.
CHORUS: He’s a lumberjack, and he’s okay,
He sleeps all night and he works all day.
I cut down trees, I eat my lunch,
I go to the lava-try.
On Wednesdays I go shoppin’
And have buttered scones for tea.
Mounties: He cuts down trees, he eats his lunch,
He goes to the lava-try.
On Wednesdays ‘e goes shoppin’
And has buttered scones for tea.
CHORUS
I cut down trees, I skip and jump,
I like to press wild flowers.
I put on women’s clothing,
And hang around in bars.
Mounties: He cuts down trees, he skips and jumps,
He likes to press wild flowers.
He puts on women’s clothing
And hangs around…. In bars???????
CHORUS
I chop down trees, I wear high heels,
Suspendies and a bra.
I wish I’d been a girlie
Just like my dear papa.
Mounties: He cuts down trees, he wears high heels
Suspendies?? and a …. a Bra????
(spoken, raggedly) What’s this? Wants to be a *girlie*? Oh, My!
And I thought you were so rugged! Poofter!
CHORUS
All: He’s a lumberjack, and he’s okaaaaaaayyy….. (BONG)
Sound Cue: The Liberty Bell March, by John Phillip Sousa.
-or-
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Dear Sir,
I wish to complain on the stronglyest possible terms about the previous
entry in this file about the lumberjack who wears womens’ clothes. Some of
my best friends are lumberjacks, and only a FEW of them are transvestites.
Yours faithfully,
Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong, Mrs.
P.S. I have never kissed the editor of the radio times.
note to GAPA
censorship’s okay if want to
I pronounce GAPA the same way they do. I think the Anonymous Conference is a good idea. Everyone would recognize me by the way I ramble on about HG2G for hours at the slightest provocation. And sometimes no provocation, to be frank.
Summer? I have camp in summer! In Maine! I’d have to send someone from my cabinet, and I can’t spare them because they have to rule the country while I’m away! Earth Towel Day sounds much better. Or we could have a Virtual Convention and get the GAPA, those cuddly little dream-rabbits, to pull up a chatroom. Hmm? GAPA, you wonderful darlings?
The Muse crew should make a note to themselves, to have a deep disscusion on the possiblity of making a Muse movie.
After all, Larry Gonick supports us, so why not take it into considoration?
summer would be better. i AM dark haired. i do wear glasses. i dont have braces yet, but i will. i AM NOT HOWEVER, short. im considred tall for my age.
i tried to calculate the time it would take to drive from my house to chicago. about 6 hrs if there is bad traffic. 4 1/2 if its good. how long will the convention take, anyhow?
I have braces….
I live in Pennsylvania, which is East, but Chicago sounds fine
Summer is the best time in my opinion, because nobody has school (unless you go to a year-round school). I know people have camp, etc. I go to MI every summer……It would be hard to find a time when everyone can do it. Oh, I don’t know!
What would a muse movie be about?
sorry to post so many times, I keep forgetting things!
maybe movie version of attack of the smart pies
which i havent read yet
No braces or glasses for me, but I have VERY dark hair (almost black) and I am short.
Maybe we could have a Muse summer camp?
How ’bout the GAPAs email us special invites? then we’d know who’s a museblogger and who’s a plain old muser. because the musebloggers would have the invites!!!
HEY!!!!!!!!!! HAs anyone tried to see the Muse ofices from Google earth? That would be cooooool…
Short and dark hair and glasses are all good, but i don’t have braces. And i have short hair too. And i’d probably be wearing some kind of band geek sweatshirt. Or a muse one if you make them…*puppy dog eyes*
And i would gladly dance on the tables with you, but i sadly have never actually seen/heard the lumberjack song and so could not sing along.
I can recite the entire script of the holy grail by heart though.
It should definitely be in the summer, but not in july. Everything’s always in july. Summer classes-July (Which means i can’t take the UN sim class *is sad*) Blue lake, and plenty of other summer camps-July. August is out too-Band camp for us band geeks, and the orchestra does stuff too, plus that’s when sports start if anybody plays sports…
It’d have to be in June sometime, preferably late/middle-ish in June, obviously after everybody gets out of skool, and hopefully before everybody scurries off to their July frolicking.
Musebloggers could recognize each other by a rather simple method-If somebody says, “Hi, I’m Jill!” they’re probably not a MBer. If somebody says something more along the lines of “Hi, I’m Dark Lord of Darkness!” or “Hi, I’m Jadestone” they’d be easily recognizable.
I fall under but two of those catagories: Braces and glasses
Grettings, Rebel, I am the Ultimant Mence of the Jedi, the final Sith, Darth Yoda!
Muhahahahahahaha!
What’s the address?
I don’t have braces! My teeth are perfect. But I am short and have dark hair and glasses.
Maybe people who are short with dark hair and glasses are smarter than average, so they’re the people who are most attracted to Muse, and are attracted enough to come here on the MuseBlog…… Hmm. More studies are needed.
#42, in the original TV show it went from the homicidal barber sketch to the lumberjack song
gotta point that out
actually, memphis is the city closest to the center of the United States
that works for those of us who live in horrid TN. (i could stay with my aunt and uncle, who would probably harbor someone else)
but i could stay with my cousin in chicago. she works at a theater there, so we would all have to go out to the red moon theater and see their show…!
not short, no braces. i do have short red hair and glasses though. maybe i should dye it blue…?
King George- woohoo!! Another AZ Museblogger!
Not short, no braces, no glasses (though I do kinda need them) but I do have dark hair.
Chicago in June… man I want to go to this thing but I probably can’t, my summer’s pretty packed. But I will post ideas anyway. Maybe we could make the convention an annual thing, and move it around so different people would get to go. I like VF’s idea about trying to guess whos who.
Virtual convention would be a great thing for those if us who cant make it! Please GAPAs darling dearests?
June is the best month for me
I have braces and short reddish hair……
i am not short 4 the second time!! if lecturers need to be at a cunvention lets get paul baker to lecture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we’ll need to have the convention before july 4th if possible. thats the only time when most of us will be… ummmm… without things to do and places to go
Yeah, I have summer high school prep in June. But I do live nearby, so getting there won’t be as hard for me.
We should do it in June, though. If you don’t know why I say this, you have never fried an egg on the sidewalk in Chicago in July. I am only slightly exxagerating, which is the scary part.
Hullo peoples, just so you know, there is no possible way I could go to this thing. Chicago? Uh uh. And my parents wouldn’t dream of taking me, even if it was only a few hours away.
Yes, I think I’m the only girl on this blog who’s tall with red hair. Everyone would know me.
NO! We need you, MG! Where/when would be convinient for you and not evilly hard for everyone else?
I’m not tall, but I have red hair….. Where do you live, MG?
I have medium dark hair, glasses, and braces that are leaving soon! yay! No more braces soon! I dunno how far away from chicago I live. I live close enough to Chicago though. (4-6 hours away) hmm… summer would work though I’m insanely busy. Maybe part of June that isn’t the last two weeks or maybe the last week of August. I’d also have to pay for it myself probably… Maybe the summer of 2007 would work better to give everyone advance notice as they might have allready planned conflicting activities. When exactally is towel day?
Would a virtual conventionion be any different from regular Blogging?
Yeah, I agree with #70, it would be pretty similar
I live right near chicago, in the great land of OOHI! oh joy. (sarcasm people, sarcasm) June is pretty much the only time in the summer that would work for me though, so any other time and i wouldn’t be there and it would make me saaaaaaaaad…
we should have everybody that’s allowed to tell us the state they live in and then find the average middle ground that would make it equally inconvenient for everybody.
But I think Chicago is good. I don’t think my parents would let me go, anyway. Unless they came with and could, like, meet Bobby or Rosie beforehand. They aren’t too enthusiastic about the Blog anyway.
ditto
Hey I just worked off two digits thinking about possibilities for the convention!!!!!!!!!!
I live in the land of the long-leaf pine. Guess Which State?????
Oh fine you Bloggers I live in NC.
Speaking of braces (though I am not a girl) I have teeth worse than An old British guy. Wait none of you are Britts are you????
Oh no Brittish Hot Pink Bunnies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*screams of agony*
thats a scary thought
they cant even talk
PB&J’s our resident crazy brit.
Speaking of brits, we watched a weird version of Antigone today in english and the soldier guy who hands her in was HILARIOUS! He’s supposed to be greek right, and yet the whole time he’s talking in this AMAZING cockney accent. it was soooooo funny!!! i barely managed to keep myself from cracking up…
Watch out Bloggers Brittish Hot Pink Bunnies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lock your virtual doors and windows and put high Brittish Hot Pink Bunnies defense teams on your convention lists!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think a virtual convention would be best, just remember to Lock your virtual doors and windows and put high Brittish Hot Pink Bunnies defense teams on your convention lists.
I have message 82 its like my lucky number!!!!! Wait like who cant stop saying like? like
arent we having a virtual convention already?
I think a virtual convention kinda defeats the purpose. (The purpose(s) being, meet musers, drag friends along and promote muse, buy STUFF, and throw pies) Heck, if we want a virtual convention, the GAPA can just make another thread and we can talk, just like we do every other day.
Oh yeah and you can’t get autographs online. If there ever is a convention, all you people’d better sign my koko shirt or else i will stalk you down with silver sharpie in hand…
lol
If you are already “Rehabilitated” I think you need to see Em about the Stalker thing
Ebeth you are totally scaring me. WE might be able to have a convention but no one but the people in the city would come.
ummmmmmmm………………….
this is noclaf the lurker who just learned how to post yesterday
… ok i want to say the state i live in, but it would make me feel better if a person or two made a few more guesses! (just b/c i find it oh so entertaining
) well here are some not-relly-that-hard hints
* in my state im considered a “troll”
* at any given point in this state, u are no farther than 80 miles away from water
* our weather sux!
*canada is a favourite weekend destination
* there are so many tourists here that there should be a hunting season for them
*i work at a fudge shop (this could be a dead give away)
*i live in the nations cherry capital!
oooohhhh someone is posting at the same time as me because that little green loading bar is going on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on….
nobodydude is my friend
p.s. hot pink buunies should be anihilated
p.p.s. Koko RAWKS!!!!!!
p.p.p.s. Muse blog rules!
p.p.p.p.s. the # 90 is awesome
U live in Migichan emogrl? Somewhere around mackinac? No..cherries. OH! I know where u live. I think. Is it TC?
dark lord i agree with you it scares me EM is a stalker.
AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nobody dude never again in your life will
you laugh maniaclly
( for those who dont know nobodydude is my friend who goes to the same school as me and is the one who introduced me to muse) P.s do they erase the comments here everyday? cause if not there are not a lot of people who blog here
p.p.s. #92 is also equally awesome
Do you live in Maine?
Fudge and cherries, not lobster. I’m now fully convinced that it’s TC or mackinac and am preparing to stalk you next time i come up. (lol jk) Am i right? Do tell.
Of course this could all just be my extreme prejudice for all things migichan, and phoenix could be right, leaving me heartily embarrassed. But for the moment i rest secure in my faith in my ability to determine the approximate area from the details given.
Yes, i’m rambling cuz i have no more ideas for my hw. But that’s irrelevant. Or is it?
Well, here the posts 1 and 42 are the favorites……
yeah I guess I virtual convention would sorta defeat the purpose. Im just bitter cause I wouldnt be able to go.
I live in Arizona, though Ive already stated that. Im going to be in Oregon/California all of June. But I guess Chicago is the best place to do it. There should be different types of t shirts for sale, like ones referencing the convention, museblog, HPBs, Mostly Harmless and other musish/muse blogessque things.
ahh! i do believe youve hit on it!
*quickly goes + locks all the doors + windows*
lol, jk, jk!
i am forced to reside in TC. ok, i know many a ppl are told very, very good things about this city, + if you are DONT LISTEN TO ANY OF IT. GOT THAT?
i may just think this b/c i spent the first 14 yrs of my life in a little community of rednecks, but honestly, TC is perfect-which is exactly why i hate it. hmm, how to actually have this rant make sense… ok, so if you went to a place where absolutely nothing goes wrong + everyones all “smile + behappy!” -ish, it would be nice for maybe a few days-then it starts to make you turn insane. + when something actually does go wrong, ppl completely freak out + fabricate it so much that it turns into an entire soap opera of teenage drama. my philosophy: half your life is things going wrong, so one must live w/ it
oh + then theres all the tourist wandering the streets of downtown aimlessly…its so bad in the summer that you literally cant drive dwntwn for most of any given week.
ok finished. thanks for listening to yet another rant.
I just hope that is the last of them.
I am seriously doubting that I am going to go to any kind of Muse convention. If anyone really wants to meet me, go to Nation States, send me a telegram, and I’ll decide if I trust you enough to give you my Xanga and sn so you can contact me. Hey, Ebeth, wouldn’t it be the greatest thing ever if you and I could meet? Maybe we can this summer. That would be totally wonderful beyond belief. Of course, I would have to convince my parents that you’re not a stalker, and I’m not sure how easy that’s going to be, but it could be done. Gosh, I had never thought of that possibility before. Anyway, have fun without me at a Muse convention!!!
At this rate the Muse Convention will be ready in 2017. Hmmm maybe we could do it at the same time as Spiderman 6???????
the idea of Muse Summer Camp (i.e.53) is a good.
I wonder how far off topic we can go before the GAPA shut us down? Any Suggestions?
The Lumberjack song is good.
Anything other than that?
no i dont live in maine
JV,
Could you please clarify the connection between Em, laura, Professor of the Weird, Gwyn, Whitefire, and you? Thanks.
Mr. Coontz, I know JV and unless Em, laura, Professor of the Weird, Gwyn and Whitefire are all people who I Know I don’t think there is a connection.
Does anyone Know Elvin?
98-Whatever! TC rocks!!! my cousins live there. tis amazing.
But totally not as cool as marquette. Pretty close though.
Of course, my cousins don’t actually live in TC, they live sorta in the middle of nowhere near TC. They have some AMAZING woods. Great cross-country skiing.
100-MG, my mom would freak and my dad would be fine…as long as you’re not a creepy stalker. Which you possible might be!!! OH NO! AAH!!! *screams, panics, and helplessly runs around in circles*
102-that’d be amazing. We should have one next year.
i like the idea of a virtual convention
it’s actually plausable!
pwease GAPA pwease make a virtual cnvention!
lots of virtual chocklit if you do!
ND (106),
All their posts seem to be coming from the same place. But it may just mean that they all get online through AOL or something like that.
Mr. Coontz, JV does have AOL.
Yes, we need a little pie throw of love. Lost and lonely every day…
I just had a brainwave. Why don’t we ask our friends the magazine staff to print an invitation to the convention in the magazine? Hmm?
III DO NOT have Aol………
Queen J. I think you have had an eppifiny. Yeah Big words!
Tillion of Rhodes, this is kinda creepy. Concernign post 61, or 62, one of those, the one you wrote, about AZ. To the creepy part. I have glasses, braces, dark hair, however, I’m not short.
Wait… whats the creepy part? Like I said, no glasses, no braces, darkish hair, not short. Is it that weird that we both have dark hair and are not short? Or am i just being stupid and missing your point?
What part of the state do you live in King.G? (We are allowed to say the part as long as we keep city names out, right GAPAs?)
What happened to my post? why isnt it here? Why’d it get zapped?
I was just wondering what King G meant in 115. I dont see whats so creepy.
Its me Trillian of Rhodes, by the way. That is directed at King George. Just to clarify my last post.
but your not a girl right? i mean if your a king…
SNB (117),
Hm… All right, but don’t let your curiosity overwhelm your common sense. Remember, anybody on the Web can read what you post here.
114- epiphany. Wonderful word.
Hold on a second… scratch what I said in posts 117 an 118. I wasnt being very attentive last night. Sorry.
Any turning to the actual subject of this thread…. exactly what steps would we take to get it to work? I mean, planning it is great and all, but we can only go so far before we run into the problem of actually having to make it happen.
it is lurker who is lurking again
didnt they say that we just needed to keep swamping them w/ request letters? w/ all the newbies now, that shouldnt be too hard
Now isn’t the best time to ask the publishers to try anything big and different. They’re moving some of the magazines and hiring a lot of new people (including a new assistant editor for Muse; everybody say hi to Samantha!). Better to wait until things settle down a little before deluging them with mail.
Meanwhile, I’d say your best move is to bounce the idea off your parents. With their help (and only with their help), it might be possible to arrange some smaller Muse get-togethers through the blog. If there were enough demand in the Washington area, for example, someone could stake out picnic tables in a park at an agreed-upon date and time, and everybody else could show up bearing pies. This is all theoretical at this point, and again, parents would absolutely have to be involved, but it seems like a workable approach.
that may be the most logical thing anyone has said on this thread
Hello Samantha, it’s nice to meet you. I agree that it’s best to treat the editors gently at this point.
By TC do you mean Traverse City?
36- hahaha! i am a natural blonde!!! without braces!!!!! and i have contacts, so that fixes the glasses-problem!!!!! i am rather short though….*sigh*
chicago’s not too far from where i live (PA)…..
53- muse summer camp….hmm…….i doubt that would work
june would be awesome. besides, we’ll probably be forced into some kind of family vacation during the week of july fourth…i think i have finals on towel day…
hello, samantha!
#129: yeah, thats the place. uh, id appreciate it if its just referred to as TC here, b/c now ppl know pretty much exactly where i live, and im a little paranoid… thanks
When is Towel day?
I live in PA too
Oh, sorry……I was just wondering. I go there every summer.
wow. cool… how many other people here live in PA?
I live in Illinois. Towel Day is may 25.
Us (Jadestone and me) are watch March of the Penguins! Yay penguins!
(136)
What do you mean “are watch March of the Penguins”? Shou;d it be watching?
Is towel-day an actual holliday?
I think I get out of school on towel day.
#134: its all good. one can nvr be too cautious-most of the time.
what the deus are you supposed to do on towel day?
Its 11:11
Yaaaay the witching hour!
Oooooh now is 11:12
137- Yes and yes. Muse summer camp! Totally! I would go and bring my friends. Now i will draw a schedual of what we could do.
1) Meet the Muses! And unpack & meet everyone else. And be nice, in honor of Mimi.
2) Go on computer & blog in honor of Aeiou, then invent somthing in honor of Chad
3) Watch cows and learn random facts in honor of Bo, then learn to fence for a while & have a tournement
4) Go rock climbing & plant a garden in honer of Feather\
5)Go try to catch fish/butterflys/birds in honor of Pwt, and then in honor of Craw recite poetry and sing songs all evening
6)Then look at stars & planets in honor of Urania, and make pies for the next day
7) Have an end of the week pie throwing contest/fight in honor of Kokopelli
Ok, mayve it wasn’t so creepy, but when you see someone say they’re from Arizona, (where I’m from) and then list off some things, and they just happen to be what you look like, you wonder if a stalker is around.
I’m a boy.
(144)
Whew You had me worried for a little bit.
About March of the Penguins- first 30 minutes: YAY! PENGUINS! Next five or so hours: My god…penguins…zzz…
Sorry. I really did like it.
I’m voting for having the Convention in NYC. East Village! w000t…
_>
Okay, maybe not.
-sigh- I’d be willing to drive to Chicago for a museConvention. As long as we had really cool t-shirts. ^_^
53: A Muse summer camp would ba awesome. O_O I would
probably refuse to leave. Would we be able to bring intelligent
non-musers?
I couldn’ do it on Towel day…….that is when my school musical is
And I thought I stayed up late.
53- but it would be very expensive to create the camp itself…..of course, there’s always the option of using an entire floor of a hotel….but that would just be weird
Chicago would probably be easiest for the staff peoples and a lot of Bloggerz live in Chicago or general Illinois. Otherwise, start savin’ up for that Metra ticket.
Chicago is the best place for me. My parents aren’t very enthusiastic about the blog, so they probably wouldn’t let me go. Maybe if it was close, though.
Maybe the Illinois Musers could meet up in Chicago, and as many people would come as possible, and if any others want a convention somewhere else, they could start one.
They could just rent a big space somewhere with lots of land and some buildings. Then we’d do the rest ourselves.
I think that 1 convention would be better.
152- or just use a public place, like a park…
Oooh it would be so fun! If everyone gave an entrance fee i suppose it could pay for itself. Rosanne? Robert? What are youe thoughts on the Muse summer camp?
i vote chicago
How long would it be? Where would people stay?
Chicago’s good for me. We could write up a report/minutes and post it on the blog if we wanted to.
Hmm Chicago is fine, I guess.
Hey I just thought of something, if you check out the lotr thread it seems like everyone (including me) needs theripy. We could have a theripest at the conventoin. IF YOU DONT HAVE ONE I WILL SLAY YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!! *several slaps* Oh sorry about that again.
*Goes to seek Best Theripest in the World*
Another place MuseBloggers could get together is at the Pumpkin Drop that West Virginia University holds every October. It’s in Morgantown, not far from Pittsburgh and not that far from Ohio. A couple of years ago, Nancy Kangas and her son Aaron and I took part, as recounted in the Koko Bomb Saga. It was thoroughly Muse-like and great fun.
That would be awesome!!!
If we go, we can just wear nametags with our Blog names on ’em.
Uh, sure. west virginia is even farther away than chicago is. i like the idea of having muse conventions in the state. (i live in mi)
we do need to inform other musers about this, even if they dont blog. gapas, no this isnt my computer. its the local libraries. my computer has a faulty modem & i can go online for 2 minutes before i have 2 start the computer again to get back online. this gives me limited oppertunities to blpog, which is why i havent been posting much.
that would be cool
has anyone ever seen a “fairy” pumpkin-yes there is such thing. theyre like a regular pumpkin only theyre kind of a pastel orange + also a bit more wide than tall… hard to explain…anyway i painted one last halloween + yeah it was fun
…im still bored
that would be cool. hahaha everyone would wonder about why we have nametags with weird names on them though….
That’s the piont.
YAY!!!
We should have one close to Pittsburgh!!!
Yeah, but the muse bloggers wouldn’t think the names were weird, because we see them all the time. We could also then be able to tell the difference between the regular musers and the musebloggers.
Or we could all memorize the Lumberjack Song and hang around the Donut Table.
YeahDonuts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ha I have made the anoying bar come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and it is in october? excellent! that will mean that there will be ample supplies of headband bunny ears to dye pink!
OH! Once we planted some pumpkins in our garden. We did regular orange ones, plus some that were white. Only somehow they got cross-bred, because we ended up with pale peach-colored pumpkins. It was cool!
white pumpkins are neat but i dont think they make very good pies… *wonders*
170: We planted pumpkins, zuccini, and squash in the same area of our garden and wow, they were WEIRD. We had these big multi-coloured not-quite-zuccini-pumpkin-OR-squash things growing all over the garden. And they never went away! For a couple of years after we stopped messing with the garden, they kept coming back, over and over again. ’twas scary.
And a warning to anyone who wants to plant a garden: Beware of zuccini. It is evil. It will try to take over the world with sheer numbers someday, mark my words.
We have a compost pile (where we take fruit peels, vegetable shavings, etc. and put them in a pile until they decompose/turn into dirt and then use it as dirt in our garden) and we put our pumpkin “innards” in our compost pile. When it all decomposed, we used it in our garden, and apparantly the seeds didn’t decompose (obviously) and now we have a HUGE pumpkin patch in our garden!
*runs from evile army of zucchinis creeping out of fridge*
sry. over active imagination
Let’s have one in the center of the earth. That way, evdryone is the same distance away, and there won’t be any fighting over where it will be. Of corse, there are a few technical difficulties that needed to be worked out first…
That is a good idea, or maybe, instead of fixing those technical difficulties, we should use that time to invent some sort of machine type thing that will stop time, etc. so we can have it then.
That probably made absolutely no sense
oh well………..
wow! remember the issue with all the theories about what’s in the center of the earth….good times, good times…
Hmmm, never got any of those, must of been before my time.
You might be able to check out old muses from the library…that’s what I do
Go Librarys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i ♥ zuccini.
i used to live in the library during free periods at my olde school along with all the other social outcasts….bothe permanent(sp?) and temporary. it was depressing when the temporary ones just ditched us whenst they came back into social favour. especially if they made fun of us. *sigh*
I read durring class, since I usually finish before everyone else, and everyone thinks I’m a loser. Not so much anymore, but last year, when I was new at my school.
I LOVE the library,
our school library is reallly bad, though.
The librarian sends you mean letters if you have a book out for more than 1 week and don’t return it……..
my librarians are all really cool (there are 2 at skool and three or four at the public library) Sadly, none of them get muse. I used to read back issues when i went to harriet’s though. She had a bunch. *sigh* Oh, pirate issue! I miss you dearly! I long for the day when we shall be reunited in love!!!
XD
of course, the skool library’s really bad….not much fiction. But it’s alright for a skool library i guess…
doesn’t excuse the lack of pratchett and wodehouse and the insane number of stuff like seperate peace and to kill a mockingbird though (we’re reading to kill a mockingbird now. It was only a matter of time i suppose. I’ve read it twice already…but what the heck, that’s english for you)
I’m really bored…
bored bored bored.
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i do my homework during class. yeah, i’m probably one of the world’s biggest slackers. but it works!
Me too. I leve librarys. i read all the Muse back issues at the school one, but the public library doesn’t get it.
#186 say what?8-)
Ebeth said “I’m gonna go make pretty triangles now bye” in Triangle Form #3. #1 is:
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Tria
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Triang
Triangl
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Triangles
Triangles R
Triangles Ro
Triangles Roc
Triangles Rock
Triangles Rock!
Triangles Rock
Triangles Roc
Triangles Ro
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#2 is when you do this, but stop when you get to the full sentence, making a right triangle;
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and #4 is when you do Triangle #3 but again make only a right triangle. I hope this has helped you understand the inner workings of text triangles!
and the point of triangles is…?
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Is there a less tedious way to make triangles?
doubt it.
Oh well, I guess we will just have to make them the
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That really didn’t turn out to good.
well. it didn’t turn out too well
well=adverb
good-adjective.
sorry, i’m a bit of a good/well grammar nazi.
Natzi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Run!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*hides in basement
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Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!
It didn’t work!!!!!
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That should work…just ignore the stars
198- not a facist nazi. a GRAMMAR nazi. enforcing proper english! yay, english! i hate when people whine about eng/lit class. it is really not that bad…
I know. Only I don’t like the spelling tests. Actually, we don’t have spelling tests, but worse. We get a list of 25 roots (like parts of words. i.e. hydro, pyro, mega) and we have to know what they mean (water, fire, large). There are 100-200 roots on each test, and we have to know what they mean to the letter (if you put rock instead of stone its wrong).
i cannot spell. but i speak very well.
Can we have a Muse anniversary party for New Year’s of 2007? Thar would be so unbelievably spiffy.
We have spelling tests, but I passed through all of them in just a few months…now I don’t have to do them anymore!!
It is amazing how a thread about a muse convention can turn into this!!
hahaha
Seriously. spelling tests?
202-didn’t the nazis speak german?
GRAMERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAYE!!!!!
nott spleling thoh.
i can say, “monday” in german. montag. i feel so incredibly special. that’s the extent of my german. except for the quoting of rammstien(sp?) songs. but i can only tell you the “gist” of what they mean.
I can say a very rude word for excrement in German, as well as “Duck Bill”.
My English Teacher made us all assume false personas for grammar. Mine is a French artist with a bad accent named Pierre Le Jauque. Weee.
isn’t guten tagen hello? And then there was this word for your welcome that always made me think of a butter knife. Ha Ha.
Ha ha, King George. I think you’re thinking of “bitte sehr.” (Sounds like “bittuh zayr.”) Does that make you think of a butter knife?
“Hello” is “hallo.” “Guten Tag” is “good day” — so it’s a way of saying hello during the day.
I’m trying to learn German these days. It’s hard work — at least at my age. The worst part for me is learning (and remembering) the gender of each noun: masculine, feminine or neuter. AAAACK.
“Tag,” which means “day,” is masculine!
aren’t all german nouns capitalized?
Yes, frankenfaerie, that’s what German teachers tell me. All the nouns are capitalized.
Both my parents speak German…
I was fluent as a child (so they tell me) because they spoke it all the time, but now I don’t really rememer anything
cool. in benjamin franklin’s autobiography, he capitalized all the nouns.
really? that is cool…I haven’t read it. Although, they also spelled things differently, putting “e’s” at the end of things, etc.
Skipping skipping Skipper is hyperactive hee hee!~!~!~!~!~!~!
German sounds so unbelievably cool. My friend spent halfa yeer in Germany.
218- i like putting “e”s on the endes of words. and the occasional “b” on the ende of words ending in “m”
anyway…back to the convention idea…
how many people do live in pa? because we could have a mini-convention in philly (which is much cooler than harrisburg). like at the arte museum.
I live in PA, but it’ll take me at least 7 hours to get there…how about a more central location?!?!
HELP NEEDED!
There are somewhere around 224 bloggers here, not counting the adults.
There are 40 Sundays left this year.
If each of us sent one e-mail to the mag, begging for a Muse movie, there would be 8,960.00 letters, on that subject. The editors won’t know which way to turn.
NOW THAT’S POLITICS PEOPLE!
Good luck.
PS: If you agree to the Sunday thing, please post the following code on the ‘Muse movie?’ thread:
Your blog name/ Sunday commitment
No need to apologize if you miss a few Sundays. I’m sure we all will.
Hope it works.
We can do it Musers.
Oh and mention the the Muse convention idea if you want to.
Good luck to all of us.
222- central, like state college? and those snazzy caves by it……i went on a tour through them once…
or maybe in muse, pa…..*gets really excited*
We could hold a Muse rally in Muse, Pennsylvania, in October and then drive down to Morgantown, West Virginia, to compete in the Pumpkin Drop.
but people’d be in skool. Like me…*is sad*
oh yeah… WAM and some other guy did that, i saw the pics… who took the pics, by the way?
“Other guys,” actually: Nancy, her son Aaron, and me. Nancy and I took the photographs, except for the one we’re all in. One of the other competitors took that. Great fun!
oh robert did. ha ha, i knew that.
you’re all in one? hold on-
oh, you’re weaing dark glasses. very mysterious.
ooh aaron yeeess… we forgots about him. why isn’t he on here?
perhaps we could attempt to make it a school field trip?
if it included a chorus concert, i could probably convince them.
Peoples…just go to the pumkin drop wearing a nametag with your Blog name and ‘Muser’ written under it in bold print.
Ex:
Hello my name is PHOENIX and I am a proud Muser. Kokopelli for president!
in school, many years ago, we did something similiar, except we used raw eggs.
mine survived.
i had a box.
and poked small holes in four of the sides (not top and bottom; i had to work through somewhere).
then threaded parts of the legs of nylons through one of the holes and tied a knot at the ende.
then put the egg in and tied knots on either side of it.
then pulled the rest of the material through the hole on the opposite side and tied a knot. the nylons were stretched very tightly.
then i slit the material in half and tied it around the egg throughthe other holes.
box drops. egg, neatly suspended, survives.
i hope that made sense.
perhaps two or even three layers of size xxxl nylons could be used for koko bomb two? same princilpe…
**principle
Hey hey, all! I just went and asked my mom if we can go to the pumpkin drop! She asked where it was, I told her, and she said, and I quote, “maybe.”
Yaaaaaay!
FrF (234),
Does your school chorus know the “Something Wicked This Way Comes” song from the third Harry Potter movie?
no!!!! *cries*
were the lyrics from macbeth?
i think they were…in a way
*googlesearches*
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble
Something wicked this way comes
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing –
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble
Something wicked this way comes
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Fillet of a fenny snake,
Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf;
Witches’ mummy; maw and gulf
(Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.)
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Something wicked this way comes
hmm…i wonder where i could get the sheet music….
wow. i found the notes hither: [snip, snip snip — Rosanne] but it’ll probably get snipped.
well, just type in:
music “something wicked this way comes” harry potter
in google and click on the first link.
Will there ever be an acual Muse convention where all Muse readers can come? If there is a Muse Rally in Muse pensyvannia, would everybody come, or just the people that lived around Muse?
OOOOoooohHH! I memorized the witches’ chant! I LOVE THE WITCHES!!!
Still trying to write my Queen Elizabeth speech, but I have writer’s block. Grr…
Yay for shakespeare! Who has now become the answer to all of life’s questions in english class. Mostly sam’s doing. Ex:
Lamuth: So blahblah gram-gram blahblah is it I or me?
Random person: I
Lamuth: Why is it I and not me?
Sam: Shakespeare!
Or…
Lamuth: So blahblah greek tragedies what is this part from?
Sam: Shakespeare!
So now other people are doing it too. Shakespeare is the answer to all life’s questions.
aah. snipped againe.
241- well, there definately should be. but we seem to be a bit…disorganized….yay, muse. oh, and scroll up to read on that. yay, scrolling.
I used to have “Double Trouble” memorized. I sang it in the shower all the time.
Weeee, a whole lovely thread has been created on my idea! We should have the convention somewhere secluded, because we don’t want to disturb the plodding, non-Muse-reading pedestrians. Perhaps the Yukon? We should bring comic books and marshmallow-chocolate-syrup sandwiches.
From analyzing the occasional descriptions of us the bloggers, I’ve gathered the following:
Most bloggers*
-are female
-human
-short
-have some shade of brown hair
-are in possession of glasses, contact lenses, braces, or any combination of those
-like reading insanely much
-know more of a foreign language than most people
-love music
-are not “popular” people
-like Monty Python, Harry Potter, LotR, and other lovely books/movies
-are better at reading/speaking/writing than most people
Those who thinke that I speake truthe shoulde saye “Yea”; those who deny thatte my thoughts are cleare saye “Nay.”
*Note: this is only a statistic. If you are a very tall, illiterate nonhuman with short blue hair and no sense of humor, then that’s fine too.
ok serious question:
this has been fun fantasizing about a convention + everything, but if a lot of musers here …got their parents to come online + give you gapas their 2 cents about this idea, would that increase the liklihood of one actually happening?
none at all. we just like pretending. i always envisioned us getting together when we were much older.
(245)Yea!
245- maybe we’ll get our own sort of psychological-profile…because we all know the fbi is watching us….*puts on tinfoil hat* YOU CAN”T HEAR MY THOUGHTS!!!
#224 – No, I live in Southwestern PA,
Let’s have one in MUSE, PA!!!!!!!!
(245) i think there are a few more males than there were before (only 2 or 3) but there are still more girls.
(126) i don’t know… i like knowing you solely on the internet.
252- what? o, dear. what if we hate eachother in real-life? *cries* IMPOSSIBLE. *de-cries*
ok i was completely psychotic then. and now i have to watch the episode of numb3rs i recorded…i missed it…was it goode?
Was it the neweth one on laste nighteth? Yeah, pretty goode. Onlye the writers are havinge the FBI peopleth do alle the worketh and Charlie juste goeth oute on dates. He’s getting lesseth mathe-y and moreth romantic. I don’te thinketh he did muche at alle excepteth kissinge prettye Englishe neurologistse who happeneth to be-eth engagede. He seemeth to have givene uppeth completelye on that nice mathmaticiane Anita whoeth he seemeth to liketh so muche before.
indeed, i hathe made me sadde. ande i lykedth the mathematiciane amita. and of courseth larrye whoeth shouteth “eureka! it’s archemedies againe!” thate madeth it alle bettereth.
i hope no one with a lisp had to read those last two posts…
30 Kansas!
pretty close. # 245 not short, dont know monty python is, dont really like music. love to read all books and most book series too.
#245 otherwise its all rite compared to me( insanely loving reading doesnt describe that enuff for me).
hello
In response to recent comments on the dissing Mr. Joe thread…Let’s make a thread for that PLEASE!
In response to recent comments on the dissing Mr. Joe thread…Let’s make a thread for that PLEASE!
Yeah a new thread for muse passwords.
opps!
seriously, where is everyone?
I’m here!!!
Oh, and you posted at 11:22 a.m. museblog time, and I was asleep at that time, but then again, museblog time isn’t my time either. Right now it is 4:05 where I live.
259-don’t know what monty python is?!?!?!?
*dies of shock*
Go. To. Blockbuster. No. Wait. Blockbuster. Sucks. Go. To. Decent. Library/Movie rental place. Find. Holy. Grail. Check. It. Out. Take. Home. Watch. Fall. Madly. In. Love.
Speaking of monty python, Ebeth has finally heard the lumberjack song!!! Yes, it was on Bill’s ipod which Ebeth stole to stare at amazing squishy bright green cover and fell to looking through songs. She has some cool songs on there. Anyhoo, now i can sing it on the tables w/u peoples (21, 36) Yay!
i found the lumberjack song online. just search for it in YouTube.
sing-alongs will be great fun.
You can also get it from Netflix, but you have to pay for that too.
HI!!
hi!!! *random*
HI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nobody’s here!
I AM!!!
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I am a short male w/red hair. But I know more elvish than any non-museblogger
red hair is very froody. i loathe being blonde. i’m trying to keep my hair out of the sun to darken it, but that’s not going well…
to MongomeryGurl (#66) i am also tall, and have reddish hair. so some ppl might confuse us but i sort of doubt it.
I have red hair, and it lightens a little in the sun, but not really…
Lol, I don’t have braces or glasses, but I’d be glad to spot glasses and a crown if it went along with the Muse convention spirit! I am short and dark-haired, though. I’m not too far from Chicago; I could probably get there if there were a convention. I could definitely go to the next Pumpkin thing if I know the date ahead of time, I’m pretty sure I could go anyways. Any other Muse fans in the Kentucky-Indiana area around?
i’m in NEPA. we should have a “states we live[d] in” thread. it would be spiffy.
That would be cool..I was born in NJ, moved to MA when I was little, and moved to PA when I was 5…still here.
States we live(d) in? MI and OOHI. Oohi for a grand total of 8 months. Rest of life (ie almost 14 yrs) in Migichan.
About that list of bloggers, let’s see…
EtA’s checklist:
-are female (yes)
-human (more or less)
-short (yes – 5’2 and probably going to stay that way)
-have some shade of brown hair (darkish brown)
-are in possession of glasses, contact lenses, braces, or any combination of those (nope, but I might have glasses in the future)
-like reading insanely much (yes!)
-know more of a foreign language than most people (probably)
-love music (I don’t play any, but I still love it)
-are not “popular” people (lol, yes, very much yes)
-like Monty Python, Harry Potter, LotR, and other lovely books/movies (yes!)
-are better at reading/speaking/writing than most people (depends, but probably)
yay.
-are female (yes)
-human (i prefer the term, huwomon)
-short (5’3″, i’d say…)
-have some shade of brown hair (actually, dirty bolnde. if i stay out of the sun)
-are in possession of glasses, contact lenses, braces, or any combination of those (glasses, not braces)
-like reading insanely much (heck yes!)
-know more of a foreign language than most people (probably)
-love music (indeed!)
-are not “popular” people (i don’t think half of the people in my school know that i exist…)
-like Monty Python, Harry Potter, LotR, and other lovely books/movies (yes!)
-are better at reading/speaking/writing than most people (relatively. grammar pwns.)
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All right, the service can be poky. But you have to admit you can’t beat the price.
hey, we could have a convention at hershey park if anyone else is going to be there with their chorus/band/orchestra.
I’m not going to Hershey anytime soon, but it’s closer than Chicago!
It’s terribly selfish of me, I know, but I’d like to request in advance that the Muse Convention, if it occurs this summer, not be held anywhere from June 21-July 10 because I will be in Italy then and I’ll miss it. However, if it must be held when I’m unable to attend I understand; I’ll wish it best of luck while I’m on vacation! : D
yes, please do not schedule the convention for the week of july4. i’m always on vacation then…
Lets do it in late August, or mid-june
292- Mid-June would be bueno…
Vote Ptolemy over Grant on the Boy’s Power Thread!
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Okay I wrote this about the convention:
Nobodydude was having nightmares again. He hadn’t been able to sleep very well since Frodo replaced him on Museblog. But this time his nightmare was different, because this time it was real. Nobodydude saw a dark room and as his eyes adjusted to the light he could see a chair, he thought that he could see someone in the chair, but his attention was drawn to a person who had come into the room. The person wore fake glasses and braces. As the person bent down on one knee his crown fell off and reaching for it the person said in a low, masculine voice “It has been done Master.†As the man stood up, he could see that the teen (for he was a teen) was wearing a tee-shirt that said in bold letters “Muse Conventionâ€. Still slightly bent down, Nobodydude couldn’t see much more. Swiveling around in the chair, the person in the chair said “Good, number two, good. Now enlist others to our cause. Squinting a little Nobodydude could barely make out the outline of two stick legs and two stick arms. In one of these arms held a flute. “Now go.†said the thing in the chair. Standing up completely, Nobodydude could see that the teen had on a sticker; it said “Hi My Name Is Mutt†on it. As Mutt walked away Nobodydude started to wake up. If only he had told someone the chaos could have been avoided.
Chapter 1:
There was chaos at the Muse Convention…
To be cont.
A muse convention??? That would be soooo cool! It would be hard for musers to convince their parents to take them out of state, though. Mabe Muse could do a survey of towns where the most readers live and have the convention in a lot of places. There could be cameras so everyone could see what was happening in other cities???
August 4th. Right by the Muse office building on LaSalle street in chicago.
Hey, here’s a thought:
In an upcoming issue of Muse, there could be a special vacation package offer.
VACATION FOR MAXIMUM OF 10 TO CHICAGO ILLINOISE!
Come to Chicago on (such and such date) to join us in the festivities of the Muse Convention!
Running from (3rd of something to 6th of something) .
The convention feattures:
A chance to meet the Muse crew, and Larry Gonick.
Help put an issue together.
Exciting hands on projects.
Great food.
A pie throwing contest.
Learn to draw the Muses workshop, by Larry Gonick.
Reading groups (space limited).
Take your picture with your favorite Muse.
Tour of the Muse Offices.
Special Documentary screening:
The History of the Greatest Magazine Since Anything *
* A DVD version of which, will be available as you leave
AND FINALLY:
A three night stay in a nearby Hilton Hotel.
All expenses paid.
Offer ends (such and such date).
So sign up now.
WE PROMISE A GRAND TIME!
Nice
, but you’d have to actually get those things. Who knows if we can really get Larry Gonick to come or Carus to pay for out hotel? (speaking of which, why is it that you the three night stay is the last thing, as though it is the best? I wouldn’t care if I stayed in a ditch in the road, as long as I got to meet other musers) .
I think we should just plan a day to meet at Muse HQ, then find some place to party. You know, make and throw and eat pies, talk about books, plan Mostly Harmless, plan ways to booste Muse, have a talent show or something like that.
It doesn’t need to be so official, I think that would just be hard to organize and expensive.
Fun ideas though! – just perhaps a tad unrealistic (then again, so’s the whole thing, so I guess it doesn’t matter)
Carus is so incredibly poor that they wouldn’t do that. (Okay, maybe not that poor. But I don’t think they’d do it.) I’d offer up my house as the party location, but then ya’ll would stalk me so bad that my eyes would spin and my head would pop out.
We could go there, bring money for ourselves, and then ‘convince’ an editor or two to drive us around and take us to restaurants and stuff. Sometime in mid-July work for you?
Yeah. I’ll just sneak away from camp, hitchike from the ranch to the nearest town with an airport, pack myself in a bag and put myself on the next plane to Chicago. Then I’ll sleep in a dumpster, beg for money, catch a bus to Muse HQ, go to the convention, have a great time, hide myself back in a sutcase, fly back to cali, hitchhike back to camp, and be back before they notice I’m gone.
Sounds liek a plan to me, eh?
w00t.
55- No! But… where is the offices? Then I’ll look.
Maybe we should go on August 1? MB’s birthday and GAPA appreciation day!
All I know is the offices are somewhere in Chicago Illinoise.
I don’t know exactly where.
The address to the Muse Offices is somewhere in the Mag. I know a lot of us live in the Illinois/Chicago area, Me, Penatonikk, I *think* Queenie J. And maybe Kiki.
Just e-mail Samantha Sordyl at muse@caruspub.com and invite her to invite you over for tea. She likes Musers. (Doesn’t everybody?)
I used to be 3 hrs from chicago. Now i’m 6 :'( so sad…
What does Samantha do?
Is she an editor?
GUESS WHAT?
We’ve reached 300 posts on the original ‘Muse Movie’ thread.
Stop on by.