UGB* #2: “Mostly Harmless”
*Unfinished Gaboomba Business:
Need we say more?
Date: August 25, 2005
Categories: Nonrandom Craziness
Sunday, 28 April 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
*Unfinished Gaboomba Business:
Need we say more?
Date: August 25, 2005
Categories: Nonrandom Craziness
hee hee…
Ah yes. Well in Unfinished Gamboomba Business 1#, We requested 1,000,000 dollars to support Mostly Harmless. I suggest we take a look at “How to Be A Villain” and see what it says about Doomsday Devices.
And, of course, practice your evil laughs.
MUUAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Have you written the letter yet? With a quill?
My evil laugh goes a bit more like this…
AAAAAAAAAAAAHAAHAAHAAHAHAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaa…..
Mmmmyyyeah….. uhuh. Not the worlds most impressive, but it’s pretty loud and long.
MOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO
HAWWWWWWWWWHAWWWWWW
Nonono that was the evil cow.
here’s how it goes
heeheeheeheeheeBWAAAHAAAHAAAAHAAA!!HAHAHAAHAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how’s that?n_n
Excuse me, but Mostly Harmless is a plan to take over the world?
Well, yes. Shhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! Everyone can see you on the internet, Mirjana!
I think we should draft the letter on the internet, then get somebody with a quill to write the letter with said quill.
Dear Muse,
This is a collective note from all at the Gaboomba, and later the Fan Page. We would like to request an article on bagppipes, anime and How-Tos.
What do you think?
Nope. Haven’t written the letter yet. I’m still making the parchment.
I would quill it, if I knew how to properly, and if I had a quill.
That reminds me of Winnie the Pooh for some bizarrre reason.
Useful reference – how to make a quill.
Take one large goose feather and a penknife (this is what a penknife is really for). The feather has to be goose. Other feathers are rubbish for this job. (Don’t use goose for harpsichords. Not that you would. That needs crow or raven.)
Scrape off the surface layer from the tip of the feather. It’s waxy, and it repels ink, which isn’t a good idea for a pen.
Cut off the the tip of the quill (there, I’m calling it a quill already) at a slant. Lose the white bit at the very end. You want a section of the main body of the central spine to form the nib.
Use a knitting needle or similar implement to remove the pith from the inside of the quill, or push it further up so that the end is clear. Your modern penknife may have a pith remover, but I doubt it.
Cut the very tip squarely across to form the nib. You can choose your width.
Now you need to heat the end to harden it, or it will last about 3 minutes. You can use a candle flame, but it’s tricky. The best way is to get a little tin box full of dry sand on a wire handle. Get that nice and hot with a blowlamp (I ought to add “get an adult to do this” as a standard disclaimer), and plunge the nib into the sand for a few seconds. It’s trial and error. You want the translucent nib to go opaque. Too long and you’ll scorch it, too short and it won’t last. Get it right, and you’ll have a very workable pen. Use it the “wrong way up” (i.e. with the slanted cut on the top). It’s stronger that way. There’s no need to cut a longitudinal slot in the end. It’s supposed to hold more ink, or improve flow, or something, but it works fine and lasts longer without it.
As a final touch, remove all the feathery bits and cut the stem off to a convenient length, making a workable pen. This doesn’t match Hollywood’s idea of Shakespeare writing with a hat plume, but it’s the way it was really done. Well, actually, by Shakespeare’s time, metal nibs had well and truly arrived, so he probably didn’t use a quill much. I do love to destroy people’s treasured images.
My quill is metal nibbed, I got it at Barnes and Noble. But I aslo have a very nice Colonail Williamsburg quill, although it doesn’t work as well.
Now: Back to the subject of M.H.
My website has a section way in the archives about world domination, but since I’m to lazy to go search through it, I just re-write it:
1. Force Peter Jsckson to make movie, call it “THe Hobbit,” have it star Dakota Fanning, Lindsay Lohan, Hilary Duff, and other insufferable teenage acteresses, lock theatre door, cackle with glee
2. Make evil Watcher ripoff (coughwaroftheworldscough) and set on White House, Taj Mahal, Satue of Liberty, Kremlin, UN building, ect., lock doors, cackle with glee
Hows that?
-Pheebs
I have a quill, I made it myself from the feather my school always gives us for Pesach. It actually works, which was a big surprise to me. By the by, who has seen Ghostbusters? I have a great quote for the quote page from it: “Mental note- never get involved with a posessed person.”- Peter Rankman, after his girlfriend just annouced that she was “Zool” and started to levitate.
I’ve seen ghostbusters but I don’t remember it. And The Hobbit needs to be just as good and The Lord of the Rings.
MY evil laugh involves a kind of weird, U sound. Like in the beginning of the word “Uber.” (How do I put those two dot thingies over it?)
MUUAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! MUAHAHAHAHAHA! (dramatic fade into next scene)
tee-hee. Who hates prince charming? Memememe! He has around SIX wives. Plus he has no personality. Plus he is sexist. And racist. He always is blonde and blue eyed. I find this disturbing. Like in the Muse fairy tale issue.
I can see that this world-domination business is going to take a while…
Yes! I propose a new mission! Saving the world from Prince Charming! Any suggestions on the name? (by the way, about Mostly Harmless, how about if we force everyone to listen to accordian music untill they submit to us? Or tell Shin Tsu that the world hates Anime/slaughters cows with joy and malice. Actually the last is true, but when she thought the same of myself she threatened pies and asassination. The world would soon surrender to her wrath! And ours! *evil laugh, preferably satisfactory*) Plus while we’re at it, we can rid the world of the blasphemous Eragon, which is a blatent copy of the Belgariad. Even the NAMES are the same.
Good idea Phoenix. But look here: Why don’t we take Prince Charming captive, (So he’ll suffer and stop being such a bloody eejit) demand a trillion dollars, a gazillion euros, and a few thousand other odd coins, (Because they think they need him), and use that to make a doomsday device. We can buy all the Supplies at the American Science and Surplus store, my FAVORITE STORE EVER!
And, of course, throw some accordian music into the deal.
It’s my favorite store, too. I used to go the one in Milwaukee. I’ve added a link to their Web page so everybody here can get the flavor of what they do, but you really have to see it in person.
*sniff* Eragon is a great book*sniff*
don’t worry i respect your opinion, no threats of death and maiming
(but i still am crying)
I will not kill fellow musers, but i will threaten prince charming!!
heheheBWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How about calling it INDY(short for “I’m not dead yet”)
FIne! Name for ridding the world of Prince Charming is called INDY (I’m Not Dead Yet). Chin Tsu, you can like Eragon if you want. Just being a Belgariad fanatic, I got VERY ANGRY when I read it. White mark on palm? Belgariad. The evil king (black dragon assos.)? the Belgariad. the storyteller who is a sorceror/mentor? the Belgariad. The charecter Gareth acts exactly like the Belgariads Gareth (before he became Belgarath, one of the most powerful sorcerors in the world.). Saphira’s egg resembles, and had a history similar to, the Orb. Admittadly, the only dragon in the Belgariad shows up as one of the Gorim’s monsters who went crazy, but still… And Eragons future girlfriend (the elf) resembles Polgara. And the witch with the werecat bears a striking similarity to Vordai. Even the place names- Drasnia, Draslia- are similar. Maybe it’s good literature, but I think it is a copy. I don’t, like, want to burn all copies or pie the author (well, maybe just one pie) but I don’t like the book.
Anyway, I vote that we kidnap PC, make him listen to an accordian for three days and three nights, until he is crazed with annoyance, then strap a record player to his back playing the Oscar Meyer theme songs in accordian with a person singing in a high nasal voice. He will try to run away, thereby spreading the foul sounds across the earth until everybody has it stuck in thier heads. Then we will abduct all the copies of the song “stairway to heaven” (the only known remedy to the Oscar Meyer songs, try it even) and hold them captive. Only if the people of earth submit to our dominion shall we let them have the music. Mwahahahahahahahahsnorkcoughgaghaaahaahh! tee-hee. We shall rid the erth of PC and bring Mostly Harmless to life in one fell swoop!
Phoenix, that is BRILLIANT! A round of evil laughs for Phoenix!
MUAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Thank you, thank you. I am so proud! Now everybody will forgive me for being a chatterbox and an issufferable know-it-all (I hope) Thank you again! I’m here at Museblog every day but Saturday! No autographs, please.
My friends Tanya suggests playing insufferable childrens songs – you know, the ones that they actually have kids wioth no voice training singing. In accordian. After Oscar Meyer. Yay! Another round of evil laughs for Tanya!!
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
-Pheebs and Tanya
Yeah! and opra where people shriek loudly in Italian! I have nothing against Italian. I am Italian, a bit back in my family tree. But Italian does not sound good shrieked.
Two Words. Kidz Bop
What is kidz bop?
Is it bad not to know what the Belgariad is? I feel bad. I really do. I read Eragon and muttered “L.O.T.R. L.O.T.R. L.O. T. R.” the entire time. If you tell me about the Belgariad, I’ll read it. I promise.
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just found Belgariad. Spent twenty minutes searching. I’ll read that. By the way, can I suggest playing evil pop music and subtle advertising campaigns? Will that help?
Can we start a Things We Heart thread.
Juliette,
Phoenix described the Belgariad in detail in “Welcome, Musers!”, comment 166.
Also, could you please persuade your browser not to fill in the “URL” field on your comment form? I have to delete the URLs by hand, which slows things down.
Thanks,
R. C.
Kidz Bob= Children singing pop songs poorly that were never meant to be sung by anyone, let alone children.
Good. Now we have an entire series of backup plans in case one of the CDs breaks, or if Prince Charming gets away. (Unlikely.)
Let’s put Mostly Harmless into action! Now, uh, who knows where Prince Charming is?
Ok then. I’ll google him.
teehee, this is fun…
Ok. I googled a bit and was unsuccessful, but I do have some information: Occasionally he gets turned into a frog, so if any of the girls are willing to kiss a frog, do so, and immediately afterwards, slam a butterfly net over it’s head. Tie him to your bedpost and than go on the computer and download Kidz Bop, shrieky italian singers, annoying kid songs, and a certain band called “Broadway Kids.” And anything accordian. Burn a disc, than put in a walkman if you have one, and put the headphones over his head. Download Stairway to Heaven, just in case. This is what the dialogue between you and said prince should be:
YOU
Do you know what this is?
PRINCE C
No.
YOU
It’s accordian music and squeaky kids songs.
PRINCE C:
No! (gasp)
YOU
Yes.
PRINCE C
You, you wouldn’t!
YOU
I would. But not yet.
You leave the Prince to stew in his own misery and log on to museblog. Tell us what happened, and we’ll have a party. EVIL LAUGHS ALL AROUND!
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! AHAHAHAHAHA! MUUUUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Oh. And use Julietaini’s suggestions too. MUAHAHAHAHA!
YES! And after he is lost forever in his misery, we wiil proceed to make him listen to the horrid music(s)!
You: Fool! This is what you get for pretending to be a nice person, you blemish on the face of modern literature!
PC: The shrieking! My ears! My perfectly beautiful ears!
You: Bwahahaha/Muahahaha/option three!
yeah I agree with Juliette that Eragon copies LotR and basicly every other fantasy. come to think of it, Eragon is just basicly the stereotypical fantasy novel. Every stereotypical character type is there. that doesn’t prevent me from enjoying reading it of course. it just makes it REALLY predictable.
Hee hee plan I’m not dead yet is awesome!!! we should all get code names!! I shall be…. Agent Nightengale (i think i spelled that right) (remember that Morbid is agent mothman) I will read the Belgariad. We should have a topic for book suggestions and reviews!
Celebrian no offense but u think every fantasy book copies L.O.T.R. Even Tolkien got his ideas from somewhere.
Maybe i should read the Belgriad. Then i can see Phoenix’s point of view. Heehee also download evil Kelly Clarkson who has weird voice.
We can also recruit the cows to our cause to make everybody stare into space so they are all the easier to sneak up on and shove the headfones on their heads!
Also call PC and assortment of insults in Japanese.
heeheeBWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:D:D:D:D
ChinTsu, was that just a funny or do you speak more than insults in Japanese? I have a daughter who is working on mastering that language.
I REMEMBER KIDZ BOP! OH MY GOD THAT IS EVIL AND I LOVE IT!
Adding to the PC Torture CD roster, may I suggest Lucid Dementia?
Now, allow me to explain away my vicious criticism of a have decent band in a glorious, beatiful genre of music.
They have this one song, “The Lucid Dementia Show”, which caused tears to brim from my eyes. I first heard it on my favorite late radio show, where it was being roasted by both the DJs and the listeners. In clearer descriptiong, they were hosting a contest for the best insult you could come up with for the song. Before they played it, the glorious DJ man Stuart told us to prepare to “open our minds to the hideous world of the gothic techno polka”. My friends, it was indescribaly horrible. I laughed. I cried. I called in and won second place.
The lead singer sounded exactly like Hillary Duff.
My suggestion is this: burn a 60 track CD, but have all 60 of the tracks just be Lucid Dementia Show. And it’s a painfully long song. Put it on loop to add insult to injury.
Or perhaps, we should just make a hellish mix tape of all the forementioned. Or a club mix combining them all into one nightmarishly dissonant neverending musical hell.
AGENT MOTHMAN APOLOGISES FOR HER RECENT DISPLAY OF SPELLING INADEQUECY. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING SHE VIOLENTLY ABHORS, SO IMAGINE HER CURRENT INTERNAL SUFFERING.
Are you imagining? That’s good. Barney says imagination is important, you know?
I’m Agent Smith.
MISTER ANDERSON!!!!!
Elasse Adael is right. Torture him for a bit. THan, finally, blend them all together on Garage Band (unless you have a PC) and turn it on. Untie the Prince, and stuff a really loud ampifier in his pocket. attach it to his head phones, so the whole world will here, and turn it on at top volume.
WEEEEERWYEEEEEEEEEER (SQUEAK) WAHDEEDAH!!!!!! (squeakcough) NEEERNEENEER(squeak) NAHNEENAAAAAHHHHH!…(squeak!)
combined with
EEEEEEEEE! Monsieur I believe I need a tissue! EEEEEEEEEE! Fetch one for me now! EEEEEEEEEEE! (In italian)
combined with
OOOOOOOWPS IY DID IT AGIN…(In horrible kids voices)
combined with
THE SUN’LL COME OUT, TOOMORROW….(Sung by kids)
combined with
I SPREAD MY WINGS AND I LEARNED HOW TO FLY…(Kelly Clarkson the horrid.)
Isn’t that just horrible?!
More evil laughs for all you brilliant agents!
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
-Agent Smith
And, put your ear to the computer speakers and turn on “Stairway to Heaven.” THat way, you won’t be affected.
Mothman=IZ, no? I’m assuming PC will be in shackles by now with that lovely little ball attached to them. But what to do once he’s unconcious/dead? We can’t simply throw him out in the lake, though that’s where he deserves to be!
We shoud tie him to a tree!
But if you put your ear to the computer speaker, you’ll become deaf and then you won’t be able to hear Stairway to Heaven..
I do like that song though.. I should listen to it sometime.
Yep… Agent Mothman is Dib’s name for himself, remember? He’s possibly the most fanatic member of the Swollen Eyeballs.
I wasn’t sure whether or not to steal his name, but it was either that or Agent Darkbooty.
Heehee musemom i can say hello, goodby, thank goodness it’s friday, and count to ten. My mom says that the Buddhist temples offer classes in Japanese. Maybe i can get a class!n_n
who is musemom anyway? And how come she can have a pename if she’s and adult?
ChinTsu,
Muse Mom asked to have a pen name, because her kids are likely to come online soon and she doesn’t want to embarrass them. We’re giving her special permission, because we think that’s very considerate of her (and because we’re familiar with her and know she’s OK).
I’m working on setting up a special registration for adults. Then they’ll be able to have pseudonyms, too, as long as we know who they are and they’re clearly identified as adults. It’s hard to know who’s who around here, but I think it’s worth doing to that extent.
–R. C.
No, open all the doors! He runs away, shrieking, and th erest of the world submit s to our dominion.
Seriously, what can possibly go wrong?
-Agent Smith
And Lucid Dementia to. Muahahahahahahaha.
I already have a code name, but I guess ‘agent Phoenix’ sounds stupid. By the way, humorist Dave Barry wrote a book of bad songs. We can look in there for ideas for stuff to make PC listen too before we loose him on the unsuspecting world. Also, many muse readers don’t go on the blog, so we need some sign to know if they should be alloted copies of stairway to heaven. Maybe a figure of Koko carved on the door?
I know where PC is! I was innocently browsing through the anime wares in Suncoast when HARK! I saw a display for Cinderella, PC equally personality-void wife-thing! All should rush and amush him now!
wow, this is getting violent..
No violence! No violence! I met PC, at a live production of Into the Woods. Just go to it, and after the production we can strap the player to his head. Oh, and I can be Agent Darkwing. Or Agent Pasta. Whichever.
I shall be agent akkaveesh.
I just read a collum by Dave Barry in the newspaper. It’s hilarious.
Hmmm… Maybe Julietaini can work this material into her Muse Musical. What do you think, Queen J.?
I want a code name!!!
PLLLLEEEEEZZZE put it in the Muse-ical, Julietaini!!!! PLEEZE!
Lizzie, you can be Agent Smelly.
but I don’t want to be Agent Smelly!!!
Besides, I do shower every day..
really..
Chin Tsu: agent Akkavish? why a spider? to represent Koko’s spiky hair? Lizzie, if you want to be agent Ze’ev, I can make arrangements. If you like wolves, that is…
Heehee Phoenix i luv arthropods in general.
Did you look that up? If not, u speak Hebrew better than me.
Of course I did not look it up! you insult me! Don’t feel bad that I knew what it was, I lived in Israel for five years. I am an Isreali too. Also my school has Hebrew language classes.
Fine then, Lizzie, you can be, um, Agent…Agent Lizzie! No, maybe, eh, lets see… Agent…Agent…Agent, um… AGENT UM!
It’s perfect!
-Agent Smith
wait, who’s Agent Smith again? Or is it a new person?
Agent Smith, I forgont who you are, and am too lazy to look it up. My grandma has big dark glasses which she wears all the time; we call her Agent Grandma or Agent Smith’s mommy. Really. Can’t you just picture Agent Smith being nagged to put on a scarf before he goes outside? Teehee.
By the by, according to me observations most of the Musebloggers are girls. I wonder why?
You can look “Agent Smith” up on the “Who’s Here” tab at the top of the blog.
The male-female skew is the same in Muse Mail. Muse readers run about 55% male, but letter writers seem to be at least 80% female. I don’t know why; maybe girls are just more interested in commmunicating.
Reading this I laughed so hard I got an instant six-pack. This is so delightfully random! Pleeeze let me be Agent Zephyr. Or I will curse you with the IncrediblyVengeful Pink Bunny Fruitcake Heads of Eternal Stupid Evilness! Actually, come to think of it, we can do that to PC. Wot wot, my good fellows?
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I’M NOT OLD!! I’M EXTREMELY IMMATURE!!! LALALALALA!!
Mostly Harmless sounds Mostly Harmful…Can I Help?
Well well well. A plan to take over the world. Brilliant, quite brilliant.
here are some ideas:
1) get as many people as possible to read Muse.
2) commit as many random acts as lunacy (Mostly Harmless lunacy, of course) as possible.
3) Vote Koko president. Have Urania be VP, Chad be Cheif Justice.
4) Get all the other Muses into important gov’t jobs in other countries.
5) Spread randomness, book addictness and general froodines across the planet.
6) Pie those who resist.
[a very lengthy] step one of how to take over the world:
first, invite all non-Musers bent on world domination to a future-world-dominators comvention. offer free airfare, hotel fees, pies, etc.
then, blow up said convention to get rid of all competition.
proceed to your own world-domination plan.
No need for Al Qaeda tactics. We’ll just outcompete ’em.
of course, we could always dig a really big hole and put everyone in it and only take them out if they swear allegiance to us…
i don’t know where anyone could find a hole that big, though….but i think everyone would co-operate…
76- fine, then. we can just have them work in our pie factory…
i’m fairly manic today, can you tell?
muhahahahaha! chain comments!
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I now command my army of Yetis to help us execute Mostly Harmless!
Plan Suggestion: After we make a Muse movie, I’ll send the yetis to attack anyone who hasn’t seen it, and and they’ll go see it. Then we’ll take over the world!
But thats just my idea. The Yetis will be able to help useing brute force either way.
Do a nice really nice thing for some one and tell them to return the favor by doing something nice for some one else.
I got this idea from the movie Pay It Forward. It was a pretty bad movie, but I liked the idea.
Introducting Agent Idiosyncratic! As for Kidz Bop, by all means use it as a torture device, but warn your fellow MH participants away from it first – I heard it just on commercials and my ears are still bleeding. Of course, there’s also MTV to be harnessed (no offense if anyone here likes MTV, but I really, really don’t). I would suggest torture for Prince Charming, but I think he’s been sufficiently dealt with, so onwards with the plan.
1) Create Muse music and play it on every station available in all countries, then take over the television too and play the music videos nonstop.
2) In those songs, write lyrics that will eventually hypnotize all who hear them into obeying Muse. Do the same for the videos.
3) Use the hypnotized masses to do your bidding and pie all those who resist! Or overload their brains with tons of Bo’s random factoics to chew on.
*evil grin*
i saw this thing in a movie where the main characters used a song to defeat the invading martians.
85- finally! another person who dislikes MTV! i don’t like VH1, either!!!
What dya mean, another person who dislikes MTV? Half the world hates MTV!! Well, half the world where I live anyway. I’m not a huge fan myself, but then, I don’t have cable so pratically never watch it it.
It’s like in School of Rock:
“there was TV but the The Man had to go and ruin that too with a thing called MTV.”
Oh, sorry. Everyone loves it where I live…
I don’t know who watches what where I live. I don’t keep in touch with where I live.
88-I love that movie!