Suppose the present Muses retire. What would the new Muses be like? Or suppose the present Muses don’t retire, but new Muses show up in their neck of the universe anyway. What would happen then?
Thanks to Captain Cynomys/Prarilius Canix for the idea for this thread.
The new muses would get pied. Very, Very badly.
FIRST POST!
*does first post dance*
That is, if the old muses were there when the new muses came. But I like the old muses! I don’t want them to be replaced!
captain cyonmys and prarilius canix are the same person…
That would be very strange. We should think of what they would be.
FantasyFan (3),
Thanks for straightening me out on that!
AAH! Do not replace them! I completely agree with RG!!!
I think there should be a muse of musers. Someone who acts like us and would represent us, and changes all the time. She/he’d have the same clothing on all the time, so we knew who she/he was, but the actual appearance would change. Because we’re all different.
Like (s)he would always wear a Koko t-shirt and jeans with sneakers or something…? But change into different Musers? Coolness.
I’d like to make it clear that I don’t want them replaced(with the exception of Kokopelli). This is just a thread for discussing what the new new muses would be like if the present muses retired. The old muses did, didn’t they? Plus, there are several areas(like art and writing) that are not represented by the current Muses.
Yah!!!! Hey I’m baaaaaaaaaaaack…
That’s a vool Idea. (s)He’d be the first muse to show up. What would (s)He be called? I Know he changes into us but what should the other muses call Him/Her?
Something that’s both a boy and girl’s name.
Suggestions?
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Sorry about the smileys…
I’d like to make it clear that the only muse I want replaced is Kokopelli. This thread is for discussing what the New New Muses would be like if the present muses retired. The Old Muses did, didn’t they?
My suggestions for muse specialities;
Technology
Nature
Music
Poetry
Literature
Comedy(possibly a Greek muse?)
Chemistry
Math
Muse of Musers
We should have one from each inhabited continent(that makes 6), an intelligent sealion (for the ocean), a bird (Crraw’s progeny?), and of course the muse of musers, who changes.
Only one problem with Crraws progony: Who would be the mother? I’ve got my raven character, Coal, but shes a rather……. unfirendly. Her motto: “The more of you die, the more I feed”
Sorry. Double post.
10- Maybe Pat?
No! No killing of our lovely nine! And we don’t need ten! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! They shall never retire! Kokopelli will make sure that they stay forever young, because they’ll have too keep running fast enough to not get pied! So there!
The Muses would never retire. NEVER!!!!! My faith is unshaken! And i certainly don’t want Kokopelli replaced either! If he was, there would be a huge mutiny anyway, so forget that idea.
GO KOKO!!!!
DOWN WITH KOKOPELLI!
Anyway, it’s just my luck; first thread I suggest, everybody hates it.
CHAOS! IF anyone tried to get rid of the new muses and replace them with new new muses, chaos will happen. i assuure you of that.
muse of musers i like….
we could kill off mimi!
i doubt anyone’s fav muse is mimi!
no one will miss him(i think i got the gender right)
The current muses are the best! I would be depressed if they left, but as long as they stay I’d love to see some new muses join the gang. The muse of musers is an excellent idea!
16-No, we don’t! We’re just having a little debate…
It’s cool to fantisize, but we all love the old muses to much to give them up(well, most of us anyway). Maybe the muse of musers would not be an actual Muse, but would be included in the mag somtimes, sort of like Koko’s dog.
There should be “new” muses, then all the old muses will hate them so much that they will pie them and send them away. That makes everyone happy, right?
*pies Canix*
HOW DARE YOU!!!!!
I think maybe we need some extra muses. The existing ones have such broad briefs (no, I don’t mean their underwear) that they must be suffering under the workload. How about these?
The Sub-Muse of Pink things
The Sub-Muse of Annoying habits
The Sub-Muse of Parchment (unnecessary but it’s a good word)
The Sub-Muse of Rivulets (likewise)
The Sub-Muse of Rotation
The Sub-Muse of Clandestine Machinations
The Sub-Muse of Really Useful Objects
Oh, there could be hundreds. I’m sure you lot will invent a few.
andddddddddd the sub-muse of defenestration
PB&J can get the plan into action, as can the GAPA, cuz the’re special, and work at muse
23- Oh, froody! *goes to invent some*
The Sub-Muse of Bad Hair Days
The Sub-Muse of Really Long Words
The Sub-Muse of Mis-matched Socks
The Sub-Muse of Fecklessness
The Sub-Muse of Priviledged Communication
The Sub-Muse of Sobriquets
The Sub-Muse of Bad Literature [possibly another crow…]
The Sub-Muse of Faulty Technology
The Sub-Muse of Misplaced Items
Okay, I seriously need to stop.
24- GAH! I LOOOOOOOVE THAT WORD! It’s nice to see someone else use it! YAY! *defenestrates random object*
Sub-Muse of Procrastination!!
18- HEY!!! HEY!!!! WAIT A SECOND!!!!! I WOULD MISS HER!!!! NO YOU DID NOT GET THE GENDER RIGHT!!!! ARRRGGHH!!!! *Is steaming*
*Throws Hot steaming dung pie at Dark Lord!!!!!!*
AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!
These are my name suggestions for the muse of musers:
Pat
Sam
Kendall
Jamie
Jordan
Shane
Any More?
I resent the implication that nobody says Mimi is their favorite Muse! I resent it, I tell you!
25-defenestrartes pie, and it randomly hits SM
27- oops…*wipes dung off face*
omg, omg. omg!
SO don’t retire!!!
The Sub-Muse of Dilly Dallying (is that the same as procrastination ?)
The Sub-Muse of Supreme Intelligence(whom I would name Algernon)
The Sub-Muse of Colorful Crayons
The Sub-Muse of FIne Furniture(this excludes horrific, leather couches however, because it would be devastating to poor Bo)
*pies dlod back*
# 24 Defenestration? What does that mean??
Decapitation? Throwing out windows??
The Sub-Muse of Hot Pink Bunnies
The Sub-Muse of the FMP
The Sub-Muse of Pie Wars
The Sub-Muse of Cats
The Sub-Muse of Dogs
The Sub-Muse of B*nobos
The Sub-Muse of the Museblog
The Sub-Muse of Singalongs
The Sub-Muse of Muse Issues Past
The Sub-Muse of Muse’s Anniversary
The list goes on…
33-wow………. nice guess!!!!!!!!!!!!! (the latter is correct)
merriam webster:defenestration
Main Entry: de·fen·es·tra·tion
Pronunciation: (“)dE-“fe-n&-‘strA-sh&n
Function: noun
Etymology: de- + Latin fenestra window
1 : a throwing of a person or thing out of a window
2 : a usually swift dismissal or expulsion (as from a political party or office)
– de·fen·es·trate /(“)dE-‘fe-n&-“strAt/ transitive verb
hmmm… we don’t have a Muse of Animals….
So if New Muses came to replace the new muses, would we call the new muses the old muses? And what about the Greek muses? Would they be called the oldest muses? I’m confused.
Isn’t Devil sorta the muse of animals?
10-pwt
37-the gonik muses
I think I’ve started something.
I would just point out that it shopuld be the Under-Muse of Hot Pink Bunnies. It’s slightly higher than a sub-muse.
38-Devil’s not a muse, just koko’s dog. Pwt’s the muse of animals.
Howabout a pencil-pushing muse who likes typewriters and dusty old books written by people long dead and who gets on aeiou’s nerves?
Mimi’s my favorite Muse! She’s so out there and not like the other ones at all!
Get rid of Kokopelli?! BIAS!!!!!!!! BIAS AGAINST THE HOPI NATIVE AMERIACANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *sends bias hounds on Prarilius*
Or a Muse of History? We already have a Muse for Math!
*pies bias hounds and sends them off whimpering*
You forget, I am also a veteran of the Great Pie Wars.
Kokopelli is evil.
Pencil-Pushing Muse: female. Name:Oceanus
appearance: Long, dusty maroon skirt, black blouse. Brown Leather Oxford shoes. light brown hair in messy bun w/pencils stuck in it. dust EVERYWHERE.
47- She should have glasses too! Maybe she would always loose them, or Koko would always be stealing them.
Hey! Oceanus is someone I know.
Can I volunteer to be Muse of History? Or do I have to be an elk or something? Actually, I could be an elk. I’ve sort of always wanted to be an elk…….
49: Wierd! I read it somewhere and thought it sounded appropriately bookish. Although books don’t have too much to do with the oean.
Let’s allow PB&J to be an elk. I think he would be pretty good at it!
Okay. PB&J is now an elk. A historical elk.
The pencil-Pushing Muse should definately look like a librarian. She pwns, even though she doesn’t exist yet. But she need a dusty sounding name…Anne?
Paul Baker- Hey hey! We’re not BEING the muses. We’re making them up!
I never said he was a Muse. I just said he was a Historical Elk. Nobody ever said he Muse of History was an Elk.
Before anyone takes too much creative license: The Pencil Pushing Muse is mine, miney-mine and all mine. I made her up. I may write a story with her. So don’t steal her. Talk about her, do whatever you want, but all of Museica and beyond must know she is MY invention. ;smile;
Mebbe he’s the Historical Elk who communes with the shadowy, unknown Muse of History who refuses to talk to anybody but the Elk?
uhhh… sure…
A muse of history wouldn’t work, because muses are supposed to inspire artists, and history has sorta already happened. We still need a muse of art. Maybe a paint-spattered cat who was originally white, but is now all colors.
Perhaps the Historical Elk could be a supplier of facts to the Muse of Musers and the Pencil-Pushing Muse(w/ Otzi’s kind permission)
and the Muse of Art, who I claim the rights to, is the pet of the Muse of Musers. The entire quartet could be Muse wannabes who were rejected when the New Muses replaced the Greek Muses. They managed to steal an Intelligent Air transmitter before fleeing to Kaibito Kounty, which is adjacent to Kokonino. We now need to design Kaibito. Perhaps an inland sea filled with small islands.
a muse of history WOULD work!!!!! just as much as a muse of plants or animals or technology. Animals arent exactly an art form either, are they? The Muse of history could help with history tests, archeological excavations, and memory problems.
One of the Muses needs to have an obsession, like Pwt trying to catch Crraw. How about the Historical Elk, whose name shall be Sandwich(Sandwich = PB&J= Paul Baker), keeps a patch of catnip on his island, which he claims cures rheumatism, and the Muse of Art, whose name shall be Caterwaul Gauguin(Wally for short), is always trying to get his theiving paws on it.
(61) The ancient Greeks had a Muse of History. Her name was Clio.
(1) i thought the pie war was over long ago. it started with chuck norris (bless his cold and petrified heart) and watership down (!???!!). as far as ‘more the merrier’ goes, i am a schizo muse blogger. i stop blogging, my email address gets changed, i’m mean to the GAPAs so i change my name (sorry GAPAs). and then, on a random night in august, i just have this impulse to go on museblog. of course, it’s a lot more fun when i get to usurp the computer from otzi and cello girl so that we have a three person comment going on…and throwing pies at cello girl, but that is a whole different story. and as far as being replaced goes, we can just share our (ahem) knowledge of museblog with the new bloggers (yeah, like telling musebloggers when i change my name, otzi). and i know this goes horribly well with (63), but what can i say? i’ve always been a bit discombobulated (or discomboobulated as my mum likes to say) when it comes to previous comments. ah,well.
as i have heard, muses are what inspire people. i am inspired by death, hood canal, black and white photographs, and a great many actors (cary grant and audrey hepburn to name a few). anyone else have muses?
Sub-muse of plural words with abnormal endings
Sub-muse of mp3 players
Sub-muse of obsolete things
Sub-muse of unsharpened pencils
Sub-muse of flourescent lighting
Sub-muse of parking spaces
Sub-muse of plastic wrap and aluminum foil
Sub-muse of CHOCOLATE!
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I have the PERFECT NAME for the pencil pushing muse: BEATRICE!!!
They can’t retire! I mean, Kokopelli’s been a muse for so long, barely anyone still remembers the time he – *SPLAT!!!*
No, they can’t retire. That’d be like changing zoom disney, with its little robot characters (who I loved) to disney channel with FRIDGE MAGNETS! gah! and now they have nothing. It’s sad.
Um. awkward turtle….
but there’s nothing wrong with new muses! I especially like otzi’s bookish one. And oceanus is an awesome name, beacuse it shows that the book thing is inherited.
I liked this thread
But now it’s dead.
So far, we have:
Caterwaul Gauguin (Art)
Sandwich (History)
Oceanus (Literature)
Muse of Musers (Sundry muserly things like hpbs, MB, Mostly Harmless… you get the idea.)
Maybe we can take our five favorite muses from the contest, and add them to the ranks of the Reject Muses. If anyone else comes on here. Sweet Melpomene is the only one who even mentioned it recently.
Suppose there is a Muse of Cooking, and the Muse of Art always tries to steal his culinary masterpieces. That would make a good obsession.
how about a Muse of Very Small Things
75- That would be more like a Sub-Muse. But thank you for coming on this thread. Five Reject Muses so far.
Four more are needed. Maybe one of the original Greek Muses. Thalia was the Muse of Comedy. Let’s have her.
How about a muse of chipmunks? Her name could be Lauren.
Lauren is the name of my friend who is obsessed with chipmunks like I am.
78- A bit too specific, but it would make a fine Sub-Muse.
78-Ooh… I luurvs it.
hi
how about a Muse of Prehistoric Beasts & Dinosaurs! I LOVE DINOSAURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
his name could be Marcus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
81- Sounds good. What about Prehistory in general, though? That way, Marcus and Sandwich would balance each other out. Prehistory and History. I like it.
We have:
Marcus
Sandwich
Oceanus
Muse of Musers
Thalia
Wally
We need 3 more.
Muse of Science. She will be a large rat in a lab coat. Always carrying a beaker of chemicals. Her name is Linnea.
2 more.
The muse of Cooking. Pierre.
How about a Muse of Therapy, a Muse of Editors, or a Muse of World Domination?