August Meltdown, Part 2
This month’s random thread, continued as the weather starts to cool.
Continued from (naturally enough) Part One.
Date: August 16, 2006
Categories: Random craziness
Saturday, 18 May 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
This month’s random thread, continued as the weather starts to cool.
Continued from (naturally enough) Part One.
Date: August 16, 2006
Categories: Random craziness
first post?????????????
*does first post dance which involves juggling cantelope*
yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my first first post!
(second post?)
Ooh, part 2. *sends Zyviva a first-post pie* So i’m really bored and have nothing to say. OMG!1!!!!!shift1!!!!oneone!!!11!!!!THIRDPOST!1!!21!!!!SPAAAAZZZZZ
Third post!!!
Soooooo…how have everyone’s marmosets been?
third post too? cme on, doesn’t anybody have anything to say.
*pies lurker*
*pies Zyviva back*
Zyviva,
What is Phoenix up to nowadays, and when is she going to grace us with her presence again? Tell her the welcoming committee has an extra-special pie waiting for her.
will do.
she moved a little while ago and only just got internet accesss.
I will gracefuly accept the burden of helping her return to the path of light, goodness, pies, and insanity!
yesterday’s_kinked_moose, here are a few random thoughts inspired by your post 296 in part 1.
(a) People can surprise you. Even non-geeks.
(b) Weird, but true: Annoying People often come equipped with interesting friends.
(c) Be completely yourself. Maybe you will inspire them. Maybe they will never come near you again. Win-win.
(d) If all else fails, be an anthropologist and look at the outing as an opportunity to observe the habits of Annoying People in the wild. The research may come in handy one day.
I faced this kind of situation a lot because my mom insisted on setting me up with her friends’ daughters (yikes) — she thought I spent too much time alone reading (go figure). Usually I ended up opting for the Anthropology strategy, though once in a while she picked a winner.
Nowadays, though, I usually go for (c) which is how I learned (a).
Anyways, you never know when you might need the services of a good weed-whacker.
Speaking of annoying friends, I have this one friend I don’t even know why I put up with. Typical scenario: He finds something that annoys me. I ask him to stop. He continues. I tell him to stop. He continues. I threaten him. He continues. I physically assault him. He continues. This goes on until I leave.
11th post!!!!!! *11th post dance*
ok this is fun:
requires: a decent sized lawn w/ 3-5 sprinklers – the more the better.
what u do: run senselessly back n forth cross the lawn w/ sprinklers on, barefoot, trying a) to get as wet as possible or b) not to get wet at all.
repeat as nessesary until excess energy is comepletly gone.
Most Muse-ish sounding URLs have nothing to do with Muse. STAY AWAY FROM MUSE.MU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It sounds like a Muse website, but has nothing to do with Muse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oksekjøtt Stew
En potet
EN potet
EN potet, en potet, en potet
EN gulrott
EN gulrott
EN gulrott, en gulrott, en gulrott
EN bønne
EN bønne
EN bønne, en bønne, en bønne
En løk
En løk
En løk, en løk, en løk
Hvor Er kua ?
Hvor er kua ?
Hvor er kua, hvor er kua, hvor er kua ?
Jeg ikke vet
jeg ikke vet
jeg ikke vet, jeg
ikke vet, jeg ikke vet
The fun stops after post 3, people. After that it’s just anoying. But go ahead and dance. Just not for a post’s sake.
*dances*
Aaaaahhhhhh! Estoy en fuego! Estoy en fuego! Necesito agua! Ahora!
Ok, I’m done. I am not really on fire, but I sure hope it’s cooler tomorrow than it was today, since I have to stand in the sun for hours on end. Which makes me even hotter than usual…..hehe.
Thanks Rebecca. I should know about people surprising you. I had a horrible first impression of the person who’s currently my best friend. I think i’ll go with the Anthropology strategy. When i’m with super annoying people i like to narrate the situation to myself, and thinking how funny my misery will be to me later. If nothing else, it turns an unbearable situation into a slightly less unbearable situation. If i’m lucky, it helps divert my attention from how much i’d rather die than be there with that person and i see some hidden quality in the person i never saw before. Gwen, is this some legit language, or is this just runoff from the insanity raging in your mind?
all languages are legit. i had some othe useful thing to say… oh yeah! i have succeeded in infecting my friend kirssie with the muse bug! bwahahaha! one do, aprroximatley 6 billion more to go!
(18) Yay! *celebrates*
What is a good analogy or metaphor for science? My bio teacher asked us all to come up with one? (Sort of a strange assignment, but, hey, I won’t complain)
I am a deffinated supporter of the Anthropologist method. But also, I have learned to that peopl can surpirse you too. When I went to band camp, I thought some of the girls I was rooming with were going to be uber annoying…but they were actually all great.
Ah, and in answer to Zyviva’s question on the last thread (287), yeah I get end around May 25. So it all works out in the end.
Yeah, there’s some band called Muse…
Why am I up so late? Ugh.
Mmm. Now I have this lovely mental image of a stout-hearted band of anthropologists fanning out amongst the unsuspecting general population . . . .
…and reporting to their home base in museblog
HI!
im new here. can anybody tell me what to do?
Hi the mormoset!
*pies with welcome Key-lime*
Just find a thread and post. You’ll get the hang of it soon. And watch for pies! We allways pie the newbies.
*pies the marmosat*
*pies the marmosat*
*craunches the marmosat*
Don’t worry, it’s easy. All you have to do is take over your local government in the name of Mostly Harmless and we’ll give you a free pie. Or you can hang around at home base and discuss random and utterly meaningless things with your fellow musers, which is a lot more fun, plus you get more pies. Or you can do both. Recommended activities-the Welcome Committee (pie all newbies), Stalking, Lurking (menny pies in the face for you if you dare risk such a task!!!), Oohing and Aahing over GAPA RC’s license plate and LB’s amazing bunnies and Kokopollihedrons, Discussing/Reviewing Movies, Making a Movie, Discussing/Reviewing Books, Wondering What You Would Eat For Breakfast In Odd Places, Ranting, Whining (not too much or the GAPAs will eat you!), First-Post Squeeing (Not too much or Gary will eat you!), Typing In Green (Very risky-Gary will poke your eyes out and Axa will rant at you), Typing in Italics, Typing in Bold, Eating Large Amounts of Pie, Doughnuts, Weetabix, and Cheese, and Generally Being A Mostly Happy, Mostly Harmless Person.
And much more. The choices are astronomical. I suggest the last one. Doesn’t take much work.
I’m back… Again… I REALLY need to get on here more…
* pies the marmosat* sorry haven’t pied anyone because of the new museica laws. Anyway I need to get on the threads more and work on mostly harmless. By the way how are our plannings?
Hello marmosat! *pies*
Basically, you can say anything within the bounds of decency on this Blog, apart from post-grubbing and hierarchy-blinded, utterly short-sighted comments.
Yeah, we talk like what most people think of as “geeks” all the time.
YKM- It’s actually Norse.
Ahllo Marmosat!
Well, if you haven’t been scared off yet…*Gives marmosat cherry pie.*
random comment-
jackie robinson’s number was 42, does this have soe cosmic signifigance?
*pies marmosat*
You just lurk and post. Post about whatever the thread is about… basically what the Museblog is about is a bunch of cool people talking about random things because it’s fun. (And because it helps them avoid Spanish homework…he-he. But that’s not me. Of course not).
Hello, marmoset! *pies* Um, just post about whatever. Yayness.
I am finally back on. Camp has been taking up much of my time. But forensic camp is awesome. I was lucky enough to get in the happyfunhypergeek group. So we run around being crazy. A lot. But we do the experiments properly. So it’s all goode [in the hood]. Today is the last day, so I shall post about the entire thing later…much later, considering I won’t be back home until five…I think it’s six, blog time… Today we’re just wrapping up and doing our presentations on our “crime” scenes. Very cool. And I got a sexy disposable lab coat. Of which I do not wish to dispose. And some of the extra CAUTION tape [easily purchased at Lowes etc.]. Which I am currently wearing as a belt! *dances happily* Yesterday we did a polygraph test on this one guy and asked him if he were wearing women’s underwear [Shrek II reference] for one of the calibrating questions. He was supposed to lie. It was soooooo funny. And on Wed. we did those really cool flame tests with calcium salts. Calcium chloride is pretty much the best one, as it turns the flame a cool aqua-green colour. Must depart for camp! Will post more later, especially after my long absence!
Hey marmoset!!!!!!!!!Your name pwns.
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Craunchcraunch.
bonjour, mes amis. guess what? we got a third flat, five minutes from our hours while buying gorceries. and my 2nd to last guinea pig has kicked the bucket. my last pig is mourning her. on a lighter note, my buny rabbits are still as cute as ever, and alive, but one of my brother’s fish wot breed i cannae spell died.
Jackie Robinson was the fisrt af am baseball player, right? that’s awesome! so nice to see you, zyv.
ooh, and i had such a time with my relatives. there are so meny A’s that you don’t even know how you are related to them, which is so annoying (no offense to ebethy, who is an A but im not related to her, at least i don’t think so) and the B’s are just annoying in general, because they fight over whose house we get to stay at. jamestown was refreshingluy nice, however.
ooh, i messed up the html. dang.
Heya, Musebloggers! I decided to frop in to see how things are going, and from the looks of it, they’re just fine. (Nice plate, Rob! I reeeeaaallly want it! Unfortunately, almost-thirteen-year-olds can’t drive…)
I’m also here on a quest. And that is too bother Penty and Kiki.
Bother, bother, bother. I want a proper date for the Chicago Museblogger meet-up. Bother, bother, bother. Zallie and I want it NOW!
Bother.
My birthday is on September 2nd too
Year? Favorite color for other Musers to wear?
Me?
1991
I like Blue, Purple and Green
*pies Marmoset*
*pies random people*
Today, my beliefs were confirmed that improvisation is one of the most fun types of acting. Whose Line is it, Anyway? had always led me to think that, but now I know that it’s the best fun you’ll ever have up on stage.
40 (Pheebs)- I’m at school. We have to do it some weekend, because I’m living here, and it can’t be this weekend because I have to stay. I’m not sure about kiki’s schedule. Isn’t she on vacation or something?
(46) Really? That sounds dreamy. Me biggest regret about entering high skool, along with not taking a French class, is not taking a theatre class. I’ve never been able to do that.
Eeks. HS is a lot of work. I’m in Spanich 3, which is uncommon for freshies, and I only got in because I know French and was able to us it to get a high score on the Spanish 1 final exam. This means that, while I can understand everything that is said in Spanish 3, I don’t actually know all the grammar I need to. So I get to spend the weekend with my loverly freinds- tenses preterite and imperfect and all those lovely irregular verbs.
I really hope my Spanish teacher doesn’t think I’m an idiot…
Hello. I think “marmoset” is spelled with an e. Just a thought.
I toured OU today. It’s nice there, I’m thinking either there or Wooster. I get dragged along to tours with my brother, who’s a senior, because my parents don’t want to have to do them again in a year.
I started writing the story. It already r0x0rs ur s0x0rs.
49 – maybe you ought to ask the marmosets how they would like their names to be spelt.
& I probably should start thinking about colleges sometime soonish. Oh bother.
48: IRREGULAR VERBS ARE THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE *grumbles, crumples conjugation table and throws 101 Spanish Verbs across room.*
#34: Did you get to throw chunks of sodium in water? Hoo boy, is that ever fun! LOL, You should put the caution tape on the door to your room, or around your desk at skool, or use it as a headband, or…Hehe, I relly want some now!
#48: I’m going to be in espanol tres this year, but I’m a SENIOR.
It was another boring day at work. Hehe…we always find some way to amuse ourselves though. Today we were talking about working out, and then we found these big containers of salt in the back room, so we started using them as dumbells…Hey, when you work in a fudge shop, you hav to find SOME way to burn off all the cals from all the fudge you snack on!
you work in a FUDGE SHOP???!!!??? I am SO jealous!!!!!!!!
It’s all just snakes on a plane guys. Just snakes on a plane.
-rolls away-
48- I am far more fortunate than most people I know when it comes to stuff like that. I’m quite grateful for the oppurtunities I get.
53- The fudgery!
34-We went to the Gay Pride Parade to advertise stuff for the business my dad works for, and the guys in his lab went as “Men In Shirts,” and I tie-dyed a lab coat so it had a rainbow double helix. Yeah, pretty godzoon googly indeed.
41-Quel mon schwette! That’s “schwette,” not “sweet.” French for “cool.” No idea why it translates into “owl”, but oh well. Owls are just flying mousetraps.
49-Wooster! As in Bertie? Grant, chico, sonyo, baby, I have no idea what you’re talking about. But I can guess!
56-I didn’t know there was such a thing as a fudge shop. Actually, there’s a place in Paris that sells only honey. It’s got a little cafe-thingy attached to it, too. There’s a place near me called the ‘CIgary,’ but last year my uncle sent me a box of ‘Romeo y Julieta’ cigars for my birthday. I still have the box. It’s pretty and it smells nice.
Soooo…my house now has I-net access, which is serendipitious and splendid. Though my parents redid my room and put up an Audrey Hepburn record. The soundtrack from Break. at T’s. Dreck. I put it in the hall. The rest of the albums are Clash (‘Combat Rock’ and ‘London Calling’) Plastics (self-t.’d album), Elvis Costello (My Aim Is True) and the B-52’s (I’m seeing them on the 25th).
Could someone plz tell me what is so special about Snakes on a Plane??!!
(58) I’ll tell you what’s special about Snakes on Plane… it’s a movie about snakes. On a plane.
I can just imagine the conversation in which this idea was created.
Bob: Jeez, all the ideas for the action movies have been used…
Sue: …Multiple times.
Chuck: Even the bad ones.
Bob: Hold on… I think I got a new one!
Sue: What is it?
Bob: Terrorists on a plane!
Chuck: Bob…
Bob: Oh, damn. That’s been done, hasn’t it.
Sue: But ya know, the plane idea isn’t bad. I bet we could re-use it..
Chuck: What else is dangerous that we could put on a plane?
Bob: Ghosts!
Sue: Been done.
Chuck: Elephants!
Sue: Too big.
Chuck: Oversized rabid puppies!
Bob: Venemous plants?
Sue: Venemous animals?
… and of course, the next step in this train of logic is obvious.
It’s an internet phenomeno. If you were on LiveJournal or some such website, it would make more sense.
As would this: “ALL YOUR BASE ARE BLEONG TO US!”
snake: *bites pilot*
pilot: *dies*
snake: oh, crapsicles. I just killed the last person on the plane. now all the snakes are gonna die, too.
Snakes on a plane is amusing. I’ve never seen it, but it’s amusing. We laff at it. A lot. Kind of pathetic really, how amused we are by it…
‘Ello everyone, I just got back from camp. It was very fun. At the camp with us was also a Karate camp and a Band camp.
Wooster as in the College of Wooster.
Everybody has something they want but can’t explain why they want it. For me, it’s a khukuri. I am not a homicidal maniac, it’s just that the idea of owning one is extraordinarily appealing to me. What are some of your things you want for some reason you can’t explain, everyone?
Who here has had Cold Stone? Cold Stone is awesome.
#63: Hey there! Glad you had fun!
#64: Yessssss Coldstone is muy bien. *Thinks of their Cake Batter shake and drools on keyboard*
#59 + #61: Ha, You guys are hilarious. Now I want to see it…
63- Hey dood!
Ehhh, I don’t think I’ll see Snakes on a Plane. It doesn’t sound too interesting. I’ma going to see The Devil Wears Prada though…still have to see An Inconvenient Truth.
64- ahhhhhhh I’ve never been there I’ve got 2 giftcards for it. Me needs to go…sounds pretty yummy!
my biggest qwestion:
IS IT NORMAL TO THINK IN THIRD PERSON?!
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarggggghh!!
Doesen’t EVERYBODY think in third person???? NO? EKKKKK!!
Once I was talking to myself, And I called myself the name of my sibling. It was very odd. And then, afew days ago, I did it again!!!! eeekkkkk!
I think everyone thinks that way. And some people talk in third person and it gets really annoying. I think in third and first. Is it us who thinks or are consince?
gosh…..
Oh so I just finished a show that we learned in two weeks it was the last time I would be able to do it so I am kinda sad. But the good thing is I will see alot of them today. Yay cast parties.
What does Sparkling Apple Cider do to you??
64-Cold Stone roxxez my soxxez. Unfortunately we don’t have one here…
67-Ebeth thinks it’s very normal to think in third person, and talk in such too. She thinks it’s a lot of fun, and the world would be a happier place if everybody did.
I’m bored
who’s here?
Sparkling apple cider does nothing to you that regular cider does not. However, if you are instead referring to hard apple cider, then that’s alcoholic. Speaking of alcohol, I never realized how potent rum was.
I talk to myself quite a lot, especially when I’m angry. I’ll rave and rant about what I don’t like about what’s making me angry. I have this annoying habit that keeps coming back: I’ll say something, then I’ll repeat what I just said under my breath. It’ll strike me when I’m least expecting it, and when I realize I’ve done it I’ll get frustrated. I used to do it all the time, like every sentence, some years ago, but then I stopped. For the most part.
It makess me hyper ’cause I don’t drink soda so it must be somthin like that….Does it make anyone else really hyper….
72-Sonyo, rum is extremely potent. Which is probably why it’s associated with pirating. But why is ham the chosen dish of pirates?
If you’re making pasta with sauce, use the water you cooked the pasta in to make the sauce-it has starch in it, and will add flavor to the sauce.
Last night I watched ‘The Philadelphia Story.’ It’s an old movie with Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, and Katharine Hepburn. It’s about a Philly socialite, Tracy Lord (“Good Lord!” “No, Tracy Lord.”), who’s remarrying (Katharine Hepburn), but her ex-husband (Cary Grant) works at a magazine and uses some blackmail leverage to get a few reporters (Jimmy Stewart and a woman whose name I can never remember) in on the wedding. It’s a romantic comedy, but it has some great lines. And a fabulous ending. I love the ending. There are two versions of the movie, and I love both.
Hello all, I just got back from camp. What have I missed? Camp was tons of fun, that just about sums it up.
Cary Grant is awesome. My favorite movie of his is either North by Northwest or Father Goose.
Well, in Pirates, you see Sparrow quaffing at least a bottle of rum, which is about as potent as schnappes. That is extremely potent. If someone like me drank that much, it’d be like a mallet to the skull.
What exactly does sonyo mean? What language is it?
I think I’m going to take Arabic lessons before I go into college. It’d be nice to have a head start. I think I might want to go into the field of diplomacy, and it’s good to know more than two languages if you’re in that field. I’m going to become fluent in Spanish, I already am in English (obviously), and I want to learn Arabic because I just want to.
Again, I pose the question: what are some things people want for a reason they can’t explain? I am interested to hear this. I think it might have some sort of connection to the inner spirit.
(69) Your conscience is just what you really think, not a separate being leasing the space inside your head.
(76) That’s an interesting question. For me, I want to go to Washington. Possibly live there, for a reason that’s hard to describe. It has something to do with the fact it’s really, really beautiful and natural up there (as opposed to smoggy Southern CA) but there’s more to it and it’s hard to explain with words.
Yays!
I’m going to the drive-in tonight (As in vintage 50s – watching movies from the trunk of your car is soooo cool)! It’s a double feature: Talladega Nights and Monster House.
Hi!! I am back from MICHIGAN!!! SO fun!!
wow! only 3 or so new threads while I was gone!! Any thing major happen in Museica?
Guess what? i was at a chinese reastaraunt today, and I got my fortune out of my fortune cookie, and one of my lucky numbers was 42!! Squee!
Way to triple post, Kiki.
82- Fank yoo.
GAPA, I have an ideea! For the next monthly random thread, the picture should be Gimpy!!!! If you don’t know what that is, shame on you.
I always get 13 in my fortune cookies. :/
kiki, I must admit ignorance as far as who/what Gimpy is. Do tell.
I think she means Gumbee (or is it gumby?)the claymation green dude we actually had whole math class discussions on him and his horse…It was quite fun…
Weekend.
*headsmash* Busy 1-3 on Saturdays. Basically the idela time. Oh, what fun. What fun. *Smash* What fun.
Ack, I’m a mountain of self-pity these days. I haven’t spoken to anyone – except for one person, who I talked to today – in my new class since, oh, one or two times last school year. I’m stuck with them for 2 years. Most of them are eejits who need to… er… do something rude to themselves. Yes. Soak their heads. *That’s terribly rude, I’m sure* Two years. Oh, Higher Power, why hast you condemned me to this rather unpleasant fate?!
46 – improv rocks!
67&on – How do you think in third person?
70 – THF agrees with Ebeth. She just doesn’t quite understand how to think in third person.
72 – me, too.
ranting and raving to no one when I’m angry, I mean.
81 – What’s special about 42? (not to be rude, or anything)
Girl in Metal, are you new, or have you been here for a while, or did you change your name from something else?
For the past two weeks, I wasn’t at camp, but I went on a four-day vacation to see the sights of NYC.Then I stayed at my grandparents’ house for a week and a half.
86- Gimpy is a protector from bots. It was in some muse issue.
89- “WHAT’S SPECIAL ABOUT 42”!!!!??????????? Somebody, tell her.
I LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
IMPROV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello, all! Many people start school today, correct?
I start the 31st but we have an orientation tomorrow!
89-It’s the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. It’s part of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. You see, a superintelligent race of pan-dimensional beings built a giant supercomputer, called Deep Thought, to compute the answer. After seven million years of thinking, it came up with 42. Deep Thought then built another computer to come up with the actual question. This computer was so complex that organic life was part of the computer matrix. It was called the ‘Earth.’ Five minutes from the critical moment of readout, the earth was destroyed by the Vogons to make way for a hyperspace bypass. If you want a better explanation, you’d better read the books.
89- qwite easily. ill be going along thinking, like, blah blah blah she said(meaning me), or she(me) did such and such……..
IS THIS NORMAL!?
When the question “Is nothing sacred?” pops into my head, I think of this place. This is the place I come to when the world seems awful, and I’d like to thank y’all for your support.
I have a bit of a confession to make.
Sometimes I make up things or make them sound worse than they actually are for your entertainment. In fact, something I type may be the complete opposite in RL. (Real life.) I type things because they might be considered funny by some people, or because at that moment I don’t care whether I get struck by a meteorite, let alone have people read things. Whims enter my head and I act on them, because on here there’s no consequence. Mr Link is actually a great guy; it’s just that sometimes I search for sympathy when I’m feeling low for no reason. And that brings in: making stuff up.
At least, that’s how it used to be. I feel quite ill. Has anyone here ever felt personally betrayed? If so, I’m feeling like that now. I feel sick to my heart. It’s like someone tore it out. I don’t blame you for wanting to remain anonymous, I’d actually like to wish you luck in living with yourself.
I never knew I was someone’s enemy. But I don’t see any other reason for something uncalled for like that.
This post is not meant to force anyone into the open. Is nothing sacred? The answer used to be no. It has been irrevocably changed.
Today’s my day off.
W00t.
Time to start my other book for Honors World Lit’s required reading.
Bleh.
Metal!!
\m/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK I’m going now…
95-Nothing is too sacred to be made fun of. Why do we fence off religion? It’s all right to be from this country or that country, Republican or Democrat, but as soon as some priest sticks his head up, we say, “Oh no, you have to respect that, that’s someone’s belief.” Is there any other reason for doing that other than we’ve gotten used to it?
Personally, I wish Herr and Frau Eddings would sue Paolini. He plagiarized. Entire conversations. And he got away with it! Is there no decency? But if they sue Paolini, the dirty rat, they’ll have to get Gideon Defoe for that blurb in The Pirates! In An Adventure With Lazy Postmodernism about people with white streaks in their hair.
/m/
And I hold with my observation that Rupert Grint is GIRLY!
(94) I do that too! SO MUCH.
95-it’s all good Mr. Chairman. I doubt he’ll ever come on here, and i also doubt any of us will ever meet him. As far as we know, he could be an entirely fictional character! For example, today i went to the store and saw my third grade teacher. She slapped my face and told me to behave.
Or did she?
Did i even meet her?
Was my third grade teacher even female? (actually yes, she was, but you get the idea)
97-if the eddingsesessss sued paolini i would jump for joy and eat a piece of choklit. Actually i think i’ll do that anyway (mom went to trader joe’s and got some good choklits), but i would be much happier about it.
98, 99-hey! Ok the hair is a bit much…but still! raaaaaaaaaar!!!!!!!!!!!! *smites*
heh. harriet and i are such geeks. We stayed up until 1 in the morning reading political magazines (time and the economist) and listening to styx (who rock btw) then we went to the bookstore today and spent the last half hour we had together reading. Go us.
Oh, it’s much more than Mr Link coming on here. Someone, who wanted to remain anonymous (sic), alerted him to this website and now I have no sanctuary. Although being the intelligent, witty, and fun-loving guy he is, I highly doubt he would hold with this kind of forum/blog. He specifically told me there was someone who had emailed him about my comments (which were in jest). Obviously, it’s either someone who’s on here that I don’t know about going to Kenston; it’s a LURKER, that hellspawn who read but never post; or it’s someone I know who comes on here to check on stuff I say simply because they LOATHE me.
Their wish to remain anonymous will be respected by me. I feel no urge for vengeance. What I do feel is a deep, profound hurt at the very depths of my soul.
*pies marmosat with pumpkin pie*
go to the poems and songs thread!
89: poor, deprived soul. 42 is the answer. The answer. To Life, The Universe, and Everything. As duly documented in The Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy. Now all we have to do is figure out the question.
(84) kiki, thanks for explaining about Gimpy. I am deeply ashamed for not knowing that it’s the name of that “word-bending” program designed to stop bots. Now I know and am a better person for it.
So are you suggesting we use a picture of a sofware program for next month’s random thread? What would that look like?
101. For a couple months, you could change your name. But don’t tell anybody who you are, or that you’ve changed it. Maybe you could somehow ask the GAPAs to put it seprate from your other names in Who’s Here. Then you could pretend to be a newbie, and still blog, just not as yourself, until you feel it is safe to return to your former supremeness. I don’t know. It sounds like a difficult situation. All of the REAL musebloggers would never do such a thing! I hope you find a solution!
93 – I never even thought of reading them. I defifitely (sp?) hear about them, though.
94 – I certainly don’t see anything wrong with it.
95 – USECGO, you sound like a person that the GAPAs are protecting us from. (That isn’t stalkers, is it?)
Who are the Eddingses (?) and who is Paolini?
(101, 105)
Rosanne and I will certainly help Grant assume an alias if he needs to.
106-David and Leigh Eddings wrote several works of fantasy-the Belgariad, the Malloreon, that series that starts with Domes of Fire, and also separate works, like Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress. Christopher Paolini is in the middle of the Inheritance Trilogy, which includes Eragon and Eldest. Simply put, Paolini took Herr and Frau Eddings’s idea, story, plot, and some dialogue from the B, shamelessly and without courtesy, respect, or intelligence. The other thing that bugs me about Paolini is that people have misconceptions. Yeah, he graduated from college early, and yeah, he’s written a book at a very young age, but the main difference between him and one of us is that a Muser would be able to write and that his parents own a publishing company. You know?
“Plagiarize! Let no one else’s work evade your eyes! Remember why the good lord made your eyes! So don’t shade your eyes, but plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize-but be sure always please to call it research.”
My father’s second cousin (Dad has a bunch of second cousins who look exactly like we do and are his age-tall Germans and hyphen-Germans with pale skin, curly black hair, green eyes, and keloid scars who work in fields like microbiology and petrochemicals) is called Eugene and is marrying a girl called Eugenia, in a joint ceremony with his adopted older brother Paul and-you guessed it-Paula. I sent them the “Animal House” soundtrack, in English, but I doubt they get it. Oh well. Still, I just came back from a family reunion in Frankfurt. (Laptop.) They did the same thing every time, in German but not all bloggers speak it:
Relative: *walks up to Pop (mine)* Karl! How are you and Alice/Alex/Al? (My mother’s called Alison, but they never quite understand that)
Pop: Oh, fine, fine.
Relative: *bending over to me, I said they’re TALL* Ahh! It’s adorable! Aren’t you adorable, you coochikinnikins…*nauseating baby talk* Karl, does it speak German?
Me (sullen): Yes. And English, and French.
Relative: Schwette! It’s sentient! Amazing. Karl, you have too much time on your hands. (to me) You should learn (enter name of random language here: usually Punjabi but sometimes Latvian and once Czechoslovakian) it’ll be good for you.
Me: Where are you from?
Relative: Frankfurt/Munich/Osh in Kyrgyzstan/Betelgeuse. What’s your name?
Me: Juliette.
Relative: *breaks out into ‘Juliet’ by LMNT*
My family’s insane. They have strange personal names, too. Not just Paul and Eugene but Brittania, Victoria (Veefie), Brimmantine, Finnegal, Stellanorabeatrice, Andromeda, Pleeadeeks, Svlad Anne, Zolten, Brommoria Cyanide, and Catsmeat. Plus, they’re weirdly hyphenated. Russian-Germans. Japanese-Germans. Nigerian-Germans. Franco-Germans at the Institut Pasteur. Spanish-Germans. Bassington-(mylastname). Finnegal Calvin McKeane-(mylastname). They argue over how the name’s meant to be pronounced, where it came from, and why they have such strange given names.
I seriously need to go on here more often. Saturday I was at my mom’s friend’s house. With her kids. Who attacked me with a crazy rat. Or did they?
Actually, yes. But I’m exaggerating. They really put their pet rat on my neck. Its claws scratched me, though…So now I have big scratches on my neck.
I really can’t remember what I was doing on Sunday.
And yesterday I was registered at the local public high school. By some crazy lady who was overly patronizing. Yes, I can see where I’m supposed to write my name. Gar. And I met with the Engineering/AP Chem teacher. He was very cool. He said I could take bothe of those classes, just one in my Jr and one in my Sr year. I think I’m going to take AP Chem this year. I like chem muchly.
After that, I had to get a physical to go to school and get my permit. Which was mainly annoying. Especially because I discovered I’ve been 5’2.5″ since the eighth grade. And because I needed to get booster shots for the chicken pox and tetanus. The one from the pox is now swollen. And throbs.
This post is majorly long.
Thank you, Capt. Obvious.
And I just thought in the third person.
And saved the day by pointing out the painfully obvious once more. w00t.
I really want chainmail gauntlets. I don’t know why. The backs of my hands don’t really need protecting. Gauntlets are just cool.
Anyway, I’m setting my schedule with my new guidance person.
On the way to my mom’s friend’s house on Sat, I saw one of the guys from the OCC riding a motorcycle. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a picture. But it was still cool.
104- Maybe it could be a screenshot of Time Machine in the Leopard preview on apple.com. Check it OUT!!!!
109- Ugh, I don’t want to register on Thursday, it’s going to be so horrible.
110 – OCC? o_o Whazzat?
111- I could really use a time machine, and so could my computer.
Robert is the GAPA with power over the monthly random thread pics. So the rest of us will have to stay tuned to see what next month’s pic will be.
106- By “force into the open” I meant reveal who BETRAYED me. That’s the only word I can think of. I thought everyone here was a friend.
Muse kicks ass. I hope this forum is worthy of it.
That is quite a good idea. Of course I shall post under my original name so as not to attract suspicion under my other name.
I have an autographed Calvin and Hobbes book. I don’t think there are many of those around. I got it because my mom associates with Bill Watterson’s father in her work. I kinda live near/around where Bill Watterson grew up, which is probably why I can relate to Calvin’s surroundings. On the back of The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, Giant Calvin is holding the Popcorn Shop, which is on the main street. I think the Popcorn Shop is like a landmark. I seem to remember George W. Bush visiting it on his grand tour. I wasn’t in town at that time, which is probably a good thing, as I might have done something I could be arrested for.
SANTA ZARQUANA VOOSTRA!
I just found out I’m related to Frans de Waal.
His wife is the cousin of my grandfather’s sister’s daughter.
OK, so we’re not blood brothers exactly, but it’s a start!
This is so exciting!
Sweet Melpomene-a permit for what exactly?
111- High-Five! Macs rock! (Oh apple.com? thanx. I lost the url)
Orange County Choppers. On the Discovery Channel.
My (Some colorful adjectives removed-Not Admin) Windows won’t let me go on apple.com.
Driving.
120-You sound surprised. Why?
Hey Juliette!
I think
You’re fine
You really blow my mind
Maybe
Someday
You and me can run away
And I just want you to know…
I wanna be your Romeo
Hey Juliette-LMNT, ‘Juliet’, All Sides
Interesting interesting……………………….
Anybody read Generation T it’s aall DIY t-shirt stuff
Going to Baltimore……Went to the Hard Rock in the City met a girl with pins from japan. And we couldn’t finish the nachos
Anyone read Benchely? Jaws or related works?
114 – Ah. Alrighty then.
Real nice welcome you got here. That Grant guy seems pissed about something.
Well, howdy, stranger. Mind your language while you’re on the blog, that’s all we ask, and make yourself at home. Could somebody fetch a pie for our new amigo or amiga, please?
*pies DeathJackal* Why the name “DeathJackal” ?
Because everybody loves death, and jackals are so– Well, no, I guess it can’t be that.
How about: protective camouflage for a kind heart and a sunny disposition.
Sorry for randomness, but if someone made a song that would be equivalent to We Didn’t Start The Fire for this decade, what do you think would be included?
116- I’m confused. I’ve been reading your other posts and I’m still confused. Who betrayed you? how? they told Mr. Link about MB but why is that so important? you’ve posted about this mr. link? I’m confused..
*pies DeathJackal with pumpkin pie*
Come to poems and songs! I seem to be the only one there… Axa, where did you go?
#109: Aw, Sry about those nasty shots : (
You’re half an inch taller than I am
Tomorra is registration for seniors, but my father will probably forget to take me (I dearly wish I had another method of transportation to the skool; my parents seem to hav even more ADD than I do, and I cannot rely on them for anything whatsoever), so I shall hav to find a way to get my books, ID, and locker #/com on the first day of skool. That is going to be freaking hard.
Ahhh I’m here! What with Penty gone at school it’s been a bit more empty than usual there, though. ;__;
Poems and Songs
Poems and Songs
Poems and Songs
Poems and Songs
That was the strangest breakfast I’ve had in awhile. I had inari w/ ginger and wasabi. The wasabi relly woke me up, so that was good (I’ve quit coffee for now, sniffsob, but I was up to at least three cups a day, and it was beginning to burn up my internal organs, heh heh).
Speaking of caffeine, did you know that 0.01 milligram is a fatal dose for planaria? I bet you didn’t.
I had leftover hunan kung pao for breakfast, and I feel fine. I love spicy Thai food. And Indian. And Japanese-I just love spicy food, okay?
125-I wonder what. To coin someone’s earlier phrase: “Thank you, Captain Obvious.”
Coffee is a vice.
meh. I just finished my first day of fifth grade. WOW. My teacher is really nice, but she has this nasally voice.
136 (kiki)- I just finished my first full day of tenth. *faints on keyboard* The band music is evil. I have to play first bassoon, and that part likes to hang around in the high register more than is good for it. Or me.
133 (Axa)- I could be lurking there, waiting for inspiration to strike in my intelligence-full days. Or I could have been abducted by aliens. Or I could have been lying about the school thing the whole time and really just too lazy to get online any more.
You never know.
137 whatever the reason, more people need to post there. It’s getting lonely.
(64) I have had Cold Stone.
One thing I want that I can’t explain? I want… I want a big glass jar on my desk that is mult-colored and has beads glued all over it.
And I want it to be filled with plain yogurt.
With honey and defrosted frozen berries.
(68) I’ve hecka done that too! (called my self my sister’s name, I mean)
(69) What was the show?
(74) But if you wait to make the sauce until after you make the pasta, the noodles get cold and stiff!
(94) I used to do that all the time, and sometimes I’d accidently say the “she said” parts out loud and it was rather embarrasing.
(95) I think we all do that sometime… make things up, exaggerate, search for pity. It’s not really selfish, it’s just human. Cool to admit it, though.
Wait- It think I missed the posts about this Mr Link fellow. What happened? (or, if you don’t want to relate the whole thing, that’s fine)
(115) Muse is too froody to have to worry about things being “worthy” of it or not.
*pies DJ with key lime pie*
that’s our welcome procedure.
honest.
Hey, coffee’s supposed to be good for your heart…In some way…
Well, I’ve found several alternate forms of caffeine! I had some chai tea earlier (mmmmmmmm) and now *Giggles*, I’m having a Rockstar (energy drink). Kinda tastes like liquified smarties. Hehehe I feel jazzy…
Today I went to registration + got all my textbooks. I put them all in my locker, save my biology book – 1,250 pages of hardcore, AP biology. I’m excited! *Laughs nasally* I’m going to skim the whole thing later tonight.
#139: Mmm, That yogurt sounds purty good!
DeathJackal is a reference to the most interesting of the Egyptian gods: Anubis. The judger of souls. The guardian of the underworld.
Why have I been “pied?” Pies have been used as edible comedic props for decades, and I think they have become old, lame, and obsolete.
142 (DJ)- If you think pies are old, lame, and obsolete, get off our blog. Seriously. And you call yourself a Muser.
You’ve been pied because you’re a newbie and that’s our welcome ritual. Eat them. They’re nutritious.
And the judger of souls/guardian of the underworld was Osiris, not Anubis. Anubis presided over the mummification process, if I remember correctly.
Ignore my snarkiness. I’m like this when I feel like it, which is often. Really, I love all of you froods. You know that, right?
(140) o_o For the love of all that is good and healthy, do not get started on those Monster drinks. Or Rockstar. Whatever, same thing. Caffine is EVIL. It does horrible things to you. I would say the so called “energy” drinks are most likely worse for you than coffee. Which is soooo not good for you in any way. o___o -is concerend for the health of MBers-
Yeah I’m done here. -twitch twitch-
Osiris only did that after he was sliced into peices and resurrected. He usurped the position from Anubis. How’s a person supposed to guard the dead when his legs are wrapped together? Who’s going to mess with a giant jackal-headed man? Nobody messes with a jackal-headed man. It’s part of that story I’m writing.
Pies are STALE! (No pun intended.) Nutritrious? It depends how they’re made. Why haven’t I heard any of you talking about rhubarb pie? Rhubarb is better than anything I’ve heard you talk about in my not by any means lurking around here for several months. And I think it’s disgusting, someone desecrating what I thought was a place of sanctity.
I’m going to go to bed when I’m finished watching this Family Guy episode in the Shared folder apparently downloaded by someone related to me.
Coffee is good. I drink it for the flava rather than the caffeine, which doesn’t affect me that much anyway. I can eat and drink coffee-derived products all day. It tastes sooo gooood. My favorite candy bar is Coffee Crisp, which is made by the Canadian version of Nestle, which is called…..Nestle. You know those packages of chocolate-covered coffee beans they have at Borders? One time I ate an entire one of those. At 6:00. PM. I didn’t sleep a wink all night. It was so boring. There was nothing to do, except watch TV and eat leftover Chinese food. I hate television. Idiot box. The only good thing about is you can use it to use other things like VCRs, DVD players, and game consoles.
142, 143, 145: You are both wrong. The heart was weighed after death against a feather from Maat, the Ostrich Goddess of Justice. If it was heavier than the feather, Ammit, The Eater of the dead, would devour it. So be good. If it was lighter than the feather, Osiris would whisk them through to paradise.
I can also tell you he story of how Osiris got to be a God, but it is a tad innapropriate…
I can’t believe no one thought of this before:
*bambi eyes*
GAPA, can you PLEASE put a picture if Pwt up so I cam make a sticker????
(148) We learned that in Ancient Civ last year. It was funny when my teacher explained it becuase he used all these really loaded euphamisms.
Ötzi (149),
How about the one on the Muse Glossary?
Anubis was responsible for the weighing the heart against the feather of Maat, the goddess of purity. I am fully aware of Ammit’s devouring the heart if it was too heavy. If the feather balanced, yes, Osiris would take them away to paradise. The Egyptians had an odd idea of paradise. Whoever it was would spend eternity exactly how they had spent their life, except better. Even slaves. Excuse me, but that seems to me as though it sucks. I might go insane.
I heard from a friend of mine that one could get free stickers from this website. Is that still possible? He gave me some and now I don’t have any left.
You should still be able to get stickers from the magazine. Violetfire describes how on the “Muse How-Tos” thread:
How did some Musers get hpb stickers?
They wrote in to Muse at:
Muse Magazine
Attention: Samantha Sordyl
140 S. Dearborn Street, Suite 1450
Chicago, IL 60603
Send a self-addressed and stamped envelope, and you’ll get some stickers!
Oh, so that’s what was meant by “more Mue how-to’s.”. I was an idiot to think people would actually want to read more of mine.
That is what I’ll have to do! I have always wanted to get muse stickers. Now I can decorate EVERYTHING with them!!!!
(if you ever see someone wearing a hpb sticker on their forehead, that will be me, because whenever I get stickers, I just HAVE to adorn my face with at least one of them…)
Ah, but they do.
(146) Oh, you think it doesn’t affect you. But your organs are writhing in an explody mass of DOOM as we speak. Or in the near future.
The only caffine I have had in recent memory other than the occasional Coke (hey, I’m not saying I don’t have caffine, I’m just saying it reaps your mortal soul) was a Fullmetal Alchemist energy drink.
IT WAS SO AWFUL. I bought it at Anime Expo after my friend told me it was good and it certainly wasn’t. I poured it out but kept the can. Collector’s item!
145 (DJ)- Pies are not stale. Your sense of humour is just overdeveloped. And they are too nutritious! Because I said so. *sticks tongue out*
152 (DJ)- That was Osiris. I am absolutely positive about this.
But Anubis is cool anyway. ‘DeathWeirdMummifiedGreenCastrati‘ is not a very good name, after all.
154 (USECGO)- Of course we do. It’s just that a very small percentage of the current population actually knows what they are. I do. I want more. Now write.
158- I could do that. Or I could continue to feel sorry for myself, like the miserable, worthless layabout I am. Y’know, the DeathJackal thing really isn’t working for me. Everyone will look at me as a n00b, which is exactly what I am not.
I know what I’m talking about. Why, last Saturday, when I went to Borders after my orthodontics appointment to buy my own copy of The Art of War, I also bought a book on Egyptian mythology. I know what Anubis is. I know what he does. And Osiris, orignally king of Living Egypt, usurped what he did.
I would actually like to know who did that, just so I know who to never trust again. I act all belligerent, aggresive, and like I want to use your internal organs for interior decorating, but that’s on the surface. And underneath that, I am hurt.
I think after I walk the dog I’ll write more of my horribly bleak story. What I can’t figure out is why the governor of the Walled City will do what Akh says. (The name Akh is my working name for the character, but I kinda like it.)
Hello, DeathJackal. *refrains from pie-ing* Old, lame, and obsolete? Hmm. I’m getting déjà vu here.
I was watching something on the History Channel about the Egyptian Book of the Dead. I sorely desire a copy of it. IN English, of course. But I SQUEEd for at least a full minute when it mention that the soul had to pass through 42 gates and deny certain sins before the heart was weighed.
Anyway, it was Anubis who wrapped Osiris back up. Osiris was the first mummy. Ever. Which is pretty cool once you think about it. Osiris also flooded the Nile.
Personally, my favourite is Ptah. Creation&crafts[wo]men.
I don’t have a locker yet at my new school. Not happy. But I do have bothe of my AP classes in the morning, so I’ll be awake.
It’s weird, actually. People seem to think that I study. I spend moste of my time online during the school year. But I still get decent grades. It’s almost ironic when I consider the kids who study like mad just to get mid-B’s.
Less than a week until school starts. Bleah. Hope it isn’t entirely boring.
Ebeth is happy. She gets to take the US history SAT at the end of this year because apparently AP US history teaches all you need to know for that. Plus her trumpet’s coming back from the hospital with a shiny new pinky ring and an absence of bendyness. Plus she doesn’t smell terrible anymore. She did before, because schneids was insane and had us do the whole show in our winter uniforms cuz the photographer was late. It was like 85 out. Painful. And we couldn’t take our jackets off. But now she’s happy.
157: I’m not so crazy about caffiene for the sake of caffiene, either. But I do live in Coffee City, and so it is unavoidable, if you can walk by a coffee roaster and resist the heavenly smell. Which I, quite frankly, cannot. I like coffee drinks that are light on the coffee and heavy on the steamed (soy) milk. I also like the iced kind on hot days. And to dispel a popular myth: I tower over most people I meet. Coffee does most definitely NOT stunt your growth. However, it should not be drunk TOO often (more than once every two months) , because that may form a risk of addiction and also caffiene leaches calcium from your bones. Which is not good. So, if you are way into coffee, take a supplement.
I prefer Green Tea, which has antioxidants, and Chinese Black Tea (Foojoy brand Yunnan Bo Nay tea) which is the kind they serve in Chinese Restaurants. It aids the digestion.
159: being the history geek I am, I go through different fascinations with certain periods in history. In fifth and part of sixth grade it was Ancient Egypt. In seventh grade it was Lewis and Clark, then the civil war. Now it is merging into my own Geneology. However, You are right about Anubis overseeing the weighing of the heart AS WELL as the mummification AND the Opening of the Mouth ceremony. We are all right about part of it.
I meant two weeks, not two months. oops.
ENOUGH WITH THE CAFFEINE! No, it doesn’t stunt your growth. But it isn’t healthy! For zark’s sake, did no one read Zamyatin’s We? You should.
The best type of green tea is hoji-cha. Otzi, where did your umlaut go?’
Osiris. All the way. Actually, we owe a lot to the Book of the Dead-it’s how the Grateful Dead got their name.
Grant, I wasn’t here when you posted your How-to’s, but I did browse them a few months back when I was bored, and I thought they were hilarious. Of course we want more of your how-to’s.
And feeling sorry for yourself is healthy, just keep it to small doses.
Must practice clarinet now.
D:
Pluto has been demoted! AAH! EIGHT PLANETS!!! *twitches* Wow, I wonder what Urania thinks of this! Or the astrologers xD
Seriously, though, it’s just weird. Eight. Wow.
Haha, my sister thought they were going to blow it up. Poor Pluto.
Hello! I’m back! I’m not alowed on the computer on weekdays now, for some reason. Aparently it’s like tv, which I ‘m not alowed to watch on weekdays either. School started… I’ll post my absolutly horrible first day on the school thread
Hello, Jadestone.
SM (166),
I’ll allow the link. I spent part of the afternoon editing another online story about Pluto, here, for my day job.
Don’t feel too sorry for Pluto. It’s still out there, you know, only now it’s a “dwarf planet.” A dwarf star is a star, but a dwarf planet isn’t really a planet, for some reason.
Here’s what I think happened: Astronomers realized that if Pluto remained a planet, then they’d eventually have to add dozens or even hundreds more planets in orbits farther out. They couldn’t face that prospect, so Pluto got the boot.
Pluto almost made it. I think it would still be a planet if that committee the International Astronomical Union appointed hadn’t tried to make its moon Charon a planet, too. That was probably the last straw for a lot of people.
I wonder whether this will be the last word on the subject. Pluto is awfully popular. I’ll bet the IAU gets a lot of irate letters. I’ll post their e-mail address if you’re interested in weighing in.
Meanwhile, my own favorite “dwarf planet” du jour is now Ceres. Little round world in among all that lumpy rubble in the asteroid belt. It’s prime real estate, if you ask me.
I was under the impression that Pluto was an ice dwarf, a small, compact ball of ice and misery. Or just ice.
164: I never really had an umlaut. I don’t know why. Mabye I should get one.
hmmmm…
Ötzi
or
Otzi ???
Lets put it to a vote!!!!!!!
Poor Pluto. D: I too blame it’s little brother Charon for stirring up trouble. Hmph.
I’m going to be gone until the 29th because we’re dropping my brother off at college on the east coast… Ugggh. I haven’t been back east since I was four. I hate flying. AUGH.
The whole “Pluto” muck-up must be demoralizing for Mickey Mouse’s dog.
DJ (169),
That’s one way of looking at it. Another way is that it’s the innermost member of the Kuiper Belt, a whole vast archipelago of ice and misery that astronomers are just now starting to discover. That has a certain grandeur to it, don’t you think?
Ötzi (172),
The singer-songwriter Christine Lavin mentions Pluto the dog in a very funny song she wrote when Pluto came under fire 10 years ago. She also sings
St. Christopher is looking down on all this
and he says, “Pluto, I can relate.
When I was demoted from sainthood
I gotta tell you little buddy,
it didn’t feel real great”
and Scorpios look up in dismay
because Pluto rules their sign.
Is now reading their daily Horoscope
just a futile waste of time?
You can read the rest of the lyrics on her website.
Suddenly, a young naval officer with turquoise hair and prairie dog emblems covering his clothes stomped into the random thread. He tossed a folded scrap of parchment onto the virtual discussion table and left without a word.
After a minute or two, some of the bolder bloggers edged toward the parchment. Upon unfolding, it revealed this message:
“Sail ye across the Cyber Sea to the thread entitled Ship’s Logs, then ever west and north. o o
161 W, 46 N.
Considerable consternation followed.
I can’t believe they “demoted” Pluto! Does this mean that elementary students are going to be memorizing the EIGHT planets now??
I’m going to put off letting the reader know why the governor does why Akh says. The governor is the character everyone will hate. I think halfway through the story I’ll have him mauled. That’ll be cool. I’ll describe it in full, too, because authors can get away with that. It’ll be a long, drawn-out fight that can end in either the man’s throat being ripped out or him falling from a great height, like what happened to Senor Enojado in chapter 2.
97,108-i read the belgariad, and paolini
couæd you (or someone else) explain exactly what it is he(paolini) plaigerized? because i didnt quite notice
Well I don’t care what they say. I’ll still thik of poor little Pluto(or is it just pluto now??) as a planet. They can’t change what I’ve learned!
Haha, I can tell my kids that “When I was your age, we had nine planets.”
Okay, that was beyond lame. But it would still be fun. Heck, I can even tell that to some little kids now! Or pretty much anyone younger than I am! Muhahahhahhaaa!
BELGARIAD
Garion
Belgarath
Faldor’s farm
Plot centers around Rivan King
Murgos and Angaraks
Durnik
Orphaned heir
Ce’Nedra
?pg, Pawn of Prophecy: “Don’t sit there grinning like an idiot. Help me!”
Rivan Kings
ERAGON/ELDEST
Eragon
Urgals and Ra’zac
Horst
Garrow’s farm
Orphaned heir
Roran
Saphira
pg. 339, Eldest: “Well, don’t just sit there grinning like an idiot fox. Help me!” (not my italics)
Dragon Riders
That’s all. Nothing big.
Not!
178-They can. Easily. Did you learn that the sun revolves around the Earth, too? Why do people worry about what kids learn and how they’ll “adapt”? They should ask, “Do kids learn?”
Gah! I’ve hit a snag. There’s this word I can’t remember but I need to use in my book. It’s very annoying. Really very irritating. What’s the word for those things that hang over the sidewalk from the sides of stores. Sort of clothy things. What’s the WORD?? I’ve got a mental block. I know the word, but it won’t come! I need Estrello to jump on one of them.
159 (DJ)- You would like to use my internal organs for decorating? And you’re hurt because we’re disagreeing about Egyptian mythology? I am sorry that I have offended you so. I will never share my knowledge or beliefs ever again.
Or you could develop a thicker skin, and I could shut up about Egyptian mythology, which is not one of my areas of expertise anyway, and we could forget the whole thing happened.
Or I’ve completely mistaken what you mean and now you think I’m a horribly snarky person even though you didn’t before.
Whatever. I’m sick of arguing over the minutiae of myths like they actually happened. They’re old. They’re in another language. There are different versions. Get over it. (This is a post to the blog in general, not one specific person.)
DJ (181),
Are you talking about awnings?
whats been happening here, i’ve been away for a week?
I bet Pluto is happy now. The other planets probably weren’t very nice to him. Now he is freeeeeeeee!
AWNINGS! Thank you so much! Thankyouthankyouthankyou! That is the word I needed. Now I can delete the three sentences in parentheses. That is the word. I knew that! I jsut couldn’t think of it. “Clambering up a nearby pile of crates, Estrello hopped onto an awning, then bounced up to the low roof.” A freaking awning. Excellent. I kept thinking “marquee,” but I knew that was wrong.
the new sentance is
My Very Edicated Mom Just Served Us Nothing
166- Yeah, when they were talking about it on the radio, my little brother was like, “so they’re going to blow up Pluto?”
i miss baltimore
186 (DJ)- Have you been to the Writing thread? It’s an excellent resource, if I do say so myself. We’re very nice there, and I do ruthless critique for anyone who needs it. We don’t bite. Usually, that is. Sometimes, we get rabies and start foaming at the mouth and then you’d better run. But otherwise, it’s a good place for the writers here to hang out. I’d lovee to hear more about your story, so check it out, ja?
you could also go to Poems and Songs and contribute poetry!
GAPAs, I request a new books and reading thread, please?
I’m going on another author frenzy. This time it’s Garth Nix. Sabriel and Mister Monday. I’ll be done with him within the week.
I got to pie my principal today! Total awsomeness!
(191) I think a new books and reading thread would be excellent.
I just found a search that only has one result!!!
Google “find how to upgrade software”, in quotation marks!!!
I’m so excited!!!
I have changed my mind. If I find out who did this to me, I will exact all the revenge it is in my power to. You, faceless slime, have killed Marching Band for me. I am going to see about transferring from band to Radio, which I would have done if they weren’t in the same block. But you, you…. scum of the earth, you have ruined everything I liked about Marching Band. I shall be on the radio.
And I will find you. I will do whatever is in my power to make you miserable, as you have me.
#187: Aw. I miss the “pizza” part already…
How come MB doesn’t hav one of those? I think it would be neat, b/c it’s kinda hard to hav an actual conversation here – since we don’t know who’s online and who’s not.
180-i see
not bad, just two questions–where is belgarath, and what does ce’nedra have to do with saphira?wait… oh. are you suggesting that ce’nedra and saphira are both like co-ruling companions to the main charater…. meh.
not enough for plaigerism in court. exept that grinning like a fox, but no good enough.
192-mister monday=no reaaaaaaaaaad. worthless, and unworthy of sabriel
GIM (196),
Because of delays in moderating, that information wouldn’t be very useful here. MuseBlog isn’t a chatroom.
175-No, there will be 11 planets, because they added Xena, Charon, and Ceres and took out pluto.
Oh okay then.
I don’t want to go to work today.
FAQs at the Fudge Shop
Here are some things that customers frequently ask me. For real. I’m not even exaggerating.
– What’s the difference between the double choc and the choc?? (Ppl ask me this one EVERY DAY! I’m not even kidding!)
– How much is one piece? (We hav four signs on the showcase that say how much one piece is. FOUR SIGNS)
– After I ask them if I can put all their fudge in one box, they might say “Can it all fit in one box?” Well, would I be asking you if it didn’t all fit??
– They’ll walk up to the showcase, stare at the free samples we cut up (They’re on a piece of waxed paper w/ a sign that says CHOCOLATE PECAN or wvr flavour it is) for like a minute, point to them, and ask either “Are these free samples?” or “What kind is this?”
– They’ll (amazingly) notice our sign that says “BUY 3, GET 1 FREE,” pick out three, and see if they can buy two and get the THIRD for free. I don’t know if they think they can trick us or what…
– At close, after we turn off half the lights and flip the signs, someone is bound to come in (or knock on the door if it’s locked), look around, and say something like “Oh, are you CLOSED or something??”
198- It would be cool if there was a chatroom section of museblog.
197-Why don’t you read them both (and probably the T. would be useful as well)? Compare Saphira’s dialogue to Ce’Nedra. And Belgarath, or Ancient and Holy Belgarath, is Polgara’s father and Garion’s grandfather, even though it’s more like Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great etc. grandfather, due to Polgara’s safeguarding of the Rivan Line, which started with Polgara’s twin and her husband Riva Iron-grip.
Come on! Do you people ever THINK?!? Or do you just insert random facts and annoying, arbitrary, childish interjections into posts that are mere facsimiles of those of thinking people?
Ow.
The Death is gone, gone to find the person who did this to me. Don’t worry, I will calm down first. “Revenge is a meal best consumed cold.” “All things come to he who waits.”
Hi Branwen Z. Maddox,
A chatroom WOULD be cool but I don’t think it would work well here because we moderate the posts. Wouldn’t that slow things down excessively?
We could maybe have a slooow chat if WordPress has the necessary software. I don’t know if it does. Robert might be able to enlighten.
(200) GIM, I can so relate. Your stories reminded me of when I roomed with my Swedish friend. I’d hear conversations like the following all the time:
Hi, I’m Katarina, I’m from Sweden.
Really? What’s the weather like in Switzerland? Do the leaves there change color in the fall?
Not Switzerland, Sweden
– Oh, sorry. Do you speak any languages other than German? Do you know any Swiss songs?
Long ago, I dated a guy from Scotland, and someone said to him, “wow, you speak such good English for someone who’s been here only a few weeks.”
A chat on the Museblog would go like this: (all lines are purely fictional and do not represent the opinions of blah blah blah…)
Me: Lulubelle.
(fifteen minutes)
Ebeth: What?
(fifteen minutes)
Girl In Metal: Hi! I just came back from a concert.
(ten minutes)
Me: Oh, someone asked me what my budgerigar’s name was.
(twenty minutes)
Grant O.: I just ran into Mr. Link at a store and he was MEAN!
(fifteen minutes)
Ebeth: Who’s Mr. Link? What concert did you go to?
(thirty minutes)
Girl In Metal: Oh, you have a budgerigar? What color is it?
It wouldn’t be very fun. And besides, we’re literary.
(204)
*blood freezes solid at the thought of all the extra work a chatroom would entail*
*forces a smile*
Why, of course, Rosanne, if you feel like moderating it.
(207)
Well not a PERMANENT chatroom. Just one that happens once in a while. Like whenever we feel like it.
On the other hand, how would that be any different from MuseBlog?
Not at all.
OK, so let’s forget that.
hey im back
and my birthday is august 31st too
and 1992
my favorite colors are apple green and raspberry
im going to be in scotland from the 28th to the 3rd, but you better add me =)
Hmmm… well, you could just find a place that allows you to create a chatroom, then post the link for just us musers and we could go to it. Like it wouldn’t be part of the fanpage, maybe? I know wordpress lets you have an option where you don’t have to moderate posts, but that would still take a while.
Hello all! haven’t been on in a few days. The homework is insane for the first week back!!! INSANE, i tell you!one!!!11!!1`!!!shift!!1! Absolutely terrible. Anyway, MB doesn’t need a chatroom at the rate it’s going now. So we had our first football game last night and we PWNED! Oh and the football team won too. The other band was competitive type, and they were really good marchers, but their songs were kind of lame-all whole notes it seemed-and a lot of people were faking. They did have feathers in their hats though, we were all very jealous of that. Of course they didn’t dance, so we pwned them there too. We played Holiday, Beverly Hills, Don’t Cha (now that is a stupid song if i ever heard one! but the dance is pretty sweet), Them Changes, and Hips Don’t Lie. We danced twice. Oh, and Hirsch came!!! He graduated last year, he was like the King of marching band last year. All the seniors this year were kind of nervous, they were all like “How’d we do? did we do ok?” and he said yeah. After halftime parentals left and sarah and i got high on powerade and danced on the top of the bleachers as usual. Andy didn’t mess up on Beverly Hills, which is a Good Thing. He’s also tormenting me by not getting batteries in his calc, cuz he knows i want games from him. Loser. Tory joined our non-band posse. They stand/sit in the middle of the stairs next to the band and block people out. Much like the hallway really. Oh and did i tell y’all, we’re reading Lord of the Flies again in english. KILL ME NOW!!! I hated that book the first time i read it. I hated that book the second time i read it, for skool. I hated that book the third time i read it, for a special project for skool cuz teer wanted me to stop finishing everything 15 min before everybody else and plaguing them all. And now i’m gonna hate it again. Raaaaaar! Anyway i’m kinda hyper because i’ve been sleeping all day (not even kidding-i woke up at 10, ate, went back to sleep until 12, read, watched a movie) but i g2g now cuz mom’s coughing that cough at me
205-aaaaargh
that happens to me too-“oh, so you’re frpm denmark? so you speak dutch? ummm, no danish. oooh right…2 mins later-so is dutch hard*? also, i once got “so you live in danishland?”
202-i did read both-and if you were refering to me, why think when you can get someone to do it for you?
210-you could do a private aol or ya´hoo chatroom with a link from mb
GAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my sister got her ears pierced!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALP!
i dont even WANT my ears pierced!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! why does- why- *dies*
lol. i just got bak from rock springs. i wz at this horsey thingy. it wz boring tho cuz my horse is kinda lame rite now so anything faster than a wok = trip n fall. oh, and we were in this indoor areana, and it wz raining and hailing like the world really wz gonna come to an end. i mean, it wz literaly like sitting ina jet engine. course, my horse is terrified of rain, no idea y, once he snapped a pair of reigns…. so he wz, like, WAH!!!!! ooh n abby wz there – shes 8, so…. – and she wz riding pec(os), who is highstrung to begin w/, so w/ the rain, it wz like vrooooooooooooooom so abby wz crying, n lisanne, who wz on reb, who is like, wotever, but still a litte antsy, and he wz being a butt, and there wz the instructor guy, and he wz trying to calm abby down, and his horse, nova, is a mustang, and she wz all over the place cuz evry one wz looking at abby, and my horse wz like ‘AAAAAAAAAH save me from these possesed horses and the roaring noise out side! AAAAAAAAH!’ and we couldnt hear a word anyone wz saying at all, so we were like ‘do…mumblemuble…..latera-mubmlemumble….’ ‘WHA-‘ *BOOM!!* horse: AAAAAAAH! and on and on and on!
and they made us where helmets, too…………………………..
AP (191),
Nope, that was the original proposal. The one that actually passed was rawther different.
Shriya (194),
Welcome back! Maybe you’d like to go to World Religions, Part 2 and tell us more about Hinduism.
206- That is a gross misrepresentation of anything I would say. I demand you rescind that comment. I may be overreacting, but I am a little sensitive about this now.
just googled the GAPA
Robert Edward Coontz (11 June 1864 – 26 January 1935) was an admiral in the United States Navy, who sailed with the Great White Fleet and served as the second Chief of Naval Operations.
Born in Hannibal, Missouri, Coontz graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1885 and served at the Navy Department and in several ships over the next decade, among them vessels stationed in Alaskan waters and the Great Lakes. He returned to the Navy Department late in 1894 to work on updating officer records, then was assigned to the cruiser Philadelphia, the Coast Survey and the cruiser Charleston. His time in the latter included Spanish-American War service in the Pacific. Following further duty afloat and ashore, Coontz, then a Lieutenant Commander, was Executive Officer of the battleship Nebraska during the 1907-1909 world cruise of the “Great White Fleet”.
After promotion to Commander in 1909, Coontz was Commandant of Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy. In 1912-14, he was Governor of Guam. Captain Coontz then served as Commanding Officer of the battleship Georgia, followed by duty as Commandant of the Puget Sound Navy Yard and the 13th Naval District. He held those positions until late in 1918. Following a brief period as acting Chief of Naval Operations, Rear Admiral Coontz assumed command of a battleship division in the Atlantic.
Coontz had just been assigned to the Pacific Fleet in September 1919 when he was selected to become Chief of Naval Operations, succeeding Admiral William S. Benson. Reportedly, his term as CNO was marked by unceasing pressure for economy, Congressional unhappiness over base closings, diplomatic efforts to achieve naval limitations, internal Navy Department conflicts over organization and the best ways to manage new technologies, plus the naval fallout of the Teapot Dome scandal. While dealing with these problems, Admiral Coontz established a unified United States Fleet and strengthened the CNO’s position within the Navy Department.
Relieved as CNO in mid-1923 by Admiral Edward W. Eberle, Coontz was able to return to sea as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet. In 1925, he led the fleet on a trans-Pacific visit to New Zealand and Australia, the first massed deployment of American battleships since the “Great White Fleet” cruise nearly two decades earlier and a valuable demonstration of their strategic reach. From October 1925 until his retirement in June 1928, Coontz served as Commandant of the Fifth Naval District, reverting to the rank of Rear Admiral. He remained active after retirement until suffering a series of heart attacks in 1934, dying shortly after.
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I GET PIE! I GET PIE!
aaaaapple pie…………… yum. lol.
(217),
But you can’t keep a good man down. Here I am, 71 years later, GAPA-ing away.
Not really. That was my great-grandfather. His father was mayor of Hannibal and went to school with Samuel Clemens, later Mark Twain. And his father was reputed to make the best apple cider in northeastern Missouri. We Coontzes go ‘way back. Remind me to tell you some time about how Isildur Coontz cut the ring off Sauron’s finger at the end of the Second Age of Middle-earth…
211- We had our fist FB game last night too. Twas fun(i’m in Marching band). we played and did halftime, and all the flute section(they seat us away from everyone else. Hmph.) was sitting under the big light so we were rained on with both rain and dead bugs. We play Them Changes too, along with School’s Out by Alice Cooper and Vehicle(that song has creepy words… “friendly stranger in a black sedan, won’t you hop inside my car?” ) and our school fight song(we stole “on Wisconsin” for ours). At the end I got reeeeeeally hyper and we walked past the dancers in the middle of the feild entertaining the people who hadn’t left yet, and we yelled out “HEY!” at the parts in the song where we say them when we play that song(it was another school song). And then I skipped all the way to the band oom, yelling out “BAND GEEKS RULE!!” Next to the other team’s coaches and random people. Oh, and we have feathers on our hats.
219- Wha- oh. I see. I was going to exclaim that you couldn’t ossibly be 71 years old.
No, no: 142 years old. Seventy-one years dead.
#211: You had to play Hips Don’t Lie? Oh, my sympathies (That song makes me want to cover my ears and hum / sing v loudly).
#218: Lucky duck, you are.
Today was fun. S and K came over at about noon, and I made my specialty pancakes. Yay. I love cooking. Then we watched Coyote Ugly. K’s a pro at hair-colouring, so we coloured my hair after that. And then I went to work…and now I’m here.
219- HAHAHHAHHHAHHA!!!!
What kind of a name for a town is Hannibal, anyways? Sounds like Cannibal.
223- what colour?
214 (Lilbro)- What’s wrong with pierced ears? I have ’em. I want them pierced again, but my parents will not stand for this. Tear tear.
216 (Jackal)- Wait… that was you, Grant? I feel like an idiot now. I really should get in the habit of checking ‘Who’s Here’ more often, shouldn’t I? Everything becomes clear. You were talking about Mr. Link, and I no longer feel like a nasty evil person who’s hurt someone’s feelings. Okay. Happy shiny rainbows and butterflies.
Bleh. Homework. I loathe homework.
Kiki (224),
Hannibal was a Carthaginian general who nearly conquered Rome 2200 years ago. You can read all about him on Wikipedia.
Pentatonikk (226),
I left the alias DeathJackal off the “Who’s Here” page, because he was supposed to be anonymous. But the alias in question doesn’t seem to be cooperating with himself.
192-I LOVE SABRIEL!!!!!!! And the second book, Lirael, is EVEN BETTER!!! (and evern longer!!! YAY!)Abhorsen, the third book, is a little bit intense, but it is good too. Actually, I just bought Across The Wall, another of Garth Nix’s books, yesterday. It was pretty good, though some of his short stories are a little depressing. But I think there should be another book about the Old Kingdom, because I think …
*must not give away things…*
STOP RAMBLING, Ruffled Grouse! Go clean your room, or do SOMTHING useful!!!!!! NOW!
But I must one day explain my theory…
#225: (Medium) Red, as usual.
220-omg our fight song is on wisconsin too! And i’m extremely jealous of your feathers. *sulks* lol
who’s jackal? The chairman?
223-I actually liked the bit we played. our part was pretty good. I don’t like the actual song either though. XD Schneids usually gives us either “popular” music, or his favs. Leah got him to do Rent last year though. That was pretty sweet.
219-Isildur Coontz is my hero. Wasn’t he up against his uncle Sauron Coontz? But then the ring went to Gollum Coontz and then Bilbo Coontz-Baggins, and eventually Frodo Coontz-Baggins, who threw it in the mountain of doom in Mordor where resided the good ol’ Witch-King Coontz and then Gandalf Coontz and Merry Coontz, and Pippin Coontz, and Aragorn Coontz and all the rest were very happy. Yay Coontzes!
187 – funny, but how about:
My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Noodles.
185 – Now he is among the dwarf planets, happily cruising as if he were never bullied. You’re right. It must have been hard to be small.
I read a book about Hannibal. He was of the house of Barca. He crossed the Alps, a seemingly impossible feat at the time, with some of his elephants. Taking a shortcut to trick the Romans, Hannibal Barca’s eye became infected because of a small drop of mud that was flicked into it, and consequently he lost the eye. While he was pillaging and sacking small cities on the Italian peninsula, Scipio sent the Roman navy with troops and attacked Carthage. I don’t remember how Hannibal died.
I don’t feel like cooperating with myself. Instead I will merely drop out of the public eye. Which means I will not post on here for a few weeks.
I wrote all these things down on the little posting thingy yesterday, but I forgot to post them, and now I forget what I said.
*pies DJ with large cherry-and-rubber-cement pie*
Great name, DeathJackal!
I don’t have pierced ears. I don’t want pierced ears. There’s no problem with other people having them, but I don’t want to walk around with holes in my would-have-been perfectly good ears.
I just posted way too many times in a row, didn’t I? i’m surprised GAPA didn’t get me. At least they were 15 seconds apart.
227- My name is not kiki anymore!!!!! Check the Books and Reading thread on an explanation on why I changed.
My mom has vertigo…
I like earrings and making earrings too much to not have pierced ears. Though when I got them pierced I didn’t really have that much motivation to get them pierced. Now that they are pierced I like them that way though.
I agree with 235. I don’t have my ears pierced either.
I like earrings, i just don’t like them on my ears. I kinda like my ears actually. Somehow i’d just rather not poke holes in them.
We make lots of earrings. But neither of us have pierced ears, so we give them to our teachers and friends and grandmothers and stuff.
“we” being my sister PP and I.
I think we need a new newbie thread. I can’t find one.
Hi, Taiwan Hippo Fan. Here’s a link to the Welcome, Newcomers thread for August. We’ll have a new one soon.
I have pierced ears. I never wear earrings, though. For all I know, they have closed. That happened to one of my friends…
216- Umm, nice. Thought so, though. See 160. Could the GAPAs fix that…?
223- I hate that song, too.
I am the ping-pong wizard. I’ve been at it all day. Only lost once.
Went to a Barons game Friday. They won. And the pitcher yelled at the umpire. Really funny. But I mostly read and meandered aimlessly. The one girl who was with us at the game rubbed some dude’s tummy because he had a shirt that said “RUB MY BELLY *Budda pic* FOR GOOD LUCK” Then we ran away. She is my new hero. And it took me an hour to get coffee, mainly because moste of the machines at the concession stands were either out [and the lazy people wouldn’t refill them] or broken. Aargh.
I have nothing useful to say. I saw the Ballad of Ricky Bobby yesterday. I went with my sister and her friends to avoid my annoying relatives. Whom I have only met once. Don’t see the movie. It’s stupid.
thanks, Rosanne.
246 (SM)- OMG I WANT THAT SHIRT. Actually, I’ve seen it, and it looks shiny. Yay for shiny.
Not the pinball wizard? I ♥ The Who.
I am procrastinating on English homework at the moment. Procrastination is fun. Homework is not.
#231: LOL
#246: I saw that movie last week. Reminded me of The Dukes of Hazzard for some reason. Tch.
Skool next week… :S
We finally hav a waffle iron! W00t. We’ll nvr hav to buy nasty frozen waffles againe! OK, maybe I’m getting a bit too excited over this…
Well, I wasted three hours of the day, once againe, b/c I lied down after work and fell asleep until nine. Then I woke up, tried making nachos w/ fake (as in made-from-100%-vegetable-matter) ground beef – They weren’t the best. Then I made two test waffles (The manual said that you were supposed to make two at first, but not eat them b/c the coating on the iron might come off) – I hav no idea how to make waffle batter, so I just made some pancake batter and used that – and the waffles ended up weighing approx a pound apiece. They didn’t look that bad, though.
249: what a waste of good waffles, *sniff*
Waffle batter generally has more eggs in it than pancake batter.
249 – It’s in “The Joy of Cooking”. The recipe is called “Waffles” (imagine that) on page 241. If you don’t have that book, I’ll be amazed. Not everyone has it, though.
We make waffles all the time. I don’t think I’ve ever had nasty frozen waffles in my life. My family has had our waffle iron before I was born, and they bought it used.
i just dont eat waffles much. if i di, i certainly would not eat frozen ones
#251: Yeap, I hav that book. It’s very useful. You’re lucky you’ve nvr had to eat the frozen type – bleh.
I’ve eaten frozen waffles. yuck.
I eat more pancakes than waffles because I always open the waffle iron too soon and the waffle splits in half and is all gooey.
“How to Skin a Squirrel,” page 515 of “The Joy of Cooking.” That is a favorite page in that book for my family.
Hello Everyone how are you all!
This seems soooo random but it’s not I am going to a bollywood showing at my local libraryand I decided to wear something that reminds me of india I had picked up a indian inspired skirt from india that looks nice on me I think and a tan plain satin tank top that my mom had and something I am stuck on…
A blue sari I had found….Now I am confounded….Is it disrespectful to wear since I am cacusian or would anyone care?
Please answer….
Also ….Waffles are yummy
256 – Sorry, but I have no idea.
I hav pierced ears. they’re useful sometimes. U can make earrings with ur initials on it, or earrings with hot pink bunnys on it…
I really should be doing my homework……
58 – Oh, I like making earrings. I just wouldn’t like to wear any.
258, that is.
#254: That’s what happened to mine today…I was mad…grr. Haha, not relly.
(256) I don’t think it would be offennsive, seeing as your not mocking the culture, just imitating it.
I tried making some earings this weekend, because a) I owe 2 of my friends presents and b) I’m running low on cool earings, coz I keep losing them. I was very uninspired for things that my friends would like, but I kept on coming up with ideas for my own:
-earings made from barbie shoes
-earings made from screw-in hooks (like the kind you would screw into a wall to hang keys on)
-earings made from buttons
-earings old, small keys
I would where these, but none of my friends would, so I’m still struggling to make some nice, pretty, more conventional things that I can give to them.
The Joy of Cooking is my best friend. We have a copy that’s so old, both the covers have fallen off and almost every page is stained. It’s because the newer edtions are different (I think sugar companies started paying them to add more sugar into the recipes) and we like the old one better.
Pinball Wizard!!! I love The Who! They are magical.
(which, by the way, is the adjective of the week. I just decided.)
256-No. And the fact that you had to ask just goes to show how sad people are in general. No offense to you, i meant the whole human race.
The who are amazing. ♥
Are you people kidding? I LIVE off frozen waffles! those and mac+cheese and hot pockets are basically breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Right there.
222- Oh, that’s right. You and Rosanne have decided to age backwards.
YESS!!! I got in to an animation class at my local art place!!!!!!! They use MACS there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Plus I can animate that muse short..
YAY! anyway I went and I wore my sari as I was leaving..I didn’t wear I brought it in my bag the bollywood movie was good it is called devas….. I was the only person there it was fun YAY BOLLYWOOD!!!
262 (SN)- Oh, those sound shiny. I would wear those earrings. A girl in my res hall has a pair made out of paper clips, and another made out of safety pins. Yo quiero.
(266) Hey, I think I watched that one with my mum. Was it really long and sad? I liked it though. Bollywood is so much fun.
(267) Yeah, I was gonna make some out of paperclips too. I got these big paper clips that are coated in rubber and come in all different colors, so I though that’d be cool. Unfortunaltely I’m running out of earing hooks.
A girl at camp had three special earring she wore one or two at a time-a plastic fork, plastic spoon, and plastic knife. She coloured them with markers or something. Pretty amazing.
Frozen or home-made waffles are bothe yummy.
I stuck safety pins in my ears once. It was cool. I’ve always wanted to weave coloured wire through multiple pierce-ings [I know I can’t spell that] but my ears are only pierced once each. *sigh*
I have the Llama Song on my iPod. I’ve been driving people crazy with it. School starts tomorrow. *dies*
262 – Sounds good! I would wear them if they didn’t hurt, didn’t fall off my ears all the time, and I didn’t have to pierce my ears to do so. You know, you can just use beads.
About “The Joy of Cooking” – I think we have an old copy, too. At least, it’s white, but it has lots of stains on it, and the covers are that fabric kind of stuff, not cardboard. And the covers are taped on. And most of the pages have some sort of stain on them. Does that sound like your book? (I’ll go check the copyright if I have to)
265 – Macs! Yay! My High School is an all-mac school
271 – (THF), yes, our Joy of Cooking is an old one. And on every page it has a bit of whatever recipe is on it. For example, on the waffle page, there’s a bit of waffle batter. On the Cherry-and-rubber-cement-pie page, there’s a bit of Cherry-and-rubber-cement-pie “batter,” etc.
272 – Did we ever use that recipe? I think it’s pretty straightforward, as directions go. We don’t even need the recipe.
I feel REEAAALLLY bad! I haven’t gone on here in almost, FOREVER! FOREVER! Forever! forever. (Is there an echo in here?)
This One’s for the sidebar! *cheese!*
270 (SM)- Oh, yes! Shiny! (Unfortunately, my ears are only pierced once each too. And my parents are against multiple piercings. Just wait until I’m eighteen, though…)
274 (Capricious)- Of course not. You’re just special like that. (that, that, that, that, that…)
Ah, yes! The highly anticipated eighteenth birthday. *stocks up on neon blue hair dye* Only a little over two years….
My sister says, “Hi.” [randomness…]
So I could get the physical for my permit but not the actual permit before I’m sixteen. Weird. Just found that out this morning. Should have known to read the thing myself and not just take my mother’s word on it.
262- I’d wear those!
I DON’T WANNNNA GO BACK TO SCHOOL! *Sob* *Cries*
Today was my first ever day of high school. my backpack weighs a ton. my back still aches from carrying it around half the day.. My class is really small. the whole high school has maybe
19 students altogether, so were basically just lumped together.
we might get more students later, but but probably no more than enuff to make the class number 25. yeah, its small.
something else about school: one of the girls proceded to tell us all the “chuck norris code” it went kinda of like this: “chuck norris sleeps with a night lite. hes not scared of the dark, the dark is scared of chuck norris.” not that i want to start another pie war or anything, i just thought that otzi and all the (former) Cners out there would be interested. (and i am by no means a CNer , just because i post this. Clear? good.)
Chuck Norris just makes me think of Watership Down.
Who’s Chuck Norris? Fantasy Fan?!?!, I don’t think I’ve seen you in a while. Have I?
282- Who is Chuck Norris (other than my drama teacher)?
268- Yes it was long 3 hrs. to be exact and indeed sad… i liked the songs though it was my first bollywood movie I ever saw but I had heard about it before the library put up posters about the event…DEVAS YOU IDIOT!!!!
okay, so me and my sister were searching online for quizzes on what character you were from some game or movie. we stumbled across a lovely LOTR parody site. I’m not sure if you guys like parodies, but I really like this web site. and to try and grab peoples attention…
LOTRLOTRLOTRLOTRLOTRLOTRLOTRLOTRLOTRLOTRLOTRLOT
maybe that will do it. okay. the site is:
[Ixnay on the inklay. MuseBlog keeps external links to a minimum, so, alas, I have snipped it. — Rosanne]
today was my first day too. did the sophmores bother you at all?
just remind them that the meaning of being a Sophmore is being a wise fool. Don’t believe me? ask Robert or Rosanne, they’ll tell ya. I think it’s latin or something.
freshman year is fun once you get into a routine and you don’t have to worry if you’re in the right class.
It’s spelled Sophomore. I’m going to be a Junior… Argh! upperclassman! weird.
I have no clue who Chuck Norris is. The Chuck Norris/Watership Down thing is an old MB inside joke.
286 (LG)- Excuse me. I’m a sophomore, thank you very much. (Admittedly, I skipped freshman year. But I’m still a sophomore.)
When Chuck Norris goes swimming, he doesn’t get wet, the water gets Chuck Norris.
#262: Hey, I would wear earrings made from Barbie shoes – Send me some! LOL
My sympathies go out to all of you who are in skool before Labour Day.
I’m going camping in Ontario this weekend. W00t, EH??!! I’m going to go…spelunking!! Hehe. I’ve always wanted to explore a cave…and there are supposed to be a lot of them at the campground, which is somewhere near Lake Superior. And there are supposed to be some waterfalls too. Needless to say, I’m v excited!
Haha, I’ll be the big 1-8 in less than a year. I’m def going to get either a nose or navel piercing.
270- I want the llama song on my ipod!!! How and where did you get it?
Who are Chuck Norris/ Watership Down?
(271) I have a copy like that, but also one that is even a little older. It’s blue, not white. I think the white was one edtion after the blue. Anyway, it doesn’t really matter.
(280) Woah, that’s small. I hope your first day was good!
Chuck Norris is a kung fu man. Watership Down is a book. It’s a very long story that includes a series of very silly Pie Wars on the blog. If you want more details, search “pie war” in the blog search engine, and read through the old threads. Though, they are a bit hard to follow. Much silliness.
Today was full of much anger and frusteration and panic and tiredness. I’m still worried, but I feel much better after reading about your guys’ lives and listening to Guitar&Pen by The Who. Ahh, I love you Museblog.
290- Albino black sheep. In the Audio Files section.
I’m a junior….and I’m off to school now! *sigh*
I HIGHLY, HIGHLY, HIGHLY suggest a HALLOWEEN THREAD.
What will you be? What are your party ideas? What do you like best?
I REALLY WANNA KNOW!!!
#293: I second that…Maybe it will come in October.
Time for work…YAY FOR WORK! *Sarcasm*
I. HATE. FUDGE.
HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW WHO CUCK NORRIS IS? O__O
If Chuck Norris ever fought himself, he would win.
See Chuck Norris facts dot com for more interesting TRUTHS. (Chuck Norris doesn’t go hunting, he goes KILLING)
(293) If I didn’t hate going out for Halloween I would SO go as L from Death Note.
Listening to Gackt makes me crazy…ahhaha…. -keeps listening-
I LOVE that!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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hahahahaha that was hilarious
I just wanted to try something.
Drn, didn’t work. Oh well.
bballboy, are you new? You must be. *pies if newbie*
293 – Good idea. I’m sure we’ll get one.
We already did. Sorry!
295- On mugglecast (a harry potter podcast) the have Dumbledore Facts.
Hey yalls!!!!!!!!!!!!! i’m baack!! i STILL havent gotten internet, but any day now!!!!
ack! discovery is immenent
welcome back bballboy… you haven’t been around in a while.
I went to a Japanese drumming performance this weekend (taiko drums). It was SENSATIONAL (props for using a vocab word!). What was really fun, is that at the end, they were doing a traditional performance for a certain festival and they got lots of people to come up on stage and dance with them and my freind and I did. We had no idea what we were doing but we just sorta mimicked the preformers and it was SO FUN!!
i just googled chuck norris
hes… a karate dude?
somehow, i thought he wrote watership down… wonder where i got that idea…
heyyyy tou killed the budhisim thread
i liked that… ok i, i can see why. pancakes…
297-Haha, for me too! I came here twice back in April, and just recently restarted.
waaaaaaahh!! school has started!!!! *sob*
*pies all newbies*
Hey, bballboy, could you not stretch the page like that? ‘Tis vaguely annoying.
I have a battered blue Joy of Cooking for sentimental purposes and a shiny new white one for practical ones.
Do any of y’all have a favorite song? I’m looking for recommendations. Rock or some variant thereof preferred, although I also like classical. Rap/hip-hop/R&B=No.
Grr.
May I make a small complaint?
Thanks.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don’t post off topic, especially on serious threads, like the ones on religion. OK?
On joke ones it’s ok, but come on.
On the buddhism thread, people just started going off about pancakes. That thread is meant for an interesting intellectual discussion. It’s not a joke thread.
I hadn’t posted there yet because I hadn’t read the chapter, and by the time I actually did read it, the thread had been closed off due to too many unrelated remarks.
I’m not trying to sound all preachy or anything, but please try and distinguish between the serious threads and the ones where you can post randomly.
(can we try another buddhism thread please Robert?)
(310) – KZA P
I’m made of opposites – hard rock and classical.
I’ve gotten a lot of copies of rock CDs in the past but i’ll always stick with GREEN DAY! *begins to absentmindedly hum songs* There also Nickelback, American Rejects, and the one some people hate, the album “Breakaway” (I can’t remember who wrote that…)
I also like crossover – this is a new kind of music – it’s a cross between classical and jazz/light country. My fave’s Turtle Island String Quartet – their album “4+Four” is excellent, filled with octet modern music and a wonderful cello duet (“Julie-O”)
And there’s the Trans-Siberian Orchestra – they put on Rock Operas… they’re pretty good, but they specialize in Christmas themes… but the album “Beethoven’s Last Night’ is totally awesome, in my opinion.
That reminds me – THE PHANTOM LIVES 4 EVA!!!!!!!!!!!!
*begins to sing main theme*
Phantom of the Opera, for those who don’t have a clue.
Totally awesome.
Penty, know that was a lot, but you asked for it, so you got it… hope it helped…
Hey!
has anyone made up new words to Mary Poppins’s “Feed the Birds”?
I have!
“Feed the birds
Arsenic and rye
Pigeons,
Poisoned,
Fall from the sky,
Or
Feed the birds
To a sweet cat
Chomping,
Gnashing,
As it gets fat.”
very violent, i know. I was bored.
i wrote them during a looooooong car ride.
SN (311),
All right, I’ll reopen the Buddhism thread and delete the off-topic posts. I have nothing against pancakes, but there are plenty of other places to talk about them here.
#305: Cool! I saw some of those drummers a long time ago, but I remember they were v good.
Augh, my LB is such a FREAK! I’ll be using the comp, and he’ll crawl under the table (behind the comp chair) and grab the back of the chair, and hiss at me! It’s like being attacked by Samara or something…
Thanks Robert!
(I agree)
It was so cool! There was a gila monster in my driveway! Gila monsters are these very large black and orange lizards. They’re one of only 2 venemous lizards in the world. They’re really rare! And my dad got some awesom pics!!
*is excited*
314 – Robert, thanks SO much. Good for you, Skipper Nancy, for saying something.
Can we have another music thread? Please? I liked the last one, and I want to talk about music, I guess.
316 – Ossum!!!!! (about the Gila Monster)
I would have loved to see.
ARRRRGHH! Is EVERYONE at school!?!?!? I’m so bored!
Actually I’m not. Oh, well. I have plenty of other stuff to do. I think.
This is the last day of August! Oh my goodness! This makes me scared. I’m thinking more than ever that I should change my name. Golly whoppers, I can’t think of a good new name. The only ones I remember are “1234567890!@#$%^&*()” and “Bluegrass Befuddled,” and neither of those are very good. OH DEAR OH DEAR OH DEAR!
how about Lumpy Macgiggles?
i’m not in school yet either. we cna post all day for each other and hope GAPA moderates fast enough. i go to school in 5 days. then i go to israel 6 days later!!!!!!!
a comment on juggleing:
it has been suggestedn that you learn ot juggle with chainsaws, as a survival technique you will learn really fast.
the downside- its really hard to juggle with only one hand.
its also difficult with none
(*_^)
you mean thats why i’m having so much trouble?
321 – Nice thought, but NO. Who on Earth would actually want that as a name?
322 – I start school in 5 days too. It’s a thing taht schools like to do, you know, the day after Labor Day.
I can’t juggle with two hands, but it’s very easy with none. See?
*juggles*
313- Poisoning Pigeons in the Park. iTunes doesn’t have it, though. It’s by Tom Lehrer.
323- *random flashback* My school had a juggling club last year, and there was this one guy I knew who wanted to juggle chainsaws. The advisor didn’t let him, though. Juggling club was fun. I hope it’s still here next (read:this) year.
Just because I’m curious, what are your persontality types? (As in E or I, N or S, T or F, and P or J) I’m an INTP!
311- I agree. Though I haven’t read the chapter yet, I think that it is important to keep most threads on topic and that it is disrespectful to those who wish to talk about Buddhism to start talking about pancakes.
My math teacher-to-be has a bunch of juggling stuff. He also has tons of logic games and stuff. I’ve never really seen any of it, so you’ll have to ask PP for details.
328- what do the letters stand for?
331 – That’s just what I wanted to know, exept I kinda forgot to ask.
332- WHOA are you from Taiwan(cuz I am too^^), or do you just like their hippos? Fun fact!(I can’t help it :]) Hippos are called the horses of the sea because they can gallop underwater….did I word that right…..?
What exactly does “pwn” mean? I know it means that something rocks, or is cool, or somehing, but I want something like a dictionary definition, if it were in the dictionary. Also, where did it come from? What is the root word? Is it Pwt that the word was based off of?
WWeellccoommee mmaarrmmoossaatt!!
Yes. Enlighten us regarding the letters
Actually, in class last year we had to do some “personality type” thing…I would rather have thrown a pie at my teacher…
I START SCHOOL IN…UH…NOT VERY MANY DAYS! This makes me unhappy.
KZA P- I found this one band called Angelspit online and downloaded some stuff…it’s hard cyberpunk. WIth explicit language…hmm…what else…Nine Black Alps. Cool band. I don’t know if iTunes has them…they are some sort of rock. Um, yeah, that’s all I’ve got. *thinks* I like to just listen to internet radio. Pandora is cool.
312- I loooove the “Beethoven’s Last Night” album!
315- Ouch. My sister spins around in a chair next to me and pokes me with bothe her fingers and toes. ‘T is annoying.
328- INTJ.
Does anyone know what professional mat hooks are? For matting pictures, etc.? It’s really confusing.
Please another music thread? Not that I know much about music, other than a fair amount – but nothing compared to some – of classical, but……….
(337) iTunes does have Nine Black Alps. They were the free single of the week a few months ago. That’s how I know them… but they’re not really my type of music.
As of tomarrow, I will have been in skool for 3 weeks!
My sister left to go live in Paris for a year this morning. Cool for her. I’m kinda sad though
(334) Wikipedia has an article that explains it:
Pwns!
331 & 332- It’s a type of personality test. You are either Introverted (I) or Extroverted (E), Intuitive (N) or Sensing (S), Thinking (T) or Feeling (F), and Judging (J) or Perceiving (P). You can take a test somewhere on the internet to find out what you are. I’m an INTP.
334-It derives from the common misspelling of “own.” I’m on Dvorak right now, but if you look at the ‘o’ and the ‘p’ on the qwerty keyboard, you can see how it happened. “Owning” is like, oh, “ruling,” “rocking,” or “winning by a large margin.”
My favorite bands are Slime, Slade, Pink Martini (who I saw last night, very good), Pepe and the Bottle Blondes, Talking Heads, the Ramones, the Buzzcocks, the Damnned, Warren Zevon, X, Die Kassierer, Boots and Braces, Business, Buster’s All Stars, Big Audio Dynamite, the Clash, Honey Boy, the Coventry Automatics, and UB40.
Thanks for fixing the Pancakes-on-the-religion-threads Robert!
*jumps for joy*
339 – Ah. Nothing like I thought it was. Still coo, though. Thanks!
THANKS SO MUCH GAPAS FOR THE MUSIC THREAD!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU PWN! NOT THAT I DIDN’T KNOW THAT BEFORE!!!!!! BUT OH, WELL! YOU STILL PWN!!!! ESPECIALLY SINCE YOU PUT THE MUSIC THREAD ON!!!!!! YAY FOR THE PWNING GAPAS!!!!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! two of my bff’s just got a SECOND PIERCING!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAFGGGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!
*dies of jelosy*
My mom said not till i’m 18, but im sure I can convince her. Worked for my first piercing.
Since I ‘ave ni idea vat ze ‘eck yoo are talking about: Blah blah blah.
345- Are you new? If so, *pies*. I don’t know what’s going on right now either, cuz I just got back from vacation.
I am INFP. Now to find out just what that exactly means. More people take the test! It would seem that all Musers who took the test are Introverted and Intuitive. Side effect of Muse-osity?
347- yes, I was thinking that all musers, except perhaps tiffaney and laney who are greatly lacking in muser spirit, have an n in their personality type. I’m curious, but need more data. GAPAs, you should take the test too!
(337) Sweet Melpomene, picture framing was my profession once upon a time, but I don’t remember anything called a “mat hook.” Maybe by another name? What’s it supposed to do?
I just watched the VMAs…AFI, FOB, Panic!, A7X…They all won!!!!!
\m/!!!!!!!!!
I’m relly excited right now.
Yaaaaaaaaaay. Anyways, since I haven’t packed for Canada yet…….and it’s midnight…….and we’re leaving in like nine hrs……..yeah, I’d better start packing!!
So. A happy (early) Labor Day to you all, and to all a goode night! Erm…. morning, that is. Here, at least. Yeah.
I’ll probably be back on Tues…….after my first day of skool!
X:P
348: Elassë~adael , I just did a test and came out with INTP and then INFP. Then for a few minutes I was ENFP. Now I’m feeling like an ENTP.
The N is definitely in there, as is the P but torn about the I/E and T/F.