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What did you think about it? How did you like it?
WARNING: This thread is bound to contain spoilers. Better read the issue first.
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Don’t believe I’ve even got my December issue yet. Pshaw.
Me neither! It STINKES! WHERE IS IT?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*sigh*
I do not have it yet. But prehaps I shall recieve it on my birthday. Preferrably sooner, of course.
if none of us have it yet, why are we even on this thread? pointless!
I’m with VF…let’s wait till we get it, then we can talk about it. For now, let’s keep talk about the new mag on the other thread for it.
I got mine and it’s a really good one. A classic, in fact. You’ll see what I mean.
7.) ARE YOU SAYING THAT……
oh man. it could be collosal. what if… it was a bunch of the best muses all rolled into one!? or *gasp* the first issues all rolled into one!
*SHRIEK!* what if it is the
first magazine evvvvvvvvver.
I CAN”T WAIT TO GET IT!
6-Sure, rub it in…lol.
Wow. I thought I was the only one waiting and everyone else was enjoying their issues and posting spoilers, but the only one with a Muse is the GAPA, who probably worked on it. This is like sneaking to do something forbidden and finding everyone else there too. “I caught you!” “But why are you here at all?”
9: heeheehee…
6: do you know if they’ve been sent yet? when should they arrive?
1- There’s no December issue. Or do you mean the November/December one? I haven’t gotten that one either *go cries in a corner*
Called 800 number. Nice lady named Trina said it was sent. But tis not yet arrived.
I thought that the Eragon movie sucked. really. I am FILLED with hate for the director of it.
thats too bad
i bet you hurt the directors feeling
say your sorry A.D
If you haven’t gotten it yet, get off the thread, because I am about to post a “Good, Bad, and Ugly” rundown of the issue. Because I can.
The Good:
-ZOMG, three pages of Kokoco!
-ZOMG, Kiki got a letter printed!
-ZOMG, hpb origami!
-ZOMG, three pages of Kokoco!
-The cover was farking awesome.
-Paul Baker had this very entertaining little party.
-ZOMG, three pages of Kokoco!
-Finally, I can prove to newer Musers that Aeiou did talk.
The Bad:
-There wasn’t any recipe for the cover cake.
-I really didn’t like the reprints of old articles, since I have them in original issues and I ended up flipping through them. *gaspshudder* But for newer Musers, they might be good ways to catch up on vintage Museliness.
The Ugly:
-Actually, the whole thing seemed to be mostly reprints. I realize that many Musers don’t have the older issues these came from, but for oldbies the issue wasn’t much other than a recap of where we’d been, with a new look at the guardrail article.
The Final Word:
It’s not my favorite issue of all time, or even close, but it does have a lot of nice Musely extras, and provides an excellent look into the archaeology of the magazine for the newbies. I think that people who have only been getting the magazine for a year or two will enjoy it more than the long-time subscribers.
That was a real cake on the cover, by the way. Larry Gonick drew a special cartoon, which the baker ink-jetted onto the icing. I wasn’t in town long enough to eat any, but Samablamablous had some.
I gots it! Splendiferous! I did like the reprints, since they were all before my time
I’d seen the fake facts before though. Ooh, and i knew which one was real, go me! I loved the damascus swords and i want one. ♥ ♥ ♥ Still think you should’ve offered the vewwy special vewwy foist issue. Oh, and i was going to write a letter in for the specialful tenth, but never did. Ah well, there’s always the fifteenth. Speaking of letters, go kiki! w00t w00t! ’twas verry nic-ah. that’s what the GAPA meant with those secretive secretwinkings then. Oh, and i was a bit disappointed it didn’t mention the cafepress thing. But i guess it can do that next time or the time after…i don’t know how far in advance these are done exactly. thinking back, i guess it wouldn’t have made sense for it to be in this one already 
It was flamablamablous. And i was indeed interested in the guardrails. Happy musery to all! Wheeeeee! *is very much in a celebratory, muserish spirit* *does happy dance* *tosses some pies around* Yah, s’all good.
I haven’t got mine yet. My Muses are sent to my grandmother’s house.
Ah, well, I will get it sooner or later. Preferably sooner.
Happy Birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear Mu-use
Happy birthday to you!
It was awesiome!!!!!!!
A really good issue. I especially liked the orgami hpbs. Lots of interesting articles. Saw kiki’s letter.
OMG!!! MY LETTER GOT PUBLISHED!!!! Schweet.
Look! It’s Kiki!
All the reprinted articles were new to me but none of the reprinted other tidbits were. (I own all except the future creatures issue since 1999 – my bio teacher’s student teacher lost that one grrr… But eventually I’ll reorder it as a back issue. Actually I allready did but the sword/common cold issue came instead for some reason…)
I got my MUSE!!! Yay!!
Loved what you said, Robert. Guest editor!! WHee!!! Well, I’m not done readinig yet, so I’ll be back later!
Oh, and why doesn’t the calander list January as Muses’s bithday month? Just wondering.
Good idea!
Aren’t I purdy? j/k.
Guest Editor, Robert! Nice. The only plug about MuseBlog was in my letter, though…
But I guess everyone will read it and come here.
What was project number two, I couldn’t really find anything specific. Was it the whole magazine?
And I noticed that the girl at the Oasis Mirage looked a WHOLE LOT like Emma.
15- Robert!! Why didn’t you ask Samablamablous to CALL ME and I could’ve eaten some with her? Poo. Must’ve tasted goooooooooooooood. I would’ve felt a bit guilty eating the muses, though.
IT’S HERE!!!!!!! JS got it first though. oh well, i have it now she’s gone to hockey. so i’ll have four hours all alone with my new darling Muse…. *cackles evilly*
LOVED IT!!!! Congrats Kiki!! Now we all know what you look like, so we can become your stalkers!!! MWAHAHAHA!!!!!
And the picture on the cake is the Muse Academy one… but in color. which i happened to get as a christmas present, too!
Kiki (25),
Now you’ll be the mother of a generation of MuseBloggers, just as MontgomeryGurl was. I hope you’re ready for your parental responsibilities.
My second project (the first being Musery Loves Company) was the entire January issue. That’s why I flew out to Chicago for a week in September.
The storekeeper at the Oasis Mirage is indeed Emma from Attack of the Smart Pies. It’s a small Musiverse.
hmm. i wonder if emma likes being a shopkeeper.. it seems kind of a lowly career for her, i always hoped she’d become something better. well, at least she gets to hang around in Kokonino County.
28- Wow. I feel maternal luv…
OH. The whole ish.
I thought Emma’s memory was wiped… Did Urania and Feather walk out of Kokonino County?
~~~~~~~~~
Yeah, now everyone knows what I look like… Jadestone and Violetfire, now if you see me on the street, you will be able to know who I am!
that issue was so awesome. i’ve been getting MUSE for 5 years, so those early articles were awesome. MUSE, you just turned me
into a vegetarian. I’m serious. after reading that article, i’ve finally made up my mind. thank you MUSE. thank you so much.
I just have to say that I HATE HPBS!
LONG LIVE THE MUSES!
(29),
Emma is probably just working there temporarily to make money for college.
(31),
The bunnies don’t care how you feel about them. Their smug little smiles show their absolute confidence in the rightness of their cause and the inevitability of their triumph.
Origami bunnies could be very useful to Mostly Harmless, by the way. Remember the idea of handing out the blog’s URL to kids you see behaving in a Muserly fashion (e.g., reading a Douglas Adams book at a baseball game)? I think a folded HPB would be the perfect vehicle for that information.
32- YEAH!!!! And we could do it verra surreptitious-like, James Bond style. HAHAHA!!!
I don’t care. hpbs are evil and turned many a reader to the Dark Side. Even if they are useful to Mostly Harmless, I don’t like them. Besides, who has origami paper that’s hot pink on one side and white on the other? seriously.
(34) Piggy, the standard pink origami paper is a fair approximation. Also, most wrapping paper works quite nicely as a substitute.
I didn’t have any pink-and-white paper, so I did two sheets, one pink, one white. I didn’t glue or tape them together.
It ended up looking like a pig. Ah well.
Kiki the Great, don’t worry, keep at it —every first try at a new origami fold ends up looking like a pig! Unless, of course, you’re actually trying to make a pig, in which case it will look like a dog. It’s the First Law of Origami.
I just went and checked the mailbox and guess what? no muse! I have been getting muse for two years and it has never come this late! Ooooooh I am sooooooo annoyed!
I have just decided to announce to the world that
a) I luv Muse
b) I hate hot-pink bunnies (or anything else pink, for that matter)
c) koko is da bestest!
d) while I’m on this subject I
i) luv redwall, warriors(new 1 came out yay!)
ii) luv red sox a nd HATE the yankees
No. 37 – How right you are! I been doing origami off and on since I was seven, and it was soooooooo frustrating. Nothing ever looked the way it was suposed to. Ever. I got better eventually, and the HPB origami is actually pretty simple for me now. I started reading Muse about two years ago, and was totally confused about the HPBs at first. I finally figured it out yesterday when I got my January issue. Okay, my favorite article was the one on swords. Me and three of my bestest friends are fencers, and I thought it was pretty awesome that my favorite magazine ever was doing an article on swords.
The January issue was pretty good, but definently not the best one I’ve read. The vegetarian article was very interesting and informative, and looked through alot of different perspectives. I have one freind who is almost vegan, and another who just doesn’t enjoy eating meat. So, my origami HPB turned out looking rather piggish too, but that’s okay with me.
FYI I am the most random person in the world (in case you couldn’t see that)
My first origami HWB (white, for I have no origami paper, only printer paper, due to the fact that I’ve never done origami other than fortune tellers) turned out most excellently. I am very proud of it. xD
Congrats, Kiki!
Though I’m kind of PO’d that my letter was never printed. I took all that time to make sure my muse wouldn’t get messed up in my suitcase and shlepped it all the way to Isreal, took a picture (ok, ok, I admit it. I forgot about taking a picture the first time so we took one later when it was sort of dark) reading muse in front of the western wall, and send it to muse just to have my letter not printed? That is just mean. And there should be a little yellow dot in Jerusalem on the map of everywhere muse has been.
I’m afraid I was a little young for those first years of muse, ( I think I first started subscibing in 2000) and was very excited to read the early articles. Awesome issue! Loved everything. Nancy Kangas’s work on the birthday cards was genius. Three page Koko was amazing. So was seeing the first Koko & Co. But I have a question for Urania. Astronomy was very different in ancient greece, most people thought gods caused celestial events. 1. Since Urania is herself proof that the gods did/do exist, are modern astronomers wrong? 2. If they aren’t, then how did Urania shed the old ideas and become a modern astronomer? Sorry, but seeing the old muses show up at koko’s birthday made me wonder.
My brother began subscribing and received his first issue in July/August 1998 and I’ve been reading it more or less since then.
Kiki– GREAT that you took a pic of you with Muse outside of the Muse offices!! Somday I will get around to doing that.
ORIGAMI!! YAY!!
Loved the entire blody thing. The b-day cards, the British festivities…all love. Oh, and hot-pink bunnies are love.
Speaking of that, I got my Muse shirts on Boxing Day. Pwt Pwns and original (not blue) Resistence is Museless!! Yussss!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
I’m celebrating by eating…*splat* PIE!!
Somehow, about half my post didn’t go through.
Mainly what it said confirmed post 28: I came here because if there was a place with people who would be happy to see articles on Monty Python and Hitchhiker’s Guide, obviously I belonged there.
AWESOME KIKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You have an awesome real name!
I have been inspired to take a picture of my chronologically ordered Muse Collection all spread out on my rug all nice like, and send it to Muse. I may even deliver it to the Muse offices myself! That would be enormously special.
Thank you, thank you very much. *bows*
It was my third attempt to get a letter in.
(34) As a matter of fact, I have oragami paper that is hot pink on ones side and white on the other. And I wasted no time in turning every sheet I have (3 pieces, to be exact) in to a shockingly-colored, delicious, adorable HPB.
How did the editors know that my most recent work-avoidance behavior was oragami? Brilliant! I loved that part! I’m making more and giving them all to my friends.
(41) Excellent! You’ll fit right in.
Congrats Kiki! I was physched to see you got in. Great job!
I really liked all the re-prints. Some were ones I never read, and others were ones I read, but haven’t been able to re-read because we lost a lot of issues when we moved to different places. It makes me really sad, because if we hadn’t, I would own every single issue. But this was a great one!
I really liked the article on vegetarianism. I liked how clear and well layd out it was. The article on guard rails was quintissential Muse. I can’t wait to see the exasperated look on my sister’s (the one who didn’t used to get Muse) when, on the next road trip, I start identifying the guardrails we pass.
I know I already said this, but I really really really like the oragami bit.
The math page was cool to! I love etymology, and I had never noticed that about the numbers 1-12 before.
The birthday cards were funny. Especially because the summed up perfectly how I feel about all the sappy and ridiculous greeting cards I get.
I halfta go now, fatha’s calling (grrr have to make the salad probably, grumble grumble) but I thought it was great!
Still not here yet… so I will get a preview from you!
Don’t go into the movie trailers business, people!
Oopsie! I posted under my Alter Ego! Methinks I will change it…
Here I am, Back under my normal name! Whazzup?
I have been to Europe twice and never remembered to bring Muse with me. I am considering trying to Photoshop a picture of Muse into one of my photos, except there is a small problem – I don’t have Photoshop.
Zero score and two days ago, our Mail-lady brought forth on this household the new issue of muse, which was GREAT! I saw some of the Bo’s Page facts in previous issues, and knew that those ones were false.
The vegetairinism article was good, but I’m not vegitairin. No musers make any Damascus swords, pleeeeeeeeeeeease! You’ll destroy their value!
soooo…
what is everyone’s favorite article? I love all of them.
hAPPY BDAY MUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i am going to sew a pink bunny to celebrate
this is random whenever i see a pink bunny i get we shall overcome stuck in my head
My little brother read the issue of muse, and decided to be a vegetarian! But, b/c he doesn’t eat much dairy, my mom is making him eat fish and birds. And he wants to eat gelatin, b/c it would be too hard to avoid it. So he’s not eating red meat. But every little bit counts!!!!
Kiki-YAY!!
I liked the issue, all the reprints were new to me because it’s only my second issue of muse. I have yet to try the HPB origami. Oh, and the Kokopelli and co was good.
Yummy cake!
i’d like to see a thread where you post something in a different language and have people try to figure out what it means. would anyone else?
25) SQUEE!!! I just got my muse, and read the WHOLE thing, and I SAW KIKI!!!
KIKI!!!
WOOOHOOOO!!!!!!!!
YAAAAY!!!
I always wondered what you looked like. Now I know. *counts up number of MBers I’ve seen pictures of* I know what 4 MBers look like, now! Forgot the names, at the moment, though.
Kiki, your glasses are kind of like mine, except I have thinner frames. Cool!
So how was the blog featured prominently in this month’s muse? I haven’t gotten it yet, but I’m curious.
58- oh, that sounds interesting. I could post some Welsh, Spanish and French though a lot of people here speak Spanish andor French.
60- kiki’s letter mentioned the site address.
60 ~ Kiki got a letter published that encouraged people to come.
I got mine! It is sooooo cool!!!!!!!!!!
In Ireland, I tried to play conkers. It didn’t work, although it took my father about a bazillion days to get the chestnuts off the tree. Then, he taught me how to play. Let’s just say that I won’t be ready for the championships any time soon (Anyway, I was only, five years old…)
I’m going to make the pink hpb origami things by the dozen. I’m obsessed (well, maybe not obsessed, but I love it) with origami. If I ever go to a kokonvention I’ll hand them out. moohaha
65 ~ Yeah, I’m planning to make a lot more, too. They’re so simple, but they’re fun to make.
Oh yeah, and I love the slogan thing! “The magazine of life, the universe, and pie throwing.”
65 – Origami! w00t! Me too! Yay! Go origamists (speling? origami people maybe) Before I tried making stuff in mass production but got a little boring after awhile. But handing them out at a kokonvetion would be pretty……..well………MWAHAHA. Yeah.
67 – I completely agree. I’d probably put the emphasis on pie throwing. *pies everybody with origami pies*
I like the cards…some of those were pretty funny. Were those actually sent in by people? I’m too lazy to go look, right now, and I don’t remember, so I’ll just ask. If so, were any of them sent in by a MuseBlogger? By the way, congratulations on getting your letter printed, Kiki! Very cool.
69 ~ Nancy Kangas did them.
Well………..the only card that really got me was “Happy Birthday. Here’s some money, and I doubt people sent them in. I am so going to do the hot pink bunny thing. Dogs rule!!!
The contest reminded me of the old “More the Merrier” thread. That one sort of petered out, which was sad, because it had some good ideas, like PB&J’s Historical Elk, Otzi’s Oceanus, and my Caterwaul Gauguin.
Nice.
Oh, and awesome, Kiki!
Black pudding scares me.
I love how the last four say “THE MAGAZINE OF LIFE, THE UNIVERSE, AND PIE THROWING”
72- Indeed, it did.
I HATED vegitarainism article! It was HORRID!
i’ve been doing origami for a long time. so it was pretty easy, ive done harder. i usually hand out hpb or mostly harmless stickers. plus the round hpb ones that had the website on them.
frigy, does your issue always come so much later?
just got mine… then my little brother stole it, just b/c his name was on the cover for who to send it to, he always does, even though it’s for both of us
oh well, I got it after him and it was cool
I like the blood pudding throwing and all the ways of strange celebration
The Vegetarianism artical was WAAYYYY TOO one-sided it could have at least said that not all meat in the world is tortured as it is raised or something. People have the right to make that choice, but the magazine made it sound like smart people that care are vegetarian and people that just don’t think or anything aren’t and they are cruel to the poor animals.
Congrats, Kiki, I wonder how many people will come b/c of your letter
I made a hot-pink bunny out of a pink post-it today. I understand why he said to use six to ten inch paper, but it is definitely possible to do smaller. I’m going to tape it to my “checkbook” for home and careers class.
did anyone see that letter about the girl who went in her closet? i thought it was really funny!!!
also, no one has created a letter like that… i encourage you all to do so!
by the way..it WAS my letter! Yipee! *jumps around happily*
but i din’t gt the magazine yet…
My friend just showed me hers
80- You look crazy… Right on!
Looking over Bo’s page, I was drawn to the “Alien Earthworms” article. “The material they excrete may extend human life. It also has the unusual side effect of turning the eyes blue”. Has anybody else read Dune?
The editors have!
Does anyone know where to get hot-pink origami paper? I tried it with light pink since that was all i had, but it wasn’t the same.
Wow! It’s a triumph! Congratulations to Robert.
I rather liked having Bo’s page with all fakes but one true fact. And I rather liked the article on Damascus swords. I felt rather vindicated after reading the page on base ten counting, because nobody I’ve every talked to about it before understood it enough to agree with me. I really rather liked it all.
Except maybe the vegetarianism article. It made me guilty, because I really like meat, even though I feel that I shouldn’t eat it. I think that a more compelling reason to go vegetarian than the ones mentioned in the article is that it is more efficient than eating meat, and we live on an overpopulated planet.
I really really liked the contest. I’m not going to tell you what my entry was, though, because I’m afraid of plagiarism. After the contest is over, however, I’ll tell you. OK, I’m paranoid. Sorry.
(84) emmatheduck, I’ve occasionally seen origami paper in neon colors at craft stores. If you want to make more than a few, however, your best bet would be to find wrapping paper, which is usually white on one side. With all the paper and party stores out there, you should be able to find something. Coloring your own is another option and could produce some interesting effects.
I loved this one. I really, really, really, really did. Here’s my organized evaluation:
1. The Vegetarianism Article. Actually, it was kind of one-sided. Not very geeky at all. Really kind of “let’s watch the little bunnies play, and don’t eat them.” A little naive; I’m glad Muse didn’t continue in that vein.
2. The Guardrails Article. Loved it! I’m going to be a civil engineer after reading that article. Totally. It was really interesting, it was scientific, and it explored the everyday world in a fascinating and mathy way.
3. The Damascus Steel Article. I loved this one too. Metalsmithing is not a topic most science publications explore. Muse did it entertainingly and scientifically. Historical mystery+fencing+science of metals=amazingly fun article.
4. Kiki was in it! Go, go Kiki, go, go Kiki, go, go Kiki! Eeeny meeny gypsaleeny, oo bop bopsaleenie, ahtchi gahtchi liberahtchi Kiki let’s go! Gratters, Kiki.
5. Bo’s Page Inversed. Very cool. I liked that a lot.
6. The Kangas Feature. Cute, funny, and with her usual biting wit and humor. Nancy Kangas is actually a lot like Roz Chast.
7. The Celebrations Article. If I actually met Paul Baker I would probably throw my arms around his neck and cover his upturned face with burning kisses because I love him SOOO much. I’m persuading my parents to let me stay up late to watch the World Conker Championships. Who needs the Super Bowl when you’ve got people throwing puddings at other puddings? Dude
8. Origami bunnies. Excellent, dude. The directions were easy to understand, and they’re cute, bunnylicious, and hot pink. If anyone ever has a sky blue mongoose origami recipe, you’ve gone too far.
In conclusion: one of my favorite issues ever. Happy 10th birthday Muse!
Thank you for the vote of confidence, young lady. It’s very bad for me, you know. It just encourages me to write more of this drivel.
I think all Musers should stay up and watch the conker championships. You need some decent sports over there, and I just don’t think cricket is going to take hold.
Come to think of it, there must be conker trees over there. You could start an American branch of the Conker Club. Anyone seen a horse chestnut?
Korrora did a science fair project on them last year, I think. Horse chestnuts, that is.
I read the Muse in school Monday in a futile attempt to get others to notice it. Then I identified the guardrails on the bus home. I think there was a box one, or whatever it’s called. It was on the edges of a bridge.
58- Coy Woodnesse.
82- Is Dune worth reading? It’s one of the few books they have at the library I don’t have to inter-library-loan. I haven’t read it yet, but I will if you say it’s good.
I have just realized that I should take a Muse on my summer vacation and get a picture with it somewhere cool and then send it in. Only with one I have a double copy of, so I won’t worry about losing it.
Juliette (88),
Glad you liked it! The issue was great fun to put together, as you may imagine.
By the way, Kiki doesn’t seem to have noticed that we used several of her ideas for the issue. For example, the party hats on the page numbers were something she came up with. (By the way, has anyone looked at the numeral on page ten?)
Hi Musers, I’m Dana. You can find me on page 32 of this issue. I thought I’d drop in because a) I actually had time to read the issue this month (I love Christmas break) and b) re-living the excitement of some of my favorite muse articles in this issue awoke my muse mania and I couldn’t stay away. One article whose reincarnation (or re-in-page-ation) I particularly enjoyed was that of the guardrail article. Although I never scored very high on the guardrail ga-ga meter, I remember getting really jazzed about it when I first read it. Apparently it touched my heart and mind a little more than I thought it did because this morning, while searching for clean clothing in my own deep dark closet, I found myself composing a “which guard rail are you?” quiz. Now I thought I recognized the concept from somewhere in past muse history, but I can’t find the reference now. If some other fan wrote one before me and this is all unintended plagiarism by my subconscious I apologize in advance. Anyway, here is what materialized. I hope you enjoy it.
Caution: taking this quiz may indicate that you are Guardrail Crazy. Taking this quiz seriously may be an even graver sign. Please get professional help if you base any life decisions on the results of this quiz.
What kind of Guardrail are you?
1. Your friends describe you as:
a) Abrupt
b) Forgiving and impressionable
c) Strong
d) The wall
e) High strung
f) Tall
2. You are writing an essay for college admission. The topic asks you to talk about a book that had a significant impact on you. In describing the impact you say that
a) you only read for a few minutes, but you absorbed enough wisdom to last a life time.
b) it impacted you so strongly that you needed time off to recuperate and rebuild yourself after reading it.
c) You circulated it among everyone near to you so that they all had the opportunity to be impacted by it too.
d) After finishing it you found that in your excitement you had unintentionally demolished the book, which led you to profound reflections on the fragility of life and the measure of your own strength.
e) You felt as though it had touched your heart strings, and they continued to resonate long afterwards.
f) You were tired after reading it because the book was war and peace.
3. Your ideal work environment would be:
a) The pinnacle of achievement, somewhere above all the rest.
b) A spacious unfrequented location.
c) The middle ground between controversies.
d) In the fast lane.
e) In the midst of poverty.
f) Among giants.
5. Your problem solving strategy is:
a) Stop the problem quickly.
b) Solve the problem gradually, taking into consideration the greater impact of your solution.
c) Pass the problem on to someone else.
d) Demolish the problem.
e) Solve the problem inexpensively.
f) The bigger the problem the better.
5. On the Muse Fan Page, your average distance between posts is:
a) 3 inches, and your posts are short but dense with meaning.
b) More than one foot, and your posts are only one line long.
c) 6 inches, and you tend to express yourself in a manner that repels other people.
d) You post long essays all the time without waiting for people to reply.
e) 8 inches, and your tone is very tense.
f) 6 inches and you use lofty language and complex metaphors that your fellow musers find over their head. You favor heavy duty issues.
Results: All results refer to guardrails profiled in the most recent Muse. For complete description of your guardrail personality see page 42.
If you answered mostly a’s you are a Strong-post W beam
If you answered mostly b’s you are a weak-post W-beam
If you answered mostly c’s you are a box-beam guardrail
If you answered mostly d’s your are a jersy barrier
If you answered mostly e’s you are a wire-rope guardrail
If you answered mostly f’s you are a three-beam guardrail.
91- it was in August when I requested those things. I am not known for having a good memory.
If you’re like most Musers, no doubt you have so many ideas that you can’t keep track of them all. Anyway, we were happy to hear them (and equally happy, as always, to steal them shamelessly).
Wheee cool quiz! I got two a’s, two b’s, and one c. Strong post W beam and weak post W beam
box-beam and strong-post W.
Wunnerful quiz!
And do i know you? I do, don’t i.
Oh wait, are you the one in college? You are, aren’t you? yah, yah, yah, yah….i think i remember you. you came by once before.
I still haven’t found any hot pink paper. Working on that bunny there…
I got my Mostly harmless hoodie yestiddy, i probably told y’all yah? Well i wore it to skool today! Huzzah for mostly harmless! The ko-konspiracy flourishes.
Yes, I’m the one in college. Except right now I’m on break. I think I was on break the last time I stopped by too. School is looming ahead though; I go back in exactly one week. I’m glad you and potato chip liked the quiz. Funny, I didn’t think to take it myself. Hmm, let’s try…
I got two c’s, so I guess I’m a strong beam. I think the quiz needs more questions to truly provide an accurate reflection of your true guardrail personality. If anyone wants to add to it they are welcome to it.
Hello, Dana! Good to “see” you. I’d cite you as proof that there is life after high school, except that you never exactly went to high school.
I’m a box beam guardrail!
I made an HPB out of origami paper. It’s shiny, too as I made it out of hot pink shiny paper.
Dana, recently whilst flipping through my oldest (’99) muses I discovered your name in the q&a section. (Mayhaps I was also flipping through issues latere than ’99, that was just when I started subscribing. January, in fact.) What year are you in college?
Hi Robert! It’s good to be hanging out with Musers again. Can I cite you as proof that there is life after college and that it includes fabulous muse like journeys of discovery? Sometimes I wonder.
Hi sock monkey. I’m an all knowing wise and powerful junior. I wonder what I’ll be as a senior? It’s interesting that you found a question from 1999, but the one reprinted in this issue (from 2000) was the first question I ever asked. Ah the mysteries of putting together a magazine. Some questions get answered faster than others even if they come in later.
The one that got reprinted this time has a story behind it. I was cross country skiing with a friend, and our parents had just finished the long and arduous task of starting a fire in a remote warming hut. We were eating sandwiches and staring at the flames and I asked my friend if he knew what fire was (the options being liquid solid or gas). We debated it for the rest of the trip. I was really proud of myself for coming up with a question that he couldn’t answer even though he went to school. Being home schooled I was plagued with this nagging fear that those kids whose science classes included teachers, text books, labs and frog dissections (as opposed to consisting solely of muse, magic school bus and the library like mine.) knew something that I didn’t, so it was a huge relief that he didn’t know the answer to my question either. A few weeks later I got my issue of Muse, and in it was an announcement that they were going to start a question and answer feature. I ran to the computer and e-mail muse within two minutes of reading that. I think the full text of the e-mail ran something like this “I HAVE A QUESTION, I HAVE A QUETSTION!!!!! Is fire a solid liquid or gas?†I was so excited about the new column. It’s still one of my favorite features. It gives the readers great power and satisfaction to be able to ask those questions that keep them up at night.
Life is as Muselike as you make it. I find that it’s possible to live in Kokonino County most of the time, if I set my mind to it.
Robert, I bet your neighbors think you are very odd.
I didnt get my dec. muse either.
(102),
Ha! They’d better.
Robert would be freaking sweet to have as a neighbor. He’d be one of those neighbors that i’d totally invade the house of and steal early editions of muse.
And plague him with lengthy discussions about…idk…rubber bands or something.
And hide in his trunk when he went to Muse HQ…
Play loud music louder when my posts didn’t get moderated…
That’d be Awesome!
Also, in the back, there are directions for an origami hot-pink bunny.
I am, at the moment, working on a diary for a hot-pink bunny that is going to be in the war between the hot-pink bunnies and the army of men-who-loathe-hot-pink-bunnies! Yay!
Hey I don’t get why people r vegetarians,
animals r going to get killed no matter what.
Its not like your saving them or anything!
I love cows! Infact I’ve got my own calf!
But its not like you can stop anbody from killing them!
108-are, please, not r. That bugs me.
other than that, are you new? *pies* whee!
107-like the pie war? XD
100- ooh! am I all knowing and wise and powerful too? (I’m a junior in highschool…) or am I just one of those three…
I should use my handy q&a feature sometime.
Hey I think ginger is right!