June 2007 edition, Part 1.
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What shall the topic be this time?
Happy June Everyone!!!! What should we talk about? Oh I know!!!! How about what would your dream job be? Maybe thats a little wierd, but our teacher got us started…but its kind of fun to talk about. I also like thinking of dream homes for some reason….oh well. I have a few dream jobs…
1 Proffessional Dancer (sorry bad spelling)
2 Traveling the world and writing about it and/or taking pictures or both
I cant recall anything else considering its 12:30 at night and I cant go to sleep…today was my last day of school!!!!
Yes! The Chameleon is back!!
I feel like I always decide the topic (well, in the beginning, anyway). Does anyone else want to start?
PP-Dancergirl13 did right before you sent in your post.
I want to be an Ornithologist!!!
I know this should be on the June Jelly thread, but I just posted and forgot to say this.
w00tw00t I LOVE IT WHEN YOU CAN STILL SOME OF THE THREADS FROM THE PREVIOUS MONTH ON THE WHAT’S HERE PAGE WITHOUT SCROLLING DOWN w00tw00t!!!!!!
My dream job is to live on a sailing ship and write books. Perhaps not at the same time, but I don’t know, as long as my manuscripts didn’t fall overboard, it would work.
My dream job? Hmmm…….probably a cartoonist.
Why is this “Part 1”? We barely got halfway to 300 posts in May!
5-That sounds absolutely lovely! I’ll post my dream job later.
6- Yeah, but that was ’cause we couldn’t decide on a topic. This should be better.
My dream job is an engineer. After this topic, let’s talk about follies! I went to see one yesterday… One of the ones in MUSE…
9- Follies . . . what are they again?
10- Muse did an article on them a while back. Did you see it? It was in the issue that had that thing about slime Eels. I took a picture of me reading that issue next to it. I will send it in to Muse eventually.
My dream job? Author, of course.
I wanna be a bestselling fiction author!
Failing that, I wanna be an aspiring fiction author living in a refrigerator box.
I find it quite odd that I can write longer and more thoughtful posts on the random thread, even if they’re just me whining about annoying n00blets.
follies are those weird building thingys. it would have been cool to have a ‘design a folly’ contest, but instead they had a halloween costume contest. *sigh*
Dream job… hmm, I’m not sure but I want it to include:
1. Lots of money
2. Interesting jobs
3. Time for family
4. Useful
Unfortunately, a job including all of those things is, for the moment, a dream.
I would love to be a writer. Currently I’m writing a bit of everything (poetry, prose, plays which are all coincidentally p’s). I believe a novelist would suit me best.
Whoa, lots of authors on here.
Easy. A night job testing mattresses, with paid overtime in the morning. XD
I want to be a veteranairian and work with Red Pandas! I LOVE redpandas!
Ha my dream job is also an author! I
I want to be an editor for Muse. Or a writer for Muse. Actually, any job with Muse would be good. But I’d like to be an editor for Muse. And I think I might actually pursue that. If I don’t get a job with Muse, I’ll definitly try to be a book editor, or something else.
But I’m the Editor-in-Chief of my school newspaper, (which is amazing, considering I’m only in 9th grade), and I really love editing.
21- I like editing too! But we might be talking about something different. I mean revising something I (or someone else) has written.
I would also like to get a job with Muse. It was my mom’s suggestion, after I read Paul Baker’s elizabethan article to her.
I have considered working for a publishing company, as one of the people who reads the manuscripts and decides whather or not to publish them.
I have no clue what I want to do. I enjoy writing poetry and attempting to write prose, I enjoy reading. Maybe I’d like to be an editor of books. Yes, I might like that. Especially if I was an editor like Sharyn November of Firebird books. She seems like she has fun. I’d also like to be an architect or an engineer or a person who designs things (you know, like cool chairs and useful things that are cool) or a chemical engineer type thing. I enjoy chemistry and mathematics. I enjoy reading and writing. I enjoy theatre. I have no clue what I’d like to do. Any ideas?
Well, you could do what I do. It sounds as if you’re on the way to becoming eminently qualified. By the time you come on the job market, I’ll probably be so busy posing for statues that I’ll be happy to turn the job over to you.
An aromatherpaist might also be intersting, but first and foremost my passion: writing.
I want to be-no, I am going to be- a paleontologist. (you know, fossils, dinosaurs, ect).
23: Yes, editor seems like a good job, but you could also be an author, or, since you like theatre, architecture, and engineering, you could design the props and special effects in plays. Like the explosions and stuff. Chemistry is, I assume, important for the explosions.
6- E2MB seconded!!!
i totaly want to be a cartoonist. i already do some stuff, which is fun. ranging from one pagers (realy bad) and i’m working on a twelve pager in my series wich will soon have 4 adventures!
E2MB- do you create your own comics?
27 – Yes I do. I create newspaper-style comic strips though, not the longer graphic-novel type.
24- What do you do? As in being a science writer? and Muse person? It’d be fun to be a muse person. How’s being a science writer? (that is what you are, right?)
22 (Alice) – I basically love doing any kind of editing/revising. I’m obsessed with grammar (well, I don’t really use it correctly all the time. In format papers I do, but I’m not “perfect” anywhere else.), and I can spell really well (not as well as Emma, though). So I like editing for errors like that. But I also like revising content and style as well. So I guess any type of editing or revising would be a really fun job for me.
28- cool! i used to do that but the art was REALY bad. what’s it about? mine was about my insane friends. i actualy don’t know anyone who’s into cartooning other than me. this is so cool. anyways… what’s your style of art? mines sort of chynna clugston but mainly it’s my own.
30- Then we are talking about the same thing.
30 – Then I suggest you go here!
33- Oh! I have to work on that. I haven’t even finished Chapter Two yet . . . sorry. I know that’s not the purpose of your post, but it did work.
33 – If you, or anyone else wants me to edit anything, you can either send me to the link, or have the GAPAs email me the manuscript/document, because although I’d love to edit them, I don’t really have a ton of time to go through and put it all onto a document and take out all of the names, etc. I would, but I don’t think my grades would like me very much
My passion is dance, so I would LOVE to do that, but I also LOVE learning about the world and different cultures. Our teacher said a dream job is a job that makes you say “i cant believe i am being payed for this! ” in a good way.
35- You don’t have to help, but you could if you like. It’s much fun.
For the longest time I’ve thought that I’ve wanted to be a write (and by that I mean both prose and poetry), but I know that it’s not really something that brings in a lot of money, so multiple careers is probably the way I’m going.
I hope everyone has noticed my passion for the Japanese language. I love it. A career as either an interpreter or translator is something that greatly appeals to me, not only because I would be around the language and culture, but because you really to build connections between two places..it’s a career that really fits me, I think. I find myself wondering “I wonder how they’d translate this phrase into Japanese~” or “Hey, that’s not the correct translation into English! D:”
I think the satisfaction of knowing what something means in both languages is so very fulfilling, and when I understand something, it’s so exciting!
Well, I really want to be a biotechnologist. Combining science and possibly being able to discover something that could really help people seems perfect. But there are plenty of other wonderful jobs out there… cruise reviewer, ice cream flavor tester, chocolatier… I must be really hungry right now…
38- I’ve noticed you like Japan. So does my sister.
39- Oh, ice cream flavor tester would be a nice job. As would chocolatier.
40 – I don’t know about an ice-cream flavor taster. Sometimes they can crank out some nasty flavors for you to try. Have you ever had a scoop of Red Rum Rasin ice cream? Yeeaugh.
41- Eaurhgh. Sounds dreadful.
39-nice job plans!!! *laughs* It sounds like alot of fun to be a cruise reviewer!
42 – It was the featured flavor of the month in Baskin Robins about a year ago.
You got the HG2G post! *is insanely jealous*
Dream job? Lyricist(sp?)/Author/Poet/Something to do with science in case those don’t work out.
38- Noticed your passion for Japanese? *dryly* Oh, once or twice…
(40,45) XDD Ha, I would be worried if no one noticed!
Ice cream tester! That sounds…delicious. XD
Musician, if that won’t work historian, or symbologist.
I will work for Muse if it’s stil around. Maybe. Or not. Maybe I can take over Kokopelli and company, except I can only draw Koko. *Pies everyone*
My dream jobs:
-Ice cream developer
-Greeting card designer
-Muse staffer
-Music execeutive
-Rock star (I wonder if Bono would mind if I took over his job for a while…)
-*************Rock historian************** (I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to do this, but I stand no chance of being able to support myself with this)
-Radio DJ (ditto)
I have absolutely no idea what I want to be. Time will tell. I enjoy math and science, and even though I do a lot of music I wouldn’t necessarily want that as a career. Too much pressure.
I would like to be an editor. I like to write stories, but I’m not uch good, and al my parents say I’m good at is reading, so if I could read and edit stories for a living that would be so cool.
Not sure yet what my dream job would be. On those stupid career tests we take in school, I always get air traffic controller. That sounds pretty intense. I’ve also heard there’s people who watch for forest fires all day long as a job. That would be very lonely…
Hey, this talk about future jobs reminds me of the xkcd comic “Graduation”. XD
I dont think the teachers should ask us what we want to be and make us do projects on it when we are still in middle school, we dont even have a choice to what classes we take (at least at my school we dont) let alone think about what we want to be if it has nothing to do with what we learn at school. A woman who sometimes subs for my mom at her dance studio didnt know she wanted to have a job that deals with writing until colllage, so why do they force us to choose a job now? I think its wierd.
I am going to be an engineer of some sort.
Since I can’t get paid for MuseBlogging and wiki-ing all day.
Although I don’t mind proofreading for spelling and grammar mistakes.
I’m gonna be a world-famous author, editor of the New York Times, and a breeder of pony-frogs for kids without toes!
I dream big :).
55- Clearly.
And what exactly is a pony-frog? A cross between a pony and a frog? Not something you would want to meet in a dark alley, mostly because it would scare you half to death?
54- Wish you could . . . [get paid for MBing.]
l’m gonna be a business executive for a technology company. We’ve already made over $100!
57- You’re going to be a business executive for a technology company that you created?!? Wow. I stand in awe.
I wonder where the word wow comes from. Time to go to the handy etymology dictionary!
To quote the aforesaid:
wow
1513, Scottish interjection, a natural expression of amazement. The verb meaning “overwhelm with delight or amazement” is first recorded 1924, Amer.Eng. slang. Used as a noun meaning “unqualified success” since 1920.
Maybe this is not the right place, but who cares?
One thing I forgot to mention somehow is that I really enjoy linguistics and where words come from (such as the post fifty-nine and Alice’s dictionary. I do own one rather like it. well, it’s a book of etymology, not a dictionary. It’d be fun to own the OED, though) but I have no clue if that leads to any sort of career.
60- Sadly, that is an online etymology dictionary. I want a pocket dictionary, and have said so. I doubt anyone will remember and get me one for my birthday, but you never know.
I like that sort of thing too. A lot. And I like reading the dictionary for fun. “Ooh, look! This is a good word. Haberdasher*.”
*Someone who sells trimmings, buttons, etc. for mens clothing. I’m not quite so sure about that last part.
My dream job is to be an actor in spy movies. I wanted to be a spy, and I wanted to be an actor, and spying is so dangerous, so why not just ACT like one? *genius*
61- ooh, is the online dictionary free? is it mostly harmless? linkie?
63- Yes and yes. We’ll see what the GAPAs let through . . .
http://www.etymonline.com/
PLEASE don’t zap it.
58- Thanks!
64- Cool!
64- thank you! That looks really cool! mmm… etymology…
wait, this is probably a stupid question, but i am lost. what is etymology?
Etymology is the study of the origins of words. It can also mean the origin or history of a particular word.
For example, e~a’s parenthetical name, “widdershins,” means “counterclockwise.” Its etymology is German, from Old High German widar (meaning back, against) and sinnen (to travel or go, related to the root for “send”).
67-
Main Entry: et·y·mol·o·gy
Pronunciation: -jE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -gies
Etymology: Middle English ethimologie, from Anglo-French, from Latin etymologia, from Greek, from etymon + -logia -logy
1 : the history of a linguistic form (as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
2 : a branch of linguistics concerned with etymologies
Quoted from Merriam-Webster online.
(69) That’s great: the etymology of “etymology.”
Let’s do my name!
purple
O.E. purpul, dissimilation (first recorded in Northumbrian, in Lindisfarne gospel) from purpure “purple garment,” purpuren “purple,” from L. purpura “purple-dyed cloak, purple dye,” also “shellfish from which purple was made,” from Gk. porphyra (see porphyry), of Semitic origin, originally the name for the shellfish (murex) from which it was obtained. Tyrian purple, produced around Tyre, was prized as dye for royal garments. As a color name, attested from 1398. Also the color of mourning or penitence (especially in royalty or clergy). Rhetorical for “splendid, gaudy” (of prose) from 1598. Purpur continued as a parallel form until 15c., and through 19c. in heraldry. Purple Heart, U.S. decoration for service members wounded in combat, instituted 1932; originally a cloth decoration begun by George Washington in 1782. Hendrix’ Purple Haze (1967) is slang for “LSD.”
panda
1835, from Fr., apparently from Nepalese name of a raccoon-like mammal (lesser panda) found there. First reference to the Giant Panda is from 1901; since its discovers in 1869 by Fr. missionary Armand David (1826-1900) it had been known as parti-colored bear, but the name was changed after the zoological relationship to the red panda was established.
Did you guys know that quiz is the only word in the english language that does not have an origin outside of the country? That’s right, some guy just scribbled it all over the country, on caves, sidewalks, chalkboards, everything. No one knew what it meant, so the word quiz just means something unknown.
72- *pies* I looked it up once, but I can’t remember the outcome.
72- I’ve heard that too, but I’m pretty sure it’s not true. And I’m sure plenty of other words have their origin within the country (think slang). Still… Btw, you’re new, aren’t you? *Pies* Welcome!
Woah, are we on etymology now, or is the topic still Dream Jobs?
My dream job is to be a professional cellist someday. Tour the world. Solo jobs and such.
Second choice: Cello teacher. I’m teaching my mom to play the cello right now. She begged me too. So now my summer job is to practice my teaching skills. I’m being paid 3 bucks every half and hour. w00t for that!
Did mine not post?
I want to be a poet in Soho.
Ever since I read that xkcd comic I’ve considered if I could be a lighthouse operator. Here’s the text from it:
Girl 1- What do you want to do when you graduate?
Girl 2- I want to become a lighthouse oporator.
Girl 1- Oh?
Girl 2- Yeah.
Lighthouses are bulit on interesting peices of coast, so I’ll have an interesting place to walk and swim, and great views of all kinds of weather. I’d feel great about myself and my work everyday.
I’d get to be the girl in the tower, only I’d be the one rescuing people.
Why, what do you want to do?
Girl 1- I’m gong to grad school. I don’t really know why.
Girl 2- Wanna come hang out at my lighthouse over breaks?
Girl 1- …yeah.
It keeps sounding all the more apealing. You’d have time to write and read when the days are clear, you could paint the ocean, take up birdwatching or rock/sea shell collecting…
77- No kidding . . .
68-thanks! my brain almost automatically shuts down as soon as school ends, math , social studies, Language arts, etc. all escapes me.
77-ooh, that sounds cool! You could sit and read and write and relax by the sea and save people by giving them light.
Writing things for Muse might be nice too.
R, R, R & P, what is GAPA-ing like? do you ever get annoyed at us MBers?
I want to be an bestselling author: that is my dream job. But I believe that is going to happen, and I am sure it won’t always be a dream.
BTW what is an xkcd comic?
(77, 80) Some years ago I heard about a lighthouse that would allow you to sign up as a temporary keeper. It was very tempting.
(80) The most annoying thing about being a GAPA is, of course, all the other stuff that gets in the way of being on MB.
80 – GAPAing is a wonderful pastime. One meets such delightful people.
My dream job – inventor. Trouble is, to make money at it, the inventions actually have to work.
83- That is a bit of a downside. I mean, no one wants to buy a mixture of peanut butter, powdered sugar, ketchup, mustard, and I can’t remember what else. (Yes, I did that once. I was about eight, though.) They don’t care for tents made out of umbrellas, either. Or idiotic games that I used to make up.
Those are pretty much the only things I’ve invented, though.
77-sounds awesome!!!!
I love lighthouses, and being in one by the dark, mystical water at night, with the fog, and the boats, and the sound of crashing waves, while your writing or relaxing, or something of the sort….. *starts to drift off into a daydream*
I would love to be a lighthouse operator. I learned all about it on my various… Vacations…Heh, heh…
No, but I really want to be an animator, like for Disney/Pixar or something. Or a voice of an animation. That’s my goal in life (I know, sucks right?) It’s to get to use my voice as an animated character, preferably for Disney/Pixar because it seems that their voices have a lot of fun.
I think most lighthouses are automatic nowadays. I’m not sure how many of them still have keepers in residence. It does sound like an appealing job, though.
Voicing cartoon characters sounds like fun. Some actors I know support themselves by “voicing” radio commercials and reading audiobooks, but I don’t know any who do cartoons. My guess is that it’s a fairly small community.
87- That’s saddening (automatic lighthouses). The job keeps sounding better to me. And I’m not a very talkative/social person (I turned down my friends offer to hang out last week because I wanted to finish my book and just wander around the house) so I don’t think the seclusion would get to me. You could always have a dog or something. *sigh*
88- I think it would be cool to live in a lighthouse. Why bother having a dog? Being a hermit is peaceful.
I get very lonely. I would have to have at least a pet, if not another person. I just get all bored and depressed when I’m by myself.
P.S. Dancergirl13, if you don’t already know who this is, can you guess?
60: You could be a linguist! I’ve thought about that; it’d be a cool job!
61: I don’t like pocket dictionaries. They’re normally pretty skinny, so they don’t have the words you need.
72: etymology of quiz:
“1847, quies, perhaps from L. qui es? ‘who are you?,’ first question in oral exams in L. in old-time grammar schools. Spelling quiz first recorded 1886, though it was in use as a noun from 1867, perhaps from apparently unrelated slang word quiz meaning ‘odd person’ (1782, source of quizzical). The anecdote that credits this word to a bet by the Dublin theater-manager Daly that he could coin a word is regarded by authorities as ‘doubtful’ and the first record of it appears to be in 1836 (in Smart’s ‘Walker Remodelled’; the story is omitted in the edition of 1840). ”
From the site Alice linked.
91- Yeah, I looked that up too, but I was too lazy to post it.
My dream job would be an ambassador. If you’re good enough at diplomacy, you work your way through the state department, and then toward cushier jobs in interesting countries
Not under Bush though, mabye when we’re not as hated as we are now.
77- I love xkcd!
91.- Sorry if I was a little off. I heard of it in this book I was reading, and that was a long time ago. I’m pretty sure it said that someone did it on a dare or bet though.
93.- I agree about Bush! (sometimes I think his brain vacations in Jamaica fairly often!) There are these lists of dumb Bush quotes if you look them up; some are “The majority of our imports come from outside the country; It is not pollution that is damaging our Earth, it is the impurities in the air and water; I have made good judgements in the past, I have made good judgements in the future.”
94-i agree, but no offense to anyone.
I love xkcd! And the lighthouse operator comic rocks
Yeah, sorry if 94 offended anybody. I didn’t mean it in an offensive way.
I would love to be a lighthouse operator! I would also like to be an astronaut. I think that would be so cool to see the world from a different perspective, and to experience weightlessness!
A lighthouse operator would be so cool! That would be neat!
ALso, I would find it supercoolio to be an explorer! Think about it: being the first to see Yosemite National Park before it became Yosemite National Park. Being the first to discover Montezuma’s empire in SOuth America. SO COOL!
Hmm. Mater is against lighthouse operator as a carrier path. But I think I’ll write it on the form thingy the councerlors give us at the begining of every year anyway because a)it has no effect on us whatsoever except to look at in 50 years and there arn’t any appropriate courses they can suggest and b) why not, I might as well be different.
100 posts and one topic? I don’t think a morphing chameleon thread has ever stayed on just one topic for this long!
Dream job? Animator, movie maker, cartoonist…..whatever. Most anything except president, really.
I assume you’ve heard the stories about lighthouse keepers going mad? Floating the mirror assembly on mercury didn’t help, but they’ve stopped that now. There was also the little incident of two men on duty at a British lighthouse – I forget which one. They’d had a blazing argument on shore. They’d made up, but the argument was witnessed by several people. A few days into their tour of duty on the light, one of them died of a heart attack. The other one couldn’t give his mate a decent burial at sea, in case he was accused of murder. The body had to be preserved for evidence. So he lashed his colleague’s remains onto the railings of the light balcony. Meanwhile, there was a prolonged storm which prevented the relief boat getting to the light for several weeks. The storm winds caused the slowly rotting corpse to flail around. Whenever the surviving keeper went up to check the light, which he had to do several times in the middle of each night, a bony hand would rap on the window, as if his dead mate was trying to get back in. When the relief finally did get through, he was totally insane, and spent the rest of his days in an asylum.
Still want to be a lightlhouse keeper?
101- WHY DID YOU TELL US THAT???
Eww, Eww, Eww.
101- Thanks a LOT!
101- Thanks. I’ll have to commit that story to memory so I can tell it to all of the little kids I babysit after we watch silence of the lambes and Childs play. Won’t that be lovely?
104- You babysit? I thought you were like . . . eleven? I wasn’t allowed to babysit till I was twelve, and I still haven’t, mainly because there is no one to babysit for. I will when we move to town, because there’s a couple we know who have a baby who needs sitting.
101: Awesome. Lighthouse keepers are teh pwn!
105- yeah. In my neighborhood all of the teenagers are either always busy with school, (I think they might all go to private school) or are perverted. I’m responsible and I babysit for my moms friends a lot. It’s how I can afford all of my trips to half price books.
Oh, he’s not the only one that went mad. It was quite common before they discovered that mercury vapour is a brain poison. Then there are several stories of lighthouse keepers repeatedly telling the architects that the thing was unsafe, and not being listened to until it was washed away in a storm. Sometimes they managed to send a “goodbye, and told you so” note in a bottle.
Ever since Smeaton designed the Eddystone in 1756, they’ve applied proper(ish) science to lighthouse design, but the sea’s always unpredictable. The biggest storm in living memory isn’t always the biggest you’re going to get. There are tales of an artificial breakwater in Plymouth being built and rebuilt several times as it was demolished by successive storms. One version, using 7-ton limestone blocks, survived for about 12 years, until a particulalrly big storm uprooted the aforesaid blocks and tossed them around like pebbles. 200,000 tons of rock was scattered in a single night. Which was embarrassing, but at least nobody was living on the breakwater. If that happens to a manned lighthouse – and it has – it’s a bit more tragic.
Aren’t I a happy soul?
PB&J.
108- Quite. Why are you telling us these stories? Dashing the hopes of prospective lighthouse keepers? Turning away a new generation of solitary lifesavers? Are you trying to make us go mad even before we start?
I love reading ghost stories!!! It is so much fun, but sometimes I cant go to sleep for a bit afterwards. Has anyone ever tried a Ouija board? They are fun, but kind of freaky!
110- Never.
I want to teach writing.
108 – Because I can’t resist it. I’m English, therefore I’m a baddie.
PB&J.
112- *scratches head* “I’m English, therefore a baddie”? Huh. Weirdest reasoning I ever heard.
110: Don’t try to meddle in things beyond your ken. Demoniacal summonings are not done without a price.
114- Well, but is using a Ouija board summoning a demon? I suppose it could be, I’m not sure how it works.
115: Ouija boards involve communicating with the demoniacal worlds, an activity which can come back to haunt you. At least know what you’re dealing with and read some books on demonology.
I just pressed Paul Bakers name and it took me to the Diabolus website. Diabolus looks so cool! I wish it was in America.
113 – Trawl through the output of Hollywood. All the best baddies are British.
(but w’ere not really)
Oooooooo! I like your website Paul B! That is cool. Maybe if someone I know around here ever gets married in a few hundred (ie. 13 or so) years time, I’ll convince them to hire you. Then I’ll come and listen.
Cool!!! I had never seen a picture of Paul before!!!
Fie, they have founde mee!
OK then, suggestions for the Diabolus website, please. I can’t promise to ever get round to implementing them, because people keep wanting me to make harps and things, but I’ll do my best.
Newcomers – check under “Writings”. There’s a silly Kokopellish page associated with my first article, on Tudor instruments. You can hear a shawm band, and find out what a clavicytherium is.
PB&J.
I’m not allowed to use a ouija board.
121- I, too, have visited your website (it was a while ago though) I listened to the recordings and I was wondering where one might find a recording of Viols for sale? are there any viol CDs? You should make one. Also, what does one call the thing they give you at the end of a meal at restaurants in England. And, no you haven’t deterred me from my lighthouse keeper aspirations! ^_^
It’s a cool website. I found it a while ago. Dulcimers are strange things. I really like the page written in Elizabethan.
I just found it!! Sqwee! I can’t find the article though. I found the Muse page, but not the article. *is sad*
123 – try these sites for viol recordings :
http://www.roseconsort.co.uk/
http://www.fretwork.co.uk/
http://www.vdgsa.org/
It’s not likely that there’ll be a Diabolus viol CD. It’s the sort of obsessive instrument you have to slave over for years to get to an acceptable standard. You then need to find a group of fellow obsessives to play wtih. You end up with some very beautiful music and a nervous twitch.
End of a meal – I assume you mean the bill. Which you pay for with a cheque. In Indian restaurants, they sometimes give you a flower, if you’re a lady. Then the bill.
124 – My thankes, Mistrss Alice. It pleaseth mee mutch that thou takest delighte in my Site. Dulcimers bee not so straunge once a felow hath some lytel facilitie therin. Tis onlie the lookes, and not the playing on em, as is straunge.
125 – Sorry, can’t put the article on the site, ’cause it was commissioned by Muse, and they own it. Well, I think they do. I’ll check the contract. Meanwhile, see if you can find a mate who has the May/June 2003 Muse. It’s in there.
PB&J.
114. and 116.- Ouija boards are not summoning or communicating, in any way, with demons. You are communicating with the spirits of those passed away. I am a strong Christian, and I use Ouija boards fairly often.
126- do you suppose I could get those cds in America when only the British Amazon has them? Hmm… and on the bill, yes, that’s what I meant. I was just curious because in the northern US it is called a bill and in the southern US, a ticket.
(128) I’ve always said “check, please.” Can’t recall whether I’ve ever heard “ticket.”
128 – you can order from the British Amazon site. I order harp strings from Yankland without problems. Shipping might be a bit more expensive, and there wil be customs delays, but it shouldn’t be a problem. You can always back out before you do the final payment if the bill looks too steep. Sorry, ticket. Sorry, check.
130 – Um…..if you want your smilies to turn into this
, you should put a space at the beginning of the line before typing the smiley. But if you want it to look that way, then it looks fine.
131-I think that’s his little symbol or something. He always does it that way, and I think it looks cute.
Anyway, an even easier way to get
is : ) w/out spaces.
130- Isn’t it “cheque” in Britain?
All these different spellings make me confused . . .
134-Words with alternate spellings are nice, because you know you never have to worry about seeing them in spelling bees. If only gardez had an alternate spelling. *sigh*
135- Yeah, but I spell them the British way half the time, therefore making spellcheck rebel.
Actually, that should be thereby.
127-*gasps* No! Save yourself, STOP USING OUIJA BOARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What are “ouija boards”?
139. Google it
138. I think Ouija boards are fun, and please stop trying to make me stop! I can do what I want. Ok, let’s not talk about Ouija boards anymore, since SOME people are starting to get agitated…
127- I’m still not allowed. In fact I’m forbidden.
140-Good idea. I’m getting VERY agitated. Lioness, I don’t think you can contact the dead via ouija boards. Have you ever had the pointer move apparently by itself, under its own power? After Lioness replies, I want everyone to stop talking about ouija boards. The topic is supposed to be, “your dream job”. NOT ouija boards.
I had a Ouija board for a while but found it completely uncooperative. It never told me anything. (Sorry, Koko du Pelle, I know, the topic is dream jobs.)
So, my dream job … hmmm. A journalist who interviews people but never has to write the story (since I think writing is the hard part).
142. Yes, in fact, it has moved on its own. It works every time for me. But I respect your opinion, so anyway, let’s move on to dream jobs!
I would like to be a forensic pathologist. I love cryptic stuff like that, and I don’t get squeamish, which is good. I watch this show called Dr. G. It’s about a lady who does autopsies to solve murder crimes and things like that.
Is the topic still “your dream job” or is it something else now?
Let’s talk about the Victorians and how creepy they were. I’ll kick it off with a little story about how a Victorian woman wasted away because two of her kids died, shall I? Maybe when the topic has been ascertained.
Ooh, fun. They are weird and creepy. Once upon a time there was a woman in a town near ours, but naturally much bigger, in the 1880s, I think. Anyway, she had a kid, and it died, and she was very dramatic and rather creepy about it – I won’t go into detail – until her husband had to exhume the body (whatever that means) and move it to a different town. And then she had another kid, and it died too (bad luck, and very traumatic, I imagine) and this time her husband buried it in the different town immediately. And then she wasted away and wept into a Lachrymatory (yeah, it’s misspelled) vial until she died. And then a local historian found the tear vial on the beach a little while ago.
Why did this thread disappear? You can only get to it from the Recent Comments bar.
(147) Victorian-era people were surrounded by death and illness to an extent that we hard to imagine today. People had no magic recipe for coping with them. Some of them broke down under the strain. And yet they kept going and accomplished a lot, and in their books and letters they seem familiar and human.
That’s very sad. A 12 year old girl in my town just recently died because she got electrocuted. She was wet from swimming, and tried to move an outdoor lamp on the lawn. She collapsed, unconscious, and then died at the hospital. It was very sad.
148-IIt’s right under June Jelly or whatever it’s called.
151- It wasn’t then.
Alice- Why did you post in reply to yourself?
153-Yes, why did you? Have you startedd talking to yourself?
As for the disappearing thread, that was my fault. While moderating on my Treo, I accidentally de-selected the option that keeps this thread at the top of the page. As a result, the thread plunged down to its otherwise-normal position among other threads created at the beginning of the month. I fixed the problem as soon as I could after Alice pointed it out. We apologise for the inconvenience.
153, 154 – I did? Where? I posted three times in a row, but I didn’t reply to myself. I replied to Emmatheduck.
156-If you don’t give the number of the post you are replying to, you are assumed to be replying to the post immediatly before your post. It’s that simple. Your post 147 seemed to be a reply to your post 146(let’s talk about Victorianism/Oooh, fun!)-and you therefore seemed to be talking to yourself.
And post upon the threads that shalll die very soon… or else… I have spoken Gnnee hee…
k. whats new. i havent been here for a while…as u all can see.
krissy! yo bday is in 6 days? y didnt u tell me?! …gosh. now i have to get a bday present ready…in less than a month…
131, 132 – it wasn’t intended as a special PB&J symbol, I’m just incompetent. Ta for the tips. Let’s have a go :
Space at the beginning of the line –
One without the nose –
And the old double colon trick.
Yay! I can now do proper smileys. Thanks, guys!
aww, no more random PB&J text smileys. *snibble* oh well
Your name isn’t green.
161-You’re welcome! : ) =
! : D = 
i love victorian style clothing! i got books out of the library and drew clothing it was fun. i also love gothic lolita look.
165- Well, sort of. It would be dreadfully uncomfortable. I like Gothic Lolita, though. Actually, for Halloween I dressed up as an Edwardian woman, complete with hairstyle, dress, and boots, but minus the corset. I know it’s not Victorian, but it’s close so I can put it here.
162 – just for you, I’ll alternate proper ones with text ones, and any other random symbols I can come up with.
@——————-
Snake with large head.
Snake with really large head. How about:
:>O X
Person with large beaky nose and crossed arms. Sort of.
163-But it was!
169- Not then. Or not for me.
Am I the only person who doesn’t really like Victorian era stuff?
Personally, I’m more partial to Rennaisance fashion.
Since my current costume is getting too small, I’m thinking of getting a Tia Dalma one (like from Pirates 2 and 3).
It’s just amazinggggggggg
171- Renaissance is just as good as Victorian. But the Victorian were super creepy, so they’re fun to talk about. Or at least I think so. I don’t have any more Victorian stories, though.
172- Well creepy is good. Last time I went to the Ren Faire, though, there was a guy holding what appeared to be a large pair of pliars and a sign offering free spleen removals.
Then he asked me what the spleen exactly was.
XD
Also, they had fancy rats in the troll area one year, and a puppy another.
The neat thing was, the rats were’nt contained at all, but all stayed within the rope circle.
I hate the Victorian era. And Queen Victoria, and everything about her. Despicable old hag.
(174) Well, let’s be fair, she wasn’t always an old hag. She was still a teenager when she became queen.
When I was in England, looking at the Crown Jewels, I saw her crown. It was smaller than all the others because the larger ones “gave her headaches,” so she requested a smaller one.
Here’s what Muse’s wikipedia article looked like before cleanup. I can see why someone would tag it – it does feature excessive amounts of information about MuseBlog.
177- Geez, no kidding.
175-Yeah, well, she always acted like an old hag.
176-See what I mean?
177-Yup. I would say that’s a little bit too much information.
(179, 175, etc.) As far as I know, Queen Victoria acted like a respectable middle-class married lady. During her reign, Britain reached the height of its power and worldwide influence. Science, technology, and literature made huge strides. As for the crown, what’s wrong with requesting a smaller, more comfortable one? That sounds eminently practical to me.
re: Ouija boards: Yes, I used to think they were actually mystical because I’ve been present when whole paragraphs were spelled out. But now I know better: if you think Ouija boards are anything more than a gimmick, try blindfolding the people holding the pointer.
What’s Ren Faire?
177: Er, very unprofessional/amature. No offensive to whoever wrote it.
181- Rennaisance Faire. People dress up in era garb and and say “huzzah!” a lot.
Heh.
Really, they can vary quite a bit. The one I go to has plays and productions and jousting. However, the experience can be quite different from event to event. Also, you can get gifts, toys, and clothing for future Ren Faires.
181 – Apparently this person did.
have any of u people heard 19 things to stay completely insane? i find them very funny…
1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.
2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don’t Disguise Your Voice.
3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, Ask If They Want Fries with that.
4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label It “In.”
5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.
6. In The Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write “For Smuggling Diamonds”
7. Finish All Your sentences with “In Accordance With The Prophecy.”
8. Don t use any punctuation
9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.
10. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat with a serious face.
11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is “To Go.”
12. Sing Along At The Opera
13. Go To A Poetry Recital And Ask Why The Poems Don’t Rhyme
14. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area And Play tropical Sounds All Day.
15. Five Days In Advance , Tell Your Friends You Can’t Attend Their Party Because You’re Not In The Mood.
16. Have Your Co-workers Address You By Your Wrestling Name, Rock Bottom.
17. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream “I Won!, I Won!”
18. When Leaving The Zoo, Start Running Towards The Parking lot, Yelling “Run For Your Lives, They’re Loose!!”
19. Tell Your Children Over Dinner. “Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go.”
lol, friends really do help…i have done the skipping thing once or twice…
184- It sounds more like 19 things to do to make other people think you are insane.
184 ~ I lol’d when I read that. Then I read it to my mom. And when I get a checking account I’m going to write something like that in the memo line of all my checks. My mom says that 12 would probably get you shot.
Hey, gapas, can you add this into the last post? Or post it separately, whatever.
I didn’t realise this was the imct. I thought it was the random one.
I know nothing about Victorian-ness. Ism I mean. I recently got really interested in Shakespeare’s time (Elizabethan?) and also Henry VIII. I’m definitely going to do some reading up on that stuff when school’s out.
127: Do you really believe it’s the dead that answer? I highly suspect that if anyone does answer, it’s not the deceased, but demons.
So how about that esoterics thread for discussing stuff like this?
188- Like I said, we’re all esoteric. Why a whole thread?
(188) What do you have in mind? I’m familiar with the adjective “esoteric,” but I’ve never heard of a noun “esoterics.” My office dictionary (Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate, 10th edition) doesn’t list it either, though it does include esoteric (used to describe “knowledge restricted to a small group”), esoterica (“esoteric items”), and esotericism (“esoteric doctrines or practices; the quality or state of being esoteric”).
190: Anything from the occult to buddhism. Runology, numerology, qabbalah, rituals, invocations, tarot…
the problem with ouija boards and stuff like that is that alot of people think that it’s silly, but it’s NOT it’s REAL! I know someone that did fortune telling because they thought that it was just silly- she did NOT believe in it at all, and only did it for fun. But then all her “fortunes” came true, EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM. It was so freaky.
192: It depends on whether or not you believe. A person’s strong conviction in what is supposed to happen can have either psychological or spiritual consequences, making it actually work.
I love using Ouija boards. I’ve always believed in them, but I find when you do it with someone who is doubtful, then it doesn’t work.
193. but she was strongly conviced that NOTHING would happen, and stuff DID happen.
By the way, how do you get your words italic? I can only do caps to emphasise my words.
196- italics are [i] whatever you want to write here [/i] except with the angle brackets. Bold is the same thing, but with b, not i.
184- Those are hilarious!
I’m not allowed to use a oija board. I’v already stated this before, and deciced to agian (in accordance with the prophecy. hahahahaha)
weather it’s real or not i choose not to meddle with it.
oh and another thing you can do to make people think you’re insane is speak in the third person or use me instead of I.(eg. Kagy loves chocolate OR Me does love chocolate)
If oija boards worked, then how come the weatherpeople don\t use them to predict the weather?
You can make peple think you are crazy by being yourself.
Here’s an idea: Ouija keyboards. Or tablet PCs!
*rushes off to make a million dollars*
Making people think I’m crazy? Be as nonsencical as possible.
Spider-Man
Feegles!!!!!!!!!!!
What about an Indianapoolois Kokonvention?
*jumps out of plane*
People already think I’m crazy. I really don’t have to try.
Talking about random things in a slow, sleepy voice. Go off on strange unpredictable tangents, but do it slowly. Stare off into space at the same time, or watch the ceiling.
Ah finally, a topic im interested in. One way is to scream a whole bunch of gibberish, and then jump off a bridge screaming “WEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!”
204- same here. But it helps that I have my brain lying on top of my dresser. Long story as to how it got there, and not in my head, but it did. Anyhow, being brainless IS pretty insane.
walk upto a random person in a elevater and start breathing really heavily then corner them. If they ask you whats wrong start screaming and running around in circles and hit all the buttons so it stops at every floor. Then the peac de rezictance: start talking in gibberish japanese.
Weelllllllll…….. You could just act like me.
Quote stuff.
“It is ill wakyng of a sleapyng dogge.” [Heywood, 1562]
Posted this a while ago, but, anyway:
1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and Point A Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.
2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don’t Disguise Your Voice.
3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, Ask If They Want Fries with that.
4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label It “In.”
5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone Has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch To Espresso.
6. In The Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write “For Unmentionable Favors”
7. Finish All Your Sentences With “In Accordance With The Prophecy.”
8. Don’t Use Any Punctuation
9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.
10. Ask People What Gender They Are. Laugh Hysterically After They Answer.
11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is “To Go.”
12. Sing Along At The Opera.
13. Go To A Poetry Recital And Ask Why The Poems Don’t Rhyme
14. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area And Play Tropical Sounds All Day.
15. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can’t Attend Their Party because You’re Not In The Mood.
16. Have Your Co-workers Address You By Your Wrestling Name, Rock Hard.
17. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream “I Won! I Won!”
18. When Leaving The Zoo, Start Running Towards The Parking Lot, Yelling “Run For Your Lives, They’re Loose!!”
19. Tell Your Children Over Dinner. “Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go.”
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184: Ha! That just made my day! I was having a rotten day, but now… well it’s a long story. Forget it. Anyway, it reminds me of “10 things to do in an elevator”. Unfortunately, I do not remember the ten things you’re supposed to do. *racks memory* Let’s see, there was…
1.Open your purse/briefcase and ask “Got enough air in there?”
2.Stand facing the back, not the front
3.Stare at the person next to you. See if they feel your glare.
I don’t remember any more(it was two and a half years ago that I heard them, but you get the idea. Right?
Always answer a different question then the one you were asked. Never press the right button in the elevator. Get the weirdest obseshin yoo cann thgink uv. alllwaze mispell wurds. never use shift. Always say the oppisite of what you mean. When someone syas something that isn’t a question, misinterpret it completely. Forget where you are. Never correct typos. Make listd compulsively.
Dear Rhoda,
Ooops, I for got you’re dead.
-John Smithsonian
213- I see. Yes I am.
When you are asked a question, always reply with 42.
Oh, and by the way, Rhoda was speaking from the afterlife. She used a Ouija board.
That’s another tip. Constantly reference old conversations, even if they had nothing to do with the person you were talking to.
211-ROTFLOL!
At random times, just start saying, “La la la la la la la la la la” really loud. Don’t sing a tune, just say it.
Act as if your tongue is an entirely different organism which you have no control over.
Sometimes it might be better to put, “in accordance with the prophecy” at the beginning of a sentence, not the end.
211- ROTFLOL! That made my day. Ill think of some more in a minute. I have a horrible ear ach.
211-That is Fu_nny!
Just be me!
No, no…
HERE’s how you do it. Advice DIRECTLY FROM THE PRO!
Talk about something you know about a lot, and say everything you know
Explain cloud formations with very technical terms, even if you have to make them up
When someone complains about something, go on and on about how you had it worse one time.
Where shades. A lot.
When you walk outside, breath in deeply and say, “ahhh, the fresh air”!
Cough a lot when something smells even a little bad.
Just laugh. When nothing seems especially funny, think of something funny and laugh and people will think you’re on to something.
Say “Wooohooo!!!!” when outside and nature overwhelms you.
Check the time a lot.
Use a BIG walking stick and firmly stamp it to the ground with each step.
Let your hair get a little messy, and when a big wind blows start brushing through it (your hair) to try to straighten it.
LOVe teh sharpies!
These are only a few steps you can take to seem totally crazy, like me.
I just thought of a new one I haven’t tried yet: Hum a song, especially an old one.
Here are a few:
1. Walk up to someone offering to sell them a twenty dollar bill, for 50cents.
2. Walk up to someone screaming “WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM!?” and when they move away, continue tanding where you are screaming “WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?!”
3. Walk out in public and scream ” THE [insert cray animal]S ARE TAKING OVER!
4. When you are listening to the radio, turn it up REALLY loud when they are telling the traffic report and do air guitar screaming “ROCK ON!”
Thats all I got for now.
221- Wearing goggles is even better than wearing shades. I have goggle-sunglasses and they are teh pwn.
Be overly enthusiastic about anything academic.
Talk about your computer [or random other bit of technology] as if it were a person. Extra props for naming it.
Eat flowers compulsively. [Note that you should first find out if said flowers are edible. Or not. I haven’t died from this yet…xD]
Recite whole scenes from movies.
If someone says something that even vaguely reminds you of something else (book, movie, song) quote it or start singing it. This is a good launching point for the previous tip.
Whenever someone says something like, “What an ugly shirt,” smile happily, say, “I know,” and go about your business.
Make a long list of rules for getting by (socially or otherwise) and whenever someone starts teasing, recite the whole thing in front o the offenders, ignoring them all the while. If you have no one to say it too, so much the better.
Narrate constantly. For example, “she picked the fork up, wondering if she should start with soup or salad,” while actually doing that.
Reply to whatever you have just said, preferably with a voice steeped in sarcasm and telling you various rather mean things about yourself.
224- Change that.
Whenever someone says something like, “What an ugly shirt,” smile happily, say, “why thank you,” and beam at them.
Ooh! Heres more!
5- Walk around with a boombox playing Polka songs and have it turned up to max while your singing an entirly diffferent song, louder than the boombox.
6- Bang up your neighbors car and knock on their door and when they answer say “Your car had a dent in it, so I fixed it”.
7- Sit in a chair watching the wall and whenever someone walks in front of the wall, or talks to you, or both, attack them screaming a whole binch of gibberish.
8- Tell everyone you made the fastest car in the worl, and then get inside of a cardboard box, ontop of your Skateboard, and roll around making motor noises.
9- Go up to someone and say “Are you part Leprechaun?! Im part Leprechuan! Do I look part Leprechaun?! I think I look part Leprechaun! Do you look part Leprechaun?! you dont look part Leprechaun. Do you think you look part leprechaun?!” really really really really really really REALLY fast.
10- Go up to someone and scream “OH MY GOSH THERE IS A SPIDER ON YOUR HEAD! Oh wait thats your hair.” and then slam your hands on their heads repeativly scream like a maniac.
I have done all of these (except 8 and 10) and they ALL work.
Ways to Make People Think You’re Insane
Tell everyone you know that you are officially in love with Laura Bush
Get cought (for best results, by your parents) passionatly kissing your curtains
Go up to a random person at a bus stop or something and start telling them all about your love life
Voulenteer to give your little brother all your bedsheets and then give him a candy bar instead
Take toilet paper and string it around your head. Start singing some random song (preferably by Wierd Al Yankovic)
Paint your lips green and ask your mother if it’s your shade
Wrap your shoes in book sox and skid around the house screaming that you have invented anti-friction shoes
Whenever someone says something like “I’m tired” say “Hi tired, I’m [insert name]” and keep doing so at everything they say
Insist on reading someone’s palm, even if they give it to you, keep saying “I HAVE TO READ IT”
Make a show of loosing your pen, then find a toy car and start making moter sounds
Tell your parents that they need to go to the refrigirator store
Write “Floppy disk” on all your cold cuts
Tell your parents that tissue box makes a very good hat
Fricking HTML
167-I can make a better one!!
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And that’s a monkey sticking out it’s tounge!!! lol I like your snake too.
I have some More ways! I tried them out today, and 9/10 people wer really freaked out!
1. Get a cup of water, and start shaking and screaming random things, saying that you need t drink decaf water.
2. Go up to someone and say ” THE CLOWNS ARE TAKING OVER!!!!!!!! They got him! They took my best friend! They took the other guy too!!!!! Oh why?!?!?!”
3. Walk into a public area with a ceiling fan and hang onto it while screaming (rather than singing) “Mary had a little lamb” overa nd over and over and…
4. Walk up to someone and ask if they have changed for a dollar, if they dont say “HERE HAVE SOME!!!” and dropp 100 pennies in their lap, then start doing an irish dance in the middle of the room. If they say yes, take t and run down the hall screaming “YAY!!! MORE TO GIVE TO THE [insert mythilogical creature here]!”
And again, thats all I have for now. Ill think of more later.
Ways To Make People Think That You Have Serious Problems And Are A Danger To Yourself And Everyone In The Building
1. Put name tags on your plants and talk about them with everyone that you meet.
2. Claim to be vegetarian and then explain that chickens are plants.
3. Name your personal electronic device.
4. Adopt a bunch of earth worms.
5. Stick your head in your ocker at school and start singing opera while banging the door against your head.
6. Jump up and down and scream taht you are in love with Mozart. Weep horribly when someone informs you that he’s dead.
7. Believe that you are a frog transformed into a human.
8. Have several invisable friends.
9. Croon to your art projects as you work on them.
10. Speak in tongues.
11. Have a pet snail named Rover.
12. Go swimming ina all of your clothes.
13. Order three large milkshakes, sit down at the counter, and give the milkshakes to the next three people who walk through the door. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
14. Actually be intelligent.
15. Oh yeah. Read Muse.
229- I don’t see a monkey. please explain.
Wear a witch’s hat and carry round a “Porcupine Solidarity” placard.
231- I dont think #13 will make people think your insane, theyll probably think your nice for buying them a milkshake.
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I’m laughing so hard it hurts reading these things!!! *Eeeeheeheehee!!!*
234- make sure you you are wearing a haloween costume and stage makeup.
1. refuse to live with electricity.
2. make lists of how to be insane.
3. ARRGH.
Actually do some of these things. Though that’s more like certification that you’re insane.
232-Normally, if you spaced, then the plus would be in between the two eyes. It’s very hard to do with WordPress.
More Ways
-Have a catchphrase ‘I like Cheese’ and when someone offers you some, refuse it because it’s disgusting
-Put a lamp on your head and run around yelling ‘who turned out the lights’
-Whenever you pick up the phone, pop a baloon and shout ‘Ah! I’ve been shot!’
231- Hey! I actually do numbers 3, 6, 9, 14, and 15! ^_^ Okay, only it wasn’t Mozart, it was Sir Isaac and Salvador DalÃÂ. On multiple occasions.
238-The third is from calvin and hobbes…
240-Yeah, but it works!! I’ve tried it with my mom.
230, 231- You would be fun to hang out with.
I’m dying from laughter. =)
Try to sell “Suiciude Drink”. Everyone’ll think you’re nuts. Oh, or try selling a swift kick in the butt, or insurance for a quarter.
Yes those ideas are all from Calvin and Hobbes.
Many ways to make people think you’re nuts
1 Start screaming that youbow down to the Pink Bunnies, and that they rule all. (Oh wait, they do)
2 Go up to your best friend, start shaking them, and scream in their face “THE KILLER DING-DONG-FROG-MEN ARE COMING!”. Grab another friend, and do the same thing. Repeat untill your voice cracks.
3 Say you love the ugliest teacher/faculty member at your school.
4 Stand in front of a TV, and stoop over so that your face is smashed into the screen. Have someone change the TV to some ridiculous channel that everyone hates, the start saying “HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE”and never stop. If you throw a lot of empty bottles/cans of caffenated soda like Coke, Pepsi (*copyofcoke*), or Dr.Pepper (*tasteslikedirt*), it will give it a better effect.
5 Stare at someone with your eyes wide. Really wide. And no matter what, don’t stop. Even if the person moves. Just follow them.
I could only think of 5, even when I’m the weirdest person I have ever known.
say, what will this do?and this?
hm, funny.
wow
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having fun
Please, jessithecompleteandutternarutofanatic, take it the HTML thread. Just search for html and you’ll find it.
Oh, and btw… *pies*
Kind of along the lines of insaneness (which is not a word, I know), my friends and I have this ongoing joke about the Aqua Ducks attacking. Have I mentioned this before? Deja Vu… Anyway, this one guy on our OM team, nick, suggested as a theme for our project Aqua Ducks. Everybody thought he was weird b/c ducks=water, water=aqua, so redundant. But he was like ‘Aqua Ducks are attacking’ and had a countdown and everything, so whenever we see him we always count down days, hours, minutes, seconds, to the next aqua duck attack.
234: Are you new? *pies*
Sing all of the songs from “Singing in the Rain” while walking around ina storm.
33 things to do in an elevater (Sure to make people think your crazy)
1. When there’s only one other person in the elevator, tap them on the shoulder and then pretend it wasn’t you.
2. Push the buttons and pretend they give you a shock. Smile, and go back for more.
3. Ask if you can push the buttons for other people, but push the wrong ones.
4. Call the Psychic Hotline from your cell phone and ask if they know what floor you’re on.
5. Hold the doors open and say you’re waiting for your friend. 6. After awhile, let the doors close and say, “Hi Greg. How’s your day been?”
7.Drop a pen and wait until someone reaches to help pick it up, then scream, “That’s mine!”
8. Bring a camera and take pictures of everyone in the elevator.
9. Move your desk in to the elevator and whenever someone gets on, ask if they have an appointment.
10. Lay down a Twister mat and ask people if they’d like to play.
11. Leave a box in the corner, and when someone gets on ask them if they hear something ticking.
12. Pretend you are a flight attendant and review emergency procedures and exit with the passengers.
13. Ask, “Did you feel that?”
14. Stand really close to someone, sniffing them occasionally.
15. When the doors close, announce to the others, “It’s okay. 16. Don’t panic, they open up again.”
17. Swat at flies that don’t exist.
18. Tell people that you can see their aura.
19. Call out, “Group hug!” then enforce it.
20. Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering “Shut up, all of you, just shut up!”
21. Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside, ask, “Got enough air in there?”
22. Stand silently and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off.
23. Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce in horror, “You’re one of THEM!” and back away slowly.
24. Wear a puppet on your hand and use it to talk to the other passengers.
25. Listen to the elevator walls with your stethoscope.
26. Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.
27. Grinning, stare at another passenger for a while, and then announce, “I have new socks on.”
28.Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers, “This is my personal space.”
29. Offer name tags to all the other passengers. Wear yours upside down.
30. When the elevator reaches a floor, pretend you’re struggling to open the door. And when it opens, by itself, play embarrassed.
31. Murmur, “Have to pee, have to pee”, then say “Oooppps!”
32. Scream out Geronimo every time the door opens.
33. When everything is quiet, ask “Who’s cell phone is that?”
*shudder* Who could do any of those things?
(244-246) No pointless posting, please.
Ways to make people think you are insane:
1. Tell people at the kokonventions that they really need to check out MuseBlog.
2. When ordering at McDonald’s, ask to see the wine list.
3. Put up a sign that says “Free Doughnuts: just $1 each” on your hotel room door.
4. Show up to basketball practice with a soccer ball and explain that your dog ate your basketball.
5. Randomly hand pennies out to pedestrians on the street.
6. When someone asks you what 65 x 92 is, reply “65 x 92”.
7. Start a toilet seat collection.
8. Insert a DVD into a CD player, then demand a refund from the store owner when it doesn’t work.
9. Shoplift something worth less than 10 cents in such a manner that everybody can see what you’re doing.
10. Pick up a phone, dial a random number, say “Your mushroom-garlic pizza will be a little late tonight”, then hang up.
Lean over sideways and gaze at someone for a few seconds. Straighten up and tell them they look lovely sideways.
copy whatever face the person you are talking to is making.
227-That last one is from Eloise.
1.Beleeve that you are a fictional character, and that everyone else is someone else from the same story. ex. You think you are Harry Potter. A friend walks up and you say, “Hi, Ron!” (Make sure no one is someone with the same name as them. The ex. given wouldn’t work with someone named Ron.) Change it periodically.
2. While doing 1, pretened to use objects your character doesn’t use. ex. While you’re Harry Potter, use a lightsaber. Then switch to Yoda and start to use a wand.
3. Every time someone touches you, scream “Ow, ow, he’s pummeling me!”
4. When you’re actually being punched, say calmly, “Thiank you, I needed that.”
5. Believe that you are at least a mile away.
6. Always reply to what wasn’t said.
When you are on an elevator, try to lick the nearest passenger, but act innocent when they look at you.
Carry around a large piece of cardboard onto the elevator, and scream, “Don’t hurt him!” any time someone makes the smallest noise.
259 – You idiot! Why did you do that?
I was responding to my own response.
Oh god no. Please don’t tell me any of you have done these things.
I’ve tried some. They are WAY funnier when you actually do them!
I have done some of these… not all
1 ape people
2 make funny faces at random people
3 sing loudly (some song they don’t know or if they do: out of key)
4 stare at people or show no expression at all
5 ask people to repeat themselves repeatedly
6 hop down stairs on one foot
7 mumble under your breath. singing may also work
8 when asked to count or perform other mathimatical operations perform the opposit hence – 1+1=0 and 1-1=2
9 act out things from Monty Python (play all the parts by yourself)
10 wander around in circles
the circle trick managed to get me a free bag so it’s not all bad
Laugh!!!!!! no, that won’t work… I’m just laughing!!!
The list of things to do in an elevator was one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time! AWESOME! Well, the’re all funny
250-LOL!! I think those were the best!!
261-Next elevator I get on, beware.
How about whenever the doors to the elevator open, jump out and shout “BOO! Haha, I scared you.”
1. Turn the television/radio up really loud, call a pizza company and order a pizza. Whisper as you are ordering. Whenever the person that you are talking to speaks, scream, “WHAT? WHAT? I CAN’T HEAR YOU.”
2. Give everyone in your class a blade of grass and explain that the flowers on the blade will bloom soon.
3. Talk your teacher into putting you in a desk by yourself.
4. refuse to put on your P.E. uniform, saying that it is unethical to kill cotton plants.
5. Get a new pair of shoes and proudly show them to random strangers. Make sure the shoes are really ugly.
6. Tell every one you meet about all of the near death experiences that you have had. Make sure you mention that Oprah gave you an interveiw, but it was never aired.
7. Sprinkle sand onto your cornflakes.
8. Get really obssessed with a project.
9. I f a teacher asks for a five page report, turn in a fifty pages.
10. Do number nine, but make sure the font is on 72 or another high number.
I had this hilarious list of things to do in Wal-Mart…. when I find it, I will post it. It’s funnnnny….
My Top Ten Ways to Make People Think That You Are Bonkers
10. Say “pip pip cheerio crumpets” every two sentences.
9. Yell “vendetta” every two seconds.
8. Twitch. A lot.
7. Go to a movie. About 45 minutes into the movie, stand up and start singing “White and Nerdy”, getting progressively louder.
6.Stand perfectly motionless for half an hour in a crowded store, then suddenly yell “Motion emos eat crumpet noodles!!” Quickly flee the building.
5. Parade around the aisles of a supermarket carrying a sign that says “The end is near. Surrender your Mentos.”
4. while you’re on the elevator in a really tall building, make it go to every floor. On each floor, open the door, scream “ELEVATOR!” and close the door as quick as you can.
3. Enter a crowded area and scream “ANTIDEPRESSANTS!!” as loud as you possibly can. then do the chicken dance.
2. Lick the floor.
And the #1 way to make people think you’re bonkers…
1. Post on MuseBlog.
My top 1 ways to show you’re insane:
Take four AP classes.
Mumble nautical gibberish under your breath constantly. It helps if you don’t actually know what a yardarm is, or that belay means stop, or the proper use of knots. If that becomes repetitive after a while, then switch to things like “knit one, purl one.”
1. When you are in a city that has walk signs that disply the tiime remaining, [such as D.C] count down the numbers even when you have crossed the street. When you get to 0 scream, KABOOM!!!!!!!! and run around in circles.
2.On a train, stand in the middle of two cars (where they join is a sort of room), and hug all the people that go through. [It’s really bouncy and small in that area]
3.Attack the curtains a la “pink panther”
4.Start singing in Gaelic at the top of your lungs. Or, start singing drinking songs at the top of your lungs.
5.Start singing on the Metro and see if you get arrested.
6.When you are stuck in traffic on the highway, jump out of the car and do a Chinese Fire Drill.
7.Walk up to random people and act like you went to college with them. Works really well if you’re obviously not college age….
8.Post on the Museblog at unholy hours of the night….heh, heh…
Hee, hee, I’ve done 1, 3, 4 [both variations], 6 and I’m doing 8…
The chinese fire Drill was one of the best. My Mom drives a Volkswagon Rabbit, and in case you don’t know wat that is, it’s a old, very small car. Well it was rainy day and there were 5 of us in the car, stuck in trafic and not moving. So we all jumped out of the car and ran around it. The nearby cars started edging away, and several people got out their cell phones and were giving us strange looks…. good times…
Also, always jump in elevators. If you jump right before it goes up, when you land it feels weird, and if you jump before it goes down it’s like flying. Try it some time. I’ve gotten in trouble for stopping at every floor though….
271~ Belay means to secure a line to a cleat, pin, post or any other thing you might have a mind to belay to. Avast means to stop. as far as I know anyway…
and it’s weird, where I am it’s 11:30 not 10:30 PM… Strange…
(272) A friend of mine did something similar to number 7, except that it was a sort of public improvisational theater with the help of an older friend. She pretended to run into the friend on a bus after years of separation.
The friend acted bewildered. “Is that really you?” she said. “I haven’t seen you since college. But that’s impossible. You’d be much older now, but you look exactly the same.”
My friend lowered her voice confidentially. “Yes, that’s true,” she said. “There was this… experiment…”
I guess that falls under the category of making other people think they are crazy.
274- there’s a psychology exercise where you test human reactions to weird things. For example, you walk around a crowded mall and ask people if they’ll be friends with you.
273- Yes, but I think that belay can be used as stop as well. I knew about Avast.
274- *falls over laughing* Somehow that reminds me of the MB fanfiction.
I’m way too shy to do anything remotely similar to any of these things. Just asking people what the time is scares me.
275- Ask for someone’s friendship? *shudder*
Things to do at a Bus Stop
1. Sit with a sign that says “I have a home” and put out a slurpie cup and see if anyone puts coins in
2. Eat a huge hoagie, making gross chomping sounds
3. Ask people if they are related to someone in your family, and if they aren’t, procede to tell them all about the other person
4. Carry a sign saying “Don’t kill the baby Naugahide”
5. Make up a really weird dance to the song Walk it Out by Unk. Preform.
6. Put your iPod/MP3 player/CD player around with the earphones on and scream the lyrics of whatever you’re listning to. The less lyrics you know, the better. In this case, scream what you hear. (AKA Iwalkitoutsesawalkitoutsasawalkitoutyadayadasnowbootsayadingdingumhum UGHHHH)
7. Tell people they look like an opera singer.
8. When the bus comes, act very scared of putting your foot on the first step. Put it on, take it off, look around, put it on, take a step, take a breath, take it off, etc.
9. Speak leet. Nuff said.
10. Hug old people that come. Call them grandma/grandpa.
11. Act all stuffy and stay away from everyone and dont let people touch you/
278- I think the proper term would be i.e., not a.k.a. Aka is Also Known As.
279- *looks sheepish*
Idolize a horrible historic person.
wow!been gone long! finals, all that shiznit but i gots a good idea!
:sit in your car with a pair of dark sunglasses on and aim a hairdryer at passerby–hours of fun!
282-Someone already said that!
282- Someone already said that.
We must think of a punishment.
Bunnies- Do your thing.
[and so they continue and continue –Rebecca]
NOOOOOOO! MY HORDES! :idea::idea::idea:
The elevater things came off google.
walk up to a random passerbyer and start laughing hystaricly, if they ask what is so funny stop laughing, look very serious and walk away.
272: Jumping in elevators is very awesome. Everyone should do it. It’s more fun if the elevator goes really fast. And if your parents don’t give you the evil eye.
More….
1. Go swimming in December in the ocean.
2. Stare at the television while it is turned off.
3. speak in a different accent every day.
some of these might allready have been posted… (i got it on google)
1.Make race car noises when anyone gets on or off.
2.Blow your nose and offer to show the contents of your kleenex to other passengers.
3.Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering: Shut up, all of you just shut UP!
4.Whistle the first seven notes of It’s a Small World incessantly.
5.Sell Girl Scout cookies.
6.On a long ride, sway side to side at the natural frequency of the elevator.
7.Shave.
8.Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside ask: Got enough air in there?
9.Offer name tags to everyone getting on the elevator. Wear yours upside-down.
10.Stand silent and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off.
11When arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act embarrassed when they open by themselves.
12Lean over to another passenger and whisper: Noogie patrol coming!
13.Greet everyone getting on the elevator with a warm handshake and ask them to call you Admiral.
14On the highest floor, hold the door open and demand that it stay open until you hear the penny you dropped down the shaft go plink at the bottom.
15Do Tai Chi exercises.
16.Stare, grinning, at another passenger for a while, and then announce: I’ve got new socks on!
17.When at least 8 people have boarded, moan from the back: Oh, not now, stupid motion sickness!
18.Give religious tracts to each passenger.
19.Meow occassionally.
20.Bet the other passengers you can fit a quarter in your nose.
21.Frown and mutter gotta go, gotta go then sigh and say oops!
22.Show other passengers a wound and ask if it looks infected.
23.Sing Mary had a little lamb while continually pushing buttons.
24.Holler Chutes away! whenever the elevator descends.
25.Walk on with a cooler that says human head on the side.
26.Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce You’re one of THEM! and move to the far corner of the elevator.
27.Burp, and then say mmmm…tasty!
28.Leave a box between the doors.
29.Ask each passenger getting on if you can push the button for them.
30.Wear a puppet on your hand and talk to other passengers through it.
31.Start a sing-along.
32.When the elevator is silent, look around and ask is that your beeper?
33.Play the harmonica.
34.Shadow box.
35.Say Ding! at each floor.
36.Lean against the button panel.
37.Say I wonder what all these do and push the red buttons.
38.Listen to the elevator walls with a stethoscope.
39.Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers that this is your personal space.
40.Bring a chair along.
41.Take a bite of a sandwich and ask another passenger: Wanna see wha in muh mouf?
42.Blow spit bubbles.
43.Pull your gum out of your mouth in long strings.
44.Announce in a demonic voice: I must find a more suitable host body.
45.Carry a blanket and clutch it protectively.
46.Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.
47.Wear X-Ray Specs and leer suggestively at other passengers.
48.Stare at your thumb and say I think it’s getting larger.
49.If anyone brushes against you, recoil and holler Bad touch!
50. (My own invention) Talk on the your cell phone and say, “What do you mean, it didn’t work out?” (pause)”Fix it.” (pause) “Is he going to talk?” (pause) “Well, make sure he doesn’t.”
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These are actual Newspaper headlines! Again, thanks to Google.
Some are just slips of the tongue….
Deaf mute gets new hearing in killing
Police begin campaign to run down jaywalkers
House passes gas tax onto senate
Stiff opposition expected to casketless funeral plan
Two convicts evade noose, jury hung
William Kelly was fed secretary
Milk drinkers are turning to powder
Safety experts say school bus passengers should be belted
Quarter of a million Chinese live on water
Farmer bill dies in house
Iraqi head seeks arms
Some become unintentionally suggestive…
Queen Mary having bottom scraped
Is there a ring of debris around Uranus?
NJ judge to rule on nude beach
Child’s stool great for use in garden
Organ festival ends in smashing climax
Grammar often botches other headlines….
Eye drops off shelf
Squad helps dog bite victim
Dealers will hear car talk at noon
Enraged cow injures farmer with ax
Lawmen from Mexico barbecue guests
Miners refuse to work after death
Two Soviet ships collide – one dies
Two sisters reunite after eighteen years at checkout counter
Once in a while, a botched headline takes on a meaning opposite from the one intended…
Nicaragua sets goal to wipe out literacy
Drunk drivers paid $1,000 in 1984
Autos killing 110 a day, let’s resolve to do better
Sometimes newspaper editors state the obvious…
If strike isn’t settled quickly it may last a while
War dims hope for peace
Smokers are productive, but death cuts efficiency
Cold wave linked to temperatures
Child’s death ruins couple’s holiday
Blind woman gets new kidney from dad she hasn’t seen in years
Man is fatally slain
Something went wrong in jet crash, experts say
Death causes loneliness, feeling of isolation
Ways to be Offensive at a Funeral
again, Google.
Tell the undertaker that he can’t close the coffin until you find your contact lens.
Punch the body and tell people he hit you first.
Ask someont to take a snapshot of you shaking hands with the deceased.
At the cemetary, play taps on a kazoo.
Walk around telling people that you’ve seen the will and they’re not in it.
Drive behind the widow’s limo and keep honking your horn.
Tell the undertaker that your dog just died and ask him if he can sneak him into the coffin.
Place a hard boiled egg into the mouth of the deceased.
Slip a whoopee cushion under the widow.
Leave some phony dog mess on top of the deceased.
Tell the widow that you have to leave early and ask if the will can be read before the funeral is over.
Urge the widow to give the deceased’s wooden leg to someone poor who can’t afford firewood.
Walk around telling people that the deceased didn’t like them.
Use the deceased’s tongue to lick a stamp.
Ask the widow for money which the deceased owes you.
Take up a collection to pay off the deceased’s gambling debts.
275 ~ Sounds similar to the free hugs video on YouTube.
Some of these are hysterical! xD
Say a famous saying, only replace one or more of the words with “lion” (i.e. “Do unto lions as lions would do unto lions”). Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
*Sit down in a quiet library, make obscene farting noises, then announce : ” Now that was wet! ”
*Hide in the clothing racks at Wal-Mart, whenever someone stops to look, lick thier shoes.
More later. I have done the first one.
295 – I don’t get the first one.
288~ Yeah, but it was my Mom that taught me to jump in elevators. One time we decided to stop at EVERY floor to jump at them all. So, we finally got to the lobby, and the lady at the desk goes, “was the elevator working all right? You stopped a every floor!” Whoops… *Looks sheepish*
289~ one of my friends knows someone who actually does speak wit a different accent every day. But then again, he is sort of weird….
291~ I have a book called “free drinks for ladies with nuts” and it’s all mangled english from around the world. It’s SO funny, here are some of the ones I remember;
“Order your summer suit now! Costumers will be exicuted in strict rotation” On a mall marquee: “-Archery tornement,
-Ears pierced.” there were some other really funny ones, I’ll have to get the book out again and post more later.
Use your laptop to run everything you want to say through Babelfish and say it the way it comes out.
5 ways to masqerade as a lunatic.
1. Say, “No comprehndo” whenever someone speaks to yiu. Then when they rry Spanish say, “Hobbiosa, big boy!” and give them the razzberry.
2. Replace just few enough words with a pre-chosen word to make qotations recognizable every time you quote. (I admit plagiarizing that from Lawrence of Antartica.)
3. Suddenly start acting out scenes from movies and books with the aid of an invisible friend.
4. Do 3, but act the scene out the way it might have happened if somebody had done something different.
5. Believe you are whoever you’re taliing to, and be vaguely unstteled by the fact that you are having a conversation with yourself. Asssunme that you will come back in time later and have the conversation.
~~~INSANE THINGS TO DO~~~
1. Tell everybody the world is near.
2. Chase your shadow for about an hour.
3. Um…….dang. I can’t think of any more at the moment.
theres a door in our school that has a devil face in the woodgrain, kids dare each other to stand with their 4head against the face. i did it, and when mi friends came bak, i “was best friends” with the face. now they wont look me in the eye
301- Hee hee! making friends with devil faces is fuuunn!!!
301 – Whoa, that’s weird……
301-I can often find faces/etc in the patterns of objects…
301: In my school (well, my old school) there is a plain door with only one marking- an ominous sign that says “tunnel”. nobody knows what’s in the tunnel. So if you want to sound insane constantly refer to “the tunnel” in a creepy voice. Nobody will understand what you’re talking about. Bwa-ha-ha!!!!!
305-YES!!!!!!
Be yourself.
304- Meh too. O_o It’s weird, and then no-one else can see it and I say: “It’s RIGHT THERE!!!”
305- We have a tunnel. It leads to this flight of stairs that.. well… I’ll let you figure out the rest.
305- Hmm… *steals that idea for a book character*
305-Haha…on a somewhat similar note, at my homeschool program, there’s this inside joke that none of the heads or teachers even know about, and it’s this: At “the old building”, a few couples went into the copy room to make out. Since this room was sort of like a closet, and it needed a code name, going into a room with a copier in it and making out cam to be known as “doing a (insert name of program) Closet”…tehe…:mrgreen:
Anyway, last night, I was at this concert/fund raiser thing, and one of my guy friends did a (not-too-surprisingly) amazing job at pretending to be insane. He sat on this step, and kept rocking back and forth and repeating, in a near whisper, “What was her name, what was her name?”, and then he just broke out laughing his head off for about 10 seconds straight, and then, while laughing, repeated, “What was her name?!”…it was kinda scary, but since my friends and I knew it wasn’t for real, it was hilarious.