The Throne of Thufir's Thoroughly Theoretical and Therapeutic Random Banter #116

[DraPrime]

Seriously, whats with the avatar hate?
Its getting quite annoying.

Get over it.

It makes children cry, and hitting Dutch people with flyswatters is fun.

[Rutskarn]

Oo...kay.

Anyway, jabbers, we're already almost done again? That's...surreal.

[Dallas-Dakota]

It makes children cry, and hitting Dutch people with flyswatters is fun.

No.
this makes children cry.

Because it's creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy!

Buuut creepy is gooooood.

@Dallas: The upcoming live-action film based upon a popular Eastern inspired Nickelodeon animated programme? It just doesn't look very good. What with none of the main cast looking like the ethnicity they're supposed to be.
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You know darn wel what I´m saying, good doctor!

[Rutskarn]

No. This makes children cry.

[DraPrime]

No.
this makes children cry.

Just because that makes children cry (or laugh in my case) doesn't mean that your avatar doesn't.

[Dr. Bath]

You know darn wel what I´m saying, good doctor!

Now I do. It didn't make much sense at the time since no one had commented on your avatar at any recent point in this thread. I haven't noticed anyone going on about at all, actually. Not since you first started using it.

[Dragonrider]

I'm listening to a song the title of which is a pun on the name of a form of LSD. It's not about drugs. But I still can't help but be disturbed by how much I like the song.

[Recaiden]

That picture does not make children cry. It's just a a good costume. So, I'm very suspicious of my seeing the future of getting the chair that I just got. It seems very unlikely, but it happened anyway, and I had remembered it being going to happen earlier. But, things have gone slightly different before.

[Reinboom]

I must express my extreme happiness outloud right now.
Walking home from work, I was stopped by this older gentleman in a rather nice car. He offers me a ride home, I accept. Asks me a couple questions on the way (what do I do for work, name, so on - basic conversation I thought). When he drops me off, he then offers one of his cards and asks if I would be interested in a modeling career.
I said I would think over it, of course.

Aside... *glee* amazing compliment of the day. I don't know if I can take such a job or not though...

[Kaelaroth]

I must express my extreme happiness outloud right now.
Walking home from work, I was stopped by this older gentleman in a rather nice car. He offers me a ride home, I accept. Asks me a couple questions on the way (what do I do for work, name, so on - basic conversation I thought). When he drops me off, he then offers one of his cards and asks if I would be interested in a modeling career.
I said I would think over it, of course.

Aside... *glee* amazing compliment of the day. I don't know if I can take such a job or not though...

That's very cool. But I feel obliged to remind you that you ought to be very, very thorough in your checking out of such an company/establishment, and make sure you have a chaperone with you when you first go. Also, you just got in some guy's car?

[Assassin89]

I must express my extreme happiness outloud right now.
Walking home from work, I was stopped by this older gentleman in a rather nice car. He offers me a ride home, I accept. Asks me a couple questions on the way (what do I do for work, name, so on - basic conversation I thought). When he drops me off, he then offers one of his cards and asks if I would be interested in a modeling career.
I said I would think over it, of course.

Aside... *glee* amazing compliment of the day. I don't know if I can take such a job or not though...

That is a really strange job offer...
I agree with Kaelaroth's ideas before excepting the job.

For me, it's raining heavily. I'm going back to college in Wisconsin to start the third quarter of classes.

[Reinboom]

That's very cool. But I feel obliged to remind you that you ought to be very, very thorough in your checking out of such an company/establishment, and make sure you have a chaperone with you when you first go. Also, you just got in some guy's car?

I wouldn't do it without knowing exactly what it would entail, of course.

Yes, I got in some random guy's car. A guy who looked to be in his 70s, was not wearing a shady coat, while I was walking down the main road of this city... that, and one of the few major things I actually enjoy about this place (Salt Lake City) is that most people are legitimately nice when they are appearing to be so.

[wadledo]

I'm listening to a song the title of which is a pun on the name of a form of LSD. It's not about drugs. But I still can't help but be disturbed by how much I like the song.

Is it Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?
'Cause that's the only one I can think of.

[Phase]

Hurm. Got back from Watchmen. Realized Zach Snyder's specialty...

"I"M ZACH SNYDER! I HAZ SUBTLETY!!! ITS MINE! BOOM!"

[Dr. Bath]

I'm listening to a song the title of which is a pun on the name of a form of LSD. It's not about drugs. But I still can't help but be disturbed by how much I like the song.

Golden Brown? Oh no wait. That was heroin.

And the song is about drugs.

[DraPrime]

Is it Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?
'Cause that's the only one I can think of.

But that song is about drugs. Or rather, what you see when under their influence.

[Dragonrider]

I was going to tell you all about the song, but then it occurred to me that my assertion that the name is slang for a drug comes from a YouTube comment, which I probably shouldn't trust. So you'll have to suffer in ignorance.

[Fredthefighter]

I was going to tell you all about the song, but then it occurred to me that my assertion that the name is slang for a drug comes from a YouTube comment, which I probably shouldn't trust. So you'll have to suffer in ignorance.

This doesn't actually bother me because I have no idea what the song is in the first place.
Although I will give you a hint to what I'm listening to.
When you say its name, it is gone.

[Groundhog]

Officially speaking, it doesn't stand for LSD, the title came from the subject of some drawing.

[Dragonrider]

Officially speaking, it doesn't stand for LSD, the title came from the subject of some drawing.

To whom are you talking? Since I haven't yet named the song it must not be me.

[Dr. Bath]

To whom are you talking? Since I haven't yet named the song it must not be me.

To the people talking about Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Like Fred (I think? Maybe it's something else, but it sounds like mis-quoted Beatles) and wadledo.

[Coidzor]

Methinks Fred was referring to.... A. Silence by ???? or B. The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel.

In other news... What's all y'all's favorite weather?

'round these parts I like a little liquid sunshine myself, sommat refreshing about seeing the sun all smiling and laughing so hard he's crying on ya.

I say this because I'm always disappointed when it gets all grey and looks like it will storm and then doesn't really rain at all... maybe a little bit of drizzling but nothing compared to what it makes you think is gonna happen. Argh and such.

This has happened the last two days. So I'm a tad annoyed by it. Hence my questioning to take my mind off of my current weather to fantasize about other weather types.

[Phase]

Oh, hey. The boards are back...

I'm hungry...

[unstattedCommoner]

In other news... What's all y'all's favorite weather?

Overcast, no rain.

Also, cold is better, because one is not fighting an unwinnable battle against the laws of thermodynamics.

[Phase]

I too like it overcast, no rain. Maybe a light drizzle on the leaves of the trees, giving the world a hue of pale green.

[mercurymaline]

Is it weird that I find this completely reasonable?

[Phase]

Is it weird that I find this completely reasonable?

Seems like a very good deal. Maybe a bit overpriced...

[mercurymaline]

Seems like a very good deal. Maybe a bit overpriced...

6 p is overpriced? For a nation that's fielded buyout offers from Pirate Bay, I think not.

[Thufir]

He went on a bit when he was talking about daffodils.

Not a huge fan of the Romantic era myself. The Romantic poets have always struck me as people who just liked the sound of their own voice. No poem needs to be as long as they seemed to write.

Except Byron, he was a genius. She Walks in Beauty is one of my favourite poems.

Are you suggesting Byron didn't really like the sound of his own voice?

As boy, I thought myself a clever fellow,
And wished that others held the same opinion.
They took it up when my years grew more mellow,
And other minds acknowledged my dominion.
Now my sere fancy falls into the yellow
Leaf, and imagination droops her pinion.
And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk
Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.

[Felixaar]

Hey, does anyone have claim - at all - on the new thread? As a more-often-than-not lurker round these parts I'm not really fussed, but I did think of a cool title the other day.

On Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - much like Puff the Magic Dragon, the idea that this song is about drugs is a common misconception. Pretty much any piece of creative work can be interpreted to be about some unethical if you try, but the fact is that you can have things of fantasy and beauty without narcotic substances. Hooray!