Several Silly Sealions Stuffed Seaweed Southward Swiftly (Or, Random Banter #143)

[Player_Zero]

Because it will make your mum feel better? Is that not reason enough?

I think you may've mistaken me for a nice person.

[SpiderMew]

Im bored. I wish i had a private pool so i could go swim naked or something. My swim shorts are too big for me now, and if i tryed to use them i'd probably end up naked anyway.

[Phaedra]

Ohmysweetbabyjeebus.
I did it. No Dutch courage (or any other courage), just pure unadulterated panic.

Results:
I passed.
Not as well as I could have done, didn't get a First or anything, but I passed.
No retakes for me! No scholarship either, but hey. I passed.
And as these results don't affect my degree I don't have to worry about them not being 100% super-duper-amazing.
Note to self: I should actually revise properly next time. And thoroughly.

Congratulations! Firsts are overrated anyway *proudly hugs her 2:1*

I think you may've mistaken me for a nice person.

I keep doing that. You'd think I'd learn.

[Dragonrider]

Koorli: Why, congratulations.

What is this TOS you speak of?

The original series?

[Rawhide]

As of now, I am officially a business. Scary.

[Trobby]

@Rawhide: What sort of business are you? o.o

@Curly: Congrats! ^O^ I know how hard it is to look at the results of exams. <.<; But I'm glad you passed. ^.^

@Deeree: Yup. The acronym "TOS" refers to "The Original Series" of Star Trek. My dad used to watch that one all the time when he was in High School.

Which is kind of eerie if I think about it too much.

[Rawhide]

Introbulus: I sell my services to anyone willing to pay me enough.

[Archonic Energy]

It's fun, sometimes cheesy, sometimes very cheesy and sometimes awesome.
Then again, you refuse to believe the series that started Star Trek exists, so there's no point in telling you.
Because you'll assume I invented it all, just for you.
I did by the way.

i knew it!
see Star Trek started with the confusingly called "The Next Generation" (why Next? there was no previous)

Also Congratz

The original series?

*fingers in ears*
LALALALALALALALLALAALLLAAA

Introbulus: I sell my services to anyone willing to pay me enough.

here's 2.5 million... i need a small army in 3 weeks for ... well you don't need to know what for.

[Phase]

Introbulus: I sell my services to anyone willing to pay me enough.

I need some services, how much currency is needed?

[Rawhide]

here's 2.5 million... i need a small army in 3 weeks for ... well you don't need to know what for.

That can be arranged, but the 2.5 million won't include their fees.

I need some services, how much currency is needed?

Depends on what services you need.

[Dr. Bath]

I'm thinking I should worry more about exam results, which should thus induce better results??

[SpiderMew]

I'm thinking I should worry more about exam results, which should thus induce better results??

Nope, just relax and chill. I never freak out over tests and i do really good

[Phase]

Hrrrngh. Well. Well. You never freak out over tests and you do really well.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Koorli: Why, congratulations.

Thankees! I'm just really glad I don't have to do resits as my parents would've had conniptions. And those conniptions would've had kittens.

The original series?

See DeeRee sweetie, I've long ago given up on convincing Archie that TOS ever existed.
But you should see it.
Very fun. I'm just a few episodes into the second series, and still enjoying it.

@Curly: Congrats! ^O^ I know how hard it is to look at the results of exams. <.<; But I'm glad you passed. ^.^

Thankees.
I was worried about this one because there's a possiblities of fines along with resits. ANd paying extra to come up outside of university to do the exams again. And stuff.
I wasn't nervous over my A Level results though, and that was my make or break Oxford results. I knew I wasn't going to get a Third, but I was still panicking.

@Deeree: Yup. The acronym "TOS" refers to "The Original Series" of Star Trek. My dad used to watch that one all the time when he was in High School.

Which is kind of eerie if I think about it too much.

Ah see, according to Archie, I've deluded all of you, going back in time (through the Guardian of Forever no less ) and making it so that TOS actually existed.
Archie's the only one who's escaped my dread grasp.

It's slighlty eerie though that your dad was what, sixteen to eighteen - I forget (US) High School ages - when TOS was released.
Unless he saw a repeat.
In which case it's not weird.
Case in point: I saw Thunderbirbs when I was six.

I knew it!
See Star Trek started with the confusingly called "The Next Generation" (why Next? there was no previous)

Also Congratz

Ah, it's because they retconned TOS, but forgot to change the title. See, TNG is meant to be called TOS. Except I went and did some timey wimey ball things, and now TNG is TNG when it should be TOS and TOS exists for everyone but you.
Poor Archie.

Besides, I've long given up on 'Heretic!'ing you over this.
. . .
I should get a Heretic! avatar. Or simply a fainting Curly. I use those two so often.

[SpiderMew]

Hrrrngh. Well. Well. You never freak out over tests and you do really well.

I only care about grammer when it counts.

[Cealocanth]

Electrocution works on almost all bugs without having to run around and catch them. I don't have so much trouble killing bugs as I do killing mammals as well.

[Edit: wow, ninja'd almost a page of posts. ]

[Teddy]

Mmmblgrmbl... Dad shut down computer after I left it for him to check his mail, with my half-finished post on it. Well, well, reconstruction-time I guess...

I've given up on exam nervousness, simply because I know I'll have done one thing not as well as I liked, possibly more. So no point in worrying before, I'll do the worrying and crying after I get the results.

I never worry about my exams and grades. I know that I'll pass most of them with a really good grade, without even studying especially much. I've come to the conclusion that worrying about my grades is a huge waste of valuable time (which I use to do nothing useful at all), since it'll work out in the end anyway.

Actually, I've reached the conclusion that worrying about anything at all is a huge waste of time, so I've simply stopped doing it. Also, I'm disproportionally happy all the time. I guess the song "Don't worry, be happy" was written for me - before I was born.

EDIT: Forgot to say "Congratulations!" to you Curly, so I'll do it now. Congratulations, Curly!

[Dogmantra]

I feel stupid now. An inexplicable piece of twine attempted to hotlink itself from my hard drive to an article I wrote for a site that has nothing to do with twine. I don't even know why it was there. The article then got shunted back to draft rather than going through. Of course, you can't see the twine because it's trying to hotlink from my hard drive, so when I went through with Wordpress visual editor it didn't show up and the note about uploading the image to the website seemed nonsensical.

Man. HTML. 's crazy.

[Trobby]

@^: Not familiar with Wordpress, but did you perhaps accidentally put an href in where you meant to put an image? And perhaps you also accidentally chose the wrong image, out of a folder that was not going to be a part of your web site?

That seems like a very peculiar problem, but also one that could happen. Especially if you're using an HTML editor, rather than hard coding it in a text editor.

Ah see, according to Archie, I've deluded all of you, going back in time (through the Guardian of Forever no less ) and making it so that TOS actually existed.
Archie's the only one who's escaped my dread grasp.

It's slighlty eerie though that your dad was what, sixteen to eighteen - I forget (US) High School ages - when TOS was released.
Unless he saw a repeat.
In which case it's not weird.
Case in point: I saw Thunderbirbs when I was six.

Well, let's see...

My dad was born in 1951, and TOS came out in 1966. That'd put him at 14/15 when it started airing, and in 1969, he'd be 17/18 when it ended. That's just a little bit less than an entire run of High School, so basically for his entire High School life, Star Trek was THE show to watch. Though by the time he was 18, he was at West Point learning to hate the military. Though he still managed to catch a glimpse of the Moon Landing while he was in the cafeteria, so that's pretty awesome too.

And I was in my school's only Computer-based class (basic computing/programming) when the Twin Towers were hit by a terrorist attack. That's...a little unsettling too. I was 14 at the time, and all of a sudden they just brought up on the TV in our school. And to think, we all thought the big event we would always remember would be the controversial vote counting of the year 2000 election.

[Dogmantra]

@^: Not familiar with Wordpress, but did you perhaps accidentally put an href in where you meant to put an image? And perhaps you also accidentally chose the wrong image, out of a folder that was not going to be a part of your web site?

I had just copy pasted it for a birthday card (yeah... twine on a birthday card, don't ask) and presumably I accidentally hit CTRL+V instead of CTRL+B, attempting to paste the image into the article and since there was no indication that I'd done so, I ignored it.

[Thufir]

I've long ago given up on convincing Archie that TOS ever existed.

And by "long ago" she really means "this sunday just gone".

Ah see, according to Archie, I've deluded all of you, going back in time (through the Guardian of Forever no less ) and making it so that TOS actually existed.
Archie's the only one who's escaped my dread grasp.

So that would make you responsible for Spock?
<3

I should get a Heretic! avatar. Or simply a fainting Curly. I use those two so often.

I imagine it might be a bit cramped if a heretic had to fit into your avatar to be denounced as such. Unless you denounced your cat as a heretic I suppose.

[Trobby]

This is why you always have to test your code before you implement it. *Nods* Those sorts of things happen all the time. Don't worry, Doggie. ^^;

[CurlyKitGirl]

Well, let's see...

My dad was born in 1951, and TOS came out in 1966. That'd put him at 14/15 when it started airing, and in 1969, he'd be 17/18 when it ended. That's just a little bit less than an entire run of High School, so basically for his entire High School life, Star Trek was THE show to watch. Though by the time he was 18, he was at West Point learning to hate the military. Though he still managed to catch a glimpse of the Moon Landing while he was in the cafeteria, so that's pretty awesome too.

That's pretty amazing actually.
My mum was six when Star Trek began, dad had just been born. But as I've said before, mum was a Whovian from the first.
But she got into TNG when it was released.

And by "long ago" she really means "this sunday just gone".

Yes, that was 'long ago'. Very long ago. But oh so memorable.

So that would make you responsible for Spock?
<3

Yep, it makes me responsible for Spock. Just bask in my delicious geeky. Just add it to my list of accomplishments.

I imagine it might be a bit cramped if a heretic had to fit into your avatar to be denounced as such. Unless you denounced your cat as a heretic I suppose.

Well, the cat would have to be the heretic. I mean, what would I do with the cat otherwise?
Now for my avatar . . .

[Superglucose]

I found out that I write like J.D. Sallinger which is a bit odd because I feel as if I'm closer to Adams.

At the very least I didn't get stuck with John Knowles A Separate Peace is NO LONGER relevant to high school students! Can we please, PLEASE take it off the required reading list? It sits there, plaguing every 10th grade student in the nation, while Hitchiker's Guide presents a totally different way of looking at the world and manages to be off the required list?

[Quincunx]

Generation gap: When my sisters and I rented the VHS tape of Mystery Science Theater 3000, the Movie (for we were cable-deprived and could not see this awesome new show my friends told me about), Dad investigated why we were laughing so hysterically, watched for a few minutes, and announced, "--I saw this when it was in theaters." Cue more screechy, hysterical laughter from the daughters.

Generation gap: It took me years to realize that in this clip, that the first meeting and "very interesting" were two halves of the same joke. Progress, I suppose.

[Cogwheel]

I found out that I write like J.D. Sallinger which is a bit odd because I feel as if I'm closer to Adams.

Interesting, I find that I write more like a godawful hack.

And while we're at it, reading lists need more Terry Pratchett.

[Superglucose]

Interesting, I find that I write more like a godawful hack.

... John Steinbeck?

[Eldpollard]

Whilst Curly may indeed be responsible for Spock, she can't claim responsibility for Leonard Nimoy. You still have a way to go.

[Phase]

... John Steinbeck?

Dan Brown? Stephanie Meyer? Paolini?

[Trobby]

I found out that I write like J.D. Sallinger which is a bit odd because I feel as if I'm closer to Adams.

At the very least I didn't get stuck with John Knowles A Separate Peace is NO LONGER relevant to high school students! Can we please, PLEASE take it off the required reading list? It sits there, plaguing every 10th grade student in the nation, while Hitchiker's Guide presents a totally different way of looking at the world and manages to be off the required list?

I managed to avoid John Knowles entirely, mostly because we got to choose from our reading list for the Summer, and my High School english teacher was the awesome kind of guy who would read us actual classics like Catcher in the Rye, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and To Kill a Mockingbird. AND I managed to get the Hitchhiker Trilogy attached to my reading list because my teachers accept it as a work of fine literature. AND I read several of Shakespear's plays and wrote about them because he's just that cool.

Yes, most awesome English Teacher ever.