KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147

[Archonic Energy]

You traded your soul to me for a set of the UKitP Meet Dice from the X-Mas meet last year.
Did you already forget that?

yes, and i traded Hippie's Soul.

[Trobby]

Well, as long as we're plugging strange ideas for a musical...

[Gullara]

You traded your soul to me for a set of the UKitP Meet Dice from the X-Mas meet last year.
Did you already forget that?

How could I forget that?

[CurlyKitGirl]

Oh, right, sorry, the Welsh are scary. Not for their alcohol tolerance, but for having a six yea old manage the alcohol.

Silly Koorly. Hangovers aren't the end of the world. Especially not if one actually hyrates.

I'm doomed to Welshnessness aren;t I? Could be worse though.
Besides, Six-Year-Old Cousin was being managed by me, so it was perfectly safe.
She did get hyperactive after some special [Cousin's Name] (Non) Alcoholic Cocktails though. Note to self: Cousin get hyper after too much cranberry iuice.

I'm sure I could be a gentleman and not ogle you.
*Totally has fingers crossed behind back*

Yeeeaaahhh. And I'm sure you could give me £500 and unleash me in Blackwells or another suitably large or intruiging book shop and I wouldn't spend a penny. If you can't tell how fasle that statement is, you need to rethink who I am.
Besides, I'll prolly be wearing another top under my top.

Third is probably my favourite, as I was observing while watching it. Possibly because it puts Blackadder in much more of an underdog position, which iust allows him to shine all the more.
Or something like that.

Butler Blackadder was more malicious than the others, and Blackadder's always an underdog. Admittedly, not so much in One, but One had Brian Blessed. And we all know he makes everything epic.
. . .
That's it. I'mma gonna go geek out to Flash Gordon (aaaaaaahhhhhh) tonight. Fare thee well productive evening finishing the last four lines of my translation.

That must be it. You charmer you.

Well, we all know sexy female pirates have 18CHA as a base rate.

Well, Durham (DURRRR ham? ) seemed pretty and rather nice. Durham's no Oxford, but, well, Oxford is Oxford (if that made any sense at all). Actually spent a week at Oxford on this summer school thing studying history a few weeks back, it was pretty awesome, and for a short while I became an expert on the movement patterns of Russian migrant labourers in the late 1800s.

Still none the wiser as to where I want to go to uni. I doubt I'll get the grades Oxbridge will be asking for. Warwick and Lancaster both have awesome-sounding creative writing courses, though...

APPLY TO OXFORD!
To do . . . history? English? Doesn't do Creative Writing though . . . but we're so awesome here.
But I'm ridiculously biased, so don't take my word for it (Do so!).
Cardiff has a good English course though, I applied to it; had some good stuff, but wasn't as varied as my current course - but well.
Ah, but really though? Durham has a very good reputation for English, and it's quite a good course. So's York if I remember my prospectuses right.

ION: By the time I next post here I will have finished the longest and hardest part of my Long Vac work. Woo!

[Trobby]

Well, we all know sexy female pirates have 18CHA as a base rate.

As a fellow sexy pirate, I approve of this message.

[CurlyKitGirl]

As a fellow sexy pirate, I approve of this message.

Well, hello there my fine man. Care to come onboard?

Ahem.
IT'S FINISHED!
And my Sermo Lupi came today. It's a whole eighty-three pages long. The sermon itself is twenty pages long. It's only two hundred and ten lines long though, and it's prose. So easy peasy lemon squeezy.

And my Iunius Manuscript came yesterday (seven pounds! It's virtually brand new - iust got some small translations of several of the hemi-stiches. Bargain), so I'm torn between translating as much as I can for gits and shiggles, or translating poems I should be doing my essay on.
I'll prolly do both as I have two weeks on the Iunius manuscript this term anyway.
Geeky win-wins are fantastic aren't they.

Oh yessssss, and tonight is the night of Flash (aaaahhhhhhh) Gordon. :glee:

[Gullara]

For some reason I thought I mad a pirate avatar, but sadly I have not

Oh well, bearded, trench coat guy with sweet glasses will have to do.

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

I thought that immediately too. QI is a lovely place. I swear teenagers learn more from that show than from school.

I know I did. QI appeals to me on so many levels it's ridiculous.

The Scarlet Pimple episode - awesome.

'You see, the Scarlet Pimpernel would never ever reveal his identity, that's his great secret. So, what you're actually looking for is someone who has, say, just been to France and rescued an aristocrat, but when asked "Are you the Scarlet Pimpernel?", he replies, "Absolutely not," sir.'
'Wait a minute - Blackadder, you've just been to France, and you've rescued a French aristocrat... oh Blackadder, are you the Scarlet Pimpernel?'
'Absolutely not, sir.'

Despite my rural Cornishness I've not had cider yet. It may be a slim possibility though.
And I sincerely have never been tipsy. If I have, the only side-effect is being absolutely normal in all shapes, forms and attitudes. Seriously.

Permanently slightly drunk, then? It only gives credence to the 'weaned with cider' theory.

Yeeeaaahhh. And I'm sure you could give me £500 and unleash me in Blackwells or another suitably large or intruiging book shop and I wouldn't spend a penny. If you can't tell how fasle that statement is, you need to rethink who I am.

I always know I'm doing the right thing studying English when I get very excited at the mere thought of tons of books.
I got most of the rest of my reading list today by post and had a bookgasm. Immediately started reading Mansfield Park. I'm hopeless against books.

Butler Blackadder was more malicious than the others, and Blackadder's always an underdog. Admittedly, not so much in One, but One had Brian Blessed. And we all know he makes everything epic.

But the maliciousness plus the furthest-under as an underdog position gives him some even-more-amazing-than-usual lines. I just also loved the dynamic between Blackadder and Prince George in the Third.

That's it. I'mma gonna go geek out to Flash Gordon (aaaaaaahhhhhh) tonight. Fare thee well productive evening finishing the last four lines of my translation.

I love So Bad It's Good. My friends and I are specialists in it.
Speaking of which, I'm going to a screening of The Room tomorrow. Should be fantastic.
YOU ARE TEARING ME APART, LISA!

[AtlanteanTroll]

To all ye doubters, X-Men, The Musical.

I have won.

[Malfunctioned]

Oh yessssss, and tonight is the night of Flash (aaaahhhhhhh) Gordon. :glee:

Should I be proud or ashamed of the fact that I can do that scream almost perfectly? Or at least I could a few months ago, though I don't think my voice has changed since then.



Also. Did someone say pirate?

[CurlyKitGirl]

I know I did. QI appeals to me on so many levels it's ridiculous.

Everyone likes QI, and the Troglanders who see it on YouTube wish they could watch it on TV like us Britlanders.
I think it's because it's so scatalogical. One moment they're discussing how bees buzz, and then they're talking about the single most ironic way to kill a bee or how best to utilise motorised tortoises, and then it's back to penises and sex iokes.
Intelligent, whimsical and crude, who can't love it?

'You see, the Scarlet Pimpernel would never ever reveal his identity, that's his great secret. So, what you're actually looking for is someone who has, say, just been to France and rescued an aristocrat, but when asked "Are you the Scarlet Pimpernel?", he replies, "Absolutely not," sir.'
'Wait a minute - Blackadder, you've just been to France, and you've rescued a French aristocrat... oh Blackadder, are you the Scarlet Pimpernel?'
'Absolutely not, sir.'

:bigsquee:
"And the Scarlet Pimpernel would not ask for a credit note of Xty thousand pounds, made to cash."
:bigsquee: "Oh I say, really, well then, this credit note is not going to be given to the person who isn't the Scarlet Pimpernel." :BIGWINK:

:smallgasp:
The Dictionary episode! No. The Acting episode.
"Macbeth"
"Arrgh. Hot potatoes, orchestra stalls, Puck shall make amends, akh!"

Permanently slightly drunk, then? It only gives credence to the 'weaned with cider' theory.

I confess.
All born and bred Cornish people (and the maiority of people from the south-west) are permanently slightly drunk.
It's what gives us our local charm and easy going nature.
That and being pirates and smugglers who dwell in one of the prettiest lawless hives of scum and villainy ever.

I always know I'm doing the right thing studying English when I get very excited at the mere thought of tons of books.
I got most of the rest of my reading list today by post and had a bookgasm. Immediately started reading Mansfield Park. I'm hopeless against books.

Oh dear . . . Mansfield Park is the most boring book AUsten has written. When you've finished it turn immediately to Persuasion, Emma or Northanger Abbey. The latter half of the latter book acually satirises the Victorian Gothic genre before it ever existed, mostly because it was satirsing the ROmantic Gothic, but they're slightly almost the same thing. I suppose what I should say is that Northanger anticipates the Victorian Gothic genre.
So, what kind of things are on your reading list? Id it thematically based? By period? I am intrigued. Also: Amazon is your friend. Use and abuse it. Then turn to charity shops and fellow uni or ex-uni students.

Now, when it comes to books, I have a small fit of glee every time I find a - wait. WAIT.
WAIT!
It's the second of September!
I Shall Wear Midnight has been released! :bigcool:
I'm going to go town tomorrow, read it, come home, GEEK OUT.
:glee: :glee: :glee: :glee: :glee: :glee: :glee: :glee: :glee: :glee:

Um. Yeah. I have a small-to-extremely-large fit of glee every time I find/read/buy a book I've been lusting after for ages.
I'll be in my bunk. Happy happy days.

But the maliciousness plus the furthest-under as an underdog position gives him some even-more-amazing-than-usual lines. I just also loved the dynamic between Blackadder and Prince George in the Third.

Hugh Laurie's darling. It's the puppy dog eyes and his foppish silliness and general idiocy. Took him several weeks to fail at putting on trousers.
However, Third does have a basic lack of Brian Blessed and Stephen Fry. Well, except for the last episode naturally.

I love So Bad It's Good. My friends and I are specialists in it.
Speaking of which, I'm going to a screening of The Room tomorrow. Should be fantastic.
YOU ARE TEARING ME APART, LISA!

It's not So Bad It's Good, it's So Bad It's Awesome. That or So Cool It's Awesome. I mean, it has a Queen soundtrack for one thing, that automatically ranks it up in excellence.
It revels in its cheesy brilliance.

EDIT:

Should I be proud or ashamed of the fact that I can do that scream almost perfectly? Or at least I could a few months ago, though I don't think my voice has changed since then.

I can do that almost perfectly too. I know most Queen songs off by heart, and I'm proud of it.
I can also hit that stupidly high note in Bohemian Rhapsody almost spot on at least two-thirds of the time.

[Lyesmith]

You know what I realised today? After moving back in with my dad permanantly, I remembered that parts of this house are from the stone age. I spent 2 hours looking for stamps and glue. And also a lightbulb. And the internet is painfully slow.

I mean, I'm glad to be back (apart from the bit where I've got to sort out all my stuff, which sucks) but seriously, <250KB!?

[AtlanteanTroll]

You know what I realised today? After moving back in with my dad permanantly, I remembered that parts of this house are from the stone age. I spent 2 hours looking for stamps and glue. And also a lightbulb. And the internet is painfully slow.

I mean, I'm glad to be back (apart from the bit where I've got to sort out all my stuff, which sucks) but seriously, <250KB!?

Why are you living with your dad?

[Teddy]

I'm back from kayaking. We were promised rain all the four days, but the first three days had a pretty good weather without any rain falling on us at all. The fourth day (today) was pretty dreadful overall, though. The whole trip could perhaps be summarised like this:

Day 1:

• White-Tailed Eagle
• Poorly cooked pasta tasting like rosehip soup. (Rosehip soup is actually quite tasty, but pasta shouldn't taste like it)
• (Not-so-)urban exploration of an abandoned and barricaded brewery (I'm not really sure about it being one, though. It could also've been a part of an old cholera camp)

Day 2:

• Out of burner fuel
• A guy using his camera as a fishing bait. It was waterproof, and he used it for filming underwater.
• Another guy dropping his mobile phone and his fork (this together with a plain plastic bowel were his only eating implements he brought with him) into the water. Both were salvaged, even though the phone has seen better days
• Saw a goat on an island next to ours.
• Went as close to said goat as possible, just to discover that it actually was a small rowan
• Saw many huge ferries in the night, and a lot of lighthouses in the distance
• Toad-party

Day 3:

• Another White-Tailed Eagle
• Strong winds
• Campfire
• Amazing night-sky and falling stars (kind of missed the best one, though. The trail lasted for several seconds)

Day 4:

• Sporadic downpours
• Pretty strong winds
• Heavier downpours and heavier winds
• Teachers taking over the commando from our group
• Soaked from top to waist, and varying degrees of wet below that
• Putting on dry clothes
• Hamburgers
• Over 6 hektogrammes of sugary goodness in sweets (they will take days to consume)
• Home again

[Trobby]

Well, hello there my fine man. Care to come onboard?

"Luv, only a fool would climb aboard a pirate ship without guarantee his life would not be forfeit. How about we do it this way?"

*Holds you at swordpoint*

"Care to come aboard, luv?"

Oh yessssss, and tonight is the night of Flash (aaaahhhhhhh) Gordon. :glee:

I need to get that from the library. <.<; So that no one will notice when I watch the entire thing. I HAD a chance, but my parents turned it off on principal of it being the B-est movie ever. Plan 9 from Outer Space and all of the MST3K'd movies not withstanding...

I'm back from kayaking. We were promised rain all the four days, but the first three days had a pretty good weather without any rain falling on us at all. The fourth day (today) was pretty dreadful overall, though. The whole trip could perhaps be summarised like this:

Day 1:

• White-Tailed Eagle
• Poorly cooked pasta tasting like rosehip soup. (Rosehip soup is actually quite tasty, but pasta shouldn't taste like it)
• (Not-so-)urban exploration of an abandoned and barricaded brewery (I'm not really sure about it being one, though. It could also've been a part of an old cholera camp)

Day 2:

• Out of burner fuel
• A guy using his camera as a fishing bait. It was waterproof, and he used it for filming underwater.
• Another guy dropping his mobile phone and his fork (this together with a plain plastic bowel were his only eating implements he brought with him) into the water. Both were salvaged, even though the phone has seen better days
• Saw a goat on an island next to ours.
• Went as close to said goat as possible, just to discover that it actually was a small rowan
• Saw many huge ferries in the night, and a lot of lighthouses in the distance
• Toad-party

Day 3:

• Another White-Tailed Eagle
• Strong winds
• Campfire
• Amazing night-sky and falling stars (kind of missed the best one, though. The trail lasted for several seconds)

Day 4:

• Sporadic downpours
• Pretty strong winds
• Heavier downpours and heavier winds
• Teachers taking over the commando from our group
• Soaked from top to waist, and varying degrees of wet below that
• Putting on dry clothes
• Hamburgers
• Over 6 hektogrammes of sugary goodness in sweets (they will take days to consume)
• Home again

This sounds more like a four-day camping trip than just Kayaking. Which makes it actually quite impressive. Sounds like a good, if extraordinarily "interesting" trip.

What is a toad part?

[Cobalt]

The best coincidence ever just made my day this morning. I must share- but beware, for there is much to be read.



Picture the scene: It's the second class of the day. Not even after 9:00 yet. I've arrived before most of the others, as usual (the foot traffic at my school is murder), but something is amiss. Oh, look- the teacher's desk; the chair behind it; tis empty. Well, alright, this has happened before- this particular instructor has a hectic schedule from time to time and every month or so she's flat out late for her own class.

But today was a first in that she was ten minutes late. More on the reason why later.

There's a football player that takes this class with me- he was late as well. To my raised eyebrow, he walks in with a cell phone out. Not sure how it is in other places, but here in good ol' South Carolina, it's flat out against State law to bring a phone or mp3 player or whatever to school. Doesn't stop people, of course, and if they find it you can get it back at the end of the day for 25 dollars. But as cool as the teacher for this class is, she will take your phone if you're so dumb enough to take it out during school around her. So, obviously not being able to know beforehand that the teach was AWOL, it was a bit of a suprise when he walked through the door with it in his hand. When prompted, he tells the folks sitting in desks a little tale; some kid, that he doesn't even know, ran up to him, flustered and rushing down the hall, shoved the phone in his hands, said something along the lines of "Just take this!" and ran off. Well, he's not one to be rude- what was he going to do, leave it there on the floor?- so he pocketed it (not literally of course) and continued on with his casual stroll to class- already late, why rush?

Well, he sits down, figures out how to turn the blasted thing off (the reason he was messing with it walking in- that and it's not his, nor his friend's, so why should he care, eh?) and we all move back to waiting for the teacher. Few minutes later, she walks in, and has the tale of all tales to tell us for her reason being late:

She's walking down the hall, on her way (this class is in the trailers just outside the school's back area) when she spots a group of kids, loitering about. She spots the one in the center, seemingly showing the others a picture or something on his phone's screen, and approaches. Without her even saying anything, and this is what made me laugh before I gave it more than five seconds of thought, he spots her, crosses his arms so that his hands, holding the phone- and he's being dead serious this whole time, by the way- are cupped around his genitals, and runs off, screaming; "I don't have anything! I don't have anything!" This was enough to get us laughing right off the bat- but it was when she continued that we really lost it- you can probably see where this is going.

So she went on to say that the group he was with completely ratted his sorry arse out to her- apparently he was into making new friends, or something, and made the wrong choice. She has no problem finding him, because they told her his name, his next class, his grade- all that good stuff. So she goes on after him, walks into the class, and you can just imagine the look on his face when she opened the door and made eye contact. He tries to get out of it saying- and by the way, though it was never actually mentioned, five bucks says this fellow was a freshman- that they can search him all they want; he's got nothing on him.

She retorts saying that they don't need to search him- he just freaking ran from a teacher.

He says they have no proof.

She points out there are cameras.

Basically, phone or not, this sucker's been suspended from school for a good while.

Now, she mentioned that he actually didn't have the phone on him when they checked his stuff. Fine, whatever- let's just haul him away already. But what Ms. Teacher didn't know, and what was an obvious connection to the rest of us at this point, was that our local football player had happened across this bright young chap mid stride, had his phone shoved into his hands, despite, and I stress this again, having no idea who this burly man in a jersey was, and went on his merry way to German II CP to share this curiosity with the rest of us.

Now, with apparently the forgotten piece of a runaway puzzle sitting docile in his back pocket, Mr. Football Player can only laugh his hide off with the rest of us as we thought this whole thing through and came to the obvious ending. Ms. Teacher still thinks that we were laughing at the foolishness of the kid who she’d just suspended. “Well,” I said when she asked us, “That has something to do with it.”



I love my high school. This couldn’t have been a better example of humor in the strings of fate.

[AtlanteanTroll]

There's a football player that takes this class with me- he was late as well. To my raised eyebrow, he walks in with a cell phone out. Not sure how it is in other places, but here in good ol' South Carolina, it's flat out against State law to bring a phone or mp3 player or whatever to school.

{scrubbed}

[CurlyKitGirl]

Why are you living with your dad?

. . .
Aside from the fact that he's only eighteen and isn't even going to uni for another few weeks?
There are other reasons, but I'm not Aziraphale, so I'm not commenting.
Seriously.
I live with my parents.
Gonna make something of it? You're not even five years younger than me for heaven sake.

"Luv, only a fool would climb aboard a pirate ship without guarantee his life would not be forfeit. How about we do it this way?"

*Holds you at swordpoint*

"Care to come aboard, luv?"

"Sorry, I don't board strangers. But if you'd care to pop down to my local lawless hive of scum and villainy, we can have a little discussion there."

I need to get that from the library. <.<; So that no one will notice when I watch the entire thing. I HAD a chance, but my parents turned it off on principal of it being the B-est movie ever. Plan 9 from Outer Space and all of the MST3K'd movies not withstanding...

What's wrong with B movies? Flash (aaaaaahhhhh) Gordon is ioyously, deliberately B-tastic!
Elitist grown-ups looking down on the wonder that Brian Blessed in an epically cheesy sci-fi film with a Queen soundtrack.
Tch. I bet they don't even like Highlander.
Ah look down mah noze on zem weeth mah snootee French axe-ent!


EDIT:
@LalaTroll: It's not his fault his state has unusual laws; but it isn't stupid.
Heck, I'd be in real trouble if I went to York because it is still legal to shoot a Welsh person with a longbow (or possibly a crossbow - there's a similar law somewhere else Oop North, but only with Scots) as long as they're within shooting distance of the city walls and it's a Sunday.
Personally, I found Cobalt's anecdote hilarious. Did the teacher find out Football Guy had the phone or no?
Also, there's a chance I may end up calling you Blue. Apologies.

[AtlanteanTroll]

. . .
Aside from the fact that he's only eighteen and isn't even going to uni for another few weeks?
There are other reasons, but I'm not Aziraphale, so I'm not commenting.
Seriously.
I live with my parents.
Gonna make something of it? You're not even five years younger than me for heaven sake.

I assumed they were older, as in not a minor. They made it sound like they had been gone for a while.

[CurlyKitGirl]

I assumed they were older, as in not a minor. They made it sound like they had been gone for a while.

There was a discussion - not more than two weeks ago I might add - where zizi posted his A Level results and was ecstatic abouyt getting into his first choice university.

That really should have given you a clue.

And again, personal issues will not be mentioned by those who aren't affected by them.

[AtlanteanTroll]

There was a discussion - not more than two weeks ago I might add - where zizi posted his A Level results and was ecstatic abouyt getting into his first choice university.

That really should have given you a clue.

And again, personal issues will not be mentioned by those who aren't affected by them.

2 Weeks ago? I can't remember what I had for dinner 4 days ago.

[Lyesmith]

I lived with a foster family for 10 months due to my father suffering a massive stroke and being hospitalised & then I didn't really want to move back in untill I'd finished my exams and then kept putting it off because, frankly, it was depressing as hell just visiting. But actually living here ain't too bad.APART FROM THE STONE AGE BROADBAND POWERED BY THE VOLCANO GOD

Also, you thought I was older? How come? General style of speech, or what?

[Cobalt]

Personally, I found Cobalt's anecdote hilarious. Did the teacher find out Football Guy had the phone or no?

Only if he planned on not being a thiefy thief and brought it up later in the day, as he got out of the room before almost anyone else did without saying a word about it. Though someone asked, like, fifteen minutes after the initial joking around, "So [Football Player's Name], what're you going to do with it?" The response was a 'SHUTITWHATAREYOUDOING' look on his face and the entire class going silent and looking at him.

He's not the brightest bulb.

We'll probably bring it up eventually- we're all on good terms with her, many of us friends with the teacher on Facebook- but I'll have to ask him about it the next time we run into each other.

Also, there's a chance I may end up calling you Blue. Apologies.

Me or him(AtlanteanTroll)?

[Trobby]

"Sorry, I don't board strangers. But if you'd care to pop down to my local lawless hive of scum and villainy, we can have a little discussion there."

"I'd be much obliged, milady. Don't be tryin' to pull somethin' with my drinks though. I have a keen eye."

What's wrong with B movies? Flash (aaaaaahhhhh) Gordon is ioyously, deliberately B-tastic!
Elitist grown-ups looking down on the wonder that Brian Blessed in an epically cheesy sci-fi film with a Queen soundtrack.
Tch. I bet they don't even like Highlander.
Ah look down mah noze on zem weeth mah snootee French axe-ent!

I thought you were British. Where did you get that French Accent? And you'd better give it back before they start looking for it!

As for B movies...well yes, they are a little snobby...<.<; But I think Flash Gordon is also just not their generation. Granted they did grow up when serial comics like it were being made, but it just doesn't hold appeal to either of them. ^^;

Not sure how they feel about Highlander...

[AtlanteanTroll]

Also, you thought I was older? How come? General style of speech, or what?

Becuase I'm pretty sure most people on this site are at least 2 years older than me. I also make a lot of assumptions that may not be based off of anything.

[Snares]

APPLY TO OXFORD!
To do . . . history? English? Doesn't do Creative Writing though . . . but we're so awesome here.
But I'm ridiculously biased, so don't take my word for it (Do so!).
Cardiff has a good English course though, I applied to it; had some good stuff, but wasn't as varied as my current course - but well.
Ah, but really though? Durham has a very good reputation for English, and it's quite a good course. So's York if I remember my prospectuses right.

You're going to hate me for this, but I'm planning to apply to Cambridge, if I do apply to one of those two. Going for English there. I like combined English courses more than simply literature or language - I love literature, but I can reach literature overload sometimes and have to take a break from reading for a bit. The language part is interesting, too, but I don't like a wholly methodical approach to English either. Oxford only really does the literature IIRC.

I was at Durham to check out the Combined Arts degree, which is really interesting. Basically, you can pick modules from a whole range of subjects - given that there's bits I like and don't like in every subject, it's useful. The English/Creative Writing course at Warwick looks amazing though, and Lancaster's creative writing stuff looks very useful too.

Speaking of which, I'm going to a screening of The Room tomorrow. Should be fantastic.
YOU ARE TEARING ME APART, LISA!

"Keep your stupid comments in your pocket!"

I wish they would screen that somewhere near me. It's just about the most brilliant thing I've ever seen, I'd love to see the whole thing.

I can do that almost perfectly too. I know most Queen songs off by heart, and I'm proud of it.
I can also hit that stupidly high note in Bohemian Rhapsody almost spot on at least two-thirds of the time.

Pfft, you and Mr. Functioned pale in comparison to my Cedric-from-The-Mars-Volta falsetto. Even if I do miss out the top end of his range. But then again, the top of his range goes all the way up to a soprano C. I'd have to stick a very sensitive area in a vice to reach that kind of pitch. o_o

[Thufir]

Yeeeaaahhh. And I'm sure you could give me £500 and unleash me in Blackwells or another suitably large or intriguing book shop and I wouldn't spend a penny. If you can't tell how false that statement is, you need to rethink who I am.
Besides, I'll prolly be wearing another top under my top.

Well, yeah. Some things are iust too tempting to resist.
Though I think your definition of 'topless' may need some work based on that last comment.

But the maliciousness plus the furthest-under as an underdog position gives him some even-more-amazing-than-usual lines. I just also loved the dynamic between Blackadder and Prince George in the Third.

This. One, he's a Prince. Two, he's a Lord. Forth, he's a Captain. But Third he's above no-one except Baldrick. And yes, the Blackadder/George dynamic is brilliant.

Now, when it comes to books, I have a small fit of glee every time I find a - wait. WAIT.
WAIT!
It's the second of September!
I Shall Wear Midnight has been released! :bigcool:
I'm going to go town tomorrow, read it, come home, GEEK OUT.
:glee: :glee: :glee: :glee: :glee: :glee: :glee: :glee: :glee: :glee:

Um. Yeah. I have a small-to-extremely-large fit of glee every time I find/read/buy a book I've been lusting after for ages.
I'll be in my bunk. Happy happy days.

Wait, what? It's out? Why has my Dad not acquired a copy yet?! MUST READ WANT TO READ NOW.

I can also hit that stupidly high note in Bohemian Rhapsody almost spot on at least two-thirds of the time.

You're a girl though. Now when I do it (Which I can), it's impressive.

2 Weeks ago? I can't remember what I had for dinner 4 days ago.

Well, some of us can. Indeed, so many of us that having a decent memory is generally regarded as standard.
Besides which, 'Zira is far more interesting than your dinner.

Ah look down mah noze on zem weeth mah snootee French axe-ent!

Rewatched Holy Grail last night. And some of Meaning of Life tonight. The Crimson Permanent Assurance!

"I'd be much obliged, milady. Don't be tryin' to pull somethin' with my drinks though. I have a keen eye."

"Your drink, sir. I can promise you the lady has done nothing to it. You have that on my word of honour."
What I've done to it is of course another matter.

Pfft, you and Mr. Functioned pale in comparison to my Cedric-from-The-Mars-Volta falsetto. Even if I do miss out the top end of his range. But then again, the top of his range goes all the way up to a soprano C. I'd have to stick a very sensitive area in a vice to reach that kind of pitch. o_o

Do you mean one or two octaves above middle C? For that matter, how high can you go?

ION: Ruddigore rehearsals for 'everyone' still might more accurately described as being for 'everyone except Sir Roderic', but this time I had sufficient company that I didn't have to occupy myself reading Sherlock Holmes. Also, it's more interesting to observe now things are coming together more. We're actually running things more than learning them.

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Well, some of us can. Indeed, so many of us that having a decent memory is generally regarded as standard.
Besides which, 'Zira is far more interesting than your dinner.

Thats what you think. I happen to enjoy my dinner very much. If I didn't I'd be a good 10 pounds lighter. I also eat a total of 12 different food combinations (not really, but almost), so forgetting one is a pretty impressive feat.

[Snares]

Do you mean one or two octaves above middle C? For that matter, how high can you go?

Two octaves above middle C. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1FVc_4iHNw <- 2:06 in that song. It's fairly ridiculous.

I've never actually measured how high I can go. I would do it now, but it's half one over here and I'll wake the whole house up. I can do a ridiculously high-pitched scream, but I don't think that counts.

Also, I've seen a couple of people posting 'i' in place of 'j'; what's that about, purely out of curiosity?

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Also, I've seen a couple of people posting 'i' in place of 'j'; what's that about, purely out of curiosity?

Having delved deep into the RB (3 or so) it has something to do with Curly and her love of English.