Kneenibble's Knack for Knightly Knickers: a Knell for Random Banter #184

[Tragic_Comedian]

Well, guys, it sounds like high school sucks.

College is nice though. Something to look forward to.

[Mercenary Pen]

Originally Posted by HalfTangible

GASP! How did you know it was for alliteration!

...

Wait, never mind, that's a dumb question.

Not just alliteration, but due to your choice of alliterative letters, sibilance

[Chen]

Originally Posted by HalfTangible

Does anyone know a good synonym for damage that can refer to the buildings in a city and begins with an S?

Was scarred correct? Sacked also tends to be used when talking about destroying cities.

[Asta Kask]

Should we get a new thread? I vote for Myxnae to start it.

No, paracetamol is not a fun drug. If combined with alcohol it kills your liver, which usually means you'll be going the same way soon.

[Qwertystop]

Originally Posted by The Succubus

The savage shockwave scourred the sacked and shattered city. The shells of striken skyscrapers stood as silent sentinels to the soulless streets below.

Reminds me of a thing I saw in Muse years ago:
“Have it compose a poem- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter S!!”

Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.
She scissored short. Sorely shorn,
Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed,
Silently scheming
Sightlessly seeking
Some savage, spectacular suicide."

[Kneenibble]

Originally Posted by Asta Kask

Should we get a new thread? I vote for Myxnae to start it.

No, paracetamol is not a fun drug. If combined with alcohol it kills your liver, which usually means you'll be going the same way soon.

Elemental, fortunately, does not drink. On the other hand, that restriction would cripple this stewed bird. I'll stick to my homegrown poppy tea.

I'm going to miss my thread ;____;

Originally Posted by Qwertystop

Reminds me of a thing I saw in Muse years ago:
“Have it compose a poem- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter S!!”

Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.
She scissored short. Sorely shorn,
Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed,
Silently scheming
Sightlessly seeking
Some savage, spectacular suicide."

That is a delightful piece of wordcraft. Thank you for sharing.

[HalfTangible]

Originally Posted by Tragic_Comedian

Well, guys, it sounds like high school sucks.

College is nice though. Something to look forward to.

Elementary - What are you DOING here if you haven't gone through Elementary yet?! GET OUT!
Middle - Hell on earth.
High - Better but still sucky.
College - enough free time that school actually becomes bearable, if not outright FUN =D

[Kindablue]

God damn that's hard to say out loud. Was the premise inspired by The Rape of the Lock, do you know?

[Qwertystop]

Originally Posted by Kindablue

God damn that's hard to say out loud. Was the premise inspired by The Rape of the Lock, do you know?

Um...
No idea. The story it appears in is basically "someone makes a poetry-writing computer." It was in Muse, which is basically a magazine for... was it 10-13 year olds? Something like that. I vaguely remembered it so I decided to look up "poem about haircut starting with s", and I got it.

[Teddy]

Originally Posted by Kneenibble

Thank you for sharing your experience. Skillfully florid speech delights me so much, yes indeed. It is a treat: especially because in this city's streets, one cannot breathe any air undebased by unlovely speech, sloppy and cut half-and-half with F#s.

It is important to flourish, to keep the flame of beauty burning. Also, reading lovely writing is indispensable, but when somebody can speak to me in a refined way I usually collapse in a puddle of gratitude and admiration.

Known as the Student Town, my hometown suffers all the issues a large population of young adults brings, but when you look past all the drunken parties, this is a centre of refinement and academia as well. It's an interesting duality, especially since it can (and often do) manifest itself in a single person. I think you'd like it here.

Originally Posted by Kneenibble

Wonderful, wonderful! This is the Romantic's moment of sublime transcendence, to a tittle. I should like to draw the impression you have left on me with Sharpie markers, in a simple colour scheme of black, teal, blue, and white with one single smudge of red lost off-centre.

This is a painting whose sight I'd love to experience...

Originally Posted by Kneenibble

The best of such frozen moonlit scenes for me was when I heard an owl hooting. All sound of the surrounding city was swallowed by the snow, and its clear throaty call throbbed across the empty expanse of the river in lonely echoes.

Owls are cool. And your disgust toward you hometown shines through quite immersively, I can't help but feel the same.

Originally Posted by Kneenibble

[The worst was when I brought a SIGG bottle full of wine with me and almost walked straight into a bald hole in the ice, but let's not talk about that one. ]

Happens even the best of us.

Originally Posted by Kneenibble

*huuuuugs*

*hugs baaaaack*

Originally Posted by MoonCat

Welp, relatively non-massive fight with my father because he misinterpreted my mum. I go down to talk (rant about injustice) to my mother, she gets mad at Dad. This happens every single time. Honestly, I'm upset I can't talk about how I really feel without accidentally starting my mum off on a course of absolute destruction. He never wins against her, and then looks so sad and he is human, so I feel guilty, so I defend Dad, and then I pt aside my issue, and then I never get any progress with the way Dad treats me, and everything just bubbles up in resentment in the bad days.

You need a break from reality. A long one. I'd offer you a place in one of my imaginary dream worlds, but then I realised that they all tend to plummet into bloody large scale battles (I'm a hopeless war romantic), and I wouldn't want to inflict you with PTSD (or more PTSD).

Hmm... Haven't I got any dream worlds that aren't terrible when you think about it?
...
Oh yes, my nightly walks dream worlds are wholly benevolent in nature. You can have one of those. Now, how to transport a physical person into a dream world?
...

Also, *hugs Moonie tooooo*

ION:
This post took me a whole day to write. I'm not kidding, I hit the reply button just half past 7 in the morning, and it's currently half past 11 in the night. It's been a really busy day from my side. I'm not even going to get started on all the nutcases I have to assist on the labs. Let's just say that my sympathy for tech supporters has grown exponentially in the last two weeks...

Still worth it, however. Frustrating when you can't make people understand by only hinting at the answer (which is what we're supposed told to do), but rewarding when they do get it. And I get paid for it as well.

[Mercenary Pen]

Time to start asking the question of who wants the next thread, considering we're already on page 50 and all that jazz...

Also, for the sake of Elemental, Major Amery Howland, staff logistics officer is in action, and he has already developed into a speaking role.

@ Teddy and LaLa- your characters will see action soon enough, but if I put them into the story before now it would have seemed forced- be patient guys.

IRN: Why is procrastination so easy this year?

[LaZodiac]

Originally Posted by Mercenary Pen

Time to start asking the question of who wants the next thread, considering we're already on page 50 and all that jazz...

Also, for the sake of Elemental, Major Amery Howland, staff logistics officer is in action, and he has already developed into a speaking role.

@ Teddy and LaLa- your characters will see action soon enough, but if I put them into the story before now it would have seemed forced- be patient guys.

IRN: Why is procrastination so easy this year?

Sweet, have fun

Winter months lower the amount of sunlight you get. Sunlight helps activate your cells. Without sunlight, it gets easier to not be active.

[Mercenary Pen]

Originally Posted by LaZodiac

Sweet, have fun

Winter months lower the amount of sunlight you get. Sunlight helps activate your cells. Without sunlight, it gets easier to not be active.

Perhaps so, but I procrastinate as much during the hours of real honest to goodness daylight as I do during the hours of darkness-in fact, evenings tend to be my most productive time of day normally...

[Teddy]

Originally Posted by Mercenary Pen

@ Teddy and LaLa- your characters will see action soon enough, but if I put them into the story before now it would have seemed forced- be patient guys.

Cool! Not like I would know, I mean, neither do I have anywhere to read it nor the time to do so, so it's not like my own absence from the story causes me a gaping hole in the heart. But nice to know, nevertheless.

[Mercenary Pen]

Originally Posted by Teddy

Cool! Not like I would know, I mean, neither do I have anywhere to read it nor the time to do so, so it's not like my own absence from the story causes me a gaping hole in the heart. But nice to know, nevertheless.

There's always the chance I might post excerpts- particularly with volunteered characters... I'd generally try and keep them short though.

[Dimonite]

Originally Posted by LaZodiac

Sweet, have fun

Winter months lower the amount of sunlight you get. Sunlight helps activate your cells. Without sunlight, it gets easier to not be active.

Well, I suppose that makes me some kind of strange mutant; I get WAY more active in the winter. Seriously, I just spent four hours doing manual labor (lighting work for an upcoming play), and enjoyed it so much that I plan to do it again on Saturday*.


*Note: the enjoyment of this work has nothing to do with the two attractive, increasingly sweaty young women in tank tops I was working with up on that warm, cramped catwalk. I simply liked the work itself.

[Amidus Drexel]

Originally Posted by HalfTangible

Elementary - What are you DOING here if you haven't gone through Elementary yet?! GET OUT!
Middle - Hell on earth.
High - Better but still sucky.
College - enough free time that school actually becomes bearable, if not outright FUN =D

About as accurately as it can be put. People that claim to enjoy middle school are liars, or really, really odd. High school doesn't suck too much (especially in comparison to middle school), but there's still plenty of idiots to go around. I personally didn't mind junior or senior year, though.

Wait, we've at 50 pages. Who's doing the next thread? Not it!

Originally Posted by Dimonite

Well, I suppose that makes me some kind of strange mutant; I get WAY more active in the winter. Seriously, I just spent four hours doing manual labor (lighting work for an upcoming play), and enjoyed it so much that I plan to do it again on Saturday*.

Winter (technically autumn. It may as well be winter) is an excellent time to do work outside.

*Note: the enjoyment of this work has nothing to do with the two attractive, increasingly sweaty young women in tank tops I was working with up on that warm, cramped catwalk. I simply liked the work itself.

Sure, sure.

[TheCountAlucard]

Originally Posted by Elemental

What kind of convention is it?
A national meeting of bran producers?

Comic books.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Middle school was arright. Fun, even. I had awesome teachers, and a group of about 10-15 GOOD friends. We were all brilliant, all in Gifted, all very very strange. T'was fun.

[Qwertystop]

Originally Posted by Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

Middle school was arright. Fun, even. I had awesome teachers, and a group of about 10-15 GOOD friends. We were all brilliant, all in Gifted, all very very strange. T'was fun.

I think this is the second time you've said something nearly identical to my own school experience (the first time was something about school computers, stupidity thereof). What its going on here?

[Amidus Drexel]

Originally Posted by Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

Middle school was arright. Fun, even. I had awesome teachers, and a group of about 10-15 GOOD friends. We were all brilliant, all in Gifted, all very very strange. T'was fun.

Originally Posted by Qwertystop

I think this is the second time you've said something nearly identical to my own school experience (the first time was something about school computers, stupidity thereof). What its going on here?

You two must be the same person, or maybe clones.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Guys.
Guys.
Guys.

This guy.

Made the best video.

Tourism Toronto told him to make a video.
So he made.
This.
And
I am
in
love.

[MoonCat]

So, who's up for the new thread?

[Rawhide]

Originally Posted by Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

Guys.
Guys.
Guys.

This guy.

Made the best video.

Tourism Toronto told him to make a video.
So he made.
This.
And
I am
in
love.

Nice video. Doesn't make me want to go there.

[Mutant Sheep]

Make Rawhide do it!

Nice video Gywn. But... Looks like ever other metropolitan center. Breakdancer sloooow mo and slowmo seagull don't make them special.


Hey guys... Could Cobra do it?

[Mynxae]

Originally Posted by Asta Kask

Should we get a new thread? I vote for Myxnae to start it.

Mine was the last one. But I would if I was able, but I can't for another 49 threads..

[enderlord99]

New thread!

[Elemental]

Who shall produce the new thread now?

Okay... People who can start a new one own up.

[Coidzor]

So be it!

You have forced my hand.

Spoiler

New thread.

New thread indeed.

Not as nice or as eloquent as I had hoped, but you go to banter with the random you have, not the random you need or deserve.