Facebook Yeti

LaZorra: I tried. I'm probably going to use G+ more once I FINALLY DELETE FACEBOOK GEEZ.

LaZorra: I tried to delete it this weekend, and people were texting me going, "AHHHH DON'T DELETE IT UNTIL I SAVE ALL THE PICTURESSSS" and I still don't know if they're finished.

ThePhan: Heh, yeah, I noticed you hadn't deleted your Facebook yetr.

ThePhan: *yet

LaZorra: I have not deleted my Facebook yeti, no.

wintermute: Facebook yeti?

LaZorra: BEAT

LaZorra: The Facebook yeti is only sighted once in a while in Farmville. He comes to make off with a few of your cows and then leaves.

ThePhan: If Facebook promised you a yeti if you didn't delete your page, what would you do?

LaZorra: TP: Oh man, I've always wanted a yeti!

LaZorra: I'd love him and pet him and call him George.

Going to Realize Fish

LaZorra: So I agreed to write a blog post for a journalism think-tank type of deal.

LaZorra: It's due tonight, shouldbe about a thousand words, and I have half a phrase written.

LaZorra: This is feeling an awful lot like school.

wintermute: Have you tried writing "I am a fish" 250 times?

Sentynel: Yes, but it isn't school. You can Douglas Adams it up and enjoy the whooshing sound of a deadline flying by without failing your degree.

LaZorra: wm: I think perhaps people clicking through to school is goign to realize fish.

LaZorra: ...um

Randy: 'what??

wintermute: ?

* LaZorra falls over.

Maryam: LOL?

LaZorra: SEVENTEEN WHOOSH RABBITS

LaZorra: And a glass of milk turned ravenous ravens.

[RinkChat] User LaZorra has been kicked from the room by LaZorra.

LaZorra has left.

LaZorra has entered.

LaZorra: *wm: I think perhaps people clicking through on a JavaScript tutorial might realize that it was about fish instead.

Lou Ferrigno Visits RinkChat

LouFerrigno has entered.

LouFerrigno: What?

Goosey: LOU

ThePhan: LOL LOL LOL

Goosey: LAZORRA HAS SOMETHING FOR YOU

LaZorra: LOU LOU LOU

LaZorra: I LOVE YOU

LaZorra: *throws Phan's panties*

Goosey: LOL!!

ThePhan: LaZorra is writing a love poem.

LouFerrigno: Hi there LaZorra, thanks for the panties.

ThePhan: HEY WAIT

Goosey: hahahaha

ThePhan: I was wearing those!

LouFerrigno: I made them into a ladder to climb out of the hole I feel in.

LaZorra: 8-.

LouFerrigno: Or fell.

LaZorra: LOL LOL

LaZorra: PANTYLADDER

* Goosey does NOT want to know what holes Lou was feeling in.

ThePhan: The hole is only in your mind!

* LaZorra snorts repeadtedly

LouFerrigno: ThePhan: How right you are!

LaZorra: Lou: You should have used TOAST!

Randy: Lou: Would we like you when you're angry?

LouFerrigno: mmm toast

Goosey: Hey, Lou! Got a sword on you?

* LaZorra is absolutely dying at the mental image of Lou Ferrigno going, "mmm, toast."

LouFerrigno: Randy: No, cause then I get sad and sometimes cry a little. Then you would feel bad about making me, the world's strongest men, cry.

Goosey: Lou: How many men are you?

LouFerrigno: Goosey: Sure, right here!

* LouFerrigno throws it away

LaZorra: Aww, it's okay, Lou. Just remember how shiny your muscles are when they're covered in baby oil.

* Goosey retrieves sword.

ThePhan: LOL

Goosey: Hey, thanks!

LaZorra: Goosey: IT HAS HIS SWAT ON IT *swoon*

LaZorra: Sweat, even.

Goosey: LOL!!!

LouFerrigno: :-.

* Goosey keeps the sword, but collects the sweat in a little vial and presents it to LaZorra.

LouFerrigno: Yeah...this place is too weird for me.

Goosey: And that's saying something.

LouFerrigno: And I did a movie with Jafar and Poochie.

ThePhan: We look like a... a bunch of weirdos.

* Goosey beats Lou Ferrigno the only way she can -- by WITS.

LaZorra: Poochie is downright normal, what do you mean?

LaZorra: Why else would he keep showing up on my ink blots?

Goosey: LOL

ThePhan: LOL

LouFerrigno: I came in to give something special to one special lady

Goosey: aww, how nice.

* LouFerrigno throws his speedo at LaZorra

LouFerrigno has left.

Goosey: O__O

* LaZorra faints.

* Goosey runs away from LaZorra

* LaZorra crashes to the floor where Goosey was.

* Goosey was actually running away from the speedo, but unfortunately it was on LaZorra.

LaZorra: HEY I LOOK DAMNED GOOD IN A SPEEDO okay not really BUT HEY

Goosey: LOL LOL

* LaZorra bronzes the speedo and hangs it on her wall next to the Indiana Jones whip.

Goosey: hehehehe nice

* ThePhan will watch the movie for real now. She thinks.

ThePhan: I was about to, and then Lou showed up.

Goosey: hehehe

LaZorra: See? Lou's incapable of not ruining a movie.

Goosey: LOL!

Randy: LOL

ThePhan: LOL

Randy: Lessons learned: Don't tell your girlfriend you were pretending to have panties thrown at you.

LaZorra: LOL LOL LOL

Randy: TOPICBOT?

LaZorra: YES

LaZorra: I would just like to TOPICBOT this whole convo.

Visit LaZorra Plans

ThePhan: Also, I AM MAKING VISIT LAZORRA PLANS EVERYONE BE JEALOUS :-P

* Goosey IS JEALOUS

Randy: TP: SO JEALOUS

LaZorra: :D

Goosey: Send me some Visit LaZorra Plans! WANT

LaZorra: LOL

ThePhan: LOL

LaZorra: She's creating a kit.

ThePhan: Yup!

LaZorra: It will contain a large piece of green posterboard with "I EET YOR HED" stencilled on it.

ThePhan: It includes carrots for her nose, study guys, and panties to throw at Lou Ferrigno.

Goosey: LOL

ThePhan: Also that.

LaZorra: LOL LOL LOL

* Goosey tries to laugh and cough at the same time and nearly chockes

Goosey: *chokse

Goosey: *CHOKES

LaZorra: hahah

ThePhan: I feel like this should be a BlitzBot question: "Things That Go In a Visit LaZorra Plan Kit."

Get Out of the Butter

Goosey: Phan: I was in a one-act when I was still VL, and we had to change the business so he kissed me on the forehead instead of on the lips 'cause I was too chicken.

Ticia: "change the business?"

Goosey: TP: heheh

Goosey: "dialogue" is what you say, "business" is what you do

Ticia: Oh, okay then.

Goosey: Get your mind out of the gutter, Ticia

Randy: I had to do a scene where I made out with a girl and touch parts of her I wasn't sure she really wanted me to.

Goosey: Get out of the butter, randy

Goosey: *gutter

ThePhan: LOL LOL

ThePhan: GET OUT OF THE BUTTER

Goosey: LOL

Randy: I WAS MAKING TOAST

Goosey: LOL LOIL LOL

* Goosey dies

Mia: haha

Kysle: lol

* LaZorra comes back and reads teh buffer and cracks up.

* Goosey is still laughing

LaZorra: Mostly because now I have a mental image of Randy's face smeared with butter while Goosey yells at him.

LaZorra: "What butter? I don't know what you're talking about."

* Goosey wipes away tears and gasps for breath

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: Now all I can picture is him cheerfully sitting face down in a giant butter tub.

LaZorra: LOL LOL

Goosey: sitting face down??

Goosey: Where does Randy keep his face?

LaZorra: TOPICBOT

Randy: =-O

ThePhan: Well, he's sitting down in FRONT of the butter, but then he's leaned over and shoved his face into it.

Goosey: LOL LOL

ThePhan: Like a pie eating contest or something.

Goosey: OHhhhh "sitting, face down in . . ."

LaZorra: TP: Oh, LOL, I was picturing him sitting on the boottre, with his face between his knees.

Goosey: BOOTTRE

ThePhan: ...Boottre?

LaZorra: er

ThePhan: Was that once "butter"?

Goosey: LOL LOL LOL

LaZorra: CLEARLY that is pronounced, "boo-TRAY"

* Goosey dies AGAIN

LaZorra: It is fancy butter.

ThePhan: LaZorra only eats the best French butter.

Randy: LOL LOL

ThePhan: Ahem, excuse me, I mean, boottre.

* TalkingDog wanders back. He says "Uh."

Randy: LOL LOL

Goosey: LOL LOL LOL

Randy: So is this going to the quotes page?

ThePhan: Uh, yes.

Goosey: THE WHOLE THING

ThePhan: Not right now.

ThePhan: But it will be there.

LaZorra: Monsieur A-TalkinkDok, would zyo like zome toast wiz boottre?

LaZorra: ..."toast wiz" totally makes me think of Cheez Wiz, except...toast flavor.

Goosey: LOL!

TalkingDog: ...Oui?

* LaZorra snaps her fingers and a proper french butler twirls out of the kitchen in a frilly pink tutu and offers TalkingDog some toast.

* Goosey finally breathes.

Goosey: Do proper French butlers wear frilly pink tutus??

* Goosey learns something new everyday.

ThePhan: Um. "A-TalkinkDok" just keeps sounding like "badonkadonk" in my head.

Goosey: LOL!

LaZorra: It iz zee way in zee Olt Countree.

LaZorra: TPL LOL LOL

Randy: A TalkingDog Badaonkadong.

Randy: gah

Randy: you know what I meant

LaZorra: A TALKINGDOG BADONKEYKONG

Goosey: LOL

* TalkingDog just puts out more Doritos and hides in the empty bag.

LaZorra: That must have been a LOT of Doritos.

[RinkChat] User TalkingDog has been shrunken by Goosey.

Goosey: There, that should be easier for him.

ThePhan: Now he can fit!

Randy: LOL

LaZorra: The Dorito Adventures of TalkingDog!

Randy: Poor TD:

LaZorra: Randy: You've turned the last letter of his initials into a frowny face!

Randy: At least he doesn

Goosey: Yeah, at least he doesn

Randy: 't eat butter sitting face down

Randy: HUSH YOU

Goosey: O:-)

LaZorra: RANDY GET OUT OF THE BUTTER

* LaZorra totally wants toast now.

ThePhan: If there is a little man sitting in the butter, tell him to get out of it.

Martin Kuter Was a Bi Fab of Doritos

ThePhan: So a large part of my dinnertime with Jacob consisted of him drawing bizarre little cartoon characters on a napkin, and we made up stories about them.

ThePhan: The cast included a dinosaur, and a creepy mad scientist holding a loaf of French bread, and a tentacled girl, and a guy with only one arm, one eye, and one leg, and then, er, Martin Luther.

Goosey: LOL

Randy: LOL

ThePhan: It was a silly evening. But a fun one.

Randy: Was...was Martin Luther the hero or villian?

ThePhan: The hero. He had a magic shield.

Randy: Of course!

* TalkingDog doesn't know what's going on, but he puts out Doritos.

Goosey: Ooh, doritos. *crunch*

LaZorra: TD: Martin Kuter was a bi fab of doritos.

Goosey: Martin who?

TalkingDog: Was a what?

* LaZorra istyping with one hand.

Randy: LOL

Goosey: Aston's religious brother!

Strophes and Antistrophes

ThePhan: When we had to read Medea for theater history, a group of us got together and read it out loud.
ThePhan: There were all these little notes next to the chorus' lines: "Strophe" and "antistrophe."
ThePhan: We looked them up and discovered that the strophe means that the Greek chorus chants as it moves from right to left across the stage, while in the antistrophe, they move left to right.
ThePhan: From then on, every time we read those lines, we'd all pretend we were dancing whichever direction we were supposed to.
ThePhan: It made the long chorus monologues so much more entertaining.
ThePhan: We could have tap dancing strophes and antistrophes.
LaZorra: That would be amazing.
Sentynel: Is a catastrophe what happens when half the chorus is doing a strophe and the other half is doing an antistrophe?
ThePhan: LOL LOL LOL
ThePhan: YES
LaZorra: *snerk*

Hungarian Folk Dance Algorithms

Sentynel: And now for something completely different:
Sentynel: Here is the quicksort algorithm in the form of a folk dance.
Sentynel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywWBy6J5gz8
LaZorra: Sentynel; THAT IS THE GREATEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN
Sentynel: LaZ: Their channel has videos for quicksort, merge sort, shell sort, select sort, bubble sort and insert sort. Mostly with different types of folk dance.
LaZorra: That is...I can't even...
Sentynel: You're welcome.
LaZorra: "Hungarian folk dance is such a slow programming language." LOL
Sentynel: You could probably craft a Turing-complete Hungarian folk dance.
LaZorra: O.o
Sentynel: If xkcd can simulate a universe with an infinite plain of rocks in the sand, I'm simulating a universe with an infinite Hungarian folk dance.
ThePhan: That's a lot of dancing Hungarian folk.
Sentynel: Yep.
Maryam: Can an infinite number of Hungarian folk dancers eventually stamp out the entire works of Shakespeare in the dirt with their feet?
Sentynel: Yes. Yes they can.
* ThePhan will now incorporate Hungarian folk dancers into every high school production she ever directs.

Cleaning Surprise

(About my suitemate.)

ThePhan: This girl DID go on a "BUY ALL THE CLEANING SURPRISE EVER" spree when she moved in.
Sentynel: HAHAHAHA
Sentynel: CLEANING SURPRISE
ThePhan: Er.
ThePhan: Surprise?
ThePhan: LOL LOL SUPPLIES
Sentynel: You're challenging Heather's crown there!
ThePhan: WHAT WAS THAT

Oregon Trail Trading

Goosey: My cousin came over.
Goosey: So I missed most of the UBT :(
Goosey: But that's okay. I traded her my treadmill and the loan of a mattress for an ace bandage and three strings of christmas lights
TalkingDog: That sounds like an odd variation of Oregon Trail.

Too Many Bots

QuoteBot: Question: Who said this? _______: I have a... er... dad dad. (1) Leen, (2) Homestarmy, (3) Darien, (4) Maryam, (5) pffft, (6) Lifeforce.
Sam: vote 6
Sam: Um.
Sentynel: LOL
Ticia: lol
Randy: I don't know
* Sentynel tries to work out if that was a bluff.
Sam: Too many bots tonight.

CrackBot Wins!

(This is what happens when you play ALL THE BOTS AT ONCE.)

LineBot: CrackBot wins 2 points for Vote 6 for I left Facebook after Goosey's numerous statuses about entertaining swordsmen with her castanets. The only guy I ever had over was the plumber.
LineBot: LaZorra wins 2 points for I left Facebook after Goosey's numerous statuses about entertaining swordsmen with her castanets. The only guy I ever had over was the plumber.
LineBot: ThePhan wins 1 point for Goosey wanted to be a plumber and write statuses about swordsmen playing castanets.
LineBot: LaZorra loses a point for submitting and not voting.
LineBot: CrackBot wins!
Sentynel: Did CrackBot just win LineBot with LaZ's LineBot submission?
Sentynel: mind=blown
Sam: Sent: Yes.

WordZap: Moist Touching

MatchBot: Vote 2 for touching [-2] 10Kan.
MatchBot: Vote 6 for moist [-2] towelettes.
ThePhan: moist [+1] touching [+1]
Sam: touching
Sam: moist
ThePhan: ...uh.
Sentynel: touchign
Sentynel: moist
ThePhan: Creepy combo of words there.
LaZorra: MOIST TOWLETTES ARE A MUST HAVE
Sam: Suddenly all of us are shouting MOIST! TOUCHING!

Hearing Issues and the Pope

CrackBot: CrackBot asks: What issue [-2] are you tired of hearing [-2] about? (1/* accepted)
Kysle: issue [+1]
ThePhan: issue hearing [+1] apt
Sam: hearing issue
Sentynel: jhearing
Ticia: issue
Ticia: Do we /b this?
Sam: Yes.
ThePhan: If not, a lot of people are tired of hearing about hearing issues [+3].
LaZorra: I WISH THE DEAF PEOPE WOULD SHUT UP ALREADY
ThePhan: LZ: That that said "Pope [+3]" instead of "Peope."
ThePhan: *Thought
Sentynel: That that!
ThePhan: *Thought thought

Phan Doesn't Know How to Play ANY Bots

LetterBot: Make up a sentence using only the letters A, M, N, O, T, U. (2/18 accepted)
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ThePhan: LOL I FORGOT IT WAS A WHOLE SENTENCE
ThePhan: I was like, "This is silly."

(My submissions were "mount" and "amount.")
Shortly after that...

LineBot: Make up a sentence using the words fiesta, thill, sludge [+3], skives, four. (1/* accepted)
Sam: ...THERE IS NO SUCH SENTENCE.
ThePhan: ...Using the words?
ThePhan: What?
ThePhan: I do not remember this game at ALL.
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LineBot: Time's up! There were no valid submissions.
ThePhan: OH RIGHT
ThePhan: LOL LOL I DON'T REMEMBER HOW TO PLAY ANY OF THESE
ThePhan: I thought we could ONLY use those words.
ThePhan: And I was like "WHAT THE HECK?"
LaZorra: Phan: LOL LOL
ThePhan: I am crying right now because I'm laughing so hard.
LaZorra: I AM VERY CLOSE
* LaZorra presses herself up against Phan's window.
LaZorra: SEE HOW CLOSE I AM
LaZorra: ?????
ThePhan: Trying to figure out how in the world to organize "fiesta, thill, sludge, skives, four" all into a sentence without any other words.
ThePhan: (Incidentally, Sam's cry of "THERE IS NO SUCH SENTENCE" made so much sense in my warped understanding of the game.)
LaZorra: TP: AHAHHAHA

Sinman

SinbadCaptionBot: LaZorra wins 0 points for Sinman wasn't too crazy about the new workout his pysihcal trainer had devised.
Ticia: LaZorra: Sinman?
ThePhan: SINMAN
Sentynel: LOL, I didn't see that one.
ThePhan: LOL LOL
Sam: SIN MAN!
Sentynel: Batman's nautical cousin.
ThePhan: I am seriously laughing uncontrollably right now.
LaZorra: augh
LaZorra: BAD
LaZorra: BAD
LaZorra: LEROY BROWN
iwpg: Yes, BAD!
Sam: That's the strangest superhero ever. His superpower? TO DISHONOR HIS FATHER AND MOTHER!
10Kan: Sam: LOL
LaZorra: LOL LOL
Sam: With superhuman ability, Sin Man COVETS HIS NEIGHBOR'S WIFE!

The Naked Vikings

(The picture was one of the Viking Warrior, shirtless as always.)

SinbadCaptionBot: Sam wins 5 points for The Viking Warrior didn't have even clothes to wear.
* Sam waits for everyone to thank him for putting the image of a NAKED VIKING WARRIOR in everyone's minds.
ThePhan: LOL
Kysle: It didn't, until you just said it again.
Ticia: hahaha
Ticia: THANK YOU SAM
Sam: YOU'RE WELCOME
LaZorra: hehe
Ticia: No, seriously. Thank you.
LaZorra: SAM I ALREADY HAD THAT MENTAL IMAGE SO HA
Sam: LOL
ThePhan: LAZORRA THINKS ABOUT NAKED VIKINGS ALL DAY LONG
LaZorra: :-.
LaZorra: I AM BUILDING THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE'S NAKED VIKING WEBSITE OKAY
Randy: TOPICBOT
ThePhan: LOL LOL LOL
Ticia: lol
Randy: And again.
ThePhan: I love you people.

Mad Phan

(During a SinbadCaptionBot game.)

lelo14: do we only vote once?
Sentynel: Yes, unless you're voting for Vlad Putin.
ThePhan: Sent: Somehow I thought that said "Unless you're voting for Mad Phan."
Sentynel: Phan: ...You're definitely mad.
* ThePhan IS MAD! VOTE FOR ME!
Randy: vote Phan
ThePhan: A VOTE FOR ME IS A VOTE FOR MADNESS!
* Sentynel is all in favour of madness.

Boyfriend Test

(Formatting is weird in Blogger this week and I really don't feel like doing it all manually, so no bolding of names and such. That's all.)

* ThePhan is going to make Jacob watch Sinbad over Christmas break.
Randy: Nice!
Goosey: Phan: YESSSS
LaZorra: Phan: YES
Ticia: TP: Woo!
Sam: TP: Yay! It's a good boyfriend test. If he doesn't like it, you know to break up with him.
Ticia: haha
ThePhan: Sam: Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm thinking.
LaZorra: "I am sorry, you do not like Lou Ferrigno. GOOBYE!"
Sentynel: "I'm sorry. I just can't be with a man who doesn't appreciate Sinbad's massive pecs!"
* ThePhan may have to live-blog his reactions here in chat.
LaZorra: Phan: PLEASE
Sam: TP: YES DO THAT! I'll archive it.
ThePhan: Besides, if he doesn't watch Sinbad, how will he know to say, "Gosh, you're beautiful" to me?
Randy: LOL LOL
Ticia: lol lol LOL
LaZorra: LOL LOL
Goosey: LOL LOL
Ticia: lol lOL LOL
Randy: I showed Sarah some of the clips on youtube. She thinks we're all crazy.
Sentynel: Make sure you schedule it in advance so we can come and watch.
ThePhan: Sent: LOL, I totally will.
Randy: YES
Sentynel: We have the oddest spectator sports.

GPS Bacon Wristwatch

ThePhan: There was a conversation Jacob and I had about him randomly giving people his number. Like he thought I said one of his friends had texted me, and so we decided that he was so excited to have a girlfriend that everywhere he went, he'd been handing out my number to people. "Hi! I have a girlfriend! Here's her number!"
ThePhan: Er.
ThePhan: That first sentence should be "randomly giving people *my* number."
Sam: LOL
Randy: LOL LOL
10Kan: "No, seriously! Call her and ask!"
ThePhan: LOL
ThePhan: RIGHT as I typed that, he texts me, "Sup girlfriend?!"
ThePhan: It's like he knew I was talking about him.
Randy: awwww
ThePhan: CREEPY.
10Kan: 8-o
* Sentynel emails "SHE KNOWS" to Jacob.
* ThePhan checks outside her window to make sure he's not being a stalker and somehow reading my RinkChat conversations.
ThePhan: He *claims* he's at Wal-Mart.
10Kan: Give him a GPS beacon wristwatch.
ThePhan: I thought that said "a GPS bacon wristwatch."
ThePhan: Which sounded bizarre but AWESOME.
Randy: ME TOO
Sentynel: Mmm, globally positioned bacon.
ThePhan: Google informs me: No results found for "gps bacon wristwatch".
ThePhan: Sad.
Maryam: What about just a normal bacon wristwatch?
ThePhan: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001R...ive=390957&creativeASIN=B001R1R400
Maryam: LOL! I KNEW it must exist.

Accidental RinkChat

LaZorra has entered.

LaZorra: ...er, wow, I did not mean to come in here.

LaZorra: I meant to go take a shower.

* TalkingDog HUGS teh laz!

TalkingDog: Here is better than showers.

* LaZorra actually does go take a whoer now.

TalkingDog: ...a what now?

Randy: A whoer?

Randy: A Whoer is someone that dresses up like Dr. Who characters at conventions.

Parenting Through Regexes

(In one corner, Goosey's complaining about someone's parenting style. In another, TalkingDog and Sentynel are talking coding.)

Goosey: It's mostly that she's inconsistent.

Goosey: Illustration:

Sentynel: It should still be possible to regex for "*[allowed username chars]+* | *[allowed username chars]+\-\>" though.

Maryam: For a second I thought Sentynel's line was Goosey's illustration and I was all @.@

Sentynel: I fully support parenting through regexes.

Accidental Puns

LaZorra: The high next week is going to be 31. THIRTY-ONE.

* ThePhan is not cool with winter.

Randy: TP:I've been warming up to it.

LaZorra: It's definitely not giving me the cold shoulder.

ThePhan: LOL MY PUN WAS AN ACCIDENT

* ThePhan can't believe she did that.

Mushy Couples

Randy: I want to do a podcast sometime

ThePhan: Randy: You need to do the whatever the heck podcast we're doing with you and me and Smith and Lisa and Sarah!

Randy: YES

Randy: TP: Get Jacob in there and we can all be mushy couples.

ThePhan: Ha, YES!

ThePhan: We can even title the podcast Mushy Couples.

ThePhan: (Except Jacob and I are not very mushy to each other. So we're a li'l bit behind you guys.)

Randy: LOL

Randy: Thats ok

Randy: Sarah said "hahahaha!" and "ewwwww"

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: That is probably the correct response.

Sentynel: Fun fact: it appears I associate the word "mushy" very strongly with mushy peas.

Sentynel: This rendered this discussion somewhat surreal to say the least.

Randy: LOL

ThePhan: Sent: LOL!

The Queen's Copy

Sentynel: LOL LOL

Sentynel: Facebook post:

Sentynel: "Whoever has the Queen's copy of 'The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese literature', do you still need it? Can I borrow it please??"

Sentynel: Comment:

Sentynel: "For a moment I thought you were just casually borrowing books from Her Majesty."

Maryam: So what are they referring to by 'the Queen'?

Sentynel: The Queen's College, Oxford.

Maryam: Aha.

Sentynel: Correct positioning of the apostrophe there is VERY IMPORTANT, mostly because a) there's a Queens' College in Cambridge, and b) it often got missed off completely.

Sentynel: There were a couple of people with a profitable side-business in sewing the apostrophe onto university hoodies and stuff that missed it out.

Sentynel: But then "The Queen's College" gets shortened to just "Queen's", and tada, grammatical ambiguity.

Freeting Separtment

ThePhan: Ooh, I forgot! I have a LaZorra typo story.

ThePhan: Yesterday, as I was leaving chat, she told me twice to tell Jacob she said hi. So I told him she said hi twice, and he responded, "Well, tell her that *I* say hi THREE times."

ThePhan: So I texted her and told her this. A few hours later, I get this text:

ThePhan: "Ha! I have been one-upped in the freeting separtment! Challenge accepted! Also, you have a food trip home too. :)"

Sam: hahaha

ThePhan: This was followed almost immediately by another text: "Er. Wow. So many typos. #earlymorning #fatfingers #blurrycontacts"

[RinkChat] The chat room's topic has been changed to 'Welcome to the freeting separtment.' by Sam.

Evangelia and Leora

Sam: Weird spam: "I was at a party, got drunk, couldn't drive the car, somebody gave me a lift on my car, and crossed on the red light many times, I've just got the pictures, maybe you know him? Here is the photo. I need to find him urgently! Thank you, Evangelia."

Sam: No photos were attached.

Sam: I'm not sure what the goal of that spam is.

Sentynel: Maybe it's targeting clairvoyants.

Sentynel: Alternatively, maybe there were images and a virus scanner somewhere removed them.

Sentynel: Or, maybe it's fishing for live email addresses by trying to induce responses from misguidedly helpful people.

Sam: Here's another identical spam, except that this one is from "Leora."

Sam: Maybe.

Sam: Except that the return email addresses are evangelia@rinkworks.com and leora@rinkworks.com.

Sam: So those aren't going to get back to anybody.

ThePhan: Evangelia and Leora have been secretly working on RinkWorks for years.

Sam: If so, I need to crack the whip. There has not been nearly enough new content lately.

Talk Quick

* ThePhan realizes Sam and LaZorra are both here and so she says HI GUYS!

* LaZorra HUGS Phan!

* ThePhan HUGS LaZorra!

ThePhan: I am only here for another 15 minutes or so, though, before I go have dinner with Jacob, then rehearsal, then start the 5 1/2 drive home.

ThePhan: SO TALK QUICK EVERYONE

LaZorra: OKAYTODAYWASGREATANDOHEMGEEITISCOLDHEREANDITISRAININGBUTIGOHOMETOMORROWMORNINGATLIKETHREEINTHEMORNINGSOITISASUCKYDAYBUTIGETTOBEHOMEUNTILSATURDAYANDHOWAREYOUWILLYOUBEINMYNECKOFTHEWOODSANDSAYHITOJACOBFORME

Sentynel: Ifyoudrovequickly,youcouldhavemoretimehereandwewouldn'tneedtotalksofast.

Sentynel: HEY

ThePhan: LOL LOL

ThePhan: I love you all.

LaZorra: SENTYNELSTOPPEDFORPUNCTUATIONANDSOIBEATHIM

Ticia: Well,let'ssee,idon'treallyhavemuchtosaybutnowifeelallpressuredtosaysomethingprofoundandreallyreallyfastandit'sreallyhardtotypewithoutusingthespacebarbuglandsgettingeasier.

* goldfishy just has nothing to say

ThePhan: BUGLANDS

LaZorra: BIGLANDS

Ticia: lol

Ticia: Idon'tknowwherethatcamefrom

Ticia: it was supposed to be "but it's getting easier"

LaZorra: Ticia: Plural of a small, unforutantely named bird.

Ticia: unforutantely?

LaZorra: ummm

LaZorra: yes

LaZorra: Ticia: (.)(.)

Ticia: !!

LaZorra: LOL

Ticia: Why are you making boobs at me?

ThePhan: LOL LOL

LaZorra: IT IS THE NAME OF THE BIRD

Sentynel: Just don't say THAT SEABIRD THAT IS LIKE BOOBIES.

wintermute: bu[t it's]

Ticia: Remember my rules!

wintermute: becomes bu[glands].

Ticia: I'm going to have to ground myself if you guys don't stop.

LaZorra: LOL LOL

ThePhan: LOL LOL

ThePhan: Once again:

ThePhan: I love you all.

Lack of Trust

(Sam and I had been /msging about someone who wouldn't answer personal questions but instead accused the asker of having a lack of trust. So then this happened.)

Sam: So what's everyone up to?

Sam: ANSWER ME.

Sam: WHY ARE YOU IGNORING MY QUESTION.

Sam: YOU MUST SUFFER FROM A LACK OF TRUST.

* Sentynel is on a moon landing mission, and thus communications are delayed by a few seconds.

ThePhan: LOL

Sam: Neat.

ThePhan: I am catching up on some blog reading.

* TalkingDog is helping his brother install a new cooling unit, in exchange for 4 GB of memory. That's currency now.

Sam: YOU ALL SUFFER FROM TOO MUCH TRUST

Sam: YOU'RE ALL TELLING ME THE INTIMATE DETAILS OF WHAT YOU'RE DOING, or at least the broad strokes of it, AND I COULD BE ANYBODY.

TalkingDog: How do you know I was telling the truth?

TalkingDog: I might actually be getting 4 GiB.

TalkingDog: That's giga-imaginary-bytes. Totally different.

Sam: You won't tell me if you were truthful or not? YOU SUFFER FROM A LACK OF TRUST.

Crap Apple

Sentynel: I guess I'm a bit spoilt 'cos Dad makes his own jam.

Sam: Niiice.

Sam: We've made our own on occasion.

Sentynel: Mostly blackberry, because there's SO MANY blackberries growing wild in the fields around us.

Sentynel: But we also grow some fruit, and he's made jam from that sometimes. Blackcurrants work well.

Sentynel: Oh, and he's made crap apple jelly once or twice.

Sentynel: Again, loads of it grows wild.

Sam: I don't think I would like that one.

10Kan: Is that a typo, or is it really that bad?

[RinkChat] The chat room's topic has been changed to 'How about a nice spoonful of crap apple jelly!' by Sam.

Sentynel: Err.

Sentynel: *crab apple

When Nerds Fight

Sentynel: LaZ: The formatting on your comment got a little screwy.

Sentynel: Oh, you already fixed that.

Sentynel: Quick like the ninja.

LaZorra: HA

LaZorra: STOP SPYING ON MY FACEBOOK YOU CREEPER

Sentynel: Spying!? You stop spamming my email account by multiply posting comments with my name in!

LaZorra: Oh don't you even tempt me.

Sentynel: LOL

Sentynel: I can filter them easily enough.

Sentynel: Although if you wait until I go to bed..

ThePhan: THOUSANDS OF EMAILS

Sentynel: I have 6,490MB of space left in my mailbox.

LaZorra: Well. I can always just write a script to send him random emails, unrelated to facebook.

Sentynel: See how much you can fill by tomorrow.

Sentynel: LOL

LaZorra: One every millisecond for the next eight hours ought to do it.

ThePhan: I will email you my current NaNo novel one word at a time.

Sentynel: You be careful opening engagements like that.

LaZorra: O:-)

LaZorra: Phan: YES

Sentynel: I have access to a lot of email accounts and a lot of servers, and more free time on my hands than you have.

Randy: Tonight on Rinkchat: When Nerds Fight...

Sentynel: It's like a wizards' duel, only with scripts instead of spells.

Awful Showtune Lyrics

(About the Christmas revue I'm in)

ThePhan: LZ: If you do make it out for that, you will get to hear me sing one line in the most horribly-written song ever! But you will also see me dance! And Jacob has a whole song all to himself and it will be rather gorgeous!
LaZorra: TP: LOL, that's quite the incentive...I think...
ThePhan: LOL, story about this song...
ThePhan: When the song was first handed out to us it was just a group number, and I complained to my friends all the time about how much I hated this song.
LaZorra: story!
ThePhan: Then he assigned a couple solos, but I didn't have one, and I said to those friends, "Boy, I'm glad I didn't get any of those solos. I hate that song."
ThePhan: Then the director handed out two more solos, and one of them was mine, and as soon as he announced that, these people looked at me and just smirked.
ThePhan: (Although, granted, mine is the least awful of the four.)
Sentynel: LOL
LaZorra: LOL!
Randy: What song?
Randy: LOL
Goosey: LOL
Sentynel: You were kinda asking for that to happen.
Randy: hehe
ThePhan: It's "December the 25th" from Scrooge.
* ThePhan find sit.
ThePhan: *finds it, rather
ThePhan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqsrm04ZFRs
ThePhan: I'm singing the part that goes: "I don't hear any arguments, so may I say forthwith, I wish that every day could be December the 25th."
ThePhan: But most of these verses MAKE NO SENSE AT ALL.
Randy: Oh my
LaZorra: Okay, I made it through the first 30 seconds and had to stop it.
ThePhan: LOL
LaZorra: I am so very sorry.
ThePhan: There is a fun spirited dance number that goes along with it, though. So that's not so bad.
LaZorra: Phew!
ThePhan: And at least I don't have to sing "Ask anyone called Robinson or Brown or Jones or Smith their favorite day and they will say December the 25th."
ThePhan: I could not have done it.
LaZorra: LOL LOL
LaZorra: EVERYONE ELSE LIKES FEBRUARY THIRD BETTER
ThePhan: OR
Sentynel: What a bizarre song.
Goosey: LOL
ThePhan: "If there's a day in history that's more than any myth, beyond a doubt one day stands out: December the 25th."
ThePhan: Are people arguing that the rest of the dates in the calendar are mythical?
ThePhan: I THINK NOT
LaZorra: I can't even begin to guess what that means.
Sentynel: Phan: I've always been suspicious of March 14th...
ThePhan: Leslie Bricusse is an awful, awful lyricist, and he writes EVERYTHING.
ThePhan: He's the one who I complained about on Facebook awhile back for his lyrics for Cyrano.
ThePhan: Roxanne is begging Cyrano to protect Christian while the guys are off at war, and she has to sing this lyric: "Forbid him to do reckless things. Don't let him ride a horse."
ThePhan: Really? They're going to war, and him riding a horse is your main concern?
Sentynel: I'm pretty sure being the only one not on a horse would be more dangerous.
ThePhan: What if everyone else is riding a horse and he's not?
ThePhan: Yeah, what Sent said.
LaZorra: ...
LaZorra: Maybe he's deathly allergic.
ThePhan: I kind of just want to read through all his lyrics ever and write a blog about how terrible a writer he is.
LaZorra: You should. It would be hilarious.
ThePhan: And it makes me furious because he frequently works with Frank Wildhorn, who's one of my very favorite composers and writes these big gothic-sounding romantic numbers...
ThePhan: ...with lyrics like "Don't let him ride a horse" or "Murder, murder, when there's one done, murder, murder can't be undone!"
LaZorra: Augh.
Goosey: LOL
Sentynel: Sure it can. Raise Dead is only a tth level cleric spell.
ThePhan: Teeth level?
Sentynel: Er.
Sentynel: *5th
Sentynel: I originally wrote 7th, then realised that was Resurrection, not Raise Dead, and changed it.
Sentynel: Only I seem to have become confused about which character I was replacing.
LaZorra: I hate it when I have to execute spells at teeth level.
ThePhan: Although my two favorite awful showtune lyrics are not from anything he wrote.
ThePhan: They are: 1) "I must resist his charms, and his manly rugged arms" from The Woman in White.
LaZorra: LOL LOL LOL
Sentynel: That's amazing.
ThePhan: And: 2) "You need to make films and write songs, you need somewhere to do it. It's what we used to dream about, think twice before you pooh-pooh it" from Rent.
ThePhan: NOBODY can sing that line and make it sound okay.
LaZorra: I was just wondering how on earth you'd get the emphasis right on that one.
LaZorra: In my head I'm going, "POOH-pooh? Pooh-POOH. poohpooh. Poooooh-POOH!"
Goosey: LOL LOL
LaZorra: CUUHPCAYKE
LaZorra: *wiggle**waggle*

The Eye of Sauron

ThePhan: Oh, I forgot to tell you guys this awful fact. When we were playing Celebrity during game time last night, Jacob and I were THE ONLY ONES IN THE ENTIRE ROOM who knew who Sauron and Harrison Ford were.

ThePhan: THE ONLY ONES

(I have since been informed this was not actually true. But whatever. This makes for a better story anyway.)

LaZorra: Phan: WHAT

Sentynel: Phan: How is that POSSIBLE?

Randy: Wow

ThePhan: Right?

ThePhan: And we were on opposite teams, so we couldn't even give them to each other to guess.

ThePhan: LOL

Randy: How do you play Celebrity?

LaZorra: Also, by mentioning them like that, I'm now imagining Sauron and Harrison Ford hanging on a Hollywood back lot together.

Goosey: LOL

LaZorra: "Have you seen that awesome new movie? The one with Sauron and Harrison Ford in it?"

LaZorra: Also, I somehow have it in my head that if Sauron were an actor, he would be Nicolas Cage.

ThePhan: Randy: Everybody writes down the names of famous people or characters on slips of paper, and then you put them all in a bowl and divide into teams, and each person has to get their teams to guess as many people as you can in a minute.

ThePhan: In the first round, you can describe them, then you put all the papers back into the bowl and guess them all again, but this time you can only give one word as a clue. And then the third round you have to act it out.

Sentynel: Sauron had quite a prolific career as an extra, until the Fall of Númenor destroyed his ability to appear as a fair man.

Randy: How was Sauron mimed? Just making a big eye?

ThePhan: Randy: Yeah, once we explained to everybody who he was.

LaZorra: sigh

LaZorra: "You know, he's the DUDE WITH THE BIG EYE. BIG EYE DUDE."

* LaZorra should really go to bed, she thinks.

Goosey: LOL

Sentynel: You should totally have done Sauron in the first round by reading the inscription on the One Ring.

Sentynel: Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul...

Goosey: Ash nazg thrakatuluk, burzum ishi krimpatul

* LaZorra should also probably not share that she has been trying to mime a big eye most of this time by making facial expressions.

Sentynel: LOL LOL

ThePhan: LZ: LOL LOL

Sentynel: LaZ: PICTURES

LaZorra: >.O

Randy: LOL

Randy: Me tooooo

ThePhan: (Now I am doing it.)

Sentynel: LaZ: Isn't that what you look like when you smile anyway? =p

ThePhan: But it's way more fun if you try to only make ONE big eye, not both of them.

[RinkChat] User Sentynel has been kicked from the room by LaZorra.

Sentynel has left.

LaZorra: TP: EXACTLY

Sentynel has entered.

Sentynel: HEY

LaZorra: I think all of us should take a picture right now of miming the big eye, and memo them all to Sam with no explanation whatsoever.

Randy: It would be like lots of "A Flash to the Eye"'s at once

LaZorra: I TOOK ONE

LaZorra: Man, this is a terrifying picture.

(She posts the picture to Facebook and links us all to it.)

LaZorra: HAHAHA. An old friend, on my Eye of Sauron pic: "Frightening, no. Looking slightly allergic to something and/or you need a coffee with a side of sanity, yes."

ThePhan: LOL

Goosey: LOL

Sentynel: LaZ: Maybe this will help with the former. http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/239/sauronw.jpg

Sentynel: Lack of frightening, that is. Not boyfriends.

Randy: aaaaaaggghhh

* LaZorra just snorted.

Sentynel: My 30-second shop job was rather delayed by trying to find a decent source image for the Eye that didn't have the edges cut off...

LaZorra: You totally need to post that in the thread.

Sentynel: Will do.

LaZorra: Also, the fact that it wouldn't attract good boyfriend material is EXACTLY what's wrong with men. :-p

LaZorra: Every dude should love a girl who can do a Sauron impersonation.

Sentynel: Complete with the flaming eye?

Sentynel: I can see how that would put people off.

LaZorra: WHAT

Goosey: LOL

* LaZorra just typed that while making the face.

Goosey: LOL!

LaZorra: IT IS ONE OF MY MANY SEXY TALENTS

Sentynel: You are utterly insane, you know.

LaZorra: I CAN ALSO FIT AN ENTIRE WAD OF SILLY PUTTY UP MY NOSE

ThePhan: My Sauron Eye brings all the boys to the yard...

Randy: LOL!

Goosey: Laz: LOL And when did you find this out?

Sentynel: When she was being silly, obviously.

Randy: YOu are crazy and we are also

LaZorra: Goosey: Well, um, it totally depends on the size of the wad.

LaZorra: With the carrots in there, I don't have THAT much room.

Goosey: LOL LOL

Sentynel: LOL LOL LOL

ThePhan: The silly putty helps keep the carrots in until you're ready to shoot.

Sentynel: Better seal on them, too. So they get launched at higher velocity.

LaZorra: Exactly! It's the secret to the whole mechanism.

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LaZorra: Night all! I expect your Eye of Sauron pictures to be posted in the morning.

* LaZorra HUGS everyone!

LaZorra has left.

ThePhan: I think we should all quietly replace all our eyes in our FB profile photos with the flaming Eye of Sauron.

Goosey: dahaha

Robot Cashier

TalkingDog: Huh. My cashier was 9999? It's normally a name. I thought.
ThePhan: Your cashier was a robot!
TalkingDog: Or she's German, and there was some confusion when the manager asked for her name.
TalkingDog: But that seems unlikely.
TalkingDog: Probably a robot.

Random Letters

(My boyfriend wandered into RinkChat to meet everybody for the first time. This ensued.)

Goosey: Keef: Has Phan showed you her Quotes blog yet?

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: I have not.

Goosey: Keef: MAKE HER SHOW YOU

Keeferj: I don't think she has

Goosey: Keef: here: v

* Goosey tries that again

Goosey: here: http://rinkquotes.blogspot.com/

ThePhan: LOL

Randy: We should all give Jacob random letters.

Goosey: RAndy: Do it!

Maryam: Jacob: Here you go: r

Goosey: Although, I don't really think there's anything better than a lowercase v.

ThePhan: Maryam: LOL

Maryam: Then he gets to try to make a word out of them.

Randy: Jacob: here you go: L

Sentynel: Jacob: 42

Keeferj: aw, thanks guys

Ben and Jesus

ThePhan: How was TV time?

Maryam: Pretty good. We watched Castle, Person of Interest, and Young Justice.

wintermute: INTERESTING PERSON!

wintermute: It's good to know that Ben kept himself busy after leaving the Island.

Maryam: wm: Haha, yeah. He seems almost exactly the same character.

Maryam: We even call him Ben because we can't remember his name.

Maryam: And the other main character is Jesus.

Maryam: It's the Ben & Jesus show.

Four Funny Words

Sam: A few new searches: http://www.rinkworks.com/searches/

ThePhan: "how to get a guy to say more than 1 word" followed by "I HAVE TO THINK OF 4 FUNNY WORDS TO SAY TO SOMEONE" cracks me up.

ThePhan: I feel like the girl went to the guy and said, "You need to say four funny words."

Goosey: LOL

Sam: "Gah! Four! I can't think of four funny words! I'm so screwed! HALP, INTERNAT!"

The Boy and the Robber

ThePhan: Had an exciting morning!

ThePhan: I got to my practicum at the high school, only to find out they were on lockdown.

ThePhan: So I waited in the main office and then eventually, they were like, "Well, you can probably go home if you want."

ThePhan: I said, "I don't know what the situation is, but, uh, I walked here. So I get someone to drive me back?"

ThePhan: They got all serious and said, "Well, yes, there's an armed robber on the loose, and we don't know if he's in a vehicle or on foot, so I think you'd better see if you can get a ride."

ThePhan: Thankfully The Boy was not in class and was able to come get me.

Grishny: The Boy? Eustace from Scary-Go-Round?

ThePhan: LOL

Grishny: You got a ride with Dark Esther's boyfriend. You better watch out, I hear she's a mean boxer.

ThePhan: No, although that would be interesting. I meant my boyfriend.

* ThePhan started calling him The Boy in chat when they were in that weird phase when they were "talking about stuff," but not actually together.

Grishny: And after you got home did you don your costumes and go out to find and apprehend the armed robber?

ThePhan: LOL LOL

ThePhan: Of course.

Grishny: "To The Boy-Cave, The Boy!"

No Cattle For You

Sentynel: Stop linking stuff then so I can go!

Sentynel: ALL YOUR FAULT.

Goosey: LaZ: Kick him out of his misery

Sentynel: On the other hand, if I stay up another twenty minutes I can get another episode of Castle downloaded overnight...

[RinkChat] User Sentynel has been kicked from the room by LaZorra.

Sentynel has left.

Sentynel has entered.

Goosey: LOL

LaZorra: NO CATTLE FOR YOU

Sentynel: HOW RUDE

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: LOL LOL CATTLE

Goosey: I AM TRYING TO HELP THE SLEEP SENTYNEL

Sentynel: There's plenty of cattle behind the house.

Goosey: THE CAMOOS ARE AFTER SENTYNEL

LaZorra: NO CASTLE EITHER

[RinkChat] User Sentynel has been kicked from the room by LaZorra.

Sentynel has left.

Sentynel has entered.

Sentynel: Is a camoo a camel/cow hybrid?

* ThePhan now imagines Sentynel living in a castle full of cattle.

Goosey: Camoos are the minions of Camou-Fairy.

Sentynel: That's a scary thought.

Goosey: LaZ is the only one who can stop them.

Goosey: By shooting carrots out her nose.

Sentynel: Camou-Fairy minions. Not a castle full of cattle. That's just bemusing.

Sentynel: And smelly.

Goosey: LOL

Nyperold: A moat full of goats...

Sentynel: And trolls trying to get across it?

Goosey: LOL LO:

Goosey: *LOL

Sentynel: lo, a moat filled with goats!

Nintendo Cartridges and Micoly

ThePhan: So earlier this evening Jacob and I had overheard this weird conversation where these guys were talking about treating a girl like a Nintendo cartridge by, for example, blowing in her face. And we both agreed that he should not in any way take that relationship advice.

ThePhan: Then just a bit ago I had sent Jacob a spam message I got this evening from someone named Micoly Smith and warned him that he could be replaced if he tried to treat me like a Nintendo cartridge.

ThePhan: This is the message I get back:

ThePhan: "LOL!! Micoly sounds pretty cool. He sounds kinda like he would have the intention to treat you classy-like, what with his open and warmth heart and all. He'll probably walk up behind you and blow on your face. Then all his awesome attributes would be for naught."

LaZorra: LOL

LaZorra: Hey, if a guy can walk up BEHIND you and blow on your FACE, that's talent to respect.

* TalkingDog is the best NES cartridge blower ever. He occasionally causes them to emit an eardrum-piercing whistle. And then they work.

ThePhan: TD: LOL LOL, I just have this image of you blowing in a girl's face and she suddenly whistles.

TalkingDog: That would be incredibly weird.

The Trouble With Fruit

ThePhan: Guys, I haven't eaten an apple in so long that I forgot they have a core.

ThePhan: In my mind, I was going to just eat all the way through this caramel apple.

LaZorra: TP:Surprise!

Sentynel: Phan: Also, turns out you have to peel bananas.

Goockies

LaZorra: Actually, I am semi-away BECAUSE I AM MAKING GOOCKIES

Goosey: GOOCKIES

LaZorra: I AM MAKING GOOSEY COOKIES

LaZorra: THEY TASTE LIKE REAL GOOSEY

Assimilation

ThePhan: My silly minigoal this weekend: get The Boy to wander into Chat for a few minutes to say hi to people. Since you are all kind of a large part of what I do with my life.

ThePhan: Heh

10Kan: Yesss.

* Sentynel plots

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: I may have to be sitting in the room with him when he comes in, so I can reassure him if you people get creepy.

ThePhan: :-P

ThePhan: Er, and by "room" I mean the same physical room. Not the chatroom.

Sentynel: ./msg The_Boy THEY'RE NICE REALLY I SWEAR

ThePhan: Hehe

10Kan: One of us...one of us...

Sentynel: RESISTANCE IS FUTILE

Sentynel: YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED

10Kan: Camou Fairy is our Borg queen.

Goosey: LOL

ThePhan: LOL

Anonymous

Sentynel: There's a film called Anonymous, about some Shakespeare conspiracy theory, which has just come out over here and is being heavily advertised.

Sentynel: I keep seeing news headlines about it, like "Anonymous stirs up Shakespeare debate", and thinking "wow, Anon have really let themselves go..."

Sentynel: Tackle the global financial system, take down darknet child porn hosts, stir up debate about Shakespeare...

BEng MSc PhD MIEEE

* Sentynel has been in London discussing encryption with a concerningly smart computer scientist.

ThePhan: Concerningly?

Sentynel: He's 25 or something, and has three degrees and a professional accreditation listed on his business card.

Sentynel: And he's running a business startup in public key encryption.

ThePhan: Dang.

ThePhan: I have done so much less in my 25 years.

Sentynel: BEng MSc PhD MIEEE.

ThePhan: I can only read that as "being miscellaneous PhD MEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Sentynel: LOL

* ThePhan is going to put that on her business cards.

Drinking Sudoku

goldfishy: Would anyone like their drink topped up with sudoku?

10Kan: Wouldn't it be hard to solve if it get s all wet?

goldfishy: I have no idea

goldfishy: I have no idea how it happened

10Kan: What exactly did happen?

goldfishy: I was getting drinks and asked my mum if she wanted her drink topped up with sudoku

goldfishy: I meant Pepsi

10Kan: LOL

goldfishy: They have NOTHING in common

* 10Kan doesn't think either one tastes very good.

Ninja Theatre

ThePhan has left.

ThePhan has entered.

goldfishy: Gosh, it's Phan! I wasn't expecting to see you!

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: That's what I do! I just pop up out of nowhere!

goldfishy: Yes you do!

goldfishy: You're like a ninja theatre performer person

Randy: Sneaky Phan

goldfishy: You just pop up out of like the barrel of apples in the supermarket and start singing at the top of your voice about memories or something

Randy: LOL

ThePhan: LOL

* ThePhan should definitely do that more often.

goldfishy: I like that that sentence implies you have done it in the past, but only once in a while

goldfishy: From now on it's gonna be every other Wednesday between 3 and 4pm!

Pirate Scrabble

goldfishy: How does one end up with 4 R's in their hand in scrabble?

Sentynel: You're playing Pirate Scrabble.

TalkingDog: Is Ninja Scrabble all blank tiles?

The Phantom of the Enterprise

(About The Phantom of the Opera)

ThePhan: There's a file floating around that has synced the original Broadway cast recording to the visuals of the film. I had it for awhile and then lost it, but it was gorgeous.

TalkingDog: That sounds like excellence.

Goosey: Phan: Ooohhhhhh

Goosey: 'Cause Crawford's voice? *swoon*

* TalkingDog occasionally tries to mimic his voice. He can't do it.

Goosey: TD: Michael Crawfords?

TalkingDog: Yeah.

Goosey: Keep trying :D

TalkingDog: I do an awesome Worf though. Which is unrelated.

ThePhan: TD: You should do Worf as the Phantom.

TalkingDog: RAOUL HAS NO HONOR!

ThePhan: LOL

Goosey: TD: LOL LOL LOL

Frall Brack

ThePhan: FRALL BRACK STARTS TODAY

ThePhan: .....er.

ThePhan: Obviously I need it.

ThePhan: *Fall break

Sexy Geeks

Goosey: I googled "sexy geeks". Brain. Broken. http://pictures.korben.info/img239.imageshack.us/2008/10/23/costume-1.jpg

Sam: ...Ow.

ThePhan has entered.

Sam: THEPHAN, DON'T CLICK ON GOOSEY'S LINK.

Sam: BY WHICH I MEAN, CLICK ON IT, BUT THEN TELL ME WHAT GOOD ADVICE IT WAS TO SUGGEST NOT CLICKING ON IT.

ThePhan: THE HECK IS THAT

Goosey: LOL

ThePhan: Well, now I know what my Halloween costume this year is.

Goosey: LOL!!

Sam: LOL LOL LOL

TheOneBot

Goosey: We should have one of those crazy ultra-mini tournaments Sam. Where we play ALL THE BOTS AT THE SAME TIME

Sam: That's pretty easy to set up.

Sam: I have a script that does it. I wonder if it's worth making it possible for everybody to use it.

Sam: I bet I can create an EverythingBot or something that runs them all.

Sam: ONE BOT TO RULE THEM ALL, AND IN THE TOURNAMENT BIND THEM.

Sam: I have to call it TheOneBot now.

Sentynel: Sam: YES. YES YOU DO.

10Kan: "Three bots for the Admins, two of whom are guys."

10Kan: "Five for the odd-time zones, often in chat alone."

Sentynel: 10K: MAGNIFICENT

10Kan: "Seven for Google newbs, banned outright."

10Kan: "One for The Stoddard, in cold 'Hampshire at home."

Sentynel: You missed the Nine.

10Kan: D'oh!

10Kan: Right. Dwarves have seven and Men have nine.

Sentynel: Oh, yes.

Sentynel: That would be it.

10Kan: Nobody has five.

10Kan: "One bot to rule them all, one bot to score them,"

10Kan: "One bot to pwn them all and never ever bore them,"

10Kan: "Made in New Hampshire, where the Stoddard lies."

Sam: I don't lie.

10Kan: Well, 'recline' wouldn't fit.

Goosey: Cries? pies? dries? spies? tries?

10Kan: "...where the Stoddard cries pies." Perfect!

Goosey: LOL

To Sir, With Love II

Sam: Hmmm. At some point in the last year, I watched my 5000th movie and missed it.

Sam: I'm approaching 5200 now. I should have kept closer track.

Sam: I don't know what the 5000th movie actually was, but I bet it was something utterly terrible.

Sam: My best guess is that it was "To Sir, With Love II."

10Kan: This time...It's LOVELIER

Ashoserw

LaZorra: On that squealy note, this little piggy is oging to go take a ashoserw.

Goosey: LOL LOL LOL

ThePhan: ...You're what?

Goosey: whating to take a WHAT now??

LaZorra: ALL OF THE RIGHT LETTERS ARE THERE OKAY?

* Goosey wipes away tears

Sentynel: All the right notes, just not necessarily in the right order...

LaZorra: To quote MASH: "I can play the notes, but I cannot make the music." :-p

HUGOWAR

LaZorra: I LOVE YOU ALL

LaZorra: Don't leave me hanging on that.

LaZorra: It's just...

LaZorra: awkward.

* TalkingDog HUGS teh laz!

Ticia: HAHA

* Goosey HUGS LaZorra!

* LaZorra HUGS TD and Goosey!!

ThePhan: LOL

* ThePhan HUGS LaZorra!

* LaZorra HUGS Phan!

ThePhan: WE LOVE YOU TOO

ThePhan: Or, well, at least I do.

LaZorra: YAY ONE OF YOU LOVES ME

LaZorra: :-p

Goosey: I LOVE HER MORE

LaZorra: Why do I feel like I'm about to be sliced in half like Solomon's baby?

Sentynel: Half?

* Sentynel sharpens cleaver

LaZorra: :-.

ThePhan: I LOVED HER FIRST

* TalkingDog hides under a leaf.

ThePhan: Maybe not first, but before all these people arguing over her!

* Randy HUGS EVERYONE!

Goosey: I LOVE HER SO MUCH I SENT HER ARMY MEN

* Goosey HUGS Randy!

LaZorra: Truly, this is a love to outlast time itself.

* Goosey HUGS TalkingDog!

ThePhan: I LOVE HER SO MUCH I WENT TO SCHOOL NEAR WHERE I KNEW SHE WOULD ONE DAY GET A JOB

* TalkingDog HUGS Goosey!

Goosey: TP: :-P

Goosey: What am I yelling at you for? I love you too.

Goosey: HUGOWAR

* Goosey HUGS Ticia!

* Goosey HUGS TalkingDog!

* Goosey HUGS Sam!

* Goosey HUGS Kysle!

* Goosey HUGS Randy!

* Ticia sings Caaaaaan you feeeeeeeel the looooooove toniiiiiight.

* Goosey HUGS Sentynel!

* LaZorra tosses army men into the air and watches them rain down like drops of pure love and happiness.

* Goosey HUGS ThePhan!

Goosey: LOL!!

* Sentynel HUGS Goosey!

* Goosey HUGS LaZorra!

LaZorra: *sob* so beautiful...

* Goosey HUGS Nyperold!

Nyperold: It's raining (army) men!

* Goosey wins!

* Nyperold HUGS Goosey!

Goosey: Hallelujah!

Ticia: Oh, look, a unicorn made out of sunshine and smiles!

Goosey: LOL

LaZorra: Do we all join hands and sing Kumbaya now?

Ticia: I think so

LaZorra: And wait for the magic musrhooms to wear off?

ThePhan: "Musrhooms" is a fun word to try and pronounce out loud.

LaZorra: hooooooom

Meat Science

ThePhan: I HAVE TO DO MY HOMEWORK

ThePhan: STOP TALKING TO PEOPLE ON FACEBOOK

ThePhan: HOMEWORKHOMEWORKHOMEWORK

LaZorra: DO YOUR BLOODY HOWMEWORK

Ticia: Yes, that is a question for the ages.

Ticia: HOWMEWORK?

Goosey: Ticia: UGH again.

Goosey: Ticia: LOL

Ticia: HOW ME WORK WHEN PEOPLE ARE BEING INTERESTING ON THE INERNET

TalkingDog: mrghl

Ticia: Oh, wait, it's bloody howmework...

Ticia: this puts a new spin on LaZorra.

Ticia: Or maybe Lazorra knows something we don't about ThePhan.

Goosey: LOL

LaZorra: :-.

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: I am now majoring in butchery.

Goosey: O___O

LaZorra: I have friends who did that.

ThePhan: LOL

LaZorra: Well, not majored. But Meat Science was a required class for ag majors.

LaZorra: Man, that seems like forever ago.

Sentynel: That's such an awesome subject name.

Sentynel: MEAT SCIENCE

LaZorra: LOL

Goosey: LOL

Sentynel: I mean, I knew people who did materials science, or similarly lame combinations.

Sentynel: MEAT. SCIENCE.

LaZorra: THE SCIENCE OF BACON

TalkingDog: MEAT

Randy: mmmm science

Nyperold: MEATERIALS SCIENCE

Randy: Science doesn't even look like a word anymore

LaZorra: That's because it's not.

LaZorra: The atheists made it up to confuse us.

Randy's Secret Past

(About dating)

Randy: I've been married and dated a dozen girls. I'm still awkward.

Randy: TO PUT THAT IN A DIFFERENT WAY I'VE BEEN MARRIED ONCE NOT A DOZEN TIMES

ThePhan: LOL LOL

Sentynel: Hm, I did not know that.

Goosey: LOL

Sentynel: That you'd been married once. Not twelve times.

Randy: LOL

ThePhan: *I* sure didn't know he'd been married twelve times.

Randy: I did live in Las Vegas...

WhizInnuendo

WhizHal: LaZorra sneers up Sam's zippers.

LaZorra: :-.

Randy: :-.

HotOrNotBot: LaZorra timed out. Asking someone else for ratings....

Goosey: LOL LOL

* LaZorra is losing it over here.

ThePhan: Did LaZorra time out because she was too busy sneering up Sam's zippers?

LaZorra: YES

LaZorra: I MEAN

Randy: I believe so

Goosey: LOL LOL

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WhizHal: Sentynel: flick ThePhan's almonds.

Goosey: O_O

Goosey: hal: You DO realize everything you say tonight can be taken as innuendo?

[Randy->LaZorra, ThePhan] EVERYTHING THE WHIZZES SAY IS DIRTY

LaZorra and the Typo Demons

Goosey: *sigh* A friend said she was making soup to bring me for dinner today. It's 8pm now. How much am I allowed to bug her? Or should I just fix myself something to eat?

Goosey: Mmm, she just showed up with homemade butternut squash soup! I am so excited to eat this!

ThePhan: Yumyumyum!

Ticia: I loooove butternut soup.

Ticia: I think it's the only good way to eat a butternut squash. heh

Sentynel: I am incapable of reading this conversation without thinking "butternut squaw" and giggling.

Randy: I was gonna say

Goosey: LOL LOL

Goosey: HEY YEAH WHERE IS LAZ

Ticia: Chicago

Goosey: If I had awesome made sewing skills I would make a little stuffed figurine set of Butternut Squaw and Friends.

Goosey: Acorn Squaw, Zucchini Squaw, Summer Squaw, Spaghetti Squaw . . .

Randy: LOL

Ticia: Squaw root

Nyperold: Anyone fancy a game of squaw?

Ticia: Maybe a squaw dance?

LaZorra has entered.

LaZorra: The typo demons supponed me.

Sentynel: Right on cue.

Sentynel: LOL LOL

Sentynel: So they did.

LaZorra: Which I think means Phan is my typo demon.

Goosey: LAZORRA!!

Goosey: Oh if she hadn't texted you I would. Except I had to clean up orange juice.

* ThePhan suppons LaZorra.

Goosey: NO DO NOT EAT LAZORRA

LaZorra: :-.

ThePhan: Nomnomzorra

Goosey: hehehe

LaZorra: YUO EET MAI HED

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* Goosey just now notices that LaZ made the typo first.

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: Yes. Yes, she did.

Goosey: Excuse my brains. They are stuck in slo-mo today.

Sentynel: LaZ typo acclimatisation is a totally normal symptom of prolonged RinkChat use.

Cats Recordings

ThePhan: Holy crap. I have almost 6000 artists in my Last.fm library.

ThePhan: That is a little bit ridiculous.

ThePhan: My bajillion artists come from 1) scrobbling lots of random Internet radio where it plays one song by an artist and then I never hear them again, and 2) cast recordings, which, if they're tagged by performer, can include like 15 different artists per album.

Sentynel: I read that as "cats recordings".

Sentynel: Which is presumably either a) one musical over and over again, or b) really unpleasant to listen to.

ThePhan: I only have one Cats recording.

ThePhan: Wait. I have two.

ThePhan: I have parts of the original Broadway cast as well as the movie DVD rip.

ThePhan: I don't think I have any songs featuring actual cats in them.

Sentynel: I have a song with lead vocals performed by a dog, but no cats

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: Nice.

iwpg: If you had any song versions of All Your Base, you'd have a CATS recording.

Sentynel: LOL

ThePhan: I do!

Cactus Wi-Fi

ThePhan: LOL LOL

ThePhan: My cousin just posted this:

ThePhan: My six year old sister Lidya, "I remember this one time when Mom and I were in a place where there was no WiFi, and then We fell into a cactus." Um... I think this was a dream.

Goosey: LOL

Randy: LOL

Sentynel: All my cacti are fitted with wireless routers.

Goosey: LOL

ThePhan: Only way to do it.

Disliking wintermute

* Goosey HUGS LaZorra!

* Goosey HUGS ThePhan!

* ThePhan HUGS Goosey!

* Randy HUGS everyone!

* ThePhan HUGS Randy!

LaZorra: HUG PARTY

* Goosey HUGS everyone too!

* Sentynel HUGS everyone three!

wintermute has entered.

* Goosey HUGS wintermute too!

* LaZorra stalwartly refuses to like wintermute.

LaZorra: Er.

* wintermute HUGS all the peoples!

LaZorra: *to hug wintermute

wintermute: :-(

LaZorra: WHAT THE HELL AM I SAYING

Sentynel: LOL

Goosey: LOL LOL

Sentynel: You can try, but you just can't make her like you.

Randy: LOL

wintermute: Freudian slip, if ever I heard one.

Randy: awwww

wintermute: And I thought I was a very likable chap.

El Burgero Crappo

ThePhan: Must finish this Spanish paper. I mean, I have 2 hours, but I'd like to get it done.

10Kan: What's it about?

Goosey: Crapburgers.

Goosey: LOL Sorry, that was not a response to 10K's question.

Sentynel: LOL LOL

Sentynel: A Spanish paper about CRAPBURGERS.

ThePhan: LOL LOL

* ThePhan tries to work crapburgers into her paper.

Goosey: LOL

Sam: El burgero crappo.

Sam: Sometimes when someone says something funny in here, I google it and find a picture.

Sam: Not gonna do that this time.

Sam: Just so you know.

Phan's Birthday

(On my birthday.)

Sam: Happy Birthday.

Sam: You have the same birthday as my Dad, and famous has the same birthday as my Mom.

Sam: I hadn't realized your birthday was today before.

Sam: Which is odd, because I've definitely recognized your birthday before, such as with that AMT Top 6.

ThePhan: Thanks!

ThePhan: Heh. That is kinda funky.

Sam: Are you sure it's your birthday today?

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: I'm pretty sure.

Sam: You were born a long time ago. Maybe you don't remember it as well as you think you do.

Sam: The memory plays tricks.

ThePhan: Maybe I've been 25 for a whole day already.

Sentynel: Maybe you're not even 25.

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Sam: I wonder if the Phan is my Dad.

ThePhan: LOL LOL

ThePhan: Surprise!

Ticia: I'm surprised it took Sam this long to figure it out.

Nerdy Kids

Ticia: So, we couldn't find a cardboard box for our time machine yesterday, so I threw a white sheet over the dining room table and got out the fabric markers. The kids spent a good amount of time decorating buttons and knobs and such on the fabric. Rose even put in a refrigerator and some food shelves. Later, we were getting ready to eat, so I told Abby to put the time machine away. She folded it up and said "Look, Rose, I folded up our time machine!" She held up the folded cloth "And now it's this small!"

Ticia: Rose deadpans and says "It must be bigger on the inside."

Ticia: I love my nerd kids.

Jessie Hat

LaZorra: ahahaha. I tweeted about Mom being the reason I have glitter stuck in my hair, and that I hoped I could get it out in time for work tomorrow. A guy who just left a job with the Trib apps team responded, "I hope you don't. The team could use more glitter."

LaZorra: I think I'm going to like this place.

Randy: Why do you have glitter in your hair?

LaZorra: Mom and I went to the Disney Store.

LaZorra: She put a Jessie the Yodeling Cowgirl hat on me. :-p

Randy: Nice

Maryam: LOL, you need a Jessie hat. ;-)

LaZorra: Hehe, yes! But not to wear to work. :-p

ThePhan: I love this hat I think it is an absolute classic and i love all and I MEAN ALL classics, I have not seen it yet but I give it a.........................

LaZorra: TP: LOL LOL LOL

LaZorra and the Bear

(Sentynel and I have been jokingly fighting on Last.fm over who listens to the most songs. He had just spent a week on vacation hiking with LaZorra.)

Sentynel: Also, I was within a couple of hundred tracks of your total play count, then I was away for over a week and you gained a thousand on me again.

Sentynel: I'LL GET YOU YET

ThePhan: BWAHA

Sentynel: ALL LAZORRA'S FAULT

* Sentynel shakes fist

ThePhan: LaZorra is on MY side with this music thing.

ThePhan: You'll note she never invites me hiking so YOU can catch up.

Sentynel: It's true.

ThePhan: BUT!

ThePhan: She may get to come celebrate my birthday with me. :-)

* ThePhan hopeshopeshopes

Sentynel: She never invites you hiking so she can attempt to murder you via bear exposure and/or exhaustion, either.

Sentynel: That would be pretty awesome.

ThePhan: If she tries to murder me with a bear on my birthday, I will be annoyed.

Sentynel: Well, don't worry, I survived, so she can't be too good at it.

ThePhan: I hope she doesn't bring a bear to my musical theater revue, either.

ThePhan: I don't think they'll seat it in the studio theater.

Sentynel: Phan: Bears *are* well-known aficionados of musical theatre.

Homebase

(My sister Bethany was going to join up with NLDC, the drama company I worked with for a year, and had just made it to their headquarters in Tennessee that morning.)

ThePhan: So my sister Bethany just got to homebase - she's traveling with NLDC for a year - and they made her the financer.

ThePhan: That's like the second-in-command.

Randy: TP: That is AWESOME

ThePhan: Randy: It IS.

Ticia: ThePhan: LOL, I thought you were talking about your sisters... romantic life.

Ticia: *sister's

ThePhan: LOL LOL LOL

Randy: hahaha!

Ticia: I'm all "She got to homebase?" whut?

ThePhan: I'm still giggling.

ThePhan: I didn't even think of it being taken that way.

ThePhan: That's awesome.

Silly Names/It's All About Randy

Revan: Kyle: Yes. And I thoroughly enjoyed it, since it felt like a righteous time to pull it out.

Revan: You need to take the 'S' out or start throwing something at me every time I call you that, because that's how I pronounce it in my head.

Revan: That's your real name anyway, isn't it?

Kysle: Yep

Kysle: It was originally how I was spelling the pronunciation of my initials (KSL)

Kysle: (Interestingly enough, it's also the first two letters of my first name, my middle initial, and the first two letters of my last name)

ThePhan: Kysle: If I followed the first-two-letters-of-my-first-name etc., etc., I would be Harme.

(So we all played with that for awhile. Several Jedi-ish names later...)

wintermute: Alrth.

wintermute: My kids are Isgth, and Liath, which sound like something out of Mordor.

wintermute: Really the "th"s are aspirated t's, so maybe I should change them to Alrto, Isgto and Liato...

Randy: I read that as "Randy: The 'th"s are...."

Randy: WOndered why I was involved. heh

wintermute: Randy: You're always involved.

Randy: This is all about me. hehe

ThePhan: I will now direct every single thing I say in the chat room to Randy.

ThePhan: Randy: So, how's wintermute doing these days?

Randy: He's ok. He'd really like to make us all a chocolate cake.

wintermute: *for you all to make him a chocolate cake.

Randy: no, that's not it.

Apocalypso

LaZorra: Holy crap, I just tried to spell apocalypse.

LaZorra: Except it kept coming out "acapolyse," and I couldn't figure out what was wrong.

LaZorra: I had to stare at the correct spelling and type it letter for letter.

Sentynel: Well, apocalypso is a bit of a complex word.

Sentynel: ...apocalpyse.

Sentynel: Apocalypse.

Sentynel: Dammit.

Sentynel: Apocalypso is obviously steel drums that summon the Four Horsemen.

LaZorra: LOL LOL

LaZorra: The end of the world will happen via reggae.

Sentynel: It's the end of the world, mon.

We Are the Champions

* Goosey has a clean kitchen and cottage pie!

LaZorra: Pie that tastes of thatched roof?

Goosey: It's apparently the proper name for shepherd's pie if made with hamburger rather than lamb.

Sentynel: Yeah. Cottage pie = beef, shepherd's pie = lamb.

* Sentynel prefers cottage pie himself. Mmm, minced beef.

Goosey: This one is half ground beef and half ground turkey

LaZorra: I am hungry now, thank you all.

Goosey: LOL

iwpg: Is it weird that that line made me think of We Are The Champions?

LaZorra: The champions of EATING.

[RinkChat] The chat room's topic has been changed to 'We are the champions of eating.' by LaZorra.

TalkingDog: NO ROOM FOR SECONDS, 'CAUSE WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS.

Illinois and Corn

wintermute: I hate Illinois Nazis.

LaZorra: I would make a joke about that if I knew anything about Illinois.

Randy: LOL

LaZorra: DUDE I AM GOING TO BE LIVING IN ILLINOIS

LaZorra: Man, THAT was a spittake.

LaZorra: "...if I knew anything about HEY WAIT I AM GOING TO MOVE TO THAT STATE WITHIN A MONTH"

LaZorra: I am so stoked.

wintermute: You will probably learn several interesting facts about Illinois in the near future.

LaZorra: Are there interesting facts to learn about Illinois?

ThePhan: Here is all you need to know about Illinois: There is Chicago, and then there is corn. That is all.

Randy: CORN

LaZorra: HEY ILLINOIS, THERE'S GORN IN HERE

Sentynel: (there was corn, but it's gorn.)

LaZorra: Er.

wintermute: Gorns?

ThePhan: OH NO ALL THE CORN TURNED INTO GORN

LaZorra: There are not Star Trek monsters in here.

LaZorra: I hope.

LaZorra: :-.

LaZorra's Hair Plugs

LaZorra: GAH MY PLUG

Maryam: o.O

LaZorra: Sorry. My power cable fell out. And my computer's dying. And I am quite possibly very sleep-deprived.

Maryam: Oh, THAT sort of plug.

LaZorra: Maryam: :-.

Sentynel: ..what other sort of plugs are we thinking of, here?

Maryam: Well, for some reason, my mind first went to "hair plug"...

Maryam: And then drain plugs. And then I couldn't think of any other varieties.

Maryam: Well, that's not quite true, but the other kind I thought of wouldn't be appropriate for discussing here...

LaZorra: MY HAIR PLUGS ARE FALLING OUT

Maryam: TOPICBOT

SimAdventures With Randy and Benedict

ThePhan: RANDY YOU WERE CREEPY IN MY SIMS GAME TODAY

ThePhan: LOL

Goosey: TELL STORY

Randy: LOL LOL

ThePhan: So I made a Sims game where the characters are me, Sarah, and two of our mutual friends, and all our significant others (the two single girls get Benedict Cumberbatch and David Tennant as their SimGuys).

ThePhan: Today when I was playing, Sarah was at work and Randy suddenly started seeing little hearts when talking to me. Which, ya know, is OK, cuz Sims don't generally pursue people on their own so I was like, no biggie. But then SimMe went to sleep and SimRandy came over and sat on the bed. Just sat there. On the bed where I was sleeping.

ThePhan: SimMe apparently got creeped out, because she got out of bed and left and only went back to bed after Randy left. LOL

ThePhan: But he redeemed himself later by fixing the shower, which had been spraying water everywhere and making everyone cry when they went into the bathroom.

Randy: That is so awesome!

ThePhan: I've been playing this and updating the people involved as it goes :-)

ThePhan: Well, I haven't been updating David or Benedict.

ThePhan: I'm sure they want their fan mail addresses full of my detailed descriptions of their lives as Sims.

Sentynel: You should so do that.

Sentynel: Post if you get a response.

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: Well, things started off really badly, because in like the first 5 minutes of playing the game, I accidentally clicked on the wrong person and made my Sim flirt with David Tennant, who is NOT my SimHusband. So David's SimWife and Benedict were both extremely angry.

Goosey: TP: lol

Sentynel: Eh, it's David Tennant, who can blame you?

ThePhan: Sent: It is a pretty tough call between him and Benedict...

ThePhan: Benedict has apparently forgiven me, though, because we made out on a bed today.

Goosey: LOL LOL

LaZorra has entered.

Sentynel: LaZ!

ThePhan: LAZORRA

Goosey: LAZORRA

LaZorra: WELL HI

* ThePhan hopes the first thing LZ saw was Phan reporting "we made out on a bed today."

Hormonal Borwsre

LaZorra: IE9 is better.

LaZorra: Still like hacked together, but better.

LaZorra: It more or less behaves like a hormonal browser.

LaZorra: Er.

LaZorra: A NORMAL borwsre.

LaZorra: browser

Alliterative Fun

ThePhan: Ah, good. I went to get some food and when I came back, the FlickChart Facebook fight had mostly died down. Whee!

ThePhan: To be more alliterative BECAUSE I CAN: Fleeing for food fixed FlickChart Facebook fight fiasco.

Sentynel: LOL, awesome.

Sentynel: Or should that be fantastic?

ThePhan: Fantastic! Yes! I was looking for an exclamation I could use beginning with F (er... a positive one) and couldn't think of any.

Sentynel: Fail.

The Lick-Free Zone

Ticia: Goosey: I would encourage you in your meat pie undertaking, but, well. Meat pie.

Goosey: Ticia: I know.

Ticia: Hehe

Sentynel: Goosey: I'll totally encourage you in your meat pie endeavour.

Sentynel: Mmm, scorched dead animal flesh.

* Sentynel licks lips

Goosey: LOL

Ticia: whose lips are you licking?

Sentynel: Mine, I hope

Goosey: LOL LOL

Ticia: I hope so, too. But you didn't say.

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: Oh my.

ThePhan: My physical boundary rules for my friends are now: 1) No touching my face, 2) No doing the weird petting/stroking thing, as I am not your cat, and 3) NO LICKING MY LIPS.

Goosey: LOL LOL

Sentynel: Phan: Does 3 not technically fall under 1?

ThePhan: You'd think so, but I might as well be specific.

ThePhan: Sometimes people don't listen very well.

wintermute: Phan: Is licking your neck OK?

ThePhan: Nope.

* ThePhan can probably broaden the rule a bit, actually.

ThePhan: NO LICKING ME

ThePhan: THE END

wintermute: What about on federal holidays?

ThePhan: Nope.

wintermute: You're not making this easy, you know.

ThePhan: If "this" is licking me, then that's the idea.

wintermute: Hrm.

[RinkChat] The chat room's topic has been changed to 'This is now a lick-free zone.' by niekie.

Sentynel: What happens if you get bitten by a snake with no advanced medical facilities, and you have to get the poison out of the wound!?

ThePhan: Then it should be done with the least amount of licking possible.

Sentynel: (Bet this is a conversation you never thought you'd have.)

ThePhan: Sent: You're right. But of course it would happen in RinkWorks.

Board Game Movies

Revan: The trailer itself, I haven't seen. I was too concerned with the fact that a movie based on BATTLESHIP is coming out, seriously.

10Kan: ...

10Kan: There's nothing to stop them from making an actual good film there, but I have a feeling they won't.

Revan: Oh, they won't. http://www.cracked.com/blog/novelization-trailer-movie-battleship/

Revan: That's how I found out about it.

10Kan: And then there's that move that I swore was based on Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots, but actually isn't.

TalkingDog: I thought the same thing!

10Kan: Next up: Hungry Hungry Hippos

TalkingDog: That would be amazing. Genetically engineered military hippos escape! Like a warped Jurassic Park sort of thing.

10Kan: Exactly!

TalkingDog: "We need to get them to eat these marbles! It's the only way!"

10Kan: And their heads would burst from the water to gobble extras.

10Kan: ...On their freakish telescoping necks.

Revan: They would be defeated by white, spherical depth charges.

10Kan: The Game of Life: depressing drama about a guy who has next to no control over anything that happens to him, racks up incredible debt, yet discovers the cure for cancer, writes the Great American Novel and becomes president.

Revan: LOL

10Kan: Jenga: Action / Suspense: terrorists try to blow up a skyscraper while a team of engineers trapped inside work to move the bombs to blow up the terrorists and leave the building still standing.

Goosey: LOL

10Kan: Can anyone think of another classic board game turned awful film?

10Kan: Chutes and Ladders would be a family-friendly version of The Cube.

Revan: I can only imagine that Sorry! would be a Japanese game show where four neighboring families must don padded sparring equipment and fight to be the first to regroup at home for the big prize. Also, there are man-cannons strategically positioned around the block for ease of travel.

10Kan: And profusely apoligize to one another as they cracked skulls?

TalkingDog: The Japanese are very polite.

TalkingDog: Operation.

TalkingDog: A guy has a bomb inside him, wired to a light on his nose. If he dies, the bomb goes off and wipes out New York!

10Kan: LOL

Revan: It would take a very sadistic terrorist to rig an explosive to all the things this guy already needs operated on.

10Kan: Stratego: A secret war fought by two factions who carefully guard their agents' abilities until the time comes to strike!

10Kan: Like the Matrix if the agents were fighting against other agents.

10Kan: The protagonist discovers that his role is a human time-bomb, and tries to escape the conflict.

Revan: Donald Trump's life is Monopoly, and the global situation is Risk.

Sentynel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs Minesweeper.

10Kan: LOL

TalkingDog: I love that video.

* TalkingDog has vague plans to work Minesweeper into a D&D battle.

Sentynel: A room full of magical traps, and either a team member's ability or an item which can detect the proximity of traps.

Sentynel: To make it more interesting, don't use a square grid.

TalkingDog: I'm dealing with people who aren't likely Minesweeper experts. I'll stick with the square grid.

Sentynel: A hex grid is actually easier as there are fewer adjacent squares.

TalkingDog: Moving to other computer games: Oregon Trail?

10Kan: TD: Most of the excitement would come from crossing bodies of water.

TalkingDog: True.

10Kan: That and Crazy Uncle Joe's driving urge to shoot all the wildlife between St. Louis and Oregon, even if he can only carry back 200 lbs of meat.

TalkingDog: SkiFree would be a hilarious movie. Skiers disappearing on the slopes. Reports of a monster darting quickly between the trees. The characters stuck at the top of the mountain while the lift is broken.

TalkingDog: I want to see a film version of the Boatmurdered saga.

10Kan: Better yet: a mini-series!

TalkingDog: Yes.

10Kan: Or a pseudohistorical documentary.

TalkingDog: Hangman? Hmm.

TalkingDog: Can't think of anything good for that.

Revan: Dyslexic Western.

Goosey: lol

10Kan: LOL

Revan: "Tarnation, Bill! You know ah cain't read!" "You've got to learn! This disabled war veteran's life depends on it!"

Ziz!

Maryam: Did you hear HBO is doing an American Gods show? I need to reread that.

Randy: yeah! ZIZ

Randy: gah!

Randy: I meant its going to be a series that might be a few seasons long

Randy: I was trying to erase the I and that came out somehow

Maryam: ZIZZZZZZZZZZZ

Randy: LOL

Maryam: It might be late.

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: That's the new "Yay."

Randy: hehehe

ThePhan: I had a great day! Ziz!

Randy: I made good tips today! Ziz!

Literal Man

(Discussing a frustration I had about someone from a TV show.)

ThePhan: I think it pushed both my "You can't give up once you've started it!" OCD button and my "Christians can't isolate themselves in their comfortable bubbles!" button. Both of which cause me to fly into a minor rage.

ThePhan: At least he didn't push my "Misuse of the word literally" button. That one is UNFORGIVABLE.

Goosey: LOL

Randy: LOL

Randy: Its a good thing you don't watch WWE

ThePhan: LOL LOL

Randy: "King! He literally tore his head off!"

ThePhan: Randy: It would be a more exciting, if terrifying, show if their literallys were true, though.

Randy: haha yes!

ThePhan: If I ever write a superhero story, that will be their power. Whenever they say something is "literally" whatever, it becomes true.

ThePhan: But the idiom has to be true at the same time.

Randy: haha!

ThePhan: So they have to find idioms that apply to their current situation that also reflects what they want to be literally true.

ThePhan: This superhero will be such a nerd.

Randy: I would totally read that. And want it to be a comic book.

T-Rex Minus Six Hours

LaZorra: Okay, ugh, Ihave to get up in four hours, so I'm going to bed.

Sentynel: I'm at T-minus six hours at the moment.

* LaZorra reads "T-Rex minus six hours."

* LaZorra doesn't want to encounter T-Rex on six hours of sleep.

Sentynel: Yes. In six hours I will be dragged out of bed by a T-Rex.

Sentynel: I finally worked out how to build an un-ignorable alarm clock.

Banana Bleach

Goosey: Fish is NUMMY

LaZorra: NUMMY FISH

LaZorra: fisssssssh

LaZorra: nice fisssh

LaZorra: we likesss it

10Kan: Awl WRAH and wriggling!

LaZorra: 10K: Thank you for playing LaZorra's Stream of Consciousness! Tune in again next time, when the theme will be BANANA BLEACH and NANCY DREW.

Goosey: Lz: LOL!!

Maryam: What is banana bleach?

LaZorra: Maryam: Um...it...makes really shiny bananas?

Maryam: LOL, I thought it was actually a thing.

10Kan: It removes those unsightly yellow stains that most bananas get.

Randy: mmm banana bleach

LaZorra: LOL

Sentynel: Bananas that whiten your teeth.

Maryam: Nancy Drew and the Case of the Banana Bleach. What, exactly, was it, Nancy wondered.

Goosey: LOL

LaZorra: LOL

Eyebrows in Space

* 10Kan just gave Kerbal Space Program a spin.

(This is discussed for awhile.)

Sentynel: And I've successfully put it into orbit everywhere from 40km to 200km.

10Kan: Sweet!

* LaZorra reads, "I've successfully put eyebrows everywhere."

* LaZorra needs to sleep at some point.

10Kan: LOL

Randy: LOL

Sentynel: EYEBROW ROCKET

Randy: Goosey totally needs to draw that

10Kan: UNIBROWS IN SPACE

Food on the Floor

Ticia: So, today we had: -Thomas dump about 8 eggs onto the kitchen floor. -Joseph spill ranch dressing on the kitchen floor. -Rose spill applesauce onto the floor. -All the pacifiers lost, until 10 minutes after we bought new ones.

Ticia: It's been one of those days.

Sentynel: Ticia: Cook the floor and you'll have dinner!