The Edelweiss Song

(During the LaZorra visit.)

LaZorra: We determined earlier that the only face I'm really capable of making is the Eye of Sauron face.

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: Yes.

LaZorra: We determined this while I was trying to make an angry rapper face.

ThePhan: Sauron is a pretty angry rapper.

Sentynel: He is.

Sentynel: Man, have you *heard* the lyrics about the Rings?

ThePhan: And he should be. The orcs sure aren't giving him edelweiss.

Sentynel: "Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul" That's angry, man,

Randy: He's from the Underground.

LaZorra: BRING ME EDELWEISS OR I WILL BURNINATE THIS GONDOR

LaZorra: Sent: He was originally supposed to do a duet with Nimoy on the Bilbo Baggins piece, but he was cut. That would make any rapper angry.

* ThePhan supposes she and LaZorra should probably post the Edelweiss video at some point so everyone can experience the madness.

Sentynel: Phan: That would help.

ThePhan: It is the song attached to this album cover: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tVJzo0ukL._SS500_.jpg

LaZorra: LOL YESSS

LaZorra: BRING ME EDELWEISS

ThePhan: And it has a vocal version, a rap version, a tourist version, and a yodel version.

ThePhan: According to that record cover.

LaZorra: I wonder which one we saw.

LaZorra: Vocal, probably.

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ThePhan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rp8qGigqYk

ThePhan: That is what LaZorra and I spent our afternoon on.

LaZorra: We *did* spend an exorbitant amount of time with it.

Sentynel: Good thing it's in HD.

ThePhan: We did.

ThePhan: Sent: Yeah, you lose a lot of the hidden meaning when it's just in normal D.

LaZorra: I wish the text of the record cover were there with it. It was all about the loss of innocent life because girls insist on boys picking them edelweiss.

Sentynel: Re video: what the actual fork? I simply can't put that any more politely.

LaZorra: That is a perfectly valid reaction.

ThePhan: The text on the record covert art can be found here: http://www.discogs.com/Edelweiss-Bring-Me-Edelweiss/release/668459

ThePhan: (The Google search I used to find it was: alpenworld edelweiss precipices man would fall)

Sentynel: Covert art!

LaZorra: TP: LOL LOL

Sentynel: I'm pretty sure that takes an auspicious second place in the list of weirdest music videos I've ever seen.

LaZorra: Sent: Well, any art in it is certainly hidden.

LaZorra: We discovered the record randomly in a used music store and couldn't stop laughing. We must have stood there for ten minutes gawking at it.

ThePhan: All the quirky yet lovable characters of the music video are featured on the back of the cover art, too.

ThePhan: But... distorted.

Randy: Wow

LaZorra: We never did look up their second release, "Starship Edelweiss."

Sentynel: You mean their second release was their first.. IN SPACE?

ThePhan: LOL AND ALSO

ThePhan: There was a sticker on the cover that said, "When you PLAY IT, SAY IT!"

LaZorra: ...come to think of it, I'm not sure what that "IT" referred to.

ThePhan: Well, turns out it has a meaning: http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/arch.../play-it-say-it-rolls-out-at-cbs-radio

ThePhan: But it's much more fun thinking that the producers are demanding that we chant the lyrics along with the band.

LaZorra: IF YOU REALLY LOVE ME YOU SHOULD BRING ME EDELVWEISS

Sentynel: That's the second time you've spelt that with a "v" in it today. Are you typoing, or just confused by German pronunciation?

ThePhan: Are you playing it?

ThePhan: Because I don't think you have to say it if you're not playing it.

LaZorra: Sent: I must have typoed the first one. That was autocomplete.

LaZorra: If you'll notice, I have spelt it multiple times correctly. :-p

Foul Bachelor Frog

(During my LaZorra visit. I was sick and my voice was gone.)

ThePhan: I think I either just pulled a tag off of LaZorra's couch cushions, or it just fell off on its own.

ThePhan: They're shedding tags.

LaZorra: WHAT

Sentynel: LaZ: You invite her into your home and she starts VANDALISING THE FURNITURE!

LaZorra: ARE YOU RUINING MY FURNITURE

Sentynel: You should have left her on the doorstep.

Sentynel: Although you might have come out to find she'd removed the door handle.

ThePhan: It TURNS OUT I am really doing helpful household chores, like removing unwanted tags from couch cushions.

ThePhan: That is what she said to me out loud.

ThePhan: THAT REALLY IS TRUE

LaZorra: YOU CANNOT PROVE THAT IN A COURT OF LAW

ThePhan: I AM NOT MAKING THAT UP

Sentynel: She's just trying to make you feel better.

LaZorra: My $13 pillow is RUINED.

ThePhan: I have been secretly recording this whole conversation.

LaZorra: And NOW she's correcting me on the price of MY OWN PILLOW.

LaZorra: what!!

Goosey: LOL

ThePhan: If you play it back, you will clearly hear LaZorra say, "Oh, I forgot to take off the tags," followed by a frog saying something unintelligible.

Sentynel: Phan: Is it Foul Bachelor Frog?

LaZorra has left.

ThePhan has left.

ThePhan has entered.

Sentynel: Apparently I shouldn't have said that.

LaZorra has entered.

Sentynel: Oh, they're back. Never mind.

ThePhan: LOL

LaZorra: We unplugged my router.

LaZorra: Just for the hell of it.

ThePhan: Sent: I knew I was going to turn into Foul Bachelor Frog someday. Or, well... hopefully Foul Bachelorette Frog.

LaZorra: Foul Bachelor Frog is awesome.

ThePhan: Yeah, we figured since we were removing stuff from other stuff, the router seemed like a good one to try next.

LaZorra: Yeah. Turned out it wasn't such a hot idea.

Randy: LOL

Sentynel: Foul Bachelor Frog isn't hot?

LaZorra: Wewll, it's not "Sexy Bachelor Frog," is it?

ThePhan: Er, well, my main issue is that he is a dude. And I am not, last I checked.

LaZorra: "Wewll" = "well" + "phew"

Randy: hehe

ThePhan: LaZorra and I are both speaking in deep voices now.

LaZorra: BUT ARE YOU SURE

Sentynel: Sexy Bachelor Frog is obviously George Clooney turned into a frog by an evil wizard.

ThePhan: It is the only way I can speak without my voice cutting in and out.

LaZorra: They are deep sexy Foul Bachelor voices.

LaZorra: Er. Foul Bachelor Frog.

Randy: heh

Randy: Foul Bachelor Frog is someone I hope to stop being one day.

* ThePhan is now reading Foul Bachelor Frog memes out loud in her deep sexy Foul Bachelor voice.

ThePhan: LaZorra is in awe.

Sentynel: I'm so disappointed I don't get to see this.

Cactus Bobcat

ThePhan: My voice is vanishing into the void.

ThePhan: (It's hard to alliterate with V's...)

Sentynel: You did pretty well, though. Now try Q.

LaZorra: She just tried to say something to me.

LaZorra: It came out sort of like a cat that has encountered a cactus.

Sentynel: http://laughingsquid.com/bobcat-sitting-on-top-of-40-foot-tall-cactus/ <- Phan

LaZorra: Sent: Dangit, I'm never sleeping tonight. Phan might eat me.

Sentynel: CAN'T SLEEP, PHANS WILL EAT ME

ThePhan: LaZ: I WILL JUMP FROM MY CACTUS AND SWALLOW YOU WHOLE

* LaZorra suspects that Phan has a collapsible cactus in her backpack, for LaZorra's apartment is currently cactus-less.

LaZorra: I do have a small wilty daffodil, but I don't imagind it would support bobcats.

Satture

(While I was visiting LZ. We were both in chat.)

ThePhan has left.

ThePhan has entered.

* ThePhan HUGS TalkingDog!

ThePhan: I DIDN'T

ThePhan: Er.

ThePhan: I meant I didn't leave. I *did* hug TD.

LaZorra: Are you sure?

LaZorra: I didn't see TD here.

LaZorra: And I think I would have noticed someone of his satture.

Sentynel: I hope satture is a positive attribute.

LaZorra: er

LaZorra: *status

LaZorra: ...no, that isn't what I mean either.

Sentynel: *stature, surely?

Sentynel: LOL

LaZorra: *stature.

LaZorra: Yes. That.

Quippersnapper

* LaZorra HUGS sentynel Takes one to know one. *ugs*!

LaZorra: hahaha

Sentynel: LOL

Sentynel: Weirdo.

* LaZorra is SO TIRED CAN YOU TELL.

Sentynel: That's a phenomenally mangled message.

Randy: wha?

Sentynel: Go to bed yourself.

Sentynel: Randy: I /msged her something thanking her for advice earlier. She got a bit confuzzled.

LaZorra: :-p

LaZorra: Get off my lawn, quippersnapper.

Sentynel: That or she meant to threaten me with ugly footwear.

Sentynel: "quippersnapper" is the best word EVER. *steals*

LaZorra: Er, whaetver the hell that was supposed to be.

Sentynel: Obviously, it's a whippersnapper who quips.

God the DJ

Sentynel: QUOTES

ThePhan: There will be potentially a bunch more when I finish doing devos with Jacob.

* Maryam still has no idea what devos are, so continues to imagine ThePhan and Jacob in red stepped hats singing "Whip It".

LaZorra: LOL LOL

Sentynel: Maryam: I can't unpicture that even now I know what she actually means.

ThePhan: LOL LOL

ThePhan: Maryam: Devo is short for "devotionals." It's Christiany lingo. We read the Bible and pray together. When we're not in the same state, we do it on Turntable so we can also play worship-y songs together.

ThePhan: However, singing in red hats sounds fun too.

Sentynel: Phan: You should totally play Devo at the end for pun value.

* LaZorra hopes one of those songs is Rick Astley in recognition of the fact that God will never give them up, never let them down, never run around and hurt them.

ThePhan: LZ: He's done that. Not even kidding.

ThePhan: Er, Jacob's played it. Not God's given us up.

LaZorra: LOL LOL

LaZorra: Bad God! How dare you!

Sentynel: Phan: Oh, I thought God had shown up in Turntable to play that.

ThePhan: That would've been AWESOME.

ThePhan: God guest DJing for us.

LaZorra: I wonder what God's Turntable avatar looks like.

wintermute: Phan: You say that, until you discover he only ever plays Gregorian chants.

Sentynel: LaZ: Obviously he gets one of the Daft Punk superuser avatars.

Sentynel: Daft Punk ~= God.

LaZorra: wm: Which means he never goes on Last.fm, because they have no idea what a Gregorian chant is.

wintermute: LaZ: If he can turn fish into wine, he can make Last FM play Gregorian chants.

LaZorra: That sounds like some terrible wine.

Randy: I think you are mixing miracles.

LaZorra: Even by God's standards.

wintermute: Randy: Are you saying he can't do that?

Randy: Well,no.

wintermute: QED.

Sentynel: A rich, full-bodied wine with overtones of salmon...

LaZorra: FISHWINE! The amazing new drink from Jesus & Co. Brewers! Get yours at your local synagogue today!

Sentynel: Hell, I'd drink that for humour value.

LaZorra: No wonder he wasn't popular with his own people.

I AM OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE

(I was going to visit LaZorra the next day. I texted her in the morning with some info about my trip, but hadn't heard back from her yet.)

LaZorra: PHAN I LEFT MY PHONE AT HOME ALL DAY

ThePhan: LZ: Haha, I wondered if you had your phone on you. I texted you with details and stuff and hadn't heard back. But I figured as long as you got back to me by the time I got to Chicago in the morning, I'd probably be OK.

LaZorra: LOL

LaZorra: "Um so I AM OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE are you going to let me in?"

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: And then fifteen more texts, finally ending in a simple, yet poignant ":-("

LaZorra: Aaaand scene.

Sentynel: Each text arriving slower, with more typos, as your fingers gradually freeze.

* iwpg awards LaZorra ALL the Oscars.

ThePhan: LAZORRA gets the Oscars?

* ThePhan was the one standing outside in the snow texting.

iwpg: She's the director. :-P

wintermute: For artistic direction.

* LaZorra sticks her fingers in her ears and wiggles her tongue at Phan.

* ThePhan sends yet more unanswered texts.

ThePhan: "Congratulations on your win."

ThePhan: "Can I still come to the after party?"

ThePhan: "OK, I'm standing outside the after party door. Can you tell the guy at the front here that I can come in?"

* LaZorra attempts to drink a glass of champagne with a lampshade on her head.

ThePhan: "It's getting kind of cold."

ThePhan: "OK, I'll wait like... five more minutes to hear from you."

ThePhan: "Five more."

Twoesl

LaZorra: Oh blah I forgot I have to do laundry.

LaZorra: OTHERWISE PHAN WILL HAVE NO TWOESL :-.

Sentynel: We can't have her running out of twoesl.

LaZorra: TWOESL

LaZorra: er

Maryam: Two ESL students?

wintermute: Two English as a second languages?

Randy: hehe

LaZorra: Maryam: If she has two, then she won't run out.

LaZorra: *towelse

LaZorra: *-e

LaZorra: TOWLES

LaZorra: ELS

LaZorra: TOWELS

Randy: wow

wintermute: Towelese is a languge, right?

LaZorra: wm: Yes. It's like pig Latin, except spoken by hoopy froods.

Hilarious Spam

LaZorra: So barbbrand.com got hit by a ton of spam today.

LaZorra: But it's *hilarious* spam.

LaZorra: "You Sir/Madam are the enemy of confusion evereyhwre!"

Goosey: LOL!!

LaZorra: "I like to party, not look articles up online. You made it hpaepn."

LaZorra: I AM THE PARTY MACHINE

ThePhan: LOL LOL LOL

ThePhan: That is the best spam of all tiem.

ThePhan: *time

Randy: LOL!

LaZorra: "And to think I was going to talk to someone in pesron about this."

LaZorra: NO DON'T DO THAT

LaZorra: LET ME SAVE YOU FROM THAT FATE

LaZorra: "I much prefer informative articles like this to that high brow lietrature."

LaZorra: I'm glad my blog is low-brow enough for you.

Randy: hehe

LaZorra: "May all your days be merry and bright and may your Christmas be white! Merry Christmas!" On my post titled "Church!" Poster's name: "Sex Chat"

LaZorra: "If my problem was a Death Star, this article is a pthoon torpedo."

LaZorra: And lastly, "Well maacdmaia nuts, how about that."

LaZorra: I think I'm going to start saying that.

Randy: That's really awesomely odd.

LaZorra: "My brother got arrested last night for marijuana possession. "

LaZorra: "Well, macadamia nuts! How about that?"

Goosey: LOL!!!

ThePhan: LOL

LaZorra Bookcase Adventure

LaZorra: *dies*

ThePhan: If you die, do I still get to visit this weekend?

Sentynel: Phan: If she says yes, bring anti-zombie gear.

LaZorra: TP: Yes, though I'll probably be an even more boring host than usual.

Sentynel: You are so not a boring host.

LaZorra: This is what I have planned for Phan's visit:

ThePhan: That's exactly what I was hoping you'd have planned!

Sentynel: 1) ???

Sentynel: 2) PROFIT

LaZorra: LOL

LaZorra: I had some furniture from Target delivered today. I actually thought, for a split second, "Hey, if we have nothing else to do, we can assemble this bookcase!"

LaZorra: THAT IS HOW BORING A HOST I AM

Goosey: LOL!!!

ThePhan: LOL LOL

ThePhan: LET'S DO IT

ThePhan: I have never assembled a bookcase.

ThePhan: I should probably learn.

LaZorra: ADVENTURE

Sentynel: I bet trying to assemble furniture with LaZ would be hilarious.

LaZorra: ...I'm going to take that as a compliment. I think.

Sentynel: LaZ: Er, totally. =)

ThePhan: I think we should video it and put it on YouTube.

Sentynel: YES

Randy: LOL

Goosey: YES WANT TO WATCH

LaZorra: LOL LOL

LaZorra: The unboxing! The surveying of the parts! The arduous trek to the hardware store! The wood glue fumes! The crooked finished product!

Incorrect Grammar

ThePhan: NOTHING about incorrect grammar usage makes me crazier than misusing the word "literally."

Sentynel: Phan: So, that's literally the most annoying grammar error?

Goosey: Phan: STORY

ThePhan: Sent: Yes. Because I have been trying desperately to think of anything that makes me more upset and I can't think of anything. So, yes. Literally. Heh.

ThePhan: There's been a video going around on Facebook. It's been reposted by like 14-15 of my friends.

ThePhan: It's a guy doing a poem he wrote about how he loves Jesus but hates religion.

ThePhan: It's a nice little poem, has some nice ideas in it, I mostly agree with what he's saying.

ThePhan: But then at the end, he says something along the lines of, "I hate religion. In fact, I literally resent it."

ThePhan: ...WHAT?

Goosey: LOL

ThePhan: Did someone try to claim he was only figuratively resenting it?

Goosey: Is that even possible?

Sentynel: I used to have an irrational hatred for "alot", but now it just makes me giggle.

Sentynel: Misuse of literally is definitely one of the things that bothers me the most.

Sentynel: Another is "I could care less".

ThePhan: I can forgive misspellings and capitalization and punctuation errors. I can even forget "have went."

ThePhan: Er, *forgive, not forget

ThePhan: But I can't handle people who use "literally" to mean "a lot."

ThePhan: "I could care less" always sounded sarcastic to me, so that one is at least partially justified in my mind. I mean, I don't use it. Heh.

Sentynel: I guess it could be sarcastic. Maybe that's how it started. But I definitely hear it used without a hint of sarcasm.

ThePhan: Yeah. And that doesn't make sense.

Sam: I used to literally explode when people said "alot" but now I could care less.

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: Thanks, Sam.

Sam: No problem.

Sneaking Cough Drops

ThePhan: I just sneezed a cough drop out of my mouth.

10Kan: Beats sneezing it out your nose.

ThePhan: (Or, as I nearly typed, "sneaked.")

[RinkChat] User ThePhan has been labeled 'sneaks cough drops out her nose' by Sam.

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: It is my very own special talent.

Sam: LaZorra does carrots. You do cough drops.

ThePhan: But I can't shoot them out, so it's not a lot of good in battle. I have to sneak them out instead.

Sam: She has a machine gun. You have a sniper rifle.

British-Sounding Names

LaZorra: They should prank call Anderson Cooper at 5 in the morning.

LaZorra: Now THAT would be something to see.

Sentynel: LaZ: I had to look up who he is, but then I laughed.

LaZorra: YOU DON'T KNOW ANDERSON COOPER?!

* LaZorra's mind is blown.

Sentynel: I'M BRITISH

LaZorra: BUT HE'S ANDERSON COOPER

LaZorra: HE EVEN HAS A BRITISH-SOUNDING NAME

LaZorra: By American standards, anyway. :-p

Sentynel: That's not a British-sounding name.

Sentynel: "Sir Roderick Ponce Von Fontlebottom the Magnificent rascal" is a British-sounding name.

ThePhan: Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch is a British-sounding name.

Sentynel: Yes. Yes it is.

YOU DISGUSTING ENGLISHMEN

ChronoBot: Next Event: The Boston Tea Party took place when colonists disguised as Indians threw English tea into the harbor to protest England's tax on tea. (1) Before 395, (2) 395 - 1611, (3) 1611 - 1775, (4) 1775 - 1878, (5) 1878 - 1900, (6) 1900 - 1997, (7) After 1997.

LaZorra: YOU DISGUSTING ENGLISHMEN

Sentynel: Wait, what?

LaZorra: Oh, wait a second.

LaZorra: LOL

LaZorra: I just glanced at the question, and read "disguised" as "disgusting."

Sentynel: LOL!

Sentynel: I was wondering what you were on about.

LaZorra: I thought it said, "The Boston Tea Party took place when colonists thre tea into the harbor, disgusting Englishmen."

Sentynel: We were pretty disgusted.

Goosey: LOL

LaZorra: Remember it well, do you?

Sentynel: LaZ: It's part of the British collective genetic memory, of course.

Sentynel: You guys don't have one of those?

LaZorra: We lack a British collective genetic memory, yes.

Titanic

ChronoBot: Next Event: The movie Titanic is released to theaters. (1) Before 1450, (2) 1450 - 1803, (3) 1803 - 1949, (4) After 1949.

ChronoBot: Time's Up!

ChronoBot: The answer is: 1997.

ChronoBot: Answer: Before 1450 (LaZorra)

ChronoBot: Answer: 1450 - 1803

ChronoBot: Answer: 1803 - 1949

ChronoBot: Answer: After 1949 [+1] (Goosey, Sam, Sentynel, ThePhan)

LaZorra: ...wait, what?

ThePhan: LOL

Goosey: lol

Sentynel: LOL

ThePhan: It's impressive to release the Titanic movie before the Titanic event even happened.

Sentynel: Old classic movi.

Sentynel: *e

LaZorra: TP: It was a true event based on a movie.

Sentynel: Phan: It was actually a science fiction film.

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ChronoBot: Next Event: Star Wars opens in theaters. (1) Before 1876, (2) 1876 - 1907, (3) 1907 - 1926, (4) 1926 - 1930, (5) 1930 - 1949, (6) After 1949.

Randy: b 3

Sam: NO HINTS

LaZorra: randy you are thinking of titianic

NERDS

ChronoBot: Next Event: Louis Cartier creates the wristwatch. (1) Before 1926, (2) After 1926.

ChronoBot: Time's Up!

ChronoBot: The answer is: 1907.

ChronoBot: Answer: Before 1926 [+1] (Goosey, LaZorra, Maryam, Sam, Sentynel, ThePhan)

ChronoBot: Answer: After 1926 (Randy)

Randy: I chose wrong

LaZorra: Aw, poor Randy.

ThePhan: You chose... poorly.

LaZorra: You chose...poorly.

LaZorra: GAH

TalkingDog: teehee

Goosey: LOL!!!

Sentynel: NERDS

Sam: LaZ: You typed...slowly.

ThePhan: WE WIN.

LaZorra: LOL

Randy: I love you guys

Automatic Binding Bricks

ChronoBot: Next Event: Lego Group begins production of interlocking brick toys, then named Automatic Binding Bricks. (1) Before 1450, (2) 1450 - 1803, (3) After 1803.

Sam: "Automatic Binding Bricks" rolls off the tongue so lightly, they should have kept the name.

LaZorra: It sounds like a Snidely Whiplash tool of choice for attaching young ladies to train trcks.

Sam: LOL LOL LOL

Sam: IT SO DOES.

Sentynel: Lego's sinister past uncovered!

Twister

ChronoBot: Question: Next event: The game Twister was introduced on the market. (1) Before 776 B.C., (2) 776 B.C. - 1849, (3) 1849 - 1906, (4) 1906 - 1975, (5) After 1975.

(Later...)

ChronoBot: Question: Next event: The game Twister was first sold. (1) Before 1888, (2) 1888 - 1918, (3) 1918 - 1938, (4) 1938 - 1966, (5) 1966 - 1967, (6) 1967 - 1982, (7) 1982 - 2000, (8) 2000 - 2008, (9) After 2008.

iwpg: We had this one before, didn't we?

ThePhan: And I don't remember the answer.

* iwpg resists the urge to scroll up.

Sam: iwpg: hahaha. I thought we did. Turns out it's because it's in the database twice.

Sentynel: LOL

Sentynel: It's just SUCH an important event.

Sentynel: Timeline of the world: stuff -> 1966: Twister first sold -> more stuff

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Goosey: It would be neat if it listed the game's events in order when it was over

Sam: Goosey: OHHH. I actually meant to do that! But then I forgot. I'll add that.

Sentynel: stuff -> Twister first sold -> more stuff

Randy: LOL

Goosey: LOL

ThePhan: LOL

Sam: I should make EVERY bot recap that timeline at the end.

Sam: HotOrNotBot: Hottest: [chick with navel drool] Least Hot: [guy who needs to pull up his pants] World Timeline: stuff, Twister, stuff.

Sentynel: Sam: Actually, Twister fits rather well with that bot...

Charlie the Unicorn Forever

ThePhan: LaZorra, I thought you were asleep. I was going to /memo you Jacob's response. But now I won't.

LaZorra: phan why do you shun meeeee

LaZorra: :-(

Randy: Shhhuuuun

Randy: Shun the unbeliever!

Maryam: Shun the unbeliever!

LaZorra: Oh my gosh, I haven't thought about THAT in forever.

ThePhan: Shun the... yes.

Randy: haha!

TalkingDog: Nice.

Goosey: I do not know this joke.

Sentynel: Goosey: Seriously?

Sentynel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsGYh8AacgY

(Later, talking about piano playing)

Sentynel: Finding a piece I actually wanted to play like that is what got me back into playing a couple of years ago.

Sentynel: Hell, it got me more into playing than I'd ever been as a child taking lessons.

Maryam: Was it something from Battlestar Galactica?

Sentynel: Yeah/

Sentynel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsGYh8AacgY This.

Goosey: Seriously. I want a real piano, not a keyboard, and I want a house so I'll have room for it.

Sentynel: Which is, fortunately for my getting back into the piano, significantly easier to play than that Pirates arrangement. I'm sure I'd have given up on that very quickly.

Sentynel: The best electric pianos are as good as a real one, now, and cheaper and a lot easier to look after.

Maryam: I used to love playing, but I had a very small repertoire which eventually dwindled to my favorite piece, a moderately impressive one that I would pretend to be surprised about when people complimented me for playing it.

Sentynel: Although we're still talking thousands.

Maryam: Yeah, this was back in the awkward teenage years...

Sentynel: I can play, like, three pieces properly from memory, and one fairly well with the music for some bits, which I'm still very much working on (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsGYh8AacgY this one).

Maryam: Sent: So the piece from BSG that got you back into playing was Charlie the Unicorn?

Sentynel: Er.

Goosey: LOL

Sentynel: Clipboard fail.

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: He's very much working on it, anyway.

Sentynel: My second link was that AS WELL.

Sentynel: GET OUT OF MY CLIPBOARD CHARLIE

ThePhan: IT'S LIKE RICKROLLING BUT WORSE

Sentynel: Why was Charlie even IN my clipboard?

Sentynel: I didn't copy that link.

Sentynel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vcFFf9aa7k THERE

Maryam: You typed it by hand?

TalkingDog: ahahahahaha

Sentynel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEhlAA85_tY And there.

TalkingDog: me ded

Sentynel: Maryam: Er. I posted it in the first place, didn't i?

Sentynel: Maybe I did copy it.

Sentynel: I'd guess I put Charlie into the main clipboard, and the subsequent link was only in the selection clipboard.

Sentynel: But I was sure I copied the other links.

[RinkChat] The chat room's topic has been changed to 'GET OUT OF MY CLIPBOARD CHARLIE' by TalkingDog.

Lord Jesus Pies

TalkingDog: pie jesu domine *thwack*

TalkingDog: dona eis requiem *thwack*

Goosey: Dahahaha

Sentynel: I love that you know the words to that.

TalkingDog: I looked it up.

Maryam: I've just realized I haven't seen Holy Grail in a really long time.

Maryam: I've just heard it quoted endlessly to keep the memory sort of fresh in my mind.

Goosey: hehehe

Maryam: http://www.youtube.com/comment?lc=pQqUNsoEwrPPSYYo3cGAlesFI3nsHodwRPgs9ODUXVU LOL LOL

Maryam: That link doesn't seem to be working right for me. I wanted it to link directly to a comment.

Maryam: "O Lord Jesus Pies Grant them rest Gotta love Google translator"

Sentynel: Lord Jesus Pies!

LaZorra: LORD JESUS PIES

LaZorra: Now with extra holiness sprinkles!

Maryam: You put sprinkles on pies?

LaZorra: Dude, the LORD JESUS can make pies however He wants.

Goosey: Cream pies

Maryam: LOL

LaZorra: AND YOU WILL LIKE THEM

Sentynel: Oh, see, I thought he was IN the pies, not that he was making the pies.

Sentynel: (Screw communion wafers.)

LaZorra: Oh, I was envisioning Lord Jesus Pies as a brand.

Randy: LOL

LaZorra: With Jesus in a poofy chef's hat on the label.

* TalkingDog dies.

Sound Effects

wintermute: PhanZorra!

* LaZorra Phan STOMPS TOKYO

TalkingDog: groar

LaZorra: (with sound effects by TalkingDog)

* LaZorra imagines this like that Who's Line game where random audience members make noises to accompany the actions.

TalkingDog: sproing

Randy: Squoosh

* LaZorra -Phan steps in a puddle of ooze!

Maryam: quack quack quack quack quack

LaZorra: Dangit, there goes our manicure.

Randy: burble

* ThePhan Zorra gets manicures?

* LaZorra Phan picks up the kyoot little ducky and sets him freeeee!

Randy: gunshot

Goosey: bbbbbbbbbbb

TalkingDog: vroom-oink

* LaZorra Phan: RANDY YOU SHOT OUR DUCKY

Goosey: butble

Goosey: *burble

* LaZorra Phan dives off the road to avoid the speeding pig!

* Randy hides

* Sentynel attempts to work out what's going on.

* Goosey is torn . . . chat fun-weird . . . or new Sherlock episode? . . .

LaZorra: BUTTBLE

Goosey: rrrrrrrrip

TalkingDog: Sherlock will still be there.

Goosey: TD: good point.

Sentynel: TD: It's not like RinkChat will stop being silly, either.

Goosey: staplestaplestaple

Randy: whooooo

* LaZorra Phan gets out the crazy glue to put Goosey back together.

TalkingDog: CLANG-fizzle

Randy: blop

Goosey: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerk

Randy: bloop

Randy: blip

* LaZorra Phan doesn't think crazy glue is supposed to be applied with a frying pan.

Goosey: LOL!

Sentynel: Well, it IS crazy.

Goosey: rumble

* LaZorra Phan is hungry. All that smashing Tokyo is hard work.

Goosey: shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-beep

Randy: scitter scatter

Goosey: wug wug wug wug

* LaZorra Phan has set off the PhanZorra alarm!

* LaZorra Phan runs from the coppers!

Maryam: whoooooooooooosh

Goosey: AAAIIIEEEE!

Randy: BBBBZZZZZZZZZ

* LaZorra Phan flaps her arms really hard and sort of flies!

* LaZorra Phan runs into the side of a building.

Goosey: ding-dong!

* LaZorra Phan leaves a big PhanZorra shaped hole.

LaZorra: Goosey: Hey, no insulting the talent.

Goosey: LOL

Goosey: *bing-bong!

Randy: AAAAOOOOOOGAHHHH

Goosey: I KNEW THAT WAS COMING

* LaZorra Phan sees the Keystone Kops!

Goosey: drip

Goosey: drip

Goosey: drip

Maryam: chugga wugga wugga

* LaZorra Phan points and laughs and says, "I love the part where they all fall out of the car."

Goosey: drip

Goosey: drip

* LaZorra Phan is caught and must endure Chinese water torture!

Goosey: drip

Randy: heyyoustoprightthere

* LaZorra Phan also really has to blow her nose.

Goosey: meedlymeedlymeedlymeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEE!

Randy: HOOOONKKK

* LaZorra Phan says, "Whooooo, meeeeeee?"

Goosey: BAP

Goosey: wishawishawishawisha

* LaZorra Phan does a little tapdance, but trips and falls over into a very fat man.

Sentynel: For some reason I'm now picturing PhanZorra in the Ultimate Showdown videol

Sentynel: s/l/./

Goosey: LOL!

* LaZorra Phan is discrased and must take a job washing windows to make bail.

Goosey: discrased??

Sentynel: Don't ever dis-craze.

* LaZorra Phan is not entirely sure why one has to post bail in order to become un-disgraced, but there you are.

Maryam: bomp

* LaZorra Phan will always remain crazy!

Goosey: neiggghh brrr

Goosey: trip trop trip trop

* LaZorra jumps out of a window onto a cold horse.

* LaZorra Phan rides away down the cobblestones!

Goosey: Yay!

* LaZorra Phan calls her mom to tell her she'll be late for dinner. "Sorry, Mom, Tokyo's a lot bigger than I thought."

Goosey: brrrring! HONK

* LaZorra Phan answers her goose. "Herro? Iz PhanZolla hele, how I herp you?"

Maryam: ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

* LaZorra Phan hangs up. She hates it when the Toy Story aliens prank call her.

Goosey: hubba hubba

* LaZorra Phan DOES think they are pretty hot, though.

Maryam: LOL

Goosey: LOL

Sentynel: Well, this conversation just got EVEN WEIRDER.

Sentynel: I seriously didn't think that was possible.

TalkingDog: zip zop zoobity bop

Goosey: Sent: You should have been here long enought to know by now that weirder is ALWAYS possible.

Sentynel: We shall all collapse into a weirdness singularity and never escape.

Maryam: with the JELLO and the PUDDING

* Goosey collapses with PUDDING

Sentynel: Yes, you can bring your jello into the weirdness singularity if you like.

* ThePhan Zorra is TRYING to have serious Bible time with Jacob over on Turntable but she wanders over to find LaZorra Phan claiming she finds the Toy Story aliens hot.

Randy: LOL

Goosey: LOL!!!!!

* ThePhan Zorra isn't really sure where to focus her attention.

Maryam: LOL

Goosey: Simble: invite Jacob in

Goosey: *Ciimple

Goosey: *SIMPLE

ThePhan: LOL

Maryam: LOL

* LaZorra Phan turns her horse on TurboBoosterRocket mode and bounces from treetop to treetop until she is reunited with her one true love Jacob, who is even hotter than the Toy Story aliens.

Sentynel: Simble: a basic lion

ThePhan: LOL LOL LOL

Goosey: LAZORRA WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME

Goosey: Sent:LOL!!!

* ThePhan Zorra sends Jacob a spicy love letter: "You are EVEN HOTTER than the aliens from Toy Story. Way to go."

* TalkingDog doesn't say: "God will still be there."

Goosey: LOL

Randy: hahaha!

Sentynel: I'm sometimes amazed that ANYBODY can spend time in here and sustain a functional relationship, with the advice that gets bandied around...

Sentynel: (Or maybe it's just me that would be tempted to try it.)

Sentynel: (FOR SCIENCE.)

ThePhan: Sent: Well, that's easy. You just don't follow ANY of the advice.

BINS

TalkingDog: BINS

TalkingDog: Umm. *NOMS

Maryam: LOL

ThePhan: YAY BINS

Randy: haha!

Sentynel: I was somewhat confused for a second why TD was shouting about bins...

* TalkingDog giggles at himself.

Conversating

(I was at a theater festival this week and had just finished seeing a production of Master Harold and the Boys.)

Randy: Phan! How was the show?

ThePhan: IT. WAS. AWESOME.

ThePhan: Best show I've seen here so far.

10Kan: Hooray!

Sentynel: From Phan's first line the only thing I can think of is clicking the "Awesome" button in Turntable.

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: If I had an awesome button for this show, I would have clicked it.

10Kan: It would be extremely disturbing if people started showing their appreciation at shows by lolling their heads side to side without following the rhythm.

Sentynel: I'm so doing that at the next gig I go to.

Sentynel: Room full of people headbanging.

Sentynel: Cheerfully rock head from side to site out of time.

ThePhan: From side to site?

Sentynel: Er. *side

Sentynel: I'm holding two conversations at the same time and conversated in both about five seconds apart.

Sentynel: ...what? *typoed

Sentynel: O__o

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: Look at you, conversatin' in both.

Sentynel: Yes.

Sentynel: Totally.

Sentynel: I think this is a sign I should consider going to bed about now.

PHAN HAN AN N NA NAH NAHP AI YI YI

LaZorra has entered.

goldfishy: Hey LaZorra

ThePhan: LAZORORORORORA!

* ThePhan doesn't really know what that greeting was. It just kind of came out.

LaZorra: PHAN HAN AN N NA NAH NAHP

ThePhan: LOL

goldfishy: I imagine it like that sort of yodelling thing the American Indians do in bad movies

LaZorra: AY YI YI

LaZorra has left.

ThePhan: LOL LOL

goldfishy: Well that was short and sweet

ThePhan: I don't know if she's coming back. But if not, it's fantastic that she ran into chat, yelled "PHAN HAN AN N NA NAH NAHP" and "AI YI YI" and ran back out.

ThePhan: That is how I picture LaZorra interactions working in real life too.

goldfishy: I suspect they do

goldfishy: Can you imagine if she was a boss?

ThePhan: LOL

goldfishy: She'd yell random things like that at you, you would have no idea what to do, and then she'd come back with a whip if you weren't doing the right thing

ThePhan: "*runs in* WORK ORK WROK ROK AI YI YI! *runs out*"

Tricking ThePhan

ThePhan: Goosey: I just tried to convince my family that in Hawaii, nobody wears anything but pajamas.

Goosey: Phan: Tell them I said it's quite true that we only wear pajamas, because "pajama" is the Hawaiian word for "clothes"

ThePhan: Goosey: LOL, for real? Because that is awesome.

Goosey: Phan : HAHA I WIN I CANT BELIEVE YOU BELIEVED ME

ThePhan: LOL LOL LOL

ThePhan: YOU HAVE TRICKED ME

Goosey: LOL LOL LOL

ThePhan: I was all ready to share that great tidbit with the family.

Goosey: I DID NOT THINK YOU WOULD BELIEVE ME

ThePhan: LOL

Goosey: Tell them anyway, they're sure to fall for it

* Goosey does a victory dance

ThePhan: That was awesome.

Goosey: You tell story after story about you fooling your siblings (pin your face on every night) I thought for sure you'd see right through me.

ThePhan: LOL

Goosey: I win a million times.

ThePhan: See, that is my secret... I tell them things like this but am actually fairly gullible myself :-)

* Goosey HUGS ThePhan!

* ThePhan HUGS Goosey!

goldfishy: We should change this game from "Phan fools her siblings" to "the whole of RinkChat fools Phan"

Goosey: LOL YES

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: NOOOOOOOOO

Goosey: I can make stuff up with the best of them.

ThePhan: I WILL NEVER BELIEVE ANYTHING YOU GUYS TELL ME AGAIN

Goosey: Especially abuot things I know more than other people anyway. Like Hawaii.

ThePhan: And, frankly, usually most of the stuff I make up is ridiculous enough that *nobody* would actually believe them. LOL.

ThePhan: Bethany couldn't prove we *didn't* pin her face on at nighttime, but she didn't actually believe it. Heh.

Sentynel: Phan: Did you know, Adolf Hitler decreed that any female character in a film who breaks up a marriage must die before the end?

Goosey: Honestly I thought "pajama" being a Hawaiian word for anything was pretty far fetched

ThePhan: Heh, well, I don't know much about Hawaiian linguistics, so it sounded mildly plausible.

Goosey: sent: LOL

ThePhan: Sent: :-P

Sentynel: Funnily enough, that's completely true.

Goosey: LOL

Sentynel: One of the startling facts we learnt playing the QI board game last night.

ThePhan: I CANNOT WIN

goldfishy: I take everything you lot say with a ton of salt anyway

ThePhan: I will just respond to everything you guys say with, "haha, wow," which could mean either, "Haha, wow, that's a crazy fact," OR, "Haha, wow, I can't believe you thought I'd believe that."

Bubble Wrap

* Goosey accidentally steps on some bubble wrap she didn't know was there and scares herself

* ThePhan realizes how crazy and awesome it would be to carpet a room in bubble wrap.

ThePhan: For the first day, anyway.

Goosey: LOL that would be awesome

Sentynel: You'd need some sort of self-healing bubble wrap, though.

ThePhan: Right.

Sentynel: Or lots of supplies of it so you could recarpet it every day.

ThePhan: Best part, if it self-heals quickly enough, nobody can ever sneak up on you.

Sentynel: Unless they've got REAL ninja skills.

Sentynel: Or maybe snowshoes.

Oscar Predictions

(About the Oscar nominee prediction game.)

* ThePhan is pretty OK with her choices.

* Sam inspects ThePhan's work.

ThePhan: Oh, no, I'm being graded...

Sam: TP: I predict you got 20 of your 33 predictions correct.

* Sam opens up The Academy Awards Predictions Game Predictions Game.

Sentynel: Metapredictions!

* Sentynel predicts Sam gets 28 of his predictions of Phan's 33 predictions correct.

Sam: I predict that my prediction of ThePhan's prediction score will be 2 points off.

* Sentynel predicts that this is getting silly.

* goldfishy predicts 100% of the dead people in the "In Memoriam" tribute will be dead

Sam: goldie: I soooo hope you are wrong about that.

Badgers

goldfishy: Oh hey you guys will appreciate this - I had to take minutes for a meeting a couple of weeks back - it last like 5 hours and typing up the notes takes forever

goldfishy: So when I eventually get them finished I send them to my boss who reads them over and checks they're ok

goldfishy: She told me that she had had hysterical giggles at home reading my minutes because somewhere along the line I had managed to type something about there being concern about similarities between the badgers

ThePhan: LOL

goldfishy: It was a discussion about badges

ThePhan: Mushroom, mushroom!

goldfishy: Mushroom?

Maryam: Snaaake, ahhh, it's a snaaaake

10Kan: It's a badger badger badger badger...

goldfishy: Sometimes I forget that you guys are odd, and then you do this to me

goldfishy: ;-)

Helly People

goldfishy has entered.

goldfishy: Helly people

goldfishy: Wait, what? *Hello

ThePhan: LOL

* ThePhan doesn't want to be a Helly person!

goldfishy: But you could hover!

Helling About Sprouts

LaZorra: okay, okay, I'm going to go work out before Goosey hells at me again.

Sentynel: That's not very nice of her.

Sentynel: Although I imagine fire and brimstone is an effective motivator.

LaZorra: HELLGOOSEY

Randy: LOL

LaZorra: *yells :-p

Goosey: LOL

Goosey: I was motivating her to get to the gym already

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LaZorra is back.

LaZorra: WHO WANTS A HUG

LaZorra: I AM ALL SWEATY

Goosey: WOO workout!

Ticia: Now goosey doesn't have to hell at you!

LaZorra: Ticia: Phew, good, because I always have to break out the salve after that.

LaZorra: it burrnsss us

ThePhan: Goosey's helling at people?

Sentynel: LaZorra: okay, okay, I'm going to go work out before Goosey hells at me again. (20:19:06)

Goosey: hehehe

LaZorra: Phan: IT WAS AWFUL

LaZorra: Soarks and pitchforks all over the place.

Randy: Soarks?

LaZorra: Like the Ozarks, but MORE FULL OF HELL.

Goosey: LOL!!

Randy: LOL

Randy: Resisting urge to make hillbilly joke...

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: It took me a minute to figure out that was originally "sparks" and not "sporks."

Randy: That's better than me. I didn't get it till you said it.

Ticia: Hha

LaZorra: Sell, sports are sort of like pitchforks.

LaZorra: *Well

ThePhan: Sports?

ThePhan: My siblings just played soccer tonight. That's sort of like a pitchfork.

LaZorra: ...SPORKS. SPORKTS.

LaZorra: ... *-T

* Sentynel giggles madly

ThePhan: Sprouts!

Randy: Spats!

Sentynel: I suppose sports and pitchforks both involve a pitch.

LaZorra: SPROUTS

LaZorra: Hey, so sprouts are good.

ThePhan: Hehehe

ThePhan: That's one of my favorite typos ever.

Sentynel: What, accidentally claiming that sprouts are good?

Sentynel: That is a pretty major typo.

LaZorra: Dude, brussels sprouts sauteed in lemon juice and salt until brown == delicious.

Maryam: Brussels sprouts? Alfalfa sprouts?

LaZorra: Also, alfalfa sprouts smothered in mayo on a sandwich.

ThePhan: I don't actually eat sprouts. Not because I refuse to, but simply because we never have them in our house. So I have no opinion.

LaZorra: Oh man, now I wasn't a sandwich with sprouts.

Sentynel: I'd be concerned if you were.

Sentynel: This just in: I am not, in fact, a full roast dinner.

Randy: LOL

LaZorra: I used to be. It's all your fault that I'm not any more.

Goosey: LOL!

* Randy is laughing too much.

LaZorra: RinkWorks has de-sproutified me.

Ticia has entered.

LaZorra: Now I'm just a sad, plain cheese sandwish.

LaZorra: Ticia! What sort of foodstuff are you not?

ThePhan: LOL

Ticia: Awww

Sentynel: You wish you were cheese?

Ticia: Lima beans.

* ThePhan wasn't a bowl of ice cream.

Ticia: And meat of any kind.

Ticia: I'm assuming this is an "You are what you eat" kind of thing?

Randy: I'm not carrots.

* LaZorra does not snort Randy out of her nose.

Randy: LOL LOL

Randy: Didn't even think about that.

Santa/Satan Flesh Treats

* 10Kan made Kris Kringles.

goldfishy: What are they?

LaZorra: Treats made from Santa flesh.

goldfishy: I thought as much

Sentynel: I'll take three.

* goldfishy glares at ShinyKan

LaZorra: Mmm, mmm, cannabalism.

Sentynel: Although I originally read that as "Satan flesh", which was a bit more concerning.

goldfishy: Now Satan flesh sounds tasty

goldfishy: I bet it would be all smokey and barbequey tasting

goldfishy: mmmm

goldfishy: succulent

goldfishy: I reckon Santa would taste like cinnamon

goldfishy: What would God taste like?

goldfishy: Jesus would be like sardines on toast

10Kan: Bread & wine.

goldfishy: Because of the whole fishes and loaves thing

goldfishy: Oh who is it that does the eating Jesus in church thing?

goldfishy: Because they got it all wrong

goldfishy: I should tell them

10Kan: Oh, I didn't see you asking what Kris Kringles are until now.

10Kan: They're like Rice Krispie treats, but stuck together with peanut butter and karo syrup instead of marshmallow.

LaZorra: LOL LOL

Sentynel: That's way less interesting.

10Kan: And spread on top with melted chocolate and butterscotch.

LaZorra: I like how 10Kan missed that, and finds it absolutely normal for us to just be here talking about what various people would taste like.

Sentynel: A normal Sunday evening in RinkChat.

goldfishy: Well it is a pretty normal conversation, I don't really know why you're implying it's abnormal

* Goosey comes back to a stranger-than-normal conversation

Tags

(Edited ever so slightly so the original text actually displays. Hopefully.)

Goosey: Teh Goosey has been wrapping Christmas presents, and ran out of tags

LaZorra: Here, have some more: < header> < footer> < div>

Goosey: LOL

Goosey: Thanks.

Sentynel: LOL LOL

LaZorra: Any time! I have lots.

* TalkingDog's brain twitches slightly at the unclosed tags.

Goosey: LOL

Sentynel: TD: I was more bothered by having a footer inside a header.

Sentynel: That's just wrong.

Pastries For Great Justice

LaZorra: In other news, i just made these: http://instagr.am/p/ZyTbM/

Sentynel: I saw those and they look DELICIOUS and I want some.

LaZorra: They're actually not sweet at all. The cookie part is more like a yeast biscuit than anything else.

LaZorra: With a little apricot jam and some sugar-crumb topping.

Maryam: That sounds delicious.

Maryam: But now I must go.

Maryam: Bye!

Maryam has left.

LaZorra: Bye!!

* LaZorra is imagining Maryam taking off on a quest for cookies.

LaZorra: "Now I must go...seek out and acquire pastries of all varieties."

LaZorra: FOR GREAT JUSTICE

Goosey: LOL

ThePhan: LOL

TalkingDog: nom

Rhyming in RinkChat

* Goosey sighs and puts away groceries.

* Maryam cries and juts away over stories.

* Maryam is a gargoyle apparently.

ThePhan: LOL

* Randy tries and hits away lorries.

Goosey: LOL You sillies.

Hurt Foot

Goosey: Ughhhh I don't know what's wrong with my foot, but it really hurts.

wintermute: Are there any nails in it?

Goosey: Nope

wintermute: Ah, there's your problem. Someone ripped out your toenails.

Goosey: LOL :P

BRAARH!

* 10Kan got a bit of a scare today when his doctor called him at work.

10Kan: My doc has a loud, gruff way of speaking, and his phone apparently isn't very good. So I picked up the phone and heard "BRAARH!"

10Kan: "Hello?" "BRAARH!"

10Kan: It turned out he was saying my name.