Buffalo

ThePhan: LOL, this question is fun: "Would a Buffalo fall through a floor of a mobile home"

wintermute: Is it a full-grown buffalo?

Randy: Guy on a Buffalooooo

TalkingDog: The city of Buffalo?

wintermute: TD: Only if it's also the city of Mobile.

Nyperold: Buffalo, with its population of 261,310 (as of 2010) would surely crush an entire mobile home, never mind the floor.

wintermute: Ironically, none of those 261,310 are buffaloes.

Facebook Ads

Sentynel: Facebook is currently showing "The Bible" under the "pages I may like" section on the right.

Sentynel: Given my profile states I am an atheist, you would have thought they might have been able to work out that this is unlikely.

Goosey: Hehehe

ThePhan: Facebook knows about your Bible-study-crashing on Turntable.

Sentynel: SO THAT'S WHAT IT IS

Goosey: LOL

Sentynel: My TT account is linked to Facebook, after all.

ThePhan: Wouldn't it be terrible if my subconscious controlled other people's Facebook ads?

Sentynel: It would be HILARIOUS.

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: Well, that too.

ThePhan: I suspect it would be largely unhelpful to the advertisers.

Goosey: LOL

Sentynel: I'd pay more attention if they were funny.

ThePhan: And maybe you can help me remember my recent dreams with your Facebook ads. Because I haven't remembered any in awhile.

ThePhan: The last one I remember was where the special needs kid from my 7th period class went on a safari and got some bizarre bug disease that made him dance, then vomit, then his head exploded. It was rather distressing.

Sentynel: That sounds like an unpleasant disease.

Randy: Wow

* Sentynel makes note not to go on safari.

Goosey: LOL LOL

ThePhan: LOL

Randy: LOL

\ Is Not Backspace

LaZorra: x\z\z\\z\z\z

LaZorra: um

LaZorra: \ is not backspace

Sentynel: O__o

Randy: LOL

Goosey: LOL

Sam: Nice!

ThePhan: LOL LOL

* ThePhan Facebooks that RIGHT NOW.

Mass Effect 3

Sentynel: Man, I hate finishing a book or a movie or something and not having anyone to talk to about it.

ThePhan: Sent: What did you just finish?

Sentynel: Mass Effect 3.

ThePhan: Oh. True, I can't discuss that with you.

Sentynel: I would be quite surprised if you could.

ThePhan: Man, that effect. It was just so... mass. Probably as mass as the first two effects put together.

Sentynel: LOL

Shower Time

(LaZ and I had both been talking about how we needed to shower but we kept getting distracted by the conversation in chat.)

LaZorra: Okay, let us go shower, Phan.

LaZorra: Er. Not together.

Goosey: LOL

Goosey: LOL LOL

LaZorra: THAT SOUNDED SO CREEPY

ThePhan: LOL LOL

Goosey: HAHAHA

Goosey: WHAT DID I JUST WALK IN ON?

LaZorra: I DO NOT KNOW

Randy: LOL!

ThePhan: If you show up in my shower while I am in there, you are not allowed to crash with me in my dorm.

ThePhan: No matter how far you traveled to get there.

LaZorra: Dangit.

LaZorra: I will just sleep outside your door and whimper.

ThePhan: OK SHOWER HERE WE GO IN SEPARATE STATES BUT AT THE SAME TIME

LaZorra: LOL OKAY

LaZorra: 123break

LaZorra has left.

Kesha!

Ticia: LaZorra!

LaZorra: Kesha!

LaZorra: ...

LaZorra: no

LaZorra: no no no

Goosey: YAY

Goosey: SO HAPPY YOU SLEPT

Ticia: Kesha?

Goosey: Seems to have some unfortunate side effects though.

Goosey: Such as being excited about Kesha . . .

Ticia: LOL

LaZorra: I need to sleep WAY more apparently, if my brain tries to substitute "Ke$ha" for "Ticia."

Goosey: LOL LOL LOL

Ticia: LOL LOL LOL

* Goosey HUGS LaZorra!

LaZorra: TICIA CAN YOU SING ABOUT BEING A PARTY GIRL

Maryam: LOL

Ticia: I look just like her. I can see how you would get us mixed up.

Voice Recognition

ThePhan: I'm procrastinating on my work even further by playing with my speech recognition software.

ThePhan: I haven't done that in a long time.

Goosey: lol

ThePhan: I'm going to read the user list and see how many of the names it knows. It changes all the time.

ThePhan: TalkingDog, Sam, a scene, Marion, Ticia, N.D., the fan

ThePhan: You are a scene?

ThePhan: That sounds nothing like Goosey

Maryam: LOL

ThePhan: Oh, it got it that time!

Randy: ND!

ThePhan: Goofy Goosey good secret secrecy

Randy: LOL

ThePhan: I said your name five times.

ThePhan: Mary Mary and Marian Mary Mary and Miriam

ThePhan: The butt randy randy randy randy randy

ThePhan: What??

Randy: The Butt!

* Randy loses it

ThePhan: Where did that come from?

ThePhan: The task the top of the old--that is the sound of me laughing.

ThePhan: You should all try to say that when you laugh

Goosey: LOL LOL

Maryam: LOL

Happy

(I had just finished being fairly mushy about Jacob.)

ThePhan: Anyway. Thassall. I'm pretty happy right now. Heh. Now I just need to finish my work for tomorrow.

LaZorra: Phan: I am so hoppy you're hoopy.

LaZorra: ...

Sentynel: LOL LOL

* ThePhan froods.

Sentynel: You hoopy frood.

Sentynel: Damit.

Sentynel: *Dammit.

ThePhan: LZ: ...Was that not on purpose?

* LaZorra is cracking up.

LaZorra: NO

Sentynel: LaZ is apparently so happy she's hopping about it.

ThePhan: LOL LOL LOL

* LaZorra jumps around in the air, she is so hoppy for Phan.

Sentynel: Phan: You're asking if a LaZ typo was deliberate. Clearly she hasn't been in here enough lately.

LaZorra: HAPPY

LaZorra: DAMMIT

LaZorra: HAMMPY

LaZorra: ...

LaZorra: good grief, I'm tired.

ThePhan: HAMMPY?

* ThePhan is completely losing it over here.

Sentynel: HamPy = a pig implemented in Python

Johnny Cash Board Game

Nyperold: So, I was typing the domain name to get here, and I noticed that one of the suggestions was "ring of fire rules". Until I looked for myself, I could only assume that it was a game where you go down, down, down as the flames go higher.

LaZorra: LOL

LaZorra: A board game based on Johnny Cash lyrics would be epic.

LaZorra: If you really screw up, you get stuck in Folsom Prison.

LaZorra: You have to be careful to walk the line. Or else you might go down to Jackson.

LaZorra: Where you'll encounter ghost riders.

Sam: Go directly to Folsom Prison. Do not pass through the burning ring of fire. Do not collect $200.

Ewww, Love

ThePhan: All right. I'm going to sleep.
ThePhan: However, I will point out that my first draft of that update went as follows:
ThePhan: "All right. I am off to bed, off to bed. But I couldn't possibly go to bed now. It's my first time in an enchanted castle."
ThePhan: Then I decided that probably only my family incessantly quotes that line from Beauty and the Beast, and I would just sound crazy.
LaZorra: Judging from that draft, you need sleep NOW.
ThePhan: LOL LOL
LaZorra: LOL
Randy: LOL
LaZorra: YES
Randy: But good crazy.
LaZorra: Of course.
LaZorra: We're all good crazy here.
LaZorra: Sleep well, you lovely carrot.

(That was something Jacob had called me in a text earlier that day, which I thought was hilarious.)

Goosey: LOL
Maryam: LOL
ThePhan: LOL LOL
ThePhan: I love you all.
Goosey: Ew love you tioo
ThePhan: You are ALL lovely carrots in my opinion.
Goosey: ...
Goosey: *We love you too
ThePhan: LOL LOL GOOSEY
Randy: That's almost like "Shine on you, crazy diamond"
LaZorra: EW LOVE
ThePhan: "Eww! Love you too."
* Goosey dies

Peel It With a Spoon

ThePhan: OK, I'm reading an old transcript for RinkQuotes...

ThePhan: Ran across this exchange:

ThePhan: LaZorra: Dude. So. I just tried to peel an orange. / LaZorra: Except I just cut my fingernails this morning. / LaZorra: Somehow I got the edge of the orange peel under my nail. / LaZorra: I DID NOT KNOW ORANGES COULD BURN LIKE HELL

ThePhan: LaZorra: I've spent the last three solid minutes running my finger under cold water. I can't feel the tip now. / Leen: Peel it with a spoon next time.

Goosey: LOL OW

ThePhan: But I totally parsed that wrong and thought Leen was suggesting LaZorra fix her finger pain by somehow "peeling" her nails with a spoon.

ThePhan: That DID NOT SOUND HELPFUL.

Randy: LOL

Goosey: OW

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LaZorra: TP: What?? I always peel my nails with a spoon. Don't you?

Goosey: lol

ThePhan: Only when they're in pain.

LaZorra: Well, if they're not in pain when I start, they will be by the time I finish.

TitleBot: Food Version

This went on FOREVER. I am cutting it down to only share my favorites or the ones that got commented on. :-)

ThePhan: That sounds like a food I'd come up with playing that cookbook title-mixing game with the siblings.

Randy: hehe

Randy: We need that to be a bot game.

ThePhan: I've always thought it'd be a good one to incorporate into TitleBot.

Maryam: Cookbook title-mixing game?

ThePhan: One of these days I'll compile words for it.

Goosey: yesss

ThePhan: Maryam: I'd go through a cookbook and read the first word of the first recipe's title, the second of the next, the third of the next, and so on, until I ran out of words. Then I'd start over.

* ThePhan finds the Facebook notes about them so she can republish them on her blog for all to read.

Maryam: That sounds fun.

Maryam: Did you have any ending incongruously with "with" or something?

ThePhan: I did have a couple. In fact, there are a couple in this note. Heh.

Maryam: We really need food in TitleBot somehow.

Maryam: But I would probably be handicapped by trying to combine stuff that actually sounded good.

Maryam: Rather than goofy.

Goosey: hehe

ThePhan: All righty. Here 'tis: http://unpublishedforareason.blogspot.com/2012/03/my-old-list-of-bizarre-fake-foods.html

ThePhan: It's combined from the two separate Facebook notes I wrote about them, because they made me laugh too hard to NOT save the list forever.

They read through the list and then . . .

Goosey: I'm going to have to play this game now

Goosey: In fact . . .. I think I have a cook book right here . . .

Goosey: Ah yes. The "Favorite Brand NAme Classic Recipe Collection"

Goosey: "Crispy Smoothies" what?

Goosey: "Hot Dip"

Maryam: That's what you'd call getting into a jacuzzi.

Goosey: "Pesto Stuffed Bloody" er.

Maryam: o.o

ThePhan: Goosey: Uh.

Maryam: Ok, I have to get in on this now.

Goosey: "Lipton Steaks Steak with"

Maryam: "Warm Salad" ewww

Goosey: LOL

Maryam: haha "Chicken Fast Chicken"

LaZorra: You people have very odd diets.

Goosey: CHICKEN FAST CHICKEN

Maryam: Oh my goodness. I also have here "Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken". Not kidding.

ThePhan: Maryam: LOL LOL LOL

ThePhan: NOT ENOUGH CHICKEN

Goosey: LOL LOL LOL

TalkingDog: Teh bets chicken chicken.

ThePhan: I'm just picturing a table overflowing with chicken in various dishes.

Goosey: "Turkey Chicken Chicken"

Goosey: Does a Turkey Chicken Chicken beat a Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken?

Maryam: I bet you'd have more success stuffing a chicken into a chicken into a turkey, so maybe?

Maryam: Chicken has ceased to look like a word.

Maryam: "Honey Lover's Company" .... errr, that sounds like a bordello.

TalkingDog: Hmm. Chicken broth plus chicken plus... chicken in a biscuit? Need one more.

Goosey: LOL

Maryam: "Finger &"

LaZorra: Maryam: I do not want to know what comes after the &

LaZorra: A brief moment of flipping through my own cookbooks renders "Clear Soup Bisque," which sounds dangerously vague.

Maryam: "Not-Rolled Sliders"

Maryam: Cool, good to know you aren't rolling up my sliders...

Randy: "Russion Ice-Box Babies"

Maryam: Randy: LOL LOL

ThePhan: AND RUSSIAN ICE BOX BABIES

ThePhan: TO BE SERVED WITH DANISH ICE BABIES

LaZorra: I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT RUSSIAN ICEBOX BABIES

* ThePhan high fives LaZorra

* LaZorra high-fives Phan!

Goosey: LOL LOL LOL

Goosey: "Turkey Chicken Duck" NOT JOKING

Maryam: "Dinosaur Corned" Wait, where the heck did I get this cookbook that "dinosaur" is even IN a recipe title?

Goosey: Maryam: LOL

Sentynel: Maryam: 65 million years ago?

Goosey: "Chili Herbed Pesto"

Goosey: Isn't "herbed pesto" kind of redundant?

Maryam: The chili kind of throws you for a loop there though.

Goosey: "Magic Tuna"

Maryam: Goosey: Ooh, if you throw it back, do you get three wishes?

Maryam: "Secret Baked" It's a secret what's being baked.

Sentynel: Also, I'd just like to note that I'm trying to play a very serious video game, and this window on my second monitor keeps cracking me up.

Maryam: "Lemonade Salmon"

Goosey: That actually sounds good

Maryam: "Golden-Topped Fingers"

Goosey: That does not

Goosey: "Broccoli-stuffed Ratatouille"

Maryam: LOL, how do you stuff ratatouille?

Goosey: NO IDEA

Goosey: "Lasagna Hair Soup" LOL!!

Maryam: EWW LOL

Goosey: "Grilled Baked &"

Maryam: Haha, I like that one.

Goosey: "Mushroom with Stew" So . . . A big mushroom in a bowl of stew?

Maryam: "Better Twist" YOU BETTER DO IT.

Maryam: "Potato Potato Sour"

TalkingDog: Two potatoes and a lemon?

Goosey: "Cobb Salad Cream Salad Salad" LOL!

Maryam: "Stuffed Creamed Beans"

Maryam: LOL nice.

Goosey: How do you stuff a bean?

Randy: very carefully

Maryam: That's even harder than stuffing ratatouille!

Maryam: "Death Coffee Cake"

Goosey: Cake or Death? YES

Goosey: "Classic Triple Pie Pie"

Goosey: LOL

LaZorra: THAT IS ONLY DOUBLE PIE

Maryam: I believe a triple pie pie would be a sextuple pie.

Fajitas!

Randy: Went to the closer store and got tortillas. Made fajitas

Randy: The End.

Goosey: yay!

LaZorra: ,,,,, fajitas!

Randy: LOL

LaZorra: Obviously that should be read as, " *dramatic pause* Fajitas!"

Goosey: haha

LaZorra: Or perhaps I was accidentally hitting the comma instead of the M key.

Randy: hehehe!

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ThePhan is back.

Randy: I think I want some chips and dip maybe.

ThePhan: ...

ThePhan: ......

ThePhan: .........

ThePhan: ............FAJITAS

Goosey: LOL

Randy: LOL LOL

Zombies and Truth!Bot

ThePhan: I AM SO TIRED I MIGHT DIE

* ThePhan may be a zombie by the time she gets back to her room tomorrow night.

ThePhan: A complaining zombie.

Sentynel: All she wants to do is complain about brains..

Goosey: :(

Goosey: lol

ThePhan: Sent: hehe

* TalkingDog rolls death saving throws to see if Phan dies. He has D&D on the brain.

Goosey: LOL

ThePhan: I will certainly be searching for some brains. I will have none left.

ThePhan: TD: LOL LOL

ThePhan: Let me know if I survive!

TalkingDog: Nope. You died after like 30 seconds. Unless someone heals you before that.

ThePhan: Dang.

* Goosey heals ThePhan!

ThePhan: Yay!

TalkingDog: Woo!

ThePhan: Now I can at least stay alive long enough to make it to my CPR class. Maybe.

Goosey: Well, if you get that far, they can keep you alive for extra credit!

ThePhan: Truth!

* Sam suddenly conceives of a bot game where the bot randomly and rapidly spits out wild assertions in the form of "______ rules!" or "I like to ______!" Players must try to say "Truth!" timed in such a way that it immediately follows something innocuous rather than implicating.

ThePhan: Sam: That would be awesome.

ThePhan: I want to play Truth!Bot. Tomorrow night. While I am dead.

Sam: I say this because Dave sent me a PM, and then you said "Truth!" and it looked like you were agreeing with him.

Pillow Fort Wedding

ThePhan: For those of you who do not have FB and are not seeing this conversation, this is happening on my FB wall:

ThePhan: Mom: Hey I had a question for you. Wish I could remember what it was! If you think of it, let me know, will you?

ThePhan: Me: LOL! I will do my best.

ThePhan: Mom: OH YES! Do you have any emotional attachment to the old Little Mermaid sleeping bag? Or can I just toss it?

ThePhan: Me: I forgot I even owned that. You can just toss it. No emotional attachment.

ThePhan: Mom: I wasn't sure if you were hoping I'd use the material to make a quilt for your wedding or something!!! LOL!!!

ThePhan: Me: Well, I *have* always wanted a Little Mermaid wedding quilt, come to think of it...

LaZorra: LOL LOL

ThePhan: Mom: LOL!!! Well, I MAY have to re-think my plans to toss. OK, thought about it. Nah, it's going in the trash. Sorry!!!

ThePhan: Me: OK, but now you're going to have to embroider Ariel onto my wedding quilt, which sounds like it would be much more difficult.

ThePhan: Mom: Um, how about a trident instead?

ThePhan: Me: Nope. I definitely want Ariel. Or MAYBE Sebastian.

ThePhan: Mom: *must get sleeping bag out of trash*

* LaZorra is cracking up.

Sentynel: LOL

Sentynel: Your family is WEIRD.

ThePhan: LOL

LaZorra: From you, that's a compliment.

Sentynel: Of course it is.

ThePhan: Hey, this is not news to anyone who has ever heard any stories about Seth.

Sentynel: Phan: Well, it's enlightening to know that he isn't an outlier.

LaZorra: I hope Jacob likes Little Mermaid.

ThePhan: Heh.

ThePhan: He does not so much.

ThePhan: But mostly he just hates the song "Under the Sea," no matter how much I explain to him that he is wrong.

Randy: I asked Phan what an Wedding Quilt is. She said she wasn't sure.

LaZorra: It's a quilt you get married under, duh.

ThePhan: LOL LOl

* ThePhan has this image of a bride and groom just standing under a blanket in front of a preacher at the altar.

LaZorra: TP: YES

LaZorra: In a PILLOW FORTRESS

ThePhan: LOL I TOTALLY WANT TO GET MARRIED IN A PILLOW FORTRESS

TalkingDog: PILLOW FORT

Maryam: I was just about to say you should make a tent using the altar as one of the sides.

Randy: I'm totally doing that when and if I ever get married again.

LaZorra: Sadly, Google does not seem to think there is such a thing as a pillow fort wedding.

LaZorra: There is this, however, which is pretty sweet: http://meetmrsb.files.wordpress.com/20...-trash-the-dress-session-1-500x333.jpg

LaZorra: "I now pronounce you man and wife. You may beat each other senseless with feather pillows."

Nyperold: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuppah

LaZorra: Nyp: Sweet.

Nyperold: Not really a blanket, buuuut...

Sentynel: LaZ: Really, what's the point in getting married if you can't do that?

RinkChat Theater Class

ThePhan: SHOWER TIME

ThePhan: Although it was almost "accidentally paste a whole bunch of tomorrow's lesson plans into the chat box and send it" time.

LaZorra: LOL

LaZorra: Aww, I'm disappointed now.

ThePhan: You guys would've learned ALL about the vocal characteristic of "volume."

LaZorra: I HAVE ALL THE VOLUME I NEED

ThePhan: Oh, what the heck. It's still on the clipboard. Enjoy. There will be a quiz when I get back.

ThePhan: Tuesday, March 6th SLOs applied: 2.1, 3.1. Finish volume section (just exercises for 2nd period, notes + exercises for 7th) 20 minutes: Define volume: The relative strength, force or intensity with which sound is made. Connect to voice projection. Even if you’re playing a quiet character, you need to be able to project. Explain stage whisper – not really a whisper. Everybody take their textbooks and read lines back and forth from one of the scenes, getting farther and farther apart. If they can’t hear each other, they have to take a step back in. Gather whole class at back of auditorium and have random students take turns reading from the stage. 20 minutes: Conveying emotion through the voice. What are some ways your voice may chang

ThePhan is away.

LaZorra: LOL

Waste Coolers

I had been rotating annoyingly in and out for awhile.

ThePhan has left.

ThePhan has entered.

* wintermute staples Phan to the floor.

Randy: Phan's connection is stronger than any staples.

LaZorra: STRONGER THAN A STAPLE GUN

LaZorra: FASTER THAN A REALLY FAST FAX MACHINE

LaZorra: ABLE TO LEAP TALL WATE COOLERS IN A SINGLE BOUND

Sentynel: Wate coolers!

wintermute: Waste coolers?

LaZorra: :-.

LaZorra: Phan: Why are you leaping waste coolers? And a better question: Why does waste need to be cooled?

[RinkChat] The chat room's topic has been changed to 'LaZorra's waste is too warm.' by wintermute.

LaZorra: !!

Gungle Jym

(About kids)

Leen: I'm of the mindset that they can either entertain themselves if they are old enough, or be in bed.

Leen: And let the adults visit, kthanks.

LaZorra: hehe, yeah.

Leen: Or go to Sam.

Leen: hehe

LaZorra: Sam, the Human Gungle Jym.

Sam: GUNGLE

Leen: He's been a great kid buffer.

Randy: GUNGLE

Sentynel: LOL, Gungle Jym.

Randy: That's where Jar Jar goes to work out.

LaZorra: Gungle, yes. Gungle Jym.

LaZorra: WHAT DID I DO

LaZorra: SOMEONE TELL ME

Sam: Jungle gym?

* Leen cracks up!

LaZorra: ...

LaZorra: Really?

Randy: Dude what?

ThePhan: LOL

LaZorra: Holy crap, my brain has fallen out.

* Randy HUGS LaZorra!

LaZorra: JUNGLE GYM

* LaZorra HUGS Randy!

* Sam HUGS LaZorra!

Leen: This is your brain, This is your brain on Sudafed.

Turkey Toes

LaZorra: blargggghhh. I forgot to buy more kleenex. >.<

LaZorra: This is one of those times that living alone sucks turkey toes.

Sam: ...what a mental image.

Leen: WE HAVE KLEENEX!

Sam: WE'LL MAIL YOU SOME.

Sentynel: Sam: I thought you meant the turkey toes.

Sam: That would be an awesome care package. Kleenex and turkey toes.

ThePhan: LOL

LaZorra: LOL

Leen: Is "... sucks turkey toes." and expression from your neck of the woods?

* ThePhan will now mail turkey toes to everyone she knows. No return address. Just turkey toes in an envelope.

Leen: Because that cracks me up, and I've never heard it before.

LaZorra: plz for not to mail me teh teos of teh turkeyz

LaZorra: Leen: I...honestly am not sure where I picked it up.

LaZorra: I don't think I've ever heard anyone else say it, now that I think about it. O.o

Leen: Also, TP works in a pinch.

Leen: I mean toilet paper, not Phan.

Leen: Then again we use the good TP.

LaZorra: OH YEAH. I did stock up on TP. Which is probably why she has to wake up so early to commute to school.

* Sentynel cracks up at the image of LaZ, with no options left, blowing her nose on Phan.

* Sam blows his nose on TP.

LaZorra: LOL SORRY PHAN

Sam: BEAT

Leen: LOL

Leen: That reminds me of the clorox commercial.

ThePhan: I come back to the window for this?

Sam: LOL

LaZorra: WE LOVE YOU REALLY

LaZorra: You're just so puffy soft for tender noses!

Sam: TP: It's a thank-you gift for the turkey toes.

ThePhan: And "the good TP" is toilet paper?

* ThePhan is "the bad TP." :-(

ThePhan: Hehe

Sam: Oh man. I have to TopicBot "LaZorra: You're just so puffy soft for tender noses!" because that's awesome out of context. WHO IS PUFFY SOFT AND WHYYYYY?

Devo Hats

ThePhan: I'm watching something while I eat and then having devos.

Kysle: Devos?

ThePhan: Kysle: Short for "devotionals." Bible time.

Kysle: Ah. Like, a time set aside for studying and reflecting on a portion (that changes daily or weekly) of the bible?

ThePhan: Kysle: Something like that. Pretty informal in my case. Jacob and I have been doing them together since we started dating. We just get together, decide what we want to read together, and then discuss it afterwards.

* wintermute always thinks you're talking about the band.

wintermute: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devo

ThePhan: Hehe

wintermute: I can only imagine that you wear these hats while reading the Bible: http://www.clashmusic.com/files/imagecache/big_node_view/files/images/devo.jpg

wintermute: And I will not be convinced otherwise!

goldfishy: That looks like a jelly mould

Kysle: They look like those kind of collapsible cups you bring with you when you go camping.

ThePhan: Someday I will have to acquire them JUST so we can wear them during Bible time.

goldfishy: Would the shape mean that your thoughts and prayers and stuff are funnelled up to God?

ThePhan: goldfishy: LOL LOL

ThePhan: Absolutely.

Sentynel: Phan: YOU HAVE TO DO THAT AND POST IT ON FACEBOOK

Kysle: And if you put a yarmulke on top of it, would it somehow concentrate your thoughts manyfold and be more powerful?

goldfishy: Maybe you should just go for the Tin Man approach

ThePhan: Sent: I will do what I can.

wintermute: Phan: http://www.brandsonsale.com/ca-007664.html?utm_medium=cse&utm_source=google

ThePhan: If others purchase the hats, this is more likely to happen, as I have NO MONEY.

ThePhan: So I guess it all depends on how badly you guys want this to happen. :-P

goldfishy: I say you just go with a funnel

Sentynel: Phan: I sense a Kickstarter project.

wintermute: I would kick in a few bucks ;)

Fire Fightering

Dave: Oh man.

Dave: Man.

Dave: I'm gonig through a bunch of files from an ancient computer. STuff I saved for various reasons.

Dave: I found a term paper someone wrote on my computer my first year of college. This would be 1992. Yes, I'm old.

Dave: This is not my paper, nor does it belong to anybody I know. In fact, as I recall, some random kid came up to me and asked if he could use my computer to type his paper.

Dave: The paper appears to be about fire fighters.

Dave: Except it is titled "Fire Fightering"

Goosey: LOL

Dave: Yes. This was a freshman in college who wrote this.

Goosey: I weep.

Dave: And, very likely, turned in.

goldfishy: Does he sum up with "And in conclusion, I would like to be a fire fighterer when I grow up."?

Goosey: hehehehe

Dave: I don't dare read it.

Dave: Hang on. I'll skim it.

Dave: Oh.

Dave: Dear.

Dave: This is really odd.

Dave: Here's the first paragraph. "Fire fighters have the responsibility of protecting life and property from the hazards of fire. This protection is offered by fighting fires to prevent property damage, by saving lives through rescue from fire, through safety inspections, and safety education to prevent fires. Fire fighters assist in other types of emergencies and disasters in community life. This paper is about a full time career in fire fightering."

Dave: (any types were probably introduced by me, I just quickly transcribed it.)

Dave: (You know, EXCEPT FOR FIRE FIGHTERING)

Goosey: LOL!!

Leen: LOL

Dave: Fire fighterers divide the labor. For instance, a fire fighterer knows before he gets to the fire whether or not his duty is to raise ladders or connect HOES to water hydrants.

Goosey: LOL WHAT

Dave: That's what it says. Hoes.

Sentynel: That's harsh.

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: That would probably be important to know before you got to the fire.

ThePhan: Don't want to get there and run around connecting hoes to water hydrants only to find out you weren't supposed to.

goldfishy: Is this some sort of obscure American law? Hoes shall be connected to water hydrants - that'll show 'em

goldfishy: In which case I would have expected it to be a police duty - not a fire fightererer's duty

Dave: Oddly, he spelled hose right later on. When he says some fire fighterers are known by their job duties. Such as HOSE HANDLERS.

iwpg: If a fire hydrant is for supplying water to extinguish a fire, does that mean a water hydrant is for supplying fire to extinguish water?

Dave: HAHAHAHAHA

Dave: This is how the paper ends: "It is very wise for the fire fighter to work near the station, because he will never know when he might be called on duty. This interested me, because I have a bad habit of playing with fire."

Goosey: LOL

I'm Going to Beat You

ThePhan: Ha, so tonight Jacob and I went to Pizza Hut, and he was eating a lot faster than I was, so at one point he looked at what was left on my plate and what was left on his, and said, "I'm going to beat you."

ThePhan: I didn't know what he was talking about, though, because I didn't realize we were competing, so I said, "Er... how so?"

ThePhan: And his eyes got all wide and he was like, "Not like... not like hitting you! No! I just meant... I'll be done with my pizza first!"

Leen: LOL

Maryam: LOL

LaZorra: LOL LOL LOL

Randy: LOL LOL!

LaZorra: That is so much funnier now that I can picture him saying that.

ThePhan: LZ: LOL

LaZorra: "I AM GOING TO SMACK YOU AND TAKE YOUR PIZZA"

Tiacil

Ticia: Goosey just came and ate dinner with us.

LaZorra: Tiacil: Whoo!

Ticia: Tiacil?

ThePhan: "Tiacil"?

LaZorra: Tiacil: For when you have a really bad attack of no Ticias.

Thleatler

Randy: My dad flipped a volkswagen beetle once.

LaZorra: I do not even know how that is possible.

Sentynel: Randy: You just need, like, ten people. Five on each side, lift and roll over. They're not exactly heavy.

Randy: Sent: Whilst driving it, I mean.

Sentynel: Randy: Oh!

Sentynel: I'd guess he slid and hit the kerb.

LaZorra: Hit the ...what?

Sentynel: Uh.

Sentynel: I don't know the American word.

Sentynel: The raised bit dividing the, uh, road from the sidewalk?

Randy: Curb?

LaZorra: Is that really how you spell it?

ThePhan: Wikipedia says "kerb" is an alternative spelling of "curb."

ThePhan: THAT IS CRAZY

LaZorra: O.o

Sentynel: Kerb is the British spelling, yeah.

Randy: What?

ThePhan: It looks like text speak spelling.

LaZorra: It does!

Sentynel: And it didn't look weird to me until you lot started whining about it.

LaZorra: You didn't look weird to us until we met you.

LaZorra: BURN!

Sentynel: I'm not sure what you mean by that, but I'm going to take it as a compliment.

ThePhan: LOL

* ThePhan reads the "American and British English spelling differences" wiki entry to avoid anymore crazy spelling surprises.

Randy: hehe

ThePhan: But mostly it consists of things that make me go, "What? Americans spell it like that sometimes? That's just silly."

Randy: I do spell "theatre" that way just cause I can.

ThePhan: I go back and forth on that one.

Leen: I tend to use theatre for where plays are, and theater for where I see movies.

Leen: I don't know why.

Randy: Right, I sometimes use it that way.

ThePhan: Because if I spell it "theatre" I sometimes look a little snobby, but if I use "theater" then snobs get mad at me. So I go back and forth.

ThePhan: Leen: Yeah, I never use "theatre" for movie theaters.

Leen: lol

TalkingDog: You should make up your own. Like... "theatr". Or something.

Randy: thtr

Randy: text speak it.

ThePhan: Randy: Yeah, because THAT wouldn't make snobs mad at me. :-P

Nyperold: I sometimes go "Is it one 'l' or two?" because it seems like for some words, one way is the British spelling, and the other is the American.

ThePhan: Nyp: There are two 'l's in "theater."

LaZorra: They are not silent, but they are invisible.

* LaZorra is now trying to pronounce "thleatler" and cracking up.

LaZorra: I sound like Daffy Duck.

Randy: hehe!

ThePhan: LOL

ThePhan: A common vocal warm-up used in theater is actually to say "theater" several times in its correct pronunciation, which sounds something like "ltlhlelaltlelrl".

Ned Needs a Shower

LaZorra: Okay, I am in desperate ned of a shower.

Randy: er, has its stone...

Randy: ned of a shower!

Goosey: NED NEEDS A SHOWER

LaZorra: "Ned, I'm sorry. You cannot help me solve the mystery until you bathe," Nancy said firmly.

Orm

Randy: This is odd. 90's ska band The Aquabats have a tv show.

LaZorra: O.o

Randy: The only song I ever heard from them was called Super Rat

LaZorra: The one I remember from them is I Fell Asleep On My Hand.

LaZorra: It was very screamo.

LaZorra: "I FELL ASLEEP ON MY HAAAAAAANDAHAHAHAHAAARRRRHHHRHRH"

LaZorra: Ar maybe it was orm.

LaZorra: er.

LaZorra: *Or, arm

LaZorra: I THINK I NEED SLEEPS

Sentynel: LaZ: How dod you you di that, exactly?

Sentynel: ...

Goosey: DOD DI

LaZorra: hahahaha

Randy: LOL LOL

Goosey: hahahahaha

Sentynel: That's full-on anvil level irony.

-2 Kids

(I came in in the middle of the conversation so I missed who was being discussed.)

Goosey: And the guy is busy, too. He works full time, has 2-4 kids at home (I don't remember).

Dave: TWENTY FOUR KIDS?

Sentynel: Dave: No, no, that's clearly minus two.

Sentynel: Nasty accident.

Goosey: LOL no. Two from the first marriage, two from the second, I can't remember how many are at home with him.

Dave: NEGATIVE TWO KIDS?

Goosey: NO

Goosey: *2 or 4

Dave: Bah.

Dave: That's not nearly as interesting.

Goosey: Yeah. It would be interesting to know somebody who had the ghosts of two kids at home.

goldfishy: That sounds a bit like if The Sixth Sense reversed the main roles

Sentynel: Who you gonna call?

* TalkingDog wonders if a negative kid might be a parent instead.