Married

Randy: TP: What's the status on y'all moving?
ThePhan: Randy: House hunting still. We keep finding possibilities that then disappear.
Randy: Stink.
ThePhan: And even though I hope we move soon for Internet reasons, heh, I'm a little hesitant about some of the places they want because they're looking at nicer places that we can totally afford with 4 of us, but I have no idea how long I'm going to be living with them. Heh. Things could change a bunch in the next year. I could find a job elsewhere, Jacob and I could end up married (WAIT WHAT but yeah maybe)... I really don't see me staying with them long term. So... I hope we find something they can also afford on their own, because I'd hate if they had to move whenever I do decide to move out on my own.
Randy: YAY MARRIED. hehe
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Dave: I'm telling Sam you're getting married. It will take him forever to work out the truth.
Randy: LOL
ThePhan: LOL
ThePhan: Even if he finds where I first said it, it'll still take him forever to read that giant block of text.
Dave: He'll search the chat logs, find that part where you mention it as a possibility, but only skim it because he's Sam. So then he'll believe me.
Randy: To confuse the issue more, we should talk about your wedding plans.
Dave: Yes, tell us all about your dress!
ThePhan: Real friends don't skim other friends' possible marriage discussions.
ThePhan: Sarah and Lisa planned my wedding all for me about a month ago, because I'm lazy and don't want to make any actual decisions. So they're planning us a Star Wars-themed ceremony and a Doctor Who-themed reception. Works for me.
Dave: Sam is Captain Skimtastic. He'll figure he has the gist if I tell him what the gist is he's supposed to get.
Dave: That's awesome!
Randy: Phan: Awesome!
Randy: I still want to be Best Bridesman or something.
ThePhan: LOL
* TalkingDog reads "Beast Bridesman".
Randy: LOL
Dave: Randy: You can do that, but you have to wear a dress.
Randy: Hmmm
ThePhan: Well, Sarah and Lisa and I were discussing the fact that between the two of us, we have a lot of girl friends and not a lot of guy friends. So we'll make them all stormtroopers so nobody can even tell if they're male or female. Problem solved.
Randy: Would a kilt be a good substitute?
ThePhan: Uh, no. I veto kilts.
ThePhan: Actual dress.
Randy: A stormtrooper in a kilt? Playing bagpipes while unicycling?
ThePhan: KILTED BAGPIPING STORMTROOPERS YES
ThePhan: No unicycling. I have a lot of klutzy friends and they'll all fall over.
Sentynel: What is it with Rinkies and wanting men to wear dresses to their weddings?
Sentynel: Is it considered poor style to wear the same dress to two weddings?
Sentynel: I'm not sure I can justify buying two dresses.
Randy: Who else has said this?
ThePhan: Sent: Just match it with a different purse, and voila! Whole new outfit.
Sentynel: Phan: Oh, sweet, thanks.
Randy: Sent: Which other rinkie wants you to wear a dress at their wedding? LaZ?
Sentynel: Yup.
Randy: Are you going to?
Randy: She can probably beat you up if you don't.
Sentynel: I'll totally show up in a dress.
Sentynel: I may have to untag myself from the Facebook pictures, though.
ThePhan: No matter where you go, we will find you and tag you.
ThePhan: It's the price of friendship.
ThePhan: THE PRICE TAG, ONE MIGHT EVEN SAY
Sentynel: Badum tish.
* ThePhan apologizes. That wasn't even clever.
Randy: LOL
Dave: What flavor will your wedding cake be? This is the most important question of all.
Ticia: Wait, is Phan engaged?
ThePhan: LOL
Sentynel: SCORE
Ticia: I had to pick up my girls from yoga! No fair!
ThePhan: Ticia: I am not. We're just talking about it like I am.
Ticia: Heh, okay.
Dave: This will totally get Sam.
Dave: But, come on. Chocolate? Yellow? White? WE NEED TO KNOW
ThePhan: Hmm. Well, I'd probably vote chocolate, but I feel like yellow/white is more traditional.
Goosey: Pft, mine will be chocolate.
ThePhan: ...Not that I'm going the traditional route.
Sentynel: Phan: Because your wedding is SO traditional-
ThePhan: LOl
ThePhan: (That was me laughing loudly and then trailing off at the end because I felt embarrassed, I guess.)
Sentynel: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/19866191 This may surprise you, but apparently putting liquid nitrogen in your cocktails is a bad idea.
Sentynel: So, y'know, don't do that at your wedding.
Ticia: o.O
ThePhan: The inside of my cake will be liquid nitrogen.
ThePhan: I think we decided my cake was a TARDIS, though. Chocolate seems less weird with a blue cake than with a white cake.
Sentynel: How do you intend to make it bigger on the inside?
Ticia: And then you'll never run out of cake!
Goosey: Sent: Eeeek
ThePhan: Sent: A... trick cake table? I have no idea. It might have to be a nonfunctional TARDIS, sadly.
Dave: Screw that, I want a cake that's bigger on the OUTSIDE. More frosting that way.
TalkingDog: Just serve frosting.
Dave: It's frosting all the way down.
ThePhan: LOL YES
ThePhan: That would be amazing. An entire cake made of just frosting.
Sentynel: I don't think that could strictly speaking be considered a cake.
wintermute: Instead of wedding cake, we had wedding steak-and-kidney-pie.
Dave: Eww.
Dave: You can't frost that!
wintermute: Dave: You can frost anything.
Dave: Yeah, if you want to be disgusting.
Sam: Hey, wim's alive.
wintermute: Sam: Only statistically speaking.
Dave: Sam, you should briefly skim the chat log to get the gist of ThePhan's wedding.
Sam: "Dave: This will totally get Sam."
Dave: Yeah, you're totally going to get it.
Sam: I GOT IT.

Why Did I Have to Remember a Xanth Book?

ThePhan: Hey, I've been 26 for 6 minutes now! Whoo!
TalkingDog: Yay!
TalkingDog: Not as fun a number as 25. But next is 27, which is a cube!
ThePhan: Next year I will be a cute!
ThePhan: Er. A cube.
Maryam: We will be able to build Minecraft structures with you.
ThePhan: Awesome.
Maryam: Oh geez, that made me remember a Xanth book. WHY DID I HAVE TO REMEMBER A XANTH BOOK
Goosey: BAHAHA
TalkingDog: wha
ThePhan: Hehe.
Maryam: My dad had almost that whole series (up to that point) when I was a kid. Having previously read only read stuff like Baby-Sitters Club, I thought it was amazing for a long time.
ThePhan: The Baby-Sitters Club/Xanth crossover book is even more amazing.
ThePhan: (Or, well, it would have to be if there was one.)
Maryam: LOL LOL LOL
Maryam: I would read that.
Goosey: LOL!
Randy: LOL!!

Working From Home

* ThePhan is running Bad Translator on Disney lyrics for a blog post. Can you all identify this song, translated back and forth into multiple languages? "Hugh, Hugh, we're starting to work from home."
Maryam: Uhh.
* TalkingDog knows.
Sam: Heigh ho, heigh ho.
Sam: Took me a minute.
ThePhan: Correct.
Sentynel: LOL
Sentynel: Seems like miners working from home might be a bad idea.
TalkingDog: That means they've installed Minecraft.
Randy: nice!
Sentynel: LOL!
ThePhan: LOL

SinbadBibleBot

* Sam is working on drawing up SinbadBlitzBot captions.
Sam: Er, SinbadCaptionBot.
Sam: You know, the one with the captions.
ThePhan: There should be a Sinbad version of EVERY SINGLE BOT.
ThePhan: I don't really know what to do when we get to things like SinbadBibleBot, but...
Maryam: That's the next mini-UBT idea. Sinbad versions of every bot, playing all at once.
Randy: LOL
Randy: Psalm 23: The Lord is my shepard, I shall not want. HA!
TalkingDog: In the beginning, there was nobody here. In the beginning, there was nobody here.
Sam: LOL LOL
Maryam: LOL!
ThePhan: LOL LOL LOL

TIM

Sam has entered.
Randy: SAM!
TalkingDog: sam you are sam
Sam: no im not stop calling menames
TalkingDog: you are also gertrude and chet
Goosey: lol
Sam: Shut up, TALKINGDOG.
Sam: Or should I say...TIM.
Sam: TIM TIM TIM TIM TIM TIM TIM
TalkingDog: aaaaaaaah
Maryam: There are some who call him Tim.
TalkingDog: You know you're in trouble when they use your full name.
ThePhan: TD: Your full name is Tim Tim Tim Tim Tim Tim Tim?
Randy: LOL
TalkingDog: Yes.

Neil Gaiman's Hat

Sentynel: From Twitter: Neil Gaiman posts the following: "Just wrote HAT on my hand in a pathetic attempt to remember that I had a hat when I got on this aircraft, when I get off in 160 minutes..."
Sentynel: Somebody replies: "@neilhimself Not as pathetic as time I wrote someone's name on my hand to remember it &forgot to wash it off before arriving at our 1st date"
Sentynel: AWKWARD.
Maryam: In the later-written introductions to Good Omens, Neil Gaiman mentions how he tried to become a hat person but kept forgetting it everywhere and eventually became a leather jacket person.
Maryam: Instead, that is.
TalkingDog: It would be funny if he just kept buying new hats until they were everywhere, and he could just pick up any hat he found and wear it and be sure it's his.
ThePhan: He could wear his leather jacket as a hat.
ThePhan: Tie the sleeves under his chin like a bonnet.
ThePhan: That is all kinds of trendy.
TalkingDog: I approve of that idea.
Maryam: If Neil Gaiman did it, it totally would be trendy.
ThePhan: I have a leather jacket. I could start doing it. I could do it, but position the jacket so it falls in front of my face instead of behind it, and just tell people I'm Neil Gaiman. They'd never know the difference and the trend would take off.

Crazy Person Encounter

* ThePhan just had another crazy person encounter.
Ticia: Yay, story!
ThePhan: It's on FB, but I shall paste it here for people who do not have FB:
ThePhan: As soon as I plugged in and opened my laptop at the library, the old man near me pointed at it and asked, "What's that?"
ThePhan: Me: "You mean my computer?"
ThePhan: Him: "Oh, it's a computer? It's a... toaster?"
ThePhan: Me: "What?"
Ticia: ...
ThePhan: Him: "The name on the back."
ThePhan: Me: "Oh. It's a Toshiba. It's a good computer."
ThePhan: Him: "Oh, Toshiba. Toshiiiiiiiba. Tooooshiiiiiibaaaa."
ThePhan: He chanted "Toshiba" for another 30 seconds or so, then got up and left.
Ticia: LOL
ThePhan: HOW DO THESE PEOPLE FIND ME?
Maryam: LOL
Goosey: LOL
Sentynel: Phan: The Crazy Person Society has seen your Facebook posts about encountering their members, and is doing its best to send more your way, since you appreciate them so much.