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Imponderable Watercooler - Message in a Bottle

POSTED BY: JONNYQUEST
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:13
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:28 AM

Um, hi all.

Kelkhil, you go get the kitty some Dew and save one for me. I had to miss out on my regular Sunday Dew due to some unforeseen circumstances. I'm jonesin' for one...only 3 days to go. (*mumble, mumble "stupid-self-imposed-rules-that-I-could-break-but-won't-because,-well,-I'm-just-that-type-of-person" mumble mumble).

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:32 AM

ZEEK

Quote:
Originally posted by RugBug:
*mumble, mumble "stupid self-imposed rules that I could break but won't because, well, I'm just that type of person" mumble mumble

I love it! I'm totally about self-imposed rules. Probably more so than you. I just come up with something and all of a sudden it's an unbreakable rule. Drives other people a little batty.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:33 AM

JONNYQUEST

"Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?"

Quote:
Originally posted by RugBug:
(*mumble, mumble "stupid-self-imposed-rules-that-I-could-break-but-won't-because,-well,-I'm-just-that-type-of-person" mumble mumble).

Impose anarchy.

EDIT:

Quote:
Originally posted by Zeek:
I love it! I'm totally about self-imposed rules. Probably more so than you. I just come up with something and all of a sudden it's an unbreakable rule. Drives other people a little batty.

This is why I think new Year's resolutions are a bad idea. Unless you're talking about Adrian Monklike fixation like when eating a roll of SweeTarts you have to separate the colors and line them up in linear fashion so as to make a rainbow geometric shape on your belly while watching the Colbert Report.
Not...that...I...ever...do...that...

Edit 2: For you Wii-ers out there http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/05/wii_safety_shie.html

"If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:46 AM

MSG

LOL Jonny...

oooh wasabi funyons...mmmmmmmmm sadly not allowed on my current diet

Ok I'm not sure that I ever showed signs of geekdom. I don't really like the Lord of the Rings, I've never played a computer game more than once ( I find them all pointless). I've never played D&D or anything I was a cheerleader and one of the "popular" kids all through high school and a ballerina....( ok this is making me sounds all snotty and really boring)
Oh I thought of one... I got an award from my junior high for reading the most books in the history of the school ( 1,435 book in one school year...not the only books I read but the ones I read in the library)

"I'm not all that interested in the mental health of people who want to kill me. "- Leroy Jethro Gibbs

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:48 AM

KELKHIL

Quote:
Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
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*HK isn't worth the crushin', but appreciates the complimentary tone*

Um excuse me O Sneaky One but I am in agreement with the rest of the guys here. I should know since you are fastly becoming my Idol and all!

Rugbug - Sure I can save a Dew for ya Lassy!

*is trying to figure out how to wire a freezer in his Minivan (er I mean Muscle Car, ya thats it Muscle Car) So that when he makes the 12+ hour drive to Minni from Mich he can keep the Dew at the right temp*

Kelkhil

The Shirtless Forsaken

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:50 AM

FLYVOTE

Quote:
Originally posted by Mavourneen:
*going to find wasabi funyuns after work, as this will cheer Husband a skooch*

(And I do believe Husband would eat his own foot if it were prepared with wasabi!)

Mmmmm wasabi. (Couldn't find "foot")

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:56 AM

JONNYQUEST

"Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?"

Quote:
Originally posted by msg:
oooh wasabi funyons...mmmmmmmmm sadly not allowed on my current diet

A diet the specifically excludes [artificially flavored, I'm sure} funyuns??? Wow we really do live in a specialized society.

Quote:
I got an award from my junior high for reading the most books in the history of the school ( 1,435 book in one school year...not the only books I read but the ones I read in the library)

1,435 books??? In a year? A school year??
Good God woman, I couldn't even read that many pages in a year. A solar year! May I formally grant you Honorary Geek Status as you seem to be missing some of the other prerequisites. However, I believe that the honorary title will get you most of the same perks as the rest of us enjoy (namely those weird looks we get from the non-geek-speaking world). Congratulations. (Oh hell. I hope I'm not stepping on FMF's toes here...

)

EDIT: Say FlyVote, most of those aren't even legal in the states, are they?

"If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:59 AM

FLYVOTE

Quote:
Originally posted by JonnyQuest:
EDIT: Say FlyVote, most of those aren't even legal in the states, are they?

It is all who you know.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:02 AM

MAVOURNEEN

Quote:
Originally posted by FlyVote:
Mmmmm wasabi. (Couldn't find "foot")

Thank Heavens for small mercies, I suppose.

I wouldn' even want to consider coming home to discover Husband with "Foot Breath."

Seriously, I am going to find those wasabi funyuns tonight. He will love them.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:03 AM

HOBBLEIT

Quote:
Originally posted by msg:

Oh I thought of one... I got an award from my junior high for reading the most books in the history of the school ( 1,435 book in one school year...not the only books I read but the ones I read in the library)

1,435?!!! I don't even think my school library had that many books in at all.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:06 AM

FLYVOTE

Quote:
Originally posted by hobbleit:
Quote:
Originally posted by msg:

Oh I thought of one... I got an award from my junior high for reading the most books in the history of the school ( 1,435 book in one school year...not the only books I read but the ones I read in the library)

1,435?!!! I don't even think my school library had that many books in at all.

Phenomenal. I can't imagine reading most of my collection in a year. Very impressive.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:14 AM

MSG

LOL it's not all that many books... but I thank you for the honorary geek status:) HUGS Jonny

Sadly my diet excludes anything with real taste, or anything else good...basically

I read a lot. I love books more than you know. My dad always semi-jokes that if they said I could have books or air I'd be dead 3 minutes later 'cause they'd cut off the air. I average 3-4 books a day during the school year and as many as 7 a day during the summer. I listen to books on cd when I work out and when I drive to and from school...did I mention I love books...really really love books. We are currently looking for a larger house because my books are so numerous that there is no where left for them to go. ( 5 floor to ceiling bookshelves full, 4 half shelves full, 6 under bed boxes about 4 foot by 3 foot full, 3 5 foot by 3 foot under the couch, a baker's rack in the bedroom full, all the drawers in MisterG and my extra large bedside tables, and 2 milk crates full by my bed and 17 legal boxes in the garage, full classroom of bookshelves, 1 filing cabinet full, and 20 shoe boxes full in the classroom storage)There's just no room anywhere anymore..we need more space if we're to survive....Again did I mention books are like crack to me...

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:15 AM

RUGBUG

Quote:
Originally posted by Zeek:
Quote:
Originally posted by RugBug:
*mumble, mumble "stupid self-imposed rules that I could break but won't because, well, I'm just that type of person" mumble mumble

I love it! I'm totally about self-imposed rules. Probably more so than you. I just come up with something and all of a sudden it's an unbreakable rule. Drives other people a little batty.

Awesome. I knew I wasn't the only one.

And to avoid batty friends, just don't tell them. 'Course that loses some of the fun of 'You do WHAT?'

Geekdom: I'm undercover. I've infiltrated the heart of "normal" society. They have no idea inside me beats the heart of a geek.

Actually, I've never really been a geek. I enjoy learning how things work, I enjoy good thought-provoking entertainment, I enjoy intellectual discussion, but I also enjoy sports, fashion, and whatever else 'normal' people do. (what exactly is normal?) I didn't even realize I was a bit of a sci-fi geek until I looked at the DVDs I own. Many of them are sci-fi (but liberally balanced with chick flicks and action flicks.).

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:18 AM

HOBBLEIT

oh, I just got the greatest comment on myspace from my friend Peter

"firefly = gooooooood
serenity = gooood but not as good cos it killed alot of stuff before an explination was their, like it did some stuff too quick

i wanna no who shepard reallly was

more about the evil ppl and their stiiick

damn them damn them

on the plus tht ginger evil woman was mint
the whore was cool
i loved the shepard
and the mechanic was addorable

and mal shared a love for gettin naked

thank you for the recommendation although i have to admit it wasnt until someone else told me too that i got it out

is their anywhere you can get like screenplays or sumit for ones tht should of been or were they just not wrote

oh and i liked jaynesworld hehehe"

yay! another fan

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:20 AM

JONNYQUEST

"Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?"

Quote:
Originally posted by msg:
(...not the only books I read but the ones I read in the library)

How many more...???

Quote:
Originally posted by Mavourneen:
I wouldn' even want to consider coming home to discover Husband with "Foot Breath."

You're right! Don't consider it!!

"If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:33 AM

YINYANG

You were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.

::waves::

Hopefully nobody starts a new thread before I put this up. One post per thread is good for me.

Quote:
Hey there's a good ponderable. What were your earliest warning signs of future geekness or nerd-dom?

Does reading The Hobbit all by myself when I was eight count?

I'm not really that geeky, though - I'm just (insatiably) curious. My mom jokes that my first word was "why." And, my parents read to us when we were little and played word games with street signs, so that explain why I learned to read (and write a little, I think) when I was four.

You can call me a nerd, though. I like it better.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:40 AM

MSG

Why is a really good first word:)

Um Jonny I'm not sure I don't really count it out or anything. I just read anything and everything I get my hands on. OK I'll do the math on my averages ...it's 1170 a year ( which does not count re-reading books I love which I do often. If we counted those it'd be about 1500 a year... give or take)

"I'm not all that interested in the mental health of people who want to kill me. "- Leroy Jethro Gibbs

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:46 AM

MSG

ok double posty but for a good reason....revenge

One of my co-workers has been mocking Firefly as part of a mock fight. So I want everyone to send him an email (larry.jensen@granite.k12.ut.us) and put Vengeance in the subject and just put Browncoat in the email:) I want to see if we can flood his inbox

"I'm not all that interested in the mental health of people who want to kill me. "- Leroy Jethro Gibbs

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:50 AM

JONNYQUEST

"Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?"

Quote:
Originally posted by hobbleit:
oh, I just got the greatest comment on myspace from my friend Peter
yay! another fan

Hobbleit has a convert! Hobbleit has a convert!

Quote:
Originally posted by yinyang:
Hopefully nobody starts a new thread before I put this up. One post per thread is good for me.
Does reading The Hobbit all by myself when I was eight count?
You can call me a nerd, though. I like it better.

Nah, we were waitin' for ya.

I didn't read the Hobbleit, er, Hobbit until college and even then it was a so go; slow enough that I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I should have. I often think I have dyslexia, but words dno't seme jmulbed to me. So I'm just slow I guess.

And Nerd is perfectly fine with me.

Bug, you do have that wholesome GND aura. (NVG make a note: RugBug will not appear in your kitchen first thing in the morning in just a t-shirt and panties. She hasn't yet for me...) Too wholesome to be inches away from Gothhood or Klingonese or SCA-ishness. You do have the Cali thing going on but you are too far away from LA. Seems like there should be a special category for "normal" (hee hee) people like you and MsG.

New Thread now that YinYang has made it:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=28877

"If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:00 AM

MAVOURNEEN

MsG - I've sent him 4 so far, one from each of my email addresses.

I even sent him a Firefly haiku.

Browncoats Firefly
Lila totally rocks hard
Sorry you do not

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:05 AM

NVGHOSTRIDER

Oh lord. I L O V E the Tims Cascade Wasabi chips.

FEEL THE BURN!!!

Great for cleancing the pallette before a meal.

I'm trying to keep from the vengeful actions but that is a worthy cause.

LIBERTAS SUMPTUS

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:11 AM

JONNYQUEST

"Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?"

Nothing to see here folks. Move along...

"If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:13 AM

ZEEK

Quote:
Originally posted by JonnyQuest:
Quote:
Originally posted by RugBug:
(*mumble, mumble "stupid-self-imposed-rules-that-I-could-break-but-won't-because,-well,-I'm-just-that-type-of-person" mumble mumble).

Impose anarchy.

EDIT:
Quote:
Originally posted by Zeek:
I love it! I'm totally about self-imposed rules. Probably more so than you. I just come up with something and all of a sudden it's an unbreakable rule. Drives other people a little batty.

This is why I think new Year's resolutions are a bad idea. Unless you're talking about Adrian Monklike fixation like when eating a roll of SweeTarts you have to separate the colors and line them up in linear fashion so as to make a rainbow geometric shape on your belly while watching the Colbert Report.
Not...that...I...ever...do...that...

Edit 2: For you Wii-ers out there http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/05/wii_safety_shie.html

All sorts of weirdness really. For example, (since you posted some wii link) when I was hunting down a wii there was also a church event that was calling for volunteers. I made a mental pact that if I got my wii that weekend I would volunteer the next weekend. Got my wii. Volunteered. Got sunburned. Cursed. Stuff like that.

I just sort of make them up. Then I proclaim "Zeek law" and have an old dude write them in a book for me.

Quote:
Originally posted by RugBug:
Quote:
Originally posted by Zeek:
Quote:
Originally posted by RugBug:
*mumble, mumble "stupid self-imposed rules that I could break but won't because, well, I'm just that type of person" mumble mumble

I love it! I'm totally about self-imposed rules. Probably more so than you. I just come up with something and all of a sudden it's an unbreakable rule. Drives other people a little batty.

Awesome. I knew I wasn't the only one.

And to avoid batty friends, just don't tell them. 'Course that loses some of the fun of 'You do WHAT?'

Yeah but sometimes it includes them. Like onetime I said I'd only play poker with some folks if there were 7 people playing. There were only 6 people so I went home. This resulted in much pissing and moaning and some futile attempts at peer pressure. Zeek law cannot be broken. Resistance is futile.

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