Subject: Gah!
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Posted on: 2012-11-23 23:00:00 UTC
DAMN, Seven! I just woke up!
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Thanksgiving Chatter-Fest! by
on 2012-11-22 23:45:00 UTC
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Hello, all!
This is Teh Specs wishing everybody a turkey-filled Happy Thanksgiving!
I felt the need to make a festive topic for the day, so here goes:WHAT IS THE WINGSPAN OF A SWALLOWNo, no. Behave, typing hand!
What I was actually going to say is: What are some if the festivities that you participate in on Thanksgiving?
And for added discussion: What's the funniest quote you've ever written a character (fanfiction or original canon) to say?
I'll go first, since I'm posting first (ha!):
- My family and I don't do much, but we do have a giant inflatable turkey balloon, and the kids in the family enjoy abusing the poor thing.
- While I write funny quotes like crazy, my best so far is from my sci-fi comedy short stories, said by Engineer/Technical Specialist Jeremy "Techie" Ingrid:
"Captain, you crashed the bloody ship into a VOLCANO. Are you seriously trying to ask me if I can repair it in UNDER THREE DAYS?"
Let the conversations commence, I say! -
Thanksgiving? Cup of tea, wot, wot? by
on 2012-11-23 17:10:00 UTC
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I find I write funny lines, then delete the rest of the story, so have a bunch of funny quotes floating around my desktop.
Here's a couple both from my only attempt at urban fantasy:
Elliot fiddled with the device, "I don't think it has a setting for beaver ... oh."
Lorraine grabbed it out of his hand and read from the screen, "Beaver, large anthropomorphic. Beaver, normal sized anthropomorphic. Those poor non-anthropomorphic beavers"
"I'm not killing Santa.' Elliot protested. "My nieces would organise a lynch mob." -
I go running about to all the distant relatives by
on 2012-11-23 16:52:00 UTC
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But I didn't draw babysitting duty this time, so yay!
I'm fresh out of funny quotes without context, so I'll give you some funny context. In a YA story I'm working on, which deals with some of the law enforcement in a world run on fairy tales, there are plenty of magical artifacts running around, including things like the cauldron of plenty and a cauldron of rebirth. One of the guards gets summoned to a domestic disturbance after someone tried to make lamb and lentil stew in what they thought was a cauldron of plenty... -
Happy Get Fat on Good Food Day! by
on 2012-11-23 00:20:00 UTC
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May your leftovers last for weeks and your waistbands blow their seams - unless you were smart like me and wore sweatpants for the occasion! HA!
Seriously, though, why is everyone still online while there's good food to be eaten? -face-dives into food- THIS IS EATING. DO IT. EAT WITH ME.
-multiple faceplants into food to the tune of 'Pendulum' by Witchcraft- -
Whoops, forgot my silly quote... by
on 2012-11-23 00:27:00 UTC
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"THIS IS EATING. DO IT. EAT WITH ME."
Hee.
Walter: "He then proceeded to tilt every painting he passed on the way here."
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Oy! by
on 2012-11-23 00:29:00 UTC
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Da Roolz sez that you're supposed to quote something silly your characters have said from something you wrote!
FOLLOW DA ROOLZ OR I WILL EAT YOUR SPINE. -
Roolz droolz. by
on 2012-11-23 00:39:00 UTC
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Oh, fine. Zheesh...
Amy: "So what's wrong with it?"
Jarod: "Nothing's wrong with it. It's just orange juice."
Amy: "So you - the popular kid - are giving me - the pariah - an open orange juice... just because you're feeling nice?"
Jarod: "You look like you expect it to be poisoned."
Amy: -raises an eyebrow-
Jarod: "So you don't want the orange juice."
Amy: "Now, let's not be hasty..." -
Re: Roolz droolz. by
on 2012-11-23 02:13:00 UTC
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Well, my family's tradition is to just have everyone over. I ended up playing with my four-year-old cousin. At one point, she decided to take a nap, so she crawled into my bed. Then she wanted to look at random things on my shelves (a dollhouse, a snowglobe, then a pair of pom-poms.) Then she wanted a story, and I got a few pages into the Butter Battle Book before she seemed to go to bed. Then about five minutes later she got out of bed and started playing with some dolls. For like half an hour.
And my quote...
(Two injured superpowered girls:)
Rezia: Have you healed up?
Iliya: I think so. My bruises look healed, but it’s not like I have a timer that dings when I’m all fixed. We don’t have a timer that dings when we’re fixed, do we?” -
Li'l whippersnappers. by
on 2012-11-23 02:24:00 UTC
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Ah, kids. Adorable little migraines.
We should all have timers that ding when we're healed, I think.