Teacup XXXVIII - Page 39

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-03-2010, 09:43 AM

This makes me proud to be an American.

Midge · 04-03-2010, 12:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Acalewia

I need a big cup of something before my coworkers drive me even crazier than I already am.
One won't quit rubbing it in that she went on a cruise, knowing I'll never go on one.
Another thinks I don't know ow to do my job and won't quit asking if I'm ok or mad at her

GAHHHHHHHH! *looks for Anicetos for a cuddle*

As to the cruise - don't feel bad about that. There are plenty of great places that are just as good as a cruise (I have experience to compare). It turns out that the experience on a vacation is not based on where you go, but who you go with. I have enjoyed road trips through Wyoming with my fiance much more than I enjoyed the cruise my family took my junior year, when I was kind of fending for myself.

Now, remind me.. who is Anicetos? I'll help you look!

inked · 04-03-2010, 03:23 PM

GW, this should really make you proud to be an American:

http://belowthebeltway.com/2010/03/3...edical-care-2/

Discuss amongst yourselves and ask about the future of MootCare while you still have time!

BeardofPants · 04-03-2010, 04:06 PM

Why anyone would want to be on a cruise with a bunch of orange fat orange Americans is beyond me.

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-03-2010, 04:42 PM

They don't show the orange fat orange Americans on the brochure!

People think they're getting into a magical world-within-a-world, populated by beautiful young heiresses and suave young entrepeneurs.

Having never been on a cruise, I don't know.

Midge · 04-03-2010, 10:47 PM

I think I'm biased. The one I went on was majorly middle-aged people, and if there were teenagers my age on the ship, they were the kind of kids who liked to go to the club-like dances held every night and bump and grind to rap music.

My dad told my brother and me to be careful because that was the kind of place where people who wanted to get into a gang would kill someone - black-people gang initiation involves something like throwing a white kid overboard on a cruise. We didn't listen to him, but there were more African American cruisers than I expected.

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-04-2010, 12:44 AM

Yay! Easter! Time to break out my stash of Cadbury cream eggs, and the little bottle of champagne.

Midge · 04-04-2010, 01:32 AM

Mmm.. .Cadbury cream eggs. If you vote me president of Entmoot, I'll make sure we never run out of those.

While I'm single-handedly creaming the Rule, of course. For 25 more seconds. Seconds never seem so much like minutes as they do when the Rule is in play.

inked · 04-04-2010, 04:16 PM

Shampan wud get mor vots.

**Mari** · 04-04-2010, 07:01 PM

Only from people who drink and have something to celebrate

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-04-2010, 07:33 PM

We could drop the "have something to celebrate" part. I'd totally vote for a "Champagne for all occasions" platform.

Acalewia · 04-05-2010, 12:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Midge

As to the cruise - don't feel bad about that. There are plenty of great places that are just as good as a cruise (I have experience to compare). It turns out that the experience on a vacation is not based on where you go, but who you go with. I have enjoyed road trips through Wyoming with my fiance much more than I enjoyed the cruise my family took my junior year, when I was kind of fending for myself.

Now, remind me.. who is Anicetos? I'll help you look!

I know. It just irks me that she's rubbing it in and bragging about it nonstop.

Anicetos is my raccoon.

Btw I haven't seen Aerin and Leroy in a while....

Acalewia · 04-05-2010, 12:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eärniel

*gives Acalewia a nice big cup of something good* Seriously, she's trying to get you jealous just because she went on a cruise? Dude, that's pretty sad. I'm probably never going to go on a cruise either, and I don't exactly regret that.

She's a.... well you know. She has a grudge against me anyway because I've hurt her pride several times.

inked · 04-05-2010, 09:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

We could drop the "have something to celebrate" part. I'd totally vote for a "Champagne for all occasions" platform.

Ohhh! Gwaimir, Gwaimir! He'z de man! If Hektor kan't, Gwaimir kan!

Now dat'z a platform!

The last sane person · 04-05-2010, 05:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Midge

My dad told my brother and me to be careful because that was the kind of place where people who wanted to get into a gang would kill someone - black-people gang initiation involves something like throwing a white kid overboard on a cruise. We didn't listen to him, but there were more African American cruisers than I expected.

OMG THAT IS THE FUNNIEST THING I'VE EVER READ!!!

Hahahahhahahaaa! Sorry, but WTF? Heheheheee! Yeah... Real serious threat. The Bloods and Crips regularly go on expensive cruise ships with intent on throwing poor old vacationing white folk over board.

Yeah...

Totally happens.

ALL THE TIME.

Really? I mean really? He could've warned you about a slightly more probable threats happening like someone offering you booze. But black folk gang initiations? Ah... So silly. Yeah, see black people on a cruise and hold on tight to a life jacket...

This is funny.

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-05-2010, 08:38 PM

I was wondering about that . . . I know nothing about the inner workings of gangs, but it seemed pretty off the mark.

***Earniel*** · 04-06-2010, 05:03 AM

I figured it was one of them urban legends. Which reminds of me of a blog post somewhere on the internet in which the author suspected that squirrels have gangs too. So that that the only time you'll see squirrels on the road, right in front of your uncoming car, that's because those are young squirrels trying to join a squirrel gang. And for their initiation they have to show how tough they are by trying to face and sit still the longest in front of an approaching car.

BeardofPants · 04-06-2010, 05:32 AM

Midge, I'm going out on a limb here, and assuming your dad was pulling your hairy unshaved leg? Right? RIGHT?

hectorberlioz · 04-06-2010, 05:32 AM

Burning eyes and sore butt from staying awake all night long finishing homework. It is 4:32 AM.

hectorberlioz · 04-06-2010, 05:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BeardofPants

Midge, I'm going out on a limb here, and assuming your dad was pulling your hairy unshaved leg? Right? RIGHT?

Are you going out on Midge's limb?

04-03-2010, 09:43 AM	#761
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	This makes me proud to be an American. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

04-03-2010, 03:23 PM	#763
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	GW, this should really make you proud to be an American: http://belowthebeltway.com/2010/03/3...edical-care-2/ Discuss amongst yourselves and ask about the future of MootCare while you still have time! __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

04-03-2010, 04:06 PM	#764
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Why anyone would want to be on a cruise with a bunch of orange fat orange Americans is beyond me. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

04-03-2010, 04:42 PM	#765
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	They don't show the orange fat orange Americans on the brochure! People think they're getting into a magical world-within-a-world, populated by beautiful young heiresses and suave young entrepeneurs. Having never been on a cruise, I don't know. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

04-03-2010, 10:47 PM	#766
Midge Faithful Gardener Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: I walk here and there, they say... Posts: 3,603	I think I'm biased. The one I went on was majorly middle-aged people, and if there were teenagers my age on the ship, they were the kind of kids who liked to go to the club-like dances held every night and bump and grind to rap music. My dad told my brother and me to be careful because that was the kind of place where people who wanted to get into a gang would kill someone - black-people gang initiation involves something like throwing a white kid overboard on a cruise. We didn't listen to him, but there were more African American cruisers than I expected. __________________ In God I trust, I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? Psalm 56:11 "Starbuck, what do you hear?" "Nothin' but the rain, sir!" "Then grab your gun and bring in the cat." Make sure to check out the C.S. Lewis forum. Game threads, movie and book discussions and more!

04-04-2010, 12:44 AM	#767
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Yay! Easter! Time to break out my stash of Cadbury cream eggs, and the little bottle of champagne. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

04-04-2010, 01:32 AM	#768
Midge Faithful Gardener Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: I walk here and there, they say... Posts: 3,603	Mmm.. .Cadbury cream eggs. If you vote me president of Entmoot, I'll make sure we never run out of those. While I'm single-handedly creaming the Rule, of course. For 25 more seconds. Seconds never seem so much like minutes as they do when the Rule is in play. __________________ In God I trust, I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? Psalm 56:11 "Starbuck, what do you hear?" "Nothin' but the rain, sir!" "Then grab your gun and bring in the cat." Make sure to check out the C.S. Lewis forum. Game threads, movie and book discussions and more!

04-04-2010, 04:16 PM	#769
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Shampan wud get mor vots. __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

04-04-2010, 07:01 PM	#770
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Only from people who drink and have something to celebrate __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

04-04-2010, 07:33 PM	#771
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	We could drop the "have something to celebrate" part. I'd totally vote for a "Champagne for all occasions" platform. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

04-05-2010, 08:38 PM	#776
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	I was wondering about that . . . I know nothing about the inner workings of gangs, but it seemed pretty off the mark. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

04-06-2010, 05:03 AM	#777
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	I figured it was one of them urban legends. Which reminds of me of a blog post somewhere on the internet in which the author suspected that squirrels have gangs too. So that that the only time you'll see squirrels on the road, right in front of your uncoming car, that's because those are young squirrels trying to join a squirrel gang. And for their initiation they have to show how tough they are by trying to face and sit still the longest in front of an approaching car. __________________ We are not things.

04-06-2010, 05:32 AM	#778
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Midge, I'm going out on a limb here, and assuming your dad was pulling your hairy unshaved leg? Right? RIGHT? __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

04-06-2010, 05:32 AM	#779
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