Topic: OOC Game: Moments that make you go Huh?!

Fiora Shantalaine

Date: 2010-05-26 18:22 EST
So I'm playing this silly online DnD style game when it rewards me with a sword, an ultimately powerful sword that some dingbat somewhere has named the... Wait for it...

!.......SOUL EATER OF LIFE

Yea you got it baby! This bad boy eats the SOULS of LIFE! Not just any ol souls, only the souls of the living! MWAHhah..cough..ha..ha..ha.. ...heh.. huh?!

Fiora Shantalaine

Date: 2010-05-26 18:24 EST
And.


Lost.


Yup, I said it. One gigantic cluster of What in the hell?, for your amusement purposes, I give you:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1936291

Riley ORourke

Date: 2010-05-26 18:45 EST
Yeah. Lost.

When Charlie died in the sub thingy, I stopped watching. He was the only character I found myself emotionally invested in. The rest of them, I was like...eh, don't care.

OedipaLydia

Date: 2010-05-31 02:08 EST
Haha! I never watched Lost, but I love hearing the fanatics attempt to explain it.

I?ve got one.

Last race I ran was large (like, 15,000+ runners) and held in a major metropolitan area. After finishing, I was waiting for my buddies at our designated meeting spot on the outskirts of the park where the finish line was located. I was decked out from head-to-toe in racing gear. I was wearing a race number. And a race medal. Oh, and there were marathon signs everywhere.

This touristy-looking family wanders by, and the lady stops to ask: ?Excuse me. Why is everyone running??

In retrospect, it was a great opportunity for any number of clever quips, but I was so confused, all I could come back with was:

?It?s a race.?

...yeah.

Satariel Shah

Date: 2010-06-03 17:41 EST
It is hard for me to imagine anyone as eloquent as you are with words to stumble on a response. "It's a race" makes me giggle.

My say-huh moment for the day: My outbox. I have mail that I have sent out to multiple characters, sometimes in direct response to their original response, that are now officially months old.

Fiora Shantalaine

Date: 2010-06-11 11:18 EST
A student who has not bothered to show up to the first week of class sends me this gem:

Professor *******,

i thought the semester started next week. i now i missed some work and saw on your online blackboard that you dont accept late work. how am i going to catch up?

student's name




Really? Where do I begin with the level of wrong?

Satariel Shah

Date: 2010-06-17 13:22 EST
I was hollering for my children, "Oooh Childddreennnn." Being rather silly, "Childreennn off the Cooorrrnnnnn."

To which my eldest responded, "Corn? Why do we have to be corn?"

Before I could respond one of my sons interjected, "Yea, if we've got to be vegetables can we at least be a good one."

To which my youngest declared, "I am so not being Green Beans."

And this gave me the mental image of a new Hollywood Horror Remake: Children of the Brussel Sprouts.



Later my middle daughter said, "Is that all Mother of the Fruit?"

It goes without saying that I guess you had to be there. But I found it extremely comical. Of course, I am definitely certifiable.

Fiora Shantalaine

Date: 2010-08-17 09:20 EST
I was hit by a bus.

Seriously.

Not even kidding. First day of school and a bus scraped my fender all to hell trying to turn in front of me.

Serious, Say huh? moment.

Fiora Shantalaine

Date: 2010-09-22 11:27 EST
A student informed me that Zora Neale Hurston's works were "kinda like a rip off of Nicholas Sparks, just not as good."

The agony.

I almost bit her head off but I was afraid of the empty calories.

Riley ORourke

Date: 2010-09-22 12:51 EST
Damn it! We need a "like" button!

::snort:: Empty calories indeed.

Fiora Shantalaine

Date: 2011-02-07 11:49 EST
A good friend came over for the Superbowl but was arguing with her boyfriend and girlfriend.

So she spent an hour in my kitchen cleaning it.

Like counters, stove, floor, and even went through my fridge and tossed out stuff and washed out containers.

I was kind of into the game so I didn't necessarily notice right away and then when I did and attempted to give her the "hey you wanna talk about it" she was all "nope."

So I left her to it.

But as I stand in my sparkling kitchen I kind of have to admit that I don't feel bad. At all.

I mean. At all.

I got a clean kitchen out of it.

Maybe I should invite them over more often during their spats? That's evil though isn't it?

Fiora Shantalaine

Date: 2011-02-18 09:07 EST
I went to get something out of the fridge and cracked my forehead on the door. Seriously. I about took myself out. In my own kitchen.

Later that day I went to step off the bleachers, misjudged and cracked my knee on the concrete when I went down.

And still later that day I went to head down from the third level of our home, misjudged and tried to step off the stairs before I was actually, you know, Off them. I fell and landed in the damn laundry basket.

My husband and kids tucked me in blankets on the couch and didn't let me move for the rest of the evening.

So what did I do this morning? I sat down in my office chair went to turn around to the keyboard and SLAMMED my knee into the desk.

What in the hell is wrong with me?!

At this point I need to invest in bubble wrap.

Fiora Shantalaine

Date: 2011-04-22 14:11 EST
Trying to pay my phone bill.

For some reason I'm blocked from the online site (Mind you I've been with this company since 2007).

When I try to *3 it I get disconnected.

The first number listed on the company web page was "No Longer in Service."

I sat on hold for ten minutes and was informed that they cannot change my online information without the PIN, the PIN they say I keep inputting wrong. The security question (Make and Model of first car) they ask they keep informing me that I am getting the answer wrong. Umm hello. Seriously?

Okay fine. I just want to pay my bill. They tell me they cannot pay with one of the accounts already listed with my account because I do not have the correct PIN number. Even though they are MY accounts and I can recite all of their information correctly (Bank card, Visa, and Checking Account). I have to give them a new financial institution to pay with or they cannot take my payment without the mysterious PIN.

Okay, how can I change my PIN? I have to GO to a store and give them my photo ID which then will take 24 hours verification.

Seriously?

Fiora Shantalaine

Date: 2011-09-29 10:48 EST
From a student's paper on Pontius Pilate:

He hated the Jews whom he ruled, and in times of irritation freely shed their blood.

Ander Northlander

Date: 2011-10-13 20:31 EST
Maybe its because there are young people on the site but with all the vastly different char.s on this site there are no nudist. I mean a full time nudist not the skyclad for some sort of ritual.

Fiora Shantalaine

Date: 2011-10-16 11:24 EST
Ander,
That is a great point! While I think there are some characters that definitely roleplay being comfortable fully naked in front of others, I don't believe there are any that necessarily roleplay a Nudist. Though I'll guarantee someone will be able to pull at least one character out that is the exception.


This did make me think of clothing as not protection but morality shields and made me question why would everybody on such a diverse realm share the same erogenous zones and demand the same cover ups? I mean, I, for one, have never understood the whole women need to cover up their breasts but men don't in the first place. I mean if you're going from a purely biblical standpoint breasts have nothing to do with procreation and therefore are not sex objects.

But okay, I'm getting away from myself on that old debate. What is new about this kind of "Say Huh" moment is why isn't there a race that won't let their men or women go out in public with say their necks uncovered, or their ears, or feet, or the backs of the knees?

Just a thought. ;)

Esteban Velasquez

Date: 2011-10-16 12:48 EST
At the LARP I do from time to time, goblins are not allowed to show off bare knees or elbows, due to being temptations. ;)

However, I think I can give a good explanation as to why it was decreed so long ago that women should cover their breasts. Think about it. When would anything get done?