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[Cheyenne]

Oh jeez I would never let you guys hear my voice!! (I'm doing last minute laundry to pack...yes I'm stupid.) I HATE it. I sound like a ten year old boy. Seriously. Not attractive.

[Edward]

Okay ... this the middle of an actually quite serious conversation (note, my comment about the North Koreans was completely tongue-in-cheek hyperbole):

Jacob: I saw one by Pembroke Mall – a group of Korean Naval Officers.

Jerica: … A Korean ship didn’t come in.

Edward: Yeah, there was no Korean ship.

Jacob: They looked Korean – they looked Asian of some kind.

Jerica: They could’ve been here for a longer period of time doing training exercises with our Navy.

Edward: Which … definitely means they’re South Korean – if they were North Korean you probably should’ve … shot them on sight, but I’m not sure; I don’t exactly know what the rules are there.

Jacob: You know, we’re recording this now.

[Laughter]

Edward: Okay, also should mention that in absence is Tyson Boehm. Yes, that’s how his name is pronounced.

Jacob: Hm?

Edward: B-O-E-H-M is pronounced “beam.”

[Silence]

Jacob: Naming statement: Tyson your name sucks. It’s horrible. Okay, you cannot spell your name like the Scottish would spell your name.

[Brief silence]

Edward: I don’t think that’s Scottish.

Jerica: No, it’s not.

Edward: And we’ve already used two kilobytes of information.


All of our conversations become comedy sketches. This is us at our most serious.

[Edward]

The next part is funnier:


Edward: And we’ve already used two kilobytes of information.

Jacob: Yeah.

Edward: So …

Jerica: And it’s not Scottish.

Jacob: I’m going to need three kilos of this white powdery stuff.

Jerica: It’s more likely Pilipino … although it’s not –

Jacob: Oh, no, it’s definitely Pilipino or Spanish descent, but it’s spelled like the Scottish spell things.

Jerica: Nope.

Jacob: Throwing letters together.

Jerica: Nope.

Edward: And arbitrarily assigning sounds to those letters. Hey, isn’t that language?

Jerica: They have no b, so making the mh and the vh sound like a b makes sense.

Edward: Okay … what precisely – after three minutes, well, actually, four minutes we’ll actually get into the subject – what precisely are we here to do? [Brief silence] Please do not bite my finger.

[Jacob chuckles]

Jerica: Honestly, I have no idea why we are here.

Edward: Okay –

[Jerica laughs]

Jacob: Well, that’s a rather deep question: Why are we here?

Edward: We’re thinking on a more practical level. [Jacob chuckles]


That's pretty much all I can post with Jacob trying to kill me for releasing "secret" information.

[Kymela]

These are so cool!
http://pinterest.com/herumouni/my-style/#

[Kymela]

I think I found the antagonist for my first book. Now I can finally start writing it!! XD

[Stephanie]

Awesome, Saira!!!

[Edward]

Okay, classic conversation question: What superpower would you prefer? But there's a catch: it has to be a power that you would use as you in your own life.

[Kymela]

See how things work!

[Kyra]

(sigh) There are just too many. Flying might be good. Manipulating my surroundings is also an attractive prospect. And not that this is a superpower, but I've always wanted a perfect photographic memory. I could literally remember EVERYTHING!!!!!! Mwahahaha...
Unfortunately, I don't have anything even remotely close to a perfect memory, so there goes that dream.

[Edward]

Flying sounds like fun, but without superspeed levitation is just drifting slowly through the air.

"See how things work," and "manipulating my surroundings," are a little vague. Saira, if you're referring to No Ordinary Family, then you would basically hallucinate relevant math equations, but you wouldn't have the genius to actually understand what you're seeing. You could have Sylar's power (from that awful show), but there's a reason he's a sociopath; the entire world is just something for him to mess with and manipulate. It would be easy to loose empathy for anyone in a world you can easily control.

Kyra, I assume you mean telekenesis?

[Kyra]

Yep. Sorry 'bout that. I think I'd still prefer having perfect photographic memory to superpowers, though. Just a nerd thing of mine. XD

[Kyra]

And what about you, eh, Edward? What'd you have???

[Cheyenne]

I would have the agility of a cat . . . Or the agility of whatever animal is the most agile in the world.

[Edward]

The problem with telekensis, given that this is you in your own life, is that you would spend most of your time moving stuff for other people. "Hey, I have something extremely heavy I need moved, could you come over and help out?" would be what you'd hear all the time.

Agility ... no, I can't really see a problem with that one. That sound pretty cool, actually.

I would choose airbending - it is a single power with many benefits. I would go through the effort of building a glider so I could have my own little version of flying, or I could just hover a few feet off the ground and become even lighter on my feet than I already am. It sounds like a great power to simply goof off with. Plus, I actually find combat useful in my life, so there's that quality ...

[Cheyenne]

Bwahahahaha.

If not agility, I'd pick water bending. (Thanks for that idea, Edward.) Not for any particular reason, it would just be cool.

[Kymela]

I might choose water bending, too. You could easily purify your own water and cool down in high humidity areas in the heat of summer. I would LOVE that right now.

[Kymela]

The only problem is, I don't think you couldn't necessarily get the chemicals out of the water...

[Kyra]

Oh well. I love the idea of water bending. I'm a water child. My parents practically have to drag me out of the pool and/or beach. XD Guess we've all seen Avatar, huh?
But, with telekinesis, you could move water in addition to other objects. Plus, you'd likely keep your amazing powers secret anyways, as to avoid government testing in some top-secret underground facility.

[Cheyenne]

Saira, if the only thing you could bend was water then when you started bending it all the chemicals would be left behind :D Unfortunately if we go with the Avatar bending rules, we would be able to bend anything liquid. *sigh* No purified water for us.

I love Avatar. Please tell me someone else has seen the cartoon and not just the okay-but-slightly-crappy-movie?

[Edward]

Seen all the original cartoon, have seen nothing of Legend of Kora. I thought the movie was far too unambitious. Insofar as what it did, it did alright, but there was simply too much missing.

Like humor. That movie should've been twenty times funnier at minimum.

[Kyra]

I hated the movie. Sorry, but it was crap.
Loved the show, though. It was hilarious. Not Legend of Kora... it didn't seem as interesting. Like, Star Wars and Avatar combined. Good on their own, but asking too much to squish 'em together.
Toph was by far my favorite. Dunno why, but she was.

[Edward]

Iroh. No argument.

[Kymela]

Zuko!

[Michelle]

Toph....Or maybe Zuko, before he joined Aang and his group.

[Kymela]

I liked him before and after. I actually liked him more after.

[Edward]

Still Iroh. He's both the comedic relief and the cool warrior. Okay, so is Aang, but he doesn't have the sheer jaw-dropping awesomeness Iroh does. When Aang fights, it's still more humor than warrior (how often does he use the air scooter?), but when Iroh fights he's something else entirely.

[Kyra]

Iroh was hilarious. Especially in the first and most of the second season, when Zuko was still hunting Aang. "Zuko, you won't believe this. The Lotus Tile was in my sleeve this whole time!!!"

[Cheyenne]

I loved Iroh! :) I don't think I can pick a favotite character.

[Cheyenne]

Now I want to watch Avatar ._.

[Kyra]

Cheyenne wrote: "I loved Iroh! :) I don't think I can pick a favotite character."

I ditto that. Unfortunately, it recently went off Netflix's instant queue, so if I want to see it, I'll have to rent the disk. Shame, that.

[Cheyenne]

Really? It's still on my netflix.

[Michelle]

Ahh, netflix. The only thing keeping me sane in the Big Apple.

[Kyra]

You live in New York??? I love the Big Apple. Most of the time I feel a little claustrophobic and squeamish in big cities, but New York is my exception.

[Michelle]

I don't live in New York, I'm visiting my uncles. Another thing keeping me sane is that there is a pizza place, a donut place, and a bagel place on practically EVERY BLOCK. Yummm...

[Michelle]

Cheyenne wrote: "Oh jeez I would never let you guys hear my voice!! (I'm doing last minute laundry to pack...yes I'm stupid.) I HATE it. I sound like a ten year old boy. Seriously. Not attractive."

Me too! I have a super deep voice, unless I'm singing Then it gets really high. But sometimes it sounds... not terrible.

[Kyra]

I like my voice. It's not much good for singing, and I stutter a lot when I'm nervous, but at least my sarcasm sounds like sarcasm. No one can tell when my dad's being sarcastic, just because he sounds so serious when he talks.

[Michelle]

No one can tell when my dad isn't being sarcastic. He just has that kind of voice.

[Edward]

I have a dead-pan sort of humor, so I'll be sarcastic without anyone noticing oftentimes.

[Kyra]

Must be kind of annoying. I'd hate it if people completely overlook my sarcasm. It's my main humor mechanism, especially if I'm in a room full of people who can't tell humor from not.

[M]

Nobody thinks I’m funny but me. It seems I’m always laughing at something I’ve thought of. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night laughing. My wife thinks it’s funny that I think the things I think up are funny. I just read this message to my wife. All I got was a smirk.

[Kyra]

I for one think it's hilarious. I also think my thoughts are funny, but onece I say 'em aloud all I get is the occasional odd stare from passersby.

[M]

Thank you, Kyra! I always say (though I can’t remember where I read it) that a person who can laugh at himself has an endless source of amusement.

[Kyra]

LOL!!! I love quotes like that one. You don't realize how true it is until you hear it, and then it's all you can think about for the next fifteen minutes.

[Michelle]

I know, right? And once you realize how true it is, you see so many occasions to refference it.

[Edward]

I laugh at many of your comments M; I just feel silly typing out "ha ha" most of the time.

It's not that annoying, Kyra; there's usually one person who catches my sarcasm and then it's even funnier as were privately laughing while the rest of the group remains oblivious. I've also gotten people to laugh at my jokes hours after I told them; my tone was so serious at the time that they didn't catch it until later.

[Kyra]

It still annoys me when I'm in a school project group of three other girls with ten tons of make-up on their face who say "like" every other word, and have no clue what "sarcasm" even means.

[Edward]

That does sound annoying. I have a little group of misfit friends that can make each other laugh with either a ten-minute long impromptu improv theater bit or a couple of words.

Wood Lady ... heh.

[M]

Here’s an example of the stupid stuff that goes through my head all the time. This morning, as I was making coffee, I could hear Dolly Parton singing “Chobani” instead of “Jolene.” It seemed very funny. Chobani is a company that makes yogurt. Once I had a silly idea for healthy cigarettes made out of yogurt. Yogurettes.

[Guy]

M, I confess to frequently laughing with you too. Okay, so if yoghurt cigarettes are yogurettes, what would the Bic lighter be called? The Bicotics or probiobics?

[M]

The Bic -er the better!