well, they're actually saving up 'punches', since they're not allowed to hit each other.


Another thread reminded me of a bit of silliness I engage in. I keep my fingernails long. In fact, I usually trim them back to where most men have long since cut them. It's a hold over from highschool where I had to put up with little man syndrome (I was easily the tallest in school - even as a freshmman). I evolved the long nails as a defensive strategy. I still have them, though I've not been in a fight in 20+ years

I sometimes alleviate boredom in dull meetings by imagining a ball going from me and deflecting off everyone's head, billiards-style, using walls and ceiling. Dangerously distracting.

Ever pretended to have Wolverine's retractible claws?

Pete

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There's so much I don't know about astrophysics. I wish I had read that book by that wheelchair guy.

Speaking of meetings, if I haven't had enough sleep and it is a seriously boring meeting, I have to concentrate to keep my eyes from unfocusing and wandering off in separate directions. I never have asked anyone if they noticed - it may be that they only wander off a little, but when I start getting double vision I know it is time to, er, focus on the discussion again.

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I say there is an invisible elf in my backyard. How do you prove that I am wrong?

Disclaimer: Avatar is not an official NASA image and does not imply any specific interplanetary or interstellar capability.

The Leif Ericson Cruiser

Hey, that's why I do it. I'm originally from Indiana. I've never heard of another person who did this, too. Cool! See, Lurch, it's not that weird. I never knew about this until high school road trips to and from opposing teams. This sounds like something I should look into.

Padiddle meant a one eyed car to us too, but out there it meant you got to kiss your date.

My wife plays slug bug, but I never heard of it.

We had something similar though. If you came upon a Lucky Strike pack on the ground, the first one to step on it got to "strike" the other. There were a lot more Lucky packs 50 years ago than tehre are now.

We had another game that had no consequences in our group. Like slug bug, if we spotted a staion wagon we called out "beaver" and got credit for it. After a few miles no one had any idea what the score was.

I used to take batteries apart and extract the carbon rod from the center. And 9 volt batteries were actually a stack of six little flat cells inside. Come to think of it I took apart most anything I could get my hands on.

When you lose your coffee cup, Odin, does that make you Thor?


(Geez I hope that translates)

Well, mostly I explore. I wander down hallways and poke my head into offices for no reason other than sheer curiosity, then people wonder what the heck I'm doing there.

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Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.

Well, so do I.

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Some try to tell me, thoughts they cannot defend,... - Moody Blues.

Cubs Fans Anonymous.

Me too. Grew up there, went to 10 or 20 games a year, including every opening day from about age 8 or 9 until 18 or so. Ernie Banks is still my hero. I love the game, though I am disgusted with the business it has become. I think it was about the 2nd time the baseball players went on strike that I pretty much gave up on all pro sports.

One friends comment when he found out I was a Cubs fan was "I thought they could fix that at birth now."

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Don of Borg - Cool, Calm, Collective.

"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Does anyone else when looking for a pen make writing motions in the air, or when looking for a misplaced drink grasp an imaginary mug?

(I know I'm not the only one, because I saw this process given a name on a calendar of invented words: "Pantrymime")

I don't know if I do that, but I do carry around my own pen. I can't stand to share my pen. If someone touches my pen, it becomes their pen. I have spares in my purse.

I don't mind sharing my ballpoints - but there will be heck to pay if somebody touches my Parker 51!

The teller at the bank pointed out something I do that I'd not been really aware of.. when trying to figure out the date, I wiggle my fingers in front of my eyes, kinda like a counting motion, but the fingers that move are apparently random.

Now that I'm aware of it, it feels really weird.

Hmm.

Mental note: Use Candy's pen. I can get a free office supply that way.

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"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." -- Thomas Paine

Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. -- Heinlein

Creationists make it sound as though a "theory" is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. -- Isaac Asimov

Lurch!

My friend, back in my Purdue days, asked me why I always cross the street perpendicular. I never cross diagonal. I still do it 'til this day, but I'm not sure why.

My co-workers know not to touch my pen. They will walk 3 feet out of their way to get another pen or pencil. I've scared them.

I send a pack of pens to a friend every few months. She, too, liked my pens.

What part of IN ya from? i lived up in Elkhart for amost 6 years. And my girlfriend is a Purdue grad too

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I was just sitting here contemplating the immortal words of Socrates who said, "I drank what?"

"Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot." --Carl Sagan "Pale Blue Dot"

I was in Indianapolis, Indiana for a few years...

it was pretty when it snowed.

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"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." -- Thomas Paine

Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. -- Heinlein

Creationists make it sound as though a "theory" is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. -- Isaac Asimov

I do the same thing. Never really thought about it before. As long as you're not crossing the street parallel, what's the problem?

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not me - I take the shortest route possible -= not in crossing the street, but in getting from point A to point B. That generally means crossign teh street at an angle and dodging cars and busses.

It's really a pain when I'm walking with somebody who's not a hypotenuse type

After 16 years in the midwest I was so happy to get back to Arizona and be done with snow lol. So what happens? My girlfriend decides to do extra work and graduate from Purdue in December. So there I was, standing at the airport waiting for the Lafayette Limo in a balmy 10 deg F. midwest winter again. *sigh*

Well it was worth it, but it was so nice to get off the plane and step into a nice 79 degree winter instead And we can't even get it to rain (we're on day 113 without a drop) let alone snow. I love it.

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I was just sitting here contemplating the immortal words of Socrates who said, "I drank what?"

"Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot." --Carl Sagan "Pale Blue Dot"