Old Man Posted April 28, 2015 Report Share Posted April 28, 2015 "What book shall I read to you tonight?" "Can we read The Hobbit?" "It's longer than your other books." "That's okay." (He lasts about two pages on average. At this rate we might be done by 2016.) L. Marcus and Lucius 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christougher Posted May 2, 2015 Report Share Posted May 2, 2015 And what great material to put him to sleep... I couldn't make it through a single chapter of his books. Chris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted May 3, 2015 Report Share Posted May 3, 2015 Only one I can think of Me: I think I have a love-hate relationship with Humanity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 4, 2015 Report Share Posted May 4, 2015 Mine is more of a pity-contempt one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted May 4, 2015 Report Share Posted May 4, 2015 After dinner with the family. Pork for the main course; cake for dessert. "Thanks for the cake. The pork and cake." "Pork and cake? Sounds like Congress!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankL Posted May 4, 2015 Report Share Posted May 4, 2015 Me to wife: Do I need to go to the store tonight for that pork sale? Wife: No. I'll go tomorrow to get it for last night's soup. [Pause as she realized what she said] Me: Umm... Wife: I meant that, you know. I'm really Lady Flash. I'll just run through time to get it. Me (while thinking, you would look incredibly hot in red spandex but knowing not to say it): Aren't you worried about wrecking the timeline? Wife: It's pork and it's already dead. Whether it's in last night's soup or tomorrow's sandwich doesn't matter. Me: The timeline is a tricky thing. You never know what could set it off. L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted May 4, 2015 Report Share Posted May 4, 2015 Mine is more of a pity-contempt one. We mostly pity you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted May 4, 2015 Report Share Posted May 4, 2015 Her: You're in over your head on this. Me: I'd rather drown in you than swim alone. Her: Dammit. stop being adorable. BoneDaddy and L. Marcus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted May 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2015 Wife: I meant that, you know. I'm really Lady Flash. I'll just run through time to get it. Me (while thinking, you would look incredibly hot in red spandex but knowing not to say it): I think it's lovely that you feel that way about your wife. And a little sad that you can't tell her. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary doesn't understand but accepts that it could be the flash point of an argument. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 My wife and I drove up to Michigan's upper peninsula (Houghton, to be specific) to move our daughter back home for the summer after her first year as a university student. Found ourselves with a few hours to kill Friday, and headed to Houghton's mall to wander around. Not many stores open there at all, and of those one was a consignment store and another sold secondhand curios. Note that my daughter is a big fan of the former SyFy show Warehouse 13. (If you're not familiar with it, the main characters traveled all over collecting powerful artifacts to lock them away so they wouldn't endanger innocents. Stuff like Edgar Allen Poe's pen, binoculars used to view the Hiroshima explosion, etc.) Wife: (pointing to curio shop) Let's go in there. Daughter: No way! That place looks like "artifact central." Wife: (turns toward the consignment store) Okay, then we'll check that place out. Daughter: Nope. A place like that is bound to have an artifact or two lying around! Me: What, you don't want to play with an artifact? Daughter: Right, dad, cuz that always ended so well for the people who did it in the show. We did end up going through the curio shop, with her and I speculating on what the various things there would do as artifacts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 9, 2015 Report Share Posted May 9, 2015 "Psychic derangements may appear ... ranging from euphoria, insomnia, mood swings, personality changes, and severe depression, to frank psychotic manifestations. Also, existing emotional instability or psychotic tendencies may be aggravated ...." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted May 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2015 We did end up going through the curio shop, with her and I speculating on what the various things there would do as artifacts. Did you take pictures? That would be an interesting thread - post pictures of curiosities, and mass-speculate on how to use them in a game... Of course, I still can't post pictures, so I'd just speculate. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary notes that "artifact" literally just means "man-made" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted May 10, 2015 Report Share Posted May 10, 2015 Did you take pictures? Unfortunately, no. There was a lot of interesting-looking stuff for which I could easily come up with in-game abilities. For instance, a bunch of old cameras, including one way-old accordion-style camera. A half-dozen walking canes (one creepy-looking one with the handle being an animal's hoof that would be an excellent focus for an evil wizard). Glass globe paperweights with things embedded within. That sort of stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 13, 2015 Report Share Posted May 13, 2015 An old book written in some sort of red-brown ink, bound in an odd kind of tan leather? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 14, 2015 Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 Hey, just creep yourself out by doing an image search for "17th century surgical tools". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 14, 2015 Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 rage filled, fast breeding meat locomotives with facedaggers that destroy millions of dollars worth of crops every year and maim or kill anything they don't like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted May 29, 2015 Report Share Posted May 29, 2015 "It's pink and wrinkled!" "You promised not to peek!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 12, 2015 Report Share Posted June 12, 2015 rage filled, fast breeding meat locomotives with facedaggers that destroy millions of dollars worth of crops every year and maim or kill anything they don't like To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.-- Theodore Roosevelt, his seventh State of the Union address Lucius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted June 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2015 "We use the phrase 'undeveloped land' as if we were speaking of something that's lain unworked and unproductive since always, but that's not the case. We just mean 'undeveloped by Humans.' Nature, or God, or however you want to express it, has been developing it for thousands or even millions of years." Lucius Alexander Copyright Palindromedary Enterprises Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankL Posted June 14, 2015 Report Share Posted June 14, 2015 Got home from a family lunch today needing to mow the yard. Last week was vacation Bible school in the evenings, so it wasn't done. Yesterday had plenty of errands. When I got home at 2:30, I checked the forecast. 5% chance of rain from 3-7. Great! I helped my wife with some things in the kitchen and then got into my grubbies to mow. I stepped outside and felt a drop. "Tis but a sprinkle. At worst, a cloud burst. I'll move the things that need to be moved for mowing while it blows over." I looked across the neighbor's hay field and saw it was really coming down. "Of all the times to roll a natural 1." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted June 14, 2015 Report Share Posted June 14, 2015 One of the most useful apps on my phone is the NOAA one that shows the precip radar for the area. Indispensable on scout camping weekends. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 15, 2015 Report Share Posted June 15, 2015 "Aaaah, the red pens, they be dyin' like Tommies at the Somme." L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 15, 2015 Report Share Posted June 15, 2015 Gruesome and apt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 15, 2015 Report Share Posted June 15, 2015 Unlamented and in large numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 17, 2015 Report Share Posted June 17, 2015 (to daughter) "Nothing makes your father go all Old Testament faster than bad plots. I can forgive many things, but misrepresentation of data is not among them." L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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