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Amusing Moments in Gaming…

Every Thursday, I play AD&D with bedlamhouse, surrdave, and a few other folks. I keep meaning to write about those games, and even had a spiffy LJ icon set aside for it, but I never seem to.

Couple of amusing moments last night I had to share, though. We came across the high priestess of the local temple bound and gagged behind the alter of the chapel, immediately after having ransacked what we later found out was her chambers for valuables.

Don: So what you’re saying is that I see a beautiful woman tied up and gagged by the alter.

DM: Yes.

Jeff: Put her in the loot bag!!


Later in the adventure:

DM: Ok, so what is your AC without your Dex? Is it still 16?

Me (looking forlornly at my character sheet): Uhhhh, no.

Chuckle of the morning

Heard on NPR this morning, in a discussion about notions of beauty in fairy tales (slightly paraphrased from memory):

In a Grimm’s tale, when a women was called beautiful meant she was docile, domesticated, subservient–quite often comatose….”
–Jack Zipes, folklorist

Something to Ponder

Repeatedly today, I’ve been getting this error message when trying to surf LiveJournal.

“The document contains no data.”

It just occurred to me….If it contains no data, can it, by definition, really be considered a document?

Just something to think about while they get the servers fixed up. 🙂

Songs I Won’t Be Writing

So, eloren and I were discussing children’s books over lunch.

eloren: We’ve got Goodnight Moon, and Pat The Bunny, and The Runaway Bunny
autographedcat: You need to get Harold And The Purple Crayon.
eloren: I don’t know that one.
autographedcat: Oh, it’s marvelous. I also like The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes.
eloren: Pretty soon, I guess I’ll have to get Everybody Poops.
autographedcat‘s brain: whirrrrrr-click You know, that scans to “Everybody Hurts” by REM.
autographedcat: (outloud) No! No, I will not! No. (pause) No!
eloren: (curiously) Are you ok?

Heh.

As a result of the large number of lovely UK people on #filkhaven, there’s often a bit of discussion about the latest cricket matches. I wondered idly today if people raised on cricket understood why Mad Magazine’s 43-Man Squamish was supposed to be funny, or if they thought it made perfect sense and looked like fun.

Doubletake headline

Seen on the newsstand on the cover of the ever reliable Weekly World News:


GAY ALIENS FOUND IN UFO CRASH

I didn’t read the article to find out if they were travelling from their home planet in order to attempt to get married in Massachusetts

Sex on Two Wheels

fairestcat points towards a primer on having sex on a motorcycle, which is aimed at fanfic writers, but really isn’t this good information for all of us to have?

Fun With Random Playlists

The other day, the following popped up in my random mp3 playlist:

“You Can Go Your Own Way” (Cranberries cover of Fleetwood Mac)

followed by

“Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine” (Bob Dylan)

Great Moments In Unclear Writing

Waves of Mourners Honor Reagan in D.C.
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer

(snip…)
Donna Hand of Ashburn, Va., waited five hours to see the casket and spent
about three minutes inside. “It was a very moving experience for me. It was
very solemn,” Hand said. “It made you feel patriotic.”

(Pointed out by Brooke McEldowney on rec.arts.comics.strips. The AP has apparently corrected the text in the story since it first went out.)

My mind is a strange place

On the way over to the data centre this morning to check on an ailing server, I heard the following on the radio traffic report:

“Backups on 75/85, where the HOV lane is blocked due to a medical emergency. a pregnant woman is in labour.”

And I thought to myself, “Gee, some people will do anything to get to use the HOV lane…”

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