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It's Lion Turtles all the way down ([personal profile] lettered) wrote2006-01-11 09:56 pm

Gonads and strife.

Because yay! [livejournal.com profile] a2zmom tagged me. ETA: And [livejournal.com profile] aloneinthetown. Yay!

5 Habits Of A Highly Wonky Woman.

1. I go into those stores that sell Hello Kitty products just because I like the smell of plastic.

2. Mornings make me nauseous. Physically. Like I'm pregnant. Only without everything else, including the conception sex.

3. I spend a little time every year seriously contemplating why someone real hasn't tried to become Batman yet.

4. I play MASH with my friends. A lot. But we only do the marriage part, besides the new category we added. Currently I'm married to the Crocodile Hunter but have twice a year hot love affairs with Yan Can Cook.

5. Sometimes I still say Weeee Beep!.

I tag anyone who hasn't done this yet.

[identity profile] semby.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
OH MY GOD! I love that you know about the "And weeeee!" squirrel! Love! So much love. I used to be fairly obsessed with that little video, in case you cannot tell.

Oh, right, you wrote some other stuff up there too. I used to get that way about mornings, too, but somehow haven't had that problem for the past year or so. #3... Huh! Okay, then. ;) #4 = love, too. I don't play it a lot, but I find it highly amusing when I do.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
The And weeeeee phenomenon was so strange. For a while everyone was talking about it, and then . . . nothing. My roomie loved it, but my reaction was more bemusment.

#4 is funny because like I said, we only do the one category (+ the twice a year hot love affair) but it take FOREVER. Our list of guys is like 200 long or something. And my friend insists on putting weird choices like Chewbacca and Big Daddy from our local Big Daddy's BBQ place (I don't think there IS a real Big Daddy . . .)

Not to diss Chewy, or anything. He has such dreamy eyes.

[identity profile] semby.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
I discovered the weeeee thing about four or five years ago, when I was still in high school, and it didn't seem like an "everyone was talking about it" thing. One random friend sent me the link, and then I showed like ten other friends, and we were all kind of crazy about it, but that was it. Maybe it was different in college. I've noticed trends like that seem to be more widespread since I've been at college.

My MASH is the opposite in that we tend to do about twenty different categories, with only about five options in each category. Still took awhile.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I think it came out my freshman year. The kids at the university I went to were very...I dunno, they took stuff like that and ran with it. Plus there was this thing about the squirrels on our campus--they were pretty high up in the bids for world domination, last I heard . . .

[identity profile] ba4ever.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
You are aware that there are other plastic non Hello Kitty products right? Right?? LOL, so do you love the Asian/Chinese stores? They always have weird shit, and I find myself wondering how we come up with them.

You have morning sickness everyday?? LOL. So..how do you know when you actually HAVE morning sickness?


Heh...oh Mash. I remember playing that on the bus rides to school, and field trips etc.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but the stores with the Hello Kitty things in them have ONLY plastic in them...or it seems that way, so the whole store smells like lovely plastic! Yay!

Maybe if I ever get pregnant, everything will cancel out and I won't be sick at all. That would be nice.

Play it again. I played it in elementary, then stopped because I thought it was so dumb. I picked it up again senior year of highschool, and just thought it was so damn funny...

[identity profile] ba4ever.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
It is so damn funny. It's such cheap entertainment!

[identity profile] mzzgoddessblue.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
3. I spend a little time every year seriously contemplating why someone real hasn't tried to become Batman yet.

Because The BatMan is teh perfect. He is a God amongst men, and no-one will ever be able to copy him. Cos they'd just look, you know...stoopid in the outfit.

i have to ask: what is this MASH game you speak of, grasshopper?

[identity profile] a2zmom.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Plus, Batman more than a lot nuts. And you have to be a multi=zillionaire to pull it off.

In other words - only Bill Gates could be Batman. (Now that's a thought).

[identity profile] ignoramouse.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
In other words - only Bill Gates could be Batman.

The images I'm getting in my head of BG as Batman... *hee*
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
He has the suit in his closet and tries it on every once in a while.

Okay, now Bill Gates is turning into David Nabbit.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
It doesn't seem like you'd have to be as rich as Bill Gates to at least be a pseudo Batman. And a lot of rich people are psycho. Just look at the things they spend money on.

I think about it a lot, but it struck me the other day again when I was watching some weird thing about some skier. His goal in life is to achieve this life threatening skiing feat. Sometimes I just wonder if you have the athletic skills and the money for hobbies like that, plus the complete psycho daredevilness, why don't you do something useful, huh? (Of course, it costs more to be Batman than to ski, but that's just an example of something that makes me think about it.)

[identity profile] mzzgoddessblue.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Plus, Batman more than a lot nuts

Yes. Yes he is. Twisted, traumatized, screwed up. I love that about him.

Heh.

[identity profile] a2zmom.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
me too.

Fucked-up Batman. Gotta love him.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
MASH stands for Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House. It's a middle school type game wherein you list jobs you might have, people you might marry, how many kids you might have, and places you might live (thus the mansion, etc aspect of it.) Usually you get to choose two and then your friends choose (they choose evilly because they want to screw you over).

Okay, so once you have your list, one of your friends starts drawing a spiral. You tell them when to stop, then you count the number of circles in the spiral, and you have your number.

Say it's three. So, then you go through your list and cross off every third thing. So, skip mansion, apartment, cross off shack, skip house, Brad Pitt, cross off Richard Simmons, skip boy next door, Bill Gates, cross off accountant. When you get to the end of the list, you don't stop counting, you just go back to the beginning. When all but one are crossed off in a category, you're going to get that thing, and you skip it when you do the rest of the counting for your crossing off. Eventually you're left with one thing in each category, and that's your future.

It's a stupid, stupid game. I love it!

[identity profile] mzzgoddessblue.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
You know, I was seriously thinking it had somehting to do wiht the tv show MASH. And I couldn't for the life of me reconcile what you were saying about hot love affairs and marriage with Klinger and Hawkeye.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
I've actually never seen M*A*S*H. But I'm sure if you look hard enough you'll find fanfic wherein Klinger and Hawkeye have twice a year hot love affairs and then, after much angst, some schmoop, and a few kittens, get married and live HEA 4 evah!!!!1111!

[identity profile] mzzgoddessblue.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
Mash Slash.

Oh dear.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/mash_slash/
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
teh internets win!!!!!!!!!1

[identity profile] skipthedemon.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
I'm totally with you on mornings. And then....breakfast, I adore breakfast, and the rest of my day is crap without it, but some mornings breakfast really doesn't want to stay down. I have to remind myself that it'll make me feel better.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Me too! Though it's usually hard to remind myself it'll be better for me. It's especially gross brushing my teeth. I can't do it until the middle of the day, really, or else I feel even sicker.

I'm glad other people have this. I thought I was a freak!

[identity profile] mshepnj.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I hate the smell of plastic. Sometimes it makes me queasy. OTOH, I have a fondness for Hello Kitty and friends. We have a Hello Kitty calculator tht my daughter received as a gift when she was 5. It's the best ever! Hubby uses to balance the checkbook, and it's so cute to see my big teddy bear of a guy clicking away on pink Hello Kitty calculator.

What's MASH?
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
The thing is, I don't like Hello Kitty products. I think they're scary and . . . way too cute. And happy. *shudders* But plastic? mmm mmm mm.

I'm sad so many of you don't know how to play MASH! Here's what I told someone else:

MASH stands for Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House. It's a middle school type game wherein you list jobs you might have, people you might marry, how many kids you might have, and places you might live (thus the mansion, etc aspect of it.) Usually you get to choose two and then your friends choose (they choose evilly because they want to screw you over).

Okay, so once you have your list, one of your friends starts drawing a spiral. You tell them when to stop, then you count the number of circles in the spiral, and you have your number.

Say it's three. So, then you go through your list and cross off every third thing. So, skip mansion, apartment, cross off shack, skip house, Brad Pitt, cross off Richard Simmons, skip boy next door, Bill Gates, cross off accountant. When you get to the end of the list, you don't stop counting, you just go back to the beginning. When all but one are crossed off in a category, you're going to get that thing, and you skip it when you do the rest of the counting for your crossing off. Eventually you're left with one thing in each category, and that's your future.

It's a stupid, stupid game. I love it!

[identity profile] mshepnj.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Ohhhhhh... It sounds gloriously stupid!

I bet it's best after drinking many shots... or maybe not. My math skills deterioriate after I've had a few. I'd probably end up unemployed living in a cardboard box with Stumpy the homeless troll.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
lol! It's always best when you end up unemployed married to Stumpy, but you live in a mansion or some wacky thing like that.

Weirdly, I've never played it while drinking (well, I never do shots anyway). I should try it.

[identity profile] a2zmom.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
What's MASH and what's the squirrel thing. I am so out of the loop.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
The squirrel thing is linked in #5. Beyond that, I really don't know. It scares me.

And here is my now patenented explanation for MASH:

MASH stands for Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House. It's a middle school type game wherein you list jobs you might have, people you might marry, how many kids you might have, and places you might live (thus the mansion, etc aspect of it.) Usually you get to choose two and then your friends choose (they choose evilly because they want to screw you over).

Okay, so once you have your list, one of your friends starts drawing a spiral. You tell them when to stop, then you count the number of circles in the spiral, and you have your number.

Say it's three. So, then you go through your list and cross off every third thing. So, skip mansion, apartment, cross off shack, skip house, Brad Pitt, cross off Richard Simmons, skip boy next door, Bill Gates, cross off accountant. When you get to the end of the list, you don't stop counting, you just go back to the beginning. When all but one are crossed off in a category, you're going to get that thing, and you skip it when you do the rest of the counting for your crossing off. Eventually you're left with one thing in each category, and that's your future.

It's a stupid, stupid game. I love it!

[identity profile] a2zmom.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I am now frightened for the future of this country.

But I was before also. :-)

Weeee. Beep.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
My personal goal is to get "shack" for living place (love shack.) and "slave" for employment (love slave.) and "David Boreanaz" for hubby (love . . .)

It's a bright future!

WeeeeeeeeeeSPLAT.

[identity profile] stoney321.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay 3.

YEAH! I mean, we have the technology! *looks off into the distance as a reed instrument plays a single note*
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
We also have Bill Gates. *looks off in the distance for the buh-dum-ching*

Seriously though. There's a lot of athletic rich people who like to do scary things. Plus, most of them are actors so they could pull off the whole sekrit identity thing.

[identity profile] aloneinthetown.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
See, chewing on movie tickets may be gross but the batman thing is just weird :)
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I am proud of my weirdness. C'mon. Don't tell me you never think about it.

[identity profile] dlgood.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
But let's be honest here. You'd be running off to have those hot affairs with Martin Yan even if you didn't play MASH. I bet that's probably why you keep playing.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Never actually having seen Yan Can Cook, I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say: 'tis so, you're absolutely right.

After all, I'm married to the Croc Hunter, and I have seen that one.

[identity profile] aloneinthetown.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
I totally forgot to post this but OMG!!! I remember the gonads and strife thing. I totally downloaded that when I was in 6th grade or something and I showed it to my mom and we were laughing so hard we almost peed our pants. Thanks for showing it to me again! Yay!
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
My mom would've been horrified if she'd heard me say the word "gonads" in 6th grade--much less watch a vid with a big penis floating all over it.