Day 14 - Luck, Fake Names, Escape, Fortunately Your Body is Clueless

8:16 AM Mr. Yellow

yo

8:17 AM Mr. Silver

morning all

8:17 AM Mr. Gray

Morning

Love the fact we're doing a hard life-or-death adventure on Friday the 13th. GOOD LUCK!!

8:17 AM Mr. Green

morning

8:19 AM Mr. Silver

yup...we're doomed and stuff

8:19 AM Mr. Gray

..and stuff and stuff

8:19 AM Mr. Green

nah... always loved Friday the 13th, usually good day for me

8:19 AM Mr. Gray

Same here actually

8:19 AM Mr. Green

I have bad luck every other day of the year

lol

8:20 AM Mr. Gray

LOL

Mr. Green smashed a wrecking ball through a mirror factory in a past life apparently

11:37 AM Mr. Gray

Some people....

      Hi,
      You spelled my name wrong and I need someone to fix it. Everything you defaulted my  

      name to is now wrong, thanks. For your information, not that you care, it is spelled Meghan  

      Labor, no "e" and I have spelled it out for every person I have ever talked to with your 

      company so this is totally your fault and I want it to be changed.

      So far I am completely unimpressed with your company, your service, and every person I've   

      ever interacted with under your employ has been a completely rude jerk.

      Thanks Again,

ALL of the people she has spoken too......being ONE person

11:38 AM Mr. Green

LOL

11:39 AM Mr. Silver

loser

put 2 Es on the end

11:39 AM Mr. Yellow

change it to Jimmy

 

2:22 PM Mr. Gray

This cant be a real name.....

Derrick Storm

Sounds like a Pr0n stage name

2:23 PM Mr. Yellow

That is almost as good as Max Power Or Lexington Steel

2:24 PM Mr. Gray

Exactly what i was thinking

2:25 PM Mr. Silver

Sounds like the stuff Mr. Blue and I would waste hours making up

The "Film Hero Names that are too Macho to be Real" game"

(MST3K reference: “Space Mutiny”. Look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHlJ2voJHY)

2:32 PM Mr. Silver

Personal fave I did being "Crack Sternum"

2:32 PM Mr. Yellow

Snake Plissken is my favorite

2:32 PM Mr. Yellow

Sam Axe

Duke Nukem

2:33 PM Mr. Silver

Wolf Blitzer

(looks at last one, confused)

2:33 PM Mr. Yellow

*nod*

2:36 PM Mr. Yellow

Pussy Galore

Plenty O'Toole

Xenia Onatopp

Holly Goodhead

Miss Goodnight

2:58 PM Mr. Gray

1.5hrs to go.....come on 4:30

3:00 PM Mr. Yellow

yes it is Friday and time to get the F out of here

3:00 PM Mr. Gray

agreed

3:03 PM Mr. Silver

GROWL!!!       (11 years of being late out nearly every day – Mr. Silver)

3:05 PM Mr. Gray

5:30 Franklin Parking Lot, Mr. Silver....I'll be waiting and ready with the escape vehicle

3:06 PM Mr. Silver

yay!

3:08 PM Mr. Gray

*pictures Mr. Silver running from the door, bullets flying as he sprints screaming "GO GO GO" and diving in the window Duke-Boy style*

3:08 PM Mr. Silver

So...like me leaving my son's school on days I pick him up.

3:09 PM Mr. Gray

LOL exactly 

1:52 PM Mr. Blue

Looking at the old Help Page. During the blood drive, their slogan was "Blood comes from the <3"

false, it comes from bone marrow

1:53 PM Mr. Brown

Ahh yeah, did not think of that

it goes thru the heart not produced there

2:05 PM Mr. Blue

i also like correcting people when they say "I have to go with what's in my heart"

or "listen to your heart"

2:06 PM Mr. Silver

"Apparently my heart is telling me to beat you repeatedly for about 75 years on average"

2:07 PM Mr. Blue

"You have to listen to your heart." 

"Nah, I think I’ll listen to my spleen instead."

It's pretty crazy when you stop and think for a minute about the crazy stuff going on inside you right now. all kinds of things are working tirelessly just so you can take phone calls and troubleshoot  problems

2:11 PM Mr. Silver

yup

seems a shame

2:12 PM Mr. Blue

such a waste

obviously my body has no idea what I’m doing out here

or else it would revolt

"You're doing WHAT? For how long?  ARE YOU SERIOUS?"

2:19 PM Mr. Silver

"THAT'S it...I'm turning off your metabolism and killing you young!"

Day 13 - Books to movies, Keyboards, Ben "Lightning Rod" Franklin

12:36 PM Mr. Yellow

The previews for the new Pirates movie look fantastic. I hope the film can live up to the trailer

12:46 PM Mr. Silver

We'll see. 

They lifted some or all of the story from my least favorite book from my favorite author

Granted, there were some awfully cool things IN it...

stuff I've pondered using, even.  But it just went kinda flat at the end and the hero didn't have that...umph

So...Jack Sparrow in his place, maybe gold

1:18 PM Mr. Yellow

As we all know movies are usually way different from books.  They usually just take the main elements of the story and then the director and screen writers make it their own

1:22 PM Mr. Silver

uh oh…

1:32 PM Mr. Silver

Producer 1 - "I like the title." 

Producer 2 - "I like the whole fountain of youth thing."

Producer 3 - "I like pirates and Blackbeard"

Exec Producer - "So what about all the voodoo, Loa spirits, dimensional travel, the two sorcerers and the helpless heroine thing?"

Producer 3 - "Too hard...”

Producer 2 - “Nah...

Producer 1 - “No one would get it..."

Exec Producer - "And the puppeteer hero?  The pirate captain?" 

Producer 2 - "Nah..."

Producer 1 - "Hey...Penelope Cruz is free." 

Producer 3 - "Cool...perhaps we could write a part for her since the book has no female leads." 

1:49 PM Mr. Green

what book did they base it on?

1:54 PM Mr. Silver

"On Stranger Tides" Tim Powers

2:02 PM Mr. Yellow

The thing I heard that I liked was that this movie focuses on Jack Sparrow

unlike the other movies

2:03 PM Mr. Silver

I'm sure it'll be loads of fun

2:09 PM Mr. Silver

Logan's Run and Bladerunner were both remarkably better movies than books

2:12 PM Mr. Silver

I'll assume Kubrick's "The Shining" too, even though I couldn't finish King’s book.

Something about the repetitive crashing boredom and incredibly uninteresting characters.

2:15 PM Mr. Silver

Had so looked forward to it too...sigh

2:17 PM Mr. Silver

Book bored me til i quit, and that's difficult

2:20 PM Mr. Silver

(loaner) "Well where did you stop???" 

(me) "Oh, some ridiculous thing about a bee hive that somehow survived a poison spray or came back to life." 

(loaner) "Oh!  That's right where it starts getting interesting!  Keep going!" 

(Me) "I don't believe you.  The man can't write long form and should stick to short stories.  Here."

Love his short stories

2:26 PM Mr. Silver

(sorry for the rant...)

Mr. Green

I really liked Christine, the Stand, and Carrie. read them all when I was pretty young though, like 12 or 13

then I moved on to Eric Van Lustbader, who is my favorite author

2:29 PM Mr. Silver

King has a reputation for something, I'm sure, but something about the novels I read (or in that case, dumped) just doesn't do it for me.

2:33 PM Mr. Silver

Caught heck for that opinion, and saying "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" was crap on a sci-fi site once. 

Stand by my critique.  Phil K might be a seminal creative force but PU

2:36 PM Mr. Green

heheh

"Stranger in a Strange Land" is still my favorite SciFi book

2:39 PM Mr. Silver

Haven't read it yet.  Probably should one of these days.

2:41 PM Mr. Green

definitely Heinlein’s masterpiece

Mr. Blue

more spam email poetry

    Julia uttered a low cry and redoubled her speed, and was soon at Mr.

    but unfortunately found him out. Otherwise your brother would be here

    and there a tall pine sometimes stately and erect, sometimes blown

8:50 AM Mr. Brown

That makes no sense

lol

8:51 AM Mr. Silver

Sounds Engrishy

Perhaps there's a weird logic to it if you apply a thesaurus.

(considers) Nod...there's an intended meaning in English. 

It's just obscured as hell

8:57 AM Mr. Silver

Let's see...

The first part, she's actually running away from a man, and despite a burst of speed he catches her

If she hadn't been caught, she would have met (her brother?) at the appointed place.

Which might have been a particular tree or place in a forest they used to go, or that's the secondary meeting spot.

However I think it was the primary and she just didn't get there.

(I love Engrish)

definitely Asian...probably Japanese

They seem to like emotive/evocative descriptions for plain things like simple trees

So...do I win?

9:04 AM Mr. Blue

the subject was related to erectile dysfunction

so i assumed the story was as well

9:05 AM Mr. Silver

eh...just content to get through a filter...hideously translated clip from a manga or something

9:14 AM Mr. Blue

yeah

Mr. Blue

what is the purpose of Num Lock?

11:23 AM Mr. Silver

turns the keypad on and off

11:24 AM Mr. Blue

why would you want it off?

11:26 AM Mr. Silver

I can't think of a reason

11:29 AM Mr. Blue

when you think about it, keyboards are rather robust devices

they really take a beating

11:36 AM Mr. Blue

I’d like a blank keyboard

just to show how boss I am... like a guitar without fret markers

11:39 AM Mr. Silver

Couple that with a computer that won't show the letters you're typing until you print it out.  You'd be so COOL!

Mr. Brown

i just saw a picture of somebody folding a dollar and putting the bottom half of George Washington's head up to the top half of Jack Nicholson's head

lol

1:28 PM Mr. Blue

...if only there was some way you could show us

1:33 PM Mr. Brown

type in “Nicholson Money” in Google images

2:06 PM Mr. Silver

(Looks) Of course, that'd be Franklin, not Washington

2:06 PM Mr. Brown

ahhh dang

i looked at that too fast

2:07 PM Mr. Silver

Franklin's jawline is missing that distinctive "Painful hippo-bone false teeth" look.

That and the "100"

2:12 PM Mr. Blue

100?

2:14 PM Mr. Silver

100 on the bill instead of 1

2:17 PM Mr. Blue

ah

2:43 PM Mr. Brown

did Ben Franklin have false teeth also?

2:46 PM Mr. Silver

no idea

2:46 PM Mr. Brown

well Washing ton was the first General of the Armies

2:46 PM Mr. Silver

He got a lot more action (recorded anyway) than George ever did though

Ben Franklin...”Party Dude”

2:48 PM Mr. Silver

"Inventor of the Franklin Stove, Bifocals, and while in France the Franklin Beer Bong.  Also instituted the tradition of the panty raid."

2:49 PM Mr. Brown

lol

2:50 PM Mr. Silver

Ben 'Lightning Rod' Franklin

2:57 PM Mr. Silver

(Gendarme with firm grip on scowling Franklin's collar.  Furious blushing french girl pointing and yelling)  "...and then 'ee ask mee “ey Fifi! Doo yoo want too see zee key vair I wuz ztruck by zee lightneeng, bebe?"

Day 12 - "Balloons", Turkeys, and Sinbad vs Sinbad

Mr. Brown

Used my Neti Pot last night

little weird but helps

8:33 AM Mr. Silver

"A little Earl Grey served with a spot of cream and sugar right up the nose, please."

8:42 AM Mr. Blue

http://www.kgun9.com/story/14602656/aerostat-balloon-goes-down-in-sierra-vista

i wonder if the military will deny this as being a weather balloon and say it was an alien spacecraft

8:44 AM Mr. Brown

Nice

See if they go the reverse way with it

lol

8:53 AM Mr. Silver

problems...

balloons don't sound like helicopters or trains

8:59 AM Mr. Silver

balloons don't sound like anything, in general 

9:00 AM Mr. Brown

Well if they have devices on them

there should be some type of sound

9:00 AM Mr. Silver

"The balloon was carrying a sensitive government train and helicopter."

9:00 AM Mr. Blue

hot air balloons are pretty noisy

9:00 AM Mr. Silver

Hot air balloons are noisy if the flames are on, yes

9:03 AM Mr. Brown

well if it has a special system to stabilize it .

9:03 AM Mr. Silver

AKA: “A string”

9:13 AM Mr. Silver

So...clearly a UFO

9:14 AM Mr. Blue

perhaps people in AZ have never actually heard a train or helicopter

"it sounded like a male musk ox during the rut." said one native of Tucson, AZ.

"What did it look like?"  "Leonardo da Vinci's feet."

9:36 AM Mr. Silver

"Well, I seen the balloon falling towards the house and was kinda worried when I seen them antimatter reactor stabilizer coils jettin' plasma...but then the wind took a turn an' it started in ta driftin’ north." 

9:38 AM Mr. Silver

"I see...and can you describe the 'balloon', sir?"   

"Oh shore...it's like any t'others.  Titanium-magnesium alloy shell...twin pulse drive...5 man crew..."

10:34 AM Mr. Gray

Refuses to give me a call back number to have someone call her.....keeps badgering for info via email that I can’t give.....sheesh

...and apparently can’t work the phone queue enough to get to an agent....

seriously, people like this just need taken out of society. I don’t know how they function

10:35 AM Mr. Silver

I don't get it either

10:36 AM Mr. Green

yep... amazed they don’t drown in the shower... heheh

10:47 AM Mr. Gray

I wish they would

would be great....I can see the headline now "Millions die in shower.....only known link, MORONS"

11:03 AM Mr. Green

LOL.

11:04 AM Mr. Silver

"Sociologists and behavioral psychologists are dubbing it the ‘Turkey in the Rain’ effect.  When asked if that was insensitive, it was noted that anyone who might be offended had drowned."

11:10 AM Mr. Gray

LOL

That so rocks...

11:31 AM Mr. Green

LMAO!

11:31 AM Mr. Gray

I'm going to be chuckling about that all day

11:36 AM Mr. Silver

(sings) "In a perfect world, this could happen...In a perfect world, they'd all be gone..."

11:36 AM Mr. Gray

LOL

Mr. Brown

Do the locusts come this year?

10:28 AM Mr. Blue

yeah, May 21st

10:28 AM Mr. Brown

lol

I'm still waiting for that date to come and for nothing to happen

lol

10:29 AM Mr. Blue

well, yeah

Mr. Silver

So I need to come up with Sinbad Movie style adventure tasks

Or rather develop the ones I already have

12:21 PM Mr. Blue

like posing as the old college buddy of a wealthy dentist and staying at his mansion?

12:22 PM Mr. Silver

I'd have them rolling doing that...for about 3 minutes

12:22 PM Mr. Blue

(definitely put that in the highlights)

12:23 PM Mr. Silver

heh

will do...but no...Sinbad the Sailor

12:23 PM Mr. Blue

ah him

Day 11 - TBIT!, and The 7th Voyage of Doctor Who

10:17 Mr. Silver
Mr. Gray -- Straight-Edge Dungeon Master

10:17 AM Mr. Yellow

LOL

10:20 AM Mr. Gray

Yeah.....

LOL

10:22 AM Mr. Yellow

I always have to drive all the way back to Ohio after we play so Straight-Edge player here

10:32 AM Mr. Silver
No potions, drug effect items or drinking in Mr. Gray's game world

10:33 AM Mr. Gray

LOL

10:33 AM Mr. Silver
"I go to the bartender-" 
"Ehem!  Salad bar attendant." 
"Riiiiight..."




Mr. Silver
I'm going to add something to TGIF tradition
TBIT
Too Bad Its Tuesday

12:16 PMGreen, Patrick J.

LOL

12:28 PM Mr. Yellow

LOL

      (…snip…)
Mr. Gray

man today needs to just be over

whole week does, actually

3:10 PM Mr. Silver

TBIT

3:10 PMGreen, Patrick J.

lol

3:20 PM Mr. Yellow

yes every work week needs to be over by Monday 4:30

3:20 PM Mr. Silver
7:17am

3:21 PM Mr. Yellow

I could do 1 day a week

52 days a year

1000 a day

3% yearly raise

3:21 PM Mr. Silver
Eh...they’d just reduce "weeks" to days and call your time off for sleep "the weekend"





3:05 PM Mr. Silver
ohhhh...forgot
Tom Baker's magic incantations in “The 7^th Voyage of Sinbad”
they were cereal commercial jingles in reverse

3:07 PM Mr. Gray

LMAO really?

3:17 PM Mr. Silver
yeah...was looking up to see if there were some obscure Sinbad movies.  Clicked on a 7th V link and saw it as a trivia bit. 
As a gag they made the spells by reversing Rice Krispies and Kix (I think kix) commercial jingles
Tom Baker was tapped for Doctor Who partially because of his performance

3:23 PM Mr. Gray

That’s too funny

3:32 PM Mr. Silver
"Sinbad is so awesome he got the 4th Doctor his job."
 


3:32 PM Mr. Silver
Had 3 mins to go...internal call...easy issue...
still here...

3:38 PM Mr. Silver

Stuck on (issue)

3:38 PM Mr. Yellow

That should be easy as pie

well not pecan pie because it can get soupy

3:38 PM Mr. Silver

cow pie

3:39 PM Mr. Yellow

that is the easiest you have to do nothing but pick it up

3:40 PM Mr. Silver

The call's only a few minutes old...too fresh.  a "steamer" as it were.

YOU pick it up.

Day 10 - Honey Advert, Hell, Juvenile RPGs and Art

Mr. Brown

Got some honey.  Supposed to be good for fighting allergies and stuff.

Mr. Silver 

“…turns out the guy was allergic to honey…shame…”

9:36 AM Mr. Blue

i always get a hankering for honey

then when i actually eat it I’m like "oh yeah, that's why i haven't eaten it in 2 years."

9:37 AM Mr. Brown

LOL

They all taste different

http://i.imgur.com/hhfqY.jpg

10:17 AM Mr. Brown

Scary Bear honey

Could use that as a marketing name for honey

10:19 AM Mr. Blue

"Eat it or Scary Bear will murder you in your sleep."

12:25 PM Mr. Blue

if Heaven is full of Sarah Palins and Hell is full of Carl Sagans, where would you rather go?

12:27 PM Mr. Silver

Conceptual conflict there

12:37 PM Mr. Blue

yeah

(...snip...)

12:53 PM Mr. Blue

I’m sick of these face transplant people.. get outta here with that crap

12:54 PM Mr. Silver

In Hell, everyone has a face transplant

Mr. Silver

Oh!  Big news...Silver Jr. played some RPG with me.

Asked what I was writing over the weekend and I said it's for an adventure game, like I play Fridays. 

"Can I play?"

1:58 PM Mr. Gray

Nice hehe

2:00 PM Mr. Silver

"Not that game, no.  But I'll teach you how it works."

"What is it?" 

2:06 PM Mr. Silver

"Well, you make up a character like in a book or movie, and then one person tells a story and asks what you want to do.  So, if you could be anything to have an adventure with, what would you like?"

"Uhhh...a FOX!" 

"Good choice!"

2:07 PM Mr. Silver

Did some stuff getting caught and trying to escape from a trapper...had him roll a d6 for a fence climb

It was fun.

He's just coming up on 7yo

2:09 PM Mr. Silver

Fave bit:  "So you're in the cage in the back of the truck, and you hear laughing.  There's a big crow on a tree branch looking at you and chuckling." 

2:14 PM Mr. Silver

"(cackly) Stuck eh?  What a shame.  hAh hk hk hk hk hk!"

"Get me out of here or I'll eat you!" 

(cackly) "Not much reason to get you out then."

"Get me outta here or I'll eat you AND your brother!"

(cackly) "Even less reason.  hAh hk hk hk hk hk!"

2:26 PM Mr. Silver

"So...the crow flies away laughing.  What do you do?" 

"I'll wait til his brother comes along...HE'll let me out."

"Not once the first one tells you that you're gonna eat him.  Not the best solution, threatening him while stuck in a cage."

"No..."

Mr. Blue

I remember when I used to draw heads with arms and legs coming out and no torsos

what was I thinking?

and then to indicate sky i would just draw a thick blue line at the top of the page with a big huge gap of white in between it and the ground

that's not how it looks!

my perspective was terrible

2:48 PM Mr. Silver

"Mom.  I want to be a progidy at something." 

"Try drawing.” 

"Nope, I suck."

"Well, it's not languages..." 

"Why not?"

"It's prodigy, not progidy." 

"Oh...k...two options down then."