Sunday, February 2, 2014

Day 280 - The Gods That Live Here Are Pretty Miserable Too, Cruise Always Has A Copy Of War & Peace Handy, Living On The Edge Will Be Annoying, Froot Drinks, "At Mrs. Amethyst's Grandma's They Serve Elbow Grease Plus", and The History, Symptoms, & Treatment Of The Itching Dead

Mr. Brown
I almost got frostbite on Sunday.
12:23 PM Mr. Silver
Better luck next try.
I've had it...pass.
It took years for the feeling to come back to some of my toes and for cold water/snow not to burn my hands.
12:26 PM Mr. Brown
My hands were numb
I've realized wearing a watch was bad idea. It got really cold and almost froze to my skin.
It was a bad day to forget gloves.
12:29 PM Mr. Amethyst
My hands go numb instantly.
That’s why I archery hunt.
No snow.
12:34 PM Mr. Silver
Why do we live this far north again?
12:35 PM Mr. Amethyst
Because we don’t have giant bugs up here.
12:35 PM Mr. Silver
"Ogg, Oog, Ugh, Org...pack your rocks, we're heading to those hills where the white stuff is."
“Why?”
“The gods live there, maybe.”
“Well, in that case, lets go then.”



11:48 AM Mr. Gray
No F-ing Way....
http://perezhilton.com/2013-11-26-tom-cruise-laura-prepon-dating-the-manor-hotel-los-angeles/
The redhead from that 70s show...and Tom Cruise?!
12:41 PM Mr. Silver
Slight age gap there.  Sanity gap.  Maybe gender preference gap, but that's just a rumor.
12:41 PM Mr. Gray
Height gap.
He is like 5'2" and she is like 5'11"
Heh
He always wears books with heels to make himself taller.
Boots, even.
12:55 PM Mr. Silver
"Bring Mr. Cruise's phonebooks over, please.  Set them there. Would you like a hand up, sir?  Nice 'stacks'...very good taste."
12:56 PM Mr. Gray
LOL
I could so picture that.



Mr. Amethyst
8:20 AM Mr. Silver
Perfect!
"(blaring noise suddenly pops up) Sorry!  Stupid phone.  I brushed 'play' on the edge." 
"You're still listening to Britney Spears?"
"What?  I lik- (blaring noise).  Sorry."
"That's really annoying."
"Just a sec, I'll change the app.  Ok.  So we're meeting at the Japanese place at 6?
“I've located 3 Japanese restaurants in your area.  Would you like me to tell-*”
“DAMN IT SIRI!"
"Just put a strip of masking tape over the edge, like I did."



Mr. Brown
I have these sparkling drinks Mrs. Brown got on sale.
They are called Fruit Water, but they contain no juice at all, and a lot of artificial sweeteners.
1:17 PM Mr. Blue
I’ve had those. They seem to have absolutely no nutritional value..
1:17 PM Mr. Brown
Yep, other than vitamins.
1:20 PM Mr. Silver
"Made with real froot!"
1:21 PM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
1:21 PM Mr. Brown
LOL
1:22 PM Mr. Gray
“With a capital F, for Foul, Fake, and Forgettable.”
1:22 PM Mr. Amethyst
Facetious
1:23 PM Mr. Gray
Oh! I know! “FECES”!!
1:23 PM Mr. Amethyst
...Ooohhhh.....too far...too far.
1:23 PM Mr. Gray
You're right...Feces would have SOME nutritional value. Doesn't count.
1:24 PM Mr. Amethyst
Flamboyant?
Flammable?
1:25 PM Mr. Amethyst
Fictitious.
1:25 PM Mr. Silver
Fiberglass.
1:25 PM Mr. Amethyst
Ohhh, well played.
1:25 PM Mr. Gray
Flatulent....well, after drinking it of course.
1:25 PM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
1:27 PM Mr. Blue
A lot of those out there: "Zero sugar, zero calorie drink!:
"Then why am I drinking it?"
1:29 PM Mr. Gray
What kills me is how much you have to pay for a bottle of water. I mean seriously, how is water more expensive than a bottle of soda?!
1:29 PM Mr. Silver
"Evian" spelled backwards is naïve.
1:30 PM Mr. Gray
Yep.
For a reason.
1:32 PM Mr. Amethyst
Naïve?
WTF is a naïve?



Mr. Amethyst
Mrs Amethyst's grandma has been over constantly and making me wanna freak out.
She's all "This should all be spotless!"
Yeah, well I live with 3 women. Two of them can't clean and the third tries but isn’t fast enough to keep up with just the eldest.
7:54 AM Mr. Silver
You're getting the ol' 'In MY day' lies, huh?
7:55 AM Mr. Amethyst
Pretty much. LOL
8:06 AM Mr. Silver
"I kept my house clean and in order every day!  And you know how?  Attitude, elbow grease, self delusion, and a chain-rollercoaster of coffee, cigarettes and Valium!"
8:06 AM Mr. Amethyst
Hahahaha!
Shes the "all white" type that doesn’t remember when she had kids.



Mr. Brown
I think I have shingles again. This sucks.
7:49 AM Mr. Silver
Yuck.
7:49 AM Mr. Brown
I've been wondering why, for the past week, my back has hurt.
And my ribs.
And then the stinging and itching started.
7:52 AM Mr. Silver
"No pulse, no heartbeat, ambient body temperature.  Yeah, that's definitely shingles."
7:54 AM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
7:54 AM Mr. Silver
What a terrible name.  I always picture tiny people hammering little asphalt squares to a person's skin.
7:54 AM Mr. Brown
Yeah, they have another name the doctors use.
7:55 AM Mr. Silver
Herpes zoster.
7:58 AM Mr. Silver
Like "piles". I can't help but picture a person pooping in perfect little hills since I was a kid. 
7:59 AM Mr. Brown
Yeah, not fun either.
8:06 AM Mr. Silver
Morning, Mr Blue.
So the zombie apocalypse is starting.
Mr. Brown is undergoing the transformation.
We're doomed.
I thought you'd like to know.
8:08 AM Mr. Blue
What's his deal?
8:09 AM Mr. Silver
He thinks it's "shingles".
8:09 AM Mr. Blue
Ahh.
I love those shingles commercials.
Somber music, dutch angles.
"The pain was excruciating..."
"If you have had chicken pox (and who hasn't?) the shingles virus is already inside you!!"
8:11 AM Mr. Silver
"Caused by the chicken pox virus, symptoms include rashes, blistering (often as a stripe) death, vigor mortis and a insatiable hunger for living flesh."
8:11 AM Mr. Brown
Its so itchy!
8:11 AM Mr. Silver
"Itchin' for some brains."
8:12 AM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
8:18 AM Mr. Brown
It is strange. When I ate deer brains yesterday, I felt better.
8:18 AM Mr. Silver
"Stay alert, never travel alone, and keep a bottle of Calamine with you at all times."
8:19 AM Mr. Brown
If you control the itch, you control the problem.
8:19 AM Mr. Silver
One good splash of Calamine lotion is enough to make most zombies sigh contentedly and wander off.
8:20 AM Mr. Amethyst
Maybe that's what they need on The Walking Dead. No one has tried Calamine yet.
8:21 AM Mr. Brown
That would be awesome. I would watch that episode.
Someone running from a zombie, ends up in pharmacy, grabs first thing on the shelf and throws it.
It splashes all over the zombie, and it pauses, just lets out a sigh then walks away, rubbing it into it's skin. Zoom in on the label: Calomine.
8:22 AM Mr. Amethyst
The look of bewilderment on the person's face would be amazing.
8:28 AM Mr. Brown
I’m in pain. I need more brains.
8:35 AM Mr. Blue
When did zombies start craving brains?
In most cases it's just living flesh.
8:36 AM Mr. Brown
It started in the funny zombie movies.
8:36 AM Mr. Blue
Yeah, I guess so. It's kind of a specific niche.
8:36 AM Mr. Silver
They aren't even really zombies...they are a rather primitive kind of ghoul, and the earliest mention of the dead eating the living (that I know of) is Ishtar being a bitch in The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Even “Night of the Living Dead” never called them zombies.
8:39 AM Mr. Silver
But then, Frankenstein was the scientist's name and look what people call his monster.
8:39 AM Mr. Amethyst
I like WWZ's - “zeek”.
8:39 AM Mr. Brown
Yeah people make stuff up and shorten stuff.
“Frankenstein's monster? Lets just say Frankenstein.”
8:40 AM Mr. Silver
“The horror of the French stone!”
8:49 AM Mr. Silver
Those creatures aren't really ghouls, either...just "ghoulish"
Ghouls are middle eastern monsters that, technically, prefer human carrion not fresh human.
But they will indulge in fresh human.
Which makes them "ogres" as well.
So much nuance...It's rather silly really.
8:51 AM Mr. Silver
They are also magicians.
8:51 AM Mr. Amethyst
Poof!
A dove!
8:52 AM Mr. Silver
Not far off. The first mention of one I recall in the Arabian Nights turned her master into a dog when he caught her “dining out”.
8:54 AM Mr. Silver
The modern "zombie" is closer to a vampire
8:55 AM Mr. Brown
Just looking for flesh instead.
8:56 AM Mr. Silver
A dead being with an animating life force that devours sentient “life” for sustenance and creates more of itself through it's cursed bite.
Except the one rather crudely eats it's fill, and the other more subtly drains the blood.  Assuming some fiendish intelligence behind it, a ghoulish zombie eats the victim's brain so it can't becomes another ghoulish zombie, much as a vampire can simply let it's victim live or choose not to make another vampire (depending on which curse folklore you follow).  Too many undead, not enough food.  Every once in a while, you hear there is a plague...like mice or locusts.
Mr. Brown
Crap the rash is coming now. I’m becoming contagious.
11:25 AM Mr. Brown
I hate calling doctors' offices.
11:26 AM Mr. Blue
I didn't think there was anything they can do.
11:26 AM Mr. Brown
They know good pain killers.
11:26 AM Mr. Silver
Morphine.
11:26 AM Mr. Blue
Well, get me some of that while you're at it.
11:27 AM Mr. Brown
Also whether I should be at work.
11:27 AM Mr. Silver
Take 250ml of 100 proof alcohol, over ice.
A twist of lemon or lime is optional but the vitamin C is beneficial
11:35 AM Mr. Brown
And a vicadian
11:36 AM Mr. Amethyst
I looked in real fast and read that as "vatican"
11:36 AM Mr. Brown
LOL
11:42 AM Mr. Silver
(Bishop takes out a crucifix on a stethoscope assembly. Kisses. Puts on.) “Let's have a listen...this will be a little cold.  Breathe deeply… And again... And again... Hmmm.  Well, it sounds demonic or diabolic.  I'm going to write you a scrip for a course of Vatican.”
11:42 AM Mr. Brown
"The power of Christ compels you to take it for 10 days."
11:42 AM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
11:43 AM Mr. Silver
"Get some rest...Mass every Sunday. Oh, and cut back on sin, or avoid it altogether."