Sunday, April 3, 2016

359 - A Made Up Name By Any Other Name Would Smell As Fishy, The Collected Nightmarish Costs Of Shakespeare, Thon Avec Pop-Corn A La Rose, Baseball Baguette, and Silver's Problems With Dry Corn & Wet Bread

Mr. Silver
I'll see what happens if I paste this...
Jesus is Krishna, according to some
Mr. Brown
Right
They try to say there is no evidence of him, however there is a string of stuff through multiple cultures if somebody actually looks.
Also, though, there is a good chance that some was taken from other people.
Hey that Buddha guy...he did some good stuff. Lets throw that in there.”
Honestly, what is wrong with taking a lot of the good stuff from a bunch of teachers and putting it together?
Mr. Silver
Not very Christian of you, you know.
"Instead he says early Christians drew upon the beliefs and rituals of other cults and faiths around in the first century."
...because no other faith ever did that...
It's kind of how it works.
Mr. Blue
We know someone named Jesus didn't exist at that time
Yeshua did
Or may have
Nazareth is a made up place too
Mr. Silver
I fully expect that The Force and the Flying Spaghetti Monster will get mentions in future texts.
So is "The Island" in Butler. There's no island in Butler, but they call the crappy section that.
Hell was the nickname of a bad neighborhood in Jerusalem, I think
(looks up)
Mr. Blue
Colin Quinn bit:
Jesus: "Where are you taking me?"
Centurion: "Golgotha."
"What does that mean?"
"Place of the skulls."
"...not good"
Mr. Silver
Heh
(Jewish mom) "You kids better settle or I'm going to send you to Gehenna to get groceries!"



Ms. Rose
My very limited reading on the meaning of colors in dreams has shown evidence that red is a very popular color for end-of-times/disaster type dreams. You'd think love dreams would feature red. Not always the case. Red is SCARY when you're in Slumberland.
Mr. Silver
I'd get scared enough in some nightmares I'd try to talk but couldn't
Not something I do now
I used to have 3 recurring bad ones: not able to stop a car no matter how hard I'd push the brake. Like I could get it to a very slow roll, but never stop. Of course, if I let go I'd speed up to dangerous...no escape.
Mr. Blue
I do that one a lot too... the wonky brakes
Slam the pedal and you just kinda slow
Mr. Silver
I beat that by actually learning to drive.
Mr. Blue
Also the car that is too small for me to get into
Mr. Silver
Yeah, had weirdly small cars in some of those too.
#2 is the "hurt and trapped in a cave".
I beat "hurt and trapped in a cave" by getting hurt and trapped in a cave...while in a cave proving that I would not get hurt and trapped in a cave.
Mr. Blue
heh
Mr. Silver
Oh the irony
Mr. Blue
I beat the repeat high school dreams by going to the HS and picking up my diploma in the dream.
Those got old
Mr. Silver
That was #3
Mr. Blue
"Why am I still here? I'm 29, I graduated 10 years ago and I have a full time job."
Mr. Silver
I won by walking out. It was a triumph. I still love remembering
Mr. Blue
If I have another I just walk out... If that's the starting point for a dream, I'm like "not this again" and I go to the parking lot and drive away.
I'm always at the intermediate or junior high.. never senior high.
Mr. Silver
I've never had a school dream since, actually
That being said, I've walked around the not-real version of State College quite a few times.
Never for class though
Ms. Rose
The only period where I ever had bad, scary school dreams was when I was about to graduate college and I was convinced I didn't have enough credits. I honestly wasn't 100% sure until I physically touched my diploma. I kept thinking *something* was going to go wrong, and I'd be disgraced in front of my elitist private all-girls college mates.
Mr. Silver
The fear of the old "graduation requirements have changed" trick, eh?
Ms. Rose
Well, but I had good reason. I went from a straight-A, extracurricular wonder-girl my freshman year (no boyfriend) to barely squeaking by with Ds and never visiting campus by my senior year (overbearing boyfriend who devalued collegiate activities).
Boys are like, WAY more important than grades and stuff. *pfft* TOTALLY. *flips hair*
I (barely) graduated college in 20XX. Today's student loan debt total: approximately $56k. I will die before Girl University is paid off.
Mr. Silver
"Our records show you still have money and we want it. Therefore we've added an additional math requirement and your one psychology course has changed from a 400 to a survey. Please buy a $200 math book and $80 psych book your professors won't really use. See you next Fall!"
Mr. Blue
Heheh
Ms. Rose
Thankfully the math professor was ahead of her time, and utilized the interwebs for all our assignments. That "fluff" Art History course, on the other hand? $273 textbook, weighing more than a few freshwomen, requiring a special backpack just to carry it.
I still have it. Makes a great coffee table book. (As long as you didn't buy the coffee table at Ikea.)
For coffee tables whittled out of a solid chunk of oak...
Mr. Blue
Hahah
The ol' college textbook scam. They're $200 brand new and if you try to re-sell them back they're $15 despite gentle usage
Mr. Silver
Yup
Mr. Gray had to shell out $400 for one out of his $700 school budget
(math book)
Ms. Rose
I never sold mine back. And I never bought used. If I was going to shirk my college experience just to find a boyfriend, then you're damn right he was going to carry those gigantic boxes of books upstairs when I moved in.
If any of you wish to borrow the Complete Works of Shakespeare: Volume VII, or the Abbreviated British Authors: Series Twelve...just bring a trolley to work and let me know!
The pages in the Shakespeare book are sooooo thin, you can't highlight anything, or use a pencil, or touch the book with questionably-clean fingers.
Mr. Blue
Maybe if I need kindling
Ms. Rose
Ouch.
Mr. Blue
Shakespeare Poopoo-er University alumn here
Mr. Silver
I assume the complete works of Shakespeare includes stuff not in other complete works of Shakespeare
I mean...he wrote a good bit and all...but how did they put together 7 volumes on onionskin?
Somewhere I have a small red book that has every play and sonnet in it, I believe
Ms. Rose
The 37-lb. Complete Works of Shakespeare includes EVERYTHING he ever wrote...even words discovered on toilet paper in The Globe outhouses.
Mr. Blue
It includes his tax records and shopping lists
Mr. Silver
"Dearest Landlord, While it is, in troth, a fortnight past the date my monthly lodging fee is due..."
Mr. Blue
An angry letter he penned to the local constable because some teens sullied his flower garden
Ms. Rose
There's a ton of pages full of stuff they don't even know that he wrote. Like, words from "scholars" and such who paid as much for their education as I did, and will NEVER have to work hourly!
Mr. Silver
"To the blatherskite and company who convinced me that my solar could be well painted for a fee of only 4 p, a letter of protest..."
Ms. Rose
I should totally write a long, accurate Shakespearean letter to the uppers at Girl U. And ship it along with my very large textbook.
Dear sirs (Oh, wait. There are no "sirs." I kid.)”
Mr. Silver
"Herein, postage due, you will find The Complete Works of Everything Written by and About Shakespeare..."
"Of particular scholarly interest is the following passage from an anonymous writer: 'My neighbor, the pompous wordsmith and great ass, hath again been caught relieving himself in my rainbarrel after a night of frivolity with a local trollop. How his wife tolerates his knavery is beyond the patience of Heaven."
Ms. Rose
HAHAHAHA
Mr. Blue
"Cry nosy neighbor! and let slip mine foot into thine ass"
Ms. Rose
LOL *tears*
Geez, yinz know more about Shakespeare than I do!
Have you all been reading the Collected Works?



Ms. Rose
Tuna fish and popcorn for lunch. It's definitely payday.
Mr. Silver
"It's a Charlie Brown Payday!"
Ms. Rose
Woman with Giant Student Loan Debt makes interesting culinary combinations. Film at 11.
Mr. Silver
(Peppermint Patty) "Tuna? Popcorn? Where's the Turkey sandwich? Where's the chips? Where's the salad, Chuck?"
(Charlie) "Shut up, I'm broke."
Ms. Rose
If only I had a yellow bird to help me make stacks of toast...
Mr. Silver
Ah...dreams of fresh bread...
"This is all dry loaf heels, Chuck!"
"I put mustard on them!"
"Mustard not butter?"
"I still HAD mustard!"
Ms. Rose
(Franklin, the sole person of color in Charlie Brown) Damn, Chuck. This is a CLASSY. Got any watermelon for Easter?
Mr. Silver
The following has been noticed for modern non-racist viewers
Mr. Blue
And he's in the hammock style chair... to imply laziness
Mr. Silver
It's also the one that collapses dangerously



Mr. Blue
Is home plate a right angle in baseball?
Like between 1st and 3rd
Mr. Amethyst
I think
Maybe not
IDK
Ms. Rose
I know nothing about baseball. But I thought the "diamond" was a perfect square. Tiny woman brain?
Mr. Silver
I believe it's a perfect square, ma'am
"Well fans it's a great day for baseball! The Pirates are heading out to the lozenge for the start of the season and it'll be bad news for the Padre's in Pittsburgh!"
"I'm kinda liking the new layout, Bob."
"Yeah...much better than last season's parallelogram."
"It's kind of interesting seeing the center fielder standing right behind Second base."



Ms. Rose
If you can, swing by Pittsburgh Popcorn on Liberty Ave. (If you leave Pamela's and drive through town, it's like *right there* on Liberty. You can blow $50 on gourmet popcorn and not think twice...
Mr. Blue
Oh yeah, I heard of that place
Mr. Silver
I am unable to blow $50 on 10 cents of popcorn, BTW
Ms. Rose
Anyone can blow $50 on popcorn. Trust me.
Mr. Silver
Is the popcorn merely a minor ingredient in something else?
Mr. Amethyst
Butter salad
Mr. Blue
I think it's popcorn with crazy flavors
Ms. Rose
They deep-fry the popcorn in heroin and then dust it with crack cocaine. It's *that* delicious.
Mr. Silver
It's not that I don't like popcorn
In fact I rather do if it's new. But I can't do possibly-weeks-stale cheese-powdered popcorn in a bag like some snackers can.
Ms. Rose
I really don't care for popcorn either. But you walk past the place every single day and eventually you're going to try some popcorn. Then it's all over. They've got you hooked.
Mr. Silver
I dunno...it's like my problem with pasta.
I go to a restaurant and there's a whole menu section of pasta...
$13 to $20 pasta
I realize that it's the sauces and presentation.
But I also know that the wet bread underneath is worth about 12 cents.
And that's a serving of GOOD noodles
Mr. Amethyst
Now I want pasta....SILVER!
Ms. Rose
Anything is delicious enough and addicting enough if the restaurant peoples sprinkle it with enough narcotics. They think we don't know...
Every time you get a coupon in the mail for some "new" flavor of pizza, all it means is that Papa John's ordered a little too much angel dust this month and they need to move their inventory.
Mr. Silver
That bizarre cheeseburger pizza they did twice now was great. Missed the second round by a day
Mr. Amethyst
STOP I want pizza now! lol
Ms. Rose
Our local Pizza Hut sent around ads declaring that they'll now deliver beer with your pizza. Expect to pay double for a six-pack. But hey, alcohol shows up at your door! They probably don't even card!
Dis is 'merica!
Mr. Amethyst
And now I want beer...
You guys
Are EVIL
Ms. Rose
Glad to be of service, Mr. Amethyst.
Mr. Amethyst
Ms. Rose
*horns*
Mr. Amethyst
lol
Mr. Blue
I've tuned them out

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