Silliness Escape Committee - Page 24

RickyMaveety · 08-12-2008, 07:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LazyScot

Argghhh. Now I have an image of Grease(*) being done by Pandas. It could be as good as the Bunny Casablanca. Quick; somebody get be the pandaborg's agent....

(*)Sanity warning: the poster actually likes Grease....

Oh .... that was just too funny. Loved it.

zelda_pinwheel · 08-12-2008, 09:02 PM

this may be my new favorite thread.

pshrynk · 08-13-2008, 09:59 AM

I'm sending that off to everyone I know and anyone else who will listen to me.

RWood · 08-13-2008, 10:16 AM

I've had many bunnies over the years and they are all great actors, they just have poor union representation and seldom get the roles they need to expand in their acting. Now Harvey had a good agent; but, political forces of the day (their version of political correctness) forced the credits to read as if Harvey was played by a human.

Both current US Presidential candidates are ignoring the bunny lobby because they do not have the right to vote. This is a major injustice. Neko and VR are also denied the right to vote simply because they are a cat and a dog respectfully. Respect? It seems they don't get any. (Rodney Dangerfield line.)

nekokami · 08-13-2008, 10:17 AM

Actually I have a human sock puppet that handles voting for me.

GeoffC · 08-13-2008, 12:21 PM

bunnies that act,
llamas that speak (in a british accent),
pands that look cute,
koalas that taste of eucalyptus.

what is the world coming to....

leadingsanityinordertoescape:

RWood · 08-13-2008, 02:44 PM

Don't forget cats with (New England accented) human sock puppets.

nekokami · 08-13-2008, 04:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RWood

Don't forget cats with (New England accented) human sock puppets.

Actually, my sock puppet does not speak with a New England accent, or so I'm told.

GeoffC · 08-14-2008, 01:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nekokami

Actually, my sock puppet does not speak with a New England accent, or so I'm told.

probably sign language with ventriloquist tendency....

LazyScot · 09-01-2008, 04:49 PM

Yeeeooowch. <Crunch> And with a bang LazyScot lands in the thread. Somewhat dazed, he gets up and looks at the timestamp on the message.

"MONTSNMAGS!!!!" he shouts. "Will you stop leaving temporal trap doors lying around. Have you any idea how much the re-entry hurts when you fall through over two weeks.... Great. We'll probably be late now." and he chunters away as he returns to the keyboard....

LazyScot · 09-01-2008, 04:53 PM

Our group of shoppers and the llamas are gathered round the pickup, looking puzzled.

"So how are we going to get nine llamas into this?" Said LazyScot.

"Remember, this is a plot device equipped BatPick-Up. You really should start reading the script you know – it would be a lot easier for us all." Replied the BatAI.

"Look – I refused to believe that this is a film – nothing could be this badly scripted, and in real life we have free will, not a script."

The BatAI's eloquent silence seemed to disagree, resulting in a lengthy staring argument between LazyScot and the device in his ear. "Oh alright. I'll do it.", the BatAI eventually said. And with that a low-sided trailer appeared out of the back of the Pickup.

"Will you all fit in that?" LazyScot asked the llamas.

"Oh easily, and we can lie down. See?" and with that the llamas leapt into the trailer and arranged themselves cosily in the trailer.

"Ummm… Won't you be fairly obvious, errr. What should I call you?"

"Charles; after the author. And no, we won't be obvious at all. You see we are bio-engineered." said Charles the llama.

"What?" said LazyScot who was worried that Charles might be losing it a bit.

"We've got some extra genes. Chameleon to be precise." And at that point the llamas started to blend into the background and appear to disappear, leaving only Geoffery's talking mouth visible, like the Cheshire cat's grin. "Very useful for us when we need to blend into the background when sneaking into certain establishments."

And LazyScot stared at the invisible English speaking llama called Geoffery and became worried that he was definitely losing it a bit.

"What about the wolves?" said a nervously invisible Nekokami.

"Oh, I think they've been delt with." said the BatAI.

"What?" said LazyScot who was getting tired with his limited script, even though he didn't believe he was scripted.

"The Pandaborg have been having a little fun over at the main building. I think they're due back about now…."

With that a group of figures could be seen approaching, as a deep rumbling briefly shook the ground and the buildings disappeared in on themselves.

"I don't think the Knights will be happy about that." observed Nekokami.

"What?" said the repetitious LazyScot.

"I believe you should say pardon", said the invisible mouth of Charles the llama.

"What?" said the rapidly approaching hysterical LazyScot in the general direction of the trailer.

"You really ought to be nicer to the scriptwriter, or at least read the script; you might get some decent lines then, or at least be less surprised. Anyhow, the trouble is, that was only one of many establishments that they had." said the BatAI.

"Fortunately they don't have any more around here." Said the arriving Pandaborg-B, "still we ought to move. It's probably not a good idea to hang around here. The Knights do have friends in these parts."

" What?" said LazyScot, gesturing at the menacing looking devices the Pandaborg were carrying, as his sanity put on Bermuda shorts and a hawaii tee-shirt and set off on holiday.

"Ah. Weapons of extreme kaboom. I wouldn't ask any more, if I were you. The script indicated they might be useful."

"What?" said LazyScot, to the sound of his departing sanity, whilst pointing at the third and fourth Pandaborg.

"Ah. Yes. They asked some questions. So we had to acutelate." Replied Pandaborg-B.

Gaining some new vocabulary in exchange for his sanity (probably a very good trade), LazyScot did an impression of a fish out of water repeatedly opening and closing his mouth for several seconds. "The solider I can understand, but.... On second thoughts I don't want to know. Let's just get out of here. To somewhere normal. The shopping mall to be precise. A normal, ordinary shopping mall."

"How boring." Said the BatAI.

LazyScot · 09-01-2008, 05:15 PM

"Oh great. The police." Said an annoyed LazyScot, as he slowed the PickUp and steered it to the side of the road.

"Do you think stopping is wise? I'm sure we could outrun them." asked the BatAI?

"I am not engaging in a road race with the cops if I'm driving a pickup stuffed full of pandaborg, and invisible passenger, an overactive AI and an absinthe fairy living in an origami Klein bottle, whilst I'm towing a bunch of invisible llamas."

"And you think it would be better letting the police stop you with this menangerie? Remember the llamas are stolen."

"We're free llamas; we can't owned or stolen" shouted the llamas in unison from the trailer.

"Shut-up. The lot of you." Said LazyScot as he stopped the pickup, and waited for the officer to walk over, before winding the window down. "How can I help you officer? I'm sorry, but not being a native of your country, I don't know if I've done anything wrong…"

"We're looking for some dangerous people; you and your vehicle match the description. And don't think your British accent will get you out of trouble."

"That's unusual; it certainly works for us. Or at least leaves people stupefied enough for us to walk away." Said the effectively invisible Charles.

"What the…" said the officer, just managing to catch sight of Charles' fading mouth. " " he finished with.

"I'm sorry officer, but did you say you were looking for several people. There's only me in the pickup. Well, and the Panda toys."

" " said the officer, still looking at where he couldn't see Charles.

"Hello, my name is Charles. Could I be of assistance?" said Charles.

" " replied the officer before collapsing in a very unprofessional manner and scattering various devices on the ground in the process.

"Aww; I wonder if he's hurt?" Said Zelda, and flew out in her Klein bottle to see if she could help.

"Arggh.. My eyes. My head. That's impossible. That can't be. It's impossible." Screamed the officer as he looked at Zelda's origami Klein bottle. He then proceeded to sit clutching his head in his hands.

"I don't suppose we should leave him here like this." Said pandaborg-B getting out and moving over to the officers side.

"Oh great. And a talking panda. I've either lost my head or….." he paused. "No; that's not possible. It's just a website. If that was the case I would really have lost my head."

"What?" said Lazyscot, feeling his idea of just quietly talking to the office and driving on was not turning out quite as he planned it.

"Oh look." Said Zelda, pointing her origami Klein bottle. "That looks like a CyBook."

"Hmm… It is. "said Pandborg-B picking it up, and turning it on.

"That's mine." Said the officer, and he at last remembered he was an armed member of law enforcement and reached for his gun. "Put that down and put you hands…. Er Paws on the bonnet….. How on earth did you pick up and turn on the reader with only paws?"

"Practice. Hmmm. Locke, Hume, Smith. All from Gutenberg as well. And almost all the Terry Pratchett's. I'm impressed" said Pandaborg-B, notably not placing his paws on the bonnet as asked.

"I asked you to place your paws on the bonnet. Now do that." Said the office slowly regaining his composure.

"Why?"

"Because I say so. And I have the right to require you to do this. Now do it."

"No."

"I'd recommend not arguing with him. You won't win.", said Charles, slowly appearing and standing up.

The officer looked visibly shaken by being reminded about the invisible mouth that he'd managed to forget about; and even more shaken by the image of the appearing llama. "This can't be; you can't be from ….." he muttered, and the thought for a moment under the gaze of Pandaborg-B. "What are you doing? And why are you doing it?" he eventually.

"Ahh. A right question." said Pandaborg-B. At that the officer raised his gun and pointed it. "I wouldn't do that; we might have to acutelate you…" The officer's gun started shaking, but his finger tightened on the trigger, and the pandaborg jumped.

"I'm sorry, but this is for the best." Said Pandaborg-B at the same time as LazyScot shouted no.

After a few seconds of silence, the Pandborg parted to reveal one of their own, still wearing his uniform.

"You were right. It's obvious now. This is what I was born for." Said the Pandaborg Policeman. "I'd better call in, or they'll be after you." With that he returned to his car and used the radio. And then returned to the pickup. "Right. Let's get off and finish the shopping. And Maybe I can pop into the Cybercafe and post to my favourite website…"

" " replied the stunned LazyScot, who then regained his voice and added "Well at least we've got those handcuffs Taylor wanted now. I'd rather have bought them though." My sanity was definitely not an asset here, thought LazyScot, as the crowded pickup headed down the road to the mall.

GeoffC · 09-02-2008, 11:13 AM

ahahahaha - just as i thought, I am invisible - explains such a lotta things....

nekokami · 09-02-2008, 11:20 AM

Am I a passenger? I thought I was crew.

RWood · 09-02-2008, 11:56 AM

Neko: You rendered the plane in 3D, do not paint the outside while it is in flight. The nature walk on the left wing with the llamas was the highlight of the last flight. The llama that did fall off landed safely in Greenland, the snow broke its fall. Its a little shaken up but nothing broken. (Those skydiving lessons paid off for the llama.)

I am a bit concerned about the new control electronics for the plane. This fly-by-wire concept is great but did you have to use a Windows based GUI for the flaps and engines? The system installed updates in mid-flight and wanted to reboot over Newfoundland. It was funny when it cycled through the door locks and all of the oxygen masks dropped down but the oxygen system had not been started yet as that was one one of the last items on the init list and the INI file has always been a bit suspect.

I am also concerned about the Windows food service. Everyone is now expecting to pay something for their food while in flight but few grasp the concept of a "home" and "pro" version of a pear, much less six versions of the same kind of Apple (ultimate, etc.)

In the future we should run some sort of defrag on the seating charts before we let the people on the plane. Families were spread all over the place and many used their push-to-talk cell phones to converse with each other drowning out the cries of the shums that Zelda had booked on the first flight out of Paris. (Next time they go in the cargo hole.)

Now about that plan you have to put VR's picture on the tail....

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08-12-2008, 09:02 PM	#347
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	this may be my new favorite thread.

08-13-2008, 09:59 AM	#348
pshrynk Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah! Posts: 11,726 Karma: 8255450 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin, aka America's IceBox Device: iThingie, KmkII, I miss Zelda!	I'm sending that off to everyone I know and anyone else who will listen to me.

08-13-2008, 10:16 AM	#349
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	I've had many bunnies over the years and they are all great actors, they just have poor union representation and seldom get the roles they need to expand in their acting. Now Harvey had a good agent; but, political forces of the day (their version of political correctness) forced the credits to read as if Harvey was played by a human. Both current US Presidential candidates are ignoring the bunny lobby because they do not have the right to vote. This is a major injustice. Neko and VR are also denied the right to vote simply because they are a cat and a dog respectfully. Respect? It seems they don't get any. (Rodney Dangerfield line.)

08-13-2008, 10:17 AM	#350
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	Actually I have a human sock puppet that handles voting for me.

08-13-2008, 12:21 PM	#351
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	bunnies that act, llamas that speak (in a british accent), pands that look cute, koalas that taste of eucalyptus. what is the world coming to.... leadingsanityinordertoescape:

08-13-2008, 02:44 PM	#352
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	Don't forget cats with (New England accented) human sock puppets.

09-01-2008, 04:49 PM	#355
LazyScot DSil Posts: 3,201 Karma: 6895096 Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Hants, UK Device: Kindle, Cybook	Yeeeooowch. <Crunch> And with a bang LazyScot lands in the thread. Somewhat dazed, he gets up and looks at the timestamp on the message. "MONTSNMAGS!!!!" he shouts. "Will you stop leaving temporal trap doors lying around. Have you any idea how much the re-entry hurts when you fall through over two weeks.... Great. We'll probably be late now." and he chunters away as he returns to the keyboard....

09-01-2008, 04:53 PM	#356
LazyScot DSil Posts: 3,201 Karma: 6895096 Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Hants, UK Device: Kindle, Cybook	Our group of shoppers and the llamas are gathered round the pickup, looking puzzled. "So how are we going to get nine llamas into this?" Said LazyScot. "Remember, this is a plot device equipped BatPick-Up. You really should start reading the script you know – it would be a lot easier for us all." Replied the BatAI. "Look – I refused to believe that this is a film – nothing could be this badly scripted, and in real life we have free will, not a script." The BatAI's eloquent silence seemed to disagree, resulting in a lengthy staring argument between LazyScot and the device in his ear. "Oh alright. I'll do it.", the BatAI eventually said. And with that a low-sided trailer appeared out of the back of the Pickup. "Will you all fit in that?" LazyScot asked the llamas. "Oh easily, and we can lie down. See?" and with that the llamas leapt into the trailer and arranged themselves cosily in the trailer. "Ummm… Won't you be fairly obvious, errr. What should I call you?" "Charles; after the author. And no, we won't be obvious at all. You see we are bio-engineered." said Charles the llama. "What?" said LazyScot who was worried that Charles might be losing it a bit. "We've got some extra genes. Chameleon to be precise." And at that point the llamas started to blend into the background and appear to disappear, leaving only Geoffery's talking mouth visible, like the Cheshire cat's grin. "Very useful for us when we need to blend into the background when sneaking into certain establishments." And LazyScot stared at the invisible English speaking llama called Geoffery and became worried that he was definitely losing it a bit. "What about the wolves?" said a nervously invisible Nekokami. "Oh, I think they've been delt with." said the BatAI. "What?" said LazyScot who was getting tired with his limited script, even though he didn't believe he was scripted. "The Pandaborg have been having a little fun over at the main building. I think they're due back about now…." With that a group of figures could be seen approaching, as a deep rumbling briefly shook the ground and the buildings disappeared in on themselves. "I don't think the Knights will be happy about that." observed Nekokami. "What?" said the repetitious LazyScot. "I believe you should say pardon", said the invisible mouth of Charles the llama. "What?" said the rapidly approaching hysterical LazyScot in the general direction of the trailer. "You really ought to be nicer to the scriptwriter, or at least read the script; you might get some decent lines then, or at least be less surprised. Anyhow, the trouble is, that was only one of many establishments that they had." said the BatAI. "Fortunately they don't have any more around here." Said the arriving Pandaborg-B, "still we ought to move. It's probably not a good idea to hang around here. The Knights do have friends in these parts." " What?" said LazyScot, gesturing at the menacing looking devices the Pandaborg were carrying, as his sanity put on Bermuda shorts and a hawaii tee-shirt and set off on holiday. "Ah. Weapons of extreme kaboom. I wouldn't ask any more, if I were you. The script indicated they might be useful." "What?" said LazyScot, to the sound of his departing sanity, whilst pointing at the third and fourth Pandaborg. "Ah. Yes. They asked some questions. So we had to acutelate." Replied Pandaborg-B. Gaining some new vocabulary in exchange for his sanity (probably a very good trade), LazyScot did an impression of a fish out of water repeatedly opening and closing his mouth for several seconds. "The solider I can understand, but.... On second thoughts I don't want to know. Let's just get out of here. To somewhere normal. The shopping mall to be precise. A normal, ordinary shopping mall." "How boring." Said the BatAI.

09-01-2008, 05:15 PM	#357
LazyScot DSil Posts: 3,201 Karma: 6895096 Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Hants, UK Device: Kindle, Cybook	"Oh great. The police." Said an annoyed LazyScot, as he slowed the PickUp and steered it to the side of the road. "Do you think stopping is wise? I'm sure we could outrun them." asked the BatAI? "I am not engaging in a road race with the cops if I'm driving a pickup stuffed full of pandaborg, and invisible passenger, an overactive AI and an absinthe fairy living in an origami Klein bottle, whilst I'm towing a bunch of invisible llamas." "And you think it would be better letting the police stop you with this menangerie? Remember the llamas are stolen." "We're free llamas; we can't owned or stolen" shouted the llamas in unison from the trailer. "Shut-up. The lot of you." Said LazyScot as he stopped the pickup, and waited for the officer to walk over, before winding the window down. "How can I help you officer? I'm sorry, but not being a native of your country, I don't know if I've done anything wrong…" "We're looking for some dangerous people; you and your vehicle match the description. And don't think your British accent will get you out of trouble." "That's unusual; it certainly works for us. Or at least leaves people stupefied enough for us to walk away." Said the effectively invisible Charles. "What the…" said the officer, just managing to catch sight of Charles' fading mouth. " " he finished with. "I'm sorry officer, but did you say you were looking for several people. There's only me in the pickup. Well, and the Panda toys." " " said the officer, still looking at where he couldn't see Charles. "Hello, my name is Charles. Could I be of assistance?" said Charles. " " replied the officer before collapsing in a very unprofessional manner and scattering various devices on the ground in the process. "Aww; I wonder if he's hurt?" Said Zelda, and flew out in her Klein bottle to see if she could help. "Arggh.. My eyes. My head. That's impossible. That can't be. It's impossible." Screamed the officer as he looked at Zelda's origami Klein bottle. He then proceeded to sit clutching his head in his hands. "I don't suppose we should leave him here like this." Said pandaborg-B getting out and moving over to the officers side. "Oh great. And a talking panda. I've either lost my head or….." he paused. "No; that's not possible. It's just a website. If that was the case I would really have lost my head." "What?" said Lazyscot, feeling his idea of just quietly talking to the office and driving on was not turning out quite as he planned it. "Oh look." Said Zelda, pointing her origami Klein bottle. "That looks like a CyBook." "Hmm… It is. "said Pandborg-B picking it up, and turning it on. "That's mine." Said the officer, and he at last remembered he was an armed member of law enforcement and reached for his gun. "Put that down and put you hands…. Er Paws on the bonnet….. How on earth did you pick up and turn on the reader with only paws?" "Practice. Hmmm. Locke, Hume, Smith. All from Gutenberg as well. And almost all the Terry Pratchett's. I'm impressed" said Pandaborg-B, notably not placing his paws on the bonnet as asked. "I asked you to place your paws on the bonnet. Now do that." Said the office slowly regaining his composure. "Why?" "Because I say so. And I have the right to require you to do this. Now do it." "No." "I'd recommend not arguing with him. You won't win.", said Charles, slowly appearing and standing up. The officer looked visibly shaken by being reminded about the invisible mouth that he'd managed to forget about; and even more shaken by the image of the appearing llama. "This can't be; you can't be from ….." he muttered, and the thought for a moment under the gaze of Pandaborg-B. "What are you doing? And why are you doing it?" he eventually. "Ahh. A right question." said Pandaborg-B. At that the officer raised his gun and pointed it. "I wouldn't do that; we might have to acutelate you…" The officer's gun started shaking, but his finger tightened on the trigger, and the pandaborg jumped. "I'm sorry, but this is for the best." Said Pandaborg-B at the same time as LazyScot shouted no. After a few seconds of silence, the Pandborg parted to reveal one of their own, still wearing his uniform. "You were right. It's obvious now. This is what I was born for." Said the Pandaborg Policeman. "I'd better call in, or they'll be after you." With that he returned to his car and used the radio. And then returned to the pickup. "Right. Let's get off and finish the shopping. And Maybe I can pop into the Cybercafe and post to my favourite website…" " " replied the stunned LazyScot, who then regained his voice and added "Well at least we've got those handcuffs Taylor wanted now. I'd rather have bought them though." My sanity was definitely not an asset here, thought LazyScot, as the crowded pickup headed down the road to the mall.

09-02-2008, 11:13 AM	#358
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	ahahahaha - just as i thought, I am invisible - explains such a lotta things....

09-02-2008, 11:20 AM	#359
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	Am I a passenger? I thought I was crew.

09-02-2008, 11:56 AM	#360
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	Neko: You rendered the plane in 3D, do not paint the outside while it is in flight. The nature walk on the left wing with the llamas was the highlight of the last flight. The llama that did fall off landed safely in Greenland, the snow broke its fall. Its a little shaken up but nothing broken. (Those skydiving lessons paid off for the llama.) I am a bit concerned about the new control electronics for the plane. This fly-by-wire concept is great but did you have to use a Windows based GUI for the flaps and engines? The system installed updates in mid-flight and wanted to reboot over Newfoundland. It was funny when it cycled through the door locks and all of the oxygen masks dropped down but the oxygen system had not been started yet as that was one one of the last items on the init list and the INI file has always been a bit suspect. I am also concerned about the Windows food service. Everyone is now expecting to pay something for their food while in flight but few grasp the concept of a "home" and "pro" version of a pear, much less six versions of the same kind of Apple (ultimate, etc.) In the future we should run some sort of defrag on the seating charts before we let the people on the plane. Families were spread all over the place and many used their push-to-talk cell phones to converse with each other drowning out the cries of the shums that Zelda had booked on the first flight out of Paris. (Next time they go in the cargo hole.) Now about that plan you have to put VR's picture on the tail....