Silliness So what are you doing RIGHT NOW? - Page 253

Greg Anos · 03-25-2009, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Curious. My most recent thoughts regarding Harv and Vera came from watching One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Luckily (for everyone), I've not written that installment, yet. Perhaps I should try being inspired by something different.

Lobotomies to the left, one per post....

Greg Anos · 03-25-2009, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Right now, I'm wondering where our Queen went to. I've not been particularly active here lately, but I've hardly seen any posts from her. Is she away? Has she been captured The SHUMS? Is she out looking for PlanetHead? Did Lady Blue (the forum software come-to-life) attempt to take over? Does she only post "serious" (hah!) posts now? Is she at a (what's that guy's name) concert? Is she on strike with the rest of France? Is she consumed with consuming Pasta Zelda alla MR? Just what's the deal, huh?

Maybe she's finally sleeping?

Sparrow · 03-25-2009, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by nekokami

Sorry, I didn't mean it that way (and I don't think Pratchett did, either). I didn't mean to offend.

I got it Neko.

Just because a book is funny doesn't mean it's trying to be funny all the way through.

Sparrow · 03-25-2009, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Is she at a (what's that guy's name) concert?

Wait! wait! - it'll come to me in a sec....

vivaldirules · 03-25-2009, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Sparrow

Wait! wait! - it'll come to me in a sec....

RickyMaveety · 03-25-2009, 07:18 PM

Surveying all the damage to my brand new car that was done by the hail storm that just passed.

badgoodDeb · 03-25-2009, 07:43 PM

Owwwwww. Oh, is there no end to your torment this year???

RickyMaveety · 03-25-2009, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Owwwwww. Oh, is there no end to your torment this year???

Apparently not.

Patricia · 03-25-2009, 08:46 PM

Well I hope that it ends tomorow, and that the rest of the year goes very well for you, Ricky.

RickyMaveety · 03-25-2009, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by nekokami

Sorry, I didn't mean it that way (and I don't think Pratchett did, either). I didn't mean to offend.

No, I don't think Pratchett did, and I don't think that you did either. It's just that the particular quote reminded me (in painful detail) of a "joke" that someone posted here at MR a few days ago .... that was about tying a cat/kitten in a bag with a brick and drowning it.

I didn't think that joke was funny then .... and I still don't. And .... that quote just reminded me that what some people find hysterically funny (such as drowning a cat), I do not.

As I recall, when I encountered that scene in Mort, it made me cry. It's one of the reasons I love the character of Death. The same sorts of things that piss him off piss me off too.

RickyMaveety · 03-26-2009, 01:28 AM

Oooooo .... throwing up again! What fun!!

pshrynk · 03-26-2009, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Oooooo .... throwing up again! What fun!!

You've got such an interesting life, Ricky.

nekokami · 03-26-2009, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

No, I don't think Pratchett did, and I don't think that you did either. It's just that the particular quote reminded me (in painful detail) of a "joke" that someone posted here at MR a few days ago .... that was about tying a cat/kitten in a bag with a brick and drowning it.

I didn't think that joke was funny then .... and I still don't. And .... that quote just reminded me that what some people find hysterically funny (such as drowning a cat), I do not.

As I recall, when I encountered that scene in Mort, it made me cry. It's one of the reasons I love the character of Death. The same sorts of things that piss him off piss me off too.

That was how I felt when I read the scene too, and why I posted it. I missed someone posing a "joke" about drowning a cat, or I wouldn't have posted this.

The little details of this scene matter to me. Death stroking the kittens as they're dying, and then (after the end of what I quoted) tucking their souls into his robe, rather than just letting them wander off as he generally does with humans.

Not knowing what pshrynk was alluding to, this was the best way I could think of to try to express a kinship of feeling with his frustration. "YOU DON'T SEE THE BEST SIDE OF PEOPLE IN THIS JOB." I felt like what Death meant was that he knew there was a better side of people than what he was looking at just then. And in a way, by saying that, he was reminding himself of that better side, though not present in the scene.

As I suspect you know, I don't find the idea of drowning kittens at all funny.

RickyMaveety · 03-26-2009, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by nekokami

That was how I felt when I read the scene too, and why I posted it. I missed someone posing a "joke" about drowning a cat, or I wouldn't have posted this.

The little details of this scene matter to me. Death stroking the kittens as they're dying, and then (after the end of what I quoted) tucking their souls into his robe, rather than just letting them wander off as he generally does with humans.

Not knowing what pshrynk was alluding to, this was the best way I could think of to try to express a kinship of feeling with his frustration. "YOU DON'T SEE THE BEST SIDE OF PEOPLE IN THIS JOB." I felt like what Death meant was that he knew there was a better side of people than what he was looking at just then. And in a way, by saying that, he was reminding himself of that better side, though not present in the scene.

As I suspect you know, I don't find the idea of drowning kittens at all funny.

Me either, and I told the person who posted the joke that I didn't find it the least bit funny, in fact, I was now quite depressed. I haven't been back to that thread.

I dated (for a very very short time), a person who thought it was extremely funny to joke about throwing my cats to his dog (you know .... "cats, the other white meat" that sort of crap). I kept telling him that, because one of my cats came to me after being thrown to a fighting dog (and having its back and neck broken), I thought that he would be better served to keep that sort of humor to himself. He didn't .... totally clueless .... and I dropped him.

That sort of "humor" may be funny if you are talking about drowning lawyers - I should know, being one, it doesn't bother me. However, jokes about killing helpless animals? Not funny.

Sparrow · 03-26-2009, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Right now, I'm wondering where our Queen went to.

Any sightings anyone?

03-25-2009, 07:18 PM	#3786
RickyMaveety Holy S**T!!! Posts: 5,213 Karma: 108401 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: San Diego, California!! Device: Kindle and iPad	Surveying all the damage to my brand new car that was done by the hail storm that just passed.

03-25-2009, 07:43 PM	#3787
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,555 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	Owwwwww. Oh, is there no end to your torment this year???

03-25-2009, 08:46 PM	#3789
Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	Well I hope that it ends tomorow, and that the rest of the year goes very well for you, Ricky.

03-26-2009, 01:28 AM	#3791
RickyMaveety Holy S**T!!! Posts: 5,213 Karma: 108401 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: San Diego, California!! Device: Kindle and iPad	Oooooo .... throwing up again! What fun!!