: 'Rav - Back Down Under!!!
: 11-08-09 @ 11:43pm
: Oh yeahs!! 'Ropa!!! Guess which one of your favorite Australian friends is coming across the ditch to New Zealand in about a week!?!?!?

: 'Ropa all settled :)
: 11-09-09 @ 4:49am
: Two more days and then I've officially finished everything for my degree - YAY YAY YAY!

: Autumn~equivoque
: 11-09-09 @ 6:54am
: RE Steve: Shuddup. :-P

: Autumn~equivoque
: 11-09-09 @ 7:00am
: (On another note, see how 'Ropa so cheerfully ignores 'Rav's statement in favour of getting her uni work done... burrrrrrrrn...)

: Steve ~ Friction
: 11-09-09 @ 7:41am
: 'Ropa is very conscientious about her studies. Not even an Australian can come between her and her books.

: 'Rav - Back Down Under!!!
: 11-09-09 @ 7:56pm
: But the Australian is going across to New Zealand! And I'm even going to the correct island!!!! She can't ignore that!!!

: TSC- NaNo? As if.
: 11-09-09 @ 9:03pm
: So it's Rav's Island? Hope you get off faster than Gilligan.

: Dad
: 11-09-09 @ 9:48pm
: I heard that it took Gilligan 15 years to get off, and then he needed both Ginger and Mary Anne to help him.

: 'Ropa all settled :)
: 11-09-09 @ 10:06pm
: I have officially done my last exam for my degreee! Wooo!I just have an assignment due tomorrow then I'm FREEEEEE :-) I feel so milestone like right now.

: pentatonic
: 11-09-09 @ 10:15pm
: Well done.

: 'Rav - Back Down Under!!!
: 11-09-09 @ 11:56pm
: I felt so milestone until I realized that I have to go BACK to school. :( But yay for 'Ropa. And no, the island of New Zealand I am going to is not my island. My island is Australia. The whole thing. Its mine.

: Steve ~ Friction
: 11-10-09 @ 7:31am
: I hope Ropa let's you land on her island. Why do I have the feeling your boat will be making endless circles in the ocean while bonfires blaze on the beache and reflect off the shining spears of Ropa's minions?

: 'Ropa all settled :)
: 11-10-09 @ 4:03pm
: You know me so well, Steve. I can totally see that happening! And thank you, Penta :)

: TSC- NaNo? As if.
: 11-10-09 @ 8:39pm
: I can totally see the entire world unraveling before my eyes happeneing. All the secrets of the earth reveiled...

: Autumn~equivoque
: 11-10-09 @ 10:15pm
: Reveiled? You mean Mother Nature covered them back in a veil when she realized you were peeking?

: TSC- NaNo? As if.
: 11-10-09 @ 10:41pm
: More like she screamed and shouted "PERVERT!!!" when I was peeping into her bathroom. To my defense, we WERE sharing the same bathroom that day.

: Autumn~equivoque
: 11-10-09 @ 10:51pm
: O_o Do I want to know why you were sharing a bathroom with Mother Nature?

: Dad
: 11-10-09 @ 11:29pm
: Like the old commercial says, "It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature."

: 'Rav - Back Down Under!!!
: 11-11-09 @ 12:41am
: They need a commercial to teach people that? Oi. And my boat will not be making endless circles around 'Ropa's island.

: Autumn~equivoque
: 11-11-09 @ 5:49am
: No, because it will be lying on the seabed, having been felled by a lucky shot from one of her more javelin-orientated minions.

: TSC- NaNo? As if.
: 11-11-09 @ 7:13am
: Ironically, me and Mother Nature when we were in the same school back 40 million years ago we had been on the track team and threw javelins. The school we visted had no seperated bathrooms, so we had to share.

: Steve ~ Friction
: 11-11-09 @ 7:30am
: I never understood why they started calling them javelins instead of spears. It's still a pointed stick you're throwing. Caveman antics. I'll stick with my trusty Webley-Vickers chrome-plated automatic pistol, thank you.

: Dad
: 11-11-09 @ 9:12pm
: They call it javelin because throwing stick sounded wimpy.

: 'Rav - Back Down Under!!!
: 11-11-09 @ 11:12pm
: And they don't call it a spear because javelin is more specific. And I know, I know, being vague is fun. Like the thing about the thing from the thing.

: Autumn~equivoque
: 11-12-09 @ 5:24am
: That sounded vaguely inappropriate. But vague is fun.

: 'Ropa all settled :)
: 11-12-09 @ 5:37am
: 'Ropa has a degree :-)

: Autumn~equivoque
: 11-12-09 @ 7:14am
: Congratulations! :-)

: Steve ~ Friction
: 11-12-09 @ 9:59am
: I hope she doesn't lose it and have to do the whole thing over again.

: 'Rav - Back Down Under!!!
: 11-12-09 @ 2:24pm
: I got one too! But its not good enough for a teaching position down here, so I have to go back to school.

: 'Ropa all settled :)
: 11-12-09 @ 4:51pm
: Thanks Autumn :-) And whatever Steve, you've already tried to steal it three times so that I have to do it all over again.

: Autumn~equivoque
: 11-12-09 @ 8:14pm
: Rav wants to be a teacher? *mute horror*

: TSC- NaNo? As if.
: 11-12-09 @ 10:21pm
: ...Rav as a teacher? It might work. His frying pan of education might force the young bucks to buckle down.

: Dad
: 11-12-09 @ 11:16pm
: Damn! Frying-pan-of-education is a good idea. I should've used it when I was a substitute teacher. (True story. I was a substitute teacher during a couple bouts of unemployment. God, I hope I'm never unemployed again)

: 'Rav - Back Down Under!!!
: 11-12-09 @ 11:31pm
: I'm looking forward to having my own classroom of minions.

: Autumn~equivoque
: 11-13-09 @ 7:40am
: The frying pan is not a good idea unless you're teaching home ec (which I don't think you are, are you?)

: Steve ~ Friction
: 11-13-09 @ 9:14am
: That's what I would want to teach: Home Ec and Art and Creative Writing. And maybe I would coach girl's volleyball if they let me. "Jump higher, Tiffany! Jump higher!"

: TSC- NaNo? As if.
: 11-13-09 @ 4:34pm
: Now Steve. If you want to teach creative writing, you must have proper grammer. It's not, Home Ec and Art and Creative Writing, it's, "Home economics, art, and creative writing."

: Dad
: 11-13-09 @ 10:20pm
: *Stares incredulously at 'Rav* Classroom of minions? Middle schoolers are more like minion of Satan. Please tell me you aren't going to be a middle school teacher! Funny thing. My favorite teachers were my junior high teachers

: Autumn~equivoque
: 11-14-09 @ 3:56am
: TSC's one to talk about proper grammar. *punches him affectionately on the shoulder* Oops... didn't mean it that hard.

: Steve ~ Friction
: 11-14-09 @ 8:03am
: Ahem, it's a CREATIVE writing class, not a "stick to the rules no matter what" writing class. :D

: Autumn~equivoque
: 11-14-09 @ 8:26am
: I LIKE that class! XD

: Dad
: 11-14-09 @ 9:21am
: I think with sum uv tha prahblims eye hav wit speling, eye mae hav takn tha clas. Hel, eye mite eben teech it!

: TSC- NaNo? As if.
: 11-14-09 @ 9:43am
: Wow. There are so many spelling errors in that sentence if you could harness the power of mistakes you could power the whole planet for a year.

: catty WDC since 2003
: 11-14-09 @ 1:03pm
: Or channel it into something horrific and evil....

: pentatonic
: 11-14-09 @ 2:47pm
: There are few things more horrific and evil than poor spelling...

: 'Ropa all settled :)
: 11-14-09 @ 4:18pm
: Prescriptive linguists do not make judgements about whether people are right or wrong in their language use... *tries REALLY hard to refrain*

: 'Rav - Back Down Under!!!
: 11-14-09 @ 4:29pm
: Psh, 'Ropa's one to talk. She has so many typos, I'll be surprised if she made it through that last post without hitting her backspace button.

: Dad
: 11-14-09 @ 4:42pm
: I hit the backspace key so often, occasionally it hits back.

: Autumn~equivoque
: 11-14-09 @ 11:11pm
: I once had a computer that was missing its "n" key. There was just this small rubbery pad which I had to prod very gently else a whole string of "nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn"s showed up on my screen.

: Steve ~ Friction
: 11-15-09 @ 9:03am
: Simple cure: avoid words spelled with "n". This complete post has just that example of the letter. Easy letter to avoid if you make the effort.

: Autumn~equivoque
: 11-15-09 @ 10:29am
: Well, yes, I suppose so. Now here's a challenge: post without the letter E.

: TSC- NaNo? As if.
: 11-15-09 @ 10:51am
: I saw a book that is 50,000 words long and had no "e" in it. You will also not find it in this post.

: Dad
: 11-15-09 @ 9:54pm
: I try to miss one letter on purpose in every post. In this one, I skipped the first letter on purpose.

: Autumn~equivoque
: 11-16-09 @ 5:12am
: I understand that nobody can confront said trial, barring this post.

: Steve ~ Friction
: 11-16-09 @ 8:30am
: A member had an In&Out (it must still exist) and he would select letters for us to avoid as we told a story. A gold star to anyone who can find that In&Out now. :]

: Dad
: 11-16-09 @ 10:14pm
: You could start one, Steve.

: 'Ropa all settled :)
: 11-17-09 @ 3:41am
: I'm not even gonna try. I don't deal with the graphemic level of language.

: Autumn~equivoque
: 11-17-09 @ 7:45am
: I'm ashamed to say I had to look up "graphemic" in order to write this post.

: Steve ~ Friction
: 11-17-09 @ 7:55am
: Not me. I instantly knew 'Ropa just made it up. It's probabaly a cross between "graphic" and "bulemic" and means: "I'm going to draw this picture but then immediately tear it up and pretend I didn't draw it."

: 'Ropa all settled :)
: 11-17-09 @ 4:39pm
: Awww, Steve's smart for his age, too ;)

: TSC- NaNo? As if.
: 11-17-09 @ 8:25pm
: Or is he? BUM BUM BUUUUUMMM!!!!...Probley yes...

: 'Rav - Back Down Under!!!
: 11-17-09 @ 9:58pm
: I don't know what I am for my age...

: Dad
: 11-17-09 @ 11:17pm
: I'm amazingly sexy for my age. ('Course, for my age, the ability to stand may be considered sexy. Dad's not exactly a spring chicken any more.)

: 'Ropa all settled :)
: 11-18-09 @ 4:47am
: *blushes*

: Autumn~equivoque
: 11-18-09 @ 6:22am
: I'm small for my age, sadly.

: Steve ~ Friction
: 11-18-09 @ 7:07am
: Please don't make me cry. It rusts my keyboard.

: 'Ropa all settled :)
: 11-18-09 @ 4:45pm
: Your keyboard is metal? Pfffft, that was SO Iron Age.

: TSC- NaNo? As if.
: 11-18-09 @ 7:52pm
: ...*coughcough* Ropa...This kinda is the Iron Age...

: Dad
: 11-18-09 @ 11:06pm
: OK! Try this: "'Ropa meant to say this: 'Your keyboard is metal? Pfffft, that was SO Stone Age. Just ask Fred Flintstone!'" Does that fix it OK, TSC?

: 'Rav - Back Down Under!!!
: 11-18-09 @ 11:45pm
: What about Barney Rubble? Or my favorite, Bam Bam. Oh, don't act all surprised. Part of my frying pan bashing was inspired by Bam Bam.

: Autumn~equivoque
: 11-19-09 @ 6:20am
: And the other part of it was inspired by adrenaline-fuelled childhood dreams involving kitchen appliances and large hairy humanoids.

: Steve ~ Friction
: 11-19-09 @ 8:45am
: If by large hairy humanoids you mean his parents, then yeah. Where do Australian kids get the adrenaline to fuel their dreams? When I was a kid we had to use methamphetamine.

: 'Ropa all settled :)
: 11-19-09 @ 2:57pm
: The Iron Age is loooooong over, people. We're in the Synthetic Age now.

: 'Rav - Back Down Under!!!
: 11-19-09 @ 9:29pm
: Nah. Its not adrenaline or anything. Just a short attention span coupled with a small kitchen when I was growing up.

: TSC- NaNo? As if.
: 11-19-09 @ 9:57pm
: If you look at it from the Greek Mythological age, this is the Iron Age. If you look at it from technology, it's the synthetic age. If you look at it from the TSCian factors, It's the age of Awesomeness.

: Dad
: 11-19-09 @ 11:04pm
: If you look at it through a camera phone, you might get arrested. As for people with short attention span, it's just ... Hey! Look at this neat thing!

: Autumn~equivoque
: 11-20-09 @ 4:37am
: Of course I don't have a short attention span. I just have a very short memor--wait, what are we talking about?

: Steve ~ Friction
: 11-20-09 @ 9:48am
: Jokes about short attention spans and bad memories are remarkably similar to jokes about... about... um... about... ... ... ... senility!

: 'Ropa all settled :)
: 11-20-09 @ 4:42pm
: If you look at it from Greek Mythology and/or Age of Empires (I'm addicted to that) then yes it's the Iron Age. But why hasn't that changed yet? It should have! Have they decided that no age comes after the Iron Age?

: Autumn~equivoque
: 11-20-09 @ 11:38pm
: Then comes the Silicon Age.

: 'Rav - Back Down Under!!!
: 11-21-09 @ 12:23am
: Age of Empires is an awesome game. Yay for the mighty Egyptian Empire!!!

: 'Rav - Back Down Under!!!
: 11-21-09 @ 12:24am
: On another note, you ever realize how none of those types of games let you start in Australia or New Zealand?

: Dad
: 11-21-09 @ 12:43am
: I agree with Steve. Cheap jokes about bad memories and short attention spans are also called bridges because they bridge the open spots in your gums, replacing teeth. Teeth on a saw cut wood. Wood is the best thing to burn in fireplaces.

: 'Ropa all settled :)
: 11-21-09 @ 12:45am
: IIIIIIIII know. Maybe we don't class an as empire to them, hahaha. I always play as the Vikings. I get paid tributes by all the players within the first 10 seconds of the game cause they're all so scared of my civilisation.

: Steve ~ Friction
: 11-21-09 @ 8:43am
: I thought we entered the Atomic Age in 1945? Did we leave it somehow and return to the Iron Age? These free calendars they send me are so inaccurate.

: Dad
: 11-21-09 @ 10:40am
: The problem with the calendars they send me is that EVERY Friday is Friday the 13th.

: catty WDC since 2003
: 11-21-09 @ 2:22pm
: I don't get any callendars sent to me at all. *sob*

: catty WDC since 2003
: 11-21-09 @ 2:23pm
: or collanders, or calendars either!

: Dad
: 11-21-09 @ 9:55pm
: Ya just gotta know the right people, catty. Or work for a magazine, like I do.

: TSC- NaNo? As if.
: 11-21-09 @ 11:26pm
: Aha...One more piece of information about the mysterious "Dad". I know for certain he is at least not MY father. Two people down, 799,999,999,998 more to check out.

: 'Rav - Back Down Under!!!
: 11-22-09 @ 12:37am
: 'Ropa, I will create a computer game and there will definitely be an Australian and New Zealand Empire. And they will be awesome. And people will fear them and pay more tributes.

: Autumn~equivoque
: 11-22-09 @ 12:50am
: I hope this computer programming job will take a backseat to your teaching career. But hopefully it will take precedence over that frying pan habit of yours.

: Steve ~ Friction
: 11-22-09 @ 9:31am
: A New Zealand empire? Wahahahahahaha! We can call the game: Age of Delusions.

: TSC- NaNo? As if.
: 11-22-09 @ 1:49pm
: ..Hey, I'd buy it. I could rule over Atlantis and start the game with +40 boat points.

: 'Ropa all settled :)
: 11-22-09 @ 2:41pm
: Atlantis? *raises head* Well I'd start in New Zealand and get +40 green points and +30 boisecurity points. Then I'd chain down everything the Aussies have stolen from us and claimed as their own.

: Autumn~equivoque
: 11-22-09 @ 9:45pm
: I'd buy it, if only to kill seventy billion people while I figure out how the darn thing works.

: Dad
: 11-23-09 @ 12:23am
: I'd buy it, give it to my son, and let him beat it in twenty minutes of less.

: 'Rav - Back Down Under!!!
: 11-23-09 @ 1:04am
: Umm, yeah, 'Ropa that's not gonna happen. You see, the Australians are going to be permanent allies of New Zealand and be awesome. Besides, what have we ever stolen from you and claimed as our own?

: Autumn~equivoque
: 11-23-09 @ 6:10am
: *visualizes 'Ropa getting out a long, neatly handwritten list*

: Steve ~ Friction
: 11-23-09 @ 8:40am
: That's her Santa list. The word purple occurs on it 27 times.

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