Little Tea Pot 2017-09-28

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Little Tea Pot 2017-09-28

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So that's what she is.

Someone mentioned that yesterday.
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New one on me! Reminds me of a zen practice of naming items you use frequently as a sign of respect. You might slam the door on your oven carelessly, but would you want to slam Steve shut?
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There is (naturally) a manga about tsukumogamis.

Tsugumomo

WARNING: The manga linked to above starts out a little ecchi and crudely drawn, but as the story goes on the art gets better as the story gets ecchier.
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This may prove to be very interesting indeed. Ruri may be able to bring a perspective to things that none of the other paras would be able to. She's, well, more differently different than they are.

Since she seems to be easily fatigued, somebody ought to knit her a nice cozy. Not the Norns, though.
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Atomic wrote:New one on me! Reminds me of a zen practice of naming items you use frequently as a sign of respect. You might slam the door on your oven carelessly, but would you want to slam Steve shut?
I sure would!

In third grade, STEVE would taunt me every recess and run crying to the yard monitor when I got angry at him, saying I was scaring him. Then he'd laugh at me later and do it every day.

Last day of school, I saw him walking my direction, shit eating grin on his face, his well rehearsed act ready to start. So I went off-script, grabbed him by the collar before he could say a word and beat him senseless, screaming that I'd give him a damn good excuse to cry for once.

No idea why he stayed away from me from that day forward!

So yeah. Steve is very punchable, especially in the face area.
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Still not saying that she isn't para-depressed... :ugeek:
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i suppose that it is good that some ... ahem ... tools don't get 100 years old. i wonder what a spirit of a ... nevermind ...
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Akasha wrote:i suppose that it is good that some ... ahem ... tools don't get 100 years old. i wonder what a spirit of a ... nevermind ...
Oh, gods...don't give Sarge ideas.

It's an interesting concept.
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Just Old Al wrote:It's an interesting concept.
Didn't Al and his associates prove that this would be a gyokuto rather than a kitsune?
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And those lyrics don't scan. Just saying.

Could be the other Gryphon HS student was not an English major and didn't know how to use scansion in lyrics. Of course the only song I ever sold had less scansion than that, and lots of songs I didn't sell had great scansion.
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O...kay. This was mentioned as a possibility yesterday, but I'm not sure how it would work. You've got a family, they've used Grandma's teapot for years, treating it with respect and love as she did because it reminds them of her, one day they wake up and it's a baby? Or in Ruri's case transitions right into a teenage girl who has to wait 18 years to go to college? This all strikes me as being kind of up in the air. On the other hand, I would assume the Japanese have something like the MiB that handles such things. Looking at the Wikipedia definition of tsukumogami, it doesn't say they become human, just get a spirit. I wonder if Ruri is a special case...

Ruri is being very... tolerant... of Alana. Unless Alana is exaggerating, though, this suggests Ruri is nobody to treat disrespectfully. I wonder how strong a tsukumogami is?
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Just Old Al wrote:
Akasha wrote:i suppose that it is good that some ... ahem ... tools don't get 100 years old. i wonder what a spirit of a ... nevermind ...
Oh, gods...don't give Sarge ideas.

It's an interesting concept.
Then there was the story of a very old building with the original coal furnace in the basement, still being fed by a collier dumping coal down a chute into the basement storage bin. Well, mostly original, as it had been updated and repaired various times with new fangled electric stuff and wiring to keep the thing going for over a century. Other than a regular cleaning, however, the metal coal chute had been untouched all this time, although the bin door had its hinges replaced a while back, and a new conveyor installed to feed the furnace when the old one broke some 30 years ago.

The building is abandoned now. Some say it's haunted, not by ghosts it seems, but by a parachute!
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Atomic wrote:The building is abandoned now. Some say it's haunted, not by ghosts it seems, but by a parachute!
:shock: ISWYDT (and, oh, for the power to unsee such things...)

I'm not sure the way the chute was treated would qualify as "love". More like "extended servitude" or even "multigenerational abuse"... a century of having dirty, smelly coal forced down your throat. That's going to result in the creation of a very angry spirit, possibly even a vengeful one, focused on the family who owned the building. A spirit which will do everything in its power to scuttle their plans and put a clinker in their boot.

And they called it Cinderhella.
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Dave wrote:
Atomic wrote:The building is abandoned now. Some say it's haunted, not by ghosts it seems, but by a parachute!
:shock: ISWYDT (and, oh, for the power to unsee such things...)

I'm not sure the way the chute was treated would qualify as "love". More like "extended servitude" or even "multigenerational abuse"... a century of having dirty, smelly coal forced down your throat. That's going to result in the creation of a very angry spirit, possibly even a vengeful one, focused on the family who owned the building. A spirit which will do everything in its power to scuttle their plans and put a clinker in their boot.

And they called it Cinderhella.
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And right there, Rizomer, is why this forum is teh beste!

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Dave is on his own with this.
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Dave places into the Pun Jar a collection of bits of precious metal (gold, silver, platinum, and rare earth elements - we'll skip the uranium) painstakingly extracted from a hundred year's worth of coal fly ash and bottom ash.

Dave suggests that the remainder of the ash can be used to make concrete, and that this concrete could be used to make a very nice altar upon which the family can show respect to the spirit-of-the-coal-chute.
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Just Old Al wrote:
Akasha wrote:i suppose that it is good that some ... ahem ... tools don't get 100 years old. i wonder what a spirit of a ... nevermind ...
Oh, gods...don't give Sarge ideas.

It's an interesting concept.
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Atomic wrote:The building is abandoned now. Some say it's haunted, not by ghosts it seems, but by a parachute!
Too many more bad jokes like this, and someone might need one...
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oldmanmickey wrote: By the power of the great Flying Spaghetti Monster i believe yall have figured out the origin of the Incubus.
It can't be that simple - that would just succubus.

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Just Old Al wrote:
oldmanmickey wrote:By the power of the great Flying Spaghetti Monster i believe yall have figured out the origin of the Incubus.
It can't be that simple - that would just succubus.

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Would a succubus become clumsy from a blunder-bus?

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