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So, who bid on things going swimmingly yesterday?

*drops a pair of water wings in the pun jar*

Dave wrote:

DilyV wrote:Somehow I feel these two are going to get into a game of show me yours and I'll show you mine... and I'm not talking the R Rated version... I get the feeling these two will try to see who has the better inner scary space. Connie has the edge, being an inner demon amalgamation, but I think Devyn will surprise Connie...

You could be right on all counts. It may be an interesting contest. Somehow I doubt that dumping a zillion gallons of cold seawater on Connie's head would be likely to leave her in a good mood.

What happens if Connie yanks Devyn into the Boiler Room, and then Devyn opens a door into the land of dark despair and propels Connie inwards with a shove? Would this repeat ad infinitum, or will they eventually tire of going deeper and deeper into buried places of awfulness and furnace-jackets?

I'm sorta expecting Jessie to show up, at some point. A composite demon-coven with a bent sense of humor, a mermaid, and a helead... they'd make quite a trio. Funny girl, finny girl, and fenny girl.

Devyn didn't exactly say WHY she was up on the ridge, though. Apparently she's entertaining herself by twisting the ocean into strange shapes, or simply enjoying being near it. I would imagine she doesn't get the opportunity to do so too often, living in Minneapolis. Also, she had to have made that particular rooster tail while she was talking to Connie; as had Connie seen this massive wave just staying there in the sky as she was climbing the ridge to talk to Devyn, you'd think she'd have said something. She can't be so drunk she didn't notice.

WHY Connie is drunk is a question, too. At 80,000+ she IS of age, but I don't believe we've seen her indulging before. Given her temper and strength, drunkenness on her part might be... worrisome...

shadowinthelight wrote:

jayessell wrote:The girls could either surf or use stationary water
as a skate park.

I wonder if she can solidify water enough to walk on it. That would freak out a few fundamentalists.

Hey, she could combine her powers, and Connie's suggestion/metaphor, and come up with a scenario that would really freak out the fundamentalists.

Solidify the water, and then have RuPaul walk on it.

eee wrote:WHY Connie is drunk is a question, too. At 80,000+ she IS of age, but I don't believe we've seen her indulging before. Given her temper and strength, drunkenness on her part might be... worrisome...

We've seen her drunk once before, IIRC. It was here on the island, during the keg party, shortly after Connie received an overwhelming hug from Euryale... the experience seems to have unnerved her.

Yeah, we have to hope that Connie is, at worst, a cheerful drunk who likes calling people "Sprinkles". "Angry drunk" would be bad, with "morose drunk" not a lot better.

eee wrote:WHY Connie is drunk is a question, too. At 80,000+ she IS of age, but I don't believe we've seen her indulging before. Given her temper and strength, drunkenness on her part might be... worrisome...

Naw, she's only bad tempered at rampant stupidity. I doubt they'd purposely push buttons on the being that could put a stop to their freedoms.
At least, if I were a teenager again, and were given access to a private island to relax at, so long as I had a chaperone, I'd not do anything stupid to jeopardize it, because I mean, "Hello! Private island beach in the Winter!" And I believe them to be that intelligent.
But again, I was a boring goody-goody, who would rat out a cheater or troublemaker in a red-hot minute.
This is how boring and goody-goody:
I remember this one girl on the mend, asked me to help tutor her in math every day after we finished projects in jewelry(last class). She was on her last strike, and some jealous bird tried to get her booted.

Full class of witnesses, and a TA all swearing to her being there, and someone says I was there, so the truant officer and principals ask me if she was there.
I roll my eyes, then get out my tutor notebook(she has the dated notes in hand). I take a pencil, colour over the blank page so you can see the writing, hand that to the truant officer, tell him, "I tutored her only every day for the last two months since you gave her that last chance. Why would everyone else lie?" and walk away muttering about the lack of faith of grownups regarding the capacity for a kid to change.
That same week, I inadvertently got the jealous birdy suspended for bullying said girl(not that she couldn't mop the floor with her, she promised everyone no fighting for any reason if she got her last chance...which is why I offered to help her in the first place). I didn't know who she was threatening, I just got the female principal, and two of the teachers least tolerant of bullying, and pointed around the corner, then was told to beat it so I wouldn't get found out and bullied(not that I was afraid of it by that time).

I think I know what happened with Devyn and Alexis.

They thought it would be fun to play in that big pile over by the highway department HQ in when it was snowing. Turns out it wasn't a snow pile - it was a road salt pile.

She accidentally lifted the whole pile up and slammed it back down on the highway department's warehouse. Took out about half the plows they had on standby.

jwhouk wrote:I think I know what happened with Devyn and Alexis.

They thought it would be fun to play in that big pile over by the highway department HQ in when it was snowing. Turns out it wasn't a snow pile - it was a road salt pile.

She accidentally lifted the whole pile up and slammed it back down on the highway department's warehouse. Took out about half the plows they had on standby.

Completely wrecking the plows' electrical systems. The case went down in the legal journals as the largest single incident of a salt-on-batteries attack in United States history.

(Places a case of windshield de-icer into the Pun Jar, and hands jwhouk a bottle of premium ten-times-filtered vodka as a personal de-icer and a token of thanks for setting up the joke.)

shadowinthelight wrote:

jayessell wrote:The girls could either surf or use stationary water
as a skate park.

I wonder if she can solidify water enough to walk on it. That would freak out a few fundamentalists.

Especially if you 'Moon Walked' to Michal Jackson or sauntered across doing a sleazy strip-tease...

I am a believing Christian- and I am horribly embarrassed by certain self-righteous trashpiles who profess the same faith. I was taught and practice charity, faith, hope, love and strength through my faith- I probably would have told that idiot in Oregon that I am a Christian even as he held the gun to my head, and I say 'probably' because I was not made to make that choice, so I don't know for sure- and yes, I get erotic in my writings at times. I am not perfect. I try not to judge- we are here for each other, not to tear each other apart but to help each other put themselves together.
Jesus came down hardest on those who used religion to beat others into submission- READ what he said and to whom he said it!

... I shall now climb down from my pulpit...

Dave wrote:

jwhouk wrote:I think I know what happened with Devyn and Alexis.

They thought it would be fun to play in that big pile over by the highway department HQ in when it was snowing. Turns out it wasn't a snow pile - it was a road salt pile.

She accidentally lifted the whole pile up and slammed it back down on the highway department's warehouse. Took out about half the plows they had on standby.

Completely wrecking the plows' electrical systems. The case went down in the legal journals as the largest single incident of a salt-on-batteries attack in United States history.

(Places a case of windshield de-icer into the Pun Jar, and hands jwhouk a bottle of premium ten-times-filtered vodka as a personal de-icer and a token of thanks for setting up the joke.)

Dave... I really enjoy your efforts here... but there are those who would hunt you down with dogs for such punning...

shadowinthelight wrote:

jayessell wrote:The girls could either surf or use stationary water
as a skate park.

I wonder if she can solidify water enough to walk on it. That would freak out a few fundamentalists.

If she wants to freak them out then she needs to do a production number. Part the waters and march a group down through with her singing let my people go, while Ru Paul and friends do a dance number on solid water up top. For sure to be the talk of the town down here in the Bible belt. Got a few family members it might cause heart failure in though.

Sarge, i applaud you in your statements and am in complete agreement with you on all your points.

Sgt. Howard wrote:

shadowinthelight wrote:

jayessell wrote:The girls could either surf or use stationary water
as a skate park.

I wonder if she can solidify water enough to walk on it. That would freak out a few fundamentalists.

Especially if you 'Moon Walked' to Michal Jackson or sauntered across doing a sleazy strip-tease...

I am a believing Christian- and I am horribly embarrassed by certain self-righteous trashpiles who profess the same faith. I was taught and practice charity, faith, hope, love and strength through my faith- I probably would have told that idiot in Oregon that I am a Christian even as he held the gun to my head, and I say 'probably' because I was not made to make that choice, so I don't know for sure- and yes, I get erotic in my writings at times. I am not perfect. I try not to judge- we are here for each other, not to tear each other apart but to help each other put themselves together.
Jesus came down hardest on those who used religion to beat others into submission- READ what he said and to whom he said it!

... I shall now climb down from my pulpit...

As I've said in the past; accepting a cosmology and actually practicing the religion it's from are not necessarily the same thing.
Or as some put it, “Being in a church makes you no more Christian than being in a garage makes you a car."
(May have butchered that).

Dave wrote:At this point, it seems that she can appear to whomever she wants to appear to. I can't recall her ever appearing to a mundane, but that's probably just good practice and politeness on her part.

Paranormal critters can be very selective in who sees them in what way. Remember Tsillah introducing herself to the vampires on the sidewalk, or Tina's Ms. Tentacle apparently having strolled down the street to the coffee shop.

jayessell wrote:Is that a standing wave with fish falling out of it?

I guess that they were out of phase.

shadowinthelight wrote:I wonder if she can solidify water enough to walk on it. That would freak out a few fundamentalists.

That wave is able to support its own weight and resist a considerable amount of torque, so I'd imagine that she could make water support her own easily enough.

eee wrote:WHY Connie is drunk is a question, too. At 80,000+ she IS of age, but I don't believe we've seen her indulging before. Given her temper and strength, drunkenness on her part might be... worrisome...

Maybe she needed the alcohol to help recover from another of Euryale's hugs.

Sgt. Howard wrote:I am a believing Christian- and I am horribly embarrassed by certain self-righteous trashpiles who profess the same faith. . . .Jesus came down hardest on those who used religion to beat others into submission- READ what he said and to whom he said it!

To my thinking, good Christians (and other such groups) try to lead by example. Bad ones try to compel by regulation.

Dave wrote:

jwhouk wrote:I think I know what happened with Devyn and Alexis.

They thought it would be fun to play in that big pile over by the highway department HQ in when it was snowing. Turns out it wasn't a snow pile - it was a road salt pile.

She accidentally lifted the whole pile up and slammed it back down on the highway department's warehouse. Took out about half the plows they had on standby.

Completely wrecking the plows' electrical systems. The case went down in the legal journals as the largest single incident of a salt-on-batteries attack in United States history.

Considering the vast pile of halite and twisted metal, they were initially going to be charged with aggregated salt. The metal rusted away too quickly, however, and left them with no remaining evidence of the damaged vehicles. The prosecution had to settle for wreckless endangerment instead.

Due to the dissociation of the ions in the road salt, the charges didn't stick.

Catawumpus wrote:Considering the vast pile of halite and twisted metal, they were initially going to be charged with aggregated salt. The metal rusted away too quickly, however, and left them with no remaining evidence of the damaged vehicles. The prosecution had to settle for wreckless endangerment instead.

Due to the dissociation of the ions in the road salt, the charges didn't stick.

Jabberwonky wrote:

Hey, I'd think you'd be at least a little numb to this sort of thing from us by now?

Dave wrote:

Jabberwonky wrote:

Hey, I'd think you'd be at least a little numb to this sort of thing from us by now?

I think he was taken aback by the salty language peppered throughout that post. It could rub even the most seasoned of individuals the wrong way.

Dave wrote:

Jabberwonky wrote:

Hey, I'd think you'd be at least a little numb to this sort of thing from us by now?

Numb is right.
I can remember when the pun depository was just a jar.

Jabberwonky wrote:

Dave wrote:I'm sorta expecting Jessie to show up, at some point. A composite demon-coven with a bent sense of humor, a mermaid, and a helead... they'd make quite a trio. Funny girl, finny girl, and fenny girl.

I'm just glad Jabber didn't let this one slide...because I sure as heck wasn't (even if no one else said anything). Puns are great and all (love 'em generally speaking), but you, Dave, put the rest of us to shame.

shadowinthelight wrote:

Dave wrote:

Jabberwonky wrote:

Hey, I'd think you'd be at least a little numb to this sort of thing from us by now?

I think he was taken aback by the salty language peppered throughout that post. It could rub even the most seasoned of individuals the wrong way.

Hey! Are you implying that Catawumpus and I are jerks?

Julie wrote:I'm just glad Jabber didn't let this one slide...because I sure as heck wasn't (even if no one else said anything). Puns are great and all (love 'em generally speaking), but you, Dave, put the rest of us to shame.

I only got "to shame"? I was sorta hoping for "shaking with revulsion and cowering in the corner screaming 'No more, no more!'."

Oh well, there's always next time!

Big hugs to you all, for putting up with my sense of humor without making explicit death threats! 'Tis very much appreciated!

sheik wrote:

Dave wrote:

Jabberwonky wrote:

Hey, I'd think you'd be at least a little numb to this sort of thing from us by now?

Numb is right.
I can remember when the pun depository was just a jar.

Now it's a whole room - but the door won't quite stay closed, so it's still ajar.

(In lieu of the standard contribution, I'll apply a bit of 3-in-1 oil to the hinges and latch mechanism.)

Dave wrote:Hey! Are you implying that Catawumpus and I are jerks?

But. . .but. . .I'm just in kindergarten!

Dave wrote:Big hugs to you all, for putting up with my sense of humor without making explicit death threats!

I, on the other hand, am completely devoid of any sense of humour. Therefore, you all have nothing whatsoever to worry about from me.