LJ Daily Answers: 18 August 2008

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

...and I wonder what tomorrow's theme will be.



1. Quotation time! Name the character and the book:
"I dare say you haven't had much practice. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

"Question; if I've read Fight Club but not seen the film, does that make me more or less cultured than the other way around?" - puredeadthingy

(Well, considering that neither situation will help you get this answer correct, I'll go with "The Question Is Moot". -CV)

'I'm going with Yoda, although someone apparently cleaned up his speech patterns. The original probably went like 'Not much practice you had. Some time each day you must believe impossible things, like I. Six good number to start is before breakfast.' (quoted from 'The Dagobah Chronicles: Training of Junior Jedi')" - germankitty

"Oh HO! Very witty. Because that could be easily mistaken for a reference to masturbation or sexual intercourse. Absolutely hilarious. I'm sure the other questions will be as ribauld and clever." - tarpo

"Ron Jeremy wrote a memoir? I had no idea!" - treerad

("Through The Hooker's Ass" and "Jeremy's Adventures In Humperland" are widely regarded as underground classics. -CV)

"Orgasms can really fuck up your belief system, I'll grant you that." - ntlespino

"You know, believing in the impossible usually gets you a one-way ticket to looney bin. That, or your own church." - amphelice

"Okay, that's clearly Douglas Adams. And I don't think it's Hitchhiker's Guide, so I'm guessing Dirk Gently, which is the Best Detective Ever. But there are two books, and without looking it up, I'm going to guess The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul. Obviously I have learned well from the Best Detective Ever!" - jo_chan

(Yeeeeeeeeeeah, no. – CV&AL&LL)

"Err...Dr. Who? Alice In Wonderland? I read something in a Beatles fic about this....DON'T JUDGE ME" - 4492

"So, whenever I have a temporal lobe seizure, I call it 'Being Alice' or 'Falling Down The Rabbit Hole' or 'Going Through The Looking Glass' and the Queen of Hearts is one of the more prominent scary hallucinations. Once, I heard this entire convesation, including this quote, between the Queen and Alice while I was sitting on the couch watching The Exorcist. Neat, huh?" - rosefox8

(When it comes to having a seizure, fizrep and myself are probably the last people you want around. -CV)

"MC Escher, who sadly went into architecture after 'U Can't Climb This' failed to make it to #1 on the Billboard charts." - captainsblog

"If you've believed six impossible things before breakfast, why not have lunch at Milliways!" - zihuatanejo, etcet, flamingbentley

(+1, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. -CV)

"That sounds like something Mrs. Whatsit from A Wrinkle in Time would say..." - spiralgirl1

"Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying." - sskipstress

(+1, Monty Python. -CV)

"Alexander Portnoy, Portnoy's Complaint." - dhole

"'Coping with Senility' by John McCain" - canuckdesz

"That has to be that annoying flying twerp called Peter Pan." - b_hulsmans

(No, this is that book with the other annoying twerp. -CV)

"The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland! The book every single student taking first year english literature wants to read and have for their finals. "It was made into a Disney movie, how hard could it be?" they think. Poor innocent fools, little do they know that they'll get screwed over by the mock turtle and the lobster quadrille." - avenginglyyours

"The Queen of Hearts from... Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? Or was it Alice Through the Looking Glass? Since Disney mixed the two together in the movie I can never keep them straight. Oh, suuure, I suppose I could go read them, but really, who reads old books these days? If it's a children's book that doesn't have Hermione in it, I'm not interested. Though Hermione's Adventures in Wonderland would be pretty awesome. After a little confusion, I bet she's got enough spells up her sleeves to turn Wonderland back into Mundaneland." - marasca

"Isn't it Alice in Wonderland? If so, why doesn't that fit the theme? I somehow don't think the Queen of Hearts said it, I think it has to be the Rabbit. Although I guess it could be the Queen. This is the point where I confess that I haven't read the book, just seen parts of a rather trippy movie." - domtheknight

"Gotta love how she makes imagination sound like a CHORE, right up there with piano practice and yardwork." - reticent_lass

"Queen of Hearts I know. But whether it's Alice in Wonderland or Through the Looking Glass always gets me mixed up. Damn you Charles Lutwidge Dodgson for always confusing me!" - mathnerd

"Really, this was the Queen of Heart's best policy. It's gotten me through some crazy shit." - fizrep

(I think her stance on capital punishment was still worth exploring. -CV)

Correct Answer: The White Queen, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

(Originally I thought this was the Queen of Hearts, but I got them confused. My bad. Free +1 for everyone. +2 for stephe and vvvexation for pointing this out. -LL)



2. Stacey Q's "one hit wonder" status came as a result of which song?

"I watched a lot of STNG (Star Trek, Next Generation) and don't remember Q singing... or being named stacy, though some of those outfits he wore did make me wonder, his first name being Stacy would explain a lot." - becky_gardens

(Well, there were several Q. Maybe one of the others was Stacey. -QV)

"You just know it's gotta be an '80s tune. If that was not the One Hit Wonderland, I don't know what is." - reticent_lass

(That much is true. Very true. -CV)

"We need more pop stars with one letter last names" - marasca

(Well, we do have Jay-Z and Ice-T. And Mr. T, although he doesn't sing much. I bet a duet between Malcolm X and Professor X would be pretty sweet, though. -CV)

"Suzie Q stole my friggin' act!" - schizospider

"I Stole a Song From a Less Popular Artist and I Liked It" - mathnerd

"The Alphabet Song. Years later, when people realized that it was to the same tune as 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' she was denounced for plagarism, but it was too late, the song was everywhere." - nadat

(Wait, what? Huh. I never knew those two songs were the same tune… - LL)

"Well, if she was the daughter of Susie Q, then it very likely was a cover of a CCR song. There, I've rings around you logically." - tweeti

"One hit wonders and pop-up videos: the best parts of VH1, and they don't even run those anymore. I was catching up on all the music I'd missed while living outside the US, and now there's nothing for old fogeys like me." - etumukutenyak

"You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have, the facts of life, the facts of life. I learned how to spell cinnamon in that episode." - sitandwait

"Thank you for reminding me of my high school years. I'll be over here in the corner sobbing and fantasizing about Molly Ringwald." - stephe

"She can't have been that well-known of a one-hit wonder, or I'd have heard of her before." - nikipound

(Everyone only knows her song. Stacey's not all that important. -CV)

"The theme song from Hart to Hart, of course." - spiralgirl1

"I'm a Whiny, Spoiled Star, so Beat Me." - woap

"I Can't Get Q Out Of My Head" - amphelice

"Ironically, it was a slow jazz cover of 'Immigrant Song'" - ogreteeth

"William Hung singing 'She Bangs'?" - thepikey

"O-Bama, you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind O-Bama! O-Bama!" - drbear

"now all I can think of is Doctor Who, because he has two hearts. Get it? Two hearts beat as one? Ha... ha?" - rosefox8

"Great. Now you've got me singing '99 Sotch Loftbalons' or however you spell it. I don't even know the words so every time it comes on, I end up singing along in totally made up German." - ifeedformula

(Being familiar with A) the German language and B) the lyrics to 99 Luftballons, all I have to say here is BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA. -CV)

"AUGH EIGHTIES EARWORM MAKE IT GO AWAAAAAAAAY" - jessicamariek, fizrep, sugarblue_sunny

Correct Answer: "Two Of Hearts"

"There are more embarrassing one hit wonders, looking at you 'who let the dogs out?'" - killabee886



3. What is the capital of the state of Connecticut?

"C, of course!" - lady_deirdre, drbear, woap, tears_of_nienna, jechocochan, captainsblog, 4492
"Too many Cs, failing to process." - puredeadthingy

"connect-i-cut? is that really how you spell it? how did i not notice that before? (now i feel really stupid, thanks.) (and even more stupid for not knowing. can we say geography faaail.)" - flamingbentley

"At a guess, $196,024,234,730 -- based on population and median income in 2007" - germankitty

"What's the capital of Connect Four? 'Pretty sneaky, sis!'" - thepikey

"Not only do I not know where Conneticut is, I wouldn't know where the capital was even if that sexy lady inside my Garmin were going 'TURN LEFT! MAKE A U TURN THEN TURN LEFT!' She likes to make U Turns a lot." - ifeedformula

"I am completely unable to remember any geography not associated with a major military campaign of some sort. Can I put off answering until Canada finally invades? (Or is that 'invades again'? Does 1812 count?)" - packbat

"You know one thing I like about Canada? You only have to memorize thirteen provinces/territories and capitals." - kaerran

(Memorizing state capitals is a pointless exercise. As long as you know the important ones, you're good. -CV)

"I don't believe Connecticut could call itself a state, what kind of state can be driven through in an hour? I may live in the hick state Oregon, but our state is a respectable size and I have enough personal space." - killabee886

"It's part of New England, so its capital is Boston, just like New Jersey's capital is NYC and Polynesia's capital is Honolulu." - rikchik

"Mohegan Sun" - tarpo

"Newhart" - jo_chan

(With its mayor Daryl, and its other mayor Daryl. -CV)

"Hartford, where the deer go sweeping 'cross the stream." - nadat

(Needs more syllables. -CV)

"Heartford: crossing hearts, hoping to die, and sticking needles in eyes since 1866" - marasca

"I know there's a city in CT called Hartford. Y halo thar Babysitters Club, you actually helped me deduce a LJDQ question." - mathnerd

(Well-done. Most others learned it from watching Animaniacs. -CV)

"I'll take cities I'll never get drunk in again for $200. I thought Hartford was boring when I was sober; it's even worse under the influence." - deadlydiva

"I learned the capitals from this book with fun illustrations to help kids remember them. To this day whenever some one talks about Connecticut, I picture a heart driving a Ford, pulling a bandaid over a giant cut. Clearly whoever wrote that book was on 'shrooms." - nochi_san

Correct Answer: Hartford



4. What 1996 film featured Sean Connery in one of his least human roles ever?

(Zardoz got a lot of votes. Mostly as a result of this almost NSFW picture, I suspect. -CV)
"Where does he put away his gun? Why the red underpants? The 'tache? The braid? OH GOD WHY?." - avenginglyyours

"...Connery's human? I thought he was some sort of alien being from the planet of Badass." - jessicamariek

"SEAN CONNERY IS HUMAN? I was so hoping he was a Klingon. I'm sure they're real, I'm SURE of it! :'(" - emeraldbixby

"Y'know, for the longest time I thought he voiced the Lucky Charms leprechaun. Oops." - reticent_lass

"Surprisingly, he was in Eddie Murphy's fat suit in 'The Nutty Professor'" - ogreteeth

(Along with Kirsty Allie, Sally Struthers, and Orson Welles. -CV)

"Wait--Sean Connery isn't the last Cylon?" - pfflyernc

(No, but he's probably slipping Number Six a slab of the scottish salami, if you know what I mean. -CV)

"A Scot beloved of America? It's already alien." - puredeadthingy

"I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human." - majorsamfan

(+1, The Wrath Of Khan. -CV)

"argh, now I have an image of Arnold Schwarzenegger as that ice guy from the really bad Batman, and it won't go away..." - kaerran

"The Grinch. 'You wanna get the Whos? Here's what ya do--one o' his men pulls a ta-tinker, you pull a gun. If he sends one of your men to Mount Crumpett, you send one o' his to the morgue! That's the Who-Ville way!'" - i_calql8

(+1, The Untouchables. -CV)

"This is probably some kind of trick question where he played an animal in an animated movie, but animated movies made after The Lion King suck, so I don't care. Oh, except for Mulan. And I don't think he was in Mulan." - tears_of_nienna

"Aslan. (Seriously, wouldn't Sean Connery make a bad-ass Aslan?)" - wrestlingdog

(Compared to Liam Neeson, even Gilbert Gottfried would have made a badass Aslan. -CV)

"Indiana Jones and the Buried Dad" - drbear

"The Hunt For Red OctoberA Scottish Guy To Play A Russian?" - ifeedformula

"The Rock, in which Sean Connery plays the island prison of Alcatraz. (Not to be confused with The Rock, who is a much younger actor.)" - etumukutenyak

"That awful dragon flick, right? Not Dragon Wars, the other one" - marasca

(This was significantly less awful than Dragon Wars. Not that that's saying much. -CV)

"Debatable, as I'm not positive that Allan Quatermain was human either, despite his claims of being extraordinary and thrilling English boys." - sergeikathoicm

"Was it the one with that chick who married Michael Douglas? Because DAMN that was like the most boring movie ever and it's MAIN SCENE featured a hot chick with her ass in the air. How a movie with Sean Connery and hot ass flexing can be boring...well, sir, that takes TALENT." - lots42

(That movie was "Entrapment", as in, you were entrapped in the theater for those two hours. -CV)

"Highlander II: The Quickening. Worst. Movie. Evar. It broke my heart. If I had shoved a stick up my dead mother's ass, and a tape recorder down her throat, she would have been a better actor than everyone in that movie. And a better writer. You can tell when they hit their budget limit for Connery, too, 'cuz he just disappears in the middle of the film." - sagaciouslu, david_deacon

"It had the potential to be at least a bit cool, but ye gads the writing was terrible. It was a great reason why Hollywood only succeeds because nobody else does it. Well, nobody else but...these people." - fizrep

"Dragonheart, who ostensibly only chewed in self-defense, but never swallowed. Sounds like a Clinton-type excuse for either 'recreational' drugs or gay sex. If the latter, also, ouch?" - germankitty

"DragonHeart. Or, as I prefer to think of it, James Bond: The Lizard Years." - stephe
"Dragonheart. Worst Bond movie EVER." - spiralgirl1

"Dragonheart, featuring the only reptile than can cause panties to spontaneously combust." - ntlespino

Correct Answer: Dragonheart

"Eragon was waaaaaay better though." - tweeti

(Oh, you just earned yourself a ticket to MinusOnesVille, young lady. -CV)



5. What candidate for the 1988 US Presidential election withdrew after reports of an affair with Miss South Carolina model Donna Rice?

"withdrew from what--the presidential race or Donna Rice?" - i_calql8

"Is this week's theme 'Random 80's references that will mock all the LJDQers under 20'?" - jwpandabear

(Hey, it's not our fault we're all 30+ and you're not. -AL&CV&LL.)

"Zaphod Beeblebrox" - wiredwizard, wrestlingdog

"Hillary Clinton." - lots42

"Strom Thurmond? Jesse Helms? I always get those two mixed up." - david_deacon

(I'm not sure either of those two gents are even capable of messing around with a model anymore. -CV)

"What, was he practicing natural family planning then?" - ntlespino

"I remember liking Gary Hart best because he was the cutest." - sskipstress

(She probably thought the exact same thing. -CV)

"We never had a presidential candidate named Teriyaki Chicken, did we?" - reticent_lass

"Damn fool should have run. Shagging good looking women never hurt Clinton's career. Hell, even shagging Monica didn't." - angrysunbird

(We never saw any evidence that Clinton shagged someone good-looking. -CV)

"Donna Rice was pretty hot back then. Better than Edwards' or Clinton's affair." - woap, stephe

"Democrat presidential candidate affairs have gone downhill ever since." - zihuatanejo

"Eliot Spitzer had a thing for the ladies back then too eh?" - lbmango

"i should know this because i'm doing a project on the 1980's right this moment, but i've only gotten up to 1981 so, um, ask me again in a week." - flamingbentley

"I thought I knew this, but I short circuited on Jessica Hawn on Church Lady. This is what my parents let me watch when I was nine. Isn't that special?" - illogicalvulcan

"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, um, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq and everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future." - drbear

(Amazingly enough, that was a different Ms. South Carolina. Go figure. -CV)

"Was that Brett Hart, Jim 'The Anvil' Neidhart, or Gary Hart? Two falls out of three to decide...." - etcet

"My cousin. No, really, he IS my cousin. His wife is my grandmother's cousin's daughter. Talk about twice removed. That's Gary Hart, right?" - marilyth

(2nd Cousin once removed in law, actually. – LL, LJDQ genealogist)

(It would have been even cooler if Donna had also been your cousin. -CV)

"Is it sad that I learned all about this by reading the comic 'Bloom County'? Ack and Thppt!" - akiyasan, twbubbles

"Gary Hart, in the conservatory, with his the candlestick." - jo_chan

"Gary Hart, back when having an affair actually made a difference politically." - rikchik

"I am trying hard to make a minute rice joke here and can't manage it." - tarpo

"I believe Gary Hart's infidelities were carried out aboard a boat called Monkey Business." - jrho

(You are correct! And really, that was the icing on his cake right there. -CV)

Correct Answer: Gary Hart

"Going to show that eating Rice is not good for your Hart." - watergal



6. What breaks your heart?

"You know a human heart is actually quite sturdy, not even a 50 floor drop will break it. However, the fall will break the human around the heart." - b_hulsmans

"Freezing it with liquid nitrogen and then dropping it from the roof should do the trick. Although I would appreciate it if you didn't, all the same." - lady_deirdre, i_calql8

"The Judybats sang, 'Hearts cannot be broken, they're small squishy things.' I'd have to agree. I mean, have you tried smashing a heart with a hammer? Messy." - marasca

"Having to turn off the television while the women's synchronized diving is on. Only that's not so much my heart as my libido, really." - twbubbles


" - fizrep

"Seeing all the women in the world that will never have a chance to have me." - gorghte

"All those hot British guys are over in Britain and I'm stuck here in Aussieland." - sometimespez

(I thought Aussieland had TONS of hot guys. – LL)

"Cheesecake! Why must you be so bad for me and taste so good? It is the most abusive relationship I've ever been in." - killabee886

"Drug free school zones. All those kids without the benefit of good drugs to help them cope with life!" - jo_chan

"Wooden stakes" - sitandwait, alkion04

"Spilled booze" - pfflyernc

"I don't cry over spilled milk. Spilled gin and/or pudding is another matter entirely." - wrestlingdog

"Myocardial blood clots, I'm betting." - packbat

"I just bought some new sex toys and got my period before I could get home to try them out. (Is that TMI?)" - illogicalvulcan

(TMI leads to only one thing: winning this week's ljdq Award For TMI! -CV)

"Cecilia. Or your mom. Your mom, who is named Cecilia!" - dhole

"My achy-breaky heart? You do. I just don't think you'd understand." - ntlespino, , thepikey, etcet

"People who commit corporate sepuku by coming to a meeting after lunch smelling of garlic and whiskey." - canuckdesz

"People stealing Christmas presents from orphans. While drowning puppies and kittens and ducklings." - angrysunbird

"I would have said the tragedy of pain and suffering in a world where God seems distant, but my doctor says it's actually cholesterol buildup and a lack of exercise." - stephe

"The fact that no matter how many lottery tickets I steal from old ladies, I probably won't actually win the big millions. Tragic, really." - soberloki

"That scene where they shoot Bambi. Or when they shoot Old Yeller. Or when Mufasa died. Darn you, Disney!!" - jwpandabear

"Hollywood 'reimagining' great old movies into cgi'd-to-the-teats unimaginative new garbage, could probably add unnecessary sequels to that to." - fmh

"The fact that Isaac Hayes is dead and Robert Mugabe is still alive." - la_trombonista

"When some guy gives me up. Or lets me down. Or turns around and deserts me." - tears_of_nienna

"The fact that saying, '"So if I don't believe that numbers exist and are concrete and unchanging, can I consider myself a math atheist and never have to do algebra again?' does not actually work *weep*" - raphsody606

"I'll tell you what breaks my heart. Boyfriends that you've been with for nearly a decade throwing it all away for some chick he linked up with on MySpace and driving to Mass. to see her as me and his daughter sit home crying. Yeah, that breaks my heart." - deadlydiva

"Learning there was no point in getting the gum off the pot before my mom got home (from the last quiz), because it turns out she occasionally reads LJDQ. Now she points and laughs at me whenever I'm boiling something." - emeraldbixby



And there you have it. A hearty pile of answers, which will hopefully make you laugh heartily. Or something. Hartily, if you're some kind of deerish thing. Which I don't think any of you are, but hey, you never know.

Thanks again for playing, as always; good show in bringing the funny to the world at large. Or at least this small electronic portion of it. One day when our plans for global domination come to fruition, you can stand proud, knowing that you were there when it all began. Or something.

Tune in tomorrow, same bat-time, same bat-channel!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Comments

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

So this one time, we were having a LAN party, because we're a bunch of computer gaming geeks. We're up late, we're drinking, we're eating bad foods, we're gaming, the whole nine yards. Go to sleep around 3-ish. Around 9:30, fizrep and thereject wake up and start gaming some more.

The following things happen, in order:

1) thereject has a seizure, falls out of his chair, lying on the ground twitching.
2) fizrep doesn't notice until he hears him making some peculiar sounds, looks over, and sees the situation.
3) As fizrep goes over to check him out, he notices that thereject is in a particularly critical stage in his game, and so fizrep TAKES THE EXTRA TIME TO STOP AND SAVE THE GAME BEFORE HELPING thereject.
4) fizrep sends my housemate to wake me up. She tells me thereject is having a seizure and they need help. I say ok.
5) I fall back asleep.
6) They come and wake me up again. This time I go help for real.
7) The police and an ambulance arrive. They can't help but notice that the apartment is in utter disarray, with computer cables everywhere, dozens of bottles of alcohol strewn about, and the remnants of snack food as far as the eye can see. They tactfully ignore all that and focus on the task at hand.
8) As they ask us questions, we realize that we don't remember thereject's last name. We loot his wallet for info.
9) They take him away to the hospital. As they leave, we realize that we don't exactly know where the hospital is.

And, best of all...

10) Several weeks later, we have another LAN party. thereject says "Heh, wouldn't it be funny if I did that seizure thing again?" We all laugh, bwahahaha, yeah, that would be funny. Five minutes later he's on the ground twitching, and we laugh because we think he's fucking around. OH NO HE'S REALLY DOING IT AGAIN. This time we just prop him up on a couch and let him work it out himself.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

*blink*
Dude.

Actually, that story made me want to go to one of your parties.

(I'm not necessarily the twitchy-seizure type, I'm more of the "stare blankly and make weird noises and occasionally walk around the room in a daze" type, anyway.)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Well, to be fair, we do have some crazyfun parties. Sure, sometimes we're geeking out with comptuer games and Rock Band and what not. And sure, we'll have perhaps more than our fair share of alcohol and munchies. And sure, maybe someone with a previously unknown medical condition might not get the proper treatment he or she deserves. But hey, fun is what you make of it.

Basically, the running joke now is that we "gave" thereject epilepsy. (Which is what it turned out to be- he had a history of epilepsy in his family, and this was its first manifestation for him.)

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

I actually had my first seizure at a party too. And it was a grand mal. And at first nobody realized what was happening until they had me lie on the couch and I started shaking and they had to hold me down so I didn't fall off, and then everybody freaked out. Later it was established that I'd been really exhausted and stressed, and the epilepsy had just been waiting to pop up and yell SURPRISE BRAINSECKS but the party kind of exacerbated it.
We still talk about it seven years later. It's how my friend Beth and I got to know each other (she was a nursing student at the time).

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Note to self: use the phrase "SURPRISE BRAINSECKS" next time I talk to thereject. BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Well, next time you're in this neck of the world, we'll have a party. Bring Your Own Medic. ;-)

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

Will do! Heck, my husband used to be an EMT and a lifeguard; that still counts, right?

I think I just topped myself for witty remarks with "SURPRISE BRAINSECKS" right there.

(Now that I think of it, there were signs of TLE in my childhood through college; I just never suspected they were seizures - my friend Rin once said that during my "blackout" moments I often reminded her of someone tripping on LSD. But that party was still the turning point.)

[fizrep.livejournal.com]

Oh man... *plots making a strobe LCD t-shirt that says writes out "SURPRISE BRAINSECKS" in flashing lights*

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

HOLYCRAP YES. If strobe lights didn't hurt me I'd buy one. (Oh, cruel irony, you laugh derisively at me.)

[7tree-hugger.livejournal.com]

I've only just had an epilepsy diagnosis this year and would very much like to award you an internet for the "SURPRISE BRAINSECKS" interpretation of what that was like.
Word.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

*sniff* Really? Me? An internet? Awww, you like me! I'd like to thank the academy.

[7tree-hugger.livejournal.com]

The internet was merely to distract you as I ran off with the idea and patented it as my own.
Mwuhahahahaha etc.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

Damn! Foiled by my own pride.
I'd chase you, but I also have fibromyalgia and my knees are shot, so I'll just aim for you with this laser gun.

[7tree-hugger.livejournal.com]

Oh please don't - I couldn't run very fast either cos I crocked my shoulder falling off my bike. We can just stagger slowly around in a slow-mo version of the benny hill chases.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

I'll get the Benny Hill mixed tape.

(I hope your shoulder is doing okay!)

[7tree-hugger.livejournal.com]

You actually own one? (hides grin behind hand)

The shoulder will be fine - if only the physio will leave it alone.
Good luck with your fibromyalgia.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

No, no. *grin*
But my husband owns several episodes!

[7tree-hugger.livejournal.com]

Then you should definitely share the internet with him.
He sounds relatively awesome.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

I will! And he is quite awesome.