Picking a Bone

I realise that, as a contributor on this blog, I should read it every now and then. I haven't been. Sue me.

In response to my little brother's post about things that make him go "what the hell are they doing???", I have the following things to say.

1. "I rolled a natural 20!" is not frequently used in tabletop gaming (eg Warhammer 40K). It is more frequently used in "Pen and Paper roleplaying" (usually just referred to as an RPG), specifically ones using the d20 system. The most famous of these is Dungeons and Dragons (duh), but there's also d20-Modern and a few others sneaking around out there. The significance of "rolling a natural 20" is as follows;
   
   
   D20s, or twenty-sided die, are used to determine the level of success of any given action (usually combat based, but sometimes things like bluffing). If you roll a two, you just succeed. Like, you scratched them on the head with your broad-sword. Not real impressive. However, if you roll a 20 (natural 20 means "I didn't fudge it, I promise!"), then not only do you succeed good, you get extra bonuses for being spiffy. Like, you hack their head off with a nail file bonus.
   
   
   
2. LARPing is kinda fun. It's like acting, only you're not working from a script. You make it up as you go along. Plus, you get to annoy people by running around in a costume. I'm trying to convince my friends that we need to LARP our Vampire game, especially as it's set in Adelaide (where we conveniently live). It's not working at the moment - we got distracted as to how one would LARP sucking blood from someone. I refused to have someone lick tomato sauce off my neck. It went downhill from there. By the way, LARPing refers to Pen-and-paper games again - you need to sort out your different breeds of RPGs.
   
   
3. Star Trek is Cool. I have a six foot poster of The Original Series main cast on the back of the toilet door. Spock and Kirk staring at you when you're on the can is a bit disconcerting at first, though.
   
   
4. Yes. Hentai is very, very wrong. Don't ever think otherwise. Not all anime is bad though. Watch Hellsing sometime. Most awesome.
   

This has been a public service announcement on behalf of geeks everywhere. Don't hate me for it.

40 Hour Famine

This year we should all do the 40 Hour Famine, because

• Helping feed, clothe and educate the poor people of Africa makes you feel good inside
• I want an excuse to eat a pounder from McDonalds (for those of you who don't know, a pounder is four times the size of a quarter pounder. I didn't know you could actually order them until a few months ago and I've been dying for one ever since)

So if you're interested in joining let me know via the comments section. I think you can do it whenever you want if your group is big enough (at least, that's the way it happened at my church.). If we do it so it finishes on a weekend we can all go out drinking after. Or we could go out drinking during it, though I've heard drinking on an empty stomach is a bad thing.

**EDIT**

I just heard back from the good people at world vision, and you can do the famine any time after the official weekend, which is on the 18th to the 20th of August. As the next holidays after that are in December (there's no way I can be that patient) I figure we should just do it on the official weekend. That is, if anyone's interested.

He he

I just got a fortune cookie and the fortune inside said:

A sky rabbit will have three openings to its den.

Now, is it just me or is that really funny?!!

he he he

My 18th

My 18th birthday is coming up and I've decided to have a barbeque, then go out on the town. The trouble is, I don't know who to invite. People may get offended if I don't invite them, but I can't invite everyone I know. What to do, what to do...

Any advice?

Extreme plum

I have just spent summer sorting plums. Now as exciting as that sounds, and WAS, there is just one thing i would like to share with you..

Hee hee hee

Ah parents sometimes

I found out that my parents have been reading my blog regularly for the last few weeks at least, so I have changed the url to www.thelonliestasparagus.blogspot.com , however this url is only temporary until Joel and I figure out a good one that we both like.

Moving on.... today I drove Joel home for the first time, I figured he was just a teensy bit nervous when he asked me in all seriousness "Are we going to die?" But in the end he said I'm pretty good and he finally feels safe in a car with me.



Also today I made cookies and ate half of the batter myself. They are triple choc chunk and are so nice and chewy. Everyone I see at uni tomorrow gets one. HAHAHA Evie dosent because she is a lazy bum and only has two days of uni a week.

Woe is Anna

Anna is getting a laptop for uni. Yaaay. Her father was supposed to (and said he would) give it to her today, as it is sitting in the shop, just waiting to be picked up. The problem is, he didn't. Why? Nobody knows. Seriously, it' weird. She was supposed to get the laptop today, it's all ready to be picked up, her dad said he'd get it today and then he returns home empty handed. What's even worse is he didn't even provide an explanation, hence the title for this post "Woe is Anna".

Some of you would be asking why I'M posting about Anna's lack of a laptop. Well, it's because she's lazy, and likes it when people write about her. Mystery solved.

What the???

No, not the "Oh look, there's a misprint on this packaging/newspaper/other thing, insert laughter" that Rove McManus is famous for making simultaneously annoying and popular, I'm talking about actual stuff that makes you go "What the hell are they doing?". The following things make me go "What the?"

1. Tabletop gaming. Some people call it fun, I call it playing pretend. If you replace "I rolled a natural 20!" (I don't know what that actually means) with "I'm a dinosaur!", I'm sure you'd find the similarities uncanny.
   
2. LARPing. LARP stands for live action role playing, or so I'm told. It's like tabletop gaming, except instead of just imagining that you're an elf/wizard/fish, you actually pretend to be one. You know, you run around with fake swords and stuff. It's the "mature" way to play dress up. Ungh.
3. Star Trek. I have no idea why people like Star Trek. The acting is bad, the plots are bad, in fact, the whole thing is bad.
   
4. Hentai. Enough said.

So. What makes you go "What the?"

WHY!

Well a week without the internet, it was said that it could never be done. But here I am, almost half way into my week of unexplainable torture. I'm currently over Anna's bumming her net for 15 minutes before I go back into my withdrawals. I decided a short post was neccessary to thank a special someone for the other day.


Dearest Anna,

You are the scum between my toes. Just the thought of you makes me want to run away. Everytime I see you I want to vomit. Your voice is like 1000 hands scratching 1000 chalkboards. You irritate me beyond all measure.

Love Joel.

P.S. Thanks for the roses

Plagiarism. I know, it's boring. Bear with me.

I’d like to find out your thoughts on plagiarism. It’s been a bit of an issue lately, and what really astounds me is how people defend their actions when caught out. I’d hate for someone else to just lift my writing word for word and publish it on their own site with no recognition, yet some people think it’s perfectly fine because “it’s just a blog”, "everybody does it" or because “the copying can be interpreted as a degree of flattery towards the artist”. Sure, it can be interpreted as flattery. It's still nice to ask first, or at least show some recognition. It’s not hard to write something along the lines of “I found this and thought it was really cool, you can find the original over at this site”. Unless of course writing something like that will cheapen the post because your readers will find out you didn’t write it – it’s just something that required the keys CTRL C and V. If that’s the case, perhaps people should consider writing their own material.

So once again, what are your thoughts?

Hmph

I just went for my first driving test and FAILED!

Why?

Because I didn't give way quick enough when there were cars coming from both sides and the one that was closer was too close for my examiner and she slammed on the brakes.... ggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Now OLD Transport wont let me book another one until Friday 3rd of March... that's three WHOLE weeks away. :-(

If that hadn't happened I would have passesd.

Hi I'm Anna by the way. Co-administrator of the blog formaly known as The Greatest And Best Blog In The World, the only reason it's not known by that anymore is because we thought we'd stop rubbing its greatness in the faces of all the other blog owners out there.

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I just had a phone call from the driving school and there is no one avaliable for that friday...only the friday after. Why is this so hard?

D&M

Wow a random blog for random posting at random hours. Sounds random. But why am I here? We all know my history of readerless blogs/being too lazy to post anyway. As such i feel that i am only dragging Superblog down. I may in fact be blogging kryptonite.

Actually thats somethign to ponder. If Kryptonite was so rare in the world of superman then why did so many of the baddies have it? And speaking of baddies, why are there always so many more of them than superheroes? I mean come on, some of them have got to be double-dipping. The Juggernaught could easily have been the Rhino in different clothes. I wonder what happens at superhero conferences when someone double-dips a sausage roll? like do superheroes really care about each others germs? most of them are invulnerable anyway. unless there's some of that extensively rare yet ever-present kryptonite in the room.

Man this random blog is just opening up way too many questions. im not sure i can post something this heavy on a blog like this.

Enter the Queen of Squirrels

I'm Ben's older (not oldest) sister. I'm really not sure why I'm here, as I've not met any of you, but there you go.

I'm not really sure what I'm meant to post, so here you go:

"Drunken Santa"

Emma

Welcome to Superblog!

Well as you could probably tell Superblog! has a new snazzy banner. Designed by yours truly in the early hours of the morning... even though I have to get up for another day of uni in a matter of hours. It obviously has the super appeal which will make Superblog! the biggest and superest blog on the net.

Superblog, as was previosly mentioned by Ben was a creation by us to have a blog that all our blog friends can post on. As long as you contributors post once in a while it should be an awesome blog that will offer many different stories and opinions on many different random topics. Even if you don't want to take the time to sit down and write a post, you can just post a picture that you find funny or simply a pic of a group of friends. Just anything to keep the posts ticking over and ensuring that theres always new stuff here. Most blogs these days have trouble with regular posting so hopefully having a massive contributer list we will ensure that never happens to Superblog. Of course we will all still be posting on our seperate blogs but this blog can be a space to post stuff that wouldn't normally be considered post-worthy.

So make up new words, write a random song, post a new picture, write about you're awesome day, show us a site that you love. Post anything!

ps. If you think the banner is good, I love you. If you think it sucks, Go to hell!

Funny

I just had a funny conversation with Damian. I found it so funny I thought I'd share it with you

Damian: k i'm going to bed

Damian: bye fatty

Ben: bye ugly

Damian: too mean

Ben: i'm sorry i didn't mean it

Ben: ....

Damian: you've already hurt me ben

Ben: no, i really am sorry

Ben: ....

Damian: and i really am hurt. my whole life has been one big ugly spiral

Damian: i'm going to go throwup now

Ben: why? you're ugly, not fat

Damian: then i'm going to hang myself

Damian: pff

Ben: well, all i have to say to that is "mheh!"

Damian: well i say mheh to life

Damian: goodbye cruel world

Ben: please don't damian

Damian: ooohhhhhhhhh

Ben: you have so much to live for

Damian: *dying sounds

Damian: like what?

Ben: cosmetic surgery

Ahahahaha.

The huge ass blog!

Welcome to Superblog!, part of the Coffee and Other such things and Whatever Joel and Anna are calling their blog now network. Oh, and pigeons are involved as well. The aim of this blog is to get as many people posting on whatever random stuff strikes their fancy - we can leave that sensible stuff for our actual blogs (unless the random stuff is your normal posting material, in which case you should just do whatever the hell you feel like)