Every time I've tried an "ask me anything" thread, it's failed. Tell me anything.

[baby_mouse]

I CRAVE HUMAN CONNECTION.

Convince me that you are more than text-based figments of my imagination.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. i have bad cramps today

[baby_mouse]

4. Beaming ethereal "vibes" at you...

Praying to the Great Wotsits: "Oh great wotsits, lionesspriyanka deserves some GOOD cramps."

Smart-assness aside, commiserations. In such situations, I take baths. LONG. HOT. BATHS...

Ahhhhhhhh....

[geardaddy]

2. I tell you what...

You tell ME something.

[baby_mouse]

6. Okay!!!!

Um... I'm pretty sure your name begins with one of the letters of the alphabet! Also, I bet that when you eat food you prefer to swallow it in bite-sized chunks.

Am I right?!?! How spooky would THAT be?

[geardaddy]

22. Wow!

It's like you read my mind! :hi:

[bicentennial_baby]

3. My lunch was really yummy.

Oh, and , VOTE MERCER!!

[madinmaryland]

5. I had scalloped pototoes and ham for lunch.

[baby_mouse]

7. This is turning into a food thread. I've always been meanign to ask, actually...

What ARE scalloped potatoes?

[madinmaryland]

13. You've never had scalloped potatoes?

:wow:

The are basically thinly sliced potatoes baked in a milk/butter/flower sauce.

edited to add:

[baby_mouse]

18. You don't fool me. YOU'RE INVENTING THEM.

Ha. You think I was born yesterday? Your thinly disguised attempt to convince me of your reality and your so call "scalloped" potatoes wouldn't fool a Republican! "Flower" sauce? Hmf! And: "This image link contains an illegal code"? CONVENIENT! I deny your reality and that of your culinary mind trips! You are merely near-sentient computer software sending strange coded messages to test me... :tinfoilhat:

[madinmaryland]

20. You're a repub?

What are you doing here?

[baby_mouse]

25. What gave you that impression? ? ? ?

[baby_mouse]

19. Oh. Okay.

I guess, Um, I was wrong, then.

Actually, they look really nice...

[SacredCow]

8. I'm buying a car on Saturday...

And my lunch was unremarkable. Chicken salad sandwich with Ruffles.

[baby_mouse]

11. This is turning into a slightly SURREAL food thread.

What are these Ruffles of which you speak, Earthling?

[SacredCow]

14. thinly sliced potatoes....

fried to a delicious crispy texture, and salted enough to kill every snail in the world!

[baby_mouse]

21. MORE thinly sliced potatoes???

Clearly I gave this thread the wrong title. I should have said tell me anything about root vegetables.

But I digress!

Good on you, anyway, SacredCow! Here's to you and your macerated tubers and your shiny new chariot!


:toast:


May your fresh-minted transportation take you to ever increasing heights of culinary well-being!

[SacredCow]

27. Well, it's far from fresh-minted transportation...

I should have specified "new to ME." It's a 1979 Volkswagen Beetle convertible that I'm going to restore.

:toast:

[baby_mouse]

30. splendid!

And a finer vehicle to restore would be hard to find.

They did a whole lot of beetle art cars recently...

[SacredCow]

35. Art Cars and their owners have a special place in my heart...

I was on a road trip to the Grand Canyon and Arizona in college, and our car broke down outside of Tombstone. 2 of us set out on foot towards the next town (Bisbee) and soon this car passed:



the owner and artist gave us a ride into town and called some mechanic friends to get our car towed and fixed. Meantime she gave us the key to the apartment over her studio and said we could stay there until the car was fixed. So we hung out in Bisbee, which is without question the coolest town I've ever been in. VERY Bohemian and laid back! Someday, I will go back!

[billyskank]

9. Damn. My mind went blank.

:(

[baby_mouse]

10. YOU WIN, DAMN YOU.

You won't ASK me stuff, you won't TELL me stuff, YOU HATE ME.

:cry:

WHY DO YOU HATE ME?!?!?!?!? Am I not adorable?

[billyskank]

16. Yes, you're adorable.

And hey, I just noticed that you're less than a thousand miles away from me. Okay, it's still a hell of a drive, but it's close compared to most people here.

:hi:

[baby_mouse]

23. Nice art!

Always pencils?

[billyskank]

24. Thanks! Almost always pencils.

I've also done a couple of others since then. There was this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x6671698

and this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7232158

and this, which is not work-safe:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/richard-wild/artwork/n-1024.html

[baby_mouse]

32. Those are really beautiful. Pactically photographic.

Is that yer actual portraits of redqueen and Heidi?

Likes no.3 ...

[billyskank]

33. Thanks.

The first one is BarenakedLady, not Heidi. I drew it with art materials gifted to me by Heidi.

I liked no. 3 too, but the mods nuked the thread... ;)

[mainegreen]

12. If you place a bag of veggie booty near me, I will eat the whole thing.

Rapidly.

[baby_mouse]

29. Yet more surrealism.

what is "veggie Booty"???????

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. 'Ask me anything' threads, copycat threads et al

work only if you're one of the Cool Kids.

For that matter, most threads work only if you're one of the Cool Kids.

'Tis a hard-learnt lesson, I know. :(

[billyskank]

17. The Lounge is very cliquey.

It's true. :hi:

[NoPasaran]

26. The square of the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle

Is equal to the sum of the squares of the two other sides.

[baby_mouse]

28. ...and not just squares.

It works with any geometrically isomorphic form! Hexagons, Semi-circles, anything!

Betcha didn't know THAT.

[NoPasaran]

31. We're doing the telling around here, sir

[baby_mouse]

34. Then tell away! Something of which I am UNAWARE, o figment.

I challenge you!

see?



I throw a glove down at you!

[NoPasaran]

36. Alright, while the US has many places named after battles...

Only a few of those sites became battlefields themselves. One of these is the scene of the June, 1861 Battle of Philippi, in what became West Virginia, which had been named after the place where the armies of Marcus Antonius and Octavian defeated the forces of Brutus and Cassius in 42 BCE. Another is Resaca, Georgia, where Sherman's armies clashed with Joe Johnston in May, 1864; that place name commemorates the Battle of Resaca de la Palma during the US-Mexican War.

[youthere]

37. Soylent Green is people and Billyskank HATES bread-related threads.