2011.09.11 19:00 - Something Orange This Way Comes

The Guardian for this meeting was Calvino Rabeni. The comments are by Calvino Rabeni.

Calvino Rabeni: Helloo over there Susan
iwandertoo: hi Calvino
Calvino Rabeni: How are you this evening
iwandertoo: doing okay. you?
Calvino Rabeni: quite good as myself.. though SL is playing up a bit for me tonight
iwandertoo: understand
milakel: hi :)
iwandertoo: hi mila
Calvino Rabeni: Hey what's new, Milakel
milakel: 4 letters "s" in your name, susan :)
milakel: um, paper bag session, cal :)
Calvino Rabeni: what's that, exactly :) ?
iwandertoo: ?
milakel: well, people where paper bags on their heads
milakel: susan, oh wait - 5 "s" in your name! :)
Calvino Rabeni: Calvino Rabeni looks for a bit more enlightenment on that bag-wearing
iwandertoo: significance?
milakel: a rare event
iwandertoo: how rare?
milakel: um, you're probably the only person i know with 5 "s" :)
iwandertoo: i see
iwandertoo: defining characteristic
iwandertoo: 5s
iwandertoo: 5s
milakel: i think it's neat
iwandertoo: dorky coolio
iwandertoo: moi
iwandertoo: how are you, mila?
milakel: i'm ok, i guess :)
iwandertoo: you guess?
milakel: guess what?
iwandertoo: shrugs
milakel: :)
iwandertoo: not a good guesser
--BELL--

Calvino Rabeni: I am a good guesser, it's just that I have a very low proportion of CORRECT ones.
iwandertoo: uhm...wouldnt this mean then perhaps you're not?
Calvino Rabeni: No, guessing is easy!
iwandertoo: how so
Calvino Rabeni: If I make 5000 guesses, I'm bound to get more correct ones than someone who makes 5 because they are concerned about whether the answers are correct or not
iwandertoo: i don think so...
iwandertoo: i dont see the corollary
Calvino Rabeni: Sort of like the cottonwood tree ... makes many seeds, which then blow in the wind
iwandertoo: 5000 guesses would take an extreme amount of thought
iwandertoo: and time
iwandertoo: but it might be fun
Calvino Rabeni: Sure, but thought is a lot easier too when not worrying so much about correctness
iwandertoo: correctness...no...figuring it out
iwandertoo: its the process of figuring it out that i think is fun
Calvino Rabeni: in every area of nature there are species that make really different choices in the balance between quality and quantity
iwandertoo: i can only speak for myself...
Calvino Rabeni: lots of different strategies for figuring things out, reaching some goal states
iwandertoo: to my knowledge humans dont engage in random guesses...there is directional tendency to figure things out
Calvino Rabeni: Good evening, Aphrodite
iwandertoo: iwandertoo pokes Mila
iwandertoo: turn a frown upside down
Second Life: You have been added to the group.
iwandertoo: hi aphrodite
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Susan, Cal, Mila
Aphrodite Macbain: Still got that bag over your head I see Mila
Aphrodite Macbain: Thanks for your help with the wiki!
Calvino Rabeni: Did you try the bag experience too, Aphro?
Aphrodite Macbain: Um no. Iseem to have missed out on it
Aphrodite Macbain: I did wear one for Bleu's performance many months ago
Calvino Rabeni: I'm at this point really uncertain how much you may have missed out on
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm sure I missed out on something that happened yesterday morning at 7AM
Calvino Rabeni: What might that be?
Aphrodite Macbain: since many people arrived at the 8AM meeting wearing bags
Calvino Rabeni: ah
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm sure Mila can tell all
Calvino Rabeni: Can you, Mila?
Calvino Rabeni: Calvino Rabeni loves stories
Aphrodite Macbain: Are you sitting comfortably?
Calvino Rabeni: Mila?
Aphrodite Macbain: Aphrodite Macbain can't remember ever being read to as a child
Calvino Rabeni: Currently looks slumped over, maybe there's not enough oxygen in the bag
Aphrodite Macbain: It says "away" on her name
Aphrodite Macbain: She's out of it
--BELL--

Aphrodite Macbain: Can you tell us a story Cal?
Paradise Tennant: hiya susan .. aph milakel cal :) good to see everyone :)
iwandertoo: hi paradise
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Paradise
Calvino Rabeni: Good evening Paradise
Calvino Rabeni: Calvino Rabeni is fishing for a story
Aphrodite Macbain: Strange things are happening to the avis. They lose their top half and then regain them...
Aphrodite Macbain: Aphrodite Macbain throws in some bait
Calvino Rabeni: :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles and listens :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Happened to paradise and Susan
Paradise Tennant: hmm you do not see me normally ?
Aphrodite Macbain: I do now.
Paradise Tennant: I am cloud to myself tonite :)
Calvino Rabeni: All seem norbal to me
Calvino Rabeni: A story .. hmmm
Paradise Tennant: what kind of story ? cal
Aphrodite Macbain: He's going to tell us one Paradise
Calvino Rabeni: Maybe an anecdote kind of story
Aphrodite Macbain: maybe we can create one

Calvino Rabeni: There was a man who liked to garden
Calvino Rabeni: He grew things behind his house
milakel: aph :)
Calvino Rabeni: and other things in front
Calvino Rabeni: so many things in fact that he ran out of room
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
milakel: oh, para is different :)
Aphrodite Macbain: uh oh!
Calvino Rabeni: so he started planting on the dirt strip beside the street
Calvino Rabeni: he grew tomatoes and pumpkins
Aphrodite Macbain: good for him
Calvino Rabeni: by the end of the summer the pumpkin vines were huge!
Paradise Tennant: like pumpkins
Calvino Rabeni: and there were many large pumpkins
Calvino Rabeni: Halloween was approaching
Calvino Rabeni: he was getting ready to harvest
Aphrodite Macbain: Aphrodite Macbain thinks about pumpkin pie
Calvino Rabeni: one day he looked out the window and ...
Calvino Rabeni: the pumpkin patch was bare!
Aphrodite Macbain: Aphrodite Macbain holds her breath
Calvino Rabeni: He went out to the street...
Calvino Rabeni: and heard the voices of children
Calvino Rabeni: coming around the corner
Aphrodite Macbain: It's those kids again!
Calvino Rabeni: they were having a parade!
Calvino Rabeni: and each one of them had a costume
Aphrodite Macbain: Yayyy
Calvino Rabeni: and was marching along
Calvino Rabeni: carrying a pumpkin, or wearing one
Aphrodite Macbain: did someone have a drum?
Calvino Rabeni: yes they thumped on the pumpkins
Calvino Rabeni: which are hollow!
Calvino Rabeni: He waited in front of the house
Aphrodite Macbain: (ah - pumpkin pies! Many of them
Calvino Rabeni: the pumpkin parade approached
Calvino Rabeni: he called out to the children
Calvino Rabeni: "GOOD AFTERNOON!
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Calvino Rabeni: ... WATCHA GOT THERE???"
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Calvino Rabeni: The children all suddenly scattered
Aphrodite Macbain: with their drums?
Calvino Rabeni: there was no place to hide so they ALL hid behind a telephone utility pole
Calvino Rabeni: lined up to pretend to be invisible
Aphrodite Macbain: :-o
Calvino Rabeni: the man said again ..."HI! Watcha got there?"
Calvino Rabeni: There was a pause
Calvino Rabeni: and a small voice spoke up.
Calvino Rabeni: "... not PUMPKINS!"
Aphrodite Macbain: he he
Calvino Rabeni: (The End)

Aphrodite Macbain: Aphrodite Macbain APPLAUDS!!!
Calvino Rabeni: hehe
Aphrodite Macbain: ********** TOP LIVE SINGER **********
Aphrodite Macbain: ***** APPPPPPPLLLLAAAUUUSSSSEEEEEEE***********
Aphrodite Macbain: Good story. Thanks Cal.
Calvino Rabeni: YW
Aphrodite Macbain: I can almost imagine you telling out loud
Aphrodite Macbain: 2 more months till Halloween
Aphrodite Macbain: anyone else got a story?
iwandertoo: nods no
milakel: heh, "top live singer" :)
Aphrodite Macbain: not sure where that came from....
milakel: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Nice to hear something that is not about 9/11
milakel: 9/11? ah, that
Aphrodite Macbain: Evry media source is trying to out do itself
Aphrodite Macbain: in telling an original story about it
milakel: i gave up on media sources long time ago :)
Aphrodite Macbain: smart girl Mila
milakel: sleep better after that
--BELL--

Aphrodite Macbain: Mila- you have lost your smirk!
milakel: *nods*
Aphrodite Macbain: Stang e things are happening around our fountain.
milakel: another paper bag emicon :)
Aphrodite Macbain: strange
Aphrodite Macbain: oh. K
milakel: titled "blank" :)
milakel: grass!
milakel: nice
milakel: *picks a few daisies and decorates the bag*
Aphrodite Macbain: There you go again Paradise. Lost your top and then regained it. But you are not a skinless pygmy
milakel: heh
milakel: she's a cutie
milakel: luci! :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Luci. Welcome to our strange world
Paradise Tennant: hiya luci
Lucinda Lavender: Heloo...
Lucinda Lavender: Luci is shouting down a long tunnel...
Lucinda Lavender: with echos
milakel: :)
Lucinda Lavender: what is strange about your world be-ers
Paradise Tennant: going to relog be right back
milakel: aph is rezzing some strange objects :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Paradise and Mila keep changing
milakel: heh
Aphrodite Macbain: aph is trying to put a bag on her head
milakel: funny how one single stroke can have such an impact :)
Lucinda Lavender: Maybe The name Aphrodite does not match up with bags on the head...
Aphrodite Macbain: That's more like it Paradise!
Aphrodite Macbain: Aphrodite Macbain breathes a sigh of relief
milakel: dashing through the snow :)
Calvino Rabeni: Good evening dash
Dash Earthboy: hey y'all
Lucinda Lavender: HI Dash
Aphrodite Macbain: lively dress
Aphrodite Macbain: and lovely
Dash Earthboy: like your headdress Mila :)
milakel: :)
milakel: thanks
Paradise Tennant: we were telling stories :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Your dress fell off when you sat down Paradise but you do have your hair
Paradise Tennant: lol
milakel: makes it easier to catch the emotion :)
Dash Earthboy: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Dash
milakel: stev! :)
Paradise Tennant: hiya dash
Dash Earthboy: hi Aph <3
stevenaia Michinaga: hello
Paradise Tennant: hiya stev
Dash Earthboy: hey stev
Aphrodite Macbain: Hiya Stevenaia
Lucinda Lavender: Hi Steve
stevenaia Michinaga: waves
Calvino Rabeni: Steve hello
stevenaia Michinaga: have paradise been rezzing for a while?
Aphrodite Macbain: She keeps dropping her clothing
Aphrodite Macbain: Nice smile Mila
Dash Earthboy: so we're catching that inner glow?
stevenaia Michinaga: I hate when that happens
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Always important to have nice underwear on. Never know when your clothes will fall off
Calvino Rabeni: Calvino Rabeni looks out the window at the rising moon
Lucinda Lavender: Same here Cal
stevenaia Michinaga: my mother used to say that
Paradise Tennant: hmm a full moon we could tell ghost stories
Aphrodite Macbain: Yes, it is a very big golden disc in a very dark blue sky
Lucinda Lavender: the moon is just rising...and it gets dark out a little earlier
Calvino Rabeni: The fullness will reverse at 2:27
stevenaia Michinaga: raining here, no moonrise :(
Dash Earthboy: feeling for ya stev
Aphrodite Macbain: Ghost stories...
Lucinda Lavender: this am cal?
Calvino Rabeni: Yes
stevenaia Michinaga: post pics on the log
Aphrodite Macbain: so it is at its fullest
--BELL--

stevenaia Michinaga: looks for SL moon
stevenaia Michinaga: why is there a paper bag shot in the head over there?
milakel: huh?
stevenaia Michinaga: points accusingly at Aph, behind you Mila
stevenaia Michinaga: (owner)
milakel: bruce left his ipod
milakel: ah! :)
milakel: art of aph :)
stevenaia Michinaga: ofcourse!
Paradise Tennant: I have a friend whose house is haunted :) .. once a year they get a visitation . the air gets cold .and start to smell of river mud .. and a young boy comes in dressed in 1920 garb walks through the back door dripping wet with his shoes over his shoulder calling mother
Paradise Tennant: at first only my friend could see him
Paradise Tennant: but one year her 3 year old daughter asked her where the boy ws going
Paradise Tennant: now everyone in the family has seen him
Lucinda Lavender: !!
Lucinda Lavender: takes a deep breath
milakel: paranormal activity? :)
Paradise Tennant: she researched it .. they live in a century home in hamilton
Paradise Tennant: use to be river in the back
milakel: definitely an x-file :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Aphrodite Macbain wonders what river mud smells likee
Paradise Tennant: according to the archives a 10 year old boy drowned in the river who use to live in their house
Aphrodite Macbain: Aphrodite Macbain wonders why her hand is stuck at a weird angle
Lucinda Lavender: I think a little stinky aphrodite
Paradise Tennant: his sister was suppose to be watching him but she was with a suitor in the parlour
Paradise Tennant: always feels like a sad room it seems
Dash Earthboy: the river mud here where we walked the dogs an hour ago smells great!
milakel: have you seen him, para?
milakel: dash :)
Aphrodite Macbain: You don't know Hamilton Dash!
Paradise Tennant: rich earthy weedy
Dash Earthboy: i guess you're right :)
Paradise Tennant: in the 1920s maybe not so bad
milakel: maybe frogs live there
Aphrodite Macbain: 'Twas a dark and stormy night...
Dash Earthboy: the tree frog in my bedroom in GA didn't smell bad at all either :)
Aphrodite Macbain: and the frogs were croaking their lonely call
milakel: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: and from the depths of the river, there rose a strange cry
Lucinda Lavender: Moon rose steadily to cast a silver path across the water
milakel: ayyyyhhhheeeeeeee
Aphrodite Macbain: the river shivered and the silver path began to widen
Dash Earthboy: ribbit
Aphrodite Macbain: Something was pushing its way to the surface
Lucinda Lavender: up popped...
Paradise Tennant: no never have seen have to be there on the right day
milakel: :)
Calvino Rabeni: Calvino Rabeni shivers
Aphrodite Macbain: a pumpkin!
Paradise Tennant: lol
Lucinda Lavender: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Aphrodite Macbain rolls over laughing
Lucinda Lavender: the unexpected!
Aphrodite Macbain: Aphrodite Macbain giggles
Paradise Tennant: but not quite a pumpkin ..
Aphrodite Macbain: oop
Dash Earthboy: a large squash?
milakel: :)
Paradise Tennant: round .. oranged but with ears
Paradise Tennant: and .. gold eyes that squint hungrily
Aphrodite Macbain: an orange-eared being with golden eyes
Lucinda Lavender: Perhaps the one they call The Great Pumpkin!
Paradise Tennant: and jagged jaws that look lit from within
Aphrodite Macbain: but wait!
Aphrodite Macbain: it kept rising
Aphrodite Macbain: from the river, moving forward toward the shore
milakel: and the water turned red
Lucinda Lavender: Bats came out for a visitation
Aphrodite Macbain: it had legs
Aphrodite Macbain: 3 of them
Dash Earthboy: really it was just my sister :)
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
milakel: spoiler alert!
Aphrodite Macbain: but it WASN'T your sister Dash, it was something else
--BELL--

Aphrodite Macbain: something much worse!
milakel: hehe
Dash Earthboy: couldn't be :)
milakel: 2 sisters?
Dash Earthboy: wicca sisters?
milakel: el chupacabra?
Aphrodite Macbain: wicked sisters
milakel: eh, i knew it!
Aphrodite Macbain: poor cindarella
Dash Earthboy: something tells me we're not in Kansas anymore
Aphrodite Macbain: conmderella
Aphrodite Macbain: cinderella
milakel: are their hands in blood?
Aphrodite Macbain: didn't know how to click her heels
Dash Earthboy: cinderfella?
milakel: heh
Aphrodite Macbain: molto bella
milakel: ciderella
Dash Earthboy: yummy
Dash Earthboy: *he said in his best Jim Carrie voice :)
Aphrodite Macbain: cider-soaked pumpkin
milakel: nom
Aphrodite Macbain: and two mice to pull it to the castle
milakel: hmm
Aphrodite Macbain: and three footment for her 3 feet
milakel: now that doesn't sounds plausible
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Calvino Rabeni: Yeah, I completely believed it up to that point :)
milakel: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: (seriously lol)
Aphrodite Macbain: trying to bkep the consistency
Aphrodite Macbain: keep
Aphrodite Macbain: You can't just say three feet and then forget about it
Lucinda Lavender: hmmmpumkin sister...smiled as it rose out of the water having remembered a funny joke:)
Aphrodite Macbain: do tell Luci
milakel: the 3rd foot could be mistaken for something else
Aphrodite Macbain: !
Lucinda Lavender: hoping someone else remembers it:)
milakel: i think it was a furry tail
milakel: *thinks of woly*
Aphrodite Macbain: a wet furry tail
Dash Earthboy: i think it was about the neurotic dylexic atheist...what happened last night
Aphrodite Macbain: huh?
milakel: :/
Dash Earthboy: dyslexic :)
milakel: a joke?
Dash Earthboy: yep\
Lucinda Lavender: brb:)
milakel: i don't know this one
Aphrodite Macbain: Aphrodite Macbain tries to imagine the lunch line
Dash Earthboy: well, he stayed up all night worrying about whether there was a DOG
Aphrodite Macbain: ah. right
milakel: heh
Aphrodite Macbain: That's right- it was an orange dog that came out of the water that was missing a leg!
Calvino Rabeni: ah yes, the old one about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac :)
milakel: haha
Dash Earthboy: yah Cal, that one too :)
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: a shaggy dog story
Dash Earthboy: must be the full moon :)
Calvino Rabeni: indeed
Aphrodite Macbain: *HOWL!!!*
milakel: mull foon
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Calvino Rabeni: by the way, does anyone know the average number of legs that an adult human being has?
milakel: milakel eeps
Aphrodite Macbain: Aphrodite Macbain considers this carefully and warily
Dash Earthboy: at what age human beings adults?
Calvino Rabeni: I mean, for average adult humans
Aphrodite Macbain: oh as opposed to juvelines?
Calvino Rabeni: choose that parameter conveniently, to suit your source information
Dash Earthboy: it might make a difference :)
Calvino Rabeni: like, say, 35 years
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: *juveniles
Dash Earthboy: guesses 2
Calvino Rabeni: Perhaps the google or wolfram alpha of the future will be able to give the graph of "average number of legs" versus "age"
Calvino Rabeni: Nope, it's less than two
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: but more than one?
Calvino Rabeni: I certainly hope so
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Dash Earthboy: one of those "average family" figures?
Calvino Rabeni: yeah
Dash Earthboy: 1.735?
Aphrodite Macbain: 1.2 children
milakel: 1.5 babies :)
Aphrodite Macbain: snap
Aphrodite Macbain: snip
--BELL--

Aphrodite Macbain: Time to get out of this mad place
milakel: indeed
Aphrodite Macbain: Thanks for the stories
milakel: crazy people in here
Calvino Rabeni: Two dogs were howling at the full moon, and I heard the lonesome call of a V of geese in a nighttime migration
Calvino Rabeni: and with that ... I must fly :)
Calvino Rabeni: Good evening everyone
Aphrodite Macbain: Nice. Fly well. and hihg
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye!
Calvino Rabeni: thanks
Dash Earthboy: happy flying Cal