Clockwork Storybook

Check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTbb2Ngi4xE

Cool animation!

I checked a couple of videos.
It seems funny enough to watch if I am bored and don't have something else to do but I wouldn't wait to watch it if I had something better to do.
If you want a good show about nothing you must make one with me as the protagonist!

What would we cal this show starring you, Markos?

Ian Westhoff wrote:What would we cal this show starring you, Markos?

Bards! Duh! ^.^

The funny thing that I don't even talk so much about Bards in real life. I always liked Bards but mentioning them without any reason started here at a thread about gaming. We had a conversation about D&D and I said that I liked Bards and then with each post I said even more strange things. I had so fun writing those posts that I decided to mention them as most as I can here.

So, a show with me in it as I am wouldn't have that many Bards in it but if the show had nothing to do with and I was just playing a character then I would like it with as many Bards as I can get.

But the show I have thought of is more like a sitcom. Me and my friends would do and say what we normally do and say. If you take the parts of the day we are together and make then into 20-minute videos you could have some episodes for a very good sitcom. We also have these most enlightening conversations that don't have any true meaning like alternative universes where we are super-heroes, questioning the things in the Pokemon universe that doesn't make sense (apart from the Pokemons), re-imagining the Archie characters in a more mature and dark reality and stuff like that.

I totally agree with Ian, about Seinfeld, except I'd add that Seinfeld always seemed kinda malicious to me. Like it was always about Schadenfreude (laughing at other's suffering, it's German, as one might expect... The Japanese have a word for "death by overwork", what's nice with English is if we like your words, we take them. >;P). My best friend loved that show and Friends, and I never could understand either of them. They're situation comedies, and I think that wears on me after awhile. Though I do love the Soup Nazi "No soup for you!".

Tell me more of these dark versions of the Archie characters, Markos?

You know, Chrissy, I never really thought of Seinfeld in the regards of Schadenfreude, but now that you say that I see what you mean.

You mentioned the Japenese have a word for "death by overwork". What is it?

過労死, karōshi, it sounds like karashi, which means mustard... sounds similar but very different in practice. One goes nice with hotdogs and pretzels, the other doesn't go nice with pretty much anything, I did a google search for the kanji and found an article on wikipedia about it.

I really do find this thread unignorable!

In the spirit of this thread, I have a ignorant question for the Northerners, I saw this great article on ice boating. We have no similar past time in the South, given the relatively mild winters. I'd heard of ice-fishing but not ice boating. It looks really fun. Has anyone actually done this? Do people do this outside the US, too? The video was great and showed the "gem" of their collection, "The Jack Frost". ;) I liked that, too. That's my ignorable post for the day.

Chrissy Kistler wrote:I really do find this thread unignorable!

In the spirit of this thread, I have a ignorant question for the Northerners, I saw this great article on ice boating. We have no similar past time in the South, given the relatively mild winters. I'd heard of ice-fishing but not ice boating. It looks really fun. Has anyone actually done this? Do people do this outside the US, too? The video was great and showed the "gem" of their collection, "The Jack Frost". ;) I liked that, too. That's my ignorable post for the day.

I know people who used to do this and now they do kite skiing. On water in the summer, on ice in the winter. I go out occasionally and watch. Ice boating works best with large frozen areas, and a lot of race sailors like to do it in the winter.

Skijoring! you should do that. Oh the joys of letting sled dogs pull you around strapped into only ski's. Now that is fun. Yes also i'm aware there are supposed to be umlaut's on the O but i can't make them in my posts! Now that's a winter sport you Southerners should go out and experience.

I've never done any of those sports, but I have partaken in the old fashioned winter snow ball fight. That was always fun. One was memorable, the rest were fun.

Tobogganning, I love sliding down a hill

Tobogganning is fun. When we were younger and would do that we'd have a bunch of sleds and as we were going down hill we'd try to jump from one sled to another.

Always made me think of the life raft scene in Temple of Doom.

Heh, when I was in university we used to borrow the food trays from the cafeteria and go sliding down the hill. Some of the silliest tobaggonning I've down. Big hills are wicked fun, but and good exercise. The best were on airplane inner tubes when that we got spinning as we slid down the hill.

Cafeteria trays are deadly. We made the mistake of using the ones we stole as snowboards at a dorm party on the hill outside. My tailbone was in rough shape for a least three weeks and kinda iffy after that but i was so much fun.

Cafeteria trays! That is genius. I never tried that but it sounds wickedly fun.

Tom Stevenson wrote:Cafeteria trays are deadly. We made the mistake of using the ones we stole as snowboards at a dorm party on the hill outside. My tailbone was in rough shape for a least three weeks and kinda iffy after that but i was so much fun.

But that is part of the fun - did you try standing on them as you went down? I thought they worked best if you sat on them cross-legged and had some one spin you as part of a push off.

The melamine ones work best, Ian :) One of my favourite university memories is tobogganing on cafeteria trays at 1-2AM on a gorgeous moonlit night on fresh snow.

That sounds like a lot of fun, Cindy.

Makes me wish I went away to college.

Ian Westhoff wrote:Tell me more of these dark versions of the Archie characters, Markos?

Some things are better remain unspoken...
The whole conversation started when for some reason a friend of mine said that if the comic was first published in the present days Jughead would clearly be a drug addict. After that we started to re-imagine all the other characters. The other versions are far more perverted so I don't know if it would be a good idea to discuss them.
Except from Archie himself. We decided it would be more interesting to leave him as he is so we would have a more "pure" character interact with the new versions.