12 Labours

[cynicalscribe]

During the (soon-to-be legendary, methinks) Myth-Off in the 3 o'clock hour of greyplanet's party, hannahchan, textureslut and I were confounded by the 12 Labours of Hercules. We got the lion skin one, I threw out the whole Amazon's girdle business, and we all got the shitty stables one, but after that we weren't so sure. There were vague mentions of the Hydra, a centaur and

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[hannahchan]

Hmm. I'd add being designated driver during a bachelor/ette party. And the airport thing should be at Dulles during rush hour.

[cynicalscribe]

Definitely Dulles at rush hour. I know people who have been sent there for just that purpose and still haven't returned. Forget Scylla and Charybdis, choosing between 495 and 270 at 5:30 p.m. is truly monstrous!

[jazzometer]

The itemized taxes labor is a great example of a modern-day quotidian labor -- but the twist here is the classical labors were supposed to be not simply difficult, but theoretically impossible -- thinking no one should be able to do

So . . .

* Travel across the US using only mass transit
* Get in an accident and not have your insurance rates go up
* Eliminate the Windows Operating system from the workplace

~j.z.

[cynicalscribe]

Ah, but you haven't experienced the Teflon-like properties of my brain when it comes to numbers, or beheld my atrocious SAT/GRE scores for the math section. Nothing theoretical about the impossibility of getting my taxes done by hand! ;)

Word to all three of your suggestions.

[jazzometer]

Ah, but you haven't experienced the Teflon-like properties of my brain when it comes to numbers, or beheld my atrocious SAT/GRE scores for the math section. Nothing theoretical about the impossibility of getting my taxes done by hand! ;)

Ah . .. my math skills are at the equal to yours, I see -- but that simply tells us that we're not Hercules!

[cynicalscribe]

Ah . .. my math skills are at the equal to yours, I see -- but that simply tells us that we're not Hercules!

Also that we're humanities majors. And that if we're going to do any labours, it better be in the form of smiting the unwary with our ridiculous amounts of knowledge about mythology. ;-)

[asavas]

One Labour could be helping me understand this post!

[cynicalscribe]

The Myth-Off: Party was wrapping up, only five of us left sitting around, someone threw down the gauntlet about knowing a shit-ton about Greek mythology, trivia questions were popped, answers were debated, hannahchan schooled us all.

A trivia question posed was: What were the 12 Labours of Hercules? We couldn't get them all without the Wikipedia, so we made up our own. Conversation degenerated from there. Modern Hercules would so have to set up sound equipment.

[hannahchan]

It's only taken 20-some years, but finally all those summers I spent trapped on a sailboat reading the same goddamned book over and over again have paid off! This makes it all worthwhile!

Wait, no, it doesn't....

Set it up, and load it in. And out.

[fightscrime]

Oh, man! Now I realize who the person who I thought looked familiar but did not know and therefore did not talk to because I'm awkward like that was! Hi!

[cynicalscribe]

Hi! I should have come over and introduced myself, but I was being awkward too. That and the Tom Jones DVD completely sucked me in.

[greyplanet]

i am totally shitty about introducing people.

[greyplanet]

also:

. . .and for his 12th Labour, Hercules had to bail his drummer out of jail.