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geekofthegate

[Video] Attack of the Sharpie

May 11, 2009 14:40

[Daniel sits down in front of the computer, a very blank look on his face. The first thing you notice is that a mustache, glasses, a black eye, and several less discernable scribbles have been drawn on his face in black marker; he is trying to scrub it off with a rag while he talks. A very faint thumping sound can be heard in the background, like ( Read more... )

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[Voice] bozakcommander May 11 2009, 19:40:29 UTC

[Laughter]

Daniel, try just smashing the thing. Worked for the tankards that attacked me.

Re: [Voice] geekofthegate May 11 2009, 23:32:06 UTC

Hey now, don't laugh! It's gonna take me hours to get this marker off my face!

[grin on his face shows through on his voice] Were you drinking from them at the time and they tried to bite your nose?

[Voice] bozakcommander May 11 2009, 23:45:38 UTC

Luckily, no.

[Still chuckling]

Re: [Voice] geekofthegate May 11 2009, 23:48:46 UTC

[grinning more] I'd love to get a picture of that: you walking around Manhatten with a tankard latched onto your nose.

Maybe YOU should come over and kill it, Kang! Believe it or not, smashing a highly compact plastic marker tube - especially when it keeps trying to get away - is not as easy as it sounds. But seeing as your feet are considerably bigger than mine...*cough*andyou'refivetimesstrongerthanme*cough*...

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golgaritin May 11 2009, 21:43:47 UTC

Smash it! My cup tried to bite me this morning. Well, I was faster and now it'll never try...

geekofthegate May 11 2009, 23:35:52 UTC

But that's the thing: how exactly do you smash a sharpie marker? They aren't the easiest things to break in half (plus it makes this really spine-tingling keening sound when I try), and the compact size means I'll need something really heavy. And I'm afraid to take it outside to drop a block of concrete on it because it'll get away again and... [self-consciously scrubs at face where the marker was before] Let's just say that it took me a while to clean up the mess last time.

So we've got living teacups, sharpies, tankards, beds, dressers...when did this place become Toy Story?

golgaritin May 12 2009, 06:28:14 UTC

Wouldn't be a blow with your sword enough? I don't exactly know what a sharpie marker is, but I think it's softer than steel.

Yeah, at the moment we have a lot of possessed things. Err, what is Toy Story?

geekofthegate May 29 2009, 06:07:57 UTC

Sword...? Oh right. I completely forgot I owned one. [embarrassed laugh] I've mostly been studying the ones I found at the museum, and since I didn't get to come to very many of your swordfighting lessons...I mostly just use my guns and a pipe. I still don't think I'd have been able to get that thing to sit still long enough to actually hit it with enough force, though.

Toy Story? Oh, it's a really popular movie in my dimension, about how children's toys are actually alive and talk to each other and have adventures when the people aren't around to see them. In one of the end scenes, though, they reveal themselves to this really bratty kid to scare him so that he'll stop mutilating toys and such for fun. ...This situation isn't nearly as funny or innocent as that one, but that's what it reminds me of. [laughs]

inthephonebook May 11 2009, 22:45:50 UTC

Markers don't growl at you? You come from a very strange place.

geekofthegate May 11 2009, 23:39:09 UTC

....[short, barking laugh] I come from a strange place? I come from a place where wormholes connect almost every planet in two galaxies, aliens living in people's spines control them like puppets and live thousands of years, time travel is possible, and I've died and come back to life more times than I can actually remember. And markers are still not supposed to growl.

I don't come from a strange place in this case, Harry. If markers growl in your dimension, then YOU come from a strange place.

inthephonebook May 12 2009, 01:26:57 UTC

Hey, at least when I travel to alternate realities, we have the decency to call what we do magic.

And hey, strange is relative.

Well, okay, given I once fought Chucky, that thing from Aliens, and Hammerhands all in the same week, maybe you could argue my world is unequivocally strange...

geekofthegate May 12 2009, 01:40:01 UTC

Oh-ho, don't ever talk to my friend Sam about magic. She will talk you into the wall about all of the reasons why it ISN'T. Besides, we don't have magic, we just have ascended beings who can change the weather, live on another plane of existence, magically heal and perform telikinesis! See, all perfectly scientific. I don't know why you would call that magic.
[is obviously joking, of course]

Very true.

...[opens mouth, stops, thinks]...Well, since I've encountered the Roswell aliens and been to various alternate realities and dimensions, as well as ascended once or twice, and I'm currently in a world where Disney characters have come to life, I'm not sure how judgemental I can be in this situation. I've certainly MET a few things that look like that thing from Aliens.

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doctor_of_time May 12 2009, 08:33:11 UTC

A mustache and glasses? That's not very original. It's quite disappointing, really. One would think that something as extraordinary as a living marker would take on slightly more innovative scribbles than that.

...And I'm being rude again, aren't I? Right. Er...you managed to get the Sharpie situation under control, I hope?

geekofthegate May 23 2009, 16:55:38 UTC

Well, you might think so, but then what can you really expect from a living marker?

[laughs] Nah, don't worry about it. Yeah, we handled the situation alright, with some...interesting results.

Let's just say that you should never break a living marker in half to kill it WHILE you are still inside, over the carpet. In a moderately closed room.