Sweet Jesus, somebody say something funny!!!

[Sophie90]

I'm actually really annoyed that this thread even exists.  I'm sick of the whole unicorn, playing dress-up, eternal child thing that's been randomly attached to the androgynes here.  We're mature, sensible, responsible people who just _happen_ to occupy a non-binary gender role.  We're not just happy little sprites, here to skip around and provide amusement for the "real grown-ups.  I for one have had enough of being stereotyped as capricious, juvenile, irresponsible, easily-distracted OH HOLY CATS LEGO STAR WARS FOR THE XBOX IS HERE!!!

But Lego is the best thing ever! I've probably played with Lego for a larger proportion of my life than anything else, including sleep.

Anyway, you can still be mature and kick back and be silly on occassion.
I appreciate a serious and mature discussion as much as the next man (er, depending on who he is...) but not everything has to be serious!

[heatherrose]

But Lego is the best thing ever!

"Legos" were alright but they'll never hold a candle
to an "Erector Set". So cool was it, to build a crane
with your erector set, to build a "Lincoln Log" cabin,
after hauling the logs to the building site with the
truck you built with your "Erector Set"

[Jaimey]

Jacques Derrida:      Any number of contending discourses may be discovered
                      within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and
                      each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial
                      intent can never be discerned, because structuralism
                      is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!

HAH!  My favorite...although they're all great.  Post modern chicken...

Lego Star Wars...I couldn't even take out Bowser in Super Mario Bros. on my SuperNintendo. 

[Kinkly]

what is an "Erector Set" sounds like something advertised on late night TV 

[heatherrose]

what is an "Erector Set"?

Appears I have already said to much...

[KYLYKaHYT]

...if you want a Plastic Irrigation Riser Nipple Extractor Tool, this is the place

http://www.amazon.com/Plastic-Irrigation-Riser-Nipple-Extractor/dp/B0002XH4KE/ref=pd_sbs_misc_4

A nipple extractor tool sounds like it could be a handy device. Do they by chance sell penis retractor tools too?

I think they should sell both of them together in a nice, velvet-lined boxed set. 

[Sophie90]

Dear lord, what has happened here?

I made no mention of such things!

I liked the pirate ships and the tanks and other violent things I used to build.

Good, clean fun for all the family.

[Pica Pica]

it's a silly world, silly is the perfect response.

[Jaimey]

Good, clean fun for all the family.

That never lasts long here. 

[ZaidaZadkiel]

Agree with pica on the world being silly. Not on nipple extracting, that sounds painful.

Also, legos are awesome.

We're mature, sensible, responsible people who just _happen_ to occupy a non-binary gender role

I'm not.

[V M]

My nephew was playing with fire crackers with a friend. I asked if it was OK for me to blow up his Legos race car. I didn't mention my experience with explosives. The car sped out on the driveway, then blew sky high.
My nephew and his friend ran out to the driveway just about the time the parts came raining down. I felt kinda bad. My nephew didn't understand that I would actually blow the race car up. For years Ive wanted to find a replacement for it. But I'll be happy to blow up anyone's legos that would like me to 

[heatherrose]

what is an "Erector Set" sounds like something advertised on late night TV 

http://www.erectorusa.com/

[Lokaeign]

Ah!  So it's like Mecchano?

[KYLYKaHYT]

Ah!  So it's like Mecchano?

Yes. They are both the same thing, just marketed under different names.

[heatherrose]

Actually, I had never heard of Meccano
before looking up the link that I posted.
I have to admit Meccano looks WAY cooler.

[KYLYKaHYT]

My nephew was playing with fire crackers with a friend. I asked if it was OK for me to blow up his Legos race car. I didn't mention my experience with explosives. The car sped out on the driveway, then blew sky high.
My nephew and his friend ran out to the driveway just about the time the parts came raining down. I felt kinda bad. My nephew didn't understand that I would actually blow the race car up. For years Ive wanted to find a replacement for it. But I'll be happy to blow up anyone's legos that would like me to 

You mean it never occurred to him to blow up his own toys...?

What an odd kid.


      "Why do I smell burning sulfur?"

Post Merge: April 17, 2009, 04:34:32 PM

I have to admit Meccano looks WAY cooler.

Of course. "Meccano" sounds like something you use to make cool killer robots. "Erector Set," on the other hand, sounds too much like a dead-end construction job you might grow up to toil at until you either retire or die.

[tekla]

a dead-end construction job

I'm sure many are.  I'm just as sure that my working for a construction company sent me all over the world, and the people who worked there made very good money.  On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge I interviewed a bunch of guys (and they were all guys) about working on that thing and to a man, every man-jack one of them told me it was the greatest thing they ever did in their life, and each and every time over those 50 years they looked up at that bridge they had a feeling of great satisfaction.

Myself, most of what I do is construction by a different name.  We take an empty stage - a black box - and build within it a show, and put that show on, and when its done we take it all back to that empty stage, that black box.  And a thousand, or two thousand, or like Outside Lands, 10 thousand people have a good time, are entertained, perhaps even enlightened a bit.

As for a dead end, perhaps moving bricks from point A to point B might be that, but anyone with real construction skills can make very, very good money.

And, its honest work.  And, at the end of the day you've done more than push a pile of papers from one side of the desk to the other.  I look at some of the shows I've helped put on and know exactly how those guys who built that bridge felt.

[heatherrose]

...over those 50 years they looked up at that bridge they had a feeling of great satisfaction...
...(I) know exactly how those guys who built that bridge felt.

Someone, PLEASE, get me cool cloth for my forehead,
I'm feeling faint. Am I about to agree with Tekla?

There is no greater feeling in the world than the satisfaction
in a job well done. Not so much in any recognition of your
accompishments, which is your due, but the KNOWING within
yourself that, with yours hands, you made the world a slight
more beautiful, awe inspiring or simply a more accessible
place for someone you'll never meet.

[KYLYKaHYT]

Forgive me for lapsing into a moment of tongue-in-cheek cynicism, but after 30 years of literally wearing my body out - and still earning the same wage that I made in the early 80s, when I was still a kid (except now I don't get any retirement or medical benefits) - I guess I was somehow looking forward to just a wee bit more reward than the satisfaction of a job well done.

[V M]

You mean it never occurred to him to blow up his own toys...?

What an odd kid.

They were trying to blow the toys up but didn't really know how