Thrill Seekers & Playground Games

[Carol the Dabbler]

So you just stay indoors? 

 

[jesskayding]

[jesskayding]

Bendy did say blech to my dream outdoor wedding during chat.. Said she prefers inside.

[Carol the Dabbler]

One of our high-school teachers assigned us to write a poem about the beauties of nature, so naturally I came up with this (or at least as much as I can remember of it):

 

I hate the outdoors, I'll never enjoy it.

Thistles and rattlesnakes thoroughly spoil it.

I detest picnics of all kinds and sorts;

Ants always crawl up my bluejeans and shorts.

It's always too cold, or else it's too hot.

Do I want to go outdoors?  No, I'd rather not!

 

I don't actually feel that way -- just couldn't resist being contrary.  But now I'll dedicate it to Bendy!

 

[Arcadia]

Ha, I had a similar assignment, only the first line was given to us and we had to go from there. Here's what I came up with:

 

Upon a hill there sat an ant

Playing a guitar.

And though he was not Hendrix,

He surely was a star.

 

His bassist was a butterfly;

His organist, a bee.

And when their voices joined together

Oh! What harmony!

 

I eventually came up with a longer, funnier version, but that's too much for my poor little brain to remember.

[Carol the Dabbler]

We seem to have an "ant" theme going.... 

 

[Arcadia]

Don't look at me, Bendy started it.

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

Bendydoodle went to town,
a-riding on a taxi ~ ♪

He stuck a gun up to John's head and called:

"YOU'RE GAY YOU GAINED THREE POUNDS YOU'RE HAVING AN AFFAIR AND YOU'RE THINKING OF SHAGGING ME!" ~ ♪

[Arcadia]

Is that another ant poem, Bendy?

[jesskayding]

One of our high-school teachers assigned us to write a poem about the beauties of nature, so naturally I came up with this (or at least as much as I can remember of it):

 

I hate the outdoors, I'll never enjoy it.

Thistles and rattlesnakes thoroughly spoil it.

I detest picnics of all kinds and sorts;

Ants always crawl up my bluejeans and shorts.

It's always too cold, or else it's too hot.

Do I want to go outdoors? No, I'd rather not!

 

I don't actually feel that way -- just couldn't resist being contrary. But now I'll dedicate it to Bendy!

 

 

Hee-ah-lair-ree-uhs. yeah there you go Bendy.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

About 15 years ago I went on a 2 month internship trip around the northern hemisphere (was about 80 mi north of the equator at my farthest point south). On that trip I navigated Paris by myself (I don't speak any useful French), walked around a small India village in the foot hills of the Himalayas watching out for monkeys as we toured a Tibetan refugee school (other side of India from where Benedict had been teaching 4 or 5 years earlier), rode a baby elephant in Thailand at an Alligator farm, went snorkeling & deep sea fishing in Hawai'i, & probably the most daring (because we'd be arrested now as 9/11 was a little less than 2 years later) was climb a chain link fence around 1 or 2 am at LAX airport near their administrative building to go between terminals since the shuttle never showed up.

[Shadow Dweller]

Sherlock Holmes, on the case of 'A Study in LARP-ing' :D

Edited March 23, 2015 by Carol the Dabbler
Moved here from another thread, along with the ensuing discussion. My apologies to Shadow, who was attempting to suggest a possible interpretation of what little we know about the Christmas Special.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Sherlock Holmes, on the case of 'A Study in LARP-ing' :D

Now that would be interesting. My son would probably enjoy that as he does LARPing every summer with some friends at a park (amazingly no one looks at us weird or complains about it).

[Shadow Dweller]

 

Sherlock Holmes, on the case of 'A Study in LARP-ing' :D

Now that would be interesting. My son would probably enjoy that as he does LARPing every summer with some friends at a park (amazingly no one looks at us weird or complains about it).

Let's do it! Seeding small groups in every area, slow but sure spreading the game and annual national meeting/fun time. Wouldn't it be awesome to play SHERLOCK characters in real life setting, gained new friends and possible business partners? I think I am in love :D

[Carol the Dabbler]

My son ... does LARPing every summer with some friends at a park (amazingly no one looks at us weird or complains about it).

 

Haven't kids been doing live-action role playing since -- well, since there have been kids?

 

[Arcadia]

We used to play cowboys (not cowboys and Indians, just cowboys). I was always a horse.

[Carol the Dabbler]

You were ahead of me, then.  The neighborhood kids used to play Roy Rogers, but another girl always got to be Dale Evans, so I ended up as Nellybelle.

 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

 

My son ... does LARPing every summer with some friends at a park (amazingly no one looks at us weird or complains about it).

Haven't kids been doing live-action role playing since -- well, since there have been kids?

Yes but how many do it at a public park with swords, axes, and shields on the trails and on the open areas where they might see other people?

[sfmpco]

LARPing?

[Arcadia]

Live-action role playing. Do keep up. :D (I didn't know either until I realized Carol had written it up above.) ;)

[Carol the Dabbler]

I Googled it!

 

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

 

My son ... does LARPing every summer with some friends at a park (amazingly no one looks at us weird or complains about it).

 

Haven't kids been doing live-action role playing since -- well, since there have been kids?

 

We used to play cowboys (not cowboys and Indians, just cowboys). I was always a horse.

You were ahead of me, then.  The neighborhood kids used to play Roy Rogers, but another girl always got to be Dale Evans, so I ended up as Nellybelle.

 

 

 I remember in elementary school all of the boys (and a few of the tomboyish girls) would play this weird cross between Cops and Robbers and Call of Duty. It was really fun, actually -- some kids were guards and some kids were 'frontliners' and some were the robbers, and it was always tough when we jailed a bunch of the robbers and they all busted out at once. :D You could handcuff people (they would have to run with their hands behind their backs) and even clip them to a tree or one of the playground structures. Whole weeks were spent plotting the demise of the robbers. There were dodgy alliances and unexpected betrayals, the stuff of legends. It was insanely fun. :lol:

 

Of course, all that was destroyed when "zero tolerance" rolled in. Because finger-guns are inappropriate, running with your hands behind your back is dangerous, and Cops and Robbers encourages violence in children.  <_<

 

[Arcadia]

Egad, Bendy. I'm amazed you survived. OMG, you could have skinned a knee and been ruined for life! :o

[sfmpco]

Oh heck, we played dodge ball in gym class...sanctified by the state, oh yes.  And we aimed to throw the ball hard and really smack someone.  Those were the days...

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Oh heck, we played dodge ball in gym class...sanctified by the state, oh yes.  And we aimed to throw the ball hard and really smack someone.  Those were the days...

 

I played that too.  My son has played that game on occasion at church even.