Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly Kill This Thread XLIX - We're Getting Old

Shakespeare was a hack anyways.

"Somebody, please, get us a hack!"

- Attributed to Groucho Marx

A hack writer?
Hacking cough?
An axe to hack through the bushes?

A hack writer.

Most likely he was being sarcastic. Like many comedians, he and his brothers hated working with writers.

It could be all three as one!

Like a Carggite!

If you find yourself alone and bored, it's fun to do childish things, like saying "CARGG-G-G-G-GUH" in a silly voice.

I like doing some of these silly things with my husband

I'm basically 12 mentally, so I annoy everyone around me with stupid noises

GL, are you familiar with the TV show "The Young Ones?"

And if so, do you remember Alexei Sayle's song "Just Make Stupid Noises?"

I am, but I couldn't tell you anything about it. I know I watched it back in college, but have only vague remembrances of it

One memory refresher, coming right up:

Well remembered Fickles. Sayle has done 4 series of Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar, on the radio. It's pretty good and probably available on some BBC podcast thing.

He's also done a thing where he goes on trains and...talks to people. While no doubt an interesting snapshot into the lives the editor thinks are interesting, it's considered treason in Britain to talk to people on public transport. It's only a matter of time before he's caught and rightly punished.

Thoth, thanks for telling me about Imaginary Sandwich Bar.

And it'd be much more pleasant taking public transport if the rest of the world adopted Britain's approach.

There's an article floating around about "how people can tell you're an American" and that kind of behavior is on that list.

Small talk is indeed very American, at least based on my work experience.

Colleagues from other cultures tend to keep it to "how are you", with a short answer about their day. My American colleagues tend to take much more time with the small talk.

there are exceptions, of course.

and I can say that there are other cultures that also like to make small talk.

One of my funnest memories from train commuting is one morning where I was reading a comic and gradually became aware of spoken sounds in the background like "Wham", "Bang", "Boom". Coming out of my comic induced alternative reality I saw a teenage high school student in uniform grinning at me. I grinned back and promptly went back to my reading. If I had it over again the only thing I would do different is offer to let him read the comic. No new readers without sharing the love.

That was wholesome!

Let him read it?! And potentially diminish the value?! He can look at it when it's slabbed and not a moment before!

stile could have held the comic in front of the teen's face and turned the pages VERY carefully

far enough away that no exhalation or spit could accidentally soil that fine comic book's pages

WHILE WEARING GLOVES!

And using tweezers to turn the pages!

The way I look after my comics he could do pretty much whatever as long as he didn't rip it apart.

Eat pepperoni pizza without napkins while reading?

Pepperoni pizza is my favorite.

Yum.