Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly Kill This Thread IX: The 24-Hour Version (Fifth Time)

When I arrived in China in February 2012, I was bemused at the fact that a lot of department stores still hadn't removed their Christmas decorations. I wonder if they just keep them on until Chinese Years is over or if they just don't want to take them down.

As a kid, I usually loved celebrating Chanukkah with my family. Candles, singing and dancing, eight days of gifts, stories about miracles and The Good Guys Winning. Hard to find fault with that.

I still tend to think of Winter festivals as primarily being for the enjoyment of kids. I'm an Atheist now, but I still buy some chocolate-gold coins and light the Menorah every year. At some level, I suspect my mother of having supernatural divination powers. If I didn't light it, she'd know. (Never mind that we live on opposite sides of the country.) Then there'd be all kinds of awkward explaining to do.

Plus, let's face it, most cultures love having something lit and burning in Wintertime. It boosts everyone's spirits.

Chanukkah starts around Thanksgiving this year. I better get moving. I don't even know if I've got enough candles left over from last year...

I love hearing everyone's facsinating stories about holidays!

My mom's like that too cleome, she somehow just knows stuff.

I'll share a little something about the Mid-Autumn Festival. Mooncakes (sweet pastries) are baked to represent the beautiful full moon. The mooncakes were once used to overthrow the Mongols; secret messages were baked into cakes. During the mid-autumn festival the Chinese people rose up and used the instructions to drive out the Mongols.

The other night someone said a mutual friend was off sunning himself in Cozumel. Noting the time, I said "no he's probably mooning himself." Then I realized what I had said.

If he has Triplicate Girl's powers, he coudl definitely moon himself

It's a guy from my choir. I can pretty much guarantee he has no powers. He's a bass.

I always thought I had a fairlly high voice, then in college I was told by my fthat I was a bass. My voice has gotten a lot deeper since then.

Except when I have a cold (as I do now), I pretty much can't sing below the C below Middle C (called "Tenor C"). I don't have a problem with high notes (again, excepting when impared by illness), so I sing tenor.

So you can sing both bass and tenor? Cool. I don't know much about music but I do know that not everyone can do that. Or at least, not everyone can do it well

Nope. I'm pretty much just a tenor. It's easier for me to sing high notes than low notes. Of course, I'm a choral tenor, which is very different from an operatic tenor.

One can shatter glass with his or her voice, and the other can't?

Something else else like that. I'm definitely a non-shatterer.

This article says it's possible to shatter glass, but you'd need a very capable singer with a very loud voice volume, and a piece of glass that is reasonably brittle.

Henry Higgins knew about that:

She'll have a booming, boisterous family,
Who will descend on you en masse.
She'll have a large Wagnerian mother
With a voice that shatters glass.

I think the boisterous family is scarier than the mom who can shatter glass!

What was terrible trauma for Henry was just "an average day" for my family.

Calm, quiet family dinners where anyone actually completed a sentence were simply Not Done. It's taken me 20+ years on the West Coast to tone my conversational technique down even a little bit. After ten minutes back home with my family, I revert completely, accent and all.

All of my dad's siblings are very gregarious, and they all married partners who are relatively quiet. You can just imagine how family dinners go

I'm not especially gregarious, but I am a tenor. I can't shatter glass, but I can shatter your repose.

Some things are more important than repose. Like listening to Legion Tracker sing!

Several Legion Worlders have talked about singing over the years. Besides Tracker and me, I know that Lash, Lardy and Suddenly Seymour have all done some singing.

Thwre are enough singers to form a boyband! The Back Alley Boys?

I don't think any of us could pull off "boyband" any more. Maybe Middle Aged Guy Band.

We could call it a Man Band!

I know Tracker plays keyboards, but does anyone else play an instrument? I dabbled in a bunch when I was younger, but never actually learned to play anything well enough to say I played it.

I didn't get to try any instruments either, besides Band Hero on Wii. I usually pick the drums. Always wanted to learn them, but a drum set won't fit in my room