A Futurist Bed Just Masking An Ascertainable Gnu. Growl.

[rionaleonhart]

My lack of posting for the past few days can be blamed on panic over an essay and a test, both for today and both now finished. GLORIOUS FREEDOM. I'm not terribly happy with the essay, but the test (although I did run out of time on the last question) went better than I was expecting, and I genuinely believe that this can be attributed entirely to my receiving the following e-mail from th_esaurus this morning:

HAY RIONA HAY HAY HAY
YOU HAVE GOT AN EXAM TODAY!
IT'S OKAY, IT'S ALL FINE
JUST REMEMBER TO GO ON TIME!
WEAR A SMILE, NOT A FROWN
GET THOSE ANSWERS WRITTEN DOWN!
MODERN ENGLISH IS A BLAST
TXT SPEAK, LOLCATS, IDIOMS PAST


IF YOU GET STUCK (UNLIKELY ANYWAY)
JUST WRITE ABOUT THE HOMOGAY!

I love my friends so much.

You know 'Talk Like a Pirate Day' and 'Talk Like a Hypello Day' and 'Talk in Al Bhed Day', which I've never heard of but which probably exists? Why isn't there a 'Talk in Rhyming Couplets' day? Actually, scratch that: why don't we just talk in rhyming couplets all the time?

(For those curious, the title of this entry is an anagram of 'Because Talking In Anagrams Would Just Be Frustrating'. SEE HOW PRODUCTIVELY I SPEND MY TIME WHEN I HAVE FINISHED MY WORK.)

Comments

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

We should declare Talk in Rhyme Day!"
On topgearslash; and have lots of rhyming gay
Stories about the Top Gear hosts
All being turned into wacky rhyming ghosts.

Okay, that was truly terrible.
What's worse is that I'm ending this line with, "Bibble!"

[rionaleonhart]

Dreadful rhymes are the best sort;
Let's sit around and drink some port!

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

My attempts at poetry are a disaster.
As foul as drinking oil of castor!

[rionaleonhart]

How does one say 'I LAUGHED SO MUCH'
While giving it the rhyming touch?

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

You seem to have quite the rhyming skill.

I fear that the quality of my rhymes may kill.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Also, tell me the world doesn't need stories about pregnant Jeremy Clarkson, with James as the far-too-enthusiastic father-to-be.

Please?

[rionaleonhart]

I'm afraid I'm far too honest to tell you what you want to hear.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

But they just don't make tall enough maternity jeans!

Plus, it would require a scene where Richard sat down with two cans of weak lager and drank them in front of Jeremy, being slightly horrible about being able to drink at all, and I don't know what kinds of weak lager they sell in the UK. So obviously I can't write it.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

I think it's the concept of James as the far-too-enthusiastic-father-to-be is even more frightening than Pregnant!Jeremy.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

He'd get all the books, read all the instructions, and make sure everything was done properly. It actually makes me feel quite sorry for Jeremy.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

I can already imagine James trying to persuade Jeremy to go to some sort of pregnancy yoga birthing class thing.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

And a rather surreal argument about natural childbirth, where Jeremy makes the surprisingly rational argument that he hasn't got anywhere natural for the baby to come out.

And then he tries to rope Richard into the argument, which doesn't work, because at this point in the pregnancy Richard's taken to covering his ears and moaning incoherently every time they try to drag him into the arguments.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Clearly, Richard is being the most sensible of them all here.

And Jeremy will also get fed up with James' insistence that they should try to teach the baby things while it's not yet born.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

James would totally want to read stories and play music at Jeremy's stomach, to encourage the baby to develop.

Actually, it's gotten quite fluffy, now. I'm imagining an argument where James tries to stick headphones on Jeremy's stomach, followed by them agreeing to let James play for Jeremy and the baby, and a less-grumpy-than-usual Jeremy lying on the couch of James's house while James plays Beethoven.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Ah, but less-than-grumpy Jeremy has secretly put his iPod on to play proper music through its headphones to the baby.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Because if he's going to go through all the work of bloody pregnancy, he's going to make sure his baby grows up with good taste in music, after all.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Sod the development, you can't start with Prog Rock early enough.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

I'm very scared for this baby, now.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

It'll be the child of May and Clarkson. OF COURSE you should be scared.

Still, Hammond/Clarkson baby would be worse, because it would've burned the house down before it was even five.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

A Hammond/Clarkson baby would accidentally bring about the apocalypse while trying to make pretty explosions.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

And the parents would be so proud.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

No! Not rhyming couplets! I already had to write those for Sinterklaas! Oh, you rest of the world has it so easy with your Santa Claus that doesn't demand you write poems for the person you're giving a gift too.

YAY FINISHED EXAMS AND TESTS.

Does this mean there will be Richard/Oliver?

[rionaleonhart]

There may quite possibly be Richard/Oliver in rhyming couplets.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Hurrah!

If rhyming couplets were good enough for Chaucer, they're good enough for crazy slashfic!

Also, I'm sure you're happy to know that I'm writing PWP Jeremy/Richard.

[rionaleonhart]

That is good news, provided you're not writing it for the fiandyfic challenge. (I'm half-tempted to sign up for that and then write a completely innocent story, incorporating all of the euphemisms literally. Actual meat curtains! Why not?)

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

I am not! I just asked Fiandy if the whole having to incorporate euphemisms means man/car or Time Lord/TARDIS is right out.

The Richard/Jeremy is because of this here (http://community.livejournal.com/topgearslash/856599.html?thread=18574359#t18574359).

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

I remember that thread! You writing your idea?

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

I am! I hope you're happy!

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Very happy, thank you.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Actual meat curtains would be horrifying! An actual custard factory might be fun, though.

It's slightly sad that I have an unwritten fic where the euphemism "velvet TARDIS" would actually fit, isn't it?

[th-esaurus.livejournal.com]

YAY I'm glad you got it before your essay. I hope you felt the Spirit of RD guiding you as you frantically scribbled down a few thousand words.

[extreme-queen.livejournal.com]

Well done, on being done with the work-hope you get the chance to relax and chill out for a bit now.

[rhosyndu.livejournal.com]

As Manager Comes- Fun!
Data Births: Hot Tun!

[Anagrams confuse me,
but that is not hard.]

[emmarrrrr.livejournal.com]

TALK LIKE A HYPELLO/AL BHED DAY?

AWESOME

also best song ever ♥ esp the last line.

[emeriin.livejournal.com]

I won't be getting real freedom until late July (and all that fic is piling up and tempting me and becoming sick, twisted, monster bunnies) so enjoy it while you can. :D

[saaski-moql.livejournal.com]

Still you know, I can't really say
I've heard of a "Talk Like A Hypello Day"
And really, I wonder, how would people show
to others, of who Hypellos they don't know?
Couplets, now, couplets are easy to see
From just typing here I've already done three
A day where rhyming talk is all one can hear
is the day those book-haters all cower in fear!
So you know, this may be quite a good scheme
we could even form a rhyming-couplet team!

(And of course, I simply have to add in a zombie rhyme
XD once the undead are in a couplet they're with you all the time.)

[rionaleonhart]

I'm not sure that day ever really caught on
Which is sort of a shame; having everyone don
The accents and speech patterns of a Hypello
Would... oh, hang on, bugger. Something something yellow?