Wondrous Apparitions, Provided by Magicians.

For the sake of the poll's first question, I assumed all participants are 'unrestricted free agents', so to speak.

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The question is just about desire, not about availability. :)

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lilia-blackbear.livejournal.com

Okay, first, how easy is it to make garlic butter? I mean, not a great loss even if I did eat Papa John's.

Next, upon answering with my own sentences as opposed to clicking a button, oops... damn apostrophe's have been jumping into my sentences where they don't belong...

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At home, where there is garlic and butter, it is very easy to make garlic butter. At the office, which is where the bulk of my pizza ordering occurs, there is neither garlic nor butter. So the difficulty rating of the task rises a bit. :)

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Well, I can think of people I would enjoy having sex with, but would cause horrible social implications should that actually occur. Consequently, the result is that I wouldn't want to go through with it, since it's not worth the consequences, as much fun as the sex might be.

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And coffee grounds and toner ink really doesn't have the same texture.

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Yeah, but you count those people as 'people you want to have sex with', right? I mean, I know better than to actually try to have sex with 98% of the people that I want to have sex with, but that doesn't mean I don't want to have sex with them...

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And they turn your teeth a funny color.

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lilia-blackbear.livejournal.com

Ah, yes, that would be a problem. Then Papa John's could be considered, indeed, bastards.

We are spoiled here in Lawrence (although they are branching out now) with Wheatstate delivery because we eat pizza on whole wheat crust (pretending it is healthier that way), save the crusts until after the meal, then we dip the crusts in honey. Dinner and dessert all in one! And no worries of garlic butter...

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saffronhare.livejournal.com

I'm going to have to amend my answer to question #1. Can we add a sub-category for people we'd love to watch dip their pizza crusts in honey?

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liquidfun.livejournal.com

Might make baring your teeth at people dropping and interrupting you spectacularly more effective, though.

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Aw, man. I wish I could get Wheat State to deliver to me! Or Papa Keno's. Or Waldo Pizza. Or Torre's. Do we still even have Torre's? I am too far away from all the good pizza places. (Though Kelso's, down the street from the office, has a thai chicken pizza. It is not proper pizza, because it has peanut sauce on it instead of tomato sauce or pesto, but it is damned tasty.)

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I hadn't thought of that. You're a useful fellow to have around.

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gamera-spinning.livejournal.com

"I. Prelude
When our weary world was young
The struggle of the ancients first began
The gods of love and reason
Sought alone to rule the fate of man

They battled through the ages
But still neither force would yield
The people were divided
Every soul a battlefield...

II. Apollo: Bringer of Wisdom
I bring truth and understanding
I bring wit, and wisdom fair
Precious gifts beyond compare
We can build a world of wonder
I can make you all aware

I will find you food and shelter
Show you fire to keep you warm
Through the endless winter storm
You can live in grace and comfort
In the world that you transform

The people were delighted
Coming forth to claim their prize
They ran to build their cities
And converse among the wise

But one day the streets fell silent
Yet they knew not what was wrong
The urge to build these fine things
Seemed not to be so strong

The wise men were consulted
And the bridge of death was crossed
In quest of Dionysus
To find out what they had lost ...

III. Dionysus: Bringer of love
I bring love to give you solace
In the darkness of the night
In the hearts eternal light
You need only trust your feelings
Only love can steer you right

I bring laughter, I bring music
I bring joy and I bring tears
I will soothe your primal fears
Throw off those chains of reason
And your prison disappears

The cities were abandoned
And the forests echoed song
They danced and lived as brothers
They knew love could not be wrong

Food and wine they had aplenty
And they slept beneath the stars
The people were contented
And the gods watched from afar

But the winter fell upon them
And it caught them unprepared
Bringing wolves and cold starvation
And the hearts of men despaired...

IV. Armageddon: The battle of heart and mind
The universe divided
As the heart and mind collided
With the people left unguided
For so many troubled years
In a cloud of doubts and fears
Their world was torn asunder
Into hollow hemispheres

Some fought themselves, some fought each other
Most just followed one another
Lost and aimless like their brothers
For their hearts were so unclear
And the truth could not appear
Their spirits were divided
Into blinded hemispheres

Some who did not fight
Brought tales of old to light
My Roscinante sailed by night
On her final flight

To the heart of Cygnus fearsome force
We set our course
Spiralled through that timeless space
To this immortal place

V. Cygnus: Bringer of balance
I have memory and awareness
But I have no shape or form
As a disembodied spirit
I am dead and yet unborn
I have passed into Olympus
As was told in tales of old
To the city of immortals
Marble white and purest gold

I see the gods in battle rage on high
Thunderbolts across the sky
I cannot move, I cannot hide
I feel a silent scream begin inside

Then all at once the chaos ceased
A stillness fell, a sudden peace
The warriors felt my silent cry
And stayed their struggle, mystified

Apollo was atonished
Dionysus thought me mad
But they heard my story further
And they wondered, and were sad

Looking down from Olympus
On a world of doubt and fear
Its surface splintered
Into sorry hemispheres

They sat a while in silence
Then they turned at last to me
we will call you Cygnus,
The God of balance you shall be

The sphere: a kind of dream
We can walk our road together
If our goals are all the same
We can run alone and free
If we pursue a different aim

Let the truth of love be lighted
Let the love of truth shine clear
Sensibility
Armed with sense and liberty
With the heart and mind united
In a single perfect sphere."
-Cygnus X-1, Rush (Lyrics by Neil Peart)

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Yeah... that's the conundrum I meant...

[`Lex] If you really want to have sex with them, why don't you?
[Alexius] Well, if you do, a number of people will be upset. Like, your wife, her husband, and quite possibly her.
[`Lex] Oh, right. I don't want that.
[Alexius] See, you don't want to have sex with them.
[`Lex] But if she, her husband, and your wife, were all amiable, it'd be great, wouldn't it?
[`Lex] Hell Ya!

[Alexius] I was supposed to say that..
[`Lex] Sorry, got confused...

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liquidfun.livejournal.com

I am so happy to see that other people have conversations like this ...

From Tuesday night:

Not me: "We should just make out and then tell them about it ... it would serve them right."
Me: "I *like* this plan!"
Not me: "What!?!"

So, apparently, now I'm in trouble ... for being agreeable. :-)

Edited Date: 2008-04-25 06:38 pm (UTC)

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auraseer.livejournal.com

What kind of space ship am I naming?

Lumbering 20th-century rocket, with its own launch gantry and fuel tanks bigger than my house? Dramatic Exit

Zippy little space-car, that runs on silent antigravity or some other tamed phlebotinum? Accomplice

Kilometer-scale warship with deflector shields, laser cannons, and thermonuclear torpedoes? Smile When You Say That

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I'm not particularly intimidated by the grapple rules, just for the record.

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You can specifically ask for the garlic butter, for the record.

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This is critically important information. :)

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Given that you don't seem to be intimidated by anything, I figured that would be true. (That's a compliment in my world, by the way.)

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If you order using the website, there's even a place you can add them to your order. I think you have to pay an extra $.25 per if you do it that way but I've always considered it worth it.

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