Sorry I'm late here. Been really wonky lately due to odd sleep patterns, and haven't been able to really read. Not sure whether or not this was a good place to start up again...
Anyway, let me tell you a little story. A few years ago, I used to get together with some friends to hang out and play roleplaying games. The point wasn't so much to play the game as it was to have something fun to do while hanging out with friends. So, we never really took the games seriously. One of my first characters was Supamon, the Jamaican of Tomorrow, the Man of Steel Drums. In a later game, I played Rex, an anthropomorphic blind dog with a seeing eye monkey.
During a later game, we somehow got into something of a pun war. Someone would make a joke, and then others would make up a joke to punish the first one, and then someone else would have to punish *that* person, and so on. At the time, I was playing Benni Hana, a roving warrior/chef who, like Jackie Chan, was known for using random objects as improvised weapons.
At one point during the game, we were inside the bad guy's palace, facing off against him and a bunch of his eunich thugs (sadly, they were not wearing red hats). I was about to announce my attempt to hit two of the thugs with a flying double kick when one of my teammates took out the bad guy in a suprise move. My intended actions became moot, but I still had to tell the room of my plan to use a dual boot system to send eunichs crashing through windows.
Later in the game, we blew up an evil fortress. We were standing in the forest outside the ruins when we were ambushed by another enemy. I asked the GM if there were any groundhogs around who had perhaps been dazed by the recent blast.
"No," he said hastily. "There are no woodland creatures, dazed or otherwise."
"Darn."
"Okay, I know I'm going to regret this, but why were you looking for dazed groundhogs?"
"Because I wanted to see if I could fight with numb woodchucks!"
This utterance was quickly blocked out of my fellow gamers' memories. No one dared attempt retribution.
Now, I just read this:
They walked to the Metropolis Pet Store and looked in the window. Pushing the door open, the animals inside greeted them with howls, barks, grunts and hisses. The shop is quiet because most people stayed in bed Saturday morning but there are six people there, one of them is a foreign student studying electrical engineering at the Metropolis University she is very intelligent with long curly blonde hair and flashing green eyes and violent ear-rings on a scholarship she looks at Clark's muscular legs in his shorts and thinks about being his girlfriend and he notices and likes her hair but he only has eyes for his partner, Lois Lane of the Daily Planet that he works with. She is buying food for her fishes.
Meredith, I am in awe.
This was absolutely hilarious.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go clean my brain.
Paul
