>> 2.3) So, found a way to work Skull house in after all?
>
>Skull Tomb.

Sorry, I'm not all up on my WPI terminoligy, being as I've only been on that side of the country twice, and both of those years ago...let alone on the campus. :-)

>And the description is close to the real history. It was originally
>built as an electromagnetics lab - but then the city of Worcester when
>and put an electrified trolley line down that cross street. (ie, NOT
>Institute, I just forget which street the other is - Boynton?) That
>put the kibosh on magnetic field research. So they let Robert Goddard

*SHATTER

>use it for a while. Figuring it'd take a lot to blow it up, and it
>wouldn't be a huge loss - and it wasn't near anything. (Keep in mind
>that, at the time, all the houses that are around there now -
>weren't.) Not sure it is true or embellishment - but local legend is
>that they stuck him there after one of his tests did damage another
>lab.

Neat! So you've got mad scientests blowing stuff up! cool!

>It went mostly unused for a while, then Skull took it over.
>
>>4.0) Are the crab Rangoons at ping's really that good? Good enough to
>>fight over?
>
>You'd have to ask Truss. I hate all forms of seafood, and Gryph
>doesn't like crab rangoon. But Truss orders them.

So, none of you know what the crab rangoon tastes like at Pings?

>>6.0) Bowling?* Kate and Juri like to Bowl? What could they
>>possibly like about the most boring sport in the world? (Well, short
>>of shuffle-puck that is)
>
>It has been many years since I went. I never got into it as much as
>some of my friends, but really the reason we went was just to be goofy
>and socialize. I certainly don't enjoy it enough to by my own gear -
>but I don't have the kind of money Juri does either. If I had that
>kind of money I'd probably be making a LOT of impulse buys.
>
>In other words, instead of my "Hey, the new Jeep Liberty looks pretty
>keen. I'd think about buying one if I didn't have this new PT
>Cruiser." It would be "Hey, the new Jeep Liberty looks pretty keen.
>I'll get one."

True..but they do only have one set of time (well, kate excluded*) and, but...Ah fuck it, I just don't understand bowling, never have, never will. I'll write it off as just one of Ben's insanitys.

>> 8.1) "God, Kate, those pajamas," said Corwin with an indulgent
>>chuckle, pretending to shield his eyes from their tiger-striped glory.
>> "I c-c-could be w-wearing the set Aunt B-Bell made," Kate
>>pointed out.
>> When I read this, the bit that popped into my head was the
>>unmentionable's mentioned somewhere, by Gryph I think. But I'm too
>>lazy to go look up where, so I'll just leave it as mentioned
>>somewhere.
>
>No, the sexy tiger lingere will be from Urd, not Bell. And I'll take
>credit for those. I believe it was Gryph who mentioned Bell's
>creation, and I countered by suggesting what Urd's counterpart would
>be. ;-)

Oh, ok. It still popped into my head...

>> 8.2) But I like the idea of Tiger pajama's even better. Although,
>>less then the idea of a Tiger striped tea set.
>
>At least the car isn't tiger striped.

*HEY*! now there's an idea!

>>9.0) Why do I somehow get the feeling that Juri's not really over her
>>piss at Utena?
>
>Because Juri isn't one to just let things drop.

I really need to get around to watching RGU, don't I?

>>10.0) Have I mentioned that I like Azalynn? She is now the seconed
>>fictional character that I wish was real, so that I would have a shot
>>at her.
>
>Though I don't think she'd appreciate being referred to as if she were
>some kind of target, or goal. Note what she says about volunteers for
>holidays.

Ok, let me rephrase: "She is now the second fictional character that I wish was real, so that I might have the chance to lick strawberry jam off of her toes."
Better?

>> 10.1.1)Juri shook her head. "It's not that I don't -want- to
>>believe," she said. "I've... why am I explaining myself to you?"
>> "People do that," Azalynn replied.
>>
>>I've noticed that a lot of people talk to azalynn who normally
>>wouldn't talk to anyone...she is a null psi, right?
>
>She just has that kind of personality.

Rhetorical question.

>> 10.2) Neat! Aboreal nubile chesire cats! I want one for christmas!
>
>Yeah, she'd be a lot of fun to have around.

*grin* I refer you to strawberry jam.

>>11.0)Finals. uggh. Don't remind me. A term finals are only 13 weeks
>>away...
>
>Hell, WPI only has *SEVEN* week terms. At the start of the term you
>knew the final exam was just seven weeks away. (WPI in the stories,
>being a high school, has slightly longer years. I think Gryph decided
>on 8-9 week quarters.)

8 week terms here...but they don't start for 5 more weeks...

>At WPI you normally take 3 classes a quarter. Start to end is just
>seven weeks. Classes meet more times a week and/or for longer
>sessions than at most colleges, so they say you have 85% of the class
>time but cover 100% of the material as other schools.
>
>If you fall too far behind, get really sick, etc - you are fuxx0red.

Yeah, my highschool had 10 week quarters, but on an AB system. This means that if you missed a class, you might not go back to that class for 6 days, if you missed it at *just* the wrong time.

>> 12.0.2) And were you really dumb enough to try deepfrying a vat of
>>ice?
>
>Yep.

twit. ;-)

>>12.1) You do relize that you prompted me to go and try to deep fry
>>everything in my kitchen, right? With breading at least.. (chunks of
>>habenero pepper jack, coated in corn meal, deep-fried, was the only
>>good thing to come out of it.) I love my Fry-Daddy. Oh, and whole
>
>That sounds good actually. I can't stand 'plain' cheese - I think it
>is the texture that revolts me. But I love pizza, cheeseburgers, mac
>& cheese, cheddar stuffed jalapenos (NOT cream cheese stuffed though -
>those are vile), etc.

If you can find a Hot Dog on a Stick (Not sure if they exist outside of the west) they deep fry 'em too. Just cheddar and Jack though, no *good* kinds of cheese.

>One of the things I miss about not living in CA are the Jack In The
>Box fast food joints - they served cheddar stuff jalapenos. Burger
>King's new jalapeno cheese bites are ok, but not nearly as good.

Actually, they are monterey jack filled. Have been as long as Crack in a Box has been making them.

>>tomatos, in a sugar, flour mix, come out edible, but just barely.
>
>The only way I can ever consider tomatoes edible is as a sauce on
>pizza, pasta, etc. I'm not allergic to them, but there is something
>in a raw tomatoe that tastes so very bad to me that it makes me gag.
>If I, say, order a burger with no tomato and they screw up and leave
>it on, and then I take a bite - I have to fight just to swallow it and
>then fight not to hurl. All of my senses are above normal levels - I
>have 20/15 vision, I hear dog whistles (and those sonic things that
>are supposed to drive insects away but be inaudible to humans drive me
>mad, as do old CRTs with noisy flyback transformers), and my sense of
>touch, smell, and taste are all similarly heightened. I've chatted
>with docs about it, and they figure it is that I am very sensitive to
>some of the acids in an uncooked tomato, but they break down when it
>is cooked so I'm fine. It is so strong that if I get a salad with
>tomato on it and I remove the tomato, many times I can tell if I
>missed just one seed though a mouthfull of lettuce. It isn't so
>strong I gag at that point, but I very distinctly taste the tomato.

Yeah, but I'll eat tomatos like apples. I have a sense of taste about the same, but I have the wonderful ability to eat anything. So long as it is remotly digestable, palatable, I can eat it. And enjoy it. Hell, I like DAKA-ish food.

>>13.1) Then again, What goes in the book, and what Zoner/Daddy/Mom/Who
>>Everelse says happened, might be *way* off.
>
>I expect that what really happened and what the history books *say*
>differs in many cases. However, if the question directly relates to
>something we did, and the book is wrong, if she gets docked for
>answering *correctly* - then she has the resources to prove her case.
>
>"Hi, I'm MegaZone. Kate tells me you marked her answer to the
>question about the Paxis 8 incident as incorrect. Well, let me tell
>you a story..."

I would pay a lot of money to see a GALHIS teachers face who had something like that happen to them...

>>15.0)So, what does Devlin do on holiday? What's his deal?
>>Will we find out in later stories, or does he just wind up being the
>>Prince Consort of the Empress of Gamilon? Or just fade out the
>>picture?
>> 15.1) Yeah, Yeah, I know:"That'd be telling"
>
>Patience.

Blow me...I hate waiting.

--
-Pasha
Umm, right....I'll be with you in just a sec now...

*I'll start a new thread for this, instead of wondering here.