Nah, he'll just poop himself and fall asleep.

Sounds like an entertaining end to an evening

Or even as a beginning, if you've got Sharpies.

Which would necessitate being there as well

Undesirable ratio of barn door to umlaut.

Those barn doors causing a ruckus everywhere they go

I made it through a whole week of not going to work and the world did not come to an end.

 

After a few minutes of being back there tomorrow afternoon it will be as if I had never been gone.

 

Time off always passes far too quickly.

 

I had an acceptable Easter weekend and I hope that you did too.

 

It's getting cold in northern Michigan again as was expected when all of that strange March heat first invaded our frigid land.

 

Bye for now...gotta find a good cheap used car for my sixteen year old grandson.

 

LOL.

 

That was a joke...there's no such thing as a good cheap used car...he'll learn just as we all have.

*gives Gwampy a wedgie, sets him on fire, kicks him off the roof*

Wedgie? Is that what I remember from junior high? Nerds wore their pants in a constant wedgie like Steve Erkel.

 

* gasps then groans from the strain of the not-as-bad-as-it-used-to-be wedgie *

* spreads arms out in an attempt to fly *

* instead of putting it out the rushing air fans the fire *

* sizzles on the way down to the inevitable thump *

*kicks a bit of sand over the body*

* flames are smothered *

* so is the body *

* reads his siggy *

* sighs in relief *

The part that says "40#entry"?

No, silly.

 

I meant the part that says...

 

Oh.

 

Wait.

 

You weren't being serious.

 

You were...

 

Never mind.

 

I get it.

 

I'm old and slow but I do catch on eventually some times.

 

On a good day.

 

(DM is acting up and won't let me get a smiley so insert the one of your choice.)

*inserts it into the space behind your left eyeball*

* stares out at the cyber world through the eyes of his smiley implant *

* keeps changing as the smiley faces take turns *

 

Sad.

 

Mad.

 

Glad.

 

Bad.

 

Rad.

 

What? No plaid?

 

* tries to insert the eye rolling smiley *

* won't work *

* shrugs *

You've clearly never worn contact lenses and thusly never experienced the, er, pleasure of having one slip out of place and get stuck in the back of your eye socket.

OOOOWWWWWwwwww!!!

 

 

(imagine the bulging eyes smiley)

 

 

* sighs a big sigh of relief that he never got contacts *

* wonders what horror stories there are for laser surgery *

 

 

(imagine the rolling eyes in deep contemplation smiley)

 

 

DM is getting frustrating.

I know... it's free... I shouldn't complain... same as dial up.

I'm old.

Bitching is OK when you're old.

 

(imagine the Big Grin smiley that I can't get to work)

 

Wait !!!

 

I see a smiley bar at the bottom of this box !!!

 

Let's see if it will work...

 

YYYYEEEEESSSSSSS !!!

 

* gives his smileys an imaginary hug *

 

I missed you guys !!!

 

 

* considers going back to put smileys in place of or next to parentheses *

 

NNNAAAAHHHHH... what's done is done.

 

I sure do enter a lot of lines into one post, eh?

 

Imagine that I'm online more than once a week and that all of the above lines were spread out in several posts.

 

Go ahead... it's FUN to imagine stuff !!!

 

And what better place to exercise your imagination than FIDDLESTICKS !!!

 

 

"A bad day in Fiddlesticks is better than a good day in reality." -- GrandpaG original.

Only if those separate posts all appeared in separate threads. Otherwise I'd have to shove you up your own butt.

An infinite gramps

Actually I expect at a certain point he would wink out of existence.

Maybe I would evolve into one of the Ancient Ones that I created in the Up There thread.

 

I was thinking the other day... I know... I should avoid thinking, but I couldn't help it... anyway...

 

Wouldn't it be terrible to be able to remember every single second of your whole existence? I mean, sure, there have been some moments of pleasure that I might like to be able to remember that I only have fuzzy images of. But, being able to remember the surgeon splitting my chest open? Seeing the faces and hearing the voices of some of the intolerable people that I have met over the years? The feelings of regret that I failed that stupid Biology quiz. Lost love. Oral battles with idiots. Chastisements from people placed above me by authority. Etc.

 

I don't envy the Ancient Ones being able to accumulate countless decades of knowledge. They probably have developed some coping device. Otherwise the pain would cause them to self-destruct. Will-of-the-pattern be damned. So long Ancient One. Am I rambling? You say you haven't read Up There? Sorry. Good exercise for the imagination.

 

Gotta get ready for work. Only 8 hours today. Been working 12's all month. Good money but not worth it. Wifey got new living room furniture. I got bags under my eyes.

 

Bye for now,

Love,

Gramps

That would only be a valid concern if the memory was always active, but memory doesn't work that way - it's more like a filing system where things stay dormant until called up, either consciously or in response to some external stimulus. I mean, you've only been on this smoggy golf ball for five-plus decades, and while you have access to most of the memories accrued in that time period, they're not constantly on your mind. You could probably recall a good chunk of high school if you had to, but you probably wouldn't without provocation.

 

Now, if you were to adjust to it where they're were constantly reliving all their memories, then it might be something worth worrying about. It also might be something I haven't seen before.

Memory on demand. That would be OK. That way I could filter out the bad stuff and only remember pleasure.

 

* ponders *

 

That might not be so bad after all !!!

 

I wonder what would happen if one of the Ancient Ones accidentally dreamed their way into TR? What kind of nightmare world could they create? Whatever it came out as it would be based on fact and actual experiences.

 

You're going wacky here, Gwampy!!!

Well, that's pretty much how memory works already, just that memories can be called up by external sources as much as by your own preferences.

To remember everything actively would be horrible