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Wash-Biol-Surv
May. 28th, 2005 10:48 pmI was digging around in my old emails, and I found something that I feel like sharing with my LJ readers.
I've been part of a weekly D&D group for several years. This group isn't serious about role-playing or even terribly serious about hack and slash; it's a social thing. But since I have no social life, I play. At some point, Sue told the group an old joke, but one that I barely remembered, and for some reason it really amused me. It amused me sufficiently that merely repeating the tag line of the joke was enough to make me sputter for several weeks thereafter (it's not so much that the joke itself is that funny, but it formed a strong association with being amused, and repeating it made me remember it.)
The joke goes something like this (I'm sure Sue told it better than I will here, but this is just to remind you of a joke you've probably heard before): One time a yokel in the rural Northwest bagged a crow, and discovered that it had a band on its leg marked with the letters WASH. BIOL. SURV. He served it to his family, and they all thought it was terrible. When he told his friend about it, the friend told him that it was a science thing and he should report it to the government, so he got in touch with the Washington Biological Survey, and told them he had a complaint. "I shot one of your crows a couple weeks back, and I prepared it according to the directions on the leg, and it was awful!"
Anyway, after several weeks of being greeted by a teasing "Hey Phil! Wash, Boil, Serve!" every week, we reached the end of one campaign and had to come up with new characters, and I came up with an idea for a new character that I thought was cool, and also got back at the group a little bit for their teasing. Here is the background I prepared for that character, which was what I found in my old email:
( Wash Biol Surv )
I've been part of a weekly D&D group for several years. This group isn't serious about role-playing or even terribly serious about hack and slash; it's a social thing. But since I have no social life, I play. At some point, Sue told the group an old joke, but one that I barely remembered, and for some reason it really amused me. It amused me sufficiently that merely repeating the tag line of the joke was enough to make me sputter for several weeks thereafter (it's not so much that the joke itself is that funny, but it formed a strong association with being amused, and repeating it made me remember it.)
The joke goes something like this (I'm sure Sue told it better than I will here, but this is just to remind you of a joke you've probably heard before): One time a yokel in the rural Northwest bagged a crow, and discovered that it had a band on its leg marked with the letters WASH. BIOL. SURV. He served it to his family, and they all thought it was terrible. When he told his friend about it, the friend told him that it was a science thing and he should report it to the government, so he got in touch with the Washington Biological Survey, and told them he had a complaint. "I shot one of your crows a couple weeks back, and I prepared it according to the directions on the leg, and it was awful!"
Anyway, after several weeks of being greeted by a teasing "Hey Phil! Wash, Boil, Serve!" every week, we reached the end of one campaign and had to come up with new characters, and I came up with an idea for a new character that I thought was cool, and also got back at the group a little bit for their teasing. Here is the background I prepared for that character, which was what I found in my old email:
( Wash Biol Surv )