November 20 (TJI #50)
 

<p>As the forumgoers know, 5M.net's own Sa'ar Chasm is now officially a Master of Science! As my congratulations to him, here's a new TJI article: <a href="../thisjustin/50.html">Fictional science remastered</a>. (This is what I was alluding to in the previous update.) It's a landmark for us too -- this is TJI's 50th regular issue.

Thanks Zeke. I'm touched. Stop touching me. *g*

Don't forget to turn off the globe!

Who I resemble only through a fluke of random genetics *shiftyeyes*

That's why there was a smouldering pile of rubble when I went in to TA this morning!

Thanks...I think.

When I get back home to Kelowna, I plan to say "When I left, I was the learner. Now, *I* am the Master."

Those canyons were being mocked when you were just a gleam of untapped creative potential in Brannon Braga's imagination. :P

She's the cute one, right? Come to think of it, they film Smallville very close to Vancouver...

...what did he just call me?

Excellent outing, Zeke. I'm particularly fond of the acronym for the Science Officers' League.

Great TJI, Zeke. Congrats again, Sa'ar.

For some reason, I don't find this entirely surprising. http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2.../bgbiggrin.gif


Also, the reference in the TJI to a certain milkshake led me to find this; I'm not sure yet what it means.

Finally:
What happened to "What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?"

Hmmm?

African or European?

How should I know? I'm a high school student, not a zoologist.

Ah, high school. That was...what? Before I'd even heard of the idea of a fiver? Before I'd read any webcomic at all? Before I even had an e-mail address? Yikes. Oh, please talk me down, somebody!

Just a little geezer humor there. Well, call it fifty-fifty.

Talk about your twenties being the most event-filled of your life, and I'm not even half done yet. Well, I am if you count post-graduation from high school, which I don't, really. Eighteen and nineteen, at least for me, were basically just a continuation of high school, only in college. That make sense to anyone else?

I'd call you on this, but I'm afraid of being trumped.

I was going to have a card-based response, but I decided to fold in the face of superior punning.

Oh, go ahead.

Geezer? Hah! Just wait 'till you're past the quarter century. You can see thirty looming on the horizon and you realise that it's all downhill from here.

Ulrich=goth winged guy, red horns

Uh, yeah, you didn't read that last post, it was a fluke. Long long story, please move along. Nothing to see here.

The big 2-5 is coming up next March. In my social set, this is a particularily dangerous age, for the simple reason that I should've been married by now. I can tell, you though, that I'm so far away from the altar that it'd take the Hubble Space Telescope to see it.

A couple of my students asked my why I was 26 and not married yet. One of them offered to set me up with her sister.

The conversation just went downhill from there.

<i>Besides, she's a woman, and they're really only good for one thing. -- Er, don't print that.</i>

I feel I should thwapp you for that...

Nice TGI though :D

LOL! Dude, you are SO wrong. Thirty is fantastic. You get to thirty and it's like, "I am officially too old to take anybody's shit any more." True adulthood is liberating.

I question if "true adulthood" and "saying Dude" can occur in the same person. Hey, if being a true adult means that you can't say Dude, I'm not sure I want any part of it. Then again, youth these days apparently aren't allowed to say nifty, which I am extremely guilty of. So I guess I'm stuck in the Twilight Zone.

What do the rules say about "spifftacular"?

That results in either permanent social banishment or death. I recommend choosing death.

Wow, that'd be an interesting contest: to find a word nerdier than spifftacular.

I hate you all.

(I keed, I keed)

Ouch.

I don't suppose a hearty virtual hug would make you feel better?

No worries. The (I keed, I keed) at the end was supposed let you know it was a joke (I'm keeeeeding), but well, you know me and obscurity...

Um, okay...

Well, I hope everyone had a good turkey day!

Turkey day was over a month ago, you backwards Americans. Where have you been?

Geeze, one holiday's three days behind, another over a month...what next, New Year's is now February?

J/k. But seriously, I think there are more Canadians than Americans on this site.

I do believe that's true. However I'm not sure why, seeing as how Americans tend to like everything RIGHT NOW GIMMIE GIMMIE GIMMIE. And if we don't get it right this instant we throw hot coffee on the stupid girl at Dunkin Donuts who got our order wrong cause its before 7am and I haven't had my coffee yet!!

::Cough::

So yeah. The five minute concept should attract more Americans, but I guess Zeke's Canadianis cancels that out.

that's the beauty of it. As a true adult, I could not care less what people think of me for using "dude" and "true adulthood" in the same post. :D

And being rude to the person who delivers your morning coffee is just stupid, because she can put anything imaginable into it and you won't know until the caffiene finally kicks in three miles away...

Uhh... I think I qualify as an adult, at least where age is concerned, and you wouldn't believe what things I say - "dude" would probably be deemed mature in comparison. I have a toddler to blame, though.

Belated congrats, Sa'ar, and also belated - great TJI, Zeke!

Well, I hope everyone's having a good Black Friday and staying out of the madness that is holiday shopping, at least for today. Since I kinda work in retail you wouldn't imagine the lecture we all got about the special Black Friday-only rules to keep things moving on our big volume day.

That's a secondary reason why I stay away from coffee. I'm not gonna go all preachy on all of the caffeine addicts out there, I'm just saying.

Been awhile since I've seen a Dunkin' Donuts. Seems that Krispy Kremes have invaded the north country in recent years.

Looming on the horizon? HA!

Just wait till thirty's walking up the front path!

THEN you can claim to be a geezer!

Um, I do believe that this thread has taken a turn for the bizarre. So things are status quo, huh?

always

Okay, here's a bit of news: today is the Day of the Ninja! Nothing special, apparently, but I did switch to my DOTN avatar for the occasion. If you want to celebrate somehow, may I recommend hopping over to Bob and George? Right now George is bouncing around in time and facing at least two ninja attacks. It's got ninjas, a storyline spoofed right out of NextGen, what else could you want? :)

DOTN has nothing on Talk Like A Pirate Day.

Never said it did. After all, Talk Like a Pirate Day came first (I think), it has Dave Barry's support, and you can actually talk in a crazy accent for it. Day of the Ninja doesn't have any of that, but you can still tie a T-shirt into a ninja mask and do crazy "martial arts" moves.

By the way, one of my upcoming fivers has a reference to Talk Like a Vampire Day, which I think might be unique and an invention by myself. Any comment? (PS. I really did come up with a way to seamlessly weave the idea into the fiver through the use of another joke. You'll have to wait and read it to see if it works.)