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Post by Venomeye on Apr 30, 2007 19:09:26 GMT -5
Plastic wise men. They were delivering gifts of plastic, the secret is now known!
Seriously, 25 years old for the kiddie race? Old people races must be like 140-190 years old. Now I wish I was born 4 seconds earlier then I was before.
All that boating and sailing sounds fantastic, it must be a blast. Is it like a company picnic or something?
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 30, 2007 20:21:22 GMT -5
Well, I asked my BF today what this "kiddie race shit" was all about. I confess, last year, my crew and I took three hours to navigate two laps of the course, but that was only like my 2nd time sailing without someone telling me exactly what to do. Since then, I've gotten a lot more practice in, and I can more or less navigate properly.
Anyways, he didn't know what that was all about. He suspected it was more for his teenage nieces and nephews. Last year, Rachel rammed Paul's boat and put a nasty crack in the nose of the boat she was sailing, which happens to be one of my BF's. I really don't want to be a part of that. I want to run with the big dogs.
It's an annual get together my friends' family has. In mid-July, she has a three-day long party at her place. They live right on the shore of a large bay on the shore of Lake Superior. It's pretty much all sailing, watersports, and partytime all three days. I LOVE IT!! Every year, more and more people get invited. This past year I finally won most waterlogged adult. I had to swim about two miles to shore, towing a sailboat with my crewmember bailing water. Last year, I got pulled off the dock, fully clothed, and I still didn't win. I have so much fun!
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Post by Venomeye on Apr 30, 2007 20:28:11 GMT -5
When I first read that I thought it said "...my crew and I took three years to navigate two laps" whoops. That would have been a disaster.
All that does sound like a lot of fun, I didn't mean to mistake to for a company picnic though. And congatulations on your waterlogged adult award!
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 30, 2007 20:40:21 GMT -5
It felt like three years. But we did finish on our own power. The Ghetto Child capsized, and they lost a piece of their boat in the bay. The two sailors were sitting on the overturned boat for three hours, so they knew the spot really well. The rescue boat was a speedboat with a depth finder, and the driver happened to record the exact depth. One of the party goers is a salvage diver, and she had her equipment with her. They went back out to the spot and actually recovered the missing part. If you went to look at that photo album, they were on the cover with that part.
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Post by Venomeye on Apr 30, 2007 20:47:25 GMT -5
Quite the story, as long as no one drowned right? Maybe it's just me but it seems ironic that the "Ghetto Child" flipped over. It's just me. I can't believe she found that missing piece, once I lost an orange hat while swimming at a beach, I felt really sorry after that.
Install a jet engine or something equally as unbelievable to your next boat. GET READY FOR ADVENTURE. You'll win.
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 30, 2007 20:52:40 GMT -5
What's fun about my boat is it's so different from the others. They all have multiple sails, a large and a small, while mine only has one.
Well, it's not my boat yet. My friend owns it. He's going to let me kind of permanently borrow it until I can afford it! *does happy dance*
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Post by Venomeye on Apr 30, 2007 21:05:26 GMT -5
Where would you leave the boat once it's offically yours?
Maybe you should paint the boat orange. Bright orange. Actually, do something unbeleivably insane to it (as in decorations, don't blow it up or anything) to really make it an eye catcher. Try portraying "a billion malnourished skulls exploding over a universe of rust". Or anything else from what I call that scary rift of hell.
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 30, 2007 21:11:32 GMT -5
Out at my parents' cabin. They have a cabin on a small inland lake. He promised to help me take it to his sister's place for the annual boat party. I drive a Cavalier. It's not tow-capable. The top part is kind of a rusty orange color. Maybe I should paint some skulls on it. Unfortunately, fiberglass is a bitch to paint. I do have a Jolly Roger pennant with the boat's abbreviated name on it. The full name is Grosvenor's Grond, named for a character from a Gilbert & Sullivan Operetta, and the battering ram from Return of the King. Everyone just calls it Grond, though. Grosvenor's Grond does sound rather perverse.
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Post by Poofiemus on May 1, 2007 13:37:41 GMT -5
I love Gilbert and Sullivan works, but I need to see some more. The only ones I can remember with any clarity are Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinnifore.
I heard you need a special paint for fiberglass, and it's slippery, so it makes sense to me that it would be a bitch to paint. Maybe you can paint your sail instead. That'd be pretty nifty.
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Post by Venomeye on May 1, 2007 17:37:51 GMT -5
I don't know about painting the sail... would all that paint be too much weight? I mean maybe not the entire surface area, but an icon would be fine.
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on May 1, 2007 19:09:33 GMT -5
I'd be even less inclined to paint the sail. Sailcloth is very sheer, so paint wouldn't adhere very well. I don't think the paint would really affect the weight any, but I can't imagine it lasting very long with the constant movement of the sail. Maybe I should just find some decals.
Grosvenor was in "Patience." He was the drop-dead gorgeous guy that all the women are swooning over. Strangely enough, he was portrayed by my BF last summer. The costume was incredible. I totally didn't recognize him! Most people just call the boat Grond, but to me, the Grosvenor is still a part of it.
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Post by Poofiemus on May 3, 2007 22:39:54 GMT -5
Shows how much I know about sailing. ^^; Patience, eh? I'll have to track that one down.
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on May 4, 2007 7:52:47 GMT -5
It's a great one to watch, absolutely hilarious. I didn't participate, even though I was in the choir. I really didn't like the idea of being all gaga over Bunthorne, just to drop him cold when Grosvenor showed up. Yeah, you'd think I'd be all over a chance to drool all over the BF in public, but we're pretty secretive about it. Besides, I would have had to do the same amount of drooling over old, unpleasant Bunthorne. Bleh!
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Post by Poofiemus on May 4, 2007 11:48:30 GMT -5
It sounds like you're getting you and the character you'd be playing mixed up, which sadly a lot of people do. They're really two different entities, and you're just pretending to be the character. Since technically it is play (no pun intended), there shouldn't be any problem with doing something that seems a little wrong...I'm starting to realize that a LOT of people have trouble drawing that line between actor and character, which is going to lead to a LOT of misinterpretations of Regolith....
Though drooling over some old, unpleasant dude probably would have still kind of sucked. =P
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on May 4, 2007 12:51:05 GMT -5
What's weird is I realize that Alan Rickman isn't Snape in real life. He's not Rasputin. Ian McKellan isn't Gandalf or Richard III. Knowing consciously that the actor isn't the character, I still couldn't bring myself to "get" all lovesick and swoony. Partly because I have no experience acting like that. Besides, Bunthorne was like extrememly nasty! Venom: I meant to ask you what the "Ghetto Child" name means. All Frank and Steve ever said was "It rose from his own ashes." That didn't mean anything to me. Do you or anyone else get the reference?
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