Taking refuge in nonsense

[j4]

Taking me a while to get my head around being here again & being back at work. It's amazing how little time it took for the Cambridge Effect to kick in again.

People seem to want me to write more about my holiday, god knows why, but really I didn't do very much other than eat, drink, mooch around, and admire the scenery; anything I write is just going to be so much navel-gazing.

In the meantime, a daft quiz-thing stolen from holly_lama:

Go to the toy aisle of any store. All the dolls (or "action figures") come packaged with one or two "accessories." Barbie has her purse, The Hulk has a big rock, Space Ghost has little cards and a desk.

If I were to go to the toy store and buy a YOU action figure, which one or two little objects would be in your package with you?

Pet badger and some shiny shoes for me, please.

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[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

A plush husky and a teeny ruby iMac.

[saraphale.livejournal.com]

I would have a small piece of metal that could almost be a spanner, but isn't quite the right shape, and a stick-shaped piece of wood.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

A pint glass of water (or some simulacrum thereof) and a carry-case of CDs. Perhaps.

And now I've stolen this meme too!

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

A purple satchel and a newspaper.

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

An index.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

A laptop and a little pot of backrub lotion.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Oh, and make that laptop visibly running DOS.

[j4.livejournal.com]

I have just such a laptop. Er, actually, 3 of them. Would you like one?

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Come to think of it, for me it really should be an inaction figure, lounging around lazily. [ Like the Silent Bob Inaction Figure, who has a button on the back of his head that you press to make him not say anything; I think that's brilliant. ]

[j4.livejournal.com]

Neat.

I think mine should actually be a wind-up toy which has gotten turned over onto its back but is still slowly winding down, its legs trundling uselessly through the air.

[acronym.livejournal.com]

Pair of headphones and a ball-and-stick model of some random perovskite.

[triskellian]

My action figure has an iBook and a triskell necklace.

(Now, should I use my iBook icon or my triskell icon? Decisions, decisions...)

secretrebel was muttering about buying me and smiorgan "action figures of ourselves" as presents: Smallville!Lex for him (he's bald) and Laptop!Willow for me ;-)

Cute quiz, stealing it...

[geekette8.livejournal.com]

A crossword and a pencil.

[sparrowsion]

A crossword and a pen. I live dangerously, me.

Actually, a remote control and something would probably be more like it.

[j4.livejournal.com]

They say Confucius does his crossword with a pen.

[geekette8.livejournal.com]

A crossword and a pen. I live dangerously, me.

Ah, but that *really* doesn't work with things like The Listener and Enigmatic Variations, where there's a gimmick. Ususally it's something along the lines of finding the misprinted letter in the definition of each clue and then following the instruction (given by reading the correct letters in clue order) to resolve clashes between across and down clues. :-)

In fact the item in my right hand in my user icon is a pencil, and if you could see the full picture you would see a table with an Enigmatic Variations crossword on it in front of me!

[besskeloid.livejournal.com]

A severed goat head & a tube of lubricant.

[truecatachresis.livejournal.com]

Hmm, a book and a laptop, probably. Possibly swap the laptop for my iRiver.

[dorianegray.livejournal.com]

I'd have a handbag (for hitting people with!) with large quantities of Stuff(TM) in it. All the items could be taken out and lost.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

A book and a bag of sewing/knitting, assuming that a smallclanger doll is available separately and doesn't need to be packaged with me.

He could have a Peekablock and a spoon.

[rmc28]

Cambridge Effect?

[j4.livejournal.com]

It's like S.A.D. -- only I get landscape affective disorder. Cambridge is flat, flat, flat, flat, FLAT; this really gets me down in a totally irrational emotional way.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

You're not the only person to whom that happens: it also used to happen to papersky when she visited me in Cambridge, though it's a register in which I'm pretty neutral myself.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Never go to Illinois. Trust me.

I have the same problem with flatness; i grew up in the Andes.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Easy. A little baby TiBook and an equally little grey cat with a bushy tail, who makes a loud noise when you squeeze her.

Have got your Dreamweaver MX btw but having problems getting it to run....

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

A television and packet of nicorette gum.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

A pile of books, all of them with bookmarks in.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

A carrot.
A stick.

[j4.livejournal.com]

- There are radishes and turnips.
- Are there no carrots?
- No. Anyway you overdo it with your carrots.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Oh.
Well, a fried breakfast, and a penguin, then.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

I only like the pink ones, you know that!

[j4.livejournal.com]

Hurr hurr. That's dirty. Hurr hurr.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Gosh. I suppose it is.

I'm glad I've got you to keep me on the straight and narrow.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Hurr hurr. "Straight". "Narrow." You're so rude.