In this game, you stick random things into a vending machine. The next person describes what you received and then places his or her own object in. An example would be:
Samatar inserts a small piece of golden tent fabric.
Samatar receives an angry Mongol.
Les receives an eco friendly 'shopping bag for life' from the VM Cappyd inserts a colourfully decorated plaster cast [right arm] into the VM accompanied by a few choice expletives.
As it turns out.. might be good good. That is, after you get past that it is inedible raw and has a tough and spongy flesh ("I fear for my fingers every time I attack the woody, oddly spongy yet unyielding interior of a quince").
Sandra gets back all of the website ads she placed into the VM, from the VM.
The VM doesn't want them either. Can't blame it, now can we?
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Oh, and the note of annoying interwebz stuff.. you can also add in the literal blocks of.. erhm.. stuff that pop up to obscure vision of the respective websites that use them. That is, and unless.. one registers to the website.
Am looking at you, Facebook.. and that is one more reason why I will never register as a user.
Facebook is a walled garden. One of many, I guess. Now I look in occasionally but not at all often.
Les gets strange HTML bugs, spiderbots and other creepy crawlies climbing out of the VM... resembling the words that crawled out of the Hobgoblin's Hat when the dictionary was left inside.
Sandra puts a dozen fresh ring-pull coconuts into the VM, hoping it will enjoy them. (They all have straws).
Hmm. 'The Error of Our Ways.' I didn't know VMs read... interesting. (Slips it into the Kindle under S......s ..... the ..... Ri....r).
Les gets a passionfruit swiss roll. (Saw one today and was tempted, but mother shook her head. Sigh...)
(Question, do you still get the metallic-type toothpaste tubes? I stopped rolling them up when the plastic ones came in, and ever since then, I've had trouble getting the last of the toothpaste out... it lodges at the very top where the tube is hard, and it takes two hands to squeeze it out, and when you take one away to hold the brush, the toothpaste shloops back in).
"Question, do you still get the metallic-type toothpaste tubes?"
Yes.
My tip/trick.. is to *use the handle of the toothbrush to get the remnants up to the tip/shoulder of.. and then use the rolled up portion of the tube to put pressure to get the toothpaste out.
*Like a butter knife. Kinda, sorta. Pressed flat or slightly upraised and at a slight angle.
"College: $100,000 - Result: Broke, unemployed, antisocial, depressed Skyrim: $8 - Result: Own mansions, married, have children, revered by everyone across the land 10/10 would dropout again."
Les gets back a dragon of his own. What will you call it...?
Les receives some duck eggs and chestnut mushrooms to cook with it -- on condition the VM is invited for breakfast.
Sandra puts a ticking clock into the VM. (I can't HEAR it ticking but it ticks too fast. You sit down for a break and to play a game of Trolls vs Vikings, and before you know it, you have to get up again to check the oven).
Sandra gets back a fantasy world in which 'furniture and other objects' can communicate via the spoken word.
Unfortunately, or, maybe not.. their language is Esperanto.
Les inserts the cooking aromas that are wafting through the house.. into the VM.
Only thing better would be that of some baking aromas. And here, I will go with the staple apple pie. Cinnamon, pastry crust.. and and.. equals.. goo oo ood!
Pineapples are positively amazing... you buy them and they sit on your counter and look all prickly and tough, but smell perfumed and perfect. It almost seems a waste to process them in a cheesecake.
Thank you VM. :-) My head was in the clouds, so the fantasy paper fits the bill very well.
Oddly enough, I nearly linked to peach tea (also on the Aussie site) but then I spotted the strawberry.
Les gets back simple peach iced tea. (Well, what else can the VM do with all that snow?)
Nearly forgot again...
Into the VM, Sandra puts sudden strange Facebook notifications that pop up on the screen, like the one I got in the middle of typing this post... "Sandra, do you know John Doe?" Actually that wasn't the name... and I nearly never know any of them. Facebook is absolutely desperate to make me link to more people, and every time I go in, there's a list of failed notifications as long as your arm... 'Sandra, do you know...?"
I wonder if everybody gets this, or if I get a lot of it because I don't link to many people.
Sandra accepts the VM's Facebook friendship request.
Les receives a tray of these cookies, baked specially for him by the VM. The time on each is firmly set to the time he gets home from work. VM also adds a pot of freshly brewed tea, and has scheduled Les's favourite movie-or-sports-game for free online streaming. Meanwhile, a huge pizza is on its way and will be delivered in six minutes. (The VM has been very busy).
Sandra puts an old yellow (but funny) paperback in the VM.
And the reason it doesn't get much use is because.. it's yuuuuuuge!
I'm talking a pint and a half at least, on the note of capacity. As much as I like my tea, there's no humanly conceivable way of my finishing a 'mug' in this mug without bursting and/or tea getting cold and and.. .
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Could work it in as a hand weight for a workout, though.
Sandra gets back a note of encouragement from the VM to forge ahead with her spring cleaning.
Les inserts some potting soil.. into the VM.
/\ Yep.. need to remind myself to buy some.
As I don't think it's a good good thing when a plant's roots are exposed, what do yous think?
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Now.. if only I could figure out where the previous potting soil disappeared to..
(*dons deerstalker.. picks up Calabash Gourd & Meerschaum pipe..*)
"The most obvious sign is when you can see roots on the surface of the soil or emerging from the drainage hole in the bottom of the pot.
If the plant seems to stop growing or has slowed growth, it has likely become pot-bound. If it's a small plant, turn the pot on its side and ease the plant out of its container. Take a peek at its roots. Are they coiled in the bottom of the pot? If so, it's definitely time to repot."
Think I've only been delaying the inevitable of transplanting to a larger pot/planter.
Danke for the link.
Carrying on..
Ok, after a quick google check on the word; "scrummy"..
Sandra gets back.. wait, a sec.. "all finished now"? "put in the dream of another"?
Sandra gets back a vacant stare from the VM.. dreaming of another 'scrummy lemon tart'.
VM is still feeling a bit vacant so has asked me to fill in for it today.
For Les, I suggest (from today's DVD-watching):
(1) Evan Almighty (it gave me a few chuckles, especially the fish).
(2) From the otherwise serious Outbreak film, the Dustin Hoffman/Cuba Gooding Jr in-a-helicopter bit (when being chased). It's not real comedy but tickled my funny bone anyway, being more like an action chase spoof.
Unlike Les I am not on the bleeding edge of comedy and there's something distinctly dusty about my choices... I'm sure the VM would have done better but is staring glassily at nothing just now.
Sandra puts Pooh Bear ice cream into the VM, and waits anxiously to see if it recovers.
'Poor' Bear? That doesn't even make any sense. >:-( I can't find a good photo or page showing Pooh Bear Ice Cream but I know it exists because I've had it a few times. It's honeycomb ice cream... VM would like it.
My head aches.... Think I might trot down for a drink of something...
Les gets a (nurses throbbing head and thinks).... a Charlie Bear bunny called Cotton Sox. (I have this one).
But.. "Pooh Bear ice cream".. it's almost a given.
:oP
I keed, I keed.
Man (and woman, too, of course).. should have went with my instincts that kick in, in and around this time of year. Those instincts being; "keep your head down, don't make eye contact.. as peeps be.. erhm.. in a not-so good good mood".
Oh, that's not Cotton Sox; that's Thumper. Cotton Sox should probably feature in a wallpaper of his own some day. They both have bendy ears. Cuuuuuuuute. (Goes all mushy).
Les gets a thank you note from the VM to say it feels better now.
"With four times the capacity of the next leading SSD, this massive hard drive could hold up to 12,000 DVD movies or even a whopping 400 million photos. Just sit back and think about how ridiculous an amount of data that really is."
Yes, that's the one... you don't really expect Russell Crowe, somehow. :-) He did well, though.
But it's an annoying film in the sense that you wish everybody would shut up, stop shooting, and go home.
The Rocky Mountain thing looks a lovely trip... provided your transport doesn't break down. Get the feeling the traveller in Les is drooling, though...
Les gets a ticket to the future, when such storage will be cheap and commonplace.
I love the fluffy purse... but the best part is the text that goes with it!
"The furry cat purse is a creepy looking clutch that is basically a square furry purse that has a face of a cat in the corner of it, and if it were to utter anything out of it's creepy little mouth, we are sure it would whisper the words "Please Kill Me"."
I WANT that purse.
Les gets back some cream to put on his sunburn. You're only meant to go in the sun for ten minutes the first time.
Sandra puts 'people who take damaged DVDs to charity shops' into the VM.
Am chuckiing out a DVD of Flightplan. There's no way I'll allow them to cheat somebody else, even in the name of charity. And aren't those eyes too blue?? I went around asking everybody that this morning... "look at this DVD... aren't those eyes too blue?" Agree?
VM reads the funniest joke in the world and says 'interesting', but remains poker-faced.
Sandra puts an out-of-date bag of Thailand rice crackers into the VM. (Where did it even come from in the first place?? At least when you live alone you know the only person who does anything around the house or brings anything into it is you. And cats bringing in mice, maybe...)
PS I'm sorry to hear about the password issues, Mary. :-(
Just to be sure of the flavour profile, had to do some googlin'.. Thailand rice crackers.
Unfortunately.. the offering did not register with the VM's current taste desires, and promptly did the "Blecch! Ptooey!" thing.. and came up with something far, far better to cleanse the palate and enjoy:
We did the Bleccht Ptooey! thing too,... rice crackers ended up in bin without even being tasted.
VM is still pondering the blank DVD... considers using it as a frisbee, but fears to annoy people who are straggling across the beach with their babies.
Sandra gets back a cheque for 5,000 Euros to hire a professional organizer.. and a pot of freshly brewed tea to enjoy while the gremlins do the dirty work.. from the VM.
Les inserts his green recyclable bin.. into the VM.
Les, the VM says you can swap that DVD for this if you prefer: The Odessa File. It's very good, and I wasn't tempted to fast-forward through any of it, even though there was a lot of creeping around and lurking.
Les gets back a team of green bin cleaners, and a pot of green tea to enjoy while waiting.
Les receives an extended holiday to attend an *even more* important event on the 23rd ...Connie's birthday party, and it's a big milestone this year! lol
Connie inserts a very expensive birthday cake into the VM with lots and lots of icing!!
"Bird's nest soup is considered an expensive delicacy among the Chinese. Bird's nest itself is a gelatinous texture made up of cave swifts' saliva, hardened into the shape of a shallow cup that forms their nests."
Actually.. those prices are not all that shocking?
Still, and with that said.. those are some very nice looking clubs and the specs listed, manufacturing process employed.. suggests some high quality stuff.
Connie gets back an empty pie plate from the VM with a note attached;
"Appy 'ord.. eye uz ood".
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Fo' shame.. the VM should know better than to talk/type with it's mouth full..
Only nine minutes long, and I thought to share as I found it interesting and enlightening. Not earth shattering, by no means.. but, still.. very interesting.
Samatar inserts a small piece of golden tent fabric.
Samatar receives an angry Mongol.
Use anything you like! I will start this off.
Luke inserts a Calvin and Hobbes book.