Introductions, part V: Don't Say We Never Warned You.

[LMNO]

Sorry to disappoint, but most of us here are stark raving sane. 

We do get a bit Holy™ at times, but that's a horse of a different moustache.

[Pæs]

Hello. New arrival. People tell me I'm all sorts of crazy; that'll fit me in nicely, yes?

Now point me towards the nearest need-to-know questionnaire, please. 

Are you known and noted for your outlandishness?

Will you assert that insanity is FUN?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Hello. New arrival. People tell me I'm all sorts of crazy; that'll fit me in nicely, yes?

Balls.  We are a collection of amazingly well-adjusted individuals.  We're always calm, and we hardly ever come across like an epileptic telegraph operator.

Now point me towards the nearest need-to-know questionnaire, please. 

We don't have any of those.  We frown on such things, as you don't want to tell us, and we don't want to know.  It's like filling out the census form, if the census form was written by a telegraph operator with tourettes.



(Hey...If you had a telegraph operator with tourettes and another one with epilepsy, how the fuck could you tell them apart?)

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Sorry to disappoint, but most of us here are stark raving sane. 

EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE, PLS.

We do get a bit Holy™ at times, but that's a horse of a different moustache.

It never occurred to me that a BIG GAY COWBOY'S horse would also be BIG and GAY, but it makes perfect sense when you think about it.

Poor Trigger...He never saw Silver coming.

[Vincent]

Sorry to disappoint, but most of us here are stark raving sane. 

We do get a bit Holy™ at times, but that's a horse of a different moustache.

I didn't mean crazy-crazy, in a way.

Note to self: should not have mentioned crazy; reboot with different noun in the future.

[Vincent]

Hello. New arrival. People tell me I'm all sorts of crazy; that'll fit me in nicely, yes?

Now point me towards the nearest need-to-know questionnaire, please. 

Are you known and noted for your outlandishness?

Will you assert that insanity is FUN?

Yes.

It stands between me and excessive boredom.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Sorry to disappoint, but most of us here are stark raving sane. 

We do get a bit Holy™ at times, but that's a horse of a different moustache.

I didn't mean crazy-crazy, in a way.

Note to self: should not have mentioned crazy; reboot with different noun in the future.

You mean "wild & crazy", then.  Steve Martin-style.

[LMNO]

Sorry to disappoint, but most of us here are stark raving sane. 

EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE, PLS.

It maps to the territory there is, rather than the territory we would like.

It still removes us from the majority of humans, but at least we know the light is an oncoming freight train.

[Vincent]

(Hey...If you had a telegraph operator with tourettes and another one with epilepsy, how the fuck could you tell them apart?)

I'll have to sleep on that one.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Hello. New arrival. People tell me I'm all sorts of crazy; that'll fit me in nicely, yes?

Now point me towards the nearest need-to-know questionnaire, please. 

Are you known and noted for your outlandishness?

Will you assert that insanity is FUN?

Yes.

It stands between me and excessive boredom.

Yeah, so does a rotten tooth, which has the added advantage of being less miserable than mental illness.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

It maps to the territory there is, rather than the territory we would like.

This doesn't seem healthy, sir.  In fact, it sounds like a great big cadmium sammich.

[Vincent]

Sorry to disappoint, but most of us here are stark raving sane. 

EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE, PLS.

We do get a bit Holy™ at times, but that's a horse of a different moustache.

It never occurred to me that a BIG GAY COWBOY'S horse would also be BIG and GAY, but it makes perfect sense when you think about it.

Poor Trigger...He never saw Silver coming.

I'm big, gay-ish and I like horses though.

You mean "wild & crazy", then.  Steve Martin-style.

I don't get 75% of your cultural memes, but sure.

Yeah, so does a rotten tooth, which has the added advantage of being less miserable than mental illness.

Living in Belgium, having a rotten tooth is considered exciting. You'd be miserable too. I've been known to consort with psychiaters, psychologists and all kinds of fairy soothsayers.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Living in Belgium, having a rotten tooth is considered exciting. You'd be miserable too. I've been known to consort with psychiaters, psychologists and all kinds of fairy soothsayers.

Yeah, I know how you feel.  A couple of years ago, I managed to contract a brain virus that tore up my reticular formation a bit.  I spent a little while batshit insane, and I still occasionally have "fits".  Everything goes dark, and everyone is plotting against me.  I behave more or less accordingly.  Then I snap out of it, back to normal...Except that I've lost some time, and usually some friends.

In terms of "fun", I put it up there with catching on fire.  You're not bored, but it's not exactly a party.

[Vincent]

Sorry to disappoint, but most of us here are stark raving sane. 

EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE, PLS.

It maps to the territory there is, rather than the territory we would like.

It still removes us from the majority of humans, but at least we know the light is an oncoming freight train.

You're setting a trap. I will not have it.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Sorry to disappoint, but most of us here are stark raving sane. 

EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE, PLS.

It maps to the territory there is, rather than the territory we would like.

It still removes us from the majority of humans, but at least we know the light is an oncoming freight train.

You're setting a trap. I will not have it.

You already walked into the trap, when you regged here.

Now you have to get used to it, or chew a limb off to get out¹.







¹ You still won't get out.  We just get a boot out of watching people gnaw their limbs off.