a thousand little green monsters can't be wrong! -

08:30 am November 26th, 2008




			a thousand little green monsters can't be wrong! -

smarbaby


	so we named our guitar hero: world tour band "the nancy boys" ...if this were a real band i've decided their first single would be called "raging clue" *** also, at the studio yesterday, me and a few other people were running out for a quick lunch. katie: "i can't drive, i've got stuff in my backseat" co-worker: (looks at my car that's next to the car we're getting into and peers in the backseat) "katie, why do you have a grass skirt, a riding crop and a safari helmet in your car?" katie: "...do i ask you what YOU do on the weekends?" ...looking back on it, i wish i'd corrected her and told her it was called a "pith" helmet. (for the record, it was all for brodie's crazy fun "adventure club" birthday: http://clockworkmonkey.livejournal.com/619660.html ) anyone else got a good "the people i work with think i'm NUTS" story?

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	From: chrisjbaker	Date: November 26th, 2008 01:55 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I am the only person like me where I work... if that makes sense. Pretty much just showing up and talking about anything causes people not to understand me. But... I do have a good example.

Last year during the time leading up to the Star Wars convention was rough. I just gave up on trying to explain to everyone that it wasn't a Star Trek convention and that Star Wars conventions have a much smaller ratio of weird people to normal families and such. It was even worse this year trying to explain what Dragon*Con was to everyone. I didn't even begin to describe what a multi-genre convention was... haha... which lead to me saying "I'm going to Atlanta for vacation."

Ohhhhhh yeah... this just happened whilst I was typing this. I have this weird thing with my friends where we talk about super gross foods that don't go together. The running joke is that I'm making a casserole that has these base ingredients: mayonnaise, chocolate chips and uncooked spaghetti. Then you cook that at 125 degrees for 3 days. So yeah... someone was just talking about injecting their Thanksgiving turkey with something and I asked if they have ever thought about injecting it with mayo.

Nothing but blank stares from everyone.

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	From: smarbaby	Date: November 26th, 2008 02:21 pm (UTC)		(Link)

...you should show up in this shirt one day:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/popculture/adf2/

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	From: chrisjbaker	Date: November 26th, 2008 03:30 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I am offended. Well, not really... hehe.

You should have seen the looks people gave me when I was making my handlebar mustache.

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	From: syntheticashe	Date: November 27th, 2008 02:25 am (UTC)		(Link)

LMAO Oh god that's hillarious!!

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	From: opportunemoment	Date: November 26th, 2008 02:11 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I accidentally told my co-workers, out loud, that I was just doing something 'for the lulz' the other day. Turns out that's not common usage amongst publishing types. Who would've thought?

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	From: smarbaby	Date: November 26th, 2008 02:19 pm (UTC)		(Link)

HA HA!

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	From: hofmannison	Date: November 26th, 2008 02:14 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I frequently wear a kilt to work and had three costume changes on Halloween. Nuff said.

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	From: smarbaby	Date: November 26th, 2008 02:14 pm (UTC)		(Link)

NICE.

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	From: darkpriestss	Date: November 26th, 2008 03:23 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Since everyone I work with is old enough to be my mother, I am automatically weird. That and I listen to scary music, like Halloween WAY more than most people, and am often seen skipping down the hallway.

However, they think I'm funny, so at least it's fun here.

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	From: jane_says	Date: November 26th, 2008 03:26 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Oh, now I miss the Adventures Club more ... *cry*

Everyone I work with knows I'm crazy. About a year ago I started making cartoon thought and speech bubbles for the action figures on my desk. People have just learned to smile and nod when I do something odd.

I just put out my little 4 foot Christmas tree at work and it's decorated with (fake!) barbed-wire and chains and Dungeons and Dragons miniatures I've made into ornaments.

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	From: moonbaby1619	Date: November 26th, 2008 03:37 pm (UTC)		(Link)

one year for my birthday, my fiance bought me pet hermit crabs. being obsesively interested in them at the time, i was estatic. so when my co-workers asked me what he had bought me, i VERY happily pronounced:

"he gave me crabs!"

... after that it was all pretty much downhill.

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	From: beagleboy	Date: November 26th, 2008 11:08 pm (UTC)		(Link)

First prize!

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	From: excellist	Date: November 26th, 2008 03:45 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I manage the box office of a symphony orchestra. I'm in my 20s and all my coworkers are at least in their 50s. They don't think I'm nuts but they're horrified by my tattoo and my car plastered in Metallica stickers.

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	From: amarafox	Date: November 26th, 2008 03:49 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I really want to get GH: World tour. I'm going to wait to see if I get any money for christmas before I buy it :D

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	From: amarafox	Date: November 26th, 2008 03:50 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Oh, and re work. I work with nerds. We've had guitar hero parties, and we meow at eachother and listen to 8 bit video game music.

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	From: boatswain	Date: November 26th, 2008 06:01 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Marry me. . . wait nevermind. It's good to know that other people love to listen to 8 bit vg music. I'm currently listening to the Ducktails moonbase level theme.

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	From: boatswain	Date: November 26th, 2008 06:11 pm (UTC)		(Link)

One of many:
I carry a bag with me almost everywhere I go. In it, I carry sketchbooks, art supplies, a wacom, and a kite. My response when asked about the kite: "You never have access to one on a perfect day."

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	From: losttoy	Date: December 2nd, 2008 02:15 am (UTC)		(Link)

Actually, that makes a lot of sense.

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	From: maxverbosity	Date: November 26th, 2008 10:50 pm (UTC)		(Link)

A pith helmet, grass skirt and riding crop? I don't see how ANYONE would start to think you were into anything unusual....

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	From: beagleboy	Date: November 26th, 2008 11:19 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Co-workers keep asking me what I think about one wildly popular TV show or another, even though I invariably answer, "I haven't seen it." After which they stare at me like I have gryphons flying out of my ass.

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	From: syntheticashe	Date: November 27th, 2008 02:23 am (UTC)		(Link)

ROTFLMAO!!! Hahahaha that's hillarious!!!!

And nah, I can't think of a story off hand... The only people I think are crazy are people in the public that I see while at work. lol

Yesterday I saw 3 old geezers fight over the first parking spot. The old guy in the small car pulled in almost 3/4ths of the way, an old guy in a huge SUV pulls in the rest of the way, and an old guy in a van who didn't make it to the spot parks elsewhere and walks by flipping the other two old men off and cussing them out. The other 2 old men sit there in their cars in a stand off for about 10 minutes before the guy in the small car turns his engine off, gets out, flips off and cusses the old guy int he SUV and comes in the store. lol

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