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One of my good friends suggested that I am becoming normal. He said this because I haven't done anything spontaneously weird in a while. Oh, don't get me wrong, I still tackle shrubbery and leap into mudpits, but that's just normal 32-year old adolescent behavior. He means the truly bizarre.

I really had no response to that. It's true. It's been quite some time since I've done something truly off the deep end. But it just isn't the same if I were to plan something.

I need to get my weird back. I've been thinking of taking a working vacation to Stuntman Camp this summer. But the expense is tough to justify.

You shouldn't try to be weird just to avoid being normal (which I agree is bad). You should just be yourself. Conformance drags you down, but being weird because you feel you have to is just another kind of artificial limitation you could put on yourself.

Well, it isn't so much that I feel that I have to be weird. It's just that I always have been. It never occurred to me that I could be becoming mainstream.

:eek: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!! :(

Well, it isn't so much that I feel that I have to be weird. It's just that I always have been. It never occurred to me that I could be becoming mainstream.

What to consider is whether you are comfortable with that notion. As long as you are the individual you want to be, that's what mattered. As for whether you're mainstream, that's a pretty arbitrary notion, and one that I don't care for too much.

I am reminded of a futurama episode where Leila wants to be more spontaneous...like Fry. Fry just keeps eating food off his head; cereal with milk, turkey with gravy, all these foods.

What to consider is whether you are comfortable with that notion. As long as you are the individual you want to be, that's what mattered. As for whether you're mainstream, that's a pretty arbitrary notion, and one that I don't care for too much.

Second glances aren't enough for me. I must get wide-eyed stares. Not to mention the occasional stunned person backing away slowly. :)

you just not conform! you must retain your stupid side so i say to thee. KEEP jumping in bushes and KEEP jumping in puddles! ROCK ON! BE COOL!!

Second glances aren't enough for me. I must get wide-eyed stares. Not to mention the occasional stunned person backing away slowly. :)

Go for it then!

:eek: :eek: :eek:
LG!! LG!!!
I THINK THE ANTI-GOOFBALL IS STEALING YOUR WEIRD!!!

Try dressing up like people. Like one time I took a walk through my neighbourhood dressed up like a ninja. Complete with black Ninja-shirt. People in cars giving me weird looks and stuff. HA!

For you I would suggest walking around the mall as former US president Chester Arthur.

I very much doubt it

nah.... i doubt it. you may be in a slump... but you'll get out of it...

here, have a chocolate!

Yum. Chocolate.

My wife reminded me that I'm building my own lightsaber from scratch. I think I'm just fine. :)

You will become normal the same day that I start to contribute something meaningful to the forum. So, I think you're in the clear. ;)

Well, it isn't so much that I feel that I have to be weird. It's just that I always have been. It never occurred to me that I could be becoming mainstream.
Don't try to be weird. Don't be afraid of being mainstream. If you just relax your weirdness will pop up at truly unexpected times. Also you should always remember that being mainstream is weird.

Seems to me when I first started you had just welcomed into the world a Little Goofball. Non-cynical: It's hard to out-weird a little kid, not to mention that since s/he has very little to go on, it's hard to get them to understand that what you are doing is weird-especially if you are weird all the damn time. Add onto that the sense of responsability as daddy to not be too weird lest your kid go nose dive in the mud without realising how to go about it.

Cynical: Every artist (just about, and I consider you an artist whose medium is mud) has lost his edge when they get children. It's inevitable. Either be on the edge or reporduce. You chose papahood, which has requisite normalcy.

(I don't entirely believe that, it's just the pattern of artists I've liked who have had kids)

There is no such thing as normal.

There's a simple rule of thumb to live by concerning weirdness. So long as you still use the internet, forums such as this in particular, then you're weird. Unfortunately for you, more and more people keep joining the online communities and this forum, and so more and more people become weird. Eventually EVERYONE will be weird, which will technically make it... normal, I guess. When that time comes, if you want to be weird again, just click 'disconnect'. No wait, what am I saying... don't do that, sorry. I don't want to be responsible for the consequences...

Welcome to your Thirties: Good-bye Youth and Vitality
At 31, I find my weirdness as strong as ever, but I keep finding myself trying to more tactical and choosey about when and where I let my weirdness shine through. I never used to do that. Its like an involuntary reflex of the disiease of aging I fear. I don't get into nearly as much trouble and fights (drunk jock-types are an irresistable target) as I used to though, so maybe its a good thing. I think its called discretion. Emb race it, it has the potential to make your Weird-Fu very powerful. Discretion isn't planningg, its just awareness of yourself and your surroundings to use them to your Weird advantage.

Take it to the next level, Grasshopper.

Welcome to your Thirties: Good-bye Youth and Vitality
At 31, I find my weirdness as strong as ever, but I keep finding myself trying to more tactical and choosey about when and where I let my weirdness shine through. I never used to do that. Its like an involuntary reflex of the disiease of aging I fear. I don't get into nearly as much trouble and fights (drunk jock-types are an irresistable target) as I used to though, so maybe its a good thing. I think its called discretion. Emb race it, it has the potential to make your Weird-Fu very powerful. Discretion isn't planningg, its just awareness of yourself and your surroundings to use them to your Weird advantage.

Take it to the next level, Grasshopper.

*looks at her driver's license*
so that's what's been going on... and my friends thought i needed a psych evaluation...

You will become normal the same day that I start to contribute something meaningful to the forum. So, I think you're in the clear. ;)

YAY! :D

Seems to me when I first started you had just welcomed into the world a Little Goofball. Non-cynical: It's hard to out-weird a little kid, not to mention that since s/he has very little to go on, it's hard to get them to understand that what you are doing is weird-especially if you are weird all the damn time. Add onto that the sense of responsability as daddy to not be too weird lest your kid go nose dive in the mud without realising how to go about it.

Cynical: Every artist (just about, and I consider you an artist whose medium is mud) has lost his edge when they get children. It's inevitable. Either be on the edge or reporduce. You chose papahood, which has requisite normalcy.

(I don't entirely believe that, it's just the pattern of artists I've liked who have had kids)

Actually, perhaps I am still an artist and my new medium is my child. Perhaps I can make a yet weirder person? Dare I dream?!? :eek:

Actually, perhaps I am still an artist and my new medium is my child. Perhaps I can make a yet weirder person? Dare I dream?!? :eek:
It's my brother goal with my nephew, and certianly a harder medium to work with, I wish you luck and look forward to reading about it in a news headline like "What the Hell Was That???"

One of my good friends suggested that I am becoming normal. He said this because I haven't done anything spontaneously weird in a while. Oh, don't get me wrong, I still tackle shrubbery and leap into mudpits, but that's just normal 32-year old adolescent behavior. He means the truly bizarre.

I really had no response to that. It's true. It's been quite some time since I've done something truly off the deep end. But it just isn't the same if I were to plan something.

I need to get my weird back. I've been thinking of taking a working vacation to Stuntman Camp this summer. But the expense is tough to justify.

Stop thinking to hard. Stop trying to do it and just do it. Be patient. Don't go out looking for it, let it find you.

One of my good friends suggested that I am becoming normal. He said this because I haven't done anything spontaneously weird in a while. Oh, don't get me wrong, I still tackle shrubbery and leap into mudpits, but that's just normal 32-year old adolescent behavior. He means the truly bizarre.


Have you considered wearing a pocketwatch?

Don't worry--weird is in the genes, just like puns. If you can train your children in the ways of the weird, or, as some might call it, the weirding way, then they could master the abilities granted them by the weirdichlorians and build an empire the likes of which the galaxy has never seen... The world would never see it coming, for few know the POWER of the weird side.

Mwuaahahahahahahhaaaaa..a..a.a.a.a. *cough cough*

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On a related note, this is pretty wierd ----> :gundge: