Have you ever...?

[Ozymandias]

...seen a psychic with a menu board?

 

...heard the phrase 'assless chaps' and been put in mind of men with no buttocks?

 

...realized how much Wisk laundry detergent smells like cheap peppermint chewing gum?

 

...eaten shrimp feces?

 

...found heaven in two cuts of tilapia, brown ale, potato chips, and lettuce slathered in Caesar salad dressing?

[Silver WInd]

Have you ever laughed at a funneral?

 

Taken comfort in a quart of ice cream?

 

Slept before a burning hearth fire?

 

Felt like you were floating on the clouds?

[Peredhil]

Have you ever...

 

burned something personal just to symbolically excise emotion, and then lost yourself in the dancing flames?

 

hurt so badly emotionally that you sought physical pain to find your body again?

 

lit the microwave on fire twice studying just how long it takes for popcorn to burn through a bag?

 

eaten some of the burnt popcorn after pouring water on it just because it smelled good to you anyway?

 

been wandering in the wee hours of the morning on a perimeter check and found yourself sitting petting an animal and thinking 1/2 hour later?

 

Gotten so interested in the book left in the lavatory for reading that your legs feel asleep and you couldn't get up?

 

wished you could take all of a friend's pain on yourself so they could sleep?

 

forgotten to eat for four days and have to be reminded by someone on a different continent to eat?

 

juggled time-zones in your head for three people at once, in different time zones?

 

held simultaneous conversations with people each on one of the seven continents?

 

spent a day in bed wondering about Identity, and why?

 

Been so in love with someone your chest ached - and it wasn't sexual at all?

[Quincunx]

Have you ever smiled at the glitter and health in your food?

 

Have you ever tasted the spoons until finding the correct one? (and, yes, washed them all afterward)

 

Have you ever chased the itching through arteries and veins?

 

Have you ever squeaked your teeth?

[Ozymandias]

...been enthralled by the view of a laundromat washing machine?

 

...killed a man for pun?

 

...had to remove breasts from a toilet?

 

...gone to work and met a pirate, a kender, and a prophet in one week?

 

...met a squire two weeks later?

[Ozymandias]

...really wished God wasn't so eager to help you become more patient?

 

...accidentally braided something?

 

...given up gasoline in favor of taffy?

[Appy]

...laughed in the face of a customer who had no idea you were laughing AT them, not with them?

 

...stood in a bedroom with all party people present and sung bohemian rhapsody together?

 

...did this in a hallway somewhere else as well, and never noticed the music being turned off until that guitar solo part?

 

...stood dancing in the store where you are supposed to be the responsible one?

 

...doing this with your manager?

 

...aquired so many books that you have to double row them to fit them in the cabinet, every single shelf?

 

...slept on a couch for half a year at a friends, find your own place only to be reduced to sleep on an airbed which empties over night?

 

...sleep on same airbed at several parties and have people wondering you come sleeping the rest of the morning in their bed?

 

...slept on a hay attic?

 

...been given energy at a party through reiki?

 

...been told that you 'suck' while being reiki'd?

 

...won a game of Arkham Horror in less time it takes to set up the game?

 

...actually pulled out of a game of monopoly because you were knee deep in debts?

 

...sat thinking of what else you did in the few months you've been away from the internet for over 20 minutes for a thread called "Have you ever?"

 

Edited February 6, 2008 by Appy

[Ozymandias]

• Yes
• No
• No
• Yes
• Yes
• No {:>(
• No
• No
• No
• No
• No
• Arkham Horror? Whazzat? Whazzat? Huh? Huh?
• No
• Yup :>)

[Ozymandias]

...considered tendering your resignation by defecating on the boss's desk, then writing your letter in it?

 

...accidentally did a great power drill impression when you had the flu?

 

...contemplated your first navel?

[Appy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkham_Horror

 

[Ozymandias]

...really pondered the full ramifications of humans becoming immortal?

 

...set up a zombie plague outbreak escape plan?

 

...dearly wished for companionship and for everyone to just go away- at the xact same time, with equal intensity?

 

...have you ever loved so much it's kept you awake?

[Quincunx]

Have you ever burned homework?

Have you ever burned a book?

Have you ever burned a post?

Have you ever burned a forum?

[Peredhil]

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

A person? Yes.

 

I miss you. <3

[darklingbird]

Have you ever:

 

 

 

Realized that, though they may appear to be human, they're definitely Chimera?

 

Offered your friend a shoulder as he expressed his feeling of deep alone--because no one understands his love of high heels?

 

Made it a point to document a door jamb?

 

Point to a pair of underwear living on a mannequin and say "airplane!"?

 

Sit in a classroom, knowing you're the only one who's really *there?

 

Realize that you're being too honest with customers when you tell them that they make you uncomfortable?

 

Stalk your friends for little to no reason other than to know that you can do it successfully?

 

Wonder 'What's an Enigma?'

 

Mysteriously contract the same illnesses from someone you've only known through the internet?

 

Sit in a field with a friend who can see only to realize you cannot?

 

Feel the stones on the bottom of the ocean [consequently forgetting that you can't breathe]?

 

Taken a chance?

[Quincunx]

In answer to Rook's "Realize that you're being too honest with customers when you tell them that they make you uncomfortable?", and several other Have you ever? . . .s in the same vein--I only wish my social sensitivity had a lag of seconds instead of hours (days/months/years). . .

[Peredhil]

Heh... social sensitivity. This is not the way of my people.

[Ozymandias]

*sings "If I had a hammer..."*

[Gwaihir]

Ever thought you saw a person from a different world of yours, and then realized that despite your perception, coincidences abound?

Ever been very pleased to be kicked?

Ever seen your silhouette and blinked at its strangeness?

[Ozymandias]

...realized you prospered from your torment?

 

...been praised for your command of a language you don't know?

 

...lived more with someone in days than you have in years?

 

...stood on your roof in the rain, just to see what it was like?

[Ozymandias]

...played the sock game?

 

...tried tensing all the muscles in your hands and fingers wihtout moving your hands or fingers?

 

...have ever felt phantom jewlerly?

[Ayshela]

Phantom jewelry - yes. often. also phantom watches. most recently, phantom bluetooth.

 

...fallen asleep waiting for someone to return to the phone call, waking up three hours later to discover the line still open because they're asleep too?

[Ozymandias]

...found love in the eyes of a toy rabbit?

 

...wanted to punch someone in the nose for using improper grammar?

 

...had imaginary people beg you for a place to live?

 

...had hunt's manwich make your day?

 

...made gnomic conversation a hobby?

 

...studied fighting a dog barehanded, just in case?

[Ozymandias]

...dressed up as someone else, yet introduced yourself as you?

 

...made a friend this way?

 

...ever felt bars of soap to be more honest than liquid?

 

...seen a bird fly in time to your music?

[Ozymandias]

...lived with a sick ladybug?

 

...used your sculpting skills in ways you never, ever expected?

 

...had a squirrel rob you of your sofa?

[Ayshela]

wow, I need to sleep... I read that last one as "had a squirrel rob you of your SODA" three times before I saw what it really said...

though I'm not really sure which would be funnier.

 

...had to plug in your office chair?

...spent more time dressing your online characters than yourself?

...been more excited about coffee than anything else in your day?