The Sereni-Tree, settling in, Twister, more piratey angst, and continuing adventures on Boros
POSTED BY: TheRealMe
UPDATED: Friday, February 3, 2006 02:04
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*feels relieved that some one else is as bad around kitchen appliances as she is*
yeah, as I was saying, flair for the dramatic much?
While you have the gloves on though help me turn it round... hold it so that it doesn't keep moving about. While I...
*Takes out her knife, very quickly unscrews a small plate on the underside, and pulls out the leads connecting the machines back up battary*
*looks at SR in disbelief*
Why does a popcorn maker have a back up battery? I mean, power cut out, or maybe the ship crashes, and they expect you to think 'well, at least we still have the popcorn maker.. lets go eat whilst we slowly suffocate...' I mean honestly!
*Punches the machine* *winces*
-------this brief and not too terribly amusing interlude was brought to you by the fact that I just had a fight with my own popcorn maker (stoopid plastic piece o crap) and feel that popcorn makers ain't villified enough in popular fiction.
I mean, even fridges (stooopid fridges)have taken a bashing, but not the most evil and pernicious appliances of all...
My problem was that I couldn't get the damn thing to work - stop.start.stop.start - But that ain't half as exciting as 'When Appliances Attack'----------
Well, help me get this stuff into bowls.
*thinks*
You can still shove it out of an airlock if you wish...
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Originally posted by seryn:
*feels relieved that some one else is as bad around kitchen appliances as she is*
yeah, as I was saying, flair for the dramatic much?
While you have the gloves on though help me turn it round... hold it so that it doesn't keep moving about. While I...
*Takes out her knife, very quickly unscrews a small plate on the underside, and pulls out the leads connecting the machines back up battary*
*looks at SR in disbelief*
Why does a popcorn maker have a back up battery? I mean, power cut out, or maybe the ship crashes, and they expect you to think 'well, at least we still have the popcorn maker.. lets go eat whilst we slowly suffocate...' I mean honestly!
*Punches the machine* *winces*
-------this brief and not too terribly amusing interlude was brought to you by the fact that I just had a fight with my own popcorn maker (stoopid plastic piece o crap) and feel that popcorn makers ain't villified enough in popular fiction.
I mean, even fridges (stooopid fridges)have taken a bashing, but not the most evil and pernicious appliances of all...
My problem was that I couldn't get the damn thing to work - stop.start.stop.start - But that ain't half as exciting as 'When Appliances Attack'----------
Well, help me get this stuff into bowls.
*thinks*
You can still shove it out of an airlock if you wish...
"If it is no longer a hazard I'm not moving it a inch,er...a centimeter. Who has enough money to afford a backup battery for something as unnecessesary as a popcorn machine? Why don't they have a secondary back up system for the whole ship? Fine whatever, well captain you broke it, so you can replace the switch, it's shorted out."
SR removes a multimeter and tool roll from his shoulder bag and hands it Seryn. The tool roll contains a adjustable wrench, er..spanner, various pliers, several screwdrivers, a electricians knife and other essentials.
"You may need these. Remember don't use the Ohmmeter on a live circuit."
Seryn looks in at SR in disbelief. Sr holds up his hands to indicate the problem is not of his making.
"Hey you broke it, you fix it, It's not your ship so unless you want to order Rackham to fix it, it's back to you. I have tour to go on, I'll see if I can find a replacement switch when we get to the spare parts locker. Ta!"
Scorpion Regent
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TheRealMe walks into the kitchen, followed by the robot Sparky and a mobile, life-sized statue of a young woman.
"We are VERY serious about our popcorn around here! However, I'm sorry that this device caused such alarm. And the reason it has no off switch is... well..."
TheRealMe turns to the industrial-sized popcorn machine.
"Popcorn machine! Deactivate!"
The machine rumbles to a complete stop (having only been slowed down by disconnecting its battery!).
"Sparky, Ebo Golem, please return the popcorn machine to its assigned spot, and secure it to the deck, this time."
The robot and moving statue obey.
"Once again, folks, I'm terribly sorry about this."
TheRealMe picks up a bowl of popcorn and starts munching.
"Shall we return to the common room to hear out PsychicRiver?"
TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree
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Quote:
Originally posted by TheRealMe:
TheRealMe walks into the kitchen, followed by the robot Sparky and a mobile, life-sized statue of a young woman.
"We are VERY serious about our popcorn around here! However, I'm sorry that this device caused such alarm. And the reason it has no off switch is... well..."
TheRealMe turns to the industrial-sized popcorn machine.
"Popcorn machine! Deactivate!"
The machine rumbles to a complete stop (having only been slowed down by disconnecting its battery!).
"Sparky, Ebo Golem, please return the popcorn machine to its assigned spot, and secure it to the deck, this time."
The robot and moving statue obey.
"Once again, folks, I'm terribly sorry about this."
TheRealMe picks up a bowl of popcorn and starts munching.
"Shall we return to the common room to hear out PsychicRiver?"
TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree
"Don't you even have a failsafe breaker switch? Otherwise when the voice recognition fails we'll have to pull the bolts out of the deck before this whole ship becomes a twinkle in the sky of distant planet when it burns up."
Scorpion Regent
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*stares at TRM in disbelief*
Oven, activate! - the oven, only just recovered from TWG pie frenzy, burts into life - oven de-activate.
So everythng here is voice activated? *put hands on hips, and in plaintive voice cries..* When was elbow grease such an evil thing?
Ok, *reaches back and replaces the wires she pulled out, then turns to the robot and Golem* Sorry guys, how was I to know that off switches were a thing of the past? Here, lemme help...
About PRs announcments, yes, I was listening before the machine went mental.
I believe i'm to tell you that i've appropriated a room in the west wing, it didn't smell like it was in use.
I've seen Soul, to see if he wants me on the security team, but if you've any other use for me lemme know. Though what that might be I don't know... I can knit...
So this Emma, she's missing? ...no, don't tell me i'll go through the logs, but like I said, anything I can do... even if its just back rubs.
OH, yeah, i'm a pretty mean masseuse. *thinks* That was pretty much everything wasn't it, apart from finding his father...
One thing you oughta know though. I don't do kareoke.
*grins at TRM, then goes back to the common room to see if PR has anything else to add, dragging SR with her*
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Oh, Me first for the back rubs, after the meeting of course. I have a bit o tension I need to resolve.
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I don't think im the girl to be helping you with that kind of tension Mr Showerfresh...
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Well, Seryn, not EVERYTHING operates by voice command. Oh, and we have backup controls on all of our com-links. Here, here's yours. Com-links for everyone.
Com-links, of course, are voice-activated.
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Quote:
Originally posted by TheRealMe:
Well, Seryn, not EVERYTHING operates by voice command.
Ahem, though some people might! Depends, y'know, on who is issuing the command.
& etc....***
Context is everything.
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Originally posted by cozen:
Ahem, though some people might! Depends, y'know, on who is issuing the command.
I'm sure I don't know what you mean.
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