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Courtneytastic

Here's my story that I told you guys about that I left in my English journal:

Once there was an elephant named Damian. He was not an ordinary elephant - he had a rich, melodious trumpet, and whenever he sounded it, flocks of different creatures would congregate before him to hear this brilliant elephant music. Damian was also as well-learned as he was musical. He had attended a prestigious elephant university; however, he had studied the most useless subject an elephant could ever study: semiotics.

The other animals assumed that the reason Damian was so profound and symbolic was because he had studied that. He created beautiful songs: glorious rock ballads, operatic arias of first-class quality. All the elephant misses wondered when Damian would marry.

You see, Damian was not as young as he had appeared. His ears shone a silky, almost kingly sateen, and his trunk, long and well-shapen, had been #15 on the 50 Cutest Trunks list of Elephant Magazine. All in all, he looked a lively, exuberant 23 years old. In truth, he was 31.

To the elephant maids' grief, Damian had a fiancée - he was an expert on keeping the identities of his loved ones secret. [some classified stuff] She was an ...., had won many awards, and signed...with the name of "[I can't tell you]."

Soon, the two were married, Damian in a smart white tuxedo. They lived happily ever after, and [some other kind of "clue" stuff].

There you go, kids. Hope you enjoyed.

target35ghost

That's so beautiful I almost cried.


I'd like to be the awardwinning Elephant wife.
Hehe.

Courtneytastic

QUOTE (Electra @ Mar 3 2007, 10:45 AM)

I'd like to be the awardwinning Elephant wife.
Hehe.

Hehe, no kidding.

Thanks by the way. Here's a handkerchief.

target35ghost

*blows nose*

thank you

bugleverse2

QUOTE (Courtneytastic @ Mar 3 2007, 03:04 PM)

You see, Damian was not as young as he had appeared. His ears shone a silky, almost kingly sateen, and his trunk, long and well-shapen, had been #15 on the 50 Cutest Trunks list of Elephant Magazine. All in all, he looked a lively, exuberant 23 years old. In truth, he was 31.

Now I'm picturing an elephant posing with a scarf...

ytel82

QUOTE (mundum @ Mar 3 2007, 12:02 PM)

Now I'm picturing an elephant posing with a scarf...

Beautiful story!

moonjeff21

QUOTE (mundum @ Mar 3 2007, 02:02 PM)

Now I'm picturing an elephant posing with a scarf...

HAHAHAHAHA!!!! That totally made my day!

target35ghost

QUOTE (mundum @ Mar 3 2007, 08:02 PM)

Now I'm picturing an elephant posing with a scarf...

Ah, but is the scarf the same size as the one Damian uses, or is it more elephant sized...? Coz the level of coverup would be different you see...

Now I can picture an elephant with a handkerchief instead

roofing844

YKYOW...

you finally get to play Oh No in your mum's car with your 5 year-old sister present. Soon as Here It Goes Again comes on, a little voice offers "is this the song where the men dance on the... things you run on? where he nearly falls over?"

I didn't watch it that many times show her more than maybe a few times.

truckorgan02

My 2 year old niece watches The Wiggles. She likes to dance and sing(well i guess she's not really singing, mainly jibberish) to their songs. When I'm over there babysitting, I sometimes go on YouTube and watch videos. Well, yesterday while babysitting, she pulls me to the computer and says "Wiggles, Wiggles". So I put on the Wiggles on the computer. She cries. So I put on the AMW dance from YouTube. She's happy. So basically, OK Go is The Wiggles to her.

And I have watched the Oh No DVD over there a few times as well.

truckorgan02

crap. double post.

KristaMichelle

YKYOW you want to stay home and cry instead of go back to school after not getting to meet OK Go. *le sigh*

YalsoKYOW you wonder hour after hour about what Andy thought of the gift that you didn't get to give to him personally that was completely lame, yet sort of cute.

YalsoalsoKYOW whenever you hear about/think of the Wiggles, you are reminded of Snark-a-Snoops, and then of course OK Go. And in no time at all, the thought process has unsurprisingly ended up at Damian's pants.

bugleverse2

QUOTE (KristaMichelle @ Mar 8 2007, 03:23 AM)

YalsoKYOW you wonder hour after hour about what Andy thought of the gift that you didn't get to give to him personally that was completely lame, yet sort of cute.

What'd you get?

KristaMichelle

Well, we were planning on making a candy bar for him (and naming it the AndyBar ), but we ran out of time. And we wanted to wrap it in paisley wrapping paper. But all we could find were paisley napkins. And I had to set the whole thing up in the car on the way to the concert. So we ended up wrapping a note written on the inside of a napkin around a Hershey's bar(so lame) and then wrapping that whole thing again in a second napkin. The note on the outside said "Happy It's-Almost-Your-Birthday Andy!! Have an AndyBar to celebrate!" Then the inside note said "Well, actually it's just a Hershey's bar, but that's the best we could do on short notice. Love, *insert names here*" The kicker, though, is that we had no tape, so it wouldn't stay together. I ended up using the side of a kid's band-aid. It was yellow and had a monkey on it. I wish I could've been there to explain all the oddness to him, but I kind of like the idea of him getting something so random with no explanation. It's fun.

So....yeah.

bugleverse2

QUOTE (KristaMichelle @ Mar 8 2007, 03:56 AM)

Well, we were planning on making a candy bar for him (and naming it the AndyBar ), but we ran out of time. And we wanted to wrap it in paisley wrapping paper. But all we could find were paisley napkins. And I had to set the whole thing up in the car on the way to the concert. So we ended up wrapping a note written on the inside of a napkin around a Hershey's bar(so lame) and then wrapping that whole thing again in a second napkin. The note on the outside said "Happy It's-Almost-Your-Birthday Andy!! Have an AndyBar to celebrate!" Then the inside note said "Well, actually it's just a Hershey's bar, but that's the best we could do on short notice. Love, *insert names here*" The kicker, though, is that we had no tape, so it wouldn't stay together. I ended up using the side of a kid's band-aid. It was yellow and had a monkey on it. I wish I could've been there to explain all the oddness to him, but I kind of like the idea of him getting something so random with no explanation. It's fun.

So....yeah.

HAHA! That's so funny! If I remember, I'll ask him about it on Friday!

KristaMichelle

Yay thank you!

hyannah77

QUOTE (toiletdog @ Jan 15 2007, 08:34 PM)

YKYOW:

You attempt the AMW dance...WHILE DRIVING.

It wasn't pretty.

Yikes! It's lucky I don't drive, I have a feeling I'd end up doing that!

QUOTE (toiletdog @ Jan 15 2007, 09:41 PM)

I haven't perfected the "AMW while driving" dance, but it includes a lot of hand motions, waving, half-twists in my seat, and, if no one is around, honking simultaneous with "1-0-0-0-0-0-0."

hahahaha. lqtm.

QUOTE (Angel @ Jan 25 2007, 12:38 PM)

YKYOW:

Your school announces a fancy dress day to raise money, with the theme being "heroes" (both fictional or just role models) and yeah... you choose to go as an OK Go member, even trying to rope in friends to make up the rest of the band.

I want to do that someday! I already have an "OK Go outfit" that I was going to wear for the AMW dance when we were actually going to send in a tape.

hyannah77

QUOTE (keaton @ Feb 5 2007, 05:08 PM)

So I'm not the only one who has heard Damian wax poetical: "Ode to the Virtues of a Sharpie Pen" ?

p.s. I've been lurking for a while now, I only just figured out how to log in.

p.p.s. this, by the way, is my only bit of personal OK Go lore; that Damian prefers a Sharpie over all other pens. I'll continue to collect them up like shiny pebbles in moonlight for the rest of my life and then, at the end, when I've been sequestered away in an old folks' home, I'll regale my fellow inmates with OK Go apocrypha over broken biscuits and bridge.

welcomewelcomewelcome! (A bit delayed)

QUOTE (dietpepsidrunk @ Feb 5 2007, 05:18 PM)

Welcome to the board, keaton! You sound just happy/smart/crazy enough to fit in here just fine.

very true

QUOTE (Courtneytastic @ Feb 15 2007, 05:23 AM)

You don't think anything that's been said here is weird.

(I hope this hasn't been said before.)

When you find out someone has even one OK Go song on thier iPod/mp3 player, you instantly "OMG! I love you!" (That's what I do.)

I do that! It's craziness!

QUOTE (ytel82 @ Feb 15 2007, 08:11 AM)

YNYOW.......

You're 10 minutes late for school and and can't help but visit the forum in case anything interesting appeared over night.....

argh! damn this obsession

Goodness, I've done that way too damn much! I think I'd have a much better record when it comes to timeliness if it wasn't for OK Go.

Tempe Arizona

QUOTE (rocksugar @ Mar 1 2007, 11:11 PM)

I'm thinking about getting more fabric and putting one on the other side.

rocksugar, that bag is fantastic! What a talent you are. And the story about your neice and the AMW's dance is just darling!

BTW, Toiletdog, I do the AMW's dance in the car too. One time, I looked over at a pair of old people who had pulled up beside me. The look of confusion on their faces was priceless.

truckorgan02

Thanks Tempe. I'm not satisfied with my bag though. I'll probably create a new one. I was in such a hurry to have it before the show last Saturday. Which I am glad I did since Damian kinda commented on it. BTW, did any of you board members send the band paisley bags? Because he mentioned it to me. Just letting you know, he still remembers them.