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[infractus]

Kind of like the "Random Thought Thread" and others... but if you've got a short silly story that's appropriate to share -- then share it.


I'll kick things off with one that's been ever present in my mind for a few years now.
We went out for dinner at a Chinese place. Sure, they serve the fortune cookies after they bring the bill -- upon cracking mine open, my fortune reads, "Your present polans are going to succeed."

What? Polans?
I still figure to this day that it must've been a typo.... but, in conversation with friends who know about my silly fortune, I will use the term "polan" in place of "plan."



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[Noctourne Wonderland]

Polans sound like some sort of nerve.

I like this thread; my friends and I usually have some wacky exchanges, like:

Me: I want to got to New York and see "Chicago."
Friend: Chicago's not in New York.
Me: Yes it is, I saw a sign when I was there last week.
Friend: It's in Illinois.
Me: The musical Chicago.
Friend (sings): 25 or 6 to fooouuuur!
Me: No, the show, not the band.
Friend: Oh.

[Penelopi]

Hm, well...

My family is a family of nerds. We have Star Trek models hanging from the ceiling of our theater room. I also have nerd friends, one of which loves Star Trek. For Christmas, I found a model of the new movie's Enterprise on Amazon at a decent size, less than $20, Free Super Saver Shipping. So that was added to the gifts I ordered. They came in, I sat down with my mom to wrap gifts on the kitchen table. Dad walked in and saw a bunch of random gifts, plus one giant box with a picture of the Enterprise on it. He walked over to it, drew his finger along the box like eyeing sweet candy, smiled.

"What's this?" he asked.
"It's not for you," I said.
He put his hands in his pockets. "Pfft."
"It's for [insert friend's name]."
"I see how it is."

My friend got her gift, and Dad got one for himself. He left the Enterprise on its stand on a counter top for a couple days and amused himself by pressing the button on the top of the saucer whenever he passed by, before finally he hung it up with the rest. You can never be too old for toys.

[iVYRAVE]

Every year my old school would have a fancy dress day where everybody was expected (even the teachers) to dress up as something random.
Last year one of the other classes in my year had this science teacher who was one of the more popular teachers. The Friday before this happened these girls (as it was an all-girls school) convinced this teacher that it was stupid idea to dress up so on Monday morning (the fancy dress day) he went into this classes' tutor room in normal to find that all of these girls had dressed up as him! Not only that they started to act like him all day!