<p>Hello, and welcome to the most amazing place in these here internets! I joke, of course, but it is the hope of this thread's creators for this to be a place for all forms of communication, from debates that can last pages(is foreign intervention ultimately salutary or detrimental?) to light-hearted chats about music(what are you listening to right now?).
This thread has it's roots in the TASP 2008 thread. On that thread, a small group of daily posters(read: people with no lives) formed a tight-knit group complete with certain quirks. Sadly or hilariously, depending on who you ask, almost all of those people were rejected from TASP. We feel that posting on that thread would no longer be proper due to our collective rejection, so we decided to commit an exodus to a place we could call our own and where our little group could frolic all day long. This thread is meant for all people. Nobody's excluded or unwanted; we're a friendly lot, albeit a bit esoteric.
No have at the chatter!</p>
<p>"Howdy! You’ve stumbled upon the once and future home of what’s probably going to be quite a lot of chat by several extraordinary Juniors. You’re entirely welcome to pop in and discuss with us, don’t mind our esoteric nature and varying food fetishes. We used to house our discussions at the TASP ‘08 thread, but because of a number of evil millionaires, we’re relocating to more appropriate headquarters.</p>
<p>People We Anticipate Participation From (By no means an exhaustive list, and by no means does this establish an oligarchic monopoly over posting) :</p>
<p>*Earilmadith- Also known as Cira. Cute elfish girl that dreams muchly of the kingdoms of Princeton and Cornell, possesses gourmet cooking skills, loves web comics (she’s a velociraptor in disguise), exasperated with boys (especially 8th grade ones), always has wise things to say (the sage amongst the group), classical economist, I believe…</p>
<p>*PanicPower- MLS (My Little Socialist- Guess her political beliefs, anyone?) Loves her mama’s cooking, singers (But not bands!) and went to TASS last year.</p>
<p>*St. Hudson- Donny, Don Juan (As he’s a terribly cute ladies’ man who isn’t that terribly manly at all.) Has an unnatural fondness for PB&J, loves Walden, is a romantic idealist and supreme individualist. Good taste in music.</p>
<p>*Wink- Fridge (Frigid, as her skin only barely covers her cold, robot interior) She’s a critical thinker, everyone! She’s a Jain (Google it, people), lives in the frigid North (affected her development?) and never appears to be around when we have our music discussions because no one can ever remember what she likes.
*Classik- Hermit! Loves good old fashioned rock and roll, buffalo milk and fierceness. A very witty young man. Loves his expired cheese.</p>
<p>Some things it might help to be familiar with:
*Winkism- Ideology pioneered by Wink. It states that there is no god but Wink and that one day, the world will become united under the benevolent rule of Dictator Wink. Once this day arrives, there will be peace on Earth and the Universe will have reached moral equilibrium. This is only truly challenged by Cira’s world domination plans, which provide for a stable, education based (totalitarian) society which will be pretty darn sweet.</p>
<p>*Webcomics- Many of the frequenters of this thread read webcomics. The favored choices are Questionable Content, XKCD, and A Softer World.</p>
<p>*Buffalo milk- The drink of champions!"</p>
<p>Classik- “I’ve heard said, though, that wouldn’t the construction of buildings and cities constitute the establishment of order and thus the /reversal/ of entropy?”</p>
<p>You’re still spreading the materials used to make them around, like stone from a quarry or sand or iron or steel. Plus, you’re dissipating energy and matter to create them through heat lost, gases produced, etc.</p>
<p>Uh oh, Cira. We both seemed to have posted introductory posts. This thread it doomed for chaotic failure! Quick, abandon ship!</p>
<p>You posted an abstract, I expanded upon its themes. We had many introductory posts back at USS TASP.</p>
<p>If the universe is collectively boned either way, I don’t see why we shouldn’t just start the end-of-the-world party now.</p>
<p><em>pulls out her electric banjo</em> Way ahead of you, Hermy.</p>
<p>True, true. Hmmmm, I’m beginning to wonder if the others can find their way to this brand-spanking new thread since they weren’t there for the debut.</p>
<p>We could PM Panic, and anyone else you think might be interested in it.</p>
<p>Just popping in to say that I will most certainly be making use of this thread. What an interesting story this thread has…</p>
<p>So yeah, I must do homework, but I needed to say that before I disappear again for tonight…</p>
<p>But that would require common sense!
By the way, I would love to learn to play the banjo, it’s so soothing and rustic. The concept of Entropy is so awesome to me. The very idea that at this moment, everything is slowly ending, while morbid, is so nihilistic and radical. It provides a real, if the universe is ending, I’m going to f with some stuff mentality!</p>
<p>My Lord, electric banjos?! It must be… the future.</p>
<p>I’m going to send an email to everybody who sent me their pic. By the way, what happened to D-Yu? He kinda…disappeared. Was he rejected as well?</p>
<p>Oooh. Beautiful space, guys. Nice work.
I’ll pop in tomorrow to chat, after I get that damn ACT out of the way…</p>
<p>Our goal must be to trump our accomplishments in the TASP thread, in terms of length, at least. Ten-fold. And take over Asia…</p>
<p>It’s always kind of made me want to go out and do something totally stupid. The whole idea of mortality does. Hey, I won’t be alive in 100 years, why not do something fun and dumb I’ll regret for a comparatively minuscule amount of time?</p>
<p>I dunno about Elmo. I have his email address from the essay swap, I could check in with him</p>
<p>You guys are weird. :)</p>
<p>The tone of your posts are indescribably off color… Or maybe, I’m perceiving everything in a wrong way today.</p>
<p>Well, with this monumental achievement, I must make my exit. Sorry, everybody. I fully realize that it’s awfully anti-climatic to just leave five minutes after the commencement of the festivities, but a little thing called homework calls my name, and it has the strange ability to raise its voice whenever my grades are below a C, which they are in two classes, so it’s practically yelling at my poor brain. I swear on all that is good that I will check in within a fortnight(in reality, I’m going to drop in tomorrow, but how often does one get to say “fortnight?”).
Good night!</p>
<p>P.S. You can pass the ACT’s easy, Fridge. No worries.</p>
<p>Night Donny!</p>
<p>Yeah, Gryffon, the statement that we are weird is pretty accurate. We have a lot of history (several hundred pages of discussion in another section behind this), and we’re unusual people otherwise.</p>
<p>I think I’m off to read and knit and then sleep.</p>
<p><em>dig dig dig</em> <em>shuffle shuffle</em> <em>dirt flies everywhere</em> <em>grunt</em> <em>crawls out</em>…</p>
<p>hola…back from the dead. haha received the rejection letter today… i was expecting it tho’ so i just kinda laughed. sorry i’ve been gone for like 5 days… had a honor society trip…</p>
<p>not only is everyone in this thread apparently high, we’ve also been perusing those SAT vocab lists a bit too much. </p>
<p>well, i guess that’s indicative of CC as a whole. </p>
<p>carry on, citizens.</p>