2-HeadedGiraffe: On the Subject of As If Anyone Cares
The title of my previous post "I Am A Happy Fish" could do with some explaining. It's a reference no one else would understand because only two other people were present when the original version was spoken, and neither of them read Vent. Also, they probably don't remember, and I haven't spoken to either of them in several years anyway.
Back in high school, a couple guys and I would get together usually once a week. Among other things, we liked to play D&D. Each of us liked to DM as well as to play, so generally we never got too far into any given campaign. Anyway, in one particular game being run by a guy we'll call "Daniel" because that was and probably still is his name, somehow we ended up meeting and talking with an ogre (could have been a troll). He gave us a message to take to his brother.
I don't remember all of it. Something or other relating to the story. I think the brother was supposed to let us into somewhere or other. The part that has always stuck with me, though, was what he said at the end.
"And tell Ernie to be a happy fish."
Ernie wasn't a fish (I think he was the other ogre).
For whatever reason, that stuck with me and now I think of happy things as fish sometimes, except when I think of them as grasses, in reference to Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, which contains a part where the main character, Valentine Michael Smith, I think his name was, learns that grass doesn't mind being walked on and he thinks of it as "the happy grasses."
Fish: Happy
Grasses: Happy
Trees: Happy
The title of my previous post "I Am A Happy Fish" could do with some explaining. It's a reference no one else would understand because only two other people were present when the original version was spoken, and neither of them read Vent. Also, they probably don't remember, and I haven't spoken to either of them in several years anyway.
Back in high school, a couple guys and I would get together usually once a week. Among other things, we liked to play D&D. Each of us liked to DM as well as to play, so generally we never got too far into any given campaign. Anyway, in one particular game being run by a guy we'll call "Daniel" because that was and probably still is his name, somehow we ended up meeting and talking with an ogre (could have been a troll). He gave us a message to take to his brother.
I don't remember all of it. Something or other relating to the story. I think the brother was supposed to let us into somewhere or other. The part that has always stuck with me, though, was what he said at the end.
"And tell Ernie to be a happy fish."
Ernie wasn't a fish (I think he was the other ogre).
For whatever reason, that stuck with me and now I think of happy things as fish sometimes, except when I think of them as grasses, in reference to Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, which contains a part where the main character, Valentine Michael Smith, I think his name was, learns that grass doesn't mind being walked on and he thinks of it as "the happy grasses."
Fish: Happy
Grasses: Happy
Trees: Happy
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EDIT:
That's the one I remembered - not sure why I thought he was naked... hm.