Showing posts with label Dork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dork. Show all posts

Thursday, February 2, 2012

The Nerd's Burden

This is a poem I write for English class. It's parody of Rudyard Kipling's White Man's Burden.

The Nerd's Burden
Take up the Nerd's burden.
Bring fourth your light sabers.
Go bring your costumes
To wait for the movies premier.
To sit and debate
The powers of superheroes.
To annoy passersby
Half-embarrassed half longing to join.

Take up the Nerd's burden.
In patience you will wait
For a movie that follows the comic.
And show your pride and love
For Pokemon and Yu-gi-oh. 
A hundred time the mockery
Of those that not understand, "Phoenix Down"
And praise for those that do.

Take up the Nerd's burden.
The savage wars of stars.
Don't let others be fooled
The original trilogy is best.
When your goal is near
Someone won't have seen it.
And punish heathen blasphemy
About the special effects.

Take up the Nerd's burden.
No tyrannical rules of cool
But the rules of dork and spaz
More common than others admit.
The worlds you can not travel
The powers you cannot have
Go learn about them
And teach your knowledge to others.

Take up the Nerd's burden. 
Be done with mature days.
The acting your age in public.
the wearing of common clothing.
Come now and wear your costumes
To school, work and the mall.
Bright, colorful and eye catching
Ignore the judgement of your peers!

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Official Adult

As of yesterday at 2:14pm, I am an official adult.
The original plan was to go out to eat, but thanks to Zeus' undeniable hatred for me, there were flash floods and power outages. Needless to say we didn't go out to eat. Instead we bought Papa Murphy's pizza, went home and baked it. Then I convinced my whole family to watch the dorkiest kid musical I could possibly think of, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

While I can now buy porn, cigarettes and scratch tickets, my money will most likely be spent on completing my Pokemon card collection (I only collect first and second gen. because lets face it all the others suck), or filling my bookshelf with more manga, or heck maybe even buying a few Dr. Seuss books I don't have. Trust me turning eighteen is totally wasted except in my ability to vote, drive as many people as there are seat belts in my car and my ability to stay out past midnight without breaking the law.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Wonderful World of Dork Sports

So school starts in a little less than a week. This means that laptag season is coming to a close and the season for volley carton and tote kinder begins. Here are the official rules for the sports we play.

Laptag
Must have at least five players otherwise don't even bother playing.
One person stands in the center and everyone else pairs up. Once you have a partner, you sit one partner in front of the other. The person in front will be trying to tag the person who stands in the center while the person in back tries to stop them from doing so. The person in the center will call the people who are in front to come and tag him/her.
When the person in the center gets tagged, the round is over and the person that tagged them is that person's  partner and the person that was partners with the tagger is now in the center. All the people who are paired up now switch places. The person who was in back is now in front and vise versa.
Warning: This game can get seriously violent when people get into it. So protect your face.


Volley Carton
Can have any number of players, but if you have at least two it's actually fun.
All you need is an empty school lunch sized milk carton.
All players sit in a circle. One person tosses the carton up and everyone tries to keep it from hitting the ground.
That's all there is to it. There is no actuall way of winning the game, but it is quite likely you might get hit if you are the one to let it hit the ground.
Warning: When diving be aware of you surroundings.

ABS!!!
This is one of the strangest sports we play.
The first stage of this is simply abs. When someone lifts up their shirt just far enough that you can see their stomach while they yell, "abs," you must run backwards until you collide with the next solid object. If the person you are absing does abs at the same time a you the original abs was canceled out. This brings us to stage two.
Stage two is unicorns. You turn around and expose your lower back while yelling, "unicorns" and it has the same effect as abs. If two people unicorn at the same time the unicorn is canceled out and you move on to stage three.
Stage three is pelvic thrust. You turn back around and face you opponent. You do a pelvic thrust (if you don't know what that is watch Rocky Horror Picture Show) while yelling, "pelvic thrust" once again having the same effect as abs. If two pelvic thrusts are done simultaneously then the pelvic thrust is canceled and you start over back at abs.
Warning: This game looks and sounds very strange to passersby so beware.

Tote Kinder
The name of this sport is German for "Dead Children." It was named this after the vice principle yelled at us to stop playing it.
Can be played with two or more people.
The object of this game is to either knock down you opponent(s) or remove their shoes.
The only guidelines are:
1. You can't use your hands.
2. If you get knocked down or loose a shoe you are out.
3. You are not allowed to retie or reposition your shoes once the came has begun.
Warning: While playing this game we have been accused of dancing as well as gotten it banned to the point where if any teacher sees us playing it they are supposed to send us straight to the office.

Soccer Carton
 Need at least two players.
This is a spin off of volley carton. It's usually played in the hallway where we choose two doors as goals.
The same rules of normal soccer apply. The only difference is not even the goalie can use their hands.
Warning; Teachers don't really like it if you play soccer outside their classroom door.

The Letter Game
Need two players or more.
Not so much a sport as an excuse to punch each other.
One letter from the alphabet is chosen. If any of the players pronounce this letter aloud they get punched in the arm by the other players.
This game is usually only played by my friends during CSAP week.
Warning: You will get massive bruises on your arm(s).

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Slang

Every culture has their own slang. Me and my friends are not exceptions to this rule. Just like anyone else, we use slang on an everyday basis. 


ABS!!!: One of the many hallway games we play. If you get absed you have to run in the opposite direction of the person the who absed you until you hit a solid object.

The Crazies: My dad's side of the family. (see MAC and MAM)

Hedgedog: combination hedgehog and dog (what Spyke is known as)

Laptag: One of the most intense games we play. A cross between wrestling, running for your life and tag. Has the highest injury rate of all the games we play. Only one of our games not played in school.

The Letter Game: One letter is chosen and you are not allowed to use the letter in conversation. If you slip up and use this letter you will be slugged violently in the arm by each of the other participants.


MAC: Simply means Mad Aunt C- (I won't say her actual name, but feel free to  fill in the blank with any C name of your choice.) My dad's oldest sister.

MAM: simply means Mad Aunt M- (I won't say her actual name, but feel free to fill in the blank with the M name of your choice) One of my dad's older sisters. There is no worse insult in my family than being compared to her.

Soccer Carton: A spin off of volley carton. Often played in the school hallway between the Drama workshop and the auditorium. Same rules apply as soccer. Except not even goalies use their hands. Usually played after lunch during passing period.

Tote Kinder: A sport created by Spyke, Watson, Veg and I. (those are my three closest guy friends and yes they are actual people not animals, toys or food). Created during CSAP week at school, it is one of the most intense passing period sports ever created. You attack each others feet trying to either knock them over or remove their shoe using only your feet.

Vamgo: A vampire gopher

Volley Carton: Our favorite lunch time game. Using someone's (usually mine) empty milk carton we will bop it around the air trying to keep it from hitting the ground.