Fandom High Graduation Ceremony Class of 2007 Part I - Saturday Afternoon

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

The sun was shining high in the sky above the front lawn (not that this would matter to certain members of the audience since there was a nice awning and shaded pathways). A stage was set up with a podium and several seats for the administration and guests. Off to the side of the stage, a guitar for musical performances.

In front of the stage, blue and gold chairs were set for the largest graduating class in Fandom High history (not that it was a tough record to achieve), and to either side of those chairs were bleachers for students, family, friends, alumni, and residents of the town of Fandom who wanted to wtiness this event.

It was a beautiful day for a graduation.

[OOC: Please wait for OCD. You're good to go! This post is mostly for audience mingling, general graduation stuff, and such. Look for Part II with your standard Fandom Surprise early this afternoon.

It'll be kind of hard to miss the events of the second post, so you might want to hold off an any post-graduation posts for a while to avoid being Jossed.]

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Re: Guest Speaker - Neville Flynn

[fh_extras]

"Thank you to the man in tight-fitting blue suit. Ladies, gentlemen, invited guests, staff, students, graduates. Considering the movie theater here in Fandom tried to buy out every single copy of Snakes on a Plane in the United States, I'm assuming you've heard of me. If you haven't, the title of the movie based on the true story of my experiences in the line of duty gives it all away.

As your guest speaker at this graduation ceremony, I was asked to come up with something inspiring, something to motivate you. But the truth of it is that if you're here, if you've come this far all ready, you're motivated enough. You may even be motivated enough to survive being trapped inside a pressurized tube in the air with over a hundred deadly snakes. I can't say. You can never say until you've seen that for yourself.

But at first, coming into this school, you may have been afraid, you may have been petrified. You may have thought you couldn't live without the people you rely on by yourself. You might have spent so many nights thinking how your parents and guardians did you wrong leaving you here, but you grew strong and you learned how to carry on. You survived. You will survive.

I'll keep this short, because I don't like to do a lot of talking, but know this: when life is tough and you're trapped in a confined space with nothing but an inflatable life raft to separate you from things with sharp fangs that can deflated the inflatable life raft in an instant, sending you to your venom-filled death, you send a message to life. You stand on life's tail and you hold its head and you look into its snapping jaws and you say 'Enough is enough! I have had it with these [microphone feedback]in' snakes on this [microphone feedback]in' plane!'

And if that doesn't work, open some [microphone feedback]ing windows.

Class of 2007, do as I say and you'll live. Thank you and congratulations."

Re: Guest Speaker - Neville Flynn

[courier-gavin.livejournal.com]

Jake just stared in mute admiration.

Re: Guest Speaker - Neville Flynn

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel blinked then started to applaud. God she loved this school.

Re: Guest Speaker - Neville Flynn

[fates_jaye]

This is the best graduation ever. He is one badass mother[microphone feedback]er.

Re: Guest Speaker - Neville Flynn

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette stared, her mouth parted a little. That dude was freaking awesome.

Re: Guest Speaker - Neville Flynn

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"I love you, man!" John said. Because...NEVILLE [MICROPHONE FEEDBACK] FLYNN!

Re: Guest Speaker - Neville Flynn

[can_be_more]

Aeryn missed the movie, but she can get behind what he is saying. ...Except for the part where she now has a song stuck in her head for some reason.

Re: Guest Speaker - Neville Flynn

[werenormalyes.livejournal.com]

Karen smiled politely and clapped.

"I have no idea what he's talking about," Darrin admitted.

Re: Guest Speaker - Neville Flynn

[just-add-starch.livejournal.com]

Fraser...kind of boggled. Wow.

Re: Guest Speaker - Neville Flynn

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"WOOOOOOO!!!!!"

Sokka gave him a standing ovation.

Re: Guest Speaker - Neville Flynn

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam applauded pretty hard. Decimation of snakes was something she could definitely get behind.

Re: Guest Speaker - Neville Flynn

[sith_happened]

Anakin about jumped out of his skin for a moment there, then calmed down enough to listen to the speech.

"Huh."

Re: Guest Speaker - Neville Flynn

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"That's one badass mother[microphone feedback]," Josh said, grinning as he clapped. "My graduation wasn't this cool."

Re: Guest Speaker - Neville Flynn

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

Krycek ended this speech by humming to himself as he applauded. The guy was pretty impressive, much more so than he would have expected even from the film.

Re: Guest Speaker - Neville Flynn

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker grinned and applauded, unable to believe they got someone this cool for the speaker.

Re: Guest Speaker - Neville Flynn

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

D'anna wasn't sure why, but she felt a little like singing, or at least humming, after the [microphone feedback]ing speech by some guy she wouldn't remember in a week.

Except for the hummy-bits.

Re: Guest Speaker - Neville Flynn

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna really liked the speech. Hence the even more whistling and clapping.

Re: Guest Speaker - Neville Flynn

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John applauded loudly, wondering how this guy would fare against cyborgs or demons, and decided he was one bad mother[microphone feedback]er; so much so? His wallet probably said "Bad Mother[microphone feedback]er" on it.

Re: Guest Speaker - Neville Flynn

[mycanonhatesme]

Chloe giggled. He was almost better than Bitterwoman!

Re: Guest Speaker - Neville Flynn

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack didn't pay much attention to what was being said, because the guy was just that hot. The applause finally jolted him out of his fantasies contemplation, and he joined in.

Re: Guest Speaker - Neville Flynn

[ihatedenmark.livejournal.com]

Hamlet applauded wildly at the end of the guest speaker's speech. He was possibly more inspired at this very moment than at any other point in his high school career.

Re: Guest Speaker - Neville Flynn

[swerval_zero]

Zero mewed her approval of Agent Flynn's speech.