Logically Speaking, Period 6, 12 May '09

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Mohinder had pulled the classroom chairs into a broad semi-circle and was sitting on his desk, reading through his class list when the students showed up.

When everyone had taken a seat, Mohinder started off with introductions. "Good afternoon. This is the workshop for Logically Speaking - if you signed up then you should be here, and if you are here then hopefully the converse is true. My name is Mohinder Suresh, when I'm not here I'm a doctor of genetics from New York. Now, you know who I am I'd like to know your name, your point of origin and what would be the first thing you'd rescue if your home was burning."

After that was completed, Mohinder started passing round a handout. "We'll start with humour. What it is that makes us laugh - and that can be a product of our history environment and so on. But much of it follows a logical pattern. From the juxtasposition of unrelated ideas, puns or plays on sounds, practical jokes undercutting someone's dignity to the more contrived arts of coincidence and mistaken identity in comedy."

"Now, I want to try and make each other laugh. Verbally, please. Then try and figure out why that joke worked," said Mohinder, adding, "Oh, and Claire Butler? assuming she's here I'd like to speak to you after class."

[OCD is up. Have at!]

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Sign In 1 (LS)

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Laughing.

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[intraspective]

Yamanaka Ino

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Valentine Wiggin

Listening 1 (LS)

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For listening, talking, but probably not taking notes.

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Ino was totally a dork today, with her crown of flowers, and twirling her pen absently as she listened to him talk.

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Claire thought the professor looked familiar. And she was definitely a little freaked that he wanted to talk to her after class.

Re: Listening 1 (LS)

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Jon was paying just a little more attention to others in the class.

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As she received the handout, Valentine looked it over a little, thinking of highlighting the humor part, and taping it to Ender's door with a note that she's thinking of getting him a sense of one of these for Christmas. Her attention was otherwise on the teacher, though dully so, as if, since the topic was humor, she had to appear the exact opposite of.

Re: Listening 1 (LS)

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Yakko was taking detailed notes.

If by "taking detailed notes" you mean playing MASH in his notebook.

He was married to Charlize Theron with negative seventeen children. They lived in a house and drove a nuclear-powered unicycle.

Re: Listening 1 (LS)

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Gabrielle was listening, definitely. She had both hands clasped on the desk in front of her and her mouth hanging slightly open as she listened, as a matter of fact.

Making people laugh? She could do that. Granted, a lot of the time it was by accident, but . . .

Introduction 1 (LS)

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Name, origin and what you'd rescue from your burning building, please!

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"I'm Ino, from Konohagakure no Sato--Konoha for short, and..." Ino blanched a bit. "Any of our spare explosives."

Because that was a good thing to get rid of fast if the house was already burning.

Re: Introduction 1 (LS)

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"I'm Claire Butler, I'm from Texas and I'd rescue..." everything she could since she wouldn't get hurt "... my family members."

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"Jon O'Neill, Colorado Springs," by way of a space ship, "and nothing really." Everything he had could be replaced. Again.

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"Liir Thropp, from Oz," he said, wondering if the professors talked much, "and I don't really know what I'd save."

I keep my broom with me. Food can be replaced, Makejoy would run--

Hmm.

"My mother's cloak and the metal horse I was given."

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"I'm Valentine Wiggin," she answered. "Greensboro, North Carolina. If my house were burning down and I actually thought myself capable of rescuing anything, it would be..."

There was just a fleeting second, a moment before deciding to lie or be more truthful than even she'd expected.

"...my brother."

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"I'm a Yakko Warner! I'm a cartoon character," Yakko said. As proof, Yakko pulled a drum out from under his desk, burst through it, and said, "That's all, folks!"

"And I'd rescue my bucket."

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"Gabrielle, from Poteidaia, in Greece, about three thousand years ago," she said. That number could be off in either direction by . . . gods only knew how much, really thank you chronology of cracktastic, but that was the last figure she'd been given. "Now, if it was up to me to do the rescuing, I'd take my staff, since it was a gift from my Amazon tribe, and my scrolls, because nobody else seems to be writing down those stories."

Honestly. Nobody having heard of Xena.

"But if Xena was around," she continued blithely, "I think it's pretty safe to say that everything in the building just might end up rescued anyway."

. . . mind you, when Gabrielle heard "building," she tended to think "small hut of the variety found in most rural villages in her time." Possibly built, gods only knew why, with bamboo.

Joking 1 (LS)

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Telling jokes and then figuring out how they worked or why you really didn't laugh.

Re: Joking 1 (LS)

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The only jokes Valentine could think of were ones only she, Peter, or Ender would get, and none of them were funny in the slightest, or were just way too stupid. So she frowned a little, feeling pretty useless at this activity.

Re: Joking 1 (LS)

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Gabrielle thought for a few minutes, and came up with a joke that she was sure nobody had ever heard before.

Wait for it . . .

Wait for it . . .

"Why did the cyclops cross the road?"

Seriously. The Special Greece.

Talk to Mohinder 1 (LS)

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He's around if you need to talk to him.

Re: Talk to Mohinder 1 (LS)

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"You wanted to see me?" Claire asked.

OOC 1 (LS)

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Where we save the world with bad jokes and OOC icons.

Knock, knock

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Who's there?