Mythbusting, Tuesday, 8/4

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Class met in the Danger Shop today, and Tyler was notably subdued. He didn't feel right but was trying to hold it together enough to teach.

"Car myths," he said, once the class was gathered near a parking lot of simulated vehicles. "Sugar or bleach in the gas tank will kill the engine, a potato in the tail pipe will blow up the car, mothballs in the fuel tank make a car run better, a penny in the carburetor ruins the engine, an egg will fix a crack in the radiator. You've probably heard stuff like that -- the ones of you from worlds with cars, anyhow."

"Today, we're checking them out. 'Additives' " -- finger quotes on that word -- "are over on the table, and every pair of you gets a fake car to screw around with. If you're going to try to blow it up, handwavily let me know so I can get up the shields. If you don't know how to drive, pair up with someone who does. I'm passing out a diagram of a car's engine that should get you started."

"Questions?"

Comments

Sign In [8/4]

[tyler_gone]

Smiling.

General Class Stuff [8/4]

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Chat or listen to what there is of the lecture.

Play with Cars [8/4]

[tyler_gone]

This page shows how things worked for the Mythbusters, but that doesn't mean it's how it has to work for you. Cars are totally moddable in terms of make, model and condition.

Talk to Tyler [8/4]

[tyler_gone]

No guarantee he'll have much to say.

Talk to the TA [8/4]

[tyler_gone]

Just one this week, and she'll probably get Tyler's PTSD all over her.

OOC [8/4]

[tyler_gone]

I guess I shoulda known
By the way you parked your car sideways
That it wouldn't last

See you're the kinda person
That believes in makin' out once
Love 'em and leave 'em fast

Re: Sign In [8/4]

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Claire Bennet Butler

Re: General Class Stuff [8/4]

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Claire was really kind of loving this class.

Re: Play with Cars [8/4]

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Claire knew how to drive, yes. And she was looking forward to this.

Re: Sign In [8/4]

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Katina Choovanski knows how, HONEST, SEE

Re: Sign In [8/4]

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T.R. Wexler

Re: General Class Stuff [8/4]

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It was probably bad that, as Turtle sat and listened to all of this, she was plotting to discover which one might blow up her car, the junker her dad got her for her sixteenth birthday, just to have an excuse to get a new one, wasn't it?

Re: Play with Cars [8/4]

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Turtle was proudly endowed with a driver's license and eagerly looking forward to some potentially SP'd auto destruction.

Re: Sign In [8/4]

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Anemone

Re: General Class Stuff [8/4]

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Anemone had ridden in a car maybe three or four times in her entire life; anywhere she wanted to go at home, she usually took Dominic's motorbike or flew.

Still, this sort of thing could be useful, so she set about taking notes diligently.

Re: Talk to the TA [8/4]

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The TA was there, slightly sulky that Ino wasn't around to help her blow one of the cars up.

She'd started bringing glitter to each class, darn it, and an exploding car would have given them a fantastic fireball of shiny.

Re: Talk to Tyler [8/4]

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Turtle had put off going to see Tyler until well after she'd had some car fun, and she reminded herself that, no, she was not going to feel bad about hoping that everyone being still all stressed out over the sleeping vampire thing last weekend worked to her advantage when she came up to him with a pitiable expression.

"Make-up work?" she asked, frowning as if his suggestion of make-up work when Maron brought her turtle roommate to him last week was a cruel thing to do to a girl for something she couldn't control. They were students together at one point, after all; he should understand!

Re: Talk to the TA [8/4]

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"Anemone," Tyler said, and tried not to flinch or imagine how her face would look covered in blood, or how she'd look if he dropped --

No.

"You, um, you had a normal week last week, right?"

Re: Talk to Tyler [8/4]

[tyler_gone]

"Make-up work," Tyler echoed, as if he were strained to try to remember what those words meant in those order, let alone why Turtle would be saying them to him.

It did snap into place.

"Right. You were reptilian."

Re: Talk to Tyler [8/4]

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That was perfectly fine. Tony could talk enough for them both.

"Tyler. Interesting class."

Re: Sign In [8/4]

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Chuck Bass

Re: Talk to the TA [8/4]

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Anemone wrinkled her nose at him, obviously confused.

"Um. You mean besides the part where people kept falling over like dominoes and taking the naps from hell? 'Cause that was kinda creepy and not-normal." Well, not normal for them, anyway.

Re: Sign In [8/4]

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Alex Russo

Re: General Class Stuff [8/4]

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Alex listened to the lecture, smiling to herself. This was going to be fun.

Re: Play with Cars [8/4]

[stylin-wizard.livejournal.com]

Alex was excited about testing things out on the cars. Plus, she knew how to handle a car, she just didn't have her license yet. Not until next year, anyway.