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The Art of BS [Thursday, January 22, 2015]

"Well, yesterday was pretty gross," Josh said, "judging by the nastiness on the ground as I walked to school today. It smells like low tide out there."

Which, ew.

"But it does give us an excellent classroom exercise today now that we're free again to not tell the absolute truth all the time." Josh sat in his desk chair and put his feet up on the desk. "Public speaking time, kids! You have ten minutes to put together your talking points, then regale the class with a five minute speech about your amazing heroics yesterday in the Rain of Eels. If you aren't speaking, your job is to come up with questions to see if you can trip them up from their stories. The art in bullshitting is to give enough embellishment to make things interesting without it being laughably implausible. But we're starting with eels that fell from the sky, so...the margin of error around here is pretty big."

He waved his hand over his head. "Okay, then. Wow me."

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Ew. Fish.

Get your story straight if you plan on mentioning another student in your Epic Tale!

Lie your weaselly black guts out! Fellow students, ask questions about their stories!

If you'd like!

Be motivated today, self! You can do it!

Edward Kenway

Johnny Storm

Travis Coates

"My friends. I won't tell you anything untrue here today. I'm barely even going to tell you a story. I'm going to give you a math problem. It's not a hard one. I'm terrible at math, but even I can do this one," Johnny said. "Take a an eel with an anti-grav unit and oxygen tank. Add an open flame, thrown at that oxygen tank."

Johnny pointed up with one finger as a flame danced on his fingertip, like his finger was a candle or something. "And that equals exploded eel. Flash cooked and ready to eat, if you like the taste of flying eel. Personally, I'm not a fan."

"I've still got, what, four minutes? That can go to somebody who needs it."

In actuality, making eels explode was kind of boring and it was such a mismatch that he couldn't tell a good story. It was better for him to let people fill the blanks between explosions. Let them be their own Michael Bay.

Well, Travis definitely wasn't going to say he spent most of the day in a tree. Not a chance. So, instead, he spun a tale about how he rescued someone else from a tree with just his bare hands and how he shielded them from harm as they walked back to the dorms.

Garik Loran

Face's speech was a miracle of oratory and rhetoric as he spun a tale of heroically holding the radio station against the eels.

It was true enough, though the real version had involved less fighting and more bracing the door and getting drunk with the squirrels while waiting for the eels to leave.

Kathy Li

Kathy was just going to try not to smile as she listened to his tale unfold. Yep. That was exactly what had happened!

Kathy raised her hand, figuring Johnny wouldn't mind a little bit of needling. "Why did the eels have oxygen tanks? They breathe water, not air. Wouldn't their equipment have water in it for them to breathe?"

You know--good, old-fashioned, non-combustible water?

Kathy was having some trouble coming up with a good speech. It felt too much like she was bragging, which she'd been conditioned not to do for almost her entire life. But making it all sound like BS went against the point of the assignment!

#TheStruggle

Raven Darkholme

"Does flying eel taste significantly different from regular eel?"

"While some students bravely faced the dastardly eel threat head on," Raven said. "Others stayed inside to check the provisions and make sure that the dorms were prepared for a prolonged eel siege."

Or, you know, played on their phones and tried to pretend they couldn't hear the shrieking through exterior walls.

"You'll be happy to know that the dorms were stocked well enough to hold out for at least a week, should the eels not have left by sundown. I won't waste your time listing all the supplies here. Suffice it to say that your school is well aware that not every student is equipped or interested in fighting the eel menace, and works to make sure that every student's needs are taken care of."

Gwen Stacy

"A mad scientist smart and crazy enough to put anti-grav units on eels and send them out into the world is probably smart enough to figure out how to filter oxygen through their gills without water. And before you ask why, remember, they put anti-grav units on eels and sent them out into the world," Johnny pointed out. "That's lunatic behavior. Their logic is not our logic. All I know is that their tanks exploded."

"It's a little drier, since it's been out of the water for so long," Johnny said. "But it's better than you'd expect."

Rapunzel

Kaylin Neya

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The Art of BS [Thursday, January 22, 2015]

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