Hey, Angie?

[x_multipleman]

Um, this might be kind of a weird question, but . . . is there some important reason why your mom is following me around and muttering to herself in French and crossing herself? It's kind of starting to wig me out. Did I do something to offend her or something? I remembered deodorant this morning and everything.

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[x_multipleman]

x_tarot
August 11 2004, 11:56:19 UTC
What is she -saying- in French, Jamie?

If she is crossing herself she is probably not upset. I hope. Do you remember doing anything odd?


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x_crowdofone
August 11 2004, 11:59:13 UTC
I don't speak French. Sounds kind of like praying, maybe?

And I wasn't doing anything. I was getting lunch, only there wasn't enough tuna for a decent sandwich, so I duped it--I hate doing that, too, it always gives me the squirts later, but I haven't had a tuna sandwich in three months and I wanted one--and then I turn around from making the sandwich and there she is. Is it the thing where you're not supposed to eat fish except on Friday, or am I remembering that wrong and it's something completely else, or what?


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x_tarot
August 11 2004, 12:01:20 UTC
You duped your FOOD?

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Oh lord. Jamie? What -exactly- was in your hands when you duped?


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x_crowdofone
August 11 2004, 12:03:09 UTC
Um. Half a can of tuna and a slice of bread, because I figured as long as I was duping the tuna I might as well save a slice of bread for somebody else.

Why?

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[x_multipleman]

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x_tarot
August 11 2004, 12:11:55 UTC
Loaves and fishes, Jamie.

It only makes sense. Jeanne d'Arc had visions, Peter spoke in tongues and there was this terribly nice fellow who multiplied food, maybe you've heard of him.

I'll go get her right now and have a chat with her about my friends not being the messiah.


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x_crowdofone
August 11 2004, 12:13:04 UTC
Your mom isn't like this all the time, is she? Because that's downright scary. I mean, imagine me starting a religion.


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x_cypher
August 11 2004, 12:15:17 UTC
Oh dear. *giggle* It shouldn't be this funny, but I'm game for being the first convert to Jamieism. ;-)


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x_tarot
August 11 2004, 12:16:58 UTC
I want my domain spells if I am going to convert.


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x_crowdofone
August 11 2004, 12:18:21 UTC
See, then we need to figure out what my domains are. And whether you're willing to use a rubber chicken as your divine focus. :)


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x_tarot
August 11 2004, 12:23:18 UTC
Tasha's Hideous Laughter maybe?

... okay, I am putting this book away and not looking this up. This is far, far too nerdy.

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[x_multipleman]

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x_tarot
August 11 2004, 12:16:06 UTC
She really only gets like this when she is under a lot of stress.

I would be more irritated, but I am -far- too amused at the idea of Jamie Madrox, Son of God.

Madroxians? The High Church of the Madroxites?


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x_crowdofone
August 11 2004, 12:17:24 UTC
The Madri, maybe?

Nah, that sounds dumb.

And I'm so telling my parents about this. Knowing my mom, she'll get way too amused about explaining that no, I was not a virgin birth.


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x_tarot
August 11 2004, 12:24:52 UTC
Ew. Can we not ever talk about parents having sex? Please?


*blank look*
x_rahne
August 11 2004, 12:47:18 UTC
Why is that any worse than talking about other people having it?


Re: *blank look*
x_tarot
August 11 2004, 12:52:32 UTC
I do not want to talk about anyone else having sex -either-, really.

Oh hell.


Re: *blank look*
x_rahne
August 11 2004, 12:59:00 UTC
Fine with me.

Actually...

...Very much fine with me. Right.


Re: *blank look*
x_tarot
August 11 2004, 13:00:15 UTC
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Damn. I'm sorry, Rahne. I did -not- mean to upset you.


Re: *blank look*
x_rahne
August 11 2004, 13:12:14 UTC
It's all right. I was thinking of something else.


Re: *blank look*
x_tarot
August 11 2004, 13:14:29 UTC
Wait, now I am completly and utterly confused.


Re: *blank look*
x_rahne
August 11 2004, 13:22:40 UTC
I might be too. Never mind?

[x_multipleman]

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x_pete
August 11 2004, 12:07:55 UTC
Congratulations. You're Jesus.


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x_crowdofone
August 11 2004, 12:10:35 UTC
I'm what?

No way.

. . . Oh, hell. I guess this is the wrong time to mention that we think Kitty can probably walk on water if she concentrates hard enough?


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x_pete
August 11 2004, 12:17:14 UTC
Depends on whether or not you can come with a way to get her to help you do the same trick without anyone else being able to see her, and then perform it in front of Angie's Mum.

Oh, and while I'm thinking of it, the first person to make a Monty Python joke out of this is doing the dishes for a week.


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x_tarot
August 11 2004, 12:12:36 UTC
Who would have thought it, Jesus wears flannel and plays the drums.


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x_pete
August 11 2004, 12:14:51 UTC
He was a hippy last time. A drummer this time seems like balance to me.


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x_tarot
August 11 2004, 12:29:52 UTC
... oh -hell-. And now I have armor and a horse. My mother is never going to stop making comments about Jeanne d'Arc.


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x_crowdofone
August 11 2004, 12:30:48 UTC
At least Shiro melted your sword?


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x_tarot
August 11 2004, 12:39:38 UTC
A fact for which I am still annoyed. I liked that sword.

Well, for so much as I like ANY sword.


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x_crowdofone
August 11 2004, 12:40:44 UTC
Yeah, but this way you don't have the complete outfit, is what I'm saying.


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x_tarot
August 11 2004, 12:47:32 UTC
The hooded cloak and leathers were bad enough.

My father says Mama won't bother you anymore about the loaves and fishes thing. He also says your power gives him a headache and could you please tell him its an illusion even if you have to lie?

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Okay, now he is asking me questions about Doug and I really wish I had Doug's power because I do not understand the look on his face right now.


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x_crowdofone
August 11 2004, 12:51:40 UTC
I think "giving people headaches with my power" is my second mutant power.

What kind of questions?


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x_tarot
August 11 2004, 12:59:05 UTC
I think he was a little stunned to see Doug with a beard and to learn that he was the one who got us home.

Oh lord. I cannot possibly explain this to him. Even explaining Amanda is too much.


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x_crowdofone
August 11 2004, 13:02:48 UTC
Yeah, I kinda glossed over the end with "and then we stormed the evil witch's castle and Illyana and I un-brainwashed her dwarf slaves and then Doug found the stuff to get us home and got us home."

I don't understand how all that worked, either, frankly, but since it did, why sweat the details?


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x_tarot
August 11 2004, 13:09:18 UTC
My father seemed -very- fixated on Doug's beard and the sword and leathers, and now he has gone to 'find someone who makes sense' and I have a -very- bad feeling I know what he was trying to ask me.

... since he asked Doug once already when we were in France.


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x_crowdofone
August 11 2004, 13:12:47 UTC
Oh, that conversation? There is no way that conversation can be anything but awkward and embarrassing.

Although I guess I can see why he's worried. I mean, the two of you, in another dimension, not being completely sure you weren't going to die the next day . . .

Heh.

I won't ask. :)


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x_tarot
August 11 2004, 13:15:41 UTC
I appriciate that. A great deal.


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x_crowdofone
August 11 2004, 13:21:27 UTC
Thought you might.

But, y'know, if Doug starts thinking, for whatever reason, that the doorknob to our room is a good place to occasionally store socks, not to be mistaken as any kind of signal that anything might or might not be going on inside the room? I'm gonna smack him one with a rolled-up newspaper. Just FYI. ;)


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x_tarot
August 11 2004, 13:38:08 UTC
A sock on the doorknob is a really big sign that something -is- going on, and given the number of teleporters, telepaths, people who can pick locks, phase and any other way of embarassing people trying to have a private moment, I think we won't advertise anything we might or might not be doing, and we will just find someplace -private-.


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x_crowdofone
August 11 2004, 13:39:40 UTC
And this is why it pays off to be friends with smart people. Go you.

Or, y'know, don't go, whichever it happens to be. :)


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x_tarot
August 11 2004, 13:51:05 UTC
Though, I am curious. Why the dislike of socks?


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x_crowdofone
August 11 2004, 13:53:13 UTC
I'd smack him with the newspaper if he used a tie, his boxers, or a "Do not disturb" sign he snitched from a hotel, too. Not fond of the idea of getting kicked out of my room in general. :)