# new-ness! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 27, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123 "2002-10-27T17:00:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 45
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/881 "2005-06-08T20:01:50Z")
:: whistling happliy, **Hal** busies himself by stapling small packets of cyanide to large, mutant houseflies and sending them buzzing down the hallway :: ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/882 "2005-06-08T20:08:19Z")
:: inside the initiation room, the adventurers hear a buzzing through the door to the hallway :: Maybe we shouldn’t go out there… :: they look around the room :: :: there are several other doors; the layout is similar to the first initiation room, the one that got chopped up by the 1920s-styke “Death Ray” :: :: they head through another door :: :: they pass down a staircase and into a basement room :: This looks a lot like the room that lead to the vale. There’s even the end of a chute in the ceiling. Let’s try some of these other doors. ---
**Author:** ![Atheist\_Princess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@Atheist\_Princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atheist_Princess)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/883 "2005-06-09T00:03:11Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > :: inside the initiation room, the adventurers hear a buzzing through the door to the hallway :: > > Maybe we shouldn’t go out there… > > :: they look around the room :: > :: there are several other doors; the layout is similar to the first initiation room, the one that got chopped up by the 1920s-styke “Death Ray” :: > :: they head through another door :: > :: they pass down a staircase and into a basement room :: > > This looks a lot like the room that lead to the vale. There’s even the end of a chute in the ceiling. Let’s try some of these other doors. If we open up a door with a monsterous princess eater, I’ll be holding you responsible ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/884 "2005-06-09T00:12:48Z")
> [@Atheist Princess](#): > > If we open up a door with a monsterous princess eater, I’ll be holding you responsible ☹ But wouldn’t you want your competition (the monstrous princesses) out of the way? Even though you are decidedly non-monstrous, it’d still give us more manoeuvring room. ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/885 "2005-06-09T01:02:35Z")
Nice Randall! ---
**Author:** ![Atheist\_Princess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@Atheist\_Princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atheist_Princess)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/886 "2005-06-09T03:06:50Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > But wouldn’t you want your competition (the monstrous princesses) out of the way? Even though you are decidedly non-monstrous, it’d still give us more manoeuvring room. If it ate the the monstorous princesses that would be fine. If it tries to eat me…well…lets just say that I have a dark side to… ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/887 "2005-06-10T00:18:50Z")
What’s behind this door? ::Creeeeeaaaaaaak:: RUN! It’s a Weaseloceros!!! ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/888 "2005-06-10T00:32:06Z")
Has someone been experimenting while under the influence again? This is going to put us behind schedule. ---
**Author:** ![Atheist\_Princess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@Atheist\_Princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atheist_Princess)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/889 "2005-06-10T01:41:33Z")
Dammit Hal! It was you wasnt it? ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/890 "2005-06-10T02:33:26Z")
> [@Atheist Princess](#): > > Dammit Hal! It was you wasnt it? I’d say the day it _isn’t_ **Hal** , we’ve got _real_ trouble on our hands… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/891 "2005-06-10T03:41:02Z")
> [@Daithi Lacha](#): > > I’d say the day it _isn’t_ **Hal** , we’ve got _real_ trouble on our hands… And we don’t now? Look at the way that thing is spinning its tail! It’s getting ready to spew! ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/892 "2005-06-10T03:52:03Z")
> [@Daithi Lacha](#): > > I’d say the day it _isn’t_ **Hal** , we’ve got _real_ trouble on our hands… Well, then get ready for trouble…that isn’t one of mine. I’m reasonably sure **Inigo Montoya** took some hallucinogens and started playing around in the genetic engineering lab. ---
**Author:** ![Atheist\_Princess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@Atheist\_Princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atheist_Princess)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/893 "2005-06-10T04:45:49Z")
:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/894 "2005-06-10T05:27:36Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > Well, then get ready for trouble…that isn’t one of mine. > > I’m reasonably sure **Inigo Montoya** took some hallucinogens and started playing around in the genetic engineering lab. It might be friendly… :: tosses some papyrus-and-pork-flavoured kibble in the Weaseloceros’s direction :: :: the Weaseloceros snaps the kibble up :: :: its tail slows down :: It’s relaxing… ---
**Author:** ![Atheist\_Princess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@Atheist\_Princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atheist_Princess)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/895 "2005-06-10T06:47:05Z")
I’d damn hope so… I just knew those doors were to be kept closed :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/896 "2005-06-10T15:28:40Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > It’s relaxing… Whew. Good work, Sunspace. Now, shall we see what’s behind the next door down the hall? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/897 "2005-06-10T16:01:03Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > Whew. Good work, Sunspace. Now, shall we see what’s behind the next door down the hall? :: glances around the basement room :: Four doors plus the one to the stairwell, like the room off the first initiation room. Let’s try _that_ door. You open it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/898 "2005-06-10T16:20:13Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > It might be friendly… > > :: tosses some papyrus-and-pork-flavoured kibble in the Weaseloceros’s direction :: > :: the Weaseloceros snaps the kibble up :: > :: its tail slows down :: > > It’s relaxing… OK. it’s relaxing. What are we going to do with it? It’s running out of kibble. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/899 "2005-06-10T16:21:30Z")
Naaaaw, you don’t want to go in _that_ room. Nothing in there but a +47 Halberd Of Destruction. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/900 "2005-06-10T17:16:14Z")
> [@Snakescatlady](#): > > OK. it’s relaxing. What are we going to do with it? It’s running out of kibble. Close the door, of course. If it can’t se us, it will think we’re not here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123.md?page=44) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123.md?page=46)