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tamashii on Jul 30, 2007

My birthday is August 4th.

FallenAngel on Jul 30, 2007

Well, I'm very, very sad. me looking sad --> :-((

I'm a fallen angel because although I have wings now, they don't work properly. :( I checked out the warranty that came with them (warranty was included but batteries weren't), and after I got it translated from Chinese (obviously the chefs are putting all their efforts into making us lovely, gorgeous icon sets so they're skimping a bit on the wings and such like), I discovered I'd got a vital part missing.

Now it is said that Red Bull gives you wings, thus enabling you to fly. The only problem is I can't drink it because it's extremely bad for me at the moment due to a health problem (that bit's true). No luck there then.

Now I am having a scan tomorrow (that bit's also true) to see if I'm suitable for a surgical implantation of wings (that bit may not be true). Turns out, when I got those instructions from my free IB wings translated from Japanese (the instructions were made somewhere different from the warranty), that they only work if you also have a magic golden halo. *sigh*

Now alas, I'm still a little way off the magic golden halo that will enable me to fly again, but I am within a few hundred points of winning me a big jackpot on a slot machine. I've never been very good at gambling, and I've only ever managed to win the lottery once, and that was only £10, so winning something on a slot machine would mean a great deal to me, and would take my mind off the fact that I still can't fly (I tried, but I simply fell over, which is why they call me Fallen Angel)...well, it's either that or my fallen arches. The rumours about the other reasons just aren't true! :-p

Right, so where was I? Oh yes! The slot machine! Ah yes, now the slot machine is revered in angel folklore because it's said that the owner of a slot machine shall be bestowed with great wealth. Specifically the angel's rule book (it's in Chapter 373, page 1264 if you want to look it up) describes this "great wealth" as "shiny golden disks", not unlike the tokens here at IB. IB's a big hit in the angel world - though the management gets a bit uppity about us "frittering away our free time on such frivolities" (management's words, not ours)- and it's also said that to receive diamonds from an angel (I think it still applies even if the angel in question can't fly) brings great luck and prosperity to the receiver (that's in Chapter 2, page 39). In fact Iconial (he's the angel of icons) was only saying to me this morning over coffee and cookies as we were scanning the celestial RSS feed, that he'd heard that not only does receiving diamonds from an angel bestow good luck and prosperity on the receiver, but that there's a secret message hidden in some diamond icons that's only decipherable by monkeys. Now as luck would have it there is a monkey around here (hangs around with Iqon a fair bit), but it's rumoured that the monkey will only divulge the secret hidden in the diamond icons to people who've received the icons from an angel and come from Uraguay. Unfortunately I don't know what that secret is. The monkey's refusing to talk as my icons came not from another angel, and I'm not from Uraguay, infact I know not of anyone else here who does know the secret hidden in the diamond set because as far as I know there's no-one here from Uraguay who's received the icons from an angel - yet....

debbye on Jul 30, 2007

WOW - you win FA!

KatieK on Jul 30, 2007

@Redpoint - Cuz I looked at your website and can honestly say that that's one awesome strawberry in an ice cube. Though you might consider replacing your favicon with something with a transparency - I'm getting a white box around it.

Or you could just go with FallenAngel...

sgitheanaich on Jul 30, 2007

Ahaha that's got to win on effort alone! Nice one FA.

redpoint on Jul 30, 2007

Ha ha ha Fallen Angel that was quite an story, and it made me laugh. Let´s see if someone can beat you.

mik on Jul 30, 2007

I probably won't have enough stamps by the 3rd.

If I did, or when I do, 1 more AHS delivery would put me over 5000 points, so with 500 bonus badge points that 1 AHS delivery could be worth 750 points! If it also worked out to be my 200th delivery (entirely possible) that would be another - I'm not sure right now.. are wings 150 points? If so, that would be 900 points for 1 delivery.

So I won't qualify without more stamps (which I'll get less than a week later), but I've enjoyed doing a little wishful thinking anyway!

tamashii on Jul 30, 2007

but… but… it's my birthday the day after…

marcoftheweb on Jul 30, 2007

Let's see… This is worth a try!

Once a year, I travel to my favorite diamond in the world, the baseball diamond (stadium) of the Minnesota Twins. On the way, I journey through the town of Montevideo, Minnesota, sister city of your hometown, redpoint. If I'm very, very lucky, when I finally get to the ballpark in Minneapolis, the Twins might be playing against The Pirates in an interleague matchup. And, if I want to take a different route home from the game, since I probably have not checked my inbox in a while, I might pass by the world-renowned SPAM Museum in nearby Austin, Minnesota. ;-)

Winnopeg on Jul 30, 2007

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... and that is how I once saved the world. =)

redpoint on Jul 30, 2007

you're all very funny. tamashii reminds me of my 4 year old... "but but but"

iqon on Jul 30, 2007

@FallenAngel - me monkey has divulaged a bit more information. What you received are not angel wings and it has nothing to do with people from Uragauy...me monkey says those are fairy wings and to work ye need to declare "U R Gay". Me monkey hopes that clears up any confusion.

Me monkey has been babbling strange things since he drank too much rum. He was in rehab but Lindsey complained and they threw him out.

JSun on Jul 31, 2007

Ooh! The opportunity to send a diamond delivery! I wanted to do this right, so I went to the library to research effective story telling. However, while at the library a chicken came up to me and said "Book, book, book, booook!" I wasn't sure what to do so I just gave him the book I had in my hands. Then the chicken went away. I then continued to search for story writing books.

Before long, the chicken came back. Again he said “Book, book, book, boooook!” I figured I’d given him the wrong book last time, so I gave him the book I was now holding. Once again, he went away.

After the second visit by the chicken I was really starting to lose my train of thought. So I continued to search for inspiration. I needed help to write a great story. I had just found what I thought would be THE book to assist me in my quest for the perfect story when the chicken returned! And you guessed it, he said “Book, book, book, boooook!”

By now I’d had enough, so I gave him the book I was now holding and decided to follow him to see what he was doing with these books.

He left the library and headed down the street to the local park. He entered the park and made his way to the pond in the centre of the parklands. When he was at the pond’s edge he stopped and dropped the book beside a large green frog who was sitting on the pond’s edge with the other books I’d given the chicken earlier.

Then the frog said “Readit”.

By then the library had closed and I’d lost my chance to find out how to write a decent story. Oh well…

FallenAngel on Jul 31, 2007

^ LOL!!!!

@iqon...
me monkey says those are fairy wings and to work ye need to declare "U R Gay"

Ah, the new IB clan, aka IB Gay! <hehe> Could perhaps be the start of the IB dating agency? *me peers into my crystal ball and foresees the next IB clan to arrive on the scene...IB Straight and looking for a mate...*

"Chefs! Got an idea for you..."

renbot on Aug 02, 2007

WELL, you should let me send it to you because I'm going to link you to THIS. Hours of entertainment without any effort whatsoever!

And also because I owe you big time for those sets you sent me a while ago, so I need to make it up to you somehow! :D

gswd on Aug 02, 2007

@renbot - that was interesting.

danielsemper on Aug 02, 2007

I think Winnopeg has the best story, specially in the middle part.

XD

thedudedean on Aug 03, 2007

If you don't take it from me a kitten dies! ;-)

redpoint on Aug 03, 2007

I had some fun time with this thread and I think JSun was close, but Fallen Angel story is just bizarre, and the most amazing thing is that she came up with it only a few minutes after I posted the contest, so she gets the prize.
By the way, good try thedudedean... maybe hoping that I would still sleepy and would click the "yes"? Sorry, have to stick to the contest rules.

thedudedean on Aug 03, 2007

I will try to be on time next time. But now the kitten gets it!

zelda013 on Aug 03, 2007

not that i have any say in the matter, but i have to agree with your judgement redpoint !

i would also like to take this opportunity to thank you for the contest, because i had so much fun reading the entries. you should do it again. (next diamond set ?)

FallenAngel on Aug 03, 2007

Wow! Bows and curtsies and stuff and thank you, and....wow! *falls over* (told you I was a fallen angel!)

but Fallen Angel story is just bizarre, and the most amazing thing is that she came up with it only a few minutes after I posted the contest

LOL! Yeah, a lot of my stuff gets described as bizarre! I blame it on my upbringing. I had access to a typewriter from an early age, and from the age of about 8 or 9 I used to write long rambling stories. One of my class teachers once made the mistake of asking us to write about a space journey. All the other kids spent one lesson writing theirs....3 days later I was still working on mine and my teacher hadn't the heart to interrupt me, so left me to it...

Wow!

JSun on Aug 03, 2007

Congrats FallenAngel! And I also thank redpoint for the competition. Great fun :)