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(Hanger Bay...someone spots a new, shiny button...)

Chief Toombs: (Sweat dripping over face) "Must...resist...can't help it...(suddenly blacks out)"
Mechanic: (Holding a bloody wrench) "We got to him in time!"

(Inside Anime Technology 101...)

"Sorry, class. No boom for now"
"Aaaaawwww!!"

And that's why you sometimes have to install a big red button over something unimportant...like the windshield wipers.

taalismn wrote:"The red button is tucked under a locked cover for a reason."
"When parts of an enemy ship start opening up and rearranging themselves is a sign to get as far away as possible."

Arnie100 wrote:"If it says "Don't Touch", find someone expendable and let them..."
"Excellent!! We ARE learning!"

taalismn wrote:"The easiest way to get somebody to test something potentially dangerous is to tell everybody 'under circumstances is anybody to use this!'. It will subsequently be used at the first opportunity."

Arnie100 wrote:BBBBBBBBOOOMMMMMMMMMM

"See, class? Never fails."

taalismn wrote:Lang: "Yep, always do that when I can't get approval for animal testing."

Arnie100 wrote:(Hanger Bay...someone spots a new, shiny button...)

Chief Toombs: (Sweat dripping over face) "Must...resist...can't help it...(suddenly blacks out)"
Mechanic: (Holding a bloody wrench) "We got to him in time!"

(Inside Anime Technology 101...)

"Sorry, class. No boom for now"
"Aaaaawwww!!"

taalismn wrote:And that's why you sometimes have to install a big red button over something unimportant...like the windshield wipers.

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"Chief Toombs again?"
"Yup..."
"Well, at least it wasn't Dr. Lang's new mecha..."
"That WAS Dr. Lang's new mecha..."

(Inside Anime Technology 101...)

"Yaaaaaayyyyy!!!"

(Dr. Lang's Lab...)

Dr. Lang: "Back to the drawing board..."

"Okay, that's just demeaning, putting a 'Psychologically Handicapped' parking sticker on Instructor Toombs' car."

Louie: "For my science project, I created a new anti-personnel android."

"SEND IN THE GUARDS!"

Karno, Kyle, Cmdr. Toombs and Edwards enter...

"Louie, maybe you should rethink your edee-two-oh-nine idea a bit more..."

Arnie100 wrote:BBBBBBBBB00000000000MMMMMMMMM

"Chief Toombs again?"
"Yup..."
"Well, at least it wasn't Dr. Lang's new mecha..."
"That WAS Dr. Lang's new mecha..."

(Inside Anime Technology 101...)

"Yaaaaaayyyyy!!!"

(Dr. Lang's Lab...)

Dr. Lang: "Back to the drawing board..."

taalismn wrote:"Okay, that's just demeaning, putting a 'Psychologically Handicapped' parking sticker on Instructor Toombs' car."

SRoss wrote:Louie: "For my science project, I created a new anti-personnel android."

"SEND IN THE GUARDS!"

Karno, Kyle, Cmdr. Toombs and Edwards enter...

taalismn wrote:"Louie, maybe you should rethink your edee-two-oh-nine idea a bit more..."

Sean enters the room.

The Fembots react...

Louie: "Damn it! Every time he gets into his British phaze."

Marie: "You done yet?"

"Louie, that far wall better be replaced by the time Christmas Break is over!"

(Down below...)

Charon: "And what happened to you?"
Louie: "Well; Baby, after Marie saw me do this..."
Charon: "Out! OUT!! You sick PERVERT!!"
Louie: "Ciao, Baby!!"

Add that to the "List of Things Louie Nichols is Not Allowed to Do".

Sean: "Hey!! I'm single again, baby!"
Marie: "In your dreams! (Smacks Sean on the head with a stun baton...)

SRoss wrote:Sean enters the room.

The Fembots react...

Louie: "Damn it! Every time he gets into his British phaze."

Marie: "You done yet?"

taalismn wrote:"Louie, that far wall better be replaced by the time Christmas Break is over!"

Arnie100 wrote:Sean: "Hey!! I'm single again, baby!"
Marie: "In your dreams! (Smacks Sean on the head with a stun baton...)

Be sure to keep him on a short lease, Marie.

Arnie100 wrote:(Down below...)

Charon: "And what happened to you?"
Louie: "Well; Baby, after Marie saw me do this..."
Charon: "Out! OUT!! You sick PERVERT!!"
Louie: "Ciao, Baby!!"

taalismn wrote:Add that to the "List of Things Louie Nichols is Not Allowed to Do".

Agree.

One of the Anime Science class' failed experiments: Sean tries out a new diet pill.
Marie: "What the -- "
Sean: "Hey, Baby!"
Marie: "AAAIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE (Runs screaming out of the room)"
Sean: "Well; now...that was uncalled for. I think I look pretty GOOD."

Arnie100 wrote:One of the Anime Science class' failed experiments: Sean tries out a new diet pill.
Marie: "What the -- "
Sean: "Hey, Baby!"
Marie: "AAAIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE (Runs screaming out of the room)"
Sean: "Well; now...that was uncalled for. I think I look pretty GOOD."

Marie: "Lang!!!!! You have to fix Sean!! Get him back to normal!!"
Lang: "Why? What's -- (seeing Sean...) holy CR@P!! It WORKED!!"
Marie: "WHAT?"
Lang: "I'll get to work on an antidote right away..."

Arnie100 wrote:Marie: "Lang!!!!! You have to fix Sean!! Get him back to normal!!"
Lang: "Why? What's -- (seeing Sean...) holy CR@P!! It WORKED!!"
Marie: "WHAT?"
Lang: "I'll get to work on an antidote right away..."

Marie: (sound of shotgun slide being worked) "You better. I scored top of my class in marksmanship."

Arnie100 wrote:Marie: "Lang!!!!! You have to fix Sean!! Get him back to normal!!"
Lang: "Why? What's -- (seeing Sean...) holy CR@P!! It WORKED!!"
Marie: "WHAT?"
Lang: "I'll get to work on an antidote right away..."

Yes, please hurry.

taalismn wrote:

Arnie100 wrote:Marie: "Lang!!!!! You have to fix Sean!! Get him back to normal!!"
Lang: "Why? What's -- (seeing Sean...) holy CR@P!! It WORKED!!"
Marie: "WHAT?"
Lang: "I'll get to work on an antidote right away..."

Marie: (sound of shotgun slide being worked) "You better. I scored top of my class in marksmanship."

Dr. Lang: "I wonder if I could patent -- (gets nudged by Marie's shotgun)"
Marie: "Work FASTER!!"

Arnie100 wrote:Dr. Lang: "I wonder if I could patent -- (gets nudged by Marie's shotgun)"
Marie: "Work FASTER!!"

Lang: "Please...it's a grand tradition of working in academia...the question of either helping the students or getting published.*"

*(I actually had a graduate school advisor who exemplified this; rather than explain to me...after I'd interrupted summer vacation to come back and get details clarified.... why and how I had to modify my class selection to meet the education course requirements, he point-blank told me he was too busy to help because he had an upcoming paper on 'lyonization in the state of (x)'. To this day I don't know if he ever got the paper published or what the hell lyonization is and what importance it had in that particular American state, only that he was an outright priorities-wrong unhelpful bastard. One got the impression he HATED teaching and just wanted to get into a particularly useless groove of overpaid academic pursuit)

Lang: "It's not MY fault what the students do with my ideas..."

taalismn wrote:Lang: "Please...it's a grand tradition of working in academia...the question of either helping the students or getting published.*"

*(I actually had a graduate school advisor who exemplified this; rather than explain to me...after I'd interrupted summer vacation to come back and get details clarified.... why and how I had to modify my class selection to meet the education course requirements, he point-blank told me he was too busy to help because he had an upcoming paper on 'lyonization in the state of (x)'. To this day I don't know if he ever got the paper published or what the hell lyonization is and what importance it had in that particular American state, only that he was an outright priorities-wrong unhelpful bastard. One got the impression he HATED teaching and just wanted to get into a particularly useless groove of overpaid academic pursuit)

Why do I get the feeling that is what most University and Collage professors are like that. I also don't like them because of all the anti-American stuff they seem to say, well, most of them anyways. ( Ya I know we aren't perfect, but compared to the rest of the world, we are head and shoulders above most places, IMO. )

Arnie100 wrote:Lang: "It's not MY fault what the students do with my ideas..."

Alpha 11 wrote:

taalismn wrote:Lang: "Please...it's a grand tradition of working in academia...the question of either helping the students or getting published.*"

*(I actually had a graduate school advisor who exemplified this; rather than explain to me...after I'd interrupted summer vacation to come back and get details clarified.... why and how I had to modify my class selection to meet the education course requirements, he point-blank told me he was too busy to help because he had an upcoming paper on 'lyonization in the state of (x)'. To this day I don't know if he ever got the paper published or what the hell lyonization is and what importance it had in that particular American state, only that he was an outright priorities-wrong unhelpful bastard. One got the impression he HATED teaching and just wanted to get into a particularly useless groove of overpaid academic pursuit)

Why do I get the feeling that is what most University and Collage professors are like that. I also don't like them because of all the anti-American stuff they seem to say, well, most of them anyways. ( Ya I know we aren't perfect, but compared to the rest of the world, we are head and shoulders above most places, IMO. )

Arnie100 wrote:Lang: "It's not MY fault what the students do with my ideas..."

the thing that really gets me is the academic vs technical divide.
in a lot of technical (aka practical) education knowing how to actually do and or look up the information is key. in academic MEMORIZING stuff you will likely never use again is a major part of the course.... At least that was my experience.

guardiandashi wrote:[
the thing that really gets me is the academic vs technical divide.
in a lot of technical (aka practical) education knowing how to actually do and or look up the information is key. in academic MEMORIZING stuff you will likely never use again is a major part of the course.... At least that was my experience.

It wasn't the matter or manner of instruction that got me; it just seemed that I ran into an inordinate number of faculty who seemed to regard actually TEACHING and ADVISING to be a unpleasant and distracting secondary task to their REAL work, which was to better position themselves in a nebulous alternate universe of academia more akin to fantasy football than expanding the general database.

(Inside Anime Science 101...)

"So...what else have we leaened?"
"Make sure you find a suitable guinea pig with no personal or familial attachments. That way friends, family or significant others won't seek revenge later?"
"Precisely!"

Arnie100 wrote:(Inside Anime Science 101...)

"So...what else have we leaened?"
"Make sure you find a suitable guinea pig with no personal or familial attachments. That way friends, family or significant others won't seek revenge later?"
"Precisely!"

"The best scientists are either all old misshapen dudes with wild hair or knockout beautiful women with impressive cleavage and enormous-"
"-assets."
"Thank you."

guardiandashi wrote:

Alpha 11 wrote:

taalismn wrote:Lang: "Please...it's a grand tradition of working in academia...the question of either helping the students or getting published.*"

*(I actually had a graduate school advisor who exemplified this; rather than explain to me...after I'd interrupted summer vacation to come back and get details clarified.... why and how I had to modify my class selection to meet the education course requirements, he point-blank told me he was too busy to help because he had an upcoming paper on 'lyonization in the state of (x)'. To this day I don't know if he ever got the paper published or what the hell lyonization is and what importance it had in that particular American state, only that he was an outright priorities-wrong unhelpful bastard. One got the impression he HATED teaching and just wanted to get into a particularly useless groove of overpaid academic pursuit)

Why do I get the feeling that is what most University and Collage professors are like that. I also don't like them because of all the anti-American stuff they seem to say, well, most of them anyways. ( Ya I know we aren't perfect, but compared to the rest of the world, we are head and shoulders above most places, IMO. )

Arnie100 wrote:Lang: "It's not MY fault what the students do with my ideas..."

the thing that really gets me is the academic vs technical divide.
in a lot of technical (aka practical) education knowing how to actually do and or look up the information is key. in academic MEMORIZING stuff you will likely never use again is a major part of the course.... At least that was my experience.

Ya, you got that right! There are some REALLY wacky majors out there that just makes you scratch your head at.

taalismn wrote:

guardiandashi wrote:[
the thing that really gets me is the academic vs technical divide.
in a lot of technical (aka practical) education knowing how to actually do and or look up the information is key. in academic MEMORIZING stuff you will likely never use again is a major part of the course.... At least that was my experience.

It wasn't the matter or manner of instruction that got me; it just seemed that I ran into an inordinate number of faculty who seemed to regard actually TEACHING and ADVISING to be a unpleasant and distracting secondary task to their REAL work, which was to better position themselves in a nebulous alternate universe of academia more akin to fantasy football than expanding the general database.

You mean you expect them to teach in the collage/university just because that is their job?!?

Arnie100 wrote:(Inside Anime Science 101...)

"So...what else have we leaened?"
"Make sure you find a suitable guinea pig with no personal or familial attachments. That way friends, family or significant others won't seek revenge later?"
"Precisely!"

taalismn wrote:

Arnie100 wrote:(Inside Anime Science 101...)

"So...what else have we leaened?"
"Make sure you find a suitable guinea pig with no personal or familial attachments. That way friends, family or significant others won't seek revenge later?"
"Precisely!"

"The best scientists are either all old misshapen dudes with wild hair or knockout beautiful women with impressive cleavage and enormous-"
"-assets."
"Thank you."

Very true, Though there are some exceptions to the rules. (And if they are female, most have to have red hair, too. )

"Doctor Was-"
"*A-HEM.*"(Ominous Hum)
"Little Washuu...could you please, pretty-please, leave the high energy weaponry OUTSIDE the school building? We've had complaints."

Tenchi: "Transferred? AGAIN?!"
Ryoko: "Doesn't seem so BAD, Tenchi. Been to WORSE."
Ayeka: "It looks a bit run down, though."
Sasami: "This place looks like it could be FUN."
Kiyone and Mihoshi: "We're the new school hall monitors!!"
Tenchi:

taalismn wrote:"Doctor Was-"
"*A-HEM.*"(Ominous Hum)
"Little Washuu...could you please, pretty-please, leave the high energy weaponry OUTSIDE the school building? We've had complaints."

Exactly!

Arnie100 wrote:Tenchi: "Transferred? AGAIN?!"
Ryoko: "Doesn't seem so BAD, Tenchi. Been to WORSE."
Ayeka: "It looks a bit run down, though."
Sasami: "This place looks like it could be FUN."
Kiyone and Mihoshi: "We're the new school hall monitors!!"
Tenchi:

“Continuing on with Anime Psychology 101, what can you tell me about gender relations with regards to anime?”
Kei: “Sex sells.”
Angelise: “Fanservice overrides bad animation and lousy plot.”
Tusk: “Yuri is hotter.”
Kei: “*A-hem*”
Tusk: “I mean lesbians, and implied lesbianism is hot. Especially when there are no other choices.”
Shinji: “Huh?”
Tusk: “Look at my own series. There are exactly three named males in it and none of them are, I admit, of much consequence. I’m a Kira Yamato clone who’s an absolute klutz even to the point of screwing up rescuing the damsel in distress, her father(points at Angelise) is so off-camera and ineffective as both a ruler and a parent that by the time it’s revealed he’s been executed. people have to be reminded he existed at all. Oh, and her brother is either a deep-fried bastard or a hollow shell being manipulated by evil aliens. Really, with those prospects, and the rampant fanservice, the attractive choice for the main characters is yuri.”
(Angelise blinks and gets a worried look on her face)
Shinji: “...that explains why Asuka and Rei have been avoiding me of late...”
Kentaro: “Be grateful you don’t have a tsundere...Ah, sorry, Shinji, you DO have a tsundere.”
Tusk: “Angelise has at least two. Salia and Hilda.”
(Angelise is starting to look like she wants to cry)
Haruka Ten’oh: “....come over to the Sapho side...we have cookies...”
“No hiiting up on classmates!”
“Sorry.”
“MY LIFE IS A TROPE DUMPING GROUND!!!!”

Tenchi: (Whispering to Ryoko...) "Who ARE those people?!"
Ryoko: "I dunno. But it looks like they have more problems then WE do..."

Arnie100 wrote:Tenchi: (Whispering to Ryoko...) "Who ARE those people?!"
Ryoko: "I dunno. But it looks like they have more problems then WE do..."

"And female harems are more commn than male harems."
"It's practically Jurian law."
Tenchi: "Okay.....we're not the issue here..."

taalismn wrote:

Arnie100 wrote:Tenchi: (Whispering to Ryoko...) "Who ARE those people?!"
Ryoko: "I dunno. But it looks like they have more problems then WE do..."

"And female harems are more common than male harems."
"It's practically Jurian law."
Tenchi: "Okay.....we're not the issue here..."

Corg: (Struggling) "No Annie! He means harems made up of females!!! Not a female with a harem!!!"

Continuing Anime Fighting 101...

"And what else have we learned?"

"It's not a dress, it's a Combat Skirt."

Saber: (High-fives Weiss) "Yeah!"

taalismn wrote:“Continuing on with Anime Psychology 101, what can you tell me about gender relations with regards to anime?”
Kei: “Sex sells.”
Angelise: “Fanservice overrides bad animation and lousy plot.”
Tusk: “Yuri is hotter.”
Kei: “*A-hem*”
Tusk: “I mean lesbians, and implied lesbianism is hot. Especially when there are no other choices.”
Shinji: “Huh?”
Tusk: “Look at my own series. There are exactly three named males in it and none of them are, I admit, of much consequence. I’m a Kira Yamato clone who’s an absolute klutz even to the point of screwing up rescuing the damsel in distress, her father(points at Angelise) is so off-camera and ineffective as both a ruler and a parent that by the time it’s revealed he’s been executed. people have to be reminded he existed at all. Oh, and her brother is either a deep-fried bastard or a hollow shell being manipulated by evil aliens. Really, with those prospects, and the rampant fanservice, the attractive choice for the main characters is yuri.”
(Angelise blinks and gets a worried look on her face)
Shinji: “...that explains why Asuka and Rei have been avoiding me of late...”
Kentaro: “Be grateful you don’t have a tsundere...Ah, sorry, Shinji, you DO have a tsundere.”
Tusk: “Angelise has at least two. Salia and Hilda.”
(Angelise is starting to look like she wants to cry)
Haruka Ten’oh: “....come over to the Sapho side...we have cookies...”
“No hiiting up on classmates!”
“Sorry.”
“MY LIFE IS A TROPE DUMPING GROUND!!!!”

Arnie100 wrote:Tenchi: (Whispering to Ryoko...) "Who ARE those people?!"
Ryoko: "I dunno. But it looks like they have more problems then WE do..."

taalismn wrote:

Arnie100 wrote:Tenchi: (Whispering to Ryoko...) "Who ARE those people?!"
Ryoko: "I dunno. But it looks like they have more problems then WE do..."

"And female harems are more commn than male harems."
"It's practically Jurian law."
Tenchi: "Okay.....we're not the issue here..."

SRoss wrote:

taalismn wrote:

Arnie100 wrote:Tenchi: (Whispering to Ryoko...) "Who ARE those people?!"
Ryoko: "I dunno. But it looks like they have more problems then WE do..."

"And female harems are more common than male harems."
"It's practically Jurian law."
Tenchi: "Okay.....we're not the issue here..."

Corg: (Struggling) "No Annie! He means harems made up of females!!! Not a female with a harem!!!"

SRoss wrote:Continuing Anime Fighting 101...

"And what else have we learned?"

"It's not a dress, it's a Combat Skirt."

Saber: (High-fives Weiss) "Yeah!"

"The less a female wears, the better she is protected!"

Alpha 11 wrote:

SRoss wrote:Continuing Anime Fighting 101...

"And what else have we learned?"

"It's not a dress, it's a Combat Skirt."

Saber: (High-fives Weiss) "Yeah!"

"The less a female wears, the better she is protected!"

"Actually, that one significantly predates anime."

"Your soulmate will try to kill you first."
"Works with Pandoran banshees too."

Tenchi: "This is a very strange school."
Ryoko: "Which means you'll fit right in. Don't worry. I'll make sure those girls don't lay a hand on you."
Ayeka: "You nearly destroyed his last school, IIRC."
Ryoko: "THAT WASN'T MY FAULT!!!"
Ryoko and Ayeka:

Arnie100 wrote:Tenchi: "This is a very strange school."
Ryoko: "Which means you'll fit right in. Don't worry. I'll make sure those girls don't lay a hand on you."
Ayeka: "You nearly destroyed his last school, IIRC."
Ryoko: "THAT WASN'T MY FAULT!!!"
Ryoko and Ayeka:

Tenchi: "I don't think it's going to be a matter of Ryoko destroying anything. I just saw Waashu go in through that door over there."
(Ominous increasing hum coming from indicated door)

SRoss wrote:

Alpha 11 wrote:

SRoss wrote:Continuing Anime Fighting 101...

"And what else have we learned?"

"It's not a dress, it's a Combat Skirt."

Saber: (High-fives Weiss) "Yeah!"

"The less a female wears, the better she is protected!"

"Actually, that one significantly predates anime."

Did not know that.

taalismn wrote:"Your soulmate will try to kill you first."
"Works with Pandoran banshees too."

Ya, that happens a lot.

Arnie100 wrote:Tenchi: "This is a very strange school."
Ryoko: "Which means you'll fit right in. Don't worry. I'll make sure those girls don't lay a hand on you."
Ayeka: "You nearly destroyed his last school, IIRC."
Ryoko: "THAT WASN'T MY FAULT!!!"
Ryoko and Ayeka:

taalismn wrote:

Arnie100 wrote:Tenchi: "This is a very strange school."
Ryoko: "Which means you'll fit right in. Don't worry. I'll make sure those girls don't lay a hand on you."
Ayeka: "You nearly destroyed his last school, IIRC."
Ryoko: "THAT WASN'T MY FAULT!!!"
Ryoko and Ayeka:

Tenchi: "I don't think it's going to be a matter of Ryoko destroying anything. I just saw Waashu go in through that door over there."
(Ominous increasing hum coming from indicated door)

Should we start running or is it to late?

Depends on who Little Waashu-chan found as her new guinea pig.

taalismn wrote:Depends on who Little Waashu-chan found as her new guinea pig.

Sean: (Drinking from a test tube) "So what did you say this stuff will do to me again?"

Marie: "Oh, God, not AGAIN...LANGGGGG!!"
Lang: "I can't do anything...she has tenure. Besides, I don't know what she did. She's also the new Anime Science and Anime Technology class' teacher."

(While Ryoko and Ayeka are busy arguing...some of the local girls are already making their moves...)

Dana: "So...what's YOUR name?? (Twirling a bit of Tenchi's hair...)"
Tenchi: "Aaaahhh..."
Nova: "You're not ATTACHED to anyone, are you? (Showing a bit of cleavage)"
Rook: "He IS cute...."

Max Sterling: "Let me make one thing clear to you, young man...you hurt my little girl in any way, shape, or form, and not even an empire's going to be able to save you from my wrath."

Dana: "DaaaaaaaaAAADDD...You're EMBARASSING me..."
Max: "But..."
Miriya: "Oh, I'm sure Dana can handle herself..."
Dana: "Thanks, Mom...HHHEEEEYY!!! (Watching Nova and Rook walk off with Tenchi...)"

(Meanwhile...Ryoko and Ayeka are still busy arguing with each other...oblivious to what had just happened...)

Max and Miriya aren't helicopter or even gunship parents; they're fighter-bomber-battloid-mode parents.