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figmo ([personal profile] figmo) wrote2004-12-17 01:23 am

Holiday Surprise: A Quiz

Warren walked into my bedroom Wednesday morning.

"Look! It's bright green!" He held the object in his hand out for me to see.

Now...guess what the object was?

[identity profile] johno.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 09:31 am (UTC)(link)
I so do not want to go there. ;)

[identity profile] figmo.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 09:51 am (UTC)(link)
Hint: Note that I didn't say I went to get a closer look....
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[personal profile] howeird 2004-12-17 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
If it was bright green, I don't think you would want to get a closer look
:-)

[identity profile] figmo.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Note that I never said I did want to get a closer look.

[identity profile] hitchhiker.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
not going there either!

[identity profile] keristor.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 12:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"I decline to comment on the grounds that it may incriminate me!" Make mine a fifth of Lagavulin, please *g*...
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[personal profile] aunty_marion 2004-12-17 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Scotty] "I don't know what it is.... but it's ....green...." [/Scotty]

[identity profile] pbristow.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
SCOTTY: "What is it?"

DATA: "It is..."

[Slightly puzzled frown at lack of label. Enquiring sniff of contents.]

DATA: "It is - "

[Sudden doubtful frown. Slower, more careful sniff. Slight pause.]

DATA: "It is green."

=:o}

[identity profile] vixyish.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually it was both! There was a TOS episode where Scotty or Chekov or someone said it (I forget who was giving him the drink or what it was; something Klingon?) and then a TNG episode where Data said it to Scotty. One of those cute instances of TNG making a little homage to the original. :)

It's grrrreen!

(Anonymous) 2004-12-17 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Scotty was trying to get an alien (from Andromeda, I believe) drunk in order to overwhelm it with human sensation. Of course, you can't leave an alien to drink alone, so Scotty was getting good & smashed right along side him.

[identity profile] suecochran.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Let's see - a "mood ring"?

[identity profile] figmo.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Um, no, but that beats the (incorrect) food guesses.

[identity profile] peteralway.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
It must have been a ten-year-old grilled cheese sandwich with an image of the virgin Mary.

[identity profile] figmo.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
No.

Hint: It was never edible.
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[personal profile] cellio 2004-12-17 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Please tell me this did not involve a previously-white dog. :-)

[identity profile] figmo.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
It didn't. The involved dog was still white. :-)

[identity profile] mrlogic.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Was this a dog-byproduct of some kind?

[identity profile] jikme.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Leftover spaghetti squash with browned butter and myzithra cheese?

[identity profile] figmo.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
No. Hint: It was never edible.

[identity profile] scottscidmore.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Three of the most likely choices would be (partially covered already) something from the fridge, something with a high efficiency green LED in it, or a bowl of lime jello.

I've seen a number of other less common things things that were bright green, several couldn't be carried in one hand and are highly doubtful in this case besides.

[identity profile] figmo.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope. This thing had never been alive.

[identity profile] scottscidmore.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, but the other two I mentioned were never alive. The ones I didn't describe were so.

Reading more resent posting ... uhg, I haven't been to Archie's recently, so I can't guess something from there because I don't know if they have anything of that shade and size.

[identity profile] figmo.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
You've probably been to Archie's more recently than I have. The last time I was in Seattle I resisted the temptation to make the pilgrimage there, instead opting for raiding a local Cash and Carry store of its sugar-free DaVinci Gourmet syrups.

[identity profile] mrlogic.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
*guesses unhappily* a blob of hacked-up mucus?

[identity profile] figmo.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Wrong shade of green.
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[personal profile] firecat 2004-12-17 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, so the thing that was living in my nose moved to Warren's, eh?

[identity profile] figmo.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Um, no. You're imagining the wrong shade of green.

[identity profile] vixyish.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Lizard, frog, or other reptile or amphibian?

[identity profile] figmo.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I've seen those kinds of animals that color, but this thing had never been alive.

[identity profile] jikme.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Was it one of those glowing orb thingies for tracking your stock portfolio, weather changes, etc.?

[identity profile] figmo.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
*Giggle*

That thing's pretty cool.

The thing Warren showed me was a darker shade of green (I'd say forest or kelly) and much smaller.
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[personal profile] skreeky 2004-12-17 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Don't go there."
"Sorry, honey, I *live* there."

I have heard tales that there is a certain type of black lemonade that turns one's shit so very bright green that more than one person has been known to come running out of the bathroom yelling "You guys have to see this!"

Please tell me this bears no resemblance to what was happening.

[identity profile] figmo.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't his, and it wasn't caused by black lemonade.