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Post by frag on May 24, 2006 20:10:27 GMT -5
 heh, I didn't even notice.
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Post by rockysigman on May 24, 2006 21:46:56 GMT -5
Me neither.
That's a great story, JAC. Nothing quite like playing games with the mentally ill.
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Post by frag on May 24, 2006 22:03:55 GMT -5
And pretending to eat bugs at that. Brilliant.
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JACkory
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Post by JACkory on May 24, 2006 22:54:10 GMT -5
Oh, it was so HILARIOUS. She was one of those people who are best described as a "stick-in-the-mud". She probably thought I was crazier than she was when I "ate the bugs", so maybe that was therapeutic to her, to have this confirmation that she was NOT the looniest bird in the cuckoo's nest.
But man, you should have seen her face when I flashed that pentagram at her. She may have had doubts as to whether I was actually an alien, but she'd seen me "eating bugs" and she had no reason to believe I WASN'T a satanist. I held up that hand with the pentagram drawn on it with a magic marker and not only did her eyes bug out like she'd seen a ghost, she immediately got up and left the cafeteria before she had even finished her meal. I assume it was immediately afterwards when she reported it all to the staff.
To this day I'm still not convinced that the staff, even though they tried to hide it, didn't find the stunt almost as amusing as I did.
I played another a couple of years before that on a guy who was incarcerated in the Naval Hospital in Orlando, Florida when/where I was first diagnosed with bipolar. I had this guy convinced that I was a tongue-talkin' pentecostal holy man...then one day I was in his room and started acting like I was possessed by the devil. He really started to get scared when I dropped the whole charade and explained to him (my opinion at the time) that demonic possession and speaking in tongues is all hogwash... For some reason, he freaked out even more when I did that. He tried to escape the facility within 10 minutes of my leaving his room, was apprehended and brought back...
Weird, weird times in the Naval Hospital 4th Floor Psych Ward...that's no lie.
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Post by rockysigman on May 24, 2006 22:56:24 GMT -5
Wow, JAC. You sure do have a way of making a psych ward seem like the most fun place in the world. Seriously.
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Post by JACkory on May 24, 2006 23:02:29 GMT -5
Wow, JAC. You sure do have a way of making a psych ward seem like the most fun place in the world. Seriously. It all depends on the level of one's mental illness. For those who are pretty bad off it can be a nightmare (and I've been to the point where I was "pretty bad off" so I speak from experience), but if you're there because you want to be and you have a grip on your condition, yeah, it can be a wildly amusing place. Not that I WANTED to be in the psych ward at the Navy hospital, but I was there for a long time and pranks were a way to combat boredom. |
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Post by frag on May 24, 2006 23:02:44 GMT -5
You've never seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
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Post by sisyphus on May 25, 2006 0:08:08 GMT -5
JAC: I'm lovin it!!! We pull some of the same stunts here in my group home.  |
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Post by Fuzznuts on May 25, 2006 6:26:05 GMT -5
5. I will not eat seafood. Freak. |
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Post by luke on May 25, 2006 11:00:39 GMT -5
I like Guinness. especially in car bombs Luke, shall we have a whiskey-off? You'll win, of course, but it's a good excuse to get drunk. If I could arrange it, it'd be on. The other night, staying up late with the Somas on your second night of "slow descent," was a bit of a fluke. And with school letting out Friday, my wife won't be going to bed before me, and there's no way I'm going to try and explain to her why I'm sitting in front of the computer with a fifth of Seven Crown typing on "that web site she hates." And usually when she'd out of town, I'm out on the town, going all fucking crazy. But we'll see what we can do. |
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Post by Thorngrub on May 25, 2006 11:10:48 GMT -5
1. I won 1st Prize in the International Spelling Bee when I was in 3rd Grade.
2. I won 1st Prize in most of the Science Projects I entered during elementary school.
3. I took home the Gold Medal in Olympics Of The Mind, 1983.*
4. I graduated on the Dean's List w/honors from Emerson College in 1987.
5. I smoke a lot of weed.
* Now known as "Odyssey Of The Mind"
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Post by luke on May 25, 2006 12:22:36 GMT -5
5. I will not eat seafood. Freak. I just had some fish tacos for lunch. They were the shit. |
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Post by riley on May 25, 2006 12:33:17 GMT -5
fish tacos sound really dodgy to me.
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Post by luke on May 25, 2006 12:39:06 GMT -5
Not that kind of fish taco.
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Post by riley on May 25, 2006 13:16:21 GMT -5
fuck. should have seen that a mile away.
i'm losing my edge...
... to the kids...
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