I promise to hand wash it as directed but it WILL be used to cut pizza. I won’t just use it as a paper weight.

Decoration

Yes that is a skull on the shelf.  No, it’s not real.

What’s that you say?  You don’t.  That’s just me you say.

Oh.

Well of course I don’t do that – I saw it on TV or I read it in a book but I don’t do that.

I’m going to go away now.

Try to hold in the insanity until then, and don’t forget to Dare to Be Stupid!

I dream of one day be employed in a position that pays well for something I know for sure I’m really good at.  That presupposes that I CAN be really good at something but I think well enough of myself to assume that part of the equation.

My dream goes something like this:  I sitting at work figuring out the proper regression line to apply to term life insurance rates.  As an actuary, I am WELL compensated for this type of thing and the fact that the company is making money makes me happy.  Apparently deep down, I’m a company man through and through.  I wouldn’t want to go into the health insurance field because that would make me feel guilty – having to jack rates every year just to make ends meet.

Anyhoo…I decide one day that I want to go on vacation so I put in for time off right away because I know I have enough money to do it and I know I have enough vacation time to do it and this is AT THE SAME TIME so I do it.  Repeatedly.  Over the course of a couple decades.  Until one day I retire.  Without worrying about money or the price of healthcare because all along I had enough time outside of work to exercise and stay healthy thereby keeping term life insurance rates down for everyone.

Lawful Good – Picard
Neutral Good – Bones
Chaotic Good – House
Lawful Neutral – The Ancients
True Neutral – Bender
Chaotic Neutral – Bugs Bunny
Lawful Evil – Dexter
Neutral Evil – Benjamin Linus
Chaotic Evil – Sylar

Again, if you can easily identify all of the above references and give good reasons why they are appropriate, you may be watching too much TV. If you can think of even better examples of each alignment type, then you’re definitely watching too much TV.

Superman – His power resides in that one curl of hair
Batman – But only the TV show version (BAM!!)
Mufasa – Oooohh! Say it again!
Atticus Finch – Doesn’t get any more lawful or good than this
Optimus Prime – Autobots, roll out!
God – Kind of the definition

These are the types of characters that will give you a definite maybe. Although some may adopt a “I’ll leave you alone if you leave me alone” attitude, others are just above the arguments of lesser beings. See you next, maybe.

Switzerland – If you won’t fight against Nazis, you won’t fight against anybody.
Doctor Manhattan – Truly does not care, not even about wearing clothes.
Kaminoans – Cloning is cool; everything else, meh.
Treebeard – “I am not altogether on anybody’s side.”
Rick Blaine – “I stick out my neck for nobody.”
Jet – “I don’t know, and I have no opinion.”
Neutral President – “If I don’t make it, tell my wife ‘Hello’.”

Here are some more examples:

V for Vendetta – “Governments should be afraid of their people”

The Mythbusters – “Seeking the truth AND blowing stuff up”

House – “It’s not lupus”

Wolverine – “Do the right thing, even if you have to kill EVERYONE”

Bilbo Baggins – “I may be a burglar, but I am an honest one, I hope, more or less.”

The Incredible Hulk – “Hulk SMASH!!!”

Mary Poppins – “Mary Poppins, practically perfect in every way”

The A-Team – “Pitying fools since 1983″

Alex from A Clockwork Orange – “Real horrorshow”

Hannibal the Cannibal – “I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti”

The Joker – “Why so serious?”

Norman Bates – “A boy’s best friend is his mother”

Caligula – “Let them hate us so long as they fear us”

The Crimson King – “Ya ken?”