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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :

Here in this club we get together in big groups to be apart from one another. If you’re lonely and you like it, join the club!

If you aren’t good at networking, if you don’t want to network, or both, this is the club for you. Here we spend most of our time engaged in such activities as:

Not talking to one another
Being by ourselves
Playing Game Boys we’ve brought from home
Getting jealous of those who own Game Boys but not saying anything about it
Lunch

If you think this is the club for you, then come on in! Even though no one will welcome you at least you’ll finally get to go to a party where not only do you not want to talk or interact with anyone, they don’t want to speak to you either!

So if you’ve ever felt invaded by pleasant conversation, or if you feel that sometimes it’s OK to be alone at parties, we have the shin-dig for you!

Hobbes [Smile]

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

Is this like the Diogynis Club that Mycroft Holme's belongs to?

Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :

Sounds like a cool party
*reads Elfquest while listening to a discman*

Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :

[lurk on]

Psst. Are their snacks?

Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :

*Looks uncomfortable after Dan’s faux-pas, but doesn’t want to make a scene or draw any attention*

Yah, they’re over there.

Hobbes [Smile]

Posted by Zamphyr (Member # 6213) on :

As long as it involves no further posting in this topic... club +1 [Big Grin]

Posted by Happy Camper (Member # 5076) on :

*Wanders in and sits down with laptop*
*Wonders if there's a wireless network*
*Doesn't ask*
*Plays solitare on the laptop instead*

Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :

*pokes head into thread*

*stays only for the amount of time required to be considered as having attended*

*leaves*

Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :

*wanders in, takes a beanbag-chair and sits down with a book*

Posted by Mr.Gumby (Member # 6303) on :

*sits down*

*plays gameboy*

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

*ignores humans in the room*

Posted by Mr.Gumby (Member # 6303) on :

*jumps up and down and does happy dance after beating metroid*

Posted by Meruhesae (Member # 6698) on :

*watches everybody*
*whips out Harry Potter 5*
*ignores everything*

Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :

A club for people who don't socialize is like an orgy for Ona...whoops. Stop right there. We don't want Papamoose to be upset if we use the O word.

Return to lurk mode.

Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :

*sniffs*

Geeks.

*idly bounces a superball off the wall*

Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :

<one by one walks up to everyone in the room, tries to start a conversation, fails utterly, and leaves, hated by everybody>

Posted by ReikoDemosthenes (Member # 6218) on :

*pokes head into the room*
*plugs self into discman*
*quietly meanders to an empty corner*
*sits and watches the people in the room, drinking up the music from the discman*

Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :

::walks in::

::sits down in the spot furthest from anyone else::

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

Now that I've got you all here, it's time for your de-programming.

First, we'll be playing some get-to-know-you games and introducing one another. Then, we'll be going on a group outing. Everyone pick a buddy!

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

OK, CT - you're with Tick. Everyone else line up according to height.

Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :

::looks at CT::

Uh, Hi.

::awkward silence::

Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :

It's better than the poison ivy thing. [Angst]

Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :

[Eek!]

(and I thought the head-bashing to escape my father was bad. o_O)

Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :

Annie, I'm officially scared of you.

*runs away*

Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :

YOU'RE scared? I'm sharing a room with her! [Angst]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

CT, yesterday I was told by a shrink who's been working with my kids that, "Social skills are clearly not a <insert my last name here> skill."

I would have argued, but she's right. [Dont Know]

(I was thinking, "And tact is clearly not a <insert her last name here> skill.")

*joins party*

*pulls out Palm, starts to read fanfic*

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

As a state FFA vice president, I had to attend all kinds of leadership training workshops. I know every icebreaker activity ever invented.

Alright, now we go around the circle. Everyone tell us your name and something you like that begins with the same letter. The next person has to repeat the ones before and add his own, so the last person in the circle will have to remember everyone else's name and item.

Hi, I'm Annie and I like Ambergris.

Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :

Annie, don't forget the one where everyone takes a at least one, but no limit on how many pieces of toilet paper, then has to tell that many things about themselves. Oooh you guys should do that one at KamaCon

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

*without looking up from fanfic, administers Vulcan neck pinch to Annie*

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

While I enjoy a good icebreaker, CORPORATE icebreakers are stultifyingly icky. Me, I'm a bit more in-your-face about icebreaking -- so, like ripping off a bandaid, it hurts more but doesn't take as long. [Smile]

Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :

We did hundreds of Icebreakers in the Americorps. So many we fell in.

*chats online in between reading this enthralling book*

Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :

rivka, you made me choke!

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Oh. You should try not to do that, mack.

Someone might have to rescue you.

Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :

--I--

Posted by Meruhesae (Member # 6698) on :

*wonders what she got herself into*
*backs slowly away from ice-breaking activities*

Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :

quote:
Someone might have to rescue you.

*dies laughing*

Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :

[Mad]

Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :

Uh...Claudia...you're married, right? I seem to have gathered that tidbit somewhere? I think you've set the new standard for "I don't wanna and you can't make me" excuse. [Eek!]

Granted, I have no social skills, but I am trying. Really. Honestly.

As for the cinderblock thing - make sure you turn with your hips to get maximum momentum from the swing. You may break your forearm, but you will know how to throw a good elbow. [Big Grin]

-Trevor

Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :

Snicker - I'm well beyond hope at the moment.

I was simply calling into question your statement of an absolute lack of said-same.

[Big Grin]

And you still have the reigning standard for "I don't wanna" - at least, of anyone willing to admit it in a readily reportable format. [Taunt]

-Trevor

Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :

Dagonee gets a bajillion cool points for that Sherlock reference