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What do you want to be when you grow up?

  
  

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gridley
20:19 / 11.07.02
I amend my previous answer. I want to be a hindu astronaut that eats squirrels.
 
 
6opow
20:21 / 11.07.02
"I want to be a hindu astronaut that eats squirrels."

On behalf of trijhaos and myself:

YIKES!!!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
20:45 / 11.07.02
I remember many years ago making a solemn pact with my girlfriend at the time... that if reincarnation was real, we'd both come back as squirrels. Now I hope she doesn't remember. Cos I wanna be a badger now. And I'd hate it if she turned up as a squirrel and got pissed off because I was out badgering elsewhere. I'd feel like such a bastard. But it's not really the kind of thing you can phone an ex up and say, is it, "umm... if you don't mind, I may not be a squirrel next life..."
Ahhh... fuck it.
When I grow up, I wanna be an anteater.
 
 
6opow
20:47 / 11.07.02
When I grow up I want to be Maominstoat's snout in his incarnation as an anteater (then I can help ya' gobble up the ants!).
 
 
A
04:35 / 12.07.02
I once wrote a song called "I Wish I Was A Squirrel". It was one of those things where you hear a really bad song on television and think "Fuck, i could write a better song than this in ten seconds... In fact, I will."

Anyway, i understand the appeal of being a squirrel, even though i hear that up close, they're not as cute as they seem, and that they stalk people. (I live in Australia, so i don't know about these things. We do have possums, though.)
 
 
Saint Keggers
04:45 / 12.07.02
Deric Holloway: Wow. Where did he go to school? Is he struggling to get by on the pay? And does he know of any schools like the one he attended in Canada??



And on the Squirrel portiopn of this thread: Squirrel has always been the nickname that my father has had for me since I was but a wee childe.
(infact, it was to be the name of my illustration studio)
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
05:11 / 12.07.02
Squirrel has always been the nickname that my father has had for me since I was but a wee childe.

Aww, bless.
 
 
Cat Chant
08:44 / 12.07.02
Go here now, I beg you, for more information on squirrels.
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
19:56 / 12.07.02
Kegger: He went to the Art Institute in Pittsburgh. I don't know if there are any Art Institutes in Canada, but it's a bit of a franchise down in the States. The one in Pitt. is, apparently, the one most geared towards special effects work (from what I've heard, anyway). Tom Savini teaches there and whatnot.
 
 
Trijhaos
20:07 / 12.07.02
Now that I really think about it, I want to be a pirate squirrel. I will take to the high trees. My crew will consist of badgers, ferrets, chipmunks, and bunnies cause bunnies aren't as cute as everybody supposes. Yes, we will defend the helpless forest creatures from the evil ninja cats and make a tidy profit while doing so. The name of the ship will be the S.S. Fluffy Tail and I will be known as the dreaded Captain Acorn.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:07 / 12.07.02
Got room for a pirate stoat in there?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:08 / 12.07.02
...or anteater, for that matter...
 
 
Trijhaos
22:14 / 12.07.02
Sure, why not? The more the merrier, unless you're a skunk. I've seen those Pepe Le Peu cartoons. Skunks are nothing more than sex fiends.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:17 / 12.07.02
Skunks are just crap badgers. And they smell.
 
 
Mazarine
00:59 / 13.07.02
I wouldn't mind being a black squirel. Spiffy, sleek, and the subject of conspiracy theory...
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
07:24 / 13.07.02
I still want my number. I want a number so I can be like all the other sheepdrones. I will snuggle down in the Sheepdrone Barracks at night, secure in my nonindividuality, I could chow down on my ration of Sheepdrone mash and it would taste all the sweeter. I'm sure of it.
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
19:40 / 15.07.02
I wanna be a junkie.
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
19:45 / 15.07.02
Actually, I don't have any idea. So long as I live at the beach, I don't really care. I wouldn't mind writing.

At times like this, I'm really envious of my friend Blake, who is a choral major who switched from a music major (education, I think). He's known for years what he wants to do, and he can't imagine doing anything else and ever being happy. I'd call him a lucky bastard, but since he wants to teach children about music, I'm not so sure anymore.

On the squirrel deal: Has anyone ever been to the Notre Dame campus in South Bend, Indiana? The squirrels there are fucking HUGE. We're talking full grown male cat size, and they don't fear humans. The big ones are all near the science building, and if that doesn't make you want to be a mad scientist when you grow up, I don't know what ever could.
 
 
A
11:18 / 16.07.02
 
 
Cavatina
21:54 / 16.07.02
Aww, that's so pretty. But our possums are just so, too - and there's probably more variety amongst 'em.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
22:06 / 16.07.02
Perhaps, Johnny O, you could consider being a junkie squirrel?

  
 
_pin
23:34 / 16.07.02
Right now, what I really wanna do is just to be able to function in proper actual adult relaitonships without tiwtching, trowing my toys out of the pram and complining that no one else is me in other people form.

Other then that, I wanna be interesting enough to keep a note book of cool ass shit that I have thunk. And make something out of the sky is falling in.
 
 
XXII:X:II = XXX
01:25 / 17.07.02
Me? I want to be the fucking messiah, mate.

Okay, I'll settle for being an anarchist superhero who can live outside and off of the system while it continues to retch up anything of worth and can wipe my own ass for everything else, awaiting the end gleefully. Shamanic sorceror sublime. Anakin Skywalker without the ill-acted angst. Evoking an emotional daquiri of respect, awe, fear, intrigue, confusion and loathing, as appropriate. The meat in a threeway sandwich with Eros and Eris; eat THAT, Jared from Subway!

Okay, I'll settle for being the most celebrated comic writer/artist on the planet. Sequential art Shakespeare. Bono of the manga.

As a kid, I wanted to be a cyberneticist. This was around age 9, in 2021.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
02:36 / 17.07.02
I always wanted to be a pilot when I was younger. Which was cruelled by a) asthma and b) physics. Erk.

When I grow up? I want to be writing. As long as it's some way I can get a reasonable kind of lifestyle, nd I feel OK about myself, it doesn't matter what. Well, to an extent.
 
 
6opow
05:38 / 17.07.02
I love how squirrelly this thread has become!



OK, I want to take a moment to share a few things with you.

First, by strange synchronicity, I am staying in a tent in the backyard of a friend's out in New West. In this backyard there lives a family of skunks. So the other night I am sitting in my living room (the backyard) looking up at the stars and smoking when all of a sudden, a skunk pokes its head around the side of my tent. It takes an audible "sniff." I watch as it walks by quite close to me, and then roles around in the grass a few feet away. Totally cool. So, skunks are OK by me too.

Second, and this reveals my nerdy side, I really like how squirrels move like little waves, cos or sin. They hop along so graceful arched with a beautiful curve between the tips of their noses and the tips of their tails. Truly a pleasure to watch them move.
SMOOTH.

When I grow up, I want to be a wave of light.
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
18:56 / 17.07.02
Perhaps, Johnny O, you could consider being a junkie squirrel?

Why not? It probably pays more than any job I'll get with a philosophy degree.
 
 
Cop Killer
08:18 / 18.07.02
I wanna be a huge, legendary rock star.
 
 
A
05:34 / 21.07.02
Cover my song about squirrels. It's got "hit" written all over it.
 
 
Lilith Myth
12:49 / 21.07.02
I don't know anything about squirrels, so fear i may be wandering off-topic in some bizarre way. When I grow up i want to be (a) grown up, and (b) a writer. writing. have written. some form of that.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
13:33 / 21.07.02
Pfffah. Writing? Writey stuff? How poncey. Writing is just a way of making people feel inferior, you intellectual elitist, you. Also writing leads to reading and reading makes people have strange bad ideas. Why read anyway? We have digital television now! Put down that book and join me in the Sheepdrone TV lounge. We can have our ration of Sheepdrone Mash dropped from the big pipes in the ceiling. Lovely Sheepdrone Mash in front of the nice big telly. Mmmmmm....
 
 
Rage
20:39 / 21.07.02
When I grow up I want to be a rawk star!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!
 
 
Lilith Myth
21:03 / 21.07.02
that Sheepdrone thing sounds cool. But doesn't it make me into you when I grow up? Who knows what strange, bad ideas might ensue.
 
 
Naked Flame
21:24 / 21.07.02
Tried the rock star thing, which was top of my list, and am now working on growing up into something slightly saner with less substance abuse, hopefully before my thirties, but what the hell.

run away and join the circus!
 
 
Rage
22:19 / 21.07.02
When I grow up I want to be the Martha Stewart of alternative thought!!!!!!!!!!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
 
Boy in a Suitcase
06:11 / 22.07.02
To quote local band The Snaps:

"I wanna be adorrrrrrred!"
 
  

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