Pluck or die! No, no, wait, duck or die!
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thingswithwings: I sort of want to make a ____ or die challenge, where ____ has to rhyme with fuck
thingswithwings: so there could be duck or die
thingswithwings: luck or die
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In which eruthros and thingswithwings have an important conversation about ____-or-die:
eruthros: PS some things for your underfilled fuck or die tag?
thingswithwings: but AMTDI isn't fuck/die!
thingswithwings: though there is overlap.
eruthros: No, I know!
eruthros: But from FIVE PAGES of AMTDI, I expect you to be able to glean at least five fuck/die!
thingswithwings: ha
eruthros: (Which I just typed "duck." As if there were one of them portmanteau names for it. Some people say "fuck/die," other people call it "duck.")
thingswithwings: I love how you have taken this lack in my tags as a personal crusade
thingswithwings: that you must redress
eruthros: I declared tonight eruthros DOES NOTHING night. :)
thingswithwings: is it "duck" or "duck/die"?
eruthros: no, it was "duck."
eruthros: Not duck/die.
eruthros: Just duck.
eruthros: And doing nothing also = ... tagging things! Watching the fun five minutes of Sorority Boys!
thingswithwings: because duck or die is actually a fairly straightforward and boring story
thingswithwings: I love eruthros DOES NOTHING night!
eruthros: It depends!
eruthros: Duck or die could be an action film.
eruthros: But think of the number of potential OED meanings there!
eruthros: I mean, you could have duck/die, the story in which Rodney faces a difficult choice: he and John will either be turned into Muscovy ducks, or killed!
thingswithwings: a difficult decision
thingswithwings: I sort of want to make a ____ or die challenge, where ____ has to rhyme with fuck
thingswithwings: so there could be duck or die
thingswithwings: luck or die
eruthros: Also, another story that could be titled "quack."
thingswithwings: muck or die
eruthros: pluck. :)
thingswithwings: cluck or die! a chicken story!
thingswithwings: ha, or pluck.
thingswithwings: suck or die (a subgenre of fuck or die)
eruthros: Clearly!
eruthros: How about ... truck or die?
thingswithwings: HA
thingswithwings: how's that work?
eruthros: Um.
thingswithwings: they have to die or else . . . be truck drivers?
eruthros: Either Rodney becomes a long-distance truck-driver and delivers this important cargo of televisions!
thingswithwings: for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture?
eruthros: Or they'll both be KILLED!!!!!!!
eruthros: Wait, wait! Schmuck or die!
thingswithwings: they have to do something embarrassing or die?
thingswithwings: that makes them look like schmucks?
eruthros: That is the horrible, awful, no good decision, where John either loses his mojo or is killed.
thingswithwings: wow.
thingswithwings: harsh.
eruthros: It would be angsty.
eruthros: Also traumatic.
eruthros: etc.
eruthros: Also, yuck or die, where aliens make them ... go on the alien equivalent to Fear Factor.
thingswithwings: there is a fic called "Aliens Make Them Eat It"
thingswithwings: which is kind of that.
eruthros: Well there you GO!
eruthros: wait, wait, best one EVAH. Amok or die!
eruthros: It is exactly the same as fuck or die.
eruthros: Except with pon farr. :)
thingswithwings: perhaps also Stuck or Die, where John and Rodney have to be stuck together with magic-glue-stuff or else PERISH
thingswithwings: OH MAN
thingswithwings: Amok or Die is great!
thingswithwings: self-referential FTW!
eruthros: You have to pronounce it right, though :)
thingswithwings: well, people who say ah-mock are dumb ANYWAY.
eruthros: Oh, man, they'll either be GLITTERGLUED or EATEN BY SEA BASS.
thingswithwings: eaten by sea bass?
eruthros: Or something.
eruthros: For the "or die" part.
eruthros: Other options for you: Starbuck or Die, in which John has to fly a ship made of organic technolo--- wait, we already did that plot.
thingswithwings: heee
eruthros: Upchuck or Die, which is the offworld drunk story.
thingswithwings: I have often felt like Upchuck or Die myself!
thingswithwings: though I have always chosen secret option c: pass out.
eruthros: I think that, of all of these options? It is the one that is most often presented to Team John.
thingswithwings: this would be the best challenge ever.
thingswithwings: I should suggest it at sga flashfic.
eruthros: YOU SHOULD.
thingswithwings: DUMBEST SGA FLASHFIC CHALLENGE EVER.
eruthros: It would be AWESOME shut UP
eruthros: waitwait.
eruthros: STARSTRUCK or DIE
thingswithwings: oh man, that's a reality show one again.
thingswithwings: like Stars in their Eyes
eruthros: Yes!
eruthros: And, for people who are missing the Canadian Shack challenge?
eruthros: (wait for it)
eruthros: Muckluck or die.
thingswithwings: *rimshot*
thingswithwings: awesome.
eruthros: I also would like to propose Potluck or Die.
thingswithwings: we could just use an online rhyming dictionary.
thingswithwings: oh MAN
thingswithwings: I am actually writing that one
thingswithwings: potluck or die!
eruthros: *laughs*
eruthros: Poor Rodney!
eruthros: Can he make enough cookies?
thingswithwings: there IS the one where they have to make spanikopita
eruthros: Online rhyming dictionaries are never as awesome as you want.
eruthros: I mean, they always are like "here are some normal words you would've thought of anyway."
thingswithwings: I used to have an awesome paper rhyming dictionary
eruthros: And you're like "wait, guys, I need you to tell me things like ... Starbuck!"
thingswithwings: that rhymed "key" with "Albequerque" and things.
eruthros: wowzers!
thingswithwings: the best was how it rhymed with phrases
thingswithwings: like, I can't think of an example
thingswithwings: but it did extremely complicated polysyllabic rhymes.
eruthros: Dude, dude, here you go: dumbstruck or die and schmuck or die.
eruthros: Rodney has to give up the power of speech!
thingswithwings: with colloquialisms and adages.
eruthros: And John his mojo!
thingswithwings: this is a sad story!
eruthros: That is awesome! Why aren't the online rhyming ones that awesome?
eruthros: This is a v.v. sad story :(:(:(:(
thingswithwings: woah
thingswithwings: sad TIMES FOUR
eruthros: times four INDEED
eruthros: Well, for the people who don't want something that SAD? You could do ... woodchuck or die.
thingswithwings: uh
thingswithwings: what does the action "woodchuck" imply?
eruthros: I don't know!
eruthros: I mean, how much wood would a woodchuck chuck, etc.
eruthros: Except woodchucks are actually groundhogs, and don't chuck wood at all.
eruthros: So ... it could be a really obscure groundhog day reference?
eruthros: Don't stop me with your logic!
thingswithwings: I am just afraid that "to woodchuck" implies doing something to the woodchuck
thingswithwings: which is outside of my kink range.
eruthros: fine, whatever.
eruthros: Maybe other people would write the bestiality here
eruthros: for the geoducks and the bucks and the woodchucks
eruthros: (don't kill me for saying this) ....... Canuck or die.
thingswithwings: I *would* kill you
thingswithwings: except for how much I LOVE YOU
thingswithwings: isn't John/Rodney fuck or die ALWAYS Canuck or Die?
eruthros: That was my thought!
eruthros: Like Amok or Die, it is ... already what we are doing.
thingswithwings: "we were there already."
thingswithwings: unless John had to become a Canadian or die!
eruthros: Well, but then we're in Aliens Made Them Get Married!
thingswithwings: awwwwwwwwww
eruthros: Which we have done so much that Ces could do it a bazillion times in her story.
eruthros: And we're all like "yup, that's what life in Pegasus is like." :)
thingswithwings: :D YAY!
thingswithwings: <3 fandom.
eruthros: I know!
eruthros: Actually, fandom has already written most of these.
... there is a brief digression in which we discuss whether bannock rhymes with fuck in any accent, and how sad it is that eunuch is not quite a rhyme
eruthros: I mean, while we're in the AUish verse, I would like to see Puck or Die, in which Rodney tries to leave his hockey team but the ... mafia for ... reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture threaten to kill him and John unless he plays the big game.
thingswithwings: well, they want him to play so that he'll throw the big game
thingswithwings: because they've fixed the bets.
thingswithwings: classic!
eruthros: EXACTLY.
eruthros: I'm out of rhymes, thingswithwings.
eruthros: Except perhaps varieties of bucks and ducks, of which there are many.
Your turn! Pintuck or die, the story where Rodney and John must participate in strange Pegasus versions of Project Runway? You know there are a bazillion more out there!
thingswithwings: I sort of want to make a ____ or die challenge, where ____ has to rhyme with fuckthingswithwings: so there could be duck or diethingswithwings: luck or die/ excerpt
In which eruthros and thingswithwings have an important conversation about ____-or-die:
eruthros: PS some things for your underfilled fuck or die tag? thingswithwings: but AMTDI isn't fuck/die!thingswithwings: though there is overlap.eruthros: No, I know!eruthros: But from FIVE PAGES of AMTDI, I expect you to be able to glean at least five fuck/die!thingswithwings: haeruthros: (Which I just typed "duck." As if there were one of them portmanteau names for it. Some people say "fuck/die," other people call it "duck.")thingswithwings: I love how you have taken this lack in my tags as a personal crusadethingswithwings: that you must redresseruthros: I declared tonight eruthros DOES NOTHING night. :)thingswithwings: is it "duck" or "duck/die"?eruthros: no, it was "duck."eruthros: Not duck/die.eruthros: Just duck.eruthros: And doing nothing also = ... tagging things! Watching the fun five minutes of Sorority Boys! thingswithwings: because duck or die is actually a fairly straightforward and boring storythingswithwings: I love eruthros DOES NOTHING night!eruthros: It depends!eruthros: Duck or die could be an action film.eruthros: But think of the number of potential OED meanings there!eruthros: I mean, you could have duck/die, the story in which Rodney faces a difficult choice: he and John will either be turned into Muscovy ducks, or killed!thingswithwings: a difficult decisionthingswithwings: I sort of want to make a ____ or die challenge, where ____ has to rhyme with fuckthingswithwings: so there could be duck or diethingswithwings: luck or dieeruthros: Also, another story that could be titled "quack."thingswithwings: muck or dieeruthros: pluck. :)thingswithwings: cluck or die! a chicken story!thingswithwings: ha, or pluck.thingswithwings: suck or die (a subgenre of fuck or die)eruthros: Clearly!eruthros: How about ... truck or die?thingswithwings: HAthingswithwings: how's that work?eruthros: Um.thingswithwings: they have to die or else . . . be truck drivers?eruthros: Either Rodney becomes a long-distance truck-driver and delivers this important cargo of televisions!thingswithwings: for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture?eruthros: Or they'll both be KILLED!!!!!!!eruthros: Wait, wait! Schmuck or die!thingswithwings: they have to do something embarrassing or die?thingswithwings: that makes them look like schmucks?eruthros: That is the horrible, awful, no good decision, where John either loses his mojo or is killed.thingswithwings: wow.thingswithwings: harsh.eruthros: It would be angsty.eruthros: Also traumatic.eruthros: etc.eruthros: Also, yuck or die, where aliens make them ... go on the alien equivalent to Fear Factor.thingswithwings: there is a fic called "Aliens Make Them Eat It"thingswithwings: which is kind of that.eruthros: Well there you GO!eruthros: wait, wait, best one EVAH. Amok or die!eruthros: It is exactly the same as fuck or die.eruthros: Except with pon farr. :)thingswithwings: perhaps also Stuck or Die, where John and Rodney have to be stuck together with magic-glue-stuff or else PERISHthingswithwings: OH MANthingswithwings: Amok or Die is great!thingswithwings: self-referential FTW!eruthros: You have to pronounce it right, though :)thingswithwings: well, people who say ah-mock are dumb ANYWAY.eruthros: Oh, man, they'll either be GLITTERGLUED or EATEN BY SEA BASS.thingswithwings: eaten by sea bass?eruthros: Or something.eruthros: For the "or die" part.eruthros: Other options for you: Starbuck or Die, in which John has to fly a ship made of organic technolo--- wait, we already did that plot.thingswithwings: heeeeruthros: Upchuck or Die, which is the offworld drunk story.thingswithwings: I have often felt like Upchuck or Die myself!thingswithwings: though I have always chosen secret option c: pass out.eruthros: I think that, of all of these options? It is the one that is most often presented to Team John.thingswithwings: this would be the best challenge ever.thingswithwings: I should suggest it at sga flashfic.eruthros: YOU SHOULD.thingswithwings: DUMBEST SGA FLASHFIC CHALLENGE EVER.eruthros: It would be AWESOME shut UPeruthros: waitwait.eruthros: STARSTRUCK or DIEthingswithwings: oh man, that's a reality show one again.thingswithwings: like Stars in their Eyeseruthros: Yes!eruthros: And, for people who are missing the Canadian Shack challenge?eruthros: (wait for it)eruthros: Muckluck or die.thingswithwings: *rimshot*thingswithwings: awesome.eruthros: I also would like to propose Potluck or Die.thingswithwings: we could just use an online rhyming dictionary.thingswithwings: oh MANthingswithwings: I am actually writing that onethingswithwings: potluck or die! eruthros: *laughs*eruthros: Poor Rodney!eruthros: Can he make enough cookies?thingswithwings: there IS the one where they have to make spanikopitaeruthros: Online rhyming dictionaries are never as awesome as you want.eruthros: I mean, they always are like "here are some normal words you would've thought of anyway."thingswithwings: I used to have an awesome paper rhyming dictionaryeruthros: And you're like "wait, guys, I need you to tell me things like ... Starbuck!"thingswithwings: that rhymed "key" with "Albequerque" and things.eruthros: wowzers!thingswithwings: the best was how it rhymed with phrasesthingswithwings: like, I can't think of an examplethingswithwings: but it did extremely complicated polysyllabic rhymes.eruthros: Dude, dude, here you go: dumbstruck or die and schmuck or die.eruthros: Rodney has to give up the power of speech!thingswithwings: with colloquialisms and adages.eruthros: And John his mojo!thingswithwings: this is a sad story!eruthros: That is awesome! Why aren't the online rhyming ones that awesome?eruthros: This is a v.v. sad story :(:(:(:(thingswithwings: woahthingswithwings: sad TIMES FOUReruthros: times four INDEEDeruthros: Well, for the people who don't want something that SAD? You could do ... woodchuck or die.thingswithwings: uhthingswithwings: what does the action "woodchuck" imply?eruthros: I don't know!eruthros: I mean, how much wood would a woodchuck chuck, etc.eruthros: Except woodchucks are actually groundhogs, and don't chuck wood at all.eruthros: So ... it could be a really obscure groundhog day reference?eruthros: Don't stop me with your logic!thingswithwings: I am just afraid that "to woodchuck" implies doing something to the woodchuckthingswithwings: which is outside of my kink range.eruthros: fine, whatever.eruthros: Maybe other people would write the bestiality hereeruthros: for the geoducks and the bucks and the woodchuckseruthros: (don't kill me for saying this) ....... Canuck or die.thingswithwings: I *would* kill youthingswithwings: except for how much I LOVE YOUthingswithwings: isn't John/Rodney fuck or die ALWAYS Canuck or Die?eruthros: That was my thought!eruthros: Like Amok or Die, it is ... already what we are doing.thingswithwings: "we were there already."thingswithwings: unless John had to become a Canadian or die!eruthros: Well, but then we're in Aliens Made Them Get Married!thingswithwings: awwwwwwwwwweruthros: Which we have done so much that Ces could do it a bazillion times in her story.eruthros: And we're all like "yup, that's what life in Pegasus is like." :)thingswithwings: :D YAY!thingswithwings: <3 fandom.eruthros: I know!eruthros: Actually, fandom has already written most of these.... there is a brief digression in which we discuss whether bannock rhymes with fuck in any accent, and how sad it is that eunuch is not quite a rhyme
eruthros: I mean, while we're in the AUish verse, I would like to see Puck or Die, in which Rodney tries to leave his hockey team but the ... mafia for ... reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture threaten to kill him and John unless he plays the big game.thingswithwings: well, they want him to play so that he'll throw the big gamethingswithwings: because they've fixed the bets.thingswithwings: classic!eruthros: EXACTLY.eruthros: I'm out of rhymes, thingswithwings.eruthros: Except perhaps varieties of bucks and ducks, of which there are many.Your turn! Pintuck or die, the story where Rodney and John must participate in strange Pegasus versions of Project Runway? You know there are a bazillion more out there!
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Date: 2008-02-29 03:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-29 03:09 am (UTC)Actually, that would also be a great name for a fic challenge where you wanted people to write fic about Chuck.
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Date: 2008-02-29 03:12 am (UTC)Yuck or Die sounds too much like the already-mentioned "Aliens Make them Eat It." In fact, it sounds too much like my Small Child at dinner time (where sometimes it's Yuck and Die; she's a drama queen).
Puck or Die: John and Rodney are forced to play hockey. John assumes Rodney can do it just because he's Canadian, and Rodney is offended. Wait--I think I read this one already too.
Tuck or Die: the city-wide military bedmaking contest. I think Lorne wins here, actually, because both John and Rodney are hopeless.
Huck or Die: John and Rodney find themselves on a raft in the Mississippi. I'm pretty sure I have not yet read that one.
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Date: 2008-02-29 03:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-29 03:22 am (UTC)But absolutely there should also be the fraternity version! As well as the offworld version!
(Only, has
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Date: 2008-02-29 03:27 am (UTC)Also, I believe I have already read "conduct or die." Which, y'know, almost rhymes.
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Date: 2008-02-29 01:57 pm (UTC)Also, I don't know what grep is, but I'm sad that it won't tell you which ones end in [^k]. Woe! We are stuck with still rhyming dictionaries instead.
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Date: 2008-02-29 01:59 pm (UTC)I feel like this story is the kind of comedy in which Rodney and John are building trebuchets all "okay, okay, and then when it walks by we let go!"
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Date: 2008-02-29 02:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-29 02:55 pm (UTC)Actually, Puck or Die could also be the story where John is either transformed into a fairy or dies! (I think I've read that story too.)
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Date: 2008-02-29 04:29 pm (UTC)He immediately said, "Oh! Duck or Fly." I like that one too.
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Date: 2008-02-29 11:39 pm (UTC)Grep = unix command for searching stuff with regular expressions, which in theory ought to be able to target end-of-line so that I could find the ending ones. I blame the corpus.
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Date: 2008-03-01 03:31 am (UTC)Also: I still don't understand what grep is, but I will smile and nod. It is a computer thingy! That searches a corpus that I don't know about!
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