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Title: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 06 Apr 2010, 21:55
It's none of our business and she doesn't exist anyway, so let's butt into her life!
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: raoullefere on 06 Apr 2010, 22:02
Sounds like a plan.

Why in the name of the awesome Moog would having an affair with Sven help Marigold?
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Kugai on 06 Apr 2010, 22:37
Better if she had an affair with Tai.
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Carl-E on 06 Apr 2010, 22:41
I dunno about Marigold boinking Sven, but I'm guessing she's still a virgin - and a first experience may well help in a lot of ways. 

It could hurt, too, but there seems to be a consensus that some pain is necessary for "character development".  So maybe the hurt will help. 

OK, I'll stop talking out my ass now.  >PHBLTBTT<
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Tuitsuro on 06 Apr 2010, 22:45
There's no 'Oversized novelty dildo' option, so I didn't vote. 
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: raoullefere on 06 Apr 2010, 23:16
I dunno about Marigold boinking Sven, but I'm guessing she's still a virgin - and a first experience may well help in a lot of ways. 
Only if she doesn't bestow the moment with holy significance. Wanna make bets on her not doing that? Unless she's penetrated by 'the one'* first time out, we're talking going right back to River City.

What she needs is to socialize, socialize, socialize and, hopefully, get the idea that more than one person, or two, as the case may be, enjoys her company.


* And no, I don't mean Jet Li (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267804/).
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Kugai on 07 Apr 2010, 00:35
Just so long as hse doesn't end up fighting herself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7woLiTBrB0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7woLiTBrB0)
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: themacnut on 07 Apr 2010, 00:50
I don't think a pet is the best idea for her. Based on her lack of attention to cleanliness, not only would it probably die of neglect, but it'd probably give her and Angus a disease first. So, no pets for Marigold, an AnthroPC is more than enough. She doesn't really strike me as the animal loving type anyway.
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: JD on 07 Apr 2010, 05:25
SHE'S PERFECT JUST THE WAY SHE IS! >:[
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 07 Apr 2010, 13:56
For an affair with Sven to be good for her, Sven's newfound conscience would need to hold up, and Marigirl would have to know his history and emotionally accept that he was temporary (that's the hard part).
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: vettechinohio on 07 Apr 2010, 15:16
I dunno about Marigold boinking Sven, but I'm guessing she's still a virgin - and a first experience may well help in a lot of ways. 
Only if she doesn't bestow the moment with holy significance. Wanna make bets on her not doing that? Unless she's penetrated by 'the one'* first time out, we're talking going right back to River City.

But River City is tons of fun! She can hang out at the footbridge playing ass-grab with the other kids, and maybe Anita can teach her how to twirl baton so she can be in the band, too! Lets all sing Shipoopi!!  :angel:
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Penquin47 on 07 Apr 2010, 15:37
Eh, you'd be surprised.  My house is... I don't have ten-year-old boxes of foodlike substances laying around, but I don't exactly keep things particularly clean, either.  However, I take good care of my kitty because I know that however annoying the cat is being or how sucky it is to have to clean the freakin' litterbox, having the cat around is worth it to my sanity.
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: raoullefere on 07 Apr 2010, 15:57
But River City is tons of fun! She can hang out at the footbridge playing ass-grab with the other kids, and maybe Anita can teach her how to twirl baton so she can be in the band, too! Lets all sing Shipoopi!!  :angel:

Don't know which is more amusing, the comment, the avatar positioned beside it, or the idea of Marigold twirling batons, playing grab-ass, or dancing the 'Shipoopi' in the chorus. Although a few of those girls do seem to be built along Marigold's lines. (Not, not Buddy's partner) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1iZarUHt04
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: vettechinohio on 07 Apr 2010, 16:04
She'd be a natural at baton twirling! With all of her gaming experience her fingers must be fast, flexible and strong. And she's not opposed to getting costumed up, either. Think of her visit to the Horrible Revelation. I can see it now: Marigold parading down the street, strutting that baton, pimples glasses gleaming in the morning sun... ::sniffle:: +5 Self Esteem, Marigold! You GO, girl!  :angel:
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Carl-E on 07 Apr 2010, 16:20
SHE'S PERFECT JUST THE WAY SHE IS! >:[

Hear here!  Why fix what ain't broke?  It's a learning experience, she's learning and growing, and will move on, becoming a productive member of society...

Wait, wrong speech. 

Nevermind! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3FnpaWQJO0)
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 07 Apr 2010, 18:21
So far nobody has ever had a pet and an AnthroPC at the same time. Unless you count Dorten as a unified entity.
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: akronnick on 07 Apr 2010, 18:44
Don't know which is more amusing, the comment, the avatar positioned beside it, or the idea of Marigold twirling batons, playing grab-ass, or dancing the 'Shipoopi' in the chorus. Although a few of those girls do seem to be built along Marigold's lines. (Not, not Buddy's partner) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1iZarUHt04

Dammit! Now I want to go to the Ice Cream Social!
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: jwhouk on 07 Apr 2010, 20:17
BUT HE DOES-N'T KNOW THE TER-RI-TOR-Y!
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Carl-E on 07 Apr 2010, 20:18
Don't go there.  It's nothing but trouble. 

With a capital T. 
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: vettechinohio on 07 Apr 2010, 20:29
and that rhymes with P...
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: JD on 07 Apr 2010, 20:44
I don't think anything on the poll will do anything. Apart from the supporting friends, but she already has that.
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: raoullefere on 07 Apr 2010, 21:01
*sigh* and that stands for 'Pool.' (This is all my fault, isn't it?)
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: akronnick on 07 Apr 2010, 21:02
Dammit! Ninja'd (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1427)
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: friend on 07 Apr 2010, 21:15
so wat the heck ur weclome :)
glad 2 have u with us

even tho we may not ever mention it again LOL!!!!
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: vettechinohio on 07 Apr 2010, 21:22
Is there a nicotine stain on his index finger? A dime-novel hidden in the corncrib? Is he starting to memorize jokes from Captain Billy's Whiz-Bang?
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Carl-E on 07 Apr 2010, 21:55
*sigh* and that stands for 'Pool.' (This is all my fault, isn't it?)

You give yourself too much credit.  Thank Meredith Wilson, Robert Preston, and every high school director who ever thought it was a good idea to stage it! 
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: akronnick on 07 Apr 2010, 21:57
My brother played the Lead in that in his Junior Year.

They cut the 'Shipoopi' number though
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Carl-E on 07 Apr 2010, 22:00
I was in the pit band.  The lone trombone (!)
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: akronnick on 07 Apr 2010, 22:03
How can you do 76 Trombones with only one trombone?!?!?!
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: jwhouk on 07 Apr 2010, 22:11
I was in the pit band.  The lone trombone (!)

How can you do 76 Trombones with only one trombone?!?!?!

That has to be the greatest irony in high school musical history.
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Carl-E on 07 Apr 2010, 22:16
It was a small band.  Only about a dozen people, no tuba (but we had a bari sax), one trombone, 2 trumpets, a clarinet, a flute and a piccolo, a few higher saxes, a piano, 2 percussionists, and that damn kid who blew the train whistle.  

Oh yeah, and the auditorium didn't have a pit.  We were in a gazebo center stage, in costume for the entire show.  
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: akronnick on 07 Apr 2010, 22:20
See, now, that don't make no sense, why would River City need Prof. Harold Hill if they already had a fully armed and operational town gazebo band?
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Carl-E on 07 Apr 2010, 22:25
I was not directing.  Send all inquiries to Fr. Naumann, S.J., Canisius High School, Buffalo NY.  I hear he's still alive...
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: jwhouk on 07 Apr 2010, 23:09
I believe the term is "Willing Suspension of Unbelief"
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Kugai on 08 Apr 2010, 00:37
Or 'The Twilight Zone' for short
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: akronnick on 08 Apr 2010, 02:37
Oh I Get It!

The Gazebo Band is playing fifty years in the future, and the play that unfolds is their collective memory of when Prof. Hill (who never left River City and lived to a ripe old age) came to town and started the World Famous River City Boy's Band (which became a gazebo band when the members became too old to march.)

 :-D
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Carl-E on 08 Apr 2010, 06:10
Hmmm - that would also explain why there's only one trombone player left alive...

You know those things are hazardous, and...

(wait for it....)







There can be only one
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Odin on 08 Apr 2010, 09:04
No fixin' what can't be fixed.
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Carl-E on 08 Apr 2010, 09:46
Oh, anyone can be fixed. 

Although maybe spayed is the proper term...

 :angel:
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: raoullefere on 08 Apr 2010, 09:55
How can you do 76 Trombones with only one trombone?!?!?!
I would guess you suck in all the air you can and blat like hell. I wouldn't know, though—I did percussion.
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Binary on 08 Apr 2010, 10:32
Shipoopi? I much prefer the Peter Griffin version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99kHuTOJ94o).
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: wargrafix on 08 Apr 2010, 12:54
I've got the right tool for the job.
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 08 Apr 2010, 13:51
There are some new options in the poll, if anyone wants to change their vote(s).
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Carl-E on 08 Apr 2010, 13:59
Can't unvote.  Couldn't before, I don't know if you can change that option after a poll's been started. 

I've got the right tool for the job.

Wait, tool?  For playing trombone, dancing the Shipoopi... or spaying Marigold? 

Is there a toolbox version of rule 34? 
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 09 Apr 2010, 17:22
Can the people who put "affair with Sven" ahead of "counseling" expand on their reasons for recommending it?

There's no apparent way to change the option about whether you can change votes, but I was sure I had it turned on in the first place.
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: jwhouk on 09 Apr 2010, 17:26
Counseling would always be a good thing, especially for someone as socially awkward as Marigold.

The "affair with Sven" would just be funny. ;)
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Kugai on 09 Apr 2010, 19:45
I still say she'd be better off having an affair with Tai.
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: raoullefere on 09 Apr 2010, 20:44
Geez, Kugai—first Hanners, now Marigold. You'd think Tai was your unhitched stepsister or somesuch and sponging off living with you and the SO, and you were trying to get her hooked up and moved out.

Wait: That explains everything! Dashes off to tell Stephen Hawking

The "affair with Sven" would just be funny. ;)
Only if someone were near Sven every moment with a laser sight centered on his crotch and a mic hooked to a microspeaker in Sven's ear, whispering: "Go on, Loverboy, cheat on her. Dump her. Just once, for me."
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 10 Apr 2010, 00:04
Who would do it, Faye or Genevieve?
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: jwhouk on 10 Apr 2010, 13:41
Who would do it, Faye or Genevieve?
Yes. (They'd alternate.)
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: raoullefere on 10 Apr 2010, 14:13
I imagine there'd be quite a few applicants for that position. But Faye'd probably not be a good choice (Unless, of course, you want Sven to be fit for harem duty).
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Kugai on 10 Apr 2010, 22:52
No, the answers 42 raoullefere
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: raoullefere on 11 Apr 2010, 09:46
What was the question?
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Carl-E on 11 Apr 2010, 11:38
Exactly.  Now that we know the answer...
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Kugai on 12 Apr 2010, 00:51
[KoshVoice] You are not ready for the answer. [/KoshVoice]
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Mr_Rose on 12 Apr 2010, 03:44
Now there's an idea; Kosh voice-changer masks. I mean, they have one for nearly everyone else these days....
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Kugai on 12 Apr 2010, 23:51
* Wheeze* Indeed they have *Wheeze*
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 13 Apr 2010, 12:06
I wonder if she had a family situation that was dysfunctional one way or another. Can a vicious "peer" group by itself create self-esteem problems as bad as Marigirl's? It seems more likely that she had self-esteem problems going into school and the merciless attacked where they saw weakness.
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: raoullefere on 13 Apr 2010, 13:18
That's what I meant when I said 'that we know of' (somewhere, I know I said it somewhere) about Marigold. She didn't just hatch like this. As for her isolationist tendencies being peer—related, I don't think a peer group can do this all by itself (although the wretched buggers can do a helluva job)— I'd guess an indifferent or a 'you gotta learn to suck it up' sort of parent is needed to help things along. Or, just as bad, an over-sheltering parent. The parental game seems to be rather similar to a tightrope act.

And, freely contradicting myself, I'll add there may be some psychological issue that, combined with the above-mentioned, brought Marigold here.

Really it could be all, some or none of these things. People, they're complected-like, you know? Even the ones who aren't real.
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Carl-E on 13 Apr 2010, 13:28
Soooo many variables here - where to begin? 

It depends on a lot of things beyond her self-assuredness when she started school.  She may have been well adjusted at home, then early on gotten the reputation as "the kid who eats paste" or some such thing.  Merciless teasing can ensue, and depending on how she handles it, it can lead to problems (or not). 

Another problem often occurs when you move, especially if it's not at a transition year (in the middle of grade school or high school, for example).  You're cast into a tightly knit social group as an outsider.  The amount of self confidence you have is immaterial in a case like that. 

She may have had a circle of good friends (based on gaming or something) that she hung with which split up when they all went to college, leaving her alone. 

While the family life may have contributed to her current state, it isn't the only source of problems like this.  Even in a loving, supportive family, there can be oversheltering so that a child winds up immature for his or her age, and essentially becomes disfunctional all on their own! 

Edit: Ninja'd by Raoullefere!  Curses! 
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: jwhouk on 13 Apr 2010, 17:40
I'm betting on only child, parents both work in professional jobs (Dad probably in computers or IT, since we heard her talk about a website for his company). Grew up doing a lot of stuff by herself, got teased when she made blunders growing up, learned to keep to herself. Maybe got hooked on computers/video games in HS, got Momo as a graduation present, moved in with Angus because parents wanted her out of the house. I'd also bet that Mom and Dad may have been either scatterbrained or packrats.



...not, of course, that I'm basing this from personal experience, of course. Some of it is from observations of friends and relatives. (Okay, the only child part is mine.)
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Carl-E on 13 Apr 2010, 17:53
Actually, Dad's probably not in computers or IT, else why have Marigold do his website?  He probably runs a small business, and got her to do this for the increased traffic and to put her on the payroll. 
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 13 Apr 2010, 18:33
got Momo as a graduation present
In 1298 Pintsize said that Momo-tan is Sony's newest model, so if she's a graduation present then either Marigold is a recent graduate or Sony has let their AnthroPC line stagnate. 1534 made it sound like college was a while back.
Title: Re: Let's fix Marigold! (Since we have nothing better to do than meddle)
Post by: Jace on 13 Apr 2010, 21:39
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