I really can't think of a good title for this

[sniffnoy]

(By the way, I've also added a 5th userpic: Kirby doing his up-B. Also, what follows is, as usual, approximate, and somewhat summarized. While I'm doing the random announcements, Girl Alex went and left Facebook. Hm. Also, I've just found out that Cornell has a poke army and it's larger than ours. But while we're more of Poke Free Mercenaries, they just poke whoever their leader announces; how this is decided on is not clear. So I don't know that they could really get into a war with us. Addendum: While I'm at it, I should probably note that Felipe is not in fact a first-year, as I called him, but rather a third-year in disguise, which I keep forgetting. Anyway, on to the main entry.)

So it happened at breakfast today that Doug asked me if there was any milk in my cereal. "Milk is for babies," I replied.
"Breast milk is for babies," says Doug. "Do you put breast milk in your cereal?"

May: Breast milk is actually pretty sweet.
Doug: And how would you know this, May? When was the last time you had breast milk?
May: Pretty recently...
Doug: Whose was it, May?
May: ...
Doug: Are you just going around randomly suckling people's nipples? You can't do that, May!
May: It was from a bottle, it was by mistake!
Doug: I bet it was from someone pregnant. Who do we know who's pregnant... did you get pregnant, May, and drink your own breast milk?
Me: Maybe it was Fiona's.

Doug: ...OK, Harry, there's a line. And you just crossed it.
Me: What? She was pregnant!

Jason sits down, asks what's going on. "Harry just suggested that May drank Fiona's breast milk." Jason gets this weird look on his face. "Harry, you just fazed Jason." At this I just crack up. I don't know.

-Harry

Comments

[sniffnoy.livejournal.com]

Sending the Poke Army on Xiao was the first thing I did when I found out about it (well, aside from joining). I have no control over the Cornell poke army.

[silentalias.livejournal.com]

Could you properly explain the concept of, and cohesiveness of a poke army?

[silentalias.livejournal.com]

I took the liberty of googling the term, in hopes of finding something of help. Googling "poke army" brought me to an interesting result... which happened to be your livejournal. A cyclic turn of events, methinks.

[jonpin.livejournal.com]

On Facebook, there's a mostly meaningless option to "poke" someone, which results in them getting a message "You have been poked."
I imagine a poke army consists of getting many people to poke someone, just for the hell of it.

BTW, not knowing anyone else in the story, I'm amused how Doug says "Did you get pregnant and drink your own breast milk?" and you're the one who crossed the line.

[sniffnoy.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The UChicago poke army just takes requests; you send Lindsey Morfin a message suggesting a target, she rebroadcasts it to us, and then we all poke him. Cornell's, according to the group profile, apparently the targets are just picked by its leader, and there's always one per week. I don't know if there's any more to it than that. I know some place called SEMO also has a poke army (much smaller than ours), because we got into a poke war with them (and won, of course), but I don't know anything about how it works.

It might have to do with Fiona being the RH.

[jonpin.livejournal.com]

SEMO = Southeast Missouri State. How, precisely, do you win a poke war?

I imagined Fiona was an adult and thus probably some sort of authority figure what with her being pregnant; also, I think I remembered the name from previous posts.

[sniffnoy.livejournal.com]

I don't really know. But, I'm pretty certain we won anyway.

[grenadier32.livejournal.com]

I have recently founded a Vassar Poke Army. It's not very strong yet, but it will be. Mark my words.