Sunday, October 14, 2007

Whois 007

It's funny what you remember and when you remember it. There was an odd-shaped classroom tucked away in the corner of the level. There would always be people who climbed out of the window. There was always someone who would be sweating in the air-conditioning, and the marks of a football on the white walls. And even if it turned out to be ten years later, twenty years later, thirty years later, these things would still not really have changed.

The last Whois challenge drew fewer responses and yet more hits than any other. Was it that obvious? I suppose it was. Everyone seems to remember that first line of Danny Boy, "... the pipes, the pipes are callin'..." Yes, it's a very bad pun, almost arbitrary. The other guy, as some people will know him, was identified by a 'toitle' and manically highlighted by a dancer. But what of this person?

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One might get the impression that this paleface speaks with forked tongue, judging from an illustrious career in circumlocutory extravagance. From a distance one might think that the long-term partnership formed with a significant other would make them look like a mad scientist and Frankenstein's monster – but neither is mad, neither is a monster, and both have chosen not to be scientists. Instead they stand together for some unidentified cause. In the end the habit of confession marks this person, for it is inextricably inclined with nationalist tendencies and the moment of parturition. The creature is undoubtedly intelligent, but why the angst, why the terrible moments of emotionality? Why the criminalisation and incriminations? These things portend the future in a flock of birds...

Who is this?

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20 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

april? (dont really know why actually)

-tp

Monday, October 15, 2007 1:05:00 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

tp: it's odd how close you can get for all the wrong reasons... haha!

Monday, October 15, 2007 1:20:00 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hoeshua?

Monday, October 15, 2007 1:39:00 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

aristoitle: it's odd how close you can get for all the wrong reasons... haha!

Monday, October 15, 2007 1:44:00 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

mel?

Monday, October 15, 2007 2:32:00 am  
Blogger xinhui said...

erm...auggie?

Monday, October 15, 2007 4:11:00 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i think i know who she is!! is it, none of the above mentioned? because i really think i know. but i dont want to OUTRIGHT wager a guess. but i think i know.

Monday, October 15, 2007 5:28:00 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ivan: she? *grin* I would never risk making 'emo' comments about a lady... well, assuming that the lady is obviously a lady.

Monday, October 15, 2007 6:13:00 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sounds like a debator.

Monday, October 15, 2007 11:39:00 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

what kind of non-lady has a moment of parturition?!? lol. curiouser and curiouser.

Monday, October 15, 2007 4:38:00 pm  
Blogger toitle said...

ian? :)

Monday, October 15, 2007 6:24:00 pm  
Blogger P0litik said...

Is it the title of a hitchcock movie?

Monday, October 15, 2007 6:51:00 pm  
Blogger toitle said...

Becca :D

Monday, October 15, 2007 7:33:00 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ian cheong and low xide

Monday, October 15, 2007 7:37:00 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ivan: hmm, we all have our own moments of parturition; not of giving birth but of being birthed...

*grin* and all those guessing ian cheong are doing it for the wrong reasons!

Monday, October 15, 2007 8:05:00 pm  
Blogger Soon Kai said...

is it sam? o.o

Monday, October 15, 2007 9:18:00 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ok. i'm gonna guess BLT then.
paleface: slang for white person/american *ahem*.
circumluoctuory extravagance: something that you and all teachers/people have found to be a defining trait of the boy.
nationalistic tendencies: well. lol.
parturition: if i look back at your so-titled poem, about salmon. i am reminded that salmon are most commonly known to migrate...
flock of birds : as are birds.

and well blt is just plain angsty.
i just can't figure out the significant other part.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 12:00:00 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

though i do get that whoever that significant other is (i'm gonna lean towards bensoh. just because he is blt's protege in some sense), the "long-term" relationship refers to a long-distance kind of thing. ok. if i'm totally wrong i'm NEVER going to list out my analysis again. lol.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 12:02:00 am  
Blogger Augustin said...

significant other?

Thursday, October 18, 2007 2:04:00 pm  
Blogger Trebuchet said...

augie, ya wat you and jhoe...

Thursday, October 18, 2007 11:27:00 pm  

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