Tasks / Something Fishy
Go fishing for something that is not fish.
1 to 100 players
15 points
Level 1
In the zone of: Biome
Created by Spidere
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I wonder what fishing for souls would be like. Or potatoes. Or perhaps tiny plastic pirates.
I wonder what fishing for souls would be like.
Fun, of course.
I wonder what phishing for souls would be like.
Phantastic?
Phantasmic?
Phantasmagoric?
Phantabulous.
Phleeber.
Don't know about fishing for them, but getting them signed over to you in a pub is a buyer's market. Netted 20 one night at $5 a pop (and won a $200 bet doing so - score, $100 and all the souls I'll even need...).
God I hope this one makes it, I could go fishing for bees like when I was a kid...
You need not wait for approval to act like a kid.
Was this inspired by the task?
If so, write it up in a little more detail and wait for the level zero invite.
The soul buying? Nah, that was a number of years ago and inspired by doing 3 papers of philosophy of religion concurrently. It's always funny that even strong atheists are uncomfortable with the idea of selling their souls.... Funnily enough it tended to be the strongly religious who would sign theirs over (because they know that souls just don't work that way). My friend bet me $200 I couldn't get 20 strangers to sign theirs over to me in one night - turns out I could. I still have them in a box somewhere 10 years later - just in case I ever need them ;->
And as for not needing approval to act like a kid (Lank's comment) - you're right, but I DO need to wait for summer. Foot of snow last night, and no bees to be seen here for another month and a half or so...
Depending upon how long ago it was, your friend might have been inspired by a Vertigo comic, Proposition Player by Bill Willingham.
I went fishing for Juniors once in high school. I got several bites, but never managed to land one. Once the line broke (it was only 50 lb test, after all), the others let go.
We used to fish for students in the class next door from our Japanese class. There was a hole where the door handle of the connecting door should have been... We used hooks made from staples, on thread, and little paper notes tied as lures... If you set the hook and kept up the tension it's AMAZINGLY difficult for them to free themselves...
Ahhh school days.
We used to "fish" for seagulls in university using tossed chips as lures and approaching cars as the "hooks", but in 3 years we only ever caught 2...
The one lesson from my childhood seagull fishing days that sticks with me is that the only thing I couldn't get seagulls to eat was funyuns. I have refused to eat them ever since.
It is very hard to fix seagulls afterwards! (The car, not the funyuns).
Task X
(That's right, this one's cool enough for roman numerals.)
I tried to send my audition..... was it received? Did I make it?! :)
I used to have this pet rat who loved broccoli, so she would hang out behind he cage and I would tie a piece of broccoli to a string. I let the string down the back of the cage and she'd bite onto the broccoli and I'd pull her up. Wish I had a picture though.
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