April 16th
Today is the beginning of another week, and with it another great week of articles and an announcement. Kevin is officially on board as a B-Mod this week. He didn't want the full mod responsibilities on top of his school work, his job at the Silly Bird Pizzeria, His writings, and other obligations. That being said he does have some stuff to share so keep an eye out for his contributions.
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April 17th
Today is Bla Bla Bla Day, and I've decided to use the occasion to talk about something I like. Songs with nonsense lyrics. Like, not just lalalas or nananans, but like having an onomatopoeia or nothing word and singing it. I've decided to provide a short song list of some of my favorite songs like this for the rest of the article. I will note most of these are covers and I'm going for a vibe. Please comment if you know any more. I'm trying to expand my playlist.
Bla Bla Bla - Gigi D'Agostino
Who Put the Bomp - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Witch Doctor - Cartoons dk
Rama Lama Ding Dong - The Boppers
Mahna Mahna - CAKE
Papa Oom Mow Mow - The Muppets (ft.Rockapella)
[EDITOR’S NOTE: “Send Me On My Way” by Rusted Root is another such song. I bring this up only because everyone who covers the dang thing replaces the gibberish with what they think it said, despite the band’s claim that they didn’t want to be “held back by Dictionary Words”. I wouldn’t care about this if that wasn’t the most admirable, pretentious hippie thing I’ve ever heard.]
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April 18th
Today is a Grab-bag day. And today's guest writer is Kevin.
Heya bud! Kevin here. Today I wanted to tell you guys about a game called “Peasants Quest (2004)”! Peasant’s Quest was a flash text adventure game made by the Brothers Chaps of Homestar Runner fame, parodying many similar text adventure games such as King’s Quest.
You play as Rather Dashing, a peasant who recently came back from vacation, only to see his village burnt down by the infamous “Trogdor the Burninator”. You take it upon yourself to avenge your village and slay the dragon once and for all, yet a knight in shining armor will not let you pass through into the kingdom of Peasantry until you “look like a peasant”, which proceeds to kickstart a chain of quests you must complete before you can take Trogdor on. Thankfully the text commands are easy enough to perform.
Now I’ve played this game many times, so I know it like the back of my hand, and I could probably even speed run it at this point. However, it's worth slowing down to appreciate the humor this silly game holds. You gotta give props to the Chaps for putting so much love into these pixels.
On February 6, 2005, the Brothers Chaps released “Peasant’s Quest Movie Trailer”, a spoof on video game-based movies and was never intended to be followed up by a real film, but still recreated many iconic moments in the game in live action. Then on Trogdor’s 20th birthday, a video on the official Youtube channel released a teaser for a “remastered Peasant's Quest the Movie the Game” that was supposedly never finished (at least in the fictional world of Homestar Runner).
The game was recreated in a similar fashion of the Mortal Kombat games, utilizing real photos of actors to create the sprites, and also replacing the text element with action buttons. The dedication in recreating old school graphics is very charming. It goes to show just how much the Chaps appreciate their craft, even when they aren’t uploading nearly as much as they used to.
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April 19th
Today is National Garlic Day and I owe so much to garlic. What a perfect clove. Native to Asia, garlic is known for both being powerfully delicious and good for your immune system. It's even believed to have supernatural properties, being able to ward off evil spirits and the undead. Needless to say, it's never a bad time to have a little garlic. I enjoy cooking so I always make sure I have at least three different types of garlic in the house.
I don't have anything else to say about garlic so I'd figure I'd used this as a diary spot again. I'm writing this in mid November and I'm marathoning writing articles for a personal challenge and I'm in that last bunch of them but I'm hitting the big problem of hitting WSTH year two and I only planned out a year's worth of topics when I first started this project. So now I gotta figure out what to do now I'm in year two. Also I'm not that far into year one yet either. I'm just writing five months ahead.
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Have you thanked garlic for being in your life today?]
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April 20th
Today is World Storytelling Day. So I'm going to make up a story on the spot.
Once there was a duck named Rory. Rory lived near a nice pond with turtles in it. Then one day a strange thing appeared near the pod. Rory didn't know what it was. He knew about other animals and plants, but this was none of those things. The thing was very quiet and colorful. It was round like a fruit and as big as he was. Rory decided to bite the thing to see how it would react and it exploded with a loud bang and a spray of its skin. Rory didn't know what that thing was but it hoped never to see one again.
I have no idea why I wrote a children's story about a duck being scared by a beach ball but that's the story inside me I suppose.
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April 21st
Today, Cal just wanted to do a normal article, so I'll pass it on to them.
Hello world, It's Calexta.
Today is the anniversary of the launch of the AroMagic doll line. Released by Pollymeriz Toys in 1985, this short lived doll line is best known for Its scented doll gimmick, Not unlike its contemporary Strawberry Shortcake or Rose Petal Place Doll lines from Kenner. The thing with these dolls is their scents were a bit more abstract than baked goods or flowers.
There were seven dolls in the line, each with a signature "Magic" sent: Rainbecka (Rainbow), Sunsephane (Sunset), Lunlaura (Moonlight), Daygan (New day, reportedly new car smell), Wildelle (Outdoors), Airlissa (Fresh Air) and Beacherly (Tropical)
Believe it or not most people that got the dolls reported they all smelled more like car air fresheners than something you'd expect from a doll. Mix theses with bad sculpts and this doll line didn't sell very well. Nowadays they are kinda rare but there's no real collectors market for the dolls.
[EDITOR’S NOTE: I always thought of them like anthropomorphic Yankee Candles. Y’know, what with the abstract scent ideas.]
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April 22nd
Today is National Jelly Bean Day. And of course I'm going to be talking about "Jelly Belly", which is the company that makes the weird jelly bean flavors. Even disregarding the purposely bad flavors from the "bean boozled" line like dog food, toothpaste, and dead fish, they have some interesting flavors. Standouts in my mind are definitely the buttered popcorn, chocolate pudding, and toasted marshmallow.
That being said, the company also does mellowcreme candy, mellowcreme being that caramel-vanilla-honey-marshmallow stuff candy corn is made from, if you ever wanted candy corn shaped like ice cream cones or cupcakes. Personally I like to get the imperfect jelly bean bags if I can find them, because it's everything but the gross flavors for a bit cheaper but it tastes the same.
It was fun getting to write one of these things, I hope people like it! I want to write another one soon if I can get my ducks in a row.
i was gonna talk about garlic today but then i saw talk about the aromagic dolls! i had one when i was a kid- i had a lunlaura i think, passed down from my older cousin. the smells by that time werent really that strong so as a child i decided to "fix" that... by dumping my moms entire bottle of perfume over her. shockingly it didnt work!
no way i get my own day (real) ((not fake))