Embarassing Animorphs Encounters

[warren_bearclaw]

Y'all make me laugh so hard sometimes....

[Josh (J)]

That's why they're put here. I think.

Tina was drawing with her blue colored pencil, and after she was done, she came and showed it to me. It looked freakingly--with imagination--like an Andalite. So I said, "Andalite!" And Tina gave a look, then went around the house showing off her Andalite.

[LisaCharly]

Not sure if this is embarrassing, but I'm teaching the four and six year-olds I babysit to play Animorphs, which mostly involves us running around the playground yelling "I am Rachel DA BEAR! Rawwr!" and capturing 'aliens' with our hoola hoop so we can 'put them in prison for three days'.

Anyway, every time I pretend to be Marco the Gorilla, they decide that I'm 'Bad Gorilla' and shun me. Rachel seems to be their favorite. The parents on the playground always look at me oggle-eyed when I'm chasing the kiddos around while knucklewalking.

[Josh (J)]

Not sure if this is embarrassing, but I'm teaching the four and six year-olds I babysit to play Animorphs, which mostly involves us running around the playground yelling "I am Rachel DA BEAR! Rawwr!" and capturing 'aliens' with our hoola hoop so we can 'put them in prison for three days'.

Anyway, every time I pretend to be Marco the Gorilla, they decide that I'm 'Bad Gorilla' and shun me. Rachel seems to be their favorite. The parents on the playground always look at me oggle-eyed when I'm chasing the kiddos around while knucklewalking.

That's really cool!

[Stephquiem]

XD Oh my God, that is awesome. *high five*

[TobiasMasonPark]

     Do the kids like Tobias?

[LisaCharly]

Not really. They don't think birds are really fun to play as. You'd think they would, since they'd get to run around flapping their arms, but they really seem fixated on Rachel the Bear/Nenephant and Jake the Tiger. Sometimes Cassie the Woof. I haven't even really tried to explain Andalites to them yet, I'm willing a few of my Ani books to them when they get older - the 6 y/o's probably about a year away from being able to read the series.

[Dameg]

Not sure if this is embarrassing, but I'm teaching the four and six year-olds I babysit to play Animorphs, which mostly involves us running around the playground yelling "I am Rachel DA BEAR! Rawwr!" and capturing 'aliens' with our hoola hoop so we can 'put them in prison for three days'.

Anyway, every time I pretend to be Marco the Gorilla, they decide that I'm 'Bad Gorilla' and shun me. Rachel seems to be their favorite. The parents on the playground always look at me oggle-eyed when I'm chasing the kiddos around while knucklewalking.

Heh! You made me guess... Is there any board game of Animorphs? I mean like the Monopoly... For example, with a space Yeerk Pool, a space Animorphs prison, and players who are Controllers or not, etc.

[Stephquiem]

Small fact: Every single person I know online, I can trace back in some way to Animorphs.

[Josh (J)]

Really? How can you to me?

[Stephquiem]

We're on Richard's Animorphs Forum.

What I meant was, everyone I know online, I know because of Animorphs. XD Either directly (e.g. met on RAF) or... something more convoluted. "Person A introduced me to Person B who introduced me to this site, where I met Person C."

[TobiasMasonPark]

     Guys, I was talking to my friend earlier today, and we were discussing Lord of the Rings--for whatever reason. I mentioned that I had seen the second movie, and I asked him to clear up some things I didn't understand (Why Gandalf goes from Grey to White, what the big red eye (not Crayak) was all about, and why Golem was talking to himself all the time [can you tell I don't read the books?]) when we started talking about the final battle of that move. I mentioned the Orcs and he said something about creatures called Yeerkai (that's what it sounded like; remember, I am by no means a fan of LOTR). Here's pretty much how our conversation went.

     Me: What did you say?
     Friend: Yeerkai
     Me: Yeerk...Yeerk...ai?
     Friend: Something like that. I can't remember
     Me: (screaming in my head) SAY YEERK! SAY IT! YEEEEEERK! ANIMORPHS! YEEEERK!

[Stephquiem]

My friend was substitute teaching a kindergartn class yesterday, and when they were in the library, one of the girls in the class came up to her with a copy of #24. Apparently they have the entire series in that (very small) library.

It was all she could do not to race to her phone to call me.

[KitsuneMarie]

I mentioned the Orcs and he said something about creatures called Yeerkai (that's what it sounded like; remember, I am by no means a fan of LOTR).

Uruk-hai, maybe? It's pronounced sorta like "Yur-uk-hai."

[TobiasMasonPark]

     It's hilarious! I just got back from the aforementioned friends house. Earlier today, we were talking about a dream I had, where I morphed into a red-tailed hawk. Then, we talked about which animals would win in a fight; hawk vs. falcons (I went for the Hawk, obviously), cheetah vs. leopard (though, we didn't know the difference between the two, and confused one for the other) grizzly vs. black bear (I said black bear, he said grizzly) crocodile vs. Alligator, hawk vs. golden eagle, etc. etc. etc. The entire time, I was hoping that he'd get the hint, especially when I asked him who would win in a fight, a lion or a tiger. He loved Jake's books...I thought he would have gotten the reference