[Humor/Parody] Angelique - Ange is Educational (G - H)

[sableblanc.livejournal.com]

Title: Ange is Educational
Genre: General/Humor
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Various
Summary: A drabble for each letter of the alphabet that pretends to enlighten you on certain topics (what you actually learn is questionable however XD). Now at the letters G to H.

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G for GRAMMAR

Consider this hypothetical situation.

The Aube Hunters are lost in a random forest for days.

Everyone is hungry, sleep-deprived and exhausted from fighting.

Nyx is murmuring "Darjeeling" and swearing in turns, Hyuga keeps telling everyone he needs a bath and J.D. is wet & slimy from being accidentally pushed into the last infested pool he tried to keep Hyuga out of.

Rayne is running low on ammunition, not to mention, patience.

The worst thing to ask at a time like this is -

Is Thanatoi singular or plural ?


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H for HYPERBOLE

"When will the meeting end ?" Marcel whispered, watching the older guardians talk. "I'm getting really hungry."

"I don't know. I'm so hungry I could eat five burgers," Randy whispered back.

"I could eat ten," Zephel cut in.

"I could eat twenty."

This exchange went back and forth until Zephel suddenly declared, "Yeah ? I'm so hungry I could eat a googolplex of burgers !" And would have followed up with a "Hah, I win!" for good measure if it didn't hit him at that point how the room was eerily silent, and probably had been that way for awhile judging by the gamut of expressions on everyone's faces.

"What is this needless hyperbole ?" Julious asked, slowly.

"Actually, the last one was an adynaton," Luva observed, then laughed sheepishly when Julious looked unamused.


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A/N: A googolplex is 10¹⁰¹⁰⁰. Supposedly there isn't enough room in the universe to write down a googolplex in actual numbers, much less fit all the hamburgers Zephel claims he'd eat. Luva calls this an adynaton (an exaggeration to the point of impossibility) instead of a hyperbole (an extreme exaggeration).


Previous entries for Ange Is Educational can be found under the humor tag or here.

Comments

[durffy.livejournal.com]

These are AWESOME!! I laughed so hard I scared my cat! "Adynaton" is a word I shall use 20 times tomorrow!!!

[sableblanc.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked them ^_^ Sometimes the drabbles do live up to the "educational" part of the title~ XD

[beldarius.livejournal.com]

Nyx + swearing = X'D. Now I just wonder who dared to ask that last question (JD seems the type).

Adynaton. And googolplex. Oh dear. *dies*

[sableblanc.livejournal.com]

Nyx + swearing = X'D. Now I just wonder who dared to ask that last question (JD seems the type).
If it has to be somebody, it's probably J.D.
Nyx and Hyuga are too busy wallowing in tea / bath withdrawals j/k

[beldarius.livejournal.com]

Then again, it could also be Rayne, considering he used to work as a scientist. Curiosity killed the cat. ...At least I bet that's what happened afterwards.

[sableblanc.livejournal.com]

Rayne is currently wallowing in emoness. So it's a a coin-toss between the two. Because Rayne doesn't care about anything at that point he might ask or *not* ask for the heck of it ^^;

[indigozeal.livejournal.com]

Is Thanatoi singular or plural ?

And here, for the setup, I was expecting algebra.

I, too, was unfamiliar with the term "adynaton" before reading, and I object to actual learning in this forum! The only thing I want to learn about in my neoromance is [insert usual hentai comment here*]!

[sableblanc.livejournal.com]

I was expecting algebra.
It does sound that I'd hit everyone with this sort of punchline, doesn't it ?
But I like surprising people occasionally. (I'll try to make it up to you with a Q for quantum physics j/k)

I object to actual learning in this forum!
If you did not mention Sesame Street and Neoroma in the same breath, would not this crisis have been averted ? Now you need to parody Trois send someone/something back in time to make things right.

...This was a mistake, wasn't it?
What has been read, cannot be unread.