Weekly Entertaaaaaaaainment

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

*sings and dances for your pleasure*
*pulls a rabbit out of a hat*

But seriously, folks--

*badamCHING*

That wasn't even a joke...

You know how this works! Here for OOC discussion for the week, posting in if you don't have AIM access to use during the week (you can use this post after Sunday and no one will throw you into the basement with the spiders ^_^), and all manner of other crack you folks come up with. So to get the ball rolling:

Ever managed to pull off a MacGyver? You know, where you grab a bunch of seemingly useless stuff (or, as our first example noted, just one!) and accomplish the awesome. In the kitchen, at school, for work, etc. etc. Share your (or hey, if you read about/watched someone else pulling off something cool, you can put that up too!) awesome last minute mojo stories.

Or, you know, the immortal question:

Dark chocolate or milk chocolate?

Comments

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

Um, I used a corn on the cob fork as a lockpick when I lost a set of keys once! Not a bunch of stuff, I guess... But it worked perfectly.

And most definitely miiiiilk! Yum.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

...for a moment, I thought it said "corn on the cob cob" for a lockpick and I was ready to bow down to your awesomeness, but the fork is still pretty damn awesome.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

So, we have this olive oil at work that we use for the paninis, and it gets toaster crumbs in it all the time, and we were thinking that it was a shame to have to throw it out when it got too crummy, too bad we don't have a sieve to filter out the still-good olive oil. I work at a coffee place, so, brilliant me takes a container, a coffee filter, a rubber band, and some of those super big black paper clippy things and set up a makeshift filtering system, tying the filter to the top with the clips and rubber bands. Pour the crummy oil into the top, wait about an hour, and, viola! All the crumbs are kept on the filter while the oil has all drained into the bottom and is clean and nice again!

...okay, simple, I know, but I was pretty proud of it. I'd just started there and was working with the Boss and he was impressed too, so, woot.

And also? Milk chocolate. Dark chocolate is too...I don't know, bitter? for me.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

That's awesome.

The coffee filter thing. Coffee filters are love.

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

I am forever attempting to pull a MacGyver. I do not actually succeed at it.

Also milk chocolate has no place in my candy stash. Nor does that Hershey's Special Dark stuff, ugh. The darker the better, and if it's a single-origin varietal, BONUS.

I may be a bit of a chocolate snob. Er.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

Same here!

Re the chocolate. Dark chocolate is my stuff. *loves on it* I'm probably going to make some pseudobrownies today. They're actually from a muffin recipe, but I nix the baking powder and add multiples of the chocolate and they become this awesomely ridiculously rich little mini-muffins of chocolatey goodness.

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Also milk chocolate has no place in my candy stash.

So... no more Aero for you, eh?

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

The closest I've come is that I currently have this vertically standing DVD rack that is uneven or my apartment floor is lumpy or something so the first time I tried to stack DVD's, the thing fell over and scared me and my cat half to death.

After realizing what the issue was, I ended up duct taping a pair of old shoes that I was going to toss out anyway to the front (where it was uneven and kept tilting forward) to make it more balanced.

It hasn't fallen since!

And dark all the way! Though, I do love me some white chocolate too.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

That totally counts!

And I'm a dark chocolate person. ...you are the first one I know to actually consider white chocolate chocolate. I find this intriguing.

[gkar-lastkhari.livejournal.com]

Uh...I have a few random stories like that?

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

Oh, and dark chocolate!

I still have a large stash of Chocolate Factory chocolate if anyone's interested...

[canadianpopstar.livejournal.com]

Okay, the first thing you need to know about me is that I am a whopping 4'10" tall. And I HATE asking people to reach stuff for me. So it's not so much that I can Macgyver things, as much as I am REALLY GOOD at making little piles of things to stand on. I've got it down to an art -- what can hold my weight, how to keep my touch really light, how to shift it around so I won't topple over. I think my best was when I made a pile of men's black patent leather shoes about two feet tall so I could reach something, and managed not to fall.

So, um, I can make step stools! Ta da!

Also, dark chocolate, yo.

[atreideslioness]

WOO! Wee people unite! I am, um, not much taller than you. At all.

I gave up on making step stools, 'cause I'm too lazy to put it all back. I just got very very good and climbing into precarious spots.

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

I made a fort out of beer cans and empty beer boxes last night. Took me about three hours and then I knocked it over with a tennis ball once I lured one of my friends in there. Good times.

Oh and this one time my window wouldn't go up in my car so I had to tape (http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a230/sammie_jo_/Picture.jpg) up the window with wax paper until I could take it in to the car fixing place.

And I don't like chocolate.

[notqueenyet.livejournal.com]

My roommate did that! With the car window, I mean. Someone broke into her car and so the window was broken, so she duct taped a trash bag over it.

And then because she's an IDIOT, she didn't get it fixed for like six months. This happened in OCTOBER. I LIVE IN THE MIDWEST. I swear, if that had happened to me and I had to deal with a freakin' Michigan winter, that window would have been fixed SO FAST.

[atreideslioness]

My freelance job is as a stage manager for the professional theatres around here, so I have an entire MacGuyver kit on me half the time!

I think my favorite is the time an actress ripped her corset open, right before curtain. I slapped gaff-tape along the inside to hold it together, and then sewed it up using dental floss and a safety pin. This is even more awesome if you understand that I? DO NOT SEW. The most I ever did was attach ribbons to my pointe shoes, and even that was hit-or-miss for me.

And? Dark chocolate. Always dark chocolate.

[suit-of-sables.livejournal.com]

...I am impressed.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised you didn't just staple it to her. ;)
yay for improvised sewing!

[sonofmogh.livejournal.com]

I played him for a school year at FH. He taught shop.

It's been almost two years since I played him but it still bugs me and I'm sorry I have to do this:

"MacGyver"

not

"MacGuyver"

See? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088559/)

I apologize for being anal about his spelling.

[suit-of-sables.livejournal.com]

No, I really should know better. *also knows someone ELSE who plays him and watched three seasons of the show with her during my last semester of college*

...I get muddled up because of The Guyver, an anime/live action (oh god if you watch the liveaction, you will never look at Mark Hamill the same way ever again) and I'm never sure which one is which cause my brain is weird.

[solo_sword]

I... have never successfully done anything like this, unless throwing different alcohols and mixers together counts. I think that's more impromptu bartendering though.

I'm not a huge fan of chocolate in general, but I prefer dark. (Though white chocolate is my heaven. Seriously.)

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

I...don't like chocolate. But on those rare occasions that I do eat it? Only dark.

As for MacGyvering, well, I worked as a back stage Jack-of-all-trades for a dance troupe for two years. My best friend was one of the dancers. My best friend once landed in the hospital after chopping cucumbers for a salad. I got very good at fixing any and all problems with paper clips, invisible thread, and tape. And one memorable occasion...a stapler.

I am of the opinion that there is very little in the world that can not be fixed with those items actually. I'm actually fairly good at coming up with interesting solutions to problems (including ones in the kitchen...though they don't always come out edible). My latest was a system of paper clips and ribbon used to hold up the decorations at my current job.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

What kind of chocolate? Yes please. Unless it's bitternasty. I go through pounds of stuff at work. I did a shot of M&Ms when one of my coworkers was waaaay too TMI.

My MacGyvering has gotten better since I started carrying a Leatherman around. And with the fake offbrand Leatherman that has the sockets? Oh. Yah.

[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

Sadly I have never attempted to pull off a MacGyver before.

I love both dark chocolate and milk chocolate!

[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

Don't make me choose with chocolate man. I'll take dark or milk. Just not so dark that the sheer percentage on the label scares me.

[needsaparrot]

Goldfish net from nearby petshop? A++ for opening locked car door with keys inside. Granted this will only work if you're lucky enough to have left the window cracked open.

ETA: And if you have classic vertical button-pull locks. You'd be kind of screwed with the modern rectangular things with no knob at the top not dirty.

Milk. I know, I'm a heathen. Whatevah.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

It's only heathen when you like Hershey's.

Or possibly you're a Satanist then or something.

*says the woman who's gone to the PA town three times*

...though as a note for amusement? Hershey Hotel's rather posh Circular Dining Room? Has GODIVA desserts.

I cracked up.