You Can't Make This Stuff Up

[foolish_m0rtal]

I have quite possibly the best story in the entire world to tell you.

Preamble:

The anime club meets in Olsson Building Rm 120 for anime showings every Saturday.
Every Saturday at the end of showings, our vice president Honya draws yuri on the chalkboard. Honya is a spectacular artist, so the drawings are actually very pretty. Very shoujo. They are an anime club tradition and are called Honya's Chalkboard Yuri.

Particularly, he draws the yuri right behind the projector screen and then pulls the projector screen down, so that whatever poor custodian or maybe even Monday morning class that uses the room gets a...surprise, shall we say? No one knows anime club uses the room, so I really don't think anyone knows where the chalkboard yuri comes from.

So fast forward. It's Sunday. We have a computer science test review session in Olsson 120.

A student raised his hand after the powerpoint presentation and said he didn't understand a certain piece of code we were expected to know on the test. The teacher says, sure, let me draw it up.

He jerks the projector screen, which goes up in a slow doomed rise.

This is almost covering the entire middle part of the chalkboard:



There is a moment of absolute silence.

Then the entire room, almost 200 people, explodes.

The teacher is in the front. He looks at the picture with consideration. "Holy smokes."

Then goes down.

He has his tomato red face covered with his hands and he's crouched down in almost a fetal position with his face pressed against his knees. He's laughing so hard it looks like he's sobbing.

Then he's gotten a hold of himself sufficiently to shoot back up, whip out his phone, and take a picture.

The class explodes again.

Members of the class who are in anime club are quietly stroking out behind their laptop lids.

Finally, after long minutes when everyone's relatively calmed down, the teacher tries to break the awkwardness with, "Is that Haruhi Suzumiya?"

O_O
What. The. Hell.

The anime club gets over the shock and starts shouting back at him, thus revealiing our own guilt in this situation:
"It is!" 
"It isn't!"

Then someone in the peanut gallery asks, "Who's the other girl?"

"I don't know!"
"It's Asogi Rin!"
"No it isn't, it's Lady Une!"
okay, so that was me. I'm not as well versed in yuri series as perhaps I should be. I will do better in the future! m(_ _)m


(Professor finding the yuri)

The teacher finally picks up the eraser. "I don't want to erase the SOS club's work, but I have to move on with class."

"No!!" many voices (guys) in the crowd shout out.

"Oh come on. I've got a picture. I'll put it on your tests."

The anime club is high fiving between the seats. One lone member is in the back quietly taking pictures of everyone's reactions.

O_O So now my first test will officially have yuri on it.

Suddenly, I'm totally looking forward to taking my exam tomorrow.

(MLIA?)

Comments

[psychokitty013.livejournal.com]

That's amazing! And HILARIOUS.

[rktikfox.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA OH GOD that is hilarious! XD

[x-mog.livejournal.com]

XD Oh my god! *Cracks up* That's brilliant!

[wily-willywonka.livejournal.com]

Bravo! That's fantastic!! Ha ha!! Who would have thunk that something so marvelous would bring a smile to a professor and the rest of the class!

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

It might be one of the best times I've had in engineering school, short-circuiting the engineering lab notwithstanding.

[wily-willywonka.livejournal.com]

It's even better when the professor knows what the anime is which does account for the better part of the joke.

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

Yes. I believe when he had a last call for questions at the end of the session, the anime club started ganging up on him, asking questions like:

"How's your day been?"
"What's your favourite anime?"
"What's the best video game you're playing right now?"

Pretty sure he's afraid of us. ^^

So, uh, you're Willy Wonka. I've heard about you from MOG. Nice to meet you.

[wily-willywonka.livejournal.com]

Ha ha!! Those are the best kinds!

I can see why he would be shrinking, but I doubt that he's afraid.

Yes, I am and it's nice to meet you too. Glad to see that there are some nuts out there that aren't afraid to show the world the crunchy goodness withing. *snorts* Bad pun.

I met MOG just a couple of months ago and she's a great friend. Both of us are involved in the same RP and I happen to think that she's a great person. She's a lot of fun to talk to.

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

Yes, well I suppose he can't be afraid of us. We're the ones that sit in the front row of his class and laugh inappropriately loudly at his "Earl Grey hot" jokes.

yes, I've heard Mog's random RP discussions with NF-kun. Most entertaining. ^_^

It seems like a pretty eclectic RPG. Is there some kind of fandom/theme it's supposed to represent? It's interesting how RPs start up, isn't it?
I think everyone got lazy and stopped showing up to the last one I participated in, so in my very last entry in the thread, I said everyone had contracted the plague and died. Pretty much outlined a post apocalyptic world then said I didn't have much longer myself. (we were in a fantasy RP, so...I got away with that pretty clean)

[wily-willywonka.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you!

I know Skunky too which is pretty neat. We have a lot of randomness going on and there really is no set plot. It's just a bunch of characters doing what they do best...cause mayhem.

It's pretty pan-fandom and very fun! Willy has his own community too which is in it's fledgling stages still. It's going into it's second event and it's a little slow off the starting line but it's pretty fun.

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

ahh, >_< I should start calling her Skunky. I knew her from before as neurofeces, and the people in the fandom who knew each other pretty much had two letter short forms. NF, FM, KS, PK. And then there was MOG, who finally blew it all out of the water, bless her. ^_^

[wily-willywonka.livejournal.com]

Ahh, see I didn't know that. I've only been on LJ for a couple of months and well...I'm meeting a lot of people that are very interesting. I also subscribe to Lord Whimsy's blog on LJ too which is very interesting. I love the uniqueness of everyone here. It's very refreshing.

I came from another social networking site and well....I met some good people there too but they got into their character a little too much and they were zealots in the worst kind of way.

I like LJ much better. I can post events, videos and my stories without feeling like I'm going to be crushed by boulders.

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

agreed!

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

Pssh. It's not like it's an OBSCENE picture. XDD Your prof is still spectacular, though.

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

He pretty much out-geeks us all on a daily basis.

[moritheil.livejournal.com]

An epic moment. Your prof is pretty cool.

[(Anonymous)]

This is amazing, I feel that I may actually choose to go to UVA ... though it may be hard to get in.

Quite the story, I thought the teacher would go ballistic in anger, its nice to know that some are accepting and awesome.

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

the CS department over here is in a class of their own, but most CS departments in colleges are. Most current CS majors probably grew up in a geek circle in some way.