Mr. Silly
I am a robot
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I will get to the Koala (named Ptolemy, by the way). But first things first, there are three other matters that need to be discussed:
1) There was a bright side to waiting aeons for the Norwegian food. Outside Norway there was a Denmark Food and Wine Festival cart. And they had this stuff called 'Rice Cream', which was basically a nice sweet rice pudding. So Sophie and I wandered off, and I got one for Sophia. They also had this Cherry wine that was simply awesome. It was like cherry Kool-Aid, but it was wine. I hate most alcoholic drinks because they are bitter and gross TFI. So Kool-Aid wine is just the most amazingly cool thing. So I got a glass. Sophie finished her Rice Cream. She wanted another. So we got two, she finished hers and ate half of mine, and, since I would not have the opportunity again to have Kool-Aid wine, I got another glass. Mmmmm. Cherry Wine. Super good. Then when we ate at the Norwegian place. It wasn't great, but they had Rice Cream for dessert which was good.
2) In case anyone is wondering, "Mou" = Mao Zedong, and we got the shirt earlier in the trip. It is still a great shirt.
3) I was less hungry, since I had had a few Samosas earlier, and had some Rice Cream, and had a few glasses of Cherry Wine. Dang that Cherry Wine was good. As a result the Norwegian food being so-so didn't really bother me. I was tempted to ask a Norwegian person what they liked best about being Swedish, and when they explained they were Norwegian, ask them if that was a city in Sweden, and once they got through that ask them if that was the same as Danish. But I didn't because I just couldn't do that to another person. Even a Norwegian.
2) The drive back was really awful for me. I was very tired, and for some reason we were driving at the wee hours of the morning. I drank one of those energy drink things loaded with caffeine and weird stuff that's supposed to give you energy, but didn't feel any energy at all from it, and was so tired that we wound up sleeping at a rest area for a few hours. Despite the mega-dose of caffeine I fell asleep almost instantly while sitting in the driver seat of the car.
1) If you ever want to sneak around somewhere and have people think you belong there, bring a clipboard. I used to carry a clipboard with me when I went over to the sales-jerk area at work. They always had way better stuff in their break room, like a nice full selection of tea and better snacks and stuff. And with a clipboard, nobody ever even looked twice at me. Even with an aloha shirt, and DisneyLand ball cap, and shorts on. Maybe the ensemble helped. If you don't fit in enough then you can emit a Somebody Else's Problem field that repels attention.
So regarding the Koala, Sophia had a Build-A-Bear birthday party some years ago. I got a Koala bear at the party. His name was Ptolemy, and he was a ninja. He practiced the secret ninja arts, and battled pirates (as all ninjas are wont to do). It turned out that I liked Ptolemy, since he helped me sleep. Perhaps the comfort of knowing I had a ninja guardian was the trick. I don't know. I even took him to the hospital when I had an unspeakably horrible operation done, and he was comforting there too. All I know is that I packed the car, but somehow didn't notice him hidden under a sheet or something. So we lost him. And never found him again. And Disney lost and found failed us. And the little tag inside Build-A-Bears that is there so that when someone finds a lost one they can locate the original owner also failed. I fear that a single pirate got him. While a group of pirates would have been easily defeated, a single pirate is far more powerful and dangerous. See this article for details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormtrooper_effect
Anyway, that's the story of Ptolemy, the lost ninja Koala. I hope that he was taken captive by a single pirate and brought back to a pirate ship off the coast of Orlando, where he was able to defeat the group of pirates, and is on the long slow walk back slogging back to our house, but I am afraid that I might never know. The strangest part is that I have more of a pirate nature than a ninja nature, as I talk like a Pirate on many days other than Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arrrr. But all the same we were tight. I think in a way I was helping along Pirate-Ninja relations, but alas that be all over now me mateys.
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See this more information about ninja-pirate animosity and also for a comic that is tubular to the max. It is way rad. When I first found it I was totally stoked:
The Adventures of Dr McNinja
1) There was a bright side to waiting aeons for the Norwegian food. Outside Norway there was a Denmark Food and Wine Festival cart. And they had this stuff called 'Rice Cream', which was basically a nice sweet rice pudding. So Sophie and I wandered off, and I got one for Sophia. They also had this Cherry wine that was simply awesome. It was like cherry Kool-Aid, but it was wine. I hate most alcoholic drinks because they are bitter and gross TFI. So Kool-Aid wine is just the most amazingly cool thing. So I got a glass. Sophie finished her Rice Cream. She wanted another. So we got two, she finished hers and ate half of mine, and, since I would not have the opportunity again to have Kool-Aid wine, I got another glass. Mmmmm. Cherry Wine. Super good. Then when we ate at the Norwegian place. It wasn't great, but they had Rice Cream for dessert which was good.
2) In case anyone is wondering, "Mou" = Mao Zedong, and we got the shirt earlier in the trip. It is still a great shirt.
3) I was less hungry, since I had had a few Samosas earlier, and had some Rice Cream, and had a few glasses of Cherry Wine. Dang that Cherry Wine was good. As a result the Norwegian food being so-so didn't really bother me. I was tempted to ask a Norwegian person what they liked best about being Swedish, and when they explained they were Norwegian, ask them if that was a city in Sweden, and once they got through that ask them if that was the same as Danish. But I didn't because I just couldn't do that to another person. Even a Norwegian.
2) The drive back was really awful for me. I was very tired, and for some reason we were driving at the wee hours of the morning. I drank one of those energy drink things loaded with caffeine and weird stuff that's supposed to give you energy, but didn't feel any energy at all from it, and was so tired that we wound up sleeping at a rest area for a few hours. Despite the mega-dose of caffeine I fell asleep almost instantly while sitting in the driver seat of the car.
1) If you ever want to sneak around somewhere and have people think you belong there, bring a clipboard. I used to carry a clipboard with me when I went over to the sales-jerk area at work. They always had way better stuff in their break room, like a nice full selection of tea and better snacks and stuff. And with a clipboard, nobody ever even looked twice at me. Even with an aloha shirt, and DisneyLand ball cap, and shorts on. Maybe the ensemble helped. If you don't fit in enough then you can emit a Somebody Else's Problem field that repels attention.
So regarding the Koala, Sophia had a Build-A-Bear birthday party some years ago. I got a Koala bear at the party. His name was Ptolemy, and he was a ninja. He practiced the secret ninja arts, and battled pirates (as all ninjas are wont to do). It turned out that I liked Ptolemy, since he helped me sleep. Perhaps the comfort of knowing I had a ninja guardian was the trick. I don't know. I even took him to the hospital when I had an unspeakably horrible operation done, and he was comforting there too. All I know is that I packed the car, but somehow didn't notice him hidden under a sheet or something. So we lost him. And never found him again. And Disney lost and found failed us. And the little tag inside Build-A-Bears that is there so that when someone finds a lost one they can locate the original owner also failed. I fear that a single pirate got him. While a group of pirates would have been easily defeated, a single pirate is far more powerful and dangerous. See this article for details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormtrooper_effect
Anyway, that's the story of Ptolemy, the lost ninja Koala. I hope that he was taken captive by a single pirate and brought back to a pirate ship off the coast of Orlando, where he was able to defeat the group of pirates, and is on the long slow walk back slogging back to our house, but I am afraid that I might never know. The strangest part is that I have more of a pirate nature than a ninja nature, as I talk like a Pirate on many days other than Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arrrr. But all the same we were tight. I think in a way I was helping along Pirate-Ninja relations, but alas that be all over now me mateys.
-added-
See this more information about ninja-pirate animosity and also for a comic that is tubular to the max. It is way rad. When I first found it I was totally stoked:
The Adventures of Dr McNinja
This cartoon always makes me think of Sid. TFI.
Oh the humanity! Oh the huge manatee!
I enjoy your being snarky. A dictionary requires that you have at least a general idea about how to spell a word. Also I would need to know that I needed to look a word up, which I never do. Good thing I don't have to try to spell my way out of a paper bag 
