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Old 06-12-2011, 02:54 PM
 
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My friend Leonard is a great guy, but lately has become a bit taxing. First of all, there's the sound effects. Everything he does is accompanied by self-generated sound effects. His favorite is a sort of Bruce Lee-like, high falsetto "Waah." This is used to accompany almost any action, like starting the car, or picking up a coffee cup. Another favorite is a "distant explosion" sound, used most frequently to accompany sitting down and standing up. What the meaning of it is, I don't know. Like a ventriloquist, he's mastered the art of making these sounds while hardly moving his mouth, which is really freaky. And recently he's started using air quotes in a completely irrelevant way. Like the waitress will bring us coffee, and he'll say "Thank you," accompanied by air quotes. The last noun in a sentence will usually be emphasized by air quotes. I try to be tolerant, because Leonard actually once saved my life. I was packing the car to go on a trip and I locked myself in the trunk. If Leonard didn't happen to come by and hear me screaming, I could have suffocated. What should I do?

And here's the latest update about Leonard:

So I was sitting at the coffee bar waiting for my friend, Weird Leonard, and when he came I did a double-take. Leonard was walking toward me on the sidewalk, but he was backward: he was walking backward, and furthermore he was wearing all his clothes backward, including his shoes. He had his arms bent so that they looked like they were in front of him, and he appeared to have an extremely hairy face. A woman sitting next to me screamed. Leonard came up to my table.
"Hey dude, what's going on?" he said.
"Are you feeling all right, Leonard?"
"It's kind of hot."
"Leonard, I couldn't help noticing that you're backward."
"Yeah. I'm protesting, dude."
"Protesting what?"
"The national debt, man. It's really scary -- like a kagillion dollars. I'm going to be backward until the country is running a surplus."
Leonard then continued down the street. What should I do about my friend, weird Leonard?
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Old 06-12-2011, 03:00 PM
 
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Enjoy his antics man....a good laugh is good for the soul...I personally love eccentrics, they keep life from becoming boring.
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Old 06-12-2011, 03:05 PM
 
Location: Planet Earth, USA
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Sounds like Leonard took some of the brown acid
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Old 06-12-2011, 03:08 PM
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You locked your self in the trunk of your car? sounds like you guys are made for each other, hang on to him like grim death.
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Old 06-12-2011, 03:10 PM
 
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Eh, it's a phase if he's young. If he's older he's got problems.

There's other ways to be eccentric, some of these things he does isn't a good way of expressing himself.
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Old 06-12-2011, 03:10 PM
 
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hahaha I laughed so hard at the backward thing. Your friend is certainly very eccentric.
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Old 06-12-2011, 03:19 PM
 
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You should tape them and put them up on Youtube. Devote a channel to him.
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Old 06-12-2011, 03:29 PM
 
Location: Southern California
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He seems interesting.

[unfortunately, he will be backward forever]
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Old 06-12-2011, 04:15 PM
 
Location: East of Eden
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This is hysterically funny! I love the part about the air quotes. I agree with PureHuman. This is free live entertainment, not just him but others' reactions to him. If you don't want him, send him my way.
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Old 06-12-2011, 04:30 PM
 
Location: Viña del Mar, Chile
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i was laughing out loud through the entire post hahahaha, i was imagining a person sitting down making an explosion noise
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