ME - HELP! I HAVE ELPHABAITIS! Forum

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I would probably go insane and have to be locked in an asylum.

#1 Jun 06th 2006, 3:20pm

I'd probably just go around telling people where they could stuff their nasty comments and doing crazy things and then when people would comment on those things I could say, "Well what do you expect? I'm green." (which is pretty much what I do now only replace 'green' with 'fifteen and insane.')

Actually it might be good, because then at least if people hated me I wouldn't have to take it personally. Plus I could scare them a lot more than I do now.

#2 Jun 12th 2006, 10:00pm

Yeah, I'd probably be a lot meaner and more defensive than I am now. "No duh! I thought I was purple!" stuff like that. More sarcasm. Sarcasm is good (excepticantspellit)

#3 Jun 13th 2006, 6:46am

No, you spelled it right. Hah, sarcasm is my dear friend...at my old school acting like I just knew more than the world was my defense mechanism. It was funny. I was this little kid with a LOOK that I'd give certain people -cough cough.- What's funny is that in third grade they all played Munchkins! The high schoolers commandeered them for their play. I was like, "Hah, you guys are annoying." (I will never in my life understand why they felt the need to repeat "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" about ninety times!)

And then me watching the Wizard of Oz movie...

Mom: Did you like it?

Me: Dorothy's not good.

Mom: Why not?

Me: She killed someone! Good people don't do that! (I was a kid! Black and white terms! Not many moral ambiguities)

Mom: But she killed the Wicked Witch of the West.

Me: Exactly. And the Wicked Witch of the East. Doesn't she FEEL BAD?

Mom: Um...yes...

Me: NO SHE DOESN'T SHE'S JUST MAD SHE DIDN'T GET IN THE BALLOON!!!

Mom: It's just a movie. Stop overanalyzing.

Me: Don't they have police in Oz? Can't they have a trial or something for people instead of just killing them?

Mom: She didn't know...

Me: In the book she laughed anyway!

Mom: Um. Okay. I don't remember the book.

Me: Well I don't like Dorothy.

#4 Jun 13th 2006, 8:22am

lol

Is it just me or are we getting off topic here?

#5 Jun 13th 2006, 8:41am

Hah yeah. On the bright side, I actually got the copy and paste thing right the first time this time...

Anyway. Back to topic. If you've ever seen the movie "A Little Princess," where Sarah pretends to be casting a spell to make bratty Lavinia's hair fall out and Lavinia gets all freaked out, that's what I'd do.

#6 Jun 13th 2006, 9:16am

KelpayLuv

i've got a better idea. do the hokey pokey! that'll give thme soemthing to talk about...teehehe

#7 Jul 07th 2006, 8:17am

Hey, you became a member on my birthday! January 22. That's weird. And off-topic...sorry. Anyway, that'd be good. I already do stuff like that and then yell at people for staring at me. Once when my little brother was about three, he was throwing a fit in the store because it was two days before Christmas and it was 9 at night and everyone was just...combustible. And these people were very rudely staring at him and making comments, and I was twelve and I just turned around and gave them a dark look at glared at them until they looked away. It was amusing. That's how I amuse myself. That and putting green on my cheeks on St. Patrick's day and going "What are you looking at?" to the seniors handing out newspapers in the hallway before school when they give me weird looks. But no one in my grade did...I guess they all know me.

#8 Jul 07th 2006, 8:22am

HannahtheFox

wow u made this forum on the devil day

#9 Jul 19th 2006, 8:59am

HannahtheFox

And still off topic.

#10 Jul 20th 2006, 1:27pm

This forum wins the prize for off-topic-ness!

YAY! This is all getting random...

So... is anyone else going to talk about the forums actual topic? Or should I give up?

#11 Jul 24th 2006, 8:51am

TheSongOfNature

In Elphaba's situation. Gettting teased, being hated for getting almost all (or all) of the answers right, green skin and having to take care of a younger sister without any thoughts towards her.

I would keep my head down, try to hide, and answer sarchasticly every stupid question like, "Is your skin REALLY green?" That is a stupid question. The only people who wouldn't see her green skin are colorblind people.

#12 Aug 14th 2006, 6:49am

Lucy McGonagle

I would kick some wizard butt. Or what should have happened in Act two, when just before Fiyero gets caught, curse Glinda to ** and back.

#13 Sep 02nd 2006, 5:26pm

Oh, I know what I'd do. Hide behind sarcasm. I painted myself green for my school's Halloween dance. For every dumb 7th grader that stared, that's every angry, heated glare I sent out. (No offence to any 7th grader that might be reading this, they're really stupid at TJ. To any 7th grader from TJ taking offence, GOOD FOR YOU!) I already get angry looks when I point out the obvious in their--coughCOMPLETELYINCORRECTcough--statements. So, yeah, I know what Elphaba goes through, except her name is much more awesome.

#14 Oct 28th 2006, 1:58pm

yes ELPHAbA IS DA BESTEST NAME!!!!! lol

#15 Oct 28th 2006, 4:08pm

Hah.

Me: Elvira is a cool name. If you can't be named Elphaba.

My mom: Oh God, you would've killed me if I named you that.

Me: No I wouldn't!

My mom: Emily is a pretty name.

Me: Yeah, it's so pretty that EVERYONE IN THE WORLD WANTS TO NAME THEIR KID THAT!

My mom: When you're 18 you can do whatever you want. Just please, if you ever have a son, don't name him Fiyero. He'd get beat up.

Me: Fiyero is a great name! But I won't name my kid that. I'll name myself Elphaba, and I'll name my kid...I don't know. Something original.

#16 Oct 29th 2006, 7:00pm

HAH, Elvira is an awesome name. But... HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE IT?!?!?!

#17 Oct 31st 2006, 12:19pm

I don't know! I always thought it was El-veeer-a, but my mom says it Elviiiiiira.

On topic: So I went, totally and completely green, to school TODAY. Halloween. And I don't know how Elphaba stands it. Really. On Halloween: "You're green!"

"Really? I hadn't noticed, thanks for the newsflash."

"You're a witch!"

"It's Halloween. What are you? It's really scary, by the way."

People hissed and yelled things and some really demonic kids started making comments, to which I replied, "See this broom? Do you know where it's going?" Then I started yelling at them and they ran away, which was fun.

#18 Oct 31st 2006, 5:00pm

Awesome. I got some weird comments t-r-ting from my friend Sara A (five Sarahs in my grade!), my reply to each of these was a smack. And, my stupid green stuff isn't very water proof (stayed on my arms until they bumped something). It POURED yesterday night. My hat kept the stuff on my face, though. I've got a REAL witch's hat. From Salem, MA. It's fuzzy!! ... And now I sound 6 1/2 instead of 13... Crap.

#19 Nov 01st 2006, 12:06pm

yes, well, sounding half ur age is always fun!! (i tend to at least once weekly... so every so often i go 7-years-old on everyone...)

i painted my face green for rehearsal for a play last year (ironically, i was in WIZARD OF OZ! creepy...) ne way, my reward was becoing some random person in the witchs dungeon that got stabbed 236892976 times or so.... but the face paint decided to look like sh*t, so i didnt paint my face this year. i decided 2 be green in spirit.... *dreamy eyes*

PS: Elphie! no offense about the stabbing thing! i was grring at my director *grrs at director*

#20 Nov 01st 2006, 2:13pm

Hah. Mine decided NOT to come off or stay on completely...now I just look kind of sick rather than decidedly green or not.

Spencer: What would you do if you just, like, woke up green one day and it was, like, really your skin?

Me: I would laugh.

Spencer: Laugh?

Me: Yes, I'd laugh. I think God shares my sense of irony. That would confirm it.

So, I've decided that some random day, I'm going to school green. Oooh! Maybe the day my best friend and I go to see Wicked again for our Christmas present...(hah our parents had to tell us and then her mom thought we died from all the screaming and jumping up and down we did) Wait, is that a school day, or a Saturday, or will we be on winter break? Hmm...maybe my birthday...it's my birthday, I can do whatever I want! And then I can go around saying, "It's my birthday and I'm the Wicked Witch of the West, I can do whatever I want!"

And on Saint Patrick's Day: If they can dye the Chicago River green, I can dye myself green. I'm not an ecosystem. Fish don't depend on me, so I have even more of a right to dye myself green.

#21 Nov 01st 2006, 4:39pm

The Chicago River stays green, though. I saw it July 8th. AKA: THE BEST DAY ALL YEAR FOR ME. (Figure that out. It'll come!) However, I see your point, and I THINK I have enough green make-up to greenify myself one more time... maybe for my friend's birthday, she's going to see it in New York... LOL, I just remembered, Jake is convinced that I'm a witch, since Monday. I wore a "I'll get you my pretty... and your little dog, too. Salem, MA" shirt on Monday, I always wear the Elphaba-style necklace, and I wore my witch's hat on hat day... and he was at the Halloween dance. I wonder how long I can milk this...

#22 Nov 01st 2006, 5:23pm

Hah. I need that shirt...well, people at school are now pretty much just like, "You're the Wicked Witch girl" (and the cool people: "You're the Elphaba girl") which is pretty impressive given that my school has 4,000 people...I'm notorious. My goal is to be named Most Likely to Start a Revolution.

You went to see Wicked that day, didn't you? Hee hee.

#23 Nov 01st 2006, 8:10pm

Yup. I got the shirt in Salem, Massachustss (hint-train from Boston; Salem Witch trials: 1691/2) In the mall, I think... dunno. Anyway, everyone in your school knows you? Jeez. Everyone only knows my for being 'that bookworm dork Molly's friend.' She's won the summer reading for the past two years, and probably this year, too.

#24 Nov 02nd 2006, 12:18pm

niice. now i need 2 go 2 salem just 2 get that shirt... *smile*

no 1 noes me at my skool, cept the peeple who do stage crew. ive had upperclassmen fighting over me (NOT LIKE THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!) apparently, i can be only 1 of their adopted freshmen... (yes i AM a freshman... u weasled my age outa me! YAY U!!)

well, now were making this all about ur shirt (NOT A PROBLEM!! lol)

#25 Nov 02nd 2006, 1:42pm

I don't get to go anywhere cool like Salem...although whenever I go look at colleges in the next two years on the East Coast I'm making my parents take me there.

"Popular" is stuck in my head. Why can't "Defying Gravity" be stuck in my head? I'm singing it on Sunday, I NEED it in my head! :) And of course my voice decided to die...

#26 Nov 02nd 2006, 8:29pm

IanSnyderIsLove

who in this forum thinks dorothy is downright evil? didnt she laugh whenshe killed the wwow? i mean that is MEAN!!!!

#27 Nov 25th 2006, 5:06pm

I've always thought that. My mother didn't get it. She read me the book when I was a little kid and I was like, "That's MEAN! She killed two people and didn't even care!" Then she made me watch the movie and I was like, "Oh, now she cares for about a minute? That's so much better."

#28 Nov 26th 2006, 7:36am

I always wondered where the heck her consience went... I mean, she KILLED two people, regardless of the fact that they were 'wicked witches,' they're still dead. And she did it.

#29 Nov 26th 2006, 7:55am

IanSnyderIsLove

u people rock, i didnt know any1 else agreed, all my friends r like, well they are WICKED and i say they r still PEOPLE

#30 Jan 11th 2007, 4:26pm

Ya, that or we're insane! =D

#31 Jan 11th 2007, 5:39pm

wow this forum is fun!!!

you guys in the States are so lucky you don't have uniform...I'd be sent home with a detention and most likely suspension too if I turned up green =( I'm also kinda (in)famous at my school...I think pretty much everyone knows me as 'that girl who's obsessed with Lost and can't stop singing 'Wicked' songs'...I get some weird looks from teachers when I walk down the corridor singing 'When I Meet The Wizard' lol.

Back on-topic...I think if I was Elphie in reality I'd act pretty much as she does...seeing as my personality is kinda the same as hers...

Off-topic...again...it was so funny, I saw Idina Menzel's last matinee in London, and her friends were in the audience, and instead of saying 'come with me to the Emerald City', it came out as 'let's go to the best place in the world...New York City!' Helen Dallimore (who's Glinda) gave her a really weird look, tried to suppress her laughter and replied 'sure...I've always wanted to go to the *Emerald* City'...twas the most hilarious thing...

anyway, I've kinda rambled on for god-knows-how-long here...someone else's turn now =)

#32 Jan 12th 2007, 2:41pm

DARN YOU! I wanted to see Idina's last performance!

#33 Jan 13th 2007, 9:56am

Me too...I saw the matinee instead of her last last show coz my mum decided that it would end too late *sob* I cried when she said it was the one before the last one =( On the other hand, in the matinee they pull pranks and stuff, coz they obviously wouldn't do that on her last night, but I wanted so badly to see her last one...You can see the speech Helen Dallimore made at the end on youtube, it's so sweet...

#34 Jan 13th 2007, 9:57am

GASP!!! You are SO lucky! Oh my God, my friend went to this school exchange with England (why I don't know, exchanges are usually done through foreign language classes) and the drama class at the school he exchanged with went on a school field trip to see Wicked in London! Who wouldn't rather go to Wicked than school? I was so mad. Of course, he's a loser and he doesn't "get" plays so he wasn't in the class and didn't go. But anyway.

Being green hasn't anything to do with your clothes so I frankly don't see why you'd get in trouble for that. And I'm definitely known as "that insane chick who showed up to school green for three days and who threatens people with broomsticks and yells random things in the halls" (the green, um, didn't quite wash off so well after I'd worn it for fifteen hours...not that I minded, but for some reason other people seemed to.) People were mocking my clothes the other day and I had to seriously resist the urge to make a certain lovely gesture with a certain part of my hand due to the vice principal standing outside and the security guards monitoring the buses to make sure they don't run over anyone because they are parked in the most hideously stupid place imaginable where I swear to God one day someone IS going to get run over by a bus and I am going to go to the principal's office and say "I told you so" because I have. Loudly. Outside walking to my mother's car every day after school.

People have called me very much like Elphaba and half the things that come out of my mouth my fellow Wicked obsessed friends tell me sound like her. Possibly because half the things that come out of my mouth are long, involved rants inveighing against the President, the Spanish Inquisition, or Napoleon III, among other things.

#35 Jan 13th 2007, 11:56am

Lol, sounding very much like me :p

And about being green...we're not allowed to wear make up either (guess how many people actually stick to that rule lol) but as long as it's subtle, you can get away with it...but I got into trouble for wearing green eye-shadow, so imagine the teachers' reactions if I turned up TOTALLY green! Though whenever we had costume days I always dressed up as a witch...pointy hat, broomstick and all...and that was before Wicked, way back in elementary school...I guess I've always had it in me lol I'm so looking forward to the next non-uniform day!!!

#36 Jan 13th 2007, 2:44pm

Lolz.

When some Wizard of Oz reference comes up, all my friends look at me and say somthing like, "You know, you don't have to look all offended." When, actually, I'm trying to come up with a good comeback. (What does one SAY when someone askes you if you melt? I mean, c'mon, I know Wicked, but... GAH!)

Oh, and also, I think I mentioned that some stupid guy thinks I'm a witch? Our school trip this year is to Salem, MA. We're going to the Witch Dungen Museaum... There's a thing that scares the CRAP out of you there that I know about. -evil smirk- I wonder how many 'manly' squeals I'll get to hear, and I'll not so much as FLINCH at it! -maniatic laughter-

#37 Jan 13th 2007, 2:49pm

*snort*

Okay, everyone gets to go somewhere interesting but me! I want to go to Salem! Oh, wait, I'm going there this summer when we ramble along the East Coast looking at colleges. Nevermind.

Answer to what you say when someone asks if you melt: You tell them just what they can do to themselves, and if you get in trouble steal the VP's response and say that they insulted your integrity. Appropriating a conservative politician's speech to defend one's use of foul language is a truly gratifying experience.

#38 Jan 13th 2007, 8:11pm

Hmm... never thought about that... THANKS! I'll use that...

Salem is OSM. You have to see the Witch Dungen Museum. (And, shrieks warn you when that special thing does the scary thing!)

#39 Jan 14th 2007, 10:06am

OMG YAY!!! Guess where I'm going on Monday night?!?!?!

I'm only going to see Wicked AGAIN!!!!!

Basically, my old Guide group goes to the theatre every January, and my friend is still there as a Young Leader, and every year she asks if I can be on the reserve list for tickets...I was like, ok, there's no way I'm gonna get to go then, 'cause who in their right mind would drop out of a trip to Wicked? Besides, I wasn't even first reserve...but I come in from school yesterday and my mum goes, 'So, I guess you'd like to go to the Emerald City on Monday night, then?' I just started jumping up and down and making incredibly high-pitched 'Squeeee' noises, before dancing round the house singing 'One Short Day', and then listening to the whole soundtrack, and because of course that wasn't enough, I sat down and played my way through the entire music book on the piano...which is not easy!!! I'm so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hehe I'm gonna make sure I'm wearing green (just 'cause you can't see Wicked wearing any other colour!) and I'm obviously gonna have mint-choc-chip ice-cream in the interval again, 'cause it's the only green ice-cream...yay!

Kerry Ellis won't be as good as Idina (obviously, no-one is!!!) but I'm going with an open mind, and me and my friend are gonna be singing all the songs on the train there and back, and we'll probably sing along with the show as well lol I'm so excited!!! Wait, I said that bit already :p Well, I AM excited =D and also slightly hyper...hm...I'm gonna go watch RENT now (my other obsession) because my family's getting annoyed with me constantly singing Wicked...but they didn't say I couldn't sing RENT :p

#40 Jan 20th 2007, 8:50am

QuillandPen

I know i may be the weird one,since i bringing this topic somewhat back on track, but what i would do if i were elphaba is this:

Total sarcasm. complety utter total sarcasm. And being pessimistic! I always say optomistic people are people who think that the world will keep on being happy! and pessimistic people are people who fear just that! sooo...yeah!

my reaction to being told i was gonna see Wicked:

Me:hey Mom?

Mom:yes?

me:did you say we're gonna go see Wicked on june 16th?

Mom:yes... we're also sitting in the second row, center.

me:OMG! I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!

Mom:ok...can you get off me now?

me:sorry!

I then and sing all off the wicked songs(what i currently knoew of them) while my twin tells me to shut up my sing, which my mom says sound like a cat being tortured...yeah..she's pessimistic. (no offense to any pessimistic or optomistic people!)

#41 Mar 27th 2007, 9:09pm

Yeah, I'm not optimistic but I'm not entirely pessimistic. But seriously optimistic people can get on my nerves. A lot. At times. Though they can be nice to be around, like my friend Katie, who is the most sincerely nice and optimistic person I know. Fake-nice people are NOT fun to be around, however, they make me want to stab them, not that I'm homicidal or anything, I've only been seriously homicidal twice in my life and both times towards people that were quite far away from me at the time...and this is a really run-on off topic sentence so I will end it now.

#42 Mar 27th 2007, 9:28pm