You may/may not be an origamist if...

Fraze · Post by **Fraze** » February 22nd, 2007, 6:34 am

I think we all know where this is going. I know that origami jokes have been done before elsewhere on the net (such as the Bay Area Rapid Folders jokes page). There may well be a thread for origami jokes here, but after looking around, I haven't managed to find one. That being said, I came up with these while going on a walk earlier tonight.

You may be an origamist if...
...You try to find diagrams for Kawasaki's Motorcycle.
...You failed your last chemistry test because your teacher thought "your depictions of molecules look like a bunch of straight lines."
...You see "blintzes" on a restaurant menu and wonder what kind of paper they are.
...You show visible twitches of anger when someone asks, "Can you make a crane?"
...You have ever said "I've seen an origami model of that" in the middle of a non-origami-related conversation.
...You have a lucky rabbit-ear.
...You have ever folded three or more of the following: receipts, your clothing (while you are wearing it), someone else's clothing (while s/he is wearing it), tin or aluminum foil, paper cups (bonus points for folding while the up still contains liquid), cardboard, plastic wrappers, corners of notebook paper (if you are a student), corners of important reports (if you are employed), napkins, kleenex, toilet paper, paper straw wrappers, or any other thin, flexible material.
...You can identify different kinds of paper just by looking at them.
...You have actually used "practical folds" for practical purposes.

You may not be an origamist if...
...You think a waterbomb is a WMD hidden in the ocean.
...You spell origami "o-r-a-g-a-m-i."
...You think "Folding the Universe" is some new string theory thing.

And last but not least, you may be a master origamist if you can successfully fold a plastic rain poncho back into its original package.

Does anyone else have any? Come on, I'm sure we all have our stories!

Cupcake · Post by **Cupcake** » February 22nd, 2007, 11:35 am

if you look at any material and wonder if it could become a crane

Watusa · Post by **Watusa** » February 22nd, 2007, 2:26 pm

Fraze wrote: ...You spell origami "o-r-a-g-a-m-i."

oh man! this girl i know keeps spelling it like that. She even capitalises it!

hardcoretraceur · Post by **hardcoretraceur** » February 22nd, 2007, 3:10 pm

you might be...
if looking at anything for too long makes you see where the creases would be.

eric_son · Post by **eric_son** » February 22nd, 2007, 3:17 pm

Watusa wrote:
Fraze wrote: ...You spell origami "o-r-a-g-a-m-i."
oh man! this girl i know keeps spelling it like that. She even capitalises it!

A lady friend of mine back in school used to spell it as ORIGAMY.

But I'm sure she does that just to annoy me.

Cupcake · Post by **Cupcake** » February 22nd, 2007, 10:28 pm

how about oragamy

Post by **Daydreamer** » February 22nd, 2007, 10:38 pm

I've started a topic about those wrong spellings a while ago: viewtopic.php?t=1085

Cupcake · Post by **Cupcake** » February 22nd, 2007, 11:39 pm

wow, it's amazing the number of people who don't know how to spell origami. I just don't know how to spell

Fraze · Post by **Fraze** » February 23rd, 2007, 6:40 am

Daydreamer wrote:I've started a topic about those wrong spellings a while ago: viewtopic.php?t=1085

*Shudder* That's just scary...

Well, in all honesty, the correct spelling of "origami" is actually a string of Japanese characters. So there is no proper English spelling of "origami." But I just like the one that we've all chosen to use.

EDIT: (From the thread you posted):

mastermattdude wrote:When I put some of my origami into a fair the judge filled out the evaluation form with" Orgamy". :lol:

Orgamy? That sounds like some kind of painful medical condition.

eric_son · Post by **eric_son** » February 23rd, 2007, 6:52 am

Fraze wrote: Well, in all honesty, the correct spelling of "origami" is actually a string of Japanese characters. So there is no proper English spelling of "origami." But I just like the one that we've all chosen to use.

"origami" is the phonetic spelling of the kanji characters that comprise the word. (Which literally means, paper + fold.) It's as proper as it can ever be.

~folder~of~paper~ · February 23rd, 2007, 6:55 am

I think you a sign of being an origamist is that you have a never ending paper supply hidden in awkward places or carry around a big bow or brief case of paper. I know I do ...

hardcoretraceur · Post by **hardcoretraceur** » February 23rd, 2007, 9:16 am

yeah, i have a couple hundred pieces in my bag at all times.

Cupcake · Post by **Cupcake** » February 23rd, 2007, 11:32 am

I don't yet have a never ending paper supply

Well, I do with copy paper... but with other paper, I have a limited supply

Watusa · Post by **Watusa** » February 23rd, 2007, 1:15 pm

~folder~of~paper~ wrote:I think you a sign of being an origamist is that you have a never ending paper supply hidden in awkward places or carry around a big bow or brief case of paper. I know I do ...

when i went to malaysia they had this shop that selled random stuff (wrapping paper, vinyl models, little random things like stickers and fridge magnets) and i bought some paper there, and for the rest of the holiday i was carrying around this huge roll of paper xD

unfortunately i ended up leaving it somewhere. :

Cupcake · Post by **Cupcake** » February 23rd, 2007, 8:00 pm

I've got one: when you design in your sleep. I've started doing that, and I haven't really come up with anything...

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