You may/may not be an origamist if...
Posted: 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!
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!
Well, I do with copy paper... but with other paper, I have a limited supply