Stupoks
If you're curious about the malady that WildThings suffer, the one we call Stupoks, well, here's the explanation.
Our dear, dear Priss started itching one day while we were on Kusu Island, and discovered that she was coming down with Chicken Pox. Being a childhood illness, most of us were not too concerned, except for some of the guys who were concerned about sterilisation. Nobody else got the pox except for Priss.
Around this time, the rest of the team started noticing strange behaviour in each other. We would be dropping stuff, mostly into water, forgetting to pack essential items, not paying attention to instructions.
Also, the most telling thing was for a person to ask for something or other, and when the whole team has spent 20 minutes searching for said item, it is finally located on the body of the person who asked for it in the first place. (Such an incident is also called doing an Alvin)
At first we thought it was due to sleep deprivation and the fact that we were getting rather comfortable with routine. However, it was also observed to happen during the start of a series of trips when we were all fresh and there was no logical explanation for such things to happen.
As this happened during the period when Priss was down with the Chicken Pox, we decided that the malady that was afflicting us WildThings must be something similar. A Pox of some sort that we got from somewhere. Hence we coined the term Stupoks. Notice the non-traditional spelling of the term. We can't even spell it right. It's that bad!
From our own observations, Stupoks affects almost everyone who comes into contact with us. Even a person who has never been with us before, and we will assume that said person is normally sane, and professional, will start doing the things we do. Hence we think it is highly infectious. Or that everyone is a carrier of the disease, and that it requires a bit of a nudge from an active sufferer in order to become acute.
My next post will be about an incident which all of us on the team find hilarious.
Stay tuned for...
THE ATTACK OF THE STONEDED FISH!
*cue eerie music*
Our dear, dear Priss started itching one day while we were on Kusu Island, and discovered that she was coming down with Chicken Pox. Being a childhood illness, most of us were not too concerned, except for some of the guys who were concerned about sterilisation. Nobody else got the pox except for Priss.
Around this time, the rest of the team started noticing strange behaviour in each other. We would be dropping stuff, mostly into water, forgetting to pack essential items, not paying attention to instructions.
Also, the most telling thing was for a person to ask for something or other, and when the whole team has spent 20 minutes searching for said item, it is finally located on the body of the person who asked for it in the first place. (Such an incident is also called doing an Alvin)
At first we thought it was due to sleep deprivation and the fact that we were getting rather comfortable with routine. However, it was also observed to happen during the start of a series of trips when we were all fresh and there was no logical explanation for such things to happen.
As this happened during the period when Priss was down with the Chicken Pox, we decided that the malady that was afflicting us WildThings must be something similar. A Pox of some sort that we got from somewhere. Hence we coined the term Stupoks. Notice the non-traditional spelling of the term. We can't even spell it right. It's that bad!
From our own observations, Stupoks affects almost everyone who comes into contact with us. Even a person who has never been with us before, and we will assume that said person is normally sane, and professional, will start doing the things we do. Hence we think it is highly infectious. Or that everyone is a carrier of the disease, and that it requires a bit of a nudge from an active sufferer in order to become acute.
My next post will be about an incident which all of us on the team find hilarious.
Stay tuned for...
THE ATTACK OF THE STONEDED FISH!
*cue eerie music*
1 Comments:
I think Stupoks is what we ALL had from the beginning! MY chicken pox had nothing to do with it! Either that, or the Stupoks mutated within me, triggering the so-called Chicken Pox. Any other theories are welcome. Teehee.
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