I found a portal to another dimension under my desk. Shall I enter?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

Poll question: I found a portal to another dimension under my desk. Shall I enter?

I mean, what else am I gonna do on a Wednesday? It's that or the weekly sales meeting.

[slackmaster]

1. Will your boss miss you if you don't show up?

If you can get away with missing the meeting I say go for it.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. We have cardboard cut-outs for such eventualities.

No one will notice.

[LynneSin]

2. Only to find out who's portal you could be entering

I say go for it!!!

Shall I have a car waiting at the New Jersey Turnpike dropoff point?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

5. I don't know. I think there's a lion who may possibly be Jesus down there.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

3. Contact leonard Nimoy

Stat. He'll know what to do!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

6. Cool. I'll just get my Starfleet Communicator.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

10. no NO!! You're thinking of his fictitious character

I refer to his experience as an investigative journalist on "IN Search Of". With his wealth of knowledge he's sure to know how to proceed!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

12. But those communicators still work, right?

I mean, I shelled out Fifty large for a box. They really work, right?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

They're under warrenty to stardate 2373*11*23

so they better work. You saved your receipt right?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

26. I think so. I mean, it could be a receipt. I don't really know what it is.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

7. keep in my you may get replaced in this reality

by a bizarro Lord Byron.

you don't have a goatee do you?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

9. Aaaaarrrrrrgggghhhhh! I've left Calgary, I've entered....The Twilight Zone

[SarahB]

8. Sure, if it goes into Malkovich's brain.

[iconoclastic cat]

11. That depends. Does someone share the other side of the desk?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

13. In this dimension or that one?

I think there's some armoured bears in the other dimension.

[iconoclastic cat]

16. Brace yourself: That's not a demension. That's some guys mammoth boxers.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

18. Bollocks. And I always wanted to lead an army of armoured bears

into combat. It's my lifelong dream!

[Fenris]

19. Fan of Philip Pullman, are you?

;)

I love those books.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

21. Yeah. Damn fine books. I was just reading the set again.

[Fenris]

23. I hear that someone is making films out of them.

Though from what I heard, they will be divided into two movies.

Meh. I like my imagination.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

25. I would say it's unfilmable, but I guess not.

It runs a risk of being lame, though. I guess they're doing all the fantasy series now, thanks to Jackson. The Narnia books are in production in NZ right now. Give 'em a couple of years and it'll be The Sword of Shannara, then an increasingly downward spiral leading to those dreadful Dungeons and Dragons knock-off books.

[Fenris]

29. Chances are the interest in the genre will dry up quickly

Especially in America. We are a people of fleeting tastes.

And come to think of it, they've already made a Dungeons and Dragons movie...that's a scary thought.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

30. Damn! I'd flushed that from my brain.

What is Jeremy Irons for, btw?

[Fenris]

33. Jeremy Irons is for hitting, that's what!

Bastard!

"Who can we get to play a villain with an English accent?"

"Jeremy Irons!"

[Donkeyboy75]

44. FYI: It's spelled "armored" in the other dimension, SLB.

[Fenris]

14. Wow! You found a portal to the North of England?

Northern England: Come see what life was like 20 years ago!

:D

[Screaming Lord Byron]

15. Hooray! I hear one of the neigbours just got a Commodore 64

I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it.

[Fenris]

17. I hear Adam Ant is playing this Saturday in York.

(The odd thing is that's probably true)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

20. Yes. With support from Limahl and Kajagoogoo.

[mia]

35. Welcome to Narnia.

Speaking of England, I still love the children's books by C.S. Lewis.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe has a wonderful furry portal.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

41. Man, no one got my Aslan reference upthread.

That or they were just ignoring my tedious schtick. :D

[Screaming Lord Byron]

22. Hang on. What's this funny little gold ring that's just rolled out?

I mean, I know it's on Deagol's side of the desk, but he hasn't seen it yet. I could just take it. I mean, it's my birthday. It's only fair.

[Fenris]

24. Oh, dear, you've killed Deagol, haven't you?

:D

Nasty hobbitses!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

28. No one will notice. And if they do, they'll die too. All of them.

My precious.

[Fenris]

31. Off to the caverns with you!

And if you see a fat, small humanoid wander through, DO NOT take up a challenge involving riddles. Just eat him.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

32. Gotcha. Off to the bowels of the earth I go!

[Fenris]

34. Undoubtedly better than a sales meeting.

[NewJeffCT]

27. Whatever is there has to be better than GW Bush's America

Wasn't there an old Bloom County strip where a knight comes through the closet door and asks the kid if he wants to come with him?

[hunter]

36. I hate it when that happens...

The nice thing about the portals under my desk is that the dimensions they open up to are usually not time-linked to this one. I come back at the same time I left.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

37. It's a nice bonus. Last time, I was King at Cair Paravel for years.

[tigereye]

38. cool let us know what's on the other side

oops, now I'm picturing Malkovich and what's her name on the casting couch. Better than some of the other locations in that film!

No really, it would be cool to just appear somewhere else - we have been reading John Szieska's Timewarp Trio series with my son. Maybe you can lend out the portal.

[hunter]

45. Wow...

And to think my wife and I have only used the portal for very long "quickies."

[TrogL]

39. I had to go to my meeting

You need to go to yours

[Screaming Lord Byron]

42. You can't make me.I have an inter-dimensional option now!

[Speck Tater]

40. If there's someone named 'Buffy' in your office, take her along. (nt)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

43. You can go; but

Watch out for that Lazarus guy...