inside jokes

[ikeru.livejournal.com]

what are secret (and amusing) ways you proclaim your plurality during occasions where it is not good to be Out as plural?

when we answer polls on forums, in which there is conversation about the results and answers, but we are not Out... we like to say, "i picked X for multiple reasons." in this way, the compulsive truth-tellers speak truthfully, and the compulsive evasives evade, and we are all amused in the process!

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[ramlatch.livejournal.com]

I used to simply out of instinct refer to myself in plural 'we' instead of 'I', because it was true. I did this by the time I knew how to speak until I realized it was different from other people, so I don't do it that much anymore because I watch it, but I still do now and then when I'm really tired.

[mysticeden.livejournal.com]

Well Sara who is one of my others was walking with my room mate (who knows we are a multiple) and another girl called Sarah. all I know is that she kept making jokes about it being Sara squared and how Sara without an H was much better lol. The other Sarah was very confused to say the least.

[tempusfrangit.livejournal.com]

Mostly different people's mannerisms slipping through out here and one sentence going from ...

And I highly think that weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee fun fun funf!!!!!

[rhymer-713.livejournal.com]

LOL!!!! Did that once too. Haha!

[chaostiny.livejournal.com]

Asking for a childrens menu at Olive Garden with my best friend who is also multiple is rather fun... especially when the waiter asked us if we were multiple because his sister is and he recognized it! Or having one of my little ones come out in pottery class and make an ashtray for our fiance... since she is 4 and very independent, it did not look like MY work at all!! But, she did it...and our teacher asked if we were bi-polar because of the difference in work... I just said "Something like that!"

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

Sing along to songs where you get to say "we"? Another group we know suggested that a long time ago.

[tej-agni.livejournal.com]

These were fun to read.

The only place we're really "out" is online, so either we'll use "we" or we won't when talking with someone, depending on if they knew or not. If we're using this journal (or one of the other journals) then it's not difficult to figure out.

Amalah

[eruditeboredom.livejournal.com]

We've got this weird habit of usually posting online in the singular, but speaking irl in plural, and sometimes in second or third person. It really bothers people at the mall. I'm one of the "village crazies" where I live. Everyone knows me, everyone knows I'm crazy. But only a few know the full extent of the crazyness.

There we go again with singular on teh intarwebs.

Strangely enough, there are quite a few multiples in our area, and 3 that we hang out with. One knows a few others, and once said this to us:

"Out of all the multiples I know, you are the only system that's actually insane. Really, fucking, insane. Every last one of you. Except for Liv. She's mostly sane."

The funniest part was that this was said at one of the 3 GNC's we have in town. A woman, who seemed to have no clue what we were talking about but was still disturbed, quickly ushered her two children out of the store.

yeah, we don't go out much in the real world. we make other multiples look crazy, and we don't like doing that in the real world.

[ex-suhina987.livejournal.com]

Several of us have very distinct accents, and when we don't give a toot who knows we're multiple we won't bother to hide them. We'll be with our partner in the the grocery line up, and the people around us can get subjected to 'Pegger, Brit, and who knows what else. And then maybe someone will squeal for candy. Screw it. We'll never see those people again. ~ Ben

[saint-07.livejournal.com]

hehe Kammy knows were multiple and i surprise others dont cause when me and tommy come out we is 7 and we start playing hide and sek or tag and then Tommy will cry cause he stub his toe and people think we are just weird ^^

[drleanne.livejournal.com]

At work we are often asked how we got so much done in such a shrt time or how did we notice "x" when we were working on "y"

With a smile and looking the person in the eye we say,

We are excellent multi-taskers.

[mirrorbrothers.livejournal.com]

When a group of friends I'm with votes on something, I've been known to vote twice, or try to.

And when one of us (usually Johnny) makes a bad joke in our head, the other will give him a very physical punch in the arm. That gets some strange looks.

And I'm not sure if this counts, but when someone I'm not going to meet again asks how many siblings I have, I sometimes include Johnny. Quite a lot of people on the internet have met us both and think we're singlet brothers.

Rob

[terendel.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

Oh good. I'm not the only one subjected to bad jokes in my head. When Richard does this to me, I do a sideways headbutt or glare (to the right, which is his side). So far, the only one who's "caught" me is my husband, and he don't count, 'cause he knows.

Rob and Johnny, sounds like we need to compare notes. I'm terendel on AIM and Richard is akintodel on Yahoo. Feel free to chat us up sometime.

[mirrorbrothers.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I found out recently the punch in the arm thing gets noticed much more than it gets commented on. *guilty look*

Oh, and the thread title - sometimes I'll just start giggling about something, and I will never, ever be able to explain to anyone but Johnny why they're funny. For example, whenever we hear the song "Hangin' Around," by Counting Crows, without expecting it, Johnny and I sing, silently but in unison, "I've been bangin' a clown." When someone notices the laughing, I just say "it's an inside joke." Waaay inside.

Rob

[rhymer-713.livejournal.com]

Okay. For us, we have two ways. One is the fact that we have a charm bracelet, you know the little cheap make-your-own kind and we put a charm on it for each person that's fronting, for example I have a charm of a pot of flowers and Alissa has one of a black butterfly. The other way is we say we a lot, but once we were walking through a drugstore and one of the kids says, "OOOOOh!!!!! Look!!! It's pads for the mouses on our PC."

[rhymer-713.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, and we have an IRL friend who refers to her headmates as "her cousins" So I simply say, "Did your cousin Nanci do such and such and she just laughs and usually Nanci answers me. Thanks for posting this. It's cool to see what people do.

[duckbunny.livejournal.com]

I was going to say we each have seperate icons - but most everyone does that. Ellen will glare at my side, but only if we aren't likely to be noticed - in private we have full-on body language to go with our internal conversations. Besides that, we mostly just slip in 'we' whenever we can. Usually in jokes, because then people don't notice. Or we'll say "we've got a lecture" or "we're going to rehearsal", because people won'trealise who the 'we' refers to.

Seb.

[pilgrimchild.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I worry that we give ourselves away by saying "we" too much outloud. But it happens naturally. Saying "I" feels weird.And the getting a lot of things done at one time, we do that too, or working on several projects at once-- reading a book, writing something down, and talking all at once. Also-- some of the others have really good senses of humor, and/or are very sarcastic. So we might be sitting in a class or with colleagues, and someone inside will make a snarky comment, and we'll laugh out loud at each other. Well, they're just FUNNY, dammit. But it looks awfully weird that we're just laughing out of nowhere probably. And the random out loud talking-to-oneself probably doesn't help much either. Neither does the random, "Will you just SHUT UP!?" that pops up out of total silence probably gives us away too.Oh well.