One of the more pleasant types of announcements I make here...

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

What with the events of the last few weeks, certain small niceties have dropped by the wayside. Understandable, but a shame, and I may be heading out of town shortly, but I wanted to rectify the lapse before I did.

We have a number of new trainees to welcome aboard. Marius, Jennie, Kyle, Janet, and Forge will be working with us. I'm sure you'll all make yourselves available to answer any questions they may have, and as training partners when I do get a new rotation drawn up.

For our new trainees - you now have full access to the database, including all of the training material and past missions. I'd suggest reading everything you can get your hands on, for a better understanding of what we do around here. One note, though - it's not kind to mock the follies of your elders. Some of us have heard all too many jokes about quicksand and coatracks and the like.

And on that note... trainee names, anyone?

Comments

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

Well, if they can take people like you I'm sure we'll just fit right on in...

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Don't tease the man, or he'll likely suggest some horrible name like Crapshoot or Heisenberg Lass or something.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

Don't give him ideas, tin man...

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Dude, Crapshoot wouldn't be -that- bad. Jennie's from Vegas, and craps is a gambling game.. It's better than Showgirl.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

No, you don't get to pick my name, because if you do I'll stick you with "Douchebag"

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

I'm just saying, Crapshoot's better than Showgirl. Neither of which were my idea.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

No it's not. I'd rather not have to answer to anything with the word "Crap" in it. Beast Boy.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

It's not SEXIST though, is it?

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

Kyle. No. Just. No. Otherwise I start lobbying for Monkeyboy for you.

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

If you wanted to stick to the Vegas theme, though, I'm sure either Lady Luck or Jackpot would be less objectionable.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

I'm not crazy about the Vegas theme, but you people seem hell bent on it.

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, it was less the you-specific than the you-general. English once again fails to distinguish.

[x-ccelerate.livejournal.com]

No, actually, I think the entire affair of trainee names is an exercise in puerile hazing that doubtless started when the original team was just out of high school themselves and therefore more impressed with immaturity. It's the silliest sort of institutional tradition and I take no part in it; whatever names you're saddled with are on your own heads.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

A wise man! I nominate him for team leader.

[x-ccelerate.livejournal.com]

Ah, but I had training already by the time I arrived. I had to suffer through my silly institutional traditions, you have to suffer through yours. No doubt they build character.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

No fair! You got trained by your dad! I totally call nepotism! Shenanigans!

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

I think I prefer not being trained by his Dad.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but what if his dad gave him a stupid trainee name. It'd be something, like, really awful. I mean, can you imagine?

Or what if he let Sabretooth do it? Then it'd just be like "Grr Grr Argh"

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Hey, I read a post back here that says your trainee name was Hummingbird.

[x-ccelerate.livejournal.com]

Terry is mildly delusional; I was never a trainee.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

So you didn't have the funky grey uniform?

[x-ccelerate.livejournal.com]

That would seem to go with never having been a trainee, wouldn't it? You and the Laverne boy can discover the joys of literacy together, won't that be fun.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

This is probably gonna get me in trouble, but you're not a teacher, and I don't think they'll let you train us.

So.

BITE ME.

[x-emplate.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see an immediate problem here. You project lack of education onto that which was merely cheekiness. It is an important distinction, and I'll have you know I am quite hurt by your failure to grasp it. It is quite within my capacity to be both an idiot and fully literate. As opposed to yourself, who, with all due respect, appears to be in some difficulty sustaining both wit and actual sense of humour.