Just a pencil and paper.

[Rhu]

If you were locked in an otherwise empty room with nothing but a pencil and a pad of paper for a couple hours, what would you do?

Be as specific or vague as you like. If you're going to fashion a noose out of the paper or stab yourself in the eye with the pencil, I would encourage for the sake of creativity that you be as graphic as you please.

I might experiment with this later. I have no idea what I'd end up doing.

[Oculus Sinister]

If you were locked in an otherwise empty room with nothing but a pencil and a pad of paper for a couple hours, what would you do?

Be as specific or vague as you like. If you're going to fashion a noose out of the paper or stab yourself in the eye with the pencil, I would encourage for the sake of creativity that you be as graphic as you please.

I might experiment with this later. I have no idea what I'd end up doing.

Create weaponry as best as I could. Can they see me? Is there time to break the pencil down a bit and make some of the paper so that i can create some form of knife to stab a bitch, take their gun, shoot the other guard, , hold another hostage, and get the hell out of there?

[Google Monster]

I'd write:

I'm stuck in a room with but a paper and a pencil.

Love, GM.


Then I'd write poetry all over the walls

[helium]

Is the pencil sharpened, or unsharpened? Wooden or mechanical? How much paper? Lined or unlined?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[Rhu]

Create weaponry as best as I could. Can they see me? Is there time to break the pencil down a bit and make some of the paper so that i can create some form of knife to stab a bitch, take their gun, shoot the other guard, , hold another hostage, and get the hell out of there?
When I formulated the question, I honestly wasn't thinking about who locked me in the room. Interesting that being locked alone in a room is automatically assumed to be against your will.


Then I'd write poetry all over the walls
About what?

[outmywindow]

I'm sorry to be so dull, but doodle and write. If there was a second person, we'd engage in a rousing game of hangman.

Of course, I probably wouldn't be this complacent if I were forcibly locked in said room, though I still don't see what all I could do with just a pencil and paper to tunnel my way out of the room.

[Rhu]

Is the pencil sharpened, or unsharpened? Wooden or mechanical? How much paper? Lined or unlined?
<_<

[Google Monster]

Is the pencil sharpened, or unsharpened? Wooden or mechanical? How much paper? Lined or unlined?

Inquiring minds want to know.

If not, use your teeth. No lines, make em if you prefer them.

[Delilah]

I would lay right in the middle of the room and stare at the ceiling and think until I got bored, after that I would start talking out loud to myself, then I would start to doodle on the floor and walls with the pencil until the lead wore down, of course I would be pissed and try to sharpen it with my teeth and finger nails, but it wouldn't work out and I would break the pencil and throw it at the wall. I would then proceed to make thousands of tiny paper airplanes and fly them around the room, if that bored me I would move on to throwing spit balls on the ceiling.

But really, when do paper airplanes get boring?

[helium]

If not, use your teeth. No lines, make em if you prefer them.

But if I'm locked in there for only a couple of hours, I need to know what I have time to do. Chances are, though, I'd just wait around for someone to come around and unlock the door unless I were feeling particularly creative.

[Rhu]

I'm sorry to be so dull, but doodle and write.
I'd likely do the same. I just don't know if I'd do one or both, or what the subject would be. I've never attempted to illustrate a story I've written, though when I was a kid I did try (badly) to draw comic books, that's a little different. Maybe I'd try that.

For myself, the content is what would be the most interesting to predict, though probably the most dependent upon outside factors.

[Google Monster]

About what?

About the mysterious room.

To room it may concern
seems like it's now my turn
to grow mad like many others
listening for those insane utters
hearing the tick and the tock
counting the time in my imaginary clock
and when it strikes twelve I shall run
stab myself until I'm gone.

[helium]

For myself, the content is what would be the most interesting to predict, though probably the most dependent upon outside factors.

That's a more interesting proposition. I might doodle shapes only to keep my hand moving; otherwise I'd write. I can almost guarantee that I would write about some situation in my past (maybe fictionalized, though not much) that focused on being stuck in some way. I'd turn it into a metaphor. I almost never write about situations as they're happening. I can be bad about journaling for that reason. I need time to reflect. The writing would be a pseudo-reflection.

Is that better, Rhu? <_<

[thod]

Probably the optimal soultion is to write "Help I am locked in this room" and post the note under the door in the hope of someone noticing.

The boy scouts could break the pencil in two and rub the sticks together using the paper as tinder. This would allow the activation of any fire systems or ignitition of other objects such as clothing.

The violent could contemplate precision attacks inserting the pencil into ears or eye sockets to kill their assumed jailer.

You have enough writing surfaces on the walls and thus that would be a bad use of the paper it better used for a mobile message.

How large is the piece of paper and pencil could I fashion a paper hangglider with pencil wood struts and leap from the window.

[rainfall]

If you were locked in an otherwise empty room with nothing but a pencil and a pad of paper for a couple hours, what would you do?

Be as specific or vague as you like. If you're going to fashion a noose out of the paper or stab yourself in the eye with the pencil, I would encourage for the sake of creativity that you be as graphic as you please.

I might experiment with this later. I have no idea what I'd end up doing.

Been there, done that. Draw pornography and masturbate to it. Write a short diary. Eat the paper and announce about it to the guards. Hide the pencil. Let them take me to the medblock. Stab the unsuspecting warden in the eye with the remaining pencil. Break out. Post on intpc.

[outmywindow]

Now I'm really and truly hankering to be stuck in a relatively spacious elevator* during a power outage, with just the LED flashlight on my keys, and the pen and paper in my bag, possibly with a friend of my choosing (I haven't decided on that yet). I'd have just eaten and have just gone to the bathroom, and would be secure in my clairvoyant knowledge that I'd only be in there for two or three hours, so I could just sit back and relax in my little bubble of calming solitude (or my little bubble of hangman followed by discussion of physics and literature, if I let my friend show up).

*Yes, there's that elevator thing again.

[Rhu]

But really, when do paper airplanes get boring?
You should get in the habit of answering your own rhetorical questions, so I don't get tempted to smartassedly do so.


Is that better, Rhu?
If I didn't get a wide enough range of responses, I wouldn't have considered this thread abstract enough to carry the Rhu label. Your performance today will probably not have any negative effect on your Q1 2008 appraisal, helium, worry not.

[Delilah]

You should get in the habit of answering your own rhetorical questions, so I don't get tempted to smartassedly do so.
.

Why should I keep all the smartass for myself?

I'm a giver.

[Rhu]

Very well: What happens after you're tired of planes and out of spit?

[songbird36]

O-o Delilah has found this thread!

*SB wonders what kind of weird and wonderful doodles will be posted in her absence at work today*

[Delilah]

Very well: What happens after you're tired of planes and out of spit?

This is hardly the time or the place for that Rhu.

[MacGuffin]

I need more than a couple of hours, cause I'd probably go to sleep at this point in my life.

Assuming I am not frazzled and tired, I would sit for a while and meditate.

Then start to write. Randomly. Whatever came into my head.

Eventually something would bubble up and excite me, and that would become my focus.

[Ptah]

I'd think: Ah, time to myself for sure. Excellent!

And a manner of expressing my thoughts into reality at hand? Even better!

I'd proceed to daydream and doodle/jot down any thoughts that came to mind.

Basically, it's precisely what I'd be doing (and commonly do) in any room, otherwise empty or not, locked in or not, etc.

Does it have to be only a few hours? Can't I get more time? Return visits?

[MacGuffin]

That was my main complaint.

I'd like at least a day uninterrupted.

[Delilah]

Or a week.

Maybe a month, and more pencils.

[outmywindow]

Or a week.

Maybe a month, and more pencils.

If it's a month, I'd try and put in a request for a book and/or some crossword puzzles as well. I'm not going to delude myself into thinking I have that much creative output.

[Delilah]

If it's a month, I'd try and put in a request for a book and/or some crossword puzzles as well. I'm not going to delude myself into thinking I have that much creative output.

But you could make your own crrossword puzzles. Think of the fun!

[outmywindow]

But you could make your own crrossword puzzles. Think of the fun!
...But how can I solve them if I've created them? Am I going to have to request some short-term memory loss as well? Anyway, like I said, there'd be nothing but output as it is; I'd like a little input.

[Delilah]

...But how can I solve them if I've created them? Am I going to have to request some short-term memory loss as well? Anyway, like I said, there'd be nothing but output as it is; I'd like a little input.

You could shove them under the door into my cell and I can do them!

I pictured the whole thing as a loony bin with all of INTPc locked into adjoining cells, can't imagine why.

[Limey]

I tried a mobius ring noose, but it broke.
I licked the pencil lead, but it was graphite.
I tried to think myself insane but I was well.
I tried to turn myself into a newt, but I got better.

So I just drew, 2000AD mostly.

[LowEnd]

I'd take the GM route.

Stuck in here
But have no fear
The task is clear
I'll lick my ear
I cannot reach
With my oral leech
So I will beseech
For a nice fresh peach
It'll be so nice
I'll eat it twice
For half the price
I'll eat the mice
That just ran in
And gave a grin
Before biting my shin
And committing the sin
Of laughing at me
Before they flea
back out, you see
To watch TV
But I'm still stuck here
Nowhere near
A smoke or beer
So I shed a tear...


(This would go on for quite some time, and quite a few pages)

[Gish]

I've done this before, it was called highschool. I'd just doodle on the sheet of paper until the time was over.

[charred_heart]

get back to drawing! I miss spending 4-6 hours on a piece of paper and a pencil.

[bonsai]

I'd play tic-tac-toe with myself. I LOVE tic-tac-toe.

[Sojourner]

I'm sorry to be so dull, but doodle and write. If there was a second person, we'd engage in a rousing game of hangman.

Of course, I probably wouldn't be this complacent if I were forcibly locked in said room, though I still don't see what all I could do with just a pencil and paper to tunnel my way out of the room.

Seconded, pretty much to a word. Of course, after I had filled the paper on both sides, I would probably start folding the paper, or rolling it into a thin, hard cylinder. How long are we going to be locked in?

[Rhu]

Does it have to be only a few hours? Can't I get more time? Return visits?


That was my main complaint.

I'd like at least a day uninterrupted.


Or a week.

Maybe a month, and more pencils.


How long are we going to be locked in?

Sheesh. You'd think you'd at least want a sandwich and a toilet if it was more than a few hours. If you need to project more time to settle into the scenario, who am I to stop anyone?

Just as long as you come back with something.

[outmywindow]

Sheesh. You'd think you'd at least want a sandwich and a toilet if it was more than a few hours. If you need to project more time to settle into the scenario, who am I to stop anyone?

Just as long as you come back with something.
Hey, I had a whole complex 'locked in the closet elevator' scenario which took into account both the sandwich and the toilet issues.

At this point, though, the only space I'm stuck in is my cubicle, and there's more than plenty paper to go around.

[Google Monster]

I'd play tic-tac-toe with myself. I LOVE tic-tac-toe.

:theclap:

your move!

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/xoxoxoxox.JPG

:gm:

[abathur]

Draw a stickfigure with tits and jack off.

[SilentlyHonest]

I've done this before, it was called highschool. I'd just doodle on the sheet of paper until the time was over.

Damn straight.

[LowEnd]

Draw a stickfigure with tits and jack off.

:lol:

Nice one.

[Sojourner]

:lol:

Nice one.

But inherently impossible. If you append mammary glands, it is no longer a "stick" figure.

[LuridLemur]

I would draw eyes.

[Ohdear]

i would either make orgami or draw abstract art and try to shade it in as much as possible.

if i need colour i could add in some blood by stabbing myself with a pencil

...but infection is another story

[rhinosaur]

If you were locked in an otherwise empty room with nothing but a pencil and a pad of paper for a couple hours, what would you do?
Draw.

[Ann]

I might draw something, probably a girl doing something dirty. But I have not drawn anything recently, so I might just rip the paper into squares and fold some origami. I wonder how many cranes I could fold in two hours?

[Kathara]

I would draw, possibly write, play X and O. Do we get an eraser as well?

[Damned_Zombie]

I would sit in the corner and get lost in my own thoughts. While I'm doing that I might write some thoughts down, tap some drum grooves, or maybe even try and coax some cool sounds out of the paper. Or just stare at the wall.

[Latte]

Stabbing myself in an artery to bleed until loosing consciousness at the risk of dieing for the benefit of escaping grueling hours of boredom.

[LastRailway]

My real reaction were I locked in a room, regardless of space, would be freaking out and totally ignoring the paper and the pencil.
Supposing I wouldn't freak out for some strange reason, I'd draw random lines in the paper, then fold it, make a hole with the pencil and, finally, tear the paper and break the pencil.
I think it's called "lack of patience".

[Limey]

I have a habit of doodling the stages of quadratic bezier curves, have had this habit since I was around 13, I made a full set once that resembled a mathematical representation of sea waves, it was probably on the back page of an old English language notebook, lost forever.

http://bl4ckd0g.bl.funpic.de/bezier.JPG

[C.J.Woolf]

It depends on how focused and motivated I am. I might do nothing with the pencil and paper and just talk to myself, or I might outline some program code, or I might write some posts to transcribe later.

I do a fair bit of writing in longhand in everyday life, even when a computer keyboard is available. I enjoy it. I almost think differently when I write with a pencil vs. with a keyboard.

[sinnamon]

I'd probably start making lists -- to do lists of improvements I'd like to make to the house, shopping lists, things to do at work lists. I'd feel very proud of myself for having made the lists. Then I'd take some paper & start drawing out plans for the things I want to build/modify around the house. I'd make more lists of supplies I'd need for them. After a while I'd feel overwhelmed at all the things I want to do & the money it will take to do them & the arguments I'd have to have with my husband. Then I'd be depressed. Then I'd probably doodle. But then I'd get another idea & start to draw some more stuff, but I wouldn't add to the lists anymore.

[MacGuffin]

Lists?

:nono:

[C.J.Woolf]

Lists?

:nono:
Really. Status reports are another depressing type of document.

[sinnamon]

Actually, the whole imaginary exercise made me laugh at myself. I love making lists because I love making plans. But then I get bored or depressed at the amount of effort it would take & abandon it. But the planning part I love. It's the illusion of organization.

[MacGuffin]

Plans?

:nono:

[Acala1]

I love making lists because I love making plans. But then I get bored or depressed at the amount of effort it would take & abandon it. But the planning part I love. It's the illusion of organization.

Is good to know that I am not the only one...:happpy:

[outmywindow]

I do a fair bit of writing in longhand in everyday life, even when a computer keyboard is available. I enjoy it. I almost think differently when I write with a pencil vs. with a keyboard.
Same here. I don't have a distrust of technology at all, but I just think it would be wrong to keep all my journaling in any format other than pen and paper. Somehow, I also don't think the compositional process would be nearly as satisfying. This isn't to say that I hate typing, just that it has a different connotation in my mind.

[fripping]

i would rip all of the pages out, wad them up to make a pillow and then go to sleep.

[Sojourner]

i would rip all of the pages out, wad them up to make a pillow and then go to sleep.

Sorry, only one page.

[xNTP]

"Dear Rhu,

Well ain't this ironic.

Sincerely,
Edahn"

[cjs55]

Lists?

I love making lists too. I hate enacting them, of course.


I would probably write some journalish thing, or terrible poetry, maybe haikus about the room and the paper and the pencil.

That or lists.

[Sojourner]

I love making lists too. I hate enacting them, of course.


I would probably write some journalish thing, or terrible poetry, maybe haikus about the room and the paper and the pencil.

That or lists.

They /are/ fun. Lists of full and partial anagrams, or lists of everything that falls into a certain category, or a list of words for a "language" made up on the spot. I remember designing a vampire-proof house, once, together with a friend.

But the thing is, my lists are usually useless fun stuff like that. To-do lists, for example, are boring and usually end up making me feel guilty because I'll have skipped half the stuff.

[songbird36]

...But how can I solve them if I've created them? Am I going to have to request some short-term memory loss as well? Anyway, like I said, there'd be nothing but output as it is; I'd like a little input.

This thread is about output my friend...if you want input, go and hot wire your brain up to Delilah's ;)

[fripping]

Sorry, only one page.
practice my origami for a while. then probably eat it. then do exercises until i couldn't stand up anymore. after i pass out for a while, then probably rub one out, if there's any time left i suppose i would sit and stare at the wall in reflection of my life. if even that got boring, i would meditate.

like Gish said, indeed this is just high school again.

[Sierim]

I'd start writing on some random topic...then draw stick figures being led to their death at a guillotine or before a firing squad. About ten minutes after I began, I'd flexing my hand to get rid of writer's cramp, at which point I'd give up writing/drawing altogether.

Then I'd spend the next few hours mentally roleplaying, having conversations with myself, and wondering how often I could come here and be left alone without negative repercussions.

[Ariel]

I'd papercut either the walls or my wrists. Or maybe I'd do both and draw on the walls with my bloody wrists. Yeah, that sounds mighty fine.

Someone mentioned something about a toilet. If I wasn't fortunate enough to be locked up somewhere with one of these blessed contraptions, I'd save the paper for sanity's sake.

I have such a pleasant imagination.

[songbird36]

I'd papercut either the walls or my wrists. Or maybe I'd do both and draw on the walls with my bloody wrists. Yeah, that sounds mighty fine.


I had a work colleague once who managed to get a paper cut in her eyeball, and had to be hospitialized with it, and wear a bandage for weeks. Bizarre..

[Ferrus]

If you were locked in an otherwise empty room with nothing but a pencil and a pad of paper for a couple hours, what would you do?
Do we get a D20 die as well?

[djm]

Kick the door open.

[djm]

Oh, and after kicking the door in I would use the pencil to kill the person that locked me up by ramming it through their eye socket, then write a warning note to others thinking of incarcerating me and attach it to his forehead with the bloody pencil stub.

[Roger Mexico]

I have a notebook from college that I used to keep notes on the seminar discussions in a mandatory freshman history/philosophy/literature course. On the page for what I assume was an especially unfruitful hour of discussion, there's a heading indicating the assigned reading, some biographical information about the author (Hesiod, IIRC), and the word "Kosmos" unaccompanied by any sort of annotation.

Underneath all of this, occupying about a quarter of the remaining space on the page, is a very intricately detailed and shaded picture of my thumb.

[bluebell]

I would doodle, in intricate detail. I have sketchpads full of this stuff (admittedly, this in felt-tip pen, but you get the idea - all done with lines). And I was somewhat drunk when I took these pics on my crappy phone camera which is why they're a bit fuzzy, but I couldn't be bothered redoing them.

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Pic_0112_115.jpg
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http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Pic_0112_116.jpg
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http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Pic_0112_117.jpg

[jhf]

I would doodle, in intricate detail. I have sketchpads full of this stuff (admittedly, this in felt-tip pen, but you get the idea - all done with lines). And I was somewhat drunk when I took these pics on my crappy phone camera which is why they're a bit fuzzy, but I couldn't be bothered redoing them.

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Pic_0112_115.jpg
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http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Pic_0112_116.jpg
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http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Pic_0112_117.jpg
I really like these.:highfive:

[ApeTheDog]

I would smoke cigarettes instead.

[Night]

I would doodle, in intricate detail. I have sketchpads full of this stuff (admittedly, this in felt-tip pen, but you get the idea - all done with lines). And I was somewhat drunk when I took these pics on my crappy phone camera which is why they're a bit fuzzy, but I couldn't be bothered redoing them.

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Pic_0112_115.jpg
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http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Pic_0112_116.jpg
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http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Pic_0112_117.jpg

Very nice, bluebell.

Very nice indeed.

[bluebell]

I really like these.:highfive:


Very nice, bluebell.

Very nice indeed.

Thanks. :)

[Night]

Thanks. :)

It's your attention to detail that I find most attractive - especially detail evident only after thoughtful examination.

[djm]

I would doodle, in intricate detail. I have sketchpads full of this stuff (admittedly, this in felt-tip pen, but you get the idea - all done with lines). And I was somewhat drunk when I took these pics on my crappy phone camera which is why they're a bit fuzzy, but I couldn't be bothered redoing them.

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Pic_0112_115.jpg
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http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Pic_0112_116.jpg
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http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Pic_0112_117.jpg

I like these, they look like slides of tissue samples.

[firch]

The only things I would be drawing would be the pins from the hinges.

[ApeTheDog]

I would doodle, in intricate detail. I have sketchpads full of this stuff (admittedly, this in felt-tip pen, but you get the idea - all done with lines). And I was somewhat drunk when I took these pics on my crappy phone camera which is why they're a bit fuzzy, but I couldn't be bothered redoing them.

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Pic_0112_115.jpg
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http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Pic_0112_116.jpg
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http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Pic_0112_117.jpg

Yes, those are nice. I like the detail in them, and how the lines are all of a different intensity. Some are black, some are dark gray, some light gray...

These are the kind of drawings I used to make when I was bored, in the past, as well. Where you start drawing, follow a certain procedure, and in the end you end up with something that looks purposeful and complex. The fun in doing it like that lies in not knowing what you're going to end up with.

I'd make chinese looking drawings. I'd just draw an arch, colour it in, draw another one - make sure where it connected the corners got rounded, then add more and more until I would up with something that looked meaningful.

[firch]

Those sketches make me think tissue biopsy.

[bluebell]

It's your attention to detail that I find most attractive - especially detail evident only after thoughtful examination.

It's a bit hard to see in the pics I posted - my camera phone isn't the best unfortunately. But thanks, again.


I like these, they look like slides of tissue samples.

lol, does that mean you only like them because they look like slides of tissue samples? ;)


These are the kind of drawings I used to make when I was bored, in the past, as well. Where you start drawing, follow a certain procedure, and in the end you end up with something that looks purposeful and complex. The fun in doing it like that lies in not knowing what you're going to end up with.


:highfive: Exactly. These sorts of doodles are very mindless to do - I sort of go on automatic pilot and then I'm free to think in a relaxed kind of way. I like how the fact that the small imperfections actually add a lot of physical depth to the pics.


Those sketches make me think tissue biopsy.

Aww, that's lovely. ;)

[Niffer]

Depending on how long it would be until I was released, I would complete the things in this order:

1. finish my socials homework
2. write a short story
3. fold maybe 50 little origami boats and surround myself with them
4. illustrate one of the characters in my story...possibly more
5. continue to draw...perhaps sketching out entire scenes in from the story
6. take a nap

[Latte]

Make a neat pirate hat out of the paper and swing the pencil at an imaginary foe while i repeatedly scream ARRRRR.

[djm]

lol, does that mean you only like them because they look like slides of tissue samples? ;)

No I like them anyway, that's just what they remind me of. In any case I tyink tissue sample slides are very beautiful in their own way. Electron microscope photos look great too.

[Carebear]

You'll be in an empty room with nothing but a pencil and a pad of paper for a month. If you're lucky, you'll get one request granted. What will you request?

The SJ answer: "I'd request food and water".

The INTP answer:

If it's a month, I'd try and put in a request for a book and/or some crossword puzzles as well. I'm not going to delude myself into thinking I have that much creative output.

:happpy:

[Madrigal]

Pencil and paper?! There's nothing I could do with that. Maybe just chew on the pencil. And use the paper to lay it on the floor so I can sleep on it without getting dirty.

[Roger Mexico]

Pencil and paper?! There's nothing I could do with that. Maybe just chew on the pencil. And use the paper to lay it on the floor so I can sleep on it without getting dirty.

You wouldn't write some kind of screed about how your ex-boyfriends don't measure up to fictional characters from 60 years ago?

[Ducks]

[Madrigal]

You wouldn't write some kind of screed about how your ex-boyfriends don't measure up to fictional characters from 60 years ago?

[Ducks]

You're such a big baby. ;)

[kuraiken]

If you were locked in an otherwise empty room with nothing but a pencil and a pad of paper for a couple hours, what would you do?

Be as specific or vague as you like. If you're going to fashion a noose out of the paper or stab yourself in the eye with the pencil, I would encourage for the sake of creativity that you be as graphic as you please.

I might experiment with this later. I have no idea what I'd end up doing.
I would stare at the pencil and paper..while,thinking why they give me this/:banghead:

[aiur]

make paper airplanes with numbers on it.

[firch]

How to escape.

1) Take a sheet of paper from the notepad and screw it up into a ball.
2) Swing at the ball with the pencil.
3) Three strikes and you're out!

[jleonardbc]

If you were locked in an otherwise empty room with nothing but a pencil and a pad of paper for a couple hours, what would you do?


Is there a light bulb in the otherwise empty room? I'm assuming there is, or else you couldn't use the pencil and paper very effectively.

So, assuming there's a light source...what are the walls made out of? It might be possible to break the light bulb and set the paper on fire with the heat energy/electricity from the filament, and use that to set the walls on fire (if they have paint on them, it would be easier). Assuming you survived long enough, you could kick through one of the walls (if they're flammable) and escape.

Given normal circumstances and no desire to escape, though, I'd like to completely cover the walls, floor, and ceiling with a layer of graphite (this might require more than one pencil) and leave the paper pristine in the middle of the room.

I'll assume there's an entryway to the room that's locked somehow. If a human is going to come eventually to open it (rather than having an automated system), I could take off my shirt or another sufficiently dense article of clothing, wait for them to open the door, then use the shirt to suffocate them (like the pillow method). I could then use the pencil and paper to write a suicide note for them, replace my shirt with their own (as though they'd tied it around their own head--or I could make it look like they'd stabbed themselves with the pencil, but an autopsy would probably reveal the actual cause...I could alternatively use the aforementioned method with the light source to burn the body), and plant the note next to the body. I would then lock the door and leave the body to be discovered when it's the next INTP's turn in the room.

[Society's Stray]

Depends why I'm stuck in this room, if i were captured i would probably not really notice the paper and pencil, i would wonder why i was captured and try to formulate escape plans in my head maybe use the paper to brain storm then ingest it. If i were told to be as creative as possible i would probably be stuck their thinking about what to draw, not being in my stress free natural environment, in the end i could have nothing because while thinking a was attempting to twirl the pencil in my hand only to drop it a few times breaking the lead, or a picture of a fictional location i would probably be at peace at to contrast my current situation, like maybe a quite forest away from the city with me laying under a tree alone by a slow moving stream with a good book and my ipod with all my favorite quite peace themed songs playing, and there being a slight rain shower but the tree is enough to cover me from must of it.
or i could just write i didn't fell like it on the paper and been asleep the whole time.

[Sugarskull]

I'd probably actually get some drawing practice in, along with a lot of sleep.
Some excercise too.

[Google Monster]

I'd write poem. most likely abotu some random non related topic with deep inuner meaning. lol, yop

[Meticulum]

I'd start wailing about my "mysterious health problem" and about how life really isn't fair, all in the hopes of getting transferred to a nicer room with at least ultra fine point colored Sharpies, and if that did no good I'd at least try to get a phone interview with Barbara Walters to tell her all about how my traumatic experience in that room has changed my life and how once I get out I'm going to devote the rest of my life to the betterment of mankind.


John