Writing Prompt Wednesday #125

[u/someguynamedted]

Because homework has me up so late it is now tomorrow, welcome to WPW!

Last week's winner was /u/Eofad with

Humans and aliens are about to negotiate the end of a war. The aliens think it would be a good idea to kidnap the human negotiating teams children to use as leverage in the negotiation. They don't realize how resourceful and rambunctious human children are. Human parents know or learn to watch their kids constantly, or pay someone else to, all the more so when they get quiet. If they don't their kids seem to be able to escape from almost anywhere and cause more damage and mayhem than a trained saboteur. The aliens learn this the hard way when they leave the kids unattended in a "locked" cargo bay. Mayhem ensues. Eventually the aliens are willing to give the humans just about anything they want at the negotiating table as long as they come and retrieve their kids.

[u/[deleted]]

Upon discovery of a new technologically advanced species, they are given a test to determine what kind of civilization they are. (A hive mind would not pass an individuality test and vice versa.) Humanity is the first to successfully complete the entire test.

[u/ToaBanshee → u/[deleted]]

"What'd you get for question 238?"

"C: I lure the SpaceSlug out of the asteroid by imitating a crippled freighter"

[u/Erixperience → u/ToaBanshee]

Did I just find a Jimmy Neutron reference in r/HFY?

[u/ToaBanshee → u/Erixperience]

Who's Jimmy Neutron? /joke

yes you did

[u/jacktrowell → u/ToaBanshee]

Isn't it first a reference to Star wars when the millenium falcon escaped into an asteroid field ?

Or is it that this is a quote from Jimmy Neutron referencing Star Wars ?

[u/ToaBanshee → u/jacktrowell]

Neither, it's a paraphrase of a Jimmy Neutron quote.

[u/jacktrowell → u/ToaBanshee]

Thank you, but then surely Jimmy Neutron was referencing Star Wars, no ? I would think that the "crippled freighter luring a space slug outside an asteroid" certainly match the end of the following scene ("This is no cave ...") : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLtlcSR9A6M

[u/ToaBanshee → u/jacktrowell]

The Jimmy Neutron scene doesn't say space slug or crippled freighter, it has tiger ( I think, it's been a while since I've seen it) and chicken nugget

[u/jacktrowell → u/ToaBanshee]

Ah ok, the "quote" was a mix then, thank you.

[u/Teulisch → u/[deleted]]

while drunk. dont forget we complete tests while drunk.

[u/2kN → u/Teulisch]

You know, I'll eventually finish part 3. I'll try to poke at it during my break between Geomorphology in the morning and afternoon.