Thursday, January 29, 2009

My preciousss

A trumpet sounded. A voice was heard. A celebration was called. The rulers of many races and kingdoms met on a dark but glorious night. Ryan of the far north, Kevin and Ryan the Elder whose province lies in the north-east, maiden Charity of the north-west, and myself sought out a place to talk. After the festivities had passed, we nobles met in the great hall to discuss the future of the western kingdom. Rumours and messages had been heard from the far west country that J.J. had discovered a powerful and intriguing force. This force had driven J.J. to seek more and more until he had the most of any kingdom.

"One ring to rule them all," he shouted to the message bearers, "and in the darkness bind them!" J.J., this young ruler from the west, had summoned tens of Followers to join him. His power had increased with each one. He could now manipulate the minds of others by posting for his Followers to eyes to see.

Meanwhile, this celebration in the south had caused many alliances kingdoms to come together and resolutely plan a strategy. Ryan of the far north stamped his foot, "He has more Followers than all of us. If this powerful ring of Followers becomes too great, it could destroy Middle Earth!"
"We must stop him." Many of the nobles said forcefully.
I then proposed an idea, "We could remove these Followers from him. If he was left destitute, he could only turn to us for help." After much careful planning, it was decided. Each kingdom would do their part to remove the ring of Followers from J.J.'s hands. None knew the reaction it would bring.
That night I told J.J.'s elder brother of the plan. I knew that I could trust Andrew to help. He knew better than anyone the true power of the ring. I made an alliance with Andrew that I would let him be the best man in my wedding if I got married in the next year if he would send messages abroad to the many Followers requesting that they relinquish the power from J.J.. The following morning each kingdom did their planned part to obliterate J.J.'s ring of power. Some sadly didn't receive the messages in time, others simply disregarded Andrew's pleas, but had been done. J.J.'s power had been reduced to less than many of the other kingdoms. Amd his reaction surprised even the most brave hearted of us:

"My preciousss! We loves you!" He cried in agony. He already felt his strength diminishing, "Oh, my Followers! Come back!" I here have a secret messaging between Andrew and me:

Andrew: Levi it worked perfectly!!! He already noticed...he is devastated...He looked at your blog and said, "Oh, no. Levi has more followers than me!" lol Then he said, "Who does Levi have that I don't!" lol..hahaha this is wonderful! Don't say anything to him. Let's see how long he will go.
Sent at 1:20 PM on Tuesday
Levi: OK!!!!! Great!!
Andrew: eheheheh
When will we tell him?
Levi: I don't know.
After he finds out I guess
You're still following him!!!!
Andrew: hhhhehehehhe
Levi: Andrew!
How could you!?
Andrew: Hey!!!!!!!!! JJ must have logged in and did that
Levi:
lol
uh oh
Andrew:
That boy!
Levi:
lol
Andrew:
I logged in and stopped following him in His account
tooo lol
Levi:
lol
Andrew:
He didn't know how it happened!
I just made him stop following himself again!
lol hehehe


I now have a recorded correspondence between J.J. and his brother Andrew:

JJ: liar
Andrew: That was sarcasm
not lying
JJ: you did something
you did
you haven't tried to help me at all
you just lauh
*laugh
Andrew: Well, it is funny the way your acting over some followers. Most people don't even look at anybodies blogs through that. They usually always go straight to the blogger
Am I right?
JJ: I don't care
you did something
Andrew: How would I do something?
JJ: you removed Matt
Andrew: I don't even know who Matt is?
Levi's friend?
JJ: Andrew, please
Andrew: How could I break into Matt's account?
JJ: I don't know
stoppit
Andrew: I promise I am not making anybody stop following your blog.
But I officially have more followers than you!!!!
Yay! I won!
JJ: Andrew, why did you remove Matt, and not anymore (to make me have 11... not 12..) why haven't you done anymore?
Andrew: lol...I didn't remove Matt! lol
JJ: you did something

I suppose that I'll stop the fantasy, Lord of the Rings business now (it's too hard), but here's the scoop on what happened next. I was gone from the computer most of that day, but in the evening when I came back, I found that J.J. had fewer and few followers. Here is my chat with Andrew:

Andrew:
Oh....Levi:!....lol...JJ is sooo mad that he keeps losing more and more followers...haha. I feel bad for him!
All those people that I commented on the blogs are finally stopping...hehe. He keeps researching to find what is wrong!
Levi:
LOL
LOL
LOL
Andrew:
lol
Don't give in yet though
Levi:
That's too funny.
of course
We'll probably wait about a week

I hope
Andrew:
I want to have more then him too!
Levi:
He doesn't have a clue?
Andrew:
Well, he is pretty smart...so he has hounded me
But he thought that I might have done something that will make his followers stop following
lol
But he really doesn't know!
lol
I almost started laughing that would give it away...but I held it in!
Ahhhh...did you see his post?
Levi:
Yeah!
Andrew: lol


Through the night I continued chatting with JJ and Andrew. The best part was that Andrew only had 12 followers on his website, and JJ's followers dropped until it hit 11. This of course made him think Andrew did it, but it was simply chance (whoever of you decided to keep on following JJ: Thank you!). Several times through the evening JJ got more people to follow him which brought it up to twelve. Thankfully, they were all people on my chat list and I could quickly tell them to stop following! Here is one of the many statuses JJ had on his chat:

JJ: do you wonder why it is now down to 11 again? why did it stop? why did it start again? why did Andrew not want me to go to blogger help? why has he treated it as a joke? why did it remove you right after Andy went upstairs? I have my suspicion.

And here is a short conversation I had with him:

Levi:
JJ
really
JJ:
Levi
I wouldn't mind this
but he won't say one way or another
Levi:
oh come on
JJ:
I've spent the whole day trying to fix it
Levi:
You're still thinking about that?
JJ:
Levi
swap places
Levi:
If you spent the whole day, you wasted the whole day.
lol
JJ:
I know
and he knows it
Levi:
lol
haha
JJ:
/me doesn't feel like laughing
did you do anything, Levi?


Towards the end of it all I really felt bad, so I'm glad that JJ now doesn't mind now. I had told Andrew that I wouldn't tell JJ until Andrew gave his OK. So for quite a while I was trying to persuade Andrew to let me tell JJ. Finally we both consented to tell him:

Andrew:
hush...........
Don't telll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DO NOT TEll!!!
Levi:
I won't
Andrew:
What's up Levi:?

Levi:
I'm going to give JJ a hint
ok?
Andrew:
What?
NO!
WHat?
Levi:
I have to
a subtle hint
Andrew:
What is it?
Levi:
to look on the blogs of the people that were following him
I'm just about to tell him
that
ok?
Andrew:
No....Just Sign OUt!
Levi:
no
I feel too bad
Andrew:
C'mon
I will tell him
Levi:
PLEASE Andrew?
Remember it was my idea from the very start
Andrew:
I'll tell him myself
Levi:
ok
make it pretty subtle
Andrew:
Tell him everything
Levi:
really?
no
have him call me
Andrew:
What do you mean?
Levi:
and we can both tell him
I think it's gone too far
ok?
Andrew:
OK...In 3 mins when I get off the phone
Levi:
Nooooo
faster!!!!!
Andrew:
I'm on the phone with Katie
Levi:
I know!
Andrew:
So wait
Levi:
hurry


After Andrew got off the phone with his sister Katie, they called me up on Google Talk and Andrew asked JJ what he thought happened. JJ said he thought it might be that his computer or blogger was messed up. He also thought Andrew might be behind it all. Finally we told him all that had happened. At first he was still miffed that we had ruined his day, but as he started thinking more about how everyone was thinking about him all day(the main point of why he wanted the followers), he started getting more and more happy. Soon he was laughing at his own things he wrote. By the way, his site originally said, "I don't need no more friends. I need more followers."


So there you have it folks! You can read more about it at http://www.jjfortheking.blogspot.com/ and I think Andrew will be putting up some exclusive footage he took on his camera http://www.andrewbiddinger.com/makeitcount/ . Also, I did slightly edit the chats, but just a very tiny ammount.

God bless you all!

14 comments:

Matt said...

LOL I was actually part of this. Case you don't know, though you should, I was the "Matt" that JJ accused Andrew of removing. I think. Unless there's another Matt... But anyway that was a hilarious prank! I'm going to have to find someone else I can do that too that doesn't know about it.

Anonymous said...

Levi, I laughed through this whole post!

"...everyone was thinking about him all day(the main point of why he
wanted the followers)..." LOL ;)

Wow, you kept my original status and everything!

GREAT post, Levi!

J.J.

Anonymous said...

This never gets old. =D

In Him,
Courtney

Andrew Biddinger said...

lol...Levi! I love it! LOVE IT, LOVE IT! The LotR intro was so amazingly funny. Soooo true..hehe.

Now, you know I'm going to get you married before the year ends, so I can be the honored best man! You asked for it! Hmm...now all I need is to find a ___ for you. lol

You shouldn't have dangled this temptation in front of me.

Rachel said...

Levi that is hilarious!!!
I had alot of fun reading it.
Good job!

Ryan said...

Ryan of the far north stamped his foot, "He has more Followers than all of us. If this powerful ring of Followers becomes too great, it could destroy Middle Earth!"

Wait just a minute, Stamped his foot? You've GOT to be kidding me!!! Couldn't he have slammed his fist on the table or something? Stamped his foot, WHEN was the last time you saw Ryan from the far north stamp his foot? Everyone reading this who doesn't know him is going to think he was throwing a tantrum or something. I'm offended Levi, I really am.

The mighty Ryan of the far north

Joel Cooper said...

Levi,
I agree with Ryan. You do make him sound like a little girl throwing a tantrum. Great job!

Andrew Biddinger said...

...LOL...

(I'm not saying anything about the comment right above mine)

Levi Bendixen said...

Hold your horses Ryan. In my mind, you were some beefy dwarf pounding his huge, strong foot down onto the ground, nearly breaking the tile.

But I think your brother, Joel, probably got the right perspective on things.

Anonymous said...

I can picture Ryan STAMPING his foot like a little girl!
How cute! :) LOL!

Ryan said...

Joel, you'd better watch it!

Levi, DWARF! You are now reducing me,(gag) to a DWARF!!!

Maiden Charity of the north-west, Sigh.

Ryan of the far north

Joel Cooper said...

Levi,
Of course I have the right perspective. If anyone here has the right perspective its me. I have to endure his tantrums on a day to day basis.

Ryan,
I'm not afraid of you. Besides its not right to threaten someone for telling the simple truth.

Andrew Biddinger said...

Well...aren't we having a nice family discussion here.

Anonymous said...

LOL, *dies laughing* that was sooo funny, poor, poor, JJ, but ,I have to admit, that's why I started following so soon, I felt sorry for poor destitute JJ.