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Learning How To Live (6/22)

Jan 23, 2009 20:09

Title: Learning how to live
Authors: jerseystrife , alixzin and I
Rating: mild M for some unpleasant adult themes
Summary: Something is terribly wrong with Barney Stinson and his friends have all started to notice him avoiding them. When questions arise, Barney fights to keep his secrets and to keep the life he's grown comfortable with living.
Disclaimer: Sadly, ( Read more... )

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idioticonion January 23 2009, 21:36:17 UTC

I've edited out the "would". Definitely a type in the editing. Thanks! :D

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idioticonion January 23 2009, 22:18:15 UTC

>He makes a boatload of money and speaks so many different languages. I wouldn't be surprised if he went through med school at some point...

He definitely has the smarts to get himself into an executive job where he really doesn't seem to need to actually *work* very much.

Wish I could replicate that. :-)

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da_phoenix13 January 23 2009, 21:35:21 UTC

Yikes! I hope Barney doesn't end up getting hurt because he left.

It's weird: for once, I'm kind of Ted's side on this one... Barney's too secretive for his own good. Awesome how Doogie's been apparently dumbing himself down all this time, though. And Battleship made a return: yay!

Can't go on... incoherent with awe at the awesomeness that is this story. Anxiously waiting for more now!

idioticonion January 23 2009, 21:37:51 UTC

Yeah, we've left this on a bit of a cliffhanger haven't we? Cool. :D

And it's nice seeing Barney's smarts come through. I'm sure he dumbs himself down on the regular show also.

jerseystrife January 23 2009, 21:49:26 UTC

Barney is very secretive on the show, we barely know anything about him or what he does for a living. The gang only knows a little about him even in the beginning of the series when he knew them for at least 8 years!

Plus.. Marshall works with him and even HE isn't sure what Barney does still.

Doogie hasn't really been dumbing himself down because he is obviously very smart and competitive for the company he works for.. and also pretty high up there to sit in on board meetings with the company heads. I guess I want to say he just doesn't concentrate on the intellectual stuff as much as he used to?

da_phoenix13 January 24 2009, 04:08:04 UTC

>I guess I want to say he just doesn't concentrate on the intellectual stuff as much as he used to?

Yeah, that totally makes sense. But now that he's dying, I guess he's going back to the intellectual stuff, to keep his mind active. And you're making that very clear in the story.

I know you said that people don't need to have watched Doogie to like this story, but I think watching it has helped me understand what you're talking about a little better.

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otempora42 January 27 2009, 19:27:55 UTC

OK, so normally I don't read long fics until they've finished updating, since I'm an impatient cow, but I decided to take a shot on this, since you guys update pretty often, and I'm glad I did. This is really intriguing and the characters are great. I haven't watched Doogie, but it still makes a lot of sense.

I've often wondered about Barney -- he's fluent in at least two or three languages, and he obviously knows about maths from the whiteboard in "Shelter Island", but then he lacks basic knowledge like that France and Sweden are not the same place. Either he's got some weird learning gaps somewhere, or he's pretending to be a lot dumber than he is.

asolitaryraven February 19 2009, 19:08:19 UTC

Oh no, Barnacle.... =( *needs to know what happens next...*
But no wait, before I run to the next chapter:

"In her stressed out mind every bad thing that happened in the world was connected to Barney being sick."
Just awwwwwwwww.... =)

And Ted or somebody in the actual show should ask Barney why the hell he's so smart too! I mean, the answer will probably not be because I was Doogie Howser (though after The Stinson we can't really be sure about that, can we? ;), but there's gotta be something in Barney's past. Like everything people said in the other comments, the many languages he speaks, his job (whatever it is he does, it's at least nothing for stupid people), his 'the price is right skills',... plus that he runs a marathon just like that! I know that hasn't really got anything to do with the brain, but it sort of fits in with the whole theme of 'things somebody who really can't tell Sweden from France shouldn't be able to do', which btw. really doesn't go well with the fact that his Tuesday's are war with Portugal ( ... )

idioticonion February 20 2009, 09:06:43 UTC

>And Ted or somebody in the actual show should ask Barney why the hell he's so smart too!

Absolutely. It was certainly one of the things that made us suspicious that he's actually Doogie Howser. ;-)

I remember reading an interview with Neil one time where he was asked why he thinks he always gets cast as super-smart guys. Neil said it's because he's got a massive forehead! They must think he has a big brain. Neil assured the interview that he definitely hasn't. Hehe.

asolitaryraven February 20 2009, 12:49:56 UTC

I read that too... and it's totally sweet how humble he is. ^.^
Though what he should have said is, that he got cast as the super-smart guy role of Barney Stinson because HIMYM won't end with Ted meeting the mother, but with Barney revealing he's actually Doogie Howser! *believes strongly in that* But of course he couldn't have said that because of not revealing spoilers etc... ;)