Opps!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRbK6Fo3xow
This is what happens when you use the "moveObjects On" cheat, then move a sim out of a hot tub, then remove the hot tub.  I had seen similar posts on You Tube, and wondered if I could make that trick work, and apparently, the answer is YES!

Mitchell and Michael---the story so far in pictures

This is Mitchell. Mitchell  is the youngest of the twins, being born just minutes after Michael, on Monday, June 5th, 1961, at Allen Memorial Hospital, Waterloo, Iowa.  Like his human counterpart (ahem...that's me!), Mitchell is adventurous and a risk taker, but far more athletic than I.  Mitchell is also quite the ladies man, and works out regularly to keep his muscular frame in top shape.  Mitchell isn't a narcissist person, but doggone it, he worked hard to get that physique and he isn't shy showing off his body, and goes through a wardrobe faster than you can say "Narnia".  And he always seems to know where Maxis hides that in-game camera!

Michael, on the other hand...

Well, Michael is a really nice guy, but hon-nee, let's get those fab five out of retirement already, shall we?  Well, I have actually experimented with Mitchell and Michael's looks a lot since I started going on a downloading binge, and well...it does look better for Michael, but I'll get to that later. Unlike his human counterpart, THIS Michael is a real bookworm.  (Like the 1950's fraternity sweater didn't give that one away already?!) Even so, the real me NEVER looked this good when I was matriculating at Columbus High School, so I must have been a real nerd, huh?   Meanwhile, here's a few pictures of Mitchell and Michael after they first moved in:

When Mitchell and Michael moved out of their parent's house, they didn't have a lot of money, so mommy Margaret---who never knew the meaning of the phase, "cut the apron strings"--- 

bought them a whole set of clothes.  See how mommy dressed "her two widdle men"? Ugh!  How embarrassing!  I mean, they're adults now...shouldn't they be beyond that? 

Well, it could get worse....

Way, way, worse.  Observe:

That's Mitchell on his first day at work as a team mascot for the Covert Cove Llamas!

Michael, trying his best to look as hunky as Mitchell.  He should loose the glasses, right?

Michael on his first day at work as an EMT.

Funny what a white lab coat can do to  make a guy look importiant!

Here's one of Mitchell after the first make over and before he and his brother went "on strike". 

Mitchell and Michael's den!

Here's the den, looking left...

And the den, looking right as you enter it from the living room.  I can't recall where all of the furnishings came from, but as memory serves me correctly, the majority of the furnishings are from Mango Sims, the wall coverings are from Sugah's Place, and there's a couple of tall floor lamps that are just behind the field of view here that are from Colour Sims.  I just had to have a touch of Art Deco in this house, and you'll see my Art Deco ladies just behind Mango's black chairs in the top picture.

And of course, my favorite "accessory" of the all...

My boys, Mitchell and Michael, after one of my infamous make overs!  (More on that later)  Notice the floor lamp behind Michael's elbow?

And here they are, enjoying a relaxing moment in Mango's black chairs:

Michael....

And Mitchell (l) , again, with Michael.  Yes, I had given the boys a make over, and while I am quite pleased the general look, I realized that I was aging them a bit too fast, and so THEY decided to go on strike until I changed them back.  Well, we worked out a compromise:  They kept their goatees, but lost the grey, and Mitchell went back to his wavy hair and ditched the "George Clooney on ER" look, trimmed his goatee down to a soul patch and lost the shades, and Michael also went back to dark brown but kept the glasses and the cap, and I let the boys go shopping for some new non-matching outfits to "compensate for pain and suffering"  (What a couple of brats, huh?)  But they assured "Dad" that once they hit 35, they would go back to this look.  This is a shot of the two while we were in the negotiation stage:

April 2010---Mitchell and Michael are born!

As I stated in my profile, Mitchell (r) and Michael (l) are twin brothers, based loosely on me, 30 years ago.  I never had a twin in real life, but I remember how I used to fantasize of what life would be like if I had one.  As I've played out their Sim-ish (Is that a word?) existence on my ancient Gateway E 3100 with just under 1 G ram and a mere 80 G of hard drive, I've discovered that Mitchell is the adventurous athletic (and mildly oversexed) one, while Michael is the bookworm with a secret desire to quit medicine and go into the arts someday and perform with Mitchell.  Both are quite talented with musical instruments, as you will soon learn, and my boys are hopelessly devoted to one another.  But, as the story will progress, they will be split up somewhat, as Cupid has indeed smitten Mitchell with desires of matrimony to a certain Dorothy Gale, another one of my Sims, who is aptly named because of her uncanny resemblance to the late Judy Garland. 

But more on that later.  Michael, on the other hand, has pineings for Dorothy's twin, Judy Gale, but what Michael doesn't know is that his beloved has the hots for Mitchell, and Mitchell  being somewhat of the the stereotypical "dumb jock" unfortunately, doesn't see it coming, and has naively fallen for her game and thinks that she's just being coy and playful, when in fact, she's just using Michael to get to Mitchell.  So, in the end, will Mitchell see through the facade and expose this vixen or will he succumb and be forced to choose between Dorothy and her sister, Judy?  Or, will Michael discover his lady's unfaithful heart and expose her on time, or can Mitchell spot the Shrew himself?  (I wonder if Shakespere had this much trouble developing his Kate character as I do developing Judy?)  Or better yet, can Judy be tamed and become the lady that Michael thinks that she already is?  Only time can tell.  Personally, I hope that in the end, Judy can find redemption and be the virtuous woman that her twin sister, Dorothy is, because I kinda like the idea of twins marrying twins.