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AimusSage

02-27-2006, 01:06 PM

I see no errors! That's wonderful talent you have there. How long does that take you?

It took me about 100 hours, and not such a big talent yet, it's from a beginners kit, not that that means much, since they still assume you know many basic things about woodworking, and be familiar with sailing terms.

For real talent, check out drydock models (http://www.drydockmodels.com/) and take a look in the gallery, there are some truly talented modellers there, some of them just build these ships from plans, and create almost everything themselves.

As for errors, where to begin, the bow is totally the wrong shape because of planking errors, the rigging is not properly tightend, one of the pump on the deck is glued shut, instead of being able to move, the stern was broken, and had to be reconstructed, and many many more, but I still like it despite all those flaws.

sdr4jc

02-27-2006, 01:20 PM

Well here's a secret for ya:

Most people who see that ship are complete morons like myself, and if you never point out the mistakes, we'll never know, and we'll just think you're awesome, and we'll never be the wiser!

Wink, wink!

Riesa

02-27-2006, 01:50 PM

Well here's something interesting about me: I don't have a clue to what runts are. Unless you mean the smallest puppy out of a litter? But then why would Papaya eat the green and not the yellow? :confused:

I am so confused. :confused: :blush:

:lol: :lol: :lol:
Um, most of you probably know this, but I have three Miniature
Donkeys, I guess that's interesting. Maybe not. okay,..hmmm, I lived in Brazil for a couple of years. I found it interesting.

Virgil

02-27-2006, 01:55 PM

Three. I didn't know you had three. One for each child?

Riesa

02-27-2006, 02:08 PM

I suppose you could look at it that way. I acquired two pregnant jennets, and one has had her baby recently, the other is due in June (or so) I hope this doesn't mean I have to have another baby myself....

Chava

02-27-2006, 04:00 PM

Speaking of modelling, i like to paint warhammer... (not very feminine, but really cool)
and also, my second toe is longer than the big one...

sdr4jc

02-27-2006, 04:02 PM

Riesa,

Runts are sold at Walmart and various other places, they come in an orange box and they're made by Wonka. They are fruit-shaped and fruit-flavored (supposedly anyway) bite-sized candies. Walmart usually sells them for 88 cents a box, it's worth grabbing a box to try them!

Wink wink!

Here's another one about me:

I've been arrested. Not that I'm proud of it. Who else can say the same?

TodHackett

02-27-2006, 04:10 PM

Arrested for what?

I got my hand mangled in a blender once...

Riesa

02-27-2006, 04:19 PM

Riesa,

Runts are sold at Walmart and various other places, they come in an orange box and they're made by Wonka. They are fruit-shaped and fruit-flavored (supposedly anyway) bite-sized candies. Walmart usually sells them for 88 cents a box, it's worth grabbing a box to try them!

Wink wink!

Thanks, but I was laughing at Virgil's ignorance (for once), and Papaya's hilarity. ;) Of course, I
know what runts are, though Virgil can analyze a poem, so he's got me beat. :goof:

No, I've never been arrested, but I've talked my way out of a few speeding tickets.

sdr4jc

02-27-2006, 04:23 PM

Yep, arrested. Obtaining narcotics by fraud, but the DA reduced it to simple possession because I was so cooperative. Last December. It's horrible, don't ever do it. It's a nightmare.

simon

02-27-2006, 07:23 PM

What's the story behind the mangled hand in the blender, sounds like a drunken tale or a mischievious child.

Virgil

02-27-2006, 09:17 PM

Speaking of modelling, i like to paint warhammer... (not very feminine, but really cool)
and also, my second toe is longer than the big one...
OK, I've already looked like an old fogey above by not knowing runts. Do I venture to ask what a warhammer is? I'm imagining that you're a long lost Viking ready to raid and pillage.

simon

02-27-2006, 10:16 PM

I don't know what a warhammer is either, indulge us, bitte schon.

rachel

02-28-2006, 01:51 AM

poor sdr4jc

I was arrested also.

I absolutely HATE runts. :D

Nightshade

02-28-2006, 03:12 AM

me? is there anytghing intersiting about me??
When I grow up IM going to be a giant and collect my favourite people in jars. :eek2:
:p?
no Im not kidding IM serious :goof:

simon

02-28-2006, 03:34 AM

What do your favorite people in jars get fed? If it's not something delicious you are going to be shortshrift of friends before you reach any gargantuan height.

Nightshade

02-28-2006, 03:42 AM

oh umm lets see biscuits, brownies not cheesecake (becasue thats All mine!) soups potatoes and cream roasts things like that.
:D

simon

02-28-2006, 03:43 AM

Would those brownies have extra frosting on them?

Nightshade

02-28-2006, 03:52 AM

frosting on brownies :sick:
But I suppose if they really want frosting could do that.
Or makbe a bowl of frosting to dipp yur brownies in?\

:D

simon

02-28-2006, 03:57 AM

chocolate frosting of course

AimusSage

02-28-2006, 04:43 AM

I don't know what a warhammer is either, indulge us, bitte schon.

I would venture a guess and say it is Warhammer 40000, a tabletop strategy game, which uses actual minature figurines representing units like soldiers. I've been told it is quite an interesting game, although I never got into it myself.

Jay

02-28-2006, 01:15 PM

Models, hmmm, models. I used to build plastic jet models. Not enought time to nowadays. It's fun. My fave is an F-14 (my first) and a Harrier (I like the painting, one of my not so messed ones :p).

Themis

02-28-2006, 01:43 PM

Hmmm...okay I'll go again. Being in the medical field, I've seen my share and more of blood, gore, broken bones, amputations, organs, death, birth, and vomit. None of it bothers me like the sound of hacking a loogie does. THAT will make me puke.

Uh ... ugh.
Is it interesting to know that the mere narration of a medical student's day can make me want to puke? Of course, that particular student whose reports have that sort of effect, tends to tell his tales over lunch or dinner without leaving out any of the gruesome details....

Scheherazade

02-28-2006, 01:49 PM

Obtaining narcotics by fraud, but the DA reduced it to simple possession because I was so cooperative.Come to think about it, what is more natural than a pharmacist 'possessing' narcotics, right?

:p

RobinHood3000

02-28-2006, 04:38 PM

Models, hmmm, models. I used to build plastic jet models. Not enought time to nowadays. It's fun. My fave is an F-14 (my first) and a Harrier (I like the painting, one of my not so messed ones :p).
F-14s--very cool, as is the Harrier. The former is by far my favorite fighter plane, and the thrust vectoring on the latter is uniquely intriguing.

Weeping Willow

02-28-2006, 05:01 PM

Speaking of modelling, i like to paint warhammer... (not very feminine, but really cool)

I loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove warhammer! as well :)

And.. well.. something about me.. ah....
well.. a month before i've got Drafted to the Army i cracked my ankle and since the Army igonred that now my legs can't reach the same piont when i startch them.. :eek2:
Wierd enough no?.. :p

sdr4jc

02-28-2006, 08:19 PM

Come to think about it, what is more natural than a pharmacist 'possessing' narcotics, right?

:p

Crazy, huh? It was a big misunderstanding. I was guilty, but hey, we all make mistakes. There was only one perfect person who ever lived, and they killed him. What am I to say? There was definately a reason (and a good one at that) I did what I did, but there's never an excuse. But if you just saw me on the street, or met me in a store somewhere, nobody would EVER guess it. I am the sweetest, mildest, prettiest, blonde hair and blue eyes, conservatively dressed lady you can possibly think of. I smile and laugh all the time, always clean and refreshed, taken care of, stuff like that. And so that helps to "disguise" it a lot. In fact, most people who know about it, they had to hear it from me before they'd believe it because it's so bizarrly out of my character!

Who would'a thunk it? :lol:

poor sdr4jc

I was arrested also.

I absolutely HATE runts. :D

What were you arrested for?

Xamonas Chegwe

02-28-2006, 08:54 PM

poor sdr4jc

I was arrested also.

I absolutely HATE runts. :D

Are runts illegal then? Why don't they prosecute Wallmart in that case? "The law is like a spiders web, the little flies get caught, but the bumble bees just breeze on through!" It makes me soooooooo mad!! :rage:

rachel

03-01-2006, 12:02 AM

I had fled from my ex-husband and was in a safe house-apartment style with tons of security locks and punch numbers. Wayne had me tracked down(he actually hired a hit man who was arrested for a broken tail light-it was the police who arrested him and told me) and I was arrested with my baby laying on the couch, the older ones crying and hysterical. I had to appear before the judge who said I should be incarcerated for not handing over the children. After months in a losing battle( I had given wayne everything including the house, car andmy half of the business) in supreme court it was the day before the decision. I said a tearful goodbye to the children( I was allowed to take the baby to court) because I thought I would not see them again. Oddly a different judge was there and he took a long time to read everything. meanwhile the psychologist I was ordered to attend(eighty bucks an hour) with the older children had sent a frantic letter by courier to the judge. He not only awarded me my children but appointed the attorney general as their advocate.
later when wayne remarried he and his wife sent an 'anonymous complaint' to the Ministry for child protection saying I was the head of a child porno gang. Again I was ...well in the end they got in big trouble for what they did. It was a long journey into hell and back. And people that were my friends except a few all left me. But I have the children, if I had to go back and do it again for them I would.

Virgil

03-01-2006, 12:15 AM

Wow, Rachel. That is something.

RobinHood3000

03-01-2006, 12:24 AM

Aye, that it is. 'Tis a wonder our rachel is as friendly and optimistic as she is. Shall we show our appreciation for her?

~CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP~

Nightshade

03-01-2006, 02:57 AM

Robin dear I think these might be useful
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but I wouldnt clap thats just tooowhatsthe word Im looking for, makes an understatment of the our apreciation Rachel you are A--mazing:nod:

Ok an interesting thing about me: I am addicted to reading. And I mean really If I dont read anything for more than 10 days I cant sleep, become very very short tempered and pretty nearly dangerous.

Kaltrina

03-01-2006, 07:59 AM

Wow Rachel, you are a great mom and person... you deserve not just clapings but much more than that... :D

mingdamerciless

03-01-2006, 08:55 AM

I have an amazingly talented cat whose name changes every day. Yesterday it was Sponge bob square pants, today it is Magus and tomorrow i believe twill be . . . hmmm . . . . Psorisis??

sdr4jc

03-01-2006, 10:54 AM

Rachel~

Keep those babies safe from him! They are priceless and make sure they know it!

Hmmm...something else...I've never weighed more than 98 lbs. I'm 23 and been married for 3 years now. (no kids, obviously) And no eating disorder either. Just what God (didn't) give me!

higley

03-01-2006, 11:11 AM

How awful, rachel :( what a truly rotten guy. I'm glad you got your kids back.

as for my lone, idiotic talent...I can lick my elbow.

Virgil

03-01-2006, 11:50 AM

as for my lone, idiotic talent...I can lick my elbow.
Wow, how do you do that?

AimusSage

03-01-2006, 12:36 PM

Wow, how do you do that?

I am guessing she does it with her tongue. :)

Yes I know, It's a cheap joke, and not all that funny, but I couldn't help myself.

rachel

03-01-2006, 12:47 PM

How awful, rachel :( what a truly rotten guy. I'm glad you got your kids back.

as for my lone, idiotic talent...I can lick my elbow.

WHAT? THAT IS HILARIOUS. how can that even be? :lol: :lol: :lol:
one thing about being able to do that at a baseball game is that if the guy next to you accidentally gets mustard on your elbow from his hot dog you can merely lick it off and continue enjoying the game without having to go to the washroom and wash up.!!!!!Higley you are amazing!
And Aim, you are a funny guy! :lol:

higley

03-01-2006, 03:02 PM

RobinHood3000

03-01-2006, 05:38 PM

Hmmph. I could do the same, if I had about 200 mL of morphine and a hacksaw ;)...

Virgil

03-01-2006, 05:42 PM

Right-o, rachel.

I'm not sure why I can do that--for some reason it's not difficult at all. I ought to go on Maury or something, or Ripley's Believe It Or Not, except I'd have to be about two hundred pins in the face stranger than just being able to lick my elbow.
How do you do it? Do you twist your arm around clockwise or couterclockwise? Or neither, do you bend your elbow so that your hand goes behind your shoulder and your arm goes back enough for your mouth to touch the elbow?

simon

03-01-2006, 07:50 PM

I can just picture all the readers of this thread halting typing and peering at their elbows, and just one more time trying to lick their elbow, just to make double sure they can't do it.

kilted exile

03-01-2006, 08:01 PM

Ok, something interesting about me......well I used to be able to bend my pinkie back so that it touched the top of my wrist (however then I broke my hand on a wall, so can no longer do that)

higley

03-01-2006, 09:50 PM

Or neither, do you bend your elbow so that your hand goes behind your shoulder and your arm goes back enough for your mouth to touch the elbow?

That sounds right, Virgil. :)

Nightshade

03-02-2006, 07:22 AM

I used to be able to lick my elbow, when I was younger and more elasticcy, I read somwhere that if you licked your elbow you swapped genders. SO being an enthusastic 8 year old I tried it Then was terrified Id wake up in the morning as a boy.

Cant rember if I was dissapointed or not in the morning when I was still me. :lol:

Virgil

03-02-2006, 08:02 AM

That sounds right, Virgil. :)
All I can say is, no matter how hard I try I don't even come close. Good thing I have some private space. If anyone was watching me they would think I was an idiot. ;)

mingdamerciless

03-02-2006, 08:17 AM

hmmm well lets see. I was once on my local news for running round my town dressed up as a cow . . . . There's was a vaguely sensible reason, promise!

beer good

03-02-2006, 08:35 AM

My old apartment's previous owner was one of the prime suspects for the still-unsolved murder of our prime minister. I checked the whole apartment for clues. Never found any.

Pensive

03-02-2006, 10:57 AM

My old apartment's previous owner was one of the prime suspects for the still-unsolved murder of our prime minister. I checked the whole apartment for clues. Never found any.

Really? Are you serious? :eek2:

I have an interest towards Investigation. I am sure that if I would have checked the apartment, I would have find some clue or I would have invented the clue by myself. :D

beer good

03-02-2006, 11:15 AM

Hehe. I was half-tempted to manufacture some evidence and claim I found it when renovating... after all, that $6.5 million reward looked mighty tempting. Damn my honest disposition.

rachel

03-02-2006, 12:30 PM

Beer that is the COOLEST! I was an investigative reporter for a few years. The trouble with being in that business is and this is the truth, everyone wants you dead, everyone with a vested interest in the case not being solved that is. Oh to be in that apartment.My partner and I cracked at least three scarey cases and one of our dear friends paid with his life. But that IS life I guess.
Any chance of you running for Prime Minister, I would come over,take out citizenship and vote illegally for you eight thousand times. Then when you are voted in I would ask you to let me re open the investigation.

beer good

03-02-2006, 04:48 PM

Rachel: We have an election in about 6 months, if I decide to run and win I promise you instant citizenship. :lol:

rachel

03-02-2006, 06:53 PM

Yahoo,
and to thank you I will promise to learn how to say" I am innocent" in Swedish.
hug hug.

Scheherazade

03-03-2006, 01:46 PM

I have an amazingly talented cat whose name changes every day. Yesterday it was Sponge bob square pants, today it is Magus and tomorrow i believe twill be . . . hmmm . . . . Psorisis??Do you change the cat's name daily upon his request? Or is it some kind of security measure like banks changing their passwords and such daily??

sdr4jc

03-03-2006, 02:20 PM

Do you change the cat's name daily upon his request? Or is it some kind of security measure like banks changing their passwords and such daily??

See, cats often request this stuff. Cats are often stolen from their homes and taken to strange places where they are stuck with needles and forcefed awful pills. Sometimes they are even forced to endure a nail trim, only to be BODY SLAMMED into a small pool with suds. These places are not good, and many cats have teamed up for an ongoing investigation of this unspeakable horror. It truly does exist in our society, and the general consensus among the cats is this: "Whoever decided that we all must be clean and smell good needs to be shot."

I'll keep you posted on any updates or breaks in the investigation.

rachel

03-04-2006, 07:03 PM

I don't know if this is exactly interesting or just plain wierd. But when I was a registered nanny and entered a two year contract to take care of three Hawaiin-Swedish children the man of the house, a male nurse from the Big Island in Hawaii was the most extraordinary of men. He looked like Sidney Poitier, had been a fire walker back home(his mother, a gynormous wahine-beautiful though was tour guide) and had this obsession with the native dance.
So when I became the 'nanny' he undertook to teach me proper Hawaiian dance, very graceful, sensual and artistic. Every other night it seemed, up I had to get and he was ruthless. "no don't place your hands like that , you must be fluid, fluid, like the ocean and the warm scented air" I had to learn to speak Hawaiian and Polynesian and I had to make his food perfectly. The rice had to have just the right stickiness, the seaweed wrap just the right texture, the frozen raw(oh barf) bonito had to be sliced paper thin and the condiments(could heat up the artic!) had to be placed just so.His Swedish wife totally hated his perfectionism and was a slob, period. She constantly screamed at me to do this, he made me do that.(they kept making me undo each others previous orders) I felt a wreck. the children were all ADD and I had a nightmare of a time working on them because the lady was always so cross.
So I lived a very Hawaiian way of life and life seemed odd when the two years was up and I went back to my usual way of living.The children so didn't want me to go that Chance set fire to my bedroom in protest.
Still and all I loved living inside of a different culture just as I had done in Nelson and Trail's Italian section. Aloha!

Doctor Boogaloo

03-04-2006, 11:32 PM

I am adopted. Ten years ago, when I was a mere pup of fifty, I thought it might be fun to track down my biological mother. To make a long story short, I got hold of her phone number. I called. And she said, "You again? Why can't you just leave me alone?"

Actually, that's a joke I heard somewhere. But I am adopted. And the really weird thing is this: I was delivered to my adoptive parents' house, complete with a supply of food I'd been noshing at the foster place. It was a basket full of baby food. And all of it was MEAT. Seriously. I was three months old. No wonder I've got stomach problems.

belle ringer

03-05-2006, 12:23 AM

Woah. Meat? ALL of it? :goof: Now that is interesting.

rachel

03-05-2006, 08:48 PM

hey Doc,
well I was sort of 'stolen' and then kept by people who wouldn't let me go back to my mother(revenge, long story) and then no one cared and there I stayed. they were of a different culture(they celts, me Jewish).quite awful
But to this day I love intensely both cultures and I am grateful for that part.
Meat, at three months, what on earth? that is absolutely horrendous. I nursed two of my children until they were three and one of them didn't have solids to speak of until eleven months. You are definitely a survivor. I am very glad you are here with us. :thumbs_up :banana:

sdr4jc

03-06-2006, 04:03 PM

Hmmm

So this is exactly what I wanted in this thread! I'll keep it going here.

I went to high school with a girl named Halie. I didn't exactly sit at the same lunch table with her. In fact, we never spoke three words between us the whole four years. Just ran different circles.

So, once in college, I hadn't given her one thought in a few years, but out of the blue, I had a horrible nightmare one night. I dreamed that I could see her from up by the ceiling of a bathroom. The light in the bathroom was very strange, like it was nighttime, I could just sense it. She was laying in the floor by the toilet. I couldn't reach her, nor could I comprehend that it was a dream, thus I couldn't wake up, I was just stuck there watching her! She was barely moving, and then it seemed like I could hear very loud racket, probably music, in the background. Well I woke up sometime later, and this dream was so real that it bothered me until I called a classmate just to ask if Halie was okay. To my unspeakable horror, she told me that Halie had died that night from an overdose of Yellow Jackets. She was found in a friend's bathroom.

It's been four years ago, and it still bothers me just as much as it did then. I almost want to go talk to her parents or something, tell them what I saw, but what good would that do? I didn't even know her. Any comments? I don't talk about this much, so some other perspectives would be great.

RobinHood3000

03-06-2006, 04:24 PM

Wow--that is truly frightening. I would probably shy away from talking to the parents about it. Apparent support of ESP involving their daughter's death isn't going to help the coping process any.

rachel

03-06-2006, 05:05 PM

please don't. It would evoke the horror you saw and add more scars.I have had those strange things happen in my mind and sure enough the thing really happened. But I kept them to myself. If on the other hand I 'saw' that sort of thing and I KNEW the person was alright I would tell right away.
Once I had this I don't know what to call it because it was in the daytime, of two little paperboys doing their route and this guy came out of nowhere and talked to them and then they went behind a huge cement block that stands at the back of two houses(there is a huge precipe and below the highway). I knew the children were fine at that moment so I told in my most urgent but calm way. The next day when the boys went to do their route we walked a long way behind and ...I still cannot believe it,,,,when they got near the concrete partition a guy came out of nowhere and tried luring them behind it. We had help and I hope he was sent to jail, never found out. but the boys were fine and I never had anything like that again concerning that situation.
No I really would not tell them a thing. but that is just me. You on the other hand might need someone to talk to to help you release the horror and pain of that since it really happened-if you feel you need to. It can really help, you seem to feel guilt or responsibility to tell them. I say this because I do have my papers in Human relations counselling so I offer you just what I think only. Others might say something different.

Chava

03-07-2006, 07:54 AM

Something interesting about me.... I JUST GOT A JOB IN A BOOKSTORE!!! YEAH!

sdr4jc

03-07-2006, 02:54 PM

Something interesting about me.... I JUST GOT A JOB IN A BOOKSTORE!!! YEAH!

How much more could anyone ask for? You can read whatever book you want, whenever you want! And probably get paid for it, too! I'm in the wrong profession. Who needs a prescription when you've got books! :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

Stanislaw

03-07-2006, 04:29 PM

A realative (way back) on my mothers side was a pirate, and he actually barely managed to escape from the Admiral Benbow (a admiral bent on trying to rid the seas of piracy) alive. Now the cool part of this, is one of my good friends is a relative of the admial benbow. heh pretty wierd eh?

rachel

03-08-2006, 01:51 AM

you are such a cool pyratee person Stan, nothing you tell us about your life and connexions will surprise we landlubbers. aye

CHAVA conratulaions, how extremely unfair but cool. I am thrilled for you :thumbs_up

Chava

03-08-2006, 03:54 PM

I'm going to speand my days stacking books, catalogising books, ordering books, selling books... and upon occasion some stationary... followed by deep contented sigh
did I mention that i get a nice discount on books as well?? did I? did I?

rachel

03-08-2006, 09:43 PM

oiay that went over the line Chava.
I really couldn't be happier for you, you deserve that. read away bright angel

Nightshade

03-09-2006, 05:24 AM

So what now thats 2 of us who have startedworking in book shops in the last year, (that reminds me where did Rococo go?)
and me who started working in a library.
Thats great chava (but I get to order brand new boooks for FREE :D :lol: )

sdr4jc

03-09-2006, 03:02 PM

Okay ladies, let's start again!

I know sign language very fluently. How's that??!!

RobinHood3000

03-09-2006, 05:57 PM

I have a neck-cracking habit.

Stanislaw

03-09-2006, 06:43 PM

I have a neck-cracking habit.

neck cracking... like cracking necks or cracking yer neck bruce lee style?

papayahed

03-09-2006, 06:56 PM

I have a Boba Fett pez dispenser sitting on my desk. Kinda like my Talisman.

Stanislaw

03-09-2006, 07:00 PM

I have a Boba Fett pez dispenser sitting on my desk. Kinda like my Talisman.

That is so cool, I have a darthvader pezz sitting on mine. :thumbs_up

RobinHood3000

03-09-2006, 07:06 PM

neck cracking... like cracking necks or cracking yer neck bruce lee style?
Bruce Lee style--sometimes I can do it just by turning my head, other times I have to use more...coercive methods.

Stanislaw

03-09-2006, 07:21 PM

Bruce Lee style--sometimes I can do it just by turning my head, other times I have to use more...coercive methods.
cool, I used to do that when I was working in the wharehouse job, It would freek out the manager. :D

RobinHood3000

03-09-2006, 07:42 PM

Yeah, I know--it's a blast :D.

Incidentally, I have a Luke Skywalker Pez dispenser somewhere in my room...

Anon22

03-09-2006, 07:47 PM

Yeah, I know--it's a blast :D.

Incidentally, I have a Luke Skywalker Pez dispenser somewhere in my room...

hehe, reminds of that Seinfeld episode.

RobinHood3000

03-09-2006, 07:50 PM

Ooh, and a Stormtrooper, too...

Taliesin

03-10-2006, 08:16 AM

One of our great-great-great-grandfathers was the bastard son of a baron.
And one of our great-great-great-great-grandmothers got exchanged for four hunting dogs.

Virgil

03-10-2006, 08:24 AM

I don't know if this is an interesting fact about me, but I have never owned a pez dispenser. Frankly I don't think I've ever had pez.

Riesa

03-10-2006, 09:21 AM

One of our great-great-great-grandfathers was the bastard son of a baron.
And one of our great-great-great-great-grandmothers got exchanged for four hunting dogs.

That is interesting!! :lol: poor grammy.

I thought of this: For my 16th birthday, my parents took me and a friend to see Sammy Davis Jr. at Reno, we sat right up front, and I gave him flowers...he was so touched (or just super kind) he said "no one ever gives me flowers anymore" and proceeded to sing 'happy birthday to you' to me, and then dedicated 'Mr.Bojangles' to me. It was a memorable birthday, to say the least... then a few weeks later, he sent me some autographed photos, which I still have somewhere in my parents garage.

Keltic Banshee

03-10-2006, 09:43 AM

Well... something interesting about me... I'm leaving for Manchester on Sunday, (finally!) starting to work. I originally wanted to go to Dublin, but hopefully the company will find a project for me there after a few months in Manchester. Just in case anyone was wondering: I've been histerically crawling up the walls since I got word of this, which was just a couple of days ago...

Btw, anyone here living around there? Just curious :)

Wish you all the best,
Keltic Banshee

papayahed

03-10-2006, 10:38 AM

That is so cool, I have a darthvader pezz sitting on mine. :thumbs_up

all riggghttttt!!!! :D

I don't know if this is an interesting fact about me, but I have never owned a pez dispenser. Frankly I don't think I've ever had pez.

Were you raised by wolves? ;)

Stanislaw

03-10-2006, 11:35 AM

Were you raised by wolves? ;)

:D indeed! how can one go through life without having one pez?

Scheherazade

03-10-2006, 11:55 AM

:D indeed! how can one go through life without having one pez?Watch me! :p

sdr4jc

03-10-2006, 11:59 AM

Pez or no pez, you're all still funny.

Yeah but looks aren't everything.

(falling over laughing!!)

Scheherazade

03-10-2006, 12:03 PM

Yeah but looks aren't everything.So it seems!

:p

Stanislaw

03-10-2006, 12:08 PM

wow, lotso people without a single pez?

Bill Cosby: Beauty may only be skin deep, but ugly is to the bone! :D

SleepyWitch

03-10-2006, 12:18 PM

er.. there's nothing interesting about me... I've got a collection of 400+ postcards... that's sad, not interesting..

sdr4jc

03-10-2006, 01:03 PM

wow, lotso people without a single pez?

Bill Cosby: Beauty may only be skin deep, but ugly is to the bone! :D

I love it!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

rachel

03-10-2006, 01:29 PM

Sleepy,
that is an awesome collection and I would love to see them. And there is nothing mundane about you. Your avy and your sweetness prove that.

Stanislaw

03-10-2006, 01:34 PM

er.. there's nothing interesting about me... I've got a collection of 400+ postcards... that's sad, not interesting..

Hey, collecting stuff is not sad or crazy, I mean look at me I collect dustpans! Am I sad or crazy...well okay bad example, :D but no hobby is sad...well okay maybe collecting dead puppies, but postcard collecting is cool. :thumbs_up

papayahed

03-10-2006, 01:40 PM

yeah, I don't think it's sad collecting things, I have a baseball card collection from when was younger.

Virgil

03-10-2006, 01:50 PM

Were you raised by wolves? ;)
No, that would be even more interesting. :D

woeful painter

03-10-2006, 03:47 PM

nice thread...now if i could only find anything interesting with a nocturnal introvert such as myself hmmm...maybe i'll have an answer within three years or so...

Nightshade

03-11-2006, 05:44 AM

Btw, anyone here living around there? Just curious :)

Wish you all the best,
Keltic Banshee
ME! well no not really but I do live in the north west and do pop up their occasionally. hummm The airport trainline is down officially till march the 26th ( but there are rumors that they may not be fixed till june or july! :eek: ) mind you Im pretty sure the inner manchester trains are still running. If your under 24 Id get a young persons card if Your planning on travlling far by trains as prices are cripplng. lets see manchester, the Curry mile, china town. Traffod. and IM sure lots of other things but really I dont think ive evr been to Manchester Manchester only the out skirts.
OOh Manchester airpoort has all these great books shops oh wait no that the departure longe.
Ah well Enjoy yourself:D

sdr4jc

03-11-2006, 01:38 PM

I've hiked the Grand Canyon. Yipee!!

ElizabethSewall

03-12-2006, 04:52 AM

I'm not sure this could be considered as interesting but I talk to my dolls and read them tales before going to sleep... And I'm 20, yep!! :D
It is so sad to see them, motionless... :blush:

woeful painter

03-12-2006, 02:35 PM

you talk to your dolls? wow, i find that cute :D i don't have dolls. i used to talk to my pillow long ago :lol:

ElizabethSewall

03-12-2006, 02:37 PM

you talk to your dolls? wow, i find that cute :D i don't have dolls. i used to talk to my pillow long ago :lol:
Thank you! :blush:
Did you give your pillow a name? :D

rachel

03-12-2006, 03:03 PM

Elizabeth,
I read a story once from the deep south about a doll mansion that housed dolls that were dressed in southern finery and came alive when no one was about.I believed it passionately. I love dolls although I don't have any of my own. When Desiree was little I bought her dolls. She would grab them by the hair and throw them on the floor. I would pick them up gently hug them and apologize for her. She couldn't believe it. Baby Hasia though is just like me and it feels strange seeing her hold her dolls passionately and shower them with kisses like I did. And although I don't read stories to natalie and Noelle and the rest they do get put lovingly on a big arm chair in the evening at bedtime and are covered with a blankie.Hasia likes that and cannot sleep if they are not cozy. you can come here and I will read to all of you, baby, you and dollies.

ElizabethSewall

03-12-2006, 03:08 PM

Ma chère Rachel, how I would like that. And I could read to your sweet little girls and you too. The dolls would be so glad to have new friends!
Plenty of hugs to all the family and dollies...

sdr4jc

03-12-2006, 04:36 PM

Well I had an imaginary smurf friend who lived in the fireplace, and I used to talk to him all the time!

rachel

03-13-2006, 01:38 AM

aw, listen both of you just come over when you can for a sleepover and we shall have a tea party and all our dollies and imaginary friends can join us and we will read books we haven't read since we were babies and we shall have such a lovely time. I will cook and bake all day and make everything beautiful oui?
I will take out the camcorder and record our time together.
I can hardly wait.

SleepyWitch

03-13-2006, 06:07 AM

hey thanks for cheering me up everyone :) hehe,
hm, I've been to Mongolia. does that count as interesting? :)
I've got a cuddly dog called "Fuffel" (pronounced more like Foofle, but with a short oo) whom I've had since I was born. hehe, i take him with me whenever i go travelling, so he won't die on his own if the house should burn down... when I went to Mongolia he stayed with my best friend though... er, I'm 24 by the way :) I'm sure Fuffel would like Elizabeth's and rachel's dolls :)

RobinHood3000

03-13-2006, 06:53 AM

I'm sure Fuffel would like Elizabeth's and rachel's dolls :)
As breakfast or a midnight snack?

Virgil

03-13-2006, 08:05 AM

I've got a cuddly dog called "Fuffel" (pronounced more like Foofle, but with a short oo) whom I've had since I was born. hehe, i take him with me whenever i go travelling, so he won't die on his own if the house should burn down... when I went to Mongolia he stayed with my best friend though... er, I'm 24 by the way :) I'm sure Fuffel would like Elizabeth's and rachel's dolls :)
Fuffel is 24?! That's unbelievably old for a dog. That might actually be a record. Are you sure?

Scheherazade

03-13-2006, 08:23 AM

I think Sleepy means a soft toy dog, Virgil. :)

SleepyWitch

03-13-2006, 08:25 AM

I think Sleepy means a soft toy dog, Virgil. :)

er, yep that's what I meant :) was i butchering the English language?
i thought there was a word "cuddly toy" :confused: .. my Fuffel is one of those.

Virgil

03-13-2006, 08:31 AM

Oh, thanks. For a second there I thought you cracked the canine genetic code and reconfigured canine life span. Could have been a nobel prize in biology! ;)

Scheherazade

03-13-2006, 08:32 AM

er, yep that's what I meant :) was i butchering the English language?
i thought there was a word "cuddly toy" :confused: .. my Fuffel is one of those.There is a term 'cuddly toy', Sleepy, and your English is very good. However, Virgil may not be familiar with the world of toys and toy terminology! ;)

ElizabethSewall

03-13-2006, 11:25 AM

Dollies say hello to Fuffel. :wave:

woeful painter

03-13-2006, 12:58 PM

i'm back in late hehe,

Elizabeth,
yeah, i did had a name for my pillow once...err i forgot it. but i'm sure it's a girl's name. but could this be more shameful? i'm actually a guy. that's why i said i didn't have dolls, i wouldn't want them of course :) I've had the pillow issue up 'till i was almost to graduate elementary. it was err basically...how do you put it, mostly used for practice(?) :D what i could perhaps say or how to greet my crush, at least 5% of the total script is actually executed. (i'm so ashamed of my behaviors :blush:)

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I also had an imaginary friend, a rowdy bunch as i reckon
btw, can i join the sleepover rachel was inviting you guys for? i'll bring my pillow-friend :lol: or is it just for girls?

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oh yeah before i forget, i just want to wave a big HI for Sleepy's dog, Fuffel. HI Fuffel! :wave:

Virgil

03-13-2006, 01:30 PM

There is a term 'cuddly toy', Sleepy, and your English is very good. However, Virgil may not be familiar with the world of toys and toy terminology! ;)
I know what a cuddly toy is. I probably, though, am not familiar with most toys these days. I was just shocked that she had a dog live to 24 or I wouldn't have commented at all. ;)

Taliesin

03-13-2006, 03:51 PM

When we were around six or so, we had imaginary friends - cats.
Quite a lot of them.
http://mishuna.image.pbase.com/u21/singlo/upload/35054720.behemoth.jpg

rachel

03-13-2006, 06:03 PM

woeful,
you sound so adorable and such honesty, I thought most kids used mirrors for practice, that is what older kids taught me :blush:
And Sleepy your doggie is most welcome and will be given a seat of honor
woeful just bring that pillow, I want to just look at it. By the way did all that practise help?(and you have to tell us the name at the sleepover, we won't snitch.)
I am sorry but you will end up getting a facial and your toenails pedicured and painted but well I promise the homemade pizzas will be awesome and you girls can tell me what is your absolute favorite food and drink and it will be made to perfection.I grew up in the restaurant business and international cuisine is no problem for me.
I am getting so excited. I hope no one minds but being of Jewish heritage my room is rich in jewel tones and I have a huge ring hanging from the ceiling with yards of material and hanging jems in the harem tradition(poor woeful- travis and clayton play awesome guitar and have special effects pedals if that helps, I sang in a heavy rock band for a long time)oh right and because I am a lord of the rings fan a lot of the house is done in that motif,you know the Shire, Rivendell, Lothlorean.
So if that is alright we will have a jolly time. perhaps a little lipsynching to our favorite tunes.
And at two in the morning we will go for a walk behind the house to the top of Pineridge and look at the stars. :thumbs_up
sigh.. I won't want any of you to go(sniff) :bawling:

ElizabethSewall

03-13-2006, 06:08 PM

Hello dearest Rachel!
Don't cry dear for the dollies and me will never want to leave such a wonderful place and sweet mum. :nod:
I guess you already know my favourite childish book... ;)

~twinkle twinkle little star...~

sdr4jc

03-13-2006, 06:28 PM

Did I catch wind of a slumber party over in British Columbia?? Shoot yeah!!! Rachel, hun, you get the pizza's, I'll get the plane ticket! Elizabeth, you go get the ice cream, and I'll pitch in a couple of great movies, and we'll have a blast!!!

RobinHood3000

03-13-2006, 07:13 PM

Uhh...not big on pedicures...I guess I'll just stand outside and act as a bouncer?

sdr4jc

03-13-2006, 07:25 PM

Yes, but if any hott guys come up, you gotta let them in. And also you have to let in any cat who might be passing by.

rachel

03-13-2006, 08:45 PM

oh M'Lord, even the thought you might come is thrilling. you needn't have a pedicure, you are the king of the shapeshifters, but woeful is new and needs to sort of dive into things so sadly he will be pedicured like a rainbow!
And Sd if you want you can bring a kitty or two, I still miss my pretty boy.
Hey does anyone out there know how to do shadow puppets?
And my dear sweet Elizabeth, I will take your hand and lead you to my faerie bookcase and you shall pick out whatsoever you want to read. I'll tuck you in (if we ever get to bed) beside baby Hasia and kiss you both and when the lights go off all the dollies and Sleepy's doggie will have their own party and such a mess they will leave for us in the morning. who cares.
And there will be Robinhood, his bow and arrow still in hand sleeping on the sofa with dear woeful asleep on the floor with his pant legs rolled up and multi colored toenails.sleeping like a baby.shhh...(and don't anyone scare him but there is dear Tal over in the corner sleeping peacefully. I covered him up and he doesn't even know his magic disappearing lotion wore off from all his laughing at us. Isn't he beautiful

sdr4jc

03-13-2006, 10:16 PM

Gosh Rach!!! I wish you were MY mother!!! Your kids probably love you to death!!! Geez, I missed out!!!

sdr4jc

03-13-2006, 10:17 PM

Robinhood: how many pals you got over there? I changed my mind, we might let you in!! hee hee hee

rachel

03-14-2006, 01:54 AM

oh one thing,
since this is a house that invites only innocence and sweetness no outsider guys can come in. You never know where they have been. And only one from this forum that understand faerie and Robin does and he is the epitome of gentlemanly behaviour as is Tal. we love them both. And I am very sure we are going to love woeful too.
I have been a 'mother' since I was five. it is just how I am I guess..sigh..

ElizabethSewall

03-14-2006, 05:49 AM

How I long to be there and meet you all at last and play with sweet baby Hasia...
And be sure I'll get the ice creams Sd!
We'll get to know every secret of fairies' life and read tales 'till we fall asleep. Then the dollies and dogs will do such a joyful mess. :D
And Tal and Robin will be our guardians. I still want to see a picture of your heroic being Milord! :p

And as always special kisses and hugs to my dear Rachel, and to all of you either.

woeful painter

03-14-2006, 10:06 AM

Gee, you guys are so heartwarming I think I’m going to cry…then my dad will come in my room, see me crying, think I’m gay and then go beat me up :lol:

rachel,
Thanks for the real extra warm welcome, don’t worry I’ll do my best to be a real gentleman to all the girls here, as I have always been taught of by my mother. Besides, I condemn myself offending anyone, especially girls.

I’d love to tell you the name of my pillow but I already forgot it, it was the name of my first puppy love :blush: not too important so I forgot about it hehe.

Wow, your room looks like a fairytale land with all those jewels and LOTR settings! I like it! Can I make like a five year old and run around like crazy as I admire all o’ your pretty decors?:D

but woeful is new and needs to sort of dive into things so sadly he will be pedicured like a rainbow!

:goof: uhh…is that an initiation requirement? Well, ok then…have my face painted too, I’ll pretend to be an Indian chief! (golly, am I ever so childish! haha!)

And while you also have that great collection of children’s books plus your ever-warming motherly care, can you tuck me in too and read me any Hans Christian Andersen tales? my mom used to read me back then and when I ask her now she gives me a BIG stare. :lol:

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But alas, my most humble dwelling is settled upon a land so distant it makes me ever so lonely. My grievance could never be enough as I come to realize all the friendliest of souls here eager to welcome me. I give all thee my bountiful thanks and dearly hope I can once depart to meet all of thee on thy yonder domiciles. (*sigh* I have no visa, no passport and of course no plane ticket for me) But I guess even if I’m near any of your houses, I wouldn’t be so sure about coming to the party. I am terribly shy around most girls, I panic a lot. Especially if I’m going to be left alone with the group and Robin and Tal are to stand outside and play merrymen guarding the princesses :blush: you all are going to find me like a little puppy frozen in a corner :D not scared at all, just terribly, terribly shy!

BTW, is that your pic on your avatar, Elizabeth? Or just your screen pic? I think it’s cute.

ElizabethSewall

03-14-2006, 10:58 AM

Gosh!! You made me laugh to tears Woeful. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Don't worry shy child for I'll reach your hand (with painted fingernails :D ) and read you every tale you might want while mummy Rachel will pour you hot chocolate.
Thanks!! My avatar is a screenshot of Claire Danes playing Juliet but you can see my picture in General Chat, Lit Network Photo Album, one of the last pages.

woeful painter

03-14-2006, 11:43 AM

I made you laugh?! I really did?! Wow, it delights me so much! Thank you! I couldn't be so glad as to make someone happy. (I'm used getting people irritated and all not knowing how or why so this extremely new to me :lol: )

Holy bananas! I just saw your pic! With that look i'm sure to freeze more! I'm surrounded by godesses! HELP! :D

i think your real pic is far better than Claire Danes' :p how old are you?

ElizabethSewall

03-14-2006, 12:41 PM

Wow, now you make me blush... :blush:
Thanks!! I'll turn 21 in August.

RobinHood3000

03-14-2006, 05:05 PM

Well, if you ladies insist :D...I shall gladly join your little slumber party!

woeful painter

03-14-2006, 08:44 PM

*bows to the lord* how about we trade places Lord Robin. Ye shal recieve the colorful paintings...while i stand and play guard outside the door. :D

sdr4jc

03-14-2006, 10:14 PM

Hahaha Robin's like, "wellyoureallydon'thaveto--okay"

emily655321

03-14-2006, 10:24 PM

Hahaha Robin's like, "wellyoureallydon'thaveto--okay"

:lol: :lol:

RobinHood3000

03-14-2006, 10:24 PM

Ohhh, no, woeful. You're not escaping the feminine wrath that easily. Unless my toenails get Lincoln green adornments, I remove these shoes and jerkin for no one!

sdr4jc

03-14-2006, 11:12 PM

Robin, you got a runway model here, are you sure you want to turn down a pedicure? (Snickering! I really do model...)

rachel

03-14-2006, 11:44 PM

woeful dearest,
of course I shall tuck you in as well and anyone else, it shall be my honor.That means I shall move Clayton in with his brother, they have large rooms and will barracade themselves in it and talk philosophy and play lead and slapbase guitars and ignore us, they are shy and study a lot.
Then woeful shall have clayton's room and I will tuck you in . Clayton writes the most beautiful poetry you can imagine, Celtic, metaphysical, beautiful beyond description. And he does awesome black and white pictures so you will have a lot to look at. And he has very old copies of many books. So I shall kiss your forehead and give you his genuine pooh bear that was fashioned in the early years after Milne first made him up.
okay?
Now because I shall be busy making pizzas, anyone else coming, because there is a certain little girl I love more than words can express namely Miss Emily who I would give anything to have come to our little sleepover.so if she is listening.......

sdr4jc

03-15-2006, 12:39 AM

ahem

I love you TOO Rachel......

you're welcome!! (laughing)

Petrarch's Love

03-15-2006, 01:27 AM

Oh, I've just found this. Can I come too? I'm due for a colorful pedicure. I'll bring all my childhood dolls and my dollie sized china tea set and all their beautiful little doll clothes. We can have a lovely tea party with little Hasia. If you let me come I'll bring dessert to go after the pizza. I'll bake a beautiful chocolate cake with strawberries all in a ring around the top, and I'll bring sprinkles and different color tubes of icing so that we can each decorate our own slice just as we please :).

Hazel-Ra

03-15-2006, 11:15 AM

I met Princess Di when I was younger

Mililalil XXIV

03-15-2006, 06:16 PM

I was speaking complete sentences at eleven months from birth.

Scheherazade

03-15-2006, 06:22 PM

I met Princess Di when I was youngerAnd when she was alive, I presume? ;)
I was speaking complete sentences at eleven months from birth.Wow! Still struggling with that one myself! (been a few '11 months' since my birth, needless to say)

rachel

03-15-2006, 08:46 PM

darling Petrach's love, can you come? do I breathe? Oh I will just sit there and listen to you and wipe the tears from my eyes.
If anyone has any really ancient poetry, innocent poetry on life and family and chilren and dollies, please bring it. One beautiful pedicure coming up my dear.
now since we are all so busy in this rushing world what is the date everyone shall assemble? please each of you specify a date and then we can negotiate.

sdr4jc

03-15-2006, 09:00 PM

Well I just spoke with my cats, and they have mutually decided that tomorrow morning sounds fantastic to them, and they have requested first class airfare!! For them, I'll do anything!!

Petrarch's Love

03-15-2006, 10:41 PM

Rachel--Oh boy, a beautiful pedicure. :) But oh dear, we don't want to make you cry. Only laughter allowed. There won't be any sadness for just one magic night. :) I would bring my little bird along, but he might not get along well with all the cats that are attending. Can we sing too? If you have a piano I can play songs for everyone (though not very expertly I'm afraid). Here's one of the poems we could read to go to sleep on. It refers to other good ones too, like "The Sugarplum Tree," which was one of my favorites as a child.

The Rock-a-by Lady from Hush-a-by Street
Comes stealing, comes creeping;
The poppies they hang from her head to her feet
And each hath a dream that is tiny and fleet,
She bringeth her poppies to you, my sweet,
When she findeth you sleeping!
There is one little dream of a beautiful drum,
"rub-a-dub!" it goeth:
There is one little dream of a big sugar-plum,
And lo, thick and fast the other dreams come,
Of pop guns that bang, and tin tops that hum,
And a trumpet that bloweth.
And dollies peep out of those wee little dreams
With laughter and singing;
And boats go a-floating on silvery streams,
And the stars peek-a-boo with their own misty gleams,
And up, up and up, where the Mother Moon beams,
The fairies go winging!
Would you dream all these dreams that are tiny and fleet?
They'll come to you sleeping;
So shut the two eyes that are weary, my sweet,
For the Rock-a-by Lady from Hush-a By Street,
With poppies that hang from her head to her feet,
Comes stealing, comes creeping.

--Eugene Fields

Virgil

03-15-2006, 10:54 PM

My goodness. This thread has become too femine for me. :nod: Pedicures and dolls? I mean, I supposedly have a femine side to my brain but this is too much. :D

Petrarch's Love

03-15-2006, 11:14 PM

Poor Virgil. You'd better go back to playing pirates to shake off all the femininity around this thread. :D

I realized I've posted twice to this thread without mentioning anything directly associated with its title. I'm having trouble thinking of something interesting about me, but I was thinking as I was whistling to my bird just now that something kind of unusual is that I can't whistle by exhaling. I can only make a whistling sound taking air in, so whenever I whistle I'm waiting to exhale. :)

Virgil

03-15-2006, 11:19 PM

Basil

03-15-2006, 11:27 PM

Ahh, they probably all throw like girls. :D

Petrarch's Love

03-15-2006, 11:33 PM

I didn't say I couldn't whistle, just that my whistling process is the reverse of most other peoples'. I can whistle well enough to do everything from entertaining my bird to hailing a cab.

I generally think it's a bad idea to throw stones (given that you should be without sin to cast the first one and all that), but no one said anything about fruit. :banana: *Hurls large squashy tomatoes with impeccable aim and force at misogynist commentors.

rachel

03-16-2006, 01:36 AM

what an exquisite poem. and strangely enough that is the ONLY way I can whistle too.
Virgil, come just a little later and Basil, sweet Basil, I am LONGING to get to know you, can't you come.
Hey do you notice they cannot close this thread down because we keep mentioning things we can do(hahahahahahaha). I can also put my baby toe over my next one, it is double jointed.
Virg,you can read us a baseball story. Higley where are you girl, you read and she will illustrate, she is fabulous and a swell girl.
And to honor the boys I shall read a child's version of Robin Hood, both illustrated and written by the wonderful Howard Pyle:
"You who are so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy, you who think that life hath nought to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one: these pages are not for you...
"Here you will find a hundred dull, sober, jogging places, all tricked out with flowers and wht not, till no one would know them in their fanciful dress. And here is a country bearing a well known name, wherein no chill mists press upon our spirits, and no rain falls but what rolls off our backs like April showers off the backs of sleek drakes; where flowers bloom forever and birds are always singing; where every fellow hath a merry catch as he travels the roads, and ale and beer and wine(such as muddle no wits) flow like water in a brook...... :banana: i must go night night :as-sleep: or won't be able to join in the party. and my darling girl tomorrow is not good, it must be in two days or further for I am recovering from an illness. not contageous but I would be in a coma on the floor and miss the whole evening. :bawling:

higley

03-16-2006, 11:54 AM

Baseball! (gibber)

anyway...I can control both eyebrows and make them do the wave.

rachel, hope you feel better quickly!

Petrarch's Love

03-16-2006, 01:54 PM

what an exquisite poem. and strangely enough that is the ONLY way I can whistle too.

How amazing. I've never met anyone else who can only whistle inhaling. Maybe we're secretly related. Ninth cousins six times removed or something?

And we get to read Robin Hood too. Better and better. Here's an illustration by Mable B. Hill that goes with the poem I posted. I'm sure you will look just as sweet as this lovely lady when you're tucking everyone in to sleep.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e386/LeonardoD/lady.gif

And here's an old-fashioned baseball picture for the guys (so the feminine sides of their brains don't explode :D ) and for all the baseball lovin' gals out there too.

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/CORPOD/BE050785~1890s-Poster-of-a-Baseball-Player-at-Bat-Posters.jpg

higley

03-16-2006, 02:05 PM

That picture makes me happy :D

RobinHood3000

03-16-2006, 04:07 PM

Heeeey, batta batta batta SA-WING!!!

My Little League team was untriumphed all season (never won a game).

Stanislaw

03-16-2006, 04:10 PM

Heeeey, batta batta batta SA-WING!!!

My Little League team was untriumphed all season (never won a game).

That is like the softball team I am trying to put together. :D

Virgil

03-16-2006, 10:04 PM

Thanks to all for including me. You're all so nice.

How amazing. I've never met anyone else who can only whistle inhaling. Maybe we're secretly related. Ninth cousins six times removed or something?

She's another girl, isn't she? Isn't that how girls whistle?

*Quick, duck again*

On a different note, Petrarch: lovely pictures, and the baseball one is getting me in the mood for the start of the season.

anyway...I can control both eyebrows and make them do the wave.

That sounds weird. How do you do that?

Petrarch's Love

03-16-2006, 10:51 PM

I can control both eyebrows and make them do the wave.
I have a good friend who can do that. She makes her eyebrows crawl like catterpillars. It's pretty entertaining.

She's another girl, isn't she? Isn't that how girls whistle?

Yes, they've evolved a superior technique that guys don't seem to be able to master.

*Quick, duck again*
Good idea. I've got lots of squashy tomatoes ready for tossing. :nod:

higley

03-17-2006, 01:03 AM

This is turning into the Stupid Human Tricks thread :P Eyebrows, elbow licking and whistling, oh my.

RobinHood3000

03-17-2006, 06:43 AM

I'll do you one better--I can roll a coin on the tops of my fingers, poker-style.

Virgil

03-17-2006, 08:17 AM

This is turning into the Stupid Human Tricks thread :P Eyebrows, elbow licking and whistling, oh my.
:lol: You are a funny lady! If you quote Roger Hornsby, then you really must love baseball. Who do you root for?

Pensive

03-17-2006, 08:19 AM

I am going to probably buy some books today.

Mililalil XXIV

03-17-2006, 08:21 AM

I have never dated once in all my years.

Pensive

03-17-2006, 08:24 AM

I have also not dated even once in my whole life. *smiles with tongue out*

Mililalil XXIV

03-17-2006, 08:48 AM

I keep Christmas and Channukah.

higley

03-17-2006, 11:58 AM

Virgil, I'm an Indians fan. I've loved them since I was seven :) You?

rachel

03-17-2006, 12:08 PM

Higley dearest,
you must come to the party. I have a couple of pairs of pjs that are major league style. I will just put a patch of your favorite on your pair.
Okay something different about me. I was a virgin when I got married, it was a forced marriage so I guess that is something different too. So I knew zero about anything. it wasn't really anything I'd write in my diary but that is because I was not with the person I loved. Else I would probably have had to drag my diary around and have it lifted by a crane!
Alright, I say this show should get on the road this coming Monday. cannot be Saturday on account of Virgil takes mama to market. Oh by the way could you please pick me up some fresh sweet basil Virg, I am making homemade italian red sauce for the linguini and need it. I shall pay you when you get here.
And please bring something to read to us.And does everyone prefer hot chocolate, or coffee or tea or steamers or well I will have some excellent wine, our okanagan has won competitions worldwide for excellence. what does everyone want then?

I have also not dated even once in my whole life. *smiles with tongue out*

excuse me baby cakes but are you not like twelve or something. you should not even be THINKING about that sort of nonsense. Nope not for let's see......school, then more school, then jobs...right for about sixteen years!
do you hear your auntie Rachel?n those guys can wait and try growing up so the right one is perfect for you. I am going to have to keep an eye on this little bird.. :lol:

simon

03-17-2006, 12:53 PM

I second the motion, wait to date.

The Unnamable

03-17-2006, 12:57 PM

I agree. I didn't even smoke my first cigar 'til I was nearly seven.

Whifflingpin

03-17-2006, 01:02 PM

"I didn't even smoke my first cigar 'til I was nearly seven."

And you wouldn't have done then except that your girlfriend said it was a cool thing to do afterwards.

The Unnamable

03-17-2006, 01:05 PM

And you wouldn't have done then except that your girlfriend said it was a cool thing to do afterwards.
I've just spit Pepsi all over my screen.

Petrarch's Love

03-17-2006, 01:51 PM

Does someone need to give Unnamable the heimlich maneuver? Wouldn't want a Pepsi related fatality on our hands.

Alright, I say this show should get on the road this coming Monday. cannot be Saturday on account of Virgil takes mama to market. Oh by the way could you please pick me up some fresh sweet basil Virg, I am making homemade italian red sauce for the linguini and need it. I shall pay you when you get here.
And please bring something to read to us.And does everyone prefer hot chocolate, or coffee or tea or steamers or well I will have some excellent wine, our okanagan has won competitions worldwide for excellence. what does everyone want then?

Rachel, I just realized I'll be out of state visiting family on Monday, so I might be pretty busy, but I'll try to drop in at some point to bring the cake and eat some of your lovely cooking. I wouldn't want to miss out on pedicures and Virg reading baseball stories either. ;)

ElizabethSewall

03-17-2006, 03:51 PM

Rachel, dearest, I prefer tea. :D
And I'll bring lots of fairy tales for baby Hassia, and the other members!
Maybe someone will teach me how to whistle?!

AimusSage

03-17-2006, 04:03 PM

You can't whistle? How have you managed for so long without that skill? ;) :)

Just for you a site (http://www.ehow.com/how_4839_whistle.html) on how to whistle.

ElizabethSewall

03-17-2006, 04:08 PM

My two older brothers tried to show me but the more I tried the less I could... :bawling: I'm a desperate case!
Thanks for the link.

RobinHood3000

03-17-2006, 04:13 PM

I've just spit Pepsi all over my screen.
You know, steel wool and some battery acid will clean that right off... ;)

Virgil

03-17-2006, 04:13 PM

Virgil, I'm an Indians fan. I've loved them since I was seven :) You?
Baltimore Orioles fan since about eight. I've been suffering now for a number of years, and it's really tough in the eastern division.

Higley dearest,
you must come to the party. I have a couple of pairs of pjs that are major league style. I will just put a patch of your favorite on your pair.
Okay something different about me. I was a virgin when I got married, it was a forced marriage so I guess that is something different too. So I knew zero about anything. it wasn't really anything I'd write in my diary but that is because I was not with the person I loved. Else I would probably have had to drag my diary around and have it lifted by a crane!
Alright, I say this show should get on the road this coming Monday. cannot be Saturday on account of Virgil takes mama to market. Oh by the way could you please pick me up some fresh sweet basil Virg, I am making homemade italian red sauce for the linguini and need it. I shall pay you when you get here.
And please bring something to read to us.And does everyone prefer hot chocolate, or coffee or tea or steamers or well I will have some excellent wine, our okanagan has won competitions worldwide for excellence. what does everyone want then?
The basil is on me, and if you wait until the summer I'll have fressh from my garden.

AimusSage

03-17-2006, 04:21 PM

My two older brothers tried to show me but the more I tried the less I could... :bawling: I'm a desperate case!
Thanks for the link.

Just think of it this way, you are probably unique for not being able to whistle. And that is a difficult thing in this day and age to truly be. :nod:

So take pride in your inability to whistle, and instead focus on another skill, something cool, like iglo construction. :)

rachel

03-17-2006, 04:24 PM

that is funny. Petrarch's love we CANNOT have a decent party without you being here, so let us figure something out. I would be so sad.
aim are you coming, you could teach us how to do igloos although I actually have made one(canada) and I might give you a run for your money.
no virg, we cannot wait until summer we will all be too busy. just go to market with mama and ask her to pick it out for me.

I agree. I didn't even smoke my first cigar 'til I was nearly seven.

hahahahahahah :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
you are so funny, and very adorable. actually in 'real life' my step brother Nelson started smoking at around six, his granny Mathew, a tough Scotswoman always gave him puffs from her elegant cigarette holder. she had had a stroke and every once in a while her right arm would suddenly jerk up and hit me if I was next to her. I lived in fear of that arm. Also she, for reasons unknown to me,( I was only five), would have all the elderly gals on the block, Polish, Czech, Irish, English, whatever(the Arabian and German women weren't allowed to come) over for tea, coffee and yes- strip poker. She was a fierce card player so the ladies had a ton of hair pins in their hair. but once unfortunately i came over and saw one with just her bra and undershirt on top (she did have her skirt on still) I think the site scarred me for life. :D

jackyyyy

03-17-2006, 04:37 PM

I started smoking around 3 years old... I took a candle under the covers with me at night... (maybe that was 4 years old.. I had smoke in my eyes)

AimusSage

03-17-2006, 04:42 PM

Sounds like she could have made a fortune in vegas :D

I wish I could come, we could make an attempt at building the tallest iglo ever. Something like 200 meters must be doable. Unfortunately I seem to have misplaced my kajak, I could swim accross the pond, but the atlantic water causes the strangest rash on my skin. Maybe I'll build me a plane from copy paper, but it'll be a while before I can fly it, there are a lot of rules and regulations regarding those things in Holland.

higley

03-17-2006, 07:33 PM

Sounds like a rocking party. Unfortunately I'll be out of state then, but eat an extra cookie for me. :) In fact, this will probably be the last time I'll be able to post until next Saturday sometime. So ya'll have a nice week!

P.S. Virgil I know how you feel! The Indians were really hurting for a while until last season.

Petrarch's Love

03-17-2006, 07:36 PM

Petrarch's love we CANNOT have a decent party without you being here, so let us figure something out. I would be so sad.

Oh dear, I don't want you to be sad. :( I'm sure you will all still have a very lovely time without me, but I'll see if I can drop in with a couple of cheerful party posts. :banana: I will at least be in your time zone for once since I'll be on the west coast. ;)

rachel

03-17-2006, 08:13 PM

okay, it's a deal. and at least some of us, well the dollies and me anyway will stay up for a hundred and nineteen kazillion hours so come whenever. and don't bother knocking you are all family.

Virgil

03-17-2006, 08:27 PM

Rachel, dearest, I prefer tea. :D
And I'll bring lots of fairy tales for baby Hassia, and the other members!
Maybe someone will teach me how to whistle?!
See girls can't whiste. :D :nod:

rachel

03-17-2006, 09:49 PM

yes, yes we can only we inhale, how many guys can do that and not look er stupid that's what I want to know.
I happen to know a lady at r&k books that told me she was one of I think three girls that posed for the Jane pictures in the Dick and Jane books when she was little. She said her mother got absolutely no money out of the deal but that it still thrills her to think of it. And you can see clearly that she looks pretty much the same now.
I have awesome paintings of the Dick and Jane series.Baby Hasia love baby Sally and spot and the kitty, what's its name?

The Unnamable

03-17-2006, 09:55 PM

See girls can't whiste. :D :nod:
They can if they parachute naked.

RobinHood3000

03-17-2006, 09:58 PM

Now that was rude. Semi-amusing, but a wee short of polite in the company of ladies.

kilted exile

03-17-2006, 10:00 PM

yeh, but it was damned funny......and at any rate dont kid yerself lassies tell plenty of "off colour" jokes as well

rachel

03-17-2006, 10:06 PM

I don't; never have, never will. that is why absolutely noone invites me to parties.And yet strangely enough they all end up here after, for hugs, to talk...and talk....and cry and well you get it.
When God was handing out maturity and sophistication I saw a kitten crying and stepped out of line. When I looked up....He was gone and one girl had twice as much of both qualities.
sigh.... :bawling:

samercury

03-17-2006, 10:09 PM

See girls can't whiste. :D :nod:
:eek:
...I can :goof:

Petrarch's Love

03-17-2006, 10:29 PM

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e386/LeonardoD/whistling.gif :rolleyes:

Virgil

03-17-2006, 10:47 PM

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e386/LeonardoD/whistling.gif :rolleyes:
That is great Petrarch. Touche. :lol:

...I can

I always knew Same was talented.

Ryduce

03-17-2006, 11:17 PM

Someone teach me how to whistle. It's friggin impossible.

Virgil

03-17-2006, 11:25 PM

Someone teach me how to whistle. It's friggin impossible.
Ry - On the previous page is a web site that tells you how. It is what I do, but I don't remember anyone teaching me. The trick seems to be to push the tip of your tongue up against the base of your bottom teeth. Then create a little tunnel with you lips and tongue and blow. You control the notes by fluctuating the middle of your tongue (the back of the tunnel)and/or diameter of hole at the tip of your lips (the end of the tunnel). Hope that helps. I can't stand the fact that a guy can whistle and a girl, even if it's my precious Same, can. :D

kilted exile

03-17-2006, 11:30 PM

Virgil

03-17-2006, 11:42 PM

A question for all the non-whistler's:

Did yer parents never teach you to whistle using 2 blades of grass? This is outrageous.....Or then again it could be another wierd scottish thing.

I can whistle by both exhaling & inhaling.
I can too, but I've never whistled with blades of grass. Does it leave a grassy taste in your mouth? Yuk.

Mililalil XXIV

03-18-2006, 12:50 AM

rachel

03-18-2006, 01:29 AM

I learned to whistle with the blade of grass. but then somehow I forgot how and cannot do it except inhaling.well I can but it sounds rather weak.

The Unnamable

03-18-2006, 02:28 AM

I smoked and drank in grade 5. After that I never did either ever again. I have never been drunk, nor ever tried a drug. My mind has always been sober (except spiritually, when I allowed myself to be so stupid as to sin).
You sound like a riot.

Now that was rude. Semi-amusing, but a wee short of polite in the company of ladies.

yeh, but it was damned funny......and at any rate dont kid yerself lassies tell plenty of "off colour" jokes as well
Some are offended while others are amused – looks like I made another perfect post. :D

I can whistle by both exhaling & inhaling.
Boast of the century. :D But it's early days yet.

Basil

03-18-2006, 03:43 AM

"Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow."

Uttered by Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not
Screenplay written by William Faulkner
Based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway

RobinHood3000

03-18-2006, 08:26 AM

I can whistle by both exhaling & inhaling.
So can I.

Except I can't whistle a tune for about half an hour after playing the harmonica--I keep trying to inhale on certain notes and exhale on others, and it just doesn't work.

~Lady Callisto~

03-18-2006, 09:44 AM

I can whistle too, and could sometimes imitate a bird, though I have no idea what bird it is, i just hear it sometimes around our garden. Would that be considered odd for me? :)

jackyyyy

03-18-2006, 10:37 AM

I can whistle too, and could sometimes imitate a bird, though I have no idea what bird it is, i just hear it sometimes around our garden. Would that be considered odd for me? :)

Definitely not odd... if a macaw caught ear of you talking in the house and having no idea who you are, then imitates you.. normal bird stuff eh. I prefer my kettle to do the whistling.

rachel

03-18-2006, 11:09 AM

Petrarch's Love

03-18-2006, 01:09 PM

I too can whistle like a bird and imitate several. My little parrot appreciates it a great deal. He can't say anything in human speak but I've been playing a CD while I'm out called "Feathered Phonics" that reapeats the same word over and over. I have this feeling he'll pick up something random from the TV or radio before that works though. ;)

when I got back the gentleman I worked for had taught the flippin thing to say "dumb dumb Rachel".

Rachel, That's terrible! I'm going out of town today. I hope the fellow feeding my birdie doesn't teach him anything like that while I'm away. :lol:

rachel

03-18-2006, 01:26 PM

me too. stay safe and come back to us well and happy. hugs and kisses and oh yay here come the bounty hunters of huggers. Well I am ready, I bought new runners. See Rachel, see Rachel run!

Pensive

03-18-2006, 10:00 PM

excuse me baby cakes but are you not like twelve or something. you should not even be THINKING about that sort of nonsense. Nope not for let's see......school, then more school, then jobs...right for about sixteen years!
do you hear your auntie Rachel?n those guys can wait and try growing up so the right one is perfect for you. I am going to have to keep an eye on this little bird.. :lol:

:nod: :nod: :nod:

I feel that I will never date in my whole life. That's why I included it in "something interesting about me"

There are better things in the life to do that finding boys and beaus. :D

Virgil

03-18-2006, 11:39 PM

I am sure that Pensy will fall in love someday.

rachel

03-19-2006, 12:13 AM

well I am sure you will at the right time. And I am hoping he is the dearest person ever, just like you honey.

jackyyyy

03-19-2006, 09:25 AM

I was given a little parakeet or whatever it was when I was a Nanny in Nelson. I had to go away to another province for a bit to see to family business and when I got back the gentleman I worked for had taught the flippin thing to say "dumb dumb Rachel". Before that it could say "come to dinner Jimmmy" which was the name of the previous owner's child. Day after tedious day at the dinner table the Mr. would eat quietly and then sure enough that bird would say "dumb dumb Rachel" and he would wink and laugh like an insane man. :blush: I always smiled. I on the other hand could not get Skipper to say a thing. :rage:

Ayeee Rachel.. your words drew a picture in my head of a sanatic mansion surrounded by dark whistling trees, dolloping snow off the branches, of course ... and the gentleman at the far head of the table is gritting his teeth while he laughs insanely, and your eyes are very wide as you smile. Did you escape during the day while he slept?

rachel

03-19-2006, 12:45 PM

oh my god, :eek: how did you come up with that image. In fact for part of the nearly three years I served he and his wife they DID live in a wooded area across the bridge at six mile in Nelson.He rented a used to be restaurant and I think meat shoppe that had been gutted and the handles on the doors were still the kind in coolers that you just pull down. Wow you are unbelievable. The table was oak and so long I could do a dance routine on it. The dining room you could play touch football in. And the huge cedar trees outside my bedroom windows did whistle in the angry wind at night. And he did laugh rather gleefully with his huge oriental eyes. He was a perfect gentleman though and during the day if he got home from work before the missus he smiled at me, said something HE THOUGHT was terribly funny and then getting his snack and cuppa I prepared would kiss each child and then lock himself in the bedroom to read and rest until she came home. suited me fine, I was always frightened working for guys.
now then how long have you had your psychic hotline up and running hmmmmm? :lol:

jackyyyy

03-19-2006, 12:52 PM

how long have you had your psychic hotline up and running hmmmmm? :lol:

Psychotic hotmail, for quite some time. I know that part of the World quite well, if I may. History out there is spooky from my Euro perspective, 1000 books waiting to be written. I was also thinking of Nicole Kidman.. The Others, Cold Mountain.

rachel

03-20-2006, 12:30 AM

I am so glad to be alive. perhaps there is something to be said for being naive sometimes stupid female.(shivers, breathes wierd, shivers again.)

alright so it is tomorrow in many places. remember all from this forum are invited to the party-sleepover(only if you want) but it is to take us back to our childhood.
required to attend:
something favorite from childhood to read to us: an excerpt from a book, a song, a poem or something loved from a television show or movie.

a good appetitie: due to the many vegetarians this party will be strictly veggie based-pizzas, burgers, salads, soups, burritos and tortillas, plus there will be icecream ,tons of fresh fruit and veggies and dips and assorted drinks. minors may not imbibe. I don't drink alchohol so you can hang with me when the others get a little silly and need to go nye night.

Virgil-baseball stuff
we will have great fun and I have thirty new sleeping bags and pillows for any that like to crash that way,. otherwise every one of the same gender can pile into beds with the dolls and toys and such.
oh yes your favorite truck or stuffie or doll from your childhood. rmember this is make believe so you can bring one from your memory.
I will leave the door unlocked. come in and set up and get started partying as soon as may be. first guy here starts everything.I am just getting ready to go to bed.
love you all,

RobinHood3000

03-20-2006, 06:55 AM

~blasts "Life in the Fast Lane" out the window to try and get Pendragon's attention~

ElizabethSewall

03-20-2006, 12:18 PM

"When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."

rachel

03-20-2006, 12:50 PM

Oh wonderful, I weep buckets when I hear anything from Peter Pan or watch finding neverland.
Anyway welcome to our home, perhaps you might want to wander outside and go behind the house up into the little pine forest that leads way way up there to the ridge. It is full of sweet little birds and animals and flowers, in the summer huge sun flowers, no one knows who plants them erupt from the dark wet earth and rise about seven feet high. it is truly a wonderland. but although we have much much green here like Ireland and three beautiful lakes including Kalamalka(lake of many colors) we are officially designated as desert so we do have rattle snakes that make there way down at times. but if you are gentle and non threatening they will stay in their abode.
The pizzas are hot in the oven, every good kind and the cold drinks in the fridge.All the rest you see is laid out on the table.
Do not be amazed at all the candles. Being a Jewess and Catholic candles are of great import. And the angels made of smoked glass. So hundreds of candles burning and look up in the living room toward the ceiling. there is a ball of glass disks in umber and smokey gold with brown glass tear drops hanging down and a candle in the middle. See how the reflected teardrops fill the room. I love it.
Two bathrooms, the one on the left is for ladies only and the one far down the hall is for the guys.
Grab any or all of the myriads of sleeping pillows,stuffed covered with silks and Egyptian cotton and linen and flop down anywhere and start eating and drinking and reading things to one another.
I must bathe baby Hasia and put on her jamies, let her kiss each of you and sit her down by Robin and Elizabeth for a story. She loves Goodnight Mr. Moon and Robin you will laugh to see that she has a book called Ducky speaks Duckese where only quack quack is in most of the pages! please read that one to her.And her pillow is white with victorian flowers pale and pretty stamped on it.
I am going for a walk to the store. will be back with some balloons.
love you all.

Well back from the store and Clayton and Travis are blowing up the balloons.When they are finished they will introduce themselves and perhaps agree to play some gentle classical guitar as a background for the stories before the must away and see to their duties.
Here comes baby Hasia to say "hawoe, readme"to M'Lord and M'Lady Elizabeth. She gives you hugs and sits on Elizabeth's knee. Here are her two favorite books if you please to read to her.
Now hugs and kisses and off she goes with Clayton to be rocked to sleep. a blessing upon you dear Hasia.
"That points to the conclusion that he set the house on fire,"Bess declared."Still wht motive would he have?"
"In talking with me, Mrs. Swenson unwittingly established a motive,"Nancy said regretfully."He has had trouble with Felix Raybolt about some patents. It seems that Raybolt solte and invention of his."
"Then Swenson mut have set his house on fire to get even!"George exclaimed.
"All the evidence points that way,"Nancy admitted, "and yet somehow I can't believe he's entirely guilty. He must have had some stronger motive than reveng, if he did do the deed"-The clue in the diary.,

NOTE; BECAUSE OF THE EXTREME DIFFERENCES IN TIME THIS PARTY BEING MAGICAL AND IN THE PROVINCE OF OUR IMAGINATION WILL TAKE AS MANY 'REAL' DAYS AS NECESSARY IN ORDER FOR ANYONE WISHING TO COME AND PARTAKE OF CHILDISH JOY BEING PERMITTED TO COME AND CONTRIBUTE SOMETHING OF MUSIC, LITERATURE AND SONG OF THEIR CHILDHOOD. AND BEING AS THIS THREAD IS ORIGINALLY ABOUT SAYING SOMETHING INTERESTING ABOUT YOURSELF, PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO INCLUDE SOMETHING WITH EACH POST. thank you.

I could read well at three and by the end of that year was printing and by four made my very first book with dreadful illustrations and I even sewed it together with a darning needle and h eavy thread. and many booboos on my little fingers.

ElizabethSewall

03-20-2006, 01:53 PM

Wow! Everything is wonderful in your fairyland, Rachel. After hugging everyone several times I go rock baby Hasia to sleep and present her my dollies. Here is baby Chiyo, a little asian doll who looks as cute as baby Hasia. She grabs her and fall asleep with a quiet smile on her sweet face while M'lord tells her the story of duckese language. And we all sing lullabies to guide her to the castle of dreams.
I made a cake for you dearest Rachel and of course it is magical. It has the taste each of you might want. Just like food in Neverland, right Pensive?! Hummm... Chocolate!
And now, everyone in pyjamas! Mine is blue one with little clouds drawn on it. And we sit in circle and admire mummy Rachel's sewed book...

rachel

03-20-2006, 04:12 PM

Well and here is a magic box a faerie gave me when I was nine. When you open it you immediately, no matter who you are, see the very thing you wanted more than anything as a child and did not receive it. See the wish came true after all.
And now if Travis would be so kind as to hand out the pizzas and napkins and the rest we can help ourselves to.
And if someone can read a bit more of Peter Pan I shall be in heaven. really.

AimusSage

03-20-2006, 04:19 PM

Someone said something about a party? :D

As I was once long ago, a child, and have since grown into a bigger child I feel compelled to share with you a something from my childhood, that had a profound impact on my future life.

It was some 14 years ago, I was 8 years and I fancied myself quite the smart alec. However I had one thing going against me, my fear of hights. But this particular day I was in the themepark with the rest of the family. What better place for a young child to be, I figured, so, when we came upon the biggest scariest rollercoaster of the park, my dad asked me if I was coming allong. I said yes, and what followed was a thrill ride I'd never forget. From start till finished, I yelled, as loud as I could: "I'M GOING TO BE SICK! I'M GOING TO BE SICK!" So when we were back were we started, I asked my dad: "Can we go again?" It was the ride that cured my fear of hights.

rachel

03-20-2006, 04:51 PM

how beautiful. You were a brave little boy, I don't know if I could have done that twice.
now help yourself to the pizza and grab a book to read to us.

ElizabethSewall

03-20-2006, 04:56 PM

"All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, "Oh, why can't you remain like this for ever!" This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end..."

papayahed

03-20-2006, 05:00 PM

ok, I wrote a huge tale about my favorite story...and I got that an error message and lost it all....... Well you guys will just have to suffer with the knowledge of not having heard a cute little story from little papaya's past. :D

ElizabethSewall

03-20-2006, 05:03 PM

Now everyone is crying. :bawling: :bawling: :bawling:
Me wants Papaya's story.....................................

"The moonlight fades from flower and tree,
And the stars dim one by one;
The tale is told, the song is sung,
And the Fairy feast is done.
The night-wind rocks the sleeping flowers,
And sings to them, soft and low.
The early birds erelong will wake:
'T is time for the Elves to go.

O'er the sleeping earth we silently pass,
Unseen by mortal eye,
And send sweet dreams, as we lightly float
Through the quiet moonlit sky;--
For the stars' soft eyes alone may see,
And the flowers alone may know,
The feasts we hold, the tales we tell:
So 't is time for the Elves to go.

From bird, and blossom, and bee,
We learn the lessons they teach;
And seek, by kindly deeds, to win
A loving friend in each.
And though unseen on earth we dwell,
Sweet voices whisper low,
And gentle hearts most joyously greet
The Elves where'er they go.

When next me meet in the Fairy dell,
May the silver moon's soft light
Shine then on faces gay as now,
And Elfin hearts as light.
Now spread each wing, for the eastern sky
With sunlight soon will glow.
The morning star shall light us home:
Farewell! for the Elves must go."

L.M. Alcott's Fairy Song

papayahed

03-20-2006, 05:28 PM

Now everyone is crying. :bawling: :bawling: :bawling:
Me wants Papaya's story.....................................

Well ok you talked me into it.

I had a book of short stories and this is favorite story from that book: (I lost the book somewhere along the way and scour used books stores looking for a copy)

There was this boy who was a very light eater. Whenever his Mom would ask him what he wanted to eat he would reply "Fried worms on toast". One day the boy decided he didn't want to go to school so he pretended to be sick. His parents were sure he was faking the illness but decided to play along. His mom asked what he wanted for breakfast and of course the reply was "Fried Worms on toast" his parents smiled to themselves and left the room. The boy prepared for a day of lounging around reading comic books. His parent left his room, went out to the backyard and proceeded to dig up some worms. His Mom fried up the worms, made some toast and took the meal up to the boy's bedroom...... I can't remember the rest but I'm sure hilarity ensued.

ElizabethSewall

03-20-2006, 05:31 PM

:lol: :lol: :lol:
Cute story! Thanks, now we feel better. *smiles again*

Joins baby Hasia for a nap.

rachel

03-20-2006, 06:16 PM

I kiss both their sweet faces and shower them with moonbeam dust for the sweetest most innocent dreams and then I tiptoe out and close the door.
The beauty of a virtual evening is it can last like...six days real time,hoorah!
sweet dreams little ones.

RobinHood3000

03-20-2006, 06:20 PM

~starts telling a story~

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

Riesa

03-20-2006, 06:30 PM

Here is a nice poem by William Wordsworth that I'm sure you are all familiar with:

Daffodils

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils,
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee;
A poet could not but be gay
In such a jocund company.
I gazed, and gazed, but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

chmpman

03-20-2006, 06:32 PM

Shouldn't the title of this thread be changed by now? :brow:

jackyyyy

03-20-2006, 06:43 PM

Daffodils do have a way of cheering up a room, and people.

Here is my sorry offering,

The clothes maketh the man... or loseth the man.

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It was rapidly 8:25am, no way I could resist the increasing volume from my mother at the base of the stairs anylonger. T i m e t o g e t t o s c h o o l! I looked for my clothes and found all but my tie. The panic suddenly stopped when I discovered that I had actualy slept in my tie! The night before I had been under a street lamp with friends kicking a football, and because of the tightly pulled knot, I had not taken it off.

I really have a no time for clothes attitude, that saves me huge time compared to other people, but can be accidents, you know. I had prepared for a meeting, determined to be organized to the nth. 30 seconds to go, I exited the shower, reached for my dress clothes, and low behold, where's me socks gone. I left my socks in a certain place to the left of my shirt, which would be to the right of my pants and always North of my shiny black shoes. Not this time! No worry, I reached for me backup socks, all done, out and in time. On returning to my parked car, I had to cross a busy road. Across the way and obstucting passing people, a pair of old women were studying something black, like a rat. On a clean street like this, it would make a conversation, for sure. As I crossed on green, and saw it was my lost socks, still rolled in a ball, I then walked faster...

At a hotel in everytimeland, I was soooooooo tired, must have been 2am, I was fit to be tied to the bed for 3 days. Sometime during the night, I must have remembered to brush my teeth.. I got up, walked up, opened my bedroom door, 'the hotel room door', and ended up in the lobby. Happily, I had my tie on.

Yes, we should change it now.. hehe