Random Thought of the Day

[ajoe]

Am I the only one registered in 2003? ???

[ajoe]

Whoever used this computer before me visited this forum and took a peek at the last pages of Questions Only and Random Thoughts. WHO???

[emily655321]

I admit it. It was me. I flew cross-country just to screw with your head. :p

[ajoe]

I think I'm an expert in writing bullcrap. Whoever wrote that essay "How to write nothing in 500 words" must be talking about me! http://www.addis-welt.de/smilie/smilie/lesen/120.gif

[simon]

Does your avatar have a sword on it's shoulder?

[Sancho]

Random? Alright! So this is going to be one of those long, rambling, stream-of-conscience Sancho-posts that doesn’t really have a point. It may have something to do with child brain development. I don’t know.

Yeah, so anyway, lately my neighbors have been kind of down on me about my yard. They think I’m bringing property values down around here. “Frankie-the-Yankee” from across the street has this “putting-green” lawn (which is the standard) and I have more of an “ecosystem” at my house. Well, I’m out there yesterday with one of those hose-end sprayers trying to feed the flowers and kill the weeds and keep everybody’s property value from tanking due to my lack of horticultural acumen.

Sure enough, the neighborhood urchins start showing up. I have this dog, “Maggie,” and the kids really dig her. So they’re all out there in my yard playing Frisbee, riding the dog, and trying not to get bitten. My next door neighbor, “Umbear,” arrives and immediately takes an interest in my fertilizing technique. (Umbear is around 6 years old, she is Korean, but she learned to talk in Georgia, so she sounds like a cracker)

Um: “Hey meester Sancho, what’cha doin’?”

For some strange reason, I like to talk to children as though they are adults. I don’t think that they resent me for this.

Sanch: “I’m trying to kill the weeds and feed the flowers and keep everybody’s property values from tanking due to my lack of agricultural acumen. I bought this sprayer contraption for 12.95 at the Home Depot today, Umbear”

Um: “What’s that green stuff?”

Sanch: “That’s ‘Miracle Grow,’ it’s high in nitrogen so it helps to green-up stuff real quick and it makes guys like me think that we’ve got a real green thumb when actually we’re just screwing up the environment with this crap”

Um: “Umm”

Sanch: “Yeah, Umbear you know, plants need to eat just like you and me, so that’s what I’m doing; I’m feeding these flowers.”

Um: “Phew! That stuff stinks.”

I’m thinking, - What the hell is she talking about? Well, I look down, and right next to her little pink sandal is a great big-ole wet dog turd.

Sanch: “Umbear, this plant food has no smell. What stinks is that big pile of dog crap that you’re standing next to.”

Um: “Uwe, Maggie made this?”

Sanch: (proudly) “Yep. In fact, there are piles of dog crap all over my yard.”

Um: “where?”

Sanch: “You tell me, Umbear”

By this time, the rest of the neighborhood deck-apes have caught on to the game and are running around my yard on some weird sort of a scavenger hunt for dog turds. - “Here’s one! Here’s one! Here’s one over here. Jeeesus Christ, they’re everywhere!”

Well, last weekend we had a block party in my ‘hood and I was in charge of drinks (go figure). The theme was tropical so I was making a bunch of those Rum-based boat drinks. Anyway, it involved simulated coconut cups and little paper umbrellas. I had several packages of those tooth-pick umbrellas left over.

I said, “Hey kids, when you find one – stick one of these umbrellas in it.” – I’m thinking - that’ll make ‘em easier to find, and I won’t have to just chop ‘em up with the lawn mower this time. In pretty short order my yard was looking like a Tiki garden.

Well naturally, ‘bout that time, my wife drives up in her car on her way home from work. I can see her confusion as she slows down, rolls down the window, looks out at all of the multicolored paper umbrellas sticking out of dog turds in our yard. She gives me one of those, “Sancho, you putz” looks and says, “I’m not even going to ask.”

What!?

So, that’s my random thought for the day.

[papayahed]

hehe Sancho that's a crack up I can just picture your yards with tons of little umbrellas sticking out of dog poo. May i suggest wearing a grass skirt when you "collect " the umbrellas.

Actually i just wanted to post to see how my new avatar looks.

[ajoe]

a random note for simon: is it me or you ARE as bitter as I've imagined? (in fact, until I found out you're a girl, I pictured you as a 30-year-old cranky bald man) http://www.addis-welt.de/smilie/smilie/diverse/u_thinking02y20.gif

[amuse]

Sancho, that made me as happy as anything i've read in a while. :) all around fun.
thank you, thank you, thank you!

[simon]

Ajoe, lets say that if I had a doctor and would ever let that doctor near me that doctor would say you suffer from AB, Acute Bitterness, and if your not careful it will escalate to CB, Cronic Bitterness and there's no turning back after that. My sunny smile throws people off.

[amuse]

ruminating on something tiny and weird earlier:

if "pac" as in pacifier, pacifist, and pacify is pronounced "pass," was the pacific ocean originally pronounced "PASS-if-ic"?

[ajoe]

I think I've been spending too much time here lately.

[simon]

I heard a nasty idea the other day upon my return to the states that they(I don't know who) are thinking of conscription of males and females.

[Sancho]

Ah yes, the ubiquitous “they,” they’re every where, those guys. (don't think it'll happen, but never say, "never.")

Thank You, amuse. Happiness can be contagious and reading your post made me happy.

Papaya, I dig the new avatar and I’d’ve worn a grass skirt if I’d’ve thought of it, but I wound up wearing a festive aloha shirt instead. I was going to just leave ‘em there for awhile because the little nippers seemed proud of their work. But I had to take action because, unbeknownst to me, the bambino brigade had escalated their assault to a neighborhood wide campaign. So with heavy heart, and bucket and shovel in hand, I had to follow their path of destruction yesterday. I was somewhat responsible after all.

[verybaddmom]

Sancho, that was truly wonderful. well written, expressive, and very vivid imagery. i can almost smell the dog turds, and i get to see the umbrellas sticking out at various angles all over the yard. i also really liked the way you described the childs diction and voice. i know this was not supposed to be taken as a sample of writing, but as a random thought. however, I think that if you cant write your thoughts, well...you know. i like your narrative style, is what im saying. i read this to my son, who thought it pretty funny, he was still laughing when he left for school :lol:

[simon]

VBM is right about your sense of dialog Sancho. Your random thought has no dull or confusing points, is funny and eloquent. It is a viniette.

And (think of many expetives) "they" better get their act together, while I try furiously to get married to a Canadian. I sent out emails last night to all the guys I knew from University asking them to marry me, somehow I don't think any of them will say yes.

[amuse]

*vignette* :)

[ajoe]

I haven't done a **** this weekend and I've been cussing too ****ing much.
:argue: --> that's me vs. myself... what language am I unknowingly able to speak??

[Sancho]

When I was a kid I read a book in which the protagonist was named “Geoff.” I went all the way through that book thinking his name was pronounced, “Gee-off.”

Good thing he didn’t have a friend named “Sean.”

[ajoe]

http://www.addis-welt.de/smilie/smilie/lachen/12.gif
A similar thing happened to me, but worse. When I first came to the U.S., the guy sitting next to me in class was named Sean. I knew how his name was spelled, but I thought I kept hearing other people calling him something like "Shawn," so because I wasn't sure, whenever I needed to call him, I called him Hey instead until I eventually learned that English is such a mess up language where spelling do not determine pronunciation.

Also, I used to pronounce Shea "She-a" instead of "Shay." :D

[emily655321]

English pronunciation is a fun little adventure in humiliation. :D At least you have an excuse.

[ajoe]

@#$%!!!! Why have I been so sleeply lately?????? This is not good, cause I can't slack yet until two more weeks!!!!!!

[amuse]

i was on "Radio Times". and, may i add, also massively inept. :p (hours on the phone do nothing for talk-show intelligence.)
anyway, Karen Jay Fowler was discussing her new book, The Jane Austen Book Club and i mentioned that in an on-line format, one doesn't need to worry about gender or hanging out having gossip and high tea with fuddy-duddy old ladies smelling like talc and guys don't have any compunction 'bout contributing. (ok, so there was no mention of talc, food was cited as a great reason to do it person [:D] and it sounded much worse than that.) also mentioned we're discussing notre dame, and have p&p as an option for next month.

but! there i was, in the bathroom because the horns were braying - traffic on the one way street outside was not moving over 1 mph/kph (i don't even live downtown) - and i thought, well hell, why am i protecting her radio listeners from the world outside? what if i were on I-95 and there was plenty of real traffic, or an ambulance?
and what if i were pregnant and had to end the call abruptly: "Excuse me gals, my water just broke."

why doesn't anything real happen on the radio??! :(
why didn't i say that? :D

[emily655321]

I don't know, why didn't you? :D

[emily655321]

****!!!!! Someone hire me, damnit! :rage:

[papayahed]

Work stinks. My job is sucking right now. I was going to call in but then decided to suck it up and come in boy what a mistake that was...

[ajoe]

I'm listening to Avril Lavigne right now. Why am I even telling anything this??
(But if any of you guys want a link to d/l her new album, I'm your man. :brow: )

[simon]

Is there any reason to expose the possibility of humanity within me? Can I keep my mouth shut and not say something insulting?

[emily655321]

ajoe! Mistress of all things smiley -- you found a way to use the eyebrow guy! :D

[ajoe]

Yes, simon, I guess you'd be better off biting your tongue 50% of the time. :D

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Yikes, I may have unintentionally gotten someone into trouble.
I have always gotten people into trouble, but I usually did it intentionally and I didn't mind... now I feel so, so bad for this someone... :(

[kilted exile]

Why do people not stay out of roped-off areas?


***RANT***
I was working today laying sub-grade for a drive-way that I am due to pave tomorrow. I had roped off the area to prevent people walking over the gravel, However about 15 different sets of idiots walked across where I was working. :rage: :rage: :rage:

[simon]

Alright ajoe from now on I'll bite my tongue and try to avoide saying anything insulting, for the sake of the infirm and emotionally unstable, a parting jab.

[ajoe]

is that a personal attack?

[ajoe]

Why the hell do I have 2 copies of Sports Illustrated in my drawer?

[imthefoolonthehill]

why do we dwell on the good of the past, the bad of the present, and the uncertainty of the future when good, bad, and uncertainty are or were in all three?

[simon]

I'm sorry ajoe but I can't say whether or not it is personal without being insulting, let me just paint you an image: bitter old man.

[ajoe]

aw, you don't have to paint me an image; I knew it beforehand.

[ajoe]

hey, simon, when did you stop being ghosty?

[simon]

This ghostiness is a puzzle to me, I never new I was dead in the first place and I was beginning to rather like it, but now I am alive agian, I must have been reincarnated, what should I do with my new life, spread happiness and joy or promote evil and vicious lies?

[emily655321]

Simon, I just noticed that you registered the day before I did. We both just had our two month...um...month-aversaries. :D

[simon]

Only two months old and already bitter. You've got 1000 posts more than me emily, your devotion is shocking!

[emily655321]

Not devotion, my pet; post dependency.

[verybaddmom]

i wonder, what is this about murphy's law? it seems that when things start falling to um....poop....everything else follows. darn it all.

[emily655321]

Who was Murphy, I wonder, and why did he invent such a sucking awful law?

[verybaddmom]

murphy reminds me very much of the fates in that woody allen play "god", where they are there only to screw things up and make fun of you when you fail. im beginning to wonder if there isnt some entity laughing his/her arse off at me....really.

[ajoe]

I think whoever invented the Internet deserves to die. I've wasted a good chunk of today because of him!

[emily655321]

It was Al Gore. The whole idea. All his.

[ajoe]

In another forum, we'd all be banned for using the forum to "chat" instead of "posting," whatever that means.

[amuse]

ah...do put that in admin's suggestion box, ajoe, yes?

[emily655321]

Does anyone really have something so meaningful to say, that it warrants distinguishing its importance from "chat?" I mean, a good percentage of "real" posts are, "I need help with this essay!" while many of our nonsensical ramblings turn into some very thought provoking discussions. What if Socrates had gotten in trouble for his "chats"...oh, wait. Nevermind. :p

[ajoe]

ah...do put that in admin's suggestion box, ajoe, yes?

You can't be serious, az.

[amuse]

hm...

*s10cr*

[simon]

I never knew there had to be a certain amount of characters to post.

[ajoe]

^ There are times when I want to say only "Wow" but that I have to elaborate due to the rule.

[ajoe]

The dot in the letter i is called tittle.

[ajoe]

I got the impression that decent people become whores once they're in college. :(

[ajoe]

whoops, I'm amazed the bad word passed the filter

[simon]

I'm not quite sure what to make of the comment about decent people becoming whores in college, but then I wouldn't know, I went to University (said with smugness).

[verybaddmom]

whores in college? interesting.
i want to know why it is that when i lay in bed at night, my brain is so full of creative ideas and no sleep and when i am up during the day i have no ideas but am full of the need to sleep. grrrrrr...something got put in backwards. would that be my reticular formation?

[ajoe]

I'm not quite sure what to make of the comment about decent people becoming whores in college, but then I wouldn't know, I went to University (said with smugness).

what do you mean, "went"? you've graduated?

[emily655321]

Oh no! that means I'm probably going to become a whore in college. At least that's what my guy friends admit to hoping for. :p

[imthefoolonthehill]

in that case... lets hope your avatar isn't a picture of you... or lets hope that is just you pretending to be manly.

[emily655321]

:lol: Haven't you ever seen A Clockwork Orange, Fool? Let's put it this way: I wouldn't mind waking up to find Malcolm McDowell in my room, just so long as it's not in my mirror.

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/3566/clock/droogies.jpg

[ajoe]

why is everyone stop being ghosty??

[simon]

Yes ajoe, I graduated from university at age 18, I was a studious child, a prodegy really, ever since I was able to babble and direct my drool in the form of a bullet onto my brother, my only toys were books and a calculator.... though if I decided to be honest I would admit that my tenses merely became confuddled and that I have only completed one year so I am "going", there is no "went".

[ajoe]

Why is that guy, the one who is always tanning under the sun when it's 108 degrees F, hogging the fan??

[emily655321]

Because he's burned his skin into beef jerky and he can no longer secrete sweat -- the body's natural cooling device -- through his pores.

[emily655321]

Oh my God! heaven in a little buckety thing of... heaven.
The doc doubled my sleepy pill dose, and did I think I got loopy before! :eek2: I forgot I had taken it, and went back downstairs to use the comp, then it started kicking in... whoo! I'm usually naughty and wait till I can't stand up anymore before I go to bed anyway, but this time it was an accident. A very, very fun accident. :D

[verybaddmom]

i think someone here is ghosty.... :brow:

[ajoe]

I think that emoticon is starting to get to me. :brow: http://www.addis-welt.de/smilie/smilie/banana/libido_snipers_rifle.gif
lol, the banana misses!

[ravana]

Every time when I meet this popular banana here I thank the God that don't live in English-language country. All my life I would have to put up with the rhyme: ravana-banana

[verybaddmom]

that is too cute ravana. i guess I will refrain from calling you that as much as possible, but if i do, its your own fault for putting the idea in my head... :lol:
oh btw, did you know that Oscar Wilde wrote a poem called Ravanna? was actually quite good. i'll see if i can find it for you....

[emily655321]

ajoe-- you mean him: :brow: :brow: :brow: :brow: :brow: :brow: :brow: :brow: ????
What's so annoying about that? ;)

[ajoe]

Hmm... it took me 5 meetings with my writing tutor before I realized when he said, "This is good" he was just being nice and what he meant was, "You STINK."

[ravana]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
Dear VB.MOM,(you know I wonder your son's name)

Oscar Wild and Ravanna?!
It sounds so interesting. I'm already starting really think that my name has espesially meaning in Europe. you can't picture my curiousity. I'll be very thankfull to you for that poem.

[verybaddmom]

oh, ravana my son's name is Patrick (which, btw, he cant wait to change, when he gets to be legal age). and the poem is called ravenna, not ravanna, sorry. but here it is:

http://www.neuroticpoets.com/wilde/ravenna.shtml

actually the neurotic poets website is pretty good anyhow, worth browsing around!

[emily655321]

Sounds like Ravenna is a town in Italy. Could it be the same place Koa mentioned, just spelled differently? (Or was it you, Ravana, who mentioned it? Sorry, I can't remember. :p)

[ajoe]

I'm unable to study.


















This is bad.

[amuse]

i'm trying to deconstruct and reconstruct the living room, kitchen, and loo where i live. (at this point, in my head.) my bf just said everything has to be rearranged, and he's right. it feels like playing babble, only 3-D...

[emily655321]

The name of the "These are people who I think deserve to die" thread still makes me uncomfortable whenever I see it.

[amuse]

YES

*10cr

[emily655321]

I figured out why it accepts 9 characters: it doesn't.

^^^^^ a space between the lines counts as 1.

[simon]

It frightens me that you spend time finding out how to say the least possible in a post.

[emily655321]

Just a winky little forum epiphany. Az wondered on another thread why it accepted

yes!
s10cr

as a post, since there were only 9 characters. I said I just realized that the return/enter to begin a new line must count as one character.

[simon]

Sure, your just making excuses, admit your addiction and you will then be on the road to a cure. And don't disillusion yourself further by saying you don't want to be cured, that is merely a fallacy, a self denial.

[emily655321]

Yep and yep.

So there. :p

[ajoe]

Has anyone realized Reagan is dead? It's freaky cause I'm currently reading about what he had done for the country. And my final is Tuesday. Wish me luck!!!

[ajoe]

I'm amazed I actually know what synclines and anticlines are.

[ajoe]

Dammit, I have one day left and I still have 400 pages to read. I hate reading. :(

[simon]

Ah the bane of the intellect.

[ajoe]

Stop Wasting Timeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[amuse]

do read his speech directly after the shuttle blew up. very interesting. also, what he did for homeless persons. yes, he did a lot.

[ajoe]

Read this sentence

[ravana]

Sounds like Ravenna is a town in Italy. Could it be the same place Koa mentioned, just spelled differently? (Or was it you, Ravana, who mentioned it? Sorry, I can't remember. :p)

em, you're right. Of course Wilde wrote about Italy's Ravenna, not about me. :lol:

After reading that poem I think Ravenna was not so unimportant as Koa told.
Adieu, Ravenna!
Adieu! Adieu! yon silver lamp, the moon,
Which turns our midnight into perfect noon,
Doth surely light thy towers, guarding well
Where Dante sleeps, where Byron loved to dwell.

Ravenna inspired O.Wilde to write whole poem about it ( "O much-loved city!) This and the names of Dante and Byron already make it more important.

[ravana]

oh, ravana my son's name is Patrick (which, btw, he cant wait to change, when he gets to be legal age). and the poem is called ravenna, not ravanna, sorry. but here it is:

http://www.neuroticpoets.com/wilde/ravenna.shtml

actually the neurotic poets website is pretty good anyhow, worth browsing around!

Great thanks V.B.MOM! That's cool site. I have never heard about Rossetty, Dickinson, Plath, Shelley.

Oh, Patrick is a cute one. Why does he wish to change it? You know I have already one cute and very unique name for my daughter (if I'll ever have). Now I think it's possible that she also would wish to change it.
Can I take some your advice? How does 'Banu' sound in English? Does it remind Indian name?

[Miranda]

Doesn't George Bush waffle! Although I don't live in America, we seem in England to get to hear a lot of his speeches..cos he does speech an awful lot doesn't he...and on and on and on! Is anyone awake in America when he has finished? I think he just loves the sound of his own voice..and he's so sentimental! I guess they use an awful lot of hankies in the white house. Do you have 'hankies' in America?

[ravana]

I don't know anything about his sentimentality. But he has all reasons to love the sound of his own voice. I also find it nice.
For waffle I have to have a look at a dictionary.

[trismegistus]

Doesn't George Bush waffle! ... I think he just loves the sound of his own voice..and he's so sentimental! I guess they use an awful lot of hankies in the white house.

Argh! Don't get me started on Georgie Girl!

[verybaddmom]

Ravana,
Banu is a totally awesome name. very original. i explained my son's name on the "character thread" and the reasons why he hates it, but basically because his dad named him after himself, and their relationship is not good. and there are a lot of nicknames to be taken from it as well...anyhow, i support his choice to change his name, because i had nothing to do with the original choice. however, if i had had an opportunity to have some input into his name, and had given it much thought and planning, i would expect him to wait till he was old enough to decide. the problem with names is that they partially define who you are, and when you have a tiny infant, you have no idea who they are....it makes it tough. i sometimes wonder how our names affect our behaviour and our own definitions of self....hmmm...maybe a new thread?

[emily655321]

Absolutely. :banana:

I think Banu is a lovely name too, btw. It sounds exotic, because it isn't a common sound to hear in English. As with any name, though, whether that's good or bad depends on the feelings of the person named. I think it sounds elegant and mysterious. :)

[amuse]

re: the shrub's (little bush's) voice, i find it THE most grating on the planet; i have to turn the radio to a different station if i hear it for more than 10 seconds.

[emily655321]

You last ten seconds? Superwoman! :p


[edit]: P.S. Danger. Danger. Abort political discussion!

[trismegistus]

[edit]: P.S. Danger. Danger. Abort political discussion!

Has there ever been given consideration to opening a "political discussion" forum on the site?

[amuse]

it is not allowed and VERY BAD. therefore, i shall follow em's excellent advice.

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/announcement.php?f=10
(2nd post)

[trismegistus]

it is not allowed and VERY BAD. therefore, i shall follow em's excellent advice.

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/announcement.php?f=10
(2nd post)

That's a pity.

[amuse]

well, i'd rather not be banned, eh. :)

[trismegistus]

well, i'd rather not be banned, eh. :)

No I don't mean your choice is a pity, I mean the admin's refusal to consider contemporary political discussion is a pity - even within the context of lit. After all, if you can't discuss Thoreau's "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" in the current political climate, with a new draft potentially coming, what's the point?

Oh well.

[emily655321]

We get away with plenty of [not-so]subtle jibes here and there, since as far as I've seen Fool (a.k.a. I'mthefoolonthehill) is the only conservative within earshot. ;) (just take a read through "[OCD] Haiku Thread Compiled" in Personal Poetry). But as a general rule, I think it does help to preserve civility within the forums. Discussing the politics of civil disobedience in reference to Thoreau would come under "except relating to lit." But, for instance, a General Chat thread of "For or Against the War" would most definitely NOT.

[Miranda]

Hey I never meant to lead to the political..talking about George Bush..I dont understand American politics anyway - but I reckon Mr Bush is good at telling bedtime stories..have the kids asleep in no time, and everyone else. I really am surprised that discussing religion is allowed on here (though I am glad that it is) when politics isn't allowed because in my experience people can get as heated..and perhaps even more heated discussing religion as they do discussing politics. I've found the worst places for argument are Christian discussion lists. I avoid them now as I find many people have closed minds not given to considering other points of view or even allowing them. Perhaps political discussion gets to be the same? Does any one know any good, friendly places for general discussion on the internet?

[amuse]

good at telling BEDTIME STORIES..."and everyone else"? not sure where you're coming from.

again, Admin has discussed the religion vs. politics issue in other threads.

[Miranda]

Sorry you didn't understand me Amuse - I didn't realise I was being obscure. I simply meant President Bush's voice would send the kids plus everyone else to sleep. Haven't read any other threads concerning religion versus politics..but not that interested anyway, it was just a thought that occured to me. The posts on the subject must have been before I joined.

[emily655321]

With the current political climate being as volatile as it is, mentioning Bush in any context is an invitation to passionate debate, and I agree fully that recent politics have nothing to do with literature or personal insight, and should therefore be kept out of the forum.

Religious texts, on the other hand, are a major part of the literary history of all cultures. Therefore, the discussion of religion can be very interesting and valuable --providing, of course, that the debate adheres to the subject of a specific religious text or passage, and doesn't veer off into moral crusades or feelings/intent of personal offense. And that it stays in the Religious Texts forum, so as not to provoke those who don't wish to take part.

I think Admin and the members here together have done remarkably well at maintaining an atmosphere of tolerance and respect. Certainly far beyond the petty bickerings of all other boards I've encountered.

[amuse]

btw, trismegistus i was being obtuse to try to diffuse my very passionate dislike of [bush and his voice.]
here's the link to the [ocd] haiku thread that em mentioned:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2773&page=1

*shuts up and leaves thread for time being.

[ajoe]

My cat likes to do things to his sister's kitten. :goof:

[emily655321]

If one was to cook Admin, do you think he'd crisp easily?

[Miranda]

I wasn't commenting on Bush's politics of which I know nothing..nor anything of the current political climate in America...merely on Mr Bush's boring voice and long speeches.

I think that there is very little difference between the merits or otherwise of discussing politics or religion and both are valuable in the context of history...and in fact are inseparable expecially in Britain where the church and state have been linked since time immemorial. It would be impossible to discuss the religious differences between protestand and catholic fraternities and the contention it brings in Northern Ireland without reference to politics and it's political history. These are extremely complex and it would be impossible to discuss any history of Northern Ireland without reference to both. But anyway...this thread looked like fun and was fun but this is getting serious...

Does this mean you have three cats Ajoe...your cat, it's sister and it's kitten? But anyway..we only think we own cats..they know better. Cats are clever, cunning, arrogant, cruel - soft eyed, affectionate, dependent and extremely lovable for some strange reason.

[verybaddmom]

i think one must be careful there too, miranda. discussions of cats tend to get almost as heated as ones of politics...although, it shouldnt be too bad with kik missing. i miss kik. :bawling:

[Miranda]

I miss Kik too VBM. Has he fallen off the edge of the world? I love cats really..but am under no illusions concerning their true natures!

[emily655321]

No one got my pun. :bawling:

[Shea]

Why do people compliment my hair when I've put the least effort into it?

[emily655321]

Cause you look so wild and free. :D
Why do people always feel the need to tell me my hair is long? People, it's hair. It grows. It doesn't take any kind of special effort to not cut it.

[verybaddmom]

em, i got your pun, but i've been kind of frugal with my posting lately, as i have so little time and so much to do. but i hate to see you cry...so "crisp" HA HA...hilarious.

oh, and wow! is your hair long!

[ajoe]

How come everyone misses kik but no one misses me? :bawling:
(as for em, she's never gone long enogh to be missed :D)

[amuse]

not true, i miss em when she's gone for over 12 hours.

[emily655321]

Really? :D Hypothetically, you mean.
Well, you'll get your chance this weekend. I'll be gone from Friday till Monday.

[Sancho]

Have a good weekend.

I agree with your siggy heh.

here's my daily random thought:

I think I need frickin' gills to breath this air down here today...gurgle, gurgle, gurgle

[simon]

Humidity is pissy, I went to Florida once in August and every day I felt like taking about 3 or 4 showers it was so muggy and then the thunderstorms would start and water would be everywhere.

[emily655321]

I'm going to Virginny in 24 minutes -- cicadas and mugginess :thumbs_up. Save me, Jeebus.

[amuse]

oh gawd. hope you survive, em. i was sweating in the house yesterday, with the air on.

[ravana]

Humidity, muggy air wouldn't do much harm. But not sure about wild animals. I saw on TV : lately they began to walk in Florida's streets and private yards.

[papayahed]

Why is Friday afternoon the longest part of the week, and how come there is nobody around when I'm bored?

[imthefoolonthehill]

why do we miss the things we hate after we lose them?

[ajoe]

I'm too afraid to ask. :sick:

[Koa]

Oh so em is gone... that's why I'm bored...
Talk of humidity, I hate summer for that reason... It's unbearable around here. I wonder if Florida is worse.

And we miss things just because we do. It's a rule of life. What we can't have is what we want, what we hate and try to lose is what we want but we don't want. I'm not making sense but oh, my brain is a mess-especially about this stuff *shuts up* :banana:

[Miranda]

Maybe we miss the things we hate because they have become so familiar to us? I am beginning to hate where I live and want to be some place else. But I reckon I would still miss here cos I've been here so long...even though I want to see the back of it now. I think em is right about that dancing bananna! It's dancing just above this little box and it really is annoying. Can't someone shoot it?

If you want to escape humidity then come to sunny summer in Britain - where the temperature is now 9c (50F) and is rainy. To be fair though..it is eleven o'clock at night. But it wasnt much warmer in the daytime either. Wanna swap?

[imthefoolonthehill]

the most humid place i've ever been (that I remember... I don't remember my trip to florida... was 2 years old)... was Washington D.C. ... that place is hot+ humid...except for in the winter... spring... and em... fall.

[emily655321]

Whee! Backers. Wicked tired. Never been so glad to return from such a short trip. No clue why. And...I'm about to drop, cause I've been sitting in a little honda *with my family* for 12 hours -- the seat behind the driver's, of course, cause it's the one with 10 inches of leg room. :rolleyes: I don't know whether to stretch and take a shower or sleep...hmm....SLEEP. I'll see you guys tomorrow, and catch up on the posts then too. (I'll try not to reply to too many. ;))

[Shea]

Welcome back Em!

I've never been anywhere more humid than Florida. Last weekend I played my harp for an outdoor wedding about an hour after it rained. I was so glad it was a very short wedding. My fingers kept sticking to the strings! :eek: Good rule of thumb for Florida outdoor weddings, March is probably the best month!

I remember the ten days of summer that I spent in Paris. I drank bottle after bottle of water and rarely had to go to the bathroom. But it was still more barable than the humidity of Florida!

[Koa]

If you want to escape humidity then come to sunny summer in Britain - where the temperature is now 9c (50F) and is rainy. To be fair though..it is eleven o'clock at night. But it wasnt much warmer in the daytime either. Wanna swap?


:(:(:(:(:(:( It is my dream to live in Britain. My ideal weather. :( And I'm stuck here instead...This summer is being surprisingly fresh so far, but I'd swap for England any time. :( ... Grr, I know I was born in the wrong place.
I'm so depressed today, I haven't been so down in one month at least. So thinking of this irritates me, cos I'm not there and I wasn't when I might have been and I won't be there cos I decided not to be at least for now. It sucks. And this thread is too random, it makes me go randomly on without making sense.

[emily655321]

Waah! :bawling: Don't know why I'm saying this a week later, but it's still pissing me off. My hair did not turn out purple as planned, but brown with a reddish tinge to it. :confused: Except in the sun, when it's bright auburn/orange and I look freakishly Irish. After years of dumping more and more stuff into my hair, I think it has finally reached a point of saturation. I'll have to save up a fortune to get it all stripped (salon lady'll have a heart attack when she sees me walk in), before I can put anything else in.

[imthefoolonthehill]

...... you tried to dye your hair.... purple?........................................... ................ =awkward silence.....

[Koa]

Purple rules!!!(see half of my clothes) But I think it's hard to make it work on hair unless you de-colour your hair first and do it at the hairdresser's...This is why I've never done it despite having wanted purple strips for ages... I so much hate hairdressers... My hair has to stay natural (except when I want it more black and the thingy lasts 2 days :D))

[papayahed]

Back in my day I had purple highlights in my hair and loved it. I have very dark hair and I'm pretty sure they had to lighten my hair first then dye. I remember it took forever.

[emily655321]

In Junior High I was doggedly determined to put green streaks in my hair. I must have tried it on five seperate occasions before admitting defeat. It just turned out looking like I was a bottle-blonde who'd been soaking in a heavily chlorinated pool. :( Let's see...to this point it's been a few different shades of red, a couple different shades of purple, and black two or three times. So now the hair near my temples is bleached, and it's black underneath. :rolleyes: The things we do for no apparent reason.

[papayahed]

Now that I know how to change from "registered User" to something else I can't think of anything witty to change it too.

[emily655321]

LMAO :lol:


Hey, how do I make a digital photograph look dismal on a bright sunny summer day? What shade do you think lipstick and nail polish would have to be to show up bright red through a blue film?

[ajoe]

http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/character/4/character41.gif --> now this is a really dancing banana

[evulik]

:lol:
wau, that is so great :D

[ravana]

http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/character/4/character41.gif --> now this is a really dancing banana

But now it's not dancing. It's doing exercises.

[amuse]

i got home from work and there was a fly-like BUG!!! helicoptering vertically towards the ceiling in front of my computer - ???

[amuse]

omgoodness, it just started blinking. i let the blug out of the window nicely, people.

*blug. shrieks subside, b/p returns to normal.

**bug

***firefly

[amuse]

http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/character/4/character41.gif --> now this is a really dancing banana

But now it's not dancing. It's doing exercises.
um, i think it is - have you ever seen john travolta in "saturday night fever" - this banana's been taking lessons. ;)
need to find a clip of that for you.

[emily655321]

Oh banana didn't get the "disco sucks" memo back 1978. ;) Nice to see he's been keeping busy though.

[imthefoolonthehill]

uh... did you get that memo to accounting? because they need those before they file the direct action reports to management... and they need to get those reports filed for the engineering department.

[papayahed]

Wait....What???? What memo I didn't get any memo. Does this mean I have to get rid of my KC and the Sunshine Bands CD's? Village People? :confused:

:banana: Disco inferno, burn baby burn.............. :banana:

[subterranean]

stop those dancing bananas...

[emily655321]

Would you prefer girating kumquats?

[trismegistus]

Would you prefer girating kumquats?
"Girating" reminds me of "gyre."

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The kumquat cannot hear the fruit picker;
Fruit falls apart; the center cannot hold.

[Isagel]

"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a kumquat? "

[ajoe]

Is JoJo really only 13 years old?? She looks 18!

[imthefoolonthehill]

I think the reason for my insomnia has something to do with buddhist monks in india.

[papayahed]

"Catcher in the Rye" I read it as a teen and I didn't really care for it. Would i appreciate it now or did I miss the boat?

And what is the proper way to write a book title and author?

[Sancho]

I'm old fashioned but I still like to see the titles underlined, then a simple "by line."

The older I get, (and Chriiiiist I'm gettin' old) the more I think that Pigs are way too smart to be eaten. My neighbor keeps pigs. Chester Whites, I think - a misnomer in this neck of the woods since they're mostly red from the red clay around here. I like to go over and visit them from time to time. They wag their curly little tails when they see me. Their radar dish ears independently search back and forth for a signal. And I swear to god, they smile when I scratch behind their ears or rub their snouts.

Anyhow, I don't think that I can eat bacon anymore.

[verybaddmom]

officially, according to the Modern Language Association, we are to cite the name of the book in italics (or underlined, if hand written) and if it is a short story, or work in a bigger work, such as a poem from an anthology, it should be in quotes. the author is first name last. for example,
"The Sonne Rising"
-Donne, John
but of course, that was the last time i looked; they change their rules at least once a week, so who knows what they want us to do now!

[ajoe]

Blech. I don't think computers are my best friend. :(

[emily655321]

I have a tummy ache. :(

[Miranda]

There's a little bug walking along the edge of my computer monitor. I wonder if it feels a long way to it and where it thinks it's going. I'm very bored. Maybe its bored too. Are you bored little bug? Better to be a bored bug than be nothing at all. I will not kill you. You dont take up very much space and I can spare it. Just don't go getting inside anywhere you shouldn't get inside. Be a good bug and I will let you live. I wonder if anyone has read any good bugs lately? I think I better go to bed...before I write something daft.....

[amuse]

i was thinking of writing a poem about that very thing...little bugs on the computer (one was a miniature of the black-spotted yellow-green garden thing) also tiny red spiders on the wall. i realized i used to kill them out of fear, not because they'd done a damn thing to me. and i felt so much love and compassion for them, oh my god.

[ajoe]

Usually when people think, they find solutions. When I think, I end up more confused.

[simon]

There is an evil thing afoot, a yellow jacket nest has sprouted by the house and it must be terminated. They swarm all over me whenever I try to leave, and killing only attracts them more. Hornets, wasps, and yellow jackets are perhaps the only thing I fear.

[Koa]

Usually when people think, they find solutions. When I think, I end up more confused.

I've been thinking for days about a decision I have to make, and the more I think, the less near the solution is... I know that, whatever I choose, I'll regret the other option (as I usually do), and even if it's a silly choice, it's a very tough one for me... And time is running out, I can't procrastinate it much longer...

[ajoe]

I think now I know what they mean when they say "laugh till my stomach hurts."
I feel like puking now. :|

[emily655321]

I've done that before. Actually, it was winter and I had the flu. And I have a sensitive stomach, so when I get the flu... yeah. Well, my dad and I were getting goofy about a nature show on TV, for some reason (who needs a reason?), because there were arctic birds, and arctic birds are...well...funny. Just when we were at the pinnacle of our mirth, the very proper English narrator said, in a very serious voice, "The gillemots...are restless." My dad and I went completely insane, and I laughed so hard that I started coughing...and I coughed so hard that I actually went and puked.

Delightful, eh?

[Miranda]

I didn't want any supper anyway... Any suggestions what to do next? England is cold and miserable. Is it any better where you are? What's it like right now where you are? It's dark here - this is because it's night which is probably obvious cos you usually eat supper at night..when you get to eat supper anyway...what were you gonna have Emily? But I forgive you ..I wasnt hungry anyway. Perhaps its breakfast time where you are. I never eat breakfast either

[Koa]

em's story made me laugh cos it's the kind of thing i'd laugh at too...

Miranda, i'd love to be in the cold england, and maybe i will soon... here it's pleasant at the moment, cos it's night and this summer nights are greatly fresh, sometimes even days are, but they're mostly hot...I hate hot :D

and once again even if i promised myself to go to bed early, it's 1:37 am and i dont feel like but until i do this exam (next tuesday) i shouldnt act like i was on holiday, but damn this week i went out practically every night, and always went to bed damn late cos my parents are away and so i do what i feel like without hearing complaints... But the studying is not going to well...Ok I'll pass anyway somehow.

[ajoe]

I think I'm getting addicted to The Beatles.

[Miranda]

It's not supposed to be cold in England as its supposed to be our summer. But you are welcome to come if you like..only you have to bring a little of your weather with you..not super hot, just a little bit hot, so you don't need to walk around with a coat on. But you better bring a brolly too..cos we also have rain right now.

It's not easy getting to bed is it? Somehow you just know you feel wrecked tomorrow, but the effort of getting there is just too much - especially when you're happy just wasting the time away and not really wanting tomorrow to arrive... but hey..you do need to study cos otherwise you will really regret it! Get to that book...

I just looked at my computer clock that I covered with my MSM winda...dohh..how did it get to 1am..again!

I like some of the Beatles too..oh dear.

[amuse]

ooh, i haven't heard an umbrella called a "brolly" before. (been gone many years.) i like!

[verybaddmom]

Yikes....
I'm getting my tongue pierced tomorrow afternoon, and im starting to get really nervous. of course, im reading tons of stuff on the internet about all the things that can go wrong, and how some people say its agonizingly painful, and others say it didnt hurt at all.
i just wish i were already done!

[ajoe]

Why have I been laughing all day?

[emily655321]

I've seen someone get their tongue pierced before, and it was really quick. Just like, 1..2..3..zsoop...and they didn't even wince. The body has extremely good systems of healing and pain-management.

[verybaddmom]

whew good, cause im a nervous wreck by now.....

i just cant wait for it to be over!!

[emily655321]

. . . of course, he was a bit of a pain freak . . . and I'm guessing the actual piercing is better than the ensuing weeks of healing . . .

[amuse]

my bf drooled an- omg! i dreamt of ambesol last night, how cool is that -d woke up in major need of ambesol.
but the second time was much better.

[verybaddmom]

cool As. very cool
anyhow, it is now done, and frankly it wasnt half so bad as i thought it might be. the anticipation was THE WORST!!! sitting in the waiting room for almost fourty minutes was just awful
all done...off to get a popsicle for dinner!

[amuse]

ooh! yum. :) enjoy the treats!!!

[verybaddmom]

LOOOK!!!


*do be warned that this is a picture of my tongue!*

[emily655321]

Whoa! That's like a freakin 12-gauge! :eek:
Sooooo coool, VB! :D :banana: Congratulations!

[edit] do they still have those Flintstones sherbert popsicle things in a tube with a red stick on the bottom? Oh man, those were great. Great excuse to stock up on those...

[papayahed]

Did it hurt? Stupid question i know, what I mean is: was it worth the pain?

People ask me all the time if my eyebrow piercing hurts. If it hurt would I be walking around with it?????

[verybaddmom]

well, honestly the piercing itself was a breeze, sort of like if you took really long fingernails and pinched your tongue as hard as you can (doesnt actually hurt as much as it sounds like it would)
however...that said, today it is crazy sore...like someone punched me in the tongue. so, i think i will talk very little today...and just suck on some ice. i dumped some oatmeal down my throat today, literally...a little bit on a spoon, head back, mouth wide open...scrape oatmeal off spoon, hope it drops into throat (if not, push it there with finger)...nummy

and to answer your question...yes, worth it. i cant wait to see my boyfriends face when he sees it. will make it all worth while (hes on a training course, in Ontario for a month.)

[emily655321]

HA! He doesn't know about it yet? :eek: :lol: Oh, that's awesome.

[emily655321]

*****This was a cheat. I'm sorry. I bend the 'P' rule way too much, and it's not fair. Delete.*****

[Miranda]

What if he doesn't like it VBM? Do y'know what..it makes me cringe!!! (sorry) Not a fan of piercings I'm afraid, though I don't mind ears - though I maybe should cos the concepts no different. Ohhhhh I couldn't stand that thing in my mouth though. Doesn't it irritate you? It would drive me crazy - but then maybe I already am!

[imthefoolonthehill]

i leave for germany tomorrow.

[papayahed]

DOH!!! I had an interview yesterday and I forgot to take my eyebrow peircing out!!! Do I subconsciously not want the job?

[Koa]

:banana:Holiday...celebrate...:banana:
Done last exam today, I don't know why my endless breathless self-confident talking after every question (Paradise Lost, Frankenstein, Tom Jones) wasn't appreciate enough to get the best mark, but I'm used to my unluck. Good anyway.

And I enjoyed being with that damn guy I should forget...again...

And, VBM... nice tongue!!! :D

[emily655321]

Congratulations Koa!! :banana:
:D :cool: :thumbs_up :alien:
Many wonderful end-of-exams smilies for you!

[verybaddmom]

poor papaya...i think that if you are skilled at what you do, then the hiring process should be more hinged upon that, rather than if you have body art that is not technically "mainstream". the thing is, piercings are becoming more and more common, to the point of almost being a cultural thing, and piercings have been accepted in various cultures without shame or punishment for centuries. i suppose that its our stiff conservative 'business' ideals that hold back progress in the area of self expression, but...still..
*takes off rose colored glasses*
oh...you are sOOoooooOOO not getting that job!


and yay koa on the end of all things school...for now!
myself, i just got three uni courses in the mail on friday (18th and 19th century lit, sociology of the family, and first year french) so im just starting back up again.....
can you believe that i have to read "wuthering heights" for that class?
i thought i was done with the Bronte's......grrrrr

[amuse]

it's an excellent tale!!!

[amuse]

em, indeed. :)

[imthefoolonthehill]

im in germanz. hmm... the z and the y are switched in german keyboards

[simon]

Hehe that makes sense, tried to speak any german yet? Tried to buy anything through the universal language of pointing?

[emily655321]

Today my dad received as a birthday gift a large box of meat from his brother. It's revolting to look at. Now we're going to be eating gelbwurst and weissewurst for the next month-and-a-half, I'd say.

My dad was delighted, btw.

The kitten is all better too. Getting very big, they are.

[Koa]

im in germanz. hmm... the z and the y are switched in german keyboards

oh really? like eastern european keyboards! expect lots of inverted z and y if i happen to post when i'll be in hungary!!! (i'm excited about the whole thing now, for those who read my depressed scared ramblings about it some time ago)

[emily655321]

eee! (That's an eee of excitement.) When are you going? That's going to be so neat, I'm envious. :D You have to post whenever possible -- none of this running off having fun and forgetting about us all like Kik.

[ravana]

I was really missing this forum.

[Koa]

eee! (That's an eee of excitement.) When are you going? That's going to be so neat, I'm envious. :D You have to post whenever possible -- none of this running off having fun and forgetting about us all like Kik.

me? have fun? that's against my nature... it all depends on how long it takes me to get used to using forum from public computers... I hate it because I'm always feeling like whoever is at the pc near mine is spying me...:D (oh it actually happened to me once at Uni, i was writing an email and a boy asked me why i was writing in English! i hate that kind of questions...i'm not going to reveal about my internet-life!). I'm leaving in september or late august, I talked with the girl who's been there last semester and she said it was cool, the rent was very cheap... only she didnt like much the people (the other foreign students), which was my biggest fear but I'll hope to have more luck or to be able to enjoy the new experience not caring of the people (i'm actually hoping to open up to people in this experience, but i'm used to loneliness and not getting on, so...). *stops rambling*

ravana, welcome back! :) :banana:

[verybaddmom]

ooh..koa i am so jealous. i think you have a wonderful opportunity at your fingertips here. enjoy it to the max.

on a side note: I ate my first real meal since monday last night!!! (a juicy hamburger with lots of pickles, cooked on my brand new bbq, with potato salad and baked beans) i was so excited, i could hardly chew for all my grinning!!! :D :D

[emily655321]

Yay, Ravana! :wave: We missed you!

And yayy, VB! :D That must have been nice. How do you keep it clean, btw? Listerine? I couldn't imagine having to put peroxide in my mouth. :sick:

Koa, I know you're going to have a great time. I'm leaving about the same time -- I just pray I have a roommate with a comp and a lot of generosity. :p Otherwise, with both of us gone, this place is going to get rather dead very suddenly! :eek:

[verybaddmom]

goodness no, emily. no peroxide and no listerine. you wouldnt use peroxide even on a non-oral piercing..EVER. for all my body piercings i used just neutrogena soap to clean with twice a day, and saltwater solution soaks slightly more often.
for my current piercing, i use a sea salt solution and i rinse everytime i put anything in my mouth (including a cigarette) and that, my dear, is it. i brush my teeth just like normal now, and i suck on a lot of ice chips to keep the swelling down (popsicles are a pain cause the top bead really is in the way, and it really doesnt feel good to bump it)
i ate dinner tonight too....im on a roll!

[emily655321]

I've heard a lot of people say, "never use peroxide," but that's what I've always used in my ears and they're fine. :confused: Oh well. Good to hear your mouth's universe is returning to normal. :D

[Koa]

Koa, I know you're going to have a great time. I'm leaving about the same time -- I just pray I have a roommate with a comp and a lot of generosity. :p Otherwise, with both of us gone, this place is going to get rather dead very suddenly! :eek:


I was exactly wondering and was going to ask... Awww what can we do? Well if you're not lucky with the roommate, you can use pc at library/Uni like I'll try to, won't you? And we'll keep in touch somehow I hope... Ah this is the downside of getting a life and try new stuff, you always have to leave something (or part of it) behind! Life is scary ;)

[simon]

I am leaving in 15 minutes for the plane! Is this excitment I feel? What a novel idea, the spark of enjoyment, anticipation, Calgary wiating for me. Nothing can bar my way.

[amuse]

yay!!! have a great time!!! :banana:

[Sancho]

I just bought a big ole box of expensive doggie treats. On the package is the following advertisement: “Made from 100% human-quality ingredients.” – Not too sure how to take that.

You know what though, they are pretty tasty.

[verybaddmom]

lol...nice sancho!

i realized tonight that one of my biggest pet peeves is pharmacutical companies advertising on tv, especially before their products have been approved for use. all you get is: "if you think fledexherine (or whatever *insert unpronouncable name here*) might be right for you, call your doctor", or worse yet they give you some random images and then a name of a product. no information to be had.
i dont know though if that is worse than the ones where they say "blah blah may not be right for everyone. may cause skin rash, heart attacks, gout, ulcers, bleeding gums, excessive gas, the plague, etc..do not use if currently alive or breathing."
drug companies.... :rage:
ahhh. okay....rant over, i think.

[emily655321]

FEMALE SCIENTIST: Homer, you really have no desire to eat any of the food in front of you?
HOMER: Food? What food?? Agh, I'm blind!
MALE SCIENTIST: Who's going to buy a drug that causes blindness?
FEMALE SCIENTIST: Ah..we'll let marketing handle that.

[papayahed]

Hey Sancho, Milkbones aren't too bad either......

[Sancho]

Heh heh. I’ll pass on the Milkbones. These were these little sandwich cookie looking thingys flavored with carob. We both liked ‘em.

[papayahed]

After a conversation about how people at work will eat anything that is free somebody brought in those sandwich cookies into work to see who would eat them. She left the wrapper on so people knew what they were getting into, they were gone within the week.


I took a class in greek Mythology a while back. We had to read this thing about how the gods came into being, does anybody know who wrote this? It was some greek.....

[Sancho]

Hey Papaya, I think our fellow workers are cut from the same cloth. Someone has a birthday at least once a week where I work so we’ll get one of those slab cakes with a kooky saying on it. They last about 30 seconds. I’ve actually witnessed people scraping the crumbs and extra frosting up off of the waxed paper with their little plastic forks.

[imthefoolonthehill]

isnt it a bit odd that a trip to europe would reinforce ones mental stereotypes rather than completely change them??? dont people usually come back saying its exactly the opposite of what i expected?

[Koa]

well you're in germany... ;)

just joking but where i am it's normal to see german tourists and they are recognisable from considerable distance due to their charateristic traits...:D

[Miranda]

One of my sons has epilepsy and the drugs prescribed for him had some real 'good' side effects - the worst one though was a drug called 'Gabapentin' and one of the side effects was 'sudden death!'

[verybaddmom]

OMG...that's the worst one yet, miranda. i thought the "uncontrollable, oily anal discharge was bad "but your's wins, hands down.

[evulik]

random thought : always do backups. I did not do. after three years all is gone, school, accounting to work... everything... luckily me that I found the link to this forum again... :rage: such a horrible day.... till now I loved saturdays....

[Koa]

(D'oh poor evulik, that must be irritating as hell!!!)

Often when I visit forums, even this one, I wish I was a dictator that could fix the rules...then I'd forbid the use of the word 'boyfriend' (or even girlfriend) or any similar concept. (the effect these words have on me: :bawling:)
(Don't mind me, I'm costantly trying to spoil everybody else's fun. Maybe one day I'll grow up...).

[amuse]

evulik, that happened to a friend of mine; she lost creative stuff she'd written and all...after that, i recommend not only backing stuff up, but e-mailing yourself word docs, and whatever else, so that if nothing else, yahoo/hotmail/etc. else can store it for you. i've even done that with a phone number or two, since with my cell phone, i rarely memorize them anymore.

[emily655321]

There's.also.this.old.thing.people.used.to.use.cal led."paper"...;)
I'm.just.kidding...I'm.too.lazy.to.actually.make.h ard.copies.of.anything.

Sooo...why.am.I.typing.weird?..Well,.I.told.Hye.Yo ung.part.of.the.story,
but.I'll.embellish.on.it:..Now.that.the.kittens.ar e.running.and.climbing
everywhere,.they.get.into.mischief...such.as.tippi ng.a.bottle.of.water
over.onto.the.keyboard.:bawling:..As.you.see,.I've .found.ways.of.getting
around.the.death.of.a.few.select.keys.until.the.ne w.keyoard.gets.here,
but.it's.slowww.going..(I.have.to.find.the.missing .letters.elsewhere.on.the
page.and.COPY>PASTE.them.into.the.message.--.PS,.Az,.thanks.for.using
the.word."memorize.":D)

Needless.to.say,.my.post.count.won't.be.rising.too .rapidly.over.the
next.few.days..:p

[ravana]

It's raining here like in Autumn. It's so strange, it doesn't usually rain in summer.

[emily655321]

It was supposed to rain all this week, but it hasn't yet. Right now the sun is shining. :confused:

[amuse]

did i mention i registered for fall classes last week? if not, i did :D, and would you guys help me if i don't understand what the heck plato and aristotle meant when the time comes? (intellectual heritage is a required, non-transferable course. but it sounds like fun. :))

[Sancho]

amuse, armed with my knowledge of the ancient Greeks, you'd flunk for sure.

Mmmm, peaches are good here this year!

[subterranean]

i haven't update my CV for the scholarship application requirement.

[verybaddmom]

stampede is over now....boo hoo
what a hoot that was. i have never seen anything quite like it in my life. i have a picture of lineups of people hoarding around outside the gates, with the city skyline right behind them. beautiful. and i never saw so many belt buckles, cowboy hats, drunks, lights and tiny doughnuts in one place in my life.
for ten days the whole city changes focus. over 1.2 million people attended this outdoor event. holy smoley!

[verybaddmom]

oh, and guys and girls, i really need some sort of clever thingy to go beneath my name. i think i've finally posted enough to put up some sort of description. its just that after 130 posts i should be slightly more than "registered user", but good grief, is my mind ever blank.....any suggestions?

(i could just put "not really" under there...for a giggle)

[emily655321]

How about "Army Wife"? :p Then you could gifworks your original pic and crop off the words, and you wouldn't have to shrink the actual pic as much. Or you could just crop it to 100 pixels long the way it is, and just cut off the bottom of her legs.

[verybaddmom]

oh! i guess i didnt mention, i dont care if the text at the bottom is cut off (we arent actually married anyway!) so that's a great plan. so now i have to figure out gifworks :confused:

[emily655321]

Oh! :D Hehe. It's really easy. And two other great sites:
http://www.photobucket.com/ and http://www.tinypic.com/
Online image storage, so you can post pics instead of attachments. Tinypic is great for things like the puffin heads and your avatar, cause you don't have to save them in an online album; you can save the address if you want, or never see it again. Only it's not good for personal pics, because if it happens to be posted on a page that gets a lot of hits, they put the pic on a list of "top viewed pics" on their site. I forgot to tell you about them; I just found them recently.

[papayahed]

Yeah I need a name besides registered user also. I'm toying with "Ambivalent" but I dunno.

[verybaddmom]

oooh. thanks Em. good call. here is one that i just uploaded on the tiny pic one. just because i can!

http://tinypic.com/x4s3


EDIT: holy! thats HUGE!!! sorry

[emily655321]

LOL! :D Awwww.

[simon]

You better hope he doesn't mind having his picture posted on the internet. Like what you've done with your avatar VBM, the whole view is much better.

[emily655321]

Oh, me too, VB! You've joined me at the altar of gifworks, then? :D

[Koa]

(err...I opened the page and had to say 'whats that????'...then i realised it was a pic... ;) nice to see ya :))

My random thought: while watching the news I keep wondering what the journalist who's reading the news is thinking... I'd die to know what they're actually thinking when they announce things in such a neutral, 'imposed' (???random word) tone... when they tell that a woman has been "horribly killed and made into pieces by her son" with almost the same voice they use to announce the adverts... They have something in mind, and they dont show it... Or when they mess a word and have to repeat it twice before getting it, or when they cough and apologise, or when there are technical problems and they'd probably like to scream but they have to smile and be sorry... I want to read their minds!!!!!! Should we open a thread about this? :D

[emily655321]

I always wonder that too! :D

[nome1486]

Like the lyrics from that Jack Johnson song, "Why don't the newspeople cry when they read about people who died? At least they could be decent enough to put just a tear in their eye."

The scent of freshly squeezed lemons mingling with the aroma of baking brownies...DIVINITY!

Anyone have any creative ideas of what to do with a major in English Language and Literature?

[verybaddmom]

teach. that's what im gonna do. is there anything else?

[nome1486]

Well, I can't think of anything else right now, but since I'm just going into college I want to actually study something I'm interested in, not just "Secondary School Education". Know what I mean? I'd rather study the subjects I would teach than the subject of how to teach. Is it possible to go on to graduate studies in education without having an undergraduate degree in education?

Plus, I don't know if I would be any good as a teacher. Any other ideas, just to keep my options open?

[verybaddmom]

oh definitely. you should look into it where you are, but here, i can complete my BA (major in English) and then do my grad studies in education, and come out of it fully qualified to teach high school. i would prefer to teach college, myself, and i would be qualified, but it seems that (in BC, Canada anyways) the colleges are hiring more and more phd's to teach, even where a master's would be sufficient.
the thing about teaching is that you can sort of pick your students (to a certain degree). see, I would totally suck teaching small children, or even kids my son's age (he's 12) but high school? not so much. ya know? so needless to say, i will NOT be doing my education degree in elementary ed.....