Random Thought of the Day [Archive] - Page 9

Scheherazade

06-21-2005, 12:16 PM

Beware of what Scher?????????
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she play'd,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me,
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.

from Kubla Khan (http://search.able2know.com/About/3008.html) by Coleridge.

It was a reference to Basil's post, which was a reference to Jack's post... :D

Nightshade

06-21-2005, 12:22 PM

Kubla khan thats the one that starts in (somthing or other starts with X but pronounced z) did Khabla khan a pleasure dome decree..?
wasnt he high on drugs when he wrote that??

Bongitybongbong

06-21-2005, 05:45 PM

It was a reference to Basil's post, which was a reference to Jack's post... :D
oh I just wondered...

imthefoolonthehill

06-21-2005, 09:00 PM

so if all thoughts started out with a so then how can we alternate between alternatives?

mono

06-22-2005, 04:14 AM

Kubla khan thats the one that starts in (somthing or other starts with X but pronounced z) did Khabla khan a pleasure dome decree..?
wasnt he high on drugs when he wrote that??
Yes, Scher showed a sample from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous work, for good reason, or "Kubla Khan." I find it a true work of poetic art, though many others, yet perhaps no one on the forum, would disagree.
To answer your second question, yes, Coleridge had a chronic addiction to laudanum, a derivative of opium, and wrote "Kubla Khan" after waking from a drug-induced dream, until a visitor interrupted him, and Coleridge left the epic poem forever unfinished.
The whole text:

Kubla Khan

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round:
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!

The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!

A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me
That with music loud and long
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed
And drunk the milk of Paradise.

Bongitybongbong

06-22-2005, 09:11 AM

I bought Clone Wars themed Risk...it's fun.

ihrocks

06-22-2005, 09:13 AM

I've noticed that I've been so busy the last few days that I've had very few random thoughts...it's so unlike me! I must schedule in the time to be more random. :D

Bongitybongbong

06-22-2005, 09:31 AM

play some of my risk and it'll all come back

Snukes

06-22-2005, 10:16 AM

If a donkey needs to drink 30L of water every other day, and a donkey can travel 40km a day, and a donkey can carry 100kg of weight, and a 15kg jar can carry 25kg of water... how the heck is it possible for a train of donkeys to cross a 600km desert???

Jay

06-22-2005, 10:57 AM

hitchhike
. . .

edit, a thought made it all the way up into my brain

1. are the donkeys on the train or does a 'train of donkeys' mean a bunch of donkeys going one after another
wow, another one
2. there are trains in deserts?

Scheherazade

06-22-2005, 11:23 AM

http://www.comics.com/comics/peanuts/meet_the_gang/images/strips/f4b4.gif

Koa

06-22-2005, 12:38 PM

What's for dinner?
(the earlier in the day this thought crosses my mind, the more worried I get)

Jay

06-22-2005, 12:41 PM

No food talking, hungry! Haven't had lunch yet, lol.

Jay

06-22-2005, 12:50 PM

I like Scher's new siggy :p

Bongitybongbong

06-22-2005, 05:40 PM

The fight for Naboo was a fierce battle with the clones aiding the Gungan forces against the CIS. A squad of droidicas attcked with a barage of blaster fire that cut through their enemies like a hot knife in butter. With the clones stretched to the limit from the assault, super battle droids made a bold move to take the over the last strategic point the clones and Gungans fortified. The Gungans made a final assault against the droidicas because they were capping all of their allies. The attack, led by Jar Jar Binks, soured quickly when a rocket took out Jar Jar's right flank. The droids capitalized in a mechanized massacre. With the Gungan's weakening and the clones struggling, the droids took the hill. As unfortunate as it may seem the battle's turning point took place at that point. Massive explosives hidden under the hill went off, in turn taking out most of the left flank of the droids. With a rejuvenated spirit after the explosion, the remaining Gungan's struck the droids with all of the water balls that were left....

Are the droids finished or will the Clone army collapse?

Jack_Aubrey

06-22-2005, 05:42 PM

Who cares?

Bongitybongbong

06-22-2005, 05:43 PM

ow that hurts bad...

Jack_Aubrey

06-22-2005, 05:44 PM

Yeah well.

Bongitybongbong

06-22-2005, 05:47 PM

well that's not nice

Jack_Aubrey

06-22-2005, 05:47 PM

To Live Chat!

Bongitybongbong

06-22-2005, 09:28 PM

my favorite color starts with a "q"

Nightshade

06-22-2005, 11:38 PM

blah blah blah I think Ill post along post in the mark thread...
I love risk that is the game with the board and the armies and the cards that gos on forhours?
Unfortunattly noone else in my house does or at least they refuse to play with me....

imthefoolonthehill

06-23-2005, 01:04 AM

try the board game: diplomacy... so much better

papayahed

06-23-2005, 08:58 AM

Why am I soo tired lately, the last 2 nights I went home and did nothing. Could it be the heat? Is Mercury in retrograde?

ihrocks

06-23-2005, 09:26 AM

Why am I soo tired lately, the last 2 nights I went home and did nothing. Could it be the heat? Is Mercury in retrograde?

Perish the thought! :eek2: Mercury doesn't go retro again until mid-July. Blame the heat, which in your part of the world is usually accompanied by soul-sapping humidity, isn't it?

papayahed

06-23-2005, 10:57 AM

Perish the thought! :eek2: Mercury doesn't go retro again until mid-July. Blame the heat, which in your part of the world is usually accompanied by soul-sapping humidity, isn't it?

My bad! Yes it does get a little humid here, but I just checked for today and it's suppossed to be 93 with 54% humidity - no wonder why my hair is doing so well.

Bongitybongbong

06-23-2005, 11:50 AM

ihrocks

06-23-2005, 12:22 PM

PG Wodehouse lived a very long time!

All things considered, I don't want to live that long.

Scheherazade

06-23-2005, 01:41 PM

Today is not my day...

I am very distracted and absent minded (OK, fine... old age is taking its toll on me! :rolleyes:)

Had to go to the supermarket twice because I forgot some of the things I needed to buy... :eek:

And I realised I had left my car unlocked :eek:

And forgotten to pay for the parking ticket as well :eek: :eek:

Very luckily didn't get caught as the attendants are very eager to put the tire clumps (and charge £60 to remove them).

Since my mental capacity was not very promising, I decicated the day to 'menial' tasks: washed the curtains;dried and ironed them and cleaned the windows as well! (very becoming considering my 'pleb' origins)

Instead of finishing C & P, I think I will read some silly books as well today. :eek: :eek: :eek:

mono

06-23-2005, 03:00 PM

Mercury doesn't go retro again until mid-July.
Oddly, the last time this occurred, about one or two months ago, I finished my play, which, if I understand, Mercury's retrograde often affects any artist's creativity. :confused:
Hurray! I beat the odds!

Instead of finishing C & P, I think I will read some silly books as well today.
Try Alexander's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst - very humorous, simple story.
Good luck, and I hope you feel much better soon, Scher. ;)

Koa

06-23-2005, 04:11 PM

Where's Helga?

Why sub reappeared only to vanish again?

Scheherazade

06-23-2005, 06:18 PM

Try Alexander's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst - very humorous, simple story.
Good luck, and I hope you feel much better soon, Scher. ;)
Thank you, Mono... Have to admit, I enjoy a day like this every now and then... Back to origins! :p

I will have a look at those books you suggested for future but at the moment, I am reading some teen books by Jacqueline Wilson that I had borrowed from the library. :)

Nightshade

06-24-2005, 05:41 AM

am reading some teen books by Jacqueline Wilson that I had borrowed from the library.
Are they any good??

Bongitybongbong

06-24-2005, 04:00 PM

the beach is a cruel irony for guys....

imthefoolonthehill

06-24-2005, 08:07 PM

I had my wisdom teeth removed today.

I feel light headed. Get it? Get it?

Har Har Har

Oh give me more pain killers.

mono

06-27-2005, 11:33 PM

What the fortune cookie printed this evening: "Luck is the residue of design."

imthefoolonthehill

06-28-2005, 01:10 AM

I have a recipe for fortune cookies... this gives me evil ideas.

ihrocks

06-28-2005, 08:57 AM

I have a recipe for fortune cookies... this gives me evil ideas.

I tried a fortune cookie recipe for Chinese New Year's --I know they aren't really Chinese -- for my daughter's Girl Scout troop. They didn't turn out so well. Let me know if you try yours and how the cookies come out? Please and thank you. :)

imthefoolonthehill

06-28-2005, 12:57 PM

sure if i try them....

i was just thinking of the evil fortunes i could include....

and if they ARE good, how i could sneak them into a chinese restaurant.

papayahed

06-28-2005, 01:20 PM

Why do they put Cheese in the pizza crust, isn't there enough cheese on top?? Don't get me wrong, I love cheese, but sometimes it's just too much.

Koa

06-28-2005, 01:21 PM

Americans ;)

papayahed

06-28-2005, 01:37 PM

Americans ;)

which part, the cheese in the crust, or too much cheese, or both?

Nightshade

06-28-2005, 02:38 PM

I just bought the Gormenghast trilogy for 45 p!!!!
I love charity shops!!

mono

06-28-2005, 02:54 PM

Why do they put Cheese in the pizza crust, isn't there enough cheese on top?? Don't get me wrong, I love cheese, but sometimes it's just too much.
The more cheese, the better, I think, being one of those cheesy-kinda-guys. :D

Nightshade

06-28-2005, 03:17 PM

Ahh but your an american arent you?

mono

06-28-2005, 03:26 PM

Ahh but your an american arent you?
Indeed . . . for better or worse.

Nightshade

06-28-2005, 03:30 PM

so the proof is in the pudding!

Koa

06-28-2005, 06:43 PM

which part, the cheese in the crust, or too much cheese, or both?

lol the cheese in the crust. Like the pineapple on pizza... why, oh why... ;)

ihrocks

06-29-2005, 08:49 AM

which part, the cheese in the crust, or too much cheese, or both?

Both. Especially if you bought the "Extra Large" with the two-liters of soda and bread sticks, 'cause that's the "Big Deal."

Scheherazade

06-29-2005, 06:02 PM

THE TOP 10 LESSONS I LEARNED FROM CHARLIE BROWN

For 50 years the daily comic strip "Peanuts" entertained millions of readers. Every day, the adventures of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus and the whole gang provided many laugh-out-loud moments while at the same time offering a daily inspiration and lessons on life.

With the death of "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz, I reflect on how much I enjoyed sharing the adventures of the "Peanuts" gang and I remember the many lessons they taught me...

1. It's okay to be afraid... just don't let your fears control you. Charlie Brown often sat in bed and spoke of his fears, but no matter how scared he was, he always did the things he wanted to do.

2. Persistence wins out. Charlie Brown often lost, failed at much, but he never gave up. Even though he knew Lucy was going to pull the football away before he could kick it.... Even though he knew the tree was going to eat his kite... Even though he knew his team would lose the ball game, he kept on trying.

3. It's what you think of yourself that matters most. Linus carried a security blanket for years and his friends laughed at him. They also laughed at him because he believed in the 'Great Pumpkin.' Pigpen was a walking cloud of dust and dirt and was often regarded unkindly. Both characters, however, were always proud of themselves and believed they were as good as anybody else -- and they were right.

4. Sometimes you need to talk. One thing the 'Peanuts' gang understood was the importance of talking things out. Whether leaning up against Schroeder's piano or atop the brick wall, they always had someplace to discuss what was of concern to them.

5. Sometimes you need to listen. Even crabby, self-indulged Lucy knew the importance of listening. She started the famous 'Psychiatry Booth' where any and all could come and be heard.

6. Do what you love to do. Through all their adventures, Schroeder remained constant in his appreciation of Beethoven and his love of playing the piano. He loved to play piano and that's what he did, regardless of the circumstances. Charlie Brown flew his kite, played baseball and football, not just to win (he knew he wouldn't), but because he loved to do those things.

7. It's important to have friends that care. The 'Peanuts' gang was made up of individual characters, each with their own foibles and talents, but through it all they were always there for each other.

8. Big dreams lead to big things! Snoopy was the biggest dreamer of them all, but his wild imagination often led to even wilder, more fantastic adventures in real life. Snoopy knew that you must have a big dream if you are going to lead a big life.

9. Action creates reality. As Charlie Brown was reminded time and again after prodding from Linus: it takes action to bring about change. Though he often failed, Chuck took action quite regularly... and every now and again things would go his way.

10. Laugh every day! While the kids themselves may not have seen the humor in the things they did, Schulz made sure that *we* did. Life is only as serious or as humorous as YOU make it... Lighten up. Go play softball. Fly a kite. Dance with your dog. Smile... it makes people wonder what you're up to.

http://halife.com/halife/charliebrown.html

Fango

06-29-2005, 08:12 PM

..........

Accidently swallowed my gum watching this.

shortysweetp

06-29-2005, 09:14 PM

thats gross

imthefoolonthehill

07-01-2005, 01:55 AM

random thoughts abound.

My perceptors have missed the steady stream of airborne electrons intercepted regularly from the mothership, and now all that is playing in the screen of my mind is static - random bits of code and information jumbled together as complete nonsense.

Maybe if i concentrated i could peer through the static and determine the nature of the picture, the message being sent.

It dawns on me that there is no message, no point from the mothership. Now there is nothing but silence, and for the first time in my life, my thoughts are random, not controlled by the mothership, not beamed directly into my head.

Not beamed directly into my head from the mothership, the television, the radio, the music abounding from the bass-soaked gangsta in the car next to mine. No billboards no signs nothing is now being beamed directly into my head, and now there is static - nothing but static - the remains of all those messages, reverberating in my now empty cerebrum.

A new-found sense of hope springs from within as I realise my thoughts can be my own, that this noise pollution, this destruction of intellectual property and production, can be fought off.

What is this? Now I can THINK?

I shy away from the possibility.

I shrink from the chance.

I retract from the very idea.

And simultaneously, I embrace the newfound freedom, the cutting of this intellectual umbilical chord, this freedom from the mothership.

Maybe without all this noise, I can have an original thought.

Maybe...

Maybe...

but (the TV Says) I doubt it.

I doubt it.

....................

Nightshade

07-01-2005, 01:24 PM

Accorrding to a book called 1000 Dangerous things in everyday life:
Teddy bears are more dangerous than Grizzlies.
150 people a year (mostly male people) are injured by bras.
Being short may shorten your life span.

ihrocks

07-01-2005, 02:55 PM

Gardening and good friends improve the quality of life.

Snukes

07-01-2005, 03:13 PM

A weekend retreat doesn't feel like much of a retreat if you come home at nights.

Bongitybongbong

07-01-2005, 08:11 PM

Why do they put Cheese in the pizza crust, isn't there enough cheese on top?? Don't get me wrong, I love cheese, but sometimes it's just too much.
They put cheese in the crust because it's good. There are better places to go than the chain places (Dominos, Papa Johns, Pizza Hut, etc.). I say the more cheese the better!!

Nightshade

07-02-2005, 03:54 AM

Cheeese cheese cheese
maybe I should start a cheese thread!

mono

07-04-2005, 01:30 PM

Happy Independence Day to all my fellow Americans! May you all spend a fun and safe holiday! :)

amuse

07-04-2005, 06:52 PM

why is it that only the group known as "eyebrows" is singular or plural?
why are there no words to describe one's eyebrow lash :confused:

imthefoolonthehill

07-04-2005, 09:01 PM

*waves American flag*

mono

07-05-2005, 06:17 PM

Two quick random thoughts:
I still feel convinced that nothing uglier exists than immodesty.
If one thinks he/she knows everything, he/she has the potential to learn nothing.

amuse

07-05-2005, 08:49 PM

"why do birds si-ing so gay, and love(deedudum)the break of day...

why does the rain fall from up above, why do fools fall in love, why do they fall in lo-ove..."

*been going through my head all weekend

ihrocks

07-05-2005, 10:43 PM

"why do birds si-ing so gay, and lovers await the break of day...

why does the rain fall from up above, why do fools fall in love, why do they fall in lo-ove..."

*been going through my head all weekend

Sounds better that way. :)

Monica

07-06-2005, 05:46 AM

My random thought of the day (and the whole life :D) is that U2 are great :D...

amuse

07-06-2005, 11:06 AM

Sounds better that way. :)ohhhh! had no idea what those words were!

Basil

07-06-2005, 01:38 PM

You done full up, Shay Shay!!

Nightshade

07-06-2005, 06:19 PM

When you highligh a smile smile it turns sad!!! Try it!
:) :) :) :) :)

imthefoolonthehill

07-06-2005, 06:24 PM

5 miles + 90 degree weather + too much ice cream in belly + one ill-fitting bike - antipersperant = one tired and sweaty foolonthehill

Nightshade

07-07-2005, 04:31 PM

"The decline and fall of the roman empire" makes a great bookend!!!

imthefoolonthehill

07-07-2005, 08:08 PM

soap and soup are only one letter apart, but if you mix the two, you've got bad news.

Koa

07-08-2005, 05:19 PM

It's raining hard and it's lovely but a bit scary at the same time...
Still so great... so fresh... I wish I wasnt feeling this slight uneasiness and I could enjoy it to the maximum.

ihrocks

07-08-2005, 11:25 PM

Maybe not so random a thought, given the circumstances, but here it is:

My chum in Bath, having finally accounted for all his London friends and family, sent me an e-mail, and in it he said, "I wish you were here now, strange as that sounds." I knew exactly what he meant because I wanted to be there. I wanted to be there for my friends, to give hugs, stay up late, maybe get drunk, and talk all night, until we had pushed the shadows way into the corners and could think and act and feel like ourselves again, until we felt the crisis pass.

In fact, I wish I was there right now.

Nightshade

07-10-2005, 04:59 PM

John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave, /|
John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave,
But his soul goes marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah, /|
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
His soul goes marching on.

He's gone to be a soldier in the Army of the Lord, /|
He's gone to be a soldier in the Army of the Lord,
His soul goes marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah, /|
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
His soul goes marching on.

John Brown's knapsack is strapped upon his back, /
John Brown's knapsack is strapped upon his back,
His soul goes marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah, /|
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
His soul goes marching on.

John Brown died that the slaves might be free, /
John Brown died that the slaves might be free,
His soul goes marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah, /|
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
His soul goes marching on.

The stars above in Heaven now are looking kindly down, /
The stars above in Heaven now are looking kindly down,
His soul goes marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah, /|
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
His soul goes marching on.

I love the tune of this!! :D

imthefoolonthehill

07-11-2005, 12:12 AM

They're hanging Danny Deever in the morning.

Koa

07-11-2005, 11:38 AM

I'm wondering...who invented pop corn? I mean, who found out that those corn dots popped into something soft and white and nice to eat? Mah...

shortysweetp

07-11-2005, 11:44 AM

The history of Popcorn --> http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/PopcornHistory.htm

Koa

07-11-2005, 12:05 PM

Uh...interesting, thanks.

Btw, do you guys make popcorn just by putting the seeds in a covered pan with olive oil (I guess other kind of oil might work)? or do the microwave thingy?

Monica

07-11-2005, 03:57 PM

I saw a TV programme about Umberto Eco :D He spoke Italian and they were translating it into German so I understood less than little :D His apartment looked like British Library - books EVERYWHERE!!! :goof:

Jack_Aubrey

07-11-2005, 06:17 PM

Unnnnnnnnnnhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

AimusSage

07-11-2005, 08:40 PM

It occurred to me that a random thought might not just be random at all. What makes it random? And how does one decide which thought to share? I have several thoughts in my mind. This is one of them. Another one involves the music I listen to, and so on and on and on.

The mind is brilliant! :D

imthefoolonthehill

07-12-2005, 12:23 AM

deja vu anyone?

anyways... yeah yeah yeah we all know thoughts happen for reasons and blah blah blah our subconcious and yawn yawn yawn nothing comes from nowhere and blink blink blink is anything truly random....

ayup.

some minds are brilliant. I wouldn't quite make the generalization that the mind is brilliant... especially after meeting my (now ex)coworkers at walmart.

:- )

anyways, read the whole thread bud, all 140 pages of it and i think that exact thought has been stated at least twice already. :- )

Welcome to the forum, by the way, and don't let any biting remarks or mean-seeming comments detur you from the good things of this forum.

AimusSage

07-12-2005, 05:34 AM

Actually, the whole random thought blurb of mine was rhetorical. It was to illustrate the point that the mind is brilliant. Even your former co-workers have brilliant minds, because for me, the mind is a brilliant tool. But by being a tool, it means you have to learn how to use it. Some are more adept at it, exploring the depths of the mind. While other have more difficulty with it, not quite grasping the brilliance they have. And few fully grasp the brilliance of the mind.

And I don't doubt the thought has been stated more than once, it is after all, a random thought. ;)

Thanks for the welcome, oh cheerful one. ;)

imthefoolonthehill

07-12-2005, 09:49 AM

mono

07-12-2005, 05:02 PM

There are whole ranges of intelligence. While it is possible to learn how to use your tool better and improve upon yourself, and increase your capacity, Igor's not gonna become an evil genius. We were only created equally in a moral sense. We were not created equally in a physical or mental sense.
I always but a high regard on Howard Gardner's theory of seven intelligences:

1. Linguistic intelligence (as in a poet);
2. Logical-mathematical intelligence (as in a scientist);
3. Musical intelligence (as in a composer);
4. Spatial intelligence (as in a sculptor or airplane pilot);
5. Bodily kinesthetic intelligence (as in an athlete or dancer);
6. Interpersonal intelligence (as in a salesman or teacher);
7. Intrapersonal intelligence (exhibited by individuals with accurate views of themselves).
And, apparently recently, another type someone added (maybe Gardner): spiritual intelligence.

AimusSage

07-12-2005, 05:11 PM

Our brains are all different. Some are smarter than others - not just because they learned how to use this tool better - but because they were born with a better tool. I work at a developmental center for the mentally disabled. I see this not just at work, but everywhere I go. Some people just don't have the capacity of other people. -And I'm not talking just about people with mental retardation. There are whole ranges of intelligence. While it is possible to learn how to use your tool better and improve upon yourself, and increase your capacity, Igor's not gonna become an evil genius. We were only created equally in a moral sense. We were not created equally in a physical or mental sense.

But don't you see the brilliance of the brain itself? Its inner workings, sure some minds are smarter then others, but they are all brilliant in their function.

It's just like a knife, to use an example, the knife is a tool, some are sharper than others, but the basic tool is the same, and is what it is, a knife.

Hence the expression 'not the sharpest knife in the block' :p

imthefoolonthehill

07-13-2005, 10:03 AM

Yeah yeah, i see the brain has a genius design, how its a remarkable tool...-a tool that can break but what tool can't - but to say that the brain in general is genius gives off the wrong impression, i think.

Koa

07-13-2005, 01:14 PM

I also think there are different kinds of brain... like I learn languages easily but I can barely add or multiply numbers while some people dont really have the skill for languages for example but are living calculators... it's a question of attitudes and even of tastes, of course you can always learn something that is not the strongest point of your brain, but you dont have a talent for it... Some people are skilled in many fields, for example both scientific and humanistic, and that's good for them...

imthefoolonthehill

07-13-2005, 06:48 PM

*shrug* different strokes for different folks.

there are definitions to the words: idiot, moron, etc etc and some people fit them (not that they should be called unkind names, but it should be widely noted that some people are morons.)

imthefoolonthehill

07-13-2005, 10:31 PM

alright: new random thought.

It feels so good to be bad.

Why is giving the wrong advice so much more fun than giving the right advice? hmmmm evil tastes so good.

shortysweetp

07-13-2005, 11:48 PM

you are pure evil, fool, but you always say what you thinking and it makes me laugh.

imthefoolonthehill

07-13-2005, 11:52 PM

thanks Shortysweetp, i hope i make someone laugh... i usually write for my own sociopathic amusement.

By the way, every time I see your name i wanna sing, "Oh sweet pea come on and dance with me won't ya won't ya won't ya come and dance with meeeeeeee"

shortysweetp

07-14-2005, 12:21 AM

lol what is that from? i dont think i have ever heard that

imthefoolonthehill

07-14-2005, 12:44 AM

its a song from the 60s

I went to a dance just the other night, met a girl there who was out of sight, but every guy there was thinking like me. you had to stand in line to get a dance with sweat pea. Oh Sweat Pea, won't you dance with me won't you won't won't you dance with meeeeeeee?

Oh Sweat Pea, come on and be my girl come on come on come on and be my giiiiiiiiirl.... or something like that.

Scheherazade

07-14-2005, 02:26 AM

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/umedia/20050713/cp.66a96ee5c0a40c3cbff7114fb85f1a61

Koa

07-16-2005, 01:55 PM

Do you ever feel like you can't stand your best friend? Well I have this friend, she's the one I go out most often with, but more and more often I feel it's just cos we have noone else as other friends we have in common have less time to meet us...and we are almost the only ones we know who dont have a boyfriend etc... And sometimes it feels it's the only reason why we stick together cos we disagree on so many things...we have different tastes, different viewpoints on many things... And she keeps judging and complaining, about every little thing (her mum is the same, she has a polemic for everything) and since her family is very strict, my behaviours are seen as a libertine's... My choices are always weird to her, when I was in a long-distance relationship she kept telling me to quit it cos it'd have no future, and the whole thing was hard enough for me, the support of friends would have been nice... I mean, I never feel accepted... Ok sometimes it's ok, we have a good time as friends, but then she just starts complaining about something in general...I hate the world 'absurd' cos she used to refer to such a wide range of things and facts... Last night she saw my desktop picture and had to make a weird comment about it, hearing it you would have thought I had some terribly immoral pic... it was just a damn pic dedicated to my damn favourite band, on my own damn laptop!
I have another friend instead, we meet less often cos she has many different friends, and a boyfriend...but we always understand each other, agree on many things, and she's always always supported me, I could always rely on her even in the relationship thing, she never even judged how crazy it all was, and she always tries to find some time for me if she can...
For tomorrow, I have an invitation from another 'friend'. She was in our group of friends at school, then found a job and with it a more interesting and varied life with different friends, and then a boyfriend which caused her to show up with me like 5 times in one year and a half... Now she seems to call me only when there's noone she can think of calling, in a way I dont mind cos that's often my destiny and anyway it's a chance to meet... but I wonder if we still have anything to tell each other, any common topic to talk about... Anyway I'll probably go, it's someone different to me...and my friend I mentioned first won't be there so I'll feel somehow more free to be totally mycrazyself...

Sorry, just felt like venting some random thoughts of these days...

mono

07-17-2005, 12:11 AM

No need to apologize for ranting, Koa; it sounds like quite a situation you have yourself in with your friend. Often, I have found, spending too much time with anyone, including boyfriends/girlfriends, you grow tired of each other, annoyed and short-tempered. Spending much time with someone very critical and judgmental, I can certainly see why one could get irritated; I would (and have), too. Hopefully, if you do not tell your friend, maybe she will realize her faults through other means (possibly other people), or discovering that you seldom want to spend time with her.
Best of luck! ;)

My random thought of the day: I feel so reminiscent today of reading Arthur Schopenhauer, who wrote of boredom seeming one of the worst (and main) evils of the world. :p

Koa

07-17-2005, 05:40 PM

Yeah thanks mono... I agree, I often think I'd never be able to handle a boyfriend if I had to see him everyday as most couples seem to die if they don't, that was a good side of the long-distance stuff, though it was too much on the opposite extreme.
So it's sometimes a mess to be only with that one friend, we sometimes look at each other and know that we are going out together only cos really there's noone, as we have nothing to tell each other. In a way it's nice to get to know people so well, but when they get so bitter or when I feel limited because of her, it's a mess... We even learnt not to talk of politics cos we're likely to end up arguing...
Anyway, today I had a nice day with the third friend I mentioned there.

And here goes my random thought: I like to go to the swimming pool. I hate to sunbathe but it's lovely to go in the water and just stay there... I used to love it as a kid too, but then in my darkest phase I even stopped liking the swimming pool cos of the sun it involved, and I didnt even enjoy the water...last summer I never even went once. But this year I like it again :D Me fish :D
(note: here in the summer it's the most common thing to try and go to a swimming pool as often as possible,cos we have no sea right here but the heat can get unbearable).

Random thought number 2: the forum appears to have been rather empty today...

kilted exile

07-18-2005, 12:06 AM

ihrocks

07-18-2005, 02:29 AM

In 3 weeks time I will be a fully qualified Environmental Engineering Technologist. I will actually have to work for a living, instead of this lazy student malarkey. New plan: I have 3 weeks to win the lottery.

Good luck with plan B. However, I'll warn you: I once had a horoscope that read "buying a lottery ticket does not consitute financial planning." :D

Basil

07-18-2005, 12:56 PM

lottery: it's like the stock market . . . for poor people!

Basil

07-18-2005, 02:24 PM

Why, I guess it is!!

mono

07-18-2005, 03:47 PM

[rant]
Not-so-random thought: I try to have as much respect as possible for my fellow readers and bookworms, but this Harry Potter chaos seems a little out of control. Prudently, I avoided all bookstores and libraries on Saturday (the day of its release), but thought to take the risk yesterday - yikes! The rudeness of some people! Very wisely, the bookstore administrators organized the newest Potter books near the cashier registers, but this did not prevent such turmoil from numerous kids running and screaming, concerned mothers and fathers purposely cutting through long lines (and arguing over the fact), and readers of all ages getting in ridiculously heated debates of the movies versus the books.
Dear Harry Potter fans, what you purchase consists of a book (or film), Harry Potter and his friends consist of fiction, and, most of all, the first copy printers made no different from the last copy - there should exist no race, and your bickering, or your child's bickering (though, I think, Rowling intended the book for children, as Harry Potter remains in the 'Children's Literature' section) will not allow you to purchase the book quicker.
[/end rant]

Koa

07-18-2005, 04:24 PM

LOL mono, I can imagine the scene at the bookshop!

In 3 weeks time I will be a fully qualified Environmental Engineering Technologist. I will actually have to work for a living, instead of this lazy student malarkey. New plan: I have 3 weeks to win the lottery.

Ah I'm joining you in the lottery plan then... Though I have 4 months time (IF I actually start doing something about my final paper...). But I can feel the void already.
(in 3 weeks time it will be the highest point of summer holidays here LOL...feels so strange to think of anyone in the same emisphere being involved in any kind of activity ;))
Edit: forgot: I like your new avatar kilted :)

Random thought of the day: why did I become addicted to shopping? I have enough clothes to survive for like 3 weeks without washing anything but I wouldnt run out of clean stuff... Go figure. And yet I bought a tshirt I'd probably wear twice cos I dont look that good in such narrow clothes :blush: But it was so cheap... That qualifies me as shopaholic I guess :(
Random though n°2 (which follows number 1): why is it so hard to find trousers? Everytime I come home from the shopping convinced that I need to lose weight, but that depresses me, and what gives me happiness in depression? Food. Especially chocolate....
Random thoguht n°3 (which again follows): in one shop I asked if they had a bigger size...they explained me their range of sizes and it turns out that the biggest one they have is smaller than the size I usually wear. Now ok I'm not thing but I'm not even that huge... there's something wrong with this world. (cos most shops with young/cheap stuff are pretty much the same as that one).

Psyche

07-18-2005, 07:19 PM

Darling, didn't you hear? Oh, I wish I could find a link to it, but a man killed himself because of a spoiler (plot giveaway) to the new Harry Potter book...that is just pathetic. :alien:

imthefoolonthehill

07-18-2005, 08:49 PM

lol... i wonder if the spoiler was true....

oh by the way... Harry Potter dies in the next one.

mono

07-19-2005, 12:03 AM

A bit more serious random thought of the day:
Some lovers make far better friends, and, in such a case, a compromising, unconditional friendship often seems the best answer. If the other would prefer the friendship, then one could guarantee the purest of all companionships, as the most rewarding friend would persist, tolerating the other friend through every state of mind; if the other prefers no contact, however, then neither the relationship nor potential friendship deserved value. In essence, if that divine word, intending so much more than understood, and transcending all, love, ever existed, some form of commitment would remain.
No worries, not even Dante and his inspiration of Beatrice (in The Divine Comedy) had a romantic relationship, but reportedly had a beautiful friendship.

imthefoolonthehill

07-19-2005, 09:53 AM

It can be painful to settle for only beautiful friendship with the one you love.

Koa

07-19-2005, 03:20 PM

I prefer friendship to (LOL) love.
But after all, they're both meant to have an end, so that doesnt really make a difference. But after it's over, a friend probably gave you more than a lover, so you're left with more. Or probably more to hurt about.

I mean ok, in my current state of mind I'd be more positive but I just can't forget my theories about friendship and love. Possibly the biggest influence on my life has been my best friend's betrayal, now 6 years ago. Basically, I know how it feels to be dumped, despite not having ever been in a serious relationship. So beware, your best friend can turn into your murderer.

Nightshade

07-20-2005, 02:58 AM

So beware, your best friend can turn into your murderer.

who was it that said "God save me from my friends - I can protect myself from my enemies."

Anyway my random thought is I was suprised to find that I can quote hamlets to be or not to be speech from the beginig till "shufflle off this mortal coil"

mono

07-20-2005, 04:10 AM

who was it that said "God save me from my friends - I can protect myself from my enemies."
Most people accept it as a proverb, but I think Martin Luther made it famous. ;)

ihrocks

07-20-2005, 12:39 PM

Trust is a delicate thing, and it's hard to know when it should be given, said the lady who gave her trust to the wrong people.

I need cheering up! Where's Dancing Nana?

:banana:

Nana ol' boy, it's been a rough week in cyberspace. What do you say to a six-pack of something imported and a little Billy Bragg?

:banana:

I knew you'd say that! :cool:

Taliesin

07-20-2005, 12:49 PM

and if you bury me, add
three feet to it
one for your sorrow, two
for your sweat
three for the strange
things we never forget
and long after we're gone
the light will stay on
and long after we're gone
the light will stay on

------------

and if you bury me, dig
three feet, add
five litres of water
and so many seeds
that it is enough
create a new world
and kill me again

Koa

07-20-2005, 01:32 PM

Wow good one Taliesin...I was exactly noticing your absence in the past days!

who was it that said "God save me from my friends - I can protect myself from my enemies."

I read that just a few days ago, and now I can't remember...it was someone more ancient than MLK anyway... maybe some Latin or even Greek guy... I wish I remembered where I read it...

mono

07-20-2005, 02:38 PM

I read that just a few days ago, and now I can't remember...it was someone more ancient than MLK anyway... maybe some Latin or even Greek guy... I wish I remembered where I read it...
Oh, no, I meant Martin Luther:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/apocalypse/art/pic_luther.jpg
. . . not Martin Luther King Jr. (I get them easily confused, too, though both, brilliant minds):
http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/images/releases/942_0.jpg

Koa

07-20-2005, 03:10 PM

ihihi sorry...I thought I had read Martin Luther King...but I was in a hurry... LOL (and as another excuse I can say that my mind added the 'King' cos the other one for me would be Lutero in my native language :P)

imthefoolonthehill

07-20-2005, 09:05 PM

kilted exile

07-20-2005, 10:29 PM

Some random thoughts I found elsewhere:

Why the sun lightens our hair,
but darkens our skin?

Why you don't ever see the headline:
"Psychic Wins Lottery"?

Why "abbreviated" is such a long word?

Why Doctors call what they do "practice"?

Why you have to click on "Start"
to stop Windows 98?

Why lemon juice is made with artificial flavour, while dishwashing
liquid is made with real lemons?

Why the man who invests all your money is called a "Broker"?

Why there isn't mouse flavoured cat food?

Who tastes dog food when it has a
"new & improved" flavour?

Why Noah didn't swat those two mosquitoes?

Why they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?

Why they don't make the whole plane out of the material used for
the indestructible black box?

Why sheep don't shrink when it rains?

Why they are called apartments when
they are all stuck together?

If con is the opposite of pro,
is Congress the opposite of progress?

Why they call the airport "the terminal"
if flying is so safe?

Scheherazade

07-21-2005, 03:02 AM

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/umedia/20050719/cp.ce314990fb0371d65610cce837a888c1

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/umedia/20050720/cp.aebf823f3a2a4015f82c9b43d57b3082

Taliesin

07-21-2005, 06:06 AM

who wrote that?

The first one is song lyrics by Chris Eckman.
We had it in our signature for some time in another forum.
The second one was written by Krafinna de Kraax/Countess de Crow, a person in that forum. We suspect a connection.

imthefoolonthehill

07-21-2005, 10:20 AM

thanks. Scheherazade those are great cartoons... not funny in a gary larson way or anything, but wonderful.

Bianca Fransen

07-21-2005, 05:51 PM

A bit more serious random thought of the day:
Some lovers make far better friends, and, in such a case, a compromising, unconditional friendship often seems the best answer.
Ah, you describe so well how I feel about the man I was together with for 10 years. We were okay lovers. I loved him to bits all the time, but we also hurt each other a lot. We had different dreams, different ambitions.. but had trouble letting each other go. Now we are very, very good friends. And somehow this friendship is more 'pure' and better than what we had the last 2 years or so. Most friends think I am a bit weird for still wanting him as my best friend.. but I can think of him in no other way. He is too special NOT to love, even when he is with someone else.. and I would never have him for my lover again.
Thank you for understanding my feelings so well ;).

papayahed

07-22-2005, 09:19 AM

A bit more serious random thought of the day:
Some lovers make far better friends, and, in such a case, a compromising, unconditional friendship often seems the best answer.

That's funny, are you looking in my windows at night or something?? How do you know the guy I've been sort of dating and I just decided we make better friends then daters..

Koa

07-22-2005, 03:56 PM

How long is it since I said I didn't want to get close to people I met online anymore, and most of all not to meet them? Well today I met a guy I knew online cos I was going to his city for some business, and anyway all people from that site know each other in person cos it's about sharing music passion so they go to concerts etc... Well it was fun, I had met by chance some people I knew so we spent the day all together and so the real people kinds mixed up with someone I met online (whom I didnt know well anyway, like I dont know that well those other people). Kinda weird day but so nice.

Nightshade

07-23-2005, 03:43 PM

Women are weird!
I mean think about it for the first 20 years of our live we try and look older then for he rest of your life your trying to look younger !
Weird

Koa

07-24-2005, 11:01 AM

LOL Nightshade you're right!!! :D
(though I'm currently tyring to look as old as I am and hate those who think I look like a teenager...:S)
-------------------------------------------

Why can't people understand, and most of all accept, that it can be possible to make friends, and even lovers, online? If they are so lucky to have a real life and be satisfied with it in terms of personal relationships, why dont they leave others alone?
I was at a dinner party last night and a girl mentioned something about a girl who found a bf online... Why can't they understand that we're not weirdos but just people who share interests and through that can get really close? Sure it's not the same as in real life, and getting a lover that way can be problematic, but it's not like we're all mad people in random chatrooms asking are-u-male-or-female and can-you-send-me-ur-pic all the time... we talk, we share, relationships of closeness can be built... and sometimes take far away...is it so wrong? I dont want to have to hide for all my life the fact that I enjoy to meet people online because not always in real life I find those who can share my interests and points of view...or just because I like to write to people...
In Hungary I realised that real life can be as fun, and now i have much less problems in meeting new people... but still, I can't help enjoying my online friends and sometimes even meet them... but I usually keep all this as secret as I can to people I know, cos they'd look down on me in such a way...is it so wrong? :(

Bianca Fransen

07-24-2005, 05:54 PM

but it's not like we're all mad people in random chatrooms asking are-u-male-or-female and can-you-send-me-ur-pic all the time...
Been there, done that :lol: :nod:. So one of us is that mad :brow:... Had to say I was bored pretty soon. It was like going to a bar and only talking to guys with just one thought on their minds.. Who can not even articulate this one thought beautifully :rage:. Haha.

is it so wrong?
If it is I like being wrong a whole lot :goof:.
Seriously: I actually think you can learn a lot about people just by reading the sentences they write, the style they choose and the subjects they 'talk' about. It can give me a feeling of closeness that I don't have that much in so-called 'real' life. It does not replace my other relationships.. but it does give me friendships I value a great deal.

imthefoolonthehill

07-24-2005, 11:12 PM

so then what we need to understand isn't so much a random enchantment of our interests, but an evanescent quality of desintigration - an everpressent time capsule which pervades our ever feeling as we spiral deeper into this intense feeling of compassion towards the quasimodos of our day.

mono

07-25-2005, 04:46 PM

Something that should never seem a random thought: avoid poetry.com, for honesty's sake!
Yesterday, I spent some time with my younger brother. I never knew he wrote poetry, but he handed me a very familiar letter from poetry.com, reporting that he earned a position as a semi-finalist in their poetry competition. For long, I have known the scam, and, before then, fell for it myself, having once received the precise letter. My brother felt extremely proud, smiling lots, and nearly bragging; needless to say, I felt horrible to tell him the truth, though he did not feel too crestfallen, and the poem, I told him, read impressively well, regardless.
Poetry.com = :flare:

imthefoolonthehill

07-25-2005, 07:02 PM

i see how this works, the addiction that isn't acknowledged, but is most widespread enimates from every radio where people use words they don't understand.

And there, so there, I think they're being a pear.

mono

07-27-2005, 01:47 PM

How shocking this morning.
I woke abnormally early this morning, not quite having the ability to sleep, so I crawled out of bed, played some classical music, and picked up my book, Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, to read for a while.
My apartment overlooks a relatively busy road, and, having lived in the city for so long, I have adapted to the sound, but I heard a loud screeeeeech, crash! I ran out on my balcony, seeing two cars totalled, beyond repair, dialed 911, and told the dispatcher the necessities.
Luckily, no one seemed hurt, other than looking very frightened, but, after making the phone call, having a bird's-eye view of the event seemed really interesting - everyone's reactions, what the nearby cars did in response (many stopped to help, and a few, I think, also called 911), and, still, how kind and forgiving the two people in the cars interacted.
Fortunately, this always seeming a busy road, emergency services arrived very quickly, though no one looked physically harmed.

amuse

07-27-2005, 04:54 PM

thank goodness they were okay! what a fortunate ending to a scary event.

my radio was turned on by a friend this morning, and it was too loud for me to sleep, but i was too tired to turn it off. and then, when i thought i couldn't take it anymore, but knew i couldn't possibly move, it lowered its volume by itself! how fortuitous was that?!

amuse

07-28-2005, 05:16 PM

i don't understand :confused:

if it is known that a basement on campus harbors roaches the size of one's outspread hand - or at least the thumb (i am not exagerating) - wouldn't the school invest in borax or something??? halfway through my physio exam, scurrying on the floor caught my eye and i, traumatized, gasped in air with such inarticulate force (& cave-person-like gasps) and clung so dearly to my lab stool that my fellow classmates thought i was having a medical emergency - and i was still shaking a half-hour later!!!

:lol:

okay, but it wasn't funny then. and i was so scared! and whywhywhy? we aren't down south where i'd expect a palmetto bug or two to be overly neighborly and forward. and why a kinesiology building? why not the cafeteria? (perish that thought, though...)

imthefoolonthehill

07-29-2005, 12:39 AM

bugs that annoy do nothing but destroy as we lift the depression off our lives and are left with superficiallity. I'm doing fine and did you see the new movie and go to the grocery store where i saw such a cute dog.

Scheherazade

07-29-2005, 06:03 AM

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/umedia/20050719/cp.ce314990fb0371d65610cce837a888c1

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/umedia/20050720/cp.aebf823f3a2a4015f82c9b43d57b3082
http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/umedia/20050728/cp.2a5cfbecb8aeb6613b195c4273d20b9f

Jay

07-29-2005, 08:54 AM

<meek hint> Don't they have any with Schroeder? (spell?) </meek hint> :angel:

imthefoolonthehill

07-30-2005, 01:22 AM

roadkill smells bad.

Basil

07-30-2005, 01:41 AM

http://www.rubypersson.com/peanuts/p_negs_1_39_800/pp_39.jpg

Jay

07-30-2005, 09:16 AM

Kids :D

thanks :p

mono

07-30-2005, 09:53 PM

Yesterday, I happened to forget my cell phone somewhere, and did not have it for most of the day. Truly, I enjoy receiving phone calls from friends and family, but it felt somewhat pleasant yet alarming simultaneously. The fact surprised me how attached much of modern humankind has gotten to technology over time; my cell phone seems a relatively simple one, as opposed to recent ones - no camera, text-messaging, etc., but only having the ability to call people and receive calls. How would the world seem without telephones, stereo, television, Internet, and computers, as things seemed before the time of their inventors.
Not surprisingly, I felt strangely uncomfortable without my cell phone, and missed a few calls, but it certainly helped me notice attached we have evolved toward what we have created.

Taliesin

07-31-2005, 05:12 AM

We have left our "Royal Assassin" by R.Hobb to somewhere and can't find it. Argh.

Taliesin

07-31-2005, 09:56 AM

Ah, found it.
It was on our desk.

imthefoolonthehill

07-31-2005, 11:55 AM

team go go cart hasn't persuaded anyone yet.

amuse

07-31-2005, 09:14 PM

T..'s 4-year old was very protective of me yesterday and bawled his heart out when i had to take the train. once during the day i couldn't find the cue ball and he demanded to know where were my glasses (i never wear them), then instructed grandma to "find asha's glasses." later he went inside and told me to wait for him; he'd be back, and i'd be fine "you'll be okay; i'll be right back." the kicker was that he informed me just before we parted that "You're my son." was i every surprised! no wonder we have such a love and he tries to baby me! :) :)

Monica

08-01-2005, 08:19 AM

I'm back from holidays in Greece. No computer for 16 days!!! :goof: Anyhow, hello again :p

mono

08-01-2005, 03:25 PM

I'm back from holidays in Greece. No computer for 16 days!!! :goof: Anyhow, hello again :p
Argh, so jealous that you visited Greece - only another dream vacation of mine! :D
Welcome back, Monica - very nice to have you back. ;)

Monica

08-02-2005, 06:12 AM

Thanks mono :D And yeah, if you ever have a chance of visiting Greece, go there. A beautiful country, with a lot of things to see. And you can follow Lord Byron's route as well :p

Bianca Fransen

08-02-2005, 03:48 PM

the kicker was that he informed me just before we parted that "You're my son." was i every surprised! no wonder we have such a love and he tries to baby me! :) :)
:p :p Kids are so funny. You should see my 4-year old brother - he is absolutely crazy about the colour pink now. So everything is pink: his clothes, his toys.. even his nails. Imagine this robust, energetic 4-year old boy with painted pink fingernails. 4-year olds.. who really understands them? :goof:

imthefoolonthehill

08-03-2005, 09:48 AM

the fever is loaded, i've been there today, took us some questions, she does the macaroni and cheese limbo where nothing ends properly. Not even the

mono

08-03-2005, 03:13 PM

This morning, by mere chance, I happened to watch Caveman on television, a ridiculously (but funny) movie starring Ringo Starr and Dennis Quaid, which I had not seen since childhood. While watching the cast at the end, whose name do I see but John Matuszak as one of the villains - the same man who played Sloth in another of my favorite childhood movies, The Goonies.
Unfortunately, after looking up his name at a popular movie website (http://www.imdb.com/), I saw that he died in 1989. He seemed well known as Sloth in The Goonies with the revolutionized phrase, "Hey, you guys!" I had never known what he even looked like, and, obviously, he underwent quite a transformation through make-up and cosmetics for his role; sad, however, when some actors and actresses get fixated in one role, while their other works (and death) get somewhat ignored.

http://sportsmed.starwave.com/media/pg2/2002/1014/photo/i_toonz_i.jpg

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/gallery/2004/05/26/timzaccheo.jpg

Scheherazade

08-04-2005, 04:33 PM

For Bridget Jones' Diary fans (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4745263.stm): Helen Fielding is writing her weekly diary again.

imthefoolonthehill

08-05-2005, 12:55 AM

so, what??? i think that they have to encourage the dog named entourage to do his weekly collage so he can graduate from college life, will draw the crouds, my hopes are so high that a kiss might kill me, so won't you listen to crappy emo?

Scheherazade

08-05-2005, 10:32 AM

The Book Club is reading Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12936) this month.

imthefoolonthehill

08-06-2005, 12:27 AM

Bummer, Bummell, what a bungle of a bungalow, they lay low the law in larry the llama's literature likeness.

Taliesin

08-07-2005, 12:24 PM

Was a bit ill this morning.
Luckily it has passed by now.
Understood it when we felt very weak after chopping only seven logs. We had chopped wood for the last week and was not so tired then.

papayahed

08-08-2005, 06:24 PM

ugh!! I knew it would happen, the odds were against me. At some point I knew I would get a clinker of a boss. My current boss is the epitome of corporateness. She wants to have meetings for everything. This morning we didn't need to talk about how to complete my current assignment (an hour and a half conversation), she needed to give me the hour and a half to complete the assignment!!!

imthefoolonthehill

08-09-2005, 11:15 PM

something i've forgotten.

Nightshade

08-14-2005, 02:42 PM

baddad

08-14-2005, 10:14 PM

.........punctuation..........ahhh.......I miss it so........

mono

08-15-2005, 12:43 AM

WhenI was on the plane yesterday the movie was Be cool- anyway I "discoovered" aerosmith their ghood when I said this my sister was strucken dumb and sort of looked at me and said "where have you been they are ancient"

but that wasnt my real random thought that was there is this song it was in the film I really liked it yesterday but cant think what the woordss are today andI dont know who sang it!!
When younger siblings do this, Nightshade, it drives me crazy! I love a lot of bands like Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Bob Dylan (who I actually listen to presently), Jimi Hendrix, and others from generations before me; the same seems to go with older movies. Depressingly, when with my younger brother, it seems when I insist on watching a movie filmed before about 1990, he calls it "old and boring." Of course, many older films will never have as much color or special effects than modern movies, but, I think, they tend to compensate with a better plot in most cases (such as one of my favorite movies, Ikiru, a Japanese film made in 1952).

imthefoolonthehill

08-15-2005, 12:54 AM

razor blades don't make good toilet paper.

Nightshade

08-15-2005, 12:34 PM

When younger siblings do this, Nightshade, it drives me crazy! I love a lot of bands like Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Bob Dylan (who I actually listen to presently), Jimi Hendrix, and others from generations before me; the same seems to go with older movies. Depressingly, when with my younger brother, it seems when I insist on watching a movie filmed before about 1990, he calls it "old and boring." Of course, many older films will never have as much color or special effects than modern movies, but, I think, they tend to compensate with a better plot in most cases (such as one of my favorite movies, Ikiru, a Japanese film made in 1952).

I didnt mean quite that my sister is a BIG fan of "old" music specially Ac/Dc black sabbath Pink Floyd No she was shocked that it took mer so long to discover them.

Random thought for today: My nine year old sister is only about an inch and a half shorter than me :eek:

Taliesin

08-15-2005, 02:02 PM

mono

08-15-2005, 02:05 PM

Wow, some of the things that happen in my neighborhood!
A few weeks ago, I think in this thread, I mentioned a car collision I witnessed, since my bedroom window overlooks a very busy intersection. Early this morning (about 5:30 am), I heard a very similar screech and crash, looked out my window, and saw a large van that hit a sign on the side of the already busy road, but someone ran from the van. This time I felt lazy, and did not want to call 911 like last time, especially since I already saw a nearby pedestrian dialing something quickly on his cell phone, and speaking loudly to, who I could think, a dispatcher. Well, I went back to sleep to the sound of sirens and a tow-truck, carrying away the van.
Later this morning, I had to take out the garbage, and found myself approached by two police officers and their very large, very intimidating German Shephard search dog. The police asked me a few questions if I had seen anyone, witnessed the crash, etc. I told them no, that I only saw the crash. Apparently, the driver ran from the crash, into my apartment complex, leaving his two companions - why, I have no idea.
My neighborhood gets stranger and stranger everyday, especially considering the relatively low crime rate in Portland (as compared to other U.S. cities). :rolleyes:

Scheherazade

08-15-2005, 03:42 PM

And this is my 1000th post on the forum...

Here I am writing post after post,
Adding up to a thousand.
The amount of time wasted on the net
Surely totally irrelevant!

Had thousand posts eight months ago,
You'd think I'd take it a little slow.
Today reaching four thousandth
Burning with the proud geekish glow;
If you called me an addict,
It wouldn't be such a great blow!

Jay

08-15-2005, 03:53 PM

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mono

08-16-2005, 12:00 AM

Had thousand posts eight months ago,
You'd think I'd take it a little slow.
Today reached four thousand
Burning with the proud geek glow;
If you called me an addict,
It wouldn't be such a great blow!
Congratulations, Scher! :thumbs_up
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baddad

08-16-2005, 01:08 AM

http://fantasygallery.net/elmore/art_1.html

What do you think is behind ths picture? The title is "Early Snow" It nags us.

A theory we have is that the snow came early and thus the crop failed. There is not enough food and she is playing with the dagger, thinking of killing herself because there is no hope left.
But it doesn't fit with all the details. Her clothes are elegant and costly, she looks like a noble and these don't usually starve. We think that the title is methaphorical too, but cannot grasp, what it is.

Taliesin: my woefully inadequate 2 cents worth

Yes there is a skiff of snow on the ground. The snow resembles what remains after an accumulated snowfall of big fluffy flakes amounting to several inches, which has now mostly melted. Plump red berries are evident on several low statured plants sprinkled around the field. Late fall to early winter timeline is my guess, a few leaves remain on the elm.... But the field is in fallow, no indication of crops having been planted in the last five years or so. Any crop fields (none in evidence) would have been long harvested by this point in time.She doesn't look worried, but determined. The well structured cottage has a fire going, evidenced by the smoke issuing from the chimney ........(its daylight....cooking fire??......the hearth that supplies heat after the sun goes down already banked for the day???)

Also, she has left the house in only her undergarments/light open necked blouse/bedroom dress and a heavy robe or throw. She rushed outside in a hurry......

Stanislaw

08-16-2005, 04:00 PM

I have returned! And since school is starting, I shant be going anywhere!

Just thought I'd let you know. :nod:

papayahed

08-16-2005, 05:06 PM

I have returned! And since school is starting, I shant be going anywhere!

Just thought I'd let you know. :nod:

Missed you sweetie pie!!!

Stanislaw

08-17-2005, 11:01 AM

Hello dear wife of mine! How have you been? :D

papayahed

08-17-2005, 01:39 PM

Hello dear wife of mine! How have you been? :D

I'm great, just hanginf out watching Stargate Atlantis and waiting for your return. :wave: ;)

Jay

08-17-2005, 02:03 PM

HEY, I wanna watch Atlantis as well! Spoilers! Lots of them! Pwease? :D

mono

08-17-2005, 03:21 PM

A very kind (and very attractive) optometrist made it official for me today - I need reading glasses. :eek2: All of these years of diligent, devoted reading and using of computers has finally caught up with my eyes, and I require only a small prescription.
Years ago, as I child, I remember teasing a friend of mine who wore glasses, calling him "four eyes," and the like, as children do. What poetic justice enveloped in karma!

Nightshade

08-17-2005, 07:17 PM

Sort of reminded of this fact by the return of Stanislaw---
3 months till the return of The Doctor :banana: :D
I keep missing the Stargate atlantis episodes here :(
Oh in nine hours I get my A level results :eek:
No worries momo think glasses make people look smarter also you could get really freaky ones... I needed glasses to drive and I wanted ones like the director of lord of the rings( reeeeeally big circle ones) but I couldnt find any :bawling:

Stanislaw

08-18-2005, 03:38 PM

I'm great, just hanginf out watching Stargate Atlantis and waiting for your return. :wave: ;)

oh, Your so lucky, I have to pirate atlantis episodes to watch them...no space channel :bawling:

but then again, I am a pirate so, heck the what!
:D

Nightshade

08-18-2005, 03:42 PM

hair beauty Gunk in the hair can be most uncomfortable.
Also it never rains but it pours!!

Stanislaw

08-19-2005, 04:56 PM

It was raining here to. Rain sucks! :crash:

Nightshade

08-23-2005, 11:40 AM

I love my mum......................................

baddad

08-23-2005, 08:55 PM

.........classical music doth soothe me......................................beautiful. ..........

baddad

08-23-2005, 09:08 PM

...saw carved into a south facing hillside ( and highlighted with painted white rocks) the longitude and latitude of a point on the southwest side of this city, at a place called Signal Hill. The carved and filled numericl representations are startlingly big, a grassy hillside hosting 35 foot (10M) long, imbedded, monster-size numbers... too cool...its good to know I'm not the only one who loves the 'longitude + latitude idea.............WWEEEEeeeeeee..........

Nightshade

08-24-2005, 05:25 AM

It might be fun living at lon 0 and lat0 except that its in the sea :(
I am right arnt i?? :confused:

Taliesin

08-25-2005, 07:47 AM

Passport Information in Web
What a terrible place! (http://www.scrolllock.nl/passport/)
We do not know about you, but our passport information with a picture is there. Unbelievable! :eek:

fayefaye

08-25-2005, 08:45 AM

*amused* that's the dumbest thing i've seen all day.

Nightshade

08-25-2005, 01:27 PM

hahaha
you got me I belived for a second there that really past port info was on the net!!:blush:

dejosc

08-27-2005, 01:22 PM

food would be good about now

imthefoolonthehill

08-28-2005, 04:19 PM

if someone is drunk, running, and screams, "I'm going to kill myself" but has an enormous grin on his face... do you suppose he means it?

The oddities of college life.

Nightshade

08-28-2005, 05:56 PM

I dont know probably a figure of speach or maybe they read only the first part of The "to be or not to be" speach
on that thought does "take arms against a sea of troubles' mean suicide or live and fight??

Bongitybongbong

08-28-2005, 07:18 PM

A worker that becomes something is always better than a person that is "destined" and completes the task.

dejosc

08-28-2005, 07:20 PM

oooo shiny

Bongitybongbong

08-28-2005, 07:25 PM

speak of the enlightened

Nightshade

08-29-2005, 04:41 AM

yayaya! :banana: Your back Bong! http://www.websmileys.com/sm/crazy/071.gif
where have you been?????

NB welcome Back!!

dejosc

08-29-2005, 09:03 AM

i REALLY want to hit someone

papayahed

08-29-2005, 10:46 AM

I think I should start keeping my dreams to myself, it occurred to me that using the dream thread as my personal dream journal probably isn't the best idea

Bongitybongbong

08-29-2005, 01:00 PM

yayaya! :banana: Your back Bong! http://www.websmileys.com/sm/crazy/071.gif
where have you been?????

NB welcome Back!!
I've lost the summer over a few thingsincluding a couple times where my grandfather got hurt so...yeah.

mono

08-29-2005, 02:30 PM

Welcome back, bong - nice to see you back; and I send my sincerest wishes to your grandfather.

Bongitybongbong

08-29-2005, 07:13 PM

thanks mono and for the record my grandfather is getting better but an uncle is trying to take advantage of him (uncle owes grandfather money)

imthefoolonthehill

08-30-2005, 11:57 AM

dont you throw your life away, just wait until another day don't you throw your life away because baby i can feel it don't you ever compromise it don't you even realise it don't you throw your life away because baby i can feel it now.

Nightshade

08-30-2005, 04:11 PM

Its a pity I really dont have the guts I wish I had.

simon

08-30-2005, 05:35 PM

What song is that fool? Don't tell me that tune is slightly upbeat? Where has my buddy of morose discontent gone? Is college turning you giddy on life? Have you gone to the happy side of life?

mono

09-06-2005, 02:11 AM

Earlier today, I walked several miles through a forest trail (very naturally scenic); many seem to exist in various parts of my city, but, though I have lived here my entire life, I had never wandered this one.
As such beautiful, natural scenery, I felt instantly in a wonderful mood, and other hikers on the trail seemed to mutually have an agreeable, joyful manner.
Random thought: does such nature place several people in a good mood, do others in a good mood further add to the pleasure of such an amble, or do most people merely walk in such areas while in a good mood? :rolleyes:

Koa

09-06-2005, 04:57 AM

While letting mono's question slip cos I really don't know (but I'd say that people go there in a good mood which is then amplified, or maybe go there in a bad mood and relax a bit there...so well, I ended up answering... :p) I feel the urge to tell you my random thought which is actually yesterdays'...

Well, whenever I watch an Italian movie I feel like..so into that... everything is so familiar, the landscapes (many of them feature beautiful or at least typical landscapes), the habits, and I wonder what a foreigner would feel in watching that, cos it wouldn't feel familiar to them... and the use of regional accents to me adds power to that feeling... It's one of the rare moments when I do feel Italian cos I feel I belong to those landscapes, those cities, those car journeys, those apartments, that food... Italy wouldnt be that bad if it wasn't so full of stereotypical Italians I guess :D

adilyoussef

09-06-2005, 05:11 AM

When I'm alone and in bed, I usually wonder why I'm hear in this world. What is my mission in this earth? Am I hear just to eat, sleep, have sex and then die? Life without purpose is not worth living. But I really feel lost because I have no directions and all the ways lead nowhere. Today I woke up early and this thought show up again. We are swiming in a dark ocean where sharks are roaming everywhere.

atiguhya padma

09-06-2005, 05:21 AM

Koa

09-06-2005, 05:23 AM

adil, personally I think that life has no meaning. You can set up your purposes, like getting that job or passing that exam or buy that thing or go out tonight... but the rest is mere pastime. And consider yourself lucky cos some people have in their list of things to do while alive just eating, drinking and sleeping :D

Anyway I came to post my random thought
I hate phonecalls. I need to call some places to find some kind of job while I finish my studies, but the hardest part is just convince myself to make the call. It's not that scary, I just don't like it. When I was younger things like these made me really nervous... Now not really, the hardest part is always starting... When I worked a few months ago I often used to have to call people...students just like me, nothing scary, but still I always tried to postpone it until I really had to do it...
I also hate formal emails. I really need to hear from my teacher about the damn paper but I'm here postponing sending her an email cos I hate to have to be formal, it always makes me feel like I'm writing something wrong and they'd judge me for it...Makes no sense... Off to do it now I guess, cos I have less than 2 months to do my paper and the sooner I ask for help the sooner things will get started...I hope. *sighs*

Nightshade

09-06-2005, 06:01 AM

My random thought for now is Its too late for breakast and to early for lunch....?

Rosevn

09-06-2005, 06:32 AM

Random thought: does such nature place several people in a good mood, do others in a good mood further add to the pleasure of such an amble, or do most people merely walk in such areas while in a good mood?

I really like this thought of you, mono. It refers me to a vietnamese tale called Kieu Tale by Nguyen Du (a Vietnamese famous poet in 18th century). This tale has some contexts which describe this feeling. Sometimes inspirated by beautiful or peaceful or...sceneries, your mood would change accordingly. You may feel happy or better. Yet if you are not in a good mood, you might see things around you at the time not in the way they actually are. Well it perhaps depends on how strong such sceneries can affect you. Yet mostly I believe your SELF is a main factor there. In case you are inspirated to feel good, that's really good. But if your'e feeling worse or not that better, you should be calm enough to look for a better side. :)

As for me, I like walking round lakes just seeing things and people. I also like seeing peaceful and quite places, just to feel relaxed and refreshed.

Koa

09-06-2005, 06:44 AM

I like to walk alone...also in cities...I like cities, they are so interesting...

samercury

09-06-2005, 11:54 AM

Random thought:
Why would someone want to wake up when September ends?...

Bongitybongbong

09-06-2005, 07:38 PM

stupid workout days...too hot to run 7 400m's with little break

papayahed

09-06-2005, 09:45 PM

Ahhh, it's good to go home every once in a while.

mono

09-07-2005, 02:14 AM

Most often, I used to sit on the third seat by the aisle at the end of a carriage, as this gave me more leg room.

Now I sometimes sit in the window seat at the end of the carriage. It feels cramped. But that feeling reminds me of places I would hide when I was a child; of being in bed; of intimacy.

Yesterday, I saw you, for the first time, with your child board the train, and sit adjacent to me, on the other side of the aisle. Today, you sat on my side and said "Hello". I was totally unprepared and echoed your words in a mumbling incompetence. Sometimes, its difficult to handle civilisation on public transport!
Beautiful, AP, and very poetic. Did you compose this yourself?

I really like this thought of you, mono. It refers me to a vietnamese tale called Kieu Tale by Nguyen Du (a Vietnamese famous poet in 18th century).
Thanks, Rosevn. I ought to look into reading some Nguyen Du; I have never even heard of the writer, but have written the name down for next time I visit my local bookstore or library. ;)

-----

On as little of an un-political note as possible, I watched a nearly 2-hour free speech by former U.S. vice president Al Gore earlier today. Mainly focusing on global warming, environmentalism, and stemmed subjects, he probably delivered one of the best and most powerful speeches I have encountered, seeming very full of enthusiasm and charisma. From my eighth-row seat, I sat in awe and learned a lot from a very remarkable man.

Kaltrina

09-07-2005, 03:33 AM

today is a very nice weather and I feel full of energy.....love the sun...

Koa

09-07-2005, 04:21 PM

this forum relaxes me... when i am stressed or tired i come here... other forum sometimes dont relax me as much, i somehow feel less free, here it's just so...peaceful, relaxing...

Nightshade

09-08-2005, 03:25 AM

The other day I saw this site (http://www.livewed.com/) andf instantly thought of Stanislaw and pappayhed.
:D

papayahed

09-08-2005, 10:00 AM

The other day I saw this site (http://www.livewed.com/) andf instantly thought of Stanislaw and pappayhed.
:D

:eek: ......gulp........

Stanislaw

09-08-2005, 01:54 PM

:ladysman: lol

Thats pretty weird eh?

Koa

09-08-2005, 03:53 PM

I didnt know there was a romance going on...

Nightshade

09-08-2005, 04:26 PM

papayhed asked stan to marry her somwhere or other:D

Koa

09-08-2005, 04:27 PM

ah! just how i did with baddad! :D

Nightshade

09-08-2005, 04:28 PM

did you ??

Koa

09-08-2005, 04:45 PM

LOL I did...:blush:

Nightshade

09-08-2005, 06:53 PM

Maybe the site would do for you too!

Stanislaw

09-08-2005, 11:22 PM

Seems to be the forum of romance! lol

Isagel

09-09-2005, 03:09 AM

Perhaps not random thought today - Why oh why do all of you write so fast? I have no chance of keeping up on the poetry forum.

papayahed

09-09-2005, 09:52 AM

ah! just how i did with baddad! :D

You gave me the idea. Then i knew I had to act fast or my Stanny would have been grabbed up by some other forum member.

Koa

09-09-2005, 10:19 AM

Wow, I've inspired someone... :D

adilyoussef

09-09-2005, 08:29 PM

Just feeling a little bit tired and thinking of how a differant person I'm of what I used to be, I wonder of what make us change. Change is word used when something differant is noticed in sombody else but rarely in ourselves. Time, people around us, past experiences, love... are all factors that interfere in the process of change. But have we any choice to make in thit process? Have we any role to play in this process that take place all along our life and how? sometimes I feel that I'm just a forgotten thing thrown in a place without any perpose or meaning of his existance. Shall I build the perpose of my life or is it thrown upon my shoulders and have I to cary its burden till my death?

Sory to bother you with my dark thoughts. But that's my random thought of the day.