That is hilarious - and so true! I have almost everything he wrote at this point, and I still can't imagine having read it all. It's just too much...Originally Posted by kasie
Well done, Jamesian - but remember Thurber's comment:
I have the reputation of having read all of Henry James - which would argue a misspent youth....and middle age.
Anyway, thanks, kasie and Virgil.
Hmmmm a boast....well I admitted to myself just now that I have not got too much to boast about. Can that be a boast itself?
Congratulations, that's just amazing!
That's good!
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
It went okay.
At least not like this.
I don't have that fancy accent.
If you believe even a half of this post, you are severely mistaken.
Something to boast about! I recieved post in work yesterday! It was a book and a box of chocolates from an Author with a card to say thanks for everything. Isnt that sweet!
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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congrats, everyone.
Tal, you can practice the fancy accent. I'm sure you'll get there
Thank-you! and to Virgil and Pensive also.Way to go, Lioness!
What are your plans for the university?
I'm going to study physics at St Andrews University in Scotland come september, but it's getting scarily close...
"The magic gave me insight, and you gave me a heart, but for all the heart and insight in the world, I am still a cat."
my first batch of written exams are over
there's nothing to boast, really, but I'm glad I'm done with them.
Linguistics (today) was ****e. You can pick from 11 different topics and it's recommended to prepare one special topic plus this one thingy where you have to know bits from all areas and apply them to a text. I'd focused on syntax and studied loads and loads and kept the text thingy as a back-up.
as it turned out, the syntax question was a single essay question instead of 5 or 6 analyses. I could have written lots about this questions, only not from the angle that the examiner had in mind. so I did the text thing instead but was only able to answer 5 out of 7 questions because I had no idea about the other two topics
but translation and essay writing went fine
let's hope Geography (Friday next week and the Monday after that) will be better as a compensation. (slim chance of that, but one can hope).
I have a Geometry class that's like 3 years above my grade level and in my Pre-Alg. year, I failed the section on Geometry. I was sooooo worried about this year, but I have made A's on all od my tests and never below a B on any hoework. Yay me!
"I'm afriad to fall," she whispered.
"I'll catch you," he replied.
My grand achievement today? I did not call anyone a douche bag. Well except for Ming and Flash Gordon. But I mean real people.
This is my 1,000th post! Yay
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Yay!! Congrats.This is my 1,000th post! Yay
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
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Eyemaker!!! JUST LIKE MIIIIIIINE! I mean I reached my boast post lol
LOL
I like it, what`s the accent? I mean which part or country of Europe. I understand the American accent more... if not spoken too fast
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death. - Robert Fulghum
Je Chante Une Chanson Sombre
The Lady of Mine - Opinion please
A tragedy crept to the name Bathory
Poetess, I think it's North of England (probably very far up north, near Scotland). You can tell by the way they pronounce their o's and say "Our John". - better ask a native speaker, thoughLOL
I like it, what`s the accent? I mean which part or country of Europe. I understand the American accent more... if not spoken too fast
Everyone in my new class sees me as an authority in literature by now!
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
James Joyce
It is a fatal miscarriage, so ill to order affairs, as to pass for a fool in one company, when in another you might be treated as a philosopher. Jonathan Swift
It's Northern Ireland - a difficult accent for a non-native to produce, easy to mimic but difficult to get just right, Catherine Tate makes not a bad job of it.....I like it, what`s the accent? I mean which part or country of Europe. I understand the American accent more... if not spoken too fast
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