¿ question of the day ?

[Hyakujo's Fox]

^ well anyone can do it withOUT a mirror :rolleyes:

[T.I.P.]

now look what you've done - everybody's fvckked off

no maybe it's just because it's TEATIME in america . yeh that's what it'll be
AS IF ITS ALL ABOUT THE AMERICANS

wait-- what thread is this??
a new qotd?

was the other one finished? whoops now i've asked another question by mistake.

so, err, which is it now? what was the answer about the itchy knee thing?

help i can't stop asking questions!

:o
http://www.cnnsi.com/basketball/ncaa/Images/blogphotos/blog1_taylor_ap.jpg

SUHT UP

[T.I.P.]

THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF DIRTY GLASSES THAT I CAN TOLERATE IS UP TO THREE HOWEVER USUALLY EVEN ONE OR TWO DIRTY GLASSES IN THE SINK GIVES ME AN ITCHY KNEE JUST THINKING ABOUT THEM

NOW I AM SO MAD THAT I AM GOING TO HAVE TO HUNT DOWN EVERY LAST PIECE OF KIPPLE IN MY APARTMENT AND TERMINATE IT

[trisherina]

I am okay with more stuff than people think. "People," specifically, being the ones I live and work with who are always commenting about how <s>anal</s> tidy I am.

But I am a terrible filer, for instance. I have files I would hate to lose in folders named "Trish" and "Trish Stuff," and not only on one drive. :eek: That's on my home desktop. On my work desktop, where it is actually often important that I not dick around for hours locating files, I have "internal" on the desktop, and "Useful Documents" as an email personal folder. How in hell is that any use to anyone? I might as well send them straight to the trashcan, if I care for them so little.

I have boxes and boxes of stuff the tiny rat has created, used, or worn in some significantly imprinting fashion.

Sewing stuff is not junk, even though it might pile up in boxes and bags and drape over things.

I think an itchy knee means you're going to receive a stupid message. Like this one.

[Brynn]

My clutter = fine. Limit: three glasses, more if it's not dishes.
Other people's wanton clutter in the same house = depressing detritus that must be picked up immediately.
Then I remind myself that nothing tops Gloria Durgin's house in the second grade, or the labyrinthine apartment of a recluse I know. I'm very grateful for those people.

An itchy knee means that your body is craving vanilla ice cream with Hershey's chocolate sauce and walnuts.

[Stephi_B]

itchy knee is a sign of hail.

My knee is defect, it just has hailed like hell, but no itch whatsoever! :confused:



New question for today, March 19:

¿ When was the last time you felt thoroughly at ease, in which situation etc. ?

[auntie aubrey]

probably the day before we started house hunting. i look forward to the return of that feeling, someday, somewhere down the road.

[Stephi_B]

^good luck!!

Me: Last time I was dancing, excellent thesis/andwhatnotelse-stress relieving effects. :)
Hopefully again after I was over at boss' to find out whether I have further employment after June.

[brightpearl]

Mwah. (http://bulletin.zefrank.com/showpost.php?p=381280&postcount=394)

[zero]

2swanS in first light of tuesday at my abandoned boatyard

[Brynn]

yesterday morning at 11:58. It happens pretty often, but that was the last time it happened.

[lukkucairi]

after kava last night

[topcat]

question for 3/20

what is kava?

[T.I.P.]

i've been feeling at ease this entire week

today i had to manage a massive hangover at work and it wasn't half as bad as i expected it to be. It was actually quite peas-full.

[auntie aubrey]

question for 3/20

what is kava?

it's a life force similar to chi, but located slightly down and to the left.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

A tan or opaque greenish beverage tasting very much like dirty water which causes sensations of slight tongue and lip numbing; among its effects are mildly talkative and euphoric behaviour, a sense of well-being, clear thinking, relaxed muscles and then deep, dreamless sleep. It has great religious significance in the area of obtaining inspiration.

Oh, my non-existent kingdom for a mug of kava!

[craig johnston]

i feel at ease whenever i read one of zoer's posts.
what wonderful warm and fuzzy feelings envelop
as one peruses yet another humourous, charming,
and erudite missive from our favourite scotsbot!

new question:

have you ever searched for a long lost friend or
relative?

[Frieda]

yes.

[madasacutsnake]

I've spent the last few months searching for lots of long lost relatives.

I found one in pieces in a war grave, one cabinet maker with some firm political beliefs, one who fell off a wagon "where he had no business to be" and yet one more with a cunning plan.

[auntie aubrey]

yup.

[xfox]

I want to find out how I might be related to the lovely gal in the office who said we are all related (to each other). What a wonderful thought!

[craig johnston]

and yet one more with a cunning plan.

you're related to baldrick?!

:eek:

[zero]

i refuse to make the first move - it's so up to them to search for me

[lukkucairi]

i refuse to make the first move - it's so up to them to search for me

is that you, mom?

[Stephi_B]

^Oh, if Zerö could be my mom!! :) ;)

To the question: Relatives, yes, my dad and my two sisters (~1998/9), twas easier to find and getting in contact with them though than getting rid of some other relatives. Long lost friends usually find me, that is call me / fall into my office or flat out of the blue and give me a surprise happy. :)

[auntie aubrey]

¿ question of the day ? for march 22


if home is where the heart is, where does the spleen take up residence?

[Stephi_B]

it's where the pinkie is (which one depends upon your handedness and other factors too numberous to recollect here and now... a spleen is a complex and delicate entity)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Spleen is in the faraway place where I long to be, even though I know I would be unhappy there.

[lukkucairi]

if home is where the heart is, where does the spleen take up residence?

generally, wherever it can vent

[T.I.P.]

The absinthe bar is where the spleen is.

[seebe]

Happy Easter

¿ question of the day ? March 23

Remember the funny video Tunesmith(I think) put up called Misheard Lyrics guy?
What lines or words of what songs did you think were one thing and turned out to be another?

One of mine was in the song: Down on the Corner by Creedence
When they sang "out in the street" I thought it said Cloudy in the street.

And this one I have no excuse for since the words I heard wrong are also in the title. : Forever in Bluejeans by N. Diamond
I thought the line was reverend bluejeans.

[auntie aubrey]

when i was a kid i consistently misheard the lyrics to bob seger's "trying to live my life without you."

the lyrics are:
trying to live my life without you, babe,
is the hardest thing i'll ever do

but what i heard was:
trying to live my life without chewie
is the hardest thing i'll ever do

and i decided the song was about han solo's friendship with chewbacca.

because they're best friends.

http://www.wookies-etc.com/images/content/hansolo.jpg

[Frieda]

ricky martin, she bangs

and she bangs she bangs
oh baby when she moves she moves i go crazy
cos she looks like a flower but she stinks like a pig
like every girl in history


click here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yf91Ma5gbc) to listen for yourself (embedding of this clip is disabled)

[topcat]

but stings like a bee

[trisherina]

Train kept a-rollin' all night long

=

Drink macaroni all night long
I'm in heat! I'm in love! And I just can't get enough!!

[brightpearl]

^HAHAAHA. That one's great.

I can't think of any of my own, though I know there've been lots...but my favorite is from a little boy I babysat a long time ago. He was 3 or so and heard that horrible song by Glenn Frey, "The Heat is On", as "The Feet is Uncle." No amount of reasoning would dissuade him.

[trisherina]

When the wee mouse was indeed wee we were driving somewhere with her in her wee car seat in the back and listening to The Beatles -- it is not unusual for musically-oriented small children to be crazy about The Beatles. All You Need Is Love was playing as we pulled up to the mailbox and she suddenly asked, "Mummy why do they keep going, blah, blah, blah in a song about love?" Reasonable question:

Blah blah blah
Blah blah blah
Blah blah blah
Blah blah blah
All you need is love! :)

[lukkucairi]

nice ^

I always wondered why Creedence Clearwater was so worried about a baboon on the right (as opposed to the left?)

don't go round tonight
well it's bound to take your life
there's a baboon on the right

ETA: according to google, I wasn't the only one.

damn CCR :rolleyes:

[Jack Flanders]

^ my brain misfunction with that song was "bathroom on the right"

[T.I.P.]

when i saw "Drugstore Cowboy" for the first time, I really enjoyed the ending, especially the soundtrack (it ends with Desmond Dekker's Israelites).

I kept singing it to myself after that:


"Wake up in the morning, fixing the breakfast
So that every mouth can be fed
Born the Israelites, yeah"

which is a tad different from the the original lyrics:

"Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir,
so that every mouth can be fed.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah."

[auntie aubrey]

my sister always had a problem with depeche mode's "enjoy the silence."

the real lyrics:
pleasure remains
so does the pain

she heard:
pleasure remains
soldiers burping

at 1:40
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[YsaPur EsChomuw]

When I was a kid I often wondered why does Freddie Mercury suddenly switch into Hungarian when singing Life Is Life.

Life (nanananana)
Life is life (nanananana)
Labadab dab dab life(nanananana)
Liiiiiiiife (nanananana)

Labadab dab dab totally sounds like the Hungarian Levelet kaptam which means I got a letter.

Later, when I started to learn English, I was so disappointed to learn he wasn't saying anything at all. And what's more, he didn't even get a letter...

[T.I.P.]

c'est l'heure de la...

<img src= "http://www.tessella.com/Services/Skill/red_die_with_question_marks.jpg", width=50>¿ QUESTION DU JOUR ? <img src= "http://www.tessella.com/Services/Skill/red_die_with_question_marks.jpg", width=50>



Who is your neighbor ? Describe her (or him).

[trisherina]

Well, which one do you mean? The couple in their late fifties who've gone golfing in Myrtle Beach and left me to watch their house and pick up their mail? The Flanders (not their real name, but close enough to their real life)? Or the well-known young hockey player who was rendered quadriplegic when checked from behind in a Junior A game? Or the guy with the Labradoodle whose daughter works for a dentist in a Rocky Mountain resort town? They're mostly likeable sorts. Not the people with the Escalade and the stock car racer, though. Not them.

[lukkucairi]

our neighbor is the bouncing bishop (http://godsylla.blip.tv/file/191117/):

his name is Werner, and he's about 120 years old. yes, he is a bishop.


his wife is Liselotte, and she's about 110. she wears a brown wig, and she gives me pears in the fall.

[auntie aubrey]

our upstairs neighbor is bigfatpig. he's a big fat pig. when he drinks, he snores. when he snores, you can hear it through the ceiling. this ain't my first rodeo, i've had upstairs neighbors before. but never before now have i heard big fat pig-snores through the ceiling. he drinks a lot more frequently lately. sometimes he passes out in the living room, sometimes he makes it to the bedroom. i sleep with ear plugs so it doesn't bother me. the spouse, on the other hand, is frequently woken up by it in the middle of the night and has to go sleep in the den. bigfatpig owns an un-neutered boxer named winston. he refers to winston as a "thoroughbred" although how he came to use this nonstandard term i don't know. winston, like most boxers, requires lots of exercise. bigfatpig doesn't like exercise. so the dog does what dogs do and he finds his own way of bleeding off energy. this usually takes the form of running at full tilt from one end of the apartment to the other. this sounds like a freight train rolling over our heads. sometimes bigfatpig and winston wrestle. they've knocked ceiling fixtures loose. when bigfatpig doesn't feel like walking winston, he sends him out to the balcony and lets him potty there. we don't use our patio in the summer because of the overwhelming stench of dog urine.

our next door neighbors are three persian techno douchebags. three guys living like sardines in a three bedroom apartment, because each gives higher financial priority to the three luxury cars in the parking lot they can't afford. one of them has a blue BMW with a vanity plate that says "awaz." awaz can't pay his car payments. he flatted two of his tires to prevent the repo man from towing his wheels. ultimately that didn't work, though, and they yanked the car in the middle of the night anyway. two months later awaz and his two roommates celebrated when he managed to scrape together enough money to get his car out of hock. unfortunately his two roommates, whose cars also mysteriously disappeared around the same time, do not seem to be on the same fast track to success. awaz and co like persian techno. correction, they love persian techno. the one who sleeps in the bedroom on the other side of the wall from our den REALLY loves persian techno. sometimes the spouse wakes up in the middle of the night to the sound of bigfatpig snoring, goes into the den, and is kept awake by persian techno. on those nights he sleeps on the sofa in the living room with the air conditioner blasting to cover the noise. sometimes he sleeps with a pillow over his head, too.

have i mentioned the fact that we're buying a house?

[T.I.P.]

my left door neighbor i have not seen yet, but i know he smokes weed and listens to jungle techno. My right door neighbor is 90 years old. He enjoys spending time in the little metal cage that surrounds our front door steps. He stands there all weekend, occasionally talking to his 85 year old friends who sit in lawn chairs next to our steps. They peddle cigarettes by the unit to passerbys.

My upstairs neighbor has two dogs. They have big nails, and when they run around they sound like horses. Luckily, unlike auntie's neighbor mine takes them out running so they get tired real fast. Besides, I could have a pack of horses living above me and it would not compare with my previous upstairs neighbor in Paris - the Walrus - who liked to use a wheeled office chair to navigate his 350 pound body between the fridge and his room (and probably the bathroom) at all hours of the night.

My upstairs upstairs neighbor is more scary. He likes to sit in the staircase with his walkman on, singing out loud in a voice that sounds like he is being exorcised. My roommate tells me he likes drugs a bit too much which is why he acts funny.

[lukkucairi]

^ :D walrus

living in a house allows you to avoid all of those joys.

back in Chicago I had a running feud with my downstairs neighbor -

a record from that time:

Just because I'm a paranoid, vindictive bitch, doesn't mean that nobody else is. Case in point, my downstairs neighbor.

I've detailed the eccentricities of our plumbing before; to sum up, there's not enough hot water pressure for more than one person in any of the three north-facing apartments to take a shower at the same time. Please also consider the separate fact that, as a freelancer, my schedule is not only highly varied but also entirely unpredictable, ergo I take showers at odd times of day, and never the same time slot twice in a row.

Given this information, the fact that I've been shorted hot water three times already this week is beginning to look like a vendetta.

It happened again this morning. The red line on the el is monumentally jacked up, and I had to get to the chiropracter's office by 10:15. I therefore had to leave the ghetto by 9:15 at the very latest. At 9:00, I realized I was a smelly beast, so I ducked in for a quick rinse. After about thirty seconds under the stream I was fully soaped, and the pressure suddenly dipped precipitously. I grabbed the shower head and pointed it toward the wall, knowing I was about to be either frozen or boiled. It's a lot harder to short the cold water in this building, so it's almost always "frozen."

Sure enough, the water went icy. I turned the cold water tap off the whole way, and then used the mist coming off the now-scalding low-pressure spritz emanating from the shower head to rinse the soap off my body. On the way out of the shower, I noted that the pipes coming through the floor were oddly silent.

Given the acoustics of the plumbing, this meant that my downstairs neighbor was not making a valid attempt to actually use the shower. If she had been, she'd have still been in there, glad I was out. She was just shorting me hot water, trying to drive me out of the shower.

Now, here would be the ideal moment to score karmic kudos, make the world a nicer place, and myself a nicer person. I resolutely failed to do this.

I dried myself and dressed, and lo and behold the pipes were singing. Bitch was in the shower. I casually turned the hot water in the tub on full blast and let it run while I brushed my hair, put on some makeup, put on my shoes, and got ready to go out the door. I turned the water off just before I left, and then flushed the toilet for good measure.

[l'azizza]

Good question!

To my left is alcoholic veteran. I thought I had made a connection with him one day last summer when I was out in the yard and he wanted to show me his new puppy. We seemed to be on the same page re: the responsibility of a pet, keeping her inside, etc. A few days later he was drunk in the front yard, was trying to train her to sit. She was on a leash, about eight weeks old. I looked through the fence. I wanted to say something like, you know they respond really well to praise (over criticism or punishment). I didn't say anything (my regret)- didn't know how to phrase it so that I wouldn't set him off. Not long after that I didn't see or hear the puppy anymore. I think he got wasted one night and killed her. I haven't seen him in weeks, I think he's in rehab.

On his left is G's abandoned house. My other neighbor L, to my right, reminded me that it's been three years since G went to prison and should be getting out soon. Pedophile- liked teenage boys. But the worst of it is that his background was public knowledge, we had seen the area sex offenders list. One of the boys' mother knew, but it didn't stop her from pimping out her sons for cash and trips to McDonald's.

L is raising her three grandchildren because their mother is in prison for meth. A few years ago she decided she wanted to go to school and will graduate with a BS this summer. She called me last week, said her g'daughter had let a couple of people into the house to use the phone and they stole her laptop. She wants to get out of here. Me too.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Each of my neighbours has a unique and interesting personality.

The couple who live above me are in their late thirties. The woman has a job, the man doesn’t. He only does odd jobs from time to time, probably dubious ones, too, as the police came a couple of times asking when was the last time I saw him. He disappears at regular intervals, which is a good thing, because he is often drunk and then he does stupid things. He knows he’s in trouble, so he tries to find little ways to appease Betty’s imminent wrath, but they almost always end up as a small-scale Armageddon. For example he tries to prepare dinner for her when she comes home, but falls asleep and burning the pot. Of course there’s a horrible smell, so he cunningly tries to cover up his tracks by throwing the pot out of the window in the naïve belief that Betty won’t notice the appalling stench or the missing pot. At other times he tries to do the laundry – of course, only when he’s drunk – but does it so awkwardly that he manages to flood not only their flat, but mine, too. (Once I had to go up and help him to sort out the problem, when it started raining inside my flat. He was trying to mop up a washing-machine amount of water with a handkerchief!) Another one of his endearing endeavours consisted of dying his salt-and-pepper hair red. I strongly suspect he was drunk, when he decided to surprise Betty this way, because the end result was scary. (He disappeared again, after that.) Anyway, they used to have huge fights, fortunately mostly yelling at each other. Betty is quite vocal, also during lovemaking sessions, which can be embarrassing at times – it depends on who is visiting me. (Once a friend came over and was telling me about her nervous breakdown, but she couldn’t finish with all those noises, which was kind of liberating for me.)

Erm, for the record, I feel obligated to add I'm glad my neighbours can't write little interesting details about me.

[Frieda]

there's 6 apartments on the top floor of my apartment building-- the people on my right are nice, the house is hers. she inherited it when her son died. she has a boyfriend with 50 earrings and a weird voice. i think he's had some medical issues with his vocal cords. he moved in with her recently.

the girl on my left is about my age. she has an incontinent labrador dog. a puppy really, but the puppy has grown rather big and standing up, reaches up to my chest with his head. his name is jungle. he used to pee and poop right behind my neighbor's door, making the hallway reek of dog crap. she walked him 5 times a day and it still wasnt enough. that was ok back then, because jungle still looked so small and cute. now she's using a dog service to prevent him from crapping in her apartment. she also has a boyfriend with a 10-year old son that visits sometimes. he made a hole in her wall while installing a bathtub.

further down the hallway lives a 50-year old drunk, he always carries a pocket bottle around. he recently bought a bicycle that he never uses because he has a scooter.

downstairs (not directly below me fortunately) lives a crazy woman. she complains about everything, literally. she always has her door open, so the big dog she has runs around in the hallway. its a big dobermann and he's always growling at me. one time when entering the elevator, he grabbed my crutch and made me fall. she said that was because i had looked at the dog and this made him afraid.

[skip intro]

the moral is: don't look at dogs, and don't let ten year old boys do your plumbing.

[Stephi_B]

My neighbours? Very nice young people! :) (With my biblical 28 I'm the house-eldest I figure, they're all like 18-22) Unfortunately they're moving in and out so fast (I only memorise the British couple - 2nd floor? or 4th? - and the two glam punks, such a cool iro that one got - 4th floor? - among the newest influx - very friendly!), that it never gets more than greeting or a little small talk on the stairs or at the door when fetching one's postal package delivered in absentia or asking for anything (sugar, milk or info on when there'll be warm water and heating again like last winter).
After the two guys originally from Hamburg and the two girls from Brandenburg (my stepladder still has the pink paint on it from when the pinktised their rooms, used to drink beer with them on their balcony - 1st floor excellent first row view on bus stop and sidewalk) have moved out like 2, 2.5 years ago I am the last remainder of the first inhabitants - the front house stood empty till 2004.
One of the two neighbour parties on my floor - 3rd - seem to cook lots of cabbage (or something similar, it's a slightly rotten veggie "smell" in any case), I always open the little windows in the stairway, they always close them. Above me there used to live a guy trampling around and bumping stuff on the floor or something a lot, preferably after midnight on workdays, I used to bang with something against the copper tubes from the central heating when it got too enervating, cos then he'd stop it. One day I went up, asking whether he could borrow me a lightbulb, he gave me one and then he said: "You the one who's banging sometimes against the heating?" Me *blushing*: "Yes... it's just..." He *blushing*: "Oh, is it that loud?" Me: "Ah, mostly not." He: "Just bang when I get too loud." Me *grinning*: "kay."
Strangely the back house people, well actually it's #49 and we're #50, I scarcely see at all, I only know these in whose flats I can see from my kitchen window, there's also one flat who always have a cloth tightly drawn closed in front of their window - just like these strange neighbours CJ mentioned once - but in contrast to them, mine have curtains not in black but in a colourful friendly pattern, so I figure they are good-hearted, friendly vampires living from donor blood.... ;)

[Stephi_B]

Q for Wednesday:


¿ What's beyond the horizon ?
(symbolic, or not, how you like)




me: new ideas & ways of thinking

[craig johnston]

I can settle down and be doin' just fine
Til I hear an old train rollin' down the line
Then I hurry straight home and pack
And if I didn't go, I believe I'd blow my stack
I love you baby, but you gotta understand
When the lord made me
He made a ramblin' man.

Some folks might say that I'm no good
That I wouldn't settle down if I could
But when that open road starts to callin' me
There's somethin' o'er the hill that I gotta see
Sometimes it's hard but you gotta understand
When the lord made me, he made a ramblin'man.

I love to see the towns a-passin' by
And to ride these rails 'neath God's blue sky
Let me travel this land from the mountains to the sea
'Cause that's the life I believe he meant for me
And when I'm gone and at my grave you stand
Just say God called home your ramblin'man.


http://www.events-in-music.com/images/Hank_Williams_autograph.jpg

[xfox]

beyond the horizon:

an uphill climb

[seebe]

On the neighbor question: She's a sweet heart. She often brings food over even though we don't need it. She likes to give. The only thing I have a slight problem with, but its tolerable because she's nice either way, is when she drinks to much and calls me to gush about something or me. Those times I don't understand a lot of what she says and she doesn't listen well. It's usually a one way conversation.

Over the horizon: Something I've worried too much about my whole life but at least now I feel better about it because I have a few extra tools close by.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Gerbil-tank cleaning before sunset.

Today, upon coming home from work I was welcomed with a mighty reek.

I'll start cleaning in 26 minutes.

[lukkucairi]

over the horizon is another mountain range, and then another one and another one. eventually there's some ocean.

[topcat]

jesustitties.

[auntie aubrey]

if it's an event horizon, the complete elimination of space, light and time.

[Frieda]

my own ass. but i can't look that far around the earth though.

[Coffee]

On the one side: land, tainted beef and salmonella salads, "civilization", greed and war.
On the other side: water, fresh fish and produce, "freedom", generosity and peace.

[zero]

into the blue; lª m°°n's blue. the blue of ªs°k°. that same blue as the blue of the blue room at the end of mind where all that we love goes on, uninterrupted.

[Brynn]

Sorry I missed the neighbor question - I live in the greatest neighborhood in the world and i love mine - I've got a documentary filmmaker, a kindergarten teacher, a publicist, two master gardeners, a chef, and a psychologist who's the mother of my daughter's best friend. Then there's Pete, who just lost his old golden retriever and is getting a new one, and Moon, the village character who does a lot of extreme sports and is always having something extraordinary happening to him, and then there's the beautiful lady up the street who gives the kids hot chocolate on snow days when the hill is full of sledders. All of them sweet, generous w/ time and talents, and trustworthy with my pets when we go out of town. When I lived in L.A., though, my neighbors were so awful I don't even want to think about them.

Okay. The horizon.
I've got to do something drastic about that, personally. And collectively, Coffee's dual scenarios are all too apt.
However, in the immediate future, I'm starting my new job mentoring traumatized kids in a series of two-week workshops - helping them to write a short play and then performing it for them with other professional actors. It combines a lot of things for me - working with troubled kids, writing, performing, and most importantly, helping someone to create a narrative from within themselves that can point them towards healing.
I'm also teaching a full schedule of after school acting classes for kids, and directing a children's play. And posting occasionally on zefrank with the most delightful people on the planet:)

[12"razormix]

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the ocean cascades down into the endless abyss of time until its waters shatter on the mossy shell of the ancient tortoise at the bottom of the primal sea.

[zero]

http://www.alkwasser.com/vb/images/smilies/suspicious.gif

[12"razormix]

http://www.smileygarden.de/smilie/Strand/smilie_water_065.gif

[zero]

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s93/divefinatic/diver.gif

[craig johnston]

and we all know who the ancient tortoise is.

:rolleyes:

[12"razormix]

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[zero]

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[T.I.P.]

my own ass. but i can't look that far around the earth though.

if your ass was big enough that it bended space and time then you might have a chance of seeing it loom up right outside your window.

[trisherina]

You can't make me look.

[Frieda]

if your ass was big enough that it bended space and time then you might have a chance of seeing it loom up right outside your window.

maybe the moon isnt made of cheese at all-- it';s broccoli! :eek:

[Brynn]

New question of the day -

Best meal ever - one you had or one you'd like to have?

[T.I.P.]

that would probably be some sticky rice with vegetables, thai wok style, made fresh at 4:30AM after a night of partying at my friends' place

or maybe some homemade lasagna during our Sopranos phase at the same friends' house

mmhmm

[trisherina]

sticky rice with sesame sauce

ties with

saganaki when it's cut just the right thickness and brought at just the right flame

[lukkucairi]

conch salad

with sour orange juice - not lime juice - cracked black pepper and salt

ideally with a kalik after a long day in the boat

aaaaahhhhhh :)

[Frieda]

cheeseburgers :o

[Stephi_B]

Schwammerlsuppe + Semmelknödel

(approximately: thick mushroom soup with bread dumplings,
there is no pic on the web to visualise this peom of a meal...,
but here we get close:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/193/505607179_4e2351ea93.jpg
http://www.essen-und-trinken.de/uploads/thumbnails/0009/00000000009/310x310/Semmelknoedel_4ad5fb795f87e1113599931051954a68_fjt 2005090501.jpg
imagine the soup with even more mushrooms and together with the dumplings cleaft into pieces)

[auntie aubrey]

i'd like to think the best meal ever is something i haven't tried yet and perhaps haven't even heard of yet.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

mákos tészta
http://bp3.blogger.com/_n2UJhp1Z9QM/RrcCK6IDlsI/AAAAAAAABLA/xsdzNoqFnzQ/s400/IMG_1713.jpg
pasta with the mixture of crushed poppz seed and sugar

OR

strapačky
http://evyca.blog.siol.net/files/2007/09/potovanje-dan-1-044.jpg
potato-based noodles with sauerkraut and bacon

I can't decide which meal is better...

[Earthling]

I'm with Auntie on this one;
Just yesturday, I was gonna make my calamari-brocolli soup, but was out of squid, so i used crawfish instead, and it was the best ever..yum...so my quest for the best meal, i hope never ends....

[Stephi_B]

I know 'mákos tészta' (though I had not known / forgotten the name until just now)
- one of the two dishes my stepfather always made (well he still makes I figure):
And really extra-yum-yum :) (Although I'm no fan of sweet main meals usually)
The other one was noodles and potatoes mixed with a spicey paprika sauce... we called it 'mud' ('Matsch' in German) because the Hungarian name was too complicated (for us) ;)

[auntie aubrey]

I'm with Auntie on this one;
Just yesturday, I was gonna make my calamari-brocolli soup, but was out of squid, so i used crawfish instead, and it was the best ever..yum...so my quest for the best meal, i hope never ends....

COOK FOR ME!

[madasacutsnake]

Schwammerlsuppe + Semmelknödel

(approximately: thick mushroom soup with bread dumplings,
there is no pic on the web to visualise this peom of a meal...,
but here we get close:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/193/505607179_4e2351ea93.jpg
http://www.essen-und-trinken.de/uploads/thumbnails/0009/00000000009/310x310/Semmelknoedel_4ad5fb795f87e1113599931051954a68_fjt 2005090501.jpg
imagine the soup with even more mushrooms and together with the dumplings cleaft into pieces)

You fiend. And it's coming into winter here too.

[Stephi_B]

^;)

(If you need the recipe I could dig into my bookshelf tracing for the Bavarian cookbook my granny gave me once :))

[madasacutsnake]

Yes please.

[brightpearl]

It's far too late to answer this question, but as there's not a new one...

at the risk of being repetitive:

sticky rice (it's popular because it's good, okay -- especially that particular Vietnamese sticky rice with its lovely glassy glossiness)
along with Japanese vegetables tempura style
and a vegetable spring roll (not, I repeat, not an egg roll)
and both sesame and sweet chili dipping sauces
and then fried bananas stuffed with red bean paste and sprinkled with powdered sugar and honey

but also if I could go back in time and have my grandmother's chicken fried steak and cream gravy, Kentucky Wonder beans, creamed potatoes, scratch biscuits, and lemon icebox pie, I would. I really really would. Screw the vegetarianism. And of course if I could skip the meal and just have my grandmother, that would be just fine.

[madasacutsnake]

I dled recipes and ate Schwammerlsuppe and Semmelknödel for lunch.

:-)

[topcat]

question for sunday3/30



what do you think the question for monday 3/31 will be?

[skip intro]

something about dieting?

[auntie aubrey]

something so abstract and allegorical that few people will be able to give satisfying answers.

[trisherina]

What is in your heart?

[xfox]

Is March leaving like a lamb or a lion?

[Marcus Bales]

Poetry

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I imagine LiarTrind or si-viagra or one of their lot will raise issues that'll help us ponder the deeper significance of Âîçáóæäàþùåå ïîðíî-âèäåî ñ ìîëîäåíüêèìè äåâ÷åíêàìè? or the impact of internet-spammers on our lives.

[craig johnston]

something about dieting?

something so abstract and allegorical that few people will be able to give satisfying answers.

surely the same thing

;)

[Coffee]

Something prone to eliciting answers ripe with sexual innuendo

[craig johnston]

^^
so you think it's going to be me?

ok then, as it's after mitternacht here and h.fox is watching some appalling aussie sports programme, here goes:

mondays question: do you shave your naughty bits?

(remember, if you don't, you have lice, and if you do, you're a pervert)

good luck!

;)

[Coffee]

Answer: There are NO naughty bits. :p

[craig johnston]

on you maybe

:rolleyes:

[lukkucairi]

do you shave your naughty bits?


for those of the male persuasion who do, you may find this (http://www.yarnivore.com/mt/archives/Willie%20Warmer.jpg)useful

[brightpearl]

why would anyone shave their boobs?
:confused:

[l'azizza]

^ Less painful than duct tape?

[Stephi_B]

The definition of naughty bits is unclear to me, but I figure I shave some of them partially.

[skip intro]

so you are a pervert with lice?

[Stephi_B]

^The idea was to breed pervert lice ;)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

the thought/sight of a razor invokes dangerous thoughts in me

[Frieda]

i admit that i do not shave my boobs.

[Coffee]

Fuzzy Nipple Drink Recipe
Ingredients
1 1/2 oz Vodka
1 dash Triple Sec
1 1/2 oz Peach Schnapps
2/3 part Orange Juice

Fuzzy Nipple Directions:
Pour all liquids over ice and shake. Pour into highball glass and garnish with either an orange wheel or a cherry. Can also be made frozen.

Serve Fuzzy Nipple in a Highball Glass


Alternate Fuzzy Nipple Directions:
Don't shave your boobs.

[auntie aubrey]

i've been known to do a bit of groundskeeping. i'm willing to trim the hedges and do a little edging work, but i fail to see the point in stripping the green entirely.

[zero]

for ¿ question of the wednesday ? you are required to




rate yourself on a scale of 1 - 10

[Stephi_B]

7½

[trisherina]

Damn you, inclusiveness!
https://webapp.walgreens.com/cePharmacy/programsHTML/images/NormalDistribution.jpg

[auntie aubrey]

i shall not answer on the grounds that it will make people think i'm deranged.

[Coffee]

http://www.stardestroyer.net/Mike/Movies/SpinalTap.jpg

Of course, it can go down to 0 at times too.

[12"razormix]

you are required to rate yourself on a scale of 1 - 10 ? no :)

[seebe]

If 10 be the top, then Stephie bump your number up 2 1/2 points. Sometimes our actions or self esteem may hit a low born out of ego and or fear but we are all born 10's and there are no permanent demerits. Not even for my spelling testicles wrong in the Dictionary game.

[zero]

^thank you that was in fact quite profound




no :)


then maybe you can ask someone to rate you (or even just some part of you) on your behalf? (not looking at anyone in particular http://forums.majorgeeks.com/images/smilies/innocent.gif)

[12"razormix]

why would i want to do that?

[zero]

becuase you're modest!!



:mad: anyway i can't do any rating just now - can you not see i'm busy eating my fish'n'chips?

[12"razormix]

do you want some ointment for your lip?

[zero]

yes i do

it so happens i lacerated my lip a few days ago in an accident with a foil blisterpak of NEW! trident SPLASH raspberry & peach flavour chewing gum and now the salt'n'vinegar of my fish'n'chips is getting in there and causing terrible pain OW OUCH OOOYAYH!!


POOR ME!

[zero]

abandoned in my hour of need

[auntie aubrey]

i rate myself as follows:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/9/6/5/965fefe24996954ecbdca24a336d30f5.png

[Brynn]

^ Give me a 10 for being endlessly amused

[T.I.P.]

right now, 10

[trisherina]

right now, 10

Bo!

[zero]

right now, 10

when he regains consciousness we'll ask him again






.

[Stephi_B]

i rate myself as follows:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/9/6/5/965fefe24996954ecbdca24a336d30f5.png

Ha, now everything gets clear! You're a quadratic equation, that's why you get double-bdays etc

;) :D

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

You're a quadratic equation, that's why you get double-bdays etc

:) :) :)

[auntie aubrey]

¿ question of the day ? for april 3:

do you consider yourself an introvert or an extrovert, and would your friends and family agree with your self-assesssment?

[Hyakujo's Fox]

:o

[Stephi_B]

Both, depending on situation and mood.
Those who know me in many different situations and moods would probably agree.

Generally my extrovertness has increased dramatically since I was a child
(very introvert, shy, low self-esteem - the whole programme).

[Frieda]

introvert. i make a lot of noise just to mask what's really on my mind.

[auntie aubrey]

i would call myself an introvert, the way meyers briggs defines it. but 99% of everyone i know would completely disagree.

[Stephi_B]

^I didn't know these Meyers Briggs types till now (interesting!!),
still I'd say I'm both according to these definitions,
because my inside action depends on what happens outside and vice versa,
sometimes starting with acting, other times with reflecting
- but actually in the major turning points in my life I've acted more extrovert.

[zero]

i just need a little alone time, ok?

[lukkucairi]

I was an extroverted little kid, and an introvert from ages 11 to 24, and now I'm an extrovert again.

being an extrovert is funner, but it can get you into trouble.

being an introvert is in some ways easier, but people sometimes interpret your quietness as snobbery.

I meet a lot of people who are introverts in person and extroverts on the internet and vice versa.

[brightpearl]

I'm an introvert, but most of my friends believe me to be an extrovert..kinda like what Auntie meant, I think.

[lukkucairi]

^ explain a little more - I was under the impression that introversion/extroversion is a function of how you interact with others, not necessarily how you feel about interacting with others. Am I off base?

[auntie aubrey]

introversion and extroversion have more to do with how you feel, where you draw energy from. an example:

say you went to a party and lots of people were there. would you leave the party feeling energized and ready to find an after-party destination to keep the fun going? or would you scramble for the car so you could have a moment of peace to collect your thoughts?

it has nothing to do with whether you were able to interact and enjoy yourself at the party. it's whether you draw your energy from being extroverted or introverted.

that's why pearly and i both said our friends would disagree. if she's like me, she needs her alone time far more than she needs her people time. but she's good at people time so the people she spends time with assume that's what energizes her.

[lukkucairi]

hm - makes sense

I do need my alone time, but I don't get energized by it like I do by people time. People time is sometimes overwhelming, yeah, but if I don't get out and see people (either at work or play) I stagnate and that feels awful to me - so I suppose by that definition too I'm an extrovert.

[Brynn]

extrovert with friends only, and I'm kind of cautious nowadays about who sees that side of me. Except here, I guess.

In a corporate work situation, I prefer to be invisible and take mental notes for an imaginary screenplay - it helps me to cope and keeps my mind occupied. At lunchtime, I'll interact, but really only as an interviewer. People of a certain mindset have a shocking lack of curiosity about others and will go on for ten minutes about something their dog did. Asking questions keeps me from appearing shy and gives me the illusion of a sense of control, but in reality I often feel trapped by my own tactics and want to chew my arm off after a while.

[zero]

^http://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gif
ME TOO!!:D

[lukkucairi]

^^ consummate extrovert

[T.I.P.]

i'll just about talk to anyone in any situation, so i would normally qualify as a die-hard extrovert.

however if I am to follow A'ntie's definition I am definitely an introvert. I get my energy from being alone. Social interaction is a large part of my life but I find it exhausting.

[lukkucairi]

I guess you could ask yourself what's worse: being shut in solitary confinement for a week, or being stuck in a big crowd of people for a week - both are pretty unpleasant :p

[auntie aubrey]

pshaw, i could do a week all by my lonesome standing on my head.

by contrast, the last time i visited NYC i was ready to go home by day 3. i couldn't take the proximity of so many people and all i wanted to do was hide in my hotel room and watch movies for the rest of my stay. still, since i was there for a convention, i did my share of schmoozing and attending parties so my associates would probably never peg me as an introvert.

[zero]

the ¿ question of the day ? is


what was it like?

[Stephi_B]

interesting in a somewhat weird way

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Oh... you know... phanerogamous.

[auntie aubrey]

harder than i anticipated.

[Marcus Bales]

A good hard is unanticipated.

[Jack Flanders]

over-rated

[Coffee]

It was like getting on roller coaster ride when you aren't sure the tracks will meet at the other end.

[auntie aubrey]

A good hard is unanticipated.

http://www.lasplash.com/uploads/1/what_the_rabbi_show_photo_3_001.jpg

[brightpearl]

It was like jumping into a river that you think will be painfully cold, but it turns out to be just cool enough to be refreshing, and the river grass is soft and flexible instead of bristly, and all the fish belong there, and there's no trash floating by, and there are no leeches whatsoever. Not even a little one.

In short, more fun than killing baby ducks with a ball peen hammer.

[lukkucairi]

In short, more fun than killing baby ducks with a ball peen hammer.

^you'll find a mini-sledge is more effective and you'll get a better workout too :)

for me, it was like waking up properly after having suffered through an hour's worth of sleep paralysis

[topcat]

amazing

[T.I.P.]

humbling. I still can't believe she did that.

[trisherina]

Like being so tired and dead and bored inside that you wish anything would come along, anything, even something bad, and then something does come even while you're just toying with the notion, and grabs you up brusquely and shakes you by the collar and wrings and twists you around, and prepares to spit you out and throw you back down again, and you wish harder than anything ever that you'd never had that first fateful involuntary wish, but you did.

[Earthling]

^^^^^^^
Farts ! She took mine:(

[Stephi_B]

Q for Monday:

¿What's your goal in life?
Have you found it yet, how close to it are you?
Do you want to find one at all, or is living your life enough?



Me: still searching.... but I think there is something.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

My life's devoid of direction or purpose.

[lukkucairi]

^ the uncarved block :)

I'd like to live in the moment.

[Frieda]

^ i dont know how to live in anything other than the moment!

my goal in life is to relax-- i'm on the far side of the ellipse right now :eek:

[auntie aubrey]

my goal is to lead a good life, "good" being how i personally define it with full rights to change the definition as i see fit.

if you'd asked this question a year ago i would have answered differently. this is my post-satori answer.

[zero]

silence

[brightpearl]

nothing i don't have that it's possible to aim for

[skip intro]

nothing i don't have that it's possible to aim for

there's something wrong with this sentence, but i'm not sure what it is.
:confused:

my answer:
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
;)

[brightpearl]

^there's something wrong with every sentence ever penned,

but I think I can clear it up for you in this instance if I say I meant,
"(There is) nothing I don't (already) have that it's possible to aim for."
There are some things I don't have in some sense, but I can't see any way of obtaining them by aiming to get them.

[Brynn]

to always keep learning
to make the world more beautiful than I found it
to live someplace warm, by the sea

[trisherina]

world domination

duh

[Jack Flanders]

I read four questions but

no
i don't know
no
no

[trisherina]

Five, if you get real persnickety:

- world domination
- not there, but I maintain a positive attitude
- not all that close, but any amount of progress is satisfying
- I am not able to examine that function of my anatomy
- sure as hell beats the alternative

[Jack Flanders]

:p ok five wench!

#1 - world domination -heh!

[auntie aubrey]

¿ question of the day ?

Which of the following do you most closely identify with, and why?

a) bigfoot
2) the loch ness monster
III) el chupacabra
$) the yeti

[Stephi_B]

Mmmh...? Loch Ness has got a long neck, me too (for a human). But, nah, not really!
El Chupacabra I do not know long enough as to identify with (just googled),
sounds interesting though: vampire-like --> vampires are beings of the night --> I love the night.

But I'll identify myself with:

ε)
http://twoday.net/static/webspace/images/wolpertinger.jpg
cos of the neither nor quality

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

None of those. I identify myself with one of the half-human, half-animal creatures from Greek mythology. But I will not say which one. :p

[Frieda]

^you're not referring to medusa's in-the-armpit snakes, are you? :p

[zero]

after a day like i've had today there's no way i can be arsed to ponder enigmas

[brightpearl]

El Chupacabra, of course. Sometimes he really sucks. :o

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^you're not referring to medusa's in-the-armpit snakes, are you? :p

:)
In fact, it doesn't very much matter which. I've always thought about the Minotaur, lonely and leathal, living hidden in a dark labyrinth, imprisoned. But it can be any half-human creature, not belonging, not understanding, not understood.

[auntie aubrey]

tomorrow's question of the day will be: if you were to identify yourself with one of the half-human, half-animal creatures from greek mythology, would you want to be human top-half or human bottom-half?

[lukkucairi]

yeti.

http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/images/hal_yeti.jpg

[T.I.P.]

i'd have to say the yeti - hanging out in himalayan caves all day without having to deal with the real world sounds like a plan



PS: umm...aren't bigfoot and the yeti the same thing ?

[brightpearl]

^Of course not, silly! The abominable snowman is white and eats lemon snow cones, and Bigfoot is brown and eats little boys who ask too many questions.

[Stephi_B]

tomorrow's question of the day will be: if you were to identify yourself with one of the half-human, half-animal creatures from greek mythology, would you want to be human top-half or human bottom-half?

human top-half, animal bottom-half - obvious ;)

[Marcus Bales]

:)
In fact, it doesn't very much matter which. I've always thought about the Minotaur, lonely and leathal, living hidden in a dark labyrinth, imprisoned. But it can be any half-human creature, not belonging, not understanding, not understood.

I understand you.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

:) You think, eh?

[Marcus Bales]

When I understand, I understand -- and I understand.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

tomorrow's question of the day will be: if you were to identify yourself with one of the half-human, half-animal creatures from greek mythology, would you want to be human top-half or human bottom-half?

Why not either part? :p
http://www.archer.hu/toletek/kepek/kep32/pic1.jpg

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

When I understand, I understand -- and I understand.

Ok, ok, I better believe you, then.

[Marcus Bales]

Question of the Day for Wednesday:

Where's home for you?

[Frieda]

i think it's here

[Stephi_B]

Geographically between Alex and the S-Bahn ring, Frankfurter Allee and Spree.
Emotionally there where's the people I like.

[auntie aubrey]

PS: umm...aren't bigfoot and the yeti the same thing ?

NO. BIGFOOT LIVES IN TEMPERATE REGIONS AND THE YETI LIVES IN ARCTIC REGIONS. GET IT STRAIGHT.

[auntie aubrey]

Question of the Day for Wednesday:

Where's home for you?

i haven't figured out yet. it's not where i grew up anymore. and as long as i've been living in apartments i haven't allowed myself to really regard myself as "home." we're buying a house and hopefully that will be "home" but it's yet to be determined how long that will take.

i feel homeless most of the time.

[Earthling]

I'm glad you asked that question.:cool:

[seebe]

Question of the Day for Wednesday:

Where's home for you?

Not too far from you bwahahaha

[topcat]

mine is across the street from the telephone pole

[Coffee]

Waterline

[brightpearl]

No matter how closely I look, I can't seem to find it.

[Jack Flanders]

50 year flood plain

[T.I.P.]

Question of the Day for Wednesday:

Where's home for you?

I had a strange dream last Sunday.

In my dream, my friend is pointing at the setting sun, and she says "That is where home is."

So I think to myself "Well, we are currently in Detroit*, she is pointing to the setting sun, which is East, and France is East of Detroit. So that makes perfect sense - home is that way."

It is only when I woke up and recounted the dream that I realized that in reality the sun sets in West.

I guess I'm a bit confused as to where home is right now :confused:




*I've never been to Detroit, but, hey, isn't that what dreams are for ?

[brightpearl]

^oooooh.
that's a good one.

off to the dreams thread...

[lukkucairi]

NO. BIGFOOT LIVES IN TEMPERATE REGIONS AND THE YETI LIVES IN ARCTIC REGIONS. GET IT STRAIGHT.

erm, I thought the yeti lived in the himalayas and bigfoot lived in the rockies...or was that sasquatch...?

home is nowhere or anywhere, I suppose, but I like it here :)

[T.I.P.]

psssst watch out lukku, auntie saw her fingards today but can't take any pain meds, so it's probably not the best time to challenge her on the subject mythical beasts. Even if it is in small font lowercaps.

[lukkucairi]

I know! I was hoping to distract her from her pain by giving her something else to be annoyed at ;)

[Stephi_B]

New ¿question?:


What have you lost and regained/retrieved?



Me:
a while ago -- sleep, weight
not so long ago -- a good friend
recently -- healthy kma attitude, one of my fav lighters
very recently -- what I didn't think of ;)

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

A sense of hope.

[lukkucairi]

innocence?

[Frieda]

question for friday


what are you having for dinner tonight?

[Stephi_B]

I'll figure that out later on in the supermarket, maybe just something cold like bread & cheese.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

something salty and something sweet

[Veruki]

icecream cake seems to be the only thing on the menu for the moment

[seebe]

pizza

[Frieda]

i'm off to mc D

[Marcus Bales]

Hunan Shrimp

[Brynn]

dinner will be plants of some kind with a piquant lemon sauce on them

[Frieda]

^ficus?

[lukkucairi]

^ ficus benjamina in lemon sauce - with extra latex!

personally, I think I'll just drink a couple of glasses of cheap red wine and pass out, if that's OK with everyone else. I'll see you in the friday pub thraed.

[trisherina]

¿ question of the day ? for Saturday then:

What's in your heart?

[zero]

.






a.







.

[brightpearl]

Please.

[12"razormix]

.





i am never without it

[xfox]

low pressure
strong desire for the time to be creative

[auntie aubrey]

burn.

[Jack Flanders]

(psst! just wait 'til they start kicking your bladder!)

[brightpearl]

(kick, nothing...those little dudes grab and twist!)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

a) blood

b) it is crammed with various feelings of various intensity

c) how would I know? I haven't seen it yet. Maybe it doesn't even exist, just a conspiracy of artists and scientists, going back to Leonardo's time...

[T.I.P.]

a bemused smile

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Sunday, ¿ question of the day ?

Have you ever experienced this funny feeling that you've become an actual adult?

If yes, when and how?

[Frieda]

saturday: the whole fwking universe is in there. and blood, of course.


sunday: yes. a couple of years ago i went to the pub i used to frequent when i was 17 and it was still filled with 17 year olds. they were all so young.

[Stephi_B]

Am I an actual adult yet? Dunno :confused: (And do I want to be that at all? Mmh... Gotta think that over the next one, two decades ;))

But the first time I felt sort of senior was either when a former maths student adressed me with "Sie" and "Frau B." this Friday evening, and then asked me whether I've already got my title cos it being almost 3 years ago I taught them in the excercises (woah! 3 years! feels like yesterday...).
Or on one Sunday or the other when my baby sis called me, in one of her cheeky moods ;), "a real grown-up" (but at least I fall in the cool category for her just like her mom (she'll be 51 this year) :D And she is totally cool! They have this girl commune household, borrowing each others clothes, make-up shoes, partying together, telling each other about funny stuff when they come home from partying, discussing the guys etc - I wanna be a grown-up like my stepmom when I'm a grown-up :))

[Anna]

only in an emergency

[12"razormix]

Have you ever experienced this funny feeling that you've become an actual adult?

If yes, when and how?when your parents start behaving like children.

[auntie aubrey]

i think it happened today when i turned on nickelodeon for the first time in ages, saw a commercial that i felt was inappropriate for kids, and said to the spouse, "our kids are not watching that crap."

at that moment i not only became an adult, i became old.

[lukkucairi]

saturday: an ice ax, a boxing glove, a bunch of daisies, and a roll of dental floss.

sunday: when I arranged to be wed in the church of a religion I don't believe in, simply because it would make my mother very happy.

[Stephi_B]

New Q:

¿ What's your spice ?




me: ginger and crazy ideas

[auntie aubrey]

ceylon cinnamon. not as special as china cassia; unique, complex and less sweet than expected.

[Frieda]

it used to be WEED


i guess it's basil-- strong, sweet and thrives in summer

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

chili, lots of it

[12"razormix]

i'm with ysapur!
also, galangal

[Stephi_B]

(btw, can also be something that spices your life outside the culinary sector ;))

[lukkucairi]

bird pepper and flammable sculpture

[auntie aubrey]

(btw, can also be something that spices your life outside the culinary sector ;))

new rule: no explaining the question!