¿ question of the day ?

[T.I.P.]

mine would have to be "poivre 5 baies" - mixed peppercorns

makes everything so delicious

[Brynn]

salt and light

[brightpearl]

cilantro...absolutely necessary for Indian, Thai, and Mexican cuisine, and therefore without it I'm nothing

[topcat]

posh

[Jack Flanders]

scary ...and cumin oh and lots of mixed pepper

[zero]

..........
¿ (http://www.youtube.com/v/uE-1RPDqJAY&h).........................? (http://www.youtube.com/v/uE-1RPDqJAY&h)



tell me where is gandalf? for i much desire to speak with him



..........
¿ (http://www.youtube.com/v/uE-1RPDqJAY&h).........................? (http://www.youtube.com/v/uE-1RPDqJAY&h)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

There have been rumours that he's opened a tattoo studio in Croatia, tattooing elvish swearwords on chosen body parts.

http://www.tattoo-studio-gandalf.com/images/Zagreb-&-Gandalf-Logo.gif

[Stephi_B]

^Ysa speaks true and when he's not working he's cruising round the mystical Balkans with his bike,
looksee here:

http://www.albany.edu/faculty/jhobson/wss360/suntwinkle.gif (http://www.stlmag.com/core/includes/phpThumb/phpThumb.php?src=/media/St-Louis-Magazine/August-2007/Gandalf-The-Outlaws/gandalf.jpg&w=563&aoe=0)

[zero]

... he's opened a tattoo parlour in croatia[/IMG]


... he's cruising round the mystical balkans with his bike


good work

[auntie aubrey]

i'm afraid he's quite unavailable right now, he's dealing with an urgent message delivered by legolas earlier today.

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[lukkucairi]

AA cancelled his flight - he's stuck in Denver airport, obviously (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSEfK0UYz48)

[brightpearl]

Your mind itself is Gandalf. Do not look beyond it for him.

[zero]

... he's dealing with an urgent message ...
... he's stuck in Denver airport ..
Your mind itself is Gandalf. Do not look beyond it for him.

good work

i forgot to mention that today's ¿ question of the day ? is in two parts. ^that part was just some silly fun-having


now for the serious part:


¿ what's taters ?



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[Stephi_B]

They are made up from taterinos which come in various flavours: mashed, salt&buttered, stewey, crispy, chipsy, pancakey, filled...

[zero]

^nice try but we both know you lifted that sentence straight out of your thesis

[Stephi_B]

^Sorry, it was too tempting to just c&p ;)


OK: Taters are a friendly tribe, living beyond 8 hills and 3½ rivers from where you stand at the moment, they tame and ride rubber ducks and speak a language consisting only of vowels and are thus not happy about the name they were given by the adventurer T. A. T. Ers who was almost run over by a rubber duck when he crossed the ½ river in 1713.

[auntie aubrey]

taters, precious, is the colloquial name for a rather delightful flavor of cajun spiced chips (http://www.taquitos.net/im/sn/Zapps-SCC.jpg).

they're called http://www.gofalldown.com/cacophony/myimages/crawtators.gif

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Oh, and I thought it referred to the Tator family, who, like the Medicis in Italy, have always had important behind-the-scenes political influence in the Americas. Dick has some interests in Venezuela, but - so I've heard - his power and vews are seeping into other countries as well.

zero, what's the question of the hour?

[zero]

... living beyond 8 hills and 3½ rivers from where you stand at the moment...

nono that's morelike ¿ where gandalf is ?

they're called http://www.gofalldown.com/cacophony/myimages/crawtators.gif

^i'm thinking maybe auntiea is wedded to a full time pro gifanimator

[Frieda]

you know

i've tried to explain why i laughed so fwking hard and scared everybody at work today-- it happened reading this thread. i even showed both youtube clips.

seriously, nobody thinks it's funny. except you all here. tears of joy, people.

:o

[zero]

zero, what's the question of the hour?

good idea. the question of the hour is:


¿ berries and what else ?

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seriously, nobody thinks it's funny. except you all here.


excuse me frieda but the second one is serious

[Stephi_B]

I admit: I don't know what Taters is :( and that's just because I'm atm a place whose name is etymologically related with Gollum (actually I think his parents' hole is somewhere close-bye) and before I can leave this place it is to late to answer your ^^question :(
But as to your ^question:

Berries and tea

(You forgot your teatime with all your asking questions, eh?)

[zero]

worse than that i missed my train

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

The Case of Berries and the Missed Train

berries and summer wine

[Stephi_B]

^^See!! But now you can ask one, two, three more till the next one is due ;)

[Anna]

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8504/gl1cp9.png
speak elf

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/6958/cpiu2.png
whatstatersaye

[brightpearl]

This is the epitome of taters and is also probably nsf some people's w.
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And berries is for bears and Sal.
http://www.designmom.com/uploaded_images/blueberriesforsal-754133.jpg

[auntie aubrey]

nono that's morelike ¿ where gandalf is ? ^i'm thinking maybe auntiea is wedded to a full time pro gifanimator

that one's mine, actually. we're both endlessly amused by the artistic medium of animated gifs.

[auntie aubrey]

http://www.designmom.com/uploaded_images/blueberriesforsal-754133.jpg

aw this was one of my favorite books when i was a kid.



i'm going to ask the next ¿ question of the hour ?


what was your favorite childhood book(s)?

[lukkucairi]

fox
socks
box
knox

fox in socks
knox in box

fox in socks, on knox, on box

...

if sir, you, sir, choose to chew sir, with the goo-goose, chew sir, do sir!

...

through three cheese trees, three free fleas flew.
while these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew
freezy breeze made these three trees freeze
freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze
that's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

(quoted from memory)
(I've been off-book since I was 4)

[Jack Flanders]

Sob! That one!! Blueberries For Sal.

[trisherina]

http://www.schenectady.k12.ny.us/users/title3/snowyday/snowangel.jpg

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

http://www.libri.hu/hu/images/libri_cover/7960?type=4

about a selfish pig with whom I totally identified myself. And still do.

[T.I.P.]

may I please axe you to serve me a Gimli ?

that's a vodka lime and berry juice

thank you for your kindness

[brightpearl]

^*snerk*

I loved many many books (Snowy Day, yes yes), but my favorites, the ones I read until the spines cracked and the pages fell out in heaps....Roald Dahl. Most especially James and the Giant Peach.

The movie distressed me greatly.

http://www.roalddahlfans.com/books/jamefirst1.gif

[Stephi_B]

http://www.aleki.uni-koeln.de/lesebar/bilder/gr/ronja.jpeg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61R91Q9WCQL._SS500_.jpg

[zero]

too many favourites to choose one, but the first proper book with chapters & everything that i can remember deriving enormous satisfaction from reading end-to-end was peter pan - the story of peter and wendy - a seemingly-ancient edition i'd found in my house, it had a dozen beautiful, tissuepaper-protected illustrations all of which i can still see in hi-rez when i close my eyes.

[auntie aubrey]

i also need to give credit to "the magic pot" (http://i6.ebayimg.com/04/i/000/b8/a6/205c_1.JPG) by patricia coombs and "mouse trouble" (http://www.auctiva.com/hostedimages/showimage.aspx?gid=611601&ppid=1122&image=103625551&images=103625551&formats=0&format=0) by john yeoman.

[Frieda]

astrid lindgren - de gebroeders leeuwenhart (bröderna lejonhjärta) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brothers_Lionheart)

thea beckman - kruistocht in spijkerbroek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusade_in_Jeans) & kinderen van moeder aarde

[Coffee]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z73BT746L._SL500_AA240_.jpg
-Ernest Thompson Seton

Appealed to my inner DIY/How-things-work/artist/sculptor/woodcrafter

[12"razormix]

http://nika.sprayblog.se/upload/mumin.jpg

+ japanese fairytales and
everything hans christian andersen

[Frieda]

oh i forgot one

http://www.nnbh.com/base/4X/images/907399134X.jpg

[T.I.P.]

The Great Brain

[lukkucairi]

http://nika.sprayblog.se/upload/mumin.jpg


on behalf of myself and Angry Kid Hoyt, hearty concurrence.

[Marcus Bales]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Mulligan_and_His_Steam_Shovel

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

on behalf of myself and Angry Kid Hoyt, hearty concurrence.

:o I still keep re-reading those, so I can't label them as 'childhood' books.

[Marcus Bales]

QUESTION FOR THURSDAY:

What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Out of sheer curiosity I'd try to fail to see if it was forreal.

[Stephi_B]

Doing the crazy things I plan to do (anyway :) - failure doesn't hinder me most of the time).

[Frieda]

save the cheerleader

[12"razormix]

fly

[zero]

^wee fibber she's just saying that - she can so fly

[auntie aubrey]

fly

^ this.

[trisherina]

get pregnant again

[Jack Flanders]

jump out of a plane!!!

[skip intro]

propose marriage to penelope cruz

[lukkucairi]

sell Frank.

[auntie aubrey]

¿ question of the day ? for friday:


do you sing, and if the answer is yes where do you do your best singing?



2 lbs of ¿ question ? crammed into a 1 lb sack.

[Stephi_B]

Yes, sometimes, when the music really's got me (first I start to dance though,
best dancing would be while I'm cleaning bathroom or floors
at which I have developed quite some unusual techniques,
but that's another lb not included in this ¿ question ?)

In clubs, at concerts, where the music is so loud that one cannot possible hear me ;)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I sing when I do the dishes or when I do a little vacuuming (not very often). Generally when no one can hear me.

And (often, especially when I'm walking) I also sing in my head, then I can sing really beautifully! :)

[auntie aubrey]

i sing in the car, mostly while driving. loudest if i'm by myself. sometimes when the window is down, if i forget.

[zero]

i'm very good at singing-along at the top of my voice as i listen on my "external noise-cancelling" earphones at MAX VOL to loud shouty guitar music. the reason i know this is that i've sometimes noticed passers-by, family-members, fellow associate employee co-workers, adjacent commuters, etc. smiling at me.

[zero]

and sometimes strangers kindly call to me ....shuddup willya, old TEUCHER!!!


and then i wave to them and smile


with my crooked teeth


lopsided

[zero]

TEUCHTER

[zero]

that zomrix is some good speller, so she is! she wouldn't make errors like that.

( and i think she's lost weight )

[12"razormix]

thanks for noticing - it's singing while i fly that keeps me in trim!

[zero]

quick-witted too!

( a couldniehavendest saidit better maself )

[12"razormix]

stick to the ¿ question of the day ? in question please... or did you just sing that?

[zero]

♪no!♪

[auntie aubrey]

i forgot to mention that this is my singing style:

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[T.I.P.]

i do my best beatboxing under the shower

[Odbe]

*Question du samedi*

Why not?

[trisherina]

Because they need me, too.

[Stephi_B]

Yes, why not! :)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Because it's not good.

[topcat]

because you will go blind

[auntie aubrey]

because i said so.

[brightpearl]

Cause I don't wanna and nothing you say can make me.

[lukkucairi]

just because.

and yeah, I'll deal with the fallout on monday :p

[T.I.P.]

because it's nice not to have to once in a while - feels like old times again

[Stephi_B]

A totem is any entity which watches over or assists a group of people, such as a family, clan or tribe
(Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition).

¿ What's your totem ?

[Stephi_B]

Me:

Suppose it's the big glitterball
http://www.davids-world.com/archives/2007/01/12/berlin2006_fernsehturm_3445.jpg

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

the anti-protector who watches all small and stupid scaredy-cats and then does nothing

http://www.macibolt.hu/pic/micimacko_malacka_shephard.jpg

[brightpearl]

http://www.owhata.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/hello-kitty-darth-vaderpreview.jpg

[T.I.P.]

http://www.surfinthespirit.com/entertainment/images/television.gif

[trisherina]

http://files.dogster.com/pix/dogs/22/1822/6.jpg

[Earthling]

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj32/kermit69187/censored.gif

[xfox]

http://kingdomofstyle.typepad.co.uk/my_weblog/images/2007/11/03/paddingtondm1909_468x714.jpg

[zero]

lª m°°n's aureole, seen from my window

[lukkucairi]

http://www.absolutedivers.com/stingray-8.JPG

scar on my left ankle from my encounter 17 years ago, and permanent damage to joint/nerves in that foot

doesn't bother me much, but my three middle toes have a tendency to go numb and bloodless, and the ankle lets me know 12 hours before a change in the weather

never thought of it as a totem til recently, but I'm marked so what the hell - all that pain (PAIN), might as well be psychologically useful :p

[Frieda]

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/7529/orionib6.jpg

[auntie aubrey]

¿ question of the day ?

what, if anything, have you ever hoarded (or currently hoard)?

[zero]

funny y9u should ask because i'm currently hoarding pineapples

[zero]

o and i have an ongoing hoard of copies of moby dick

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Books, but I've stopped recently because I ran out of space. :o

[Frieda]

holy shit what a question

i have hoarded:
clothing receipts (got rid of the 1995-2005 last month :eek:)
clothing labels
key chain pendants
pencil sharpeners
pebbles
sticks
shells
stickers
candles



i still hoard:
clothing
shoes
sci-fi books
sci-fi dvds
sci-fi anything
marvel stuff
transformers stuff
images of david hasselhoff
images of toilets
plants
handbags
there's probably more...

[auntie aubrey]

i'm an anti-hoarder. i purge my possessions regularly and i hate clutter. but i do hoard a few things:

bath products such as the last bit of shampoo in a bottle, which i'll store away with the thought that it will be useful if i'm ever caught with an empty bottle of shampoo. i do the same with toothpaste, soap, and even deoderant. I'll keep the last scrap because I think i might just run out one day and be thankful for the backup.

bills and other official paperwork. i still have utility bills going back to 1999 when i lived in tennessee. every now and then i shred a few but i can't bring myself to give myself a cutoff date and shred everything prior.

computer files. i have the most unused recycle bin in the history of computing. even if something is obviously useless and i have a most recent version, i'll save it for the sake of "archiving."

everything else is disposable.

[Veruki]

anything and everything I feel might one day be of artistic use, which is really almost everything I come in contact with. I organize them by their likeness in boxes with labels such as "would make awesome texture of clay", "for if I ever take of scrap booking", or "coloring supplies for when there are children in my life".

[brightpearl]

incense.

I have waaaaaay too much incense.

[Odbe]

They say you are a hoarder or a chucker. I'm both. I'm a hoarder who has chucking binges, but these are mostly what I hoard:

keyrings (as souvenirs)
free business cards
dragon figurines
bits of nature like shells and bones
books
my visual art diaries
packs of playing cards
art supplies

[Frieda]

oh i forgot

i hoard fridge magnets too
and lego

[auntie aubrey]

o and i have an ongoing hoard of copies of moby dick

and a bundle of nivea products, i suspect.

[T.I.P.]

o and i have an ongoing hoard of copies of moby dick

fancy that...i'm reading one right now!

[T.I.P.]

i hoard quarters

i have a bunch of them in a little bag

and socks, because i am always afraid of running out

that is all

[lukkucairi]

stamps and costumes

various cords and stuff that connects stuff to other stuff

not much of anything large - moved around too much and had it thrashed out of me :)

[Stephi_B]

books, comics (nowerdays more like such stylish hardcover thingies)

coins from abroad

tickets (trains, planes, from concerts, entrance fares for zoos, ferries, tv towers, ...)

1 & 2 eurocent pieces (involuntary)

scraps of paper on which I've written something (phone numbers and addresses mostly)

I used to hoard the toys from within Ü-Eier
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Ãœberaschungs-Ei.jpg/180px-Ãœberaschungs-Ei.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Überaschungs-Ei.jpg/800px-Überaschungs-Ei.jpg)
:o (thrown them all away when I moved the last time - except for the Lord of the Ring figures that is ;)

electronic trash (failed calculations, shabby graphics, ...) on my /perm directory

etc. and so on

[Marcus Bales]

i hoard quarters

Reminds me of the old joke:

"You must have been hoarding quarters a long time!"

"Nah, my sister whored half of them."

[Frieda]

I used to hoard the toys from within Ü-Eier
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Ãœberaschungs-Ei.jpg/180px-Ãœberaschungs-Ei.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Überaschungs-Ei.jpg/800px-Überaschungs-Ei.jpg)
:o


yeah.. forgot to mention those too.. i've left my collection at my parents.. somewhere in the attic there. i do get these eggs from time to time and keep the little toys..

[zero]

¿ question of the day ? for wednesday 23rd april



in junior highschool where did the reprobates & ne'er-do-wells hang out to smoke etc?

[Veruki]

Ha, I went to Catholic school, I'd say we never did that stuff, but that would be beyond laughable.

[Frieda]

i know nothing of this junior highschool business you speak of.

which age group are we talking about?

[auntie aubrey]

i was a good girl, so i would have no way of knowing that. http://i27.tinypic.com/15yu3ux.gif

[zero]

i know nothing of this junior highschool business you speak of. which age group are we talking about?

och you know what i mean! 13-17yrs or something

(we didn't have "junior highschool" either - i was merely trying to speak americanish so's not to be asked what you just asked)



me - behind the biology shed


Ha, I went to Catholic school, I'd say we never did that stuff, but that would be beyond laughable.
i was a good girl, so i would have no way of knowing that. http://i27.tinypic.com/15yu3ux.gif


BORING!!

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

In the pub, situated strategically near the school.

[Stephi_B]

Also unsure about the age group edit: no longer!, but in Gymnasium those < 16 smoked at the toilet, those > 16 right in front of the main entrance.
There were special places in the schoolyard (good weather) and in the aula (bad weather) where the "cool" kids lingered - I have no clue why these places were qualified as such, I always lingered in the semi-"cool" areas, only in the classroom and schoolbus I secured my place in the last row with the reprobates & ne'er-do-wells - by age 14, 15 or so ;)

[zero]

In the pub ... near the school.


http://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gif^now we're talking!


... right in front of the main entrance...

fearless ness

[Stephi_B]

^Nah, just minding to stay one millimeter outside school property area ;)

Ha, I went to Catholic school

Where I come from Catholic schools have a very bad reputation! :D
That one year, after I've moved out from my mom and was not yet 18, I had to go to a boarding school, BUT I was not allowed (a rare moment of my mother and grandmother agreeing) to visit the Catholic girls' school (famous for its pupils massive drug abuse, wild sex life etc... :)) and had to attend a state boarding school, which was basically boring, only average drugs and sex life... zzz

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

http://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gif^now we're talking!

Sorry to disappoint you, it wasn't me, it was the cool people who went there.

[zero]

... it wasn't me ...

sure. then how come your hair reeks of smoke and stale beer?

[auntie aubrey]

BORING!!

OKAY OKAY OKAY. THEY HUNG OUT BEHIND THE WALL BETWEEN THE GYMNASIUM AND THE TENNIS COURTS. ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?!

*runs away crying*

[zero]

*runs away crying*

i bet you always did that

[auntie aubrey]

well my imaginary friend liked to meet in private.

[zero]

^for a nice quiet smoke and a couple of vodkas

[Veruki]

Where I come from Catholic schools have a very bad reputation! :D


Yeah, I've heard that also, but to be honest we weren't as wild as people think. Our dean kept us in line for the most part. We'd main smoke and pull harmless pranks. Our school was on the bay, and once my fiance and a bunch of guys snuck in by boat and stole the Virgin Mary statue. She came back a week later unharmed.

[Frieda]

oooooooooooooooooooooooooh now i get it.

well, usually just at the front entrance of the school! in case you had an hour off in between classes there was always the pub and the small shopping centre near school.

pot was smoked at the "behind the garages" which was near the petrol station which was quite useful to get candies for the after-WEED munchies.

[auntie aubrey]

^for a nice quiet smoke and a couple of vodkas

"gee, mister jingles, you're not very thirsty today. here, i'll finish that off for you. another refill? don't mind if i do."

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

sure. then how come your hair reeks of smoke and stale beer?

Because I WASH my hair in stale beer. Gives a nice shine plus does the hair good. Much better than chemicals containing 'panthenol B'. :p

[auntie aubrey]

^ i, too, enjoy cynthia sylvia stout.

http://www.lush.co.uk/Uploads/ShopVariations/1995/ShopVariationImg1_PICT/L627_lrg.jpg

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

ok, ok, as for the actual enjoyment... I confess to this:

http://www.pivovary.info/prehled/platan/l_pivo.jpg

[T.I.P.]

in the bathroom to the right side of the playground. This was dangerous because the smoke lingers, even with the window open.

around a small tree in the middle of the playground. The "pions"* used to try to catch us but we had time to stomp everything out by the time they got there.

and, for the ones who did not fear parental repercussions, in front of the school


* "pions" are surveillance people, usually college kids who need to make an extra buck on the side

[Bman]

I spent all of tenth grade lunch in an emergency stairwell doing less than reputable things.

[Brynn]

on my back porch steps, or under the bleachers

[Marcus Bales]

http://www.receptjes.be/pics/bieren/wittekerke.jpg

[lukkucairi]

hm - boarding school for me...

we smoked weed and drank (on occasion) jim beam under the 18th ave bridge over the cypress creek canal.

there were ducks down there, and a filthy little beach where the cement foundations had crumbled away a bit. sometimes the peruvians would be down there fishing for their dinner, but they never hassled us.

for a quiet smoke by myself I'd climb the huge banyan tree right next to the girl's dorm (in the elementary school playground) - I found if you were 40 feet in the air, all sorts of people could be walking around directly underneath you and never notice you. the biggest lesson I learned in 10th grade: people don't look up

other than that we'd trek out to a boardwalk that went through a patch of swamp out on west campus for a smoke after study hall.

[Stephi_B]

^Sounds somehow very familiar to me! :D
Replace Cypress Creek Canal by Tiroler Ache (filthy beach under bridge and nice beach for neat parties further down the river), the Peruvian fishers by the village youths killing their afternoons just like us, the banyan tree by this castle
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Burg_Marquartstein.jpghalfway up a mountain (nobody walks up a mountain in the evening), Jim Beam by red wine (that cheap one in the 2L bottle) and weed by plain cigarettes (dunno those who did drugs there - actually more the younger ones from 8th, 9th grade, that's why they did drug razzias in their dorm buildings only - were more into pills, not my thing)

[auntie aubrey]

new ¿ question of the day ? because it's been more than 24 hours on the last one.

how many miles do you live from where you grew up?

[auntie aubrey]

according to mapquest: 782.25 miles

[lukkucairi]

between 2700 and 4700 miles, depending which point of my childhood you use for reference





ETA: you may find this useful : http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/distance.html

:)

[T.I.P.]

3636 miles

[brightpearl]

287 miles

[Veruki]

0 miles

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

About 300 metres.

[Stephi_B]

ca. 800km

[skip intro]

can't answer until i have grown up.

[auntie aubrey]

ETA: you may find this useful : http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/distance.html

:)

well it doesn't let me drill down to teeny tiny kalamazoo, michigan but i can get close. as the crow flies:

Distance is 1025 kilometers or 637 miles or 553 nautical miles

[Frieda]

2 km

[zero]

i drew a line with google earth's ruler: 607km.


fascinating that. (to me)

[seebe]

aprox. 1905 mi.

[Brynn]

3,279 mi – about 3 days away by car if I avoid the highways. However, I'm still in the same latitude, and the landscape is remarkably similar. But the culture is as different as the West Coast is from the East Coast.

(It hasn't occurred to me before now to look at my childhood neighborhood by google satillite and retrace trails in the woods that I used to take. My house is still there, with a new addition added where the porch used to be, but my elementary school has been torn down. It wasn't as far away as I remember having to walk. I could stretch the walk home to a full hour if I wanted to, but most of the time I hurried so I could catch the beginning of "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.")

[Stephi_B]

Yesterday a friend and me came upon Zen while we talked and I learned of an aquaintance of her who uses it as an excuse for his ego trip and other strange behaviour patterns (but imo that's just the wrong way to use this teaching :confused:).
As I have never went in much for that philosophy I thought I'd ask me Zemonkeys :)

New question:

¿ Is Zen important in your life and what is/means Zen for you ?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I'm not very much into religion of any kind. Any religion can be used and abused, I would say.

[zero]

the answer is in the ¿question?

[Brynn]

I think the idea of being as present and mindful as possible is helpful. Dying to one's own selfish desires in order to end suffering in the world is not incompatible with being a follower of Jesus, so I don't have a problem with it. It can be a lovely, awake way to go through the world. Um... Nirvana was a good band. :) - I'm often amused by Americans who dabble in it without really committing to it, and it's easy for some to lose their sense of humor in the process, but that's a complaint anyone can have about any religious practice.

[brightpearl]

The oak tree in the yard grows into the wind.

[Frieda]

i'm not familiar with zen so i looked it up, even though i'm not physically able to sit in lotus and do not think about koans, i do seem to live this way, yes. which sucks because i promised not to commit to anything religious. something to ponder, i guess.

[auntie aubrey]

I'm often amused by Americans who dabble in it without really committing to it

how's the weather up there on your high horse? how anyone can judge another person's spirituality, i'll never know.


i find zen neither important nor unimportant in my life. it just is. it's one ingredient in a big gumbo of spiritual philosophy. each ingredient makes the gumbo richer and more flavorful.

[trisherina]

The answer to this question would take me from one-night stands to a precious friend, though not on the same track, and would probably ultimately bore you. I am not <s>able</s> willing to write about the spiritual journey in a way you would find entertaining.

[brightpearl]

For Sunday:

How would you summarize your use of condiments, particularly in the area of hot dogs? Are you pro-relish, for instance? Anti-tzatziki?

[Frieda]

ketchup & mayo

[Stephi_B]

the answer is in the ¿question?

:) Ah! Ah? Ah...

i'm not physically able to sit in lotus and do not think about koans

My friend read a book written by a man who spent quite some time in Zen Buddhist monastries and he describes Zen in such a way: you don't sit in lotus and mediate (say about a koan), but go live it.


With regards to hot dogs: I don't eat them often (more the felafel type atm), but spiced ketchup is the condiment of choice for me :)

[zero]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3217/2444585005_da38e0c743_o.jpg

;)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

only with mustard

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Culinary_mustard.JPG/770px-Culinary_mustard.JPG

[Frieda]

^^ i seriously hope you don't squirt nivea on your hotdogs..

oh wait

*that* hotdog! :eek: :D

[auntie aubrey]

there are only two ways to eat a hotdog.

1) tomato ketchup, yellow mustard, and pickle relish
2) beef chili, cheddar cheese, and on special occasions a dab of yellow mustard

there are no other hotdog options. period. END OF DEBATE.

[lukkucairi]

http://www.theswissbakery.com/images%2Fproducts%2FSavoury%2F304001-Hengstenberg-Bavarian-Sauerkraut.jpg

http://www.wisconsincheesemart.com/images/6003_Lowen_hot_mustard.jpg

[seebe]

Ketchup, mustard, relish, onions and on occasion add some tomatoes.

[Frieda]

whats relish? :confused:

[Coffee]

Hot dogs/verboten/Ekeln :(

Sausages/ja with sauerkraut and brown spicy mustard :)

[trisherina]

Frieda: chopped up pickles in either a mustard or a vinaigrette, revolting either way in the commercially sold versions -- some homemade versions can be edible.

Chili, jack cheese, sauerkraut, and onions overtop a horseradish mustard. Or a Chicago dog with peppers as hot as you can stand it. Otherwise might as well go for a corn dog -- those are the only things good with yellow mustard.

[T.I.P.]

^ hot dogs with homemade relish...yum !

tzaziki dogs ? never tried it...sound interesting though...

the last hot dog i had was at Crif Dogs. It was topped with many things including pineapple. thanks to AKH for pointing me towards these new taste sensations.

http://www.keaner.net/MOCCA2005/CrifDogs1.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1118/688747823_750d12b3c3.jpg

[Stephi_B]

^^^ & ^^^^^^

Lukku & Coffee receive the Bavarian honoury citizenship now! :D

Some ... kinda :o :o ... folk music for you
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You get a lifetime supply of ♥-white-blue tape
http://www.flaggen-pehl.de/images/BayKlebeband.jpg

plus a lifetime supply of the sniff tobacco of your choice (also tabacco-free if you live healthy)
http://beerhouse.com/gifs/maschine/snuff1.gif

:)

[auntie aubrey]

¿ question of the day ?

what's for breakfast?

please interpret the 's as "is" or "was" depending on your time zone.

[Stephi_B]

2 café au lait & 2 petits pains au lait - oh lait, lait ;)

[skip intro]

http://www.excelloz.com/imagedata/Travel_guide/ma061100182.jpg

[lukkucairi]

http://www.foodsubs.com/Photos/hominygrits2.jpg
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/oal/newsletter/0607/Issue5_Dec_2006/img/milktea.jpg

[Frieda]

a slice of bread with cheese, a slice of bread with chocoladevlokken and a handfull of pills, washed away with 3 glasses of water

[auntie aubrey]

A small bowl of lowfat large curd cottage cheese and a small bowl of old fashioned rolled oats softened in lowfat vanilla yogurt.

Usually I'd have one whole hard boiled egg and one egg white instead of the cottage cheese but I couldn't find my egg boiling pot.

[Marcus Bales]

bowl of oatmeal and a grilled pork chop

[Veruki]

milk

[brightpearl]

ginormous chai tea latte, broiled whole wheat bagel with colby jack, and an orange

[Odbe]

^yum

Good green tea and high fibre but yummy breakfast cereal.

[T.I.P.]

coffee and 4 Milano style double chocolate cookies

[Bman]

salt peanuts! salt peanuts!

[lukkucairi]

MS Office 2007, and a jug of moonshine

[Marcus Bales]

question of the day for Tuesday: what do you sing when you're alone and no one can hear you?

[Frieda]

anything that enters my brain and decides to take the shortcut to my mouth & vocal cords

like

I LIKE BIG BUTTS AND I CANNOT LIE

[Stephi_B]

Depends, some Ohrwurm I heard recently. Today I sing about life being a big auuutobahn ;) Me sis and her two friends played that (--> see 'youtube yourself' thread) to me yesterday in their hotel room :)

Frieda, nice new fetish! :D ;)

[skip intro]

Born to Run!

[auntie aubrey]

just about anything that pops into my head, but most frequently it's the popplers jingle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn3aYvHbvx4) from "futurama."

pop a poppler in your mouth
when you come to fishy joe's
what they're made of is a mystery
where they come from no one knows
you can pick 'em you can lick 'em
you can chew 'em you can stick 'em
if you promise not to sue us
you can shove one up your nose

[lukkucairi]

lately

this (http://www.youtube.com/v/6gcBzqqmOrI&hl)

and sometimes

this (http://www.youtube.com/v/waia83h6Y2k&hl)

and occasionally

this (http://www.youtube.com/v/KngiJUNdsu0&hl)

and why not...?

this (http://www.youtube.com/v/fcnP5CjOy1Y&hl)

but mostly it's just

this (http://www.youtube.com/v/DgBgnoEY4iM&hl)

[lukkucairi]

Born to Run!

tramps like us, baby :D

[brightpearl]

salt peanuts! salt peanuts!

What a coincidence! I had Charlie Parker for lunch.

As for today's Q, I sing whatever is stuck in my head. Lately that's a lot of Red Robin (http://youtube.com/watch?v=q8b_Uus3A7g), You Belong to Me (http://youtube.com/watch?v=v-n5w8g9blc), The Galaxy Song (http://youtube.com/watch?v=JWVshkVF0SY), and Yellow Submarine (http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZIjZtgyPhS0&feature=related).

In general, the Beatles and Monty Python are a good bet. And lots of jazzy stuff. Oh and hippie folk. And some Iron Butterfly.

[lukkucairi]

In general, the Beatles and Monty Python are a good bet. And lots of jazzy stuff. Oh and hippie folk. And some Iron Butterfly.

inna gadda davita :p

we need a karaoke night. well, maybe "need" is the wrong word...

[Frieda]

hey um

what if we all get our asses on skype and actually have a karaoke night :D

[lukkucairi]

AAH! well, coordinating the correct level of drunkenness across timezones will be interesting, but I'm down ;)

[Veruki]

TMBG, because they speak to my inner child, which is really more like my outer child.
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on that note I sing regardless of whether I'm alone or not. I take my foolishness very serious.

[skip intro]

tramps like us, baby :D

i wanna die with you lukkucairi
on the streets tonight
in an everlasting kiss!

[lukkucairi]

i wanna die with you lukkucairi
on the streets tonight
in an everlasting kiss!

the highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive!
everybody's out on the run tonight but there's no place left to hide...

MAN do I ever need a glass of bourbon and a karaoke machine right now :o

Skip, I'll meet you at the bar next to the Classic lanes...Tuesday's the night...

[Brynn]

[QUOTE=auntie aubrey;385370]how's the weather up there on your high horse? how anyone can judge another person's spirituality, i'll never know.

I'm amused (and constantly amazed) by a lot of things. Especially by your growth in this area. Good thing that thread's gone now, isn't it? :p

[auntie aubrey]

what in great googley moogley are you talking about?

[Brynn]

Exactly. Hardly appropriate for this thread anyway. Please feel free to pm me.

[topcat]

what in great googley moogley are you talking about?

i will use that line at least 3 times at work tomorrow.

[Frieda]

is there a thread missing? :confused:

[zero]

¿ question of the day? for wednesday april 30th


¿ if you were the decider of what children get taught in school, what changes would you make ?

[Frieda]

thats a hard one because i have no idea what kids are taught in school these days :eek:

[zero]

just make something up

[Stephi_B]

less learning useless things by heart


more creativity (particularly in the language and social science subjects)


more maths and nature sciences (yes, yes, I know... ;) but here in Germany schools these are neglected since the 70s/80s when chemistry & physics were declared "bad" from the environment-fundies and anti-nuclear-energy people) and them getting taught less sterile and boring


no more religious education (yes, that's compulsory here at least till you turn 14), but extended ethics courses which introduces the major religions and philosophies in a neutral way


physical education should be less humiliating for people who are no athletics / artistic gymnastic cracks, offer a broader variety of sports (we only had artistic gymnastics, athletics and sometimes volleyball or völkerball - what I hear from my sisters this has not changed), cos only in that way you motivate kids to do sports who are not doing it anyways in their free time


and for gymnasium (the school which qualifies for university): at least one compulsory practical in the real working world (it did me really good to voluntarily work in my stepdad's construction firm, I value hard manual labour a lot since then, but I know many "intelligenzia" folks who never made their hands dirty, neither during their school time, nor during their studies at uni and think themselves way "better" than blue collar workers)

[Frieda]

ok make something up

ok

um

money lessons-- how borrowing money & paying interest works, how mortgages work, how saving every penny will turn you into a grumpy old bastard

etiquette lessons-- how to use your cutlery, how to greet the queen, what to wear to different occasions like a gala or a cocktail party, how to tie a tie

business softskills-- how to adapt to different working environments, what to say/what not to say to fellow employees, customers & bosses

[skip intro]

There should be Parenting lessons.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

to read
to write
to explore
to reflect
to think
to talk (politely, too)
to create things
to look after plants/animals
to look after people
to ask questions
not to accept all answers
to look for answers
to show (and feel) respect

(The question is, how. Because kids learn by imitating what they see. And if they don't see any of the abovementioned activities around/at home, it will only be education, not learning.)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

oh, and to listen

[auntie aubrey]

1) no religious instruction in public schools, not even as electives
2) mandatory art and music every day
3) history up to the present, including topics my school wouldn't touch such as the controversial veitnam war
4) no southern schools will be allowed to focus on the history around the american civil war for any longer period of time than they would dedicate to any other historical period (tennessee teaches the civil war every year all the way up through college. in college they require TWO SEMESTERS of civil war studies of all students)
5) sex ed classes starting with the basics in 5th grade (the "what's the deal with puberty?" lesson) and reaching full discussion of birth control by the 7th grade.
6) no more presidential fitness tests
7) this isn't a teaching thing but no soda and no junk food available anywhere on school premises. this means no candy and no ice cream served with the normal cafeteria lunch fare. vegetables should be manditory. i saw a special on school lunches the other day and the b-roll showed trays where every food item was beige and one kid was eating an m&m ice cream sandwich. that's out under my rule

[Frieda]

^wow, that gives me a picture of what happens in USA schools. it's such a difference with how i went to school, can't believe the gap is that big!

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

no more presidential fitness tests

What's that?

[auntie aubrey]

^wow, that gives me a picture of what happens in USA schools. it's such a difference with how i went to school, can't believe the gap is that big!

you can't take it as a generalization for all schools, though. i cobbled that list together from failings i've seen or heard of in a range of different schools, in different districts and different states.

for example, my elementary school served vegetables, offered art and music every day, and there was no religious instruction whatsoever. in tennessee there was an emphasis on the civil war that i've seen nowhere else. a creepy fixation, if you ask me. in georgia they've just imposed a law requiring public schools to teach religion, focusing on the bible. which i find highly unconstitutional but georgia is home to a majority of christian fundamentalists. in atlanta specifically i see a lot of junk food but it seems to be an even bigger problem for people i know whose kids attend schools in texas.

so i wouldn't say i've seen a single school fail every item on the list. but i find all of the issues to be failings nonetheless.

What's that?

The Physical Fitness Test (http://www.presidentschallenge.org/educators/program_details/physical_fitness_test.aspx) recognizes students for their level of physical fitness in 5 events: curl-ups or partial curl-ups, shuttle run, endurance run/walk, pull-ups or right angle push-ups, and V-sit or sit and reach.

The Physical Fitness Test offers three awards for students who meet the program qualifications:

The Presidential Physical Fitness Award
This award recognizes students who achieve an outstanding level of physical fitness. Boys and girls who score at or above the 85th percentile (based on the 1985 School Population Fitness Survey) on all five events are eligible for this award.

The National Physical Fitness Award
Students who score above the 50th percentile on all five events - demonstrating a basic, yet challenging, level of physical fitness - are eligible for this award.

The Participant Physical Fitness Award
Students whose scores fall below the 50th percentile on one or more events receive this award for taking part in all five events of the Physical Fitness Test.

it's something all kids have to do every year (i think... maybe it's every few years) and it's basically used to compile statistics and assess the fitness of america's children. what's absolutely absurd is that gym classes focus on building none of the strength or endurance required to do these exercises, like you will never ever ever ever do a pull-up until the day they introduce you to the fitness test. how they expect the kids to excel at these exercises when gym classes offer virtually no exercise i'll never know.

and of course gym teachers are frustrated jocks so they belittle and embarrass kids who can't pass the minimum level of achievement. their concern is that the overall fitness of their school's kids is their responsibility so they treat kids who don't pass like failures.

as you may have already guessed, i always always always failed the pull-up test.

[Stephi_B]

^Ah, this physical fitness test is just the same as our Bundesjugendspiele (federal youth sports day), only that it's not so much for statistics (at least I never heard anything about them being evaluated, published or something - although it has this hyperofficial name) but to embarrass kids who are bad at 100 and 400m sprint, high and long jump, and shotput (yeah it's almost the fukken olympic games!), because everybody gets a certificate - and of course the athletics cracks don't diss the athletics losers... of course not... :rolleyes:

[Avalon]

The fitness thing made me laugh hard. My kid won it a few years in a row..and we are talking about a class A, glued to the couch, move as little as possible at home kinda kid. The kind who complained scrubbing the tub or drying the dishes made her too tired to move... the kind of kid who lied, cried, and ditched gym class at every opportunity. Yet, she managed to win that stupid award. :rolleyes: What a crock those tests are.

ETA... When I asked her HOW she passed those tests, I found out the school offered a cash prize. ( I wonder if that is/was legal? ) Money, the great motivator. Pfft.
I never would have passed one of those tests ... even if I had hired someone to take it for me...for any amount of money.

[Frieda]

you can't take it as a generalization for all schools, though. i cobbled that list together from failings i've seen or heard of in a range of different schools, in different districts and different states.

for example, my elementary school served vegetables, offered art and music every day, and there was no religious instruction whatsoever. in tennessee there was an emphasis on the civil war that i've seen nowhere else. a creepy fixation, if you ask me. in georgia they've just imposed a law requiring public schools to teach religion, focusing on the bible. which i find highly unconstitutional but georgia is home to a majority of christian fundamentalists. in atlanta specifically i see a lot of junk food but it seems to be an even bigger problem for people i know whose kids attend schools in texas.

so i wouldn't say i've seen a single school fail every item on the list. but i find all of the issues to be failings nonetheless.



oh of course-- just, the fact that schools are serving food is already different from the NLs! here at "lagere school" (age 5-11) you go home at noon and eat at your parents or your friends/grandma/other place. at "middelbare school" (12-16/17/18) you're supposed to bring your stuff in a bread box. and save me on the numerous times that a carton of fruit juice got caught in between my books and exploded all over them. blegh. milk was available from the school counter though. and apples & other fruit from a vending machine.

[brightpearl]

If everyone learned personal finance, birth control, and critical thinking, my country would be a different place. If money's tight, they could just teach critical thinking to make a big dent in the other two with one fell swoop.

Wouldn't hurt if everyone had to take a useful cooking class, like half a semester or something...not what passes for home ec now, which is so often an array of the many things one can make using canned biscuits as a base....

[Marcus Bales]

double teachers' salaries, and require them to flunk the bottom 10% of every class.

[Jack Flanders]

you can't take it as a generalization for all schools. what's absolutely absurd is that gym classes focus on building none of the strength or endurance required to do these exercises, like you will never ever ever ever do a pull-up until the day they introduce you to the fitness test.

and of course gym teachers are frustrated jocks so they belittle and embarrass kids who can't pass the minimum level of achievement. their concern is that the overall fitness of their school's kids is their responsibility so they treat kids who don't pass like failures.

as you may have already guessed, i always always always failed the pull-up test.

me fvcking, too. i ran my ass off and beat most of the boys but the gd pull-up test almost almost spouted blood from my ears.

[trisherina]

Economics. Cosmology. Humility.

[Coffee]

Add: Life skills (economic, cooking, health, relationships), critical thinking, emphasize science education far more than currently, more art, more music, more vocational ed, more money for teachers.

Remove: Team sports (let the fans and parents of the participants in these non-educational games pay for sports and the expensive ball fields and equipment and coaches associated with them, not taxpayers...get sports the hell outa "school" lest Americans continue to think "sports" are a vital part of "education".), 1/2-2/3 of the administrators.

[auntie aubrey]

all right, we're into day 2 on this ¿ question ?

new ¿ question of the day ?

actually in the spirit of jeopardy this will be the &iexcl; answer of the day ! please answer the following in the form of a ¿ question ?


&iexcl; this is the first song you heard today !

[Stephi_B]

¿ Do I look as if I had no breakfast yet ?

[lukkucairi]

¿what is OH (http://drop.io/uguqgcy)!?

[T.I.P.]

some old rock n roll in brooklyn

[zero]

i know nothing of this jeopardy


.......¿.......................................... ......?.......

¿ question of the friday may 2nd ?



if a lion could talk, we could not understand him



i was wondering, what is your interpretetation of this famous saying of philososososopher ludwig wittgenstein?


.......¿.......................................... .....?.......

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Mmm... because if a lion was talking to me and it said 'food' it would mean... me?

Ok, ok, because being a lion is a totally different experience than being human. And, btw, I often cannot understand a fellow human being, let alone an animal...

[Anna]

silly, lions never talk to monkeys

[Marcus Bales]

oh of course-- just, the fact that schools are serving food is already different from the NLs! here at "lagere school" ...

Now, see -- there's one of those cultural differences people are always talking about. A lager school! You'd never see kids going to a beer school in the US.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Maybe 'lager' here stands for a forced-labour camp.

[madasacutsnake]

i


if a lion could talk, we could not understand him



i was wondering, what is your interpretetation of this famous saying of philososososopher ludwig wittgenstein?



It involves islanders being unable to see tall ships because it was outside of their experience.

[Stephi_B]

Because we wouldn't really listen if he could?

[trisherina]

We couldn't because we'd be far too busy interpreting and analyzing every word of what the lion was saying about us and who we appeared to be to her.

[Frieda]

it illustrates the arrogance of man thinking that there are no intelligent beings in the whole universe but man itself. as usual, man is too preoccupied looking for what he already knows, instead of understanding the sheer beauty of what has been for ages.

[Marcus Bales]

Interestingly enough, porpoises and whales do "talk to us" and we can't understand them. It's a matter of perspective similar to that illustrated, from the other side of the thing, as it were, by the old notion that if oxen had a god it would look like an ox. And it's further complicated by the lion's likely view of us as a sort of dangerous prey animal not worth talking to. Probably lions would be saying to us, "Shh -- quit struggling, relax; everything will be fine once I'm not hungry any more." And since that involves the very alien notion of us accepting our death for the lion's benefit, we wouldn't understand it.


A Parable
Arthur Conan Doyle

The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there,
And warmly debated the matter;
The Orthodox said that it came from the air,
And the Heretics said from the platter.
They argued it long and they argued it strong,
And I hear they are arguing now;
But of all the choice spirits who lived in the cheese,
Not one of them thought of a cow.

[auntie aubrey]

i know nothing of this jeopardy

it pains me to know you've been deprived of the wonder of j (http://www.sonypictures.com/tv/shows/jeopardy/indexflash.php)eopardy.

http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/DGV/DGV051/775041.jpg

[Coffee]

Wittgenstein believed, incorrectly, that lions have a really thick Scottish accent...and Wittgenstein had trouble understanding Scots...like who doesn't.

[zero]

let us not forget that as well as being a great philosopher, wittgenstein was also a great fan of popmusic. his remark about not being able to understand a lion, i feel, was made in annoyance and frustration because he couldnie understand the jibberish words of the song ♪the lion speaks tonight♪:

♪♪♪in the jungle the mighty jungle the lion speaks tonight
we-de-de-de
de-de-de-de-de
de-we-um-um-a-way
we-de-de-de
de-de-de-de-de
we-um-um-a-way

a-wimoweh, a-wimoweh
a-wimoweh, a-wimoweh
a-wimoweh, a-wimoweh.....♪♪♪



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[Brynn]

In other words, wittgenstein didn't think we should worry too much about it, and felt we should focus instead on more important things like yodeling in falsetto.

[T.I.P.]

Dans la jungle
terrible jungle
le lion est mort ce soir

oooooooouiiiiiiii
oh oui oh oui
oh ouimbowé

ooooooooouiiii
oh oui oh oui
oh ouimbowé

[T.I.P.]

ta ta ta


tatatata


ta ta ta

poopoom *psshh*

[Hyakujo's Fox]

maybe he was suggesting that lions are philosophers.

[lukkucairi]

http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/harperchildrens/harperchildrensimages/isbn/large/8/9780064442978.jpg

Mother Lion went out to buy Johnny a new book.
She looked and looked.
At last she found a book about a baby lion.
The book was called The Little Lion.

[trisherina]

¿ question of the day ? for May 3rd ish.

Aside from the fiction project, what's your favourite thing on zefrank.com?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

http://www.nordinho.net/vbull/images/smilies/idea.gifthe scribblerhttp://www.nordinho.net/vbull/images/smilies/idea.gif
(That's how I learned about Ze's other stuff. Someone sent me a link to the scribbler a couple of months ago and when I was done playing with it I checked out other projects, too. Amazing things...)

[Frieda]

the naughty bird clips

http://www.zefrank.com/naughtybird/

[brightpearl]

love song for Condi (http://www.zefrank.com/condi/)

[zero]

hard to choose a favourite but ze's edgy ness in small world (http://www.zefrank.com/smallworld/menu.html) draws me back again and again. (there's also an irony that wasn't there before, given the subsequent rise of the current plethora of social-network sites.. including his latest playground, twitter.

as a side note, browsing through the site again to answer this qotd, and seeing at a single-sitting the sheer breadth, depth and kaleidoscopic brilliance of what he's created there and given to us, it occurs to me that zefrank.com is a body of work that someday should become a permanent exhibit in the MOMA.