¿ question of the day ?

[auntie aubrey]

nothing much. just a chickenhead sitting among kipple.

[zero]

there was a storm and his chimneypotts fell off
a Mr Hyde-moment
nothing much. just a chickenhead sitting among kipple.

fair enough. ok then what happened to his nice comfy slippers that his mum gave him for christmas?

[lukkucairi]

fair enough. ok then what happened to his nice comfy slippers that his mum gave him for christmas?

one was matter and the other one was antimatter - he made the mistake of crossing his ankles.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

fair enough. ok then what happened to his nice comfy slippers that his mum gave him for christmas?

They miraculously evolved into a bottle of whiskey and a glass with ice.

[auntie aubrey]

ok then what happened to his nice comfy slippers that his mum gave him for christmas?

more kipple.

[Brynn]

question of the day for wednesday 28th may 2008



¿what happened here ?

http://swelements.files.wordpress.com/2006/12/gregory_crewdson2_small.jpg

He forgot to have a V-8.

[Marcus Bales]

Question of the Day, Thursday May 29:

What are your favorite walking shoes? Or, if you don't have favorite shoes, what's your favorite walking route?

[lukkucairi]

depends on the terrain, but I'm a barefoot island girl by nature

walking route? how about up and down this beauteous bit of 1850s engineering?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Laxey_wheel_1.JPG/800px-Laxey_wheel_1.JPG

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I use all of my shoes for walking in them. I don't use them for any other purposes. Honestly.

I don't have a car so I walk everywhere within the town.

[Frieda]

asics onitsuka tigers type mexico 66

[Veruki]

I'm with lukku on this one, barefoot. When necessary I go for minimal enclosure and height.
todays:http://www.boutiquniq.com/img/www.zappos.com/images/728/7281183/5089-335302-t.jpg

Favorite route is from my house to the grocery store and back.

[12"razormix]

<iframe src="http://js.mapmyfitness.com/embed/blogview.html?r=e7eb913c67403a0ae51ad2987d90e262&u=e&t=walk" height="700px" width="100%" frameborder="0"><a href="http://www.mapmywalk.com/walk/italy/rome/846375167">Rome Day 3 The ruins</a><br/><a href="http://www.mapmywalk.com/find-walk/italy/rome">Find more Walks in Rome, Italy</a></iframe><!-- MMF PARTNER TOOL -->

[Marcus Bales]

Criminy -- you must weigh next to nothing and be very young to walk around with no arch support like that. I'm tall and overweight and old. Here's what I wear:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41DRU8syX2L._SL500_.jpg

[12"razormix]

you certainly have a way with the ladies, mr. bales, but not to worry - there's plenty of arch support, see:

http://www.alfororomano.it/images/foro_romano.jpg

[madasacutsnake]

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c22/madasacutsnake/kingswood.jpg

[Odbe]

Criminy -- you must weigh next to nothing and be very young to walk around with no arch support like that. I'm tall and overweight and old. Here's what I wear:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41DRU8syX2L._SL500_.jpg

^That's just about what I wear when I have to wear proper shoes. I'm a barefooter too, but in some of the bush/beach scrub around here, if you don't wear shoes you mustn't want to keep all the flesh on your feet - not to mention offering them to snakes/spiders/ants. I'd love to wear proper boots for going in those sort of places but I have miraculously flat feet and sports shoes are about all I can find that are wide enough.

[Stephi_B]

Shoes: sneakers, mocassins, sometimes even flip flops (though that can be ouch, like yesterday...)

Route: Round here (there's still streets I don't know -- or don't remember)
http://www.kiezatlas.de/friedrichshain-kreuzberg/frkr-ge4.jpg

[brightpearl]

If I'm doing serious walking, I wear my kermit-green sneakers, but otherwise I am the open-toed/flip-flop queen.

I like to walk and often do so downtown and around the nearest rivers.

[T.I.P.]

black air maxes along avenue C btw 1st and 14th.

[skip intro]

saturday

who do you most identify with:
tin man
straw man
cowardly lion
dorothy
the wizard
wicked witch of the west
nice witch of wherever
toto

?

[Stephi_B]

If you'd asked some time ago: the cowardly lion; now more Dorothy.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

nobody, I'm sooo unique :p

[brightpearl]

http://thewizardofoz.warnerbros.com/img/photo/23_ph.gif

[zero]

identify - no.


but to this day that hostile humanoid tree with the bass-baritone voice is never far away from me.

[madasacutsnake]

Certainly the Wicked Witch of the West but in my version, she doesn't die.

[Brynn]

http://atangledweb.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/scarecrow_oz.gif

[zero]

¿ question of the day monday june 2nd?




¿ what are some recent injustices you've bravely suffered ?

[12"razormix]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

xx

[Marcus Bales]

Question of the Day: Tuesday June 3:

What's the story of how you met your present Significant Other?

And don't lie, because we'll be getting the real story from him/her when he/she gets back from the loo.

[trisherina]

I met him on a local BBS and then at a user meet/baseball game. He had a horrible monster of a girlfriend at the time, so I didn't give him much notice other than to recollect by his posts that he knew the lyrics to "Desperadoes Under the Eaves," but then he defended me very kindly when some other users got on my case about scoring the baseball game with undue care and attention. He took me flying on our first date. That is a boring story -- sorry.

[Stephi_B]

Currently no Significant Other
(under construction ;) there is a guy I noticed only on-the-go before, but... :D),
but my last one I met on my old message board,
we both (tried to!) talk some sense into a harcore neocon chick,
and later on the Duke (yeah that one ;))....
but then we were more into chatting through the nights
(both of us being insomniac at that time)
and then in summer he came down (from South Sweden) to Berlin,
we phoned like twice before - we totally digged each other's voice :)
We met first IRL at the overland-bus station where I fetched him
(he had brought his guitar to play for me :))
... ya and it worked out!! :D (for some months that is)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I havent. :(

[Frieda]

don't have one, not looking for one either

[auntie aubrey]

the spouse and my cousin were members of an online community populated by fanboy film-nerds. my cousin convinced me to register because the community was fun. i was deep in a music making mode at the studio where i worked and i was getting bored doing solo work. i put out a message on that community asking if any other musicians would want to pair up for a remixing project. the spouse responded and said, "yes please." my cousin had spoken to him a couple of times and vouched for his friendliness. actually i think she said, "he knows the lyrics to the punky brewster theme song, so you know he's awesome."

we emailed files and mixdowns and tracks and elements back and forth and never really intended to have more contact than that. i was remixing one of his songs and he was remixing one of mine. somewhere in there we agreed to surprise each other with the final versions instead of collaborating along the way. the email exchanges turned into IM conversations as we needed more direct contact to trade files back and forth.

by the time we finished our mixes we were talking on a daily basis. the day we sent each other the final versions and listened to what we'd done we both knew simultaneously that we had to get to know each other better. that's when the first phone call happened. we kept talking as we worked on more music together and finally it became clear we needed to meet in person. by the time we met in person i knew he was the man i would marry. without a shadow of doubt in the world.

in 2004 we tied the knot and together we're having a million babies. or two. it's hard to keep track.

he's still my favorite musician and my favorite human being on earth.

[madasacutsnake]

in 2004 we tied the knot and together we're having a million babies. or two. it's hard to keep track.


Vicar of Dibley: How many children do you have Alice?

Alice: Sixteen or seventeen.........I'm not really sure

[randy]

Question for Thursday the 5th day of June. Do you think Zero and 12"razormix shoud get a room?

[lukkucairi]

they already have one - we're just the audience :)

[Stephi_B]

^Aye!

... and that's Razor's side of the room
http://blogs.move.com/behind-the-walls/wp-content/blogs.dir/6/files/2007/07/orange-room.jpg
and this is Zerö's
http://blogs.move.com/behind-the-walls/wp-content/blogs.dir/6/files/2007/07/blue-room.jpg

:) ;)

[Frieda]

Question for Thursday the 5th day of June. Do you think Zero and 12"razormix shoud get a room?
hey look who's back--

i haven't seen them around lately so for all i know they finally found one.





(oh and feel free to use your own account)

[Bman]

It was freshman biology.

It is now sophomore year...Of college -_-

"First...only...how long?!!? So when are you guys getting married?"

"I uh....don't want to talk about it."

[topcat]

is troll on troll sex even legal anymore?

[Brynn]

is that a new question of the day?^
Hey, no, what about that? ^
How about that one?^
This one?^
Huh?^
Wa?^

Citizens, please answer the unasked question -

"?"

[brightpearl]

!

[T.I.P.]

8000 years of philosophy in one punctuation mark

[Hyakujo's Fox]

?¬

[Jack Flanders]

Question for Thursday the 5th day of June. Do you think Zero and 12"razormix shoud get a room?

can "one" do two ?? in 1 day?

[Marcus Bales]

Yep -- if one is a fireman with a big pump ...

[trisherina]

¿ question of the day ? for the anniversary of D-Day (invasion at Normandy):

Who pissed on your cornflakes?

[Stephi_B]

Someone did?!! :eek:

[xfox]

BG O'Fennsky, if you must know.

[brightpearl]

the neighbor's cat

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

the Muffin Man

[zero]

breakfast time was ages ago - acannie even remember what happened to my cornflakes whoever it was it's all forgotten & forgiven now.



now it's TEATIME!! i think i'll have my TEATIME in my garden.



cheerio!

[lukkucairi]

me, usually :p

[auntie aubrey]

those protein-pushing thugs from the egg council.

[Brynn]

when you said "cornflakes" i had to go get some.

[Frieda]

what cornflakes? is that some kind of euphemism?

[trisherina]

Mrs. O'Leary's cow

[zero]

qotd20080607



¿ are you neurhttp://www.sketchzilla.com/madlibs/pill.gif (http://iamneurotic.com/)tic ?

[auntie aubrey]

oh, i have my moments.

[Stephi_B]

sometimes, can be... ;)

[zero]

o silly me - i forgot the end bit of this qotd .. "if yes, give examples."

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I thought I wasn't neurotic before I looked at that page.

Some of the stuff people say there is pretty amazing...

I remember when I was a kid I always stepped on the white stripes at the zebra crossing, but it was more like a game, not a real obsession, I think. My parents were angry, because I would jump from stripe to stripe on the road and they wanted to drag me quickly to the other side.

[Brynn]

I don't feel as if I'm neurotic on the level described on that page. However, my husband tells me I'm neurotic. This is because I'm convinced that he deliberately doesn't put something back in the place he found it just so he can smirk at me in a superior way when I have to go ask him where something is every single day of my life. :p

[auntie aubrey]

well for example, i have a kitchen-related neurosis. it's the only room in the house where this happens. if an item finds its home in a particular drawer or cabinet, that's where it lives and no other location is acceptable. if i look in the drawer by the stove and the measuring spoons aren't in there, i MIGHT look in the dishwasher to see if they're there, but otherwise i just stop right in my tracks and call, "WHERE ARE THE MEASURING SPOONS?" and i can't move forward until the spouse figures out where he put them. because it's always his error, because i'm so neurotic about it that i'm physically incapable of mislocating kitchen items.

i can think of one specific occasion wherein i needed to measure out a tablespoon of something but i couldn't find the measuring spoon so i stopped and called in the spouse to locate it. he couldn't find it so i just took everything off of the stove and we went out to eat. later he found the spoons in the drawer where the hot pads are kept. unacceptable!

he thinks i'm neurotic, and i think he has a brain aberration that allows him to put any random item in any random drawer at any random time. we're probably both right. in any other room of the house i prefer things in their place but it's not nearly as crucial and it certainly doesn't interrupt my life.

i really enjoy cooking but having to search for stuff ruins the activity for me.

[Frieda]

um

i think i am but i can't think of any examples :confused:

[Jack Flanders]

No. The other one just puts the things I need where I can't find them. Really pisses me off.

[Bman]

Question for Tuesday Porktober 10th:


What song am I going to hear when the credits roll?

[lukkucairi]

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FdHBouGDOkg&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FdHBouGDOkg&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

[Frieda]

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/W83dDWlPYXU&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/W83dDWlPYXU&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

[auntie aubrey]

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gZez_k4vAzU&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gZez_k4vAzU&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>


and though the holes are rather small, you'll have to count them all.

[zero]

What song am I going to hear when the credits roll?

♫♪♫hey mister Bman you've got that certain somethin'
b-b-BOP-p-p-bop bop bop...♫♪♫

<object width="400" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qeV_7m0huFA&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qeV_7m0huFA&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300"></embed></object>

[Coffee]

I'd like it to be this...or I'd rather not stick around for the credits.

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LxQgXgS5G3c&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LxQgXgS5G3c&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

[Brynn]

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HNkuuLM79O8&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HNkuuLM79O8&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

[brightpearl]

This, of course.

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y9_DhNdXRlI&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y9_DhNdXRlI&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

[Jack Flanders]

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/W83dDWlPYXU&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/W83dDWlPYXU&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

That song makes me want my credits to roll. My dad, sis and I were trapped in that *attraction* because of technical problems at Disney World for an hour. Of course the music never stopped just the ride. Dad actually climbed out of the car and walked out of the building. He was my hero.

[Brynn]

The same thing happened to my husband when he was small, but they were told that if they exited the boat thingy, they would get electrocuted. It was traumatic. To this day, he cringes when he hears the song and leaves the room. His mom used to tell how he, his brother and sister were all crying and begging her to "turn the music off." I have a great recent shot of them grinning with thumbs up in front of the attraction by a sign that says "Closed For Repairs."

[skip intro]

Never get out of the boat......

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/njfbVrYn4CU&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/njfbVrYn4CU&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

[Bman]

Almost forgot my answer:

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iOrrXDmb4CU&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iOrrXDmb4CU&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

[zero]

.
QoTD#20080612

how long could you survive in the vacuum of space¿? (http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/v/space_vacuum) this is useful.

[Stephi_B]

<a href="http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/v/space_vacuum"><img border="0" src="http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/img/badges/space_vacuum_1_minute_41_seconds.jpg" alt="How long could you survive in the vacuum of space?" /></a><br />

That's long enough to think over some things
("Why am I in the vacuum? Mmh, anyway, kinda fancy way to die...")

[trisherina]

1 minute 11 seconds

[Marcus Bales]

<a href="http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/v/space_vacuum"><img border="0" src="http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/img/badges/space_vacuum_1_minute_53_seconds.jpg" alt="How long could you survive in the vacuum of space?" /></a><br />Created by <a href="http://www.oneplusyou.com">OnePlusYou</a>

[lukkucairi]

00:01:17

[Frieda]

http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/img/badges/space_vacuum_54_seconds.jpg

[brightpearl]

54 seconds.

Effing asthma.
:mad:

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

1 min 11 sec

Effing asthma.

Eff ing? Isn't it a bless ing?

In the first 30 seconds any fluid on the surface of your body would begin to boil due to lack of ambient pressure, this includes the saliva on your tongue and the moisture in your eyes. Your eardrums would most likely burst due to the pressure in your body trying to equalize with the vacuum outside. Unlike what some science fiction films have suggested, your body would not explode.

After the first 15 seconds you would lose consciousness. If you held your breath you could potentially stay alive longer but you risk pulmonary trauma. If you didn't hold your breath you'd pass out sooner, but your lungs might have a better chance of avoiding permanent damage.

The pressure in your veins would rise until your heart no longer had the capacity to pump blood, at which point you'd die.

These are not exactly the kind of moments I long to savour...

:eek:

[Veruki]

http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/img/badges/space_vacuum_1_minute_35_seconds.jpg

[brightpearl]

Eff ing? Isn't it a bless ing?

Asthma a blessing? Umm...sure, if you find breathing a troublesome bore. :o

[zero]

.. troublesome bore...

..which leads nicely to the supplemental ¿question of the day?(optional):

currently outsurviving everyone else in the vacuum of space with his 1min 53 seconds eternity is none other than la marquise de bales



what could be the secret of his success?

[Frieda]

^^^ here's another asthma-er-- i'd say it's a blessing to suffocate before my blood starts to boil, oh yes indeed :)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

what could be the secret of his success?

He might - mistakenly - believe: the longer, the better. ;)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Asthma a blessing? Umm...sure, if you find breathing a troublesome bore. :o

Effing. You're right.

[Stephi_B]

what could be the secret of his success?

MB has emergency life-force stored in some anti-vacuum poems.

[Brynn]

<a href="http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/v/space_vacuum"><img border="0" src="http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/img/badges/space_vacuum_1_minute_17_seconds.jpg" alt="How long could you survive in the vacuum of space?" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.oneplusyou.com/q">OnePlusYou Quizzes and Widgets</a>

I heard that you need to hyperventilate beforehand to oxygenate your blood, and close your eyes - that "helps."
I'm assuming that these are the horrific moments you are taking in order to keep the rest of the crew from perishing under fire from an alien attack as you struggle to get the jammed shield up. The reason you don't have a space suit to begin with might have something to do with Marcus Bales and a deal he struck with the Vorg, who betray him ultimately.
What this does not address, however, is the excruciating pain of burning where the sun's rays hit your body on one side, and instantly freezing on the other.

[trisherina]

jiminy cricket that was hard on my brain, all that frying and gasping.

¿ question of the day ? for this day we find ourselves in:

What is the last song you played in your computer's media player? (youtube included)

[trisherina]

<a href="http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/v/space_vacuum"><img border="0" src="http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/img/badges/space_vacuum_1_minute_41_seconds.jpg" alt="How long could you survive in the vacuum of space?" /></a><br />

That's long enough to think over some things
("Why am I in the vacuum? Mmh, anyway, kinda fancy way to die...")

Just as a reminder, that's actually long enough to go:

"AUUGH!!!!"

"AAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!"


"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ****ING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGMOMMYHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Then you'd still have about a minute. Consciousness optional.

[brightpearl]

Miles Davis -- In a Silent Way

[lukkucairi]

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/n_MBI_mSrJQ&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/n_MBI_mSrJQ&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

[Stephi_B]

^^Yes, going like that was the plan for the last like 1:11 min, when my skin would have started boiling etc. ;)


For the new q: No song (I could identify actually), but that which comes after like 1h in the

"Monkeysclub_150308_cut001" stream retrieved from here (http://304radio.wmdb.de/)

[zero]

<object width="400" height="225"> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /> <param name="movie" value="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1146413&amp;server=www.vimeo.com &amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color= &amp;fullscreen=1" /> <embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1146413&amp;server=www.vimeo.com &amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color= &amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/1146413?pg=embed&sec=1146413">THE BPA - THE BPA 'TOE JAM' FEAT. DAVID BYRNE & DIZZEE RASCAL</a> from <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/user530263?pg=embed&sec=1146413">Fabio Resende</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com?pg=embed&sec=1146413">Vimeo</a>.

[trisherina]

The Black Keys -- So He Won't Break

[Bman]

Sufjan Stevens - Prairie fire that wanders about

[madasacutsnake]

Focus' Hocus Pocus.

[12"razormix]

° (http://downloads.pitchforkmedia.com/Dandy%20Warhols%20-%20The%20World%20the%20People%20Together%20(Come%2 0On).mp3)

[Coffee]

¿question of the day? for Saturday June 14th, 2008

What, if any, is your compulsion, and how do you control it, if at all?



==================================================

Mine is bargain hunting, i have to hunt for bargains...can't control that part, but fortunately I can control whether I buy stuff or not, or I'd be broke from all the money I saved.

[T.I.P.]

i like to tidy things up
put them in order
line them up
stack them

I never try to repress this compulsion. Luckily it only happens to me once in a while. I just go with the urge until I get it out of my system, and then I can be normal again. Sort of.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

If I see nice/strange/interesting/unusual/etc pictures in a magazine I cut them out and file them according to topic for unknown purposes.

Well, I do use them sometimes as teaching aids, about 2% of them.

Also, sometimes I don't file them, so I have several piles of pictures hidden at various places in my room.

I don't resist the urge to cut out pics, but I feel a bit guilty of having piles of them at unknown places I've forgotten about.

[Bman]

To rehearse my arguments for leaving you at the train station.

Oh, and being unnecessarily cryptic. Especially on this board. Sorry.

I usually control it by asking an old question and answering a new one.

[brightpearl]

I compulsively put a lot of effort into avoiding contact with other people's compulsions.

[trisherina]

This is not one I have the insight to answer just now.

[lukkucairi]

nuh-uh :p

I keep my obsessions out of other people's faces, as far as I'm able - mostly to be polite - though I recently had a hard lesson in being honest with myself :o

I just recently found the owner's manual to my brain, and I've been reinstalling the OS. this may take a few years. check back later.

[brightpearl]

I compulsively put a lot of effort into avoiding contact with other people's compulsions.

ps
I'm not proud of this.
But I'm told I've earned it honestly.

[Marcus Bales]

Father's Day Question of the Day: So, how's your father?

[trisherina]

He's got metastatic prostate cancer, but believe it or not, the prognosis is so good (and the treatment so effective) that none of us are particularly worried about it anymore.

He didn't really much like parenting when we were little and teens; I'm not sure having three children was his choice at all -- having children other than by choice being a pretty foreign concept these days, it's useful to speculate regarding what that might be like. He relates much better to adults.

[lukkucairi]

Dead as of May 2004 :(

It's OK - he had Lewy Body Dementia and multiple organ failure - it was time. I still have a tupperware container of his ashes in my office closet. So in specific answer to the question? Dry and dusty :p I keep thinking of that Monty Python sketch where they have Marilyn Monroe's ashes starring in a film as the contents of a burst vacuum cleaner bag :p

Trish, glad to hear your dad has a good prognosis :)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvmTsH4iHBo

Died 15 years ago, I still miss him.

[brightpearl]

The only thing wrong with my dad is that he doesn't know how lucky I am to have him.

[Coffee]

Dad's ok, enjoying retirement. Netflix's best customer. Also shopping channel's best customer...:rolleyes: he got the "buy everything" compulsion that skipped me...:p

[T.I.P.]

My Dad has adapted to the french way of life, embraced it even, and he is no longer spiteful about living far away from his homeland. Sometimes I can see a sadness about him, but when I look hard enough I see that same sadness in everyone. He is actually doing really well, and I am thankful for that.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Father's Day Question of the Day: So, how's your father?

don't scare me like that

[Brynn]

Dad died when I was 17. He was 40.

[Stephi_B]

Dad is eccentric in a loveable way and cool and funny in his special way :),
he has an inclination for complications (like falling for a married woman... or falling for my mother 30+ years ago)
and sometimes I have to mediate between him and my younger sisters
(who are less patient with him...)
currently he is way overworked (7 day week) and that worries me.
He has scarcely any time for his beloved hobbies and actually for living,
plus he has a history of stress-induced illnesses (heart, stomach).
It made me happy when he recently started to think about switching to part-time.

[Brynn]

New question of the day....

Where do you put that thing that has no place to go but you can't throw it away, and what is it?

[brightpearl]

It's in my son's room, and it's probably the best drawing I ever did.

[auntie aubrey]

the many things fitting that description are still sitting in mover's boxes and cannot be unpacked until the riddle of where to put them is solved.

one such thing is the heart-shaped box full of stickers that i intend to send to my 4 year old niece as soon as i can get my head on straight and find a suitably sized shipping box and make it to the post office.

[Odbe]

A stress ball shaped like a brain, and it migrates between my desk and a shelf.

[Frieda]

are you kidding me??

my apartment is filled with these things. i usually keep them on the dinner table and on the floor if the dinner table has at least 3 layers of stuff.

i have bought cupboards recently but i can't figure out what to put in there and how to arrange it.

[lukkucairi]

I rent warehouse space :)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Half of my stuff matches this definition. I put these things anywhere I can find aan empty space: on the floor, under the bed...

[T.I.P.]

I have a 3D picture postcard of Jesus, still in its plastic wrapper, lying on my shelf. I found it on the street the other night and was mesmerized by the 3D animation. I don't want to put it up on the wall, but i can't bring myself to throw it away either.

[Marcus Bales]

Why has my tuxedo cat, heretofore a doting mom to her nearly 2 year old son, taken to waiting for him to walk by to attack him savagely, knocking him down and sometimes drawing blood, and all in all making him Mr Twitchy in her presence, who was always a willing groomer and sharer of spots of sun?

[Frieda]

^^i have 2 of those, one jesus in a pink flower frame and one that changes from jesus to the shroud if you move it.. they curl up after a while.. (keep em flat or framed, don't keep them on your dinner table;))

[Brynn]

Don't throw it out, T, give it to me when I see you next week - I'll give it a good home right next to the heart-shaped frosted cornflake I keep in a ziplock clipped to the Holy Madonna calendar beside the wooden Jesus statue from Venezuela that lives on top of my refrigerator.

Marcus, the mama cat is hurt that her son pretends not to be related to her anymore and when she takes him to the mall, he walks ahead of her .

[Stephi_B]

Distributed all over my flat.... without these things my flat would be too empty :)

[Marcus Bales]

Question for Saturday: Do you prefer the ö's and ü's, or the okapi?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

For me, the ökapü is the winning combination. :o

[Brynn]

I like it when people go "ooh" and "ah" during fireworks displays.

[brightpearl]

It depends. Is the okapi well-done and served with mint chutney?

[trisherina]

next ¿ question of the day ? ffs

What the heck are you doing here?

[Odbe]

Wasting time while I try not to think.

[T.I.P.]

digesting a chili cheese dog from Nathan's

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

exercising my right to addiction

[Frieda]

cleaning spam

[Stephi_B]

being all into one of my vices :)

[lukkucairi]

distracting myself as I wait to see if I've managed to entirely change my life circumstances :p

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Surfed on in.

[auntie aubrey]

looking for something to say.

[Coffee]

Delaying "sanding and prepping the 'hard to sand and prep' pieces" of my varnishing projects.

[xfox]

not bushwhacking, most of the above (except Coffee's-been there, done that & Freida, thanks) and hoping for the judge's decision in the DG.

[T.I.P.]

how did you like the chili cheese dog ?

[madasacutsnake]

Question of the day for Friday 27th June.

C'mon people now
Smile on your brother
Ev'rybody get together
Try to love one another right now


How do you feel about this?

I think it's great advice except when people piss me off.

[Stephi_B]

Dig that!! That's how it should be :)

Only when people piss me off multiple times they
can kiss me where the sun (almost) never shines. Yep!

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

It's nice and unrealistic. One can't love everybody. But to try... at least those closest around you...yes, that'd be nice.

But people with fake smiles and opposite or nonexistent emotions behind them make me sick.

[Marcus Bales]

It gives me sharp and shooting pains to listen to such drool.

[lukkucairi]

it makes me want to take my clothes off and roll around in the mud with a bunch of hippies.

[trisherina]

It's a good song to sing to your dog.

[auntie aubrey]

it makes me realize that if you can't be with the one you love, honey, love the one you're with. love the one you're with. doo de doo de doo de de doot. doo de doo de doo de de doot. doo de doo de doo de de doot.

doodedoot.

doodedoot.

[Frieda]

trying is lying

i say go for it

[xfox]

what kind of computer are you on, laptop, desktop, etc., and where, upstairs, downstairs, etc.?

[seebe]

Single story home here so desk top in the family room. We have another in the spare bedroom but I rarely use it.

[Coffee]

Desktop sitting at just about the water line.

[Frieda]

desktop

in a corner in of my living room

in my apartment on the 3rd and top floor of this building

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

desktop

bedroom

3rd floor

[T.I.P.]

laptop in my room on a mini coffee table

[Odbe]

Laptop in my room in a one-storey house on a hill, so it's upstairs from the garden but the same level as the street.

[madasacutsnake]

Mah spot.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c22/madasacutsnake/100_2510.jpg

[auntie aubrey]

right now i'm on the first floor, in the living room, lounging in the corner of the sectional, with the laptop on my leg.

but at least 50% of the time i'm downstairs in the office on the desktop.

[trisherina]

Desktop, home office, ground level.

[Brynn]

Laptop in the living room of a beautiful borrowed apartment on the upper West side of Manhattan for the time being, in the same building Woody Allen shot Melinda and Melinda. Feeling very Blanche right now...

[xfox]

Answering yesterday's question, in total awe of Brynns digs!!!! I'm upstairs on my laptop that might as well be a desktop. It never goes anywhere. Pondering how to take over the DG considering JF's absence and thinking I should go to the office.

[Stephi_B]

Desktop, second floor, house #26 on the campus.

[lukkucairi]

presently on laptop 1 of 3, which usually stays in the office or the kitchen or the bedroom - now is in the office.

laptop 2 of 3 migrates between the sideboard music system and Jared's house.

laptop 3 of 3 is work-dedicated and lives in a tote that comes with me everywhere.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

desktop, study, 1st floor apartment, way past bedtime

[zero]

'the flying scotsman' train. nokia n800.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

qotd080701

This is a time capsule. What you post here today, your future self will read at sometime in the far off future. What message would you like to leave for your future self so they may know part of who you are right now?

[brightpearl]

I have no particular hope for what your life will be like when you read this again.

I am still strongly attached, however, to the idea that the boy will be healthy and happy enough.

[Stephi_B]

No, you weren't totally nutty in your 20s, just a little bit :)
....and if you should have acquired just the slightest Schnarchnasen-qualities in the meantime, kick yourself in the ass! Hard!!!

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Hello, me-in-the-future! Are you still as foolish as I am now? How does it feel to live so long and learn so little? :p

[Frieda]

careful, you do not have another spare key.

[auntie aubrey]

learning how to manage stress is what allowed you to live long enough to read this message. good job.

also never forget how much that kitty loved you.

[lukkucairi]

It all worked out, didn't it :)

[Brynn]

^ good, very good.
Also to myself:
Please don't forget your ride with the Happy Cabby. He wanted very badly for you and everyone around you to be as happy as possible. He urgently wanted you to know the secrets of his own daily delirious happiness:

- to expend all of your energies to making other people happy and to help them as best you can with all of your big heartedness.
- "all the obstacles in your life are protecting you, so never be sad for what you do not have."
- to live simply, be always full and satisfied, and to not chase the money.
- to "never let no negative thoughts inside your head and to kick them out with quickliness immediately."
- to always take good care of your king (and your princesses and princes too), and to never look at no one else because to have a king, and to be his queen, is great and more than enough.
- to know that you have the Happy Cabby's "greatest blessings from God" and to remember that although we may never see each other ever again, we have made an important connection that will never go away throughout all of time.

[T.I.P.]

^ awesome ! ;)

I got a ride with Leisure Suit Cabby last Friday. He pulled out pictures of himself with lots of women that he had met on cruise ships and on vacation in all parts of the world. He was very cheery.

When we asked him where his wife was while he was taking these pictures, he answered: "She was sleeping! It's not a good idea to be sleeping when you are on a transatlantic cruise!"

He mentioned that he liked to look at his pictures while waiting for customers at the airport.

[Brynn]

:eek: he gave good advice too!

i have to say, I was really hoping to meet Cigar-Chomping Bronx Cabby From the Movies, but I'm just not sure if they exist in Manhattan anymore - do they?

[Coffee]

Soooo...they finally got internet out there did they?

[Brynn]

Hey, I'm living large!
$10 a day in a Manhattan hotel, but absolutely free in a New Jersey one. This one's got an ironing board, coffeepot, a microwave, a little fridge and a hair dryer too - all for $150 a night less. I haven't checked, but I'll bet this one has fitted bottom sheets as well, unlike the other one. Besides, who wants to go all the way into The City to see a Tony-award-winning play when I've got all *this* to pass the time with?

[trisherina]

Now is the time to be glad you recorded so much of it so faithfully.

[zero]

... for your future self so they may know part of who you are right now?

http://www.sketchzilla.com/madlibs/pill.gif (http://bulletin.zefrank.com/showpost.php?p=363329&postcount=138)

[12"razormix]

What message would you like to leave for your future self so they may know part of who you are right now?do we actually forget that when we get older?

[zero]

http://www.sketchzilla.com/madlibs/pill.gif (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4RoMPlYVcQE) look! here comes a goods train!



¿ please, what are some goods that it might contain, that goods train? what do the containers contain ? and did you see the helpers?

[12"razormix]

ok yes i see. it does get pretty bad.

[zero]

och sorry i was engrossed w/making up my question and didnie see yours



love&weetabix



-=maui jim

[12"razormix]

ah didnie see yoursi certainly hope not! *angryface*

[zero]

do you have to bring your arse into everything? nevermind your arse - what about the goods onboard the goods train!?

[12"razormix]

what train?

[zero]

the train!! the goods train! don't tell me you never saw it - it was mahoosive



press play again and watch more carefully this time

[zero]

hurry up

i've eaten a chilled bounty bra in the time it's taking you to watch that goods train

[12"razormix]

WHO?

[zero]

your future-self i think but it's so long ago now it's all a wee bit hazy

[brightpearl]

There's nothing on the train...

because I've got all the goods.

*Ba dum pum...psssshhh*

[brightpearl]

Just kidding.

Clearly it's carrying 7 1/2 tons of Chick-O-Stick.
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/1718/chickostick1oz250ch8.jpg

[Brynn]

500 pounds of crawdads for the gigantic crawdad boil tonight in my back yard that everyone's invited to. And several hundred yards of calico for the quilting bee after the men get drunk and start shooting at beer cans over at Jim's.

[T.I.P.]

the train is festering with bloodthirsty chihuahuas and used boomerangs

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Ah, that was the 5.43am Blootered Scotsman, it's usually full of blootered Scotsmen.

[auntie aubrey]

the train is carrying loads of my childhood memories. specifically memories of sitting in the family car while my obsessed railfan father paced around train tracks taking photos of sights just as these. memories of listening to him recount the serial numbers of the locomotives on our way home. memories of his voice saying, "we're going to stop off at the roundhouse while we're out" and memories of my mother's voice telling me to go play downstairs because my father's railfan friends were coming over to watch unending slideshows of the above mentioned photos. and finally, memories of a never-completed living room sized model railroad set painstakingly constructed by hand to emulate the route of a specific freight train in new england.

watch the video carefully. if you see a spray painted tag that reads "zoowilly" you've found the car carrying these memories. my father liked to leave his mark.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

he was prolly descended from hoboes

[trisherina]

mine is full of ****ing manners, now shut the **** up

[Frieda]

http://www.sketchzilla.com/madlibs/pill.gif (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4RoMPlYVcQE) look! here comes a goods train!



¿ please, what are some goods that it might contain, that goods train? what do the containers contain ? and did you see the helpers?

it's taking the hobbits to isengard!

♪

♪

[Odbe]

Ah, that was the 5.43am Blootered Scotsman, it's usually full of blootered Scotsmen.

:D I want to draw that now

[Stephi_B]

The goods are neon-coloured Q-tips and Spezi -- obviously.... ;)

[zero]

it's taking the hobbits to isengard!

♪

♪


that's right and o look! the misty mountains are back there on the horizhttp://www.sketchzilla.com/madlibs/pill.gif (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4RoMPlYVcQE)n.



what did you say?

...shall we?

yeh, why not?

o go on then, if you must

and why not indeed, so they did.

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[Marcus Bales]

I got pig iron
I got pig iron
I got all pig iron.

[lukkucairi]

square wave oscillators and blinky lights

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lotsandlotsandlots :D

[zero]

what would normally be your reply when you encounter someone and they say "how are you?"?

[brightpearl]

Well enough. And you?


I have a friend who says, "Great," with a deadly serious twinkle in his eye.

[lukkucairi]

"never been better!"

[Frieda]

"oh, you speak english? are you from abroad?"

[Bman]

Fine enough...since...the incident ::blank stare into space::

[xfox]

^^heeeheehee hee!

"Fine, thank you, and you?"

[trisherina]

"I can't complain... how about you?"

[topcat]

whats it to you

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I'm always taken aback by this question and usually give an unintelligible mumble as an answer. Fortunately, in my country it is not such a typical question, so I don't have to embarrass myself every day.

One of my favourite colleagues always answers: "It gets better and better every day" in a loud voice, accompanied by a wide grin on his face. I find it very entertaining.

[madasacutsnake]

"oh, you speak english? are you from abroad?"

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

I did once tell some telemarketing guy that my day started out with scooping a dead guy off the floor and it got worse from there. I like Gen-Yers cos they tend to laugh at stuff like that.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

"not too bad, how about you?"

[T.I.P.]

i'm aright how bout you ?

[trisherina]

qotd for July uh 6th

Have you ever banned yourself other than in the ban yourself (http://bulletin.zefrank.com/showthread.php?t=4903) thread?

[T.I.P.]

If i felt like they brought out destructive behavior in me i would eventually ban myself from certain places, but for the moment i feel i haven't done anything that warrants more than 10 minutes in a penalty box.

And even then it would have to be a penalty box equipped with a brand new designer couch, a mini-bar and an internet connection.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Sometimes I choose not to be in the company of certain people, but I'm not sure I can call it banning myself, because it feels good.

[Frieda]

yes

[zero]

a few years ago i banned myself from a cushion. this particular cushion was given to me by my daughter as a christmas present. it was one of those squidgy microbead-filled things - you see them for sale everywhere now but back then they were NEW! they're useless for anything apart from squidjyinng with yours hand, and over a period of several days i began to notice myself fondling this cushion too much. this, i felt, was inappropriate behaviour for an ALPHAMALE like me, therefore i decided to ban myself from the cushion. to achieve this, i firstly hid the cushion from myself somewhere in my house, and then by an act of raw, brute willpower i forced myself to forget the hiding place. i haven't seen it since. (btw in case you're wondering, it was black, so at least that was manly)


ETA - here's a picture of one.

http://www.otherlandtoys.co.uk/cushtieblack800.jpg

i don't miss mine in the slightest

[lukkucairi]

sure, all the time :p

I just take my bad behavior and put it somewhere else, where it isn't definable as "bad." this is probably counterproductive, but it makes me easier to get along with :D

[Stephi_B]

Yes, since some weeks I ban myself from a place if a certain person is there.
It was strange first, because I felt it to be injust that I have to adapt my weekend activities to the not understandable feelings of this person,
but meanwhile it feels good, and a relief.

[xfox]

yes. here, when I clearly can only lurk, and be entertained due to my lack of something thoughtful, creative, interesting to say.

[brightpearl]

I might be banning myself right now, can't tell yet. :)

Wait, ezra has a daughter?!? I certainly hope she has his eyes.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Wait, ezra has a daughter?!?

I know, is that any way for a parent to behave?


oh, I sometimes throw a tablecloth over the tv if I feel I've been watching too much rot.

[topcat]

i have not banned myself. others have done that for me.

[Jack Flanders]

^ and that was was a big stupid no-no ban that was done. OK F-up. to be more mature.

[Frieda]

qotd 070708

what's for dinner?

[Stephi_B]

(if I feel like really "cooking" whenever I'll come home)
chinese noodles (instant thing-a-do) I'll enrich with some mushrooms and an egg or so

or

(if I don't feel like cooking or "cooking" or being any longer in the kitchen than 2 min)
bread + cheese
(more likely)

and

one, two cups of spice tea with milk

and

one or two helpings of chillout time on the balcony
(if it doesn't rain cats & dogs then)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

rolls with butter and Dinner Mints

[Frieda]

rolls?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Kifli.jpg/800px-Kifli.jpg

This is what I call rolls in English. In Hungarian I call them kifli. In Slovak rohlíky.

In Dutch?

[brightpearl]

Either broccoli-tofu kung pao or quesadillas with roasted veggies...

[Brynn]

Not sure yet, but I'm feeling ambitious. Something along the lines of chicken tikka and dal....and I'm also craving a watermelon and tomato salad with mint and white balsamic vinegar.

[zero]

whatever zomrix is having i'm having the same

[Frieda]

^^^^ i don't think we have those-- never seen them, like a curved mini baguette?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Ah, globalisation has not swalloved us completely then. I didn't know I was eating something as special as a piece of pastry that might be unkown in other parts of the world...

It's made of a roll of dough, has a crunchy-crumbly outher shell and soft, white inside (or brownish, depending on grain type). And yes, they're small, usually, although they come in different sizez. The only difference between them and a baguette is, I think, that the dough is rolled, so the result is somewhat 'layered', but I can't describe it any better.

[lukkucairi]

gruel :p

til my teeths recover from the denentist fwkkin with them

[12"razormix]

peppermint tea