¿ question of the day ?

[β cyg]

p.s. how are we defining "lifeless"?


how are you defining "we"?

[trisherina]

You're all lifeless machines? How delightful!

[Frieda]

i know i am.

thanks for your postcard by the way :)

[trisherina]

Musta gone on the F-22. :)

New ¿ question of the day ?

If you wear a scent regularly (aside from your own body odor), please to be describing your thoughts about why you chose it.

If you do not wear anything scented, please to be describing your thoughts about why.

[Coffee]

Usually, no scents...because I don't have B.O.

but when I do wear a scent it will be one of the following:

1. Eu(sp?) de Hombre cologne...only cologne I wear cuz i found a small bottle on my boat after I bought it, that needed extracting from a tiny spot between a bulkhead and a cabinet...its a tiny bottle and fits perfect in the glasses holder next to my cup holder in the car...for rare "hmmmm...just how DO i smell?" occasions.

2. A dab or 2 of vanilla

3. A dab of one of 3 awesome essential oil scents from BPAL (http://www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com/welcome.html) left over from when I was dating Catbelly.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I wear a scent I didn't choose but was given as a present. It's called Truth. I like the name, not so much the scent itself. I think it's for an older woman than what I think of myself to be. :rolleyes: But I wear it regularly anyway, that is, when I don't forget about it. Which happens sometimes.

Before the gift I didn't wear anything scented simply because after sniffing through a large collection of perfumes at the shop I didn't like any of them and it was embarrassing, plus I was annoyed for having to look so long so I decided to give up. And I did.

[MoJoRiSin]

A:No scents here :)
meditation and yoga
*****************
besides, almost all scents
except the incense they burn where I meditate
give me a headache
THERE IS NO WAY ANYONES PERFUME OR COLOGNE
would make me feel
attracted to them
>quite the opposite

[zero]

nivea - any and all. it's the logo. so perfect.



and cool water - how could i not with a name like that?

[zero]

... No scents here ...



http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2015/1544326489_051d40d471.jpg

[MoJoRiSin]

trivia: my mother ALWAYS smelled like NIVEA
always

[Frieda]

summer: sun delight by jill sander
winter: gucci by gucci
and for those special occasions when i don't take no for an answer: trouble by boucheron

[madasacutsnake]

Green Tea by Elizabeth Arden. I like fresh smelling scents.

Red Door or Poison for night-time. Because I like heavy scents too. Plus, when Poison first came out, I was at school in Geneva and it reminds me of that.

[lukkucairi]

I'm happy to smell like not-much-particularly. it seems like all perfumes tend to end up smelling the same on me (too sweet, a little cloying, one overriding note) - not sure if my nose just gets used to the smell, or if there's something odd about my skin chemistry.

I use one of those salt-block deodorants. it works well.

the guy who played bagpipes for my burn gave me a vial of lavender oil he'd pressed from lavender he'd grown in his garden - sometimes I put a dab of that somewhere, but the smell degrades very quickly.

I like how my friends smell.

[lukkucairi]

how are you defining "we"?

the communicative interface between β cyg and lukkucairi, in this case.

[Stephi_B]

Q for Sun(whatdatewasitagain?):

¿ What do you think there is (or: would like to find) at the end of the rainbow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_in_mythology) ?

[xfox]

strength and flexibility for starters providing the food supply holds out.

[zero]

good question stephi thank you for posing it



i should very much like to find four NEW! colours (two at each end of it)

[Frieda]

gold GOLD GOLD

[lukkucairi]

I am the rainbow

goo goo ga choo

:p

[Coffee]

A colorful sunset.

[trisherina]

a new start

[Frieda]

qotd monday, 29 sept 08


somewhere in my kitchen annex living room, there's a piece of raw chicken hiding that fell when i dropped a plate of chicken debris. it reeks.

where is it? :confused:

[topcat]

under the cabinets by the sink

[lukkucairi]

your next-door-neighbor's yorkshire terrier knows.

[MoJoRiSin]

just a thought...
maybe it got stuck to the underside
of a lower cabinet in the kitchen

[zero]

http://forums.bradbarnett.net/images/smilies/eyebrow.gif is there going to be a prize for the person who finds it?

[Frieda]

my eternal gratitude (this isn't the place at the end of the rainbow you know)


it's not under the cabinets by the sink
not stuck to the underside of any of the cabinets
and my neighbor doesn't have a yorkshire terrier..

:(

[zero]

excuse me frieda but i think it might be lodged in the hem of yours skirt

[Frieda]

and how would YOU know what is lodged into my skirt hmm?

[Frieda]

have you been looking at my nether regions again??

[zero]

no!

thinking back over yours day - have you been getting looks from folk (especially when you twirl and swish yours skirt, as in "that woman smells a bit funny"?

[12"razormix]

don't be daft! it fell into her clogs. obviously.

[zero]

well then she'll find it when she takes them off at hers bedtime

[Frieda]

i do not reek of rotting chicken! :mad: and how dare you suggest such a thing :mad: :mad:


i took my clogs off for bedtime yesterday and i didn't find it :(

[brightpearl]

Under the fridge?

I'm hoping that's where I'll find the good mood I was holding yesterday.

[zero]

it's a mystery


o look! here comes wee toyoh willox with a tune and gimpy dance about frieda's chicken goujon!


♪ it's a mystery♪

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[zero]

QOTD20080930

¿what could be a scenario or series of events in which a fly causes an aeroplane to carsh?

[Coffee]

Actually, it takes two flys to bring down an airplane.

One to fly into each pitot tube (PT= gizmo sticking out into clear air outside the plane that takes in air preasure in order that the airspeed and altimeter instruments can function). Without airspeed and altitude info going to the cenntral air data computers, the pilots and the computers will have no idea how high or fast the plane is going.

WONK.

[House,M.D.]

what could be a scenario or series of events in which a fly causes an aeroplane to carsh

heh
Sounds like a question for MichaelG

[trisherina]

The fly is really Jeff Goldblum, who wasn't paying attention in ground school because he was dicking around on his Blackberry about his next film deal where he won't have to wear a sweaty and humiliating costume and so never did learn about how to recover from a spiral dive, and so instead of pulling back the power he pushes the throttle full in, and instead of leveling the wings he leaves the ailerons cranked hard right spiraling tighter and tighter, and instead of pulling out of the dive into a gentle climb trading airspeed for altitude, he continues nose down and hell bent for leather straight into a farmer's field. And that's one fee his agent is not going to collect, nosiree.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

ah well now, if there's a chaotician on board as well as a fly, the question becomes how couldn't a fly end up causing the plane to crash.

[MoJoRiSin]

?QUESTION O T D...... ?
yes or no
Do you ave a boss?

[zero]

w at?

[12"razormix]

NO :D

[Coffee]

Traffic.

[Frieda]

i have too many bosses




(i found the chicken--stuck to my thrash can)

[Brynn]

most of the time no

[Stephi_B]

Yes, but my Chefchen ain't bossy at all! :)

[zero]

¿

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[brightpearl]

Oh, nothing in particular.

[lukkucairi]

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actually, I'm building blinky light tech :)

[Anna]

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[MoJoRiSin]

dunno...maybe a cog in something turning? ; )
***************************************
meanwhile,
the real question is:
what are the N A S A scientists doing?

http://www.universetoday.com/2008/09/22/nasa-uses-90-rubber-ducks-to-study-global-warming/

[β cyg]

what's N A S A aunt mo?

[MoJoRiSin]

where our modern say saints are employed ??

[β cyg]

a miracle factory!?

[MoJoRiSin]

unfortunately I have a 10am PSt dental appointment
no time to discuss if miricles do or do not exist.....

[β cyg]

scaredy cat!!



what's a PSt?

[Brynn]

pacific standard time

but I've been told time zones are irrelevant!


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ETA: forget that rubbish - here's the NASA footage with spooky music and narration!
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[β cyg]

aunt brynn, is that an aliquot of the pacifical sea you are holding hands, please?

[Brynn]

no distance in spirit, opa cyg :)

[β cyg]

yes please!




what was the question again?

[Brynn]

I'm not really sure.
I was just faking it
I was just faking it
I was just faking it
I was just faking it
I was just faking it
I was just faking it
I was just faking it
I was just faking it
I was just faking it
I was just faking it
I actually have no idea what you're talking about.
Um, yes it is an aliquot of the pacifical sea I am holding hands?
Am I totally interacting with you right now?
Can I have some vegetables with that?

[β cyg]

now you've made me a confusion too!

[Brynn]

Are you okay?????:eek:

[β cyg]

yes thank you!


aunt brynn, let's make up another question of the day to make up for the lost one - i'll start




what

[β cyg]

^now you have to add the next word!

[β cyg]

hurry up!!

[Brynn]

what about

[Brynn]

I did hurry
you hurry

[Brynn]

what about.....?
Are you hurrying?

[Brynn]

I don't think you're hurrying

[Brynn]

what about

what?

[Brynn]

:mad:

[Brynn]

well, I have to paint my kitchen now, so I'm feeling a little panicky:(

I think the time zones are getting in the way, so somebody wasn't telling the truth that one time

[β cyg]

sorry - i was thinking!






¿ what about today

[Brynn]

what about today is

[β cyg]

¿ what about today is making

[Brynn]

I hope this is a really good question by the time we're done here

[Brynn]

what about today is making headlines

no -

what about today is making you

[β cyg]

¿ what about today is making you glad ?

[Brynn]

I just realized what you were asking before.

It will be a part of the pacifical seas someday eventually, but for right now I think it came from a leaky faucet.

[Brynn]

that made me glad, figuring out your original question :)

[Brynn]

i feel kind of silly now, but still glad because I don't think anyone was listening but you.

[β cyg]

:)


what about today that made me glad is that we made up a question instead of you painting your kitchen!

[lukkucairi]

^ reading that made me glad :D

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Victoria's period of daylight saving will start at 2:00am on Sunday 5 October 2008. At 2:00am move clocks forward one hour to 3:00am.

~ http://www.vic.gov.au/Victorian-Daylight-Savings-Dates.html


I might stay up to see the clocks move. I think you have to, cos most times I haven't bothered and then the clocks are still right were I left them.

[MoJoRiSin]

Question O.T. D.



where is this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachishere/308450329/


?

[Frieda]

2001 NW 7 Highway
Blue Springs, MO 64014

(816) 220-7722

[MoJoRiSin]

that was fast : )

i wish i could think of a question someone?

[lukkucairi]

¿ what question should mo ask ?

[Frieda]

¿ would you like to come lunar bowling with me ?

[brightpearl]

^If it is literally bowling on the lunar surface or by the light of the big ol' moon, yes.
If it is some sort of euphemism with which I am unfamiliar, I'll have to get back to you. :D

[Brynn]

Do you know of a bowling alley that will allow us to use a moon-sized bowling ball?

[Frieda]

no, but the one mo posted^^^^^^^ looks pretty cool

[Brynn]

well, then - you might like these too :)
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[zero]

NEW!qotd


"not all humans are able to wink voluntarily, and some can only wink one (usually the non-dominant) eye but not the other, while others are far better at winking one eye and find it awkward to wink the other.




¿ how can you wink - either eye/left eye only/right eye only/neither eye/SUHT UP etc. ?

[Frieda]

either eye - yes
left eye only -yes
right eye only - yes
neither eye - yes
SUHT UP - yes

[brightpearl]

I seem to be ambiwinkstrous but seem to have a mild preference for left eye winkage. I'm right-handed, though.

Does this mean I have a brain tumor?
Perhaps that would explain why I cannot for the life of me figure out chemistry problem 15.27.

[zero]

^^&^ the pair of you wink at eachother and see if anything happens - i'm thinking you'll maybe cancel eachother out

[Hyakujo's Fox]

How can you wink with neither eye?

[brightpearl]

^
*bows*

[lukkucairi]

I'm a both-winker

no preference for side

qotd follow up:

¿ can you flare your nostrils ?

[T.I.P.]

not without revealing unseemly nostril hairs

[Jack Flanders]

yes I can. and I'm a both-winker. and I can raise one eyebrow but not the other. and can curl my tongue. and can snap the fingers of my left hand but not my right hand.

[MoJoRiSin]

I am like Jack only except the finger snapping thing
no preference for eye winking as far as easiness but I
am for sure right eyed.

[Frieda]

i can flare my nostrils, even only one at a time but then i have to wiggle the ear on that side too.

[brightpearl]

notstril-flaring, but only both sides at once
tongue-curling, the roll, not the cloverleaf
and I can sort of raise both eyebrows, but I have to raise both and then lower the left one to get the right one up there. It's shy and won't go up alone.

[Frieda]

i can operate the serpent glands under my tongue to spray up to 110 cm.

[Stephi_B]

nostril flaring -- yes, but I need to (1) concentrate or (2) get the right input for spontaneous (--> collegues are very suitable there)
nostril flaring
tongue roller, both roll & cloverleaf
eyebrows difficult to raise singly
ear wiggling impossible
snake glands under tongue need investigation
and lately I found out that I can indeed fold my hands behind my back like Pearly once demonstrated/asked here

[Hyakujo's Fox]

blank yet wearisome expression conveying a profound disinterest - check.

[lukkucairi]

^really? if we could collect video of all of this bizarre facial talent and edit it together I think we'd have a youtube hit.

...point taken :p

[β cyg]

¿ question of the day ?
¿ question of the day ?
¿ question of the day ?
¿ question of the day ?
¿ question of the day ?
¿ wind chimes: are you a fan of them?

[Coffee]

wind chimes belong in "our subtle torments in hell" thread.

[β cyg]

mine are going to make "the sounds of subtle and pleasing" - it says so on the box!

[MoJoRiSin]

No the wind does it

................but I do like Ze Franks new tee

[β cyg]

well i've been outside and hung them quite high up in my tree :)


but there's no wind:( so i'll have to wait until there is before i can hear the sounds of subtle and pleasing


i'm going back outside to watch them some more before it gets dark - then when it's dark i'll just have to listen!

[Frieda]

i have a small one, a glass butterfly with metal rods, on the inside of my balcony door.. if the door's open and the wind blows past it it makes a high, gentle and calming sound. like an angel pissing in your ears.

ok that doesn't translate very well from dutch into english :rolleyes:

so yes, i am a fan, yes, of subtle ones.

[β cyg]

i checked and it definitely says on the box "the sound of subtle and pleasing" not PISSING!



aunt frieda prolly meant angels tinkling in her ears - that's sort of the same



still no wind. i'm just watching my wind chime with a torch - it's just hanging there!



it's going to be a long night

[Frieda]

^eat some beans to speed it up

and aunt frieda does mean pissing, we say pissing in dutch

alsof er een engeltje in je oor piest

there's also a variation-- if something tastes nice, there's an angel pissing on your tongue.

[β cyg]

aunt frieda you look so beautiful and radiant this evening... an angel must be pissing in my eyes!

[lukkucairi]

wow, angel piss - that's potent stuff :eek:

upon reflection, I realize now that we inherited windchimes with both of the houses we've bought in the past 4 years (and sold one with said windchimes still in original position).

the ones we have here don't make the sound of subtle and pleasing - unless it's blowing like stink - then I guess they make the sound of urgent and scary

[brightpearl]

My windchimes are a rusted black cylinder with little bats hanging in, and tiny chimey tubes hanging down.

I've always liked windchimes (prefer tone-y to tinkly), but I've loved them ever since my son was bitty, and I happened to be looking at his noob face the very first time he ever heard that sound. His eyes got really big. One of the funniest and most poignant moments of my life.

[Brynn]

^ Kodak moment:)

yes wind chimes, lots of them
it's very windy here
neighbors have them too

[Coffee]

The marina makes wind songs playing on the rigging and ropes...i've learned to like that random symphony, as long as halyards aren't slapping against masts.

[T.I.P.]

There is a chinese gri-gri hanging from the ceiling in the money corner of my room. It looks like a horizontal dreamcatcher with little coins hanging off of it. It makes sounds like a wind chime, but I only notice it when I'm sitting very quietly.

I love the sound that it makes. :)

[trisherina]

Just took down the wind chimes last weekend and put them in storage; they are too delicate for what's to come. I'm sorry that I can't tell you if I like them or not. They are another thing I tend to. They dangle at one of the entrances to the patio, a few feet across from the foot of my chaise longue (a Mother's Day gift). A couple of times a year I stretch out on it in the shade and fall asleep to their tune.

[trisherina]

New ¿ question of the day ?

What is your average error (http://woodgears.ca/eyeball/)?

[Hyakujo's Fox]

5.01, 3.59, and 3.22 for an average average of 3.94.

I found I did better if I made the 'right angle' more acute than I thought it should be.

[Jack Flanders]

average score was 3.68 - my triangle center sucked but the right angle, bisect the angle and center of the circle were dead on. good game, trish!!

[madasacutsnake]

13.58

[Frieda]

3.69

my parallellgram scores suck monkey ass but these were neat:

Midpoint 0.9 0.2 0.0
Right angle 0.1 0.6 0.3

[lukkucairi]

3.41

[Hyakujo's Fox]

13.58

you were supposed to give a damn, snakey.

[zero]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3183/2925926121_3560ab32e4_o.jpg

[Stephi_B]

P 2.8
M 0.0 (yah! come here you line segments, I midpoint the living shit out of you babes :D)
B 1.7
T 3.2
C 2.8
R 1.8
C 3.6
------------------------------
Average error: 2.27

[brightpearl]

4.03
I'm kinda rubbish at it.
But then I've long established that I've got rather poor eyballing judgment.

[MoJoRiSin]

8.67

[Coffee]

New ? O'day:

Where in the world is Marcus Bales?

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Marcus has thrown himself full time into John McCain's campaign, beguiled by his desperate promise to reduce America's reliance on cheap foreign limericks.

[lukkucairi]

he's gone undercover full time as his alter-ego, MoJoRiSin

[MoJoRiSin]

"Bale's" is just a pseudonym his real last name is "Anderson".....

Touchdown maker: Speedy Marcus Anderson breaks through for Aggie offense
By Teddy Feinberg Sun-News Sports Editor
Article Launched: 10/10/2008 12:00:00 AM MDT

Click photo to enlarge
When Marcus Anderson catches the football, he tends to leave defenders behind. (Courtesy photo)

http://www.lcsun-news.com/portlet/article/html/render_gallery.jsp?articleId=10683722&siteId=557&startImage=1



LAS CRUCES — His start to the 2008 season has raised eyebrows in the New Mexico State Aggies' locker room. For wide receiver Marcus Anderson, however, it's just another day at the office.

"For the people here, my teammates, my coaches, I think they might be surprised," Anderson said. "For the people that know me well, they don't even blink an eye. They're pretty much used to it."

[Stephi_B]

San Seriffe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Serriffe)

http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/sanseriffe2.jpg

:)

[T.I.P.]

he's having tea with Carmen Sandiego in an undisclosed location

[Coffee]

I'm sorry to say that I think he actually died. There is no force in heaven or on earth that could prevent his living self from completing a dictionary thread word that he posted.

But I hope that this rumor of his demise is greatly exagerated.

So...explicitly; "Where in the world is Marcus Bales?":
6 feet under the surface.

[Brynn]

He and his team at AIG just got back from a fabulous $400,000 spa retreat on the taxpayers dime:
http://www.jamsj.org/images/unionbank.jpg

[brightpearl]

I'm with Coffee. I'm afraid he may actually be not at all well.
:(
Maybe he's just on a long lovely vacation to Rio?
Here's hoping we don't need to post a real eulogy in the eulogy thread.

[Jack Flanders]

He has a contract for the ultimate glass job and will blow the roof off! Well, do remember it is Cleveland, so smile.

[Klynne]

He has a contract for the ultimate glass job and will blow the roof off! Well, do remember it is Cleveland, so smile.

HI!

[Brynn]

Seriously now, did he or didn't he leave a message a few weeks ago that he was "out of here" ? I'd been gone for the summer, and it was one of the first things I saw when i came back...shoot, now I have to go look for it.
ETA:
9/06/08
I love you, I'm travellin' on.

Leaving the dictionary game hanging was a nice touch, I think. That way we'd be sure to miss him :o

[Frieda]

why don't you just send him an email??

he has his website on his profile.

[trisherina]

You can probably spot him in here (http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/explore).

[xfox]

or here (http://www.poemeleon.org/musing-on-the-boss-art/)

[Brynn]

new question of the day -

if you were stranded in the wilderness for three months with only a knife and a bucket, how well would you survive?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

maximum two weeks without the message board :o

[madasacutsnake]

Define wilderness?

[Brynn]

It's wild. Full of wild things that it supports. And it's hard to find your way out of it. Any landscape without civilization will do.

For fun, let's rule out an ocean landscape. I don't think many would survive more than a day.

[Frieda]

i'm surviving in the civilized world right now, and i think i would do a lot better in the wilderness.

especially with the bucket, here you can wear it on your head and pretend nothing shitty is happening around you, in the wilderness a bucket is useful for so many things, you know??

[Stephi_B]

Dunno if or how well, but I'd survive (or not) at least in a clean way
for this bucket and knife are excellent tools to construct myself a makeshift shower :) ;)

[β cyg]

i once grew my own radishes :)

[lukkucairi]

hm - arid southwest? about as long as it takes to die of dehydration.

humid eastern mountains? a little while, depends how long it takes to contract lyme disease.

bahamian coppice? probably the best shot, since I know a lot of the wild foods and have an inkling of where to look for water.

[Coffee]

I want the ocean landscape...mussles, clams...mmmm.

Just promise me there won't be a starbucks nearby.

[zero]

THE WILDERNESS IS SO AMAZING!!

- henry david thoreau

[12"razormix]

I don't think many would survive more than a day.what would be the cause of death after one day?

[Coffee]

internet withdrawal (that was a new question of the day...right?)

[lukkucairi]

caffeine withdrawal :)

[Stephi_B]

The two above + nicotine withdrawal!

[Brynn]

what would be the cause of death after one day?
I was picturing treading water out in the middle of the deep blue with nothing but a bucket and a knife. You know - drowning, sharks, fatigue, exposure :)

With a shore around, it might take a little longer.

[Jack Flanders]

yep - my scary. the deep blue.

[Brynn]

such a cheery subject...which probably means that it's time for a new QOTD

[Frieda]

ok

vraag van de dag de dato 17-10-2008


have you ever been abducted by aliens?

[zero]

something funny one afternoon of my tenth summer. a daydream thing, yet somehow not - a lot of noise in the treetops, a freak wind and a lost chunk of time. i forgot all about it until recent years when bonnybridge (where it happened) emerged as a world-renowned UFO hotspot. check it.

ACK! ACK-ACK ACK!
probed



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[Stephi_B]

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No ufos.... unless they took all my memory ;)
If they abduct me with leaving my memory one day
I wanna be freed by 'Mulder' cos 'Mulder' is hot :D (being my opinion since 1994!)

[lukkucairi]

yes, of course.

[Coffee]

"abducted" implies lack of consent...so, no.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I am an alien

[brightpearl]

On the advice of my attorney I respectfully decline to answer based on my Fifth Amendment right to protection from self-incrimination.

[Frieda]

i;m in the NLs, i don't give a fwk about your 5th amemdenendmmmtnet.

please asnwer the qotd! :D

[trisherina]

I lost a day as a kid in about Grade 4. There was a lot of stuff going on that could have led me to make that conclusion, but there was something about phoning someone who later denied that I ever called (and the vivid memory of our black wall phone in the entry with the stretched-out cord that hung above a wire and veneer phone desk with a black-and-brown-patterned vinyl chair in a cozy alcove formed by the staircase landing meeting one of the kitchen walls) in the memory of the lost day. I always wondered about that lost day until

As a pre-teen I often had sleep paralysis. I assumed that it meant I was afraid of the dark and began to read horror suspense novels to cure myself of the fear. At some point in my early twenties sleep deprivation fueled the sleep paralysis to the extent that I mentioned it to my boyfriend at the time. After donning a tinfoil hat and reading a library book or two, he suggested that I had been abducted by aliens on my missing day, and that the sleep paralysis episodes were really efforts by the aliens to revisit their territory and see how I was doing. This notion, however skeptically viewed by me personally, destroyed whatever comfort I had around the act of sleeping. The sleep deprivation got worse and I could no longer even nap without "waking" to vaguely threatening hallucinations, howling in my ears, and paralysis. So finally I went to a mediclinic, and the family practitioner told me my boyfriend was stupid and put me on a short course of low dose tricyclic. Actually, he just prescribed the drug and I drew my own conclusions about the boyfriend. My sleep pattern was restored to normal within two months and I have rarely been visited by the aliens since.

In all fairness I should mention that the boyfriend was well endowed and had a nice cleft chin.

[MoJoRiSin]

No, but I do believe that some people maybe (10 or 5 percent or so) go though a sort of "brain expansion" thingy ;)
for me it was 29 years and 10 months
and 2 or 4 times since then
I once did not sleep for seven days but I was happy and did not feel sleep deprived whatsoever. (trivia>I have basically been laughing even since)

[T.I.P.]

I've never been abducted by aliens. I don't think I would like that. Hanging out with aliens I would not object to, particularly in some cool neon liquid bar on the other side of the known universe.

[Frieda]

qotd 19-10-2008

when's the last time you ate cauliflower and what did it cost?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I ate fried cauliflower with boiled potatoes at work in the school canteen two weeks ago.
I'm ashamed to disclose how little it cost...

but in spite of that, if anyone's interested... it costs 20 Slovak crowns for teachers to get a bowl of soup plus the second course.

[MoJoRiSin]

last week, $1.49 a pound

[lukkucairi]

no idea, no idea :(

I shall make some with cheese sauce tomorrow to remedy this sad situation :p

[T.I.P.]

i haven't eaten cauliflower in ages. Last time that I can remember I had some in a vegetable assortment that I steamed. Can't remember what it cost, but it must have been an arm and a leg because I got it at Whole Foods.

[Brynn]

I had a heaping plate of fried cauliflower with a yummy cilantro/lemon dressing at a fantastic Indian restaurant called "Swagat" about three months ago and it was part of an "all-you-can-eat buffet" for $4.99 thank you very much for the lovely reminder! I ate it with my alien friends.

[Frieda]

funn-eh

i don't even remember when i last ate cauliflower-- i don't like cauliflower much.. in my search for Cheap Foodstuffs To Buy At The Supermarket Because I Need Some Extra Cash i spotted one for 1,79 euros for 500 grams whihc is i believe a bit expensive if i see the reactions here.

[Frieda]

did my post count go down?? :confused:

[Frieda]

oh probably not never mind SUHT UP

[zero]

the 20081020QOTD is




why bother?

[Frieda]

because i care :)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

because life would be monotonous without bother

[12"razormix]

NO! :mad:

[lukkucairi]

I try not to bother.

but I like "bother"

bother bother bother

:p

[MoJoRiSin]

zero, you just don't get it do you ??

[brightpearl]

Oh, it's no bother.
Really.

[zero]

zero, you just don't get it do you ??

no mo

[zero]

"face memhttp://www.sketchzilla.com/madlibs/pill.gif (http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/tmt/)ry test.

blah blah blah skills like memory are the first blah to blah blah go when we're tired

blah blah test assesses your blah blah blahbility to remember how long ago blah blah happened - your 'temporal' memory. if you're tired you won't be as good at remembering when you saw or did or blah blah blah something spmething.

the test blah blah bah three parts and we suggest you take a five minute break in between each blah blah blah part blah blah blah




¿21102008QOTD - can you be arsed to do yet another one of these things? if so, what was your score? (i was too tired)

[MoJoRiSin]

Your score: 95%
Average score: 92%


Your score: 82%
Average score: 68%

[Coffee]

no

[Hyakujo's Fox]

I got 100% couldn't be arsed on Parts 1, 2, and 3.

[Jack Flanders]

The elderly gent with the ciggy and the girl with the beetle-brows. :) Do I win?

[brightpearl]

oh oh oh
I've seen that one before, I just know it.
http://www.tasmanrides.co.nz/images/photos/hat_horse.jpg

[zero]

I got 100% couldn't be arsed on Parts 1, 2, and 3.


hmmm.. this gives me an idea for one of those colaborarations or participotato "project" or whatever the fvckken things are called..


only some minor tinkering with the source code would be needed for the face memory test to become the arse memory test.


will need a couple of dozen arses for this though, so everybody pm their arses to me (not you zormix - yours is so unforgettable that it would invalidate the test and anyway i've already got hundreds of it that you've sent me over the years)

and if anyone is worried - don't be - i've written an elegant little subroutine that resides in my pm box and randomises your arses as they arrive then redirects them to an "anonymous arse repository"


think about it people - the arse memory test - i think it could go viral and well be rich

[Hyakujo's Fox]

arsebook!

[Coffee]

ArseFace!

[Stephi_B]

Recog score: 100%
Temp mem score: 95%

Yeah, like in real life: if is clear, when (where, why etc) not always.... ;)

[Stephi_B]

& mmm arse I love you!! :)

[Brynn]

New QOTD (a serious one for just a moment):
wtf????!!!?

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the website (http://www.apfn.org/apfn/camps.htm)

I'm going to let this also serve as my answer to "why bother?" :eek:

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

will need a couple of dozen arses for this though, so everybody pm their arses to me

http://inventorspot.com/files/images/Deer%20Butt%20Doorbell.jpg

ring twice, if you want to be let in

[brightpearl]

All the arses anyone could ever need (http://filmstripinternational.com/).

[zero]

New QOTD (a serious one for just a moment):
wtf????!!!?

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the website (http://www.apfn.org/apfn/camps.htm)


:mad: i KNOW!! deliberately shaky camerawork and sketchy websites - IT MAKES ME SO MAD!!

[Frieda]

^sonny ericsson probably filmed that on his columbipod, he hasnie got a steady hand because of scurvy

[Brynn]

What a relief. I've been listening to too many of those coded radio thingies. If you're sure it's not a concentration camp and we're not all headed there, then can I have some ice cream?

[Jack Flanders]

As a transplanted Hoosier, I will tell you that there is no such place as Beach Grove, Indiana.

[Brynn]

Are you sure??? Better and better. Thank you. All I need now is some chocolate syrup and I'll be good.

[Jack Flanders]

Yes and make sure you put on a big glop of whipped cream. On the ice cream of course.

[Jack Flanders]

http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/amc0074l.jpg

[zero]

... I will tell you that there is no such place as Beach Grove, Indiana.


that's exactly what I'd expect from someone who's in on it!

[Brynn]

I'm not listening not listening not listening happy birthday to me happy birthday to me just having ice cream and not thinking about what all that is if not a giant fake but elaborate and fairly realistic-looking set for a poorly-made video that I just stumbled upon minding my own business and Jack would never never never...happy birthday to me not listening aliens do not exist

[Jack Flanders]

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/b/A/limbaugh_oxycontin.jpg

[Brynn]

Jack, is everything okay? They didn't take you did they?

Oh. thanks I'll have some of that....

[Jack Flanders]

that's exactly what I'd expect from someone who's in on it!

yeah that's why I'm on the inside and lookin' out at youse. or am I up in the whirly-bird? wadda want? leave me alone.

[Jack Flanders]

damn it I need some ice cream. chocolate mint syrup and a loaded uzi to keep away the ice cream moochers.

[Frieda]

^we have some really nice flavors stored in the fiction project!

[Brynn]

better do what she says
just remember: serpentine

[Brynn]

i mean the movement, not the ice cream flavor.
Okay, now I really do want some ice cream and have none. Only frozen bananas.

[zero]

yeah that's why I'm on the inside and lookin' out at youse. or am I up in the whirly-bird? wadda want? leave me alone.

ewige blumenkraft?

[Jack Flanders]

ja

[Jack Flanders]

i mean the movement, not the ice cream flavor.
Okay, now I really do want some ice cream and have none. Only frozen bananas.

nanny nanny boo boo I've got ice cream but not you!!! :p

[Brynn]

I didn't know eternal flower strength also procured ice cream...
Thanks so much
Made you eat, made you eat na na NAH :p

[Jack Flanders]

oommm Narcissus oommm ...

hah!!! didn't!! just the HOMEMADE APPLE PIE!!! hah!!! ok one little scoop. fat-free, low-sugar. but no chocolate. tomorrow. yes sirree, tomorrow.

[Brynn]

bleh. :( first the american facists. now this.

[zero]

"an identicon is an automatically generated avatar that serves a security purpose


here's mine:


http://turnyournameintoaface.com/?name=zero


i can't really relate to it



¿ qotd=how do you feel about yours ?

[lukkucairi]

I look like the false maria from metropolis

http://turnyournameintoaface.com/face/16160715.png

[12"razormix]

"

http://turnyournameintoaface.com/?name=zero


♪ zi - ggy ♪ star - dust! ♪ :D


( i like mines )

[Frieda]

http://turnyournameintoaface.com/?name=Frieda

love the goatee!

[Stephi_B]

http://turnyournameintoaface.com/face/04061713.png

Ya, that correlates neatly!

:)

[Frieda]

^so does mine

i'm so happy

thank you zero :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

[zero]

well i'm so glad everyone's so happy with theirs, so i am





:mad: while i have to suffer a nose that looks like it's asploded

[Frieda]

don't you know?? it's a nosepatch! you wear it to cover your nostrils!

[zero]

you're only humouring me - we both know ahavenie got any nosetrils and there's just a big cavity!! :mad:

[12"razormix]

don't you know?? it's a nosepatch! you wear it to cover your nostrils!and so he should!

[zero]

you're a fine one to talk with that bucket on yours heid!

[12"razormix]

at least i have the decency to cover mines head

[Frieda]

you're only humouring me - we both know ahavenie got any nosetrils and there's just a big cavity!! :mad:

aw, i'm sorry. i'm sure a unitril will be fasionable again soon, right? :)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Surprisingly, it looks like me.

[zero]

^interesting sideburns you have there ysa


at least i have the decency to cover mines head


decency? cover up??



may i remind you that you are in fact topless and yours nibbles are clearly visible?

[12"razormix]

nibblesample cleavage! :mad: