¿ question of the day ?

[Frieda]

zero is wearing panties under his chin! :eek:

[12"razormix]

heaving white bosoms!

[zero]

no, frieda definitely said "chin"

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Poor zero, what happened with your nose? Fell off the stairs when blothered?

[zero]

no it fell off and i lost it down zormix's décolletage never to be found again - it's the bermuda triangle of cleavages

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Is that how those knockers ended up near your chin, too?
In zormix's Bermuda triangle of surprising things?
Did I say knockers? Silly me, of course, I meant knickers.
Everybody can admire them upon inspecting your avatar.

[zero]

hurra, hurrah, die feuerwehr ist da!

[Frieda]

EINS ZWEI POLIZEI

[12"razormix]

^at last! send them up to my boudoir immediately!!

[Frieda]

^ to have a sieben acht gute nacht?

[12"razormix]

no to rescue zero's nose from my bosoms - they'll need heavy-lifting equipment

[zero]

*angry face*

[zero]

WHAT?!

[12"razormix]

nibbles

[zero]

nibbles my arse!

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Hey I always wanted to be anime goon!
http://turnyournameintoaface.com/face/07080506.png


nibbles my arse!

I must've missed something. :confused:

[brightpearl]

Mine looks like that one guy on Star Trek, the lame generation.

:mad:

[Hyakujo's Fox]

nibbles my arse! (http://turnyournameintoaface.com/?name=nibbles+my+arse!)

my thoughts exactly!

[Brynn]

mine's perfect :D (http://turnyournameintoaface.com/?name=brynn)
Although it kind of looks a lot like the avatar I have already...

[trisherina]

"Where's mah EGGS, WOMAN?" (http://turnyournameintoaface.com/?name=trisherina)

[lukkucairi]

nibbles my arse!

http://turnyournameintoaface.com/face/10110512.png

http://turnyournameintoaface.com/?name=nibbles+my+arse

^ a better likeness of zero :)

(funny, including the ! makes him look all pissy)

http://turnyournameintoaface.com/face/10110509.png

[lukkucairi]

lukkucairi?
http://turnyournameintoaface.com/face/16161615.png

lukkucairi!
http://turnyournameintoaface.com/face/16160415.png

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

lukku
http://turnyournameintoaface.com/face/10101818.png

cairi
http://turnyournameintoaface.com/face/07081607.png

[Jack Flanders]

Halloween ??? 10.31.08 What or who is your scariest memory?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

It happened the year when I learned to read. To my horror I discovered that one of the graves we cleaned and put flowers on every year had my name written on it. First name and surname. Somehow I thought they were preparing it for me. That year wading in fallen golden leaves and collecting melted candlewax and ejoying the beauty of thousands of lit candles flickering in the cemetery at dusk wasn't much fun.

[madasacutsnake]

!! (http://www.zefrank.com/bulletin_new/showpost.php?p=347821&postcount=7)

[brightpearl]

That time the bedroom doorknob turned of its own accord (http://www.zefrank.com/bulletin_new/showpost.php?p=345125&postcount=28). Eeeep.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

qotd for 7th November, Friday: ¿What phrase irritates you?

The top ten most irritating phrases:

1 - At the end of the day
2 - Fairly unique
3 - I personally
4 - At this moment in time
5 - With all due respect
6 - Absolutely
7 - It's a nightmare
8 - Shouldn't of
9 - 24/7
10 - It's not rocket science

according to http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/debates/3394545/Oxford-compiles-list-of-top-ten-irritating-phrases.html

[lukkucairi]

mine might be "linguistic prescriptivism" ;)

[zero]

awesome

[MoJoRiSin]

not ever

[Frieda]

chanel no. 5, with all due respect

because this one usually announces something extremely disrespectful or insulting.

[Brynn]

"Surely you realize..."

nucular weaponry

"well, frankly, blah blah blah blah"

"My friends..."

"Small towns are the real America!"

"You betcha!"

And, any sentence referencing "Joe the Plumber."

[MoJoRiSin]

biotch

inspired ny my misreading "you betcha" ;)

[trisherina]

AFAIK
IIRC
and the ultimate:
AFAICT

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

in my humble opinion

[Coffee]

same difference

six of one, half a dozen of the other.

Me too!!! :D:D:
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[brightpearl]

supposebly

[brightpearl]

oh oh oh

and
weapons of mass destruction related program development activities

[Brynn]

Me too!!! :D:D:
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I laugh every time I see that. Inexplicable. I can't help it. It's one of my favorite things.

Oh - I always grit my teeth when I hear kew-pons instead of coo-pons when someone's pronouncing "coupons." I don't understand where
kew-pons comes from.

[brightpearl]

^OMG I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU WERE FROM TEXAS??!
:D

My best explanation I have is that the "kew" comes from learning to talk from my grandmother.

I hate it when people say syrup as "see-rup" instead of "sir-up".
However I recognize it is an acceptable pronounciation. For Yankees.

[Brynn]

yes, you're right, it's sirrup. and ketchup, not catsup. and "ant" not "ahhnt" and vase not vahhhhz. But my Texas mom always says kewpon and I just don't get it! Must have been that part of my childhood up there with all the French Canadians in Maine. Coupon as in coupe' and "coup de foudre," durn it.

[Jack Flanders]

don't get me started on over-used sayings but my new pet peeve is "I'm just saying".

[MoJoRiSin]

ha Brynn
sir=
seer=
see her

don't worry honey says jack the tree is almost done
(after he went up the hill
but did
"not know where to find her")
something like that ;)

[MoJoRiSin]

New QofTDay
(not original ! Rosie posted this on her thread first)
How many timea have you been in love?
a 1-3
b 3-5
c 6-10
d more than 10 times

[zero]

opps

[Frieda]

^^a
^umm? :confused:

[MoJoRiSin]

y i am mm
my answer is a

[Hyakujo's Fox]

QOTD 20081110

Have you had enough of this shit?

[MoJoRiSin]

I've had enough of this shit!

where have I heard that before? geez

no clue (laughs quietly to herself)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Even if I had, it won't make any difference.

[Jack Flanders]

QOTD 20081110

Have you had enough of this shit?

Could you be more specific about what shit we're talking about? Shit abounds and I don't want to be hasty and answering yes or no until the shit's been identified.

[topcat]

you can never have enough shit in my book. ze i think had enough of this shit.

[xfox]

are we recycling here?

[MoJoRiSin]

yes i do Believe

[Frieda]

it's nobody's birthday so we aren't recycling anything

[lukkucairi]

I like this shit, for what this shit is - was it supposed to be some other kind of shit?

I've had enough of a lot of shit in my life, but this particular shit is not shit that gets on my tits.

[Frieda]

^ew

[brightpearl]

I am reminded of when Ze said something like, it's fine to be an a-hole, as long as you're funny.

It's just so true.

[lukkucairi]

http://cdimg2.crunchyroll.com/i/spire4/02192008/3/5/1/1/3511a96ade0b60_full.png

[Frieda]

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/9384/aintlogicalyd7.jpg

[brightpearl]

I meant to post this last week. What luck that its become topical again.
David Sedaris, about undecided voters:

I look at these people and can’t quite believe that they exist. Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention?

To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?”

To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.

[MoJoRiSin]

^I am counting that as a yea...

throws old worn out blanket over shoulder in a (feigned) arrogant way :cool:

[Brynn]

ha Brynn
sir=
seer=
see her

don't worry honey says jack the tree is almost done
(after he went up the hill
but did
"not know where to find her")
something like that ;)
Eerie and what a coincidence have you been spying on me how strange and bizarre because I thought you were in L.O. but now I know you're just across the street :)

[lukkucairi]

¿ chardonnay ?

http://emiljung.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/pouring-chardonnay.jpg

[Stephi_B]

I probably should abstain from alc after my recent excesses (:o), but I cannot resist:

Yes gimme that char!

:)

[zero]

chardonnay my arse!

[lukkucairi]

no arse chard but here's an ass cab - will that do?

http://www.pinotlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/2008-02-02-horses-ass.jpg

[zero]

"an hour before his death in april 1955, albert einstein muttered a few sentences in german.

the night nurse did not understand them.





20081117qotd : ¿ what might albert have been saying ?

[Frieda]

http://www.oddgames.com/daniel/graphics/angry_man_s.jpg

halten sie den schnabel du hundenköpfchen!

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Wo ist meine Sonnenbrille?

[zero]

halten sie den schnabel du hundenköpfchen!
Wo ist meine Sonnenbrille?

i never imagined i'd say such a thing but i'm starting to empathise with einstein's night nurse

[Frieda]

it could've been worse


meine pflegerin, kommst du mit, dan gehen wir nach isengard!

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[Coffee]

zeigen Sie mir Ihre Brustgnädige frau

[brightpearl]

Get me a pencil! There's still time to put the cosmological constant back in...

[MoJoRiSin]

hey sweetheart would you come over here, hold my hands
in your
hands
and recite the Lord's Prayer with your face above mine.

translated by the internet:
he wurde Schatz Sie kommen hierhin,
halten meine Hände in Ihren Händen und vortragen
Sie das Lord' s-Gebet mit Ihrem Gesicht über Grube.

[lukkucairi]

Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! ... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput.

[madasacutsnake]

Wenn ich ein Vogel wer...........

[Frieda]

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/231/334uo88jl0.jpg

♪ ich bin so froh daß ich ein Mädchen bin.. daß ich ein Mähähädchen bin ♪

[Brynn]

[QUOTE=Frieda;401612]http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/231/334uo88jl0.jpg
(to the tune of "Roll Out the Barrel")
♪ ich bin zu haben, ich bin zu haben und geil♪


Sorry, it's the only German I know. My husband says it's about something to do with concentric circles.

[Stephi_B]

(^ almost true ;):D)

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/231/334uo88jl0.jpg

"Na du. Wie siehst du denn aus...
Bist gerannt...? Keine Sorge, ist alles in Ordnung."

[Frieda]

vraag van de dag voor 20-11-08:

i've been having hickups all evening and now i cannot seep because of them

how do i get rid of these hickups?? :confused:

[Brynn]

The only thing that works with my kids is this: I hold up a dollar and say "If you can hiccup for me exactly when I tell you to, you can have this five dollar bill." Then we concentrate on the task for a little while - "Hiccup right....NOW! Nope, you missed it. Try again...."
They are so distracted that they forget to hiccup. They rarely get the money unless it is absolutely perfect, and it never is - which is the secret of its power.
They are so relieved to have stopped hiccuping that they don't care.
So Frieda, if you will hiccup for me the exact second that you read "now" then I will give you a five dollar bill.
Okay....


ready?





NOW!

[lukkucairi]

never-fail cure:

drink a shot of red wine vinegar, straight up.

it shocks your system so thoroughly that your diaphragm resets. it's extreme but it works.

[MoJoRiSin]

WAY BETTER THAN VINEGAR !!

one packet or 2 teas --lean head back and pour in the back of throat
more here:
http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/archives/home_remedies/sugar_for_hiccups.asp

[brightpearl]

Spoonful of peanut butter.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I usually drink a teaspoonful of lemon juice. Or two, if one doesn't help.

But I suppose you've already stopped hiccuping.

[zero]

frieda to get rid of the hiccups and finally get seeping what you must do is stick yours index fingers firmly in yours ears and at the same time an assistant or bystander must hold a big glass of cold water to yours mouth for you to drink it all up nonstop. altrenatively the assiatant or bystander could stick their fingers in yours ears and enabling you hold the big glass of water. it doesnie matter! good luck and i hope you get some seep now.

[Frieda]

:) thanks everybody :)

and brynn you owe me 5 :p

[brightpearl]

stick yours index fingers firmly in yours ears.

I used to get my kid to stick his fingers in his ears and holler the alphabet song to get rid of hiccups. It never worked, but it was funny.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

ears

^not a humorous misspelling BTW

[brightpearl]

^hahahaha

hfox implied "arse"

[Hyakujo's Fox]

hfox implied "arse"

I get told that a lot.

[brightpearl]

^no no dear
you've mixed up "implied" and "embodied" again.

ar har har
*mwah*

[Hyakujo's Fox]

you've mixed up "implied" and "embodied" again.

yeah that too

[brightpearl]

S'okay.
Some arses are cute.
http://www.miniatureponycentre.com/img/pony008.jpg

[zero]

are you & who began reading this ¿question of the day? the same person?

[MoJoRiSin]

yes and no

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

no, i'm a few nanoseconds older and a few nanosomethings wiser than before

[12"razormix]

are you & who began reading this ¿question of the day? the same person? shut up viggo! :mad:

[brightpearl]

wait, the same person as who?

[lukkucairi]

I'm the same person as brightpearl.

betcha never suspected :)

[brightpearl]

^Yes, that is true. Everyone is a bright pearl.

Hopefully a few people suspect.
:)

[Frieda]

are you & who began reading this ¿question of the day? the same person?

no

[Jack Flanders]

^Yes, that is true. Everyone is a bright pearl.

Hopefully a few people suspect. :)

[zero]

no

frieda's correct, or at least corrrect according to this article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7739493.stm) where the idea for this ¿uestion of the da? came from





"
consider a photo of someone you think is you eight years ago. what makes that person you? you might say he she was composed of the same cells as you now. but most of your cells are replaced every seven years. you might instead say you're an organism, a particular human being, and that organisms can survive cell replacement - this oak being the same tree as the sapling i planted last year.

but are you really an entire human being? if surgeons swapped george bush's brain for yours, surely the bush look-alike, recovering from the operation in the white house, would be you. hence it is tempting to say that you are a human brain, not a human being.

but why the brain and not the spleen? presumably because the brain supports your mental states, eg your hopes, fears, beliefs, values, and memories. but then it looks like it's actually those mental states that count, not the brain supporting them. so the view is that even if the surgeons didn't implant your brain in bush's skull, but merely scanned it, wiped it, and then imprinted its states on to bush's pre-wiped brain, the bush look-alike recovering in the white house would again be you.

but the view faces a problem: what if surgeons imprinted your mental states on two pre-wiped brains: george bush's and gordon brown's? would you be in the white house or in downing street? there's nothing on which to base a sensible choice. yet one person cannot be in two places at once.

in the end, then, no attempt to make sense of your continued existence over time works. you are not the person who started reading this article.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

are you & who began reading this ¿question of the day? the same person?

same person, different ¿question of the day?

[trisherina]

That is a truly lovely article, especially the photo captions.

I have a Saturday ¿question of the day?:

Do you nap?

[lukkucairi]

occasionally

[zero]

:mad: trisharama acannie believe you've woken me up just to ask me this!




if you must know the answer's NO!

[12"razormix]

i nap on the train.. :o ( ah cinnae help it )

[zero]

^yes in fact that's how we first met.


o it seems like only yesterday on that train. there was i, minding my own business, reading my tiny rubbish booklet of "disturbing" dreams when i became aware that the person seated beside me was napping uncontrollably. next thing, her head flopped on to my shoulder. i looked down. that's right it was zormix! (don't worry - hers mouth wasnie wide open and she wasnie dribbling, no defintely not) i just let her nap there for a wee while then i put by book down and joined her.

[12"razormix]

she wasnie dribbling, no defintely not was NOT! :mad:

[zero]

you're so proper

[lukkucairi]

o it seems like only yesterday on that train. there was i, minding my own business, reading my tiny rubbish booklet of "disturbing" dreams

rumbled...

I get 'em all from these fine folk (http://traintracts.blogspot.com/)

[Brynn]

If I could nap, I would nap all the time, nap away all that's not right with the world. I love to nap, but it throws me off into nighttime too early.

[MoJoRiSin]

no
(and that includes nary a single nap when i was pregnant with my daughter)

[lukkucairi]

for some reason I feel like taking a nap right now...

[Frieda]

i nap all the time

sometimes i think i've never been awake at all :)

[lukkucairi]

QOTD NEW!!

¿ how do you know when you're dreaming ?

[Jack Flanders]

when I'm happy.

[Frieda]

i don't until i wake up.

unless i have a dream in which i dream that i am having a lucid dream. then it's more complicated and it takes at least 4 tries to understand if i'm asleep or awake and even then usually my house collapses on me or something.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I don't.

[zero]

¿ how do you know when you're dreaming ?

just fvckken gohttp://www.sketchzilla.com/madlibs/pill.gif (http://www.****inggoogleit.com/)gle it!

[zero]

20081125QOTD


please may you choose one of your recent posts and plug it into this this website (http://www.blahblahfish.com/en/), then post the result here? (show us the original post you chose too)

here is this one after translation to greek and back:




i request you can you select one from your recent places and connect him with this region you post, then the result here? include your initial place also. here he is this after the translation in the greek and the back.

[Odbe]

I got a letter and the stamp had a diprotodon on it.
English->Welsh->English
We have letter I go ' group I stamp seed I go diprotodon on.

[lukkucairi]

pungle: the sensation residing in one's buttocks after a long day of riding up bumpy trails on a hardtail mountain bike.

not tonight honey, I'd love to, but I've got pungle.

english>norwegian>english

purse sensation reside in alike the buttocks after a high day at make fun of up bump get egg on up at a badly alps bicycle.

by no means night honey I'd adore to , but I've getting purse.

[MoJoRiSin]

[SIZE="3"]♪ There's children throwing snowballs
Instead of throwing heads ♪
They're busy building toys
And absolutely no one's dead ♪
There's frost on every window
Oh, I can't believe my eyes ♪
And in my bones I feel the warmth
That's coming from inside ♪/SIZE]

(the truth is, i edited out the contractions)
so::
There are children throwing snowballs
Instead of throwing heads
They are busy building toys
And absolutely no one is dead
There is frost on every window
Oh, I cannot believe my eyes
And in my bones I feel the warmth
That is coming from inside

english to korean and back =

The head throwing throws the
snowball instead of and they
who are the children are the
busy building toy and anyone
goes round absolutely and there
is a frost in each window which
dies and Oh, the warmth which is
come from an internal from the
bone there is not and feels a
possibility of believing my eye
and

[Hyakujo's Fox]

you are now rubbing yourself up the wrong way

turkish & back:

you are at present scattering yourself upward the mistake comrade

[trisherina]

the centre of the centre of the centre has no centre at all

Latin

a fleet of a hundred ships of a fleet of a hundred ships of a fleet of a hundred ships these no a fleet of a hundred ships far whole

[brightpearl]

^that one is fascinating

I picked:
"I used to get my kid to stick his fingers in his ears and holler the alphabet song to get rid of hiccups. It never worked, but it was funny."

traditional Chinese-->English
I once caused my child to adhere him and yell the alphabet song in his ear's finger to get rid of the makeing a belch sound. It has not operated, but it is funny.

Russian-->English
I used in order to obtain that my little-one he put his fingers in his ears and holler the song of alphabet in order to obtain freed hiccups. It never worked, but it was ridiculous.


Ear's finger.
Freed hiccups.
Ridiculous.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Jyngine is collected by dentists and remodelled into a coral-like bracelet by ingenious businessmen.

Czech

Jyngine is nabbed up dentist plus sublimate up a sea moss like wristlet up witty shop.

Witty shop? :eek:

[Frieda]

i like big butts and i cannot lie


latin: I to love large butts and I cannot to recline

croatian: I like the large lodgment plus I cannot untruth

finnish: i - letter like rattling butter and i - letter lie

filipino: me like ample butt and me cannon lie

turkish: i like great butt and i bkz. life-belt lie down on

[zero]

:D THIS IS GREAT!


20081126QOTD - please can somebody dream up and make a thread for this blahblahfish thing?


thank you for your kind assitance in this matter


or rather


who is and door profit to think, the possibility of making the thread for blahfish things is? assitance where you who are to this situation is kind thank you

[MoJoRiSin]

:D THIS IS GREAT!


20081126QOTD - please can somebody dream up and make a thread for this blahblahfish thing?


thank you for your kind assitance in this matter


or rather


who is and door profit to think, the possibility of making the thread for blahfish things is? assitance where you who are to this situation is kind thank you


i was thinking "design your own T-Shirts with the wittiest sayings ever" (aka "one stop Christmas here"
well you know, Christmas shopping ~"~
however, to start a new thread is impossible from here
(even though my settings have been upgraded and now

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[brightpearl]

qotd for nearly Saturday the 29thish

What's your ancestry?


I'm told I'm mostly Irish and look it, with a bit of English and German judging from the surnames, and my great grandmother on my mother's side was Blackfoot. The one photo I've seen of her was labeled "Mary" and I figure that can't be at all right. She didn't look very happy.

My mother got the straight black hair, beautiful.

Also I've heard I'm 1/32 Balrog on my paternal grandfather's side, but I'm not sure that's true.

[Frieda]

dutch for at least 6 generations back

[MoJoRiSin]

my father was German and Scottish
my mother always said she didn't know except Swedish
(her maiden name was Witt which means fair skin or white hair)
her maternal grandmother was one half Cherokee
before that Bohemian
(maternal grannies mother's maiden name was Salyer she hailed from Salyersville Kentucky)
as as far as I can reckon that is an English name.
my maternal grannies actual last name was Minnix.

and however, I have always hoped that the hillbilly ancestors
started as gypsies and I am therefore the one person alive who has a
little of every race.
: )
I've got my fingers crossed at any rate ;)

[Hyakujo's Fox]

I have a Saturday ¿question of the day?:

Do you nap?

An excellent suggestion!

[zero]

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acouldnie've put it better maself

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

http://www.hungarian-bow.com/picture_library/hungarian_archer.gif

[12"razormix]

http://www.shorelinehp.com/languages/language_images/russian_flag.jpg http://www.flags.net/images/smallflags/FRAN0001.GIF

[lukkucairi]

adopted.

birth parents are an unsolved mystery

raised by (1) Bahamian and (1) Scot

[Brynn]

American mutt
English, Scottish, Irish - but most recently in the big scheme of things, Dutch, I guess (grandparents - "Lisenbee")

[Jack Flanders]

Norwegian - Mom's family came over from southern Norway in the 1860's and settled in Iowa and Dad's parents knew each other in Oslo and ran into each other on the street in Chicago 2 years later (1920) and married soon after. My folks met up in Colorado while my dad was in the army and stationed near where my mom was working for the summer. We are still in close contact with my dad's family - they've been here and we've all been back to Norway many times. Love Norway. :)

[Hyakujo's Fox]

English, Scottish, German, Parts Unknown.

[Coffee]

Coffee Heritage Buns:

Patter Batter:

Blend
2 parts English,
1 part German
1 part Irish.
in PA. USA and Mix till ready for sunnier pastures.

Maternal filling:
Combine
2 parts Irish
1 part German
1 part Bohemian
stir briskly and alternately chill and thaw in tiny town in Iowa, USA till circumstances cause relocation to a large city.

Combine Batter and Filling at a party during springtime in SF Ca. USA, bake at 80-100F for 9 months.

Remove Coffee bun from oven and place on rack till cooooool.

[MoJoRiSin]

^:D :D :D

[brightpearl]

Lulu, I forgot you were adopted. Your photos always remind me of my mother. Maybe you're my long lost adopted first cousin?

...but no, you'd have to be a few years older than me, and you're younger.

Fun to think about, though.

[lukkucairi]

hm - I could be related to just about anyone, if I wrote the plot correctly :p

[MoJoRiSin]

: )

[Odbe]

ancestry: n. [answers-tree] a metaphorical tree to which people go to learn about themselves based on what kind of fruit the tree usually bears, and which branches they could possibly have hit on the way down.


Questiontry for Monday, the very first day of December 2008:
Do you think it's important (for you personally) to keep records of your history - journals, diaries, newspaper cuttings, photos, awards etc.?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

oh yeah (http://belz.net/teaching/hector.html)

Although the older I get the less industrious pack rat I become.

[MoJoRiSin]

your post reminds me
I have been thinking to call my daughters
elementary school
to see if they have a video of her singing
forever young with the choir as part of
a school play when she was in the 4th grade
to post on you tube
other than that
no

[Stephi_B]

It might be, but I don't.... (except for some childhood photos)
(I used to excessively write diaries as teenie, but stopped after my mother read the current one when I was 16, 17 -- she told me that I'd be a gifted writer though.... :rolleyes:)

[lukkucairi]

physical detritus, no! we have enough ancient precious crap. my husband re-inherited all his old stuffed animals from his mom the other day, and we have no idea what to do with them. so much karma, but what use are they now?

I do tend to hoard data. I used to blog a lot, but lost the taste for it when I got into finance and my ability to publish writing in public got legally complicated.

so now I just chronicle my dreams :p

[Coffee]

Yep, but the ability to do so on a boat is a problem...when i moved I pruned the pack rat cellar down to the essential stuff that could fit in a trunk stored on my folk's property...and kept a couple of semi-usefull bits for the boat.
Tossing out all that stuff felt risky at the time...wonder if im gonna regret dumping the memory hard copies someday.

[lukkucairi]

I have a friend who *was* a pack rat - she just lost all her belongings plus her house to black mold...

she says it was awful, but she's also appreciating the freedom from the weight of her past, if that makes any sense

[Brynn]

I just do it all here. I'm in the process of eliminating any written evidence (diaries, journals) around the house because I shudder to think of anyone reading it. I'm past the point of being candid in print, and incapable of feeling that anything is truly private anymore - more so after seeing diaries being subpoenaed in lawsuits while owners of them watched helplessly.

[12"razormix]

Do you think it's important to keep records of your

history - yes
journals, diaries - no
newspaper cuttings - no
photos - yes
awards - no
etc. - yes

[Jack Flanders]

^ ditto on her

[zero]

i'm a compulsive note taker of ideas and thinkings and jottings and forever. notebooks? i've got drawers full of 'em.

more recently i've taken to cameraphonesnapping wee pictures of all manner of stuff i come across and storing it all here (http://www.evernote.com/) - a NEW! FREE! service i cannot recommend highly enough




and then, coincidentally with odbe's qotd i saw this good advice yesterday (full article here (http://idlethink.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/only-collect/))


"

and the work is: only collect; that is to say, collect everything, indiscriminately. you’re five years old. don’t presume too much to know what’s important and what isn’t. photocopy journal articles, photograph archives; create bibliographies, buy books; make notes on every article or book you read, even if it’s just one line saying “never read this again”; collect newspaper clippings and email them to yourself; collect quotes; save your ideas for future papers, future projects, future conferences, even if they seem wildly implausible now. hoarding must become instinctual, it must be an uncontrollable, primal urge. and the higher, civilizing impulse that kicks in after the fact is organization, or librarianship. you must keep tabs on everything you collect, somehow; a system must be had, and the system must be idiot-proof. that is to say, you should be able to look back on it six months for now and not be completely stymied as to why you’ve organized things that way. (the present versions of ourselves are invariably the biggest idiots, and six months will make that clear).

[Hyakujo's Fox]

more recently i've taken to cameraphonesnapping wee pictures of all manner of stuff i come across and storing it all here (http://www.evernote.com/) - a NEW! FREE! service i cannot recommend highly enough

I knew the internet would come in handy eventually!

[Frieda]

i can't turn my bakc on this bulletin broad for 2 days or Mr. zero starts talking about whatever it is he's keeping in his drawers :mad:

[12"razormix]

i KNOW! but it makes him so happy......... :rolleyes:

[zero]

i can't turn my bakc on this bulletin broad for 2 days or Mr. zero starts talking about whatever it is he's keeping in his drawers :mad:i KNOW! but it makes him so happy......... :rolleyes:


:mad: keep going - i'm writing it all down in my little black notebook

[Hyakujo's Fox]

QOTD/20081204

Do you have a strong expectation of what your life will be like 5 years from now?

If yes, do you expect it will be much the same?

If no, do you expect it will be much the same?

[Coffee]

Yes!!

No.




btw...that was two-three questions.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I expect to be five years older. :(
I suspect it won't be the same as now. :(

[lukkucairi]

Do you have a strong expectation of what your life will be like 5 years from now?

If yes, do you expect it will be much the same?

If no, do you expect it will be much the same?

erm...I have no idea what shape it'll be in 5 years' time, except 5 years further along...

it won't be much the same, whatever happens

[zero]

i should very much like to have a FLYING CAR :)

[12"razormix]

i should very much like to have a FLYING CAR :) there there. sshhhhh.


*pat*

[Brynn]

I think it's reasonable. We finally got our Dick Tracy video wristwatches. I think the car is just on back order.

I expect everything to be radically different not just in the next five years, but in the next five moments. Things are at an extremely transitional point in my existence. I'm very excited to be here on earth, and constantly amazed.

[Jack Flanders]

i should very much like to have a FLYING CAR :)

me too and flying it above everything. :)

[Stephi_B]

I should, shouldn't I?
It should, shouldn't it?

;)


NewQotD for the magnificent Freitag den 5. Dezember:

¿ In which word(s) lie(s) the essence for you ?

(today, in general, sometimes....
....or if there ain't such (a) word(s), in which word(s) it lie(s) NOT?....
....or is there no essence you could make out??)

[MoJoRiSin]

"I had my eye out for you"

thanks be unto you patty s. ;)

[zero]

¿ In which word(s) lie(s) the essence for you ?


NIVEA

[Stephi_B]

oh

as in
oh?
oooooohhh
oh!
oh....
oh-oh
and so on

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I don't know.

It's the essence of everything.




Ah, I completely forgot about:

mañana

[12"razormix]

live

[Brynn]

caramel

[Frieda]

one

[lukkucairi]

*electric*

[MoJoRiSin]

was adam the mother of us?

[trisherina]

bollocks

[Coffee]

happy ending

[Bman]

How will you celebrate Dnomla?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

by eating almonds and wearing a solemn facial expression

[lukkucairi]

by ceremonially stubbing my toe, and incanting the Holy Swear Words

[Jack Flanders]

How will you celebrate Dnomla?

Scraping the ice off the windshield. and swearing like I usually do.

[Jack Flanders]

by ceremonially stubbing my toe, and incanting the Holy Swear Words

RU2 a George Carlin fan? :D

[zero]

NEW!20081208qotd


.......¿?.......

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/3092395271_cfceafe373_o.jpg


.......¿?.......

[Stephi_B]

^You posted a piccie of my second most favourite parallel universe, Mr Zerö!

:)

(My very most favourite parallel universe is there across the bridge.... I won't tell which bridge however!)

[zero]

the artist has made fourteen "mistakes";)

[12"razormix]

^ yeh - "REDHILL".. hahahahaha. how ridiculous is THAT!

[zero]

found one!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3079/3093759158_6756646a60_m.jpg

[lukkucairi]

silly lady, going out without socks.

I keep my dog in a perambulator as well - who knew?

[MoJoRiSin]

the bus driver is standing backward

[MoJoRiSin]

there is only one pedal on the bike

[MoJoRiSin]

the cars are going in the wrong direction
for right had steering

[MoJoRiSin]

i give up

[Hyakujo's Fox]

men don't wear hats anymore

[Coffee]

should be electric eel in the lamp

striped awnings are tacky

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

The sign above the shop window shouldn't read POHS but POSH, right?

NEW! QOTD for 9/12/2008

¿Which words would you advise Oxford University Press to remove from its Junior Dictionary?

[PinkLincoln]

the few words that I think children shouldn't rush to learn are surely omitted already, so I'd have to say I can't see any reason to remove any words (though I've never actually looked through a junior dictionary)

[zero]

storm, teacup, pedantic and busybody

[brightpearl]

dictionary

as it's clearly meaningless

:)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I think intelligent will have to go soon, too. :eek:

[brightpearl]

And also kumquat as it sounds naughty.

And gesticulate.

Oh oh oh
...and cumulonimbus.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

... and cow as it can also be holy!

[brightpearl]

Well, cows will go on being cows just the same as they have no idea whether or not they're in the dictionary. As long as religion leaves to Oxford what is Oxford's, it'll do just fine.


PS rectory
ever so filthy.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Well, cows will go on being cows just the same as they have no idea whether or not they're in the dictionary. As long as religion leaves to Oxford what is Oxford's, it'll do just fine.


PS rectory
ever so filthy.

I mentioned cow because I suspect it was for religious reasons they'd left out bacon.

PS and annals must be full of grime, too.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

I want bacon in my dictionary dammit...

and an extra definition of cheese! :mad:

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I want bacon in my dictionary dammit...

and an extra definition of cheese! :mad:

*points encouragingly towards The Dictionary Game thread where one can post double entries to their heart's content with the faint hope of not winning the round under the The Multiple Entry Amendment* :p

[lukkucairi]

"the," "a," "an,"

let's raise a generation without articles!

[12"razormix]

20081212¿otd


sloth talks!


¿what's it saying?!


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3070/3102448127_bd4b246646_o.jpg

[brightpearl]

Where's the %*&@* remote?!?

[trisherina]

"I didn't do it!"

[MoJoRiSin]

intelligent design,
your majesty.

[lukkucairi]

"operating this cup requires opposable thumbs. please fetc.. bring me my squirty nalgene instead."

how many times am I going to get that 403 error before I mend my ways?!

[Jack Flanders]

"ohhh shiiitt. soorryy. wwwhherrees thhhe wwwippes. nnoonnoo I'lll geettt itt. ssooonn. rreaallyy...

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

‘Hiccup—sniccup—look up—right up—three drops in a cup—is good for the hiccup’

alternatively:

'What are ya starin' at?'

[zero]

20081212¿otd
sloth talks!
¿what's it saying?!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3070/3102448127_bd4b246646_o.jpg

♫did you ever sit ona settee-mouse
acci dent a lee?
it logs you in
auto matic a lee♫

[Hyakujo's Fox]

**** the rainforest, this is living.

[Stephi_B]

**** I do need a more expressive face! Where's the yellow pages?

[lukkucairi]

QOTD 20081212

¿ how do you find your way out ?

http://wuff.me.uk/hoo%20hill%20maze/noj%20maze%201A.jpg

[Jack Flanders]

Climb. I've done that.:D

[Hyakujo's Fox]

wait for fire.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

What? You mean there IS a way out?

[brightpearl]

My previous habit has been to dig a hole.

However, my current goal is to see whether I can enjoy being in the maze.

[zero]

QOTD 20081212
¿ how do you find your way out ?
http://wuff.me.uk/hoo%20hill%20maze/noj%20maze%201A.jpg


MAZES ARE SO RUBBISH - i'm not going in it. if people are daft enough to go in them in the first place then it serves them right if they get stuck

& anyway that one in the ^picture's someone's 2ftx2ft homemade one amongst a weedpatch and that's their pet guinea pig in the middle of it

[Stephi_B]

"Amaze is a maze is amaze or is a maze a maze not amaze? ...."
I will repeat that so long until the maze is confused and/or pissed off enough and simply walks away!





Mondayish QotD:

¿

http://www.dingstag.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/15042008_34.jpg

This is a small part of a larger picture -- what's on that picture

?

[Coffee]

looks like mildew, and maybe a pee stain, along with a fragment of a painted image :p

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

the ears of a holy dog<SUP>*</SUP> with a red halo and pervading smell (the latter is indicated by the coffee stain)


* It's actually my avatar :eek:

[Frieda]

gnomes!

[zero]

:mad:

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

:mad:

why, oh why?

[MoJoRiSin]

re: yesterday's question
The who can reach the rather high keyhole just walk though the two doors located about 1/3 of the way up the photo on the left, making sure no children are watching
the children cut through the bushes sometimes but once you are cought by the gardener you are doomed to take over his mowing routine until the job is
COMPLETELY FINISHED!
COMPLETELY FINISHED.

[zero]

:mad:
why, oh why?


because it makes me SO MAD that acannie tell what's on that picture that it's a small part of despite staring at the bloodyfvckken thing for half an arsing hour


HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT


and now i need to have a little lie-down



POOR ME

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

watch out for the settee mouse!

[zero]

you have a settee mouse too?! terrible aren't they?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

i have all kinds

there's one that resides under my chair
then crawls up unexpectedly...

ach!

[zero]

... ach!


is that how you say och in your slovakies?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

och is for surprise (or fear)

ach is for annoyance

aaahhh is for pleasure

[brightpearl]

Those are Liberace's nostrils.
Obviously.

I can't believe I'm the only one who sees it.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Two Tuareg women plaiting orange hay in the desert, in preparation for the burning man festival.

[Brynn]

Two spilled ice cream cones, obviously.
And now I want some. Thanks a lot.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

two short witches walking past a window

[lukkucairi]

stiletto toed shoes on my feet, seen from the perspective of just having fallen over backward in a field of dried grass

[trisherina]

It's the silhouette of a couple of Klan members with their backs to a pyre.

[Jack Flanders]

Madonna's weird bra that Guy got in the settlement.