¿ question of the day ?

[Stephi_B]

My guess, it's either one of the three pairs of ears of this fellow

Over the souls of those submerged beneath
that mess, is an outlandish, vicious beast,
his three throats barking, doglike: Cerberus.

His eyes are bloodred; greasy, black, his beard;
his belly bulges, and his hands are claws;
his talons tear and flay and rend the shades.

or part of an interestingly arranged food creation with serrated dark mushrooms / veggies and carrots.



A new question, which hopefully compensates Mr Zerö's acannie experiences with the past one (:o)


¿?
¿?

http://www.spatium-magazin.de/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/australien_raetsel1.jpg

¿?
¿?

¿ What does this sign mean ?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

My guess, it's either one of the three pairs of ears of this fellow

Over the souls of those submerged beneath
that mess, is an outlandish, vicious beast,
his three throats barking, doglike: Cerberus.

His eyes are bloodred; greasy, black, his beard;
his belly bulges, and his hands are claws;
his talons tear and flay and rend the shades.



Ha! I won! I won! *jumps up and down excitedly*

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:

Wait. What did I win? :rolleyes:


The sign, of course, means: Don't knock your head against the cave ceiling, or you'll see shooting stars and feel shooting pain.

Although, it could equally mean: Stop looking at the stars, man. There's a great big rock falling towards your head.

[zero]

BEWARE
http://www.spatium-magazin.de/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/australien_raetsel1.jpg

ABSTRACT POLAR BEAR

[brightpearl]

Do Not Strike Chess Pawns with Hailstones !!!

[Coffee]

DO NOT STAND UNDER SKYLIGHT DURING METEOR SHOWERS!

[Frieda]

caution: stay under sheet of plastic while watching communism in the distance!

[Jack Flanders]

WHOA!! REALLY BIG SHOE COMING AT YA!!! W.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^:D

[Hyakujo's Fox]

CAUTION: PERIODIC GRAVITATIONAL INFLUENCE OF NEMESIS DWARF STAR MAY PERTURB OORT CLOUD OBJECTS INTO ORBITS INTERSECTING THIS AREA

[Stephi_B]

:D @ all the above answers!


ATTENTION!!
ENTERING GATE FOR INCOMING SPACESHIPS CAMOUFLAGED AS WHITE DWARF CLASS STARS!
BEWARE OF LOW-FLYING VEHICLES AND INTERSTELLAR TRAVELLERS CROSSING THE ROAD HERE!!

[lukkucairi]

http://www.spatium-magazin.de/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/australien_raetsel1.jpg

GLACIAL FACE CALVING DINGBATS

[zero]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/56/131701436_2a229ab380.jpg

[lukkucairi]

stick first & save the best for last

[brightpearl]

Oh, it's not mine.

[Odbe]

Crunch!

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Lickety-lick, crunch, crunch.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

from the inside out

[trisherina]

Me on one side, the dog on the other.

[xfox]

With the wrapper off.

[Brynn]

Put it in my mouth and keep it there until it's gone.

[Stephi_B]

Casting circles round it \w tongue.

[zero]

QoftheDay 12.21.2008

What is your favorite coffee table book OR book to give as a gift OR anything published in 2008

THANKS! :)
Love,
Mo:)



hi mo. i saw your question before you deleted it ;)


the art of looking sideways (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Looking-Sideways-Alan-Fletcher/dp/0714834491) lives on my settee-side table. it's a table book yeh, and a big fat one at that, with 1000 pages. i'm on my third copy of it because i love it so much acannie stop giving it away to people i like.

i struggle to adequately describe it but luckily this (http://www.davidairey.com/the-art-of-looking-sideways/) kind fellow has taken a stab at it and posted some pictures of it.

[MoJoRiSin]

^ wow that hits the nail on the head AND it qualifies for "free supersavershipping" !!

cab't beat that!

[MoJoRiSin]

^ thank you zero

[lukkucairi]

no single favorite but this one's good (http://www.amazon.com/Alice-Ocean-Alone-Across-Outback/dp/0201632160/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229913175&sr=1-1)

[trisherina]

it makes people laugh (http://www.lileks.com/institute/mommy/index.html)

[xfox]

doubles as a liberal dart (http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=1569) board.

[Brynn]

One of my favorites. I've given so many of these away:

The Family of Man (http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAPfamily.htm)



http://faculty.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/books/VR99/Image35.gif

[MoJoRiSin]

^ Thank you Brynn!! AMAZING!
("The Family of Children" must be in that series :)
I once worked for a family as their cook:: they gave it to me as a gift
>>before I was maternal at all<<
...It was my favorite book
for years.

[Brynn]

I never heard of Family of Children - that's nice - I'll look it up!
Family of Man is so cool, has been around for so long and is so easy to find, so I'm always surprised to find someone who's never seen it. I especially like the quotes from Carl Sandburg, Ghandi, e.e.cummings, etc.

[MoJoRiSin]

^ :)

I have ordered all 4 of these... THANKS!
because of some brain error (malfunction?)
it is almost impossible for me to choose appropriate gifts

FOR SOME REASON

[MoJoRiSin]

QOTD 2.23.2008

what does the downtown of your town look like?

[MoJoRiSin]

new QOTD 12.23.2008

Is anyone reading this stuck at an airport ??

[lukkucairi]

(1) it would be a lot more lively if they fixed the fwcking liquor laws around here

(2) not yet

[Frieda]

(1)

like this:
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/9648/downtown1jy9.jpg

i live in the downtown of my town. this is my street:
http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/3492/894grootpl5.jpg

there's 3 pubs here in my street, a shoarma place where drunk people go and eat, a mighty fine pizzeria and some small shops and a tourist office.

this is the view from my neighbor's balcony:
http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/5320/viewns2.png
i'm right there on the left of the picture, cutting the flowers on my own balcony.

on wednesdays, there's a market and in summer the boat people live at the docks.

around the corner is the old railway station:
http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/6159/stationei8.jpg

it's now a restaurant and pub. they have really good saté dishes.

this next one is a drawing of the church by Jan Punt, dating from 1736.
http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/5109/amstelmondjanpunt1736ew2.jpg


(2) no. but if i do bruce willis will come and save me from terrorists.

[lukkucairi]

oh, OK, here's SLC skyline with mountains. it looks like this only when there's no smog :p

http://wfrc.org/cms/images/photos/SALT%20LAKE%20CITY%20SKYLINE.JPG

and here's the temple

http://hex.oucs.ox.ac.uk/~rejs/holidays/rockies2002/slc-temple-square.jpg

and here's the park by my house

http://www.stride4autism.com/images/SugarHousePark%20salt%20lake%20city.bmp

[brightpearl]

qotd for 12-24


Hey Baby.
What're you wearing?

[zero]

NIVEA

[brightpearl]

^ever the minimalist

I was wearing something like this.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3244/3133170445_d1cc07947d.jpg

Looking at that I wonder whether I should perhaps employ a stylist.

[Frieda]

finally gotten over the socks-in-heels threshold, huh? :D


oh, and don't employ one.. it's a lovely 90s style :)

[lukkucairi]

I am wearing the Special Christmas Broken-Toe Sandal on my right foot, and a brown skater shoe on the left foot. My right sock is pink and fuzzy, and the left one is a blue knee-high with stars on it. I am wearing jeans, and pink underwear, and a green tank top, and a black bra, and a big warm black faux-fur coat.

Oh, and my glasses.

[Frieda]

QOTD 27-12-08 !! !!

what's your favorite xmas breakfast/brunch/lunch/dinner/etc leftover this year? :)

[zero]

NIVEA

[MoJoRiSin]

^ what is that supposed to mean zero?

[zero]

NIVEA! it's self-explanatroy!

[brightpearl]

my dad's apple-apricot pie

[MoJoRiSin]

"rum glazed sweet potatoes" sans the lemon juice + apples (chestnuts optional as well)

as far as I cam tell the computer image is of another dish altogether

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

sauerkraut soup

[12"razormix]

champagne

[brightpearl]

qotd for Mondayish the 29thish.

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[YsaPur EsChomuw]

same as every eve

[Frieda]

eat oliebollen and light some fireworks at midnight which i'm about to go and pickup.. and drink some champagne too, probably.. ;)

don't know where i'm going to celebrate it though. there were supposed to be parties but now nobody wants to host one.. if all else fails i'm going to my cousin and her hubby :)

[zero]

what's your favorite xmas breakfast/brunch/lunch/dinner/etc leftover this year?

champagne


zormix stop trying to make out that you only have champers for special when in fact you have constantly every single day of yours life


¿ how will you be spending new year's eve ?


i HAT hogmany due to being scarred for life age 5-14yrs by all my aunties and other blooterd people trying to make me dance and sing, and always saying to me "come on - ENJOY YOURSELF!! you MUST ENJOY YOURSELF!! GET BLOOTERD WITH US! THIS IS GREAT!! that made me slope off and hide behind the settee, curled into the foetal position

therefore i will be seeping

[12"razormix]

bgrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmpp hhhhffffffffff! :mad:

[zero]

sorry - my hipflask did this to me




here let me clean up your frock

[MoJoRiSin]

zmost likely mo will be sleeping, however, many of her (heathen) friends will be here ::

(scroll down)
http://www.belovedpresents.com/lineup.html

"With music as our medicine and Ganesha as our guide,
we release all that obstructs
the state of embodied radiance
that is our true nature"

[Brynn]

my husband is earning extra money doing dj gigs this year (nothing flashy - he just plays music and takes requests). He wants me to go with him and be his groupie. That way we can be bored together watching other people dance, and then kiss at midnight.

[zero]

20090101qotd:


¿ should auld acquaintance be forgot♫
and never brought to mind ?

[lukkucairi]

thankyou mr erzo same question was bothering me this very morning as I was gargling away the dregs of 2008 with a mug of fresh seawater...

I should say it depends on the acquaintance, but certainly of the quality we find in these hereabouts no, it shouldn't be forgot.

[trisherina]

I've never understood what that blootered song was aboot. Like Kurt Vonnegut said about the American national anthem, gibberish sprinkled with question marks (https://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook6542.htm).

[Brynn]

tidbits from Wikipedia:
"Canadian band leader Guy Lombardo is often credited with popularizing the use of the song at New Year’s celebrations in America, through his annual broadcasts on radio and television, beginning in 1929. The song became his trademark."

"Many Japanese department stores and supermarkets play the song to let customers know the store will be closing soon."

and

"Garrison Keillor’s New Year’s Eve Special" had the audience sing an adaptation of the lyrics with a humorous last verse: "I think of all the great, high hearts I had when I was young / And now who are these sad old farts I find myself among?"

[MoJoRiSin]

i used to have a book of baby names
(1946 Evelyn Wells)
on the last page
zero
is followed by
zeus

[brightpearl]

Well, I guess I'll keep on unless I run out of kindness cups.

Never can tell.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

1. No.
2. All these auld acquaintances seem to be rather blothered with all those cups o' kindness
3.
And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere !
And gie's a hand o’ thine !
And we’ll tak a right gude-willy waught,
For auld lang syne.

Oooh, my imagination runs wild...

[Jack Flanders]

I've never understood what that blootered song was aboot. Like Kurt Vonnegut said about the American national anthem, gibberish sprinkled with question marks (https://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook6542.htm).

Me too.

[zero]

20090103qotd


when did you last see anyone smoking a pipe?

[Frieda]

1997

my dutch teacher in high school smoked a pipe. he also had a beard. those two often seem to go together.

[zero]

i'm a wee bit surprised to hear that. i don't know why, but i'd have expected there to be an above-average amount of pipe-smoking going on in your nether regions.



a gentleman sauntered past me in the street yesterday smoking one. it smelled good and strongly reminded me of times gone by when my father would puff away contentedly on his pipe. then it suddenly dawned on me that it's ages since i saw anyone smoking a pipe. hence the question.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

this summer, a (probably) tourist was smoking his pipe in a summer restaurant
it smelled nice (I slowed down to look and smell :o )

[xfox]

the 60's, and it wasn't tobacco...

[Frieda]

^oh, in that case it was in 2003 :D

[MoJoRiSin]

at least not since the 70's except for
Inspector Clouseau

[trisherina]

Mon homme has a couple of pipes, one plain and one fancy (carved as a lion's head -- I gave it to him). He prefers a cigar, though, and last smoked one of his pipes back in the summer time when it was possible to sit outdoors. I love the smell of pipe tobacco -- in truth most forms of burning tobacco, including some cigarette tobaccos, smell great to me.

Back in the eighties it was not unusual to find a woman smoking a delicate "ladies' pipe" filled with some peach-scented tobacco or similar burning confection. I have not seen a lady smoke a pipe in public since then; I suspect the lynching starts well before I arrive on the scene.

[brightpearl]

Long time. Maybe my dad when I was little?

I have a corduroy jacket of his that still has little flakes of tobacco in the pockets.

[madasacutsnake]

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[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Oh, and in Isengard...

http://www.tuckborough.net/images/merrypipe.jpg

[Brynn]

Uh oh...not the Isengard song not that no :eek:

Thinking quickly here - okay new QOTD:

Are you (generally speaking)
Always early?
Always late?
Or on time?

[lukkucairi]

pipe: a friend smokes one irregularly, so about a month ago at a party

early, late, or on time?

for friends who tend to be late, I don't worry about being early or on time

for business meetings, I'm exactly on time

for travel, I leave early.

for my shrink, I pay attention to whether I get to her office on time - it tells me what kind of week I've had :p

[zero]

i'm never late unless i've been struck by lightning or something. i HAT it and it drives me FVCKKEN MENATAL when people are late. late ness is disrespectful. don't be so useless, a little forward planning's all it takes.

[zero]

:mad: BOLLOCKS IVE JUST MISSED MY TRAIN

[Brynn]

^that's funny :) :) :)

[Jack Flanders]

Early to the point of driving others crazy. Thank you Dad!!! :)

Newest ? 1.6.09 If you could bring 2 books and 2 movies with you into an isolated compound (bed and board included) with great lighting, a roaring fireplace and a fantastic media center what would they be and why?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

1. I used to arrive early, but not any more. I'm usually on time. Sometimes I'm late, due to unexpected circumstances.

2. Films:
Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
The Big Blue
Books:
Tad Williams: Otherland (because it's good and loooong)
Nemes Nagy Ágnes: Collected Poems (in Hungarian, of course)

[Coffee]

Books: "How things work", and "The anarchist's cookbook"...just in case I need to escape from "the isolated compound".

Films: A couple pornos in case I can't escape from "the isolated compound'.

[zero]

... roaring fireplace ...
moby dick


... media center ...
INLAND EMPIRE

[brightpearl]

This is hard.

Movies: I think Bladerunner and maybe something like Hiroshima, Mon Amor or La Jetée.

Books...a good world poetry anthology, maybe A Book of Luminous Things, and a book which I will decline to specify that it is more like the Bible than anything else I can think of.

eta
These are not necessarily my most favorite ones, but they are the ones I think I could continue to get something out of after several hundred times.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Escaping from Isolated Compounds, Vols I & II

BUT SERIOUSLY!!!!!



Books
Inexhaustable big fat fiction would be the way to go, so Bleak House & The Brothers Karamazov.

Movies
2001: A Space Odyssey (because I'd never completely fathom it) and Groundhog Day (because I'd watch it everyday)

[MoJoRiSin]

^groundhog day is my favorite movie
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

[trisherina]

If I don't get to leave the isolated compound ever again, I guess a good dictionary and City Boy. Entertainment centre, can I just have the entire collection of Norman McLaren shorts? That'll be fine.

[Stephi_B]

Thinking quickly here - okay new QOTD:

Are you (generally speaking)
Always early?
Always late?
Or on time?

All of the above if taking into consideration several timezones and/or "soft" time! :)

In single timezones, more like late....




**** New Q for 07012009 ****

¿ From where
[country /-ies, world region(s), (sub-)culture(s), ....]
do you think / believe / imagine / hope will come the major influence on "global culture" the next decades ?

[Stephi_B]

oops, oversaw the lastest question
(my answers: books -- Lord of the Rings & The Alchimist; films: Berlin calling & Momo)
& cannot edit it....

[zero]

¿ From where [country /-ies, world region(s), (sub-)culture(s), ....] do you think / believe / imagine / hope will come the major influence on "global culture" the next decades ?

all the movers and shakers these days are saying that auchtermuchty (http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/auchtermuchty/auchtermuchty/index.html) will emerge as the cultural epicentre of the 21st century. in fact i was there recently and can report that it may have already begun.

[Coffee]

I vote for Jamaica!

Oh ja mon!

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I think Facebook, but I hope: no.

The internet already has a large share, things like twitter, somethingawful, etc.

[lukkucairi]

Ulaanbator.

The Mongolians are organizing on Facebook. I myself already belong to several Mongolian Facebook Groups. Welcome your new cultural overlords, weaklings :)

[Stephi_B]

^YES!! :D (I do have a weakness for Ural-Altaic riders as is well known by now ;))
Plus Ulaanbator is said to have more internet cafes than inhabitants, so....

I think China, India, Indonesia, Singapur, Mongolia (of course!!), maybe UAE and even Iran.... that whole "corner" -- will send out the big vibes, maybe even some pan-Asian culture-amalgam thingie.

I have a super-cool handbag of Chinese brand btw :)

[Frieda]

south american rainforest. keywords are pure, non-industrialized, colorful and organic.

for fashion: pristine, still 2 more years of north pole to come. uggs are becoming really too 2006 right now so fashion shifts to big hats, hunter caps of organic material, ear muffs, and also light pink and green lipstick (think 90's ski lip balm for every day use). wear white with a color of your choice to combine, use different white pieces of clothing with each a different texture and maybe a yellow bracelet to finish it off.

[lukkucairi]

^ dammit, and I just broke down and finally bought a pair of uggs yesterday as they're really the best playa footwear ever invented :p

I'll be sooooo 2006 *sigh*

[Frieda]

^oh, just add led lights and you'll be fine again :D and there's plenty of room to attach a small solar panel on the toes of your boots to make the leds run all night long :)

[zero]

20090108qotd

¿

http://www.monster-munch.com/images/DoOneThingToday.jpg

?

[Stephi_B]

smile

:)

[lukkucairi]

be serene during travel :p

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

read something

[trisherina]

grind

[brightpearl]

send that necessary email which I fear will elicit a noxious response

[Coffee]

get stuck in traffic

[β cyg]

http://www.monster-munch.com/images/DoOneThingToday.jpg


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;)

[Jack Flanders]

merge politely. with grace.

[Odbe]

Go for a walk. Maybe.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

finish up

[Brynn]

look at the flaming roses on the table, thinking of fire and the one who gave them to me.

[12"razormix]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/67/203294775_dab7ae76eb.jpg

[MoJoRiSin]

be inspired

[lukkucairi]

sundayish:

¿ what is your cure for heartbreak ?

[trisherina]

http://www.countryliving.com/cm/countryliving/images/7n/calendar-de.jpg

[12"razormix]

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii299/Wishes4you/ACCEPTANCE.jpg

[brightpearl]

There is no cure for heartbreak.

Fortunately, for precisely the same reason, there is no way to break a heart. What there is, I think, includes both broken and unbroken, but it also goes beyond them.

Here is the moon.
http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~fringwal/2-70mm-st7-Ha-15x1s-MoonMedComSharpened-2003nov23-0600-35hours-from-New-Michelle.jpg

Even when we think it is wasted down to a sliver, even when the whole of it is enveloped in darkness, we're always looking at the whole thing.

[zero]

try to eat less fatty foods and drink less coffee. if that doesn't work then try one of the so-called "proton pump inhibitors (PPI) class of medications such as ZANTAC or better still one of the NEW! "h22-receptor antagonists".

also, the toe plays a very important role to hold a thing in your hand, the best thing for blisters is a product called skin, which you should be able to pick up at a drug store. you put the second skin over the blister than use a couple band aids to keep it in place and you won't even know it's there anymore, skin problem normally occur in the toe so please keep concentrate on it.

[zero]

Here is the moon.
http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~fringwal/2-70mm-st7-Ha-15x1s-MoonMedComSharpened-2003nov23-0600-35hours-from-New-Michelle.jpg
Even when we think it is wasted down to a sliver, even when the whole of it is enveloped in darkness, we're always looking at the whole thing.

^very thought-provoking ... FOR SIMPLETONS!

[Frieda]

sundayish:

¿ what is your cure for heartbreak ?

love

[lukkucairi]

http://www.yogamates.com/photos/news/092128001209155785.jpg

[brightpearl]

^^the hair of the dog thing is probably true, but it distresses me.
:)

And ezra, it may be simple, but it isn't easy.

[12"razormix]

SIMPLETONS
:D HERE!!!!!!!!!!! geeeee gosh golly... finally something even i can understand! :o :cool:

[zero]

http://www.zefrank.com/bulletin_new/images/icons/icon14.gif


:) "when a baker points to the loaf, the simpleton looks at the baker”:)

[Frieda]

^^the hair of the dog thing is probably true, but it distresses me.
:)



hair of the dog? there's more to love than a partner--

love yourself
love your family
love your bathtub
love your view
love your car
love your job
love your favorite jeans
love your neighbors
love your anything

[zero]

love your arse!

[zero]

sorry adidnie mean to say that out loud

[Frieda]

raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
swaying round arses dressed up in strings
these are a few of my favorite things♪

[zero]

^well if that doesnie cure o'cairo's heartburn nothing will!!

[Stephi_B]

sundayish:

¿ what is your cure for heartbreak ?

1. crying & letting out all sorts of emotion

2. listening to music, the kind I need

also often mixing 1. & 2.

3. forge my heart anew

[lukkucairi]

^well if that doesnie cure o'cairo's heartburn nothing will!!

indeed, my reflux responds well to arse-references :p

*gurgle*

[Brynn]

If my sweetheart doesn't have the good taste to be absolutely crazy about me,
and he doesn't go to extraordinary measures to avoid breaking my heart, then he is off za list.
There's nothing better for heartbreak than realizing that you could have wasted your whole life
with someone who doesn't think you're wonderful.

[lukkucairi]

There's nothing better for heartbreak than realizing that you could have wasted your whole life
with someone who doesn't think you're wonderful.

:)

[brightpearl]

Dear Brynn,
I really wish I had known you in the early 90's.
Pearly

[12"razormix]

( the people that break your heart don't always do it on purpose or plan to or intend to hurt you
and sometimes do so in spite of considering you quite a wonderful person. life tends to happen in spite of that. )

[zero]

http://www.thelupussite.com/forum/images/smilies/eyebrow.gif acannie help it!




ffs somebody post a new question i hat this one

[12"razormix]

20090112qotd

¿ which piece of furniture in your home is, in your
opinion, best suited for the safe practice of sex ?

[brightpearl]

For the 12-ish then,
If you were zero, what question would you ask today?

eta:
OOops, razormix beat me.
That does sound like something ezra would want to ask of her, however.

[brightpearl]

Do rugs count?

[12"razormix]

most don't talk - they're perfectly safe for sex though!

[zero]

rustic kuchentafel like in the postman always rrrrrrings twice. and flour on it.

[12"razormix]

RRRRRRRRR! http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j260/andy101_photos/homer_simpson_drool1.jpg

[zero]

och i wish i hadn't said that - i've gone and brokenhearted myself

[treekisser]

Depending upon what you mean by "safe", my answer would be the treadmill.

[zero]

^hamster

[lukkucairi]

the sideborg

[Coffee]

Tethered in the cockpit.

[trisherina]

( the people that break your heart don't always do it on purpose or plan to or intend to hurt you
and sometimes do so in spite of considering you quite a wonderful person. life tends to happen in spite of that. )


aaah looove youu maaaan

But I can't get past the whole "safe" part and answer the qotd.

[Jack Flanders]

the mirror....

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

um... the safe?

[Stephi_B]

Movable pieces of furniture ain't never safe, even if they do look so or pretend to be unmovable like my double mattress!

So I'd say: On the naked floor (it's wooden, so it ain't too cold ;)) or a lil more risky: under the shower but without water, the shower curtain removed and the shower head & thingadoes fixed with strong tape.

[lukkucairi]

On the naked floor (it's wooden, so it ain't too cold ;))

and if you rub each other down with coconut oil first, you'll be helping preserve your hardwood floor's natural beauty :)

[Stephi_B]

^:D

Oh, but it is painted with lovely GDR-paint, under which there might even be some pre-war paint left (one day I'll flex & polish it, one day....) -- but well either the GDR-paint likes the coconut oil or it saves me the flexing & polishing work, OK, the potential lover & me would be covered with a coconut-oil + GDR-paint mischmasch then & I'd first have to un-tape the shower head and thingadoes and put on the shower curtain again to clean us in a safe way.... but it sounds like fun in any case :D

[treekisser]

Movable pieces of furniture ain't never safe, even if they do look so or pretend to be unmovable like my double mattress!


Stephi, perhaps it's different on your side of the pond, but when I think of safe sex, I think of preventing more severe outcomes than a bruise on my tush.

[Brynn]

This is a very mysterious line of conversation if you don't know what the original question was on the previous page.

Everyone knows that the safest place to have sex is on the phone. Everywhere else is extremely dangerous, and may lead to brokenheartedness.

[Stephi_B]

^^ It's the same here. We even use the term 'save(r) Sex'.

.... as Brynn said ^

[madasacutsnake]

NEW QUESTION! OF THE DAY!!

What is the last thing that you bought which you’re really proud of?

[Brynn]

this thing is really flattering and I enjoy wearing it:
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[Coffee]

http://news.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/10381/508329.jpg

(*proud that I was able, in one year, to replace a large (for me) chunk of debt with a large (for me) chunk of surplus enabling the purchase/upgrade)

[Brynn]

nice :cool:

[Stephi_B]

Not proud of, but delighted with
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nH7p-64QL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
which quite took long to come to me.

[Marcus Bales]

http://di1.shopping.com/images1/pi/4a/a4/50/28094801-177x150-0-0_Magic+Chef+Magic+Chef+Mcwc30mcg+30+bottle+Wine+C oo.jpg

[lukkucairi]

this (http://www.pacemaker.net/device/)

http://dvice.com/pics/pacemaker_3_cmyk.jpg

[trisherina]

Doesn't do a whole lot, but a bargain (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/26/45856036_650674ab0a.jpg?v=0) at several hundred times the price.

[brightpearl]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zvi4Em7XHpQ/R9YYvcrncdI/AAAAAAAAA90/h8n0mxnWuo0/s320/payless+american+eagle+charm+ballet+flat.jpg

These.
I got them for $5 and they make me happy.

[zero]

something i bought? really proud??




i know nothing of such matters

[Marcus Bales]

Okay, rzeo, in your case, "stole".

[treekisser]

I just splurged on a tube of Shoo Goo which I am using to repair holes in the soles of my winter boots to extend their life. So, no mo' holes in ma soles.

[Frieda]

something i bought? really proud??




i know nothing of such matters
neither do i

i am enormously happy with a lot of things i bought but pride isn't really a word that comes to mind.. not like i achieved anything important by buying something :confused:

[Odbe]

^ Yes me too, I am really only proud of things I made. But the last time I went to a small-town crafty market I bought lots of pretty beads, so I am proud of the things I've made/will make with them.

[Odbe]

Question for today day!
15-01-09

What is your suggestion of a black-and-white picture(s) or design(s) to put on the covers of my four school summary books?

[trisherina]

something i bought? really proud??




i know nothing of such matters



neither do i

i am enormously happy with a lot of things i bought but pride isn't really a word that comes to mind.. not like i achieved anything important by buying something :confused:

I know what you're saying. I always snort unbecomingly when making a large purchase like a house or a car -- salespeople congratulate you. For what? Buying something? Whoa, you people are easy to please!

From recent chats with snake, I assumed she was just trying to translate "well chuffed" and having a hard time.

As for you, Odbe, I've always been fond of the old Gestalt favourite:

http://www.scholarpedia.org/wiki/images/4/43/FigureGroundPerceptionFigure6AdaptedRubinVaseFace. jpg

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

What is a summary book?
Maybe som pic that sums up the contents or is related to the contents. Or, if the book contains something unpleasant (assuming it's school stuff) then something that cheers you up, something you really like.

[madasacutsnake]

From recent chats with snake, I assumed she was just trying to translate "well chuffed" and having a hard time.


Actually, I was bored with the previous qotd and googled, copied and pasted in haste.

[zero]

... your suggestion of a black-and-white picture(s) or design(s) to put on the covers of my four school summary books?



odbe look no further - i've been saving this tasteful & conservative piece for just such a use!

http://www.sketchzilla.com/madlibs/pill.gif (http://fletchowns.net/what.html)

[Hyakujo's Fox]

oh well at least we can be proud of our post-consumer credentials. :)


anyhoo...

I know they're not b&w but I thought there was some weird interthread connection going on, so just pick an expression appropriate to each subject.

http://www.zefrank.com/bulletin_new/showpost.php?p=404633&postcount=507

[lukkucairi]

this? (http://image58.webshots.com/458/6/38/96/2722638960044617040lPqhhv_ph.jpg)

or perhaps this! (http://blog.uncovering.org/archives/uploads/2007/070815_blog.uncovering.org_foto-nu-pb_3.jpg)

though I think it's more up rzeo's alley than yours

:)

[Stephi_B]

Google for Rune Mields, can be there's something among her paintings you like.

:)

[Marcus Bales]

http://www.piratemerch.com/images/pirate_black_briefs.jpg

[treekisser]

Marcus, have you been snooping in Coffee's underwear drawer?

[brightpearl]

http://www.root-beer.org/DBI/birch-o.jpg

Odbe, are you supplementing my complementing, or am I complementing your supplementing?

[brightpearl]

This is good (http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=mammoth+tooth&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmammoth%2Btooth%26start%3D40%26imgc%3 Dgray%26as_st%3Dy%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%2 6client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN&imgurl=bb07858f4ee263d2), too.

Or one of these.
http://www.genetologisch-onderzoek.nl/wp-content/image_upload/fossil-spider1.jpg

http://scienceblogs.com/transcript/upload/2007/04/weird.jpg

http://drx.typepad.com/psychotherapyblog/images/2008/08/18/vintage.jpg

[Odbe]

Thank you everyone, they're all marvellous :cool:

What is a summary book?
Maybe som pic that sums up the contents or is related to the contents. Or, if the book contains something unpleasant (assuming it's school stuff) then something that cheers you up, something you really like.
A summary book is where I sum things up. And make summaries. For past covers I've had mazes, optical illusions, pictures of things in jars, maps of Middle Earth, my artwork, other people's artwork, every witty variation on the subject of the book I could think of... So this year I went browsing through some image threads, like suki wabi sabi and this is... but then I thought, why not just ask?

odbe look no further - i've been saving this tasteful & conservative piece for just such a use!

http://www.sketchzilla.com/madlibs/pill.gif (http://fletchowns.net/what.html)
My, that's quite, er, modern. Reminds me of an art installation I once saw, but it was a roomful of it.



anyhoo...

I know they're not b&w but I thought there was some weird interthread connection going on, so just pick an expression appropriate to each subject.

http://www.zefrank.com/bulletin_new/showpost.php?p=404633&postcount=507
That's amazing, I think I'd use them but I'm not sure I could bear to have them looking back at me every day!


Steph, I love Rune Mields now :D



Odbe, are you supplementing my complementing, or am I complementing your supplementing?
You noticed :D :p Since mine came after, I'd say it's supplementing your complementing.

[Brynn]

odbe look no further - i've been saving this tasteful & conservative piece for just such a use!

http://www.sketchzilla.com/madlibs/pill.gif (http://fletchowns.net/what.html)

I'm not entirely sure, but after looking at that, I can't shake the feeling that I'm supposed to assassinate the mayor now.

[12"razormix]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/222/503415699_dda4a3e4a5.jpg

[zero]

20090116qotd
what might mo be up to at this precise moment?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

on a medictation retreat, writing her autobiography to be published in installments scattered throughout Zeboard in unexpected threads due to unexpected associations

[trisherina]

Mo is listening to robot music and cocking her head.

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[Brynn]

Actually, she's making the music, shape note singing. She's closest to the kitchen - the side where all the altos traditionally sit - because as everyone knows, they're the ones most likely to jump up to make sure everyone gets fed.
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[rmr]

do you ever yawn more because you can and not because you have to?

[Jack Flanders]

no

[Brynn]

that is a good question that doubles as innuendo

[rmr]

i bet u yawned more because u could and not more because u had too.......just my opinion....

[Brynn]

sometimes I also yawn because it relaxes my throat.

[Jack Flanders]

I YAWN BECAUSE sorry yelling again - i'm bored, tired or i saw someone else or one of my pets yawn. i'm yawning now.

[rmr]

i yawned because, well, it can be a bit boring. which makes u yawn and scratch ur head.

[lukkucairi]

I yawned because my body wanted to yawn, but I kept my mouth closed and it was a weird and novel experience.

I don't yawn any more because I can yawn with my mouth open now?

maybe I'm just not bored enough.

[Brynn]

Alternate New Question of The Day:
You've never done that before? :confused:

[brightpearl]

Oh sure.
Lots of times.

I wish I was doing it right now.

[Stephi_B]

Yes, and for other reasons.

That alternate that and other things I intend to do in the soon future.

& Hi rmr!! :)

& G'morning Perla! :)

[Marcus Bales]

In fact I'm doing it right now.

[brightpearl]

*pssssst*...Marcus! You're doing it wrong, sweetie.

[MoJoRiSin]

i missed the qotd for 1.16.09
altogether
i am assuming that the exact time was
10:50 eastern standard time and not 10:50
pacific standard time
but i will wait for a response before answering
>zero, what time was it (my time) when you originally ask ?<

[zero]

TEATIME

[Coffee]

? o' de day (new)

What the fark is it?

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/phi/977244376.html

[lukkucairi]

an observation post for machine elves

[Coffee]

bomb shelter for leaves...they get claustraphobic easy so they need windows.

[brightpearl]

portable crematorium

[Stephi_B]

a post-modern birdhouse

or an old non-/no longer functioning plasma-thingado that was set out in a cruel, heartless way by some evil plasma physicists (:(), but which has found a new home and purpose now as a birdhouse (:))

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Part of a Raise Your Own Battery Hens starter kit.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

an environmentally-friendly tv set for rabbits and small rodents

[Frieda]

a bio-ethanol fireplace

or a handbag

[zero]

20090121qotd


for you, other than on tv or in cinema, do "moments" exist? would people have considered their own or other's experiences in terms of "moments" before the invention of photography, cinema & television?

[treekisser]

Most probably so, but not exactly, if you get my drift, or even if you don't. Can you please repeat the question?

[lukkucairi]

yes
there is the moment of insight or revelation, sometimes good, sometimes bad, that comes like the piling of wave on wave until the water breaches the lip of some dry rockpool. this can be a moment during some ceremony or other, or it can be a moment standing doing the washing-up, or a moment while traveling, or whateverthefwk. the moment can expand to fit the size of the revelation, or shrink to hold it snugly. it's the point where the curve becomes asymptotic.


yes
for the above reasons, and because I'm not a solipsist, this is a common human occurrence.

[brightpearl]

Oh, sure, I experience moments all the time. Sometimes they are good, and sometimes they are bad. Sometimes they seem long, and other times it's short. I think this may indicate that they're figments of my imagination, but still, that is a way of existing.

[zero]

yes ... the moment.. comes like the piling of wave on wave until the water breaches the lip of some dry rockpool.


...and with emotional & deeply moving, john williamsesque, orchestral score quite like the one for E.T.?

[Stephi_B]

Yes, there are, they do happen just *schwupps*, and become a kinda crystallisation point in memory for something (upon which often crystallises more later on).

Only one of my moments has a soundtrack attached - for a liveband played a rememberable (an eerily fitful, I later realised) tune just then, nothing Spielbergian whatsoever.

Dunno?, but media/art might have chosen the word for a reason. One would have to check that.

In German however we have a second word for moment: Augenblick (eye-glimpse) which I prefere and which I believe predates cinema and photography in describing such a flighty but sticking point in time.

[zero]

admittedly i have a wee predilection to the german language but even so, this augenblick is an exceptionally beautiful word to my ear. and for that matter "eye-glimpse" is also a beautiful notion. thank you for your kind assistance in this matter.

[zero]

http://www.sketchzilla.com/madlibs/pill.gif (http://www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-mom1.htm)

yeh, those sicklysweet, gushing "kodak moments" in the 90's are also to blame the "moment"-hungry reportage of today

[lukkucairi]

...and with emotional & deeply moving, john williamsesque, orchestral score quite like the one for E.T.?

nah, just the humming in my ears

I need a firmware upgrade, I see :p

[lukkucairi]

http://www.sketchzilla.com/madlibs/pill.gif (http://www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-mom1.htm)

yeh, those sicklysweet, gushing "kodak moments" in the 90's are also to blame the "moment"-hungry reportage of today

Though the first English sense was its now usual one of an instant of time too short to be taken into account, it could also, though not commonly, be a specific duration — one tenth of a point, where a point was either a quarter or a fifth of an hour — so a moment was a little more than a minute.

Hardly long enough to be momentous.

I'd like to see him assert that to someone traveling in a plane with an engine very recently filled with errant waterfowl - a moment can be extremely momentous :mad:

[MoJoRiSin]

quink n

the touch of magic needed to make the universe stop turning, take a deep breath, and then start turning the other way round


^mo believes such things can really happen

and as an aside,
just as a coincidence,
Haley's comet was super bright
that day

[Hyakujo's Fox]

The petals do not generally fall to be beneath my feet, no. But sometimes things might fall into line, but what does that mean when you've disavowed the existence of magic?

[zero]

... magic?

:mad: that reminds of another culprit!

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[Coffee]

New ? o de day.

What is magic?

-------------------------------------------------

magic = a collision of several coincidences.

[lukkucairi]

magic is what a guy in a tuxedo does onstage when he makes doves come out of a hat;

magick is what we do when we realize that no entity that matters actually gives a shit what we make of our lives, so we might as well have fun with the process;

majik (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_characters_from_The_Hitchhiker%27s_G uide_to_the_Galaxy#Majikthise_and_Vroomfondel) is the prenom of an amalgamated philosopher.

[treekisser]

A thermos is magic. It keeps hot drinks hot and it keeps cold drinks cold. How does it know?

[Stephi_B]

^It makes your drink be a closed system thingie let let's out neither the cold nor the warm or so they say in thermodynamics, which is a sort of magic too, like also the black arts of quanta and relativity, but the only real kinds of magic are

music

&

mathematics

&

love


!

[zero]

zormix

[madasacutsnake]

It's when you listen to the people who know you best and because you did, you get to rock.

[brightpearl]

Magic is a huge disappointment.

[MoJoRiSin]

magic is how the first mother got here
the one with hands for working ; )

[Brynn]

I'll tell you what's magic:

you are the only person awake for miles, watching the sun rise just for you.

you've stared at the throbbing red of a Rothko painting, and then suddenly you fall into it.

an itinerant preacher puts his hands over yours to pray but you fall backwards, seeing a million dancing diamonds of light radiating pure love, and you never hit the floor

you look around the room at some of the beautiful things you have made with your own hands and find nothing there but satisfaction and delight

an icy martini with the perfect balance of vodka, vermouth, and olives

Patty Griffin singing a song about her mom called "Burgundy Shoes"
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[YsaPur EsChomuw]

there's no magic, only wishful thinking :(

[brightpearl]

After thinking about it, I have to admit that although nearly every time I have felt something was magic, it has turned out to be my imagination, there was this one time that I can't explain.

I guess to be entirely accurate I have to say I am still collecting data.

[Anna]

it's a secret

[β cyg]

¿


how would you describe your handwriting and how do you feel towards your handwriting ?

[MoJoRiSin]

mo's handqriting is big and curly

how do i feel about it?
"the three stooges"
pops into my head
for some reason ~"~

[β cyg]

haha you're funny aunt mo! i could have guessed you'd do big & curly stuff and i bet you dot your i's with little circles


i wonder what the three stooges are and if anyone else will feel that way about their handwriting

[Stephi_B]

curvy, slightly chaotic, ever a-changing


fine (since 1990 when I stopped getting grades for it in school, bad grades, C- like) for it fits me ;)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

unreadable
I feel unhappy about it

In my country people use cursive characters, and so did I, until it became unreadable. Then I switched to print characters and the same thing happened. Now I use block capital letters when I want somebody to decipher my messages.

[Coffee]

^^^same...but i never could write in cursive, nor could i fluently read it...esp. the curly loopy kind, or, god forbid, the "writes in cursive cuz it is fast, and you should be able to read it regardless" kind :( .
I "print" when i write, and I'm afraid i mix cases at times, and my semi-dyslexia causes lots of scratched out characters and/or multi lined letters to cover over the "wrong letter".

I hate writing by hand. :(

Oh, and i should add: I nearly flunked high school english because of my dislike of writing by hand, and my disdain for knowing what the parts of a sentance were. When I got to college level english classes (which coincided with the availablity of home computers) I was placed into English 1A and I got all As for grades...it wasn't me, it was the ****ing pencil.

[Brynn]

Mine is a combination of sharp angularities, points, and waves. It's legible, and I like it very much. I like writing by hand, but the pen - the ink, the way it flows out of the pen and whether or not it has a pleasing ratio of "scratch" to "flow" on the sheet of the paper, has to be perfect.
I like getting hand-written letters.

[Jack Flanders]

all upper-case architectural: fun, fast and professional. my cursive for check writing is almost a flat line: boring, fast and legal.

[Odbe]

I have a handwriting for when people have to read it that isn't extremely tidy but it's okay. I feel okay about it; it's not specially distinctive but it's mine.
Then I have an unreadable scrawl for my personal notes. It's like a secret code.

[lukkucairi]

it is highly indicative of my mood and mind-state at the time

I don't mind it.

[12"razormix]

¿


how would you describe your handwriting and how do you feel towards your handwriting ?what are you doing up at this ungodly hour??? :mad: :mad:

[β cyg]

haha momma you look funny when you're angry and upside down!!

[zero]

watch your language there, wee rascal! :mad: :mad: can't you see how upset yo momma is?! :reallyangryface: