¿ question of the day ?

[Marcus Bales]

Fred, Wilma, Barney, Betty, Pebbles, Dino, and Bam-Bam

[Marcus Bales]

Sleazy, Creepy, Sappy, Gropey, Dumpy, Rashful, and Jock

[Marcus Bales]

Jonny, Scooby, Barney, Stimpy, Beavis, Pinky, and Brain

[trisherina]

Dickweed!

[12"razormix]

marie augustine

[Coffee]

Hoss

[12"razormix]

^ :) i like that!

[zero]

http://www.psychodogstudios.net/forums/images/smilies/eyebrow_a.gif what about my one?

[Marcus Bales]

[zefrank board member name redacted], [zefrank board member name redacted], [zefrank board member name redacted], [zefrank board member name redacted], [zefrank board member name redacted], [zefrank board member name redacted], and [zefrank board member name redacted].

[Stephi_B]

>>new>> Q:

Do you know about this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest)? Will you watch it tomorrow? Why?! And what do you think how much the Germanies will suck at it this year?




Me:
Yes. I fear so, yes. Nostalgia (it was THE television event for me as a kid, OK I figure also it was a lot better then in the 80s and we only had 5 channels back then), to see the cool-sweet host country clips, to see+hear the few good ones, to see+hear the Germanies suck with my own eyes+ears, to see+hear others suck more (haha :p), to fall aseep somewhen in the middle of the show, to call for Turkey and the few good ones, to get pissed about the point distribution (and no the new old rules won't help, the point distribution ALWAYS sucked, even in the 80s), to love Turkey for their friendship points, to feel big Europeas love and less embarrassment for the Germanies' contribution in the end ;). Very (only very because of the burlesque lady they engaged and not veryveryvery like last year).

[zero]

no - cannie be doing with that pantomime and always go outside to the woods when it comes on saying "tell me when it's finished"

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Unfortunately when I switch on the telly I fall asleep within 5 minutes. The reason remains a mystery to me; since I drift off even when I'm interested in what I'm um... not-watching.

[madasacutsnake]

There can only be one answer to this.

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"Take you from behind" with hands on butt.

[Frieda]

>>new>> Q:

Do you know about this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest)? Will you watch it tomorrow? Why?! And what do you think how much the Germanies will suck at it this year?


yes
no
because it SUCKS :D
not as bad as we sucked at it anyway, we didn't make it to the final.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

the tension is very building, but no.

There can only be one answer to this.

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"Take you from behind" with hands on butt.

I don't think I ever really listened to those lyrics before.

[Stephi_B]

I'd like to change my prediction to veryvery as already Lithuania and Israel were good, France wow :), Sweden.... well Swedish and Croatia full of heart etc ;)

And with respect to lyrics I'd only like to say: Lady Kiss Kiss Bang (oi....)

[Stephi_B]

& my Annika does not need to feel embarrassed in her Portugals & Greece SUCKS & Armenia makes me dance :D


After I successfully had fallen aseep: our song+performance successfully SUCKED :o:D; my SMS goes to France and that was it.

Dammit, also Armenia, Estonia, Russia, Turkey and UK got one.

[Brynn]

There can only be one answer to this.

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The answer is that the costume design choices won't make any sense at all until the skirts come off.

[madasacutsnake]

I don't think I ever really listened to those lyrics before.

"If you believe that our love can hit the top, you have to play around"

[MoJoRiSin]

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also should be posting this under
"post something that made you laugh today"
well, a chuckle or two anyway ....:)

for real this time
mañana

[Stephi_B]

I knew it, ALL of you watched it :p;)

^same procedure as every year (except when Lordi won), I don't get the first place (OK that boy's a cutie, if I were <= 12 y/o I would've voted Norway, ah oh now I get it.... for this time, at least), neither do I get the second or third this time.... ach *feels big love* for all Europeas - who, in majority, have either no music taste whatever (and thus even gave us some points) or were out in the woods yesternight :)

[zero]

<blink>NEW!</blink>Q


knots - know how to tie any/many by heart? which ones? when/why did you learn them?

[Stephi_B]

Although knots fascinate me veryvery I did not learn any new ones since the shoe tying instructions back then (I still apply the double knot for reasons of safety against looseness).
Stepfather #1 (a hunter, fisher and traveler of 5 continents and thus knowing not only about knots) unfruitfully tried to teach me more knots, but I forgot them, even their names and uses ere I knew. Then our vice-boss (who might know about most things which one can know about but does not behave such and although having no time likes to sail) tried to teach me the perfect knot (it had a name which I forgot ere I knew it) to fix a hammock on a tree stem - same result. I'd need a knot book and be on my own and have all the time of the world, and then only maybe I might learn....

[Coffee]

Bowlin, Cleat, Half hitch, Anchor Hitch, Reef/Square, Figure 8 Stopper, a quick release knot that will hold under huge loads that I invented myself (i call it a [myname]knot), and the Hangman's noose.

first seven cuz i live on a sail boat and they get used all over it...last one just for fun as i've never had an actual use for it.

[lukkucairi]

I know how to tie a self-tightening knot that's proof against high winds...that's the fanciest one.

I can tie a bow and a granny knot and a half hitch, and a variety of knots whose names I don't know.

I have been shown multiple times how to tie a bowline but I still can't retain the how :o

[Brynn]

I know how to artfully knot my scarves.

And I can crochet, which is really just knotting things with a hook.

But if you asked me to tie up that rowboat to the dock, or hang the tire swing from a tree, you'd better double-and-triple-check it.

I was just discussing the art of tying knots last night with my sons. Apparently they are scarred from their Boy Scouting experiences because that's all they ever did - no camping, no base jumping, no playing with fire or tracking animals through the woods in order to eat them. They just sat around and tied knots all evening while volunteer dads smoked crack, criticized them and beat the tar out of them.

[MoJoRiSin]

my husband loves learning and tying knots
he knots lots and lots ;)

well i meant knows lots and lots :D



i have learned a slew of knots over the years but that sort of stuff doesn't stick in my mind at all

I know how to tie a double fisherman's knot
or something like it used for a boot lace bracelet sort of thing
and a square knot that's about it

oh i forgot to answer part of the question
my father taught me the square knot and fisherman's knot then my husband taught me the bracelet knot when my daughter was 5 or 6 for obvious
beading reasons

[trisherina]

I like knots but like tech instructions they evaporate like sizzlings on hot pavement. I can do a square knot and otherwise, we use chocks. :)

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Well there's the double windsor, whatever knot it is I use to tie my shoes, and various mental knots.

I can still remember the first time I got the shoelace knot. It was done on some cardboard with holes in it, featuring a picture of a shoe so the holes were where they should be and a bright red lace. After numerous attempts I finally managed to get a very loose and precarious arrangement that looked right, so with great trepidation I slowly pulled to see if would tighten or dissolve like my previous attempts. Like a miracle it held. No one else seemed to grasp the magnitude of what had just occurred. People are like that.

[Brynn]

After all these years, I think you deserve a very hearty - and grossly belated - pat on the back for that, dear Hfox. Well done!

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Thank You Mrs Brynn. :)

[Odbe]

When I was a kid I used to find lists of knots and how to tie them in encyclopedias and copy them with a bit of string, but I've only ever remembered a few useful ones. Whenever I tie them I make up an impressive technical-sounding name, unless I'm with someone who did Scouts as a kid.

I know this one that ties onto something and doesn't come loose or tighten no matter how hard you pull on it, but with two hands you can adjust the size of the loop, and hence the length of the line bit. If your arm happens to be the thing it's attached to you'll probably only have one hand to pull at it with so you'll be in a bit of a pickle. I haven't found much of a use for it, but it looks clever.

I can also tie a sheet bend which ties two ropes/scarves/dog leads together even if they're different widths, and looks like it should come straight undone but hasn't so far. I remember it because I always end up needing it if I don't.

Lukku - the bowline one always eludes me. I remember how to tie it but always manage to put one bit under when it should have gone over and make a bung job of it. Every diagram seems to have a different opinion and it's made me think it's more trouble than it's worth.

All of those knots I got out of books. The only ones I remember being taught are my shoelaces knot and a bloodknot.

The bloodknot is a fishing knot and probably isn't spelled like that. I learned it in grade 6 when I elected to go fishing for weekly sport time. The teacher first made it clear that he would not stoop to tying anyone's hooks on their lines for them, then made the class learn and practice the knot over and over so they'd never forget it. So far this has turned out to be true, like some of the other things that teacher said. I haven't tied any hooks onto fishing lines since, but I have remembered the knot.

[zero]

... the bowline one always eludes me ...


the rabbit comes out of the hole, goes round the tree and goes back down the hole

(i had a highly-decorated and glittering boyscout career)

[Coffee]

^^^ I could never remember that rabbit and tree thingy...someone showed me a way to tie a bowlin that involves twisting your wrist to create the initial loop, then flip the free end around the long end and pulling it back thru the loop. I do it with my eyes closed cuz it always looks wrong when my eyes are open...but works.

Oh...also...trucker's hitch...a wonderful knot to secure a load. Lets u double your pulling force to tighten a load down.

[lukkucairi]

^ ya, the rabbit thing never makes any sense to me :p

if I still lived where I had to tie up a boat fairly often I'd remember it though

QOTD20090519

how do you remember number strings, like phone numbers or addresses?

[zero]

who can be arsed with that palaver? when i need one i just make it up.

[Frieda]

QOTD20090519

how do you remember number strings, like phone numbers or addresses?


my phone remembers them for me
for pincodes, i memorize the movement of my hand


so complicated

[brightpearl]

I look for patterns...like if the number is

364-1573

I remember 3,4,5 are in sequence, alternating with 6+1=7, and the first and last numbers are bookends. It's silly and cumbersome, but I guess that's how my brain is. :D

[Stephi_B]

pin codes, phone numbers and such mostly manual (the more often I've really typed in a number the better I can memorise it, independent how long it is); house numbers, postal codes, birthdays I remember associative somehow (in connection with a feeling, a name, or as a kind of melody - just like I memorised nature constants and the periodic system of elements btw)

[madasacutsnake]

3456 7891 = 34 56 78 91

Addresses and such like by association. Halifax, Yorkshire by thinking of Titanic victims buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

I find it difficult to remember people's names, even if I've known them for years. I avoid calling people by name.

[MoJoRiSin]

i just remember them no idea whatsoever how

[trisherina]

Link whatever I want to remember with an uncomfortable emotional tableau. In a pinch, the emotions felt by ultimately forgetting what shouldn't be forgotten will work for standard tableau. But don't overuse.

[Odbe]

Same as Perla, break it up and find sequences, square numbers or numbers that are factors of other ones. Also I associate colours and sometimes sensations with numbers. Groups of numbers mix with each other, so sometimes they make interesting combinations that I remember easily.

[zero]

<blink>NEW!</blink>Q

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[MoJoRiSin]

newQ=yes

done, completed,... fini

#7. didot

[xfox]

OoD060209

What is the best apple?

I like Gala

[lukkucairi]

granny smith with salt

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

warm with sunshine, just picked from a tree

Jonathan

[zero]

... I like Gala ...


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[brightpearl]

http://www.worldwideticketing.com/images/grand-prix/fuji-mountain.jpg

[topcat]

the one thay is in my eye

[Stephi_B]

Those my grandpa picked and but into slices for me with his pocket knife when we were out on our cycling trips :)
And also these yellow sweet ones (Golden Delicious?) and also those with the pink cheeks they have at Lidl's and mine of course ;)

[brightpearl]

I like this one (http://www.zefrank.com/bulletin_new/showthread.php?t=8935&page=8&highlight=apple) a lot, too.

[madasacutsnake]

Granny Smith with a piece of cheddar or any apple with crumble on top. No such thing as a bad crumble. Oh wait, just remembered my mother's.......

[trisherina]

Pink Lady! Cold, cut up.

[Odbe]

Red delicious.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

yeah Pink Lady is where it's at, but if I could go back in time and get a Golden Delicious from when they actually grew them both Golden and Delicious it'd be there too.

[trisherina]

Back in time the McIntosh used to be very sweet and tart and firm, too -- it's mushier now and more fragile. And in the fall clowns would stand by the side of the thoroughfare and sell bags and baskets of them for Kinsmen fundraising. Clown apples.

[treekisser]

The Macoun in season is a gem of an apple.
Anyone ever read The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan? It has a very interesting section about apples.

[Coffee]

Pie

[lukkucairi]

sugar apples

http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/sugar_apple3.jpg

[zero]

<blink>NEW!</blink>Q

http://loscuatroojos.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/formal-apology.jpg


?

[MoJoRiSin]

Aceymac Adams Pearmain Adanac
Akane Akero Akifu Fuji
Albany Beauty Alexander Alfriston
Alkmene Allington Pippin Almata
Ambrosia, USPP #10,789 American Summer Pearmain Ananas Reinette
Anaros Anderson Jonathan Andre Sauvage
Anna Antonovka Api Etoile
Arkansas Black Arlet Aroma
Aromatic Russet Ashmead's Kernel Astrachan, Red
Aurora Golden Gala® Austin Apple (Sponsel cv.) Autumn Gold (Hein cv.), USPP #9,907
Autumn Pearmain
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-- B --
Bailey Sweet Baldwin Ballarat Seedling (Stewart cv.)
Barry Batmans Tree Battleford
Beacon Beautiful Arcade Beauty of Bath
Beauty of Stoke Bedfordshire Foundling Belle De Boskoop
Belmac Belmont Ben Davis
Benoni Berne Rose Bess Pool
Beverly Hills Billie Bound Bismark
Black Amish Black Gilliflower Black Oxford
Blackjon Blacktwig Blaze
Blenheim Blue Pearmain Blushing Golden
Boiken Bolero ® Bonnie Best
Bonza Bottle Greening Braeburn
Braestar ® (Brayleet cv.) Bramley's Seedling Breakey
Breakwell's Britemac Brock
Brown Sweet Brownlees' Russet Buckingham
Buff Bulmer's Norman Burgundy
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-- C --
Calville Blanc Calville Rouge d'Automne Cameo (Caudle cv.), USPP #9,068
Campfield Canada Red Canada Reinette
Captain Kidd Cardinal Von Galen Carlos Queen
Carmeliter Reinette Carpentin Carroll
Cat's Head Champlain Cheddar Cross
Chehalis Chenango Strawberry Cherry Cox
Cherry Pippin Chestnut Crab Chieftan
Chinook, USPP #10,669, PBR #0386 Chisel Jersey Cindy Red
Cinnamon Spice Claygate Pearmain Cleopatra
Coe Fuji (Ebbourcoe cv.), PPAF Coe's Golden Drop Cole's Quince
Colvis Spice Connell Red Coppertone
Corail (Pinova cv.), USPP #11,601 Cornish Aromatic Cornish Gilliflower
Cort Pendu Plat Cortland Court Of Wick
Court Pendu Plat Cox's Orange Pippin Crawley Beauty
Crème D’licious Creston, USPP #10,739 Crimson Crisp
Crispin Criterion Crofton
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-- D --
D'Arcy Spice Dabinett Dandee Red, PPAF
Davenport Russet Davey Dayton,USPP #5,584
Delblush, protected in France Delcon Delicious
Detroit Red Devonshire Quarrenden Discovery
Doctor Dologo Doctor Hogg Doctor Matthews
Dolgo Crab Dorsett Golden Double Red Jonathan
Duchess Dulcet
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-- E --
Earliblaze Earlichief Delicious Earligold, USPP #4,820
Early Harvest Early Joe Early Mcintosh
Early Red Early Strawberry Early Victoria
Eddie April Edith Smith Edward VII
Egremont Russet Ellison's Orange Elstar
Emperor Alexander Empire Empress
English Beauty Enterprise (Co Op 30 cv.), USPP #9,193 Epicure
Erwin Bauer Etter's Gold Excel Jonagold, USPP #10,314
Exeter Extra Red Gala (Wyles cv.)
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-- F --
Fall Pippin Fallawater Fameuse
Fearns Pippin Fiesta Fireside
Firmgold Five Crown Pippin Florina (Querina cv.)
Fortune Foxwhelp Franklin
Frauen Rotacher Freedom Freyburg
Fuji Fuji Lynd Spur (Fuji Spike cv.) Fukunishiki
Fukutami
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-- G --
Gala Gala Supreme Galarina (Borkh cv.)
Galaxy Gala (Kiddle cv.) Gano Garden Royale
Garland Geeveston Fanny Geneva
George Carpenter George Cave Gernes Red Acre
Gideon Gilbert Gold Gilpin
Ginger Gold (Mountain Cove cv.), USPP #7,063 Gloster Gold Rush, USPP #9,932
Golden Crab Golden Delicious Golden Earl
Golden Haralson Golden Hervey Golden Noble
Golden Nugget Golden Pearmain Golden Pippin
Golden Reinette Golden Russet Golden Supreme ®
Golden Sweet Goodland Goof
Granny Smith Gravenstein Gray Stark
Green Sweet Greensleeves Grenadier
Grimes Golden Grove
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-- H --
Haas Hampshire, USPP #8,519 Haralred (Lautz cv.)
Haralson Harcourt Hauer Pippin
Hauxapfel Hawaii Hawkeye Delicious
Hawley Hayne's Seedling Hazen
Henry Clay Herrings Pippin Heyer 12
Heyer 20 Hidden Rose Hightop Sweet
Hokuto Holiday Holly
Holstein Honeycrisp,USPP #7,197 Honeygold
Hoople's Antique Gold Horei Horneburger Pancake
Horse Howgate Wonder Hubbardston Nonesuch
Hudson's Golden Gem Hunt Russet Hyde King
Hyslop Crab
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[MoJoRiSin]

-- i --

Idaho Spur Idared Imperial Gala ®, USPP #4,121
Imperial Red Delicious Ingrid Marie Irish Peach
Itzstedster Apfel
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-- J --
Jacob's Strawberry James Grieve Jefferies
Jerseymac Jesse Hall Jonafree, USPP #4,633
Jonagold Jonagored Supra, ®, Jonagold (Morren cv.), USPP #10,401 and/or USPP #5937 Jonalicious
Jonamac Jonathan Jonica Jonagold, USPP #7,146
Jonnee Red Jonathan Jonwin Jordan Russet
Jubilee Juliet July Red
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-- K --
Kandil Sinap Karin Schneider Karmijn De Sonneville
Katja Keepsake Kent
Kerry Irish Pippin Keswick Codlin Kidd's Orange Red
King King Cole King David
King of the Pippins King Of Tompkin's County King Russet
Kingston Black Kinsei Kleinheart (Sponsel cv.)
Knobbed Russet
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-- L --
Lady Lady In The Snow Lady Sudeley
Lady Williams Lakeland Lamb Apple Pearmain
Late Harrison Lawspur Rome Laxton's Fortune
Laxton's Superb Leather Coat Lehigh Greening
Lemon Pippin Liberty Limbertwig
Lindamac Lobo Lodi
Lombart's Calville London Apple (Sponsel cv.) Lord Lambourne
Lord Nelson Lubsk Queen Lydia's Red Gala (Hilltop cv.)
Lyman's Large Summer
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-- M --
Macoun Macspur Magiemer
Magnum Bonum Magnum Gala (Stiekema 1 cv.), USPP #11,182 Mahogany
Maiden's Blush Maigold Malinda
Malus Floribunda Mantent Margil
McIndoe's Russet McIntosh McLean
McLellan McLicious McShay
Medaille d'Or Melba Melon
Melrose Melrouge Mendocino Cox
Merton Beauty Merton Delight Merton Russet
Merton's Charm Milo Gibson Mio
Miracle Mac Mollie's Delicious Moore Sweet
Mother Mountain Boomer Moyer's Spice
Muscadet de Dieppe Muscat de Bernay Muster
Mutsu
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-- N --
Nectarapple Nehou Newell's Large Winer
Newell's Late Orange Newtown Pippin Niagra
Nittany Nonesuch Norland
Northern Lights Northern Spy Northfield Beauty
Northwestern Greening Nova Easy Gro Novamac
Novaspy NuRed Jonathan
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-- O --
Ohio Nonpareil Old Nonpareil Oliver
Ontario Opalescent Orange Sweet
Orenco Orin Oriole
Orleans Reinette Ortley Ottawa
Ozark Gold
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-- P --
Pacific Beauty Palmer Greening Park's Pippen
Parkland Patterson Paula Red (Arends cv.)
Peasgood Nonsuch Peck's Pleasant Perrine Transparent
Perry Russet Pettingill Pewaukee
Pilot Pinata Pine Golden Pippin
Pineapple (Sponsel cv.) Pink Lady (Cripps cv.), USPP #7,880 Pink Pearl
Pink Pearmain Pink Princess Pink Sparkle
Pinova Pioneer Pitmaston Pineapple
Pixie Crunch Plum Crabbie (Sponsel cv.) Polka ®
Pomme Gris Pomme Royale Porter
Porter's Perfection Prairie Spy Priam
Priestly Prima Prima, USPP #Reissue 28,435 Primate
Primevere Princess Prinzenapfel
Priscilla, USPP #3,488 Pristine ®, USPP #9881 Pumpkin Sweet
Puritan
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-- Q --
Quebec Bell Queen Cox Quinte
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-- R --
Ralls Genet 'Rall's Janet' Rambo Ramsdell Sweet
Raritan Razor Russet Red Astrachan
Red Baron Red Berlepsch Red Bietigheimer
Red Bouquet Delicious Red Cortland Red Delicious
Red Gold Red Gravenstein Red Idared
Red June Red King Red Delicious Red Prince Red Delicious
Red Rome Red Royal Limbertwig Red Spy
Red Wealthy Red Winesap Redchief Delicious
Redcort ® Redfield Redfree, USPP #4,322
Redmac McIntosh Redmax, USPP #7,167 Redsleeves
Redspur Red Delicious Redwell Regal Gala (Applewaites cv.)
Regent Reine de Reinette Reinette de Angleterre
Reinette Gris Du Canada Reinette Russet Retina
Reverand Morgan Revival Rezista Early Jon-like ®, PPAF
Rezista Gala-like ® (Releika cv.), PPAF Rezista Gold Granny ® (Goldstar cv.), PPAF Rezista Rome-like ® (Rajka cv.)
Rhode Island Greening Ribston Pippin Richared
Richelieu Rocket Red Braeburn, PPAF Rome
Rome Beauty Ross Nonpareil Rouville
Roxbury Russet Royal Court TM Royal Empire
Royal Gala Royal Red Delicious Royal Russet
Rubinette Rubinola Runkel
Rusty Coat
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-- S --
Saint Edmund's Pippin Salome Sam Young
Sandow Sansa, USPP #6,519 Sayaka
Scarlet Crofton Scarlet Gala (Creech cv.) Scarlet O' Haralson (Sponsel cv.)
Scarlet O'Hara (Co op 25 cv.) Scarlet Pippen Schmidtberger Reinette
Schweitzer Orange Scifresh (Jazz cv.) Scotia
Scotian Spur McIntosh, USPP #10,770 Seek-no-further Seiko-fu Red Fuji
Sekai Ichi Senator Senshu
September Wonder Fuji (Fiero cv.), USPP #11,193 Shamrock Sharon
Shay Shiawassee Shinsei
Shizuka Sierra Beauty Signe Tillisch
Silken (BC 8S-4-33 cv.), USPP #10740, PBR #95-670 Sinta Sir Prize, USPP #3,988
Skinner's Seedling Smokehouse Smoothee ® Golden Delicious
Snow Somerset of Maine Sonata, USPP #11,601
Sops of Wine Spartan Spencer
Spigold Spijon Spitzenburg
Splendour Sponselli (Sponsel cv.) Spur Gala (Lynd cv.)
Spur Winter Banana Spuree Rome Stark Spur Delicious
Starking Delicious Starkrimson Red Delicious (Bisbee cv.) Starks Gala
Starr State Fair Staybrite Winesap
Stayman Stayman Winesap Stearns
Strawberry Strawberry Chenango Strawberry Parfait
Strawberry Pippin Sturdeespur (Miller cv.) Sturmer
Sturmer Pippin Sugar Shack (Sponsel cv.) Summer Mac
Summer Pearmain Summer Rambo Summer Rose
Summer Treat Summer Yellow Summerred
Sun Fuji, R Suncrisp (NJ55 cv.), USPP #8,648 Sundance
Sundown (Cripps II cv.), USPP #8,477 Sunny Brook Sunrise
Sunset Suntan Superchief Spur Red Delicious
Surprise Sutton Beauty Swaar
Swayzie Sweet Alford Sweet Bough
Sweet Delicious Sweet Gourmet Sweet Russet
Sweet Sixteen Sweet Winesap Swiss Gourmet (Arlet cv.), USPP #6,689
Swiss Limbertwig
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-- T --
Tallow Pippin Taylor Telstar
Thome Empire Tiger (Sponsel cv.) Tioga
Tohoku Toko Tolman Sweet
Tompkin's King Top Red Red Delicious Transcendent Crab
Transparent Tremlett's Bitter Triple E Fuji (Torres cv.) USPP #12,219
Tsugaru Tumanga Turley Winesap
Twenty Ounce Twin Bee Gala Tydeman's Early
Tydeman's Late Orange Tydeman's Red
Back to Top
-- U --
Ultrared Gala (Obrogala cv.)
Back to Top
-- V --
Valstar Elstar ®, PPAF Vanda Vanderpool Red
Victory Viking Virginia Gold
Virginia Greening Vista Bella
Back to Top
-- W --
Wagener Waltana Walter Pease
Waltz ® Wantage Washed Russet
Wayne Wealthy Wellington
Wellington Bloomless Westfield Seek-No-Further Westland
Wheeler's Golden Russet White Astrachan White Winter Pearmain
Whitney Crab Wickson William's Pride, USPP #6,268
William's Red Willie Sharp Winesap
Winston Winter Banana Winterstein
Wismer's Dessert Wolf River Worcester Pearmain
Wyken Pippin
Back to Top
-- X --
Xavier De Bavay
Back to Top
-- Y --
Yakata Fuji, USPP #7,001 Yarlington Mill Yellow Bellflower
Yellow Newton Yellow Transparent Yellow Tremlett's
York York Imperial
Back to Top
-- Z --
Zabergau Reinette Zestar ™ (Minnewashta cv.), USPP #11,367 Zuccalmaglio's Rein

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^ :eek:

Are you going to apologise to all those kinds of apples for having eaten them?
:p

[Coffee]

I'm sorry, what was the question?

[lukkucairi]

^ :eek:

Are you going to apologise to all those kinds of apples for having eaten them?
:p

you don't apologize to apples for eating them! you apologize for NOT having eaten them!

I was going to apologize but I've forgotten what it was that I did wrong. I'm sure zero won't mind letting me take a mulligan.

[Odbe]

http://i41.tinypic.com/2n695dw.gif

[Hyakujo's Fox]

http://i39.tinypic.com/2z8xqgi.jpg

[madasacutsnake]

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c22/madasacutsnake/formal-apology1.jpg

[zero]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3638/3597311531_3ecdae72f3_o.jpg

:D

you have all the best words for throwing up in your australias

[brightpearl]

qotd 6-8-09
a 2-parter:
1) Do you think this frog is in possession of a nasal apparatus? If yes, please indicate its location for the rest of the class.
2) What in the dickens did the little bugger just eat?

http://cuteoverload.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/000836ez.jpg

[topcat]

looks like it ate a breakfast taco

[brightpearl]

:D

[Odbe]

I think he ate a marshmallow. Or one of those little puffy make-up thingies.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

1) Those are two tiny nostrils, aren't they?
2) A juicy fly. The puffing up, however, might be a reaction to the giant finger hovering above its head.

Imagine how you'd feel if you were about to be petted by something like this, only bigger:

http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00182/IN9786390132-Digit_182341s.jpg

On second thoughts, no. Please don't.

[zero]

http://cuteoverload.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/000836ez.jpg

stop poking the poor creature beryl - can a texasese sumo toad not get a little privacy to shag its (much larger) mate?

[lukkucairi]

hrm - p'raps ingestion of a ping pong ball?

in search of lost nose, finds one that doesn't belong to him (quite)

http://www.rockclimbing.com/images/photos/assets/2/391202-largest_IMG_4102FrogNose_600.jpg

[madasacutsnake]

He ate a can of angry beans.

[zero]

¿NEW?


¿do you remember now? (http://www.thebigview.com/pastlife/)





.

[trisherina]

Your past life diagnosis: I don't know how you feel about it, but you were female in your last earthly incarnation.You were born somewhere in the territory of modern Portugal around the year 1325. Your profession was that of a jeweler or watch-maker. Your brief psychological profile in your past life:
Inquisitive, inventive, you liked to get to the very bottom of things and to rummage in books. Talent for drama, natural born actor. The lesson that your last past life brought to your present incarnation:
The world is full of ill and lonely people. You should help those, who are less fortunate than you are. Do you remember now?

It's right there on the tip of my tongue.

[zero]

... you were female in your last earthly incarnation.you were born somewhere in the territory of modern portugal around the year 1325 ...


^http://www.zefrank.com/bulletin_new/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://www.zefrank.com/bulletin_new/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://www.zefrank.com/bulletin_new/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://www.zefrank.com/bulletin_new/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://www.zefrank.com/bulletin_new/images/icons/icon14.gif
ME TOO!!:D

[Stephi_B]

female, New Guinea, 1200, dancer/singer/actor with the mind of a scientist, often misunderstood, but respected for knownledge


kinda cool :) (what's new? ;)) and I got a total recall now!

[lukkucairi]

I don't know how you feel about it, but you were male in your last earthly incarnation.You were born somewhere in the territory of modern Greece around the year 1075. Your profession was that of a monk (nun), bee-keeper or lone gunman.
Your brief psychological profile in your past life:
Such people are always involved with all new. You have always loved changes, especially in art, music, cooking.
The lesson that your last past life brought to your present incarnation:
The world is full of ill and lonely people. You should help those, who are less fortunate than you are.
Do you remember now?

uhmm, I thought that was just one of those dream-things, but I suppose so...

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I don't know how you feel about it, but you were male in your last earthly incarnation.You were born somewhere in the territory of modern Italy around the year 1175. Your profession was that of a handicraftsman or mechanic.

Your brief psychological profile in your past life:
Seeker of truth and wisdom. You could have seen your future lives. Others perceived you as an idealist illuminating path to future.

The lesson that your last past life brought to your present incarnation:
Your lesson is to develop a kind attitude towards people, and to acquire the gift of understanding and compassion.

Do you remember now?

If my lesson is to develop a kind attitude towards people, and to acquire the gift of understanding and compassion, then I'm going to be a warthog in my next life.

Yeah, I can see my future life.

[Marcus Bales]

You were born somewhere in the territory of modern Greece around the year 1075. Your profession was that of a monk (nun), bee-keeper or lone gunman.


Probably a very effective lone guman, too, since you'd have been the only one in the world in 1075.

[madasacutsnake]

Apparently I had an epic fail.

"Your profession was that of a shepherd, horseman or forester....You could have been a leader."

[MoJoRiSin]

As a matter of fact,
every sense
i got this new
magic pillow
i remember everythin!

[Brynn]

Doesn't seem like much has changed.

"Your past life diagnosis:
I don't know how you feel about it, but you were male in your last earthly incarnation.You were born somewhere in the territory of modern Ukraine around the year 1175. Your profession was that of a leader, major or captain.
Your brief psychological profile in your past life:
Timid, constrained, quiet person. You had creative talents, which waited until this life to be liberated. Sometimes your environment considered you strange.
The lesson that your last past life brought to your present incarnation:
It always seemed to you that your perceptions of the world are somewhat different. Your lesson is to trust your intuition as your best guide in your present life.
Do you remember now?"

[Coffee]

"Your past life diagnosis:
I don't know how you feel about it, but this is your very first and only earthly incarnation. You were born somewhere in the state of California in the year 1963. Your professions so far have been: Paper boy, stock boy, bakery cleaner, student, soldier, artist, courier.
Your brief psychological profile in your current life:
You go with the flow till the flow approaches rocks then you paddle like hell to stay off of them. Your lesson is to chart the very best coarse you can as circumstances permit.
Do you remember now?"

ya...duh.

[12"razormix]

You were female in your last earthly incarnation. You were born somewhere in the territory of modern North Australia around the year 1725. Your profession was that of a leader, major or captain.

[zero]

i remember that! you were so strict.

[lukkucairi]

You were born somewhere in the territory of modern Greece around the year 1075. Your profession was that of a monk (nun), bee-keeper or lone gunman.


Probably a very effective lone guman, too, since you'd have been the only one in the world in 1075.

I was just ahead of my time :p
the gun in question:
http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs101.snc1/4755_99488377413_511972413_2438487_4687425_n.jpg

[Coffee]

I love that it has a diagram on it that showes the proper way to point it...wonder if there were issues with the "beta" model that neccecitated the pictogram.

[brightpearl]

I don't know how you feel about it, but you were female in your last earthly incarnation.You were born somewhere in the territory of modern Arctic around the year 1750. Your profession was that of a entertainer, musician, poet or temple-dancer. Your brief psychological profile in your past life:
You were a sane, practical person, a materialist with no spiritual consciousness. Your simple wisdom helped the weaker and the poor. The lesson that your last past life brought to your present incarnation:
You should develop your talent for love, happiness and enthusiasm and you should distribute these feelings to all people.

Do you remember now?

--------------------
Hahaha, apparently so, because of all environmental inconveniences, I hate being cold the most. :D

Lulu, I like how you were either a nun or a lone gunman. I can sort of see how those intersect on the Venn diagram of professions. But how in the hell does bee-keeper come into it?!?
You should make an LED nun wearing a bee-keeper's veil and carrying a rifle.

[madasacutsnake]

You were female in your last earthly incarnation. You were born somewhere in the territory of modern North Australia around the year 1725. Your profession was that of a leader, major or captain.

An army in NT in 1725 would have changed the history of white Australia somewhat....

[Brynn]

Your lesson is to chart the very best coarse you can


They could take a course in spell check, too.

Just for fun, I plugged in my son's birthdate, which is only three days off of mine. Wonder of wonders, we were fused into the exact same person in an earlier life! That explains a lot, Gladys.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

NEW QOTD

If you were going to get a phrase tattooed on yourself what would it be, and where would you put it?

[zero]

NEW QOTD

If you were going to get a phrase tattooed on yourself what would it be, and where would you put it?


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3387/3628621861_5baf575114_o.jpg

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

No tattoos for me.
Purely hypothetically, it would be this:

http://www.nordinho.net/vbull/gallery/files/5/6/8/0/hb_r_szlet.jpg

I don't know where, probably along the shoulder blade. On my back, so that I don't see it.

[lukkucairi]

Adhuc Vivo!

palm of the hand - why not.

[madasacutsnake]

I'd get Kat von D to tattoo "Hollywood" anywhere I couldn't see it. Then when people asked where I got the Hollywood tat I could say, "Kat von D, of course!"

[trisherina]

The perfect spot eludes me, but definitely this:

http://www.hinchy.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/sign.jpg

[Marcus Bales]

What's the song that when it comes on the radio unexpectedly you always listen to the whole thing?

[zero]

What's the song that when it comes on the radio unexpectedly you always listen to the whole thing?


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always stops me in my tracks

[Brynn]

hate the video/love the song

you get what you give (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91WgM6dNLTE).
It only comes on when I'm feeling sorry for myself, and it makes me feel better.

[MoJoRiSin]

Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds

i always get lost in the words wondering if
the song is really about Julia
(John's mother who died)
then the song ends

[Odbe]

The one that says 'paved paradise' - that might be its title.

[12"razormix]

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[12"razormix]

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[12"razormix]

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[12"razormix]

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[xfox]

same question, new day

this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQpbURSFaNU) song

[Coffee]

I'm falling in love with this song, and his ballads in general:

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[brightpearl]

^Aw yeah. And plus, it reminds me of this very funny thing (http://www.lmpd.com/arcade/index.php?action=playgame&gameid=800).

As for me, I always inexplicably follow this one through to the end.
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[Coffee]

Awwww..that was cute as hell pearly...ty for linking that.


wtf...im turning into a cowbow?!
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[zero]

Q



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r.i.p.




how could a person move like that?

[lukkucairi]

perhaps (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Quite_Human)

[MoJoRiSin]

rapture (+) ?

or perhaps ::
rapture to the nth degree ?

maybe?

[Marcus Bales]

I'm falling in love with this song, and his ballads in general:

<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ukMsfGJESOk&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ukMsfGJESOk&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>

Big Iron

We'd never had a student who had dressed like that at school,
Or lounged around the lunchroom looking dangerously cool,
He walked around the hallways with his cell phone in its clip,
And always smiled politely with the big iron in his lip --
Big iron in his lip.

His hair was long and pony-tailed; his leather jacket black
With "Question All Authority" in red across the back.
They gave him long detentions but he gave them all the slip
That kid from out of town who had the big iron in his lip;
Big iron in his lip.

A cool kid lived among us, known as Bobby Buttondown.
He didn't like this punk who'd come parading to our town.
A couple dozen kids had tried to give real cool a whirl,
But in the end Bob Buttondown had always got the girl;
Bob always got the girl.

Bob Buttondown wore chinos with his light blue Oxford shirts;
His boat shoes showed his ankles flashing bare like little flirts;
He tied his tennis sweaters' arms in knots across his chest,
And everyone but Linda thought Bob Buttondown was best --
They thought he was the best.

Her chestnut hair and cherry lips, her molten chocolate eyes
Made every boy in school compete with all the other guys
To do the little things that Linda, every little while,
Rewarded with a wink, or nod, or Linda's little smile --
Linda's little smile.

In front of Linda's locker then they met out in the hall
The coolest guys in school were there about to risk it all;
They posed and postured through their struts for Linda and her friends
Who giggled as they watched the high school's coolest two rear ends --
Coolest two rear ends.

There seemed to be consensus in the group of girls for Bob --
For years he'd been the favorite among that female mob
His shirt was starched, his pants were pressed, his boat shoes broken in;
And everyone could see he thought he'd won the way he'd grin;
Won the way he'd grin.

The punk appeared to pass it off -- he didn't even frown;
He raised a single eye-brow as he looked at Buttondown
He swirled his Code Red Mountain Dew and took a little sip
And stared, then sneered, and stood there with the big iron in his lip --
Big iron in his lip.

He slowly took his jacket off, and rolled his t-shirt sleeve
And there tattooed around his biceps no one could believe
Were letters like barbed wire spelling out his lucky charm:
As " Linda Linda Linda" wrapped around his upper arm
Around his upper arm.

A little gasp escaped the throats of everybody there
And for a while all anyone could do was stand and stare;
Then Linda turned her back on Bob whose broken cool was gone,
And smiled and reached to put the battered leather jacket on
She put his jacket on.

It only took a moment for the wildfire word to spread:
That Buttondown had failed the test, the preppie look was dead.
So now they walk the hallways, hand in hand and hip to hip,
Linda and her lover with the big iron in his lip;
Big iron in his lip.

[brightpearl]

how could a person move like that?

apparently by giving up being normal in every other way as well.
:(
It was nice to see that brilliant moment in what is otherwise such a sad and disturbing tale.

[Coffee]

Practice, practice, practice.

[12"razormix]

pas·sion

obsolete : suffering
the state or capacity of being acted on by external agents or forces : emotion <his ruling passion is greed> plural : the emotions as distinguished from reason : intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction : an outbreak of anger : ardent affection : love : a strong liking or desire for or devotion to some activity, object, or concept : sexual desire : an object of desire or deep interest

[Stephi_B]

:confused:

Maybe what 'Mix said^ together with what Perla and Lukku said?

And it's sad :(:( and surreal for he was part of 'that which always was since I can remember things'.

[MoJoRiSin]

don't be sad for Michael
he looked in the mirror
and changed himself into
a little boy
that looked like a woman

wise up! :)

[Frieda]

just practise a lot and you'll manage. moonwalking rocks :)

[Anna]

possessed

[Marcus Bales]

The same way every boy achieves youthful excellence: early on, he realized he couldn't masturbate all the time, and he needed to find something to occupy the empty hours.

[lukkucairi]

¿ what do you do when you mess it up ?

[madasacutsnake]

Minimise the damage and blame some-one else. Not necessarily in that order.

[trisherina]

Force anterograde memory loss -- it makes me happier and saves room for other important things!

[MoJoRiSin]

through some stroke of luck
i am able to delete posts
so
thats what i do
otherwise
i doesn't happen

[Coffee]

Brush over it and call it "underpainting".

[Marcus Bales]

Publish it -- let them sue and make me famous.

[zero]

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[Anna]

depends on the mess
call it karma or a happy accident
then say sorry or thank you
either way can't repeat it or do it again

[Brynn]

^ what she said.

[xfox]

What makes you creative, or not?

Artist or audience? or both?

[Coffee]

Art for Art's sake is fine if your name is Art, or if Art is paying for the completed work.

[Jack Flanders]

The answer to the first question is soil.

[lukkucairi]

What makes you creative, or not?

Artist or audience? or both?

infatuation with light drives me to create

"artist" is a dangerous word - don't buy your own poster

audience is key - pay attention to them

[trisherina]

safety

[MoJoRiSin]

my meditation practice
before I started sitting on a regualr basis
i was a blob
it's a huge paradox
i know:)

[Odbe]

A page from my art journal for March-April this year:
'I still cannot fully accept the idea of making art for other people to look at.'

[Brynn]

Several cups of coffee

[zero]

¿Q?



what are some things i need to be doing in everyday life that i don't realise i need to be doing?

[madasacutsnake]

Going to the market.

[Frieda]

floss!

[xfox]

breathe, deeply

[dinzdale]

wanking

[brightpearl]

Eating blueberries. (http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=8)

[zero]

Going to the market.
floss!
breathe, deeply
wanking
Eating blueberries. (http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=8)

all good suggestions so-far and there's definitely a certain cohesion between them


i'm thinking about doing them all simultaneously

[brightpearl]

Dear kind Gentleman Ezra, I feel you should consider choosing betwixt wanking and flossing as a mishap whilst doing them simultaneously could prove costly to your person.

[zero]

i laugh in the face of danger 'hhaha' comme ça

[brightpearl]

Perhaps you are more experienced in these matters than I had assumed.

Do be careful, however.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

cuss :o

[lukkucairi]

go barefoot (http://www.wired.com/reviews/product/pr_vibram_fivefingers_kso)

[zero]

cuss :o

^well well well. it's always the quiet ones..


so are there any particular words you'd like me to say, ysa? ;)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

No, no, it has to be spontaneous.

[zero]

i see. so you mean, for example, a bit like as if, say, i'd been sprinting flat-out wearing a pair of those daft running shoes of o'cairo's^^^ and stubbed my bloodyfvckken cnting toe on the pavement? is that kind of spontaneous you mean?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Yes, exactly. In such a situation one needs to cuss, it helps to ease the pain a bit.

[brightpearl]

How bizarre. I just turned up to post this in news of the day (subfolder: things we've always suspected) and here you are already talking about it.
Apparently the word of your own choice is most effective.

Swearing Makes Pain More Tolerable
LiveScience.com
livescience.com – Sun Jul 12, 10:10 am ET

That muttered curse word that reflexively comes out when you stub your toe could actually make it easier to bear the throbbing pain, a new study suggests.

Swearing is a common response to pain, but no previous research has connected the uttering of an expletive to the actual physical experience of pain.

"Swearing has been around for centuries and is an almost universal human linguistic phenomenon," said Richard Stephens of Keele University in England and one of the authors of the new study. "It taps into emotional brain centers and appears to arise in the right brain, whereas most language production occurs in the left cerebral hemisphere of the brain."

Stephens and his fellow Keele researchers John Atkins and Andrew Kingston sought to test how swearing would affect an individual's tolerance to pain. Because swearing often has an exaggerating effect that can overstate the severity of pain, the team thought that swearing would lessen a person's tolerance.

As it turned out, the opposite seems to be true.

The researchers enlisted 64 undergraduate volunteers and had them submerge their hand in a tub of ice water for as long as possible while repeating a swear word of their choice. The experiment was then repeated with the volunteer repeating a more common word that they would use to describe a table.

Contrary to what the researcher expected, the volunteers kept their hands submerged longer while repeating the swear word.

The researchers think that the increase in pain tolerance occurs because swearing triggers the body's natural "fight-or-flight" response. Stephens and his colleagues suggest that swearing may increase aggression (seen in accelerated heart rates), which downplays weakness to appear stronger or more macho.

"Our research shows one potential reason why swearing developed and why it persists," Stephens said.

The results of the study are detailed in the Aug. 5 issue of the journal NeuroReport.

[Coffee]

SMELL CHECH UR F*CKING BREADS WHEN U TOAST THEM.

r.x.
i feel much breader.

[brightpearl]

Ooooh....I feel better too! Placebo by proxy.

[Brynn]

Swearing is a wonderful thing. With teenage boys who are playing Halo in the rec room with their friends all afternoon, I do find it irritating to listen to them swear ALL the livelong day. It makes me feel a lot more aggressive myself, and less civil.

That's why I ask them to save their swear words for special occasions - that's what they're for. If their squadron gets wiped out by aliens, they have to think more creatively, and it's pretty funny what they come up with.

[Anna]

what do you do when stuff like this (http://www.zefrank.com/bulletin_new/showpost.php?p=413154&postcount=3672) happens?

usually I
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/9797/92977205.gif

[Hyakujo's Fox]

I check off "Threaten to Leave" on my Board Troll Bingo card.

[lukkucairi]

read the fine print

[Coffee]

scan for smileys

[madasacutsnake]

QOTD

What squares are on your Board Troll Bingo card?

[Brynn]

Being even meaner and more sarcastic than I am

[MoJoRiSin]

i was thinking she meant ...........

oh well it doesn't matter........

here is someone else's list::

http://www.waste.org/10.html

scroll down a bit for the actual list :)

link courtesy of
pierre assouline's blog entry
for today

thank you pierre!

[Hyakujo's Fox]

QOTD

What squares are on your Board Troll Bingo card?

Raising the topic of trolling.



*tick*

[lukkucairi]

Raising the topic of trolling.



*tick*

recursive snark

*tick*

[trisherina]

"overweening modem geek"

*tick*

[Anna]

every alphabet word, the double entendre, board owner

[zero]

¿Q?



has this ever happened before?

[Frieda]

yes.

[brightpearl]

yes.

[MoJoRiSin]

yes but last time there
was a sort of
"us and them"
thing going on :)

[MoJoRiSin]

the more the merrier

this go around

[Hyakujo's Fox]

this this?

[Jack Flanders]

yes damnit. over and over again. but she says, "That, that."

[zero]

this this?

well, either this one or one quite like it

[Frieda]

time for an indecent Qnew

what do you wear in bed to sleep in?

[lukkucairi]

nothing mostly, sometimes a tee shirt, sometimes jammies

[Anna]

hmmm... depends where I'm going

[zero]

casio AW-E10 s/steel

[Brynn]

my heart on my non-existent sleeve

[madasacutsnake]

lamby jammies

[brightpearl]

http://crystellehandbags.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/marilyn-in-potato-sack-dress.jpg

[brightpearl]

new Q for like mostly thursday or somethin

What was the last thing you had stolen from you?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

a flowerpot (with Aloe aristata in it)

and time, of course.

[Jack Flanders]

My car GDimmit - thanks for bringing that up. I live in an urban area and I was a stoopid dipshit. But got it back. I sold it.

[lukkucairi]

I don't know about "stolen" but the Radisson's policy of refusing to refund a pre-paid hotel room in Paris with 24+hrs notice seemed pretty poor at the time.

other than getting fiddled by corporate bullshit like that, I can't remember the last time something was actually removed from my possession without my permission.

[Coffee]

A dirty damned scurvy dog got onto the docks and tried to make off with my dinghy. The pirate unhitched my pretty little green and varnished El toro tender and rowed her over to the public docks where his pick up truck was waiting. Along the way he was spotted by a salty neighbor with a sharp eye who called attention to the would be thief...upon which the pirate escaped, without my dinghy, however, which is for now on locked and cabled to my boat.

[Jack Flanders]

^ Yey!

[Frieda]

my spirit

[zero]

¿Q?



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^this method came as a complete revelation to me


you?

[Frieda]

cute boxers

no i've seen it done, i prefer the slice-stem-open-with-fingernail-method. if you peel the other side in 2 parts, sometimes the peel flaps back in your face.

seriously, i've pondered this for hours and hours! :D

[Peregrine]

I'm allergic to bananas.

[lukkucairi]

Trieste showed me that :)

[Stephi_B]

If a banana does not open up for me as I feel it should in that very moment (often this is like Frieda describes it, but then sometimes it is not) I do it like Mr Cute Boxers does it ;)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I saw this video a little while ago but haven't eaten any bananas since then. I might give it a try, although my way of peeling bananas works fine, too.

My best friend uses an open-it-with-teeth method. Yuck.

[Jack Flanders]

I tried this method this am and dang if it didn't work!!! I am so sold, now!!! :)

[zero]

i just remembered another banafact that was NEW! to me quite recently although quite possibly this is old hat to you:


if you poke your index finger very gradually, slowly & gently starting at the exact centre of the top of a peeled banana and go towards the other end, it splits apart into three perfect segments in a most pleasing manner.

who knew?

[Jack Flanders]

sounds pervy to me. :(

[zero]

try it - it really works!!


BANANAS ARE SO AMAZING!!

[MoJoRiSin]

alright DONE!


***********
bananas?
amazing?
not to everyone !!

[MoJoRiSin]

^ the truth is
i was joking

^^i cannot even
think
about doing that

[Anna]

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/9597/bananasqjo.jpg

[topcat]

bananas is good

[brightpearl]

...but it looks like Jack is onto something.
http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/images/2007/09/03/underwearbanana.jpg

[Frieda]

^creepy thread

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

http://static.flickr.com/31/110758852_66b222cb0f_o.jpg

[Brynn]

I did not know these particular facts about the lovely banana, and am pleased and grateful to now be able to pass these skills on to my friends and offspring.
This is evolution at work, people, and it's so very exciting and NEW!

[Coffee]

exciting: YES.
New!: YES.
Fresh: Not for long judging by the dinonana.

[Jack Flanders]

Enough banana-rama shit!!! Give it it's own thread someone!!

(Upsided down question mark) Do you Facebook (Normal question mark)

[Odbe]

No, but I Bookface.
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[Coffee]

Not much

[lukkucairi]

all the bloody time

keeps me sane when I travel

[Peregrine]

Wish I didn't. But all my meatspace friends went there after MSN Messenger became sooooo 2005.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Where else am I going to find out that when it comes to 1970s sitcoms, I'm Ralph Malph.




MSN Messenger became sooooo 2005.

so that's why no-one's online any more. :mad:

[lukkucairi]

Wish I didn't. But all my meatspace friends went there after MSN Messenger became sooooo 2005.

get the SIMP encryption and it's so 2009

[Brynn]

I do. It's like having a giant front porch, and when you feel like going out to rock in your rocking chair, and wave to friends, you get to decide who is walking by.

However, I feel like this place is way more fun. This is like the pub down the street. With music. And comedians.

[Jack Flanders]

^ I agree and when I'm texting/writing/communicating with old friend/distant relatives and get a fun groove on (sarcasm) kerplunk, they get all pissy and do not get it. So tired of being sorry for what I've shared with them and then having to explain my joke. But I have reconnected with some interesting people from my past. :rolleyes: and;)

[Stephi_B]

I remembered that I registered at facebook in the longagoes when my mate Vanya lately requested my friendship - so I have a facebook friend now, the best ever facebook friend one (at least me) can imagine :) - but I myspace more, but without some space or the other (including my almost 60 sqm at home or my, I dunno, 5-7 blocks in every direction except east, there only 2 blocks, hood space) I cannot live sane for some longer time period (say a week?) ;)

[Bman]

I like to think that facebook is just a myth, like blood donation.

[Frieda]

since 2 weeks, no idea what to write there though :confused:

[zero]

¿Q?



http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/70654ace09b63cee55f37a4e5515dee5b54658df_m.jpg

[trisherina]

Probably not.

[lukkucairi]

yeah, for sure.

[topcat]

almost always maybe never

[MoJoRiSin]

my answer is: yes, go for it

[Peregrine]

I suppose.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

http://www.nordinho.net/vbull/gallery/files/5/6/8/0/yesnomaybewhat.jpg

[Marcus Bales]

How did you meet your current life partner or paramour?

[zero]

paramour my arse!

[xfox]

It was a sign.

[MoJoRiSin]

i met my husband on a trip to maui
that i never would have taken save
for the gulf war caused the japaese
goverment to advise its citizens
to cancel there vacations to
Hawaii at that point
more than likely the hotels
subsidized the airlines ??
not sure how that works
but the flight on United Airlines
was only 300. round trip from
Boston. I did not tell anyone but my friend
Karen that (I lived in my guru's ashram)
but my aformentioned fried Karen
had a child and I went to help her for
a couple of weeks
however her baby was perfect and slept through
the night on day one so after a week
i stood by on a flight blah blah blah
come to find out my guru
was with his entourage in Las Vegas !!
can you believe that? mo was uninvited!!
my husband is a woodsman and more recently
and inventor of handy tools.
His name is Thane and he is 12 years younger
than me.
I asked him if he had a quarter so i could use the payphone
the rest
is history.

[Frieda]

we were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. i remember saying something like: "i feel a bit lightheaded, maybe you should drive."

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

We were camping with friends. It was hot and stuffy in the tent where we were sleeping, so I climbed up a tree and was looking at the stars when I heard some people having an argument. I couldn't see them because of the dark and they couldn't see me. I liked the way he made his point. Anyway, I only met him about two years later and I recognised him by his voice and the way he spoke.

[Brynn]

I was done with dating, and went to a Halloween party alone and bitter, wearing a Medusa mask. I found myself trapped in a really tedious conversation with a nice but extremely self-involved man who came as a dalmation (complete with full fireman's regalia and full white-face make-up with black spots). It was the third year in a row he'd dressed up as a dalmation, he was telling me, just before going into a blow-by-blow account of the high school Shakespeare play he'd just directed. I could not really even tell what he actually looked like under all that make-up.
From across the room, my future husband (a pirate, but not a very convincing one - plaid shirt, eye patch) was rolling his eye in sympathy for me and laughing as I tried to look interested. The man was his boss, and he knew exactly how boring he could be. So he finally walked up and busted up the conversation. I was grateful. We met on Halloween, were engaged by Thanksgiving, met the parents by Christmas, moved in together on New Year's, and were married on D-Day. Didn't plan it that way - it just happened. Oh, and a day after we got back from our honeymoon, the writer's strike meant lots of layoffs at the studios, so my husband's boss (the dalmation) laid him off in the first round, so we started things out right - unemployed and happy.

[Marcus Bales]

A Break in the Crowd

At first only a flash across the room,
I drifted group to group til I could see
The jeweled attacking hawk between her breasts.
You know, I’m sure, the way most women to whom
You’re talking think it isn’t cool to be
Looked at except in the eyes, or else it suggests
The malest things about the way you think.
Not this one. She held her bare shoulders back
Like handles, and slowly looked down, so chic
And bold in her little black dress that, link by link,
The silver chain led my stare to the black
Wings, the diamond eyes, the golden beak,
Down to where the sharp talons pressed
Lightly into her skin as she took a deep
Breath then quickly looked up and damn it caught
Me wishing I were jewelry. My aging chest
Strained out, my paunchy stomach in: a leap
Of maybes giggled through me. Then I got
A glimpse in a mirror through a break in the crowd
Of a flabby balding fellow in front of her.
I thought, “Some couples shouldn’t be allowed.”
Before I moved, and realized who they were.

[brightpearl]

If I answer this, it'll ruin my lemon-faced reputation.


Oh, all right, though I feel this should be in the confessions thread...
but I refuse to use the word "boyfriend." And "paramour" doesn't fit the bill either, too stuffy.

We met in prison. He's a lion tamer.

Okay, okay, that's not *exactly* true, but it's less embarrassing than the real answer.
:D
I won't say how we first, first met, but it didn't result in much knowing anyway.
He does what my son wants to do when he grows up, and so I first really knew him when I wrote asking if someone in his place of work could give my boy a tour, and he volunteered. I know what you're thinking, but it turned out that he already does that sort of thing all the time for the elementary schools, for free and no promise of dates, so I think it was actually altruistic. It was really fun, and so we were friends for a while, and when the terror wore off we started dating early this year.

I still endure waves, absolutely tsunamis, of terror, but so far I have waded through that enough not to screw the thing up, and I must admit that up to this point it is, as he says, "absurdly good."
And most importantly, my son really, really likes him.

There, I said it.
:eek:

:o

[brightpearl]

http://coconutgirlwireless.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/lemonade_honeycitrus.jpg

[Stephi_B]

paramour my arse!

:D

[Peregrine]

Final exams. Mid-December. I keep my regular schedule, even though classes are out, so that I can study. Holed up in the library for hours at a time, emerging only for food.

I meet with a group of friends for lunch, a couple of them studying for a Latin test, with one of their classmates I'd never met before. I say something, I don't remember what, and she looks up at me "You watch Lexx, don't you? I can tell!"

Lexx was a short lived Canadian sci-fi show, only ran about 4 seasons, and at the time, I had seen literally the first movie, and one episode just that previous weekend. Somehow she managed to pick that out, after only hearing me speak one sentence.

I didn't think much of it at the time. For one thing, we'd only just met. And I noticed the overlapping Venus symbols she wore as earrings, and assumed she was a lesbian, so I figured I wasn't her type anyway.

But she started hanging out with our group over the next few months, and it turned out that she wasn't a lesbian, she's bisexual. ...It's complicated. We started dating, and have been together ever since, just over 9 years now.

[lukkucairi]

he saved my life, and now I'm saving his

[Jack Flanders]

He saw me walking across the park plaza and asked his boss, "Who is that over there looking pissed-off?" My girlfriend answered, "Oh, that's who we're having lunch with. I want you to meet her. Trust me, you'll like!!" He did and I did. 25 yrs. later still do!! :)