¿ question of the day ?

[craig johnston]

i like ann tyler and bruce springsteen.
and i want to move to baltimore.

:o

[auntie aubrey]

somehow i get the feeling that you people already know the things that surprise my real-life associates. because in the online context, they tend to come out more easily. they seem a part of my normal persona, rather than incongruous with the rest of my personality, as experienced in an in-person encounter.

most people i know are surprised that i do open torch glass work. the biggest surprised reaction always appears when people find out that all of my childhood crushes were black actors, and that i still have a soft spot for lavar burton. that one seems to get a good stunned-silence for reasons i can't explain.

[Earthling]

Here's my twist~ I too love to cook, and I also bake at times. Yet it is not for my pleasure that I cook & bake, for often I don't like what I make. Most is given away to family and neighbors.
I suspect I have IBS, which makes it difficult for me to eat alot of foods, like corn, beans, cabbage, etc. (still finding them), yet I make the best fat-free chili, stuffed cabbage, etc.
And never have I cared much for cookies, cakes, or candies, still, I make each often.
The truth is , I just love it when others appreciate the foods I prepare, even if I can't eat them or don't like them. Spooky fact is, it's an ego thing, and I should know better, but I do keep it as my secret (well, kinda;) ).

[Tunesmith]

Hmm...like Stephi, a lot of my persona isn't centered around anything in specific, but if I were to pick one thing in particular, it would be dancing.

I almost never do it, 'cause I'm so self-conscious, but between my yoga instructor's weekly cries of "you must take up ballet, dahling!" and the few ballroom dancing lessons I took in prep. for last year's V-day dance, I'd love to get into dance if I had the time and a secure island off the coast of Australia where I know no one would watch me. At least not until I stopped tripping over my own feet. :o

[Marcus Bales]

real tree or artificial this year?

artificial here

[trisherina]

Real. And I'm going to pinch its nipples.

[Stephi_B]

Real, cos although I am the person in charge of all tree-decoration-related affairs as usual I fear I won't convince my granny (i.e. the commander-in-chief of the household ;)) to make a LED tree (http://bulletin.zefrank.com/showpost.php?p=370312&postcount=51) this year...

[auntie aubrey]

real because the environmental stance seems to be that the manufacturing of artificial trees is far more harmful to the environment than the logging of responsibly farmed pines.

the "which is greener" issue has been a topic of debate in our household.



oh, and also real trees smell real purdy.

[brightpearl]

I have a Norfolk pine in a big pot that I always bring in and decorate.

[Coffee]

There is no room in a 33 foot sailboat for a tree, real or artificial...although I'm (only slightly) thinking of pulling 6 strands of lights up the mast with the jib and main halyards and turning the whole boat into a 47 foot tree...so...i guess that would be artificial.

[craig johnston]

no

[seebe]

I would love a real tree but I think my cat, who loves to climb trees outside, would love it even more. With the exception of smacking a few ornaments around, he pretty much left my fake one alone last year... perhaps because it smelled pretty much like all the other furniture.

[lukkucairi]

quite possibly a houseplant with decorations on it.

so...um...live?

[funkytuba]

Real. We went and cut it down.
Here: http://tinyurl.com/2y5guv

[zero]

http://homepage.mac.com/hbsherwood/images/CharlieBrownTree.jpg

[12"razormix]

real trees outside. no trees inside.

[zero]

^lives in a funny wee house in the middle of the forest of deeply darkly and it says those very same words on her front door:


<table style="color: black;" width=400 align=center border=1 bordercolor=black cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2>
<tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<h3>real trees outside.

no trees inside.

</h3>
<h5>thank you for your kind assistance in this matter

you may enter

-zomrix-

</h5>

[zero]

i broke it

[lukkucairi]

really?

I've never seen this happen before.

does this mean I'm existing along with you as a figment of zormix's fertile imagination?

[zero]

really?

I've never seen this happen before.

does this mean I'm existing along with you as a figment of zormix's fertile imagination?

did you hear something just now

?


there it is again

[zero]

^ that wasn't intended to be a new¿ question of the day ? btw

[zero]

i fixed it

[T.I.P.]

^^^ you formatted the damn thing so many times you ended up breaking it ! :mad:

...

not sure there will be a tree at my folks' this year but possibly and in that case real

[Marcus Bales]

What are your pets' names?

Here we have Fuzz, Aida, Cleo, Beep, and Lola -- 3 cats and 2 birds

[brightpearl]

Atlas, Blackula, Haggis, Lionel, and Frau Meow.

[lukkucairi]

corky

[Anna]

passwords

[Stephi_B]

Got no pets anymore.

[trisherina]

Katie (the love dog)

[Coffee]

passwords
^^^LOL...so if they run away from you you can't call em back without compromising your computer security?


Mao C. Tongue and Mira. (not passwords...really)

[Frieda]

turbo

cat with a custody schedule, currently residing with my parents.

[β cyg]

Omkar

[Avalon]

Ozzy Osbourne
Jack Black
Abby Normal
Atticus Finch

to name a few...lol

[seebe]

Candy and Petey

[brightpearl]

Atticus Finch


I lobbied hard to name my son Atticus, but I lost. :) I'm glad there's a critter somewhere with his erstwhile name on it.

[craig johnston]

I lobbied hard to name my son Atticus, but I lost. :)

bet he's glad you lost

;)

[auntie aubrey]

i can't mention their names without mentioning their alternate names. because it's rare that their real names are spoken.

lilly (alt: kitty-bo, fatjack, fattypotomus, mrs fuzzums)
roger (alt: kitty-boo-boo, littlejack, swiper, ricky fitz, tony mingus)
theo (alt: puppy, buddy)

[madasacutsnake]

.

[auntie aubrey]

Ominous Ignatius Sod Off

http://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gif http://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gif http://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

[craig johnston]

next question:

why do pets get more names than humans?

:confused:

[lukkucairi]

because we love them more.

[topcat]

because we love them more.


very true

[12"razormix]

possessive focus

[madasacutsnake]

Time-saving device. So I can call the cat and tell the neighbours to sod off both at the same time.

[brightpearl]

My son has way more names than the pets, and much nicer ones -- pickle, piebaby, poptart, weasel, kiddo, kidney bean. I call all the cats fuzzy butt and dumbass.

[auntie aubrey]

i expect that when i have children (or, more likely, child), there will be even more nicknames floating around. the spouse and i have several silly nicknames for each other, too. you know how in the national lampoon movies ellen always calls clark "sparky"? i'm like that. i don't call him sparky, but what i do call him is equivalently juvenile. and i use it more often than i use his real name.

[T.I.P.]

i know a cat that eats in a little bowl that says "DOG" on it. I find it very funny. I call him "DOG" in a strange voice whenever i see him.

[Avalon]

because we love them more.

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Best. Answer. Ever. :D

[seebe]

Renaming or morphing the names is just something I've always done with my pets.

My cat is Petey, then became Petey Weet, Eety Weet, Boy, Boyboy.

My dog is Candy, Andy, Poodle Andy (she's not a poodle) Pandy, Girl, Gul.
I chat with an Indian on line and he often spells gul when meaning girl. I think it's cute.

[Stephi_B]

:confused:

If at all, my pets where called - just like 'my' humans are (but who, the dearer they are to me have the more pet names; interesting though that the common English word for 'Kosename' is pet name) - by an abbreviation: Raimi instead of Raimonda, say.

[Coffee]

Because their names are words we are pretty sure they know...so we give em several to increase their vocabulary? :rolleyes:

Mao = Mao-sir, Maoie, Meowie, Maomao, Sweety, Mr. Man, Good Boy, Smarty, Clever man, and on and on...(Best cat I ever had, a truly amazing cat)

Mira = Dumbass, Psycho kitty, Pretty is as Pretty Does, Snuggles, Glutton, Fatty, Fat-ass, WTF!!!, Lovey Dovey (she really is a psycho cat with dozens of personalities...most of them irritating...some of them deliteful)

[lukkucairi]

i know a cat that eats in a little bowl that says "DOG" on it. I find it very funny. I call him "DOG" in a strange voice whenever i see him.

My friend Skeet has a cockatoo named Dog.

I always wondered about this until I was walking past his house one day and heard a barrage of barking. There were no dogs in the house. Skeet doesn't own any canines, but he owns a bird that barks.

[brightpearl]

I used to have an iguana named Fluffy.

[lukkucairi]

^^ he just had really fine, really short hair.

[brightpearl]

^Yes, it was practically undetectable.

[seebe]

My favorite cat of all times only changed names twice from Casey to Casey Mae to China Mae.

I think I only had one name for my rat Ratchie.

[Stephi_B]

New q for today:

¿ What was the first record on vinyl, cassette and CD you bought yourself ?

If there's an interesting story going with why you bought something - post it! :)

[Stephi_B]

vinyl: own none
cassette: Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet
CD: Guns n' Roses - Use Your Illusion I & II

Not tremendously interesting: Came upon the above artists via MTV (back then still the one from London) which we started to receive in 90/91 and which I devoutly watched (often already while getting ready for school) despite not yet understanding too much English as I just had started to learn it in school - well for the Public Enemy texts this was probably not so bad cos they might have spoiled me as pre-teenie ;)

[Hyakujo's Fox]

LP: 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
cassette: never bought one
CD: The Dream of the Blue Turtles

[madasacutsnake]

I can't believe I'm admitting to this.

First vinyl may have been Dancing in the Streets, the Jagger/Bowie version. I think. May have been Feargal Sharkey, Depeche Mode, Crowded House.

First casette was Blaze of Glory.

First CD was Dreams by the Cranberries. I think. I don't have many CDs because new technology scares me.

[Frieda]

hmmm
vinyl: none
cassette: a sesame street bert & ernie tape (well, my mother bought it but i picked it out in the store and she gave me my pocket money and i paid for it)
CD: ?? no idea, i can't remember which one was the first.. :confused:

[Hyakujo's Fox]

May have been Feargal Sharkey

Probably Phil Collins.

[brightpearl]

vinyl: (that I bought myself, had lots of Disney stuff/Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer and such earlier) I think it was Zenyatta Mondatta by the Police.

Not sure of the rest -- cassette was probably Black Flagg or something, and CD was likely more Police or Siouxsie and the Banshees. :D

[Stephi_B]

^^^Oh well, what concerns the first cassette I got as (wished for) gift then...
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41M4NTSVECL._AA240_.jpg
Lower Bavarian country pop, "I bin a bayrisches Cowgirl" (= I'm a Bavarian cowgirl, as quite obvious) - how I loved that song :o

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Actually on the cassette front I had, but didn't pay for, the best-covered-ever Ripper 76 (http://i10.tinypic.com/7xjc2sj.jpg)

[brightpearl]

oh oh oh
I remembered the first CD. It was the White Album. I had my parents' old vinyl recording, and I listened to that through the cassette tape era, but by the time I got a cd player, the turntable wasn't working anymore. I loved the White Album even when I was little, like 7 or so, and I had been missing it. I had some cd's that my parents bought me to go with the player, but that was the first one I saved and spent my own money on.

[Stephi_B]

Ah, the White Album, my mother had it on cassette in her car - I cassette-napped it at some point... but she took it back after some weeks :( Bought it on CD only like 3 years ago.

[T.I.P.]

First vinyl record: Michael Jackson's Thriller album

it was during my breakdancing phase :)

[trisherina]

Vinyl: Phil Collins' Face Value (ha HFox!)

But I actually bought cassettes well before that, to play on an old Radio Shack tape recorder in my room: A Wild and Crazy Guy, and Let's Get Small.

CD: Yes 90125.

[auntie aubrey]

LP: 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1

YAY!:D

[auntie aubrey]

vinyl: the first one i bought myself was toto's "pamela" 45" single. i don't even remember how it goes. hang on.... you tube..... holy god.

cassette: this is a toughie and i'm not sure i remember. my dad was into buying used records well after cassettes became the predominant format. he would buy the album, dub it off to tape, then sell the album back. as a result the first cassette i ever actually bought myself where this didn't take place was prossibly george michael's "faith" album.

i do, however, remember my first cassingle purchase. elvis costello's "veronica" and the cher/peter cetera duet "after all" from the movie "chances are."

CD: arrested development's "3 Years 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life of"

[Tunesmith]

When I was growing up, the only time I saw a vinyl was at my grandparents' house. I missed the whole cassette era, too.

So, the first cd I bought for myself was Weezer's Blue Album. I was going to buy the Green Album, which had just come out a couple weeks before, but my mother swooped down to scope it out, saw the words "Hash Pipe" in big white letters, and switched it for the blue one.

[lukkucairi]

hm!

vinyl: Olivia Newton John - "Physical"
cassette: Eurythmics - "Touch"
CD: ok, it came included with the stereo but the first one I owned was...ZAMFIR, MASTER OF THE PAN FLUTE.

First one I bought was probably something by The Cure.

[topcat]

nobody mentioned 8 track

[Frieda]

^ before my time

did you have 8 track tapes?

[brightpearl]

Is that the question of the day?

No, never did have 8 track. I'm only aware of them from having seen them at thrift stores. From my painstaking scientific research in that area, I can report that the only artists ever made available on 8 track were Tom Jones and Eddie Rabbit.

[Stephi_B]

Nope, and although I knew the name, I had to google a picture...

[Frieda]

^ me too, had to google a picture.

funny how these questions of the day seem to happen ;) :D

[Stephi_B]

First ? after midnight et la voila :D
(Actually these spontaneous q-o-day's are often better than the ones somebody made knots in his/her brain for)

[brightpearl]

^that's so true...
I forgot to include Steve Miller in the comprehensive list of artists ever released on 8 track.
*trots off to 80's thread...*

[T.I.P.]

when I was 7 years old i used to listen to 8-tracks of Billy Joel and sing along to the music. Unfortunately for my parents, I would do this with headphones on, so my tuning was way way off. I think they got a kick out of it, because they still laugh about it.

[lukkucairi]

we had 8-tracks of bagpipe music and Frankie Laine.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Edison reciting Mary had a Little Lamb, now that was a wax cylinder.

[topcat]

i had 8 tracks. i think the first was led zepplin 2.

[Marcus Bales]

What's your idea of the ideal age to be?

[Frieda]

8

[craig johnston]

^^
yes.

or 32

[madasacutsnake]

28.

[T.I.P.]

30, for the moment

[brightpearl]

Dunno, maybe I haven't reached it yet.
I agree that 30ish is pretty good, though. It's possible to be a real adult by then, but there are also still a lot of options.

[Stephi_B]

12 or 25 1/3

^ & ^^ & ^^^^: So I won't have to shoot myself with 30 as I had planned initially (when ca. 16 and pretty ageist) ;)

[trisherina]

I'll stick w/ 8

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

Bronze

[lukkucairi]

34

failing that, 9

failing that, I'd vote for iron :)

[topcat]

92

[auntie aubrey]

up through age 21 i figured it was 22. when i turned 22 i decided it was 23. i stand by that revision even today.

[Jack Flanders]

28

[Marcus Bales]

What online magazine do you read regularly?

http://www.aldaily.com for me.

[Stephi_B]

http://www.spiegel.de/ and http://www.newscientist.com/home.ns

[zero]

och dearie me what a bloody boring ¿ question of the day ? ... i dunno.. GROCER'S FVCKKEN WEEKLY or something

[lukkucairi]

I'd like a subscription to GROCER'S FVCKKEN WEEKLY^^

can you point me in the right direction?

[zero]

you have to be an actual grocer

[lukkucairi]

I don't care what you say erzo, I could out-groce YOU any day.

[zero]

^been reading COMPETITIVE CROCERING! magazine

[lukkucairi]

fastest FVCKKEN GROCER! in the west.

[zero]

stop this madness - just drop the aubergine and step away from the tradesman's entrance

[lukkucairi]

wuss!

In competitive grocing there is no room for pacifism. I shall see you at the Grand Grocer Tourney this spring, Sir Rzeo, and we shall then see whose aubergines are the mightier!

[T.I.P.]

i bet i can bag groceries faster than the both of you !

paper OR plastic

[zero]

^bagging? ...bagging?? you might get a job as a saturday-boy if that's all you can do


bagging is an activity which an elite grocer considers to be beneath him


you see, son, grocers deal in staple foodstuffs such as meats, produce or dairy products and other household supplies.

and then there's your greengrocers..

[brightpearl]

^all that up there is fun. :D

I read Trilobite Fancy.

[T.I.P.]

^bagging? ...bagging
you see, son, grocers deal in staple foodstuffs such as meats, produce or dairy products and other household supplies.

and then there's your greengrocers..

i am not interested in "dealing", and i am delighted to leave it to the bourgeois grocer, who for all his pompousness knows nothing of the uncut pleasure of a nice bagging...

...the reassuring "meep" of the product as it passes through the loving hands of the cashier...

...the thrill of the chase, as the product slides down the chute...

...the look of gratitude as another satisfied customer leaves the mini-mart...

[Marcus Bales]

The Song against Grocers
G. K. Chesterton

GOD made the wicked Grocer
For a mystery and a sign,
That men might shun the awful shops
And go to inns to dine;
Where the bacon's on the rafter
And the wine is in the wood,
And God that made good laughter
Has seen that they are good.

The evil-hearted Grocer
Would call his mother 'Ma'am,'
And bow at her and bob at her,
Her aged soul to damn,
And rub his horrid hands and ask
What article was next,
Though mortis in articulo
Should be her proper text.

His props are not his children,
But pert lads underpaid,
Who call out 'Cash!' and bang about
To work his wicked trade;
He keeps a lady in a cage
Most cruelly all day
And makes her count and calls her 'Miss'
Until she fades away.

The righteous minds of innkeepers
Induce them now and then
To crack a bottle with a friend
Or treat unmoneyed men,
But who hath seen the Grocer
Treat housemaids to his teas
Or crack a bottle of fish-sauce
Or stand a man a cheese?

He sells us sands of Araby
As sugar for cash down;
He sweeps his shop and sells the dust
The purest salt in town,
He crams with cans of poisoned meat
The subjects of the King,
And when they die by thousands
Why, he laughs like anything.

The wicked Grocer groces
In spirits and in wine,
Not frankly and in fellowship
As men in inns do dine;
But packed with soap and sardines
And carried off by grooms,
For to be snatched by Duchesses
And drunk in dressing-rooms.

The hell-instructed Grocer
Has a temple made of tin,
And the ruin of good innkeepers
Is loudly urged therein;
But now the sands are running out
From sugar of a sort,
The Grocer trembles; for his time,
Just like his weight, is short.

[Brynn]

Back in the day, I used to read Salon.com before they started charging for it. It was well worth price, but at the same time Anne LaMott stopped being a regular columnist and I fell out of the habit.

[craig johnston]

zitty (http://www.zitty.de/)

[trisherina]

Magazines make me uncomfortable. They're all right for other people, but they make me wince, even as I enjoy them. We could never be tight.

[Stephi_B]

^^Read the analog version always at the hairdresser's or doctor's waiting room, rarely buy it ---->>----->> bookmarked it :)



New question: ¿What/Who pissed you off?

[Frieda]

well, usually i piss myself off

like right now, when i am late for an appointment with the office doc and i'm still eating my bread and typing this

[Stephi_B]

^Same here! :o

Plus: Dishonesty, cruelty/violence against children and (as more minor things) cold rain as well as tussis (hard to translate, a certain type of superficial girls) / tussi-like behaviour

[brightpearl]

Not much actually pisses me off, although I often get bemusedly irritated. But, like Stephi, anything that threatens the well-being of any child pisses me off royally. The threshold is somewhat lower when it's my own child.

[trisherina]

Injustice, wherever I find it. Where people are unfair to one another and violate the golden rule, especially with intent. Where your fist touches the other guy's nose. They say I tilt at too many windmills, but they say a lot of stuff.

[Earthling]

Well it sure ain't this muley-minded, screen-blanking, freeze-up every other page, #&%*&@ computer of mine.

[Marcus Bales]

In spite of the way Trisherina says we could never be tight because she doesn't read magazines and I do, I'm going with her answer: injustice, though tinged with sadness and regret for what might have been. *sigh*

[zero]

New question: ¿What/Who pissed you off?



cauliflower

[topcat]

lala

[lukkucairi]

the patriarchy.

[Coffee]

Abuse of power or trust...esp. if for personal gain or for personal aggrandizement

[T.I.P.]

my first reaction, most of the time


eta: I've often deplored the fact that life has no "Ctrl (<img src ="http://www.nonstopmac.com/images/apple.gif" width = "18">) - Z".

...Not even a stinkin' edit button :mad: !

[auntie aubrey]

New question: ¿What/Who pissed you off?


i'm answering this question as it was asked: past tense, about a person. rather than an ongoing, present awareness of things that piss me off currently.

so who pissed me off?

um.



i'll go with that girl at the dog park in august who let her pit bull grab theo by the throat and waved it away by saying, "that's just how she plays." SHE pissed me off.

amen.

[Tunesmith]

When people suffer because of other people.

And when other people don't realize it.

[Brynn]

I've been getting pissed off regularly at all manner of things since 1986, but did not feel free to express it much until 2004.

Well, it's 12:11 a.m. so to my mind it's time for a new question:

What's the ideal question you wish someone would ask you?

[madasacutsnake]

I want to give you money, how much would you like?

[brightpearl]

Would you like a back rub?

[Stephi_B]

^No prob, Perla :) At your place or at mine?

You know, I got there this bar, it's running well, no debts on it, you wanna have it?

[Marcus Bales]

"How's it feel to get a MacArthur Grant?"

[Earthling]

Will you guard the lemon-meringue pie cooling on the window sill for me?

[craig johnston]

hac: 'wanna come upstairs and meet my friends?'

[trisherina]

Do you mind if I take call for you this weekend?

[lukkucairi]

can you help me plan for retirement?

[T.I.P.]

want some help with those slides ?

[Frieda]

hey, how are you, can i help you with anything?

[topcat]

do you want fries with that?

[auntie aubrey]

can i refill your beverage?

[lukkucairi]

what time is love?

(the KLF are gonna rock you)

[Marcus Bales]

Usually around 11 at night.

[lukkucairi]

really? for me it's usually 7 in the morning.

[Stephi_B]

The hour after midnight (the best time of the day in general).

[Frieda]

twilight

[brightpearl]

Yes.
:D

[topcat]

what time is love?

(the KLF are gonna rock you)


^^^^is this the new question?

[Marcus Bales]

How much money do you have on you right now?

[Jack Flanders]

$0.00 - my purse may have 5 bucks

[Odbe]

Also $0.00, but I could probably find the odd 5 or 10 cent piece if I rummaged around my desk.

[trisherina]

I am not sure it is a new question-day, so I will answer both:

1. The Bill Cosby answer: "What do you think I am? A microwave oven?"

2. About $180 cash. You can take it honest.

[Jack Flanders]

Usually around 11 at night. How much money do you have on you right now?

So. you got side-tracked on Lukki's sex ? and covered it up with a "new one"? ;)

[Frieda]

nothing

[T.I.P.]

2.03 euros

[lukkucairi]

$50

[Avalon]

I am in the money ... til AMEX bill rolls in...:eek:

[Tunesmith]

A $30 dollar metrocard and assorted crumpled dollar bills.

[auntie aubrey]

bah. cash is so passé.

[Stephi_B]

^not for me, plastic money makes me lose overview of how much money I spend, just use my EC card when I have no cash handy or for bigger sums which I don't wanna carry around on the streets, don't have a credit card (I couldn't travel to the US or?)

At the moment only something like 12 € - spent much this weekend...

[Marcus Bales]

In relationships, are you Canine or Feline?

That is are you pursuer or pursued?

[Stephi_B]

canine

[daverbee]

Canine sometimes, feline others.

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

Feline.
Always been the pursued.
Must be my charming wit and charismatic way.

[lukkucairi]

avian (flighty) :p

[12"razormix]

human ( not susceptible to chasing )

[brightpearl]

roadkill


ha ha ha
:o

[12"razormix]

.
Learned helplessness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness) makes me sad. But people can only unlearn it themselves, I guess.

[brightpearl]

^:D
Thanks for that.
I'm still sweeping out the cynicism, but I'm actually doing much better.

[Earthling]

I take offense to the whole stereotypical Canine/Feline bigotted remarks.
Me, I just like to horse around.;)

[Bman]

ferret (squirmy)

[auntie aubrey]

i don't understand the question. canine is the pursuer and feline is the pursued? but cats are great hunters.

i neither hunt nor desire to be hunted. the way i've always seen it, if someone has to be pursued, they're not worth the chase.

i'd rather be a duck, waddling next to another duck, both of us muttering insane sub-vocal nonsense quacks.

[trisherina]

I guess maybe I did it wrong, the whole falling in love thing, but it's all clicks and buzzes to me, baby.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

it's all clicks and buzzes to me, baby.

^sounds like an early adopter of robo-lovin.

[madasacutsnake]

Pursue me hard, baby.

[Marcus Bales]

Who was your first non-parent non-teacher role model, and why?

[trisherina]

A 14 year old girl in the hospital bed next to mine in paeds who needed skin grafting to her leg because she had been sniffing gasoline from a motorcycle tank, spilled some on her leg, and then lit a cigarette while stoned. Why? Because she seemed pretty happy and had a lot of friends.

[lukkucairi]

Anne Tetley-Jones.

taught me how to garden. chain smoked. didn't give a shit about the world, really, and was very happy that way.

[brightpearl]

my best friend of many years
so tough
so kind
and so alive

and she loves sock monkeys, so what's not to like?

[Frieda]

when i was 8: my teacher Gerdien-- always nice, very kind and fair. she made sure everybody felt comfortable. she really cared about us kids.

[Stephi_B]

Apart from my grandma, who pretty much falls in the parental category (and about whom you have heard already some things ;)) I'd say my former colleague and close friend Vanya (whom I met when I was 21) because he knows much about life, is tough, cool, clever, honest and an extremely good fella towards those that came through his protective shell!

[12"razormix]

jesus.

what he said made sense to me.

[zero]

... been thinking about this on & off throughout the day. maybe there's something wrong with me but honestly, acannie for the life of me think of anyone i personally have regarded in the terms described below:

the term role model was introduced by Robert K. Merton [1910 -2003]. Merton says that individuals compare themselves with "reference groups" full of people who occupy the social role to which the individual aspires.the term has passed into general use to mean any "person who serves as an example of a positive behavior"


in fact having read that^, the very phrase "role model" now makes me feel quite queezy

[Hyakujo's Fox]

yeah, apparently you've got to aspire to a social role.

[auntie aubrey]

i was in college before anyone non-parental or non-teacheriffical qualified as a role model.

i wrote up a description of the guy three times before i finally decided there was no way to do it in any kind of short quip kind of way appropriate for this thread.

so. yeah. some guy i knew when i was in college.

[Tunesmith]

My cousin Nat. He's a junior in college, and some of my best memories are of exploring my grandparents' attic with him and finding old WWII helmets, a flashbulb camera, and a box full of love letters from two unknown relatives.

He's without a doubt one of the most intelligent and funny people I know, and has never had anything but the best advice.

[Marcus Bales]

... been thinking about this on & off throughout the day. maybe there's something wrong with me but honestly, acannie for the life of me think of anyone ... the very phrase "role model" now makes me feel quite queezy

That explains so much.

[madasacutsnake]

I never liked any-one enough to want to role model from them.

[Frieda]

question of wednesday 19 december:

what's the last thing you bought at IKEA?

[Stephi_B]

Bedclothes - somewhen in the long ago, don't buy much at IKEA.

[T.I.P.]

drapes - to block out the vis-à-vis from my neighbors' apartment

[trisherina]

a power outlet brick

[brightpearl]

knight and dragon printed storage boxes and a bed tent for my son's room

[Frieda]

2 ornaments for my christmas tree (glass white birds with red printed pattern), 2 rolls of gift wrap and a box of gift labels shaped as a gnome

[Marcus Bales]

Bedclothes - somewhen in the long ago, don't buy much at IKEA.

Neither do I -- and for, I think, the same reason: we know that 90% of the universe is made up of dark matter, and almost all of it is kept in warehouses at Ikea!

[Frieda]

i like to think of it as parallel universes-- every IKEA warehouse in the world has the same 50 rooms set up. i mean, what would happen if i sit down on an EKTORP in amsterdam and you do the exact same at the exact same time--it might open a wormhole or something :eek:

[madasacutsnake]

I don't do Ikea. No way.

[lukkucairi]

$144 worth of battery powered LED xmas light strings that were selling at $1.60 ea.

That's 85 sets :)

[auntie aubrey]

ikea is still a novelty to me so i shop there as often as i can stomach the idea of grappling with the crowds. it's such a bizarro shopping experience that i can't get enough of.

last weekend we bought a down pillow and a roll of gift wrap for this enormous present we bought for a 4 year old that demanded its own roll of wrap just to cover the damn thing.

[craig johnston]

i'm going tomorrow with my mate julie.

;)

[trisherina]

¿ question of the day ? for December 20th MST, inspired by our comrade Tippy La Rue:

When will you know you've "made it?"

[Marcus Bales]

coffee or tea? and do you have a favorite kind?

[Bman]

• Because everyone will say how much it sucks compared to the first one.

• I don't really love coffee or tea, but in my experience I love everything coffee flavored and hate most things tea flavored.

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

When will you know you've "made it?"

When I no longer feel the need to explain myself to my parents.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Coffee or tea? and do you have a favorite kind?

Both
I'll drink any coffee… preferably cold.
Lapsang souchong is my default hot tea & I prefer a milky gunpowder for cold tea.

[lukkucairi]

1) I just did. 86% is a pass.

2) both, either.

[auntie aubrey]

When will you know you've "made it?"

i listen to my gut and assume it will let me know.

Coffee or tea? and do you have a favorite kind?

both. although between 1998 and november of 2007 the answer would have been "tea only." regarding favorite kind of tea, i'd have to go with jasmine. no preferred coffee, i'm not that refined.

[T.I.P.]

¿ question of the day ? for December 20th MST, inspired by our comrade Tippy La Rue:


i'm touched and honored :)

When will you know you've "made it?"

Now. It will wear off sooner than i'd like, so i'm trying to make the best of it while it lasts :)


Coffee or tea? and do you have a favorite kind?

coffee - italian style ristretto.

i like tea a lot too though, and i drink it when i'm too tired to drink coffee, which happens with long term fatigue. In that case, i enjoy a nice celestial seasonings, "perfectly pear" (best enjoyed while listening to Nathan Fake - Peary Land) or "Goji Berry".

Generally speaking, all the CC's are good.

[brightpearl]

congrats lukku!

on making it:

Hmmm. I'm not sure that point can ever be reached in a permanent sense. I think you make it anew in each moment.

Or:
When I finally get off my ass and get something published.

One of those.

On cafe vs. tea:
Can't choose, love both. French pressed coffee, and I share Tip's penchant for CC. I love the greens, and the Chai, and the Apple Cinnamon, and the Almond Sunset is to die for, but I can't find it any more. :(
I also really adore this ginger lemon that my friend keeps, but I don't know the brand. It's spicy.

[brightpearl]

query for friday the 21st...


Your earliest memory?

[Marcus Bales]

A Terrible Infant

I RECOLLECT a nurse call'd Ann
Who carried me about the grass,
And one fine day a fine young man
Came up and kiss'd the pretty lass.
She did not make the least objection!
Thinks I, "Aha!
When I can talk I'll tell Mamma" --
And that's my earliest recollection.

Frederick Locker-Lampson

[lukkucairi]

WANT "BUG OFF" TEE SHIRT WANT WANT

I was 18 months old, or thereabouts.

[madasacutsnake]

Eating snow from the doorstep. I was fifteen months.

[craig johnston]

injustice

being blamed for something i didn't do, and not being able to explain.

[T.I.P.]

saying "bye bye" to my dad and realizing that he did not speak the same language as my mom

[brightpearl]

I'm not positive, but I think it was finding some ladybug larvae. The stench of them is burned into my brain...I think I must have put my fingers in my mouth. Even seeing a picture of them now makes me queasy. I also remember seeing my grandmother in her coffin, in a flowered dressing gown. Both very strong, very old memories.

[zero]

A Terrible Infant

I RECOLLECT a nurse call'd Ann
Who carried me about the grass,
And one fine day a fine young man
Came up and kiss'd the pretty lass.
She did not make the least objection!
Thinks I, "Aha!
When I can talk I'll tell Mamma" --
And that's my earliest recollection.

Frederick Locker-Lampson
WANT "BUG OFF" TEE SHIRT WANT WANT

I was 18 months old, or thereabouts.
Eating snow from the doorstep. I was fifteen months.
Eating snow from the doorstep. I was fifteen months.
injustice

being blamed for something i didn't do, and not being able to explain.
saying "bye bye" to my dad and realizing that he did not speak the same language as my mom
I'm not positive, but I think it was finding some ladybug larvae. The stench of them is burned into my brain...I think I must have put my fingers in my mouth. Even seeing a picture of them now makes me queasy. I also remember seeing my grandmother in her coffin, in a flowered dressing gown. Both very strong, very old memories.




DECKARD: Yea... ...and a hundred baby spiders came out... and they ate her. ..................Implants. Those aren't your memories, they're somebody else's. They're Tyrell's niece's. ..................O.K., bad joke... I made a bad joke. You're not replicants. Go home, o.k? No really, I'm sorry, go home.





.

[Tunesmith]

^ gave me a happy :D

It's hazy, but I remember crouching over some rocks with my oldest friend. We were staring very solemnly at something, in that completely-concentrated-and-very-serious little kid way, but I forget at what...

[Stephi_B]

My grandpa playing lullabies for me on his zither.

[zero]

22nd december - today's ¿ question of the day ?



what do you think it would be like to be swallowed whole by a pacific blue whale?

[lukkucairi]

a bit like this:

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[Odbe]

Like being tossed into the refuse bin of a Japanese seafood restaurant during a flood.

[Jack Flanders]

what do you think it would be like to be swallowed whole by a pacific blue whale?

Would that be the north pacific blue whale or the south pacific blue whale?

[madasacutsnake]

Not as bad as having my MIL to stay.

[12"razormix]

Would that be the north pacific blue whale or the south pacific blue whale?that would be north pacific of course

[Hyakujo's Fox]

"south pacific" :rolleyes:

[Hyakujo's Fox]

what do you think it would be like to be swallowed whole by a pacific blue whale?

You ask my thoughts
through the long night?
I spent it listening
to the heavy rain
beating against the windows

~ Izumi Shikibu

[brightpearl]

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pardon the poetic license with the meanings of "fish" and "swallowed"

[zero]

would that be the north pacific blue whale or the south pacific blue whale?

HINT:

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[xfox]

An awful way to leave this earth.

[T.I.P.]

slimy

[madasacutsnake]

Best Christmas present you're giving this year?

http://bulletin.zefrank.com/showpost.php?p=372277&postcount=189

[brightpearl]

Made my mom a cool necklace, and my son is getting a nerf compound bow.

[Frieda]

i can't post that here because it's for my cousin and he sometimes lurks here--

so i'll tell the 2nd best: a picture frame with 9 pictures of the france vacation this summer, for my uncle & aunt

[xfox]

A mini fridge / warmer to my brother for his truck.

[auntie aubrey]

a ps3 for the spouse, which i spent the last 2 months vehemently campaigning against as "the #1 thing i don't want in this house" in order to throw him off. i actually gave it to him today because of an odd series of events and he just stared blankly at me for several moments, trying to comprehend this thing i was giving him.

[Jack Flanders]

the first year of Twin Peaks. for him - yeah. :rolleyes: ;) :)

[trisherina]

Patience, kindness, and good humour. I spent a bunch of money too, but these seem to be the things people really like best!

[Frieda]

^ pageant winner ;) :D


and auntie-- i can just picture him standing there with this big WTF on his face :D

[Anna]

a story a day for 12 days. Starting tonight, I better get busy ;)

[trisherina]

I won! I won! I love you ALLLLLLLLLLL!

(trust me... after a few hours of watching my dad try to use a mouse like a remote control, I gave the gift of patience)

[lukkucairi]

space

[Brynn]

Today I'm giving everyone in my family the gift of not offering a personal opinion on anything whatsoever :D This gift blends well with my MIL's gift of infinite wisdom on every subject imaginable!;)

I'm actually giving my daughter everything she needs to make her own silk-screened T-shirts, and I can't wait for her to open it tomorrow.

[Marcus Bales]

What's the number 1 gift you got today?

[Frieda]

star trek sticker book :o

[madasacutsnake]

A handful of antique silver bits.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c22/madasacutsnake/100_2320.jpg

[Hyakujo's Fox]

I got a 30 minute training flight!!!

!

[brightpearl]

So far, it's that my son is still sleeping even though it's nearly 7 am!!! :D OH, to not be awakened at 4am with piteous begging to open the presents is a beautiful, beautiful thing.

[Jack Flanders]

The shocked but thrilled looks on my kids' faces when they opened the gifts from me that they NEVER expected. :) Yep!

[lukkucairi]

a scarf to replace the one I sacrificed to the gods of oblivion two days ago