¿ question of the day ?

[Hyakujo's Fox]

BUT CRAIG JOHNSTON SPOILED IT

[auntie aubrey]

i don't know about that there carp question. seems deviously underhanded to abscond with someone's answer-gathering opportunity.


as to the matter of the peanut:

about 12 minutes of pure entertainment, if gifted to a dog.

[lukkucairi]

AAAHHHH

I'm allergic to peanuts, thanks.

do carp like peanut butter?

[Hyakujo's Fox]

^ but what if you give it to a carp?

*ding*

[lukkucairi]

*ding*

thanks, I'm out of anaphylaxis now

[Bman]

squirrel bait

[hypnoplasm]

listening to me when no one else will

[hypnoplasm]

garnishing a nutty martini

[hypnoplasm]

falling from the sky to make one wonder

[trisherina]

Easter egg for kid in poverty

[Jack Flanders]

Making George Washington Carver really proud. Look him up. He was a genius.

[Stephi_B]

new question, cos the last one was so carp.
what is the carpist question you have ever been aksed?

me: will you marry me?

Same in my case (like 3, 4 times all in all), but these guys can really forget that cos I'll only marry the announcement speaker lady of Ostbahnhof if she turn into a hot bloke, or Perla if I turn into a hot bloke, or Zerö's single peanut, or... (not much time today, make up the rest of my list on your own) ... ;)

[brightpearl]

^*blush*

You don't want me, though. As far as I can tell, the more or less unanimous assessment has been that I only look good on paper. :o

New question of the day (I really enjoyed the peanut one, however):

Have any amusing phobias? Bonus points for anything really humiliating.

I am afraid of sharks. I live rather far inland now, but when I was a coastal child, my school showed us a beach safety film which apparently had not been previewed for content....it included autopsy photos of shark victims. The humiliating bit is that I am uncomfortable walking on the 6-inch-thick glass ceilings of shark tanks at big aquaria, and I don't even like to be in dark, freshwater, landlocked lakes, where there is zero possibility of marine predators. I prefer clear, flowing streams, where I can look for leeches and planarians without fear of being nibbled overzealously.

[Frieda]

oi oioi.

i'm phobic about being stuck in a drain and/or being flushed away with the water. accidently stepping on the shower drain makes me run around the house with my head full of shampoo. same in swimming pools, i am not getting near those drain holes.. if i get into the pool at all.

oh, and flying bugs that can sting freak me out.

[Stephi_B]

the more or less unanimous assessment has been that I only look good on paper.


Ha, and I'm theoretician and very, very fond of everything and everyone only looking good on paper ;)
(And anyway the person who made this assessment most probably is a liar and should be integrated out of all your equations!)


Mmh, amusing phobias :confused:
Mmh, the unamusing ones are in the phobia thread already.
Well, then maybe the phobia of not getting married by Perla when and if I'll become a hot bloke on day.

[lukkucairi]

I'm afraid of blackboard chalk

[auntie aubrey]

i'm freaked out by things with nooks and crannies. tufted leather sofas, for example. and last night i was sitting in a bubble bath and i tossed in a fizzy bath bomb and watched it as it fizzled away.... only to notice that the water pits and corrodes the bath bomb in a very disturbing nook-and-cranny way.

now i might not be able to use bath bombs anymore.

[Stephi_B]

Q for Friday:

¿ Which mathematical function describes you best ?
(Some examples, i.e. the first 8 that entered my mind, given, but if yours isn't here, maybe it's there (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_functions))

sine and cosine
http://library.wolfram.com/howtos/legends/Images/index_gr_4.gif

straight line
http://home.arcor.de/tigerfax/dilthey/geopov/gerade01.jpg

delta function
http://universe-review.ca/I15-43-deltafunction.jpg

exponential and logarithmic function
http://library.thinkquest.org/2647/media/invgrpex.gif

Heaviside step-function
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Dirac_distribution_CDF.svg/325px-Dirac_distribution_CDF.svg.png

tangent function
http://www.wsp.krakow.pl/ibe/websites/funkcje/obrazki/tangens/tg3.gif

hyperbolic spiral
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Hyperspiral.png

modulus
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikibooks/en/thumb/b/b5/Abs.svg/342px-Abs.svg.png





Me: logarithmic, mostly, sometimes spiraling hyperbolically onto something

[Frieda]

i have no idea

maths is the only sausage i don't speak :(

[Stephi_B]

^You don't need to! (....it's the Devil's sausage some people say :D)
Just have a look which form(s) you can relate with! :)

[Frieda]

i can't-- i get brain errors

just like when someone asks me what i want to have for dinner tonight, everything just stays blank :(

i don't relate to anything-- everything's straight lines and grids and text i don't understand that's confusing me-- so i'll just pick the hyperbolic spiral because it looks so pretty :)

[Stephi_B]

Oh :(

Can I reboot your brain with a, mmh, croissant shaped function
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Indicator_function_illustration.png/180px-Indicator_function_illustration.png
?
:)

[Stephi_B]

More options to choose from:

Fermat spiral
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Fermat's_spiral.png

cubic function
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Polynomialdeg3.png

sinc-function
http://www.blacklightpower.com/theory/DoubleSlit/Sinc.jpg

something chaotic (sin[1/x])
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/5136/Continuity/continuity_html_ma95a04c.jpg

[lukkucairi]

I'm definitely tangential - at least today :p

[Earthling]

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w205/bryanprintz/Optical_Illusion.jpg

[craig johnston]

^^
no, can't see any boat

:o

i'm not sure whether i'm a hyperalcoholic spiral or chaotic sin.
can i be both?

[brightpearl]

shamelessly stolen from someone much wiser than I:

0 = 1 = ∞

[12"razormix]

i like pudding!

[brightpearl]

yes, yes, especially infinite pudding...

[zero]

^http://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gif
ME TOO!!:D²

[craig johnston]

http://www.icecreamireland.com/images/Dessert/Cremecaramel-sm.jpg

[Frieda]

^ looks like cat food

[Stephi_B]

You folks never ever say again you have no clue of maths - you found it!! The pudding I encoded in above graphs!!!

:D ;)

[Frieda]

wait-- there's a boat AND pudding in that image?? :p

[brightpearl]

New Q fer Saturday the 16th:

If you had a first name other than the one you have now, what would you want it to be?

[Coffee]

Cracker.

[Frieda]

i already have two first names in my collection

but i'd like one that doesn't rhyme with all kinds of profanities in multiple languages

i wouldn't know which one though.. :confused:

[Anna]

kent west

[12"razormix]

raymond

[zero]

NIVEA

[zero]

raymond

well, Raymond...

:mad: i want to be called NIVEA!! if she can be called raymond the i want to be called NIVEA

and frieda please email ze about changing my username okay?

[brightpearl]

^It does fit you rather well.
http://adsoftheworld.com/files/images/nivea.preview.jpg
dedicated to zroe

[zero]

^It does fit you...

you?...you? who's you? - the cat's mother?


i have a name (LEICA) - kindly use it when addressing me young lady

[lukkucairi]

zero

LEICA, I hope that's ok with you...

[zero]

thank you:)

[Anna]

:mad: i want to be called NIVEA!! if she can be called raymond the i want to be called NIVEA
and frieda please email ze about changing my username okay?

can he fix mine too? it really should be annan, I was just kidding about kent west. oh and! while he's at it, maybe he could create world peace, take care of that global warming, provide a living wage and health care for all too, if'n he's not too busy. thanks :)

hey, you gotta at least ask

[zero]

annan, he'll probably do it for us 1st thing on monday but in the meantime may i suggest you change the word bleach to a letter n?

cheerio!

[Anna]

annan, he'll probably do it for us 1st thing on monday but in the meantime may i suggest you change the word bleach to a letter n?
cheerio!
excellent idea! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveolar_nasal)
I'll disinfect another time

http://www.old-picture.com/defining-moments/pictures/Abraham-Lincoln-Antietam-Battlefield.jpg
your words of encouragement sir, lift my hopes and makes me a better person.

[zero]

glad to be of asssitance ma'am



you may address me by my full name of NIVEA LEICA HONEY zero

[auntie aubrey]

aubrey.



oh no the conundrum!

[Frieda]

okok

12"""""""""""ix raymond fergus
anna kent west kofi annan
nivea leica honey zero
lukkucairi zero
and
aubrey auntie aubrey

this username thing is restricted to 13 characters i think-- shall i just remove the half that doesn't fit in there?

[zero]

this username thing is restricted to 13 characters i think-- shall i just remove the half that doesn't fit in there?

no. you need include a paragraph in your email to fergus frank telling him to SORT IT OUT

[Stephi_B]

Something with at least 8 vowels in it, a Hawaiian cussword would be neat.

LEICA?!

You gotta complain, cos they mispelled you at the end of the video you're starring in!
<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6G5UGybYN-E&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6G5UGybYN-E&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>

;)

[lukkucairi]

^ humuhumunukunukuapua'a?

<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NKgIrS11-5A&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NKgIrS11-5A&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>

^ this is horrific, btw...

[zero]

well?

[lukkucairi]

well?

I've been weller, but I'm relatively well.

you?

[zero]

no no i was was asking it as the new ¿ question of the day ? you know like those times when when e.g there's a maybe of bierf pause and someone says "well?" like that

i'll ask it again


well?

[zero]

actually let me put that differently





:mad: WELL??

[zero]

a maybe of bierf pause


i have no idea

[madasacutsnake]

Hole with water in it.

[lukkucairi]

well why didn't you SAY SO to begin with, reoz?

:mad:

[Tunesmith]

there's a maybe of bierf pause

i have no idea

this gives me great happies and makes me laugh, for some reason :D

[zero]

well i can hardly wait to hear what flanders & johnstone have to say about this one

[craig johnston]

http://www.downtownmesa.com/TheyAreWaiting2%20(low-res).jpg

[T.I.P.]

a man with two noses

[Hyakujo's Fox]

yup yup yup phhhhmmmm yup

[auntie aubrey]

so...... no ¿qué? of the day?








:(

[lukkucairi]

so...... no ¿qué? of the day?








:(

WELL, rzeo?

http://grammarpolice.net/archives/images/morgin_piano.jpg

[Hyakujo's Fox]

so...... no ¿qué? of the day?

well?

[brightpearl]

http://www.a1ozarknativestone.com/TFwishingWell.jpg

[auntie aubrey]

okay FINE. :mad:

¿ question of the day ?

what's the worst candy you've ever eaten?

[brightpearl]

^good one, auntie

http://www.worldofstock.com/slides/PRO1176.jpg

[brightpearl]

no wait, it's

http://www.hometownfavorites.com/images/items/Large/Hfca720.jpg

[lukkucairi]

I wanted so much to like these but I just don't

http://www.franklinfountain.com/images/products/cvm.jpg

the violet aftertaste stays with you for EVER

[auntie aubrey]

http://bigskycandy.com/dutch4medd.jpg

dutch salted licorice. WHO PUTS SALT ON LICORICE?!?!?!?!!? i'm already not a huge fan of licorice in the first place, but i had to try the salted version because i thought maybe there was something i didn't know. BUT NO, IT WAS POISON. :mad:

[brightpearl]

^Well, never hurts to try. Okay, never hurts much to try. And that same impulse is the way I once had a freshly poured dark chocolate salt and cracked pepper bar, which remains one of the best decisions of my entire life.

Second the Howard's Violets, lulu. They're violent, not violet. Taste like hand lotion.

There's a review of Ikea's salty licorice fish over in Reviews of New Food (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/newfood/)on McSweeney's Internet Tendency, hope you enjoy it, Auntie:

"Ikea Salty Black-Licorice Fish

Submitted by Sam Kean

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Chernobyl, I re-enacted the meltdown at Reactor 4 inside my mouth. Two days after eating a single (1) salty jellied licorice fish, I still had trouble tasting food. Surprisingly, it wasn't the licorice flavoring that undid me. More anise would have been a relief. (Jägermeister would have been a relief.) It was the salt saturation. The thing was basically a flexible black salt lick, the candy counterpart to the white rings nailed on trees to be gnawed by deer. It was also worse than that: salt licks aren't gooey. They don't cling to your mouth. By the time I scraped the last gill from between my teeth, my taste buds had been seared shut, the tongue equivalent of being in "the hole" for a month and then being hit with a spotlight.

This took place during the middle of my night class. For the last session, our eccentric librarian teacher had brought "treats" from Ikea (the candy is big in Scandinavia) and dared us with the fish. Because no one else stepped up, I took three—each the length of a pack of gum, with the consistency of a Gummi worm and the black soul of a demon—and finished one. As far as I know, this tied the International Federation of Competitive Eating (I.F.O.C.E.) world record. I spent the rest of the class engraving the smooth, conveyor-belt-riding side of my uneaten treats with scars and dopey eyes.

Two days later, I had dinner with a girl I'd been pursuing partly because she, too, was vegetarian. Perhaps that's why Nicole was nonplussed to have to point out the bacon in my appetizer. In a dead-man's float among my half-eaten white beans and sauce were postage-stamp-sized flaccid squares that, to me, had tasted just like the wine: salty. The date ended without a kiss."

[trisherina]

http://d7444.hostitcanada.com24.hostitcanada.com/images/thrills.jpg

Says right on the package, "IT STILL TASTES LIKE SOAP!" They have no shame.

[topcat]

almond roca

[Frieda]

what the hell is wrong with zoute drop?? you people have no taste :mad: although i must say i do prefer zachte zoete honingdrop because it's easier to chew.

for me, worst candy in the world:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Bassetts_winegums.jpg/300px-Bassetts_winegums.jpg

winegums. eat one, eat a bag. then burp winegums for 4 days. they stick to the lining of your stomach and stay there for 4 days till your stomach acid finally gets the chance of scraping the final remains of those winegums off, they start to disappear into your bowels. and when they come out again, they still look and smell like winegums.

[Stephi_B]

^And it's the winegums fault that my not-too-stable-repeatedly-patched tooth ('kay I would have needed a crown on it since half a year or so, but that costs) got a crack now - fukk winegums! :mad:

[auntie aubrey]

for me, worst candy in the world:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Bassetts_winegums.jpg/300px-Bassetts_winegums.jpg


those look suspiciously like jujyfruits. WHICH I ADORE!

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1381/873701161_be5d1e61db_m.jpg



so this is the way the world ends. not with a political debate, but with an all out candy brawl.

[Frieda]

candy is way more important than politics!

[trisherina]

I would just like to say that the worst candy you've ever eaten does not to me imply dental work or overindulgence or gluttony or hoarding or late nights over a toilet bowl sniffing the erstwhile contents of your bowels but something you would put in your mouth expecting candy and then spit out horrified and unable to trust for years and years and years.

[auntie aubrey]

i think the evaluation of the candy can be both experiential as well as sensory.


with salted licorice, it's both. :(

[T.I.P.]

i've had some of that finnish licorice - the Salmiakki - and it tasted like urine. Not that I've ever had urine, mind you, but the taste approaches what urine smells like.
http://www.china-finland.net/epaper/images/kiinasalmiakki.JPG
i did eat at least 3 Salmiakki, just to make sure i didn't like them, mostly because the Finns in the party kept insisting that it was by far their favorite candy.

I think it is the high levels of ammonia in those candies that make people addicted to them.

[brightpearl]

^See, now I have to try them.

Maybe they cure migraines.

Hee hee hee.

[12"razormix]

http://images.surlatable.com/surlatable/images/en_US/local/products/detail/140186.jpg

[brightpearl]

^blasphemy!! i love that stuff, takes the edge off post-migraine nausea.

To each her own...

[Stephi_B]

Before we get here a massive candy conflict ;) the new question for today:

¿ Comics / graphic novels ?
You (used to) dig them? Which ones?

[12"razormix]

^http://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gif
ME TOO?!! :confused: :o :D

[Stephi_B]

Me:
As kid
http://www.slowfire.de/Lifelines/mmm_logo.gif and http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/fixundfoxi.jpg
kinda as 'fast food'

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/lucky-luke/6-1.jpg and http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MR8P85P0L._AA240_.jpg I collected and read each volume like 2 dozen times

In my late teens / early 20s I did not read any comics / graphic novels, until a colleague (totally into Tin Tin) sort of re-awakened my interest.
Atm I like things like
http://www.mauricebroaddus.com/uploaded_images/red-star-cover-790661.jpg or http://images.darkhorse.com/covers/300/s/scbbbtpb.jpg

[zero]

off and on i've had phases of looking at comics & graphic novels. dudley d. watkins, jean giraud, charles burns, jamie hernandez, alan moore, neil gaiman.. others acannie remember their names. nowadays i still keep an eye on that world but not much because it seems that a lot of the writers and artists, particulary of "graphic novels" seem to take themselves awfully seriously and that's tedious.

[12"razormix]

don martin & chas addams

[Frieda]

i still get donald duck magazine in my mailbox every saturday morning, i always save it for lazy sundays. love it.

comics i read:

suske & wiske
http://www.rijckheyt.nl/upload/100/afbeeldingen/Historieachtergronden/Varia/SUSKE_AND_WISKE.jpg
asterix & obelix-- i also have some in latin as part of a translation project in high school
michel vaillant
lucky luke
x-men
garfield
dilbert
heinz
http://beun.net/heinz/heinz_27.jpg
the far side
http://www.modernpooch.com/archives/FarSideDogCartoon.jpg
fokke & sukke (foksuk.nl)

[brightpearl]

Neil Gaiman, yes yes

eta: as far as the funnies, Far Side and the various incarnations of Bloom County are paramount.

I also enjoy Marmaduke.

Just kidding.

[lukkucairi]

http://fuzzyblowfish.com/sandman.jpg

http://z.about.com/d/manga/1/0/G/-/-/-/deathnote1_500.jpg

http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/lasthero.jpg

[auntie aubrey]

i never read graphic novels/comic books until i was in college. and then only sparingly.

for a long time these were the only ones i owned:

http://www.cloverpark.k12.wa.us/Clover_Park_Library/Books/book_maus.jpg http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51G6mcrwvuL.jpg

then i married a reformed comic collector who made me read the following:

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/kingdom-come/3-1.jpg http://batman.ugo.com/images/galleries/batman_thekillingjoke_comics/batman_thekillingjoke_3.jpg http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/preacher.jpg

he's mad because i haven't read the following, even though he bought the big expensive hardcover leather bound editions:

http://bedazzled.blogs.com/bedazzled/images/2007/08/08/watchmen.jpg http://www.overlookconnection.com/images/SandmanKingDreamsHC.JPG

[Bman]

Far side, Dilbert, Garfield and most recently: http://www.wordballoon.com/images/AutomaticKafkaCVR8.jpg

[T.I.P.]

Xmen, Calvin & Hobbes, Asterix

when i was really little it was "Pif Gadget Magazine". We used to get a little gadget in every issue, which was pretty awesome.

http://www.malliaris.gr/data/911803.gif

[Tunesmith]

I've always suspected you guys were the Sandman type. :D

When I was a kid, it was

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/18/LELOTUSBLEU.JPG http://cse.ucdavis.edu/users/sroy/cartoons/2asterix-obelix.jpg http://www.doobybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/calvin-and-hobbes-wagon.gif

and for the past few months, I've been on a graphic novel binge:

http://www.comicsreporter.com/images/uploads/jogfunhome.jpg http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/previews/blankets/blankets_01.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51012EAZNRL._AA240_.jpg http://home.earthlink.net/~logozo/pics/EpilepticBig.jpeg

Sorry for the ginormous pics... :o

[Brynn]

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/027002/f1/nlc004048-v6.jpg
the only one I own

[Stephi_B]

*busily taking notes* :)

[T.I.P.]

The radio has just announced that the entire world is going to explode in thirty seconds.

¿ How are you spending the next thirty seconds ?

[auntie aubrey]

holding my husband in my arms.





awwww barf.

[lukkucairi]

eating a piece of cheddar cheese and sipping on a strong gin and tonic

which is, coincidentally, what I'm going to be doing in the next 30 seconds as well :)

[trisherina]

In this scenario, am I within reach of anything that could serve as a quick anaesthetic? Just wondering.

[Frieda]

i still have to pee, explosion or not

[Jack Flanders]

^^^ snort! :p

[zero]

datta. dayadhvam. damyata.

shantih
shantih
shantih

[hypnoplasm]

panicking and regretting

[Jack Flanders]

turning off the radio

[Stephi_B]

I'd go out on the balcony (or some similar place - will they have public viewing zones when the world ends?) to watch the show. A gin tonic (Lukku, mix two please!) and/or a passionate kiss (volunteers?!) to go with it (in twofold meaning) wouldn't be bad either.

[Earthling]

I'd be watching the second hand on my clock, just to make sure it's really 30 seconds.:cool:

[auntie aubrey]

datta. dayadhvam. damyata.

shantih
shantih
shantih

vande gurūṇāṁ caraṇāravinde saṁdarśitasvātmasukhāvabodhe? (http://www.last.fm/music/Madonna/_/Shanti%252FAshtangi)

[noxxville]

I'm spending it trying to figure out why I'm listening to the radio.

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

The radio announcer posts a retraction and states thet the world will in fact be ending in 24 hours.
Whew!
Now, what will you be spending your last 24 hours doing?

[lukkucairi]

drinking LSD-laced kool aid with all the patchouli-reeking neo-hippies in sugar house park

knitting a paper bag to go over my head

hanging out with my husband and the dog on the couch, watching movies and drinking wine

...things along those lines

[zero]

^nothing like keeping busy during one's final thirty seconds

vande gurūṇāṁ caraṇāravinde saṁdarśitasvātmasukhāvabodhe? (http://www.last.fm/music/Madonna/_/Shanti%252FAshtangi)

bollocks to madonna

no, here

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2318/2282061306_a413c85c55.jpg

[lukkucairi]

^nothing like keeping busy during one's final thirty seconds



nono, it's final 24 hours now...

I think that's plenty of time to kill getting stoned with hippies, don't you? maybe a little *too* much time, actually...

[zero]

i know nothing of such matters

[Coffee]

Switching to a Non-Christian Fundamentalist radio station and relaxing. :rolleyes:

[12"razormix]

how can i say what i would be doing after the announcement if i don't know what i was doing before?

[zero]

how do you know that you don't know what you were doing?

or are you asking this based on the the assumption that at any given point in time you don't know what you're doing?

[12"razormix]

since this is not happening now, it must be some fictitious event in the future. i have no knowledge of such events, therefore can't answer the question ( but i can tell you with certainty that i would be doing the same thing for the 30 seconds following the announcement as i was doing before )

( unless i had already finished ) ( ..whatever i was doing )

( then i would be doing something else )

[zero]

since this is not happening now...

since we're being all pragmatic on eachother's arses, since what is not happening now?

[12"razormix]

arse[/indent] :confused: who are you ??

[zero]

:mad: look it doesnie fvckken matter who i am - we've only got thirty seconds! so get yer kit off - everything apart from your socks ....quickly!!

http://images.etsy.com/all_images/a/a32/4ba/il_fullxfull.19741023.jpg

[auntie aubrey]

bollocks to madonna[/IMG]

yes, bollocks to her. but no bollocks to william orbit's amazing backing track.


i am apparently spending the final moments of my life trying to justify a madonna song. where did i go wrong? :(

[12"razormix]

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[zero]

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[zero]

http://www.supportplus.com/product_images/JB0813NLP.JPG

i wish i'd remembered those when it was the phobias ¿ question of the day ?

[Brynn]

Switching to a Non-Christian Fundamentalist radio station and relaxing. :rolleyes:

Wow, so you were listening to Christian Fundamentalist radio before you switched the station??? Don't wait for the apocalypse - switch it off now, my friend!:eek:

Well, since the perfect love of Christ casts out all fear, and assuming I'm perfectly bathed in that love and receiving it already, I'd probably breathe slowly, look around for that day's delight if I hadn't found it yet, and wait to see what happens next.
With the last twenty seconds or so, I'd also kiss my husband playfully and say " I love you, I'll miss you forever and you can still change your mind." He would laugh, roll his eyes, kiss me and that would be that. He could still shrug, surrender to love and Jesus and go through a new door with me. In fact, that would be my last earthly delight, him changing his mind about all that stuff.
If I happen to have a dirty Grey Goose martini in my hand, so much the better.
That would be fvcking great. :)

[brightpearl]

I can't believe no one has said "fvcking" yet.

[lukkucairi]

since this is not happening now, it must be some fictitious event in the future. i have no knowledge of such events, therefore can't answer the question ( but i can tell you with certainty that i would be doing the same thing for the 30 seconds following the announcement as i was doing before )

( unless i had already finished ) ( ..whatever i was doing )

( then i would be doing something else )

somebody's been getting stoned with the hippies already :D

[lukkucairi]

I can't believe no one has said "fvcking" yet.

yes they have - just now

thanks for ruining it, beryl :mad:

[Hyakujo's Fox]

I can't believe no one has said "fvcking" yet.

I can't believe no one has said "p0sting" yet.

[brightpearl]

yes they have - just now

thanks for ruining it, beryl :mad:

I didn't say that was my answer, just making an observation. :D

[T.I.P.]

I can't believe no one has said "p0sting" yet.

i was going to say "waiting for the FAST CHAT forum to load"

[auntie aubrey]

I can't believe no one has said "fvcking" yet.

30 seconds? bah. no quickie's that quick.

[brightpearl]

^I'm giving this waaaaay too much thought, but hopefully, along razor's line of thought, one would have happened to have been engaged in said activity for some minutes prior.

'Sides, if you're doing it right, the beginning/middle is just as good as the end. :D

That's not my answer, though. I'd rather be laughing about terrible knock knock jokes with my son, and blissfully unaware.

And not, I repeat, not anywhere near a salty licorice fish.

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

I LOVE salty licorice!

Am I the only one?

[auntie aubrey]

http://btr.michaelkwan.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/office-dwight.jpg
shun.

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

wow.
i've never been shunned by someone that wasn't related to me before.

[Marcus Bales]

Am I the only one?


You ARE the only one.

[Brynn]

I really was open-minded about trying it, but I have to say that it was one of the more, um, disappointing experiences I've had in recent memory that I will not be repeating willfully.

New question for Friday, February 22, 2008:

What was the first thing that happened that made you realize that you were different from other kids?

[lukkucairi]

when I found out the voices didn't speak to them as well :)

[Tunesmith]

When I asked my friend if he ever imagined "seeing from other people's eyes" and I got a blank stare in return.

[trisherina]

New question for Friday, February 22, 2008:

What was the first thing that happened that made you realize that you were different from other kids?

That is a very good question, but I'm not sure I can give you an answer that won't just come off sad. Part of it is that I never really thought I was all that different, even if other people did.

[PinkLincoln]

I was teased mercilessly for wearing purple pants and a green sweatershirt...to this day, I see nothing wrong with that!

http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix4/pseudohulkszola3.jpg

[hypnoplasm]

for being hyper-self-conscious in situations where most people are not and vice versa

[Marcus Bales]

But ... but ... I'm not different from other people! Really I'm not.

[auntie aubrey]

when i was in the first grade and i was hanging out in the library after school, waiting for my mother to finish up some solo PTA prep work, and for no good reason i wrote a message to the school librarian on the chalkboard. i wrote, "mrs johnson's mitochondria were here."

my mother laughed hysterically when she saw it and wouldn't let me erase it, insisting we leave it for mrs. johnson to find in the morning.

i didn't get what was so funny. hadn't everyone read madeline l'engle's "a wind in the door"? i suddenly realized that maybe it was just me, and that i'd done something very weird.

[lukkucairi]

"ROAST-A BEEEEEEF!"

to be honest, that's when I knew. it's a line of a song, and I hammed it up opera-style in class as we were singing. everyone stopped for about three seconds, and then the teacher continued on playing the piano as if nothing had happened.

27 years later I found the rest of my tribe scattered around the world, gathering in places like this. we ain't so different.

[T.I.P.]

^:D ha ha ha

During the period where I lived in the US as a kid, I remember one of my friends commenting on the fact that my French mom was "weird" because she had scolded him for going into our kitchen and serving himself in the fridge without asking. Kids serving themselves in the fridge at friends' houses was apparently the norm in the Puritan North East at that time. That was what he led me to believe anyway.

This was one of many moments where I felt "different" during that period, and it was not a comfortable feeling.

I used to do everything to try to smooth over the weirdness that I am built upon in order to fit in.

Now I do everything I can to cultivate it. :)

[Brynn]

^ my mom in Maine would have been pretty upset with him too!

I was the weird kid who stared up at the base of oak trees at recess, didn't know any good jump rope rhymes, and in first grade, pretended to have an English accent for a while in a desperate attempt to impress a new girl into being friends with me. She was completely charmed and delighted until everyone told her i was faking. That was a bad day, but now I think it's pretty funny. I told myself she was shallow anyway, and it was a relief to stop lying and pretending.

[Stephi_B]

Hard to say, my whole time in school I'd say (shortly before I entered elementary, we moved from the tiny village to the city - in the village we were only 3 children, and Alfons and me didn't hang out with the son of the pub&brewery owner cos he was posh and high-nosed, so Emeran was kinda the different one for us). In our quarter of the city (actually in all three places where we lived when I was a child and teenager), only different people lived, so school was the only place where I felt strange. I always picked (and got picked - that's always a mutual thing when people befriend) as best friends the other 'outsiders' in class: the Turkish girl who was 3 years older than us in elemetary, in highschool then the Jehova witness girl, the grunge and punk folks on weed (the majority being more the booze types and I have no clue what music they listened to? Probably crap from the Hitparade), the two girls who lived in a youth home...

Since I live in Berlin I feel no longer different! :) (But at uni I do --> I need to get a decent job asap ;))

[auntie aubrey]

^ my mom in Maine would have been pretty upset with him too!

my michigander mom would have, too.

[trisherina]

new ¿ question of the day ?:

Watching the Academy Awards show, or don't give a toot?

[topcat]

i will watch what i can. i love that show and also the grammys

[auntie aubrey]

don't give a
http://iliketoeatalot.googlepages.com/toot.gif

[xfox]

I'm watching when the red carpet starts til the show is over. And you?

[Coffee]

Neither a toot nor a flying fark.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

tootally uninterested

[T.I.P.]

My interest in the academy awards tends towards 0

[Frieda]

it isn't on!

[Avalon]

No.
However, I am going to watch Michael Clayton in George Clooney's honor.
CNN, E!, Goodmorning planet, etc will fill me in on the winners.
Repeatedly. lol

[PinkLincoln]

I'll watch some of the red carpet to see the beautiful dresses, but otherwise, I don't really care.

[lukkucairi]

academy awards? huh? whaaa?

[trisherina]

I am not interested.

[auntie aubrey]

well apparently i lied because it's on the TV now.


i'm not really sure how this happened.

[lukkucairi]

¿ question of the day ? for those still resolutely not watching the oscars (and in honor of trish and ratman):

what has been your worst air travel experience ever so far?

[Jack Flanders]

Well. I had a really funny story but realized that a great family had lost her life because of tragic plane crash last year. So - never mind.

[trisherina]

Probably my third lesson, just practicing flying straight and level and doing coordinated turns, May or June and there was a wee storm visible off to the east. Mr. Zinger took this opportunity to explain about cumulonimbus and show me the nice anvil top while we flew closer and closer to it. Then he said, "You should give these a pretty wide berth, especially in the spring, because there can be wind shears quite a ways away," and he instructed me to turn and I did and then WHAP my head hit the canopy HARD and my hands left the yoke. He said the words that made my legs sweat, "I have control," and pointed out to me in a second quite cannily (because he was a little shaken himself) that we had dropped 500 feet in altitude in that one WHAP but gone out the other side and so once again I was very grateful for Mr. Zinger.

[T.I.P.]

^ very cool, i hope to fly near a cumulonimbus someday

my worst air travel experience happened on a new york paris flight next to an obnoxious canadian girl. The (delta) flight did not have personal movies behind each seat. Instead, the movies were played on these puny little screens above the aisle. This was bad enough, but the situation was made worse by the fact that the movie screen near my seat was playing the movie upside down.

nothing life threatening, but very annoying.

[Brynn]

My worst experience flying was bookended by my best experience coming back.
We were flying to Ecuador around Christmas one year to see my in-laws who were diplomatic attaches there. It just happened to be just as President Bush Sr. decided to bomb Panama.
We spent fourteen hours stranded in an airport halfway there until the all-clear. Then another twelve hours in the air to finally get there.
We were greeted by angry Ecuadorans chanting at the airport. who could blame them?
After a great month driving all over the Andes, it was time to go home. My mother-in-law gave us a few valium to 'help us get through the flight." After stupidly combining that with alcohol (hey, we were young and fearless) time just flew right by and before we knew it, somebody kindly poured us out onto the pavement when we landed. Magically, good friends somehow knew when we were arriving, glooped us into their car and drove us home.

[Frieda]

landing with a sudden great big bang on orlando airport-- flight attendants were screaming, the isle TVs broke off and fell down into the isle with electricity wires crackling out in the open, lights went out, the overhead lockers opened and my bf at the time was showered in sealed ear buds. good thing he didn't have the booze bottles over his head.

anyway, i found myself already climbing on top of the seat in front of me on my way to the exit when i realised we were safe. after the flight attendants cleaned the place up we were able to leave the airplane.

[Brynn]

^^^excellent :eek:

[madasacutsnake]

Well, I have so many United stories but just for once, I'll tell the Interflug story. It's the one where they play the oom-pah music all the way from Singapore to Berlin.

Unabashed hijack to tell of my best flying experience (http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c22/madasacutsnake/heli.jpg) which occurred last Thursday.

[brightpearl]

I haven't ever minded flying, been through turbulence and such, and one really white-knuckled landing on a far-too-short runway in Latin America, but by far my worst flying experience was when I swallowed hard and got on a plane with my baby just a couple of months after September 11. I was still reeling from the massive hormonal and emotional and spiritual conversion of looking into my own baby's eyes, and I was not in any way ready to put my baby on a plane, but I had shoved that aside in an effort to take him to see family that wanted to meet him. As the engines began to roar and the plane moved forward, I realized exactly how deeply and utterly not ready I was to accept this tiny, tiny risk of hideous death for my tiny, tiny child. I knew it wasn't rational even at the time, but it still ranks as one of the absolute worst experiences of my entire life.

I even ordered tomato juice, and it didn't help at all.

[Stephi_B]

None so far!
Well can be that a) I fly not so much and b) I have developed a high tolerance towards travel calamities as excessive train user...

[lukkucairi]

well, I've never been convinced I was about to die, but there was that one time when the near port-side engine on our 747 flamed out (thankfully before takeoff) and we were stuck on the runway for 6 hours in the middle of the night while the Jamaican ladies behind us sang hymns loudly and in tinny voices and prayed to god that we wouldn't all be killed...in a stationary plane, I couldn't figure that one out...but they did it for the entire six hours before BA finally unloaded us and sent us all off to a local hotel where we were laid over for another 36 hours without a change of clothes or a toothbrush...

then there was the time we were coming in to land in one of those teensy planes I flew in all the time in the Bahamas, and the landing gear indicator wouldn't come on so Roland (the pilot) took us out over the sea and shook the plane up and down for 5 minutes (*blarf!*) to see if he could get the gear to lock...and when we finally did land we were being paced by the airport crash team along the runway, all ready to spray the purple K and foam if we did a belly-landing (the gear turned out to be fine - it was "dirt in the switch" apparently)...but we landed perfectly :)

mad: oompah music all the way from Singapore to Berlin? isn't that protected grounds for hijacking under the Geneva convention?

[Frieda]

Unabashed hijack to tell of my best flying experience (http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c22/madasacutsnake/heli.jpg) which occurred last Thursday.
spill!! :D :D

[lukkucairi]

spill!! :D :D

seconded :D

[lukkucairi]

After stupidly combining that with alcohol (hey, we were young and fearless) time just flew right by and before we knew it, somebody kindly poured us out onto the pavement when we landed. Magically, good friends somehow knew when we were arriving, glooped us into their car and drove us home.

I have a friend who moved from Atlanta to Denmark using that method - for the flight he took a couple of valium with scotch chasers

he says that he has a vague memory of flight attendants going through his pockets to figure out who he was and where he was supposed to go, and being wheelchaired between his flights at Frankfurt airport. He landed in Copenhagen wonderfully refreshed and wonders now why everyone doesn't fly while sedated.

[Brynn]

^:D hahahaha - so it really did happen the way I think I remember it happening!

[madasacutsnake]

I have a friend who moved from Atlanta to Denmark using that method - for the flight he took a couple of valium with scotch chasers

he says that he has a vague memory of flight attendants going through his pockets to figure out who he was and where he was supposed to go, and being wheelchaired between his flights at Frankfurt airport. He landed in Copenhagen wonderfully refreshed and wonders now why everyone doesn't fly while sedated.

I'm here to assure you that this can end up with you unconscious, badly bruised and using up all of Qantas' emergency oxygen supply.

The helicopter flight was a treat from my boss. We had a corporate box at a car race and they shelled out for us to go on a helicopter.

[zero]

¿ question of the day ? for 26th feb






what are you doing with that pillow?

[Veruki]

thishttp://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c373/Rusulka/Photo3-1.jpg
i just felt this creepiness come over me like if you had mysteriously appeared and whispered in my ear, like if the question was meant only for me

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

Umm, nothing! Don't come in here! I am combing my hair.

[brightpearl]

I'm telling it knock knock jokes.

[auntie aubrey]

what are you doing with that pillow?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2361/1561871566_ffc1024a83_b.jpg

bustin' yer chops.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

¿ question of the day ? for 26th feb






what are you doing with that pillow?

let me sleep on it.

[trisherina]

What pillow?

[T.I.P.]

filling it with pinches of pubic hair taken from myriads of nameless women

[hypnoplasm]

slobbering on it in my accustomed slobbering spot

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

a woodoo ritual concerning my ex

[Stephi_B]

I need it for me yoga thingie
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('Valerie Maren Esther' is the artist name I use in my videos)

[lukkucairi]

flattering CJ

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EXVJZZE4L._AA280_.jpg

[Marcus Bales]

muffling her screams

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

Bukowski, Ballard or Burroughs?

[zero]

<72pttext>bollocks < /72pttext>

[Marcus Bales]

Ballard, by a lot. Bukowski is boring and Burroughs is creepy.

[Stephi_B]

None stands for the _B in my username.

Naked Lunch is on my to-read list - thus Burroughs, I figure.
(Think I have not read anything by Bukowski and Ballard :confused:)

Creepy is good ;)

[lukkucairi]

two-fisted barfly

[Earthling]

Of the three, Curly is my favorite.
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q209/productionlogistics/stooges.jpg
Alas, I have only read 'Naked Lunch'.
Just like Stephie, it's the word 'naked' that caught my attention.:p

[brightpearl]

Since he's got Japan and dystopia going for him, Ballard.

(The Atrocity) Exhibition is only a few letters away from "exhibitionist"...you guys should give him a try. You can even read it naked.

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

... You can even read it naked.

Never read naked! The papercuts are much too painful.

[lukkucairi]

you can read in the bath - that way the pages are too soggy to cut you

but then the book becomes somewhat disposable afterward...

[brightpearl]

Never read naked! The papercuts are much too painful.

You're s'posed to turn the pages with your fingers, honey.

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

You're s'posed to turn the pages with your fingers, honey.

ooooooooooh! That makes so much more sense.

[auntie aubrey]

don't ask me about bukowski. i will go on an unholy rant that will last 7 days and 7 nights and the cloud of vapor vitriol produced will blot out the sun.

[Marcus Bales]

Hey Aubrey, what about Bukowski?

[auntie aubrey]

http://phillyimprov.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/mushroom-cloud.jpg

[T.I.P.]

BURROUGHS

http://www.binarycoffee.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Image/WilliamBurroughs.jpg

[T.I.P.]

^ i love his cameos in "Leaving Las Vegas" and "Drugstore Cowboy"

[Odbe]

FOR THE 28TH OF SAID MONTH

What's the time, Mister Wolf?

[Stephi_B]

8 minutes past arriving.

[skip intro]

time is a meaningless concept invented to aid the oppression of the masses in the interests of commerce.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

It's time to devour you, my dear Little Red one.

[zero]

.

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♪

♪............time is never time at all............♪

♪

[Marcus Bales]

Sorry, I don't have the time.

[trisherina]

Time it's time I lifted the veil.

[auntie aubrey]

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does anybody really know what time it is? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHZJCJerqhM)

[lukkucairi]

it's time for tea!

and, of course,

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[Angry Kid Hoyt]

♫♪♫♪♫♪ Time it was and what a time it was it was,
A time of innocence a time of confidences. ♫♪♫♪♫♪

[Frieda]

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hammer time!

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Time to start working!

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.

But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder aloud how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of the words. Yet there is the constant desire to find some point in the twisting, knotting, ravelling nets of space-time on which a metaphorical finger can be put to indicate that here, here, is the point where it all began...

Terry Pratchett: Hogfather

[brightpearl]

It's time to go.

[topcat]

its time to change

[brightpearl]

I deeply regret not having said that it's time to make the donuts.

[Veruki]

Time and tide wait for no man.

[T.I.P.]

time to answer the question of the day

[lukkucairi]

it's time for a new question of the day...

[hypnoplasm]

what was the best birthday present you ever got?

[trisherina]

♫♪♫♪♫♪ Time it was and what a time it was it was,
A time of innocence a time of confidences. ♫♪♫♪♫♪

I always get swept up in the magic too

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Ummm.... my birthday suit?

[Frieda]

my cat!

[Jack Flanders]

A big family reunion - 40+ cousins for a weird and wacky weekend when I was 25 at Lake Geneva Wisconsin. :D

[Stephi_B]

Difficult, they are always super.
But I'd say the best always come from my baby sis (CD with totally digable music and/or selfmade sample CD with photos and songs I need to know), my chica (Belgrade silver jewellery) and my Dad (the usually lifesaving moneygift ;)).

[brightpearl]

My friend moved away.
It's hard to explain.

[Marcus Bales]

A piano

[lukkucairi]

my husband

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

For my 13th birthday I begged my mom to get me Soft Cell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_Cell)'s Non-Stop Estatic Dancing
& despite the clerk at Peaches questioning the appropriateness she got it for me.
That was the exact moment I realized how cool my mom actually was.:cool:

[trisherina]

For my tenth birthday my parents were away in Munich and my sister threw me my only birthday party. We had hot dogs, chocolate Pepperidge Farm cake, and she devised a scavenger hunt with wild and exciting hiding places like the clothes dryer! That same year she got married and moved out.

[Veruki]

my husband

awwww, this should go in the cute thread. Speaking of which, where has it gone off to??

[topcat]

the best gift was a photograph that i thought was lost for about 9 years.

[Brynn]

a cake that my seven year old daughter made all by herself.

[auntie aubrey]

tickets to see depeche mode back when i was a hysterical fangirl.

[T.I.P.]

ticket to India

[madasacutsnake]

A self-retracting garden hose reel.