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lukkucairi

07-08-2009, 07:23 PM

OK, we just got back from the hospital, and we have somewhat of a diagnosis.

The doctor has been able to confirm for us that my mother does have quite an advanced case of cancer, and that it has spread to both lungs. Unfortunately the biopsy results still have not come back from Liverpool, so we don't have any more information on what kind of cancer it is - i.e. whether it originated in the lungs, or if it spread there from somewhere else.

I wish I had better news. I still do not know when I will be returning to Utah - I won't be able to make those plans until I know more about how fast my mother's cancer is progressing. Mum is quite weak and still running a fever, but she is able to keep her energy up by taking Tylenol a few times a day, and she has been eating much better since I've been here. She is not in any pain and is very brave and upbeat.

MoJoRiSin

07-18-2009, 03:12 PM

alright sweetie what do you want me toread

Hyakujo's Fox

07-19-2009, 01:56 AM

Generations

Our stories lie down in the orchard,
their time is not now, but something is
coming, something is going away. They

rise to the stars, and wait to be told.
There are listeners who know how little
we know, how much we are feeling.

We had to go our own way, a little off course,
always, no matter how specific the directions
seemed at the time. In this universe if we’re lucky,

we will live in our children’s stories,
their tales that will turn us to legend,
some absurd truth that has nothing to do

with our plans, our meticulous records.
No matter what stories we discard or keep,
they will give us a life we cannot imagine.

~ Jeanne Lohmann

trisherina

07-19-2009, 04:47 AM

*loves HFox all over again*

zero

07-19-2009, 05:10 PM

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2546/3735681867_aff23ed33b.jpg

12"razormix

07-19-2009, 05:43 PM

http://data.tumblr.com/HSuiT1qwKeic3hwfiknDfx0ko1_500.jpg

brightpearl

07-21-2009, 01:23 AM

Nice.

http://www.hji.co.uk/hjimages/images/qhs2968/hji/medium/1979-men-moustache.jpg

Frieda

07-21-2009, 06:06 PM

the 23rd is ron price's 65th birthday-- i think we should call that radio show!

Brynn

07-22-2009, 04:07 PM

We should flood him with pm's and do the whole birthday thread thing!

brightpearl

07-22-2009, 11:05 PM

On the seventh day, you rest. (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3634/is_199605/ai_n8751656/)

lukkucairi

07-23-2009, 12:54 AM

oh jeez :rolleyes:

Frieda

07-23-2009, 06:11 AM

^:D

no pressure at all.. :p

Stephi_B

07-23-2009, 04:10 PM

Hey my Ze.ppl :)

Am still alive ;) (& neither smoking nor sniffing ashtrays yet ;)), my throat seems to be finally healed (we hope) but for some nerve pains, & only sometimes :) But while turning me upside down the docs found a a fukken nodule in my thyroid :rolleyes: on Oct 13 I will - hopefully (yesterday that prof couldn't tell, the CT last week or the vitamines I took until recently screwed it up) - learn whether it's a good nodule (that is, no cold motherfukker, but a good hot thang) & I can keep my thyroid (I hopehopehope - now that I got to know my wee butterfly baby :) + what it does for me).

Anyway, hug youse, especially you Lukku, sending you + your mom all goodness I got! & Frieda + Frieda-Mama too!!
:) :) :) :)

& don't worry about me, I got my best mate back here in Berlin, I grow my own tomatoes at the kitchen window, I have my beloved thunderstorms almost everyday (a friend originally from near-equatorial Brazil recently complaint about the sticky heat!), I take stuff easy, all the stuff!

zero

07-23-2009, 04:34 PM

good to see you stephi

may your tomatoes taste like the best tomatoes that anyone could ever possibly imagine

MoJoRiSin

07-23-2009, 07:59 PM

^^Nice to see you are here with the living! Your thyroid will be fine once you lay off the .lidocaine throat gargle...;)

Hugs !! :)
OX L,Mo

ps If ever you are in PortLand Ore please look me up!

that goes for everyone of course

Stephi_B

07-23-2009, 09:15 PM

Oh Mo :) One day I may extra fly across ocean and continent to your Portland, Oregon place and bring you tomatoes from my kitchen window which will taste just like Mr zerö described above! Yes, that sounds like a cool idea! :)

YsaPur EsChomuw

07-23-2009, 11:58 PM

Stephi is back! :) Stephi is still not smoking! :) Stephi takes it easy! :) Stephi makes me happy! :)

xfox

07-24-2009, 12:08 AM

for all my buds: you are valued beyond my ability to express.

Marcus Bales

07-24-2009, 12:36 AM

And btw Stephi, you won the Dictionary Game and we're all waiting for the new word.

Stephi_B

07-24-2009, 08:30 AM

^:D

^^^:):o:)

lukkucairi

07-24-2009, 08:54 AM

http://matadornetwork.cachefly.net/matadortrips.com/docs//wp-content/images/posts/20090625-alien06.jpg

for some shade ;)

YsaPur EsChomuw

07-24-2009, 01:01 PM

oh so beautiful

Jack Flanders

07-25-2009, 02:38 AM

^^ What and where? Just totally beautiful!!!

lukkucairi

07-25-2009, 08:38 AM

http://matadortrips.com/photo-essay-the-most-alien-landscapes-on-earth/

Black Rock Desert too ;)

Stephi_B

07-28-2009, 11:01 AM

So, I got there this letter from the nuclear medicine prof dude and was at my family doc with it and that's what is sure so far about my thyroid: I have for one a slight hypothyroidism (now that I think of it I had symptoms since some years but I put those on other causes: general laziness, fatigue/slight burn-out-thingy from all this PhD thesis etc stress, and that I, in the best case could keep my weight constant on a level waaaay higher than 4, 5 years ago, I also explained by my sitting on my ass for 10, 11, 12h a day job, my laziness, my irregular eating etc as also all my colleagues all grew bigger - and then my constant craving for sea food - which is actually healthy :D - makes complete sense now, my body wanted that iodine in it). So I take this thyroxine hormone since yesterday, half the dose, i.e. 25 microgramm, of what the nuke doc recommends for a start, such that I don't fall out of my flip flops ;) Together with my non-smoking (smoking, better said the cyanide in it, is reducing the iodine intake) and my general healthier living that thing will be fixed, even if I have to take that med all my life long, that's OK with me. The other thing is my nodule.... the only thing the nuke doc can up to now quasi-exclude is a hot (in almost all cases benign, my granny had one and got rid of it by a low iodine diet only, no operation or radioiodine therapy needed) nodule, the potentially evil cold one is still in the race :( as is a warm nodule (on why my hope lies now), a so-called autonomous adenom which is also always benign, even if it develops into a hot thang and which can be easily treated, also with hormones and/or radiation. I mean the chances are small that it's really cancer (many folks here in Germany - still a iodine deficiency region - have such nodules in their thyroid, I read figures ranging from 30% to 50% and only like 1% of these are bad. But well, if my thing (which ain't small, 2cm on it's longest axis) is a cold one they'd most probably cut out at least half of my thyroid to see what it really is. Only if it would shrink with the hormone I take now it would be a proof for it being benign and I could keep all of my butterfly and not really, really RELY on that hormone pills, I hate the thought that after an operation (which scares the shit out of me anyways, I've never been operated, I even still have all my wisdom teeth) I would become a (semi-)cretin (really!! I read all about thyroids - and (half-)missing thyroids for that matter - I could find) if I don't get/take the med for a longer period.... So I try not to get crazy till Oct 13 when I'm at the nuke doc again and keep on murmuring "no cold nodule, no cold nodule...." and - new - "shrink if you are cold! shrink if you are cold!...." and also show the sonogramm of my nodule (my family doc says the echo pattern looks not like it does with typical cold nodules) to everyone who wants to see it - or not ;)

Stephi_B

07-28-2009, 11:13 AM

And I *heart* what Lukku posted there ^^^^^ http://www.smileydesign.net/smileys/expr32.gif

Frieda

07-28-2009, 01:52 PM

^^ you can still be generally lazy AND have a thyroid problem :p

get well soon, stephi! *hugs*

Stephi_B

07-28-2009, 02:17 PM

^I will work on that (i.e. staying generally lazy also with a fixed thyroid) - hard :D

http://www.smileydesign.net/smileys/expr24.gif u 2!!

Frieda

07-28-2009, 02:25 PM

^ohh and ask your doc to perscribe a long seaside vacation! :D

Stephi_B

07-28-2009, 02:29 PM

^aye :D & free meals at the seafood restaurants there :D

Anna

07-30-2009, 01:19 AM

Coffee

07-30-2009, 02:17 PM

Polarbearians...maybe.

lukkucairi

07-31-2009, 12:27 PM

chemo next wednesday for her

zero

08-02-2009, 02:52 PM

.

http://www.highsnobiety.com/uploads/RTEmagicC_liebling01.jpg.jpg...........

YsaPur EsChomuw

08-05-2009, 02:48 PM

it's a long-eared jerboa

here's a link:

http://www.edgeofexistence.org/mammals/images/pics/euchoreutes_naso_large.jpg (http://www.edgeofexistence.org/mammals/species_info.php?id=81)

Stephi_B

08-05-2009, 05:50 PM

^t.u. :)

MoJoRiSin

08-12-2009, 08:47 PM

jack flanders and everyone else
this is so great
click one the "excerpts"
one on the right

http://www.virtuallyaudio.com/detail.asp?genID=01&ShowID=0008

i am loving this !! (i have been listening for about 45 minutes)
jf, am i listening to excepts ??
again, this is so great
i cannot tell you how happy i am! :D
THANK YOU SO MUCH jack flanders !!

Jack Flanders

08-13-2009, 03:17 AM

Oh no mo - you're sucking me into the story. I need to stop!! Addiction!!! --- Listen to it from beginning to end. Don't mix up the chapters. There is a plot. I wish Craig J. would listen to this.

brightpearl

08-13-2009, 02:24 PM

I was driving down a boring, humming road earlier, feeling sleepy, and I thought about how funny people are, sleepy when we shouldn't sleep and not sleepy when we need to sleep, and I wondered if maybe the time zones are such that you were trying to get to sleep just then, so I tried to send you my drowses.

Hope it helped.
:)

Marcus Bales

08-13-2009, 07:48 PM

Kaskeens -- how about a judging?

Brynn

08-14-2009, 05:02 AM

Marcus. Dude. Can you be persuaded to chill on the DG thing? I've got at least a couple more definitions I'd like to post.

Stephi_B

08-14-2009, 10:16 AM

that should have been

.... was not a bad sensation really....

in the PM

;)

Marcus Bales

08-14-2009, 10:34 AM

Marcus. Dude. Can you be persuaded to chill on the DG thing? I've got at least a couple more definitions I'd like to post.

So long as we all understand that posting more game-referential definitions is not reducing anyone to tears, nor intended to, it's fine with me. But you can't have it both ways. You can't reasonably complain that I post definitions that suggest the judge is dilatory and then ask me to stop posting such definitions so that you can post such definitions!

zero

08-14-2009, 12:33 PM

i think a fair few might be reduced to tears of the bored variety

trisherina

08-14-2009, 12:44 PM

Sorry 'bout my vanished image in Image Association> -- it was the Eraserhead birth-giving chicken! :p

zero

08-14-2009, 12:54 PM

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

Mr. X: I thought I heard a stranger. We've got chicken tonight. Strangest damn things. They're man made. Little damn things. Smaller than my fist. But they're new. Hi, I'm Bill.

trisherina

08-14-2009, 12:58 PM

I just... just cut them up
like regular chickens?

Sure, just cut them up like regular chickens.

It'll be all right.

lukkucairi

08-17-2009, 04:22 PM

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=145502605790

give him a hug, Frieds :)

Brynn

08-17-2009, 10:34 PM

So long as we all understand that posting more game-referential definitions is not reducing anyone to tears, nor intended to, it's fine with me. But you can't have it both ways. You can't reasonably complain that I post definitions that suggest the judge is dilatory and then ask me to stop posting such definitions so that you can post such definitions!
Yes I can :)

Marcus Bales

08-18-2009, 10:11 AM

Okay, then, so long as I have THAT straight!

12"razormix

08-18-2009, 03:47 PM

ah cinnae seeit!

zero

08-18-2009, 04:39 PM

:mad: well it was your idea to switch off the light & shut the blinds

xfox

08-18-2009, 10:41 PM

I havd no idea. I'm having curried tuna with raisins.

MoJoRiSin

08-18-2009, 11:00 PM

xfox,
can you get the recipe for me ?
did you make it yourself ?
*************************
that reminds me..... has anyone
ever heard of vegetarian
lentil soup with vegemite as an ingredient?

xfox

08-19-2009, 11:06 AM

^^
Just the regular recipe, celery, onion, mayo but add anywhere from a teaspoon to a tablespoon of good curry and raisins.
Thanks for asking, Mo!

trisherina

08-21-2009, 10:31 AM

http://www.lockeyebc.com/images/spice_pup_pics/7wks/dollyrainbowwave1.jpg

MoJoRiSin

08-21-2009, 04:59 PM

^ thank you Xfox
that makes perfect sense
i certainly found a couple of VERY interesting
recipes when i googles
"tuna curry raisins"
guess what else i found? ;)

http://www.43things.com/comments/thread/1209837

^this recipe is way better than anyone
could imagine but probably not
anywhere as good as a good 'ol
tuna salad sandwich ~"
________________________
edit: i would never use/have "stock powder"
i don't remember that at all ...
but, knowing me, i might have
added a little miso at the end.

12"razormix

08-21-2009, 05:54 PM

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U0ECM2JZr_E/R5FW-aJ2M6I/AAAAAAAAADU/TVkOAqa71fs/s400/Caipirinha.jpg

zero

08-22-2009, 03:45 AM

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Aspirin-rod-povray.png/300px-Aspirin-rod-povray.png

brightpearl

08-22-2009, 09:38 PM

Freida?

Stephi?

On vacation I hope?

lukkucairi

08-23-2009, 12:01 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Legs_Greaves

lukkucairi

08-24-2009, 02:35 AM

http://www.engrish.com//wp-content/uploads/2009/07/clean-blue-crap.jpg

YsaPur EsChomuw

08-24-2009, 11:34 AM

that's the coolest smiley ever!

Stephi_B

08-24-2009, 12:03 PM

So I will make it public, this smiley:

http://freesmileys.smiliesuche.de/giraffen/giraffen-smilies-0001.gif

Do giraffes really have blue tongues btw? Or only when they recently had something of this mysterious c.b.c. substance in the above ^^ ?

YsaPur EsChomuw

08-24-2009, 12:17 PM

I've seen a couple of giraffe tongues :o and they looked grayish blackish to me.

Maybe this one has eaten some blueberries.

YsaPur EsChomuw

08-24-2009, 12:26 PM

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/27/37446512_4c42cde7e1.jpg

well, it does have a blueish hue

Brynn

08-27-2009, 03:39 AM

For madasamadmad:
a little goat
ETA whoops - sorry

zero

08-27-2009, 01:33 PM

sudden, exciting chatter of jackdaws in the big tree across the street

just as sudden, flapping wings

and silence

i was talking to someone about this very same jackdaw behaviour just a couple of weeks ago. it's quite strange.. a group call that comes up from nowhere like a sudden, almost human "cheer." when it happens, it's always prompted, i think, by just one member of the flock (the same individual each time - a leader? i'm not sure.) and it's certainly unique to jackdaws at this time of year, so maybe they're all young birds. i'd love to know what it means in the deeply social jackdaw-world. they're amongst the brightest of them all. what are they up to? nobody knows.

Frieda

08-27-2009, 01:58 PM

^:)

their chatter is so exciting even i got curious enough to get up and see what they were on about!

this time it sounded like a bunch of kids excited about a new toy, but sometimes it sounds like an argument over the last bit of candy, or a discussion on whether to visit the park or the riverside.

it would be awfully quiet here if the jackdaws didn't love that tree so much! :)

YsaPur EsChomuw

09-01-2009, 10:52 AM

Odbe, how's your project?

Marcus Bales

09-02-2009, 10:38 AM

"Odbe how's your project" is a German idiom for an expensive sex act. And illegal in many southern states.

brightpearl

09-03-2009, 11:07 AM

I went in to twelve bookstores looking for Ulysses.
Motherwell led me to believe all my questions would be answered.
Now i have it here sitting on the "table"...
Another word for the universe.

YsaPur EsChomuw

09-03-2009, 02:32 PM

"Odbe how's your project" is a German idiom for an expensive sex act. And illegal in many southern states.

If you feel tempted, don't go near them. :p

Marcus Bales

09-03-2009, 04:28 PM

If you feel tempted, don't go near them. :p

Germans?

Brynn

09-04-2009, 06:29 AM

No, "tables"

Marcus Bales

09-04-2009, 09:35 AM

Nasty things!

brightpearl

09-04-2009, 10:40 AM

Thing.
There's only one of them, you see.
Hahahahha.

I am in a weird mood today.

Marcus Bales

09-04-2009, 11:37 AM

"Tables" is singular where you are today? That is weird indeed!

brightpearl

09-04-2009, 12:22 PM

Yes, the one table is sooooo big that it encompasses all the little tables, see?
Plurals are just little handles we use to keep ourselves from being overwhelmed.

I find this very amusing today.

Oh, lord, I've turned into one of those people laughing on a street corner.

Marcus Bales

09-06-2009, 12:46 AM

farad - Konrad Liebnutz's theory of farads, the metaphorically large things or notions that encompass all the metaphorically little things or notions.

brightpearl

09-06-2009, 03:00 PM

^Now there's a word I can put to good use.

But, the table isn't a metaphor. Though it is a concept, which is so intrinsically limited as to be a metaphor for practical purposes. And impractical ones.

Hahahaha.

You know what it is...I've gotten 8 hours of sleep 3 days in a row, and I just can't handle it.

12"razormix

09-06-2009, 03:13 PM

xx (http://www.pcplanets.com/mp.php?id=3643398)

zero

09-06-2009, 03:23 PM

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/2f2a0323bbaae10ec95b5128fca8533a3c7e92b6_m.jpg

MoJoRiSin

09-06-2009, 11:39 PM

Hey Lukku !! We have been missing you
The other day i found a site that had a continuous feed wbcam
and now all i can find is this ::

http://blog.burningman.com/

wow it looks likes a lot more fun than Portland this weekend!:)
(if i find the burning man live
site i will post that too)
OX L,Mo

lukkucairi

09-11-2009, 06:33 AM

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_M24AOTk2rCU/SqmCZJQUdxI/AAAAAAAABeo/uczQvv2tmqk/s640/DSC06803.JPG

brightpearl

09-11-2009, 07:59 AM

Far more kickass than Princess Leia.

brightpearl

09-14-2009, 06:51 PM

'Case you need a new avvy.
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/funny-pictures-fox-rejects-request.jpg

brightpearl

09-16-2009, 12:10 AM

In case y'all want to gear up for Saturday. (http://www.donteatthepaste.com/2009/09/pirate-eye-patches.html)

zero

09-22-2009, 02:39 PM

http://emilyblakely.com/images/161.jpg

Frieda

09-25-2009, 06:37 AM

how was Greece?? :):)

YsaPur EsChomuw

09-25-2009, 09:20 AM

^ Later. Now I've got clothes to wash etc. Maybe tomorrow.

Marcus Bales

09-26-2009, 12:05 AM

The Isles of Greece
George Gordon, Lord Byron

The isles of Greece! the isles of Greece
Where burning Sappho loved and sung,
Where grew the arts of war and peace,
Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!
Eternal summer gilds them yet,
But all, except their sun, is set.

The Scian and the Teian muse,
The hero's harp, the lover's lute,
Have found the fame your shores refuse:
Their place of birth alone is mute
To sounds which echo further west
Than your sires' "Islands of the Blest."

The mountains look on Marathon—
And Marathon looks on the sea;
And musing there an hour alone,
I dream'd that Greece might still be free;
For standing on the Persians' grave,
I could not deem myself a slave.

A king sate on the rocky brow
Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis;
And ships, by thousands, lay below,
And men in nations;—all were his!
He counted them at break of day—
And when the sun set, where were they?

And where are they? and where art thou,
My country? On thy voiceless shore
The heroic lay is tuneless now—
The heroic bosom beats no more!
And must thy lyre, so long divine,
Degenerate into hands like mine?

'Tis something in the dearth of fame,
Though link'd among a fetter'd race,
To feel at least a patriot's shame,
Even as I sing, suffuse my face;
For what is left the poet here?
For Greeks a blush—for Greece a tear.

Must we but weep o'er days more blest?
Must we but blush?—Our fathers bled.
Earth! render back from out thy breast
A remnant of our Spartan dead!
Of the three hundred grant but three,
To make a new Thermopylæ!

What, silent still? and silent all?
Ah! no;—the voices of the dead
Sound like a distant torrent's fall,
And answer, 'Let one living head,
But one, arise,—we come, we come!'
'Tis but the living who are dumb.

In vain—in vain: strike other chords;
Fill high the cup with Samian wine!
Leave battles to the Turkish hordes,
And shed the blood of Scio's vine:
Hark! rising to the ignoble call—
How answers each bold Bacchanal!

You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet;
Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone?
Of two such lessons, why forget
The nobler and the manlier one?
You have the letters Cadmus gave—
Think ye he meant them for a slave?

Fill high the bowl with Samian wine!
We will not think of themes like these!
It made Anacreon's song divine:
He served—but served Polycrates—
A tyrant; but our masters then
Were still, at least, our countrymen.

The tyrant of the Chersonese
Was freedom's best and bravest friend;
That tyrant was Miltiades!
O that the present hour would lend
Another despot of the kind!
Such chains as his were sure to bind.

Fill high the bowl with Samian wine!
On Suli's rock, and Parga's shore,
Exists the remnant of a line
Such as the Doric mothers bore;
And there, perhaps, some seed is sown,
The Heracleidan blood might own.

Trust not for freedom to the Franks—
They have a king who buys and sells;
In native swords and native ranks
The only hope of courage dwells:
But Turkish force and Latin fraud
Would break your shield, however broad.

Fill high the bowl with Samian wine!
Our virgins dance beneath the shade—
I see their glorious black eyes shine;
But gazing on each glowing maid,
My own the burning tear-drop laves,
To think such breasts must suckle slaves.

Place me on Sunium's marbled steep,
Where nothing, save the waves and I,
May hear our mutual murmurs sweep;
There, swan-like, let me sing and die:
A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine—
Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!

brightpearl

09-26-2009, 04:58 PM

Jacks,
I somehow missed until just now that you so recently lost a dog just like I lost my cat. :( I'm so sorry. I feel you.
Best,
Brightpearl

Jack Flanders

09-26-2009, 06:15 PM

Thank you. It's a rough month. I'm sorry about your kitty cat. They become such an important part of your life. I have an 18 yr. old cat who is in the medium stage of dementia who is now hanging on to the screen door screaming at me to let her in and feed her. She wins!! :rolleyes:

MoJoRiSin

10-05-2009, 07:41 PM

hey i know you could simply say that
the play is based on your interpretation of
1._______
2._______
3._______
4. The Book of Esther
5. The Little Prince
and other storie
Maybe that would work well enough

Brynn

10-06-2009, 03:40 PM

Wow - never thought about the story of Esther in that story, but you're right! And of course, The Little Prince applies to just about everything, doesn't it? :)
Thanks, sweet woman. That put a big smile on my face.

MoJoRiSin

10-07-2009, 11:57 AM

the theme for READ IN week in Canada is

For the 20th annual READ IN Week, the theme is Books are Windows On theWorld
/ Les livres … une fenêtre sur le monde.
- Helen E. Haines

and in America
READ IN week for teens October 18-24 the theme is
READ BEYOND REALITY

go figure

I am casting my vote for "Lad a Dog"
neither here nor there i know but my 2cents at any rate :)
OX L,Mo

trisherina

10-08-2009, 01:15 AM

Thanks OX L, Mo for your kind attention to this matter.

I'll let you know how it goes...

YsaPur EsChomuw

10-08-2009, 12:10 PM

zero, look:

http://www.thebricktestament.com/genesis/garden_of_eden/gn02_19-20.html (http://www.thebricktestament.com/)

zero

10-08-2009, 04:46 PM

crikey that's some considerable effort & man hours that the rev. brendan powell smith has put in, and all his own work too. i imagine he's is a very nice chap indeed. i might invite join me for a TEATIME tomorrow or next week or the week after.

thank you ysa, for your kind assistance in this eccentricy.

-=zero

brightpearl

10-13-2009, 11:10 AM

off it goes, then, and good riddance
;)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2312/3539542702_0c2956f442.jpg

YsaPur EsChomuw

10-17-2009, 03:39 AM

http://soulcurrymagazine.com/sc/wp-content/uploads/awaken-to-your-breath2.jpg

http://site.bestsafetyapparel.com/Images/HydraStorm-Gas-Masks-GMAK.jpg Oh, and let's not forget about Kali, Moloch or Huitzilopochtli, either!

And I didn't mention his name. Most certainly I didn't, I'm not going to lose this argument. No. Don't tempt me. Note to myself: SUHT UP!

MoJoRiSin

10-17-2009, 03:53 PM

PART I

"1. Once, long ago, Vajasravasa gave away his possessions to gain religious merit.
2. He had a son named Nachiketa who, though only a boy, was full of faith in the scriptures. Nachiketa thought when the offerings were made:
3. "What merit can one obtain by giving away cows that are too old to give milk?"
4. To help his father understand this, Nachiketa said: "To whom will you offer me?" He asked this again and again. "To death I give you!" said his father in anger.
5. The son thought: "I go, the first of many who will die, in the midst of many who are dying, on a mission to Yama, king of death.
6. See how it was with those who came before, How it will be with those who are living. Like corn mortals ripen and fall; like corn They come up again."

Nachiketa went to Yama's abode, but the king of death was not there. He waited three days. When Yama returned, he heard a voice say:

7. "When a spiritual guest enters the house,
Like a bright flame, he must be received well,
8. With water to wash his feet. Far from wise
Are those who are not hospitable
To such a guest. They will lose all their hopes,
The religious merit they have acquired,
Their sons and their cattle."

YAMA

9. O spiritual guest, I grant you three boons
To atone for the three inhospitable nights
You have spent in my abode.
Ask for three boons, one for each night.

NACHIKETA

10. O king of death, as the first of these boons
Grant that my father's anger be appeased,
So he may recognize me when I return
And receive me with love.
YAMA
11. I grant that your father, The son of Uddalaka and Aruna,
Will love you as in the past. When he sees you
Released from the jaws of death, he will sleep
Again with a mind at peace........."

O M shanti shanti shanti"

The Katha Upanishad (Kathopanishad) - Complete
Death as the Teacher

Eknath Easwaran Translation~

MoJoRiSin

10-24-2009, 03:34 PM

the word knee has a silent letter in it

Stephi_B

10-28-2009, 05:04 PM

There are some r's missing in my PM-text :o Ach, who need's r's :D

Jack Flanders

10-28-2009, 07:51 PM

ooo la la!! Mr. Fancy pants!!! or would that be overalls?

Brynn

10-28-2009, 10:51 PM

I'm so ridiculously thrilled every day to send you pomegranate trees and bunnies and goats. It's such an absurd, uncomplicated pleasure. And the thing is, there's no one who understands - except possibly our neighbors :p

MoJoRiSin

10-29-2009, 11:40 AM

you have it all wrong
in real life
(and through all my past lives i assume)
i am quite shy
you are my stand in
(think giant statue here)

brightpearl

10-30-2009, 12:26 PM

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/13/Flat_stanley.jpg

Stanley Lambchop is Flat. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Stanley)

YsaPur EsChomuw

10-30-2009, 12:29 PM

^ Nothing's arrived yet.

brightpearl

10-30-2009, 02:31 PM

^Oh, it's an all-year thing. It may take a while. Thanks. :)

brightpearl

11-01-2009, 10:47 PM

http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/2008/05/01-07/pregnant-belly.jpg

?

Hyakujo's Fox

11-01-2009, 11:01 PM

do we need to bump the congratulation thread?

brightpearl

11-03-2009, 12:14 AM

^hmmm.
silence.
:)

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for elseone
http://thisisphotobomb.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Petr-housebomb.jpg

Odbe

11-03-2009, 02:13 AM

the word knee has a silent letter in it

Kno way!

Anna

11-03-2009, 02:52 AM

Marcus Bales

11-03-2009, 11:07 AM

There are some r's missing in my PM-text :o Ach, who need's r's :D

Pirates need r's!

Stephi_B

11-03-2009, 05:53 PM

^True! pregnant piratses need two ;):):D

brightpearl

11-03-2009, 07:36 PM

OMG
:eek: :eek: :eek:
Just to clear up the confusion in my inbox..
I am NOT pregnant!
I was just wondering whether someone ELSE was pregnant.

But it's been pretty silent, so I won't say anything else.

OH, I hope it wasn't her dialing Hfox!
:p

lukkucairi

11-03-2009, 11:05 PM

12"razormix

11-04-2009, 09:01 AM

that just made me smile :mad: :mad:

12"razormix

11-04-2009, 09:02 AM

:mad: !

MoJoRiSin

11-04-2009, 03:12 PM

^mad; bold italic exclamation point question mark

12"razormix

11-05-2009, 05:11 AM

:) bold invisible smile

lukkucairi

11-05-2009, 09:59 AM

http://www.ice-tropic.com/2%20pink%20hearts.jpg

:)

zero

11-07-2009, 02:37 PM

http://jblyth.com/blog_images/images_16/_0BW/tumblr_krr6chxYax1qz7lxdo1_500-1.jpg

MoJoRiSin

11-07-2009, 02:56 PM

is that ^ written on a paper towel?
scary
to read it from the other isde

that is

brightpearl

11-07-2009, 03:48 PM

http://16.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kr5idbPP6k1qzduzfo1_400.jpg

lukkucairi

11-07-2009, 10:43 PM

he's here

http://blogs.indystar.com/thoushalt/SATAN.jpg

he's BEEN here

where have YOU been? :confused:

zero

11-11-2009, 05:35 PM

brightpearl

11-11-2009, 05:49 PM

This is for you. (http://cuteoverload.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/chicken-surprise.jpg)

Marcus Bales

11-12-2009, 10:04 AM

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/coffee

Stephi_B

11-12-2009, 10:45 AM

http://www2.worthingtonlibraries.org/teen/blog/Image/hug.jpg

for who needs

http://www2.worthingtonlibraries.org/teen/blog/Image/hug.jpg

:)

Frieda

11-12-2009, 11:09 AM

for everyone in Berlin today:

today the west berlin gallery presents the opening of Blood Sweat Vector, vector artwork, very neat.

www.westberlingallery.com/blood-sweat-vector-opening-this-thursday

should be fun! :)

brightpearl

11-12-2009, 10:40 PM

Helloooooooo Hfoxy.

What are you doing just getting up at this late hour? And why are you all upside down like that?

http://dailyphoto.today.com/files/2009/04/caution-australia.jpg

brightpearl

11-15-2009, 09:23 AM

Marcus (http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/jamestate/13104)

Hyakujo's Fox

11-15-2009, 10:36 AM

Helloooooooo Hfoxy.

What are you doing just getting up at this late hour? And why are you all upside down like that?

http://dailyphoto.today.com/files/2009/04/caution-australia.jpg

I don't know what I am doing up at these hours really.

Hyakujo's Fox

11-15-2009, 10:39 AM

And I wanted to ask marcus whether it's all about the poem (http://whiskeyriver.blogspot.com/2009/11/let-me-make-this-perfectly-clear.html)

zero

11-16-2009, 11:43 AM

http://media.tumblr.com/D9QEnuQFoh1m15a6nUJInQNXo1_500.jpg

MoJoRiSin

11-16-2009, 01:00 PM

^ :)

MoJoRiSin

11-16-2009, 01:39 PM

"Today, Sunlight* offers two interpretations of Quatrain 82:"
(*yahoo!group)

~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~

today like everyday
I'm in no sober mood
don't open the door
to my thoughts
begin the music instead
for the one who sees
only the beloved's face
there are a hundred
ways to pray
to prostrate
or to be humbled
to the ground

--Translation by Nader Khalili
Rumi, Dancing the Flame
Cal-Earth Press, 2001

~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

-- Version by Coleman Barks
Open Secret
Threshold Books, 1984

Brynn

11-16-2009, 10:53 PM

^ thank you :)

lukkucairi

11-17-2009, 01:26 PM

http://247wallst.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/sad_clown16.jpg

I won't always be such a relentless downer

but I have to find all the shattered bits, and they're hiding under the fallen leaves in the back yard

we will resume regularly scheduled random weirdness as soon as this anomaly is rectified

Marcus Bales

11-17-2009, 01:48 PM

Whatever that message was ie-explorer refuses to load it.

brightpearl

11-17-2009, 01:57 PM

^ Dream On (http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/james_tate/poems/20106)

lukkucairi

11-18-2009, 10:10 PM

^ that's a nice one :)

zero

11-22-2009, 09:14 AM

.
http://www.pmaclients.com/projects/mattel/offline/Virgin%20Rail%20Full%20Terms%20and%20Conditions_fi les/virgintrains.jpg

.

trisherina

11-23-2009, 02:26 AM

Never mind. You've spoken volumes.

brightpearl

11-23-2009, 09:50 PM

stupid hippie
:)
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Odbe

11-24-2009, 02:40 AM

^You get French fries :D

brightpearl

11-24-2009, 08:57 AM

^right back atchya :D

zero

11-25-2009, 04:04 AM

.

a. (http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/afghan_10_26/a26_20858325.jpg).............................

brightpearl

11-29-2009, 10:11 AM

for new Professor S
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lukkucairi

11-29-2009, 09:17 PM

I've had this pag (http://books.google.com/books?id=bu6ImdZ4sEcC&pg=PA280&lpg=PA280&dq=rub+an+egg+evil+eye&source=bl&ots=8jwbd7o_Ps&sig=BMh4HjcKR11YCRIGiHcrfe3mjew&hl=en&ei=TRj_SueVFIa1tgeLiKiTDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CB4Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=rub%20an%20egg%20evil%20eye&f=false)e open ever since you posted it - fascinated :)

Stephi_B

11-30-2009, 01:13 PM

brightpearl

11-30-2009, 05:02 PM

^May they soon be compounded. :D
---------------------------------------------

Lulu:
http://www.evileyestore.com/user/images/evil_eye_bead.jpg

Maybe you would like to visit one of my favorite stores (http://www.evileyestore.com/user/CustomContent/evil_eye_gallery.php).

lukkucairi

12-01-2009, 02:23 AM

Maybe you would like to visit one of my favorite stores (http://www.evileyestore.com/user/CustomContent/evil_eye_gallery.php).

OH
EM
GEE

:D

Hyakujo's Fox

12-01-2009, 11:23 AM

http://www.postcardsfromla.com/leya/archives/pix%202007/SnowBuddha2.jpg

trisherina

12-04-2009, 10:43 AM

Hyakujo's Fox

12-04-2009, 10:51 AM

^ that hardly ever happens nowadays.

YsaPur EsChomuw

12-04-2009, 04:45 PM

How did the operation go? Let us know when you can use your eyes again as they were designed to.

lukkucairi

12-04-2009, 11:34 PM

silly, those are for the other 40%.

now quit yer whining :p

Frieda

12-05-2009, 12:06 PM

How did the operation go? Let us know when you can use your eyes again as they were designed to.

went well enough-- the procedure itself is a piece of cake, but the pain the next day was awful, painkillers didn't do a thing. it's a lot better now, burning but not too bad. sunglasses help. i'm wearing a bandage contact lens thingy in my eye that is going to be removed on monday.

other than that, i look like the doctor used his fists instead of a scalpel, but i am told this too will go away! i can't wait........:)

Frieda

12-05-2009, 12:08 PM

oh, and it's better than the jaw surgeon.

much better.

Stephi_B

12-05-2009, 02:12 PM

eye-eye wishes!!

:):):):)

I dunno why, but somehow there's never the appropriate time to contact the jaw surgeon with respect to definite action in the matter of my wisdom teeth (I have four exemplars in total, none of them ever did a thing to me, but the x-rays do forcast something.... says the surgeon, my dentist says: no hurry) - somehow the universe is against such measures :D:p

YsaPur EsChomuw

12-05-2009, 02:44 PM

^^^ :)

here are some cool sunglasses ;)

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brightpearl

12-05-2009, 08:59 PM

Oh so very glad your eye is healing up Freida. I can't imagine having to be awake for that, eeek! But I hope it clears up the troubles you were having. Take good care.
:cool:

zero

12-07-2009, 02:26 PM

Brynn

12-07-2009, 04:10 PM

That movie still gives me nightmares :eek:

MoJoRiSin

12-07-2009, 04:16 PM

^^

to be hones zero, that appears to be the dumbest movie ever!
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Merriam-Webster’s
Word of the Day

December 7

Nimrod

\NIM-rahd\

noun

Meaning

1 : a descendant of Ham represented in Genesis as a mighty hunter and a king of Shinar
*2 not capitalized : hunter
3 not capitalized, slang : idiot, jerk

Example Sentence

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Did you know?

Nimrod is described in Genesis as "the first on earth to be a mighty man" and "a mighty hunter before the Lord." It's easy to see how people made the leap from one mighty hunter in the Bible to calling any hunter a "nimrod." A lesser-known fact is that "nimrod" has seen some use in English as a noun meaning "tyrant" (apparently, the mighty Nimrod was not reputed to be an especially benevolent king), although that sense is now essentially obsolete. The legendary Nimrod is also sometimes associated with the attempt to build the Tower of Babel. Because the tower resulted in the wrath of the Lord and proved a disastrous idea, "nimrod" is sometimes used with yet another meaning: "a stupid person."

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

lukkucairi

12-07-2009, 07:09 PM

hey, don't take it as a burden, but every once in a while I want to thank you again for catalyzing my life.

so, thanks :)

brightpearl

12-08-2009, 01:17 AM

^whether you know or not, you helped me catalyze mine, so it all goes around in a big big circle thingy.
Enzymes are reusable, you know. :)

brightpearl

12-15-2009, 12:50 PM

rock on
http://pulse2.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/pink-stormtrooper.jpg

MoJoRiSin

12-15-2009, 01:56 PM

Love's Labour's Lost ?
^first that came to mind
>just the title not the story<
and then thsi:
(see below)

"Distinguishing boys from girls is a typical nineteenth century characteristic in children's
literature. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth century fiction did not stress the
difference between boys and girls, but rather between good and bad behaviour. Children's
literature changed along with adult fiction, where both the images of women and children
were romanticised. Women and children were sketched as weak, self-sacrificing angels,
while men were like soldiers or knights. (Nelson 1991, 2, 6-9) The angelic image was
partly due to the twisted relations between middle-class men, women and children in the
contemporary society. The middle- and upper-class children, especially boys, who were
sent to boarding schools, very rarely had a close relationship with their parents. (Reynolds
1994, 2-3) But even the children, who lived at home, were often more attached to their
nannies than their parents. Winifred Gwyn-Jeffreys has described this paradoxical situation
in her book of memories from a late nineteenth century middle-class nursery, published in
the early 1970s:
It is strange when one comes to compare our childhood with conditions in
bringing up children today. How very little contact we had with the grown-up
world of our parents. I am sure our mother must have come up often to visit
us in the nursery, but if so, it certainly made no lasting impression on me. "Of
course we loved our parents, but that was quite automatic. As far as our daily
lives were concerned they were quite unimportant to us.
Every winter, they went to the Riviera for six weeks. We did not miss them,
but we greatly enjoyed making "Welcome Home" posters to greet them on
their return. These we plastered all over the house."
(Gwyn-Jeffreys 1970, 11- 2)
The servants, who raised the children, were often almost parental substitutes. Thus, middle-
or upper-class men had a very distant image of the women of their own social class, whose
purity and virginity were emphasised. They socialised rather with other men, because they
were accustomed to it in boarding schools, military and civil service and private clubs. ....."

...."The children, however, spent so little time with their parents that childhood was seen as a
pretty and angelic age by middle-class adults, who wrote most of the literature of the era.
Children, just like women, were described as very distant. No realistic characteristics were
combined with the angelic image, which was a typical way of representing women and
children in Victorian fiction. (Reynolds 1994, 2-3) The image of an angel may have a link
with the literary utopias, because the most drastic of them was heaven; a natural place for
an angel to live. (Nelson 1991, 2, 6-9) In this way, the road leads towards the Edenic
secondary worlds of children's fiction, substitutes for Heaven in numerous ways."
~Mirva Saukkola

http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/hum/taite/vk/saukkola/theedeno.pdf

btw
(these days the transverse is also true :: "the mother is a great source of neurosis for he child" Osho)
mo's owm mother (luckily for her) was far to distant to all 5 of her children to cause any lasting damage : )

Brynn

12-16-2009, 07:26 PM

For Jacks :) Cat makes amazing discovery (http://www.wimp.com/catdiscovery/)

Jack Flanders

12-16-2009, 07:34 PM

hahaha!! I've seen that one before!! Not to be a big bummer, but we had to put Soupy to her final rest last week. Her kidneys were so bad. She was 18 and had a beautiful life. Now I'm left with one really retarded cat. She's only 10 yrs. old. arggg!

Brynn

12-16-2009, 07:40 PM

Geez Louise! Poor Soupy. I'm so sorry :(

Jack Flanders

12-16-2009, 07:46 PM

I was prepared for her demise, it was my dog's illness that really got to me. But thanks Brynn. :)

MoJoRiSin

12-17-2009, 07:08 PM

Read (at www dot twitter dot com backslash zefrank)
that you are in Istanbul
that made me think of the building/house that
Orthan Pamuk has purchased for his
Museum of Innocence
Can you find it and take a picture of it for us?
ps i just read on Wikipedia that he
is a professor at Columbia now !! : )

Anyway, enjoy the beautiful weather and people
there (and post ALL your photos somehere for us OK?)
thanks x a million bazillion
ox L,Mo

Odbe

12-19-2009, 10:22 PM

Mo-
The radio here has a program (which you can also download) that I think you'd like
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/nightair/
It's called The Night Air and it's a weekly audio collage of bits of related things and unrelated things jamming around ideas, sometimes making meanings together or sometimes just making sound.
I'm a long-time follower, and it's occurred to me that it might be very much your thing.

MoJoRiSin

12-19-2009, 11:05 PM

Odbe,
You are so right on!
I am listening now
and i LOVE it!! :) :) :)

Laughing out loud here and there ; )

YsaPur EsChomuw

12-20-2009, 03:08 PM

Hopefully by leaving tomorrow morning at 6 am we'll get ahead of the snow storm that's headed up the east coast. We'll get to Indiana in time for some good lake effect snow storms on Sunday ...

I hope you've arrived safe and now are sitting in a cozy warm room, sipping something warming... the news of the blizzard gave me a nasty shock. :eek:

lukkucairi

12-20-2009, 04:00 PM

^ seconded!

Jack Flanders

12-20-2009, 08:22 PM

^ and ^^ Thanks you two!! We arrived safe and sound after an interesting drive across I-80. Saw one horrific one-car accident in Pennsylvania which made me slow down and consider how lucky we were to be traveling to be with family for the holiday. Met my new grand-daughter last night!!! She has green-gray eyes, a beautiful face, a curious personality and 4 legs and a tail!! My daughter adopted a 10 week-old kitten a week ago. Her name is Kari, a Norwegian name. My mean hubby told me not to get any ideas. Visited with my mom this afternoon at her new accommodations (Altzeimer's Care Facility) and just loved the place and the people there. My sister and I got a card game of show me your clubs, and spades, and diamonds... with a few of the more with it ladies and had a blast. And Steff, I actually got one gift today without having to set foot in the big mall!!!! I'm off and running now!! Tomorrow Target!!:D

MoJoRiSin

12-20-2009, 08:55 PM

^ :D :D :D wow that is a huge gift Jackie! congratulations!

lukkucairi

12-21-2009, 01:44 AM

so graceful :)

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Jack Flanders

12-21-2009, 01:52 AM

^ beautiful!!

Marcus Bales

12-21-2009, 06:53 AM

That's how I imagine HF when he looks at a photo in "Subtitles" and pounces on just the right idea.

brightpearl

12-21-2009, 11:38 AM

Hiya Cujo,
I just sent your one off on Friday, so it'll be late. :o
It took me a little extra time to get it just right.
:)

Hyakujo's Fox

12-21-2009, 11:54 AM

oh late gives me something to look forward to. ;)

Hyakujo's Fox

12-21-2009, 12:01 PM

more like

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2487/4202845351_4083781438_o.jpg

zero

12-22-2009, 05:01 AM

brightpearl

12-24-2009, 03:40 AM

Kinda hot in these rhinos.

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12"razormix

12-24-2009, 11:29 AM

you

always

zero

12-24-2009, 05:17 PM

12"razormix

12-27-2009, 05:33 PM

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

12"razormix

12-27-2009, 05:46 PM

merry xmases, mo!

xfox

12-27-2009, 09:27 PM

Some questions are too difficult to answer.

MoJoRiSin

12-28-2009, 03:06 AM

"Merry Xmases to you too Zormix !!

and Happy New Year : )
Happy New Year to
Everyone Actually !!

Anna

12-30-2009, 12:41 AM

where's ze?!

MoJoRiSin

12-30-2009, 02:24 AM

Buckingham Palace perhaps? :)

Jack Flanders

12-30-2009, 02:51 AM

Ze went to Instanbul.

MoJoRiSin

12-30-2009, 07:03 PM

Ze is at the TED
convention

zero

01-01-2010, 05:10 PM

http://haw-lin.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/92/1.jpg (http://www.youtube.com/v/ZLpLL8TGjps&hl)

^

YsaPur EsChomuw

01-02-2010, 11:49 AM

http://boeken.blogo.nl/files/2009/07/simons-cat.png

Aww, sweet. Did you get it for Christmas?

Frieda

01-02-2010, 11:55 AM

^ ehmmm yes, from myself :p

i love the book, it's hilarious!

YsaPur EsChomuw

01-02-2010, 12:01 PM

^ Yeah, I remember the videos on youtube, very good. The cat, impatiently steping from one paw to another, while tearing into the armchair with its claws - very real.

Those gifts are always the best ones. ;)

Frieda

01-02-2010, 12:11 PM

or on your lap, tearing your clothes apart from enthusiasm :p

zero

01-05-2010, 05:14 PM

YsaPur EsChomuw

01-11-2010, 03:28 PM

I was watching/listening to this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dIgBhXeBbY) and thought of you, because it's in Swedish. It's old and cute.

Wanted to PM you, but oh, somebody's box is full. Then I found out I couldn't find your e-mail address. :(

Jack Flanders

01-11-2010, 04:36 PM

^:o ty!

Marcus Bales

01-12-2010, 10:17 AM

Jelly Donut Blues

Woke up too early this morning, an empty donut in my hand
Said I woke up too early this morning, an empty donut in my hand
How I lost my jelly filling I still don't understand.

Last night it was full of my jelly, it was fine, phat, fly, and firm
Said last night it was filled up with my jelly, all fine, phat, fly, and firm
Now its feeling deflated this morning, like a flat old stepped-on worm.

So if you have a jelly donut, better keep it fresh and whole
Said if you have a jelly donut, better keep it fresh and whole --
Or somebody might suck out your jelly -- might suck out your heart and soul!

MoJoRiSin

01-12-2010, 06:31 PM

The Word of the Day for January 12, 2010 is:
suborn • \suh-BORN\ • verb
*1 : to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing
2 : to induce to commit perjury; also : to obtain (perjured testimony) from a witness
Example Sentence:
"In the first place, a jury could not easily be suborned by any one." (Theodore Dreiser, The Financier)
Did you know?
The Latin word that gave us "suborn" in the early part of the 16th century is "subornare," which translates literally as "to secretly furnish or equip." The "sub-" that brings the "secretly" meaning to "subornare" more commonly means "under" or "below," but it has its stealthy denotation in the etymologies of several other English words, including "surreptitious" (from "sub-" and "rapere," meaning "to seize") and the verb "suspect" (from "sub-" or "sus-" and "specere," meaning "to look at"). The "ornare" of "subornare" is also at work in the words "ornate," "adorn," and "ornament."

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
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trisherina

01-13-2010, 12:44 AM

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518JXP7EH9L.jpg

Odbe

01-13-2010, 07:31 AM

^Interesting, that's one of my latest second-hand acquisitions.

Mo - the lovely people I'm staying with in big-smoke-Sydney do the cryptic crossword in the newspaper and they explained to me how to read the clues :)

MoJoRiSin

01-13-2010, 05:35 PM

^OMGosh Odbe that is totally cool! :)

edit: however from trying to understand it yself
via wikipedia
I am afraid it is WAY over my head
at this point

Marcus Bales

01-16-2010, 10:01 AM

You’re talented, funny, and good
And probably misunderstood
By people who drink
So they don’t have to think
And who couldn’t think well if they would.

Odbe

01-21-2010, 07:12 AM

Pearl -
Tonight I didn't send you mail.
In a few days you will be quantumly reading it in another universe.

madasacutsnake

01-21-2010, 07:33 AM

I want mail from odbe. I want to know the answer to my question....

brightpearl

01-21-2010, 08:04 AM

Odbebe,
I will always be happy to hear from you in any fashion, at any chance intersection of being time.

For the time being, I will wait.

β cyg

01-21-2010, 04:37 PM

for my momma -- clicky! ->>
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/news/00030224.jpg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SxlD74hvRk)

lukkucairi

01-21-2010, 07:07 PM

do NOT give your eye a rub.

no, they prefer a gentle saline rinse :eek:

MoJoRiSin

01-23-2010, 03:48 AM

How'd it go with the crock pot initiation Pearly? :)

YsaPur EsChomuw

01-23-2010, 04:29 AM

^ :D I was half-expecting you to type 'crack pot'.

YsaPur EsChomuw

01-24-2010, 05:13 AM

The die-nouns and das-nouns and der-nouns confuse me no end. It makes me wonder, who gets to decide their genders? When a new noun is created, for example if someone makes a new gadget like the iPod or a new we-don't-know-what like the Snuggie, how do you know what kind it is?

Not a long time ago I wondered about it too, my teacher explained it like this:

Normally, inventions fall into the 'das' category, except when people invented something that has sort of existed before: like Snuggie is a kind of blanket (die Decke), so it is die Snuggie. Or e-mail is a kind of post, (die Post), so (in spite of my expectations of das, it is die E-mail).

I think, iPod is 'das', although it could be argued similar gadgets have existed before...

Odbe

01-24-2010, 06:27 AM

^Oh, that seems logical. And here I was hoping there's a gang of drug-addled German sages on a cloud somewhere tossing coins and shouting pronouncements down in thin, cracked voices.

YsaPur EsChomuw

01-24-2010, 06:48 AM

^ :D

You should write a short story about it and publish it somewhere.

YsaPur EsChomuw

01-24-2010, 08:21 AM

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01556/snowball-flashmob_1556524i.jpg

Several hundred people enjoy a flash mob snowball fight in a Berlin park between people living in Berlin's districts of Kreuzberg and Neukoeln

Stephi_B

01-24-2010, 12:58 PM

:D

unfortunately it wasn't my idea... then maybe craig johnston's? :)

it was a bit too official (learnt about it more than a day earlier ;)) for a flashmob, overslept it though :( but then we still have the annual battle (rotten food and water in all it's weapon-forms ;)) between Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg.... but then i feel more and more in the dilemma to choose a side, for i'm a multi-borough-person meanwhile, no! that that multi as i would set a foot into such strange places outside our lil homely F&X and befriended crossborder neighbourhoods in the neuköllnies, p.bergies, and maybe the few civilised spots in Mitte and Schöneberg - talking of such far places like, i dunno, you know there where there's unknown subway stations, foreign numbers on busses and trams, looks and SMELLS so different - *yuck* - god help me, on feb 1 i have to travel to reinickendorf :eek: to sign my contract in the senate for education & stuff's hq - my school's vice headmaster said: to reinickendorf? poor you, and good luck!