This is the thread where everyone is random, Part II

[Frieda]

^ um, run?? :eek:

[Stephi_B]

^^ Maybe *oopski* for a start.

Ehm, and before you follow Frieda's advice (not a bad one - unless you're out for adventure ;)),
could you please ask her if she has a brother :D - age 25-35, blue, green or grey eyes would be fine... but well I'd have to look-see anyways.
Spassibo, dude! :)

[craig johnston]

well, the word 'bigwig' made me want to giggle, then i pictured
him and was very scared, then i looked at her and felt deep
regret. so it was a kind of humourous longing terror sadness.

:(

[Stephi_B]

If that helps you in any way:
There's other stunning young babes out there whose daddies ain't scary Russian military men (or a mafiosi, contract killers or other such niceties)!

Well, and bigwig this bigwig that, I'd bet my ass that the girl very likely's got total control over him ;)

[Hyakujo's Fox]

what is the word for the emotion felt when a stunning young
babe looks up at you and says; 'my father is bigwig in russian
militaare' and later; 'i'm daddy's girl'?

:eek:

is this before or after you've hit on her?

[craig johnston]

not sure what that means.
:confused:

we were having a flirty conversation in a bar. does
that count as hitting on someone? she was definitely
doing more of the flirting!

[Hyakujo's Fox]

never mind then :)

[Stephi_B]

Craig, you sure she did not just take the piss out of ya? You know making you hot and then telling you some horror story. :confused:

Did you notice any bodyguard(s) lingering in the background btw. Asked my personal Russia expert (who has a buddy in Moscow who works for the fossil fuel mafia... er... mean fossil fuel industry) and he thinks it a bit strange: a daughter of some big army dude running alone around in Berlin. Not impossible, but strange, he says.

[Frieda]

the busdriver of the nightbus last saturday looked like bill clinton

[craig johnston]

did you hit on him?

:)

[Frieda]

who, me?

no

and i forgot to take a picture of him!

[brightpearl]

It turns out Dick Cheney is full of dead leaves.

[Jack Flanders]

ha!!! poison ivy leaves!

[craig johnston]

WEED!

is he a bus driver?

:confused:

[magdalen]

.

[House,M.D.]

Hello up there! Can you hear me? Do you have any spare vicodin?? it doesn't sound like you need it right now.

[brightpearl]

I'm tired of it being Tuesday.

[craig johnston]

yeah, can't wait for wednesday!

:)

[brightpearl]

*sigh* Nah. I'm already preemptively tired of it being Wednesday.

[/grumpy]

[craig johnston]

think of all those wonderful wednesday things you'll be able to do, like going to work, coming home, maybe picking up some shopping, cooking, eating, tidying up, oh, it makes my head spin with delight!

:)

[brightpearl]

I have watched the trailer for Transformers 1,367 times this morning on YouTube. This is what it means to be a mommy.

[Stephi_B]

In China number 8 stands for wealth and 6 for luck. People there buy themselves good phone numbers.

Got the sequence 868 in my mobey phone number anyways, which is very good says my Chinese friend: luck flanked on both sides by money.

But: Hello?! Money? Luck? Where are you? Please call me! Thanx :)

[l'azizza]

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p153/TragedyDisaster/ceilingcatanimated.gif

[CherishHellfire]

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q116/hellkitty_bucket/thesneezeMedium.jpg (http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/cat_steve_dont_eat_it.php)

[brightpearl]

^I got mechanically separated once. Haven't been the same since.

[brightpearl]

Data entry sucks.

[lukkucairi]

is it just me, or is the frontmost bangladeshi duck a shade of light magenta?

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44036000/jpg/_44036892_kidsflood_afp_416.jpg

[lukkucairi]

http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/showandtalk/07/02/heatherette_chaps.jpg

it's killing me.

[Jack Flanders]

Cheekman!!! Ha!

[brightpearl]

^Now see, first there was someone who designed it, and then somebody sewed it, and finally some nitwit put it on. It's a chain of fools, and somehow it started with the birth of Judy Garland.

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Aww. True love.
:D
http://madisonavenuejournal.com/images/jj/08152005/budgie-mirror.jpg

[Frieda]

i want gloves like the cheekman is wearing

space age is on it's way back!

[T.I.P.]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/30/47610367_ca2abeeed8.jpg

[Tunesmith]

http://www.simplych.com/light.gif

[T.I.P.]

registrations are open again and the first registered user is Hyjiskalakwe...

welcome Hyjiskalakwe ! :)

[lukkucairi]

Aww. True love.
:D
http://madisonavenuejournal.com/images/jj/08152005/budgie-mirror.jpg

^^^this is adorable and makes me very happy.

...and beryl? could you tell me if this is how they normally park in Moscow?
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44044000/jpg/_44044112_car_getty.jpg

[brightpearl]

^^^this is adorable and makes me very happy.


I'm glad it makes you happy, because it makes me irretrievably cynical. :D

...and beryl? could you tell me if this is how they normally park in Moscow?

I'm afraid I'm not an expert in such matters, but it looks like the result of a budgerigar's affair gone wrong...ajusting the mirrors and couldn't keep his eyes on the road, I expect.

[Frieda]

ha, that's nothing!

this is how we park in the NLs:

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/9321/carcrashsl3.jpg

[Frieda]

and this is how we party during traffic jams:

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/9808/biertjeew3.jpg

[lukkucairi]

I'm glad it makes you happy, because it makes me irretrievably cynical. :D



I'm afraid I'm not an expert in such matters, but it looks like the result of a budgerigar's affair gone wrong...ajusting the mirrors and couldn't keep his eyes on the road, I expect.

I spent years living with budgerigars...maybe that's the diff ;)

he's not being narcissistic in the photo; he's probably trying to figure out how his rival has managed to perch upside down underneath that annoying pane of glass.

budgies don't have much brain - that's part of what's charming about them :p

Frieds: that's an astonishing amount of shattered Grolsch. it looks like an art installation worthy of the Tate Modern, actually...

[Stephi_B]

^^ & ^^^ :D

Apropos grinning:
http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/vsh0499l.jpg

[brightpearl]

This chicken's name is Dumbledore. No, I am not making that up.
http://static.flickr.com/31/63079882_1706404b9e.jpg

[brightpearl]

TIP and auntie have the exact same number of posts right now.

[trisherina]

I just bought another $30 worth of LUSH products (which amounts to oh three things), but I can quit anytime (dang you auntie aubrey).

[auntie aubrey]

TIP and auntie have the exact same number of posts right now.

nuh uh.


trish - i would love to know what you bought. that's the type of lush whore i am, i have to know what you tried. i've started soaping up with a mix of olive branch and happy hippy. it's the greatest smell on planet earth.

[trisherina]

Damn I forgot the olive! More comforter, some creamy candy and a bar of Wicked. I tell you, I hope they close those stores.

[Jaime]

This chicken's name is Dumbledore. No, I am not making that up.
http://static.flickr.com/31/63079882_1706404b9e.jpg

Yikes.


In other news...

Saw a cat today as I was walking home. I wanted to pet it, and it looked like it wanted to be pet, but its owner was very close to it and busy, and it didn't seem right to get in the way just to pet the cat. It was black and orange and very fuzzy. Its eyes were bright green and huge.

Looking back, I should have pet the dear thing.

I really miss having a cat.

[brightpearl]

http://www.keyshistory.org/whaleshark.jpg

[Tunesmith]

you know it's time to get a haircut when your kid sister tells you that you look like Lasse Gjertsen. :o

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[brightpearl]

duck duck goose
http://tripcart.typepad.com/tripcart_the_blog/images/2007/04/05/and_the_statues_played_duck_duck_go.jpg

[lukkucairi]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/europe_enl_1187437102/img/1.jpg

[brightpearl]

^Just read that article (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070818/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_switzerland_tunick;_ylt=Am1sM8.Aj1bzoybU. vT1jmxvaA8F). Awesome. Chilly tho'.

[Odbe]

I don't get these new-style spammers who put links in normal-looking posts. If the average poster who they want to follow the link sees it, then obviously a mod is going to see it too. I suppose it's an extension of the email spam that say they're from your friend Jon.
I digress; I shall not attempt to fathom the mind of the spammer.




...Come to think of it, don't have ANY friends called Jon. Or vxsnakduhfaj, for that matter.

[brightpearl]

I can accept this.
http://bikehugger.com/photostream/culture/bra%20on%20hydrant-photo.jpg

But if you're going to go to all that trouble, why put it on upside-down?

I feel it must be significant.

[brightpearl]

When someone pm's me, it doesn't get copied to my regular email anymore. My user options are the same, set to allow that. Anybody have an idea of why?

[lostsadie]

I think it has something to do with the eclipse earlier this week...

[Stephi_B]

^^^ an upside-down hybrant :D

Woah, this is so strange: It cool outside, like 10, 11°C outside, but just now a major thunderstorm like usually only in hottest summer is coming down, with hail and all...

edit: .... and very, very strange clouds, hard to describe them.

[lukkucairi]

I am back.

This is the most random and wonderfully culture-shocky thing I've had happen to me in a while :)

[T.I.P.]

awesome !

can't wait to hear more about it ;)

[Tunesmith]

lukku!

Welcome back! :D

how'd the ol' ducky burn?

[brightpearl]

^^^:D :D :D

Can't wait!

[brightpearl]

Oh Lord I love pasta.

Oh and pear and gorgonzola pizza.

[Tunesmith]

Oh and pear and gorgonzola pizza.

*drools*

Oh, and pear + gruyère = tastebuds in heaven

[T.I.P.]

Oh, and pear + gruyère = tastebuds in heaven

yeah, but can you say it fast three times ?

[l'azizza]

In general, the momentum of an object can be conceptually thought of as how difficult it is to stop the object.

[brightpearl]

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[brightpearl]

it's paper (http://www.jenstark.com/sculpture_01.html)

[Frieda]

^ wow, that's amazing, such wonderful shapes!

[Brynn]

http://icons.wunderground.com/data/wximagenew/m/mikeaj/227.jpg

[Jack Flanders]

COOL!!!!

[T.I.P.]

i just slept until 6:30PM, with a two hour break for lunch. I feel not unlike a zombie.

[Frieda]

WTF have you been doing?? i hope it was serious partying!

[lapietra]

*there* it is! hello, thread.

[T.I.P.]

WTF have you been doing?? i hope it was serious partying!

Not really. My body's been telling me that i need a break lately, and today i decided it would be wiser to listen :)

[Frieda]

ah, for regeneration purposes, hope you'll feel better soon! :)


~ good vibes ~

[brightpearl]

My chocolate problem seems to have gone into spontaneous remission.

[Frieda]

^ are you sure it's not that monthly thing? i have a recurring chocolate issue myself ;)

[brightpearl]

^Frieda, see girlie thread. :D

[Frieda]

OH MY GOD I JUST BIT MY TONGUE :eek: :eek: :eek:

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Tokeanefege was his sled.

[brightpearl]

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[Odbe]

My virtual scrolling doesn't like me any more but it says there's nothing wrong. I'm confused and I don't think I could go back to pulling around the scroll bar.

[Stephi_B]

Somehow CJ managed to turn the 'guess' thread into a black hole - made of purest Marmite ;) :D
Mayhap ideally crystalline or super-fluid?? Does anyone know the exact physical qualities of that stuff? :confused:
Tried to save Perla's toast by a quote, but then my toast vanished too... *shruggin*

[brightpearl]

^nope, lots of posts are going AWOL, but they seem to be turning up eventually....

This is what I guessed in response to Craig's obviously marmite-related description in the guess thread:

http://www.spiralkid.com/blogpics/squid.jpg

:D

[Stephi_B]

^ah, then it's good

;) & :D @ pic

(But Marmite ain't that bad now, tried it last year when I been in North Wales - in combi with the rest of culinary specialties them Brits have, particularly in the mornings, where 'continental me' usually only has a coffee+ciggie thing going on ;))

[brightpearl]

^I know of a cafe where one can order a coffee + ciggie off the menu -- they call it the "Bohemian Breakfast." :)

And I'm sorry, but I beg to differ on the Marmite issue. I'm sure CJ is healthy and everything, but ick. Salsa is where it's at.

[Stephi_B]

^That's lovely! :)

(We call c+c 'French breakfast' here out of some reason...French=Bohemians?... but shouldn't there be croissants in it either?? c+c+c then)

OK, let us differ on the Marmite issue! ;) Salsa (sauce as well as dance) is great too - but for breakfast? :confused: Oh, well why not, Chinese eat rice or/and hot soup in the mornings, so...

[brightpearl]

^OMG HAVE YOU NEVER HAD A BREAKFAST TACO?!!?

Is there no end to the suffering of this world?
:D

http://www.lovemonkeystudios.com/blogpics/tacoc.jpg
Behold, the glory of the breakfast taco. I strongly believe it should be named the national bird. This one is in its pristine state and has not yet been christened with the everlasting love of the jalapeno salsa. To be clear, the "breakfast tacos" served at chains like Sonic and sometimes McD's and such bear NO RESEMBLANCE to the real thing. A proper breakfast taco consists of a freshly made, lightasafeather flour tortilla (or corn, sometimes, but not a corn tortilla out of a package!!! Those are made out of reconstituted cereal box cardboard.), and some combination of potatoes, scrambled egg, beans, bacon/chorizo, cheese, and the like. I feel the potato and egg taco is superior to all others. Regardless of the filling, it must be handed to you all wrapped up in foil like that. A plate is an insult to a self-respecting breakfast taco. When you get your tacos (because one is never enough), you go to the salsa bar and pick something out. I recommend a combination of the green chili-tomatillo and fresh red. The breakfast taco is nearly wholly responsible for my continuing to live in TX despite the 70% Republican majority.

*sigh*

I'm gonna have to make an extra stop this morning.

[Stephi_B]

^OK, you have more or less persuaded me here :D

Now, I just have to talk a word with the fastfood dealer of my confidence - by now more specialised on döner & felafel, his pizzas are... well, OK... (the Mexican restaurent two blocks away put tacos on plates, ts ts, ts) to a) include tacos on his menu and b) open a bit earlier for me ;)

[T.I.P.]

I recommend a combination of the green chili-tomatillo and fresh red.
*sigh*
I'm gonna have to make an extra stop this morning.

I reckon I would probably have to make several "extra stops" if i ate a morning taco... :p

haaaarrggghhh !



PS: that actually looks delicious btw

[brightpearl]

"delicious" is woefully inadequate to describe the transcendent awesomeitude of the breakfast taco.

I weep with anticipation of my taco stand pilgrimmage.

Oh, wait...that's drool. :o

[lapietra]

the air smells so wonderful today... :) I love autumn.

[rapscalious rob]

the air smells so wonderful today... :) I love autumn.

Did Autumn make you a breakfast taco? How sweet of her!

[Frieda]

I reckon I would probably have to make several "extra stops" if i ate a morning taco... :p

haaaarrggghhh !



PS: that actually looks delicious btw

i concur :D

i flush my bread with cheese & vitamin pills breakfast away with tea anyway..

[l'azizza]

BREAKFAST TACO?!!?


http://www.lovemonkeystudios.com/blogpics/tacoc.jpg


Why do you Texans call them tacos? That's known as a breakfast burrito around these parts, and I've never seen one made from a corn tortilla.

[Odbe]

Seconded. Tacos aren't made with tortillas, they're made with taco shells - brittle ones. Tortillas make burritos.
The glorious TortillaHat. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/7377763@N07/tags/tortillahat/)

[Stephi_B]

Tacos, tortillas, burritos, ... now you got me pafoodriotic:

DÖNER
http://static.flickr.com/23/30283585_0f84579cda.jpg
:)

DÖNERTIER (tier=animal)
http://www.kaleidoshop.de/produktkatalog/produktgrafiken/erkan-stefan-doenertier.jpg
:D


Mehmet Aygün (http://www.berlin-visavis.de/archiv/pdf/bv06_Doener.pdf) the man who first put Döner Kebap in a bread, in the mid-1970s in Berlin-Kreuzberg - pafoodriotic kudos to Mehmet!
:)


Never mind the Gammelfleisch (http://german.about.com/library/definitions/bldef05_1229.htm) scandal
;)

[brightpearl]

^^^No no no!! There is the soft taco, and the crispy taco, and there's also the puffy taco, which is made with a thick, corn masa that puffs up when fried. Crispy and puffy taco shells are never used for breakfast tacos, but soft tacos are sometimes made with fresh corn tortillas and may be at any meal, though with different fillings. (Puffy taco is probably in the urban dictionary with quite another meaning. :D and, here's (http://www.texas-league.com/gallery/index.php?cat_id=30&id=591) a photo of Henry the Puffy Taco, mascot of the San Antonio Missions minor league baseball team, pretending to get crushed by Ballapeno.)

The burrito is made with a much larger soft flour tortilla. Burritos are at least 3 times the size of a taco, and at least in true Tex-Mex, they aren't served at breakfast, with egg and such. They're strictly a lunch/dinner food. And they are never made with tater tots like at Sonic. :mad:

There are regional differences in the words used to describe such things, and it varies even with region in Mexico, but most of the Mexican nationals I know draw the distinctions as above.

ps the tortilla hat is indeed glorious, however. :D

[T.I.P.]

^ you guys seem to have as many words for "taco" as the eskimos have for the word "snow" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow) ;)

The linked wikipedia article has an interesting linguistic analysis partially debunks the popular myth (which I thought was true) affirming that eskimos have oodles of different words for snow:

"The number of words depends on the definitions of Eskimo (there are a number of languages) and snow, and on the method of counting numbers of words in languages that have quite different grammatical structures from English."

the rest of the article is pretty interesting, esp. if you are into linguistics...

[lukkucairi]

http://www.colors-wind.com/yoyos4u/bc/whistlingjive.jpg

[brightpearl]

^ you guys seem to have as many words for "taco" as the eskimos have for the word "snow" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow) ;)

Tacos are WAAAY more important than snow. :mad:

:D

That article is right on, btw. The many words for snow thing is really overblown...they smooshed a bunch of words from different languages together, and neglected to think of how we have words like flurry, blizzard, drift, etc. The upshot was that a couple of linguistic bigwigs used the overblowing to support their hypothesis that one's language affects one's culture. My man Franz Boas pointed out the obvious -- that it's not that their culture is inherently different; it's that they have snow 365 freaking days a year, so they have occaision to talk about it more frequently. If you plopped a few hundred Equatorial New Guineans in Inuitland, they'd come up with some new words for snow pretty damned quick. :D

Tacos and linguistics are a good match. Unlike tacos and lengua (http://www.recipezaar.com/45249). Yick. :eek:

[lapietra]

Did Autumn make you a breakfast taco? How sweet of her!

you are very silly. :)

<3

[lukkucairi]

you guys aren't being random enough :mad:

here, have some random:

http://www.growquest.com/Fruit%20trees%20-%20better%20plant/lychee.jpg

[rapscalious rob]

No thanks, I’ve been trying to quit them.

[l'azizza]

The population of the city I live in is at least 50% Mexican, probably more by now because they breed like bunnies. So I'm not pulling this out of my ass but my attention to detail may be a little lax. Breakfast burritos are always made from tortillas, and the only place I know to get a soft taco is Taco Bell.

So are sopapillas made from the puffy taco?

Burritos, tacos and tostadas have always seemed to me to have the same ingredients but a different wrapper.

We have what we call here a slopper- a hamburger w/ bun (double meat if you want it) and fries smothered in red or green chili. What's it called there?

[l'azizza]

^ except for fish tacos and pork and avocado burritos and chicken tacos on white.. forget I said they're all the same.

[Odbe]

:mad: Okay, that's it guys. I am going to settle the tortilla-burrito thing ONCE AND FOR ALL. :mad: Henceforth there will be no more need for discussion.

This is a tortilla
http://portcities.hartlepool.gov.uk/upload/img_400/2960z.jpg

This is a burrito
http://www.aardman.com/rextherunt/album/VINCEBOT.jpg

This is a taco
http://eroundlake.com/blog/uploaded_images/strange-car-accident-768505.jpg

This is a taco shell
http://www.scieng.ed.ac.uk/trnskil/images/clothes%20peg.jpg

This is a breakfast taco
http://z.about.com/d/entertaining/1/7/j/4/wigglescake-difusco.jpg

This is breakfast juice
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/9/96/Vomit.jpg

and this is not socially acceptable for eating
http://www.eyramedical.com.au/images/2%20month%20old%20baby.jpg

GOT IT?

[T.I.P.]

http://www.to.infn.it/~zaninett/javascript/distributions/gauds.gif

[brightpearl]

I wholeheartedly endorse Odbe's image definitions. But I don't want to be rude by not answering l'az's Q's. This'll be the last word. :D

So are sopapillas made from the puffy taco?
We have what we call here a slopper- a hamburger w/ bun (double meat if you want it) and fries smothered in red or green chili. What's it called there?

Sopapillas are made with wheat flour, and puffy tacos from corn masa. I don't think we have anything like a slopper, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time...

Sopapillas are sooooo delicious, btw. Belong in the junk food thread.

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*now returning to regularly scheduled random broadcast*



Every day I pass by the Devil's Backbone and turn at the Jive Turkey.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

http://www.to.infn.it/~zaninett/javascript/distributions/gauds.gif

I suppose it kind of looks like a taco...

[zero]

.mexican dishes are all the same really. if you’re served one dish and complain that you ordered some other one, they just take it away and bring it back folded differently.

[T.I.P.]

Geelong vs Roos, qf team goal

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[brightpearl]

oolong vs. rooibos, for no apparent reason

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[Hyakujo's Fox]

this qualifies as random because I could have chosen any didak goal...

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[brightpearl]

http://141.214.84.74/~jeannie/archives/images/Meiji_Porte_Cutaway.jpg

[Tunesmith]

http://www.pixelmatic.com.au/2000/piles.gif

glad to see we're back to our usual level of random ness :D

[T.I.P.]

http://www.lefigaro.fr/basephoto/20060407.PHO6625.jpg

[Odbe]

http://www.k5kj.net/SKYFIRE/StormShots/Storm13.jpg
http://www.e-zcheese.com/images/home/cheese.gif
trap

[brightpearl]

http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect19/h_mer_gusev_02.jpg

[Odbe]

http://www.pjcj.net/yapc/yapc-eu-2005-dc-intro/slides/images/shell.jpg

[brightpearl]

Hey, the horse is here!
http://www.horse-directory.co.uk/horse01.jpg

I'm not sure if there's room for him yet, what with the donkey.
http://www.hedweb.com/animimag/donkey.jpg

[Odbe]

I just had a surprisingly strong urge to post a picture of a polar bear.
http://climateprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/polar-bear-tongue.jpeg

[Frieda]

bratwurst

[rapscalious rob]

http://www.its-lala.com/Excuse.jpg

[lapietra]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1081/1465262360_10f4b78acd.jpg

[Pixie Cherries]

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[lukkucairi]

LED museum (http://ledmuseum.org/)

[surflugen]

random post

[Odbe]

^ :mad: Variegation

[l'azizza]

http://www.its-lala.com/Excuse.jpg

Thanks for that! Someone needed a reminder.

[l'azizza]

I'm going to get out of this one- horse town. Can I borrow your horse?

[Stephi_B]

once i begin my life in corporate america

Means you do it? Great! :)

[T.I.P.]

^ yes, i signed two days ago :)

[brightpearl]

^TINY :D
http://inventorspot.com/files/images/dimsumset.jpg
http://www.life.uiuc.edu/whitfield/Jim_Website/images/Tiny%20Frog.jpg
http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/72/42/23034272.jpg

[T.I.P.]

^ maybe my tiny things (http://www.zefrank.org/project/64/) project on the org was a precognition !

those hamburgers look amazing btw !

[T.I.P.]

top o' the dictionary to you mister Aardvark !

http://www.junglewalk.com/APics/401/Aardvark.jpg

[T.I.P.]

http://www.ttgiang.com/l2k/previous/2005/danis%20susan/hairball.gif

[T.I.P.]

<img src="http://www.irational.org/heath/inversion/upside_down_sign.jpg" width="400">

[T.I.P.]

52 and a half

[T.I.P.]

http://www.partybox.co.uk/data/images/boink.jpg

[Tunesmith]

^ Now that's randomness...

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[Tunesmith]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/30/98688066_77354477ac.jpg

[Tunesmith]

I think this board hasn't filled its monthly quota of internet cat pictures:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/203/493155741_03bc45b545.jpg

[lukkucairi]

^^ I like the freckled belly on that one :)

[Odbe]

achIng branch%
..
~
http://www.3dvalley.com/tutorials/modeling_basketball_clip_image038.gif

[rapscalious rob]

http://www.its-lala.com/quantisusb.gif

[Odbe]

http://mediray.com/Images/Products/Syringe_2.jpg
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/news/releases/images/green_brown_mice_1.jpg

[T.I.P.]

using the "epsilon" HTML character can allow you to make more sense when you decide that you really "penis" something

for example:

"i <3 apple pie"

here the "penis"-ing is going from the apple pie towards you. The character "3" cannot convey the proper logical order in the sentence.

if you say:

"apple pie <3 I"

it makes more sense, but does not read linearly anymore

to reestablish some sense of direction, the epsilon character is your friend:

"i ε> apple pie"

here, it is obvious to the reader that you are the one who "penises" apple pie, and not the other way around. However, you may want to increase the font size on the epsilon, in order to maintain a greater sense of virility:


"i ε> apple pie"


There you go..have fun !

[Odbe]

^ should try that on the thread killers thread.

Hey, did anyone hear about that photographer? He died of exposure.

[Pixie Cherries]

<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u41/lollicherries/zefrank/random001e.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a>

[Pixie Cherries]

<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u41/lollicherries/zefrank/random002.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a>

[T.I.P.]

blatzfl .. .......

[Odbe]

Oster iveinges on when it gumbles. The trout farming torch formaldehyde, fig apple evening.

[Frieda]

^^ gezondheid

[Pixie Cherries]

I could not get the epsilon penis symbol or "glyph" to work using codes.

This is what I intended to say in episilon penisese:

Horses (penis) donkeys which = mules.
Mules (penis) nobody because they are sterile.

Any cute penising must be imagined. People probably do that from time to time anyhow.

[T.I.P.]

^ copy paste works





.....zucchini !

[brightpearl]

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[trisherina]

HFox and I have oddly similar schedules. :D

[craig johnston]

there are hundreds of ladybirds on my balcony.
some kinda global warming thing?

:confused:

[brightpearl]

^Some kinds of them migrate before winter. My house happens to be on a migration route, too, and some years a whole lot of them will gather in the corners of the front room, go into hibernation all winter (during which time I have to avoid them carefully whilst on cobweb patrol) and then in spring they all revive on the same day somehow, and my son and I spend a lot of time on catch and release.

[Stephi_B]

^^Does your balcony get the afternoon sun? Cos in my case it's bathroom and kitchen that get ladybird invasions since, er, two years I'd say, mostly in autumn like Perla says, but not exclusively.
Are there many albinos http://www.featurepics.com/FI/Thumb/20060823/AlbinoLadybird67944.jpg among them? Had like two dozen of them alone in my kitchen once. Strange thing.


To bring back randomness:
random number generator (http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/intech/randomnumbergenerator.htm)
;)

[Stephi_B]

Was just standing outside, smoking, watching the sun set, when a bunch of local youngsters (14, 15 or so) came strolling down the campus (yeah outta here in the nowhere there ain't much good places to hang out), playing with firecrackers. That reminded me that also in my neighbourhood firecracker-burning goes on all the time of the year, not just (Western or Chinese) New Year. The current trend is to stick them in the tram rails, to scare car drivers going by, I suppose.
Hey, when I was a kid, we did play around with firecrackers a lot too, BUT only around New Year's Day.
Do they sell them now non-stop? Am not consciously aware of that. Or do the kids hoard them?
:confused:

[Frieda]

we hoarded them.. from time to time someone would say "hey i've got this box of strijkers under my bed" and we would go out and blow things up.. we prefered to watch food explode. but there's no tram here.

[Stephi_B]

^Ah NL, always ahead of the times! :) (or at least ahead of K-land ;))
Exploding food - yeah! :D (sweet memories)

[T.I.P.]

blah

[dinzdale]

Bender is great.

:)

[Frieda]

dinz! good to see you :)

[brightpearl]

I'm having a craving for Doritos. :eek:

[madasacutsnake]

Diurnal.

[Stephi_B]

It's now @499 (internet time) no matter where you are.

[T.I.P.]

what if you are stuck in the past, and can't let go of what you like to call "the good old days" ??

[skip intro]

^^
you are an emotional luddite

;)

[brightpearl]

http://www.ccs.k12.in.us/chsBS/kons/kons/images/sugardiss.jpg

[Odbe]

Examiners might want to check the desks between exams to see if anyone's graffitied lists of formulae on them :rolleyes: Of course, with my luck I had to find formulae completely irrelevant to the exam I was sitting.

[T.I.P.]

* drops penny into well *
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[T.I.P.]

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[T.I.P.]

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* plink *

[brightpearl]

apparently i'm just not getting enough sugar
http://www.flamingbanjo.com/blog/archives/Sugar!BWwholepage.JPG
http://www.flamingbanjo.com/blog/archives/Sugar!Note%20To%20Mothers.JPG

[craig johnston]

lucky dube died today (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7052050.stm)


:(

[brightpearl]

"It's kinda hot in these rhinos."

[Tunesmith]

I was up early enough this morning to receive one of the 30 Starbucks/iTunes "song of the day" card-things.

I don't know what that says about me, but I'm not sure I like it. :rolleyes:

[brightpearl]

My son just asked me to open the file cabinet so he could get his Transformers file.

[T.I.P.]

^ future FBI agent :cool: :D

[brightpearl]

^oh god don't even joke about that!
:eek:

I'd prefer he be a toy designer...:p

[T.I.P.]

you'll know for certain when he starts calling his room the "theory room"

--> "i'd love to mom, but i have to go to the theory room to work on what I believe may be a new plot by the Deceptacons"

[Odbe]

I had a dream I was cleaning my computer screen :eek: is my subconscious trying to tell me something? *wipes away some fingerprints to look for the submit button*

[Hyakujo's Fox]

# ISO 3506 Mechanical properties of corrosion-resistant stainless steel fasteners.
# ISO 3602 Romanization of Japanese
# ISO 3632 Quality of Saffron
# ISO 3864 Safety labels
# ISO 3901 International Standard Recording Code (ISRC)
# ISO 3977 Design and procurement standards for gas turbine system applications
# ISO 4157 Subdivision of construction works
# ISO 4217 Currency codes
# ISO/IEC 4873:1991 8-bit code for information interchange
# ISO 5167 Measurement of fluid flow by means of pressure differential devices inserted in circular cross-section conduits running full
* ISO 5167-1 Part 1: General principles and requirements
* ISO 5167-2 Part 2: Orifice plates
* ISO 5167-3 Part 3: Nozzles and Venturi nozzles
* ISO 5167-4 Part 4: Venturi tubes
# ISO 5218 Representation of human sexes
# ISO 5775 Bicycle tyres and rims
# ISO 5800 Photographic Film speed
# ISO 5964 Guidelines for the Establishment and Development of Multilingual Thesauri

[brightpearl]

Ah, deep autumn in Texas, when the air is a crisp 72 degrees and the leaves turn...erm..faintly...brownish...

:(

[Brynn]

Perfectly timed photos (http://beachestatelagunareal.com/Perfectly_Timed_Photos.html)

[Odbe]

Everyone thinks I'm doing chemistry because I'm a nerd. But I could be doing it to make drugs and explosives.
No way, I'm a good girl ;) just like everyone thinks.

[T.I.P.]

Chelsea was so smart that she could break a walnut between her cerebral hemispheres.

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

My mom says I'm handsome.

[T.I.P.]

^ the upgrade to "beautiful" is only a haircut away:

my son was finally convinced to get his hair cut. he looks beautiful!! :)

[brightpearl]

^at least according to one's mother. :)

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

But for the scissors...

[Jack Flanders]

and the cute girlie doing the cut. helps ya know. ;)

[brightpearl]

Awright, who drank all the creative juice and put the empty carton back in the fridge?
http://files.turbosquid.com/Preview/Content_on_8_3_2006_14_04_55/thumb01.jpg4c19bda9-8dc4-44e1-9608-c9cfa18b49aeLarge.jpg

:mad:

[Odbe]

^ Not me, that's for sure!


When I was a kid I always imagined entrails as being more gristly and less sloppy than they actually are.

[brightpearl]

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[Tunesmith]

I don't know what I would do without the "messages for people not on this board" thread...

...probably just tell people the messages. :rolleyes:

[Pixie Cherries]

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[Anna]

man chasing his soul.
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[Stephi_B]

http://cnx.org/content/m12574/latest/patterns.jpg
http://cnx.org/content/m12574/latest/properties.jpg

[T.I.P.]

^ hard to tell the difference between a pore and a core, innit ? :confused:

[Stephi_B]

^Aye, I figured core is the innermost (--> core) point formed by the inner line of a whorl or loop.
Am quite disappointed that I don't have a whorl or a double loop, just single loops and arches... Gotta check my toepatterns latter on.

;)

[Odbe]

I've got seven whorls and three loops, and my computer has a fingerprint scanner :cool:

[Frieda]

ack, no! :eek: fwking fingerprints bring up recent traumas-- and no, i was not arrested :eek:

:eek: :eek: :eek:

i think i might actually be suffering from burnout syndrome

[brightpearl]

no problem
I've ordered you a hot stone masseur to come over and..er..light some candles. :D
http://www.dentalhotel.hu/pictures/Programs/95_Stone_175.jpg

[T.I.P.]

ack, no! :eek: fwking fingerprints bring up recent traumas-- and no, i was not arrested

i think i might actually be suffering from burnout syndrome

you're right, i much prefer retinal scans...

Ah, to have that laser playing ever so gently over your eyeballs. Ecstasy ! :p

[brightpearl]

^Frieda, don't let TIP get away with playing on your phobias like that.

You should punch him...
...right in the eye.

:p

[lukkucairi]

erm...

I'm having kimchi for breakfast.

is that random enough?

http://www.menumagazine.co.uk/archive/feb06/images/kimchi.jpg

(no fingers or eyes though)

[Tunesmith]

I spent two hours today hunched over agar plates, trying not to gag at how bad E. coli smell.

I think it's safe to say I won't end up as a geneticist. :rolleyes:

[Brynn]

.

[Jack Flanders]

So why didn't you? Hi back to you! Random - Shandom. :)

[Stephi_B]

lights buzzing by
red blue green
it's night
thoughts and feelings
people
connecting-disconnectig on a wheel
is that it?
wet streets and laughter
you me all
whirls in a dizzying void
red blue green
yes
that's it!

[brightpearl]

http://media.hamptonroads.com/media/content/pilotonline/2006/11/doritospill2.jpg

[Odbe]

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present the new internet phenomenon:

Huffing bonsai lolkittens.

Thankyou.

[trisherina]

make them lolkitlers and I'm there

[Brynn]

http://mrsd.djkl.com/news/uploads/kitler.jpg

[Frieda]

holy fvck sonic boom :eek:

i wonder if gaining 4 seconds by reaching mach 1 to intercept something on the other side of the country is really worth it..

[brightpearl]

http://www.naipublishers.nl/publipix/parasite_e.jpg

[brightpearl]

it's a taco morning fer sure


ahhhh

[Odbe]

^ I had a burrito for breakfast the other morning. It made me think of you guys :)

[brightpearl]

I was just thinking about the expression, "shoes on the wrong feet." How can your feet be wrong? Each is always on the end of the same leg. It should be "feet in the wrong shoes."

But then people would think you were wearing someone else's shoes.

Alas. A catch-22.

[Frieda]

i'm on a how-to-boost-your-metabolism-with-8-meals-a-day diet

holy crap :eek:

[brightpearl]

I've just realized it's going to get worse before it gets better.

[Odbe]

Currently Active Users: 43 (1 members and 42 guests)

Alone in a room with 42 strangers?

[xfox]

http://www.t-tutorials.com/data/Image/tutorials/autumn_leaves/leaves01.jpg

[lukkucairi]

lauren b. first made a clay penguin in alice's studio.

[Tunesmith]

oh how indescribably delicious

[Stephi_B]

Mila kura si planina

Hah, Craigo Johnstovic, CJic, I knew you're a Croat in truth! Hailing from the wonderful country where mountains are like penisses (or so, my Serbocroatian is a bit rusted in). That fake Britishness is smashing though... ;)

Ah, Croatian men... like poetry... aah, Boris M.ic: We met in the ides of the summer holidays, I was hanging headfirst on this framework for beating carpets (an art I had perfected earlier in my holidays), he stopped, smiled and said 'Hi.' I saw his cornflower-blue eyes and the scar on his brow... He was 17, had hair on his breast (lotsa hair!) and taught me how to kiss 'real', I was 12, and that was the problem as soon he believed it - 6 1/2 days laters... but, ah, that been such wonderful 6 1/2 days, how he kissed, aah, he was so sweet! :)

[Frieda]

here's a llama
there's a llama
and another little llama

fuzzy llama
funny llama
llama llama duck

llama llama cheesecake llama
tablet brick potato llama

llama llama mushroom llama
llama llama duck

i was once a treehouse
i lived in a cake
but i never saw the way
the orange slayed the rake

i was only three years dead
but it told a tale
and now listen, little child
to the safety rail

did you ever see a llama
kiss a llama
on the llama
llama's llama
tastes of llama's

llama llama duck

half a llama twice the llama
not a llama
farmer llama

llama in a car
alarm a llama

llama llama duck

is it how it's told now
is it all so old?
is it made of lemon juice
doorknob ankle cold

now my song is getting thin
i've ran out of luck
time for me to retire now
and become a duck

[Odbe]

^ You typed that all out from memory, didn't you? I made the mistake of showing it to two children once - before I had to sit in the same car as them on a long road trip. I pretty much learned it off by heart from that.



I've got a very important hypothetical question for you all.
You have two dogs, both Siberian huskies with white masks, legs and bellies but otherwise coloured. One is black and grey, the other is golden-brown. You know their names are Shadow and Holly, but which name goes with which dog?

Later you find out that the black one is female and the brown one is male. Do you switch the names around, or keep them as they are?

[brightpearl]

^the most important factor is whether the dogs already know their names...

[brightpearl]

http://knitnut.net/wp-content/mannequin2_1.jpg

[Tunesmith]

I really wanna comment on zero's post in the "this is" thread, but I just can't bring myself to. :(

[trisherina]

If anyone wanted to sign up christmas-trading@hotmail.com for all of the most noxious spam offers they get, you know, I would not object.

[brightpearl]

<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rqbcV39Sq1o&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rqbcV39Sq1o&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>
this makes me sad

[Odbe]

^thanks for sharing that.

[Frieda]

i saw my old strawberry and it had a huge dent in the left door :eek:

poor strawberry :( but quite a surprise she's still driving around :)

[priceyfatprude]

Richard Roeper, I hate you. You are no Gene Siskel.

[Jaime]

That article was right. All actors should carry cell phones.

It looks much less crazy to walk down the street practicing my monologue with the phone's to my ear so it looks like I'm talking to someone and not just myself.

[T.I.P.]

i have strong impulses to say the word "douchebag" on a daily basis, for no particular reason

[lukkucairi]

http://www.filemagazine.com/thecollection/archives/images/uncertainty.jpg

[Frieda]

i'm almost out of toilet paper :eek:

[brightpearl]

^If your title means what I think it means, get some more asap!

[brightpearl]

In case of alien abduction (http://www.earthbounddog.com/).
http://www.earthbounddog.com/dogtagimage.jpg

[Frieda]

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/9296/iceicesz8.gif

[Stephi_B]

google.com crashed? :confused:

[Stephi_B]

Scott Pakin's automatic complaint-letter generator (http://www.pakin.org/complaint/)

[T.I.P.]

http://incentraleurope.radio.cz/pictures/osobnosti/beethoven.jpg