The One Ring: Aunties' IV Reckless in Rio!!! Come join the fun!
Post 1
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 9:28 am
It's that time again. The floating party has to move on....
We're moving West to RIO for CARNIVAL!!!!
Pick out a costume and a colorful drink and come party with the aunties and uncles!!!
Welcome all to our new digs!
Saro
Post 2
cemthinae
Micah Six:Eight
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 9:43 am
Wow!! A shiny new thread!! Nothing like tromping around in muddy boots to look for those scones!
Welcome to everyone, old & new! Aunties & Uncles!! Help yourself to a fresh cuppa tea!
Though it seems odd to be having tea in Rio... perhaps something stronger will do! 
Looks like I'm going to be the official keeper of the birthday list for this round of Auntie's... with the help of the gorgeous Agent 99, of course!
Birthday List:
Ethel.............................Jan 9
Eruname127..................Jan 27
Mummpizz................….Feb 26
InnocentEvil........…........Mar 3
Lembas_Junkie....…....…Mar 5
TheLidlessEyes........…..Mar 20
Alcanielle..................….Mar 24
Rebecca.....................…Apr 4
Tookish_Traveler.....…….Apr 16
Ornendil.................…....Apr 20
Cemthinae...............……Apr 20
Saroneuroe............…..…Apr 22 (Same as hubby)
The Duffster.............…...Apr 30
FairGoldberry.............….May 27
Belladonna_Took.....…….June 12
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*….....June 26
Arvendui_the_Last....……June 30
Mighty_Squid..............….July 6
Narsil..........................….July 15
Anneri............................Aug 3
notlistening...................Aug 6
GandalfStormcrow.......Aug 6
GoodSam......................Aug 6
Myst_28.........................Aug 18
Varda2779....................Aug 20
Prmiller..........................Aug 25
Farawen............................Aug 31
Darin_Bloodaxe...........Sept 6
Bessthebard.................Sept 30
Sylthian..........................Oct 4
Northerner.....................Oct 6
Piccoleia........................Nov 8
Satch..............................Dec 12
Post 3
Mighty_Squid
Diving Deep
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 9:44 am
*looks around nodding*
Nice new digs.
Post 4
Lembas_Junkie
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 9:47 am
Reckless in Rio! Sounds good to me! 
*runs off to find a skimpy shiny costume*
...and study!
Post 5
cemthinae
Micah Six:Eight
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 9:51 am
Study what?!!! 
Edited to add: Must find similar costume as LJ... something very shiny!
Post 6
Myst_28
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 9:55 am
Myst saunters into the new locale dressed in a sarong and sporting a hat fashioned out of a dozen oranges on her head. It’s Carnival time! wO0t!!!111
Ethel, I’m so sorry about the bad news. Your friend’s family will need all the support they can get and they already have a blessing at their side. You. They’ll be in my prayers. 
Saro, I’m finally going to the see the movie tomorrow. Oh, I know it’s worth the wait, don’t have to convince me about that, which is more than I can say for my other half when I used that very line on him some ten years ago… 
Eru, nice to post with you again! I see you’ve been um… rather busy lately. I delayed my viewing of ROTK so I could watch it with my other half. He hates crowds and I only managed to get Gold Class tickets a few days ago. I have no problem jostling for elbow space and tolerating people who talk, eat, drink, laugh, analyze, make out… you get the picture! But not him, oh no.
LJ, great to see ya back!
Lidless, taht wuz a wndezfull thngz u diz 4 IE. U r0X0rs!
I’ve got to get to bed. Big hugs for everyone! (Glad to see a certain traumatizing siggie has been changed…)
Post 7
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 10:01 am
w00t wOot!!!1
Where's Boromir?
Tooks picks up a nice smooth stone and wings it at the top orange on Myst's hat. It SPLATS to the ground...
Lidless, I am hurt beyond measure that you would provide all those autographs to an all-powerful Mod instead of one of the lowly people like me. So much for sending you any nekkid pictures.
Post 8
GoodSam
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 10:04 am
Reckless in Rio!
I have only one word to say about that:
BEADS!! 
Post 9
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 10:28 am
which is more than I can say for my other half when I used that very line on him some ten years ago…
ROTLLMAO!!!!!
Myst-Bring tissues!!!
Yes!Yes! We need beads and more oranges!!!!
Saro (sporting a barely there tiger-striped bikini, shiny purple beads, and an orange hat a la Myst)
Post 10
bessthebard
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 10:32 am
Reckless in Rio!! Wait, you aren't going to fingerprint us are you?
*dashes off to find Carmen Miranda costume in attic*
Post 11
InnocentEvil
RingMariner
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 10:53 am
Oh darn it~ I was thinking Carmen Miranda myself! Shucks~
Instead. I'll wear something w/ a HUGE feather headdress, lots of cleavage but no tummy showing and form fitting for an ample beyond ample behind
RIIIIIIIIO!!!!
Post 12
GandalfStormcrow
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 10:58 am
Stormy runs into the thread, pulling behind him a carnie booth filled to the gills with strings of beads. There are four seats inside, labelled "Stormy, GoodSam, Lidless, and Arve."
Hey Sam, I got ya covered.
Nice new digs, thanks Saro! Now what to do for that costume...
Post 13
InnocentEvil
RingMariner
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:11 am
Tooks, it's whatcha get when you've got the rep of moi
NO really, it's totally very cool. I'm planning on matting and framing it. Trying to find some other peice of LOTR stuff that would look cool w/ it.
Post 14
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004
Before I jump into the party mood, I just wanted to say to Ethel that were here for you if and when you need us. I’d say more but, well, what use are words?
Just know I’ll say a pray to whoever's listening for you, your friend and their family.
Post 15
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 12:18 pm
What the hell is an Autie? Is that like a Naughty?
Post 16
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 12:32 pm
I always manage to catch the very first page of these threads and then disappear for the rest of the shenanigans.
Why not ruin a good thing. (lol)
*E*
Post 17
narsil
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 12:41 pm
All together now!!!
"Her name is Rio and she dances on the saaaaand...!"
Or does Narsil have the completely wrong Rio?
No wonder it took so long to get over here! The travel arrangements from Aunties Island said nothing about floating here on the back of Cems Llama, but Narsil has finally arrived- somewhat flustered, but..... home.
Firstly the most important thing- Ethel, hopes prayers and best wishes to you, your family and friends at this trying time. Narsil only wishes that he had arrived sooner to offer this. But, as you know you are in great company who all care for you.
Lidless- there's nothing worse than hanging your smalls out on the line. Especially in Rio- someone might think they are part of a costume and put them on.... especially since I have heard that your smalls are somewhat...erm, "carnivally"
Arv- If you are sharing a room with Darin, and Louise is staying the night then it looks like I will not be the only one in for a erm, strange time. I will ask the hotel for a soundproof room so when Darin is doing his thing (that sounded worse than I actually wanted it to sound..)I will not hear the noise.
Darin- if you are sharing a room with Arv (my condolencies) may I suggest a raincoat, a dead sheep, twelve cloves of garlic, a copy of the racing times, Eastenders revealed on video and a pair of pink earmuffs.
Just give Arv all of those things and it SHOULD keep him happy for a few hours.
And you HAVE to come up with something "savage" to do to him- really live up to the name "bloodaxe". How about selotaping his toes to the toliet, bunging it up and flushing the chain...?
FGB- and what is wrong with giving Narsil a vir... oh, I SEE!!! I wont finish that sentence then.
Cem- sig pic, the emperors new groove springs to mind. LLLLLAMA FAAACE!!! At least your Llama floats...
'99- hello.......?
To all others-
ONE!
MORE!
TIME!
"Juuust like that riiiiver flowing through a duuusty laaand..."
Sing with me!! (Narsil pulls partsof a neon green leotard from parts unknown)
After all, this IS Rio, Isn't it?
Narsil "really scared of T.L.E and his psychopathic underwear.."
Post 18
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 12:47 pm
Yea, Saro. You spelled Auntie wrong. We don't want Lidless thinking we are 'naughty'. Do we?
Post 19
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 12:52 pm
narsil,
Lidless- there's nothing worse than hanging your smalls out on the line.
Why I'll have you know...
Post 20
Rebecca
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 1:15 pm
My deepest sympathies Ethel. 
Post 21
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 1:15 pm
I guess I was in too big of a rush to get us moved. Good to know you've got my back, Lidless.
Although perhaps I SHOULD change it to Naughty in Rio...then the thread would be even MORE popular, especially, with Lidless doing his laundry here.
Saro
Post 22
GandalfStormcrow
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 1:18 pm
Real quick, just wanted to say "thank you" to narsil, I will now have that song stuck in my head for the rest of the afternoon.
Post 23
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14,
Arve saunters over, looking debonair in an expensive suit with matching waistcoat. After all, theirs no way he’s gonna be showing bare flesh amongst all those tanned, toned Brazilian’s. A women slinks past “wearing” glittery day-glo paint and little else.
“Hi Cem, enjoying yourself?”
Painted Cem waves, but she’s to busy talking to L_J who’s drinking a bacardi with one hand and has a text book in the other.
Brad Pitt runs past, chassed by a horde of emaciated models wearing bits of string. *E* trips up one of the anorexic horde, screaming “HE’S MINE”. Arve doesn’t wait to see what happens when *E* catches him.
IE is surrounded by an admiring crowd dominated by Myst’s hat, topped as it is by a 20ft tall tower of oranges. IE’s displaying some kind of card like object with a great deal of animation, whilst occasionally pointing to Lidless. He’s in the middle of trying to sell off a pile of dirty, well worn y-fronts to a group of sceptical looking locals, whilst trying to explain the punch line to a complicated joke and drinking lots of vodka.
Bess is entertaining the crowd with a full scale Carmen Miranda style musical number about “laundry“, accompanied by Good Sam shaking his maracas. Narsil’s dancing in the background in a skin tight leotard whilst blowing a whistle. He’s having an acid flashback to an old style rave he once went to back in `91.
Stormy’s sat behind some kind of stall, handing out beads to tanned beauties. He seems rather excited; he’s charging a kiss a bead, so considering how many beads are on one neaklace…..
Arve just settles down to watch the fun with a glass of southern comfort . He’s noticed Tooks is hiding behind a float brandishing a sling in one hand and a stone in the other
Suddenly Myst’s hat is struck by a something and the whole towering edifice explodes in a shower of orange juice. Saro and her family, out for a midnight stroll, are drenched along with most of the crowd.
The orange juice washes the paint off N_L and Cem, who flee screaming into the night.
Bess slips on orange peel and falls on her butt, whilst Good Sam skids into Stormy’s kissing booth, sending beads and beauties flying in every direction. Guess that’s one kiss Stormy wasn’t expecting.
Narsil also slips over, ripping his leotard in the process. The same thing happened to him back in `91 as well.
*E*’s to busy to notice.
IE manages to save her precious and leaves it on a dry table top while she rushes to Myst’s aid. Lidless puts his drink down and also rushes off to fondle, erm, help up his admirers. Unfortunately IE soon discovers he’s put his glass down on her precious and the inks run. She proceeds to hit him over the head with the remnants of Myst’s hat.
“Guess it’s just another night at Aunties” says Arve.
Post 24
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 1:47 pm
Hey Narsil, I don't watch Eastenders, what kind of guy do you think I am?
When I tell Louise you had a sharing a room with me and Darin, she's so going to track you down and kick your butt.
Edit: Naughty in Rio sure sounds good to me.
Post 25
GandalfStormcrow
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 2:01 pm
LOL, entertaining synopsis, Arve.
Post 26
Mighty_Squid
Diving Deep
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 2:05 pm
Squiddy pouts in the kiddie pool because no one is noticing her despite her large ego.
Post 27
narsil
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 2:32 pm
Arv,
I am going to disguise myself as Tookish Traveller so you will never recognise me!!
MMWWWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!
Wait a minute- now you will recognise me because I have told you who I will be coming as...
or have you never met Tookish Traveller before?
In that case....
MMWWWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
But wait!! What happens when we are introduced in Liverpool and I say that I am Tookish Traveller? You will know!! My plot will be foiled!! But no! I could look like Tookish Traveller but actauly say my name is SATCH and double foil you- which in that case....
MMWWWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Oh to hell with it all!! I'm going to scrape my leotard out of my butt!!
Lidless- erm, you'll tell me what? That you don't wear normal underwear, but some elaborate apparrel made from egg cartons and vulcanised rubber? Now THAT would be interesting to see hanging on a line!
Hello Squiddy!!! *EGO PANDERED TO*
Stormy- "ooh Rio Rio, you don't neeeeed to understaaaaand!!" I think I bundle the words up earlier on.
Narsil- STILL AT THE SAME RAVE THAT BEGAN IN '91. WHAT MUST HIS LEOTARD BE LIKE AFTER ALL THIS TIME????
Post 28
narsil
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 2:37 pm
Oh, and anyone thinking of seeing SWAT the movie...
Don't.
nite nite all!!
Post 29
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 3:31 pm
Arve looks up and notices Stormy seems to have survived recent events, although he does look a bit worse for wear.
“HELLO, I’M OVER HERE. WILL ONE OF YOU CRUSTATIONS FETCH ME A DRINK AND SOME GUMBO, STAT”. Arve glances over to a kiddies swimming pool currently occupied by a rather oversized Giant Squid in a snitty mood.
Someone tugs on Arve’s arm. “Nice to see the ego’s landed, isn’t it? Hi, my names Tooks, thanks for keeping quite earlier about that whole stone thing. Maybe I should include it in theduffsters, I could always say duffy was there”.
“Hi Narsil, glad to see you’ve changed out of the crusty leotard.”
“Erm, I’m really Satch!1!3 SWATch suxsr!2”
“Hmmm, you look like the complete opposite of Orlando Bloom in a fright wig and to much make-up, so it’s got to be Narsil, right? I’ve got to discuss this thing you have for dressing up as women, I mean you arrived at Aunties Island in a bikni and now this.
Narsil looks sheepish. “Sorry Arv, it’s just I like the feel of silky knickers. What can I say, I’m from Newcastle.”
Arve nods in sympathy. “I hope your not wearing those pants Lidless brought…”
“No, there a bit to small at the front.”
Arve grins. “Well that’s what I heard but I don’t like to spread gossip”.
If only I was reliable enough to RP [sigh]
Arve - (Fgb’s apprentice)
Post 30
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 4:22 pm
As fyi...
Anybody who wants to use my name, it will cost you (I'm looking at YOU, narsil).
$50 (US) a day.
But yes, you could say you're theduffster instead......
So what's this.....do I finally get to meet theduffster in March???
Stay tuned....
Post 31
Rebecca
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 4:24 pm
Let's just say if I ever had a mighty squid in my kiddie pool I would have noticed.
Post 32
Rebecca
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 4:25 pm
Tooks, I advised against it, as soon as she told me we would be meeting you. Otherwise.....
Post 33
GoodSam
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 4:51 pm
“HELLO, I’M OVER HERE. WILL ONE OF YOU CRUSTATIONS FETCH ME A DRINK AND SOME GUMBO, STAT”.
Good Lord! Am I to understand that a cephalopod wants crustaceans to bring her gumbo! That's pretty cruel, don't you think? I mean asking crustaceans to bring gumbo which is made out of *GULP!* crustaceans?!
Post 34
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 4:57 pm
Tooks, I advised against it, as soon as she told me we would be meeting you. Otherwise...
Now why would you do that, Rebecca? You all will be safe...a Mod will be there too.
Guess I'll have to find a leopard print outfit to wear. Wouldn't want to ruin anybody's expectations.....
Post 35
TheStonedTroll
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 5:03 pm
Are Trolls welcome in Rio?
Post 36
GandalfStormcrow
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 5:15 pm
Hootchie Kootchie Tooks, I'm laying tentative plans down to be there in March as well, since I'm highly jealous they had such a good time in NYC and I missed it. I'm from NE Ohio, so it's not too awful far.
Post 37
Rebecca
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 6:08 pm
I don't know Tooks, there's just something about you...
But it's ok, we love you anyway. I'd actually love to meet you! It's theduffster that I fear for.
Post 38
cemthinae
Micah Six:Eight
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 6:38 pm
Stoned Trolls are always welcomed... but you must bring party "supplies"!!!
Nice to see Rebecca here!! And the Squidster! No splashing you two!!
Arve~ ... I was hoping you wouldn't notice my lack of substancial clothing...
Narsil~ One of my all time favorite movies! When I still was showing Casey in 4-H to entertain the 4-Hers I'd pull his lower lip down to make him talk & he'd say "Ah Huh! ah-huh ah-huh ah-huh!" Gee I miss him! I'm sorry about that spit on the way over... he kinda likes Kiera too. Guess he didn't like how you were touching her!
Hi to everyone else... I need to get some beads!
Post 39
InnocentEvil
RingMariner
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 7:22 pm
Of COURSE Trolls are welcome. How do you look in feathers? Oh wait, there's a birds' nest behind your ear. Very fetching
Post 40
sylthian
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 8:20 pm
Ethel - you know we all love you and want to be here for you.
Well, well, well - would you look at this place!! I heard there would be a party so I brought my own cabana boys - you like??
And I really don't think laundry is such a spanky idea do you?
myst - seen it yet???
Hi all - and trolls
Post 41
Ethel
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 8:49 pm
Well, this is certainly a different flavor of Auntie's!
*dances in clad in strategically wrapped feather boa, blowing a kazoo*
Thanks to everyone for your words of support. It helps more than you know. Love you guys. And gals.
Post 42
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:56 pm
narsil,
"smalls" is definitely not how I want my underwear to be referred to. Call them "averages".
Post 43
narsil
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 1:00 am
Lidless,
Give me LOTS of money and I will call them "larges.."
Or is that sounding unflattering now as well???
Narsil- still dazed and confused...
Post 44
Mummpizz
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 1:06 am
Not again, Syl!!!
I'm so glad I'm offline for the next 24 hrs. Please do change your sig for the love of Gord.
(honestly When do nominations for "best sig" start?)
Post 45
Anneri
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 1:42 am
I second that, Mummpizz!
I seem to develop a strange thing, called real life - that's the reason I couldn't get back on msn yesterday, Satch, I'm sorry!
Then I've found out that ryanair doesn't fly from Brussels to Liverpool anymore, destroying my plans nicely. Well, nothing could be too easy, could it? So it's going to be the complicated way - flying to London Stanstead, going to Victoria by bus, and then with National Express or whatever to Liverpool, which will take the better part of the day. bundle.
*leaves thread to look for an appropriate costume*
Post 46
Rebecca
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 5:54 am
Syl, I think it's a perfectly lovely sig and you should show it off more often.
Post 47
cemthinae
Micah Six:Eight
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:06 am
I second that...
Well, at least its better than the Arwen deterioration piccie!!!
Good morning to all!
Post 48
InnocentEvil
RingMariner
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:21 am
Anneri, here's hoping you find a flight!
Well everyone, we're a little bit more than a week out from the first ever Ethel/Evil MiniMoot (not to mini. I think all five kids are going)! We have more plans than time and I'm SO excited!
Lidless, I need to go wash out my brain now. I've spent waaay too much time thinking about your pan'ies in the last twenty-four hours.. and not in that way
Post 49
narsil
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:30 am
Anneri- just think- the trip will make it all the more worthwhile IF you can stay awake long enough to enjoy it!! Looking forward to meeting you!
Tooks- $50? Is that all???? The cheque is in the mail (one of the three greatest lies ever!!) dearheart!!
Cem- it is a quality movie! I bust a gut laughing everytime I see it! It didn't get the kudos it deserved. Your Llama was much more subdued- that may have had something to do with the fact its head was under water for most of the trip!!
Narsil has just been out and bought "Rush in Rio" on DVD (rush are a canadian rock band, and in my humble opinion, the greatest band in the universe!). You SEE the effect Aunties has on me???
And what is wrong with Syls sig pic? I can see nothing inappropriate at all!!!
Love to all!
Narsil-"belladona tooks left big toe.."
Post 50
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:41 am
Rebecca, show it off? Oh trust me, they're already doing that. "Don't encourage it!"
Squiddy-eating your own kind now are we? The ego is not forgotten, do not fear. We will come and fetch you from the ego/kiddy pool once the shirtless wonders arrive. Oh, and I ordered a particular, new shirtless wonder for you. That's right, someone special's here for you, just for you.
LJ-yes, enjoying that bacardi, er, textbook? Enjoy RrrrrrrIO!
Big Sis-I thought you would have more taste than that! Hmph, wearing clothing? But why? What's the pint? I mean, point?
GoodSam-I mean asking crustaceans to bring gumbo which is made out of *GULP!* crustaceans?! Well actually, it would be making "Crustations" bring crustaceans. It's all in the shpeeeling.
Saro-I love Rio! Love what you've done with the place, smells rather citrucy, no? And Cooper and Griffin are enjoying themselves in the massive pile of beads. There's a candy booth over there. Hey wait a sec...how'd they get the beads? Stormy,
Speaking of Stormy, why, we might be having a CT moot, with Elwen, Mammo, and I. If you'd like to come play LOTR RISK, or Trivial Pursuit, I'm sure we would be privelaged. But if you can't come to that, the Chicago moot sounds like a nice, er, substitute? The Chicago moot will have, probably, ten times the amount of people, but every moot seems to be a blast.
Syl-I promise darling, I will vote you for best sig if you would just TAKE IT DOWN! How do you come up with such revolting pictures? Such genius, sigh, you really must tell me your secrets!
TLE-Averages? Well, there's a (dis)honest man for ya. And when will you know if you're being relocated to Florida? Warm weather people, bah.
Where's Duffy? She's not included yet? DUffy, here duffy duffy duffy! We have a Boromir! Tooks will write about/manipulate your absence/presence no doubt. We pay her in lack of shirts on certain men.
*E*-don't go too harsh on poor Brad, you must savor him. Disregard any inuendo in that statement.
StoneTroll-All trolls are welcome. So are llamas, and any kind of creature imaginable. Hey look, we even brought our very own egotistical mighty Squid! Make yourself at home!
Myst-I love that hat, it's just delightful! Now we can all have orange juice for eternity! It will ease the transition from the tropical beach to the hot party in Rio, which is not a bad change at all. Or maybe the alcohol will ease the transition. Speaking of which, are there going to be wargaritas? If there are, I'll set one up for you. We can bring the shirtless wonders, too. Wonderful bartenders and masseuses. But only on one condition: They remain shirtless and can feel free to remove any superfluous clothing. Naughty indeed, Lidless.
Ethel-my condolences, you know we're here for you. And we will never, ever, ever forget who is the Aunties founder. My best wishes, we're all thinking of you.
Inny-no modding alcohol, right? And it's still being funded by the mods in that little loophole that you found? Miscellaneous mod expenses indeed. And your costume if beautiful!
Arve-you're my apprentice? What's that supposed to mean? Are you implying something? That I SPAM? *gasp* NO! well, yes, but that's not the point. Actually, you ain't seen nothing yet, because today I have a day off of school... I love snow. So that means you get to put up with my smiling face/lack of face/ for the next 24 hours, or more. To quote our darling Narsil, "MWAHAHAHAHAhAHAHAHAHAHA" in which case, would I have to dress up as Narsil?
[Arve, Tooks, don't read the following paragraph.]
Narsil, okay, here's the plan. You dress up as Tooks, use her name, we embezzle the alcohol funds to pay the $50 US/day. Then, you convince Arve that you are in fact tooks, and he being gullible will believe you. Or if he doesn't buy it, we'll bribe him. Seems to work around here, eh TLE? Anywho, I will proceed to use your name, so FGb will be Narsil. Oh yes precioussss, we are a trixsy one. And then you can do anything you'd like to Arve, well, except give him a VIR...us. And all the while, we can blame it on Tookish. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
[/Arve, Tooks, don't read the following paragraph.]
Now how much do any of the Aunties want to bet that they read that? Oh yes, Rio needs a casino, doesn't it?! Well why are we waiting?
*FGb gathers the funds from the orange juice stand previously set up by her. There have been large profits made from the Orange Juice purchases. After all, need something to put in that Screwdriver. She goes to a somewhat illicit bank in a dark alley and meets a top class spy official. The spy snaps her fingers, and voila, the deal is closed. The orange juice proceeds are exchanged for a magically and instantaneosly appearing casino in the perfect spot. Just far enough from the main drag that it's quiet, yet only a hop skip and a jump away from the alcohol. What? FGb's a savvy businesswoman, she knows that nobody will gamble without alcohol. There are all sorts of games, and Aunties members come free. Oh and one more rule, Aunties members win more often than other Rio Goers. Oh yes, and their significant others win rather frequently.
Brad Pitt and *E* are the first to enter, and they head to the Black Jack table. Of course they win every hand, and when they're finished with the gambling they head to the lounge downstairs. To accomidate all our vegetarian Aunties and Friends, we have made it non-leather. FGb is seen putting up a sign on the door, "All Welcome. Grand Opening of Aunties Rio Casino". FGb then meets with TLE who is already drinking another vodka in the VIP Lounge.
"Excellent investment" says TLE.
"Why thank you oh great eye who wears Averages" replies FGb.
"Partners in Crime?" says TLE?
"If you give me an autographed card" says FGb facetiously.
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
And that, my friends, was Goldy's first post in Rio. Quite the monster post if I do say so myself. Glad to be here.
FairGoldberry (If Arve's my apprentice in spamming, I'm his apprentice for MegaPosting.)
Post 51
cemthinae
Micah Six:Eight
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:53 am
Wow! Lil sis you weren't kidding about that mega-post!! Hope you enjoy your day off from school! Why did you get the day off? Too much snow?
Sigh! I really should go to work... but the casino sure looks inviting...
Torn between 2 pleasures... I think not!
Narsil~ I'd agree... its one of my top 2 Disney movies ever! And surprisingly the llamas look quite like llamas... even though they don't sound like them! When that one gets surprised it sounds like a scared sheep... not a llama! Llamas scream when they're frightened... trust me it'll scare the shakaka out of you!
Post 52
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 7:33 am
LOL, FGB!!!
Am I invited to the CT moot? I'm just one state over...
Saro
Post 53
Mighty_Squid
Diving Deep
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 7:42 am
Ahhhh.
Thanks for the Ego pandering. I feel better now.
FGB,
Who do you have for me. Is it...Gimli....SHIRTLESS????
*crosses fingers and toes and tenticles*
Post 54
TheStonedTroll
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 7:43 am
Stoned Trolls are always welcomed... but you must bring party "supplies"!!!
I brough' abou' three dozen squirrel-kabobs, giant pitas, and cucumber-yogurt sauce. Enjoy!
It looks like someone was kind enou' ta bring some long-necked mutton, and calimari, but how are we gonna get 'em cooked up?
How do you look in feathers? Oh wait, there's a birds' nest behind your ear. Very fetching
Oh! Is that wha' it is? I thought I was seffering from tinnitus. It musta' been birdies chirpin'!
StoneTroll-All trolls are welcome. So are llamas, and any kind of creature imaginable. Hey look, we even brought our very own egotistical mighty Squid! Make yourself at home!
I saw the big squid. That's enough calimari to satisfy even my appetite.
Post 55
Lembas_Junkie
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 8:29 am
L_J who’s drinking a bacardi with one hand and has a text book in the other.
That about covers it! Only replace the rum with Kilkenny, my favorite! I *love* this new place of ours!
Post 56
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 9:18 am
Whoa there, now hang on just one second there troll. You didn't Kill Squiddy to get the raw calimari did you? Because if you did...just like there's more than one way to cook a calimari and skin a cat, there are many ways of skinning a Squid Murderer!! It's just that in Aunties' version of rock, paper, scissor, Squid in a pee pool beats rock.
Squiddy-well, you'll just have to wait and see. Possibly. Maybe. Probably. Okay okay fine, you WIN! But it's a two day air delivery and it's being delayed due to some guy named TLE taking all the seats on the planes because he flies too much. So the package will be here on Monday. There's another reason for the delay though. The UPS guys said Gimly tried to cut the box that they put him in with his ax. You see, the story is, his good friend Legolas asked him if he would want a box. And little ol' Gimli thought he was kidding. So he said, "Of course I want a box, I won't be gettin details from a pointy eared elf!" and Legolas got him a box. What Gimli didn't know is that he'd be transported in this cardboard box out of Middle Earth and into TORC, more specifically Aunties. And so Gimli's putting up quite a fight, because he wants to give Leggy just one last strawberry bubble bath before he goes. Poor dear, must be heartbroken. But this even will not be lost, oh no. NotListening has footage. And that, my friend, is the story of how Gimli is being transported to here, just for you. And trust me and the UPS guy. He's heavy.
FairGoldberry
Post 57
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 9:32 am
Here ya go, Sqiddy.
Post 58
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 9:45 am
ROTFL Tooks!
Big Sis-oh yes, too much snow for us CTers to have school. A whopping two inches! Hey, I'm not complaining.
Oh Saro-yes of course you are! Anyone's invited! It's a, a, mini moot! I'm not sure if we're going to post a thread about it, but I would be honored. That's right, you're in Mass! Very cool.
Unfortunately, I really must go study for midterms right now. I've been procrastinating times ten, and work must be done. I hate doing anything productive, it's so, RLish. Screw RL, I like TORC better. Muuuuuuch better.
FairGoldberry, studying for French.
Post 59
narsil
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 10:32 am
Tooks- erm....... what...in....hades.....
(Narsil needs to recover from the shock that SOMEONE has actually pinched his hat and took a photo of themselves!!)
FGB- MMMMWWWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! We like it, yessss we doesssss preciousssss... trixsy little Arv will never ever suspect... and once Louise throws away the clothes..... then we'll TAKE the photographs, yes we will, and WE'LL be the master!!!
So, to resume- I will be both Tooks AND satch, and you will be Arv... no, it was you'll be Tooks and I will be Arv and one of the mighty squids tentacles....
bundle.....
Hope you have a great day off.
Cem- how far can they spit? Or is it camels I am thinking of?
Narsil bought a new pair of sneakers today- Nike Air Max. Very nice indeed!!About time I treated myself to something.
And now I am off to watch Freddy Vs Jason. Shlock horrrorrr!!
Arv/Satchy- remember to bring a camera- no doubt I will forget mine like I always do,and I want PICTURES Mr Parker!!!
Narsil - "hmmmmmm dandy...."
Post 60
cemthinae
Micah Six:Eight
Date Posted: Thu Jan
2 inches & they close flippin' school! Aidi should go work in CT! Every night she prays for a blizzard so that she won't have to go teach school the next morning!! *shakes head*
No worries about Squiddy! Casey the llama is protecting her & Rebecca in the Kiddy pool! He's trained to spit on command!
Tooks, Tooks, Tooks! We bow to your signature genious again!
Lil Sis... I'll *bet* your studying...
Narsil~ It really depends on the llama! Co-Co the large female breeding llama I owned could nail you from across the barn!! But they really don't spit unless you make them mad! Honest!!
As for camels, brother, you DO NOT want to get spit on by a camel!! They basically can empty their entire stomach contents on you!! Not fun! Somewhere I read that they can shoot it out the other end if they get REALLY mad... never really tested *that* theory!
Post 61
Mighty_Squid
Diving Deep
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 10:50 am
Tooks!
Tanks!
Wait till you meet Mr. Squid. That looks like a future picture of him. The banana is expecially nice.
Post 62
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 10:50 am
Wait wait wait... who the hell am I gonna be!?!
Post 63
GandalfStormcrow
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 11:08 am
FGb, much would depend on when said CT moot is. And do you mean you'll be at the Chicago moot? CT and Chicago aren't next door neighbors, if I remember correctly. My wife and I are trying to plan for the Philly moot in March, so if you're talking next month or in April it'll be hard to make another trip just then.
If things work out, though, we'll bring LOTR Monolopy!
Post 64
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 11:09 am
I knew you'd appreciate the banana, Squiddy.
Satch, you can be...... theduffster pretending to be Rebecca who is really............????????
Post 65
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 11:11 am
Lembas, your sig is just too cute.
*E*
Post 66
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 11:24 am
No no no, you have it all wrong! Everybody has drank/drunk/drinken mucho vodka and consumed far too much alcohol while I have been sitting at the VIP lounge in *nonleather* armchairs trying to decorrupt TLE (likely indeed, I *bet* not) and watching far too much cyber money being spent at the casino. This has led to a mix up in the plans to...oh come on now, the point doesn't matter! What are we trying to steal, preciousssss? Oh great, now I am multiple person disorder with Narsil. Does that mean that Nienna has my right or left buttcheek? Do we now have to both purchase you a sports car to get both our cheek(s) back? Oh bother...
So, the plan is, and again Arve is NOT reading this...
Narsil will pretend to be Tooks, then Satch to keep his Tooks persona valid.
Meanwhile, I will be Narsil to ensure Arve does not find out who Narsil actually is.
Tooks will be Mighty Squid's tentacle(s).
Mighty Squid will be...Mighty squid without her tentacle(s.)
Satch will be duffy, who has not yet arrived.
When Duffy gets here, she will be Louise.
And this is all, again, to ensure that Arve does not figure out who Narsil is at the moot.
And again, what is the purpose of Narsil convincing Arve that he is not in fact Narsil?
Help, FGb's confused! She will proceed to actually start studying her French now. But I've actually practiced this morning, something productive. And Again, RL suxORz!!!11
Post 67
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 11:29 am
Oh my, Tooks!!! Too much!!
FGB- Keep me posted on the mini-moot!
Saro
PS- Mmmmmm Calimari... I mean NO EATING SQUID IN THIS THREAD!
PPS- I went to Birthday Express to get bday party supplies for Cooper and I ordered LOTR plates and napkins for myself. The design on the napkins is kewl. Check it out!
Post 68
Ari-Anna
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 11:55 am
So whose on first????
Post 69
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 1:10 pm
No no no, who's on first?
Post 70
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 1:35 pm
Arve’s sat at his favourite table across the way from “Fairgoldberrys Palace of Glittering Gambling” drinking a glass of something pretending to be cognac. Well that’s what it says on the label but it tastes worse than poor old Whistlers absinthe. He’s muttering to himself…..
“Work a few extra hours they said, complete your mandatory training they said. Ha! Boring! My poor brain feel like it’s been lightly fried in olive oil, garlic and a few fresh herbs and served with some fresh pasta. That training was no use at all….”
“On second thoughts `Infection Control’ and `How to deal with Challenging Behaviour: a Pro-active Approach’ may be useful things to know around here!”
Arve’s been writing a letter to a certain famous fashion label after following recent local events: -
I propose the following simple formula should be added to labels in all kegs, erm underwear for discerning gentlemen, because it‘ll make men feel good about themselves, regardless of there short-comings.
Waste Size: Small
Crotch Size: XXL
I’ve found the perfect models for your new range, just contact a certain Syl via Rio de Janeiro, she‘ll send their press photo. I think those poor guys would appreciate your pants, after all they must be used to seeing a label with the info the other way round.
Regards
*****************
Ethel: Sorry to hear you wont be at Liverpool, but your staying were your needed and can be supportive to others. You can still drop in here for some support when you need it.
Just make sure that feather boa don’t slip, after all this is a family website!
Anneri: Shame you couldn’t fly from Amsterdam cause there’s two or three airlines that fly from there to Liverpool. Oh well, maybe you should consider catching the train because coaches tend to loose themselves on the M25 Motorway and are never seen again.
Fgb: I seem to be teaching you the art of the Mega-post, but what a post! Erm, series of posts. Oh, by the way what the f*** are you and Narsil talking about! I don’t know who I am anymore, or am I supposed to be pretending to be someone else, or…???!!!!
I’ll ignore your mentioning my poor spelling. Especially considering your posts….#Arve starts whistling innocently#.
Narsil: Camera? I think I can manage to bring my digital camera and a couple of flash cards, so don’t worry. I’ll ask peoples consent before I post any of my creations on TORC, especially the ones that have undergone a little manipulation. The best will be available on request, for private viewing.
Please stop this whole identity thing, cause I can see through all your tricks. In fact if you don’t stop I’ll use my amazing powers of mesmerism and then you’ll be sorry!
Cem: I agree, camels can spit great gobs of gooey puke with stunning accuracy. Many years ago I had the opportunity to ride a camel, mine was a lovely pale coloured baby cause I was only a kid. My Uncle in Law rode the big ornery dromedary with an attitude, which took exception to his ugly mug and landed a big gob of frothy bile in uncle morons face. ROTFLMAO indeed!
Good Sam: Seems you detected the fundamental irony in Squidy calling the shirtless waiters crustaceans when ordering gumbo. I wondered if anyone would notice.
Arve (you‘ve got to live your life and do what you want to do)
Post 71
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 2:17 pm
Bad news! I just got MRI results back on my knee. It was bothering me throughout my pregnancy, but there wasn't much that I could do about it then. Well, about a week ago my knee buckled and I fell down the stairs. After that I decided to go to the doctor. I have a tear in one of my ligaments and I need to see a specialist to determine whether I need surgery. Wish me luck!
Saro
Post 72
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 2:22 pm
Saro: Good luck! I’m sure everything will get sorted out, at least you know what’s wrong now anyway.
Post 73
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 3:11 pm
Break a leg!
Post 74
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 3:30 pm
Oh TLE, that was bad.
And Arve, I honestly find my spelling relatively good in my posts. I have a phobia of turning into SOME people in Aunties, not mentioning any names presently, and not being able to tell the difference between there, their, and they're or than/then.
Saro: good luck! I'm wishing for the best.
FairGoldberry
Post 75
Rebecca
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 7:47 pm
My, this place can be totally hopping one minute and completely dead for the next... many minutes.
Good luck on your operation Saro, let us know how it goes!
Post 76
Mighty_Squid
Diving Deep
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 7:51 pm
Saro,
Good luck! I'm sure everything will be ok.
Goldy,
Your not talking about me are you?
Rebecca,
Time Zones suck sometimes.
Post 77
sylthian
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 9:23 pm
Saro - pay no attention to that evil man with the growth attached to his head! Hopefully you'll merely have to endure months of tortuous physical therapy - now doesn't that sound better??
Well, I've only stopped by to attempt to redeem myself with my latest sig offering - does it meet with your approval Ms. Tooks??
Post 78
notlistening
corner of no and where
Date Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 11:46 pm
So here's where you all went! Thought you could slip away down south wearing fruit and spangles and stuff without me noticing. That's what happens when one does not log on for 2 days. Please tell me someone remembered to bring the cabana boys along! Carnivale is well and good, but would prefer the carnivale in Venice!
Dear Ethel, I am sorry to hear about your friend's husband. I did not realise what peoples were talking about until I caught up with the last of the old Aunties place. Prayers are with you, dear one.
Did someone explain to TLE why doing laundry is not a good thing on this thread?
IE, could you send us pics of your nice shiny new autograph thingy?
Naught else to tell you all really. Life goes on. I am getting rather tired of doing 2 jobs and would be really happy with just one nice one! We needs rest, we does! Vey tired all over. Must be the heat. Glad it's raining today but not looking good for the Jazz tomorrow!
have fun in Liverpool, all you lucky ones!
must go find something shiny with tassles to wear! and apples of course!
hugs,
nl
Post 79
Mummpizz
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 12:56 am
"Break a leg" is actually the english translation of a misunderstood jiddish blessing, and quite allright on its own, as the original (which I don't remember anymore) means something like "I wish you luck".
But it could possibly be something british-navyish, I've heard of that too, and it could possibly be just a curse by TLE, which I don't suppose, as he seems to be a perfect gentleeye.
So, Saro, Hals- und Beinbruch (which is the misunderstood german translation of the same blessing, and means literally "break your neck and leg"
Post 80
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 4:16 am
It's also the traditional good-luck phrase for actors and comes from being in Macbeth. Superstition dictates that anyone getting good luck actually gets bad luck. So they are wished bad luck which means good luck.
Using the 80's slang, if I'm bad, I'm really good.
Ain't life confusing, but I won't get my averages in a twist.
Post 81
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 4:17 am
I’m still trying to get Louise to sign up rather than pester me with helpful suggestions when I’m posting, but she does have some interesting insights. For example, little L describes a certain balding middle aged man’s posts as “a guilty pleasure, your forced to laugh even though you know you shouldn’t”.
Very perceptive, my girl.
Thanks mummpizz, always wondered why breaking a leg should be considered lucky.
Post 82
Mummpizz
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 4:33 am
There, I've got it: it's the jiddish "hazloche un broche".
But that's just for the german "Hals- und Beinbruch", and has nothing to do with english and/or american english.
Ah yes, and it means "Luck and blessings".
All for you, Saro.
Edit: Btw, i was in the mood for a new title anyway ...
Post 83
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 4:47 am
syl.....
Post 84
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 5:18 am
Thanks, everyone! I'll hopefully be seeing the specialist next week.
It's -35 F here with wind chill and we lost power for a couple of hours last night starting at 11pm. We bundled up the kids and watched the thermometer plummet. Thankfully, we weren't taking the advice on the news of setting our heat at 66, because we lost 10 degrees in the house in an hour. Cooper has no school today due to the cold. I have no plans to leave the house.
Arve- Louise is absolutely right on! Get that lady a PM!We'd love to meet her!
Saro
Post 85
Rebecca
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 5:23 am
Ooooo, looky at me!
Post 86
prmiller
I am Parm, Bard of Imladris,
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 5:54 am
Wreckless in Rio
I drive very carefully (though some may not)
I always wear sunblock (have you seen me burn?)
I cross at the crosswalks (when lights have turned green)
I even know arm signals used when you turn.
I give up my seat when a grandma should sit
I will not butt in, but let you go first,
I use polite endings with my Japanese,
but Rio is different and bubbles should burst.
I still will be careful, but play on the beach,
I hope to learn sambas, watch suns rise and set,
but I will be "wreckless", 'cause I is a "teach".
Bright blessings,
Parm (in search of the safest tan)
Post 87
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16,
Rebecca!!!
It's about time your mother did something nice for you.
----
Saro....take it easy...get physical therapy!!!
----
Parm....great Rio poem!
Post 88
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 8:00 am
Parm-wonderful poem, as always. Glad you could find your way, driving safely, of course, to Rio from Japan. Or, from our other nongeographically accurate beach? Anyway, I'm going to take the liberty of saying, since either is an island, you must have gotten here in a water safe vessel. So how are those nowadays? I here good things...
Rebecca-you look just dashing in red, may I say. Just loverly.
NL-thanks for the pics. I love the apples.
Arve-insightful woman indeed. Oh, and note the "your" instead of you're. "your supposed to laugh." Is it an English thing not to get contractions? oooh preciousssss, it's fun to nitpick and make fun of Arve's spelling. We thinks we shall keep up this torment, precioussss, we're trixsy.
TLE-your posts are almost as confusing, nonsensical, and incomprehensible as mine. Keep up the good work.
Syl-mmuuuuuuuuuch better. FGb tankses you!
Saro-aw, physical therapy's not that bad. Just get a nice physical therapist. May I recommend someone in New Haven? Just a bit too far, eh? Good luck.
And just to comment on the "break a leg" joke...I've heard many renditions of the story but I'll just go with the one that sounds most legitimate. When musicians or actors go for auditions, there are very "jynxy" connotations that go with it. So, like TLE said, if you want someone to do well, if you say "Good luck" the person's audition will be bad. But if you say "break a leg" they will do well. And my theory is that it stems from the backwardness of musicians. But hey, I shouldn't complain. Should complain, rather. No wait...shouldn't?
And my friend, who is a Very Secret Diaries worshipper with me, wants to know what the "pointy hat trick" reference is. NL might know, seems that they had a discussion/analysis of the VSD's at the moot.
FGb
Post 89
Lembas_Junkie
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004
Ah, only an organic chem lab this afternoon, and then freeeee! Smeagol is freeee! Well, I've got lots to study, but at least I won't have any new info coming in the meantime for two whole days!
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Edit #1: Hey, Rebecca! I've been to Wexford, too! I just had to go, it's where family came from! Isn't it just a wonderful place? I stayed there for a few days at a B&B. So nice. I went to the Waterfoul Sanctuary, that Historical Park outside town, and to the "Ground to the Sky" or something like that, it was a really great pub.
Edit #2: Hey there, *E*! Thanks for the compliments, but guess what...it's so much fun making these pics, I've already submitted a new one!
Post 90
Rebecca
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 9:12 am
L_J, I loved Wexford- so beautiful there. We took a coach and then a ferry to get there, left at 7pm and arrived in Wexford a little before 7am- so we got to see the sun rise. WE stayed overnight in a hostel, and we went on a tour of the area with a guy who has a degree in local Wexford history. Quite nice place!
Post 91
Anneri
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 9:34 am
I'm too tired to do anything properly today, and I'm just popping in to say to the whole Aunties-Liverpool crowd that I FINALLY managed to book a flight. w00tw00t!
Arve, bring that digital camera, I don't have one, and I want some nice (you hear that? Nice!) pictures.
And now I want to have a part in that grotesqueness you wrote, Goldy!!!
Rebecca, lovely pic. And you look good in red!
Saro - good luck. Or, Hals- und Beinbruch...
Cem, lecture about Medieval literature next time. I'm just too tired...
*yawns*
Post 92
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 9:44 am
Rebecca! You look stunning in red!
Saro
Post 93
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 11:14 am
ah, but you see Anneri, which grotesqueness? Would you like a part in the ridiculous plot to convince Arve that Narsil isn't narsil? And for what purpose is still unknown? Or, that MEGA post?
And squiddy, I wasn't mentioning your spelling at all. Your spelling is good! Word, cheater!!111
I just watched VH1, hey, I have the day off of school because of the cold, just like Cooper. And I was desperate, so I was watching the 100 Hottest Hotties. And guess who is number ten? One of our very own shirtless caban boys! And no squiddy, it's not Gimli, sigh.
VIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOO!
Hehe, and Johnny Depp is number five. That makes me happy, although he should be ranked higher. Tear indeed. What I did just find out though, is that Johnny Depp's daughter is exactly eleven years younger than me. May 27 babies are just cool, I guess. B>
I must go study French again. About 300 vocab words, all of which I am supposed to know, and of course don't know. So that's what I'll be doing for the next hour/two hours/afternoon.
But maybe just a few more posts...
Post 94
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 11:29 am
Just passing through on my way to a cheap, fun filled night out with the gang. So I’ll just say have a have a truly excellent Friday and see you all tomorrow.
Rebecca: Good to see you join the reds!
Fgb: The poor grammar’s more of an Arve thing than an English thing. Just remember, it’s 11 or 12 years since I was taught the structure and rules of the language, and I cant say as I listened very well in the first place.
Narsil: Are you on Yahoo or Microsoft Messenger? I don’t normally ask people, seems rather impolite but I’d quite like to chat sometime. I think Darin wants a word as well, but a word of warning, when he has a cig and says he’ll be right back……he takes a looooong time.
Anneri: Oh yes, you can expect me and my trusty camera, although I really am a terrible photographer. Don’t worry, I’ll clean them up and balance the light and such before posting, no nasty red eye for any of us.
Now I must rush off and have a shower, so little time and so much Arve to clean.
Post 95
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 11:32 am
Luverleh Rebecca, juuuuuust luverleh
Eurgh I'm so sleepy. My head has been pounding away for the last 3 days cause I'm tired and now my bloody eye keeps twitching. Lol it's annoying as hell I can tell you.
I would use tonight as a good time to sleep early because I'm out Saturday night but no... who would pass up a chance to watch fame and money hungry people go through torturous things on tv watched by thousands of people, for health refying (that word will do, I forget the real one) sleep?? Not me that's for sure
Yeah I had a kinda peculiar morning... The upstairs of my house is built into the roof so the loft doors are on the side. I went upstairs before I left and saw my cat sitting by the door in the hall watching it bang slightly. When it's windy, this is usual and I;ve got over the being freaked when it sounds like someone's inside trying to get out () so I picked him up and opened the door slightly to show him that there was nothing there. Anyway, I opened the door and a small black thing shot into the air and my cat leapt after it, then if flew through the open door into a bedroom and started flapping about the window. God knows why there was a bloody bird in my loft, but I thought it was a bat oO so y'know s'alright for me
Have a good weekend all
Post 96
GandalfStormcrow
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 11:48 am
On the topic of "Break a Leg," if one utters the phrase "Good luck" or says the word "Macbeth" while on set at most theatres, they're likely to be hung by the rafters, for the same reasons TLE explained. Therefore "Break a leg came into being." It all started when the actors that formed the original cast of Macbeth had an inordinately rough bout of bad luck, and IIRC at least one of them died shortly after the show opened. And now you know...the rest of the story.
We thespians are a superstitious lot.
Post 97
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 12:00 pm
indeed, very superstitious GS. I am glad to see you will be going to Philly. I might, and it depends on...welll, asking the rents?
Arve-no, not impolite. I actually think it would be good to compile a list of AIM/Messenger/Email so Aunties could talk to each other. I'm posting mine, whoever wants to post theirs, feel free.
Kulallie-AIM
Alliecat7@cshore.com-MSN messenger.
I just passed three hundred! wOOt wOOt, and in less than half a year too! Now I'm off to actually studying and learning those stoopfid vocab words.
FGb
Post 98
GandalfStormcrow
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 12:58 pm
Tries to hide his post count after 364 days so FGb won't feel bad about her own...
I don't know for sure that Lady E and I will be in Philly, but we're talking very seriously about it, hon. I definitely want to be there.
Post 99
Mighty_Squid
Diving Deep
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 1:11 pm
Stormy . . . 
No excuses!
Post 100
GandalfStormcrow
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 1:37 pm
I know Squiddy, I'm working on it.
Post 101
notlistening
corner of no and where
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 6:33 pm
Hi all,
No, I don't know the pointy hat trick from VSD. Would like some of the strawberry scented bubble bath though. Mine (at the moment) is orange and manderin. Sorry to all us apple peoples out there.
Arve, please get Louise to visit us here! We are nice, we are friendly etc etc.
FGB, who was no 1 in the contest? I am curious to know.
Saro, hoping all will be well!
Happy 1 year Torc birthday to Stormy! Long may you post!
Having hair done in about an hour. They serve nice coffee and Tim Tam's at my hairdressers. Narsil, ever think of serving Lembas at your now defunct ME hair salon?
best be off. Hope you all are having fun in the snow. It's a balmy 24 here today. Wearing scary blue shorts and Vencie shirt. The need to visit Italy again keeps creeping in there.
love and hugs,
nl
Post 102
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 8:40 pm
Stormy-happy TORC birthday tomorrow! You'll get a bunch o' woots for that one. wOOt wOOt from FGb. Glad to know that you're considering Philly.
NL-Beyoncé was number one, which just goes to show that the poll must not have been all that great. But Angelina Jolie was number two, number three was Ashton Kutcher, four was Britney Spears, Five...yes, Johnny. So some were good, some were not.
I just had a concert, yay! Well, my arm went numb past my elbow for about twenty minutes, but I'm able to type now. It was a looong night of music. Left home at 5ish and got back at 11:00. But I did have Chinese food for dinner, mmm. I have nothing to do this entire weekend, so there's some major ROTK viewing that must be done.
Sigh, and nothing much here really. Hope everyone has a good night/morning/wow it's dark here and 16 degrees F while it's day in Oz and warm. So whatever time of day it is for you, I'm wishing you a happy rest for whenever your night is.
G'night. sleep tight. don't let the bed bugs bite. and if they do, hit 'em with a shoe, and say, "I don't wanna sleep with you!" I love nursery rhymes.
FairGoldberry
Post 103
Tanwen_Luthien
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 1:40 am
Hello peoples!
I just keep popping in and out of this thread.
I stalked it all the way over here.
MWAHAHA!
So, what doing?
Post 104
narsil
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 7:04 am
Arv,
am on MSN- or rather the missus is, and I just use her set up details to chat. If you want to, then let me know and I will give you the address details so we can have A PALAVER (as Roland of Gilead would say).
Would be good to chat to you and Darin- I think that there is something you can do to have more than one person on there at once.
Got to go- will be back later to annoy everyone....
(me? Never!!)
And where the hell is '99????? I miss her!!!!
Narsil.
Post 105
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 7:50 am
Happy anniversary, GandalfStormcrow.
Remember - one year on TORC is equivalent to seven human years.
Happy news again. Here I am in Texas - and I get an extra day here. Monday is Martin Luther King Day - which much to my surprise they celebrate here.
More happy news. Had a chat with my boss yesterday about relocating to Florida and made up gave compelling reasons for the move. He agreed and said that he had to check with a couple of other people first, but he doesn't foresee a problem and I'll find out for sure next week.
So at the moment I'm guessing 90% chance. If it is to happen, I'm aiming to move before the end of June. And I won't be alone living in Florida either...
Watch this space...
Post 106
Eruname127
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004
Monday is Martin Luther King Day - which much to my surprise they celebrate here.
And why is that Lidless? Texas has plenty of people who would like to honor the great things the man did.
Arizona is the only state that doesn't celebrate the day if memory serves me.
Post 107
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 8:28 am
Lidless, S'good stuff. Oh btw tell her I think a couple of these would be fabulous. Of course not without one of these...
I'm sure they could be tailor made for your *ahem* needs.
Post 108
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 9:13 am
*wails* I'm sooooooo bored... There's no one ..anywhere! Where is everyonnnnnne? Why have you left me?? Death...
*paces*
Post 109
Rebecca
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 9:41 am
Hello Satch.
Post 110
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 9:43 am
Hi, satch.
So, Lidless is moving to Florida just so he can do laundry??
Post 111
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 10:12 am
Heyhey~
Lidless is moving to Florida just so he can do laundry??
That would be the basic gist of it, yes.
Post 112
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 10:34 am
I don't think Lidless realizes that you can do laundry with your 'laundry partner' anywhere where there's a washing machine.
Satch, I'm here. Just as bored as you, possibly more so. This turned out to be a five day weekend, which roXOrz!!!11 But I have to study for exams next week, uck.
So, uh, I had my concert last night and Mr. Tchaikovsky is probably rolling around in his grave in agony after "hearing" that performance. Him and Mr. Rachmoninoff, and Mr. Milhaud, and Mrs. Chaminade. All in all, a performance is played only once and you get another shot next time. That's honestly the best thing you could say for last night.
I'm very shocked that Food Network does not have anything even somewhat appealing on to watch. Very depressing, it's just one of those days.
I'm wishing a happy TORC anniversary to GSC and good luck to Saro.
FairGoldberry
Edited to add: I can't do smileys very well.
Post 113
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 10:44 am
Greetings from a cold and rain swept Britannia, where you find me in an indefatigable and upbeat mood. Not only did I have a very enjoyable Friday evening, but I’ve just been out buying clothes, which I normally hate but I managed to find things that fit and look good! This is so unprecedented I feel like I should be drinking champagne and indiscriminatingly hugging people! Whilst using big words!
But then I’m easily pleased.
I also found out why my e-mail account suddenly lost all it’s e-mails and so forth. I’ve been using the wrong one… Slight misspelling of the username, which led me to another e-mail ID I don’t even remember creating! So I’ve just been going through dozens of messages feeling stupid and laughing at myself. That brings my current number of e-mail addresses to six…… Although I do only use three of them.
So now I will cast my steely gaze over all your comments and pontificate on the nature of gaseous windbags. Only referring to myself with that one of course
Narsil: E-mail me on northernguy3039@yahoo.co.uk with your messenger ID. Oh yeah, you can use a conference mode thingy on messenger, gets very confusing if there’s more than five of you.
Fgb: I mostly use Yahoo Messenger northern_guy3039, I’ve got Microshaft Messenger but I’ve never really taken to it, it’s not very “me“, so it’s never active.
Stormy: All those posts in a single year? Congratulations on surviving your first year on TORC, at this rate you‘ll be a Mod before the year is out.
NL: I’m working on it, Louise suffers from certain misconceptions about people who post in forum’s, use chat rooms, etc. Don’t worry though, I’ll be all cute and lovable () until she agrees to sign up and post as herself. Afterwards I’ll go back to being my usual nefarious self, just the she likes me.
Where did you go in Italy btw?
Darin/NL: Thanks for the e-mails, sorry for not replying for obvious reasons (god’s teeth, I’m so dumb).
Satch: Tut tut, very naughty! I’ll be on Yahoo later, I’ll try to catch you then.
Seems Lidless is in pursuit of life, liberty and American laundry! Must have a really fast spin cycle over there.
Oh yeah, hugs for anyone who wants em.
Arve (100% re-cycled material)
Post 114
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 11:15 am
So, Lidless is moving to Florida just so he can do laundry??
No, I'm moving to Florida so that someone else can do my laundry. For free, I might add. Males are not genetically engineered to do laundry.
Satch, I don't know who's been talking - either Rodia or Issey. Iseey wanted to by me some fairy wings at Xmas 2002 because I loved "that long fairy story" so much. She fully expected me to dance around a tree wearing them. When I pointed out there was a direct correlation between her present to me and her allowance for 2003, I got something else.
PS - what are the contents of your wardrobe doing online? Didn't your mother warn you about such things?
Arv - spin cycle? Do I look like a wizard?
Post 115
Alassante_Estel
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 11:18 am
Must have a really fast spin cycle over there.
Nah - slow and steady wins the race
Lidless, you will be paying for the laundry in a way acceptable to me. Now go brush your teeth.
Satch nice piccies there love.
Post 116
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 11:37 am
Lidless, been talking to Rodia. And Estel actually. But for a different reason than Issey wanted Lol.
Maybe she'll explain later...
For free, I might add.
S'what I woulda guessed, I mean she's not a whor... Oh wait... Nevermind.
Males are not genetically engineered to do laundry.
I dunno... not what she tells me...
Estel, *sam0000cherz!!11*
Post 117
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 12:41 pm
Oh yeah, you can use a conference mode thingy on messenger, gets very confusing if there’s more than five of you.
That's when the best convos happen. Everything is utter madness.
Seriously, though, TORC needs CPR these days. Could use a bit of it myself, actually. Where's Brad Pitt when I need him.....
I'll just practice on my autographed Sean Bean photo.
*E*
Post 118
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 1:09 pm
TLE-I certainly do hope that men are genetically engineered to do laundry. Unless you go the route of the geriatric or prehistoric, oh wait, let's not go there.
Arve-I agree with Cem, the best convos are when you have six or seven people and you can't read that fast. Very fun indeed.
Sigh, I just ate half a pint of ice cream. Feel kind of gross. very gross, actually. That probably means I should go practice.
And it has just been announced to me (although Mom swears she told me about this before) one of my Dad's nerd friends is coming over tomorrow. And by nerd friends I really mean his coworker mathematician. I can't spell that, sorry Arve . Anyway, the probably means no TORC while the guy's over, and that makes me sad indeed. In order to compensate, I will undoubtedly be spammin' today. I'll keep all you unecessarily posted on all the nothing that's going on today.
FGb
Post 119
Mighty_Squid
Diving Deep
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 1:20 pm
Why is Lidless's laundry so much more intersting than mine?
Post 120
narsil
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 1:31 pm
Evenstar- Narsil has only one wish.... and that is to be in the middle of your sig pic.... I know then that whatever came my way I would be able to die a happy man.
(ten minutes elapse whilst Narsil sits in a trance...)
Enough of that!!!! I will go blind...... ahem!!!!
Arv- got the e-mail address and will send details forthwith. If you need to send anything, then send it to (Narsil holds breath, lets it out in a big gasp as he lets slip his real name on TORC)
john.wheeler80@ntlworld.com
Now, if anyone here thinks that they know me, remember!!!! I am a 6 foot hunk, and a cross between John Rhys Davies wig and Charlie Sheens cod piece..
Oh, and Arv, do tell!!! Who was the balding middle aged man Louise finds amusing? I have my own suspicions...(poor lidless!!)
Anneri- you got a flight, wOOt!!! So we will be seeing you in Liverpool then!!! Excellent!!
FGB- congrats on the over 300 posts! I am not far behind you now, and am jealous as I should be close to 500 if I hadn't spent all of that time away (although that couldn't have been helped).
The whole point of the "identity thing" was so that Arv wouldn't regonise me and plan unspeakable things for all of the "verbiage" I have spouted about him recently () But I have come to the conclusion that I will just say I am T.L.E and hope to get my drinks bought for me all night!!!
Arv- you will be able to recognise me in two ways:
1)I will more than likely be wearing something black (as I always do)
2)I am roughly the width of Steven Segal... after a large meal.
Satchy- oooooh! Twitchy eyes! Apparently that is the beginnings of a syndrome called "Going to spend all of my money on Narsil and Arvs' drinks in Liverpool." Nassssssty it is my precioussssss...
Do you still want a copy of ROTK soundtrack? If so, Narsil will deliver. Let me know.
Lidless- Florida.... laundering.... I KNEW IT!!!! Call the cops! We have an international drugs baron on our midst!!! Get Bloodaxe here!!!
Anyone seen or heard from '99? Narsil is getting worried....
Have a good one peeps!!!
Post 121
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 2:35 pm
Narsil-your name is what? Nope, going to pretend that I didn't hear/read that. I'm just so very glad that I have never let my RL name slip on TORC. Well, maybe my nickname, but never me actual birth name. You'd all laugh, very very hard.
TLE-ooh, we've uncovered it! Narsil hit the nail on the head, so to speak. Drug bust uncovered by the Aunties/Uncles cops team. Haha, your plot is ruined!
99-get thee hence to Aunties! We miss ya darling. Is it all the cold weather up there? Possibly, but it's always cold...
Nothing much to say. Going to see ROTK tonight, hopefully. Much needed relaxation time, pfft yeah right! I'm so bored, five day weekends aren't all that great. Just kidding, vegging is always fantastic.
FGb
Post 122
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 4:18 pm
Yeah, well Saro did laundry and look what it got her!
A torn knee ligament.
Post 123
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 4:56 pm
I am a 6 foot hunk, and a cross between John Rhys Davies wig and Charlie Sheens cod piece..
Wow! And I'm the sexiest girl in *E*s sig pic. Take your pick
And LOL Of course, gonna spend alllll my money on you guys. Uh-huh. You over estimate just how much I earn. I could probably get you a water on the rocks. Or just the rocks... And I would lurrrrrve a copy of the soundtrack
Tooks, s'vigorous laundry. *nods*
Not that anyone cares lol but I've had a surprisingly good evening. I spent the whole day being bored, then got told I was going to the cinema and being paid for, so y'know I was up for that. So we got to the movies at about 8, and the tickets were sold out, so we decided to head into Reading and catch a film there.
Because this is England, a couple of minutes after our half hour wait in the freezing cold for the train, it informed us it was cancelled, so I went to the little box with the button that beeps and asked the man on the other end when the train was. Because this is Berkshire () he kept doing something else that I asked so I had to keep asking, and he got pissed off and hung up on me (I am shocked and appalled).
Theeeeeen we finally got into Reading and there were no showings for the next hour or so so we figured pizza hut was always a good option. Got the train back at 2minutes to 12, armed with a helium balloon and feeling like a bloated hippo (two dinners is not good uh-uh) and I finally get a text. Not "oh my where are you we're so worried you've been gone over four hours!!!1" but "when are you coming home I'm tired and want to go to bed" pffft abuse I tell you
Singing songs on trains with helium voices is fun *thumbs up cheesy grin* But apparently it's poisonous... *shrugs* Do it... do it...
Blah gonna go sleep... have to work tomorrow... it's scawwy *sigh*
Tata!
Ps. Me and El have n00bs!!!1 I'm so happy!! *wipes tear*
Post 124
narsil
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 5:07 pm
Ah, well then Satchy- Narsil will have a suprise for you come Liverpool.
By the way, an ice on the rocks will be fine for me. Don't know about Arv though- most sig pics see him downing some beverage or other!!
You are right!! I am missing the fair wit of '99!! Hope she is okay!! (Narsil prepares the snow plough incase of emergency)
FGB- Yes, for my sins my name is John. Don't worry, I am quite used to it by now. I let drop at the end of a meeting the other day. When it finished I said "Well, Narsil is going home now"
I just got looked at as if to say "erm.... what did you call yourself???"
What is your nickname then? Go on, do tell!!!
Well, it is 1 am England time and Narsil has had quite enough for one day, so he is off to bed, where undoubtedly he will be unable to sleep.
Nite nite to all aunties/uncles.
Oh, by the way- whoever said that TORC needs CPR need only come over here! We are alive and kicking baby!!!!
Narsil- "happy to live in perpetual oblivia"
Post 125
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 6:37 pm
Hello all: Just wondering how to get a NEW username.
No, it's not for myself for an alias, please, I wouldn't let anyone else get the infamous reputation of spammer that I have received.
But Arve in particular, how would you get a new username? I have, hopefully, converted a LOTR fan/freak/fried of mine to a TORCer. Now all we need to know is how to get a new username...'cause I haven't done it in six months.
FGb
Post 126
Rebecca
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 6:48 pm
At the top, it says "my settings my info register search ...etc. "
Click on register and go from there.
Post 127
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 6:55 pm
Rebecca- LOVE your sig!
Tooks-LOL *snort* torn ligament *snort*
Saro
Post 128
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 7:13 pm
I think I was doing everything right, and I figured it out, but there is now a problem.
Sigh, posted in "THe One Ring" forum. Started a new thread. Thanks much.
FGb
Post 129
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 7:36 am
For you, Narsil. Allie is bumping up tehAunties thread because it makes her sad indeed to see it almost dragging by its unCPR'ed bum onto the fourth page! We should be ashamed. That's why there's useless but nonetheless irreplaceable spammers like myself. Irreplaceable only in the sense that nobody with any sense of pride would degrade themselves to just a spammer. Hehe, I guess that whole pride thing comes with responsibility?
Yep, a certain shirtless wonder should be arriving sometime shortly. SQUIDDY!
And I have company coming over soon, which means that for the next eight hours or so, I will undoubtedly be a monkey ordered by the zookeepers (teh parental unit) to perform stupid stunts. This is inclusive of but not exclusive to playing the stoopfid oboe, and having someone else tell me what to play. Uh-huh, I'm here purely for your amusement. Hey, things could be worse. They could make me do laundry.
FairGoldberry
Post 130
Rebecca
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 9:20 am
Well this is just lovely. My computer won't work!!! (on my roommates right now). Aaaaccccckkkk!!!!!
Hmmm, ranting didn't actually make me feel any less annoyed with my computer.
Still pretty mad at it.
Post 131
narsil
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 9:21 am
FGB- what's wrong with the name Allie, then?? I think that it is very nice indeed!!
My mum used to "sing" my name to me when she used to call me in for tea- "joooooohnaaathaaaaaaannnnn...."
I still have nightmares.....
Spam away!!! Everyone spams now and again! The best one was in a mOObies thread where the same bloke posted the same message 8 times so he could get to 100 posts. Everyone on the thread took the piss out of him, saying he was pathetic. I agreed.
Now Narsil (who looks like a minature grizzly adams) is going for a shave and a shower.
Only one "s" to add to that sentence.....
Narsil- great bawls of fire
Post 132
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 9:23 am
I’ve been trying to log-on to TORC since late last night, only to be met by a series of “internal server errors“!
Sometimes I really hate the bloody internet.
Judging from the lack of activity I’m presuming everyone’s off doing RL stuff, which I personally find shocking behaviour. Who said you all could have a life?
Slow and steady wins the race! Now go brush your teeth!!
Here I was thinking this was a family website but veiled references to what Mallyana Vatsyayana would have called Auparishtaka, well I’m shocked. Next it’s going to be a four part commentary on the virtues of Soixante-Neuf with illustrations for the discerning gentleman!
I think I’d move to Florida to.
Satch: Now you’ve started doing it as well, lordy lord someone needs to save young minds from such depravity. Question; just how vulgar do these moots get then? Just wondering, I mean I need to know if I have to be on my best behaviour or not [adopts a look of angelic innocence].
Glad you enjoyed your Saturday, some of us do care.
*E*: I’ll happily practice CPR with all the ladies in your sig pic, I wouldn’t even bother with a mouth shield!
Narsil: I’ll send you an e-mail straight away, but posting your real name? Not sure that’s something I’ll ever do, people always mispronounce it!
So I need to be on the look out for a tall, hairy, rotund bloke wearing slightly soiled black clothing eh? Throw in a pair of Armani glasses and an irritating accent and it sounds scarily like me.
Oh, I think your going to be buying me and Satch drinks all night, on account of the fact my monthly salary is probably about the same as you earn in a week. I wont even mention how much Satch must be earning.
Fgb: Did uber-geek visit our Queen of the Spammers today then?
Enough rambling from me for now anyway.
Post 133
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 9:36 am
Narsil, ooh a surprise! How exciting! It better not be one of those mean surprises though... *raises suspicious eyebrow*
Rebecca, kick it.
Arve, I've started what?? I've started nothing! (No really??) Just read the threads and multiply it a.. few..times. *thumbs up*
people always mispronounce it
How hard is it to say Mark??
I earned £24.65 today ..But only because she accidently over paid me. I didn't complain, and she got over it. *sways*
And the sky was purdy tonight... soooo bright, sooooooo beauuuutiful...
Post 134
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sun
Arve-uber-geek visiting queen of the spammer? Oh, so now I have mulitple personality disorder? Nobody's ever accused us of that, precioussss.
Narsil-Allie's not bad at all, hence it being the nickname. The real name's Allegra. *FGb cringes* The horror!
It's okay, I earn less than all of you. Don't work, don't get an allowance, and am spoiled bloody rotten by my rents. All for what? Practicing? Oh yes, right. And they're trying, as we speak in fact, to make me be a performing musical monkey. I have resisted thus far. Don't know how things will last. But being a brat and a half seems to work. Egggggselent. (to be sung like Narsil's name for tea.)
FGb-do they really have "tea" in England?
Post 135
Rebecca
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 11:06 am
Well somehow my computer turned on. Don't plan on turning it off for a long time.
Fgb- I had tea lots of times when I was in England. It's quite fun. And the cafeteria and many restaurants would be just packed around 2-3. But then again, I stayed in the Cotswolds, and I hear they do the tea thing a bit more? I enjoyed it anyway.
Post 136
narsil
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 11:32 am
I will have you know that the name Allegra is beautiful! Seriously!
It was the name of the italian coppers wife in "Hanibal"- and she was HOT!!!!
(Narsil does slurping sound and drinks glass of chianti)
Satchy- I think you will be pleasantly surprised by the erm.... surprise. It is not nasssssssty precious, oh no it issssnt...
The role of meals where I was brought up is as follows:
Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Supper
dont ask me why.......
Narsil is watching Logans Run- absolutely classic, apart from that stupid bloody pathetic tin box robot with the wonky jaw!! I have been more afraid of an episode of Blues Clues!!!
Jenny Agutter was something else when she was young!!!
Narsil himself is going to ....run.
See you later all!!!
Post 137
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 11:39 am
*choking with envy at the LA moot*
There's something distinctly UNfair about being right in the middle of the two big groups of Movies posters - one being on the West Coast, the other being the UK.
Now that's not very nice...
*E*
Post 138
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 12:01 pm
E-not very nice a'tall, preciousssss. I feel your pain. Well, not really. I'm in between New York and Boston. And not too far away from Philly. But I can't exactly do what you'd call drive anywhere... So it's the same difference.
Narsil-thank you. And I'm sooooo much hotter than she is. Actually, that's just what some conductors call me and my parents call me when you do something wrong. You know that accusatory "chant"? "Aaaaaaaaleeeeeegraaaaaaa, come here NOW!" Oh yes precioussss, fun indeed.
The guests have left. Very nice people, didn't have to be a monkey, which is nice. And not much else new here.
Thanks for the info on the tea. It just popped into my head to ask because we were having snack food for brunch, and the guests wanted tea. Just strange, that's all. Americans wanting tea...COFFEE! Come on guys! We are the country of the Big Mac and French Fries! Anything with nutritious value at all belongs in a Prevention or Healthy Living magazine and is not for actual consumption. Pfft, strange healthy-food-eating people.
FGb
Post 139
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 12:07 pm
Freedom Fries Goldy... Freedom...
EDIT: I had a hamster called Goldy. It died.
Post 140
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 12:18 pm
Yes, well, I'm not near anyone and I have a very long distance to travel if I ever want to hang out with them. Its just me and Lembas holding the entire east coast. All the States are so close, it isn't too hard for y'all to get together anyway.
Just a little frustrated, I guess. I haven't heard back from the travel agency about what kind of flight I'll need to take to London, I'm sick of going broke simply because I'm so far away from everyone, I have to do all these trips by myself because no one lifts a finger to join me in something they know will be a blast, and TORC has gone into a catatonic state. I thought I'd start looking at LOTR collectibles again and I find out that most stuff I wanted to get has sold out in the last few weeks.
Life's a peach. Where's my aspirin?
*E*
Post 141
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 12:36 pm
*E* stop being such a pessimistic ho. I'd come visit you but y'know, I have no money etc etc. Next year Oh wait big gathering (which y'all are going to)... *ponders*
The year after
Post 142
Rebecca
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 1:29 pm
*E* you can't be that far away from Philly, right? Ok, maybe, but it would be cool if you could come to the Philly moot!
Post 143
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 1:35 pm
satch-so, there's this hamster, right? And it was named Goldy, and it died. Strange connection with me and hamsters, I've noticed. This is strange indeed.
E-yeah, grab an aspirin. I swear, TORC really has gone into a coma. Even spamsters are having difficulty recussitating the place. It makes me sad. And at least, even though you're far away from "civilization", you can allow yourself to go places and are not bothered by school schedules and such. Then again, there's that thing called work. But teh parents are hard to get to allow you to go to these things. I'm working on the Philly moot now.
SO much stuff to do this week, exams are stoopfid and stressful, and regionals weekend is coming up, which I'm not looking forward to. And no one's here!
Where's Northerner or 99? Have they disappeared? And where's Squiddy? Will the promised package arriving tomorrow lure her back? Sigh.
Fgb, this whole procrastination thing can only work for so long, so I'm off to practice.
Post 144
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 2:00 pm
Sorry, satch.
I'm about 13 hours away from Philly, Rebecca. It kills me that all the m00bs are meeting up in places I can't get to. Would have loved to be there with ya's, though. I had found out about Boston a long time ago, so that is what I'll aim for. Its about 9 hours from me, and far off enough that I can save up some money between now and the summer and find a place to stay.
*E*
Post 145
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 3:33 pm
Honestly, I’ve not seen it this quite on the boards for a long time, certainly not since I’ve been posting.
Where is everyone?
Is their some kind of bizarre national holiday? Perhaps it’s President’s Thanksgiving of Union Labour Day or something equally obscure and odd.
What exactly is wrong with Allegra and Jonathan anyway? Perfectly fine names, in fact Allegra sounds exotic and mysterious, Jonathan sounds dependable and steady, so what’s wrong with that?
Satch: It’s not my first name people mispronounce, it’s my surname. I swear it’s not a hard name to say but, oh god, do people get it wrong.
Fgb: More coffee’s drunk in Britain than tea, although lots of people still drink it and the whole Dinner, Tea & Supper thing is very northern. Multiple Personalities? Considering your sudden interest in how to sign up, well anything’s possible. Sorry, I forgot it was for a “friend”.
Narsil: Logans Run always makes me think of carousel, sea greens and Jenny Agutter wearing almost nothing. She’s still pretty hot, even if she is a bit of an old bird.
*E*: Have you ever considered robbing a bank?
Arve (I know they said people would stop using TORC as much after RotK, but this is ridiculous)
Post 146
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 3:38 pm
Hey! I just realized I'm in *E*'s sig pic!!!
Saro...do you have a cold? What's with the snorting?
Lidless missed the whole 'laundry' incident.
Post 147
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 3:47 pm
Lidless missed the whole 'laundry' incident.
Strange, I thought that’s why he hasn’t posted here today. Must be busy, having to lick all those clothes clean…..
Post 148
Mighty_Squid
Diving Deep
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 3:59 pm
Arv
It's Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday on Monday. Three day weekend in the States.
Some people with lives might take advantage of that by doing something.
Post 149
Rebecca
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 4:10 pm
It's Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday on Monday. Three day weekend in the States.
That's right! Why don't I have off this Monday?!?
Post 150
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 4:39 pm
Yeah! How come I'm not off this Monday either? I have to work!!!!
Sheesh.
Post 151
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 5:30 pm
yes, indeed, it is quiet. And it saddens me deeply, but I'm hoping that all the Aunties will be in full swing soon. Or when they've come back from their laundry break. 
I'm feeling weird right now. It's almost like it's the end of an era. Maybe it's just because it's snowing, some people have had a five day weekend and now finally have to study for their exams, and some people just aren't at work so they don't waste time posting at home.
But I didn't know that this many people would just "up and leave" after ROTK. It seems this place just, well TORC not Aunties, kind of died all of a sudden. And enough with the nostalgia, but it just makes me very...well, melancholy.
I did, in my attempts to learn Elvish, buy a sort of "Teach yourself Elvish" guide. Should come in a week or so. God I love Amazon.uk. And guidance counselors and such are telling us all to take "an introductory look at colleges to familiarize ourselves with the process". Riiiiiiiiight. Well I was looking up "Elvish college programs" yesterday, and found that David Salo heads the Elvish language department at University of Wisconsin. And so, hey, all my plans are set, right? *nods sarcastically*.
FGb, going to talk to my little brother over a competitive game of LOTRopoly because even though I claim to hate him, I'm just feeling sad and he'll cheer me up. That, and we'll be watching the Iggles versus Panthers game on tele.
Post 152
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 5:31 pm
I'm not going to work tomorrow.
*puts foot down*
Tooks, all of us are in there. I might get one for the d00dz next if I think of it.
Tele's pictures are working now. Its sad that I wanted to see them that much. Actually, its much sadder what I said about them, but since I think the Cali folks lurk here, I'm keeping my mouth shut and trying to maintain a shred of dignity.
Trying.
Arve - nyeh, I'll do it tomorrow.
*E*
Post 153
bessthebard
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 6:03 pm
Hi everybody!
*looks around at people crying in their wargaritas*
What's this about the end of an era?!! The party's just getting started. Do you think I'm wearing fruit on my head for nothing??!!
Come on, the music's playing. Get up and dance!
*Bess gets out on the dance floor, stands all alone for a minute and looks around nervously*
So, who wants to teach me how to rumba?
Anyway, I'm hiding in here because I got ticked off in Manwe and I'm likely to get my post erased by a Mod. Why do I go there when I just end up raising my blood pressure? I was just born to argue, I guess.
While the rest of you sleep late tomorrow and take in your 14th showing of ROTK, I have to get up at 4:30 and drive to Great Bend, KS. Whose only use, as far as I can tell, is as a gas stop on the way to Denver. I have a court-ordered mediation there and I'm not looking forward to it. I have a report to write tonight and I'm delaying it as long as possible.
So, stop feeling sorry for yourselves over a lost age at TORC and feel sorry for me, instead. Hey, at least there's the Oscars to look forward to.
Post 154
bessthebard
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 6:40 pm
*stares at now-empty thread*
It's dead, Jim.
Post 155
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 6:46 pm
Bess, has the right idea...MORE DANCING less whining, folks!
*E*- I'm still expecting to see you this Summer! Which one is Tooks? Is she the tall blonde or the other tall blonde?? Oh, right! She has short dark hair. She must be the brunette in the back row.
Bess- I don't know the Rumba, but I can teach you The Hussle!
FGB- Majoring in Elvish sounds good to me!
We had friends over today to watch the Patriots game. Peter's brother has season tickets, so now Peter's hoping to go to the Super Bowl.
Saro
Post 156
Rebecca
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 6:53 pm
I don't know the Rumba or the Hussle. As a matter of fact I don't really know any dances. Maybe Cotton Eye Joe or something like that, one of the ones we were forced to learn in gym class. Can't say I'm very coordinated or good at stuff like dances. That's why I usually just sit in the corner crying.
Post 157
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 7:07 pm
E-I'm the one in the front row, just lying there. Yep, the one with the long blond flowing locks, the nonexistent "skirt", and the completely and totally flat stomach. I'm sad that you didn't label my name in there.
And Rebecca-I gave up crying in corners at dances a long time ago for staying home and posting on TORC. *nods*
Saro-you approve of my major? That's good. Now, on to convince teh unit.
No honestly, I'm trying to keep cheery, but it's so obviously happening. Ah well, Squiddy has a thread to whine in. Think I'll go complain to the earless listeners of cyberspace. Hey, that sounded cool. You'll be seeing that one soon, possibly as mon title. Or not...
AND WHERE IS 99?! GET IN HERE! we miss you!
Sigh, going to go read. Did I just say that? Uh-oh, things are really getting weird.
FGb
Post 158
notlistening
corner of no and where
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 11:58 pm
zooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom! drive by post.
Congrats to TLE who is moving to warmer fields, sailing west, etc.
Saro, hope knee is feelign better!
Going to apply for another job this week. It's with National Geographic Channel. Could be fun.
Too much laundry going on so am going now.
nl
Post 159
Mummpizz
Date Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 1:57 am
TLE is sailing to the West ... what a grave loss to old Europe. No wait, TLE was from new Europe, so: what a great loss to new Europe.
I've not much to say, friends. Maybe there's a new job for coming around the corner within the next two months. Would be nice.
Have a shiny day, you all!
Post 160
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 6:13 am
Okay, everybody up. No rumbas? No hustles? Well, Tooks is going to teach you all how to do the Electric Slide.
Anna one, anna two...
Post 161
Anneri
Date Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 7:59 am
The laundry topic again?! Well, my laundry froze tonight, because I put it outside to dry yesterday, and then it was colder than I expected during the night, and now all my sheets are stiff as wood.
End of laundry story.
I had a nice weekend, been on a pubcrawl with the girls on Saturday, and yesterday a very good friend (and former flatmate) came over to watch FOTR. You would think that by now all my friends have been converted into LOTR fans, but apparently, there are some who resisted... Anyway, this was the first time I watched any of the movies together with a total newbie, who had no idea about the story at all. It was quite funny - I thought about making a questionaire for him, to discover exactly what he was thinking about it. He was, however, very taken with Boromir's dead and thought it was great. And then he asked 'What did Tolkien want to say in this story?' which sent me into lecture mode about the meaning of Tolkien's writing in particular and in general, till he said (laughingly) 'End of sermon'. And then he mentioned in passing that one of his classmates was an extra in TTT. I seriously thought about hitting him over the head with my heavy edition of LOTR, because he knows that I'm a rabid fan for some time, and he didn't think about telling me that!? Honestly, some people... Anyway, I've to meet this guy...
Apart from that, I wade kneedeep in my medieval stuff.
And, really, people, stop being that melancholy. Hey, we're in Rio! Aaaand - *puts Abba tape into recorder* - come on, all together 'Uhhh, you can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life, uhhuuu see that girl, watch this scene, dig in the Dancing Queen'.
Honestly, I understand that feeling that something's going towards its end. I, for one, will miss the excitement this autumn without a new part of Middle-earth to discover in December. But this board does not only exists of the Movies Forum, and it's what we make it. It's not soemthing which develops in some mysterious ways, but it's us. And that is an encouraging thought.
I mean, we all want it to survive, don't we? It's just moving into another stage of its existance.
Now take a wargarita and cheer up!
But I really want to know where Cem, Nienna, Entwife and Inny are! I miss them!
We have a small snow storm here, I have to go and to study, and I'm going to see '8 miles' tonight. Real life at its best.
Btw, Goldy, I think Allegra is a beautiful name! Very beautiful, in fact. And Lord Byron's daughter was called Allegra, too. Go figure.
Post 162
Lembas_Junkie
Date Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 8:38 am
Holy cow, this thread is moving right along!
Had a great weekend! Friday night, I stayed in and studied, and my roomate and I watched the special features on TTT EE disk as a treat at the end. More study on Saturday (I'm such a thrill! ) and then on Saturday night, we had a huge party for the international students at a house two doors down from ours. It was SO much fun!!! So many people came, and it was just a great time. Sunday, I...wait for it!...studied some more!
So Lidless, you say you are moving to the US? Wow, that's somethin'!! I am sorry I am not up on all your news, but just who is it that you are going to see?
Post 163
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 9:14 am
Anneri and Narsil-thanks! But there's an allergy medicine called Allegra. The guy who invented it's daughter was named Allegra, so he named the medicine after her. "Are you named after that medicine?" yep, that's a common one. I most often just smile and nod, and say, "Why yes, the medicine was made five years ago, and I'm either a very mature looking five year old or I changed my name because I'm such a fan of the medicine." Sad thing is, though, people believe me.
Yes, tooks, the electric slide isn't so hard, except when you get a shock. Groan.
Lembas-your life is almost as exciting as mine! I'm actually going to see a RL movie, non LOTR. Yep, I'm moving on, so to speak. Well, I'll see that and then ROTK. And study. midterms this Thursday-next Tuesday. Blah, I hate exams, stoopfid tests. And is your siggie for me?
FGb, nothing new to report. It's very perty outside here, fresh snowfall and all. But nothing happens. We're all getting cabin fever from being stuck in the house, but that could be the baseline insanity.
Post 164
Rebecca
Date Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 9:39 am
Oooo ooo ooo! I know how to do the Electric Slide. Er, at least I used to. Not sure that I want to find out if I still know it or not, though. Care to show me when we meet up in Philly Tooks?
Post 165
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up,
Date Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 9:40 am
Hmmm. I bet I don't remember too well either, Rebecca. Must brush up.
Post 166
Darin_Bloodaxe
Date Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 9:52 am
Hey Guys How is it all going?
Not been in here since it re-opened as it is, but then saying that I have been busy busy busy and slightly ill which never helps!
Hopefully things will be cool for Liverpool though so I can have a good old drink or 2 (3.4.5.6.7.8 etc) with Arve and the rest of the Aunties gang who are on there way to liverpool!
Post 167
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 10:52 am
Maybe Cotton Eye Joe
*shrieks* I know that!!! *ahem* Sorry... nostalgia... *whistles tune*
Bess, I can teach you the Polka or the Gay Gordon.
On the subject of missing people, where in Eru's name is Myst?!! Myyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyst where are youuuuu?????
Had a pretty interesting day... The morning flew by (which is a first) and I was in a good mood considering I think I'm getting fluey or something crappy like that, and spent the rest of the day arseing around, while being brandished with pictures my friend took for her boyfriend on her digital camera. I understand she's pleased with the quality of the photos and all, but really... Luckily for me though (I think oO) I've seen too much already to be scarred by the erm images...
Good Monday everyone??
Well I'm cold so I'm gonna go sit on my bathroom floor or something. Good ol' underfloor pipes... how we loves them...
*cough*Gathering 2005*cough*
Post 168
Mummpizz
Date Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 11:47 am
Fgb - so you know why "Mercedes" isn't so popular even among the Spanish in Germany ...
Post 169
cemthinae
Micah Six:Eight
Date Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 12:51 pm
Hi! Its me!
I'm still alive!!
Things have blown up at work & I've been extremely busy! I hope everyone is doing good & I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'll be able to get on soon & catch up!! I hope & pray that everyone is doing good!!
And that ya'll are staying out of trouble!!!
HUGS & SMILES!
Post 170
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 1:09 pm
Arve’s had some goooood news people, I’m getting some money, quite a lot of money in fact. At least I think it’ s a lot of money [indrawn breath] £1,600, that’s over $3,000 I think! I love it when forgotten investments mature, it’s wonderful.
Of course most of it’s going to pay off my debts, but there should be five or six hundred left to spend on nice things for me and loved ones. Strangely enough it matures on the 7 February, now why is that an important date?
News like that will put a smile on your face, especially after a crappy day at work. I think I need immediate surgery to remove the cynacism that’s built up over 9 years working for the N.H.S. I’ve found myself acting like a care, talking like I care but I really don’t give a stuff about the patients. It’s just not like me at all, January Blues perhaps?
I’ve been unable to log onto TORC all day as well, right up until 7.00pm GMT. Even the supa fast connection at work was unable to, erm, connect. I hate it when this old place doesn’t work properly.
I hope those of you who had the day off for Martin Luther King Day had a good one (love the fact you Yanks celebrate proper important stuff on national holidays, unlike us Brits). Those of you who had to work deserve a damn good night!
Cem, 99 where are you!
edit: Ok, now we've found Cem (hugs) & 99 (ditto) hooray!
Arve (It’s not TORC’s changing that worries me, just that to many old faces will fade away)
Post 171
Anneri
Date Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 3:31 pm
Arve - that's great!!!! We have to celebrate that in Liverpool...
Satchie, I tried to catch you on MSN later in the evening, but you were gone already. Sorry! One of my friends used my computer, and he said the whole time 'can I reply to her? Can I ask her what she's wearing at the moment?', and I was like ...
Post 172
Nienna99
Date Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 4:40 pm
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Post 173
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 5:05 pm
Arve - Must be busy, having to lick all those clothes clean…..
hehe, yeah. Good reading you mentioned in an earlier post BTW
*E* - darlin, I haven't talked to you at all since the Gathering Did you leave a couple pair of shoes in the hotel room? Or was that Wilma? Talk to you on msn some night darlin
Satch - crazy chica - good talking to you on the phone yesterday lovey (replace l with wh and v with r ) I don't talk to you nearly enough these days, and am so so so so so so so much looking forward to seeing you (and Leafy) in Oxford this summer. Next time I call you, I promise it won't be when I am on my way to see RotK again - nothing like reaching a movie theatre to ruin a good phone call. I'm also going to be getting text messaging on my phone sometime in March - have to actually meet with my parents in order to separtate my mobile plan from their plan. Considering all but two of the people I call are overseas, though, I really have to get a plan that allows for international calls. Love ya darlin.
Edit: well lookie here - Lidless left himself signed into my computer Think I have some mischief to do tonight
Estel
Post 174
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 5:09 pm
99, Cem-YAY! you're back! *FGb does a little dance, then goes to grab the casino table for a round of welcom-back blackjack.*
Mummpizz-oh yes, I can empathize. Although I think it's a nice name. Hey, better than Mitsubishi.
Arve-What's NHS, preciousss? National Health Service? Do we have an equivalent to that in the US? But yes, it is indeed nice when hidden investments make profit. Enjoy with more, er, alcohol.
Sigh, had an oboe lesson today, not too bad. Mozart concerto my butt, it's a bunch of notes. A very famous bunch of notes that if I screw up many people will frown at me. It's for teh tanglewood audition, stoopfid auditions! And midterms this week, and a regionals festival...just breathe.
FGb, studying my lazy butt off.
Post 175
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 5:51 pm
I'm just posting because I thought of something inspirational and positive to say. That the human heart truly is an amazing thing and you can do so much if you set your mind to it. And if you just say something nice to someone or even just smile at them, you can make their day the best day of their life.
That's it, just feeling nostalgiac.
Post 176
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 7:01 pm
Hey, Estel!
I've been really anti-social. Sorry. I do believe I e-mailed/annoyed a number of people last night about the 2005 Gathering, and I think you were in there as well. Something else to hold on to.
Yes, those were my boots. God, I hope you guys trashed 'em. I never even thought about what y'all would do with them, I just wanted to get rid of the damn things so bad.
Packing up and leaving the Sheraton was probably the most stressful thing I've ever done. I felt like crap because Jodie was on the phone with hubby and I should have been there for her, but I wasn't packed and my uncle was picking me up in ten minutes and I hadn't said goodbye to anyone. It was such a mess. Hell, you saw the room - there was stuff everywhere! I hope I got everything I brought with me and paid for, at least. I gave Jodie a hug before I left. I hope she wasn't mad at me for taking off and that she's doing fine now. I don't even wanna think about how I acted when I said bye to you guys. I was crying my eyes out all the way down the hall and into the lobby. What a tool.
I am sorry I won't be able to be there for Oxford, but I will be in Liverpool, and perhaps something can be worked out that you guys come to the maritimes for a day and I can meet up with ya's, or even if you just switch planes around here and have an afternoon, I could run down to say hello. I am realizing that I just can't do these TORC moots as much as I'd like because I don't have the means, or the help from the people I need it. Perhaps I could then be the welcomer to those crossing from one end of the world to the other. Everyone has to fly over me anyway - may as well try to catch up with 'em.
Time for a shower and some sleep.
*E*
Post 177
Rebecca
Date Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 7:13 pm
Good idea, you were beginning to smell.
Post 178
Piccoleia
Date Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 8:32 pm
latin holds me hostage for 5 days and I turn around to find notonly have we shifted to Rio *bring on the mardi gras* but we're 10 pages into it already!
well, I should be around a bit more now that i've got half my summer school out the way. what have I missed?
Post 179
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 9:14 pm
Damn, Rebecca, I was hopin' it was just my state of mind - I can't get the stink off me these days!!! Its especially disappointing since I've had such good hygiene this past year.
*E*
Post 180
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 11:42 pm
I'd just like to point out that it is not certain I'll go to Florida, but I'll know for sure later this week. Mind you, E*'s sig has me seriously considering Dallas as an alternative. Things really look up when I see that pic.
E* - looking forward to seeing you in Liverpool. Hell it seems almost all my spare days are TORC related at the moment. I mean IRL, not this silly computer.
Dec 9-11...Berlin Premiere (meeting Leafy and Satch)
Dec 12-19...Toronto Gathering (hundred + TORCers)
Dec 31- Jan 4...Texas (Estel)
Jan 9 - Jan 11...Texas (Estel)
Jan 16 - Jan 19...Texas (Estel)
Jan 25...Rotterdam (Renowen and Jaeniver)
Feb 6 - Feb 8...Liverpool (around 40 TORCers)
I need a holiday. A very long holiday, only I intend to come back. Seriously though, I have made more friends on this website IRL than I ever thought I would. Hope to make more in Liverpool.
Post 181
notlistening
corner of no and where
Date Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 11:49 pm
LOL! Hooray for Estel! I thought that post from TLE sounded a bit too nice and chatty for him. Shades of Vyn logging in as Bernil...
Myst, have you recovered from your ROTK viewing yet? or are you trapped under something heavy in the cinema and have to keep watching it over and over...wait, that sounds like fun!
FGB, we likes Mozart but cannot play the hard stuff on our flute!
L_J, hi honey! Missed you.
and Rebecca....APPLES to you!
naught else to say really except I wish I were in England so I could go mooting! *pouts*
nl
Post 182
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:42 am
I wondered what *E*'s shoes were doing in TLE's room...Hi, Estel.
Rebecca- I see that you're putting your PM to good use!
I go to the orthopedist today at 10am, I'll let you all know how it goes. Hopefully, I 'll be back on the dance floor soon!
Saro
Post 183
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:45 am
Good morning/afternoon you lucky people, how’s things where you are?
I’m just mooching around at work, looking busy and all supervisory. I seem to be in a much more caring and helpful frame of mind today, so I must have just been feeling a wee bit low yesterday.
Estel: Your so tricksy! I was actually wondering why Liddy was yammering to Satch on the telephone before I realised who it was! As for that particular book, well I’m just glad your so familiar with it, best “bedtime” reading there is.
Fgb: Nice sentiments their Goldy, reaching out to people is such a positive thing to do.
Sorry, it is the National Health Service, I guess the closest thing to it in the U.S is free clinics/hospitals. Here healthcare is funded from taxes and is free to everyone. Problem is it’s run by the Government, which means forward planning sucks and it tends to be very bureaucratic.
Lidless: Been jetting off to see Estel…Estel….oh, and Estel. Am I detecting a pattern here?
NL: We all wish you were going to Liverpool.
Saro: Hope all goes well, were waiting for you to teach us all how to dance!
Cem: Things have blown up at work! I hope it wasn’t one of the animals, you’ll be cleaning up for days. Good to hear from you anyway trouble.
99: Yep, sometimes you just TORC yourself out and need some real life R & R. Say something nice to Narsil now dear, he seems to be suffering from withdrawal symptoms!
Anneri: Yeah, drinks are on me. HAHAHA!
I hope the rest of you are feeling fine, see you later.
Arve
Post 184
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004
I love reading my drivle so much I post it twice.
Post 185
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 5:15 am
Oh, Liddy would still be in intensive care today if my shoes had been in his room, Saro. For the sake of the ladies, though, I covered them in a plastic bag.
*E*
Post 186
Alassante_Estel
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 5:39 am
*E*, there was a second pair as well - some sexy style dress up shoes Either way, I brought them both home - shall I trash the boots then and send you the other shoes, or are the other ones Wilmas?
Post 187
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 6:36 am
Well Estel, may I suggest filling one of the "trashable pair" with oranges and the other with apples, the apple filled one to Rebecca and the orange filled one to NL. That way, they will have to meet to exchange the shoes, and Liverpool sounds like a jolly old meeting place to me, chap. Nothing like a good ol' fruit rivalry to spice things up a bit.
NL-a fellow woodwind! Yay! We loves and hates the Mozart, precioussss. If only I could play it well...
Liddy-you really do need a vacation. I mean with all that work, geez! And please come back, you're upping the male population here, we need balanced socialogical stats to get funding for our alcohol supply. Hiccup. Oops.
Piccolo-latin? during the summer? Pfft, you need TORC skills more than Latin, preciousss, it's a dead language. Then again, my "teach yourself Elvish" book is coming soon. Glad you're back, welcome to rrrrrrRIO!
Arve-yep, feeling sentimental yesterday, someone called me up and we talked for a half an hour or so. Said some nice things, made me happy, called me the coolest friend ever, no, we're not bragging now are we? NHS sounds cool, so like a national health care service? I'm presuming there's private health insurance too, no?
And an update from the democrats: Kerry won the Iowa Caucus. That one's kind of irrelevant though, seeing as Wesley Clark didn't enter in that one. Madonna is endorcing Clark, btw. Ridiculously stupid and insulting, or just pure genius?
Ah, off to debate the constitutionality of abortion. At least it won't be boring.
Fgb
Post 188
Darin_Bloodaxe
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 9:49 am
Yeah, drinks are on me.
You can pay for the drinks Arve but in no way am i puttig mine on you in any way shape or form so no funny ideas!
Post 189
bessthebard
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 10:02 am
I'm pooped from driving 10 hours yesterday. And the plaintiff didn't even show up at the mediation although his attorney promises he's going to accept the offer we agreed on. So that's another one done.
Hope everybody is doing fine. I'm living vicariously through everyone's posts in the Liverpool Moot thread so don't disappoint me. I expect lots of wild drinking and outrageous behavior involving farm animals, possibly llamas.
Saro, I'm hope everything went ok with the knee doctor. I'm sure you'll be lipping the tight tanfastic in no time.
I'm taking the rest of the day off. Meaning I'm not answering the phone while I continue to work on files.
Post 190
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 11:00 am
Hi all! Back from the knee doc. My surgery is scheduled for 1/28. I have a torn meniscus. The outcome will depend on the condition of my knee cartilage. He told me to go to church and pray for smooth cartilage.
Now I just have to figure out how to rest my knee while carrying a 15lb baby around the house and up and down the stairs....
New photo is coming. I just have to down-size it a bit.
Saro
Post 191
Lembas_Junkie
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 11:04 am
Yes, FGB this sig can be just for you! Would you like to know how the book ends? I think Frodo does!
Hi everyone! And howdy, Ain't Listenin'! I'd love to come to all these nice Moots that are planned, I wonder if anyone would be willing to travel to the Maritimes for a Moot? *E*? What do you think, is there enought in the Maritimes and Ontario to make a Moot? And then people from the northern states could come, too.
Post 192
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 11:25 am
Saro, eat lots of peanut butter. It'll oil up that cartilage for ya!
Post 193
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 11:30 am
Mmmmmmm.....peanut butter....
Bess- Love your sig! I just looooove the muppets!
Saro
Post 194
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 12:43 pm
Anneri, LOL Well y'know, I'm all up for talking to random people. The nights are still long and cold...
Estel, 1st and last post my ass Stupid Yank. And dang straight you're getting text messaging. Maybe those messages I sent you when I was in France would come through over half a year later... be worth my money Overpriced crap it is. Love you too, lovey yourself
Arve, he was yammering to me on the phone. Hell he yammered more than Estel did, and there I was thinking he was actually being nice and stuff but lo and behold it was just Estel. *shakes head*
Saro, what sorta surgery are you having?
Lidless, candycandycandycandy...
Mmmm peanut butter... *walks as if in a trance to the 1.13kilo tub sitting in the refrigerator*...
Post 195
narsil
Date Posted:
Bess- forgive old Narsil, but are you coming to Liverpool???
That would be SMASHING!!!!!
Arv- ofcourse I am having withdrawl symtoms from not speaking to the fair '99!!! Who wouldn't????
Have sent you the hotmail address so we can plan what tricks we will play on Satch in private!!!
Had a crap day at work, so I am going to relax in the tub and force a carton of Hagen-daz down my gullet.
Narsil- "love to all here!!"
Post 196
Ellienor
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 1:08 pm
Saro (if I may stop in for a brief visit to Rio -- a place I've always wanted to visit!) good luck with your knee surgery! I had a torn meniscus that they stitched back together, but 2 years later a piece popped loose and they had to cut some of the cartilage away. But now my knee is great (and I have a 30-lb little un to haul around!). Hopefully yours will be done arthroscopically (no scars, just little round hole in the skin for the instruments!) Just be prepared that your knee will swell a lot & be painful for a few days, and you will need crutches, but your knee should heal quite quickly. Plan on avoiding stairs for a few days!
Post 197
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 1:09 pm
Meaneh
Post 198
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 1:54 pm
Ellienor- Welcome to Aunties' and thanks for the info. The surgeon said that stitching would be a waste of time, so he'll be removing whatever is torn. It will be outpatient arthroscopic surgery. So far I've gotten positive feedback from those who've had it done.smiles hopefully
Saro
Post 199
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:03 pm
Saro-hope the surgery goes well. You have precisely...let me think, FGb has done soooo much math in the past hour or two that counting is just beyond her right now. Well, you have about a week to tell Cooper and Griffin to carry each other around. Eh, give 'em some peanut butter, some ice cream (mint chip and cookie dough, mmm) they'll be fine. I'm hoping for the best.
Bess-yep, taking the day off indeed. Make yourself useless! c'mon, the rest of us don't even have to try... Good thing about the mediation, stoopfid lawyers. Just stop getting hurt or being illegal and stop sueing, then we won't need lawyers anymore. Sounds like a plan to me.
Narsil-no, if I do believe, Bess will be reading the reports and such and drinking along, er, what was that? Have fun with the ice cream. Good brand, but I don't know how to do that oomlaut (help with spelling mumm!) thingeemajigger. What flava? Mint chip, mmmmmm.
Ah, the joys of midterms. I have been studying my RL arse off trying to understand a semester of math in a couple of days which I have completely forgotten. It's funny, you know stuff cold and then look back on it a month later and it's gone. Gone I tell you, just...completely decided to take a holiday. I need a holiday. A very long...aw, hell, you guys know how it ends.
FGb-off to do more math homework. Oh, right, but that's after the chicken parmigian sub and Greek salad... I'm food obsessed.
Post 200
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 6:04 pm
State of the Union address is on in three minutes. I'm watching to make sure we're not going to invade France or England or something, and secondly to hear some new words.
Hey, you can always increase your vocabulary, even if the words aren't O.E.D. approved. Also, Mr. Bush has an interesting philosophy with numbers which I am absolutely fascinated with. He's beaten the experts! Hey, why not, you know? I'm just going to watch him look like a deer caught in the headlights and have a good laugh. That, and listen to the phrase, "Ma fellow...(long pause for emphasis) Americans..." a few hundred times.
FGb, oh, wait, one minute!!!11 ABC, everyone watch!
ah, don't you love Mr. Texas?
Post 201
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 6:32 pm
Gee, Goldy, and here I shut off the televison at 9 pm. Looks like I should have left it on for a few chuckles.
Post 202
sylthian
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 7:07 pm
I'm fond of the way he says 'terrah' At the risk of offending those who like him ..... oh, who?? who??? is there anyone out there who wants another 4 years of this??
sorry - mini rant got me all choked up - I'll probably need therapy now, or at the very least a Sopranos style intervention.
and then I forgot
Saro - love the new pic!! What beautiful children you have. Good luck with the surgery.
for those of you who haven't seen the Van Helsing trailer - I strongly recommend it
must google for a new sig
happy Tuesday
Post 203
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 7:56 pm
Thanks, Syl!
Should I bring back my 'Frodo Failed' sig? I also tuned out the Prez.
Saro
Post 204
sylthian
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 8:26 pm
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! holy crappola - I forgot that classic!!
Post 205
Nienna99
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 11:03 pm
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Post 206
notlistening
corner of no and where
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 11:09
Hey all,
It's raining again but it has cooled things down. Much needed. We can't sleep well when it's too hot. And we don't sleep well at the best of times.
Ellienor, welcome to Rio. Grab yourself a wargarita and cuddle up to the nearest basket of fruit (no oranges allowed)
Saro, will pray for smooth cartidge! I'm sure you'll be up and around again in no time.
Syl, nice new sig!
No, we don't want old smelly shoes filled with (what would end up being after being sent all this way) rotten oranges. Thanks anyway, precious. We have enough shoes to cope with at work.
FGB, my fluting days are pretty well behind me. Lessons cost so mcuh so don't get the poor thing out of its case very often. And then there's the neighbours to consider...
Have been feeling a bit panicky all day. It comes and goes in waves. Hate not having secure work. Very scared at times, we are, precious. Doctor said to try doubling meds but that makes me (more) dopey than usual. So only do that on days off. I know it will all end at some stage, just need to rant at times. Thanks fro listening
Still no Myst sighting, nor 99, IE or dearest Ethel. Will have withdrawals soon. Good things Tooks, syl, avre and narsil are still here.
better be off. Need food before going to 1st bible study of the year.
love to all,
nl
Post 207
Nienna99
Date Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 11:26 pm
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Post 208
Mummpizz
Date Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 12:50 am
You 'mericans keep me wondering, wondering. How can you expect the Prez to use new words if the old ones are all he can use?
nl and 99, nice to see you again ... or halt, it's me who turns up scarcely. Yoohoo!
Post 209
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 5:34 am
Per Syl's request, I'm bringing back an old favorite in honor of the State of the Union address.
Saro
Post 210
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 5:38 am
Mornin' all. The last few days.....
1)Have decided to go out with style: goodbye entire year's earnings, hello Liverpool!
2) Apparently its a sin to have attended the Gathering. I now get to be looked down upon for being at it, and because of who I got to hang out with.
2b) England is a major no-no as well. Apparently can only attend northeastern moots or be thought a tool. Even then questionable. Silly me working my friggin' butt off to get to Liverpool. What was I thinking? Tsk, tsk, tsk.
3) More style: have purchased the following items from Sideshow WETA - Galadhrim war helm, Rohan royal guard helm, Theoden's helmet, Easterling soldier statue, and Lady Galadriel bust. Let's hope these companies I bought them from do not fail me.
4) Really, who needs money?: in the next day or so, will be purchasing the Witch King's ring, a rather large Lurtz collectible figure, Eowyn action figure, Gandalf the White bust, and finally, after all this time, I'll be getting my namesake - the Evenstar.
5) Last night my brother and I made a picture of him with his head on a speedoed torso. When I get home, I will link to it in ammendment of the earlier offense on his masculinity. At least he doesn't know about that... one hopes...
6) I don't think I'll have near as many memories of high school as my parents do, though it will probably be just as sad when one of my friends pass away.
7) My other brother admitted he couldn't do something yesterday. Jaw's still pickin' up lint off the carpet.
The west coast moot thread is a signal of something for me, but until I can get the words somewhat together, I will not say what.
9) Have lost over ten pounds. Hooray for not eating during, or while planning, major trips!
10) Am now waiting for news on something that will be the be all end all for me. The stress could kill, but there's not much I can do, so I'm just trying not to think about it. Here's hoping it will be good.
*E*
Post 211
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 6:45 am
Totally random post.
Worst Analogies Ever - From School Essays
He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.
The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty Bag filled with vegetable soup.
From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and "Jeopardy" comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.
Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.
Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.
Bob was as perplexed as a hacker who means to access T:flw.quid55328.comaaakk/ch@ung but gets T:flw.quidaaakk/ch@ung by mistake
Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man."
Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can.
They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth
John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
The thunder was ominous-sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.
His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free
The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon.
Post 212
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 6:58 am
ROTFL LIDLESS!
And good luck, E, whatever secret it may be.
All FGb has time for now, class beckons.
Post 213
Anneri
Date Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 7:24 am
Hello all!
Saro, your pics rock!!!111 Such cute children, and the Frodo failed one... Good luck on the surgery.
Nienna! Good to see you again, I begun to think that you had left these shores...
My laundry - yes, it's thawed, but still hangs dripping wet on the balcony. But I can't dry it indoors, my appartment is too little for that... '8 mile' - oh well. I'm not exactly a fan of Eminem (think opposite...), but it was okay. Quite funny - we got a warning from our Californian Professor who let us watch his dvd to turn the subtitles on, because he apparently couldn't understand the slang.
*E* - I'm looking forward meeting you in Liverpool! Same with me here, regarding money...
Well, nothing new here. I'm home early today, because my fellow students went on strike yesterday to protest against the introduction of tuition fees. As one of the older students I can say 'been there, done that' - and went home...
For you Brits out there - is it still possible to get the Empire mag for February at the beginning of February - meaning when I'm in Liverpool? I want to read the 2nd part of that interview with PJ that begun in the fabulous January issue.
Edit to say: Now I know what not to write in my thesis, Lidless!
Post 214
InnocentEvil
RingMariner
Date Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 9:09 am
I'm here. I'm just still in lurk mode. I do this a couple times a year. I'm here though.
Hugs for everybody.
Post 215
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 10:12 am
*EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE* *hug*
Anneri, I think you might still be able to, I think they still had them last time I went into town. I might be going in... Thursday to get my rail card sorted so if they have one I could pick one up for ya if you like.
My head is all bunnnnnged up and I'm forced to breathe like Darth Vader. *thumbs up cheesy grin* Having a cold soooooOOOOOooo totally r0X0rz
Hey all
Post 216
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004
Okay, the stress is officially killing me now. They didn't have my work number since my dad was away and so had all calls to this phone forwarded to his cell. I gave them my home number instead and told mom to check and see if she could get through to me if she heard anything from them (as dad is now back at work). Just got the call and phoned them but had to leave a message. Arrrrgh!!!
I'm really hot all of a sudden and my hands are sweating and my stomach is in knots. Crikey!
*E*
Post 217
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 11:09 am
Good Luck, *E*!!!!
Post 218
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 12:24 pm
I have a little night out with the girlfriend and she keeps me up till all hours, so I’m now officially one of the living dead. Speaking of living dead, does anyone believe George dubyah Bush has managed to ease word tension and bring us all closer to a safe, free world?
I’ll still make some kind of effort to catch up zombie or not, although I’ll make no guarantees on quality. Guess I’ll start from the top and work my way down.
Darin: You can happily poor your drinks into my mouth, but anything else is definitely not on. Only one lady in the wide white world is allowed to poor booze on me and that’s on the understanding she cleans up after herself.
Saro: That pic of yours is so apt, it certainly explains a lot! Thinking positive thoughts about smooth cartilage as well.
Satch: Another cold?! You’ve only got fifteen days to get better, so start swallowing as many pain killers as you can and stay away from Doctors surgeries, those places are so unhealthy.
Narsil: E-mail received and counter e-mail sent off, so I’ll try to catch you as soon as possible. I’m not planning anything shady though, I have my saintly reputation to consider!
Fgb: Medical insurance? Some people pay for private medical care, but the sort of medical insurance you have in the States is a rare thing.
99: Hey, how’s things? Me and Louise are doing fine, which is amazing! I’m currently one of the luckiest men on the planet, although I’m pretty sure she could have found someone better than me. Unfortunately she isn’t going to Liverpool, but who knows? Maybe we’ll both go to Oxford moot later in the year.
NL: I guess I was depressed back in my early twenties, although I never realised at the time. I got quite self destructive and relationships with friends/family became strained. It took some intervention from a few good people and a short sharp shock to make me realise that you’ve got to concentrate on the positive things in life and not get stressed by things. Just you look after yourself, that’s an order.
*E*: I hope your going to hear good news every time that pesky phone rings, good luck with whatever it is!
Lidless: Hey some of those are good, I think I’ll steal them for later use.
The new sigs a bloody hoot!
Anneri: I’ll find that copy of Empire and bring it with me. [Looks around “study” at piles of papers, books, boxes, dirty washing, etc] I know it’s here somewhere.
Edit: Narsil, you never did tell me and Satch about your mate and kermit the frog.
Arve (Uhhhhhhh, musst eat brrraaainns)
Post 219
Eruname127
Date Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 2:06 pm
I've been a bit too busy lately to keep up with this thread and for that I apologize. But I will have plenty of time coming up in a few days.
Anyway, I just wanted to stop by since I will be leaving for the UK in about 3 hours (leaving for the airport in one though). This will be my first time out of the continental US and the longest flight I've been on. I'm looking forward to the journey and experiencing new things but at the same time a little scared just because it will all be so new.
So, wish me luck! I'll be back on TORC on Sunday and look forward to seeing you all again!
Post 220
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 2:12 pm
Had fun chatting tonight narsil and arve It was... interesting...
Arve *cough*Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaale*cough*cough*
Post 221
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 3:16 pm
Well, Issey (plus her twin brother John) will be coming to the Liverpool moot - well, popping in now and again.
I feel a drinking competition in the works between Issey and the TORC community.
You will lose.
Post 222
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 4:02 pm
Oh, that's cool, Liddy! I kept trying to write this in a way that made sense, but no dice. Ah well. Skip the following rambles...
She's a bit of a celebrity, I would think, being your daughter and all. It sort of reminds me of how people look at me at work. I'm only well-known because of who my dad is, but its funny to be on this side of it because I know they think I'm the exact opposite of dad and can't believe we're even related except that we look a lot alike. While he's the big-mouthed boss who scares everyone but is pretty much the coolest guy in the world you can talk to, I am all quiet and shy and lurk in the corner office. I know the girls can't even imagine what it'd be like to be my dad's daughter.
Not to creep you out or make you feel old or anything, I just mean that Issey's in a similar situation as she's the daughter of a well-known and liked guy, and people would be like man, TLE has a daughter... wonder what that'd be like! Its fun to see people look at your father that way because you get to see both sides of it - knowing what its like to be his daughter, and chuckling at how others wonder what that's like. Well, I am just making an ass of myself, but nothing new there. Don't worry, I wasn't comparing Issey to myself (I know she's way kewl), but the perceptions of the father and the daughter to other people. Anyway, looking forward to the boys trying to outdrink her and failing miserably.
*E*
Post 223
eLwEnaReDhEl
Date Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 4:32 pm
Had fun chatting tonight narsil and arve
But we both know it's me that you admire, right?
Post 224
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 5:07 pm
E*,
By the end of the evening though it will be, "Hey, there's Issey's father over there."
Post 225
Alassante_Estel
Date Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 5:10 pm
*waves cheerily to Isseys dad*
Post 226
InnocentEvil
RingMariner
Date Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004
Hey guys, I'm stopping in to ask for prayers and good thoughts.
Not for myself; for our darling and dear friend Ethel and for her friends who are suffering right now. Remember a week or two ago when she mentioned a dear friend who has cancer? They could all use your thoughts.
Some of you might recall that I was to drive down and spend the weekend w/ Ethel. Four out of five Lil' Evils were to make the journey w/ me. Ethel and I had planned it for a while; even the kids were excited to meet thier Auntie. I found out this week that I would not be able to make it. I really just came to grips w/ it this afternoon and hadn't yet found a way to call her.
Instead, Ethel called me tonight. Her friend's cancer is much worse than they originally believed. He has only weeks, not months as was thought before. The good news though, is that he isn't in much pain and he's lucid. Now is the time she needs to go be w/ them. She was calling to tell me this weekend wouldn't work.
Obviously, someone was sending me a strong message to stay home as our dear friend is needed elsewhere.
My thoughts are with her this weekend as she goes to be w/ old friends when they need her most. I hope some of your's will be too.
Post 227
Ethel
Date Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 11:37 pm
Hi, everyone. I just had a lovely weekend with my brother, his wife and their 2-year-old. We visited the hot springs in Pagosa, had a Durango day, and yesterday went sledding up in the mountains. I don't think I've been sledding since I was 10 years old. It's amazing how much fun it is. My sister-in-law is 5 months pregnant. Some of you "old timers" may remember that she lost a healthy 5-month fetus to a botched amniocentesis a year ago. I am thrilled that they were able to conceive again - she is 40, so it was by no means a sure thing. It was lovely to have a little one in the house, chattering away and driving the dog and the cat crazy.
IE explained a bit about what's going on with me. My friend that I wrote about - it's not good. They got the news about the cancer type today. It's melanoma. Fast moving and deadly. Probably not going to be responsive to treatment. The timeline is much shorter than it looked when they thought it was "just" lung cancer. I'm going to see them this weekend.
I haven't been able to read this thread the last few days because of my visitors - look forward to doing so soon. But I have been thinking of you all. I'm sorry to be such a downer. I haven't lost my sense of humor, not really; it's just that it's such a shock to learn that you are going to lose someone you love so much.
I'm still really regretting not being able to go to the Liverpool moot, but it just seems wrong to do right now. I hope to make another at some point... maybe Chicago?
Carry on, my friends. This thread is such a fun read. I'll be back when I can.
Post 228
notlistening
corner of no and where
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 1:05 am
Dear Ethel, my thoughts and prayers are with you and your friend. Very sorry that it is happening so fast and all but it is comforting (kinda) to hear he is in no pain. Glad to hear your SIL is pregnant again. That is wonderful! Take care of yourself, sweetness. We are thinking about you.
Arve, thanks for the thoughts and hugs and stuff! I am trying to be more positive. We had devotions at work today and that really helped. I'll be fine, just a bit whiny at times!
TLE, you have a twin? There are 2 of you? Are you ID? LOL for the essay thingys. The one about the nose hair was just ewwwwwwwwwwwww!
Hugs for 99, L_J, Mummpy and IE! and anyone else who wants one.
Eru, safe flight to the UK! Have a great time. Say hi to Iavas even though he doesn't know me
Have lots of fun at the moot, all your Torcers that get to go.
going to see the folks this weekend so will catch up on the flipside. May take a while as this thread moves so fast!
love
nl
Post 229
Mummpizz
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 1:05 am
Poor hearts, I wish you all hobbit-strength you could muster. Now the lack of a witty phrase beside Ethel's sig hits with all it's might.
Post 230
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 3:46 am
Ethel- I'm so sorry to hear about your friend's new diagnosis! We're all here for you, if you need support.
On a brighter note, I am so happy to hear about your SIL!!! That is such great news! Please keep us posted on her progress.
My surgery has been confirmed for Wednesday. I have my pre-op exam today. I have to decide whether I want a spinal or general anesthesia. I think I'll go for the spinal, so I can watch the surgery.
Saro
Post 231
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 6:13 am
notlistening,
It's my daughter who has a twin. Born on Aragorn's birthday, too. How geeky can you get, eh?
Ethel,
My thoughts are with you and your friends.
Post 232
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 6:45 am
Ethel-my prayers are an unlikely occurance, mostly because of my religious beliefs etc. But rest assured they are coming in boatloads your way because everyone here is wishing you the best of luck and the easiest of situations, given the circumstance. My prayers are with you and your friend, things will get better soon.
Great to hear about your SIL, btw. It's so...youthful and spritely to have children about the house. I wish I could say the same about me and bro. Eh, well, littl'uns are always fun.
Saro-oooh, yay! So this way you won't be bored during the operation! Good luck, wishing happy thoughts your way. I'm sure everything will go great. Besides, think of it this way; you'll at least have Aunties to catch up on. May not seem too positive right now, but just wait until you're at the computer while hubby is carrying littl'uns. Hehe, oh, that and ice cream. Waaaaait a sec, isn't that for tonsils? Oh heck, it doesn't matter. Just eat ice cream!
Satch/Narsil/Arve-you guys will have to have loads of fun at liverpool to make up for those of us who aren't going. And your chatting sounded like an, erm, interesting experience? I don't think AIM/MSN messenger is compatible with UK chat systems. Stoopfid international stuff.
Issey-hope you hold your own at the drinking competition. Have to represent all the loverly, dainty, elegant ladies who don't have an opportunity to be at the drink-a-thon. Oh, right, and make sure to school all the gentleman at the belching contest as well.
Lidless-so, how's the Florida decision going? And if you move to Florida, you do realize you'll have an accent. And that just wouldn't be good, potential laundry mates would just flock after you like, oh, say, 'a hoard of bees after a bear who just stole their honey by an intellectually boggling scheme'? Loved the bad analogies.
E-yeah, I know the feeling. Not really, lol. It's just that, whenever I was little, I would go on the labor floor because my mother's an obstetrician. And I would feel so special that I would just get to prance around the staff lounge and the hallway and nurses and secretaries would give me massive amounts of attention. Well, that was yesterday... And I missed who you were trying to get in touch with, sorry. I can't wait to see that collection of memorabilia, btw. Hope to see piccies.
Darin-I've thought of a better plan. Just make Arve enter the beer drinking competition. That will surely make him drink, come on, would Mr. "beer always in my sig" ever pass up a drink? Nah...
NL-good things come to those who wait. Everything will settle down eventually, but good things take time. Wow I am just a book of proverbs today. And did I ever tell you that flute is a very very cool instrument? hehe, I may even double on it.
Teh News live from my, er, geeky group of RL friends: I'm starting an Elvish study group. Uh-huh, me, queen of lack of organization, will be organizing an Elvish study group. Yeah, or failing miserable at the planning part of it. See, my friend taught herself Sindarin over the summer, but forgot some of it, and wants to relearn it. I want to learn it, too, and many of my other geeky friends have expressed an interest. So it is to be, I guess. More details ahead.
FGb, have my first day of mid-terms tomorrow. Am going to fail my French midterm, yay!
Post 233
bessthebard
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 8:11 am
Ethel, so sorry to hear about your friend's condition. You know, you are such a comforting, supportive person online, in person you must be awesome. I'm sure you are a blessing to them.
nl--sending supportive thoughts and hugs your way.
Saro--good luck on the surgery. You want to be awake while they scrape your knee out with a sharp instrument?? You're a stronger man than I, Gunga Din.
*E*--hope the thing you were waiting for came about. Are you going to fill us in?
Lidless--are your kids ok with you moving to Florida? Are they already plotting excursions to Disney World and Universal parks? (j/k) It's cool they will be at the Liverpool moot with you.
Fgb--I want to hear your progress in Elvish. I once bought a Klingon dictionary, but never opened it once I brought it home. Hope you are more persistent.
I got a plea from a local community theater to come direct Little Shop of Horrors. I'm going to go see what their facilities are and what they bring to the table. I've heard they want the director to be producer, too and bring in corporate sponsors which is not really my strength. We'll see.
Post 234
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 8:27 am
Hi to all.
Will be praying for your friends, Ethel. Make sure you still take some time for yourself.
Saro.... good luck on the surgery. I wouldn't mind watching myself, but it's the 'sounds' of scraping and slicing that would get to me, I think. Better take some earplugs.
Bess! I would be a corporate sponsor for you....if I was corporate, that is.
theduffster!!! Did you see we got nominated as best on-screen duo for the TORCies??? Go us!!!!
Just wait til they see us in Philly......
Post 235
Mighty_Squid
Diving Deep
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 8:38 am
My prayers and thoughts are with you and your friend, Ethel.
Post 236
Lembas_Junkie
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 8:54 am
What Mumm says, I feel too:
Poor hearts, I wish you all hobbit-strength you could muster. Now the lack of a witty phrase beside Ethel's sig hits with all it's might.
Post 237
Lembas_Junkie
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 9:50 am
Me again. Lidless, the one with the bag of veggie soup falling sounds like something straight from a Weird Al song.
Hi, everyone! Off to Physio lab now, today we're experimenting on mice. They will live!
Post 238
Lembas_Junkie
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 9:51 am
...unlike the rabbit I dissected last week...
Post 239
bessthebard
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 10:02 am
I just found a very large squishy lump behind the shoulder on my daughter's hamster, so I am going to take it to the vet. Hope it's not bad news. My daughter adores this animal.
Post 240
Berhael
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 10:06 am
Ethel - I'm so sorry to hear about your friend. You are all in my thoughts. (((hugs)))
IE, sorry that you couldn't meet our favourite Auntie... I know that everyone at Liverpool is going to miss her too. But as you said, she needs to be with her friend.
Aaaaanyway... *deep sigh, squares shoulders* Hi to everyone else, just a quick drive-by posting to distribute a couple of hugs. I really must catch up with this thread...
Post 241
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 10:37 am
FG,
The decision will be made on Monday, it turns out.
Florida is a really good place to live if you're an orange, a mosquito or a Cuban.
Post 242
cemthinae
Micah Six:Eight
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 11:00 am
Hello everyone! Happy Chinese New Year! This is my year... the year of the monkey! (no snide comments please... being a monkey is a very good thing! Means I'm a loyal friend & a very pleasant person! )
({HUGS}) for Ethel! My grandfather died of several things, including cancer & I've been thinking back on him. I miss him, but in a good way! I hope that you will enjoy the time you have with your friend! Its always important to remember that time slips by so quickly!
Disgusting minds... After I typed that I figured Arve or Narsil would latch onto the "things blowing up at work"! It wasn't one animal, it was a whole bunch actually. We had a contagious disease make an appearance & we've not only been fighting it, but also bad PR & irritated customers... sigh! Not been a fun past week! I truly wish I had more free time to play on TORC! Every day of absense has been spent in sheer exhaustion... too tired to even turn my home PC on!!
I've read through the thread & caught up a bit! I see some new faces in here as well! That's good!
Saro~ Take care! Will be anxiously awaiting surgery results!
Bess~ Hope your daughter's hamster is ok! We once had to lance an abcess on a baby hamster that was about half an inch long!! I had to try & "hold" it! It was a miracle we didn't inflict any harm on the poor baby!
LJ~ please be careful with the little mice!! First do no harm!!
99~ I haven't had anytime to think about Chicago... guess I'd better go check that thread next. Hope you are doing well!
Lil Sis~ Mozart... the bane of French Horn players! Actually he's an excellent composer, I just don't give 2 figs for his concertos for horn! Overplayed IMO & like all good high schoolers I was expected to learn all 4! Pfffft! Hope you are doin' well, darlin'! Keep a smile on your face!
Arve, Narsil, TLE & all other Liverpool attendees! I hope that you have a great time & will maybe even remember some of it to pass along to those who can't attend!!
Eruname~ You should be in England by now! Hope you are enjoying yourself!!
All others I don't have time to name: Take care!! Smiles for all!
Post 243
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 11:52 am
This weekend is going to be lonely, I’ve just waved good bye to Louise [sob]. She’s heading off with a group of girlfriends on a Hen Weekend, her pal’s getting married next week. There going to Budapest of all places, apparently it’s full of bars, clubs, cheap booze and inexpensive quality hotels. Louise is under strict instructions not to get frisky, but she said “why do I need strange men in Buda when I’ve already got a strange man?”.
So I guess I’ll be mooching around tomorrow, no money to go out, friends all out of cash so no chance of borrowing money, TORC’s probable going to be dead.
Oh well, I’ll write a bit more of my novel then.
Eru: Having fun yet?
Satch: Yeah, maybe I should tell people what a potty mouth you’ve got, here I was thinking you were a nice young lady. Must do it again, but I think I need time to recover, laughter hurts.
Ethel: Always a bit of good news mixed in with the bad. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for your sis-in-law and pray to whoever’s listening for you, your friend and respective families.
NL: We all need a good whinge from time to time, so no worries. I hope your weekend’s a good one to.
Fgb: Hey, we have MSM and AIM! Although I’m not sure you would have wanted to be part of that particular convo, it was very…….English. Keep us informed on the Study Group as well, sounds interesting.
Cem: Well you knew someone had to say something! It’s good to hear from you, I was getting worried.
Post 244
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 12:09 pm
Fgb: Hey, we have MSM and AIM!
Yeah you crazy girl how do you think we talk?? I am not an American you know. I'm English
*starts to sing the National Anthem but falters out after the first line*
I don't think anyone except rugby players know much of the damn anthem. It's crap.
Arve, I have no idea what you're talking about. Not at all.
Post 245
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 12:43 pm
Me neither.
(But that's because I'm terrible. Satch is a saint by comparison.)
*E*
Post 246
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 12:51 pm
By comparison?? I'm a saint, period.
...Yea you're worse
Post 247
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 12:56 pm
Did that batch of lady porn make it to your house yet, satch?!?!?!?!
*E*
Post 248
Ornendil
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 1:23 pm
So this is where this thread's gone! The new name was too different from the last. I didn't find it!!
Post 249
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 1:46 pm
Ornie- I'm glad you found us!
Bess- sending you healthy hamster vibes. When my first pet hamster died it was in the middle of the blizzard of '78 and my sister's friend's father was so moved by my grief that he took me out to the pet store the very next day to get a new one, which I very creatively named, blizzard. (He was a white teddy bear hamster) I no longer remember much about that first hamster, but I actually taught blizzard to do some tricks.
I had my pre-op exam today. I'll be getting the spinal. I don't want to miss an opportunity to observe surgery, even if it is MINE. The anesthesiologist had already circled general anesthesia on the form, before asking my preference! I'll keep you all posted, but you may not hear from me for a few days after my surgery on Wednesday since the computer is downstairs from my bedroom.
Saro
Post 250
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 5:10 pm
Bess-best wishes for the hampster. Hey, why do hamsters keep coming up on this thread?! No, with the advanced pet care these days, he/she should be fine. thinking good thoughts!
Big Sis-unhappy customers=not happy animals, and more importantly, a not very happy big sister. 
Glad you're back!
And I think Mozart is over rated as well, but he's sure as hell better than Hindemith. God I hate both of those concerti! Actually, no, I hate everything that I can't play, and I can't play the Mozart...YET!
Arve/Satch-If you have MSN, I may have to just invade one of your "British" convos one day. Well, I don't speak British; stoopfid foreign languages.
E-you are an angle via AIM. Hmm, wonder what you're like in person.
Saro-good luck with the surgery. And I think it's so brave of you to watch your own surgery. Do indeed take took's advice and bring earplugs.
I'm actually doing not as well as I had liked to be doing right now. I have to study French, and I'm completely ignorant of it. It's quite unfortunate, because quite frankly I really am fascinated by languages, but there seems to be some sort of barrier between me and them. It's just...frustrating, because I can not understand it! Most people are concerned about their Exam grade, but I'm just really worried that it will turn out I don't know even the very small amount that I think I know. Sigh, I have to practice too. Wow, I am behind.
Any tips on how to learn French when you can't learn it? FGb, in a pondery.
Post 251
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 5:27 pm
Ornie, how long have you been going to Something Awful? Its a shame that we can't link to it. Totally understand of course, I just always thought of that site as the equivalent of what the movies forum posters do with words, these guys do with photos. I just love the sick/witty/shocking sense of humour, and these guys have it in spades. I know that fella talked about a few pics in particular on that thread, but I was just wondering if you had known about the site before. I've been visiting since August '02.
I'm so bloody tired right now. Its been quite the day. Will try not to ramble too much.
I was freaking out last week because it looked like a huge certainty that I would not be able to make it to England. And that would have sucked for many reasons, as I'm sure you all can imagine. I came out of the bank crying, even. I have never been rich, and material things were never important to me whatsoever until I got a job and LOTR came into my life. I didn't throw my money away on things that weren't important to me, but I certainly never worked out a budget and worried that I'd use my interac card and have it say "Not enough funds." It looked like I would be spending all my money, and then have more to work off on the credit card that was being mailed to me specifically so I could get a hotel in London. Of course, it hurt when I found out Ethel couldn't come. I hurt for my friend, and I hurt because I couldn't meet her now, and for lots of reasons. I couldn't even get a flight over that would arrive when I needed it to (as someone had so generously opened their home to me and I would not dream of asking them to come and get me at ridiculous hours), nor would arriving the day we had to head 'er to Liverpool work. On top of all that (yes its an every day thing, but I still have not learned to cope with it and I've been here ten months), I was still working and not having much to do. Lots of stuff that wanted to make me pull my hair out and crawl into a hole and die.
Yesterday, bloody Sideshow Weta made available for pre-order about a dozen new kick-ass items, all for hefty sums of cash. Damn them! What a rat race, trying to get through to the site and register an account only to find out you can't order without a credit card. I was pretty sure they wouldn't sell out in a day, but I do not trust the people who purchase from that site anymore. My wallet had now joined the pity party with me.
Today, my dad calls his aunt in Kent to see if I'd be able to stay with her over the weekend when I go to London. I only wanted to stay in a hotel for five days, because on the sixth, the prices go up to an obscene amount, and my little Canadian dollar does not go very far. She says oh, however long you like, love. But do be careful! Everything is so expensive over here. Dad tells her that that's what he warned me about (knew it already, btw) but that I really wanted to go. She says tell her to come and stay with me as long as she needs - I'm a two minute walk from the station and from there its about twenty minutes into London. Oh my freaking heavens!!!! That lovely woman just saved me about a thousand dollars worth of hotel accomodations! That wasn't the first thing that went through my head, of course, so don't think I'm only trying to mooch off her to save money. I have met dad's aunt maybe three times in my life, and she has got to be the most fantastic woman alive. So cool. And I was just shaking when dad told me about this because I just hadn't heard any good news in too long a time. It was most welcome.
My credit card came in. I ordered those Sideshow Weta items I wanted, and I will not be charged one cent until it ships, which is sometime after July. I could just collapse from happiness. I will totally have worked up enough money to afford the items by then! There aren't even pictures available for them, but if when I see them and am not happy with the products, I can cancel the order no problem. Everything works out so well! I bought my plane ticket after work. It gets to London at the time I needed it to and though it cost a lot, it was less than what I had been expecting, so that was nice.
I'm just so happy about all this. Next week when United Cutlery announce the prices for their new items, I will be singing a different tune, but at least I will also have some LOTR flags and Aragorn's hunting knife on their way to me, which eases the pain somewhat.
I'm going to England, guys!!!! No two ways about it. I will be there!
EDIT: FGB, I smell a bit, but I got a heart of gold.
TLE, did you get my e-mail? Not sure if I got the right address.
*E*
Post 252
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 5:41 pm
*E*- I'm so happy for you!The best I'll be doing is going to ROTK at a local theater tomorrow with some local members of the official fan club on Sunday.
Saro
Post 253
cemthinae
Micah Six:Eight
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 5:52 pm
Orni~ Yeah! You found us!!
That's great *E*!! Go have fun!!
Saro~ You're gonna watch your own surgery... Hmmmm... sounds like something I'd do too!! Good luck, we'll all be praying for you!
Lil Sis~ On to cheerful topics... well, happier than Mozart & disgruntled customers! ((HUGS)) just because!
I'm fostering a 1 1/2 lb tortishell kitten from the shelter with a fractured pelvis! She's quite a little spitfire! We probably wouldn't have kept her, but when she came in a volunteer saw her & said she'd adopted her if someone would keep her til the end of March... what a sucker I am!! So kitten goes home with me, gets named "Babe" for "Babe Bennett" (from "Mr Deeds Goes To Town"!) because of her tough little exterior & her soft little kitten personality! Dr. says she'll heal on her own, either completely normal or with a limp! Right now she's running (well, limping!) circles around my dogs! They're not quite sure what to think of this hissing ball of fur!
Post 254
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 5:55 pm
Saro, every time people watch FOTR, they are watching a film you get to have your name in the credits of. I'd be bragging about that the rest of my life. Thanks! I wish I could freeze this day.
Forgot to add that when I got home, I found that mom had cleaned my entire room (if any of you read that depressing thread I started, well, it was one of many reasons I was so down - the place was a freakin' dump!) If that's the worst thing that happens to ya in a day, you know you're doin' alright. I'm so impressed with it, I'll prolly put up before and after pictures, just so you guys can see. haha
*E*
Post 255
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 6:31 pm
E*,
I got the e-mail and the accompanying TOS-banned picture.
Very informative. I'm sure Estel will ensure that sign be put up by the pool if I'm living with her. Probably be pretty close to the mark too.
Post 256
Entwife_of_Fangorn
It's the Ents who are lost
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 6:38 pm
Hello everyone! Like Ornie, I had to go searching for you this time! Just read the whole thread and found lots of good news (Yay *E*!) and sad news (Oh Ethel, so, so sorry for you and your friends ).
It's been ages since I've stopped by. I've been caught up in the Moobies forum since before ROTK came out and have shamefully neglected all the good folks here at the friendliest thread at TORC. Must hang out here some more.
theduffster!!! Did you see we got nominated as best on-screen duo for the TORCies??? Go us!!!! Tooks, that was me! I couldn't believe no one had nominated the two of you before--you're a shoo in!
The fun thing about the TORCies is that there's no limit on how many noms you can make. So you can just have fun with it, and nominate anyone you want to. Don't know if that was your idea, Lidless, but it was a good one.
Now, I need some ideas for best humor thread. I can remember the ones from the last few months, but were there some good ones in the spring? Would Green Eggs and Hama (ALL-time funniest, I think) be eligible , or did that win last year?
Post 257
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 6:41 pm
"I can't do this Sam."
Post 258
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 7:01 pm
Enty- What a great sig! Welcome back!
Tooks and Duffy- Congrats!!!
NL- Hang in there!
Saro
Post 259
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 8:45 pm
Entwife,
Green Eggs is indeed eligible since it is during the correct time frame. But I wouldn't bother nominating it for Best Parody / Humor. Choose the ones in my sig. Far better, I think objectively.
Well an interesting day. Up and working at 6.30am, still doing it at 11pm - but I did manage to increase the group's profits by USD 1m, solved six IT problems, and caught up on 60 e-mails. Pity I don't work on commission or get overtime...
Post 260
cemthinae
Micah Six:Eight
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 9:13 pm
Poor Lidless! Shall we send over one or two (or more) shirtless babes to releave some of your stress?!! A good massage will do wonders!
Enty~ Adorable pic!
Post 261
Entwife_of_Fangorn
It's the Ents who are lost
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 9:22 pm
Thanks Cem and Saro! Saro, Griffin would be about 2 months now, right? He must be so cute! I loved my babies at that age.
Up and working at 6.30am, still doing it at 11pm - but I did manage to increase the group's profits by USD 1m, solved six IT problems, and caught up on 60 e-mails.
Lidless, you amaze me. How do you juggle a high powered job with being one of the funniest, most involved people at TORC? (and I'm not sucking up; it's a fact, you are) I mean, do you not sleep? How do ya do it?
Post 262
prmiller
I am Parm, Bard of Imladris, Servant of Eru
Date Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 9:25 pm
To TheLidlessEye...for the "Hello Sniper Kitty" picture
Beware! Beware!
For through the air
from Hello Sniper Kitty,
will come, will come,
like fife and drum,
a bullet without pity!
Look there! Look there!
For one shunned care
and now must hear Death's ditty,
For she took aim
and Lo! it came
that shot from Sniper Kitty!
Happy thoughts!
Bright blessings,
Parm
Post 263
Mummpizz
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 12:50 am
There once was a quizzical cat
Who thought that Dave'd better be dead.
It started the day
The shakespearian way
And, shooting, said "How now! A rat?"
Tooks, you're on!
Post 264
Piccoleia
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 1:36 am
skulking in the shadows, with a wargatira in hand
Post 265
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:44 am
Mumm, it's too early for me to do poetry. Wait until I do my morning run and have a 2nd cup of coffee.
in her best Ahhhh-nold voice...
Ah'll be back.
Post 266
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 5:43 am
I’m back.
ahem.
Kitty cat with a grudge
Against that meany Dave.
Once he has him in his sights,
He’ll fix that meany knave.
Okay, so I’ve only had a half cup of coffee so far.
Post 267
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 6:31 am
Entwife - vodka.
Great poems one and all!
Post 268
Anneri
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 6:55 am
Drive-by post - best wishes to all and sundry (a big amount of those go into Ethel's direction - my thoughts are with you).
Cem (hugs) - good to see you! I was a bit worried not seeing you for quite some time.
Arve and Satch - hugs and thanks! It'd be great if you could get one for me, Satch, otherwise Arve will have to tidy up his desk...
(Btw, Satch, I'm shocked, truly shocked that you don't know the national anthem... why doesn't that surprise me?! Ah, the joys of working for years at international sports events - my favourite is the Italian one, though.)
Saro, I wish you a very - ahem - educational surgery. And not much pain.
Entwife! Good to see you again! Stay a little, will you?
Lidless, I've something for you in Liverpool - a change from vodka...
Mummpizz - Nicht lustig? Unsinn.
Well, I've got a quite cinematic week - after '8 mile' and 'Love...actually', 'Lost in translation' today and 'Mona Lisa's Smile' tomorrow. Although I'm afraid that my quite feminist soul will hiss and bristle like Cem's new cat at Mona Lisa's Smile!
I had to pay a rather big sum for some lent books at the library today *groans* - I really have to become a bit more organised!
Post 269
InnocentEvil
RingMariner
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 7:12 am
Hi guys
It seems I really was not meant to be driving to Durango this weekend. We got our channels crossed w/ Bill's doctors. We thought his next treatment wasn't until next weekend but it turns out to have been scheduled for this morning all along.
He's so heavily drugged and so out of it when he's released that he isn't supposed to be alone for 24 hours afterwards. If I had been driving down to see Ethel, I'd be leaving right about now and Bill still isn't home (his father will bring him in about an hour). I'm sure his parents would have taken care of him but I really prefer to be here; he needs me, gosh darn it!
My thoughts go out to Ethel, I hope she has a good, peaceful visit w/ her friends.
Saro, I hope your surgery goes very well. I asked my doctor about staying concious through my hysterectomy. He pointed out that the nature of the area in which he and the team would be working might be pretty embarassing for me to have to watch. He was absolutely right and I opted to sleep instead.
I don't think I'd be embarassed to watch someone work on my knee though
I've raised spitfire kittens, your's sounds so fun. If she'll let you, give her kisses just from me.
Our own Toby has taken to slipping outside at night and returning early in the morning when Amanda leaves for school. She leaves before the sun comes up to catch her bus. He always comes in to visit me, wherever I happen to be and I feel like he's catching me up on his adventures. He's a very vocal guy, so he mows and rows quite eloquently.
Patrick wants very much to buy Toby his own bed. His favorite place to sleep is in my bathroom sink though and I don't think they make sink shaped cat beds. Most beds are really too small for this dog sized cat anyway.
Post 270
bessthebard
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 10:25 am
Back from a long morning of being grilled. I had my deposition taken instead of taking it. Bad faith insurance claim because we didn't pay as much as they wanted. "Vexatious refusal"--what about my vexation for 3 hours of ridiculous questions!!! Ok, glad that's off my chest.
Bad news about hamster--she has a tumor and the doctor only gives her about 50% chance of coming through surgery with good chance the tumor will recur. But I've got to try at least one surgery for my daughter's sake. Think healthy hamster thoughts. I'm taking her in an hour from now.
My kids adore the stray cat we took in last year. They've taken to fighting over whose bed he will sleep on at night. I caught Nick sneaking the cat back down to Jade's bed early in the morning so she will think the cat's been with her all night. Apparently he's been cat-napping Twix several nights in a row. The cat just takes all the adoration as his majestic due.
Post 271
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 10:35 am
Hello all, sorry for the desperation last night. It's just that when you've studied and not procrastinated for once, you still have so much more to study and you get really panicked. So, I studied French last night, about 200 words, and spat back grammar to my brother, who speaks French better than I do although he's younger. Makes me sad.
But today, I went in there, after having written four pages the exam before, and I aced it! Or, so I think. Obviously, it was 100 questions, so I'm bound to get five or ten wrong just out of pure stupidity and lack of concentration. But I actually knew what I was doing! Huzzah for FGb!
English wasn't so bad, I speak it alright. Well, decently. Okay, I speak English really mediocrely, can't spell, and grammar's not my thing. So I had the grammar editing CAPT thing, and then I had to read and analyze a short story with four pages (precisely) of writing. My hand hurt a lot.
And today, because I made first chair orchestra (best position, yay!) in a competition, I have to rehearse for the concert. So, I'm leaving in ten minutes or so, and won't be back until around ten. So...eight hours away from home, although there will only be five hours or so that I'm actually rehearsing. And then tomorrow, we have rehearsal in the morning followed by a concert.
For anyone as musically geeky as myself, we're playing the Kabalevsky Overture, Sibelius 2 Finale, and Crown Imperial March. I HATE MARCHES!
Anyway, yeah, to that's what's on tap for today. And no, Lidless, that tap is not a vodka tap. Oh, btw, what do you do? Or maybe just, uh, what's an IT? lol, have to explain to the littluns here. Or just the ones that live under rocks in the middle of a gaping hole of oblivion, like myself.
Off to regionals, wish me luck that my arm does not atrophy from my lack of ability to feel it. FGb, doing here oboey duties.
Post 272
InnocentEvil
RingMariner
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 10:38 am
Oh dear! not *gasp* CATNAPPINGS!!!
The kids don't pick up Toby. He won't allow it, though we can if we want(the grown ups). He has very firm ideas about who is allowed to do what to him. He and I have had a few conversations about growling at the children or thinking maaaybe he'll bite one of them.
He's now very very respectful. Especially of baby. Especially when I'm in the room
Oh dear, poor hamster. They really aren't designed for major surgery, are they? Our children will make us do such silly things. Ten years ago, fifteen, would you have thought you would ever get surgery for a hamster?
They came and trimmed our trees this week. Which was nice as the branches were very low and were touching the tops of the cars and our house. But it was nice because it made for a shady yard, and it was cosy. I confess I was worried about the spring snow and whether we'd have a branch crash through a windsheild or roof but I am sort of going to miss the snug green canopy. I hope I get to like it better when it has leaves. Seems very drastic right now.
Post 273
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 10:52 am
Way to go FGb
I am currently pondering how able I'd be to fit a piano into my 3 by 2m bedroom, which has a huge Ikea sized (very huge) wardrobe and bed in. There are 2 options I have of the positioning of the room, one blocks half the door, which is ok for the able (not me) but my cats will accept it, or the other is how it is now. Unless I decide to totally revamp and go wild! (Please note that last sentence needed all the Laurence Llweleyn (or however the hell you spell his name) "oomph" in it) and block out the small crack in the ceiling posing as a window. *strokes chin* The possibilities are endless...
I s'pose I could always smuggle it in and hope my family don't notice. I could cover it up with a white sheet with a few paint droplets on it and say it's art...
...Wonder if I could get a good grade for that...
But really people, who wouldn't wanna take advantage of a £16 piano from ebay?! My preciousssss...
LMAO *E*!! Your sig, mucho likey
Post 274
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 10:58 am
He did too a bit, it seems.
*E*
Post 275
Lembas_Junkie
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 12:36 pm
*E* you get to go to Liverpool! Yee-ha!
Hi, everyone! Just came from Organic Chem lab. *whew* I'm glad this week is over! There's a variety show at the school tonight, but I'm heading home early, and won't make it! Ah well, pub crawl is next Friday, and ski trip the Wed. after that.
Who is going for the operation again?
Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!
p.s. Mumm, I wants the cakes in your sig pic, precioussss!
p.s.s. Orni I love the sig pic. Only one way, indeed!
Post 276
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 1:14 pm
E*,
Your sig is actually accurate. I promised not to tell the board, but I guess the jig is up. Satch actually stripped naked for our David. It turns out that her entire torso has been tatooed with his face.
The beard was eerily accurate.
Post 277
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 1:40 pm
*grooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan*
P.S. omf*
*E*
Post 278
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 1:46 pm
Lidless! How could you tell?!!
...at least you didn't see the tattoo of Andy Serkis on my ass...
Post 279
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 1:54 pm
Could you please stop sending me that pic, satch. My account is full enough.
*E*
Post 280
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 1:58 pm
So you don't want the Ian McKellen one either??
Post 281
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 2:06 pm
You know how I feel about old men.......
Send it on up!!!
*E*
Post 282
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 2:24 pm
Well *E* I did see someone who had a bloody marvelous rendition of Gimli on their chest, beard and all.
Maybe you could give them a call?
Post 283
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 2:55 pm
Nope. No beard.
That was just my normal chest hair.
*E*
Post 284
cemthinae
Micah Six:Eight
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:04 pm
Thinking happy thoughts for the hamster...
Even the little ones are precious!
Post 285
Rebecca
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:29 pm
Sorry about your daughter's hamster bess. Hope he's alright.
I remember once we came home from a camping trip, and my hamster was missing an eye. Yup, he only had one eye. Couldn't find the other one either. I was distressed, so my parents bought expensive medicine and took him to the vet. He did fine after that, but I remember duffster saying later that it would have been about 5 times cheaper to just replace the dang thing. Oh well. One-eyed hamsters are way cooler anyway.
Have a good weekend everyone. Back home with theduffster till Sunday, so I might not post much till then.
Post 286
bessthebard
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 4:06 pm
Blackie the Hamster
R.I.P.
Post 287
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 4:24 pm
Oh, bess. I'm sorry. Give warm hugs to the children for me.
*E*
Post 288
InnocentEvil
RingMariner
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 4:31 pm
Awwww! I'm sorry Bess. I am sure your little one is heartbroken. Those guys just aren't built to last, poor darlings. Maybe you can have a little memorial service for the hamster.
We lost a dog this spring. She was such a tough dog and so independent we never knew she was sick until she was terminal. It was a few days and then she was gone. She died rather gently but the kids were around and she was in pain, crying and moaning. The children were really really broken up about it.
My brother, the sweetie, dug a grave for her w/ his minibackhoe and we had a little service. Each of the kids spoke, Patty asked some funny questions, like little boys do and even my brother said some nice things (about a dog he'd seen and talked to maybe half a dozen times). Then the kids wanted to stay to watch Alex put dirt over the grave.
They cried a bit more a few days later when it really hit home but I think saying goodbye was very healthy.
Post 289
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 5:03 pm
I'm sorry to hear about, Blackie, Bess.
Saro
Post 290
sylthian
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 5:14 pm
Oh Bess - sorry about the little guy. On a more practical level - you know most hamsters live for only about 2 years so if this guy was 2+.... well you see where I'm going right?
Saro!! Thanks for resubmitting that pic - it's the best. Good luck with your surgery. My second son has had it done three times (perhaps I shouldn't tell you that?). On the up side recovery is very fast and he really liked the drugs
where's Northern? Where ever you are - new treatment for cts!!! Called cold laser and appears to work as well if not better than surgery - I'm checking into it!!!
Happy weekend all.
Post 291
InnocentEvil
RingMariner
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 5:40 pm
Sylthian, your son has three knees?
A most unusual boy
(My husband's had a rebuild on his knee, I understand some must have it done every ten years or so)
Post 292
sylthian
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 5:58 pm
As a matter of fact, yes I said there were drugs involved, right?
Post 293
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 8:09 pm
Thanks, Syl. I'm hoping to skip the pain meds, though, since I'm breastfeeding.
Saro
Post 294
theduffster
Date Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 4:24 am
Hey, everyone! I finally made it over to Auntie's! Whew! So many things going on, can't everyone just remain frozen in time for me? Hamsters dying, ( -sorry, Bess,) Lidless moving way too close to me for comfort, *E*'s room has been cleaned and Satch has very interesting tattoos now! Since I started working full-time, I've not been able to visit TORC for more than a few snatches of time. Oh, if only I could TORC while at work, alas!
I can't believe that you nominated Tooks and me, Entwife! I don't know if I should be alarmed or flattered.
I was planning on posting on the boards a lot today, but we're going skiing. Yay! 6 inches of fresh powder overnight!
I also quit the newspaper route. I thought about keeping it, for the exercise benefits of a 40-minute walk every day, but it's making my day too long. Now I'm just an ordinary working mother, with an ordinary job. Ellie was asking what I do there all day, I said that both her dad and I have similar jobs now, where we sit at computers and move money around electronically. I take it from people, and they thank me for doing that. My husband does too, but they are unhappy with the results-since he's a stockbroker.
It's good to be here!
Post 295
InnocentEvil
RingMariner
Date Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 8:38 am
Duffylady, so glad you made it back into Talk! I laughed out loud and wondered what you were up to when I saw what your new sig pic would be but as I couldn't find an appropriate place to ask, I kept my trap shut. It's just nothing like your usual ones, though she's, er, quite lovely
So are you enjoying your job? I found when I worked for a couple years while Patty was little but before Cheryl that I enjoyed my "talking to grown ups" time though the job was low paying. It was nice to earn a little paycheck and in my house, provide the best insurance (my husband's plan was horrrrible) and still get home in time to meet them at the school bus. Of course, that meant starting my shift at six am
Daycare costs are prohibitive around here and that prevented me for a bit. Then Bill's truck is oooold and driving it got to the point where it was so horribly expensive we really couldn't afford it, so I let him take my suburban three or four days out of five. So I had to put it off again.
Last week the BiggestLilEvil came home from school to tell me in great detail about the little classmate of hers who was crying and throwing up in the bathroom. This little girl was terrified that she was pregnant and she wasn't in any sort of delusion about how one GETS pregnant. These girls are twelve! That was bad enough, but then the next daughter, the one who is in Elementary school started talking about the little classmate of HER'S who was mad at her parents because they came home and caught her w/ a 17yr old boy after school.
That pretty much galvanized me even more strongly than before that I needed to be home after school if possible. I'm back to looking at options like Ebay etc. to earn a little if I can, but Bill's doing so much better, I might not have to at all. Now if only my sis in law would quit suggesting I go apply at the place she hated so much she quit w/o notice. I guess if it's not good enough for her anymore, it's PERFECT for me
I just realized that this post looks like a tirade against working parents.
Please don't take it that way. We all do the best we can by our children and we do what we think is right for them out of love. If I hurt anybody's feelings, I'm sorry;
Post 296
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 11:42 am
Before and after pictures of my room (post-Gathering and now):
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4174657&a=31068145&f=0
Even the messy shots had been cleaned up a bit, as I had removed my laundry and piles of magazines before I thought I'd take a few pics for a larf. I was waist-high in crap, ppls.
Have a nice weekend, everyone!
*E*
Post 297
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 5:45 pm
Bess-I'm so sorry, hope everything resolves itself a.s.a.p.
Duffy-hey, yer back! Glad all is well, have fun skiing. And could you explain the pic and the caption? FGb's confused...as usual.
Inny-no, it's not offensive to working parents at all. But both my parents work and give me an immense amount of freedom, which is awesome. For example, there is a wine cellar and an alcohol cabinet in the house (parents don't really drink, but Dad used to cook and we have a wine collection more than anything else) which they know I won't raid to get drunk. It's never been stated, but it's just understood, and I am a very responsible drinker because of it. I just, I don't know, I don't really agree with the logic that one has to stay home to keep the kids out of trouble. Because then, once they go to college or move out, they're going to make decisions possibly less responsibly because of lack of experience than they would if they were given responsibility younger. I'm just babbling now, I'll stop.
E-loverly room! I heart your LOTR stuff. I don't know if I'd feel home there now though, before maybe. It's a little too clean, dontcha think? I know that whenever I clean my room it doesn't feel homely anymore and therefore I feel the urge to mess it up again. And that's why my room's never clean. Wonderful logic, eh?
Satch-or you could just put it out on the lawn, and build a garage around the piano. Teh rents wouldn't notice that one. And if you wanted, like Horowitz, you could have your very own garage to practice in. Of course, like Horowitz, you'd also have your neighbors question your sanity when you spend hours upon hours in a little shed with, in your case, sheets with colored polka dots for decoration.
Saro-if you don't take pain meds, then aren't you going to be in pain? Oh well, at least you'll still have two knees.
Well, Fgb's alive, but barely. Her wrists hurt a lot, despite the meds and the ice. Can't really move fingers all that well anymore, hence my "signing off" of TORC for tonight. It went well, although nine hours of rehearsal+a concert in two days is a bit excessive, especially for high school students who already have exams this week. Not talking about anyone in particular of course.
The good news is today is my six month/half year anniversary to TORC. It's funny, I feel like I've been here forever, but it's really so new. Ah well, half way on my graduation from nOObdom. So, I'm a half year old! wOOt!
FairGoldberry
Post 298
theduffster
Date Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 6:37 pm
Glad to BE back. I know what you mean about working, IE. For years I said, "I can't afford to work outside the home." What with having to have two cars, the extra money spent on clothes, convenience foods, and of course day care, it was ridiculous for me to have a paying job. Now we just have Ellie in an after-school program, it's only $3 each hour, and she's only there for an hour after school. That's not bad!
FGB, my post is a bit of poking fun at the role-playing forum, a forum which just baffles me. I've read some of the stuff there, but I just am not into that. It seems that most of the posters there have sig pics like mine, but you rarely see that in the movies forum, where I usually hang out. During last year's White Council Awards, I was nominated for best sigs. Most of the nominees for best sigs were known for FUNNY sigs, but a few were nominated for their beautiful, lovely artistic ones, such as the one in my pic. Seeing that that sort of sig was popular, I decided to cover all my bases, and changed my usual comic style to one like those, to appeal to all tastes. TLE still won, though darn him!!
Post 299
notlistening
corner of no and where
Date Posted: Sat Jan
Darn things ate my post!
Oh well here goes again:
Cem, can I have that puppy please! It's gorgeous!
Satch, very worried about all your tatoos! That's some way to get a man's attention!
TLE, is that Aragorn or Viggo's birthday? I am not obessed enough to know.
IE, glad to hear Bill is doing well.
cool room, *E*
Entwife, your son is very cute!!
Bess, sorry to hear about Blackie. Hope the kids are doing okay. Maybe you could borrow Lidless the hamster from the Duffsters??
Ethel, hope you are doing okay!
Saro, i couldn't bear to watch someone operate on me! EWWWW! Hope it all goes well.
that's about all. RL not very exciting.
love to all,
nl
Post 300
sylthian
Date Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 8:38 pm
TLE's a weenie! You and your stalker got my vote duffy!! Well, you got my nom. the vote will cost you! And the first thing you'll have to pay for is that sig - oh someone pass me a bucket please!!!!
Speaking of sigs - what's the delay??? I have three more on deck and the Capt. hasn't even shown his dearly departed face yet.
*E was that a rottweiller on your bed????
Ethel - if you're out there - our thoughts are with you.
Post 301
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 9:32 pm
Nah, she's part Lab, part shepherd. Here is a better photo.
*E*
Post 302
Lembas_Junkie
Date Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 9:57 pm
I just got home from watching a few movies at a friend's place. One of them was All I Want. Elijah Wood and Blondie makin' out...that image shall haunt me forever...I think this deserves a sig pic!
Post 303
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 10:06 pm
I warned you guys about that movie.
*E*
Post 304
Lembas_Junkie
Date Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 10:32 pm
I just submitted a pic. I'm not sure if they'll take it. The text is only a little hot. Historical Fiction and all.
Post 305
prmiller
I am Parm, Bard of Imladris, Servant of Eru
Date Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 11:13 pm
If My Children Were in Rio
I think about our newest place
where soccer reigns supreme,
where children tan as brown as toast
or coffee without cream,
I wonder what would happen
if my children spent a day
in Rio de Janeiro
living "da Brazilian way"?
While they may not know Portuguese
how well they act and mime,
and they would head straight for the beach
where they would spend their time.
Perhaps my son would learn some tricks
while playing soccer games,
and both my daughters would fill books,
with scores of Rio names,
with their e-mail addresses
for some posting later on
when we are back in sushi-land
(and dream from dusk till dawn.)
They don't much care for shopping,
(they are not at all like me)
but if they went to Rio,
what a wreck their folks would be!
Bright blessings,
Parm
Who is enjoying the cross-cultural experience of
being in Japan and pretending he is in Brazil!
(P.S. A good friend of my here is from Brazil and
there are many Japanese here of Brazilian descent).
Post 306
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 8:24 am
that was fantastic Parm! Absolutely delightful, and true. I forgot why you were in Japan, but I forgot my brain at regionals yesterday. It'll be a while before it comes back...I'm waiting until after exams for it to start functioning regularly.
Yep, everyone who is nominated...I'll vote for you all for everything!
E-your dog is so cute! Precioussss darling
Just got attacked by Papagena the Cockatoo. She has long talons, poor dear, we need to get them cut so that when she climbs up your arm blood isn't drawn.
FGb-off to the Band-Aid forum.
Post 307
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 9:19 am
FGb, I don't go on my lawn. At all. And if the need is dire, I take bin lids and hop along the vast (ha!) distance. But the need is never dire Then I'd just have a piano on the lawn and wouldn't be able to use it. T'would be a tragedy.
nl, apparantly it works
Heyhey everyone
Post 308
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 9:56 am
Well, I'm back in Amsterdam now - the first time this year (I flew to Florida / Texas on NYE), and as is traditional, I didn't sleep a wink.
A total bungle by KLM meant the changes to my ticket (I was due to travel back last weekend from Texas) had not shown up in their system, despite a confirmation number. They said their system would take half an hour to re-issue the existing ticket, and the doors to the plane were closing in ten minutes. This I don't get. Part of my job is getting information out of and into computer systems. 30 minutes is unacceptable for one transaction - especially in this day and age. Anyway, I bought (I should say the company bought, though they don't know it yet) a new ticket and I'll leave it to the company to sort out the screw up and get a refund. Boy did I have to run for the plane. Luckily, I've been working out the last few weekends.
Despite the jetlag, I still managed to hook up with Jaeniver and Ranawen (plus J's mother) in Rotterdam for a most pleasant lunch. Quite funny, really. The plane was late taking off, so technically on Amsterdam time I was still in the US at midnight - my 26th day. Where did we have lunch 13 hours later? Hotel New York.
Well, next weekend will be my first not seeing TORCers IRL this year. I'm not looking forward to it. At least the Liverpool moot will be the week after. BTW, I would like to point out that my flat is an open house if anyone wants a rent-free w/e in Amsterdam.
As to the move to Florida, the decision should be made tomorrow, and I'll even find out then or Tuesday.
Post 309
Darin_Bloodaxe
Date Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 10:11 am
TLE and the weekend after Liverpool you will probably be wondering what the hell you actually did in Liverpool and if you were actually there!!!
Vodka does strange things to people!
Post 310
narsil
Date Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 10:40 am
i have calculated that the amount of alcohol to be drank at the mooot in liverpool will be equal to the quantity of water contained in the red sea.
And that is just by Darin. Looking forward to meeting you in a few days matey!!!
Hello to all at aunties! Narsil is deeply embedded in RL issues at the minute that are conspiring to keep him away from TORC.
Just to say that my thoughts are with all of you, and it is good to see familiar faces back on the boards! (or names)
Narsil will return in a while, but needs time to get things together at work.
Take care all of you.
Narsil.
Post 311
sylthian
Date Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 11:32 am
Narsil - hope things in RL become peaceful and kind.
*E - I love your dog , she looks so sure of herself! And I especially love the sig.
Waiting anxiously for LJ's newest - ok, rather fearfully as well. Perhaps someone can explain what the freakin hold up is with the sig approval? I submitted mine Friday afternoon and still waiting, less and less patiently I might add.
Post 312
Alassante_Estel
Date Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 12:05 pm
Syl - check your email in about....5 minutes
Edit: Email Done
Yeah, so I was up till about 10am my time this morning - think my body clock is trying to match itself to you Brits or something - but I finally had to go to sleep (Satch, I was waiting and waiting and waiting for you to get on msn, but nooooooo, lazy *ToS Banned* you just had to sleep in or something didn't you) And just now got woken up for a lovely phone call And none of you probably care about this, lol, but after three hours of sleep since yesterday morning, I don't care and am posting anyway
Golden Globes tonight precioussssss
Post 313
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 12:13 pm
Estel, stop being a TOS Banned and get on IM
EDIT: Dammit I was at work stoopfid, you said you'd been on today and I told you I was working till 5. ure soooOOOOoo gai!!!!11
Post 314
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 12:29 pm
Estel-oh, glad I won't be the only one watching them with a "FGb will kill you if you try anything (noise-wise)" sign up. Oh yes, precioussss, we needs to know who wins what!
satch-I'm always on IM, so if you're ever awake at some ungodly hour, you can annoy, er, talk to me. 'Twould indeed be loverly.
TLE-Hey, I've done that. Last year I was going skiing in Vail, and the flight from JFK to Denver had been delayed. So, uh, bro and I were sprinting across the walkways, which was quite the sight. Anywho, thank, in your case the Lord of the Vodka, that it was ski season and we were "in shape." Pfft, yeah right, we were panting on the plane until landing. But I think we made it from our arrival gate to the departure gate in seven minutes. Denver's a pretty good sized airport, too. Of course, we've made that run before, happened the year before that as well. God, don't ya just love airport screwups?
On an entirely random note, I was just listening to Oldies music with Dad, and he put on something and said, "Just listen to the lyrics," which I did. It's a song called "Wooden Ships" by Jefferson Airplane. The lyrics reminded him and me of LOTR sailing to the Grey Havens. Anyone else think that?
Off to write a health, yes HEALTH paper. Why do we have to write papers on goody-tooshoes self-esteem? I love her grading system though. Honestly, it's so quality interested. Basically, you put, "Drugs are bad, self-esteem is good, and this class is actually important despite what everyone else thinks" on top of the paper and it's a 100. I don't even think you have to write anything after that. We'll see, FGb
Post 315
sylthian
Date Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 4:28 pm
Estel - checked e mail - thanks for the info
Post 316
Úcenite-Melme
Date Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 4:47 pm
Syl I really need to get aim soon you've got more mail, lol
Info is free, but if you want some campaigning done I'll have to charge a little bit
Really, just posting with this ID cause I told you I would, and trying to make this post not too spammish - trying to back down on that a little bit (shut-up Lidless..... you too Satch). I made my first ever good post in movies the other day, and am very proud of myself I think its the start of a new somewhat non-spamming age for me
Post 317
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 7:48 pm
awww, but whY? Estel, spammING roXOrz!!!11 donut s+0P N0w!
And PJ just won best director, YAY!
And btw, I didn't realize that Jude Law was so...perfect! before today. He is absolutely beautiful.
Waiting for the "best picture" award.
God, the suspense is killing me!
FGb
Post 318
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 8:23 pm
I didn't realize that Jude Law was so...perfect! before today.
Better late than never....
*E*
Post 319
Piccoleia
Date Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 8:29 pm
I have internet again! The drought has ended!!! hallelujah! just in tme to tune into the GG's on realtime and celebrate PJ as a living legend!!! Nommed for 4... and they got all 4. w00t! excuse me while I celebrate. Everybody - Drinks are on me! Lets toast to PJ for an awesome trilogy, and may he receive amny more awards.
Post 320
sylthian
Date Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 10:45 pm
Pic has returned! I thought you just wandered away from Rio.
Yes FGB - Jude Law is pretty
Post 321
notlistening
corner of no and where
Date Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 11:08 pm
Please continue the GG updates. I cannot view them here as they are on pay TV and I can't afford it right now, besides nothing is ever on.
40 odd channels....I can't believe I'm saying stuff like that considering how long I worked in TV land. Shame on me!
Bored with sig pic now. Need something better. Will work on it!
love to all,
nl
Post 322
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 11:21 pm
I think its the start of a new somewhat non-spamming age for me
Eight emoticons in that post.
Post 323
Alassante_Estel
Date Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 4:59 am
Screw you Lidless....
So, I get to talk to my boss today about taking days off around Easter to go to Amsterdam. Wish me luck in getting more than two days off - I'm going for 3½
Syl, new sig pic - nice
Post 324
Ornendil
Date Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 6:15 am
*E*: I visit it from time to time, but not too much.
Hi to everyone else.
Post 325
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 10:01 am
Just got home from my third exam. Alright, only two more to go! Well, health and Wind Ensemble don't count. Chem tomorrow, and math on Wednesday. Sigh, sooooo much studying to do, I might just TORC/stall for a little while longer.
Civics test-if I get anything less than a 97 I should be put to the electric chair. Sooooo easy, but I'm not complaining.
My thumb has started acting up again, and it's not a good time for that to be happening because I have auditions in TWO weeks! I don't know if I should tell my teacher, who will undoubtedly birth a cow on the spot and send me immediately to Physical Therapy, or if I should just wait it out and see if it resolves itself, which it probably won't do.
Occupational Hazards of being an oboe player: thumb hurting and too much hot air. FGb, going to pretend to study.
Post 326
sylthian
Date Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 10:57 am
*** deep nostalgic sigh ** My daughter turned 28 today she's not a baby any more.... in fact she's another one of my children who are now older than me - is she older than you too Tooks??
Well, this is the first day of hell week. If I get a chance to check in it won't be until well after 10 p.m. TORC time. pity me.........
Happy Monday all
Post 327
cemthinae
Micah Six:Eight
Date Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004
Last night Aidi screamed so loud when ROTK got the best drama golden globe she almost gave her mom a heart attack!!!! Me... I just nodded & smiled!
How's everyone's week going? It's defintely Monday from where I stand! We got 6 inches of snow & more is spitting out off & on. School is cancelled *everywhere*, but I have to go to work... *pout* It could be the Black Plague & I'd still have to go to work! But I guess it means a steady paycheck!!
Bess~ I'm sorry for poor Blackie. As I said before, even the little ones are precious!
NL~ Puppy was adopted a loooooong time ago... I think! It's just such a cute picture! It's not the truly cutest pic of puppies I've got, but the cutest one I've got is really sad because that whole litter of puppies had to be euthanized because of a severly contagious disease they had brought in to the shelter.
*E*~ Cute dog! She looks like a real sweetheart!
Arve~ Really enjoyed that little music session the other night! We was jammin'!!
Things have cleared up some at the shelter, but we've noticed a drop in adoptions. Part of it is the time of year, but that bad publicity sure doesn't help!
When they showed the ROTK montage at the globes last night I got bit by the ROTK bug & am going to have to go see it again!!
EDIT: Jude Law will scare me forever after watching A.I. I just can't get Gigolo Joe outta my head when I see him!! SCAWY!!
Post 328
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:11 am
oooooh me too big sis!
Hope Monday goes by quickly, everyone enjoy (or survive!)
Syl-28? Oh, that's not old at all! See, you're not 28 and you're the youngest one on TORC! "We don't stop laughing because we get old, we get old because we stop laughing." We can switch RL ages anytime you want, they're so irrelevant anyway.
FGb
p.s.I just started a new thread over in Manwe. Undoubtedly someone's already had a thread like it before and therefore, it will probably be locked within five minutes. But at least I used the search engine this time and it didn't come up with any results, so you never know! This could be my moment! Wheeeee! Okay, now I'm actually off to study. Well...
Post 329
Lembas_Junkie
Date Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 12:04 pm
Heh heh, here's my sig pic, Sly. I've also made a mess of "vote Lembas!" Frodo sigs for the coming week. Ornendil, I voted for you in the TORCies. I'm on page 13.
How is everyone? I am well, I had a great weekend. We always play Dominoes on Sunday afternoon after I finish studying, but this week we played Rummy-O as well. I lost at both games (again! ) but that's okay, too.
Lidless are you sayin' that smiley's are bad?
Post 330
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 12:59 pm
I just nominated The Scavenger Hunt for how on Middle Earth did it get so many posts thread. Anyone care to add it to their nominations list?
Saro
Post 331
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 1:40 pm
I was thinking of nominating the Pirates thread to that category. Someone's probably already done it though. Is it just nominations, or can we vote too?
FGb, too lazy to go read 26 pages or whatever high number it is.
Post 332
Rebecca
Date Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 1:49 pm
I added it Saro. I can't believe it got that many posts! (but hey- it's what got me to 500! )
Post 333
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 2:39 pm
It gave a few of us a boost, Rebecca!
Post 334
Entwife_of_Fangorn
It's the Ents who are lost
Date Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 6:59 pm
I'll put it on my nom list, Saro. I watched it with bemused wonderment last year. And I remember you saying in the aunties' thread after it was all over that you actually got pregnant during it, didn't you? Still trying to figure out where you found the time! It seemed like you were chained ito your computer keeping track of points. Rebecca, did you end up winning it?
And Lidless, what's the latest on whether you're going to become *gasp* a Floridian?
Post 335
sylthian
Date Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:40 pm
Enty your son is adorable!!! He looks like he really trying to be intense but most of him knows it's a lark.
Post 336
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 3:42 am
Yes, Enty, somehow I found time to do my "laundry."
Saro
Post 337
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 3:55 am
- is she older than you too Tooks??
Sadly, no. I am 29.
Post 338
Mummpizz
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 5:42 am
Rebecca, please put that sig away! Art month is so 2nd age.
Post 339
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:13 am
11 Oscar nominations!!!
Picture, Director, screenplay, score, song, costumes, editing, makeup, sound, visual effects, and art direction.
No Sean Astin, though.
*E*
Post 340
Rebecca
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:18 am
Enty,
Rebecca, did you end up winning it?
Nah, *E* beat me. I think I would have won if *E* hadn't cheated.
I had to go back to school on the last day, so the travel time lost me key points. Ah well, I'll get over it some day.
Post 341
Rebecca
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:19 am
Rebecca, please put that sig away! Art month is so 2nd age.
Hey, I'm just showcasing some of duffster's sigs for her.
Vote duffster!
Post 342
Mummpizz
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:35 am
Yes, yes I vote duffster! Hey, I even nominated her (amongst almost all others)! But that wasn't necessary.
What's necessary? Moan, pout, pout. Nobody nominated me for nothing. Not even for the "unlikely to win something" award.
Post 343
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:53 am
Mummpizz- Nominations aren't closed yet! Remember you CAN nominate yourself. What would you LIKE to be nominated for?
Go Duffster!
Rebecca- You ARE queen of the hamsters.
Saro
Post 344
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 9:08 am
I love my job.
FORT LAUDERDALE IS A GO!!!!!!
Don't know the exact timing yet, though, but I'll make it ASAP.
Apologies for the inordinate amount of smilies. There's eight there - that's right Estel, isn't it, even if they're all the same kind?
Post 345
Mummpizz
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 9:11 am
Bully for you!
Post 346
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Tue Jan
Congratulations, Lidless!
Saro
Post 347
Alassante_Estel
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 9:47 am
Not near enough smilies, but considering how rare you use them, it will definitely work
As for the reason for them....
w00tw00t!!!!!!!!!111@@@@@
*ahem*
backs quickly out of the thread
15
Post 348
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:12 am
If people had smiley counts instead of post counts, TORC would go down on us more often than our partners would.
Post 349
Lembas_Junkie
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:21 am
Here's a for Lidless going to the Grey Havens, and a for everyone else here, just because.
In one of our classes today, we were talking about migration. About how people move for different reasons. We got to talking about culture changes because of migration. Christmas came up, and it's such a touchy subject. Some people say forget it, let the migrants have a "No Christmas celebration so we can all fit in here" bill made legal, others say "They left their country and culture, and now they are in our country and culture, and Christmas is a part of it, deal with it." It was a touchy issue in class. I love to celebrate Christmas, and I do not mind if others do not. We are not harming each other by doing these things. Why does it always have to get political?
Post 350
Rebecca
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 11:15 am
Mummpizz, what about the Best Should Win Something But We Can't Think What Award? Unless you have something else in mind. If we all nominate you, you could win.
I also nominated sylthian for that though. Would be a tough choice when voting.
Post 351
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 12:20 pm
This is a drive by, cause I’m feeling run down and a bit cranky. I blame the almost zero amount of sleep I had last night, my god little L’s away for three nights and…..well lets just say I’m suffering from friction burns in tender areas and leave it at that.
Well I guess I’ve just got time to cheer for Liddy & Estel (how your going to put up with the guy full-time is beyond me) and franticly wave to everyone else.
Although special mention should go to Cem (great to catch up the other night), NL, Satch, Narsil, Anneri (are you ok?) and 99 (come back cause we needs you)!
Syl, technically I’m bloody twenty eight, but I definitely don’t feel that old. I think I stopped aging (mentally) around twenty or something.
Oh and the Golden Globes were pretty cool (although Best Actot/Actress in a Drama). A special woot!!1 for the Office and Lost in Translation.
Arve (toes in the water, but it’s feeling a little cool)
Post 352
Alassante_Estel
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 12:31 pm
Arv, as long as he "puts up" with me, everything will be juuust fine
Post 353
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 12:46 pm
Estel: Awwww bless! Love is a wonderful thing indeed.
Just so long your laughing getting into bed, not getting out of it!
Arve (my baby just cares for me)
Post 354
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 12:53 pm
Estel,
What on earth makes you think you're invited? I got me some rich widows to seduce now!
Post 355
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 1:04 pm
Wrinkles, sagging skin, Raptor’s feet in the corner’s of their haggered eyes and the sickly smell of formaldehyde …..at least I hope that’s what I can smell.
Octogenarian Millionairess’s, (sp) la Florida’s filled with em.
Arve (must….stop….spamming)
Post 356
Alassante_Estel
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 1:16 pm
Estel, What on earth makes you think you're invited?
I believe it was the statement you made over buddies about needing a ***** in Florida, and would I be up for the job.
Might also have been the coversation we had over my lunch.
Course, then there was that conversation we had last time I saw you in person...
Shall I go on?
Arve - no, I'm not laughing when I crawl out, unless its at his inability to walk
Post 357
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 1:22 pm
Too much information!
At least you admit to having to crawl yourself.
We return you now to your regularly scheduled program.
Post 358
Darin_Bloodaxe
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 1:32 pm
I think I stopped aging (mentally) around twenty or something
Twenty months maybe!
We return you now to your regularly scheduled program.
Sounds like the BBC just as something is getting good, they go and change it!
Post 359
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 1:37 pm
Congrats Liddy and Estel, although I'm not sure who I should be congratulating. Should I be apologizing to someone? Good luck putting up with all that vodka, Estel. But then again, well, some precioussss pranks could be played. Trixsy pranx.
Mumm-they need a spam award, don't ya think? Is it for mOObies only or all across the boards? Because if it was across the boards, I'd definitely nominate you for, "Most likely to be seen...everywhere" even though that's not a category. I don't really feel it's my place to nominate moobies people, though, because I avoid the place like a plague. We should have a talk one or something, then I'd at least maybe know what's going on.
Arve-my friend, glad to have you back. But seriously dude, just give it a rest! That was the spam I'm speaking of, of course.
Well, had my chem exam today. 100 questions, and by question 70 or so, you're just ready to bubble in patterns and make the scantron answer sheet look pretty. My brain had turned to mush by halfway through from all the regurgitation of definitions and stuff, but it's all back to normal now. Well, I have my last exam tomorrow, and then hopefully things will go back to normal. I've gotten really good at cramming though. Actually, I retained most of the stuff, but apparently the math exam is...only 20 pages or something. Not too bad, pfft.
FGb-over stuffing her head with algebraeic terms.
Post 360
Alassante_Estel
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 1:41 pm
Hey, we agreed not to be overly sweet on the boards. Don't remember any conversation about not being sick-minded. I'd have to be mindless if that were the case
Vodka, yummmmmm. Almost as good as the Guinness he'll have to put up with me drinking
Post 361
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 1:46 pm
I'll never put up with you drinking Guinness. You might spill it.
Post 362
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 1:52 pm
about needing a ***** in Florida
Awwww, and they say romance is dead. Maybe they should put that on the front of a Hallmark card!
Estel, maybe you both need an orthopaedic mattress?
Twenty months maybe!
Funny you should say that, my ex (the great mistake) told a hell of a lot of people certain parts of my anatomy stopped developing at twenty months.
She’s right of course…….my eyes did change from blue to brown before I was two years old and haven’t changed since.
Fgb, oh wise sensei, you taught me how to spam but forgot to teach me to use this gift responsibly. Good to "see" you to, although sensitive young eyes should perhaps read another thread. This one's descending into smut and innuendo and I can't for the life of me think why.
Post 363
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 2:00 pm
Sorry about your (eye)balls there, Arve.
*E*
Post 364
Ornendil
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 2:07 pm
Lembas: Thanks! I'll remember that when I vote myself
Post 365
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 2:16 pm
Ok, [phew] I’ve finished now. All that spamming’s tired me out.
[Roots around for a roll up, lights it and breathes in the sweet taste of an occasional luxury].
Question is though, was it good for you?
Arve (apologises for the current breakdown in usual service, my brain will be operational at a later date)
Post 366
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 3:29 pm
Arve-first of all, why would we want a sensible brain?
sensitive young eyes should perhaps read another thread. This one's descending into smut and innuendo and I can't for the life of me think why.
Sensitive indeed! I have to put up with your spam and have developed a tolerance for the stuff! They are no longer sensitive, may I inform you. Also I have dubbed all Aunties' and Uncles' eyes immune to spam, because if I had to read my own spam, I'd be blind from the pure quantity of the stuff. (Then again, who says it's read? Spam is meant to be skimmed or skipped disregarded entirely.) And you can't think why this thread is descending into smut and innuendo? That's because it isn't descending, but elevating, my friend. Got to get things in perspective!
Mumm-don't you think that they should have, as well as bold and italics, a SPAM font? Just a proposition.
FGb
Post 367
Spammers_Inc.
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 4:02 pm
[spam]
[/spam]
Nothing wrong with a little bit of spam, as long as its done with style. All of you seem to have the style part down pat, though, you could do with a little bit more spamming
Post 368
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 4:47 pm
Spammer-are you new to TORC? or someone's alias? Because if you are new (or choose to spam away) I think you would fit in very nicely here at Aunties.
I, Aunties resident spam queen, welcome thee hence. I love your sig btw.
I'll let the temporary while his mind is mush prince of spamdom (Arve) welcome you as well, into the spamming family. He comes and goes out of spam phases, while I spam like there is no tomorrow.
Mumm is the king of spam, the one, the original. Mayhaps he shall come in and introduce himself?
FGb
Post 369
theduffster
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 4:52 pm
Hi, Spammers, Inc.!!
*E*! I love your sig!!11 Gandalf'sMother makes an appearance in Aunties!!
I just wanted to pop my head in. Hope everyone's doing ok. I've been too busy to read much, and I had planned a TORC-marathon over the weekend, but we went skiing, then I had to take Rebecca back to college on Sunday. It was fun skiing, at one point Rebecca and I were riding a chair lift, and her hat kept slipping over her eyes. With her hands in mittens, and holding poles, she couldn't push the brim back because her hood and goggles were in the way. So she was trying to ski with her brim waaay down over her eyes! Hilarious. I helped her, but since I also had mittens and poles, it was a lost cause.
I also love my job. Here's a fun call I took this afternoon:
Me: "XYZ, my name is Duffy, may I have the name of your utility company?"
Loser on phone: "I don't know that."
Me: "Well, if you want to make a payment, I need the name of your utility company." (we take payments for about 50+ companies, all over the country.)
Loser: "How the h*** am I supposed to know that! It's my electric bill."
Me: "We want to make sure your payment goes to the right company, right? So, who's your electric company?
Loser: "IT'S THE ONLY G-DD--N ELECTRIC COMPANY IN ERIE!! HOW THE **** CAN YOU NOT KNOW THAT!!"
Me: "Could it be ABC Co.?" (knowing only, that they service Erie)
Loser: "NO!! THAT'S A GAS COMPANY!! WHAT KIND OF A STUPID MORON DOESN'T KNOW THE NAME OF THE ELECTRIC COMPANY IN ERIE!!"
Me: "I'm not in Erie, sir. And it's your company, sir. If you don't know your electric company's name, I suggest you look at your bill. Sir? Sir??
*click*, as HE hangs up, perhaps realizing how stupid he appears.
I say all this, just dripping sweetness and love. I end up with a big stupid grin on my face.
Post 370
Spammers_Inc.
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 5:40 pm
Fair Berry I am actually two peoples alias' - hence the "Inc." part of the name. Just, my second owner hasn't posted with me yet My owners will become clear in time.
Thanks for the welcome and the compliment on the sig.
Duffy - sounds like my old job
Post 371
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:31 pm
Let me venture a guess, spammers inc: Arve and Little L?
*I could be wrong though, far too few spelling mistakes to be Arve's*
FGb, off to study Algebra. I would like change that: Sleeping in my algebra text book.
Post 372
Entwife_of_Fangorn
It's the Ents who are lost
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 7:38 pm
Enty your son is adorable!!! He looks like he really trying to be intense but most of him knows it's a lark.
syl, oh he's quite serious when he's playing Aragorn or Legolas. "I can't smile, Mommy, I'm killing Orcs." When he's being Gimli (who is his latest favorite) he lets himself get a little goofy. (no burping yet though!)
Mummpizz, I nominated you days ago!! It's now about 100 posts deep in the thread, but if you take a look at my nomination post on Jan 23 (I think) I put you down for Best Comedic Performance, in honor of the long running Spam campaign! You're not forgotten!
Lildess, you should start an "I'm moving to Florida and need some advice on becoming an Amairican" thread. I think you'd get some *interesting* suggestions. Might be fun!
Post 373
Úcenite-Melme
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:45 pm
hehehehehe Yeah Lidless, lets see how Ammmmerricin you can get Give it some deep thought.
wanders off singing "oh say can you see...."
oh goodness, I crack myself up this late at night - its sad really
Post 374
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:48 pm
I'm moving to Florida and need some advice on becoming an Amairican"
Good grief. No way. The sudden drop in IQ points would kill me.
Post 375
Úcenite-Melme
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:56 pm
True, you don't have that far to drop really.
Why is him still awake preciouss?
Post 376
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 9:26 pm
Too busy thinking that if, according to Berhael, Florida in Spanish means "Flowery One", is that how Orlando Bloom got his name.
Post 377
notlistening
corner of no and where
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 11:06 pm
I know I'm a bit late but congrats to TLE moving to Florida. Is it called the sunshine state over there? Anyway, hope the moving goes well, whenever that will be. And please stay the way you are. Don't become american. There are too many of them on Torc already we (the rest of the world) are outnumbered!
Arve, nice to see you again, my friend! Glad to hear you are still a happy chappy (even if you are freezing)
Duffy, people are really stoopid at times. Do you get a lot of calls like that? I pay my bills with my card and don't have to talk to anyone. Shame about that, we likes talking to peoples.
L_J, you change sigs too fast! You have too many good ideas and a better photosystem than mine.
Enrolled in Church History today. Should be kinda fun. Except maybe the Inqisition! Makes me think of Monty Python.
nothing else happened much. Have to go now, need food.
talk later,
love to all,
nl
ps: I just discovered if I were an orc my name would be Razhbag the Choker! LOL!
Post 378
sylthian
Date Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 11:42 pm
duffy - I admire your restraint!!
Saro - good thoughts sent your way. And for a while, avoid stairs - oh and if you're Catholic - you know those kneelers might not be such a good idea either Hope all goes well.
Liddy - you're moving to the USofA??!! Well, heck you spend all your time here now anyway - or at least parts of it..... I'm not sure how that came out but I swear if you and Estel jump on that and turn it into a freak show I'll scream!!!!!!
Post 379
Mummpizz
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:02 am
What times are these, when the double identities appear in red, and spam? It's like wearing silk instead of rubber gloves to do the cleaning at home ... and yet, somehow it's stylish, and british, and smells of flowers. (Insert smiley here)
Thanks, Entwife, I've overlooked it - is it ok if this made you my official "G-2-S" nomination ?
Have a fine and beautiful day, you all. Specially all of you sailing west
Post 380
Anneri
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:49 am
Yes, Arve, thank you - I'm ok. Apart from a nasty cold, which makes me feel like my head is filled with cotton.
I'm not online for most of the time because a) real life demands some time, and b) I felt like staying at home and not talking to anyone (in RL and online) would be the best of all possibilities.
But tomorrow there'll be a lecture about Tolkien at the uni, which is a kind of premiere, because especially my university doesn't have a good opinion of fantasy stuff. Looking really forward to it (and checking all kinds of threads about allegory and christianity here, because, as a Torcer, I've to make a good impression, haven't I? )
Post 381
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 3:56 am
OOOoo. This is great. Now we all have someone to visit in Florida during these long, cold winter months. You don't mind us inviting ourselves down for a visit do you, Lidless?
I say all this, just dripping sweetness and love.
**snort**
I'd like to see that, theduffster.
Post 382
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 4:06 am
Thanks for thinking of me, Syl!
I'm off for surgery today. Don't panic, if you don't hear from me for a day or two. The computer is (gulp) downstairs.
Great sig, Tooks!
I'll be back!
Saro
Post 383
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 4:09 am
Sometimes I feel like I’m living in the most incompetent country in the world, excluding the old U.S of A of course. The meteorologists have been saying it’s going to snow this week for days and guess what? The roads are all ungritted, as are the footpaths and the whole transit networks in chaos. The City Councils excuse is an absolute classic; they were afraid the rock salt in the gritter’s was going to freeze and jam up the release mechanism. Snow; the great destroyer.
So I get into work and I’m told by my boss I have to stop laughing because “someone’s” complained my laugh is to raucous! I told him that if “someone” had a problem they should tell me to my face and stop being a silly bundle. I know bossman’s a miserable sod so he’s most likely the one doing the complaining, he’s a petty manipulator with no guts.
And my laugh is bawdy not raucous.
Fgb: I always read spam, it’s usually the funniest stuff on TORC! BTW Spammers_Inc ain’t nothing to do with me, me and L are far to cheap to pay for Premier Membership for our little alias. I do have my suspicions though.
Spammers_Inc: Welcome, make yourselves at home.
Estel/Liddless: Christ on a unicycle! Would you two stop with the sweet nothings already, this threads turning into a sit-com, “Essie loves Liddi” sounds appropriate.
Anneri: Great to see you to! Your right about the studying, us TORCers have a reputation for intellectual brilliance to maintain!
NL: Always a pleasure to read your posts.
And now I’d better do some work or something.
Edit:
Saro: Good Luck!
Tooks: Hell I never thought of that! Cheap accomodation in Florida's a swell idea.
Love the new sig as well.
Post 384
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 4:55 am
Tooks / Arvi,
Florida will be open house to all TORCers.
Syl,
No, I am not Spammers Inc.
PS - "The Florida Vote Recount" is an anagram of "Done To Cover Their Fault"
PPS - Re advice on becoming an American. I don't think I sould handle all the misspellings, such as color, theater, anything ending in -isation, or Amairican.
Post 385
InnocentEvil
RingMariner
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 6:32 am
Syl, TLE and Estel would never do that. They're such great posters they would never provide a bad example. Nope. Neeever. They'd neeeever stoop to naughty innuendos that would make Aunties look bad and get certain mods they love in trouble
Liddy, advice on being an American: don't. Be you. Maybe you can teach the rest of us something instead. Personally, I would like to learn how to make Dutch apple pie.
Saro, I hope your surgery goes well. Be good to yourself if you can.
And now, a miniature rant:
Some adults on these boards really need to ACT like adults. If they can't get along they shoud stay away from each other Or ignore each other. If that's impossible they need to reconsider their place aroun here as certain mods are FED up!!!!
Yes, it was deliberately cryptic and no, it was't about anyone present.
Post 386
Mummpizz
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 6:49 am
Some adults on these boards really need to ACT like adults.
It's a pity that Tolkien himself was a dedicated escapist, and wrote heaps of paper full with either concepts of worlds he prefered to live in, and excuses why he did so. I bet he'd hang around here if he'd live today. Maybe he does, and he's reincarnated as Romestamo or Kidney185.
It is small wonder Tolkien Online attracts people who simply want to play (and most children like to play with mud). I don't exclude myself here. It is a kindergarten with almost 40.000 children inside (okay, if you deduct the Aliases and Pseudos you still get more than 10.000). It is a wonder how things can go on like this with less than two dozen kindergarten teachers, and so few casualties.
Post 387
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 7:23 am
IE, I'm trying!
Heh, but seriously, sorry about your troubles. Want me to make a badly photoshopped picture of this person and get your spirits up? What I can't do with words, I try to do with pictures. Explains the lack of text in my sigs. 0o Anyway, hope things end up better in the situation. Lord knows I get extremely uncomfortable when I realize that two people are trading words. I won't say its childish or ignorant or anything, because sometimes people just don't know how to go about handling these things, but it is definitely out of place and it'd be nice if folks would not even allude to a dig at another person, then the second guy wouldn't feel the need to defend himself in front of an "audience."
Rambling, not making sense, must shut up now. Damn, I'm tired. And hungry. I don't even eat anymore. I've lost ten pounds in the last month, which is only worth mentioning because I've been the exact same weight for almost five years now. Ergh.....
*E*
Post 388
GoodSam
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 7:26 am
*E* and all,
Please forgive me for the very short nature of this post, and I'm not too sure how many here will understand what I'm saying, but it looks like *E* finally found Gandalf'sMother.
Post 389
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 7:40 am
He's not the first little man I've seen flying past my head.
I really wish they'd go away...
*E*
Post 390
Ornendil
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 7:57 am
Tooks: Love the Sig.
IE: Who was that about? Just interested.
Saro: Good luck.
Post 391
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 8:00 am
Saro-good luck! Yes, we won't bee too naughty in your absence. Well, this is not including Essie loves Liddie, I'm not responsible for them.
Arve-oh, but the spamming is so...it would be such a brilliant plan to have a spamming alias! So, whomever's idea it is, brilliant. *cough cough, Englishman's opportunity to take credit, cough cough*
See, the American's certainly have their faults, but so does everyone else. Just like in every country, there's the "good" ones, the "bad" ones, and it just so happens that in America the good ones are sometimes harder to find. That's because we all recluse to TORC.
Inny-sorry to hear about your troubles. I've read people just going back and forth at each other, even in a "sophisticated, attempted mature" way. Manwe's full of attacks on other people, but they claim it's okay because it's in the name of philosophy. Depressing, actually.
Well, I have the day off today, thanks to half a foot of snow. Good good, now I get to study for Algebra and practice. Seems to be a recurring theme during exams, study study study. CRAM!!!11 Well, that stage doesn't come until one or two in the morning when you've been TORCing all evening and just realize that you have an exam tomorrow that you really shouldn't have been procrastinating for.
But I have...15 hours before cramming stage. So I'll be spamming all today. FGb
Post 392
InnocentEvil
RingMariner
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 8:37 am
Mumpymylove have I told you how glad I am to see you back on TORC again? Well I'm glad I simply ADORE pink and gree Poodles too!
OOOHH!
I am an escapist and I believe being silly and carefree is a healthy thing for anyone, adult or otherwise. I'll never grow up if I can help it and Peter Pan (NOT the one in *E*'s sig) is my rolemodel. I love to climb into the Hobbit, wrap it around me like a cloak and wallow in the sweet peaceful green and innocent adventures. When I read that book I can feel the walls of the hobbit hole, smell the sulphur of the dragon, hear the dead silence of Mirkwood and the deadly laughter of the wargs and goblins. I know it's a children's book but it's by far my favorite because it's world is so very real to me.
Yes, being youthful and playful is positive. Immaturity and childishness are something different
Even Peter and Tink were not as infuriating as this group. I think we'll have a resolution too. I hope I hope. I'm tired of emails LOL!
*E* I'm not sure if you can possibly be aware of it but that guy in your sig is rather famous here on TORC. Maybe you can find something if you do a search w/ the keywords "Gandals' Mother" for Talk. I LOVE your silly people sigs, they give me such a laugh and it's really good to see you in better spirits! Really really good
Post 393
Lembas_Junkie
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 8:50 am
L_J, you change sigs too fast! You have too many good ideas and a better photosystem than mine.
I know!! When some nice mysterious person on TORC gave me PM, they must have done so because they know I am a sigpic-o-holic! I already have a few more lined up, I'll leave this one up for one more day...maybe.
Good luck Saro!! Howdy, all!
Post 394
Alassante_Estel
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 9:42 am
InnE - hint taken love
Can we not refer to me as Essie though? Please?
Its way to close in sound to Liddless's daughters name - kinda freaky I've been called Estellie, Stellie and Stell - good with those nicknames, but just not Essie
More replies later - just not when I am sneaking on at work
Post 395
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:04 am
Got it Estel. No more Essie. No incest in Liddy's family, that's just too far. But work is stoopfid. I'm sure you're doing something much more productive and useful by being on TORC than by doing something workish.
Have I ever mentioned how much I hate practicing? Yes, fuuuuuun stuff it is.
Post 396
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:52 am
Now now stellie wellie woo, one must love their family you know...
Post 397
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 11:36 am
Erm, sorry Estel I think “Essie” was one of mine, so hard to keep track of these things.
Satch, you terror, Lidless is moving to Florida not to the wilds of certain other southern states, where “keeping it in the family” is perfectly normal.
IE: Now I’m guilty of a certain amount of immature humour, but I always stay away from silly bickering and associated nonsense. Some people take their opinions way to seriously.
Fg: Go practice, go study, go be productive! Otherwise you may end up like me. Yep, I’m still waiting to discover the identities of the spammers_inc, all will be revealed in time I’m sure.
Arve (wishing he was in Florida, not nasty cold England)
Post 398
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 11:44 am
Well I totally forgot the real reason I came in here
Drum roll please...
*pause for effect*
WE HAVE SNOW!!!!!11
Squeeeeeeeee!!!
Post 399
narsil
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 12:16 pm
wow..... what has Narsil stepped into on his return to TORC? A warzone? the past few posts certainly have made it seem that way, although it may be presumptious of me to say so not possessed of all of the facts.
I WILL however say this (for what it's worth):
I joined this site because of one major reason (aside from a love of Tolkien and his works), and that was due to the fact that IT WAS FUN, and people respected others feelings. It was a place that you could have a giggle with others and share in their experiences.
Now, I know for a FACT that certain behaviour by others has led to people deserting the boards, and that just isnt cricket.
For the sake of the site guys, let's get back to the way things were before alot of others decide that the time has come for them to just quit. That would be criminal......
Thanks for letting me rant, but posts like that by I.E should just not appear at all here.
Anyhoooo- I hope that everyone is keeping well!!!
FGB- hows the practicing going? I betyou really are better than you say you are!!
Saro- goodluck with the surgery!!! My wishes are with you.
Satchy- I have been trolling the site trying to get a picture of you, but so far...zip. Undaunted I will keep trying.
Arv- great chat the other night!!! Kill Bill was awesome!!! (as was Uma, which we discussed in great detail!!)Apparently there is a huge cock up with the mooot- I am heading over there to seewhat is occuring. The last thing we need is to find a major hitch has blown things out!!! I am sure that all of the organisers are tearing their hair out!!! (they have done a great job so far!!)
Tooks- have I missed a new episode??? I should really go back and have a look!!
to all others, take the bestest of care, and Narsil will hopefully speak to you soon.
Narsil
Post 400
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 12:50 pm
Nope. No new episode.
Will make up something soon.....which is a relative term.
Post 401
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:02 pm
Narsil, that is so rude. It's a violation of my privacy I swear
Meh, c'mon then laddie send me a pic of you too. That way I wont go up to a random guy in Liverpool and greet them merrily, only to find they actually are a born and bred *shudders* northener.
...Oh hi Arve...
Post 402
narsil
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:03 pm
Tooks!!!! How could you???!!!
(sounds of Narsil breaking down and attempting to retrieve comfort food from his possessed fridge freezer...)
The freezer is definately warped!!! It sounds like I imagine Lidless would when he is really hungry...
Satchy!!! Found the photos!!! And what can I say???????? You're almost as good looking as Lidless is!!!!
Narsil- "something beautiful will come your way...."
Post 403
narsil
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:24 pm
Oh, and what is wrong with Northerners, Satchy my lass????
I am now going to put on a blatantly fake cockerneee accent, so blatant that people will have no choice to believe that it is real to foil you!!! MMMWWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Had a good chat with Arv last night- pity you weren't on line, we could have talked vacuum cleaners again!!
Now there is no hiding from Narsil, lurking in the shadows recognising you AAAAAALLLLL!!!!!!!
Post 404
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:45 pm
*swings fist in disappointment*
Shucks I can't believe I missed that again!! Whatever shall I do *shakes head* Maybe next time eh, maybe next time...
Post 405
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:46 pm
Satch and Narsil-you two will meet in Liverpool; drunk undoubtedly, and by that point you will have consumed so much alcohol that even if you two had seen pictures of each other it wouldn't matter because you're just so unrecognizably...horizontal. Optimism, I tell ya.
Narsil-no, it's not that I'm bad, but it's just others are better. But I will find a way to complain about everything.
Speaking for Cem, because the poor dear is sick. She has stoopfid RL stuff that's keeping her from TORC today and yesterday. She was getting sick and then shoveled snow for half an hour, and then that kind of closed the deal. Get better big sis! We need our dose of cute lil animoos, preciousss. Puppies roxORz!!!11
Oh, and does anyone (US, democrat, or otherwise) want to go over to Manwe and vote in the primary? Deorwine is pleading for more voters.
It's funny how threads in Manwe are good for the first ten pages or so, then just get utterly repetitive, petty, and useless. Just commenting on a trend.
I practiced, and studied, so what's next? Some very serious Fellowship viewing I do believe. Yes yes, the big question: TE or EE? Hmm, tough decisions indeed.
FGb
Post 406
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted:
Bah Humbug!
I’m conversing with Satch, the phone rings and I have to rush off to help a friend in need. In the meantime Satch and Narsil have been seeing each other behind me back!
I’ve always said every good deed has unforeseen consequences but this is bloody ridiculous!
Nothing wrong with northerners their is, bedrock of the country we are. Lost with out us the south would be.
Whoops, I'm talkin like a little green Jedi master now.
Arve (no more good deeds, only evil ones)
Post 407
narsil
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 2:03 pm
Arv,
before I scrolled down the first thing that entered my mind was " has he turned into frikkkin yoda???"
If so, then "force yourself" (I can hear the groans from here)to buy me a pint at the mooot!!!
And what's this about talking to satchy behind my back??? Did you ASK permission??? I think not!!!
Satchy!! How DARE you quadruple time Arv!!!! (?)
Post 408
theduffster
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 2:52 pm
So, Satch has snow. My, my. How nice.
I'm kinda underwhelmed by that, dearest Satch. See, we got 6 inches of snow on Saturday. 7 more inches of snow yesterday. Another 4 over night. Yes, we have snow too!!
Tell 'er, Tooks!! I KNOW you can commiserate!
Post 409
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 3:13 pm
Save me from the demon drink! The bottle of Californian White on an empty stomach was a baaad idea.
Yep Satchy will talk to just anyone, I’d be disgusted and appalled but if Satchamoto had standards she would never have said hi to me in the first place.
Narsil, nope no idea what your talking about regarding cleaners and such like. Although my L would still b**** slap Uma into the next millenium.
Fgb: Don’t encourage the consumption of vast amounts of alcohol, it’s unhealthy.
Arve (yeah its snowing, one sarcastic woot! to celebrate)
Post 410
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 4:03 pm
Arve-whether I encourage it or not, it will still happen.
So why not encourage it? Drink away!
FGb, done with algebra studying. I swear, if I do not get a 100 on this exam the test is rigged. I actually know what I'm doing, hey, that deserves a wOOt. Quite the rare occasion, actually.
Post 411
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 4:18 pm
Yeah Fg I’ll woot!! That algebra exam doesn’t stand a chance.
Now I am going to get some sleep.
Post 412
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 5:39 pm
Yea, duffster, we got snow.
And today it's blowing into drifts, covering up roads and walkways that used to be clear. Yippee!
btw, duffster, a comment about your American Indian Aragorn in a mini-skirt..... A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to watch an old John Wayne Western called 'Hondo'. The Indians in that movie looked suspiciously like Aragorn. Yes, they wore miniskirts...or something. Actually some of them had very nice looking legs. Especially when they were jumping up onto their horses.
Okay, carry on.....
Post 413
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 6:08 pm
Tooks-that post was only PG-13, you need to continue with that description, keep up your reputation. Stuff is at stake here you know.
Arv-damn right it doesn't! I'm gonna kick those stoopfid matrices' and determinants' algebraic butts out of my head and into the circular file (aka trash) in the furthest corners of my brain. Also, I've found a way on my calculator (it's a mini-supercomputer, the ones you can program and only the geekiest of nerds knows how to program them, not mentioning any names of course) to cheat on some of the problems. It's good because the cheat will save me maybe 20 minutes, and that'll help. 90 minutes for a twelve page test, yeah, we'll see.
Still in pergatory, waiting to get that stoopfid test over with, FGb.
Post 414
Rebecca
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 6:09 pm
We have lots of snow (not as much as duffster or probably Tooks) but we still haven't had classes cancelled. All the public schools around have been cancelled, which is good because then I don't have to tutor but I still have to go to class. Not fair, precious, not fair.
Post 415
sylthian
Date Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 11:37 pm
We had rain yesterday. So it's come to this??? Sheesh - duffy would you mail something to your daughter already and fer cryin' out loud Tooks write about it!!!
Welcome back home Ethel - I hope this place cheers you.
Post 416
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 3:54 am
**snort**
syl, has Mammo seen your sig yet?
There are a number of descriptions you can use for that one.
Yea, theduffster. Have you mailed anything to Jess lately? Bid on anything at Ebay lately?
Hmmmmmm???????
Post 417
theduffster
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 4:15 am
Um, I believe I mentioned the morons who sometimes call at my new job? Trying to pay a utility bill, but don't know their utility company's name? Sheesh, forgotten that already? I'm thinking, hmmm..., uh, APPLES!! No, sorry, I meant, how about using Lily Tomlin when she imitates a telephone operator, Tooks! Let's go!
Post 418
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 5:10 am
duffster, some Yahoo from Erie who doesn't know who their electric company is just doesn't make a good story. No, we need some drama, some excitement, some romance......
Post 419
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 5:14 am
In a literature class some years back, students were given an assignment to write a short story involving all the important literary ingredients - Nobility, Emotion, Sex, Religion and Mystery. The winner was:
"My God!" cried the Duchess. "I'm pregnant. Who did it?"
Post 420
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up,
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 5:34 am
Lidless, that has already happened to theduffster, about 8 years ago.
Except I'm pretty sure she knew who did it.......
Post 421
Lembas_Junkie
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 5:59 am
And today it's blowing into drifts, covering up roads and walkways that used to be clear. Yippee!
Ski-Bunny moment!
Post 422
bessthebard
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 6:33 am
duffster--your last post inspired my new sig pic. Hope this will give Tooks some inspiration!
Post 423
Anneri
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 6:59 am
Yeah, snow.
And a blocked toilet, with a consequently flooded bathroom.
And a cold. With a monster headache.
The joys of life.
And it's my first TORC-birthday! I need a wargarita...
Post 424
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 7:19 am
Heavens, am I destined to buy *all* your drinks?
Happy Birthday.
Post 425
Anneri
Date Posted: Thu Jan
Not *all*. Only some...
And isn't it nice to have a destiny?!
Post 426
Darin_Bloodaxe
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 7:30 am
am I destined to buy *all* your drinks
You did mention a drinking competition Lidless!
Post 427
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 7:35 am
Happy TORC bday, Anneri!!
I'm doing great! No painkillers, no crutches, but my knee still feels a bit wobbly. I got a spinal and watched the surgery on a video screen. It was fascinating. My cartilage is in great shape and I expect my knee to be pretty normal in a few days. There's no hope for the rest of me.
Tooks- Did I already say how much I love your sig???!!!
Saro
Post 428
bessthebard
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:06 am
Glad to hear you came through with flying colors, Saro. Sounds like your recovery will be quick.
Post 429
Mummpizz
Date Posted: Thu Jan
Tooks rules!
Happy Torcbirthday Anneri!
Saro!
... btw. what did happen to Dave_LF?
Post 430
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:11 am
bess....
I think YOU have the best sig pics!!!!
And yes, I rather like mine too, Saro. Happy recovery!
Post 431
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 9:56 am
Anneri-happy 1 year TORCiversary! Sorry about the bathroom and the cold and stoopfid RL stuff. But you can just ignore that here.
Saro-Yay! And what do you know? You can even use the computer! Glad to have you back! We missed you, the place almost ran into total despair; for a moment there Liddy threatened to not buy everybody *all* their drinks. Glad you can get his head on straight now.
Liddy-you are the resident geriatric British businessman. Of course you are going to buy *all* our drinks! What kind of question was that, anyway? (I would insert an emoticon here, but I'm being in a good mood right now and not putting any in.)
And why am I in a good mood, you might ask?
BECAUSE I GOT A 100 ON MY CHEM EXAM! wOOt! Well, technically speaking, it was a 95, but she curved up five points. Which gives me a non-genuine perfect score. Yeah, I'm happy.
Teh Algebra exam went well, and while half the class didn't finish, I took the test "the right way." Meaning that I skipped the hard ones, and I finished the test (minus five problems) with half an hour left. Yes precious, so I had half an hour to do five problems, and I finished, checked everything, and handed it in. I'm having a good day.
Dad's getting Indian food for lunch. mmm, tasty stuff. Yay chicken tekamusala! (sp?!?)
FGb
Post 432
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 10:16 am
Thought I’d stroll over and see what’s going on.
Fgb: Congrats on the Chem exam and on approaching the dreaded algebra with such an excellent display of good sense, [non-condescending] woot!!1 I think you spell it tikka massala, I’m partial to a nice jalfrazi myself.
Oh, btw calling someone a geriatric isn’t a good idea if your after a free drink.
Anneri: Happy TORCerversary! You’ve got to love winter, it’s great. Want me to come round and shovel some of that shi_, erm snow?
Darin: I thought you were going to buy all the drinks?
Saro: Great news!
Post 433
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 10:31 am
Oh but Arve, it was a complimentary geriatric. And tikka, yeah, I just forgot that it was two words.
But isn't it appropriate that TLE is going to lower the average age in Florida? That must make him feel very young indeed. And btw, Liddy, I love your sig, it's classic American. Welcome to your new home.
And I heard something interesting about Florida the other day, actually. If you look at purely the socialogical statistics, and only the numbers, the average person in Florida is born a Hispanic male and dies a Jewish female. Doctors must make a lot down there then.
FGb
Post 434
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:21 am
...and take away a lot down there, too.
Post 435
sugarblime7
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:08 pm
Hi, everyone! I'm new to TORC; I'm FGb's friend.
Umm...she told me to tell you all that I play the oboe. FGb and I play music together and have gotten to know each other under "satan's rule". haha.
Post 436
Lembas_Junkie
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:38 pm
BECAUSE I GOT A 100 ON MY CHEM EXAM! wOOt!
Wow! Congradulations, that's quite something! Welcome, Sugar! *said with long Southern drawl*
I just finished doing a presentation for Physio on reproduction of tiger sharks. I was more nervous than I had anticipated, but it went well, and more importantly, I stayed within my 10 minutes (I can be quite the chatter box, as many of you know ).
Post 437
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29,
Hey sugarblime! (haha, Satan's rule indeed, but he's got a baton instead of a pitchfork)
Everyone welcome sugarblime! Woot woot for the noobs! You all know her; she was in "Boy" saga. Coolest person eva! Sb7 roXOrz!!!11 4E!
I promise, never again.
And TLE, that setup was for you. Wonder if you'll double the British population down there. Ah, true, I guess you told us that that population was not smalls, but larges.
Anyone know if it's true that Fran Walsh made the Wraith scream? I thought it was someone else, but a friend of mine just brought it to my attention that Fran was the one who did the scream.
FGb
Post 438
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:45 pm
I just finished doing a presentation for Physio on reproduction of tiger sharks. I was more nervous than I had anticipated
You found out it was a practical?
FG - Thanks, and no - it wasn't Fran Walsh. It was Cerin after reading the script.
Post 439
Lembas_Junkie
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:48 pm
You found out it was a practical?
Post 440
narsil
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 1:05 pm
Sugablime-
welcome to Aunties!!!
And my sincerest sympathies for even vaguely knowing FGB!!!
A few pointers:
watch out for Cem trying to convert you to her religion of johnnydeppism.... she apparently would like to be a PRACTICING johnnydeppist, but hasn't met him yet!!!
Don't let Satch challenge you to any drinking games. She always wins, and the price of failure is your immortal soul.... in a bag.
Arv will ask you for photos. Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES send him ones containing any sheep.... you have been warned!!
Oh, and watch out for some bundle called Narsil. Honey and promises of Oboe lessons with angels drip from his silken lips, but the reality is much much worse..... MMMWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Welcome to the world....of the reaaaaalllll....
Narsil- "if you think this post is weird, then wait until you talk to I.E......."
Post 441
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 1:41 pm
And my sincerest sympathies for even vaguely knowing FGB!!!
Oh, I'm not so bad on TORC. Just wait until you hear me in RL. I talk like there is no tomorrow. Even during rehearsal. Might explain why Conductor doesn't like me very much.
Also, Big Sis (sb7, that's cem) is a practicing johnnydeppist. She is practicing (on TORC), just not in RL. She has converted me, (I heart that man!) but if I'm not mistaken she is more of the Jack fan than of the man himself. Although any form of Mr. JD is acceptable. In cash or credit card, may I add.
Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES send him ones containing any sheep....
Or llamas. Don't forget the llamas. Or Uma. Or Kiera. Or Miranda. Or...
narsil-you're not that bad, honestly. Well, I've never seen you after a drinking competition with Darin, Arve, Issey, and satch. I would like to see that, now that I think about it. Taking bets for that one?
Lembas-ooh, yah for chatterboxes! We're great people, it's just that since people tune us out half the time, we have to talk twice as much to get the message across. Congrats on the presentation. Those are scawwwy sometimes. Well, the reason they're scary for me is because I just don't know what I'm talking about. Ever. Hence the bs, aka spam.
Well, nothing new. Oh, actually, I have a concert tonight, if anyone's interested. Quartet, I think we're playing that piece that I haven't practiced. Yea, that's all of them. Practice time! FGb
Post 442
sugarblime7
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 1:50 pm
Narsil
Oboe lessons with angels? How can I pass that up? Haha ...great to meet you guys.
Post 443
theduffster
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 2:10 pm
Bess-you deserve to win for best sigs with that picture! Thanks for taking up the slack. Tooks is obviously too busy shoveling her driveway to write a great story with the material I give her. I'm deeply moved.
Post 444
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 2:25 pm
bundle off duffster And you Arve. It was a fabulous day for me
Painful... but good
Don't really have anything else to say...
Happy torciversary anneri
EDIT: Apologies apologies...welcome Sugarblime
Post 445
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 5:33 pm
Bess! Fabulous sig!!!
Welcome, Sugarblime!
Saro
Post 446
sugarblime7
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 5:58 pm
Alright, everybody...I will be gone for about 3 days. I have a major audition on Saturday. FGb knows about this. Wish me luck! And when I get back I must discuss this TORC nomination business with somebody; honestly, this site is confusing me more and more...
Post 447
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 6:45 pm
FGb nods sympathetically to Sugar. College auditions, at a school with a veeeeery good music program. Wishing the best of thoughts to you, and your reeds of course! Good luck in all its sincerity.
[oboe talk]
Hints for auditions:
1. stretch beforehand, raise your arms to your side and keep your hands straight (so that you look like a cross) and that relaxes the hand muscles.
2. do NOT drink any caffeine within a day or two (three is best) of the audition. This means no chocolate, soda, or COFFEE! aka koffee?
3. soak your audition reed for 4-5 minutes about 15 minutes before you go in. Then put it in its case. Take it out, and only warm up on it for no more than five minutes before you play for the judge. While this audition reed is in the case, warm up on a practice reed. Trust me, it works.
4. BREATHE!
5. RELAX!
6. go to the 'potty room', 'lav' 'restroom', w/e before you set up, and during the audition would NOT be a good choice.
[/oboe talk]
Hope you have a chance to read this.
Yeah, oboists are strange people. I name my reeds. TORC attracts geeks of every type. Nondiscriminatory, I like that.
And the concert went well. It was good, seeing as two people (out of four, hence the title quintet) didn't show up until we called them and almost gave the other two of us heart attacks. Also good that the whole coordinated dress thing was completely disregarded.
But the best part was, we were last and half the room got up and left before our peformance. Yea, but we played well!
FGb
Post 448
Darin_Bloodaxe
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 6:49 pm
Darin: I thought you were going to buy all the drinks?
Arve, I am Northern not stupid!
Post 449
sylthian
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:19 pm
crap - cyberspace ate my post
Saro - glad all is going well but take things easy and let others baby you a bit.
welcome FGBs friend
Bess and duffy - your sigs ROCK!!!!!! LOL
Post 450
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:59 pm
Darin_Bloodaxe - best oxymoron ever.
Post 451
narsil
Date Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:13 am
Darin....
Arv is Nothern as well, isn't he?
And so am I......
AGGGHHHH!!!! A conspiracy!!!
Anyhoooo- all of the southerners should buy the drinks. After all, they ARE visiting the north andit would be only right and proper.
So what does that mean for a Northener who lives in the south and is now visitin the north??
seems I have dug my own grave there....
(Narsil staples wallet to his backside knowing only too well that no-one will be foolish to go get it..)
FGB- thank you!!! I'm not a bad old stick once you get to know me, and if you can overlook my minor flaws such as harvesting chickens and universal domination.... its what's inside that counts!!!
So I must be a curry and 5 pints of lager....
Syl!!!! You're back!!! Or is it that I've just been away???? DON'T LET THE DEPPISTS GET TO YOU!!! RUN AWAY!!HIDE!!!POOR FGB HAS ALREADY FALLEN TO THEIR ONSLAUGHT- HER FRIEND WILL SOON FOLLOW.....
Narsil- "clearly not himself or anyone else lately..."
Post 452
notlistening
corner of no and where
Date Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:09 am
Hey all,
Bess! I love your sig! It's fabulous. Very Tooks of you.
FGB, congrats on your test score! That's wonderful. All that hard work and stuuf paid off.
Welcome Sugablime, hope you enjoy it here. Any friend of FGB's must be nice!
I have been invited to a Daiquiri/pool party next saturday. Should be fun. I'll be having the fruit ones as I don't drink. That means all the more for others! Shame you all live so far away. T'would be nice if my favourite Torcers could be there. I'll see if Martin can whip up a fruit Wargarita for me.
Had to unload 35 boxes full of winter shoes today. None I want so far but plenty if 99 wishes to ungrade her shoe phone!
Hugs to Narsil and Arve! (the Lidless one is off limits now! and how does one actually hug an eyeball?)
nothing more to say really. Hope everyone is well.
love
nl
Post 453
Anneri
Date Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:28 am
Thank you to everybody for the nice 'birthday' congratulations! And thanks to Lidless for the drinks!
I was in dire need for some after the worst Tolkien lecture ever last night. The poor Professor must have rotated in his grave. I was making notes all of the time to rip that guy apart in the discussion after the lecture, but he took to much time for his lecture and there was no time left afterwards - cleverly done! Huh.
Beautiful day here - white and blue and sparkling (figuratively speaking).
And for the first time in four days, I haven't any headaches. Marvellous!
Post 454
sylthian
Date Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 5:33 am
Happy Friday!
Where the heck is Myst??????
Post 455
prmiller
I am Parm, Bard of Imladris, Servant of Eru
Date Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 6:52 am
Decking Out Rio for Anneri
The yachts in the harbor in fast fading light
illumine the waters in artful array,
and as you stroll by you will see that they write
a far bigger message than what I can say.
The letters are large, but are easy to read,
and sparkle with colors both festive and bright.
We celebrate grandly and gladly indeed,
A HAPPY TORC BIRTHDAY, emblazons the night.
Bright blessings,
Parm
Post 456
bessthebard
Date Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 7:15 am
Parm, your sweet poems always delight. Brightened up my day. Thank you.
Sugarblime, welcome to our asylum, er--our home! Any friend of Fgb is a friend deserving of a warm hug and our sympathy. Good luck on the audition!
Saro, what syl said about taking it easy while you have the excuse!
nl--"how Tooks of you"--thanks. You know I want to be Tooks when I grow up! Have fun at your party. Warm sun and poolside parties are but shadows in the mind these days in the land of snow and ice.
Myst, 99, and especially Ethel--We miss you! Hope all is going well.
For everyone else, in the style of a certain presidential hopeful--a warm Friday Yee-haa!
Post 457
narsil
Date Posted: Fri Jan 30,
NL- hugs back at ya!!!! And LOTS of them!!!
Narsil is enjoying his day off before a 6 day work-a-thon, followed by the Liverpool mooot!!! w00t!!!
There is this thing on British tv at the mo called "I'm a celebrity, get me out of here.." (I'm sure other countries have their own version of it)- and it is absolutely naff!!!!
Ingredients: take 10 z-list celebrities (one of them is the wife of an alcoholic ex-soccer player- would you call THAT a celebrity????)and plonk them in a part of the jungle for a coupe of weeks, then vote for which one you want to be given the heave ho, until one is left.....
erm.....
AND THIS THING IS MASSIVE!!!! PEOPLE BASE ENTIRE CONVERSATIONS AROUND IT WHEN I AM AT WORK!!!!
I get a bigger kick watching an episode of "playbus..."
So- the big question....who at Aunties would you put in thejungle for a week????? And why????
Narsil will have to think about that one, and hopes he hasn't opened a LARGE can of worms...
Lurve and smooches to everyone..... and I suppose that includes you Arv!!!
Post 458
Anneri
Date Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 8:40 am
Oh, Parm! THANK YOU!!! *is speechless*
Narsil - we had it two weeks ago, and it was *the* big topic! Strange... *shakes head*
But then, it was the same when 'Big Brother' and German Idol' started. That too will pass... (But honestly, where do they get these people? Such a bunch of weirdos.)
And I'll meet a very good friend of mine in Liverpool on Saturday - be nice, she's not exactly used to rabid Tolkien fans!
Post 459
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:05 am
You all like giving a guy a lot to read don’t you? Oh well, I’ve got two hours before I go out and poor half my wages down a urinal, so at least I’ll have something to read.
I’ll have more to say later.
Post 460
narsil
Date Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:43 am
Anneri- are you going to Liverpool??? Excellent!!! I have no idea what we are all going to do now that the ROTK screening has gone AWOL, but I am sure that we will be able to find something to fill the time!!
Don't worry about your friend- if they are not converted by the end of Saturday then I will be highly suprised!!!
You're right, the Celebrity thing is sooooooooooo bad!! People here are only watching to see Jordan (a big breasted model as shallow as a puddle)cop off (or sleep with)with ultra-z list failure pop star Peter Andre... and it wont happen!!!
Come back '99!!!! All is forgiven!!
Post 461
Anneri
Date Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:51 am
Narsil, my dear, you're a bit behind things, aren't you?
That was decided looooong ago. Or, better put, Satch decided it for me. She can be quite persuasive! (And I *stil* think that she gets money from the hotel or the train company or whatever!!! *hugs Satch*)
Post 462
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:17 pm
Hehe Anneri
Pfft I don't get money, I pay it out. And now £20 more than it woulda been before because I tend to erm delay things and haven't actually booked my train yet... *scratches neck*
....Fleas *shakes head*
Heylo everyone
Post 463
Anneri
Date Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:34 pm
Same with me! Have I booked that stoopfid train?! Nooooo...
(And what am I doing here for hours without end?! I should be working! Working!!!)
Have four boobfies now! Hurray! *waits for Lidless's comment*
Post 464
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:46 pm
NL-mucho thanks! And the rest of the results are in...
Exam scores were posted today.
drum roll please...
Chem-100 (FGb already bragged about that one, though.)
English-92 (hardest class, harder grader.)
Math-A+ (figures the math teacher didn't have a number.)
Civics-A (easiest exam ever, and we might get a curve. I love this teacher!)
French- 94(most difficult subject pour moi parce que j'ai un thick skull for languages)
wOOt, they're OVER! done! completed!
and I had an ice cream sundae to celebrate...cookie dough with homemade chocolate sauce...and tehDad's making brownies. Well, he makes brownies every day anyway, but this is my favorite recipe.
TLE-I take it you are not a Northerner?
Narsil-you're just buying everyone's drinks now, aren't you? As well as an ex-host, you are a traiter to the Northerners and therefore must make it up to them buy buying massive amounts of beer.
Parm-loverly poem! I would have written a poem, but what I write could be considered an attack on literature.
Speaking of Northernor, where is she? *looks around*. No sign of her! *tear*
Saro-indeed, take advantage/pity pull while you've got the opportunity! It is, after all, the most opportune moment.
Today I have to decide what book I'm reading for a suspense/thriller independent reading paper. Andromeda Strain (Michael Crichton), The Trial or Metamorphosis (Franz Kofka), or something else?
FGb, refusing to read the DaVinci code because it's simply far too mainstream to be good.
Post 465
narsil
Date Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 2:21 pm
FGB- WELL DONE to the smartest person I know... with the exception of me!!!
Quality results reminicent of the time I came home after getting my A- level results believing that someone must have mixed them up!!! I am so happy for you!!!!!
Now GO PLAY THAT INSTRUMENT!!!!
Anneri- okay, I admit it.... I am a bit on the catch up side of things regarding the moooot. I have no idea who is going now, but am glad to hear that you will be amongst them. You will have your work cut out for you just keeping an eye on Satchy..... speaking of Satchy....
WHERE YOU AT LADY????? Don't try to hide!!! I want to see just how much alcohol you can consume before all inhibitions cease to exist...!!!
Toast to Arv who is out on the lash tonight......
and on a promise from the fair Louise....
Narsil- "proud carrier of Anneris make-up bag..."
Post 466
Myst_28
Date Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 3:57 pm
A drive-by post.
I'm still alive.
I've been dealing with lots of work / life issues.
I've seen the movie.
I've missed everyone very much.
I'll be back to post more tomorrow.
Post 467
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 4:49 pm
MYYYYYYYYYYYYST!!!1
Post 468
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 5:26 pm
Wow, Myst.
That was a drive by. See you tomorrow.
Post 469
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 6:51 pm
*cough*
theduffster awoke with a start. She found herself chained to a desk in a tiny cubicle. A phone and computer sat on the top of the desk.
'What's this?' she exclaimed. 'I was having such a nice dream about skiing. How did I end up here?'
'MAWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHWHAHAHAHAWHAHAHAHAHHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!'
The evil laughter seemed to emanate from all four walls and the ceiling.
'Who's there?' theduffster cried?
'Never mind!' the voice replied. 'Just get to work. Answer the phone.'
'It's not ringing.'
'Oh. Answer it when it rings.'
Just then the phone rang.
'Drat,' theduffster said to herself.
She picked up the phone and said with all sweetness and love, 'This is theduffster speaking. How may I help you?'
'Hey! I'm a yaw-hoo from Erie and I want to pay my gas bill.'
'I'm sorry, sir. We don't accept payments for gas bills.'
'Well, why not? I want to pay it.'
'I'd be happy to accept payment for your electric bill, sir.'
'Okay.'
{pregnant pause}
'What is the name of your electric company, sir?'
'Erie Gas Company.'
'I'm sorry. We don't accept pay....' CLICK
'Well, that was rude,' theduffster thought to herself. She hung up the phone.
'That was easy.....Hey! I must have a job! I'm getting paid for this! Wow! This is great!'
The phone rang.
'Good morning, this is theduffster. How may I help you?'
The voice at the other end was muted. theduffster could not tell if it was male or female.
'theduffster, we've been trying to contact you.'
'Who is this?' she asked suspiciously. 'Is this Tooks?'
'No.'
'Are you sure?'
The was a pause. theduffster heard muffled whispers at the other end of the line. Just then she saw an envelope on the floor near the entrance of her cubicle. She hadn't noticed it there before. She picked it up and opened it. There was a single sheet of paper inside, with letters from magazines and newspapers pasted on it. theduffster gasped as she read. The paper fluttered from her hands to the floor. Just then the phone went dead.
....to be continued....
Post 470
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 8:16 pm
Oh my! The Duffsters has gone from sitcom to mystery!!
Good to see you, Myst!
Saro
PS- Despite all the good advice to the contrary, I overdid it a little today. I was so stir crazy that I decided to go grocery shopping.
Post 471
sylthian
Date Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:31 pm
O/M/G - she went from the gas company to 'TEH MATRIX' Tooks will you show up on a motorcycle in the next episode.... will you make duffy walk out on the window ledge? will you have icky wormy things crawl into her navel?? will you have the aunties and uncles drive around in a vintage 70's gas hog on rainy streets all dressed in leather? I'm giddy with anticipation.
Did anyone know that the letters O and M with a G on the end are now no-nos!!
Post 472
InnocentEvil
RingMariner
Date Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 11:26 pm
Yes. Jon and Ted feel it's more offensive than some swear words simply because they view it as taking the Lord's name in vain. Don't make the rules myself, just enforce 'em
Sylthian wants me FIRED you guys!
Post 473
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 1:18 am
Yeah. Jon and Ted are Christian, but rules on what is cussing here I find quite funny. "Jeez" is OK, but saying the full proper name as an expletive is a no-no, as I found out to my cost yesterday in another thread.
I can't help but think of the Monty Python stoning sketch.
PS - InnE,
If you and your sweetie met at TolkienOnline we want to know about it: how, what, when and why?
Change that word "sweetie", and you might get something from Estel and I. Jeez, how sickly. Ack.
Post 474
Anneri
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 1:46 am
*looks frantically for a make-up bag, so that Narsil can carry it... Fails...*
Myst! Good to see you! Did you like the movie? Impressions?
Ahh, theduffsters meet The Matrix... interesting. Now we only need a white rabbit to follow!
Nothing new to tell. Have to work today, so that a certain project is finished when I leave for L'pool. Gah.
Post 475
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 7:17 am
WHO was the voice on the phone?
WHAT did the mysterious note say?
WHY does syl want Inny fired?
All this...and more....may (or not) be answered sometime within our lifetimes....
Post 476
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 8:49 am
Ooooh, Tooks! That was just...pure genius! Matrix, hmm, so who's going to wear that skintight leather jumpsuit? If you're Morpheus and Duffy's Neo...well, I guess to continue the role reversal trend we would have to put a male in that oh-so-sexy leather getup. Any volunteers? Frankly, I think Arve and Narsil should have to duke it out, because we all know they both want to wear it.
MYST! WOOT! yer back! Glad to see ya!
Well last night I came home from quartet and checked my e-mail. Of course, no mail, but it was an excuse to check TORC. Anyway, as I left the computer room (one way out, and it's a door) I shut the door. Nothing unusual about this, because whenever we leave the house, we have to shut the door to make sure Papagena can't fly in and chew the wires to the computer (trust me, it's happened before.) So I go to ROTK with tehDad, viewing number four for me, two for him, and we get back at around midnight. And what do I hear? A very plaintive meow coming from the study! (the computer room, the one with the shut door.) I locked both of the cats in a room for three four hours! So they were kinda pissed at me for the rest of the night.
I felt so awful. Poor kitties. *sniff*. They don't seem to mind though, seeing as they awoke me this morning by pouncing on my face-the norm.
The good news is, tehDad likes LOTR. I mean, he always has, but he really seemed to enjoy ROTK last night. "Howard Shore is a genius." Direct quote! We're getting somewhere...although I asked him to join TORC and he said he didn't have the time. Sigh, well, maybe somewhere in the longterm future.
Saro-my mother is in Boston right now. When she told me where she was going, I said, "Oh, Saro lives there!" and she said, "Who?" At this point, I reply, "Saro, you know, from TORC?" and she just looked at me kinda weird. Don't think she finds me psychiatrically stable at times. Ah well, sanity's overrated anyway.
FGb
Post 477
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 9:16 am
I did mean to post again last night but, well, between messenger and impatient girlfriends I just didn’t have the time! Did have a good night, no I never got pissed/lashed just a bit merry (as opposed to feeling Merry, different thing altogether) and it was a very good night for all concerned.
Anneri/Satch: On the whole subject of trains, I’ve just realised my return tickets for the 6th! I knew that stupid woman in the ticket office wasn’t listening to my mate when he booked the tickets, I could hear her indifference over the mobile phone.
Satch: were you doing RL stuff as well? Who said you could move from that computer!
Narsil: Someone’s been busy spamming! I have no idea what your talking about, my hard drive doesn’t have any images on it whatsoever, especially of sheep, llamas or anything else.
As for sending someone to the jungle, I say we send you. A week of Jordan (s)mothering you and Jenny Bond without her false teeth in would be right up your alley!
Sugarblime: I know your off practicing and doing concerts but hello and welcome to Aunties anyway! As you can probably tell were all a bunch of pipe smoking intellectuals who enjoy a good debate over a snifter of cognac. If you believe that……
Darin: I thought that as one of the Moot’s organisers you’d be buying everyone a drink as a gesture of good will. Forget you’re a fellow northerner with a padlock on his wallet for a second there.
Myst’s back, wooohooo!
FG: I always knew you were intelligent, but those test results are astounding, way to go!
Tooks: A mystery? Pass me some of whatever your feeding your imagination on, I need some inspiration.
NL: You don't hug a giant eye, their all slippery and they either burst or shoot out of your hands when you squeeze them. My couisin the nurse confirmed this for me; student nurses have been known to play catch with human eyeballs before.
Now I’ll just wish you all an unproductive, lazy and altogether fun weekend! Hugs for the ladies, hearty slaps on the back for the gents and a kick up the bum for Narsil.
Ohh, Ethel, 99 & Cem, I hope your all ok.
What did happen to Northerner?
Arve - “Anbefales av Norsk bowling forbund”
Post 478
Lembas_Junkie
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 9:32
Mystie! Yaaaay! Hello to everyone else, too. Studying for Organci Chem on Monday, but thought I'd take a break and pop onto TORC. We had another pub crawl for school last night, it was so much fun. Met up with me friends once the two bus loads of us poared off, and we dragged them around with us. Good times!
Post 479
Alassante_Estel
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 10:11 am
Arve - just had to comment, niiice sig pic you've got there Its purty precioussss
Post 480
sylthian
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 10:48 am
MYST!!!!!!!!!!!!!! glad you're back you were gone tooooo long
Estel has also returned - you almost got an e mail from the sheepdog
so where has Northerner been? She hasn't been in here in ages and she knows we're in Rio - I mean how fun can the frozen tundra be?
If we're putting men in tight leather - might I suggest Hugh?? I know he's only a regular to Aunties by way of Tooks' fiction but the image it generates is so swoooooony
I want Inny fired because she's playing favorites. Just because I have these questionable pics of Mammo she starts playing Goddess with the rejection. ******Hrumph!!****** Ok, maybe not fired.... maybe just shaken roughly - maybe shaken roughly by Hugh??? Hmmmm, I'm hitting on another plan.
Inny, if I promise you a 'rough shaking' by Hugh will you approve my next pic?? Let's try the 'more flies with honey' approach....
Happy Saturday all
Post 481
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 10:53 am
Lembas-another pub crawl and you'll turn out to be a youthful Lidless. The thought!
Estel-yep, Arve's pic is purty. Has Louise seen that Arve?
It's funny how practicing for slightly less than two hours makes you feel like you've done something productive. And what's even funnier? It's fun if you don't have parents nagging you to do it. Or listening to you while you do it. It's just plain old good if they have nothing to do with it. Did Fgb just admit to liking to practice? NEVER!
Hey, the Mozart is turning into a less and less offensive statement to Wolfgang as we speak. Making progress, slowly but surely, FGb
Post 482
Anneri
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 11:14 am
FGB, soon - with growing familiarity - you can start calling him Wolfie...
Congrats to the exams, btw!
Just chiming in to second Arve - I miss Cem, Nienna and Ethel! Come back as soon as you can, hm?
Post 483
Entwife_of_Fangorn
It's the Ents who are lost
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 11:45 am
HI everyone. Happy weekend!
I posted this in a thread in Movies, but since I'm not sure if many of you frequent there, I thought I could get away with reposting it here.
My sister in law emailed me yesterday about this conversation with her precocious (and quite literal-minded!) 5 year old. Zachary had gotten Frodo's sword for Christmas (from us, of course! )and as my SIL Jessica was driving him somewhere, he had it in the back seat. Jessica told him that his sword had a name, Sting, and was especially powerful because it had been made by the elves. Zachary was quiet for a minute, then:
Zach: "Mom, I think you're wrong."
Jess: "What do you mean?"
Zach: "Well, I'm looking at the sword, and it says right here: "Made. In. China."
Post 484
Spammers_Inc.
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 12:05 pm
LOL!
One of the things I like best about this board is all the little kid stories involving LotR. That is definitely one of the more adorable of the ones I have heard
Post 485
narsil
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 12:35 pm
Tooks!!!You have answered Narsils call!! Another classic!!
Anneri- just how big is this make-up bag? I don't mind carrying anything for you, but draw the line when it comes to Arvs flock of sheep...
Arv- the false teeth comment was "BELOW THE BELT..." (har har))Narsil assumes the position to recieve said kick...
FGB- leather suit? Hot ass? Narsil is in!! Bring it on.... although i think the oufit would go better with Arvs eyes.
Spammers inc- welcome to Aunties!! With you name expect to be contacted soon by our resident king of spam Arv...
Hmmmmm- only THREE comments about Arv in this post....
Not enough....
Take care all!!!
Narsil-"the coffee to Satchys cream..."
Post 486
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 1:05 pm
Entwife-that story is so charming! Awww, little kids are so cute!
So I have a stupidity story, or an-oh this is good my brother is an idiot story.
I'm watching a James Bond movie, I think Tomorrow Never Dies or James bond gets three babes episode 16 or whatever they're called these days, and M, in this one, is played by Dame Judy. So, my brother, in all his loverly oblivion, says,
"Who plays M? Is it that Judy Stench lady?"
I love that child.
Narsil-it would match Arve's eyes, eh? Well, I'm sure that I could spray paint it a color more suitable for your eyes, if it is so desired. Or just screw the spray paint and paint that liquid latex stuff on you. It gets that same skintight effect without the dead cows. Or wasted plastic that Ms. Moss was sporting.
I just found out that I have to read Julius Caesar for English. Loverly, considering I am an illiterate filistine. And one with a sever spelin dysbilitie.
FGb, not comprehending ye Monsieur master William.
Post 487
InnocentEvil
RingMariner
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 1:15 pm
Lidless it's no skin off my nose if you let a silly thing like the word sweetie put you off. Respond or don't. It's totally up to you.
I see Jon must have taken care of you, Sylthian. I couldn't touch those pics w/o his say so, because EEEK! I did find one last night of the Wicked Witch of the West, I was contemplating using it for something myself but let me know if you want it. OH that and a great one of Malificent
Speaking of Wiz of Oz, I can't say enough how cute that picture is, Estel. If I had a picture of Patty and Cheryl walking down the hall hand in hand (as they so often do on their way to stir up trouble) I'd try to do something similar
Post 488
sylthian
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 1:27 pm
Pic Approved - finally!!! evidently I must resort to cartoons
Thanks Inny - The Hugh's in the mail.
Post 489
narsil
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 2:08 pm
FGB- Narsil is ready......
let the spraying commence...
Post 490
Alassante_Estel
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 2:42 pm
Estel has also returned - you almost got an e mail from the sheepdog
I was gone? no no no, just spamming less but who is the sheepdog, and why would it email me?
InnE - thanks darlin Considering I have the cheap cheap version of photoshop (PictureIt!), I was rather proud of myself for that pic. This whole thread is full of great sig pics though.
Well, looks like I'm off to Amsterdam in April Got the time off that I wanted. Though, I must say, I am seriously considering just staying when I get there lolol
Post 491
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 2:56 pm
Syl-as usual, fantastic sig pic! Yes, that Mammo is a killer. Better watch out.
Estel-love your pic as well. See, I just don't do sig pics because all my photos from the digi are in iPhoto. Too many pixels, and I don't know how to reduce them. Pity, because I have great ideas for some of them.
When do they get to the part in Julius Caesar when he says, "Et tu, Brute?". Maybe I should just skip to the good part, it's boooooring. But again, it could be that whole, "I don't understand what I'm reading about because it's in British" thing. British, Old English, same thing; it's all foreign American.
I have four boobs now (round pink things/decorations, whatever you want to call them). Huzzah FGb, I should stop spamming soon, people are going to think I'm a spammer. Which is nothing to be ashamed of, I assure you.
FGb, debating sparknoting poor julius. And why isn't it pronounce "Kazar"?
Post 492
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 3:55 pm
Syl- Don't forget Mammo's hot tub pic! It might tarnish any goody two shoes image she may have left. And it's previously approved! Just trying to be helpful.
Saro
Post 493
Ethel
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 4:04 pm
Thanks to everyone who has expressed (or perhaps even just felt) concern about me. I've missed you too! I did go to see my friend who is ill, and his wife, last weekend. It was a lovely visit. For the moment at least he is feeling pretty well, and I am very glad to have been able to experience that. I was sorry that IE and I couldn't get together, but all in good time, eh?
In other news, it has been snowing like mad all day and I think I'm snowed in. Just watched my neighbor across the street get stuck going up his driveway. Oops. Probably not a good sign! Well, I have consumables in the house and propane in the tank, so I reckon I'll survive. I may get a lot of spamming in before they plow the roads...
Hope you're recovering well from the surgery, dear Saro. Watch out for that overconfidence thing!
Happy Birthday, Anneri! (belatedly )
Nice to see you, Mystie.
Hello and welcome to Sugarblime!
Tooks, we are waiting with bated (or even baited!) breath for the continuation...
Hey, Lidless, what's wrong with "sweetie"? (I think it might sound ickier to an English ear than to an American - it's a quite common diminutive for 'sweetheart' or 'beloved' on this side of the pond.)
Saro-my mother is in Boston right now. When she told me where she was going, I said, "Oh, Saro lives there!" and she said, "Who?" At this point, I reply, "Saro, you know, from TORC?" and she just looked at me kinda weird. Don't think she finds me psychiatrically stable at times. Ah well, sanity's overrated anyway.
FGb, what's psychiatrically unstable about that? Before I moved from California I often got together with TORCer Old_Begonia, and she never stopped calling me Ethel. I answer to it now!
Enty - love the story about Zach.
Narsil, Arve... and all of you who are going to Liverpool - have a wonderful, wonderful time. I am so sorry that I had to cancel, and I'm green with envy at all the fun you will have. Please give us a complete report!
Smooches all round...
Post 494
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 4:07 pm
evidently I must resort to cartoons..
Always the best way to go, syl.
Which gets me thinking about a new sig.... mmMMMMmmmmmmmmm.
PS: Now I'll recognize teh Mammo in Philly!
edited to add: Hi Ethel! We were posting at the same time!
Post 495
prmiller
I am Parm, Bard of Imladris, Servant of Eru
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 4:15 pm
For FairGoldberry...who fears her poetry to be assaultive
FairGoldberry's grades// Parm's 1972 HS grades
Chem-100//Chem - 60 (What chemical do you breathe?/ Answer: Only one? )
English-92// English - 98 (Define 'idiot savant' -/ Answer: Me, in every subject
but this.)
Math-A+// Math 33 (remedial) Provisional Pass - { I need to take a remedial math course in college} (Draw a shape that has no angles) Response: He draws a heart.
Civics-A//Civics - (Social Studies) - 61 What is the leader of our province called?
Answer: My parents don't like me using bad language.
French- 94 //French 12 (remedial) Failed - English Literature 98 (A: Bonjour.
B: _________? )Answer: Oui? [And I am Canadian.]
Fair Goldberry writes Parm-loverly poem! I would have written a poem, but what I write could be considered an attack on literature.
Dearheart,
I was an attack on the educative process. Be at ease about your poetic abilities.
We would love to hear from you. (But, please, no French...you will need to
translate it for me, I fear )
For the rest of you, pointing at my grades and thinking, "How did they let this
guy slip by?" In years to come, I have subsequently made up for all this...it is
called "having children with homework who need help".
Post 496
sugarblime7
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 4:36 pm
Aaaaaannnndd....I'm back
FGb: Why couldn't I have just sang out like our teacher teaches us to do? Why must I take months of preparation and throw it out the window because of my ridiculous nerves?? I'll never understand it.
Ethel: you lived in California? That's my dream location. Coolest state in the country.
sb7
Post 497
Lembas_Junkie
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 5:32 pm
I didn't know you were Canadian, Parm. Where from?
Just taking a break from Organic Chem study. Functional groups and Infra Red Spectrum Graph Reading, here I come! FBG you have amazing grades, you have shown your quality! I am more on Parm's side of things, well I was in highschool, anyway. School was pretty much the last thing on my mind. Who wanted to study when there were social loves to live? All of my closest friends were on the honours list, and so while they studied, I was off camping, listening to music, reading and drawing. Now, 10 years later I have decided to get into Animal Science, so here I am - back in school! Only this time, I am trying harder than I have all the years of grade school combined! And let me tell ya, if feels so good to get those grades back and see the hard work paid off. *sigh* So nice!
Hi, Ethel! it's nice to see you back. I know what you mean about referring to people on TORC in every day conversation. I talk to my school friends about TORC quite a bit, actually. They even know about the TORCies (Vote Lembas! ) and they all see my sig pic creations before they hit the screen, and ask about TORCie progress. I think I heard one of them even say something about signing up. How funny is that?
Post 498
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 6:27 pm
Sugar-because Ms. G is a professional and a miracle worker so we all play ten begillion times better in her presence. That and you know if we mess up we'll have to do it ten times over. And she fixes our reeds while we're there. And...well, she's not going to judge us. Btw, nerves aren't to be understood. They're just like common sense. Some people have it, some people don't. And if you don't have one, you usually don't have the other. Take me, for example; I don't get nervous because I don't realize how important something is until after I audition for it. So, no common sense, no nerves.
Parm-thanks, I'll post a poem...maybe later tonight, if I can find it.
Lembas-yea, I've always kind of held the philosophy that grades are superficial and unimportant. You can know everything but fail out (Einstein) or know nothing and get straight A's (the majority of A students of my generation especially.) It really bothers me how much emphasis is put on a letter attached to a number. Unfortunately, I have not yet come up with a better solution, although I'm working on it.
My philosophy on stooopfid grades: if audition scores don't matter because they're just a number and a number can't judge how you play, then how can a number say how smart you are?
Story of the night: tehDad and I made risotto for dinner. And while I'm grating the parmesian cheese, I accidentally put my hand on the greater. He looks over and yells, "WHAT are you doing?" Yes, tehDad saved me from grating my hand and depositing it in little curls with the cheese. *sniff* serious father/daughter bonding right there.
FGb, off to read more Julius.
Post 499
sugarblime7
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 6:57 pm
FGb..
always the greatest advice
that and dom make me feel a million times better.
Post 500
prmiller
I am Parm, Bard of Imladris, Servant of Eru
Date Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 7:22 pm
To Lembas_Junkie
Ah, yes...behind the love of raw fish (called 'sashimi'), buckwheat noodles ('soba')
and rice crackers ('sembei'), my drink of choice (and I'm drinking it even now!) is
Canada Dry (Caffeine Free). I was born in Collingwood, Ontario, raised in Cooksville
near Toronto, and moved to Calgary, where I lived until 25. Then it was off to
Sioux Falls, South Dakota for graduate studies, then off to Japan...for the next
22 years...and here I am, sitting my Little Firefly's eMac, enjoying my time with you
all!
Post 501
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sun Feb 1, 2004 8:02 am
Parm-that's so cool, another Canadian! Aunties must have some allure to the cold weather folk; maybe because it's RRrrrrio?! *Spanish salsa music comes on and everyone breaks into a dance that amazingly, every Auntie and Uncle knows the steps to*
Sugarblime-Hey, I try my best. Dom, picture, Christmas present. *looks guiltily in your direction.* Oh, you know what I'm talking about! *cough cough*
Just don't become too attached to the guy; he is mine, afterall. Mwahahaha!
Lembas-you have another Canadian! (does that make three?) You should start a Canadian guild. *nods*
The STuperBowl's on today! wOOt! This is THE American holiday. Not Thanksgiving, not commercialized Christmas, not Labor day, not any legitimate holiday, but the SUPERBOWL! And you know why it's American? Because it gives everyone permission to eat as much junkfood as they want in the name of the day. Don't you love us?
For all the young-this prerequisite is not necessary actually-***(I did not know this word was a TOS violation) males in the country, they are showing a special half-time show on pay per view. Yes, models playing football in their lingerie. Another fantastic aspect of American pop culture.
FGb, "the deep breath before the plunge." Yeah, that means I'm not eating junkfood until two hours before TehGame starts.
***=sexually eager
Post 502
bessthebard
Date Posted: Sun Feb 1, 2004 12:18 pm
Happy Sunday! And salutations to all the faithful who worship their chosen saints: Panthers and Patriots! May the true believers triumph!
My friend and I plan to see ROTK today, despite winter storm warnings about sleet, ice and 8 inches of snow. Fortunately, she's driving.
My drama group did a dance piece to "God Bless the Outcasts" from Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame last night. We all dressed as gypsies and the Fool became a tormented Christ figure. Very original and moving. The 500 church youth we performed it for seemed to like it.
Be safe and well, everyone. TTFN.
Bess
PS Hope my sig pic is approved soon. One more tribute to the dynamic duo, duffster and Tooks. (Great episode, BTW)
Post 503
sugarblime7
Date Posted: Sun Feb 1, 2004 12:28 pm
btb- i totally forgot about that song! i forgot how much i loved hunchback of notre dame. sounds like a good interpretation of it.
fgb- the xmas present is not in use, i say!! remember you are sworn to silence...hahah, and ok dom is yours, but we all know who is mine. i WILL marry him.
sb7
Post 504
sugarblime7
Date Posted: Sun Feb 1, 2004 12:30 pm
narsil-
what does moot mean?
i'm clueless.
Post 505
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Sun Feb 1, 2004 12:36 pm
...What the hell narsil?! oO
I had a pretty good day/night today/last night. I popped over to see the friend who moved away, and at about 10pm the lights went out because of the wind or whatever. So she's scared of the dark because of previously living in a rectory which was all haunted and spookified, so she was freaking out And in the end we had all the people in the house legging it around with candles, planting them around for some form of light. Generally speaking, a bit of a fire risk, but what the heck.
The lights came back about 3/4 of an hour later, but at about 2am they went out again when we were sitting in the kitchen. The lights went poof and a huuuuuuuuuge flash of lightning flashed across the valley that you can see out of her window. T'was purdy. She didn't care... What a waste *shakes head*
Wax burns precioussss... it burns...
But yeah, moving on. So today I was working, and just before I left it started raining. Mucho rain, so I had to run to the car to save my hair from going frizzy. I had it cut and I want it to last more than 2 days instead of being afro-chic for the rest of my life. Got home and decided to leg it from the end of my drive to my house, which would be easier then drying to avoid a fence to get in (my balance and direction is as good as my memory, so it would be more hassle then it's worth ). I burst from the car, and sprinted as fast as my legs could carry me, leapt down the couple of steps, skidded to my front door, tried to turn to get in...
...Slipped... flew through the air, managed to smack myself in the face with the coke (pffft diet... blasphemy...) bottle in my hand... and landed on my back in a puddle. So yeah, I got wet. I was just laying there crying with laughter, with a bottle cap shaped bump on my cheek, and my back covered in mud.
My hair is big I'm sad.
...And after this long and pointless tale, have a good evening/morning all and a good week, oh yes preciousssss a good week...
EDIT: Sugarblime, moot is basically gathering. Except it's taken from the whole "entmoot" thingy from LoTR. S'good stuff
Post 506
cemthinae
Micah Six:Eight
Date Posted: Sun Feb 1, 2004 12:39 pm
Hi everyone! I'm not sure what has happened recently, but it seems that I'm not going to be on TORC much now. I've just turned a corner in my life & right now I don't have near as much time to spend online as I have in the past few months. I'll keep on checking in though!
As for Nienna99, I just got an email from her this week & I'm afraid we won't be graced with her beautiful persona anymore. We'll all miss her greatly, but life goes on.
Hope everyone is doing good! I'll really try to catch up later this week! Smiles for everyone!
Post 507
narsil
Date Posted: Sun Feb 1, 2004 1:03 pm
Cem- keep checking on what's left of us from time to time- you will be sorely missed!!! It has been excellent making your aquaintance!!
As for '99, I will miss her totally........
Sugarblime- Yup!! Satchy is right- a moot is a "gathering", or in the case of Liverpool a gathering of people from TORC (the old name for tolkien online- 'the one ring.com'). It should be a landmark moot, one of the last before some of us "diminish and go into the west" as Galadriel would say. Any other questions you have then don't hesitate to ask.
Satchy-what do you mean "what the hell?" What have I done that is worse than normal? Oh, and I have a gift for you.....
.....just sort your hair out first.
Narsil had some bad news today- the company he used to work for is shutting down the branch he used to work at, which means that alot of his friends will be without jobs. I am trying to find positions for some of them where I am now, but will not be able to accomodate all.
Take care fellow torc'ers. Not long until the moot.
(Anneri is finding the biggest bag she can for ol' Narsil to heft...)
Post 508
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Sun Feb 1, 2004 3:05 pm
Ok, I’m going to whinge a little so feel free to skip this bit if you want.
I got called into work last night to cover a few hours, 8.00pm-11.00pm, not great but hey I need the money. It was pretty quite, nothing to terrible, until one of the clients/patients suffered a major epileptic seizure. It was a short, sharp, fatal seizure. Dead in under a minute. The qualified nurses did everything they could to try to revive her, all to no avail. Something just stopped I guess.
It was very upsetting for all of us, but I really felt it because I’ve known her practically since I started work nine years ago and we always got on really well. I admit I shed a tear or two in private.
I got home and decided to go onto to torc for a few minutes, just to say hi I guess. I got very upset about a post in another thread and posted something in response to it that was a little strong. I guess I wasn’t in a very understanding frame of mind. I think it’s all sorted now though, a bit of a misunderstanding on both our parts.
Ok that’s enough out of me for now…….
Cem: Babes, you’re the first person who made me feel really welcome here and it is a pleasure and a privilege to know you. If things are going great for you in RL it’s nothing more than you deserve, just make sure you do drop by and see us all, ok?
It’s a shame about Nienna as well, a classy lady who’s going to be missed.
But it is great to see Ethel again!
Satchy & Narsil, I’ll catch up with you both tomorrow or something, the big day is fast approaching!
Just enough time to say goodnight to the rest of you and I hope you have a good Sunday.
Arve
Post 509
sylthian
Date Posted: Sun Feb 1, 2004 3:25 pm
Cem and 99 - you will be missed - and hopefully you'll miss all of us to the point where you must return.
Post 510
Northerner
Queen of the Tundra
Date Posted: Sun Feb 1, 2004 4:26 pm
Missing Cem and 99 already.
Notice that I've been missed and want to report that I am still alive. I had five days of IV immunoglobulin the week before last (ugh), got aseptic meningitis (a common side effect) and was down with a fever and the headache from hell for the next week. We start all over again tomorrow. Sob. I was so mad because I had spent the whole first week promising myself a viewing of ROTK once we were done, then -bam, I was down.
Really not much new here. No snow, lots of cold, puppy growing and January is finally OVER!!!
Stay shiny.
Post 511
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Sun Feb 1, 2004 5:15 pm
Yikes, Northerner. Stay feeling better now. Since 99 won't be around I will need some of your fun adventures for 'theduffsters meets Queen of the Tundra'.
Yea, January is over, and February is supposedly a short month (but it always seems sooooo long).
Hi to all!
Post 512
sylthian
Date Posted: Sun Feb 1, 2004 6:47 pm
Aww - Northerner - so sorry for all the crap you've had going on. Hope Feg. is a better month - and yes you were missed
Post 513
Ornendil
Date Posted: Sun Feb 1, 2004 9:54 pm
Arve - “Anbefales av Norsk bowling forbund”
*Ponders the meaning of these words*
What's your connection with them?
Post 514
notlistening
corner of no and where
Date Posted: Sun Feb 1, 2004 11:55 pm
Hey all,
Welcomes back to Ethel and lovely Myst!
Very sad to see Cem and 99 leave our shores. Hope you can both pop by occasionally??? Narsil may die of a broken heart...
Bess, you want to be Tooks when you grow up? Very big challenge. Have to start shopping for leopard skin clothes now
Saw ROTK for the 4th time on saturday. Yep, crying is getting worse each time. Now start crying when Pippin sings. Have not done that before. Will soon be sniggling when the New Line logo comes up. But still have 3 viewing to go to match 7 times to each movie.
I say Yah! to Jon and Ted. I know not everyone on the boards is a christian but use of God's name in vain upsets me too. There are plenty of other words to use. No offense meant by this either.
Best wishes for the moot/gathering/thing in Liverpool! Have a great tiem all. We expect photos/gossip etc!
Nothing more to tell except to say: I hate shoes! Had to unload another 35 crates of the nasty things!
love to all,
nl
Post 515
Anneri
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 1:20 am
I intended this to be a long post, but then I realised that I've to leave for work *very* soon (because the football/soccer season has started again, I have my parttime job back). So let me just say - that's a morning with a lot of sad news - Cem and Nienna leaving, and Arve - so sorry for you.
Arve and Narsil, would it be possible to chat a bit on msn with you at some time this week? I'd be looking forward to that.
Maybe not today, because I'm at a birthday party tonight, but then -anytime.
I finished my 25-pages paper about aesthetics and Perceval last night. Hurray!!! Now let's party in Liverpool...
Satch, you really are the Queen of Chaos, aren't you?
Oh, Narsil, I'm really looking for a *big* bag, because said friend in Bradford sends lists with things to get for her everyday... And the heap of stuff gets bigger and bigger... But at least somebody will help me carrying it!
See ya later (hopefully), don't leave overnight!
Post 516
theduffster
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 3:28 am
Another one who greatly misses those who must leave. Darn it all!
Tooks, I was hoping to see a new episode, but hadn't had a chance to visit Auntie's this weekend. Too busy researching who to vote for for the TORCies. Great job!
We had to take Ellie to the emergency room last week. Nothing serious, just at 9:00 in the evening she told us her ear was sore. Turned out she had an infection from her pierced ear. The lobe was a little puffy in the front, but when I looked at the back...yikes! It was hugely swollen and disgusting. Ellie has a very high threshold of pain, it had been sore for a few days and she said nothing to us. Meanwhile it got worse and worse.... The doctor asked her if it hurt and she said, "only when I touch it." *sigh* I must constantly tell her, if something HURTS, please let us know right away! Instead she seems to feel embarassed to admit a weakness, or as if she's confessing to a wrongdoing. She's a strong one!
Must check out the Movies forum! Ta!
Post 517
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 3:46 am
Gee. For some reason I really like your sig pic, duffster.
It's been saved for future reference.
Post 518
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 4:51 am
Ethel! Good to see you again! Luckily, it looks like my overconfidence didn't set me back.
I'm so sorry that 99 is leaving! I'll miss her! I hope we'll still see you popping by Cem.
W00t w00t!!11111 for the Pats!!!!
Wonderful sig, Duffster!!
Hi Bess! Can I grow up to be like Tooks, too?
I'm going to see the surgeon for a recheck today. All is going great with my knee. I still have a numb spot about the size of quarter on the side of my knee, though.
Have a great week everyone! When is the liverpool moot? I'll be looking forward to your reports!
Saro
Post 519
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 8:27 am
Love the sig pic, duffbabe.
*E*
Post 520
Lembas_Junkie
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 11:16 am
Hello to everyone and goodbye sweet Cem and 99.
Post 521
bessthebard
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 11:24 am
People can't just leave! I don't like change. *pouts*
Well, I've resized my sig pic for the powers that be so here's hoping it will be approved soon.
Love the sig pics--Mumm, Tooks, Syl, Duffy, and *E*!! Saro, hope the surgeon says everything is okey-dokey (hate all that medical terminology, don't you?). Northerner, here's hoping the same for you. Sorry it's been a rough time lately.
Anneri, Cem, narsil, satch, Ornie and everybody else-have a great day.
Post 522
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 11:35 am
Good afternoon, everyone. I've been on a real feel-good truth bender the past few days, so I wanted to come by and say fondest well-wishes to you all. I'm feeling very good at the moment and free. I let go of something important to me last night that was hurting me and I woke up this morning with a big smile on my face, even though I had only slept for about three hours. Its a beautiful day, mild and sunny. I was only at work for an hour, and found some pants at the mall that were, for once, too big for me. I bought them right away. Three days from now I'll be flying into Heathrow and crashing with Leoba, then off to Liverpool, where I will die of starstruck when I meet satch and teh leafy one. And they're going to try to get to the London Dungeons with me so I don't hafta be alone! I can't stop smiling.
Best of luck throughout the week, guys.
*E*
Post 523
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 11:42 am
I’m feeling a bit less guilty today, I know I’m stupid but I’ve been beating myself up over the fact I wasn’t able to help patient B the other night. The preliminary findings from the pathologist suggest that there was a sudden event that caused her death, something just went wrong. Nothing anyone could have done to help, so no reason to feel responsible. I’ll just keep a quite moment during the day to feel sad and pray, a prayer never hurts after all.
Northerner: Good to see your back and I hope your next course of treatment doesn’t lead to the same side-effects. I agree about January, the month that never seems to end has finally done so!
Syl, with these sig pics your really spoiling us!
Ornie: Found that phrase on the back of my old “The Big Lebowski” video, I think it’s Norwegian or Swedish, do you know what it means? I just thought it sounded cool.
Anneri: Thanks for the kind thoughts, appreciated and I’m more than happy to pass on my messenger ID: [E]northernguy3039@yahoo.co.uk[/E]. I’m sure Narsil will do the same. Congrats on finishing the 25 page paper, you truly deserve to party after all that effort.
Narsil: You've got to stop all those Arve comments, people will get the wrong idea. As for you mates losing there jobs, at least your in a position to try to help them out. I also thought NL's comments were very.....perceptive.
NL: Just saying hi.
Edit
Go for it *E*, happiness is a lifestyle choice that suits you!
Post 524
Lembas_Junkie
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 11:46 am
I woke up this morning with a big smile on my face, even though I had only slept for about three hours.
No kiddin' me too! Only my reason was last minute studying for Organic Chem. Have fun accross the pond, baby!
Post 525
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 11:48 am
Oh, bess. Where did you find that pic?
And purple is one of my favorite colors too.....
Post 526
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 11:56 am
*E*
Post 527
Larien41086
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 12:04 pm
Hey everyone I'm a friend of sugarblime and a nOOb. So what goes n here? So far it looks interesting. Oh and sugarblime, you really need to go read the books babe!
Post 528
InnocentEvil
RingMariner
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 12:07 pm
*E*, that's great to hear. You've been carrying a weight for a while. It's good to finaly put it down and stand in the sunshine
Cheryl and I walk to meet Patty at the school bus everyday. It's only a couple blocks but there's so little wind here, it's a pleasant walk. It's also about as much, to and from, as some little 16month old legs can take. She holds my hand and we walk, her pointing and exclaiming over all the cool stuff (cool to her). She tries to detour and stomp in all the puddles from the melting snow. If she has her little baby snowboots on I let her.
When we get to the little park at the front of our community, she walks around, looking and exclaiming or just running (sort of walking really fast as she's too short to run properly) for the sake of running. She goes down a lot but that doesn't matter. Up she gets, dusts off her hands and goes off to look at something else.
I have taken to leaving a little early, just a few minutes, so she can walk around and I can enjoy the sunshine just a tad. I don't leave the house all that much most weekdays as Bill has the car all the time. It's such a joy just to walk in the sun and talk to my children.
When the bus pulls into the park it comes down a long curving drive. Cheryl sees it turn the corner (Mommy helps by saying "Look Cheryl, the bus!" and immediately starts waving and running towards it. Of course, it's curving around to where it stops at the drop off, but Cheryl doesn't notice and runs for the spot she first saw it. I always have to head her off, scooop her up and take her to meet her brother. A very happy reunion w/ squealing and laughter and kisses ensues. Then it's home for lunch and homework (Patty's doing catch up activities because he's struggling just a bit.
It's just a nice warm (even if it isn't outside) time of day
That was so off topic, but I just had to share.
Post 529
Larien41086
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 12:08 pm
Hey I have another question. How do I get those symbols and stuff on the side enxt to my name?
Post 530
Darin_Bloodaxe
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 12:14 pm
Larien41086
When replying to a post, you should see below the text box an underscroed symbols, click on that and a box will pop up telling what and how to make smilies etc!
To all the aunties, crowd.
Hope everything is going ok and life is good, mine for some reason has been brilliant of late!!! (No Arve not what you are thinking) Work has been fantastic and to use the lyrics of a pink song, "God is a DJ"! I add to this, I am he!!!
Arve, I hope everything is cool, I know you have been stressed with work etc. Hope the Lovely (and Brave) L is helping you ease the stress and rigours. I will catch you on IM later on.
Hi and Bye to the rest of ya!
Post 531
Mighty_Squid
Diving Deep
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 12:16 pm
Larein
Welcome to TORC!
All your questions can be answered by being adopted.
Post 532
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 12:25 pm
Speaking of organic chemistry, a quick missive re Estel and I.
Estel quit her job today, which means that she'll move over to Amsterdam anywhere between 3-8 weeks, depending on how quickly they can get a replacement for her. I'll help search for them. Then we'll relocate to Florida as soon as the US authorities realize I'm not a terrorist (apart from to n00bs on the Movie Forum). Fast? Maybe according to some, but Jeez, it's right. It is so right. At 40 I'd like to think I know what I'm doing. At 24 she doesn't know any better.
Movie Forum mixing with the Talk Forum? m00bie mixing with a spammer? Hell, maybe if we send our story to Sharron and Arafat to show what is possible they can clear up that little spat in a couple of days.
Like a Parmalat accountant, there's no accounting for taste.
Well, the whole of yesterday was spent counting the proposed nominations for the TORCies (with some help from the ol' ball and chain). The problem with it was, because people are allowed more than one proposal, it is a time consuming process. It took 18 hours with over 2,000 individual nominations.
Duffy, Tooks, great sigs!!! New one up myself.
Post 533
cemthinae
Micah Six:Eight
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 2:10 pm
Sure I say I don't have much time then here I am, 2 days back to back!
I just had to say- Lidless... Your Sig offends me!!
And ({HUGS}) from 99 & me for Arve & Narsil... the original "Johnny English" boys!
Post 534
theduffster
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 3:10 pm
Thanks for all the sig accolades. *E*, I love yours, and bess's too! They're so funny, I had to call share them with my family.
Post 535
Rebecca
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 4:57 pm
They're so funny, I had to call share them with my family
I guess I'm not family because theduffster never calls me. And hardly ever posts in Aunties any more either!
I also have a new pic up, but alas it is not very funny. But I like it, it's my latest Photoshop drawing for my computer art class. Did lose some quality in having to make it smaller though.
Post 536
sugarblime7
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 5:03 pm
welcome, larien. i AM reading the books. now go brush up on some spanish so you can help me.
does anyone know where fairgoldberry has been? it's not like her to not post for so long!!
Post 537
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 5:52 pm
FGb has been very stressed today. Let's just say that she was considering where to hang herself because she's going to die this weekend anyway. Hell, I don't know if I'll even last that long. But I won't hang myself; no no, I'd rather be screamed at and beaten with an oboe by the BSO person who WILL NOT BE THERE IN RL! Also, I'd miss you guys too much.
FGb's feeling depressed, doesn't really know what to do right now.
Could practice, stall, read julius caesar, but quite frankly, if BSO oboist isn't going to get his arse out of bed at 2:20 on Sunday to listen to me and all the hard work that I've done (at least 40 hours or something) then why the **** should I even bother anymore?
I'm beginning to realize that my life is so pointless. Well, just today anyway. What is the point, would you remind me SB?, to practicing two or three hours just to get an arpeggio clean and concise with your tongue/finger coordination?
Yes, FGb lives a pointless life indeed. The only thing she really cares about is not useful at all, and nobody wants to listen to me. *sniff*. Also, tehDad feels it's his place to tell my oboe teacher what I should or should not work on. Please, it's the only thing that's *my own*, my preciousss. And everyone's just invading it and making music about these stupid competitions and not letting me actually enjoy it. They're making me hate music.
FGb sucks at life. and she doesn't really care about the thing she used to love so much anymore. Sad day indeed.
Tanglewood on Sunday. Allstates on Saturday. Master Class with Russian National Symphony Orchestra players' woodwind quintet. Concert tomorrow. Poor satanic conductor in hospital with pneumonia. Feeling guilty. Not prepared. Must practice.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I've given up on screaming and have just reverted to sobbing into that stoopfid Julius Caesar book.
Post 538
theduffster
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 6:10 pm
Aw, FairGoldberry, here's a ((hug)). And I usually am not a hugger! Struggle through the bad times, they make the good times sweeter.
Rebecca, you know I wuv you. Cool picture! Email me the original, if you want.
Did you see what I said about poor Ellie's ear? Poor baby-she was in pain for three days before she finally "confessed".
And did you see that Tooks and I are nominated for best duo? She wouldn't REALLY hurt me, if we met, would she, do you think? I hope not!! I'll just keep you between us at all times, okay?
Post 539
eLwEnaReDhEl
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 6:30 pm
Wow.
I missed a lot.
I'm feeling a bit better now though, not as much stress. The past few weeks have been pretty bad for me. Hopefully that will start to get better. A few things that have been bugging me for the past few months, few weeks, and few days have all pretty much gone away (for example a guy I almost went out with played a verrry mean joke on me, and if I ever see him again you guys will have to be bailing me out of jail!) I'm sorry I don't really have the time to go read all the posts, as I should be working right now, but hopefully I'll be able to catch up eventually
(((HUGS))) for everybody except FGb, and have a great week!
(FGb, you only get hugs if I get them both )
Post 540
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 7:28 pm
Alas, Elliwen, no, Dom is mine.
Although SB, I don't know, I gave him to her for a night. Only to be used in combination with a certain xmas present. *cough, cough*
Plus, duffy's hugs...I feel better already!
Well, that and a meclazine (sp??) because I felt dizzy after I had a PAT attack. It's no biggie, but sometimes when I get stressed and stuff (caffeine contributes too and I had two cans of soda today) my heart goes into hyperdrive. It's scawwwy, because you can't really breathe well, and you kind of freak. But then you take meds and it's all bettew.
And Congrats Lidless and Estel! You'll now be happily, er, uh, wet in Amsterdam. Well, you interpret that for yourselves.
SB-did you get that? In the earlier post I mentioned satan was in the hospital with pneumonia. Apparently he was in there this fall with something similar but never recovered, and he just pushed himself too hard. Hey, do to others as you want to be treated. I feel bad for him. Think we should send him a card? ahahahahah, hell no, not unless he gives us the week off from rehearsal! Mwahahahaha, I'm evil. We'll probably have Jobi, but at least I don't have to practice.
I was too upset before to even mention how sad I am to hear about 99 and Big Sis. I want to cry. Cem and 99, you guys will always be loved by (I think I can speak for everyone here) Aunties, Uncles, and especially me for being so supportive of me and putting up with my spam. You will be sorely missed, and you're always welcome back.
Northerner-oh no, are you okay? I hope all is resolved soon, we must have a healthy northerner ready for the above ZERO weather! Let's have a wOOt for that one! It was a balmy 30 here in CT today. "And we're here in beautiful downtown Burbank with your weather for today..." Oh my my, I forgot about Lake Wobagon! (sp?, majore sp? on that one. Yay Garrison Keeler! and an even more major sp??? on that one.)
It's contagious, Arve, now I can't spell either.
Sigh, I really must be off to bed now. The meds are starting to kick in now, and I will honestly fall asleep on the keyboard if I sit here any longer.
FGb-and is Amsterdam, Belgium, or England wetter (that's in terms of precipitation TLE)
Post 541
sylthian
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 8:46 pm
Just a fly by - hope all of you are feeling better in body and spirit!!
Post 542
Damara
Date Posted: Mon Feb 2, 2004 9:10 pm
Edited: Wrong ID
Post 543
Mummpizz
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 2:52 am
Hhee, I'd like to know whose ID Damara is, now. Nosey, that's what I is.
But I just wanted to make some Duffster campaining here. Yes, I've voted Duffster! And you could do, too - to build a better TORC, give our children a future and get rid off Bush in 2004. Go Duff! And Tooks for Vice President.
Don't vote for me, I'm happy enough I entered the nominations. And I don't stand a chance against the mighty Duffster. Votes for me are so waisted, I didn't even vote for myself.
Oompah oompah! Bring on the brass bands! The Sousa marches! Hooray!
Post 544
Anneri
Date Posted:
Mummpizz, rousing speeches in the morning... Have you been at the Gaffer's home brew again?
Or are you slightly influenced by the rising carnival atmosphere in the Rhineland?! (I'm a bit homesick, thinking about that.)
I just read a bit about Liverpool in my travel guide, and found a hotel called 'Aachen Hotel'. Now I really wonder where the connection between my hometown and Liverpool is?
Post 545
notlistening
corner of no and where
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 3:20 am
Hi all,
first off I have good news on the job front. I have an interview at Foxtel (National Geographic channel) on Friday. Yah me! It's for a promo scheduler. I am sure if they give me a try, I will do my best! I like docos!
I voted for Duffy and Tooks and Lembas as well. Must have a good showing from the Aunties!
Saro, hope the recheck went well. You'll be up and skiing again in no time. er...do you ski?
Duffster, love the new sig!LOL
Happy flights to all those turning into Liverpuddlians for the weekend! Very jealous we are, precious.
Hugs to Arve! You have such a tough job. Hang in there, love!
Larien41086 Welcome to Aunties! I'm sure by now everyone has given you advice on how Torc works! It's a wonderful place, just be careful of TLE, Tooks and Syl. They can be dangerous
TLE, that's wondeful news about Estel coming to join you for a few weeks! Glad to hear RL is going so well for you both. I'm going to need a tissue soon!
BIG hugs to FGB! Hang in there sweetie. Life has these stoopid ups and downs. You'll be on the way back up soon. Here, take my hand and I'll join you on the upward climb as my life sucks at times too.
Mummpy, we love you! eevn if I did vote for another.
that's about all from me. Talk to you soon!
love
nl
Post 546
theduffster
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 3:40 am
Thank you so much for the support, guys. Mummpy, you sell yourself short. Ellie loves your spam sigs so much!! If she could, she said she'd vote for you.
Post 547
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 3:49 am
Looks like I missed a lot yesterday!
Bess- Wonderful new sig!!!
*E*- Ditto! I'm so happy that you're happy! I expect a full report on Liverpool! I'm a gimpy mother of two with a cold, so I'm counting on the rest of you to bring me some excitement.
NL- I've got my fingers crossed for you! I know you'd do a great job. I did go skiing once. My parents decided to save money by having me use borrowed equipment that was 20 years old. The boots were made of leather and were about 1/2 size too small. I couldn't feel my toes for 2 days. I haven't been skiing since!
IE- Don't those moments make everything worthwhile?
TLE- Best of luck with all the impending moves.
Mummpizz- OK, OK, I won't vote for you!
Everyone- Don't forget to vote for the Scavenger Hunt!
It looks like everyone is in good spirits today.Starts dancing and passing out drinks.
Yes, I'm dancing around. The knee is doing great. I've got another recheck in two weeks, but I'm almost back to 'normal' (whatever that is) already.
Saro
Post 548
Anneri
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 9:24 am
What's sleep precious - well, who could that be??? Narsil? Arve?
I'm a bit hectic at the moment, because I can't book a train because I get these error messages over and over, I've to proofread that stupid paper so I can hand it in tomorrow, and I wanted to go and see ROTK tonight, but I think I won't make it in time. Bother.
I feel rather like a headless chicken, running around after you cut its head...
Post 549
Mummpizz
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 9:31 am
At least you won't have to worry about your hairdo.
Always look at the bright side of life ...
Post 550
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted:
Just posting because we need another Tooks and duffster plug here.
Or is that theduffster and Tooks?
Whatever.......
Post 551
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 9:55 am
Thanks, Saro. There will most definitely be a report. One reason I didn't have a lot of time after the Gathering was because I was planning for England. With both being out of the way I can now sit down and let the pen flow, so to speak. Plus, I know that the UK TORCers write excellent descriptions of their moots and so I will have lots of inspiration.
Mummpy, lol! I voted for duffy, too. She'll have the best acceptance speech. I didn't do too good on the sigs this year, so I really am just glad to have been nominated! 2004 will be better, I promise.
Leaving tomorrow, so off to get more done...
*E*
Post 552
Lembas_Junkie
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 10:29 am
I voted for Duffy and Tooks and Lembas as well.
Yay! Thanks, Ain't Listenin', and to anyone else out there who decided to vote for me! I voted for Auntie's poeple too. I almost nominated Ethel too, until I realized she gracefully bowed out.
Post 553
Ornendil
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 10:36 am
Arve: It's Norwegian and means "Recommended by the Norwegian Bowling Society"
Post 554
Myst_28
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 11:47 am
It's been a veryyyy long day. I need some booze...
Looks like voting is underway for the TORCies. Ahem, calling all nominees. My wish list is in my sig. A box of Godiva will get ya a vote. A half-dozen Orli look-a-likes will get you a vote in every category you're nominated for!
Saro, glad your knee is doing much better!
I'm not sure what happened with 99 but it's a shock to read she's already left us. I do hope she'd come back and visit some time soon.
Post 555
narsil
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 12:43 pm
Mysty!!! Is it me or you who has been away for a while? Good to have you back on the boards.... or is it me that's back and you've always been here?
Narsil is confused.... and that'snot a good way to start a post...
I would just like to say "THANK YOU" for everyone who nominated Arv as "Spammer of the Year" in the torcies...As his was the only nomination, and he voted for himself 4,628 times, I feel assured that a first place positioning is imminent...
ARV!!!!!! The time is nigh!! The end has come!! Liverpool looms on the horizon and WE NEED TO BE THERE!! There is sooo much to do, including dressing Satchy up as Popeye the sailor and leaving her down the docks....
I was sorry to hear of your messed up day- it makes mine seem like childs play, and mine are absolutely horible lately.
Oh, and your PERCEPTION of the PERCEPTION that N.L had is very PERCEPTIVE..... you cad you!!! Remember... ssssecretssssss preciousssssss.
Northerner- welcome back! I am glad to hear that you are well!!
N.L- I am absolutely GUTTED that '99 and Cem are leaving TORC!! Oh, and I also hate shoes... especially my new ones that do nothing but tear up my feet
Anneri- mitch49@msn.com if you want to chat- no problem!!! And wait until you see the size of the bag I'm bringing... just big enough to fit 376 cans of lager in..... bundle THE CLOTHES!!!
Saro- good to hear you are up and about! Now, tell me how fast you can run the 100!!!
Larien- welcome to TORC. I can't tell you anything else that you haven't been told already, apart from Arv is really Peter Jacksons evil twin brother, Roberto.....
hmmmm... Larien, FGB, Sugarblime.....
CONSPIRACY!!!! The oboe players are coming!!!
Cem- don't leave!! hugs back at ya!!! And big ones, because it may be some time before we talk again and I can give you more!! I will miss you and '99 sorely!!
To all others at Aunties my love and wishes!! I will not bore you all with the worst two days of my professional working life, suffice to say-
poo.
Narsil- "Arvs right hand...and you have NO idea how nasty that can get.."
Post 556
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 1:18 pm
narsil, ROTFLMAO!
I added you before, and I was gonna email you to tell you to come online already, but I never did because I was confused to why your name was Michelle...
LOLOL!! *changes the 'hotmail' to 'msn'* ...it suddenly all makes so much more sense now...
...Although...
Post 557
narsil
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 1:29 pm
Satchy- bundle it all!! I've only gone and twizzled up the bloody address!!
it should be :
mitch49@hotmail.com
You were right!!
Anneri- check the correct address!!!
Post 558
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 1:39 pm
Why is your name michelle??
Post 559
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 2:12 pm
Arve's been nominated for spamming? I'm going over there to vote right now.
Wait...anyone wanna tell me how I get "there"? Where are the "ballots"?
HELP! taxation by representation, or something like that.
Post 560
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 2:21 pm
Follow the links below. There's no Spammer Of The Year Award - that would be reserved for the Talk Forum.
Arv did get one nomination for Best n00bie. Strange, given he's made about one post in Movies. Then again, we hate n00bies there, so only one post would be a quality we like.
Post 561
narsil
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 3:12 pm
Satchy- I am only called michelle on Friday evenings around Brighton...
It is the name of my wife and her msn account, since I am too bone idle and p.c illiterate to set one up myself.
FGB- the "spammer" remark was just my warped sense of humour. We nOO bies need a sense of humour to cope with all of the abuse the veterans hurl at us...
As the actress said to the bishop- "you've got to start somewhere.."
Arv? Noobie of the year? PLEASE DON'T LET HIM WIN!!! He will be unbearable to live with!!!
Arvs acceptance speech:
Thank you all for voting for me for noobie of the year.
(post no 2) It is my pleasure to accept this award.
(post no 3) I actually would like to begin by saying
(post no 4) that I really don't deserve this
(post no 5) and I know that Narsil wil be sitting festering that he wasn't even nominated..
(post no 6) so this is dedicated to
(post no 7) Ethel
(post no saro
and so on until THE END OF TIIIIIIME!!!!!
HAVE A GOOD WEEK, UNTIL NEXT WEEK!!!!
Narsil- actually dreading what Arv has in store for me now..."
Post 562
Lembas_Junkie
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 3:26 pm
Oh, no!! Lidless, Teh Bouncing Boobfies are back!! Hey, Mystie, would you like a box of Godiva?
Post 563
Rebecca
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 3:47 pm
I called theduffster today and left a message, and when I returned from dinner I had a message waiting for me! Breathless with excitement, I dial up my voicemail to hear the message. Theduffster actually called me! Voicemail message: "Hello, this is Michael from some random insurance company. Would you like to buy insurance. Please call me at... "
*sigh*
Post 564
theduffster
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 3:56 pm
Really, Rebecca?
*checks messages on phone* Uh, HI!!
Post 565
bessthebard
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 3:59 pm
Rebecca, do you mean to tell me that your mother can jabber all day with yahoos from Erie but can't take the time to call her precious daughter? Well, what can you expect from a woman who didn't even name all her offspring until last year?!?
On the other hand...are you sure it wasn't your mother's voice message and she is now making marketing cold calls to her own children?
Post 566
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 4:23 pm
LJ,
I'd forgotten my sig looks like Pamela Andersen jogging on a chilly beach. Thanks.
Post 567
Rebecca
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 4:30 pm
Rebecca, do you mean to tell me that your mother can jabber all day with yahoos from Erie but can't take the time to call her precious daughter?
Nope, she never calls me. (Except for just five minutes ago).
On the other hand...are you sure it wasn't your mother's voice message and she is now making marketing cold calls to her own children?
Well, I hope she doesn't sound that manly, but then again, who knows!
Post 568
Rebecca
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 4:56 pm
Tooks! A thread that has osgiliated into Green Eggs and Ham-like rhyming!
Hurry!
Question I most often ask.
Post 569
Larien41086
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 5:52 pm
Tell if I'm the only who feels this way, but after watching the superbowl, I've developed a new love for the sport, however, this may only be due to the fact that I find Jake Delhomme to be terribly attractive. ooooooo what to do. Where has FairGoldberry and Sugarblime been? I'm happy he called you Rebecca.
Post 570
bessthebard
Date Posted: Tue Feb 3, 2004 7:48 pm
Hi Larien and a warm, if belated, welcome to Auntie's. I'm not a football fan though I've been known to go to a Chiefs' game now and again if the tickets are free.
When my kids were small we went and my daughter saw fans with faces and chests painted red and white, wearing helmets and carrying rubber tomahawks. She got really close to me and said "Mommy, it's like a scary circus." I think that describes this year's Superbowl game, don't you?
Post 571
notlistening
corner of no and where
Date Posted: Wed Feb 4, 2004 12:17 am
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! Lidless has wandering eyes! Very scawy precious.
Duffster, can I call you to pay my phone bill? It's due in 2 weeks
nothing more to say really. Hugs to all!
nl
Post 572
Anneri
Date Posted: Wed Feb 4, 2004 2:50 am
Narsil, maybe I'm a bit demented of late, but I couldn't find you on msn - none adress worked.
Maybe you could contact me somehow? *puppy eyes*
Ahh, I'm so glad I'll meet you at the station! Two together could eventually figure out the right train...
I had nightmares of missing trains tonight. I think after Liverpool I need some holidays... too much excitemant!
Michelle on Friday nights?! Given that I'm too see you on a Friday night, I'm *really* curious!
Post 573
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Wed Feb 4, 2004 5:55 am
Take spy photos first, then introduce yourself.
*E*
Post 574
Eruname127
Date Posted: Wed Feb 4, 2004 6:07 am
Sheesh....I've lost track of this thread again. It moves too quickly for me at the moment.
Anyhoo...I'm in the UK and have been having a good time. I've seen lots of great stuff and am in awe of the countryside here. It's gorgeous even in the winter.
I wanted to quickly stop by and wish *E* a safe trip! Hope you have a window seat and don't feel too crowded. Cross your fingers for good in flight movies as well. Regarding the time change, I suggest once you arrive that you stay up until the normal time you would be going to bed. You'll adjust more quickly that way.
Anyway, stay safe and I'll see you in a few days in Liverpool!
Post 575
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Wed Feb 4, 2004 6:51 am
E*,
Good advice from Eru - if you insist on having a cigarette, at least you can open the window so as not to discomfort the other passengers.
Eru,
Nice to see you here. No one expected you to post - we figured you had your hands full. I hope you're not having any trouble making ends meet.
Post 576
Angmars_Shadow
Date Posted: Wed Feb 4, 2004 12:19 pm
I’m pretty cool tonight, feeling more myself (as opposed to feeling more of myself), thanks mainly to my girlfriend and a couple of good friends dragging me out last night for the best night out in months. Certainly the best night out since I met Louise, I’ve been having some great nights in of course…. Anyway, it was just what the doctor ordered and when you factor in that I’ve managed to sort out a couple of things that were worrying me, well it’s all good.
B’s funeral is next week, I’ll be going along with other staff. I’m not a trained nurse with years of experience of this sort of thing to help me deal with it, so it’s good to have friends and a certain special someone to help out. Now I’ll stop with the emotional stuff before I make some of you violently ill.
My family are also proving to be making me laugh right now, the general consensus is that everybody else at the Moot is going to be a scary, psycho, cannibalistic, child killing rapist and murderer! I swear they all watch to many X-Files repeats and listen to the news far to much.
That’s enough about me, how are you today then?
Darin: Thanks for the concern and thanks for putting up with, erm, whatever I was babbling about the other night.
Cemmie: [hugs] Good to text with you the other night, take care and thanks for letting me see those pics. Especially liked all those bottom shots.
99: If your out there [hugs].
Larien41086: Hi there, always nice to greet another fresh faced newbie to the boards, just make yourself at home.
Lidless: I was going to congratulate you and Estel but after saying I’ve only posted once in movies you can bundle off. I happen to have posted there twice this month, thank you very much.
********
Erm, something’s just happened while I was typing this and I’m not sure whether I should laugh or just feel completely creeped out. The perils of messenger!
All right, where the hell was I?
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NL: Hugs right back at you, I’m feeling better. Fingers crossed for you as well, hoping this interview is the right one.
Saro: Good to hear your knee’s doing so well, definitely time to dance.
Narsil: Spammer of the year. Yeah riiiiggghhhtttt. Considering I didn’t start posting until September……
I’m hoping you had a better day mate, and I’m bringing the biggest bag full of junk you could imagine, [clink, clink] stupid bottles. Seeing as (Fortuna willing) I’ll be arriving the same time as you and Anneri in Liverpool you can carry the bloody thing for me.
Don’t you worry about “perceptions” either, cause we all know you fancy all the ladies in this wee thread. You’re an equal opportunities perv after all…..
And get on messenger as soon as you get home, plans within plans and all that.
Fg: I hope your feeling better, sounds like your another one us having some bad times.
Can we expect your entire orchestra to start posting next?
Ornie: Ahhhhh so that’s what it means! Must have been Bunny Lebowski in the bowling fantasy dressed up like a valkyrie that got that movie their seal of approval.
Eru: Good to “see” you again! Hope your not flooded out like the rest of Wales.
*E*: You must be on your way over by now, so by now your realising that the window seat sucks because thousands of miles of steel blue ocean and clouds are boring, that the people next to you are ready to be institutionalised and the only decent movie is cut short by an early arrival time in the U.K. To think flying used to be glamorous.
Satchy: Whatever you do, don’t ask which half of Narsil is Mitch and witch half is Michelle. I’m hoping you not haven’t been filling any uncomfortable silences with babble recently either.
Anneri: Do you want me to give Narsil your messenger addy if you haven’t sorted things out? I’ll try to catch you online to.: )
Arve (Who in Buddha’s name nominated me?)
Post 577
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Wed Feb 4, 2004 12:23 pm
That teaches me to make sure I sign in using the right ****ing ID.
Post 578
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Wed Feb 4, 2004 12:27 pm
Arve, Angmars_Shadow?? oO
Has a nice erm ring to it...
Post 579
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Wed Feb 4, 2004 12:31 pm
Yeah Satch, not my idea honest.
And if anyone's read any of Ang's previous posts.....don't blame me!
It's all Louise's fault!!
She even made sure I got my first and only e-mail from a Mod about bad behaviour. She thought that was hilarous.
Post 580
narsil
Date Posted: Wed Feb 4, 2004 12:43 pm
Arv- I was wondering just who in the hell Angmar_shadow was... and how he knew I was a perv....
So when do you use this alter ego then? (suspicions abound....)
I believe you were on MSN earlier and got the "wicked witch of the west" (the missus)thinking it was me! Thank GOODNESS you kept quiet about what we intend to do to Satchy... I think the wife would have had a coronary...!!
Anneri- try mitch49@hotmail.com again, or can you get me your address? Failing that, the mooters are sending out details of everyones real names and some mobile numbers. You can give me a call on that number and leave a message if I am not there.
Right!!!
Narsil has had another poopy day!! Went and visited my old company, more specifically the store that is closing and handed out application forms. The store manager (who is a very good friend of mine)actually gave me his blessing to do this, and was quite touched that I was trying to help.
The faces on those looking at loosing their jobs made me feel sick; all the more because I know them and care for them.
I will do my best to rehouse as many of them as I possibly can, but even I have limitations and a boss to answer to.
I have been invited to the closing down party- a sight that will bring tears to my eyes as it is probably the VERY BEST place I have ever worked!!
Oh well....
Looking forward to the mooot now!! If I could only find that can of spray on hair to complete the brown corded flares and cream pullover look....
Have a good time all! And prepare for moot reports that will change the face of the world as you know it...
.... they will all be typed by a bunch of utter drunkards!!
Narsil- campaigning for equal rights for orcs
Post 581
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Wed Feb 4, 2004 7:09 pm
It's not been a good week.
Let's just say, I'm feeling sorry for myself right now. My best friend is going through some tough times right now, and I just...I'm not really sure how to act. Everything will be okay, but I don't know how things will get to that endpoint. Some paths are tougher than others, I guess.
If you decide to post, best friend, I LOVE YOU! YOU ARE AWESOME AND DESERVE THE BEST OF WORLDS! and just because the best of worlds aren't being offered right now, they have to come eventually. kisses to you, and hugs if you prefer that sort of thing.
Okay, I hope she gets that...now I'm off to stop being selfish and worrying about how to react so I can help her. FGb
Post 582
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Wed Feb 4, 2004 7:31 pm
OOoooh wait, my day just got better!
My civics teacher, today, assigned for us homework to do tonight. We're starting a unit on WWII tomorrow, and so she had us do some background research of Hitler and his beliefs. I was just doing my homework, and there is actually a site called Nazi.org. I am so disgusted, I've never actually run across such a blatant hate site that claims it's "purely from an intellectual point of view." It just makes me want to vomit, honestly. And I'm jewish. You really do have to love how much they respect that jews as well as non-jews, for opposite reasons of course, will read that site.
I am disgusted. Some people...it's just shameful.
I'm not even going to waste my time, I'm going to bed.
Post 583
notlistening
corner of no and where
Date Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2004 1:06 am
hey gang,
Bigs HUGSSS for FGB who is having a not so nice day. You can have the entire pitcher of strawberry wargarita on the bench top and the box of Godiva chocs I was going to slip to Myst (even though I don't need a vote but because she's back!)
Wishing all those heading for Liverpool a wonderful moot/gathering! Hope it's not too wet there. I see all the flooding happening.
Ha! Now we knows Arve precious! Cat is out of bag etc.
Hope Ethel and friend are doing okay. Praying for you!
and one last thing....
Happy Torc day to me, Happy Torc day to me.....Been here one year now and love it. Thanks to all of you aunts and uncles for making online life so much fun and all the wonderful new friends made no matter where you are in the world. Got my new Aragorn coronation bookmark and Rivendell mouse mat today as a present. Whoops, an hour too late! well done!
okay going now. Have to prefer head for interview and hope I don't say too many stoopid things.
nl
Post 584
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Thu Feb
Happy TORCiversary, NL!!!!
(((hugs))) FGB!
Saro
Post 585
Anneri
Date Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2004 1:35 am
Happy TORCiversary, NL! And good luck for the interview!
I'm nervous nervous nervous nervous nervous. Yep, that sums it up.
Narsil, what happened yesterday evening? You were gone so quickly. Okay, just a short description of myself - brown hair, shoulder length. Glasses. Wearing a blue coat, carrying (very likely) a blue bag. Looking lost and confused... If you see me, come over and talk to me!!!
That was a lot of fun, Arve and Satch...
*waves to Arve who is lurking around* You are, aren't you?!
Post 586
Mummpizz
Date Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2004 3:15 am
Hey fair forumfolk,
now the real carnival hits the real world, that one outside, just beside the computers. Ms Mummpizz, big brother and his wife attended one of the anarchistic "Stunksitzung" sessions yesterevening, and I'm still suffering from a hangover, and have sore jaws from laughing. Last year, we went costumed as Galadriel and Ugluk; this year we'd donned indian clothes my brother had brought (which was stylish but not funny). alaaf!
Happy T-day, nl! And there are hopefully many many years to come.
FGB, I understand. Nazism is the most terrible abomination that ever krept into the minds of people; if I can help you with your research just drop me an e-mail (in my profile).
Post 587
Arvedui_the_Last
Not as much of a degenerate as you might think
Date Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2004 3:44 am
Yes Anneri I'm here, lurking in between the usual crisis and general incompetence at work.
I caught Narsil just before I went to bed, his computer crashed mid convo. He’s looking forward to meeting you, so no worries.
Yeah, it was nice to finally get to chat with you.
Happy TORCerversary NL! Hugs.
FG, look after yourself and take care.
Post 588
Eruname127
Date Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2004 4:44 am
Arve: Nope we're not flooded out here, but it has been raining consistenly...basically a drizzle all day long that has prevented Iavas and I from going out and doing much. I'm praying for good weather up in Liverpool this weekend. I would very much like to see the sun and it would make things cheerier all around.
I've been out of the loop so I'm not sure what was going on with you, but I'm glad to hear that you are doing better now. Take care of yourself and I'll see you tomorrow! Jeez....I think it's just now hitting me that I'm going to be meeting tons of TORCers tomorrow...getting a bit nervous!
FGb: I'm sorry to hear that your week hasn't been going so well. We all have those tough periods. Just try your best to look at the positive things going on right now and hopefully that will help perk you up. {{{hugs}}}!
NL: Happy TORCversary!!!
Post 589
bessthebard
Date Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2004 7:44 am
I'm really looking forward to reading all the Liverpool moot reports. Sounds like such a fun group of people are going, including many Auntie's alumni.
Fgb--hope your day/week gets better. Sounds like you have a very stressful schedule and expect a lot of yourself. Be sure and take a break whenever you can to decompress. Otherwise you'll burn out or explode. But that's what we are here for--for decompression not explosion.
Is anyone else an Angel fan? What did you think about Cordelia's long-awaited return. I thought it was a bit anti-climatic and I saw the twist at the end coming from a mile away. But at least her character arc has been resolved and not just left hanging as it has been for a year. The previous week's episode was much better, with the return of Andrew and all his LOTR references.
It's snowing like mad here and hubby and children are home from work and school. Working from home, I'm the only one who has to be useful today. But at least I got the mediation in Manhattan, KS canceled today since the highway is closed.
Post 590
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2004 9:27 am
sigh....
Where is theduffster? HOW are we supposed to win a TORCie if she doesn't show a post for me to stalk?
Post 591
Mummpizz
Date Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2004 9:41 am
It would be most unfair if I'd squeeze myself between your posts, wouldn't it?
Don't be nervous. Most of the people who vote have done so already.
Post 592
Anneri
Date Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2004 9:44 am
I don't know what I did to annoy the gods - everything, simply everything that's connected with the trip to Liverpool is going wrong. Now I lost the guy who was supposed to give me a lift to the airport tomorrow! Which means I've to get up around 5.30 and take a cab/ train/ bus (in that order) to the airport.
Ah well, nothing in life can go smoothly...
Mummpizz - alaaf! *throws confetti and gets homesick*
Alright, I've to pack my bags. See you (partly) tomorrow! Nervous nervous nervous...
Post 593
Mummpizz
Date Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2004 9:51 am
Ich drück dir die Daumen, Anneri. You are destined to make that journey. And if you pass Mt Doom, don't forget to throw that ring inside.
Post 594
Anneri
Date Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2004 10:00 am
None of my rings goes into a volcano!!!
But thank you very much - the next moot I'll attend has to be in Germany. Otherwise, I won't go. My nerves wouldn't survive that twice in one year... with exams, too!
Post 595
narsil
Date Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2004 12:05 pm
this is it....
the fellowship of the ring is on the telly.
back where it all began.
Narsil is packed (well, things have just been hurled into a case)and is ready.
to all aunties and uncles who wanted to attend and coudn't make it- we will miss you.
to all others, we will have a kick ass mooot.
am sooo looking forward to meeting everyone!
'99, the first drink is for you!!!!
Narsil- as nervous as ....!!!!!
Post 596
Ornendil
Date Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2004 12:35 pm
Happy TORCiversary NL!!!
Vote for the Túrin thread in the TORCies!
Post 597
theduffster
Date Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2004 2:38 pm
*runs in breathlessly*
Here I am, Tooks! We're facing another 3-6 inches of snow tonight, I was busy shoveling. I got stuck in our own driveway a few days ago, actually. We're on track to be one of the snowiest winters, if the same weather patterns hold up.
A freaky thing happened at work yesterday: even though I've only been there a month, they decided that there's something about me that makes me a good person to work the "help desk". That means that now I get calls from sobbing strangers, people who can barely speak English, people who were too stupid to read the correct numbers and now their account is messed up...most of the people who take calls, if they feel it's too difficult for them, push a button and transfer them to ME!! What have I done to deserve this??? Although it can be interesting, today I tracked down someone who used a stolen credit card to pay all her family's and friends utility bills. Now, I ask you, if you stole someone's credit card, would you use it to pay all your family's utility bills? It's interesting, taking these weird calls, and pretty darned amusing too!
Post 598
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2004 3:18 pm
Thankyou all so much for your well-wishes.
My day has been somewhat better, although my friend that I mentioned yesterday was not in school today, so I couldn't do anything.
Left the house at 7:00, got home at 6:00. Yeah...just got here, went to school and then a high-stress master class with the oboist of the Russian National Symphony. I played decently (or what I previously thought of as decent) and he sort of slammed it. Yes, he was nice about it, but I was so, erm, humbled? Or humiliated, I don't know. There were only two other people in the room besides me and him-the professional oboist- so it wasn't that bad. But it's sort of a shock to see how much you comparitively suck...especially when you're playing those same pieces for auditions on Sunday.
[rant]
Just stressed, nothing new, homework's piling up because I keep putting it off because of practice. Practice, practice, practice. I'm going through that phase right now where you promise yourself that you won't practice anymore because you've already practiced for an hour or two, yet find yourself listening to a professional recording. This of course leads to selfcriticism of your own playing, and you go and practice more. And homework...well, it's busywork anyway, but it still just, there's so much of it!
Don't teachers realize that we have more important things to do with our lives? Why do they give us so much stoopfid busywork? we hatesssss it, preciousssss, we hates it.
[/end rant]
Arve-now if I see anything, well, your cover is blown. And glad to hear about last night. Seems like everything's set to go. The board is set, the pieces are moving. Liverpool it is.
Narsil-I'm sorry about the work situation, but just think...LIVERPOOL! drunk loonies writing stoopfid, incomprehensible, yet hilarious reports. I'll have fun with these moooooot write-ups.
Satch-don't get too drunk, you still have to play pranks on the gents for us aunties.
Anneri-everything'll be great! Just think, you get to meet all these awesome people and no matter how wrong everything goes beforehand, nothing can go wrong while you're with such fabulous TORCers.
Bess-thanks! Snow, yes, we love how it cancels/postpones everything, precioussss. SNOW. let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
Duffy/Tooks-you have some campaigning to do. Well, I think everyone's voting for you two anyway, but it's just great to see you, and your sigs of course!
Hmmm, going to go practice, or, uuh, homework. Riiiiiiight, homework FGb
Post 599
bessthebard
Date Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2004 4:18 pm
Hey, I got a white tree!!! Go me!1
Post 600
Rebecca
Date Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2004 4:26 pm
Congrats bess!
Post 601
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2004 5:09 pm
Go Bess! woot for the white tree!
Oh, and I forgot to wish NL a happy torcversary! So here's a belated congragidumalations! WOOT! Happy TORCiversary NL!
I don't have the attention span to do homework or practice, so what am I doing? TORCing, of course. It's funn. Manwe's starting to annoy me a little at the moment, had to come here, cool off.
FGb, the person who's supposed to be doing homework but instead is doing something productive; like TORCing!
Post 602
sugarblime7
Date Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2004 5:31 pm
Fgb: seriously, who wants to do homework when one could be TORCing?? Education...so overrated...haha.
Lorien.....u football obsessed freak.
How is everyone else doing?
I had a great oboe lesson on Wednesday!
Post 603
Larien41086
Date Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2004 6:08 pm
ooo Sugarblime, its not the football that matters, its the man carrying it. As bessthebard put it, football games are kinda like a scary circus. What do you all mean by going to a moot? I know its some kind of meeting, but are you actually going to Liverpool? How's the oboe going FGB and Sugar? I had my violin today and I've decided that I'm no longer going to play violin. I shall play the fiddle, which is actually the same thing, but much more laid back with wonderful peppy songs. (sigh) I must go finish my recreation of a Renoir painting. tootles
Larien Elanesse
Post 604
sylthian
Date Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2004 6:12 pm
Just a fly by to get my sig out in the open....... or something like that.
Post 605
Saroneuroe
Errant Auntie
Date Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2004 6:24 pm
Oooooo, Bess!!!!!Congratulations!!!! And you haven't even been spamming!
Wargaritas all around!
Bess- We're fans of Angel. We record it on Replay, but we haven't watched last night's episode yet. I'll let you know what I think.
Saro
edited to add- Where should I post your celebration thread? Here in talk?
Post 606
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2004 6:35 pm
Evenin'! I made it over just fine. At Leoba's right now. I gotta describe an earlier e-mail she sent me: "I hope you don't mind sleeping on an air mattress in the computer room. Its full of LOTR action figures, an Aragorn cardboard cutout, and medieval weaponry." Me: 0o
Needless to say, gonna sneak a pic of me groping Ary later on. Hope I don't scare Leoba or Din with a white flash coming from the room across from theirs.
Eruname, tell me all about Stonehenge this weekend. I won't be able to make it that far away. Can't wait to meet ya! Though I'm sad to say that the smiley faces and exclamation marks won't help me out in real life. Being shy is stoopfid.
Arvedui, thankfully I knew about the boring view out an airplane window. The first time I was on one since being a baby and having no memory of it, was when I flew back home the summer I turned 16. We got a great look at the C.N. Tower but I was with a couple and their crappy kid, so I didn't get to see the tower all that well. Happened to get window seats ever since. Seeing London at 9p.m. was totally worth it. I thought we were flying over the places I will be visiting, but then about about 20 minutes I actually saw the Themes and clearly made out the London Eye and Parliment buildings.
Got to see Runaway Jury with John Cusack, and then I passed on Married To the Mob to write in my journal and listen to music instead. And the food was good! Not as horrible as I hear airline food is, anyway. Brekky was especially great. Hadn't really been eating, so an omelet, sausage, and hash browns was quite nice.
Slept most of the Halifax-Toronto trip, and dozed off a bit near the begining of the Toronto-London run, but once the food was served and movies played, I was excited. Oh, plus I did the math horrible wrong and thought it was an eleven hour flight when its only about six.
Bloody hell, I feel like I'm still in the plane veering around. Better not have that feeling when I sleep.
Hold on a minute........ I had another bout of dreadful calculations..... I said in the Liverpool thread that it was now 6 in the morning my time. Wake up, doorknob! New Brunswick is four hours behind. I'll be alright. Anyway, so I guess now its like 10:30 at night, which is so weird, but we have to be out the door by 10 in the morning meaning I should catch a few winks while I can. A few hours more traveling tomorrow then. I'll have my own room, which is cool (cept for knowing who's missing from it!) and I'll take the opportunity to spread my crap all over the place. Just gotta remember to stuff suitcase jr. into suitcase sr. so that I don't have too much luggage to haul around.
Anyway, my ass hurts. Gotta go lie down.
*E*
Post 607
notlistening
corner of no and where
Date Posted: Fri Feb 6, 2004 12:09 am
Hey all,
happy mooting day and stuff! to those in Liverpool. We expect to see pictures of Torcers dressed in Wraith cloaks doing the Beatles crossing walk please! Before the vodka...
I think the interview went okay but not sure. I am not sure I can do the job. It is much different than I am used to. Maybe I am too set in my ways etc. And I discovered Foxtel is a cut throat place. I thought all the channels worked together. Wrong! Would have thought it was good to cross promote and stuff. Oh well, shall wait and see. They said they'd be in contact next week.
FGB, The Russian symphony? Are you running away to Moscow? I'm sure you played beautifully. All aunties are very talented.
"I think that I shall never see a Bess as lovely as a white tree." Hmm very bad poetry there. Congrats to Bess. I hope my shields grow up to be a tree one day.
better be off with me. I have been chosen to do lighting for our local production of Sound of Music. And it's rehearsal night.
ttfn,
nl
Post 608
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Fri Feb 6, 2004 12:22 am
How about, "A TORCer by any other name would still smell"?
Post 609
Shadowjack
0
Date Posted: Fri Feb 6, 2004 12:31 am
Love the sig pic dude. I think you should have been on the award list in a couple more area`s...
Meaning you TLE..lol.
Post 610
TheLidlessEyes
0
Date Posted: Fri Feb 6, 2004 2:30 am
Yes SJ, it's a little disappointing. I shouldn't have ruled myself out of Comedy and Sig Pics. Like Sam on his wedding night, I've come up a little short.
Post 611
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Fri Feb 6, 2004 3:47 am
Thanks for the 'info', theduffster.
That's good 'information' to have.
syl!!!!
That's for your sig pic. **sniff**
It's so nice to be so loved.
I think.
Post 612
theduffster
Date Posted: Fri Feb 6, 2004 4:16 am
Yay, Bess!! Our very own bard!! You can hold your head up high, no spamming to get to that count! Spamming is so LOW, isn't it? I love your pic too!
Hi, Tooks! How about that-I can stalk YOU, for once!
Once again, school is cancelled today because of snow. Twice this week, three days last week, one day last week had a two-hour delay. *sigh* Our church meeting's and youth club get-togethers have been cancelled for two weeks straight. The shovelling and long drives because of snowy roads are getting to me. Our total snowfall is almost 60 inches so far this year-about up to my neck! Finding places to put all this snow is getting to be more and more of a challenge.
Post 613
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Fri Feb 6, 2004 4:19 am
Hi theduffster.
Snow? Ha!
We are getting freezing rain right now!!
So there!
HA HA!!!
Post 614
sugarblime7
Date Posted: Fri Feb 6, 2004 7:14 am
duffster: don't you just love snow? yeah we are getting freezing rain too, and it's just about time for me to shovel....my little oboe arms are not cut out for heavy labor...
lorien: a moot, as i have recently been informed, is a gathering. don't u wish we lived in england?
fgb: why can i not get over you-know-who?? i'm pining.
oh, and could someone explain the voting stuff to me?
Post 615
Rebecca
Date Posted: Fri Feb 6, 2004 8:38 am
Well I have classes cancelled today. We got the freezing rain and everything. This is not a normal occurance, so it makes me happy. I'm going to have to go out there in that soon for lunch though. Dang.
Hmmm, I think I need to look for a duffster and Tooks sig soon....
Post 616
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Fri Feb 6, 2004 11:20 am
sugar-you can't get over him because he's near perfect. I don't think he likes girls, but you know how bad I am "knowing" that stuff. Ask teh bassoonist. But you don't know what kind of embellishment you're going to get if you ask him. Sigh, stoopfid bassoonists.
NL-I'm sure the job interview went great! And if you're having doubts about the job, whether you like it or not, you can always just try it and quit.
Spamming is so LOW, isn't it? I resent that comment. It undermines my entire TORC existence!
I got a manicure and pedicure this morning, now my toesies and fingerses feel nice. And auditions don't seem nearly so bad now. That's probably because I got the DAY OFF OF SCHOOL! It makes life seem so much more relaxed, just vegging. So now, I can do my homework today and have a good time in Boston tomorrow.
Boston will be fantastic. tehDad's already planned the day. Get to Boston, go for light Chinese Dim sum (sp?) lunch, go to my audition, then recuperate with some serious retail therapy on Newbury Street. FGb likes shopping. Actually, I'm going-a-shoe-shopping! You can never have too many sneakers, never never. Well, they're taking over the closet, but closets are meant to be crammed. Mine is anyway, whenever I "clean" my room all crap just gets thrown into it.
Okay, off to write reports/read Julius Caesar (which I just found out is pronounced Youleeeus Kisar) and practice! whoopdeedoo!
Post 617
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Fri Feb 6, 2004 12:00 pm
Ooooo.. I think theduffste IS getting buried in snow. My brother emailed me a story about back around 'home' and yep...they got snow!
Yes, Rebecca....get a duffster and Tooks sig pronto!!!
Now let's see if this link works......
Post 618
bessthebard
Date Posted: Fri Feb 6, 2004 12:25 pm
Tooks, those place names rang a recent bell with me because I read David McCullough's The Johnstown Flood about 2 months ago!
But syl has inspired me to go searching for some more dynamic duo pics. Soon, my precious, soon....
Post 619
Spammers_Inc.
Date Posted: Fri Feb 6, 2004 12:48 pm
Spamming is so LOW, isn't it?
Only on occasion... generally 6-8 hours after ingestion.
Post 620
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Fri Feb 6, 2004 1:44 pm
Spam-I think I might know your alternate identity. And I absolutely love your sigs!
Bess-see, if I was computer facile at all, I would make sigs. But I'm not, *sniff*. I'm a Macintosh user, and proud of it. They're so user friendly, even I can use them. Of course, I don't have to know anything except how to type, so I don't learn anything important-like how to make sigs of tehdynamic duo!
FGb, who just practiced (again) and hasn't started homework yet. and that deserves a wOOt!
Post 621
Rebecca
Date Posted: Fri Feb 6, 2004 3:24 pm
FGb, if you look at most of the good sigs they're just pictures that have been found on the internet. You don't need to know how to mess around with pictures to make a good sig.
Post 622
Spammers_Inc.
Date Posted: Fri Feb 6, 2004 3:26 pm
Fair Berry - if you do know, shshshsh, don't tell anyone
Rebecca, I very much created all of my sigs for this ID. My other IDs though, no. Found them on the net.
Post 623
Rebecca
Date Posted: Fri Feb 6, 2004 3:39 pm
Well I did only say most.
Post 624
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Fri Feb 6, 2004 6:09 pm
Okay Rebecca, I'll look for one. Let's see if I can do this...I'm very computer inept.
I just had the best day I've had in a while. Woke up this morning, thinking there was school of course, then looked at the clock and saw 11 AM written on it. Yes, no feeling like waking up to no school. So then, I hear Mom making a call to the nail salon, and I ask her if I can go. So, she says sure, then we both go down to the salon (five minutes from our house) and get manicures and pedicures. Then I come home, TORC, practice, and do my social studies report, which is sort of blah. But then I got to see my godparents (who I haven't seen in ages, okay, maybe a month or two) at a Japanese restaurant for dinner. I love Japanese food, and this is my favorite restaurant locally, so it was great. Then I drove back home with tehDad, and we stopped for ice cream. My favorite flavor-mint chocolate chip-was in stock at my fav. ice cream place. And I come home and am listening to the ROTK soundtrack.
Now how much better can life get than that?
Yea, so I'm now all relaxed and my toesies and handsies are bootious for tomorrow's audition...which I am not at all nervous about!
All this optimism is making me think there was some alcohol slipped in with the Miso soup, but I'm completely carefree for the first time this week. "Breathe the free air once again."
Great day, fabulous. Now I'm going to go look for a sig pic, so I won't prove to be totally computer-Murphy's lawish. FGb
Post 625
sylthian
Date Posted: Fri Feb 6, 2004 7:12 pm
Just passin' through
Happy Friday!!!!
Post 626
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Fri Feb 6, 2004 7:37 pm
Oooh, ooh, lookie at my sig!
I FIGURED IT OUT!
I just figured out how to do photoshop. It's macintosh compatible, got to love that. Anything windows does I can't do. But if there's a mac version, you better watch out!
Wheeeeeee! Okay, seriously, I'm going to go do more homework now. Or practice. Nope, homework. I AM NOT NERVOUS FOR AUDITIONS! this is fantastic!
Wheeee! can you guess I'm really hyper?
Ah well, we need a little drunken acting here to make up for all the fun we're missing out on in Liverpool... We misses our drunken uncles, yesss preciousssss.
Post 627
sylthian
Date Posted: Fri Feb 6, 2004 10:59 pm
Spammer Inc - I haven't a clue who you are but you sure aren't a noob
Post 628
Spammers_Inc.
Date Posted: Fri Feb 6, 2004 11:15 pm
Looks at join date...
looks at post count....
I have not a clue what you are talking about Of course I'm a n00b!
All of my owners are
Post 629
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sat Feb 7, 2004 10:10 am
One down, two to go.
I had my all-state audition this morning.
And I got a 240/260, if my math is right that's simplified down to 8/9. Which is not bad. And they're grading really really tough. Sugarblime, who's a mucho betteria (and don't listen to what she says, she's too modest!) player than I, got a low score-for her anyway. She should have gotten a perfect score! stoopfid judges...We wants to kill them, yesss preciousssss, throw firey score sheets at their facessss!
Well, I called my teacher (who is the salt of the earth, and just the kindest person I've ever met) and she said it was a good score, but we'll see how the scores shape up later on in the afternoon. Tendency is to score more leniantly in the afternoon, and I was the first oboe to go.
Ah well, just a stoopfid number. Not a good judge of how you play. And I'm going to see a concert (classical, please, I'm not cool enough for rock concerts) with sugrablime and the bassoonist-who joined TORC yesterday!
Anyhow, if I'm to go tonight, I'd better get my homework done. So, off for now. FGb
Post 630
bessthebard
Date Posted: Sat Feb 7, 2004 11:51 am
Fly-by to show off latest Tooks and duffster campaign poster.
FgB--cool sig and cute title, too! Hope the audition score turns out to be a winning one. Good luck to sugarblime, too.
Tooks, be on the lookout for my new title. Thinking of you, precious...
Post 631
sylthian
Date Posted: Sat Feb 7, 2004 2:01 pm
Oh Bess!!! That sig is a scream!!
Post 632
theduffster
Date Posted: Sat Feb 7, 2004 2:23 pm
Bess-I love that pic!! But which one am I?
Post 633
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sat Feb 7, 2004 2:29 pm
duffy-whichever one you want to be, of course! And if both you and tooks want to be the same one, well, just don't tell each other. That way, Wilma can be two schizophrenic!
Bess-love the sig!
Hrm, eating pasta for dinner. Like pasta. Mmmmm, yummy.
Just reporting to say that I doubt I'll be able to go on tomorrow morning, so, this is probably the last time I'll post before the Tanglewood Audition. Yikes! I'll be a nervous wreck tomorrow, although now I feel fine.
Not terribly well prepared, but as soon as Monday starts, I will be done with all my auditions! Hip hip, horray!
Okay, off to eat/practice. Practice. And practice. Sense a pattern?
Post 634
Tookish_Traveler
Beam me up, Scotty!
Date Posted: Sat Feb 7, 2004 4:31 pm
bess!!!
I'm not a redhead, so that must be theduffster driving.
hmmmmm. Must make adjustment to my title as well....
Post 635
sugarblime7
Date Posted: Sat Feb 7, 2004 7:00 pm
Fgb: Right about now you are probably with our bassoonist friend living it up at the concert. I'm really sorry! I was supposed to go to my cousin's 30th surprise BDay party, but I figured I would go with you guys...so 6:00 rolls around and my dad is like, just go to the party, they haven't called you yet, and I'm like OK...and just as we are walking out the door the phone rings. My mom tells me later it was you and I feel really badly because I never get to hang out with you guys 
Ah well...
And as for my score, I rushed a bit in the second movement which led to one note error and maybe 2 or 3 wrong measures of rhythm...but, according to my calculations, it shouldn't have been so low! I thought my tone was good! I thought I deserved a 230. Whatever. Pay they will. Just kidding! I should have thrown the flaming score sheet, though...
So all these cats are in Liverpool havin a grand ol' time! Jealoussss wee arree preciousss. I don't even really know them and I miss them. I want a full report when you guys return!!
And FGb: bassoonist joined TORC?? Details, details!
sugarblime
Post 636
notlistening
corner of no and where
Date Posted: Sat Feb 7, 2004 8:04 pm
Just a quick Hi! to all those hanging out at Aunties.
Hope everyone in Liverpool is having fun. Must be as have not seen or read from any but TLE for a while and that's a pretty long time for Torc spammers and addicts!
Nothing new here. It's far too hot today so sending all the nice warmth over to save the duffster and syl and those who have too much snow and are freezing.
FGB, there is such a thing as too many shoes! We hates them and loves them.
okay, have to go and do the ironing now. What a gripping life I lead.
nl
edited to say: Yah! Survivor All Stars to start here on tuesday! Go Rupert!
Post 637
Alassante_Estel
Date Posted: Sat Feb 7, 2004 8:25 pm
TLE's internet seems to be having issues, therefore the lack of posts
Other than that, it sure sounded like they were having fun yesterday when the phone was being passed around to people I didn't even know, lolol. Haven't talked to anyone today, so they're probably all having waaay to much fun
Good talking to Arve for a few milli-seconds yesterday though, lol And Leafy, and Satch, and Troysie and I don't even remember how many others.
Wish I could be there
Post 638
narsil
Date Posted: Sun Feb 8, 2004 12:15 pm
Narsil has returned from the mooot, alive and with his credibility intact until Satchy starts posting those erm.... pics....
I really did seem to kiss alot of people.... including Ben.....
Because I am absolutely knackered from a 7 hour train journey (should have been 4) I will be brief.. for now.
It was absolutely fantastic! Everyone rocked; Arv is THE MAN, Anneri is beautiful in every way, troysie made me laugh sooo much due to intake of liquid substances, Satchy is the minx I thought she would be, Ben and Dave= mayhem!! Hobbituk had his hair straightened (you will see the pics!!),we SUCKED in the quiz, and too much other things to go into right now.
I will post a report on what i thought, but for now am going away for a few days with work.
In the meantime, don't judge poor old Narsil too hard by what you see (and BE KIND when you finally get to see what I look like- that stayed secret for a reason...)and have a great time reading everyone elses reports.
I know I will!!!
Narsil- too tired to care
Post 639
Darin_Bloodaxe
Date Posted: Sun Feb 8, 2004 12:23 pm
Narsil - You thought we where mayhem, we were both on our best behaviour because:
A) You are intimidated by Dave
B) Were wetting yourself, not only with fear, but with the excitment when we tangled legs on the floor!
I will give you more gossip on Narsil and Arve ( who was fighting with the bed and locked me from my own room) tomorrow!
Hi to all who frequent this place, dont forget to check out the moot report thread!!!
(Will Post the link)
Post 640
fatcatdave
Ai! Ai! A Hefty-Kitty. A Hefty Kitty is come.
Date Posted: Sun Feb 8, 2004 12:41 pm
Narsil: you aren't talking about me are you?
Post 641
Spammers_Inc.
Date Posted: Sun Feb 8, 2004 12:44 pm
Fair Berry, when you get a chance and if you want, send me your email addy. I got bored and tried my hand at putting an oboe in a pic. Very difficult and it didn't turn out very well, but I thought I would show you the results if you would like.
Post 642
narsil
Date Posted: Sun Feb 8, 2004 12:57 pm
Dave- TOO scared to man!!! I've seen what you can do and believe me, I was IN AWE!!!!! Who would mess with a guy who would wear a shirt like that in public????????
It was GREAT to meet you and your lady, my friend!!
And when the (inevitable) pics hit the net, just remember- Narsil will be filled with gratitude 'cos there wont be any of him!!!
Darin- erm..... Arv had a fight with his BED??? A tell all expose (for cash obviously) has to happen soon!
And as for being intimidated by Dave...........
..........help!!
Narsil- really going to bed now!!
Post 643
Darin_Bloodaxe
Date Posted: Sun Feb 8, 2004 1:04 pm
'cos there wont be any of him!!!
You had your legs wrapped around me Narsil!!!!
Post 644
satch
hopeful
Date Posted: Sun Feb 8, 2004 1:28 pm
You had your legs wrapped around me Narsil!!!!
That pic is coming next
Post 645
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Sun Feb 8, 2004 1:29 pm
Ethel, you tart!!! Giving me your work number instead of home number........... and when they only take messages on the weekend. 0o We were trying to call you Saturday night. Lidless wanted to talk to you, I had his cell phone and people were yelling at me from all over the room asking if I got you yet. Argh. You suck.
Just got back and oh god, I'd sleep for days if I didn't have a vacation to get to or an Oxford to visit in the morning. I wish I could sum everything up in one sentence but even a hundred of them would do no good. I am just amazed at everything. The European Brits are as nice, funny, helpful, patient, and very verrry h0tt as you'd think they were. I got 53 photos taken, and way too many signature ideas. Everyone had friggin' better scan/upload/e-mail/ their own pics to me and everyone else if they want to see the light of day.
If I may say so.......... Narsil is completely, absolutely 100% ****** in the head. I mean wow. I was laughing at one of his lines like the whole train ride back.
Berhael, Ysicla, Leafy, Hobbituk, Pandora and I won the quiz last night (and on the strength of my being able to answer the Power Rangers question alone, I might add) and I think it was Lidless and Anneri's team that came in last.
There were a lot of naughty naughty photos taken. Glad to say I wasn't involved in a single one. We got far too many great (ie: great = crap) pics of Hobbi. Again, want them right away, ppls. Chop chop.
Satch, Leafy, and troysie need to put on weight.
Hobbi's ass needs to lose some.
Darin should cover his once in a while. With more than bumper stickers.
Democritus is always in a good mood. Whether he's sleeping upright or has redder eyes than a crack addict, he's always smilin' and having a laugh.
Arve needs to wake the hell up when its 4 in the morning and people have traveled up three flights of stairs to bang on his door and take a picture.
Mammo is like TORC's surrogate mother. She just exudes warmth and kindness. But not crappy sweet stuff, the good stuff. I know there wasn't a single person who talked to her for any length of time that didn't feel honored to have done so.
FrodotheWise doesn't talk, he discusses. He's so knowledgeable about film and is great to talk to. If I had a fraction of his brains I'd be in much better shape.
Okay, I wasreeeeeally tired and nervous and disoriented when I first went to the bar..... for some reason, I thought The Angel was Orlando Bloom. He had the same sort of hair and since I am used to hearing (and seeing) TORCers being able to track down lotr celebs, it wouldn't have surprised me. Anyhoo, it was just Angel. Oh well.
Berhael freakin' rules. I might even go so far as to say she.... r0x0rz!!!11 I really have to get Yahoo messenger and see if I have better luck finding TORCers there.
Anneri is a doll. She has a great smile and I took a few pics of her just because she was having such a great time.
ArPharazon is a cheeky little teddy bear type person. Didn't get to see him much, but told him about the kind of weather I was leaving behind while we were pelted with heavy rain.
I needed to stand on a stack of phone books to give wilko185 goodbye hugs this afternoon. lmao, but the dude definitely has height to spare. I was so bloody short that sitting at the pubs with everyone I felt like a little kid getting to sit at the big kid table. I was so kewl!11
I don't think it could have ended on a better note than watching the ROTK animated musical on Angel's laptop. Now, that's just class, man...
I know I have forgotten some, and am not ignoring others. Just thought I'd give ya a taste of what's to come in the Liverpool thread in Talk and what some of the m00bs were like.
Ethel, I hope you like what'll be sent to you when I get home.
*E*
Post 646
Darin_Bloodaxe
Date Posted: Sun Feb 8,
*E* I had 6!
How big do you think my arse is?
Post 647
*E*V*E*N*S*T*A*R*
Emotional Dingbat
Date Posted: Sun Feb 8, 2004 2:26 pm
A lot bigger than the two-inch screen I saw it on.
There was also the one sans ANY bumper stickers...
*E*
Post 648
FairGoldberry
Date Posted: Sun Feb 8, 2004 2:46 pm
Glad to hear about the moot, sounds like it was a blast!
I just got back from Boston, and the audition from Hell. I have never played that horribly in my life.
aka, I botched it and there's no way I'm getting into the summer program that I really really wanted to go to. So FGb's sad.
Furthermore, I come back home and see on my computer a message. It was an invitation to a wake that I would have attended if I were not in Boston.
So yeah, I'm an emotional wreck right now, I'm not at the wake to comfort someone that I really care about, and I'm feeling so...petty for caring about an audition when someone died.
So, as well as feeling horrible for not going to the wake, and doing poorly on my audition, I'm also selfish.
And I have to play in a concert in an hour.
FGb
ps, spammersinc: alliecat7@cshore.com is the e-mail address. Oboe's rock...normally, just not right now. Maybe I just need ice cream. Helps most times.
Post 649
sugarblime7
Date Posted: Sun Feb 8, 2004 2:54 pm
FGb: There will be a day when "all will turn to silver glass" and everything will fall into place. Until then, you've just got to work hard, be confident, and have faith. And it's not over till it's over...ya NEVER know!! I can't give you much advice because you are depressed and there is no consoling a depressed obo