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Post by Hamish on Aug 27, 2006 17:42:40 GMT 7
I read everything except I have a filter that shunts bullpoo to ground.
It's not working today.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Aug 27, 2006 18:36:55 GMT 7
I love the game! I did the noble thing...I cheated and turned on the God Mode and all the weapons. I'm just awful at these things...
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Post by George61 on Aug 27, 2006 18:38:12 GMT 7
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Post by Raoul Duke on Aug 27, 2006 18:39:17 GMT 7
And you can tell when Hamish's filter is working...he goes silent for days at a stretch.
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Post by George61 on Aug 27, 2006 19:23:42 GMT 7
...and that's what bullpoo is for!!
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Post by cheekygal on Aug 29, 2006 10:32:28 GMT 7
... so I met Con....
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Post by Hamish on Aug 30, 2006 6:06:08 GMT 7
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Post by Non-Dave on Aug 30, 2006 8:10:39 GMT 7
Well... he obviously made a big impression! Way to go Con!
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Post by cheekygal on Aug 30, 2006 10:02:09 GMT 7
yeah. on everyone! ;D
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Post by Escaped Lunatic on Aug 30, 2006 22:55:08 GMT 7
>... so I met Con....
If that's all the reaction I get when I finally meet CheekyGal, I think I'll just quietly kill myself.
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Post by Ruth on Aug 31, 2006 6:57:41 GMT 7
This week I am extremely grateful that I am not an incoming student. The freshmen at junior and senior middle schools all over town are marching around all day in the heat.
YI ER SAN SI chanting begins at 7:00 a.m. each day... Poor kids.
Who's defending the country? All the army guys are busy teaching school kids how to line up, march, and make their beds.
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Post by cheekygal on Aug 31, 2006 10:20:06 GMT 7
EL, I am just waiting for pictures to be sent to me so I can finally tell a story of our short meet
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Post by Missi on Aug 31, 2006 19:22:46 GMT 7
Personally I like Left Right Left Right Left! much better than the yi er san si. I dunno why. It just sounds better..... though I get a kick out of the morning exercise routine...... this year it looks like they are swimming!
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Post by Escaped Lunatic on Aug 31, 2006 20:27:18 GMT 7
>EL, I am just waiting for pictures to be sent to me so I can finally tell a story of our short meet
What kind of pics would you like? Me being trampled by a herd of sheep? Me pinned down and stomped on my 2 excessively playful dogs? Me desperately looking for bandages because the cats I was holding and petting got startled and all the claws came out? Me having a very unfortunate misunderstanding with a pair of robomowers?
And of course, my favorite - me 0.2 seconds after saying "Why won't this gunpowder light?"
"Oh good, it worked. Am I on fire?" - me, after the gunpowder finally lit
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Post by DollyODear on Aug 31, 2006 20:48:13 GMT 7
Lunie, you are a lunatic.
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Post by George61 on Aug 31, 2006 20:58:26 GMT 7
Monty Python(IMO) was the first, successful attempt to translate The Goon Show to a visual medium. As a kid, I used to listen to The Goon Show on a crystal set....younger Saloonites may have to Google that. The Goons did try a TV venture, using puppets, but was not successful. They needed radio, and imagination.
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Post by Mr Nobody on Aug 31, 2006 21:53:54 GMT 7
I got a couple of good cds right here.
Goons and Python, comedy heaven.
My favourite is the History of Pliny the Elder.
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Post by cheekygal on Sept 1, 2006 8:51:31 GMT 7
EL! Sometimes I see you so blonde I meant pictures with Con. You and I haven't met...... YET
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Post by Escaped Lunatic on Sept 1, 2006 18:58:18 GMT 7
>EL! Sometimes I see you so blonde Check my latest pic on the photo album. It was definitely a blonde moment (and my hair does look closer to blond as the smoke cloud engulfs me). Gotta do some digging for some of my other amusing pics. "Thou hast seen nothing yet." - Miguel de Cervantes
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Post by Ruth on Sept 6, 2006 7:29:40 GMT 7
Saw this on a t-shirt yesterday - worn by a teenaged boy: DIVERS DREAMS IS WET.
Let's not get into the poor grammar, the spelling was accurate. My question to the guys is, is this something one brags about?
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Post by Ruth on Sept 6, 2006 7:39:30 GMT 7
Upcoming holiday: Teachers' Day is Sunday. It's always the 10th of September. Unlike civilized countries that give you a Monday holiday if the actual day falls on a weekend, China carries on with the accurate date to celebrate. VP phones us. We are to perform a song in Chinese. Preferably a love song, because they like to watch us sing love songs. Never mind neither one of us can carry a tune. She suggested to Crippler that we sing without the music so they can hear us better. Be at the school Sunday at 7 a.m. for the ceremony. After the ceremony (several acts, all of which will be more talented than the lovesong-singing-foreign teachers, and some presentations) we will be free to go, because it is a holiday. Shenme ?!? I don't work Sundays at school. I make lotsa money from private kids on Sunday morning - money I'm kissing goodbye this week so I can attend the command performance. I'm performing doing something I am NOT good at, nor really comfortable with, because it is expected and I've learned it's easier to play along. (The agony will only last for 3 or 4 minutes and I'll probably be given a bouquet of flowers.) And, I'm getting my arse out of bed an hour earlier than I would have to otherwise. THIS, THIS is a HOLIDAY in honor of my profession?
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Post by Dragonsaver on Sept 6, 2006 8:39:03 GMT 7
Saw this on a t-shirt yesterday - worn by a teenaged boy: DIVERS DREAMS IS WET. Let's not get into the poor grammar, the spelling was accurate. My question to the guys is, is this something one brags about? Saw the same T-shirt here in Dalian. Older chap wearing it. I think guys do brag about anything of this nature!!!!
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Post by Newbs on Sept 6, 2006 17:58:40 GMT 7
I'll probably be given a bouquet of flowers. Which they will probably ask you to give back afterwards.
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Post by Ruth on Sept 8, 2006 15:10:46 GMT 7
What is it with that custom of giving flowers - totally interrupting the performance to do so - and then the person who receives them either lays them down by the microphone and leaves them there or deposits them as they leave the stage? I get the part about wanting to show appreciation. But the thing is, the person giving the flowers didn't buy them and the person receiving them doesn't take them home.
To my mind all it does is interrupt the performance. I've seen it totally interfere with what the performer was trying to do. Mom sends kid up with bouquet, supposedly as a tribute to the performer, but it's really a photo op. Kid stands there and poses with celebrity, meanwhile celebrity is trying to perform for a crowd.
We went to an Amway deal a couple weeks ago. It was a tribute to top sales people in the area and a friend of ours was one of the performers. The show was about 3 1/2 hours long, so you can imagine those poor bouquets of flowers. Talk about recycling.
I got the giggles once: The performer received several bouquets. Put them down so could continue performance. Beautifully dressed young ladies, whose function for the night seemed to be bouquet management, retrieved said bouquets, which were then promptly nabbed by others from the audience who gave them to the performer again. And he put them down AGAIN. At least his song was over before he could be given them a third time.
My dearly beloved says to accept it as part of the culture, and I honestly try to, but I just don't get it.
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Post by Non-Dave on Sept 9, 2006 8:54:24 GMT 7
Maybe you're approaching this from your own cultural perspective and missing the obvious. Where we would "Booo" or throw stuff at a bad performer maybe here they send flowers to show their displeasure an try to interrupt painful performances? Possible?
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