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[the phantom]

Fea got ranked pretty high in her class despite not trying very hard at all (I'm rubbing off on her).
Her foot has been hurting her pretty bad lately.
Her dad doesn't understand her.
The other day she informed him that he was being, in her exact typed words, "an absolute *&^% @@#%#@^%", whatever that is.
She used her principal's computer to visit my page.
She's very cool.

[HerenIstarion]

The Phantom is awesome. You can apply to his biography for details Apart from data provided in the biography, I may add that his real name is Philip

Besides being awesome, he will turn 23 in less than two months (just after his membership of the BarrowDowns strikes three years). TP takes after burra (I won’t bet he does it consciously, but their posts are reminiscent of each other in my mind), though not in brevity, but in uncompromisingness of his writing. He’s sure to retain the grip of common sense and reality, even if all other participants of the thread seem to spread wings and fly away to the realm of slightly insane reverie. Such activities as described TP thinks silly.

Now we move to partially known facts:

He likes sports, but whether taking part in some exercise or competitive activities himself or watching others doing so, I was unable to find out. He also likes music, but what kind of and whether playing or listening, remains unknown as well. I may utter a guess that he likes classical composers, as the term ‘concert hall haunter’ is the self-description on his own part, but I can not be 100% sure about it. He studies himself, and teaches others as well. What are the subjects exactly – another white spot in my file on him

Edit:

Just found the linking dots in his siggy (usually witty signatures he's famous for). It brought me to his page, I may now provide additional info/modify previously made guesses:

The first word he ever uttered was (you think you guess right in saying "mama"! Nope!) "Bombadil"! I suppose his parents liked Tolkien as much as he now does, and read him LoTR until he learned to read it for himself. Is it surprising he's here among us? . The only weird thing being, the word was uttered when he was one day old only.

He likes to be the smartest person around, unless his own father happens to be present. (I may guess he has a great respect for his father from this). This inclination surfaced even when he was at the first grade, where he was famous for making funny comments on teachers' discourses

Music - my guess above happens to be partially right:

"Modern- The Phantom of the Opera, Ben Folds, Everclear, most anything by John Williams, quite a bit by Barry, Zimmer, Arnold, and Horner-- Classical- Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Grieg, Bach, Ravel"

Sports are football, tennis, basketball, racquetball, baseball, hockey, but whether watching or playing remains unclear as it was before

My evaluation of the 'grip on reality' may have been also right, as "over-emotional/irrational people" are among folks he dislikes. (Others to make it for a 'black list' are rude people)

"Quotation to live by: The downside of being better than everyone else is that people tend to assume you're pretentious." makes a good pairing for his siggy's "The Phantom posted, the thread is now important"

Other interesting details about TP may be found: http://www.freewebs.com/phantombarro...ilesurveys.htm

I repost the link as it is already made public by the fact it exists.

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