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Old 05-13-2008, 08:00 PM   #1
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I'm pretty sure I speak for the vast majority of Downers in saying I'm "green with envy" (which is funny since... Downers are supposedly always green). To add a peculiar irony to my own situation, if I were to make a concerted effort with the resources of time and money available to me this summer, guess who's there on the short list of 'Downers within plausible reach? Yup, Brinniel.

How about it, Brinn? Care to make me lucky #13* in your quest to pass Esty?

*Offtopic, and random, but which dwarf was the unlucky #13 in Thorin's company? I've always thought Bombur, but maybe I'm prejudiced by his character. Hmm... maybe a good topic for Mirth.
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Old 05-14-2008, 06:07 AM   #2
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I'm pretty sure I speak for the vast majority of Downers in saying I'm "green with envy" (which is funny since... Downers are supposedly always green).
Some are just a little green.

(really couldn't resist )
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Old 05-14-2008, 09:53 AM   #3
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How about it, Brinn? Care to make me lucky #13* in your quest to pass Esty?
Go on then. After all, it's only a 16 and 1/2 hour drive.

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I live in Boise. Hmm...actually I am traveling to Oregon this summer for a wedding...but it's to Ashland, which I think may be kind of out of your way...
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Old 05-15-2008, 11:28 AM   #4
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Small freakin' world. A fling of my boyfriend's told him that she'd seen me here. Turns out it was MadBaggins! Have yet to meet her though.
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Old 05-17-2008, 09:37 AM   #5
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Small freakin' world. A fling of my boyfriend's told him that she'd seen me here. Turns out it was MadBaggins! Have yet to meet her though.
Does fling mean something different in your part of the world or are you just very understanding?!!!
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Old 05-17-2008, 10:41 AM   #6
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This is what I thought when I first read it!
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Does fling mean something different in your part of the world or are you just very understanding?!!!
As someone native to the aforesaid "part of the world", I'll answer as I think it is meant between your context and hers:

For Ainaserkewen, a "fling of one's boyfriend" would be a short relationship had with another woman at a time other than that during which he was her boyfriend. Contextually, I would say before he was her boyfriend.

The English interpretation of the statement is that WHILE he was her boyfriend, he was off having a fling with another woman.

Have I got that right, or am I barking up the wrong tree, and everyone really means by fling "the action of throwing or the object thrown," in which case it might be appropriate for me to make a joke to the effect of "nobody flings a Dwarf!"
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Just one of those things, just one of those crazy flings...
Ah I see.. thanks Formy ..that is our interpretation though I think it would be more usual to refer to the relationship rather than the person as a fling ie it was just a fling rather than s/he was just a fling ..unless you were being extremely dismissive...
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I live in Boise. Hmm...actually I am traveling to Oregon this summer for a wedding...but it's to Ashland, which I think may be kind of out of your way...

Oh cool. Boise's nice. Or at least I thought so when I was there last. And yeah, Ashland is a long way from where I live.
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