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11-13-2008, 08:42 PM | #1321 | |
La Belle Dame sans Merci
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And, in fact, they were.
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11-14-2008, 05:23 PM | #1322 |
La Belle Dame sans Merci
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Organic maple yogurt. First two ingredients: milk, pure maple syrup.
I'm desperately in love. Did hobbits eat yogurt? I wonder...
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11-21-2008, 11:45 AM | #1323 |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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I assign cold fronts to the shire. It's around sixty-degrees today, everyone is running around with heavy overcoats and bushy hats, I'm the only one that's still in a T-shirt and shorts. It's nice to have some cooler weather after the hot summer that we've been having.
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11-21-2008, 01:37 PM | #1324 | |
Shade of Carn Dûm
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Oh yes, Texas is hot place. Where I live 60 degrees is a nice warm day.
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11-25-2008, 01:07 PM | #1325 |
Shady She-Penguin
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<- boots come in handy in this weather
Snow.
It makes the world (or at least Helsinki ) beautiful and it also makes me happy.
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11-25-2008, 02:11 PM | #1326 | |
A Voice That Gainsayeth
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11-25-2008, 05:14 PM | #1327 | |
Reflection of Darkness
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Location: Polishing the stars. Well, somebody has to do it; they're looking a little bit dull.
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I want my snow already! Though now that I've said it, I'm sure it won't snow heavily until December 18 (the day I fly home for Christmas) and then I'll somehow end up getting stuck in a random airport. That's how it usually happens...
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11-25-2008, 11:26 PM | #1328 |
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Yes, yes... the rest of you can definitely take the snow, if it means Edmonton can keep missing out. While there's perhapsa tiny little seed of nostalgia in me that would like to see some white stuff, the rest of me overwhelmingly assigns this brown Fall to the Shire (where, after all, snow is apparently rather rare). Not only has it meant that I have had the first semester of my life no slipping and sliding dangerously as my 20 minute commute becomes 40, but it has also meant that our construction project has managed to recoup the five weeks lost by the late groundbreaking in the spring--and this is hugely important, since there is no viable Plan B for me to live anywhere else next fall if that residence isn't built.
So, as far as Edmonton goes, keep the lack of snow coming!
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11-26-2008, 06:51 AM | #1329 | |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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I assign this website for helping little kids trying to learn German! Taught me a lot more than my current professor.
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11-26-2008, 09:21 AM | #1330 |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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I remember that cold white stuff. I used to live up on the tip of Michigan and we'd get three feet of snow in a night, I still remember shoveling the snow off our roof. I therefore counter your assignment of snow with lots of sunshine in the wintertime. It's still 70 degrees in Texas!
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11-26-2008, 01:17 PM | #1331 |
Shady She-Penguin
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Why do weather assignations always bring so much discussion?
Now, I would like to assign two things. Firstly, finding creative ways of studying. For example, it is far nicer to learn French from the French translation of LotR than from the utterly dry and rather confusing grammar book I have. Secondly, I would like to assign Kent's album Tillbaka till samtiden, I've been listening to it all the time for the last couple of days and I've not got bored yet. It's great!
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11-26-2008, 02:16 PM | #1332 |
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Especially interesting since there isn't an Englander amongst them ... meant to be our prerogative
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11-26-2008, 07:11 PM | #1333 | |
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11-27-2008, 04:08 PM | #1334 |
Flame Imperishable
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Maybe that's because when we assign the weather, it's mostly to Mordor.
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11-27-2008, 05:33 PM | #1335 | |
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11-27-2008, 09:45 PM | #1336 |
Drummer in the Deep
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< We need a mushroom icon.
I would like to assign such mundane but oh so appreciated things such as automatic dishwashers, plastic wrap, tupperware containers, tin foil, and whipped cream.
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11-28-2008, 06:50 AM | #1337 |
A Voice That Gainsayeth
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I assign Barrow-Downish dreams to the Shire (I wonder how the Hobbits are going to cope), and possibly also general feeling of happiness and RPGs, when they are going well.
And old songs bringing back old feelings which motivate you in some way. Oh, and old members coming back
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11-28-2008, 02:05 PM | #1338 |
La Belle Dame sans Merci
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Knowing good friends so well and for so long that you don't really have to say much to communicate. You get conversations like:
"Hey, remember when-" "Yeah! Hahaha, that was amazing!" I like not having to finish sentences. Hate the snow though. I forgot how wet and sticky lake effect is.
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11-29-2008, 08:13 AM | #1339 |
A Mere Boggart
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I assign poorly thought out sales which mean that instead of paying £19.98 for two items, you pick up a third item and end up paying 51p less than you would have done for just 2 items. Yeah, and following on, I assign how they have people who are less than accounting geniuses working in marketing departments, mua-ha-ha. And finally. I assign feeling smug.
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12-01-2008, 11:51 AM | #1340 |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Grandparents, they are so wonderful! We had them for the last day on Sunday, my brothers and I stayed up all night with them just talking about the "good ol' days" eating leftover Thanksgiving Pies. However, we didn't have any Whipped Cream, so what does my grandpa do: he makes some out of egg whites. It was absolutely delicious, you can't beat grandparents and their knowledge!
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12-02-2008, 09:34 AM | #1341 |
La Belle Dame sans Merci
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Kind teachers. Everything about myself that I am proud of today, I attribute to the kind guidance and patience of teachers I've had.
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12-03-2008, 12:16 AM | #1342 |
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This post may actually be more appropriate to the "Addicted to the Downs" thread.
I assign discovering you have a Downer in your mobile's contacts' list in the middle of the most boring late afternoon you've been stuck at school ever (last day of classes and no one else is there waiting for night class), and having someone to randomly text with absolutely no content, simply because texting another Downer is enough to brighten one's day.
And getting randomly sucked into the audience of a drama you hadn't expected to be able to attend.
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12-03-2008, 01:29 AM | #1343 | |
Reflection of Darkness
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Though I'll assign to Orthanc the fact that for some odd reason I didn't have your number in my contact list and was confused for a good three minutes. It must be because I've only talked to you using my home phone...but never fear, it's fixed now.
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12-05-2008, 06:33 AM | #1344 |
A Mere Boggart
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I assign Alan Moore signatures
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12-05-2008, 12:00 PM | #1345 |
Silver in My Silent Heart
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Hmmmmmmmm....!
Want to exchange for my Nightwish (minus lead singer) signatures? |
12-05-2008, 02:13 PM | #1346 |
Mighty Quill
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How about toilets? I don't think I'd get along very well without one...
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12-05-2008, 11:34 PM | #1347 |
La Belle Dame sans Merci
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Fun nights.
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12-06-2008, 03:07 AM | #1348 |
A Mere Boggart
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I assign when the cat gets in bed with you, which helps you sleep, though of course the cat does not intend that, oh no, the cat merely intends to get a nice comfy place to sleep and probably eat your soul or something. But all the same, it's like having an uber-furry hot water bottle with you
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12-06-2008, 08:10 AM | #1349 | |
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12-06-2008, 03:54 PM | #1350 | |
Pilgrim Soul
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12-06-2008, 04:06 PM | #1351 |
A Mere Boggart
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Lemmy specialises in getting into the smallest spaces possible though. She used to hide in my shoes when she was a kitten and was so small you didn't spot her!
The snoring usually drives her off eventually though
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12-06-2008, 05:08 PM | #1352 | |
La Belle Dame sans Merci
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To the Shire - though it should probably go to Orthanc - I assign passive-aggression. Oh yes I do.
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12-07-2008, 02:35 AM | #1353 | |
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12-07-2008, 03:49 AM | #1354 | |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Anyway, I assign to the Shire the fact that our local boxing hero Manny Pacquiao has won yet again against some Mexican legend Oscar De La Hoya. Nice. Even non-sports fans such as me got really happy. And our professor promised us some burgers and coke if he won!
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12-09-2008, 06:41 AM | #1355 |
Everlasting Whiteness
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Discovering my colleague is pregnant - it's so exciting!
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12-09-2008, 10:20 AM | #1356 |
La Belle Dame sans Merci
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New fun projects.
The amazingness that is checking items off a very important list of Things to Do.
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12-09-2008, 12:12 PM | #1357 |
Pilgrim Soul
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As he has passed in to the West
The wonderful creations of Oliver Postgate that shaped many a British Childhood..
(Bagpuss, Ivor the Engine, The Clangers, Noggin the Nog etc).
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12-09-2008, 04:27 PM | #1358 | |
A Mere Boggart
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And the Marvellous Mechanical Mouse Organ can go to the Shire too, as can the saggy old cloth cat, and the soup dragon...
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12-10-2008, 07:20 AM | #1359 |
Pilgrim Soul
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Ah I should have italicised - I meant the programmes and characters as a whole not the eponymous heroes. I have had the song of the mice of the Marvellous Mechanical Mouse Organ going round my head for about 24 hours now.. and am liable to sing to myself..... and swear in Clanger.... .
I was thinking about it last night and I can't help suspecting that loving "Smallfilms" prepared the way for loving Tolkien a few year later. There are a lot of the elements - myths, dragons, heroic deeds of the small, the gentleness of the Shire and a certain melancholia are there....
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12-10-2008, 06:42 PM | #1360 |
La Belle Dame sans Merci
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Omelets.
Not because they're particularly amazing, but because I finally succeeded in making one properly and I'm very proud of myself, thank you very much.
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