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04-08-2008, 02:26 PM | #1041 |
Reflection of Darkness
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Polishing the stars. Well, somebody has to do it; they're looking a little bit dull.
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On Facebook, I just received a notification that I have "1 (Lil) Green Patch request" (some sort of extra application for the site).
I'm sure all you other BDers can understand who that instantly reminded me of...
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04-09-2008, 10:21 AM | #1042 | |
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04-11-2008, 04:59 AM | #1043 |
Flame Imperishable
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When you wonder why you've only posted as little posts as you have, when there are so many shiny new threads.
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04-14-2008, 12:36 PM | #1044 |
Animated Skeleton
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: The cave under the Misty Mountains. Just take a wrong turn in the goblin's tunnels.
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Talk to the lonely Stoor
When you get depressed when no one ever answers your posts. When you feel that the only friends you have are online and when you say 'my friends' you'e reffering to the other BDers.
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04-14-2008, 12:51 PM | #1045 |
Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
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When someone starts telling about their dreams and says "I dreamt that Iron Maiden had a gig in metro...", your first reaction is: "IronMaiden? Who's that? Should I know her? Is she a newbie?"
Also, if you happily write "wolves" when you should write "vowels"...
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04-14-2008, 01:49 PM | #1046 |
Fading Fëanorion
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: into the flood again
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When you read the Children of Húrin and think that Mormegil written with a capital "M"... just... looks... wrong.
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04-14-2008, 01:54 PM | #1047 |
Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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Oh yes... and it seems odd that Nogrod is a place and that they keep missing the 88 off Boromir .......
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04-14-2008, 04:32 PM | #1048 | ||
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Also the fact that I can walk around with a big smile on my face all day, just because some random downer had a dream in which I appeared. |
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04-14-2008, 04:48 PM | #1049 |
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I have made that mistake myself as well... Now what does that tell you?
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04-14-2008, 05:36 PM | #1050 |
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Also seeing or hearing any mentioning of old runes in Scandinavia brings quite different ideas to me... And I should be able to study the old mythologies!
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04-14-2008, 08:06 PM | #1051 |
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At the public library they were selling a book called: Literary Market Place 2005. The title was then also abbreviated above in large letters: LMP. That was what I saw first, and, needless to say, I did a double-take.
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04-14-2008, 08:42 PM | #1052 |
Hauntress of the Havens
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Location: IN it, but not OF it
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04-15-2008, 02:19 PM | #1054 |
Alive without breath
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla
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A discussion in my creative writing class about describing a room...
Lecturer: So, there's a telephone in the room. What kind? Me: A paper one.
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I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket... |
04-16-2008, 06:39 AM | #1055 |
Pilgrim Soul
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To add to the education of the not so old Scandinavian Rune ...
Iron maidens were also a medieaval torture device - and a reason for Mrs Thatcher's soubriquet of "The Iron Lady". No comment.
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“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
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04-16-2008, 07:28 AM | #1056 |
Hauntress of the Havens
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When reading a month-old issue of the Downer (for the first time) and seeing the words "Doctor Lhunardawen" in an article made your week.
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04-16-2008, 08:22 AM | #1057 | |
Alive without breath
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I think you were a scientist at some point in the very early ones... I may be mistaken, I can't keep track of all the lies... I mean facts... (I don't think anyone noticed). Once again, I felt the niggling sense that I'm addicted to the Downs when my lecturer today said, "I knew someone who had a bone marrow transplant" and I thought he said, "I knew someone who had a mone BARROW transplant."
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I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket... |
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04-16-2008, 09:35 AM | #1058 |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Home. Where rolling green hills and clear rivers are practically my backyard.
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Addiction: Your first thought on reading this was, "The lecturer's been reading the Downer. He doesn't know anyone who's had a marrow transplant..."
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04-16-2008, 02:51 PM | #1059 |
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When you're listening to David Bowie's Jean Genie and the line 'poor little greenie' comes up and you immediately get a picture in your head of that photo of Greenie in the barrow with those hands!
EDIT: Huh, and when you then spend a few minutes wondering just why we collectively shorted Little Green to Greenie with an ie rather than a y like we did with Lommy.
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04-16-2008, 03:00 PM | #1060 |
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I think 'ie' is more of a diminutive suffix in English...and she IS younger than Lommy, right?
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04-16-2008, 04:25 PM | #1061 |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Yes.
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04-16-2008, 04:57 PM | #1062 |
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How I wish you where here. . .
This is one for those who was around when we had our "survivor" threads going. . .
When I hear "Another Brick In The Wall" I sing: "We don’t need no segregation. We don’t need no vote control. No dark oppression on the Island. Glirdan, leave those elves alone!" |
04-16-2008, 05:23 PM | #1063 | |
Everlasting Whiteness
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04-17-2008, 02:23 AM | #1064 |
Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
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Hmmm... but why's our father called Noggie then?
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04-17-2008, 06:45 AM | #1065 |
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It must be because I'm so small...
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04-17-2008, 06:57 AM | #1066 |
Woman of Secret Shadow
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Actually, I used that in Greenie's death narration in the ww modded by me. I'm not sure if I quoted it also right when we were taking the photos, but I know for sure that I sang it earlier that day.
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04-17-2008, 09:31 AM | #1067 |
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He's not...short, is he?
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04-26-2008, 11:29 AM | #1068 | |||
Woman of Secret Shadow
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That which is suitable for a legate is not suitable for a princess
So... I'm reading the Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo, which I now find more amusing than the last time I read it.
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04-26-2008, 12:07 PM | #1069 | |
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Today I was amused by our DVD player's remote control because it had the letters "LG" in it.
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04-26-2008, 12:51 PM | #1070 | |
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Being addicted to the Barrow-Downs really is a life-enriching experience. You find start finding meaning every where you look, in the littlest of things.
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04-26-2008, 12:54 PM | #1071 |
The Sweetest Spoiler
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: from beneath you it giggles incessantly
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*is an addict*
I actually mentioned the Downs in a term paper. Scary part is, it made sense. Oh, and the other day, Emily and I were driving to dinner and I mispronounced some word (don't remember what it was, sadly) and said "Finn" instead of "thin" when talking about the fog that was everywhere. Emily responded, "Great. Now I'm envisioning Lommy passing gas." It was excessively random, I'm not going to lie.
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04-26-2008, 12:57 PM | #1072 |
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"That which is suitable for a legate is not suitable for a princess" would make a nice siggy for Legate, actually...
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04-28-2008, 11:11 AM | #1073 |
Flame Imperishable
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When you do this instead of revising for your vitally important Year 9 SATs.
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04-28-2008, 11:14 AM | #1074 |
A Voice That Gainsayeth
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I actually thought about that for one moment when I saw what Agan wrote
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04-28-2008, 11:22 AM | #1075 | |
Everlasting Whiteness
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04-28-2008, 12:06 PM | #1076 |
Alive without breath
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When you see a Wheel Barrow painted white and think "Ha-ha! Wheel Barrow Wight! "
... Yes.
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04-28-2008, 03:30 PM | #1077 |
Everlasting Whiteness
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When you laugh so hard at Hooky's post above that your bemused housemates stare at you and when you try to explain ... well, let's just say they really didn't get it.
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04-29-2008, 12:34 AM | #1078 |
Shady She-Penguin
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When finding the verb "caber" from your book makes your Spanish lesson suddenly far more amusing than it was before...
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04-29-2008, 05:52 AM | #1079 |
Shady She-Penguin
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Does this count: for the last two days or so, I've been mistyping every single word ending in -mit as -mith, like just a while ago I wrote admith. And I don't even realise the typo before reading through it again...
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Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris
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04-29-2008, 06:41 AM | #1080 | |
Pilgrim Soul
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Lommie, that is a bit scary... but then I couldn't take a Letter before action as seriously as I might today because it was from "SPM Collections" .... perhaps the reason we haven' t seen so much of him lately is becasue he is mooonlighting as a bailiff (NB the letter was to the company I am working for not me personally!)
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