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Old 07-05-2008, 04:12 PM   #1201
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that thing he said that's covered up now....





Shhhh....spoilers....
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Old 07-05-2008, 08:41 PM   #1202
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Hey umm. Unless you want the chat skwerlz to attack, then you probably shouldn't chat about things that are unrelated to the forum, even though some people (myself included) are interested in that topic...

But anyway, you are obsessed with the Barrow-Downs when you have to get up in the middle of the night so you can go on the Barrow-Downs, and stay on here for an hour...
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Old 07-05-2008, 08:46 PM   #1203
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Hey umm. Unless you want the chat skwerlz to attack, then you probably shouldn't chat about things that are unrelated to the forum, even though some people (myself included) are interested in that topic...

But anyway, you are obsessed with the Barrow-Downs when you have to get up in the middle of the night so you can go on the Barrow-Downs, and stay on here for an hour...
Been there, done that. For werewolf. During a night phase. During a game in which I was an ordo. Heh.


Don't mind me, just ensuring the non-existence of spoilertasticness. Eon, thanks a ton for editing your post. By the by, I don't know how to do that spoiler tag thing. PM me sometime and tell me how, will you?



Right around the deadline, I was refreshing the page pretty much constantly waiting for the narration. My internet went out for like 30 seconds, and I had a cow.
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Old 07-05-2008, 09:55 PM   #1204
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You know you are obsessed with the Barrow-Downs when you have automatic updates that go directly to your e-mail and a whole folder in your e-mail dedicated to the Barrow-Downs...
Even worse, when you have to make a separate email address to direct your normal email away from the BD flood of updates.

... Or, when you decide to do some 'quick account cleaning' and end up sitting there for 30 minutes trying to decide which thread subscriptions you can do with or without.

I'm always afraid I'll forget something from way back, but I know I'll eventually spend two hours searching through the whole thread for something like four words. Just can't seem to copy, paste and archive for my own good. I'm slowly working it into a habit. *remembers great golden horde thread*

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Old 07-05-2008, 10:22 PM   #1205
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Even worse, when you have to make a separate email address to direct your normal email away from the BD flood of updates.

... Or, when you decide to do some 'quick account cleaning' and end up sitting there for 30 minutes trying to decide which thread subscriptions you can do with or without.

I'm always afraid I'll forget something from way back, but I know I'll eventually spend two hours searching through the whole thread for something like four words. Just can't seem to copy, paste and archive for my own good. I'm slowly working it into a habit. *remembers great golden horde thread*

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Hehe, I do that too. I think "Will I need this later?" and ponder whether or not to keep it, but then I think that I will be able to find it later. But of course, I spend all day once to find a single post that consisted of two comic strip characters...
I might want to get a "Barrow-Downs" e-mail, my other one wouldn't get so crowded...
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Old 07-06-2008, 02:27 AM   #1206
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I might want to get a "Barrow-Downs" e-mail, my other one wouldn't get so crowded...
Done that already. X2
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Old 07-06-2008, 08:42 AM   #1207
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Even worse, when you have to make a separate email address to direct your normal email away from the BD flood of updates.

... Or, when you decide to do some 'quick account cleaning' and end up sitting there for 30 minutes trying to decide which thread subscriptions you can do with or without.

I'm always afraid I'll forget something from way back, but I know I'll eventually spend two hours searching through the whole thread for something like four words. Just can't seem to copy, paste and archive for my own good. I'm slowly working it into a habit. *remembers great golden horde thread*

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I guess I am just not addicted then since I decided not to get e-mail notifications a long time ago. . .

*is reminded about the great golden horde thread*
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Old 07-06-2008, 10:27 AM   #1208
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I guess I am just not addicted then since I decided not to get e-mail notifications a long time ago. . .

*is reminded about the great golden horde thread*
Actually, it's a sign that you ARE addicted, since you're on the forum so often and check everything so thoroughly that you don't need updates.

I, also, check the 'Downs more than I check my email.
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Old 07-06-2008, 11:59 AM   #1209
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If The Downs is your home page, that is unavoidable.
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Old 07-06-2008, 12:02 PM   #1210
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If The Downs is your home page, that is unavoidable.
Hmmmm. I'm not quite that bad....
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Old 07-06-2008, 12:04 PM   #1211
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The Downs has been my homepage since a month after I joined, it is now the homepage of the spare computer at my grandparents house because I'm online so much... But I get e-mail updates just in case I missed something, which I did yesterday. Even though I was on the computer all day.
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Old 07-07-2008, 01:43 PM   #1212
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(One of) the best thing(s) in being at home at last is getting properly online and to BD. Ah, the bliss.
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Old 07-09-2008, 09:55 PM   #1213
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When...

...when upon rereading the WW game you modded two and a half years ago has you pining for the "good old days" when you had:

1) A job you hated
2) Absolutely no social life
3) An unfulfilled desire to get where you are now

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4) Time to moderate WW.

Ah... I had fun in those narrations...
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Old 07-12-2008, 11:46 AM   #1214
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Old 07-14-2008, 01:29 PM   #1215
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You know your addicted to the Barrow-Downs when there is only about three subjects you like to talk about and they all have to do with the Barrow-Downs...

I have not been on BD for the past four days, I was getting worried that a new Paper Telephone game had started, I could not guess the rest of the quote on Palantir of Fortune, and the new Downer had come out... I thought that I would miss them all.
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Old 07-21-2008, 01:18 PM   #1216
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Eek! I guess this is a sign of addiction...?

At Camp Meeting (Church camp for Seventh Day Adventists) I had a wonderful time telling my seven year old brother about The Phantom and Alien, which he greatly enjoyed and now him and his friend can quote about three of them! Thanks to my most horrible memory!

But what really creeped me out is there was this kid there that was maybe twelve and he looked an awful lot like Hookbill... I know that Hookbill is not twelve, and not younger than I either, but it scared me none the less...

I knew he was controlling my mind, bu I didn't know he was stalking me too!

Hehe, and all this while I was trying to explain to my friend what the Downs is, and complaining that I might not get home in time to read the Downer on Sunday...
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Old 07-25-2008, 08:32 AM   #1217
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Old 07-25-2008, 08:40 AM   #1218
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But what really creeped me out is there was this kid there that was maybe twelve and he looked an awful lot like Hookbill... I know that Hookbill is not twelve, and not younger than I either, but it scared me none the less...
Well, people say I look younger than I am (21 in October). Probably has something to do with my having only recently regenerated...
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Old 07-25-2008, 11:16 PM   #1219
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Well, people say I look younger than I am (21 in October). Probably has something to do with my having only recently regenerated...
I've seen that picture before... This time it wasn't Photoshopped, right?
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You know you're addicted to the BD when...

I was playing 'Rock, Paper, Scissors' yesterday with my little brother (which included things like Mt. Zoom, The Phantom, Alien, and John Fillis) and he told me that he'd like to live in Antarctica, I asked him why and he said because there is penguins... I suddenly said "LOMMIES!" he then asked "What's a Lommy?" I told him he wouldn't understand...
Plus last night Lauri came over, we started talking like this:
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this kept going on for quite some time...
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Old 08-16-2008, 02:01 PM   #1223
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Old 08-18-2008, 01:19 PM   #1226
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Another sign of addiction might be...

The first day of real classes starts tomorrow and I have about half an hour before bed, I don't have anything ready for school and I have to be there at 7:30. Yet, I am still here posting on the Barrow-Downs.
This is the sad story of my life...
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You know that you're addicted to the Downs when you think you see Thinlomien walking into the classroom. I actually jumped to my first and just gawked at the person, like this: , until she gave me a confused look. My friends thought I was crazy after that (which isn't entirely false).

Have you been attending The University of San Antonio, over here in Texas, lately, Thinlomien?
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You know that you're addicted to the Downs when you think you see Thinlomien walking into the classroom. I actually jumped to my first and just gawked at the person, like this: , until she gave me a confused look. My friends thought I was crazy after that (which isn't entirely false).

Have you been attending The University of San Antonio, over here in Texas, lately, Thinlomien?
Hahaha, no. Must be my secret twin sister...
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Old 09-16-2008, 04:52 AM   #1231
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Brinniel is a guest of Elrond in Rivendell.Brinniel is a guest of Elrond in Rivendell.Brinniel is a guest of Elrond in Rivendell.
Using Tolkien, the Barrow Downs, and its members to partially describe what defines who I am for a speech in my speech class.

And then when I finished, my classmates commented that they could tell from my speech how passionate I really was about these things.
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Old 09-25-2008, 09:17 AM   #1233
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Thinlómien is wading through the Dead Marshes.Thinlómien is wading through the Dead Marshes.Thinlómien is wading through the Dead Marshes.Thinlómien is wading through the Dead Marshes.Thinlómien is wading through the Dead Marshes.Thinlómien is wading through the Dead Marshes.
I think normal people would not find the following line in a TV series particularly amusing...

Soldier (to his wife): "The big bosses like me. If I went back, I would get a promotion. I could even be a legate. Hey, how would you like it, being a legate's wife?"

...but Greenie and I laughed almost hysterically.
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Old 09-25-2008, 09:46 AM   #1234
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What amused me was that it reminded me of a poem by Bertolt Brecht:
Quote:
What was sent to the soldier’s wife
From the ancient city of Prague?
From Prague came a pair of high heeled shoes,
With a kiss or two came the high heeled shoes
From the ancient city of Prague.
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Old 09-26-2008, 04:47 AM   #1235
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Legate of Amon Lanc is spying on the Black Gate.Legate of Amon Lanc is spying on the Black Gate.Legate of Amon Lanc is spying on the Black Gate.Legate of Amon Lanc is spying on the Black Gate.Legate of Amon Lanc is spying on the Black Gate.Legate of Amon Lanc is spying on the Black Gate.
Aiiiieee...

Really, this is hilarious Oh my
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Lalwendë is battling Black Riders on Weathertop.Lalwendë is battling Black Riders on Weathertop.
An example of how your impressions can be altered - I was on my blog a couple of weeks ago saying how Mithalwen* looks exactly like Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire in a famous portrait; I'd just noticed this look-a-like. Last week I popped over to Chatsworth and the same portrait was there, and I thought "Oh, it's Mithalwen" instead of thinking "Oh, that's the duchess".




*Mithalwen is free to deny this resemblance of course
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Old 09-26-2008, 11:47 AM   #1237
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You're at Oxonmoot.

You see a computer.

You go on the Downs.

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Old 09-26-2008, 11:59 AM   #1238
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When you cite the Barrow Downs and some of the ideas and questions posted here in class, and vice-versa.

I remember this week we had some speculative fictionists giving a talk, and I can't help but notice, my, they'd be a good addition to the Downs. And I was secretly wondering if one of them was a Downer. Well, one of my professors know about our existence, even though he denies being a member.
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Old 09-26-2008, 06:49 PM   #1239
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You're at Oxonmoot.

You see a computer.

You go on the Downs.

Wow! I wish I could've gone to Oxonmoot.
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Old 09-27-2008, 06:02 AM   #1240
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Legate of Amon Lanc is spying on the Black Gate.Legate of Amon Lanc is spying on the Black Gate.Legate of Amon Lanc is spying on the Black Gate.Legate of Amon Lanc is spying on the Black Gate.Legate of Amon Lanc is spying on the Black Gate.Legate of Amon Lanc is spying on the Black Gate.
A really, really bad sign is when the BD seem to even overpower Tolkien himself in your head. I caught myself having a problem to determine whether the following sentence doesn't have more than one subject: "In the mountains only the Dwarves delved Belegost and Nogrod."
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