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Warning: Wallflower coming out of lurkdom to introduce herself. I have been amusing myself with the posts by this group for a couple of weeks now. Not sure I can keep up me end of the repartee, but I will give it a go. I am a writer (mostly documentary scripts, speeches and nonfiction books and such), married, mom of a three-year-old, from Virginia, just outside the land of parsed sentences and passive construction. "Mistakes were made." Need I say more?
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(OK, I'm having too much fun and will decease as opposed to become deceased, I hope.)
Close on the last one. Halfway between Mt. Vernon and 1600 Pennsylvania, also known as the U.S. Capitol and capital. The land of hyperbole, puffery, deceptions, strategery, slick manipulations and obfuscations. The land of our forefathers--Washington, DC. Now I will cease and desist so I can go confuse someone else. :)
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I never could figure how anyone could have "four fathers"...
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Thank you, Debbie. I have definitely enjoyed catching up on the threads. You all are nuts. I think I will fit nicely in the asylum, uh, party.
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Being a language and grammar forum, I wanted to use the most precise term possible.
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You are officially welcome Richard....
I have been around for quite a while but never formally introduced myself. Bit of a lurker, sometimes. I am a Kiwi currently living in Beijing, working at an International School. I love the expat lifestyle - after rather a long time of living broke in NZ it's nice to have enough money to send home to help the kids and still have enough here to live very nicely, thank you. I have 3 grown up children - the youngest is married and lives in NZ the older two live in Australia. I love to read, eat and travel and best of all are the holidays when I can combine all three.
Richard - isn't the dash further to reach for than the fullstop?
I have a propensity to overuse the dash too, I know it, and also I like to use other interesting punctuation...
such as the ellipsis...
Hi to all
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Guess what!!!! I gotta heat pump!
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Richard you are MOST welcome to our sandbox. We didn't win that International (includes Yonkers) Board of Friendliness certification for nothing, after all. If you like to play with words, this is the place for you. You especially might like the Anything Goes thread -- the Kitchen Party area where we rearrange furniture as a practical joke on Debbie (makes it harder for her to find her Black Russians). I found a Black Madonna there once. From Poland, like my Babcia, you see.
Robyn, wish I could be an expat too. I'd make a good one, I'm almost sure, despite my curmudgeonly New England persona (you know, after 20 years we might trust you...).
Heat pump? Is that some kind of Italian shoe?
Hi, to introduce myself so I don't end up looking like vanilla icecream which I am not- my name is Sandra, married, mother of two sons, former teacher -beware of our aversion to certain grammar changes. lol. Like manga, meditation,books (neither the high faluttin ones nor junk) while believing everyone has the right to read whatever they choose, haiku, words and word games. My opinions are open to change, like varied reading.Spent two years in developing country, so changed my world view. Live in New Jersey. And jokes aside I love it. Enjoy laughing, especially at myself. Like the bit of this group I have seen. Accepting. Different. Freeing. Yet warm and friendly.
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Hi New, I live in the Phila. suburbs, in pretty little town called Wenonah, nowhere near the hills of NJ. We outlawed hills here centuries ago- prefer our flat sandy soil.Spent four years at school in mountains, decided I am a flatlander at heart. Of Quaker persuasion so you will get no fights from me. But we have our methods of coping. As a Friend said when someone stole her parking space," When thee gets back to thy kennel, I hope thy mother bites thee." I shall do my best to keep Richard in line- not really, he is fine as is. Have spent many vacations in Mass. It is beautiful. Very partial to New Englanders. Southern chatter wears me out.Years and years of southern in-laws while nice people left me with tired ears.
Whoa, Richard. Serious flashbacks to college and reading John Barth!
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Scooz -- You mean, someone's actually read John Barth? And here I thought he was just "shelf filler."
Snooz -- Good night, Gabilicious.
I wish I hadn't. Floating Opera hit a bad note, way too discordant for me.
Newengland, Quakers found safe haven in Phila. area.
We are the liberal kind with no structured service, usually quiet one hour meditations. Any one else here meditate? I use no mantras, incense or anything at all exotic just centering and quiet mind.
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Jealous of the heat pump - I have one here in the office and one in my apartment, and I am not sure if I should get one for NZ home. Would like to buy one for mum and dad, but worried I will give them a big electricity bill - let me know how that changes.Periods and colons on the same keyboard is just too much for me, I'm afraid. I wonder what perverted mind stole that word to represent an end point.
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Yes, relating to Richard's comment above, quoted here: *and Robyn-i just recently learned "full stop" from my u.k. friend Fiona-looked all over the keyboard for it until she explained it was brit slang for period-i like it-told her it sounds like a cop holding up a white gloved hand in your face*slang for period - I ask you! I know plenty of slang for period, and that ain't it!
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Robyn and Gabi I wonder how many synonyms we could come up with for it.
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I think that Mental-pause is more significant.
Hi all,What a busy little group this is - looks fantastic. I was perusing your wonderful chatter and realised that my lovely friend Sandra is already a member. So, if it's good enough for Sandra, it's certainly good enough for this Antipodean word-lover. Look forward to enjoying lots of time here, but where's that damned barman?
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Wow, thanks, folks, for the great welcome.Okay, Gabi, since you're buying I'll join you in a chablis, as long as it's well chilled and not too pretentious. Oh, and triple Brie? You're my soul mate already.
And Debbie, are you also from way south of the border?
Methinks me will enjoy.
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Got it. I should take the time to check out people's profiles, I guess. I'm fairly new to this and still tend to feel as though I'm peeking through their living room windows looking at their profiles. Having now checked out yours, I have to say I totally approve of your taste in books, so I forgive you for being from THAT side of the Tasman.
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I lived in Sydney for 7 years and have lots of friends there still.....I don't think much of the 'Kiwi/Aus rivalry' thing. I think both are fantastic countries with a lot going for them.
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I have to admit, Debbie, I haven't been to NZ, but if I came from a country with such amazing scenery I don't think I'd want to live anywhere else. Spent quite a bit of time in Europe and have seen a fair bit of Asia, but the closest I've come to your beautiful scenery is having people tell me that what I've seen on my holidays in Tasmania is a bit like what I would see on the South Island. And, yes, I'm not into the whole rivalry bit either. We're just good peeeebles either way, as the lovely George Hamilton (was it the third?) would say.
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It is definitely on the bucket list, Newengland. Autumn colours are something we really miss here in Oz. Last October we were lucky enough to be in France and the colours were just superb. Our trees tend to just stay a sort of drab green all year round.
Hi Gabi,Way over on the west coast - Perth. Yes, I've been in Canberra in Autumn and it is lovely, and ditto Victoria. Tasmania is especially gorgeous - remember walking along the main street in Ross and just kicking my way through huge piles of golden leaves to get to ye olde lollie shoppe. Lovely stuff. Over here most local councils seem intent on ripping out anything which isn't considered a native and so we have less and less lovely imported colours and just lots of gum trees - beautiful, yes, but Autumn colours are so fabulous. I have a sister on holidays in Tasmania at the moment and she is just revelling in the scenery there.
Is Lake Macquarie the superb boating location which has been featured a few times on holiday shows? We often talk about doing a houseboat holiday there or on the Victorian lakes. Have done French canals a couple of times, though, and they're pretty hard to beat - and no nasty eight legged crawling insects to worry about either. Your area does indeed sound delightful, though.
We'll be in Sydney in a few weeks - doing a weekend harbour cruise which should be great. Good timing too with the lighting up of the Opera House sails, which we should have a great view of on the first night as the boat we'll be on drops anchor in Farm Cove. Whoops, I do bang on. Sorry.
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Brutes? How can you call such superior creatures brutes? I think fires were only invented for the comfort of our fluffy friends.
Look forward to it. Off to while away the day on the boat (memory jogger: get bubbles) so catch you later.
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