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THE GREETINGS AND IDLE CHAT THREAD 2018
No, and I did get your email. I just haven't been doing things I should, like responding to friends. *hangs head in shame.*
I prefer those that portray families as they really are. In each others faces but always having each others back. Yes me and my brother and sisters always fought, I mean from oldest to youngest there was only 6 years between the five of us. We probably drove my mother crazy but that's what kids do. It's funny my kids were the same way they would fight but don't start picking on one if you do then you will be faced with three. Well others may but being dad I can still pick on them and not get ganged up on LOL. No I don't pick on my kids just your average parental joking around is all.
Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) wrote: "No, and I did get your email. I just haven't been doing things I should, like responding to friends. *hangs head in shame.*"Duly noted...
I wish I knew that kind of life, mrbooks. I come from a world of division and constant warring. There was no such thing as loyalty and support. At the root of it was having an abusive, psychotic mother, then marrying an abusive, violent man. That kind of life does not breed the loyalty, love, and support you need in life.
That's why I favor movies with close-knit families.
mrbooks wrote: "I prefer those that portray families as they really are. In each others faces but always having each others back. Yes me and my brother and sisters always fought, I mean from oldest to youngest the..."But you see that's why people write books and make movies...because they can make things go the way they want. In my case, it wasn't a family, it was a bunch of people with the same last name, competing and fighting and selling each other out for much less than a bowl of pottage. I don't need to read or watch "dystopia", I lived in one.
Have you read Red Rising? Warning it is a Fantasy I have listened to it at work not to bad as it goes.
Where IS everybody? "This place is a tomb! I'm goin' over to the Nut Shoppe, where it's fun!" (You've Got Mail)
Make sure you bring me back something. BTW, Nut Shoppe describes the goings-on inside my head:)Where are you, mrbooks?? We're losing Ori!!!!
Sorry I am here been a bit tied up with some other pages discussing Stephen King. Hile gunslinger.
Hellooo...There's quite an echo in here....
HI, hi, hi, hi...I know, right? As for me, I'm preparing for Spring which means cleaning the entire house, looking forward to growing vines and plants in the back yard to attract hummingbirds and butterflies, and block the view of the irritating, nosy neighbors behind me. Sometimes I wish a big wind would come and blow the houses in the back of me away to never never land. (I know it sounds mean, but it's just wishful thinking)
Moving on...
Hellooo.....It has been quite here for a while. Groovy why would you curse your self by sending your neighbors to some place nice. If any one has to go to never never land it is you, think of everything nice in the world is in never never land why give it to people you don't like.
Besides if they get blown away and someone else moves in there, you don't know what you'll get. They might be even worse!Your neighbours are only nosey because you're fascinating, darlin'. Your backyard sounds lovely with the vines and the butterflies, and of course your lovely self and daughter beautifying it all.
Actually Ori the way you describe her back yard reminds me of a book I read. If you have a gigantic tree in your yard with a Peacock Tiger and Snake hanging around it and a fox that comes and goes and isn't afraid of the Tiger then it is proof positive.The book is Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King.
But Ori is right better the devil you know then the devil you don't.
You guys!!!!! You made me laugh. Now, I got the big head.Yeah,Ori's right, it could be a lot worse.
mrbooks, I read your other thread. I hope everything goes well at your appointment. Let us know if you're okay.
Oh, classic detective fiction. Why do they never assault anyone with a sharp instrument? It happens every day in London, and often enough in my own city. But noooo, it has to be a blunt instrument. Like what? a tuba?
What they don't have any Harps playing on the street corners how about a musical saw.
Oh but there it is! A saw isn't blunt!
Some of the saw's i've seen couldn't cut through wet paper LOL
I think everything was blunt back then because of censorship. A sharp object was too violent.
You are right there, I have seen some very sharp objects and they were violent and they could really wag a terrible tale about you.
Blunt always makes me think of a thug's weapon, easy whack and job done, whereas sharp needs to be prodded somewhere relatively specific. What I want to see is really weird instruments like 'suffocated inside a poly-lined grandfather clock' or 'beaten with a gigantic, descaled Haddock' :)
LOL!!!! I would love to see someone being whacked with a gigantic Haddock--descaled, of course!!
Yep, details are everything! Or 'gored by a confusticated walrus'. Really hope confusticated is a word now *Google*
Yay! Bewildered walruses! OK I've been awake too long
I wonder if mrbooks or Ori can top that!!!Get some sleep--Good-night!!
Gauntlet thrown with the standard glove flourish, bedtime now lol
Emma wrote: "Blunt always makes me think of a thug's weapon, easy whack and job done, whereas sharp needs to be prodded somewhere relatively specific. What I want to see is really weird instruments like 'suffoc..."Is that how you see James Blunt?
Gauntlet thrown and hits my foot now limping badly, confusticate and be bothered with it. (The Hobbit Bilbo to the dwarves after the tell him it is now time he accomplishes the job he was originally enlisted into the group).I think we need to deliberate the depth of our meanings. do we want shallow meanings or do we want to sink into the depth of insanity to get our meanings to the ength (sp) degree.
mrbooks, you can hang with the best of 'em. I stand corrected:)
Emma wrote: "Blunt always makes me think of a thug's weapon, easy whack and job done, whereas sharp needs to be prodded somewhere relatively specific. What I want to see is really weird instruments like 'suffoc..."Emma, we have missed you something fierce!! Welcome, welcome, welcome back!
It is true, however, that the last few posts of this and the "words you hate/love" threads should be switched. Somehow those threads have become general chat and now we're on about "confusticate" over here.Which is a perfectly lovely word I had forgotten, btw.
Ah that's my bad, no more specific word talk here promise :)But yay thanks Ori, that's a welcome and a half! I always intend to log on but things kept cropping up over the last few months.
How is everyone doing? :)
Emma wrote: "Ah that's my bad, no more specific word talk here promise :)But yay thanks Ori, that's a welcome and a half! I always intend to log on but things kept cropping up over the last few months.
How ..."
Naah, the thread got away from us a few posts back, before you resurfaced.
It's supposed to be Fair week here and I planned to sew but instead I have to read 17th century plays. Ah well, it's work, innit? I complain when I haven't got students so...LOL
So, I take it that Emma is before my time. Let me welcome you, too, Emma. I didn't know you were a regular.And these posts get switched a lot!!
Ori - 17th century plays, not too bad. I had to deal with the HMRC today and I'm ready to go on strike/retire/move to the woods to whittle spoons. Are you sewing anything special? Groovy - I'm an 'ad-hoc' pop-up type person (I'm afraid), I randomly appear then decide to be a yoga teacher/jeweller/plumber/*insert madly-spontaneous-temporary-career plan here* and wander off again. But I always come back. I blame Ori for putting butter on my paws O: )
Hmmmm, dealing with HMRC no wonder you are feeling drained worn out and out of sorts. I would go off to whittle spoons to, Yes I've seen the commercial as well LOL. I prefer the sisters singing.
Joan and Flo! They both irritate and elate me (sadly enough). It's HMRC for work *shudder*. The self-employed HMRC bit is still fun because I make next to nothing atm, but for a massive company it's thousands of excel lines and 'oh, those 4k cells aren't quite in the right format, retry please'. But the dog needs feeding so, y'know :\
Easy feed the dog the 4k cells and when he does his business you will have what you need in the right format for the HMRC.
Genius, I see a sacking in the near future!
Nah won't happen. I told my boss he could fire me any time he likes, but remember if you do you wont have anybody to blame your ineptitudes on. I'm still working there LOL.
Just read Eastward Ho! (Which makes me laugh because in England there's a town called Westward Ho!) and now I have to read Epsom Wells. At least it's not "Tis Pity She's a Whore."
I always liked 'Effingham' as a place name 😆 makes me think of someone dropping a christmas gammon!
And mrbooks, you're preaching to the badly tuned choir!
Yes you are right I have pulled out my soap box. Oh so we are cat o wallering. Sounds like the alarm spell used in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Cat-o-wallering - sounds of discontent made shortly before a cat-o-ninetails is produced (NOTE: produced for dramatic effect; this enterprise in no way condones or endorses actual use of said weapon) :D
Surely shortly after? If someone used one on me I'd surely catawaller!
Ah, but if it comes before, then you're the one grumbling and if people don't listen you go one step further and wave the whip about. You can tell it's been a very serious day for me today! (Blaming the freak occurrence of British sunshine)
Ah, the cat-o-ninetails. I remember it well. But for someone to use it on me, they'd have to catch me first.Emma, I hear you about the sunshine. That explains why I've come out of my winter depression and into high spirits. No more freezing temperatures, dark, cloudy days, and threats of snow. It's time to go outside to plant and soak in the cancerous rays of the sun! Yes!
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Ori, did you change your email address?