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C. J., Cool yet firm like ice
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Oct 17, 2012 11:48PM
Hmm I guess 2 Kyra.
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It's one. I did take archery, and I hope to start up again soon. But I'm not taking it currently.
1. I’ve been on television.2. I’ve been in jail.
3. I’ve been behind the wheel of a Ferrari.
Ajay, are you familiar with the Ferrari boxer, that came out in the early seventies? That’s one of my favorite cars of all time. Mid-engine, twelve cylinders, and the best-looking (at least, I think) body Ferrari ever put on a chassis.
Yes, M! I'm familiar with that one! That one's truly a classic! The Ferrari boxer also featured in one of the episodes in Top Gear, if I remember it correctly.
The only mid-engine car I ever owned was a 1984 Pontiac Fiero. It was nothing like a Ferrari, of course, but it was a wonderful car to drive! The most beautiful car I’ve ever had was a Nissan 300ZX (1992). It was a dream to drive.
I guess you’ve figured out from post number 1 that I’ve been in jail (though I’ve never been arrested). I was on television, but only got to hear about it. I had bought a Playboy or Penthouse magazine at a 7-Eleven that was being picketed by Baptists, and there was a television crew at the door. Naturally, I stopped long enough for an interview. The next day, I found that I was famous. I’ve never been behind the wheel of a Ferrari, however.
I’m up at office. I don’t like the keyboard on this desktop computer nearly as much as the one on my laptop.There had been a scandal about Miss America because photos of her had turned up in a men's magazine. I was working as a gopher at a little firm at the time, and one morning I was told that the magazines were out, and to go get one.
Well, I went all over town. Every place I stopped, I was told either that they were sold out or that the copies they had left were being held for certain customers.
Business back then was different from what it is now. When a boss told you to do something, you didn’t come up with a bunch of excuses, you just did what you were told. So I got in my car, drove to the nearest city, and stopped at the first convenience store I came to. If I hadn’t been in such a hurry, I might have wondered what all those people were doing standing around outside.
Oops! The lunch hour is up. I’ll be back later to tell the rest of the story.
I have a feeling I’ve told this story somewhere else, but I can’t find it. This seems an appropriate place to quote Alex: “Anyway.”My brother in law (at the time) was news director at one of the local TV stations. One of the rival stations had a crew at the 7-Eleven I stopped at.
It wouldn’t have occurred to me to look at the magazine myself, but not for any of the reasons you think. My grandfather had stacks of them, and I grew up looking at them, learned to draw from the photos in them. Years later, when the guys I leased an apartment with at Baylor wanted to see a current issue of Playboy that had caused several Baylor girls to get expelled, I was the one who wasn’t too embarrassed to go to the convenience store and buy a copy so everybody could look at it. It was soon in tatters from being looked at!
Where was I? I’m not a mission-minded person, other than on the rare occasion when I’m working for somebody. As I left the store, a nicely-dressed woman with a clipboard in her hand asked me if I would mind being interviewed. A few feet away stood a stoutly-built young man with a large video camera on his shoulder. I said, “Not at all.” She asked me what I had gone in to purchase, and I answered something like, “One of those magazines that has Miss America in it.” She indicated the people who were picketing the store, and asked me what I thought about the store’s selling something like that over the counter. The morning’s chasing around with no luck still fresh in my mind, I think I said something smart like, “I like it better than having to buy it under the counter.”
I went back to the office, delivered the magazine, and forgot about it until the next morning, when I went to the courthouse to file something in the clerk’s office. Everybody had seen me on TV last night. I wondered if my sister had seen it. She had, and she wasn’t happy. I had appeared on the air, on a competing station.
Yes, M. I didn't guess point 2 since I had read post number 1. 1984 Pontiac Fiero looks good. I like it! That's an interesting story, M! The way you say it makes it even better.
I like what you said,“I like it better than having to buy it under the counter.” I really wish I had the chance to say something like that on T.V.
In addition, I also liked Alex's quote here: 'Anyway'.
My favorite quotes of Alex are the following:
1.(Faints)
2. MWAHAHAHAHA
Hello, Alex! :) Yup, I enjoy them. Let me try. Does this get any harder?!
Anyway
I guess 3!
Hahah. Am I sure? Nope, I am no where close to being 'sure' with 'those' as 'choices'. hehe. This is an unfair world :(
Thank god, it's good to know that my analysis was a success! hehe. I can understand number two, it's a common thing in most parts of the world. Well, not too sure of that one either. hehe.
I also have a doubt! An unrelated one though. What is the meaning of 'Domina Regni'?!
My friends and I, we were thinking of ordering pizza yesterday and someone suggested 'Domino's pizza', and it reminded me of you. And hence, the curiosity.
My guess: It is the pet name with which Frank calls you.
Wow, 'Mistress of the Realm'. That's a really good one. Yup, Domino's Pizza works each single time for me!
Goodnight guys! I'm signing off for the day. Have a good one!
On October 28, 2010, when Alex has arrived at Orchard Bay with her pirates, Squirrel (paws on hips) remarks, “I’ll remind you that we are in my world, and I think I know a certain dark-haired, mysterious-eyed Mistress-of-the-Realm when I see her in a rowboat, even at a distance.”
I miss Orchard Bay! I’m not sure how I dropped the thread on that one.
Squirrel has really been through it. I don’t think he misses his days with Nightmare, though.
Nightmare is dead in Orchard Bay, at least. In that world, characters who have been killed don’t come back to life.
The story can’t have integrity and be fair to the characters if the author doesn’t have the spine to make dead characters stay dead. It’s like a game in which the moderator lets back in players who have lost. It isn’t fair to the other players.
Frank can’t die. He’s a manifestation of the male side of you, that’s submerged in psychological darkness. He may change names, faces, body types, but he’ll always be there in some way or other.
In a man, the female side is the part of him that seeks relationship, that unifies. In a woman, the male side is the part of her that splits things into parts so distinctions can be made, and that reasons things out.
I have a mustache. And a beard.Sorry, the conversation went five whole posts without a joke.
Oh, no! I hate to begin a discussion about how can be be no true seriousness without humor, so I won’t.
And no humor without seriousness. If seriousness does not exist, then there is nothing to be incongurious enough for humor to exist.
I was hoping it meant that I needed to go take a cold shower. I guess I’m glad it doesn’t. I took a shower after I came in from mowing, about dark.
A shower always makes me feel better!Edward, #608 is a bullseye. I couldn’t agree more.
Sorry, bit distracted; I just saved the bratty princess from the monster living inside the giant fish.... This game makes a lot more sense when you're playing it than when you're explaining it.
Here I go:1. I am in some way related to Davy Crockett.
2. I have written at least a single one-off comic book that was developed and published.
3. I fear that at my age, 25, I might be developing the first signs of baldness.
One1. I have never finished a Zelda game.
2. My papa has never finished a Zelda game.
3. Neither of us have played any Assassin's Creed games.
It is two. That is the false one. I wish I could get a comic book published, lol!
Edward wrote: "1. I have never finished a Zelda game.2. My papa has never finished a Zelda game.
3. Neither of us have played any Assassin's Creed games."
Hmm. 1, maybe...?
Yep.I have mentioned it before. I said I am in "some way related" to him. I am not blood related. My uncle, who is NOT my dad's brother, shares the Crockett name. And HE is related to Davy. That is the only way I am sort of related to him.
Edward wrote: "One1. I have never finished a Zelda game.
2. My papa has never finished a Zelda game.
3. Neither of us have played any Assassin's Creed games."
#3?
The lie is 2. Although I have watched people play Assassin's Creed, I've never actually tried it. (After Splinter Cell, I'm wary of stealth games; the controls on that game were obnoxious.) Papa has beaten three Zelda games (The Legend of Zelda, Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess). I keep stopping in them middle and starting over when I pick it up again months later.
Your so nice.
1. I'm going to the zoo today.
2. My best friend is very bored and wants me to come over and take her away from her boredom.
3. My best friend is sitting around doing nothing right now.
1. I'm going to the zoo today.
2. My best friend is very bored and wants me to come over and take her away from her boredom.
3. My best friend is sitting around doing nothing right now.
One, since two and three kind of go together. But maybe it's set up that way, and 2 is really the lie. But... one.
Christa - Ron Paul 2016 wrote: "Umm...3 is the lie"
Yup! You got it, christa! *cheers and confetti*
Yup! You got it, christa! *cheers and confetti*
YAY Me!!! :DOkay
1. I haven't slept in 54 hrs
2. I saw a crazy man in church today
3. I watch desperate housewives
huh... i would have to say 1, because not sleeping for more than two days seems like a bit of a stretch. but it might be 3...
