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For a while my dad was trying to teach me some guitar, but I can’t really play anything. I bet you’ll have a blast with that thing!
We have fun neighbors… just the other day there were a bunch of police cars on the street at about 7 in the morning, complete, as I’m told, with a battering ram. Later we found out that the neighbor’s daughter had committed “gang homicide” and the coppers were there to arrest her.
Besides that, our neighbors across the street are very, very odd. It is like their body language is just… off. The lady will stand there in the street and chat, but she does so with her back to you. One time my friend and I went over there to see the chihuahuas they have and she was amused by something… but instead of laughing just kept saying “that’s hilarious” over and over again. Not smiling, nothing. She looked so grim. I guess it’s the kind of thing you just have to experience to understand… but they are very bizarre people. My mom can tell you a crazy story about them and their Clydesdale. I won’t try to do it because I wasn’t there.
Greater Basilisk wrote:Have you found a place to start? The Awful German Language is great too – but it’s even funnier if you know a little German. I wish Twain had written something on Swiss German.
Hah! I’ve heard tales of Swiss German, I bet he would’ve had a hay day.
That’s funny, a friend of mine JUST dragged me onto Facebook like… yesterday. Have to say I like it better than myspace.
Nambroth wrote:These are old, but what the heck!!
Watch ’em in order!
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http://img117.exs.cx/img117/1197/lotrcatapult34ge.gifHAHAHA those are the BEST THINGS EVARRRRRRRRR. Had me in a giggle fit for DAYS…
Wow, how exciting!
I think everyone gets jitters before meeting someone in person that they’ve only talked to previously on the internet. It’s always great when it happens, though!
Greater Basilisk wrote:You can’t ask for favorites from Mark Twain! On the Decay of the Art of Lying is hilarious…
I’m not asking for favorites so much as a place to start, hehe.
I want to travel all over the place and then, among other things (to be determined), spend the rest of my life working out of a coffee shop.
Slightly tongue-in-cheek reply there, but more or less the truth.
Last night we were at a friend’s house and got to chatting about Mark Twain. He’s one of my dad’s favorite writers, we have a huge anthology of a billion of his short stories and several novels… but my problem in reading it is that I can’t decide where to start. So I was wondering–who’s got a favorite Twain short story? So far I love, what’s it called… is it This Awful German Language? The one about German, anyhow. I was laughing my arse off at that, because it just strikes right to the heart of things.
Anywho, I know there are a ton of his lesser-known writings, and I was wondering if anyone knew about the better ones and could recommend them to me. Everyone’s read Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, but there are so many other stories that don’t get nearly as much attention despite being equivalently good.
This is totally unrelated to the series, but wow! It never occurred to me to buy prints of book covers and hang them on the wall! Haha… Usually book covers annoy me to no end (don’t like having the characters image-ified for me), but there are a few I’d really love to have hanging up, like a particular edition of Ursula LeGuin’s Earthsea books… buh… doubt I’ll ever find em, but it’s still a neat concept. Fantarding fo’ realz. 🙂
I’ve heard good money can be made on Peep jousts.
And I wonder when BiPolarBear will see this… it’s kind of a family tradition for us to have a Peep joust at the Easter party. Or the Christmas party, except they were kind of stale–and frozen–when we did that. It was interesting! For some reason the inside went all black. Looked like guts.
By the way, put a CD in the microwave sometime. It’s AWESOME.
Then why on earth did you post about it? 😆 It’s like the trick to good archery: When you’re aiming for the apple and hit the plum, pretend that’s what you meant to do… or just don’t say anything at all…. um… that didn’t make any sense, did it? Maybe I should go to sleep.
Point is, everyone screws up, even deities. Just usually they don’t say anything about it on a public forum.
skigod377 wrote:What do you guys do at ren fests? I saw a joust once, but there were some people who were serious about getting dressed up and acting like barbarians, etc… Any of you guys all into it like that?
I’ve gone with friends for… sheesh, has it been five years now? and it’s just loads of fun. We all dress up and try to speak Shakespearean English for a day or two, oggle the jousters, and run around like mad-people. I’ll be going to the one in Irwindale, hopefully, as it runs through May… I think… but anyway, it’s coming up and I’m excited! Only bad thing about the fair is that it’s usually held during the hellish temperatures of early summer… but hopefully it won’t be too hot this year.
