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Late shift lucky 13-We'll still be friends in the morning right?

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Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

07:46 / 11.05.03

so, following those before, a six page late shift thread is due for replacement, or you can ignore this

its nearly 3 am, im in the house i have shared with my now ex for a year and a half and she is out with another guy. The shit seems to have hit the fan with my co workers who all started sleeping together, and i dont know if anyone is going to talk to me after the fallout.

anyone else up late and looking to babble, because i need something to read to avoid breaking things...

Shrug

10:36 / 11.05.03

Just back from a nasty twelve hour shift feeling wired, have been awake for 36, my typing is horribly affected, sorry.

The Return Of Rothkoid

10:53 / 11.05.03

Almost 10pm. Watching Die Hard. Yippie-cay-ay, motherfuckers.

Shrug

10:56 / 11.05.03

Can anyone connect Jeremy Irons to Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon?

that

11:02 / 11.05.03

Why did they give Alan Rickman a German accent in Die Hard? Alan Rickman has a sexy, sardonic voice, terrible not to use it...and English people are always evil or stupid in American films anyway, so it would have made no difference.

The Return Of Rothkoid

11:10 / 11.05.03

Aw, come on. Six-hundred und vorty million dollas... - that's just genius.

In another note, I saw him buy a couch once. At Heal's. Moneyed bastard. Only thing I ever had from there were some martini glasses, as it was the only shop along Tottenham Ct Rd that sold them...

Matter arising: voila. Two degrees.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:18 / 11.05.03

Fuck, Elijah, that sounds really shit. (If you're still around. Well, even if you're asleep, it still sounds really shit, but you won't be reading this. You know what I mean.) Just hang on in there, and move the fuck out as quick as possible. And if the other guys/girls aren't speaking to you, they're probably not worth worrying about (said he, having absolutely fuck all idea of the situation, but meaning well nonetheless.)

Die Hard. You bastard, Roth. I so wish I had time to watch Die Hard now before going to bed. Argh. I came home, thinking "yeah, in bed by 2:30 pm, gives me time to check out Barbelith and have a quick bang on Deus Ex... that's all I really want right now." But no! You go and set me ambitions that are unattainable!!! Damn you! (Oh yeah, and I am still working on your CDs, btw.)

that

11:50 / 11.05.03

'Raiders of the Lost Ark' is on terrestrial tv today sometime after 6. Woo!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:54 / 11.05.03

Aaaahhh. BUT! and again I say BUT! They're finally bringing out the Indiana Jones DVD box set this year!!!

Oh yes!

Oh yes!

Oh fucking yes!!!

The Return Of Rothkoid

12:00 / 11.05.03

However, let me give you a possible downside to that: Indiana Jones 4 is still in production, as far as I know...

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

23:19 / 11.05.03

so, its just after 6, im about half done with my school project.

my favortie line in die hard has got to be when bruce gives the bad guy the gun, and when he tries to shoot him he just says "aw, No bullets" as if he really feels bad for the guy.

I havent heard from the entire work crew yet, but one of the people involved has pretty much said they dont want to talk to me again. the quasi-ex came in around 330am, nothing happened, but it still hurts

now i feel like im fighting off a coma, likely some of the stuff i ate/drank, but a friend is on the way over and we are going to grab a bite to eat...

Mazarine

23:32 / 11.05.03

I'm on page ten. I need at least three more to have this look respectable. Then there's my final exam essay, a scant four pages on an easy topic. Almost done. Almost wound up. I really hate the month of May.

Mazarine

23:36 / 11.05.03

-Hugs Elijah.- Sorry sweetie, that sounds lousy.

ONLY NICE THINGS

00:11 / 12.05.03

Hello darlings,

Well, here I am, just finishing off some freelancing stuff. I did my first ever job as an independent contractor on Friday, which paid approximately a tenner a word, so that's not so bad. Hoom. Still not sure what to do in the slightly longer term, though. Perhaps VelvetVandal and I should form a commune. Or a genitally-mutilated Harry Potter death cult..

Mazarine

00:16 / 12.05.03

You could equate the different Hogwarts houses to Horsemen of the Apocalypse. That'd be big fun.

ONLY NICE THINGS

00:40 / 12.05.03

Dude! That is so the best idea in the Universe. And then Leap could teach us how to use our melee weapons for the most efficient self-emasculation....it's all good. It's *all* good.

So how is Aristophanes? You were looking at the Frogs, yes?

Pants Payroll

00:46 / 12.05.03

you what i dont get about alan rickmans character in die hard? he seems to speak english with a german accent. but then he tries to fake out bruce willis by speaking in a sort of generic american accent. if he can speak flawless english, why was he speaking with a german accent in the first place? was it just a put-on?

ONLY NICE THINGS

00:51 / 12.05.03

Because he's German? Because, having gone to the trouble of learning English in order to communicate with monoglot Anglos, he might draw the line at constantly faking an American accent as well?

Char Aina

00:55 / 12.05.03

yeah, but he can do a convincing 'w', and a good 'f', so why act like an amateur?

ONLY NICE THINGS

00:58 / 12.05.03

You got me there. Possibly because it's less hassle, possibly because he likes to sound Teutonic and scary. Although German *has* "f"s, so he's getting no props for that.

Mazarine

01:03 / 12.05.03

So how is Aristophanes? You were looking at the Frogs, yes?

That's on the back burner for the moment, I'm currently wrapping up a longer paper on the difference between human sacrifice and murder in Greek tragedy, with a focus on the deaths of Iphegenia, Agammemnon and Clytemnestra. Not speaking Greek isn't helping, since the word choice seems to be incredibly key, with no English equivelant, so I'm basically hypothesizing left and right.

It would be hilarious if Flitwick rode the pale horse. Or the pale pony.

ONLY NICE THINGS

01:06 / 12.05.03

Although I am becoming increasingly seduced by the idea of Alan Rickman goign through the entire film with a perfect English accent, and everyone saying "Hang on, I thought you were German," and him having to explain every single time that he *is* German, but he spent a lot of time learning English, which along with Arabic is pretty much the language of international terrorism, and so happens not to speak English with a German accent.

it would in fact have made for a much better film.

Speaking of better films, I am currently halfway through "MacGuyver and the Treasure of Atlantis". Now *this* is more like it.

ONLY NICE THINGS

01:11 / 12.05.03

Oh, bugger. Not wishing to sound defeatist, but there is so much about the Agamemnon in particular that does demand having read it in the Greek to make sense, but I'm sure you'll find a way. Have you read Vidal-Nacquet's "Hunting and Sacrifice in Aeschylus' Oresteia"? Sounds like it might be useful...what conclusions have you reached so far? And how much better would Iphigenia at Aulis have been if Alan Rickman had hijacked the Greek camp halfway through and Diomedes, stripped to his vest, had had to defeat him through crawling-based actions?

Char Aina

01:16 / 12.05.03

i'm loving the idea of arabic being the international language of terrorism, even when you are german.

they should have had rickman running around yelling in arabic, and having to stop to explain himself.

Mazarine

01:18 / 12.05.03

Have you read Vidal-Nacquet's "Hunting and Sacrifice in Aeschylus' Oresteia

No, I haven't. I'll have to find that one. As for conclusions, mine are fairly lame, entirely conjecture. Basically taking in the factors of did a god demand that said person die, did the sacrificer get anything out of it, what was the primary motivation for the killing, etc. I'm kind of balancing it on the notion of Iphegenia's death being more on the sacrifice end of the scale, Agamemnon's more on the revenge/murder, and Clytemnestra's falling in the middle.

And how much better would Iphigenia at Aulis have been if Alan Rickman had hijacked the Greek camp halfway through and Diomedes, stripped to his vest, had had to defeat him through crawling-based actions?

"Ten points from Mycenae, Mister Agamemnon, for being a pathetic general."

Ahhhhh.

Yes! Snape as bronze age terrorist, marking down the crapper heroes.

"Mister Mnestheus.....Mister Idomeneus, where *is* Mister Mnestheus? Very well. Twenty points from Achaea for tardiness."

The article is collected in "Tragedy and Myth in Ancient Greece" by Vernant and Vidal-Naquet. The Lloyd translation was released by the Humanities Press of New Jersey in the States. it's incorrigibly French but does have its moments.

Mazarine

01:25 / 12.05.03

Is that ahhhh as in blessed relief, ahhh as in yes I see, or ahhh as in yes I see my foot's just fallen off?

Saint Keggers

01:31 / 12.05.03

All this educated talk... I feel like I'm back in college...and walked by the room with the smart people.

Persephone

01:32 / 12.05.03

Ahhhh is what I say when I think about Alan Rickman.

Would you mind testing this out for us? Husb is trying to figure out how to post sound files... the first eleven probably only work on a Mac, but hopefully the 12th one works on Windows as well. If you'd just click on the song titles & see if anything happens, and also say what system/browser you're on?

Char Aina

01:35 / 12.05.03

im off to have a wee look now.

while i'm away, do any of you know how chess notation works?

i want to play by email, but i have no idea what system is best.

Char Aina

01:38 / 12.05.03

that worked fine.

PC, windows 98, WMplayer, umm... its beige?

what was that? was there such a thing as the posedion musical?

i quite liked the sample.

ONLY NICE THINGS

01:39 / 12.05.03

12 goes to a new page with a QT file playing, the rest open a QT pop-up. Seem all right...

ONLY NICE THINGS

01:39 / 12.05.03

Oh, sorry, P4 PC with WinXP, using Mozilla.

Saint Keggers

01:40 / 12.05.03

http://www.logicalchess.com/info/reference/notation/

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