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21:34 / 31.10.06

Wow. I'm really enjoying this. It's been a long time since I've seen an actual intelligent community on the internet.

What's the sorting hat?

22:37 / 31.10.06

hello here

Colour me happy at being allowed to join the forum
(*does a special happy dance)

I am artist

In my spare time (which i seem to have a lot of) I produce down-tempo electronic music
with enough technology to take-over a small country (i also like to overuse brackets)

Peace

22:42 / 31.10.06

Hello there.

22:51 / 31.10.06

It's been a long time since I've seen an actual intelligent community on the internet.

Where'd you find it?

What's the sorting hat?

There's nothing hidden in your head
The Sorting Hat can't see,
So try me on and I will tell you
Where you ought to be.
You might belong in Gryffindor,
Where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve, and chivalry
Set Gryffindors apart;
You might belong in Hufflepuff,
Where they are just and loyal,
Those patient Hufflepuffs are true
And unafraid of toil;
Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,
If you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind;
Or perhaps in Slytherin
You'll make your real friends,
Those cunning folk use any means
To achieve their ends.
So put me on! Don't be afraid!
And don't get in a flap!
You're in safe hands (though I have none)
For I'm a Thinking Cap!

03:43 / 01.11.06

Ah, I knew about the sorting hat from Harry Potter before (who under 18 hasn't?), but I thought there was some other significance.

I was merely researching "the Invisibles" on google (yea, typical Morrison-whore I know), and found the site and thought it was a great way to expand my mind.

03:59 / 01.11.06

What the hell happened to my post saying hello to the new kids, earlier? Did it get DELETED? Are the Moderoyalite CENSORING me when I want only to LOVE members?

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

04:07 / 01.11.06

Ah, I knew about the sorting hat from Harry Potter before (who under 18 hasn't?), but I thought there was some other significance.

Nope! Ours is just like the one from Harry Potter, except that it's lyrics reference obscure British television shows and uses incredibly filthy language. And instead of sorting you into houses it just gets drunk and touches you inappropriately. Good times!

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

04:08 / 01.11.06

Oh, and welcome aboard everyone.

ONLY NICE THINGS

10:02 / 01.11.06

Bump.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

10:42 / 01.11.06

Since when does Kali flirt inappropriately?

I'm Nick. That is my real name. I am an old fart of the board, and I post only sporadically.

I like truffles (black or white) and olive oil. I do not like fleas, beans, or men called Zoob. (There are men caled Zoob. I have met them. They are bad.) My favourite animal is the Slow Loris. My lucky number is 3. I recently was persuaded to get on a thirty-year-old rope swing over a twenty foot abyss, on the basis that it had lasted for ever. That story does not end well, so I shall stop there.

I believe in people, not systems. What I believe about them varies. Sometimes, I think they are idiots. This is not to say I don't care about them. I care even about idiots. Possibly, I care more about idiots.

The socks I am wearing today are murderously comfortable. If my entire body felt like this, I would probably never move again. They'd have to attach me to a drip, and I'd dictate everything I write. Of course, that's assuming that the body-sock did not go inside my mouth, which I think is a fair assumption because that would be ick.

Hello, little new people.

Glenn Close But No Cigar

10:50 / 01.11.06

Surely a Barbelith Sorting Hat would separate members out into Manichean factions, only to reveal (ta da!) that they are all parts of an indivisible whole, and that it is itself an nth dimensional cosmic cursor that only happened to take the shape of an origamied chapeau..

Either that, or it would be a Burberry baseball cap, cunningly accessorised with a blank white badge.

14:33 / 01.11.06

I extend my finest greetings to the community.

Here, I sit, in Missouri at my it user support/sys admin L shaped desk and say hi.

Why am I in missouri? Because my back goes out when i go backpacking, so I can't just set out on foot. Because i signed a lease. Because i need to repay student loans. Because i have no savings. Because ive been a lot of other places and didn't like them that much either.

And because I am tired of culture being centralized in NY and LA, tired of being flyover country, tired of no one taking my salon personals profile seriously, like i must be pitiful to live here.

Im an inventor, write, and musician. My interests are unpredictable. I just turned thirty and i'm single. I woke up this morning from a very real seeming dream in which i got back together with someone from my past, who there is no chance of me getting back together with. I can't remember the last romantic thing that happened to me.

I know a hundred good reasons to live, but I forget them sometimes. Like when, as yesterday, a police officer is on my message machine asking me to call them because they think i hit another car while pulling out of a parrallel parking situation. Someone I know happened to see it, and they don't like me, so a funny story about me being a champ spreads across the town as I write.

A mystical halloween party, the beginning of a new journal, several subversive questions for yahoo!answers, the nova black hole episode which blew my mind, a small car accident(didn't hunter s. say that bigger accidents were actually better?), a strong dream about getting something i can't have and don't really want, an hour late to work, and now...

Barbelith.....(!)

Which are questions, which are answers? What does it all mean? Where the hell am I going and not going? Why does it seem the country is ready to collapse?

Well, at least I have a katana.

And I have a feeling I should be here.

---End Introduction---

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

14:34 / 01.11.06

Nope! Ours is just like the one from Harry Potter, except that it's lyrics reference obscure British television shows and uses incredibly filthy language. And instead of sorting you into houses it just gets drunk and touches you inappropriately. Good times!

That hat still owes me a dinner....

09:44 / 02.11.06

[inserts shoulder for rubbing]

Hey,

I'm Lora O'Brien; Irish, 28, married with 3 kids, and a writer, among other things...

I'm into magic, tarot, Irish texts and myths, BDSM, and right now I need to go and wash the porridge explosion off the head of my youngest.

Good to be here.

10:19 / 02.11.06

I instantly like you LauraOB. Children + Porridge = Hilarity.

Or permanently disfiguring burns.

Hope your spawn is ok.

10:23 / 02.11.06

LoraOB, if you don't get to the Temple and start posting there will be trouble. Welcome, good luck with the porridge fallout!

My favourite animal is the Slow Loris

The Slender Loris is the best Loris as any fule kno.

The Potter sorting hat is an authoritarian tool of the divisive paradigm that will weaken us all The sorting hat here goes 'Hurm, a fine mind, you'd do well in the Headshop... no? Very well then... THE TEMPLE!'

10:52 / 02.11.06

The Slender Loris;

(from http://www.quantum-conservation.org/EEP/SLENDER%20LORIS.html)

The Slow Loris;

(from www.hedweb.com/animimag/slowloris.htm)

Decide for yourself, dear reader.

14:36 / 02.11.06

I'm into magic, tarot, Irish texts and myths, BDSM, and right now I need to go and wash the porridge explosion off the head of my youngest.

*claps hands in delight*

Welcome!

14:48 / 02.11.06

Children + Porridge

And Spolsions!

That would be every morning in my house.

19:38 / 02.11.06

Hail Odin,
a belated Samhain to all (but only if you are bursting yer belt with seasonal feasting. I finally got in on me second attempt (triad last year then forgot)
I'm a bit pissed right now as I'm planning an early night (its a long story) but I'm looking forward to some mystical blather here in the either.
Due to the convoluted and ardous route to this board i have unreasonably high expectations. please let me down gently and don't be too..

Who do I have to snog for instant kudos and is this the best way to jump into a forum blind?

19:40 / 02.11.06

LOL @ first post image error!

19:44 / 02.11.06

Cliffchuff, welcome. I have agreed your request to change the image but whilst you wait for other mods to do so you might want to check out the wiki and learn how to size images so as not to bork the thread. You can find that info here.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

19:44 / 02.11.06

Should I field the snogging question? It does seem my area of ascribed expertise...

ONLY NICE THINGS

20:04 / 02.11.06

I have no lips yet I must etc.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

20:12 / 02.11.06

Walk around nearly faceless?

20:17 / 02.11.06

[QUOTE : Kali has never edited her name]It does seem my area of ascribed expertise... [/QUOTE]

people write about your snogging?

;-)

ONLY NICE THINGS

20:19 / 02.11.06

Self-ascribed, I think, Cliff, but it's as good a place to start as any. I think at the moment there's surprisingly little actual Barbelith hooking-up going on at present, but the new blood will hopefully change all that with some drunken meetup fun.

And.... ACTION!

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

20:41 / 02.11.06

Haus has missed his calling. He should have been a porn director. How many porn films have been directed by a brain in a jar?

20:44 / 02.11.06

Well, I'm not particularly influential in the forums. But if you snog me, and don't later get on my tits, I will kill for you.

ONLY NICE THINGS

20:47 / 02.11.06

Kali: Check imdb, dude. My original script for Jarhead was very different, I assure you.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

20:49 / 02.11.06

Haus, my dear, I have no doubt.

And you calling me dude is just, well, a bit weird.

21:48 / 02.11.06

[QUOTE]How many porn films have been directed by a brain in a jar?[/QUOTE]
There was Dr Huffuffufur does Ms Melmermehey.
Though due to internet pirating the director has fallen on hard times.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

22:35 / 02.11.06

Kali: Check imdb, dude. My original script for Jarhead was very different, I assure you.

[from the balcony] Booooooo!

06:03 / 03.11.06

Youngest was fine, thankee kindly for concerns. Though I did find crusty lump behind his left ear at bed time, that I HOPE was porridge I somehow missed at bath time...

I like it here already. This is good.

06:53 / 03.11.06

Hi everyone. I've been on metafilter for a while and have been semi-lurking here for a less while. I have a soft spot for comics and I've enjoyed a lot of the comics threads I've lurked on here, so here I am. (I also read a good deal of other things, and I like the, uh, vibe here.)

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