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Let's make a random yet menaingul thread cobbled together out of stuff we nearly posted elsewhere but didn't

All Acting Regiment

13:19 / 30.01.07

I certainly think there are several useful things one might do with parts of dead things, which run the whole gamut from painting (hog bristles) to eating, and from secular to religious...for example, the Christian tradition of eating fish on a friday, berserkers wearing wolf-skins and so on. Also, for some people, every meal or every act of preparing food is understood in terms of religion.

If Satanists (whoever they are) or Pagans (whoever they are) also take part in this, it wouldn't surprise me, as pretty much everyone else on the planet does. I mean, I'm an atheist, and yet I still stick a decomposing corpse in the corner of my room every winter, without fail, despite it's habit of dropping little bits of itself all over the carpet. I particularly enjoying attatching to it small wooden effigies of winged frost-elves playing phallic trombones and little silver wrappers containing a popular Aztec cocoa drug.

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:47 / 31.01.07

It's the airlock for all of you.

All Acting Regiment

17:53 / 31.01.07

Yes, but perhaps the real name should be "chicken-horse"

05:42 / 01.02.07

Every year I have a direct payment from my account for membership to the Association of Motion Picture Sound, and every year I forget, and chuckle to myself, that they abbreviate it on my bank slips to The Ass of Motion.... I kid you not.

05:43 / 01.02.07

I once saw a giraffe and zebra have a fight - At the Prague zoo, in a surreal moment, I sat on a bench, eating a hot dog and drinking a beer and watched the two animals go at each other in some WWF WWF extraviganza.

07:47 / 01.02.07

I'm half tempted to join a reading of the Invisibles, since I've heard about the series and its author since having joined Barbelith for P&H, Headshop, Switchboard and so on.

I'm offput by my experience of the graphic format: apart from Gaiman's 'Death' stuff, Shaun Tan, 'Blankets', 'Funny weather' and 'Rent girls' I've seen no attraction in the other comics I've seen. I've been put off by the impression I've formed from my limited exposure that comics are generally about explicit woman-hating and other violence, so I'm not sure it would be worth even looking at GM's. I don't know if anyone would lend me a few so I could check this out?

Oh, hang on: I don't have any spare time for the next few months: if I'm not writing my thesis, I'm working on my response to climate change, or other studying and writing. It's unlikely to help me with my work, isn't it? Never mind then.

Regrettable Juvenilia

19:53 / 01.02.07

I can sympathise, because I've had problems with my Dominar too. I didn't mind the little slug calling me a trelk and making me cook for him seven times a day, but when he tried to auction me off in exchange for a boatload of frelling candy, that was too much.

20:34 / 01.02.07

"He'll kick you apart.
He'll kick you apart.
Oooh.
He'll save children, but not the British children.
He'll save children, but not the British children.
He'll save children, but not the British children.
He'll save children, but not the British children."

21:00 / 01.02.07

Sure I can, but only if you then send me the money. Im just saving from being unable to buy all that happinessss.
Ps. I hate milk and cookies, send cash.
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Damn, I disabled her and you still cant cope? So, no. And enought with the milk and cookies. Send cash
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"Is Soya milk acceptable? The ordinary stuff brings me out in a rash. Well its not put out for you is it??? So no. Stop being so damn self-centered. And ofcourse, forget the milk and cookies. Send cash.
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See! Rum! There's a grandma that knows what's what! But the answer is no. Half a bottle? Pardon me, but were you expecting me to grant half a wish? Vampyr? No, its because you need to leave the basement.
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Oven kin? Reminds me of some wiccans I kew a while back. Real neat bunch of people. I guess it was a self-cleaning coven.
I've seen their other cheek..neither of them look good.
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I dont scrub milk and cookies. Who would do that? Nightmares? Those are the pleasant dreams. Believe me, you dont want the nightmares. Can we be more specific as to which body? And where it is? And be sure to speak into the flower.
And where the hell is my milk and cookies (which you should know by now that I hate. Send cash)
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Do I look like the freekin yellow pages? No m&c. Send cash.