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Less searchable M0rd4nt
22:03 / 15.07.05
The Temple forum is being all amazing and cool again! It is once more my best forum YAY!
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
01:31 / 16.07.05
Life at the moment. It's not all easy but it's generally as all-over great as it's ever been.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
15:56 / 16.07.05
Deva in the Stirling eco-village thread: I had a friend who was there, I think, with a big Gandalf banner saying "G8 POLICE - YOU WILL NOT PASS!", which backfired somewhat when all the policemen kept borrowing it to have their photo taken with it...

Heart-warming really!
 
 
Ex
10:01 / 18.07.05
I like the job interviews I'm having at the moment. They're not for things I am wild about or desperate for, so they're much like a twenty-minute improv excercises, and I get to poke into rooms of learned societies and obscure libraries I'd never usually see.
 
 
Olulabelle
14:51 / 25.07.05
Benny the Ball in a Switchboard thread wrote: "My statement was made meerly to distinguish that..."

So a bit like this then:



I can't help it and I'm sorry Benny, but it's the cutest misspelling I've seen for ages.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
16:53 / 25.07.05
Discovered the existence today of Lego Dementors. Sooooo inappropriately cute.
 
 
paranoidwriter waves hello
15:37 / 26.07.05
After writing to them, I've just got probably the best complement I've ever had, or am ever likely to have, about my stories/work from one of my all-time heroes. I can hardly believe it, this makes all the shit and sweat bearable. I've been dancing a jig ever since! Seriously, I'm doing a little bum-dance as I funky type this post. I mean, who needs feedback, an editor, enough money not to worry, a publishing deal, and a fan-base, (etc), when you can feed off the words of a Master, right?

Ohhhhhhhh YES! Thank you, thank you, thank you, so, so, so much Mr (you know who you are)! You've made a sad person very happy indeed. For that and your genius contributions to Art and Story, in my book you will always be one of the Greats!

Sheeesh! This is the closest I've come to tears in centuries...(*p.w swallows lump in throat*)....Aw shucks.....
 
 
Bed Head
05:29 / 28.07.05
So! I shaved my head, again, so now the whole world can see the scar I have just behind the hairline. Small, horseshoe-shaped, very distinct. About the size of a 10p piece. I wouldn’t mention it, but someone asked me yesterday if it was deliberate, ie decorative, because it looks deliberate and decorative, apparently. I have a cool-looking scar! yay! I’ve wanted one of those since I was a kid and I had an Action Man with a cool scar. And all I had to do was run into a shelf just right. I could have done this years ago.


Meant to post this nugget of inconsequential nothingness last night, but got distracted. Also meant to dig out the scar thread and stick it in there, but sod that. Gives Me A Happy it is. Yay my decorative scar!
 
 
Whisky Priestess
11:19 / 04.08.05
After writing to them, I've just got probably the best complement I've ever had, or am ever likely to have, about my stories/work from one of my all-time heroes.

Ooh! What did he say?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
11:26 / 04.08.05
"Keep this up, pw, and one day you will write something as classic as my acclaimed novel, Man And Boy!"
 
 
Mourne Kransky
11:56 / 04.08.05
No, he said, "that's compliment with an i, I think you'll find..."
 
 
Mourne Kransky
13:06 / 04.08.05
Got David Attenborough's Life On Air on a word-for-word booktape cheap from Amazon. Been enjoying it very much. And then, midway through tape 3, he's describing a visit to Papua New Guinea in search of birds of Paradise and, for an hour or so, he chats about the remote village of Minge and the obliging people of and Minge.

I'm waiting to see if he might refer to the villagers as Mingers.

I am such a child, to titter so.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
13:11 / 04.08.05
I made a pie and it's lovely. Who knew I had such mad Cordon Bleu skills?
 
 
Axolotl
13:17 / 04.08.05
This is a mixed blessing, but I think on the whole it has made me happy: My MP3 player broke a while back so the company sent me a nice shiny new one *Glee*.
I'm just not thinking of all the songs I lost and how long it will take me to rip them again.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
13:51 / 04.08.05
I'd just like to apologise for the suggestion that Tony Parsons wrote to paranoidwriter praising pw's writing. This was needlessly offensive and had all sorts of terrible implications about a person I've never met, who I have been judging on the basis of things I've read, and who might be a perfectly decent human being for all I know. I'm very sorry.
 
 
paranoidwriter waves hello
13:54 / 04.08.05
Apology accepted.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
14:30 / 04.08.05
Dude, he was talking about Tony Parsons.
 
 
paranoidwriter waves hello
14:31 / 04.08.05
Really, I thought he was responding to a PM I'd sent him. Shame if this aint so....
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
14:35 / 04.08.05
You PMed Flyboy? Oooooh... yoou shouldn't have done that. Now he'll think you're friends. And horrible things happen to Flyboy's friends. Horrible things. He gets so lonely, you see.

Besides, Tony Parsons is a great writer. A great writer and a great man. I would go so far as to say a great bloke.

I'm tired but happyesque - making it through a week in the hall of mirrors. That's enough at present.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
14:41 / 04.08.05
He gets so lonely, you see.

But surely the corpses keep him company?

The corpses and the squirrels ...
 
 
paranoidwriter waves hello
14:43 / 04.08.05
You PMed Flyboy? Oooooh... yoou shouldn't have done that. Now he'll think you're friends ...

I doubt it.

Besides, Tony Parsons is a great writer. A great writer and a great man. I would go so far as to say a great bloke.

So Flyboy was actually paying me a compliment?.... Hmm.....

I'm almost happy today as another member has recently sent me a nice PM which has helped to keep my faith in humanity away from death's door. It's amazing what being nice to people can do. Cheers mate (sincerely).
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
14:45 / 04.08.05
You can only do that to a squirrel once before it becomes a corpse, WP. As such, it's always a race to find more squirrels. Humans... humans are made of sterner stuff. Some of them last weeks.

Can I hear someone gathering nuts over there? In the dark?
 
 
paranoidwriter waves hello
14:47 / 04.08.05
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ONLY NICE THINGS
14:49 / 04.08.05
You bury them for the winter. Then you forget where you buried them. Stupid goddamn squirrels. Maybe you deserve what you get.

He buries them, you know. Then digs them up for the Winter.

he never forgets where he buried them.

Fucking never.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
15:36 / 04.08.05
I think Flyboy fell asleep, despite all the warnings, and has been taken over by a Pod. Keep watching the skies!

And paranoidwreter's spelling is so improved. His euphoria must have cooled.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
15:42 / 04.08.05
First they think that Flyboy's funny. Then they think he's nasty. Then they think he'll let them go.

He's not funny, you fools. He's MR FUNNY.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
16:34 / 04.08.05
Look, I'm really sorry... I lent Flyboy that copy of Gray's Anatomy in good faith. How was I to know it'd come back with all those notes scrawled in the margins?

Oh Jesus. I've just realised my prints are all over it. That doesn't give me a happy at all.
 
 
Cat Chant
11:05 / 06.08.05
Stop making my happy thread nasty, you guys. Think of the baby shrews.

I saw ELEVEN DUCKLINGS on Friday. (Do you think it makes them happy to hear you talking about Tony Parsons and the corpses, Haus? Do you?) Eleven ducklings swimming about like frenetic little waterbugs, or, Tangent said, like a ball of mercury, dividing and recombining and skittering about all over the place. They totally have a group mind - as soon as one of them was brave enough to jump into the water from the bank, they all started doing it, except a little shy one who waddled determinedly up to the edge, looked over it, stepped back, stepped forward, looked over the edge again, decided against it, turned round, fell back-assward into the water (splash!), swam away as if nothing had happened... and then suddenly stood up on the water and flapped its tiny stubby wings in triumph.

Then later we saw five ducklings sleeping in a fluffy little huddle on the bank, while their mum stared balefully at us.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
11:09 / 06.08.05
Swwwagh! I saw tiny ducklwings in Wales asleep on the bank, and they were indeed a ball of lovely. Also swimming along, with mother duckling getting all crosspatch when the boats went by.

So tiny! Tinelfluff! Bwaaaaah!

Also, daleks in Llangollen.

Dragon and Dalek
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
11:26 / 06.08.05
Jim Keith was right all along! There ARE secret messages on roadsigns to aid an expected invasion force! (Well, he was right about all but the "secret" part").
 
 
imaginary mice
09:04 / 07.08.05
Personality tests are so much fun.

My results:

Your type is: INFJ (Counsellor Idealist)
Introverted: 100%
Intuitive: 75%
Feeling: 12%
Judging: 56%

"The small number of this type (little more than 2 percent) is regrettable, since Counselors have an unusually strong desire to contribute to the welfare of others and genuinely enjoy helping their companions."

"INFJs are champions of the oppressed and downtrodden."

"They have an unusually rich inner life"

"they have intricately woven, mysterious personalities which sometimes puzzle even them."

"the Counselor is most likely of all the types to demonstrate an ability to understand psychic phenomena and to have visions of human events, past, present, or future."

"Their amazing ability to deduce the inner workings of the mind, will and emotions of others gives INFJs their reputation as prophets and seers."

Famous INFJs:
Gandhi
Mother Teresa
Martin Luther King

God, I'm so cool...
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:46 / 07.08.05
I came out as a Beltway-Sniper...
 
 
Saveloy
11:54 / 08.08.05
Fareham

A certain 'lither who lived there once has been known to slag the place off. That 'lither must be completely demented. I had a tootle round some of it on Saturday with the missus and the fella, and what we saw blew us away.

Imagine it: a row of bungalows separated from the road in front of them by a steep, grassy slope (down from bungalows to road, a narrow path between the front gardens and the slope). No driveways, and no parking on the road! If any of the bungalow-dwelling pensioners here were to be dropped off by car or taxi they would have to scramble up this 60-degree rampart like a celtic marauder trying to overcome a fortified embankment. Excellent!

And as if that weren't enough, we also spotted:

- corrugated-iron shacks on allotments
- a metal footbridge that seemed to go nowhere
- a cliff
- a long, rambling suburban alleyway that passed beneath crumbling railway bridges (every road had its own railway bridge)
- desolate brown-field sites (enormous ones)
- an old caravan converted to a permanent shed, painted British Racing Green, with felt roofing
- at least a dozen poorly signposted industrial estates / business parks

All of which made me very happy indeed. I will be going back in the near future to check out every one of the 800 million charity shops on the high street (which, happily, is 5000 billion miles long and dead straight, like a proper high street).
 
 
modern maenad
09:57 / 11.08.05
shallow but true, half price organic fruit at Tesco's - mango 62p, punnett of peaches - 99p, blueberries - 99p. This is not an ad, honest......
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
06:53 / 12.08.05
A happy kind of sad... It's back, the animation to the acoustic version of Radiohead's Creep.
 
  

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