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Re: The person below me

Post by theCryptofishist » Thu Oct 10, 2013 4:49 pm

Not true, alas. It can take me a long time to swim out of mindfuck and into clarity...
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Re: The person below me

Post by VultureChow » Thu Oct 10, 2013 5:15 pm

It's like crack. Though I eventually had to step it up to kakuro.

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Re: The person below me

Post by OregonRed » Thu Oct 10, 2013 5:25 pm

Nope. Not anymore.

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Re: The person below me

Post by Savannah » Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:26 pm

I was too sensitive a kid to deal with Eeyore, and Tigger seemed nonsensical. I liked Rabbit, Piglet and Roo.

Years ago on the playa, I saw a bike with an E.L. Kangaroo bounce by in the darkness . . . BOING . . . BOING . . . BOING . . . and idly thought jokingly to myself, "Where's Roo?"


. . . and then! . . . 5 seconds later suddenly came following, a much smaller E.L. wire Roo! :o . . .

Boing-boing-boing-boing-boing!! . . . :lol:



The person below me will tell me who their literary hero was, at about 10 years of age or younger.
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Re: The person below me

Post by OregonRed » Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:47 pm

Harriet from Harriet the Spy, Ramona from the Ramona series by Beverly Cleary, and Encyclopedia Brown.

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Re: The person below me

Post by Eric » Thu Oct 10, 2013 7:38 pm

Ignatius J Reilly or Burma Jones. Don't know if Ignatius count's as a "hero", but I read that book annually.



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Re: The person below me

Post by Box Burner » Thu Oct 10, 2013 8:09 pm

Nope. I don't. But I bet it is one I should read. I will google it presently.


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Re: The person below me

Post by Eric » Thu Oct 10, 2013 11:48 pm

I read non-fiction almost exclusively. Inquisitive mind...


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(p.s.: the book is "Confederacy of Dunces", I read it annually)
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Re: The person below me

Post by theCryptofishist » Fri Oct 11, 2013 3:21 am

I swing both ways.
TPBM reads mostly magazine articles, or web-based articles.
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Re: The person below me

Post by Aurelia » Fri Oct 11, 2013 7:13 am

I read some of the New Yorker articles that sound inquiring.

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Re: The person below me

Post by lucky420 » Fri Oct 11, 2013 7:17 am

Well I prefer to call it debating

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Re: The person below me

Post by Simon of the Playa » Fri Oct 11, 2013 7:19 am

im a master baiter.

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Post by Aurelia » Fri Oct 11, 2013 7:22 am

I dont like Traps and often rebate

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Re: The person below me

Post by OregonRed » Fri Oct 11, 2013 9:44 am

Noooo....

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Re: The person below me

Post by Sail Man » Sat Oct 12, 2013 12:56 pm

No, I've never had an STD

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Re: The person below me

Post by tootled » Sat Oct 12, 2013 3:48 pm

Well, apparently I was re-virginised during a ceremony involving lasers and unicorns and corndogs in a tent I wandered happened into this year at the burn.

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Re: The person below me

Post by OregonRed » Sun Oct 13, 2013 9:16 am

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Oh my, no. I am complicated and complex and can be a complete bitch.

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Re: The person below me

Post by The CO » Sun Oct 13, 2013 10:39 am

Yes. And "no comment."

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Re: The person below me

Post by Eric » Sun Oct 13, 2013 1:46 pm

I do, but I know I would somehow sew my fingers together



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Re: The person below me

Post by OregonRed » Sun Oct 13, 2013 4:59 pm

Hell, no! Machines were invented to make our lives easier (and some of them actually do).

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Post by MikeGyver » Sun Oct 13, 2013 6:31 pm

I've never really liked massages. Maybe just never had a good one.

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Re: The person below me

Post by theCryptofishist » Sun Oct 13, 2013 7:59 pm

Congress is giving me weeks and weeks off, I just hope they are paid.
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Re: The person below me

Post by AntiM » Mon Oct 14, 2013 4:39 am

No, but I discovered as an adult I have a deformed L5.

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Post by OregonRed » Mon Oct 14, 2013 9:19 am

I do indeed. I wish we had an autumn in SoCal.

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Post by shroom » Mon Oct 14, 2013 6:10 pm

It's pretty good in Georgia but you have to be prepared for cold in the morning, hot afternoon, cold at night this time of year.

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Post by theCryptofishist » Mon Oct 14, 2013 7:45 pm

I love to eat them...
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Re: The person below me

Post by Eric » Mon Oct 14, 2013 11:48 pm

Had a decent one as a kid. Love looking at the crazy stuff people build with them, but... no. No more space-hogging hobbies.



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Post by MikeGyver » Mon Oct 14, 2013 11:57 pm

Nope, fixing cars takes a awful lot of space. If I had more space I would probably have more cars.

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Re: The person below me

Post by Savannah » Tue Oct 15, 2013 12:27 am

I would happily try life in a lighthouse or on a mountaintop, if I had an internet connection & some sort of transport to the city once every few weeks.

The person below me would strongly prefer to live in a studio apartment in Tokyo, as long as the view of the city lights were astonishing.
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Re: The person below me

Post by goathead » Tue Oct 15, 2013 12:43 am

mmmmmmm, NO, shaking head, No, wouldn't mind visiting though.

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