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quote:Originally posted by MissE: I can't describe anything in particular right now, my brain seriously isn't working. But, out of all the people that know me, some think I'm the sweetest girl in the world, and others think I'm a complete bitch!
Which do YOU think?
For myself, I can quote the Bible like a preacher but I'm an atheist.
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I call myself one of God's Black Sheep -- since I am so NOT culturally fundamentalist that people sometimes wonder.
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"If I had a thousand quid for every time I've introduced this song --- oh, I do!" -- John Entwistle Posts: 584 | From: Ohio | Registered: Sep 2005
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I dislike crowds, loud noise and speaking in public, yet I teach junior high.
I've loved my pet rats as much as my pet cats, and praise my cats for catching field mice.
I write poetry, but don't enjoy reading poetry unless I personally know the author.
I'm a night person, but spent most of my life being afraid of the dark.
I am fascinated by numbers, but not good at math.
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quote:Originally posted by kjbrasda: I am seriously considering a funeral for my dead harddrive... or rather, for the lost artwork I was too stupid to backup.
There's places you can send crashed hard drives to that can recover lost data, if you want to spend the money on it. I once read about somebody who recovered data from a drive that was on a boat that sank to the bottom of a river, so it's got to be possible to recover whatever you lost.
Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, we can't afford to spend the money, and the data isn't really *that* important, other than time already spent doing it. We did have a guy look at it, but the armature is shot and he couldn't keep it going long enough to extract any data.
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I always knew, but realised I have carried it on the next generation when my girl came home from school busting a gut to show me something she knew I would love;
-------------------- There is no sense in being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway. Posts: 379 | From: Sydney, Australia | Registered: Jan 2004
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My car CD changer right now has Blink 182 Greatest Hits, The original Broadway cast recording of Les Miserables, The Temptations Greatest Hits, and The Flying Ditchdiggers "Stuck on Ice" (The 'diggers are a local, somewhat defunct rockabilly band comprised of many of my friends)
And the other night I was flipping back and forth between an Ultimate Fighting Championship bout and Nova on PBS.
ETA: I also have a manger scene on my mantle (a gift from an aunt) In place of the wise men, I have placed a brass happy Buddha, Buzz Lightyear, and a Bratz doll. I also have a "My Little Pony" figure to round out the animals.
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I think this photo is a good example of my "two" sides:
I collect My Little Pony, Pokemon toys (used to, still have em), evil pets and Living Dead Dolls.
Right now I have sitting on top of my computer a My Little Pony next to a giant spider, a bracelet made of "bones", a cute fuzzy stuffed cat, a squishy plastic rat, and a red wine glass where the stem is actually a skeletal hand.
My mp3 player includes Bush, Marily Manson, Fall Out Boy, music from the movie "Newsies", music from Bambi, several horror movie soundtracks, Dog-related podcasts, Jazzy Jeff, and Pachelbel's Canon.
Some of my favorite movies are horror movies like Final Destination and , and others include cute fuzzy animal movies like Milo and Otis and Benji-- oh, also The Lion King.
I LOVE horror movies but I greatly dislike guts and gore-- blood's ok, though. Despite this I still loved Final Destination and watched Saw II, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and many others. (If I think it's a good movie in other ways I just forget or ignore the gore.)
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-------------------- Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. Posts: 2110 | From: Chicago, IL | Registered: Jul 2000
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quote:Originally posted by Doug4.7: I am a pro-life Democrat.
And I am a pro-choice Republican.
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"And that's one lost erection I'll never get back! You hear me Dan! I'm owed an erection!" (I'mNotDedalus) Posts: 2658 | From: California | Registered: Jul 2005
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When I had Limewire on my computer, my library included both O Mio Babbino Caro and Tubthumping.
I am fascinated by fire but get really nervous around hot things.
I've eaten head cheese, fried whole sardines(with the eyes still in), sea cucumber, octopus, and various other weird foods, but find mayonnaise unbearably yucky.
I hate gore/disembowlment in movies but have seen Dog Soldiers twice, and enjoyed it.
I can sit through tearjerkers like Cold Mountain unaffected, but cried watching Return of the King and Soylent Green.
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I'm a straight guy that loves dolls and showtunes.
I can sing the entire libretto of RENT. In German.
I'm allergic to onions, grapes, wine, beer, aspirin, acetaminophen, and bubble bath.
I have the tagline to RENT tattooed on my left arm ("No day but today").
I've travelled over most of the eastern seaboard. By bus. I'm terrified of planes and would rather be on a bus for 28 hours than on a plane for four.
I've worn the same necklace every day since my thirteenth birthday, and I got it to match one I saw a rock star I liked at the time wearing. He no longer wears it and I no longer care much for him or his music.
I love medical shows and in the course of watching them I have watched surgery, brains splattered, crap, pee, and vomit in every color of the rainbow, copious amounts of blood, and I can still keep eating while watching it, but seeing a person spit once makes me puke my guts out.
I own more toys now than I ever did at any point in my childhood.
I cried, got drunk, called and woke up a friend who had just gone to bed after being awake for twenty-four hours, and had a migraine for two days because of my aforementioned beer allergy after I saw the last episode of Heroes.
I'm typing now, apparently thinking this is some sort of competition, while it's causing me excrutiating pain to do so. I should stop that.
-------------------- I really feel like this is part of my life's work....It's part of what I want to do with my time here....So if I can make a difference at all by talking openly about myself, I'm glad. - Anthony Rapp, Without You, pp. 206-207 Posts: 592 | From: Kenduskeag, ME | Registered: Aug 2005
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quote:Originally posted by Izzy Quigley: When I had Limewire on my computer, my library included both O Mio Babbino Caro and Tubthumping.
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I can sit through tearjerkers like Cold Mountain unaffected, but cried watching Return of the King and Soylent Green.
My playlist includes Bartok and Chumbawumba next to each other, with J-pop on side of it and Enya on the other. My playlist is misleading, because it makes people think I'll listen to anything, but the truth is I am very picky about my music and will rarely take recommendations.
I cry like a baby at the end of Return of the Jedi.
-------------------- I really feel like this is part of my life's work....It's part of what I want to do with my time here....So if I can make a difference at all by talking openly about myself, I'm glad. - Anthony Rapp, Without You, pp. 206-207 Posts: 592 | From: Kenduskeag, ME | Registered: Aug 2005
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I won't cry during movies, but I cried for an hour after I saw the episode of Futurama where they made Fry's dog come back, & at the end they showed the dog waiting outside of the pizza shop until it finally laid down.
On my MP3 player, I have Regina Spektor to Johnny Cash to Kanye West to NOFX to songs from 'Moulin Rouge!'.
I get nervous (to the point of crying) when people ask me to repeat myself, but I want to be a teacher.
Well, that's all I can think of. Maybe I'm not as strange as I thought I was!
-------------------- "I'm sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman." - Royal Tenenbaum Posts: 44 | From: Harrisburg, PA | Registered: Nov 2006
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quote:Originally posted by MissE: I can't describe anything in particular right now, my brain seriously isn't working. But, out of all the people that know me, some think I'm the sweetest girl in the world, and others think I'm a complete bitch!
Which do YOU think?
Both.
-------------------- Licorice of the Lord! This is classy stuff...Should I be wearing a tie? Or, at least, pants? ~I'mNotDedalus Posts: 975 | From: New Jersey | Registered: Jun 2005
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Having linked this thread in the photo challenge I feel I should at least post!
I cried watching the "Patriot" movie but was unmoved watching "Titanic" Maybe, it was something to do with the family unit being 'broken' up in Gibson's epic, whereas the ship movie was a disaster waiting to happen, not to mention the historical obvious, and the 'love' story element left me bewildered at the soapish style characters meeting their demise.
On a musical note I often laugh at my collection, looking at Tom Waits and Bob Dylan sitting alongside Dean Friedman. All of which I treasure and listen to with regularity.
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I cried in the theaater at the end of Moulin Rouge, cheered at Titanic. I've got no kids, nor am I terribly fond of them, yet I collect/sell toys and have a decent collection of cartoons on DVD (and watch Nickelodeon regularly). I'm six feet tall, 33 years old, and sound like I'm 15. I love the paranormal and investigating it but am petrified of cemetaries (frikkin ghosts shouldn't be there anyway, IMO).
The person I consider my best friend lives 1500 miles away, we've known each other 3 or 4 years and never met in person (yet we're closer than I am to my sister).
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Oddity is my life. My oddest habit is the tape, Scotch Magic Tape that is. I am (I think) the worlds only Scotch Tape addict. For the past twelve years or so I have always had a roll of Scotch Magic near me so I can play with the stickey on the tape.
Yes, you read that correctly. I play with the sticky on Scotch Tape. I estimate I've spent in excess of six thousand dollars on tape in my life.
This is how I do it. I buy Scotch Magic tape refill rolls, my preferred size is the 36 yard roll, then I take my big pocket knife(bought for the purpose) and cut it straight down to the center. Then I carefully (so as not to make the tape crack) take the tape off the plastic core. Then I alternate layers so it is a solid roll again and then I play with the stickey on the inside of the roll, when the layer become unsticky, I peel it off and have lovely fresh sticky to play with.
I kid you not I have a half used roll right beside me right now and the farthest I have ever been away from my tape was when I have had surgery(and then only after the anti-anxiety meds kicked in!). At the height of my addiction I went through a roll a day. At the moment I am down to three rolls a week, which at a five bucks a week habit, it really isn't bad. The higher my stress and anxiety the more tape I use. Somehow it works as a soother for me.
I have improved vastly over the years as to not leaving a trail of used peices of tape. I was terrible about it for awhile. My friends and family would tease me that they could tell where I'd been from the used peices of tape that had accidently dropped from my pockets, or tape found in the washing machine. I'm so much better about that now. I estimate 97% of the tape I play with now goes right in the trash.
My neices and nephews love it because I give them tape to play with, then they tape their noses to their foreheads or "bandage" themselves or me. They tape their mouths shut and their ears down. We laugh ourselves silly. I've made a point to give them rolls of tape time to time for craft items or to play with themselves (but not like I do, just straight off the roll). Thats right, not only am I an addict, I am creating new addicts.
Here is the story as to how I became a hardcore Scotch Magic Tape addict. When I was two I was not the type of child to stay still long enough to get a picture of, my mother was advised to put a peice of tape on my fingers right before she wanted to take my picture. She did, it worked all too well. I sat still and fell in love with tape. So as a child I spent many hours hunting out tape. Once my mother realized I used up all tape I came into contact with she tried hiding the tape. It didn't work as I was a very determined child. Then at sixteen when I got my first job I stared buying tape just to play with. I tried off brands, but it just isnt' the same. It must be Scotch Magic tape.
That is hands down the oddest thing about me. I am the worlds only Scotch Magic tape addict and the Unofficial Scotch Tape Spokesperson.
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Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today. ~James Dean~ Posts: 516 | From: Anderson, Indiana | Registered: Oct 2005
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quote:Originally posted by LittleDuck: I cried in the theaater at the end of Moulin Rouge, cheered at Titanic. I've got no kids, nor am I terribly fond of them, yet I collect/sell toys and have a decent collection of cartoons on DVD (and watch Nickelodeon regularly). I'm six feet tall, 33 years old, and sound like I'm 15. I love the paranormal and investigating it but am petrified of cemetaries (frikkin ghosts shouldn't be there anyway, IMO).
The person I consider my best friend lives 1500 miles away, we've known each other 3 or 4 years and never met in person (yet we're closer than I am to my sister).
I met my best friend for the first time two years ago when we lived together for two months (we both moved to the house at different times. There were six other roommates). She lives in Arizona, I live in Maine, and I haven't seen her face-to-face since two days before Christmas two years ago, and yet we are so synch with each other that we hardly have to say what one is thinking because the other already knows.
Also, I watch Nickelodeon constantly, although the only cartoon DVDs I have are Invader ZIM (I'd like to grab Avatar someday, when I have cash again).
-------------------- I really feel like this is part of my life's work....It's part of what I want to do with my time here....So if I can make a difference at all by talking openly about myself, I'm glad. - Anthony Rapp, Without You, pp. 206-207 Posts: 592 | From: Kenduskeag, ME | Registered: Aug 2005
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I think molasses is the most foul substance on Earth, but I love rum. Which is good, since rum and vodka are pretty much the only alcohol I'm not allergic to.
-------------------- I really feel like this is part of my life's work....It's part of what I want to do with my time here....So if I can make a difference at all by talking openly about myself, I'm glad. - Anthony Rapp, Without You, pp. 206-207 Posts: 592 | From: Kenduskeag, ME | Registered: Aug 2005
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I think science and humanities (liberal arts) are equally important to a well-rounded education. According to many people at my university, this makes me a freak. I enjoy biology, chemistry, genetics, literature, art, anthropology, forensics, history, and writing both technical papers as well as prose and poetry. I take humanities courses as electives for my science major. I don't know why my peers and advisors think this is so weird.
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