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Post  Lady Arabella Sat Nov 15, 2014 12:37 am

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 1, 2004 12:06 am (#773 of 2912)

Barb I agree, this thread is really educational... I've learnt so much about the passover feast... all of which my religious studies teacher attempted to do several years ago... without much luck, We did get to sample unlevened bread however! Thanks guys... I love to hear about other cultures & customs.

Uff Da.... hee hee, too right Acceber, thats my new phrase of the week too!

Sue, 'Ey Up Chuck' sorry couldn't resist! Likewise I say 'Bloody Hell' or 'Sugar' (in polite company ) One they say here in Dublin is, 'Janey Mack' as to where it came from.... not a clue, but sounds really funny in a Dublin accent! *giggle*

Happy April Fools everyone.... remember to keep an eye out for 'dodgy' News Headlines today...

EDIT : OOOH I just found one... so funny I'm crying here

Britains Prince Harry to play Viktor Krum in The Goblet of Fire
http://www.skymovies.com/skymovies/article/0,,80004-1129810,00.html

But we can now reveal that, instead, Eton-educated Hazza is to adopt a thick Bulgarian accent for the part.

However, he will have to dye his carrot-red hair, grow his brows and don some prosthetics - Warner Bros have specified they are looking for "strong boys, with a hooked nose, shaggy eyebrows and dark hair".

... "The word is that he'll have to undertake some serious pre-film training in order to appear competent on his broomstick - despite making up their own sports, such as the Wall Game, Eton doesn't actually have Quidditch on their curriculum."

Ohh too funny

EDIT 2 : Hee hee Karine, they'll have to get up a little bit earlier to fool us Griffindors

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Essidji - Apr 1, 2004 12:13 am (#774 of 2912)

And in French, we could say "Oh, punaise!" as well for all the situations you described.

Today's the first of April. Joke day as you precised, Fawkes. On AOL, they say the Mars Express European robot has taken pictures of alien steps on the surface of Mars. "Oh, punaise!", they really take us for dummies, don't they?

Edit : Yayy! I am admitted to take the second written exam to enter the job agency. There are 225 candidates left (for 11 available jobs...) And I am SURE it's not an April fool, cos the administration is too serious for that... Or are they? Well, I hope not, it wouldn't be funny at all!

Edit2 : Yes Fawkes you're right, you don't learn an old monkey how to wry his face (French equivalent for "don't learn your grandmother how to suck eggs", according to my dictionnary.) ~_^

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 1, 2004 2:31 am (#775 of 2912)

News just in ..... http://www.hpana.com/af/2004/mugglenet.cfm

This is an excellent piece of work.... will keep me entertained for days

Check out the article on Time Turners & Krum.... I'm laughing so hard here, my colleagues think I'm a complete nutter!

Well done to all at Hpana methinks!

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VeronikaG - Apr 1, 2004 3:23 am (#776 of 2912)

Ooooh, you poor people who have been tortured with lutefisk! I have only tasted it once, because my parents are not too crazy about it, for obvious reasons.

Uff-da in Norwegian, is pronounced with the "ou" sound as in "you", but very short. Norwegian is tricky to pronounce correctly for English speakers, because all the letters like a,e,i,o etc. sound different. (i sounds like e, for example)It's not a very strong expression, it just means that something did not go exactly according to the plan. I'm not going to teach you nasty Norwegian swear words here.

That goat cheese that looked like peanut butter was probably what we call "Old Cheese" - Gammalost. Ordinary goat cheese is light brown and taste sweet.

Lefse can be made from potato or from grain. Lefse made from grain taste like cake, and you put sugar and cinnamon on it. The potato version is mostly used to wrap around hot dogs, these days. It tastes almost like tortilla.

What I can't really understand about the Scandinavian immigrants is that they keep disgusting traditions like lutefisk and "smalahovud". If you don't know what smalahovud is, I can tell you it's a sheeps head that has been fried. I don't know whether or not the brain is removed beforehand. Scandinavian recipies usually developed due to LACK of food, not the presence of food as in other cultures. The climate of Norway and Sweden was not ideal for growing vegetables other than potatoes, so food consisted of fish, meat, potatoes and grain. It was necessary to find ways to preserve food for the winter, and also to eat everything that didn't exactly kill you. They even ate pigs feet, and you can still buy that in shops around Christmas.

Lutefisk has been treated with a strong alkali chemical typically used for removing paint. If you get it on your skin, you get a serious burn mark, and need to see a doctor. I think the point was to poison the bacterias before they could rot the fish. There is also recipies that involve burying fish in the ground for a few months, or put it in huge barrels, let it fester to a certain point, and then eat it. When foreigners come to Norway, we'll feed them these things, because it's tradition. Not that I mind traditions, but this was food they ate because they had no choice. It does taste pretty strange if you're not used to it. I would think that when the immigrants came to America they would put all that behind them, and enjoy the chance to eat proper food, but no. Older people in Norway complain about us kids liking taco, tandoori and spaghetti, and preferring it to traditional Norwegian meals. Honestly, I can understand why Norwegian food has never caught on in the same whay as Mexican, Italian or indian.

So... I hope this little cultural lesson has been interesting.

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boop - Apr 1, 2004 4:24 am (#777 of 2912)

Happy April Fool’s Day Everyone!!!!Hope everyone has a fun Day!!!!

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icthestrals - Apr 1, 2004 6:00 am (#778 of 2912)

Fascinating stuff VeronikaG. In the South (US) you can still find pickled pigs feet as well as other...um, body parts to eat. Ick.

Fawkes, that April Fool's headline was great! It took forever to load, though, and then disappeared as I was trying to read everything on the page! Poo.

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virgoddess1313 - Apr 1, 2004 6:02 am (#779 of 2912)

According to one of our radio stations today, Brad Pitt is back in town (he's from the same town where my school is) to help with casting a sequel to a movie he did in 1989. Sure. I believe that's not an April Fool's prank! :

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 1, 2004 6:32 am (#780 of 2912)

IcThestrals, if you click on one of the links, to the various news items, it won't disappear & you can navigate around the site to your hearts content

Check this one out... http://www.hpana.com/af/2004/krum.disabled.cfm it's very funny....

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scully jones - Apr 1, 2004 6:47 am (#781 of 2912)

Yay!!! You guys can see my scarf-in-progress now!

When I did the first row, I was making it about seven inches wide... But apparently, my stitches are bigger than I thought... So it's about a foot wide... Eeps!

So, if I think if it looks too odd, when I finish, I'm going to fold it in half and sew it up... So it'll be extra extra thick... It's sooo soft...

You guys are gonna love it when it's done... The colors surpassed all of my hopes!

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fidelio - Apr 1, 2004 6:48 am (#782 of 2912)

Veronika--I thnk one of the reasons people eat some of the stranger things they managed to leave behind when they immmigrated may be to remind them why they immigrated! Jon recalls the barrel of lutefisk his grandfather had sent over every year at Christmas, carefully prepared by cousins back "home"--one year, it arrived damaged, and was destroyed by the post office, to no one's regret, except for his grandfather. He doesn't recall even having it offered any time of the year but Christmas, and his grandfather expected everyone to eat it--maybe to help remind them they were from Norway originally, and different from any of the other ethnic groups in northern Minnesota.

Really, I think any language worth its salt has something you can say that can cover a lot of different situations, and isn't really cursing. Adter all, you have to say something, even if it's just "Bother" like Winnie the Poo!

Virgogoddess, having survived growing up in the Ozarks, I urge you--be proud to be a hillbilly. But never let them call you that unless they happen to be one, too! When my sister started doing genealogy several years ago, she said there was an odd quirk about our family--on both sides--wherever they came from in Europe, from Germany to the British Isles, it was always a place that didn't have much flat land, and if they found themselves in flat land here in America, they moved to someplace hilly as quickly as possible. In fact, one of my ancestors immigrated from a place in the southern Rhineland called Rhodt unter Rietburg, which is one big hill, and moved at least three times in five years until he ended up in Miller County, Missouri. He claimed he left the farm in Wisconsin with 400 feet of topsoil because it was too flat, but I suspect the snow to the top of the window frames may have had something to do with it as well!

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Flame Alligator - Apr 1, 2004 7:05 am (#783 of 2912)

HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY EVERYBODY!!!!!!!

Virgoddess1313, I love seeing your avatar. You love birds are so sweet! Your boyfriend is a cutie and looks as if he is a sweet guy too. You lucky girl!

Chiajones, Your scarf looks great! I love a nice long thick scarf. I use to knit and crochet a lot but have not made anything in a long time. You make me feel a little lazy.

Fawkes, Belated Top of the mornin to ya! Thanks for the April Fool's joke I about fell on the floor.

I want to say that I am extremely HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY today. A loved one gave me great news. Wish I could share. Maybe soon. Just wish I could bottle my joy and give everyone a cup.

Y'all have a fantastic day!!! I know I am.

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icthestrals - Apr 1, 2004 8:23 am (#784 of 2912)

Well Fawkes, that site wouldn't work for me either! Rats! Oh well. The brief glimse I did get was funny.

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virgoddess1313 - Apr 1, 2004 9:11 am (#785 of 2912)

fidelio: Where about in the Ozarks did you live? And I'm not really a hillbilly, I'm more Southern than hillbilly, which is strange.

And thanks Flame... I am very lucky, he's incredibly sweet to have put up with me for over a year and a half now.

Sarah, I love your scarf! I learned to crochet, but I'm not very good yet, I've wanted a scarf like that for awhile now and I'm too cheap to buy one.

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Denise P. - Apr 1, 2004 9:27 am (#786 of 2912)

After finally figuring out how to work my cell phone to download new ring tones, I have had fun playing with it today. Hedwig's Theme is now my default ring tone...call me! heh heh I also have it set so when my husband calls me (from either his cell or work phone), it plays a special ring and it even flashes little hearts on my screen. Aren't grown up toys fun to play with some times??

I still have not found a decent looking color graphic that is downloadable to my phone. I would love to find a Hogwarts or Slytherin crest to use as my cell phone desktop. I did find a black and white HP logo but it is not that great.

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Gina R Snape - Apr 1, 2004 9:50 am (#787 of 2912)

Greetings all. My name is Elphaba Thropp and I am a witch of the Munchkinlanders region, daughter of the Eminent Thropp.

I recently discovered your site and am thrilled to discover representation of the second world.

I have known Headmaster Dumbledore for many years, as he is the second world representative at the court of Oz. He and Minerva McGonaggal have visited Oz many times to lobby for Animal rights, having rescued the centaurs, faeries and goblins from near extinction. And they were both instrumental in introducing me to my husband Severus Snape. We have 3 lovely children together, but alas only one of them is green like me. They are attending Munchkinlander primary school and will attend Hogwarts in the next two years.

I have cast a spell over your Minister Fudge. Do not be alarmed when my bees and flying monkeys remove him from office soon. I'm not supposed to tell you that, but I feel safe with you people, having observed your interactions and behaviors for some time.

So, greetings to you all!

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icthestrals - Apr 1, 2004 10:32 am (#788 of 2912)

Elphaba, you had me going there for a minute. I could say something bad about Snape having two wives, but I shall refrain.

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Gina R Snape - Apr 1, 2004 10:44 am (#789 of 2912)

As I explained on the Introductions thread, polygamy is not outlawed in Oz. Is this not so in wizarding United Kingdom?

I feel most warmly welcomed here, btw.

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icthestrals - Apr 1, 2004 11:12 am (#790 of 2912)

I wasn't going to say anything about polygamy. I was wondering how Snape could snag one wife let alone two! **Ducks and runs for cover**

Welcome to the forum, by the way.

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septentrion - Apr 1, 2004 11:21 am (#791 of 2912)

LOL, Gina !

Essidji, congratulations, keep on ! BTW, you're very polite : "punaise" ! I'm used to use a ruder word I won't write here !

Veronika : in France we're used to say that everything's good in pigs ! (although I don't eat pork)

Sarah, you're courageous to make a scarf by yourself. When I was younger I tried to knit but I never went much than 15 centimeters and I never tried again.

AAAH the spring is coming

And now, by popular request, the answer to the riddle in that order : number of the house, coloour of the house, nationality, cigarettes brand, drink and pet :

   1 yellow Norwegian Dunhill water cat



   2 blue Dane Marlboro tea horse



   3 red Englishman Pall Mall milk bird



   4 green German Rothmann coffee fish



   5 white Swede Winfield beer dog



just highlight the paragraph and you see the answer

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boop - Mar 11, 2004 6:51 pm (#792 of 2912)

Elphaba, LOL thank you for the laugh. Welcome to the forum! Wow a witch cool. So you know Dumbledore, could please tell him hello for me. Snape has two wives, he must be pretty busy then! Smile Have a great time here, and if you get the chance stop by the chat room some evening, I am really interested in talking to you.

Gina I like it, great April Fool’s joke!!!! still come over to chat room and say HI.

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fidelio - Apr 1, 2004 1:08 pm (#793 of 2912)

Virgogoddess, I grew up in Rolla--my mother's family are from Miller County, around Tuscumbbia and Eldon. My father was from Mississippi, and so I straddle the line between Ozark hillbilly and Southerner.

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Doris Crockford - Apr 1, 2004 1:24 pm (#794 of 2912)

Happy April Fool's Day, everyone!

I got my braces off this morning! I'm so happy. I got a bag of treats I wasn't allowed to have with my braces on from my orthodontist, and I've spent all day chewing gum and having nuts and toffee (and none of my teachers noticed). I'm planning to have some popcorn with Survivor.

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Ticker - Apr 1, 2004 2:18 pm (#795 of 2912)

I like it Gina!

*strokes her puppy & wonders.. are you a good witch or a bad witch?*

Ah, there's no place like this home.

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Emily - Apr 1, 2004 2:25 pm (#796 of 2912)

Salutations, mortal fools.

I am Lord Voldemort, and I shall soon be your ruler! I am here to offer you the chance of a lifetime - that is to say, if you refuse, your life will end shortly. You shall all join me as Death Eaters in my mighty army that will come to dominate the worlds, both magical and muggle. I shall take this opportunity to remind you of the fate of all those who deny me-- *raises wand* Crucio!

Excellent, now that you are all under my control, I command you to rebel against your inferior muggle governments, and hand the power to me. I give you my word that all those who do my will shall never have to worry about anything ever again. Lord Voldemort always keeps his word.

You are released, make quite sure on pain worse than death, that you do not mess up!

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timrew - Apr 1, 2004 2:27 pm (#797 of 2912)

Naaaaah! I think I'll pass!

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Denise P. - Apr 1, 2004 2:27 pm (#798 of 2912)

Oh look, it is the Evil Overlord...see how I am shaking here?

When do we get the cool tattoo and I can get it in red? Black is so not my color...

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Marye Lupin - Apr 1, 2004 2:35 pm (#799 of 2912)

Oooh.. can I get it in purple?

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scully jones - Apr 1, 2004 2:36 pm (#800 of 2912)

Hi voldie! nice to see ya! I think I'll pass as well...

Ah poor Snape... I think the two wives serve very useful purposes... One is so ugly, that next to him, he's absolutely gorgeous... I guess it helps with his self-esteem... And then, of course there's Gina... There to remind him that love and beauty are real.

Happy April Fool's Day everyone! Wish I had a good prank!
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Post  Lady Arabella Sat Nov 15, 2014 12:38 am

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Emily - Apr 1, 2004 2:50 pm (#801 of 2912)

Your resistance is amusing, though I need hardly say useless. You shall succumb to my will, and you can do it the easy way or the hard, immensely painful way. Is it not universal knowledge that those who deny me are... disposed of. Look at those pathetic Potters. Certainly there son survived, though it was a mere fluke, and does anyone truly think that should I have really desired to kill him he would have lived? Of course not. Now, there must be no further disruptions to my plan, do not force me to use a mass Imperius Curse. Such a pointless waste of time, you understand. Your bravery is admirable, but quite pointless. I can offer you so much more than you would get attempting to refuse me. Do not try.

Your Master,

Big V

PS: No, you may not have your tattoos in alternate colors! *Grumbles: These muggles are stupid-er than I thought. Fools!*

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Denise P. - Apr 1, 2004 2:53 pm (#802 of 2912)

No alternate colors? What kind of rinky dink outfit you running here? Next I suppose you are going to say we can't sing your theme song "If you're happy and you know it", right?

No thanks then, I think I will go find ANOTHER evil Lord to hang with...one that respects the fact that not everyone looks good in black

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Gina R Snape - Apr 1, 2004 3:00 pm (#803 of 2912)

But Ms. Denise P, everyone does look better in black.

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timrew - Apr 1, 2004 3:28 pm (#804 of 2912)

They look good - but not when they're told that!

I Am Lord Voldemort, you are getting to be a large pain in the bum. Bog off!!!!

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Blast - Apr 1, 2004 3:32 pm (#805 of 2912)

Hey Snake Face, check out the fan fiction thread, there are a few messages waiting for you.

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Emily - Apr 1, 2004 3:51 pm (#806 of 2912)

What I am running is a highly organized mission that will succeed in taking over the world.

Timrew - I think not.

Blast - Who are you calling Snake Face, Sheep Brain?

Elphaba - Thank you for your support of my mission, and I shall take this opportunity to have you remind your husband that Lord Voldemort knows everything, and he'd better shape up.

Denise P. - No need, I have eliminated the competition.

I am begging to be angered by this denial of my authority over you pathetic obsessed muggles! I will be forced to make an example of one of you soon, and may I reassure you, you do not want that.

Have an evil day!

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Madame Librarian - Apr 1, 2004 4:07 pm (#807 of 2912)

Hey, everyone, play nice, even if you're all on the evil side. Even Dark Lords have some rules, no?

Hey, Elphie, I'm just about done reading the story of your life. Verrry interesting. I was wondering if someone from Oz was going to show up. Welcome to the Potterverse's best forum.

I just wonder if all these new people are really just old friends who got tired of their regular personalities. Hmmmm.

Happy April Fool's Day!

Ciao. Barb

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Blast - Apr 1, 2004 4:11 pm (#808 of 2912)

Baa Ram Ewe Voldie. ;P

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Gina R Snape - Apr 1, 2004 4:25 pm (#809 of 2912)

I espouse the colour black, not the elimination of non-magical beings and the enforced taking of tattoos in limited colour options.

Madame Librarian, if you are enjoying that book of my alleged life, might I take the time to direct you to a small yahoo group on the subject?

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Ticker - Apr 1, 2004 4:32 pm (#810 of 2912)

Thank you for answering my question Elphaba. (Thinks happy technicolor thoughts while clicking her ruby slippers...)

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virgoddess1313 - Apr 1, 2004 8:42 pm (#811 of 2912)

That's so cool you're from Rolla, fidelio... my dad went to UMR and one of my best friends is there now. I'm about 2 hours away from there.

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Leviosa - Apr 2, 2004 2:46 am (#812 of 2912)

YAY!!! I've got two weeks of Easter vacation now!!!! And I really need it.

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boop - Apr 2, 2004 3:37 am (#813 of 2912)

Susi, Enjoy your holiday break, that is really nice that you get two weeks. I have missed talking to you. I hope this means you will stop in the chat room some evening so we can talk.

Everyone today is Friday!!!!!!! Have a great weekend everyone.

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Leviosa - Apr 2, 2004 3:41 am (#814 of 2912)

Sure. Now the time difference is 7 hours. When will you be in the chat?

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boop - Apr 2, 2004 3:47 am (#815 of 2912)

Susi, I work 6am to 2:20pm Sat. and Sun. so maybe over the weekend we can talk, or I have off MOn and Tue. so we could talk anytime then. Susi if you are read this Im going into the chat room for a couple of minutes can you join me?

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GoT - UaB - Apr 2, 2004 5:49 am (#816 of 2912)

Confession time, I am a forum regular! For those of you familiar with my avatar, you would realize it is the Grumpy Old Troll, who lives Under A Bridge. I will now fade back into oblivion. I am Lord Voldemort, you were very gracious in telling me to behave myself in the face of me being really nasty in return. See you all next year!

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Madame Librarian - Apr 2, 2004 5:53 am (#817 of 2912)

Ahem...I had a feeling. Funny stuff.

Ciao. Barb

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Flame Alligator - Apr 2, 2004 6:06 am (#818 of 2912)

Excellent Voldy!! You had me going. Almost joined you but I love Harry too much. Absolutely loyal to Harry.

Blast, lol Your responses to Voldy were a riot.

Just a quick hello to everyone.

Fawkes, Belated, Top of the mornin to ya!

Leviosa, Enjoy your spring break!!

Y'all have a good day ya hear!!!

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Marè - Apr 2, 2004 6:09 am (#819 of 2912)

I think most people got the aprils fools joke GoT UaB. I thought your name had something to do with the "got you a Bee for your bonnet" comment some-one made. It's a cute avatar though. I have mu suspicions over who you are, I will keep them to myself. but there aren't many people who could and would go through all the lettercolouring you did!

And "I am Lord voldemort" it's a good thing you weren't here last year, you would have gotten a heart attack from the netspeak that was used on Aprild fools.

PS Trevor is HOTTTTT!!!!!

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Gina R Snape - Apr 2, 2004 6:49 am (#820 of 2912)

Only Marè would think Trevor is hot! You truly MUST be from the sea...

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prof sprout - Apr 2, 2004 7:07 am (#821 of 2912)

Gina, we were worried about you over in St. Mungos, You should pop in to let everyone know you are okay. They are all on the look out for the green witch that claims to be Snapes wife.

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Gina R Snape - Apr 2, 2004 8:07 am (#822 of 2912)

Well, prof sprout. As everyone knows, Elphaba melts in the end. No need to worry about me...

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 2, 2004 8:11 am (#823 of 2912)

Guys, excellent April Fools posts... Gina... what can I say... too funny.... & yes, please call over to St Mungos... everyone was a little bit worried

GoT - UaB .... hmmm, I too have my suspicion's ... but I won't post in case I am wrong... hee hee

Mornin' Flame... hope everyone is well today. Me, well I'm in a great mood... its friday & it's nearly home time

I was at a charity pub quiz last night, organised by my work, & guess what, my team came 2nd! Completely shocked I was!

Oh & thanks to all on this chat thread, thanks to you guys I was able to answer the question of what team won the Superbowl this year! Everyone else was well impressed

The prize was 50 euro to spend in a book store ('Hodgis Figgis'... one of Dublins biggest & best... not unlike Flourish & Blotts) No better prize for this little bookworm... Then they had a raffle & I won a DVD player! I really couldn't believe my luck.... Did one of you kind souls send a luck charm my way? Perhaps I should play the lotto this week!

Ohh I'm all excited & happy & want to send you all nice happy vibes & loads of luck!

P.S. Crookshanks is HOOOOTTTT
P.P.S. Yes that was a joke

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Ticker - Apr 2, 2004 8:23 am (#824 of 2912)
Edited by Apr 2, 2004 8:23 am

Fawkes, I thought the Irish were full o' luck.

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NYCNomad - Apr 2, 2004 8:30 am (#825 of 2912)

Sorry to change subjects, but I gotta say I'm going crazy at work. My network is down so work is piling up, but I can't do a thing about it. I have about 2 full hours of work waiting to be done, but I have been web surfing all morning, (3 hours now). I feel slightly crazed by all this. OK, thanks for letting me vent, and we now return you to your regularly scheduled program.

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 2, 2004 8:31 am (#826 of 2912)

Hee hee Ticker, normally I'm the polar opposite of luck... but perhaps we 'Oirish are lucky after all.

Still in a good mood... *hums the theme to the lucky charms ad*

Actually WOW Ticker, was over on the 'Intro' Thread, I can't believe Aria is 4 & a half months already... I remember when you where pregnant with her.... Doesn't time fly She is a cutie by the way!

Have a good weekend everyone Oh & I may be an auntie again by next week... so fingers crossed for my big sis, shes due any day now

EDIT : NYC Nomad... I know the feeling.... vent away & I hope you're not going to be too busy!

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Ticker - Apr 2, 2004 8:35 am (#827 of 2912)

NYC Nomad - I have heartburn on your behalf. On the bright side it is Friday... Maybe you should hang with Fawkes for a while.

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 2, 2004 8:41 am (#828 of 2912)

Sends more luck everyone’s way......
Have a good weekend

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NYCNomad - Apr 2, 2004 8:52 am (#829 of 2912)

Yeah, it's Friday, thank goodness. Ya know, I'm loving this board, it's giving me a chance to voice some theories and get some feedback. But I think I just reached a paradox in the Sirius' Motorcycle thread. If anyone can help me make sense of what went wrong, I think I might have found a BIG loop hole.



IT'S WORKING!!! Now to hurry and catch up!!

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fidelio - Apr 2, 2004 10:13 am (#830 of 2912)

Virgogoddess, I have cousins in Branson and Springfield What did your father major in at UMR? Mine taught chemistry there.

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virgoddess1313 - Apr 2, 2004 10:50 am (#831 of 2912)

He's an electrician, but I'm not exactly sure what he majored in. I live right smack in the middle between Springfield and Branson, and I work and go to school in Springfeild. Small world .

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Sinister Kittens - Apr 2, 2004 10:55 am (#832 of 2912)

NYC Nomad - commiserations! I have lost all access to the internet at work and have not been able to use email properly for over a week. Please feel free to Vent, just so that I can nod and agree at various intervals. I'm sorry that it put you so far behind - but hey it's the weekend.

And I just wanted to officially announce to everyone. Mark and I have finally bought our shop! It was ours on Thursday so I am extremely busy and tired at the moment and do not have a lot of time to post/read :-(

But it's all ours, VAT forms, snooty customers and all! YEA!

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scully jones - Apr 2, 2004 12:22 pm (#833 of 2912)

Jimmie's going off to play tennis with a friend, so I'm here all alone, knitting and catching up on the forum... Got a couple more rows done! Yay! I'm so BORING!!!

P.s.s. Mundungus is HOT!!!

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Detail Seeker - Apr 2, 2004 12:32 pm (#834 of 2912)

All the necessary and unnecessary luck for your future as shop owner, SK !

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VeronikaG - Apr 2, 2004 12:36 pm (#835 of 2912)

Oooooooh, home all week for Easter! I don't have to get up early for the next ten days. Wonderful!

The last couple of days I have wondered if I would like to be a famous writer like Joanne K Rowling. I'd like to be a writer, I have always had a certain talent for story telling, but I don't know if I'd like to have THAT many fans. More or less by chance I came across a web site belonging to a young writer. He had written one book so far, and had made a small forum for that book. The forum had 33 members, and only 6 or 7 of them had been active. The writer had started several of the threads himself, to get feedback. I almost felt sorry for him, because it was so easy to read between the lines that he really wanted to be a writer, and now the forum had been inactive since October last year. I read a couple of samples and short stories, and it was quite good. He was quite personal with the fans as well. The forum had so few members he could. A couple of the active members hadn't even read his book.

For some reason I started thinking about this forum, that has some 800 members, judging by the numbers of posts in the "Tell about yourself" thread, and how we analyze every little detail JKR writes, because we can't ask her personally. And I guess that's what keeps this forum alive between books.

Then I started wondering what it would be like to be a writer, which I sort of would like to be, and how it would feel to wait and see whether your book turns into a worldwide success Harry Potter style, or if it ends up as a cult phenomenon. (I know some people think HP is a cult thing, but in that case it's the world’s biggest.) Not getting as many readers as you hoped for must be frustrating, especially if you really wanted people to read your story. Not so much that you wanted to be rich and famous, but just that you really wanted to tell it. On the other hand, suddenly getting thousands of fans, growing to millions of fans, that must be right out terrifying. I don't know if I could have handled it. Life never gets normal again, if it ever was.

OK, a little much rambling even for me. But it's vacation, after a couple of really boring weeks, and I felt a bit "rambly". Besides, I don't know who else would want to listen to my philosophies about the lives of writers. Most of my friends don't even read books.

By the way, and on a totally different subject; Last night's April's Fool in Norway was a news story that you could get a tax reduction for helping other people. You could get a green sheet where you wrote down your helpful actions, such as helping blind people cross the street, helping girls park cars, or helping kids unstick their toungs from cold metal surfaces. For each person you could confirm you had helped, you would get 100 NOK (about 12 US dollars) in tax discount. I wonder how many fell for it.

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Sinister Kittens - Apr 2, 2004 1:05 pm (#836 of 2912)

Thanks Detail Seeker!

Oops - Danke! Sorry, I forgot!

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Padfoot - Apr 2, 2004 1:07 pm (#837 of 2912)

Sinister Kittens, what kind of shop do you now own?

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Sinister Kittens - Apr 2, 2004 1:19 pm (#838 of 2912)

We own a mobile phone shop - specialising in accessories and bits and pieces, like novelty land-line phones etc. We still do contracts and Mark runs it - I get to do all the admin in my .. rolls about laughing (:p) spare time. And I still get to work there FOC on the Saturdays i'm not employed elsewhere as well... ah well it's finally ours!

We want to plough all the money into the business before I quit work!

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Padfoot - Apr 2, 2004 1:24 pm (#839 of 2912)

Congrats then on your new phone store!

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Sinister Kittens - Apr 2, 2004 2:54 pm (#840 of 2912)

Ta! And may your ferrets forever remain frisky - just kidding.. Sincerely Thanks - the support of the people here does mean alot!

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Luanee - Apr 2, 2004 10:14 pm (#841 of 2912)

Sorry to change the topic, but I haven't entered the forum for a long time and there are just too many posts for me to read all. But I managed to catch the bit about boop having a new grandson, congrats! And virgoddess, is that your wedding picture in your avatar? What a gorgeous couple!

BTW I be visiting New Orleans for a week end of April. Any recommendations for anything or any place I should look out for?

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Madam Poppy - Apr 2, 2004 10:15 pm (#842 of 2912)
Edited by Apr 2, 2004 10:17 pm

Sorry to share sad news. My daughter living in Reno had a miscarriage today. They also fortunately found out in time that she was Rh Negative! (Something her doctor here missed!) She is ok and dealing with her grief pretty well. My Mom was with her and helped her get through. The doctors and nurses were very kind and sympathetic. So she'll have to pack up the quilt my Mom had already made and maybe in a year or two, I'll be a Grandma.

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Marie E. - Apr 2, 2004 10:18 pm (#843 of 2912)

Madam Poppy, I am so sorry. I'm glad the doctors caught the Rh negative factor. It could have very harmful for your daughter. She, and you, are in my thoughts tonight.

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Luanee - Apr 2, 2004 10:23 pm (#844 of 2912)

Oh Madam Poppy, so sorry to hear that, hope all of you are coping well. As for the Rh negative thing, I believe the doctors got to give her some injection or medicine to ensure there is no incompatibility in case the next baby is Rh positive. Hope you are not too disheartened by it, do take care!

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Dr Filibuster - Apr 2, 2004 10:43 pm (#845 of 2912)

Poppy, my sympathies to you and your family. It's good to hear that your daughter has her gran nearby for moral and practical support.

Jules, congrats with the shop. Seeing as you're in the know... what are the funkiest Potter features available for phones? There is a discussion on a thread (either "You know you are a Potter/forum fan when" or a movie thread) re theme tunes and a search for a Hogwarts crest.

Veronika, I hope it was an April Fool when you told us about fried sheep head, but I'm sure it wasn't.

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Leprechaun Jack - Apr 2, 2004 11:17 pm (#846 of 2912)

Poppy,

All my sympathies to you and your family, your daughter is lucky to have someone so close.

You're all in my prayers

Jack

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VeronikaG - Apr 3, 2004 3:50 am (#847 of 2912)

I'm afraid fried sheep's heads are a real specialty to western Norway. Poor as they were, they had to eat every part of the animal that had some meat on it. But how much is there on the head? I actually found some, nicely wrapped in plastic, in an ordinary grocery shop when I went shopping for Christmas food with mom a couple of years ago. As a joke I asked her if we were going to have "smalahovud" for Christmas dinner, and she told me to put that disgusting thing where I had found it.

Madame Poppy, I'm sorry to hear about your daughter. I'm sure you'll be a grandmother anyway, in a year or two.

Congratulations on finally owning the shop, SK. BTW, do you really sell much of those little plastic dolls and teddy bears that you are supposed to attach to the phone with a string? How old are the people who buys them.

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septentrion - Apr 3, 2004 4:14 am (#848 of 2912)

Jules, congratulations for your shop. I think you'll sell "visible" phones

Poppy I hope your daughter will get through her pain and soon give birth to a nice grandsomeone.

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boop - Apr 3, 2004 5:51 am (#849 of 2912)

Poppy, I'm so sorry for your families lost. I will keep you and your family in my prayers. I hope your daughter's pain of the loss becomes less with each day. That is good to know about the RH factor.

Jules congratulations, on opening your new shop. I will keep my fingers crossed that you shop grows. BTW thanks for that email, it was cute. Have a good weekend Jules.

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Madame Librarian - Apr 3, 2004 6:16 am (#850 of 2912)

Madam Poppy--so sorry about the miscarriage. Hope the physical and emotional healing goes well. Don't pack that quilt too deep in the drawer.

Congrats to the new shop owners! Wow! Doesn't that make you feel truly grown up?

Boop, that pic is wonderful. A sleeping baby is much cuter than a "draco dormiens," but I still wouldn't do any tickling.

I'm having a great weekend--Jordan (my college kid) is home for Passover. Since he didn't come home for spring break (he went to San Fransisco with buddies), I am delighted he's here now. He and I get along pretty nicely in the kitchen, and since I'm having 17 (gasp!) people for the first seder on Monday night, there's a lot of KP these next two days. My husband is also a help, but since I still have to tell him where things are in the kitchen, there's a bit of tension when he offers to lend a hand. Better he should keep slogging away on those taxes.

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Dr Filibuster - Apr 3, 2004 6:26 am (#851 of 2912)

Barb, You think there will only be 17 people for the first seder....but we've heard how good your chicken soup is. Better make some extra vats, incase any forum folk pop round.

SK...do you sell extendable ears?? (Apologies if you've been asked that a hundred times already)

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Madame Librarian - Apr 3, 2004 6:31 am (#852 of 2912)

Dr. F--the problem is not enough food. It's where everyone will sit. This is the perfect situation for an anxiety-packed "OY!"

Ciao. Barb

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virgoddess1313 - Apr 3, 2004 6:58 am (#853 of 2912)

Madame Poppy, my thoughts are with you and your daughter!

Luannee, the picture is my senior prom picture, from last year. Even if things work out I won't be able to post a wedding picture for nearly 5 years.

Betty, the new picture is adorable!! He looks so peaceful and sweet. but, then again, that probably isn't always the case, and he still havsn't learned to walk yet!

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Penny Lane. - Apr 3, 2004 8:30 am (#854 of 2912)

I need to check this thread more often... I don't fancy reading 100 posts every few days.

Okay, i hate so sound ignorant, but what is Rh negative?

Madam Poppy, I hope you will be able to be a grandmother soon. Miscarriages are really hard for some people... Should be most, but that’s our world.

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Blast - Apr 3, 2004 8:59 am (#855 of 2912)

The whole family had their eyes checked today. The twins do not have any serious problems. But there is some acute hormone action going on, it's funny that my wand is useless against them. I am going to lock myself in my room with five good books this afternoon.

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Denise P. - Apr 3, 2004 9:49 am (#856 of 2912)

Madam Poppy, please extend my well wishes and sympathy to your daughter. Having been in the same situation, I know what she is going through and it is not any fun. {{{{Poppy and family}}}

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Leviosa - Apr 3, 2004 10:40 am (#857 of 2912)

Madam Poppy, my deep sympathy to you and your family. I hope your daughter is soon better.

Boop, cute picture!

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scully jones - Apr 3, 2004 12:23 pm (#858 of 2912)

Hugs to Poppy! Hugs to Poppy! I'm glad she's feeling alright, and she has her gran to help her... I can't imagine what I'd do in that situation... *shudder* My mom had the RH negative thing, as well... They found out after my second brother was born and told her not to have any more babies. Thank goodness she didn't listen to them, or else I wouldn't be here, eh? I was very sickly and had a "failure to thrive" syndrome... They didn't have a real name for it.. Geeze...

Hope all goes well with everyone else...

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Lynn Allen - Apr 3, 2004 1:33 pm (#859 of 2912)

I don't read the forum enough to stay caught up on all the postings either. But my thoughts go out to Madame Poppy on her daughter's loss and congratulations to Sinister Kittens on the new shop, those I just read. Greetings to everyone else, and I know I've neglected a large number of people who posted sorrowful news lately; best wishes to you. Life has a way of going on whatever happens, even if it leaves us behind in the dust sometimes. *dusting self off and coughing* Lynn Allen

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Madam Poppy - Apr 3, 2004 6:43 pm (#860 of 2912)
Edited by Apr 3, 2004 6:44 pm

Thanks so much one and all. You were the first to hear my good news and I had to share the sad news too. My daughter is doing ok. I wish she had the friends and support that I have through my friends on The Forum and my friends at work. Many many thanks for all your support!!

I worked 40 hours last week and am scheduled for another 40 this week! My poor ol' 49 and 3/4 year old feet are protesting! Remember my 50th Birthday Party will be held April 14th in the St. Mungo's Lunch Room.

Love, Poppy

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Julia. - Apr 3, 2004 8:24 pm (#861 of 2912)

I too am sorry to hear about your daughter Madam Poppy. If there's anything I can do, don't hesitate to ask.

OK guys, sorry for an abrupt change of subject, but as your resident University of Connecticut student, I must do this. GO HUSKIES!!!!!!!

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Thom Matheson - Apr 3, 2004 9:11 pm (#862 of 2912)

JK, Way to go Huskies. On to Monday and GT.

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Acceber - Apr 4, 2004 9:33 am (#863 of 2912)

Sorry to hear about your daughter Poppy. I hope she's coping with it well.

As Julia said, but in bigger font and colorful type, GO HUSKIES!!!!

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Blast - Apr 4, 2004 11:27 am (#864 of 2912)

Kirstin(Poppy), I can relate to your daughter and son in laws feeling right now. It is still a vivid memory for my wife and I. Our doctor at the time was very comforting, as he put it sometimes the body corrects something that is not right, and in our cases this was so. We also lost twins through negligence. When you get your hopes up it is very upsetting when something goes wrong, but on the bright side we have four very distinct and special people from our union. I am sure your daughter and son in law will be parents, and with a Grandmother such as your self, I am sure they will be up to meet all the challenges that life may throw at them.

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Pinky - Apr 4, 2004 1:23 pm (#865 of 2912)

Hugs to you and your precious daughter, Poppy. And may the hugs be spread out over the days and months to come!

I can't believe I missed April Fool's Day here! Last year was an absolute blast. I have been crazily busy and unable to check in everyday like I usually do for the last 2 weeks, and will probably fall farther behind in the next week. I'm really bummed now. The one place I would want to spend April Fool's day on, and I missed it. *sigh*

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SarcasticGinny - Apr 4, 2004 1:33 pm (#866 of 2912)

Poppy, my sincerest condolences go out to you, your daughter, and the rest of your family. I hope everyone's pain at this occurence will reside and give way to future joy.

Julia, did U Conn win? I didn't see the end of the game but being a UIUC student, I would have been equally overjoyed to see Duke fall!

You guys, I'm still sick..the University Health Center didn't find anything, or prescribe anything yet here I am with my throat still swollen and still hurting. Anyone know how to get your voice back when it's gone other than not talking? I'm a teacher, I need it! :-(

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Sinister Kittens - Apr 4, 2004 3:13 pm (#867 of 2912)

Firstly Mdm Poppy. I send hugs, and if I was articulate enough, words of comfort.

Secondly a BIG Thank You for all of your encouragement, my mother took some some pictures of the shop party - I look terrible in ALL of them but hopefully I will be able to post at least one....

And Sue, in answer to your question .... hangs head in shame .... I have never really searched for a good Hogwarts Crest - I always thought it was copy-righted by Warner Bros. You can find many variations on Hedwigs Theme however. I'm sure you have all already looked, some are good, some are er not so good! I can get you HP facsias though?! (Okay, as long as you all own Nokia 3310/3330's!)

And SarcasticGinny - I hope you feel better soon!

Boop - glad you got it! Wow a long post from me - this must be a first!

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DJ Evans - Apr 4, 2004 7:38 pm (#868 of 2912)

Big thanks to Mike, Prof Sprout and of course timrew himself(!) for letting me know who Tim was. Haven't been on the forum long enough yet to quite know who everyone is. I don't think I'm in the league of Tim on the puns, but once in a blue moon I've been known to come up with one or two!! Thanks Tim for the ones I've seen so far--I love to laugh at things in life, as it shouldn't be taken so seriously "all" of the time.

Mike Miller--welcome to the Forum!!! Glad to have you aboard, you'll have a hard time in finding another forum that has nicer/friendiler people on it. All of these guys/girls are just great and they are very patient with us new members. I, myself, have only been on here just under a week.

Madam Poppy, so so sorry to hear of your loss. May you and your's find the comfort you need, and seek, in your faith. Bless you and remember you will be in all of our thoughts.

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Mrs. Sirius - Apr 4, 2004 10:31 pm (#869 of 2912)

Poppy, so sorry for your daughter's loss. I too have had this happen, if there is a good side to this is that she can always try again and she doesn't even have to wait very long to try. In our case, in a very short period of time we learned we would have triplets.

SK: My favorite throat cure is a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar and some crushed garlic mixed into about a teaspoon of honey, or as much as you need to make it palatable.

I am not a big sports fan but, like Julia I must say UCONN HUSKIESS UCONNNNN!!!!

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 5, 2004 1:18 am (#870 of 2912)

Poppy, so sorry to hear about your daughters loss. My thoughts are with you & your family (big hugs)

Jules... well done on the shop. So when are you going to open your Diagon Alley franchise? However, I don't think mobiles will work in the Wizarding World.... but you might find a market to sell them as novelty items.. I can see the sign in the window already "Like what those Muggles use", I dare say Arthur would frequent the premises

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boop - Apr 5, 2004 2:07 am (#871 of 2912)

Meriwether(Rebecca), On turning 15 today!!!!!!

Blast, Just wanted to say we miss you in the chat room, if you get a chance stop by and visit.

Fawkes, Good Morning hope you had a nice weekend. I liked that sign idea, and your right Arthur would go there alot.

Jules how was the party did you all have fun? Can't wait to see a picture of you. I hope you had a nice weekend to, and don't work to hard that you can't play on the forum.

Happy Monday to Everyone, hope everyone has a great week!!!!!!!!

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Ticker - Apr 5, 2004 8:26 am (#872 of 2912)

Oh Poppy. I am so sorry. That's a real heartbreak. Blessings of peace & comfort to you & your family.

(Penny, Rh- is a marker on the blood cells that can cause trouble when the mother is (-) & the baby is (+). The mother's body forms antibodies (an immune response, like when you get a cold) which cross over into the fetal circulation & destroy the (+) blood cells & causes a miscarriage. A shot is given to prevent the antibodies from being formed in the first place. It becomes a very tricky matter in future pregnancies with a Rh(+) fetus, but is possible. Close monitoring of mother & baby is strongly recommended. Hope that explanation helps.)

Barb, best wishes for your seder tonight! Now what time are we supposed to show up?

Sarah, your scarf is coming along very nicely. I'm so impressed!

Happy Birthday Meriwether! Have a great day & year!

Boop, your grandson is soooooooooo cute! I want to just touch those soft little cheeks of his. I bet he's impossible to set down.

Jules, congrats on your shop! It sounds like a lot of good fun & hard work.

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mike miller - Apr 5, 2004 9:55 am (#873 of 2912)

DJ Evans - Thanks for the welcome! I'm having more fun than Ron at the post quidditch match celebration!

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VeronikaG - Apr 5, 2004 10:15 am (#874 of 2912)

Now I'm a bit confused (as if that was unusual). Is Tim famous? I mean, since DJ Evans was surprised to find out who it was he was talking to. Sounded like he had heard about him before.

Happy Birthday, Meriwether.

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prof sprout - Apr 5, 2004 10:58 am (#875 of 2912)

Tim is famous on the board because of his quick wit, and humorous puns. I don't know if he is famous in the UK though. Tim is a regular poster so I don't know.

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Padfoot - Apr 5, 2004 11:25 am (#876 of 2912)

Poppy, I am sorry to hear about your daughter's loss. Such a heartbreak to go through. Give her a hug from all of us on the forum.

Welcome all new forum members. I am new myself and have discovered how addictive this forum is. There should be a warning stating: "Beware, you will get no work done"!

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Doris Crockford - Apr 5, 2004 12:03 pm (#877 of 2912)

Madam Poppy, I'm really sorry for your daughter's loss. Just wait awhile, and I know you'll be a grandmother soon. We'll all keep our fingers crossed for you.

Just want to complain about my retainer for a minute. Why does it taste so bad? I just put it, and I started gagging. And I cleaned it this morning. Urgh.

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Karla Labanda - Apr 5, 2004 12:08 pm (#878 of 2912)

Madame Poppy:

I am sorry a lot for your daughter. I hope she is better now. An huge hug (I don´t know if it is right) for she and you.

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Acceber - Apr 5, 2004 12:58 pm (#879 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Meriwether!

Well, off to first Pesach seder, hope I don't die of extreme boredom and craving of food just inches from my mouth.

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Hem Hem - Apr 5, 2004 1:14 pm (#880 of 2912)

Chag Sameach, Rebecca! Get involved in the dialogue and you'll have a great time!

Unless Tim is hiding something from us all (or at least from me), I don't think he's widely renowned...on ezboard, he had his occupation posted as a "poet and musician of little note". However, I'm sure he's getting a kick out of hearing that people think he's famous!

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Dr Filibuster - Apr 5, 2004 2:13 pm (#881 of 2912)

Tim, or Tymme as I now call him (see recommended viewing thread) WILL be famous...once his pantomime is performed throughout the land.

Until then, he wlll just have to make do with being famous on here!

Ticker to Barb, "what time are you expecting us?" Don't worry Barb, we will bring our own chairs, just get that soup on. Do you have a bottomless cauldron?

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McSnurp - Apr 5, 2004 3:04 pm (#882 of 2912)

Thanks you guys soo much!!! I must get a pic to post... hmm

Love you all lots especially Poppy, really sorry for you hun, your daughter and your family are in my prayers!

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timrew - Apr 5, 2004 3:57 pm (#883 of 2912)

Poppy.....so sorry about your daughter's baby! I'll remember her in my prayers.

To the rest of you......I will never be famous.....because I don't want to be! But thank you, anyway!!!

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Ladybug220 - Apr 5, 2004 4:27 pm (#884 of 2912)
Edited by Apr 5, 2004 5:32 pm

Ack!! I leave for 5 days and come back to over 200 posts!! I just had a wonderful visit with my parents, grandparents, brother and his family (including the beautiful niece above, who I met for the first time) in Las Vegas. Now, I can't wait for my trip to Italy in May to spend 2 and a half weeks with my beautiful nieces - I will really get to spoil them then.

And I must do this....

GO VOLS!!!!

Thank God they pulled it out in the last 5 seconds of the game...

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scully jones - Apr 5, 2004 6:57 pm (#885 of 2912)

You're just so lucky to be able to visit people all of time... Ladybug, I'm jealous!

I've gotten a few more stripes done... Mrs. Chiao is knitting on it right now (don't tell her, but I think she does it too loosely... two of her rows are worth four of mine... But hey, it's nice that she's helping).

I still haven't found anyone to take care of my Scully cat. I haven't bothered calling my mom back, because I don't want to hear any bad news.... I'm very worried. I still have a few more people to ask, and I don't intend on calling my mom back until I have a definite answer. I'm afraid she may have already been put to sleep. She's practically my familiar... (except that I'm not a witch)...

Last night, we had to get an apartment done quick because we didn't get it done all weekend. I had to go at midnight to the apartment to clean it... and we worked until 3 a.m.. It was so messy, we had to go back at 7:30 a.m. and we finally finished right before we had to show up for work at 9:30 a.m.

Jimmie was very sore from playing tennis the other day, so we didn't work all day today. I'm worried our boss may be disappointed in our work. We better pick up the pace soon.

Sorry for rambling, I just haven't been on much and wanted to let you guys know how I was doing.

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DJ Evans - Apr 5, 2004 7:56 pm (#886 of 2912)

Sorry about all of the confusion earlier!! In a post on another thread I had been compared to Tim when I had used pun. Being new, I didn't remember seeing a Tim as one of the posters that I had read. I thought maybe he was someone I should have known who he was already. So I asked and got a couple of replies back telling me that Tim and Timrew were the one and the same. As I didn't want to reply back in a thread that didn't deal with that, I figured I would put my "thanks" to those who had let me know who he was in this one for a quick thanks. Sorry about the mixup here, and Tim/Timrew--hope I didn't cause you any "heartaches" there!!! Sincere apologies, Deb (aka DJ Evans--Debbie Jo)

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Julia. - Apr 5, 2004 8:26 pm (#887 of 2912)

Ladybug, I love you, but GO HUSKIES!!!!!!!!!!!

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Essidji - Apr 5, 2004 11:03 pm (#888 of 2912)

Well, it's really incredible how many posts have been edited. You (we) are such a chatty bunch.

Madam Poppy, I feel so sorry for you and your daughter. These things always happen when you least expect them and it's so painful.

Our daughters are on holidays by their grandma these days, and we could go to the cinema yesterday evening. We've gone to see Hidalgo. That was really nice. The film is full of action and the main message of it, is that courage worths better than pure blood.... does that remind you something?

Now Julia, let me tell you this : GO GRYFFINDORS!!!!!!!!!

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Madame Librarian - Apr 6, 2004 3:14 am (#889 of 2912)

Wow, I miss one day of posting (Passover seder prep and unprep) and all this newsy chat takes place.

This really should be on the "You Know You're a HP Lexicon Fan when..." thread, but here I am. All through the seder as we talked about leadership and fighting evil and making choices, I couldn't help but think of many things discussed on this Forum. There are some absolutely universal messages that we need to hear over and over.

Ciao. Barb

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Ladybug220 - Apr 6, 2004 7:33 am (#890 of 2912)
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Sarah,

You are right - I am lucky to be able to travel to see my family. I just wish that I could see them more often but they are a bit far away for that. Thankfully my brother and his family are moving back to the states in September. The only downside to that is he will most likely to be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan as soon as he gets back.

Julia - this is just for you!

GO VOLS!!!!

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Gina R Snape - Apr 6, 2004 8:00 am (#891 of 2912)

Ok, I've no idea who the Vols are or why they should go...

But I did want to mention for those of us using the HP day-at-a-glance desk calendar that today is finally the Professor Snape picture. I think it will stay 6 April on my desk for a few days...

Has anyone else not been able to get past that one hour time change? I am so exhausted this week it's not even funny.

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Ladybug220 - Apr 6, 2004 8:14 am (#892 of 2912)

Gina,

I am referring to the Tennessee Lady Vols - they face UConn women for the championship match in basketball.

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prof sprout - Apr 6, 2004 8:15 am (#893 of 2912)

It’s been hard on me too. Sad I have been soo tired these last couple of days.

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Essidji - Apr 6, 2004 8:15 am (#894 of 2912)

When did you change the time? Here it was two weeks ago. I thought it was changed the same day everywhere, but when I read your post I thought maybe not...

LOL, I thought VOLS were a fictitious Quidditch team of Death Eaters! I simply have no idea of the championships currently taking place in USA.

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prof sprout - Apr 6, 2004 8:17 am (#895 of 2912)

Ours was changed on Sat/Sunday. Where are you from Essidji? When I went to Spain in High School the time change was about a week or two before ours. Ours is always the first weekend in April, and the last weekend in October.

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Essidji - Apr 6, 2004 8:19 am (#896 of 2912)

I'm French, and I suppose the time here has changed the same weekend as in Spain. In autumn we usually change time around the 20th of October.

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Julia. - Apr 6, 2004 8:22 am (#897 of 2912)

Ok, Essidji, I agree completely to the GO GRYFFINDOR!!!!!!!!! However, being the resident UCONN student on this forum, it is my duty to show school pride, and say, Ladybug, your Vols are goin' doooooooown.

GO HUSKIES!!!!!!!!!!

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Gina R Snape - Apr 6, 2004 8:43 am (#898 of 2912)

Yes, western Europe changes their time approximately 2 weeks before the United States.

For that matter, Mother's Day is held in the UK two MONTHS before it is in the States.

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Denise P. - Apr 6, 2004 8:44 am (#899 of 2912)

Even though I don't follow basketball at all, I have to root for the home team...

GO VOLS!!


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Ladybug220 - Apr 6, 2004 10:34 am (#900 of 2912)
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Thank you Denise! I knew I couldn't be the only Vols person here. And I normally do not follow basketball either, but when I was in Las Vegas, I caught the bug from my sister-in-law's mother who is a huge basketball fan.
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Acceber - Apr 6, 2004 11:58 am (#901 of 2912)

Yes Ladybug, but Julia isn't the only UConn person here either. Being a native Bostonian, I feel the need to express my opinion on the matter.

GO HUSKIES!!!!!!!!

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scully jones - Apr 6, 2004 1:19 pm (#902 of 2912)

Hi again everybody... I don't really have a team allegiance... so... I guess just GO GRYFFINDOR!

Jimmie's mom added a few stripes to my scarf while we were at work today. It's really loose, but I'll live.

She also cleaned up the apartment, too... It's hard to find important papers now because she put them all in one box... Grrr... But hey, what's a mother-in-law for if not to annoy me and make me happy at the same time?

She's a sweetie, you guys would love her to bits.

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Padfoot - Apr 6, 2004 1:25 pm (#903 of 2912)

Your scarf looks great! Wish I was that talented. Surprised)

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Ticker - Apr 6, 2004 2:09 pm (#904 of 2912)

Timrew - too late! You're already famous. Please, please, please send me your autograph as soon as possible (and a fish for dinner as you clearly must also be a famous fisherman ).

Ummmm, go Hidalgo (or go to Hidalgo). Yes! Another movie featuring So. Dakota!

Sarah - I know the feeling with the mother-in-law, except it's my own mother, not my husband's. Ah, but I better not hear hubby agree with me...

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Padfoot - Apr 6, 2004 2:26 pm (#905 of 2912)

Hmmm... who else do we know who send outs autographed pictures of himself? Lockheart perhaps? :0)

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timrew - Apr 6, 2004 2:32 pm (#906 of 2912)

LOL Ticker, have you seen the size of the fish in my pic?!

I have to admit, that's the only time I've ever been fishing, and that's the only fish I have ever caught. It was a couple of years ago, and I haven't been fishing since!

Edit: And padfoot, I don't send out autographed pictures! Much.......

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Sinister Kittens - Apr 6, 2004 2:50 pm (#907 of 2912)

Wow - I have super sized pics of everyone and their families (okay and a scarf - but that's getting bigger by the day anyway ;-))

LOL Fawkes - I would have to invest in more plugs to take Arthurs fancy - and here I am again boop, late, as usual, but here eventually!

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Pinky - Apr 6, 2004 5:50 pm (#908 of 2912)

Hey acceber, I didn't realize you were that close. I knew you were from Mass, but not Boston area. I live in the North Shore.

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Denise P. - Apr 6, 2004 7:27 pm (#909 of 2912)

You know, my son goes to UT (University of Tennessee) and I KNOW the color (how can you ignore it..that stinking orange is all over the place) so someone explain to me why, when I said GO VOLS!!, I used the colors for Vandy?? (Black and Gold) Yikes... biiiig difference between the Vols and Vandy.

Congrats on the UConn win, Julia!

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Julia. - Apr 6, 2004 9:01 pm (#910 of 2912)

The following are the words of Mushka Wovovsky, age two.

U-C-O-N-N UCONN UCONN UCONN!!!!

Thanks for the congrats Denise, I'm sorry for you and Ladybuy. Now, this is the first time ever, in the history of the NCAA that the men and women from the same school have been national champions in the same year, and guess what school that is...UCONN!

OK, after that beautiful display of school pride, I will now shrink my head back to it's normal size.

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The Great Abbycadabra - Apr 6, 2004 10:52 pm (#911 of 2912)

Poppy, I'm sorry to hear about your family's loss. My thoughts are prayers are with you guys too.

Merriwether, here's some rather belated birthday Abbyfetti! ',.;,'.;,'.;',.; Sorry it's late.

Goodness, guys, sorry I've been away so much lately. I guess my standard school lack of sleep and loosing an hour this last weekend has gotten to me. I figured I'd check in before bed, and there were quite a few posts to catch up on. I'll try to check in more often--Spring Break next week!! Yay! Oh, how lovely a week off will be.

Oh, and Tim, can I have an autographed photo?

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Blast - Apr 6, 2004 11:28 pm (#912 of 2912)

Glad to hear from you Abby, we were starting to get concerned at St. Mungo's, we thought that maybe you were cured.

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 6, 2004 11:36 pm (#913 of 2912)

Having visions of a wizard style photo of Tim sitting sideways on a broomstick.... grinning inanely & waving .... embossed with gold pen (quill) signature!

Mornin' Folks...... or should I say good night Blast. It must be quite late with you (or very early, take your pick)

It's 8.30am here.... just got into work & thought I'd check in on the forum. I'm not reading or posting as much as I'd like to these days.... too busy at work Oh like the scarf Sarah, its coming along nicely!

Oh well... better get back to it! Might see ya's around.... if work don't get in the way. (Having a bit of a hard time at work these days.... I think a career change may be in order ) So I'm a bit sad at the moment, thank goodness for the forum, 'cus it always cheers me up! Thanks you guys!

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Essidji - Apr 7, 2004 12:26 am (#914 of 2912)

Fawkes, I hope the changes you feel coming at your job will finally be a good surprise. Being busy at work is something I've been dreaming for over one year now...

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Flame Alligator - Apr 7, 2004 1:23 am (#915 of 2912)

Fawkes, Top of the mornin to ya! I am sorry to hear you are miserable at work. A hug for you.

Boop, Just wanted to say publicly that Dustin looks so sweet. mmmmm pink velvet baby boy cheeks.

My yoga classes went very well yesterday. I worked them pretty hard but did more relaxing poses at the end. What is going on? Everybody is so listless. My students dragged themselves in yesterday. It is SPRING everybody! I am just happy it is warm outside. I can get some sun and go outside and play a little while.

Sarah, the scarf looks great. Don't you just love it when people help.

Y'all have a good day!!!

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boop - Apr 7, 2004 1:57 am (#916 of 2912)

Fawkes, sorry to hear about your job. I hope things get better. Here is a hug for you. I just don't understand why you shouldn't be able to be on the forum more, what does this place you’re at think you came to work!!!!!! Fawkes please try and have a good day.

Flame, thank you Dustin is a real cutie. I should have a new picture again this weekend.

Everyone Happy Wednesday.

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 7, 2004 2:59 am (#917 of 2912)

Thanks for the hugs guys.... makes me feel better.

Sorry for complaining, I'm just a bit 'out of sorts' with my work, & colleagues.... some of which make Draco look like a considerate person. I'm even more sad, 'cus I've just have realised that the job I'm in, I don't want to be doing anymore.... trouble is, I don't know what to do now..... I think I work for the Dementors, 'cus the company is gradually sucking my soul away.... so I know I need to get out... but to what, & will I need to go back into training & so on? I know what I don't want to do, so I suppose thats a start

Its just kinda scarey realising these things.... & having to make some life changing decisions, & plucking up the courage to make these changes... but hey, it is Spring.... & what better time to start something new!

Perhaps I should get on with writing some of those books battling to get out of my head like I keep threatening to do Professional Writer, now that I could do!

Thanks again you guys.... it really does mean something to get some support from you. Apologies once again for complaining Oh & Boop, Dustin is a real cutie

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Blast - Apr 7, 2004 3:58 am (#918 of 2912)

I don't know myself what is early and late anymore Fawkes, bin working some weird hours. Take a good long look at what you want to do, I know it's hard but don't give up a job until you have a plan or a replacement. I know a few people who leaped before they looked and ended up in a similar circumstance. Flame how's your puddy tat doing, I hope that she's not in too much discomfort. Boop, don't worry I'll get into the chat room soon.

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Marè - Apr 7, 2004 4:16 am (#919 of 2912)

Hey Fawkes :hug:

I agree partly with Blast. Give it some real good thought about what you want to do next, but don't doubt about leaving when your current job doesn't fit you. Work takes up a many hours of your day, and live just is to short to spend so many hours per day each week for months etc. being miserable.
It's simply not worth it.

Off course you can't just quit instantly (you need money to buy food and such) but make sure you don't " look for a new job tomorrow" and find yourself many months from now still unhappy and unsatisfied in the current one.

So make sure you do something that suits you and makes you happy! (It sounds o so simple if you put it like that, doesn't it..)

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Sinister Kittens - Apr 7, 2004 4:27 am (#920 of 2912)

Fawkes, I hope you find something you really want to do soon. Knowing what you don't like is definitely a start. It's best to think of all the things that you enjoy (and don't enjoy) and write a list. i.e. If you like talking to people but dislike talking on the phone write it down, it may be that you could consider a more active role dealing with members of the public or specific groups. Do you like being in an office, or not? That sort of thing usually helps.

Anyway, good luck whichever way you choose.

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icthestrals - Apr 7, 2004 4:56 am (#921 of 2912)

Wow Fawkes, I know just how you feel. I still haven't settled to a "career" yet even after returning to school at the age of 30 to finish my degree. I work at a job now that has nothing to do with what I went to school for, but I still enjoy my work.

I think I have realized that I will probably be a professional tumbleweed, going wherever my Spirit blows me. So, hang in there and keep an eye open to opportunities.

Sarah, great job on the scarf!

This forum is a great place to come for a lift. Thanks everyone.

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scully jones - Apr 7, 2004 5:18 am (#922 of 2912)

Thanks for the comments on the scarf. It's waaaay too wide, so I'm definitely going to fold it in half and sew it up the side.... The back looks a lot worse than the front, so I think that's a GOOD thing.

I'm not used to this place looking so tidy... Where'd all the stuff on the floor go??? Ah well...

We're off to work again! Miss you all!

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Flame Alligator - Apr 7, 2004 6:49 am (#923 of 2912)

Blast, Finally, you said something to me. I thought you were ignoring me. My kit kat is so brave. Some days she actually runs through the house because she is having a "good" day. She is living every moment till the end. And I abide her wishes and keep my mood up and no tears in her fur from me. Thanks to all who have commented or asked about her.

Fawkes, I am sending good vibes your way to find a job that suits you. A job where you can work and be your witty, funny self. Not only a good work environment for you but your very presence making a wonderful environment for others. Big hug, Fawkes

icthestrals, That was beautiful about the professional tumbleweed. We are not all meant to be on the career track. I admire those who do but "going where the spirit blows us" can be right too. I would not be a yoga teacher (something I love doing) if I did not blow like a tumbleweed. Now, if I could just blow into my own yoga studio/salad bar I would be content for a while.

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 7, 2004 7:56 am (#924 of 2912)

Wow, you guys are brilliant. Thanks for all the support... had an ok day here today.... but the 'midden just hit the proverbial fan' late afternoon... so its back down to the doldrums...

Thanks for the advice also. There are so many careers out there... I just need to take stock.... & rethink the next step. I'm not planning to quit immediately... but having a plan might make the next few weeks/ months bareable, & I can get back to being me again!

Thanks again everyone... heres a nice bug group hug for you all

Flame, give kitty a nice big hug.... ICThestrals... a 'professional tumbleweed' sounds like a nice career move at present

Heehee, see you have made me laugh already!

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boop - Apr 7, 2004 8:31 am (#925 of 2912)

Fawkes, Just find a job that will let you be who you really are. The person I see in you is a person full of life. Any employer should be honored to have you work for them. All my best goes out to you Fawkes. Here are some more hugs, you can never have enough of them!!

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septentrion - Apr 7, 2004 8:51 am (#926 of 2912)

I see I'm not the only one to be tired because of the change of hour. But it seems I need more than one week to recover. Aaaah ! I need a holiday !

Fawkes, I was sorry to know your job doesn't fit you but yes it's important to prepare carefully what you'll do when you leave your job. Sinister Kittens has given you very useful advice (the employment counsellor speaking).

Essidji, I understand what you mean when saying you're dreaming to be busy at work. My husband has told me so for a long time when he was unemployed, so that now he's been working for 2 years, he never comes back home before 07:00 pm.

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Karla Labanda - Apr 7, 2004 9:04 am (#927 of 2912)

Fawkes:

Don't feel sad, please. I hope you can find soon a new job, where you can give all your potential. And said me, when you can tell me about your beatiful country.

Chiaojones

Wonderful scarf, I would like have your ability. I have to buy it.

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VeronikaG - Apr 7, 2004 9:32 am (#928 of 2912)

Fawkes, I have been in your situation too. I just remember way too well how that insecure situation feels like.

Four years ago, I started education to be a nurse. But I had a feeling from the start that it wasn't going to be easy. Being a nurse is more than a profession, it's an identity. And the nurse identity clashed with my own. This became very clear when I went to practise at a retirement home. There were so many rules to remember, how to use your voice when you were talking, what positions in which to hold your hands, how to stand or sit, how to look at people, everything to avoid patients getting uncomfortable around you. I was young, clumsy and inexperienced, and did everything wrong all the time. Imagine Tonks as a nurse, and you have the image. Since I was corrected almost every time someone talked to me, I got very nervous, and started making even more mistakes. I started dropping things, forgetting to bring enough towels to rooms, forgetting to take out bedpans, and such things. All day at work, I just longed for 2 o'clock, when I would finish my shift. But the rest of the day I'd sit and think about everything I had done wrong. Like Fawkes, I too felt like I was working with dementors. I felt like a bad person, upsetting the patients, and I was never happy, just ashamed and worried. At evaluation, I was told that I was unfit as a nurse, and should find a career not involving sick people. Apparently I had treated them too much like ordinary people, and that made them feel insecure(!) (I had always been told to treat sick people ordinary before.) So I was thrown back at the starting point.

I went back to school a year later, and started studying information technology instead. (Computers don't have feelings, so I couldn't insult them.) When I first started, I expected to be surrounded by a bunch of nerds and geeks who spoke Java and had their social lives on IRC. Fortunately, I found out that I had landed in the coolest crowd in the school. We're a really fun bunch.

I'm sure you find something better than where you are now, Fawkes. You're probably even younger than me, and you have many years before you get to old to change career. Good Luck! *Add Irish four leaved clover*

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The Great Abbycadabra - Apr 7, 2004 11:02 am (#929 of 2912)

Heh, Blast! Me, cured? Never! I'm as crazy as ever, just a bit busier.

Fawkes, good luck in whatever you decide to do! You'll be great at it, I'm sure.

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Ticker - Apr 7, 2004 11:09 am (#930 of 2912)
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Fawkes, I was going to recommend that you take your Trivia winnings & run, but the advice preceding mine sounds much more reasonable.

For all of you trapped in an Daylight Un-Saved body, may I take this opportunity to wish you all a long & restful Easter weekend. (Hang on! It's almost here.)

Abbbbbbbbby! Yea! I've missed you.

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Blast - Apr 7, 2004 11:59 am (#931 of 2912)

Abby I can relate to being busy and when you’re busy you get extra tired too Sad It is beautiful out today, my girls had a school basketball tournement today, they lost both their games badly but they never gave up, the other teams were a lot bigger and older than their team, but they gave it one hundred percent and you can't ask more than that. Flame sorry I didn't mean to ignore you, just been a little bit preoccupied with other things at the moment. If there are any Ottawa fans out there Razz

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Acceber - Apr 7, 2004 2:28 pm (#932 of 2912)

Pinky-where exactly on the North Shore? I'm in Newton, about 5 miles from Boston. BTW, there's a convention of some kind in Salem in October 2005. Maybe we both could go and meet each other there. *wishful thinking*

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timrew - Apr 7, 2004 2:50 pm (#933 of 2912)

Fawkes:- Having visions of a wizard style photo of Tim sitting sideways on a broomstick.... grinning inanely & waving .... embossed with gold pen (quill) signature!

LOL, Fawkes! I don't know who started this story, but that comment made it worth while!

Flame, glad to hear your kitty is being an animal and not a human. Give her all your love, and her final days will be good ones.

Fawkes, sorry to hear your job is giving you such strife. Like ICThestrals said, just drift along, like the tumbling tumbleweed! It'll all come right in the end.

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Phreaker - Apr 7, 2004 3:15 pm (#934 of 2912)

I don't feel like the company I work for are dementors. It's those silly questions from my customers that drain the life out of me! I know the feeling, and I hope things get better for you soon!

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scully jones - Apr 7, 2004 6:07 pm (#935 of 2912)

Argh, we only had one apartment to clean today, so we went to see a movie. The only thing left that we hadn't seen was Home on the Range... Jimmie fell asleep in the middle of it, and I didn't have the heart to wake him, poor thing.

I knitted a bit while he practiced his tennis swing... I got quite a bit done now. I realized that it looks smaller in the picture than in person, because normal gryffindor scarves have thick stripes. My stripes are actually quite thin. I'm on my 12th stripe! Yay!

It's about fourteen inches wide, when stretched out... It'll only be about 7 when I fold and sew it up. At the moment, it is 16 inches long... Hmmm... So one more strips is 13 stripes... 18 inches or so... That's a foot and a half, right? How long should I stop at? I'm thinking 7 feet. Just for good measure. So I'm about a fifth of the way done... Okay.

Sorry, just had to do my thinking in here... Night all, I'm heading to bed early!

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The Great Abbycadabra - Apr 7, 2004 7:51 pm (#936 of 2912)

Tiiiicccckkkkkeeeer! I've missed you too. And tomorrow is my last day before spring break! Yay!

*jumps up and down and does Happy Abby dance*

Tomorrow, I'll come home, take a nap, watch Survivor, and have a nice week to catch up on my reading (books and forum). Long holidays are very good things.

By the way, your scarf is looking great, Chiao!

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B]Leprechaun Jack[/B] - Apr 8, 2004 12:02 am (#937 of 2912)

Hello All,

I haven't been around for a while and just started posting again. The reason I was away is because I had some surgery, and it's because of that I'm going to get on a soap box for a moment.

For well over a year I had some (what I thought) stomach problems. I blamed it on diverticulitis or possibly a hernia or some such thing. I also had some bleeding when I had a BM (bowel movement) which I blamed on a hemmoroid.

My doctor (who knows I'm an EMT) yelled at me for being so stupid and waiting so long to say anything about it. Immediately made me go for a colonoscopy (not a fun procedure), It turns out I had a number of clusters of polyps. Several of which had gone beyond the per-cancerous stages. I had a number of small tumors removed and biopsied. The results basically stated that if I had waited another 6 months it would have been full blown colon cancer.

So to make a short story long....

I want to impress on everyone in the Lexicon family, If you are 45 or older you need to be checked. If you are 35 or older and have a family history of Colon Cancer get checked right away. I'm only 37 y/o and never thought about it even though I knew the history was there.

Ok back to your regularly scheduled posting...

Jack

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Blast - Apr 8, 2004 1:04 am (#938 of 2912)

I totally agree Jack if it is caught early you have very little risk of having colon cancer. The colonoscopy may be very intrusive, but the worst thing about it is the taste of the medicine that they give you before hand. My mom waited too long and now she has a colostomy bag because she had to have a lot of her bowels removed. I didn't wait and like you they caught it intime.

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 8, 2004 1:11 am (#939 of 2912)

Jack.... so sorry to hear about that, but I'm glad that they did catch it on time... I hope you are ok.

After reading through this forum, I can see that so many of you have had so much to deal with in the past few months that mine pales into insignificance in comparison, & you are all still here for everyone else! Life is too short eh! So I'm going to give myself a good shake, start being more positive again... "don't let them get you down" as they say, I'll try to stay positive whilst planning for that next move ....

Thanks again guys for your kind words & advice..... I was having a very bad few weeks & tuesday was the straw that broke the camel’s back! You guys are the best.

Big hugs to everyone

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Essidji - Apr 8, 2004 1:16 am (#940 of 2912)

Oh, Jack, I feel so sorry reading your story. I was starting to wonder were you had been (I love the dancing leprechaun in your avatar), and now I've got my answer. I hope things will go well now, and that you will get well soon. Laugh is one of the best medications for what you have, so don't forget to come and visit us now that you came back... and let the leprechaun in you make you have fun.

You will be in my thoughts...I feel so concerned...

Fawkes, I am sending you all the encouragement you may need to take a decision. All the advice everyone sent were very good, so what you need now is the "triggering element", what we call the <> in French. As someone said, you appear to me as a person full of life, very dynamic. For some reason, people like us (hey, remember, I'm a Gryffindor, too!) are exactly the kind of person some others hate working with. I know how hard it is to bear, as whatever you do, it'll always be the wtrong way to them. Human nature is really tough sometimes.

So yes, leave, go away, but again, be sure of your way. And remember : there is always a posiitive side to anything negative.

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Leviosa - Apr 8, 2004 1:40 am (#941 of 2912)

Jack, I'm so sorry to hear about that. But good that they caught it in time. I really hope you'll get better soon.

Fawkes Forever, I hope that you'll find a profession that you like. I wish I could give you more advise, but as I'm still in school, I don't know exactly what I want to do myself one day. But I hope you'll be fine.

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boop - Apr 8, 2004 3:23 am (#942 of 2912)

Jack, welcome back! Sorry to hear of your health problems, I am glad that everything is taken care of. Thank you for sharing this with all of us. I know it makes me more aware of how important it is to see your doctor at first sign of trouble. I hope your recovery is going well. I will keep you in my prayers.

Happy Thursday Everyone!!!!!

Why not, here are Hugs for everyone!!!!!!!

Abby enjoy your break, sounds like you needed one.

Fawkes, that is the spirit. I know you will make the right decision for yourself. Just don't stay in a job that makes you unhappy, I did that for 9 years. I wasted so many years on a job I didn't like and was treated badly at. So I learned the hard way.

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Thom Matheson - Apr 8, 2004 4:59 am (#943 of 2912)

Now that hoops is over, the real season starts.

GO RED WINGS. ON TO THE STANLEY CUP. Denise, sorry about your Preditors.

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Denise P. - Apr 8, 2004 5:33 am (#944 of 2912)

Are you kidding me? I don't follow sports, I generally only know when a local team makes the playoffs because we are slammed in the media by it. My husband is just not a sports fan either.

{{{Jack}}} Glad that things worked out and that you are on the road to recovery now.

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Gina R Snape - Apr 8, 2004 6:48 am (#945 of 2912)

Oh my goodness, Jack! Sorry to hear about all the medical trauma, but glad to know you are back and doing well again.

FYI, we might be gearing up for a May meetup for HP. Since the NYC PoA premiere is on 23 May at Radio City we might try to organise something around that. E-mail me privately if you are still interested.

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Prefect Marcus - Apr 8, 2004 8:12 am (#946 of 2912)

I disagree about Colonoscopy not being a fun procedure. I had one three years ago. They lay you on a comfortable table. They fuss over you, fluffing up your pillows, laying warm blankets on you, making sure you are comfortable. They barely put you under. When you wake up, it feels like you had just taken a nice peaceful nap.

What's so scarey about that?

Now that procedure where they stick the tube down your throat was pure torture.

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septentrion - Apr 8, 2004 8:14 am (#947 of 2912)

Jack have a good recovery !

Happy Easter everyone. Have a cooooooooooooool week-end

23 may...NYC...just a dream...

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Ticker - Apr 8, 2004 8:23 am (#948 of 2912)

Prefect Marcus, lest you decide to spend your next vacation in the endoscopy lab, remember the prep... Jack, thanks for the reminder. I'm glad it was only a close call. And, it's good to see you again. Hope you've got a comfy computer chair so we can hear more from you.

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Prefect Marcus - Apr 8, 2004 8:28 am (#949 of 2912)

Oh yeah, the prep. Not fun. But the procedure itself was nothing to be afraid of.

Marcus

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septentrion - Apr 8, 2004 8:33 am (#950 of 2912)

Prefect Marcus the problem with my husband is he never reads a novel. Show him sociology, politics, international relationships, religion...and he'll find time to read them. But a novel...In ten years of wedding I've seen him reading a novel once. Oh he knows about Harry Potter, I speak of it every day but nothing to do. By luck I found this forum to share my passion and to make me feel I'm not a nutter to like such kinds of books at my age.
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Prefect Marcus - Apr 8, 2004 8:50 am (#951 of 2912)

That was the exact problem with my wife, except I never once saw her read a novel -- and we've been married for 25 years.

I started reading SS to her one night when she had trouble sleeping. The next night, I tried to start where I had left off. She informed me that she had finished the first book and was already into the second!

Marcus

P.S.: You can call me "Marcus." "Prefect Marcus" is so formal for use amongst friends. :-)

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DJ Evans - Apr 8, 2004 9:45 am (#952 of 2912)

Jack, so glad to hear that you are well on your way to a recovery & everything worked out as well as it did. After this, may every day be just that more precious to you. You've got a good soul in wanting to warn others so they don't have to go through the suffering of "being" too late.

I've got a question for those of you who have had trouble in getting family/friends to "read" HP, have they ever watched the movies? I know I hadn't read the HP series, but I got the HP movies when they came out on DVD--fell in love with it all and just had to read the books then. As books are always so much better than the movie or I think they are. And Marcus what an ingenious way to get your wife hooked on HP!!!

Later days, Deb

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Dr Filibuster - Apr 8, 2004 10:22 am (#953 of 2912)

Jack, great news that you caught it in time. By the way, what's an EMT?

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prof sprout - Apr 8, 2004 11:12 am (#954 of 2912)

EMT=Emergency Medical Technician, they usually work with Ambulances. I hope I answered your question.

Jack I'm glad you caught it in time. Poppy sorry for your loss.

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Dr Filibuster - Apr 8, 2004 11:28 am (#955 of 2912)

Ta (thanks) Prof...that's the 2nd time you've helped me today.

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prof sprout - Apr 8, 2004 11:35 am (#956 of 2912)

No problem. I'm glad I can be of help. Surprised)

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Madame Librarian - Apr 8, 2004 12:22 pm (#957 of 2912)

Jack--whew, glad to hear the good outcome. As they say "a snip in time saves...your life!"

Hey, Dr. F, I just asked about the use of "ta" for thanks on the pronunciation thread, and poof! it pops up here. Is there magic involved, do you think?

Ciao. Barb

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Acceber - Apr 8, 2004 1:30 pm (#958 of 2912)

Jack, sorry to hear that, but I'm glad you're doing better.

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McSnurp - Apr 8, 2004 2:28 pm (#959 of 2912)

I'm really, really sorry... I haven't been on to often have I? So I come on here and you are all talking about something. Jeez, I feel bad... Also I was in a pretty bad mood before because people were going off on how stupid **among other things** my new cds were... yuck. Sorry I don't have much good news... yet I have a whole week off school whoo hoo!

luv peace and harry potter

-meriwether

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Doris Crockford - Apr 8, 2004 3:18 pm (#960 of 2912)

Jack, glad to hear you caught it in time and that you can visit the Forum more often.

Happy Easter weekend, everyone! Ah, 4 days off school.

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Blast - Apr 8, 2004 3:31 pm (#961 of 2912)

Marcus the procedure is not that bad, if your awake you can watch the monitor and see what they are doing, but the preop stuff you drink has to be the most foul tasting thing that humankind has ever concocted. Yuk and because it dehyrates you, you can end up with a wammy of a headache. Doris -  I went to school in South Etobicoke, where abouts do you go to school?

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scully jones - Apr 8, 2004 4:57 pm (#962 of 2912)

Jack, my mom's husband died of Colon cancer just last year. He wasn't the type to ever go to the doctor, so I knew something like that would get him eventually. Sad

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Leprechaun Jack - Apr 9, 2004 4:16 am (#963 of 2912)



Thanks for the words of encouragement. Yes, EMT stands for Emergency Medical Technician. I work on an Ambulance for my day job, so I should know better, having all the signs and symptoms. But as they say “De nile is a river in Egypt.” I am doing much better, thank you all. As far as the prep goes, the Dr. gave me a memo stating that the medicine I had to take is " The most disgustingly vile stuff you will ever taste in your life" and it was correct, but better than the alternative I think.

But I feel its important that everyone should be tested because colon cancer is one of the most preventable, and easily treat able forms of cancer there is.

It's nice to know I was missed. It's good to be home. There are so many new members and posts that have come along in my short time away. It took my three days just to read thru the chat thread and catch up on everyone. It's almost overwhelming to start reading the other threads. We are a chatty bunch aren't we ?

Jack

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Julia. - Apr 9, 2004 5:21 am (#964 of 2912)

We certainly are Jack. I'm glad to have you back, I did miss that lovely green font and dancing leprechaun. I'm exceedingly happy to find you back in good health, and ready to 'get your Harry on.'

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 9, 2004 6:02 am (#965 of 2912)

Indeed we are Jack... thats why I love this forum so much Good to see ya back here by the way!

It's good friday & unlike the rest of the country, my company (the evil dementors) do not observe Good Friday as a bank holiday.... so I'm stuck here at work, whilst everyone else is out enjoying their day off. *grumble grumble* Hee hee, at least all pubs & restaurants are closed today too.. so they can't enjoy themselves too much *being evil* Oh well, I'm planning to slip off early & start enjoying the Easter bank holiday weekend! I'm going up to visit my parents... so that'll be a nice break!

I've a funny to share a story with you all.... (well I think its funny ) as you have seen, I refer to the company that I work for as the dementors... Well they just gave us all a present for Easter... *still in shock* But this is the funny thing, you'll never guess what they gave us ... an Easter Egg .... hee hee, bit of an odd gift from an Dementor eh ... Chocolate Sorry I just found that amusing in a Potter Freak way... knew you guys would understand. I tried to explain to one of the girls at work.... she just blinked at me....

Just wanted to say Happy Easter to you all.... & don't be eating too many easter eggs....

Lets hope Molly gives Hermione a descent sized easter egg this year

Which reminds me, I must pop into the shops on my way home... I spied some Harry Potter easter eggs, with chocolate frogs... yum yum!

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Flame Alligator - Apr 9, 2004 6:25 am (#966 of 2912)

Madam Poppy, my condolence for you and your loss. Sorry I am late with it.

Tim, Blast, Fawkes and anyone else who commented, Thanks for asking about Kitty. The cancer is bigger but she is hanging in there. So I have her a bit longer. She likes for me to rub that area. Glad I can give her comfort.

Jack, I have not known you long but glad to see you are recovering and back on the Lex. Here's a kiss and hug from a stranger.

Fawkes, Glad "The Dementors" don't know about chocolate. he he They actually gave you some. I love it!

I have been very happy lately even though my life is upside down. *spreading arms open* Here is some for all of you. Spring Breakers enjoy!! HAPPY EASTER TO YOU ALL!!!!!

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timrew - Apr 9, 2004 6:37 am (#967 of 2912)

Jack, glad to hear that you are okay.

Fawkes, nice of your dementors to give you chocolate; but come the Christmas Party, don't let any of them kiss you under the mistletoe!

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mollis - Apr 9, 2004 6:48 am (#968 of 2912)

Well, with over 200 posts in my absence in this thread alone, its going to take me awhile to catch up here! I've decided I need to get a laptop. All this traveling for work is really having an adverse impact on my forum time!

Jack, you have given some very valuable advice. I hope that everyone takes it to heart and gets checked out regularly. Glad to see you back with us!

Flame, I'm glad that Samantha is still hanging in there. I'm sure it is nice to have some quality time before she passes and to be able to provide her with the comfort and love you have no doubt been showering her with.

And to all of you who have suffered loss lately, my most sincere condolences. It is never easy to lose someone we love, especially an innocent baby who didn't get a fair shot at this world. The support of family and friends at times like these is invaluable. It is wonderful that a forum like this can show such support for each other. You all are a great bunch of people!!!

As for me, I am thrilled to tell you all that I will soon be moving to Kansas City! I'm in Virginia now but the midwest is home and also where our family is. Packing will not be fun at all, but hey, I'm going home! And it's spring! Flowers blooming everywhere! I love spring!

Okay, back to catching up....

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Ticker - Apr 9, 2004 7:18 am (#969 of 2912)

Mollis & Fawkes - I like your smilies! Mollis, I agree, it's good to live near family. My daughter is fortunate to have all her grandparents here in town (as am I).

Flame - happy rubbing. It's nice to see your cat is still in charge.

Fawkes - that chocolate story is hilarious! I thought I was working for a dementor once & he turned out to just be a Dursley. Good riddance, I say! I did end up staying there for 2 months longer than I intended, but am glad I did since it led to my dream job.

I read hubby the HP books (also not a novel reader - who knew such people existed & could otherwise lead such charming lives?). He enjoyed the story & we both liked the mellow time together.

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Gina R Snape - Apr 9, 2004 7:31 am (#970 of 2912)

Yeehoo. Just wanted to share that I purchased my flight tickets today! I'll be going to San Francisco in June, in time to see the PoA premiere with two other rabid Snape fan friends of mine. We are going to some theatrical theatre in SF where people will be dressing up for the occasion! Oh, I can't wait!!!!!!!!

Of course, the NYC PoA media premiere will be on May 23rd and I will try to get any decent pictures I can.

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mike miller - Apr 9, 2004 8:31 am (#971 of 2912)

To all a Happy Easter!! I hope everyone is able to take a day or two off and recharge their batteries.

Flame - Enjoy every minute you have with Kitty. I cat of 18 years recently passed away peacefully during the night. I'm so thankful that I was able to spend a little time that last night before I went to bed. The good news is that when I came home last night from my volleyball match, my wife and daughter had a brought home a new kitten! Her name is Jasmine and it has reminded me how much fun kittens can be.

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Madame Librarian - Apr 9, 2004 8:40 am (#972 of 2912)

Happy Easter to all (where applicable, of course). Hermione's parents (were they American dentists) would be delighted with all the sugary treats eaten on Sunday. People tell me the joys of Peeps, cream-filled chocolate eggs, hollow chocolate bunnies, jelly beans, plus all the homemade cakes, pies and cookies. Even the ham is glazed with maple syrup and/or brown sugar. What else? What about British treats?

As it is still Passover, I'll enjoy vicariously, and be satisfied with macaroons, turtles, flourless chocolate cake, Barton's assorted chocolates, sugared fruit slices, and whatever else didn't get eaten on Monday.

Whoa, I get a sugar rush just typing all that! Anyway--Happy Holiday, Happy Spring!

Ciao. Barb

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mike miller - Apr 9, 2004 9:07 am (#973 of 2912)

Thanks Madame Librarian for gentle correcting my political incorrectness! Happy Holidays to all!

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Gina R Snape - Apr 9, 2004 9:12 am (#974 of 2912)

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Macarooooooooooons...

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scully jones - Apr 9, 2004 9:13 am (#975 of 2912)

*slinking into the conversation mournfully*

I didn't know it was Easter this weekend... Oops. Well, uhhh... Maybe Jimmie and I could color an egg or two... If we have time... Jimmie's busy tomorrow helping his mom file for Bankruptcy.

I guess I should add a few more stripes to my scarf, eh?

Flame, glad to hear kitty's still around. I got another NO from someone I asked to help out with my kitty problem. I haven't called my mom in two weeks, I'm sure she's "taken care of the problem" already. I miss my kitty so much...

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dobbyiscool - Apr 9, 2004 9:19 am (#976 of 2912)

Happy Easter to whom it concerns! My mom bought a box of Peeps the other day, and the two of us eat the entire box (12 peeps total) before my dad got home from work! We are going to have to get some more before Easter...

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Jim the Potty - Apr 9, 2004 10:06 am (#977 of 2912)

Happy everything to everyone!

Sorry I've not been around lately, I blame school. Anyway, they've released me for a fortnight (though the chains of homework are present as ever) so I've been catching up on posts lately. I gave up when I still had about 600 to read on this thread alone.

BTW, what are 'peeps'?

Jim the Potty. :^)

Proud to be Potty about Potter!

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Blast - Apr 9, 2004 10:11 am (#978 of 2912)

We have a company up in the Great White North called Laura Secords. Laura Secord was a hero in the War of 1812. She overheard the plans of the Americans and walked quite far to warn the British. The result was a victory for the British. She also seemed to have a knack for chocolate. Laura Secord Easter Eggs are a staple in many a home on Easter, They are very yummy. They have Laura Secord shops in all the major malls and it is quite a sight to see all the chocolate bunnies, hens, ducks, and eggs in their stores. They even have a three foot tall solid chocolate Hare, if handled correctly the hare should last you far into the summer. The closest thing that compares to Laura Secord's would be Honeydukes.

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dobbyiscool - Apr 9, 2004 10:11 am (#979 of 2912)

They (peeps) are delicious marshmallow-type covered in colored sugar.

NOTE: Sorry, but I can't spell. I am glad that in High School they give vocabulary tests, not spelling ones!

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prof sprout - Apr 9, 2004 10:12 am (#980 of 2912)

Peeps are a little marshmallow type candy served around Easter. They are shaped as little yellow chicks or pink bunnies. They get there color from sprinkles. Poor Dobby is probably bouncing off the walls sugar shock.

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icthestrals - Apr 9, 2004 10:12 am (#981 of 2912)

Hey Jim, welcome back! Our fearless leader returns.

I think peeps are marshmallow candy things shaped like chicks, I think. I've never had them. I prefer chocolate.

EDIT: oops, we posted at the same time.

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Jim the Potty - Apr 9, 2004 10:38 am (#982 of 2912)

Thanks for answering my question!

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VeronikaG - Apr 9, 2004 11:15 am (#983 of 2912)

Blast; Did you invent the Laura Secord shops to celebrate that Canada didn't become American? (Which as I understand it, would be a fate worse than the dementors' kiss for Canadians.) And, do you have the shops up all year, or is it just during Easter?

In Norway, it's a long tradition to go to the mountains at Easter. Lots of families have little (and the rich people have huge) cabins up there. We have a really long Easter holiday, so it's a perfect time to get away for a while. Norwegians have a self proclaimed reputation for being born with skis, so of course we'll have to do some skiing. Canada has about the same climate as Norway, as far as I know (Though I think Norway's warmer), do you go skiing too?

Traditional Easter candy up here is oranges, chocolate and marzipan. Yummy!

We also have a kind of strange tradition that no one can explain, and I don't know if you find it other places. Crime stories. All TV and radio stations air them, and you find them in magazines and papers. They also have several pages of recommended reading, that are all crime novels. The big publishing companies release new crime novels in time for Easter, generally much hyped. We have a term for it, Easter Crime. According to mom, it's Norway only, and the only link we could come up with is that Easter begun with a crime, the murder of Jesus.

However, I have always liked detective series. Our old state TV channel always shows some classic British detective stories, like Poirot, Inspector Morse and Miss Marple at Easter. The biggest of the commersial channels have followed up, but they are more into modern series like "Wire in the Blood". I have noticed that many of them feature Robson Green, a British actor many people hoped was going to play Sirius.

We also have a tradition for detective series at friday night, which I think you can also find in other countries. Hmm?

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYBODY!!

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Padfoot - Apr 9, 2004 11:27 am (#984 of 2912)

The only Easter mystery movie they show on tv here in the US is The Sound of Music. It's a mystery why they show it every year during Easter week! I understand why they show The Ten Commandments, because of Passover. But why the musical, I don't know?

I love Peeps, mmm.... sugar coated sugar. My favorites are the Cadbury Easter Eggs. Gotta have that chocolate.

Happy Easter everybody!

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dobbyiscool - Apr 9, 2004 11:30 am (#985 of 2912)

I have never understood why they show The Sound of Music for Easter. I prefer to watch the Peanuts' Easter Beagle special myself!

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Gina R Snape - Apr 9, 2004 1:48 pm (#986 of 2912)

For those of you who are so curious, here is the homepage for the company that makes Marshmallow Peeps.

As an added bonus, here is a website devoted to Marshmallow Peeps culture. A friend of mine wrote an essay for it, in stunning imitation of the writer Truman Capote. Looks like the site hasn't been updated in quite a while, but fun to poke around anyway.

And, if any of you do read the faux Capote essay, I do not recommend anyone take the Peep Jar hobby seriously. A friend of mine made one on a lark and it was the most disgusting thing to ever sit on anyone's desk...

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Denise P. - Apr 9, 2004 1:49 pm (#987 of 2912)

For more information on some riveting tests done on Peeps, check this page out. It has not been updated in a few years but will give you newfound respect for Peeps. And Jim, Peeps are best eaten after they are a bit stale...fresh Peeps are just not good. You have to open the package and let them air for a day before you eat them.

Peep Research

And, there is also a newsgroup devoted to Peeps....alt.food.peeps

Want more Peeps? Check out the Dancing Peeps!

We take our Peeps seriously although a true fan doesn't consider anything but the Chicks true Peeps.

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Gina R Snape - Apr 9, 2004 1:52 pm (#988 of 2912)

Oh, I agree with Denise. Peeps must be a little bit hard on the outside. There's no pleasure quite like biting into a peep, feeling the coarse sugar abrasively scratch the roof of your mouth while the juiciness of the soft inside grabs the sweetness receptors in your tongue.

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Marè - Apr 9, 2004 1:59 pm (#989 of 2912)

You gals are scaring me a bit....

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Madame Librarian - Apr 9, 2004 2:00 pm (#990 of 2912)

That's what Peeps do to people, Maré.

Ciao. Barb

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Dr Filibuster - Apr 9, 2004 2:38 pm (#991 of 2912)

I've just seen the Kip get well card.

How did I miss this news? What's wrong with him (sorry if he wanted to keep it private) and how long has he been out of action?

I can't post any messages on the card, my tv internet access won't let me, so I have come on here to say....

Kip, I don't know what's wrong, but I am sorry to hear that you aren't well. I hope you feel better very soon.

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timrew - Apr 9, 2004 3:08 pm (#992 of 2912)

Peeps are best eaten after they are a bit stale...fresh Peeps are just not good. You have to open the package and let them air for a day before you eat them.

A bit like hanging game, Denise?

I checked out the Peep Research Site, and the LOTR connection. Those Peeps help defeat the Dark Lord Sauron, and as a reward......you eat them!?

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Denise P. - Apr 9, 2004 3:16 pm (#993 of 2912)

Well Tim, there are games you can play with them too. Arm a Peep with a toothpick sword and then put them in the microwave to fight...they swell up something amazing. Then you can eat the loser. You can also conduct your own heat test by having a Peep tread hot chocolate and see how long it lasts until it melts down. Peeps are an amazing legacy and tradition. Pass the Peeps, please.

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Thom Matheson - Apr 9, 2004 7:02 pm (#994 of 2912)

A cast of Peepaholics. My wife of lo these 31 years is a devout peepette. I have never found the taste for them as much as Leah but all in all a family tradition. Denise you are a true conisour. Peeps I am told by Leah are best eaten after 2 or 3 days of hardness. May the sugar be with you. Pass the hard boiled eggs please.

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Mrs. Sirius - Apr 9, 2004 9:03 pm (#995 of 2912)

Goodness! I should never miss more than one day on chat! You just don't know how many new posts they'll be.

Jack, glad to hear you caught it on time and are on the road to recovery.

Fawkes, that is just too funny. Chocolate eggs from the dementors!

Flame it must be a testament to your good care of Samantha that she is still about, well enough on days to run around.

I'm so lucky to live where I do. I celebrate the Easter holiday. Good Friday however, is the the big day for us. We spend the day in contemplation, fasting and seeking within ourselves. Then in the evening, we have a huge meal with the traditional Dominican dessert, "Habichuela Con Dulce". A delicacy made from sweetened pinto beans, condensed milk and coconut.

This desert makes the day of fasting well worth it. I have offered it to many friends but so far, lets just say the response has been underwhelming. However, having grown up in NYC, I love macaroons. I look forward to the holiday season because I can pick and chose the best from all the holidays.

To keep you posted on my medical situation, it is possible that the muggle nutters have finally figured out my mystery ailment, and thankfully it is not a tropical disease nor caused by birthing my children!

It seems that the surgeon was incorrect in saying that it was not related to the biopsy. A vein was apparently traumatized during the surgery. This is an extremely rare side effect of the surgery. Because of the trauma it became inflamed, because it was inflamed, it caused the veins below it to become inflamed. The treatment is a simple over the counter anti-inflamatory. The title of this thing is quite a mouthful. As my doctor said to me the other day, all the strange medical things happen to me!

On a final note, I finally got my copy of "HP y la Orden del Fénix". It arrive yesterday. It's much more overwhelming than any of the other book were in Spanish. It's over 893 pages.

Happy Easter, end of Passover, birthday, anniversary, end of semester to all.

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Flame Alligator - Apr 10, 2004 4:50 am (#996 of 2912)

I'm up this morning watching cartoons. (Still a kid a heart, you know. ) I'm posting during the commercial breaks.

Thanks for all the comments about my kit kat.

Mike Miller, Have fun with your new kitten. Kittens are so much fun. Jumping, playing and getting into everything.

Mollis, Which Kansas City?

Have a good Saturday!

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Chemyst - Apr 10, 2004 5:36 am (#997 of 2912)

Thanks for the PEEPS links, Gina & Denise. You've added fun to my day.

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mollis - Apr 10, 2004 7:23 am (#998 of 2912)

Well Flame, as far as I know, there is only 1 Kansas City placed firmly on the Kansas/Missouri state line. (Speaking in general terms, of course. ) To be more specific, we are going to be living in Overland Park, Kansas. I'll be working in Missouri, so its fairly close to the state line. That is, assuming everything goes okay with the purchase of the new house. The existing owners have been a bit less than agreeable with the negotiations and now with the things needing fixed after the inpections. But I think that we've got it all worked out and that we'll get the house. Its a pretty great house (much bigger than we really need right now). And I'm going to get to have a garden!!!

Aside from being close to my family and friends, being able to finally have a garden is what I'm most excited about!

Oh, and Gina and Denise - I am right there with you on the Peeps. I love those things! And week-old peeps are the best!

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Emily - Apr 10, 2004 1:09 pm (#999 of 2912)

I know I'm cheating, but...

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I Am Used Vlad - Apr 10, 2004 1:14 pm (#1001 of 2912)

I wanted post 1000, Emily. I was the first to posts on this thread, and wanted to get 1000 as well. I'm easily amused.

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Dr Filibuster - Apr 10, 2004 1:31 pm (#1002 of 2912)

I shall have to make do with 1002 then.

When is a Bank Holiday weekend not a Bank Holiday weekend?

When the Bank makes you work on the Saturday!

That's what I get working for the Goblins. Still, it could be worse, at least I don't work for Dementors like Siobhan (Forever Fawkes). Do they make you work on Good Friday because they are an American company? If so, do you get July 4th off?

Commiserations to all Store Elves, Healers and others who have to work whilst everyone else has a long weekend.

By the way, maybe I should explain. In the British Isles (not sure about elsewhere) we have a four day weekend over Easter...Good Friday to Easter Monday. Bank Holiday is the name given to a public/observed day off. Everywhere used to be closed but these days lots of shops stay open.

We get 8 Bank Holidays per annum in the UK. I've heard a rumour that the Japanese have lots more.

And Peeps are edible??!?

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Denise P. - Apr 10, 2004 1:37 pm (#1003 of 2912)

Yes, Peeps are edible...after they are properly aged.

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VeronikaG - Apr 10, 2004 1:39 pm (#1004 of 2912)

You can get post 2000, Nimrod! And with this speed, that will only be a few weeks.

I actually went sun tanning today! There was 42 C on our veranda. I don't know how much that is in Fahrenheit, but it's a serious fever. No leaves on the trees yet, though. It's been a cold spring, decent temperatures have just arrived.

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Ticker - Apr 10, 2004 2:21 pm (#1005 of 2912)
Edited by Apr 10, 2004 3:23 pm

<--(Sick baby)

Wow! You guys have enlightened my world with Peep knowledge. I thought I knew what they were, now I truly understand. Too bad I don't like them. You almost make me want one.

Happy Easter & Passover & whatever else I missed!

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Pinky - Apr 10, 2004 2:24 pm (#1006 of 2912)

Sue, I took the liberty of posting for you on Kip's card. I just cut and pasted what you wrote. I hope that was ok. *weak grin* I don't know if Kip is going to be wading through this thread or not, so I wanted your well wishes to be right alongside all the others.

Mrs. Sirius, I don't know if I feel relieved or upset about you! I'm relieved that's all that it is, but upset that it took this long and all that trouble to figure it out! I hope this saga will be over quickly for you.

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Dr Filibuster - Apr 10, 2004 3:13 pm (#1007 of 2912)

Thank you so much for passing on my regards Pinky.

I second what you said to Mrs Sirius too. It must be a relief knowing what caused your illness at last, but annoying to find out you only need an over the counter treatment after all those tests. What a bloody nuisance they were!

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scully jones - Apr 10, 2004 3:17 pm (#1008 of 2912)

Hi guys!

I spent most of the day in the car, driving to Detroit so Jimmie and his mom could talk to a lawyer.

I just sat in the car the whole time, and knitted like crazy! I only got three stripes done, but that's like 10 or so rows each... So 30 rows, not bad, eh?

We still have two apartments to clean, we skipped Friday and today... We're going to have to work most of Easter... UGH!

Happy Easter to all where it applies!

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Dr Filibuster - Apr 10, 2004 3:22 pm (#1009 of 2912)

Whoa, Sarah....if you don't stop soon you'll have a Dr Who scarf! (long running tv series. Long long scarf)

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Ticker - Apr 10, 2004 4:17 pm (#1010 of 2912)

Dr. Who-oo, hey! Dr. Who.

Dr. Who-oo, hey! Dr. Who.

I loved that show. The music is a favorite at ball games too. Now I feel like I've contributed to the sports discussion as well.

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Julia. - Apr 10, 2004 5:14 pm (#1011 of 2912)

Wow, I turn the computer off for one day, and I miss 28 posts!!!! Oy Vay! Anyway, just wanted to say... and...Happy Passover!

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Marie E. - Apr 10, 2004 5:42 pm (#1012 of 2912)

Julia, I can't believe you found an afikomen smilie. How adorable! And, thanks to the current discussion, I was inspired to buy peeps today. The girls couldn't agree on colors so we got them all.

It's almost Easter so of course it's snowing outside. It started last night and amounted to just wet grass, but the stuff falling right now is looking serious. Wouldn't it be awful if we were snowed in tomorrow? I have about two inches in my backyard so far, not too bad.

Marie

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Denise P. - Apr 10, 2004 5:54 pm (#1013 of 2912)

How many of you parents will be doing this tomorrow?

<---live Peep

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dobbyiscool - Apr 10, 2004 6:09 pm (#1014 of 2912)

Ha! I had to get more peeps yesterday, and wound up eating four out of the five in the box (they where yellow chicks, for all who are interested). Now I'll probably get a couple in my easter basket tommorow morning. I love easter candies, they are way better than Halloween ones!

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Blast - Apr 10, 2004 8:11 pm (#1015 of 2912)

Poor old Peter Cottontail, he was so tired when he arrived that I had to place all the eggs around the house for him. We gave him some carrots and a Snape Beverage, of Hogsmeade, and sent him on his way. I told him to deliver Voldemort's stuff last, just in case the Dark Lord was in a bad mood.

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Ticker - Apr 10, 2004 8:28 pm (#1016 of 2912)

Tee, hee Blast!

We were going to go to the Easter Service held at Mt. Rushmore tomorrow, but since Aria's sick, we'll skip out. I wonder what it will be like - very patriotic, I'm sure. The rest of the family will be there so I'll get the details without the cold (& probably wet) morning air. Have a great Easter all! Blessings to each of you!

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Gina R Snape - Apr 10, 2004 8:40 pm (#1017 of 2912)

I was inspired by our Peeps conversation the other day and composed this haiku on my livejournal:

Tribute To the Marshmallow Peep
In haiku

I bite into you
Your harsh sugary coating
scratches my palate.

Better stale than fresh
My teeth sink into your sweet
soft and pliant flesh.

My taste buds react
With a flush of juice to then
digest your sweet gift.


Blast, I'm so pleased you are still promoting Snape beverages. Somehow, I'm doubting the Dark Lord is waiting for an Easter Basket, though. In fact, all that sweetness might actually kill him!

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Blast - Apr 10, 2004 8:44 pm (#1018 of 2912)

Gina I figured that the Easter Bunny better go there last because I hear that Voldie's favourate dish is Hos und Pfeiffer.

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The Great Abbycadabra - Apr 10, 2004 11:24 pm (#1019 of 2912)

Happy Easter and a belated Happy Passover to one and all! Abbyfetti all around! ,'.;,'.;,;.',.;'.,;'.,

Just to jump into the Peeps conversation, the other day I was watching Unwrapped on the Food Network (or is it Channel?) and it was an Easter special. This show goes into the factories and such to show you how different foods are made. On this Easter episode, they showed a guy who made large sculputral works of art completely out of Peeps. It was quite lovely and awe-inspiring, and it made me rather hungry.

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Dr Filibuster - Apr 11, 2004 1:17 am (#1020 of 2912)

This thread is turning into a peep show

We just have (chocolate) easter eggs. Did anyone get a Harry Potter egg? They come with liquorice wands, fizzing whizzbees etc. The boxes are Gringotts, Olivanders (?) etc with drawings of Hagrid and HRH.

We also have hot cross buns and simnel cake.

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tracie1976 - Apr 11, 2004 3:41 am (#1021 of 2912)

Happy Easter everyone! Happy Passover!

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boop - Apr 11, 2004 4:41 am (#1022 of 2912)

Denise, LOL that is so true.

Blast, I like the idea of the Easter Basket for Voldie, sugar high sure to do the trick and kill him with sweetness!!!!

Gina, I like that tribute to the peeps.

Hey Everyone Happy Easter and Passover!!!!!!!!

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Gina R Snape - Apr 11, 2004 7:52 am (#1023 of 2912)

Oh Blast, that was terrrrrible!

Very cute, Sue. I would've expected a line like that to come from Tim! I didn't see any HP easter eggs here in the States. Though I did see a giant HP Easter set with an egg, two chocolate frogs, cards and a box that can be cut out and turned into the Hogwarts Express and platform 9 3/4. I couldn't resist the urge to buy it for myself! But then I remembered my vow to be rid of "stuff" and sent it to a friend of mine so she could give it to her neice and nephew who are also Potterholics.

They are well trained too, these children (aged 3 and 5). When they visit my friend and put on the PS/SS movie, when Snape comes on they shout out "There's Aunt Madelyn's boyfriend!" Hee. (She's also Snape obsessed, but I digress...)

Happy respective holidays to all...

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dobbyiscool - Apr 11, 2004 9:15 am (#1024 of 2912)

AHHH! It's snowing!!! We told my younger cousins that Santa Clause had to fill in for the Easter Bunny, because it is snowing and I didn't want to, er, he didn't want to hide eggs outside in the snow. We, er, Santa, hid them in my cousin's house instead.

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scully jones - Apr 11, 2004 9:31 am (#1025 of 2912)

We're off to work now, we didn't even dye eggs... I hope Jimmie will take me to the store later so we can buy candy... I really want peeps now!

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Leviosa - Apr 11, 2004 12:02 pm (#1026 of 2912)

Happy Easter and Passover everyone!! (I wish I could so some cool smilies )

I'll be going to Munich on Monday and Tuesday so I probably won't be around. Have a great time everyone!!

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septentrion - Apr 11, 2004 1:33 pm (#1027 of 2912)

No peep in France, just chocolate eggs, hens, ducks, rabbits... you hide in the garden and the children are told the bells let them drop while flying to Roma. I really enjoyed to look for eggs in the garden when I was a child.

I've read something about "afikomen" : what's this ?

Mrs Sirius what a pity it took so much time to find out what your disease was but now you'll be able to recover.

Flame I'm happy you have some more time with your kitty.

I know the day I'll have an oral in order to get a promotion : the 23rd of april, a friday, at 16:15, at the very end of the week. I hope I won't feel too tired and/or too nervous.

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Madame Librarian - Apr 11, 2004 1:52 pm (#1028 of 2912)

OK, long-ish explanation about "afikomen." It's a Greek word (old Greek, probably) that loosely translates to mean dessert. In the beginning of the seder dinner on Passover, the leader breaks one of the three ritual matzahs in half (there are tons of ordinary ones, but three are part of the ritual). One half is used during the meal for blessings, etc. The second half is the "afikomen." Depending on how your particular family does things, the leader will wrap up the half and hide it for safekeeping, or set it on the table nearby and one of the children will swipe it and then hide it. Often the kids will gang up and form a consortium.

When the big meal is over, the leader calls for the "afikomen," but, oh my, where the devil is it? See, you can't finish the seder without it. So, if Dad (or Mom) had it hidden, the kids form search teams and scour the house, usually finding it in some clever place. If the kids have it hidden already, Mom (or Dad) may make a half-hearted attempt to find it. Actually this kidnap and hiding game can go back and forth during the course of the seder, so everyone tries to stay on the alert. At the end, though, it's usually always the kids who have it, and they ransom it back to the leader so the seder can proceed. Again, customs vary, but bargaining is hot and furious--some offer money (to be paid later since it's a holiday), sometimes it's a toy or a promise of some activity (yes, I'll take to opening night of "Prisoner of Azkaban" even if the showing is at midnight), whatever.

All done in good spirit and fun. Kids love it, and will sit relatively nicely at an admittedly l-o-o-n-g dinner just to be able to snatch, find, and hide the "afikomen." At our house this year we had two little guys, who got toys, and four college kids (yeah, you usually adjust the age limit participation based on who's at your seder) who got loaded Starbucks cards. A good time was had by all.

Oh, yes, Jack (my husband) first hid it in the top rack of the dishwasher, but when my sister nearly ran a load (she saw something odd out of the corner of her eye just in time), I re-hid it back in the open matzah box. I remember one year, my dad hid it in the freezer! Best hiding place ever, took us forever to find it. Needed lots of hints.

Isn't it odd that both holidays involve a hiding/finding game with treats of some sort as a reward?

Ciao. Barb

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Acceber - Apr 11, 2004 2:08 pm (#1029 of 2912)

Barb, when I saw septentrion's post asking what afikomen was, I was going to give a one-sentence answer which would have read something like, "The service leader breaks the middle matza, hides it secretively, then the kids (or kids at heart)look for it. If they find it, they get a reward, usually money." Then, I saw your post and realized I didn't have to say anything, you had done such a good job. OH well... Next year perhaps.

Happy Spring Holidays to all!

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scully jones - Apr 11, 2004 3:34 pm (#1030 of 2912)

Easter Surprise Happy Easter!!!

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prof sprout - Apr 11, 2004 4:06 pm (#1031 of 2912)

Sarah, I'm from Michigan also. My fiancé goes to MSU also. I was looking at you homepage. Jimmy and I have both Taurus Monkeys also, our birthdays are 3 day apart (he's older). Email me sometime jenblack@hotmail.com You look familiar too me. I don't know why, maybe I've seen you around sometime.

Happy Easter everyone

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Viola Intonada - Apr 11, 2004 5:58 pm (#1032 of 2912)

Happy Easter and a belated Happy Passover!

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Madam Poppy - Apr 11, 2004 11:00 pm (#1033 of 2912)
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Thanks again one and all for your encouragement.

I am checking back here when I can make the time. They had me work 7 days in a row! My feet were (are) killing me. Luckily they gave me Saturday off, and I requested Sunday (Easter) and Monday (tomorrow) off. (Monday I go to the Dentist...ugh) Next Saturday the 17th I am in charge of "Make A Difference Day" at work. Our employee volunteers will be replanting a tiny city park that is at the corner of our store parking lot. "Something" (weed killer) killed all the plants and 14 trees last summer! Our city gave me $200.00 to spend on plants. I hope I have picked out the best plants and everything will look nice when all is done. I haven't received much help from anyone involved. Oh well, it has to look better than it does now.

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Madame Librarian - Apr 12, 2004 3:55 am (#1034 of 2912)

Acceber, your answer was great--the essence of simple clarity. Mine was a treatise of ehtnic religious practices. Both have advantages. I am usually incapable of brevity, and I view this as a problem most times. Thanks for the compliment, though.

Ciao. Barb

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Doris Crockford - Apr 12, 2004 5:33 am (#1035 of 2912)

Blast, you asked a while ago where I go to school. I go to school in York, not too far from Etobicoke, although technically it's all called Toronto now.

Veronika, you asked awhile ago, but yes, the Laura Secord shops are around all year, they sell ice cream and lots of other stuff other than chocolate but they're famous for their chocolate. And in Canada, we do ski a lot, but it depends where you live. Near my house, all the snow is melted, and the last time I skiied was about a month ago (mid-march is usually the end of ski season for my friends and family). But I think that in British Columbia and Alberta, you can ski year-round.

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boop - Apr 12, 2004 5:59 am (#1036 of 2912)

Kristie,

Aimee and Rawenclaw Girl, sorry I missed your birthdays on the 10th.so here is a late

Good morning Everyone, hope you didn't eat to much candy! Hope everyone had a nice holiday. Have a great week everyone.

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septentrion - Apr 12, 2004 6:22 am (#1037 of 2912)

thanks a lot Barb and Acceber for your answers. Long answers on these matters are not too long for me as I hardly know anything about these traditions. However it sounds funny, as funny as looking for chocolate eggs in the garden or trying to see santa Claus leaving gifts at the bottom of the Christmas tree (which I never successed in).

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Karla Labanda - Apr 12, 2004 9:19 am (#1038 of 2912)

Mrs. Sirius:

I hope you will be OK, soon. I hope you enjoy "Harry Potter y la Orden del Fénix" It si wonderful

Little late, but ¡Felices Pascuas!!

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VeronikaG - Apr 12, 2004 9:25 am (#1039 of 2912)

Back to school tomorrow, oohh.... I can't believe Easter's already over (although in Norway it's Easter from Palm Sunday to Easter Day. We love holidays).

Last year spring term finished about this time, so after Easter there really wasn't much to return to at school. Just the preparations for exams. Students complained about the short terms, so now it's been made a few weeks longer, to give us more time to prepare for the exams.

It's nearly summer here. I'm sure that all the trees will be completely green two weeks from now. And some of you poor guys got snow. Oh, well... It melts, but leaves these big puddles that you have to *swim* through to get to the garage or bus stop, in the process.

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Madame Librarian - Apr 12, 2004 11:13 am (#1040 of 2912)

At the grocery check-out today, the clerk said they had packages of left-over Peeps they were giving away for free. Did I want some? Sure--can I have yellow ones? Sure. (Now, isn't that nice? A normally dreaded trip for groceries turns out to have an up side.)

They're bunny Peeps, not chick Peeps. Is that still considered the Real McCoy? Naturally, I am letting them "age" a bit before digging in. I haven't had one in so long, I can't honestly say whether I like them or not. Not usually fond of marshmallow, but these are Peeps! after all.

Ciao. Barb

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dobbyiscool - Apr 12, 2004 11:18 am (#1041 of 2912)

Alas, Madame Librarian, you have way more will power the I. If I were you, I would have long since devoured the Peeps, and then gone out to see if I could get more. Not to mention, I would have asked for yellow chick Peeps. FYI, for all those who missed out on the Easter Peeps, they now sell them for almost every other holiday. I don't think I could eat a jack-o-lanturn one, but I suppose they are all the same.

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Padfoot - Apr 12, 2004 11:21 am (#1042 of 2912)

I have always preferred the Peeps fresh out of the box. I don't like them crunchy. I do prefer the yellow ones, but I have a hard time resisting the pink ones too. I haven't tried the non Easter peeps before, though I have seen them too.

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dobbyiscool - Apr 12, 2004 11:22 am (#1043 of 2912)

I agree with you, padfoot. I don't like the crunchy. Then again, I rarely leave them around long enough for them to get crunchy.

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Madame Librarian - Apr 12, 2004 11:28 am (#1044 of 2912)

According to the stale Peeps connoiseurs (sp?), you don't want them to get crunchy, just kind of...stiff (but still bendable). Alas, there were no chick ones left, it was bunnies or nothin'.

Ciao. Barb

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dobbyiscool - Apr 12, 2004 11:31 am (#1045 of 2912)

Then I hope you will enjoy them, even if they are stiff and bunnies instead of soft, delectible chicks... I personally am going to continue my tradition of devouring my chick Peeps directly out of the box the minute I get home from the store (if not sooner). Should the store be out of chicks, I suppose the bunnies would do.

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Julia. - Apr 12, 2004 11:56 am (#1046 of 2912)

Barb, were those peeps Kosher for Passover? *puts hands on hips and gives Barb menacing stare*

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Madame Librarian - Apr 12, 2004 12:22 pm (#1047 of 2912)

Probably not, but as I'm "ageing" them, Passover will be over.

Ciao. Barb

EDIT--"Ageing" looks funny, doesn't it? "Aging" looks equally funny. OK, the editor I used to be is shouting, "Recast the darn sentence!!" So, ...I'm letting them age. Better, yes?

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dobbyiscool - Apr 12, 2004 1:09 pm (#1048 of 2912)

Much better, Barb! Then again, I wouldn't have noticed anything had you not brought it up...

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Denise P. - Apr 12, 2004 1:11 pm (#1049 of 2912)

I looked on the alt.food.peeps FAQ and it says Peeps are not kosher for Passover. It doesn't say why though. The ingredients are sugar, corn syrup and gelatin....they do have trace amounts of flavoring, coloring, wax, unpronounceable preservatives and such.

And how scary is it...that there is a Peeps FAQ ??

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Blast - Apr 12, 2004 1:27 pm (#1050 of 2912)

Doris, I know York very well. My wife lived on Jane St. and St. Claire my cousin lived there too, in the Caladonia Eglington area. The only school that I can remember is George Harvey Collegiate. I don't think that Peeps are Kosher because of the gelatin. Gina are Snape Beverages Kosher?
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Madame Librarian - Apr 12, 2004 2:06 pm (#1051 of 2912)

Two things go against them--gelatin (an animal product) would make them unkosher for any time, corn syrup is a problem just at Passover. It's a grain product and therefore taboo because it could be fermentable. Yes, I know the logic is tenuous, but those ancients who came up with the system were darn thorough...and picky.

Ya know, even Coke makes a sugar-based version--no corn syrup--just for the kosher for Passover market. It's so in demand by hard core Coke afficianados (Jewish or not) that people have been known to hoard it, buy out whole shelves of it, just to have a long-lasting supply.

Ciao. Barb

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Gina R Snape - Apr 12, 2004 3:17 pm (#1052 of 2912)

Blast, I guess you weren't around this time last year. Snape beverages are indeed kosher for passover.

Barb, does the kosher for passover Coca-cola taste any different from the regular stuff?

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Julia. - Apr 12, 2004 3:31 pm (#1053 of 2912)

Gina, I'm glad to hear that Snape beverages are kosher for Passover, I shall have to pick some up in the near future. And, as an avid drinker of Coke, I can tell you that I have not really noticed a difference in the taste of Passover Coke and Regular Coke, although the Passover coke is much more fizzy than the regular stuff.

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Gina R Snape - Apr 12, 2004 3:50 pm (#1054 of 2912)

Good to know! Fizzy is good.

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Acceber - Apr 12, 2004 3:57 pm (#1055 of 2912)

Fizzy very good, Gina. Fizzy fizzy. Oh, that is very fun to type .

Barb and Septentrion, thanks for your comments on my post. I feel special now .

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SarcasticGinny - Apr 12, 2004 5:37 pm (#1056 of 2912)

Is it appropriate to ask what kind of alcohol a person keeping kosher for passover is allowed to drink? Feel free to edit this post if it isn't, but my friend (a college student) diligently keeps kosher, but he wants to know if there's anything other than maneschevitz (sp?) that he can drink when we go out. Anyone know?

Have a good week, all. I'm co-producing "Guys and Dolls" at the school where I student teach, and our show opens thursday (eek!), so I won't be on much. Hope everyone's week finds them happy and healthy, and can't wait to catch up later on!

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dobbyiscool - Apr 12, 2004 5:58 pm (#1057 of 2912)

I hope the show is good, Sarcastic Ginny. My week is hectic b/c my mom is running for school board, and elections are tommarow.

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Gina R Snape - Apr 12, 2004 6:48 pm (#1058 of 2912)

Well, there's also Shapiro's wines, but I only know that because their headquarters are in my neighbourhood down the block from Streits' matzoh factory.

On a good day, if you watch the guys making the matzoh, they'll give you a piece through the window!

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Julia. - Apr 12, 2004 7:10 pm (#1059 of 2912)

Well SarcasticGinny, for Passover he can drink potato vodka. For the rest of the year, he can drink pretty much all hard likor, not sure about beer, but I do know that there are a lot of good kosher wines out there, but being only 18 I'm not sure what they are.

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Madame Librarian - Apr 12, 2004 7:38 pm (#1060 of 2912)

Any decent wine shop can offer a fair variety of kosher wines in all price ranges, foreign and domestic, red and white. The classic, Concord wine that used to be the only game in town when it came to Passover is just too sweet for most adult palates, but, hey, call me a kid at heart, I love it! It's one of the sense memories I associate with the holidays. But it is really sweet.

Ciao. Barb

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The Great Abbycadabra - Apr 12, 2004 8:05 pm (#1061 of 2912)

Aww, Blast, great avatar! Thanks for thinking of me. That bagpiper on the far left is a representation of you.

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Mrs. Sirius - Apr 12, 2004 8:30 pm (#1062 of 2912)

Barb,

I'm so glad to hear that someone else likes Manchewitz! My mother used to serve it to us with dinner during holiday dinners (Thanksgiving and Christmas!!!) This of course was back in the dark ages when there were no rules about serving your own minor children. She served it to use so that we could feel like a part of the dinner, we had water goblets and wine goblets just like everyone one else. I liked it because it was so sweet. The alcohol didn't really do much for me, but I do have an insatiable sweet tooth.

So many people say unflattering things about this grape concord drink but, if you compare it to the native Dominican wine "Caballo Blanco", this is actually good. Grapes in the Dominican Republic grow on the beaches on trees. They have a huge seed and very little juice, but it is very sweet. The wine however does not reflect the sweetness of the fruit and instead it's taste has been compared, by my husband at least, to turpentine.

SG, Break a leg!!

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VeronikaG - Apr 13, 2004 1:00 am (#1063 of 2912)

I hope "Mister Sirius" has never really tasted turpentine, because it's rather damaging for your health. I don't know if it's as bad as methanol, but certainly not Kosher. :-P

Is it very serious for a Jew to eat something not Kosher? I have heard about some meat being unsuitable because of the behavior of the animal (pigs sometimes eat each other, and so), but is it really bad to accidentally eat pork? Is there some sort of consequence, or is it just the same uncomfortable feeling most people would get if they were told they had just eaten stir fried rat.

Unnecessary information; Up until WW II, most farmers in Norway considered it sinful to eat birds, because they have claws. Eating mackerel was almost considered cannibalism, because mackerels were said to eat drowned sailors, and consisted partly of human flesh!

I'm back at school today, but it seems half of my group has a hard time recovering from holidays. To much fun can be bad for you.

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Blast - Apr 13, 2004 1:27 am (#1064 of 2912)

Thanks Abby, one thing though I have much nicer legs. Neffertiti was quite stunning looking, it's too bad that Egypt can't have a lot of the treasures taken from the country back. At least all Tut's articles are still there.

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Julia. - Apr 13, 2004 3:23 am (#1065 of 2912)

Well Veronika, back in the day you would be sentenced to death for not keeping strict kosher. Today however, there is no penalty, other than your own guilt. I keep strict kosher, with one exception of this place in New Haven called "Louis' Lunch." That's where the hamburger was invented, and it is the only place where I ever eat non-kosher foods, and I always feel extremely guilty afterwards, which is probably why I don't do it very often. There are several Jews for whom this is not a problem, many do not bother to keep kosher at all.

As for certain meat being unsuitable because of how the animals behave, this is not true. Certain meats are unacceptable because of the animal's anatomy. It says in the Torah (the Five Books of Moses) that we shall only eat the meat of land animals that have cloven hooves and that chew their cud, and sea animals that have fins and scales. Pigs do not have cloven hoovs and octopui don't have fins or scales, and that is why they're unkosher.

I hope that clears things up for you

I love maneschevitz too

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 13, 2004 4:50 am (#1066 of 2912)

See, thats what I love about this forum.... not only is it fun, but it's educational

I became an Aunt again this morning... so I'm in a fantastic mood.... a little girl... no names yet.... I might suggest Hermione (joke) I'm going to see my new niece after work today, so I can't wait! So excited

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Denise P. - Apr 13, 2004 5:11 am (#1067 of 2912)

Snow! It is the middle of April and we woke up to SNOW this morning! Jim...I hold YOU responsible for this.....Not a lot but the ground has a covering on it. Now, go figure, we are supposed to be in the mid 80's this weekend.



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mollis - Apr 13, 2004 5:30 am (#1068 of 2912)
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I am really enjoying learning about kosher food and Passover. I always knew the basic principles of the event, but this is great to hear so many personal stories and detailed explanations. (Barb- I've never once read a post of yours and thought it was too wordy. You give wonderfully colorful explanations!)

Congrats on the niece Fawkes! And sorry about the snow Denise. It's been cold a rainy here for 3 days now. But we are also supposed to warm up by the weekend. You know what they say "April showers bring May flowers!"

So here's some flowers for all with rain and snow today:

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Emily - Apr 13, 2004 5:37 am (#1069 of 2912)

Congrats Fawkes!

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Catherine - Apr 13, 2004 5:38 am (#1070 of 2912)

Hi everyone,

I've enjoyed the Peeps and Passover posts. I found it especially funny because this morning in our local newspaper there was an article about a woman in the next town who has combined her love of Peeps and Tolkien. She dresses the Peeps up as characters from the novels and photographs the vignettes. I tried to go to her website, but alas the bandwidth was exceeded so I didn't get to see hobbit peeps and dwarven peeps. Oh well!

I just didn't realize there was a whole subculture about Peeps.

You learn something new every day.

Cheers! Catherine

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boop - Apr 13, 2004 6:07 am (#1071 of 2912)

Fawkesenjoy your new niece!

Denise, LOL Jim did a snow dance last night, and just didn't let on he did it. We will have to let him know about this tonight. We will have to get even with him for this.

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Madame Librarian - Apr 13, 2004 7:04 am (#1072 of 2912)

No snow here in the Chicago area, but really cold (upper 30s) for April, and mucho windy. In keeping with our motto--"If you don't like the weather here, just wait a day or so, it'll change completely."--the forecast shows an alarmingly quick (though welcome) rise in temp to the mid-70s by Friday. (Note to Euro-friends, that's in Fahrenheit.)

Mollis, thanks for the compliment. Aww, shucks--I am blushing a little.

Happy new baby niece, Fawkes. Have a pic yet?

Boop--the child awakes! He looks worried, but sooo cute. Probably concerned about Harry. (I'm of the school that believes that babies are infinitely wise and know the Ultimate Truths but forget it all when they start to walk and talk.)

Julia, your info was correct re kosher/not, but I'd like to add that in ways to be expected as a religious practice evolves over time, there are complexities that are important, but not terribly interesting to explain. I am a Reform Jew and do not keep kosher. I'm like the delis in NY city--kosher style. But, many Reform Jews do keep kosher, so don't assume anything by what I say. It's a truly individual decision really, that most adults grapple with at some point or another. I was raised in a kosher home, so I know the drill, so to speak.

One tidbit of interest: the thing that sort of started it all--the only line that deals with the essence of "kashrut" (kosh-ROOT--keeping kosher) in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) is in Leviticus (not sure of chapter and verse, but we just read it last Sabbath) talks about not boiling a calf in its mother's milk, which became the rule about not mixing dairy with meat. All the rest of the rules and regulations come from commentary and rabbinic law.

Ciao. Barb

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 13, 2004 7:23 am (#1073 of 2912)

Thanks Guys... no pics yet, but am on my way to see her tonight after work... I can't wait!

Denise... wow, I can't imagine snow at this time of year! Well actually, 10 years ago we got a snow storm in the 2nd week of April, & that was considered freak weather conditions. I hope it warms up for you guys soon. As usual its rain rain rain over here, but as Mollis said, 'April Showers Bring forth May Flowers'.... hee hee, I didn't know you guys had that saying too

Barb, I've never found your posts 'too wordy' either (although I'm not one to talk ) Infact I always learn something new!

Oh just remembered, now that easter is over... Popkin should be 'popping' back on to the forum.... if you're out there... we missed ya!

Flame, big hugs to Sam...

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Blast - Apr 13, 2004 7:25 am (#1074 of 2912)

Actually those Rabbis were very sensible men. A lot of the Kosher laws were put down pre refrigeration and were basically common sense.

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Denise P. - Apr 13, 2004 7:39 am (#1075 of 2912)

I second that! Popkin, you have been missed and your absence was noticed. Hope you had a nice internet free time and have decided to join us again.

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Flame Alligator - Apr 13, 2004 8:15 am (#1076 of 2912)[/B][/Size]

Congratulations Auntie Fawkes!!! Enjoy being auntie and, of course, you will babysit alot. Thanks for sending Sam hugs. I call her Sam or Sami-Sami. Like the Chinese, when you like someone alot you say their name twice. (So nice you say the name twice) Belated Top of the mornin to ya, Fawkes-Fawkes!

Blast, I am loving your avatar. I have an Egyptian postcard of Nefertiti that I laminated and put on the glass of my bookcase. Thanks for putting her on the forum. I love to look at her.

Sarcastic Ginny, Break a leg! (Theatre talk for good luck) I love the musical Guys and Dolls. It is one my favorites. I was in a production of it in college. I was a dancer in the chorus. Lots of fun!!

Boop, Dustin with his eyes open. Awwww he looks worried. A kiss for the baby. Thanks boop for posting him.

Madam Librarian, Ditto to mollis comments on your posts. I always find so wonderfully informative.

I had a long weekend and now it is back to teaching yoga to my "yoga troops". I have new yoga music, which means my classes are in for quite a workout today and all this week. I did 3 hours of yoga Sunday. Guess I was inspired by my new music. I have the DOMS(Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness) today. So I am going in a do a short session just to work out some of this soreness. Can't let my class see me moving funny can I?

It is going to be very warm today, 70 degrees F Yay!!! I am so thrilled. Everybody have a great day! I am having one in spite of DOMS.

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Blast - Apr 13, 2004 8:20 am (#1077 of 2912)

Too bad about the snow Denise, we are just getting a lot of very cold rain. But everything is starting to turn green, in fact looking out the back it reminds me of Ireland, in fact I think that I just saw Fawkes running barefoot through the grass. I did not know what surgery that Kip had, but reading his thread about it, I can relate to what he is going through. Although my surgery was not as extensive I know of people who cannot function with diseases of the colons. Myself I have good days and bad days today is a bad day. Constant pain is not nice, but at least I can function. My thoughts go out to those who can't, it must be very frustrating. My illium gets inflamed and you can't sleep, you don't want to eat, and have little energy to do anything. I saw a lady that I worked for a few years ago the other day. She said that I looked fantastic because I slimmed down so much(80 pounds) until I told her how I did it by being ill. She thought that I must of come upon a new diet. Move over Jarrod, Blast is the new slim guy on the block. As long as I keep my sense of humour, I think that I will be able to handle this disease, Kip good luck and I hope that this procedure is successful and leads to a more managable treatment. Flame I am glad that Sami is getting lots of care, you will always remember this time with a :)I think that the bust is one of the best works of art ever created by the hands of humankind.

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Prefect Marcus - Apr 13, 2004 8:50 am (#1078 of 2912)
Edited by Apr 13, 2004 9:52 am

This is a picture of my daughter, Elise and her fiancé. She is graduating from College with honors next week, and they are getting married the following week.



I am one proud Papa!

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Denise P. - Apr 13, 2004 8:57 am (#1079 of 2912)

Congrats Marcus and family. How exciting, a college graduation and a wedding right after. I know you will be one busy papa for a bit there.

Here is a picture taken from my front porch, looking westward. Not a lot of snow but still snow!



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Madame Librarian - Apr 13, 2004 10:00 am (#1080 of 2912)

Ooooh, a wedding! I love weddings. Graduations are nice, too. Congrats, Prefect Marcus. Do you have a toast prepared? Or, if you're going to say a few words, may I suggest: nitwit, blubber, oddment, tweak.

Ciao. Barb

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Gina R Snape - Apr 13, 2004 10:28 am (#1081 of 2912)

Well Denise. As far as I'm concerned, this time of year ANY amount of snow is too much snow!!!

Congratulations Marcus!

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septentrion - Apr 13, 2004 10:37 am (#1082 of 2912)

this thread is very instructive indeed !

I'm sorry for all of you who have to deal with snow or rain in April. Oh we also have a motto for April here : "in April don't take off any thread" (en avril ne te découvre pas d'un fil). My dictionary tells it means something like "never cast a clout till May is out".

Fawkes congrats for being an auntie. Sure you'll spoil that baby Wink

Blast I love your Nefertiti and completely agree with the absolute beauty of this work. You know, even if we nowadays think it's bad to take works out of their country, Egypt has enough for all the world. There you dig you find something. The egyptian department of the Louvre is amazing, I'm sure the British Museum one is amazing too and yet the museum of Cairo is too big to be well visited on an only day.

Marcus I hope your daughter will have all the happiness possible.

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Marie E. - Apr 13, 2004 10:53 am (#1083 of 2912)

I woke up yesterday morning to snow. Thank goodness it is gone today. As far as snow goes around here, all bets are off until June. We had it in May when I was pregnant with Lexie. Nothing gives a pregnant woman the jitters like watching five inches of snow accumulate on the ground! I had nightmares of my husband delivering in the bathtub.

Congratulations, Fawkes and Marcus! I raise a Peep to both of you!

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Prefect Marcus - Apr 13, 2004 11:12 am (#1084 of 2912)
Edited by Apr 13, 2004 12:14 pm

Thank-you Denise. Yes I am going to be very busy starting next week.

I love weddings too, Barb. No, I have no toast prepared. LDS weddings are a little different from most others.

First of all, the actual wedding is done inside the temple where only faithful members may enter. Second, large weddings are discouraged. The focus is meant to be upon the couple and upon the sacred nature of their union. Large gatherings can all too easily detract from that. There is also the practical matter that few sealing rooms can hold more than 50 people.

The Bride and Groom kneel and hold hands facing each other across an altar. Behind them are large parallel mirrors. Their mutual reflections go on forever. This represents eternity. Mormons do not marry in the temple, "Till death do you part;" but for time and all eternity. In the temple, there are no best men, maids of honor, flower girls, ring bearers, giving of the bride, walking down the aisle, etc. In fact, the rings are not even part of the official ceremony. There is just the happy couple, the officiator, two witnesses, your closest friends and family, and God and his angels.

Now the reception outside is a different matter. That is where all the standard wedding trappings come into play. These can be as simple or as elaborate as you wish. The one big difference is that devout Mormons do not consume alcohol. Toasting is what you do to slices of bread and marshmallows. So there is little tradition of toasts at weddings. (Which is not such a bad thing, judging from what I've heard others say as they prepare with fear and trembling!)

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boop - Apr 13, 2004 11:49 am (#1085 of 2912)

Marcus, congratulations,on your daughter’s wedding and graduation. Give the couple my best. Thank you for sharing the picture of the beautiful couple. We look forward to hearing all about the wedding.

Denise any amount of snow this time of year is too much.

Yes the picture of Dustin is not very good, but at least you can see him with his eyes open. Dustin is now 3 weeks old, still so tiny.

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Acceber - Apr 13, 2004 12:00 pm (#1086 of 2912)

Congratualations to Fawkes on becoming an Auntie again. And congratulations to Marcus on your daughter's graduation and marriage.

Great new pic of Dustin, boop. His eyes have opened!

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Padfoot - Apr 13, 2004 12:11 pm (#1087 of 2912)

Wow, my internet connection goes down for the morning and suddenly there are a billion posts to catch up on. This is a really chatty bunch!

Congratulations to Marcus and Fawkes each!

Barb, you mentioned that in Chicago you wait a day or two and the weather will change. Here in Colorado, the saying is: If you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes. It's so true. There was some snow on the ground this morning. Now it is 63 degrees and sunny. The weather changes so fast here. But we do get lots of sun shine.

Thanks everyone for the information on kosher foods. Isn't shellfish non kosher? It's very interesting to learn about. Also interesting to learn about LDS weddings too. We are a very diverse and interesting group! :-)

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Madame Librarian - Apr 13, 2004 12:14 pm (#1088 of 2912)

Prefect Marcus, that sounds like a lovely ceremony and a large dose of sanity in terms of keeping things at a human scale for the wedding reception. The stories I've heard about elaborate weddings, and I've been to a fair number, too.

At any rate, if, as father of the bride, you are called upon to say a few words, my might find you a few more potential HP buddies if you look around the room to see who "got it." Seriously, I'm sure you have much more substantial things in mind to offer as your parental blessing.

Ciao. Barb

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dobbyiscool - Apr 13, 2004 12:45 pm (#1089 of 2912)

It's in the sixties now in good old South Dakota, so all signs that it was snowing two days ago are totally gone. My aunt said the last time it snowed this late in the year, was about ten years ago when she was moving to Texas. It snowed the day they left, the third week in April. She said then that she would never move back here. Oddly enough, she now lives in Minnesota, four hours north of where I am.

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Blast - Apr 13, 2004 12:47 pm (#1090 of 2912)

Marcus, my oldest lives three thousand miles away from us, that is where she goes to school. Her boyfriend and his family live there. When she graduates she will be teaching up in the artic. Then she wants to come home and get married in a very old Church. Talk about logistic problems.I hope the reception isn't planned for our backyard not that it is small, but the house is comfortable with only one bathroom.

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Detail Seeker - Apr 13, 2004 1:00 pm (#1091 of 2912)

Congratulations Siobhan and Marcus !

Denise, that´s about the amount of snow we had that winter - if it tends to stay, I would take it, as I like snow - even in April.

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Julia. - Apr 13, 2004 1:15 pm (#1092 of 2912)

Mazel tov on your daughter's graduation and wedding Marcus, and mazel tov on becoming an aunt again Siobhan!!!! Wonderful news all around! Wow, wish I had something cool to tell you, but alas, I don't.

No padfoot, shellfish is not kosher, as it does not have fins and scales. All the kosher laws actually are in Leviticus, but I'm far too lazy to do so at the moment. Let me know if you'd like me to though.

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Prefect Marcus - Apr 13, 2004 1:19 pm (#1093 of 2912)

Blast,

More than once I have told my daughters that they were to elope! They know I was teasing of course. Very Happy

Marcus

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Padfoot - Apr 13, 2004 1:19 pm (#1094 of 2912)

No thanks. I mean, I know how exciting Leviticus is and all... But I won't make you do the research. Besides, if I really wanted to I could look it up myself. But first I have to continue reading through the back log of posts here on the forum. So much to read, so little time.

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Denise P. - Apr 13, 2004 1:21 pm (#1095 of 2912)

Heh heh, Marcus...we often tell our oldest we want her to elope off to the Temple as well. Of course, that is really not possible to do but we still tease her about it. (Not possible to do because you just can't show up at the door and be married LOL)

On the kosher note, I bet you could google search it rather than stumble through the thees, thous and begats to find the specific references you are looking for.

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Marie E. - Apr 13, 2004 3:41 pm (#1096 of 2912)

padfoot, I've often said the official motto of Colorado is Better Bring A Jacket. It snowed on Pikes Peak on the 4th of July once. Very depressing.

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Catherine - Apr 13, 2004 3:56 pm (#1097 of 2912)

Marcus,

Best wishes to you and yours! To copy the best: "Tuck In!"

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Dr Filibuster - Apr 13, 2004 4:07 pm (#1098 of 2912)

Popkin is back and postng!

Congrats Marcus and Siobhan (bet you were only half joking about calling yur neice Hermione).

Once again this thread is HUGE but also hugely informative.

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Prefect Marcus - Apr 13, 2004 4:52 pm (#1099 of 2912)

Actually, Denise, all you have to do is have a recommend and meet the legal requirements of whichever state the temple is in. I doubt getting a Nevada marriage license to use in one of their temples is very hard.

Temples do ask that you schedule marriages in advance so they can be sure to have a sealer there for your marriage. Otherwise you run the risk of showing up and not finding anyone qualified to marry you!

But who says you can't plan your elopement in advance? :-)

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scully jones - Apr 13, 2004 5:01 pm (#1100 of 2912)

'April Showers Bring forth May Flowers'.... Someone said....

My mom taught us this one... 'But what do Mayflowers bring?' (the answer will be at the end of my message)...

Congrats on the 'betrothal' of thine daughter Marcus!

Please, please let us get some SUN! It was so rainy and cloudy and *shudder* WINDY today!

Sunny

Oh well.... If you were wondering the answer is 'PILGRIMS'.


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Marye Lupin - Apr 13, 2004 5:01 pm (#1101 of 2912)

Hi! I thought I'd drop in and say hi. I feel like I haven't posted anything in months! My school play (Peter Pan) just ended just before easter break and that's been keeping me insanely busy since the beginning of february (today was the first day in at least a month and a half that I've actually been able to go directly home after school) but it was worth it. This is the last school play I'll be involved in since I'm graduating in June so I've sort of been dedicating more time than usual to it-- I've been getting extremely sentimental lately Smile

I've been popping in every once in a while but I've barely had time to read more than a couple threads a day so I know have about a gazillion posts to read (I'm thinking of just hitting the "Mark as read" button for everything but that seems so...extreme).

Congratulations to Marcus and Siobhan!

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Denise P. - Apr 13, 2004 5:02 pm (#1102 of 2912)

Oh, I know it can be done. I just mean it can't be done on a whim the day after you meet someone It requires more than a little planning and if you want it kept secret...that makes it even harder.

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Blast - Apr 13, 2004 5:16 pm (#1103 of 2912)

My wife and I wanted to have a city hall wedding, When we went to get an appointment there was long wait. My sister suggested getting married at her church, as we have done some charity work with one of their groups. My wife being catholic and me a protestant, we did not want to upset either side with a church wedding. Dr. Stewart was obliging when we met him on Sunday after service. We made plans for the service on Friday afternoon. Well everyone got together and we had a nice little ceremony in downtown Toronto Friday afternoon. When we exited the church there was a greeting of about three hundred strangers in front of the church to clap. These were people on their way to the subway from work, they saw people outside waiting for us and decided to hang around. My mother had got on the phone and invited as many obscure relatives as she could. For two people who just wanted a small intimate wedding we ended up with a whole pile. My sister had the reception at her house, very crowded indeed. The house was like a scene out of a Marx Brothers’ movie.

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Ticker - Apr 13, 2004 6:51 pm (#1104 of 2912)

My hubby was the youth pastor in our church when we married (= HUGE wedding). It was very wonderful.

Denise, your photo looks just like Easter did here. Although, like dobbyiscool said, it sure has turned nice now. It's tradition to have snow on Easter, even if it's in the 70's during Holy Week (week prior). I hope you are as fortunate as we are today with your weather.

Congrats Fawkes & Marcus!

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virgoddess1313 - Apr 13, 2004 7:20 pm (#1105 of 2912)

Well, I've learned a valuable lesson. Not coming to the forum in nearly 2 weeks is a bad idea.

I meant to get on Thursday, because I'd had an interesting experience. I'm Presbyterian and I'd gone to our Maundy Thursday service. I was a little confused when they say us all down at the tables where there were some unusual things on the table. What it was, was a modified seder... very interesting though. I'd never experienced that before, but apparently a lot of the people there had. It was a very different experience for me and I really enjoyed it. I just thought I'd share that, a bit late though it was.

Blast, I love the avatar... Akhenaten and his family, including Nefertiti is my favorite historical subject.

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dobbyiscool - Apr 13, 2004 7:30 pm (#1106 of 2912)

Ok, I could post this in the YKYAHPFW... section, but it pertains more here, so...

Today in Student Leadership class, we were trying to see where we could buy sugar cane to try (long story). Anyway, I search 'sugar cane' or something to that effect, and one of the many results was... kosher coke. I immediately thought of the forum and, because I had never heard of it before last week, I thought it was an odd coincidence.

Later Gators! -Dobbyiscool

EDIT: BTW, my Mom won her school board re-election campaion tonight by a landslide, so while she is celebrating w/ friends (and my dad), my sister and I are staying up past bed time. Anyway, it's cool that my mom one, but she's home now,so I gotta go...

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Hem Hem - Apr 13, 2004 10:04 pm (#1107 of 2912)

If anybody wants to buy the "Kosher for Passover" coke -- the type with sugar instead of corn-syrup, my sources have told me that it comes with a yellow cap. It should be readily available in the supermarkets.

Actually, I learned while talking to a Kashruth ("Kosherness") specialist over the holiday. He said that he had gone to the Coke plant in order to see if the ingredients used were Kosher for Pesach. But there was a problem: the Coke folks were so secretive that they wouldn't tell him what the ingredients were, exactly. They will not show a proper list of the ingredients for fear of an imposter copying the recipe. They showed him a few dozen ingredients, and told him that only about ten of the ingredients were actually used. It may be, based on what he saw, that the "Pesach Coke" without the corn syrup is identical to year-round coke. The plant wouldn't admit it, although that's certainly how it seemed.....

Anyways, how interesting it has been to return to the forum after two days of holiday, only to find that the chat thread has 70 new posts, and lots of discussion about Kosher foods! Well, now that Pesach has ended, boy am I looking forward to running downstairs for a doughnut in a minute!

Congratulations to Siobhan and Marcus! Marc, where does your daughter go to school?

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 14, 2004 12:14 am (#1108 of 2912)

My my, we are a chatty bunch. My head is buzzing from all these new facts.... in a good way though Thanks for all the well wishes. *takes Peep from Marie & apparates into Blasts garden to run barefoot again *

Congrats Marcus... wow, a graduation and a wedding.... I'd say there is some excitement in your household at the moment. You must be so proud! Best of luck for the big day!

My Niece is beautiful, so tiny & cute. She slept the whole time I was there last night... but shes adorable. She's a little red head... hee hee, so I then giggled that they should call her Ginny... hee hee! A name has been picked, but I'm bound to secrecy until all the grandparents know.... but they won't be reading here... but I'll still feel like I broke my promise... but I will be able to tell you all tomorrow!

Septentrion, wow we also have that saying... "never cast a clout till May is out".
I remember my Gran telling me that.... because over here the temperature begins to rise quite a bit in May.... but she always said not to be running around in t-shirts until May was over.... as the weather still had a tendancy to change.... May & June are normally the sunniest months here.... we call it 'exam weather', as when the kids & college students are sitting their owls, newts etal, the sun will shine, but as soon as the exams are over.... the clouds roll over again!

Quick question for anyone, when did Pesach end? I know it began last tuesday I'm just quite interested to know how long Pesach lasts.

Flame-Flame... give Sami-Sami a big hug

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Essidji - Apr 14, 2004 1:08 am (#1109 of 2912)

Hi, everyone. Just finished to catch up on reading all the posts I missed during five little days...

So, congratulations to Fawkes for being an auntie. Glad to hear she is a beautiful baby (but can actually babies be something else than cute and adorable?). Tell us her name as soon as you feel you are allowed to (we are impatient and curious ^_^).

Congratulations to Marcus, too. A graduation and a wedding, what a nice way to celebrate spring!

Septentrion, I wish you good luck for your oral exam. I'll try to send you good vibes on that day. It's funny to think we could be colleagues if I pass my exams... Besides, the written part is on saturday. My stomach is starting to lurch at the thought of it...

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septentrion - Apr 14, 2004 1:16 am (#1110 of 2912)

I feel like I still ignore so many things. For instance, what's a LDS wedding ? And Marcus, are you a mormon or did I understand things wrong ?

Fawkes I understand why your grandmother warns you about May : there's often a period in mid-may somewhat colder and duller that we call "the ice Saints" here. Thereafter spring is really installed.

About ancient Egypt : I've heard of another amazing website, this one having an english version. I'll post the link as soon as I find the reference.

edit : Essidji, you post in the same time than me (I can't help sneaking in here while at job, when at least I can have a break). I hope you'll pass the exam saturday. BTW my husband and I will take it too but I don't care about it too much, I'd prefer the promotion. I'll have a thought for you, I know how it is your situation and I really wish you pass it. Now I can't think of it without being related to the potterverse.

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boop - Apr 14, 2004 2:36 am (#1111 of 2912)

Fawkes, Good to hear that you saw your niece last night. Your niece must be beautiful. Can't wait to hear the name. I agree Ginny would fit her well. Enjoy her as much as you can, they grow so fast.

Happy Wednesday Everyone!!!!!!!

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Julia. - Apr 14, 2004 4:25 am (#1112 of 2912)

Happy Wednesday to you too Boop. Passover ended around 8:13 last night. I celebrated by eating pizza. It didn't taste very good, but after a week of matzah, anything that was more than 1 centimeter thick was welcomed. I think I will further celebrate by going to Subway for lunch, for my first real bread, and then to the Dairy Bar, to enjoy some of the best ice cream in the state of connecticut.

Fawkes, mazel tov again on your neice, I'm thrilled that you have a new member of your family. Keep in mind that if you start now, she'll be a Pottie by age 2.

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Denise P. - Apr 14, 2004 5:18 am (#1113 of 2912)

Fawkes, can't wait to hear your neice's name. Before I had Kierynn, people online knew her name but no one in person did. When I called my oldest daughter to let her know the baby was born, the first thing she asked was her name LOL

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Lynn Allen - Apr 14, 2004 5:51 am (#1114 of 2912)

I've really enjoyed reading all the different religious traditions here. Congratulations on the upcoming graduation and wedding, Prefect Marcus. My oldest daughter just began college this year and we spent spring break visiting colleges with my 11th grade daughter. She will have a tough choice in the next year but those are great kinds of choices. It was also interesting to learn more about Mormon weddings. During my last semester in college I lived in a LDS living center at Michigan State University, which required that I attend religious classes for the low rent. And few years back I spent time on a website sponsored by Orson Scott Card, a Mormon sci fi writer, and learned more about your faith from him. Neither convinced me to change my beliefs however, and not because of any lack of them trying! Best wishes! Lynn

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Gina R Snape - Apr 14, 2004 6:19 am (#1115 of 2912)

Lynn, I think that's part of what 'keeps the peace' here, that we can explain stuff but nobody tries to convince the other that their way is the 'right way.'

Speaking of scaled down wedding practices, a friend of mine went to a Quaker wedding a few years ago. And her description was very similar to the mormon one from earlier. That friends and family sit around and contemplate their faith, their love, their relationship, etc.

On the other end of the spectrum, I was at a hotel a few years ago and there was a hindu wedding taking place. I didn't get to see the actual ceremony, but the set-up was simply gorgeous. Similar to the hupa (?) from jewish weddings, but with all kinds of ornate decorations--fabrics, flowers, lights, etc. I couldn't tear my eyes away for all the details in the set-up. And the bride wears a red sari, which I think is really cool.

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Lynn Allen - Apr 14, 2004 6:22 am (#1116 of 2912)

Blast, I understand how frustrating chronic pain is. I also have unremitting pain from internal bleeding and subsequent severe arthritis in most of my joints, so you have my empathy. I don't bring the problems up often having learned health problems are not topics people are comfortable hearing, and most don't want to respond in a way that might offend so most maintain a respectful if sometimes awkward silence. These days my condition is pretty visible to those who know me in non-cyberspace because I use a wheelchair much of the time, and that actually simplifies things. I tried to hide my pain and disability for many years but discovered it is much easier physically and emotionally to simply accept the fact I am different from others and make the best of it. Everyone has some cross to bear, so over the years I've chosen the path of raising happy and healthy children (I hope), trying to avoid making my wife too crazy (less likely), and doing things to benefit those around me. That's probably about the best any of us can do in the long run anyway. Good luck and take care of yourself, Blast. You know as well as I that there are wonderful folks here in the Lexicon Forum, and it has been my privilege to participate, however seldom. Lynn Allen

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 14, 2004 7:29 am (#1117 of 2912)

Ok, so I'm about to burst if I don't get to tell anyone my nieces name.... hee hee, what am I like!
They are going to call her Roisín (Ro-Sheen) It's an Irish name... surprise surprise It means 'little rose', which is quite cute! But you didn't hear it from me

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Denise P. - Apr 14, 2004 7:42 am (#1118 of 2912)

Roisín is a beautiful name!

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Marè - Apr 14, 2004 7:54 am (#1119 of 2912)

Fawkes, have you ever read Tony Hawks' "Round Ireland with a fridge"?
It features a Roisin too.

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mollis - Apr 14, 2004 7:58 am (#1120 of 2912)

What a lovely name!!!

Hee, Hee!!! I love knowing secrets!!!

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Leviosa - Apr 14, 2004 8:25 am (#1121 of 2912)

Wow, so many posts to catch up!! I guess I shouldn't be away from the forum a day or two

Congrats to Marcus and Fawkes!!

I don't know many Irish names but all I know are beautiful. Now I know one more. Roisín, what a wonderful name!

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Ticker - Apr 14, 2004 9:24 am (#1122 of 2912)

Awwww, Roisin - May you always smell (& failing that simply be) sweet. Oh how wonderful Fawkes! I can feel your beaming smile from here. She must be incredibly special!

Lynn, thank you for sharing. It is hard but good to know this about you. I am sad that you have had to gain this empathy the hard way. You have clearly become a strong & caring person & I am greatful that you share your insights & wisdom with us.

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Prefect Marcus - Apr 14, 2004 10:32 am (#1123 of 2912)

Message to Padfoot:

If you liked Colin Firth in Pride and Prejudice, you likely will really enjoy the website www.pemberley.com.

Marcus

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boop - Apr 14, 2004 10:47 am (#1124 of 2912)

Fawkes, Roisin what a pretty name. Next time you get to hold her give Roisin hugs and kisses from me.

Lynn, This is why I love this forum so much, people feel comfortable and share here. There is alot of support here. If you just need to vent or share we are very interested. Someone is always here to listen and offer support. I enjoy talking to you in the chat room. Please come in again when you get the chance. Take care of yourself.

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VeronikaG - Apr 14, 2004 11:32 am (#1125 of 2912)

Congrats, Fawkes! So much fun to be an aunt! I imagine it's almost like being a mother, except for no labor, no waking nights, and no cleaning tons of clothes. :-D

Lynn, I can think of reasons why some feel awkward around sick people. It's because people react so differently to getting ill. Some will be the same as always before, even want you around a lot more. Others get bitter and shut you out, because in their eyes you no longer know enough about life since you're still healthy. It's hard to know how people will react, even people you have known for years. But if you know them well, and really consider them close friends, you don't turn your back on them.

Marcus, my neighbor was Mormon, and she rented out a house for Mormon missionaries from Utah. They were boys and young men between 18 and 25, and wore dark suits. We could easily tell who were the missionaries, as we called them. They stayed there for a few months, then went home. When is a Mormon's mission finished? I can't imagine it being when they have reformed ten people or anything like that, because then they'd still be here. :-) This town is not the best place for Mormon missioning. They also had a tag on their pockets saying "Eldste" and their surname. What does that mean? (In Norwegian it means "oldest", so we thought it was the oldest son in the family.)

I have always said that I'll have a church wedding, because that seems like the only "real" wedding for me. Town hall wedding seem a bit... easy. However, there's bill for a new law, that we'll have to get married at the town hall first, then we can marry in our church. This is because not all churches' marriages are officially recorded, and it is to avoid forced weddings and inbreeding, to use an ugly word, in closed societies. (Yes it has been a problem, small, but big enough for those involved.) Before you'll be allowed to marry, you'll have to prove that you're not closely related to the person you marry, that you're both more than 18, and that the wedding's voluntary. And when that's taken care of, you'll be able to go to your own church and get married before God.

My cousin's Protestant (Norwegian), and his wife's Catholic (American-Lithuanian), and they married in both churches. That made everyone happy. The party lasted for three days, and they had 300 guests. (His wife has a HUGE family, and they had invited many of their colleagues.) My parents and me weren't able to go to Boston for the wedding, though.

On another note: The early spring of '98 was the warmest in Norway for decades. The last week of March we went to Paris with the French class. (By bus!) It was even warmer in Paris, and I walked around all week in a T-shirt and a thin jacket. When we woke up on the bus in Denmark, on the way home, we had a nasty surprise coming. Snow! I was wearing partly open shoes, and my feet felt very cold in the ankle high, wet snow. And to add to the bad luck, the ferry that was to take us over to Kristiansand couldn't leave dock, because of the strong wind. We had to wait four hours, trying to have fun at Hirtshals Aquarium, before a bigger ferry arrived and could take us home. We tried to comfort ourselves saying "It's no snow in Norway." But of course in Norway it was even worse... :-) Paris was nice though.

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Lynn Allen - Apr 14, 2004 11:35 am (#1126 of 2912)

Thanks, Ticker and Boop. Given your encouragement I'm going to dive right in and tell a bit more. Back in the 1970s a new treatment for my bleeding disorder, hemophilia, was developed using blood plasma collected and pooled from many thousands of donors. Unfortunately that was the era our blood supply was first contaminated with both Hepatitis C and HIV, the AIDS virus. About 90 percent of people living with severe hemophilia became infected with Hepatitis C and/or HIV. I unfortunately received stiff doses of both viruses through the prescribed medication and didn't realize it until years later, 1984, after having been married more than a year and with a child on the way. Through a miracle my wife and two daughters are uninfected and healthy, and I'm still here too. I am not disclosing this for sympathy. I just want to reinforce what gifts our lives and health are, and how fragile we all are. I never take the birth of a child for granted anymore since my two daughters were born healthy and are have grown up to be such fine young women. It is a pleasure to read the happiness and pride of family the grandmothers, aunts, mothers and fathers display in their postings and thank you for sharing that with us. Lynn Allen

Edit: Veronika, it looks like we posted at about the same time. Your observations are correct. It is hard to know how a person will react when they receive bad news such as loss of health. Some become angry and bitter, others become depressed and withdraw or abuse alcohol and drugs. Before I stopped working, my job was counseling people with disabilities and helping them find suitable jobs to remain a part of society and retain the self-worth we all seek. Your statement about good friends remaining loyal and true to a disabled friend is well stated and shows you are a fine, sensitive woman. Sometimes it is hard to get through the barrier people may build to prevent being further hurt, but real friends help each other, even in bad times. Thank you for your reply and I'm pleased to become acquainted with you.

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Madam Poppy  - Apr 14, 2004 11:44 am (#1127 of 2912)
Edited by Apr 14, 2004 12:44 pm

Sorry, I've been busy and I'm 93 messages behind on the Chat news. I just have time to say, "Celebrate with me! I'm 50 years old today"

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Hem Hem - Apr 14, 2004 11:47 am (#1128 of 2912)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KIRSTEN!

Have a wonderful day! Make sure to grab a butterbeer at Mungo's...maybe a payraise too!

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B]Lynn Allen[/B] - Apr 14, 2004 11:55 am (#1129 of 2912)

Happy 50th birthday, Kersten! Hope you can celebrate...maybe someone will supply abberfetti! :-)

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Blast - Apr 14, 2004 12:07 pm (#1130 of 2912)

Happy birtyday Poppy.

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Denise P. - Apr 14, 2004 12:13 pm (#1131 of 2912)

All LDS missionaries are called "Elder" if they are male, "Sister" if they are female. Elders are on a mission for 2 years usually while the Sisters go out for 18 months. While it is not mandatory that they serve, they are encouraged to do so.

More than likely, when you saw a set of Missionaries leave (or just one), they were transferred to another area. Most missionaries do not stay in the same specific location for their entire mission, they move around a larger area. My cousin served in Italy and was in many different northern towns while she was there.

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Julia. - Apr 14, 2004 12:21 pm (#1132 of 2912)

Happy birthday Poppy!!!

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Emily - Apr 14, 2004 12:28 pm (#1133 of 2912)

Happy Birthday! May you live for another half a century and more!

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Prefect Marcus - Apr 14, 2004 12:32 pm (#1134 of 2912)
Edited by Apr 14, 2004 1:38 pm

In the US, the individual states control who gets married. Most do it by issuing marriage licenses. The qualifications vary from state to state. Proof that the potential spouses aren't closely related may be one. When I was married, I had to have blood tests as well as a medical exam looking for STDs. Some states require a short waiting period between the issuing of the license and the marriage ceremony. Just about anything that the state wants to do is allowed.

Once the license is issued, anyone authorized to perform marriages in the state may do so. They usually say in the ceremony words to the effect, "by virtue of the authority given me by the state of fill in the blank..." They sign the license and file it with the state.

Some states, such as Idaho, allow common-law marriages. All a couple needs to do is declare they are married, start living together, and do something that shows they are a couple such as start a joint checking account. They are then considered legally and lawfully wedded.

EDIT: Happy birthday, Poppy!

More EDIT: To add to what Denise said, "Elder" and "Sister" are the Missionaries' title. It is similar to "Doctor Jones" or "President Murphy".

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Padfoot - Apr 14, 2004 12:32 pm (#1135 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Poppy!

Thanks Marcus for the information. It seems there is an obsession for everyone on every topic imaginable. Ain't the internet great!

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Detail Seeker - Apr 14, 2004 12:42 pm (#1136 of 2912)

Up to the second half of the centennium, Poppy ! Congratulations, may your wishes for the coming year get reality

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Lupin is Lupin. Natch. - Apr 14, 2004 12:43 pm (#1137 of 2912)

Lynn, I just wanted to commend you on your disclosure of your illness to the forum. It is not easy to reveal such issues and you did it with all possible dignity. Thank you.

Poppy, Happy Birthday!

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Madame Librarian - Apr 14, 2004 12:49 pm (#1138 of 2912)

Madame Poppy--Happy birthday!!! You are entering a very interesting decade. I wish you happiness and good health.

Lynn, thanks for being brave and telling us about yourself. You certainly have a great attitude about things and I'm very impressed and inspired by it. All the best!

Ciao. Barb

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Denise P. - Apr 14, 2004 12:50 pm (#1139 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Poppy!!

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Ladybug220 - Apr 14, 2004 1:09 pm (#1140 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Madame Poppy!!

Lynn, I commend you for being forthright and increasing awareness. I work on a pediatric HIV study and when I tell people that the reactions vary widely. Some people just don't believe me when I tell them that it is a problem and some don't understand how I can do it since it involves children. Unfortunately there is still a lot of misinformation and ignorance out there. Ok, I better stop - I can go on about this for hours.

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Marè - Apr 14, 2004 1:22 pm (#1141 of 2912)

Happy birthday Poppy!!!!

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timrew - Apr 14, 2004 1:56 pm (#1142 of 2912)

Kirsten, Happy Birthday!

Your story moved me a lot, Lynn. I commend your bravery and stoicism.

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Acceber - Apr 14, 2004 2:06 pm (#1143 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Poppy!

Side Note That You Don't Have To Read: Everyone having birthdays or babies or weddings etc. around here get so many congratulations. It was my birthday in January and I really wish I had been posting on this thread then. It would be so nice to get birthday wishes from total strangers .

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Marè - Apr 14, 2004 2:31 pm (#1144 of 2912)

A belated Happy birthday for Acceber.

And in "Alice in Wonderland" style: A belated nonbirthday too!

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boop - Apr 14, 2004 2:36 pm (#1145 of 2912)

Kirsten,

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Lupin is Lupin. Natch. - Apr 14, 2004 2:36 pm (#1146 of 2912)

I'm a January baby myself, Acceber. So a Happy Birthday to you as well!

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Denise P. - Apr 14, 2004 2:39 pm (#1147 of 2912)

I have a birthday in January, always hated it because it was so close to Christmas.

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Prefect Marcus - Apr 14, 2004 3:10 pm (#1148 of 2912)

Denise, my brother was born the 26th of December!

My mother would always bake him a cake in January. He protested, insisting that he wanted his birthday cake on his birthday. So one year my mom baked him a cake on his birthday. He was so sick of sweets that he asked her to never do it again!

Marcus

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Lynn Allen - Apr 14, 2004 3:25 pm (#1149 of 2912)

Is there any word how Kip is feeling since he came home from the surgery? Hope he has lots of TLC (tender loving care) and the lots of potent healing potions. All our best and feel lots better, Kip!!

(P.S. Some of us will behave in your absence... HOW we behave is the question!)

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Denise P. - Apr 14, 2004 3:32 pm (#1150 of 2912)

Kip is home and doing well. He has peeked online very briefly. He is resting and taking things easy. As soon as I know more, I will let everyone know. He sounded very good when I spoke to him last.


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Marie E. - Apr 14, 2004 4:29 pm (#1151 of 2912)

Happy Birthday, Kirsten!!!!!

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Marye Lupin - Apr 14, 2004 4:36 pm (#1152 of 2912)

Happy Birthday!

My birthday's July 26. I always hated it because it's in the middle of the summer and everybody's usually on vacation so it's almost impossible to have any kind of party. But then again I do like having a birthday so close to Harry Potter's... Smile

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DJ Evans - Apr 14, 2004 4:38 pm (#1153 of 2912)

Poppy: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! May it be the best one you've ever had!! Enjoy it and may you create so many wonderful memories today that you will need your own Pensieve to hold all of them!!!

Lynn: May each day for you be a good day filled with all of the love and friendship that you can handle!! Take care and remember we're all here for you as we're here for each other.

Kip: So glad to hear that you are home now and doing well!!! Here's wishing your recovery is a speedy one and a complete one. We miss you and await your return.

To All Forum Past Birthdayer's: HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!!! My B-day is in February (the 18th) so I'm including myself there. hee hee

Later days, Deb

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virgoddess1313 - Apr 14, 2004 4:50 pm (#1154 of 2912)

Happy birthday to you, Kirsten!! And to anyone else I may have missed during my absence!

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Julia. - Apr 14, 2004 4:53 pm (#1155 of 2912)

Cool Marye. My birthday's in the beginning of September, I have to send out an email a few weeks before so that they don't forget. I don't see them most of the summer, so i can't really build up with subtle hints, so i just have to be blunt and remind everyone.

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dobbyiscool - Apr 14, 2004 4:54 pm (#1156 of 2912)

Happy Birthday, belated or otherwise!

Now, I feel really sorry for anyone whose birthday is tomorrow, because it is: 1 the day Abe Lincolin (sp) died. 2 Tax day in the US and, 3 the day the Titanic sank.

Not a happy day history wise, but hey, if it's your birthday, then at least one good thing happened on it!

My b-day's at the end of September, which is Marching Band season for me. I wont be able to have a sweet sixteen party this year, because we will be out of town at a competition for Marching Band.

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virgoddess1313 - Apr 14, 2004 5:43 pm (#1157 of 2912)

Marching band!!! How I miss it!! What do you play, Elf girl? And is band to you like a whoile other culture like it was for me?

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Madame Librarian - Apr 14, 2004 6:04 pm (#1158 of 2912)

DJ, I'm a Feb. 18th gal myself. But since I had many b-day wishes this year from Forum friends, you can take all the belated, non-birthday ones coming your way now.

BTW, in case anyone is planning a big bash for him, Willie Shakespeare's birthday is coming up soon (April 23).

Ciao. Barb

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mollis - Apr 14, 2004 6:06 pm (#1159 of 2912)
Edited by Apr 14, 2004 7:06 pm

Happy birthday Kirsten! What a special birthday - you should be imparting words of wisdom on us all!

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Gina R Snape - Apr 14, 2004 6:39 pm (#1160 of 2912)

Happy birthday, Poppy! Woohoo, 50! You are in your prime, babe!

My birthday is the 28th of this month, fyi. I'll be (gasp) 35.

And Tim, I agree Lynn is indeed a brave soul for living his life with dignity. But he's an even braver soul for putting up with my private email rants and fanfiction leanings.

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Mrs. Sirius - Apr 14, 2004 7:40 pm (#1161 of 2912)

Hey Poppy Happy Birthday!!!Surprise Birthday Card

And to Fawkes, Marcus, Accerber and others congratulations on your big news, it's all so exciting.

Good luck on exams, finals and graduations.

It seems that every time I check in there are so many new posts, I am afraid to add one more.

Kip, get well.

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VeronikaG - Apr 15, 2004 12:40 am (#1162 of 2912)

Happy birthday, Kristen! And happy non-birthday to everybody else!

Lynn, I think you are very brave to come out with your story. Such secrets are very heavy. And thank you for the nice things you said about me! :-)

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popkin - Apr 15, 2004 12:40 am (#1163 of 2912)
Edited by Apr 15, 2004 1:42 am

Happy birthday, Poppy! That's a very cute card, Mrs. Sirius.

Hi, everybody! I'm back from my self imposed exile. I'm afraid I didn't get nearly as much done while away as I had planned. I did read all four HP books again (some more than once), and did several new anagrams - none particularly noteworthy. As I look back over the last six weeks, I wish I'd given up all hobbies. I'm still hopelessly behind on house work. (time to throw a party, I guess) The first three weeks away from the forum I went through some serious withdrawal. I often found myself wanting to post some "new" and tremendously exciting idea. Now, I can't remember anything I thought worthy of a post. I missed reading all your cheerful thoughts.

I'm hopelessly behind on reading the threads. It will take me ages to catch up. I'm tackling the vote thread next, and hope to get in on the next vote.

I am sorry to hear that Kip has been sick. Can someone tell me what happened to him?

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Essidji - Apr 15, 2004 1:01 am (#1164 of 2912)

True, Mrs Sirius : 24 hours of absence and...50 posts to catch up! Blimey!

I was reading Veronika's description of weddings in Norways. Here in France, since Napoleon 1st, it is mandatory to marry at the town hall first. Then you can have a religious wedding, but the one recorded by the law will be the civile one in any way. I think this law was made to ease statistics and to avoid problems such as bigamy.

Before wedding, you must also have blood test and a medical exam. It doesn't prevent you from marrying if you get found something, but it's a matter of transparence between the two fiancés. The date of the wedding is to be posted at least three weeks before.

Lynn, I feel very sorry to hear about your story. It's true sometimes people react strangely to the news of an illness, and especially the one of you kind. As Poppy said (HAPPY BIRTHDAY POPPY) it is mainly because people know very little about all this. It's a shame to get another illness while you try to treat the one you already have. In the early 80's we also had a scandal about medicines made from fresh blood that infected young children with the HIV virus.

Plenty of "get well" wishes to Kip, too.

Fawkes, Roisin is a very beautiful name. Thanks for telling us. Now, I hope you don't have spots on your face saying you are a treator! ~_^

EDIT : WELCOME BACK, POPKIN!

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VeronikaG - Apr 15, 2004 1:12 am (#1165 of 2912)

About the weddings in Norway, the law about everybody having to marry at the town hall first is just a suggestion, that probably won't pass through for at least 10 more years. At the moment, a church wedding, a town hall wedding and a Buddist wedding count the same.

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boop - Apr 15, 2004 2:42 am (#1166 of 2912)

Welcome Back Popkin,we have missed you. Have fun catching up on the posts. I hope you did do something fun while you were away from the forum.

Happy Thursday everyone!

Today is Tax day, if you didn't get your taxes done you need to do it today.

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Lynn Allen - Apr 15, 2004 2:49 am (#1167 of 2912)

Tim, don't believe Gina Snape about her abuse of me by fanfic. She's a very good writer, even if her affection for Severus Snape is hard for me to understand! To each his or her own...but if you ever have the chance to read her work, you will likely enjoy it. I heard from people in the Lexicon Forum chatroom last night that there are many other fanfics available to be read written by others from the Forum. Once I find them, I'll take a look at all the other talent here in Lexicon-land! This should be fun! Lynn

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septentrion - Apr 15, 2004 4:56 am (#1168 of 2912)

When I read your niece's name, Fawkes, I first believed it was a town name (there's a village in Belgium named Roisin, where lived the poet Emile Verhaeren)but the real significance of this name is so lovely.

I wanted to tell about weddings and the HIV scandal in France but Essidji was quicker than me. BTW Lynn you're very brave, you have my entire admiration.

Happy belated B-day Kirsten ! And yours is coming Gina ! You're just one year old than me, I'll be 34 on may 14th, so we were both born Taurus ! Do you think severus prefer Taurus ? Or is he a Taurus himself ? Next question for JKR : what's Snape's B-day ?

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tracie1976 - Apr 15, 2004 5:56 am (#1169 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Poppy *ok its a day late but its the thought that counts Smile *

Congrats on the new family member Fawkes.

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Gina R Snape - Apr 15, 2004 6:06 am (#1170 of 2912)

Oh, my leeetle Beauxbatons representative...if only we knew. I've always guessed Snape to be a Pisces with Scorpio rising and moon in Cancer. But many, many, many women I know disagree and say he is a Scorpio. It is unquestionable, however, that his preference is for taurus females. We are the earthy fixed signs who can soothe inner demons, maintain the moral course and who always shoot straight from the hip, yet know how to have a good time too.

I wonder if there are any wizarding world marriage customs.

My understanding of french law is that it is first and foremost a country of "intellectualism" over "religion" as its guiding legal philosophy. So, civil marriages must take place before religious ones as a matter of civic pride. No? Aren't there great debates in French government over religious rights? I read a recent article that they wanted to outlaw muslim females wearing head gear in schools for philosophical integration reasons.

Ok, I don't mean to start a debate on this (I make no opinion statements), just an example of my understanding of how French government views itself and gets publicly debated. Hence, town hall marriages taking place first.

Lynn, you are too kind. I am still waiting for you to write that Lupin fic about living with Lycanthropy. I think you could do an amazing job channelling that character with your life experiences in a profound and cathartic way!

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Marè - Apr 15, 2004 6:33 am (#1171 of 2912)

Septentrion, correct me if I am wrong.
I read a recent article that they wanted to outlaw muslim females wearing head gear in schools

They have outlawed all obvious religious symbols in public schools.
Off course the head gear draws the main attention. Obviously when in discussion a lot of people "forget" to mention for example the public part. Does spice up the discussion of course

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septentrion - Apr 15, 2004 6:42 am (#1172 of 2912)

Gina what you call "intellectualism" is called here "laïcité" and I'm not sure this word exists in many languages. It means that religions are accepted and that everyone has the right to have their own believes but what's prior is everyone should be treated the same, and only the civil law and institutions can guaranteed this. The consequence for weddings is you cannot be legally married only with a religious wedding, it's even illegal to have a religious wedding without a civil one before.

About the debate about religion, I don't want to come into it either yet just state some facts : a law has been voted which says no one can wear a religious sign in a public (run by the state) school. Every religions are concerned but the real target are young muslim girls who wants to wear head gear because of their beliefs. Anyway if you come at school with a big cross round your neck or with a kippa, or if you work in a public service, you'll be asked to take it off as well. You can imagine how furious the debate is !

edit : Marè, you post just in the same time than me ! Oh I hope I'm not too talkative (want a better word but don't have my dictionary with me)

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Gina R Snape - Apr 15, 2004 7:00 am (#1173 of 2912)

Thank you, septentrion. I wrote 'intellectual' in quotes because I know there is a broad meaning here I couldn't fully clarify the way you did. Thank you, you made a wonderful explanation of this.

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Marè - Apr 15, 2004 7:02 am (#1174 of 2912)

No your explanation is fine.
I did believe that the main target would be young muslim girls who have to wear head gear. Off course the ones who want to wear it are the little hare. (literal translation, "het haasje zijn" or "being the little hare" means being the victim )

O and Septentrion, maybe you can help, maybe you can't. When in Paris, what not to miss?

Edit: now I posted at the same time as Gina

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Lynn Allen - Apr 15, 2004 7:15 am (#1175 of 2912)

Poppy, you are not getting older, you are getting better. (Don't you love cliches! But I meant it.)

Thanks to all of you who have said kind things about my confessions. I am well aware of the parallel situation in France that led to ministers of health who chose to use infected blood being convicted for their negligence. In the United States giant corporations perform the functions many governments do in other countries, and those corporations made similar decisions: to use tainted blood to save money rather than dispose of it to save lives. The difference is that no corporate executives or American government officials were tried or convicted for those decisions, even after they sold known-infected blood products removed from sale in this country to hemophiliacs in Central American countries. For many there is no respect for life when money can be made. It is an issue that leaves many of us very bitter.

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Ticker - Apr 15, 2004 7:48 am (#1176 of 2912)

Ah, too sadly true Lynn. It's shocking how immoral humanity can be. Hmmm, immoral humanity - is that an oxymoron? Well, it should be.

Poppy, I'm a day late, but I wish you a full year’s worth of happiness! I'm reminded of a joke where a minister went to the bakery to get his wife a birthday cake. He wanted it to have written across the top: You're not getting older... and across the bottom: You're just getting better.

Imagine his surprise when his wife opened the box & read: You're not getting older on the top, you're just getting better on the bottom.

Marcus & Denise - I've lived 1/2 my life in Utah so it's brought back many fond memories hearing about weddings & missionaries. I get asked if being non-mormon in Utah is difficult. I never found it so. Utah is a wonderful, family friendly place where earnest faith discussions can enhance one's life rather than drive wedges. I have actually found it more difficult to deal with the disgusting racism found here in South Dakota between whites & native americans. Ah well, there are many other wonderful things about my state...

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Denise P. - Apr 15, 2004 8:51 am (#1177 of 2912)

Hey Mr. Disney...is that you in your picture now? Inquiring minds want to know...

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DJ Evans - Apr 15, 2004 9:28 am (#1178 of 2912)

Madam Librarian--You're Feb 18th too!!! How cool to find someone who has the same birth date!! Hope you had a good one this year, as I did.

Here's an interesting little bit of a tale that you might find funny! When I was born, my Mom shared a room with another lady that gave birth on the same day as when my Mom had me. Matter of fact--my Mom had to wait till she came out of the delivery room so she could have "me"!!! What makes this story so interesting to me, is this girl was named Debbie too and she & I went all through school together!!! It was a small world for her and me.

Later days, Deb

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Prefect Marcus - Apr 15, 2004 9:33 am (#1179 of 2912)
Edited by Apr 15, 2004 10:34 am

No, that is not my picture. Doesn't anyone recognize the character?

Hint: (Hilight to read.)

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The Red Green Show.

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Answer: (Hilight to read.)

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Kap Shawnsessy is my favorite Red Green character. He is a compulsive liar. His stories are so outrageous that they are incredibliy funny.

....

Marcus

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scully jones - Apr 15, 2004 11:00 am (#1180 of 2912)

I recognized him Marcus!

77 Chat posts to catch up on... Whew!

Happy belated birthday Poppy and all others I may have missed!

I know this was mentioned a while ago, but Marcus... What you said about common-law marriage in Idaho was mostly correct but slightly misleading. You have to live with the person for 4 years with proof before you can be declared common-law married. Even then, you don't get all the benefits of a normal marriage.

My mom was common-law married, but she had a real marriage ceremony to finalize it anyway. (It was held in a bar with a local Judge doing the service in his jeans.)

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Prefect Marcus - Apr 15, 2004 11:48 am (#1181 of 2912)
Edited by Apr 15, 2004 12:49 pm

Sarah,

I'm glad you recognized him. It is a comfort to know there are fellow Possum Lodge lovers here. It shows real taste on your part! :-)

Thanks for the filling in of the details of Idaho common-law marriages.

Marcus

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Denise P. - Apr 15, 2004 12:08 pm (#1182 of 2912)

Sorry, Canadian shows are a bit sparse down here in the South Wink

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dobbyiscool - Apr 15, 2004 12:30 pm (#1183 of 2912)

Barb, we get to celebrate "Willie's" b-day in English class. We just finished "The Merchant of Venice" and started "Romeo and Juliet" yesterday, so our Shakespeare unit will be nearing it's end around then.

BTW: I love Marching Band; I play Alto Sax. My mom said when I joined last year that it was like a cult, but I enjoy it anyway. It's amusing to notice the personalities that people from different sections fit into. Not everyone fits into these stereotypes, but most people do.

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Doris Crockford - Apr 15, 2004 12:39 pm (#1184 of 2912)

Hello everyone, Happy Birthday to everyone! Marcus, I am also a Possum Lodge lover, watch it every Friday. Today was a weird day. I met a guy who's actually taller than I am (I'm 185cm or 6 feet 1 inch). The only other guys I know who are taller are my brother and my grandfather. And he's in high school.

I am participating in the 30 Hour Famine and collecting donations to help children in need around the world. If you would like to help by donating, please email me at sarah_z_21@hotmail.com.

Edit: Doris, I edited part of this post out but left the basic gist so those who feel they want more information or want to help out, can do so. Feel free to email me if you have any questions denise@hp-lexicon.org

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Acceber - Apr 15, 2004 1:18 pm (#1185 of 2912)

Happy Birthday to Shakespeare. Hope this works...

Kim and Denise, what date are your birthdays? I'm the 31st.

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Blast - Apr 15, 2004 1:38 pm (#1186 of 2912)

Marcus if I'm not mistaken that's Gorden Pinsett, he's a famed actor up here, does everything, naratives,comedy , serious rolls, the Actor who plays the mechanic on the Red Green Show is Ian Thomas, he lives not too far from where I do.

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Lupin is Lupin. Natch. - Apr 15, 2004 1:48 pm (#1187 of 2912)

Becca, I'm the 29th of January--and we'll just not mention the year, thank you very much Smile

AQUARIANS RULE!

(although I gathered from Denise's post that she might be a Capricorn. Not that there's anything wrong with that Smile Some very nice people are Capricorns--my mother for one (well on her good days, that is!)

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Denise P. - Apr 15, 2004 1:54 pm (#1188 of 2912)

You are correct for the most part, I am Carpricorn but it depends on what chart you look at, some have me as Aquarius.

Ohhh UPS Man just arrived...too bad the stuff is not for me. My grandmother sent my boys scriptures as a gift for their upcoming baptism. Stinkers got a really nice set, name, indexed...the works!

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Padfoot - Apr 15, 2004 2:02 pm (#1189 of 2912)

Whew! I just finished my taxes. Yes, yes, I know I am a procrastinator. Math is not my strong suit, so I postpone sitting down and doing my taxes until late each year. This year I was really late as today is the deadline (for those of you who are not from the USA). The good news is that I am done and getting back money. Yea! The stress is gone and now I can spend my time doing something much more important, reading the posts on the HP forum!

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Blast - Apr 15, 2004 2:09 pm (#1190 of 2912)

Gina I would say that Snape has to be an Aries.

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Prefect Marcus - Apr 15, 2004 2:26 pm (#1191 of 2912)

Denise, so that would make the giver their Great-grandmother, correct? How neat!

Marcus

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prof sprout - Apr 15, 2004 3:28 pm (#1192 of 2912)

I'm so glad today is almost over. I'm a tax preparer. So I have been very busy today. I still have 1.5 hours work still. A nice 11.5 hour day. Tax season is almost over count down.

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Gina R Snape - Apr 15, 2004 3:36 pm (#1193 of 2912)

Blast why do you say Aries for Snape? Could you post your reasoning on the Snape thread? I'm curious!

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Dr Filibuster - Apr 15, 2004 3:40 pm (#1194 of 2912)

Hope you had a lovely birthday Kirsten (Poppy)

Good luck against Man Utd on Saturday Jules (sinister Kittens)

Glad to hear Sam is content Flame

Thanks for letting us get to know your story Lynne.

I became a blood donor in 1985 when I was 18...just after they changed their procedures re HIV. The (British) National Blood Service seem to update their blood safety rules a lot.

Anyone who has ever received a blood transfusion has been banned from donating at the moment due to one suspected case of CJD infection (human form of mad cow disease). As a result, many regular donors must stop and new people are needed....fresh blood!

I went along when I was 18 as... 1)a right-of-age thing, donors have to be at least 18, 2)to see what it was like, and 3)find out my blood group.. I'd just done A level (NEWT) biology and was nosey.

It turns out that my blood is o negative and suitable for anyone. On my 2nd visit I peeped at the medical records and saw "reserve for neo-natal use" so that made me take it more seriously. I don't mind the lying down chatting to others for 10 minutes, or the cup of tea and biscuit either. I usually go for the custard cream, or sometimes the chocolate version (Bourbon).

See http://www.blood.co.uk for more information if you are interested.

Sorry about the shameless plug, I hope wasn't inappropriate. I have a much greater success rate recruiting people to read Harry Potter books.

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virgoddess1313 - Apr 15, 2004 4:08 pm (#1195 of 2912)

Elf girl- So glad to know that my band's cult likeness isn't uncommon. I was colorguard when I marched and played the flute and piccolo in concert. Best time of my life.

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prof sprout - Apr 15, 2004 4:08 pm (#1196 of 2912)

I used to give blood frequently, but it usually takes me at least 45 minutes to give blood. Than another 15 or so minutes to rest so I don't pass out. I have given up it lately because the last couple of times I have they couldn't use my blood, they didn't get enough or it took too long to get it out, I guess that makes it bad. I'm B- my fiancé is A+ so when we decide to have kids (Long, Long time from now, book 7 should be out by then) I will have to get that Rogam(sp?) shot.

I'm a Taurus also, Gina. Smile (May 11th)

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Gina R Snape - Apr 15, 2004 4:13 pm (#1197 of 2912)

I wish I could give blood but I can't as I am a Type I diabetic.

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Denise P. - Apr 15, 2004 4:23 pm (#1198 of 2912)

Let me chime in on the big kudos for blood donors! My 8 year old has required frequent blood transfusions as well as platelets. We have been fortunate that he has not had to have anything in almost a year. Those people who go and donate are life savers. We don't know these donors but because they took the time to go donate, we have an alive child today. Our family is fortunate that we are all the same blood type so we CAN donate directly but when he was getting 1 unit of blood and 1 unit of platelets a day, there was no way we would have been able to keep up with it. My hat is off to all those who donate!

Marcus, yes, it is their great grandmother who sent them. She is a nifty lady and I wish we lived closer to her so the kids would be able to benefit from being around her.

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Julia. - Apr 15, 2004 5:37 pm (#1199 of 2912)

I'm a blood donor! I'm a blood donor! In fact, I'm giving the vampires a pint of my blood on monday...

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Ticker - Apr 15, 2004 5:38 pm (#1200 of 2912)

Hooray for blood donors! Type O is "universally" donatable - both (+) & (-), so it is in high demand. Sue - cheers for you! Hope you can visit your blood bank often.

So Gina, that's why you make such a great beater - good at shots.
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Prefect Marcus - Apr 15, 2004 6:06 pm (#1201 of 2912)

I am B+, what a great blood type to live up to! (Be Positive).

Unfortunately, I'm on Coumadin, so I can't give blood.

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virgoddess1313 - Apr 15, 2004 6:21 pm (#1202 of 2912)

I got talked into giving blood by my best friend our senior year of high school. I was scared to death, she was extremely excited. She passed out twice and I had to drive her home because they wouldn't let her do it herself. Interesting experience.

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scully jones - Apr 15, 2004 6:56 pm (#1203 of 2912)

I'm under the weight limit for donating blood, so even if I wanted to, I wouldn't be able to. Nurse I'm also deathly afraid of needles, so I guess it's okay that I can't, eh?

I added a couple lines to my scarf, but not enough to add a new pic... I really need to get down to it, don't I?Knitting

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Pigwidgeon - Apr 15, 2004 7:27 pm (#1204 of 2912)

That's great that people donate blood -- there is such a severe shortage, and as Denise so eloquently pointed out, the need is there. Unfortunately, I, too, can't donate blood because of the type of IV needles they use to draw it. They use a regular, adult needle; even when I was in seventh grade, the doctors needed to use what's called a butterfly needle on me (that's the smallest they have -- it's what they use for premature babies) when I went in the hospital. I also have one of the two bloodtypes that there's never a real shortage of -- I'm AB (probably positive. I know my mom is AB negative, which occurs, I believe in one out of every 100 people; it's the rarest blood type.) This means I'm a universal receiver, which means if I ever need blood, I can ask anyone here

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boop - Apr 15, 2004 8:11 pm (#1205 of 2912)

I am a blood donor too. My blood type is A neg.

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Hem Hem - Apr 15, 2004 8:16 pm (#1206 of 2912)

I wish I could donate blood. But alas, I have the same issues as Sarah....I don't weigh enough, and I've fainted before in the presence of needles. Maybe a few years down the line I'll be able.

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Marie E. - Apr 15, 2004 8:25 pm (#1207 of 2912)

Funny blood type story: My husband had always assumed that he had AB+ blood type. Just two years ago, he was preparing to go overseas for temporary military duty and noticed that his paperwork said A+. He questioned the doctor and they said they got the information from blood tests done when he entered the military. So the Air Force knew for 14 years and hubby never noticed.

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Sinister Kittens  - Apr 16, 2004 12:42 am (#1208 of 2912)

I feel sort of rude, for the last few days I have been lurking without comment, desperately trying to catch up with this thread. My belated Happy Birthdays, and usual apologies for my ineptness at not posting congratulations on the correct dates!

Waves to Auntie Fawkes, sends hugs to absolutely everyone without exception and raises pint (of water, it's only 9.40 am here) to Sue - keep your fingers crossed eh?!

To all the brave and hardy souls on this forum - the last time I tried to give blood I had to wait for so long my mum dragged me off the bus because the car park ticket was about to expire (Very Embarrassing!). Right, that's it I'm going back to lurking, oops, working ;-)

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Marè - Apr 16, 2004 1:36 am (#1209 of 2912)

What a lot of blood donators out here! My father does it too. He's AB-, like your mom Pigwidgeon.
And as for me, I'm just a coward, but ever since one stupid nurse misplaced a narcoses needle and had to do it again (Painful painful, painful, especially for a twelve year old) no-one is getting me near a needle voluntarily!
I even didn't want to join in that highschool experiment where you use a needle to get a little drop of blood to determine your blood type. I already knew I was AB+ anyway

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Essidji - Apr 16, 2004 1:47 am (#1210 of 2912)

Ticker (or anyone), can you explain what an oxymoron is? I can't find this word on my dictionary...

I, too, am a proud O+ blood donator. True, the needle is quite impressive, but the idea of contributing to saving lives worths it.

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boop - Apr 16, 2004 2:25 am (#1211 of 2912)

Happy Friday Everyone, enjoy your weekend!

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VeronikaG - Apr 16, 2004 3:18 am (#1212 of 2912)

Is it just me, or is that needle they use for drawing blood a lot thicker than the normal one they use for blood test? My Junior High School teacher brought one to class to let us see. To me it looked about the size of the core of a ball point pen. I don't mind the normal blood tests, or normal injections, but LARGE needles... no! That's why I never got a belly button piercing. It's a control thing, I cant let other people do anything to me. I can do quite bad things to myself (No, I'm not a cutter, but I'm not afraid to use a razor blade to surgically remove thorns jammed into fingers), because then I have control, others can hardly touch me. My parents never believed I could use contacts, because the two first times I couldn't keep my eyes open when the eye person, which I call them, was trying to put the contacts in. They shut on pure reflex when he approached, and I couldn't force them to stay open, no matter how hard I fought. But when I tried to do it myself, no problem.

When I was six, I had to have a muscle in my eye adjusted, or else I'd lose sight on that eye. I was always a strong kid, it took three nurses (women), two male hospital employees, the surgeon (a man) and Mom to hold me still so they could give me the anaestetics. :-D I was a weird kid, really stubborn. If I didn't want to do something (like getting vaccinated, or put on a dress for a party), there was no other way to get me to do it than to physically force me, while I was fighting hard back. There was absolutely NO way to make me understand that I could die if I didn't. Many people, especially those who didn't know me, were afraid to use that kind of force on a child, so sometimes I actually escaped. But if it was important, Mom would have me do it later. I was more afraid of getting some of my toys locked away than I was of dying back then.

Back to the blood business. I don't know if my blood is suitable for donation anyway. After my last full blood test, my doctor said I was to healthy to get sick for the next ten years. But I think I have some sort of resident bacteria that's not dangerous to me, because I have an extremely strong immune system, but that could cause at least a nasty, long lasting throat infection on a weaker person. And if you are really ill, even an infection like that is very undesirable. Besides, in some REALLY rare cases it can attack your brain and make you very compulsive. (Maybe that's why I'm so strange. Hm.... ) I read about people who had started with a sore throat, and ended up insane, forcing themselves to lick public toilet seats and such. Fortunately, the bacteria could be removed through some form of dialysis, and after a few treatments, the poor peoples brains were functioning again. But we still wouldn't want me to pass on anything like that, now would we?

And before I go checking on the predictions thread, I'd like to announce that I'm officially confused today. I read Boop's post saying "Happy Friday", and I thought to myself; "Nobody has been here since Friday, and today's Monday! That's a record!" Uhh...!!

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Ladybug220 - Apr 16, 2004 4:35 am (#1213 of 2912)

Happy Friday everyone!

I am O+ and come from a family of blood donors. My dad has given over 20 gallons of blood in his lifetime. He now mainly does the platelet donations so that he doesn't have to wait as long between donations.

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Denise P. - Apr 16, 2004 4:52 am (#1214 of 2912)

oxymoron: : a combination of contradictory or incongruous words (as cruel kindness)

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Madame Librarian - Apr 16, 2004 5:04 am (#1215 of 2912)

Oxymoron: a contradiction in terms (oxy=as in Oxford University, smart; moron=well, that's pretty self-explanatory). There are lots of joke-y samples.

Look here--word fun

Ciao. Barb

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Lynn Allen - Apr 16, 2004 5:12 am (#1216 of 2912)

Many thanks to all the blood donors. I'll second what Denise said; it is a real life-saver and really not that hard. They are getting more careful about who is allowed to donate and my experience is perhaps one of the best arguments for that. God bless.

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Marè - Apr 16, 2004 5:38 am (#1217 of 2912)

Lynn, due to a "mark as read" session I did a while back I missed your initial post. Me, being the curious person that I am, went back to see what the condition you referring to, was.
After reading it, I am very happy for you that your wife and daughters are okay, but most of all I'm impressed with you. You had/have such a horrible thing happening to you but reading your posts here, you come across as (how am I going to write this down correctly?) neither angry nor caught up with all the things you can't do. I wish you all the luck and health you can handle.

PS I'm confused too, I always thought Lynn a female name, are you a man or a woman?

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Essidji - Apr 16, 2004 5:46 am (#1218 of 2912)

Thanks a lot, Denise and Mme Librarian. Actually I knew a few of these expressions, but didn't know they were called oxymorons. The great thing about this chat is that you can eeemprove your Eeenglish while enlarging your culture a lot. It's wonderful how everyone is ready to share what he/she knows, and always in a very friendly way.

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Denise P. - Apr 16, 2004 6:19 am (#1219 of 2912)

Lynn is actually a unisex name that I believe began as a masculine name. My husband's middle name is Lynn. Lynn on the Forum is male (unless I read things horribly wrong!). I thought Lynn was female before a few days ago mainly because Lynn is more commonly used as a female name in the US.

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Gina R Snape - Apr 16, 2004 6:44 am (#1220 of 2912)

Yes, Lynn is a male.

As for needles, I get blood drawn several times a year for check-ups with my endocrinologist. I used to take insulin by injection 2x per day from age 9 - 24, then up to 3x per day until about age 32. Then we completely changed my regimen (types of insulin and how to control it) in anticipation of going onto an insulin pump. That meant something like 6 - 10 shots a day.

Now that I am on an insulin pump for about 1 1/2 years I only take a needle on rare occasion. But I have to reinsert my site every 3 days, which uses a fine needle for insertion, though the needle comes out and the tube stays in. It's truly amazing. I don't feel the tube at all, and easily hide it. My pump looks like a pager and most people don't even notice it, or the tiny tube sticking out the end. I can eat whatever I want, whenever I want. The pump gives me a 'steady drip' of insulin throughout the day, and I take a dosage for whenever I eat or my blood sugars run high. My blood levels come out nearly normal now (hba1c levels for non-diabetics is 4-6 and I run somewhere between 5.9 and 6.2 for the past year).

So, this means I am a cyborg.

But Ticker, I'm not so sure it helps me with my skills at being a beater in Quidditch.

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Accio Sirius - Apr 16, 2004 8:43 am (#1221 of 2912)

Three cheers for all of the blood donors! I would like to second the notion of how much it helps. Especially if you are type O. Since it is the universal blood type, it goes to the neonatal intensive care unit first--that's all of the sick babies. My son spent his first two months in a NICU and needed platelet transfusions, among other things. From what I understand, donating platelets is more involved and requires a specific blood type, but I don't know all of the info. I'm just grateful to the people who helped my son. I've got a gallon pin for donating, but haven't had a chance to go lately. My little guy is three and still has all kinds of issues (he has a rare chromosome disorder), so free time is an issue. I post only when he is asleep : ). Happy weekend everyone.

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Prefect Marcus - Apr 16, 2004 9:02 am (#1222 of 2912)

Out of curiosity, in the USA we give pints of blood. How much do people in metric countries give? I am guessing 500mL.

Marcus

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Padfoot - Apr 16, 2004 10:51 am (#1223 of 2912)

That is great news that so many people give blood. I am not one however. My entire family does though. I am not really scared of needles, more of the nurses. Every time I need blood drawn for a test, nurses can't find my veins. So I get poked a lot (usually 3 times per visit). I also get light headed quickly. Now I had allergy shots for years and that did not bother me at all. However they didn't need to find a vein to do that, so it was much easier and quicker. I have no idea what my blood type is. I have asked but no one seems to know or want to find out for me. Oh well, I will find out one day I suppose.

I also am a Taurus as my birthday is May 4th. Not really sure what that means though. I regard my astrological sign in the same way that Harry and Ron regard Divination. Surprised)

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Ticker - Apr 16, 2004 10:51 am (#1224 of 2912)
Edited by Apr 16, 2004 11:57 am

Gina, that's cool about the pump. What a wonderful device! I worked for an endocrinologist for a while when they were still fairly new. Now with the pump & new types of insulin, it is much easier to mimic the body's natural insulin production. Great A1c's by the way! Pump or no, it's a fabulous accomplishment.

VeronicaG - yes, the needle they use for drawing blood is beastly big. If it were any smaller it would be too small for the blood cells to safely get through without rupturing. The good thing is, it is not likely to disturb too many of one's nerve cells (especially if you don't watch it go in). It's just hard predicting one's psychological reaction. Interesting about your blood - I guess I'll see you in St. Mungo's if you start licking toilets. Now that is disturbing.

Accio Sirius - I would love a T-shirt with your avatar & saying on it. That is so funny!

Edit: I posted the same time as you Padfoot - if I weren't a nurse, I'd be scared of the people in white too. I've been told by the blood bank to come back when it's hot outside, or when so-&-so is there & usually when I do donate, I leak so slowly I max out my time & don't fill my bags. The curse of invisible arm veins. I only wish they didn't show up on my legs.

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septentrion - Apr 16, 2004 11:29 am (#1225 of 2912)

Essidji good luck for tomorrow's exam (cross fingers)

I promised a link to another website about Egypt, here it is : eternalegypt

I've been a blood donor too but I'm a little ashamed not to have done it lately. In fact, the last time I gave my blood, they nearly refused because I'm just on the weight limit but as I'm O+, they at least accepted.

Marè, you asked me what's not to be missed in Paris. The answer is both easy and difficult : there are so many things to see ! or to do ! What do you like ? Fine arts ? Monuments ? anything else ? IMO, even if all tourists guides will speak of them, I advice you to visit the great museums (Louvre, Orsay, museum of modern arts) *restrain myself from giving details, would need 2 pages of the forum*. I also loved the musée de l'homme (museum of man) where you can see our very ancient "ancestor" Lucy, discover so many foreign works and traditions. As I'm very fond of churches, I've visited some and I'd recommend you to visit of course Notre-Dame de Paris and Saint-Denis basilica where are buried the kings of France, but I prefered Saint Eustache and I like Delacroix' paintings in Saint Sulpice. The Versailles castle is of course to be seen too (which I haven't done yet). For something more unusual, you can visit the Mosque of Paris, built after WW1 to thank the muslim soldiers. I could go on for a long time and will be pleased to give you further informations if these aren't enough.

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Lynn Allen - Apr 16, 2004 11:32 am (#1226 of 2912)

LOL! I'm glad there is a concensus I'm male. Perhaps one of these days I'll stop being lazy and post an avatar so you can confirm it. The beard is a real give-away. :-) Lynn

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Acceber - Apr 16, 2004 11:35 am (#1227 of 2912)

Wow, what a crowd of blood donors we have here. Wish I could, but I doubt my parents would allow it. Oh well...

Sarah and Jackie, do you know what the minimum weight is for donating blood? Just wondering in case I want to when I'm living on my own. If I ever am living on my own .

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Julia. - Apr 16, 2004 11:42 am (#1228 of 2912)

Becca, the mininum. weight for blood donation is 110 or 115 pounds. I'm sure your parents would allow you to donate blood, after all, every time you give, you save three lives. Besides, you're still too young to donate, you have to be 17.

-*For the record...*is A+*

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Essidji - Apr 16, 2004 11:45 am (#1229 of 2912)

Septentrion : THANKS! Well, good luck for you too, anyway, as you will also be taking these exams!

Marcus : you are quite right : they take around 500 ml of blood (rather 450ml), which is in average 1/10th of the blood volume the human body contains.

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Prefect Marcus - Apr 16, 2004 11:53 am (#1230 of 2912)

Essidji - [T]hey take around 500 ml of blood (rather 450ml)

Since 1 US pint = 473mL, it sounds like they might base it on that.

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Denise P. - Apr 16, 2004 11:58 am (#1231 of 2912)

I am O+, as is my husband and all of our children. What is interesting to me is that even though we all share the same blood type, we don't share the same bone marrow. Out of 6 markers that are looked at to type bone marrow, my husband and I have 3 in common, I have 2 sets of children who match one another (Nicholas/Kaity match and Ryan/Devin match), Iain matches 3 to Devin and we have never had Kierynn tested.

Delving even further, you don't have to be the same blood type in order to match bone marrow. A friend of ours (O+) recieved bone marrow from (B+) and right now, his blood is a mix of O+ and B+ and should be fully B+ soon. What is even more amazing, the doctors can tell by looking at his blood that his donor was female! They can also tell by looking at Devin's blood that his body is producing Ryan's bone marrow (which we want).

So, all you 18 yr old blood donors, take the time to become listed in the bone marrow data base as well when there is a drive around. It is only a simple blood test and it could potentially save a life. 3 different people I personally know are either alive or lived 2 years longer because a stranger was willing to donate bone marrow to them. With adults now, there are places that don't even take the marrow, they are able to just get blood and take out the stem cells needed to give.

Isn't science an amazing thing? Talk about magic...

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scully jones - Apr 16, 2004 12:51 pm (#1232 of 2912)

I think I really would donate blood now, even though I'm underweight. If I could, I think you guys convinced me.

I had a very Harry Potterish Day.. Most of this belongs in YKYALFFW... Did I get that acronym right??

Well, we decided to skip working today, we have two 2-bedroom apartments, but we can do those on the weekend instead.

Jimmie played tennis as I knitted a bit, I'll post that picture tomorrow. And then... We went to the mall to eat, and noticed it was KB TOYstore's last day open... Since they're all going bankrupt, everything was on super-duper sale. So we went in, and almost every toy was gone.

I noticed there were still about a HUNDRED Hermione's... Nobody likes her dolls I guess... I almost took pity on her and bought one of each... But, then, I'm not one for action figures.

They had a huge basket full of Harry Potter 3-d image viewer cards... and I thought about buying some cuz they were 15 cents each... But I don't have a 3-D viewer and I'm not sure who does...

So I just bought some earthworm jim action figures for my brother and we left... But I was feeling Toyish... So we went to Toys R Us. I bought stuff this time!!! I got one of each of the following: fizzing wizzbees, ice mice,Mouse bertie botts every flavor beans, Jellybeanschocolate frogs,Frog 4 drooble's best blowing gum,Bubblegum and jelly slugs.

Awesome, eh? Mind you, they were way overpriced... I'm saving them for the movie gathering. Yay for me!Munching

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Marè - Apr 16, 2004 1:09 pm (#1233 of 2912)

You know those ice mice are strange, I saw a picture and they aren't even mice.
When I read about them in the books I pictured a candy that already exists called "white mice" (sjeee what a coincidence...)
I went to look in the store today and bought some (together with some on sale easter eggs, bad bad bad.) I have taken a picture with a digicam, now if only I had the equipment to load it to my computer I could show you. I will go bother my brother tomorrow, hope to have the picture up some day soon.
And Septentrion, thanks for the info! My friends and I only have two days, and a low budget, but we are going to see everything we can . I'm definitely going to the Notre Dame. And I really hope to visit Saint Denis too, I have a triology of child books that goes about the war between England and France and features Bertrand du Guesclin, and ever since I read those, I want to go that church and visit his grave!

And maybe one day I'll work up to courage to give blood, but till then I shush my feeling of guilt with the knowledge that they can cut up and have all of me when I'm dead.

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dobbyiscool - Apr 16, 2004 3:16 pm (#1234 of 2912)

I'm still under 18, so I don't think I can give blood yet. However, I doubt my little sister will ever give blood. She nearly passed out when I was having blood drawn for lab testing. It was sort of funny, because those sort of things don't phase me at all, and she can't stand the Dr.'s office or needles.

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Blast - Apr 16, 2004 4:41 pm (#1235 of 2912)

Needles don't really bother me because I've had so many, I once had to have the top of my thumb stitched back on, after the third stitch the doctor said I'm sorry I forgot to freeze your thumb, I replied why bother now, so he put in the last six stitches sans freezing. I find that people who are bothered by needles should never look when they are using it, since I find it very interesting it doesn't bother me in the least. Gina my Grandmother was a nurse for Dr. Banting overseas and when he developed insulin at the University or Toronto. She died from complications of diabetes but if it wasn't for Dr. Banting she probably would of died many years before. I get checked yearly, because my father had Diabetes and two of my sisters have it. I guess that I'm lucky because my blood is normal so far.

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Madame Librarian - Apr 16, 2004 5:51 pm (#1236 of 2912)

Hi, guys, it was a be-oo-tiful day here in Chicago! Upper 70's, sunny, gentle breezes. Just to match the glorious weather, my landscaper brought over the first of the new stuff we're putting in. She and I spent the afternoon digging holes and planting my three new lilac bushes and one mock orange. (the south side of my house is going to smell dee-licious). I can't believe that just last Tuesday it was 34 degrees and a bitter wind was blowing. And, I can't believe how pooped I am from all that digging--we have very clay-y soil and, sheesh, is it heavy.

I've always been iffy weight-wise for giving blood--I hover between 115 and 118. Then a few years ago I had a nasty brush with endometrial cancer (caught early, thank heaven), so they won't let you donate till you are 5 years post treatment. I'm at 3 years post now, so I figure in summer 2006, I'll be allowed if the weight thing doesn't stop me. I have great veins, though. Maybe movie 4, book 6, movie 5, or something will be due out at the same time.

My husband is a regular donor at our synagogue drive and Jordan just started this year. Most colleges have at least one blood drive a year, sometimes more.

Ciao. Barb

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Viola Intonada - Apr 16, 2004 6:15 pm (#1237 of 2912)

I have never given blood before. In college I was always turned away because of the medication I was on. Now that I am on a different medication, I should be able to. I hopped over to the Red Cross website to check. (btw, the weight requirement is 110 lbs)

So, I have been inspired to donate blood, (hubby does so regularly).

Mare, a word of advice: beware of pick-pockets in Notre Dame Cathedral. I was a bit too naive when I visited there.

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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 16, 2004 8:57 pm (#1238 of 2912)

Well, I am thoroughly ashamed that I have never taken the time to read this thread. Unfortunately, I'm rarely on the forum for long periods of time so I avoid the threads that grow by the hundreds for fear that I will never be able to keep up.

Happy birthday to all you April babies!
Congratulations Marcus on your daughter's upcoming nuptials. I've been filming and editing weddings for 5 years, though I've never had the pleasure of seeing a LDS ceremony. Your explanation of their intimacy now lets me understand why now.
And congratulations Fawkes on your new niece; her name is lovely by the way. My husband's family is Irish so I have a special fondness for Irish names.
I am amazed and touched by your courage, Lynn. How wonderful it is of you to share such an emotional and personal story. My thoughts are with you.

I'm sorry to say that I've never given blood. I am just slightly under the weight limit but the real reason why is that I am needle-phobic. I abhor having my blood drawn and will come up with wild excuses to get out of doctor's appointments. According to my mother, I am A-, though I'm not quite sure what this means. In lieu of the recent posts, I may decide to suck it up and just wear a blindfold or something. Are they very strict with the weight limit?

I was hoping someone could give me some advice about house-hunting. We are currently shopping around and I am quite overwhelmed. Neither my husband nor I have ever made such a large purchase and I don't know whether we're overlooking serious structural flaws or nit-picking about minor problems. If any of you have some tips they would be very appreciated.

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The Great Abbycadabra - Apr 17, 2004 12:56 am (#1239 of 2912)

Bah, I said I'd catch up, but I only got further behind.

Okay, backtracking quite a bit, Blast, I more or less agree with you about where Egypt's artifacts should lie. I have this sometimes horrible tendency to see both sides of an argument, and this is the case when it comes to repatriation and the like. It makes writing argumentative essays very difficult. Luckily my lovely 10 page research paper on archaeologicial ethics doesn't involve me having to choose sides.

Hey, Marcus, I didn't know you were LDS. I am too. Congrats to you and your daughter and her fiance! Some Abbyfetti is in order! ,';.,';.',;,.;,'.;,.

Here's some Abbyfetti for all of you April babies too! ,'.;',;.',;.',;.',.; Happy Birthday!

Not to mention the Abbyfetti in congratulations for Fawkes's neice! ',;.',;.',;.',;.'.

As for donating blood, I freaked out over the flu shot my mom made me get. I remember them having to take a blood sample when I got my tonsils out. Yikes, that was scary. Needles and I just do not mix, I'm afraid.

Heehee, okay, I need to stop being away so much.

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Sinister Kittens  - Apr 17, 2004 1:21 am (#1240 of 2912)

OMG I forgot to say Congratulations to Marcus, so sorry - it's belated but wish your daughter and future son-in-law all the best.

I know that there are a fair few authors and aspiring authors on the lexicon so I thought I would let the UK residents know that the BBC is holding a writing competition, check their web-site for details. http://www.bbc.co.uk - er I hope that link works...

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boop - Apr 17, 2004 1:22 am (#1241 of 2912)

Blast(Steve), Have a Great Day.

Happy Saturday Everyone!!!

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Denise P. - Apr 17, 2004 5:35 am (#1242 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Blast!

While you don't see an LDS wedding filmed, a lot of couples still have traditional type photos....just none during the ceremony. When my uncle and aunt got married years ago, I was one of the flower girls. The photographer wanted me, as the little flower girl, to get on tiptoes and kiss my now aunt while the other flower girl looked on. Being 5 and unreasonable, I refused. The photo shows Laurie kissing my Aunt Nancy while *I* look on. LOL Do you know, that was more than 30 years ago and my Aunt Nancy STILL gives me grief about it? (She loves to tease me...she is really my favorite Aunt)So even though they were married in the Temple, they still have photos with a wedding party and had a reception at their local church. It really various couple by couple what they want to do.

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Lynn Allen - Apr 17, 2004 6:31 am (#1243 of 2912)

Congratulations to Gina Snape on the success of your insulin pump treatment! It must be absolutely transformative to your lifestyle. And again, thanks for the kind words on my illness-related postings. There is still a lot of stigma attached to HIV, probably because most folks acquire it through behaviors that are not accepted by society. My "innocent victim" status allows me to disclose to people with less fear of hostility and rejection. Your responses were appreciated.

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mollis - Apr 17, 2004 6:40 am (#1244 of 2912)

Sherbie - I've recently purchased a house and am currently selling one (nice lake-front townhome in Virginia if you're interested!), so I can give you some limited advice. Get a really good home inspector. Ours spent about 3 hours in the home and they check out everything from the plumbing and electrical to the roof and siding. Your inspector can usually clue you in to whether there have been problems in the house such as leaking (roof or basement) or faulty wiring. If your inspector notices anything suspect, then you can call in a certified professional (ex: chimney sweep or electrician). If problems are found, don't be afraid to ask the seller to fix them (ours just replaced all the wood rot on the exterior of our new house). If too much is found you are free to walk away from the deal.

As for picking a house, that's really up to you. But make sure you don't let your realtor push you to a house that is more expensive than you can afford. And it you can make yourself see past the 80's wall paper and awful paint colors, it will make it much less painful. Focus on the layout of the interior-you can remodel all you want over time. And it gives you a great excuse to watch HGTV! (I love all those shows!)

Got a little wordy there, but hopefully I was a little helpful!

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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 17, 2004 7:24 am (#1245 of 2912)

Thank you, Mollis. Not too wordy at all; we need as much help as we can get. I'd love to buy your home, it sounds beautiful, but unfortunately we live quite a ways from Virginia! Right now we've got an offer in with a bank-repossessed house, but our realtor doesn't know how happy they'll be using a buyer with an FHA loan. Apparently, dealing with federal stuff costs the bank more money and problems. Oh well, I know we'll find one but all this looking is beginning to frustrate me!

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mollis - Apr 17, 2004 8:04 am (#1246 of 2912)

As long as you are in no immediate need for a new house, just take your time and enjoy the search. You can even do a lot from your home computer (realtor.com is one site). If you and your realtor know exactly what you want, just wait for it to come on the market. And if the banks wants to sell the house, they'll just have to deal with your loan. But good luck with it all. I hope it works out for you. We are moving into our new home the last weekend of April/first of May. So, I think I should probably get to packing!

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Accio Sirius - Apr 17, 2004 8:30 am (#1247 of 2912)

Mollis, where in Virginia? I'm in Alexandria!

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VeronikaG - Apr 17, 2004 8:47 am (#1248 of 2912)

Do people actually buy houses in the US? I have always been told that you only rent houses, because if you own them the property taxes will be higher than your income. In Norway, on the other hand, renting a whole house is so expensive that you can rather take a mortgage. After ten years of renting, you'll have paid almost the same amount as the price of the house.

About being an innocent victim of HIV, I remembered this awful story from a few years back. Please delete if this is inappropriate. There was a story in the papers, head lines if I'm not mistaken, about a 10 years old girl who was attacked by a drug addict while Christmas shopping with her parents. The man just walked up to the family, stabbed the girl in the arm with a used needle, and ran away. The man was HIV positive, and it was assumed he did what he did out of bitterness. He couldn't stand to see the happy people preparing for Christmas, and the innocent little kid. When he saw them, he felt like destroying that life. The police caught him the next day, but he was a total nutcase, and they could not really get a statement out of him. So the motive is just a god guess, really. The girl did not get HIV, but she got hepatitis C, it was revealed in a follow up later on. It seems to be like some writer who's name I can't remember said, that the worst crimes are often done on impulse.

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Denise P. - Apr 17, 2004 9:06 am (#1249 of 2912)

A great many people in the US own houses. I know when we first got married, my husband and I rented a house for $325 a month for 3 bedrooms/1 bath. When we bought a house a few years later, our payment for the house (to include property taxes for the year) was $480. We got a Cape Cod with an unfinished upstairs and it became 4 bedrooms/2.5 baths. It just made more sense to buy a house than to rent it. You build up equity and can see a return on your investment. There are situations though, where becoming a home owner is just not possible. In some areas, houses are so incredibly expensive for little shacks, it is just not funny. My sister in law lives in San Diego, CA. She and her husband paid over $ 3/4 million! for a 1800 sq ft track house (all the houses in her area look identical). That same house where I live would go for under $100,000.

Lynn, only ignorant people (as in not familiar with the disease) would treat you any differently for contracting a disease through no fault of your own. It is tragic that people are so afraid of something that they shy away from learning more and seeing the person behind the disease. You sound like you are an interesting individual and I applaud you for being so open about everything, I know it could not have been easy.

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Ladybug220 - Apr 17, 2004 9:15 am (#1250 of 2912)
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Veronica,

It depends on where you live in the US as to how economical it is to buy a house or apartment. I would say that in the really large cities - New York, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Washington DC, etc. - that it may be cheaper to rent rather than buy a house. I live in the South and it tends to be fairly easy to buy a house. I would speculate that there are more home owners than renters. I live in Alabama and we have the lowest property taxes in the country (but that doesn't stop people from complaining about them) and they really are cheap so many people can afford to buy a home.

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VeronikaG - Apr 17, 2004 9:29 am (#1251 of 2912)

OK. That proves that you have to talk to people to learn about their countries. English books used in our High Schools sometimes contain strange information. (Some English teachers also contain strange information.)

I just did the math on how much Barb's sister in law paid for her house. That was expensive! In the area I live, you can get a very nice house for half of that, and we think that's expensive. But California is for the rich, or what? :-)

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Dragonesss - Apr 17, 2004 10:36 am (#1252 of 2912)
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Happy Birthday Blast!

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tracie1976 - Apr 17, 2004 10:39 am (#1253 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Blast!!

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Lupin is Lupin. Natch. - Apr 17, 2004 10:49 am (#1254 of 2912)

I forget who originally asked for the tips in house hunting but since my husband is a real estate attorney I have to put my two cents in. Although attorneys get a bad rap (and in many cases well-deserved) a GOOD attorney can make the house buying process much simpler and protect your interests in what is likely to be the most important purchase of your life. Few people realize the problems they can inherit when buying a house and spend more time researching the purchase of a new car than in securing appropriate representation on what is to be the outlay of an enormous sum of money.

Note to Denise: As a Massachusetts native I have to say this: A COD is a type of fish, a CAPE is a type of house and CAPE COD is a place (talk about your real estate). Smile

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mike miller - Apr 17, 2004 11:10 am (#1255 of 2912)

Happy Spring to all those Forumers who live in the Northern Hemisphere! To those "down under", Fall is great too!

We have finally had a beautiful Spring Saturday here in Baltimore, Maryland, sunny and mid-70's F. It may top 80 degrees tomorrow. Since we're on the topic of houses, I spent the past 5 hours spreading mulch (2 pick-up loads, about 4 cubic yards). One of the best things about home ownership is being able to work in the yard! seeing the flowers come up and the trees turning green is wonderful sight! I consider yard work to be therapy, sort of mental health activity. All the probelms of the world seem to disappear when your cutting grass or planting flowers.

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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 17, 2004 12:48 pm (#1256 of 2912)

Thanks for all the advice, everyone! Mollis, our realtor sends us to look for houses on realtor.com and then sets up showings for us. He also keeps his eye out for anything that may interest us.

Most 1400-1600 square foot houses in the area we're hoping to buy that are in good condition run anywhere from $85,000 to $110,000. We live in Oklahoma and the property here is very inexpensive because there is a lot of land but not a ton of people. In fact, many people move here for the low housing costs. Our apartment rent (1000 sq ft. apartment) is $665 a month and our mortgage should be no more than $700.

Denise, my relatives live in La Jolla and bought their house for 6 million. True, it is very large and beachfront to boot, but 6 million here would buy about 10 comparable houses. Houses can be ridiculously expensive in desirable areas.

My husband can't wait to do lawn work, Mike. He talks about it all the time and looks at lawn mowers everytime we go out. Mostly I'm looking forward to being able to paint. After years in white-walled apartments I want to see some color!

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Acceber - Apr 17, 2004 1:52 pm (#1257 of 2912)

Grrrr...I hate having to go to school and missing so many posts that I miss an entire topic! AH! Anyway:

Julia: thanks for the blood donor information. I'm way under the weight limit and my doctor says I won't be growing much more, so I probably won't ever be able to give blood.

Happy Birthday Blast!

Our family friends live in Pacific Palisades, CA and they bought a house about a year and a half ago for around $1 million. They got an estimate this past February and the price had gone up to about $1.2 million .

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Liz Mann - Apr 17, 2004 2:19 pm (#1258 of 2912)

Does anyone know the HTML for a countdown?

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Dr Filibuster - Apr 17, 2004 2:23 pm (#1259 of 2912)

Sinister Kittens (Jules) will be swigging back the butterbeers and singing songs of victory at the moment.

Portsmouth 1 Man Utd 0

That's the muggle equivalent of the Chudley Cannons winning the Quidditch League. Congratulations.

PS. In the time it took me to write this post my house has increased it's value by 7%. That's how crazy it is here right now.

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Leviosa - Apr 17, 2004 2:47 pm (#1260 of 2912)

Happy birthday Blast! I hope you have a great day.

Belated happy birthday to everyone I forgot.

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Gina R Snape - Apr 17, 2004 4:52 pm (#1261 of 2912)

Happy birthday Blast!!!!!

Have a case of "Snoat" on the house.

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Mrs. Sirius - Apr 17, 2004 5:07 pm (#1262 of 2912)

Gary Oldmans (Sirius Black) is on New York PBS station, WNET, channel 13, which is showing "We Think the World of You" right now 9:00 pm EST.

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mollis - Apr 17, 2004 5:43 pm (#1263 of 2912)

Accio Sirius: I live on Smith Mountain Lake near Roanoke, Virginia. Not too far from where you are. Too bad I'm moving in 2 weeks. At least I finally got started packing today.

And yeah, housing costs vary a great deal depending on what part of the country you live in. But in my experience you can pay a mortgage for a couple hundred dollars more a month. So it becomes a no-brainer to buy rather than pay rent every month.

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Julia. - Apr 17, 2004 5:54 pm (#1264 of 2912)

Happy birthday Blast!!!

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Viola Intonada - Apr 17, 2004 6:14 pm (#1265 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Blast!

Abby! *Waves frantically* How are you? I haven't "seen" you very much lately. I've missed your Abbyfetti. Right now I am trying to arrange to go on an Archaeological dig this summer for a week to see if I want to pursue that career path.

There is a blood drive in my town on Monday and I am going!

Hubby and I shopped for 5 years for a house, with the same realtor. (It took us that long to find the "right" house) She was very happy, yet very sad when we finally bought a house, we had built up quite a relationship. My piece of advice: Don't buy a house for the full amount that the bank is willing to approve for you. One bank approved us for twice the amount that we actually bought a house for. If we would have gone the full amount we would not have been able to afford anything else, such as remodeling, vacations, food....

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mollis - Apr 17, 2004 6:16 pm (#1266 of 2912)

Oh yeah! The bank will approve you for sometimes twice what you should spend on a house. I don't know how they come up with their numbers sometimes. Definitely calculate how much you want your monthly payments to be and go from there!

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Marie E. - Apr 17, 2004 8:11 pm (#1267 of 2912)

Mollis, my husband's family used to vacation on Smith Mountain Lake every summer when he was a boy. He is from Bluefield, West Virginia, right on the Virginia border. Now they have a summer home on Bugg's Island Lake, near the North Carolina border.

We will begin searching for a house soon, and I am sort of dreading it. We were in military housing for seven years and rented a house when my husband got out. Our rent is $995 so I'm sure our mortgage will be around there too. Houses average about $170,000 here in Colorado Springs. We should have bought a house when we first moved here in 1995 when housed averaged $100,000.

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DJ Evans - Apr 17, 2004 8:15 pm (#1268 of 2912)

BLAST

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Here's wishing you a day full of wishes, love and presents!!!!

Later days, Deb


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The Great Abbycadabra - Apr 17, 2004 10:26 pm (#1269 of 2912)

Hey, Viola! I'm so excited for you. I need to go on a dig one day. I amaze myself that I haven't. I'm transferring to a new school in the fall, and I believe I'll have the remedy to that little problem once I get there. Good luck with the dig, and I hope you enjoy your new career! Have some Abbyfetti on me! ',.;',;.',;.';.

And, Blast, how could I not give you some birthday Abbyfetti? Happy Birthday! ,';.',;.',;.',.;',.;',.;'.;

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Dr Filibuster - Apr 18, 2004 1:13 am (#1270 of 2912)

Blast, hope you have a blast on your birthday.

Happy Sunday. I'm sitting here on my settee (sofa) feeling exhausted just watching the London Marathon. It's raining and they all look frozen too.

Last year’s female winner, olympic champion Paula Radcliffe grew up in Northwich, where I live.

Has anyone here ever run a marathon?

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Blast - Apr 18, 2004 4:04 am (#1271 of 2912)

The only marathon that I've ever run is when I was chased by a couple of dogs once. Thanks for the well wishes everybody, I had too much snoat Gina, the only problem was someone changed the Best Before date on it and, I,m feeling a little sheepish today.

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boop - Apr 18, 2004 4:46 am (#1272 of 2912)

Blast, LOL I love your new avatar it is so cute. The marathon of chasing dogs must have been fun!!!

The only marathon that I have done is chasing kid's around so does that count?

Have a Great Day Everyone!!!!!!

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Flame Alligator - Apr 18, 2004 5:05 am (#1273 of 2912)

Hey everybody! I have been reading but not posting last couple of days. My kitty is still hangin in there but the cancerous lump under her chin is a lot bigger. She is in good spirits. I had to chase her down to bathe her yesterday. Not her usual break neck speed but a fast trot. She is so brave. My neighbor's cat, Tommy, a bobtail, died 2 days ago. He found him in the grass. Samantha is a relative of his and used to play with him as a very young kitten before I took her in. He was just 6 months older than her and now they will die within a close time to one another. I will miss Tommy as he was our kitty friend.

I am very healthy and would love to donate blood. The catch: I always way about l00 to 105 lbs. I don't like that rule. I think my body could easily handle giving blood.

DRAGONESS!!!!!!! Where you been? So glad to see you. Hugs and kisses!!!! I miss your posts

Mollis, Better get packing. If you start early, the packing can be nice and leisurely. Everthing organized. This makes unpacking a lot easier. I think anyway. Late minute packing......the worst.

Madam Poppy, A belated Happy Birthday!!! Sorry I am late. As a 50+, enjoy being a nifty fifty. I am loving my fifties!!!

Blast, Happy Birthday!!!! Big hug!!! again belated. forgive me? Hope you had a "blast" of a birthday. (Don't you just love puns? )

Lynn Allen, Thanks for sharing your story. It makes no difference to me,btw, and wish I was there in person to give you a big hug.

Notice to anyone who loves to chat like me: My screen name on aim is ArchetypeGds feel free to add me to your Buddy Lists. I am usually up late at night.

If I missed any of you April babies......HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUYS!!!!

My husband has the Flu starting more work for me So I am nurse maid this week.

Fawkes, I know this is early but Top of Mon. morning to ya!!!! (Sometimes I am on line very early or late, however you look at it, and I forget to post "Top of the mornin to ya", at the appropriate time.

I have been so happy lately it is criminal. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. Nothing so far. Sending a cup of my joy to you all.

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septentrion - Apr 18, 2004 5:14 am (#1274 of 2912)

I'm always late for birthdays ! Well, happy belated birthday Blast !

Esidji, I hope you did well yesterday. As for me, I can see no success in that exam. I feel like it was a lost day for me.

My marathons are to catch the bus or the train when I'm late and last no more than 5 minutes...

Marè, I've read you'll only have a two-day trip in Paris yet I've remembered other things I've loved there, and well, you choose if you're going to see them or not :
-the museum of Middle Ages, also known as Cluny Museum, where you can see the tapestry of the "Dame à la Licorne" (the woman with the unicorn)
-this museum is in the Quartier Latin, where you have the old universities and the nice church of Saint-Séverin
-near to the museum of modern arts lies the church of saint Merry (how could I forget one of my favorite churches ?)
-and don't miss a tour in Montmartre. You can have your portrait done by artists in the "place du Tertre" (tertre square) near the church of the Sacré-Coeur.

edit you post in the same time than me Flame. I'll add you in my aim buddies. Hope your kitty has good last days of its life.

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Madame Librarian - Apr 18, 2004 5:17 am (#1275 of 2912)

Blast, Happy Belated Birthday! Didn't have a chance to post later yesterday, so missed the big event. May you have a happy, healthy HP-filled year.

Sherbie--My advice to the home-buyer (in addition the the good stuff others have said) is to have a really, really thorough inspection done by a good contractor--ask you realtor for references, BUT, check with recent buyers if possible to see if he/she inspected well. In other words, did the contractor do it well, were there any surprises after move-in. The inspection process is only done when you've practically finished the deal, so don't sign your money away till you're satisfied. Roof, basement, windows, sump pump, garage, insects, landscaping (how old, more or less, is that lovely tree?), etc. A good contractor/inspector will advise you on these things.

Ciao. Barb

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Dr Filibuster - Apr 18, 2004 5:38 am (#1276 of 2912)

Hi Flame,

I had you down as a marathon runner.

There's a guy called Mr Singh who is the oldest runner today. He's about 92 years old, and since his 89th birthday his times have got faster. I am convinced he is a wizard and will have a visit from the MoM later today for attracting too much attention from muggles..

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Marè - Apr 18, 2004 6:06 am (#1277 of 2912)

Thanks Viola and Septentrion! I'm copying all your information in a word file and will take it with me!

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Acceber - Apr 18, 2004 6:31 am (#1278 of 2912)

Marathons-I could go on and on, being a native Bostonian who goes every year to hand out orange slices to weary runners. Come to think of it, how about it? We usually get there around 1:00, in time to see the leaders running faster than I could think humanely possible. They don't even look at us spectators, much less take oranges. After that, the next wave comes. These people have numbers and most aren't bandits (non-registered). Some take oranges, but not enough to make any dent in our bag. After them come the next slew. These people have the higher numbers and many are dressed up in wacked costumes. Here, there are many bandits and some people we know. These hungry souls take oranges, making a huge space in the bag. By now it's around 4:00 and most unloyal people have left. Not us. About half an hour later, the last group of runners, or more appropriately, walkers come. These people are all bandits, running for the heck of it or just to burn calories. All of them take about five oranges in one go, or more since it is nearing dinner time and they still have about six miles left. This is my personal favorite part; the runners are so accepting of the oranges and so grateful for us to have stayed.

Wow, that was long. I'm done ranting now.

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Essidji - Apr 18, 2004 7:41 am (#1279 of 2912)

Septentrion : I haven't got a clue if what I did was right or wrong or if they'll find what they want in my work. All I can say is that I did all my best, and "whew, it's over!". I had the most terrible headache, which started right between the two exams. I went straight to bed after dinner, woke up around midnight and it still was there. Fortunately, everything was OK this morning. Sorry to learn you feel like you failed, by maybe you will get a good mark anyway, who knows?

I, too, am always late for wishing anything, but Happy Birthday to you, Blast.

I won't be able to connect myself before thursday, I believe there are going to be at least 150 posts when I come back...

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Julia. - Apr 18, 2004 7:43 am (#1280 of 2912)

Well. My marathon story doesn't nearly compete with Becca's, but I have one anyway. One day, a long time ago, around 1981, my mommy and daddy were sleeping soundly. Then, suddenly, they heard the pitter patter of feet. Then went to investigate, and discovered that the house was on the race rout of the Annual New Haven 5k Road Race, that takes place every year. By 1985, a family friends started gathering on the front lawn to watch the race. At this time, it occurred to my parents that if all these people were coming, they should probably feed them. Thus, in 1985, (only a few days before yours truly was born) The Anual Katz Labor Day Breakfast began. (We even got to be on TV, but I was still in mommy's tummy) So now, every year on Labor Day, we have about 60 people to the house for breakfast and race watching. It's always quite fun, we have now graduated to having noise makers, and so we cheer on the people we know, and the people who wear these silly shirts that say "Waren Street" thus forcing us to ask "Where's Waren Street?" as they run buy. A few said "Chicago!" Several said "New Jersey!" BUt whatever, despite the fact that we still don't know where Waren Street is, we still have fun every year.

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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 18, 2004 8:06 am (#1281 of 2912)

Thanks for all the good house buying advice, everyone. None of our friends have bought homes yet, and both my in-laws and parents have been living in the same houses for well over 20 years, so the typical advice we get is either outdated or none at all! I've got another very boring question I was hoping to have answered. Does the age and size of the air conditioning unit greatly affect the amount of the utility bill? As I said earlier, we live in Oklahoma and it gets very hot here in the summer (I think it got well over 104 F last year) and very humid.

On the marathon note, no, I've never participated in one. I don't care much for running, I prefer biking or tennis for my aerobic work outs. I used to force myself to run, but decided I shouldn't make myself exercise that way. I think it goes back to elementary school, when we were forced to do the 1 mile run for the President's Physical Fitness Challenge. I despised mile run day almost as much as pull-up day. I don't think I ever did a single one, in fact.

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Madame Librarian - Apr 18, 2004 8:33 am (#1282 of 2912)

Sherbie--Yes! Yes! Yes! Age and size are a pretty important factor. The newer units are more efficient. Older ones may be leaking freon (veddy bad for the environment). Good source of general info on stuff like that is "Consumer Reports" magazine. They are easily the most thorough and fair when talking about things like this. They always give good background info that can answer questions like yours.

Ciao. Barb

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Lupin is Lupin. Natch. - Apr 18, 2004 8:39 am (#1283 of 2912)

Sherbie, I second what Barb said. Also, many electric companies offer a substantial rebate when you make a large appliance purchase, crediting you for purchasing a more energy efficient unit. Check with you local utility company for more information.

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VeronikaG - Apr 18, 2004 8:57 am (#1284 of 2912)

Happy belated birthday, Blast!

Sentreption, too bad about your exam. But don't completely lose hope. During the almost two years I've been in college, there have been at least three timed I was completely sure I had failed an exam. I couldn't possibly see how what I had written down could be enough to pass. Still I ended up with D on them. Not exactly a good grade, but at least I don't have to do them over.

Our grade system is different from the American, we have grades A, B, C, D, E and F, which is fail. As far as I know, there is no E in the American system.

I was in Paris six years ago, in my second year of High School. We stayed at a hotel on Montparnasse, called the Ibis Alésia. We brought along our own bus from Norway, a pink two story one. Must have been the Knight Bus' cousin. In that we drove around and looked at Paris, and stopped at a lot of different places to take a closer look. There were some places we weren't allowed to leave the bus, Moulin Rouge was one of them, but mostly we could have a look around as long as we were at least two of us together, and at least five after dark. We were 17 at the time, some of us had turned 18, so they decided to have some confidence in our ability to stay out of mortal danger.

We saw all the typical places like Notre Dame, Louvre (didn't get to see the Egyptian department, our teachers had other preferences), the Eiffel Tower (only me and my roomie had the guts to go all the way up), and Versailles. We also went to another museum, I think that was Orsay. Kind of a modernistic museum. Nobody mentioned Sacre Coeur as a place to visit, but I would recommend to Maré that you see it. Just be sure to do so while the sun is still up. According to our guide, it was very dangerous after dark, and even in the hour before. By the way, it is a church. The name means "the Holy Heart". I noticed that that kind of church is called a "basilisque". Huh? Did our maps just have a really weird typo, or what is the connection?

One of the first days we went to a restaurant on Montmartre that was called something with "poulet" in the name. Guess what, everything they served there was chicken. I guess our teachers reckoned it to be a "safe" place, considering teenagers taste. It was supposed to be a "famous" place. Any of you French girls know what I'm talking about?

During a visit to the International House at the University, I took a picture of the house I thought we had come out of. But it turned out I had lost my sense of direction, because it turned out to be the American Academy. I found out that when one of our TV-stations started airing "USA High". It's a show about American students in Paris. One of my friends liked that show, and thought it was cool that I had really been there. I was never inside, mind you.

OK, enough about my vacation.

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Denise P. - Apr 18, 2004 9:52 am (#1285 of 2912)

From 1980-1982 I was living in Greece, right outside of Athens. Each year, my school would take a group of volunteers to a point along the marathon route (as in THE marathon, a recreation of the original marathon between Marathon and Athens) to hand out drinks to the runners. We would stand with hands out and people would grab it as they went by. Part of it also included clean up since the runners would drink the juice/kool-aide/water and then toss the cup on the side of the road. It was a lot of fun and we always looked forward to going.

A friend of mine is running tomorrow in Boston, I plan to log onto the official site and follow her via there since you can type in the bib number to see where the runner is on the course.

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Julia. - Apr 18, 2004 10:02 am (#1286 of 2912)

OK guys, sorry for an abrupt change of subject, but I have a question and only you can answer it. For my English class, we're reading a book on the Vietnam War. The last paper for the course (thank G-d) is to write about anything related to the Vietnam war. My teacher told me that if I could relate Harry Potter to the Vietnam War, she'd give me an A just on principle. However, I'm having a little trouble seeing any connections between the two. Do you guys have any ideas?

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Denise P. - Apr 18, 2004 10:12 am (#1287 of 2912)

You could compare the Death Eaters with the Viet Cong who were fighting for the communists (Voldemort). You could compare the CIDG (Civilian Irregular Defense Group) and the Montenyards (spelled wrong) who were fighting for the Republic of South Vietnam (Wizarding world) with The Order of the Phoenix. This would be done from the viewpoint that the Viet Cong were bad and the RoSV good and of course, as history showed, the Viet Cong ultimately won that struggle.

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mollis - Apr 18, 2004 10:25 am (#1288 of 2912)

Sherbie - In addition to the other advice given, you can call the utility companies and find out how much the average electric bills were during the summer. That would give you the best indication of what to expect. One of my best friends lives in Tulsa, so I can fully appreciate the heat about mid-August in Oklahoma!

And yes, I have started packing. I tackled the storage room first. It's easier to pack up the stuff I don't use. The essentials will wait until next just before the move. The major pain is going to be packing up my desk, since I work out of my home currently. When I get back to KC, I have to work out of the office again (so no more lexicon all day long!). The problem is going to be separating personal office stuff from the work office stuff. And of course the Harry Potter books will be packed last. I'm think of putting them in the boxes with my fine china. My husband will make fun of me, but I thought you guys would understand!!!

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septentrion - Apr 18, 2004 10:57 am (#1289 of 2912)

of course Mollis we understand !

Veronika, I don't know about a restaurant with "poulet" in the name (btw, poulet means chicken) but I'm not very interesting in restaurants. However, for Marè, I've heard on the radio tonight about a new restaurant in the Quartier Latin called "la petite cour". It's said to combine french and american cooking and it's said to be very good. About security, you have to pay attention everywhere you go in Paris like in every big town I guess.

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Sinister Kittens  - Apr 18, 2004 11:14 am (#1290 of 2912)

Ah, the Latin Quarter of Paris, comparatively small but well worth a visit. Some of the out of the way restaurants in Paris serve the nicest food and are quite reasonably priced - I'm sure septentrion or essidji would be more forthcoming with their recommendations.

And Sue - YEAH! I very nearly came on here last night just to post the result but then remembered that most people are unlikely to know who Pompey are - unless I have tried to convert them before ;-)

Being useless again - Happy Belated Birthday Blast!

You have no idea how happy I am! But I think your analogy is about right!

*EDIT* I'm so happy, i'm so happy!

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Marè - Apr 18, 2004 11:55 am (#1291 of 2912)

basilisque LOL Veronika, I think that has to be basilique (check the missing S ) And seeing how I stood at the top of the basilique of the holy heart in Brussel a few weekends back, I should go to the basilique of the holy heart in Paris, shouldn't I!

And I want to go to the moulin rouge! It's top of my list (has a lot of things to do with a Moulin Rouge party my team and I gave three years ago... don't ask.) And I want to see it with the lights on, so we'll probably go just after dark (before the odd people creep out of their hiding places)

You know, I don't think two days are close to enough. :sigh:

And Kittens, I'm happy for you!

PS What would be American cooking????

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Blast - Apr 18, 2004 12:19 pm (#1292 of 2912)

Julia you could write about the treatment of P.O.W.s and Azkaban. Since the Viet Cong did not recognize them as prisoners according to the Geneva Convention, a lot of them through torcher and harsh treatment went mad or died. Thanks for all the well wishes again.

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septentrion - Apr 18, 2004 12:40 pm (#1293 of 2912)

alas Marè I didn't pay attention enough, the radio speaker just told the cooker and owner of this new restaurant has lived for 15 years in America and made great food with american and french cooking.

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Marè - Apr 18, 2004 12:43 pm (#1294 of 2912)

Or maybe something about HP's theme of choices. The choices of the Vietnamees to fight on both sides for what they believed in. ( DE's in their way, also fight for what they think is the right way to live your life) or the choice (and the why of the choice) America makes to get involved.

When at war, you always have to make choices, some are right, others are wrong, some turn out to be the right ones, others are big mistakes in the end. And all of your choices and your perception of the actions that follows them depends on your point of view. Who do you think is right and wrong. It is one of the bases of war. You find many examples of it in HP too.

Edit: Septentrion, if I come across it, I will check it out, promise! BTW, where do you live in France?

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Julia. - Apr 18, 2004 1:14 pm (#1295 of 2912)

Thanks guys, this paper is going to rock, I'll let you know how it turns out...

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Acceber - Apr 18, 2004 1:41 pm (#1296 of 2912)

Denise, can you tell me your friend's number? I could look out for her and wish her good luck from both of us tomorrow. If you don't mind that is.

Good luck on that paper Julia.

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Denise P. - Apr 18, 2004 1:48 pm (#1297 of 2912)

Becca, I will email you the info Smile

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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 18, 2004 1:56 pm (#1298 of 2912)

Thank you so, so much Barb, Kim, and Mollis! I will definitely call the electric company and get those past bills. I had no idea about the freon or rebates. All this information helps immeasurably. Please keep posting tips if you can think of any more.

Julia, I take any opportunity to write comparrison papers about the HP world and our Muggle world. This semester alone I've done one philosophy paper and two media papers about Harry Potter. Anytime I'm given an assignment that I could somehow relate to anything HP, I jump on it. Good luck with yours! I'm sure it will be fantastic; how could it not with such an amazing topic?

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virgoddess1313 - Apr 18, 2004 1:56 pm (#1299 of 2912)

Going back to the marathon subject I've never run one, but my mom has run several. One day I'd gotten some sort of thing in the mail for this marathon. I'm not a runner by any means so I was going to throw it away, but my mom got to looking at it. She had hardly even worked out for years, but suddenly decided at 43 to run a marathon. I went with her to the track to walk and to count her laps while she ran. It was wild. She ran two or three, I think and my little brother (who loves running) has done one.She doesn't run them anymore... she did some huge bike rides for awhile and now is into hiking.

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Gina R Snape - Apr 18, 2004 1:59 pm (#1300 of 2912)

Ooooooh Marè bon voyage!!!! I wish I were going. At least I will be in San Francisco soon.

Blast sorry to hear about the bad Snoat. You really ought to be more careful about that stuff!
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Marè - Apr 18, 2004 2:27 pm (#1301 of 2912)
Edited Apr 18, 2004 4:33 pm

Thanks Gina! And have a good trip yourself too! HP party, was it not? Just to let you know: I except an extensive report on that one!

And Julia, when the paper is done, post a link or something!

And here are the pictures of the candy mice, what I picture the ice-mice to be. The pictures aren't that good, but by the time I got them on my computer and could see them, I already ate all of the mice...
ice-mouse
It has eyes, you see! It really does have eyes! (stupid flashlight)
And this one turned out to have some wall and background (my desk) so you can sort of picture the size..
ice-mice
Ah well...next time I'll just squeeze them under my now-working-again-scanner

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scully jones - Apr 18, 2004 4:36 pm (#1302 of 2912)

Those pictures looked just fine! That's what I pictured Ice Mice to be like also. However, the idea of having a sugar mouse in a clear ice cube-like thing is okay as well.

We only got one apartment done today, we'll have to go really early tomorrow to get it done. Jimmie wanted to play tennis, so we didn't get started until four o'clock.

A few of you met my brother in msn Chat last night... He would really love the books if he could find the time and energy to read them. He knows it too.

Who all has msn messenger? I'd love to add everyone so we can have better chats. I can't use the chat function on here anymore, my firewall completely blocks it.

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Viola Intonada - Apr 18, 2004 6:18 pm (#1303 of 2912)

Mare, I wish you all the best on your trip! It is a beautiful city filled with history.

Thanks Abby! Do you ever go into the chat room anymore? I have started going in at night, about when we did this summer. I would love to chat with you. Good luck at the new school this fall.

Chiao, the scarf is coming along great.

Blast, I hope you won your marathon with the dogs

Denise, is there anywhere you haven't lived?

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I Am Used Vlad - Apr 18, 2004 6:51 pm (#1304 of 2912)

Back to running. I am currently training for a half-marathon in June. If all goes well, I'd like to run a full one later in the year or maybe next year. Of course, after the half I may throw my sneakers away and never run again. Only time will tell.

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Blast - Apr 18, 2004 8:42 pm (#1305 of 2912)

When you live in a farming community almost everyone has a dog. We lived about a mile from where the bus would drop me off. Late one night I was walking home in the dark and had the pleasure of meeting two of the most unpleasant of their kind. I started jogging and they followed me all the way home, nipping at my heels. A couple of months later someone was knocking at our door at one o'clock in the morning. I went down to answer the door and it was some poor scared young lady in a waitress's uniform. Her car had broken down and ours was the first house she came to that didn't have a dog. She phoned her dad and he came and picked her up. The poor girl was shaken up because she had run into a real nasty one, she had a bite on her leg. I figured that she had come about two miles. Cell phone were not around at that time.

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VeronikaG - Apr 18, 2004 11:13 pm (#1306 of 2912)

Cell phones are a nice invention, if you ask me. I'm addicted to mine. Not that I use it a lot, on the contrary. I just like to bring it along wherever I go, so I'm not completely alone in the world. If it's low on money or power, I get nervous, and do something about it quickly.

Chiaojones, you're welcome to add me to your MSN list. I'd like to have a Potterholic to chat with. There's never anyone in the chat room when I check. The given mail adress is the one I use for MSN.

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Marè - Apr 18, 2004 11:40 pm (#1307 of 2912)
Edited Apr 19, 2004 3:16 am

The given mail adress is the one I use for MSN.

Goes the same for me.

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septentrion - Apr 19, 2004 1:22 am (#1308 of 2912)

Julia, I'm sure you'll find ideas for your essay.

Marè I live in northern France near Valenciennes if you know. I think it's not so far from you : you're in Netherlands aren't you ?

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Marè - Apr 19, 2004 2:17 am (#1309 of 2912)

Yes, that's true. I was born in the south east and now live in the middle (Wageningen). Not that there is so much difference in distance because the country is not so big after all. And yes I think you live relatively nearby, Valenciennes is near the belgium border isn't it?
I wonder if I've ever been there, we mostly went to France on vacation when I was a child. Unfortunately, the only thing that mattered to me by then, and so the only things I remember, would be wether the swimming pool was nice and the pizza's any good.

To the happiness of my mam, my brother suggested to go back to Bretagne with the four of us (dad included off course) next year. I would love to! I have a very faint memory of climbing something high at Mont st. Michel and how excited I was about being allowed to go up there, so I would love to go back and see if I remember something.

(Okay rambling on here, I'm done )

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 19, 2004 3:48 am (#1310 of 2912)

Wow, I'm out sick for a few days and there are 191 unread posts on this thread! Perhaps that was my punishment for spilling the beans on my nieces name.... a nasty bout of a tummy bug! (not pretty)

Lynn (I knew you were a guy ), just wanted to say how brave & honest I think you are... sharing with us like that! Sending out big hugs to you!

Belated HAPPY BIRTHDAYS to Poppy & Blast... aww sorry I missed those, but I hope they were good!

Feeling honoured to recieve some Abbyfetti for my niece.... woohooo! Thanks Abby

Good to see so many fellow Taureans here.... Septentrion my birthday is 2 days after yours.... Gina, how could Snape resist the Taurean Charms

Sinister Kittens.... woohooo.... congrats on the team victory. I must admit when I saw the score on the telly.... the first person I thought on was you... hee hee!

Sue.... I'm a 'universal donor' as well! I got into blood donation the same way as yourself. I was 17 & studying towards my A-Level (NEWT) Biology, & was interested to find out more. Next thing I knew, I was a regular blood donor... Unfortunately, because I live in the Republic of Ireland now, I can't give blood down here.... (Due to an incident with Hepatitis & donated blood a few years back, the blood transfusion service are VERY strict on the donor criteria.) Seemingly, because I lived in Northern Ireland between 1980 and 1996, I can't give blood due to the risk of vCJD transmission via blood. I do give blood if theres a blood drive when I'm back up visiting at home... but admittedly, that doesn't happen very often. I must make a mental note to coordinate my visit up home with the next donor drive!

Ahhh Marè... Paris.... oh I love Paris.... I want to go again... but alas, I don't think it will be this year! Coincidently, my family also used to go on holidays to Bretagne (Brittany) when I was a kid. Mainly south Brittany however. My criteria for a holiday was pretty much the same as yours, where the pizzas any good & what was the pool like? Hee hee, glad I'm not alone!

Right, enough waffling... it's just I missed you guys! Good luck house hunting Sherbie. Top of the morning Flame.... you know, I might start a campaign to being back that saying in Ireland

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septentrion - Apr 19, 2004 3:49 am (#1311 of 2912)

yes Marè, Valenciennes is near to the belgium border. Most of foreign people who go nearby this town are just on their way to sun (Côte d'Azur, Spain, Bretagne, Vendée...) and never stop. But if you like Rubens, you may want to visit the local museum of fine arts.
I've never been in Bretagne but I'd love to. BTW, the Mont-Saint-Michel isn't in Bretagne but in Normandy and it's really worth a visit. I've seen it twice and am ready for a third time. It's a really magic place

edit : I post in the same time than you Fawkes. Glad to see we have nearly the same birthday.

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Marè - Apr 19, 2004 4:09 am (#1312 of 2912)

Good day to all you ladies who hang around the forum at this time!

And off course you are right about Mont Saint Michel, how silly of me! Okay, so it is close to Brittany . I learn something new every day!

And Fawkes, yes isn't it sad, that you can say that you have been to all these cool places and the only thing I can remember is that they had ice cones with double space for the ice cream?
What does “top of the morning” mean by the way?

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Pinky - Apr 19, 2004 4:37 am (#1313 of 2912)

We had a friend that always completed that saying with: "Top o' the mornin' to you!" "And the bottom half to you!"

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Denise P. - Apr 19, 2004 5:03 am (#1314 of 2912)

My husband is O+ but is not allowed to donate blood. Because he travels in the Middle East frequently and gets all kinds of weird vaccines, he is not able to donate blood at all. Even if the Red Cross would take it, his job prohibits him from donating as well...as in it is a directive from work to not donate (due to the vaccines).

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 19, 2004 5:12 am (#1315 of 2912)

LOL Pinky.... Marè I'm not sure if it's a Hollywood invention, or a real Irish saying... but it means, or what I think it means is ... 'a very good morning to you' (or something like that)

EDIT : Whoops, meant to say this in my first post...
Welcome back Popkin!

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Julia. - Apr 19, 2004 5:29 am (#1316 of 2912)

Do you guys mind if I add you to my MSN list as well? We've been known to have big parties in there late at night, and everyone should join in! Feel free to add me to yours, pinstripers16@hotmail.com (but if you want to email me, use the yahoo one)

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Flame Alligator - Apr 19, 2004 6:51 am (#1317 of 2912)

Chiajones, I very much enjoyed chatting with Andy and you yesterday. Plus, lindsay. Thanks ladies for listening to my photo woes. She agreed happily to do more btw.

Thanks for the greeting Fawkes.

I am also on MSN messenger. Use my e-mail address.

Dr. Filibuster, No not a marathon runner here. It counters yoga and when I was young my dance teacher said stay away from running it tightens your leg muscles.

virgoddess1313, Your mom is my kind of gal.

It is cloudy today but I am having a blast. Have a good day y'all!!!!

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boop - Apr 19, 2004 8:09 am (#1318 of 2912)

Happy Monday Everyone!!!!! Hope everyone had a nice weekend.

Veronika, and Mare, I am going to add you to my msn too. Here is my msn name boop196078@hotmail.com please feel free to add my name to yours. I look forward to talking to you.

Fawkes, Glad to hear you are feeling better.

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Denise P. - Apr 19, 2004 8:14 am (#1319 of 2912)

For those who want to add me on MSN, I am rrdanew2@aol.com

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Padfoot - Apr 19, 2004 8:24 am (#1320 of 2912)

Wow, there is so much reading I need to catch up on from over the weekend!

Blast, happy belated birthday!

Lynn, thanks for sharing. Hugs to you!

Flame Alligator, I am so sorry about you kitty. I am not really a cat person, but I love animals and know how important they are. I can get easily depressed. Once I got my two ferrets, that snapped me out of it. It's hard to be depressed when you get unconditional love from a pet. My family doesn't call our animals pets, we call them "fur people" and they are our family. Give your kitty lots of love and hugs.

Sherbie Lemon, I had (have) an FHA loan and I had no problems. I purchased my condominium two years ago. It was my first home purchase. My mortgage is less than $100 more than my rent. So it made a lot of sense for me to buy, plus I build up my equity. Everyone has given you great advice, so no need for me to give any. I moved around a lot growing up, it's a hobby of my parents. They love real estate! Not sure what the fascination is.

Anyway, to those who wondered about property taxes and the cost of living, it varies all over the country. I have lived in Louisiana, Texas, Colorado, California and Washington. There are always expensive and affordable areas in each state. Louisiana was probably the cheapest and Washington was the most expensive (in the areas where my family lived). There are plenty of people who aren't rich who live in California. Of course, if you have beach front property, you have expensive property.

All this talk of France makes me want to visit. I have never been there before. I'm not sure how welcome I would be though, since I am an American. Supposedly Americans are not very appreciated in France, or so I have been told. I would love to see the fantastic Architecture though and the great food too!

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Marè - Apr 19, 2004 9:59 am (#1321 of 2912)

I've tried to add some people to my msn-list, but msn went wild. Some people should be added and some I will try tomorrow... (Right now msn went to the eternal "loggin in" status.

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Leviosa - Apr 19, 2004 11:33 am (#1322 of 2912)

I also almost never meet anyone in the chat room, and when I do, it's in the middle of the night and I'm half asleep

For MSN check my email address, I'm looking forward to talking to all of you

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tracie1976 - Apr 19, 2004 12:23 pm (#1323 of 2912)

Hey everyone! It's been so nice here the past weekend I've been outside a lot with the kids. So much fun. Anyways if any of you want to add me to msn its the addy listed for here.

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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 19, 2004 12:41 pm (#1324 of 2912)

Thanks for the info about the FHA loan, Padfoot. Unfortunately, our bid wasn't accepted. Oh well, there'll be other houses (I hope!).

I too would love to see France, but like you I've heard that the French aren't very er, welcoming, to Americans. I think it's partly because we're so isolated from the rest of the world over here and the bits that the other countries do hear or see about us is usually negative.

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Padfoot - Apr 19, 2004 12:44 pm (#1325 of 2912)

Sorry to hear that Sherbie, there definitely will be other houses! The right house is out there waiting for you, even better than this one. Don't give up hope. Surprised)

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dobbyiscool - Apr 19, 2004 12:52 pm (#1326 of 2912)

Darn, you guys are lucky to be able to convert so many assignments in to a Harry Potter topic. The only writing assignments I usually get are literary analysis on Shakespeare and Edger Allen Poe. Or Physics labs, one of which I am *supposed* to be working on write now. Believe me, if there was any possible way I could relate the Raven to Harry Potter with out getting docked, I sure would have. I doubt my English teacher would have gotten any allusions I made. Oh well...

I don't have MSN messenger, but my sister wants to load it on soon. Should she succeed in convincing my parents to load one more messenger on our computer, I'll let you know. For now, all I have is AOL, for which dobbyiscool is the s/n if anyone out there in Potterland has it.

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tracie1976 - Apr 19, 2004 12:54 pm (#1327 of 2912)

I added you Elf girl My sn for aol is tlb3311976 if anyone wants to add me to that.

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dobbyiscool - Apr 19, 2004 12:58 pm (#1328 of 2912)

I added you, too, tracie1976!

Say, does anyone know if I spelled Shakespeare correctly or not in my previous post. The spell check deal said it was wrong, but didn't have any suggestions. FYI, I have to run everything by the spell checker, otherwise my posts wouldn't be very readable. Spelling isn't my strong suit.

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virgoddess1313 - Apr 19, 2004 1:06 pm (#1329 of 2912)

On MSN my eamil is beachgirl46@hotmail.com. Anyone can feel completely free to add my name and talk to me if you so choose. I get lonely and I promise to be nice .

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boop - Apr 19, 2004 1:09 pm (#1330 of 2912)

Elf girl I just added you to my buddy list my screen name is onebtbp, so you can add me if you want.

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Lupin is Lupin. Natch. - Apr 19, 2004 1:12 pm (#1331 of 2912)

Well, Elf girl, since Shakespeare himself used a variety of spellings (assuming there was a Shakespeare and not a conglomeration of playwrights)almost any spelling of his name will do. Smile

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dobbyiscool - Apr 19, 2004 1:18 pm (#1332 of 2912)

Yes, where just in the middle of Shakespeare now. We learned a quote from the time is "What good is a man who can only spell his name one way?" I love that, because, as I said, I cannot spell to save my life. Smile

Also, I am admittedly against any theory about Shakespeare not being one man, or him not being the guy born in Stratford-on-Avon. So what if William couldn't spell? Einstein flunked out of school (yes, I know, there are theories that his wife came up with is theory of relativity, but I am against them, too!). Sorry I rambled on so much there. My friends are Oxford believers, and we are all in debate, so this topic leads to hours of fighting, er, debate.

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Pinky - Apr 19, 2004 1:30 pm (#1333 of 2912)

Elfie, you could compare the Raven to Trelawny. They both are harbingers of doom. All either of them do is croak visions of death. *snicker*

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dobbyiscool - Apr 19, 2004 1:40 pm (#1334 of 2912)

Good point. I doubt my English teacher would have liked that much. She's never read the Harry Potter books, so she wouldn't have gotten it. Oh well...

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wormsé - Apr 19, 2004 2:09 pm (#1335 of 2912)

My MSN is lindsay_warnick@hotmail.com Feel free to add me... cos I like to talk. I'll add the ones I managed to get onto mine.

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timrew - Apr 19, 2004 3:41 pm (#1336 of 2912)

Elf girl, I'm sure Will the Bard wouldn't mind you spelling Shakespeare any way you like, although the way you spell it is the accepted way these days.

I, personally, think he is the greatest writer who ever lived (yes, I even place him above JKR!). I hope your school doesn't put you off him.......a lot of schools do! I love the man, I own his complete works, and have a lot of his plays on DVD. And recently, I bought a small volume of his sonnets, bound in blue silk, on E-Bay......a treasured possession!

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dobbyiscool - Apr 19, 2004 3:55 pm (#1337 of 2912)

Very cool. My english teacher talks about how ingenious he is all the time, and I fully agree that he is the greatest writer who ever lived. Other teachers in the building don't teach much about Shakespeare outside of the required ciruculm. Oh well, their loss.

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McSnurp - Apr 19, 2004 5:29 pm (#1338 of 2912)

Hello peeps... um.. in trying to keep with the subject, my old scripture teacher, Mr. Giombi. (luv him loads) had us look in the Bible and find things that related to our world today. And, what else did i have to write besides my ordinary life... except for Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. Actually, it makes the Bible loads of fun to read. Lots of stuff is based on the Bible in HP+LOTR believe it or not. Yes... so, i'm rambling on now Wink... Thats all for now.

I sign off as my computer becomes more evil... da Mench! (oh man in German, getting so sick of that language)

-meriwether

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The Great Abbycadabra - Apr 19, 2004 5:50 pm (#1339 of 2912)

You're welcome, Viola! I know I haven't been around the chat room very much lately. The last couple of times I went in there it was vacant. I either come on so early that I can't stay, or so late that everyone has already left. Oh, things will be much better in a few weeks. I have six days of school left this semester. Unfortunately, they're all spread out. I'd like to just take my final exams now and get it over with, but my teachers don't seem to like that idea. Oh, well.

Fawkes, glad you enjoyed the Abbyfetti. You know I take any excuse to throw some about. ',;.',;.',;.',.;',. See.

Oh, and about HP essays, it doesn't stop me if my teachers haven't experienced the greatness of HP. I confused a teacher with that a few weeks ago, heehee. It's really quite fun.

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dobbyiscool - Apr 19, 2004 6:50 pm (#1340 of 2912)

Six days!!! We have 27 school days left. Sad

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Blast - Apr 19, 2004 7:20 pm (#1341 of 2912)

I wish that I was back in school, in fact Abby I would enjoy becoming an archeologist too.

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Madame Librarian - Apr 19, 2004 7:34 pm (#1342 of 2912)

Though the day is practically over, Happy Patriots' Day to all New Englanders. Just saw a really interesting PBS program in the Battle of Concord and Lexington re-enactors. These folks are truly dedicated to the drama and history of their roles. They kind of reminded me of us a bit. They are obsessed, too, but theirs is a more expensive habit--authentic costumes like they need cost at least $1200, usually more. Thank goodness, that once you have a computer, the cost of enjoying the Forum is free!

Here's my opportunity to say thanks to our hosts and mods for all the hard work they put into this.

Ciao. Barb

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Lupin is Lupin. Natch. - Apr 19, 2004 7:36 pm (#1343 of 2912)

Thanks Barb. As a matter of fact, I passed by the Parade today as they were all lined up and saw a few of them. They are obsessed.

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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 19, 2004 8:06 pm (#1344 of 2912)

Thanks, Padfoot. It's a little hard staying positive some days, but I'm sure I'll get over the disappointment soon.

6 days is wonderful, Abby! We've got about 2 1/2 weeks left, so I sympathize with you, Elfgirl. Got some good news today, though. Apparently my average is high enough in one class that I don't have to go to class anymore or do another assignment and I'll still have an A! Woohoo! That's usually my strategy for school. I work as hard as possible for the most part of the semester and then skive off the last couple weeks.

I'll add all you hotmail potties to my MSN messenger list. Please feel free to add me too: sherbielemon@hotmail.com

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VeronikaG - Apr 20, 2004 12:25 am (#1345 of 2912)

I've added a few more to my MSN list. I now need to sit and eat my words to a friend, because I told him I'd *never* add people I met on the internet to that list. But I guess I meant boys from dating sites. (My friends a net dater, I'm not.) Don't be confused if I turn up on your list as "Frances". It was originally an internal joke between me and a friend. He calls all people "Frank". "Everyone's a Frank!" I asked him if I was a Frank as well, and he said, "No. Your a girl!" So then I had to be a Frances, right.

My cousin lives in Concorde, and he told about the historical play. It's quite a long one, isn't it? He also gave me a book that he said was about this area. It was called something with "Walden", I'm at school now, so I can't check the title. I'm a bit ashamed to say I haven't read it yet.

I'm not sure how many days is left of my semester. Last year this time all classes were finished, and we only had the exam preparations left. This year we have two projects left. One is creating a data warehouse, the other one's interviewing a local enterprise about their experiences with information technology. We're really happy....

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septentrion - Apr 20, 2004 12:52 am (#1346 of 2912)

I think there'd be no problem for American people to visit France. It's true that many french people don't like the American or America (kind of tradition here to speak wrong of it) but I don't think there'd be problems for an american person visiting France. I'm the opinion it'd be like in many other countries, some areas are more welcoming than others and instead of letting ourselves being overcome by prejudices, it's better to meet the people to make up our own opinion.

My aim buddy list is going to increase so much. Feel free to contact me (my aol screenname is septentrionale).

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boop - Apr 20, 2004 5:23 am (#1347 of 2912)

Good Morning Everyone it is Tuesday. Hope everyone has a wonderful day. At my place the sun is out and it is going to be a nice day again.

Septentrion I have added you to my aim buddy list.

Here is my msn screen name for anyone who wants it boop196078@hotmail.com and here is my screen name for aim onebtbp

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mollis - Apr 20, 2004 5:30 am (#1348 of 2912)

Oh Sherbie, I'm so sorry that you didn't get your house! But you know, that just means that there is one out there more suited to you. We have the same problem with the one we just bought. I found one I loved, and then learned they already had an offer on it. But then I found the one we bought, and it is so much closer to work and in a better part of town. So keep looking and I'm sure you'll find something you love very soon!

As to the rest of you out there - I hope that you are having the same wonderful weather I am. It has been perfect here the past few days - 85 and sunny! Spring is sliding quickly into summer around here! So I want you all to take time to smell the flowers and enjoy this beautiful time of year!!! Not sure why, but I'm in a great mood this morning and thought I'd share it with you all! I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Oh, and I'd love to chat with you all, but unfortunately with the move coming up and then having to work out of the office again, I'm not so sure that's a good idea. But maybe I'll try and pop into the chat room here some evening. Sounds like you all have a party going on in there usually!



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draco all the way - Apr 20, 2004 5:56 am (#1349 of 2912)

smell the flowers and enjoy this beautiful time of year? Oh, Mollis, how wrong you are. Where I am, its sweltering hot. Last year, at this time of year, a couple of people died of the heat! Its that hot. And to make matters worse the whether tempts us with rain everyday but just doesn't!

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septentrion - Apr 20, 2004 5:58 am (#1350 of 2912)

oh Mollis, your spring mood cheers me up !
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Leviosa - Apr 20, 2004 6:23 am (#1351 of 2912)

Would it be OK, if I added you all to my msn buddies? You probably don't know me well, as I'm not that long around here, but it would be great if I got to know you all better. btw, I'm on aim as well (leviosa 87), so can I add you there, too?

I had a French test today I suppose, it was rather bad But anyways, it's over now, so it won't bother me for a while (a while, that is until I get it back).

Last year, I was on an "exchange" in France. It wasn't really an exchange because I didn't have an exchange partner or a host family But it was fun nevertheless. We were in a little village called Aurec, which is near Saint Etienne. I also visited Lyons and Le Puy en Velay. All three are very lovely cities and I can only recommed you visit them when you're around

Spring is around here, too. The sun is shining and it's getting a bit warmer Have a lovely day everyone!

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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 20, 2004 7:09 am (#1352 of 2912)

Thanks for the sympathy, Mollis. Your flowers and mood helped cheer me up!

It's overcast here, but quite warm. You can feel the humidity in the air which means I can't walk outside without my hair morphing itself into some Hermione-esque do.

Leviosa, feel free to put me on your MSN or aol list. My aim is fizzinglinzee. I'm home quite a bit during the summer as I usually take internet classes, so anytime the desire to talk Potter overwhelms anyone, you can IM me.

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Leviosa - Apr 20, 2004 7:18 am (#1353 of 2912)

Thanks, Sherbie. I added you

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scully jones - Apr 20, 2004 7:21 am (#1354 of 2912)

I'm grad48@hotmail.com just in case you guys were wondering. It got chilly outside all of a sudden!

We only got one apartment today, but we're not supposed to do it until 2:00, so I've got a bit of free time!

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prof sprout - Apr 20, 2004 7:42 am (#1355 of 2912)

I know chiao, It was a nice 85F yesterday now it is a high of 61F good old Michigan weather. It will probably do the S word again before May. (snow)

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Viola Intonada - Apr 20, 2004 9:39 am (#1356 of 2912)

We are back to typical Cleveland weather today.

When I went to France this fall I didn't have anyone treat me poorly because I was an American. The problems I encountered would have been the same if I was visiting New York City. I am not a big city person and therefore experienced some "cultural differences" such as reading train and bus schedules. Next time I go to France I will make sure to brush up on my French more. (I bought "Harry Potter a L'Ecole des Sorciers" while there. It won't train my ear, but it will help my vocabulary! My trip did help me appreciate people who are fluent in more than one language. My hat is off to all of you Lexiconers who live in foreign speaking countries and handle the English language so well. We use so much slang yet you have picked it up and use it yourself. *applauds wildly*

Abby, my dad is considering going on the dig with me. Which means my mom will be able to babysit! Good Luck with the last few days of school. Only Hermione would want to take her finals early. LOL.

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prof sprout - Apr 20, 2004 10:03 am (#1357 of 2912)

I know what you mean Viola, I stayed in Madrid for 2 months, the is where I first read the Harry Potter series, but in English of course. After I got back I bought 1-4 in Spanish to brush up on my vocabulary in Spanish, I never knew the word for owl until HP. Surprised) I really impressed my future mother in law, because the first time she met me I was reading SS/PS in Spanish, she thought that was pretty cool.

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Thom Matheson - Apr 20, 2004 10:55 am (#1358 of 2912)

Ok everyone!!!!!!! Dah dah da dahhhhhhh. BIG NEWS. I am to be a Grandad. He of course will become the next catcher for the Tigers in about 18 to 20 years. Lots of trips to Nashville planned in September. I might have to take the next 10 years off work. Better yet Retire. I would like to thank all the little people that helped in this, like Heidi, my daughter. And that no good guy, all guys are no good, from a dads perspective. Mother and child are great.

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Padfoot - Apr 20, 2004 10:58 am (#1359 of 2912)

Congratulations Thom! Too bad you are not very excited. Haha. Surprised)

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Julia. - Apr 20, 2004 11:27 am (#1360 of 2912)

YYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY!! That's wonderful Thom, a great big Mazel Tov to you, your daughter, that no good guy, and you're entire family.

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Madame Librarian - Apr 20, 2004 12:05 pm (#1361 of 2912)

WooHoo! Start looking for HP stuffies right now, Thom. Congrats to you and your family.

Ciao. Barb

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Denise P. - Apr 20, 2004 12:12 pm (#1362 of 2912)

Congrats Thom!



Look up to I-24 from Nashville while you are here and wave to me, that is where I am.

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Detail Seeker - Apr 20, 2004 12:26 pm (#1363 of 2912)

Congratulations, Thom !

May your grandchild see the world in best condition and may your daughter deliver it without much pain.

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dobbyiscool - Apr 20, 2004 12:39 pm (#1364 of 2912)

Yeah for you, Thom!

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boop - Apr 20, 2004 1:18 pm (#1365 of 2912)

Thom thats great Tom, give that grandson a big for me. The best to your whole family with this new baby.

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virgoddess1313 - Apr 20, 2004 1:42 pm (#1366 of 2912)

Huge congrats, Thom!!! That's wonderful news!!

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SarcasticGinny  - Apr 20, 2004 2:50 pm (#1367 of 2912)

congrats Thom! And hi everyone, I missed you.

Thanks Julia and Barb for all the advice waaaaay back there on kosher drinks. My friend was pleased. Also, Guys and Dolls went well, but alas student teaching has picked up and I remain disgustingly busy. Hope everyone here is doing well!

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timrew - Apr 20, 2004 2:52 pm (#1368 of 2912)

Congratulations on becoming a grandad, Thom! My son gets married in September 2005; so I'll look forward to becoming a grandad myself, sometime later!

My son's fiancee (Genna) is still doing a Masters Degree at Sheffield University, so I won't expect any grandkids just yet!

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DJ Evans - Apr 20, 2004 6:07 pm (#1369 of 2912)

Thom--congrat's on the new member. I'm "so" sure you are going to make sure the little one is raised right and will know all there is to know about Harry Potter by the time he can walk!!!

Later days, Deb

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Acceber - Apr 20, 2004 6:26 pm (#1370 of 2912)

Congrats Thom! May he be the new catcher for the Tigers and may they have more luck this season than last season .

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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 20, 2004 6:31 pm (#1371 of 2912)

Congratulations, Thom!

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Lynn Allen - Apr 20, 2004 6:55 pm (#1372 of 2912)

Congratulations Thom! Very good news for your family!

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The Great Abbycadabra - Apr 20, 2004 11:04 pm (#1373 of 2912)

Congrats, Thom! Some Abbyfetti for you and your family, of course! ',;.',.;',;.',;.',.;

By the way, if I went to school more than two days a week, I'd have a good three weeks left, not counting finals. Thank goodness for Tuesday/Thursday schedules is all I have to say. And with all the papers I have to write, it's best that I only have classes two days a week. But, yes, I like taking finals. I always said that we should take the final the first week of class, and if you do well, you don't have to come back. You're good with an "A". If you don't do well, then no harm no foul. Many people don't seem to like that idea, however. Oh well.

Viola, I'm so excited for you! I want to go, too. My dad got his bachelor's degree in archaeology. I do believe he's been on more digs than I have. Blast, I say go for it!

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draco all the way - Apr 20, 2004 11:12 pm (#1374 of 2912)

Say, Abby since you’re such an egypt fanatic could you perhaps recommend a good site on Ancient Egypt. I want to know about not only their beliefs but their day to day activities. Egypt is SO interesting and it's kind of a trend my school at the moment.

VANDE MATARAM! (okay I'm getting all patriotic because I'm listening to the song at the moment.)

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The Great Abbycadabra - Apr 20, 2004 11:30 pm (#1375 of 2912)

Oh, Draco, there are so many! The one Septentrion posted a while back is really good. I've always liked this one: http://www.guardians.net/egypt/ . It has links to a bunch of other really good ones, too. I always prefer books, myself. I can recommend a lot of good books if you're interested.

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 20, 2004 11:38 pm (#1376 of 2912)

Congrats Grampa Thom

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B]draco all the way[/B] - Apr 20, 2004 11:39 pm (#1377 of 2912)

Books are good too.

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The Great Abbycadabra - Apr 20, 2004 11:55 pm (#1378 of 2912)

Hmm, let's see. *scans bookshelves* Books by Bob Brier are great. Egyptian Mummies, Ancient Egyptian Magic, and The Murder of Tutankhamen are some of my favourites. Also, those DK Eyewitness books are really good for basic information. I love those.

I have a book called Who's Who in Egyptian Mythology by Anthony S. Mercatante that has some great info on the gods and myths of the ancient Egyptians.

One book I have, that really doesn't have any good info in it, but it's amazingly beautiful is called Egypt From the Air by Marcello Bertinetti. It has a bunch of photos of Egypt taken from a helicopter. Many of them are absolutely breath-taking.

My mom got me one for Christmas called Ancient Egypt (clever title, no? ) by Lorna Oakes and Lucia Gahlin. It has lots of info and really nice pictures, which I like.

I could name a lot more, but I'd be here all night.

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Sinister Kittens  - Apr 21, 2004 12:56 am (#1379 of 2912)

Thom - Congratulations! And to everyone on MSN feel free to add me to your list, I might well be in a different time zone but hey you never know when I am working late! Its, julesingram@hotmail.com

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draco all the way - Apr 21, 2004 1:19 am (#1380 of 2912)

Thanks again for all your help Abby. Maybe when I grow up ( I refuse to believe that I've already grown up) I'll become an egyptologist like you. Maybe we'll be colleagues! Thanks a bunch!

Oh yes before I forget CONGRATS GRAMPA THOM! You be sure to spoil the kid,now! (If your grandparents won't do it who will?) Do you have a name yet?

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Madam Pince - Apr 21, 2004 1:34 am (#1381 of 2912)

Whew! I have just finished reading over 600 posts in this thread.....ta-dah! I've been gone for two weeks. I was afraid to even look at the count for this thread when I logged on about 3 hours ago, and I was right! Anyway, all caught up now. I missed you guys! Let's see, where to start? I know I'll forget something.

Denise, my hubby always immediately takes the wrapper off the Easter Peeps and lets them air out to get stale -- I thought he was nuts until I read your post and others. I never really cared for them either way myself, but I think there are still one or two left on the kitchen counter, so I'm anxious to find the toothpicks and do the microwave duel! That sounds fun! Also, are you LDS, or just have family members who are? My hubby and his family are LDS, while I am Presbyterian, and I have done the lessons with the missionaries so that I could understand and relate to what they're doing and/or talking about. Our nephew and his wife married in the private Temple ceremony in Utah, then had a reception here at home which was very like the traditional Christian wedding reception.

Mollis, good luck with packing and moving. Two of my aunts had vacation homes on Smith Mountain Lake for many years, but both were sold recently. I remember swimming there often as a kid. The main thing I recall was the "fool's gold" that floated in the water and in the sand. As kids, that was a really hot deal for us! Is it still there?

Lynn, you are a very brave person and have a wonderful outlook. I wish you all the best.

Poppy, belated happy birthday! Hope you had a great one! I was sorry to read about your daughter -- hope she's doing well. Send her our thoughts.

Flame, hope your kit cat is doing ok. Been thinking about you.

Boop, the baby is gorgeous! So glad he's doing well.

Sarah, the scarf looks great! You are really talented! And you will have such a treasure when you're done. What a great reward!

And congrats on everyone else's good news, and happy birthdays, and, OK, my brain has frozen up now. I've been reading way too long. I'll probably remember more I wanted to say tomorrow...oh, wait...oops...it IS tomorrow. Hmmm. Better go to bed now.

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septentrion - Apr 21, 2004 1:35 am (#1382 of 2912)

congrats Tom for your being a grandpa soon !

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The Great Abbycadabra - Apr 21, 2004 1:36 am (#1383 of 2912)

You're welcome, Draco! Anytime. I love sharing. And I refuse to grow up.

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Marè - Apr 21, 2004 1:44 am (#1384 of 2912)

Pfew, lots and lots of posts: Thom congrats on becoming a grandpa!
On the msn thingy, everybody feel free to add me. I have to warn you that I'm working at a computer that doesn't have msn, but my own compu at home has it, so I'll be on when it's evening at central european time ^_^

Bye the way, abby and viola... dig? What are you digging for? Ancient treasures, prehistoric fossils? sounds mighty interesting! When can I spot you on discovery channel ?

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Madam Poppy  - Apr 21, 2004 2:15 am (#1385 of 2912)
Edited by Apr 21, 2004 3:23 am

My happy news is that I made page 2 of our local paper with my Fred Meyer Make A Difference Day! Last Saturday my small troup of employees and some additional family members managed to transform the small city park that is in the corner of our store parking lot. I worked hard for 10 hours straight! My poor son Peter worked there too, hauling river rock and planting shrubs. We also painted the 3 park benches and even the 5 light poles!

On a sadder note, my daughter Karla came back home today so I could go in with her to the Doctor. She has been in pain ever since her miscarriage. I spent 3 hours in the emergency room tonight (till 2:00 a.m.) and she needs to have a D & C tomorrow. (Something that should have been done initially.) Poor thing, she's been through a lot. Her two doctors gave her two different diagnosis. The first doctor thought she had a molar pregnancy, (very rare) the second said she had an ectopic pregnancy. Which we found out tonight was wrong. (Doctor two was also very rude and Very Uncaring! He actually asked her if she had "wanted the fetus?")

So, Nurse Poppy's Advice For Today is to maintain accurate personal medical records and keep seeking answers if you are still not feeling well.

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boop - Apr 21, 2004 2:22 am (#1386 of 2912)

Happy Wednesday Everybody, have a great day!!!!

Madam Pince, welcome back we have missed you. I haven't talked to you in the chat room for a very long time. Please stop by some evening so we can talk, or better yet do you have msn or aim if so what is your screen name. I could catch up with you on line. just some spring flowers for everyone.

Poppy, that sounds real nice what you guys did, all that hard work. I bet it looks great. Sorry to hear about your daughter. I can't believe a doctor would treat her so rude. I hope you daughter get's to feeling better real soon. Here have a hug and pass it on to your daughter for me.

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Madam Poppy  - Apr 21, 2004 2:27 am (#1387 of 2912)
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Morning Boop! I'm finally ready to go to sleep! Wednesday is going to be a rough day.

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boop - Apr 21, 2004 2:36 am (#1388 of 2912)

Poppy do you have msn messenger, if so can I add you too my buddy list? So sorry Poppy about you having a rough night with little sleep. Hope you can go to bed early tonight.

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Marè - Apr 21, 2004 3:35 am (#1389 of 2912)

Hi Poppy,

What a lovely thing to do! I hope all the neighborhood people appreciate the redecorated park and are being careful with it!
And what a stupid doctor, hugs to your daughter from me too. wouldn't you just wish for some skiving snackboxes to feed him? Diagnose that!

And happy wednesday to you too Boop!

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Julia. - Apr 21, 2004 3:43 am (#1390 of 2912)

Happy Wednesday to you too Boop My day is going to rock, first a baby naming, and then I'm seeing a friend who I've not seen since Jaunary!!!! Poppy, I'm very sorry to hear about your daughter. I hope the D & C goes well, and she feels better soon. In the mean time, I suggest some Canary Creams for those doctors.

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Denise P. - Apr 21, 2004 5:19 am (#1391 of 2912)

Madam Pince, yep, I am LDS. My great grandfather invited the Missionaries in to teach them a thing or two and before you could say "Bob's your Uncle", the entire family was packing up to leave England and immigrate to the US Now on the other side of the family, they have been LDS since the 1830's.

Poppy, I am so sorry to hear your daughter is going through such a hard time. What an insensitive jerk of a doctor! {{{{hugs to Poppy and daughter}}}}

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Flame Alligator - Apr 21, 2004 5:46 am (#1392 of 2912)

mollis, Thanks for your uplifting Spring mood. I feel the same way. Spring makes me want to sing.

Leviosa, Feel free to add me to your MSN buddies...use my e-mail address. And my aim name is ArchetypeGds.

Thom, Congrats Grand daddy!!!

Fawkes, Belated Top of the mornin to ya

Thanks for all the spring flowers posted. I am still so lame getting the smiley thing together or I would post a bunch for everyone. Everyone have a beautiful day!!!!

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Leviosa - Apr 21, 2004 6:04 am (#1393 of 2912)

Flame and Marè I added you.

Thom, congratulations!!

Madam Poppy, I hope your daughter feels soon better and sees a competent doctor.

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prof sprout - Apr 21, 2004 6:05 am (#1394 of 2912)

Timrew, how do you pronounce your future daughter in laws name? Is it pronounced Jenna, because that is my name. I'm also getting married in 2005 but in June.

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septentrion - Apr 21, 2004 6:11 am (#1395 of 2912)

I really need that question answered to fully understand some posts here : what's LDS ?

Poppy, it's a really nasty thing when you meet an incompetent doctor. I hope your daughter will get through all of this and find herself better than ever when all this stuff is over.

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prof sprout - Apr 21, 2004 6:21 am (#1396 of 2912)
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I'm not completely sure, but I think it means Latter Day Saints. It’s a sect of Christianity.

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azi - Apr 21, 2004 6:23 am (#1397 of 2912)

I think that's what it means as well. It does when you're looking at family history anyway. Smile

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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 21, 2004 6:27 am (#1398 of 2912)

Madame Poppy, I'm so sorry to hear about your daughter's horrible experience. I've been having some medical problems for a couple of years now and I can totally relate. A few doctors I went to were absolute insensitive quacks! Just have her to keep shopping around until she finds a competent, caring doctor she feels comfortable with. I'm sure she'll get one in no time.

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Denise P. - Apr 21, 2004 6:30 am (#1399 of 2912)

You are correct, it stands for Latter-Day-Saint.

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septentrion - Apr 21, 2004 6:45 am (#1400 of 2912)

thanks for your quick answers, now I understand and won't feel a fool anymore when about LDS.
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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 21, 2004 2:37 pm (#1401 of 2912)

Woo! What an afternoon! I went to Walmart today to buy some groceries and was deafened by the sound of softball size hail raining down upon the roof. Then, of course, the tornado sirens went off. When it hails in Oklahoma, it often signals the beginning of twisters. So we all run to the center of the store (a store mind, filled with skylights) with pillows and bike helments. Over the intercom they report a tornado touching on the exact location my husband should have been. Naturally, my cell phone was useless because the system was overloaded with people trying to contact their loved ones. Eventually the first threat passes and not ten minutes go by before the sirens start howling again. This happened for about an hour.

Finally, I was able to get in contact with my husband who had wisely decided to stay at work until the threat passed. When I left the store, it looked like it had snowed. Hail stones, mostly golfball size but some softball size littered the parking lot. Car windows were smashed in and virtually every car in the lot bears the scars of the stones. I've just gotten home and my head is throbbing. I think the initial adrenaline rush has finally worn off. Boy oh boy, what a way to usher in twister season here in tornado alley!

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timrew - Apr 21, 2004 2:43 pm (#1402 of 2912)

prof sprout, my future daughter-in-law's name is pronounced, Jenna; but spelt Genna.

LOL, Sherbie Lemon, the back window of my car decided to go, 'on the blink', and stuck two inches open on the day that it decides to rain for a gold medal! It's remained stuck open, but at last I've managed to book it in for repair tomorrow.....

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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 21, 2004 3:26 pm (#1403 of 2912)

Lol, Tim! Your luck sounds like mine! A couple years ago the locks in my car doors in my old Geo storm decided to freeze themselves and I had to crawl in and out of the trunk to get to the driver’s seat! A day later, they finally unfroze but in my haste to pry them open, I broke a lock. I had to drive 50 miles to my mechanic while my 6 foot tall husband balled himself up on the passenger floor and held the door shut. That same winter somebody broke my husband’s window to steal his stereo on the very day we had a huge blizzard. By the time he got to the repair shop, there was several inches of snow in his seat!

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Madam Pince - Apr 21, 2004 4:34 pm (#1404 of 2912)

Oh, Poppy, what a horrible doctor! I can't imagine anyone making a comment like that to a patient! If he has a "boss," you guys should tell him about it. That's just inexcusable. Anyway, hope your daughter is feeling better this evening now that (hopefully) her procedure is all over. And hope you got some rest! At any rate, your park sounds lovely -- congratulations on a job well done!

Septentrion, also you should know that LDS = Latter Day Saint = Mormon (since some people have only heard that branch referred to as "Mormon.") I KNEW I'd forgotten something I wanted to say last night -- I had meant to answer your question but I forgot! So sorry!

Sherbie -- how scary! Glad you're doing ok! Isn't it frustrating when you can't get through on a cell phone during an emergency? I mean, for Pete's sake, that's what they're supposed to be for! I know that when 9/11 happened, my husband (who works in DC) was at a meeting about 2 blocks from the Capitol Building. I was absolutely terrified when it became clear what was happening and that there were still planes in the air that may or may not have been heading to the Capitol. I kept trying and trying to get through to his cell phone, but naturally all the circuits were tied up. It was the worst five hours of my life, until I finally heard from him. Decided right then that I hate cell phones!

Boop, no, I don't have msn or aim or any of those other handy-dandy things. But hopefully I'll see you in chat soon!

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Hem Hem - Apr 21, 2004 4:37 pm (#1405 of 2912)

Congrats, Thom!

Hang in there, Poppy.

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Viola Intonada - Apr 21, 2004 4:48 pm (#1406 of 2912)

Congrats, Thom!

Hope your daughter feels better, Poppy.

Sherbie, what a story!

Septentrion, the dig I will (hopefully) be going on this summer is to learn more about the Native Americans (Indians) that lived in the Lake Erie region. The remains of an habitation site was just found recently when they started building a new subdivision.

I almost forgot... I got my new Harry Potter Legos today! I'm so excited, I feel like a little kid. Of course I built them before logging on to the Forum. The Mini-Knight Bus is adorable.

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Thom Matheson - Apr 21, 2004 6:18 pm (#1407 of 2912)

Thanks everyone for the kind words. As it stands now, my "legacy" will be called Arron Thomas Robleski. Not sure about the spelling of Arron but I think that this is it. Denise I'll honk really loud. Over by Opryland there is a Cracker Barrel that is a must do for Sat. breakfest. If you and hubby and family would like to eat, my treat, email me at www.comehometomacomb.com. My website. Would love to meet you all. My son and his fiancee and Heidi will be there as well. Heidi is my Harry Potter Drug dealer that got me hooked.

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virgoddess1313 - Apr 21, 2004 7:40 pm (#1408 of 2912)

Sherbie, I totally understand your pain!! I live right in good ole tornado alley as well, so I know how bad it can be. I had a friend who used to live far enough out of town that you couldn't here the storm sirnes at her house. She used to call me and have me stand next to an open window so she could here them. I don't do well with storms at all really. I enjoy them immensely from the comfort of my own home, but anywhere else scares me to death.

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Blast - Apr 21, 2004 7:45 pm (#1409 of 2912)

Viola where about is the dig? In the town where I live they found a Nuetral burial ground.

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Lupin is Lupin. Natch. - Apr 21, 2004 8:09 pm (#1410 of 2912)

Wow, Thom, my 5th grade teacher was named Mrs. Robleski. I wonder if there's a connection.

Congratulations on your happy news!

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VeronikaG - Apr 22, 2004 2:09 am (#1411 of 2912)

Sounds like Sherbie had a scary day! I hate it when things like that happen! Luckily I live in a no-twister country, the mountains stop them. However, we can have some quite nice surprises with our weather.

We have this holiday called st. Hans' eve, or st. John's eve, as it would be in English, that we celebrate on June 24th. On that day we usually have barbecue parties. In 1999 that day was completely ruined by a surprise hail storm. Fortunately the hails were no bigger than peas, but oh, the damage they did to my lovely garden... :-( It looked like March outside, the trees all naked, and 15 cm of ice all around. After it had stopped snowing, it started raining heavier than I have ever seen in my life, and the sky turned all yellow. It was scary, all right. In town water had come flushing down two streets that go up a hill, and the town center was flooded. Some cars were floating about in the streets. This was a very local phenomenon. In a town only a few miles away, they had a nice hot day. However, since this was in 1999, some people had thought that it was the end of the world, because that was supposed to happen that year. Well, they still had to go to work the next day.

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Lynn Allen - Apr 22, 2004 4:28 am (#1412 of 2912)

Sherbie, I saw those hail stones on our television news and wondered how much damage they might cause; they literally covered the ground. Worse, think how much it would hurt to be hit by one falling from the sky! Is the story of Chicken Little an American one--about the small chicken that complained that the sky was falling? It appears Poor Chicken Little had lots of company.

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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 22, 2004 5:33 am (#1413 of 2912)

Thanks for all the sympathies, everyone! I totally agree, Virgogoddess. When the whole family is together and you're watching the tornadoes hit on the news, it actually a little thrilling and fun (though still a teeney bit frightening, if they're very close). But when you're separated like that and you have no access to information except for the guy on the PA at Walmart yelling "CODE BLACK! CODE BLACK!" things become a little more real.

Sorry to hear about your foul weather, Veronika. I guess no matter where you live, there's no escaping it. Even in sunny California, they've got earthquakes to deal with, and there's no warning for those. Give me a tornado any day of the week.

Lynn, I never thought about how Chicken Little and the hail storms could be related! Very interesting! Hail stones do hurt a lot. If you're silly enough to try and drive through one, they quickly shatter your front car window.

We've got more severe weather coming this afternoon, all. I'll keep you posted about the tornadoes. Today, I will be home!

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boop - Apr 22, 2004 5:57 am (#1414 of 2912)

Happy Thursday Everyone, have a great day!!!!

Sherbie, Sorry to hear more severe weather is coming your way. Glad that you will be home if the severe weather hits.

We get severe storms, but I have never seen hail any bigger than a pea. I love to watch the storms, but if I lived where you had that kind of weather all the time I probably wouldn't enjoy it as much.

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mollis - Apr 22, 2004 6:06 am (#1415 of 2912)

Sherbie~ I was watching the weather channel this morning and saw the hail. That was a lot of hail! It is a little freaky when you a stuck in a store like that in an emergency situation. You are kind of at their mercy. I was in a Target once during a severe storm and the power went out. No skylights here. It was pitch black. I was in there with my mom and we were just about to separate and go look at different things and we both turned back around and grabbed each other. It took about 5 minutes for the back-up generator to kick in. Needless to say, we stuck close together after that.

Congrats to all who deserve it and sympathies to all to need it.

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Madame Librarian - Apr 22, 2004 8:25 am (#1416 of 2912)

I live about 90 minutes from the area in Illinois that was almost totally destroyed by the tornadoes Tuesday. The towns of Utica and Ottawa were levelled and 8 people who had sought refuge in a brick building--a restaurant--were killed. The pics on the front page of the Chicago Tribune are just so awful. The foundation of the restaurant was on sandstone (this area is along the Illinois river), so even though the exterior walls were brick, the winds were able to easily topple the building.

My family will sometimes go to stay for a weekend at a beautiful state lodge there called Starved Rock, so I am familiar with the little towns around there.

When I was a teen, there was a twister that ripped through an ordinary urban neighborhood about 4-5 miles from where I live. Totally devasted a 2-3 block area causing deaths and injuries. Until then I always thought tornadoes (cyclones as they're sometimes called) were restricted to open land like the Wizard of Oz one in Kansas. We know better now, and we have drills for them during the season, and information on what to do is mentioned on the radio and TV often. Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are officially part of "tornado alley" now.

Weather--scary stuff.

Ciao. Barb

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Lynn Allen - Apr 22, 2004 8:58 am (#1417 of 2912)

It just occurred to me that my comment about Chicken Little could be seen as minimizing the harm hail can do since the chicken was hit by an acorn and yelled that the sky was falling. Balls of ice are quite another matter, so hope there was no offense. Hail can wipe out farmers by ruining entire fields of crops. Tornadoes are really frightening events and not as common here in Michigan as in Oklahoma, Kansas, Illinois and other such states that get so many. But I've seen one on my parents' farm many years ago and it was frightening. Fortunately it dissipated very quickly and did no property damage. Seeing the Level 4 and 5 tornadoes on television is terrifying, especially seeing how they can destroy entire towns so quickly. Nothing to joke about, to be sure.

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VeronikaG - Apr 22, 2004 9:11 am (#1418 of 2912)

If it's not the one thing, it's the other.

Looks like bus drivers all over Norway are going on strike tonight at 10. If I'm really lucky, that'll mean I get to stay home from school the first days of next week. However, lorry drivers are going on strike too, so there will be no deliveries to grocery stores until they receive higher wages. According to a poster on the bus, drivers are so poor they can't afford to let their children go to after school activities with their friends. So I can understand them. I have now edited this post four times, because in the first three versions I couldn't resist saying a few things about our dear Norwegian government, and their use of money, that would break the "no political messages" rule here. (Or did I manage it anyway?)

It could get interesting to live without food supply for a few weeks, in my humble opinion. It would be like a big season of "Survivor". Last night I was joking with my Mom about how it would be fun to tell grandchildren "Oh, it was way back in two thousand and... four. We didn't get food in the shops for two months, and we almost starved to death. It was awful! We had to catch crows and sea gulls for supper". And imagine how slim we would all be without access to chocolate and potato chips for a few months. No need for the Cambridge cure.

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Lynn Allen - Apr 22, 2004 9:46 am (#1419 of 2912)

Veronika, you may have to resort to fish and kerosene...what is it called...lutefisk? :-) But I sympathize with the bus drivers who are poorly paid.

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VeronikaG - Apr 22, 2004 9:58 am (#1420 of 2912)

Hehehehe, Lynn. Lutefisk isn't made with kerosene, it's made with lye. Disgusting thing anyway.

Message to Gina R Snape. I'm watching a TV soap where there is a boy who looks exactly like I imagine your husband to have looked at Hogwarts, all the way from the big, hooked nose to the long, black hair. I'll see if I can find a picture of him on the net, and post you a link.

Here he is. Any similarity?

http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=222436

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mollis - Apr 22, 2004 11:44 am (#1421 of 2912)
Edited by Apr 22, 2004 12:45 pm

I don't know about anybody else, Lynn, but I thought the Chicken Little line was cute. That was one of my favorite stories as a child. But you are right, hail can cause "quite enough damage to be getting on with." (or something like that!)

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Gina R Snape - Apr 22, 2004 12:55 pm (#1422 of 2912)

VeronikaG, What a cute fellow he is! Thanks for the picture.

btw, my sister-in-law went for her Amnio today and while the tests are due back in 2 weeks, the doctor thinks she's having a girl (which was my guess, hee hee).

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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 22, 2004 1:25 pm (#1423 of 2912)

Lynn, I like the Chicken Little reference. No offense taken.

Isn't it horrible to be trapped in a serious situation, Mollis? You feel so helpless. My mom was with me too, yesterday, and she had to physically restrain me as I was trying to tear out of that store to get to my husband.

I wasn't always such a chicken about tornadoes. I remember when one hit the lake right next to my childhood house and we all stood in the back yard and watched it getting closer and closer... Ever since May 3rd, 2000, though, things have been different. Like Barb, I had just witnessed, and been in, very small tornadoes that hit in very isolated spots. Yet that day the super cell tornado (they think it was bigger than F5, no one had ever seen an F5 before so it was hard to compare) stayed on the ground for over three hours and destroyed every house in its mile wide path. The south side of the city was flattened. For months on the cable access channel, people took out ads asking for their pictures or wedding dresses to be returned if found. So many pets went homeless. A three month old baby was found up in a tree. Before that tornado, we had always been told to get out of the car and under a bridge if a tornado was approaching. Now, they say never to get under a bridge because so many people were sucked out and found several miles away. I understand how you feel, Barb. Weather, though truly awesome, can be very scary.

Congrats to your sister, Gina. Will this be your first niece?

I certainly hope you won't have problems getting food, Veronika! I'll send some chocolate over your way if things get that bad. No one should have to go for more than a few days without the cure for dementors!

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dobbyiscool - Apr 22, 2004 1:45 pm (#1424 of 2912)

Sherbie, it is interesting that you say that they tell you not to go under the bridges anymore, because they still tell us to do that. At least, they where last fall when we had storm season. SD isn't exactly in 'tornado ally,' but we still get our fair share of tornados, so the weather guys are constantly informing us what to do. They still say to go under the bridge.

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Gina R Snape - Apr 22, 2004 2:10 pm (#1425 of 2912)

They had a special on the Weather Channel last year, and they showed how some people get sucked out from overpasses and others got lucky. It seemed to depend on how well they were able to shove themselves into the wedged spaces, how strongly they were able to hold on to something, *and* how fierce the storm was. They even had a camera in one which showed what it was like under the overpass. Very scary to watch on tv! I don't ever want to imagine being in one or knowing a loved one was in one.

Sherbie, this is not my first niece. I have another sister-in-law who had a girl 19 years ago...and that niece is finishing her first year of college!

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dobbyiscool - Apr 22, 2004 2:21 pm (#1426 of 2912)

Oh! In one of the weather channel specials, they talk about the most recent big tornado night in SD last year. That night was scary, I think we had a record number of touchdowns in this area. It was pretty scary.

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timrew - Apr 22, 2004 3:39 pm (#1427 of 2912)

Okay, I realise now that the Manchester rain coming through my car window (which is fixed now!) is 'small potatoes' compared to the hurricanes and hailstones the size of small asteroids you get in the States!

Sherbie, good luck with any further 'abnormal' weather coming your way, and try not to get sucked out of the car window!

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Marie E. - Apr 22, 2004 5:32 pm (#1428 of 2912)

Urg! It must be insane weather week here in the states. Today we got three hours of rain that turned to snow. We're supposed to get three inches tomorrow. Doesn't Mother Nature know it's Spring? Sigh.

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tracie1976 - Apr 22, 2004 6:31 pm (#1429 of 2912)

Snow?!?!?! Time for me to stop complaining about the tons of rain we've been getting.

*Tells self that April showers bring May flowers*

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Blast - Apr 22, 2004 6:35 pm (#1430 of 2912)

We've had so much rain, that we are implementing a ferry service with our neighbours. Hail does hurt very much thank you.

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Acceber - Apr 22, 2004 6:42 pm (#1431 of 2912)

Not to brag, but we haven't had rain for about a week. It was around 70F today, I was really hot while wearing pants and sweating after being outside for about half an hour. Oh, never mind, maybe I am bragging . Sorry.

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Gina R Snape - Apr 22, 2004 7:28 pm (#1432 of 2912)

Yeah NYC has been rather nice weatherwise too (finally!). We had a spot of rain yesterday but nothing too terribly inconvenient! Today we had 75F degree weather and I was very grateful!

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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 22, 2004 8:38 pm (#1433 of 2912)

Severe weather passed us by today! We had to deal with very high humidity and overcast skies, but the temps were in the 80's and the wind was only about 10 mph (we have notoriously high winds here. Last week they ranged from 25-45 mph every day) so all in all, a vast improvement over yesterday.

Marie E., I can't believe you've had snow! Poor thing! I would take a thunderstorm any day of the week over snow. We freak out here when there are winter storms. I think we've got maybe 12 snow plows for the entire city, (and we're the 3rd largest land-wise in the country) so needless to say, when so much as a flake falls the city shuts down.

I'm glad some lucky people are having nice weather.

Lol, Tim!

Forgive the following dire warnings, tornado-less people. Just ignore this paragraph.
Never, never, never, never, never get under a bridge or overpass. Never! Even if the tornado is tiny, do not do it! We have the top weather school in the country, the National Weather Service is located about 30 miles away from Oklahoma City. If there's one thing Oklahomans know about, it's severe spring weather and tornadoes. Still yet, our meteorologists had always told us to get under an overpass. May 3rd proved that theory very wrong. Don't listen to your weather men when it comes to severe tornadoes in SD, Elf Girl. Don't take a potentially fatal risk by climbing up under an overpass. Many people took shelter under them on May 3rd and the few that lived to tell the tale reported their loved ones being wrenched out of their grasps by the tornado; mothers lost their children, children lost their parents, husbands and wives were forever separated. Not a nice visual image. Here are the tips about twisters that Oklahoman's have drilled into our heads every storm season: In case a tornado hits while you're driving, get out of the car and crawl into a ditch and cover your head with your hands, or if possible, get into a drainage pipe. Trying to out-drive it is a bad idea. Do not seek refuge under an overpass or bridge. If you're at home, get to the lowest level of your house and take cover in a windowless center room by covering yourself with pillows and mattresses. Sorry about the rant, it's just an issue very close to my heart. Aquaintances of mine know people who died that day because they got under an overpass.

Wow, Gina, a 19 year-old niece! You must have been quite young when she was born. Won't it be fun having a new baby around? You'll get to be the cool Aunt Gina who introduces her to the Potterverse.

Sorry to monopolize this thread, but we've gotten good news and I want to share it with all the people who gave me such great house-buying tips. Today my husband and I put in an offer for a new house (the frame is currently being constructed) and it will very likely be accepted by the builder! The realtor talked to him while we were there and he has no problem with bond money. We will know for certain around noon tomorrow when he is supposed to sign the contract. Only one problem with it, however. The back yard backs up to I-40. When the semi's roll by, it is quite loud (not so much inside, outside is another story). But the price is great, the location is great, the school system is fabulous, the workmanship is solid, the neighbors are all around our age, and the kitchen is very, very nice (ceramic tile, built in microwave, oak cabinets, gas stove, all whirlpool appliances). Despite the noise, the backyard is a great size and best of all, we will not have to do upgrades and live in other people's grime.

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 22, 2004 11:30 pm (#1434 of 2912)

Ah so busy at work & so many posts! what’s a girl to do! Well it's 8.30am here... I'm in work early so sneaking a quick look at the forum.  Good morning to you all!

Poppy, I'm sending a virtual slap to that nasty doctor.... I've met a few in my time... & I always feel like asking them.... 'So when you were at medical school, did you miss all those seminars on good manners.... or did you just major in 'how to completely rude to your patients'? Of course I never actually say that... but I would love to! Big hugs to you & your daughter.

Great news about the house Sherbie.... I will be keeping my fingers toes & eyes crossed so that it works out for you! As for all the weather info WOW! I'll never grumble about our rain storms again... (ok maybe just a little) . Just reading your stories about being scared & huddling together in the middle of rooms away from windows reminded me of when I was younger, getting evacuated from school during bomb scares, not the same thing I understand, but not a pleasant experience all the same. (not unlike the scene in PoA after Sirius breaks into the school & all the kids are sent to the Great Hall!) Just so you know I can sympathise.....

Hoping that you all keep safe, I'll keep ya's in my thoughts & prayers!

As for the rest of the forum family.... A big HELLO!
Right better get back to work! *grumble grumble*
I might sneak another post in later ... until then Ta Ta for Now!

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VeronikaG - Apr 23, 2004 12:11 am (#1435 of 2912)

Good news on the house, Sherbie! Crossing fingers for better weather for you too. I have a storage of chocolate in a cupboard, so the dementors will just have to leave.

Well, buses did not go on strike this morning, so I'm at school, about to go to class. Then I'm spending a couple of days away from computers, and can look forwards to catching up on a lot of posts. :-)

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septentrion - Apr 23, 2004 1:04 am (#1436 of 2912)

Sherbie, you had a hard day but good news at last. LIfe is so unpredictable !

I'm being quite nervous while the day is going on : I pass my exam this afternoon. I should pass it but I can't help being nervous. The results are at the end of may / beginning of june.

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boop - Apr 23, 2004 2:22 am (#1437 of 2912)

Happy Friday Everyone, hope everyone has a great weekend!!!!!!

Sherbie, I am glad the bad weather passed you up yesterday. I will keep my fingers and toes crossed for you with getting this house.

Veronika, enjoy your couple days away from the forum. When you get back there will be plenty of reading to catch up on.

Septentrion, I will keep my fingers and toes crossed for you and the is exam today. I know you will do fine on it. That is a long time to wait to see how you did on an exam.

Edit: Fawkes Glad to here from you we miss you when you don't post here. Fawkes have you thought about getting msn or aim so you can talk on line to us forum members. I would sure like to talk with you, and I know other forum member's would also love too. Have a great day and don't work too hard.

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Flame Alligator - Apr 23, 2004 2:31 am (#1438 of 2912)

Fawkes, Top of the mornin to ya!! Hope work isn't too miserable for you.

Sherbie Lemon, Yay!!!!! I hope all goes well with the house. It sounds great (except for the noise factor). The kitchen sounds wonderful. I love whirlpool appliances, very reliable and durable.

Sherbie Lemon and Veronika, I really enjoyed chatting with you both the other day.

Septentrion, I know you will do fine on your exam. Quit worrying!! It just stresses you out.

My kitty is still hanging in there. She has already lived 2 1/2 weeks longer than the vet estimated. She is so tough. Last night, I had to chase her to give her medication. I took her outside yesterday (carrying her) and walked around. I wanted her to get some last looks at the world before she is too sick to notice. Fortunately, I have been in a very good mood lately and this seems to cheer her up. The cheerful sound of my voice when I talk to her and take care of her seems to sooth her. I am watching carefully for when she starts to suffer too much. When that comes, I will have her euthanized. Until then.......lots of loving. She is up and down off my lap while I am on the forum. Thanks for all your comments and concerns about her.

I had a great day teaching yoga yesterday. Something unusual happened. All male class. (rare isn't that Sherbie?) It was great. Cause I got to really kick their butts. Lots of arm balances and upper body work. If you think I just walk around an instruct, think again. I demonstrate the entire time. So I work just as hard and had a great time doing so. A lot of jokes to ease the misery and I have great new music. Dancers of Twilight by Zingaia It is dance to trance music, which zones you out. You don't notice how hard you are working and are better in tune with your body.

Weather Chat: I was raised in a "Tornado Alley" in Indiana. I have been very close to huge tornados. The roar of it...... terrifying and thrilling to hear and witness. May everyone living near or in a "Tornado Alley" be safe.

Well, I haven't posted for a day or so and here I am my usual chatterbox self. Sorry, just could not help myself. Y'all have a great day!!!

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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 23, 2004 5:33 am (#1439 of 2912)

Thanks for the keeping your fingers crossed for me, Fawkes! It's nice to "see" you and I hope work goes well.

Thanks to you too, Boop! I hope your day goes great!

Veronika, glad to hear about your chocolate stash. Keep hoarding it just in case. In the chance that nothing happens with the workers, you can use the chocolate to celebrate! Even champagne can't compare to a rich chocolate treat.

Septentrion, I always find I do best on the exams I'm nervous about. If I leave the test feeling like I didn't do as well, I usually get a very good grade. I think it's healthy to be a little anxious and I'm sure you'll do well. Thanks for the support on the house front.

Flame, I enjoyed talking with you too. I'm very sorry to hear about your kitty. I have one as well and he had horrible bladder stones not too long ago. He would cry and cry, it was heart-wrenching. Thankfully, the vet was able to remove them without having to give him a permanent cath. He eats special food now that makes him thirsty, apparently cats don't know when they're thirsty so urinary problems typically abound with them. That's quite strange to have an all male class, I don't think that's ever happened to me! I'm sure you worked them hard though. I love it when I have men in my class because they usually come in with the belief that yoga is a lot of lying around and stretching. What a shock it is when I won't pull them out of a pose until they start shaking! That changes their minds about yoga really quick. Thanks to you for sending me good thoughts about the house!

Good morning to all you Potter people! I'll be sure to let everyone know when I hear about the house. Keep crossing every crossable body part for me!

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Gina R Snape - Apr 23, 2004 5:55 am (#1440 of 2912)

Sorry Flame. I must have missed your post about your cat. What is wrong with it? How old is s/he?

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mollis - Apr 23, 2004 5:58 am (#1441 of 2912)
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Yea, Sherbie!!! I'm so happy you found another house! And a new one! Those are great! Nobody else's mess or stupid alterations or ugly wallpaper!!!

So sorry for everyone having loads of rain. But hopefully you'll soon have rainbows and sunshine! Personally, its looking like a lovely day today - if only the trees would stop covering everything with pollen! A nice yellow film is covering everything! So, lots of crazy cleaning this morning since they are showing our house today.

(Okay, yeah, I should be cleaning, not looking for new smilies to fill my posts. But they are so much fun! )

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Denise P. - Apr 23, 2004 6:04 am (#1442 of 2912)

Congrats Sherbie! I remember buying our first house, oh those so many years ago. We were so excited about it!

I am sewing pants today, 1 pair down, 2 to go!

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mollis - Apr 23, 2004 6:22 am (#1443 of 2912)
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Are you mending pants, or sewing new ones? I could probably manage to repair a rip, but if you're sewing new ones - I'm impressed!

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megfox - Apr 23, 2004 6:32 am (#1444 of 2912)

Bummer - these "passing showers" turned into a full-on rain storm, and my game got cancelled...guess I'll have to spend another day on the Forum!

Hope everyone else's weather is a bit more cooperative today!

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Denise P. - Apr 23, 2004 6:54 am (#1445 of 2912)

I was making new ones. It takes about 10 minutes to make a single pair of pull on pants with elastic waist. I lucked out in the fact that the boys wear the same size in everything but length...easy enough to add a few inches to the bottom of the pattern.

They each needed a white pair and it was just easier and less expensive to make them than to buy them...assuming I could even find any. In any event, they are all done except for the elastic in the waist, which will have to wait until they are home from school to measure.

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Padfoot - Apr 23, 2004 7:31 am (#1446 of 2912)

That's great news Sherbie! And quick too.

Marie E, how many inches of snow are you supposed to get? Up here in Denver, we are supposed to get between 6"-12" by the end of the day today. It's very pretty here. My office window faces a park. The snow is so heavy and wet that it is sticking to the trees. Looks just like Narnia!

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Flame Alligator - Apr 23, 2004 8:08 am (#1447 of 2912)

*gasping* omg Snow!!!!!

Gina, My kitty will be (if she makes it til then) 16 years old May 6th. She has cancer in her jaw bone. It is a rapid growing kind of cancer. Just 4 months ago she was running, jumping and talking up a streak like a very young cat. Happy and super healthy all her life. Now seeing her sick is terrible. But she is quite tough. Not ready to check out yet. Still eating soft food. Still talking and trotting away almost running when I tell her bath time. I have to groom and bathe her more because she can't quite clean her self as much although she still does. There is a horrible lump under her once sweet flat jaw line. The cancer is dissolving her teeth from the jaw bone up. I had no idea cancer did this. I always thought of it as parasitic. Duh! I feel so stupid not knowing this. As long as she can eat and is able to sleep peacefully, she is still with me. Plus, she still can jump 5 ft up to her favorite tree stump which we have in the kitchen for the cats. Her courage and her strength inspire me to be cheerful and tough right with her. She will have, as I have said, absolutely no blubbering over her. No tears dropping in her fur. Cats, animals in general are so fierce and brave. A lesson to us all. I know if I were sick and dying, I would not want blubbering over me. Wait til I'm gone to cry and I will do the same for her. Thanks for asking Gina.

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Gina R Snape - Apr 23, 2004 8:29 am (#1448 of 2912)

Oooh, Denise. I wish you lived nearby me. I can't seem to find a grey pleated miniskirt anywhere. The company that makes the skirts for the HP films has sold out and won't have new ones until after the premiere. As some people know, I will be attending both the NYC May 23rd media premiere and the major opening of June 3rd in San Francisco.

Of course I want to represent Slytherin house properly. I may be forced to wear a black miniskirt (not pleated) instead. At least I have a proper Slytherin tie, patch and jumper.

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Gina R Snape - Apr 23, 2004 8:35 am (#1449 of 2912)

Flame, looks like I posted when you did.

Sorry to hear about your kitty. As some here might recall, my cat Wicca died at age 15 1/2 in September. She developed lymphoma in her kidneys which progressed very rapidly. I was giving her medication and hydrating her subcutaneously for weeks until it became too much for her to bear.

She was fully mentally 'there' up until the very end. Even ill, she retained her strong willfullness, curiosity and affection. She was struggling in the end, her back legs giving way from the loss of potassium. But the night before she was put down, she still managed to jump up onto my bed to curl up with me, like she did every other day of her entire life. I swear to you, she literally asked me when it was time for her to be put down. She let me know she was ready and I'm glad I waited as long as I did.

I am getting misty-eyed just thinking about her, and I totally know how you feel right now. You have my sympathies and hugs.

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Padfoot - Apr 23, 2004 8:44 am (#1450 of 2912)

Fame and Gina, now you've got me crying!
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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 23, 2004 10:23 am (#1451 of 2912)

Gina and Flame, it is so hard to lose a pet. But that word, "pet" doesn't do justice to the beautiful souls that share their lives with us,, that give unconditional love and never ask for anything in return, that comfort us and make us laugh when things are bad. This last year, I lost my childhood dog, Muffy, 14, to stomach cancer and my childhood cat, who was 17 and still hunting and playing, to a car accident. I was much closer to my dog, she was like a second mother and a sister to me. She used to lick my tears away when I was a child and every night since we rescued her, she slept on my bed (hogging the blankets). Though I had been living on my own for a few years and didn't have to see her disintegrate day in and day out, just knowing and occasionally witnessing her being consumed by sickness was probably the most difficult thing I'd ever seen. But my cat's death was far worse. She used to be let out at night; Mama kitty liked to hunt and prowl around the neighborhood and she would sleep on the cars in the garage. She was insanely intelligent. A few months after Muffy died, my brother came home at 2 am and when he pulled into the garage, he ran her over. I won't describe the scene, but he ran into my parents room screaming "I killed my cat! I killed my cat!" in absolute hysterics. It was the worst weekend of my life. My heart goes out to you, Flame. Losing such a friend and companion is as bad as losing a family member. In fact, they are family members. I know how hard it can be, but I'm glad to hear you are finding her strength uplifting.

Okay, now I've thoroughly depressed myself.  Sad Hopefully, sharing my very good news with everyone who's been so wonderfully supportive on this forum will cheer me up: WE GOT THE HOUSE!

House 3 Yea! Break out the champagne! Where's Abby with her Abbyfetti? I want to say a big thank you to everyone who shared their encouraging stories and gave me wonderful advice. Knowing I had such nice people hoping good things for me made the hunt a much easier process. Much Appreciated

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Lupin is Lupin. Natch. - Apr 23, 2004 10:29 am (#1452 of 2912)

Congratulations, Sherbie! May your new home know only joy and laughter!

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megfox - Apr 23, 2004 1:49 pm (#1453 of 2912)

That's awesome, Sherbie! Congrats! What a momentous occasion...you must be so thrilled.

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boop - Apr 23, 2004 3:42 pm (#1454 of 2912)

Sherbie, YAY I am so happy for you. on getting your new home!!!!

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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 23, 2004 7:40 pm (#1455 of 2912)

Thanks everyone! I'm so excited I could burst! Just the teensiest bit scared, but mostly thrilled. We went by and took pictures today and were amazed to see that the roof had gone up pretty much overnight (no shingles yet)! I've got my address memorized and keep shopping around online looking for a refrigerator and little odds and ends. What makes this uber exciting is the fact that we get to get out of my parents house! We came here to save up money and pay off some debt before we bought our own home. It's only been 2 months (feels like 2 years) but was quite an adjustment. We went from a 1000 sq. ft apartment to a tiny bedroom and miniscule bathroom that we share with my 19 year old brother. Good times!

Everybody, don't uncross your fingers yet! In order to get our bond money we have to close by July 15th. Right now the house is supposed to be completed on June 30th. It's currently taking 2 weeks to get an occupancy agreement which we must have before we close. This will have us closing on July 14th.Shy Here's hoping that everything stays on schedule and the inspectors clear the house.

But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Right now, it's still time to celebrate! Have a drink on me!
New YearNew Year Cheers 2 New Year Cheers

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Marie E. - Apr 23, 2004 8:51 pm (#1456 of 2912)

Sherbie, congratulations! We are just starting the house hunting process. I hope everything goes as well with us.

padfoot, they had predicted 4-8" here in Colorado Springs, but I think we ended up with the shorter end of that. All school districts around us were closed today in anticipation of the storm that never came. Unfortunately, I teach kindergarten in a child care center so we were open. I did get off work two hours early so that was nice. I am walking for the March of Dimes tomorrow morning. I'm not looking forward to walking through snow, let me tell ya.

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Flame Alligator - Apr 23, 2004 9:35 pm (#1457 of 2912)

Sherbie, YAY!!!!!!!!! *fingers crossed for all paper work and requirements going well. I am so happy for you.

Gina, I believe you about your cat telling you when she was ready. My other two cats did the same. I will wait for Samantha to let me know when she is ready. Thanks for your comments and telling about your cat.

I better get to bed so I can get back on here in the morning. Night y'all!

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Devika - Apr 24, 2004 9:49 am (#1458 of 2912)

Hi everyone!!

It's been a few weeks.... I hope I haven't been forgotten! I haven't been able to read the 500 odd messages on this thread, so I'm kind of lost about what you guys must be discussing. I hope all of you are well and having a good time. But I did read that Sherbie has got her new home! Congrats!!

My final exams just got over. They went ok... some questions were unexpected, but all well... After that I went with my friends for a little trip. We went river rafting. It's something I'd never done before and the experience was awesome. I urge any one of you who hasn't tried it to do so. So that's basically ot from my end. I hope to get an update on what's happening on our most happening threads, and on exciting new ones which must have come up :-)

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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 24, 2004 9:52 am (#1459 of 2912)

Thanks, Flame!

Marie, I'll be hoping your hunt goes well. It's easy to get frustrated but stick with it, you'll find the right one. Heed the Forum members advice and everything will turn out fine. Wait till you get "the feeling." I found when I walked through the house (not the one we bought, that's still in construction, but one that is very similar to ours) I just knew this was it; it was like when I met my husband, I knew he was the "one," and the same thing goes for the right house, when you find it, you'll know. Sorry to hear about your weather problems, I couldn't stand snow in April. There is no way I could live in Colorado. It's beautiful, but I don't tolerate the cold well.

Edit: Thanks, Devika! I've always wanted to go rafting, I'm glad you had a great time and I'm happy to hear your exams went well.

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septentrion - Apr 24, 2004 10:34 am (#1460 of 2912)

Devika, good to see you again ! You're now free to log here every time you want !

Thanks for all of you who have supported me for my own exam yesterday. I thought of you before I begin but the stress overwhelmed me and I didn't do as well as I could have done. I don't want to think of it anymore !

Sherbie, congrats for your new home. I hope it'll be easy for you too Marie.

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boop - Apr 24, 2004 12:59 pm (#1461 of 2912)

Marie, good luck house hunting. I hope you find what you are looking for. Marie sorry to hear about your snow, maybe it was Jim doing his snow dance that made it snow.

Devika, welcome back we have missed you. When you go away it is hard to catch back up with the posts. White water river rafting looks like so much fun. I bet you had a really great time.

Septentrion, sorry to hear you don't think you did very well on your exam. I will still keep my fingers crossed that you did better than you thought you did.

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The Great Abbycadabra - Apr 24, 2004 9:53 pm (#1462 of 2912)

This is for you Sherbie! ,'.;',;.',;.',;.',;.' Congrats!

Here's some for you, too, Septentrion. ,';.,'.;',.;',.; I'm sure you did well on your exam. Many times I've felt I did poorly, but it turns out that I did fine.

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VeronikaG - Apr 25, 2004 7:14 am (#1463 of 2912)

Back from a trip to the far off villages in countryside Norway.

Caught up on the posts, there were only 23! Welcome back Devika! I wish it was me who had finished all my exams.

Congratulations, Lindsay! (Imagine fun smiley here)

I enjoyed talking to you too, Flame. Give your cat a hug from me.

Septentrion, I'm sorry that I horribly misspelled you nick on a former post. I'm not good enough at French to know what what I called you means, so I hope it wasn't too bad. *blush*

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Gina R Snape - Apr 25, 2004 7:50 am (#1464 of 2912)

Septentrion! In my lecture yesterday we were talking about religious and civil unions/marriages. And I made mention of the thing you told us that the French have a civil union first by a judge (?) (justice of the peace?) and then may have a religious wedding afterwards.

So on behalf of myself and my students---merci!

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Madame Librarian - Apr 25, 2004 8:37 am (#1465 of 2912)

Devika!!! You're back!! Now get to work reading all the posts you missed so you can share your good ideas with us.

Ciao. Barb

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Blast - Apr 25, 2004 9:23 am (#1466 of 2912)

Hi kids, raining like crazy today, I am considering building an ark. My twins went for a hike yesterday and they came upon two snakes. They were not afraid of them in the least. They are definitely Slytherin material. Kyra also turned over a lot of rocks looking for salamanders, definitely care of magical creatures. Been really busy lately, just stopped in to say hello.

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Marie E. - Apr 25, 2004 9:55 am (#1467 of 2912)

Yesterday our weather went back to normal and today....snow again!

*Sigh*

My most wonderful brother sent me a Sirius Black t-shirt. Now I have something to wear to the movie! He says he got it at a theater convention the week of his wedding. Awwwww.

Thanks for all the well wishes for my house hunting. We qualify higher than I thought so we will probably get a nice one. I just hope we find one in the neighborhood I want. I like the slightly older ones with mature trees and quieter roads. The newer subdivisions are so blah.

* crosses fingers for the snow to stop*

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I Am Used Vlad - Apr 25, 2004 12:15 pm (#1468 of 2912)

Blast, I watched Dr. Strangelove last night, and then come here and see another mushroom cloud. Odd.

I agree with you, Maria. By the time the trees in new subdivisions have grown enough to provide a decent amount of shade, many of the original owners have moved. New houses do have their advantages, though, providing the builder was competent. Anyway, good luck finding a house you like.

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Acceber - Apr 25, 2004 6:11 pm (#1469 of 2912)

My my my, we are chatty. One goes away for a weekend and has 37 posts waiting for her. Oh well...

Anyway, notes to random people:

Sherbie-Congrats on the house! Hope the moving process goes smoothly, I know it can be stressful.

Flame-Glad to know your kitty is still hanging in there. Give her kisses from me and my two cats, who thankfully have many years ahead of them.

Boop-Great new pic of Dustin. He's getting so big!

Speaking of pics, I came strolled into the kitchen on Thursday to find an unwrapped package on the counter. I unwrapped it and lo and behold, found a brand new digital camera my dad had ordered a few days prior. I was very hyper and got it working soon. I took a couple pics of my cats and they should be on the web very soon if I can figure out how to do it. Wish me luck.

More ranting: I'm not going to be here at all next weekend either, it's my bat mitzvah and it's going to be very hectic. For those who don't know: bat mitzvah means 'daughter of the commandments' in Hebrew. Jewish young ladies are bat mitzvahed at age 12 or 13, the young men at age 13. It varies for each community, but usually the bat/bar mitzvah reads a passage from the Torah, or sacred text, and prepares a speech going into depth on it. The service lasts anywhere from one and a half to three hours. That night (usually Saturday) you have a big party for all your friends and open your delightful presents. (If I left anything out tell me, I'm not that good at explaining these things.)

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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 25, 2004 6:47 pm (#1470 of 2912)

Marie, we bought a new house and it's definitely not "blah"! Many older homes are in serious disrepair, you'll be amazed at how many people do not maintain their homes. Even if the outside looks nice, the inside usually holds quite a few ugly surprises. The thought of living in someone else's filth did not appeal to me. Our neighborhood is developed, but has a street that was previously nothing but land. That's where our house is being built. It's a very wooded area (called Woodrun in fact, has a pond and all too), but naturally our street does not have trees except the ones the builder plants in your yard once it's sodded and leveled. I too, wanted a house with mature trees, yet when I saw the condition of many, I figured I didn't care a lot about that anymore. Just the knowledge that I won't have to do repairs, won't have to update, won't have to worry about the antique appliances failing, won't have to endure inspection after inspection (foundation, mold, etc.) is more than enough to make up for the trees. But to each his own, I suppose.

Thanks, Accebar, and congratulations on your Bat Mitzvah! What a momentous occasion!

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Julia. - Apr 25, 2004 7:06 pm (#1471 of 2912)

Mazel tov on the house Sherbie!!! I'm really happy for you, as you now have a place all your own, and I hope you'll get many years of happy use out of it.

Mazel tov on your Bat Mitzvah Becca!!! You pretty much covered it in your explanation, but you forgot that you have to spend several months writing thank you notes for all the presents you'll get. That was the worst part for me, even worse than learning to read my Haf-Torah, and learning all the prayers to lead services, and writing my speech! The party is always fun though, just make sure you have enough silly hats Mazel tov again!

EDIT: My cousin's Bat Mitzvah was this weekend, and her Torah portion was horrible!! For those interested, it can be found in Leviticus, Chapters 12-15. Becca, you have a pretty good one, or, at the very least, a lot better than this weeks!

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septentrion - Apr 26, 2004 1:19 am (#1472 of 2912)

thanks for all your supports, it brings warmth in my heart !

congrats Acceber for your Bat Mitzvah and thanks for the explanations ! In French it's written "Bar" and not "Bat", I don't know why.

Veronika, no problem for having mispelling my name, everyone makes mistakes.

Gina, I'm glad my little explanation helped you but I realize you didn't know one detail : civil weddings are done by the mayor and not by a judge. It won't probably be very important for your students but I should have thought of this.

Ticker, while I was checking something in my dictionary, I noticed Ticker could mean "heart". I don't know if there's a relation but when you tell "ticker" in french, it's nearly the same than " 'tit coeur", which is a shortened version of "petit coeur" i.e. "little heart". I find this coincidence very cute.

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Julia. - Apr 26, 2004 4:14 am (#1473 of 2912)

That's very cool about 'tit coeur,' Septentrion, I guess you really do learn something new every day (being that it's just after 8 am, and I have a whole day of classes, I hope that's not the only thing I learn today)

About 'Bar' and 'Bat' Mitzvah, it's really quite simple. 'Bar' for a boy and 'Bat' for a girl. 'Bar' means 'son' and 'Bat' means 'daughter.' Easy enough.

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scully jones - Apr 26, 2004 6:33 am (#1474 of 2912)

Congratulations on your Bat Mitzvah Becca!!!

I'll get to work on my scarf, and get an update on my picture... Just gotta get off my skinny butt and get something done!

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Thom Matheson - Apr 26, 2004 7:41 am (#1475 of 2912)

Update from Nashville. The move to the new house went well, except for Dad. The drive down and back was uneventful other than my whining about it. Too many miles in 48 hours. By the way, I gave you all the wrong name for the little tyke. His name is to be Ethan Thomas, not Aaron. What do I know, I'm just poppa. Just the same, Ethan has some snap to it. Saw a sonagram video, I didn't know they did that. Way cool. The little guy waved at me.

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septentrion - Apr 26, 2004 8:29 am (#1476 of 2912)

Julia, you did learn me something new today ! Thanks a lot !

Chiaojones, your scarf's going to be impressive.

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Lupin is Lupin. Natch. - Apr 26, 2004 9:22 am (#1477 of 2912)

Hey Denise! Just noticed your new avatar. What a couple of cuties! Great picture!

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Denise P. - Apr 26, 2004 9:25 am (#1478 of 2912)

Thanks! That was taken at the Daddy-Daughter Dance they went to. The photo was taken by another Girl Scout, perhaps a 5th grader. This was one of the better ones, the pair is actually centered in the photo rather than off to one side. Our neighbor's daughter and dad were off to one side, on the extreme right. I like it because Greg is actually smiling, not giving the "I'm smiling because you asked me to but I don't really want to" kind of smile.

You can't tell because Kaity's hair is in a ponytail but she can just about sit on her hair now.

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Padfoot - Apr 26, 2004 9:36 am (#1479 of 2912)

Congrats to Acceber and Sherbie both!

The last house I lived in, was a "used" house. It had one family living there before us. However, there was still sawdust in the upstairs shower! It was nice to have a house that felt new but didn't cost as much. I wish there were more trees on my property now. However, it's a condominium, so can't plant any myself. At least there are some. (Last year's BIG snow storm killed a few)

Marie E: We didn't get the snow amount forecasted either. It has now melted away. Supposed to be near 70 today, heading up to 80 on Wednesday. Cold doesn't last long here.

Aaahh... Colorado. Today it's a very sunny, Spring like day, with flowers appearing everywhere. I just love Spring!

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Lupin is Lupin. Natch. - Apr 26, 2004 9:40 am (#1480 of 2912)

Oh, Denise, I know that smile. It looks a bit like they've just had a root canal Smile

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DJ Evans - Apr 26, 2004 11:05 am (#1481 of 2912)

Hey everyone, hope all is well with all. So glad to hear of all of our "new" home owners on the Forum--I am so happy for you all. Hope you have many MANY years of good fortune, good times, and great memories made in your new homes.

For those in the US that has been having all of the rain this past week, hope all are doing OK. Here in Arkansas, we've definitely had our share of the rain. Matter of fact we've got about 7 or 8 counties that have asked for Federal Ass t. cause of the flooding in the northern part of the state, even some lives were lost due to the some of the rivers and creeks flooding. As it was mentioned, by Sherbie I believe, about NOT ever getting under bridges in a tornado--PLEASE, don't ever cross a road that has water going over it!!!!! It is most dangerous.

Good day to all!!! Deb

Luckily today we've got GREAT weather here. The sun is out and the temperature is just perfect. Of course, I see where we've got more rain coming in this weekend.

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Ladybug220 - Apr 26, 2004 11:08 am (#1482 of 2912)

Has anyone found the Harry Potter Legos in the stores rather than online? I want to get the Knight bus but don't really want to pay for shipping.

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Lupin is Lupin. Natch. - Apr 26, 2004 11:41 am (#1483 of 2912)

Ladybug, I'm in Massachusetts and the Lego store at the local mall had everything Harry Potter. I don't know if there is a Lego store near you, but if so, they're probably stocked to the gills.

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boop - Apr 26, 2004 11:58 am (#1484 of 2912)

Tom, glad to hear the move went fine. So how does it feel to be poppa?. So does Ethan have much hair and what color is it. I hope you get to spend time with him. They grow up so fast.

Denise, what a nice picture of your daughter and your husband. Wow Kaity has very long hair. Did they have a good time at the dance?

Happy Monday, hope everyone has a nice weekend.

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Denise P. - Apr 26, 2004 12:02 pm (#1485 of 2912)

Ladybug, all I really wanted was the bus as well. You can only find the mini bus on the Lego site when you order the Maurader set. You get the mini bus, the Maurader's Map kit and Draco's Encounter with Buckbeak. It was reasonably priced too. In the stores, one kit goes for $10. From the Lego store, you get all three for under $21 with shipping. I have seen the mini-bus on eBay for $13 plus shipping. My local Wal-Mart and Toys R Us has the kits but not the mini bus.

Here is a link to the Lego store where you can see it. Maurader's Map Kit

Lego is fast too, I ordered this on Thursday evening and got it in the mail today.

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Ladybug220 - Apr 26, 2004 12:04 pm (#1486 of 2912)
Edited by Apr 26, 2004 1:05 pm

Thanks Kim, I don't think we have a lego store here in Birmingham. I didn't find one in the phone book. I may just have to make a trip out to Toys R Us to see if they have them in the store.

Edit: Denise - thanks, I will try that!

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Acceber - Apr 26, 2004 12:14 pm (#1487 of 2912)

Julia-I haven't even thought about writing the thank yous yet, so that wasn't in my explanation. They are currently sitting on my desk next to a pile of books waiting to be read. I don't plan to start them until at least two weeks after the actual bat mitzvah .

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Madame Librarian - Apr 26, 2004 3:04 pm (#1488 of 2912)

Acceber, mazel tov on becoming a bat mitzvah (or a soon-to-be one). When is the actual day?

Congrats to new babies, new houses (whether they're new or only new to you)! Even brand, spanking new construction can have "issues" and surprises, so an inspection is still in order, I think.

Our garden/landscaping is coming along nicely--lots of new shrubs, many blossoming now. I look out my kitchen window and it's so lovely! The heavy duty hardscaper came to pull out the near dead bushes in the front over the weekend and I don't recognize my house right now--today I nearly drove right passed it. The new evergreens (junipers--love the smell) will be planted in a week or so. In the meantime, my house looks a lot taller than it did before. I've been to the garden shop (a real hoity-toity one, not where we're buying our stuff) to snoop around and get an idea on a couple of things we need to select. It's just like visiting a private garden.

OK, babbling will cease now.

Ciao. Barb

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megfox - Apr 26, 2004 4:09 pm (#1489 of 2912)

hey, Acceber -

HOW 'BOUT THEM RED SOX!!!!!

yay.

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Denise P. - Apr 26, 2004 4:13 pm (#1490 of 2912)

Hey, you web surfers! Does anyone here know of a page that shows actual eyes for an eye color chart? I have a child and we have no clue what color her eyes are. They are all colors and no colors...not sure what to call them. I thought seeing pictures would help but all I can find is drawings, not actual pictures.

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Madame Librarian - Apr 26, 2004 4:35 pm (#1491 of 2912)

Denise, I had a go at looking on Google for an eye color chart. This is as close as I could get...someone asking the same question you have, but I couldn't for the life of me find a link to the answer. Unless it hasn't been answered yet. Here's the site (I don't think it's clearly set up, but maybe I'm having a stoopid attack)

click here

Good luck!

Ciao. Barb

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Kowalla - Apr 26, 2004 5:14 pm (#1492 of 2912)

Denise, you have a very lucky child! My eyes are like that too, we just classified them as hazel, they're green, with brown in it, outlined in gray, with little yellow specks in there. It's great to see them change color with whatever color clothes I decide to wear! Besides, if she ever wants to get those contacts to change her eye color, she can go any color she wants easily!

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scully jones - Apr 26, 2004 5:40 pm (#1493 of 2912)

So many things to say... So much time in which to do so!

1. My friend Colleen had her baby. Ian Michael Shreves, 8 pounds 15 ounces, tons of BLACK hair. Which is strange, as the mother has reddish-blonde, and the fater has dirty brown-blonde. I think it's from reading too much Harry Potter while pregnant, eh? She was hoping for Earth day, the 21st, but the baby just HAD to come a day early. So 4/20...

2. I have bought tickets to go to Idaho to pick up my cat. After calling airlines, I found that there is NO NEED TO GET SHOTS! All I do is make sure there are no other pets on her flight, and reserve that spot. And bring $75 bucks to the ticket counter.

3. We didn't get any keys for work today, so we went to see 13 Going On 30. Afterwards, Jimmie asked if I knew how to get to the BIG MALL, which is about an hour away.

4. I was happy, Jimmie was going to spoil me with a nice long drive.

5. We decided at the last minute, instead, to go to the Detroit Zoo.

6. We only had an hour and twenty minutes to roam around the zoo, but it was the perfect amount of time. I got to see Polar bears and other animals for the first time! And i'm such an animal lover, that it was the coolest thing.

7.However, Jimmie was grumpy the whole day, so it was hard to enjoy myself.

8 I updated my scarf pic, I decided to cut out the background so it's easier to see the colors.

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Marie E. - Apr 26, 2004 6:52 pm (#1494 of 2912)

Sherbie, I didn't mean that the houses are blah, just the neighborhoods. I adore the house we're renting, except for the fact that there's no coat closet.

Denise, cute picture! If Shayla hadn't kept cutting her hair maybe she'd be sitting on hers. Heehee. She cut it a grand total of three times and her sister pitched in a cut it once.

All is sunny and springlike today, but we have cold weather predicted for the weekend. I wish the weather would just make up it's mind.

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Denise P. - Apr 26, 2004 6:55 pm (#1495 of 2912)

I don't know how to describe Kierynn's eyes. They have a blue-grey ring around the outside, the inner is blue, green and brown. In some lights, she almost looks like she has blue eyes, in other light, they look more brown. She is almost 14 months old so I think they are about set and not going to change but I would be stumped on what to put down if it asks for eye color. They are not hazel, not brown, blue, green or grey.

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DJ Evans - Apr 26, 2004 6:56 pm (#1496 of 2912)

Denise, I was going to let you know that others have the same deal with their eye color as your daughter--like when I was younger (much younger) I had the same thing going on myself with the color of my eyes. Then I read Kowalla's post saw that she had explained all about it. My too would change with whatever color I wore. I could go from blue, to purple, hazel etc. with just a change of outfit. On my driver's license they listed hazel as the official eye color. But as I got older they've basically have stayed a blue for about 10 years now, either a medium to a very "very" dark blue. Believe me, she'll have a blast with them when she gets older!!!

Kowalla & Denise's Daughter--it's great/cool to know that we've got something in common there!!

Later days, Deb

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DJ Evans - Apr 26, 2004 7:02 pm (#1497 of 2912)

Denise, I see where we posted at the same time there. Does the color of her eyes change in color with whatever color outfit she has on? Or does her eye color stay that same configuration? I know when I was younger, I could see gold, brown, blue and some green within the Iris, as Kowalla mentioned. So whatever color I wore just seemed to bring out that color in my Iris--if that makes sense.

Later days, Deb

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Madame Librarian - Apr 26, 2004 7:05 pm (#1498 of 2912)

That's it, Denise! Take Kieryn to the DMV and ask them what they'd put on her license.

Ciao. Barb

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Denise P. - Apr 26, 2004 7:05 pm (#1499 of 2912)

Her eyes change according to what she has on and the angle of the light. Somedays I am ready to swear under oath she has green eyes, the next day....brown. It makes us nuts when relatives ask what color her eyes are and we say "We have no idea. They are all colors" I even asked the pediatrician, who was also stumped.

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Acceber - Apr 26, 2004 7:40 pm (#1500 of 2912)

Wow, what weird eyes we have . Mine are light brown with a different amount of green depending on what I'm wearing, and my mom's are permanently blueish greenish grayish.

Barb, the actual day is May 1, this Saturday. I'm panicking.

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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 26, 2004 7:50 pm (#1501 of 2912)

Our roof's up! On Thursday when we first saw the house, it was just a frame. Now the outer walls are up, the bricks are in the yard, the driveway and walkway are leveled, and the shingles are in stacks on the wooden roof! This is so exciting, I feel like a new mother. I drive by every day and take pictures. Still a little concerned about it being completed on time to get the bond money; I'm seriously considering schmoozing the foreman and workers so they stay on schedule. I'm going to pick out all the little details weekend after next (light fixtures, tile, carpet, counter tops, doors, hardware, stain, etc.) accompanied by my mother and mother-in-law, both of which have tastes entirely opposite to my own. But they're excited for me so I understand why they want to be a part of the process. Nonetheless, this could get interesting.

Marie, I pretty much knew that's what you meant. I was giving you a bit of a hard time. I get a little playful when I'm happy. It's good to know what you're looking for. My husband and I seemed to both prefer newer homes, but for some reason never put that desire into words. We spent several months looking at older homes before we realized, "hey, we don't want to have to deal with some issues that come with older houses." We can barely hammer in a nail, let alone tackle home improvement projects.

Barb, we still have to undergo inspections from the city, but not from FHA. That's what I was meaning. FHA can be a little strict about older homes, which is a good thing, I suppose. But since ours is new, we don't have to worry about them!

Congrats to your friend, Sarah! Your scarf is looking great, by the way.

What lucky girls you all are! I would love to have eyes that changed color. Mine are greyish blue and occasionally look more grey or more blue depending on my clothes, yet they are definitely one basic shade.

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Kip Carter - Apr 26, 2004 8:03 pm (#1502 of 2912)

Denise, I fully understand your question as to the color of Kierynn's eyes. I have the same trouble. For years when I was asked for my eye color somewhere, I would ask the person needing the information what was the color of my eyes and then put that on the form or whatever.

I have run the complete gamut of color, from hazel to blue to brown to gray to green to black. I have yet to have red eyes except in some photos. My opthomologist says my eye color will even vary between eyes depending on what color is around me at that time. He has had a good time and still does not have the answer...to the color, that is.

I feel for you and Kierynn. You may have to just live with it like I am having to do!

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boop - Apr 27, 2004 12:47 am (#1503 of 2912)

Happy Tuesday everyone. Hope everyone has a nice day.

Weasley Wanna B., hope you do something fun.

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 27, 2004 2:03 am (#1504 of 2912)

Hey guys, I've been lurking for a few days.... making a few posts on the forum, but none here.... sorry, I've just been too busy at work *sniff*... (being naughty right now & logging on for a 'few' minutes... well, I need to rebel some way against the dementors) I must try out my home connection tonight.... woohooo... finally... so fingers crossed! Boop, I have an instant message thingy, but its only for work, & we're not alllowed to use it for personal use... hmph! So I must go about setting up a personal one... then I can add you all & get chatting... oh I'm all excited!

Kip, good to 'see' you back on the forum again. I hope you are well on the road to recovery... we missed ya!

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with 'chameleon' eyes.... seems there are quite a number of us about... there should be a section on legal documents that says...
Colour of Eyes: 'Depends what I'm wearing' or 'indeterminable' I think on most forms mine are down as hazel ... actually *checks licence* theres no eye colour section listed on my licence.... just a very dodgy photo where I look paler than 'ol Voldy!

I always thought my eyes where brown / hazel until a few years ago when a friend complemented a t-shirt I was wearing & said it matched my eyes, I was shocked seeing as it was a green t-shirt...... & said as much... & they said, but you have green eyes.... (very flattered & I thought.... ooh just like Harrys ... to myself of course )

It is a bit annoying at times however, quite frequently I get people here at work stopping mid conversation (especially if a stray sunbeam enters the office) & going.... hey (in shocked tone) what colour are your eyes? Like make me feel like an alien why don't you! I also had a so called friend tell me that he thought my eyes where 'A Weird Colour' (direct quote... worthy of the Ron Weasley school of flattery) hmmm thanks, I think! Oh well, at least I'm not alone

Denise.... it sounds like Kierynn has all of this to look forward to.... but it is fun.... she can think of her eye colour as another accessory.. hee hee

I'll second that Boop....
Have a very Happy Birthday Weasley Wanna B

# slips back to lurk around the forum.... but seeing as I'm feeling rebellious today... I might appear on other parts of the forum & the FFF... *

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Marè - Apr 27, 2004 4:29 am (#1505 of 2912)

LOL on all the eyes stuff. My eyes are a very definite dark brown. Only thing is they are that dark, that when I was younger, I had strangers coming to me in the stores to check whether my eyes had any colour or were just plain black.
And then they started discussing it with my mam (Hey I was 8 years old... I could speak too!) But I think something changed, because allthough they are still dark, they aren't that close to black anymore.
Now my younger niece has the exact same problem
My best guess to determine some-ones eyecolour when you have several is to take a very good look at said persons eyes while outside in the daylight (most honest light) and see which two colours are presented most. Make those two the "official" eyecolour.

Happy birthday to all the birthday pigs! (Isn't an insult but a translated dutch expression, don't ask me why!)

And as for msn, I had my computer on the last days, but weren't behind it very much. I hope to catch some of you in chatt ...er... (looks to schedule) next week? (I'm a bit stressed and busy, can you tell? I actually shouldn't be here, but I came to tell everybody I saw dumbledore in a presentation somebody gave today... He was in giant squid form. He was also a bit dead, so maybe it was his cousin.)
BTW did I add every-one to msn?

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tracie1976 - Apr 27, 2004 5:25 am (#1506 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Melissa!

Warning: complaint about the weather. Its cold here and raining and they say there is a chance of snow....where is spring??

Plus congrats on the new house..who ever that may be...I forget..sorry.

Mare I'm not sure if you're on my msn but if you or anyone one else wants to add me its tlb331@hotmail.com

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draco all the way - Apr 27, 2004 5:53 am (#1507 of 2912)

Happy birthday to..um.. all the people who have their birthdays! Can't wait for my own b'day. Its 7 months away and I'm already excited! Yeah, I know, I'm wierd like that.

Mare, I have the same problem too! I still don't know whether my eyes are a really dark brown or just plain black. Incidently, can people have black eyes?

And yay! to the new house! YAY! And here’s another Yay! for good measure.

And finally, India still remains hot and sticky. The weather is making me feel very sluggish. Where's winter when you need it?

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boop - Apr 27, 2004 6:43 am (#1508 of 2912)

Fawkes, I just can't wait for you to get your account set up for aim or msn. It will be so nice to talk with you. I enjoy reading yours post and it always puts a smile on my face. Don't work too hard Fawkes. Have a great day.

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Leviosa - Apr 27, 2004 6:47 am (#1509 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Melissa!!! I hope you have a lovely day

Congrats to Becca on the bat mitzvah!

And congrats to Sherbie on finding a great house.

My eyes are just boring dark brown, but can still be clearly distinguished from black.

Sarah, your scarf looks great! If you don't know what else to do, you could knit one for me

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Flame Alligator - Apr 27, 2004 7:08 am (#1510 of 2912)

Fawkes, Belated Top of the mornin to ya!!! I am so excited at the prospect of chatting with you!!!!!! Me first please. I am online in the wee hours of the morning and on and off at night. AIM messenger screen name ArchetypeGds. and MSN messenger use my e-mail, stormflame@msn.com I hate it that you are surrounded by dementors. I know the feeling. Here is a hug and some chocolate.

Sherbie, Yay!!!!!!! The house is coming up. Thrilling.

Happy Birthday whoever is having one. and btw. (reminding) My birthday is Sunday. (May 2nd) I will be an ageless 53 and I am so thrilled! I love being alive. I want to live past l00. Lots of forum posting. Yesterday was a trying day for me (can't be happy everyday) but I am back up today

Chiaojones, That scarf is coming girl. Looks great!

Veronika, I really enjoy chatting with you. You are so very cool. Guess you will have to disguise yourself as a "harry" to throw the "old ladies" off.

Boop, Dustin looks so sweet in the new pic. Finally losing some of his newborn looks.

I am busy watching Queen of the Damned on DVD. Whenever I have a bad day, like yesterday, I watch Queen of the Damned. I love it when Akasha sets people a flame. Helps me release my frustrations to watch her in action.

It is a beautiful warm sunny day. I think I will walk to the YWCA today to teach yoga. I am in such a good mood. My yoga class is in trouble. The better my mood......the tougher the class.

Have a beautiful day y'all!!!!!

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Madame Librarian - Apr 27, 2004 7:25 am (#1511 of 2912)

Here's a story that still creeps me out after...oh...40 odd years.

The setting: high school science lab
Who: yours truly and a cute guy (had a crush on him actually) named Steve.

We were marking exams as part of our lab service, sitting across from each other. He'd read the answer, I'd tick off the exam paper. We looked up at the same moment (cue the romantic violins...not), and I looked right into his lovely blue eye--no, that's not a typo, the other eye was brown! I froze--it made me soooo weird feeling to see this.

Oh, he said flatly, "you noticed, huh? Sooner or later everyone does, and they get all strange."

I still remember that day as clearly as any from high school. My crush on Steve was never quite the same. Naturally, I don't remember what he told me about the percent of people who have this condition of one eye a different color than the other or what it's called, but I sure hope the kids whose papers I was grading checked them very carefully that day.

Ciao. Barb

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DJ Evans - Apr 27, 2004 7:28 am (#1512 of 2912)

I had to laugh in reading some of the posts this morning. It seems like we're a bunch who aren't satisfied with what we've got. Some are so looking for the sunshine after all of the rain that we've had (& we've got "more" rain moving in!!), then there are those who wish spring would hurry up and have the snow move out and finally draco all the way is wishing for winter to there!!! hee hee

Wow, all my life I had never heard of any others having the trait of their eye color changing like myself. Now, I see where it's more common than I thought!! Denise, I think the DMV just listed my eye color as hazel, cause they didn't what else to put there. Plus, isn't the color hazel a mixture of the other colors? So that might be why they used hazel as the color. Like we've said, she's going to really have fun when she gets older and can change her eye color like that. She can change her whole look with just a change of an outfit.

Hey, here's hoping you have a fantastic birthday Weasley Wanna B!!!! So have a HAPPY "Harry Potter" BIRTHDAY!!!!!

Later days, Deb

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 27, 2004 7:57 am (#1513 of 2912)

*chomp chomp* Ta for the chocolate Flame!

Had another day of chasing my tail... very depressing & monotonous, but hey... I came back on for a quick read I'm actually in a very good mood.... no idea why... perhaps its just being able to get on to the forum & chat to you guys! Or the chocolate Hey I'll not knock it... just enjoy. Plus I had an excellent yoga class last night.... I was able to go further in all the postures than I have ever done before... & I came out of the class in a buzz... & I've still got that buzz! Still no pain either (unless its delayed pain... which will catch up with me tomorrow... )

Good news about the house Sherbie... it seems to be flying up.... is it a magic house? I bought a new house here last year... but it took forever to build..... I was supposed to move in last march & didn't get the keys until August! But hey.... thats a different nightmare! Good luck with the bond thingy... hope you make the deadline!

Sarah, I'm loving the scarf.... its almost addictive now to watch its progress.... keep up the good work!

Flame, there are loads of us May babies on the forum, including Kip our forum daddy & *hint hint* someone else that you all know *cough*me*cough* ... so we're going to have a 'little' party over in St Mungos on the fan fic forum .... all are invited....

Right, home time methinks.... TTFN

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Padfoot - Apr 27, 2004 8:46 am (#1514 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Weasley Wanna B! My birthday is coming up too, a week from today actually. Practically everyone of my co-workers has a May birthday, it's a popular month.

Wow, all this talk of changing eye color sounds really cool. I have regular blue eyes that do not match my outfits. I wish I had that mysteriously changing eye color.

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mike miller - Apr 27, 2004 9:35 am (#1515 of 2912)

Not to change the subject; eye color (my daughter's eyes are nearly black), houses, weather, but I finally found an image for my postings! It's so hard to find a file that's not too large.

Any other Blues fans out there!

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Julia. - Apr 27, 2004 10:19 am (#1516 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Melissa!!!

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VeronikaG - Apr 27, 2004 10:33 am (#1517 of 2912)

I know a guy who is a bit, what shall I say... unusual. The first time I met him, he leaned over the table and asked "What color are my eyes?" From a distance they looked just ordinary brown, but on closer inspection I could see that they were greenish with brown specks. "It's called hazel in English" he said, when I had replied "Uh... green-brown-grey..." So I guess hazel really is a mixed color.

In Norway we only have two official colors, blue and brown. To quote my science teacher, "There is no such thing as grey or green eyes!" Grey is the same as blue, and if your eyes are any color other than blue (or grey), they are brown. Green will always be listed as brown. Makes it very easy to know what to put on a drivers liesence, but can be a problem if you need to show an ID card to someone who does not agree that you have the claimed eye color.

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Acceber - Apr 27, 2004 10:47 am (#1518 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Weasley Wanna B!

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Gina R Snape - Apr 27, 2004 10:49 am (#1519 of 2912)

Woohoo. Happy birthday to all of us April Tauruses! Yeehoo. My birthday is tomorrow!

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DJ Evans - Apr 27, 2004 10:59 am (#1520 of 2912)

Gina, here's your "1st" pre-birthday greeting from one of your Forum family!!!! Hope you have a great one and that all of your wishes come true!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!


Later days, Deb

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septentrion - Apr 27, 2004 11:41 am (#1521 of 2912)

Happy birthday to all people concerned !

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VeronikaG - Apr 27, 2004 11:41 am (#1522 of 2912)

Happy birthday tomorrow, Gina!

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Emily - Apr 27, 2004 1:41 pm (#1523 of 2912)

Happy birthday to everyone in May! WE're planning a birthday bash at St. Mungoes (FFF) so come over and visit!

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Blast - Apr 27, 2004 1:47 pm (#1524 of 2912)

My kids all have brown eyes except that Kyra has just a little bit of her left eye green. Must be the Slytherin in her trying to get out. My sister says that my eyes are too brown, too close together, and too far back in my head, and this is on a nice day. Happy birthday all you taurus's, bully for you.

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SarcasticGinny  - Apr 27, 2004 2:02 pm (#1525 of 2912)

Happy Birthday all, especially Weasley Wanna-be. It's my birthday too, I didn't know we were birthday twins!! :-)

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Padfoot - Apr 27, 2004 2:04 pm (#1526 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Sarcastic Ginny!

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boop - Apr 27, 2004 2:45 pm (#1527 of 2912)

Sarcastic Ginny, I hope you have a great day.

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timrew - Apr 27, 2004 3:02 pm (#1528 of 2912)

Happy birthday, Sarcastic Ginny and Gina! Have a great day!

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Chris. - Apr 27, 2004 3:03 pm (#1529 of 2912)

Happy Birthday to Gina and Sarcastic Ginny!

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Julia. - Apr 27, 2004 3:23 pm (#1530 of 2912)

Sarcastic Ginny, why didn't you tell us earlier? Happy brithday!

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Pinky - Apr 27, 2004 5:09 pm (#1531 of 2912)

I've just read 70 posts on this thread. This is only 1 of 3 threads on this forum that I stay up with. *sigh* Can you tell I'm falling behind? Anyway, I just had to mention... Sarah! Does the Detroit Zoo still use elephant footprints to lead you through it? I used to visit it with my Grandparents. (They lived in Berkley.) I'm homesick now for the Detroit Zoo. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did when I was younger.

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DJ Evans - Apr 27, 2004 5:29 pm (#1532 of 2912)

Sarcastic Ginny!!!! Wow, you and Weasley Wanna Be are just like me and Madame Librarian--we share the same birthday too (Feb. 18th). COOL!!!!!!

So here's a great big ol' birthday wish for you--may you know only laughter and joy on your day. May your whole day be filled with great friends and a bunch of wonderful memories to cherish!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!


Later days, Deb

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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 27, 2004 5:46 pm (#1533 of 2912)

To Gina, Weasley Wanna-Be, and Sarcastic Ginny: Birthday Song I hope your day went wonderfully, Ginny and Weasley, and I hope you have a great day tomorrow, Gina!

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Leprechaun Jack - Apr 27, 2004 6:24 pm (#1534 of 2912)



To Gina and everyone who has had or is going to have a birthday

Chompy

Gift 2

Happy Birthday

Jack

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scully jones - Apr 27, 2004 7:12 pm (#1535 of 2912)

Why, yes Pinky, it most certainly did! They were a tad old and faded, but still there, yes!

Blast, I had a nightmare last night involving a Nuclear Bomb, I'm putting the complete and total blame on your shoulders!

I only got two rows done on my scarf, but I bought a skirt today that will go perfectly with my whole "Hogwartzy" outfit. You can go take a very blurry look at me here.

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Marie E. - Apr 27, 2004 7:14 pm (#1536 of 2912)

Happy birthday everyone! I had a birthday twin when I was in school. My friend Angie was nearly exactly 12 hours older than me. We went out together on our 21st birthday. It was fun hav:ging someone to share the day with. She's in D.C. now, so we only get together when we're both in North Dakota at the same time. So far it's happened once in ten years. ) We went looking at houses tonight. (squeal) My husband likes one that needs "fixing up". It's okay, but I have an issue with the exterior. I can't put my finger on it, but it's just a feeling. We'll keep looking.

Finally, we got some good weather today. 65 and gorgeous.

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Madame Librarian - Apr 27, 2004 7:30 pm (#1537 of 2912)

Golly, a bunch of birthday clusters. Happy day to all!

Ciao. Barb

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DJ Evans - Apr 27, 2004 7:48 pm (#1538 of 2912)

chiaojones, hey just checked out your scarf with your outfit--it's really going to look so cool wearing it all together. Hopefully you will have it finished by June 4th!!!! I can't remember if that is your plans, but it will really fit in with the theme of PoA!! You're doing such a good job on it. Is this your first project in knitting? I can knit, but I've always wanted to learn how to crochet. My Mom who has been doing both since she was a little girl (she's 84 now) and of course has tried to teach me. But for some strange reason I just can't get the hang of crocheting. Sure wish I could though, I can imagine so many projects that I could do if I only could pick it up.

Later days, Deb

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draco all the way - Apr 27, 2004 9:38 pm (#1539 of 2912)

Winter oh where are you? It's not physiologically impossible to die of heat you know!

Happy birthday everyone! Yay! May you get lots of HP related products as presents! And don't tell me to stop being materialistic, you know you want them!

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boop - Apr 28, 2004 1:57 am (#1540 of 2912)

Gina, Have a great Day!!!I hope Prof. Snape is taking you out for a wonderful evening!!!!!

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 28, 2004 2:03 am (#1541 of 2912)

Sarcastic Ginny.... happy belated birthday.... be sure to join in the party in St Mungos.....

Gina....
Rollout the butterbeer & Snape Beverages..... Hope Sev got you a nice pressie

EDIT : Boop, that picture of Dustin is sooo cute, I feel the urge to tell everyone in my office to ssshhh every time I see it as the baby is sleeping

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boop - Apr 28, 2004 2:28 am (#1542 of 2912)

Fawkes, lol Thank you I agree how cute he is. I got to babysit Sunday for a while and he was so good. I hadn't seen him in 2 weeks, but he still doesn't look like he has grown any. Fawkes I can't wait until you get aim so we can talk, when I read your posts they always put a smile on my face. Here is a rose just for you

Everyone it is Happy Over The Hump Day!!!!!! Everyone have a Great Day!!

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 28, 2004 2:29 am (#1543 of 2912)

Thanks for the Rose.... *big grins*

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SarcasticGinny  - Apr 28, 2004 3:55 am (#1544 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Gina!

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Julia. - Apr 28, 2004 4:22 am (#1545 of 2912)

-*sneaks up behind Gina and taps her on the shoulder* Happy Brithday!!! Hope you have a great day, and let me know of Severus forgets, I'll hit him with a book or something.

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tracie1976 - Apr 28, 2004 4:33 am (#1546 of 2912)

Gina!

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Happy Birthday to all of you April people. Gina - I hope Severus has a great surprise for you!

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Denise P. - Apr 28, 2004 5:06 am (#1548 of 2912)



Hippo birdies two ewes! Happy birthday to all who celebrated yesterday, today and the rest of April!

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Lynn Allen - Apr 28, 2004 5:45 am (#1549 of 2912)

Wow, it's unbelievable there are so many birthdays at once! Was there a electrical blackout when I wasn't looking? ;-) Happy Birthday! Lynn

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Flame Alligator - Apr 28, 2004 6:38 am (#1550 of 2912)

*singing birthday song* Happy Birthday!!!!!! to all the April born and the May birthdays coming up.

Sarcastic Ginny, many happy returns today.

Gina, I am sure Severus has a nice Gothic type surprise present for you. I see him as Goth. (Duh!) Am I right? If not, please severusly correct me.

Fawkes, Belated Top of the mornin to ya!!!!! So glad you enjoyed the chocolate. I can't have those dementors getting you down. :smile

DJEvans, I love your avatar. So cool!!!!

I have a ton of errands to run today. But I don't have to start till noon. It is 87 degrees here...... Yay! Sorry, Draco all the Way, I know you are sick of the heat. and I am sick of the cold. ha ha ha ha I am putting on my skimpiest cami top and enjoy the sunshine as I run around today. But get this, first I have to go to the tanning salon for my intense uv vitamin D thing. I don't have time to lay in the sun the required 45 minutes. ha ha ha go figure. PLus the tanning salon give me an even tan. (the vanity part of the treatment) Anywho, y'all enjoy your day.
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septentrion - Apr 28, 2004 7:16 am (#1551 of 2912)

happy birthday Gina !

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DJ Evans - Apr 28, 2004 7:40 am (#1552 of 2912)

Flame, thanks, I kinda liked it myself!!!! hee hee As far as I'm concerned he's the best. Definitely a chip off the ol' block!!!

Though we've got some fantastic sunshine and it will be up in the lower 80's today, we've got some MORE rain moving in tonight!!!! I know April showers brings May flowers--but gosh with the amount of rain that we've had the past 2 weeks, it's going to drown the poor little things!!!

UPDATE: It's only "36" more days till PoA!!!! Hip Hip Hurray!!!

Later days, Deb

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Padfoot - Apr 28, 2004 8:01 am (#1553 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Gina! Have a great day!

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I Am Used Vlad - Apr 28, 2004 8:22 am (#1554 of 2912)

Have a great birthday, Gina.

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Devika - Apr 28, 2004 9:24 am (#1555 of 2912)

Hey this is great! Birthday season!!

Happy Belated Birthday to Weasley wanna B and Sarcastic Ginny!!

Many Happy Returns to Gina!! Hope you have a great day! Tell us all about it!

... about eye-colour... mine are light brown, but in India it is kind of unusual since most people have what can be called black or maybe very deep brown eyes. Infact some people here say that people with coloured or light eyes are untrustworthy!!

... the hot Indian summer has started to set in and they say that this has been a record hot April. I dread to think how it will be in May and June!! There have been a few showers in the last few days but it's all temporary... it's gonna get hot now!

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DJ Evans - Apr 28, 2004 9:54 am (#1556 of 2912)

Draco, I was wondering how cold does it get over there in your winters? Here in the south US it can get bitterly cold, but nothing like it does in the Northern states.

Later days, Deb

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Blast - Apr 28, 2004 11:36 am (#1557 of 2912)

Gina,a thousand Birthday wishes to my favourate Slytherin. May Severus and the Puddy Tats make your day complete. Sarcastic Ginny, have yourself a good birhday as well. Boop,the little one is a sweety keep up the good work.

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Detail Seeker - Apr 28, 2004 12:07 pm (#1558 of 2912)

Happy birthday to all the happy "Newyearers".

Chiaojones, did I see a "Burrow Street" on that map of Bellefonte, you have on your page, near the park, where the Meeting will be ? So there will be some Weasleys around....

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Marè - Apr 28, 2004 1:36 pm (#1559 of 2912)

Nice pictures bye the way It's lovely to see how wrong I am yet again (!) with how everybody looks...
Okay, so maybe Boop was a little how I pictured her.

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Lynn Allen - Apr 28, 2004 1:53 pm (#1560 of 2912)

I'll send a second happy birthday to Gina Snape because she's probably forgotten the first one; you know how memory gets after a certain age! (Whoops, I'm gonna get it for that one!) :-) Lynn

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Gina R Snape - Apr 28, 2004 2:08 pm (#1561 of 2912)

Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes!!!!

I will be away from the computer tonight, chowing down on po'boys and hurricanes with some friends. Who knows, a certain enigmatic potions master might even pay a visit...

Edit: Really Lynn. And there I went and thanked you on my LJ and everything. Hrrummph

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Padfoot - Apr 28, 2004 2:13 pm (#1562 of 2912)

Gina, are you in New Orleans? You must be somewhere in Louisiana if you are eating po'boys and drinking hurricanes.

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scully jones - Apr 28, 2004 2:29 pm (#1563 of 2912)

I actually made a list of all the street names in Bellefonte that are Harry Potter related, but I can't seem to find the post.

Boop was suprised to see just how many street names in her town she never noticed.

Just for you special Birthday people!  Happy Birthday

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Hem Hem - Apr 28, 2004 4:04 pm (#1564 of 2912)

Happy birthday to Gina, and belated birthdays to those who have celebrated. And Mazal tov, Becca!

Man, I feel as though I haven't been around in ages. Guess I've just been busy.... *sigh*

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Acceber - Apr 28, 2004 4:15 pm (#1565 of 2912)

Happy birthdays to Gina and Sarcastic Gina!

Man, my last two posts have been birthday-related, that's a record .

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Viola Intonada - Apr 28, 2004 5:54 pm (#1566 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Gina! Don't forget to stop over at St. Mungo's for a little birthday cheer.

Blast, to answer your question many, many, many posts ago, the dig is in Sandusky, Ohio.

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Blast - Apr 28, 2004 6:18 pm (#1567 of 2912)

Don't they have a little amusement park there Viola?

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SarcasticGinny  - Apr 28, 2004 7:03 pm (#1568 of 2912)

hehehe Acceber-I'm amused at "Sarcastic Gina". Sounds like the type of offspring Gina and Snape WOULD have. :-)

Thanks for the greetings, all.

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Gina R Snape - Apr 28, 2004 8:29 pm (#1569 of 2912)

Sarcastic Gina Sounds like the type of offspring Gina and Snape WOULD have. :-)

LOL, I would agree!

padfoot, I am not in NOLA. I am in NYC, but went to a cajun restaurant here in NYC. Had a fabulous time, and now I'm home not so ready to tuck into bed to go to work tomorrow...

Thanks again to everyone!

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draco all the way - Apr 28, 2004 8:51 pm (#1570 of 2912)

Devika, RAIN?!! You have rain? This is just wonderful! I thought at least the rest of India would be there to suffer with me, but I guess I am all alone!

DJEvans, It doesn't get all that cold here. We don't have very definite seasons. It's usually always humid but when it gets a bit cooler, we call it winter. We really don't have seasons like spring and fall, just a really hot summer and a relatively cool winter.

Exactly where do you live, DJEvans? I used to live in Nebraska and we used to have SO much snow! I used to hate it then, but now I miss it really badly! But Nebraska's midwest, so I guess the Northern states must get it really bad!

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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 28, 2004 8:58 pm (#1571 of 2912)

Glad to hear you had a good Birthday, Gina!

Hope the house hunt is going well, Marie, I've been sending good home vibes your way! Sorry to hear that the house your husband liked wasn't the one, but good for you about listening to your inner voice.

Things are going well for us on the home front! Our driveway is done, the plumbers have come and installed the tubs, the heating and air guys have come and installed the vents.

The weather here has been warm, though rather windy. Gusts up to 45 mph today. Tomorrow should be better, but we're expecting storms on Friday. Oh well, hopefully the rain will hold out until the construction is finshed for the day!

Hope everyone's week is going well!

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boop - Apr 29, 2004 2:30 am (#1572 of 2912)

Gina, Glad to hear Severus took you to a nice restaurant. It sounds like you had a great time.

Lindsey, Glad to hear everything is coming along good with the house. I will keep my fingers crossed that the weather holds out for you.

Marie, You said that my picture looked alot like you thought I would look like is that good or bad ? hehehe

Everyone have a great Day, and for any college students getting ready for finals good luck with all of them!!!!!

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Julia. - Apr 29, 2004 3:17 am (#1573 of 2912)

Thanks Boop! My finals start next week, and I'm just about pulling my hair out over bio. I'm studying really hard though. Oh, I think I've found the perfect smilie!

So, on that lovely note, I'm heading off to my 8 am class, so have a good day everyone!!

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septentrion - Apr 29, 2004 3:54 am (#1574 of 2912)

Julia, I'm with you ! and your smilie is really perfect on that occasion, but I have to say that even when you have finished your studies, your smilie is still true !

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Marè - Apr 29, 2004 4:34 am (#1575 of 2912)

Crossing my fingers for all the people making exams!

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 29, 2004 4:38 am (#1576 of 2912)

I'll second that. Good luck to all studying for their exams.... may your brains not explode & that you will know all the answers.... most of them anyways.... Good Luck

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mollis - Apr 29, 2004 4:48 am (#1577 of 2912)

Hello all! Just sneaking on here real quick to give you an update.

First, Happy Birthday to all the April babies! Belated to those I missed, and early for next week's.

Draco~I am originally from Lincoln, Nebraska. Where did you live?

Packing is in full-force today. We picked up the truck last night. I am going to finish the packing of boxes while my dear hubby loads the truck. We have a couple of guys coming over this evening to help load furniture. By tonight, all of my worldly possessions will be in a big ole moving truck. We're camping in the living room tonight in sleeping bags, and then we hit the road tomorrow morning. I am really excited, but nervous. I hate the thought of all my stuff in that truck. But never fear, the Harry Potter books did get paced with the fine china (It just happened that my book box got full and Harry had to go somewhere else, and conveniently the box with the china was just lying there open. ).

So, I may be able to borrow hubby's laptop to check in here, but if not, the next time you "see" me, I'll be in Kansas City! Best of luck to everyone else buying homes now. And also, good luck to all of you taking final exams! Just relax and be confident when taking your exams - you already know it all!

And here's a rainbow for all of you with too much rain:

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septentrion - Apr 29, 2004 4:50 am (#1578 of 2912)

Mollis, excuses are made to be used !

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mollis - Apr 29, 2004 4:55 am (#1579 of 2912)

Excuses??? You wouldn't possibly be thinking of trying to get out of exams would you?

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mike miller - Apr 29, 2004 4:59 am (#1580 of 2912)

Mollis - Good luck with the move. I've made major moves 4 times, twice completely across the country. It is always kind of strange when all of your stuff is packed away. On my last 2 moves, they even pulled my car into the moving van!

My only advice is to take your time unpacking. It's much easier to unload once than have to move everything around once you in your new home.

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 29, 2004 5:12 am (#1581 of 2912)

Good Luck Mollis.... it is a bit depressing seeing all your worldly possessions packed away in boxes... but it's worth it. I'm glad to hear that your HP books are well looked after You do have your priorities in order.... safe journey & good luck with the move!

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VeronikaG - Apr 29, 2004 5:17 am (#1582 of 2912)

Good trip to Kansas City, Mollis!

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Essidji - Apr 29, 2004 5:53 am (#1583 of 2912)

Hi, everyone. Good luck for the exams, happy birthday to the ones I missed, and Mollis, may your things in the move get safely to your new home.

It's been a long time since I haven't posted, so I don't know where to start...

Last week one of my neighbours thought she had found back my cat (Réglisse-Menthe), but it wasn't him. In fact it was the one of another family. He was as old as ours and had also left their home in the same period as ours. Unfortunately, that kitty was badly ill, and his masters were on vacation. I did as I would have liked someone to do if they had found my cat : took it to the veterinarian, looked after him, fed him... But alas he did not survive and died on the morning of the day his masters came back. I felt so sorry not to have succeeded in helping it get well again. But I also felt relieved to see he would not suffer anymore. Their masters thanked me. It was nice, all the same, to discover these people are good people, they could have said it was not their cat or reproach me for having spent money to try and save its life...

BTW, how's your kitty, Flame?

It's hard to connect these days, because we have friends at home with their two 8-month-old babies. As we have only 2 bedrooms, we sleep in our daughter's and they have ours. It's really funny. Things go quite well, everyone tries not to spread their things too much and to respect the other's space of life. It's quite nice experience. And their babies are lovely.

Their married the same year as we, in 1996, and had tried to have a baby eversince, without success. In this time, we had our two girls, and as you imagine, it was hard for them, even if they were really happy for us... And then 2 years ago, they moved back to their original region (South West of France) and started an In Vitro Fertilization program. Last time we saw them they were just starting... and now they have the most beautiful baby boy and baby girl in the world. It's also a miracle to see how this joy changed their mind upon anything : they both are really transformed, more happy, optimistic, laughing easily...happiness in a single word!

On a different matter, I am starting to be optimistic again about my job research. I decided to tell the recruiters I deliberately stopped to work for a couple of years to take care of my children, even if this is not true. I finally accepted the fact that a recruiter would rather choose someone who decides instead of undergoes his (her) situation. Don't say it's obvious (and it should have been for me as i am a recruiter), it's much harder to do the right things for yourself than for the others.

I had an interview yesterday, and this explanation to the "hole" in my C.V. seemed to satisfy the lady I spoke with : she made no comment, did not raise her eyebrows or any stuff like that... Now, we'll see if I convinced her on the fact I am the most qualified for that job!

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 29, 2004 6:19 am (#1584 of 2912)

Hey Karine, good to see you back. That was an excellent answer in your interview... and of course it's a legitimate career choice too

Hope you get the job *fingers crossed*

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Marè - Apr 29, 2004 6:44 am (#1585 of 2912)

Crosses toes for Essidji's job (I think I already had my fingers crossed for Julia's exams...). Great! Now please don't make me cross anymore limbs, because then I will have trouble getting home in one piece.

So sorry to hear about the cat Essidji, I think you did real well taking care of it. At least its' owners now have the knowledge that their cat spend it's last days surrounded with warm and love instead of somewehere outside all alone.
I still hope Réglisse-Menthe comes home one day.

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Molly Weasly Wannabe - Apr 29, 2004 8:33 am (#1586 of 2912)



Have a Happy B-day to all of you who have B-days in April.

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mollis - Apr 29, 2004 9:41 am (#1587 of 2912)

Thanks for all the well-wishes! I'm unplugging now, so hopefully I'll "see" you all again very soon from the other side of this move!

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DJ Evans - Apr 29, 2004 11:25 am (#1588 of 2912)

Draco, I live in the northern/central part of Arkansas and our winters can get bad, but nothing like they have up in the extreme north US, as we here in the south don't have such a long period of "bad" winter as they do. It seems like the last few years, we are having more ice storms and those are definitely bad!!!

Oh Sherbie, it sounds like your house is really coming along!!! Hope the weather stays great and the workers will be able to work straight through to get it all done in time. I know you can't wait for it all to be over with!

Julia--loved the smilie that you posted on #1573!!!! I guess I'm going to have to download Smilie Central to get all of those cute little guys!!!

Mollis, I hate that I missed you before you unplugged the computer!!! Though you are through with all of your packing--don't you just love the act of packing? Reason I say that, we just moved ourselves 4 years ago and it was such a great opportunity to "get rid" of a bunch of junk that had been collected over the years. Of course the down side of "unpacking" is when you've finally finished and go to look for something and can't quite remember where you put it!!!! I'm still running into that problem!!! hee hee But anyway, here is a great big ol' wish that you have a safe trip and all goes smoothly in your move.

Essidji--good luck with your job hunting!!! May it all work out for you and you get one that you love!! And what a kind heart that you've got in taking care of your neighbor's cat. Animal lovers are the best if you ask me!!!

Yep, it's starting to get dark outside, so the dreaded rain is almost here. I hate that, cause if it comes with lightening, that means I've got to shut the computer down & unplug it all. I lost my last computer from lightening & so now, you can believe me when a storm comes up--I shut her down!!!

Later days, Deb

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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 29, 2004 2:11 pm (#1589 of 2912)

Thanks, Betty and Deb! We'll be getting your rain tomorrow I think, Deb. Try and send it the other way for me! Good luck with your move, Mollis. I hope your journey is safe.

Essidji, good luck to you! I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Finals are fast approaching. I've been a little lax about my studying recently, I wonder why...Could it be that every time I get on the computer to type a paper, the call of the Lexicon beckons me over?

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Julia. - Apr 29, 2004 3:03 pm (#1590 of 2912)

I have that problem too Sherbie! I've taken to studying on my bed, that way I don't even have to look at my computer when I'm trying to concentrate on bio. However, every time I decide to take a break, I always end up here. Funny how that works.

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scully jones - Apr 29, 2004 3:16 pm (#1591 of 2912)

Good LuckOn the move!

Good LuckOn FINALS!

Good LuckWith the job!

And to everyone else who needs it,Right HugHUG!Left Hug

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timrew - Apr 29, 2004 4:15 pm (#1592 of 2912)

Hugs, love and peace to anyone who has a birthday, a new house, an interview, or success in exams!

I saw Eric Clapton in concert tonight, and I still have a great big grin on my face. He was terrific! I've not seen him since he was in Cream (circa 1970), and he's still 'bloody brilliant!'

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DJ Evans - Apr 29, 2004 4:39 pm (#1593 of 2912)

Sherbie, I think the rain we were supposed to get was coming from Texas today, and basically it just passed us by this afternoon. Sure looked like it was about to come a downpour a couple of times, but nothing. In the southern part of the state they did get rain today. Now, they are saying we're getting it Saturday. I'm beginning to wonder if "they" know what they are talking about.

If I could, I'd sure head it off from you Sherbie, but I think it's heading East and so you will get it before we do. Of course, in about a month or so from now we will be begging for rain!!! Not only for the water but to help cool down the hot summer temperatures!!!

Careful there Tim--you're showing your age!!! Gosh, I haven't thought of Cream in years!!! The group "The Who" were my
all-time favorite band back then. Well, heck! My heart still starts to pound when I hear one of their songs!!!

Later days, Deb

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timrew - Apr 29, 2004 4:51 pm (#1594 of 2912)

I don't care, Debs! I was there at Cream's final concert in The Albert Hall, and I'm proud of it!

BTW, The Who rocked as well! I've seen them also, about a hundred years ago, performing 'Tommy'.

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mike miller - Apr 29, 2004 4:57 pm (#1595 of 2912)

Tim - You lucky devil! The last time I saw Clapton was 1990 at Irvine Meadows outside of Los Angeles. Glad to hear he still puts on a great show. I'll have to keep my ears open to see if he plays anywhere near Baltimore, MD.

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Acceber - Apr 29, 2004 6:02 pm (#1596 of 2912)

The last time I saw Clapton...duh...pass

I'm not going to be online most of the weekend, so I'll say advance happy/hope it goes well/good luck to anyone having, doing, or taking birthday/moving/exams.

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Lynn Allen - Apr 29, 2004 6:13 pm (#1597 of 2912)

Tim, that sounds like a great evening listening to Clapton. Glad you had the opportunity. Rock on!

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Blast - Apr 29, 2004 6:22 pm (#1598 of 2912)

I've never seen Clapton, but I've seen The Who three times. They were a lot better band I thought with Keith Moon.

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I Am Used Vlad - Apr 29, 2004 6:34 pm (#1599 of 2912)

I've never seen Clapton or The Who, unfortunately. My concert highlight was when the Eagles got back together for Hell Freezes Over. I've seen them three times since.

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draco all the way - Apr 29, 2004 7:23 pm (#1600 of 2912)

Mollis, I used to live in Omaha. Good luck with the move. Its always a bit depressing seeing everything you own packed off into boxes. Especially for some one as materialistic as me. To date I've made 4 cross-continental move and a couple of cross-country moves as well.And I'm only 15! It's kind of funny to watch kids whining about shifting from junior high to highschool when you've succesfully shifted from U.S type schooling to India type schooling. Can you say CULTURE SHOCK? I don't know why I'm telling you all this, but sometimes I feel very out of place-where ever I go! Oh well at least now I'm an expert on adapting.

Good luck to all those writing finals. Study well. Hope you know all the answers and if you don't I hope you're good at fudging!

Essidj, GOOD JOB! Sadly, my mother would probably have thrown the poor cat out of the house if I tried to do something like that! Good luck on the job as well!

Clapton...isn't he that guy with glasses and a guitar? The Who- who?

And sorry to make you all cross more limbs but if you've got a couple free, cross them for me. I really need good luck for the results of my board exams!

Phew! Super long post. Sorry if I forgot anything or anybody!
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Gina R Snape - Apr 29, 2004 7:25 pm (#1601 of 2912)

Hey Jack and Julie! Check your email. I've sent out a notice regarding the next HP meetup in NYC. Let me know if you'll be coming.

If anyone else on the board is in or near NYC and would like to join our meetup on Sunday May 16th, please email me privately.

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DJ Evans - Apr 29, 2004 7:36 pm (#1602 of 2912)

Tim, did you collect all of the neat stuff from their final concert? You know, the programs, T-shirts, posters, etc...? AND I know you must have kept your ticket stub, right?

But hey folks, if you ask me (& I'm fixin' to make some of the others upset here with me) the music back then was GREAT!!! I'm a great fan of the 50's, 60's, 70's and even some of the 80's!! Oh heck, I even like some of the big band era stuff too!! Nowadays, the music has definitely surpassed me. I'm not complaining about it, just that it's not quite my cup of tea.

But The Who were definitely a great band. To me there wasn't a greater drummer (Keith M.), guitarist (Pete T.), bassist (John E.) or lead singer (Roger D.). They had it all. I guess the last time I saw them was back in the "late" 70's or early 80's. It's been many MANY years, but I can still remember the concert as if it was yesterday.

What is such a shame is I've got all of these great albums from many of the bands back then and now CD's are the rage!!! From The Who, Aerosmith, Chicago, Fleetwood Mac, etc...... I'd have to have Oprah's or Donald Trump's type of money to replace them all!!!!!

Sherbie, I ask for your forgiveness!! Earlier I had mentioned that I thought you all would get the rain before we would here in Arkansas. As I'm going to say about 95% of the time our weather comes out of the South West/West heading North East/East. 'Lo and behold I stepped outside earlier tonight and (yep, you guessed it) I declare if the clouds weren't heading straight toward you!!!! I promise you, no matter how hard I tried to "fan" it back it just wouldn't turn directions!!! So sorry about that, maybe next time I'll have better luck.

Later days, Deb

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Sherbie Lemon - Apr 29, 2004 7:52 pm (#1603 of 2912)

Ah well, Deb, thanks for trying! I can hear thunder right now, in fact. Usually I like spring storms but since they're working on our house, I find myself hoping for constantly clear skies!

Tim, I'm very jealous! When my best friend and I were in high school, we tried to go see Clapton but alas, the venue sold out quickly. I used to date a boy who declared Clapton a god and tried his hardest to emulate his style. I think he'll be here in the next month or two, and I'm sure my old boyfriend will be right up front.

I'm in my twenties so I was never able to experience the innovative music as it happened, but I was raised with the Beatles, Cream, Led Zepplin, the Stones, Dylan, and Pink Floyd. To this day, those are my preferred bands; the Beatles being my absolute favorite. Luckily, I was able to see Paul last fall and needless to say, I was in awe. Every summer we go to Abbey Road on the River in Cleveland and watch some fantastic (and some not so fantastic) Beatle tribute bands play. It's always a blast!

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VeronikaG - Apr 30, 2004 12:07 am (#1604 of 2912)

I so miss the 80's music! When I was in high school, late 90's, the 80's music was strictly forbidden. Only "harrys", for those of you who have heard me explain that term (it has NOTHING to do with our friend), would openly listen to it. I'm so happy to see that it's becoming "legal" again.

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Flame Alligator - Apr 30, 2004 12:39 am (#1605 of 2912)

Fawkes, Top of the mornin to ya! Here is a big hug for you. Why? Cause I really like you.

Mollis, I live in Lincoln, Nebraska and I am coming to KC this summer. Have a smooth move. Hope you get to read this.

Essidiji, Sami is still hanging in there. *fingers crossed for your finding a great job.

Chiaojones, I love watching your scarf grow.

Tim, Thanks for the "bloody brilliant" I love reading British, anglophile that I am.

Blast and Tim, I love The Who and Tommy is one of my favorite musicals. I have seen The Who quite a few times. Even met them back stage. It pays to be a girl. Am I bragging?...... Oh yeah!

Good Luck to all who are taking exams!!!

It is 3:30 am and I have been up just for a while. Don't know what kind of day......still dark outside. I'll come back later. Until then.......Goede Morgen!

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boop - Apr 30, 2004 1:58 am (#1606 of 2912)

Happy Friday Everyone, hope everyone has a real nice weekend.

For everyone getting ready for finals:

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Blast - Apr 30, 2004 2:11 am (#1607 of 2912)

Flame, how'd you swing backstage passes? I know you were the official yoga instructor.

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 30, 2004 2:22 am (#1608 of 2912)

Morning all..... Awww Flame thank you... I'm really quite chuffed (another little English saying that you might like... means I'm quite pleased) Sending back a big hug too

Tim, my music teacher at school was huge into Eric Clapton as well, so I can appreciate how excited you are! Reminds me of the time I got my mum & dad tickets for the 'When Hell Freezes Over' Eagles concert, I thought he was going to burst with excitement after the show! Like Sherbie I'm in my twenties, so I grew up on a staple diet of The Beatles & the like, I remember 'borrowing' my mums vinyl singles to listen to them.... & giggling that they had her maiden name on them

The weather has taken a bit of nose dive here as well. Last weekend the temperature had started to climb, between 18 - 20 degrees Celsius (about 65 F) nice & sunny, but today it's very cold again... However I'm in a holiday mood today... this weekend is a bank holiday weekend in Ireland & in the UK! So I'm not too bothered..... seeing as we have monday off work... woohoooo! Its very hard to concentrate on work today.... so I'll probably be popping up all over the forum today... hee hee!

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scully jones - Apr 30, 2004 4:53 am (#1609 of 2912)

*Yawn* Good morning all!

Happy friday to you, too Boop!

Jimmie's birthday is in 9 days, and I'm frantic! Shock I have no idea what to get or do.... Any suggestions?

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Molly Weasly Wannabe - Apr 30, 2004 5:45 am (#1610 of 2912)

Hello all. The weather in Oklahoma is therefore it is making me I sure hope the weekend isn't like it is today. Anywho....just wanted to say to everyone, and hope all of ya'll are doing well. Have a wonderful weekend all.

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Denise P. - Apr 30, 2004 6:06 am (#1611 of 2912)

I can tell it is shaping up to be one of those days. We got woken up early by a boy fight upstairs. It is raining, supposed to rain all weekend and we are supposed to camp out all weekend. Now, I just went out to go grocery shopping....my van won't start. So, here I sit, waiting for husband to come and jump start my van. Of course, it puts me 90 minutes behind where I need to be...running into lunch and naps for small ones....which in turn means that I have to get them up earlier to go pick up other kids and pitch tents at the park. Arrrggghhhh!!

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Lynn Allen - Apr 30, 2004 6:26 am (#1612 of 2912)

Today is a momentous day in our household. We were married 21 years ago and our second daughter was born 17 years ago. (Makes it easier to remember, to be honest!) Rather low-key celebration tonight; we are going out to dinner so no one has to cook. Best wishes to all and have a good weekend!

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septentrion - Apr 30, 2004 7:10 am (#1613 of 2912)

congrats Lynn for the 2 birthdays in your home ! It's not so often such things happen !

Flame, you seem to feel more confident with Dutch !

Essidji, I hope you'll get that job, but how does it come that I never thought of this answer you gave to the recruiter ? I shall tell it to a few job seekers from now on !

I went to the cinema yesterday but too late to see if the PoA trailer was shown (hubby's fault !) and guess what ? They have no poster with PoA (release 2nd June here) but many with Shrek 2 (release 23rd June) ! I can't understand, I should sort out their priorities for them ! I'll really take a day off on June 2nd, can't wait till the evening to see the movie.

Good week-end to everyone.

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Gina R Snape - Apr 30, 2004 7:20 am (#1614 of 2912)

Happy anniversary Lynn! And happy birthday to your daughter.

Yippee for the Allen family!!!

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Julia. - Apr 30, 2004 7:29 am (#1615 of 2912)

OH MY MOTHER!!!! Gina, I love your new avatar! It's wonderful!! That totally made my day!

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Padfoot - Apr 30, 2004 7:34 am (#1616 of 2912)
Edited by Apr 30, 2004 8:35 am

Lucky you Tim! I love Clapton (and the Eagles) too, though I haven't seen him in concert yet. The Beatles are still my favorite group. Like Sherbie and Fawkes, I am also in my 20s. However I did not grow up with 60s music played in my home. My parents are into country music. So I didn't really learn about the Beatles until I was in high school. In fact, I was talking to my dad once about Clapton. He said "Who?". I bet he would like the Yardbyrds if he listened to them. I like music from my generation too.

Congrats Lynn!

Edit: Love the new Snape/Black picture too!

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Anna Katarina - Apr 30, 2004 7:35 am (#1617 of 2912)

Today is Valborg here in Sweden, this means that I'll be going to see the big bonfire later, and get really smelly clothes from the smoke. But that's all ok. Valborg means that spring finally is here after almost 6 months of winter. (Snow or no-snow alike). It's also the kings birthday. Not that that makes any difference it's just an all around great day. Take care everyone.

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Gina R Snape - Apr 30, 2004 7:57 am (#1618 of 2912)

Thanks, Julia!

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Fawkes Forever - Apr 30, 2004 8:06 am (#1619 of 2912)

Gina... what can I say..... sheer genius.... made my day

I'm off on my weekend now.... will try to access from my pc at home... but it's really old & the connection is dodgy...

Denise I hope your day improves... sending you some good luck

Flame, if I don't get the chance... Happy Birthday for Sunday ...

Have fun everyone....

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Padfoot - Apr 30, 2004 8:42 am (#1620 of 2912)

It's snowing here in Colorado!

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Detail Seeker - Apr 30, 2004 8:48 am (#1621 of 2912)

padfoot, try to redirect the snow across the Atlantic river. I would have use for it.

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mike miller - Apr 30, 2004 8:58 am (#1622 of 2912)

Gina - The new avatar is OUTSTANDING!

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Ladybug220 - Apr 30, 2004 9:06 am (#1623 of 2912)

Lynn,

Happy Anniversary to you! And a Happy Birthday to your daughter! Thank you for the lovely email.

Denise, I am sending good vibes to you so that your day improves.

Gina, you made me snort Dr Pepper through my nose with that avatar. Thankfully I didn't get caught by the boss reading the Forum!

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Devika - Apr 30, 2004 9:06 am (#1624 of 2912)

Hi everyone!

Congrats Lynn!!

Anna, I hope you have a great Valborg!

...and Gina... great avatar!!

The weather here is surprisingly uncharacteristic. It's actually raining and it has really cooled down. They say this rain will be bad for the crops but all I can think right now is that it's keeping the sweltering Indian summer away for a few more days!!

Draco, it sounds like you are in India. Are you Indian? Where do you live and what do you do? I'm in Delhi in my first year of graduation...actually between 1st and 2nd...

By the way, can soemone tell me what the date is for the release of POA in Britain. Before you guys jump the gun on me.. I know the date in India. It's just that I might be in London at the beginning of June and I would like to know if I can be there on the release day to witness the frenzy!!

....I have an exam coming up this week so in case I don't come online, Happy Birthday in advance to Flame!

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Ladybug220 - Apr 30, 2004 9:08 am (#1625 of 2912)

Devika, the release date is June 3 - the same as the American release.

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Devika - Apr 30, 2004 9:21 am (#1626 of 2912)

Thanks Ladybug... I was a bit confused since in India it is June 4th. Here movies release on Fridays.

That's a really cute picture. Is that your baby?

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tracie1976 - Apr 30, 2004 11:07 am (#1627 of 2912)

Great avatar Gina!

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I Am Used Vlad - Apr 30, 2004 12:55 pm (#1628 of 2912)

Detail Seeker, what use do you have for snow in May? Just curious.

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Lupin is Lupin. Natch. - Apr 30, 2004 2:47 pm (#1629 of 2912)

Denise, wishing you better luck for the rest of your weekend.

Gina, that avatar is amazing! Good work!

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timrew - Apr 30, 2004 3:03 pm (#1630 of 2912)
Edited by Denise P. May 2, 2004 5:43 pm

I was amazed by Clapton. Now my son (Matthew) is asking me if I want tickets for Aerosmith. Why not!

And when are Simon and Garfunkel coming over here?

Thanks to all who showed enthusiasm for my going to the gigs. I see no groups currently that I want to see, except maybe The Darkness. It's costing me a fortune.....but who cares!

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dobbyiscool - Apr 30, 2004 4:04 pm (#1631 of 2912)

Cool avatar, Gina!

Tim, have fun at the Aerosmith concert.

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Madame Librarian - Apr 30, 2004 5:31 pm (#1632 of 2912)

Just finished reading the 45 posts I had to catch up on here. Wow! News overload. Everyone sounds in a good groove more or less (sorry for your lousy day so far, Denise). So as a feeble attempt to stay current, I'll say--

Happy (belated?) birthdays.
Congrats on the new homes and good luck on the long-distance moves.
Everyone facing exams, stay calm, go with your gut (first guesses tend to be right, don't second guess yourself), and think brilliant thoughts--you'll wow 'em! (My college sophomore son sounds so stressed over his papers and exams, plus the movie he's doing for film class, I've started having sympathy stress.)
19__'s music ROCKS! (Fill in your favorite year; I love it all.) Was anyone into the Mamas and the Papas? I hear them and I'm instantly transported back to my freshman dorm. What about the Temptations? Oooh, so high school. Slow dance.
Gina, that avatar is marvelous. My laugh of the evening. Fortunately I don't drink and post, so no "accidents" on the keyboard.
Weather here was warming up nicely, sunny too, then it when rotten. Cold, damp, windy. Bleeaaah.
And, a general greeting and virtual hug to my Forum buddies.

Whew!

Ciao. Barb

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DJ Evans - Apr 30, 2004 5:32 pm (#1633 of 2912)

Fawkes, hey here's hoping you have a great time on your day off this coming Monday!!!

Denise, gosh it sounds like you were having an earlier Friday the 13th this morning!!! Sure hope your day turned around and it turned out to be one of your best days instead!!!!

Lynn Allen: Have a very nice and romantic 21st Anniversary!!! Doing anything special for your anniversary? And let your daughter know that we all wish her a very Happy 17th Birthday!

Tim, don't know if you like Aerosmith or not, but I would definitely go! It's bound to be a fantastic concert!!!

Man, reading several of today's Chat Post, sure brought back some good ol' memories with a bunch of you listing your favorite bands from my heydays!!! Just might have to pull out the old vinyls and dust them off this weekend. hee hee

Gina, I have the same opinion as the rest on your Avatar. You'd definitely win the "coolest" avatar award!!! It's a keeper, for sure!

Here's hoping everyone has a great weekend and that the weather is glorious for "everyone"!!!

Later days, Deb

EDIT: Barb--Oh gosh, yes!!! The Mama's and the Papa's are another great group!!!! And the bands from "the" Motown era (50/60/70's)--well let's just say they don't make them like them anymore!!!

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Viola Intonada - Apr 30, 2004 6:06 pm (#1634 of 2912)

Blast, Yes there is an amusement park in Sandusky, it is called "Cedar Point" I have only been there once because it is always so crowded. Cedar Point just bought out Six Flaggs which is located on the far southeast side of the Cleveland area.

70's and 80's music is the best. Can't say I ever listened to the music of the 90's or even now. There is a radio station in my area that only plays 70's and 80's music. (Every now and then they throw-in some 90's music that has the same style as the 80's)

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Ladybug220 - Apr 30, 2004 6:59 pm (#1635 of 2912)
Edited by Apr 30, 2004 8:02 pm

Devika,

Thank you! I have the most beautiful niece in the world (no, I am not biased at all ) I am trying to get a picture of both nieces together but they keep evading the camara when my sister-in-law tries to take one.

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draco all the way - Apr 30, 2004 8:40 pm (#1636 of 2912)

Devika, I'm Indian and I live in Chennai.I'm 15 and have just finished the 10th standard! THere's absolutely NO rain here and when I saw the news about it raining in Delhi I thought of you!
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Flame Alligator - May 1, 2004 1:07 am (#1637 of 2912)

Although this is my usual time for being up. Today, I need some sleep! But I could not resist a quick post on the Forum.

Blast, Halter top and tight jeans......automatic back stage pass.

Gina, I have to join the general consensus here: I LOVE YOUR AVATAR!! LOL

Madam Librarian, I would never have pegged you a Temptations fan. I still listen to them when I am missing my highschool friends. You're right.... so very highschool.

Septentrion, Thanks for the comment about the Dutch. I am slowly learning using cd's and a book. (I wish I could find a cd rom. that teaches Dutch.) Yesterday, I practiced, what I call, "mindless Dutch", meaning: I just say all the Dutch I can remember. ha ha ha ha I am told that I sound like a Klingon (Star Trek) when I speak Dutch. ha ha ha

Fawkes, Thanks for the birthday greeting. I hope you have a lovely long weekend.

Denise, I hope your Saturday is better than yesterday.

Tim, You are rockin!! Enjoy Aerosmith. I envy you.....I love Aerosmith and I have not seen them in concert in a long time. The cost of tickets...definitely worth it.

Well, I had better get some sleep. Goede Morgen everybody!!!!!

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Essidji - May 1, 2004 1:11 am (#1638 of 2912)

Hi, everyone. Well, I know it's Saturday, so most people don't work today, but Happy Labor Day to all, anyway!

I was doing some research about the origins of this day, and I discovered it had american origins, which I did not know.

If you are curious, you can have a look at this :

http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/mayday.html

Here the custom is to offer Lily-of-the-Valley, it's supposed to bring good fortune. Oh, I wish I knew how to post smilies, I would have sent a bunch to each of you!

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The Great Abbycadabra - May 1, 2004 1:29 am (#1639 of 2912)

Oh my. Long story short: Happy Belated Birthday to everyone I missed! Here's your overdue Abbyfetti! ,';.',.;',.;',.',;.',;.',;. Enjoy!

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Acceber - May 1, 2004 3:51 am (#1640 of 2912)

~*dances around room jubilant*~ I'm not supposed to be here, my bat mitzvah is in less than 3 hours and I'm supposed to be getting ready, but...I got my new avatar working with our brand-new digital camera!!!! I'm so proud of myself. Those two little darlings are my kitkats, Licorice on the bottom and Mallomar on the top. A moment like that is very hard to capture, they usually are always running around and fighting. Hope you enjoy!

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Pinky - May 1, 2004 4:33 am (#1641 of 2912)

Acceber, stop dancing and get ready!!! Congratulations on your bat mitzvah! I hope all goes well for you. Too bad I can't drive down to Boston to see you. I'm sure you look beautiful and absolutely radiant.

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Ladybug220 - May 1, 2004 4:38 am (#1642 of 2912)

Congrats Acceber!

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boop - May 1, 2004 4:59 am (#1643 of 2912)

Good Morning Everyone, hope everyone has a nice weekend!!

Denise, sorry to hear of your start of a bad day. I hope things improved as the day went on. Enjoy your camping weekend.

Lynn, Happy 21th Anniversary to you and your wife, I hope you has a lovely evening together. Tell your daughter happy birthday for me too!!!!.

Gina, LOL I love your avatar its great.

Anna, I hope you had a great time at the bonfire. Yay for spring!!

Padfoot, I feel sorry for you, its spring time. We are not supposed to have snow.

Lady bug 220, LOL I hope you were able to recover quickly from snorting Dr. Pepper.

Devika, Good luck with your exams. I will keep my fingers and toes crossed for you.

Becca, Your kitty's are so cute. Have a great bat mitzvah, enjoy your new camera.

Tim, wow that is a nice son you have getting you all those great tickets. I sure would go if I had the chance too.

Wow that was alot of posts that I didn't read yesterday. That is what I get for not going on the forum after lunch yesterday.

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Sherbie Lemon - May 1, 2004 6:38 am (#1644 of 2912)

Gina, LOVE the avatar!

Happy Anniversary, Lynn!Blinking Heart And a big Happy Birthday to your daughter, as well. I remember I didn't like turning 17 too much. I thought it was a pointless birthday. 16 you can drive, 18 you’re an "adult"(whatever that means). Still, I found 19 and 20 to be far more useless. It's strange that you quit looking forward to birthday's, at least, you quit getting as excited about them as you used to. When you're a kid and teenager, birthday's are milestones and a signal that you're growing up. After 21, no more momentous occasions, really. Well, I guess I'm looking forward to my car insurance cost falling when I reach 25.

So sorry about your day, Denise. I had one of those recently too, and they are no fun!

Snow?! What on earth did you do to deserve snow, Padfoot? I hope it goes away soon; it's spring!

Have a great Bat Mitzvah, Becca!

Well, Deb, we got your rain! Happy? Our electricity went out last night as I was trying to type on the forum so I cursed your name and swore I would send the next storm up your way. I'm giving you a very hard time, it wasn't bad. I actually kind of like it when the electricity goes out, because that means it's Monopoly time, and I am queen of that game! And it didn't start raining here till after 7, so there was no disruption to the house building. Perhaps your fanning helped slow it down?

Have a great weekend, everyone!

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septentrion - May 1, 2004 7:25 am (#1645 of 2912)

Acceber, hope you have a great day worth lasting in your memory.

some Lily-of-the-valley for you all, may it bring you happiness

ps : it's written "I wish you a lot of happiness"

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boop - May 1, 2004 8:25 am (#1646 of 2912)

Septentrion, Thanks for the Lily of the valley, they are a beautiful flower.

Lindsey, I know what you are saying I stopped counting my birthdays long ago. I will turn 44 this August.

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Detail Seeker - May 1, 2004 10:47 am (#1647 of 2912)

Nimrod, I just would stage a large snowball fight for some friends of mine, who did not get enough snow this winter (we had a very low amount of snow this winter), followed by a larger barbecue, heated internally by a large bowl of "Feuerzangenbowle" (Red wine, fruit, spices, heated, then finalized by caramelizing a sugar cone by burning it with rum).

But, fun aside, I am a winter addict, so I always like snow...

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I Am Used Vlad - May 1, 2004 11:40 am (#1648 of 2912)

I'm a winter addict, too, Detail Seeker. Where I live, I have to go about 9 months without seeing snow. At least you have the Zugspitze if you need a snow fix. "Feuerzangenbowle" sounds interesting.

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Detail Seeker - May 1, 2004 1:09 pm (#1649 of 2912)

The Alps are about 900 km from where I live, Nimrod. But fine to see another winter addict on this Forum. The Bowle is interesting -but it has side effects.....

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Madame Librarian - May 1, 2004 5:20 pm (#1650 of 2912)

Hey, everyone, last night was Walpurgis Nacht! Does anyone remember our delving into all of that on one of the threads because JKR had considered naming the DEs Knights of Walpurgis as a play on words? It's a holiday opposite Halloween on the calendar and it, too, is a night of wild reveling and spirits roaming the earth. Later is became Christianized, being the source of St. Walpurga's name (German saint, I think). In either case it is May Day Eve, and probably is the source of that holiday, as in "Whew, those spririts are gone for another year; lets relax and dance around this fancy-schmancy pole where someone attached flowered ribbons!"

Acceber, by the time you read this the Bat Mitzvah service will be over. I'm sure your were brilliant. Did you work HP into your speech? Well, mazel tov and party hearty. (BTW--the kitties are so cute.)

Ciao. Barb

Edit--Septentrion, what a coincidence. The lily-of-the-valley that grows in my front yard just bloomed today at the time you posted that picture. I wonder if that's why the flower is associated with your Labor Day (in the US, Labor Day is the first Monday in September; May 1st is called May Day here). What a potent scent those flowers have! A teeny bouquest in a bud vase, can spread through the whole house. Along with lilacs (about to bloom here, too) I can get drunk on the aromas.

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Julia. - May 1, 2004 5:22 pm (#1651 of 2912)

Thanks for the Lily of the Valley Septentrion. They make me think of my grandma, they were always her favorite flower. And they're so pretty Anyway, Happy May Day everyone!! (Does anyone besides me have the sudden urge to dance around a May pole?) And, Mazel tov on your bat mitzvah Becca!!

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Flame Alligator - May 1, 2004 6:15 pm (#1652 of 2912)

Acceber, Mazel Tov! My thoughts are with you. *a big hug for you, teenager*

Septentrion, Awwww, thanks for the lovely "lilies"

Sarah, I have some ideas for Jimmie's birthday present. Could we chat about it? Get me next time I am on line.

I just had a little time to get on line and check the forum. Tomorrow I will be with my godson all day. (My little birthday, date)

Have a good Saturday night!!

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DJ Evans - May 1, 2004 6:56 pm (#1653 of 2912)

Septrentrion--where is Smell-of-"computers" when you need them? I could almost smell your Lily of the Valley's!!! Thanks for brightening our cloudy and raining days here in the south US!!!

Sherbie!!!!! I promise you I tried my best to "detour" the rain from you!!! Cursed my name? Oh, now you're going to make me cry!!! Sniff! Sniff! Sniff!!!! hee hee Seriously, are you getting as sick with the cloudiness and the rain as we are? I don't know if you are getting the "cold" wind with the rain today like we are or not. But I swear it feels almost like winter again outside!

Detail Seeker, well put my name down on the list of "winter" people too!!! I get migraines if I'm out in the heat to long and get over heated--a side affect from heat stroke years ago--so winter is definitely one of my better seasons. Plus, I just love it when it snows and makes everything so pretty.

Take care everyone and have a great second half of the weekend!!!!

Later days, Deb

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scully jones - May 1, 2004 7:45 pm (#1654 of 2912)

Bow Down TogetherFor Gina and the "AVATAR".

Okay Flame! Let me know your ideas!

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Gina R Snape - May 1, 2004 8:05 pm (#1655 of 2912)

Oh, no, really. That's too much. I can't take all the credit...

Did anyone else see the SNL skit? At least Snape got a cameo!

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scully jones - May 1, 2004 8:24 pm (#1656 of 2912)

Yes Gina, you'll have to slap him when he gets home... Honestly, looking at Hermione like that! You'd think he could at least behave himself.

At least he took points from Gryffindor!

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Julia. - May 1, 2004 8:28 pm (#1657 of 2912)

Really Gina, you should keep an eye on him, he told Hermione to call him 'Severus!' *incendio!* *couchio!* *sterio!* *goes off to beat some bludgers*

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Gina R Snape - May 1, 2004 9:22 pm (#1658 of 2912)

Heh, heh. I thought it was funny.

Yeah, the spells were good. And the Weasley twins have a mini fridge full of butterbeer? :snort:

At least 'old Sev caught himself at the last minute. I mean, he could have issued detention in the dungeon instead of house points.

So, anyone up for lobbying SNL to have one of the PoA cast as a guest? Couldn't you see Dan Radcliffe on SNL? Or Maggie Smith? Or Alan Rickman? OMG, they woudl be hysterical on that show.

Y'know, they will all be in town for the 23 May PoA premiere...

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tracie1976 - May 2, 2004 2:47 am (#1659 of 2912)

I fell asleep for 20 minutes during SNL and guess what? That's when they did the HP skit.

*goes off and irons hands*

I don't believe I did that. I woke up just in time to see Usher perform his first song he performed.

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Blast - May 2, 2004 3:08 am (#1660 of 2912)

Congrats Rebbeca, hope everything went well. Well I've been married twenty four years today, but I have to work.

Happy birthday, Flame, have a good one and behave yourself. I tried to get backstage passes once, but the halter top and jeans didn't work. B.T.W. how's Samantha doing?

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boop - May 2, 2004 4:49 am (#1661 of 2912)

Flame, Happy Birthday Day. I hope you have a wonderful Day. Sorry no smiley's I'm at work and can't download them it won't let me. Sad

Blast, LOL now I have this vision of you in a halter top and tight Jeans. Smile Happy 24 Years Anniversary to you and your wife. I hope you two have a great day planned together!!BTW how is your wife doing anyway? If you get the chance some evening come in the chat room and talk, I have missed talking with you. Take care of yourself and say hi to your wife for me.

Everyone have a Great Day!!!!!

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Sherbie Lemon - May 2, 2004 5:45 am (#1662 of 2912)

It's cold here too, Deb. In fact, we had a record low this morning; 38 degrees! It's supposed to be 72 by the end of the day, though. By Wednesday the temps will have climbed to 88! Don't include me in the winter fan club. I'll take hot weather over cold any day of the week!Catching Rays

Happpy Anniversary, Blast! I hope you and your wife will be able to celebrate after work!Couple 2

Flame, Happy Birthday!Birthday Song Hope this is one to remember!

Tracie, don't put away the iron yet. I had my face buried in my studies. Surely, I thought, they won't have that skit on in the first half hour. Oh Jeez

Have a great day, everyone! I'm off to study. Studying

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Gina R Snape - May 2, 2004 6:14 am (#1663 of 2912)

Well, for anyone who missed the skit, they posted a couple character pictures up on mugglenet at least.

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Flame Alligator - May 2, 2004 6:18 am (#1664 of 2912)

Blast, *rolling on the floor laughing at the thought of you in a halter top and tight jeans* Thanks for a really good lol. Are you on msn or aim messenger? I would love to chat with you. But be warned, we will be laughing a lot. Hmmmm.....maybe you should have worn leather pants and leather vest... no shirt. That might work. lol

Sarah, We did not get to talk about a gift for Jimmie. Next chat, OK?

OMG, the SNL naughty HP skit was a riot. Hey, I thought Snape behaved fairly well considering he had .......some things in his eyes. ha ha ha

Boop, Sherbie and all who wished me Happy Birthday.... thanks guys. *kisses and hugs*

Oh yeah, a long distance call from someone I love deeply made me very happy. Ecstatic in fact. That call was the best birthday present I have ever received in my entire life. *kisses*

Sami is a bit weaker these last two days. She's still eating though and I held her a long time last night. I am going to get her prescription filled tomorrow. This may be the last time. I wish she could just go to sleep and drift off into death when her time comes. I hate it that I will have to take her to the vet to euthanize her. Thus, traumatizing her (she hates going to the vet) one more time before she leaves me. I love her so much. Thanks guys for all your sympathy. I appreciate it so much. *a bit teary eyed*

Well, I am off to make myself a fruit smoothie. I have to relax cause my rambunctious godson, Cy is my birthday date this afternoon. We are going to the movies. I think we are going to see Kill Bill, Vol. 2. ha ha ha Isn't that a sweet birthday movie?......NOT! ha ha ha I love to be with Cy what can I say.

Goedemorgen, Y'all!!!!!

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draco all the way - May 2, 2004 6:57 am (#1665 of 2912)

IT RAINED!!! WOOHOO! Hey, isn't funny how you all consider rain a horrible thing and I find its occurance a reason to be ecstatic! Different cultures, I guess. Anyways, a tip, if you ever come to Chennai, where we are devoid of water, never, NEVER sing 'rain, rain go away'. That little rhyme could get you beaten up around here. Nah, I'm just kidding, we are a peaceful race.

Flame, I have no idea how you're feeling having never owned a pet, but if its any consolation-Don't worry be happy! And I'm saying that with my cutest face and the biggest possible puppy eyes!

Gina, great avatar, I can just hear you saying'yeah, yeah, blah blah I've heard it a million times' but I just had to tell you.

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Madam Poppy  - May 2, 2004 7:46 am (#1666 of 2912)
Edited by May 2, 2004 8:53 am

Whew! Just caught up on 167 posts!
Re: Bands of the 70's. I went to a Carpenters concert in 1972 while I was in college. I still have all their records.
This weekend is Apple Blossom Festival. It is the big local event of the year, with parades, a food fair and amusement park. We went once and now avoid all activities. Too many people and too much traffic.
My daughter should go home tomorrow. She is still not feeling 100% back to normal. My brother and her husband moved all their belongings into their new apartment yesterday. I know she looks forward to getting settled into her new home. (they were living with my parents...not a good situation at all!)

Here's a potion for Denise. You're going to need one after camping with the Cub Scouts all weekend!

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mike miller - May 2, 2004 7:56 am (#1667 of 2912)

Madam Poppy - Where abouts do you live? I was born in a small town in eastern Washington state (Wenatchee) and they have a big Apple Blossom festival also.

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Acceber - May 2, 2004 8:52 am (#1668 of 2912)

Yay! It's over! I'm home freeeeeeeeee!!!!!!

Yes Barb, I did manage to work Harry in my speech. I was talking about fortune telling and I used divination as alternate word, thinking everyone would know what it meant. When my mom read it, she didn't, so I added "For those who haven't read Harry Potter, that's fortune telling."

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Julia. - May 2, 2004 9:30 am (#1669 of 2912)

Mazel Tov again Becca! Hoo-Ray for working Harry into your speech. Flame, Hope you have a good day with Cy. Blast Sorry about having to work. I'm still laughing at the thought of you in tight jeans and a Halter top. Just behave yourself with your wife after work...

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Lynn Allen - May 2, 2004 9:51 am (#1670 of 2912)

Blast, congratulations on 24 years of marriage! They go by quickly but not without a lot of work! Hope everyone is well; best wishes!

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septentrion - May 2, 2004 10:28 am (#1671 of 2912)

Flame, big hug to you for your birthday and a thought for your kitty.

Blast, congrats for your anniversary.

About music, I'm more 70/80's too. I've checked out U2's rattle and hum DVD at the library and I really love it, especially "helter skelter" and "bloody sunday".

Detail seeker, I'm not a snow lover at all, more the contrary and lucky for me, we have here a sweet, sunny with little clouds weather. A perfect spring with blue flowers forming nice carpets in the woods. Feel poetic tonight...

And for those who loves Egypt, read Christian Jacq's novels if they've been translated in English. They generally take place in ancient Egypt and he really knows a lot about life in these times. It's a very agreeable way to learn about this great civilization.

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DJ Evans - May 2, 2004 10:57 am (#1672 of 2912)

Flame--

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!


Here's hoping your day is filled with birthday wishes that come true!!!

Blast--24 years of marriage, WOW, how fantastic!!! Here's hoping y'all have a great day of celebrating and will find that special spark from when you first met!!!

Draco, well it's not that we think rain is horrible, not by any means, it's just after nearly 2 weeks of it, well let's just say we're ready for some sunshine!!! But that is how our climate is around here, we get so much rain in the spring and then here comes summer and it gets so hot and humid that you pray for some good ol' rain to cool it down again. But I'm glad that y'all finally got the rain that you were wishing for. Maybe it's the rain that Sherbie and I have been fighting with all this week!!!!

Poppy, glad to see you back! Isn't it amazing how those "posts" will grow on you like that? hee hee They are worse than rabbits are in multiplying!!! Here's hoping that in not many more days, your daughter will be back 100%, but it just takes time. Give her all of our best. Oh, I had forgotten about the Carpenters!! I thought Karen had one of the most beautiful singing voices, her and Mama Cass both. It's such a loss that they are both gone now.

Sherbie--Brrrrrrrrrrr!!!!! I know we got cold last night but I don't think it was that low, maybe around upper 40's? But, (& I'm hoping the same for you) it is sunshine and the temp is not too bad here today. I heard, like you posted, that it is suppose to get better each day! Hurray!!! Can't wait, I've been ready to wear shorts for the last 2 or 3 weeks and the weather just won't level out enough yet for them.

Later days, Deb

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Kip Carter - May 2, 2004 11:27 am (#1673 of 2912)

To all those who have recently had or will have birthdays this month, I will you all the best and a very Happy Birthday!

I have not been and will continue not to post often being that I am still recovering from my operations last month; however I am doing great and am mending as to be expected. For a while, I had a 21-inch "zipper" down the front of my body...at least that is what the staples looked like from my view. But now the eighty or so staples and stitches are gone. I only added this because many have asked. I will try not to say anymore. So it's time to start enjoying life again!

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Madam Poppy  - May 2, 2004 12:07 pm (#1674 of 2912)

Mike Miller! Yes, I do live in East Wenatchee! We have lived here for 7 years. Yes, the world is smaller than we think.

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Marè - May 2, 2004 12:26 pm (#1675 of 2912)

O my, go home for one weekend....

Okay: Happy birthday for all the birthday people, marriages and bat mitvahs (did I spell that right?) everybody had. Hugs to people with lost and or sick cats.

And seriously? People who like winter best exist? I always get in some kind of winter depression. At least when it is summer you can still sport outside after work/college!

And Flame: Goede avond en voor straks alvast een goede nacht.
But why on earth do you want to speak dutch?

Bon Soir!

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mike miller - May 2, 2004 1:49 pm (#1676 of 2912)

Madame Poppy - I lived in a small house across the street from my great-grandfather in East Wenatchee until I was three when my family moved to Kent/Federal Way area between Seattle and Tacoma. My parents moved back to Wenatchee 2 years ago to look after my grandfather who still lives in the house my other great-granfather built in 1924 on Peters street near the Sunnyslope Elementary school.

What a small world indeed!

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timrew - May 2, 2004 2:16 pm (#1677 of 2912)

Mike, thank you for your reply concerning your avatar (on the POA thread, I think). I thought I'd better reply to it here!

Stevie Ray Vaughan was a great guitarist! I love all things guitar, having grown up in the sixties, when all these great guitarists were appearing. Clapton, Beck, Page; and Stevie Ray ranks up there with them.

In fact, my favourite album from my favourite band, The Beatles, is Revolver, it's so......guitary!!

Congratulations to anyone who has a birthday right now. And a speedy recovery, Kip!

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mike miller - May 2, 2004 2:21 pm (#1678 of 2912)

Tim - I'm with you in my love for the guitar. You've mentioned several of the greats, but, what about Jimi? They all have their own style. What drew me to Stevie's play was the passion I hear in all of his music. If you get a chance, there's a DVD out there "Live at the El Mocambo" It will blow you away!

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scully jones - May 2, 2004 2:39 pm (#1679 of 2912)

Multitasking So much cleaning this weekend! And it's not even for work! It was worth it, though... Our place gets so untidy.

Jimmie's mom came over today... We took a walk, and ate at the buffet we all seem to like.

All in all, a mostly boring but relaxing day.

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Julia. - May 2, 2004 2:44 pm (#1680 of 2912)

Tim, you have excellent taste in music!!! I love the Beatles, and my favorite album of theirs in Revolver! I love 'Tomorrow Never Knows' and 'Got to Get You Into My Life' Long Live the Beatles!!!

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timrew - May 2, 2004 3:00 pm (#1681 of 2912)

Thank you, Julia. The Beatles rock! And Mike, thanks for the recommendation for Stevie's "Live at the El Mocambo", I'll look out for it.

And apologies for forgetting Jimi! He topped a poll of guitarists on our channel four recently. It was on for three hours and I was expecting Clapton to win, and he came second! And I was thinking......who is number one? Then, just before they announced it, it hit me. Of course, Jimi Hendrix!

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Hem Hem - May 2, 2004 4:24 pm (#1682 of 2912)

Just wanted to say, congratulations Marcus on getting your essay posted on the Lexicon! I just read in the "What's New" section that it made it!

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DJ Evans - May 2, 2004 7:17 pm (#1683 of 2912)

Saw on MuggleNet the other day an article about some areas that will be hosting parties for PoA prior to the movie. Thought some of you might would like to check it out. Here's a link to the web site if you are interested: http://www.witchinghour.org/getinvolved/preevents.html

Later days, Deb

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Prefect Marcus - May 2, 2004 8:13 pm (#1684 of 2912)

Well, I just got back from my daughter's college graduation and marriage. They are now on their honeymoon.

It was a beautiful wedding and reception. They asked me to say a few words at the reception. I abliged with "Blubber, oddment, nitwit, tweak" A goodly number recognized the reference! It was a good opening joke.

Yes, I did see where Steve did post my essay. I could not find where it was linked from, except from the "What's new" page.

Marcus

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VeronikaG - May 3, 2004 3:08 am (#1685 of 2912)

I'm sorry I didn't get around to tell you happy birthday, Flame. Just not enough time on the computer this week end.

Rebecca; doesn't it feel great to have successfully passed Bat Mitzvah? I was really happy when my confirmation was done, and I had not tripped on the robe or anything. :-)

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Madame Librarian - May 3, 2004 4:08 am (#1686 of 2912)

Flame--A very happy birthday! And, Blast, to you and your wife a happy 24th anniversary.

Welcome back, Madame Poppy! Get your eyes in shape, there's tons to read here.

Kip, so glad to hear of your speedy recovery. When the zipper's done its work, you'll have more "zip," eh? (Sorry, it's early.)

Ciao. Barb

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Lynn Allen - May 3, 2004 4:53 am (#1687 of 2912)

Flame, you had a birthday? You don't look a day older! Hope it was a happy one. Glad you are recovering Kip. Hope you are feeling lots better.

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Flame Alligator - May 3, 2004 9:05 am (#1688 of 2912)

*taking a deep inhale*

Thanks guys for all the Birthday greetings. This was the best birthday I have had in my entire life and you guys helped make it that way. *blowing kisses at you all*

Draco all the way, Thanks, I am cheered up and you know I can not resist begging puppy dog eyes. I can't resist begging period.

Julia, Thanks so much for that sweet little birthday card smiley. I love smileys!!!

Blast, Happy Aniversary! Kudos to you and Mrs. Blast for hangin in there.

Madam Poppy, Glad your daughter is in her own place. At least, she is out of that stressful situation. Hopefully, she will be back up to par in no time.

Mare, Let's just say...... I like Dutch. And thanks for throwing some at me. I can not say the g or ij to save my life. he he

Acceber, I have said it in private but here is one more official Congrats on your Bat Mitzvah

Veronika, I did not know you are Jewish. And I thought we were becoming close. Looking forward to our next chat. Sorry I did not get back before you had to leave. Forgive me?

Ok Tim, Mike Miller and anybody else who loves guitarists. What about Eddie Van Halen? Eddie deserves to be in that group. I love SRV, Beck, Hendrix, and Clapton but I think Eddie should be given a nod.

Fawkes, Belated Top of the mornin to ya! Still on the long weeknend eh? That sucks! No Fawkes on the forum is like a day without sunshine. Here..... Flowers (Birds of paradise) and a box of chocolate hearts, for dealing with the dementors when you get back.

goedemiddag, everybody!!

*long slow exhale*

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Padfoot - May 3, 2004 9:24 am (#1689 of 2912)

Good morning everyone! Today is a bright and sunny Spring day. Very pretty outside, too bad I am inside working. At least I have a great window looking into a park from where I sit. The snow is long gone. Supposed to be in the 80s all week. I was trying to send the snow east to Detail Seeker. Hope that didn't cause all that pesky rain some of you have mentioned.

Julia, love those Beatles smilies! Very cool. I am having a hard time choosing just one album of theirs that I like. It really depends on the mood I'm in. Revolver was one of the first ones I got.

Poppy and Mike, I have been in your neck of the woods. I lived in Redmond for 6 years. So I have been all over that state. So pretty there.

SNL was funny. George and Fred were the best.

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Gina R Snape - May 3, 2004 10:22 am (#1690 of 2912)

Well, it's a miserable, cloudy,drizzly 53F outside today in NYC. I am sleep-deprived and chilled. But I feel good because I got my slytherin patch in the post today. Now I can take my cape/robe to the tailor to be hemmed, have the patch sewn on, and have them put in a pocket on the inside for my wand! It's 12 1/2 inches, black, with a magical core of dragon heartstring and a strand of Severus Snape's hair.

Blast, I saw a post on one of my fanfic groups for a story about Aberforth and a goat (rated G). Let me know if you are interested in reading it.

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Julia. - May 3, 2004 10:36 am (#1691 of 2912)

Gina, where'd you order they Slytherin patch? I'm looking for a Gryffindor one and can't seem to locate one.

Flame and Padfot, you're quite welcome for the smilies, I love smilies, as they are just cool

Marcus, mazel tov on your daughter's graduation and wedding!!! Only good things for you and your family.

As for gutiarists, I'm a huge Bon Jovi fan, so I have to throw my two kunts in for Richie Sambora. *starts drooling* He's incredable with a gituar, and not hard to look at either *Goes off to drool somewhere else*

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Gina R Snape - May 3, 2004 11:20 am (#1692 of 2912)

Julia, you can order multiple patches from http://www.patchpalace.com but if you only want one they sell through ebay. I saw a gryffindor patch for sale in that ebayer's sellers list and left a good review when I got my patch.

The story I mentioned earlier is called Aberforth & The Goat

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I Am Used Vlad - May 3, 2004 12:25 pm (#1693 of 2912)

Marcus, I loved your essay on the logic puzzle. I have always wondered if it could actually be solved, and now I won't have to try to work through it myself. Congratulations for your daughter, too.

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septentrion - May 3, 2004 12:37 pm (#1694 of 2912)

youpi ! I got my adsl connection today and I've watched as many PoA trailers as I could. It's a real difference.

Flame, I don't think Veronika is jewish because confirmation is a christian sacrament. I'm sure it exists in Catholicism for I got mine some years ago. I know they have it in orthodoxy but I don't know for the protestants.

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Ladybug220 - May 3, 2004 1:01 pm (#1695 of 2912)

Septentrion,

I am Lutheran and we have confirmation as well although it is Luther's small catechism so it may not be considered confirmation by Catholic standards. I believe (some one correct me if I am wrong) that Methodists also have a confirmation.

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Hagsquid - May 3, 2004 1:19 pm (#1696 of 2912)

The Morman Church has confirmations. Ususally the first Sunday after a baptism. (but not always)

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Padfoot - May 3, 2004 1:19 pm (#1697 of 2912)

I am Episcopalian and we also have confirmation.

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septentrion - May 3, 2004 1:24 pm (#1698 of 2912)

thanks for information !

Padfood, didn't I note that your birthday is tomorrow ?

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Padfoot - May 3, 2004 1:43 pm (#1699 of 2912)

Yes it is septentrion!

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timrew - May 3, 2004 2:31 pm (#1700 of 2912)

Happy Birthday, padfoot!

Yeah, I suppose Richie Sambora and Eddy Van Halen are good guitarists; but they're a couple of Johnny-Come-Latelys compared to Clapton, Beck, Vaughan and Hendrix.

Only kidding. They're both brilliant, too! And if you want to add a bass guitarist to that line-up, consider Jacko Pastorius.
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Gina R Snape - May 3, 2004 3:04 pm (#1701 of 2912)

Those guys are all incredible, celebrated guitarists. But I think one of the most overlooked unbelivably talented guitarists of this age is Johnny Marr. The man is a musical genius, as I discovered---not from just listening to his music which sounds deceptively simple and melodic---but when I tried in vain to learn to play the guitar several years ago. Picked up some Smiths sheet music and realised there was just no way I was gonna be able to play it.

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mike miller - May 3, 2004 4:33 pm (#1702 of 2912)

One thing I have learned from years of "talking guitar" is that it's largely a matter of personal taste. Everyone mentioned so far deserves acknowledgement. There are great guitar players in every genre of music; i.e., Christopher Parking in Classical, Stanley Jordan in Jazz. The important part about music is how it moves you inside.

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Sherbie Lemon - May 3, 2004 6:09 pm (#1703 of 2912)

Very true, Mike!

Hello all! I'm finally done with my bear of a philosophy paper, 14 pages! Two more left and a final and I'm done for a couple weeks.Woohoo

Hope all you other students are making it through OK. Just a bit more to go.

I'm very happy for your daughter, Prefect Marcus. I hope she and her husband will have many happy years together.

Have a wonderful evening all!

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Madame Librarian - May 3, 2004 7:14 pm (#1704 of 2912)

Just a word on the confirmation thing. In Reform Judaism and even Conservative, some synagogues do have a confirmation ceremony for kids (at age 15) who have opted to not have a Bar or Bat Mitzvah (for Reform), or for kids who have continued on with their formal Jewish education after their Bar or Bat Mitzvah. Hey, it's another good reason for a celebration and...yep, good food!

Ciao. Barb

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Fawkes Forever - May 3, 2004 11:54 pm (#1705 of 2912)

Wow, so many posts.

Happy belated Anniversarys to Lynn, & to Blast
Happy Belated Birthday to Flame (ta for the cyber flowers & chocs ) Glad to hear you had a wonderful day.
Mazel Tov to Acceber on her Bat Mitzvah & good on you for working Harry P into your speech.
Woohoo to Sherbie on completing her paper... 14 pages... nice!
Congrat Draco OTW on your rain... I have a friend over working in India for a few months, even though he's from India... hes been non stop complaining in his emails about the heat... so I know where you are coming from.... he said he can't wait to get back to Ireland & the rain!
Well done on getting your essay published Marcus.... *nips off to the lexicon to read it*

Happy Birthday Padfoot Hope its a goodun....

Hi to everyone... hope you all had a nice weekend.... & guess what.... it's ONE MONTH TODAY TO POA .... oh very excited, jumping around my desk.... WOOOOOHOOOOOOO

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septentrion - May 3, 2004 11:55 pm (#1706 of 2912)

happy birthday Padfoot !

Thanks Barb for the further information.

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VeronikaG - May 4, 2004 12:32 am (#1707 of 2912)

Happy Birthday, Padfoot! I downloaded the smileys, but I still can't get them working, so just imagine a big party smily here.

No. I'm not Jewish, I'm Lutheran Protestant. The Confirmation is held in the spring of the year we turn 15, and is not a "test" like in many other religions. We have religious education during the year, but no "exam" to see if we have understood it. Everyone passes. We're called up to the altar, given a blessing, and then we're confirmed.

I have been very lazy on the forum lately, so I'll just have to pass on belated congrats to all those who have had birthdays, anniversaries and other great events.

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boop - May 4, 2004 1:57 am (#1708 of 2912)

Good Morning Everyone, Hope Everyone has a Great Day.

Padfoot, Hope you have a wonderful day.

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Luanee - May 4, 2004 2:56 am (#1709 of 2912)

Hello people I am back from New Orleans! Tried the gumbo soup, begniets (spelling?), blackened fish, po-boys, all yummy! Even managed to catch a Misissipi River cruise and visited the Auborn zoo, plus the voodoo museum as well... and found a Hard Rock cafe t-shirt in Gryffindor color!

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tracie1976 - May 4, 2004 3:19 am (#1710 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Padfoot!!!

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scully jones - May 4, 2004 4:16 am (#1711 of 2912)

Surprise

Happy Birthday Padfoot!!!

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VeronikaG - May 4, 2004 4:23 am (#1712 of 2912)

YAY!! I learned to insert smilies!



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Sherbie Lemon - May 4, 2004 5:24 am (#1713 of 2912)

Padfoot, Birthday Song Hope you have a wonderful day!

Thanks Fawkes!

Sarah, your scarf looks awesome! It's really coming along.

Luanee, it sounds like you had a great vacation! I've never been to New Orleans, though I've always wanted to go!

30 more days till PoA!

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septentrion - May 4, 2004 5:47 am (#1714 of 2912)

Luanee, are there still french speaking people in New Orleans ? About the spelling of "beignet" (it's a french word) you have all the letters but with a little disorder. BTW it seems a very interesting place.

28 more days till PoA ! (hey hey hey)

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Julia. - May 4, 2004 6:24 am (#1715 of 2912)

Good morning everyone. I have my first exam this afternoon, so wish me luck!!! I hope I get an And, Happy Brithday Padfoot!!!

30 days till PoA *is excited, dances around the room*

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septentrion - May 4, 2004 6:31 am (#1716 of 2912)

all my body is crossed for you Julia !

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Lynn Allen - May 4, 2004 6:50 am (#1717 of 2912)

Happy birthday Padfoot! Good luck on all those papers and exams, folks; I am so glad to be past them but still hear about them from my daughters.

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Padfoot - May 4, 2004 7:21 am (#1718 of 2912)

Thanks everybody for the birthday greetings!

Good luck on those exams. I am so glad I am done with that in my life.

Beignet are yummy. I've been to New Orleans a few times. Yes, some people do speak French. But really it's Cajun that people speak (besides English of course). There is a lot of French influence down there (food, architecture...) It's very unique.

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tracie1976 - May 4, 2004 7:33 am (#1719 of 2912)

Julia!!

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Flame Alligator - May 4, 2004 7:45 am (#1720 of 2912)

Julia, May your exams go very well.

Happy Birthday Padfoot!!

Fawkes, Belated top of the mornin to ya. Glad you liked the cyber flowers and chocolate hearts.

Having a weird day but in a good mood anyway. My special someone still loving me and at my side. *kisses*

To all my forum buddies: Y'all have a good day ya hear!!

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Fawkes Forever - May 4, 2004 7:57 am (#1721 of 2912)

Good Luck Julia

Mornin' Flame

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Tomoé - May 4, 2004 9:50 am (#1722 of 2912)

Happy birthday Flame and padfoot!

Congratulation for 24 years of marriage Blast!

Good luck with your exams Julia!

Count me in the Winter addicted list. ^_^

I like your avatar Gina.

There are three kind of native French speakers in Louisiana - Creole, Black Creole and Cajun.

Creoles are descendants of the French planter, their accent is close to the French accent of today's France.

The Black Creoles are descendants of the Creole's slaves their accent is close to the Creole one.

The Cajuns are descendants of the French Canadian from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia who were deported to make room for English settlers. They have an accent close to the Quebecer's one, but more tainted with the American accent. You should downlaod one of Zacharie Richard song to get a good idea and find the lyrics, you'll need it.

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Hagsquid - May 4, 2004 9:55 am (#1723 of 2912)

I'll just go with good ol' "Happy Birthday Padfoot." :-)

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Leprechaun Jack - May 4, 2004 10:07 am (#1724 of 2912)

Happy birthday and congrats to all:

To those taking tests:

A Students Prayer

Can't think, born dumb

Inspiration won't come

No ink, lousy pen

Good luck,

Amen


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mollis - May 4, 2004 10:51 am (#1725 of 2912)
Edited by May 4, 2004 11:52 am

Well, I am happy to report that the move to KC went smoothly. It took forever to load the truck, and we drove through quite a lot of rain, but we made it here. And so far, it appears that everything is all in one piece! We were unloaded by 1230 on Sunday, so I had half of the day to unpack. That was nice, since I had to go to work Monday morning. My new desk location is pretty good though, so I think I’ll be able to check in periodically. Thanks again for all the well wishes. My husband and I are settling into the new home very nicely, however, my kitty (mollie) is not having such a good time. She is very stressed out and is not settled down at all. She keeps hissing and growling at us. I think they had a dog in the house before us, so I think she is scared of it, but I don’t really know what to do for her. We have her confined to 1 room right now, hoping that she’ll relax, but if anybody has any suggestions, I would appretiate it!

Flame- I was born and raised in Lincoln!! What a small world this is! We should definitely chat! I’ll e-mail you when I get a little bit more settled in.

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Acceber - May 4, 2004 10:59 am (#1726 of 2912)

Congrats on your move, Mollis. Glad your computer still works.

Happy Birthday padfoot.

Good luck on your exams Julia.

Did I miss anyone? Oh right, Mazel Tov me !

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mike miller - May 4, 2004 11:00 am (#1727 of 2912)

Mollis - Try Fabreeze on the carpets. It seems to do a good job of removing odors, though I'm not sure it can fool a cat's nose.

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Julia. - May 4, 2004 11:00 am (#1728 of 2912)

Mollis, I'm glad to hear that the move went smoothly, I'm sure you'll love KC, it's really a great city, at least the part of it that I saw. No suggestions for the kittiy though.

Thanks for the well wishes everyone. My first exam went very well, now I only have two more, Judiac studies and biology. I'll need all the help I can get on bio, so keep the good luck's comming!

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Sherbie Lemon - May 4, 2004 11:11 am (#1729 of 2912)

Hey all! I found this today and posted it on the Predictions thread, but since more people read this one, I thought I'd post it here too. The Daily Record has printed today that the title of the next Harry Potter book will be...Harry Potter and the Green Flame Torch. The article also says that it is scheduled for publication next summer. However, TLC vehemently denies this and insists it is just a rumor, not official and to take it with a grain of salt. Still, it was fun to get excited for about half a second when I checked the Record today!

So glad the move went smoothly, Mollis! I've got a cat, but he's naturally a little strange and I've been totally unsuccessful at calming him down. We've moved 4 times since we've had him, though and he always relaxes within a few days. My advice is to wait it out.

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Tomoé - May 4, 2004 11:19 am (#1730 of 2912)

Here's the full article. It doesn't mention any source for the title thing, it could come from internet.

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Jim the Potty - May 4, 2004 11:19 am (#1731 of 2912)

Hi all! Its been a while since I last came on (almost a month) but I thought I'd pop in. Happy birthday to everyone I've missed, congratulations if applicable and good luck where its needed! Hello Kip, good to see you're alright I was signing the online card last time I was here...

Sorry, but that title has been floating around the internet for about a year now

Hope to be here again soon!

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VeronikaG - May 4, 2004 11:29 am (#1732 of 2912)

To those who watch the Forsyte saga (that's Flame and Fawkes I guess) I have a little comment. Don't you think the guy who plays Soames should be cast for Barty Crouch jr. in GoF. Maybe he's a bit old for the part, but he was supposed to be about 25 when we first saw him as Soames, so... If they can make him really old, maybe he could play Barty sr.? He sort of has the formal stiffness and lack of humor needed.

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dobbyiscool - May 4, 2004 12:38 pm (#1733 of 2912)

Happy birthday, Padfoot.

Good luck with everyone's tests. At my HS, we don't have tests for two weeks yet. Oh well. I guess I do have two tests tomorrow, but they don't count for much compared to the Semester ones (Romeo and Juliet test for english is tomorrow, then I'll stop my intermitently quoting Shakespeare and start mentioning Lord of the Flies ).

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Padfoot - May 4, 2004 2:13 pm (#1734 of 2912)

Thanks again to all the well wishers. Even though I am still getting to know you all, I appreciate all the friendliness. I look forward everyday to visiting the forum and chatting.

A friend made me a delicious chocolate cake that would help anyone recover from dementors. As a chocoholic, I highly approve of any excuse to eat it. Very yummy.

I'm glad your move went well Mollis.

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scully jones - May 4, 2004 2:24 pm (#1735 of 2912)

Yay! I seem to have a lot of happy news today.

As you can see, I've added a few more rows to my scarf. I'm officially half-way done!

I spent a half hour on my porch today, assuring that everyone in my apartment building knows exactly when Prisoner of Azkaban is coming. I had a lot of fun doing that, as I've been wanting to do SOMETHING with that porch for a long time.Look at it here!

I just got off the phone with my kitty's caretaker. Scully seems to be doing just fine. Apparently, the other two cats in their household are frightened that she is their replacement. They are spending all day outside to avoid her, and she has taken control of their house. Black Cat 2

She eats out of their food bowl, uses their litterbox, and sits in their owner's laps. I'm so proud of my little dominating queen.

I got Colleen's dad's email address, and I'm going to try and persuade him to join the forum. Their whole family is very Potterized.

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timrew - May 4, 2004 3:35 pm (#1736 of 2912)

Happy Birthday, padfoot! Congratulations on your move, mollis.

Mike, I found a copy of the Stevie Ray Vaughan DVD, 'Live At The El Mocambo', and I've ordered it. Should be arriving in the next few days. I'm looking forward to it!

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Marie E. - May 4, 2004 5:11 pm (#1737 of 2912)

Happy birthday, padfoot. Enjoy the lovely weather, you know it's going to snow next week.

Mollis, my sister lives just an hour from KC and I'm driving out there Memorial Day weekend. Maybe we could schedule a meet-up?

I'm in a sudden panic, realizing that school is out in less than three weeks. Ack!!!

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dobbyiscool - May 4, 2004 5:19 pm (#1738 of 2912)

I'm in a sudden panic, realizing that school is out in less than three weeks. Ack!!!

Really, I'm rejoicing, not panicking.

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tracie1976 - May 4, 2004 5:25 pm (#1739 of 2912)

My kids get out of school on June 3rd. *sigh* That's 29 days away. And then in about 32 days I will be wanting them to go back to school because they will be getting on my nerves lol. Oh well I love them anyways

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Julia. - May 4, 2004 5:37 pm (#1740 of 2912)

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! I'm out of school THIS FRIDAY!!!!

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Gina R Snape - May 4, 2004 6:13 pm (#1741 of 2912)

Woohoo! Got my skirt back from the tailors. And my cape now has a slytherin patch proudly on display, and an inside pocket for my wand!!!! Read on TLC that the May 23rd PoA premiere at Radio City is definitely on. Now I can dress up in my Slytherin finest twice! Yippee!

:snort: I am such a geek!

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Hagsquid - May 5, 2004 12:18 am (#1742 of 2912)
Edited by May 5, 2004 1:20 am

I just wanted to say that a problem with my Internet may soon render me "unable to post on this forum." If that becomes the case, I've thoroughly enjoyed my time here, and I'd be happy to chat with any of you via AIM, MSN, YAHOO, or email.

Through all of them, I'm available at "HyToFry" (note that this is not a "drugie" reference. I've never taken any drugs at all--no not even the "little" ones.

It was an old pager number 498-6379 My father helped me make up something worth remembering. "HyToFry" was all we could come up with, it was available on AOL, and I've used it on-line for sometime since.

MSN: hytofry@yahoo.com (yes, @yahoo.com.. don't try @hotmail, or @msn... it's @yahoo.)
YAHOO: hytofry
AIM: HyToFry
Email: hytofry@yahoo.com

Also, note that the "problem" with my Internet will not extend itself to my cell phone (which is connected to all three services.) I'm utterly depressed about the problem, but I'll likely live.

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Fawkes Forever - May 5, 2004 3:25 am (#1743 of 2912)

Mornin' Folks..... been in lurker mode most of this week & today so far.... I've managed one or two posts over the last few days.... stupid work distracting me oh dear... whats a girl to do

Mollis.... glad to see you & your belongings survived the move to KC.... I'm betting the first thing you unpacked was your Harry Potter books... right As for kitty.... fingers crossed she'll (he'll?) come round!

Talking of Kitties... Flame... hope Sam is holding up well.. give her a hug from me!

Jim... oh gracious leader of the potties, your absense was noted.... indeed the pottie thread is in the path of the Auto Mulch..... Nice to see ya back!

Sarah.... oh I love your graffiti.... very inventive & informative.. oh yes.... hmmm, wonder if I did that in front of my house would my neighbours think I'm a complete nutter (what do you mean they already do ).... oh good job on the scarf.... it's funny watching it grow....

Veronika.... nope sorry I've never seen the Forsyte Saga... sounds like an interesting show however!

Hagsquid.... sorry to hear you're having a few internet problems.... hopefully they're nothing too major so you can continue to post & perhaps develop your namesakes theory more!

Gina, oh please get a picture of you taken in full Slytherin glory... sounds like a lot of fun, & I hope Alan will be at the NYC premiere... a nice piccie of Gina in Slytherin Robes standing beside Snape would be priceless!

Unfortunately people over here take themselves too seriously (siriusly ) & won't dress up for the shows... so there will be no Hogwarts school uniforms running around at the movie ... .... oh well, it's not like I didn't run around for 7 years with an almost identical school uniform..... minus the cloaks of course, & it would have been a cheap costume... (just dust off the 'ol school uniform, well assuming it still fits ) ..... on second thoughts... my friends might think I've finally cracked & regressed back to my school days ... hee hee

I might secretly rebel & wear jeans, a rainbow belt & a pink hoodie to the cinema (hee hee hee) & I don't need to do anything to my hair.... it's Hermione enough as it is.... or I could make some 'Free Sirius Black' badges & wear them to the cinema & completely confuse those who haven't read the book! I managed to get my Dad reading PoA when I was visiting at the weekend.... yeay.... now my whole family has read it... woohooo! I shall convert them all yet Actually the majority of my family are complete HP nutters as well... so thats ok!

ARGH.... I can't wait for the movie... not that anyone would notice that or anything

Right better go back to work... before I drive you all demented TTFN

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mike miller - May 5, 2004 3:52 am (#1744 of 2912)

Tim - You're in for a treat! Make sure you can watch at the "appropriate volume" without disturbing anyone. I have to wait until my wife and daughter are out of the house. The concert was recorded in 1983, right as Stevie was breaking into the music scene. In my opinion, the versions of Voodoo Chile (Jimi gives a standing ovation from heaven) and Texas Flood are the best ever.

Happy birthday to all May birthdays! I'm rapidly approaching my 45th on 5/17. You're only as old as you feel!

Good luck to all exam takers. Breathe deep and clear your mind, the answers are in there somewhere it's just a matter of letting them out.

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septentrion - May 5, 2004 4:01 am (#1745 of 2912)

Sarah, your graffiti is great, and I'm really impressive by your scarf.

All you guys give me the idea to dress as pottie as possible for poA release, I think I'll check my wardrobe. Well I already have a pink hoodie. But I can decide about what colours to wear because everytime I try a sorting test, I find myself in a different house : ravenclaw on sorting-hat.com, hufflepuff in the test recently post on the YKYAHPALFF (?) thread and slytherin on harrypotter.com. What am I ?

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Essidji - May 5, 2004 4:38 am (#1746 of 2912)

What am I? Who am I ? Where am I going? What's the purpose of all this? Existential questions. Very interesting but I haven't got a clue of the answers.

I think everyone has parts of his character that relate to each of the four houses.... that's why it's so hard to know which one you really belong to. I guess only the sorting hat itself could tell for sure, and all we have here are only pale imitations.

As I'm writing without my dictionnary, I hope the french-looking words I used above are understandable. Sorry if not (how I wish I could be absolutely fluent in English * sigh*).

Tomoé, I had a lot of pleasure reading your comments about cajuns and creoles and their accents. Do you live in New Orleans? I read your introduction and discovered that you e-mail is labelled in French... do you have any French origins?

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Fawkes Forever - May 5, 2004 5:24 am (#1747 of 2912)

Septentrion, I think its a case of... which house you'd like to be in. All of the quizzes so far have placed me in Griffindor, except the last one on the YKY.... thread.... where I'm a Hufflepuff.... well you know what they say ... if at first you don't succeed.... cheat

Hmmm, does that make me a Slytherin.... hee hee! Nope I'm Griffindor all the way!

Karine.... methinks your English is better than mine

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scully jones - May 5, 2004 5:35 am (#1748 of 2912)

It rained last night! I was so worried about my mural. I peeked out there this morning, and.... It was still perfect! Not even a little blurry!

I changed the number to 29, and if I wasn't getting so many compliments on my scarf, I'd change my avatar to a picture of my porch.

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mollis - May 5, 2004 6:00 am (#1749 of 2912)
Edited by May 5, 2004 7:02 am

Okay, this whole reading the forum at the office bit is tricky. It is taking all my time just to catch up on this thread - I haven't even gotten to any of the other threads! Hopefully after the weekend I'll have the house in workable order and be able to spend some of my free time at home on the forum, rather than unpacking boxes. I did get to play on my sand volleyball league last night - so that was fun. Unfortunately we lost - but we gave it a good try. Okay, back to work to avoid any dementors breathing down my neck!

Good luck to all taking final exams! I hope that you do well. I could really use a summer break right about now - so make sure you enjoy it!!!

Sarah - love the scarf and the porch!

Gina - your outfit sounds great! I've just not gone quite that far 'round the twist to wear something like that myself - But I support you 100%!!!

I know there were others that I wanted to respond to...but I don't remember now. So happy today to everybody!

Edit: My color codes and smiles are on my other computer (that hasn't been unpacked yet!) so pretend that this post is my usual green and filled with happy smilies! Smile

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Julia. - May 5, 2004 6:41 am (#1750 of 2912)

Good Morning everyone! I'm so excited to dress up as Hermione for the PoA showings I'm going to, but I need a cloak! Any ideas where I can get one? I think what I've got so far is pretty good, but I think I really need a claok to finish it off. Please help, need cloak.
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Gina R Snape - May 5, 2004 6:57 am (#1751 of 2912)

Julia, I don't know where you live. But most major cities have costume shops. I actually purchased my cloak (velveteen, with lining and hood) at a gothic clothing shop. If there are any 'goths' in your school or neighbourhood, you might want to ask them where they get their clothes from. If that fails, you can also purchase some fabric and visit your local tailor. Cloaks are very easy to make. They probably wouldn't charge you that much.

Of course it also depends on how much you want to spend. I spent quite a few galleons on my cloak. But I plan on wearing it to every dress up HP event and on Halloween for the next thousand years...

Mollis, FYI, before I went "round the twist" on HP gear, I was into the Xena fandom and had a Gabrielle costume. You can see a picture of me wearing it (Gabrielle in her Amazon Princess outfit) from about 8 years ago here.

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Padfoot - May 5, 2004 7:21 am (#1752 of 2912)

Good morning all! I hope everyone is having a good day so far.

Sarah, that scarf is looking really good. I assume you are wearing it to dress up. Many of you have mentioned dressing up to see the movie. I am a chicken, so I will not be dressing up. As it is, I will have a hard time convincing someone to go with me to see the movie.

My friends still think the movies are too childish. As if! Well, if they would only read the books like I have been harassing them to, they would understand. I am so glad that I have you guys to chat with about HP.

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Padfoot - May 5, 2004 7:48 am (#1753 of 2912)

Hey Loopy, is your avatar the Loch Ness monster?

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Julia. - May 5, 2004 7:58 am (#1754 of 2912)

Well Gina, I llive in New Haven, right around the Yale campus, so there aren't too many gothic clothing schops, but oh! I forgot about costume shops! We have a really good one downtown, I shall have to check it out when I get home on Friday! Thanks for that!

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mike miller - May 5, 2004 8:08 am (#1755 of 2912)

Julia - It's always worth a quick search on eBay.

Edit - Beware, eBay can be nearly as addictive as the Forum, especially if you're searching for HP collectibles!

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Marè - May 5, 2004 8:22 am (#1756 of 2912)

Waahaaa Gina, you're blond!

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Prefect Marcus - May 5, 2004 8:33 am (#1757 of 2912)

Denise, I love your avatar! It cracks me up every time I see it.

Marcus

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Flame Alligator - May 5, 2004 8:34 am (#1758 of 2912)

Fawkes, Belated top of the mornin to ya. Sorry I am always late with my greeting. I have been on line since 0330 hrs. But have been busy reading and chatting. I don't get around to posting till later. I am going to come here and greet you first and then come back and post.

Veronika, Oh yeah! "Soames" would make an excellent Barty Crouch senior or junior. I would love to see him play both. Although he plays uh undesirable characters, I think he is excellent.

Gina, Alright!!! I love you in your Gabrielle gear. I am still a big Xena fan. I was so upset when they killed Xena off. I wanted Gabrielle and her to retire to a little cottage somewhere.

Mollis, Glad the move went well. Me, want to chat? You bet. I am a regular chatterbox. 3 lines to your 1. ha ha ha I am looking forward to chatting with you.

Chiaojones, First, I look forward to looking at your scarf grow every day. *hypnotized from watching Sarah's scarf* Thumbs up on the porch grafitti. Scully sounds like my kind of kitty. I am glad she has taken over her surroundings.

My kitty is still hanging in there. She does not look like herself though with this huge cancerous lump under her chin. But she plays a little and trots swiftly up the stairs and she still jumps up to her 5' high tree stump. I am loving her up a lot these days. Often, she is in my lap while I am posting on the forum. Thanks guys to all who ask about her and all you cat lovers, per lovers for that matter, who know what it is to lose an animal friend. And thanks to all you who sympathize.

Happy Birthday, Padfoot. (If I said it before, cause I forget sometimes, here is another one.)

My Nordic sweetie was so nice to me today. I am in Heaven. My day is full of joy. *Spreading joy to you all!* Wish I could put some cool smileys here. Will somebody teach me how to do the cool smileys? I love smileys!! Help me somebody!

SherbieLemon, Hope your exams are going well. Congrats on the papers getting done. (Sorry, I'm late with it.) I really enjoyed chatting with you, my sister yogini.

Goedemorgen! soon to be Goedemiddag!

Edit: Tomorrow is the Health Fair, OMG! I will be my charming self promoting my yoga classes at the Federal Building. Yeah, I teach Yoga to the Feds. Plus, I will have to do what I call "yoga tricks". Know what I mean Sherbie? People love to see yogini's in some freaky pose. *eyes rolling* So let me see.... I have to do "yoga tricks" but not scare people away from yoga. And my boss will be with me the entire time. Does that sound like fun? I don't think so!! But somehow I will cause I make jokes to myself. ha ha ha ha Bye again y'all!!

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Denise P. - May 5, 2004 9:08 am (#1759 of 2912)

Thanks Marcus! I saw the pin a few years ago while visiting family and had to get it. It is pinned up near my computer and since I was changing pictures, thought I would share it. It makes me giggle every time I look at it.

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Madame Librarian - May 5, 2004 10:11 am (#1760 of 2912)

Hi, all. Spring has sprung here today--mid-60s. Tomorrow it seems it'll jump directly to summer. Oh, well, I like summer, too. Blossoms are fantastic this year.

Julia, correct me if I'm wrong, but Hermione would not wear a cape/cloak at Hogwarts, but something more like academic robes. I think a black choir robe, worn open over the school uniform would do it. Now, where does one find a choir robe? Well, ask around or join the choir. Maybe your handy, dandy friendly synagogue has some loaners. Maybe they're not too expensive. Or...call those firms that supply schools for graduations.
Hope at least one of these ideas pans out. (BTW--good luck on exams to you and all test takers.)

Ciao. Barb

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Julia. - May 5, 2004 12:49 pm (#1761 of 2912)

I'm going kinda for the way she looks in the movies.

(see the difference?)I don't think my friendly synagogue has any choir robes, as they have no choir. I know my local costume store has them, they loaned them to my camp for "Harry Potter Day" over the summer. Thanks for the good luck wishes, only two more exams to go!!!

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Acceber - May 5, 2004 1:20 pm (#1762 of 2912)

Julia-there's a very good costume store in Waltham, a couple towns over from where I am, if you're that obsessed and dedicated to travel that far to get a cloak, which I'm sure you are . I can email you directions if you're interested.

It's raining here . What's that riddle again, April showers bring May flowers? Shouldn't it be April flowers bring more showers??

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Lupin is Lupin. Natch. - May 5, 2004 1:33 pm (#1763 of 2912)

Julia, I'm just down the road from Waltham and if you want I can go there for you and check out what they have. Let me know and Becca can give me the info. Good luck on the exams.

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Marie E. - May 5, 2004 2:45 pm (#1764 of 2912)

Gina, I have to say that I've always pictured you more as a Xena and not a Gabrielle. But you do look brilliant in that costume! Cheers!

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Julia. - May 5, 2004 3:31 pm (#1765 of 2912)

Thanks Kim and Becca, but I think I'll stick to the local stuff, I'm bound to find something.

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Sherbie Lemon - May 5, 2004 3:45 pm (#1766 of 2912)

Oh, I am so envious of Julia's and Gina's costumes! I've always wanted a cloak so thanks everyone for those great tips! Perhaps now I finally get one.

Feliz Cinco de Mayo!Mariachi Band

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dobbyiscool - May 5, 2004 4:04 pm (#1767 of 2912)

Yeah! Happy Cinco de Mayo! I am having Chili con Caso tonight for supper, and it is good! Mind you, this is the only Mexican holiday celebrated by more Americans then Mexicans.

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Ozymandias - May 5, 2004 4:14 pm (#1768 of 2912)

If you can sew at all, you can make a cloak too. Lining it is a bit difficult, but I can't sew my way out of a paper bag and I made a pretty decent looking one.

Farewell, and may the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. ~Erin

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timrew - May 5, 2004 4:35 pm (#1769 of 2912)

I got the Stevie Ray Vaughan DVD, mike; and I have to admit.....I'm very disappointed with it!

The picture is great......but there is no sound whatsoever! I'm going to have to send it back......

What a bummer!

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Tomoé - May 5, 2004 4:40 pm (#1770 of 2912)

You can also get a pattern in a sewing shop, or maybe even on the web.

Gina, I like your Gabrielle costume!

You look good in Hermione Julia. ^_^

Maybe I should go in Pennsylvania with my XIIth century costume (Here, I'm the girl in brown) I'll just have to add a wand and a hat and remove the veil.

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mike miller - May 5, 2004 5:04 pm (#1771 of 2912)

Tim - I'm sorry to hear about the "technical difficulties". Where did you order it from? I hope they can provide you with a new copy quickly.

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The Great Abbycadabra - May 5, 2004 9:50 pm (#1772 of 2912)

Hey, Luanee, I didn't know you were going to New Orleans. I missed you. I was born in New Orleans, and I don't live too terribly far from the city now. I'm glad you had fun, seeing as I never really do. I speak very poor French, by the way. Two and a half years of studying the language has done nothing for me, unfortunately. I want to be fluent and all I can say is "J'ai mal a la tete."

Veronika, I was the other one watching The Forsyte Saga. I'd love to see Soames as either Crouch, or anyone in a HP movie for that matter. I so love that guy. I'm sorely missing that show, though. Masterpiece Theater has been so sad without it.

And to all you people celebrating birthdays and/or anniversaries, here's your Abbyfetti, sorry I've been so far behind lately. ,'.;',.;',.;',.;',.;',.;';.



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Detail Seeker - May 5, 2004 10:22 pm (#1773 of 2912)

You are active in medieval reenactment, Tomoé ? That looks good.

If you are really interested in the book, we discussed on the "Reception..." thread: You can only get it via antiquariates. Try a search in http://www.zvab.de , a database based on catalogues of many german (and french) antiquarians. There you might have a chance of getting it.

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Tomoé - May 6, 2004 12:10 am (#1774 of 2912)

Yes, I am really interested in Truppenführung. Not exactly useful in a day to day basis, I admit, but could give a insightful view on the wars going on in the world and help for strategy in Dungeons & Dragons games. ^_^

Anyway, I found it on amazon.co.uk, amazon.ca and amazon.com, brand new, annotated to help the reader understand its military and social context and in English (I must admit The Great Abbycadabra's French is much better than my German -_-). Pretty expensive though.

Finally, yes, I'm active in medieval reenactment. The picture was taken in a cold day of spring (if I remember well), we are eating honey-buttered bread while cooking soup and smoked meat. Miréimé is the blue girl.

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VeronikaG - May 6, 2004 12:31 am (#1775 of 2912)

Historical reenactment is cool. I'd love to join a group who do that. Unfortunately the only one around here are doing Vikings, which means the men get to fight with swords, while women are ... not so present. I could maybe play a crazy Viking Amazon, though.

And when we are on the subject; I really expected you to look quite different, Gina. I always had you pictured as black haired, with a really pale complexion to match Severus. The costume was cool. I'm sure you are a really cool person, seeing the costumes you dress up in, and how much effort you make.

Flame, thank you for the mail. I'm glad it works out so well for you and your Nordic man!

Padfoot, I feel your pain! Nobody is willing to go to the movie with me either. Much less dress up for it. Not that my friends take themselves to seriously to ever dress up in public, but they would rather wear a pink bunny costume than anything related to Harry Potter.

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septentrion - May 6, 2004 1:05 am (#1776 of 2912)

Gina I also pictured you as dark-haired, Severus's influence probably.

Tomoe I think your idea is good, your dress could fit in a HP world.

Abby, LOL, "j'ai mal à la tête"...How is it that all what you can say in french is the better excuse I know when I don't want to do something ?

Padfoot, alike you, I'll probably have to see PoA alone but better alone than with someone who is not a pottie !

Any birthday today ?

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Marè - May 6, 2004 1:48 am (#1777 of 2912)

Well, Gina has black hair. That's why her Gabrielle picture is quit funny. Is it a wig, or did you dye your hair Gina?

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Essidji - May 6, 2004 2:13 am (#1778 of 2912)

All those costumes look great. I really like the idea of dressing up for the PoA release, but too bad : doing this is funny when you are a group... And nobody would do it with me. I suppose that doing this alone requires a lot of courage and self-derision! And I, too, am a chicken I believe.

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Flame Alligator - May 6, 2004 2:24 am (#1779 of 2912)

Fawkes, Top of the mornin to ya!

Today is the Health Fair. Plus, I have to teach yoga this afternoon. Busy day for me.

Just wanted to check in.

goedemorgen!

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Fawkes Forever - May 6, 2004 3:15 am (#1780 of 2912)

Top of the Mornin Flame..

Good morning all... unfortunately I'm very busy at work... but since when has that ever stopped me... so I'm getting a few posts in.. hee hee

Later

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Essidji - May 6, 2004 4:04 am (#1781 of 2912)

How funny, in my village today I saw Madame Maxime! Very tall, with dark hair put up in a bun on the top of her head. She wore a lot of golden jewels, too, and a dress made of yellow, very light and translucent fabric. Can you imagine the shock I got when I saw her?

Oh but...wait a minute... could this possibly mean the Beauxbatons school is in the neighborhood?

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septentrion - May 6, 2004 4:14 am (#1782 of 2912)

I don't know why, I always thought beauxbâtons was in southern France, maybe because of the bouillabaisse , or because they were light-clothed when they arrived at Hogwarts. Well I'm supposed to have studied there but their location is a secret I want to keep

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scully jones - May 6, 2004 5:24 am (#1783 of 2912)

Thank you all for your compliments on my porch. The upstairs neighbor seems to have "spilled" some water on my porch accidentally, so I'm off to fix the smears!

I keep getting worried for my friend Colleen's husband, my old classmate, kevin. He was supposed to be home last month, but they extended his stay. He hasn't even met his son yet. I thought I was over the sick feeling every time I hear a soldier is killed, but it's back now.

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Molly Weasly Wannabe - May 6, 2004 5:48 am (#1784 of 2912)

Just wanted to say "HI" to everyone, and wish ya'll a good week/weekend.

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boop - May 6, 2004 6:23 am (#1785 of 2912)

Happy Thursday to everyone!!!

To everyone taking finals good luck the stress will soon be over!!!

I think its great to dress up for the POA movie. I myself won't be, but I know there will be some that will.

I have a very busy long day at work. I work 12 hours today, since the students are starting to move out we are needed to stay longer. I won't have another day off until next Sunday, and I work 10 hour days til then. So when you are off work over the weekend please relax for me too.

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Fawkes Forever - May 6, 2004 6:42 am (#1786 of 2912)

Hey Boop, no one dresses up here for the movies ... that is why I'm planning on the jeans, rainbow belt & (pink?) hoodie ... everyone will think I'm dressed as normal... (which it pretty much is).... but I will know the truth *maugh haugh haugh* The belt & jeans I already own (belt bought pre PoA I may add)... no pink hoodies though, I do have a red one, hmmm, wonder will that do?

Oh Karine... I can't believe you spotted Madame Maxime... was Hagrid with her?

Molly Weasley Wannabe... love your new avatar....

Sarah... you should put an Impervius charm on your art work.... in case your neighbour has another water related accident

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Gina R Snape - May 6, 2004 6:54 am (#1787 of 2912)

Septentrion, you are indeed keeping the Beauxbâtons location a secret very well!

I have naturally dark hair, for those who asked. But I have been known to dye my hair a variety of colours. In the Gabrielle photo, my hair was dyed a reddish-blonde and coincidentally happened to be close to the hue Gabrielle was sporting in the episode I chose to costume.

The other day the weather was a little cool and I needed just a little something to wear over my shirt when I went out. Lo and behold, my Slytherin jumper matched perfectly. So, I walked around all day wearing it, and nobody thought anything of it because it doesn't have Slytherin anywhere on it. It's just grey with that green piping at the v-neck. But I knew...

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Julia. - May 6, 2004 7:33 am (#1788 of 2912)

WOO-HOO!!!!! No more bio!!! *dances around the room* Just one more exam to go, and then HOME!!

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virgoddess1313 - May 6, 2004 7:54 am (#1789 of 2912)

Well, my phone was cut awhile ago, so I haven't been to the forum in awhile. I've missed it and everyone on it.

Well, it's a beautiful day, school is over for me next Wednesday and I'm in a good mood. But, I'd better get back to work.

Hugs and good wishes to anyone who wants or needs them... oh and everyone who doesn't as well.

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Padfoot - May 6, 2004 7:54 am (#1790 of 2912)

Gina, I pictured you with dark hair too. Haha. It's that last name of yours that did it of course.

I think it's really neat to see pictures of everybody that I can match to the names. I sure hope that at the get together you all take lots of pictures and post them. Wish I could be there with you guys. I will be there in spirit.

I don't think I have anything that could be close to a costume. No pink hoodie even. I will have to go through my closet to find something.

Good luck on the remaining exams!

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draco all the way - May 6, 2004 7:59 am (#1791 of 2912)

Oh my GOD! 100+ posts! I read them ALL! I didn't even cheat a little bit! Go me!

O.k I'm trying to get this done quickly, lets see- Happy Birthday all birthday people Good luck to all people who need good luck Congratulations for anyone with wedding, or graduations or both!

The rain stopped but ,hey, at least it rained!

I really want to dress up to, but no one here will do it with me and I'm not brave enough to do it all by my lonesome! But all your costumes(HP and otherwise) look great!

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Essidji - May 6, 2004 8:13 am (#1792 of 2912)

Fawkes, the answer is no, unfortunately Olympe Maxime was alone, no Hagrid by her side. I guess that, as I saw her at the funerals of a lady from my village, she just made the trip to attend them and disapparated afterwards. This is what I thought anyway, as I also believe the Beauxbâtons school is rather in the south of France.

Julia, great you finished school and your exams. I hope everything went right for you, and that you will get plenty of E s (Wizard E s, of course! ~_^). BTW, did you get an A for your homework that was supposed to compare the Viêt-Nam war with the HP books?

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Denise P. - May 6, 2004 8:24 am (#1793 of 2912)

I am not planning to dress in costume for the movie but will be wearing a HP inspired shirt. Either my DIGS shirt or perhaps the PA shirt that Brandon designed.

My wand arrived yesterday! Woo hoo....now I have to wait until Sunday to actually open it.

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Tomoé - May 6, 2004 8:35 am (#1794 of 2912)

I ordered my wand today, how long did it take to make it to your door Denise?

Welcome back virgoddess!

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Denise P. - May 6, 2004 8:52 am (#1795 of 2912)

I ordered it Sunday evening. It was shipped Tuesday and I got it Wednesday. I was very pleased with how quickly it came.

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Tomoé - May 6, 2004 9:05 am (#1796 of 2912)

Within a week then, I hope they will be that fast for Canada too. ^_^

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Lynn Allen - May 6, 2004 10:01 am (#1797 of 2912)

Tomoe, I jumped when your avatar winked at me! It was very flattering, of course! LOL! Lynn

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timrew - May 6, 2004 10:35 am (#1798 of 2912)

Mike, I ordered my DVD through one of the dealers on Amazon. I e-mailed him, and I've just received an oh-so-apologetic e-mail in reply, asking me to return it at once for replacement.

I'm just about to do so!

Let's hope all his copies aren't like that!

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Tomoé - May 6, 2004 10:43 am (#1799 of 2912)

I hope not Tim.

Thanks Lynn. ^_^

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mike miller - May 6, 2004 10:59 am (#1800 of 2912)

Tim - I got mine through Amazon, a few years back, and had no problems. I'm sure the next one will be O.K.
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Post  Lady Arabella Mon Nov 17, 2014 2:58 pm

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Ticker - May 6, 2004 11:58 am (#1801 of 2912)

Uff-da! 300+ posts in one day on this thread alone. Pinky, I'm shocked. Absolutely shocked. I thought you read all the threads.

Septentrion, thank you ever so much for finding such a nice meaning for Ticker. I tried to a while back, but all I could figure was it's what ticker-tape runs through (although, truth be told, I couldn't even find any support for that either) I should have looked for sometrhing closer to the ol' ticker (heart) I guess.

Happy Everything to Everyone since I am hopelessly far behind.

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Hagsquid - May 6, 2004 12:03 pm (#1802 of 2912)

On a downer note: The harddrive on my laptop ceased up over the weekend. I bought a new one today, and I'm formatting and installing stuff, but I think most of my pictures, music, videos, and, worst of all, Harry Potter mp3s are obliverated.

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Padfoot - May 6, 2004 12:08 pm (#1803 of 2912)

Ahhh... the joy's of computers. Ain't they great?

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Ticker - May 6, 2004 12:22 pm (#1804 of 2912)

Ceased laptops, once ungripped, are easy to throw.

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dobbyiscool - May 6, 2004 12:40 pm (#1805 of 2912)

Good Afternoon everyone!

Wow everyone’s costumes look/sound great! No one around here dresses up for the Harry Potter premiers, so I'll be taking a subtle approach to this. Luckily, my school colors are the same as Gryffendor's, so I have no problem finding a good outfit to where that will have a secret meaning to me (who cares if everyone thinks I'm just sporting RHS?).

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Hagsquid - May 6, 2004 12:42 pm (#1806 of 2912)

meh. Who cares if everyone thinks you're a freak for dressing up for the Harry Potter premiere. Just tell anyone who snickers at you to... well... just give them glares. Smile

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Padfoot - May 6, 2004 12:46 pm (#1807 of 2912)

Ok, hy, so are you going to translate the rowr word? I've got to admit, I am curious.

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Molly Weasly Wannabe - May 6, 2004 1:07 pm (#1808 of 2912)

My sons' (ages 7 and 5....my 7 year old will be turning 8 the day the movie comes out on the 4th) will be dressing up in their robes for the movie. They can hardly wait!!!!

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Hagsquid - May 6, 2004 1:12 pm (#1809 of 2912)

There's really not much to translate, it's just a noise I make when I see something that I want.

A girl, a pizza, a mountain dew, etc. I have it recorded somewhere...

http://thatisneat.com/chaz/rowr.wav

Try that... I can't be sure if it's the right file, as I don't have sound on my work computer, and my laptop is still getting XP installed on it.

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Flame Alligator - May 6, 2004 5:33 pm (#1810 of 2912)

Hagsquid, Does that noise also include losing HP bits Blues?

Ticker, Did I understand you play catch up with 300 posts and won? Excellent!!!

Virgoddess! Good to see you. I so missed seeing your sweetie and you. (avatar) Love birds cheer me up.

Well, I have been home for a hour. Back from the Health Fair. I had a great time! Surprise. Surprise. I was all prepared to be miserable. My boss, whom I had never met in person, was absolutely fabulous. And I think she like me too. I made two new friends, Matt and Kelly massage therapists.... very nice. Matt gave me a 20 massage on my break. It really helped as I was a bit irritable when I arrived. Plus, he didn't charge me. Wasn't that sweet? I did not have to do one "yoga trick" and I signed up 20 new people for my yoga class. Then I came home,(walked btw, 30 minutes) had some fruit an 1 hour nap and I had to be off to teach my regular Thursday yoga class. The new people came and my class was packed. Matt and Kelly are coming next week. Kelly is a riot. She is going to get me in trouble. So I had a good day but I am so pooped. Even me, the I don't need sleep super woman, needs to hit the sack. I will be out before my head hits the pillow.

Don't worry Fawkes, I will be up in time to great you lady. You too, Veronika.

Argh! I can't remember the Dutch for good evening. I am too tired. Oh well, Y'all have a good evening. See you tomorrow.

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Hagsquid - May 6, 2004 6:43 pm (#1811 of 2912)

Ah. My appologies. hatU is just "Utah" backwards.

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Hagsquid - May 6, 2004 6:45 pm (#1812 of 2912)

Thank you Tivo, thank you chiaojones. :-D Ima go watch me a some dementors.

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Matt Allair - May 6, 2004 7:55 pm (#1813 of 2912)

Hi Everyone,

Lord, has it been a month already since I even looked at any threads on this site? Sorry that I've been away, but I've been so busy with work related issues and a lot of creative side projects, that I've barely had time to check my E-mail, much less the Forum.


Another thing that has kept me away is a major family issue. My Uncle has cancer, it was diagnosed very late, quite advanced. So he probably has two to three months to live. This came very much out of the blue. He's in his mid seventies, so these kind of things are to be expected at that age. It's been really traumatic for the family, so I've had to put in some extra attention to certain family members.



So, I'll try to check in whenever I can, but I've had to really cut down my internet time.

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Madame Librarian - May 6, 2004 8:10 pm (#1814 of 2912)

Matt, very sorry to hear about your uncle. Yes, this is the time you need to pull together with family.

Just a reminder combined with a question: Is this Sunday (5/9) when they're showing the extended preview of PoA? Would someone who has all the details (or knows where they're printed) tell us memory-challenged people?

I suppose I could check Leaky Cauldron. I will later, now it's time for bed. **props eyes open with toothpicks long enough to log off**

Ciao. Barb

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Hem Hem - May 6, 2004 9:22 pm (#1815 of 2912)

Make sure to spend time with your real family, Matt, and your internet family can wait until you have the time to come back.

Sorry I've been pretty absent lately. My computer is recovering from the Sasser virus, and is disssssggggguuuusssstttttinnnnnggggggllllllly slow. Oh well.

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The Great Abbycadabra - May 6, 2004 10:33 pm (#1816 of 2912)

Heehee, Tomoe. If it makes you feel any better, I'm sure your German is better than mine. And feel free to call me Abby.

Septentrion--it's important to know that when learning a foreign language, it's best to learn how to say "bathroom" and a few good excuses. "J'ai mal a la tete" (I can't do the accents, I'm afraid.) being the best one.

Matt, I'm so sorry to hear about your uncle. You and your family will be in my thoughts.

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VeronikaG - May 7, 2004 2:19 am (#1817 of 2912)

Our school had a bad attack of the Sasser virus this Monday or Tuesday. We had to install the antivirus on all 30 computers in our lab, and restart them twice. Took us an hour to get started.

I have bad news for my MSN buddies. I won't be able to talk to you much there for a while. But I'll leave messages for you here. I guess I'll just have to be more active here.

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Fawkes Forever - May 7, 2004 2:47 am (#1818 of 2912)

That Sasser virus seems to have crippled a lot of systems... Thankfully our IT department contained it pretty quickly.... well it wouldn't do for a software company to get hit by a virus... LOL... might slow the 'ol dementors down for a bit however (thinking evil thoughts, hah hah... well at least they're not happy thoughts... so they can't suck them out of me)

Morning all.... & how are we all keeping on this bright & shiny friday morning... well it was bright & shiny... but I can see the rain clouds rolling in.... just in time to disturb my lunchtime walk!

Flame... hope you're well rested.... sounds like you had a fun day yesterday! Top of the morning to ya ... hee hee, I can't help but giggle when I type that

Matt, sorry to hear about your uncle.... keeping you & your family in my thoughts & prayers.. big cyber hugs to you all!

Right back to work *grumble*

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boop - May 7, 2004 2:56 am (#1819 of 2912)

ITS FRIDAY, Happy Friday Everyone, hope everyone has a great weekend!!!!!

Matt, I am so sorry to here about your uncle. Take the time and spend it with him and your family. I will keep you and your family in my thoughts and prayers. Here is a hug for you and your family.

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Denise P. - May 7, 2004 5:24 am (#1820 of 2912)

Bloodshot!  Augh - something is in the air! My eyes, my eyes! I took some allergy medicine, hopefully it starts to work soon.

Parrot 2 We have a male lovebird, 3 years old, named Shadow. This morning we discovered that SHE laid an egg!



This summer we are having a guest come stay the entire summer with us. Petunia (I didn't name her!), the class guinea pig, is coming to our house. I got to see her last night while I was at the school for a concert. She is a long haired black and white guinea pig and very cute.

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boop - May 7, 2004 6:03 am (#1821 of 2912)

Denise, I hope that allergy medicine works for you. So are you going to have the guinea pig sit on that egg while she is visiting?

Brandon said that he will be mailing the designs to me today Denise so you should be getting a copy very soon.

Denise your mom was a very pretty woman. Thanks for sharing her picture with us.

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Gina R Snape - May 7, 2004 6:16 am (#1822 of 2912)

Matt, I'm sorry to hear about your uncle. My paternal grandmother had cancer in the liver, discovered at the age of 84; but like your uncle, it was simply not discovered until the end stage.

Spending time with a loved one who knows s/he is dying is so important. It's the best thing you can do for your uncle, and for yourself. I found it a great comfort to know my grandmother was not alone at the very end of her life, and that I and other family members did all we could to comfort and be there for her. I hope you will feel the same.

The internet can wait. Barring WX catastrophes, we'll all be here whenever you get back.

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Padfoot - May 7, 2004 7:31 am (#1823 of 2912)

Denise, I had a guinea pig growing up. Petunia is a cute name for a guinea pig. They don't do a whole lot though. Mostly just sit there and eat. Cute critters though. Congrats to Shadow for her (and your) pleasant surprise!

I have been having some bad luck with my fish lately. Months ago, when I set up my aquarium, I had about 10 fish. Then 19 baby fish appeared one day (quite mysteriously too). I gave a local pet store all but 5 of those baby fish. Unfortunately, the baby fish have been dying off one by one. The last one was floating this morning. I had not grown overly attached to these fish yet. But it was still sad to see them go. And now one of my adult Mollies has white stuff growing on it. Not a good sign.

Matt, I am sorry to hear about your uncle.

Barb, that special 10 minutes of PoA is coming up during the SS on ABC. I think it is supposed to be on 7/6c. If ABC is following the trend of recent movies they have shown, it will be towards the end of the movie, but not the very end. *so excited* HPANA has more information too.

Thanks Hagsquid for clearing that up. Now we know... the rest of the story.

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Flame Alligator - May 7, 2004 7:48 am (#1824 of 2912)

Matt, So sorry. Ditto to what Gina said.

Fawkes, Belated top of the mornin to ya. Darn it. I forgot to post to you early. I hope you have a lovely evening. I wish I could send you some real chocolates to cheer you up. Of course, I would not want to make you fat. Have a lovely weekend.

Veronika, WAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! I miss chatting with you terribly. I will e-mail you. Girlfriend what am I going to do without you?

Denise P., Lovely Mom. ooooo Petunia sounds so cute. I like cute little guinea pigs. I feel for you with the sudden allergy attack. I hope what you are taking works for you.

Hem Hem, My computer is disgustingly slow and it has had no virus that I know of. I feel for you. Hope yours clears up soon. As for mine.... hopeless. But I have to love it because I get to be with you guys on the Forum. *kissing my computer* Draco all the way, I hope you get more rain to cool things off. As for me, I love the heat. I go for walks in 100 degree plus weather and guess what? I don't even break a sweat. I know this isn't the thread but could you tell me why you love Draco. E-mail if you must or maybe I should mosey on over to the Draco thread. Did you post there? I love your post btw.

To all who go away and manage to catch up on 100+ posts I bow deeply. I freak out when there is over 30 posts. Shamefully, I cheat and skim read.

Yesterday, it was 88 degrees here. Today, cloudy and I need a sweater on to go outside. Well, I am glad I walked to the Health Fair. I got plenty of glorius sun. It is the weekend. I hope you all have fun, or get work done or just relax. To all who are done with exams..... happy celebrating. My special someone is calling me later so I am overwhelmed with joy. *tears welling up* Everyone have a good weekend.

Goedemorgen soon to be goedemiddag!

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Padfoot - May 7, 2004 8:12 am (#1825 of 2912)

Sarah, I found this over on the 'ship 'ship thread that you wrote: How often do you faint? Just curious because I don't think I've ever really fainted (almost did a few times) and I've even had medical problems that have been bringing on bouts of lightheadedness, dizziness, etc... Is it common for people to faint in their everyday lives? Can someone give me an answer over on the Chat thread? I'd appreciate it....

I know you weren't addressing this to me, but I will answer anyway. I've fainted before, though not in a few years now. I would doubt that it is common to anyone. If it is, they need to see a doctor. I have fainted maybe a half a dozen times in my life. Not totally sure why, maybe low blood sugar? (or when I have blood drawn) It's not fun, but I can always tell when it's about to happen, so I have time to go find some place to sit down and close my eyes. The first time it happened it was scary, I was 13 and I didn't know what happened, but not scary any more.

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Accio Sirius - May 7, 2004 8:21 am (#1826 of 2912)
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Denise,

We just adopted a guinea pig about two weeks ago and we have really enjoy having him. He's orange and black with really long hair. It looks like a mohawk. We toyed with several names including Harry (my hubbie nixed it) and my daughter finally settled on licorice because he licks everyone when you hold him. We adopted him from the pound and had to endure a 1 1/2 hour home visit (!) before we got him, so if you have any questions, I feel like an expert. I didn't get that much training for my kids!!!

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Fawkes Forever - May 7, 2004 8:44 am (#1827 of 2912)

Well it's officially the weekend... woohooo!

Take care everyone.... will try my home connection this weekend (I still haven't got round to testing it yet) with the PC that the dementors lent to me.... so I hope it works!

Denise.... I sympathise with your allergies.... hope the 'potion' works I got an antihistamine injection one year... before my NEWTS to stop my hayfever affecting my exams.... & it worked... no hayfever for two whole summers... it was bliss

Happy Birthday for tomorrow Istari...

Have a good weekend everyone....

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Denise P. - May 7, 2004 9:30 am (#1828 of 2912)

Whee! The medicine I took earlier worked, my eyes stopped watering and swelling so I can see.

The egg Shadow laid will get removed. We have no male bird with her so it is not a fertile egg. She will probably lay 2-4 more. Our cockatiel usually lays 3-4 before she stops. It has been about 18 months since Piper laid eggs though,

Woo hoo! We found a really cool tent today. It sleeps 7 people and has a built in screen porch on the front of it. Along with the tents we already have, we have more than enough room now when we go camping.

Thanks for the comments about my mom. Her birthday is on Monday (along with a certain Forum member) so I wanted to put her picture up. She would be 64 this year.

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virgoddess1313 - May 7, 2004 10:26 am (#1829 of 2912)

Flame- it's nice to be back. And I'm glad my avatar makes you happy... makes me happy too.

Have a great day everyone!!!

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Prefect Marcus - May 7, 2004 10:37 am (#1830 of 2912)

Denise,

Looking at your mom, I would guess that she was called as RSP at least once?

Marcus

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Ticker - May 7, 2004 10:50 am (#1831 of 2912)
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RSP? Is that like RSVP without the vous? I was never very good at calling back on those.

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Denise P. - May 7, 2004 11:12 am (#1832 of 2912)

Marcus, nope. She was inactive for the vast majority (as in all of it) her adult life. She never had any calling except mom and wife that I know of.

RSP= Relief Society President Relief Society is the women’s organization within my church.

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Prefect Marcus - May 7, 2004 11:59 am (#1833 of 2912)

Denise,

So when do we get a picture of you? It's only fair, this is a picture of me.

Marcus

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Denise P. - May 7, 2004 12:39 pm (#1834 of 2912)

True enough Marcus although I have had a picture of me up. I put one of me up back in February but since you insist....here is a picture of me again.



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Prefect Marcus - May 7, 2004 12:56 pm (#1835 of 2912)
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True, but I thought you might prefer this likeness.

(Remarkably similar, Don't you think?)

(If offensive, please delete)

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Acceber - May 7, 2004 1:28 pm (#1836 of 2912)

Nice pics everyone . Here's one of me and my Grandma. I don't usually have red eyes, they're normally light brown.

* insert picture here*

EDIT: Never mind, that didn't work. It's a good picture. Believe me.

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Denise P. - May 7, 2004 2:17 pm (#1837 of 2912)

Wow Marcus, how did you get that picture of me when I was a red head?

Ugh, in the middle of the weekly great cage cleaning and ran out of birdie litter. Gotta make a run to pick up more to finish cleaning cages. I guess I am doing that AFTER the wedding open house our babysitter is having. Drat, we lost her to a husband!

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SarcasticGinny  - May 7, 2004 2:22 pm (#1838 of 2912)

You guys, I'm so excited! I finally finished my student teaching today and have the go-ahead for teacher certification! :-)

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Ladybug220 - May 7, 2004 2:25 pm (#1839 of 2912)

Sarcastic Ginny - that is great! Congrats!

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Padfoot - May 7, 2004 2:26 pm (#1840 of 2912)

Congrats SarcasticGinny! That's great news.

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scully jones - May 7, 2004 2:53 pm (#1841 of 2912)

Padfoot, you need to get what's called ich-out for your aquarium! It turns your aquarium slightly blue, but it'll help with the ich on your fish! We had a lot of fish growing up, so I'm the fish doctor with all of my friends.

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Tomoé - May 7, 2004 4:01 pm (#1842 of 2912)

I'm sorry about your uncle Matt. A lovely family that cares about you, that's the must important thing in the end.

Abby, you forgot one of the most important phrase to learn in a foreign language : "Same." to use in restaurants when you don't feel safe enough to do the whole ordering process. ^_^

VeronikaG, most of medieval reenactment group are fight based and have a hard time to recruit women. My group is 50/50, beside cooking and washing dishes wearing costume (it's always funnier to do it in costume ^_^), we sing songs, try to learn our prayers in Latin, sculpt spoons, clear the ground, work on our hostellerie (the main building of our site) and kill chickens and rabbits (we are known among the other reenactment groups as the chicken throat cutters ^_^).

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Marie E. - May 7, 2004 4:25 pm (#1843 of 2912)

Congratulations, Ginny!

I remember when I finished student teaching (nine years ago!). It was relief in one way, but in another it was sort of scary. Like, oh no, now I have to go teach 'for reals'. I student taught third grade down in Southern Georgia. I wonder about those kids all the time. They would be about 18 years old.

We had another wonderful day in Colorado. Blue skies, warm temps. Yep, we're probably in for snow soon. Heehee. Hopefully it's just rain for now, at least until September.

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The Great Abbycadabra - May 7, 2004 9:16 pm (#1844 of 2912)

Congrats, Ginny! Have some Abbyfetti on me. ',.;',;.,';.'.;,'.;

Excellent point, Tomoe! I must get my French dictionary and look that up! I never thought of that before, heehee.

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Madam Pince - May 7, 2004 11:58 pm (#1845 of 2912)

Barb and Padfoot, I just read in "TV Guide" that the 10 minutes of POA preview / cast interviews will be at the END of the showing of SS, which they are broadcasting on ABC on Sunday, May 9, starting at 7pm Eastern time. However, I am somewhat confused. It says in TV Guide that the show will be 4 hours long -- from 7-11pm, which sounds about right once you include commercials and the POA thing. But apparently they are re-broadcasting it on the following Saturday, 5/15, at 8pm, and that show is supposed to only be 3 hours long, from 8-11p. Now that doesn't make sense to me. Even if the second broadcast doesn't include the POA stuff, they'd need more than 3 hours in order to include commercials, wouldn't they?

At any rate, I don't trust just any old info for something as important as this, so I plan to tape the entire 4 hours Sunday night, just in case. (You have to understand -- I have not seen one single trailer for the movie yet, so I am STARVED!) Another thing too -- the ads in "TV Guide" say that this broadcast has "Never-Before-Seen Footage!" Now I wonder -- is that footage that wasn't seen in the theatrical release (but which we all of course have now seen on the DVD version) or does that truly mean "never-before-seen?" And is the footage going to be properly incorporated into the movie where it should be, or will it be stuck at the end in a montage of "deleted scenes?" Again, too important to trust to mere semantics. I'm tapin' it!

(By the way, you should've seen me when I saw the ad on the back cover of TV Guide last week, when I first saw that it was going to contain a 10-minute POA preview. I yelled and danced around the kitchen like a madwoman.)

Flame, Happy Birthday to your kitty -- I think I read that the big day was May 6th, didn't I? Hope she was able to enjoy a big can of tuna.

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septentrion - May 8, 2004 12:35 am (#1846 of 2912)

Matt, sorry for your uncle, have as much time as you can with your family.

Congrats Ginny !

Tomoe, what's that word "Same" ? It isn't french, is it ?

Julia, you've finished school, haven't you ? Have good time now

Here the weather is awful. After a glimpse of spring, fall is back : coldness, wind, rain, grey sky...how depressive !

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Tomoé - May 8, 2004 4:17 am (#1847 of 2912)

septentrion, same is an English word (don't smash your head on the keyboard). "Same" is the easiest and simplest way to say "I would fancy the same thing please."

Abby, "Same." in French is "Même chose." or "La même chose.", you can push a little further and add "s'il vous plaît". ^_^

You have not seen a single preview of PoA yet, Madam Pince? how comes?

And congratulation Ginny!

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Madame Librarian - May 8, 2004 4:59 am (#1848 of 2912)

Mornin', everyone! Warming up here (yesterday was more like early March), but skies are grey, t-storms are on their way. Sigh.

Padfoot, thanks for the info on Sunday night. Best Mother's Day present, I think. Actually, book 6 would be a better one, but let's get real here, JKR deserves a Mother's Day, too.

What's the custom in the UK (and around the world)--do other coutries have a Mother's Day?

Ciao. Barb

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septentrion - May 8, 2004 5:10 am (#1849 of 2912)

yes, we have a Mother's day in France but later, the last sunday of May or the first of June. This year, it's the 6th of June because the last sunday of May is the Pentecost. So that's why there were mother's day e-cards on aol US...for all mothers :

Flowers For Mom

BTW, I've read that PoA release in UK will be the 31st of May. Is it real or just a rumor ? I hope it's real, no one should have to wait as long as we do to see that promising movie.

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Flame Alligator - May 8, 2004 5:46 am (#1850 of 2912)

Tomoe, Thanks for the language tips. I am learning Dutch and need all the help I can get. Your practical tips are greatly appreciated.

Madam Pince, Awwww I feel sad that you have not seen a PoA trailer. Good luck on taping the 10 minute one Monday. Thanks so much for asking about Samantha. Yes, she made it to her 16 birthday. She had salmon (her favorite) for her birthday. Fresh salmon which I ground up for her so she could eat it. She has lived a month longer then the vet predicted. What a fighter. It is not depressing to be with her. She seems to be alright considering. Certainly not ready to check out. I love my kitty. What a brave baby girl!! Thanks to all who are supporting me on my Kitty Death Watch which really is a Life Watch. She is living every moment of her life. No giving up. I am moved and imspired by her. I have to bathe her today and guess what? She manages to run from me. Nothing like bath time to get a kitty going.

Mollis, How is the unpacking/settling in going? I always find that once I get the kitchen organized, I am home free. You? Hope you will chat with me soon.

I am in such a good mood today. Another wonderful long distance call that made me so very HAPPY!! The weather here today is gloomy but my heart is shining. To anyone feeling down...... Here take some of my good mood. Y'all have fun today.

Goedemorgen!!!
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Dr Filibuster - May 8, 2004 6:02 am (#1851 of 2912)

It's no rumour Septentrion...

PoA starts on 31st May in UK cinemas and tickets may be purchased right now! It's unusual to start on a Monday, but it's a Bank Holiday (public holiday) and most schools are off for the Whit half term (1 or 2 week break depending on the school).

Mothering Sunday was on 21st March in Britain. My mum asked for a pedicure.

I've been on my holidays so only about half a million threads to catch up on. I missed 5th May (Mexico), St George's Day (England) Earth Day (USA) Anzac Day (Australia/NZ) May Day and loads of birthdays. Belated greetings/commiserations to to everyone who wants one.

For you information, my birthday is on 1st June and my Potter buddies are supposed to be taking me to the pictures. That's the only reason why I haven't booked seats yet, but it's killing me. I may have to remind them about the dates if they don't turn up with the tickets this weekend!

Flame, glad Sam's 16th birthday went well. Her favourite salmon hey? No wonder she has had such a contented long life with you.

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scully jones - May 8, 2004 6:27 am (#1852 of 2912)

Today is Jimmie's birthday! He's 24, and I'll be 21 exactly one month from today as well!

We're going to go to his mom's house, and I'll be sure to add more stripes to my scarf. I'm on number 25 right now.

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Flame Alligator - May 8, 2004 6:38 am (#1853 of 2912)

Chiaojones, *singing Happy Birthday to Jimmie* You two have a lovely day.

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boop - May 8, 2004 7:41 am (#1854 of 2912)

Happy Saturday Everyone!!!!!!

Jimmie Happy Birthday to you!!!!Hope you have a great day.

Well the students are getting packed and out of the dorms. I will be here at work until 8pm. We will start cleaning rooms, and what nightmare's some of the rooms are in!!!!! Some of the students move in and don't clean the whole time they are here. The dirt and dust that is in these rooms are scary.

Well I am off to go back to work..

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VeronikaG - May 8, 2004 8:41 am (#1855 of 2912)

Ah... summer!

This week has seen some of the worst weather this year has had to offer. On Thursday my Mom, my cousin and me went for a little walk, and got all soaked when the clouds suddenly burst open. To top it, there was huge lightning bolts right above our heads. Scary!!

And now today, summer!! I've been outside working on bringing the garden back to it's old shape, and I have a nice pink sunburn on one side of my face. According to Mommy, someone had said on the radio that southern Norway is hotter than Spain today. Nice. We deserve it!

Flame, thank you for the mail. I replied, but I don't know if it was sent properly. At least you know I have read yours. Happy Birthday to Samantha.

Now I'm going to turn on the TV, and enjoy having week end. TTFN!

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SarcasticGinny  - May 8, 2004 9:15 am (#1856 of 2912)

Happy Birthday to Jimmie (you share a birthday with my mom, actually!) Happy day!

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Tomoé - May 8, 2004 10:58 am (#1857 of 2912)

Mother's day? This sunday? I forgot!

Not to worry, not to worry, it's only 3:00 PM, the stores are still open for two hours.

My mother was born a 2 January, so I lack imagination to buy her a gift for Christmas and another one for her birthday. I give her something on Mother's Day instead. ^_^

Just another language tip and I'm gone, if you don't feel like ordering "the same", you can stop at a franchisee restaurant (like MacDonald, Burger King, Windy's, etc.) and you chose something on the trios' board. You then order "Number 5" "Coke" "Medium", and you’re done. ^_^

By the way, Happy Birthday Jimmie!

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Leviosa - May 8, 2004 11:46 am (#1858 of 2912)

Happy Birthday to Jimmie!



Tomorrow will not only be Mother's Day, but also my mom's 50th  birthday and she's not too happy about it...

I wish we had such a good weather as you, Veronika! I hope the high temperatures last

Betty, I hope work won't be too tough. Do get enough sleep when you have to work that hard and that long!

edit: I finally figured out how to do really cool smilies! Thanks Melissa!

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tracie1976 - May 8, 2004 11:49 am (#1859 of 2912)

I thought I would pop in real quick and say I've been real busy cleaning so I can have my daughter's b-day party today. She turned 9 on May 5th. Yes a cinco de mayo baby lol. Well everyone have a good day. Almost time for the party . Bye Tracie

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Madame Librarian - May 8, 2004 9:43 am (#1860 of 2912)

Wow, Heidi, what a resumé! It's a pleasure to have you join us.

Ciao. Barb

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Acceber - May 8, 2004 5:54 pm (#1861 of 2912)

Happy Birthdays Jimmie and Tracie's Daughter!!!

~*sincerely wishes own birthday was in May like virtually everyone else here*~

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Julia. - May 8, 2004 6:01 pm (#1862 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Jimmie and Tracie's daughter. Hmmm, I really need to download Smiliey central on this computer. Don't worry Becca, my birthday's not until September. Have a good evening everyone!

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scully jones - May 8, 2004 7:46 pm (#1863 of 2912)

Thank you so much for the birthday greetings!!

Jimmie's mom ate Dumbledore today at the buffet... Squid's not really my thing, so I stuck with chicken and crab legs.

I've gotten a few more stripes done... I also have a few pictures from today here.

It rained like crazy, but my porch is really holding on! Not even blurry!

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Kip Carter - May 8, 2004 8:52 pm (#1864 of 2912)

I noticed on the "Tell About Yourself" thread that both vball man and chiaojones's "Jimmie" have birthday today (May 8th), which is also the birthday of a long-time member of the Lexicon Forums, Istari, who is very active on the Harry Potter Lexicon FanFiction Forum. Those who are interested should check out the Harry Potter FanFiction there!

Happy Birthday to all!

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Hem Hem - May 8, 2004 10:03 pm (#1865 of 2912)

Happy Birthday, Istari!

And, since tomorrow has struck most of the world by now , happy Mothers’ Day to all the wonderful mothers on the forum! I hope your kids treat you nicely today!

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The Great Abbycadabra - May 8, 2004 10:30 pm (#1866 of 2912)

Happy Birthday, Everyone! Enjoy the Abbyfetti! ,'.;',;.',;.',.;',;.',.;

Thanks for that translation, Tomoe. I think I confused my French dictionary. Which is kind of impressive when you think about it.

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Molly Weasly Wannabe - May 8, 2004 10:55 pm (#1867 of 2912)

to all you Mothers out there. Also...to all those who are celebrating a B-day!!!

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boop - May 9, 2004 12:41 am (#1868 of 2912)

Istari, V.ball man, vI hope you both had a wonderful Birthday.

Happy Mother's Day to all Forum MomsI hope you are treated extra special today!!!!Have a great day.

Susi Tell your mom Happy Birthday Day from me.

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Marè - May 9, 2004 1:54 am (#1869 of 2912)

Whooo, Chiaojones, your scarf is huge, you couldn't see that on the previous pictures!

It's lovely!

Happy mothersday to all mums on the forum! Hrmpf, I can't even properly congratulate my own mum, because she and dad drove off to Tuscany for a vacation yesterday. Talking about lucky....

Bye the way, Flame, Goodevening would be : goede avond. And "the same" = "hetzelfde". And if you want to say "the same please", that would be "hetzelfde alstublieft." (I really wish I could hear you pronounce that... )

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Flame Alligator - May 9, 2004 3:15 am (#1870 of 2912)

Mare, Dank u for the Dutch lesson. Hey! I need phonics for "alstublieft". I spit when I try to say it. ha ha ha I told you I sound like a Klingon (from the movies Star Trek) when I speak Dutch. My speaking Dutch sounds like the fictional Klingon language. Ah well, I am a warrior woman after all.

Sarah, I love your web site. Thanks for sharing Jimmie's birthday pictures. He looks different in those pictures from the ones of him before... younger. The scarf looks great, nice and long so you can wrap it around yourself and still have some hanging down. I hate a stingy scarf. And btw., if anyone wants a peek at me. I am on Sarah's website with my godson Cy (Ky).

Leviosa, Sorry to read your Mom doesn't think 50 is nifty. I do. Wish I could send my positive vibes to her. Happy Birthday to your Mom.

Istar, Vball Man Happy Birthday y'all.

In case y'all haven't noticed I have a slight southern accent. Guess what? I am not from the south. About 7 years ago, my partner said, "Have you noticed you are starting to speak with a southern accent?" I said, "No darlin" Well, he was right. Where it came from... I don't know. Wednesday, at the Health Fair, my boss asked me if I was from Texas. I told her no, that I was originally from Michigan and raised in Indiana but living here in Lincoln, Nebraska for 20 years. She said, "You sure sound like you are from Texas." ha ha ha ha ha So, I guess "my southern accent" is Texan. Now put that with the Dutch I am learning. ha ha ha ha ha What I want is to be fluent in Dutch with a Dutch accent.

My son is far away in Scottsdale, Arizona. We have already spoken over the phone today. We talk everyday. I got great gifts that were delivered yesterday. I am having a Happy Mother's Day.

To all the Forum Moms: HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!!!! Have a lovely day.

goedemorgen!

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tracie1976 - May 9, 2004 3:48 am (#1871 of 2912)

Thanks for my daughter's Birthday wishes

to all the Mom's out there.!

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Sherbie Lemon - May 9, 2004 4:55 am (#1872 of 2912)

Mother's Day 2 I hope all you mothers have a wonderful day, and allowed to take a bit of a break!

Happy Birthday to Jimmie, Tracie's daughter, and VBall Man!
Airplane Wishes 1

Sarah, your scarf is enormous! It looks fantastic; you've done a brilliant job!

Congratulations, Ginny!

I took my mom and mother-in-law with me yesterday to pick out our paint, countertops, carpet, tile, etc. for the new house. We went by there to peek, and they have all our electrical done and shingles finished. Hopefully, this week they can put in the insulation and drywall! Our house will really start looking like a house then! But I'll be a little sad when this process is finished; I love watching our house develop. Heart/home

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septentrion - May 9, 2004 5:50 am (#1873 of 2912)

happy birthday vballman and istari !

Sarah, I love your scarf too, and your website is just wonderful, to see our forum fellows, I love it.

Partly Cloudy

still dull sky here but no rain today, that's an improvement

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VeronikaG - May 9, 2004 9:49 am (#1874 of 2912)

Another hotter than usual day here in the far North. I'd say, I'm really starting to build up a noticeable suntan already. My face is actually more pink at the moment, though. I've been on a boat trip, and the sun out on the sea...

That was a HUGE scarf Sarah!! And if that was half finished, it will be really enormous by the time you finish it. I wish I had the patience to learn to knit properly, then I'd try and make myself a nice, warm Hufflepuff sweater. Hufflepuff would be my house in Hogwarts. Oh, well. Maybe when I graduate next year, and don't have to spend time reading school books.

On a side note, here in Norway it's quite popular for TV comedians to pretend to be speaking foreign languages, Dutch being one of the more popular (but also difficult). Last summer we had a guy pretending to be a Dutch reporter checking out Norway for vacation tips. It was on for 5 minutes every day of the summer, as a part of an entertainment show. It was called "Pim Van Der Fleest", he traveled around to look at different known tourist spots, making a lot of misconceptions because he didn't understand the signs, and often ended up getting injured. I don't know if there really is a Pim Van Der Fleest on Dutch TV, but I think this was a Norwegian just acting. And it's not like we think the Dutch are weird. Because it was Norway who got most of the jokes from his "reports". They chose to make him Dutch to get the fun language. Most Norwegians trying to speak Dutch just say "Eek Ack" a lot, but this guy was really good. He fooled many viewers.

For those of you who have heard Norwegian, how did that sound to you? I have never heard anybody doing mock Norwegian. I have heard some New Zealand comedians doing Swedish. It was like this: "Jorgen schmjorgen fjorgen, a-plippety plopp." The accent, however, was pretty good.

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megfox - May 9, 2004 11:44 am (#1875 of 2912)

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms here on the Forum!

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scully jones - May 9, 2004 12:32 pm (#1876 of 2912)

Happy Mother's day! I gotta go to work now! Thanks for the scarf compliments!

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Julia. - May 9, 2004 1:48 pm (#1877 of 2912)

Happy Mother's Day to all the mommies!

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Acceber - May 9, 2004 2:51 pm (#1878 of 2912)

Happy Mother's Day to All That Apply!

And Happy Birthday to Anyone I Forgot!

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Gina R Snape - May 9, 2004 4:43 pm (#1879 of 2912)

Happy Mother's Day, all mothers!!!

I ran to get home, but missed the 1st half hour of the ABC airing of SS. Did I miss anything from that first half hour?

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tracie1976 - May 9, 2004 4:50 pm (#1880 of 2912)

Extra footage in the potions scene Gina. I hope you at least got to see that.

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Gina R Snape - May 9, 2004 4:54 pm (#1881 of 2912)

Oh, yes. I came in when Harry and Hagrid were shopping on Diagon Alley. Thanks.

Anyway, that 'extra' Snape footage was on the DVD extras, so it wasn't 'never before seen' footage. I've heard mutterings around the internet about the Potions riddle at the end. That is what I am mostly wondering will be shown or not.

But I also thought there might have been one or more of those interview snippets with the kids during the first half hour.

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scully jones - May 9, 2004 5:43 pm (#1882 of 2912)

All of the scenes so far are the ones that were on the DVD. I don't think there is going to be anything else.

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boop - May 9, 2004 7:11 pm (#1883 of 2912)

Kip just wanted to tell you Hope you have a great day.

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freshwater - May 9, 2004 7:21 pm (#1884 of 2912)

I remember seeing an extended potions scene on the SS DVD, but I don't remember Harry answering back to Snape that he should call on Hermione. Is that on the deleted scene on the DVD? I am much happier with Harry showing some backbone and not letting Snape totally intimidate him, even on his first day, than with the quiet, passive Harry we see in the SS film.

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Julia. - May 9, 2004 7:31 pm (#1885 of 2912)

Yes Freshwater, it is definitely there. I remember seeing it several times and knew it was coming when it played this evening. *dances around the room* Only 25 days left...

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virgoddess1313 - May 9, 2004 8:10 pm (#1886 of 2912)

After seeing that making of dealie I'm so very excited. Will digitally recorded it for me so I can have it to get me through until the 4th.

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Dr Filibuster - May 9, 2004 10:37 pm (#1887 of 2912)

Oooh, you lucky, lucky people. I wish I could have stayed in the USA for a few more days. What were your favourte parts from the PoA clips/interviews?

On the plus side....I have my pre-booked ticket for 31st May! Three weeks to go!

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Anna Katarina - May 9, 2004 10:49 pm (#1888 of 2912)

Happy Birthday, Kip! (It's the 10th of May here anyways)

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Fawkes Forever - May 9, 2004 11:51 pm (#1889 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Kip Passes around the butterbeers.... Hope you have a lovely day!

Congrats Ginny.... hee hee, can we call you Professor Ginny now

Secretly pleased in a very 'mature' way that I didn't miss out on anything re. the PS extended version premiere... sorry guys... bit of the 'ol green eyed monster in me.... LOL! Would have liked to have seen the PoA preview.... theres not much hype over this way yet.... still to see a trailer on TV, but I'm encouraged by the May 31st release date although, (my mums birthday) I'll probably not get to see it until the following weekend .... unless I 'treat' my mum.... well, she is a huge Potter fan too... she near wrestled my copy of OotP out of my hands the day it arrived I'm looking forward to watching sky news to watch the coverage of the premiere however .... WOOHOOO! Thats how much I want to see the movie now.

Just had a look at Sarahs (chaojones) website... wow... I didn't realise that she had piccies of some of her forum buddies there (thanks for the tip Flame)... it was lovely to see you guys, finally! Now I can put a face to the name.... & I was want to say... Nice to see you all Well done Sarah Happy belated birthday to Jimmie & I love your scarf... I can't believe how long it is....

Happy belated birthdays to Tracies daughter & Flames 'ickle Samantha!

Happy Mothers Day for yesterday to all the Mums.... our Mothers day was back in March, but I panicked for a minute when I seen the mothers day greetings... thought I'd forgotten.... but thankfully no!

Right I'm off to St Mungos (work permitting) for Kips Birthday Party.... & Istari's for that matter & the rest of us eejits that celebrate this week, Prof sprout, Septentrion... *cough*me*cough*) Last one there buys the butterbeers

EDIT : eejit is Irish slang for a nutter... in an affectionate way

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Marè - May 10, 2004 1:03 am (#1890 of 2912)



Balloons for all the celebrating people!!!

Veronika: "Pim Van Der Fleest"? Hihi! Pim is a normal name, and van der means from the. It's common in last names. But Fleest??? I never heard that one before! It should be some kind of topografical thingy, but google doesn't help me further, so I think it's made up.
And I think you're right about Swedish, when Scandinavians are imitated in forgein countries, they are always swedish. I think the muppets swedish chef would be a good example. (who doesn't love him?)

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draco all the way - May 10, 2004 3:07 am (#1891 of 2912)

Happy birthday all! Chiaojones, the scarf is enourmous and really professional looking! Go you! Flame, just a read a post of yours from a while back and found that you lived in Lincoln Nebraska. I lived in Omaha awhile back. Going back several posts I noticed that you wanted to know why I like Draco so much and I think I might post that in the Draco thread but maybe not-I don't know. Pointless sentence I know.

No rain for awhile though! Too bad it was getting really cool!

I went to Pondicherry yesterday. Its a small french colony close to where I live and sadly I found it completely boring! Nothing like what it was advertised to be.

And finally, I won’t post for a long while because I'm going on holiday and then I'll have to go to school for my 11th standard(shudder) so my post will become few and far between in the future!

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tracie1976 - May 10, 2004 3:10 am (#1892 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Kip.

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draco all the way - May 10, 2004 3:48 am (#1893 of 2912)

Hello all. I have a question and I didn't know where to post so I decided here. Anyways, the thing is I've heard so much about the famed DIGS theory but I've never really read the original theory and I really wanted to. I tried search but the list was really long because people casually refer to the theory so often. Plus I'm lazy. So, could anyone point me the right way?

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Marè - May 10, 2004 3:59 am (#1894 of 2912)

Plus I'm lazy.

LOL! And honest I guess...
Kip Carter "Slytherin Prefect, I want evidence that Dumbledore is the Giant Squid (adapted)" 12/30/03 5:01am
This is the adapted thread. all the text that was in all the original posts is there but for archive reason it is one post with no avatars and such.

Enjoy.

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draco all the way - May 10, 2004 4:08 am (#1895 of 2912)

Thanks Mare! That’s the funniest theory I've read. It’s also quite probable! Thank you!

And honest? Me? I am wounded, Mare! You obviously don't know me that well.

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Lynn Allen - May 10, 2004 5:48 am (#1896 of 2912)

Happy Belated Mother's Day to everyone! We've had so many thunderstorms here I stayed away from the computer much longer than normally. The mothers in my family enjoyed the attention, though. Sarah, your scarf is looking great! You can be really proud to wear it once it gets cold again. (Just not today considering how warm it is in Lansing and its environs!) Happy Birthday Kip! Hope you are feeling better on your big day. Hey was anybody else surprised at how tall the young man who plays Draco Malfoy was in the Azkaban clips? Those kids are all going through major growth spurts! Well, I off to have an upper GI endoscope test, oh happy day! Maybe we'll see why I can't eat more than baby servings of even the tastiest food without feeling sick; not good since I can't afford to lose weight considering how skinny I already am. Wish me luck!

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Marè - May 10, 2004 6:08 am (#1897 of 2912)

Draco atw... wounded?? For calling you honest? Hmmm, makes me wonder about you

Well off course I don't know you very very well, it is the faith of knowing people through a computer viewscreen. You can never see facial expressions and gestures or have a good chitchat.
As much fun as we are having here, I'm pretty sure when you would put all these people together, everybody would be totally different than you imagined him/her. (Wouldn't that be a lovely experiment to do... maybe we can get some strange governmental institution to finance our plane tickets in the name of science..gnagnagna)
Funny thing is bye the way, that there are a lot more people who feel they know the few people who post a lot, while the people who post much don't know so much about the readers.

Now I'm rambling but I'm bored But since I just concluded that I, indeed, don't know you that well, I say: start talking.... erm... writing!

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Flame Alligator - May 10, 2004 7:02 am (#1898 of 2912)

Mare, Guess what? I am exactly like I post. A friendly chatterbox who loves to chat with others. :silly grin: I like to hug and kiss people and tell all about myself. (ooo perhaps too much as I am very liberal and open.) I do however like to pepper my language with swearing which I don't do here. (PG rating here) And I have been known to make a funny face or two. As soon as I get this smiley thing right, I will have my funny faces posted here too. (I am computer... uh ... challenged.) Want to chat with me, Mare? contact me on MSN through my e-mail or as ArchetypeGds on AIM. Plus, you could throw some Dutch at me so I can practice. Not too much, I am a beginner so be gentle, ok?

Draco All the Way, Good luck on your 11th Standard. Perhaps you could tell me about your affection for Draco when you get back. I want to know!!! I will miss you until you are back and posting regularly again.

Happy Birthday to whomever's birthday it is today. Wow, Acceber was right, a lot of May babies on the forum. *singing Happy Birthday*

Fawkes, Belated Top of the mornin to ya! I have an excuse today. I was taking Dutch lessons earlier. Thanks for sending a birthday greeting to my little Sami. (She was almost normal yesterday. btw a very good day.) Did you check me out on Sarah's website? Like me? Could you see my facial tattoos? Did I tell that part? *said loudly* Hey, everyone I have facial tattoos. And yes they have meaning. Oh yeah they do.

Veronika, Hey girlfriend, It sounds like you are having a blast with the warm weather up your way. I got you letter, btw. Check your e-mail, I responded.

I did not get to see or record the extended PoA trailer. Could someone tell me about it? Is it on the Internet anywhere that I can view it and perhaps download it?

Virgoddess, Once again that guy of yours is so sweet to record the "trailer dealie" for you. And thanks for posting cause I get to see you love birds when you do.

It is cloudy and gloomy today. No matter. I am bursting with love today. My sweetie is so wonderful. So, to all of you I send love. Have a great day y'all, even if the sun isn't shining.

goedemorgen!!

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Fawkes Forever - May 10, 2004 7:52 am (#1899 of 2912)

Hey Flame... didn't notice your tatoos... but very cool! I thought the piccie of you & your godson was adorable... you look like a fun person... exactly the way you come across in your mails... you look quite young... must be all the yoga I might pluck up the courage to post my own piccie one of these days.... just find a photo that looks semi human... probably one taken after I've applied liberal amounts of Sleekeasys hair potion

You can download the preview from MuggleNet... I just watched it & I'm way too hyper now I can barely type... LOL I had to retype that sentence so many times Wah, hyper hyper hyper.... my colleages think I've gone mental... hah hah, take that you nasty dementors you!

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draco all the way - May 10, 2004 8:04 am (#1900 of 2912)

Mare, yes I suppose I do need to post a bit more if I expect to be understood. And as for the being honest part..uh.. lets just say that I'm not the most trustworthy of people!Smile

Flame, thanks for the luck- I certainly need it!
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tracie1976 - May 10, 2004 8:07 am (#1901 of 2912)

Hey everyone! My avatar for right now is my 1 year old daughter Faith, watching SS last night.
Have a good day!

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septentrion - May 10, 2004 9:24 am (#1902 of 2912)

hey hey hey Tracie, your children are well brought up ! Good mother !

Fawkes, thanks for not forgetting me, I haven't forgotten you either, check the forum next week-end !

Lynn, good luck for your medical exam, I hope they'll found out what's wrong. Maybe I could give your 4 or 5 kilos of mine ?

Flame, I was very delighted to see you but I don't know if it's my computer, I couldn't see your tattoos, the picture wasn't clear enough. BTW your godson looks like a nice man.

I've seen the extended PoA trailer, I enjoyed the images but my oral comprehension is very limited so : is there a transcription anywhere ?

higher temperatures, a bit of sun and no rain at all : spring is back.

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Padfoot - May 10, 2004 9:27 am (#1903 of 2912)

Hi everyone, hope you all had a good weekend! Happy Belated Birthday greetings to Vball Man, Kip, Istari and Sarah's Jimmie! If I forgot anyone, here's a Happy Birthday to you too.

Sarah, I will have to remember that Ich-out fish stuff. The fish that got sick died. Other fish seem to be doing great. Got to keep my fingers crossed they will live long and happy fishy lives. Scarf looks great. Now I looked at your web site and didn't see Flame. I love seeing what you all look like. And all that talk about face tattoos? Very curious.

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Prefect Marcus - May 10, 2004 9:27 am (#1904 of 2912)

Sarah,

I am reminded of the M*A*S*H episode where Margaret started knitting something small and ended up making a full-size blanket! :-)

The scarf is looking good!

Marcus

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VeronikaG - May 10, 2004 10:19 am (#1905 of 2912)

Top of the morning! Or is it evening? For me it is.

Flame, was that the same Godson the girls use to fight over in your garden? It was a small picture, and I could not see your tattoos there. However, they were more visible in the picture you sent me. You should post a portrait picture, so we could see them more clearly.

Lynn, good to have you back. Last week my computer was unplugged a lot too, because of lightning, but now we have the most wonderful weather. As Canada has a climate similar to ours, I'm sure summer is coming your way too. Thunder doesn't last for ever. Good luck on getting your appetite back.

Happy birthday Kip. Party in st. Mungo's.

Belated Happy Birthday to Istari.

Maré, I love Swedish Chef. He rocks. I generally loved the Muppets. One of the all time best children's shows.

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Marè - May 10, 2004 10:26 am (#1906 of 2912)

Flame I added you to MSN, but I have to warn you, my computer is on a lot more than I'm around it...
And I couldn't see your facial tattoo's, the picture was a bit too small (or you were standing to far away ) and the computer wasn't optimal... so I couldn't see that much, unfortunately.

And Draco, actually, I think I should post more often sometimes too. Hope to see you back soon after your departure :sniff sniff: and good luck!

And Fawkes, I was thinking the same thing about putting up my own pictures, now let's see I have one where I'm wearing a hat and sunglasses, I have one where I'm dressed up as a tiger (with paint applied to face) and one where I'm running around as a harem lady (lots of veils and shawls) Hihi

And Tracie.. I love that picture, it is adorable (and your daughter is too, bye the way)

O and Septentrion... I might be going to Brittany in September, I'm crossing my fingers! (Paris was great bye the way, I found out once again how difficult french is but I enjoyed the city enormously!)

Edit: "chicken" Veronika? O, I love the muppets, both the new and the old. Do you like the Dark Crystal and Labyrinth too?

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VeronikaG - May 10, 2004 11:11 am (#1907 of 2912)

Hm? Did I write "chicken" anywhere? Or am I? Why, in that case.

Muppets. haven't been on TV for years up here. The last season I saw, they had moved out of the theater, and into the TV station. Clifford, Johnny Fiamma and Spamela Hamgerson had been added. Then it was taken off. I haven't seen Dark Crystal or Labyrinth. Do they have anything to do with Muppets?

Does anybody have any favourite Muppet memories? Mine are the following:

1: Two guys with clay masks that modelled lots of hilarious faces on each other. I was only 6 when I saw it, and I laughed hard!

2: A musical act with lots of pink, steam blowing creatures peeking up from holes on the floor. They made a crazy sound that had 6 years old Veronika laugh hard again.

3: The Muppets singing "Banana Song". "Daylight come and me wanna go home."

4: The jam that made everyone fat. (new)

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Marè - May 10, 2004 11:24 am (#1908 of 2912)

O no, you're not a chicken. I was referring to all the moments that the Swedish chef was going to try to cook chicken. (That poor chicken)

And Dark Crystal and Labyrinth are movies made by Jim Henson, who made the muppets. They are not comedies but fantasy, but really wonderful to watch!

And my favourite muppets moments? Somebody is going to hit me for this but:
The Mana-mana song (mana mana dup duu du du dup mana mana dup du du dup)
And off course the two old men in the theater or behind the tellie (new version). They are hilarious!

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Padfoot - May 10, 2004 11:27 am (#1909 of 2912)

I too like those old theater critics. Very funny. I remember learning how to play the Muppets theme song on piano when I was little. Good show.

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Julia. - May 10, 2004 11:37 am (#1910 of 2912)

The two theatre guys were great, and I always had a thing for Ralph the Dog, he was so cute! But my altime favorite is Kermit the Frog. He was the best, hands down! Actually though, my favorite memory was hearing the theme song at the beginning of the show, I love that song. *sings* "It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights. It's time to raise the curtain on the Muppet Show tonight"...

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Prefect Marcus - May 10, 2004 11:46 am (#1911 of 2912)

Ah yes, the Muppet Show. The show voted number one in the world of all the shows hosted by frogs!

The "I've got Rhythm" bit with Fossy and Ralph has long been a favorite of mine.

Marcus

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Sherbie Lemon - May 10, 2004 12:02 pm (#1912 of 2912)

Airplane Wishes 1 To you, Kip!

It's so hot here today, almost 90 degrees! I've been having a lot of fun shopping for things to furnish our new house. It's been very exciting, though seeing the PoA footage last night took the cake. I can't wait!!

Hope it's cooler where everyone else is! I like warm weather, but gimme a break, it's only May!

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VeronikaG - May 10, 2004 12:05 pm (#1913 of 2912)

Don't worry Marè. I was almost certain you didn't call me chicken.

Yes I do remember some chicken legs sticking up from the pot. Sometimes he chases it around the theater as well. Makes you wish you were vegetarian, almost. :-)

Hergee berger snooger bork (No, not Dutch. It's a quote from the Swedish chef, found on the net.)

Guys, try to translate what he says!

http://www.muppets.com/chef/chef.htm

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Acceber - May 10, 2004 12:29 pm (#1914 of 2912)

I love Muppets! Kermit is my favorite too Julia! But Miss Piggy is a very close second.

Happy Birthday Kip! (for like the tenth time, but OK)

Tracie, Faith is sooooooo cute.

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Viola Intonada - May 10, 2004 1:06 pm (#1915 of 2912)

Happy Birthday, Kip!!!! Happy belated Birthday Istari!

Happy Belated Mother's Day to all mothers on the forum.

I had to most wonderful Mother's Day yesterday. Hubby gave me a card promising to buy me PoA for Gameboy Advance, (comes out June 2) then in the evening I got to watch the first half of SS cuddled up with my two beautiful girls. It was getting to late for them so I had to send them off to bed.

Now the one scene I don't ever remember seeing anywhere before is the one where Neville comes hopping into the Great Hall after having the leg locker curse put on him and then Harry reads the back of Dumbledore's card again, hence making the next scene with Hermione hauling out the huge book with Nicklaus Flamel make much more sense.

I loved the muppets growing up! My favorite muppet was Animal and I love "Pigs in Space", the Swedish Chef is high up on my list also.

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Marè - May 10, 2004 1:14 pm (#1916 of 2912)

Hergee borger snooger bork??? Well the site doesn't work for me so I would have to go with: " Have a burger with booger, dork"

Makes you wish you were vegetarian
Pssst... I am!

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scully jones - May 10, 2004 2:04 pm (#1917 of 2912)

I'm at 30 stripes now, I'm going into the final stretch!

Thank you all for your encouragement! I couldn't have done it without you!

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timrew - May 10, 2004 2:29 pm (#1918 of 2912)

Happy Birthday, Kip! Sorry I can't do any fancy smilies - never learned how to, and don't really want to! Happy Birthday, anyway!

In anticipation of my son buying me a ticket to see Aerosmith, I purchased their CD, "Honkin' on Bobo". Those guys know how to rock! And they can roll a bit, too!

Just got tickets for Simon and Garfunkel in July. Never seen them.....and I'm really looking forward to it!

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Lupin is Lupin. Natch. - May 10, 2004 3:28 pm (#1919 of 2912)

I'm wondering if there are any gardeners out there. I have a small courtyard and took to planting vegetables in pots this spring. Well, I got a little carried away and overloaded the container with the lettuce. They've taken off like gangbusters but I think they're running out of room. They've been in for about 3 weeks. Does anyone know if it's ok to transplant some to another container at this stage? Also, would anyone know which vegetables are happy in the same container? I know some plants thrive when planted in close proximity to each other and I suppose I could look it up......but this way is much more fun : ) Thank you. --Kim

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Tomoé - May 10, 2004 4:20 pm (#1920 of 2912)

Happy birthday to who it may concern.

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Julia. - May 10, 2004 5:55 pm (#1921 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Kip!!! Normally I would have a very cool smiley central smilie here, but smiley central won't work on my computer, even the non-smiliy central smiles won't work on this supid computer, so you'll have to settle for this one.

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Accio Sirius - May 10, 2004 6:10 pm (#1922 of 2912)
Edited by May 10, 2004 7:11 pm

Kim, I don't have a big yard or much sun so I try to do stuff in containers--mainly herbs. I don't know much about lettuce, but I found this great book called Lazy Bed gardening which works on the idea that certain plants can be planted close together to create their own little environment that needs less water/care and is more resistant to bugs. It doesn't necessarily pertain to container gardening, but some interesting ideas. Hope that helps.

Happy Birthday Kip!!

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Flame Alligator - May 10, 2004 6:11 pm (#1923 of 2912)

Chiaojones, *rooting for Sarah on the home stretch with her scarf* Plus, I am sending a better pic of me for your site. That OK? It at least shows the tattoo along my cheek clearly. There is on on my forehead between my eyebrows. I hope I can work my photo suite program properly.

Mare, I love Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. I never here anyone mention them. and guess what? I am a super vegan. (extreme vegetarian) Come on Mare, I want to see you. Ok, do I get to choose? I'll take the one with you wearing veils. Maybe I can see through them. Your "interpretation" was hilarious.

Sherbie, Buying new house things sounds like sooo much fun. I am so happy for you.

Veronika, Yes, that is Cy, the one the little girls were cat fighing over in the front yard. ha ha ha ha What will we do when is a teenager? I am also a big muppet fan. Kermit is my fav with Miss Piggy coming in very close, same as Becca. Don't we all know a Miss Piggy. I had a friend just like her... so funny, so deadly.

Fawkes, I want to see you. Come on guys. If I can show myself, anybody can. *whispering* I use a lot of hair gel. My queue is so wild when I wear it in a ponytail. Queue? Yes I have a queue. scalp lock Queue. Intrigued?

Hey... I got to post twice today. Yay!!! I have a bunch of news tomorrow. Not much time left. until tomorrow

Goedeavond!!

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Kip Carter - May 10, 2004 6:35 pm (#1924 of 2912)

I want to thank each of you who took the time to wish me a Happy Birthday. I have had a great day and I only hope that each of you with recent birthday had the great time I have had today.

For those are daring and a little insane, you should check out the St. Mungo's Lexicon Ward for the Incurably Insane thread on the Harry Potter Lexicon FanFiction Forum. Here is a link to Post #990 where today's events are being planned. There are many stories going on at the same time in the posts that follows. See if you can follow what's happening. I warn you ahead ... visiting here can be habit-forming! So go visit where the insane live!

For those who do not know, the link above will take you to a new Forum of which you are welcome to join. Venture at your own risk!

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Catherine - May 10, 2004 6:55 pm (#1925 of 2912)

Kim,

I'm a true novice at gardening, but most sources that I recall suggest thinning your plants at this stage.

I haven't read about transplanting these seedlings. Most books suggest eating the baby greens and enjoying them. You can sow seeds in succession, and enjoy until truly hot weather hits. At least that's true where I live, zone 8 in coastal NC. Lots of gardeners here sow lettuces in fall because our growing season is so long, and really hot weather makes the lettuce bolt (set seed).

I tried planting zinnias this year, and so far--zilch--nada--zed. So you should probably know that I have better intentions than actual success so far!

Best of luck!

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draco all the way - May 10, 2004 10:15 pm (#1926 of 2912)

Has anyone seen the "she drives me crazy" muppet video? I loved that one. But my favourite character will always be Gonzo! Isn't he the one with the pet chicken Camille?

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Anna Katarina - May 11, 2004 1:27 am (#1927 of 2912)

The cookie monster for me! (Have a thing for crumbs I guess.)

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Fawkes Forever - May 11, 2004 1:57 am (#1928 of 2912)

C is for cookie... & cookie starts with C.

I loved the Muppets! Them & Sesame St.... Oscar was great.... so grumpy he was cool! As a kid I used to 'amuse' my friends & family with my Miss Piggy impersonations.... in particular the 'HIE-YAH' karate chop I'm sure they all loved that *hee hee* I even got a Miss Piggy mask one Hallowe'en... that was cool!

Funny, the term 'Chicken' here has turned into a term of endearment for a girl.... in slang, e.g. Something happens Ginny or Hermione (something minor) & Molly hugs them saying... "Awww you poor wee chicken" Or Ginny greeting Hermione affectionately... "Hey there Chicken, how are things?" Hee hee, you get the drift So when I first read Mares post I thought she was using it in the same way... LOL.

The term 'Muppet' has also been adopted here in slang as a term for a fool, also in a joking.. hopefully non insulting way. E.g. Harry says something stupid.... Ron says... "Harry don't be such a Muppet" or after Ron & Hermiones 'post yule ball argument, when Ron said... "completely missed the point"... Harry could have said... "Ron.... you really are a complete Muppet aren't you!"

Oooh I'd love it if he'd said that.... Hee hee... sorry, just thought I'd share.... I'm in a nutter mood.... had an early meeting this morning at work... so I'd several cups of coffee to wake me up.... thus I'm now on caffine bender

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Devika - May 11, 2004 4:30 am (#1929 of 2912)

Belated birthday wishes for Kip... Happy Birthday!!!

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Fawkes Forever - May 11, 2004 4:42 am (#1930 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Prof Sprout

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Chris. - May 11, 2004 8:11 am (#1931 of 2912)

Lots of chatty messages to read!

Did I hear someone say 'Sesame Street'?! I loved that show! I used to try and perfect my Cookie Monster impression...*heh heh*

Too many birthdays! If it's your birthday soon, today, tomorrow or it's happened, Happy Birthday to YOU! Birthday Song

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Padfoot - May 11, 2004 8:26 am (#1932 of 2912)

Have a very Happy Birthday Prof Sprout!

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VeronikaG - May 11, 2004 8:33 am (#1933 of 2912)

Happy Birthday, Professor Sprout!



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Ticker - May 11, 2004 8:47 am (#1934 of 2912)

I've got to get on here more often - another 99 posts - gasp!

I would share my million thoughts if I didn't have a squiggly baby on my lap... as it is Happy Birthday, moving, knitting, life watching, mommy's day, language/culture learning...uh,oh. Gotta go take care of squiggly girl.

(Walks away singing Mana, mana. Do-do, do-do-do &trying to remember the name of the hapless muppet who "assisted" the scientist... too funny!)

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Padfoot - May 11, 2004 8:54 am (#1935 of 2912)

I haven't seen the Muppets in a million years, but I want to say Beaker is the assistant. Or was he the scientist?

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icthestrals - May 11, 2004 8:58 am (#1936 of 2912)

No, no! Beaker was the assistant! I loved him, poor guy. He was always getting blown up. And Ticker, I still sing the Mana, mana song. I wish I could see that piece again!

Muppets rock and classical!

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Chris. - May 11, 2004 9:03 am (#1937 of 2912)

Padfoot, you're right. He was the scientist's assistant.



And a quote from Dr Bunsen Honeydew!

Now, Beakie, we'll just flip this switch and 60,000 refreshing volts of electricity will surge through your body. Ready?

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tracie1976 - May 11, 2004 9:36 am (#1938 of 2912)

Happy Birthday Prof. Sprout!!

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VeronikaG - May 11, 2004 10:07 am (#1939 of 2912)

Let's take a little time to bring out the kid in us, and remember what TV shows were our favorites at the ages 5-12. Here are mine:

Gummibears (USA)

Thomas the Tank Engine (UK)

Postman Pat (UK)

Fraggle Rock (USA)

Shagma (France) Essedji, Septentrion, remember this?

Not all of you may know what shows I'm talking about, but I'm sure some of you remember some of them. Now I'd like to hear about your favorites.

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Padfoot - May 11, 2004 10:09 am (#1940 of 2912)

Sesame Street

Reading Rainbow

Mr. Rogers

Muppets (of course)

Cartoons (bugs bunny and the like)

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Thom Matheson - May 11, 2004 10:23 am (#1941 of 2912)

But, How many can remember the original Mickey Mouse Club? Today is Tuesday. Do you know what day is is? Tuesday is Magic Day. Take it away, Mickey. "Meeska, Mooska, Mousekateer."

And let us not forget my 2 Saturday favorites. Mighty Mouse and Fury as well as Rin Tin Tin and Sky King.

Oh those wonderful Fifties.

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Julia. - May 11, 2004 10:39 am (#1942 of 2912)

Oh my G-d!!! Yay for Fraggle Rock!! I loved the Doozers, they were the best! I remember they built their bridges and buildings out of radish sticks I also loved Mister Rogers and the Muppet Show. And, before it's too late, Happy birthday Prof. Sprout!!!

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Madame Librarian - May 11, 2004 10:49 am (#1943 of 2912)

Ah, Thom, a man from my own generation! I loved Mighty Mouse, thought he was a cousin to Mickey. Boy, did my older sister think I was stoopid. We loved "Flash Gordon" though--both of us adored him. I still can't think of anything else when I hear a classical piece of music that is the sort they played when Ming the Merciless came on screen. The only thing that was a bit "off" even to a little kid like me was that goofy spaceship flying sideways and spiraling with sparks and an engine that sounded like a truck with a bad muffler. My sister and I would roll our eyes at each other when that came on.

Good news and a great end to my Mother's Day--talked to my son at school. He's coming home next week, and agreed (enthusiastically) to come with me to the opening PoA at midnight of June 4th. Not sure yet what theater it's going to be at here, but we have two multi-screen places nearby. Now that Jordan has claimed he wants to come, Jack will too. Woo-hoo, I have buddies to go with!!

Ciao. Barb

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Gina R Snape - May 11, 2004 11:23 am (#1944 of 2912)

Heh. When I was a child we had Sesame St., Romper Room, The Magic Garden, Electric Company and Mr. Rogers. I always liked the Magic Garden the best with the pink squirrel and the giggle bush and the tree and the storybox.

Then we had School House Rock, Sigmund the Sea Monster, and the Muppet show didn't come until I was a bit older. But the whole family would sit and watch. My mother loved Miss Piggy and 'pigs in space.' My father and one of my brothers liked the 2 old men heckling in the audience. My other brother liked Beaker, or rather, all the torture poor Beaker endured, and he liked the grouchy bald eagle. I liked the swedish chef and Kermit the frog. I felt bad for Gonzo. I just couldn't understand his love of chickens. I still remember all the words to "The Rainbow Connection" and "It's not easy being green." I guess I liked the brainy outsiders even as a kid! Come to think of it, I liked the Count best on Sesame Street and Oscar the Grouch. Hmmmmmm. Oh, and Snuffalufagus (sp?) when he was still Big Bird's secret friend and nobody on Sesame St. believed he existed. I wanted to champion his visibility!

I was a bit too old for Fraggle Rock. But Thomas the Tank Engine aired when I was at University and we used to rush back to the dorm after classes and watch it because Ringo Starr's delivery was soooo deadpan it was funny.

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mike miller - May 11, 2004 11:46 am (#1945 of 2912)

The classic cartoons always topped the list for me, Bugs, Roadrunner (I loved to watch Wilie Coyote fall into that little puff of dust), Sylvester and Tweetie. As I got a little older you have Speed Racer and Jonny Quest. The Saturday morning would not be complete without the old 3 Stooges short.

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prof sprout - May 11, 2004 11:56 am (#1946 of 2912)

Thank you everyone for Birthday wishes. I use to love Sesame Street, Snuffy and Oscar were my favorite.

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Accio Sirius - May 11, 2004 12:13 pm (#1947 of 2912)

Does anyone remember the Bugaloos? I loved them with their British accents! Sigmund and the Sea Monster was big for me as a kid as well as Lidsville (with Butch Patrick aka Eddie Munster) and Kids from C.A.P.E.R. I was a Scooby Doo fan and now my seven year-old watches the same episodes I used to!

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Acceber - May 11, 2004 12:40 pm (#1948 of 2912)

My list:

Sesame Street

Mr. Rogers

Thomas the Tank Engine

Basically all Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon cartoons.

Happy Birthday Prof. Sprout!

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Tomoé - May 11, 2004 1:33 pm (#1949 of 2912)

Happy birthday Prof. Sprout!

I do remember Shagma, VeronikaG, but that was a movie in Canada, not a weekly cartoon.

I do remember Fraggle Rock and Sesame Street, but we didn't have access to the cable so there wasn't much choice. ^_^

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Chris. - May 11, 2004 1:43 pm (#1950 of 2912)

My list:

*Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles... before they mysteriously turned into Ninja turtles.

*Sesame Street

and I have to admit, I watch Arthur! It's addictive, believe me.
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Ticker - May 11, 2004 2:30 pm (#1951 of 2912)

This exercize dates us all. I could just ditto what Gina wrote except assign all her family muppet favorites to me plus Animal... Animal... ANIMAL!!! Something about his unexplained wildness appealed to me. I also find myself wondering why most of the cartoons that I found annoying (same visceral reaction here that Scrappy-Doo usually evokes) are the ones I see plastered on T-shirts(etc) these days. Anyone remember The Hair Bear Bunch? or DangerMouse? I liked them in my teens - along with the weekly gambling we did at school on who would win the Laugh-O-Lympics.

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Prefect Marcus - May 11, 2004 3:11 pm (#1952 of 2912)

My favorite shows growing up:
1. Bugs Bunny
2. Underdog
3. Romper Room
4. Rocky and Bullwinkle

I've several of the Bullwinkle tapes and have converted my children into fans.

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dobbyiscool - May 11, 2004 3:25 pm (#1953 of 2912)

I don't remember any shows that I loved until about the seccond grade, when I got addicted "I Love Lucy" for the first time. I love Lucille Ball and have a ton of Lucy stuff in my room. As for kid's shows, I liked watching cartoons alot, esp. Loony Tunes and the Rugrats. Oh! My two-year old cousin and I enjoy watching Batman re-runs. Not the cartoons, the "holy man-eating shark, Batman" ones. He loves those, but after the first episode he watched, when he saw Bruce Wane on the screen, he goes "hey, theres Batman!" and couldn't figure out why he wasn't in a costume.

I guess I watched Seseme Street alot as a kid, but I couldn't stand Barney. Now that I babysit for my neighbor on the weekend, I spend more time trying to convice that one year old to watch ANYTHING else.

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timrew - May 11, 2004 3:32 pm (#1954 of 2912)

I can't understand why nobody has mentioned Popeye! Maybe you're all too young for it!

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Gina R Snape - May 11, 2004 4:17 pm (#1955 of 2912)

I think Popeye was a boy thing, Tim. I never liked that cartoon myself.

However, I did rather like Heckle & Jeckle, Minute Mouse and Courageous Cat, and of course Bugs Bunny.

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Denise P. - May 11, 2004 4:46 pm (#1956 of 2912)

I liked:
1. Banana Splits
2. Kimba: The White Lion
3. Bugs Bunny


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Marie E. - May 11, 2004 5:50 pm (#1957 of 2912)

Let's see...I'm trying to think of some that haven't been named. How about: Speed Buggy, Speed Racer, Inspector Gadget, Mighty Mouse, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Grape Ape, Captain Caveman, the Smurfs, The Justice League of America, Plastic Man, Josie and the Pussycats...

Guess I watched a wee bit of television when I was young. I remember my brother and I used to get up at the crack on dawn every Saturday morning to watch cartoons. We'd line up the boxes of cereal and eat about three or four bowls as the morning went on. Ahhh....those were the days.

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SarcasticGinny  - May 11, 2004 5:56 pm (#1958 of 2912)

Marie-I remember Inspector Gadget and the Smurfs too!

I always liked Sesame Street (the Count was my favorite) Anyone in the US remember "Today's Special" or "Pinwheel"? Watched those too. Also, really I used to really like "Thundercats".

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Lupin is Lupin. Natch. - May 11, 2004 6:18 pm (#1959 of 2912)

Oh, Kimba the White Lion. My favorite. What happy memories!

Thanks to Accio Sirius and Catherine Allen for the gardening info. I never actually considered eating the lettuce (silly me). It just looks so pretty in its pot. But sounds like a good idea to me.

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Julia. - May 11, 2004 6:46 pm (#1960 of 2912)

Merlin's beard! I forgot about Inspector Gadget and Rocky and Bullwinkle! I also watched the George of the Jungle cartoons, as they, along with the Muppet Show were (and still are) my DAD's favorite.

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Ladybug220 - May 11, 2004 6:54 pm (#1961 of 2912)

SG, I used to watch both of those! I would make my brothers mad because Pinwheel was about 4 hours long. Then we would fight over who had control of the TV.

Tim - I watched Popeye a lot whenever my brothers had control of the TV and GI Joe was a favorite of theirs as well.

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prof sprout - May 11, 2004 7:12 pm (#1962 of 2912)

I think I used to watch Today's Special, I liked the Carebears also, Does that date me Surprised). Oh also Mr. Wizards World and You Can't Do that on TV even though they are not cartoons.

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draco all the way - May 11, 2004 7:54 pm (#1963 of 2912)

Oooh I love Arthur! Great show! My favourite's Francine! Lets see, apart from that I also used to watch alot of Gumbi though I don't know if anyone has seen this show. But my most favourite cartoon to date is Pinky and the Brain!

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virgoddess1313 - May 11, 2004 8:38 pm (#1964 of 2912)

I was into Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, Reading Rainbow (I still like this one ) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I still love kids shows... although overall, I think the quality of them has really gone down since I was younger. Or maybe I'm just biased.

And Smurfs! How could I forget. I loved that show.

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draco all the way - May 11, 2004 8:44 pm (#1965 of 2912)

Ooh I forgot one-Reading Rainbow! Levar Burton! Thanks for reminding me Virgoddess1313!

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septentrion - May 11, 2004 10:30 pm (#1966 of 2912)

I used to watch TV a lot when I was a child and therefore watched a lot of shows. The ones I prefered were "l'île aux enfants" (the children island), goldorak, Candy and the cartoons in general. Veronika, I think that "shagma" you speak about was named differently here, I think it was "les mondes engloutis" (well, don't have a dictionary here, it means something like the "buried worlds"). Wasn't there a woman called Arkana in this show ?

I'm in Paris till this evening but not for tourism. Yet I managed to go to the Eiffel tower yesterday evening (didn't climb, just watched). Paris is so crowded and so beautiful !

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Essidji - May 11, 2004 11:06 pm (#1967 of 2912)

Ah, yes, could be that, Septentrion, because I didn't have a clue what Shagma could be. Yes, "les mondes engloutis" was really great.

I ditto everything everyone quoted, but wanted to add Parker Lewis (that was later, rather in my late teens). I loved the unusual angles of the camera, the "second-degree-humor" and the really cool (rock and bluesy) music that was in it.

EDIT : Fawkes, top of the morning to ya!

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Fawkes Forever - May 11, 2004 11:36 pm (#1968 of 2912)

Hey good morning guys! Morning Karine

Oh kids TV.... let me see.... the Muppets, Sesame st, Rainbow (those in the UK will remember that one) actually one of the characters in Rainbow reminds me of Fred & George Weasley...... for those who remember... it's Zippy... He was a loud (slightly obnoxious) puppet with a zipper for a mouth so you could shut him up when necessary, he also had a 'twin' (?) called George, who was a pink Hippo.... (don't ask ) Thomas the Tank Engine (UK), Postman Pat (UK), Trumpton (UK), Camberwick Green (UK) She-Ra, He-Man, Carebears (I used to collect the stickers), Hero Turtles, Thundercats, Gordon the Gopher & Ed the Duck in BBC broom cupboard, Dungeons & Dragons, Henrys Cat (UK), Grange Hill (UK), Basil Brush (UK), The Box of Delights (UK) oh the list goes on and on. Does anyone remember Battle of the Planets.... that cartoon with a space ship that turned into a giant pheonix? Not sure about that one as the memory is so vague!

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VeronikaG - May 12, 2004 1:15 am (#1969 of 2912)

Yes, "Shagma" was originally called "Les Mondes Engloutis", but I couldn't remeber that yesterday. For those who don't know what it was about, it's the story about two kids, Bob and Rebecka, who somehow get into the core of the Earth. Down there is a different world with its own sun. The sun, Shagma, is ill(!), and the people need help to heal Shagma and save their world. The woman Arkana was made by the children of the sunken world. I remember her as a slightly mysterious girl, who had a gemstone on her forehead that she could send out a ray of light from. I may be mixing up a bit here. Bob and Rebecka are sent out on a mission to find the cure for Shagma's illness, accompanied by Arkana, a big warrior named Spartacus, and two strange, yellow creatures called Bic and Bac. Their space ship "Shagshag" (no bad intention of the name, I guess) is a chapter of it's own, it's alive and talking. In every episode they are bothered by the pirates, a really stupid bunch. unlike the other characters, the pirates' names had been translated to Norwegian, but I think they were only slightly altered. It was King Maxagasse, Queen Massmedia (fat), Mattymatt and Sleskapil. Sleskapil wore a tall green mohawk that he used as his weapon. Yay. Actually, I think they all wore mohawks. I loved the pirate song. In fact, I loved the theme song even more. It was really cool. I have wondered if somebody's going to do a remix of it, like they did the Gummisong. By the way, how on Earth did they manage to squeeze a show with that many episodes into one film?

There's also another show I liked, and that is really classical in Norway, and I would believe in other countries in Europe too. It's a French/German/British/Czeckoslovakian/Russian (I think) co-production from the early 80's, which feature the fairy tale of the wolf and the seven little goats. The actors were mostly ballet dancers, dressed up as animals. Lots more fun than it sounds, really. It's mostly remembered for the song "Mommy's home", which two Norwegian pop groups have made covers of. It's a cute song.

The Smurfs was on TV in Norway when I was really small, too small to watch, but it was taken of. Back then everything that was shown on TV in Norway had to be intellectually stimulating to be allowed, and the Smurfs were found to be so stupid it was damaging for kids. I wonder who was stupid...

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Chris. - May 12, 2004 1:28 am (#1970 of 2912)

Fawkes Forever, I remember loads of those shows! Especially Rainbow... which I used to have a Zippy bag for going my holidays :awwww: That was when I was about..err...4-5 years

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Ihavebothbuttocks - May 12, 2004 2:07 am (#1971 of 2912)

For all of those who have enjoyed the Snowths song "Mahna Mahna" I would suggest you follow this link: http://www.menteb.org/inside/muppets/

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Flame Alligator - May 12, 2004 2:29 am (#1972 of 2912)

Fawkes, Top of the mornin to ya! I hope you have a great day.

Ok TV shows here goes:

Captain Kangaroo Jack Lalane (sp.?) Soup Sales Roy Rogers Popeye Superman (series in the 50's) Superman (the cartoon) I Love Lucy Popeye Clutch Cargo Bugs Bunny All Looney Tunes Cartoons Batman (the series) Dragnet The Three Stooges

I watched a lot of TV shows as a kid but the above are my favorites. Although I find I can no longer stand The Three Stooges or I Love Lucy. Both I use to love, especially Lucy. I cannot stand the chaos anymore. Weird huh? Well there is enough naturally occurring chaos without my watching it. Misunderstanding, messing things up, tormenting people... Uh Please just stop it!

Goedemorgen everybody!!

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scully jones - May 12, 2004 5:06 am (#1973 of 2912)

Finally, I'm here again.

My list:

Fragglerock, Gummi Bears, Care Bears, Muppets, Pee Wee's Playhouse (I didn't like that one, but I had to watch it anyway...), Darkwing Duck, Inspector Gadget, Smurfs, Teenage mutant ninja Turtles.

There's another one I'm not sure what the name is. It had a lot of stuff like Sesame street, but I don't think that was what it was. I remember there was a bat-guy and some little squggly thingies with personality. That's not many clues, but I was really young.

I need to get cracking with my scarf, I'm running over-time.

*edit: What is the price of gas where you guys are? It went up to $2.08 all of a sudden a couple days ago, so I convinced Jimmie to go to the store that always has a very low price. We got it at $1.81. I looked back at that store again today, and it's up to $2.02. I guess we got lucky.

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mollis - May 12, 2004 5:41 am (#1974 of 2912)

Okay, just popping on really quick to let you all know I'm still around. It feels like it’s been weeks since I’ve been able to catch up with everyone. Thanks, Flame, for thinking about me! I am still surrounded by piles of boxes, but the piles are getting smaller. Got the kitchen nearly done – just need to finish cleaning the cabinets. It is really amazing how much gunk can build up in 18years. It is really painful to try and unpack while working a 40 hour week in the office. I just want it all done!!! Hopefully this weekend will finish it all.

I’ve had to scan the past 75 posts on this thread – but caught enough to get “C is for cookie” stuck in my head. Thank you very much. My all-time favorite cartoon as a child was Mighty Mouse. I was head-over-heals for that mouse. Mom says I would even kiss the TV screen!

I am really hoping to get to a thread or two today, but I think the dementors may want me to get some work done today. I drove to Omaha and back yesterday for some fieldwork. I’d also like to take this opportunity to remind you all to use your sunscreen. I put it on my face, but have a nice ring around my neck between where the sunscreen stopped and the shirt began. Wink

I hope you are all doing well. Happy belated Birthday Kip! Great work on the scarf Sarah! Happy Wednesday to everyone!

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Gina R Snape - May 12, 2004 5:48 am (#1975 of 2912)

Oh, someone mentioned Basil Brush. I was beside myself laughing when French & Saunders made him Dobby for the HP skit on red nose day last year!

Pee Wee's Playhouse was another big one for me, but I don't think it was a children's show. Of course, I wasn't a child when it aired...

At any rate, I know the guy who did all of Ms. Yvonne's wigs!

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Anna Katarina - May 12, 2004 6:02 am (#1976 of 2912)

When I was growing up there was almost only Swedish shows on TV (Most of them "educational" too). I really loved the Gummi Bears though. *Goes off singing the theme song*

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Flame Alligator - May 12, 2004 6:15 am (#1977 of 2912)

I know I said I had news the other day and I do. Just one more thing to do before I tell what I am up to.

Veronika, I need your help with something. I will contact you via e-mail.

It looks like it is getting ready to storm here. Darn it! I have errands to run today. Tanning salon, book store, Indian boutique and produce shopping. Uh! So much to do and so little time. And I will be doing it all..... in a thunder storm. Oh joy! *sarcasm* See y'all tomorrow.

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Accio Sirius - May 12, 2004 6:19 am (#1978 of 2912)

Can you believe my car, phone and air conditioning broke all on the same day? Luckily, one phone line still works so I do have the forum. Of course, the keyboard is all sweaty because it is soo bloody hot here! Sometimes I envy the WW for its simplicities and quick fixes...

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Ticker - May 12, 2004 7:17 am (#1979 of 2912)

Oooh - rough luck Accio Sirius. Should I mention it's supposed to reach a whopping 50F here today. I'm going to have to pull out the wool socks again.

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Padfoot - May 12, 2004 7:55 am (#1980 of 2912)

Thanks to you guys, I had the Muppet show theme song in my head all last night! I had forgotten about watching Inspector Gadget and the Smurfs, loved those two. After reading all the posts about our favorite shows I realized I watched a lot of tv as a kid. Guess I still do. I watched Popeye and those other, um, older cartoons. In fact I named my ferret George after a Buggs Bunny cartoon. It was the one with the Abominable snowman, if any of you remember that one.

Last night on the news they were talking about what to do in case of a tornado. I remembered the discussion about that, not too long ago from here. The news crew went under a bridge and then preceded to tell us how we should never do that. Not that there are any tornadoes in Denver. Although my boss says he has seen a few, years and years ago. Mostly they are located in Eastern Colorado, out on the plains.

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Lynn Allen - May 12, 2004 9:21 am (#1981 of 2912)

The list of kid's shows was very familiar; I remember watching Sky King and Rin Tin Tin but do not recall the Micky Mouse Club. One show that no one mentioned was "Dark Shadows" which was more a soap opera that was on about 4 pm. I was really drawn to that show, and as silly as it seems now, it was very scary at the time. Guess my tastes are more towards vampires than Care Bears! Happy Birthday, Prof. Sprout! My medical test went without complications. They did not see anything very alarming but took biopsies that they say will take more than a week to process. It makes me wonder whether the digestive problems are medication side-effects. Unfortunately those medicines cannot be stopped to test it. Thanks for your concern folks.

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Anna Katarina - May 12, 2004 9:34 am (#1982 of 2912)

Can anyone believe that it snowed today? I'm going nuts waiting! Waiting for the movie... the book... summer... Should I get a life?

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Sherbie Lemon - May 12, 2004 9:57 am (#1983 of 2912)

Since I've been buried in Media Ethics for the past two days, I've missed the fun kid's shows discussion. So first let me add the shows I loved as a child.
1. Sesame Street
2. Mr. Rogers
3. Reading Rainbow
4. Ducktales
5. Chip-n-Dale
I was in love with Mr. Rogers when I was 3. My mom caught me attempting to remove the back panel of the television one day; I had apparently been trying to get to Mr. Rogers.

Now let me say, HELP! My realtor called today and told me about a house that was supposed to close today, but the contract busted. It's by the same builder on the same street but it's 150 more square feet and $3K more expensive. Originally,we contacted our realtor to find out about this house, but we were told that it had sold. The difference in price is not much, it would raise our payments about $20. I love the layout, it's so much more spacious than the one we're building and would be better resale wise. If she lists it, she'll price it at 100,000K yet we could get it for 95K so we'd be going in with 5K equity. However, some of the design elements were not what I want. It's nice looking on the inside, very neutral, but not what I would have chosen. We have until tonight to decide. Please HELP!

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The Great Abbycadabra - May 12, 2004 10:00 am (#1984 of 2912)

Ooh, I so love the Muppets! It's been a while since I thought of them. I used to watch them all the time! I remember watching Fraggle Rock, too. I also used to watch all of those old fantastic Nickelodeon shows: Clarissa Explains It All, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, You Can't Do That on Television, Salute Your Shorts, Welcome Freshmen, and yes, I remember Pinwheel and Today's Special! Nickelodeon had the best shows ever. I wish they still showed them.

Oh, and so many belated birthdays! Here's your Abbyfetti! ',;.,';.',;.',.;', (Just let me know when this gets old, guys! )

Just one more exam to go, then I'm freeeee!!!!

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Padfoot - May 12, 2004 10:03 am (#1985 of 2912)

First of all Sherbie, can you even back out of the house you are building now? Because if you can't, that ends all speculation. Now if you can, you need to seriously compare the two houses to see which you like better. You say that one house is more spacious and has greater resale value, sounds like a good choice. What are the design elements you don't like in this house? Can you change them easily? Do you like the outside appearance of the house you are building better?

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Leprechaun Jack - May 12, 2004 10:16 am (#1986 of 2912)



The New Zoo Review.

Magilla Gorilla

ZOOM

The Magic Garden

Yogi Bear

And last but not least

Bugs Bunny

Jack

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mike miller - May 12, 2004 10:25 am (#1987 of 2912)

Sherbie - These kinds of decisions are always very difficult. You could start a quick "Pro's and Con's list for each house and maybe that can help you focus on what's most important to you. In the end, I would go with your heart. Buying a home is a big decision and you don't want to have any regrets.

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I Am Used Vlad - May 12, 2004 10:50 am (#1988 of 2912)

I'm glad people finally mentioned Darkwing Duck, Ducktales, and Chip-n-Dale. I used to watch the Disney Afternoon all the time when I was a kid..er..when I was in college. And don't forget Tailspin.

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mike miller - May 12, 2004 11:18 am (#1989 of 2912)

I'm home nursing a sick child today. My laptop open with work, my home PC on to the Forum and my daughter under a blanket on the couch watching cartoons. Some of the newer cartoons are pretty good; Rocket Power, The World According to Ginger and, of course, Sponge Bob Squarepants. I almost forgot the classic Scooby-Doo!

Hey Tim - Any word on the replacement SRV DVD?

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Sherbie Lemon - May 12, 2004 11:42 am (#1990 of 2912)

Thanks, Padfoot and Mike for your great advice! But not to worry, I think our decision has been made for us. It seems that you cannot transfer bond money once the address is locked in. The first smaller house is the one that appears on the loan, so if we decided to switch we would forfeit our money. There's no bond money left for us to apply anew. The interest we locked in at is 5.65. The new interest rate is 6.37. No good! So it seems we will stay with the original, as the deal is much better.

But I feel good about that because I've gotten rather attached to that house, I've been taking pictures of it since it was a wooden frame. Also, I got to pick out all the details, color, tile, counters, stain, carpet. It's done to my liking. It is smaller, and it's not on the cul-de-sac the other is, but it's mine.

Yay, Abby! I finished my finals today, woo hoo! Good luck with your last one!

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mike miller - May 12, 2004 11:50 am (#1991 of 2912)

See Sherbie - Your heart's already attached to the first house! It's a good thing that you're not going to be in a cul-de-sac; bad feng shui. The chi (energy) gets trapped, spinning around and around, not good!

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Acceber - May 12, 2004 12:20 pm (#1992 of 2912)

Forgot one! Lamb Chop! But only because I got the song stuck in my head right now. Sings

Some people (rest) started singing it not knowing what it was
and They'll continue singing it forever just because
It was the song that never ends
It just goes on and on my friends
Some people (rest) started singing it not knowing what it was
And they'll continue singing it forever just because
It was the song that never ends
It just goes on and on my friends . . . . . . . .


Get the picture?

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tracie1976 - May 12, 2004 12:22 pm (#1993 of 2912)

Ugh! Becca how dare you get that song in my head!! lol My daughter use to go around singing that when she was little so I know it quite well

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Padfoot - May 12, 2004 1:14 pm (#1994 of 2912)

Sherbie, that was easy. It sounds like you have been excited about the house being built. Hope you didn't stress out too much over this.

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timrew - May 12, 2004 2:11 pm (#1995 of 2912)

Mike, the replacement DVD is on its way. Thanks for asking!

Loopy Lupin, I haven't seen you on here for a while, but I have to ask......is your avatar you? And what is the guitar? I only ask because it looks like a Takamine, which is one of the guitars I play.

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The Great Abbycadabra - May 12, 2004 3:50 pm (#1996 of 2912)

Yay, Sherbie! Congrats! Doesn't if feel good? I just have my English Literature exam tomorrow at 12:30. I'm quite good at that, needless to say.

And how could I forget Disney Afternoon?! My gosh, I watched that all the time. Well, when it was on, of course. I loved Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers. I still remember the song. Ch-ch-ch-chip and Dale, Rescue Rangers. Ch-ch-ch-chip and Dale when there's danger. Oh no it never fails, once they're involved. . . Or something like that.

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Viola Intonada - May 12, 2004 5:26 pm (#1997 of 2912)

I grew up without cable TV. I used to wait anxiously for Saturday morning cartoons. My favorites: Bugs Bunny/Road Runner, Scooby-Doo, (hated Scrappy) Laugh-o-lympics, and when I was a bit older, Dungeons and Dragons. I have always loved cartoons and always will. I have too many favorites to list all of them.

Remember Super Chicken? Hung-Kung Phooey? Pirates of Dark Water? Star Trek (the cartoon)? Space Ghost?

Good Luck on your last final, Abby!

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Ticker - May 12, 2004 5:49 pm (#1998 of 2912)

Yes! Good luck Abby! BTW, I think of you often as I am reading Elizabeth Peters mysteries. They take place in Egypt back in the day. If you haven't read them, they're much fun!

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Sherbie Lemon - May 12, 2004 6:06 pm (#1999 of 2912)

I loved English Lit, Abby. I would take it over and over if I could. Now I can't stop singing Chip-n-Dale. 'Oh it never fails they'll see the clues and find the...blah blah blah and clues.' 'Ducktales, woo ooh..'

What about David the Gnome? Anyone ever watch that? I loved that show. There was that fox, Swift (I think that was his name) on there too. Of course, now I know that gnomes are really ugly, potato shaped things, not at all cute and Santa Clausy like David was.

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Julia. - May 12, 2004 6:25 pm (#2000 of 2912)

Good luck on your last final Abby, don't worry dear, it's almost over. I don't remember David and the Gnome, but I did watch all those great shows on Nickelodan. Yay for Eurika's castle and Salute Your Shorts. Becca, you got that silly song stuck in my head!!Grrrrrrr...

EDIT:Love your new avatar Sherbie
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