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THE Ka loves its friend Megan the BOOGERBEANS too much to do that... wait let me check... yep. i've done that before too.
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The ka jumps out to its computer screen, smacks face. Ah, you poof of a computer.
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Shade of Carn Dűm
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Wind's Road
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"My name is Mallard, but you can call me Duck." ~Random Saying, compliments of Sirith and her best friend, concerning a book. |
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: The end of the world as we know it. I feel fine, incidentally.
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You know you're addicted to the Barrow Downs when you get exited that people actually join your Society for Nearsighted Elves. It started out as just a joke, and now we've got eight members. Eowyn Skywalker is thinking about adding a section on her proboard just for the society. And Siritheruwen, I read your sig and I feel for you. Maybe you could join the Society as an Ambassador to All Nearsighed Non-Elves. Tell me if you're interested. Quote:
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aye, no worries maeg... it happens to all of us... bloody poof of a thing though, computers... they help and then they can ruin your creativity with one download... Personally, i just sketch then take a laser scanner hook it up to my computer and scan... works most of the time. Then you have to crop, cut, ect...
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Wight
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: The Mines of Moria
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You know you're addicted to Barrowdowns when:
1.Your latest insult is "Stupid, fat hobbit"(THis pertains more to LOTR) 2.You consider rewriting your copy of LOTR in green just so it feels like you are on barrowdowns. 3.You refuse to tell your sister about the new chapter by chapter read through and discussion of LOTR because you are afraid she will cut into your time.
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A Shade of Westernesse
Join Date: May 2004
Location: The last wave over Atalantë
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A Barrow-downs addiction can take the form of spending late nights pondering the havoc that could be wreaked by hybrid Downers.
Just think: Bęthburra and The Squatter of Amon Rimbaud... *shudders*
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Shade of Carn Dűm
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Wind's Road
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When you spend your spare time on the 'Downs trying to pronounce Marileangorifurnimaluim's name.
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"My name is Mallard, but you can call me Duck." ~Random Saying, compliments of Sirith and her best friend, concerning a book. |
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Wight
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: The Land of the Ice and Snow
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Few, I feel old! I was here when this thread came around the first time! Checked it every three hours, too. That's obsession for ya. And another thing. I wouldn't be classified addicted if I didn't keep coming back. Drat. Now, if I disappear again, the shakes will come back. This truly is a nightmare...
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Shade of Carn Dűm
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Exactly like me. I keep coming back, even though real life has prevented me from coming here for months. I'm not sure how many months, but I know it's plural.
![]() *sigh* Does anybody remember me? Does anybody remember the original 'obsessed' thread? Or 'The Council of Elendili' that I posted in for twelve pages until a certain mod closed it...... If anyone does remember the latter thread, we have the same people as well as a few newcomers talking on our own messageboard 'Imladris' - http://elentari.proboards18.com Anybody is more than welcome welcome to join. Now I've finished promoting our website, I guess I'll catch up on the threads that have grown considerably since I last visited. *sigh* Cheers, ~ Elentari II
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Auspicious Wraith
Join Date: May 2002
Location: The Netherlands
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Ah! People who return to the Downs after months away. Is there anything else as powerful a statement of the addictiveness of the 'Downs?
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The Perilous Poet
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Heart of the matter
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Excellent. Have you not considered the untramelled horror that could be wreaked by the conflicted Mister Undersaucepan, or the frankly disturbing Barrow-Sharkü? However, anybody who isn't amused by dancing spawn of Squatter has had a humour-ectomy.
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Auspicious Wraith
Join Date: May 2002
Location: The Netherlands
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How terrible! I hope he recovers.
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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Fluttering Enchantment
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Umbar, but before the corsairs took over. (Ave Maria University, FL, USA)
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I've found myself more than once wanting to sign e-mails to people I know in RL with Oromin. As well, every time AMP is mentioned in my AP Bio class, I think LMP. (It's first thing in the morning, you can't blame me for getting confused!)
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lurking in the shadows.
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A very disturbing moment for me was when my brother tried to catch my attention by claiming to be the Saucepan Man. The most worrisome part being that I had no idea he knew anything about the Downs, except for my vague mutterings about werewolf games. My brother obviously stalks me.
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Raffish Rapscallion
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Far from the 'Downs, it seems :-(
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Energetic Essence
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Another symptom (for me at least) is when your at school talikng to your friends and you zone out and start thinking "Hmmm... I wonder who's posted on *Insert thread name here*?"
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Dead Serious
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When you discover "Formbi" in a book, and immediately assume that you have found the Star Wars equivalent of your 'Downs username...
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You realise you're addicted though when the site takes precedence over practically anything else in your life. Eating, sleeping, talking to friends, doing all that nasty homework - guilty of all. 2am I went to bed last night after getting hooked reading an old thread. And after reading through here, what is this Chat that people speak of?
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Shadow of the Past
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Minas Mor-go
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When you've just spent half an hour looking for Barrow-Downers' names on Middle-Earth Magnets. I found fifteen.
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: |Away
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When you find yourself at the public library checking the forum on one computer... and then signning into another beside it just to see your name in its proper place of the nick-list... And when you think that the weird looks people are giving you will be cured by quickly starting work on a long anagram.
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: In a world grown ever smaller.
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um, you just spent an hour refreshing you browser over and over again, to no avail.
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When you have been online allmost every night ever since you died and have yet to go to bed before 1 AM. (the last thing because you want be online at the same time as all those americans)
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Raffish Rapscallion
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Far from the 'Downs, it seems :-(
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: In a world grown ever smaller.
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yeah i guess that's what it means now.
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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When you abscond from your group on an overseas trip in order to find internet access and check in at the downs....
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Everlasting Whiteness
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When you quite happily skip a lesson under the pretence of being ill to make sure you haven't missed something on werewolf! That did occur yesterday I'm ashamed to say.
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Blithe Spirit
Join Date: Jan 2003
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When you are watching a rivetting, award-winning West End production of Schiller's Mary Stuart, and as the faithless Leicester turns in his fellow conspirator, you nod and think to yourself, hmmm, how very like Werewolf....
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lurking in the shadows.
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When you doze off during an afternoon lecture (because it was too late last night and too early this morning) and you wake up suddenly when you hear someone say Barrow Downs from faraway, you ask your neighbor for confirmation on what you have just heard and get informed you just missed a very interesting tutorial in which you were supposed to analyze Gaelic Folk tales and find comparisons with The Lord of the Rings.
This shows definite obsessiveness because 1) I instantly realized it was the first time I ever heard anyone say the Barrow Downs out loud - a realization which made me grin rather foolishly. 2) Because I immediately thought I could use this incident as an excuse to post something non-substantial here. 3) I only started caring about missing the class when I was already halfway through typing this post. ![]() |
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Well, I would say that doing this definitely shows an extreme case of obsessiveness (or an extreme case of , "Nerdy Child with too Much Time on her Hands".)
Of course this leads to all sort of interesting discussions, like Balancing Barrowdowners and Barrowdowner Reactions. E.X.: Balance the folowing equations: 1. Celegorm2Hilde Bracegirdle6 + Oddwen2 --> Hilde Bracegirdle2Oddwen + CelegormOddwen2 2. THE KaOddwenHilde Bracegirdle + Hilde Bracegirdle3PiosennielOddwen4 + Hilde Bracegirdle2Oddwen And I'm no chemist but I'm fairly sure that a Lalwende-Davem combination would be disastrous to the world. ![]() |
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WHOA!!!
Abercrombie, that Periodic Table is hilarious! Where did I put that rep button.....
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