How do you imagine other BDers - Page 36 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Anguirel · 10-13-2005, 10:18 AM

Actually, the relationship between catnip mouse and cat is tragic. Destroyed by love. Like Eol and Aredhel...

Hilde Bracegirdle · 10-13-2005, 10:44 AM

Are the Avengers

Hookbill the Goomba · 10-13-2005, 01:33 PM

I've just been handed this rather interesting gem of a website. If you're having difficulty in imagining a fellow Forum member, then try to first fit them into one of the categories on thsi website.

i don't think you can say what you yourself are. I think you have to be told by someone else. Have fun, children!

Look here!!!

Lalwendë · 10-14-2005, 02:43 AM

Hilde - I couldn't see that link

Was it a pic of the Avengers as in the classic 60's TV show? In that case I shall have to gender swap because I have to have the bowler hat of course, being the bearacrat (beuracrat? beauraucrat?.....aaargh)!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anguirel

Actually, the relationship between catnip mouse and cat is tragic. Destroyed by love. Like Eol and Aredhel...

This is truly profound! My cats have an old, tatty ratty, he has been 'loved' so much by them that his insides are hanging out and he only has one eye and one ear.

Hilde Bracegirdle · 10-14-2005, 03:47 AM

Yes Lalwendë, it was the 60's Avengers, and such a darn good black and white studio photo too! Ah well.

It seems a bit more tragic when a dog falls for the cat's catnip mouse. We also have one with its insides peeking out.

Estelyn Telcontar · 10-14-2005, 03:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

Was it a pic of the Avengers as in the classic 60's TV show? In that case I shall have to gender swap because I have to have the bowler hat of course...

Does that mean we can then imagine davem in a black leather catsuit and high-heeled boots?

Lalaith · 10-14-2005, 03:59 AM

Was it Honor or Diana, though?

Hilde Bracegirdle · 10-14-2005, 04:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Estelyn Telcontar

Does that mean we can then imagine davem in a black leather catsuit and high-heeled boots?

You may if you like, Esty, but I would prefer not to summon up that image!

Actually, neither catsuit nor the bowler was present in this particular photo.

It was Diana, Lalaith. She is the only Mrs. Peel to me.

Lalaith · 10-14-2005, 05:00 AM

Ah, well that would explain why she wasn't wearing a catsuit...it was Cathy Gale ( Ms Blackman) who wore those, Mrs Peel (Ms Rigg) had much more demure satorial style.
NB Ahem. I hasten to add, before anyone starts imagining me as a zimmer frame, that my Avengers knowledge comes from viewing repeats rather than original transmissions...

Holbytlass · 10-14-2005, 06:17 AM

Wow, Hookbill, I looked through all those 'warriors' and a few people came to mind, but I'm too afraid to say their names!!

Hookbill the Goomba · 10-14-2005, 06:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Holbytlass

Wow, Hookbill, I looked through all those 'warriors' and a few people came to mind, but I'm too afraid to say their names!!

I know, but sometimes falts have to be said before they can be amended.

No offence, but Gil-Gallad and the phantom are almost this guy. :P And The Lord high Wight can be no one but this.

Holbytlass · 10-14-2005, 07:06 AM

Okay then, on a lighter side, Feanor and The Phantom are these. That also applies to the balrog wings/no wings debaters and the author or reader responsibility debaters as well!

Lalaith · 10-14-2005, 07:16 AM

One of the things I enjoy about the Barrowdowns is the high quality of this class.
Which clearly makes me one of these ?

Hilde Bracegirdle · 10-14-2005, 10:34 AM

You know, when looking at the site posted by Hookbill, this reminded me of burrahobbit.

the phantom · 10-14-2005, 10:43 AM

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...and the phantom are almost this guy

Yes, yes- that does remind me of me.

SPM is definitely nanny.

I can't stand these for some reason.

Hookbill the Goomba · 10-14-2005, 11:06 AM

How many Lurkers are on this Forum? Those spiders are very suspicious!

Sometimes, Gil reminds me of Evil Clown and Yuk Yuk.

And I think The Perky Ent is becoming an Ent!

Mithalwen · 10-14-2005, 01:37 PM

Well HI must be an archivist... but (if he would excuse the Russian reference), I see him more as a Faberge egg.

The Phantom is a fedora

Encaitare is a Chopin prelude

Piosenniel is a vade-mecum bound in Florentine paper

Rune Son of Bjarne · 10-14-2005, 01:58 PM

She is as statet before Winnie the Pooh aka Peter Plys.

Actually it is hard to tell Winnie from Thinlómien! They are both loveable and stuffed with fluff! They endlessly craves a snackerel of whatever little something is at hand.
At last: Friends before all, even honey!

So it can be hard to tell them apart, exept that Thinlómien is younger ! (I guess)

mormegil · 10-14-2005, 03:19 PM

Agreed Phantom the SpM is the Nanny

H-I is The Eagle Scout

I am probablyFerrous Cranus

Others may be forthcoming.

Oddwen · 10-14-2005, 05:11 PM

H-I would certainly be the Necromancer - though in a good way, of course, as his necromancy more often than not breathes true life back into good threads.

I see Esty as more of the Nanny. SpM is more of this.

We've all been one of these at one time, haven't we?

Gil is slightly loopy!

And am I wrong, or can this be Nilp?

There's gotta be a Godfather here, I just can't think who...

And I, I am a cross between a Lurker and a Pithy Phrase.

And finally - Balrog Wings!

Thankfully, I can see more Werewolf Warriors than regular forum warriors in those pictures.

Encaitare · 10-15-2005, 12:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lalwende

Was it a pic of the Avengers as in the classic 60's TV show? In that case I shall have to gender swap because I have to have the bowler hat of course, being the bearacrat (beuracrat? beauraucrat?.....aaargh)!

You two even look like them... so that's how I shall forever imagine you. And Mrs. Peel was the best of Steed's partners. Just had to get that out there.

Bureaucrat.

Boromir88 · 10-15-2005, 09:16 AM

hmmm...I think obloquy fits well with this one.

I'm sorry, I can't resist, reading the big cat, and the word "laconically," and the rest just reminds me of myself. So, I guess I'm telling everyone to watch out?

And davem is our forum eagle scout.

Formendacil · 10-15-2005, 10:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boromir88

I'm sorry, I can't resist, reading the big cat, and the word "laconically," and the rest just reminds me of myself. So, I guess I'm telling everyone to watch out?

Sorry, Boromir, but setting as the word "laconic", I think that Big Cate suits The Phantom a lot better than it does you. Or anyone else...

But with a dash of Ego, of course...

Mithalwen · 10-15-2005, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Anguirel

Actually, the relationship between catnip mouse and cat is tragic. Destroyed by love. Like Eol and Aredhel...

I am still not sure if this is sweet or scary....

Anguirel, Mormegil and Gurthang are of course all swords.

However, Anguirel is a Toledo rapier, Mormegil is a broadsword and Gurthang (sorry the avatar makes me think of you as a practical joker) is one of those stage swords you can pretend to stab people with... or maybe a cutlass.

Wilwarin is antique lace

Lalaith (of course) is a skylark

Lalaith · 10-15-2005, 02:09 PM

And I now (for equally obvious reasons) envisage Mith as resembling the late and much lamented Kirsty McColl...

Mithalwen · 10-15-2005, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Lalaith

And I now (for equally obvious reasons) envisage Mith as resembling the late and much lamented Kirsty McColl...

I am so glad you didn't say Ray Davies

Lalaith · 10-15-2005, 02:16 PM

Now would I do that...

Mithalwen · 10-15-2005, 02:24 PM

well I am even more glad I didn't plump for a "Fairy tale of New York" quote and open up the possibility of Shane McGowan.....

Bêthberry · 10-15-2005, 05:18 PM

Well, I guess I have to throw water on the flame warriors, but to be honest, I just cannot see any of those really fitting well any of our Downers.

I can see some ways in which SpM has some of those characteristics, but that doesn't begin to cover all his traits. There's a great deal of davem in this one, too, but, again, it doesn't quite come to terms with some of his other traits, which of course doesn't begin to include his other tendancy. See what I mean?

Then there's The Barrow Wight's various styles as his image as one to be feared but also just a little bit of this too.

I see myself slightly mixed between this one . this one , this one and this one . I know, hard to believe, eh?

There's a bit of truth about Eomer here, but not enough of his sense of humour. And there is a slight resemblance here of Boro88 but hardly enough to do justice to his profound rhetorical skills.

See what I mean? I think it does a grave disservice to account us Downers as anything ressembling such stereotypes. We are beyond caricature, I say!

(ran out of time--so many more I could have discussed as being inapplicable without in any way assuming allegorical reference!)

Hookbill the Goomba · 10-16-2005, 06:57 AM

Although he doesn’t follow the description given on the website, I like to imagine this is what The Barrow Wight looks like;

Mithalwen · 10-16-2005, 11:42 AM

I now have the disturbing image of Bethberry as the ideal woman for a certain type of English ex-public school boy....

I did look at those but the only people I identified would be hugely unflattered so I will keep them to myself...

Hookbill the Goomba · 10-17-2005, 01:34 AM

Not naming any names, but there used to be a large proportion of these before I changed my signature. It did get quite annoying.

Also, I wonder if there are any of these around... Hmm.

Feanor of the Peredhil · 10-17-2005, 08:28 AM

Thanks a lot, Hookbill. A clown? Now you've gone and made me terrified of The Barrow-Wight.

Fordim Hedgethistle · 10-17-2005, 08:53 AM

OK, here's me.

Or maybe this is.

Feanor of the Peredhil · 10-17-2005, 09:05 AM

Eek. Fordie, ye've officially gotten me somewhat disturbed.

**The Saucepan Man** · 10-17-2005, 09:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fea

Eek. Fordie, ye've officially gotten me somewhat disturbed.

Hmm, I believe that this reaction suggests another aspect of Fea's on-line persona.

Ah yes, here it is.

Lalwendë · 10-17-2005, 01:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fordim

OK, here's me.

Or maybe this is.

I am most sincerely glad that I did not try to look at this website too deeply while I was at work!

Bergil · 10-23-2005, 12:41 PM

Due to my recent encounter with hookbill the goomba, he now wears a sweater reading "class of 1984"

Hookbill the Goomba · 10-23-2005, 01:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bergil

Due to my recent encounter with hookbill the goomba, he now wears a sweater reading "class of 1984"

Strange, I wasn't even alive then.

I hope your not trying to turn into this, Bergil.

Feanor of the Peredhil · 10-23-2005, 01:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man

Hmm, I believe that this reaction suggests another aspect of Fea's on-line persona.

Ah yes, here it is.

10-13-2005, 10:18 AM	#1401
Anguirel Byronic Brand Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The 1590s Posts: 2,778	Actually, the relationship between catnip mouse and cat is tragic. Destroyed by love. Like Eol and Aredhel... __________________ Among the friendly dead, being bad at games did not seem to matter -Il Lupo Fenriso

10-13-2005, 10:44 AM	#1402
Hilde Bracegirdle Relic of Wandering Days Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: You'll See Perpetual Change. Posts: 1,480	Lalwende & davem Are the Avengers Last edited by Hilde Bracegirdle; 10-14-2005 at 03:42 AM.

10-13-2005, 01:33 PM	#1403
Hookbill the Goomba Alive without breath Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla Posts: 5,912	The joy of categorisation of Forum members. I've just been handed this rather interesting gem of a website. If you're having difficulty in imagining a fellow Forum member, then try to first fit them into one of the categories on thsi website. i don't think you can say what you yourself are. I think you have to be told by someone else. Have fun, children! Look here!!! __________________ I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket...

10-14-2005, 03:59 AM	#1407
Lalaith Blithe Spirit Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,779	Was it Honor or Diana, though? __________________ Out went the candle, and we were left darkling

10-14-2005, 05:00 AM	#1409
Lalaith Blithe Spirit Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,779	Ah, well that would explain why she wasn't wearing a catsuit...it was Cathy Gale ( Ms Blackman) who wore those, Mrs Peel (Ms Rigg) had much more demure satorial style. NB Ahem. I hasten to add, before anyone starts imagining me as a zimmer frame, that my Avengers knowledge comes from viewing repeats rather than original transmissions... __________________ Out went the candle, and we were left darkling

10-14-2005, 03:47 AM	#1405
Hilde Bracegirdle Relic of Wandering Days Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: You'll See Perpetual Change. Posts: 1,480	Yes Lalwendë, it was the 60's Avengers, and such a darn good black and white studio photo too! Ah well. It seems a bit more tragic when a dog falls for the cat's catnip mouse. We also have one with its insides peeking out.

10-14-2005, 06:17 AM	#1410
Holbytlass Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2003 Location: The Party Tree Posts: 1,042	Wow, Hookbill, I looked through all those 'warriors' and a few people came to mind, but I'm too afraid to say their names!! __________________ Holby is an actual flesh-and-blood person, right? Not, say a sock-puppet of Nilp’s, by any chance? ~Nerwen, WWCIII

10-14-2005, 07:06 AM	#1412
Holbytlass Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2003 Location: The Party Tree Posts: 1,042	Okay then, on a lighter side, Feanor and The Phantom are these. That also applies to the balrog wings/no wings debaters and the author or reader responsibility debaters as well! __________________ Holby is an actual flesh-and-blood person, right? Not, say a sock-puppet of Nilp’s, by any chance? ~Nerwen, WWCIII

10-14-2005, 07:16 AM	#1413
Lalaith Blithe Spirit Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,779	One of the things I enjoy about the Barrowdowns is the high quality of this class. Which clearly makes me one of these ? __________________ Out went the candle, and we were left darkling

10-14-2005, 10:34 AM	#1414
Hilde Bracegirdle Relic of Wandering Days Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: You'll See Perpetual Change. Posts: 1,480	You know, when looking at the site posted by Hookbill, this reminded me of burrahobbit. Last edited by Hilde Bracegirdle; 10-14-2005 at 03:00 PM.

10-14-2005, 11:06 AM	#1416
Hookbill the Goomba Alive without breath Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla Posts: 5,912	How many Lurkers are on this Forum? Those spiders are very suspicious! Sometimes, Gil reminds me of Evil Clown and Yuk Yuk. And I think The Perky Ent is becoming an Ent! __________________ I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket...

10-14-2005, 01:37 PM	#1417
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,458	Well HI must be an archivist... but (if he would excuse the Russian reference), I see him more as a Faberge egg. The Phantom is a fedora Encaitare is a Chopin prelude Piosenniel is a vade-mecum bound in Florentine paper __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

10-14-2005, 03:19 PM	#1419
mormegil Maundering Mage Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 4,648	Agreed Phantom the SpM is the Nanny H-I is The Eagle Scout I am probablyFerrous Cranus Others may be forthcoming. __________________ “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

10-14-2005, 05:11 PM	#1420
Oddwen Drummer in the Deep Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Next Sunday A.D. Posts: 2,145	Cool site, Hookbill! H-I would certainly be the Necromancer - though in a good way, of course, as his necromancy more often than not breathes true life back into good threads. I see Esty as more of the Nanny. SpM is more of this. We've all been one of these at one time, haven't we? Gil is slightly loopy! And am I wrong, or can this be Nilp? There's gotta be a Godfather here, I just can't think who... And I, I am a cross between a Lurker and a Pithy Phrase. And finally - Balrog Wings! Thankfully, I can see more Werewolf Warriors than regular forum warriors in those pictures. __________________ But all the while I sit and think of times there were before I listen for returning feet and voices at the door

10-15-2005, 09:16 AM	#1422
Boromir88 Laconic Loreman Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: USA Posts: 7,518	hmmm...I think obloquy fits well with this one. I'm sorry, I can't resist, reading the big cat, and the word "laconically," and the rest just reminds me of myself. So, I guess I'm telling everyone to watch out? And davem is our forum eagle scout. __________________ Fenris Penguin Last edited by Boromir88; 10-15-2005 at 09:37 AM.

10-15-2005, 02:09 PM	#1425
Lalaith Blithe Spirit Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,779	And I now (for equally obvious reasons) envisage Mith as resembling the late and much lamented Kirsty McColl... __________________ Out went the candle, and we were left darkling

10-15-2005, 02:16 PM	#1427
Lalaith Blithe Spirit Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,779	Now would I do that... __________________ Out went the candle, and we were left darkling

10-15-2005, 02:24 PM	#1428
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,458	well I am even more glad I didn't plump for a "Fairy tale of New York" quote and open up the possibility of Shane McGowan..... __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

10-15-2005, 05:18 PM	#1429
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 5,996	Well, I guess I have to throw water on the flame warriors, but to be honest, I just cannot see any of those really fitting well any of our Downers. I can see some ways in which SpM has some of those characteristics, but that doesn't begin to cover all his traits. There's a great deal of davem in this one, too, but, again, it doesn't quite come to terms with some of his other traits, which of course doesn't begin to include his other tendancy. See what I mean? Then there's The Barrow Wight's various styles as his image as one to be feared but also just a little bit of this too. I see myself slightly mixed between this one . this one , this one and this one . I know, hard to believe, eh? There's a bit of truth about Eomer here, but not enough of his sense of humour. And there is a slight resemblance here of Boro88 but hardly enough to do justice to his profound rhetorical skills. See what I mean? I think it does a grave disservice to account us Downers as anything ressembling such stereotypes. We are beyond caricature, I say! (ran out of time--so many more I could have discussed as being inapplicable without in any way assuming allegorical reference!) __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.

10-16-2005, 06:57 AM	#1430
Hookbill the Goomba Alive without breath Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla Posts: 5,912	Although he doesn’t follow the description given on the website, I like to imagine this is what The Barrow Wight looks like; __________________ I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket...

10-16-2005, 11:42 AM	#1431
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,458	I now have the disturbing image of Bethberry as the ideal woman for a certain type of English ex-public school boy.... I did look at those but the only people I identified would be hugely unflattered so I will keep them to myself... __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

10-17-2005, 01:34 AM	#1432
Hookbill the Goomba Alive without breath Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla Posts: 5,912	Not naming any names, but there used to be a large proportion of these before I changed my signature. It did get quite annoying. Also, I wonder if there are any of these around... Hmm. __________________ I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket...

10-17-2005, 08:28 AM	#1433
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	Thanks a lot, Hookbill. A clown? Now you've gone and made me terrified of The Barrow-Wight. __________________ peace

10-17-2005, 08:53 AM	#1434
Fordim Hedgethistle Gibbering Gibbet Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Beyond cloud nine Posts: 1,844	OK, here's me. Or maybe this is.

10-17-2005, 09:05 AM	#1435
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	Eek. Fordie, ye've officially gotten me somewhat disturbed. __________________ peace

10-23-2005, 12:41 PM	#1438
Bergil Wight Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: the Lepetomaine Gambling Casino For The Insane Posts: 157	Due to my recent encounter with hookbill the goomba, he now wears a sweater reading "class of 1984" __________________ I support...something.