![]() |
![]() |
Visit The *EVEN NEWER* Barrow-Downs Photo Page |
![]() |
#1481 | |
Mighty Quill
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Walking off to look for America
Posts: 2,230
![]() |
Quote:
![]()
__________________
The Party Doesn't Start Until You're Dead.
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1482 |
Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
Posts: 8,093
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Today I found out there's a band called Vavamuffin. You know what I thought of...
![]()
__________________
Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1483 | |
Fluttering Enchantment
|
Quote:
![]()
__________________
Comme une étoile amarante Comme un papillon de nuit C'est la lumière qui m'attire La flamme qui m'éblouit Fenris Muffin
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1484 |
Wight of the Old Forest
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Unattended on the railway station, in the litter at the dancehall
Posts: 3,329
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
When you (not only occasionally, but) consistently misread 'modified' as 'modfired' (as in e.g., 'a noun modfired by a relative clause').
__________________
Und aus dem Erebos kamen viele seelen herauf der abgeschiedenen toten.- Homer, Odyssey, Canto XI |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1485 |
Mighty Quill
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Walking off to look for America
Posts: 2,230
![]() |
I was washing my hands and the soap said that it was "Foamy", I misread it as "Formy".
EDIT: I just figured out that I have the second most posts on this thread, as on the Newspaper thread. I'm only seconded to the number of posts by Lommy. How did it get this way?
__________________
The Party Doesn't Start Until You're Dead.
Last edited by TheGreatElvenWarrior; 06-11-2010 at 04:22 PM. Reason: My astonishment grows |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1486 | |
Guardian of the Blind
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Where The Skies End
Posts: 899
![]() |
Quote:
Really? I thought it was 'modfired'. You're right! O.O |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1487 |
Woman of Secret Shadow
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells
Posts: 4,511
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
When you live with another Downer in a neighbourhood whose name translates as place of barrows.
__________________
He bit me, and I was not gentle. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1488 |
Mighty Quill
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Walking off to look for America
Posts: 2,230
![]() |
'Prune' juice is no longer existent. It is now 'Rune' Juice.
__________________
The Party Doesn't Start Until You're Dead.
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1489 |
Gruesome Spectre
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Heaven's doorstep
Posts: 8,035
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
I have a work contact I've known for years named "Mara". I've recently begun referring to her as Mira(ndir) without thinking.
__________________
Music alone proves the existence of God. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1490 |
Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
Posts: 8,093
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
When you're having a wonderful holiday and see lots of 'downers but still miss the 'downs a lot... (and are therefore posting something random there in the middle of the night even though you have to wake up early the next morning...
![]()
__________________
Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1491 |
Flame Imperishable
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Right here
Posts: 3,928
![]() ![]() ![]() |
When you play live Mafia, and you can't:
1. Call someone a wolf 2. Say someone looks furry 3. Say someone is "under the reindeer" etc. I kept on having to remind myself that I wasn't playing Werewolf on the 'Downs.
__________________
Welcome to the Barrow Do-owns Forum / Such a lovely place
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1492 | |
The Sweetest Spoiler
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: from beneath you it giggles incessantly
Posts: 5,789
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Quote:
When I was at camp last week, Mafia was the afternoon activity (mostly because of me, and I'm not even being egotistical). I prefaced each game with, "Okay, guys, I'm probably going to use terms you don't understand, like wolves and seers, so when I do, just let me keep talking, 'cause I'll catch it and clarify eventually". They were surprisingly cool with it. ![]()
__________________
"My heart always cowers behind the defense of my wit." Friendship is two pals munching on a well-cooked face together. Fenris bookworm.
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1493 |
Mighty Quill
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Walking off to look for America
Posts: 2,230
![]() |
Oh no! Not Werewolf references in real life! D:
__________________
The Party Doesn't Start Until You're Dead.
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1494 | |
The Werewolf's Companion
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: The Moon
Posts: 3,021
![]() ![]() ![]() |
Quote:
![]() Also, new 'wolf' tactic - kill your own packmate overNight. Yeah, I didn't get it either. ![]()
__________________
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. Double Fenris
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1495 |
A Voice That Gainsayeth
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In that far land beyond the Sea
Posts: 7,431
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Okay, I just discovered something very interesting which is definitely a proof of strong BD influence. I found my notes from some university lecture from sometime in spring 2008. The particular note is scribbled on the edge of the paper, apparently I wanted to note something in haste and used a BD referrence to save time. The note goes like this:
Twin imagination (Coleridge) - follow. germ. idealism - already what enters us from the outside (aesthema) is also primary imagination (reputedly Leibniz/reputedly from Kabbalah/reputedly from Talmud-Kitanna's avvie). I am unable to uncover anymore what exactly is the avvie part referring to; but apparently during that time it was something so obvious that I used it while writing the note to sum up something I would otherwise have to describe with many words ![]()
__________________
"Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1496 |
Laconic Loreman
|
When stopped at a light, and on the back of the mobile home you see in big letters Shasta. I don't need to go in too much detail of the mixed emotions of first reaction: HEHEHE MUST TELL SHASTA NOW! Then "Oh, but he's not here..."
![]()
__________________
Fenris Penguin
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1497 |
La Belle Dame sans Merci
|
Maybe when you spend more time dreaming of Barrowdowners than you do dreaming of other people?
But that might not be addiction to the Barrowdowns so much as addiction to Barrowdowners.
__________________
peace
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1498 |
Laconic Loreman
|
When a friend tells you she's studying "A & P" and she hopes she does well on the test tomorrow and you say "Why do you have a test on alien and phantom?"
__________________
Fenris Penguin
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1499 |
Fluttering Enchantment
|
![]()
There's a major road here called Barry Downe. I don't think I have to explain what I always misread it as.
![]()
__________________
Comme une étoile amarante Comme un papillon de nuit C'est la lumière qui m'attire La flamme qui m'éblouit Fenris Muffin
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1500 |
Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
Posts: 10,359
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
My 5 signs of being a Tolkienutter (nuts about Tolkien)
1. When something comes up, the first think that comes to mind is an episode from one of Tolkie's works
2. I've read LotR so many times that can tell you from 1 sentence who, when, to who, why, etc, said the line 3. My parents had to confiscate the books a few times because I've reading them too much 4. In every library that I come to the first thing that I check is which Tolkien books they have 5. I feel contempt for people that say that LotR is useless but never read it and don't know who Tolkien is |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1501 |
Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
Posts: 8,093
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Psst... this thread is for Barrow-Downs addictions, this one is for signs of LotR obsession.
![]()
__________________
Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1502 |
Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
Posts: 10,359
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
oooops! thnx
__________________
You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1503 |
Guard of the Citadel
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Oxon
Posts: 2,205
![]() ![]() |
When you keep coming back.
__________________
“The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.”
Delos B. McKown |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1504 |
Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
Posts: 10,359
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
When every time you have to do research for a major essay all the information you need is right here, and all the rest will come by itself.
![]()
__________________
You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1505 |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Between the fortune cookie and the post-its.
Posts: 644
![]() |
...in my case, after several years. Even real life has failed to keep me away.
![]()
__________________
I'd like to be the king of all Londinium and wear a shiny hat. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1506 |
Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
Posts: 10,359
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
You know you're addicted to this place, when instead of Hey there's a member with a username from LOTR/Sil/TH/etc you read the books and think Here's the name of so-and-so who's on the Downs.
Pathetic. ![]()
__________________
You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1507 | |
Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
Posts: 10,359
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Quote:
![]() ![]() Edit: I have to add that before looking through the last few pages of this thread, I was OK with the word "modified". However, just now I encountered in one a certain website, and lo! I read it as "modfired". Is this a disease of some kind? ![]()
__________________
You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera Last edited by Galadriel55; 06-05-2011 at 03:32 PM. |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1508 |
Wight of the Old Forest
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Unattended on the railway station, in the litter at the dancehall
Posts: 3,329
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
You know you're obsessed with Barrow Downs Roleplaying when...
__________________
Und aus dem Erebos kamen viele seelen herauf der abgeschiedenen toten.- Homer, Odyssey, Canto XI |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1509 | |
Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
Posts: 10,359
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Quote:
![]() And Celebrindal is no longer Idril's name for me! ![]()
__________________
You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1510 | |
The Sweetest Spoiler
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: from beneath you it giggles incessantly
Posts: 5,789
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Quote:
__________________
"My heart always cowers behind the defense of my wit." Friendship is two pals munching on a well-cooked face together. Fenris bookworm.
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1511 |
Woman of Secret Shadow
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells
Posts: 4,511
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Real Downers can and will ruin discussions that praise Peter Jackson.
![]() Today, I learned the first definition of flip-flopping. It made me think of Lommy.
__________________
He bit me, and I was not gentle. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1512 |
Everlasting Whiteness
|
Bahaha Agan! That gives a whole new meaning to Lommy's flip flops on ... ah ... everyone!
__________________
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1513 |
Woman of Secret Shadow
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells
Posts: 4,511
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
After a week of staying with a friend and using her laptop while she's in class, the Barrow-Downs is her second most visited website.
__________________
He bit me, and I was not gentle. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1514 | |
Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
Posts: 10,359
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Quote:
![]() When subscribing to threads is pointless because you visit the Downs more often than your email.
__________________
You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1515 | |
Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
Posts: 8,093
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Quote:
![]()
__________________
Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1516 | |
Wisest of the Noldor
|
Quote:
__________________
"Even Nerwen wasn't evil in the beginning." –Elmo. |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1517 | |
Woman of Secret Shadow
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells
Posts: 4,511
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Quote:
![]() ![]()
__________________
He bit me, and I was not gentle. |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1518 |
Energetic Essence
|
When you use your phone to check up on what's been happening and to play a game if WW due to lack of computer and Internet......not as easy as it sounds when you have auto-correct, although it makes for some very interesting sentences that never get posted
![]()
__________________
I'm going to buy you a kitty, I'm going to let you fall in love with the kitty, and one cold, winter night, I'm going to steal into your house and punch you in the face! Fenris Wolf
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1519 |
Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
Posts: 10,359
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
When a brief look at the Downs before school and a couple hours after become a habit.
When you start thinking in BD typing abbreviations (like Pee-Jay instead of Peter Jackson, LoteR instead of Lord of the Rings, The-Sil instead of The Silmarillion, You-Tea for Unfinished Tales, etc... ![]() Yes. Then you know you're addicted.
__________________
You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#1520 |
Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
Posts: 10,359
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
When anything really good or really bad/annoying happens, one of the first things that enters your mind is "I should post about this on the Shire/Mordor thread..."
Yes, my printer has just chewed on half a pack of paper, and I just spend 20 minutes wrestling it from it's teeth. And right when I finished I thought I should assign this to Mordor... but thinking of the Downs made me not mad again. ![]()
__________________
You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
|
|
![]() |