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08-15-2007, 06:42 AM | #1881 |
La Belle Dame sans Merci
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Doorbells. I probably shouldn't hate them as much as I do, but they always, always ring at the most obnoxious times.
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08-15-2007, 12:45 PM | #1882 |
Blithe Spirit
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Staying with mothers who refuse to throw anything out of their fridges, ever...and the fizzy pickled herrings from last Christmas that you accidentally eat from therein....bleugh, bleugh and bleugh again.
Note to self....remember to check all sell-by dates on anything that comes from that fridge, before consuming....
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08-15-2007, 12:54 PM | #1883 | |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Home. Where rolling green hills and clear rivers are practically my backyard.
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08-21-2007, 01:19 PM | #1884 |
Princess of Skwerlz
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles)
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I assign heavy rains that flood basements, thereby providing an evening's entertainment of mopping up the water therein. Maybe the heat in Mordor would dry everything up nicely!
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08-22-2007, 04:39 AM | #1885 |
Shadowed Prince
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Location: Thulcandra
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I sympathise, Esty.
Parents: Let's extend the house! Yay! The garage can be moved to the bottom of this big ole slope here. Clever move. I also assign those constant debt adverts on daytime TV. "Hey, you, do you wanna get into EVEN MORE debt? Yeah? Call this number!" And why are they always on kids' TV, anyway? Do kids have debt...? |
08-22-2007, 10:09 AM | #1886 |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Home. Where rolling green hills and clear rivers are practically my backyard.
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Mold. Especially when it gets on cool books, like an old atlas, your only greek mythology book, and nature books with awsome pictures. *sob*
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08-22-2007, 10:13 AM | #1887 |
Everlasting Whiteness
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Clouds, cold and the possibility of rain when it's supposed to be summer! Come on weather, I know this is England but you don't have to prove the stereotype.
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08-22-2007, 05:09 PM | #1888 |
Itinerant Songster
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Location: The Edge of Faerie
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I'll take your clouds, cold, and rain any time. This summer in the American Great Lakes region it has been regularly dry and above 90. Until a very lovely wet/cold spell for a few days. It was nice to see green grass growing for a change. So.... to Mordor with climatically incorrect weather.
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08-22-2007, 07:58 PM | #1889 |
Messenger of Hope
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: In a tiny, insignificant little town in one of the many States.
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Aye, same where I live, Elempi. It's been miserably hot and miserably dry. Our pond is nearly empty.
Drought belongs in Mordor. -- Foley
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08-22-2007, 08:16 PM | #1890 |
Wight
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Location: In the Greenwood
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Hot, humid weather. It's supposed to be 94 Fahrenheit outside but it feels like 120 Fahrenheit.
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08-22-2007, 09:35 PM | #1891 |
Wight
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Location: Hominum que contente mundique huius et cupido
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Getting sick in August! Of all times to get sick, none stop clouds, rain and the temperature hanging around 15 C. Be GONE, and trouble me no more! I assign you all to Mordor! BAH!!!
(Normally I like clouds and cool weather)
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08-22-2007, 10:09 PM | #1892 |
Reflection of Darkness
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Polishing the stars. Well, somebody has to do it; they're looking a little bit dull.
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I'm going to have to agree with those who assign hot and dry weather.
Right now, Idaho has the most acres burning in the entire United States (16 fires and 787,342 acres). Five counties have been declared in a state of emergency. Some areas are so smoky you can hardly see and I have even seem flames consuming the foothills with my own eyes. Any rain that does come only last for ten minutes. I miss the rain and would love to have the kind of rain you other guys are having...
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08-23-2007, 07:45 AM | #1893 | |
A Mere Boggart
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I assign that ad where the mum berates her teenage son for not being interested in the fact that she's just changed her car insurance. I'm 36 and I'd also come over all sullen and uninterested if my mother started on about how excited she was that she was thinking of changing her car insurance. I also assign Three for selling a deaf pensioner a mobile phone they did not want by exploiting the similarity of the word 'three' to 'free'. That's low.
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08-23-2007, 09:00 AM | #1894 | |
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08-23-2007, 09:40 AM | #1895 |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Home. Where rolling green hills and clear rivers are practically my backyard.
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Snapping turtles. They eat ducklings..
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08-23-2007, 11:52 AM | #1896 |
Shadowed Prince
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Erm... I eat ducks. Is that really so bad? (Do not answer if you are Fea).
Seeing as I'm here, I should probably assign something lest I be accused of chat... Mispronouncing French words in front of people who know French can go to Mordor. Happened at interviews, happened in front of my ex-teacher... it's just no fun. |
08-23-2007, 12:43 PM | #1897 | |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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But it is somehow different when they are babies, and when it eats twenty in one year. Three of my female ducks had each had about 4 ducklings, and not a single one lived over a month. One of them tried raising another group, but they too were eaten. She wandered around for a few days, looking very confused, quacking mournfully. It is one of the saddest things I have ever seen an animal do. This year I am keeping the mother and her (at least) 10 ducklings in the barn till they are big enough not to be swallowed whole.
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09-04-2007, 10:49 AM | #1898 |
Mellifluous Maia
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth
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Middle-aged female professors*.
I think, after an hour and a half of sitting in her classroom without a winter coat, I may be suffering from hypothermia... I certainly never looked quite so much like my avatar! *no offense - hey, I'll be one myself someday. |
09-04-2007, 04:09 PM | #1899 |
Wight
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Location: In the Greenwood
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three hours of trig!!! O_o
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09-12-2007, 02:32 PM | #1900 |
A Mere Boggart
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Location: under the bed
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I assign constantly feeling ill, hot, in pain, stiff, swollen, brain-dead, grumpy, fed up and scared.
Having idealised images shoved down your throat only makes this even more annoying so that you just want to tell the media/health services/do-gooders/just about everyone to clear off...
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09-16-2007, 06:41 PM | #1901 |
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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Fire ants. I stepped in some while walking around barefoot last night, and now my feet are covered in horribe itchy red bumps. I guess I never realized how horrible insects get in warmer climates!
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09-18-2007, 01:36 PM | #1902 | |
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09-18-2007, 09:56 PM | #1903 | |
Drummer in the Deep
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She's expecting a baby. I would like to assign the painful and tedious switch to and from computer platforms, and the monetary and other reasons why the switch from the superior platform had to be instigated. Oh, and please take Vista with you when you go.
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09-19-2007, 01:15 PM | #1904 |
Wight
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Location: In the Greenwood
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I assign bickering roommates who refuse to address their real issue so they just act like spoiled children!
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09-22-2007, 04:49 PM | #1905 |
La Belle Dame sans Merci
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Having completely written an entire paper, looking up the final citation that's supposed to blow away my readers with my brilliance (and finally swing an A from a professor who always gives me Cs)...
And discovering that I overlooked one single sentence fragment in the story ("their old debate, and indeed the only debate that ever happened in their country") that completely (and I mean completely) destroys my main support for my thesis. Fourteen words out of like a hundred pages and a third of my paper's trashed.
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10-04-2007, 11:28 AM | #1906 |
Pile O'Bones
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I assign the animated LoTR and Hobbit movies to Mordor, as well as Christmas carols.
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10-06-2007, 06:06 PM | #1907 |
Itinerant Songster
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10-09-2007, 02:07 PM | #1908 |
Haunting Spirit
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Location: In a flower
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I would assign little yippy yappy dogs, but they are probably already in Mordor.
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10-09-2007, 03:45 PM | #1909 |
Itinerant Songster
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I assign getting a rock thrown at my windshield by one of a pre-teen gang as I drove down a residential street in the inner city. And I suppose I got off lucky with only a cracked windshield.
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This is what I assign to Mordor... Loads of math homework, staying up to 11:00 at night doing math homework, and still not being done with math homework. Plus two days later, my family's cat dying, that we've had for 12 years...
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10-09-2007, 11:54 PM | #1911 |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Location: Umbar, but before the corsairs took over. (Ave Maria University, FL, USA)
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Overdue history papers that loom over your head and taunt you with the fact that your grade is dropping every day that you don't finish and turn the darn thing in...
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10-10-2007, 12:38 AM | #1912 |
Shady She-Penguin
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Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
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A student councelling course that takes all your time and forces you to make some decision what are you going to do after the upper secondary...
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10-10-2007, 05:24 AM | #1913 |
Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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Mentally pacing the corridors of a distant hospital hoping for good news
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear...
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10-10-2007, 08:42 AM | #1914 |
Illustrious Ulair
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: In the home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names,and impossible loyalties
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Fr those who didn't get Mith's point there, Lal's in labour at the moment so we're in the hospital. We're both fine but very bored waiting for something to happen. And I'm typing this on a tiny unresponsve rubber keypad on a Patienline terminal.
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10-10-2007, 11:21 AM | #1915 |
La Belle Dame sans Merci
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Though it's nothing compared to Lal & Dave's Mordorism...
Wisdom teeth. I don't want them! It was a devoutly unwelcome discovery, let me tell you.
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10-10-2007, 11:30 AM | #1916 |
Twisted Taleswapper
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Location: somewhere between sanity and insanity
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I assign selfish people to Mordor. And friends who no longer feel like friends. Also I assign puppies....yes puppies, they are super cute but impossibly hard to train to not pee on the carpet.
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10-10-2007, 10:22 PM | #1917 |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Trying to write an american government research paper about ideological exclusion, over the past eight years, when you live in the current government majority trying to keep such news as tightly under-wraps... Ugh! >_<
I guess I can wait fifty years, until it's just a collective 'bad memory'... Though, this is nothing compared to previous Mordoresque experiences, hope all is well for Lal. ~ Understanding Citizen Kane Ka
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10-11-2007, 10:30 PM | #1918 |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: In hospitals, call rooms and (rarely) my apartment.
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Rather than "writer's block" I'd like to postulate the "student's block" for a luxury, all expenses paid trip to the cozy fires of Mt. Doom.
Yes, the student's block... a term I just coined (though I'm sure it has been said before) for that moment where you feel that if you read just ONE more word about (insert topic of study here) your brain will turn into mush and drip out of your ears.
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10-15-2007, 12:51 PM | #1919 |
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10-15-2007, 12:54 PM | #1920 |
Wight
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Location: In the Greenwood
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confusing/inconsistent friendships.
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