Costumy Thread Returns! Loafers Toga Party. by seryn

LMD: There's a saint of insanity. Or rather, of "Mental Health". Saint Dymphna. She was Irish, if that helps. lol

Her story is very sad, if you look it up. Rather like a Grimm Faerie Tale.

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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 2:33 AM

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Originally posted by VerseExplorer:
"HYPNOS is the God of Sleep, which he induces with purest opium smoked through a horn. Obviously the God of Hyppies."
RIMG, Hypnos sounds perfect for you. I can see you with a tie dyed toga.

That is a wonderful idea, and I think I will go with it. Now I need to find something to use that smells like opium to blow out of a horn at people.

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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 3:46 AM

MAGDALENA

"No power in the 'verse can stop me!"

See what happens when you realise too late that everyone is chosing the name of a god/ess...? I have friends called Artemis and Aphrodite... so I thought they'd be a good choice - but... nah!

(though I'd take Shiny Kitten on any day!!!

)

So can anyone who has studied Greek mythology more recently than me tell me if there's an appropriately crazy/constantly-singing/Antipodean/child-orientated/Kaylee-clone of a godess?

Oh and Aphrodite is the Greek deitey who paralells Mary Magdalene in mythology...

Edit: Oh - that would be right - just add insult to injury Tristan...

Has anyone put their hand up for Io... yet another of Zeus's mistresses, but also associated with Isis (as is Aphrodite)?

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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 5:25 AM

Io's cool. She did get turned into a cow, though. But, of course, wearing a cow costume would be hot and itchy.

Do you have friends who's actual names were Artemis and Aphrodite, or are they just nicknames?

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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 1:16 PM

HELL'S KITTEN

Quote:
Originally posted by magdalena:
See what happens when you realise too late that everyone is chosing the name of a god/ess...? I have friends called Artemis and Aphrodite... so I thought they'd be a good choice - but... nah! (

Magda Kitten, you wanna be Aphrodite?
My crazy little brain already conceived of a costume, but if you'd like to be 'Dite instead, I can bow out....

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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 2:57 PM

VERSEEXPLORER

Magda, It sounds like Hell's Kitten would be willing to switch if you want. Although, I can see you as any or all of the Muses:
Calliope (Chief of the muses and muse of epic song)
Euterpe (muse of lyric song)
Clio (muse of history)
Erato (muse of erotic poetry)
Melpomene (muse of tragedy)
Polyhymnia (muse of sacred song)
Terpsichore (muse of dance)
Thalia (muse of comedy and bucolic poetry)
Urania (muse of astronomy)
You would make a great mix of Calliope, Terpsichore, and Thalia. I can see you singing, dancing, and quoting humorous poems.

RIMG, I can't wait to see the outfit. You will be hard to miss.

Since it will be in public, you might want to just blow bubbles at passing ppl.

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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 6:46 PM

XANDERLHARRIS

Peeks head in with interest.

Mmm. I already own a bow and quiver. I just need to do some research and find a goddess that would have those things. I would bring the arrows and quiver but not the bow. Security doesn't care for compound bows AND arrows. Plus it would get too heavy after a while.

Ponders......

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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 7:00 PM

VERSEEXPLORER

Artemis is already taken. How about Cupid? He carries arrows and a quiver. I think we could have a female Cupid.

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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 7:14 PM

XANDERLHARRIS

Ponders some more.....

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Thursday, November 23, 2006 1:03 AM

MAGDALENA

"No power in the 'verse can stop me!"

Oh... Hells Kitten I don't know what to say... you have already thought of an amazing costume I am sure... I did a lot of pondering last night and was leaning towards Persephone... I was sure she'd been taken - but there is something about the sweet innocent maiden helping her mother bring about the bounties of spring and summer and then returning to Hades for some seriously hot fun in the autumn/winter... you are so very generous to offer though... I'll PM you Honey!

(and I don't really think I would beat you... you know?)

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Thursday, November 23, 2006 3:58 AM

I already told you I thought you'd make an awesome Demeter, Ash!

Cupid was Roman. Eros is Greek.

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Thursday, November 23, 2006 11:16 AM

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Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
Cupid was Roman. Eros is Greek.

*nods

I'm going between a few: Charon, Morpheus, Erebus, Prometheus, Thanatos, or one of the gods of the winds.

If we get Orpheus to go...he could be Orpheus, lol.

-edit- wasn't sure if anyone had picked Dionysus...I'm looking into him, too (as I've recently grown a taste for wine ;D)

-edit2- narrowed down to Prometheus, Dionysus, and Morpheus...what do you hidey loafers think?

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Thursday, November 23, 2006 12:57 PM

I've updated the list, hopefully everyone is included. If not, pm me, i'll get up to speed any time now.

Baby - i don't think there is a god of Jayne hats, but you know, just pick a god and wear it. You're a god - no one is going to tell you what you can and can't wear.

Serenity - that sounds really lovely, and you have to have a crown, and someone has to make you silver arrows and a bow (cause they'll look great - but not out of reall silver obviously)

LMD - I would have though that Jade, with his concoctions, would snap up Dionysus, but actually thinking about it, you would do brilliantly.

Jade- I was thinking (yes, it did hurt a bit) Styx water - i'm thinking murky looking? how about that blue liquer stuff with a bit of black vodka to make it all dark? do you get the blavod over there? I'm not sure if it has a taste to it, but thats the fun in experimenting!

Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Thursday, November 23, 2006 1:41 PM

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Originally posted by seryn:
Baby - i don't think there is a god of Jayne hats,

Though, really, if ever Jayne had a soulmate, it'd be Ares (ol' tall, dim, and violent). . .

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Thursday, November 23, 2006 2:05 PM

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Originally posted by seryn:
LMD - I would have though that Jade, with his concoctions, would snap up Dionysus, but actually thinking about it, you would do brilliantly.

...

do you get the blavod over there? I'm not sure if it has a taste to it, but thats the fun in experimenting!

do you really think so, seryn dear? i'm not sure if i should be happy about doing brilliantly as a drunk god, haha

they sell blavod at the liquor store in my town, so they probably sell it where Jade is as it's a much bigger place (then again, I can't find 99 Black Cherries anywhere but the liquor store in my town)

-edit- while i have your attention, seryn, about the ritter- just the yogurt and the assortment you already picked up sounds great. about how much fritos would you like me to pick up?

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Thursday, November 23, 2006 2:26 PM

Seryn, I haven't started the expierments yet. For some reason I imagine Styx water as having a redish tinge to it, but murky is good too. I'm currently leaning towards Captain Morgan Tattoo (black) and Cinnamon Scnapps (Red), put I'll know more once I start playing with it.... the recipe.

LMD: Charon? I need a ferryman to bring me my Persephone. Being Hades is fun.

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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are
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The fearful fall foul of fate as often as the reckless."
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Thursday, November 23, 2006 3:22 PM

yeah, Charon's still appealing to me. Charon or not, I'll work hard to entrap a Persephone for you (perhaps I'll bring a bottle of that pomegranate liquour again

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Thursday, November 23, 2006 4:34 PM

that's fitting. Ha!

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Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run
The fearful fall foul of fate as often as the reckless."
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Thursday, November 23, 2006 4:54 PM

TPAGE

I figure someone is bound to say it eventually and I'm feeling a little 'frisky' tonight... anyone going as a nymph?

And if someday on some little piss-ant moon/My hand is a little too slow, or my aim a little bit off/At least I’ll go down fighting, not lying abed surrounded by quacks - "Sir Warrick" by Geezer

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Friday, November 24, 2006 12:40 AM

you could Tpage!

Ah, crossdressing, i'm kinda surprised no-one else has decided to do it already. I just know that if this were a large group of solely british people, Aphrodite would be a bloke in drag.

but never mind.

Okies, LMD - I just had an image of you relclining and holding a drink. Pretty much what you did whenever in-room last year! you'd just need to add a wine stained tunic and some preistesses to waft you with fans and feed you grapes.

and a hat, made of fruit, seeing as i'm apparently going for the disney version,

Ok about the ritter, but you still need to give me you're address. and as for frito's i don't know how they're sold, so enough for six portions? a big bag maybe?

and definitely bring your pomegranate drink to D*C - you'll be Hera's favorite!

Jade - why red? sounds interesting!

would you be able to make two? We need an ambrosia! something golden coloured and sweetish, or we could just get in a load of mead, but that stuff makes me ill.

wikipedia said sokmething about it being honey...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosia

could you do that?

Magda? Have you definitly settled on Persephone, or are you still deciding, no rush just lest me know.

Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Friday, November 24, 2006 1:21 AM

MAGDALENA

"No power in the 'verse can stop me!"

Oh yes please Seryn... I have now decided on Persephone - it was so lovely of my Hell's Kitten to offer to forgo the pleasure of being Aphrodite... but Persephone I shall be....

Besides I hear Hades is a bad boy!!

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Friday, November 24, 2006 3:41 AM

Seryn: I've always made ambrosia as this fruit cocktail with whipped cream concoction that is quite lovely. Maybe I'll bring that for us to feast on.

Where could I get a silver bow and arrows?

I guess I could buy cheap toys and spray paint them. As long as they don't actual look like they could do damage. the D*C police won't like that.

Mm..pomegranate

LMD: I can see yo as Charon, also. Make sure to bring a money bag to try to collect coins from everyone!!

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Friday, November 24, 2006 8:47 AM

Ok, so the Ambrosia... it's a food and a drink. Typically a fruit cocktail as a food, but I could conjur a drink form also. Typically Sweet Honey flavoured and colored. I can go for the color, not sure how to get that flavour with the liqours on hand, I'll have more research. I might just go for a really fruity flavoured mix. Various Parrot Bay rums, etc.
And I made a mistake, or not. It seems the river Styx isn't the one that makes you forget, That would be Lethe. But it also seems that all the rivers are tributaries of Styx. So it may be Lethe water when I'm finished. Also, not sure why I envisioned it as red. But that's what Styx brought to mind, Lethe may change the red part, but I still like the idea of it being murky, Tattoo will be base.

LMD if you go with Charon, we'll need to conjur some obolus to collect. These are the silver coins charged for the ride. We can pass them out to the peeps we want to have come by. They would not have to be silver coins. I have a

ton of those glass beads/tokens used in various games, and a small bag which we could use for distribution and collecting of these "tokens".

Magda: Where are you hearing these things about me being bad? .... not that they aren't true, I'm just curious.

Yup, I'm a bad bad man.

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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run
The fearful fall foul of fate as often as the reckless."
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Friday, November 24, 2006 11:25 AM

argh, my big long reply got swallowed by the internet monster (charybdis, maybe?), and i've not the will to reform it.

i'll get ahold of you, seryn, via PM to give you my address, and to get yours

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Friday, November 24, 2006 11:25 AM

...and then i double-posted =/

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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 12:41 PM

ok, so i finally got the chance to go up and look at the statues in the Walker (EDIT: the Walker art gallery, up the road from the museum i work in) and it looks really good - loads of statues of the gods, including Artemis and her little moon shaped crown, a huge head of Athena, lots of luvverly detail of her snake necklace and helmet, psyche (sp?) with her butterfly wings and puck with bat wings and a shell on his head.

yup, thats right, bat wings and a hat made out of a mollusc.

the victorians were wierd, but the greeks and romans were wierder.

so i'm going to go back with the camera, and hopefully as well, i'll get to the lever (another gallery and take photos. And then i'll creat a flickr file to put them all in, and we can just post the links.

in addition - i was messing around with fabrics the other day, and by far the best drape (the one that looks most like the stylised folds on the statues anyway) is wool - actually a pashmina type wool - a very very fine high thread weave, so if you're looking for fabrics, ask your local shop for crinkle linen and fine woven wool, they look great, and both of them are historically accurate.

now i just have to find out how much they are, and work out how to make a crown that doesn't look like a five year old threw it together on a chocolate bender.

Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Friday, December 8, 2006 7:07 PM

Fugazi:

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"All these years
Truth In front of my eyes
While I denied
What my heart knows was right."
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Saturday, December 9, 2006 3:29 AM

OOH! Moon shaped crown! I do want to see that!

That pashmina wool is terribly expensive. I'm afraid I'll probably end up going with something cheap and fake. Especially since I'll be putting loads of money into my piratey coat.

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Saturday, December 9, 2006 7:51 AM

yes, i'm just looking for any kind of woven wool at the moment - my choices are so limited.

I've been invited to a fancy dress party at new years, and i did think to go as a peacock (something like a cute blue cocktail dress, with a painted feather tail and a little hat or clip of some description making a plume in my hair) but, expensive!

so thought i'd start on the Hera costume very early, and do it for this new years, that way I have chance to refine it, and give you lot pointers on what works and what doesn't.

Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Saturday, December 9, 2006 2:29 PM

That is a fantabulous idea. I wish I was going to a fancy dress party for New Years!

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Saturday, December 9, 2006 3:00 PM

CYBERSNARK

Quote:
Originally posted by seryn:
puck with bat wings and a shell on his head.

yup, thats right, bat wings and a hat made out of a mollusc.

the victorians were wierd, but the greeks and romans were wierder.

Gwah-huh?

Not that Robin Goodfellow would shy away from . . . daring fashion, but Puck wasn't Greco-Roman, he was Celtic (originally, though Shakespeare co-opted him, so anything up to the 15th century would be fair game). You sure you had the right deity?

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Sunday, December 10, 2006 9:30 AM

I thought pan was the celtic version - puck was the little goat legged kid (satyr?) used to loiter in archadian forests and what not.

but then, in my history classes, we di, the first world war, followed by the second world war, followed by the second world war, and then, oh, look, what a change! the second world war.

you'd swear the world didn't exist before 1910.

This was a room full of marble statues - mostly victorian copies of roman copies of greek originals, in no partucular order - its like they just mounted them where they unpacked them, theres also several later pieces and a lot of victorian 'interpretations' Theres not an awful lot of signage - just origin and artist name if its available, so.... your guess is as good as mine.

Actually better 'cause you're a big history geek and i'm just mentally retarded.

Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:14 AM

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Quote:
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I thought pan was the celtic version - puck was the little goat legged kid (satyr?) used to loiter in archadian forests and what not.

Actually it was the other way around: Pan was. . . Well, he's in the Greco-Roman pantheon, but he was around long before then as a pagan European god. He's related to the Green Man (who is so ancient a figure that he literally has no "real" name). Puck is a northern cousin, from Germany/Scandinavia/Britain (no idea where he actually originated, but he was known in those lands).

All three of these fairest of Fair Folk were associated with the Devil when Christianity took over, so that's where they start overlapping.

http://www.boldoutlaw.com/puckrobin/puckages.html

Looks like the Puck-as-Satyr thing was post-Renaissance, by which point Greco-Romanism had influenced everything.

Puck's main claim to fame was in A Midsummer Night's Dream, where he became the only member of Oberon's court that Shakey treated well (professional courtesy, methinks. Storytellers tend to have a fondness for Tricksters

Quote:
but then, in my history classes, we di, the first world war, followed by the second world war, followed by the second world war, and then, oh, look, what a change! the second world war.

you'd swear the world didn't exist before 1910.

Heh. Add in a mean-spirited psychotic b*tch of a teacher and you'd have my high school history class.

Plus, being a Catholic School, mythology and folklore wasn't really on the curriculum. Best we had was "World Religions," which only served as an introduction to present-day politico-religious groups.

Everything I know about history is either self-taught or comes from college-level Art History.

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Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:28 AM

yeah - tried to do Art history - two semesters of looking at slides of sharks in tanks and wobbly cube women (teacher refused to believe there was art before picasso) I gave up.

Subsequent (scant) knowledge comes from the discovery channel and national geographic, books i was able to browse in stores, my mothers endles rantings and some contxt and costume history classes in uni. (so everything is couched in 'what does it look like?')

plus - theres a lot there that i can't remember when i need to - the gift of dyslexia - OH! oh oh oh! I know this one! i do i know it - what is it! Aaaaaaaaaarrrggghhhh!

Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:30 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Jadehand:
Ok, so the Ambrosia... it's a food and a drink. Typically a fruit cocktail as a food, but I could conjur a drink form also. Typically Sweet Honey flavoured and colored. I can go for the color, not sure how to get that flavour with the liqours on hand, I'll have more research. I might just go for a really fruity flavoured mix. Various Parrot Bay rums, etc.
And I made a mistake, or not. It seems the river Styx isn't the one that makes you forget, That would be Lethe. But it also seems that all the rivers are tributaries of Styx. So it may be Lethe water when I'm finished. Also, not sure why I envisioned it as red. But that's what Styx brought to mind, Lethe may change the red part, but I still like the idea of it being murky, Tattoo will be base.

Two things:
1.) I might try fermenting a mead-like beverage with the various fruit flavors, if anyone is interested. I will have to start it soon, so it is ready in time.
2.) My friend has a bong named Lethe, and it was very appropriately named. It was actually a blue-green color, and I think that might look good. I can also see Styx being red, it just makes sense.

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'cause the Roman Gods up to that point were crap. Jeff, the god of biscuits, and Simon, the god of hair-dos.

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Sunday, December 10, 2006 1:15 PM

he named his bong?

Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Sunday, December 10, 2006 1:24 PM

Every single piece I have ever smoked out of has had a name. It's just something you do.

I had a piece that looked like a mushroom that was called Trippy Blue Phoenix, but it was also know to some as The Over-the-Shoulder Bud Bazooka.

We had a plastic hooka named Ishmael the Tree Frog.

My brother has a black acrylic bong named The Black Mamba.

My other brother has a contraption named The Bionic Shotgun.

Those are probably the most interesting/clever ones, as well as Lethe.

~jimi

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Sunday, December 10, 2006 1:30 PM

well i guess i did ask.

I'd wonder if girls named their belongings, but i have a sewing machine called Betty (the practical purpose of the name being that it makes you sound less crazy when you are screaming obcenities at 'betty' instead of at 'you' or 'thing' or 'machine')

Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Sunday, December 10, 2006 1:35 PM

Well, these folks with the named pieces (that make or used to make up my smoking circle) were male AND female.

Some other names of my own include:

Firehammer (my first)
Labrynth
Distraction
Deeper Down the Spiral
USSmoke Enterprise (yes, it was shaped like the ship)
Fenster
Starshell Aquarius the Deep (current and only working one)

~jimi

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Sunday, December 10, 2006 1:45 PM

The only things I've ever named were my guitars.

I guess I should name my gun, though. Don't people usually name their guns?

It needs a good piratey name.

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Sunday, December 10, 2006 5:34 PM

I've named my last two cars, and I know some people name things that rhyme with bong, But those are some great names. Were I a smoker, I'm sure those circles would be great. I have to assume the name Fenster comes from The Usual Suspects?
My last car, not current one, was "O-Ushi", for she was the widest vehicle I had ever driven. But also respectfully named after Hida O-Ushi.

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Truth In front of my eyes
While I denied
What my heart knows was right."
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Sunday, December 10, 2006 5:40 PM

Yes, it is from Usual Suspects, and to add to it, Fenster actually got confiscated by the cops, so I bought him a replacement piece that he named McMannis. :)

~jimi

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Sunday, December 10, 2006 5:43 PM

That's too awesome. You need a Kobayashi. I'm almost sorry I gave up smoking. Ah, well, Now I can name drinks.

"All these years
Truth In front of my eyes
While I denied
What my heart knows was right."
Neverland(Marbles)-Marillion
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Monday, December 11, 2006 1:18 AM

In the grand old tradition (everything if it gets named, gets named Burt, Bertie, Bertold whatever - even the machine got the nearest female equivalent)but i have no desire to name them, so you can have Burt, and call the other Earnie.

If you wish, not piraty, but... amusing.

Ok, camera is all charged up and ready to take it back into work to get photo's of crown and bits and bobs. Will post when can. (well, will photobucket)

Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Monday, December 11, 2006 3:46 AM

Nah, my gun needs a cool name like "The Widowmaker" or something.

Not those plasticky ones, I got rid of those. I'm talking about the shiny wooden one with the real metal bits cozen bought me. That's the one that needs a name.

YAY for camera and pictures of bits and bobs!!

Because you work in a museum, do you get to go in the others for free?

Serenity,
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8

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Monday, December 11, 2006 3:56 AM

no sadly not!

We're quite lucky in that most museums in england are free anyway (the government got one thing right at least) but there are some that ain't, like one called 'spaceport' that opened near us recently - absolutely fantastic place, and we wen't specifically cause they had the DR Who exhibition there (all the aliens costumes and props and whatnot from the new series, complete with fart sound efeects for the slitheen and a moving screaming Dalek, and a Cyberman - really good!) but tit costs £8.50 minimum for adults and not much less for kids (bout twenty $?) on which even a discount would have been handy.

And then the V&A (or The Object Heaven as i like to call it) charges for its special exhibitions.... *pout*

Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Monday, December 11, 2006 4:18 AM

I remember seeing that museum on the Dr. Who DVDs! It was in Liverpool and I was like "One more reason to visit Seryn!"

£8.50 is about $15 or $16. A bit expensive for a museum. Even the Philadelphia Museum of Art isn't that expensive, and it's free on Sundays.

Serenity,
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8

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Tuesday, December 12, 2006 5:58 PM