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Thirty-Seventh Floor: The Need for Repetition

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Thursday, February 1, 2007 2:41 PM

CYBERSNARK


I dunno, when it comes to hearing voices in one's head, one could do a lot worse than Ducky.

(DiNozzo, for one.)

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Thursday, February 1, 2007 4:25 PM

DAVESHAYNE


So I'm sitting around being bored and coming dangerously close to indulging in a bout of maudlin slef pitty when I decide to engage in one of my favorite time wasting exercises. I choose two more or less random more or less incongruent words to google search for. Imagine my surprose when I find that 'sustainable cheese' not only exists but has it's own industry.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/09/meadow_creek_da.php

Just had to share.

David

"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de

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Friday, February 2, 2007 12:59 AM

JADEHAND


Wait, it's bad that I hear DiNozzo?


"All these years
Truth In front of my eyes
While I denied
What my heart knows was right."
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Friday, February 2, 2007 1:18 AM

SERYN


aw thanks! i was away for the weekend and then i couldn't get here cause the site was down, and then last night i didn't have to go to bed and get enough sleep for work in the morning and theres a local fault with the internet connection!

Bah! It like they don't want me playing with you lovely people...

and the er, guy with the non-twitchy eyes.

somehow more unsettling than the guy with the twitchy eyes.

*hugs for all*

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, February 2, 2007 1:20 AM

JADEHAND


Yay! Hugs!


"All these years
Truth In front of my eyes
While I denied
What my heart knows was right."
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Friday, February 2, 2007 3:18 AM

MAI


*does the Friday dance

YAY!

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Friday, February 2, 2007 3:45 AM

JADEHAND


I have to wait until sunday to do the Friday dance.
Glad to see you are doing well, lost one.


"All these years
Truth In front of my eyes
While I denied
What my heart knows was right."
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Friday, February 2, 2007 3:46 AM

CALLMESERENITY


Oh, I wish you hadn't posted that.

Someone commented on the dairy's use of rennet and now I'm feeling all kinds of guilty and might go through one of my "I must give up cheese" phases.

You can get cheese without rennet (rennet, by the way, is an enzyme taken from the stomach lining of calves. There are eco-friendly and vegetarian rennets, but the baby cow stomach enzyme is the cheapest, as calves are a by-prouduct of dairy cows.)

As always, it's the war between convenience and conscience.

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Friday, February 2, 2007 5:40 AM

JADEHAND


*could never give up cheese*
*has no conscience*
or is that conscienceness? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....

"All these years
Truth In front of my eyes
While I denied
What my heart knows was right."
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Friday, February 2, 2007 6:27 AM

LIGHTMEDARK


Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
and the er, guy with the non-twitchy eyes.

somehow more unsettling than the guy with the twitchy eyes.

*hugs for all*



hugs even for the creepy non-twitchy-eye guy?

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Friday, February 2, 2007 6:50 AM

DAVESHAYNE


Quote:

Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
As always, it's the war between convenience and conscience.



It doesn't have to be. You can adopt the habit of celebrating the spirit of the cow for the food and shelter it provides to you.

David

"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de

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Friday, February 2, 2007 7:01 AM

COZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by daveshayne:
adopt the habit of celebrating the spirit of the cow



There's cow spirits? *quibble*

I... I think I'll stick to scotch. Single malt, thanks: no cow blend.

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Friday, February 2, 2007 7:31 AM

CITIZEN


There was mention of Friday dancing and cheese?



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Friday, February 2, 2007 7:52 AM

DAVESHAYNE


Quote:

Originally posted by cozen:
I... I think I'll stick to scotch.



Ahhh, sheep spirits.

David

"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de

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Friday, February 2, 2007 9:39 AM

CALLMESERENITY


Quote:

Originally posted by citizen:
There was mention of Friday dancing and cheese?



Oh, I'll join in the Friday dancing!

*boogie boogie boogie*

Serenity,
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Friday, February 2, 2007 11:41 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
Oh, I'll join in the Friday dancing!

*boogie boogie boogie*

But why is the Cheese gone?



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Friday, February 2, 2007 11:50 AM

CALLMESERENITY


Dave ate it.

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Friday, February 2, 2007 12:06 PM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
Dave ate it.

NOOOOOOO!



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Friday, February 2, 2007 1:56 PM

SERYN


Quote:

Originally posted by LightMeDark:
Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
and the er, guy with the non-twitchy eyes.

somehow more unsettling than the guy with the twitchy eyes.

*hugs for all*



hugs even for the creepy non-twitchy-eye guy?



of course!

*hugs for ALL*

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, February 2, 2007 2:08 PM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
*hugs for ALL*

NOOOOOOO!



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Friday, February 2, 2007 2:38 PM

SERYN


somebody fetch Citizens meds....

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, February 2, 2007 2:44 PM

DAVESHAYNE


Quote:

Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
Dave ate it.



*dave looks up guiltily*

No I didn't. Honest.

*dave burps*

David

"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de

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Friday, February 2, 2007 2:49 PM

MAI


Quote:

originally posted by seryn
somebody fetch Citizens meds....



Just give him a cookie and put him back in his tent. He will be better in a bit.

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Friday, February 2, 2007 2:49 PM

DAVESHAYNE


Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
somebody fetch Citizens meds....



Or enter him in an Anakin look alike contest.

David

"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de

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Friday, February 2, 2007 2:51 PM

SERYN


ha! i got into a lift at the train station with darth vader the other day!

who'd have thought in his spare time he was an avid train spotter? but he couldn't fool me, not with his beige anorak and grey hair! I'd know that breathing anywhere.



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!
http://www.myspace.com/seryndippyt

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Friday, February 2, 2007 3:51 PM

DAVESHAYNE


Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
who'd have thought in his spare time he was an avid train spotter?



Sounds perfectly dark side to me.

David

"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de

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Friday, February 2, 2007 5:33 PM

JADEHAND


Ack! Anoraknophobia!


"All these years
Truth In front of my eyes
While I denied
What my heart knows was right."
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Friday, February 2, 2007 9:06 PM

JADEHAND




"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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Saturday, February 3, 2007 12:15 AM

JADEHAND


This is the 21st Century

...If you could only see what I've seen with your eyes

A wise man once said
A flower is only
A sexual organ
Beauty is cruelty
And evolution
A wise man once said
that everything could be explained with mathematics
He had denied
His feminine side
Now where is the wisdom in that?

I came just as fast as I could
Through the dirty air
Of your neighbourhood
Your name on a grain of rice
Hangin' around my neck
And a head like lead

This is the 21st century
I heard everything they said
The Universe demystified
Chemicals for God
This is the 21st century
I heard everything they said

A wise man once wrote
That love is only
An ancient instinct
For reproduction
Natural selection
A wise man once said
That everything could be explained
And it's all in the brain

We lay on a velvet rug
by the open fire
She blew air on my eyelids
I cried "What's it all about?"
As she kissed my hair
She said "There, there.."

"This is the 21st century
I heard everything you said
The universe demystified
Astronomy instead
This is the 21st century
Can't you get it through your head
This ain't the way it was meant to be
Magic isn't dead
Come to bed
Come to bed

And rest your heavy head my love.."
And slowly, from above,
She showed the answer's something that can't be written down

This is the 21st century
Flash to crash and burn
Nobody's gonna give you anything
For nothing in return
There's a man up in a mirrored building
And he just bought the world

Would you want
To have kids
Growing up
Into what's left of this?

She shook her head,
She said "Can't you see?
The world is you
The world is me."

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Saturday, February 3, 2007 2:15 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
somebody fetch Citizens meds....

NOOO...
Quote:

Originally posted by Mai:
Just give him a cookie and put him back in his tent. He will be better in a bit.

Ohh, Cookie.



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Saturday, February 3, 2007 5:48 AM

JADEHAND


*hands Citizen some milk to go with his cookie*.

"All these years
Truth In front of my eyes
While I denied
What my heart knows was right."
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Saturday, February 3, 2007 5:56 AM

CITIZEN


*Is happy as a Clam*



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Saturday, February 3, 2007 7:09 AM

COZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by citizen:
*Is happy as a Clam*



*Ponders the pearl of wisdom buried within*

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Saturday, February 3, 2007 7:13 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by cozen:
*Ponders the pearl of wisdom buried within*

*groans*

Although there could be some wisdom there. I mean a pearl starts life as a speck of sand caught in a clam, acting as an irritant, the clam grows a calcium surface over the sand particle, eventually creating a pearl.

So...

If you have any irritating problems if you just ignore them sooner or later they'll calcify and turn into an expensive pearl.



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Saturday, February 3, 2007 7:16 AM

COZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by citizen:

If you have any irritating problems if you just ignore them sooner or later they'll calcify and turn into an expensive pearl.



If that ain't wisdom, then I don't know what wisdom is. Peace.

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Saturday, February 3, 2007 9:19 AM

CALLMESERENITY


wait, don't pearls come from oysters?

*confused*

Serenity,
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Saturday, February 3, 2007 9:23 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
wait, don't pearls come from oysters?

*confused*

Don't you come here and broadside us with your 'Science'.



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Saturday, February 3, 2007 1:41 PM

JADEHAND


did someone say Broadside?


"All these years
Truth In front of my eyes
While I denied
What my heart knows was right."
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Monday, February 5, 2007 1:40 AM

SERYN


broadside!!!!!!

so hows the experimentin coming with the styx water?


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!
http://www.myspace.com/seryndippyt

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Monday, February 5, 2007 4:03 AM

CALLMESERENITY


Quote:

Originally posted by citizen:
Quote:

Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
wait, don't pearls come from oysters?

*confused*

Don't you come here and broadside us with your 'Science'.




I'm so sorry! What was I thinking speaking in Facts and Truths?

Forgive me!

p.s. I once got a pearl from a mussell. It was tiny and black and iridescent. And I lost it.

Serenity,
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Bride8
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Monday, February 5, 2007 4:12 AM

CYBERSNARK


Ooh, a black pearl!

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Monday, February 5, 2007 8:22 AM

JADEHAND


I'm renamed it Lethe water. As the Lethe is the river of forgeting, and drinking Styx water can kill you. So Lethe. I've got a formula that I like a great deal. Doesn't mean other's will like it. My drinks can be rather stiff.

Broadsides and Black Pearls..... when is the 3rd pirates movie?


"All these years
Truth In front of my eyes
While I denied
What my heart knows was right."
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Monday, February 5, 2007 8:35 AM

CALLMESERENITY


I have a blue pearl. The only real nice piece of jewelry I own. I'm wearing it today!

If the Blue Pearl were a pirate ship, it'd only be a modestly successful one.


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Monday, February 5, 2007 9:23 AM

CITIZEN


I don't have any jewlery. I had a ring once, but SerenityPunk stole it at S2.



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Monday, February 5, 2007 9:46 AM

CALLMESERENITY


Not surprised!



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Monday, February 5, 2007 9:50 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
Not surprised!

What you tryin' to say like?



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Monday, February 5, 2007 9:54 AM

CALLMESERENITY


Just that that's exactly the sort of thing I could picture Crayola doing.

"ooh, Seanny, I like your ring. Can I see it?"

"Sure."

*runs away*

She's funny like that.

Serenity,
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Monday, February 5, 2007 9:58 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
Just that that's exactly the sort of thing I could picture Crayola doing.

"ooh, Seanny, I like your ring. Can I see it?"

"Sure."

*runs away*

She's funny like that.

I noticed.

I want my ring back.

Ohh, I looked at flats yesterday!



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Monday, February 5, 2007 11:33 AM

CALLMESERENITY


Well, then you're going to have to take it back, by force, if necessary.

Good luck with that.

ooooh! Anything promising? Or did you wander into an old folks' neighborhood and they kicked you out?

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Monday, February 5, 2007 11:42 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
ooooh! Anything promising? Or did you wander into an old folks' neighborhood and they kicked you out?

There was a pretty nice flat in east grinstead. It's been suggested to me that I may be able to get a 100% mortgage, so I've got to speak to someone about that, it'll cost more, but not as much as house prices will go up by the time I get enough money for a deposit.



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