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*whistles quietly to himself and adds 'Grapes' to his list.

Umm... squishy ....

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Monday, April 17, 2006 6:03 AM

This heartless slaughter of grapes must be stopped!

We at the Defence of Unfermented Magnoliopsida Berries ASSociation will not stand idly by while innocent Grapes are slaughtered!

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Monday, April 17, 2006 8:55 AM

SCORPIONREGENT

You guys have far too much time on your hands.

Scorpion Regent

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Monday, April 17, 2006 8:55 AM

Seryn:
You've got a myspace page, how do you sign up?

I've tried using their sign up thing but it doesn't work, it either says my postcode is invalid or the very useful:
"There was an error processing your request, please try again."

Or is it just me that gets problems with these bloody things?

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Monday, April 17, 2006 9:21 AM

KELLYOFLUTHIEN

Are grapes still brought to people in hospital in England? Maybe that's why Seryn dislikes them so much...bad association.

Me, I'd much prefer a strawberry. Now, if only I looked like this while I was eating one:

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Monday, April 17, 2006 9:27 AM

Strawberries...can't tolerate them myself, but watching someone enjoy them...that's another story!

I was not aware that hospitals in England fed their wonded/sick grapes...that may be a good reason for disliking them.

Food for thought, at the least...

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Monday, April 17, 2006 9:45 AM

Hospitals here feed the living patients a green mush made from dead patients and soya.

Grapes are brought in traditionally by relatives. It's encouraged because it helps the Soyafication process.

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Monday, April 17, 2006 10:00 AM

Heh, heh, heh.

"It's people!"

Have not seen that in awhile.

Holding until you get back , Captain.

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Monday, April 17, 2006 10:02 AM

ORPHEUS

...Soylent Green?

Boy, am I glad I never ate hospital food.
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Monday, April 17, 2006 10:06 AM

Ayup.
I always did wonder why it all looked the same...

Holding until you get back , Captain.

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Monday, April 17, 2006 10:27 AM

I like oatmeal cookies and I like oatmeal raisin cookies when I'm in the mood for them. But chocolate chip is the best.

I like grapes and raisins and chocolate covered raisins and some wines and grapejuice and stuffed grapeleaves and being fanned by nubile young men by giant grape leaves and fed grapes while reclining on a chair near the beach.

Just thought I'd put my two pence in.

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Monday, April 17, 2006 10:36 AM

Your two pence puts very vivid pictures in my mind that are very nice...right up until the part with the nubile young men and the fans...why has no one mentioned nubile young women with fans? Or, hey, coed nubile-ity-ness! That way, we can enjoy each other's company while still being fanned by our preference of nubile!

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Monday, April 17, 2006 10:40 AM

Some of us could never afford woman to do fanning, nubile or otherwise.

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Monday, April 17, 2006 10:43 AM

KELLYOFLUTHIEN

Quote:
Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
I like oatmeal cookies and I like oatmeal raisin cookies when I'm in the mood for them. But chocolate chip is the best.

I like grapes and raisins and chocolate covered raisins and some wines and grapejuice and stuffed grapeleaves and being fanned by nubile young men by giant grape leaves and fed grapes while reclining on a chair near the beach.

Just thought I'd put my two pence in.

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Now I want stuffed grapeleaves.

And nubile young men.

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Monday, April 17, 2006 10:46 AM

*dragging lounge chairs into a rough circle near the lake*

Alright, that should be a good start.

*begins pulling grapes and raisins and stuffed grapeleaves and wine and chocolate chip cookies and chocolate covered raisins from the basket o'plenty*

Am I missing anything besides the nubiles?

Holding until you get back , Captain.

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Monday, April 17, 2006 10:53 AM

SCORPIONREGENT

FYI: The dictionary defines nubile as marriable. It was a real buzz kill when I learned that. I had to go and find a whole adjective for what I wanted.

Scorpion Regent

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Monday, April 17, 2006 10:56 AM

*Whispers to SR*
Marriable has it's own conotations in old English...

I think nubile means ready for the taking...

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Monday, April 17, 2006 11:12 AM

I always thought nubile meant 'sexually attractive' in a fleshly, exotic kind of way.

How dull does real life have to be some times?

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Monday, April 17, 2006 11:19 AM

I vote we adopt Seryn's definition...I like it better, anyway.

Any objections?

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Monday, April 17, 2006 12:14 PM

or we coulds just simplify it and say Nubile = Saffron (Yosaffbridge or what ever) Mal certainly seemed to find her so...

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Monday, April 17, 2006 1:17 PM

Even better, at least for us males...how about a definition for the females?

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Monday, April 17, 2006 1:23 PM

hmmmmmmmmm.... thats a toughie, which male do we know encompases the above values?

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Monday, April 17, 2006 1:51 PM

oh, that'd be me, right?

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Monday, April 17, 2006 8:40 PM

are we going with real people? I thought we we were looking at celebrities.

Oh, looking at nubile celebrities... a new hobby to list!

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Monday, April 17, 2006 9:47 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by JadeHand:
oh, that'd be me, right?

Well it sure as hell ain't me.

Morning.

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Monday, April 17, 2006 11:30 PM

WILDIGSTART

it could be...

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:43 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by wildigstart:
it could be...

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 2:37 AM

I vote for Seryn's definition. That's a nice idea.

Tristan, great idea with the lawn chairs!

*plunks herself down in one, waits to be fanned.*

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 2:53 AM

Good morning, all.

Serenity, help yourself to all the assorted goodies...nubiles should be here soon!

Holding until you get back , Captain.

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 3:32 AM

DAVESHAYNE

Funny this should come up. A few days ago I was surfing through Whedonesque and noticed their cunningly hidden and cryptcally named link, "Tag: joss+post" which leads to a list of all threads in which our master has posted to. In this thread http://whedonesque.com/comments/9718 he touches on the subject in question.

Quote:
The people who create a word have no more control over it than the people who created the constitution have control over how it's used today. Language is liquid. 'Doubt' used to mean 'believe'. "The Great and Terrible Oz" is a phrase that would seem contradictory today. Oh, and 'nubile' is defined around 1900 as 'of marriagable age'. Even if you create a word, you cannot control how its meaning will bend -- often to its very opposite. That's part of the fun. Brigadoon: In Gay Technicolor!

In short the dictionary definition of nubile hasn't caught up with how the word is used in modern language. The fact that the modern usage descends from a definition that didn't make the dictionary (it's more or less the victorian era equivalent of "barely legal" and didn't make the dictionaries of the time since victorian era lexicographers were even more repressed than the average victorian era peeps) just muddies up the water a bit.

David

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 3:48 AM

DaveShanyne,
Thank you for that enlightenment (I am not being sarcastic). I had always been under the impression that the modern definition of "nubile" meant young (yet sexually mature),attractive, and well-formed. Unfortunately, the modern definition of "attractive" seems to be stick-figure females (according to the runway models); but it seems to be getting better. I am of the theory that a person is beautiful if they feel comfortable in their own skins. So, my definition of nubile may be different than others.

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 3:52 AM

Let us all define nubile in our own way! Ain't democracy great!

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 4:54 AM

DAVESHAYNE

Quote:
Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
Let us all define nubile in our own way!

Fair dinkum.

Quote:
Ain't democracy great!

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If your going for a spaceship victory yes but if you want to conquer the world you can't beat communism.

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 5:58 AM

Alright, if there are not to be any nubiles...

*gets out of his comfy chair and begins cobbling together an automatic grape-leaf fanning system consisting of old bicycle gears, long poles with grape leaves lashed to them, and a small motor powered by a portable generator*

That ought to do it!
That way, the nubiles can join us in comfort!

Holding until you get back , Captain.

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 6:05 AM

I guess, if I must, since no one else will volunteer, be a nubile. I do certainly fit the profile.

For a little while only, and then someone else has to take a turn.

*dons the NTB and a sarong. Grabs palm fronds.*

Besides, the fan waving will be a good upper body workout.

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 6:33 AM

*glancing from his grape-leaf fanning contraption to Serenity and back*

Sarong good!

*shaking head vigorously*

Serenity, this fanning thing should work...that way you can enjoy the goodies. Please, sit, relax, enjoy yourself...but thank you for the sarong!

Holding until you get back , Captain.

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 6:49 AM

No, no, I don't want to be fanned by a machine. I detest fans in general. I'd rather be fanned by a person, so I figure if I start the fanning than, I can eventually get someone else to fan me! It's a (hopefully) brilliant plan.

Though your contraption is quite ingenious, really. I'm just partial to palm fronds and grape leaves is all.

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 6:57 AM

Well...there are grape leaves attached to long sticks being waved about...and it should hold together...

Holding until you get back , Captain.

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 7:08 AM

I'm partial to palm fronds and grape leaves being fanned by actual peoples.

I thought it was the nubileness of the fanners that was the appeal to begin with?

Isn't that how this all started?

Where's TWG when she's needed?

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 7:12 AM

It was, but then the discussion got into the definition of the word...so I decided to take a break from the discussion, lounge around being fanned for awhile (albeit by a machine

), which would also allow those who had a problem with defining nubiles a chance to rest and enjoy a few goodies. Besides, it seemed like almost everyone else is away at the moment...I needed something to do until y'all got back.

Holding until you get back , Captain.

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 7:32 AM

afternoon peeps.

*Looks around*
*Collects a frosty beverage and a large leafy thing*
*Pushes a chair under Serenity and hands her the drink*
*Fans*

Silly peoples.
* Is shocked the other men didn't do this earlier *

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 7:38 AM

Thank you Jadehand. I was waiting for someone to come to their senses. Can't blame Tristan, he's all married and newbie-like.

P.S. Did you notice what I'm wearing?

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 7:48 AM

yes, lovely sarong, and perhaps your shiny shoes from the faire?

*scoops up a plate of grapes. Plucks them free one at a time and dangles them over the lips until they are devoured.*

Oh thinking or the faire has me feeling piratey again... wait... do I ever not feel piratey?

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 7:50 AM

I, uh, I...uh...hmm.

Holding until you get back , Captain.

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 8:03 AM

ha! Yes, I am wearing my shiny new shoes from the Ren Faire today! However did you know?

Piraty is a good way to feel.

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 8:37 AM

Oh, I knew ...'cause I'm psychotic... no wait..Psychic.. errr... sorry still a little worn out from last night.

* follows the treasure map......

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 8:49 AM

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Where's TWG when she's needed?

huh?

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