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LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-12-06 07:59 AM
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Delete
Edited on Tue Dec-12-06 08:46 AM by OhioBlues
:)
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-12-06 01:14 PM
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1. Hey
Edited on Tue Dec-12-06 01:15 PM by stellanoir
I was gonna respond to OB's kind original offer by demanding the castle in Leichtenstein again. :)

Maybe lets treat this thread like a tabula rasa upon which we can wish. . .

Could be great fun.

Oh and by the way I only want to rent the castle for a peace conference for the soup cult I started with a funny lady in Greece. So far we only have one other member. We want to soup the world you see.

The only rule we've come up with thus far is that we won't allow cat or mouse soup. How's that for dogmatic. . .?

(oooooo & ughhh that bad pun was thoroughly accidental)

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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 03:39 PM
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12. lmao
A delete thread has 12 replies .. I never saw the OP. :cry:

And 132 views to date. Is Leichtenstein an actual place? It sounds really scary.
And castles. Aren't they haunted?

I read a lot of Agatha Christie. And a bit of Stephen King. Hate to burst your bubble, but not sure soup is going to fly.

I'm always the naysayer. The Hanged Man. That's me. Suspended between two realities.
But I somehow fit in here. Right? Reassurance? I'm hanging upside down. No harm.

I might as well be the Fool stepping off the bedrock. But, no, I reached the freaking HANGED man.
Journey of the soul.

Sure hope it doesn't end up in Leichenstein. ;)
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lildreamer316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 05:16 PM
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17. Pssst. Here's something for both of you:
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 06:00 PM
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23. Oh it is a beauty, and such a bargain too, only $6.5 million. nt
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lildreamer316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 07:40 PM
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42. As castles go,
that actually is a bargain......or were you being serious? Ooops.
It had better be...one could spend half a mil just on upkeep per year, I bet.
Still, honestly; if I would be able to afford upkeep; I'd love to have it.
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 08:44 PM
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50. Heavens no, I have no idea what the going price for a castle is...
6 and a half million seems like a heck of a lot of money.
But I will take your word that the price is right.

Yes can you imagine the upkeep?
And how large a staff you would need just to keep it clean?
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lildreamer316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 09:36 PM
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52. Sheesh.
Probably at least 20 to 30. I'm probably underestimating badly.

People pay more here for a house 1/4 the size in Miami or Hollywood or such.
I was watching a travel channel thing about the castles of Scotland and England.
One castle is literally priceless; and others were in the double or triple digit million dollar range.
So yes, six mil is really good, USD anyway.
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 06:37 AM
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58. You are right, in California 1 $million doesn't buy much :(
My sister is law owns a house in Calif. she bought many years
ago and now it is worth well over a million dollars.
It is just a regular home, on the small side actually.

So $6 million is a good price now that I think of it....:)

And yes I think it would take more than 30 people to take care
of the castle. And most of the castles since they are old are in need of constant repair I would think.....
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 06:54 PM
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33. okay . now I am a castle fan
60 bedrooms? I'll take it! Was wondering how I could work in all that b&b fantasy in a six bedroom house.

We won't need the private forest for hunting. But a river near by is needed for toobing.

So glad the Universe showed up to accept requests.
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 06:22 PM
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25. relax votes
It's a friendly place I assure you.
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I Have A Dream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 07:36 PM
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40. Hey stella, maybe we should periodically just start a thread...
Edited on Wed Dec-13-06 07:45 PM by I Have A Dream
to allow anyone to discuss anything that they want to discuss. Just to play. (Just as you did in this thread.) :think:

Wouldn't that make you happy? :D
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 08:16 PM
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44. truly
Edited on Wed Dec-13-06 08:19 PM by stellanoir
it doesn't take much. LOL

Maybe we should re christian this thread as the "seinfeld thread."
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 10:45 AM
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60. whoops in post #44
I meant to say "christen" instead of "christian."

dumb dumb dumb
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 01:32 AM
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2. kicking because I deeply feel it's really silly to do so and no one else will
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Angel Wings Donating Member (328 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 01:48 AM
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3. hehe
:kick:

I'd really like to go to that vacation planet with the unicorns and stuff that someone mentioned in another thread. And, I'd like to start my hiatus right now! }(
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LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 07:08 AM
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5. You are such a wonderful friend!
What would we all do without you. I'd like to see peace here now. I could live in a hut but peace is a must.

:D
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 03:53 PM
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14. Do ya think I've unwittingly elevated hijacking threads to a new art form ?
LOL

Seriously though, I'm screwing around on a deleted thread when I'm supposed to be crafting a "peace piece" prayer thread for the Solstice. Yikes.

What would you do without me. . .?

Well probably not have your deleted threads nefariously hijacked. :)

I live in a yurt (sort of) but peace IS the priority. The castle is a wild fantasy.

I'm still deluded enough to fervantly believe that we'll have peace in our time, despite all obvious appearances to the contrary.

As a preamble to my peace piece (that's a cassie-ism) consider checking out this truly inspiring effort. . .

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/j-terry-edmonds/whats-love-got-to-do-wit_b_36136.html

Though I say I'm screwing around, I'm sort of in awe of that post, as well as many other wondrous things.
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 03:55 PM
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16. We will
Edited on Wed Dec-13-06 03:58 PM by votesomemore
see peace in our time. But our time is infinity. When time ends.

Stella: one of your other posts has helped me self define. I want to be a protaganist.. but I always end up being the antagonist. But the antagonist is not always a bad fellow.
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 05:58 PM
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22. You can even highjack a thread that isn't even a thread...
Edited on Wed Dec-13-06 06:02 PM by cassiepriam
just a deleted post.

Amazing.

I thought I was the Queen of Threadjacking.
But the crown must be passed to you Stella.

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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 06:09 PM
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24. oh now we're gonna have a cat fight over a stupid tiara???
Edited on Wed Dec-13-06 06:11 PM by stellanoir
I truly prefer laurel dear, you may keep the crown.

There's someone who posts in the lounge which I don't really frequent that much. I think her screen name is "tin foil tiaras." How funny is that?

In truth with the south node in Aries, I can't wear hats or head gear at all.

I do still think I'm just screwing around not doing my "peace piece."

Yet it is fairly funny to make something from nothing. I guess old alchemists die hard. :)

Did you see that huff post link I posted somewhere on this thread?

It was really inspiring. Still ruminating over that one.
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 06:36 PM
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28. OK you wear it on odd days, I wear it on even...
even if it is only one made of tin foil. Or laurels.
Great name by the way tin foil tiara.

I think I missed the huffpo link...
can you relink it?

Isn't the solstice coming up soon?
Maybe the meteor shower tonight will help, it is from Gemini?


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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 06:44 PM
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29. here ya go
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/j-terry-edmonds/whats-love-got-to-do-wit_b_36136.html

and I'm telling you, I can't cope with ANYTHING on my head.

Sorry to yell. I'll tell you a funny story about that later.
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 06:49 PM
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30. you can wear it as a necklace..... nt
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 06:51 PM
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31. here's a meteor link. . .
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 06:58 PM
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35. Thanks, I am going to go watch them tonight.
We have clear skies.

They are also saying that there may be northern lights as well
due to the solar flare??

Looks like an active night, maybe it will give us all a nice
little energy kick.
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 01:20 PM
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63. It just occured to me that I should have inserted the
"I'm really in greater need of a hematite anklet" joke here.

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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 03:51 PM
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64. Would look stunning with a diamond tiara necklace :) nt
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 06:04 PM
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65. oh piffles
Do you really think a woman who lives in a yurt and fantasizes about a castle would ever settle for mere common place diamonds?

Do you know there are mega times more diamonds in the world than any of the other precious stones? The market is totally manipulated and they energetically sometimes just make unconscious women more greedy. A heck of a way to start a marriage. Like clear quartz they can function as random intensifiers of good and not so great energies.

Also I just heard that the process of synthesizing diamonds in laboratories has now been perfected so experts can't even tell the difference. It has the DeBeers cartel shaking in their stock holdings. ha ha

Diamond rich countries in Africa have repeatedly been ravaged, war torn, and looted with the natives enslaved so there is strange karma around them as well.

Put more simply, Gaia offers up 20 zillion flavors and most chicks lust for vanilla only. . .?

Now. . . about that alexandrite (nature's ultimate mood stone-forest green in daylight, violet-purple at night, red by fire light-a decade ago the good ones started at 8 grand a carat) necklace. . .I'll be checking my mailbox for that.

:)
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 06:18 PM
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66. You live in a yurt?
Yes very bad about the ugly drama around diamonds. They are such pretty stones, and they can have very good energy.
Like the oil rich countries, greed seems to ruin so much.

Yes I have seen the new lab diamonds. They are stunning. More beautiful that mined diamonds. De Beers should be afraid.

Alexandrite necklace? Yikes.

How about clear quartz instead? If you want it to change colors
I can throw in a few Christmas lites to shine on it. :(
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 06:24 PM
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67. No not really
but that's what I call my apartment.

I also lust for a geodesic dome to put in the blueberry field across the street. It would be so cool.

oooooooooo now we're back to wishing on this hijacked silly thread.

Ahhh. . .that feels better.

Sounds like clear quartz goes to Vegas. LOL
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 07:02 PM
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68. A dome in a blueberry field.
That does sound nice.

I always wanted an underground home.
Tucked away from the world.....

Yes clear quartz goes big time with Christmas lights.
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-15-06 10:27 AM
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69. Is your home decorated that way . . .?
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-15-06 11:33 AM
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70. No, nothing exciting :(
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-15-06 02:53 PM
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71. welp. . .
My older brother is a once and future a mad inventor (Jupiter conjunct Uranus in the 9th.) He for a time, designed, built and installed windmills.

His windmill tower ascends directly out my kitchen window about 1/4 mile away to the south east. I can see it from where I type. His house and my yurt are situated on one of the highest hills (which doesn't say much in a coastal community.)

Every year he strings an enormous six pointed star comprised of tiny white lights that have three (maybe) 300 foot trails of lights draping from the star from the top of windmill tower at roughly 45 degree angle to the north to the ground.

I say (with absolutely no bias whatsoever) it is singularly the most tasteful Christmas decoration I've ever seen. It is the embodiment of enormous though understated elegance. He won't light it until his step grand daughter's birthday. That will be this weekend. Everyone in the town constantly bugs him about when he is going to light it. He sticks to his birthday promise he had made with his step grand daughter.

Maybe when he illuminates it I'll finally get in the spirit of the season.

I had a photo of it on my 'puter but lost it during my crash last spring. I'll try and take another.

It is awe inspiring really.
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-15-06 03:04 PM
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72. Oh please post a pic of the Christmas windmill. Sounds wonderful. nt
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-15-06 04:52 PM
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73. I sent a pict to your e-mail account that you rarely check.
It's not the best shot. I wish you could see it at sunrise.

It's an eyeful. I assure you.

If you have IHAD's e-mail, consider forwarding it to her as I can't post picts. She offered up her photobucket account in the past. Otherwise, I'll get her e-mail and send her a better sunrise shot shortly. I don't.

I swear this symbol can potentially turn both of our holiday seasons around.

I'm looking out the window and it is bleak. But it'll be illuminated over the next couple days. I never worry about my bro climbing that 140 foot tower. I, with my grounding issues once asked him if he didn't get afraid climbing so high. He said, "It's the fear and the respect for gravity that saves me every time." I took that to be instructive. LOL
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I Have A Dream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-15-06 06:33 PM
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74. Hey stella, you don't remember, but I gave it to you before. I'll PM it to you.
I'll be happy to post the shot for you.

:)
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-15-06 08:03 PM
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76. I had a computer crash last spring instead of a dream
Yikes & thanks dear
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-15-06 07:37 PM
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75. Many thanks!
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I Have A Dream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-15-06 08:36 PM
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77. Here's a picture...



Very sweet! :)

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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-15-06 08:46 PM
Response to Reply #77
78. thanks so-o-o much darlin' but just wait till I get the other angle
Edited on Fri Dec-15-06 08:47 PM by stellanoir
with a backdrop of the sunrise to ya.

Thanks as always for posting.
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-16-06 06:22 AM
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79. How nice. The star of Bethlehem. nt
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 06:53 PM
Response to Reply #29
32. Wow, wonderful piece. Amen.
Thanks for sharing it. The author is right on.

Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.

From one of my favorite songs by the same title.
Sung by Vince Gill.
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 06:58 PM
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34. alchemists .
that's a clever twist.

Solstice is not for 10 days (I can't wait). So what is your timeline?

The peace piece .. well what? Maybe just start a delete in GD? And let people post peace?
What are you thinking?
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 07:17 PM
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37. same thing I'm always thinking, I'll wait for spirit to guide me as it generally does.
I cannot presuppose. I can only feel energies hovering.

http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/december_radiants.html
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 08:16 PM
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43. gosssh
that is the second time I've opened that link .. and I have no clue. I'm astrologically impaired. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. All the same, should I bundle up and sit outside and look at the sky?
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 08:27 PM
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47. It will be between 9pm and midnight tonight here in the midwest.
Look at the southeast sky for the meteor shower...

The northern lights are in the north.

At least that is what the advice was on the 6pm news.

I am going out after 9p to see what I can see.

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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 02:56 AM
Response to Reply #47
56. I posted a whole thread about this
I told the roommate guy and he saw all the planets in the East sky. I saw one.
He even said they were in Taurus! And he only knows astronomy.
I wish I could see them.
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 07:24 PM
Response to Reply #34
38. Ha that is great. Stella just do a delete thread in GD
and everyone can post a peace piece of their own.

Ten days away, but who is counting?
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 08:34 PM
Response to Reply #34
48. Actually Vote has a very good idea.
Start a peace thread and invite everyone to add his or her favorite peace piece. Can be from literature, a poem, song, quote,
anecdote, what ever.

H2O man did something similar on St Paddy's Day.
He started a thread and everyone posted their favorite Irish story, song, poem, or childhood memory.

It was one of the most memorable internet experiences I have ever had! What a joy.

Vote's idea could be in addition to Stella's thread, which could be posted on the solstice. The do it yourself peace thread could be on Christmas Eve.
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I Have A Dream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 10:20 AM
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59. LOL! I don't think that it was "unwittingly"!
:rofl:
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 11:40 AM
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61. see post #2 for the really "unwitting" part
(aka dimwitted)

Oh also where I put "christian" instead of "christen"

That was none too swift either.
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 06:05 AM
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4. Become a cloud
And send the gentle winds of peace and harmony to the planet....
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 10:35 AM
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7. ". . .hey you. . .
get off of my cloud. . ."

can't believe I'm quoting Jagger :)
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 01:06 PM
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8. That was good Stella! Remember this one?
Joni Mitchell Clouds Song

Rows and floes of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons evrywhere
Ive looked at clouds that way

But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on evryone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way
Ive looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
Its cloud illusions I recall
I really dont know clouds at all

Moons and junes and ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As evry fairy tale comes real
Ive looked at love that way

But now its just another show
You leave em laughing when you go
And if you care, dont let them know
Dont give yourself away

Ive looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
Its loves illusions I recall
I really dont know love at all

Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say I love you right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
Ive looked at life that way

But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say Ive changed
Well somethings lost, but somethings gained
In living evry day

Ive looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
Its lifes illusions I recall
I really dont know life at all
Ive looked at life from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
Its lifes illusions I recall
I really dont know life at all
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 03:00 PM
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9. Odd day ALERT !!!
Gotta love Joni. . .do you know the story about her reconnection with her long lost daughter about whom she wrote "Little Green" ??? (I think that song was on "Blue" LOL)

". . .Born with the Moon in Cancer. . ."

That was a really heartwarming tale. Can you imagine finding out that your biological mom is Joni in your 20's ???

And since we're dating ourselves on the "tabula rasa wish" thread. . .

This lyric wafted through my cranium when I saw your post . . .

"Eight miles high and when you touch down. . .
You'll find that it's. . . stranger than known. . ."

Re-entry from cloud land can be a real bear, I'll tell ya.

Aaand I just recently heard an amazing new cover of that song on the radio and I can't for the life of me remember who did it. A google search only showed a punk version from the early 90's by Husker Du and that definitely wasn't what I heard. hmmmmmm.

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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 03:10 PM
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11. The only vocal group I know: the Beatles. :(
Edited on Wed Dec-13-06 03:15 PM by cassiepriam
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 05:19 PM
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18. ooooooooo are you ever askin' for an "edjumacation" dear. . .?
Funny story. When my kid was in 8th grade, he had to opt to take an elective in school. He was doing just fine so I said he could take whatever he wanted. He wanted to take "musical appreciation" but was stressed over whether or not his favorite teacher (mr. m. his math teacher) would be the instructor. I asked him if he wanted me to verify that or not and he insisted that I shouldn't. He was willing to chance it.

Well, he lucked out and mr. m turned out to be the instructor. Every day I'd ask what they listened to. It was mostly classic rock from the late 60's and early 70's. I asked why were they listening to such a narrow, though rich, scope of music. The reason turned out being that mr. m made a unilateral decision that any music created prior to 1965 did not really exist.

Why would he do such a thing you might ask.

Well, prior to 1965, mr. m was not yet ten and couldn't buy records.

So forget Bach, Amadeus Wolfgang. . ., Uncle Ludwig, Mendellson, etc., Cole Porter, Glenn Miller, George Gershwin , Rogers and Hammerstein, Billie Holiday, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, the Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, most of Elvis. . .and a holy host of most lauded others. . . they simply didn't exist. Why. . .? very simply, according to the gospel of mr. m, because mr. m was not yet ten.

Then my kid was encouraged by the school to take an advanced math elective to prep him for high school with mr. m.

I said at the time, "How's that elective going?" He said, "Oh mahie, (not trifled over consonants-that's what he casually calls me), "it's the same as music appreciation except we do algebra while we listen to music."

queue in "Inagoddavita">>>>>>>>>>> here.

If you think this is ridiculous please be mindful of the fact that the US gov spent 6 months in the 60's trying to discern if the lyrics to "louie louie" were subversive. They're astute conclusion after copious hours of research was that the lyrics were in fact, totally unintelligible.

Cass. . .ignorance may indeed be bliss.





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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 05:28 PM
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19. Mostly I listen to meditation music.
Occasionally Frank Sinatra.

The Irish tenors on St Paddy's Day.

And Christmas music.

Oh I do like movie soundtrack music.
Sound of Music, South Pacific, etc.

When my little girl was 4 she could sing a wonderful Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair. She has a fabulous voice.

I on the other hand cannot sing at all.

A funny story, when my little girl first started her voice and piano lessons, the only way she would sing for the teacher was if I sang with her in a duet. After 5 minutes of hearing me sing, the teacher said she had a policy of no parents in the music room, I would have to sit in the hallway during the lesson. :(

I think it was either that or she was going to retire permanently from giving music lessons.
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 05:37 PM
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20. ooooooooo. . .again
Rejection at your kid's voice coach's. . .that smarts.

Glad she has one gift among many though.

Or as my kid would say to me, "Relax mom."
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 05:43 PM
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21. I know, and I had practiced so hard on the songs.
A song from Beauty and the Beast
and another one from Little Mermaid.

My little girl has perfect pitch.
I on the other hand have perfect tone deafness....
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 06:26 PM
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26. I'm quite sure you have a plethora of other gifts though.
:)

ooooooo it may be time to harass cassie with compliments again.

:woohoo:
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 06:30 PM
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27. Agh, no, anything but that..........
Call the mods pronto, gonna get ugly :)
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 07:13 PM
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36. why do ya'll bring these memories up?
When I was a little squirt, my mom thought it would be cute if my sister and I sang a duet. In church. My grandad's. Mercifully didn't know anyone there. It was pure humiliation.

Year later . I have to prove this point . long after I had given up on going to church, went Easter because my son was in the play. Showed up with his dad, who had not graced a church threshold for years. The play was awesome. Then we sang group songs, and my son poked me and said, mom do you have to sing so loud? He has since told me I am free to sing as loudly as I wish. For which I thanked him kindly. But I do try to be courteous in a group and don't bring on the obviously off key.

I played piano as a child. Until our first recital. I woldn't play. I refused to get up there and play 'Pomp and Circumstance'. whatever it was called. That was the end of my piano career.
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 07:26 PM
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39. Heaven is supposed to be filled with choirs......
Wonder where they will put us? :(
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 08:19 PM
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45. probalby front row center. n/t
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 08:36 PM
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49. LOL of course, where else? Maybe they will give us a voice with the wings.
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 12:22 AM
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54. All I'm going to say
This is my father's world .. and listen to the spheres.

Did anyone ever say (well they probably did) that the planets just don't spin exactly as I would like. Oh, no, a little more alto! Can the tenors step up? HUH?

You've convinced me. We can all sing. It is the rest of them who are tone deaf.
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Squeech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 12:43 PM
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62. Agreed
There's a story about Charles Ives (who was the first distinctively American composer, from the generation before Gershwin and Copland, and still one of the greatest). He used to help out with religious retreats in early 20th century Connecticut, and one of his jobs was to conduct the choir. There was one guy who always wanted to sing with the choir, a carpenter with no musical training. Most people found his voice excruciating, and often used to complain about it to Ives, asking him how a trained musician like him could stand it. Ives always replied that this guy's passion was so obvious in his voice that it made questions of tuning irrelevant, and his tag line was, "You can't get to heaven on pretty little sounds."

So go ahead and sing!
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 07:39 PM
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41. "witchcraft" and the "summer winds"
are my fave sinatra songs. My mom funnily pretends that she discovered him. Just 'cause she saw him in a local bar long before he became famous.

Similarly, I saw Stevie Ray Vaughan before he was famous. He sent out his goon sqaud to capture me.

I ran away. We would have destroyed each other.

Weird that.
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 08:24 PM
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46. Now you are talking about SRV?
He was always famous. There was never a day that he was not Famous!

He had a goon squad? Do you know there are people who live and breathe SRV? I used to put that tape on for a friend in Dallas. Her entire life fell apart. She lived to video SRV. That came to a halt. There is a statue of him overlooking Town Lake here.

I don't know what to say to this. He was on a self destruct mission, I suppose. Why do the good ones always go down in a plane.

I wish you had let them catch you. Silly girl.
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 09:14 PM
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51. nevermind
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 03:00 AM
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57. is that what
SRV said? :hippie:
I'll take your word for it. But I was in Austin in 1973 and well.. wish I had known you then.
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 03:43 PM
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13. and we wonder
why old (as counted by planet years) people go senile? Dementia? Sign me up!
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I Have A Dream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 07:16 AM
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6. OK, I'll play. I wish that I could be a philanthropist and help everyone...
who needs help. Hey Universe, you can trust me with all of that money. Honest! :D

If not that, I'd like to have superpowers so that I could smite the "bad guys". (My "smiting" would just be a little kick in the pants every once in a while.) It's sort of like playing "god of the aquarium" where I get to remove the "mean" fish that are picking on the gentle fish. Oh, if only life were that way! Be "evil" one too many times, and down the toilet you go! (By the way, I don't really have an aquarium, and I wouldn't really flush a fish down the toilet (I wouldn't buy an aggressive fish), but I like the analogy. :))

O8)
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 03:06 PM
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10. You've probably already seen my. . .
"Aaaand suddenly. . . she became a philanthropist. . ." intended to the first line of my autobiography. Maybe we can both trade off in the role of protagonist. . .okay? That'll make for for a lighter work load for sure and a really complicated plot.

If wishes were fishes, I'd hope for you to be in charge. :)
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 03:54 PM
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15. So you are saying?
That you wouldn't buy one of those fish who will eat your hand if you put it in the aquarium?
Why do those fish even exist? Who wants a fish that eats everything in sight? A vulture fish.
Only god can imagine.

I had nightmares for ages because my dad had to stay at the drive-in to see Red Skelton. The third show. The second one was "Flesh Eaters". I couldn't watch most of it.. and my mom thought it was real funny that my heart was racing. haha. It was horrible for an 8 y/o and I still don't want "thrillers" or spook shows. I could say a lot about that, but will keep it brief. I don't understand our 'civilizations' blood lust. But then I don't understand the Romans either. So I don't try.

I was fortunate enough to see "Flesh Eaters" as an adult, and it was smuck. Bottom feeder.

Your fish reference brought back that memory. No. I'll skip the flesh eaters too.
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 10:19 PM
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53. fish away, fish away, fish away
Ommmmmmm
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 12:35 AM
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55. ouch.
They are flesh eaters! And you're not afraid? Can I get in your corner?

ohhhmmmm


How about for the peace piece, if you're asking, we do a collective ahhhooommm?
If you have listened to Heather's stuff, she says this about toning.. the ah .. ahhhmmm . is the morning. Becoming awake. The ommmmm. is night time. Going to sleep.

I do not have any idea if this is valid. I listen to what resonates or might carry a message.

So the tone she does incorporates ........ AhhhOmmmm. It's hard for me to listen to.
I probably vibrate at a low level. Like a amoeba.
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-19-06 09:14 PM
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80. kicking this ridiculous thread just 'cause Dream thankfully posted a pict of it
on post #77.

It was lit two nights ago. Let us be in the spirit of it (restoration of light) despite all odds.
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-23-06 12:36 PM
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81. Shucks !!!
We've been both pre deleted and post deleted and entirely out done.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5912511

I honestly was not aware of that thread prior to highjacking this thread, as I don't frequent the lounge all too much.

Still I'm not suggesting that we EVER try to compete with the lounge. Just thought it was funny synchronicity even if ours'
started a week later.

This one has far more enthralling content. So there. :)
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I Have A Dream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-23-06 12:45 PM
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82. I saw that thread yesterday for the first time, and it made me laugh. I realized that you...
hadn't seen it because you were joking about doing the same thing in the Lounge. What great synchronicity!

Yep, this was a better thread.

:)
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-23-06 11:17 PM
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83. awe
Come one folks. The Lounge's thread had only pathetic one liners, picts of cat, nuns in funny stockings, a baby sadly wrapped in duct tape, David Lee Roth (circa 1980 somethin'), an amazing all knowing owl, and ladybugs fornicating.

Whereas our thread had links to meteor showers, castles, cool shots of Christmas lights, and amazing writing, and a richness of commentary.

There's no comparison really.

Not to be competitive but just sayin'.

LOL

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