AngieIs
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*sigh* and once again I'm talking to a long dead thread.... This is what happens when I actually do my school work!!! I miss out on all the nifty stuff :-(
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Right, having just had a quick chat with Rogan about chippies (fish and chip shops, for non-Brits) it got me wondering. I've seen American films with hot dog stands and pretzel carts, but what do othr countries have as fast food (not counting burger/pizza joints.) Do you have a national dish or even little roadside vans knocking out greasy breakfasts, do you all have ice cream vans? Does anyone else have bread vans? Not that there's that many round here anymore, but I remember buying cakes from dodgy looking vans when I was a kid. Or mobile shops? Or mobile libraries? Or rag and bone men (again, not so many of these) Are Irish council estates filled with horses, John?
there's a fair number of mobile libraries in the US, particularly in rural areas. The Kootenai County Bookmobile was my lifeline when I was young. It showed up twice a month and distributed divinity. The town wasn't big enough for its own library, and I'd exhauseted everything the school library had to offer.
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Sethos - do you know anything about the Avars and Khazars?
Avars were probably Mongolian, showed up in Russia during the 6th century, attacked Constantinople a few times.
Khazars showed up in the Steppes around 650, converted to Judaism because they didn't want the christians or the muslims pushing them around. They were kind of a dam, helped keep invaders out of Kieven Russia from 750 or so until 950, helped to establish Kieven Russia as a trading state. Did pretty well until Sviato Slav (anglicised spelling I"m sure, sorry) decided that having a road block between him and the rest of the world wasn't good enough. By that time the Khazars had started to weaken, Sviato Slav started a war against the Slavs who paid tribute to the Khazars and then sacked Itil (the Khazar capital). Two years after he sacked the Khazar capital the Pechenegs came barreling in and overran the southern steppes. Got himself killed by the Pechenegs too if memory serves.
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Ooh, sombody needs to mention Dead ALive, Peter Jackson's zombie movie! It's a horrible zombie flick the way horrible zombie flicks are SUPPOSED to be made!!! It's gross and disturbing and the effects are pretty damned decent and it's really funny and I'm gonna stop now before I break something. ANyways, REALLY cool flick.
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Mmm, Taco Wagons... You tend to find them anyplace in the US with a large migrant worker population (anywhere you find irrigation or orchards). Lots of hispanic families will use them as a way to work their way up to a real restaurant. Health codes are two or three times as strict, but they can go where the business is. They tend to actually serve REAL mexican food (as opposed to the tex-mex shit that you find almost anywhere else in the US) with homemade tortillas and Jarritos and tortas... Damn it, I'm sick of dorm food, I wanna go home!!!
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Ooh, the first snow of the year that's good enough for a snowball fight, and midnight sledding!!! Taking a sledding run down a wooded hill that may very well kill you, but doesn't... Damn it, the cold rainy weather is making me want snow!!!
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I'm thinking this is more of a scary, creppy, slasher type horror thread, so you don't want cerebral horror like "Psycho", correct?
1.Halloween (only horror movie I enjoy, if that's the criteria)
2.ummm....Hellraiser
3.geesh! I like lots of B-grade B&W horror films, but that's probably not what you're looking for either, I'm guessing. Probably something on Mystery Science Theatre 3000
I'd consider Psycho a thriller, and my criteria is rather loose. It's hard to word a question in such a way as to include all posible applicable answers... or at least it is when you're tired. B grade B&W horror flicks would work too, although I generally find the 60's and 70's variety oh so much worse as far as entertainingly horrible goes...
Let me rephrase the question, what's your favorite Halloween flick? (The Holiday, not the series)
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And now I get to the end of the thread and find that I've once again joined one way after the interesting topic has fled...
Oh well, I'll give my list anyways.
Writing, just the act of watching ink glide onto a clean white piece of paper.
That feeling when it's 4 in the morning and you're cozy in bed with a wonderful book that has just gotten to the best part and everyone else is asleep and the sun is going to rise soon but you're still in your quiet little world and you feel like it'll stay that way forever.
Finding a mountain. Just looking off into the distance, seeing a tree-covered ridge and saying "lets walk to the top." Five hours later you're somewhere you've never been, and would probably never be able to find again.
The feeling of my sweet old cat curled up in the small of my back in the morning when it's cold outside and she's crawled under the covers so her arthritis won't hurt.
Driving with my dad. We used to average 7 hours a weekend, almost always in the wee hours of the morning when sometimes you wouldn't see another car for hours. I think ever important conversation we've ever had has taken place in a car headed somewhere at 90mph.
The feeling in the summer when you've just walked out of a good movie and the world looks abandoned except for the people filing out of the theater and the air is still warm and you just want to spin around and laugh because you're happy.
Nights at the very end of summer when everything's slowly drifting towards fall and there's just a touch of ice to the breeze. The sky is clear, the stars are amazing, and you find yourself still wandering at 4 or 5 without having noticed the night go by.
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Having a fine debate on a pointless topic, that goes on for hours.
One of my greatest joys is finding someone good to argue with, someone who won't take offense or get angry, but who'll still argue with all their heart. Hell, I tend to pick my friends by how vehnamently and eloquently they can disagree with me. :-)
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OK, I guess I do have a collection of Wade animal figurines (they came in Red Rose tea packages). I was a strange child. I was the only kid I can remember who wanted forced to go to antique shows. I was the one who usually ended up dragging my grandparents, in order to find new Wade animals.
Sometimes, I just like to study those little animals.
Does anyone else know what these are, or do you maybe even collect them?!
I've got a couple of hundred of them. A sweet old Indian lady has been giving them to me since I was 3 or 4 years old. They were usually the bird ones, or the turtles, but over the years I've aquired carefully wrapped shoeboxes full. My favorites were always the cougars.
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Halloween's coming up. My friends and I have spent the past two weeks preparing ourselves for the festivities by watching more horror movies than the human body should be able to tolerate. We've watched the abysmally bad ( Frogs!, Kingdom of the Spiders, The Satanic Rites of Dracula) we've watched the amazingly good, and the just generally creepy and we've loved them all.
This made me wonder:
1. What's your favorite horror movie?
2. What's the scariest movie you ever saw?
3. What was the most entertainingly horrible horror movie you ever watched?
Personally:
1. Somebody tried to convince me "The Crow" was horror, and if I believed them that'd be it, but I think he was full of shit so I've got to say "Lost Boys." It's a B movie, and it knows it's a B movie, and it loves being a B movie. Besides, young Kiefer Sutherland is hot.
2. The original "House on Haunted Hill." It's the only movie I remember ever actually scaring me.
3. Probably "Frogs!" although watching William Shatner run around and try VERY hard not to smash any of the spiders attacking him in "Kingdom of the Spiders" is always entertaining.
Hmm, maybe I should change the pole to worst vamp... oh well.
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Favorite movie's easy, "The Crow." It gets harder if I get to choose for genra, but I'll spare you all that.
Best movie.... I dunno, ones that just blew me away when I saw them though would be "The Seventh Seal," "Zulu" (watched it when I was 5, almost bawled my eyes out), "Metropolis" (yeah yeah, lots of people hate it, it's still amazing) or any of a million others.
As for "Triumph of the Will", or for that matter "Birth of a Nation," if you look at them in context of what they accomplished (not whether it was moraly good or bad, but just the sheer reaction) you have to admit that they are masterpieces.
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Which is a particularly well-to-do area in California.
Hmm, or a much more interesting area in New York... Motorcycles or rich kids, motorcycles or rich kids... How bout rich kids getting splattered by motorcycles??? :-)
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I thought all the ladies were supposed to fancy Orlando Bloom?
If we're talking boy-toy, then Legolas, if we're talking handsome stranger, Aragorn.
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If someone's talking a lot, but you're fairly certain they won't do anything about it, or if you're left without any really useful course of action you're said to be "Whistling Dixie"
Sleeping, or more accurately snoring is called "sawing logs"
If you're going somewhere really fast, generally with no regard for the people between you and your destination, you're said to be "hell-bent for leather"
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So, Angie, if you live on a reservation, are you Native American? And which reservation?
I'm not Indian, the entire town of Worley is on the Couer d'Alene reservation. My brothers are breeds, their dad is Nez Pierce from the Lapwai rez.
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Nice pic, Angie, but why are you slightly irritated, then? And is that your heart's delight dragging you around by the end of an arm?
Ex-boyfriend, I got conned/blackmailed into going to a dance at his school. Knew absolutely nobody, was bored out of my skull, and was being paraded around and shown to people. For a happy little introvert like myself it was hell.
Pooka: No, but the personality almost matched...
Lou K. : They do it because they are EVIL.
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When you're daydreaming or sleeping they say you're "gathering cobwebs"
When things (the world, a particular situation, whatever) are degenerating we said that the were going "To hell in a handbasket" or "To hell in a handcart.
When someone decides to take the difficult choice we say that he's making that choice "balls to the wall and the devil be damned"
When somebody has a rediculous number of something we say they have "More ____ than Carter has pills" (Back in the 20's? Carter was a manufacturer of miracle pills, pills for every ailment.)
On the Indian Reservation where I live is somebody's going crazy, acting weird, or making a stupid choice for no understandable reason we say they're "Chasing Coyote." (Coyote being a trickster)
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Well my semester exams are still up ahead...and I'm studying at work.
you have my sympathy. It took 8 cases of Coca Cola to get me through the last week and then it was only just. It's not fair to still require homework while you're giving midterm tests!
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Trying to make me jealous?
? Possibly, but only after someone explains what I'm trying to make you jealous of...
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Congrats! Now get some well deserved rest.
Can't, it's only 8:30p.m., I'm still jittering with more sugar in my system than 5 year old on Halloween and it's GDI week so the dorms are bursting with college-student energy, Three guys with lightsabers just chased what looked suspiciously like a carebear past my door and I'm fairly certain I wasn't hallucinating. Besides, my brain's still bouncing off the walls. I figure I'll go to bed in a few hours and sleep for a couple of days.
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Purple! PURPLE!!! A GIRL IN PURPLE!
Well, I suppose I'm glad you approve of the color...
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I almost feel like I'm sidetracking this thread by actually posting a picture of MYSELF... Fortunately I'm still giddy with the newfound freedom of finishing midterms, so I'm going to do it anyways :-)
I should probably point out that I'm the slightly irritated girl in purple, not the guy dragging her around.
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hey, this is my flirtation thread, baby,let's not talk about rape... just yet.
And that's my cue to back away VERY slowly and wonder if I remembered my knife...
What's The Significance Of Brussells ?
in Bring the Noise
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Sat around reading the past two week's worth of forum nonsense that I've missed, responded to a few threads that have been dead for at least a week, and just generally didn't do the astronomy homework that I already got an extension on. Yeah, my life's gonna suck tomorrow.