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| 6 MAY 2005 at 10:36pm |
MorgausePrivate Detective
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Joined: 2 SEP 2004
Status : Online | What, is drinking an unrespectable thing, only fit for young people?
Of course, I am saying that, but I don't drink and drive either. More specifically, I don't drink at all, and I don't drive either... mostly because nobody else would be in the roads if I did drive. Daydreaming, getting out of touch for a few seconds and driving probably don't mix all too well.
*Grumbles* How can anyone actually like the weather in Australia? */Grumbles* I have been known to complain about Britain being too hot and not rainy enough, so I guess that says something about my own favourite kind of weather. :
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| 6 MAY 2005 at 10:45pm |
Chris.Schattenjger
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Alneyan (6 MAY 2005 10:36pm)
I don't drink at all, and I don't drive either... mostly because nobody else would be in the roads if I did drive. Daydreaming, getting out of touch for a few seconds and driving probably don't mix all too well.
I have been known to complain about Britain being too hot and not rainy enough, so I guess that says something about my own favourite kind of weather. :
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Are we related?
...not to be confused with Keira Knightley
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| 6 MAY 2005 at 10:54pm |
MorgausePrivate Detective
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Joined: 2 SEP 2004
Status : Online | Maybe we are after all. But don't speak so loudly, or Anne will start suspecting something. She is watching us, lurking in the corner... don't you see her?
Of course, there is still one difference between us: my anatomy is a bit... sketchy, so to speak. I have been known to mix up most of my body parts, and saw nothing wrong with having an heart at the same level as the stomach... among other related mistakes.
I should be going to bed now; I hope so. Exams tomorrow (Spanish, a subject I master about as much as sewing), so I have to meet Lady Luck, the Nornas, the Fates, the Moirae...
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| 6 MAY 2005 at 10:59pm |
Chris.Schattenjger
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Joined: 8 MAR 2005
Status : Online | I'm worried about Anne; she's disappeared. I suspect she's finally got Gabriel Knight working
...not to be confused with Keira Knightley
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| 6 MAY 2005 at 11:00pm |
MorgausePrivate Detective
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Joined: 2 SEP 2004
Status : Online | Add to that the general elections (she wrote something to the effect of "staying up the whole night), and you would have a very busy Anne indeed.
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| 7 MAY 2005 at 12:25am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | How any frenchman can claim that Spanish is difficult is beyond me. ??? After doing French for a couple of years I found Spanish a real doddle.
Only idiots drink and drive.
Australia's weather.
We're the size of North America so our weather can be very different across the continent. arwin is tropical, cyclones, rainy seasons, that sort of thing. Melbourne is very English, damp mixed up, all 4 seasons in one day sort of thing. Perth is hot and dry. Sydney is hot and muggy with really weird hailstones and stuff. Adelaide is mediterranean, mostly dry, warm to very hot, mild and damp in winter. Perfect.
Alneyan - sounds like you'd enjoy Ireland.
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| 7 MAY 2005 at 1:40am |
SirDaveGuild Master
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Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Caroline (7 MAY 2005 12:25am)
Only idiots drink and drive.
And some idiots drive you to drink!
The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 7 MAY 2005 at 5:42am |
gailSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | [smiley=smiley_up.gif] also known as designated drivers.
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other screaming, "WOO HOO what a ride!!!
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| 7 MAY 2005 at 7:30am |
EvaGuild Master
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Status : Offline | I would like proof that Alneyan and Chris are in fact too separate persons...
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| 7 MAY 2005 at 1:33pm |
MorgausePrivate Detective
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Eva (7 MAY 2005 7:30am)
I would like proof that Alneyan and Chris are in fact too separate persons...
Well... What sort of proof are you looking for? Chris and I could go to Denmark and drop by your place, but I cannot think of any other proof, unless someone happens to make a psychological study just by reading someone's writings.
Caroline: I didn't find that French helped that much when studying Spanish. It does help to get the basics, and some vocabulary items, but beyond that French becomes much less useful. French helped me more while studying English actually, and the other way around: English is nice to check the correct French spelling for forest (foręt, putting those ^ on the correct vowel is so annoying).
I must also admit I am not exactly interested in Spanish, perhaps because it is similar to English and French. I enjoyed studying ancient Greek far more than Spanish, among other languages. Saying that my Spanish is poor was also a way of getting rid of such ideas: I instead went to the exam feeling like a conqueror, ready to smite some Spaniards and... As someone else said before me: "I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too" and so on.
And speaking of which, you were wrong Chris: the adjective you have given me was "Victorian", while "Elizabethan" might have been more appropriate. :
I have considered going to Ireland, and a bit more than that; as it happens, I can try my luck at getting a job there for a year or two, in the course of my college course. And I will close this post on that atrocious pun.
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| 7 MAY 2005 at 2:29pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Put your mind at ease Alneyan. It wasn't a pun. A pun is a funny play on words.
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| 7 MAY 2005 at 2:47pm |
MorgausePrivate Detective
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Status : Online | Well, that was an attempt that failed even before it began then. At least I tried, I guess.
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| 7 MAY 2005 at 4:19pm |
EvaGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Alneyan (7 MAY 2005 1:32pm)
Well... What sort of proof are you looking for? Chris and I could go to Denmark and drop by your place, but I cannot think of any other proof
I like that idea.
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| 7 MAY 2005 at 4:21pm |
Chris.Schattenjger
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Joined: 8 MAR 2005
Status : Online | Well, as long as we get to visit Legoland too...
...not to be confused with Keira Knightley
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| 7 MAY 2005 at 4:40pm |
MorgausePrivate Detective
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Status : Online | I have five months of holidays starting this Tuesday, so getting some time to travel abroad shouldn't be *too* difficult.
Alternatively, we could just ask Caroline to check whether Chris has a French accent. If he doesn't, you have your answer. If he does, I fully expect him to plaid guilty, so that my name will be cleared.
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| 8 MAY 2005 at 1:32am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Location: AU
Status : Offline | Chris is a Lancashire Lad so I don't expect him to 'plaid' anything. Lucien now, I'm jolly sure would be right at home in the plaid....
Eva - be careful what you wish for..... [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif]
Alneyan
How do you intend to spend your long vacation?
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| 8 MAY 2005 at 9:37am |
MorgausePrivate Detective
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Joined: 2 SEP 2004
Status : Online | Isn't he a Yorkshire lad? That's what his profile says, at any rate... though he could have moved, thereby misleading us. A wily chap he is.
*Slaps self* Plead! Plead! Plead! Whenever a French and an English word look similar but are not quite the same, I will mix them up. It goes both ways, of course: I was fond of speaking of "conflicts" in French (correct spelling for the word is conflit in French), so "plead" becomes "plaid" is to be expected. Incidentally, it means I do not pay enough attention to my posts... or that I carefully check spelling or grammar for that matter.
Well, my holidays will be spent moving around I think: Australia in winter might be cooler than France in summer, so I should drop by your home and... Kidding aside, I don't think I will do much besides the ordinary during my holidays: maybe a bit of studying, an interactive fiction here and there, an attempt at writing once in a while, nonsensical posts every now and then... You get the picture.
Now if you will excuse me, I have to pack my things. :
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| 8 MAY 2005 at 1:41pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | It's not entirely your fault Alneyan. I've seen this very same trait exhibited time and again on this forum by other males.
You skim read posts and forget the details. Chris is from Southport (Lancashire) - has posted photos of the place, waxes lyrical about the delightful lawnmower museum they have there and his lifelong membership...
He only lives in Sheffield (Yorkshire) for studying.
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| 8 MAY 2005 at 1:51pm |
MorgausePrivate Detective
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Status : Online | In this case, it would not be a matter of forgetting; rather, the name of the town simply did not strike me, as I had no clue about where Southport is. He should have spoken of Newport (:): that name would have meant something to me.
Of course, he did say that Southport was in the north-west, near Liverpool, but the geography of England has never been my forte. Somehow, I saw both Lancashire and Yorshire as stretching from west to east (like Northumberland... I think), while it isn't exactly the case.
At any rate, I do know that London is located in Cornwall... or was it in Skye?
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| 8 MAY 2005 at 3:55pm |
Chris.Schattenjger
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Joined: 8 MAR 2005
Status : Online | It's very flattering to be spoken about so much... I shall be opening my fan club soon
Alneyan, I will try to only live in places that you have heard of from now on. By the way, Lancashire is in the west and Yorkshire is in the east (Northumbria is above Yorkshire); there is a little mountain range between them to prevent wars from breaking out.
...not to be confused with Keira Knightley
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