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| 26 JUL 2005 at 3:01am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | You'll have to find something trickier than that to con us lot.
Love your avatar btw.
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| 26 JUL 2005 at 3:16am |
JohnBoyIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Caroline (26 JUL 2005 3:00am)
You'll have to find something trickier than that to con us lot.
Love your avatar btw.
I flunked!
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| 26 JUL 2005 at 3:25am |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Caroline is the resident deep thinker around here, JohnBoy, and she has growing boys at home. Not much gets past her.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 26 JUL 2005 at 11:22am |
egroegIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | http://www3.sympatico.ca/bparker/nswcom/jokes/iqtest.html
i guess most of you have seen this before but hey
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| 26 JUL 2005 at 8:21pm |
bdeckedSchattenjger
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Status : Online | I failed. I'm going home now.
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| 26 JUL 2005 at 11:04pm |
IviniaGuild Master
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Status : Offline | I had to use the walkthrough.... :'(
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| 27 JUL 2005 at 3:16am |
JohnBoyIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Where did you find a WT? I searched and searched the web.
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| 27 JUL 2005 at 8:25am |
MorgausePrivate Detective
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Status : Online | Am I the only one who wouldn't purchase sunglasses if I were blind? I guess they can be used for looks, but I think I'd much rather not have any glasses at all.
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| 27 JUL 2005 at 8:28am |
Chris.Schattenjger
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Status : Online | But a lot of blind people do wear them. I guess it's so people know they're blind. Or so they look cool.
...not to be confused with Keira Knightley
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| 27 JUL 2005 at 8:34am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Silly boys. Some "blind" people suffer from conditions that make their eyes extra sensitive to the light. My sister is like that - she suffers temporary periods of blindness and she always wears heavy sunglasses outside, sometimes even indoors if her eyes are bad.
My sister's blindness isn't the fault of the eye itself, rather the eyelids go on strike from time to time and refuse to open. In the house she has to physically hold up her eyelids to see where she's walking. Naturally she doesn't drive like this, but she puts her big sunglasses on when she is taken to the shops and she squints behind them something terrible.
Be kind to blind people. There's a lot more small miseries in this world than you think.
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| 27 JUL 2005 at 9:18am |
MorgausePrivate Detective
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Status : Online | I was speaking of full blindness, rather than any other visual impairment; interestingly, "blind" isn't really used in the French language these days, as something akin to "poor eyesighted" is used instead to describe *everyone* with visual problems, including the blind (just the same, if you cannot hear anything, you still only have "hearing problems", in standard polite French).
Of course, in the case of your sister, sunglasses make sense; I was only considering the case of someone unable to see anything at all, where I cannot see much use for sunglasses... unless the eye is still sensitive somehow?
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| 27 JUL 2005 at 12:21pm |
Chris.Schattenjger
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Status : Online | It's called "visually impaired" in English. Political correctness gone mad...mad, I tells ya!
...not to be confused with Keira Knightley
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| 27 JUL 2005 at 1:26pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Alneyan, I went to college with a lady who was born blind and her eyes were permanently shut. She wore dark glasses to hide them because they had sunken - perhaps the eyes themselves had been removed.
In her case, the glasses can only have been to spare the sighted people having to look at her. Perhaps her parents hated the way people and children stared at her?
I wear specs and in my next life I'm coming back as a gorgeous TALL blonde with perfect 20/20 vision so I can look devastatingly cool in sunglasses. Not to mention, outstandingly sexy in tiny almost not there bikinis.
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| 27 JUL 2005 at 1:35pm |
Chris.Schattenjger
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Status : Online | Get contact lenses, then you can wear sunglasses
...not to be confused with Keira Knightley
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| 27 JUL 2005 at 3:00pm |
egroegIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | i look stupid in sunglasses and most hats.
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| 27 JUL 2005 at 9:29pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By chris156 (27 JUL 2005 1:35pm)
Get contact lenses, then you can wear sunglasses
Tried that ~ more hassle than they're worth. Actually lost one on the floor of the Ladies when on 2nd date with future hubby. Spent ages on the floor looking for it. When I returned to the table he was astonished. He thought I'd dumped him. I was terribly impressed that he intended to simply sit there and eat his meal. I think it was a Schooner's Inn. Don't tell me they've closed down too.
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| 27 JUL 2005 at 9:41pm |
IviniaGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Caroline (27 JUL 2005 9:28pm)
I was terribly impressed that he intended to simply sit there and eat his meal.
Maybe he was just really hungry...
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| 28 JUL 2005 at 1:36am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | That's what he said. 'I'm hungry'. It impressed me that he was so cool, calm and collected ~ master of the situation. Although I was shocked at the sort of manners he thought I had, ordering a meal and then ducking out the back..... :-/
That was the first time I ever tasted wine. We shared a half bottle of reisling and my parents decided I was drunk when I tripped over the cat and stumbled against the dog as I was telling them all about my date. They didn't mind, they just impressed upon me how important it was never to be under the influence in public again. I mean - how drunk can you get on ONE glass of wine. My limit now is TWO glasses. After that I get dizzy and I hate that feeling.
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| 28 JUL 2005 at 1:58am |
IviniaGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Poor guy... :-/
...sounds like you denied him dessert...
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| 28 JUL 2005 at 2:22am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | er.... Ivinia!!!..... I was 18 and this was my 2nd date with the guy. We hadn't even kissed yet.
We are approaching our 28th wedding anniversary. He's had his just desserts.
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| 28 JUL 2005 at 2:28am |
IviniaGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Wow, people sure moved slower back then. Second date and no kiss? Hard to imagine that. These days most women would freak out thinking something was wrong if they hadn't been kissed by the second date.
Anyways....congrats on your upcoming 28th!!
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| 28 JUL 2005 at 2:43am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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How on earth could I kiss a total stranger? Why would I want to? We'd met at a wedding but I didn't know him from Adam. It was our 4th date that we kissed. Innocent young virgins and all that. :
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| 28 JUL 2005 at 11:18am |
Chris.Schattenjger
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Status : Online | You were 18 and you got drunk?! Shocking.
I've never heard of Schooner's Inns.
...not to be confused with Keira Knightley
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| 28 JUL 2005 at 11:48am |
MorgausePrivate Detective
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By chris156 (28 JUL 2005 11:18am)
You were 18 and you got drunk?! Shocking.
Seconded; the youth were... well, so depraved back in those days. :
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