03-25-2012, 03:58 PM
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Beamin' Demon
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: C&D HQ in London, Ontario, Canada
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The weekend's not over for me until after I've watched tonight's episodes of The Amazing Race, Desperate Housewives and Mad Men. Then I'll start lamenting.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. Jack Layton, 1950-2011 |
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03-26-2012, 05:51 AM
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Beamin' Demon
Join Date: Sep 2004
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On the contrary, those are some of my favourite shows, I'm just lamenting that I have to work today after a wild weekend of adventure gaming, laundry, shoe shopping and horn polishing/sharpening
 . Sunday night is prime TV-watching night for me, given that I hardly watch anything nowadays. However, I am sad that this is the last season of Housewives.Zoo be zoo be zoo...
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. Jack Layton, 1950-2011 |
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03-26-2012, 06:24 AM
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Failed Birthday Elf
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: London
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Or maybe a threat? What do you have planned Mr Lacey?!
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"Please don't spam. If you have nothing relevant to contribute to the topic, don't post, or I'll have to close this thread." - FantasySci5 in The Thread Must Die. "That said, I bought a lot of biscuits in 2011 that I didn't really need" - Hammerite |
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03-26-2012, 07:06 AM
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Life and times of...
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Up there in the mist
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Geez, talk about a lack of sense of humour... 
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03-26-2012, 07:52 AM
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Filmfreak
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Belgium
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INCEPTION!
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Currently playing: Again, Escape from Monkey Island (replay), King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow Next in line: King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, The Last Express, Time Hollow Recently finished: King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder, The Curse of Monkey Island (replay), The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (abandoned), Mass Effect 3 |
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03-26-2012, 07:07 PM
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Beamin' Demon
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: C&D HQ in London, Ontario, Canada
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I used to dream and I used to vow, I wouldn't dream of it now.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. Jack Layton, 1950-2011 |
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03-27-2012, 10:50 AM
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Failed Birthday Elf
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: London
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...and who made me a big success and brought me wealth and fame?
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky was his name.
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"Please don't spam. If you have nothing relevant to contribute to the topic, don't post, or I'll have to close this thread." - FantasySci5 in The Thread Must Die. "That said, I bought a lot of biscuits in 2011 that I didn't really need" - Hammerite |
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03-27-2012, 11:06 AM
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Life and times of...
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Up there in the mist
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And it was after that that I found out the truth. I learnt the
truth last November - on the third of November, to be precise - and I remember every instant since. It was a gloomy evening, one of the gloomiest possible evenings. I was going home at about eleven o'clock, and I remember that I thought that the evening could not be gloomier. Even physically. Rain had been falling all day, and it had been a cold, gloomy, almost menacing rain, with, I remember, an unmistakable spite against mankind. Suddenly between ten and eleven it had stopped, and was followed by a horrible dampness, colder and damper than the rain, and a sort of steam was rising from everything, from every stone in the street, and from every by-lane if one looked down it as far as one could. A thought suddenly occurred to me, that if all the street lamps had been put out it would have been less cheerless, that the gas made one's heart sadder because it lighted it all up. I had had scarcely any dinner that day, and had been spending the evening with an engineer, and two other friends had been there also. I sat silent - I fancy I bored them. They talked of something rousing and suddenly they got excited over it. But they did not really care, I could see that, and only made a show of being excited. I suddenly said as much to them. "My friends," I said, "you really do not care one way or the other." They were not offended, but they laughed at me. That was because I spoke without any not of reproach, simply because it did not matter to me. They saw it did not, and it amused them. |
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03-27-2012, 12:51 PM
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Life and times of...
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Up there in the mist
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As I was thinking about the gas lamps in the street I
looked up at the sky. The sky was horribly dark, but one could distinctly see tattered clouds, and between them fathomless black patches. Suddenly I noticed in one of these patches a star, and began watching it intently. That was because that star had given me an idea: I decided to kill myself that night. I had firmly determined to do so two months before, and poor as I was, I bought a splendid revolver that very day, and loaded it. But two months had passed and it was still lying in my drawer; I was so utterly indifferent that I wanted to seize a moment when I would not be so indifferent - why, I don't know. And so for two months every night that I came home I thought I would shoot myself. I kept waiting for the right moment. And so now this star gave me a thought. I made up my mind that it should certainly be that night. And why the star gave me the thought I don't know. |
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