According to "Stefaniak's Dictionary of Movie Watching Adjectives"
Meepy - dewey-eyed and quivery lipped, sort of the response you get from a 4-year-old when you inform her that that loose tooth really isn't worth $20 outside of tooth fairy economics.

What an excellent definition! Now, since I approach every film in a detached scientific manner, I have to say that this has never been a problem for me. Not once, not even during the end of any aforementioned fims. In fact, I like this definition so much, I am adding it to my Anthropological Glossary of Terms. You know the one which includes; 'Innate Hotness as a characteristic of certain members of the species can be observed from a distance, which precludes study-ending conflicts of interest.'

Oh my gosh, Jordan, I sure hope you're feeling better. That pic of Katherine & Vincent is right under your quote. Did you meet the one and only Vincent?? I would have fainted or gotten hysterical or something stupid like that. What a memory!!

Yup she did him in the flesh all 6'4"inches debateable .

A moment of silence for Don Ho please.

HONOLULU, Hawaii (AP) -- Legendary crooner Don Ho, who entertained tourists for decades wearing raspberry-tinted sunglasses and singing the catchy signature tune "Tiny Bubbles," has died. He was 76.

He died Saturday morning of heart failure, publicist Donna Jung said.

You can read the rest of the article here.

Awww, that is sad news for those of us old enough to remember him.

Dear Prahdeep,
Inasmuch as I enjoyed spirited conversation and interaction with your employees, I rate the Symantic call centre as one of my top suggestions for new party chat line. If, however, having software problems solved in a timely fashion is what customers are looking for, I suggest they dial 16 year olds at random until they hit upon the one who can solve their problem. This solution will undoubtedly be faster and much more likely to suceed than contacting your pleasant but inept staffers.
Yours truly, etc. etc.

Mari

Er, will you all disown me when I admit that "Truly, Madly, Deeply" was not one of my favorite Rickman films? Now "Sense and Sensibility" - oh, yeah.

Really, though, I am one of those bizarre people who just adores Snape. I mean, I liked the character in the books, and then they cast AR, and... *drool*

And now I will be going back to pretending to accomplish something, since I am at work and drooling on the keyboard would be bad. Right?

The poor colonel was so suffocatingly sad in "Sense and Sensibility". Marianne was a ninny and certainly did not appreciate the gem that she had in Christopher.

Nope. Never seen it!

You will forever and always remain a Rickmaninite in my book.

Love Rickman - and "Sense and Sensibility" is one of my all-time favorite films. He was excellent in "Dogma" too, for those not easily offended about religious humor.

rowe

Hey, how was everyone's weekend? Mine was horrible. I have strep throat so I was basically in bed all weekend. I hate being sick. But I caught it from my daughter she just got over strep and then I caught it. I am on antibotics and I'm starting to feel better thank God! I am at work right now even though Cody said that we are in a state of emergency. I work for social workers and the director said we were still opened for business so here I am here at work.

Yeah, same here. Got all the way to work at 6:10 to find the doors still locked and everyone in after me asking me if the state of emergency meant we could go home. The local lake here is cresting above the spillway and is running over the adjacent road surface. Students who walk to school from that direction had an interesting time tip toeing along that watery walk.

If you're on antibiotics, please remember to take the full course and then start hitting the multivitamins and yogurt for a couple of weeks to replace what you'll lose of your intestinal cultures. I hate being sick.

I've got a swimming pool in my basement now. The paper claims we got three inches in Trenton. I believe it based on what's sloshing around down there. April showers, May flowers, great! But not all at one time!

Love Rickman too, Sense & Sensibility is also a favorite of mine, love Dogma (hubby likes it for Salma) & LOVED Rickman in Robin Hood with Kevin Costner. He plays a delicious villian, doesn't he?

P.S. If they decided to once again remake Sense & Sensibility, wouldn't VDO be great in the role of the Captain?

Oh I am going to make sure I take the full course this time around. The last time I was sick I took the antibiotics for a couple of days but then I started to feel better so I threw the rest out thinking I didn't need them anymore. Boy was I wrong!! About a week later I was back at the doctors. He was not to happy with me. He was like "even though you were feeling better, you needed to finish that whole bottle"!! Now I know better!

A few people here at my job didn't make it in because of the weather. Some parts of Avenel were actually evaccuated. I had no problem driving here today. My daughter is happy though because she has no school due to the weather so she's at her Grandmother's house another day!

I can't decide if Rickman was a better villain in Robin Hood or in Die Hard. Loved the suits!

VDO in Rickman's role? Well, since he IS Vincent D'Onofrio, who would even consider LOOKing at Willoughby?

Quick question about PM e-mail notifications.

Is anyone else getting these random emails about messages? I've gotten the same one three times about a PM that CI Fan sent me originally on April 2. When it comes to my email account it's like it's a brand new message, but when I click the link it's the same message from before.

Got one yesterday and then another two today within 30 minutes of each other.

Linda,

I had a similar experience earlier last week. The NBC system seems to be experiencing a time lag problem in their e-mail PM message alerts. I also got some dup messages.
Peachy

Hi Peachy! I totally love your dancin' Snoppy!

Hi ya Bobby,

Glad you like the dancing Snoopy. And a belated welcome to the board!
PeachyBC

Hi Peachy! Can you tell me where to get a piture of Bobby for my whatever you call it, oh avaitor? Is that right?

KRodgers,

I don't have any specific web addresses for VDO avatars. I'm sure a Google search would turn up some places though. Someone else here might know.
PeachyBC

Thanks anyway Peachy!

saiyajinqueen, has she come on yet?

Who, CI Fan? Nope, I haven't seen her in days. Have you tried sending her a pm?

no... maybe i will send a pm to her later when my dinner's over.

by the way, did you get the email that shows the picture of the man who got.... you know.... and his body... was like...

Ugh! Don't make me go there! That was disgusting!! I almost threw up. Worse than John Lange's accident in the subway. Still, I feel sorry for that man. I wish he wasn't in a hurry to cross the street, or he should have used the elevator to cross over.

how are things with the 'saiyajinking'?

Psst, I will discuss it with you through pms lol Some parts are embarrassing

Wallpapers are not avatars. KR, just download a picture from a site you like and translate it into an avatar. The software is right there with the directions to make an avatar in your control panel.

You're already changed your avatar half a dozen times, I can't imagine that you don't already know how to do this. Stop pulling my leg!

I would like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt condolences to anyone on this board who may have been affected by the tragedy at Virgina Tech.

If there is anyone here, my prayers are with you & your family.

And for those of you who attend colleges & universities, especially away from home (like my two children do) please take care & be cautious. There are sick people in the world & no one is immune to danger. Yet, life goes on & we can't hide under our beds or pick up our kids & keep them under lock & key safe at home (even though we might).

(**They have just released the I.D. of the shooter. He was a legal resident of Virginia from Korea. His name was Seung Hui Cho. He was 23 years old & a senior at Virginia Tech. He was also living in one of the dorms. No mention yet of motive, but he did target a young woman (his girlfriend?) as his first victim. Why he would return to the campus & massacre 31 more people is a mystery. It's also been confirmed that there was only one shooter for both incidents. Not to start a debate, but he was legally able to puchase two guns a few days ago with no waiting period. Talk about a need for gun control. )

My condolences to the families of victims who have died in the shootings. May their souls be rest in peace.

Hi 'DonnaLucy'! That was so tragic, I haven't watch much of it today,but that was a great post you did, and I agree all the way! God Bless the people involved,family students,etc. What's gonig on in the world today? Something ha to be done,AMEN!

KRodgers

You can ask Keiko where she got those Goren and Eames avatars. I heard some pictures were made by some fans in a site where she used to hang out. She even has an animated Goren and Eames which is 'The War at Home', or some were made by her by using photoshop. Peachy had a good idea. You could google search for his pictures and make them yourself on photoshop. Also, I thought I saw Stefani's post that she'd be glad to share Vincent D'Onofrio wallpapers. Such a nice lady, willing to share.

When I saw it as breaking news I was just sick.

And the things the are saying about the man today .

It may have put me off story writting for a while long while (sick) (shiver )

Does anyone here know of any members here at the forum that went to Vtech?

I started worry when I saw it .

Hi 'SQ! thanks for the info on Bobby the man, pictures,but I'm bad to the bone with computers! Well,I'll learn sometime,the more I talk with you guys!

My neighbor's 9 month old puppy got loose from her son when he was walking her. She was struck by a car and they needed to put her down last night.

If you have an escape artist dog in your family, please do yourself and your naughty pooch a favor and invest in a greyhound collar. Greyhounds are nicknamed needlenoses because of their long, slender head shape, off of which standard collars easily slip. The greyhound, or safety collar, was designed to be more difficult for the collar to slip off the dog's neck, and when a greyhound takes off at 35 mph, nothing is gonna stop them easily.

You can google them to see what they're like. It's essentially built similarly to a choke collar, but without the spikes. You can get them in a variety of colors and Petsmart, Petco... carries them.

Dogma is in my netflix queue...but it's way down there. Have a couple other things to watch first. (Yes, most of them do have either VDO or Rickman in them. So I'm not slipping too badly.)

Oh, and watching Rickman chew the scenery in Robin Hood just makes me howl. He was so obviously having WAY too much fun with the role.

When I saw Bush speaking at Vtech, the first thing I thought was "man you're a hypocrite". He's going on about how sorry he is and how it's a horrible day for all Americans (and for everyone else), I felt like he was 100% in Politician mode. He was like a marionette getting his strings pulled. But then I've gotten this feeling from Bush before. I hardly ever feel like he genuinely cares.

Maybe this is just me though. I've always thought that there should be stricter gun control laws in the states and I think Bush should acknowledge that access to guns is part of the problem, and work at trying to fix some of those laws. (Watch Bowling for Columbine and it'll open your eyes). If this shooter hadn't been able to buy a gun, he may have opted to just kill himself. Or, he may have only gotten as far as killing or two people (which is still horrible) instead of all 32.

Something I noticed was that whenever there were reports about the Vtech massacre, on every news station (American or Canadian) they went straight to talking about the war in Iraq and possible threats there. It almost seemed like those stories were trying to distract us from what happened in Virginia. Anyone else thought this too? I just thought it was strange b/c the news coverage about the war isn't as prominent on the Canadian stations as the American ones. (There's usually a few minutes then they move onto other stories)...but yesterday the Canadian ones had a lot too.

I don't know, maybe I'm just rambling....and preaching a little.

Hey 'allie',is that ok to call you that? I think this is all about who's politically correct! All the politicians want to be the one person who knows how to handle this problem,that's been going on for years,and will still continue if they don't decrease some big dogs bonuses and high priced pay-roll, instead of making the american people pay it out of their pockets! What to do? Politics, such a touchy subject!

Mayor Daley here in Chicago was worse. He had a press confrence scheduled that day to discuss the Olympic Committee's decision. It was literally hours after the shootings, and he went off on a rant - actually screaming - about gun control and protecting our children. It disgusted me.

Laurie Dreamed of b

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Good morning everyone! What a gorgeous day it is here in good ol Jersey! What a difference 4 days makes! I LOVE this Beautiful Spring weather! I hope eveyone has a wonderful weekend!!

Hello 'stefani'! I have changed it alot because that doesn't take a rocket scientist to do. I'm not pulling anyone's lg,so you think.

Hi everyone. It is really beautiful outside! I didn't want to come back to work when my lunch break was over! Less than an hour to go until I go home!! Tonight, I'm going to a demostration called 'Tastefully Simple' at my cousin's house. Its a great party demostration if you like food and spices. Tomorrow, I'm going to a bridal shower and then no clue for Sunday. Have a nice weekend where ever you all are!!

Hey! They've changed the "Web Exclusives" and the "Highlight of the Day of the Last Four Months" to the right over here!

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle! Or aunt, actually.

Having minor computer irritations this morning. NBC.com and I are not communicating very well. Can't get the personal photo or the Avatar changes to take -- no matter how many times I've tried!

Then a couple of weeks ago I downloaded IE 7. Turns out this sucker has a few glitches. One being the lovely, simple remove all temp internet files button does NOT work! You have clear out the temp cache file manually. Grumble, grumble. You think MS would have fixed that problem by now with all the recent updates they've been sending down!

Peachy (slightly annoyed at the moment)

Oh, I'm hearin' ya, sweetie. I was just not thinking when I downloaded IE 7, with its chirpy "we have upgrades for your computer" screen. The only good thing about it is that tab feature but that doesn't begin to atone for its other sins. I can't stand what it's done to my desktop. I'm still not used to it and it's been at least a couple of months!

Linda, are you saying your IE7 delete temp files tab button works?! I haven't had any other complaints about IE 7 but that nonfunctioning feature. Everything else seems to be cool.
Peachy

Haven't actually tried deleting internet temp files any other way than through the C drive. I was referring to the New Tab feature that opens a new browser window without closing the current one or having you open an entirely new browser from the desktop.

Sorry if I got your hopes up.

Ah, spring in New Jersey, and that crazy woodpecker is using my downspouts as a sounding board again.

I've got this wacky woodpecker that uses my gutters and downspouts, because they resonate so beautifully?! through the neighborhood as he lets the other, non-house-obsessed woodpeckers know my yard is his territory. For all I know, it's the same one that flies repeatedly into the picture window at the front of the house. We won't even go into the mess on my car!

To be specific, it's a northern flicker, and I understand why it does what it does. That doesn't make it any less silly, considering there's a Home Depot two miles away with acres of home improvement stuff to tap on.

Taping up stuff to keep him from flying into my window doesn't help and never has. I'm always amazed he doesn't break his birdie neck.