Ha! I did the same thing with U2 lyrics back before Bono fell hopelessly and totally deeply in love with himself. Acrobat off of Achtung Baby, last song of their's that I would even categorize as music...

Have to admit that I've never heard even one song from Jethro Tull... You're right though, ADA, it was pretty funny when their Lord of the Rings frontman came out to accept a Heavy Metal award of all things!!! Well, we Vincent fans have already pretty much come to appreciate the true value of entertainment industry-given awards, anywho...






(^didn't win - but that's hardly the point..!)

D'mmmmmmmnnnnnn the "your signature's too long" reject message!!!! Well, for you CvlSrvnt:



one of these days i'm going to cut you into little pieces...

^i'd never seen this one myself (seen? saw? for some reason my mind can't deal with proper verb tense today)

ADA - Is there anything to be done about the signature error messages? My board signature isn't actually all that big, so I'm not sure why I couldn't add the second online page link... Most frustrating part was that it took umpteen tries to swap out the smaller picture below for the much bigger one that I'd had all this time!! Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated....

Yeah this board has serious issues when it comes to images. Don't even get me started! I've sent inquiries and gotten no reply. Hopefully that means they are busy working on the issue and can't pm me back ... but I wont hold my breath!

And in my mind the Black Album is a Grammy Winner, academy voters be dam-ned!!!

Yeah yeah I`m here! But I was busy and more importantly --> you guys completely lost me. Were you trying to prove which one of you is older or something, geez . I`m at that age where I know what you`re talking about, but not quite, and it`s enough to make me feel young. Which is a welcome change to the conversations at work with 19-year olds (yes, that is only 2 years younger than me!) to discover they already don`t know what you and your completely grown-up (also 21-year old) friend are talking about. So thank you .

Edit: uhuh, so that was actually in the REAL off topic thread. But you get my point right .

Dang... well, I guess I'm going to need to try to sneak up on it one day when it isn't looking - which is basically what I had to do to first get up the Harrowdowne Hill link, then swap that for Terrence with the original photo, then get this photo swap done... I've put more effort into gettings things to work on this board in the last two days in the office than I have what I'm being paid for!!! ..and DAMMIT i'm craving fried clams again!! Started with a passing thought at bedtime last night... I swear to Julia Child my limbic/gastronomic enjoyment system connection functions like I'm continually pregnant.. and it's not like I have a choice to just ignore the cravings, Oh noooo... What happens then is that I start dreaming about the desired food and start slipping slowly toward complete obsessive waking form of misery until I get it... It's pure torture, I tell you!!! just so not right.... Ran out of red wine last night, too... You'd think that tonight I could have a glass of the white that's sitting there just ready to be finished off instead, but noooo, we've got a taste for the RED so, I've got TWO different stops that I have to make before I can go home and relax on a rare night off, lest my mind and body completely turn on me...

You think it's over -you know, when you finally quit smoking (3/16/04, for the second and last time) - but noooo, it isn't... The addictive behavior is just supplanted by something else... I'm thinking of conducting a study one fine day as to whether those with addictive tendencies can ever really, truly be free of them... I'd privately posed this question to the addictions counsellor who came to give us a lecture on the subject as part of the psych portion of this semester (lovely man about 10yrs(?) into recovery, bipolar to boot - quite a shining beacon of hard fought for health). His response was basically that he had absolutely no idea. He went into how people can, do and should replace addictions with healthier addictive behaviors and all that, but there was no real answer to the ultimate question of being totally and completely free of the compulsion. Given how many people across the country he's worked with (mainly in the entertainment industry), I'm going to take that as a big hint that he's not, nor has he ever seen anyone actually do it.

Any former anything's here who know of which I speak??


EDIT: It's about 20 yrs... He's a former comedian, too... Funny as h'll... Lecture isn't really the right word for his presentation, but it was just as (if not more) informative nonetheless...

OOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWUUUUU!!!!

-and might I add-


DAAAAMN!!!!


OKAY - so you hate chiuhuahuas - don't gotta go for the jugular like that!!! Now, on top of being craving riddled and signature harried, I've gotta go get that torn out chunk of my neck sown back in. Thaaaat's just great... Juuust PERFECT, even!!! Can this daaaay get any better??!?

Could I just have that bit that's still stuck under your fingernail? No, on the other hand... The middle finger.... Yeah, 'preciate it... Thanks.... Still quite the sweetheart, you aaaare... my lovely, Seraph... she's come back to us




xoxoxoxox

Stole my @ss! You two should check out some of his music. He once did "Thick as a Brick" as an encore at a concert- it's only one song, but it fills an entire album (some 44 minutes long). The lyrics are brilliant, and the music is great, too. And check out the liner notes to Aqualung, and the lyrics to the last song, "Wind-Up".

Muuuuch better than 3-chord adolescent angst metal.

And reference your other topic, naydi: I quit drinking almost two years ago (still smoking). I have had a compulsive sweet tooth since then, although I had rarely touched sweets before (even as a kid). Now everyday is Halloween at my house. Always chocolate in the fridge and cookies on the counter. I can't stop at a convenience store or grocery store without picking up some junk (figure my body misses the sugars in the ETOH). I also tend to get addicted to certain tv shows - I get violently angry if I miss one of my current 'fixes'. Knowing myself as I do, I refuse to even enter a casino - or buy a lotto ticket for that matter. I just know what'll happen if I start gambling. Sound familiar?

Well, you did it... Being slow and all, it's all dried out and your buddy here is telling me that their gonna have to do a graft using my a** as the donor site...

Well....I hope you're HAPPY now! I'm deformed and I get to look forward to my a*** hurting. Thanks... Thanks a lot!! Who knew there'd be much h'll to pay for having a heartfelt, youthful appreciation for an iconic art rock band... *throws remote through Gerard Way's face on Fuse TV immediately cursing self cuz it's not like it found it's own way into the house for free...grabs bottle of cabernet and favorite fillet knife dragging suddenly and violently unconscious bad-news baring toy to the basement in search of peace and relaxation*

Cool video. Have you done it yoursef yet? I mean listened to the album while watching the Wizard of Oz? Trippy.

And it's "I had never seen" or "I never saw", but not "I'd never saw".
(Sorry. BA Linguistics, USC '96.)

I couldn't bring myself to read past "Stole my @ss!"

In all fairness, though, they're not really metal... I thought there was a progressive rock category - or did that come after the Grammy's were visciously mocked that year? Just goes to show that even when they actually do give to awards to people who deserve them, the boobs just never seem to know how to get it right. *cough***Color Purple***dry hack***Ghost*e'herm*

...heading to the room now, letting valuable laying around doing jack sh*# time pass me by with all this reading, thinking, and typing!


one quick note on the other subject, though, until tomorrow: got stuck in protracted lottery-playing/scratch ticket buying cycles twice during the first non-smoking period; it took only two far-spaced casino visits for me to ban myself from going to another one ever again in life...

Continuing in the off-topic vein, and straying further off-topic...

I teach at a local college on Thursdays. Today one of my students found an old filmstrip reel on the AV cart. He didn't know what it was.

I'm too young to be this old!


quote of the day: "It's not the years, it's the mileage."

You know, ladies, giving someone the finger can be a good thing...it just depends on where you put it when you give it.

Why don't we all go on a date together? No mascara needed. You don't even have to shave. And we can all play nice. Or not (naydi, get the chains ready!).

Whaddya say, this weekend? Who lives most central?

Girlfriend, I smell a paper in our future. Just gotta figure out which Journal it belongs in. And which accountant to hire so that most of the grant money ends up in our pockets.

Ohhhhh, welcome to my sh!t list CvlSrvnt. First of all, how dare you characterize the artists who brought Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets and The Black Album into this world as "3-chord adolescent angst metal." Have you ever listened to the lyrics on these albums? Second of all, in 1991 the best rock album released was by Metallica, not Jethro Tull. Had the Grammy people recognized Rock earlier, there would have been plenty of opportunities where Tull would justifiably have won. But NOT in 1991. (In fact, given the way Metallica have gone in the last couple years, Tull would probably justifiably deserve a Grammy over them today, but NOT in '91). I have to go to my happy place now, because I am so frickin p*ssed off at you.

Sorry. I have no desire to end up on anyone's list. But it does seem to happen with alarming frequency.



Yup. Wrote a lot of that sort of stuff myself, in junior high and early high school.



'91 is kind of hazy for me, so I can't really argue that. And I've never actually watched the Grammy's so I don't know about the categories. I do know that I've never liked metal; it's one of the few forms of music that I really, absolutely cannot stand to listen to. And I know that I like Tull, and have since I was a kid. Matter of opinion.

If you'd like, we can swap lyrics. Maybe we can find some common ground there, at least. Or we can let it drop, before the gawkers start circling for a flame war.
But I sincerely did not mean to p!ss you off. I'm sorry.

Jethro Tull isn't metal! He has no business winning a Grammy for metal! He's rock, hard rock, heavy rock, but not metal. It's not even a matter of which artist is better. Comparing them is like comparing apples and oranges. And what makes it even worse is that this was the first year the Grammy's awarded a Metal Grammy, and they specifically asked Metallica to play as the Metal act. Then they hand the award to Jethro Tull, whose particular album that year did not sell as well as The Black Album and had no where near the amount of play time.
I'm sorry but Metallica is my baby, my number one band. And they are behind only Zepplin, Sabbath and the other grandfathers of metal. And that isn't just my opinion, a quick search of the web and you'll see.

^^^

...so my pre-lounging peace pipe passing post didn't do jack to help avoid this? Please don't be mad about this! (if you even actually are - I'm reading more defensive passion than I am real anger...) I do fear seeing a circle gathering to chant 'Fight!' 'Fight!' 'Fight!' though, and some less well-intentioned thread lurker just poised to decide to come in now, all of a sudden having something to say, just for the sake of jumping into the Kool-Aid without even knowing what the flavor is. (yeeeah, you know you've missed that phrase - don't act like you haven't)


Sing with me now and heal...

...i can't remember anything...can't tell if this is true or dream...deep down inside i feel a scream...this terrible silence stops me....now that the war is through with me...i'm waking up i can now see...that there's nothing left of me...nothing is real but pain now.... (Go ADA!!): _______________

...just the one finger? hummmm, maybe I do need to slow down a bit... maybe, buy just 1/2 a case of supplies for the revolution, huh?


there is still nothing like the smell of freshly mimeographed assignment papers.... it was all that communal huffing that made school so much more tolerable and downright inticing a chore in the 70's and early 80's

I think you win being in the home of da Bears... Or, actually, maybe I do, if we take Seraph's whole needing to cross the Atlantic Ocean into account. All I know is that, with my clinical schedule this weekend, I just won't have the time to collect fitting specimens... If I only knew yesterday, I wouldn't have completed my work with such expediency. I'm such a terrible late hour host!

Ooo - Cvl, could you maybe borrow one of the busses for the weekend to bring one of yours with you??? I'm sure the company wouldn't mind... I've no doubt that you have delightful taste. Airport security is far too high for Seraph to risk. I have heard stories, though, of her being remarkably efficient at gathering upon arrival at new locales...

^ as long as there's a smile coming through the fear, izallgude... Heh HA!

You people are frightening me!

Mmm, I s'pose I could just hijack one of the rigs. You don't mind if there's still a patient in the back, do you? I'll make sure it's not a cardiac patient, for both our sakes. Come to think of it, someone from a nursing home, with a DNR? Not too many questions being asked then. Need to know what Seraph likes, though (I know you're not all that picky).

Um. Can't really argue with that. Like I said, I can't stand metal (or the album Tull won for). Just an irrational metabolic negativity. I will say that one of the guys from Sabbath used to play with Tull, for all that's worth. And I agree that Metallica is probably a **** of a lot more popular than Tull, even in their prime. And I agree with naydi, who says we should make peace before some idiot steps in and things get ugly.

Agree to disagree?

..yes, Seraph, a shopping list would be good... all I really ask is that it not include any former makeup artist goths sporting new highly unadvisable bright yellow buzz cuts...





(^^just one or two left; then I'll him/them go!!)

Seraph likes to stay out of this one and is, quite frankly, really happy about that little thing called 'ocean'.

I`m faking a fear of flying just for arguments` sake. And I know about phobias .

You guys don`t even need me . And you lost me again, Naydi! You are really putting my English skills to the test. I`m good at what exactly? Picking up locales? Always obviously, but is it what you meant?

Ooooooh I should stay out of this thread, I`m not funny, just tired. To little sleep and to many social things, so I`m drained. I have a book on my computer somewhere with some nice suggestions on how to make sure people around you don`t notice you. Something for you two perhaps?

Aaaw, hon... I keep completely forgetting about the English as a second (?or third?) language thing! Playthings for the alter-ego story arc was the intended unspoken object of the sentence. Looking back, I see that another of my bad typos turned my attempt at saying locals (as in indigenent specimens for the weekend's activities) into locales (as in places), which makes no kind of d'mn sense at all no matter what tongue it's translated into!



^^^
that actually might be good for the times that I'd just rather get home as soon as possible rather than going through the whole bother of having to be engaging and appear trustworthy....

Aw, Seraph, we didn't mean to scare you. We really are very nice people. Just come out of the corner and step into our parlor...that's it...we have some candy, little girl...


But, we do need you! Everybody knows three is a magic and powerful number...and besides, we need a straight man...


Don't worry, hon. I'm not only a native speaker, I have a d@mn degree in the stuff, and she still loses me sometimes. It's not a matter of language skills - it's the ideas behind the words. Naydi's sentences are being spawned by a seriously warped and demented mind, and it takes an equally disturbed individual to keep up.


Sure you are! We're not laughing at you, we're laughing with you. Promise!

Second language, learned it pretty early by myself (tv and internet), before we got it in school. It`s okay, but geez, you are putting my skills to the test . But please keep typing like that, it`s good for my skills (as long if you don`t mind me asking for clarification every now and then). Gotta learn to read between the lines in a different language as well you know.

And then you make it harder for me with those typos hahahaha. No, but the same goes for me, but I obviously pick up locals instead of locales. It`s a word we use in Dutch so I`ve made smarter remarks here. I think. Or at least somewheree else. Anywhere. Honestly.

But eh, you two have fun this weekend. I expect the pictures in my mailbox as soon as you get back. Will you guys walk the chihuahua?

Edited because "pretty okay" in that particular sentence made me sound like a bored 16-year old chewing gum with her mouth open.

*starts to sing "3 is a magic number" by Embrace*
*then realizes....*

How did you find out about my sex change??????



Hehe, it`s good to know I`m not the only one .

And even if you are laughing at me, I wouldn`t mind. The voices in my head always laugh at other people even louder...

HA! 'tis okay... My head is actually starting to hurt trying to keep the scenerio going. I'm going to have to set her in a nice shady corner to rock back and forth in for a little while so I can recoup. Don't worry, I gave her the chihuahua to either stroke or do with what she wishes if she happens to get hungry...

You mean you're not a gum-popping 16 year old? Well, there goes my interest. I'm trying to recapture my mis-spent youth here...just look for me on a 'Dateline" special.

Well Naydi was right. It isn't so much anger as impassioned defence. We can agree to disagree. (But I will say that I wouldn't necessarily say that Tull has a smaller following than Metallica. Both have a strong cult following that is very defensive of their respective favorite. Also, I bet there is a lot of crossover fans who like both; like I said Tull and Metallica are completely different types of artists - apples and oranges, it isn't fitting to compare the two). But I will drop the issue. Sorry for any offense, I just deeply deeply deeply deeply strongly love Metallica. They're my number one.

So peace it is! (and I don't really not like you. I still like you And I don't really have a sh!t list, either. I'm about to start working for Disney, and sh!t lists are just so not Disney.)

I'm not that deeply attached to Tull, and sorry again for picking on your baby.

I'm glad you don't not like me. And I try to stay off of sh!t lists. Really.
Sorry to hear about Disney. I used to work at a club in LA where they held all their parties. We felt so sorry for those poor b@stards. Then Disney bought our club, stripped us of all our benefits, and fired all of us who didn't fit their image.
I hope you have a better time of it than I did.

Hey, naydi... I just wanted to say I love the Gir animation in your sig. It makes me smile everytime I see it. Gir was my favorite part of that cartoon.

HA! I've got one who knows what in the h'll Invader ZIM is!!!! Probably the only one who knew just why I posted cartoon shots in the Nicole Wallace thread, too. (if you've travelled back through the board that far) America Loves GIR. God bless you and keep you for your amazing taste and your connection to your inner child!! It is truly a beautiful thing. The rest of you - well, just die...





...Ooooh, I kid you.



Really, I do.



c'mon anyone here before today knows when I'm being facetious by now....some of the jokes are just for me- h'll of a way to end the paragraph after so much sweetness, no? heh heh

Opie and Anthony had some skit about those Dateline episodes the other week, commenting on how the sumbitches are just left to go on eating the cookies they've got set out during the post-confrontation after they've been busted by the news crew. 'Yeah, well, I know that molesting children (muffled food-stuffed voice) is wrong and all, but GAH'DAM, these cookies are fantastic! (finger-licking; muffled chewing-talk), but, you know, the way that I look at it is What are these Mrs. Fields!!?!? Can I get the recipe!?!?!!'

It was funny as ****... How true it is I don't know having not watched any of them myself...

But how do they stack up to Mr. Baldwin's Schwetty Balls?

Naaaw, there's nothing like a d'mn good cookie. Well, except -












(yeah, that one made/makes me revoltingly sick, but being said in context ,with added self-rebuke....)

Wow. I really have to do something about the people I associate with.

Like find more of them.

This is very off topic! I'm just here wondering who else is happy today with the outcome of the ellections...

OOO - Me!!! Me!!! I haven't been following the particulars of outstanding Senate decisions but a quick hop over to iwon.com (it could happen!!!) reveals the following:

Democrats on the Brink of Controlling Senate

Here in Massachusetts, Deval Patrick has been elected as the Commonwealth's first black governor (second? US) and the first Democrat in 16 years. I actually didn't hate Romney ®, but Healey's campaign was pure evil, and it's not like I was all that impressed with her in the first place!

Both the House and the Senate, that's a dream! And Rumsfeld has just resigned! Yes! The beginning of the end for Bush and his buddies... I can't believe this is happening, it's too good to be true! I stayed up all night following the whole thing on CNN, I was so excited I couldn't sleep. Unfortunately, the Senate is likely to go to recount in Virginia. But I'm glad to see that people are finally getting a clue...

My dad and I were talking about this last weekend (obviously) we were hoping for this, really great. Congrats and also a thank you from the other side of the ocean.

...Just the opinion from 2 Europeans and not to insult any Republicans...

We've been playing the Schadenfreude song on loop here at the ER in celebration. My state had some incredibly stupid crap on its ballot this time, and the vast majority of it was punted right on out the door--except the amendment to ban gay marriage, but hey, we'll take what we can get.

You mean the "Schade Freunden alles ist vorbei" song? That`s funny . Or am I way off hehehe.



True, you can`t have everything. What other 'crap' was 'up for sale' in your state then? Or what state do you live in so I can google it for myself .

There is positive rejoicing in Australia - across the demographic board, too. Just saw a sign that read " Shrub clipped. Thorn removed". Of course, we never understood why Shrub and the Neon-cons were elected to begin with...

I think I'm happy ... I don't know ... I'll have to check my sig

*lest anyone not understand the concept of the rimshot, let me add: *

!!!!!!!! These are two very, very, VERY different publications - and not just in name, either !!!!!! The National Enquirer would have been just as respectful a source to have linked for cast member "news"...