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I think there are certain qualities in people (friends/lovers, whathaveyou) that you appreciate and qualites that make you angry. I think when you meet someone, you are attracted to them for what you see (or learn or whatever) and then, when you get to know them better, you choose to love/befriend t...

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I'd like to go back to school and take linguistics. I'm an ASL signer, and it's made me curious about translations from one language to another and how that affects perception. The shortcomings and strengths of certain languages and how they lead to social mores. That kind of thing. I'd also like to...

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Three's something to be said for meeting folks in person so you can tell when someone's being sarcastic and when they're being an ass. After you meet someone in person, you can see the expressions on their faces as they type. Take this from someone who met online friends and had it improve my relati...

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All the Ender series (and shadow too, obviously)

and Rachel and Leah.

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Now you post this. I was sick last week, and craving chicken soup with none in the house, and husband working nutty hours. I settled for ice cream.

Get to feeling better.

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*hug for Ali*

*Joins group hug*

*hug for Kels*

*Hug for Alea*

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I'm sorry, Ali. Dear Bob, It might not seem like much, but something good happend Saturday night that hasn't happened in 3 years of MU*ing. It's a stupid thing, chosen by random, but it still makes me feel good, and silly, and accepted. I know it's just surface, just 1s and 0s running through phone ...

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I don't have a lot to add to this thread except silent support, but I did want to empathize with you, Alea. I hate people seeing me weak, sad, afraid, needy. It's so freakin' hard. Even the people closest to me who see it all the time. I want to hide. But that makes it worse, yaknow? I'm having to l...

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here's one I read in a parenting mag.

Excuse me loses
its effectiveness when it's
shouted fifteen times.

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Okay, I read through some of this, skimmed the rest, and wanted to add my two cents, forgive me for sounding ignorant of what's been discussed before. Not all Christians believe in Original Sin. Most do. I, however, am one who doesn't. I won't go into the differences theologically here, but I believ...

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I don't think it was about "Off-topic" or not off topic, I think it was about tone.

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One thing they promised, which they may not have delivered to the standard most need, is the ability to play psone and ps2 games. That's what makes it worth it for us. It makes it so that we can still play all our other games instead of having 10 different consoles for all the games we've bought thr...

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Ok, I don't care about the "boobies/no boobies" debate. I usually call them breasts, but whatever. But, as a nursing mother back on topic, yes, it really does help with babies on planes. The whole landing and taking off ear pressure thing is what makes a lot of those babies cry. I'm glad I...

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I tend to think it worked out pretty well. I like the way it separated personal stuff with the external explosions and stuff. My husband and I thought it was beautiful. Still do. Can't watch it right now, unless the elder kid's asleep, cuz it scares him, but i still love AE. Now, Princess Bride is o...

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I'm old. I'm 30.

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women don't actually need men to have children. you see, it's just a conspiracy forged by women everywhere to make sure that their husbands and boyfriends get and/or maintain steady jobs. Hence that whole discussion in Xenocide between the pequenninno (or however that's spelled), and Valentine disc...

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Ok, I've been married for 5 years, and I must admit I have the most awesome husband in the world. I get grumpy at him, and he at me, but we do our best to realize that we are going through phases, or whatever. He does put up with a lot of crud from me, yes, but when asked, he says I'm the one puttin...

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When you tease your son about beans and call your daughter "Bella" as a nickname.

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Superman has the strength, but Bats has the dexterity. If Supe can't land a punch, then it doesn't hurt. It'd be close, but barring kryptonite, I think Superman woud eventually win. If it was in a closed room with no available exits. Otherwise, Bats has another advantage.

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They've got a thread in MTS for outside quotes, but I thought I'd start one here, because I'm rereading the Speaker books, and I'm finding some good ones. The one that I love the most right now is this one. Wang Mu: "Is that the saying of an old Master?" "It's the saying of an old fat...

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I posted the whole thing on my LJ , but I love the wedding vows in Dragonlance's Dragons of Winter's Night. The reprise is good, too. But you and I, through burning plains, through darkness of the earth, affirm the world, its people, the heavens that gave them birth the breath that passes between us...

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Have to ask a dumb question that came up. What do the monks on "Monty Python & the Search for the Holy Grail" say in Latin? My husband was wondering, and the only Latin I know is "Amo, amas amant, amamis, amantis amant." Or however that goes.

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The Inner Light is my absolute favorite episode. I learned the song on the piano by ear I loved it so much.

I like darmok pretty well, too.

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I agree. It's a good starting point for things more academic. Maybe it can point you in a direction you hadn't thought of, or something. It could be used as A source, but not as the only source. Of course, most academic work requires multitudinous sources anyway. I heard a thing about how in spot co...

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bleh. I'm there now. I must have horrid timing, becasue most of the time I pop in there, it's empty.

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Just finished reading the Legends Dragonlance series:
Time of the Twins
War of the Twins
and Test of the Twins. Don't know what I'll read now. Maybe I'll see about getting Skeleton Man (Tony Hillerman--who's awesome and from NM!) from the library. I don't think I've read it yet.

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And the actual largest state in land mass is Alaska.
Happy thanksgiving from someone who lived in AB for two years.

(as a small person)

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I voted for Captain Picard. I'm not sure who my favorite character is. Probably Picard, Spock or Bones. (Those last two get some hilarous dialogue together.)

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guilty pleasure: Food Network's "Ace of Cakes" I even skipped CSI to watch it this week. Duff is just hilarious! Irrational irritation: the fact that the teenager I hire to help me clean doesn't empty the trash or vaccum the floor. I don't pay her a whole lot, so I don't complain too loudl...

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I stole this from NickBondPlatypi007.

Rene Descartes walks into a bar and orders a drink. The bartender gives him one and then comes back when he sees he's finished.
"Would you like another one, sir?"
"I think not."
Descartes vanishes.

*badda bing, badda boom.*

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Nother suggestion I've seen on other boards: Could we have an option to have more posts per page? Some give the option to do 10, 20, or 40. I like that, if it's available.

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No, what ya need to do, seeing as it's hollywood, is keep an eye on these child actors, and by the time they're ready to make the movie, their kids'll be of age. Bingo, problem solved

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Dear you,
A bedsheet is normally intended to go underneath the blanket. A bathroom isn't clean without the trash being empty. Otherwise, you're absolutely wonderful. I don't know why these things just make me crazy. They shouldn't, but they do.
SARA

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Hmm, in order might be hard. HBP PoA GoF SS CoS OoP If Professor Gilderoy Lockhart didn't exist, CoS would be much higher. I love the book otherwise, but Lockhart's the kind of character you look at and shudder. He doesn't really make the book like "Toad" Umbridge, who is the main reason I...

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I've been singing "Candle on the water" for days.
"I'll be your candle on the water..."
My kids might be sick of it.

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