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Random Thoughts 2

   Discussion: Random Thoughts 2
Andrea Krause · 21 years ago
The pattern on the ceiling tiles makes me ill.
Zach Back · 21 years ago
I had the most random thoughts last night. I'm going to list some.

-What if the whole world stopped spinning? Would we all go flying away?

-I had some weird image (caused, most likely, by a lack of sleep) in my head of me falling in slow motion into this enormous hazel eye, hitting the pupil and sinking in. The eye seemed to be made of something exactly like water.

-I think there should be a robot that flings emoticons at buildings to destroy them. He should be called EMOTITRON!!! (The exclamation points are obligatory).

-I think I may have accidentally conditioned myself somehow during high school to get no more than five hours of sleep every night.
Jeffs D (a.k.a Devon) Back · 21 years ago

yo, ok, responses!! if the world stopped spinning, we WOULD fly away... if the centifugal force keeping us on the ground stopped, we'ed fly into space and die.

?-)

frukid Back · 20 years, 9 months ago

-What if the whole world stopped spinning? Would we all go flying away?

Yes, yes we would all float out into space...

Bruce Rose Back · 20 years, 9 months ago

I stumped my high school Physics teacher with this one.� He was really glad that I waited until after class to ask him.

(after studying constructive interference in the form of the sonic boom)

My Question:� If it was possible to travel faster than the speed of light, would there be an optic boom?

His response:� Don't you have another class?

My reply:� Yeah.� I'm your teacher's assistant.� Take your time.

Annika Back · 21 years ago
I wonder if I bought the lobsters at the store and let them out into the ocean here, if they'd die, or get caught again.
Starfox Back · 21 years ago
In most cases they would die. Besides being a horrible waste of money.
nate... Back · 21 years ago
They would die.
Annika Back · 21 years ago
Oh I wouldn't think of saving a life as a horrible waste of money..� but that's just me.� Damn.. I was hoping they would at least have a decent chance at survival.
Starfox Back · 21 years ago
A fair number of such lobsters are actually bred for consumption in lobster farms, they are not wild which is a common misconception people make.

So would you save shrimp, fish, or other such seafood? What about plants? They are lifeforms too, so are you going to start taking out salads and trying to replant them?
betsy =) Back · 21 years ago
run free baby field greens! run free!

.oO oh give me a home, where the potatoes roam and the leeks and the cantaloupes playOo.
Agent Scully Back · 21 years ago
Carrot Juice is Murder.
Jeffs D (a.k.a Devon) Back · 21 years ago
THAT'S AN AMAZING SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Arbie Back · 21 years ago

Now now Andy, flaming has its own forum now. :-)

Anni, I'm sure somebody will correct me if I'm wrong but I think the lobsters you buy in stores are an east coast�species. Even if they would live if you released them it probably would be a bad thing to release them on the west coast..

Annika Back · 21 years ago

Oh that's suckky.� I only meant lobsters because they were alive and trying to move around in this little plastic pond/cannister.

Jeffs D (a.k.a Devon) Back · 21 years ago
they'd die...they wouldn't be accustomed to the openness.
Zach Back · 21 years ago
Have you ever sneezed violently and realized afterwards that you are sweating as a result?

Isn't that weird?
Andrea Krause Back · 21 years ago
Not really, but every time I sneeze my youngest cat flies off the bed like a bullet from a gun. It's rather amusing. :)

nate... Back · 21 years ago
HEE!
Yeah, sometimes christian's cat shoots straight up in the air when you make a loud noise.
It's funny.
:)
Yvonne Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
It just occured to me that every place I have lived has had a popcorn finish ceiling.� Umm...that would be two places.
Annika Back · 20 years, 9 months ago
Really?� 'Cause you know, none of the places I've lived in have had a popcorn finish ceiling, and I've lived in over 35 places.� Now I want a popcorn finish ceiling...
Yvonne Back · 20 years, 9 months ago
Hmm...I thought they were fairly common, but maybe that's because my house was built in the 50's and I think this apartment building was built in the 70's, judging by the colour of the appliances and fixtures.� Maybe they don't do that popcorn finish thing anymore to new places.
danced with Lazlo Back · 20 years, 9 months ago
I have no idea what popcorn finish ceiling is.
Andrea Krause Back · 20 years, 9 months ago

Instead of flat plaster or paint or whatever, this plaster gunk is put on with a special roller and it makes bumpy plaster roughness. Looks like someone dropped a bunch of very small white gravel onto the ceiling. :) It's presumably to hide any imperfections in the level of the ceiling--you know, if it's all bumpy and weird to start with you won't notice that there's a dip or something? :)

nate... Back · 20 years, 9 months ago
this is a pretty good pic of one. (minus the hole)
Andrea Krause Back · 20 years, 9 months ago

I've always had them too. I hate them. We were moving furniture into the new place this week and the mattress scraped a bunch off the ceiling and it's in the rug now. :)

I destroyed the stuff in my bedroom growing up. My friend Katie and I threw blended up orange pulp at the ceiling (No, I don't know why. shut up.) and I also used to spray a stream of water with a water bottle up and that killed spots of popcorn. No, I don't know why. I was a desctructive person for some reason. I always wanted to see what would happen!

nate... Back · 20 years, 9 months ago
I've always had them. Most places I've lived, at least. and I grew up with 'em.

I have never, however, heard them called "popcorn finish".
K-Lyn Back · 20 years, 9 months ago
Mine have been more of that layered spackle feel. I remember as a kid�I saw characters in the ceilings at the house I grew up in. There was a cartoon snake wearing a sombrero and little red riding hood and the wolf and a rat and monkey that were friends. I miss that house. I want to see Senior Snake again.
Gordondon son of Ethelred · 21 years ago
Today isn't the birthday of anyone on FHDC. If everyone had a birthday listed the probability of hta happening today would be about .0000006. That's about six out of ten million.
Back · 21 years ago
Math geek!�
John J. Ryan · 21 years ago

Saw a guy walking back and forth on the street today in Manhattan, propositioning every single woman who walked by.� One woman walked away from him with a hug look of disgust on her face.

People suck.

nate... Back · 21 years ago
Mmm... hug looks.
Annika Back · 21 years ago
When you say "People suck" are you talking about the people who proposition total strangers, or the people who are disgusted by people who proposition them?
Back · 21 years ago

ahhhhhhh!

"Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!"

Annika · 21 years ago

If I seriously started the Church of Bajesus, I wonder if anyone would join.� If so, I wonder if they'd all be, like, freaky people.

Zach Back · 21 years ago
Do you have a pamphlet I could peruse?
Back · 21 years ago
sorry, I only worship Jebus.
Annika Back · 21 years ago
Oooh.. Jebus is pretty cool too, but will he buy you ice cream?
Annika Back · 21 years ago
Dude,� if you let Bajesus into your soul, you wouldn't need a pamphlet.�
nate... Back · 21 years ago
Yeah, but you'll have a nasty case of heartburn.
jen Back · 20 years, 11 months ago

"This is the blood of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ... and a damn fine beaujolais!"

Zach Back · 21 years ago
But I want to know more about Bajesus before I make a decision of this magnitude.
Annika Back · 21 years ago
Dude.. people have made life decisions on less.� Look at me!� So.. there you go, join the church of baaaaaajesus today, aaand giiiive your money to me!!
Tracie Back · 21 years ago

Bajesus can coat your car in a dirt-repelling product. Believe in Bajesus and never wash your car again!

Jeffs D (a.k.a Devon) · 21 years ago
ok, ever looked at your hand and seen a disticnt black outline? think that's your aura? what about aliens; are we really alone? isn't it neat how in pregnancy that there is a LIVING THING inside you? or....ummmm how does the universe go on forever? it's gotta stop somewhere!
Tracie Back · 21 years ago
When you're pregnant the fetus is totally sucking life from you...does that make it a parasite?
Annika Back · 21 years ago

Yes, a stomach parasite.�

danced with Lazlo Back · 20 years, 11 months ago
If the fetus is in your stomach, you've done something wrong.

Though possibly tasty... my friend Joe not long ago started talking about fetus with kimchi for some reason... he wasn't quite sure why either.

That's kinda gross. Sorry.
Annika Back · 20 years, 11 months ago

Shut up.� lol, I know it's not in your stomach, but it's close, and it's gross, and it makes you sick, and it makes you fat, and it makes you look deformed.� It is not something I hope for in the near future.

Laura P. Back · 20 years, 11 months ago

it's gross, and it makes you sick, and it makes you fat, and it makes you look deformed.

But there are some good things about it. It is kind of cool to have another person (or living thing, however you want to look at it) inside your body. It's kind of sci-fi, like you are an incubation tank for an aquatic, but constantly morphing being. When it gets towards the end you can see the baby move its arm or whatever from one side to the other. Sure there are downsides, but what really meaningful thing doesn't have its trade-offs?

danced with Lazlo Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
Well, it's cool if you want it. If you don't want it, it's not so cool.
Laura P. Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
I was responding more to this:

"and it's gross, and it makes you sick, and it makes you fat, and it makes you look deformed."

Not so much wanted or not, just the physical aspect. That the physical aspect of it can be positive.
danced with Lazlo Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
yeah, it totally can be, I'd assume... but if it's unwanted, then it's going to feel more parasitic and gross, and the negative will stand out... even the things that some would consider positive would be percieved as negative.
Laura P. Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
But, it doesn't *have* to be nagative ("gross, fatening...etc...) That isn't a prerequisite.
Laura P. Back · 21 years ago
Yes, but in the best possible way.
nate... · 21 years ago
See, nobody but you could figure out what you were talking about.

I never saw it.. and we were all discussing it on the wall, and none of us could figure out what "grey background" you were referring to.

Where was it?

And, did you take the bad acid? ;)
Annika · 20 years, 11 months ago

Wow.. this tea is great, even if it does come in a juice box.

meh · 20 years, 11 months ago
I wonder how long I could soak up Internet before the desk clerk "suggested" I get the hell back to my room and stopped taking up space here in the lobby?
Shelly Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
um......................were you 'loitering'?????? :P
Gordondon son of Ethelred · 20 years, 11 months ago
OK things have reached the point where  next diva of folk world and I don't get our own jokes. Does anyone remember the context in which we talked about "chocolate covered Bernies?"
Shelly · 20 years, 11 months ago
ok, it bug the HELL out of me that when people from this region are going to the beach for the week/weekend, they say 'i'm going down the shore'. shouldn't it be 'i'm going TO the shore'? philly isn't exactly on on the shore....

like, if they were already AT the shore and walking or driving DOWN it further, then it would make sense.

*pet peeve*

they also tend to pronounce WATER as if they were saying 'wooder'. freaks.
Yvonne · 20 years, 11 months ago

I thought it was about time to change that pink shirt...and the hair colour too.� I'm probably going to dye it reddish soon, but not quite that bright!� :D

(Or else I'd look like those Pontiac Vibe ads.)

emilie is CRANKY · 20 years, 11 months ago

this occurred to me a couple weeks back:

why is it, that addresses are written with the most precise location first? like,

Mr Jian Ghomeshi
123 Budgiedog Apartments
Matheson Park
Bargainville
MF30 9DM
CANADA

because if you had to find the address, wouldn't you go to the place at the bottom first, and then work your way up? like, you'd go to canada first, then to bargainville, then to matheson park etc, and then find mr ghomeshi (hee) last and give him the mail. so, i propose addresses should be written as follows:

CANADA
Bargainville
Matheson Park
123 Budgiedog Apartments
Mr Jian Ghomeshi

i'm not sure where the postcode should be, though. (damn! a flaw in my logic.) :D

Andrea Krause Back · 20 years, 11 months ago

It should be right after Bargainville, I believe. You go to Canada, Bargainville narrows it down to a town, postal code narrows it down within the town if there are multiples. :)

danced with Lazlo Back · 20 years, 11 months ago
Well, i'm not sure how it works in Canada, but in the US, if you have all 9 digits in the postal code, that alone is enough for the letter to get where its going (but don't tell the post office i told you so). If you only have th first 5 digits, however, then yeah, it would go after the town.
Andrea Krause Back · 20 years, 11 months ago
*nod* yep.� I don't know the extra digits for most people, though. Or myself, even. :)
Bruce Rose Back · 20 years, 9 months ago
Not quite... but it will get it close.� I once moved across the street (from 1002 to 911) and the ZIP plus 4 stayed the same.
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 20 years, 11 months ago
This is just a guess but I think it is because when you give an address to someone local you don't bother to use the most general information, the country, state or province, and town or city. Even when posting a letter you don't list the country unless it is international mail.
emilie is CRANKY · 20 years, 11 months ago
i just noticed that murray foster, mike ford and moxy fruvous all have the same initials. coincidence? hrmmmmm. :D
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 20 years, 11 months ago
No, they named Murray and Mike after Fruvous :-)
Yvonne · 20 years, 11 months ago
I feel like whats her face today.
Shelly · 20 years, 11 months ago
you know how we abbreviate band names...like TMBG....DVN.....EFO.......well when we abbreviate the show 'queer as folk' and it's QAF, i pronounce it 'coiff'....like a hairdo...coz i feel it's fitting given the show.

yah.
Andrea Krause Back · 20 years, 11 months ago
See, I woulda thought "quaff", like drinking. :)
danced with Lazlo Back · 20 years, 11 months ago
I've had the word "quaff" in my head all morning.
John J. Ryan · 20 years, 11 months ago

After reading a post about TGIF, it made me think about how moronically STUPID those�big radio shows are with their�Friday programming,�going all nuts and crazy like every weekend is going to be the biggest party�of the century?� You know what I'm talking about....

"It's 5 O'Clock,�so let's get CRAZY!!!!" * whistle blows * * cartoon sounds &�insert Homer Simpson quote�here * Cue "Bang The Drum" by Todd Rundgren.....

Mamalissa! Back · 20 years, 11 months ago

My cousin who got married last weekend met her husband at a TGI Friday's Bar.

Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 20 years, 11 months ago
I knew there was a reason I don't listen to commercial radio except for classical music, sports, and news.

That and the 45 minutes of commercials per hour.
John J. Ryan · 20 years, 11 months ago
And Traffic, don't forget traffic. 1010 WINS and NJ 101.5 both rock for that.
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 20 years, 11 months ago
When i said news, I included traffic and weather. I have 880, 1010, and 1130, on my presets so I can get the traffic and weather on the eights, ones, and fives, respectively.

An interesting note, without revealing names one of the meteoroligist for Bloomberg radio, 1130 in New York, is a Fruhead who was at FRFF. She's heard throughout the entire Northeast.
Gordondon son of Ethelred · 20 years, 10 months ago
Have you ever noticed that there is a canonical order when naming the Beatles? It is always John, Paul, George, and Ringo.
Andrea Krause Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
I think it's mostly because people are used to it that way. You hear a pattern one way long enough and it's incredibly hard to say it another way. Like, because of loitering in the lobby I can't really name EFO off not in the "julie, mike, eddie and robbie" order. :)
Arbie Back · 20 years, 9 months ago
hmmmm...I always thought it was John, Paul,Ringo, George. I seem to recall it that way from early on anyway. I even seem to remember it used that way in a skipping rhyme.
Andrea Krause · 20 years, 10 months ago
I'm only mean to people I like or love. I'm extremely polite to people I dislike or have a beef with. What's up with that? Are y'all like that?

It's like...I trust the people I like to know I'm joking around. And I don't trust myself to let any of the real meanness out to a non-friend for fear that it'll keep spewing. :)
nate... Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
Yeah, I'm kinda the same way to an extent.

But, ya know, I'm not nearly as mean as you.
:)
Andrea Krause Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
I have the "bitch" gene. :) Or maybe it's overcompensation because I am SO shy and withdrawn and avoid conflict at all costs in normal life. So I have extra yuck to spew on my friends. Sigh. :)
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
You are never mean to me, now I'm hurt.
Andrea Krause Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
I am too! I make fun of you for being a freak and old! :)
goovie is married! Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
yes, but you need to make fun of him *more*.
i should start giving "making fun of gordon" lessons. :)
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
You mean you don't already? I thought it was the most popular online class.
emilie is CRANKY · 20 years, 10 months ago
nope, i get that all the time. i think it happens when my ebil dial-up decides to be slow and doesn't load the page properly, and so i have to disconnect and try again. :D
nate... Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
Weird.
I've never seen this thing you're talking about.
nate... · 20 years, 10 months ago
Do you think I would get sued if I legally changed my name to Snapple?

Andrea Krause Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
I dunno. But you'd probably get your ass kicked for being a big dork. :)
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
Paul Newman wrote a column in the Times saying he was going to sue he Department of Housing and Urban Development because they infringe on his trademark "HUD." The ads from the film clearly stated that "Paul Newman is HUD."
nate... Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
Heh.
And for those who haven't seen it. The film in question is The Hudsucker Proxy.

[EDIT]: guess it wasn't.
Andrea Krause Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
Actually...I thought it was "Hud"...1963.
nate... Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
Oh, really?
Never heard of it.
And, yeah, I guess he was Sidney J. Mussburger in that... not Waring Hudsucker.
Nick Collins · 20 years, 10 months ago
hmmm, I've been thinking, your body is filled with uncountable amounts of cells, keeping your body alive, hmmm, are these simply natural pieces of our body, whose only purpose is to sustain our liveliness, or are our bodies simply gigantic cities that house microscopic lifeforms, is the heart or the brain like a factory, do the cells work in these factories? Do they get paid to keep them moving, when we die is it simply because one of them goofed and we there was a gigfanitic blackout? do the cells have families? Do they support themselves, what do they use for currency? Are we simply puppets? Do we have free will or are our actions the brainchild of the city council of the cells? ACH!
Annika Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
When I was about 7 or 8, I remember playing with my barbies, and thinking about how I was making them move, and wondering if I was like a barbie, and someone was moving me around, and making me do things, and say things.
nate... Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
An interesting thing I saw recently brought up the point that there are more bacteria cells in our body than there are actual "human" cells.

In a way, you could consider us enormous bacterial colonies.

:)
100% dainty! Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
::sings::
"I take a look at my enormous bacterial colonies . . ."
Yvonne Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
*giggles*
Nick Collins · 20 years, 10 months ago
I've always tried thought of the great battlefields of my body, when the evil germs (like the Black Nights) attacking and the White blood cells (the White Nights) are fending them off, and I automatically think of those battle scenes from Polansky's McBeth, very graphic.
Annika · 20 years, 10 months ago
Why doesn't my sister understand that it's�Genre, not Jon-dra, and that it's espresso, not expresso, and it is Washington, not Warshington, and that the�s on Illinois is silent?� grr..
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
I've seen places that had "expresso' on the menu *shudder*

My favorite was a stand that had kanishes on the menu. It took me a minute to realize they meant knishes.
no one Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
Cuppachino anyone?
Yes, I've seen it spelt that way.
Andrea Krause Back · 20 years, 10 months ago

.oO Biiiiig, my pair of big chinos Oo.

ChrisChin is Getting Old · 20 years, 10 months ago

Received in an e-mail today....

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the
frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses
and you
can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not
raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
The first time I read LOTR it took me a while to distinguish Saruman and Sauron, they have so many letters in common. All of a sudden I was wondering where the extra syllable came from?

When they made the annimated LOTR they called the white wizard "Aruman" about half the time. That was really confusing.
lawrence Back · 20 years, 10 months ago
it's totlaly ture. I dind't eevn noitce taht antyhing was difefernt unitl I got to "Cmabrigde."
danced with Lazlo Back · 20 years, 9 months ago
DUDE!!! :D
Gordondon son of Ethelred · 20 years, 9 months ago
There is an interesting article in todays NY Times on Why We Like Music.
nate... Back · 20 years, 9 months ago
requires registration. bah.

Can you copy-paste?
goovie is married! Back · 20 years, 9 months ago
i'm sure he could, if he didn't mind flooding this thread with a huge block of text and violating copyright. :)

i know registration is a pain in the arse and somewhat squicky, but there are so many interesting articles in the new york times that i just went ahead and registered last year so i could read 'em.
Shelly Back · 20 years, 9 months ago
i did the same thing with the washington post..tee hee
goovie is married! Back · 20 years, 9 months ago
yup, same here.
youcan fill in fake info if youwant,too.
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 20 years, 9 months ago
same here. registration is pretty painless.
Shelly · 20 years, 9 months ago
ok so i -had- a random thought to post here, but then i forgot it.

how random is THAT???!!! :P
John J. Ryan Back · 20 years, 9 months ago
Not as random as ohjalkehgslkdghlieghslkdgcjbsalkf.
Gordondon son of Ethelred · 20 years, 9 months ago
There is a rule in my school saying that cell phones must be off inside the building.

The first day of class in the outline I give them I tell them that the punishment for a cell phone ringing in class is beheading.

Today in class someone's cell phone went off. He answered it adn started talking.

What do you think I should have done?
danced with Lazlo Back · 20 years, 9 months ago
decapitation by frisbee.
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 20 years, 9 months ago
Do you want to perform the honors? Will an Aerobee do?
danced with Lazlo Back · 20 years, 9 months ago
Absolutely not. Has to be a regulation weight discraft ultimate disc. 175 g or its no good.
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 20 years, 9 months ago
Fine be that way. I have one of those too.
Bruce Rose Back · 20 years, 9 months ago
I once saw a website where a kid demonstrated how ninja perform ritual suicide (when they're really pissed off) by swallowing a frisbee.� I still wonder how he feel for surviving the experience.
nate... Back · 20 years, 9 months ago
suspension.
John J. Ryan Back · 20 years, 9 months ago
In the words of the White Queen, "Off with his head!"
It's a girl! Back · 20 years, 9 months ago
Not to be nitpicky, but the White Queen never said that. It was the Queen of Hearts. Different book, same author. The White Queen just blathered on about bread and butter and jam every other day.
danced with Lazlo · 20 years, 9 months ago
sometimes, i get nostalgic about foods that i didn't used to like... like, a food that is one of my favorites now that i was once convinced I hated, I'll start to remember how it tasted backk when I was still convinced that I didn't like it but it was just starting to intrigue me. Its the same flavor, but it just has some sort of different quality that I wish I could get back. Maybe its a thing about getting older and losing taste buds or something.

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