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05-24-2001, 09:41 AM
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"I am a perfect unlimited gull. " 
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05-24-2001, 09:48 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by hypotenuse
"I am a perfect unlimited gull. "
| Livingstone, I presume?
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05-24-2001, 09:52 AM
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Yep. Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
This was my first adult book, read when I was about ten. Totally warped my perspective I think.
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05-24-2001, 10:03 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by hypotenuse
Totally warped my perspective I think.
| You think...
... you think, how does he know, though he's never heard of 'im? Well, it's 'cos I'm a wizard! I'm a grand wizard! Yes! I know powerful spells many... well, one... but it's POWERFUL... well, I know I know it, I just, um, don't know how to say it... my head turns widdershins if I try to think about it... ahhh... what the hell! I never wanted to be a wizard if it means this much traveling and getting bits of you in path of danger!...
... talking about bits, anyone seen my Luggage?
( redlass and jrk forbidden to answer :p)
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»******************************** Science-off
» ... since giving out praise doesn't cost a person anything but actually wins affection, praise is ladled out freely and praise inflation occurs. The value of each unit of flattery declines, and pretty soon {you} have to pass over a wheelbarrow full of praise just to pay one compliment. |
05-24-2001, 10:29 AM
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Aw, drat, drat, drat! OK. You see me sitting on my hands over here? See? Not saying a word, not one little word...
(Besides, I have to go cross the durn wizard off my list of people to add to this list!)
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"There are seven things that will destroy us: Wealth without work; pleasure without conscience; knowledge without character; religion without sacrifice; politics without principle; science without humanity; business without ethics." --Mahatma Gandhi
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05-24-2001, 10:39 AM
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Good morning, Rincewind!
Was that your foot I just ran over? I'm so sorry - I'm just a little excited. You see, I'm driving this brand-new motorcar. Isn't it wonderful? My friends say I should stay away from motorcars, but they say I shouldn't go around boasting either. Now I ask you, what's the harm in a little puffery now and again? They don't get enough air, that's all, living underground and all that.
I would love to stay and chat, but I really should be going. The people I've borrowed this from have followed me, and they don't seem too happy. Ta ta!
Ailsa
* Edited to fix embarrassing typo.
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05-24-2001, 03:27 PM
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Howdy, Toad! Watch out for those weasels back there!
Pity motorcars--or even toy electric cars--can't get to us. We two twin sisters have been locked up in the Castle in the Air above the Mountains of Ignorance for years. We were banished here by our two brothers, the Mathmagician and King Ahaz. Perhaps someday we’ll be rescued by a boy and his dog.
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"There are seven things that will destroy us: Wealth without work; pleasure without conscience; knowledge without character; religion without sacrifice; politics without principle; science without humanity; business without ethics." --Mahatma Gandhi
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05-24-2001, 08:02 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by Redlass
Pity motorcars--or even toy electric cars--can't get to us. We two twin sisters have been locked up in the Castle in the Air above the Mountains of Ignorance for years. We were banished here by our two brothers, the Mathmagician and King Ahaz. Perhaps someday we’ll be rescued by a boy and his dog.
| Need more clues B, I can't make any rhyme or reason from what you've given... 'cept it sounds like one of my long lost favorites...
You may wonder how I knew the answer, dear Bridgette. The truth is, I am no longer the man I was—I'm smarter now and it's all thanks to Alice. Getting this answer feels almost as good as saving the factory money—and they gave me a $25 bonus for that! Do I get a bonus here?
__________________ » t-þoo /ê·dì·ot/ or /id·jït/ n. blatherskite ( obs.)
»******************************** Science-off
» ... since giving out praise doesn't cost a person anything but actually wins affection, praise is ladled out freely and praise inflation occurs. The value of each unit of flattery declines, and pretty soon {you} have to pass over a wheelbarrow full of praise just to pay one compliment.
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05-25-2001, 04:19 PM
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Charlie, from Flowers for Algernon?
Ailsa
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05-25-2001, 07:43 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by soxfan
Charlie, from Flowers for Algernon?
| Alice, is that you, yes it si, but somethign happenedand i do;nt feel so smaert any more... help
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» ... since giving out praise doesn't cost a person anything but actually wins affection, praise is ladled out freely and praise inflation occurs. The value of each unit of flattery declines, and pretty soon {you} have to pass over a wheelbarrow full of praise just to pay one compliment. |
05-26-2001, 12:24 AM
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Oh, I'm so sorry, Charlie!
I wish I could help you, but I'm a nurse, not a doctor. Although here in the castle I am the closest thing we have to a doctor. I don't mind, really. In fact, the work helps me feel useful. And it's no worse than what I faced during the war.
Now if I could only get back to my own time and place ...
Ailsa
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05-26-2001, 08:49 PM
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Would you happen to be Claire B. Randall?
:crossing fingers:
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05-26-2001, 11:45 PM
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Uncross those fingers - you guessed it! 
Ailsa |
05-27-2001, 12:46 AM
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Finally got one right!
Ok. Here goes...
I love music and, until recently. I was a Scholar at the University on Coronis. But my mentor Professor Ivor Davidson travels between planets, recording the culture and music he encounters at each stop. We have just arrived at our final destination.
The planet we have landed on makes me uncomfortable, which is unusual in that it is the planet of my birth. My father, step-mother, and I left this planet long ago. I was still a small child when my father became our planet's Representative to the Terran Imperial Senate and we were sent off-world, so I really have few memories of this place. But there is something menacing about that bloody red sun.
Lynne |
05-28-2001, 12:36 AM
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You need another hint?
Ok. But if no one gets it from this one - I win!
Don't know what, but surely I'd win something....
:beer:
Although I thought to never marry, I've come to care deeply for Mik, the heir of REGIS HASTUR.
Lynne - who is going to borrow one of Andrea's sniffs.
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05-29-2001, 02:55 PM
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You give up? Well, obviously you did. 
I am Margaret Alton. Daughter of Lew Alton. Heir of both the Alton Domain and the greatly feared Alton Gift. I was born during Heritage of Haster or was it Sharra's Exile? Anyway, my own book is Exile's Song written by Marion Zimmer Bradley, that grand old bitch of scifi/fantasy.
:happy:
So, what'd I win? A Baja cruise or something?
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05-29-2001, 03:55 PM
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Well, you ought to win something, that's for sure!
I had it narrowed down to the Darkover series and Marion Zimmer Bradley, but I haven't read any of the Darkover series. A friend of mine got his first major publishing breaks in the Marion Zimmer Bradley magazine so I've heard about a lot of her writing, but haven't actually read much of it yet.
SO, um, maybe you should do another "Who am I?"
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"There are seven things that will destroy us: Wealth without work; pleasure without conscience; knowledge without character; religion without sacrifice; politics without principle; science without humanity; business without ethics." --Mahatma Gandhi
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