It got too big. Not a complaint you often hear from a lady.
So, here's the rest.
spinne at 9:9:22 Saturday September 25 99
Alex at 22:36:1 Friday August 6 99
heya teddy... i hope ya get the obnoxious computer to work without too much trouble. and i'll be sure to toss a bar of swiss chocolate your way. or maybe some french truffles. ;)
Teddy at 20:44:2 Friday September 24 99
Glad somebody had a good day. I'm working tomorrow, 'cause of a 486 computer refusing to recognise a b**** CD-ROM drive :o( I was looking forward to a lot of web-updating too...... hell, where's the chocolate???? ~~~~~~~ Thanks for the EKP update, Hap, I'll get it UP if it kills me!
spinne at 4:26:18 Friday September 24 99
well.. trinna, i was about to do some serious geeking and see if i could break my freecell winning streak, but if ya want, i'll play starcraft or somethin with ya! :)
Dr. T at 4:20:15 Friday September 24 99
Just came from the EKP installment in the OKP. LOVED the "narratorial interference!!" Nice work, Hap! Also, just to keep everyone up to date, I actually had a GOOD DAY TODAY!!! WHOO-HOO! Or should I say "tra la la, la-la la la, tra la la, la-la la la!"? So, what's next? Shooting a new video? Hair care tips? Bra shopping? Count me in!
spinne at 4:16:12 Friday September 24 99
boy, that séan, i tell ya - in a word: serendipitous! "never mind the bruises, b'ys, we've got WHEELS!" ~~~~ *raises glass* here's to hoping they make it back to the kitchen safely! :D
Hap at 19:51:57 Thursday September 23 99
All right, Mich, because you asked: There is a new installment of the EKP up in the chatroom, under Zoe's "Thanks for all the welcomes" post. Note: Click on the second one. The first one is just one big honking link (because I am a ditz of high degree). ~~~ Spinne, you will be pleased to learn that Séan is happily (if painfully) in possession of the keys to the Bug. :)
spinne at 12:8:30 Thursday September 23 99
yaaahaaaayyyy!! it's sunny out today! eep, 7am, time to get rollin! :)
Mich at 6:1:54 Thursday September 23 99
I'm just hanging...fortunately, my week is almost over (and thank goodness for Thursdays off). Plus, I get to go shopping tomorrow (musical instument shopping, yippee!!)
Dr. T at 4:33:22 Thursday September 23 99
Hey Mich! I'm glad it's not just me...and your furnace...that needed to let off steam this week!! Hang in there!
Mich at 1:11:36 Thursday September 23 99
We figured out how to stop the awful furnace noise (other than simply shutting off all power to it. That was a little nippy last night, thank goodnes I'm used to life in the Arctic). The solution, get my dad to come home from his business trip. Suddenly no more noise (we also have the Furnace guy coming tomorrow). My dad goes away for a couple of weeks and everything falls apart. Trumpeting elephants in the basement, a car that is making a grinding noise that's louder than the furnace, and we mustn't forget the huge hole we seem to have acquired in our backyard. I'm hoping its raccoons, but with the way the skunks have been spraying (and I HAD to have my window open for the last one, didn't I??? Any ideas how to get a room to stop smelling like skunk? I don't think the tomato juice baths will be appropriate), I have a feeling Pepi-le-phew (sp?) has moved back in under our deck! Next week can only get better, right???~~~~~Sorry to vent, but you gotta admit, crappy couple of days~~~~~EEECK!! I just thought, I hope this string of bad luck doesn't apply to the GBS Tickets for Massey Hall that I am hoping to get or the whistle(s) I'm hoping to buy tomorrow (I can finally get to the music store and I am dying to try the music Fiona emailed me)!! What a week, and it's not even over yet!~~~~Thank-you for reading this far...My rant is now over and I have returned to my (almost sane) normal self. 8)
TrishQ at 23:22:34 Wednesday September 22 99
Cheechi! Are ye daft, girl? Of course it can get colder and it WILL. I'm shiverin' just thinkin' 'bout a good old Ottawa winter day. Yuk! I know what you mean tho'- it has been nice and bamm!- now it's downright chilly. I just TURNed on the scary furnace in the scary basement of this old house (no Bob Vila or trumpeting elephants in evidence- thank goodness!) At least there's the November Civic Centre concert to look forward to. :-)
spinne at 20:3:29 Wednesday September 22 99
sorry for the double-post, but christine, could you email me? pretty please?
spinne at 19:36:35 Wednesday September 22 99
*yaaawn streeeetch* i'm up now, i'm up. ;) ~~~~ also ready to tear my hair out, tryin to get tickets for toronto. seriously thinkin about puttin the cash out for a "friends of massey hall" membership thing. ;) someone convince me to step away from the credit card... ;)
Cheechi at 19:21:34 Wednesday September 22 99
Can it get any colder? Wait, don't answer that. I'm so freezing, but if a wrap myself in any more blankets I'll probably start to hyperventalate. I liked the Alan/dog too, at least it wasn't anything mortifying like the telescrubbies, or that other picture that gave me Spiceupyourgreatbigphobia. I swear if I get diagnosed with another phobia I'm going to be over-phobiaed (like I'm not already) Is it normal to have about ten phobias? I mean, even if they aren't *REAL* phobias, this is ridiculous!
TrishQ at 19:9:53 Wednesday September 22 99
Cripers! Did it again! That was me below.
Anon at 19:7:6 Wednesday September 22 99
ITA- I don' think hearing trumpeting elephants in the basement is a good thing. I know I hate it when those flippin' things get in down there! :-) ~~~~~~~ I don't know if there's anyone from TO in here Mich but there IS for sure in the OKP.~~~~~~~~Hmmm, did someone offer wine? I'll take some white, please. Red gives me a wicked headache (right away- not just the morning after :-( )~~~~~~~ Teddy- your Alandog creation from the OKP was wonderfully twisted. You never cease to amuse me!~~~~~Oh, and Spinne...(((((WAKE UP!!!))))) "chucking a boot at you, you lazy thing" she said extremely enviously!
Krysia at 17:28:25 Wednesday September 22 99
Spinne/Dr T: Well, I have to agree with Dr. T - I remember it as 'beer to liquor, never sicker; liquor to beer, never fear'. I think that meant liquor as in the hard stuff though - never heard one with wine. Dr T - Hope you're feeling better, and that at least it was a fun night!
spinne at 15:3:0 Wednesday September 22 99
happy wednesday, people... hope getting over the mid-week hump isn't too hard on ya. :) it doesn't look like it's raining here, so that's good. i think i'll be cheerful today. ;) ~~~~ mich - you might wanna have your furnace looked at. :) i don't think "trumpeting elephant" is on the list of friendly-furnace noises. :) ~~~~ anyway, it's easy for me to be cheerful today. because i'm going back to bed now, and don't actually have to be awake for another 4 hrs. ;) *duck and run*
Mich at 5:43:5 Wednesday September 22 99
Hate to double post, but if I dont type this now I'll forget...again. When a new installment is made to the Eternal Kitchen Party, can someone (whomever makes the addition) let me (us?) know in here?? Thanks
Mich at 5:41:17 Wednesday September 22 99
Just a totally unrelated question for you all...Is it a bad thing when your furnace suddenly starts sounding like a trumpeting elephant just as you are sitting down to check the Chat???~~~~~I just heard from Isa and she is coming to the Toronto show on Nov. 26 (provided I'm able to buy tickets for both of us. Visa is maxed out with school books at the moment, so I'm hoping mom and dad will let me "borrow" their's). Is anyone else here able to go??? I know Isa is trying to figure out how to spend the day -- I have to be in classes that day -- but I figure there has to be a GBS fan in T.O. that is able to take the whole day off, who can show her around (not to mention meeting me at Union Station and keep me from getting lost). Any takers?? I'll try and check in here before I phone her (she emailed me her number, not exactly safe, but oh well, what's done is done). I'm hoping this all works out (I'm getting extremely paranoid now that something will go wrong and it won't all work out fine. Totally neurotic. Time to go to bed and listen to Con Free a few million times8) ). 'Night all.
Alex at 22:34:12 Tuesday September 21 99
DrT, the old lady was ugly exactly like the one in the movie I mentioned......only with long,straight hair....thin and skinny.....I saw the bones under the skin....
And now I know your analysing this thing :)))
spinne at 4:32:38 Tuesday September 21 99
LOL!!!!! oh dear... the b'ys are gettin the run of the bug, huh? do i see alan riding shotgun? 0:) ~~~~ cheechi - i hope you're feeling better, and a lil more, uh... well-rested. ;) ~~~~ and trinna, the way i've heard it is "beer to wine and you'll be fine; wine to beer -- that's somethin to fear!" *pushes econo-sized bottle of advil and jug of water in t's direction*
Hap at 3:47:45 Tuesday September 21 99
Good grief, where did I leave the boys anyway? Are they still in Port-au-Port? (Wonder if the boots are broken in yet.) Actually, I've just been waiting for Fred to leave so I could slip Séan the keys to the Volkswagen. Um...not that I'm glad Fred's gone or anything. *sniff* Gimme' a chance to check the last entry, let me know the minute you spot a new face, and we'll resume the festivities! Now that it's getting a bit colder, there's bound to be more people staying indoors. Ooh, and we're heading into boot and jacket season! ~~~ A Word to the Wise: When engaging in backyard games with a dog that weighs twenty pounds more than you do, it really pays to learn the commands first, to say nothing of the rules to the game SHE wants you to play. I did finally get her to sleep at my feet while I put up some knickers for a market display - good Lord, she snores worse than my grandfather - but man of man do I reek of Newfoundland slobber. The things I get paid to do...
Cheechi at 2:58:8 Tuesday September 21 99
i MUST'VE JUST GRADUATED BECAUSE i SPELLED EAILY WRONG DOWN THERE AND NOW i'M TYPING IN cAPS BECAUSE i ACCIDENTALLY HIT THE BUTTON AND i'M TOO LAZY TO START OVER. i'M SORRY THAT EVERYTHING'S BACKWARDS ... i WISH YOU COULD HEAR ME LAUGHING RIGHT NOW ... i'VE BEEN LAUGHING FOR A BOUT AN HOUR AND i'M NOT SURE WHY ... MAYBE EVERYTHING'S JUST FIUNNY ALL OF A SUDDEN ... i CAN SPELL REALLY, i'M JUST EXTREMELY LAZY, AND IT'S BED TIME LIKE A i SAID BELOW, SO i'M PROBABLLY TIRED TOO ... you know it just occured to me to turn off the cap lock ... I'm going to go to sleep before I hurt myself ... sitting down just doesn't sound safe enough. Night all!!!!
Cheechi at 2:53:12 Tuesday September 21 99
What's with all the old ladies in everybody's dreams with GBS? And how can a hang-over have a hang-over? (I must remind everyone that you are talking to an almost non-alcoholic ... I only drink .5% coolers and strawberry daquiris) However, I do have a related GBQuote that got stuck in my head just now ... "52 beers before a show is 52 beers too many" -Alan, cause he forgot the words to a song. Anyway, bed time ... sleep sweet Ursula (George of the Jungle is my favorite movie ... I'm easily amused aren't I? Just like Alan and Sean are eaily distracted ... it must be the english majors ... maybe when I get my english major I'll become eaily distracted too ... *sigh* I can only hope) :P~
Dr. T at 23:47:17 Monday September 20 99
Great dream, Alex! But what did the old lady look like? I'm curious if it's one of the same old ladies that showed up in one of my GBDreams. I had to stop checking the chat before bed because it gave me such troubled sleep and such weird dreams.~~~~~~~~~Hey Hap! There's new people in the chat today :-), plus today's the day of Fred's departure :-( , so are we going to see any additions to the Eternal Kitchen Party? We're waiting!~~~~~~~~~And, just to round out my week of complaining, I'd like to announce that my hangover has a hangover! You know that adage, "Beer to Liquor, Never Sicker?" Believe it!~~~~~And Teddy, are we going to get a GBS-as-Banana-Splits picture to go with the current conversation in the OKP???
Alex at 22:28:58 Monday September 20 99
Mmmmmmm...I'd suggest it for the guys' next video but we gotta find a role for the other 3 boys and we must keep the name of the author secret :))))......Glad you enjoyed it mates. Donna do not worry, keep playing them before sleeping and you'll have your "the end" in your GBS dream :))
Donna at 20:48:33 Monday September 20 99
Maybe that IS the concept for the Feel it Turn video. :-) We will have to wait and see. I was telling joanna that I would have to make the drive at the end of October alone, so by the time I get to Seattle, I should have had ample lucid/day dreaming time. Add a lot of Coffee to that equation, and I won't even be able to LOOK at the b'ys by the time I see the shows in Vancouver. PLUS, I am seeing a week before the drive over. How will I keep all my 'thoughts' off my face?? :-)
~~~I don't think any of my dreams will have a 'the end' sign with Sean giving a big dimpled smile...or at least they wouldnt have until now! hehe ~~~ Thanx Alex, I enjoyed it.
Teddy at 19:57:14 Monday September 20 99
Alex - thank you SO much for sharing! I love that one - do you think we should suggest it for the b'ys next video???? BTW, the old lady reminded me of my senile old grandmother - she was always wandering around with no clothes on (though I don't think Séan would go for her!) ~~~~~~~ Spinne - I got the PC versions of Discworld 1 & 2 already, thankyouverymuch! I'd get Discworld Noir too, but I never found time to sit and play the others......
Alex at 19:3:51 Monday September 20 99
Hi all. Have you ever had a troubled night after watching a lot of GBS videos and listening to all their cds? Last night it happened to me and it caused an early morning freaked GBS dream. Is there a better place to talk about it? ;) So, in my dream, at the sound of "Feel it Turn" I found myself slowly flying over my residential block in Milano. But it was not me physically speaking,it was just my mind that was flying over the buildings and gardens. I saw everything from my high privileged point in the sky and selected an orange building where I focused my attention. Suddenly the soundtrack was not "Feel it Turn" but "Run runaway" and my eyes moved faster down to the groung searching for a particular window. Then everything happened like in a movie where I was the narrator and the viewer at the same time. I saw this first floor window getting open and an old lady trying to take off her shirt and jump down the window to escape. The old woman was hilarious 'cause she was exactly like the old lady with the weird dog in the movie "Crazy about Mary" (guess, that was the title, anyway that crazy movie with Cameron Diaz!). A lot of times she tried to get naked and jump down the window but there was like an invisible force to stop her. Suddenly, at the increasing rhythm of "Run runaway" she was right outside the window when a woman grabbed her, called her mum and she was again behind the window lamenting. Her mum started telling her story and said the old woman had gone out of her head when she had had the chance to take part to the GBS "Run runaway" video shot and had met Sean, from that moment she had always tried to escape naked to reach him. Suddenly we are back to the past, at the video making day, the scene becomes like a cartoon and I see the old, ugly woman back in NFLD, during a video shot break, carrying a pic of the guys and going to Sean to have the photo signed. She lend him the pic, Sean watch it and while signing his finger touch the old woman. She falls in love, Sean look at her, she look at him right in his eyes, and like in a happy-ending cartoon, they turn toward me at the same time, their faces are right in the middle of a big heart-shaped box, and Sean smiles...one of his teeth make a dazzle...and I see the word "the end" at the bottom of my screen....
Then I woke up, thank God!!! Sorry, it's long but I needed to share :))) Ciao
spinne at 17:54:34 Monday September 20 99
here's a good opportunity to turn teddy into a videogame-playing loser... ya know that there's a discworld game out for the sony playstation? *grin* might even be a discworld ii by now, but i haven't been keeping up with psx news. :)
Teddy at 11:37:5 Monday September 20 99
Mich - no relation to GBS, but I just finished re-reading the book, and was struck by the obvious similarity between yours & Cheechi's campuses/libraries, and Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University! Just a manic Terry Pratchett fan, really. For a GBS Connection, you have to read his "Soul Music" ;o)
Dr. T at 4:34:7 Monday September 20 99
Hey gang! Nothing much to say, just wanted to pop in and offer greetings. Greetings!
Mich at 3:54:48 Monday September 20 99
What makes you say something like that Teddy?? Maybe because you've learned how terrible I am with a computer??? You're right, I hadn't found it, but my question is, what the h**l is it?? I've figured out that it's an excerpt from a book, but how does it relate to GBS??
Teddy at 17:59:50 Sunday September 19 99
Do you guys all go to the Unseen University, or what????? Sounds suspiciously like it! ~~~~~~~ http://web.ukonline.co.uk/teddy/library.htm ~~~~~~~~~~ What's the betting Mich never got there? ~~~~~~~~~ synchronization - I know for sure that every time I visit the Ladies' loo in work, EVERYONE else wants to go. Does that count???? Happy Sunday,people!
Mich at 4:21:26 Sunday September 19 99
Congrats on FINDING the Library Cheechi!! I'm still working on it. Sheridan College's Library is notorious for being difficult to find and there are a few teachers who claim they STILL don't know where it is. I figure at this point I'm lucky to have found my classes. I've actually been told that the Library is somewhere to the left of The Cage (our campus Pub). Maybe I'll find it on Monday...I'll just stop in for a quick game or two of pool first....
Cheechi at 1:10:33 Sunday September 19 99
Carleton's library is scaring me ... I got a job there, 6 hours a day, 2 days a week. I worked in the library at my high school for five years so I figure university libaries can't be much different, and I guess it's not, except for the radical difference in SIZE! Talk about going from average to GIGANTIC! Five floors of books and the shelves go on forever. At night, when nobody's there, the place feels like a morgue ... especially on the basement floor. They hired 50 students this year, just to shelve books!
Mich at 4:7:53 Saturday September 18 99
Dr. T., I noticed the synchronization thing yesterday, too. A little odd, but it does tend to happen in real life, so why not over the Net, especially considering hte time we all seem to spend here??~~~~~~ Yes, Spinne I know that ex-boyfriend of mine was weird (and prolly still is, although I wouldn't know because he's now in a diff town and we don't see or speak to each other -- so much for his "can we still be friends" plea) and that was part of the reason why I dumped him (Just so I don't leave any of you wondering about the rest, the real reason why I dumped him is because I caught him lying. He said he was going to Russia on business -- he has an import/export company -- and would be gone for about three months. During that time he never tried to contact me, not even by Snail MAil! When he got back I learned the truth. He was caught, by my mother no less, telling someone on his cell phone that he was actually doing security for a stripper/adopted sister during her European Tour!) And just for Trish, I have no reason to Run Runaway. I was rather bitchy (o.k. extremely bitchy -- and no that time it wasn't PMS, I was just at work and didn't feel like dealing with him) when I dumped his ass and he now lives (as mentioned earlier) in another city, having left no forwarding address with any of our mutual friends. Fortunately, I was only with him for a total of five months and for three of those he was on a different continent!~~~~~~~~Best of wishes to those with PMS. I'm past PMSing. Don't know if that's a good thing, or a bad thing (no more excuse as to why I screamed at my mom for vacuuming my room for me). Maybe it's because I haven't had chocolate for so long and now it's throwing me off because my system isn't used to it. Looks like I'll just need to eat some more chocolate until I'm used to the steady flow of caffeine (and sugar) again. Could someone pass those pretzels????
TrishQ at 20:51:37 Friday September 17 99
Hey, Teddy! I'd like a postcard too! I'll send you one if you like. E-mail me.
Teddy at 20:45:46 Friday September 17 99
I love PMS! Gives me the perfect excuse for chewing out my boss ;o) That, and if it gets bad enough, 'everything' else stops..... stress does that to me! Worked perfectly when the Cambridge Folk Festival fell on the wrong dates this year! And the boss was ultra-polite to me when I came back for - oh, all of a week.~~~~~~ The 'feminine supplies' thing - I had a colleague who would go buy those for us gurls! Then he emigrated to Aussie..... but he's comin' back next week for a visit! Maybe my timing will be right on again ;o)~~~ Yeah, this wavy thing's OK, but I gotta find a way to do paragraphs. I'm gonna archive tomorrow and experiment, so just e-mail me if you post here and it wrecks your system - oops, no you won't be able to... Good idea while it lasted, though. ~~~~~~~~ Donna, I'm goin' uptown tomorrow, I'll find you a good card, OK? Gudnite, all!
Donna at 18:46:40 Friday September 17 99
TrishQ, are you trying to kill me??? I can't hold my breath until Christmas!! hehe
I will send yours today, if I ever get off line that is. I am waiting to hear if someone bought me a ticket for the second show in Vancouver in October. Maybe I should buy one anyway? hmmm... ~~~Anyway, thanx!!! I do soooo love postcards, and mail in general actually.
TrishQ at 18:42:47 Friday September 17 99
Donna- I mailed the postcard yesterday so start holding your breath. Giddyup snail!
TrishQ at 18:39:43 Friday September 17 99
Weird! I just came in here to check in and CF came on the radio AGAIN! Insert Twilight Zone music- doo doo doo doo...Da B'ys are getting an amazing amount of radioPLAY in Ottawa and Kingston.~~~~~~~ BTW-TGIF! Although.... I have TWO kids Birthday parties to attend (my daughter and my nephew) this weekend- yikes! Hyper kids and PMS! Sucks to be me!
Donna at 18:16:21 Friday September 17 99
Hey Girls! on the topic...PMS, I seem to have experienced the shortest cycle of my life, and feel it is worth commenting on a positive mental, or a husband away on holidays, or way TOO MUCH stress to even consider having PMS for more than a day. This might be worth building a thesis on for one of my classes this year, to determine the attributes of PMS (is it contagious??)~~~Anyway, I should be using this time to get some homework done before I pick up my munster, but I had to stop in to say hello, and read that the 'little storm' seems to have left most people on that side of the continent intact. Hope this is the case for everyone!
~~~I like the wavy thing too, btw!! And I will be waiting for those pretzels...for research only of course!! Back to coffee and Calculus~~~ Donna
spinne at 17:13:6 Friday September 17 99
boy, with all of you PMSers, i should really cook up another round of choccy pretzels. ;) gonna get right on that, 'fore everyone starts tearing their hair out! :)
TrishQ at 14:58:19 Friday September 17 99
Omigawwd, Dr. T! You're right- I think I am PMSing now too. I am starting to feel bitchy, woke UP with a slight headache and am cultivating a MONDO zit on my chin-Gross!! If I dissappear into the kitchen (my real one not the online one) to feverishly forage for any chocolate related items- it's for sure PMS.~~~~~~~Mich- your ex does sound verra verra weird- read:Run Runaway!!~~~~~~~Glad to hear everyone is survivng Floydlet OK. We (southern Ontario) even got a taste of the edge of Floyd yesterday with a bit of a (Pooh!) blustery day.~~~~~~~Dammit!!! Awright- WHO'S got the chocolate, coffee and Coke?...err- did I mention I was bitchy?? >:-(~~~~~~~ Ahhh- CF just came on the radio~~~~~feelin' better....
spinne at 4:32:42 Friday September 17 99
**FLOYDLET UPDATE** hey everyone! if the floydlet was supposed to hit tonight, it really musta sacked out early. it's kinda breezy here, but there's no rain, and the wind isn't extreme. some annoyed outdoor critters, but the crickets, at least, are back in full swing. ~~~~ so we're back to PMS and "feminine supplies," are we? many comforts (and Midol) around to those suffering right now. ya know, all this talk has reminded me that i'm about 2 weeks late. ha, but at least i know what i've been up to (or HAVEN'T, really), so i'm not worried. musta been those weird sleeping habits that threw me for a loop. ~~~~ mich, that ex-boyfriend of yours is just plain weird! :) definitely a little frightening. ~~~~ no, no blushing spinne - just unwilling to discuss the uh, physical attributes (you *did* say something about euphemisms, right?? :)) of some people i've *cough* known. :) that's their sort of private domain (haha), isn't it? ~~~~ anyway, time to de-funk and get ready for bed. physics lab at 10am. nite everyone; may your suffering be alleviated!
Dr. T at 4:31:16 Friday September 17 99
Hey gang! Yes, I made it through the day without slugging or sobbing. HURRAH! Hey, remember in the dorms how all the women's periods would synchronize? (Those of you just moving to the dorms, be on the lookout for this). Is it possible for this to happen in cyberspace? Will we all be menstruating at once soon? Lord, can you even imagine what this place will be like then?????~~~~~~~~I'm way behind in the chatroom, too, so will someone save anything totally rockin' for me?~~~~~~~~Departing for Chicago tomorrow morning. Haven't even started packing, but must SLEEP!!~~~~~~On a serious note--perhaps my first ever in here--I'd just like to say thanks to all for tolerating my PMS complaints this week. You've been super!!~~~~~Full report when I return from the City of the Big Shoulders. Everyone stay safe! 'Night.
Mich at 3:32:22 Friday September 17 99
Hey Trish, just thought I'd mention that not ALL men run at the mere mention of menstruation. My ex-boyfriend had no problem with that topic and was even willing to go shopping for "feminine supplies". Then again, he had this most annoying talent for knowing exactly when it was "that time of the month" (how many more cheesy euphemisms -- is that the right word? I'm way past sleep deprived here -- can I use????) or if I would be late/early etc. Definitely annoying (not to mention a little frightening considering he'd only known me a couple hours when he mentioned it would be early and he was right). I can't believe I'm discussing this here. Oh well. Blame it on the lack of sleep (and zero caffeine). ~~~~ I hope everyone's safe from Floyd (or should that be Floydlet??) ~~~~ Have we got a blushing Spinne, here?? What's wrong with discussing sex, short of not being able to participate?? ~~~~~~~ Hey Donna, welcome to the Estrogen Brigade. We started as being normal GBS fans, I swear, but somehow we just, erm, *evolved* into this. No apologies here but I'll warn ya' it can get pretty strange in here!! As if you hadn't figured that out already! 8) ~~~~ Alright, I think it's time to break my "No Caffeine Rule" (long story). Where is Jane with that d**n coffee????? Cola anyone??? Chocolate???
Hap at 3:18:13 Friday September 17 99
AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!! ~~~ Did someone mention PMS? What, it's contagious now? ~~~ Okay, so it's a little after 10 p.m. and I'm just home from a fifteen-hour day at work. The Kitchen's been nuts today, took me half an hour to SKIM the board, my brain spirals out of control at the mere thought of posting something - ANYTHING! - so I figure I'll just come in here and do a fly-by post before bedtime.....AND IT'S NUTS IN HERE TOO!!!! ~~~ Donna, welcome to the powder room (just left of the Kitchen, but waaaaaay at the back of the house). ~~~ Spinne and Krysia: Take care down there!!! ~~~ Dr. T: I'm just about at the point where I start thinking, "@#^$%&! the herbalist! Pass the Pamprin and wake me in three days!!!" A cup of chamomile and dose of St. John's Wort later, and I'll be falling asleep with the headphones on (right in the middle of "Boston & St. John's"). Round our way we call this "full moon fever." Remind me to explain that sometime (perhaps in the morning). ~~~ Okay, just to prove my day was not without mirth: The Littlest Disciple and I were supping with his family this evening when, from his booster chair, the l'il guy pulled his bright green shirt down in a Jean Harlow "off the shoulder" fashion and proclaimed, "Look Mom! I'm a queen!!!" ~~~ Okay, okay, I know: not one pun, not one under-garment reference, and not one mention of the Holy Hair. (Actually, I was about to refer to it as the "Holiest of Hairies," but then I remembered the decidedly un-Catholic connotation of "Holiest of Holies" and decided THAT was just beyond inappropriate. Does a near-miss count, or am I still shirking my duties?) ~~~ In closing, I'd second Trish's "Where the heck is Jane?" only it should be pretty obvious by now that caffeine is the LAST thing I need. ~~~ Getting out now, with what's left of my dignity...now where did it get to?
spinne at 0:56:3 Friday September 17 99
**FLOYDLET UPDATE** seems to have calmed down quite a bit.. maybe i should take this opportunity to run down to the post office and get some stuff in the mail. haha nahhh.
Krysia at 0:52:48 Friday September 17 99
Well, made it home just fine - for all the newsflashes and chitchat at work about how bad it was, it really was just a rainy drive home. We finished 'battening down the hatches', and the real brunt of the storm isn't supposed to hit for a few hours. The worst will be some branches down, maybe power outages - I'm not sure I know what 50-80 mph windgusts are like, but it looks like it really won't be all that bad. Suppose it will be work as usual tomorrow, sigh.
spinne at 20:41:58 Thursday September 16 99
ah, the weather sucks! krysia, careful driving home, ok? some nasty bit of weather, definitely - keeps waking me up, 'cos i have the window open and i've been trying to catch up on some sleep! :) i'm not too worried about it, although i did leave school early. *cough* :) my biology prof cancelled the lecture (*extreme happy dance*), so i figured that "hurricane conditions" were good enough to get out of english, too. o'course, i'd pretty much go with the "tropical storm" opinion.. call it "Floydlet." :) we'll be fine, power hasn't even blinked. :) hope my ex-cats are holding up ok. :( ~~~~ trinna, i hope you're doin ok. now what's all this about tears? i never get teary... i just get cranky. as soon as i start picking fights with friends, that's when i know i'm PMSing and i should just go out or something for a while. :) ~~~~ complete change of topic here: we need more geeks and losers on both boards. i need more people to game with! :) any volunteers? Starcraft/Brood War, Baldur's Gate/Tales from the Sword Coast, Tiberian Sun? ~~~~ haha, i'm hearing some pretty pissed off geese outside right now. :) ~~~~ so, about our favorite sexual positions... i'd have to say that it really depends on who you're with. and that's about all i'm willing to say. :) congrats, trinna, you've just found probably the ONE topic i'm not willing to discuss in depth! ;) ~~~~ time for lunch, will give you updates on Floydlet later. :)
TrishQ at 20:14:51 Thursday September 16 99
Wow! Drive carefully, Krysia. Spinne- how are you doing? Post soon girls and let us know all is OK. I'm safely away from Floyd here in southern Ontario but the storm is supposed to hit Nova Scotia and Newfoundland sometime this weekend! Keep safe to everyone in his path!
Krysia at 20:3:18 Thursday September 16 99
Trish - actually, I was using the ~~~ key before I left for vacation (almost two weeks ago now), but I thought the 'box' here looked different, and didn't remember being able to hit enter while I was typing...~~~ Anyway, my office is closing two hours early due to the hurricane (although it's more a tropical storm now), but it'll like take me two hours to get home anyway - roads are flooded, visibility is low, and I'll have to dodge the falling trees. ~~~~ Spinne - how are you doing out on the Island? You've got to be getting it worse out there across the Sound - we're protected by you guys usually in these things. Let us know all is OK.~~~ Cheers!
TrishQ at 19:34:15 Thursday September 16 99
errr- that was me below :-)
Anon at 19:31:54 Thursday September 16 99
Krysia- Teddy mentioned before that the paragraph thing just doesn't work in here. She told us to use the wavy~~~~~ key( I have NO idea what the proper name for it is!) to break UP our posts and make them a little easier to read. Keep chattin', Donna. There's always room for more...in the Estrogen Brigade! ~~~~~~I love the wavy key~~~~~it's so pretty~~~~~like waves on a Great Big Sea~~~~
Donna at 18:57:27 Thursday September 16 99
Thanx for the welcome! Just what I need is another place that 'I have to check' everyday! :-) I kinda like the idea of a women only chat, but agree that there are probably men lurking here.
Oh and a thought on PMS...I think that sometimes people need a good verbal lashing, and pms seems to afford me the nerve (not that I could stop it) to accomplish this. The tears are a downfall though, and I haven't figured out how to keep them in check. They should offer a course on directing your hormonal imbalances...hehe
Trish I picked out a nice one for you, but haven't written anything on it yet. Perhaps tonight during Philosophy. :-) Time to get some homework done...Thursday seems to go on forever for me.
bye Donna
Krysia at 17:35:50 Thursday September 16 99
OK, forget the comment about the new paragraph set up. I can make paragraphs in here with the return key, but they didn't show up below. Thought is was a new feature. Been away so long, I've forgotten the routine! PS - everyone vote for Sons of Maxwell per Wendy's request? Alex/Teddy - make up Ontarian addresses or use someone's maybe - really - they're a great group and a nice bunch of guys.
Krysia at 17:33:43 Thursday September 16 99
Indeed, it was a sad night the night O'Reilly's ran out of Guinness. The bartenders watched with distress as the crowds quickly filtered out, down to a pub with the dark stuff (mind you, it wasn't St. John's that was out of Guinness, just the one pub - second time in as many weeks however). Fergus O'Byrne, up on stage, could barely choke out the name of a replacement pint, and made comment on tragic situation numerous times. Plus, rumors floated
of another pub having ran out a few weeks earlier. Emergency supplies of the dark stuff in cans was mentioned as a very good idea for the pub. Someone needs to have a little talk with the inventory manager, I believe. Hap - it should be against the by-laws, if it isn't already. Number for the local liquor control board,anyone?
Hey, like the new paragaph set up, by the way. When did this happen?
Alex: As for CDs, what I came home with was: Fables/Tear the House Down, Fergus O'Byrne/Wave Over Wave, All Hands on Deck (Songs from the Lower Deck - Signal Hill, McGinty, Clam Chowder, Connemara, etc.), The Irish Descendants/Gypsies and Lovers, Shanneygannock/The Long Haul, McGinty/Atlantic Favourites, We Will Remain (Patriotic Songs of Newfoundland, Various artists), The Punters/Said She Couldn't Dance, and The Barra MacNeils/Until Now.
That's it for now. Amazing how many ways I can distract myself at work. Donna - welcome!
Dr. T at 17:29:43 Thursday September 16 99
Can I do a drive-by PMS vent in here? AUUUUURGH!!! There are sixty bazillion tiny things going wrong at work, I'm probably going to be late for my next class, and my hormones are raging out of control!! I'm going to be lucky if I get through the day without bursting into tears or giving someone a black eye. Wish me luck! Whew! Better already. Thanks. Now, on to our disucssion of favorite sexual positions. ******JOKING!!!**** Bye all!
TrishQ at 14:5:1 Thursday September 16 99
Go, Spinne,Go! Go,Spinne,Go!! And try to stay dry or solve the whole laundry probs and sprinkle a little Tide on before you brave Floyd.~~~~Hey, Welcome Donna! I've got your postcard all written UP and stamped- will send it today or tommorrow sooo with the wonderful Canuck snail mail it should be there.....oh, maybe before Xmas.~~~~~How do you like Carleton, Cheechi? My older sister went there.~~~~~Mich- I've suspected the same thing 'bout Fred. I bet he lurks in here! All this estrogen laced chat scares him away. I know from experience the mere mention of menstruation sends men screaming for the hills! Mind you if we start discussing bras and breasts again we'll never get 'em outta here!!
spinne at 12:1:38 Thursday September 16 99
sorry for the double-post here, i just wanted to share a bit of advice with everyone: you know it's laundry day when you're left wearing a sports bra and you have no plans on jogging.
spinne at 11:52:27 Thursday September 16 99
*cough* please, everyone note the time stamp on this msg, and subtract 5 hours (EDT). IT'S 6:35 IN THE FRIGGIN MORNING!! this is so wrong. *wipes tears from eyes* ~~~ hey donna, welcome to the very muchly un-private chat, where everything you care to discuss (and then some) is made public. :) just wait until those fetal pig dissections come 'round for me... that'll chase a bunch of folks away. ;) ~~~~ no guinness in st. john's, heehee! wouldn't bother me in the slightest! :D ~~~~ mich, g'luck to ya - i don't have nearly as much of a courseload, just a natural hatred for formal education. :) thanks to everyone for cheerin me up, though, it -is- helping. we can all pull through this, really we can... ~~~~ hap, your comment about the fur and whiskers and the thing your kitty was doing with his ears reminds me of one of the Feynman stories - he was invited into a graduate cell phys course, and was required to write a paper. having little biology, he was getting lost when he started his research and came up with references to "extensors and flexors, the gastrocnemius muscle, and so on." so fixes the problem, feynman-style: he goes into the library and asks for a "map of the cat." :) ~~~~ wow, it's really pouring out there! time for me to get a move on.. it's almost 7 now. *whines pathetically and starts sniffling*
Teddy at 10:11:46 Thursday September 16 99
Hi, Donna!~~~~~~~~ No, it's definitely not a private board, come on in and chat! Though it is kinda turning into women only, what with all this talk about throwing underwear, bra-fitting and PMT ;o)~~~~~~~~ Spinne - off the Guinness, you need more caffiene ~~~~~~~~~~ Krysia, many thanks for the travel diary! I need something to chill to ~~~~~~~ NO GUINNESS IN ST JOHN'S!!!!! That's it, I'm never going there! Too bad. ;o)
Anon at 7:1:4 Thursday September 16 99
Donna at 7:0:40 Thursday September 16 99
Hey, I assume this is not a private kinda chat, so I wanted to say hello!!
Do you all work with an online computer handy? Seems like many people are 'at' work as they post.
I have nothing special to say, other than I like the site Teddy. (and friends)
Mich at 6:32:8 Thursday September 16 99
Finally able to stop in and all I can really say is that I think I may be in the same boat as Cheechi and Spinne! Somehow I got roped into being a notetaker for the Special Needs office (at least there might be an honorarium of sorts at the end of the term) and tutoring a couple of guys in accounting (they still don't get that there can be multiple types of assets -- any GBS songs relating to this??? They've helped with history, maybe they need to start singing about Business Administration)in addition to my seven courses. I just keep thinking about what we were told at orientation: Expect to have a complete nervous breakdown before your third week. Just about due, I think.~~~~~~~Dr. T, I know the feeling. Those three advil and a nap certainly sound good right now! Alright, screw the advil and head straight for the prescription (and hey, combine it with the medication I'm on for my fibromyalgia and sleep disorder and I'm out cold for at least eight hours. Now to find eight hours....)~~~~~~ Any ideas as to where we set our limits for what we will NOT discuss????? Definitely a good way to deter the b'ys from reading everything here (which means we can continue to discuss info that we ordinarily could not post in the Kitchen). Although with Fred being an Offiseal, you begin to wonder if he lurks, but is too embarassed by the discussion to post here (or maybe I'm the only one who wonders it).~~~~~o.k., re-reading this, perhaps it really is time for some sleep (I've just been up for 17 hours straight. Thank goodness for Thursdays off).~~~~Good luck to everyone else who's at school (teachers and students) and if you are anywhere near Hurrican Floyd, please keep yourself as safe as possible and let us know how you're keeping (or better yet, high tail it up here to Canada).
Hap at 2:40:58 Thursday September 16 99
They ran out of Guinness??? IN ST. JOHN'S??? Doesn't that violate a local by-law? Write the Ministry of Tourism, Krysia, I think you're due some kind of refund here. ~~~ Spinne: hair, knees and dimples are all biological. (An innate sense of mystery may not be but, heck, we gotta' leave something for the pscyology majors.) So are fur, whiskers, big green eyes and this adorable thing my kitty is doing with his ears right now...:)
Alex at 2:18:50 Thursday September 16 99
Spinne, DO NOT GIVE UP!!! You can always think that the guys eat proteins too....and how would the Bob magnetism work on proteins metabolism?.....does this make the subject more interesting? Cheers
spinne at 1:54:20 Thursday September 16 99
*sigh* all of this work really bites. i really don't care about the different structures of protein, or the fact that hydrocarbons are hydrophobic. when's the fun stuff come along?? can i get a lil encouragement to not give up on pursuing a doctorate in the biological sciences? :( only 75 more years to go...
Alex at 23:22:46 Wednesday September 15 99
Welcome back Krysia! Happy to know you enjoyed your trip! Guess now we have another Nova Scotia addicted! What about the cds you bought?
Cheechi at 21:42:11 Wednesday September 15 99
Yes Trish, I'm in Ottawa, and I'm attending Carleton U right now. and, just for general information, Carleton's ITV classes can all be seen (at various times) on channel 65 (in Ottawa anyway). I, personally, will be on TV (probablly) every Monday at 10pm, and every Wednesday at 2pm. Or you can just go to my website and view my pretty face there *heehee*
Krysia at 21:9:40 Wednesday September 15 99
Thanks, Teddy, Hap and Trish! I am so not in the mood to be at work. I wish I were still enjoying the sunshine and seabreezes... I have been listening to the Fables and Fergus O'Byrne today - I picked up 10 CDs while in Nova Scotia and NF. I also met the guys from Sons of Maxwell while in NS - nice guys - I think I'll be visiting Halifax more often... ~~~~Hap - I've decided I like Alex Keith's, but not as much as Guinness. Terrible thing, I was in a pub in St. John's (O'Reilly's on George St), and THEY RAN OUT OF GUINNESS! Crowd thinned pretty quickly. Switched to Caffrey's, but its not the same.
TrishQ at 15:20:30 Wednesday September 15 99
Duh! That's a no-brainer! Of course they're stuck to Bob. An enviable position, I might add.:-) ~~~~~~ Welcome back, Krysia and keep on truckin' Cheechi! Correct me if I am wrong but are you in Ottawa, Cheechi? What school are you @?~~~~~~~ Hap- perhaps The Littlest Disciple was wondering ^aloud^ if da B'ys ^allowed^ themselves to surrender to The Bob Effect?~~~~~~~ Ah, I need more coffee- where the h%ll IS Jane? Going into caffeine withdrawals here and it aint pretty!
Me again at 1:49:15 Wednesday September 15 99
Hey, in for a penny, in for, well, at least another penny. Of course I *meant* to say the Littlest Disciple "wondered ALOUD." Last correction, I swear. So help me God, I'll turn the computer off and damn the consequences!
Hap at 1:26:46 Wednesday September 15 99
Was it Jen. in the chat saying something about Englis majors being chronically anal? I meant to inquire (below): "Further evidence OR a trick of the light?" (I can spell! Honest! It was a typo - a TYPO, I swear to God!!)
Hap at 1:24:10 Wednesday September 15 99
"Most of these books can be read in a day?" Yeah, maybe, IF you didn't have classes to attend...and that classES, plural (!!), which means other assignments that I'm sure other professors think can be handled in a day. Christ in a study carol, if the world doesn't revolve around profs individually, it just ain't spinnin' right. *sigh* I remember those days...fondly, however perverse that may seem. ~~~ WELCOME BACK KRYSIA!!! ~~~ Determined to make this a one-shot post, I now move on to the latest Magnetism Observation. Further evidence of a trick of the light? You decide. This morning, while studying his brandly new copy of PLAY, the Littlest Disciple gazed upon the band photo on the back of the CD and wondered allowed, "How come they are all stuck together?" Now I ask you: Are they "all stuck together?" Or are they all stuck to Bob?
Cheechi at 0:31:2 Wednesday September 15 99
I'm checking in as often as I can, but even reading email and chat posts is driving me crazy. Since I just started university, the only thing I ever do is read, read, read! My eyes are going to pop out, I tells ya! Just looking at the list of texts I have to read is frightening enough to *almost* make me want to quit school. Or maybe I could be violent and take all my books and shove them up the teacher's ... well, maybe that wouldn't be appropriate. Did I mention I'm a slow reader? One of my english teacher's had the gall to stand in front of the class and say "Most of these books can be read in a day or less" I really wanted to hit him for saying that. I mean, I realize these are 300-400 pages books (most of them), but that takes me like a week, at least to read. Anyway, I'm going to stop talking about reading now, because I'm driving myself insane just thinking about it. Cheers all!
Krysia at 23:51:58 Tuesday September 14 99
Well, just to alleviate any anxieties about my sanity, I read through most of my 140 work e-mails (less than I expected), voicemails, 3 huge piles of snail mail and memos, went on-line to check my own e-mail, then just had to take a break to check the chat and then the PWAOWAH board. All before noon time for the first pass, no less! I was quite proud of myself - it's usually much worse when I'm gone for a week or more. Time to go home to unpack and do laundry - the joys of coming back to reality. Missing Atlantic Canada already....
spinne at 23:12:2 Tuesday September 14 99
hahahahha!! no guinness for me, thanks! ;) ya know what works for me? first, someone to whine at. very important... whining isn't any fun if there's no one about to listen. after that, when the pain gets really unbearable, take three advil and a nap. :)
Teddy at 22:44:6 Tuesday September 14 99
Hi, Krysia! Welcome back! PLEASE don't tell me you checked in here first....... you can't do that! AYM post on its way ~~~~~~ PMS remedies: try chocolate & ice-cream..... and guinness, for those of us who can stand the stuff - worked for me at the Irish festival/Sawdoctor's gig on sunday! ~~~~~~~~ and lastly, NO LIMITS! We're big, hormonal women in here!
Krysia at 16:18:25 Tuesday September 14 99
Morning! Just got back last night - what a wonderful trip. I saw Shanneygannock and Fergus O'Byrne in St. John's, as well as a new band called Foc'sl, and then Sons of Maxwell in Halifax. Anyway, I do need to get caught up at work. Yuck. Was able to scan the chat and the board in here - does anyone have the AYM post they can send me? Didn't have time to read much - but you guys have been very prolific while I've been gone! Looks hilarious, I'll have to catch up on the 'video shoot' later in the week. Did I miss any good concert reviews? Cheers. (PS Spinne - your NF postcards were just mailed Monday (sorry), but hopefully you'll get them soon!)
TrishQ at 15:5:5 Tuesday September 14 99
My doctor recommended valerian to me and I take it just before bed. It does help me sleep better. I'm a big believer in vitamins and herbal remedies.~~~~~No, I don't think there are any limits to what we'll discuss in here. I vote that after we exhaust the PMS/menstruation chat we move on to disusssing childbirth. >:-) If THAT doesn't keep guys outta here, nuttin' will!
Dr. T at 0:34:50 Tuesday September 14 99
Thanks for the advice, ladies. I'm still out of it today, but it's almost definitely hormonal...so at least I know it'll be over soon! I think I have some chamomile around here somewhere, and I'll have to look into the calcium supplements.~~~~~~Spinne, we're still waiting to hear about the Birchmere! (sp?)~~~~~~~As to Hap's question, I think there are limits as to what we'll discuss in here...we just haven't found them yet!!
Hap at 23:34:46 Monday September 13 99
Well, I didn't go out this weekend, even though I was supposed to. Car trouble. Watched a lot of football (soccer), though. And bought tickets to things coming up later in the year. And my parents visited - although they came for the golf, not me. ~~~ Never tried calcium supplements. I figure the litre of milk I drink every day I'm PMS-ing takes care of that. (Or does that constitute a calcium supplement of a different nature?) I do double up on my Vitamin B Complex, though. Does wonders for the mood swing/irritability factor (as do St. John's Wort and Valerian, but they can make you sleepy). And I'm sure you've heard the chamomile tea story a million times, but it works a charm on those cramps. ~~~ Um...are there any limits to what we'll discuss in here?
Alex at 19:19:27 Monday September 13 99
As usual, I made a mess with the post! Sorry :))
Alex at 19:18:21 Monday September 13 99
Hi all. DrT hope you're feeling better now and Spinne, welcome back! Hope you'll tell us all the funny story ;))
Ciao
Alex at 19:17:55 Monday September 13 99
Hi all. DrT hope you're feeling better now and Spinne, welcome back! Hope you'll tell us all the funny story ;))
Ciao
TrishQ at 18:36:50 Monday September 13 99
Hey, I went out this past weekend. Saw a play at our local theatre Fri. night. It was pretty good ('bout a young guy wanting to be a priest). On Saturday I went to a Celtic Festival in Kingston ON in Fort Henry. I had never been to one before- it was very cool. Leahy performed onstage- they were fantastic- even better than when I saw them open for GBS in '97. FYI- Leahy is a local family of celtic musicians and step dancers. They just finished a huge tour opening for Shania! Then went into K-town for a yummy schnitzel dinner ( I lived in Germany for 8 yrs and got addicted!) GREAT weekend! Hope you're feelin' better Dr. T. Try calcium suppliments for the icky PMS- works for me!
spinne at 9:6:16 Monday September 13 99
heya trinna - i hope you're feeling better soon. :( i'll have an amusing story for you eventually... right now i'm goin to bed! :)
Dr. T at 4:1:48 Monday September 13 99
Hey, where is everyone? I've been home all day not feeling well (hopefully just exhaustion and PMS), and I'm bored out of my wits!! Anyone have anything amusing to share? Any good stories from those of you that went OUT this weekend? Ah well, have a good week everyone!
Cheechi at 21:28:49 Saturday September 11 99
I was at HMV the other day and I saw that PLAY was in the Top 30 Best Realeases section. Then I went to Chapters today and they had TURN in their Favorite CD section (don't ask me why a book store has a CD section). Just wanted to share that with you so that you can all be proud with me.
Dr. T at 3:20:35 Saturday September 11 99
Congrats to both Hap and Teddy!!! Cookies and champagne...that's even better than cookies and milk! Plus chocolate covered pretzels...the ideal PMS food, both chocolate and salt...perfect for the Estrogen Brigade. What a happy day!
Hap at 2:31:16 Saturday September 11 99
I've got fresh cookies! Made 'em with the Littlest Disciple this afternoon...although he ate a good chunk of the dough. There might be one cookie for everyone. ~~~ Met the Newfoundland dog this afternoon, and her half-Newf owner. The pup is a bit of a slobberer, but hey: It's a female, and we know what the men are like round her neck of the breeding ground, is it any wonder she's in a perpetual state of drool? I've seen the knickers as well. Was promptly sized up by the new boss: "You're just the right size for most of my samples." (She brings buyers into the home office from time to time...this could be interesting.) Oh yes, and the conversion had begun before I even got there: "What's this music you've got everybody's kids hooked on?" Hee hee. I just gets easier and easier. :) - . CONGRATS TEDDY!!! I'm so glad everything worked out for you. Now, we've managed a bit of a hair clog in your drain already, but I promise we'll snake it out before we leave - and, uh, re-stock the Guinness (just look at what it's done for The Hair!).
Alex at 23:45:47 Friday September 10 99
Lucky week mates, isn't it? Good job DrT, and congratulation to Hap and Teddy!I think it can be the AYM message effect!......I played some numbers at the lottery, who knows???......Party???...ok, if you finishe the cookies, I'll take some pizza! Cheers
spinne at 22:28:10 Friday September 10 99
heyheyyyy!! congrats everyone! a successful video shoot, a new job, and a new home, this week is ending wonderfully. :) i think there are a few cookies left, but i'll be getting to work on some more chocolate pretzels, anyway. the post-shoot party is being held at your new place, teddy, didn't you know?! :)
TrishQ at 19:19:19 Friday September 10 99
Congratulations Teddy! That's wonderful! I am also saving UP my pennies hoping to buy my own place someday. Would help if my deadbeat evil ex paid the back child and spousal support he owes me. The wheels of justice grind sloooowly (believe me - I know!) Er- sorry Teddy- I shouldn't be indulging in men-bashing at your house warming party....Quick someone pass me the wine!~~~~~~ Way to go, girl!
TrishQ at 19:9:44 Friday September 10 99
~~~applause!~~~ Well done, Dr.T! That was just too amusing. Loved the part with the Faithfull reverently washing the hair- how appropo for us PWAOWAHers!~~~~~Re: the Great Big Toss of Freudian Unmentionables- I was sooo disappointed that Sailor Fred didn't toss undies. I think having frillies tossed at them by a grown man is way more hilarious. I'd love to see THAT! ~~~~~~~~~Looking forward to seeing The Great Big Barenaked Sea in November in Ottawa. :-p <~~~~leering grin
Teddy at 18:47:17 Friday September 10 99
So, where's the post-shoot party????? Nice ending, Dr T! I'm a sucker for happy endings *sniff*~~~~~~~~ Hap, congrats on the new job! ~~~~~~~~~ Everybody, I am now a proud (?) homeowner, of a run-down terraced model in the worse end of town! But, hell, it only cost me 25k! AND IT'S MINE! Welcome to the virtual housewarming, and have an imaginary Sociabubble on me ;o) Any cookies left????
Dr. T at 18:6:7 Friday September 10 99
I'm all for underwear chucking in Ontario, if you bring the supplies! That's too funny about your new job, Hap! I had a feeling kismet was going to kick in for you, and that's kismet if there ever was some. It'd have to bite you on the butt to be any more obvious!~~~~~~~~Thanks for the warm fuzzies on the review, gang! As for the Great Bare Sea, it's not unheard of...the Red Hot Chili Peppers have been doing it for years...so why does it seem so totally shocking to me when Alan suggests it? Coudn't tell ya. Oh, but the looks on their faces! I wish you could've seen! And Alex, he didn't say January specifically, he just said early in 2000...that could be February, March, April...who knows?~~~~~~Sorry for the length of that video shoot summary. I guess it defeated the purpose of its existence, but I never know how long things are when I type in this little box.~~~~~~So am I permitted to close out the video shoot? We now have Sean back in shorts and we've supplied him with cookies, milk, and a large pack of gum to help with the nicotine withdrawl. The dogs are tied up, docile, and panting in anticipation of leftovers, though Sean is still shooting them the occasional suspicious look. Bob has been unbound, after numerous assurances that his knees will go unmolested, and he too is relaxing with nary a bee in sight. There was so much infighting amongst the crew over who got to wash Alan's hair that we just decided to take "lather-rinse-repeat" to the max and let everyone have a TURN, while the rest of the membership circled 'round, chanting soothing sounds in ritualistic PWAOWAH fashion...and low and behold, after about the fifth wash, Alan suddenly snapped back to his old self and is now darting around the set looking for his guitar. Finally, Mr. Powers has been successfully treated for his wound...turns out it was only a scratch, he's just a heavy bleeder. That Barney band-aid is serving its purpose nicely. The old glasses, be they Alan's or Darrell's (the world may never know) will be given as a souvenier to the first crew member to claim them, as Darrell has now been fitted with a new, tape-free pair. And it's amazing how many cookies he's consuming for someone so recently ill. Well, more Power(s) to him. And here comes Alan with the guitar, ready to sing "all the hits, not just ours." So come gather all around us, bring the milk and pass the chocolate chips...THAT'S A WRAP!
TrishQ at 14:12:38 Friday September 10 99
A NEWFOUNDLAND?!?! I love those dogs and have always wanted one. I can't complain tho'- I have a golden retriever named Tina who is the sweetest dog on earth. Hmmm- can you tell I am a Great Big dog lover?
Hap at 1:47:6 Friday September 10 99
How are we set for the Great Big Knicker Toss? 'Cause it looks as though my employment emergency - the one that would have seen me parting company with the Littlest Disciple and his family - has been salvaged by a woman who spends her days marketing (get this) wholesale LINGERIE. Never let it be said that I don't take my duties as Mistress of the Freudian Unmentionables seriously! Not only does she market the stuff, but she works out of her home and, while her son is sleeping in the afternoon, she'd appreciate as much help as I can give her in the office. Hee hee hee. It was all I could do not to burst out laughing when she told me what she did for a living (thank God we were on the phone at the time, she couldn't see me digging my fingernails into my palms). Oh, and if this woman wasn't perfect enough already - if I actually needed any kind of sign that she was the answer to my prayers - she has a dog. Anyone care to guess the breed? :)
Alex at 23:59:14 Thursday September 9 99
DrT, such an interesting and funny review! Did you really take notes during the concert? :)
That naked thing made me wish to move to Cleveland for their next date there! Somebody will have to bring a huge professional camera :))......
But that idea of being back to the States in Jenuary kills me!!!! It means they won't be here in Europe since February or so!! I see withdrawal symptoms getting worse...
Teddy at 22:54:20 Thursday September 9 99
Dr T - lovely review! One comment only: I thoroughly agree with Alan's suggestion re the clothing status at the next show. And all Bob's protective clutching at the shirt ain't gonna help ;o)
spinne at 10:57:50 Thursday September 9 99
*cough* those band-aids WERE on sale, and they work just fine, thank you! (*mumbles something about hap's purse*) :) ~~~~ glad to hear you're making it through classes ok, and that you're even learning impt stuff like how long it takes you to get from home to school. (it's consequence free through margarita for me; trois navires if traffic's bad.) my important lesson for the day is "no one, but NO ONE, should have to see this side of 6am." i didn't even know it came with a "morning" component, figured that it was just a nice way to end the night. :) ~~~~ everyone have a great day while i languish in a biology lab for three hours, and two classes after that. :P ;)
Mich at 5:31:3 Thursday September 9 99
Sorry to double post, but I learned the best thing today and I have to share. One of the first friends I met (and the one who shares my commute time occasionnally) is a GBS fan (important college learning). The first person (outside of Kitchen) that has understood what I mean when I say my commute is the length of one debut album from front door to locker (funny thing is though, the commute home is only half of PLAY, odd, isn't it??)
Mich at 5:28:16 Thursday September 9 99
Dr. T, would those be the famous Barney bandaids that were supposedly only purchased because they were on sale (better check the medicine cabinet to see if we have any better ones)~~~~just so yu all know, I've survived my first two days of class and have only gotten lost about a zillion times. Thank God I have Thursdays off!! AND I have one prof who is a fabulous doyler (should that be capitalized?) which adds a bit of fun. Still awake in classes, but I'm not holding out any hopes for my Friday 8 am class (I prefer my 12-6 on Mon - Wed)~~~~~~~ Glad to know that the video is now (almost?) done because I was getting concerned about the b'ys safety!
TrishQ at 3:47:32 Thursday September 9 99
Heh heh, yeah, I got a giggle out of "coo" too. Ah well, I should shut-up. Glass houses and stones etc.....i kin spil. an Rite; good to!~~~~~Cheechi!! I have three words for you~~~~~Pizza and Coke! See, I can count too! :-)
Cheechi at 2:2:56 Thursday September 9 99
No mocking English Majors! I'm going to become one in the next four years and I have no idea how to spell (yet!) I make up words when I have to. Alan's a great English Major, if you ask me, but that's because he went to a GREAT school as did the other three guys. But, isn't it an unwritten law that English Majors are *supposed* to suck at English? I meen, since wen do we do anything write? (heehee)
Alex at 22:59:19 Wednesday September 8 99
Wow, what a day! A HUGE summary from DrT (...thanks...) and an AYM post :)))). Anyway, after reading the things you all wanna do to the guys for the "new" video, I was wondering if Alan read all this stuff and what he meant at the end of his message when he says "BE SAFE"!!!! ;)))
Was he caring about our mental in-sanity, or just trying to say "be safe as I am right now (thank God!!!..and I wanna keep on being safe!)", or was he still thinking about my "accident" (that would make me somehow happy ;))...
Good school starting mates!!! Can I pass you a cappuccino? Some coffee would help you to stay awake ;))
Cheers
Teddy at 22:28:28 Wednesday September 8 99
Already been there ;o) Am I the only one who DOESN'T check this place first???? ~~~~~~~~ I wonder if we'll get the standard B,TB day tomorrow, or do we get short-changed, if he's still in a sour mood? ~~~~~~~~ Me, I think Alan's just trying to prove he's still alive, though I think we knocked a few braincells loose. "Coo" indeed. So much for the English major ;o)
TrishQ at 20:49:2 Wednesday September 8 99
Happy Alan Yes Me Day! Yes, girls- run to the kitchen...let's go!
Cheechi at 18:43:55 Wednesday September 8 99
I forgot, I have a question ... does this mean we just have to edit the video now and send it to MM and CMT?
Cheechi at 18:42:9 Wednesday September 8 99
I'm sorry, milk and cookies? MILK and cookies? It's okay, I'm fine, I just hate milk. Why don't you all just go suck on a cow? I'll sit here and drink my coke thank you. Unfortunately, cookies don't really go well with coke ... let me see ... Ah Ha! CHIPS and coke, or POPCORN and coke, that goes together. Hey, give me that! *whips a coke can away from Sean, and smacks him across the back of the head (not intending hurt)* Now, if you'll excuse me, I must go appologize to Alan for punching him earlier ... *walks over to the tree where Alan is, arms full of chips, popcorn and coke, and sits with him, head on his shoulder*
TrishQ at 15:21:33 Wednesday September 8 99
A bondage video?! I thought we were filming an innocent (tho' violent) rugby/Ordinary Day video.~~~~~~~~ I have noticed that as the filming day wore on all of crew/PWAOWAHers were getting rather carried away (let's blame it on the hot weather and a over indulgence of Coke!) Remember- this is GBS- NOT the Eyes Wide Shut- Chris Isaak video!~~~~~~~~ Hmmmh, it's been a LONG day (see Dr. T's post below) pass the cookies and milk over here, please? :-)~~~~~~~~ BTW- Good luck to all going back to school! Yesterday was my daughter's 1st day in Grade 5 - I wish she'd stop this growing UP business- it's making me feel old!
spinne at 5:41:38 Wednesday September 8 99
oogh... quite a day over here - first day back at school. thanks, mich, for the well-wishing. it's gonna take a lot of that to get me through tuesdays this semester! english, biology, quick break, work. i'm almost too tired to play videogames. :( ~~~~ dunno about you folks, but i'm all for some milk and cookies and calling it a day! o'course, if there's any tying up still being done, i'll stick around for a few if i... never mind. i must -REALLY- be tired! :)
Dr. T at 5:15:25 Wednesday September 8 99
I'm getting a little concerned about this whole tying the band up thing. Last time I checked, this was NOT a bondage video....To sum up for Alex, we're shooting the Ordinary Day video, and so far Alan has gotten bonked in the head with the ball numerous times, had a nosebleed, passed out, was revived by Sean's zealous mouth-to-mouth, been encased in bubble wrap, dunked in the lake, had his clothing cut to shreds, and has since received an electrical shock from a hairdryer, lost his contact lenses, and gotten punched; Sean's lips were damaged in the mouth-to-mouth incident, he may or may not have run into the goalpost numerous times, he too was wrapped, dunked, and shredded, received a soprano-inducing blow to the groin, served as a crash pad for a falling crew member, and was last seen trying to hide but being dragged out from under the bleachers by a set of tracking hounds....Darrell got decidedly ill from the bloodshed in the early part of the shoot, and has since gotten wasted on nausea medication, had the wrap-dunk-shred treatment, broke his glasses (which may actually be Alan's), bumped into stuff, was nearly compromised by some sexual libertines disguised as nurses, and punctured himself with a pair of scissors...Bob has been perpetually fleeing those who have been kissing and sucking on his knees, has likewise been wrapdunkshredded, caught a cold in the lake, run into a goalpost, and keeps falling over from the makeshift kneepads he created to protect his "sensitive knees"...does that cover most of the major events? Please fill in if I've left out anything crucial. So, picking up from there...it's probably a good thing those dogs dragged Sean out when they did because, lack of dignity aside, Darrel just yakked through the bleachers and Sean was fortunate to be clear of that business. Darrell is still suffering from a gaping flesh wound, though, and I really think someone ought to have a look at him...Bob toppled once again in his attempt to escape Cheechi, and has been unable to lift himself up off the ground, what with the sneezing and those tightly wrapped knees...I don't want to be the one to tell him that the dogs in pursuit of Sean have unsettled a nearby beehive...and poor Sean himself remains unclad, as Alan sits beneath a nearby tree in a state of nervous hysteria. Is there any scene that we can shoot at this point? Or should we just bring in the bandaids, milk, and cookies and call it a day?
Cheechi at 2:15:51 Wednesday September 8 99
I'll get up a bunch of new phobias as soon as I get the time ... but your right, I do have a bunch of new ones, thanks to this psycho video shoot! And it serves Sean right, he shouldn't have taken the coke in the first place. I'm just like a leprechaun (sp?) that way ... Ay counts me cokes and hide'em at the end of a rainbow *she says with an Irish accent* and Ay c'n tell if even one of the lot is a-missin'. Ye just be watchin' out fer yerselves if Ay catch ye with one of me cokes, because I'll turn itta a bloomin' monster and get'cha fer it, says Ay.
Darn, Bob has a boo-boo from toppling over like that; PARAMETICS! oh wait, I fired those bimbo's didn't I? Oh well, gotta do it myself then. And don't you try running away from me, young Bob, you sit your ass (and it's a nice ass too) on this stretcher and I'll tie you down with safety straps ... did I ever mention my theory of anything that has the word "safety" in it ... if it has the word "safety" in it, it's NOT safe. Think of a safety pin; oh sure it's safe when it's closed, but that thing could pop open when you least expect it ... and it then becomes ... a POINTY pin!
Alex at 0:24:54 Wednesday September 8 99
Hi all, I'm still alive and kicking! From tomorrow I'll be back fully active here. I see a lot of things happened. Is there a good soul willing to summarize all these events for me?
See you
Teddy at 23:17:56 Tuesday September 7 99
Okay, nice one, Cheechi. We just got Séan back into some clothing, after that unfortunate scissors incident while we were un-gift-wrapping them (how much tape did you use, anyway???), and now your dogs have gone and ripped the shorts to shreds again. It doesn't do much for a man's dignity when he's dragged out from the bleachers by his bum, you know. Screaming, no less. Pathetic. I think it's too late for your Coke though, he's twitching like a good 'un. Could be nerves, I suppose, those dogs were inches from something important. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alan's in just as bad a state! Do you think we can just let the hoar hang until he calms down a little (or we knock him unconscious again)? Otherwise he'll be no good to anyone, and may well pose a psychotic threat to every hairdresser in Canada - I can just see that edition of Crimewatch now..... ~~~~~~~~~~ Where was Darrell headed when we saw him last? No real worries, no way is he going to find the way out of here by touch. Not with all us 'volunteers' in front of him, whichever way he goes ;o) ~~~~~~~~~ Hey, is that camera rolling??? Only I think Bob's going over again..... TIMMMMBERRRRRRRR!!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mich, thanks for the wishes... I assume you meant teachers too ;o) Good luck to all you neocollegephytes (I can see a couple more phobias coming as the workload kicks in.....)
Cheechi at 19:29:30 Tuesday September 7 99
Join the crowd Mich! I'm going into first year university ... ACH!! Too much work, I can see it now... actually, I'm in the middle of frosh week right now, the learning part doesn't start until thursday.
Mich at 4:18:56 Tuesday September 7 99
I'm not surprised that Alan's afraid of the blowdryer after what you all put him through (oh wait a minute, I was the one suggesting that his hair be dried before attempting the hair flip to prevent the hair flop. Rather unusual considering I'm absolutely terrified of hairdryers -- burned a hole in a chair with one. Must have been a moment of sanity).~~~~~~ Good luck with the rest of the video shoot. I don't know how often I'll be in because school starts back tomorrow and I don't know how much work I'll have (first year college). Good luck to everyone who's going back (or is everyone else in here past the school age??)~~~~If this makes no sense, blame the fact that I've cut out ALL caffeine and am not quite awake.
spinne at 1:26:47 Tuesday September 7 99
i have a pair of glasses darrell can use. he may look rather girly, though, wearing my sunglasses. :) also, if he's not too badly near-sighted, the "seeing" part will still be a problem. (can you say "sharon wears coke bottle glasses"?) but darrell going without (heehee) would seem downright strange. :) ah, well.. just remember: the better ya look, the more ya see. ;)
Cheechi at 21:13:43 Monday September 6 99
How was trhe sound in the port-a-can, you say? It was actually kinda muffled (sound doesn't travel through plastic walls, unfotunately), but it was kinda cool with the vibrating at stuff. I must appologize again; I seem to have over-reacted and punched Alan, thinking he cut his hair, when actually it was just tied up. But, it's okay, a little bit of make-up to make that bruise on his cheek disappear, and a good shampoo to give his hair back it's natural bounce, and he'll be good as new. Well, except for the fact that he seems a little too shaken up to play guitar or even sing; we may have to dub his voice on the video. As for Sean, I've sent the hounds after him to retrieve my coke. Bob's knees are giving out on him, so he won't get too far, but I seem to have lost Darrell ... follow the trail of broken glass and duck tape. Do we have enough money put together for the shoot to replace his glasses? Maybe he could borrow mine... but then I wouldn't be able to see either. Oop, gotta go ... the dogs have found something...
Dr. T at 16:8:39 Monday September 6 99
Nice sluggin', Cheechi. There's something to be said for that caffeinated personality. By the way, how were the accoustics in the portajohn? And don't worry, it's possible that Alan's hair isn't actually short, it's just heat-frizzled. If someone could get some conditioner over there and start the lather-rinse-repeat-as-needed process...SOON! I mean, are we or are we not PWAOWAH? His mental state is another matter entirely...he may be permanently scarred by the hairdryer incident...he's started to sing warbling little snatches of the theme from "Hair," interspersed with bits of "Smoke on the Water" and some heart-wrenching sobbing noises.~~~~~~~I hope, for his sake, that Sean isn't under those bleachers. Last I saw, Darrell had freed himself from the aggressive nurses and was staggering in that direction, looking...um, unwell. The trail of blood leads right up to the bleachers and stops....and when last seen Bob was hobbling, in Quasi Modo fashion, away from the knee-seekers, when he was suddenly overcome by a huge sneeze, and CLUNK! He took out our replacement goalpost. Geez, this shoot is getting EXPENSIVE, not to mention messy.
Cheechi at 1:3:39 Monday September 6 99
Okay, who put their car infront of the port-a-can door? Not that I wasn't already in a bad mood. Well, after popping the roof of the can, I had a little trouble climbing out. It was actually a bigger drop then I expected ... it's a good thing Sean broke my fall! He wasn't supposed to be in the shoot was he? Cause I caught him running for the bleechers with one of my cokes. Anyway, I've hired a few paramedics incase any blood is spilled ... at least the guys are in good hands. Hey, who left the PEPSI here?! And, is that Alan with SHORT hair?! I'm sorry for changing attitudes here, but the boy is not going to live much longer ... because I'm gonna kill him. Are these Bob's pants? They look like they've been snipped to shreds. Oh that's it, those nurse-paramedics are fired! Hey bimbo with the white thang! Stop straddling Darrell! *PUNCH* Personal note to self: 52 cokes before a video shoot is 52 cokes to many.
also nameless ;) at 22:26:44 Sunday September 5 99
oh, dear. you mean that wasn't séan in the past 20 takes of the goalpost scene?! i've heard of stunt doubles, but this is a lil silly. c'mon, be a man, séan! :) you get up there and give that goalpost what-for! if the rest of us are workin, you have to be, too! none of this hiding-under-the-bleachers-eating-a-cheese-dog-and-drinkin-sprite business! where'd bob go, i think i need to have a talk with him about this encouraging of breaks. ;)
Hap at 22:5:48 Sunday September 5 99
I think Alan's slightly "out of it" look might have something to do with the fact that the electrical shock blew the contact lenses clean out of his, ahem, sockets. He tried putting his glasses on, but he didn't seem anymore, er, focused. Just whose glasses did Darrell duct-tape anyway? I mean, he *was* bumping into things before the balls went flying, *and* he's been nauseous. Are we sure he's just squeamish? ~~~ Ummm...ladies? It's been five minutes and that pile-up at the goal-post still isn't moving. Even the extras on top are looking sluggish. Are we sure Séan's even under there? Once the faces start to swell up, it's hard to tell one striped shirt from another. I only ask because Bob just rolled a can of Sprite and a cheese dog under the bleachers.
Teddy at 21:43:6 Sunday September 5 99
Update on the other guys??? Well, the last time I saw Bob, he was doing a rather good DIY job on knee protectors from Cheechi's leftover bubblewrap and duck tape while she's stuck in the loo, looks like an arthritic chicken now. The constant sneezing isn't helping the walk any, either. I think he's well on the way to developing "Sensitive Knee Syndrome" (SKS for short). Darrell also got at the duck tape to mend his glasses, which was the best thing to do, 'cause now he can't see any of the bloodshed. He's currently rummaging like mad through the leftover padding, mumbling "the noise, the noise!", looking for something to stuff in his ears.... hasn't sussed that it would be easier if he took his now-opaque specs off for a minute..... MIND THE SCISSORS, DARRELL!!! ~~~~~~~ oops. Too late. Plasters, anyone?~~~~~~~~~~ Alan's still in the shade, he's looking a little out of it between the repeated concussions and having his brains fried out by some overenthusiatic hairdresser..... what hair he had left to dress is looking rather - er - bouffant. ~~~~~~ BTW, whoever thought to park their car in front of the Porta-loo, GOOD WORK! Shell be in there for a while ;o)
Dr. T at 21:5:44 Sunday September 5 99
THUNK! Ooooh, that had to hurt. But he was looking off in the wrong direction, so let's try it again. THUNK! Bad facial expression on that one. OK, I'm with Trish, let's just keep the camera rolling and try five or six takes in succession, no cuts. "Quit wimpering, man, the camera's rolling!" OK...THUNK! Good, again...THUNK...THUNK....Any updates on the rest of the band?...THUNK...THUNK...Could I get a little coffee over here?....THUNK...THUNK....
TrishQ AKA nameless at 16:15:24 Sunday September 5 99
Awright! Good idea! Lets film the Sean meets the goalpost scene quickly...I see Cheechi has consumed so much Coke that she's has her name tattooed on that port-a-potty over there! C'mon Sean! Let's go for a little more realism here....THUNK! Not bad, not bad...Ummmm..PROPS!!! We nedd another goalpost.....'Kay, TAKE 59!!! We're rollin...
Dr. T at 15:51:53 Sunday September 5 99
We'd just managed to get some shorts on them...though getting them INTO their pants seemed a bit backward to some of the female members of the crew who shall remain nameless...when confusion broke out as to which scene was being shot, and who exactly was supposed to get the ball to the head. For several seconds there the majority of the crew just started pelting the poor boys with all manner of gameballs...footballs, volleyballs, oh lord not the baseballs!....Now Darrell's glasses are broken and the dizziness seems to be contributing to his nausea, plus he's bumping into things...Bob is sneezing uncontrollably from that dip in the lake, and we had to remove a rather nasty leech that was sucking on his knee...oh, wait, sorry, that was one of the crew...and when we tried to blow-dry Alan's damp hair, there was an unfortunate electrical incident...Sean seems to be in working order, though. Should we give him a run at the post now? I'm not the director, but can I yell: "ACTION!"?
Hap at 14:32:37 Sunday September 5 99
Well, the Littlest Disciple may be pleased with Alan's choice of water sport, but he's terribly disgruntled about the lack of pants. Didn't I call for wardrobe? Honestly, what've we got here, a skeleton crew? How am I supposed to work under these conditions? *grunt* Well, we'll just have to borrow shorts from a few of the extras, just remind 'em to stay seated in the "wild cheering" shots. ~~~ Now, the boys are gonna' need disinfectant baths, immunization shots and another check up next week. Dunno' what the Soda Pop Queen was going on about with Cape Spear, that's Lake Ontario in the background in this clip, and it's NOT fit for swimming in. What's she trying to do, kill them? Slowly and painfully? God, let's just hope they didn't swallow anything. TAKE SIXTY!
Teddy at 9:52:11 Sunday September 5 99
WOOOH! Okay, okay, I only did the legs. Who went upwards with the scissors? They're supposed to be wearing SOME of their shorts, at least! For god's sake someone, at least allow them a loincloth...... Still, they're nice and cool now, and at least the distraction value means we won't actually be able to HIT them so often. Does Cheechi know what she's missing here? UP with that ball, people, we're not aiming for Bee Gees here!!! ~~~~~~~~ Oh, Cheechi? Good idea about the inner-helmet fans. I always wondered what Alan would look like with short hair.....
Mich at 5:19:42 Sunday September 5 99
Alright, let's get this in the next couple of takes while Cheechi's distracted! It should only take a minute or two to get that soaking wet foam padding off (and we'd better call for a blow-dryer or Alan's hair flip may look more like a hair flop! Should please the Littlest Disciple though with Alan copying their water game --- "Hey, Alan's copying me!")~~~~~TAKE FIFTY-TWO!!!! (we have to be at least that high by now!)
Cheechi at 4:7:11 Sunday September 5 99
Soda? As In Coke? *runs towards the drink table, skids to a halt and starts downing bottles of coke* I may be distracted for the next few takes...
spinne at 3:38:44 Sunday September 5 99
heehee - having seen a few decoupage pieces for sale at an antique furnishing store i used to work at, i can say that that hose ain't gonna do SQUAT! :) *grabs some popcorn out of the warmer, fills an employee cup with soda* ~~~~ ready, folks? action! :)
Cheechi at 3:8:28 Sunday September 5 99
That was meant to say "hand HELD fans" not help... you know it's late when...
Cheechi at 3:7:10 Sunday September 5 99
Oh silly me, forgot about the heat ... runs off and comes back driving a crane. Cheechi ties all four guys, in their foam and duck tape, to the crane, drives to the edge of Cape Speare and dunks them all in the water. They come out dripping wet and feeling VERY weighed down, considering the fact that their foam has absorbs huge amounts of water. Then, Cheechi takes four little hand help fans, attaches them to the inside of the hockey helmets and starts the fans a-whirring. "Now don't bump your heads too much or you may end up with fan blade nicks on your faces, and we wouldn't want that, now would we" she warns. Then she takes a hose and washes all that coating stuff of the nice soft ball. Now, to do something about those metal goalie posts...
Hap at 21:21:40 Saturday September 4 99
Oh sure, Cheechi, SUFFOCATE them, why don't you? It's bloody hot out here, and you're wrapping them in plastic?! Good God in Heaven, if they aren't smothered first, they'll be dropping dead from dehydration and heat exhaustion! Have a heart, girl! ~~~ Okay, okay, this is good. Lovely bit of scissoring there, Teddy. At least they're mobile now. Drenched in sweat and gasping for breath, but mobile. Now, who's on laundry detail? We need fresh kits for all of 'em, a lemon for Sean to suck on (get those lips down to regulation size), a wet-nap for Bob's knees, some ginko biloba for Darrell, a cold compress for Alan's nose (some flesh-toned make-up wouldn't hurt either) and, what the heck, ice cream for everybody. And THEN I think we're ready to try the goal-post shot again. Has Sean got the ball? Are the big hairy extras ready?
Dr. T at 5:37:10 Saturday September 4 99
What exactly constitutes permanent damage? Alan seems to have developed a slight drooling problem, but we haven't ascertained whether it's due to brain damage, or if he sprained a lip when the resuscitation process got out of control....In other lip news, I've called in the requested M.D. to take a look at Sean's pucker...it was the least I could do...though we're trying to discourage him from getting those Mick Jaggerish collagen treatments. Teddy, I have some decoupage medium that dries to a nice, hard lacquer finish...if we coated the ball with that we could be back in business in no time. So whose turn is it with the ball? And who's got the scissors? Just remember not to RUN with them! We're not filming Vlad the Impaler, here!
Cheechi at 5:17:13 Saturday September 4 99
Forgot to mention... Alan, Darrell and Bob are soon gonna join him *evil laugh*
Cheechi at 5:15:44 Saturday September 4 99
That's right, no permanent damage to da b'ys ... hey wait a minute, we're standing around here worying about permanent damage to da b'ys and nobody is worrying about the permanet damage ya'll have done to your Phobic Phil O'Sopher, Scibner and Keeper of Proximic Garments previously inflicted just joking around about it ... boy, do I feel loved. *puoty face* Well, don't mind me, I'm just gonna go secure more foam around Sean's feet ... "Sit down before you fall down, you squirmy thing you" she tells Sean as he falls over onto his back squirming and wiggling like a fish out of water. But despite his protests, soon Sean is fitted for a pair of foam and duck tape shoes. ~~~~~ Does everyone remember those baloon house things, where you take off your shoes and bounce around for a while? That's what Sean looks like now *giggle*
Mich at 4:19:55 Saturday September 4 99
Just adding in a quick and totally unrelated note for the Canadian Teletubbie obsessed people here. I've just had a sneak peak at the Sears Christmas Wish Book (it's officially being released on Tuesday, Sept. 7) and there is LOTS of Teletubby stuff. Like I said, totally unrelated, but I couldn't help warning you. ~~~~~~ now back to the filming and remember NO PERMANENT DAMAGE TO OUR B'YS!!!
Cheechi at 2:53:44 Saturday September 4 99
TEDDY! (scolding voice) I hope you realize that in the classical era, all male choirs were popular and most aged men didn't have the soprano type voice. In order to acheive this, males have to be "de-masculinized" (if y'know what I mean) at puberty in order to keep their high pitched voice. Somehow, thinking of Sean that way is making me extremely nervous and frightened. I think I'm gonna cry. ~~~~~ And, for God's sake, don't nobody start poking my boys with sharp scissors! or I WILL turn into the terminator and start blowin all yer brains out...
Teddy at 22:8:13 Friday September 3 99
Hey, I got some steel shot somewheres here, that I use for stabilizing stand-up teddys.... wonder if it works in playschool balls???? *stuffing madly* ~~~~~~~~ Thanks, Cheechi, it makes them so much easier to hit when they can't run! ~~~~~~~~~ Now we know where the idea for the Consequence Free video came from ~~~~~~~~~~ Jane, Spinne, wanna borrow my VERY sharp scissors so you can get back to worshipping the knees? ~~~~~~~~~~~ Cheechi: don'tcha worry, they can make a good living from this - Tom made a million; Jerry's a pauper ;o) Besides, like cartoon characters, the b'ys just pop right back up - er, into shape ;o) Reconstructive surgery works wonders these days. And Séan can sing higher harmonies than ever before......
spinne at 21:38:5 Friday September 3 99
ah, come on, now... you know what they say: "pain is temporary, and glory is forever." :) o'course, i don't know exactly how much glory there is in gettin slammed in the head with a ball and falling over during a video shoot...
Cheechi at 21:26:56 Friday September 3 99
I'm sorry, am I the only one here who thinks Alan, Sean, Darrell and Bob are as precious as really expensive, really beautiful crystal vases and should be handled very carefully (don't take that the wrong way)? Am I the only one here who thinks that they are like your mother's irreplacable Elvis statue and you'd be grounded for life if you broke it? GBS is not meant to be BROKEN! (I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scream)
spinne at 21:13:43 Friday September 3 99
mahn, cheechi, you're no fun! you've just turned this rugby game into american football!! *pout* ~~ and what's this about me violating bob's knees? 0:) i'd *never* do a thing like that...
Cheechi at 20:37:43 Friday September 3 99
You do realize I've got mental images now ... *tries to slap you all silly* You know on Warner Bros. cartoons, when Sylvester tries to go through that back yard full of dogs to get to Tweety, and the gate shakes and all you hear is the dogs and Sylvester screaming? And you know what he looks like when he comes back out? All full of blood and his fur coming off and a black eye, etc, etc? That's pretty much the mental picture I have now, except it's not Sylvester it's ... it's ... ALAN! *BIG SOB* and DARRELL! *BIGGER SOB* and SEAN too! *EVEN BIGGER SOB* and BOB! *Breaks down, crying hysterically* ... you see what you've all done to me? Okay, that's it, I've had enough ... Cheechi takes HUGE pieces of foam and bubble wrap, and duck tape and proceeds to wrap all four guys in foam and bubble wrap ... they now look like snowmen and are waddling around like ducks trying to escape. "No wait, get back here!" Cheechi scolds them, and plasters big hockey helmets on their heads. "There" she says, proud of her work, "NOW you can go play rugby ... oh wait!" Cheechi then swipes the rugby ball away from Teddy, and hands her one of those big round foam balls used in elementary school. "That's better." Cheechi smiles a big smile, hoping her plan worked and the guys won't get hurt anymore.
Cheechi at 20:29:4 Friday September 3 99
*SOB*
TrishQ at 20:16:20 Friday September 3 99
Jeez, this shoot is shot all ta h*ll! Darrell is lying over there underneath that tree high on gravol! Just how many did you give him, Teddy? And call the Great Big plastic surgeon as I think Dr. T did permanent damage to Sean's lips when she rather forcefully pulled him off of Alan. Bob keeps clutching at my sleeve babbling something about Jane and Spinne violating his knees. And look at poor Alan over there- Hap!!! Did I not say at the beginnng of this shoot- try NOT to cause any brain damage?!?
Dr. T at 18:9:36 Friday September 3 99
Darrell's going to be fine, just nobody, NOBODY offer him a "wafer thin mint"! Who's on cleanup detail for this shoot, anyway? Permit me to yell: Not it! OK, I think it's my TURN to throw the ball. It's kind of hard to get the aim right with Alan weaving around so much..."Geez, suck it up and stand still!"...here we go....
spinne at 8:16:0 Friday September 3 99
hahahaha!!! \O/ what i do?! *exudes innocence* just don't let em hang around concession while i'm on duty, and they'll be a-ok. ;) poor beefcakes, OTOH, had to learn the hard way. :) ~~ when do i get a turn with the ball-tossing? 0:)
Hap at 5:20:56 Friday September 3 99
All right, all right, that's quite enough molly-coddling. You hold up two fingers, he sees four, he's well enough for another take. This is rugby, people! You're not playing unless you're bleeding! Remember, it's authenticity we're after! And a clean shirt. Authenticity's one thing, but we don't wanna' end up on "Too Much For MUCH." Er, on that note, can somebody pull Séan off of him - NOW! All right, who's next on the ball? Wait, wait, wait: Who keeps kissing Bob's knees? He hasn't even got a boo-boo! No, Spinne, wait, no, that wasn't a complaint, it was just an observation - don't you be getting any ideas...
TrishQ at 2:8:9 Friday September 3 99
Here I am in the line-UP for mouth to mouth duty behind Dr. T and Sean." Dammit, fella, move along, let a girl have a go at him, will ya!?"...."Make-UP!!! We need a touch-UP on Bob's lipstick...on his KNEES of course...oh and would someone puhleeease get Darrell some gravol?!"
Dr. T at 0:41:58 Friday September 3 99
My turn, my turn! OK, I can wait until Alan wakes up and the bleeding is under control...can you put a tourniquet on someone's nose without asphyxiating them?...but THEN it's my turn to throw the ball. Though I suppose TAKE 30 will have to wait for all those volunteers lining up to give Alan mouth to mouth resuscitation....Where's that line forming? Oh, I see, right behind Sean. "Hey, no tongues, bud!"
Teddy at 21:0:11 Thursday September 2 99
Oh, blimey! Can't you tell that Jane's back! Girl, being the Keeper of Bob's Knees does NOT mean you have to literally KEEP them! (reminds me of a line in a Kevin Costner film... "Hey! You got lipstick on my dog!") ~~~~~~ Er, Alan's not moving.... where's the stretcher crew? And I didn't know the sight of blood made Darrell nauseous... we may need a large bucket, too....... ;o) Of course, Alan wouldn't have stood up at the wrong moment if Séan hadn't pinched his but.......
Hap at 20:16:17 Thursday September 2 99
No, no, no, you're doing it all wrong. Here, gimme' the ball. Everyone back to first position!! Okay, what ya' wanna' do is bounce a glancing blow up near the top of the head, that way you get lots of hair movement, a nice big "POOOFFT." Like this...Dammit, he stood up at the last minute. It wasn't my fault!! Who's got the cotton wool, we've got a nosebleed! Oh good grief, is that lipstick on Bob's knee?
TrishQ at 18:10:32 Thursday September 2 99
OK- handing the ball first to Teddy and then to Dr. T (Cheechi- don't look!) Now remember girls- hard enough to look real but but no brain damage 'kay?...TAKE 28!!!
Teddy at 17:19:43 Thursday September 2 99
it shows your commitment, when you start actually turning into the website, instead of tuning into it! BTW, anyone loses any of my sites, try an Altavista search on GBS UK or PWAOWAH - they both turn up!~~~~~~~~~~~~ Me next for the ball, pleeeease?????
Dr. T at 16:19:47 Thursday September 2 99
OK, I've been *TO* this site a bazillion times. I don't think I've ever actually BECOME the PWAOWAH site yet...we'll leave that for the junior disciples.
Dr. T at 16:13:38 Thursday September 2 99
Spinne, if you're a cold, heartless beast then I'm right there with ya! That story was toooo funny! And after reading Trish's post, now I'm thinking, "Gee, I wonder who got to throw the ball? Decent job!!" New contest for _Tiger Beat_: Win a Chance to Bean Alan with A Football!~~~~~~~OK, one of my new colleagues just came in to introduce herself and her eye kept wandering over to my computer, with PWAOWAH screen in full glory. Excuse me while I die of embarassment! At least I didn't have anything from Jakey's Gallery on display! Oh, and Teddy, I've actually been this site a bazillion times, and when I just tried to check it at work and couldn't remember the address, it took me FOREVER to find it by searching. Maybe that can be a small comfort to you. Of course, I'm more computer illiterate than many. Have a good day, all!
TrishQ at 14:43:44 Thursday September 2 99
hmmmm, just re-read Teddy's post below. Notice she said, "POSSIBLY not....">:-)
TrishQ at 14:39:30 Thursday September 2 99
Hey, Cheechi (our resident pacifist)- make love not war, eh? Peace, girl! Count me in on the kissing the boo-boos (get your mind outta the gutter, Teddy- that was Spinne talkin' 'bout hittin' the guy down THERE! >:-)) from the BIG bad video shoot! PS-LOL@ Spinne (Cheechi-don't read)- " 'K Alan let's just try it one more time- who wants to chuck the ball at his head this time?.......... TAKE 27!!!
Teddy at 12:47:10 Thursday September 2 99
Cheechi: kiss them WHERE????? Possibly not.~~~~~~~~ Spinne: that's nasty, on purpose or not! I unintentionally kicked some guy there during one karate class ..... took him ten minutes to catch his breath. Him & four juniors got me back when we played Bulldog next - dragged me down and bounced on me. I knew they were coming, but I couldn't do anything about it! Ouch.
spinne at 4:0:48 Thursday September 2 99
LOL!! sorry, cheechi.. i'm not laughing -at- you, i'm laughing -with- you. ("but i'm not laughing," you say. well, you should be! ;)) ~~ good slapstick will always get me laughin, i'll be the first to admit it. don't matter who's on the receiving end, either. :) just last night at the theater, i was workin concession when i accidentally whacked my cow-orker rob in the 'nads with the popcorn warmer door. he was a lil less than pleased, but i almost fell over laughing. :) the look on his face STILL cracks me up! i apologized up and down, because it really wasn't my intention, but DAMN that was funny. so you see, laughing at alan get beaned by a ball and bob falling over on several occasions is really quite innocent, compared to poor rob's situation. :) then again, i might just be a cold, heartless beast. ;)
Cheechi at 22:37:2 Wednesday September 1 99
You know, I never really grasped on to the fact that all you people are incrediblly MEAN and OUT OF YOUR MINDS! How can you all be so cruel, finding amusment in an injured GBS member? You are all sick and twisted, and I'm ashamed of you ... tsk, tsk, tsk ... isn't there even the tiniest part of you that just wants to kiss their boo-boos all better and hug and cuddle them when they get hurt? Of course, you're talking to the girl who wishes everyone had a bubble to live in so injuries wouldn't happen. Anyway, I'm done scolding all of you now, so you can all be my friends again :)
spinne at 19:8:22 Wednesday September 1 99
hey christine, HAVE A WONDERFUL TIME! and bring me back cool toys. (yes, postcards count!) ;) and don't forget about those november canada dates...! :)
Krysia at 18:34:16 Wednesday September 1 99
Whew! You guys have been busy in the last day or so. Hey, in case I don't have time to really check in tomorrow, I hope everyone has a great week+. I'm off to NS and NF Friday AM, so I'll be out of touch until the 14th (yes, 11 full day!). Save me or e-mail any AYM or BTB or other fun stuff that happens when I'm gone, would you? Anyone want postcards, e-mail me your address (before tomorrow night). Spinne, your's is already in my address book! Cheers!
Teddy at 18:0:31 Wednesday September 1 99
OK, I'm paranoid and stuffed already! Hi, b'ys! ~~~~~~~~~ You know, I forgot just how much happened in the Ordinary Day video! Gotta go back and watch it again tonight. Another thing - I just wish the camera had stayed put for another 30 seconds in the video for When I'm Up, as Bob falls backwards.... I get a feeling we would have seen one almighty set of dominoes ;o) But I get the feeling someone fell off the ledge, and gave the game away..... erminds me of when I was a flying monkey in the Wizard Of Oz, in the school hall, and kinda lost my grips on the gym rope..... you know it's really hard for the Tin Man to get up again when they're covered head to foot in cardboard boxes and foil. The Cowardly Lion, on the other hand, was up and at me in seconds. ~~~~~~~~~~~ and though I've never seen it, from Hap's description, I keep imagining Bob walking face first into that mike with an amplified *THUCK!* ;o) Yes, I think we're all definitely sadists. Why else would we be planning to throw underwear at these poor innocent boys???
Anon at 17:35:13 Wednesday September 1 99
Hee hee. You should have seen me in the community theatre, directing those teenagers. "Just fall backwards! None of this falling on your butt first and just flopping over from there! I wanna' see a Nestea plunge here, I don't care if there's no pool!" ~~~ I do get a giggle out of the ball to the head, mostly because of the look on his face beforehand, that "Oh man, this is BRUTAL" face - and then along comes the ball to say, "Buddy, you don't KNOW from 'brutal.'" The follow-up only disappoints (ever-so-slightly) because it's obvious the ball isn't quite up to regulation weight - it doesn't "BONK" so much as "biff" - so he needs to crumple immediately upon impact in order to fully create the illusion. He does a lovely job for a non-actor, though. Maybe he was going for a brief second of "stunned" before falling. ~~~ Oh, the pushing and shoving is always entertaining, especially during the "Run Runaway" fadeout, where Séan and Alan seem to be "fighting" eachother for camera time: "Outta' the way, you!" PUSH "Hey, *I* was in that shot!" SHOVE "Only because you were blocking the view of ME!" JOSTLE ELBOW BOOT
Dr. T at 16:52:55 Wednesday September 1 99
I can just see you guys directing these videos (which I haven't seen): THUD! "Sorry, we didn't quite get the angle, could you try that again?" THUD! "Nope, too much delay in the fall time, try it again." THUD! "The expression isn't quite what we're looking for, one more time please." THUD! "We're going for realism, here. Again." THUD! Pause. "Everybody take five. When he "comes to" we'll resume shooting."
TrishQ at 15:27:8 Wednesday September 1 99
Yup, count me in the sadist group. My fav video is still Ordinary Day. ITA with Hap on those classic (painful?) scenes. Altho' I must admit to BIG giggling at the Ball To Alan's Head shot! Other fav scenes are: Darrel's stunned look in CF, anything involving Alan falling down, pushng and shoving, Sean's demonic faces in CF and of course the patented Frenetic Alan Hair Flip! Here's a tip discovered by my ten-year-old daughter: watch the 1st close-UP FAHF in CF in slo-mo - verrrry scary!!! Kinda looks like A is having a seizure! Yup, gotta conclude that I enjoy any video where da b'ys get hurt (not badly tho'- a broken rib?- OUCH!- that's dedication to one's art!) I'm a sucker for GBS slapstick humour every time! :-)
Hap at 14:5:32 Wednesday September 1 99
"BAP", "WHAM" and "THUMP" moments? Ooh, I gotta's go with Séan's collision with the goal-post in "Ordinary Day," then. That one's a classic. It's the look on his face that makes the shot, that triumphant "we are the champions" grin on his face in the seconds before impact. "Get a load of meeee!!!" - CLONK! Oh, his belly-flop goal towards the end is quite lovely as well. (Didn't I read somewhere that one of 'em broke a rib on this shoot? Gee, I wonder who...) The ball-to-the-head is nice, but a good stunt director will tell you Alan hesitates too long before falling, he doesn't go down quite fast enough...What can I say? Perfectionist or sadist, if *I* were directing it, I'd have made him do it again. Full marks for the grimace he comes up with after Séan gets face-checked off the ball. Excellent, excellent reaction shot.
Mich at 5:32:24 Wednesday September 1 99
Hmmm, three sadists in the group here, I guess! Yep, you gotta love the "Bap!", "Wham!" and "Thump!" incidents (suddenly sounding like a Batman episode "POW!")~~~~Definitely time for a nap! 8)
spinne at 5:30:0 Wednesday September 1 99
ahhhh... still basking in the glow of my monitor. :) YES, withdrawal really DOES suck ass! soooo good to be back. | ) haha... dr. t, i don't think fran edited that part out... pretty sure i saw it. o'course, now i have to double-check. :) heehee - "BTW, Teddy, your gallery has given me all kinds of ideas...be prepared for email sometime, eh?" ~~ i don't mind my name bein stuck in that msg - no references to anything like the Gallery. ;) keep ya' hands clean, that's what i always say. ;) ~~ alex, i have NO idea what they're doing in that picture on the opening page. not even any ideas. :) as far as the "favorite part of a GBS video" goes, i -always- laugh at alan gettin whacked in the head with that ball, and when he completely blanks in the EOTW video. :) and when bob falls over in consequence free, and darrell gets clotheslined.. and.. and.. nm, i give up. i can't pick a favorite. :) haha i like any segment where you can yell out "BAP!!!" and have it fit perfectly, i guess. :)
Mich at 5:29:59 Wednesday September 1 99
Yes, Teddy, you probably ARE the only one worried about teh b'ys finding this site off the SouthPark photo. They probably already found it via the Kitchen. Just how many times has the link been posted for the Eternal Kitchen Party, with the note at the bottom telling them to "Click here if no frames are visible", or something like that (hey it's late at night and I have school orientation tomorrow. I'm like a little kid! So excited about the first day of school I can't even think about sleeping! Think I'll follow Hap's idea with only posting here and not trying to seem "with it" in the Kitchen.)???? ~~~~~~~I've just realized that the topic in here has come full circle since my arrival. Seems to me my first post was about how easily the guys could find this place and are probably already lurking. Funny I should remember that considering I don't remember most things! Must improve my sieve-like memory!!!!!!~~~~~Now off to the Kitchen for a quick Lurk before bed!
Hap at 5:11:23 Wednesday September 1 99
Hey all! Just in after a 14-hour day at work, seemed more sensible to do a fly-by post in here than to even attempt to look "with it" in the Kitchen. ~~~ B's mum has September 24th circled on her calendar: "GBS Tickets On Sale." So, for anyone looking for an added incentive to make the trip to TO, the Youngest Disciple will be there (with his pants). Oh, "You're welcome!" for the tidbits there, Teddy. Just this afternoon, B. and his brother were speculating on Alan's precarious position "up there" and wondered if he might be stuck on a swing (um, we were at the park at the time). Images of a demonic playground swirling through my brain now, with that unfortunate boy trapped on the merry-go-round, and Alan swinging his way to oblivion. (Makes manoeuvering that ladder a much trickier proposition, I must say.) ~~~ Glad to put your mind at ease there, Alex. Oh, and I'm with Spinne: Whatever else we do, we're putting you in charge of the Great Big Apiary.
Dr. T at 4:28:29 Wednesday September 1 99
Hey everyone! Nothing major to say, just wanted to swing through and say "Hi!"~~~~~~~~Teddy, Fran seems like a smart cookie...maybe she edited out the Jakey's Gallery/PWAOWAH reference. If not, where are we going to hang out and talk about bra throwing from now on? :-) 'Night all!
Alex at 0:47:3 Wednesday September 1 99
By the end of this post it'll be clear that tonight I've nothing to do and I'm just surfing around trying to give an answer to some of the silliest questions I could think about! And one of this quetion is: what are the guys doing in the Pwaowah front page photo? Is Alan kneeling down at The Fallen One, or is The Fallen One worshipping the God washing His hair with some Holy water?...Good night :))
Alex at 0:3:39 Wednesday September 1 99
Hi Spinne, happy to see you back!Thanks HAp for making me feel better....I'm not completely out of my mind...;))...you know you're GBS addicted when you see them duplicating ;))...
Teddy at 22:46:49 Tuesday August 31 99
Hi, Spinne! Withdrawal's a bitch, isn't it???? ~~~~~ Nun puppet??? I gotta watch that again..... my fave Alan moment is when he gets whacked in the head with the football in Ordinary Day ;o) Am I a sadist or what??? didn't seem to do the hair any harm, though..... ~~~~~~ Hap, thanks for the Youngest Disciple bit - I'll type it in as soon as work slows down a little - this one's gonna be sickeningly cute ;o) ~~~~~~~~~~ and am I the only one worried that the b'ys actually signed a printout of that South Park pic that had a mention of Jakey's Gallery on it??? With mine and Spinne's names attached???? If they didn't know before, they're looking now....... Oh, and 'that other' pic? Goin' nowhere, baby ;o) Gone already, as a matter of fact. Just in case.
spinne at 7:47:41 Tuesday August 31 99
ohhh my, it's good to be back! alex, i think you should be the Beekeeper. :) that's just my opinion, though... it's late and i'm tired. *grin*
Hap at 2:36:43 Tuesday August 31 99
No real nun, Alex, but there is a nun PUPPET (or toy of some description) in the video that takes a few swipes at Alan's head. And there's a lot of weird split-frame/double-vision type stuff going on in the clip, so you ARE seeing five or more of them from time to time. Which is not to say you're not completely nuts, but the video "hallucinations" you describe are not symptomatic of that. :)
Alex at 23:39:48 Monday August 30 99
I know.....*sigh*.....anyway, I rechecked the video and the "nun" doesn't look like Sean and some shots later the guys are 5.......mystery ;)))
Ciao
Teddy at 18:21:51 Monday August 30 99
Jeez, Alex, you're hallucinating even more than me! No, no nuns, but if I remember right, Sean pulls the back of his sweatshirt over his head...... gotta go check now. Still working on a name. Didn't get drunk, as I had to work all weekend on our Annual Report. Back to 'normal' tomorrow. God, I know the printer's gonna pick the file up, and then say it's corrupt or something......... gonna go play Old Brown's Daughter and try for a family tree ;o)
Alex at 23:5:52 Sunday August 29 99
I'm still raving about Eotw video: is there anybody dresses or disguised like a nun in the video, or it's just me???? Guess I need a doctor.....;))
Alex at 22:48:48 Sunday August 29 99
Folks I have a confession: today, for the first time I saw the video of "End of the world..." and I felt really silly ;). For months I've been watching the little picture of the video in Mike's site, being unable to download it. And watching that picture I've always thought the video "environment" was a space rocket!!!!!!......no comment please......
Ciao
Hap at 22:41:23 Sunday August 29 99
Hey, now why would anyone "hate" to echo me? ;) Good Lord, yet another use for vinegar. ~~~ I see we're no farther ahead on the new name for Alex? KEEP DRINKING, TEDDY! Even if you don't think of something, you just might scare Alex into dreaming up something for herself. ~~~ Krysia, I can't speak for the rest of the venues, but Massey Hall isn't an arena, exactly, but a right and proper Concert Hall, the larger of the two venues used by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. The acoustics are marvelous, especially in the balcony and gallery (balcony seats are the top-price seats for TSO performances). The prospect of just HEARING the band in this venue is enough to put me over the moon. The dancing won't be great, but I doubt "Old Brown's Daughter" will ever again sound as good as it does in there.
Teddy at 9:2:15 Saturday August 28 99
Off to work (yes, on a bloomin' Saturday - and Sunday, too. AND it's a Bank Holiday weekend). Alex you should worry...... Cheechi - sympathies! I recently picked my guitar up again after several years of non-playing. You know, I used to take the mickey out of my big sister because she wouldn't cut her nails enough to play..... now I'm the same. Must be genetic. ANYWAY - if you can sit still long enough, dip your fingers in ice-water, it helps the soreness.... and I hate to echo Hap, but vinegar is good to toughen 'em, as is white spirit. Dip, don't drink ;o) laters, people!
Cheechi at 2:36:26 Saturday August 28 99
Internetnophobia (Internet-No-Phobia) - the fear of the Great Big Online Kitchen Party going offline! ~~~~~ only 85 days until I can see GBS again, WaHoo! Of course I'm getting kinda if-y about this whole Civic Center thing ... it should be illegal to have a GBS concert with seats, or at least it should be optional. ~~~~~ Cheers, Cheechi :) ~~~~~ P.S. You don't know how hard and tiring it is to type with one hand, but I have no choise since I killed my other hand playing guitar; my fingers are still in Great Big Pain.
Alex at 23:41:3 Friday August 27 99
I'd say more than serious symptoms!...and I had a look to the tour schedule as well, just to keep on suffering (but you all know I enjoy crying ;)).....take your time to think about a good name, I like all the suggestions given 'til now. Teddy you're scaring me about this name matter, last time you got close to a pub (or was that the Ale festival??) you came out with the Great big Tubbies...
Cheers
Teddy at 21:24:25 Friday August 27 99
Hey, I'm getting serious withdrawal symptoms over here, and I bet Alex is too! The least they could do is an AYM! I've got my eye on that tour journal of theirs, though ;o)~~~~~~~~~~~ Alex: something in charge of TURNs of phrases, I think........ hey, it's the weekend. When I finish work tomorrow, I'll go to the pub. Guaranteed I'll get something appropriate then ;o)
Krysia at 17:25:11 Friday August 27 99
Well, I think you're both right - I had my bets on yesterday. However, today is a travel today, no? So maybe we'll get a 'here I am at the airport' post... you never know! ~~~~~~ Looks like my hopes are dashed for some odds and ends States dates in the Northeast towards the end of the year; I was hoping for another Boston or Portland date! I may just have to start checking out Rand McNally on the Canada dates and harassing Spinne and Fran on roadtrips this fall.... ~~~~~~ The Canada shows are all arena shows, yes? So if I were to go to any, I'd have to probably get tickets right when they go on sale to get decent seats? I'm too spoiled on the US club shows to be way out in the back!~~~~~~ You know, I haven't been to a real arena/civic center type show for any artist in years and years. Now, where's that map?
Hap at 15:8:0 Friday August 27 99
We did! We did go an entire hiatus without a single AYM or B,TB post - or a newsletter. Don't those boys know that your vacation is when you're supposed to get caught up in all that crap. I just hope they got those eaves cleaned out then, and the storm windows up, the screens patched, their rooves thatched, put new washers in the taps to stop the drips and Bob finished whatever it was he was doing with that plywood, or else I'm gonna' be feeling VERY put out. ~~~ Put Alex in charge of the Kleenex? Isn't that a bit like putting a child in charge of the lollipops? ;) She is quite the accidental poet, though, I must say. Those cuddly waves of hers are with me for good. *sigh* Hmmm...her, uh, highly-developed emotive skills could be put to very good use, though. Every religious organization ought to have a professional keener.
Dr. T at 4:2:0 Friday August 27 99
Greetings All! Hey, is it me, or did we go an entire GBS hiatus without one single A,YM or B,TB post? Anyone else feeling neglected? ;-) As for Alex, we don't have a poet laureate yet, do we? I definitely think something related to language and/or poetic phraseology is in order. Plus, she HAS to be in charge of the kleenexes! Sobba cum laude? Best Wishes!
Mich at 3:11:7 Friday August 27 99
Sure, we know you meant to post the censored version of L'il Alan, Teddy. We believe ya 8) Yeah right!! 8) ~~~~~~ Alex, perhaps you should give some info as to fav. songs, interests, etc for those of us who don't know much about you.
Alex at 23:56:9 Thursday August 26 99
Not a punishment :)))..Guess it's only the reTurn from holidays effect and the evil back-to-work symptoms....
Soon we'll start raving about something or simply dreaming :)))......in the meanwhile, I thought to change my Pwaowah name! As Italian chef I feel I'm not really working in that direction and I'd love one of those extremely long, crazy, semi-formal titles. I need your help mates :)))
Ciao
Teddy at 20:36:36 Thursday August 26 99
Is it just me, or is the Official Chat offline???? If this is meant to be punishment for my sins...... IT's WORKING!
Teddy at 20:20:42 Thursday August 26 99
Well, he's gotta take it as a compliment, hasn't he???? I know none of you will believe this, but I DID mean to put up the one with the "censored" sticker... only it seems I lost track. Mind you, I hear very little in the way of complaint ;o) Talk about Freudian......
TrishQ at 19:24:18 Wednesday August 25 99
Thanks for the e-mail Teddy! That is the most eye-poppin' mail I've ever gotten! Oh my! That is one GREAT BIG "Lil Alan"!!! LOL! You're just as silly as the friend who gave me the coffee cup. She also gave me a deck of PLAYing cards called "BIG Guys". OK- So how much money will you pay me NOT to forward GREAT BIG "lil Alan" to: theguys@greatbigsea.com? heh heh heh..gotta go...think I'll go and look at that picture again.....oh my...
TrishQ at 14:44:54 Wednesday August 25 99
Hey, all! I'm baaa-aack! Had a GREAT hoilday- went kayaking for the first time! Lotsa fun! I like it better than canoeing! On the way UP to the cottage I heard "How Did We Get From Saying I Love You.." on the radio (Kool fm-Ottawa). The DJ came on afterwards and said she'd gone to the PEI GB picnic. Last night during dinner "Ordinary Day" came on the radio (FLY fm-Kingston)- cool eh? Is it just me or is GBS getting way more airplay on radio and TV lately? They seem to be PLAYing more GBS on MMM too. Hey Teddy could you E-mail me that Alan thingy below? I'm on Webtv and can't find the address...grrrr...gonna get me a REAL 'puter one of these days! Oh and I gather it's X-rated? S'Ok, you shoulda seen the coffee cup my friend got me for my birthday! Let's just say when you add hot liquid to the cup this VERY healthy hunk loses his loincloth! My daughter was fascinated!:-) BTW Love the new mintoes and new additions to the site!
spinne at 17:17:40 Tuesday August 24 99
this is a completely unrelated msg. my (unofficial) two kittens now have names! at least one of them has eaten the food i left out in the yard for 'em, so now they're -really- (unofficially) mine! ;) anyway, the little grey one is Cigany, and the white-with-black-spots one is Gabriel. :) no, i don't know if they're boys or girls... but i don't care none, either - the names ain't changin! :) wow, i'm so excited... two cats of my (unofficial) very own! :) now, i've only to get my mother to let them in the house before it gets cold. the lady hasn't bent one bit in her "no pets" policy in the 21 years i've known her... it's not likely to happen, but one can never give up hope. ;)
Dr. T at 14:32:38 Tuesday August 24 99
Can someone direct me? I was looking for PWAOWAH, but apparently I've stumbled into an online bachelorette party. Yipes!~~~~~~Great Mintoes, Teddy!~~~~~~~~~Just a quick note to all: I've relocated and my online time is limited, but I'll be in touch! Have a Great Day, All!
Me again.... at 12:50:46 Tuesday August 24 99
What happened there????? Wierd. As I was saying: NOT MY WORK - though it pains me to admit it ;o) I got it via e-mail from someone who said it wasn't their work, either. I guess there are just more warped people out there than we realise....... I really gotta try my hand at Bob, though.~~~~~~~~~ God help Fred if he decides to drop in here now...... ;o)
Teddy at 9:32:9 Tuesday August 24 99
Oops! I guess I should have posted the disclaimer: NOT
Mich at 6:15:3 Tuesday August 24 99
And I thought *MY* mind was warped!! I'm suddenly glad that my mother isn't sitting behind me sewing like she sometimes does. That might have led to some freaky looking seams! Do we have a little TOO much free time on our hands, Teddy?? 8)
Hap at 23:33:1 Monday August 23 99
Good Lord, Teddy, you posted *that* HERE?! Yes, those self-hypnosis tapes are working. ;) Now let's just hope Jane has the kiddies safely tucked in bed and SOUND ASLEEP before she opens up the goodies, they can be soooo quiet when they're wandering around all sleepy and thirsty. "Mummy, can I have a drinka' - WHOA!"
Marie at 22:16:35 Monday August 23 99
Teddy, you SERIOUSLY need the celtic connection listed under your music links! www.celticconnection.nf.net
Marie at 22:13:26 Monday August 23 99
hmmmm tedddy.. your photo editing skills are improving i see!
(though, funny thing, it doesn't do much for me now. oh well, i have my newfie, athst all i need!:) )maybe that run in was a good thing, SOMEONE isn't feeling all indimidated anymore!
Cheechi at 21:54:17 Monday August 23 99
Ummm ... okay, that was definately a sight to see ... *smiles and nods*
Krysia at 21:51:4 Monday August 23 99
You know, I should have known better than to look at that link while I'm at work... How fast can I hit that back button while praying no one walks by my office? Fast enough, thankfully.~~~~And, to echo Spinne, whoa!!!~~~~Good thing the b'ys haven't found PWAOWAH yet. (although, Alan might be flattered... or intimidated?!?)
spinne at 20:24:8 Monday August 23 99
uh... teddy... one word: WHOA
Teddy at 19:53:24 Monday August 23 99
Just call me 'Genius'. Though that's nowhere near what I usually get called. A big "Welcome Back" to everyone that came back, and, Krysia, you should be OK now we have Jane on the coffee again!~~~~~~~ Okay, everyone - as I CANNOT e-mail this to Jane, (I know Dan picks up her e-mail for her) I'm putting it in an obscure corner of cyber-space, and hoping my ISP doesn't notice. So, brace yourselves: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/teddy/pwaowah/alan-x.jpg ~~~~~~~~ No idea how long it's gonna be before the cyber-police come and get me!
Krysia at 18:8:27 Monday August 23 99
Yes, I'm very tired. That should read 'fairly inactive weekend in the OKP'. Mine was very much not inactive. Please, caffeine, kick in!
Krysia at 18:7:27 Monday August 23 99
Teddy - Great job, once again, on the Mintoes! Thanks!~~~~ I'm back from my weekend, and very tired - but it looks like a fairly inactive weekend. However, with the upcoming dates, I'm sure there will be a lot happening soon. I've decided not to go to Philly - there's just too much to do in the next two weeks - plus I have to get ready to leave for Nova Scotia September 3rd! Yeah! I can't wait.~~~~ Anyway, hope everyone had a nice weekend. ;)
Mich at 0:38:27 Sunday August 22 99
Sorry Dr. T but I have absolutely nothing more to go one for the song. I wasn't really paying any attention until I heard that line and the song was almost over. I only heard it once. I'm not sure if I'd recognize the song again or not, but I certainly am paying more attention to the music at work!
TEddy at 21:44:20 Saturday August 21 99
At looooong last =- Mintoes in the Chat! And here, of course, so you can indulge your obsession in private ;o)~~~~~~~~ The parable of The Youngest Disciple will be forthcoming whenever I manage to find out where I archived Hap's old posts...... Meanwhile, check out the Un-Offiseal Bible, and a few more additions to the links on the Dao of Doyling....... Can I go to bed now? *hoping for a Great Big Dream in payment for my efforts*
Dr. T at 13:13:18 Saturday August 21 99
Hey Mich! I just posted a reply to your song dilemma in the OKP chat, but now that line is nagging on me...I really want to identify that song! Any other clues? Ohhhh, the lengths I go to to procrastinate!!
Mich at 3:5:5 Saturday August 21 99
Just thought I'd post a message similar to Cheechi's. I'm lurking but not much to say. I think my brain may have been affected by the amount of food eaten recently (we finally succeeded in celebrating my high school grad - June'99 - my brother's univ. grad - June' 99 - and even my bro's college grad - June '97! We've been trying to get out as a family for a while), except that would mean I'd found it (still lost in the disaster area I call a bedroom, I think).
Hap at 0:27:28 Saturday August 21 99
Well, I spent the first hour at work today watching the bootlegged Summerside Great Big Picnic. I tell ya', this nanny racket has some serious perks! ~~~ Every day since the concert, no matter how swelteringly hot, B has insisted on wearing long pants, because that's what the boys wore onstage. 'Course, it being summer and all, his Mum had packed all of two pairs of long pants for him. Much laundry ensued. (Yes, he insisted on long pants today. Green, of course.) Ooh, here's a little something scary though: I was putting B's shoes on him this morning when I noticed they are irregularly laced. Yep, one shoe with the laces running under the eyelet at the bottom, one shoe with the laces running over. Curioser and curioser. ~~~ Krysia, I'll e-mail you the story, such as it is, once I get it written up. I have a feeling the chain-of-gossip part will take up more storytime than the incident itself. Oh well. I can always embellish. :) ~~~ I absolutely LOVE the idea of making little B an honourary member! Junior Officer in charge of Getting Alan off the Ceiling? We have yet to devise the right strategy on that front yet, although, given what happened (tragically) to his "I'M 3!" birthday balloon, B is quite adamant that we keep Alan from drifting to near the lights, "Or else he will go like this: BLAM!!!!" ~~~ Er, don't know that I'm second-in-command of anything, although I do wonder who's running the show here in the absence of our erstwhile President Willow. Certainly wasn't me. :)
Alex at 23:26:17 Friday August 20 99
HI all,
I've been away for a while as well! I finished "my holidays"........
it seems I have to check a lot of new things.....
Ciao
Cheechi at 19:33:57 Friday August 20 99
Not much to say, just kinda lurking around ... just thought I'd post something so that you don't wonder where I've been :)
Krysia at 17:26:20 Friday August 20 99
I think B sounds so adorable - and its hysterical that the whole family joined in on the 'be Alan'. Definitely deserving of honorary PWAOWAH membership!!!~~~~~~~ Hap - can you e-mail me the story that you are going to post tomorrow? I am off in a few hours for the weekend, and won't be back until late Sunday. So, who knows what postings will remain.~~~~~~ On that note, since I will NOT have my laptop with me, can someone e-mail me any other interesting posts that occur over the weekend? Much obliged - have a great weekend, everyone!
Dr. T at 13:51:44 Friday August 20 99
"Everybody be Alan!" Priceless! I say we make little B an honorary PWAOWAH offiseal. He recruits and he clearly worships The Hair. He can do all his voting by proxy through the vice president. (Hey, does that make Hap the second-in-command or the president of vice?). Anyway, B could be Junior Executive Offiseal in charge of Hero Worship and Squeezeboxes or some such thing. Whaddya think? And Hap...can you get us a bootleg of that video????
Teddy at 13:35:45 Friday August 20 99
I say again: how come the kids I know aren't that cute? Auntie Heather is definitely doing something right! (apart from spreading Ebobla around, that is)~~~~~~~~ The Youngest Disciple will indeed be chronicled, as soon as I can un-archive those posts ~~~~~~~~~~~~ and many thanks, Cheechi, for the Un-Offiseal Bible (otherwise known as the St John's version.....) -it will be UP tomorrow!
Hap at 1:55:0 Friday August 20 99
Well, I spent the afternoon a B's house and I must say, his mother is well and truly HOOKED. Not only did she urge all of her neighbours at the cottage to attend the Great Big Picnic, she herself videotaped huge chunks of the show (only to read later on the website that this is frowned upon). And she's been lurking in the chatroom ladies! She took B. into the Kitchen (not the chat) this morning, where they read Séan's bio together. (B. was most especially pleased to learn that Séan's favourite colour is green, just like his!!) As well, it turns out she spent a good deal of the summer hobnobbing with Alan's brother, and told me a tale of the two of them that TRUTHFULLY answers the question, "What were you guys like as kids?" (Angel my auntie!!) I'd share the story now, only there's an important detail I KNOW I'm forgetting, so I'm going to have to ask for a re-cap tomorrow, and then I'll post it - probably in the Kitchen. :) ~~~ Oh, and B's foray over to the Dark Side is not as bad as I thought. His favourite games still revolve around the Great God and Saint Séan. This one in particular is a PWAOWAH classic: When the family went swimming together in the ocean, and every one was good and wet, B. would cry out, "Everybody be Alan!!" And then the whole lot of them would bend over, dip their heads in the water, and do a synchronised Alan Hair Flip, the collective spray shooting up to the heavens!
Dr. T at 13:24:6 Thursday August 19 99
Most of us do have androgynous nicknames, don't we? No mysteries in here, though! Anyone want to talk hair? ;-)~~~~~I love the B chronicles. I hope you write these things down, Hap. I can picture the little fellow on the beach, getting all the other little kids to play Great Big Sea with him: "I get to be Alan!" "No Me!" "OK, you be Alan, I'll be Bob. "No, wait €I€ want to be Bob." I remember near fistfights in my single-digit days over who got to be Shaun Cassidy's girlfriend and who got stuck with Parker Stevenson. Ah, the memories....
spinne at 5:36:58 Thursday August 19 99
lovin it!! hahaha, hap, you remember how we discussed the carrier aspect briefly? musta been all of that Stardusting you did... you made B's symptoms worse after seeing the guys play those gigs. ;) mental note to self: ebobla worsens with repeated contact. ;)
Hap at 4:28:27 Thursday August 19 99
Er...pardon the typos below. YIKES! Did I mention I spent the entire day at Ontario Place with a four-year-old and a six-year-old in tow, and some thirty pounds of kid gear strapped to my back and I'm really, REALLY tired? (I can spill. Reely eye can.)
Hap at 4:21:15 Thursday August 19 99
BOB MAGNETISM UPDATE: It seems the Bob Effect reaches even to the very youngest among us. I've just spoken to the mother of my dear little B. - who is finally home after six weeks in P.E.I. and one Great Big Picnic - and she reports (albeit not in so many words) that he has been all but completely swayed by the power of the Dark Side. Oh, the "Alan Bounce" is still there when he plays along to his CDs. But now, he tell his mother every morning, "I'm going to dress like Bob." (In B's world, this means wearing a blue shirt.) He reminds her time and again that he is going to have a beard like Bob's one day. And he has added to his repertoire of home-made instrments a fiddle (a piece of driftwood with a pencil bow), a bouzouki (a baseball bat) and several whistles (twigs); and, as they were packing up for the trip home, he wondered aloud, "Where's my squeezebox?" He has a rattan serving tray that doubles as a bodhrán...and in B's world, Bob plays that too. All is not lost, though. When he and his brother play make-believe, his brother is always Luke Skywalker, and B is "Alan Doyle, Superhero." Little B has also become GBS's youngest recruitment officer. Him mum tells me he was asking all the other children on the beach, "Do you know Great Big Sea?" :) ~~~ While I'm blathering away here, my favourite B story of the evening: Seems the little guy was up at 6 o'clock this morning, even though they didn't get home until after 1 a.m. He plodded around the house for a spell, then trudged back upstairs to his parents' room: "Mom! Where's Heather?!" :)
Mich at 3:55:48 Thursday August 19 99
Hap -- thanks for clearing that name thing up! I guess I should probably mention I have a memory like a sieve, eh?? As for the gender thing, I have often wondered about some of you (until I found PWAOWAH of course). Hap, Dr. T, and Alex could all refer to guys and I was left guessing. I think it probably happens on all message boards. ~~~~~~~~ This Seventies thing may be going too far! I found myself actually sitting through Pop Up Video's seventies show! Got to see "Stayin' Alive" and "Do ya Think I'm Sexy". With all the talk of Rod Stewert and GBS in the Kitchen,I found myself thinking of the b'ys through the whole video. I think they would definitely skip the cheesy dance moves but the tight pants hmmmmmm.....Nah, I think it might scare away all the fans! (starting to hum "I wiah that I knew what I know now, .... -- don't know why. Prolly because I prefer it to "Do ya think I'm Sexy"! Reminds me of last summer at work....It was the song for summer 1998) ~~~~~Yes, I've definitely lost it, but I haven't exactly had it for a *long* time (somehow that doesn't sound right. Oh well, I'll leave it anyway 8) )~~~~~~~"I've gone to look for myself. If I should return, before I get back, please ask me to wait."~~~~~~~
Teddy at 18:5:7 Wednesday August 18 99
Gotta dig out ye olde Bee Gees records ;o) Just to let ya's know I've added a couple of links into the Dao of Doyling & tidied up a bit.... "ah, ah, ah, ah, Stayin' Alive...."
Dr. T at 16:0:3 Wednesday August 18 99
Oh great, now I have this mental image of GBS heads on Partridge Family bodies. OUT, OUT, D--N IMAGE! And thanks to Spinne and Mich, I also have one of those cheesy 70s guitar tracks playing in my head...chicka chicka WAAAAH, chicka chicka WAAAH, chicka chicka WAAAH....excuse me while I run screaming from this place of insanity...!
Hap at 12:10:30 Wednesday August 18 99
Hippie gear?!!! Yikes! 'Course, then you're gonna' HAVE to do a 70's theme, all leisure suits and Brady Bunch chic. And I'm still waiting for that 'Saturday Night Fever' poster. ;) ~~~ Hey Mich, I knew your name was Michelle before Fred made his "guess." You mentioned it in at least one post. Can't remember the context, just remember thinking, "Well, that clears up the gender question," and also being reminded of a Michele (one "l") I knew in elementary school who was called "Mimi" for short. And weren't you the one who said something about that OTHER Michelle giving all Michelles a bad name?
Teddy at 10:3:3 Wednesday August 18 99
Oh, and according to a new post, Fred has apparently spent some time in London, England. Says it all, really!
Teddy at 10:2:27 Wednesday August 18 99
Oh, Mich, you're far gone! Though I gotta admit I come here first, it's my site, I'm supposed to! ~~~~~~~~~~~ BTW I threw out the sky-blue and pink flares years ago ~~~~~~~~ I've gotta do an elaboration on Missy's Darrell Powers pic.... gotta see what the b'ys look like in hippy gear!
Mich at 2:3:35 Wednesday August 18 99
"Bow chicka wow wowwwww" (aw yeaaaa) -- man did that bring back memories I didn't wish to conjure up! A group of team mates once decided that our coach walked like a seventies porn star and then started in with that one! ewww, IMPs galore!!~~~~~~~Yes, Fred does seem to be a most unusual guy (I still wonder how he figured out my real name is Michelle. I don't remember ever posting under that name because of that *other* Michelle that we had the slight problem with earlier this summer. I guess I'll just have to believe he truly is psychic and not just Psycho) Truly fits in, eh?~~~~~~appearance hasn't changed since elementary school??? I think I'm pretty much in the same boat. I still wear some clothes from grade four!! THis summer I decided to replace it all (I am entering college. Somehow, I think the styles -- not to mention colour choices) have changed slightly since then). ~~~~~Catch ya'll later - I should have just enough time to check the Kitchen before the next family member needs the 'puter. Yep, I actually came here first!
Cheechi at 21:27:42 Tuesday August 17 99
You know I'd make up a phobia about this latest conversation, but my brain just isn't working today. I must've diluted it with coke yesterday... or maybe I'm just more incompetant then I thought... hmmm.
~~~~~ Cheers, Cheechi :) ~~~~~
Teddy at 21:0:36 Tuesday August 17 99
Does anyone remember the apparently gay guys who seemed to hate female GBS fans dribbling over them????? ~~~~~~~~ "Who shows up in someone's chatroom just because they're cute?" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Good question.... me??? ~~~~~~~~~ and apparently I haven't changed since the age of twelve. I used to think they meant my appearance (yeah, shame, isn't it. That's why the Wonderbra), but now I'm not so sure ;o)
Dr. T at 15:59:13 Tuesday August 17 99
What do you mean "once in awhile?" I don't think I've slipped out of 7th grade mode once in four months! OK, that job interview, but that was brief. The thing that most amuses me about the Estrogen Brigade crack is that, prior to becoming a regular in here...back in the dark ages...I wouldn't have guessed that the GBS chatroom would be so overwhelmingly €female€. Who shows up in someone's chatroom just because they're cute? So why on earth is it that only like 15% of the chat is male, when like 70% of all internet users are male? Maybe guys show up and we scare them away! Perhaps Fred's only still around because he's actually willing to hurl underwear at the band...and that's a most unusual guy!
Hap at 12:37:45 Tuesday August 17 99
I'm not sure which came first, the Gillian Anderson Testosterone Brigade or the David Duchovny Estrogen Brigade, but both have been online for years (since Season 1, I'm sure). I'm past laughing at it, although I find Fred's use of it in this, er, context quite amusing. And astute. Because the DDEB is a lot like this: A bunch of women who DO know better, choosing to be fourteen once in a while. I only wonder how much time Fred's been spending in either place to have noticed the similarities...;)
spinne at 7:58:15 Tuesday August 17 99
ok, this is gonna be real short, 'cos it's almost 3, and i have to work in the morning. ;) ~~ re: "estrogen brigade." absolutely lost it when i first saw this. still makes me giggle. :) ha, not that that's a real tough undertaking. ;) ~~ i have to agree, _everything_ can have a sexual connotation. because of this, "bow chicka wow wowwww" (usu. folw'd by an "awwww yea") has become a phrase many of my friends and i use religiously. ;) nite folks!
Mich at 4:22:39 Tuesday August 17 99
Hey Marie, sorry about the "incident". I've never met them, but even the b'ys are entitled to a bad (o.k. disgustingly obnoxious) day. I'm sure it was a one time problem (if any of the guys are lurking I'm sure Alan will find out about your take on the incident and will be careful to avoid this in the future).~~~~~~Dr. T isn't the only one who was cracked up by the "estrogen brigade" comment. I was laughing so hard I couldn't finish reading the post (eventually succeeded though 8) ).~~~~~~Freudian takes on dreams...hmmmmm...sounds pretty interesting to me. I'm sure I could add a few things, although I must admit, my GBS dreams have been strickly 'G' rated (saw them walking by in the mall while I was at work and another time they were doing a special appearance at the store -- hey if we have a special Backstreet Boys Contest, GBS would be even better -- and I was the lucky person who got to show them around the store. Obviously, I have spent too much time at work). I have learned that *everything* has a sexual connotation, if you have a sick enough mind (yes, I've been blessed with this, or is it cursed...)
Cheechi at 22:8:43 Monday August 16 99
Well, I still haven't met the boys yet, so coming from me, I wouldn't give a hot damn if they were in a bad mood or not! The cheery-er the better, but down and out wouldn't count as a "bad" encounter in my books .... but then, I'm a psycho one. Maybe we should make a new phobia! ... Let's see, let's call it Badoylencounterphobia - the fear of meeting Alan (or any of the guys) for the first time when they're in a bad mood. *HA* Or howabout this one... Greatbigaccidentophobia - the fear of GBS having a trvelling accident on the way to a gig, or it can also be the fear of having a personal travelling accident on the way to the same gig ... OR it could be the fear of crashing into the tourbus on the way to the GBS gig and killing (or maybe just injuring) yourself and the band! *MWA HA HA HA HA* okay, I think I've had enough coke for today ... well, maybe just one more can. (kee hee hee)
Dr. T at 20:5:58 Monday August 16 99
Hi All! I'd like to say that I have clean dreams about GBS all the time! Though I haven't had any in a couple of weeks, I was averaging 3-4 a week for awhile, and only one would've merited anything other than a G rating! In fact, though I get a kick out of reading sexual content into other people's dreams (Hap's not the only one with a Freudian streak!), Cheechi may be the only person I've heard of who actually reached...um...consummation in her unconscious adventures. So don't tell me you don't have a "nasty" streak, girl! ;-) Me, I'll €TALK€ about anything. In fact, if Fred keeps calling us the Estrogen Brigade (which cracks me up), I'm going to consider that an open door to discussing mentstrual troubles. He wants estrogen, I'll give him estrogen!~~~~~Teddy, I'll post the drenched me GBS dream later...it's not too long and mildly amusing. And if you want it, I'll send along my GBS museum dream, too. Both sadly lacking in "adult content."~~~~On the subject of GBS virginity, I recently discovered that I may have heard one of their 1996 shows from OUTSIDE the official venue, and only recently figured out it was them. So is that like the concert-goers version of "fooling around" without "doing it"? And where does that put me in the "good girl/bad girl" ranking?~~~~~~Trish, have a great trip!~~~~~~OK, I know I'm taking up way too much space and any more little wavy things will make everyone seasick, so I'll try to wrap it up.~~~~~~Marie, that's a real drag about your Alan encounter. I mean, I realize he can't be Mr. Sunshine all the time...I for one would be lousy at that sort of thing...but I sure wouldn't want to be the one that encountered him on an off day. And after all your gallant efforts to see them live, too. What a bummer.
Hap at 19:33:43 Monday August 16 99
Ah, well...gods are known to be a mite capricious at times. Remember "The Flood?" Now THERE was some serious attitude! Still willing to cut the hirsute one some slack, bad hair day or not. After he saved the day for us at Stardust, I have a hard time thinking of him as anything but a thoroughly decent bloke. Sorry you didn't get him on a grand day, though. The GBS equivalent of choking on the communion wine?
Marie at 18:8:13 Monday August 16 99
by the way... anyone on here have ICQ and feel like yacking?:) my number is 24081245
Marie at 18:6:44 Monday August 16 99
No, he was having a very good hair day, I'll give him that much:) Nice to look at, but after that, I wouldn't want to meet him or anything
Teddy at 17:45:32 Monday August 16 99
Ooh, that sucks big humbugs. Reminds me of a recent encounter with a young'n'promising Irish band recently.... maye he was just having an EXTREMELY bad hair day.....
~~~~~~~~~~ Okay, and enough shocking the innocents ;o) Has anyone had a CLEAN dream lately? And showers should not figure in here, thankyouverymuch!
Marie at 14:2:28 Monday August 16 99
so, i wasn't mistaking... it was some SERIOUS attitude. i mean, you KNOW what i though of him up til that point, so i assume you know it would have taken alot, not something i could have mistook.. it was some serious attitude
spinne at 6:59:56 Monday August 16 99
marie, are ya sure it wasn't a case of misinterpretation? i mean, who here hasn't left a mistaken impression with someone at least once? happens all the time with me... i'm just swift like that. :) i honestly can't imagine any of the band members pulling an attitude on anyone. i remember seeing one incredibly intrusive drunk chick tryin to get all buddy-buddy with alan, and he handled it very well. he didn't encourage it at all, but at the same time, he didn't show her any disrespect, either. the three times i got to say hello to him, he was always a real classy guy: extremely polite, friendly.. an absolute gentleman. i'm sorry you were put out by your meeting with him... hope the next time is better!
Cheechi at 3:32:5 Monday August 16 99
Well, aren't we all getting a little personable in here. Talking about everyone's dirty dreams *tsk tsk* Shame on you all... I don't talk about my dirty dreams (although I consider it a plus that it's a reoccuring dream). Very cool dream it was... I was touring with da b'ys because they were letting me write their biography (that's my life long dream) and we were in a hotel room (we being me and sean, but then it turned outin later dreams to be Alan instead) and I won't go any further than that, because I'm not oneof you nasty one's. You can all just make up an ending to my dream :)
Marie at 1:20:50 Monday August 16 99
Hey again everyone!:)
thanks for the congratulations on my dry spell.... but i have bad news now!!!
I think me seeing alan up close like that wrecked GBS for me! you all know i met the love of my life because of that dream about alan.. well, at the george street fest, my hunny tried to make pleasnt convo with alan ..(ted being celtic connection's web guy) just made a friendly comment when scott broke his bazooki .... and alan looked at him like he was a total worm... god or not.. i can't STAND attitude like that. it wasn't "oh m god, its GBS! " you know? i dunno, spoiled the whole thing for me. I just hope CC never gets all cocky and obnoxious like the attitude he put forth.... i don't know, i just don't see any need for that at all.
Hap at 0:51:36 Monday August 16 99
Now how come in my dreams they're only manning a bloody coat-check??? Okay, there WAS a bed - not a futon, one of those day-bed thingys, with a white frame - but it was in the middle of the flipping pub. Séan in a bee-striped shirt (trying to frighten Bob away?). That's the only one I remember. I know when I've dreamt about them, though, 'cause I wake up thinking, "Dammit! Why did I forget that?!!" Grrr. ~~~ Jumping in on the paragraph thing. A nice, sea-related wave motif, like we're drifing on over to the next subject. ~~~ I'd also like to congratulate Marie on the end of her dry-spell. Get to know them first, that's what I say! Heck, I did the video shoot and the I&I before I went "all the way." Good girls like me don't do that on the first date. ;) (Yes, this is the sound of a woman desperately trying to rationalise her completely unintentional way of going about things.) ~~~ Er, I've never heard a futon called THAT before, but I have heard it called a "tofu," in 'Unidentified Human Remains And The True Nature Of Love.' Mind you, if ever there was a play where the term "flip 'n' ****" would have been appropriate...Hmm...Maybe if I read that before bed, while listening to TURN...Nah, I'd probably only dream of Alan in a waiter's uniform, singing "Lavendar Blue" while taking an axe to a doll's head, and NONE of the fun stuff at all.
spinne at 23:42:30 Sunday August 15 99
going along with this dream bit, i have to say that i don't specifically remember very much of any of my dreams. if a dream is GBS-related, it's usually 'cos i hear the songs playing somewhere. once, i heard Boston and St. John's... it got progressively louder until i woke up. :) that was pretty weird. anyway, people - remind me not to pick on teddy anymore. she's having too much fun making me out to be the dirty dawg in here! :) never mind the fact that it -wasn't me- dreaming about futons and alan....! ;)
Alex at 22:48:39 Sunday August 15 99
I guess now I could add my GBS dreams too.
First, I don't know if this can help Dr.T in her job, but once I dreamt I was on a lake canoeing with alan...and it was water related because he made a lot of water bubbles canoeing! And I also dreamt we were in bed (nothing with red lights people!) and I was sleeping embracing him...does it all make sense??? Ciao
TrishQ at 22:7:37 Sunday August 15 99
So THAT'S the technical name for a futon! Reminds me of the B'ys Canada AM interview where Alan invited Valerie to come and stay with Sean as he has a futon.:-) What a naughty boy! I am also a major caffeine-addict. I get my daily fix from Tim Horton's coffee and Coke(Pepsi-yuk!) Anyways I came in here today to say goodbye to the GBS estrogen brigade(good one-Fred!) for a few days. I'm going UP to my sister's cottage near Algonquin Park(Ontario). I'll be back Fri. or Sat. Last time I went on vacation there was an Alan AND Bob post in the Kitchen...so with MY luck there oughta be some excitement this week! Later, girls!
Teddy at 21:30:59 Sunday August 15 99
Oh, hey, this is cool! Ginger, Marie, Jessie, welcome! I really hope you all took note of that sign above the door that says "Mind Your Head".... it means something in here ;o) Alright, alright, we keep the caffiene. I hate to have to drink my Coke under the duvet. Nothing worse than damp spots on the futon. Spinne, I can hear you from here! Behave ;o)
Dr. T at 21:27:17 Sunday August 15 99
A quick PS to Marie if she's still here: Congrats on breaking the GBS concert curse!! Many happy returns!
Dr. T at 21:24:48 Sunday August 15 99
On Teddy's dream: Soaking wet...screaming..."close encounters"...sitting on the futon watching TV afterward...no, no, nothing sexual €there€. ;-) Do you remember what they were singing? I'm getting kind of curious about some of the connections between people's dreams. I think I've seen at least two dreams mentioned where Alan grabbed the dreamer by the wrist, and I've had one of those, too...and, even though I'm teasing Teddy, I also had a GBD where I was soaked through, because I'd fallen in the water or something (though maybe that's not sexual. It could be a sign of our addiction...immersing ourselves in the world of Great Big Sea)...and I know both Fiona and Teddy have had dreams with Alan sitting on the bed...hmmmm, what to make of these recurrent images? I'm going to ruminate for awhile. Incidentally, I've never heard a futon called a "flip n' €€€€," but I'm sure as heck going to use that phrase in the future. And can I just say that I really like the movie _Close Encounters_? I actually own a copy. Whoops! Gotta run if I want to hear Eileen Ivers at 5. Bye!
Jessie at 20:26:41 Sunday August 15 99
This has to be one of the niftyist things I have ever seen in my entire life, and I applaud you on making an amazing page!! I will definitely be a regular visiter to this page!!!
Jessie.
spinne at 20:20:35 Sunday August 15 99
*sigh* ppl always trying to take my toys away from me... !!
Cheechi at 19:55:29 Sunday August 15 99
Who said caffine's a bad thing? Caffine's great, it just hasta come in the right package ... Coca-Cola Classic ... Mmmmm... I'm sorry, did I mention I was a coke-aholic? I drink three cans a day (on a bad day), but I don't drink coffee or tea, or any of that crap. And definately NOT pepsi either. Anyway, getting to my point now, I will have no part in taking caffine away from Spinne ;) In fact, I'm gonna join Spinne on that caffine kick.
Teddy at 18:57:58 Sunday August 15 99
Okay, people, how do we keep Spinne off of the caffiene - bear in mind we're all a fair distance away????
spinne at 18:11:8 Sunday August 15 99
hahaha! "well, hey... if _you_ want to call it 'overthrowing,' who am i to stop you?" ;) `~,~`~,~` (ha, sorry, getting carried away with trying to find a way to separate paragraphs) ...interesting dream ya had, teddy. i wonder what that futon can mean, given its alternate name of "flip'n****" ;> haha not goin there!
Teddy at 17:50:18 Sunday August 15 99
Hi, Marie! And wouldn't we ALL like to 'overthrow' Alan???? Though some of us might make a bee-line for Bob first...... Hey, I had a REALLY strange dream last night. First of all, there were a load of us 'obsessives' white-water rafting with the b'ys, getting soaked to the skin - Bob throwing his hands up in the air and screaming, of all things ~~~~~~~~~~~~ then it changed to Alan sitting on my futon, watching the bit in Close Encounters of the Third Kind where they're trying to talk to the spaceship, over and over and over, saying "this reminds me of something". Meanwhile, the others were rehearsing some acapella song in the next room, with Bob taking lead. I'm scared to hear the interpretations of THIS one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ oh, yeah, this is a paragraph thingy. Spoke to my provider, apparently this thing can't be rigged to separate paragraphs. Bugger. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mich - I know how you feel! Haven't been near a computer much this weekend, and my fingers are itching, my braincells are twitching (just look at that bloody dream......)
Marie at 16:6:2 Sunday August 15 99
hey all! i'm here... take me to your lead so i can overthrow them!
Marie at 16:5:28 Sunday August 15 99
Cheechi at 4:53:51 Sunday August 15 99
I don't think I'll ever worry about dreaming of whales Mich, but that's a good thing to know, just incase. I guess it would be a pretty pointless phobia then. what does it say in that book about *hearing* whales? More specifically, a certain *someone* making whales noises? And even more specifically, a certain *bald* someone making whale noises? Okay, I think I'll stop now, before I get a Baldoylorcaphobia relapse...
Mich at 3:54:48 Sunday August 15 99
I must now admit that I am obsessed. Last night we had a terrible lightning storm and I couldn't log on. I actually sat at the window for a good ten minutes thinking, "It couldn't hurt the computer *that* much, could it?? I just need a few minutes to catch up..." Obviously, sanity got the better part of me and I skipped checking the chats. While away from the 'puter I took a few minutes to double check the meanings of whales in dreams. Good news Cheechi, whales are a GOOD sign and bring security and safety to the dreamer and anyone pictured with the whales in the dream. Just go right ahead and dream of Alan (and the other guys) with the Orcas. Now to take care of that baldness....
Cheechi at 19:36:19 Saturday August 14 99
What can I say, I'm trying to be a perfectionist :) No, actually I'm just very picky... I'm a writer not a scribe, but scribner sounds so cool, so unless someone can think of a better term then I'm a-keepin' it! I think my Baldoylorcaphobia is gone, cause in the dream I had last night Alan had plenty of hair on his head and he wasn't swimming.
Hap at 4:29:49 Saturday August 14 99
Wow! Don't think I've ever seen anyone fuss over their title so much! Can we throw in "Resident Literalist" while we're at it? KIDDING! KIDDING! Sort of. ;) 'Cause if we're gonna' be literal here, the scribe/scribner tag has got to go. The scribes didn't compose, they just, well, transcribed pre-existing texts. And most of 'em were monks. So unless Cheechi's after being the keeper of Séan's hairshirt...oooh, just picturing the tonsure, it's scarier than the conehead...Great, now I'll be taking THAT image to bed.
Cheechi at 3:25:16 Saturday August 14 99
Okay, well now that I understand what "proximic garment" means I'll think about keeping that part too. My friends thought I was completly addicted to GBS when I told them I had a shirt just like Sean's (which I am, but that's not why I got the shirt) ... acctually buying that shirt was the BIGGEST coincidence of my life! I didn't notice it was the same until I was wearing it one day and was watching the When I'm Up video ... I all of a sudden felt like I was wearing Sean's clothes *swoon* ... anyway, the PWAOWAH chat room is now a regular visit as has always been the GBS chat and my email. The order in which I visit them all depends on the day :)
Dr. T at 2:45:12 Saturday August 14 99
Greetings! Glad you liked the title suggestion, Cheechi. I added the "proximic garment" bit because you said you had a shirt that looked like Sean's (sorry, too tired to find the accent marks)...thus, your garment is an approximation of, or in the proximity of, his shirt. I don't know if "proximic" is an actual word or not...in this place, does it matter?? But feel free to stick with the philosopher (accent on soph) and scribner if that's more to your liking! Teddy, did you post the Dao of Doyling? I'll have to go to the chat next and check it out. You know you're REALLY addicted when you come to the PWAOWAH pages first! Later, all!
Cheechi at 0:54:33 Saturday August 14 99
Okay, well, I'm still not sure about the Proximic Garment thing ... but I could always shorten it to Phobic Phil O'Sopher and *Talented* Scribner, right? (I added that talented part... just patting myself on the back) ----- Teddy, what's with the squiggly line thing? (ie ~~~) Is it just to separate paragraphs or something?
Anon at 22:25:51 Friday August 13 99
I like that! Much more evocative than plain Pretty Psyched-ology(which kind of sums up me right now). How about: Scribner = not necessarily OF anything ... but it's obviously embedded in your very nature! Garments = the b'ys's, if you're extremely lucky! The feminine underwear for the proposed - er - event, if you're not (no, you don't have to wash them). Proximic = proximate? To what? Don't ask. Hot in here, isn't it?~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Trish - NON-biological powder, if you please, the other stuff makes me itch ;o)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mintoe alert.........
Cheechi at 19:13:49 Friday August 13 99
Well that's the best one I've heard yet... "Phobic Philosopher, Scribner, and Keeper of Proximic Garments" ... however, we must analyse again... scribner of what? and who's garments? What's proximic? As for Philosopher, the accent's on the "soph" part, not the "lo" part, remeber that :) ... As for the warm weather NFLD thing, must I remind you of Alan the Doyler's little story about palm trees on the Rock? Hmmm?
Cheers, Cheechi :)
TrishQ at 18:29:26 Friday August 13 99
OK- I'll volunteer for laundry duty. They don't call me the GREAT laundry fairy 'round here for nuttin', she says boldly venturing into a pre-pubescent almost 10 years old's room. Note to self- buy Woolite for red , lacy, Frederick's unmentionables. And Vestral Virgins?...ahem......how 'bout Vestral been-there-done-THAT! It's Friday! Sociabubble!!! :-)
Alex at 17:57:46 Friday August 13 99
NA NA NA NANA NANANA NAAAAAAAAAAAAA.......
I've nothing to say but I want to sing......:)))).....and it's cold today! One more reason to sing.....
Ciao
Ginger at 17:32:25 Friday August 13 99
Hey guys
Just wanted to say that this is one of the funniest things I have read in my life... and I mean that in a good way ;-) Teddy, this is your doing, right? Marvellous job. Love the Dao of Doyling... although to be honest, I don't really see what it has to do with Alan's hair... but hey, whatever. Thanks for posting this URL!
:-) Ginger
Hap at 12:26:34 Friday August 13 99
I'm slipping? *groan* Y'know, this backsliding (that's back-sLiding) only started after you and that OTHER Tina started pointing out every little lingual fracas. >:(
Hmmm...invite people over when the weather's warmer...and in Newfoundland that's how many days per year? ;) Of course, Virtual Newfoundland could well and truly be a tropical island...Nah. If it were, we wouldn't get those, "Well, I'm stuck in the house 'cause there's a blizzard outside so I thought I'd talk to you guys" posts from AYM.
Well, if Cheechi not up for laundry duty, I guess we'll hafta' recruit a few Vestral Virgins...*cringe*...sorry, best I could do UNDER PRESSURE!!!!
Dr. T at 4:2:17 Friday August 13 99
Greetings! All the voices in my head agree that the sibyl-to-the-oracle thing works for us. ;-) Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I liked that "spiritual and scriptural" bit, too. So what's the official word? As for Cheechi, how about something like "Phobic Philosopher, Scribner, and Keeper of Proximic Garments"? Maybe Teddy could give it her trademark wordspin....
MUST SLEEP NOW! Talk to you soon!
Cheechi at 3:59:53 Friday August 13 99
Finally finished reading the coat/boot delemma and building of a new kitchen thing ... would it be asking too much to just invite people over when the weather's warm, so they won't need coats? And, who needs a bigger door, people can walk in single file ... unless you're throwing a kitchen party for extea large people. As for the boot thing ... I don't have a solution for that, you can't expect me to know everything, I just invent phobias.
Cheers, Cheechi :)
Cheechi at 3:22:29 Friday August 13 99
I just thought of something ... doctor sounds to professional, and I'm hardly that. I prefer witch doctor, because I came up with psycho phobias. Do you want to hear my new phobia definaition? I got it from reading that stuff in the Eternal Kitchen party about the coat/boot delemma. ere's the phobia (and I'm not affected by it, yet)
A-Rack-No-Phobia: I know you're thinking spiders, but no ... this is the fear of having no available coat racks for a kitchen party.
*and a slight variation*
No-Corner-Phobia: the fear of having no available corner space to pile up the boots.
My list will continue to grow eventually, and I'll find a spot for it on my web site, as soon as I find the perfect title and get my badge :)
Cheers, Cheechi :)
spinne at 2:46:33 Friday August 13 99
i think we need someone to tend to the laundry more than we do another psychic. ;) esp if we're gonna be tossing more *cough* items of clothing at em, heehee. anyone happen to take a look at uglies.com and see the asinine uglies?? :)
Cheechi at 2:27:7 Friday August 13 99
Psyched-ology? Isn't that what I'm taking this year in university? ... no, actually I think it was Phil O'Sophy. And what do you mean by "practicing"? meaning, I haven't gotten it right yet? "Practice makes perfect"? ... does "pretty" mean "very" or "good-lookin" ... because I'm both you know ;) And, just to let ya'll know ... I don't do laundry (but I just might do windows)
Cheers, Cheechi :)
Teddy at 22:3:40 Thursday August 12 99
We know, Hap! It's your style.... though not a Freudian wotsit in sight. You're slipping! ~~~~~~~~~~~~ On the medical/phobia theme for Cheechi: how about " Practicing Doctor of Pretty Psyched-ology"? Though I agree, the vestments need tending to, too.....
Hap, the Obsessive Formerly Known as Anon at 21:59:50 Thursday August 12 99
Er, that was me there.
Anon at 21:56:49 Thursday August 12 99
Yikes! A sociabubble! And me without my Guinness!! Sigh...hafta' settle for the Jameson's...again. So we're in need of more titles, are we? Well, we've already got ourselves a cardinal, and we don't want to be stepping on Eh's little beggar toes. Umm...the shirt angle has possibilities. Aside from Rayna's post by the Holy Goalie Gear, do we have anyone at all minding the vestry? We've got the royal red robes to consider, and the ecclesiastical purple (symbolises penance and mourning, apparently, worn during Holy Week and on Sundays during Lent), Bob's solemn black (preferred for Good Friday and Masses of the dead); oh, and there's Darrell's favourite green shirt (which, according to my source, and pay attention now, symbolises hope and "is worn by priests on ORDINARY DAYS"!!!). Strange, nothing about plaid in my "Sacred Origins Of Profound Things." Really, we NEED someone to mind the vestments...or at least tend to the laundry. Ummm...on the writing angle. Do we have a scriptorium? Perhaps our scribes do their writing while waiting for the rinse cylce.
Cheechi at 20:59:49 Thursday August 12 99
You mean Baldoylocraphobia? I think it's a very clever phobia to me ... as a matter of fact, I think I need to make a trip to the offi-seal chat. Maybe my title could be the Great Big Witch-doctor or something...
Cheers, Cheechi :)
Teddy at 20:22:43 Thursday August 12 99
You know, no apology whatsoever is going to be forthcoming, either for the susceptibility of other people's subconsciouses, or for the Rod Stewart Thingy! Not the first time I've been called a (&^#%* Englishwoman, either ;o) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BTW, Cheechi, I prefer your pre-pronounciation version ...........
spinne at 20:4:52 Thursday August 12 99
just a reminder for the ppl coming up with new titles - if you'd like a cheesy badge with your name and title on it, email me. :) blue and white on a black background (see teddy's in the left frame).. if you'd like to put it up on a website with a diff background, just say so and i'll see how well i can work it in. :)
Cheechi at 19:51:33 Thursday August 12 99
Teddy,
Why do I feel like I've just been suckered into something... anyway, I just want to let everyone know (if you haven't seen my post in the offi-seal chat) that I was up until 2am last night, too frightened to go to sleep. You see, after I saw that BLASPHEMOUS picture, I went to a site, suggested by Hostage of BC to listen to Orca whales. However, I didn't realize that the volume was on bust! Picture me sitting in front of my PC at midnight (or there-abouts) in complete silence and then this ear-shattering screech breaks that silence. I flew outta my chair! so I've gotten no sleep last night due to the fear of having nightmares of a bald Alan screeching Orca sounds (and possible swimming circles in the Great Big Sea).
Cheers, Cheechi :)
P.S. We should name a phobia for my new found fear ... something like Baldoylocraphobia (pronounced Bal-Doyle-Orca-phobia)
Teddy at 17:26:26 Thursday August 12 99
HEY PEOPLE!..... We got another live one! Cheechi has been forever affected by the Coneheads photo, and feels impelled in her madness to join her fellow obsessives in worship. SOCIABUBBLE!!! .... Need another name.... here's what she say: ~~~~~~~~~~~~- I have a plad shirt that is surprisingly similar to the one Sean is
wearing in the "Going Up" Video ... incase this has some merit. - I was also thinking of Alan's red shirt that he seems to like so much, and, relating this to the 3 Musketeers, the religious figure, namely the evil Cardinal, sports the same colors... and I have no idea where that train of thought is going, because it just pulled out of the station. - Then there's my tradmark (and retired) Top 10's or my incredible writing ability ... incase that has any merit............. Anyway, please comment at the nearest convenience. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Just think of this as a convenience, but don't get the furniture wet. Comments?
Mich at 2:12:45 Thursday August 12 99
Teddy, I LOVE the title although the thought of a bikini is rather frightening! And with my accident proneness, the "push em UP" would become "push em OUT" 8) I'll stick to sport styling, if it's all the same to y'all --- Dr. T, I know the dread that comes with Bridal Showers and I have found out (as in yesterday) that 3 close relatives are marrying in the next year. We figure we will get through all the showers in one day and be done with the torture. Start with coffee and hors d'oeuvres, then my cousin Christy's gifts (first to marry, last engaged - April), then lunch, then my cousin Jennifer's gifts (2nd to marry - May), then dessert and coffee and the gifts for my brother's fiancee (1st engaged, third to marry - August). Somehow I get the feeling it will be a nightmare day!!! Maybe I'll fake sick and stay home listening to GBS all day 8) Looks like my mom and I will be back at making gag-gift lingerie again! The items in stores just aren't embarrassing enough. Gotta add more tassels (her idea, not mine 8)) and glow-in-the-dark fabrics (not to mention with beads and buttons all down the back)! -- The Sybil idea sounds great for Dr. T. Good luck cutting it to appropriate length, Teddy. --- catch ya later
Alex at 23:3:16 Wednesday August 11 99
Don't worry Mich, I always do mistakes like that ;)))...especially checking the chat at night ;))....
Well, I'm glad to hear the Sybil suggestion worked, hope Dr.T will feel ok for it! As for Mich, I think Teddy's suggestion's great....
Cheers
Krysia at 17:33:9 Wednesday August 11 99
Dr. T - I love it! (especially the quote) Definitely, go with the Sibyl theme. ( I love Alex's suggestion) Mich, if you don't go with the Lifeguard theme, I'm sure we could come up with a title along the Tim Taylor lines - we're not done building in the Eternal Kitchen Party, yet, are we? On another note, yeah! pouring rain outside my window! Begone, drought, begone... ....Darn, it's already stopped in the time it took me to write this. Hope the well holds out a little longer.
Hap at 16:59:25 Wednesday August 11 99
Hey, Dr. T: That whole "Sybil" thing (and, yes, that's the word I was struggling for - so thanks to Alex too for coming up with it) also works on the "multiple personality disorder" front as well. (For the rest of you, Dr. T/Trinna and I, the Obsessive Formerly Known as Heather, have been discussing off-line how these online aliases of ours have been taking on a life of their own...and "Sybil" *was* the name of that movie, wasn't it?) I'd say run with the Sybil theme! Both of you!!
Dr. T at 14:56:48 Wednesday August 11 99
Greetings All! Ahhhh, the calmness returns. I swear when I'm gone for 24 hours I get an odd panicky feeling, only alleviated by returning to the chat and posting like a mad woman. It's like those little Seuss Whos crying "we are here!" to assert their very existence. OK, back to business. I like all the titles that have been suggested for me...I'll leave it to Teddy to choose one of appropriate length! And I think Mich's title is fab! All this underwear discussion is reminding me of a bridal shower I went to once, a lingerie theme shower (can I just say that bridal showers are the plague of my existence? If I EVER have to play that make-a-bridal-gown-out-of-toilet-paper game again, blood will be shed!). We found some really horrifying stuff at a local department store...lycra mesh, fake fur, fake flowers in conspicuous places...the mind reels at the embarassment potential. And then there's that whole glow-in-the-dark genre. Back to titles for a minute...I was thumbing through my copy of _The Aeneid_ to try to find the word Hap meant (Sibyl, seer, prophetess?)...and I came across the following passage: "The Sibyl cried out...'The god! Look there! The god!" And as she spoke neither her face nor hue went untransformed, nor did her hair stay neatly bound...." Yeah, that'd be me at a concert!! Have a good day/night everyone!
Teddy at 10:32:0 Wednesday August 11 99
Got it! "Excursion Around The Bay Watch Lifeguard"? Complete with newly-purchased 'push-em-up' red bikini?........ Oh, and to a previous question which I totally ignored, yes I'm gonna post a link to the Dao of Doyling in the OKP Chat, but I've got a bit of tidying to do first.... *bloody perfectionist*. Gonna watch an eclipse now - my colleague Graham, on being told he couldn't watch it with a naked eye in the carpark, insists he's going to watch it naked with an eye instead. I'd better warn the neighbours ;o)
Mich at 4:18:27 Wednesday August 11 99
Ooops, sorry Alex, maybe *I* should have taken a nap. I TOTALLY missed the '0' in the hour section (said as I slap my head in stupidity and turn the most amazing shade of red). As for the BiWay bins of underwear, that only happens in the old Black and White Stores (for some reason they make no mention of the hideous orange). I was in a Beige store (stupid way to differentiate, I know). We had to HANG all underwear on little specially designed bra and panty (jeez I hate that word) hangers. It was annoying but it gave us something to work on in the back room (away from cutomers) and get caught up on what was happening with co-workers outside lives. ----- Now for some info that might help with the name thing. For starters, I am not the most creative person around (I'm sure that has already been made quite clear). I can't carry a tune worth a damn (all right, I can play flute, but I haven't picked it up in a couple of years, so I'm not sure if that counts or not)and was actually kicked out of a band because I couldn't sing. The worst part was, it was a CHURCH band!!! I'm working on the singing though (small animals no longer run as far away from me as they can nor do I hear shrieks of "make it stop"). Hobbies include cross-stitch and various other crafts (dried flower arranging, hot gluing myself to projects, and love anything to do with tools -- what can i say, my Dad has always wanted to be Tim Taylor and he passed this on to me. Must be a dominant gene because my brother has the same affliction), I have a book of quotes, poems, etc. that I have been collecting for a while (not much to do with GBS...yet), (insert everyone's bored expressions here -- yawn, yawn) and I also love to read. Right now I am into fantasies (esp. Charles de Lint). Fav. songs include Goin' Up, Fast as I Can, Someday Soon, Berry Picking, Feel it Turn, Trois Navires, Can't Stop Falling, Buying Time, My Apology, and Captain Wedderburn. I have the most incredible ability to turn multiple shades of red without the slightest prompting (no embarrassment or sun needed). I love to swim (just throw in SPF 4000 sunlblock so I don't become my alter-ego "Lobster Girl" and I'm as happy as a clam on the beach) so that Lifeguard idea sounds interesting. From what I understand in the Eternal Kitchen Party (missing some details as to WHY Sean was in the drink though), a Lifeguard was needed to haul Sean in not too too long ago (although I believe Alan was successful at this). --------- Well, I think that's all. I have to get up at 6:30 for work tomorrow , so I guess I should go to bed (maybe I'll just skip sleeping until I get home from work at one....)Catch ya later - Mich
Teddy at 21:51:23 Tuesday August 10 99
Hey, Mich, you're gonna have to throw us some ideas here! What's your fave GBS song? Member? What twinkles your imagination about the b'ys? Hobbies? Apart from buying swimsuits..... How would you like to be a Lifeguard, just in case Lukey's Boat ever sinks, or in case that storm finally gets Jack Hinks? Help? Maybe I need some more Real Ale. So help me God, I'll give you a tag if it has to be something to do with small, fat, primary-coloured entities.........
TrishQ at 16:11:17 Tuesday August 10 99
Ah- yes, Mich, I have also had the misfortune of laying eyes on the BiWay's creative display of unmentionibles ( they chuck 'em in a bin!). Speaking of discount stores, anyone shop at the GT boutique? ( AKA Giant Tiger).As you can tell I frequent theses stores. I consider them upscale as I also love thrift shop stores.:-) Hey, I'm a single mother and the $$$ is always scarce! Spinne- the ugly MEN'S undies?- that IS brutal! Altho' the crotchless Frederick's idea is inspired! Picturing Alan's beet-red face at that moment....heh heh heh...could we manage to strike HIM speechless??!! >:-)
Alex at 15:51:56 Tuesday August 10 99
Ihihihih.....I was not sleeping in front of my pc :))....Spinne's right (helpful as usual..) it took just 2 minutes to catch the mistake! Not too bad.......
Ciao ;))
spinne at 6:7:52 Tuesday August 10 99
since alex should be sleeping right now, i'll answer your almost-asked question as best i can ;) it didn't take two hours for her to notice, it took two minutes. :> the clock is in military time, with hh:mm:ss - hours, minutes, and seconds. :) but enough about that, let's move onto more important topics. like underwear tossing. :) if you're looking for cruel, i suggest checking out http://www.uglies.com/ - their motto is "they're so ugly, she'll beg you to take 'em off!" boxer shorts that make your eyes bleed. :) THIS would be cruel - not only would they be getting hideous underwear thrown at them, it's hideous MEN'S underwear. :) to soften the punch, mebbe we can throw in some crotchless Victoria's Secret pieces. ;)
Mich at 4:36:53 Tuesday August 10 99
Alex, I understand the "I need sleep" thing but dare I ask why it took you TWO hours to figure this error out (and secondly, were you here for two hours?? A small cat nap at teh 'puter perhaps??)
As for Dr. T's title, how about the simple and concise "High Preistess and Interpreter of the Gods"? While we're at it, maybe we could throw in some Tarot cards 8)? Maybe it *is* a little too short and easy to remember though.
I was planning on giving an addy tonight for a website that apparently has an 8 1/2" by 11" picture of the Teletubbies, but considering all I remember is "www.something-or-other-entered-here.com" I don't think it would be much help. And besides, Teddy's already made the ultimate sacrifice!
If that Great Big Bra Toss is still in the works, what about checking out BiWay (for the Canadians here)? I used to work there and they have some of the most ... erm ... ah ...*interesting* underwear available. Maybe we should try an undie toss. We could stock up on 2 for $5 animal print thongs to toss, maybe even grab a few for Fred! I will enter at this point that I only saw this in a flier and have very little experience in this territory (o.k., Arron and I did have some fun when he and I had to hang them on little hangers along with their matching bras, but I will argue to the death that it was completely innocent!). Or maybe the 100% sheer with lacy trim bikinis would be more appropriate...or try all of them and see how many shades of red the guys can turn! O.K., this is getting a little cruel here. I gotta get away from the 'unmentionables' theme that keeps cropping up on al the GBS message boards (hmmmm I wonder what prompts this?)
The Still Nameless One
Mich
Alex at 0:9:51 Tuesday August 10 99
Ok, as usual I forget to check what I write, so sorry for mistakes...........as you probably know I meant "CALENDAR".......need some sleep! :))
Alex at 0:7:42 Tuesday August 10 99
This clendar thing is driving me crazy, and my mind is already trying to figure out any kind of GBS "freak" pictures.......
As for Dr.T., maybe Hap intended the term "Sibyl"! And knowing Dr.T interest for dreams as well, I'd say something like Spiritual,Scriptural and Onhairic Sibyl of the Tropical Atlantic Island Oracle of the Gods.......I can't do better...Ciao
Teddy at 17:39:42 Monday August 9 99
Seeress? Spiritual Advisor and Scriptural Interpreter for the Oracle Of The Gods? ..... ye gods, people, it's Monday - and these d&*%$ computers know it. Don't expect me to think anything but motherboards, network cards and management committees for the next few days ;o) BTW - the bra thing? I NEVER got past the "push 'em up" stage. Mummy said I should have babies until I 1) threatened to make her babysit and 2) pointed out that she can tie her boobies around the back of her neck. 'Nuff said..... Oh, I got the magazine, demanded a brown paper bag, and am now going to sneak to the scanner.......
Hap at 14:15:48 Monday August 9 99
I think we most certainly need something catechistic (I think I just made that up) for the Reverend Dr. T here, I'm just drawing a complete blank. There's a rabbinical bent to what she does...ooh, this is bugging me because I know there's a proper name for those oracle-interpreting priestesses, and I just can't think of it...Scriptural Advisor is okay, but it needs a little something tacked on. Scriptural Advisor & Something-or-other. Creative juices all squeezed out today, I'm afraid.
Dr. T at 5:16:35 Monday August 9 99
I'm tickled pink that the T-shirt dream may become a reality. And those who endure public humiliation on my behalf have my undying thanks. I'd buy a calendar in a quick second, too, if that gets off the ground. On the whole bra fitting thing...don't even get me started! When I barely had 'em I was supposed to push 'em up, now that I've got 'em I'm supposed to squish 'em down. Neither is very comfortable and frankly I'm just too confused by the whole process. OK, it BETTER be just women in here. These posts stay up an ungodly long time! But the real point of this post is that I've been sneaking in here unofficially for too long...I need a role! A title! A name! Since I'm way into lyric analysis, I was thinking maybe I could be one of those High Priestesses who guards the oracles and interprets the words of the gods. Or Hap suggested maybe a scriptural advisor of some sort. But I need a clever phrase, people! Help!
Mich at 3:25:42 Monday August 9 99
Spinne you ain't alone. I think EVERYBODY has problems with finding good bras and swimsuits (well, all women at least. I really don't want to know about men's bra shopping problems).
On the Teletubby front, I can talk to my friend Susan. She has an unusual collection of Tubby stuff (I don't recommend asking, but it involves a high school French project and even speaking to the creator. And we think *WE'VE* lost it??) I know she has videos and stuff, but who knows what else she has.
And based on TrishQ's post, this IS an all-female room (good, that means all this bra talk prolly won't come back to haunt us. We hope).
Dao of Doyling is great. Can't wait to see the reactions of other people. Teddy, are you going to provide a link for the people in the Kitchen?? Prolly not a bad idea to wait until the guys are done their vacation.
That's it for me tonight. I'm falling asleep at the computer. Hope this makes sense (if not, what's new?8)?)
Mich
TrishQ at 1:55:36 Monday August 9 99
I just read the Dao of Doyling. Brilliant, Teddy! It must have taken you ages to complete! I especially enjoyed the Welsh Shepherd and Newfoundland & Labrador links.Very funny stuff! The Welsh/sheep jokes.....ROTFLMAO...hysterical! You ARE baaaaaaad, Teddy! :-)))))))))
Teddy at 21:57:49 Sunday August 8 99
Erm... forgot. I'm having a bit o' trouble trying to find where I put the stuff for the Group Doyling links .... bear with me........
Teddy at 20:8:12 Sunday August 8 99
Ohhh, appreciation! Thank you kindly! The Dao of Doyling is going UP as I type: and LAST CALL! I need names for Dr T and Mich like SOON! And I vote we nominate Fred the Designated Driver and Wardrobe Master of the Nun's Habits. Though I'm sure he'd love to go futher, we already have someone in charge of the Freudian Unmentionables......
TrishQ at 17:28:26 Sunday August 8 99
OMIGAAAWD! There's MEN in here?! Where, where?! Yikes! With all this estrogen type chat you'd think they'd run screaming for the hills! Mich- I think your definition of a bra should be put in Webster's dictioary- it's too true! Hap- I saw those day-glo undies in Wally World too! I think they burned the retinas in my eyes! And I assume from Fred's enthusiastic posts in the Kitchen, he'll be the first undie-flinger! I love the idea of the Jakey's GBS calendar and mug. But a T-shirt? What if I accidentally went out in public with THAT on? My friends and family think I'm nutty enough, I don't think I want to give them the ammunition to finally have me committed! Hey, I could get a big T-shirt and sleep in it- that's the ticket. Teddy- I am totally picturing you at the newstand buying the Teletubby magazine. How embarrASSing...you're too good to us Teddy! :-) Above and beyond the call of duty and all that...
Teddy at 16:2:26 Sunday August 8 99
Got n'idea. I'm going to walk into the newsagent tomorrow morning on my way to work, and calmly make a prat of myself by buying a copy of Tellytubbies magazine. The things I do for you lot........ and if I haven't got enough pics for a calendar by December - I'll just make some more! One more thing - I'm SO glad I don't swom!
Hap at 15:30:5 Sunday August 8 99
I gotta' stop sleeping, I miss all the fun in here. Okay, the Great Big Bra Toss: I'll do it if FRED does it. Otherwise, I'll volunteer to snap the reaction shots. (Just a little prude, me. Sigh...take after Gramma after all.) 'Course you can get some bizarre looking frillies really cheap at Wal-Mart, shades of day-glo pink and what I can only describe as "pumpkin."
Seconding the congrats on the successful bathing suit front. I finally caved a couple of years ago, walked into one of those specialty shops (Bikini Village, I think it was) and said, "Somebody give me some cleavage." Paid obscene amount of cash for two swimsuits, but at least I can show my face at the public pools (er, lake not much use for swimming 'round here - one thing I DO miss about Sarnia).
I've, er, ahem, been to a few Teletubbies sites. They all seem to have the same, small, hazy-edged photos but, heck, if it means T-shirts, I'll look around some more. Black's round here will make up T-shirts for you, or coffee mugs, or even a calendar. Hmmm...how many portraits in the gallery? Enough for Jakey's Great Big Calendar?
Teddy at 14:22:16 Sunday August 8 99
Woohoo! Looks like I'm gonna have to archive some old stuff again...... just took me all of a minute to access this page. OK, I've moved the Doyling Upload up, 'cause it's piddling down with rain here and I'm not going out in THAT. Should be up by tonight for all to snigger at ;o) T-shirts? It's a really small picture, actually - less than A4 size, but if anyone can find/scan a BIG Tellytubbies pic for me, I can recreate it at A4 ..... AND .... I got some paper that you can print on, then iron it on to a T of your choice. Sound good? Thought it might :o)
spinne at 4:40:46 Sunday August 8 99
ROFL! "...a good friend, fully supporting and extremely difficult to find!" mahn, if THAT doesn't say it all! and i thought i was the only person that had stupid problems like these. :) *whew* congratulations, mich, on the bathing suit purchase, and good luck with the new underwear expedition. other "non-words" we've adopted: brandly, lubrification, crappacked, skeeve, skiznap, squibby, sketched out, and VIZish. they're all further down on the page; you can hit Edit and Find (alt-e, f in Internet Explorer) and type them in to jump right to their definitions. :) .... good news concerning my rediscovered gaming addiction - my now-level-10 rogue killed the Not-So-Jolly Butcher. alas, she then quickly fell to the skeleton king. ah, well. life is rough. :)
Mich at 3:51:4 Sunday August 8 99
I'm baaaack! I haven't laughed this hard in a while (I was also in the Kitchen). I'm game for the bra chucking thing, if I can get there:( it sounds a little crazy -- just the way I like it! As for a title (having read a lot of the rest of the site, I actually know what you are talking about), I'll leave that up to the creative ones (which as far as I can figure out, would be all of you).
I also wanted to say I HAVE FOUND SUCCESS ON THE BATHING SUIT FRONT! No small task, let me tell you. I should have just bought and orange one and passed myself off as the fruit for Hallowe'en (alright, a little bit nippy for the season). Wish me luck as I embarck (SP?) on bra shopping season (please tell me there are no guys in here).
Dr. T - love the "goin' Margarita" - a definite keeper. What are some of the other words (obviously doyling is one)?
Teddy - They'll forget everything by Jan? I seem to remember hearing someone say that they have pretty good memories (except for certain lyrics). Oh well, if they haven't figured out that we are all nuts, they soon will. BTW, your creativity never ceases to amaze.
TrishQ - I think we can all sympathize. A bra is like a good friend, fully supporting and extremely difficult to find!
Frederick's of Hollywood???? AAAAGGGHHHHH!!!!! I just had a (male) friend telling me of the measurements they take (use your probably very accurate imaginations) of the models (he has personal experience). Apparently, we should be looking for Sebastian Smaller in an upcoming catalogue (scary but true - who wants to see a best friend in that??) Setting myself up for some nightmares not to mention IMPS!
That's all for me (as if this isn't enough!)
8)
Mich
oops, one more thing. I would love to read that 'Dao of Doyling', if possible.
Thnx
Alex at 2:56:0 Sunday August 8 99
DrT, I guess you can make a T-shirt with that. If you have a colour printer you can print the picture! In the malls, usually, there are some shops where you can get your T-shirt printed with the image you want. I think it should work.
All right for the underwear throw.......let's do it all together!
Still thinking for the name! You should give us some suggestion. :))
Dr. T at 2:20:43 Sunday August 8 99
I just looked at that Teletubbies pic again and have decided that I €€must€€ have a T-shirt of it! Anyone know how to do that? It's so perfect...they're all even facing the right way. Each time I view it the laughter just bubbles up afresh...and I don't even like Teletubbies...they scare me (maybe that's why the photo cracks me up). On the underwear front (no pun intended), I won't remove anything and chuck it, but I have a couple of busted-clasp lacy things in my drawer--how can you just throw away something that cost 32 smackers?--and I'd be willing to pelt the band with them, if others joined me. I think the effect would be best if we had at least twenty garments hurled at once, timed according to the song as Trish suggests. But at least one person has to volunteer to get the reaction photo! And no, Hap, I still don't have PWAOWAH title, so if anyone has a suggestion that doesn't involve underwear I'm up for hearing it!
spinne at 1:15:9 Sunday August 8 99
LOL!! sounds like i'll have to make a shopping excursion to Frederick's when i have some cash... Victoria's Secret would be cool, but Frederick's is just SO tasteless... ;) and if we're gonna run with this, we might as well RUN with it, right? :)
TrishQ at 0:1:13 Sunday August 8 99
TELL me about it Spinne! Trying to find a bra that fits and looks half decent is almost as bad as finding a ~~~~shudder~~ bathing suit that does. Last time I found one I liked I went back to the store and bought 4 more! I would suggest throwing an unmentionable of the " my boyfriend/husband bought me that and I would actually put THAT on?! Yeah, riiiight!" variety. Go get 'em, girls!
spinne at 22:20:11 Saturday August 7 99
added or not, i've been using "Margarita" to describe people lately. :) and about that calvin and hobbes... hap, i had that one posted up in my locker in my senior year of high school! the one where calvin ends up slorping that green stuff down after it started singing, right?! :) ... i started playing diablo again last night. *sigh* the Not-So-Jolly Butcher whupped my level 7 rogue good. heehee, you know you have GBS on the brain when ya start humming "The Jolly Butcher" as your character gets slaughtered by an overlord wielding a meat cleaver.
Alex at 21:31:35 Saturday August 7 99
I don't wanna talk about that Teletubbies picture 'cause I'll start laughing again and again, and it was really hard to stop yesterday (Gosh, that Sean's face.....and Darrell's.....I can see them jumping all around green hills singing "when I'm up...")......but I have something to say for that "nothing on underneath"......maybe that lynx-eyed girly guy named Sean experienced that Margaritas are very low dotated in their underneath and not wearing underwear......nananananana......everybody knows they have "nothing underneath"......
So, any volunteer as next bra pitcher?
Hap at 21:14:12 Saturday August 7 99
"Goin' Margarita" is good (take that any way you please). Has just plain "margarita" been added to the glossary, though? As in, "Just look at those two margaritas there, I've seen drag queens with less make-up than that." I must second Dr. T's motion to declare 6 August 1999 the funniest day in the Kitchen ever...even if the Dao isn't up in there. By the way, "Bravo, Teddy!!" Love your hypothesis that Alan is Ailil reincarnated!
Seriously considering wallpapering with that Teletubbies pic. Christ in a doughnut shop, I haven't laughed so hard since Calvin's mystery mush up and recited "To be or not to be..." (er, that'd be Calvin of "Calvin & Hobbes" fame, and when THAT strip showed up in my colour comics, they had to peel me off the floor). Hiya' Mich! In need of a title? Hmm? Still working on one for Dr. T, unless she's chosen one and just hasn't told me yet. Give us a minute, er, sorry, "mintoe" and we'll think of something.
Hee hee...lose it just thinking about Darrell/Po. :)
Spinne at 20:38:33 Saturday August 7 99
hahah!! hysterically funny idea, but i'm not one to volunteer for it. ya know how hard it is to find good underwear these days?! i'm not parting with _any_ of mine without a fight! ;) and i'm all for the addition of "goin Margarita" to the glossary. (would've said "i'm all for 'goin Margarita'," but how wrong does -that- sound??) lol, i'm still trying to picture alan in a serious blush.
TrishQ at 19:47:52 Saturday August 7 99
I second that, Alex! Is the Dao of Doyling UP anywhere yet, Teddy? ITA, Dr. T, I also laughed myself silly in the Kitchen yesterday at the GBSTubby picture and the bra-flinging, bra hanging off of the ear incident. THAT mental picture sent me into hysterics! I gather bra throwing is definitely a Margarita-like activity. If one was to remove ones bra during a concert and fling it onto the God's ear and add ones undies to the Fallen One's fiddle bow during Saint Sean's singing, " nothin' on underneath and everybody knows"....oh my...any volunteers in here, girls? >:-)
Alex at 18:18:7 Saturday August 7 99
Hey there,
now I haven't pc problems and I also have a lot of spare time.....what about sending me a copy of that Dao of Doyling? Or can I find it somewhere here?.....Need to laugh...Cheers
Teddy at 18:15:8 Saturday August 7 99
Goin' Margarita! Why does it just have to be upper-body, tho'??? "nothin' on underneath and everybody knows" could mean anything! I vote we adopt it as the 'feminine' version overall. Or underall................. BTW, Hi, Mich, welcome to the nuthouse! Who's gonna name Mich, then???? ..........As for the b'ys being in - I don't care anymore! They'll forget everything between here & Jan! ........ Dr T - glad ya like it! I might just go for more Mintoes while I'm on a roll....
Dr. T at 17:28:40 Saturday August 7 99
Sorry to double-post, but I thought of one more thing. I have a new nomination for the glossary. Given the recent discussions of bra-flinging, "goin' margarita" leaps to mind as a sort of upper-body version of "goin' commando." But if it does make the glossary, DON'T list me as the person who thought of it!!
Dr. T at 17:23:0 Saturday August 7 99
I would just like to announce that it's been ages since I've laughed this much. First I read the "Dao of Doyling," then I moved on to that message about the Great Lingerie Bombardment, and wound up the day with that teletubbies pic. I was laughing so hard...well, I won't go into detailed bodily descriptions, but I laughed REALLY hard. Teddy, I admire your twisted mind!! Which reminds me, I had another dream yesterday...would you believe touring a GBS Museum? The only thing...well, one of the things...I can't figure out is why Neil Young was playing in the background. Let me know if you want the details.
Mich at 5:17:13 Saturday August 7 99
Just thought I'd warn y'all that if *I* was able to stumble into this site (I'm not so hot with the computer so this could be considered an acomplishment), then I'm sure the guys have seen it!
Oh, and congrats all on the Ikea shelves. I built one this summer too and just gave up on the diagrams/instructions (if you can even call them that!). I made it through with no major problems (although it is a good thing that I am a DIYer because I now have to repair a couple of walls -- oops). I've figured it out though, with each graduation I feel the need to buy a major piece of furniture (Curio cabinet with book storage in Gr. 8, this huge bookshelf after OAC. I had better move out before I graduate from Colege because I am already wall to wall furniture and literally cannot fit any more in, unless someone knows of anything that does not require wall space. Any takers???)
Love the site, and I'll catch you in the Kitchen,
Mich
Oh yeah, I forgot about it........still I prefer them with hair ;)))......
Teddy at 22:6:27 Friday August 6 99
Have you SEEN the Coneheads photo in Jakey's Gallery????
Alex at 19:38:18 Friday August 6 99
hey Teddy, how can you say that here in the temple of the hairy god? The teletubbies are bald............
;))))......
Teddy at 18:49:0 Friday August 6 99
Teletubbies. You are SICK people! The Tubbies are MUCH better looking than GBS ;o)
Alex at 23:54:2 Thursday August 5 99
I'll be very short.....Guess I still have problems with my e-mail...if somebody get a message from me and can't find a message inside, could let me know? Thanks...
Alex at 23:44:4 Thursday August 5 99
Hey Trish,you got it right: I was more than thrilled....almost dead.....the guys are too kind...but I really hope they'll never jump in here to get to know all our obsessions........;)))...cheers
TrishQ at 14:54:35 Thursday August 5 99
Teddy, I just read your TURN review. Way to go, girl! While I have differing opinions on the merits of each particular song(my favourite is "Feel It Turn") I wholeheartedly agree with your overall album review. Of course the songs are different! I would hope that the guys themselves have matured since the self-titled release so it stands to reason that their songwriting/singing abilities have too. Hey, I know I've changed alot in the past few years! I couldn't believe the first few reviews I read in the Kitchen, bashing TURN as selling out/going pop. Did they want the guys to regurgitate UP and PLAY? No thanks- I'll take something innovative anyday. To me the BIG treat of TURN is that the guys themselves have written more of the songs- kudos to them! Nuff said- I'll shut-up now.....:-))))
TrishQ at 14:22:56 Thursday August 5 99
Thanks muchly for the Alan repost, Teddy. Wow, Alex! That must have given you quite the cheap thrill when you read that! How cool is Alan? What a nice guy!And all the presents everyone sent you- the people in here and the kitchen are the BEST! Warm fuzzies here...I love a happy ending PS- now tell me da B'ys are NOT lurking frequently in the Kitchen....hmmmmm....and maybe here.......Whaddya at, Alan!!?? :-)
spinne at 1:26:33 Thursday August 5 99
just finished reading The Dao of Doyling - highly recommended! :) esp if you've ever tried to explain doyling to anyone. great work, teddy!
Alex at 0:10:1 Thursday August 5 99
I'm still alive folks! I read you were looking for me and the Alan post...I'm sorry but I had to be disconnected for 2 days to fix my pc! Now everything's fine (I hope so ;))and soon I'll be able to watch CF and download that d*** ICQ. So let's start with the list of things I have to say: first of all, welcome back Trish and Teddy! Trish, I see somebody posted the message for me, sorry if it took some time. Teddy, hope you enjoyed your festival (how many times did you listen to CF?...) and sorry if I could not keep you updated as I wanted but my pc was dead!....
Secondly, and this is the most important part: THANK YOU ALL! I didn't know you were planning all those surprises for me and I'm so glad you decided to do it! Some days ago I got this post from Spinne (but now I know you've been talking about it!...) with the guys pics and one signed by Darrell and the other one by Alan with a short message! Wow 2 Alan's messages in few days! :)))))and Alan's song list... I let you all imagine how happy I was....not to mention Teddy's Alan bear.......I'm really moved....
So, now I'm here sitting in front of my pc with a long haired celtic knotted bear at my left and a Alanman signed pics of the doyling God at my right, to inspire me and to make me more "obsessed".......Could I ask more?
Thanks again.
All right, it's time to move to Mike's site to download tons of videos and to the chat to spend all my night awake reading reviews....I missed all this during these days, though finally I spend 2 nights sleeping like any other human being! :)))))
See you later.....
Teddy at 23:4:8 Wednesday August 4 99
I BUSY tonite! My TURN review is UP at http://web.ukonline.co.uk/teddy/gbs/myturn.htm - more to come, I'm looking at how best to link people's comments into the relevant bits. Feel free to comment more!............Nighty night ;o)
Teddy at 21:16:1 Wednesday August 4 99
Your wish is my command. You would have had it earlier, had I not re-named it to something strange.
Alan, yes me REPOST at 21:15:7 Wednesday August 4 99
Posted by Alan, yes me on July 28, 1999 at 10:14:03:
Only hours to go!
I'm in the airport lounge in toronto on the way to Winnipeg and I thought this a good time to say wahoo about the upcoming weekend. All the shows have advance sales and the weather is looking good in all three provinces.
Remember to travel as safely as possible if you are coming a long way ;no life risking!
I have been hearing rumors of the Alex Saga in Europe. I don't know all the details but, Alex I hear you got mugged in transit. I am truley sorry. I hope your OK. I think we'll be in Europe in January and the next show in your neck of the woods will have free tickets with your name on them.
Flight to Pan Am games leaves in 16 minutes, then its Picnic time!!!
Cheers
Alan
TrishQ at 18:32:42 Wednesday August 4 99
Thanks for the warm welcome, girls! And thanks to Teddy for the below BTB post. ITA with Bob re: TURN. I think it's excellent and manages to show some evolution of the band while not straying too far from the tried and true original concept. Can't wait to read your review Teddy! BTW Spinne my vacation also included some tippling of copious amounts of wine and Mike's.....aaaaah- I luv being on vacation....also re: da B'ys lurking in the kitchen- I'll bet they are! And Teddy directs them in here? Heheheh...they'll either A) kill themselves laughing or...B) arrange for a group PWAOWAH restraining order! PS- hate to nag but ALEX!!!! Tell me 'bout your Alan encounter! Jeez- that's what I get for going on vacation at the same time as da B'ys- I miss all the excitement!:-)
Bob, The Band REPOST at 13:9:58 Wednesday August 4 99
Posted by Bob, the band on July 26, 1999 at 09:33:03:.........................
In Reply to: I Got Turn the Other Day.... posted by IslandGirl on July 24, 1999 at 19:08:10:..........................
Your entry raises a couple of questions:...............
At the risk of sounding sooky, what if we had made an album exactly like Play? Would it still be interesting? And what if we went totally electric? Would it still be the same Great Big Sea?...............................
Critical opinion, at least from Canadian sources, seems divided on the album. Half are saying we should have pushed the envelope further, and the other half are saying we should go backwards............................
If Great Big Sea is going to remain viable, it has to change. History is full of bands who disapeared because they tried not to change, and ended up just repeating themselves. Hopefully, as our music and writing develops, we will be able to stay fun and exciting, while still keeping those elements of our music you liked in the first place...........................
We welcome your input, and appreciate all comments, for better or worse..........................
Thanks... .............
Teddy at 13:7:46 Wednesday August 4 99
Thanks, Spinne, got the BTB, will cut & paste it hereabove. To Dr T: good point. Oh, sh**. Yes, a dictionary will be forthcoming. Or should I say fourthcoming. The Dao of Doyling is text-only at the moment, and will be sent to volunteers (poor, mad fools). I haven't written an essay in - oh, god, - 16 years, so feel free to suggest changes ;o) And watch out for some -erm, interesting links in the finished version ;o)
spinne at 2:26:24 Wednesday August 4 99
heehee... i'm with dr. t on "crappacked"! been working that puppy into conversation at every possible opportunity. :) fired the BTB post off to teddy a lil while ago... hope it got there! (wasn't leaving this one to a certain snail to deliver, i assure you. :)) because i was rude earlier, i'll post my apologies and welcome trish and teddy back from their vacation and drinking binge, respectively. ;) "...and i'd like to thank the ikea staff and my dad for making my Good Kit Builder Award possible..." *insert long acceptance speech here* haha, i'm just so damn humble, it brings a tear to my eye. ;) now the question is whether or not i attempt to hang doors on it. :) do i really want everyone that comes into my room seeing my unmentionables?
Krysia at 1:7:13 Wednesday August 4 99
Trish - welcome back! If no one else can provide the BTB post, please remind me next week - I saved it, but it's on my work computer. I'm on vacation, and I didn't save it to my laptop. Glad to hear you had a relaxing vacation!
Dr. T at 0:47:39 Wednesday August 4 99
Hey All! I think I have you beat on the book front: sixteen shelves full and thirteen boxes in storage. I don't know if that makes me the big winner or the big €LOSER€! Last year's shelf assembly project involved at least one heated phone call to the folks at Sauder woodworking, who had carelessly misaligned those holes...it certainly couldn't have been MY fault that the shelves wouldn't fit into the unit once it was assembled. Which is all leading to: Good job, Spinne! Also, Welcome Back Trish and Teddy! Alex, I got your message and you'll hear from me soon. Now, on to current business. I, for one, would be interested in seeing the Dao of Doyling, with or without visual aids. Are you going to post a coinage glossary as well? "Excessive lubrification" and Tina's "crappacked" are still personal favorites. And a couple of questions: Since we had a post from Glen McCann, do you think the Dimpled One is lurking? And on a related note to Teddy: Had you stopped to consider that the guys are on vacation before posting that link to Jakey's Gallery??? If so, you're one gutsy lady!! Have a great day, everyone!
spinne at 23:57:49 Tuesday August 3 99
i would love to see the Dao of Doyling... at all similar to the Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet? :) and i actually have -two- great doyling pics, the second one just hasn't been scanned yet. it's in the pile of pics that really p***** me off 'cos most of em didn't come out well. oh, and i submit the whole lot of them as further evidence of bob magnetism. each member of the band has at least ONE clear picture in both of these rolls, EXCEPT FOR BOB. *sigh* who knew that the Bob Effect would work on silver nitrate? :)
Hap at 23:32:37 Tuesday August 3 99
The Dao of Doyling?!!! Hey, if proof-reading means an advance peek, you may consider my hand officially raised (just don't look too closely at any of my posts in the chat). I dunno' if Spinne's pointed you towards it yet, but she's got a brilliant pic of Al in mid-doyle from the Buffalo show that would serve very well as a visual aid ("Diagram A: Proper Alignment of the Eyebrows").
WELCOME BACK TRISH!!! I could go on and on about the above-and-beyond-god-like things our AYM has been doing in the chat, but I really, REALLY should leave it to Alex...It's hard, though. *sigh* Maybe I'll go and tell my neighbours...
Teddy at 22:9:0 Tuesday August 3 99
BTW - who wants to proof the Dao of Doyling before I put it up? (Alright, let's get away from the boss's bum now, thank you very much!)
Teddy at 22:7:56 Tuesday August 3 99
I'M BACK TOO! Hi, Trish! Oh, yeah, you missed some happenings! I can't find the Bob post, think I deleted it by mistake.... anyone? My TURN review and Alan's response to that will be up on my own site in the next few days. Gimme a break, I'm just detoxing from the Cambridge Folk Festival, and tomorrow it's the Real Ale Festival ...... oh, I dunno if I can face it (NOT!). So, when I'm sober enough to HTML, I'll sort it. BTW, I got a new bodhran, but me tipper needs some lead.......... IKEA bookshelves - no, don't get me started on self-build furniture. I ain't going there again ;o) The last time led to a view I'd rather not repeat, of my boss with his bum in the air, yelling "I wanna screw!!!".
TrishQ at 18:53:39 Tuesday August 3 99
I'm baaaack! Had a GREAT holiday! Sunny weather and beachin' it everyday...gotta nice tan... even with wearing a spf 45 sunblock! OK, obviously there has been major happenings happening when I wuz incommunicado! I gather Alan responded to a post of both Teddy's AND Alex's?? And a Bob The Band post too? Jeepers- can't a girl take a well-deserved vacation without missing momenteous moments? Could someone puuhhleeeease post a short recap of the Alan and Bob posts for me? Teddy- is there somewhere I could read your TURN review? Sad that I missed so much excitement :-(.....
spinne at 4:57:13 Tuesday August 3 99
i'd be happy to lend my bookshelf-building expertise to any future ikea projects! *holding diagrams sideways* now where does this piece go? ;) now i'm debating whether or not i should hang the doors on my new semi-closet thingy. i'm really reluctant to call it a "bookshelf" since i've degraded its function so horribly. :) ya think the God, His Saints, or the Fallen One need any ikea furniture built? i'd really be happy to volunteer, then. ;)
Hap at 3:21:5 Tuesday August 3 99
Still harping on bookshelves: Before anyone calls on my "expertise" (I won't comment on Spinne's, except to say I've heard horror stories about IKEA, so good on you!), I should draw everyone's attention to the bookshelf in my bedroom. The one I put together in the livingroom, only to discover that it could not be manoeuvered into my bedroom in its completed state, so I had to dismantle it, haul it piece by piece into the bedroom, and rebuild it there. Even more daft when you consider that I had this exact same problem with my bed and did NOT learn from it!!
Alex at 21:2:31 Monday August 2 99
It's ok, I just wanted to be sure it worked 'cause I had some troubles with the pc in these days! Now I know tomorrow I won't need to fix my mail too....:))) Thanks...
spinne at 20:37:39 Monday August 2 99
*bows proudly* my new bookshelf is now filled! ...with clothes, but it's filled all the same. ;) c'mon, ya didn't think i'd let a bookshelf-for-books sit for almost a year, did ya?? :) alex, yes i did get your msgs, but haven't gotten a chance to reply yet. and i sorely need a nap right now. :) when i wake up, promise!
Alex at 20:18:45 Monday August 2 99
Congrats Spinne! Well done! You won the match against Ikea! It took one day to me to build up a kind of small desk with drawers......:)))
By the way, I guess I have problems in sending e-mails! I posted messages yesterday to DrT and Spinne. Could you tell me if you got them please??
Ladies and gentlemen, I have good news: finally, tomorrow, the technician will be here to fix my pc which's not downloading a single thing! And I'll be able to see CF....
Cheers
Krysia at 19:58:55 Monday August 2 99
Spinne - good work on the bookshelf! I remember buying IKEA furniture in college, and it was never as simple as we thought to put it all together. I have more than six books of boxes in storage, but alas, lack the space to put the bookshelves in, let alone space for the books. Someday. Maybe you and Hap can lend your expertise when the time comes? On a more serious note, it's almost 3:00 here, and no reports from Halifax.... Well, back out to enjoy the fresh COOL Maine air.
Krysia at 2:58:59 Monday August 2 99
Teddy: Hope you had fun at the Folk Festival! We're anxiously waiting to hear how much of the live performers you actually listened to, and how many times you listened to TURN on the headphones. You didn't miss too much - I think the picnic goers have been having too much fun to post any lengthy reviews. Hmmm, and Fiona won't be back for another week or so. We'll have to see what happens when the Haligonians arrive back home tonight.
Hap at 2:38:10 Monday August 2 99
I remember bookshelf building. 1997: Summer of the Shelves. Three book-cases and a curio cabinet. Sheesh! SOME people go to the beach in the summertime, SOME people go on vacation, SOME people go Picnicking with obscure Canadian bands ;)...but no, not those Pettypiece girls. No siree bob! We move a bazillion boxes of books into a two-bedroom apartment (more books than clothes, me) and have to find places to put them all. Four trips to Wal-Mart later and boy oh boy did I get to know my screwdrivers. Still six boxes of books in the storage closet.
Fun innit, Spinne? You'll be needing that shelf for your Robertson Davies collection! Whoo! Now have yourself a pint, girl!!!
a very proud spinne at 0:57:48 Monday August 2 99
ok, this has almost nothing to do with The Band, or even with the God's Hoar. i'm just feeling very proud of myself, and isn't that reason enough for a post? ;) (no egoism here, nosiree!) i built me a bookshelf! from an ikea kit, of course, but it was all me after that. :) just to keep this remotely justified, it took me all of Great Big Sea to build it. was putting the shelves in as Up came on. :) woohoo!
Alex at 22:11:35 Thursday July 29 99
Don't worry Teddy! I'll be here for the week-end and I'll keep you up-dated! Enjoy the festival and please don't spend all your precious time listening to Consequence Free with headphones! It's not fair! Try to listen to the other TURN songs as well or the guys will be offended ;)))!....
I'll wait for details about your dream! Bob in kilt???...Like in the J.Gallery?.....Getting curious....
Ciao
Teddy at 22:1:30 Thursday July 29 99
Cough up that dream, Alex! I'm trying to decide whether or not to post the dream I had the other day - GBS were at my niece's wedding, and Bob in a kilt...... BTW, I'm off to the Cambridge Folk Festival tomorrow morning, sooo - if anything 'happens', someone keep me updated? I may be able to check in - depends if Big Sis needs anything doing to her computer. Negotiation time :o)
Alex at 21:45:35 Thursday July 29 99
Wow Hap! Protection? I really need it right now! Knowing that the Hairy God is protecting me makes me feel better! Guess I'll have a double shampoo today..:))))
By the way, I want you to know that this very morning I had a bumble bee (a real one!) flying on my balcony (Bob's doing something too)and it was the first I saw this season! And yesterday night I dreamt that Alan and Bob were at my home.....Another sign?.....
Ciao
Dr. T at 16:32:24 Thursday July 29 99
Sheesh, I leave town for ONE DAY and look at all the excitement I miss. Just getting caught up now. Alex, I am vicariously thrilled by your A, YM post. And if you do make it out to the midwest this fall, my floor is yours (actually, I have a hideously uncomfortable sofabed, open to all PWAOWAH members on request and at your own risk). Hap, you have me singing again ("have you been to the fair, boys, the ol' lammas fair..."), but I have a question about the observance of PWAOWAH Holy Days. Twice there were B, TBs followed by A, YMs, right? Then we had a A, YM followed by a B, TB. But now we have a an A, YM on the board, and if we don't get a B, TB today, what then? Exactly what calendar are we supposed to observe here??? Preparing the ritual hair care products nonetheless....
Hap at 3:44:27 Thursday July 29 99
Okay, got ahead of myself with the parenthetical asides there. I meant to say: "Fionn MacCumhaill is also associated with this festival," and THEN the bit about his shield being a symbol of protection. Sheesh. Can I proof-read or what?? Don't know what ol' Fionn's connection is, only that he's the "ruling being" at this shindig. The celestial host, I guess.
Sociabubble!!
Hap at 3:34:55 Thursday July 29 99
Oooh...serious St. Bernadette moments happening here. Hee hee. "Just Bob passing through?" I can live with that. Often. ;) Right, July 28th I don't even have to look up, 'cause I know it's "John Barleycorn." Okay, in Irish it's "Domhnach Crom Dubh," a deity associated with the upcoming Lammas/Lunassa festivities. "John Barleycorn" is just a more modern representation of the same thing, which is: the first GIFTS of the harvest season. HA!! Now, the Irish demi-god Fionn MacCumhaill (read "Finn McCool") and - pay attention now, Alex - "Fionn's wheel" is a shield which is said to contain magical formulae that make it a symbol of protection.
So there. Our boy's really looking out for you today. ;)!!!
Alex at 22:45:22 Wednesday July 28 99
:))))))))) GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK :)))))))))
Should I say more?
The God in person sent a message! I can feel the breeze of His hair moving in front of his pc screen!!!!
This is my TURN for a cold shower (probaly more than once!)!
Ciao
Teddy at 20:58:36 Wednesday July 28 99
"we're all supposed to take a symbolic horsey-ride out of the realm of the Gods and down to the underworld of the shades"..... Na, it means Bob was just passing through! So what's the 28th??? 'Cause Alex just got LUCKY! Oh, what a week! :o) This is one Seriously Wicked Band!
Hap at 1:22:50 Wednesday July 28 99
Ha ha! "I'm pretty sure Alan can spell." Don't ask me why, that just cracked me right up. Hoo! Thanks. (Yeah, he can spell, just not when he's in a hurry. Some of those drive-by posts of his are, er, amusing.)
Anyhoo, in keeping with my AYM/B,TB custom of consulting the "Pagan Book of Days" for correlations, I came up with the following (some of you have seen some of this):
25 July (AYM): FURRINALIA, sacred day of Furrina, the ancient Italian goddess of springs. This festival is closely related to that of 23 July (Neptune and Salacia, celebrating the divinity of the SEA god, Neptune, and his wife Salacia, goddess of the wide open, salty SEA), and a good day to remember our vital reliance on sources of water.
26 July (B,TB): SLEIPNIR, in honour of the shamanic steed that can be used to travel to other levels or states of consciousness. The associated festival commemorates Odin's eight-legged steed, which takes the rider between the three worlds, from the upper one of the GODS, through our own middle world, into the underworld of the shades.
Ummm...D'ya suppose because The Fallen One was feeling a bit "sooky" we're all supposed to take a symbolic horsey-ride out of the realm of the Gods and down to the underworld of the shades? Help me out, I'm looking for some deep spiritual meaning here.;)
Krysia at 18:49:14 Monday July 26 99
Thanks for the explanation - I puzzled over the VIZish/vicious thing for a while, but thought - "no, I'm pretty sure Alan can spell", "I bet the VIZ is capitalized for some reason", and "really, vicious would be way harsh". 5 days in London last year wasn't enough to enculture me, apparently. BTW, I'd still be hyperventilating too!
Teddy at 18:37:35 Monday July 26 99
See, Hap! Not a total out-take from the usual BTB/AYM heralding sequence, just a brief reversal. Kind of like Christmas Day and Boxing Day over here, where no-one takes much notice of Christmas Eve! Yes, this makes perfect sense to me. BTW - if I can't find the bit of the EKP I'm missing, do you still have it on storage? STILL hyperventilating......
Teddy at 18:35:43 Monday July 26 99
I LIKE Rod Stewart! (not).... no, I stand by everyting I doodled. It just took a while for me to stop hyperventilating. FYI, oh non-British people ;o) - VIZ is an 'adult' comic strip magazine, VERY non-politically correct - or is that politically non-correct - and sarcastic. Though Alan has it wrong.... VIZ 'borrowed' that use of "erm..." (as an insult, or a thin screen for an insult) from us Cockneys! Methinks the b'ys are WAY too deep into English culture ;o) And now we know what Alan reads in airport lounges..........
Krysia at 18:22:10 Monday July 26 99
OK, I re-read Teddy's review to make a few comments, and I take back what I said below about Teddy slagging S's songs - don't know why I had that impression. I think the Rod Stewart comment and the I'm a Rover comments were circulating in my brain at the time. Weird. Must have had too much sun this weekend. Only five days until I'm off for vacation!!! I think it's affecting my brain already.
Krysia at 17:41:28 Monday July 26 99
FYI, fellow PWAOWAHers, it is not only an AYM day yesterday, but an BTB day today. Check out his response to Island Girl's post on TURN (fairly far down on the page).
On a strange note, I thought I posted something in here yesterday that seems to have disappeared - must have hit the Start Again in the excitement of the AYM post to Teddy's. Anyway, the gist of it was the irony of fates in Teddy posting her review just in time for A to read it. Very exciting! I totally agree with Hap's comments below - it's just too funny. I think you only 'slagged' Sean's songs, actually. (Seriously, it was a good and very fair review!!!) Now, if Sean were reading over Alan's shoulder.... Anyway, I had also posted wondering what the deal was with VIZish? Help! I didn't get it.
Hap at 5:49:4 Monday July 26 99
Ahhh...another AYM Day draws to a close, time to pack up the incense and extinguish the candles. Nicely done, Madame Secrethairy...and I wouldn't worry about the so-called "slagging." There's Alex's point about a well-rounded, objective critique being more beneficial...and there's also the fact that you pretty much gushed all over everything His Hirsuteness wrote! ;)
BTW, for some reason all that stuff in the large frame on the "Home" page, that has never before appeared on my screen, is suddenly there. Out of the blue.
Ummm...after all the updating you've been doing lately, I almost hate to bring it up, but there's still a chapter missing from the EKP. An early one. Okay, the thing makes a minimal amount of sense on a good day, but it makes a BIT more sense if we know why Séan had to be hauled back on board the raft...and why Alan was so reluctant to move from the middle.
Yep, I stayed up till 1 a.m. to nitpick. Can ya' tell it's been one of "those" weeks?
Alex at 23:58:31 Sunday July 25 99
Ahahahahah......what does it mean: "My own Alan"?....I thought he was "My own Alan"...;)))))).......
I'm so happy for you! Your review is great and you've been paid back for the long cd waiting!......don't worry if not all the impressions were positive! I think the guys appreciate much more to have objective reviews instead of adorating but not critical ones! Critics help them to improve! Still joy jumping for you :)))))))
TEddy at 22:19:39 Sunday July 25 99
Oh, wow! My very own Alan, Yes Me Day!!!! My Sunday is complete ...... but why, oh why did he decide to read my bloomin' review when I'd just been slagging off the new album (only moderately, mind you, and I stand by EVERYTHING I said....). Still hyperventilating, doesn't bode well for sleep ;o)
Eh Canadian at 23:44:56 Saturday July 24 99
*stumbles in looking tired and worn out, and takes off the skullcap* Where the hell have I been??? Thought for the day: "I thought I wanted a job, turns out I just wanted a paycheque." Just so all of you know, if you get desperate... No matter what you do, don't take a job as a dishwasher. I've learned this lesson fast!! *Eh fancies herself maybe making it to one more concert this summer* So what has been happening around here?.... Later all, off to find some comfortable shoes!
Alex at 0:30:10 Saturday July 24 99
Thanks again mates! You always make me feel better...:))
And I am the one to be proud of you all, for your friendship, help and support! If I had that reaction and I felt better, I gotta thank you too. I'm so glad I had the chance to join you all in the chat and here!We'll make a big PWAOWAH group of travellers next year.
And Teddy! I'm so happy you finally had your cd!!! Did you kiss the postman? Did you roll on the ground for the joy? Did you pass the whole working day contemplating the cd?
Can't wait to know your opinion!
Cheers :))
Teddy at 22:59:24 Friday July 23 99
Hey, Alex, if you come by here - we're all proud of you for the way you are coping with your awful shock, and for the way you stood up to that madwoman Michelle in the Chat! 'Nuff said :o)
Krysia at 14:44:11 Thursday July 22 99
Spinne: I replied! If you respond, reply to my work e-mail (the pharma.com) one - I've got that open all day.
Anon at 14:40:17 Thursday July 22 99
Hey, all! Just wanted to drop in and say bye for a bit. I'm heading off on vacation tommorrow to a cottage in Sauble Beach, Ont. on Georgian Bay (Lake Huron). I haven't been in here or The Kitchen much lately due to legal problems...don't ask! Let's just say I REALLY need this vacation! Alex- I am so sorry about your trip- I couldn't believe your post in the Kitchen- I had to read it twice!! That is so unbelievably unfair! I know you were SO looking forward to your visit-that sucks BIG time! ....TrishQ :-(
spinne at 7:13:5 Thursday July 22 99
hey christine... if you don't check your mail before you check the board, GO CHECK NOW! :)
Krysia at 4:11:19 Thursday July 22 99
Well, my only problem is that I know I'd fall asleep driving home afterwards, and calling in sick Friday isn't an option - too many meetings. Plus, I was in a little accident about a week and a half ago and I'd be leery about driving the car three hours (It's not fixed yet). If I could hitch a ride with someone....
spinne at 0:32:29 Thursday July 22 99
i'll most likely be driving back after the show, unless something unexpected comes up (like getting tired). :) if it's only 3 hrs away from you, i think you should go, you can always call in sick on friday. ;) hahah don't listen to me, i'll only get you fired. but you'll be fired for having fun, at least. :) i'm not sure where oswego is, but i think there's a SUNY campus there. pfft, down where i live, anything north of westchester is considered "way the hell out there." :) hence, oswego is pretty far away. :)
Krysia at 22:31:57 Wednesday July 21 99
Sorry, the Anon was me - hit something on the keyboard and everything went weird for a bit. Spinne - are you driving back the same night? It's only about 3 hours from here. I wish it were a Friday - I have relatives about 1/2 hr-1 hr outside of Albany who I've been trying to convince to go. How far is Oswego, anyway?
Anon at 22:29:55 Wednesday July 21 99
spinne at 20:45:34 Wednesday July 21 99
hey everyone! i'm going to the albany show tomorrow! i decided to go about an hour ago... had been thinking about it for three hours before that, though. :) will be a late night, i can say that much! GBS is on at 1030, it's a 4-6 hour drive from me to albany. woohoo!! i swear, this is what i live for. ;)
Alex at 22:40:31 Tuesday July 20 99
Ahah! All right, no bears.........
I swear I'll HUG them stinky or sweaty as they'll be, it's not a problem!Your spirit'll give me the courage to do it ;))).........
See ya
Teddy at 22:35:48 Tuesday July 20 99
Don't even THINK about bears! I'm on that one for next year (if I can ever get Bob's fiddle right!). And I think Bob, for one, would love a bee ;o) ((evil mode off))......... Alex, have a great time, and don't think about us once! Oh, and if you get near the b'ys, HUG THEM, whether they're 'grody' or not. Or whether you are or not.
Alex at 21:38:33 Tuesday July 20 99
Great idea Krysia!!! ...I'll think about it....
Cheers
Krysia at 17:40:56 Tuesday July 20 99
Alex: The bumblebees would be neat, but as an alternate suggestion: when we were in NYC, Olina told us she brought the b'ys cupcakes or muffins or something, and they said to her rather plaintively "cool, no one ever brings us food!!!!" That's not entirely true, because I think Jane has - but, maybe they'd appreciate some Italian treats that'll hold up until the picnic?
Alex at 23:2:26 Monday July 19 99
I've news mates.........Few days ago I started thinking I HAD to bring something to the guys, in case I could meet them backstage...I know it's a kind of teen-age need but what could I do???? my mind was already gone.....I though a lot about the stuff to bring and I couldn't come out with anything...........at the end, this thought started persecuting me....and finally I bought: 4 bumble bees, exactly like the one at the top of this page......I feel extremely stupid and childish, but I guess I'll try to give them to the guys (of course, I'll not mention about the meaning of the bee......)if I'll be drunk enough.....
What do you think??????
spinne at 19:28:30 Monday July 19 99
sorry for the two-in-a-row here, but i just heard an interesting "non-word" phrase. "sketched out" - it means "worried" or "paranoid." "what are you all sketched out about scripting now" was the actual question. :) got that one from my friend snot.
spinne at 18:56:0 Monday July 19 99
oh, completely. "got a few Margaritas over there, you see em on the way in?" of course, we're not to confuse "Margarita" with "skiznap." :) slight difference, the same way there are slight differences between b.s.'ing, doyling, and fibbing. :)
Dr. T at 13:51:20 Monday July 19 99
Ugh! I'm depressed. It's so nice to come in here and read some lively chat. I can sympathize on the packing thing, Alex. I hate it, too, though I also have Spinne's habit of not unpacking...it just makes the trip seem too OVER! I'm loving this word discussion. I have to laugh, because "crappacked" and "lubrification" are already worming their way into my vocabulary. Who was it that coined "doyling?" Better add that to the list. I'm also a fan of "squibby," meaning squeamish, uncomfortable, or uneasy, as in "I'm feeling a bit squibby about hugging that cold, clammy guy, even if he is a God." (Not to be confused with squib, which is an actual word that means something entirely different). Plus, has anyone found that the word "Margarita" is taking on whole new meanings as a result of that song? I'll stop babbling now.
Alex at 15:56:39 Sunday July 18 99
Ah ah ah.....(unfortunately)I saw the end of "the fly"....all right, I'll keep bees far away from me Hap, I don't wanna start making honey and jumping on all the flowers I see!.........As for the non-words game! That's so funny.......but I feel I'll never be able to play at that point with English! Sure I can enjoy your games....
One last thing for people I won't be able to meet at the picnics: I'll be very glad to send you all a card from Canada (since you all gave me the support I needed to take my decision)...so if you wish, feel free to mail me and let me know your mailing address before I leave on July 22.....
Ciao
spinne at 12:31:38 Sunday July 18 99
so... as far as this "non-word" thing goes, i have to say that my favorite so far is "crappacked." i can't remember who mentioned it (i really did just forget this time!), just that it came up in a thread about the upcoming hfx picnic. :) "the weekend'll be crappacked with fun!" there are some other words that some other friends and i have bandied about, but uh, i don't think they're really fit for posting. :) some other ones i like: "skeeve" and any form thereof - "that notel-motel was a real skeeve dive," or "mahn, that is one skeevy outfit she's wearin!" along the same lines is "skiznap." but that's just a noun, calling something "skiznappy" doesn't quite work. :) after those three, there are plenty of non-words i use, but they all come from somewhere obvious - games. in starcraft, "ob" = "observer," "spotter" = "anything that can see cloaked," "loaf," "bus," and "floating farm" all = "overlord," "nuker" = "ghost with ability to launch a nuclear missile." yea, i'm sure this is making a lot of sense and is real interesting, so i think i'll keep it at that. :) and teddy, what you've said about unwin and barker sounds kind of familiar; a friend of mine from middle and high school used to watch a show called "Allo, Allo." i think that's the one, anyway - she watched a lot of tv. :)
Teddy at 11:14:27 Sunday July 18 99
Coincidence; just unpacked my last bag from Scotland - the one I hid the 'spare' whiskey shortbreads in.... dead spider lurking in bottom...... yes, I've seen 'the fly' too and I'm very worried about eating these shortbreads..... Secondly, I HAVE to get together and type up some Stanley Unwin and Ronnie Barker stuff! My pismronunciation heroes! They both kinda re-invented the language. If you hear/see them, you'll probably realise where my freudian unmentionables come from...... Goodly nightlode!
spinne at 2:27:1 Sunday July 18 99
hahaha! alex, why do you hate packing? i -love- packing, it means i'm going somewhere! it's the UNpacking i hate. drives my parents nuts, 'cos i leave things in bags for months. just before goin to buffalo, i unpacked the box i needed - from our trip to london, back in february! :)
Hap at 1:51:39 Sunday July 18 99
Just keep the bee out of the teletransport unit, Alex...I mean, you HAVE seen the rest of "The Fly," right?
Hot here, too. Thank God for President's Choice Lemon Gelato, that's all I can say.
Alex at 0:28:53 Sunday July 18 99
I'm slowly starting to prepare my luggage!
I HATE PREPARING LUGGAGE !!!!!!! Feel like dying every time...........I want somebody to invent some kind of home-teletransportation! Like in the movie "The fly"....put all your stuff inside, push a botton, and that's all.....
And it's also hot!.....going to eat an ice cream.......bye...
Hap at 22:54:58 Saturday July 17 99
Well, I STILL say you couldn't have been any "grodier" than Alan was after Buffalo...and he was mostly cold, because the sweat was starting to evaporate and it was after dark. He coulda' used a little warming up there!!
To each her own, though. You wanna' leave the Gods shivering, that's your prerogative. ;)
As for the non-word competition, since Alan is the second "A" in "PWAOWAH," I say we give him the first two entries.
1)"Brandly," as in "I would like to introduce you all to my 'brandly' new guitar."
2)"Lubrification," as in "George Street is a place one goes to to indulge in excessive 'lubrification.'"
Ooh, I hear thunder (second storm today). Best shoot this off before the power gets testy. (And yes, Spinne, the cats are looking VERY worried.)
Spinne at 21:23:38 Saturday July 17 99
i keep wipes in my car, but i don't carry them about my person, i don't keep a pocketbook. (there was in incident involving my cd player and a package of sweet n' sour sauce that prompted the purchase of the wipes.) 'sides, right after a show, there's no way some wipes would take care of it. not unless you had a half-hour in a bathroom or something. :) i've never heard of ronnie barker or stanley unwin... who are they? :)
Teddy at 17:43:42 Saturday July 17 99
Well, I carry Wet Wipes, just in case ;o) You think I'd pass up an opportunity like THAT! Oh, and Alex - one can 'dunk' a biscuit in tea/coffee...... does that fit? Going off to the gym now to get all 'grody'. Maybe we should have a non-word competition. Any of you know Ronnie Barker or Stanley Unwin (no cheating, Hap!)????
Alex at 23:42:9 Thursday July 15 99
I belong to a culture where hugging and cheek kissing is a real must! And if you have to hug guys like those,no problem at all ;)))))))))......
Spinne at 23:9:6 Thursday July 15 99
ok, both of you miss-smartypantses! (bahaha good word, sharon) NO, i didn't do any hugging! given the same opportunity, i'd STILL not hug them again! *huff huff huff* haha i don't know... leaving my own funk on someone like that is just too nasty an idea. either that, or i'm still dealing with "intimate zone" and "personal space" issues that i'd thought i'd overcome. :) i've never been big on hugging people i absolutely don't know. yeegh. :)
Alex at 22:44:36 Thursday July 15 99
Correction!Of course I meant "drinker"...actually I have no idea of what "dunker" could mean.....:))))))
Alex at 22:24:47 Thursday July 15 99
Spinne, where did you find the force not to hug them??? Sweaty or not the gods deserve some kind of worshipping! I'll do that for you!!!
And girls, I must confess something: I'm not a dunker at all!...I was kidding..... I really do not like drinking (you know I'm weird, so don't ask too much about my tastes...) and in my whole life I guess I got drunk only once (when I broke with my boyfriend and a Mexican friend took me some Tequila).......the reason is: I very often feel like being drunk without drinking at all, so there's no reason for me to drink since I enjoy the same effects by myself ;))))))......
Cheers from the weird beings land!
Hap at 22:17:23 Thursday July 15 99
But Spinne! Alan didn't shower! Oh, such a waste of dignity-cum-nobility! Ya' coulda' squeezed the stuffing outta' that one!
Spinne at 19:48:57 Thursday July 15 99
noble? who's noble?! :) i just wanted to save myself the embarrassment of getting a freshly-showered God/Saint/Fallen One all grody! *mumbling* "noble" my little yellow bum...
Krysia at 17:59:12 Thursday July 15 99
Spinne: Refused to hug them????!! Don't think I'd be so noble. See you tomorrow night? I'm off-line tomorrow - I'm going into the city around 10:00 to hang out, and won't be back until late Saturday. If anything exciting happens in the chatroom on Friday or Saturday, will someone save it for me?? Thanks! K
TrishQ at 15:20:41 Thursday July 15 99
Hey, Teddy- GREAT news on TURN! Hopefully it'll ge there soon- you're gonna love it! And Alex- I'd recommend not drinking too much at the picnic. If it's anything like the Stardusts it gets pretty crowded/exciting down front of da B'ys. Plus if you are anything like me and you have to run to the bathroom every 2 minutes when you drink the port-a-potys get pretty disgusting by the end of the evening! Even more importantly you wouldn't want to upchuck on Alan when you meet him after the concert!lol! Go out and have a few drinks after the show! Have fun! I had an absolute blast at the Kingston Stardust! And report back here as to your opinion of the working out/bodybuilding issue. :-) Tough job ,eh?
Spinne at 5:28:56 Thursday July 15 99
as far as this body-building thing goes, i have absolutely no opinion. i mean that - i'm completely blind when it comes to changes in appearance.. they just completely slip my notice. nor do i care, they look GOOD, that's what i know!! :) and hap, i don't know about "cuddly" - i refused to hug them, being all sweaty and nasty.. esp since they were all freshly showered. (but i did get to shake darrell's hand!) :) alex, you can do a great many things while smashed, just be careful. :) and promise me you'll be EXTRA careful during Mari-Mac!
Alex at 0:9:59 Thursday July 15 99
Wow, this is a great news Teddy! If I were in you, I'll probably sleep close to the mail box for some days, just in case!.....I'll try NOT to be sober...but one thing's killing me: how could I jump and sing all around being totally smashed? I don't wanna faint or vomit (sorry, I know it's disgusting!) right in front of my gods....
being the only Italian representative, I must give a great impression, otherwise they'll never come here.....
Cheers
Hap at 0:8:26 Thursday July 15 99
Body-building? Our boy? Well, we know he's been playing squash, and he and Séan made Mike Campbell come and find them while they were mountain-biking for that last "MuchEast" interview...but body-building?
I dunno. He was pretty cuddly still in Buffalo three weeks ago. Spinne? Wouldn't you agree?
So, does the bee have a name? Or is that on the table for the next meeting?
Teddy at 22:35:42 Wednesday July 14 99
Alex, you do NOT need to stay sober! Some things are pondered better when you're paralytic! Have a GREAT time, whatever you do :o) Good news from Adrienne: the last CD was not actually strapped to the snail until Monday - so there's still hope! Radar ON!
Alex at 22:1:13 Wednesday July 14 99
Ahah!!!!!! I'm not the only one! I agree with you all: they all look GREAT (and this is dangerous.....how can a poor girl resist?), but girls did you see Darrell arms? Definitly body-building!....Did they really need to get even better than they were?......As for the charming use of his hair: still I do not have a theory :)))).....let me check Alan during the picnics (what a hard task!!;))).......
Maybe Teddy you got it right, they all need to fight Bob's power somehow, and muscles are their first try (check Hostage's last pic with a standing still Alan in front of Bob's glance)! Maybe Alan's shaking hair movement is an unconscious rebellion to the dark power........I'll have a lot of material to think about in Canada (if I can manage to be sober before-during-after the picnics).....
See ya...:)))))))
TrishQ at 18:38:15 Wednesday July 14 99
I agree with Alex- I think he has slimmed down a bit and has been working out. Didn't I read/hear somewhere that Sean was bugging him to get in shape? Anyways they ALL looked totally adorable when I saw them at the Kingston Stardust. The glorious hoar/hair was blowing magnificently in the wind. Hmmmm, do you think Alan prefers outdoor concerts for the hair-blowing-in-the-wind effect? I do. As someone said in the kitchen," He uses it so expressively!" :-)
Krysia at 17:55:10 Wednesday July 14 99
Alex: I don't know - it doesn't look to me like Alan's more in shape. I'll take a considered look this Friday in NY! I thought last time that Sean had lost weight, though. Teddy: I agree - they all look good. Hope one of those snails will make it! Maybe you should have asked her to send it on a turtle (slow and steady....)
I'm excited about Friday - I'm spending the day in NY with my friend Julie, and five others are meeting us later for the GBS show (a few other maybe's too!) Wish I could make it up for one of the picnics, though.
Teddy at 15:9:42 Wednesday July 14 99
Re: CD. Still not here. Re Alan: To me ALL the b'ys look great. Maybe he's exerting so much energy to fight off the Bob Force, it's keeping him in shape??? Come to that, Bob's not looking bad, either!
Alex at 13:38:5 Wednesday July 14 99
A question (or a new obsession....who knows?): does anybody noticed Alan's new set of muscles, or it's just me???.......It's getting serious, 'cause I'm stating to check all the pics to have a scientific evidence of what I'm saying.......He's doing body-building!!!! I hate body-building.......
Alex at 0:50:23 Wednesday July 14 99
I can't believe 2 copies of Turn got lost! This is really bad luck! I prefer to think, Teddy, that you bothered so much your neighbours with GBS music and dancing over their heads, that finding packages from Canada, they stole them to avoid other GBS parties! Come on girl, go and kidnap your neighbours'children and pets! The Dark Power will be with you! Ask back your cds...
TrishQ at 15:57:49 Tuesday July 13 99
Omigawd! They lost two copies of TURN??? Can you say CONSPIRACY?? Someome somewhere is scoring multiple GBS discs. That's just mean! Here's to hoping at least one of them eventually shows UP. Surely the second snail will make it...c'mon fella- swim!!!^^^^^"\@-
Alex at 23:12:53 Monday July 12 99
Blame on me, blame on me!!!! Why did I forget to jump in here??? Seems I lost a lot of fun.......but folks, I can't spend all my days checking boards, right? I swear I DO still have a life....somewhere......sometimes.....
Geeeeekkkkkk....I see a bee...:))))....more and more drunk.....what the hell did you make her drink Teddy? Was it to grow her power?............
Last night I dreamt Alan! This is the third time.....trip to Canada is closer.....guess I'll spend all my days dreaming of the guys when I'll be there......but I know that if I'll ever meet them I'll start laughing (how can I see Bob and don't think about his Kilt pics???)...Gotta be serious......
Ciao zzzzzzzzzzzz
Spinne at 22:36:47 Sunday July 11 99
hahahah excellent picture of the mascot!!!
Spinne at 9:43:47 Sunday July 11 99
*comfort teddy* we'll get that snail to ya, i promise! i think someone filled the jar of decaf instant in the house with regular - right now, i could run after the snail, catch up to him, smack him senseless, take the CD and get it to you by tonight. 8) ya, just a little wired... think i'll go back to playing Final Fantasy VII. ;)
Teddy at 17:5:14 Friday July 9 99
No, it hasn't been my TURN yet ;o( Adrienne sent me another, but it hasn't arrived. I think some d*** postman really has something against me! Still working on the Last Supper - I've been a) sick, b) doing overtime in the office, and c) doing commercial Web work, so time is kind of at a premium! It WILL be done, though, if you'll excuse the plagarism ;o)
TrishQ at 15:16:36 Friday July 9 99
Hey, Teddy! You FINALLY got TURN- did you not? What do you think of it? I love it! My fav song is "Feel It Turn". I think it's just beautiful. BTW- re: lather, rinse, repeat, Neet-LOL! I can't quite decide if that pic is REALLY funny or REALLY scary! PS- Teddy- did you ever finish the Last Supper picture? Remember I am the one who bears a striking resemblance to Julia Roberts. :-)))
Teddy at 19:31:0 Tuesday July 6 99
MESSAGE FOR JANE........ Could you please e-mail Adrienne at Warner Canada - she left a message for you in the Online Kitchen Party Chat!
Eh Canadian at 15:9:17 Monday July 5 99
Hehehehe... Too funny...
Spinne at 1:2:17 Monday July 5 99
gee, thanks, teddy... that's the first time i've -ever- been mooned three times in one day. :)
Teddy at 10:27:10 Saturday July 3 99
Okay, okay, you want fantasies - use your imaginations on THIS page: I gotta put a links section in PWAOWAH: http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/tallow/51/underthekilt.html Enjoy!
Hap at 5:44:31 Saturday July 3 99
Hey, I thought the gallery was the place where the Gods and the Fallen One were transformed into the very FANTASIES of the faithful. I don't know about the rest of you, by my fantasies about the boys never, ever involve a night of "rinse, repeat and Neet."
Teddy at 22:7:24 Friday July 2 99
UPDATE NOTICE ----- Jakey's Gallery has received a work from a new artist - we think she's the best thing since electric razors! Check it out.
Spinne at 10:40:7 Friday July 2 99
it's almost 6 here right now, so this post is gonna be short. just wanted to say "thank you" to hap for allowing me to use more of her evidence of the Bob Effect in the research notes... geesh, i can't even imagine how long it'll take for it to become a full-blown paper. :) and as far as the boot problem is concerned, i couldn't care LESS where mine are, i don't mind walking around barefoot. ;)
Hap at 4:22:12 Friday July 2 99
I've been meaning to say something about the "no paragraph" problem. ;) I'm back on the home computer now. Seems I've traded in a tricky switch for a fidgety RAM. It just needed a little jiggle. If it happens again, I'm supposed to call my trusty techie and he'll talk me through the jiggling.
So I did get into that thread in the end; Spinne even e-mailed it to me, and I've given her permission to use the picture to further her research, noting also how Séan is furiously back-pedalling himself away from Bob, a clear indicator of some visible "goings on" over on that side of the stage.
I also managed to add another chapter to the EKP, only to discover yet another newcomer as soon as I'd posted it. There were at least two more today, and three I didn't get to yesterday. Bit of a backlog happening here. I fear the new corner may not be big enough. The boots are piling up, and we haven't yet begun to replace the ones that were swept out to sea.
Teddy at 22:30:8 Thursday July 1 99
I REALLY got to figure out how to make this thing use paragraphs......
Teddy at 22:29:36 Thursday July 1 99
I kinda guessed! The "I Told You So" post is on it's way to developing in to another scientific paper, methinks: " Nya na na NYA na! - I so too did told you it was another metaphysical event! Perhaps Al was concentrating on fending off the Dark One's advances SO much that he couldn't keep his own perfect physiology in shape???? No, I didn't go to the pub for lunch. Maybe I should have?" (Teddy) "wow, the Bob Effect continues to get ever more frightening... can i use this as evidence, hap? i mean, it -is- quite obvious that alan's face is getting pulled Bobward... :)" (Spinne).
Hap at 0:51:38 Thursday July 1 99
Ummm, that was me (below). Okay, okay, I know it was obvious enough, but I just HATE seeing "Anon" next to anything I write, no matter how trivial. So I'm claiming it.
Anon at 21:17:15 Wednesday June 30 99
Thanks, Teddy. I was able to get into that one, even managed to respond to it. Will wonders never cease? Umm...yes, apparently, because I was NOT able to read your "I TOLD you so!" post. In fact, I can't even get into the post you were responding to (one of my own, for pity's sake). It's about 50/50 right now, with me and the chatroom. I've noticed a few newcomers, but I'm afraid to try and continue the EKP while this thing is being so obstreperous. The boys could be half-way up the St. Lawrence by now, it's been so long since anyone's checked up on 'em.
Teddy at 17:32:57 Wednesday June 30 99
Hap, just in case you miss it.... ShanT said "Hey Hap,
Many, many thanks for the URL's! Can't wait to get started
I'm off to mail the "Whitewashed one" to you shortly ;o)
Hope the puter is fixed soon
Slainte!
Shannon "
Hap at 1:44:37 Wednesday June 30 99
Certified or certifiable? PC Maintenance? What, me? I haven't even figured out how to fix the clock yet (my Dad's been some confused, trying to figure out why my e-mails always take two days to arrive). I can lurk in the chatroom, having just said "No!" to images. Of course, Curmudgeonly is now jamming up twice as many messages as he was last time. Son-of-a-_____. I sneak into the Kitchen through the side entrance and he starts locking up the cupboards. I don't dare post anything.
So the techie thinks it's a RAM problem (on my PC, that is). He didn't eloborate, and he hasn't called back, so it looks like I won't know till tomorrow. Sigh...\
Anyone else watching Canada A.M. this morning think Alan looked, um, "coiffed"? That little curl on the side there, in the section of hair that always falls in his face, it never moved. Not once, no matter what he did. That baby was stuck in place. Somebody's introduced our boy to the wonders of molding mud. Or pomade. Or sticky taffy. Or (God, please no) hairspray.
Hey, I figure while I'm stuck in here (and I mean that in the best possible way), I might as well lead us back to our, er, ahem, "roots."
Teddy at 22:45:9 Tuesday June 29 99
Okay, all nicely cleaned and speeded up! We promise to pass on anything interesting to ya, Hap. Can I interest you in a transatlantic PC Support and Maintenance course????? I'm certified, honest I am (though I think you know that already!)
Hap at 1:43:36 Tuesday June 29 99
Well, it may not be "as nice a place to use as the Online Kitchen Party," but it's all I've got. My computer has died, yet again. I fear a worse death than before, as it seems to be a hard drive problem, and not a power problem. I am back on the Curmudgeonly Comp, and it is unable to access the newfangled Chatroom. Too much to handle.
I can play in here, though. And I can access my e-mail. Could you please, my kind Sisters in Faith, keep me abreast of any PWAOWAH-related goings on (to say nothing of AYM posts)? God knows how long it'll be before I am up and running this time (money begins to be a factor) and I'd hate to be completely out of the loop.
This effectively puts the Eternal Kitchen Party on hold, until I get bored enough to just run off with it because I feel like it, newcomers be d**ned!
Thank you, and the blessings of the Great God be with you.
Teddy at 10:8:5 Sunday June 27 99
BTW, I had a Great Big Dream last night - kind of. I dreamed I was looking at a photo of Jane and her hubby, and he looked exactly like Bob! Wierd or what?
Teddy at 10:7:0 Sunday June 27 99
I been watching the I&I download (what WOULD we do without Mike?) .... I LOVE that bit where Alan says ".,... and whether Bob should sing more ...." and the place exploded. Bob's face! First he was nodding in agreement, then he realised what Alan said, and got that "What's that got to do with the price of apples?" look, then his jaw dropped as he realised everyone was screaming; then finally that amazed smile IN CLOSE-UP! Beautiful. Waiting on the other clips.........
Hap at 22:46:44 Saturday June 26 99
Oh, and about those Seven Dwarfs, Trish: Bob was Doc (both Darrell and Alan concurred), Darrell was Sleepy, Séan himself raised his hand when they were asked who Grumpy was (the rest were pointing anyway), and while the band gave no answer as to who Happy was, the crowd shouted "Alan!"
"I was not," he said, but he had *that* look about him.
Hap at 22:42:40 Saturday June 26 99
Bob Silenced Again!! He tried, he really did. And on national television, even. During their little thank-you interlude at the I&I, he said, "We should also thank Joanne, Sandy, Anne and Kim," to which Alan replied, "Probably a poor choice of song for that one" (they were about to do "Fast As I Can"). What is a boy to do?
Obviously a forgiving soul, though. He introduced Alan at the Buffalo show.
Hey, Teddy! Just found your postcard in my mailbox! Thanks!!
Teddy at 12:30:9 Friday June 25 99
I gotta thank y'all for the Doyling thread. My head hurts. OK, so Adrienne is hopefully going to help me out with the missing snail, I'm right in the middle of a new webpage on Ali's Wedding, so all else is on hold (apart from eating & sleeping!).... and the Silent Bob thing - there's a bit on the Rankin Street tape, where Bob goes "i want you all to clap as loud as you can..." and Sean goes "nah, you don't have to." If that's just ONE Bob put-down incident, it's no wonder he's quiet! Poor Bob.
TrishQ at 13:55:57 Thursday June 24 99
Hey, Teddy- welcome back! Talk about a bad time to go away! The kitchen postings are fast & furious! My BIG news is that a question of mine got asked on the I&I! No, it wasn't a haircare question ( I didn't quite dare!) But is was really silly anyways! I told my family that THEY know I'm crazy but now I'm broadcasting the fact to the whole country! My question was, " If the guys were to describe each other using the names of the Seven Dwarfs who would be Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy etc." I almost fell off the couch when I saw my question come on! Anyways they laughed and much banter ensued as to who was who. It was hard to hear what they said as Alan, Sean & Darrell ( not Bob, of course) were all talking at once. I think Alan said Bob was Doc, he was Grumpy, Sean was Sleepy, Darrell was Happy. Alan mentioned a connectiion to the 7 Dwarfs analogy in that at one of their 1st gigs their manager named them each after the 7 Dwarfs. Funny, eh? GREAT BIG smile on my face! :-))))))
Eh Canadian at 19:12:15 Wednesday June 23 99
HAHAHA!!!! Welcome back Teddy!! Now add me to the roll of dishonour!!! I deserve it!! ;-p However, I sould like you to recover from that hangover first... Remember, two asprin, and a glass of water by the bedside dearie!!!
Teddy at 18:5:43 Wednesday June 23 99
Ohmigod, what HAVE I missed! Something's gone strange at greatbigsea.com, and my mailbox is overflowing! Thanks to you guys who have provided raw minto material :o) I'll be back when I've got over the hangover......
TrishQ at 19:53:11 Monday June 21 99
Dear Alan,
Have you ever thought of doing a cover of the song "Hair"?
What kind of shampoo do you use?
XOXOXO :-) TrishQ
Dr. T at 15:27:11 Monday June 21 99
Hey all! I heard the song "Hair," the one from the musical of the same name, on the radio last night and it suddenly seemed to be written FOR Alan. Do I have GBS on the brain or what? I'm working on some other projects at the moment (including being a research assistant into the concept of doyling), but there might be good material for adaptation in that song, if someone wants to undertake it. Please pass me something decaf, I'm spazzed enough as it is.
"There ain't no words for the beauty, the splendor, the wonder of my HAAAAAIIIIIRRRR!"
Hap at 3:59:1 Saturday June 19 99
Not sure when Teddy's back, but don't worry about your status. She'll likely update the page when the next Mintoes are posted, then you'll make your way to the ROD.
Oh, and I MEANT to say "hoar," but it doesn't mean what YOU think I meant to say. (Me? Blasheme? Really, Eh, the very thought!) Check the "Minutes of Meetings" archives for the First Mintoes, it will all make sense then. Well, as much sense as anything in here ever does.
Eh Canadian at 2:50:23 Saturday June 19 99
*sniff sniff*, I still haven't been added to the "Role of Dishonour" Is Teddy back yet?
Eh Canadian at 2:48:16 Saturday June 19 99
I hope that's "hair" and not what I think you meant to say Hap!!! ;-p Yup, I have a copy of that pic, and love it dearly... What would I do without Fiona???
Hap at 2:3:53 Saturday June 19 99
I must say I was a bit surprised to drop by the Kitchen and find my "saucy chapeau" comment being bandied about. Thought I was losing my mind for a moment there: I was SURE I'd posted that in here! Wondered briefly if my doppelganger had returned.
It is an adorable hat, innit? Even if it does cover the hoar?
Spinne at 20:43:52 Friday June 18 99
that was a GREAT pic! *grin* "saucy little chapeau," indeed! :)
Krysia at 18:42:3 Friday June 18 99
Trish: I'll post it in the chatroom - I don't think we can post things in here...
K
TrishQ at 18:28:16 Friday June 18 99
Hey, Krysia- I can't find it! Could you (or anyone else) post it in here or the Kitchen puulllease? I'm computer challenged- BIG time! Thanks muchly :-)
Krysia at 17:56:31 Friday June 18 99
OK, don't think it did. Here's the address: http://members.tripod.com/~Ofina/Pictures/buff5.html
Copy and paste away!
Krysia at 17:55:50 Friday June 18 99
Trish:
Check out here: Alan with saucy chapeau
I hope the link worked; I don't know if it's universal or what.
K
TrishQ at 15:17:39 Friday June 18 99
LOL!!! I can TOTALLY picture that, Hap! I'd love to see that pic of the "saucy chapeau"! Can you post it in the chat? (this one or the Kitchen) And I double dare you to represent the PWAOWAH contingent at the I&I and ask Alan a haircare question!!!:-)TrishQ
Hap at 21:38:9 Thursday June 17 99
Eyes peeled for PWAOWAH-ish material. Given that we're heading into The Weekend Before Turn (to say nothing of the I&I), it's quite likely things will remain decidedly On Topic in the chat for the next few days. Might have to stir something up.
Fiona has some pictures (from Buffalo last year, I think) of Alan in a hat. More of a troubador's cap than a beret, exactly, and damn (!!) does it look good. Wouldn't have figured him for a hat person -- 'cause it really is the kind of hat you buy as a "fashion statement" and not because it's summer and you want to keep your head covered, that's what baseball caps are for, and you can get those free with beer -- but there he is, lookin' mighty fine indeed. Try to picture it: Alan in front of the mirror, thinking, "What this ensemble really needs is a saucy little chapeau."
spinne at 7:8:28 Thursday June 17 99
have fun teddy! we'll see ya when you get back!
Teddy at 20:28:1 Tuesday June 15 99
Yeah, hats! Did I mention I'm going to a wedding? Saw Bob in a baseball cap at last year's Fleadh, he looked SO cute - but then he always does. Didn't Alan used to wear a beret or something? BTW, the wedding thang - I'm away to the Scottish Highlands on Thursday and most likely won't have time to post or mail before then. If the b'ys post, or if something PWAOWAH-ish happens, can someone mail it to me? Thankee kindly!
Krysia at 18:3:53 Tuesday June 15 99
You might be right about hats, Hap! I'm a sucker for guys in caps...(Thinking about that picture someone posted a few days ago of Sean in a baseball hat.)
TrishQ at 15:45:46 Tuesday June 15 99
Phew! Glad to hear you'll get the CD one way or another. That IS really nice of Adrienne. The poor tired snail must have drowned and TURN is at the bottom of the Atlantic! What a tragedy! :-(
Hap at 3:10:40 Tuesday June 15 99
Glad to hear Adrienne's on top of things. Here's hoping she has sense enough to use a courier, though, instead of relying on those misguided snails. (BTW, you saw Fran's pic of the sunburnt parting: Haven't I been saying those boys need HATS out there?! Hm?!! Gonna' hafta' seriously look into that air-drop.)
Where was I? Oh, yeah. Couriers. I know, they're not cheap, but neither is sendingn out CD after CD, hoping one will get there before Dick Clark starts showing his age.
One week, one hour and fifty minutes for the rest of us...And then another ten hours till the bloody stores open. Y'know, they open record stores in downtown TO at midnight whenever there's a new Tragically Hip CD. Wonder what it would take to get 'em to do the same for da b'ys...
Spinne at 23:37:8 Monday June 14 99
yes, but... c'mon, teddy. tell us somethin we don't already know! :) hope it gets there REALSOONNOW! :)
Teddy at 23:31:8 Monday June 14 99
Okay, good news on the 'missing CD' front: on the premise that the d*** snail with my mail is following the roof-raft and the Guinness, I e-mailed Adrienne, who says she'll see I get a copy SOMEHOW if it isn't here by next week! Nice woman or wot?
Eh Canadian at 22:17:28 Saturday June 12 99
Well... I know where I can get the skull cap... The parish priest has one. A fellow priest ripped it off from the Bishop about 15 years ago... He has one of the rings too... He also got that from another priest. He has no idea how he got it, and doesn't wanna know. Thanks for the welcome!
Hap at 16:33:49 Saturday June 12 99
Pictureless still, and bound to remain so, it seems. Right clicking gets me "Back," "Forward" or "Add Bookmark." Checked my options: "Hiding pictures" isn't even one of 'em. Sigh. Just a big, black frame for me then.
Oh, but I see we have a new recruit. Welcome aboard, Ms. Canadian. As a Cardinal, does she get one of those red robes and a funny hat?
Spinne at 6:50:52 Saturday June 12 99
welcome aboard, eh! *giggle*
Teddy at 21:42:7 Friday June 11 99
A NEW RECRUIT - Eh Canadian joins us as "Toe Cardinal of Comfortable Shoes (so They don't Freeze Togeather in Little
Beggar Shoes)". Welcome, Eh! She'll be offisealy mintoed next time :o)
Teddy at 21:40:18 Friday June 11 99
Oh, I wish I could claim responsibility for a neat bit of coding. However, it wasn't me! No idea, Hap! Do you see ANYTHING? Try finding your 'options' on your menus and seeing if 'hide pictures/graphics' is checked.....
Spinne at 18:19:35 Friday June 11 99
*comfort hap* have you tried right-clicking on the empty box and telling it to "show picture," anyway? err.. if you have a pc, you can do that - dunno about macintosh. :)
Hap at 13:38:40 Friday June 11 99
Back on the home computer. Well, the temporary stand-in (gee, only took me 25 minutes to log on this morning), and NO PICTURE on the opening page. Not on this computer, and not on mine (even before the kerplunk). Why is this? Anyone?
Krysia at 17:25:19 Thursday June 10 99
Teddy:
I've got my fingers crossed for you. Hope the postman does well by you today. BTW, the test didn't go so well - don't know why my concentration could have been so lacking...
(combined with it being 10 years since I've had to take any sort of essay test - didn't realize I was so rusty...)
Hope the sounds of Consequence Free will soon be ringing forth from your house...
Teddy at 17:20:13 Thursday June 10 99
Haven't been done by the postman yet. BTW, Hap, that pic has ALWAYS been there! Maybe the orange juice did some good????? One more thing. Yik.
Hap at 14:58:12 Thursday June 10 99
Interesting. Just logged on at work, and there's a picture on the first page - Alan doubled over, Bob a little wet - that has never, not even once, appeared on my computer screen. I feel cheated.
Just came in to see if the postman had done right by the secrethairy yet. I see he has not. That snail might want to keep his distance from the roof-raft. Those boys are getting hungry out there. (Hey, if they'll eat cod tongues, they'll eat anything, right?)
Spinne at 0:45:55 Thursday June 10 99
i'll bet you feel at least a -little- bit better now. :) 'cos i'm -- everyone say it with me now -- GOOD like that. :)
Teddy at 20:43:55 Wednesday June 9 99
Yeah, but it's following the roof-raft, and god only knows where that's headed!
Oh, and Spinne - it's p****** down over here. I DON't feel better!
TrishQ at 19:57:53 Wednesday June 9 99
There, there, Teddy. Don't cry! I have it on good authority that the snail (see below) has been spotted swimming vigorously in the North Atlantic!
Teddy at 8:25:44 Wednesday June 9 99
*sob* :'o(
Spinne at 5:40:4 Wednesday June 9 99
hot, hot, HOT!!! :( even though it's "only" been around 95F out here, the humidity's making it feel like a truly hellish 103F or so. but, more importantly, my brother got a scanner. :) no concert pics for me to scan (they all came out really bad 'cos of the lighting), but i have some other ones that are pretty neat. :) anyway, just wanted to stop in and say "hi" for the day! :)
TrishQ at 18:9:13 Tuesday June 8 99
Teddy, you STILL haven't gotten TURN yet? No wonder they call it snail mail....I wonder if it's slithered on by Newfoundland yet? (picturing the TURN CD on the back of a snail)...Giddyyup, boy! ( I hope he can swim!) :-) TrishQ
*C* at 16:27:36 Tuesday June 8 99
Hey Teddy, maybe today you will get your TURN cd.
*saying a prayer for you* :-)
Chris
Teddy at 14:16:16 Tuesday June 8 99
Still waiting..... with the rough Management Committee meeting I just had (no pay rise again this year), I could do with a little light relief.... WHERE'S THE BLOODY MAIL!!!!
Teddy at 13:14:15 Monday June 7 99
OH, Please Mr Postman ! Still no sight of a CD... and it REALLY hurts to type with bitten-down fingernails..... Depressed, now.......
TrishQ at 3:17:10 Monday June 7 99
Mr. Postman, look and see
If there's a CD in your bag for Teddeee
Cause she's been waiting an awful long time
Hangin' out in the Icons and Shine...
Hap at 17:30:2 Sunday June 6 99
What a nice little distraction you've created for us, Teddy. Through no fault (or good intention) of your own, mind, but still: I'm so busy waiting for you to get your TURN in the mail/post/whatever I hardly ever think about my long, slow wait till the 22nd anymore, or the 27th, for that matter. (Ooh, damn, just thought of it didn't I?)
Look, if it hasn't arrived by the time my sister's shipment comes in, I will courier you her play copy (will borrow the funds from Petty Harbour Cash). She won't notice it's missing...right away.
Teddy at 22:43:47 Saturday June 5 99
Still waiting. *sigh*.
Teddy at 19:10:6 Friday June 4 99
Welll - I would, but I don't have it yet! Royal Mail is being a royal pain in the ass, a letter from Scotland just took nearly a month to get to me! But then, I wasn't on the list Adrienne put up a few days later with people who'd sent their mail addys, so I re-sent mine. Still waiting "patiently".
TrishQ at 18:41:41 Friday June 4 99
errr...that's SOME details- of course (see below post). I got all comBOBulated because while I was typing, "How Did We Get From Saying I Love You.." came on the radio! Same station I've been harrassing- er- requesting to PLAY more GBS.....BTW- Teddy- stop hogging the TURN CD and share!!! :-)
TrishQ at 14:16:25 Friday June 4 99
Helloooo....Teddy?...Did you get your TURN CD yet?...C'mon- stop jumping UP and down and drooling over the pix and post and give us soe details!
TrishQ at 14:9:56 Thursday June 3 99
As usual I'm having problems in the kitchen. I need help. Teddy, how DO you separate the shites in the eggs? I HATE when that happens!!! :-)
Krysia at 17:32:48 Wednesday June 2 99
Love the site, Teddy - I may have to swear off reading anything by you or created by you between 9 and 5, or my coworkers really will have be dragged of to the funny farm, due to the crazed laughter echoing out of my office....
that, and the fact that I seem to always be listening to Newfoundland radio stations during work....
I may have to succumb soon and come up with a suitable PWAOWAH role/function for myself - but how to choose just one????
Teddy at 16:55:44 Wednesday June 2 99
Cue balls? Séan can end up in MY pockets anytime! P.S. - who knows how long your message will live in here? Until it slows down enough for me to get around to cleaning it out????
Hap (See! I can do it!) at 1:16:49 Wednesday June 2 99
Requesting grammar check (or, more correctly, orthoepy check) on the latest chapter of the Eternal Kitchen Party. I meant to send Séan "careening" over Darrell's head, not "caroming" (like I'd ever mistake that man for a cue ball). I've sworn off correcting myself in the Chat, figure it's only there for two days, I can live with that (just). But who knows how long the EKP will live in here. I don't need any longstanding record of my typographical idiocy.
THANKS!!
Spinne at 0:33:53 Wednesday June 2 99
hahah, of course, i hadda go run and see what had been written. and yes, i have to agree with you, it would prolly be a Bad Thing. :) as far as the Last Kitchen Party goes, i'd love to be a disciple, but i have no pictures of me. chances are that i'll have some by the end of this w/e, what with the show on friday and everything, though... can i submit a picture that late? also, is there a particular size you're looking for? i was thinking about getting a cheap scanner and a switchy box today, but i think i should hold off on new toys for a bit. :(
Teddy at 21:32:29 Tuesday June 1 99
Oops. Whatever you do, DON'T follow the first line of the 'method' under Guinness Ice-Cream on the Great Big Smorgasbord page.
TrishQ at 3:31:3 Tuesday June 1 99
Thanks for explaining what Jane did on Friday, Teddy. I must have left for the weekend just before she pulled her little prank. Just as glad I didn't have to test out the reliability of the old ticker! Jane- you are truly devious.....I like you!
Hap at 22:30:52 Monday May 31 99
Er, that wasn't anon (below). That was me. Will remember to sign in next time. Maybe the coffee should be closer to the door.
Anon at 22:27:20 Monday May 31 99
Here's a first: I'm posting in here before posting in the Kitchen Party chat. Can't seem to get into anything over there today. A few things: 1) The Jane Issue: I am still undecided as to whether she was behaving very badly indeed, or whether she was just being a very faithful disciple of the Hoary One. Was it evil, or was it shock therapy for the wayward? 2) "Bob, the band" days: "All Hallett's Eve," perhaps? ("Hallette'en" sounded too much like "Ovaltine," and that is simply not something I want to be associating with Bob.) 3) The Last Kitchen Party: There are actually two pictures of me on the web now, one on Fiona's site, the other on Fran's. You may snip away, Teddy. Or you may substitute a picture of Gillian Anderson, either will be fine. ;)
Oh, and Trish, you wanna' talk Julia Roberts? God help me, I had to play her part in a community theatre production of 'Steel Magnolias.' Talk about your impossible standards! I made my first entrance every night fully expecting to be greeted with howls of disappointment from the audience. Thank God for Max Factor, and really good lighting.
TrishQ at 19:13:28 Monday May 31 99
OK, THIS IS FFPRO- TRISH HERE AND I DEMAND TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT JANE DID ON FRIDAY!! (said very sternly). PS- to Teddy- use a picture of Julia Roberts for me- the resemblance is striking....except for the hair, eyes, mouth, body, nose, feet, arms, legs...ALLRIGHT! I look nothing like her but I wish I did and this is my chance to pretend. :-)
Teddy at 17:50:27 Sunday May 30 99
Seriously in need of coffee - trying to install a) huge hard drive, b) LS-120 floppy. Bad idea.
Anyway, I like the idea of Bob Halloween (Bob-een??). Problem is, if we only get to have one when he actually posts, they'll be few and far between!
Watch out for details of PWAOWAH's first Holy Relic, and an update (back-date, actually) to the Eternal Kitchen Party.
BTW, anyone who wants to be part of The Last Kitchen Party by Leonardo DaTeddy, you gotta give me photos. Not necessarily yours, but I'm NOT putting anything that looks remotely like Mickey Mouse in there!
Spinne at 6:44:58 Sunday May 30 99
hahah i haven't been in denial, but i'm getting that "ya think you're getting a lil obsessive about these guys?" stuff, too. :) call me a groupie if ya want, i'd follow these guys around all year long if i could afford it. :)
jane, pass me a beer stein filled to 3/4 of the strongest stuff ya have! :)
Dr. T at 4:27:14 Saturday May 29 99
OK, I've been in denial as to my condition up until now, but I think the time has come to admit it. I've had three, count 'em, three GBDreams in the last week and my friends are starting to refer to GBS as "that band that Trinna [that's me] is obsessed with." Is there hope for recovery? Somebody pass the decaff.
Willow at 3:23:59 Saturday May 29 99
Hellooooo! This is tooo groovy baby!! A site for the Alan
obsessed where we can speak without judgment and paint each
others toes!! Greetings All!
It has been toooooo long! Jane, could you hook me up with a
double bubble??
Hap at 0:37:47 Saturday May 29 99
Evening all! Umm...how fresh is the coffee? Pleased to report "authentification" of the Holy Relic by our very own Un-officious Scientific Advisor (opened it up, took one look and decreed, "Yep, this is it.") Have also noticed Shroud of Turin-like bootprint on top of said Relic. Anyone know the God's shoe size? My first "Bob, the band" day, by the way. Do we celebrate those, too? A sort of Hallowe'en to "Alan, yes me's" Christmas?
JenTaylor at 23:53:12 Friday May 28 99
Talk about the shock there. I honestly thought for a minute that the Fallen One had posted to a post that I had started. Geez, talk about heart attack city!
Teddy at 20:54:17 Friday May 28 99
Mine's a decaf, thanks. No fur, I get 'nuff from the dog. My heart's beating hard enough from what "someone" just did to me & TrishQ in the Chat. No names, no pack drill, but I think THEY had enough coffee...
Be still, my beating heart ;o)
TrishQ at 18:49:40 Friday May 28 99
Hi Jane,
I'll have a double skim milk mocha latte decaf with chocolate sprinkles.... oh yeah- no hair- thanks- but let's leave it on Alan's head where it splendiforously belongs. :-)
TrishQ at 13:52:48 Friday May 28 99
I love the site, Teddy! It's inspired! I especially appreciate the cooking/baking instructions timed to GBS music. I need all the help I can get with my mediocre skills in the kitchen. You GO Girl :-)
TrishQ at 13:46:40 Friday May 28 99
Hi, my name is Trish and I'm obsessed with Alan's hair (with leanings toward Bob's knees). I need help. I can't help it, I'm weak. Do we have a twelve-step program? The hair...so glossy..swingy..full of body...and The Knees....so cute...dimpled.........aaaaah.......
Jane Cafetier at 2:43:11 Friday May 28 99
Anybody for some coffee? Would that be with a twist of Alan's hair or straight?
JenTaylor at 1:27:21 Friday May 28 99
Hi everyone, my name's Jen and I'm an Alan-aholic. I"m here to help my obsession progress in a natural fashion, ie let's feed this obesession!!!! Teddy - positively brilliant site! I"m so glad to be a new member :)
Jen
Alex at 23:11:20 Thursday May 27 99
I'm so PROUD of being a member of the PWAOWAH!
Fun and foolishness, what else could I ask???!!! (Yes, actually I could ask a couple of things more: for examples to meet the Gods...) :))))
Teddy this is a great job!
Ciao
Spinne at 9:25:57 Thursday May 27 99
nite folks... it's 430 (EDT), and i hear birds, so i'm goin to bed. :) thanks for a great day of drinking and merriment! here's looking forward to AYM day and all future GBS holidays!
Hap at 2:40:19 Thursday May 27 99
Do we say "here" or "present"? 'Cause I'm "present," but I'm not all "here." Nothing new there.
Ahhhhh...a home of our own.
*C* at 0:56:9 Thursday May 27 99
In one word: WOW !!! Love what you've done Teddy !!
Chris (the Disciple of Séan's 'Dentations)
Spinne at 23:44:15 Wednesday May 26 99
hi.. uh... my name is Sharon, and i'm a PWAOWAH member...
Teddy at 22:49:5 Wednesday May 26 99
I'm here. Where are y'all!