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| abyt42 |
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False, but I was 11 and we'd been camping in the desert for a month. I thought all the lights were amazing, and was a bit stunned by all the activity. Honestly, though, my younger brother and I had been watching laundry in a glass-doored dryer and pretending the brown sock was Jerry and the sweatshirt Tom the night before we got there, so we were a little hard up for entertainment. . . .
The person below me is a secret fan of fluffer-nutters. |
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| Pennfana |
| Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:57 pm |
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A secret fan of what? 
(Translation: probably false, especially if the only translation I've found online--the peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwich thing--is what you're talking about. I hate peanut butter.)
As for the grits vs. hash browns thing, I've never tasted grits and I'm not fond of hash browns (American or Canadian), but I do like the occasional poutine.
The person below me knows what "piobaireachd" is--and how to pronounce it. |
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| abyt42 |
| Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:29 pm |
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True (and true). . . but only because the women in my family are more stubborn than the men. (And that's saying something!) My mom and I go to a music festival annually (and drag unwilling partners, brother, etc.)
The person below me loathes Thai food. |
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| LadyWhitehart |
| Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:31 pm |
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Sort of false. I wouldn't say that I loathe it, but I won't go out of my way to get it. I've had some things that were quite good, but since I have been exiled to NJ, I just don't trust the local Asian cuisine. I can't even get a decent cheesesteak here.
VIVA LAS VEGAS! I've been there for my honeymoon (no we didn't get married there) and for our third anniversary, which stunk because I was four months pregnant. Dry heat, my ass! 
piobaireachd (pė`brǒok) is the Scottish Gaelic name for a genre of traditional music played on the Great Highland Bagpipe. Excellent! I learned something new today!
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| Verity Brown |
| Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:45 am |
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True! Although I was only 8 at the time.
I love grits (but without sugar--I agree with grandpa). I love most Southern food. I love Thai food, too. But I don't care for hash browns unless they're crispy, contain onions, and are served sans ketchup.
I found Vegas boring as a child. But that was back when there was nothing for kids to do except Circus Circus. The most exciting part of a trip to Vegas was the Magic Fingers. But I haven't been to Vegas in more than 20 years.
The person below me wears a watch 24/7.
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| wonga |
| Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:55 am |
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False. I have a watch, I recently had a new battery put in it after nearly a year but I keep forgetting to put it on. Maybe if I never took it off...
What are grits? I like hashbrowns and Thai food.
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| LadyWhitehart |
| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:28 pm |
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| Verity Brown |
| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:32 pm |
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False, although I think that's mainly due to the fact that I don't have any extra copies of *any* of the HP books except for the tattered and fallen-apart paperback of CoS that I replaced with a dinged-up hardcover copy from a yard sale. I do have (or did have, back when I was writing Shannara fan-fic seriously) multiple marked-up copies of The Sword of Shannara.
However, I do have pages and pages of notes that I took while re-reading the HP books. Does that count?
Grits is a dish made from coarsely-ground white corn (maize to non-'Merkins). It's cooked in the same manner as oatmeal or farina. In fact, it's pretty similar to farina, except slightly coarser and made of corn instead of wheat. It's a popular food in the South of the U.S., both with breakfast and as a substitute for pasta or potatoes with dinner. Usually served with butter. Sometimes with gravy.
The person below me has always dreamed of having a canopy bed.
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| Pennfana |
| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:08 am |
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True. Unfortunately, when the time came for me to get a new bed when I was about nine my parents wouldn't let me get a canopy bed, largely on the grounds that my father was afraid that the posts would fall down and break my bones and the canopy would fall off and suffocate me. For a couple of years I improvised a canopy (and even curtains!) with some old broom handles and two bed sheets. Nice and cozy in the winter, which is definitely important where I live. 
As an additional note to the "piobaireachd" thing, piobaireachd is also known as "ceol mor" (lit. "big music") and it's been called "the classical music of the Great Highland Bagpipe". It starts with a slow "ground" tune from which the rest of the piobaireachd is based and works up to increasingly difficult variations of the same slow tune. This is the most difficult form of music played on the Great Highland Bagpipe, and because it's always played so slowly it's not a hugely popular one. It takes a lot of patience and incredible technical skill to play a piobaireachd well, especially because some of the finger movements involved require up to eight grace notes at a time (most pipe music only requires one to four grace notes).
(Sorry. My "Inner Hermione" decided to show herself again.)
The person below me knows someone with an unusual pet. |
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| abyt42 |
| Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:09 am |
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Maybe true. . . . .Ummm. . . . does a kept man count? (kidding, mostly) The most unusual pet I've met in terms of personality was a cat that was raised in a household of parrots-- he preferred a perch to a cat bed. . . . The most unusual pet in terms of species: a tie between the peacocks across the street and the ferret down the road (because it's illegal to own them here, they're not very usual pets.)
The person below me was class president one year of primary or secondary school. |
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| wonga |
| Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:30 am |
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False. My school didn't really have a class president but we did have something similar. Even if I did run, noone would have voted for me.
I have pet sheep, including a truly evil ram by the name of Terror *Mumbles something about evil, over-grown roasts.*
Ooh, I love the Shannara books.
The person below me loathes Pink Floyd. |
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| hp4freek |
| Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:32 am |
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Absolutely not! Elect me queen, and I'll rule accordingly, but Democracies and I don't get along. We try, but apparently neither of our parents taught us how to play well with others. Maybe Democracy's an only child, too...
I live in TX and I HATE grits. With a passion. And they're not really common down here. The only place I've actually seen them was at Waffle House, and my neighbor's house (who happen to be Katrina refugees from New Orleans).
The person below me actually doesn't prefer HG/SS stories. (weird, right?) |
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| maryh |
| Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:30 am |
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False on Pink Floyd. I don't loathe them, but I don't love them either.
True on the HG/SS stories. He's too old for her.
The person below me has original artwork framed on the wall. (by an unknown artist, of course, in my case). |
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| LadyWhitehart |
| Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 6:06 pm |
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| JackieJLH |
| Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:04 pm |
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False. Sort of. In the sense that the cupboards are always bare and I never go food shopping. I live off of fast food and restaurants with take-out menus. I can't cook hotdogs--seriously, I had to ask a friend via IM the other day to walk me through making hotdogs because I'd never done it. She laughed and then told me to put them in the microwave because it was probably safer for my neighbors. 
No SS/HG? *pouts* Y'all make me sad. 
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