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Post by Phalon on May 29, 2006 23:47:53 GMT -6
“Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once; just once, understand.” ~ Unknown
"Run your fingers through my soul." The whole quote is great, but that first line - dang, I love it. I wish I could find who is the author. Anyone know?
soul
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Post by mabd on Jun 2, 2006 13:43:29 GMT -6
"The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth."
Mignon McLaughlin
next word: youth
Maeve
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Post by Phalon on Jun 3, 2006 5:56:21 GMT -6
Off to the Horaces again; win, place or show?
"So long as youth is green and testy old age is far off." ~ Horace
I like this quote; I used to use it as my tag-line at the bottom of my posts when I was approaching my fortieth birthday. I read, in a book of Horace's "Odes", a much more lyrical translation, but I've forgotten it; perhaps proof that old age is possibly not as far off as I'd like to imagine. But I like this translation too; written without punctuation, the context changes slightly wherever you choose to throw in a comma.
Dang, that was a bunch of youthless information, wasn't it?
Aged
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Jun 4, 2006 0:47:14 GMT -6
Damn Madam Phalon....that first one made me cry. I have done my internet drill thing and can't find an author on it. But how beautiful anyway.
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Post by mabd on Jun 5, 2006 14:01:24 GMT -6
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”
George Washington Carver
"The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything; the young know everything."
Oscar Wilde
young
Maeve
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Post by Phalon on Jun 11, 2006 23:10:43 GMT -6
"It's better to burn out 'cause rust never sleeps." ~ Neil Young
Rust
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Post by mabd on Jun 19, 2006 19:29:24 GMT -6
"As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion." Antisthenes
next word: eaten
Maeve
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Post by Phalon on Jun 22, 2006 6:04:59 GMT -6
I recently posted this somewhere else on the board. I love it when I can recycle; saves precious energy thinking.
"I have eaten the first fruit of the season, and I am in love." ~ James Wright
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Post by mabd on Jun 25, 2006 22:54:13 GMT -6
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. Groucho Marx
next word: arrow
Maeve
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Post by Phalon on Jun 27, 2006 6:13:05 GMT -6
Arrow, row, row the boat Gently down the stream.
No apple-awes, please - I should be shot for that one. William Tell me to just hush up.
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Post by mabd on Jun 28, 2006 19:54:18 GMT -6
I used to look at my dog and think, 'If you were a little smarter you could tell me what you were thinking,' and he'd look at me like he was saying, 'If you were a little smarter, I wouldn't have to.
Fred Jungclaus
look
Maeve
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Aug 20, 2006 18:01:28 GMT -6
I couldn't decide....
With not one kiss, or a good-bye, and the only loveless look the look with which you passed: 'Twas all unlike your great and gracious ways. Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1823-1896)
If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds. Alice Meynell (1847-1922)
It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish. [Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
ok let's go with reputation.....
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Post by katina2nd on Aug 21, 2006 22:34:53 GMT -6
“The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.”
Uncle Willy, as you probably know.
Purest.
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Post by mabd on Aug 25, 2006 12:28:39 GMT -6
His music was direct from his heart and brain in the purest form possible. Josh Logan
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. John Milton
LIVING
Maeve
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Hippy Amazon
Whooshite Apprentice
I'm a Conscientious Objector in the Game of Life...
Posts: 142
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Post by Hippy Amazon on Aug 25, 2006 19:21:02 GMT -6
I think I understand how this goes, tell me if I get it wrong!
"I realized I was in love with a man who could never love me back. I was living in a fairy tale"--Jenny from the movie Big Fish
Fairy Tale
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Post by Mini Mia on Aug 25, 2006 19:32:07 GMT -6
I think I understand how this goes, tell me if I get it wrong!
"I realized I was in love with a man who could never love me back. I was living in a fairy tale"--Jenny from the movie Big Fish
Fairy Tale
By George, I think ya got it!
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Post by Phalon on Aug 26, 2006 20:42:34 GMT -6
Yep, you've got it, A. Hippy. Though actually, there aren't really any rules to this game. It is just what the title says: word association.
Once Upon a Time....that's exactly all it was. One word answers - the first word that popped into one's mind that was in some way related to Xena. Things such as:
"Sword"
"Weapon"
"Chakram"
And then...Scrappy and I got a hold of it, and had rambling word association conversations, which ended up with us throwing quotes at each other one night, and for some reason it stuck.
So, technically, you can post whatever you feel in here that somehow relates to the word, or words, that the previous poster left.
And in keeping with that, (and because I'm too lazy to find a quote at the moment), the first thing the subject "Fairy Tales" brought to my mind was...
"Once upon a time..."
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Hippy Amazon
Whooshite Apprentice
I'm a Conscientious Objector in the Game of Life...
Posts: 142
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Post by Hippy Amazon on Aug 27, 2006 0:20:36 GMT -6
This is from an episode of the simpsons (its all they seem to show here in australia!) and ties in with "once upon an time" as well as the next word that could relate xena-wise...
Homer:"Once upon a time, there was a big, mean lion who got a thorn in his paw. All the villagers tried to pull it out, but nobody was strong enough, so they got Hercules and he used his mighty strength, and bingo. Anyway, the moral is, is that the lion was so happy, that he gave Hercules this big... thing... of riches.
Next Word: HERCULES
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Post by katina2nd on Oct 19, 2006 21:41:51 GMT -6
Not Hercules could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Brains.
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Post by Phalon on Oct 19, 2006 21:54:06 GMT -6
I've misplaced mine at the moment. Think I could borrow a newer model? This is the season, you know.
Frankenstein
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Post by katina2nd on Oct 19, 2006 21:59:27 GMT -6
Knew a chap called "Frank" once, not a very likable bloke, he stole my beer "Stein" actually. Sheesh that was bad. Likable.
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Post by Phalon on Oct 19, 2006 22:03:35 GMT -6
LMAO. Yes, it was bad. But I've written worse...much worse. It's sad actually, how much worse. But there is just something likable about a really bad pun, no?
Or not.
Some find it quite distasteful, I suppose.
Distasteful
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Post by katina2nd on Oct 19, 2006 22:13:41 GMT -6
Think it may be safer to quote someone else after my last effort. "A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind. " William James (1842 - 1910) Think he's talking about me actually. Neglects.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Nov 25, 2006 23:10:33 GMT -6
"When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live."
choice
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Post by Phalon on Nov 25, 2006 23:36:27 GMT -6
Tasters' Choice, (first thing that came to mind)
Coffee
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Nov 25, 2006 23:39:05 GMT -6
"Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson time
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Post by Phalon on Nov 25, 2006 23:42:27 GMT -6
"Time...time...time...time..."
Lyrics from a song I can't remember the name of or artist who sang it.
Memory laspes with time, you know.
(referring to the late hour on the clock, of course, and no reference at all to my age)
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Nov 25, 2006 23:44:43 GMT -6
There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.
civilization
Ha try that one on for size.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 25, 2006 23:52:33 GMT -6
You're trying to get me to actually use a notable quote, instead of just making something up, aren't you? HA! Too late for that; my book is on the other side of the room, and my computer is working too slow this evening.
So I'm just making civilized rationalizations here...<shrugs>...or since it's late and I'm too tired to try to say such words as "civilized rationalizations", I'll just slur them together, and say I'm making civilizations. Dang, am I busy - I've got a lot of work to do; a whole population to create.
I'm too old for this sh!t.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Nov 25, 2006 23:55:06 GMT -6
YOU SAID IT FIRST!!!!! You ARE old!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA
"Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed."-- William Jennings Bryan incubation
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