Great Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,741
Barbarella
Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739, I bring you ye olde alt.gothic
standby -
What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
I've had to concentrate on only a very small area of my office to
compile this (admittedly ginormous) list. If I did everything I can see
from here, I'd still be typing this tomorrow morning. But here goes...
- 1 pamphlet commemorating 250 years since Bach died (or was it his
birth? *shrug*)
- 1 postcard of Oscar Wilde
- 1 postcard of an old ad for the G.H.P. Royal Enfield motorbike &
sidecar
- 1 flyer advertising "Abduction to the 9th Planet" lecture on alien
abduction
- 1 gratuitous pic of sexxy deth chyk with nice tits
- 1 "fortune" from a fortune cookie that says "This insert has a
protective coating"
- 1 pic of PyroJames at Laughton's in Whitby last year
- 1 pic of me, PyroJames and CJ (from ukpg) in the Devonshire Arms,
Camden Town, London
- 1 printout of ecard from H*ydn (sexxy deth chyk in bondage)
- 1 sticker - Dropkick Murphys "The Gang's All Here" tour
- 1 sticker - Beltaine goth club promo (anyone else remember that?)
- 1 printout of "office humour" I actually liked (The Floggings Will
Continue Until Morale Improves)
- 1 photo of me and Loom snogging at my work's xmas do last year
- 1 pic of me, Cam and Loom taken by Hobbes at Revelations early last
year
- 2 pix of my pal Trevor in Toronto, though one was taken in Ottawa
- 1 photo of TwoSlabs at the second Melbin Goth Ball
- 1 printout of something truly lovely Sandro once said to me in an
email
- 1 printout of something truly lovely Neef once said to me in an email
- 1 A4 poster of a very proud looking tiger
- 1 postcard of a freshly-bathed grizzly bear
- 1 beautiful, quirky-angeled pic of me, Loom and RevDrDavid on xmas day
- 1 print of an excellent sketch of me done by my pal Lynda Brown
- 1 photo of me and Neef at Entrippy's going-away do at Ver Dick earlier
this year
- 1 photo of me, Neef, Loom & my breasts at Entrippy's going-away do
- 1 postcard a friend sent from Salem (Examination Of A Witch, 1855)
- 1 Latin quotation (hic est locus ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae)
- 1 printout of a really cute piccy of a young H*ydn in purple
- 1 photo of me and Sandro kissing
- 1 photo of me and PyroJames snogging
- 1 photo of PyroJames dancing at Ritual, Sydney, 1997, taken by Julian
Higginson
- 1 ascii character of a dude holding a sign saying "Will Work For Beer"
- 1 ascii character of a cow ("Moo")
- 1 photo of Neef with red hair
- 3 photos of my pal Jamie in Vancouver, though one was taken in Ottawa
- 1 short poem by WB Yeats
- 1 photo of my Mum posing with a very large stone dragon, taken by my
Dad
- 1 photo of my Dad posing with same, taken by my Mum
- 1 sticker of the Canadian flag
- 1 photo of TwoSlabs when he had a lot less tattoos
- 2 pix of the manofmydreams - one in New Orleans for C5, t'other in his
beautiful black suit in Montreal
- 1 newspaper photo of a hairynosed wombat
- 1 wrapper from a Red Tulip "Halloweenie" chocolate vampire
- 1 panaramic photo of Melbourne's skyline (with black crosses over the
old gas buildings)
- 1 printout of something truly lovely David once said to me in an email
- 3 photos of The Beatles
- 1 photo of me and Stranger at the Olympic Sideburns reunion gig, way
back when in 1990
- 1 classic Damned logo
- 1 section of a photo my pal Lynda took of Michelangelo's David
sculpture (crotch view)
- 1 pic of Michelangelo's David sculpture (arse view)
- 1 Monty Python ecard sent to me by Lynda ("Come on ya pansy!")
- 1 tiny printout of H*ydn's photo from the net.goth.pix gallery
- 1 sparkly green fish
- 1 rubber tarantula
- 1 killer whale stress toy
- 1 chocolate rabbit that has sat here since Easter 1998
- 1 miniature champagne bottle that has bubble stuff inside with which
to blow bubbles
- 1 colour reproduction of "Piss Christ"
- 1 World AIDS Day lapel badge
- 1 very ugly Princess Leia action figure (not Official[tm], as the
ugliness attests)
- 1 large "Bram Stoker's Dracula" poster
- 3 small colour reproductions of paintings by my pal Chris Winer
- 1 World AIDS Day beer coaster
- 1 deliriously beautiful photo of Neef and Loom snogging at Trayce's
birthday (*sigh*)
- 1 cut-out headline that says I SEE DUD PEOPLE
- 1 black and silver earring - dangly variety - that I found on the
floor yonks ago
- 1 rainbow flag magnet
- 1 original label from a Jolt Cola bottle
- 1 reconciliation awareness picture thingy
- 1 postcard of meercats standing to attention
- 1 original sketch of Michelangelo's David sculpture (close-up face
view) by my pal Lynda
- 1 fantastic quote about a.c.g. as written by Stranger just last week
- 1 pep-talking thang I wrote to myself during a rough time last year
that says "My 30s are supposed to be my peak and my prime and - fuck it
- I'm not going to waste them angsting over boys who can't or won't
appreciate me. I'm better than that. And I deserve better."
- 1 now-rather-aged piece of paper that says "Goal: to be a successful
writer"
- 1 card that arrived this morning from Associate Professor Peter Ryan
(who left last month after 20 years here and whom I want to be when I
don't grow up) that says "Barbara - With Love for all your kind
devotion, sense of humour, creative mind and above all - just being your
unique self. Love, Peter"
Barbarella.
p.s. if anybody follows this up _without_ snipping appropriately... we
kill 'em! ;)
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Leads to smoky door, violent sound & haunting spirits,
Amongst them, an object of fantasy,
Black lace and spiky hair, penetrating eyes, & a ghostly grin. -jbk
Kitsune
tippy-tapped:
>In the tradition of Great Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,740 and Great
>Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739, I bring you ye olde alt.gothic
>standby -
>
> What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
<appropriate snip of Barb's long long list>
My desk is either:
a. less cluttered
b. smaller
or its just that I have less stuff.
1 x torch (god knows what its used for as it has no batteries)
1 x drinking bird thing that I got at a work x-mas party
2 x little slot cars (the track of which is currently tucked away in a desk
drawer)
1 x white mug, half filled with water
1 x laptop (which I'm typing this list out in at the moment)
1 x work computer (which is idling cause its just being silly)
1 x candy tin (with the words coffee blatantly written on it)
1 x leaflet from Darkside Masks (and I'll eventually get a mask from them)
1 x empty space where a pic of my ex used to sit.
1 x little skull (which contains my cactus)
numerous dummies guides (to dissuade any technical conversation)
numerous network diagrams pinned to my cubicle wall
ethernet cable (meters and meters of it - all mine)
10 five cent coins who decided they'd watch the skull
2 x neat piles of work envelopes (even when I don't use them)
my phone
my coat
a dinky little 5 port hub
umm thats it... damn I feel so empty.
Kitsune, clutter envy?
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"...I just like my meat too much!" - Trayce
Trayce
>In the tradition of Great Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,740 and Great
>Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739, I bring you ye olde alt.gothic
>standby -
>
> What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
I could be boring and say "mess!". But thats boring. Hmm lessee...
- a whole bunch of yowie animals perched atop my PC case, including
one "boof" character who is missing a leg (neef replaced it with a
matchstick, jake the peg style)
- one zip drive
- my naff nameplate (after 2 years they finally gave me one, the
bastards)
- a bottle o water
- article from theOnion.com - "cut n color nativity fun playset!"
including cutout figures of jesus, donkey, sheep, Erik B and Rakim,
Mayor McCheese and a shriner driving a car. Go figure.
- one gloopy liquid filled plastic postcard (meant to look like a
lavalamp but no longer swirly due to everyone here jabbing at it too
often)
- a postcard of cats from Malta that Andrew Buttery mailed me
- a whole row of those 3d pokemon cards wot used to come in twisties
packs. I was collecting them, but then they stopped putting them in
the chips :(
- various printouts/photocopies of Squee and I Feel Sick comics, Red
Meat comics, Dilbert etc (obligatory geek thing, innit)
- a coffee plunger and a packet of green tea
- piles and piles of faxes (I will file these away one day...
honest....)
- my phone n headset
- my "you should see me BEFORE i have my coffee!" mug with a monster
on it. Heh.
- a pair of psychedelic coloured ear plugs from the Grand Prix that
Bruce gave me for some inexplicable reason
- loads and loads of crap, paper, faxes, pens, cups, payslips,
lunchboxes with dirty forks in them, tissues, etc. Yes, I am A Slob.
I've just realised I have no photos on my desk anywhere! :( I think
I'll go grab that sweet piccy of me n Andrew and stick that up
tomorrow...
Trayce (messy)
--
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http://people.connect.net.au/~trace
Hobbes
>In the tradition of Great Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,740 and Great
>Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739, I bring you ye olde alt.gothic
>standby -
>
> What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
>
some off the stuff in it.
1. Lots of printouts of various stuff
2. Notes for roleplaying game I'm writing for COnquest
3. Tape, stapler and various office supplies
4. A purple cush ball type monster.
5. 1 stuffed tiggrr and several tiggrr stickers proclaiming 'tiggrr
inside' on my puters.
4. A whole pile of origami paper cranes and tulips.
5. My main work PC. An SGI Indy, A security video recorder and TV screen so I
can spy on the labs :)
6. A large collection of geek reference books, Largely related to UNIX,
Perl and also WIndows NT networking problems.
7. A large pile of music CD's.
8. A large pile of Software CD's.
9. My 'inspirational' poster - ie a Trainspotting one with the Choose
Life rant on it.
10. A collection of little toys from Hungry Jacks when they did the
Muppets From Space promo - A Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzy, Rizzo and GOnzo.
11. Many Calvin and Hobbes cartoons and a UF cartoon.
12. A sign saying 'If I'm not back in five minutes wait longer!'
13. Small speakers and a powersupply for my discman.
14. A Melbourne Zoo poster with a tiger, snow leopard and cheetah on it.
15. A muppet treasure Island promo sign
16. An Arcanacon 2001 poster
17. A tiggrr movie poster, an angst movie poster and a clockwork orange
movie poster
18. A printout of RFC 1925
19. Several Melbourne 'The City' postcards.
20. Several live plants
21. A string of paper cranes from a friends funeral
22. a collection of cd's and floppy discs (from lost property) made into
a mobile and hung from the ceiling.
23. A string of floppy discs in rainbow colours hung in the window.
24. A collection of various cd's (usually NT ones) stuck shiny side
out on the walls to catch sunlight and reflect the pretty lights.
25. Friends phone numbers
26. A current MTC program.
27. Those shiny chinese ball things you play with to strengthen/exercise
your hands in a blie silk covered box.
28. Some funny scultures of men made out of cables.
29. And lots of other stuff thats kept in this office.
Hobbes (long enuff)
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<Holocaine> arty: You mean Hobbes?
Spark
"Barbarella" <barba...@internettrash.com> wrote in message
news:3ACBEFB5...@internettrash.com...
: In the tradition of Great Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,740 and Great
: Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739, I bring you ye olde alt.gothic
: standby -
:
: What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
Hell. Not much, it seems.
- Cd's. Several audio, most data.
- My Perl and C books carefully put into a position to make it seem like
I've been reading them.
- Lots of paper with scribbled notes.
- David W's mini comics.
- A screwdriver and duct tape (for when I get *really* bored).
- Usual tech stuff (scanner, printer, Other Computer, assorted cables)
- A fishtank.
L. (low on ornamentation)
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Sometimes the only reason why I'm not a serial killer is
my distaste for manual labour.
- Dilbert
Sandro
Barbarella <barba...@internettrash.com> wrote:
>In the tradition of Great Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,740
>and Great Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739, I bring you ye
>olde alt.gothic standby -
>What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
<snippage of a million things, one of which could get me killed>
Jaysus' Wept, Woman! Do you work in a warehouse or what? Is half
the building stamped with "Property of B" all over it? Christ,
I've only got the government OH+S determined for my level 4 sq
metres, and that's luxury for here.
Us poorer people that can't afford palatial digs thus have less
objet's de art strewn around like so many rose petals.
As for my workplace accoutrements:
1 bowl, 1 clay mug (unglazed), 1 serving of gruel, pools of
blood, pliers and a blow torch, cat o' nine, lemon juice and
envelopes with which to make with the paper cuts, with the
hurting and the screaming and the "umhey umhey" pain.
Alternatively:
1 radio older than I am permanently tuned to 3RRR.
1 desk calendar which is a constant source of philosophical and
spiritual guidance for me. Today's nugget of wisdom is "when you
cross the street, look both ways, even in a one way street", by
that D'Artagnan of important thoughts, Andy Rooney.
A stack of CD's
Hair Moisturiser, and Vitamin E hand and nail cream. No, I'm not
a little bitch, why do you ask?
1 photocopy of a Mac Adams photograph of a curly haired girl
being offered a cigarette.
1 picture of one of Francis Bacon's screaming popes.
1 repro of "Flaming June" by Frederick Leighton, various other
PreRaphaelite repros, all of redheads :)
1 photocopy of a picture of that sandstone building on the
corner of Collins and Swanston, from higher up in the Paris end,
filtered and black and white, goth as fuck :))
1 postcard from Whitby
500 randomly scrawled upon pieces of paper and post it notes with
messages to myself or quotes: "Remember to do that thing that
someone asked you to do" or "remember to use pilocarpine
monohydrochloride (C11H16N202ClH) next time to hide the poison
in their coffee" and "these days turned out nothing like I had
planned."
215 manuals for various bits of software and contract/commercial
law.
1 Borg Regeneration Alcove So That I Don't Have To Go Too Far
Away Before Rejoining The Collective.
1 copy of Philip K Dick's "A Scanner Darkly". 1 copy of Neal
Stephenson's "Snow Crash"
1 copy of the Koran
1 sacrificial altar supporting the guts of a virgin.
1 personal assistant taking dictation as we speak (hurr hurr)
1 black rubber rat with the pins of two purple and gold Anzac
badges skewering its eyes. Called, creatively enough, Ratty.
That is all.
Sandro - designation cubible drone #0293
--
"It's not my fault you don't love me when I'm drunk" - Your Dirty
Answer, Kristen Hersh
stranger..
Barbarella wrote
:In the tradition of Great Pointless Polls Of Our Time
:#22,740 and Great Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739,
:I bring you ye olde alt.gothic standby -
:
: What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
/me looks around.
Y'know, i've never realised before how little i've personalised this area.
All i have around me are piles and piles of the work i should be doing
instead of writing posts to acg (except i only do that on my lunch and
coffee breaks, honest guv) and a dirty coffee cup. The only decorative
thing is a plastic godzilla on the top of my monitor, that came in a packet
of batteries last year. My computer has some personalised stuff - a
Salvador Dali screensaver, Elaine as a desktop pic and a few powerpoint
slideshows of assorted pix from the net to use as alternate screensavers
(and yes, there is an acg mugshot gallery). But the non-electronic area is
still largely devoid of pleasant things to look at.
You know, i think i really do need to customise this area a bit more. Then
i might have more of an interest in keeping it tidy too.
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(hmmm...)
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Barbarella
>
> Barbarella <barba...@internettrash.com> wrote:
>
> >What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
>
> <snippage of a million things, one of which could get me killed>
T'was but a peck! *smirk* (though, as you once said, it _looks_ far
more salacious than it actually was)
> Jaysus' Wept, Woman! Do you work in a warehouse or what?
:) It's a large-ish office with just me and Lynda (and A LOT of office
stuff) in it, and me and Lynda are both picture-mad (well, she would be,
wouldn't she? bein' an artist 'n' all...). It's like a gallery in here,
I tells ya!
> 1 photocopy of a picture of that sandstone building on the
> corner of Collins and Swanston, from higher up in the Paris end,
> filtered and black and white, goth as fuck :))
Eerrmm... the Town Hall?
> 1 postcard from Whitby
I wonder what beautiful, sexy goddess was gracious enough to spare you a
thought whilst she was overseas? ;)
Barbarella - I only listed part of it all, y'know!
David W.
Barbarella wrote:
> What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
- copies of Dreamweaver and Fireworks to install on the lab computers.
- scones left over from some meeting. Strawberry jam, marmalade
and cream.
- the lyrics and chords to "The Only Living Boy In New Cross"
and "Lean On Me I Won't Fall Over". Certain people have been
trying to turn me into a Carter USM fan recently. It's
working wonderfully.
- a Zip disk with the artwork for Death By Music 03
- a Zip drive that refuses to work.
- lots of cute young girls.
- an air of restless anticipation, as I wait for one of
the afforementioned Carter fans to answer my e-mail.
David W.
Sandro
Barbarella <barba...@internettrash.com> wrote:
>Sandro wrote:
>>Barbarella <barba...@internettrash.com> wrote:
>>>What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
>><snippage of a million things, one of which could get me
>>killed>
>T'was but a peck! *smirk* (though, as you once said, it
>_looks_ far more salacious than it actually was)
No comment. No comment no comment no comment. I am tempted to
come up with something Clintonesque, but I shan't :))
>>Jaysus' Wept, Woman! Do you work in a warehouse or what?
Damned spellchecker. That was supposed to read "whorehouse". I
joke, me tell funny funny hee hee.
>:)It's a large-ish office with just me and Lynda (and A LOT of
>office stuff) in it, and me and Lynda are both picture-mad
>(well, she would be, wouldn't she? bein' an artist 'n'
>all...). It's like a gallery in here, I tells ya!
>>1 photocopy of a picture of that sandstone building on the
>>corner of Collins and Swanston, from higher up in the Paris
>>end, filtered and black and white, goth as fuck :))
>Eerrmm... the Town Hall?
No, smarty pvc pants, it's across the road from there, has a
weird spire type thing with a very expensive penthouse at the
top. Sells handbags or some such.
>>1 postcard from Whitby
>I wonder what beautiful, sexy goddess was gracious enough to
>spare you a thought whilst she was overseas? ;)
I originally self-edited myself, having had directly after it,
"from She Who Cannot Help But Be Named, The B!!" but I thought,
discretion, valour, past references, etc... :)
>Barbarella - I only listed part of it all, y'know!
Yes, I'm sure a thorough and complete catalog of every item would
do more than dispel the pall of boredom that fell upon the
newsgroup this fair afternoon :)
Sandro - shutting up, sir.
--
"I have no more answers" - black tape for a blue girl
Thorfinn
Barbarella <barba...@internettrash.com> wrote:
> In the tradition of Great Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,740 and Great
> Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739, I bring you ye olde alt.gothic
> standby -
> What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
Ooer.
> I've had to concentrate on only a very small area of my office to
> compile this (admittedly ginormous) list. If I did everything I can see
> from here, I'd still be typing this tomorrow morning. But here goes...
*chuckle*
Okay... Bad ASCII art warning.
I have a desk arranged:
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|BB 33 |
|BB 21 |
| 11 |
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|______|
0 - hole with many cables passing through.
1 - The C++ Programming Language - 3rd Ed by Stroustrup, open to the
section on Strings. partially on top of 2.
2 - The C++ Standard Template Library - Plauger, Stepanov, Lee - open
to the section on queue<>. Mostly covered by 1, 3, and 4
3 - Telephone. Sitting on top of 4 and 1.
4 - a printout of the HTTP/1.0 specification, rather spread out,
underneath 3, Q and P.
5 - a "tweek" CD belonging to the last guy whose desk this was.
6 - two mostly empty minitower cases on their sides on top of each
other, underneath 9.
7 - two sets of PC speakers, two lefts and two rights, one pair
connected to the 'doze PC and the other to the Linux PC.
8 - a switch box, for toggling the monitor and keyboard between which
PC they're connected to. R is on top of this.
9 - a GoldStar 15" monitor, with the centre of it sitting about flush
with the top of my head.
A - my VI reference mug, covered in obscure commands for the VI
editor. Empty, although slightly coffee and tea stained.
B - a black "intray", containing a fork, a teaspoon, an unopened packet
of fisherman's friends, a tin of jasmine tea, a bag of peppermint
tea, and the strainer and lid components of my teapot.
C - Logitech Trackman Marble, with scrollywheel, hooked up to the
Linux box. I love my trackball.
D - crappy three button "Perfect" mouse, hooked up to the 'doze PC,
under which is a crappy "Alpha" mousemat.
E - A small black pouchy thing which is normally attached to the
inside of my backpack which contains 2 AAA batteries, a
rechargeable nokia phone battery, and a strange cable for hooking
up my palmpilot to a nokia phone.
F - the aforementioned teapot, with no bits on top. Empty.
G - a battery (AAA, AAs, C, D, 9volt) recharger unit, which H and T
are sitting on top of.
H - my soft toy monkey, Lucy. Some of you may have met Lucy. :)
I - a mostly blue box of Kleenex tissues, with starfish on.
J - chinese takeaway food (roast pork on rice) for eating soon (I'm
staying to work late).
K - another black intray, this one full of random bits of paper with
scribbled notes on.
L - a sheet of paper labelled "Phone Instructions", telling me vaguely
how to operate my desk phone.
M - me. :) On a chair. Rolly chair, no arms, high back. Legs go
under desk.
N - some random bits of blank A4 paper.
O - keyboard. In between O and M is a strange up'n'down desk
component... on which I have placed a cardboard box, an
out-of-date 2000 diary, and a wrist-rest thingy... which I use to
rest ... uh... the bits of my forearms just in front of my
elbows... on while typing.
P - palm IIIx cradle, on top of 4.
Q - wallet, currently open, because I haven't stuck it back into the
bat-belt component that holds it yet, on top of 4.
R - mobile phone, plugged into phone recharger cable, which goes down
through 0 and is plugged in to the wall. Sitting on top of 8.
S - a probably-scary-by-now takeaway black coffee in a styrofoam cup.
T - Rules for Diplomacy (C) 1976 Avalon Hill, 2nd Edition/Feb '82.
U - the 'doze PC, under the desk.
V - the Linux PC, under the desk.
W - my backpack, filled with a large amount of stuff. Music for choir
(Melbourne Uni Choral Society), spare clothes, random books, etc.
Urm. Yeah. :) That's my desk.
Ook,
Thorf
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"I'm going to move my dialup line onto Reason; Labyrinth is dropping
more often than Morgan's pants."
-- Be...@jeamland.net
TxxxPxx
> Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739, I bring you ye olde alt.gothic
> standby -
>
> What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
>
football stuff, BHAFC soccer stuff, Signed tickets to Damned gig Palace
13/4/97 (christ that's almost 4 years ago)
N ot much else.
My office is far more interesting but no computer so no point in posting.
TxxPopcanIplaytoo?
Slave Angel
> Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739, I bring you ye olde alt.gothic
> standby -
>
> What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
well I'm not in an office just a table in my bedroom, but who cares .. this
is sorta my office :)
I've been thinking of cleaning this up for a while actually this may
motivate me
a pile of CD roms with various stuffs on them..
a little Chinese girl dolly
a little vibrating cow toy
an empty tin of coffee flavoured sweets
gup stickers
David W comics
cassette tapes (stone roses and the cure )
blue velvet night club business card
a coffee mug
centre link letter
my qantas itinerary print out
a pack of fishermans friends
a bunch of florist wire I play with this while on the comp
the photos I got back today
some set lists
other scraps of paper
A*
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goth schmoth. give me drugs and alcohol and I'll dance to the sound of an
old man tapping out 'little spanish flea' on a boiled egg, whilst wearing
suspenders, board shorts and one of those hats that says 'boob
inspector'.~Dead Seraph.
Lilith
Great
> Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739, I bring you ye olde
alt.gothic
> standby -
>
> What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
I don't have an office, just a workstation, and at work we hot desk
(ie. a different desk every day). As I haven't been allocated a
locker yet, I don't have any personal items like pictures around my
desk, compared to Barbarella's it's quite stark:
(from left to right)
training folder with notes in it
phone and headset
scrap paper and pen
computer and keyboard
water bottle and keys
(under desk)
bag
I've had more interesting work environments in the past, when I used
to work for AAMI I had a Motorhead postcard up and photos of my
cats, and when I was at UE I bought a small (Disney) that sat on my
desk, which I took to and then left at my last job for them to
remember me by.
I'm now sitting at my desk (table) at home which is slightly more
interesting:
Above the computer there is a postcard of Rossetti's Lady Lilith
that a dear person from acg sent to me.
On the computer I have a small ceramic unicorn and a small gargoyle
with a chipped ear, called George, that were given to me by Fran
sitting in front of the monitor, and on top of the monitor I have a
tiny pound puppy type dog that I can't bear to throw out even though
I don't talk with the giver (he's gone Amway *shudder*) anymore.
To the side of the computer I have some papers to go through and a
small glass box with a pyramid lid filled with crystals, which was
given to me by Cosey Mo (some of the crystals I had already) and a
mug that I just had my tea in.
To the front of the computer I have a plate that I just ate my toast
off, the teabag from the tea on it, my watch (my wrist started
aching), a figurine of Stimpy on his litter tray, a figurine of
Casper the friendly ghost that glows in the dark sitting in the
engine of a ghost train that I got in '95 from KFC a bit of yellow
tak with a rubber band on it and a compact mirror covered in furry
zebra striped material.
Still not as interesting as Barbarella's stuff though :-) Oh, and
Thorfinn? You've made me want Chinese food!
Liz
--
"Sure, it's just a tailored hallucination we all agreed to have,
cyberspace, but anybody jacks in knows, fucking knows it's a whole
universe. And every year it gets a little more crowded, sounds
like..." - William Gibson, "Count Zero"
StoneFace
> In the tradition of Great Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,740 and Great
> Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739, I bring you ye olde alt.gothic
> standby -
>
> What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
Umm, ok, my first actual 'big' contribution to the group. For some reason
I'm kinda scared... ;o)
-a springy lamp thing
-a Monty Python daily calendar (today it tells me "kissing makes you blind")
-a box of disks
-my glasses
-a remote for my stereo
-a deck of Singapore Airlines cards
-a calculator
-address book
-keys
-wallet
-pack of batteries
-double bass rosin
-cello rosin
-double bass
-cello
-3 guitars (two acoustic, one electric
-electric bass
-flute
-music stand
-music
-last year's art folio
-slide projector
-a pile of MX
-bin
-backpack
-speakers
-cds (audio and data)
-magazines
-a Droop (funny rock sculpture from Ireland)
-keyring with a preserved scorpion in it
-photo albums
-a poster of a chick leaning on a cross (from Peril Underground - I think
her name's Emily)
-Type O World Coming Down poster (so sue me)
-a finger painting of a figure's back with yellow hand prints on it's ass
(painted by a Danish friend for me)
-pastel drawing of a fish (by same Danish friend)
-Chinese calligraphy drawing of bamboo
-photo of Spike giving a two finger salute (from Hush)
-photos of Angels I've taken in cemeteries
-a heap of postcards covering the rest of the wall
-a sheet (to protect the floor from charcoal when I draw)
-a broken MD player
-assorted MDs
-a discman
-container of coffee
-half a pack of Extra
-various power adapters
-empty soft drink bottles
That's about it, without going too overboard and in depth. I'm sure you're
all not that interested. Have a nice day.
*I don't know, I don't care,
and it doesn't make any difference.*
Light
* D&D 3rd addition players handbook
* Photo's I was planning to scan in looking a bit bent
* Cyberpunk CD out of case, Spawn soundtrack CD case with hmm windows 2000
CD in it
too many mixed up CDs to name now I'm looking
* Tiny yellow post it notes with everquest locs (to be destroyed as of now)
* Baldures gate II manual......
<wishes she had a bigger desk>
-Light
Barbarella <barba...@internettrash.com> wrote in message
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> In the tradition of Great Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,740 and Great
> Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739, I bring you ye olde alt.gothic
> standby -
>
> What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
>
> I've had to concentrate on only a very small area of my office to
> compile this (admittedly ginormous) list. If I did everything I can see
> from here, I'd still be typing this tomorrow morning. But here goes...
>
<snip>
*LittleChinaGirl*
<barba...@internettrash.com> wrote:
>In the tradition of Great Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,740 and Great
>Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739, I bring you ye olde alt.gothic
>standby -
>
> What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
My desk, as well as the rest of my room, is a bombsite at the moment,
so....
~a copy of 'Literature, Culture, History'- a subject reader
~a black and red riding crop (?!)
~a digital camera and case
~The Oxford Companion to English Lit.
~a fluffy pink feather thing
~A folder with Buffy on it containing law notes
~my watch
~ a fluffly droopy dog creature which is actually a storage basket
~Butterworth's Legal Dictionary, Torts: Cases & Commentary
~Arnott's shortbread biscuits
~purple sticky-tape dispenser
~various bits of paper, receipts, phone numbers etc
~Map of the European Union
~mineral water bottle
~an empty Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs mug from Eurodisney
~a blue lamp with a bouncing Hello Kitty stuck on it
~A Cathay Pacific mousepad
~pens, pencils, disks, highlighters and post-it notes
~pictures of me and Cam, me and Janie, me and my grandmother...
~picture of me dressed up as a faery for the medieval faire a couple
of years ago
~uni diary
~torn tissue paper from recent purchases at Alannah Hill
~mobile phone charger
~huge Oxford's Dictionary
~Managing Identity in Contemporary Europe- subject reader
~red nail polish
~make-up compact
~measuring tape
~CD rack with CDs
~pair of pink leopard furry cat ears
~pair of black pvc cat ears
~a rather large ostrich feather and flowered headpiece/veil/thingie
Cleo gave me
~a 'Things To Do' list, crumped and discarded
~ Edward Scissorhands doll, Nightmare Before Xmas Sally and Jack
figurines Cam gave me for Valentine's this year. Jack is currently
collapsed because the rest of his body is insufficiently supported by
his bendy legs. *sigh*
~all four of the Harry Potter books
~this month's Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire and In Style Magazines
(god bless trashy mags!)
~ Black and White magazines from months back
~two rolls of undeveloped b & w film
~a notebook with a purple burmese cat on it
~my precious baby, a Nikon F50 camera
~The University of Melbourne Undergraduate Guide
~tissues
*LittleChinaGirl*
(if our psychological well-being is reflected in our surroundings, I
would currently be very very schizophrenic)
Mr Q. Z. Diablo
<barba...@internettrash.com> wrote:
> In the tradition of Great Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,740 and Great
> Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739, I bring you ye olde alt.gothic
> standby -
>
> What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
Firstly, I have four minotaurs. From left to right they are a 17" Sun,
a 19" Sun, a 17" Dell and a 17" Digital.
Around my desk:
- Cables. Lots of them.
- A wooden box atop which sits my Sparc 20.
- A 2Gb external hard drive on its side.
- A box of foam.
- A coffee cup.
Around my monitors (on my desk) from right to left:
- 2 x DLT7000 cartridge plastic case thingies.
- The top of a pringles tube.
- A CD (burned) with the Legato client for Windoze on it.
- Various serial connectors.
- Some screws.
- A 10oz beer glass with a dead ant in it.
- My Macintosh.
- My Mac's keyboard and mouse.
- A piece of paper with stuff about installed packages on it.
- My pen.
- A Dell mouse mat.
- A Sun mouse mat.
- My PeeCee, its keyboard and mouse.
- Copies of NewScientist.
- Printed out man pages.
- 2 O'Reilly books on Perl.
- A jar of truly execrable tea bags.
- My PeeCee's speakers.
- Backup tape labels.
- Backup record cards.
- A broken ruler.
- A phillips head screwdriver.
- Some CDs with software on them.
- Some pamphlets from various unscrupulous technology companies.
- My in and out trays.
- A box containinng crap SBUS graphics cards.
- Some more serial connectors.
- A drive mounting bracket for something or other.
- My notebook.
Mr Q. Z. D.
----
Drinker, systems administrator, wannabe writer, musician and all-round bastard.
"Alright brain, I don't like you and you don't like me... so let's just do this
and I'll get back to killing you with beer."
Kage-Ryu
person and screamed:
>In the tradition of Great Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,740 and Great
>Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739, I bring you ye olde alt.gothic
>standby -
>
> What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
Psychology texts. Fairness in Children, How to write Psychology
Reports, Moral Development of Childred... The list goes on.
*Teatowel.
*Black wool.
*Various CDs.
*Chadstone: The Fashion Capital catalogue
*Issue of Cleo Magazine - YES! TRASH!
*Two orange disks that I can't tell apart - one is important, the
other is blank. Bugger. I should label one of them.
*Medea and Other Plays by Euripides. Old, old, falling to pieces
copy.
*Graphics calculator.
*Dilbert book I keep intending to loan to Spark
*Sticky tape, pens, pencils, gluestick, other such stationery
*Tool-kit
*University work - essay drafts, print-outs, letters, things like
that.
*Scanner
*My digital camera
*Revlon quick-dring nailpolish
*Purple/pink flower from Alannah Hill
*My taxfile number
*Hairties of all varieties
*My watch
And other stuff that really needn't be mentioned. That was really,
really boring.
Kage-Ryu
"The only consistent feature of all your dissatisfying relationships is you."
-- Dysfunction Valentine's Day Slogan
Spyinthesky
> Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739, I bring you ye olde alt.gothic
> standby -
>
> What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
>
> I've had to concentrate on only a very small area of my office to
> compile this (admittedly ginormous) list. If I did everything I can see
> from here, I'd still be typing this tomorrow morning. But here goes...
I like reading stuff like this for some reason. I've read every single item
of every single post!
On my monitor:
-Black background, with picture of Russell and the other gladiators looking
tough as.
On my desk:
-Keyboard (that's broken because I had a tanty and slammed it against the
desk)
-Mouse pad-a Carlton Football Club one embarrassing enough
-A mouse that needs a clean
-A lamp that all my friends say is too bright and evil but I think it's fine
-A computer speaker that probably doesn't work
-A 'Black Sambo' doll that's wedge in the lamp stand thing (don't ask)
-A pair of scissors
-A pile of change I was going to put in the photocopy card thing yesterday
but forgot
-A copy of Gladiator on video!!!!! (haven't watched it yet)
-A pile of 'With Compliments' papers that I pinched from work
-A pile of notepads with the company logo that i also pinched from work
-A tube of pimple cream (!)
-A pile of Abyss passes which I suppose I should try and use up
-A pile of black post-it notes
-My wallet (sadly quite empty)
-A tube of SPF 30 sunscreen
-A nice photo frame my other half gave my for Xmas that I havent' put a
photo in yet
-A pile of Spooky stickers and some cat stickers
-My choker which I've been meaning to fix (One of the beads fell off and i
keep forgetting to glue it back on)
-My three make up bags:
-A boring black one full of eyemakeup
-A snow leopard one full of foundations and powders
-A black mesh one full of lipsticks, liners
-A little cat toy that my mum gave me for Valentines Day (She felt sorry for
me)
-A can of coke
My desk is boring.
--
"I'm in the unfortunate position of having to consider other people's
feelings"
jerry-seinfeld.
:::spy:::
Belegdel
>In the tradition of Great Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,740 and Great
>Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739, I bring you ye olde alt.gothic
>standby -
>
> What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
Woo! A Poll.
Starting back and to my left...
Filing cabinet supporting
-A copy of a Wired magazine featuring the Microsoft Anti-trust case
-My fire warden's hard-hat
-A copy of O'Reillys Sed and Awk book. I think I've even opened it
once or twice.
-Old internal mail envelopes, old empty folders, an old GU diary
and sundry bits of paper.
Then on to my desk:
- A tall pile of "stuff". Even I don't know what's there.
- A copy of O'Reilly's Programming Perl. Old, much used and much
loved.
- More "stuff" but a bit more recent and more identifiable. This
represents the bits and pieces I should be working on.
- Left computer speaker supporting the severed and fake-blood
splattered head of a fluffy duck. Ancient and powerful talisman of
fear that it isn't.
- Phone and it's annoying headphones.
- PC supporting:
- a monitor
- a nasty tin rat thing my parents retrieved from Perth for me by
way of gift.
- a Batman eraser (unused)
- 3 black plastic spiders
- a "101 Dalmations" Sticker of a buppy with a red teddybear in its
chops.
- a poseable Mecha-Godzilla figure holding aloft a GitD skull
earring (with long fake hair) in one arm, and a Nerf dart beneath the
other.
- A copy of the Divisional Values for reference and amusement
- Then my black coffee mug on it's CD coaster (blank CD)
- My cofee and sugar.
- Right side speader supporting an empty Glacier Spring water bottle
- A near-life-sized GitD skull.
- My Marvin The Martian glasses case.
- The CD's I brought in today
- and old fan because the air conditioning in here always breaks down
in February.
- stapler and fodler of user accounts 'n stuff.
The whole arrangement sprinkled with an annoying number (ie >0) of
ants.
--
Belegdel | "Trouble with computers of course
| is that they're very sophisticated
| idiots." - Dr Who
Neef
headlines claiming :
>In the tradition of Great Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,740 and Great
>Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739, I bring you ye olde alt.gothic
>standby -
>
> What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
Left to Right:
-In Tray, Out Tray and Cant be fucked Trayc sitting on an old Mac
LC475 box.
-Left speaker
-Monitor with a gloom cookie panel on it, Fork with the words Fork U
2! stuck onto it. Post it note with the following words "Bivalved
Sonar Ping! Must 4 Gaffa tape your modular frequencies to prevent
tonal infarction" Dentist appointment reminder card over the power
switch.
-Bottle of water.
-Right speaker (with power and volume control)
-1 Dell Dimension XPS T450.
-1 Zip drive.
-1 Piece of paper with a Lost Doctor Suess Poem on it.
-Bag
-Funky Jacket
-Mini disc Player
-Keys.
I have a huge fucking desk, in a large office, I have fuck all on it.
Maybe I need some photos or something...
Neef (blah)
--
You know, maybe it was the syphilis talking, But some of
that actually made sense.
neef @ vurt . net
Trayce
>-In Tray, Out Tray and Cant be fucked Trayc sitting on an old Mac
>LC475 box.
Umm *ahem* nice Freudian slip there, neefy dear :)
Trayc (heh)
revolution #9
Barbarella wrote in message +ADw-3ACBEFB5.8EDAF71E+AEA-internettrash.com+AD4-...
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+AD4-standby -
+AD4-
+AD4- What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
+AFs-snip+AF0-
this is a nice poll..
right -+AD4- left
laptop in the middle
yellow/white pages being used as a mousemat, w/ mouse on top
money box
bong
gas tube stolen from science, used to hold pens
pestle with mortar on a cupboard further to the right
nana mouscouri+AGA-ish sunglasses
an old looking fleetwood mac tape (??)
a barrel pencil sharpener
a mullgrinder
a hairclip
one of those coathangers that has wooden edges which press together
pink nailpolish
a jar of salt
a plastic elephant
webcam
empty film packet +AFs-kodak gold 200+AF0-
a remote control
pair of scissors
mullgrinder
hairspray
+ACI-html for dummies+ACI-
a paper bag
a scallop shell shaped yellow ceramic mullbowl with a joint in it
thats all
come to think of it its a shitboring desk, too
-emma
+ACI-These days, the only time politicians are telling the truth is when they
call each other a liar.+ACI-
- Alfred E. Neuman
http://members.dingoblue.net.au/+AH4-laeta/
Sandro
Trayce <tra...@somethingorother.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 06 Apr 2001 13:48:12 +1000, Neef <ne...@sloth.vurt.net>
>wrote:
>>-In Tray, Out Tray and Cant be fucked Trayc sitting on an old
>Mac LC475 box.
>Umm *ahem* nice Freudian slip there, neefy dear :)
Really? What, lost the key to the chastity belt, Trayce?
Sandro - it's out of the question, I'm not taking my dentata out
for just anyone.
--
Carthage Must Be Destroyed - Cato the Elder
Neef
<tra...@somethingorother.com> appeared in the Weekly World News
headlines claiming :
>On Fri, 06 Apr 2001 13:48:12 +1000, Neef <ne...@sloth.vurt.net> wrote:
>
>>-In Tray, Out Tray and Cant be fucked Trayc sitting on an old Mac
>>LC475 box.
>
>Umm *ahem* nice Freudian slip there, neefy dear :)
>
Yup...you all heard me, Ive got a I cant be fucked Trayce sitting on
me desk.
Its the new toy Im going to market.
Its a little doll of Trayce (comes complete with gin bottle and
martini glass) and sit there and occasionally says things like
"nah....to tired"
"Got a headache, maybe tommorow"
"Cant be fucked"
"Sorry..dont have enough cash"
"I have to work tommorow"
Neef (woohoo)
Kitsune
>"nah....to tired"
>"Got a headache, maybe tommorow"
>"Cant be fucked"
>"Sorry..dont have enough cash"
>"I have to work tommorow"
Hrmm you forgot a few
"as much as I think you're great, that would just be ieeewwwww"
"get fucked!"
"urghh nah, I feel bloated"
Though why you would want to hear that all day still eludes me.
Kitsune, I'm still wondering why you have a mac on your desk.
Trayce
wrote:
>On Fri, 06 Apr 2001 15:03:04 +1000, Neef <ne...@sloth.vurt.net> tippy-tapped:
>>"nah....to tired"
>>"Got a headache, maybe tommorow"
>>"Cant be fucked"
>>"Sorry..dont have enough cash"
>>"I have to work tommorow"
>
>Hrmm you forgot a few
>
>"as much as I think you're great, that would just be ieeewwwww"
>"get fucked!"
>"urghh nah, I feel bloated"
You're both RUINING my chances of shag a rama with anyone, you
realise.
*grarumph*
Trayce (I don't whine that much... honest guv)
Madi
>
>You're both RUINING my chances of shag a rama with anyone, you
>realise.
Shag a rama? You want to carpet a Hindu god?
Trayce - you're weird.
-Madi
--
I'm a thousand years young, I've got a bod made for high-speed sinning
and there's a whole universe out there that hasn't met me yet.
-Durham Red
Kitsune
>tra...@somethingorother.com: Chapter 3, verses 9-16
>>
>>You're both RUINING my chances of shag a rama with anyone, you
>>realise.
>
>Shag a rama? You want to carpet a Hindu god?
ROFLMAO.
Well its a better aspiration than some.
Lucky I wasn't drinking anything when I read this.... almost made me snort.
Kitsune, but Trayce, you're taken. ;-)
Neef
>
>
>Kitsune, I'm still wondering why you have a mac on your desk.
Because it does several important things, Some of which are the most
effiicient things one can use Mac for;
-it keeps my in tray, out tray and cant be fucked tray up at a
convienient height.
-its a good paper weight.
-It confused people
-its a good conversation starter (worked on your didnt it? :) )
-as an apparently geek, its been bought to my attention that I have to
have some amount of obsolete hardware sitting on the desk somewhere,
So this increases my resemblence to a geek while I walk among you puny
earth creatures gathering information to transmit to my alien masters
(all hail Bono!) that will enable a swifter more complete conquest of
this hideous ball of dust.
-besides..it looks kinda cool...
Kitsune
>-its a good conversation starter (worked on your didnt it? :) )
yeah I suppose it is.
>
>-as an apparently geek, its been bought to my attention that I have to
>have some amount of obsolete hardware sitting on the desk somewhere,
>So this increases my resemblence to a geek while I walk among you puny
>earth creatures gathering information to transmit to my alien masters
>(all hail Bono!) that will enable a swifter more complete conquest of
>this hideous ball of dust.
Macs bring geekdom not...or something like that.
now if you had an old spectrum sitting on your desk, that would be a different
matter.
And I'm no earth creature... well I don't think I am... I'll have to check back
with you on that.
>
>-besides..it looks kinda cool...
but its a *Mac*
I would've preferred one of those titanium G4s but I dunno what use it is for
me.
Kitsune, puter envy? I think not.
sy...@locust.paradox.net.au
> What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
Lets see...
1. Backups server consisting of a Sun Netra plus two external
hard drives and an external tape drive. A couple of internal
fans sitting on the top. All looking very Mayan temple/pyramid
like...
2. Sun 19" monitor. Still in nice condition.
3. Generic Intel clone PC running Linux that the Sun monitor is
connected to. On top of that is a Cisco 2511 that is little more
than a test box for me to do evil things to before evil things
get done to the network proper.
4. Phone.
5. Cables everywhere.
6. In/Out tray.
7. Ciggies, coffee.
8. Business cards that I'm never out and about enough to bother
distributing much.
9. Couple of plastic cups.
10. Webcam that was destined for other things. It's pointing at
a wall.
That's about it.
Hobbes
>On Fri, 06 Apr 2001 05:07:27 GMT, kit...@enternet.com.au (Kitsune)
>appeared in the Weekly World News headlines claiming :
>
>>
>>
>>Kitsune, I'm still wondering why you have a mac on your desk.
>
>Because it does several important things, Some of which are the most
>effiicient things one can use Mac for;
>
>
>-besides..it looks kinda cool...
>
I got scared off macs when madi decided that plugging in the
old mac classic as it has a cool screen saver which flashes warning
messages in klingon would be a cool thing as house decoration.
Then to ensure it remained showing the screen saver - he removed the
keyboard and mouse
Its horrible...
and you know what - he moved to canberra over a month ago now - and the
damn thing is still in the office flashing klingon warning signals
at me..
Hobbes (beware the stobor)
--
<arty> non-gender-specific deranged non-specific sharp pointy
thing on a stick weilding homicidal maniac
<Holocaine> arty: You mean Hobbes?
Thorfinn
David Gerard <f...@thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On 5 Apr 2001 07:33:58 GMT,
> Thorfinn <thor...@tertius.net.au> wrote:
> :I have a desk arranged:
> :/--------------------|
> :|0 VVVVV GH I |
> :| 66 87 TG I KK |
> :|U66998R D KK |
> :|U 6996 OC E F J L |
> :|U 66 O/>-----------|
> :|U 5 O//M W
> :| 744</MMM W
> :| 4PA| M
> :| S44Q |
> :|BB 33 |
> :|BB 21 |
> :| 11 |
> :|NN |
> :|______|
> *Damn* I wish I'd thought of doing my answer that way.
*chuckle* I've been on Usenet *waaaay* too long to *not* think of
doing my answer that way. :)
ASCII Art r0x0rs! ;)
ook,
Thorf
--
<a href="http://tertius.net.au/~thorfinn">thor...@tertius.net.au</a>
E is for Emily, whom snakes sprayed with venom
F is for Fiona, who prayed in Gehennom...
-- Sam Needham <snee...@viking.dvc.edu> in rec.games.roguelike.nethack
TxxxPxx
"StoneFace" <ston...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> Barbarella wrote:
>
> > In the tradition of Great Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,740 and Great
> > Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739, I bring you ye olde alt.gothic
> > standby -
> -a finger painting of a figure's back with yellow hand prints on it's ass
> (painted by a Danish friend for me)
> -pastel drawing of a fish (by same Danish friend)
Do you have a Danish connection (other than the friend of course). I'm of
Danish heritage & very interested in the modern (ie NOT Viking) culture.
TxxxPop
TxxxPxx
"Spyinthesky" <na...@Russellcrowe.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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>
> Barbarella <barba...@internettrash.com> wrote in message
> news:3ACBEFB5...@internettrash.com...
> > In the tradition of Great Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,740 and Great
> > Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739, I bring you ye olde alt.gothic
> > standby -
> >
> > What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
> >
> > I've had to concentrate on only a very small area of my office to
> > compile this (admittedly ginormous) list. If I did everything I can see
> > from here, I'd still be typing this tomorrow morning. But here goes...
>
> I like reading stuff like this for some reason. I've read every single
item
> of every single post!
>
Me too. (whoops sorry. I believe there are a few reasons these polls are so
addictive.
1. It helps you get a better (if sometimes not so acurate) picture of each
member of the group, the ones you connect with most, & find other links
with.
2. Its a game the whole family can play. You do not need to have particular
knowledge, have seen particular films, know a particular
band/album/whatever. All you need to have is your own experience.
3. It helps us to realize that we are all as diverse as each other. No need
for a guilt trip about not having a goth-enuf desk, or making sure that
every gig you list in your top 10 is gothacceptable. (I made those words up.
Could you tell?) It helps remove any doubt that we might have that liking
this or that isn't gothenuf. I loved the gig poll especially for this
reason - we had responses ranging from Red Gum to Bowie to *insert your own
version of non-gothasfuck band*. Diversity is what binds us & makes us
interesting to each other. The common label that we use may be what drew us
all here but it ain't what keeps us posting.
*hic* slurry voice "I luvs youse guys"
TxxxPop
TxxxPop
Nicky
>In the tradition of Great Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,740 and Great
>Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739, I bring you ye olde alt.gothic
>standby -
>
> What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
>
i've been keeping a low profile lately so here goes, here's my lot.
needless to say, this is home not work:
- pile of black petticoats
- red texta
- several purple candles
- large pile of unopened redirected mail
- black velvet girly handbag
- faster modem waiting to be connected to my pc
- slower modem, pc and stuff etc
- glass of red wine
- bottle of red wine
- folder: moonee valley recreation, culture and festivals community
committee agendas and minutes
- loose change
- feathers, and other remains of dead bird
- bottle of grand marnier
- gateway cow key ring
- hair mousse
- more purple candles
- matchbox from 'Polly'
- another black petticoat
nicky (running late, as always. damn)
malice bob
> What's Around Your Monitor And Desk?
well seeing as my computer is out in the kitcheny area and my desk is in my
bedroomy area im going to kinda cheat and answer for both of them :)
computer desk:
copy of my fanzine,
monitor,
printer,
modem,
tray that my chips were on till i did eat them,
box o' matches,
glass of bacardi and lemon (yummo!)
big honkin black ashtray,
mouse on mouse pad,
masking tape,
lil' pile of rubbish,
copy of the dark crystal,
my box,
letters from the perth boi,
photo of the perth boi,
oven mitts,
bottle of bacardi,
half crushed pack of stuyvies,
pics of orangutans on the wall,
desk in room:
pin up board w/ lots of photos of me and friends, pic of paul mcdermott,
witches calendar my mum sent me,
bits of paper work for work,
intray and outtray for my zine(im so office-like :))
jar of pens and pencils,
wad of blutack,
ashtray,
calculator,
random $20 notes that i found,
copies of my zine,
diary,
copy of leonard cohens 'beautiful losers'
broken cd cases,
broken boots,
broken sunglasses
broken cassette tape.
-little miss malice(so i break alot of things, shuddup dammit!)
--
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StoneFace
> > > In the tradition of Great Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,740 and Great
> > > Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739, I bring you ye olde alt.gothic
> > > standby -
> <snip>
> > -a finger painting of a figure's back with yellow hand prints on it's ass
> > (painted by a Danish friend for me)
> > -pastel drawing of a fish (by same Danish friend)
>
> Do you have a Danish connection (other than the friend of course). I'm of
> Danish heritage & very interested in the modern (ie NOT Viking) culture.
>
> TxxxPop
No, sorry, I've got no Danish in me. But my friend did take me to some sort of
Danish food festival a few years ago. I don't think I've ever tasted so many
incredible foods before. Twas amazing.
TxxxPxx
> TxxxPxx wrote:
>
> > > > In the tradition of Great Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,740 and
Great
> > > > Pointless Polls Of Our Time #22,739, I bring you ye olde alt.gothic
> > > > standby -
> > <snip>
> > > -a finger painting of a figure's back with yellow hand prints on it's
ass
> > > (painted by a Danish friend for me)
> > > -pastel drawing of a fish (by same Danish friend)
> >
> > Do you have a Danish connection (other than the friend of course). I'm
of
> > Danish heritage & very interested in the modern (ie NOT Viking) culture.
> >
> > TxxxPop
>
> No, sorry, I've got no Danish in me. But my friend did take me to some
sort of
> Danish food festival a few years ago. I don't think I've ever tasted so
many
> incredible foods before. Twas amazing.
>
(feast). We invited the Danish crowd but also a few of our Aussie friends.
It was very funny watching them struggle with the concept of red & white
herrings, smoked eel with scrambled egg, frigedella, & a variety of other
food that they, eventually, simply did't ask what it was. I think what made
the night was there was no-one who refused to try everything on the table.
Naturally washing it down with aakvavidt made it all a little easier, well a
lot easier.
The funniest thing was watching them, in a drunken stupor, try to write down
the lyrics of the Danish drinking songs phonetically & then re-singing them.
They totally screwed it up but it was very funny.
One of the things I love about Australia is our multi-culturalism. I love
the fact that, for the most part, we get to see the very best of so many
cultures, traditions, food & people.
*sigh*
I won't hold it against you that you're not Danish. ;)
TxxxPop
StoneFace
> One of the things I love about Australia is our multi-culturalism. I love
> the fact that, for the most part, we get to see the very best of so many
> cultures, traditions, food & people.
I'm lucky in that respect sinec I've got enough of a mix in my blood that I can
pass of for many things in different company.
> *sigh*
>
> I won't hold it against you that you're not Danish. ;)
Well, that's certainly a positive point. :o)
Barbarella
>
> Barbarella <barba...@internettrash.com> wrote:
> >Sandro wrote:
> >><snippage of a million things, one of which could get me
> >>killed>
> >T'was but a peck! *smirk* (though, as you once said, it
> >_looks_ far more salacious than it actually was)
>
> No comment. No comment no comment no comment. I am tempted to
> come up with something Clintonesque, but I shan't :))
I don't even like cigars. :)
> >>1 photocopy of a picture of that sandstone building on the
> >>corner of Collins and Swanston, from higher up in the Paris
> >>end, filtered and black and white, goth as fuck :))
>
> >Eerrmm... the Town Hall?
>
> No, smarty pvc pants, it's across the road from there, has a
> weird spire type thing with a very expensive penthouse at the
> top. Sells handbags or some such.
The Manchester Unity building. Is it sandstone though? *perplexed
expression* I harbour my doubts on that one...
> >>1 postcard from Whitby
>
> >I wonder what beautiful, sexy goddess was gracious enough to
> >spare you a thought whilst she was overseas? ;)
>
> I originally self-edited myself, having had directly after it,
> "from She Who Cannot Help But Be Named, The B!!" but I thought,
> discretion, valour, past references, etc... :)
Oh well... guess I'm just not the discrete sort. ;)
Barbarella.
(i am actually - have to be, considering some of the people I've done)
Did I say "people"? I meant "things".
--
TheUnfaithfulWriter: http://www.internettrash.com/users/barbarella.
Several hundred miles of snaking tarmac,
Leads to smoky door, violent sound & haunting spirits,
Amongst them, an object of fantasy,
Black lace and spiky hair, penetrating eyes, & a ghostly grin. -jbk
Barbarella
>
> On Thu, 05 Apr 2001 14:08:21 +1000,
>
> :- 1 gratuitous pic of sexxy deth chyk with nice tits
>
> Who?
Dunno. Found her somewhere or other on the web and took a bit of a
shine, as it were.
Oh! Ooh! It's the same picture as the one on the birthday card I made
for you this year! That's da one!
> :- 3 small colour reproductions of paintings by my pal Chris Winer
>
> Painter of 'Manga Girl', for those who've ever been in my house.
http://www.furwiner.com (includes a scan of said "Manga Girl")
> :- 1 cut-out headline that says I SEE DUD PEOPLE
>
> *applause*
Good, non? :)
Barbarella.