-M- How about personal FAQ's?

[warlock]

Hey everybody...

I am probably not the first person to mention this, but it may be a
real help to some of us if anyone who wanted to would post a FAQ of
their personal data (at least, whatever they wanted to say about
themselves).
For instance, I'm dying to know more about some of the 'nicks that
people are using (the Yum Yum Boy comes to mind immediately!!)
Anyone want to start posting FAQ's so I can learn more about you?!
I'm sure I'm not the only one interested...

--
"Let me get this straight...
Every woman I've ever loved, cared about, or trusted
Has left me broken hearted and alone, and you want me to trust you?!?
...Yeah, right" -- ul...@teleport.com

[Sebastian5]

This is my resume on our school network. I pasted it here:

NAME: Margaret Taliaferro Morris
NICKNAME: Maggie
OTHER NICKNAMES: That Bitch, Kyra Sebastian Rosenzweig Walker, The
Magsmobile, Dominatrixmags, Naughtymags, Miiiiagniiiifiiiciiient,
goodlittlewelladjustedmags, maggie big buff crew goddess
BIRTHDAY: 8/18/80
AGE: 16 (and a half!!)
HEIGHT: 6 feet even
WEIGHT: Probably somewhere around 150. I don't weigh myself.
HAIR COLOR: Reddish or something.
NATURAL HAIR COLOR: brown
EYE COLOR: dark dark brown (Cory says I have cow eyes)
GLASSES: contacts that consistantly make my eyes bleed
TRANSPORTATION: 1985 Plymouth Voyager, aka The Bitchmobile, Gus, Stu, The
Millenium Falcon
TURNONS: feet, speedos...no, really, i'll be serious. Skinny guys who
are nice and honest and funny and have pretty eyes and hopefully like
decent music. Tall would be nice, but I tend to go for the short.
TURNOFFS: donuts. hockey players who look like monkeys. (not ALL hockey
players though.) hackers who look like monkeys. smelling like right
guard. smelling like ryan. guys who like megadeth. republicans.
closedminded buttmunches (see "republicans"). people who speak ebonics.
people who like war. people who suck. people who are mean to FUBARs.
Rolo (who keeps CALLING me!). Olshan.
KEWL STUFF: tori amos. cocteau twins. kate bush. ani difranco. curve.
smiths. dead can dance. sundays. talking heads. nin. star wars.
urusei yatsura. er. party of five. friends. seinfeld. relativity.
simpsons. david duchovny. noah wyle. elijah wood. mark. stephanie.
nick. tom. ryan. liz. ash. alex. malani. (the real) gus. sean.
jode. noli/the olenas/my baby andrew. pierre. elusis. abby. karen.
doug. aimee. jose. judas. joanne. ben waggonner. bramble/nymsa/the
hostages. snowboarding. writing. reading. advanced acting class.
RMT-A. nymphomania.

SECTION 2.0: YUP, QUOTES

"My daughter poked me and shouted 'WHY CAN'T YOU BE NORMAL??' And her
teacher rapped her on the shins with a cane and said 'he IS normal, what
you MEANT to say is AVERAGE.'"
-Utah Phillips

"I was trying to test the limits...of my instrument."
-Tori Amos

"We shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of
the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real."
-Sylvia Plath

"This is not my skin
I was invited in"
-Frente

"Love peace and harmony, love peace and harmony
Oh very nice very nice very nice
But maybe in the next world"
-Smiths

"I would prefer to live life than be told about it."
-Joan Yin Cheung

"I was four years old when they tried to test my IQ.
They showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear,
They asked me which one is different and does not belong,
They taught me different is wrong."
-Ani Difranco.

"Dr. Cruces seems to have fallen in the hoho"
-Terry Pratchett

"To thrust all that life under your tongue!--
that, all by itself, becomes a passion."
-Anne Sexton

"I was hoping you wouldn't see them. I was trying to tidy up when
bing-bong the door went and I thought, 'S**t! The dildos!'"
- Trent Reznor

"I don't torture defenseless animals. I torture people, cuz they suck."
-Stephanie Spavento

THERE! Sorry so long.

-mags

--------------------------------------------
MAGGIE T. MORRIS
Pham...@aol.com/Sebas...@aol.com
Big Woman/ Kevillist/ Episcopagan/ 2$ Whore
Voted most insightful by a jury of her maladjusted peers
"Dr. Cruces seems to have fallen in the hoho" -Terry Pratchett
"No matter how new age you get, old age is gonna kick your ass." -Utah Phillips

[Joanne]

<sinister laugh>
Well, I loved Maggie's format so much, I thought I'd steal it! :p
</sinister laugh>
Actually, I did add a few categories, so there ;)...

NAME: Joanne Lynn Wittenberg (a lil' hillbilly when you say it aloud)
NICKNAME: Jo
OTHER NICKNAMES: Jo Jo Dancer, sasquash, snatch (my brother's nickname
for me -- aren't siblings wonderful?!?)
BIRTHDAY: May 1, 1974
AGE: 22, creeping up on 23
HEIGHT: 5' 6"
WEIGHT: A fluctuating 120-125
HAIR COLOR: Red for now, although I'm planning on dying it back to the
original brown color and adding red & blond highlights. mmmmm...
NATURAL HAIR COLOR: Brown
EYE COLOR: Green w/ a little blue
GLASSES: for reading
RESIDENCE: w/ the mom & the step'rent in a 'burb of Chicago, Illinois,
USA until I fly the coop next spring
TRANSPORTATION: 1995 white Pontiac Sunfire or my bike or my feet...
SO: I've had the same bf for the past 6.5 years. *yawn*
SCHOOL: I hate school. Fuck school. Fuck school hard.
OCCUPATION: Art Director at a rather conservative ad agency, however,
I expect the place of employment to change soon (I hope)
SMAE FLAVOR: caramel apple <:Y <---like my chewing smiley?
TURNONS: Touch my neck and I'll go mad. Let's just say that when I
got the tattoo on the back of my neck, it was quite an orgasmic
experience. *shiver*
TURNOFFS: Power-trippers, disrespect, age/sex discrimination, know-it-
alls who are really know-nothings, out-of-control tempers, guilt-
trippers, promise-breakers, oh -- and head cheese-eaters. :b
KEWL STUFF: Tori, Toricon, Toriphiles, RMT-A, Alice Walker, free
coffee mugs, vegetable & rice steamers, vegetarians in general,
bees, tattoos, piercings, most things red, frogs, maragritas,
Genesse Cream Ale, Don's Coffee Club, Chicago, snow, shoes, chapstick,
mocha lattes, salsa, Pad Thai, caramel apples, The Dent, Erasure, Ani,
Sarah, Sean, Demetra, Valia, mom, the step'rent, the grand'rents &
even the bro.

SECTION 2.0: YUP, QUOTES

"Dear God...
...your name is on a lot of quotes in this book,
us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look,
and all the people that you made in your image,
still believin' that junk is true,
well I know it ain't and so do you, dear god"

Sarah McLaughlin

"And the angel of the lord came unto me, snatching me up from my
place of slumber. And took me on high, and higher still until we
moved to the spaces betwixt the air itself. And he brought me into
a vast farmlands of our own midwest. And as we descended, cries of
impending doom rose from the soil. One thousand, nay a million
voices full of fear. And terror possesed me then. And I begged,
"Angel of the Lord, what are these tortured screams?" And the
angel said unto me, "These are the cries of the carrots, the cries
of the carrots! You see, Reverend Maynard, tomorrow is harvest day
and to them it is the holocaust." And I sprang from my slumber
drenched in sweat like the tears of one million terrified brothers
and roared, "Hear me now, I have seen the light! They have a
consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let
the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers!" Can I get an amen?
Can I get a hallelujah? Thank you Jesus."

Maynard James Keenan

"I take one one one cause you left me,
and two two two for my family,
and three three three for my heartache,
and four four four for my headache,
and five five five for my lonely,
and six six six for my sorrow,
and seven seven for n-n-no tomorrow,
and eight eight I forget what eight was for,
and nine nine nine for a lost god,
and ten ten ten ten for everything everything everything everything"

Violent Femmes

"Sam Sam the lavatory man,
worked all day in the crapping can,
handing out soap,
and handing out towels,
and listening to the music of the moving bowels"

? as told to Agnes Wittenberg

"Too young to spoon, too old to fork"

Ed Wittenberg

:)
Joanne -- you know too much, now I must kill you

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Stupid lyric of the month:
"Your mom's carpet is a boodeldang-a-dang" -- Z
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Framed & Dried, a Tori Amos Gallery
http://homepage.interaccess.com/~joanne/ta/framedndried.html

[Kristin E. Holland]

Sebastian5 (sebas...@aol.com) wrote:

: NAME: Kristin Elizabeth Holland

: NICKNAME: Depends on who's talking to me - I don't usually have much
of a nickname other than Kris (but that's in speaking and not in writing
if that makes sense)...except that a college friend called me Krizzzz (4
"z"s are essential), and it's stuck.

: BIRTHDAY: 4/16/71 (day after tax day)

: AGE: 25

: HEIGHT: 5 something, but I tend to slouch, so I'm not sure. 5'3"?

: WEIGHT: I'd rather not say. ;-) (And every feminist bone in my body is
shouting in protest, but tough rocks.)

: HAIR COLOR: Reddish brownish blonde? My sisters and I have three
different degrees of red: the twins are reddish brown, our littlest sister
is a real deep auburn, and I'm sort of a muttly mix. My friend keeps
thinking she's spotting grey hairs on me, but then she looks close and
finds that they're actually blonde. People tend to describe me as
redheaded, but it also depends on what I'm wearing, what sort of light
we're in, what time of year it is, what I had for breakfast....

: NATURAL HAIR COLOR: See above. :-)

: EYE COLOR: Greenish blueish grey? My first boyfriend said they were
grey. The lady at the makeup counter (and I tend to agree) thought they
were green. Depends on the light, what I'm wearing, etc. Again, we have
different degrees of blue in the family: my parents have very clear blue
eyes; the twins have very pale blue eyes; the little one has deep dark
blue eyes; I'm sort of muttly again, with more green in the mix than the
rest of the family.

: GLASSES: that drive me bonkers because the frames are getting
stretched and are sitting on my face badly. I'm *this close* to throwing
in the towel and getting contacts.

: TRANSPORTATION: my poor flat flipper feet. And the occasional city
bus and university escort van. Mostly my feet.

: TURNONS: Ralph Fiennes in "The English Patient". (Hell, Ralph Fiennes
tying his shoes, for that matter.) Nice guys. Musical guys.
Intelligent guys. Nice musical intelligent guys. Shoulders. Those
places around a guy's collarbone. My friend the nice musical intelligent
guy who is sadly, sadly, unavailable. Skiing. A good warm hug.

: TURNOFFS: Parents who yell at their kids on Philly busses. Parents who
hit their kids on Philly busses. Guys who snort in the back of their
throats instead of using a stupid tissue, for heaven's sake. Men on
Philly busses who take up their seat and half of yours as if their
precious family jewels are so big that they couldn't sit with their legs
just a little bit closer together if they tried (sorry, but there it is).
This guy I knew who systematically tried to pick up all us Nice Catholic
Girls, and who came off all sweetness and nice, but was actually as
judgemental as all get out. The guy who asked my sister "what's the
matter with you?" when she didn't want to Seriously Smooch on Date #1.
Foul language (which never used to bother me, but somehow, lately, I just
don't care to hear it). Summer and humidity.

: KEWL STUFF: (See turn-ons) Tori (of course). My favorite professors
from college. My family. My buddies. Singing in church. The Spiritual
Exercises of St. Ignatius, and Father Joe LaBran, the 78-year-old Jesuit
who introduced me to them. Homer; Euripides. Margaret Atwood. Alice
Walker. Martin Luther King. ER. Star Trek (I admit it). Star Wars (the
epic of my youth!). Tolkien; Elves. Learning about computers, finally.
Bagpipes, and my Scottish grandfather who used to play them. Old music on
old instruments. Mozart (to sing and to listen to). Handel's "Messiah".
Verdi's "Requiem" and the Ave Maria from "Otello". Taking care of my baby
sister when I was fifteen and she was still a baby. John Denver (scoff if
you will, but I grew up on his music, and when I played his stuff in
college, all my friends laughed at first, and then remembered all these
old songs of his, and then asked if they could borrow my tapes. So there.
;-)) Twins. Being left-handed. Being left-handed and red-headed and
having a birthmark. Having a birthmark that looks like the back of a
staple, the way the ends curl in, which my mother explained, when I was
little, as "the place where God fastened me together when He made me."
God. Madeleine L'Engle writing about God. Madeleine L'Engle writing
about anything.

: SECTION 2.0: YUP, QUOTES

"The Nativity is a time to take courage. How brave am I? Can I bear,
without breaking apart, this extraordinary birth?" (Madeleine L'Engle
"The Irrational Season")

"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not understood
it." (The Gospel of John)

"I swear the stars are smiling like they know what's on my mind:
You see, on any such an occasion, my thoughts will turn to you;
the time I spend all by myself, I mostly spend with you." (John Denver,
"Annie's Other Song")

"...I'm not growing for you I grow because that's what I do' You always
hear some person complain about how dry their peach is and the peach says
'it's not our fault you have no understanding on the proper use for dry
peaches.'" (Tori)

"I will not reduce you to a philosophical proposition!" (My friend Chris)

"If might truly does make right, then what place has love in the world?"
(Jeremy Irons as Fr. Gabriel in "The Mission")

"I want to bottle his mind...I want to build a shrine to his mind...I
want to have seances to his mind...I want to make love to his mind" (My
normally very straight-laced buddy, about a very nice and frightfully
intelligent classmate of ours)

"I even stayed in the lines!" (My sister, at age six, playing with my
mother's old makeup on a rainy day)

"Calling rape sexual is like hitting someone over the head with a skillet
and calling it cooking." Iowa attorney general Bonnie Campbell

"I think the only 2 dates when people remember where they were are Pearl
Harbor and the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt." (John F. Kennedy)

"Our gods are dead. Klingon heroes killed them off. They were more
trouble than they were worth." (Worf, Star Trek, TNG)

"I've had so much Mylanta, I'm coughing up chalk!" (Miles Silverberg,
Murphy Brown)

Eek. Sorry to have rambled so. You should know by now not to get me
started. ;-)
-K

--
Kristin E. Holland | Eat 1 live toad first thing
khol...@sas.upenn.edu | in the morning and nothing
Classicist in Training | worse will happen to you
University of Pennsylvania | the rest of the day.
-Dilbert's "Laws of Work"

[Daniel J Horne]

Joanne (joa...@interaccess.com) wrote:
: TURNONS: Touch my neck and I'll go mad. Let's just say that when I

: got the tattoo on the back of my neck, it was quite an orgasmic
: experience. *shiver*

I'm the same way.
Just a random note: if the boyfriend of 6.5 years has never *licked* the
back of you neck, make him. It's unreal for those of us who are
sensitive there.

Oh, God, speaking of boyfriends, I haven't gotten in touch w/ mine yet
for the dreaded "dump"
but my friend and I saw him at work tonight in the city (he's working in
a chi chi restaurant until he starts his medical residency in July) and
my friend kept commenting how incredibly hot and gorgeous he is and that
made me rethink the whole dumping thing, and oh, gosh, I don't know!

Dan.

--

daniel j. horne...http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dhorne...dhorne@sas.upenn.edu
sometimes they turn off the lights in this ballroom
but we'll dance anyway, you and i
even in the dark
especially in the dark

[that abby girl]

joa...@interaccess.com (Joanne) wrote:
> <sinister laugh>
> Well, I loved Maggie's format so much, I thought I'd steal it! :p
> </sinister laugh>
> Actually, I did add a few categories, so there ;)...

ditto. :)

> NAME: abby jean mcclelland

> NICKNAME: abbynormal, abracadabra, abs, bitch, jezebel, abbers, growl-tiger.

> AGE: a big ol' 18.

> HEIGHT: a big ol' 5'7". i always wanted to be 5'9", but i'm beginning
to realize i've simply stopped growing. oh well.

> WEIGHT: i refuse to check, on principle, and out of fear of relapse into
pseudo-anorexic habits. probably around 140, but i've got a lot of curves
(should i add a "BREASTS: too big for my liking" category in here for me,
aimee and elusis, at least?), so why am i feeling the need to justify my
weight on usenet? ack. i hate this category. whose idea was this weight
self-revelation thing anyway? me? body-image problems? what the hell are
you talking about?

> HEALTH ISSUES: clinical depression with occasional manic periods, i
don't know why i'm not just straight out bipolar, ask my psychiatrist and
have him let me know as well, will you? thanks. that's all the official
ones, although whenever i get near the DSM i tend to self diagnose like a
madwoman (ha ha).

> MEDICATIONS: lithium (about 7 months) and effexor (about 13 months),
occasional vicodin for headaches. i long for xanax to help me deal with my
recent cycling (which i think has to do with medication distrubances, but
is still a pain to deal with, even if i know it'll go away soon).

> SCARS: too numerous to mention. this refers both to physical scars from
self-induced injuries and mental scars from debatably self-induced
injuries.

> HAIR COLOR: dyed reddish, although it's a kind of subtle red over light
brown natural hair. planning to redye soon (i use natural instincts spiced
tea for all those out there who want to look Just Like Me..)

> EYE COLOR: hazel, and yes it does change with my mood.

> RESIDENCE: moved a week ago to a single dorm room on campus, and
although it's small, it's blissfully devoid of roommates (specifically my
last three roommates, each of them hellish in their own little way), so
it's pure joy for me. the dorm is in northwestern university, evanston,
il. (northern suburb of chicago).

> TRANSPORTATION: these awesome british shoes i got in haight ashbury when
i was in san francisco over winter break. they are the absolute Bomb.
those or my worn out birks, sometimes my bike, and when i'm at home, a
grey camry station wagon from 88 named delilah (after the cat i dissected
for an entire semester in anatomy class in high school). i'm a little
weird i think.

> SO: mike, he posts sometimes, we started going out in april of last
year, through janurary, had a few problems at the beginning of this year,
but things seem to be going absolutely swimmingly right now and i can
safely say that i love him madly. he's a journalism major and wildly
intelligent and cares about me genuinely and doesn't guilt trip me when i
fuck up and drink too much or scratch my arm and he takes me to cibo matto
concerts. he left about 20 minutes ago and i miss him already. i refuse to
turn this into a big gush about mike, though, so i will forge ahead.

> SCHOOL: is what i do. i'm a sophomore at northwestern, majoring in
cognitive science with a concentration in artificial intelligence. minor
in women's studies. might try to pick up an english minor as well, but
then again, i might not. i love school, want to go to grad school, get a
phd, stay in school for as long as possible. :)

> OCCUPATION: well, this isn't really a job, but i just got an independent
study position working in the research lab of a psych professor on campus,
and i'm going to be assisting with a study about mate preferences in
relation to depression, so that's kind of an occupation, and i wanted to
talk about it because i'm all proud and stuff. :)

> SMAE FLAVOR: potstickers. fritos and coke. chocolate spumoni with dried
cherries on top. pasta with mushrooms and cream. ack. i could go on
forever. (arugula salad with chevre, tomatoes and pine nuts! anything
involving drambuie!)

> TURNONS: intelligence. loving books. morals. respect for women. respect
for Me. long hair. bike messengers. :)

> TURNOFFS: stupid condescending sexist computer science fuckups. stupid
people. people who like phish (sorry, just can't deal with it..). people
who think depression is a self-indulgent choice.

> KEWL STUFF: computers! the smell of clothes in the drier. packages from
home. coffee. those days when it's almost raining but not quite so it's
misty. clove cigarettes. sitting by the lake and being able to see the
city. sushi. huge used bookstores. talking to my mom on the phone.
macbrickout. rmta. maggie. angela. elusis. dan. everyone else who i'm too
tired to remember everyone. down comforters. private space. night. dark
lipstick to warn people you're in a bad mood. friends who let you borrow
their library cards. comfortable coffee shops. crossword puzzles. driving
around on warm summer days with a good friend and loud music and having
nowhere to go and hanging your arm out the window while singing along.

> SECTION 2.0: YUP, QUOTES

"a peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one."
-rita mae brown.

"i've been in love 300 times in my life, and all but five were with books."
-lee glickstein

"i just happen to like apples and i am not afraid of snakes."
-ani difranco

"i'm not touched, but i'm aching to be."
-heather nova

"i'm sorry, i accidentally broke your wolf."
-some linguistics author

a ton from the bell jar but that's in a hard to get at place so i won't
look at it (because i'm not supposed to) and i'm not going to get it out.
i don't know, i'm not really doing very well with this quote thing. i have
a friend, well, a couple of friends who do this, actually, who mark up all
the books they read for good quotes so they can just flip back and
remember what was good, but i don't tend to do that, which means that i
can never respond well when i'm supposed to come up with something. my sig
doesn't even have any quotes in it, per se, which i think is the function
of sigs.

i wish i could distill myself down to something comprehensible so i could
just write it down and you all could understand who i am (i'm totally
lying, of course, i wish i could distill myself down to a few responses
and quotes and paragraphs so _i_ could understand myself), but i've never
been very good at providing definitions of myself. i got kind of depressed
today listening to two of my friends debate philosophy, because they both
kept referring to their "personal philosophy." and i just don't feel like
i have a personal philosophy that i can understand myself, much less
relate to other people so we can discuss it. i'm so easily attacked, i
feel so vulnerable that i interpret everything as an insult, even if it's
not meant as such, and i wish i felt unified enough to be able to resist
such infringements.

i'm talking nonsense again, i fear, and as this is like forever long, i'm
just going to pack up and go to bed.

abby.
(it seems to me that you and me are terrified of.. nothing)

*porn girl*basket case bitch*shiny and loud*high-octane*angry snatch*
ab...@nwu.edu

[Joanne]

dho...@mail1.sas.upenn.edu (Daniel J Horne) wrote:

> Joanne (joa...@interaccess.com) wrote:
> : TURNONS: Touch my neck and I'll go mad. Let's just say that when I
> : got the tattoo on the back of my neck, it was quite an orgasmic
> : experience. *shiver*
>
> I'm the same way.
> Just a random note: if the boyfriend of 6.5 years has never *licked* the
> back of you neck, make him. It's unreal for those of us who are
> sensitive there.

He has & it was! 8)

> Oh, God, speaking of boyfriends, I haven't gotten in touch w/ mine yet
> for the dreaded "dump"
> but my friend and I saw him at work tonight in the city (he's working in
> a chi chi restaurant until he starts his medical residency in July) and
> my friend kept commenting how incredibly hot and gorgeous he is and that
> made me rethink the whole dumping thing, and oh, gosh, I don't know!

Why not just enjoy Mr. Gorgeous until he moves on in July. That's
still four months of at least some aesthetic pleasure.

:)
Joanne

--
"I know a good time when I taste it" -- Frank of Frank's hot sauce
"The snozberries taste like snozberries!" -- Willy Wonka
"Beer, scotch, juice box...whatever." -- Duckie
"If you can't say something nice, fuck off!" -- me

[Angela Reid]

Joanne (joa...@interaccess.com) wrote:
: <sinister laugh>
: Well, I loved Maggie's format so much, I thought I'd steal it! :p
: </sinister laugh>
: Actually, I did add a few categories, so there ;)...

So, then, I'll feel free to pick up yours.

NAME: Angela Bacon Reid

NICKNAME: um. Angela.

OTHER NICKNAMES: My parents called me "A-bird" when I was very small. I'm
much better at giving nicknames than receiving them (I tend to call
everything and everybody "Pickle." My guinea pigs are Pickles. So is my
husband.)

BIRTHDAY: July 12, 1964

AGE: 32

HEIGHT: 5'2"

WEIGHT: Expanding and not to be divulged. (I'm eating for two, ya know.)

HAIR COLOR: Dark brown with a red base.

EYE COLOR: Dark brown. Chocolate.

GLASSES: If I want to see clearly anything further away than a foot and a
half.

RESIDENCE: In my very first owned home, with hubby & kicking, stretching
unborn bag of potential. Chapel Hill, N.C.

TRANSPORTATION: 1996 Dodge Stratus ES. Light Silver Fern.

SO: Married since May of 1987 (significant anniversary coming up here).

SCHOOL: UNC-CH PhD program, dept. of English

OCCUPATION: English Composition Instructor. Free-lance editor.

<great cat!> SMAE FLAVOR: currently orange sherbet push-up smae and
chocolate-milk-with-whipped-cream smae.

TURNONS: Sexual? Communication. I believe in being very open about what
you want and what you like, and I like for my partner to do the same.
Otherwise? New and exciting information--finding stuff out. Catching on
fire with a need to know. People who are nice.

TURNOFFS: Elitism. Unkindness. Unexpected company (not much of a
housekeeper. Like to prepare). People who make jokes about killing my
animal friends. Sexual? hmm. scat (I don't mean singing, either).
necro. pedo. tort/snuff.

KEWL STUFF: Tori, Trent, Kristin Hersh (solo or otherwise), Heather Nova,
Remixes (not always dance mixes, but sometimes), books, movies, hot bread
with honey, rodents of any kind. SAILOR MOON!

: SECTION 2.0: YUP, QUOTES

I'll have to grab a few from now, because I have no consistent meaningful
quotes file. But these are lines that have always moved me or had deep
personal meaning to me for some reason or the other.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.

I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreeathed with seaweed red and brown
Til human voices wake us, and we drown.
T.S. Eliot
"Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

...the villagers never liked you.
They are dancing and stamping on you.
They always knew it was you.
Sylvia Plath
"Daddy"

What are we in the hands of the Great God?
It was in vain you set up thorn and briar
In battle array against the fire
And treason crackling in your blood;
For the wild thorns grow tame
And will do nothing to oppose the flame;
Your lacerations tell the losing game
You play against a sickness past your cure.
How will the hands be strong? How will the heart endure?
Robert Lowell
"Mr. Edwards and the Spider"

Sin is Behovely, but
All shall be well, and
All manner of thing shall be well.
T.S. Eliot
"Little Gidding"
(paraphrasing Dame Julian of Norwich)

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all
the argument of the earth,
And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own,
And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own,
And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my
sisters and lovers,
And that a kelson of the creation is love,
And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields,
And brown ants in the little wells beneath them,
And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heap'd stones, elder, mullein and
pokeweed.
Walt Whitman
"Song of Myself"
(I get drunk on that poem)

There's in my mind a woman
of innocence, unadorned but

fair-featured, and smelling of
apples or grass. She wears

a utopian smock or shift, her hair
is light brown and smooth, and she

is kind and very clean without
ostentation--
but she has
no imagination
And there's a
turbulent moon-ridden girl

or old woman, or both,
dressed in opals and rags, feathers

and torn taffeta,
who knows strange songs--

but she is not kind.
Denise Levertov
"In Mind" (the whole thing)

[Daniel J Horne]

Daniel J Horne (dho...@mail1.sas.upenn.edu) wrote: : Joanne
: but my friend and I saw him at work tonight in the city (he's working in

: a chi chi restaurant until he starts his medical residency in July) and
<<<<<<<

Oops! I'm under the impression that some people might interpret that as
a Chi Chi's. Absolutely not, he works in a very elegant ("chi chi")
place.

[Dances With Cars]

On Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:46:02 -0500, joa...@interaccess.com (Joanne)
wrote:

>"Dear God...
>...your name is on a lot of quotes in this book,
>us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look,
>and all the people that you made in your image,
>still believin' that junk is true,
>well I know it ain't and so do you, dear god"
>
> Sarah McLaughlin
>

I love reading everyone's FAQ's! I've been reading all your posts for
the past few weeks, and, since I've never had the priviledge of
meeting any of you, it's 'koo to learn a bit about the people behind
the posts! :D

I didn't know that Sarah had done a version of _Dear God_! What is it
on? It's my favorite XTC song and I'd love to hear her
'interpretation' of it. <doing the funky penguin with wild abandon>
As ever I remain

-Dances With Cars

d...@banzai-net.com - member of the Sam Raimi Gushes of Blood Club
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." -Buckaroo
"Your day will soon come, today is not it." - Space Ghost
"The forecast is for bad craziness." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

[Redsocks]

warlock <ul...@teleport.com> wrote:

>Hey everybody...
>
> I am probably not the first person to mention this, but it may be a
>real help to some of us if anyone who wanted to would post a FAQ of
>their personal data (at least, whatever they wanted to say about
>themselves).
> For instance, I'm dying to know more about some of the 'nicks that
>people are using (the Yum Yum Boy comes to mind immediately!!)
> Anyone want to start posting FAQ's so I can learn more about you?!
>I'm sure I'm not the only one interested...

To avoid unnecessary duplication, I refer you to:

http://www.li.net/~matthewb/about-me.html
http://www.li.net/~matthewb/redsocks.html

If you have any questions after that, e-mail me.

--
Redsocks
matt...@li.net http://www.li.net/~matthewb/

"Do you have an object-oriented sex partner?" - DanKitti
**** RMTA: 80 gigs of stuff ****

[una chica que escribe]

Here goes nothing...

>Name: autumn rae atkinson
>Nickname: autumn
>Birthday: 10/10/78
>Age: 18
>Height: 5'9 1/2"
>Weight: fluctuating, but I think 130
>Hair Color: The box said "Dark Auburn"
>Natural Color: Kinda blond kinda brown
>Eyes: Blue
>Tranportation: Bike, feet, plane if I'm going home
>Original Residence: San Diego
>Current Residence: Dorms at UC Davis
>Occupation: Uh, student at Davis, I also work in a computer lab on
campus, where I can be online without tying up my phone line :)
>Major: Englsh, writing emphasis (my fingers are crossed that it all works
out)
>Medications: Advil. I take it for anything and everything. Also
lithium, which I am supposed to be on, but I go off when I'm not in the
mood to be medicated.
>Music: (Of course) Tori, NIN, PJ Harvey, Liz Phair, Live, Pearl Jam,
Indigo Girls, Oingo Boingo, Smashing Pumpkins, Aquabats, I guess just a
little bit of everything.
>Misc. I guess I just love music and love to dance. That is one of the
reasons that I really like the new Tori re-mixes. a lot.

Well, that's it. I'm still mostly a newbie, but I post occasionally when
I have something to say, and I am always lurking.

autumn

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"anonymous was a woman"
~the mystery is solved (thanks to another toriphile)
Virginia Woolf

You've heard the disclaimer, so here's the URL...
http://members.tripod.com/~autumn_was_here/begin.html

"cause boy, you still look pretty
when you're putting the damage on"
-Tori Amos
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

[Joanne]

d...@banzai-net.com wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:46:02 -0500, joa...@interaccess.com (Joanne)
> wrote:
>
> >"Dear God...
> >...your name is on a lot of quotes in this book,
> >us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look,
> >and all the people that you made in your image,
> >still believin' that junk is true,
> >well I know it ain't and so do you, dear god"
> >
> > Sarah McLaughlin
> >

:snip:

> I didn't know that Sarah had done a version of _Dear God_! What is it
> on? It's my favorite XTC song and I'd love to hear her
> 'interpretation' of it.

It's on her B-sides import (US$15-$20), which also includes "I
Will Remember You" and a little multimedia thing goin' on if you
stick it in your computer. Actually, I only attributed this quote
to Sarah because I couldn't think of the original author and her
version just sticks out in my head. I hear her voice when I read
it -- ya know?

[Necromancer]

This is my resume on our school network. I pasted it here:

NAME: Jason Everett Litteral
NICKNAME: Necromancer
OTHER NICKNAMES: Talyn, Crow, Dork, Twinkie, Malachite, Damien, Jazz,
Hack, Tek
BIRTHDAY: 7/10/78
AGE: 18
HEIGHT: 6 foot zilch
WEIGHT: last time i checked it was at 156
HAIR COLOR: now?...or normal?.....now it's kinda crimson, normal is
dull, boring brown
EYE COLOR: take your pick.....grey, green, blue, blue-green all
depending on my mood or the weather
TRANSPORTATION: either my spiffalicious rollerblades or my feet(i'm a
bum with no money)
SMAE FLAVOR: absolut citron
TURNONS: My beautiful, gorgeous, sensitive, sensual, ever-loving
girlfriend.
TURNOFFS: hypocrites(i don't count...:P), people who have that "mean
people suck" that are mean people and only have the sticker to be
cool(anyone seen the "mean people kick ass" sticker?>..=) ), people
who slam on the things that your interested in and refuse to listen to
why you are interested in it, people who look at the outside of me and
make an opinion of me without getting to know who I really am
INTERESTS: The Crow. Tori Amos. Erasure. Nine Inch Nails. Marilyn
Manson. The Crow. Anything technological. QuakeQuakeQuakeQuake. My
band. The Crow. Terry Brooks. Happy-juice(alcyhol). Indian
heritage. By the way, did I mention The Crow?
LIFELONG DEDICATIONS: My ever-loving girlfriend, whom without, I
wouldn't be half the person that I am.

SECTION 2.0: YUP, QUOTES

"Nothingness is the existence of all life."
--Jason Litteral

"I'm packed, I'm ready to go."
--Republica

"Who was here? Was it you? Or am I just dreaming?"
--Erasure

"efiL"
--Jonathan Fell

(see the .sig)

--Necromancer

/-----------------------------------------------------\
|"And I dream you're with me, you hold me sweetly, |
| and rock me gently to sleep in your arms." -- Erasure|
|"You are the perfect drug, the perfect drug, |
| the perfect drug." -- Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails |
|"You cannot sedate all the things you hate..." |
| -- Rev. Marilyn Manson |
| Necromancer signing off.....necro@usit.net |
| http://www.usit.net/~necro |
| Signature version 0.6c |
\-----------------------------------------------------/

[Heather A Philp]

Prolly not too long ago, in rec.music.tori-amos, Joanne may have said:
: <sinister laugh>
: Well, I loved Maggie's format so much, I thought I'd steal it! :p
: </sinister laugh>
: Actually, I did add a few categories, so there ;)...

Add me to the list too, please!

;)

Alright, alright, I'll bite.

NAME: Heather Angela Philp
NICKNAME: HAP, haphilp, RenFaerie, "Heather Ange" (when my mom wants my
attention, anyway), HeatherBrat (thank my bubba for me, will ya?)
Aunt Heather is well-used, and one other I -will not tell-.
BIRTHDAY: July 15, 1974

AGE: 22, creeping up on 23

HEIGHT: um. 5'6"ish.
HAIR COLOR: Erm. Blondish. I think.
NATURAL HAIR COLOR: Brownish-blondish. I -think-.
EYE COLOR: Blue. A very nice blue, if I do say so myself. :)
GLASSES: Whenever I'm at the 'puter.
RESIDENCE: Apartment, with a pretty cool roommate. Raleigh, NC.
TRANSPORTATION: 1992 Ford Taurus (which is trying to break me at the
moment.) Wolfline bus (school's bus system). Feetsies.
SO: Chas. We've been together for, oh, two years in a few days.
SCHOOL: North Carolina State University. Majoring in Comp Sci and
Multidisciplinary Studies. I love school. This is my fifth
year. I'll graduate in '98, if all goes well.
OCCUPATION: Slave to the big blue machine. (Oui, IBM.)
TURNONS: You guys need to know this stuff? I think not. =P
TURNOFFS: Starting to sound like a -bad- personals ad now.
KEWL STUFF: Coffee. Music. My Daddy. Beautiful sunny warm spring
days. Sleeping in. California. And lotsa other stuff I'm
forgetting.

--heather
hey, the printer is out of paper, I honestly had nothing to do...

--
Heather Philp // "Can you conceive
hap...@eos.ncsu.edu // that nightfall brings
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~haphilp // awful things?"
// Figment and the Rest

[Gregory Lawrence Smith]

In article <19970311230...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
Sebastian5 <sebas...@aol.com> wrote:

And since Maggie wrote such a nice FAQ, I'll borrow her format, as well...

NAME: Gregory Smith
NICKNAME: Greg Greggums, Greggy, Greggypoo, Gregor Mendel, Muffin
OTHER NICKNAMES: Greggums, Greggy, Greggypoo, Gregor Mendel, Muffin
Typing Boy
BIRTHDAY: July 10th, 1973
AGE: 23
HEIGHT: 5'7"
WEIGHT: Probably somewhere around 155. I don't weigh myself. Ever.
HAIR COLOR: Dark Brown
NATURAL HAIR COLOR: Dark Brown
EYE COLOR: Brown
GLASSES: Armani tortoise shell (hey, I put these things on my face!)
SCHOOL: Grad student in architorture at Georgia Tech
TRANSPORTATION: 1995 Mazda Protege, 'cos I've got a "passion for the
road..."
TURNONS: intelligence, sensitivity, really short hair (preferably with
a shadow of facial hair that is just about the same length),
leg hair (on a guy), big clunky shoes (e.g. Doc, Fluvog...),
confidence without arrogance, independance
TURNOFFS: Body odor, bad breath, Phish/Dave Matthews, unwashed hair,
extreme interest in watching sports, "woo-woo"-ing, disinterest
in movies and music, mean spiritiedness, condescension,
obsequiousness, brown-nosing, intolerance, newt gingrich

KEWL STUFF: tori amos. cocteau twins. kate bush. ani difranco. curve.

smiths. dead can dance. sundays. (those first ones taken from
Maggie's list) anything box. area. beautiful south. bel canto.
the church. cranes. the cure. dead can dance. electronic.
erasure. everything but the girl. frazier chorus.
his name is alive. insides. kitchens of distinction. lush.
kirsty maccoll. sarah mclachlan. the moon seven times. new
order. opus III. pet shop boys. propaganda. qkumba zoo. red
house painters. ride. st etienne. shelleyan orphan. jane
siberry. siouxsie and the banshees. slowdive. swallow. stereolab.
this mortal coil. thompson twins. trashcan sinatras. underground
lovers. velocity girl. voice of the beehive. waterlilies.
xymox.
simpsons. kids in the hall. paula poundstone. ellen.
dr katz. tv nation. this old house.

SECTION 2.0: YUP, QUOTES

"cling tenaciously to my buttocks"
-powdered toast man, ren & stimpy

"it's cocoa, not chemistry"

"i'm sorry i sound calm, but i assure you i am hysterical"
-a night on earth

"if money talks then i left my tongue at home"
-trashcan sinatras

"and don't go imagining that time is medicine"
-sundays

"Cows have been in films, but they haven't starred. I'm still willing to
eat a species that is only a supporting player."

"That is not a positive. That is a non-negative."

-greg
who obviously doesn't want to write his paper...
--
"stop me thinking about myself. Stop me hoping for more than I am."
gt7...@prism.gatech.edu
gregory smith

[Dances With Cars]

This just looks like so much fun, I thought I'd give it a try.
Besides, since I still feel extremely new (like a bright, shiny pair
of patent leather MaryJanes that haven't become completely comfortable
yet), this might put me more at ease. So here goes!! :D

NAME: Kari Lyn Richards (which my friends who know about my South
Dakotan heritage pronounce as 'Karah-lyyyyyn'...bleah. My mother was
going to name me Zoe, I wish she'd followed through.)
NICKNAMES: Kar, Kar-bear (yick!), Hari-Kari (double-yick! aren't
sisters wonderful?) Commando Girl, La Penguina (by my fiance the
Penguin), Dances With Cars (so named because of a stupid car accident
- <sigh>)
BIRTHDAY: June 20, 1975
AGE: 21, getting ever closer to 22
HEIGHT: 5' 2 3/4"
WEIGHT: A very pleasant 125, perhaps 130 (I don't own a scale)
HAIR COLOR: Burgundy (a wonderfully lovely purplish color)

NATURAL HAIR COLOR: Dark Brown

EYE COLOR: Dark brown with a thin grey ring around the iris and
yellow around the pupil...it's alot nicer looking than it sounds.
GLASSES: All the time! I love them...tried contacts for a while and
thought I'd die. Ouch! I've worn glasses since 6 mos. old.
RESIDENCE: Modesto CA, with my fiance, my roommate Brian, and his
boyfriend Dan (it gets a bit crowded sometimes), but not for
long...soon to be moving to South San Francisco - just me and the
penguin.
TRANSPORTATION: 1992 Ford Mustang, bright green and covered with
Oingo Boingo stickers, 'Feminism Spoken Here', NIN stickers, and
various Pro-Choice slogans. I call my little car Athenadorus - she's
taken me everywhere...we're good friends. I'm not looking forward to
the day I have to put her to rest. :(
SO: The Penguin...known him for 2 years, we met at the Farewell
Boingo concert. Been engaged for almost a year exactly.
SCHOOL: Er...many ill-fated attempts. UC Berkeley (almost 2
semesters), Delta JC (almost 2 semesters), The Academy of Art College
SF (1 and 1/2 semesters)...I still don't know what I want to be when I
grow up. The next time I try, I think I'll go to learn for learning's
sake.
OCCUPATION: Writer (oh sure, it doesn't bring in any money, but it's
how I spend most of my time), part-time Relay Operator, part-time
Child Care Provider (if anyone says 'babysitter' I'll hurt them)
SMAE FLAVOR: Balsamic vinegar chicken and asparagus - mmmmmmmm....
TURNONS: My fluffy flannel jammies, a warm blanket, a container of
_Chubby Hubby_ Ben & Jerry's, and a good horror movie - all while
snuggled up with my penguin. Rain, lots and lots of rain.
TURNOFFS: Whining, fatalism (not to be confused with pessimism),
dirty dishes, toothpaste in the sink, ignorance, bigotry, machismo,
sexist bastards with small penises, sexist bastards with large
penises, not being able to walk on my kitchen floor barefoot because I
haven't had time to sweep, when the car's low on gas, hot sunny days,
red meat, TGIF on ABC, whatever music they're calling 'alternative'
nowadays, pentacostal fundamental evangelical Christians.
KEWL STUFF: Oingo Boingo, Tori (well, duh), singing along to Tori
while I'm driving, concerts, penguins, _The Nightmare Before
Christmas_, Danny Elfman, my tattoos, balsamic vinegar, ST:TNG, _The
Second Sex_ by Simone de Beauvoir, _A Room of One's Own_ by Virginia
Woolf, John Woo films, trips to Berkeley in my car, the view from the
Lawrence Hall of Science (you can see all of San Francisco), black,
Halloween, costumes, The Cranes, Stan Ridgway, They Might Be Giants,
Tori concerts, tarot cards, Ed Gorey, fairy tales, nursery rhymes,
long velvet Elizabethan-style dresses, gothic clothing, dragons,
painting furniture, Fimo Clay, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, urban legends,
anthropology, thesauruses, _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_,
Harlan Ellison, _Godel, Escher, Bach_, plays, decoupage, big funky
shoes, garlic, Isabel Allende, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Morrissey,
Peter Murphy, big blankets, soft pillows, Shakespeare, Calvin &
Hobbes, _Reservoir Dogs_, _A Clockwork Orange_, Wallace & Grommit,
wading barefoot in fountains, chocolate, reading, facials you can peel
off, NIN (the Broken video is reeeeeeally creepy), horror films, death
at Disneyland, photography, pens with fine points, swings.

SECTION 2.0: YUP, QUOTES

"A girl-child ain't safe in a world full o' mens."
-Sophia "The Color Purple"

"I would dazzle you with brilliance if I only had the knack."
-Danny Elfman

"I need a big loan from the girl zone."
-Tori

"I like my stupid life just the way it is
and the chaos that surrounds me like a flock of screaming pigs
and it hurts my brain to think of all the stupid things I've said
and if I could change the future I would change the past instead"
-Danny Elfman

"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal"
-Leo Tolstoy

[Jason Goodmanson]

Greetings! As a lurker who has lurked for . . . uhm, nearly three years
now (I think that sounds about right . . .) I figured I could at least
throw something out here.

Name: Jason C Goodmanson (note the absence of a period in my middle
name. You see, it is not an initial - C is the whole name.)

Nicknames: None that I know of. Although at work I'm called a Punk Kid
and a Brat quite often. On IRC I go under Oneiros_ so that's probably
the closest to an actual nickname that I've got.

Birthdate: 8/25/75

Age: 21 (Didn't do a darn thing on the 21st birthday - the grandparents
came down.)

Height: 5'9" (although I still believe I'm 5'10" but the doctor says
differently.)

Weight: 180 (consider this - in the past 18 months I have dropped 105
pounds! At the same weight I was when I was fourteen years old.)

Hair Color: A dark brown that is actually beginning to lighten up.

Eye Color: A dark brown.

Glasses: Never wore them until I turned fifteen and a half and went
after my learner's permit and couldn't see the darn eye chart. Tried
contacts but my eyes were flatter than normal so the contact wouldn't
sit down on the eye and I could no longer see up close. That and one of
the lenses floated behind my eye. So now I have glasses. Fun . . .

Residence: A studio apartmentin in Lemon Grove California. Lemon Grove
is about seven or eight miles east of San Diego. I live alone except
for Sir Grocible. He's my cat.

Transportation: My brand spanking new 1997 Saturn SL1. It's white and
it's the very first new car that I have purchased. Actually, it's not
new anymore, five months, but I'm told it still smells new!

Significant Other: Currently, none. For the last three years, none.
The last SO I had got engaged three months after I broke off out nearly
two and a half year relationship. I just didn't want to get married at
19. For the past three years just haven't had the time or the desire to
actively pursue a relationship. But now I am. There was two young
ladies that I work with that were definate potentials. One broke my
heart (after I baked her homemade cookies!) The other, Jody, well,
still working on that.

School: I graduated from Lone Pine High School in Lone Pine
California. Hickville! Population 200, graduating class was a whole 25
people (I was third!) Located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in eastern
California. I went to college for one year at the University of Nevada
at Las Vegas as a pre-business major. Lost my financial aid. Stopped
going. That was in 1994, and I still have every intention of going back
to school one day. Just as soon as I figure out what I want to do with
my life.

Occupation: The official title is Loan Service Representive I which
means nothing. The un-official title is Vault Custodian. I work for
Union Bank of California in the Records Management Department. I manage
all the physical paper files (versus the virtual imaged files) for
nearly every product the bank has - first trust deed mortgages, credit
cards (consumer, business and merchant,) every possible type of consumer
loan (cars, boats, second and third trust deeds, etc etc) and the
original collateral for the first trust deeds. It's a start.

Smae flavour: Can't actually I have actually tried any smaes so I don't
know what I'm partial towards. Also never have taken the time to
develop my own flavour. One day . . .

Turnons: The way a young lady looks into my eyes actually listening to
what I have to say, a sincere smile, a honest smile, being truthful,
hugs. And if I could find someone who appreciates my walking in the
rain . . .

Turnoffs: Liars, manipulators, and fakes.

Kewl Stuff: Sir Grocible (he fetches,) Tori, Sarah, Savatage,
Metallica, Neil Gaiman, Cerebus, Bone, Strangers In Paradise, Astro
City, computers, Star Wars (and anything Star Wars related,) letterboxed
laserdiscs with dolby pro-logic sound, being a vegetarian for eighteen
months (thanks to Ms. Eden,) losing one hundred and five pounds
(thusfar) since I became a vegetarian, moving out of my home town to a
city that I knew one person in and not having a job or a place to live
at first, being able to support myself BY MYSELF, walking in the pouring
rain, Dilbert (it's my life at work - some say I look like him which I
don't understand . . .) Stephen King books, cappucino and God.

Dreams and aspirations: I intend to find that certain someone special,
settle down and get married. I'm definately interested in starting a
family some day. Find a job that I truly love to go to, and that truly
loves to have me go to it. Pay off my next student loan, computer and
car loans, and maybe buy a house after all that's taken care of.

Seeya!

Jason

--
.:':. .:':.
'; ;' Strange how laughter looks like crying with no sound. '; ;'
;.':'.; Raindrops taste like tears, without the pain. ;.':'.;
:;'*';: :;'*';:
' : ' Jason C Goodmanson ' : '
;:; jasn...@mindspring.com ;:;
.:::. .:::.

[Rosser Schwarz]

i'll join in, too, since i never officially delurked or anything...

NAME: Rosser Leroy Schwarz

BIRTHDAY: 7 December, 1972

AGE: 24

HEIGHT: 5'11"

WEIGHT: usually between 130 and 140

HAIR COLOR: brown

EYE COLOR: brown

GLASSES: yep, since the second grade

OCCUPATION: student (super-senior at binghamton university,
binghamton, ny), aspiring: scriptwriter (and perhaps novelist),
shareware author, philosopher

MAJOR: Philosophy, Computers and Cognitive Science (artificial
intelligence program)

TRANSPORTATION: public, generous friends, the peds (my feet, silly!)

COHABITANTS: nymsa, moses, juniper and isis (nymsa you know, the
others are the cats)

SO: nymsa, 3 1/2 years

TURNONS: intelligence, long hair, 'come hither' looks, long fingers
(i dunno, they just do...), legs, style, wicked summer
thunderstorms (esp. those in the midwest)

TURNOFFS: dumb people, people who smack their kids around (especially

in public), poor spelling, arrogance, slickness, commercialism

KEWL STUFF: computers, babylon 5, tool, jawbreaker, jawbox, tori,
elvis costello, fugazi, eeyore, shakespeare, christopher durang,
greg bear, issac asmiov, drum handrolling tobacco, woody allen,
ts eliot, nick bantock, _dune_, david lynch, michel de montaigne,
rich h. (see www.mit.edu:8001/people/thomasc/richh/richh.html),
shamanism, stanley kubrick, irony, subtlety, subtle irony, dnd,
my cats, the sisters of mercy, jane's addiction, henry rollins,
my bass (as in musical instrument), samuel beckett, black sabbath

SECTION 2.0: YUP, QUOTES

"Don't imagine you know what a computer terminal is. A computer
terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front
of it. It is an interface where the mind and the body can connect with
the universe and move bits of it about."
--Douglas Adams

"I don't care to belong to any club that will accept me as a member."
--Groucho Marx

"So we're in this maze, trying to figure out if that glint in the
distance is daylight, or a minotaur with an uzi."
--J. Michael Straczynski

"I am seated in the smallest room in the house. I have your letter
before me. Soon it will be behind me."
--Voltaire

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to
reality."
--Albert Einstein

"Only two things are certain: the universe and human stupidity; and
I'm not certain about the universe."
--Albert Einstein

"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."
--Samuel Goldwyn

(a long one, but i needed to include it.)
"Reader, thou hast here an honest book; it doth at the outset forewarn
thee that, in contriving the same, I have proposed to myself no other
than a domestic and private end: I have had no consideration at all
either to thy service or to my glory. My powers are not capable of any
such design. I have dedicated it to the particular commodity of my
kinsfolk and friends, so that, having lost me (which they must do
shortly), they may therein recover some traits of my conditions and
humors, and by that means preserve more whole, and more life-like, the
knowledge they had of me. Had my intention been to seek the world's
favor, I should surely have adorned myself with borrowed beauties: I
desire therein to be viewed as I appear in mine own genuine, simple,
and ordinary manner, without study and artifice: for it is myself I
paint. My defects are therein to be read to the life, and my
imperfections and my natural form, so far as public reverence hath
permitted me. If I had lived among those nations, which (they say) yet
dwell under the sweet liberty of nature's primitive laws, I assure
thee I would most willingly have painted myself quite fully and quite
naked. Thus, reader, myself am the matter of my book: there's no
reason thou shouldst employ thy leisure about so frivolous and vain a
subject. Therefore, farewell."
--Michel de Montaigne, 12 June 1580

--
"We can't all and some of us don't. That's all there is to it."
--Eeyore

bd8...@binghamton.edu

[Toni Keskitalo]

NAME: Toni Pekka Juhani Keskitalo
NICKNAME: Toni, Thouni (rarely), Ketterä (while I was in the army)
BIRTHDAY: 25 January 1975
AGE: 22
HEIGHT: 177 cm
WEIGHT: less than 80 kg
HAIR COLOR: slightly rotten straw-yellow (I don't dye my hair)
EYE COLOR: blue with a grey shade
RESIDENCE: that big block house, third floor with a suitemate. And I
can see nature from my window...
TRANSPORTATION IN JYVÄSKYLÄ: my feet, my bicycle (whose tyre is flat,
grr), buses (numbers 18 and 25)
TRANSPORTATION ELSEWHERE: train, buses, cars, bicycles,
SO: n/a
SCHOOL: Jyväskylä University, 2nd year. Chemistry major, mathematics
minor. Planning a Finnish minor (my native language, that is.)
SMAE FLAVOR: pear vanilla, cabbage, or Queen (that's really yummy jam!)
TURNONS: OK. (not in sexual sense): blue and clear skies, starry
nights, comets, stars, planets, halos, pearl clouds, the smell of spring,
the smell of wood, the smell of forest, when a song is played on an proper
moment, meeting unexpected known people, slow approaching of an issue,
TURNOFFS: unjustice, stupidity, smurfmania (HATEHATE), ice hockey,
soccer, patriotism, wars, greed, fundamentalism of any sort, degradation
of humanity, bigotry
KEWL STUFF:
music: Tori, Suzanne Vega, Björk, the Beatles, the Offspring, Kate Bush,
NIN, some metal music, the Cranberries, Abba, Queen, Blur, Members of
Mayday, Jean Michel Jarre, Angélique Kidjo. YUP, Ismo Alanko, Don Huonot,
Absoluuttinen Nollapiste (also Tommi Liimatta), Värttinä, Juustopäät, CMX,
Maritta Kuula, Juice Leskinen, Apulanta, Ultra Bra
other: the Internet, RMTA, yellow-black-red neckerchiefs, funny
hairstyles, (see TURNONS), gorgeous people, all languages, cabbage,
paprika, my sister & her husband, several friends and acquaintances, &c.

SECTION 2.0: YUP, QUOTES
Äh, I think I'm tired to remember any much. But here are some:

"Hello opossums!" Dame Edna Everage

"If I put these oranges into the fridge, they'll be much more
_viileempää_ to eat." me

"Some things are melting now" Tori Amos

And then, lastly, a really long song text by YUP, in Finnish, so press the
n button now...

"Joskus öiden tunteina voi varmasti sen aistia,
ettei ole yksin...
Kaikki tässä huoneessa ehk'ei paljastu kerralla,
siis varaudu yllätyksiin.
Ja tee mitä teet,
kunhan muistat vaan,
että Beelsebub ei
nuku koskaan...
Ei nuku koskaan.

Kun kiltit äidit kiltit isät
kiltit lapset nukkumaan
peitelty on, saateltu on
höyhensaarten satamaan,
niin varjoista esiin ontuu
katalia kulkijoita.
Ja tuskin turhaan heistä kukaan
tarkkailee taivaita noita:
kun musta pilvi seurailee,
yllään kulkee kiinni saa,
kaiken muistiin kirjoittava
punakynä heilahtaa!

Aivan niin:
kaupunki nukkuu kristityn untaan
vaan vanha Beelsebub ei nuku koskaan.

Ja kuolevaiset kuten me
ilman yön unta uuvumme.
Yhtä vain ei uni paina
yksi unta valvoo aina.

Puoli vartaloa vallan
ikäneidollamme on
tuolla paremmalla puolen
pihan roskalaatikon.
Naapureittensa elämä
kovin rouvaa kiinnostaa,
mutta jokin myös hänen
taivaltansa varjostaa:
Kun musta pilvi seurailee,
yllään kulkee kiinni saa,
pilvestä suuri nyrkki
kunnotonta kumauttaa!

Aivan niin:
tee mitä teet, kunhan muistat vaan:
vanha Beelsebub ei nuku koskaan.

Ja kukapa tietää, jos hän poistaakin lian,
vaientaa sian...
Lapsetkaan ei edes itkeä uskalla,
Saatanan suurennuslasin alla
suurinkin mies on pieni pian.
Hän poistaakin lian,
vaientaa sian...
Lapsetkaan ei edes itkeä uskalla,
Saatanan suurennuslasin alla
suurinkin mies on pieni pian.

Tee mitä teet, kunhan muistat vaan:
vanha Beelsebub ei nuku koskaan.
Ja vaikka kaupunki nukkuu kristityn untaan
niin vanha Beelsebub ei nuku koskaan.
Ei nuku koskaan.
Ei nuku
koskaan.

Joskus öiden tunteina
voi varmasti sen aistia
ettei ole
yksin..." YUP

Toni K
; tpke...@itu.cc.jyu.fi != http://www.jyu.fi/~tpkeskit
; "Jos Helvetti on täynnä, Saatana joutuu seisomaan" YUP

[Angela Reid]

Necromancer (ne...@usit.net) wrote:
: INTERESTS: The Crow. Tori Amos. Erasure. Nine Inch Nails. Marilyn

: Manson. The Crow. Anything technological. QuakeQuakeQuakeQuake. My
: band. The Crow. Terry Brooks. Happy-juice(alcyhol). Indian
: heritage. By the way, did I mention The Crow?

But what about _The Crow_? ;)

Angela

[Donovan M Chase]

Excerpts from netnews.rec.music.tori-amos: 12-Mar-97 Re: -M- How about
personal .. by Angela Re...@email.unc.ed

>
> OTHER NICKNAMES: My parents called me "A-bird" when I was very small. I'm
> much better at giving nicknames than receiving them (I tend to call
> everything and everybody "Pickle." My guinea pigs are Pickles. So is my
> husband.)

Somewhere in here there is a clue as to the state of gender relations in
our respective societies, but I'm not saying where....

Donovan Chase
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
DONOVAN CHASE can be reached at CHA...@ANDREW.CMU.EDU

"Could you say hello to Fiona Apple's bellybutton?
That's what we're all about. We're all about Fiona
Apple's bare midriff. In a totally non-sexual way, of
course" - M. Doughty, Soul Coughing, Pittsburgh 2/28/97
```````````````````````````````````````````````````````

[Antonia Bradford]

Ok, I'll try this...

Name: Martin Henry Bradford
Nickname: Mart, Marti, um, Martin
Other Nicknames: My parents call me 'H', thats about it
Birthday: 10th April
Age: 15
Height: I'm quite tall for my age. But I don't know the real
height.
Weight: Not too bad, not perfect, but not too bad.
Hair colour: Browny blondy
Natural hair colour: ditto
Eye colour: Pale Blue
Glasses: none needed yet :)
Residence: Living with mom & pop in Britain
Transportation: Feet :|
So: No gf's yet :(
School: Enjoy I.T and Music and some of the cool teachers. Go
there to see my mates, despise homework.
Turnons: um, long hair (red is best:) blue eyes, people who like
Tori and rock, musicians.
Turnoffs: Tarts, know it alls, people who hate me
Kewl stuff: Tori (ovbously:), Nirvana, R.E.M., Silverchair, Foo
Fighters, Enigma, Mark Snow, Alanis (Don't kill me!!), Gillian
Anderson, The X-Files, Millenium and Playing the guitar (which
I've been doing for two years, can't play much Tori stuff:(

Quotes (Mainly from old sigs)

"That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight, losing my religion"
R.E.M.

"That's what puts the I in the FBI" - Special Agent Fox Mulder

"Mulder, you're nuts!" - The Enigmatic Special Agent Dana Scully

"You'll never gain weight from a doughnut hole" - Tori amos

"He gathered up his loved one to say good bye, nice try" - R.E.M.

"Look on the bright side of suicide" - Kurt D. Cobain
(RIP 1967-1994)

"They say the road to hell is a one way street" - Nethack

Martin B (Lurker of RMT-A)

Toni Bradford - AB Computing Ltd
Telephone 01442 211747, Fax 01442 399265
e-mail tbr...@abcomp.win-uk.net
"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world"
Ludwig Wittgenstein

[Necromancer]

In some mass hysteria, abr...@email.unc.edu (Angela Reid) scribbled in
some ancient tongue:

dammit...did i forget to put that in there?....i *knew* i was
forgetting something....=)

[MsDelirium]

Kudos to Joanne for providing a format (to which I made my own special
modifications, of course).

NAME: Sylvia Drake
...WHICH MEANS: Either "forest dragon" or "wood duck"
NICKNAMES: Silver, Jet Girl
BIRTHDAY: June 21, 1982
AGE: You figure it out, clever Dick!
HEIGHT: 5' 4"
WEIGHT: I dunno, 105-ish?
HAIR COLOR: Dark red with a blonde streak. Well, I mean it *will* be.
Soon. Honest.
NATURAL HAIR COLOR: Brown
EYE COLOR: Greeny-bluey
LOOKS LIKE: If Jet Girl from the *movie* "Tank Girl" was 14
GLASSES: Necessary, but not that bad. Good biz onstage, in a pinch.
RESIDENCE: Big cool Mill Valley house. Livin' with little brother and
both heterosexual monogamous 15-yrs-married parents (strange but true)
TRANSPORTATION: My jet-black Lazlar Lyricon custom job-- or, for short
distances, our Volvo station wagon
SCHOOL: 11th grade. Doing pretty well when I don't piss off the teachers.
OCCUPATION: Trent Reznor ;->
SMAE FLAVOR: Um... Fiona Apple?
TURNONS: All that blah-blah about intelligence, sensitivity, humor,
yeah-don't-we-all. Let's get to specifics: Trent Reznor (well, duh), Tori
(double duh), Austin, Gabe, & Brendan from my Shakespeare camp, Desire of
the Endless (Sandman), and of course both my best (female) friends aaargh
I hate adolescence.
TURNOFFS: Eggplant, skaters, gangsta *anything*, pride in ignorance,
snobs (esPECIALLY geek snobs-- you know, "Ooh, you're pretty stupid, bet
you're a Mac-using Yahoo-searching AOLer"), prejudice, people (no matter
how righteous their cause) who seem to go out of their way to make their
side of an argument look *stupid*
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: "Bi" is boring. How 'bout this: Strong enough for a
man, pH balanced for a woman! <g>
KEWL STUFF: Tori, Toriphiles; Sandman, Books of Magic, Death, Delirium,
(I still have a crush on) Desire; Ani, David Bowie, Placebo, Pratchett,
"Labyrinth," Star Wars, Highlander, hot chocolate, dragons, Discordians,
Earth First; rmt-a, alt.cuddle, soc.support.youth.gay-lesbian-bi; Kurt
Vonnegut, William Gibson, Paul Krassner; alternative whatsits, stuff,
oddments, things, you know; Ken (America's Favorite Homosexual), Ben
(E-Mail Boy/Stud), Renee (She Who Prolly Knows Everything But Is Laughing
Too Hard To Tell Us); the Cool Parts of history, happy mutants, ribofunk,
cyberpunk; trilogies, duets, love quadrangles, the Intelligent Flirts room
in AOL (where basically people never get around to *flirting*), guys,
girls, Marilyn Manson (no, I phrased that *exactly* right); friends,
crushes, eternal loves, momdadbrother, cool old relatives, romani ite
domo. And oh so many other thingies.

SECTION 2.0: YUP, QUOTES

"It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men,
or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the
vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only?"
-Virginia Woolf, _A Room of One's Own_

Don't make FUN of me. I know what you THINK about me. But I know things
none of YOU know.
-Delirium

Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? Use them
after your own honor and dignity: the less they deserve, the more merit is
in your bounty.
-Hamlet

I know that mess spelled backwards is ssem and I felt much better armed
with that information.
-Tori
if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won't be
afraid of that feeling anymore. when you're on your knees you're closer to
the ground. things seem nearer somehow.
-Tori

And the day came when the risk it took to remain closed in a bud became
more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-Anais Nin

Anywho, we now return you to your regularly scheduled randomness.....
-Spacedog

That's (not nearly) all, folx.

-Sylvia

Alithea: So right there you've got Spare Change, Testosterone, or Sex
Pistol.
Jessa: It's SILVER!!!
-a calm debate on nail polish colors

[Jennifer Romard]

I just posted half of this stuff a week ago but incase you may have missed
it I am re-doing it. I liked this format so much that I am stealing it and
making a few slight changes!!

NAME: Jennifer Lee Romard. I should have been born with the last name
Mackenzie (which is so much nicer than Romard) but they screwed up all the
birth certificates on Dad's side of the family.
NICKNAME: Jenn, Jennie, Billie (on chat lines, it's my favorite "Days"
character), shorty, brat and Jennie-Lee
OTHER NICKNAMES: They used to call me Mouse at softball because I was so
much smaller than the other girls and I could steal the bases without
anyone knowing it.
BIRTHDAY: October 5, 1977. I was supposed to be born November 2.
AGE: 19
HEIGHT: 5'4"
WEIGHT: Around 105, I haven't weighed myself recently.
HAIR COLOR: Light brown or blond depending on the time of year and if I
have hilights put in.
NATURAL HAIR COLOR: Blond
EYE COLOR: Green/blue/grey, color changes with my mood, clothes and what
color contacts I have in.
GLASSES: I only wear them to give my eyes a break. I found out the hard
way what happens if you don't. Your eyes turn an interesting red color.
PETS: I have an adorable little rabbit named Bugsie, she's three years
old. Bugsie eats everything she can get her teeth into. Mom has a rabbit
who thinks he's mine name Tasha. We thought he was a female but surprise!
He's a year old and he's very friendly. If anyone ever robbed our house he
would lick them to death. They are in separate cages. As you can probably
tell I worship the ground they walk (hop) on.
RESIDENCE: Fredericton, NB (Canada). I live with my mother and 17 year old
brother.
OTHER FAMILY: My parents were both born in Sydney, Nova Scotia. They have
been divorced for years and I remember the day that they told us (me and my
brother). The next song I heard on the radio was "Eternal Flames" by the
Bangles. Ironically it was their last song before they broke up. My
father is remarried to the slut from hell. Just kidding, she's nicer but
is a slut. I have two stepsisters (ages 17 and 14) and a stepbrother (15
or 16 I can't remember). I have a very screwed up family, I just am giving
some miscellaneous information.
RELASHIONSHIPS: I just ended one, I hope. The guy drove me up the wall.
TRANSPORTATION: My mother drives me around because I am too lazy to get my
license. Otherwise I take the bus, a cab or in the summer I take my bike.
SCHOOL: I took a computer technician course last year. Graduated from
Fredericton High in 95. I hated school, so many bad memories.
OCCUPATION: I work as a cashier at Wal~Mart!! I love working there. I
also work for Department of Education where they have me stuck at my old
high school. I still can't stand being there. If I had a choice between
working there and dying, I'd definitely pick dying.
HOBBIES: I write a little. I will post some of the stuff I have written.
I don't have much spare time and when I'm not writting or here I have music
on. I have to have something playing, preferably Tori.
SMAE FLAVOR: chocolate and peanut
TURNONS: I love it when guys sing to me, if they have a nice voice. And
spanish accents, can't hear it enough! Guys who are nice to my rabbits. I
am a "cuddler", I am happy being held and hugged, I really hate the cold.
Guys who don't laugh when I am being serious and don't laugh at my music.
I don't have a "dream guy" pictured in my mind because I'll just be
disappointed later. I love walking by went someone is having their house's
outside redone because there are so many gorgeous guys working with no
shirts on.
TURNOFFS / DISLIKES: No offense to smokers but I hate kissing a guy who
smokes, I am a non-smoker. I don't care if someone smokes around me
though. I hate violence and when people who intentional make fun of
someone to hurt them. Shallowness drives me nuts. People who are cruel to
animals and other humans. Oh and when people try to convert me to a
religion, I don't believe in God and my mother hates it. I hate it when
people spit and chew with their mouths open. People who think they know
everything . Teenagers who are snotty, not all teens are bad. I hate it
when people lie and play mind games. Gossipers and people who spread
rumors. People who say mean things about my rabbits. Guys who get too
possesive. I have many things to tell about everything I have mentioned
above and if anyone wants to hear about them just ask.
KEWL STUFF: Tori!! Alanis Morissette, Sarah McLachlin, I love dance music,
most alternative and some country music. Days of Our Lives (see
nicknames). Star Trek. Astrology fascinates me, I have a funny story on
how I chased this guy away using my astrologer program and Tarot cards,
I'll post it down the bottom of the page. Any music file I can get my
hands on over the internet. I love chat lines!!

SECTION 2.0: QUOTES

"I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner
there was a slap in the face, how quickly I was replaced
and are you thinking of me when you fuck her" - Alanis Morissette (You
Oughta Know)

(Star Trek : TNG, Tasha Yar seducing Data in The Naked Now)

Yar "You are fully functional?"
Data "Yes"
Yar "How fully?"

"Say, you love them take their money and run
Say, it's been swell sweetheart, but it was just one of those things
those flings, those strings you've got to cut,
So get out on the streets girls and bust your butts"
-- Jewel (Who will save your soul)

Don't even let me get started on quotes from Tori, there are just too many
of them. My favorite expression is probably "you know it!".
Anyway I mentioned above about how I tried to chase this guy off. This is
the guy I recently stopped seeing. He is a smoker, which was fine as long
as he didn't kiss me after he had a cigarette. My head was almost on the
table a few nights at the bar and I hadn't even begun drinking (I rarely
drink myself into a state where I can't keep my head up). He nearly drove
me up the wall, he called way too often. I tried talking to him about it,
but he just didn't pay attention. Finally, he came over to my place to use
the internet. When he was done I decided to try and scare him with my
music. I played Tori (which seems to scare everyone else away, they have
no taste!) and Bjork. I even tried a few other CDs. Then I put him into
my astrologer program. He said it was a bunch of shit, so I said that I
believed in it (which I do). That was fine. Then out came the Tarot
cards. I let him ask a few questions, he didn't like the answers too much.
Then we started talking about astrology and I told him what signs he was
compatible with and which ones I was compatible with. Of course we didn't
match. That seemed to work. Then I bumped into him at the bar, he called
my house the next day. Fortunately, I knew he would so I went out. Same
thing the next night. He hasn't called since. Did I mention that he still
lived with his ex-fiance? I don't think he does any more.

I talk too much sometimes, but it's something you will have to get used to
I guess. If anything I have said offended anyone, please let me know. I
want everyone to be friends and get along. You all seem so cool!!!

Jenn

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"got enough guilt to start my own religion" -- Tori Amos
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[A. Sylvara]

>
> NAME: April Marie Sylvara
>
> BIRTHDAY: July 11th, 1974
> AGE: 22
>
> HEIGHT: 5'4
>
> WEIGHT: about 120
>
> HAIR COLOR: blonde
>
> EYE COLOR: blue
>
> GLASSES: Nope! I have super eyes that can see far away as well as
close up. I might have to have them when I get old.
>
> OCCUPATION: senior at the University of Washington. I also work at the
University of Washington Hospital and Fred Meyer. I am a super busy chic!

> MAJOR: Social Sciences and Environmental Issues with a minor
in Communications
>
> TRANSPORTATION: Joe Metro (public transport), my feet, and soon a car:)
>
> COHABITANTS: waterbaby and tinkerbel( turtles),tiva and runi(cats),
fat bob and fat bess (frogs),romio,farah,and ? (iguanas),thumper,oscar
meyer,gasius,and a bunch of no namers (fish),monty
(monitor),christina,heather,jeremy (humans)
> SO: None as of now. Hopefully soon. I am working on it:)
>
> TURNONS: tall and skinny guys, short hair, sense of humor,curiousity
about sex, sensistive shy side, understanding, easy going attitude,and
being comfortable. >

> TURNOFFS: intolerant, judgemental attitudes and alcholics.
>
> KEWL STUFF: tori,peotry,music (anykind),
singing,jokes,animals,recycling,thrift stores...all things used, road
trips to new places, turtles of all kinds.(all i can think of at the
moment.)
>
> SECTION 2.0: YUP, QUOTES
>
> Can't think of any quotes at the moment because my brain is fried from
doing too much homework!

lil'turtle

[Aimee Lortskell]

Joanne <joa...@interaccess.com> wrote:
[snips]

: TURNONS: Touch my neck and I'll go mad. Let's just say that when I
: got the tattoo on the back of my neck, it was quite an orgasmic
: experience. *shiver*

i recently gave blood (despite my needle phobia, please pat me on the
back), and discovered that for testing blood type they now prick your
earlobe instead of your finger pad. it was <<<<<<<uuuuuuuuuuuuh>>>>>>>
enough when the woman pricked my earlobe, but then she starts pulling on
it rhythmically to get blood in the little sample tube...oh my.

Aimee the Magdalene

*--NINnie----BAAWA!----Toriphile------Crunchy PB Heretic--*
* losing your faith is a lot like losing your virginity; *
* you don't realize how irritating it was 'til it's gone *
* - AEL (me) *
*---------------------------------------------------------*

[n...@acsu.buffalo.edu]

Ummm....here goes!

NAME: Nicole Renee Johnson
NICKNAMES: Nikki, Beanie, Miss Nikki, Mistress Nikki, Sam, Casper, Verna,
Matilda, Violet Beef Girl, Cozy, Miss Thing, Psycho, Spaz...the
list goes on and on...
AGE: 17 (and 5/6)
DOB: 5-14-79...full fledged Taurus
HEIGHT: 5'7"...OK, OK it's 5'6&3/4"
WEIGHT: fluctuates between 135 and 150...atm, about 142
EYES: blue
GLASSES: well, I'm supposed to, but they're usually lost :(
HAIR COLOR:as of last week, dark brown - I will soon be adding blond
highlights. It was Castings Cinnamon for about a year and a
half
NATURAL HAIR COLOR: light brown
CELEBRITIES I'VE BEEN COMPARED TO: Claire Danes, Mia Kershner, Cameron
Diaz (by a very disillusioned boy :)), Judy Garland, Liza
Minelli, Fiona Apple
RESIDENCE: Good old Buffalo, NY in a fun little apartment with my mommy!
TRANSPORTATION: A dark purpley 94 Sunbird with a headless naked Barbie in
the back window and a "Freedom Means Choice" sticker on the
back.
OCCUPATION: Student at University at Buffalo...supposedly an English/Film
Analysis major but it changes quite often. I also work at the
lovely General Cinema downtown...the Market Arcade. Woo-hoo.
SO: No. He broke up with me on X-mas, as some of you know. But, I am
fervently looking...I have about 4 or 5 prospects ;)
TURN-ONS: Oh...there are so many: earrings, dark hair, dark eyes, the
mafia (put in the Godfather and I am *ready for love*), film
students, musicians, poetry, snappy dressers, listening to Tori or
Fiona Apple, food, -anything- behind my ear, being near water...
TURN-OFFS: Aussie Tees, the Gap, athletic types, Jesus Christ people, too
much hair, sloppy kissers, guys who like to grab rather than
touch, tongue piercings, gold chains, police, Dave Matthews Band,
people that don't write their own music, Pearl Jam, guys who think
Gwen Stefani is hot...
PHAT STUFF: the word 'phat,' books (any and all), Matilda, Shakespeare,
raves (although I've only been to one), shoes...especially the
kind you only wear once, opera (esp. Carmen and The Magic
Flute), chi-chi beans, pasta, Tori (of course), Fiona Apple,
Weezer, Cibo Matto (and I'm so happy that there are other people
out there that like them! *higs* to the Cibo Matto fans!), grape
Blow-Pops, RMT-A (such a warm cozy place!), Cinnamon Twists from
Taco Bell, sex, foreplay, Amvets, Lancome lipstick in Platinum,
Stomp, Tricky, tap dancing, jazz, Billie Holiday, My So-Called Life,
Kids in the Hall, pina coladas, Claire Danes, John Travolta, Larenz
Tate (I am anxiously awaiting Love Jones), Welcome to the Dollhouse,
Juliana Hatfield, Battle Arena Toshinden and Tekken 2 for Playstation,
trying to play the piano, chap stick, black liquid eyeliner, dogs (sorry,
I'm allergic to cats), faeries, my angel - Joelle, I Will Survive, Matthew
Sweet, Heather Nova, dancing, Karaoke, Jewel, Queen, Elenoar (sp?) Rigby,
Vanilla, Lilacs, Ramen Noodles, magick, mud, rain, snow, stars, birds,
honesty...*phew* I feel ever so long winded today, sorry!

QUOTES:

"Men are like tissues, you blow them once and then you leave 'em."
-My 10-year old cousin. She didn't get why we were laughing.

"It's my big secret, gonna hover over your life, gonna keep you reaching
when I'm gone like yesterday, when I'm high like heaven, when I'm strong
like music..."
-Fiona Apple "Slow Like Honey"

"It feels good, it feels like poetry. Don't ask me to explain..."
-Heather Nova

"Hold me, I'm a fermata."

"And to the one you thought was on your side, she can't understand, she
truly believes the lie..."
-Tori Amos

"How stupid is it, I can't talk about it, I gotta sing about it, and make
a record...Oh, how stupid is it, for all I know you want me, too, or maybe
you just don't know what to do, or maybe you're scared to say I'm falling
for you..."
-Weezer

"I mean, you're acting like you don't even want to know the me [sic]"
-a scary girl who was stalking me

"So, I went to the priest, and, well, I told him I had gonnorreah. Boy,
was he in shock, 'Who have you been with, my son?' 'Nobody...uh, nobody!'
'Then, how can you have gonnorreah?'"
-Mark Antony "A Chorus Line"

"Bruce Bogtrotter is none other than a vicious sneak thief. You're a
disgusting criminal, aren't you?"
-Agatha Trunchbull "Matilda"

Whoa, that was long!
There will be a quiz later...

Nikki Johnson,
Recovering Christian
n...@acsu.buffalo.edu

(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)
"Do you know what this is doing to me...here, in my head?"
-Tori Amos

"My feel for you, boy, is decaying in front of me like the
carrion of a murdered prey." -Fiona Apple

"She is such a sucker, he don't wanna fuck her."
-Juliana Hatfield 3
(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)

[Wolfeman]

Everyone else is doing it so why can't we? This seems a bit
exhibitionist, but oh well it'll be fun. :)

NAME: Daniel Peter Wolfe (I use Dan Wolfe)
NICKNAME: usu. Wolfeman or The Wolfeman
OTHER NICKNAMES: Danman, Dannyboy, that guy who likes weird chicks
like Tori Amos abd Bjork
BIRTHDAY: December 11, 1974
HEIGHT: 5'10" and change
WEIGHT: 160 +/- a couple pounds
HAIR COLOR: Dirty blond to brown depending on how much sun I get
NATURAL HAIR COLOR: Same
EYE COLOR: Blue
GLASSES: Contacts, I only wear glasses at night or early morning, I
HATE them.
PETS: My kitty Zaphod, who is solely responsible for me being a
reasonably happy person this year. I love him dearly.
RESIDENCE: Hamilton (technically Westdale) ON, Canada. Walking
distance from McMaster University, where I'm in year four of
mechanical engineering & management
OTHER FAMILY: Parents married for over 30 years about an hour away.
Sister in Toronto and Brother & sister-in-law in Edmonton. Plus 2
more kitties at the parents' place.
RELATIONSHIPS: Ha, that's funny. I laugh so I don't cry...
TRANSPORTATION: Soon to be a 1990 Civic sedan which I adore.
OCCUPATION: I have a 4-month contract with GM this summer. Apparently
I'll be travelling all over the states, visiting suppliers to test
machines & stuff. I'm looking forward to it (the pay doesn't hurt
either...)
HOBBIES: reading, rollerblading, mountain-biking, squash, stroking my
pussy ... um, I mean petting my cat, listening to certain music with
the bass cranked (not specifically to annoy my housemates, it just
gives me a rush)
SMAE FLAVOR: ummm, lessee ... cream cheese & jalapeno jelly
TURNONS: Women. What, be more specific? Ok: women who aren't afraid
of physical activity(women with muscle tone ... *drool*); *honesty*;
mature/rational outlook on life; ANYONE who pays attention to me;
cuddling; caring; catlovers; intelligence/ well-roundedness; music.
Oh, and I think nose/navel rings and braces are cute.
TURNOFFS / DISLIKES: Smokers (sorry, I can't stand smoke); ignorance;
people more interested in appearances than substance; fundamentalism/
closed-mindedness; obsession with looks; mean-spiritedness; sports
fanatics; hypocrisy (although I'm sure I'm not innocent); people who
don't care.
KEWL STUFF: Music first: ABBA, Ace of Base, *Tori*,* Bjork* and anyone
she's ever worked with, Beatles, Kate Bush, Erasure, *Peter Gabriel*,
Garbage, Jon & Vangelis, NIN, Mike Oldfield, Orbital, Portishead,
Tricky, old U2, XTC. Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Rushdie, Stephen
Hawking, The Far Side, dictionaries, Scrabble, The Simpsons, cats,
tools, computers, slinkys, educated arguments, Gandhi, John Ralston
Saul, building things, taking things apart, good movies (this should
be in turnons too).

SECTION 2.0: QUOTES
Everyone else seems to have better quotes than I can think of. I like
my current sigfile though...

Dan - whose exhibitionist urges are now satisfied :)

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Dan Wolfe wol...@muss.cis.mcmaster.ca
disgruntled engineer
----------------------------------------------------------------------
In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold
than the soap, and much more difficult to find ...
- Terry Pratchett
----------------------------------------------------------------------

[Antonia Bradford]

oh, oh I missed something in the Kewl stuff catagory, the films
'Sleepless in Seatle' and 'Nell' (Which seems to remind me of the
artwork for bfp)

> Kewl stuff: Tori (ovbously:), Nirvana, R.E.M., Silverchair, Foo
> Fighters, Enigma, Mark Snow, Alanis (Don't kill me!!), Gillian
> Anderson, The X-Files, Millenium and Playing the guitar (which
> I've been doing for two years, can't play much Tori stuff:(
>
>

Back to Lurk mode

Martin B

[Aimee Lortskell]

: NAME:
aimee elizabeth lortskell

: NICKNAME:
aimee the magdalene

: OTHER NICKNAMES:
aimee the whore, busybody, price police, *****, bunny (don't ask)

: BIRTHDAY:
may 1, 1972

: AGE:
i just gave you my birthday, you do the math, you lazy fucker!

: HEIGHT:
5'6"....my older sister is 6' and for a long time i really wanted to be
tall, even though she hated it. i just thought she was the most
beautiful person ever. now i think i am. ;)

: WEIGHT:
around 160, and i like me that way. abby mentioned breasts, but i'm
banning her and elusis from the giant boob club because i've seen their
breasts and they're both actually just perfect, those bitches. i, OTOH,
am a saggy DD and it's starting to make me slouch. if i changed
anything about my appearance, i'd prolly go down a cup size or 2. but
i'm mostly at peace with my breasts, and if given the option i'd prolly
just fill 'em with helium to improve my posture and go around poking
people's eyes out with 'em. if anything, i've attracted a better class
of boys as a pudge than i did as a barbie in HS. now if only i could
figure out how to attract girls and not be terrified of them.

: HAIR COLOR:
wella colour charm's red red, which i started using a few months ago.

: NATURAL HAIR COLOR:
dark brown with some auburn highlights. my maternal grandfather was a
natural flaming scotch redhead, and i really wish i'd gotten more of that.

: EYE COLOR:
i call 'em green, but most people think they border on hazel.

: GLASSES:
yes, but only when i'm not wearing contacts. i've had vision correction
since i was 5, and i think contacts are the most wonderful thing i own.
i love being able to see without some bulky thing on my face making my
nose sweaty.

: TRANSPORTATION:
for the most part my feet. for road trips, an '88 dodge daytona with
offensive bumper stickers, including darwin fish. i've been yelled at
repeatedly, but never shot at.

: TURNONS:
geeks! if you're scrawny, pale, and own a $500 calculator, i want you.
WARNING: i will fatten you up and by no means will i discuss
engineering/physics/computers with you. you can be my sysadmin, but i
don't wanna hear about it. just fuck me, ok?

: TURNOFFS:
people who won't yell back, anything to do with UMR's st puke's holiday,
99% of sports, and sweet potatoes.

: KEWL STUFF:
rmta (price whiners and all), amn (for when i need even more conflict)...
and rather than some huge fucking list, i'll just recommend that you all
see the film microcosmos, if only for the incredibly erotic snail sex scene.

: BEST PICKUP LINE:
if you have sex with me, i'll let you take me out to dinner. this one
has worked for me every time. use this power wisely, children. ;)

: MENSTRUAL CYCLE:
exact 28 day cycle, since i'm on the pill. next due: march 20.

Aimee the Magdalene

*-Toriphile-BAAWA!-NINnie-*
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
* stuff IS the issue. *
* foreplay, boys! *
* - Tori Amos *
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

[Rich and Nadyne Mielke]

[stealing the format too]
>NAME:
Arlene Nadyne Mielke. My first name is my maternal grandmother's, my
middle is my paternal grandmother's. My parents, assorted family
members, and the assholes I went to school with call me by my first
name. I now use my first name as a marker saying "I despise you, so
you can't call me by my real name". ;)

>NICKNAME:
/nad {well, you can leave the slash off if you like}

>OTHER NICKNAMES:
Her Royal Nad-ness, Space Nad-ness, It's a Nad Nad Nad Nad World,
Spice {only usable by Rich}.

>BIRTHDAY:
12 March 1976.[1]

>AGE:
21

>HEIGHT:
5'7"

>WEIGHT:
<censored>

>HAIR COLOR:
Boring brown. I used to dye it red, but Rich votes for the natural
look. I'm not sure why I listen to him. ;)

>EYE COLOR:
bluish/greenish/hazelish <shrug>

>GLASSES:
Since I was 4. I'm so used to the bloody things now. Currently,
they're a wire tortiseshell frame, although I need new ones soon.

>TRANSPORTATION:
Mine is a 1994 Saturn SL2 in pearl. I *lurve* my car.
Rich's is a 1995 Saturn SL2 in aquamarine. My husband hasn't figured
out how to clean his car out yet, so I don't love it nearly as much.
;)

>TURNONS:
Computer geeks. Engineer geeks. Hell, geeks in general. Hugging and
cuddling and snuggling.

>TURNOFFS:
The egotistical assholes I keep running into around here. Morons who
drive Jaguars/Volvos/Land Rovers/Mercedes and talk on cell-phones and
put on their makeup whilst driving 100mph down GA400 or I-75.
Mercedes station wagons. People who only care about appearances and
not the important stuff. People who watch television constantly.
People who feel the need to let the current urges of fashion/society/
whatever to dictate their lives. {I guess I could put the last 3
together into "people who are incapable of thinking for themselves".}

>KEWL STUFF:
Tori, REM, Depeche Mode, Harry Chapin, Cowboy Junkies. No movies or
television programs or anything like that.
{Yeah, I'm a freak.}

>SECTION 2.0: YUP, QUOTES
Hmmm.

"Why does she have to defend her feelings inside? Why pretend she's
not had a life, a life of near misses? Now all that she wants is 3
little wishes: she wants to see with your eyes, she wants to smile
with your smile, she wants a nice surprise every once in awhile."
-- Depeche Mode, "Little 15"

"You loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might
win."
-- Leonard Cohen, "First We Take Manhattan"

"Saving the best part for someone who asks, smoothing the rough spots
right out of her past."
-- Valentine Smith, "Katie's a No-Show"

"I'm a tangled-up puppet, spinning 'round in knots, and the more I see
of what used to be, the less of you I got."
-- Harry Chapin, "Tangled-Up Puppet"

"I'm not supposed to be like this, but it's okay. Okay?"
-- R.E.M., "The Wrong Child"

"Everything is not enough, nothing is too much to bear. Where you've
been is good and gone, all you keep's the getting there."
-- Cowboy Junkies, "To Live is to Fly"
{I esp love the double meaning of "nothing is too much to bear".}

"Pieces of me you'll never see"
-- like I need to say.

/nad

[1] Many many higs to Heather and YumYum for remembering! :) My
parents forgot, my best friend forgot, and I was in the middle of
trying to finish up 2 programs in Visual C++ and Visual Smalltalk, so
the day sucked anyway.[2] I haven't even had legal booze yet.

[2] Yeah, that's a shock.

[nymsa]

once upon a time, /nad wrote:

>>BIRTHDAY:
>12 March 1976.[1]

!!!!!! eep! happy belated birthday, /nad. seems like we had a lot
of birthdays over the past few days. i think i'm going to start a new
thread for birthdays and keep track of them just for myself. not
promising to remember every time, or remind everyone else, but i'd
feel better. i'm sorry /nad. *hugs*

>[1] Many many higs to Heather and YumYum for remembering! :) My
>parents forgot, my best friend forgot, and I was in the middle of
>trying to finish up 2 programs in Visual C++ and Visual Smalltalk, so
>the day sucked anyway.[2] I haven't even had legal booze yet.
>[2] Yeah, that's a shock.

*many comforting /nad hugs and an offer of kitty snuggles* (got three
here, you know. :)

--nymsa

--
"she's got a wall around her nobody can climb
she lets a ladder down for those who really shine"
--juliana hatfield

++++++++++idm...@ix.netcom.com++++++++++

[Joanne]

Aimee Lortskell <ai...@umr.edu> wrote:

:snip:
> : BIRTHDAY:
> may 1, 1972

Yeah! Me too (1974)! Isn't May Day wonderful?

On a slightly related note:

<twilight zone music>
My bf has disovered that three other people at his new job were
born in September on Friday the 13th, as was he.
</twilight zone music>

:)
Joanne -- wanting a new job for my b-day

*********************************************************************
Stupid lyric of the month:
"Your mom's carpet is a boodeldang-a-dang" -- Z
*********************************************************************

Framed & Dried, a Tori Amos Gallery
http://homepage.interaccess.com/~joanne/ta/framedndried.html

[Sophie C. Sensat]

Bramble wrote:

<< : BIRTHDAY/AGE:
nov 8, '71 (25)
apr 1, '91 (almost 6)
>>

and once again I must sa
er.... say:

"????"

SunRae

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Some poems don't rhyme,
This is one of them.

[Aimee Lortskell]

Angela Reid <abr...@email.unc.edu> wrote:
[snips]
: OTHER NICKNAMES: My parents called me "A-bird" when I was very small. I'm

: much better at giving nicknames than receiving them (I tend to call
: everything and everybody "Pickle." My guinea pigs are Pickles. So is my
: husband.)

i do the same thing, except i say bunny instead. i think people get
confused when i call my cats bunnies.

Aimee the Magdalene

###################################################################
# sodomy and explosives, that's what the internet's all about. #
# - samuel johnston #
# if breastfeeding a pig is sickening to you, #
# what are you doing on usenet? - christopher stone #
###################################################################

[Andrew Onifer]

In article <5gf26s$v...@camel2.mindspring.com>, mie...@mindspring.com wrote:
>[stealing the format too]
>>NAME:

Andrew Joseph Onifer III. But no one actually calls me that, 'cause it
would take forever and if there's a fire or something and they need me
quickly, yell "ANDREW JOSEPH ONIFER III!!" would take so long that the
building would burn down and everyone would die, and that would suck, so
I go by jay.

>>NICKNAME:

jay. Pay attention.

>>OTHER NICKNAMES:

jay. Also Jay.

>>BIRTHDAY:
July 30, 1976

>>AGE:
20

>>HEIGHT:
5'9"

>>WEIGHT:
140-something

>>HAIR COLOR:
Brown.

>>EYE COLOR:
Blue

>>GLASSES:

Black wire frames with tiny roundish lenses. The lenses have polished
edges. The lady said that would make them look better, but what it ends
up doing is making all these internal reflections around the edges.

>>TRANSPORTATION:

Public.

>>TURNONS:

Zip drives. That's all I'm saying.

>>TURNOFFS:

People who friggen' borrow my CD's without asking!!

>>KEWL STUFF:

U2, Star Wars[1], Tori Amos, U2, Star Wars, Prince, U2, Star Wars,
Rusted Root, U2, Star Wars, R.E.M., U2, Star Wars, Dilbert, U2, Star
Wars, fried Mars bars.

And U2 and Star Wars.

>>SECTION 2.0: YUP, QUOTES
Mmmm... Quotes...

"We're one, but we're not the same. We get to carry each other."
U2-"One"

"It's not easy, being green."
Kermit the Frog

"Jesus never let me down you know Jesus used to show me the score
Then they put Jesus in show business now it's hard to get in the door."
U2-"If God Will Send His Angels"

"What more in the name of love?"
U2-"Pride (In the Name of Love)

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's
too dark to read."
Groucho Marx

"Only one thing could tear me from the soft glow of electric sex in the
window..."
Ralphie-A Christmas Story

"You could spend your entire life and maybe wipe half the fuck you's off
the walls." (or something to that effect)
Catcher in the Rye

"Two fighters against a star destroyer?!" (It's the way he says it)
Random rebel pilot who probably ended up dead-The Empire Strikes Back

"Do, or do not. There is no try."
Yoda-The Empire Strikes Back

"WAAAAAWW" (meer letters cannot justify the sound)
Lando, after the Sarlaac tentacle wraps itself
around his leg-Return of the Jedi

"Well, I care."
Luke Skywalker, after Leia wonders if Han cares about anything
or anybody-Star Wars

"I have a bad feeling about this."
Just about every character in the Star Wars Trilogy

"But I'm not an alien."
Crow (I think)-MST3K, The Movie

[1] I mean the whole trilogy.[2]
[2] But not the books.[3]
[3] Yaknow, I've never used footnotes before.

jay

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[tae]

Yet another poster stealing the format. ('Cause its just so _great_!)

> >>NAME: Patricia Barbara Wiggin
> >>NICKNAME: Tae
> >>OTHER NICKNAMES: Trish, Trishy, Trishy-poo
> >>BIRTHDAY: Feb. 13, 1976 (born on Friday the 13th)
> >>AGE: 21
> >>HEIGHT: 5'7" or so
> >>WEIGHT: Too damn much
> >>HAIR COLOR: Originally very dark brown, dyed totally black
> >>EYE COLOR: Brownish greenish (Okay, just plain hazel)
> >>GLASSES: Since fourth grade, got contacts about five years ago.
> >>SMAE FLAVOR: Pina Colada and anything almond
> >>TRANSPORTATION: Anybody who's willing to drive me around (and
surprisingly a lot of people do).
> >>SO: Still trying to get over the man who broke my heart into
teeny-tiny little-bitty pieces (and its not working).
> >>TURNONS: emotional men, people touching my hair, neck biting, trent
reznor's voice (And now that I actually think about it, there are some
songs where tori's voice turns me on as well), just sex in general,
almond-scented stuff (don't ask me why, it just happens),
> >>TURNOFFS: Men who are afraid of their emotions and/or aren't willing
to talk about them
> >>KEWL STUFF: tori, nine inch nails, anything that has to do with the
pyramids in egypt, researching wicca, sandman comic books, arthurian
legend, marion zimmer bradley books, my computer!
> >>SECTION 2.0: YUP, QUOTES

Everywhere I look you're all I see
just a fading fucking reminder of who I used to be.
Trent Reznor

the more I sort it out, the more things get distorted
i sorta think i'm better off just leaving it unsorted
the more i try to change its course the more off course it goes
of course i'll reach my destination, someday i suppose
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

For the life of me and the things that I do
its hard to believe that I cut myself for you
thanks to gravity

sometimes I think you want me to touch you
how can I when you build the great wall around you
in your eyes I saw a future together
you just look away in the distance
tori

[Lianne Macdonald]

NAME: Lianne Macdonald
NICKNAME: Shorty (I'm not really small, it's just a poor nickname)
BIRTHDAY: 27/11/73
AGE: For those who hate figuring ages from birthdates (me!) 23
HEIGHT: 5ft 4in I think
WEIGHT: Around 140, hopefully going down
HAIR: Blonde
NATURAL COLOUR: Blonde
EYES: Blue
OCCUPATION: Postwoman
TRANSPORTATION: Feet or bus, I can't drive.....yet
TURNONS: Dark chocolate brown eyes, cheeky smile, and I just love a
guy with a French accent.
TURNOFFS: Long hair, beards, nasty smells, crap musical tastes,
bigots, morons.
KEWL STUFF: Tori, Kim my dog, Stephen King books my computer - rmta,
the internet for all those Tori sites, Partick Thistle (footie team),
music, X-Files, my bed, Baileys.
QUOTES: (Football ones 'cos the rest I'll use in my sig, although all
you N. Americans will no doubt think...who..what....ah, load of crap.
But they're funney, honest)
"It was a big relief off my shoulders" - Paul Gascoigne
"I'd like to play for an Italian club like Barcelona" - Mark Draper
"The World Cup is a truly International event" - John Motson
"Lee Sharpe has got dynamite in his shorts" - Stuart Hall
"If that had gone in, it would have been a goal" - David Coleman
"Last night, we were the best team on the day" - Roy Aitken
Talking about a concussed player "the lad didn't even know who he was,
so I told him, you're Pele now get up and start playing" - John Lambie

Lianne.M...@btinternet.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~ Partick Thistle - ~
~ The Great Glasgow ~
~ Alternative ~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[TINO]

You can tell it's a really great format, when *everybody* steals it!!!!

NAME: Christopher Stephen Matthew Shortall (all 33 letters)
NICKNAME: Chris, Gumbi, Super Fag
OTHER NICKNAMES: Christopher Robin, Limy
BIRTHDAY: January 20, 1980
AGE: um, er, only 17...
HEIGHT: just under 6' (except with my big ass shoes)
WEIGHT: 130lbs... thin, but now emassicated
HAIR COLOR: plain brown, dyed bugendy twice last year, it's probably
time again...
EYE COLOR: green, grey, blue (depends on lighting, moods, and clothing)
GLASSES: none
SMAE FLAVOR: um, er, i'll just leave this one blank
TRANSPORTATION: my parents, friends, and public transportation [1]
SO: i wish!!!
TURNONS: beautiful boys... both inside and out...
TURNOFFS: jerks, rednecks, bigots, hypocrites...
KEWL STUFF: tori, bjork, sloan, loreena mckennitt, simon and garfunkel,
led zeppelin, jewel, lots of others... x-files, cybill, star wars
trilogy, coffee shops downtown, shopping downtown, the signatures on my
b-room walls, all the nick-nacks that i collect, my piano, my
computer...
SECTION 2.0: YUP, QUOTES

i'm dreading this...

i don't really have any off hand... i'll think really hard and post
later...

[1] i'm too lazy to get my own licence

eep opp ork ah-ah
chris....

[Andrew Onifer]

eva piccininni <picc...@ucs.orst.edu> wrote:
> Andrew Onifer (a...@po.cwru.edu) wrote:
> [snip]
> > >>BIRTHDAY:
> > July 30, 1976
> aaack! we were born on EXACTLY THE SAME DAY!

Nifty :) I know someone born the day after us, too.

> -> eva, not sure whether she should be frightened or not

We have the same birthday as Henry Ford. And Arnold Scharztenegger.
That's frightening.

jay

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[Elusis]

that abby girl <ab...@nwu.edu> wrote:

> > NAME: abby jean mcclelland
>
> > NICKNAME: abbynormal, abracadabra, abs, bitch, jezebel, abbers,
> >growl-tiger.

And let's not forget "porn girl." :>

> > WEIGHT: i refuse to check, on principle, and out of fear of relapse into
> pseudo-anorexic habits. probably around 140, but i've got a lot of curves
> (should i add a "BREASTS: too big for my liking" category in here for me,
> aimee and elusis, at least?), so why am i feeling the need to justify my
> weight on usenet? ack. i hate this category. whose idea was this weight
> self-revelation thing anyway? me? body-image problems? what the hell are
> you talking about?

Thank you! I'm not into discussing my various weight issues at the moment
either, other than to say that most of my dresses don't fit at the moment
and it's pissing me off. So ner.

> > HEALTH ISSUES: clinical depression with occasional manic periods, i
> don't know why i'm not just straight out bipolar, ask my psychiatrist and
> have him let me know as well, will you? thanks. that's all the official
> ones, although whenever i get near the DSM i tend to self diagnose like a
> madwoman (ha ha).

According to the DSM, if you've had even one manic period, you're supposed
to be considered bipolar I or II, regardless of whether you ever have
another one or not. So I don't understand what your doctor is thinking.
<frowny face>

Elusis
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ I'm not a habit, I'm a lifestyle -Tori Amos + The best thing you've +
+ ever done for me is to help me take my life less seriously -Indigo +
+ Girls + Fill our gold cups with love stirred into nectar -Sappho +
+ i found god in myself and i loved her fiercely -N. Shange + Farky! +
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[faer...@aol.com]

jumping on the bandwagon and snatching the form as well : ) i ask forgiveness
for my inability to be succinct.

NAME: Londie Theresa Martin... my dad was reading the lyrics to a
...........Stevie Wonder song("Isn't She Lovely")and saw the name "Londie"
...........in there, and here i am. theresa is for st. theresa...yeah
NICKNAME: Londie Loo, Therez (only my aunt, her name is Theresa), people
...................who misspronounce my name usually say Landie or Lundie or
...................some other horrible mutation, nate and mum call me Lon, people
...................who have a death wish call me Blondie (if i had a nickle for every
...................time i've heard "hey...if you had BLONDE hair we could call you
...................BLONDIE!" ...mm, not if you expect me to answer : )
BIRTHDAY: August 25, 1979
AGE: 17 (18 is taking its sensuous sweet time in getting here)
HEIGHT: 5'2" (which means i get "wow...yr short" all the damn time *grumble*)
WEIGHT: last time i checked it was 105 lbs
HAIR: very long, dark brown with some blonde and red gifts from the sun
NATURAL COLOUR: during the winter it's a deep dark brown
EYES: most of the time their dark blue but they tend to pick up different colours,
..........sometimes they look black, sometimes they look green or bright blue
OCCUPATION: payment for a few poems... and a bastard minimum wage job, blah
TRANSPORTATION: my extremely blue chevy corsica, makes me feel like a
...............................car-pooling suburbanite : )
TURNONS: place a hand on my tummy and watch out...mrowr. soft kisses on my
.................neck, on my palms, my tummy, my thighs, my...yeah. people who
.................can admit they've been wrong. music that moves me. writing that
.................touches me. long, warm baths. a deep, caring, sexy voice saying .................goodnight. people who are willing to delve into a heated arguement
.................with me. people who can tie a knot in the stem of a cherry with their
.................tongue. otis redding's voice. new orleans. james dean. slow,
.................oldie-but-goody r&b. pasta, avacados, mango slices, olives and
.................strawberries.
TURNOFFS: bad haircuts. excessively disgusting table manners. people who
...................don't value compassion. grimey old men who leer at young girls.
KEWL STUFF: tori. anything related to tori. otis redding. sylvia plath. alice
......................walker. oscar wilde. sappho. finding sexual innuendo in just
......................about anything. my huge paper-mache flamingo. marvin gaye.
......................tina turner. diana ross (and the supremes). polly harvey. L7
......................kicks my ass. pornopornoporno. kate chopin. and...uh, i like
......................watching "When Harry Met Sally."
QUOTES:
"If neurotic is wanting to mutually exclusive things at one and the same time,
then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually
exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days." Esther in S. Plath's _The
Bell Jar_

I am no source of honey
So why should they turn on me?
Tomorrow I will be sweet God,
I will set them free.
The box is only temporary. --S. Plath, "The Arrival of the Bee Box"

"She had been with him, had heard his voice and touched his hand. But some way
he had seemed nearer to her off there in Mexico." Edna in Kate Chopin's _The
Awakening_

~*~*~*~*~*~*faer...@aol.com*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
If I had to get tortured by a human being or eaten by a crocodile,I'd take the croc any day
of the week.The reason is that it's not personal.You were lunch.-Tori
~*http://members.aol.com/faerie007/index.html*~

[nymsa]

well, i stole *everyone's* formats: i took every category that
someone had posted that i wanted to use and stuck them all in one
post. and added a few of my own. so this gets kind of long,
especially when you consider the fact that i'm anal, and if i'm going
to give someone a general picture of me, i want it to be an accurate
one. so i tend to go on a lot. deal. ;P

**alert** this post contains the largest number of capital letters
ever used in a nymsa-post! ;)

NAME: jennifer leigh hirsch
....WHICH MEANS: (in a roundabout sort of way) white deer. i like
this.
OTHER NAMES: my hebrew name: leia sura (best i can spell it in
english characters)
NICKNAME: nymsa, pixie, jenn, and a whole lot of really cute things
that rosser calls me that i'm sure would make you all sick. :P
OTHER NICKNAMES: i used to get called jennifer hershey bar in
elementary school. for a while i was pomme de terre and then french
fry due to a silly mistake in 7th grade french. lotsa others that've
gone out of use like fer, ifer, jeni, wacky, jenly, and so on. and my
grandfather used to call me jennifeefer before he died when i was six.
BIRTHDAY: 4 may 1976
AGE: 20 for a couple more months. anyone wanna volunteer to get me
drunk for the first time, ever?
HEIGHT: about 5' 1" and i'm almost immune to short jokes by now.
WEIGHT: about 115, but i'm not sure. i need to drop about 10 pounds
and get into shape. i think that's a goal for this summer: exercise
with mom. :)
HAIR COLOR: medium to dark brown. i get highlights (natural and
non-natural) every now and then, but my hair has been making me crazy
for a few months now. it just sort of hangs here, isn't getting any
longer despite the fact that i've been growing it out for years, so i
have to come up with something to do with it. color, chopping it off,
finding a new style, whatever. not that i want to put any effort in,
mind you. i hate taking a long time futzing with hair and make up.
unfortunately, i also often hate how i look if i don't.
EYE COLOR: blue or blue-grey depending. (on what? your guess is as
good as mine.)
GLASSES: started wearing glasses in the first grade. now i only wear
them if i'm bumming around the house all day or my allergies are
getting to me. i've had contacts for 8.5 years now, and i love them.
'specially now that i have disposable-ish ones that i replace myself
every two weeks. much better for my eyes, and not that much more
expensive. i was terrible about cleaning them. i don't mind my
glasses so much, they're very lightweight blue oval wire frames.
rosser likes them. i just tend to associate my glasses with being
sloppy or tired or sick, so i don't like to wear them.
HEALTH ISSUES: um, i've been sick for almost a month now, on and off.
blech.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: wish i knew. maybe i'm bi. maybe i'm just
curious. maybe i just need more friendships with women, preferably in
rl contact. hopefully i'll figure it out one of these days.
ORIGINAL RESIDENCE: rockland county, new york. going back there
after i graduate.
CURRENT RESIDENCE: binghamton, new york. (ick!) getting out of here
soon.
COHABITANTS: rosser, moses, juniper, and isis. (rosser being the
human, the others being the cats) we also share the apartment with a
few computers in various states of disrepair, stacks of books, many
stuffies, and the faeries that the cats like to play with.
TRANSPORTATION: bus, feet, taxis in the case of sheer desperation. at
home, my dad uses what used to be my car, but i get to drive it when
i'm there. it's an 86 honda accord hatchback, charcoal grey, 5 speed,
and i call it "the vroom." it recently caught fire with me in it, but
it all worked out okay. :)
SO: rosser, hostage #1, for 3 1/2 years. *wave* to the
no-longer-lurking rosser.
PETS: moe, juni, and isis, the kitties. (aka the wee beasties, aka
this (juni), that (moses), and the other (isis)). we've posted about
them enough other places, i don't need to bore people here. i love
them, though. they're wonderful therapy sometimes. also, at my
parents' house is randy, my 11 year old shetland sheepdog, and marvin
(the name is my father's fault ;) who's an orange cat that i find
really irritating sometimes, especially since they got him while i was
in college, and so he doesn't feel like my pet. and he likes to
attack you while you sleep. i've had parakeets, rabbits, fish...
SCHOOL: suny binghamton... i'm graduating in may.
MAJOR: psychology
CURRENT PLANS: after graduating, i'm heading back to my parents house
for the summer to work and save up some money and stuff like that.
then, sometime after toricon, prolly late august/early september, i'm
going to be doing a work abroad program that will put me somewhere in
england for about 6 months. any recommendations on -where- in england
i should try to be are welcome, since i don't know one place from
another. once that's over (early 1998) i'll be back in the states and
hopefully rosser and i will be getting our relationship back on track.
*shameless plea for warm thoughts sent our way*
DREAMS AND ASPIRATIONS: career-wise, i plan on taking time off from
school, and then going grad school starting in fall of 1999. i plan
on getting my masters degree in clinical social work and becoming a
therapist, eventually working in private practice with older
adolescents and adults (possibly couples and families, i'm not sure).
personally, i want to be in shape so that i can actually be
comfortable in the body that i live in. i definitely want to have
kids. i want a good, solid, silly relationship. i want to learn to
drum. i want to learn to dance. i want to learn to get really angry.
and so it goes...
LANGUAGES: i know a bit of yiddish... studied it for a year and a
half, and was a teaching assistant for yiddish 101, simply because i
couldn't stand to leave the professor. he's a wonderful 71 year old
man with 27 grandchildren and at least one great-grandchild.
SMAE FLAVOR: mocha-latte, green bell pepper, or curry.
TURNONS: smelling clean, soft skin, when someone whispers in my ear,
when someone's attentive, responsive to me, and that look and twinkle
in someone's eye that i wish i could bottle, or at least describe
properly. (rosser probably described it best as a come hither look.)
sexiness and innocence all rolled up into one.
TURNOFFS: icky smells, too many distractions, feeling used or uncared
for, bad manners, being ordered around, stupidity, sloppy kissers.
SIMPLE LIKES: faeries, napping in the grass, books that feel good,
falling asleep reading, good kissers, beautiful spring weather,
shuffling my feet in crunchy leaves, painting and sketching and
coloring, passionate music, music with a really good groove to it,
100% juice, pretty rocks, the color blue, cats, flannel sheets, fluffy
pillows, body pillows, my papasan chair, eeyore, piglet, babylon 5,
mad about you, general hospital, heathers, stand by me, simplifying,
drinking tea with milk and sugar, yummy pajamas, clean laundry,
burning incense, nice pens, stickers, baby blankets, orange sherbet
push-up pops, getting e-mail, getting packages, freshly baked cookes,
raw brownie mix, polished wood, art, dali, magritte, finger paints,
drumming, photographs, candles, hugs, naps (with cats), craft shows,
driving stick shift, singing really loud when no one's around, a full
fridge, bubble baths, bath pillows, devil-sticks, roleplaying kyra--my
pixie thief character, stimmy toys, rose is rose, calvin and hobbes,
the farside, when moses sleeps under the covers, being bathed by a
kitty, sunflowers, daisies, surprises, stuffies and fuzzy things in
general, unless they're in the fridge. ;)
THINGS THAT ARE SIMPLY YUCKY: the sound of cats getting sick, lying,
stress, perfectionism, my history professor, my high school art
teacher, the fuzzy things in the fridge, being broke, conflict, no
clean clothes, flaky white deodorant, trying to decide if what
happened to you really was rape, when the bathroom ceiling caves in,
stuffy noses, willfull stupidity, slow computers, overcontrolling
parents, people who snoop, gory stuff, cold apartments, seafood,
tongue sandwiches, crummy landlords and their sons, weak showers,
dishpan hands, loud neighbors, upstairs neighbors who play basketball
-inside!- at godawful hours of the morning, sour milk.
BELIEF SYSTEM: i was born jewish, but my family is really not
religious. i'm curious about it, but mostly as a heritage, not a
religion. i'm probably something very close to wiccan, but i enjoy
having it be mine, and not putting a name to it. simply, my
spirituality is looking for life, and feeling life. enjoying air and
trees and napping in the grass and just feeling how -alive- the earth
is. surrounding myself with the kind of people who just sort of
radiate life sometimes. finding my own angels roaming the earth.
MENSTRUAL CYCLE: in sync with aimee's. ;)
HOBBIES: driving myself crazy with stress
THINGS I COLLECT: pennies, faerie things, zebra things, matchbooks,
stones, winnie-the-pooh stuff (kinda)...
LIFELONG DEDICATIONS: trying to get my apartment clean ;) no,
really, bettering myself, understanding people, making true friends,
and saving the world one person at a time.
MUSIC: oy vey... (no particular order whatsoever) tori, indigo girls,
various celtic stuff, r.e.m., frente, melissa etheridge, nin, pink
floyd, jimi hendrix, peter, paul and mary, tafkaprince, faith no more,
guns n' roses, u2, natalie merchant, edie brickell, t-rex, george
winston, cyndi lauper, silly 80s stuff, tool, rusted root, prolly ani
and fiona and paula cole if i were to get my hands on anything by any
of them, the cure, ned's atomic dustbin, beatles, lennon, simon &
garfunkel, elp, a capella stuff, anything passionate with a good
rhythm... it goes on.
MISC. STUFF ABOUT ME: i like math and numbers b/c it's good to go
through a process and solve things and come up with a right answer
sometimes. i'm easily teased, easily intimidated. i'm a pixie, but
sometimes my wings feel tarred. i have hayfever. the winnie-the-pooh
character i'm most like is piglet: small, timid, squeaky, and pink.
blue is my favorite color. i like to be noticed but hate to be the
center of attention. i can touch my nose with my tongue. i've almost
completely quit smoking without really trying much. i can be very
quiet, or very talkative, but i'm not good at the inbetweens. i'm
terrible in group situations unless i know the people there. i'm
trusting, loyal, ixfj. i'm tired of waiting to feel like a real
person. i need a few close friends. i need to be loved and needed.
i love anything that elicits emotion in me. sometimes i dissociate.
sometimes i can't cry, and sometimes it comes too easily. my nose
beeps when pushed. i can go into the lotus position and walk on my
knees. i'm flexible. i need stability and comfort to allow me to be
free and spontaneous. i wish i let myself out more often. i can't
let myself stop most anything, ever. i've had psychic experiences and
dreams. i sleep easily most nights. i'm mostly a good person.

--nymsa

--
"Yet still I am loved by the sun, and still am a part of earth."
--Edith Sitwell

~~~~~~~~~~~~idm...@ix.netcom.com~~~~~~~~~~~~

[Angela Reid]

Aimee Lortskell (ai...@umr.edu) wrote:

: Angela Reid <abr...@email.unc.edu> wrote:
: [snips]
: : OTHER NICKNAMES: My parents called me "A-bird" when I was very small. I'm
: : much better at giving nicknames than receiving them (I tend to call
: : everything and everybody "Pickle." My guinea pigs are Pickles. So is my
: : husband.)

: i do the same thing, except i say bunny instead. i think people get
: confused when i call my cats bunnies.

LOL. :) I wonder why.
At least when I call the pigs "pickles," nobody feels the need to correct
me. (Um, no. Pickles are green.)

Angela

[Elusis]

NAME: Elusis

NICKNAME: See above. That readheaded chick. Supreme Ruler of the Universe.
Who the hell does she think *she* is? etc.

AGE: 23.5

HEIGHT: A demure, Tori-esque 5'2.

WEIGHT: See my reply to abby. After just having come from kicking my ass
on the stationary bike, I don't want to talk about it, OK?

HEALTH ISSUES: Clinical depression with Generalized Anxiety Disorder,
currently under control with medication. Thanks to the absurdly complex
rules my HMO has about seeing psychiatrists, I'm getting my meds through my
general practitioner and seeing a therapist on my own money. <sigh>

MEDICATIONS: Wellbutrin plus Klonapin for about nine months, then Paxil for
a year (on which I gained 15-20 pounds), then Serezone for nine months, then
back to Wellbutrin again but no Klonapin, which is where I am now. I may
try to get my doctor to put me back on Klonapin or Xanax when I move to New
York in August to help me deal with the anxiety of moving.

IDENTIFYING MARKS: Chcicken pox scar on my left arm. Twin scars on my
lower back from having suspicious moles removed. Fingernail scars down my
right forearm courtesy of my younger sister. Scar between my second and
third knuckle on my right hand from chopping wood. No tattoos - yet;
thinking about getting a tattoo of Delerium on my ankle or shoulder blade.

HAIR COLOR: Yes. Medium brown by Nature; variously golden-blonde, deep
red, and chestnut brown by design (once brown-black with white streaks -
don't ask). Has been red for nearly 2 1/2 years solid now, for which I
expect some kind of reward.

HAIR LENGTH: Pretty damn short as of yesterday. Has been down to my
shoulderblades in high school, and medium-long up to a couple of years ago.
I am deeply wounded by my evident inability to have suitably feminine long,
curly hair look decent unless I'm ridiculously thin and spend half an hour
with a curling iron every morning. I've worn it in a chin-length bob for a
couple of years, but got sick of fighting with it - it's too wavy to wear
straight, and not wavy enough to wear tousled.

EYE COLOR: Black-brown. I long for green eyes, but am not sufficiently
vain to bother with colored contact lenses. Feh.

RESIDENCE: Boulder, Colorado, in my ninth apartment since I moved out of the
college dorms at age 17. I have a little problem with staying in one place
very long, which I'm hoping to remedy when I move to Syracuse, New York this
August. I'm really hoping to settle on an apartment that I can stick with
for five years (unless I get wacky and indulge my fantasy of being a
homeowner, thereby rendering myself broke in the process.) I hate to leave
Colorado and am planning to return as soon as humanly possible.

TRANSPORTATION: Until three weeks ago, a maroon '89 Ford Probe. Sporty yet
functional, digital dash, five on the floor, generally a nifty little car.
And then we had a little argument about which side of the road we were going
to drive on, and the 4 inches of snow on the ground threw the argument to
the side of my car, and unfortunately a Yuppie in a Landcruiser was
barrelling up the mountain in the opposite direction. So as of Monday, a
'94 Escort Wagon, color unknown, high mileage. <sigh> It's wheels, anyway.
Also my SO's 94 Honda Shadow 1100 motorcycle. :>

SO: Brian, directionless theatre major, classicist, oenophile, and
sommelier-in-training. Go look it up. We've been together not quite 2 1/2
years and have lived together for all but two months of that. As of August,
he'll be moving to California while I move to New York, and will become an
extremely dear friend rather than an SO.

CHILDREN: Two brain-damaged cats. Ophelia, six, who is deathly afraid of
the vaccuum cleaner and other animals of any kind, except for mice and other
vermin which she catches and devours with extreme ferocity and skill. She
snatches flies out of the air and eats them. Chubby, likes to sleep on my
head. And Spalding, 18 months, who is mostly Siamese and shows it by
talking to himself at the top of his lungs at all hours of the day and
night. Has no hunting skills whatsoever that I can discern; he tries to run
down birds perched on the top of the five-foot-tall bird feeder. Pesters
Ophelia and terrorizes the dog upstairs, but is himself terrorized by the
toothless, clawless cat Fool from upstairs. Not too bright.

SCHOOL: Not currently. I'm taking a break for the first time since I was
four, and can't wait to get back inside the Ivory Tower. I have a BA in
Theatre and Women's Studies from Indiana State University, and an MA in
Theatre from University of Colorado - my thesis, if I haven't mentioned it
ad nauseum already, was on porn star and performance artist Annie Sprinkle.
I'm going back to school in the fall to get an MA and PhD in Marriage and
Family Therapy.

OCCUPATION: Radio and New Media Manager for a music publicity company.
Translated, I send out a lot of New Age music (and some world music, thank
gawd) to radio stations and then call up DJs and schmooze with them. I'm
also keeping tabs on online music stores, and will eventually be doing a web
site for one of our clients, and I get most of the office questions about
strange Mac misbehaviors, whether I'm qualified to handle them or not. A
large portion of my job involves making sure I have enough time to do
personal email while I'm at the office, and also ensuring that I can leave
by 3:30 in the afternoon.

SMAE FLAVOR: Crab rangoon. Mango-lime. Creme brulee. Movie popcorn and
coke. Sour cherry and plum. Pear, walnut, and gorgonzola cheese.
Rosemary-garlic crusty bread. Mint lemonade.

TURNONS: Tolerance. Intelligence. People who are musical or who write well
or are otherwise artistically inclined. People who read. Quoting poetry or
plays. Sumptuous food and good wine. Long hair (on men and women.) People
who are kind to animals and children and the less fortunate. Volunteers.
Gay men. Brunettes. Jazz. Poet shirts. Tiger lilies. Rebels.
Candlelight. Class. Personal style. Wicked humor.

TURNOFFS: Bigots. Egotists. Religious intolerance. Liars. Users. Bad
grooming. Sexual conservatism. Republicans. Sexists. Stupidity. Willful
ignorance. Selfishness. Stereotypically butch women. Biphobia. White
zinfandel. Poor grooming. Stuffiness. Timidity.

KEWL STUFF: Neil Gaiman and "Sandman." Laurie Anderson. MST3K. Red
Dwarf. Terry Pratchett. Performance art. "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead." Caryl Churchill. "Angels in America." Gary Oldman. Gillian
Anderson. Ani Difranco. Frank Zappa. Patrick Stewart. Deep Space 9.
Hothead Paisan. Dykes to Watch Out For. Tori. X-Files. Anais Nin.
Gustav Klimt. Having Chinese food delivered. Drambuie. rmta. Denver.
Blue Man Group. Macintoshes. Feminism. Gay rights. MAC lipsticks.
Locally-owned restaurants. Annie Sprinkle. "Unidentified Human Remains and
the True Nature of Love." Petit sirah. Shakespeare. Cartoon Planet.
Sushi.

SECTION 2.0: YUP, QUOTES

See my multiple, rotating .sig files...

"That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his
fellows, and who records more than he has seen." Edward Gordon Craig

"I am but mad north-northwest; when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk
from a handsaw." Hamlet

"I think twinkle's a nice word. So's viridian. I met a lady who had an
imaginary fish." Delerium

"Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again." Tori

"A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a
battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day."
--Calvin, to Hobbes

somewhere i have never travelled

by e.e. cummings

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands

Elusis
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing.+ And +
+ the day came when the risk it took to remain closed in a bud became +
+ more painful than the risk it took to blossom - Anais Nin + When the +
+ ratings go up, it's like the whole world is made of donuts! - Brak +
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[Daniel J Horne]

I forgot a couple of categories I'd like to add.

Elusis (elu...@dimensional.com) wrote:
: RESIDENCE:]

I live in a three person, three bedroom apartment/dorm in one of three
high rises on the western edge of the campus of the University of
Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, PA. For those who care, Penn charges us
an exorbitant rate for a small area which amounts to being quite
literally (people have looked it up) the highest price per square footage
within the city limits of Philadelphia. For that, I expect a
chandelier. Yes, we could move elsewhere, but the high rises are safe
and convenient. And safe. We also have bugs in the high rises. And
they're extraordinarily impersonal (I went through an entire academic
year once w/o knowing the sex of my next door neighbors.) My windows on
the 19th floor (which don't open all the way to prevent people like me
from being tempted) look out onto a wonderful view of the city, though,
which at night seems to stretch out forever. I also overlook some oil
refineries, which doesn't sound that impressive, but at night sometimes,
gigantic flames burst out of some sort of smokestack devices within them,
creating an incredibly cool visual effect. I also overlook fraternity
row, and believe it or not, even on the 19th floor, I can hear every word
that is exchanged down there.

: SO: At the moment, I'm seeing Joe (though he rarely has time to spend
with me!), who will gradute from Penn's medical school this May and will
be doing his residency in internal medicine, most likely at Penn's
hospital. For the moment,
he works in a chic restaurant downtown with great big windows through
which pedestrians can view his gorgeous features as he works. ;) Yes, he
is Italian, and yes, he is quite buff. He's eerily brilliant, humane,
adorable, literary, sciencefictiony, and hates poetry, which I leave him
alone on. He always manages to smell really good, even when he's been
dancing and sweating and stuff. Oh, and he doesn't mind the fact that
I'm a horror addict! He's also really into classical music, football,
and telling me why his alma mater (Boston Collge) is sooooo much better
than any other school on the planet. He likes Penn, but I don't hold
that against him.

: SCHOOL: Super senior at Penn, where I'll be a super-duper senior next
year because I didn't bother to fulfill certain idiot requirements when I
got here. English major, with what one faculty member called "the most
interesting, eclectic transcript" she'd ever seen. I think that was her
nice way of telling me I'm directionless and weird. I call it
diversification of interest. I'm going to law school after that,
possibly concentrating in international law, and am applying to, in
random geographic order: Boston College, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, NYU,
Georgetown, Northwestern, and the U of Chicago. I really want to go to
NYU, BC, GU, or UC, though. I may apply early decision to Georgetown, I
don't know yet. I'm also receiving certain familial and
peer pressures to choose Yale.

: OCCUPATION: For some reason, I don't feel like telling people coz then
people will be able to find me. And that would be weird. What the hey,
I work in the Rare Book dept of Penn's library system. Quite fun,
actually, coz you're working with, duh, rare and valuable stuff. I've
learned just as much about history, literature, and foreign languages,
working there as I have from my classes.

BIZARRE CHILDHOOD EVENT AFFECTING LATER PERSONALITY: Once, I was playing
hide and go seek near somebody's house when I was like five or so. I
, while hiding under a bush, subsequently saw police officers carry a
guerney with a dead woman on it
out of a nearby house, w/o covering the body. Another time, my best
friend and I went to a local cemetery and picked the lock of the
mauseleum so we could make out inside (the cemetery was the place we went
to make out, give each other blow jobs, etc, coz it was the most private
place for two teenaged boys to think of). We weren't expecting there to
be a coffin inside (ground was still frozen, so they stored coffins
inside), and we were so horny w didn't care.

CHILDHOOD SPENT IN: A small town in northeast Iowa, where I lived until
leaving for college. I was one of the lucky ones who got away.

SIBLINGS: Two younger sisters, one w/ a son named Jake, older sister
(who is being "married" to her lesbian lover in a ceremony presided over
by a practicing Lutheran minister---wow!), older brother (also fey,
must've been the water).

FAVORITE AUTHOR: Edgar Allan Poe.

Dan.
--

daniel j. horne...http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dhorne...dhorne@sas.upenn.edu
sometimes they turn off the lights in this ballroom
but we'll dance anyway, you and i
even in the dark
especially in the dark

[Rich and Nadyne Mielke]

elu...@dimensional.com (Elusis) wrote:

>NICKNAME: See above. That readheaded chick. Supreme Ruler of the

^^^^^^^^^^

<snicker> I didn't realise you were *that* much of a bookworm,
Elusis . . . ;)

/nad

[Kristin E. Holland]

Elusis (elu...@dimensional.com) wrote:

: HAIR LENGTH: Pretty damn short as of yesterday. Has been down to my
(snip)
: with a curling iron every morning. I've worn it in a chin-length bob for a

: couple of years, but got sick of fighting with it - it's too wavy to wear
: straight, and not wavy enough to wear tousled.

Same problem here: I had hair down past my shoulders for years (and I
miss it now when I look at old pictures...but I was thinner then, and my
face could "tolerate" having more hair around it), then I started wearing
it shorter and shorter and shorter during college, and it wouldn't
cooperate. I have a *lot* of hair, and when I cut it to about
chin-length, it curled up, which was nifty at first...but then after a
while, I couldn't deal with it: it was too thick and wavy to be straight,
and too straight to scrunch it up into casual-looking curls.
So I chopped it all off about a year and a half ago. :-) I think
it was also part of an independence thing: I'd been tossing the idea
around for a while, but didn't have the guts. Plus, my then-boyfriend
would have flipped, and I wasn't committed enough to chopping it off to
make an issue of it (although in the weird emotional state we were in the
day we actually broke up, I remember having a lot of weird random
thoughts, one of which was "Gee, I guess I can cut my hair now!" -
although I didn't actually go ahead until sometime later). So when I
became an Unattached Woman and was trying to settle into a more
independent, professional idea of myself, shorter hair seemed like the
thing to do.
Sigh - now, strangely enough, I find that I miss my hair, *and*
that as much as I honestly enjoyed being unattached for...how long
now?...three years this summer, it's beginning to get old. Funny how
those two trends go together - maybe it has to do with images of myself:
I had fun being spunky (for want of a better word) and single and on my
own, and now I'd enjoy being romantic once in a while. Sigh. :-)

Me? Ramble? Never. ;-)

-K
--
Kristin E. Holland | Eat 1 live toad first thing
khol...@sas.upenn.edu | in the morning and nothing
Classicist in Training | worse will happen to you
University of Pennsylvania | the rest of the day.
-Dilbert's "Laws of Work"

[Kristin E. Holland]

Daniel J Horne (dho...@mail2.sas.upenn.edu) wrote:

: and telling me why his alma mater (Boston Collge) is sooooo much better

: than any other school on the planet. He likes Penn, but I don't hold

As a Holy Cross alumna, I have to say "Phooey!" :-) A friend who went
to BC told me it stands for "Better College", but over at HC we all knew
it was really for "Below the Cross". ;-)

: : OCCUPATION: For some reason, I don't feel like telling people coz then

: people will be able to find me. And that would be weird. What the hey,

People like me, for instance? ;-)

[Kristin E. Holland]

ws.upenn.edu>:
Distribution:

: Elusis (elu...@dimensional.com) wrote:
(a very cool FAQ)

I forgot to mention:
1) I love your Anais Nin .sig line.
2) Brian's a classicist? Nifty. What does he like best?

[Kristin E. Holland]

Kristin E. Holland (khol...@mail1.sas.upenn.edu) wrote:
: Daniel J Horne (dho...@mail2.sas.upenn.edu) wrote:

: : : OCCUPATION: For some reason, I don't feel like telling people coz then

: : people will be able to find me. And that would be weird. What the hey,

: People like me, for instance? ;-)

In case you were wondering, don't worry: I don't intend to come pick on
you at work! Part of why I like newsgroups is the relative anonymity, so
although it's fun to hear from people who live and work close by, I tend
to prefer to keep myself to myself (I hope that doesn't sound rotten) -
so fear not: I wouldn't dream of purposely conpromising *your* relative
anonymity! ;-)

[Daniel J Horne]

Kristin E. Holland (khol...@mail1.sas.upenn.edu) wrote:

: : and telling me why his alma mater (Boston Collge) is sooooo much better

: : than any other school on the planet. He likes Penn, but I don't hold

: As a Holy Cross alumna, I have to say "Phooey!" :-) A friend who went
: to BC told me it stands for "Better College", but over at HC we all knew
: it was really for "Below the Cross". ;-)

I *will* tell him of this. ;) We had a good conversation tonight. It's
good to know that he likes me.

: : : OCCUPATION: For some reason, I don't feel like telling people coz then
: : people will be able to find me. And that would be weird. What the hey,

: People like me, for instance? ;-)

Hey, stop over some time and tell my boss how weird I am on the net.
Actually, I'm surprised you haven't been there yet---we have a treasure
trove of Classical literature dating from the 11th century. (I know
that's not classical, but you gotta admit an edition of Aristotle's works
circa 1300 is darned impressive.)

[Daniel J Horne]

Kristin E. Holland (khol...@mail1.sas.upenn.edu) wrote:

: cooperate. I have a *lot* of hair, and when I cut it to about

: chin-length, it curled up, which was nifty at first...but then after a
: while, I couldn't deal with it: it was too thick and wavy to be straight,
: and too straight to scrunch it up into casual-looking curls.

I have hair that gets a bit too curly for my liking when it's longer than
like an inch or when it's humid or I forget to put gel in it. Lately
I've been going for the relatively slicked back look, which curbs the
curliness problem. And on a good day, I can get one or two tiny hair
chunks to hang down over my forehead, which looks extremely cool.

[JB Bridge]

The JB Bridge FAQ v. 1.1

NAME: James R. Anderton

NIC : JB Bridge

OTHER NICS: IMForman (ret), Zum Zum (given by Yum Yum), Sir J of B,
Jim Bexley Speed, Smeghead, The Artist Formerly Known as J____B____
(you have to fill the blanks), The Night Shift, CALSneezy (on IRC)

BIRTHDATE: March 12, 1968

AGE: 29

HEIGHT: One inch shy of 6 feet.

WEIGHT: The Drivers License says 175 - more like 190.

HAIR: Sandy Blond. recently trimmed but still letting it grow.

EYES: Green

RESIDENCE: Sparta, Il (rural farming/coal mining community an hour
southeast of St. Louis, Mo). Population 5000.

OCCUPATION: Full time computer operator - night shift - at Charter Bank,
where I do all the daily processing as well as printing all the banking
statments and late notices for all the customers for all 8 branches
throughout Southern Illinois. I am the nerve center of Charter, but I
try not to let all this power go to my head :)

TRANSPORTATION: 91 Hyundai Excel (grey), my used 10 speed (green),
and my feet (peachy)

MAJOR HOBBY: songwriting/performing. currently putting band together.
I have also collaberated with several friends on a idea for a
mutant superhero based comic w/ characters based on ourselves and
others we know. That hasn't gotten off the ground yet.

SO: not in a relationship right now. not even any casual sex, which
really sucks. I have this shyness problem with meeting women; usually
they have to make the first move before I engage in conversation
(with the exception of when I get pissed in the british sense, which
is not often). Though I really love doing the music, meeting women
is a major factor in getting this band of mine together.

TURNONS: any body type between Kate Moss and Rosie O'Donnell
in Exit to Eden (my perfect body type - Gillian Anderson)
dressed in black, red hair (also partial to blondes),
glasses (the mystique and intellect), humor and spontinaiety.

TURNOFFS: insecure waifs (my last g/f), smokers and drug addicts.

KEWL STUFF: Tori (of course), Zappa, Beatles, 70's prog rock, O(+>,
Kate Bush's "Dreaming" & "Hounds Of Love", The Star Wars Trilogy,
Star Trek (Next Gen), Red Dwarf (the new season started on St. Louis
public television! Yay!), MST3K, Doctor Who, Blakes 7, Hitchhikers
Guide, X-Files, Cartoon Network, free internet from midnight to 6am,
local import cd shops, dressing in sweats at work.

STUFF THAT SUCKS: fundies and racists (which there are plenty of in
Southern Illinois), country music, unwarranted mistrust, the Dairy
Queen across from the bank that's been closed for months, the really
cool italian restaurant across from the other side of the bank thats
been closed for months, my bouts of self doubt (which I'm dealing with),
working on Friday nights.

SMAE FLAVORS: Seseme Chicken (mild) w/ crab ragoon & steamed rice,
stuffed pasta w/ prego, Shake n Bake pork chops, ovaltine (cold),
swiss miss w/ marshmellows, nutella, pb (creamy) and j (blackberry).

FAVORITE BATMAN: Adam West
FAVORITE DOCTOR: Tom Baker

QUOTES: um...I'll get back to you on that. For the moment, my sig file
will have to do.

-- JB Bridge -- mstie -- stranded time lord -- toriphile
+-E <-- "I'm Different!" - Crow T. Robot
#)8o-{|}< "Sleep is for tortoises!" - Doctor Who
+-E "But I wanna play in the bathroom!" - Tori Amos

[Toni Keskitalo]

Forrotaika bramble, a pillywiggin <j_v...@bc.cybernex.net>:
#*sigh*

#{jumping in}

Oh, don't be sad (about this...). I can perhaps understand this, I was
somewhat negative about sending my information, but decided not to differ
so much. *hig*

#: NAME:
#julie
#: NICKNAME:
#bramble, a pillywiggin
[snip large]

#: OTHER:
#infj/infx. (took it again, and x'ed myself.) scorpio scorpio scorpio.
#pagan. vegetarian (lacto-ovo). pacifist. mediator. translator. tarot card
#reader. certified packrat. midnight tree bandit's protector. finland. i
#babble, beware! ^^^^^^^

YYeah! Did you see? She has Finland in her mind!

*bounce*bounce*bounce*bounce*

<calm>

Hmm. This makes me wonder what is that interesting about this cold
country. I mean, superficially at least, Finland is like any other country
in this cold world - MacDonald's, Hard Rock Cafés and such Americanisms
are abundant, as everywhere in so called "western world".

Then, I am reminded of the pagan Finnish beliefs, but there isn't very
much information of the old pre-Christianity Finnish religion. And then, I
recall that live-action roleplays are rather big, if still marginal,
phenomenon here. [1]

Toni K

[1] I haven't participated in any; and I haven't role-played in ages
either. :<

; tpke...@itu.cc.jyu.fi http://www.jyu.fi/~tpkeskit
;
; "We are such stuffe / As dreamers are made on"
; Shakespeare (Tempest 4.1.156-57)

[Daniel J Horne]

Kristin E. Holland (khol...@mail1.sas.upenn.edu) wrote:

: In case you were wondering, don't worry: I don't intend to come pick on

: you at work! Part of why I like newsgroups is the relative anonymity, so
: although it's fun to hear from people who live and work close by, I tend
: to prefer to keep myself to myself (I hope that doesn't sound rotten) -
: so fear not: I wouldn't dream of purposely conpromising *your* relative
: anonymity! ;-)

I, on the other hand, scour the nooks and crannies of Williams Hall on a
daily basis searching for the elusive Kristin Holland. ;) Actually, do
you ever get the random feeling that we *must* have seen each other? I
did take a class in the Classics dept that required me meeting w/ my TA
in a room w/ tons and tons of other Classics TA's. Ever teach CLST 200,
Gk and Roman Mythology?

Dan, who has only actually met Sam (spacedog), Laurie (his so), and
Bramble from rmta.

[Craig Terral Staley]

NAME: Craig Staley

BIRTHDATE: August 5, 1970

AGE: 26

HEIGHT: 5 feet, 11 inches

WEIGHT: About 130 -- I'm skinny

HAIR: Light brown with red highlights (my Mom was a natural redhead)

EYES: Hazel, with more green than brown

RESIDENCE: Starkville, MS -- a college town (Mississippi State is here)

OCCUPATION: Library Technical Assistant -- the job is basically a
glorified clerk, but it's better than nothing.

SCHOOL: I am working on a second bachelor's in Computer Science.

TRANSPORTATION: '92 Maroon Dodge Spirit

MAJOR HOBBY: No hobbies really. I waste most of my free time playing
computer games.

SO: Michelle, my wife. We've only been married since Feb. 24, so we're
still in the newlywed phase.

TURNONS: My wife. (What did you expect me to say? We are newlyweds,
after all.

TURNOFFS: Stupid people.

SMAE FLAVORS: Chocolate covered chocolate chip with chocolate sprinkles.

QUOTES: "You don't have to feel bad just because you're totally
worthless." -- Dilbert

"It all started when I deluded myself into thinking my
opinions mattered." -- Dilbert

"I'd mock you but the challenge is gone." -- Dogbert

[J.D.Jones]

NAME: Um, Darrien John something or John Darrien something. yet to change
it. My Christian name is John David Jones, but I'm not a Christian anymore...

NICKNAME: git, twat, "total joke", other affectionate things...

AGE: 21. I miss being a teenager so much.

HEIGHT: 5'6". God cheated me.

WEIGHT: Um, 140 pnds ? Prolly a bit more although I barely eat anything.

HEALTH ISSUES: Both Aimee and Elusis have their ideas, but no doctor I've
told about the cutting, biting, insomnia, depression, crying, lethargy, etc
has ever thought it was anything 'serious'. Even my family is happy
to ignore the scars...

MEDICATIONS: I believe that would require my doctor giving a shit...

SCARS: About three deep, another 4-5 barely noticeable. Biting never
leaves marks, nor does scratching. Been eyeing my flatmates kitchen knife
lately (bad, bad, darrien). Hmm... I have a scar on my forehead that
my sister gave me when I was three ?

HAIR COLOR: Black. Beautiful black. Actually terrbile dark brown streaks
are showing through at the mo, so it does need re-dying.

EYE COLOR: Grey-blue. As per everyone else, it changes with my mood.

RESIDENCE: Uni-rented flat with my own room, but shared ktichen and shower
and toilet. Currently out-growing my friends there since I've become sick
of their sexist, racist, homophobic biogtry. I can only whore myself for
so long...

TRANSPORTATION: Wonderful black suede winkle-pickers (sp?). My leather
ones are in the shop ;) Wish I had a car cos driving gives me such a
feeling of freedom.

SO: Currently stand about much of getting an SO as I do of swimming the
Atlantic.

SCHOOL: Failing horribly. Need to just finish my bloody degree and then go
and do a job I'll love - computing, hopefully net-related.

OCCUPATION: Being the only person most of my male friends can ever talk to
if they want to drop the mucho bullshit for five seconds. Hopefully, I'll
add 'computing person' in a few months to that too...

SMAE FLAVOR: hig-flavour (in-joke)

TURNONS: As per Joanne, necks. A serious neck fetish - only sensual and
sexual place on a person. Open-mindedness, goths, summer evenings, irony
Acceptance, empathy.

TURNOFFS: to quote abby (as it her form I stole); "people who think
depression is a self-indulgent choice". Biogtry (from the 'majority'
and the 'monority'). Manipulation.

KEWL STUFF: being able to smoke and be on my computer, getting ahold of
US clove cigarettes, staring at the clouds on a summer day, being able to
listen to music on my headphones and just *scream*, avoiding my family,
freedom, wind but not cold, 'titus groan' by mervyn peake, being able
to forget who I am by day-dreaming during lectures, computers.

SECTION 2.0: QUOTES

"I have swallowed a secret burning thread.
It cuts me inside,
And often I've bled"

- Suzanne Vega, 'The Queen and the Solider'

"And when I'm dead,
If you would tell them this:
That what was wood became alive"

- Suzanne Vega, 'Wooden Horse (Caspeur Hauser's Song)'

"I reach for the crimson bubbles,
Like tin, like I ran.
I forgot how much it stings,
And am left gripping at the air,
As the lines puss up,
Producing such little reward,
For so much effort.

I feel the distant whispers,
My dear departed halves,
As I make errors of my arm.

But when I weep,
It is for myself."

- Me, 'Release'

"Guess you watch the trees blowing in the wind ?
We want you to lead a normal life"

- Peter Gabriel, 'Lead a normal life'

"I talk in pictures not in words"

- Peter Gabriel, 'through the wire'

"Her eyes were cobalt red,
Her voice was cobalt blue"

- Andrew Eldritch, 'Ribbons'

"'There are a thousand things' he said
'I'll never say those things to you again'
And turning on his heel
He left a trace of bubbles
Bleeding in his stead"

- Robert Smith, 'Like Cockatoos'

"It was the sweetness of your skin
It was the hope of all we might have been
That fills me with the hope to wish
Impossible things

But now the sun shines cold
And all the sky is grey
The stars are dimmed by clouds and tears
And all i wish
Is gone away"

- Robert Smith, 'To Wish Impossible Things'

"Because I could not stop for Death
He kindly stopped for me"

- Emily Dickinson

"I'm nobody
Who are you ?
Maybe you're nobody too ?"

- Emily Dickinson

I could easily go on...

Darrien
--
--------------I was cold so I wrapped my shadows around me--------------
|I've swallowed a secret burning thread + Agnostic, apathetic, bisexual |
|It cuts me inside, and often I've bled + Don't know, don't care, |
|-------------------------------------- + but I might sleep with it|
| http://www.ex.ac.uk/~lw94jdj + |
-----------brokemedownwantsmedeadgodamnthisnoiseinsidemyhead------------

[Daniel J Horne]

J.D.Jones (lw9...@exeter.ac.uk) wrote:
: MEDICATIONS: I believe that would require my doctor giving a shit...

Then dude, it's time to get a different doctor!
Dan.

---

[Kirk Haines]

Andrew Onifer (j...@b61725.student.cwru.edu) wrote:

: eva piccininni <picc...@ucs.orst.edu> wrote:
: > > July 30, 1976
: > aaack! we were born on EXACTLY THE SAME DAY!

Gack, you're both younger than my BABY SISTER!! I'm getting old, how did
this happen??

:)

Michelle
Flutist

[Angela Reid]

Daniel J Horne (dho...@mail2.sas.upenn.edu) wrote:

: Kristin E. Holland (khol...@mail1.sas.upenn.edu) wrote:
: : cooperate. I have a *lot* of hair, and when I cut it to about

: : chin-length, it curled up, which was nifty at first...but then after a
: : while, I couldn't deal with it: it was too thick and wavy to be straight,
: : and too straight to scrunch it up into casual-looking curls.

: I have hair that gets a bit too curly for my liking when it's longer than
: like an inch or when it's humid or I forget to put gel in it. Lately
: I've been going for the relatively slicked back look, which curbs the
: curliness problem. And on a good day, I can get one or two tiny hair
: chunks to hang down over my forehead, which looks extremely cool.

Mine is very fine, very straight and past my waist (I can just about sit
on it without trying). One of my students described me once as 70s retro.
But it doesn't really fit. I'm 70s genuine. :) I just decided to
return to it after the poodle perm of the early 80s.

Angela, whose pretty sure David Berkowitz would have found her an
acceptable victim....

[Kimberly & Bruce Curtis]

Hi everybody.. this is kinda short but.. here goes:

NAME: Adinah Sharron Christin Curtis
I was named that cuz of a really wierd meditation experience the night I
was born. I was born 3 1/2 mos. early.
NICKNAMES: Dinah (Dee-nuh), The Goddess of Purity (bleah ;) Gemini
BIRTHDAY: May 31, 1979
AGE: 17 going on 18
HEIGHT: 5'6 almost 5'7
WEIGHT: Ummm.. skip
HAIR COLOR: I have no idea what my natural color is cuz it changes like
the seasons. I think it's getting to be dark brown though. I've dyed
it/bleached every color in the natural family.
EYE COLOR: blue or green and both (confusing enough?)
GLASSES?: I am sooo blind. I wear contacts and I love them!
HEALTH ISSUES: a lot of crappy stuff.. I've had 10 surgeries and I have 8
scars and if you really want to hear the horror story then I will tell
you, we'll chat ;)
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: straight, but I would do Tori (oh yes and I am a male
pig disguised in a female body :P)
ORIGINAL RESIDENCE: San Jose, CA
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Alameda, CA (near Oakland)
COHABITANTS: my younger sister who is 15, and my parents (but not for
long)
TRANSPORTATION: feet. I hobble everywhere. I love to walk.
SO: none. But I want this boy and.. we'll see :)
PETS: my kitty cat, whose name is Little Crack Smoker. Actually he used
to be named something else, but we decided he was toooo crazy. I call him
"Baby". He is 5 mos. old. And completely black with long fur and he is so
darling and fluffy and cute and..
SCHOOL: Alameda High.. I'm a Senior. Next year I want to go to
CU-Boulder.
MAJOR: My high school diploma ;)
CURRENT PLANS: to finish sets and costuming for my current play:
"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead", to get money for college, to get
accepted into the Theatre Technology Summer Internship this Summer, to
find a job, to buy a truck, and to save the world.
DREAMS AND ASPIRATIONS: to become more focused, more aware, to do work in
environmental studies, to help save the planet.
LANGUAGES: English. 5 years of Spanish. I understand Ebonics :)
SMAE FLAVOR: Uh, Smae? I have been in this newsgroup sooo long and I
still haven't read the newbie pack.
I LIKE: cinammon, mint, flowers, mountains, trees, soft comfy clothes,
creative people (since I am not), "The Catcher in the Rye", "The
Chocolate War", classical music, and Leos.
I DON'T LIKE: to cook, "alternative music", perfumy girls who giggle, and
I second that *tongue in the ear thing* as well as that *noisy people
thing* (except for noisy Leos :)
BELIEF SYSTEM: my father is a minister. I believe in karma and energy and
stuff. :)
MENSTRUAL CYCLE: every 29 days, and I'm not even on the pill. I wish I
could shelve my uterus like bramble said, tho.
HOBBIES: I've written journals and scrapbooks since I was 9 years old. I
also go on the internet waaay too much.
THINGS I COLLECT: tori stuff, although I am not a fanatic.
MUSIC: tori, NIN, sarah, PJ, Bjork, local bands, classical, Les
Miserables.

That's it..

[fastrada]

Gregory Lawrence Smith wrote:
>
> In article <19970311230...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
> Sebastian5 <sebas...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> And since Maggie wrote such a nice FAQ, I'll borrow her format, as well...

my turn next!!

>
> NAME: fastrada
> NICKNAME: i don't have any at the moment.
> BIRTHDAY: 8/1/71
> AGE: 25, dammit! :(
> HEIGHT: 5'8-9-ish
> WEIGHT: beats the hell out of me.
> HAIR COLOR: medium brown, but only 'cause i'm too chicken to use permanenthair color and the semipermanent stuff only stays red for a few days.
> EYE COLOR: green, usually.
> GLASSES: only when my contacts hurt really bad.
> SCHOOL: i've been out for 4 (gasp) years. useless b.a. in english fromillinois wesleyan university.
OCCUPATION: editor/reporter/photographer/layout person for tiny weekly
suburban newspaper. i gotta get out of this place.
> TRANSPORTATION: teeny tiny red 1994 geo metro--parallel parks in threeseconds flat. named sybil because she has split personalities.
SO: my fiance, who, god love him, puts up with me even though i can't
imagine why he hasn't run away screaming yet.
> TURNONS: intelligence, sensitivity, soulful eyes, a good laugh, agood voice, dark hair, violent thunderstorms.
> TURNOFFS: close-mindedness, racism, sexism, homophobia, general assholishness,excessive drinking, cigars, anything that reminds me of my ex-boyfriend,
no matter how accidental or random, conspicuous wealth, excessively critical
people, irresponsibility.
> KEWL STUFF: tori amos. sarah mclachlan. r.e.m. pre-zooropa u2. x-files.theater. sondheim. kate bush. counting crows. dry skim hazelnut cappuccinos.
my cat anastasia. suns. female celtic musicians (women of the world celtic--
yeah!!). rent. pippin. jesus christ superstar. evita. when harry met sally.
sweeney todd. les mis. chocolate covered espresso beans. griffin and sabine.
sleep. summer. being on stage.

>
> SECTION 2.0: YUP, QUOTES
> "think about the sun."
-pippin.

"it's journalism, not brain surgery."
-me.
> "don't be afraid, 'cause even the wind cries your name."
-tori

"and how i lived, how i shone, but how soon the lights were gone."
-evita

"she whispered to the child, belong."
-r.e.m.

"i would rather dive face first into a pool of my own vomit."
-some l.a. law character, circa 1990 or so.

"all that matters now is your freedom, so keep running my dear, keep dry."
-alanis morissette

-"sheldon? no, you did not have great sex with sheldon. a sheldon can do your
income taxes. if you need a root canal, sheldon's your man. but humping and
pumping are not sheldon's strong suits. it's the name. do it to me, *sheldon.*
you're an animal, *sheldon.* ride me, big *sheldon.* it doesn't work."
-billy crystal, "when harry met sally."

[Andy Busch]

sebas...@aol.com (Sebastian5) wrote:

I'm just gonna hop on here, why not?

NAME: Andrew Paul Busch
NICKNAME: Andy (duh!)
BIRTHDAY: 17 Feb 1980
AGE: 17
HEIGHT: 5'8" (I think)
WEIGHT: 110-115 (I can't help high metabolism!)
HAIR COLOR: Blond that gets lighter in the summer
EYE COLOR: I have those neat ones that change color
GLASSES: Contacts when I wear them
TRANSPORTATION: Schwinn Clear Creek 26" Bike, my own two feet
TURNONS: My wonderful friendly pretty funny mature girlfriend
TURNOFFS: Republicans, people who are really stubborn (as opposed to
putting on an act, like I do)
KEWL STUFF: My girlfriend (see web page for pics) and my nephew; Tori
Amos, Nine Inch Nails, Jim Steinman (ask me), They Might Be Giants,
R.E.M; Stephen King, Douglas Adams, Anne Rice; Physics; Biking;
Learning; Hugging and Kissing; avoiding media; etc; etc; etc

enjoy
andy

[Aimee Lortskell]

MsDelirium <msdel...@aol.com> wrote:
> NAME: Sylvia Drake
> ...WHICH MEANS: Either "forest dragon" or "wood duck"
[snip]

wood duck???! SHE'S A WITCH!!!

Aimee the Magdalene (sorry, had to)

: * .. * .. * .. * .. * .. * .. * .. * .. * :
* aimee could hit you with a chainsaw *
: and it'd feel like a kiss. :
* - kestrel the fairly decent dragon *
: are your nipples ever NOT hard? :
* - dave goldberger *
: ow! your ass is like a steel trap! :
* - jason kell *
: * .. * .. * .. * .. * .. * .. * .. * .. * :

[km...@acsu.buffalo.edu]

(and i stole nymsa's format :) )

NAME: karen maryalice anderhalt
mary for my maternal grandmother, alice for my paternal
grandmother.
NICKNAMES: Ren, the blonde teddy bear, becca (only when i'm making the
"becca" face, which is a pissed off version of me. becca as in becca
[kellie martin] from life Goes On), Tard, AnderHalterTop ... uhhh...
that's it?
BIRTHDAY: September 21, 1975
AGE: er, do the math :) 21, 22 this Sept. :b

HEIGHT: 5'6 almost 5'7

WEIGHT: uhm. no. i have no weight. really. medium build, lotsa curves. :b
HAIR COLOR: naturally golden blonde. used to be platinum when i was lil.
it's been every color, including maroon, brown, white, red, strawberry
blonde ... right now it's light blonde.
EYE COLOR: dark blue
GLASSES?: uhm, i'm blind as a bat and have worn glasses from the 2nd grade
on. i have worn contacts for 2 yrs, and i *love* them. really now, gas
perm contacts *aren't* bad. :) my glasses are tortoise-reddish ovals and i
*never* wear them willingly. i hate them.
HEALTH ISSUES: when i was 18, i had spine surgery. i hurt the 6th
vertebrae skiing the mogul runs. so now, i have some artritic pain
inmy uppper back/neck/spine area. and ihave a really nifty scar ont he
front of my neck :) politically correct ppl beware, i was called "nicole"
for the rest of that summer until my scar faded. (yes, this was right
after she was killed, as in nicole simpson)
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: *grin* kiss me and find out ;)
bi
ORIGINAL RESIDENCE: buffalo, new york.
CURRENT RESIDENCE: buffalo, new york.
COHABITANTS: my younger brother (who is almost 18), my uncle (who's almost
50), and my half-aunt (who's in her late 50s, i'm sure). why this array?
where are my parents? well, my mom is divorcing my father and it's getting
really nasty. my uncle has had a lot of health problems and went bankrupt.
i bought the house. i decided to move in, cuz i was renting in the city of
buffalo for some time. my brother moved in b/c my mother kept calling the
police on him for stupid crap. my mother is crazy. my father lives with
his girlfriend.
TRANSPORTATION: my 1993 Mazda Protoge, tealishgreenish. her name is
"desdemona" or "desdemona the amazing plastic mazda" or just plain old
"dezzie" :)
SO: none. interests in ppl, most of whom aren't my ... preference :)
PETS: my kitty cat, who will be ONE :) on April 6th, named Zoe. :) aka
ZoeSassyKat or Z-Monster, Z-Cat or Skitz.
unfortunately, my uncle also has four dogs. 3 boston terriers (oh
*so* ugly!) and a big dog. the cat stays in my room as the dogs piss and
shit thru out the house. *growl*
SCHOOL: SUNY Buffalo (aka UB, aka University at Buffalo)
MAJOR: Political Science.
CURRENT PLANS: to get myself out of debt, to get myself back in school.
i'm taking this semester off (b/c i really fukked up last semester, *hard
core* due to stress and things like depression) until i can pay off
last semester and wait for my mother to grow up in the divorce
proceedings. i'd like to see my brother graduate from high school (he's
been kicked out 2ce, and should be a sr, but is a jr). keep my uncle alive
just a little bit longer. To graduate from college only a year late, May
'98.
DREAMS AND ASPIRATIONS: to graduate from college with my BA in Political
Science, maybe with some History or Women's sTudies. I almost have a BA in
English as well, but i'm not going for it.
i'd like to promote Peace, Equality, and fight against Classism, Sexism,
Racism ... i'm a regular peacenik, hippyloving (but not of that
lifestyle) idealist who is easily provoked and invovled in long, tiresome
conversation/arguments. (amiee, dont bait me ;) )
as for career: i'd like to work in either Public Policy making, Urban
Renewal/Planning, or non-profit organizations. I could do all ;)
LANGUAGES: English. took 7 years of Espanol :)
SMAE FLAVOR: i dont have one, but how about Vinegar and Cucumber Smae :)
TURNONS: being hugged, kissed from behind on the back of my neck,
intelligent, caring individuals, pixi faces with pixi haircuts, soft
looks during quietly intense moments, toe-kissing. kisses onthe back, on
the wrist.
TURNOFFS: kissers that drool on you, forcing you to suck up the excess
spit, ppl who pinch yer ass. elitism. ppl who flaunt their good looks to
an extreme. tongue in the ear (*shudder*), ppl who talk while you're
trying to concentrate on something else. noisy ppl. nosy ppl.
SIMPLE LIKES: my cat Zoe, the fall. trees. gentle winds. 65 degrees F.
naps that are short but feel like forever. funky dreams with tornados.
driving with the windows open going 80 mph. mountains. skiing. barefeet.
dew on the grass. thunderstorms. comets. stars. grape fields. all animals
(i want a ferret!). tigers. friends who aren't afraid to hold yer hand and
look you in the eyes when yer scared/sad/depressed. cuddling. handholding.
massages. intriquing conversation. mad about you. er. the naked truth.
you :)
THINGS THAT ARE SIMPLY YUCKY: cat vomit. stepping in dogpiss on carpet in
your socks ... inyer barefeet. silverfish. silverfish inthe shower.
hairballs. pork chops. roast beef. bigots. ppl who cut you off. horn
honking. noise. every turnoff i have. :) intolerance. being chased by
rabid squirrels. Zoe in heat. guys who wear hats all the time. girls who
wear too much blush and fake nails. the men that raped me.
BELIEF SYSTEM: born and raised Roman Catholic. mom's family is
disgustingly Catholic. i went to catholic school. i hated chapel. dad's
family is Luthern. when i was to be confirmed and become an 'adult' member
of the church, i tried to FAIL my class. they wouldn't let me. i was
instead forced to go to a prolife rally and i held my sign upside down
(this was during the Randall Terry takign Buffalo by storm era). now i'm
"nothing". :) and i'm happy.
MENSTRUAL CYCLE: unusually irregular as of late due to stress.
HOBBIES: writing (short story & poetry). reading. thinking.
THINGS I COLLECT: gargoyles. mugs that have the name of the restaurant on
them (i have a Dennys one ... looking for more). shoes. thoughts. paper.
my favorite movies.
LIFELONG DEDICATIONS: to keep myself sane. to keep those around me happy,
healthy and wise. promote peace, education and tolerance for differences.
MUSIC: tori, pj harvey (and anything polly jean may do), ani difranco,
fiona apple, the b52s :):) (cheese!), paula cole, jeff buckley, sarah
mclachlin, 1000 maniacs, natalie merchant, moxy fruvous, talking heads,
sugarcubes, bjork, new interesting stuff. . . i used to be a big aerosmith
fan *giggle* ... the evita soundtrack. soul coughing. muchmuchmuchmore.
MISC. STUFF ABOUT ME: i'm shy and loud at the same time, often from one
second to the next ... i can put my feet behind my head. i can do a
split. i can do backdives into the pool. i have double jointed thumbs. i
can make good dolphin sounds. i like to baa at my family. i learn quickly.
i work two jobs -- waitress and real estate. i own my own house. i love
politics. i have intrusive ppl. ppl think i'm snobby if i'm too quiet
around them. i am easily intimidated. i tend to put ppl at ease.

...

that's it. :) hi! :)

[DecoBlue]

Jumping in... that is if aol doesn't ditch it first.

NAME: Mia

AGE: 28…would love to converse with other "older" tori fans since for the
most part everyone my age seems to listen to Hootie and Sting.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES: 5’6" ish, 122 I’ll guess. Kinda long dark brown hair
with perfect highlights courtesy of Metro Salon. Brown eyes. Blessed with
relatively good DNA although I personally feel I was somewhat cheated in
the boob strand.

LOCATION: Princeton, NJ, a really wonderful town

OCCUPATION: Artist (mostly illustrations and murals for fairy and elf
lovers)

COHABS: My boyfriend who knows how to make everything perfect. His son,
age 13, an eerily sweet and clearheaded boy. Our gorgeous eighteen month
boy who has the cutest chubby toes and cheeks >gush<. A puppy and two
queen bitch cats.

TRANSPORTATION: 95 camry. A gift from my bf ,who upon intense researching
deemed this car to be the safest (I’m a bad driver).

PERSONALITY TRAITS: The bad first:

Vain (but in a nice way). Can be impeccably lazy hence the fact that
I am still on aol and haven't spent any time to find another decent
server. Spends way too much money. Always late and never calls when I
say I’m going to. Easily bored. Will poke the bottoms of your chocolates
and put them back in the box if I don’t find a caramel.

The good: Have a great CD collection which I am always willing to share
and am nice to children and small animals.

CURRENT INFATUATIONSs: My quest for perfect teeth (I have straight
teeth…but I want a set of fake unreal pearlies), vegetarian tamales, and
Perry Farrell.

CONSTANT INFATUATIONS: NYC and New Orleans. Slender men with aquiline
noses who make me want to join them in alternate realities. Chagall.
Wandering. Sangrias from Mediterra. Yummy, funky appetizers. Dark movies.

And shoes, yes, most definitely shoes!

MUSIC: Tori Amos…there is no one else I listen to on a regular basis.
Although lately I do listen to a lot of Porno for Pyros and some Jane’s
Addiction…for the most part I play whatever I feel like at the moment and
that can range from a group like to obscure Chilean guitarists. However,
no Alanis Morrisette.

THINGS I HATE: Foods which incorporate peanuts.

WEIRDEST DREAM: The other night I had a frightening dream where Martha
Stewart was trying to sell me contraceptives

…after much discussion, I finally settled on imported spermicide from
France which came packaged in a chartreuse lace pouch. If you know what
this dream means, please tell me.

[Steven Weide]

I might as well join in and do one too...

Name: Steven Michael Weide

Nickname: Skeve, Dirk, That one guy, and mostly asshole

Age: 24 (and feeling 50) (for the people who want specifics, it's 10/21/72)

Height: umm...5'10" or so

Weight: 160 or so (people say I'm putting on weight now though)

Health issues: None that have been proven. I'm begining to have my own
thoughts about me and depression, but it could all be in my head too.

Scars: just one of my left ring finger from when I cut myself cutting wood
and was too bullheaded to go get stitches (I had stuff to do)

Personality type: XSTJ (which I both agree and disagree with, some part of
the description are dead on, other are WAY off-base)

Hair Color: Brown (hopefully soon I'll be back to being bald though)

Eye Color: Brown

Residence: Cincinnati Ohio with my mom and grandma. And I plan on living here
for free as long as I can stand it.

Transportation: Red Buick Skylark with silver underbody. Offensive
bumperstickers include "Doing my part to piss off the religious right",
"Against abortion? Don't have one", and "Religion stops a thinking mind"

SO: Been dating the same girl for 6 1/2 years now. We're officially an old
married couple without even being married.

School: Getting ready to get a BA in computer science from the University
of Cincinnati (Can't spell sucks without UC!). I'll be graduating in August

Job: I just started a job working at a medical research place. I'm doing some
data entry, setting up systems for them, troubleshooting, and doing some
data management (basically, I'm a floater). I'm being groomed to be a full-
time data coordinator once I graduate. I'm also still working 1 day a week
at McDonalds (where I worked for 8 years). I'm still there basically to hang
out with the cool people there more than anything else. I may also be taking
a job designing a web page for a tennis club soon too (so if I get behind on
RMTA, this is why)

SMAE flavour: Chocoholic

Turn-ons: Burgundy hair, intelligence, a twisted and sick sense of humour,
people who care.

Turn-offs: Too many to list here, but be assured all the normal stuff about
stupidity, bigotry, etc is in there.

Rad stuff: Strangers in Paradise, Billy Pilgrim, Ska, Skyline coneys, White
Castles, my cat Lucien, my iguana God (who I unfortunately am trying to
get rid of), Party of Five, Angst (the coffeehouse and the feeling), poetry,
sugarsugarsugar, Boba Fett, ECW.

SECTION 3.7 Quotes

You want quotes? See my various sig files for that!

Steve - I'm in the mood for ska

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Steve Weide %Communism is just a red herring!%
% swe...@ddt.occ.uc.edu % -Clue %
% http://www.eng.uc.edu/~sweide % Pat Buchanan is so homphobic, %
% It makes sense that it should % he blames global warming on %
% hurt in this way. -Poe % the AIDS quilt.-Dennis Miller %
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[Chas ('cha-s vb)]

On 12 Mar 1997 21:26:57 GMT, Heather A Philp <hap...@unity.ncsu.edu> wrote:
>Prolly not too long ago, in rec.music.tori-amos, Joanne may have said:
>: <sinister laugh>
>: Well, I loved Maggie's format so much, I thought I'd steal it! :p
>: </sinister laugh>
>: Actually, I did add a few categories, so there ;)...
>Add me to the list too, please!

Well, I'll jump on the bandwagon.

NAME: B. Chas Parisher (The B. stands for something SUPER SEKRIT and the
Chas is pronounced CHASE)
NICKNAME: Chas, and Hey You.
BIRTHDAY: Feb 2nd, 1974
AGE: 23
HEIGHT: 5'6"ish. 5'7" on a good day. 5'8" in my boots.
WEIGHT: Before pasta: 128. After: 131.
HAIR COLOR: Blondish.
NATURAL HAIR COLOR: You mean people dye their hair???
EYE COLOR: Hazel (cause it doesn't fit any other color usually)
GLASSES: Constantly, even tho I have a fairly week prescription.
RESIDENCE: NCSU. That should be close enough for horseshoes.
VIRTUAL RESIDENCE: a.catt.ncsu.edu
TRANSPORTATION: 1986 Grey Honda Accord. The most invisible car in the US.
SO: Heather Philp
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Straight, but not at the extreme end of the Kensey
scale.
SCHOOL: North Carolina State University. Majoring in Comp Sci.
Graduate in May (God willing).
OCCUPATION: Slave labor to State's Computer Services group.
TURNONS: Redheads. Merlot. Good hugs. People not afraid to live life.
TURNOFFS: You mean there's an OFF???
KEWL STUFF: Coffee (!Starbucks). Music that touches the soul. Good Poetry.
Tweaking a program until it's right. Godelian humor. Games
magazine. Elizabeth Hand's "Waking the Moon." Dr. Pepper.
(List far from complete.)

--B. Chas Parisher

[Janine Root]

NAME: Janine Marie Root
NICKNAMES: Janine
BIRTHDAY: October 8, 1971
AGE: 25 (my birthday was really traumatic this year. I realized that
I have now entered a new age category. You know, when you fill out
forms and you have to check off your age grouping? Now, instead of,
say, 18-24, I get to check off 25-dead)
HEIGHT: 5'8"
WEIGHT: let's just say I have curves where a woman should
HAIR COLOR: a really unremarkable brown. But I just got it cut REALLY
short (for me), so I think it's pretty cool at the moment
EYE COLOR: blue most of the time; VERY blue some days
GLASSES: for reading, since I was about 15. I'm not near or far
sighted, but I have astigmatism in both eyes and get a vicious
headache if I read too long without them.
RESIDENCE: currently a basement apartment in the north end of Thunder
Bay, Ontario (Canada). Soon to be back at my parents home in London,
Ontario, until I figure out what I'm doing with my life.
SO: None at the moment, and I'm not in the market for one. I'm
currently going through a bitter and jaded spell.
SCHOOL/OCCUPATION: MA in English at Lakehead University. I did my BA
at Western (in London) and may be back there next year for a B.Ed.
TRANSPORTATION: a dented and dirty 1988 white Hyundai Excel that has
started making scary noises that I'm hoping will just go away if I
ignore them long enough
TURNONS: kindness, silliness, respect, the ability to conceed defeat
graciously, independent thought, an open mind, self-awareness,
perceptiveness, the moment before a kiss, thunderstorms
TURNOFFS: bigotry, cruelty, insensitivity, deceit, people who have no
sense of wonder, grabbiness
KEWL STUFF: Tori (obviously), Indigo Girls, Sarah McLachlan, Sting,
Crowded House, early 80's music, Canadian music, movies and writers,
Star Trek (in all it's movie and tv versions), Star Wars, The
Simpsons, The New Yorker (a repertory cinema in London that shows
non-Hollywood movies), my friends and my sister (people I can call at
3am and say "I just need to listen to you breathe" and they
understand), discussions that last all night, poetry, books, learning,
chocolate, singing in choirs, -The Little Prince-, Calvin and Hobbes,
The Far Side, Bloom County, Robotman, writing letters, Margaret
Atwood, Timothy Findley, Daphne Marlatt, Michael Ondaatje, Margaret
Lawrence, Lorna Crozier, Marge Piercy, Madeline L'Engle, Angela Carter
(though I'm doing my thesis on her and I'm a little grumpy in her
direction at the moment), Guy Gavriel Kay, baking cookies, the last
movement of Beethoven's 9th, Brahms' German Requiem, polyphonic choral
music, playing the piano, travelling, a good meal with good wine, good
friends and good conversation.

SECTION 2.0: QUOTES

The only world is neither unjust nor just
but round as an apple and we are made of it
to wonder, to savor and struggle and hurt,

to think, to try to build justice as the beaver
builds her dam, to weather the seasons,
the random bolts of nuisance and disaster, to love
what we can and endure in light and darkness.

Marge Piercy
"The seduction of anticipated pain"
--
oh, admit this, man, there's no point in poetry
if you withhold the truth
once you come by it

Alden Nowlan
"And He Wept Aloud, So That the Egyptians Heard It"
--

It's what we all want, in the end,
to be held, merely to be held,
to be kissed (not necessarily with the lips,
for every touching is a kind of kiss).

Yes, it's what we all want, in the end,
not to be worshipped, not to be admired,
not to be famous, not to be feared,
not even to be loved, but simply to be held.

Alden Nowlan
"He Sits Down on the Floor of a School for the Retarded"
--

But, truthfully, these glorious pauses do, sometimes, occur in the
discordant but complementary narratives of our lives and if you choose
to stop the story there, at such a pause, and refuse to take it any
further, then you can call it a happy ending.
Angela Carter
-Wise Children-
--

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is:
I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express
sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
Rebecca West
--

Where does that singing start, you know,
that thin sound -- almost pure light?
Not the birds at false dawn or their song
when morning comes, feathered throats
warm with meaning. A different kind of music.

Listen, it is somewhere near you.
In the heart, emptied of fear,
stubbornly in love
with itself at last, the old
desires a ruined chorus,
a radiant, bloody choir.

Where does the singing start?
Here, where you are, there's room
between your heartbeats,
as if everything you have ever been
begins, inside, to sing.

Lorna Crozier
"A Summer's Singing"

Well, that's probably more than enough info about me. Guess I'm not
really lurking anymore.

Janine
~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`e.e. cummings ~`~

[Janine Root]

abr...@email.unc.edu (Angela Reid) wrote:

<snip biographical info>

>I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

>I do not think that they will sing to me.

>I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
>Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
>When the wind blows the water white and black.

>We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
>By sea-girls wreeathed with seaweed red and brown
>Til human voices wake us, and we drown.
> T.S. Eliot
> "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

>Sin is Behovely, but
>All shall be well, and
>All manner of thing shall be well.
> T.S. Eliot
> "Little Gidding"
> (paraphrasing Dame Julian of Norwich)

Angela, my ENFJ sister!! These are 2 of my favorite Eliot moments.
The first time I encountered "Little Gidding," it didn't do much for
me for some reason, but last year I had to re-read it to mark an
essay, and it really struck me. Especially the part you quote,
perhaps because I've read Julian of Norwich now. And I love the end
of the poem too, when he calls up Julian again:

With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always--
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.

[Kristin E. Holland]

Daniel J Horne (dho...@mail2.sas.upenn.edu) wrote:
: Kristin E. Holland (khol...@mail1.sas.upenn.edu) wrote:

: : As a Holy Cross alumna, I have to say "Phooey!" :-) A friend who went

: : to BC told me it stands for "Better College", but over at HC we all knew
: : it was really for "Below the Cross". ;-)

: I *will* tell him of this. ;) We had a good conversation tonight. It's
: good to know that he likes me.

Funny how something as "simple" as that can be such a big thing, isn't it?
Back when my ex-boyfriend was still my boyfriend, he came into Philly to
visit me, and while we were walking back to my apartment after having
dinner, he just casually and simply took my hand - and I had to stop
walking and turn and give him a huge hug, and I practically burst into
tears. Well, the poor guy was a little befuddled, until I managed to
explain that with all the trouble we'd been having, I wondered sometimes
whether he still *liked* me. I knew he *loved* me - we'd been through a
lot together, and wanted to keep going; but I wasn't sure whether I was
still the sort of person he would ask out on Date #1, or somebody he'd
decide he wanted to get to know better.

: Hey, stop over some time and tell my boss how weird I am on the net.

Heh heh heh... ;-)

: Actually, I'm surprised you haven't been there yet---we have a treasure

: trove of Classical literature dating from the 11th century. (I know
: that's not classical, but you gotta admit an edition of Aristotle's works
: circa 1300 is darned impressive.)

That *is* impressive, even if Aristotle gives me the willies. ;-) I guess
I don't get to look at funky editions of funky authors much because I'm so
busy trying to read all this contemporary scholarship (and Lordy, there's
certainly enough of it) that's enough like my thesis to assure me that
somebody will be interested in my stuff when I'm done...and enough like my
thesis that I wake up in a cold sweat every once in a while convinced that
I have nothing new to say. Blech.

[Kristin E. Holland]

Daniel J Horne (dho...@mail2.sas.upenn.edu) wrote:

: I, on the other hand, scour the nooks and crannies of Williams Hall on a

: daily basis searching for the elusive Kristin Holland. ;) Actually, do
: you ever get the random feeling that we *must* have seen each other? I
: did take a class in the Classics dept that required me meeting w/ my TA
: in a room w/ tons and tons of other Classics TA's. Ever teach CLST 200,
: Gk and Roman Mythology?

Actually, I'm sure we've seen each other without realizing it, and I'm
sure that being humanities-types, and having library connections, we
probably have people and acquaintances in common.

Now for the spooky part: I was a TA for Dr. Farrell's Gk and Roman Myth
this past spring...and I actually met one of my students lurking around
here asking about tickets to Tori's Philly show. A bit before that, I
had met a former student asking about tickets as well, and he later
offered to sell me an extra one of his. Alas, my PhD comprehensive were
right at that time, or I might have taken him up on it.

So when did you take Myth? :-)

[Andrew Onifer]

Aimee Lortskell <ai...@umr.edu> wrote:

> : KEWL STUFF:
> rmta (price whiners and all), amn (for when i need even more conflict)...
> and rather than some huge fucking list, i'll just recommend that you all
> see the film microcosmos, if only for the incredibly erotic snail sex scene.

That movie's showing this Friday at school.

jay
(In case anyone cared)

--
_________________________________________________
You a newbie? Get the pack.
email rmta-...@oak.webville.com
_________________________________________________
& I tried to tell my life story to the rain, &
& but it just ran into the sewer... &
& Andrew J. Onifer III ---> a...@po.cwru.edu &

[Daniel J Horne]

Kristin E. Holland (khol...@mail1.sas.upenn.edu) wrote:

: Daniel J Horne (dho...@mail2.sas.upenn.edu) wrote:
: : I *will* tell him of this. ;) We had a good conversation tonight. It's

: : good to know that he likes me.

: Funny how something as "simple" as that can be such a big thing, isn't it?

It is indeed greatly reassuring. My deal was that I was worried that he
was acting busy as a ploy to brush me off, but it turns out that's not it
at all. He's having a very busy period, as I'm sure I will eventually as
well. And what's interesting is that despite the fact that some friends
of mine think he's using that as an excuse for seeing other people, I
have No Doubt In My Mind that he's being honest with me and isn't even
interested in seeing anyone else. And that "simple" thing is really
important as well. (And it helps that before we were officially dating,
he told me he never sleeps w/ "just anyone." So I'm guess I'm more than
anyone to him now. :))

: lot together, and wanted to keep going; but I wasn't sure whether I was

: still the sort of person he would ask out on Date #1, or somebody he'd
: decide he wanted to get to know better.

I felt the same way, but know better now.

: That *is* impressive, even if Aristotle gives me the willies. ;-) I guess

: I don't get to look at funky editions of funky authors much because I'm so
: busy trying to read all this contemporary scholarship (and Lordy, there's

I get what you mean. Sometimes I feel remotely idiotic when I haven't
seen dozens of films or books (almost always contemporary) that come up in
conversations.
How can I tell people, "Look, that just isn't my *period*."

: somebody will be interested in my stuff when I'm done...and enough like my

: thesis that I wake up in a cold sweat every once in a while convinced that
: I have nothing new to say. Blech.

No, I think your advisor would've caught it if you didn't.

Dan, who wakes up in a cold sweat every once in a while too, but for just
pure nervousness.

[Angela Reid]

Janine Root (jmr...@ice.lakeheadu.ca) wrote:
: Angela, my ENFJ sister!! These are 2 of my favorite Eliot moments.

: The first time I encountered "Little Gidding," it didn't do much for
: me for some reason, but last year I had to re-read it to mark an
: essay, and it really struck me. Especially the part you quote,
: perhaps because I've read Julian of Norwich now. And I love the end
: of the poem too, when he calls up Julian again:

Woohoo. :)
I considered the ending of the poem, too, but figured I was getting too
long already (as usual)--and still with miles to go before I slept.

{{hig}} and :* for the eliot moment. :)

Angela

[Daniel J Horne]

Kristin E. Holland (khol...@mail1.sas.upenn.edu) wrote:

: Actually, I'm sure we've seen each other without realizing it, and I'm

: sure that being humanities-types, and having library connections, we
: probably have people and acquaintances in common.

A lot of the post-bacs in the Classics dept work in the Rare Book
library, so I'm sure we do.

: Now for the spooky part: I was a TA for Dr. Farrell's Gk and Roman Myth

: this past spring...and I actually met one of my students lurking around
: here asking about tickets to Tori's Philly show. A bit before that, I

Did you give them a better grade? ;)

: offered to sell me an extra one of his. Alas, my PhD comprehensive were

: right at that time, or I might have taken him up on it.

I actually remember your saying you weren't going due to that. I, of
course, threw my homework to the wind.

: So when did you take Myth? :-)

Spring of '95. The one Big complaint I had about it (aside from a Very
Harsh grader for a TA....she's nice but graded things severely) was that
while "Roman Mythology" was in the title of the course, the only Roman
mythology we read was Ovid's Metamorphoses. And I loved Ovid so much I
was hoping for a little bit more.

Dan.

[mik...@nwu.edu]

Um, I don't post much but I'm looking for I'm trying my damndest to
procrastinate and this thread is a well suited mean to that end.

> NAME: Michael Paul Morell
> NICKNAME: Mike, Blondie, Kemo, and...um...Clutch Monkey
> AGE:20
> HEIGHT: 5'7''(ish)
> WEIGHT: about 125
> HEALTH ISSUES: if you poke me in the belly I lose my breath
> MEDICATIONS: 1 Centrum from my economy sized bottle daily

> SCARS: I have one on the inside of my cheek. When I was five years old
as I was switching planes in St. Louis en route to Chicago. As my mom and
I rushed through the airport, a man in also in a hurry went by in the
opposite direction carrying a garment bag over his arm. Somehow, as I
passed closely by the man, the hook of the hanger that was exposed at the
end of the garment bag snagged my cheek. I was dragged about six feet in
the opposite direction before the guy noticed he had a kid attached to his
hanger. The tip of the hanger came one layer of skin from going all the
way through my cheek. But I got stitches (they were disolvable so I never
had to have them taken out) and everything turned out ok.

> HAIR COLOR: When I have hair, blonde. I've been trying to grow my hair
out for aboout a year now but always end up shaving my head again. I can
never end up tolerating the 'can't do shit with your hair' phase for the
extended period of time necessary to grow one's hair out.

> EYE COLOR: Blue

> RESIDENCE: Originally San Diego. Currently, a dorm room at Northwestern
University in Evanston, IL.

> TRANSPORTATION: Mis pies. And the L train.

> SO: that abby girl

> SCHOOL: the aforemention Northwestern University. My real major is
journalism. My for fun major is philosophy.

> OCCUPATION: I'm employed by the man at Einstein's Bagels: where
employees must "wow" every customer, every time. I think my fellow
employees like me because I always volunteer to do the manual labor, like
moping and cleaning things, so that I can avoid the degredation inherent
in (dundundun) customer service.

> SMAE FLAVOR:um...flan

> TURNONS: integrity. Really everything else is a derivative of that one
turn on.

> TURNOFFS: the greek system. Irrationally based elitism. People who
always live up to other's expectation without having expectations of their
own. People who think that they are anti-establishment because they
*conform* to a certain subculture. Pretenciousness (sp?).

> KEWL STUFF: philosophy. Objectivism. Studying at cafes. The Pacific
Ocean. Soccer. Liz Phair. PJ Harvey. The Pixies. Chess. The
Simpsons. Getting drunk/high as a celebration for something earned.
Black Converse (I was instinctually going to put 'Black Cons' but can
easily see how that can be misinterperted). Spring Break.

> SECTION 2.0: YUP, QUOTES

"Nah, this is the wrong number. You've dialed 9-1 .... uhhh 2."
-Chief Wiggum (a Simpson's character)

"It's so much easier to pass jugment on a man than on an idea. Though how
in the hell one passes judgement on a man without considering the content
of his brain is more than I'll ever understand."
-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

"And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this
god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will
grant them joy and peace and pride.
This god, this one word:
I."
-Ayn Rand, Anthem

"Then we shall have our fight in the shade."
-A Spartan Commander during the Peloponesian Wars, after being told that the
Persian army is so large that their arrows block out the sun.

That's it.
Mike

mik...@nwu.edu
________ Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? ________
"But who will guard the guards themselves?"--Juvenal

[mik...@nwu.edu]

mik...@nwu.edu (mik...@nwu.edu) wrote:

$ Um, I don't post much but I'm looking for I'm trying my damndest to
$ procrastinate and this thread is a well suited mean to that end.

You gotta love fucking up the very first sentence of a post. I swear the
rest of it makes sense. The ifrst line should (of course) read:

"Um, I don't post much, but I'm trying my damndest to procrastinate and

this thread is a well suited mean to that end."

Mike

[The Yum Yum Boy]

Aimee Lortskell wrote:
> MsDelirium <msdel...@aol.com> wrote:

> > NAME: Sylvia Drake
> > ...WHICH MEANS: Either "forest dragon" or "wood duck"

> wood duck???! SHE'S A WITCH!!!

> Aimee the Magdalene (sorry, had to)

Ben's influence grows ever larger...*shudder*

The Viscount de Yum Yum...(but that was pretty funny. And very
observant, I must admit :)

----mailto:toby.d...@bork.bork.bork.ebo.mts.dec.com
"when the -hell- are you going to change your sig, dammit!"
- Goddess Karen
----http://bex000.ebo.dec.com/douglass/index.html

[faer...@aol.com]

In article <19970317015...@ladder01.news.aol.com>, faer...@aol.com writes:

yeah..okay, so i'm responding to myself. there's just some things i forgot i wanted to put in here and some new categories, woo.

>TURNONS: along with all that other stuff... i cannot believe i forgot to mention my
absolute adoration of the british accent. doesn't necessarily matter which part of britain, i just find that speaking voice particularly thrilling. practically exploded during "Quadrophenia." woo.

IDENTIFYING MARKS: i've a birthmark on the back of my right calf; it looks like a really pale hickey. a small (i think, cute) beauty mark under my right breast. a really odd scar on my right pointer finger (or whatever it's correctlly called). when i was a toddler, an obviously negligent baby-sitter failed to save me from the hungry mouth of the 8-track. in went my finger, and out it came (with some tugging), leaving a strange scar on my finger nail. i've grown use to it but others find it interesting.

SMAE FLAVOR: i think i vaguely remember giving out a cherry-lime smae awhile back... gotta stop being so stingey with my smaes. so im deciding on cherry-lime. cherry coke. and avacado-and-italian-dressing. mmmm.

-Londie

~*~*~*~*~*~*faer...@aol.com*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
If I had to get tortured by a human being or eaten by a crocodile,I'd take the croc any day
of the week.The reason is that it's not personal.You were lunch.-Tori
~*http://members.aol.com/faerie007/index.html*~

[Kristin E. Holland]

km...@acsu.buffalo.edu wrote:
: NICKNAMES: Ren, the blonde teddy bear, becca (only when i'm making the

: "becca" face, which is a pissed off version of me. becca as in becca
: [kellie martin] from life Goes On), Tard, AnderHalterTop ... uhhh...

When my little sister was grouchy and grumpy, my mother would call her
"Darlene" (as in daughter of Roseanne). ;-)

-K

[AldenKeith]

Name:Alden Harbour Keith
what it means: Alden:Old friend, and wise protector.
Nickname:Harbour, Spiderbaby.

Age: 19, snake, scorpio(kind of a double wammy, eh?)

Height:5'9"

Weight:130

Health issues:Thanks to my summer job in construction, I now have aa
"posterior vitreous detachment. Basically, I see a small black spot in my
field of vision..

Scars:two, one on each side of my eye, below the eyebrow. Basically, I hit
myself on the corner of a table when I was little, then I did it to the
other side later...it's not in my eye, just really close..

Personality type:Welp, I'm an EMPT(or ENPT I can't remember)

Hair Color:This is a hard one. Naturally it's ash blonde, but this month
it's been poppy red, white and pink(due to the poppy red), and now it's
golden yellow...

Eye Color: Blue-green-grey...

Residence: Falls Church, VA. Now at JMU in Harrisonburg, VA

Transportation: 1984 Volvo Battle wagon. Battleship grey. The car is nice
because people get out of my way when I drive...

SO: I just broke up with my wynonna Rider like-a-look, it was something
that had to be done

School:Freshman at James Madison University majoring in Media Arts and
Design

Job: Well, I work for a magazine dedicated to electronic music, arts, and
technology, I do interviews industrial bands, and get drunk and go on
stage with them(That's a story about when I got pulled on stage with
chemlab/16volt/h3llb3nt)

SMAE flavour: Rum and butterscotch

Turn-ons:Really sarcastic people, people who can be made fun of, and then
get back at you.. leather, dark red hair, goth girls(I don't know why...)

Turn-offs: stupid people with no sense, MTV, Alternative People and
music.Pork

Rad stuff:my art, my acer(with my Maxx toy on it) The Maxx, Pez, England,
Industrial music, David Bowie, Piglets...

SECTION 3.7 Quotes
"You can make fun of me, and you can put me down, but I won't think any
less of you, wanna know why?"
"Because you're drunk and won't remember it in the morning?"
"Um, I had something to say but I forget it now..."
- a conversation between Mike of The Aggression and myself..

"Hey, aren't you doing some dom chick, Harbour?"
FJ of The Aggression t o me in an Italian resturant

[Aimee Lortskell]

Andrew Onifer <j...@b61725.student.cwru.edu> wrote:

> Aimee Lortskell <ai...@umr.edu> wrote:
> > rmta (price whiners and all), amn (for when i need even more conflict)...
> > and rather than some huge fucking list, i'll just recommend that you all
> > see the film microcosmos, if only for the incredibly erotic snail sex scene.
> That movie's showing this Friday at school.

well, go see it, you pud. if you don't, i'll hunt you down and tickle
you. and if you'd like that, then i'll tie you up and read you the price
guide. and if that wouldn't bother you, then i'll arrange for your entire
library to be sent to UMR through interlibrary loan. so HA! go see it. :)

Aimee the Magdalene

/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\
| I was hoping you wouldn't see them. I was trying to tidy up when |
| bing-bong the door went and I thought, "Shit! The dildos!" |
| - trent reznor |
| I've never had a strange woman reach out and grab me, |
| which just proves I hang out in the wrong places. |
| - angela reid |
\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/

[Koert A. Lagendijk]

Good afternoon,

Well, the Internet finally reached my own computer, after several
months of surfing, mailing, and scanning Usenet on public servers.
I've been reading RMTA for a few months now, wondering if I should
subscribe and join this obviously (I hope) colourful crowd. Reading
the PFAQ's finally provided a good excuse to force my presence upon
you, and see if you can amuse me. In fact, the PFAQ's were the first
truly interesting messages I came across (being a total stranger of
course)

My Personal FAQ's down here. A bit early maybe, but it's funny how you
can use it to analyze yourself. Sorry if things are getting boring, I
wrote down as much as I could think of, but there are a lot of things
left unmentioned, simply because I don't like to force my problems
onto others, or use them as an excuse for not being able to socially
interact correctly.
Here goes nothing...

NAME: Koert Arie Lagendijk
This is a Dutch boy's name, and yes, it is the same as Kurt. But the
'oe' is pronounces as 'ou' in 'you', Lagendijk means 'low dyke' (what
country did you say you cpme from?)
NICKNAME: None. Please. Koert is my name, let's leave it at that.
NATIONALITY: Dutch. Funny how I never found this category in the other
FAQ's. Looks like the whole world is American.
BIRTHDAY: 21 march 1974
HEIGHT: 1.87 metres (long live the metric system)
WEIGHT: No idea. Not heavy, I'm pretty slender, so a little below
average. But it's in good old kilograms, that's for sure.
HAIR COLOUR: Long flaming orange-red, slightly wavy I'm one of the
very few original redheads on this Newsgroup, right? ;-)
EYE COLOUR: Quite blue
GLASSES: No, only if I have to stay up all night studying or
backpacking far, far away.
CLOTHING: Lots of black. It's nice, easy and very efficient.
SCARS: Very few. Moped accident, glass shards, bellybutton. However,
if electrocution would leave scars, I'd look like Darkman right now.
My mental scars will pop up sooner or later, when the time is right.

TRANSPORTATION: Feet, rickety bike, and lots of public transport.
SCHOOL: Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture. This
is undoubtedly the worst education at the worst UoT in this country or
Europe for that matter. I thought that an average university would
learn it's students to THINK to USE THEIR BRAIN! Well, not that
architecture is anywhere near a technical education, but Building
Technology is, thank God.
RESIDENCE: Delft, in the old town (and old means 15-16th century.)
WORK: Nope. Never had a steady job. Didn't need that much money, I got
along well.
RELIGION: Tough one, basically my own. raised Apostolic (long yet very
interesting story, see quotes) slightly influenced by Buddhism, but
keeping my feet firmly on the ground.

BAD HABITS: My only bad habits are not drinking any alcohol, no
smoking, no drugs, no medications. Never been drunk of high.
GOOD HABITS: I'll leave this one up to others.
SO: Funny you should ask.
TURNONS: Electrical shocks, Power tools that use more than 2000W (at
220V people!), beautiful women, chocolate, good conversations,
Ireland, people that can outsmart me (very easy, but learning!),
proper British English.
TURNOFFS: Microsoft, people who stick to their own kind and only
listen to themselves, new Dutch spelling, my former landlord, fanatics
of ANY kind, Israelis, especially adolescent Israelis, MIG/MAG
welding, because it doesn't take craftsmanship, Self-pity (AARGH!),
arrogance, kids in general, most dogs, sports, English movies
translated to German (Meine Name ist Bond, James Bond- AARGH!),
backpack tourists who only care about the stamp in their passport,
tourists walking throug narrow streets in Delft like they fucking own
the city, fake picturesque shit.
COOL STUF: Cynism, sarcasm, provocation, anything to tick people off
and get them thinking. Black, lots of black.Tibet , the people country
and culture, electric welding (covered electrode, acetylene and TIG),
Quake!, the Sandman comic that everybody seems to be reading nowadays,
Guust Flater and other Franquin strips, heights, especially standing
on rooftops and very high ladders, Ireland, Amsterdam, Coca-Cola,
William Seward Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch (the book, not the
movie), Film Noir, lightning, Red Dwarf, Amazing Discoveries (dubbed,
not subtitled), coffee after a good meal, milk (amazing stuff).
MUSIC: Now, this looks like a regular Goth-head music list, I know,
and wearing black clothes unfortunately only adds to the image...
U2 (the only creative mainstream band)
Tori (very real music, tender piano playing)
Sisters of Mercy (Kick ass hard and painfully)
Joy Division (English band from 1979, very existentialist, very real)
Curve (great Brit band, now split up)
HOBBIES: Comic albums, good music, using my hands and building,
opening interesting machines to see how they work, computers, but
biggest and unfortunately most expensive of them all is travelling to
faraway places with an absolute minimum amount of luggage.

THE QUOTES:

'Everything has its time and as soon as the necessary preparations
have been made so that God's time will TRULY come, then everything
that HAS to come WILL come !'
- Apostle F.W. Schwarz (1815-1895)

'Far beyond the black horizon, beyond the things you know,
everybody's got a destination, everybody has a place to go.'
Train - Sisters of Mercy

'You get what everybody gets. You get a lifetime. No more, no less.'
- Death

'The road is long. Erections and bummers are frequent'
W.S.Burroughs - Naked Lunch

'Existence well what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can.
The past is now part of my future, the present is well out of hand.'
Joy Division - Heart and Soul

Koert A. Lagendijk k.a.la...@bk.tudelft.nl

[that abby girl]

k.a.la...@bk.tudelft.nl wrote:
> MUSIC:

> Curve (great Brit band, now split up)

not quite true. yes, they are an amazing band that did split up, but they
have gotten back together after both members did some side projects. there
was a single released in england in novermber, i believe, but i'm not sure
when the album or single is coming out other places. i'm sure you could
find that on one of the several curve homepages on the web.

abby.
(who is using cut and paste for her spaces because some dumbass spilled
beer on her keyboard last night and now the spacebar is broken. argh!)

*porn girl*basket case bitch*shiny and loud*high-octane*angry snatch*
ab...@nwu.edu

[Heather A Philp]

Prolly not too long ago, in rec.music.tori-amos, Chas (\'cha-s\ vb)
may have said:
: Well, I'll jump on the bandwagon.

Heh. I have a few things to add.

:)

: NICKNAME: Chas, and Hey You.

He'll also answer to "sweetie". Try it sometime.

: HEIGHT: 5'6"ish. 5'7" on a good day. 5'8" in my boots.

He's actually taller than me when he's in his boots and I'm barefoot.
Otherwise, we're about the same.

: WEIGHT: Before pasta: 128. After: 131.

I feed him well. ;)

: GLASSES: Constantly, even tho I have a fairly week prescription.

He just likes the geeky look. I think he's trying to attract Aimee.

: RESIDENCE: NCSU. That should be close enough for horseshoes.

Wood Hall, 414C. Go pester him.

: TRANSPORTATION: 1986 Grey Honda Accord. The most invisible car in the US.

Invisible enough to get backed into...

: SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Straight, but not at the extreme end of the Kensey
: scale.

He likes Eric Stoltz-types.

IDENTIFYING MARKS: He has a birthmark on the back of his neck. Of course,
he's never seen it. And a couple scars on the knuckles of his (right?)
hand. And at least one more he wouldn't like me to mention. *innocent
smile*

--heather
yes, this is rather unfair of me.
Perhaps I shouldn't post it...hmmm....nah.

--
Heather Philp =+= http://www4.ncsu.edu/~haphilp =+= hap...@eos.ncsu.edu
=+=+=+=+=+= If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them? =+=+=+=+=+=

[Gideon Hallett]

On 18 Mar 1997 09:57:57 GMT, Toni Keskitalo <tpke...@itu.cc.jyu.fi>
spoke in tongues:

>Hmm. This makes me wonder what is that interesting about this cold
>country. I mean, superficially at least, Finland is like any other country
>in this cold world - MacDonald's, Hard Rock Cafés and such Americanisms
>are abundant, as everywhere in so called "western world".

I don't know either, but I'd like to visit Finland. I've always wanted
to. At least partially because I've never seen the aurora borealis.
Latterly also because one of my best uni friends has gone back there
after finishing her course and I'd like to see her again (nothing
sexual, but I haven't seen her in nearly a year).

>Then, I am reminded of the pagan Finnish beliefs, but there isn't very
>much information of the old pre-Christianity Finnish religion. And then, I
>recall that live-action roleplays are rather big, if still marginal,
>phenomenon here. [1]
>

There's still the Kalevala. I still remember the phrase about the
many-coloured Sampo...
*sylveily*
Gideon.

--
Gideon_...@3mail.3com.com | "Oh no!". "What's up, John
love?" "Newer and bluer Meanies have been sighted in the
vicinity of this theatre - there's only one way to go out!"
"What's that?" "Singing!" "One!" "Two!" "Three!" "Four!"

[Gregory Lawrence Smith]

In article <abbyj-19039...@fwk105081.res-hall.nwu.edu>,
that abby girl <ab...@nwu.edu> wrote:
>k.a.la...@bk.tudelft.nl wrote:
>> MUSIC:

>> Curve (great Brit band, now split up)

>not quite true. yes, they are an amazing band that did split up, but they

>have gotten back together after both members did some side projects.

Okay, here's what I know about Curve. I'm not sure what Dean did while
they broke up, but Toni bounced around with several failed band projects
including Bud (I think with Pieter Nooten of Xymox, but I'm not really
sure), and Scylla (with Anka Wolbert of Xymox). Apparently she and Anka
did not get along, but they did contribute a song to the Showgirls
soundtrack, or something really random like that. I think Scylla also
toured briefly, but without Anka. (or is it Anke?)

anyways, Curve are back together. They released a single called 'Pink
Girl With The Blues', contributed a new song to the Volume 17 compilation
(UK), and have written a song for the movie soundtrack 'Nowhere,' a new
film by Greg Araki (the guy who did Doom Generation, The Living End, and
Totally F*cked Up). A new album is expected sometime in the first half of
'97.

>i'm sure you could find that on one of the several curve homepages on the web.
>abby.

good idea, since I'm doing this from memory...

-greg

--
"stop me thinking about myself. Stop me hoping for more than I am."
gt7...@prism.gatech.edu
gregory smith

[Elusis]

MsDelirium <msdel...@aol.com> wrote:

> SEXUAL ORIENTATION: "Bi" is boring. How 'bout this: Strong enough for a
> man, pH balanced for a woman! <g>

<raised eyebrows>

"Boring"? Difficult, transgressive, interesting, frustrating, even radical,
but *never* "boring."

Elusis
(token bi activist)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+Let there be pleasure on earth and let it begin with me - A. Sprinkle+
+ Queer is not a communicable disease + Sex-Positive Angry Bi Feminist+
+ Would you like some toast? + Words, words.They're all we have to go +
+ on.+ Sushi lover +What the hell does this have to do with Tori Amos?+
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[Judas]

Why not...

NAME: Darren Carlson
NICKNAMES: Judas
BIRTHDAY: May 6, 1975
AGE: 21
HEIGHT: 6'3, last time I checked (2 years ago or so)
WEIGHT: 155 lbs.
HAIR COLOR: brown
EYE COLOR: blue-green
S.O.: MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! (sob)
RESIDENCE: currently residing in a trailer (*who's* not white trash? Hmm?)
outside of Kitscoty, Alberta, Canada
SCHOOL/OCCUPATION: Right now, I'm taking a year off from University. When
I return in the fall, I'll be going into my fourth year of my computing
science degree. Occupation: don't ask. Please.
LANGUAGES: English, poor to moderate French which I am attempting to improve
TRANSPORTATION: 1984 Ford Ranger
TURNONS: bizarre people with bad childhoods (it must be a turnon for me--
everyone I've ever been involved with or even extremely attracted to fits
this category)
TURNOFFS: racist homophobic bigoted rednecks (yeah, that's only one, but
I just eliminated 98% of the Albertan population there)
BELIEF SYSTEM: primarily Satanist, with a healthy dose of Christianity
and Paganism. Again, don't ask.
KEWL STUFF: BOOKS-Salman Rushdie, Timothy Findley, Guy Gavriel Kay,
Richard Bach, Margaret Atwood, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Stephen R.
Donaldson, Charles Bukowski. MUSIC-Tori Amos, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle,
Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Korn, Tool, Dead Can Dance, The Tragically
Hip, Leonard Cohen, Ani DiFranco, Beck, The Tea Party, Sarah McLachlan,
Bjork, The Doors, Alice in Chains, Metallica, John Lee Hooker. DRUGS-
hash, shrooms, LSD. OTHER: parachuting, pubs, rain, incense, the smell
of pipe tobacco.

SECTION 2.0: QUOTES

I could do some research and list about 40 quotes I adore, but that
would require effort. So here's my most favoritest quote of the week:

"If I am a hiding place for monsters--and I am--
then I can also be a hiding place for harmony.
Or, at least, I can imagine such a thing."
-- Timothy Findley
(I worship this man)

-- Judas (no email whatsoever now, but I'm back online, so this is progress)

Judas: introvert/pariah,white trash hick,bookworm,student on hiatus,masochist
A person can go seventy years without a piece of ass,
but they'll die in a week without a bowel movement.
Charles Bukowski

[Judas]

Umm...is there an agreed-upon format here? Cuz everytime I read another
post on this thread, I find another category. (sigh) I feel so lost...8P

HOBBIES: reading, writing (short stories, poetry, and even a novel-in-
progress or two...hey, I can dream), deciding when to control or unleash
my mood swings, parading around in the nude (this is, of course, during
the 'unleashed mood swing' phase)

HEALTH ISSUES: none since I drilled a hole in my head and let the evil
spirits out...and damn, were there ever alot of them. 8P

MEDICATIONS: none that I've ever stuck with for over a week...

SCARS: five on left forearm (there used to be alot more than that, and the
ones that are left are barely noticeable--I love my skin's healing abilities),
one under lower lip, several on chest, back and legs

One more quote I'd like to add...

"How fortunate for governments that the people they govern do not think."
-- Adolf Hitler

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[Koert Lagendijk]

Rich and Nadyne Mielke wrote:
>
> k.a.la...@bk.tudelft.nl (Koert A. Lagendijk) wrote:
>
> [snipped into and PFAQ]
>
> One question: is your name actually spelled Koert, or is that an
> attempt to make characters in your name fit into an American/British
> system? {And does that question make sense? For example, I've seen
> folks in Finland use the { instead of their A with some sort of accent
> mark, so I was just curious if this was something like that.}
>
My name is originally German and is pronounced as I described it, the
OE-sound is like OU in YOU, in German the U is pronounced as OU, so it's
a Dutch version of a German name. It's real, it's in my passport. And I
really couldn't care less about the British/American system. :-)

> Secondly . . . if you've been here for awhile, you should know the
> thread markers! Bad, bad ex-lurker. ;) If you need to read up on it
> again, email the almost-all-knowing Greghewritesletters at
> rmta-...@oak.webville.com and ask nicely. :)
I have, the very same moment I forced myself on RMTA, and I had been
wondering what these -XX- things meant. But obviously it's getting very
crowded here.

Koert Lagendijk k.a.la...@bk.tudelft.nl