Tell us A Bit About Where You're From

[En_Route]

Whole house is full of cartons that still need to be unpacked after our move, so i made her an ultimatum. You'll have to unpack and use that stuff within a year, otherwise we'll get rid of it.

A useful rule, but ultimatums have the nasty tendency to backfire...I'm just sayin'...

Looks like that you know my wife

I hope for your sake that he doesn't.

[The Black Jester]

Whole house is full of cartons that still need to be unpacked after our move, so i made her an ultimatum. You'll have to unpack and use that stuff within a year, otherwise we'll get rid of it.

A useful rule, but ultimatums have the nasty tendency to backfire...I'm just sayin'...

Looks like that you know my wife

I hope for your sake that he doesn't.

Particularly since I am known to be morally dissolute...

[En_Route]

Whole house is full of cartons that still need to be unpacked after our move, so i made her an ultimatum. You'll have to unpack and use that stuff within a year, otherwise we'll get rid of it.

A useful rule, but ultimatums have the nasty tendency to backfire...I'm just sayin'...

Looks like that you know my wife

I hope for your sake that he doesn't.

Particularly since I am known to be morally dissolute...

I have heard tell that there are so many notches on your bedpost that it's in danger of collapse.

[TheWalkingContradiction]

The weather in Juneau, Alaska is dreadful.  No, not the kind of dreadful of which you're likely thinking, the kind that will pass in a minute, and we'll all get on with our lives.  No, the weather in Juneau is of an altogether more miserable order, the moreso because it's...well, there's no other way to put this...it's permanent.  It's not merely that it's always 42 degrees (Fahrenheit) and drizzling, it's that it's the kind of 42 degrees that seeps into each crevice of your skeletal structure, promising that you will never, ever be warm again.  The best comparison is perhaps with the mood of a sullen teenager.  It doesn't storm in Juneau, nor squall, nor fitfully shower...the weather settles in for a good brood.  Suicides are high, as is teenage pregancy and alcoholism, each of which has been alternately proposed as the local official pasttime.  

Given this fact of my background, it is little wonder that I now live in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  I could easily expostulate on the virtues of the sunsets, or indeed of the sunrises.  And it is truly, stupifyingly, mind-bendingly, and I'm very nearly certain, illegally beautiful here.  I can do no better than to quote the late Douglas Adams, who once wrote of the place:

If you've never visited or spent time in Santa Fe, New Mexico, then let me say this: you're a complete idiot.

But what I can myself most readily, most joyfully report, is that it is, to my continued and deep satisfaction, dry.  And dry in a way that seeps into every crevice of your skeletal structure, promising that you will never, ever be damp again.

I absolutely love this description.  It is worthy of classic literature, and that is not a mere random compliment.

[TheWalkingContradiction]

I'm tempted to post a picture of my closet, just for hilarity's sake. Also, with a toddler and two cats running around, my apartment stays clean for approximately .5 seconds after we clean it.  

When I was younger, I stole a line from one of my professors.  "No children, no pets.  Good life."  Despite the daily extra cleaning Roscoe gives me, though, she is a delighftful addition to the household.  At the end of August she will have been here one year.

Still, that does not mean I want another one or, for that matter, a toddler.  Although I am very good with children, I have my own quote: "I love children--as long as they belong to someone else."

[TheWalkingContradiction]

I swear to Asmo (which is who we swear by around here), Roscoe reminds me of an old Hollywood actress but I can't put my finger on who.  Audrey Hepburn, maybe?  It's definitely something to do with the head tilt.

I swear to Asmo that I know exactly what you mean!  Since the other pictures I have posted of Roscoe are a few months old, here is a picture of her on the same bed that I took ten minutes ago to send to the vacationing family in Hawaii and post here.  Flirty cat!

[TheWalkingContradiction]

Woah, we're posting pictures of our houses now? Better get some pictures of the barn since I practically live there now. 

I would love to see photos of other people's homes/rooms.  It helps to get to know all of you.

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To all: Is there a thread in which members post their pictures?  Would love to put faces to screen names.

[TheWalkingContradiction]

Guess why I'm not sending pictures of our house. Our house is one of the most disorganized places in the world. My wife loves to collect stuff (shoes, clothing, scrapbook and photo stuff) for which simply we don't have enough room. Whole house is full of cartons that still need to be unpacked after our move, so i made her an ultimatum. You'll have to unpack and use that stuff within a year, otherwise we'll get rid of it.

I hear you.  My parents and sister are pack rats, and when I lived at home my bedroom was the only isle of calm in a sea of chachkas, oversized wall hangings, more shoes than Imelda Marcos has ever dreamed of tossed everywhere, gongs...  

Last week one of my ESL classes was working on "The Shoe of Jewels," which is the Vietnamese Cinderella (and predates the Western one).  I told them the story about how I had scrubbed the floors when I was sixteen--only to have my parents come back from a party and walk on them with muddy feet.  As I described having to discipline my parents, the class roared with laughter.

[DeterminedJuliet]

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To all: Is there a thread in which members post their pictures?  Would love to put faces to screen names.

There's no real dedicated thread for pictures of people (not everyone feels comfortable sharing them online).
The last time a few pictures floated around was in the icons thread, I think. Actually, I was thinking the other day about how I wanted to take down the pictures I had of myself here, so get a look while you can. 

[The Magic Pudding]

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To all: Is there a thread in which members post their pictures?  Would love to put faces to screen names.

There's no real dedicated thread for pictures of people (not everyone feels comfortable sharing them online).
The last time a few pictures floated around was in the icons thread, I think. Actually, I was thinking the other day about how I wanted to take down the pictures I had of myself here, so get a look while you can.  

There is this one http://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8695.0

And don't you go wiping these pics 'cause I pointed you there.

[Siz]

I swear to Asmo (which is who we swear by around here), Roscoe reminds me of an old Hollywood actress but I can't put my finger on who.  Audrey Hepburn, maybe?  It's definitely something to do with the head tilt.

I swear to Asmo that I know exactly what you mean!

Definitely Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffanys

[TheWalkingContradiction]

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To all: Is there a thread in which members post their pictures?  Would love to put faces to screen names.

There's no real dedicated thread for pictures of people (not everyone feels comfortable sharing them online).
The last time a few pictures floated around was in the icons thread, I think. Actually, I was thinking the other day about how I wanted to take down the pictures I had of myself here, so get a look while you can.  

There is this one http://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8695.0

And don't you go wiping these pics 'cause I pointed you there.

Sorry...  "Wiping" the pics?  This is yet another Internet term I don't know.

But if they are dirty, you've picked the right anal retentive to clean them!   

[TheWalkingContradiction]

Definitely Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffanys

Roscoe hisses: "Exucsssssse me.  I'm prettier!"

[TheWalkingContradiction]

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To all: Is there a thread in which members post their pictures?  Would love to put faces to screen names.

There's no real dedicated thread for pictures of people (not everyone feels comfortable sharing them online).
The last time a few pictures floated around was in the icons thread, I think. Actually, I was thinking the other day about how I wanted to take down the pictures I had of myself here, so get a look while you can.  

Just saw them--and you're gorgeous!  (And when a gay man says a woman is gorgeous, you know it's true!)

Don't take them down.

[Tank]

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To all: Is there a thread in which members post their pictures?  Would love to put faces to screen names.

There's no real dedicated thread for pictures of people (not everyone feels comfortable sharing them online).
The last time a few pictures floated around was in the icons thread, I think. Actually, I was thinking the other day about how I wanted to take down the pictures I had of myself here, so get a look while you can.  

There is this one http://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8695.0

And don't you go wiping these pics 'cause I pointed you there.

Sorry...  "Wiping" the pics?  This is yet another Internet term I don't know.

But if they are dirty, you've picked the right anal retentive to clean them!   

As we allow members as young as 13 we don't allow nudity on the board. The youngest member ATM is 16.