Questions Game

Yes, a black lab named Luca. We rescued him from someone who was mistreating him. He's 11 and a great dog.

Do you have any other pets right now?

Yes, a little mutt who looks like a teddy bear, named Max.
He's also a rescue dog, and probably around 9 or 10 years
old. As he gets older he's developed all these personality
traits now, and I'm thinking of therapy for him.

He's always jumped on the table to look outside the
window, which is quite annoying, but now he's pesting
me to sit in the car in the garage. He won't quit bugging
me until he's in the car - then he will be quiet and fall
asleep <sigh> We love him anyway.

How is your day/morning so far?

OK.

Do you know Cal that at Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons they always start with a question like you just did.The rest of it,the important part,are supplementary questions?

Really? Well, I happen to think also that it is an important
question and shows interest in the other people, when
one takes an active interest in it.

In a few hours I can see the weekend from here.
Any plans?

Nothing special.

"The best laid plans of mice and men often gang awry." Burns.

Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances,not circumstances by the plans.
Livy.

I tend to follow the old wisdom I'm afraid.And it isn't as daft as it seems.

Tomorrow morning a little work.Then couch and cricket and some threading if circumstances permit.
Reading Sexus in between with intervals for biological imperitives.Then at 20.15 hrs BST pub.
Doesn't that sound exciting?

No, apart reading Henry...

What else?

Very. So far, we don't have any plans made, which is
fine with me. I love to just hang out and drift into the day.

So, I've just eaten my catered lunch (Thai food) and now
I'd like to take a nap - unfortunately I can't. I have to
continue working.....

Plans regulated by circumstances - what could they be?

What else?

You tell me?

Chronology, CJ.

Can I tell you?

Well-there's Ferguson's book on the sage being consulted between times.Maybe some horse racing during cricket intervals.Not much else unless circumstances alter dramatically.

It doesn't suit everybody does it?

Yes Francis, tell me, and no spendius, it doesn't suit
everybody.
We started the horse race season last Wednesday
and it is so hot here, that must be torture for those poor
horses.

Do you think this is a form of animal abuse, to have
horses race in this heat?

Cal-I just nipped in while I dry off from the SS.

There are two sides to your question.And that's the easy level.

It obviously is a form of animal abuse but there's not much that isn't when you get down to it.Proust locks that up very well if I remember correctly.One simply must read Proust at some point.

Looking on the bright side the horses do live a quite pampered lifestyle apart from now and again.
The best ones get the sort of treatment that ladies who visit pampering units of one sort or another can only dream about.And the colt's classic winners can look forward,after 3,to a lifestyle that the husbands of the ladies previously mentioned can only dream about.

So it's a moot point really.If you stomp on vermin you have to be pro racing don't you?

Not necessarily. Vermin isn't trained to race or serve man
in any other way than just to annoy. Admidettly, racing horses are very well cared for - I've seen their pampering
stalls, heck they even have a treadmill to work out on,
but nevertheless, when temperatures are above 90 F,
horse races should be called off. Two years ago, one
of the priced possessions died of heat exhaustion. The
owner of the horse cried his heart out, but I think merely
due to the monetary loss.

What did Proust say to that?

Proust didn't think up such a tragic scenario.Had he done so you can be assured he would have provided a literary setting for it which would have had you laughing.

Maybe not.But me anyway.

How long did you take to decide between "Vermin isn't" and "Vermin aren't?

Oh, that's my problem. I just impulsively write a post
without thinking it over all too clearly, and sometimes - only sometimes I'll use the spell check. Whereas in this case,
the spell check wouldn't have helped me either.

Can you forgive me?

Don't be so daft.A lot of experts "aren't" sure when a singular noun like "lot" contains a plural like "experts" whether "isn't" or "aren't" "is" correct or whether "are" is mistaken.

Anybody on a second language can be forgiven for anything.Apart from males of course.

Is that perfectly clear?

Yes sir!
So the mobile groomer just left and the dog is clean now
and fluffy like a puppy.

How was the pub today? Did anyone change the
world?

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http://www.fullcirc.com/weblog/2005/03/jb-walther-some-interesting.htm

Some interesting reading I thought you might appreciate here.
As an endnote - Spendius - when you set out to create a character (in attempts to help you with your writing) always remember that old saying, "God is in the details" (Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe). Bom-bom, Shazzer, NoNe, Lubna, and now Allthisbeauty - no details - no substance - no credence.
Aidan is a character. My name is Andy - get it yet - Aidan - Andy? I'm a doctoral student in psychology doing my thesis on the effect of the internet on human communication and interaction. After reading the data and information on the blog I linked at the top of the page, I decided to create a composite character to gather anecdotal evidence about such said internet communication between men and women to help support my thesis. I used Aidan because it is a fairly androgynous name - and I began with a gender-neutral avatar. In the beginning, I stayed on the issue and relationship based threads, and was getting little to no response. Not what I needed to aid my research.
One afternoon, about six or seven weeks into my project, I was at my sister-in-law's telling her about my disappointing results and she asked me to show her the forum. "Ooh, Haiku, she said, "I want to play." She went on and proceeded to trade haikus with a young man named Spendius. You know the rest.
It was then I realized, I would garner more attention as a woman than a man, so I simply recreated my sister-in -law in internet form. I described her as she looks, I said the things I've heard her say- I used pictures of my niece and nephew and even of her dog. I gave "Aidan" my sister-in-law's life in effect (except that the real Aidan is happily married to my brother and doesn't live in England- I spent my junior year of college abroad at University in Bristol- I filled in those details). I gave her a separation and a living situation in a country far from friends and family to engender a sense of vulnerability- hoping this would bring about more male attention and oh boy, did it ever. Interestingly enough, it also brought about a lot of very strongly negative female reaction. This had not been part of my original thesis, but will add interest to the finished dissertation. The real "Aidan" provided the creative writing pieces, told me which songs to place where and when, and on occasion came on and traded haiku and acronyms with players (she really is a whiz with words). She provided me details about teaching, she talked with Ollady about cooking - the insults and cat-fight with Devvie were all me.
I realized that people were catching on to the time difference issue -- why was Aidan so often on the internet in what was supposed to be the middle of the night for her - and knew the gig was about to be up. Besides, by this time, I had been able to gather more than enough extremely interesting anecdotal evidence to support my thesis on gender-based differences in modes of electronic communication via the internet.
(When I get it written up - maybe I'll post it on the forum - keep an eye out).
Anyway, Spendius, guy - you've been talking to a guy. Just thought I'd let you know. Wanted to reassure you all that I'll change the screen-names in my thesis and will not mention the name of the specific forum.
Thanks for your participation and input. Yitwail, my brother, hold the fort. You're one of the few sane ones on here (in trivia and games that is - loads of good people on the rest of the forum-some of whom I'll actually miss). Peace-Andy/ "Aidan"

no need to post it on the thread andy

you can put it in the waste bin along with all the other scribblings of psycho babble.

I dunno Steve.All that could have been made up.I said aidan was a young man right at the beginning.
But she changed my mind.Her English wasn't good enough and she made some real bloomers in the story shite.She was galloping off on horses that were still tied up.She sent her heroine up a mountain at sunset.And she put a real solecism into Lauzan's mouth.Pure corn.
She definitely has no knowledge of literature and you should have seen the pop ditty she recommended I listen to.And me A Bobcat.They Google stuff up to make them look good you know.
I don't think a bloke doing a doctoral thesis would do that.She'd never heard of Rider Haggard.
And if you were doing psychological research into
human communication etc why would you alienate everybody.She even alienated Francis I'm told.Not in such a short time surely?She would have alienated me if it wasn't that all that stuff just runs off me like water.
Her acronyms were dire.No effort-just beat the pip.
Anything will do.Can you see our Andy doing that on purpose.If it is an Andy he should be driving a fork truck instead of wasting taxpayers money.And why take the hump at people.What scientist would take the hump at the material of his research?
And wouldn't a scientist-hey that's a laugh eh?-play the games in an ordinary way and watch the others without drawing a lot of attention to herself.He jumped into the thick of it.And if the other threads were useless why go on them and then only spasmodically.A smokescreen I suppose.Oy ay!
I did think at one point she might be a deep-sixer but I couldn't figure out a motive.

On balance she more or less convinced me.Why would Andy set off for Tintagel and not go.

And now she's bolted.Typical.If things weren't going aidan's way wouldn't that be right up a psychology student's street.Resistance analysis and all that.Maybe Andy never heard of resistance analysis.And she's bolted before.

Andy must have quite a feminine streak or his preparatory work involved a large number of bodice rippers.

Do you think England can get these runs?