Happy birthday Charley, Lauren and Joe.

[ChilledVodkaIV]

Whenever it is.

 

[kendo1]

*triple snerk*

 

[Guest]

mahvelous dahlink

 

[Liar]

Whenever it is.

I say it's tomorrow. I need an excuse to get drubnk.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Happy birthday to you as well, CV!

 

[Honey123]

Any excuse for a party is a good one....

 

[Guest]

 

[TriggerHippie]

On your birthdays, may all three of you be treated with EXACTLY the same amount of grace, compassion, forbearance and humanity you have shown to others.

Bwahahahaha! Are you Irish? Cos that's an Irish blessing if I've ever heard one.

Compassion, forbearance and humanity are gifts of grace, eh, Grace?

 

[Guest]

 

[TriggerHippie]

Nope, mostly English, with a smattering of Scots, German and Bitch.

And a large dose of "Just Perfect". I do like the way you think.

Peace, lilredjammies. Long may you grace the AH.

 

[ChilledVodkaIV]

stolen and adapted

On your birthdays, may all three of you be treated with EXACTLY the same amount of grace, compassion, forbearance and humanity you have shown to others.

Draw your line carefully.

Round about 1950 something on a beach in Northern France a guy was sauntering quietly along, taking in the air, the view and the solitude. Reflecting hazily on the reconstruction and his monumental task in Paris. Early morning surf shushed him along. Further along he'd noticed a stooped figure with a length of stick, flotsam, jetsom, whatever and with this crude marking device he was drawing lines in the sand.

The closer the guy got, the more he could make out of what the other was doing, as the foreshortening resolved and the low resolution old man grew younger the guys memory began making connections, as you do.

There was something faintly recognisable about the guy, he wasn't as old as he first thought and seemed to move with a certain grace and purpose.

Before he reached him the guy took a last look at his handiwork and turned then walked away. The incoming tide was taking small nibbles of the lower end of squiggles and curls that the other guy had left behind.

As he came abreast he saw design. He saw a picture. He saw very recognisable strokes and flourishes. He looked from the drawing to the retreating back of the old man.

He waded into the surf so that he could look at the design.

Picasso. Every line. Every stroke. Picasso.

What to do? Chase the guy disappearing over the sand? Get a camera. Got to preserve this unique, priceless, now that he looked, breathtaking work. Too far.

In the end he simply stood there drinking in the image created only for that hour.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

On your birthdays, may all three of you be treated with EXACTLY the same amount of grace, compassion, forbearance and humanity you have shown to others.

I sincerely hope so, not only on my birthday, but every day of my life. I don't need to wish you the same, though. I know you're treated by many with much more grace than what you have shown to others.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

I sincerely hope so, not only on my birthday, but every day of my life. I don't need to wish you the same, though. I know you're treated by many with much more grace than what you have shown to others.

*shakes head* What planet have you been on lately? I've wracked my brain and can't think of anything that would support what you've just said.

Bad enough that newbies are getting treated badly, but now we are doing the same to regular members?

 

[Lauren Hynde]

*shakes head* What planet have you been on lately? I've wracked my brain and can't think of anything that would support what you've just said.

Bad enough that newbies are getting treated badly, but now we are doing the same to regular members?

You wouldn't have to go much father than this thread, but please don't, Crim . You don't need to think of anything to support what I've said. I am sorry, but she knows I'm right about that one.

And do you truly think I treated any newbie badly? Go read my first post on that newbie thread. And while you're at it, read the newbie's first post and tell me this: do you usually arrive at a stranger's house and the first thing you do is insult him and their kind?

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

I didn't single anyone out in that comment on treating newbies badly. Some people are unable to present dissenting views without coming off as condescending know-it-alls while others can. And some can agree to disagree while others want to beat you over the head with their opinion because they are convinced they can't possibly be wrong.

When it dissolves into personal backbiting that has nothing to do with the issue at hand is when it gets disappointing. No, I don't know of instances that spurred you to say what you said. I haven't seen them. I don't have the intrack on what goes on around here.

I did read that post. I didn't see anything insulting in it. It is common knowledge that there are authors out there who vote down others' works. Sad, but true.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

When it dissolves into personal backbiting that has nothing to do with the issue at hand is when it gets disappointing.

Then you do understand.

 

[S-Des]

You wouldn't have to go much father than this thread, but please don't, Crim . You don't need to think of anything to support what I've said. I am sorry, but she knows I'm right about that one.

Yes, she had the gaul to be offended when you said that when people write the way she does, "It's only a step up from monkeys typing randomly." The bitch.

I'm not sure what drugs you're on that make you think you're the nice one and everyone else is mean, but sweety, I want some of them.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

You can misquote me all you want, it doesn't make her actions here and elsewhere any more graceful.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

If she's leaving because of me, by the way, tell her to stay. I'll go!

 

[S-Des]

You can misquote me all you want, it doesn't make her actions here and elsewhere any more graceful.

I'll be honest, I'm not a fan of the flame things. I wish everyone would drop the fighting around here and talk about writing again (or at least who they'd have sex with ).

BTW, I went to the original thread, then copied and pasted your quote (thereby making it impossible to misquote). It might not be how you intended it, but they were your words and they did hurt people's feelings. For someone obviously so educated and intelligent, I've noticed you often fling them around like they don't have consequences. That's your choice and I wouldn't deny you that right, but I am surprised that you don't see the negative potential of what you say (or you do see it and are doing it intentionally to be abrasive and hurtful...which would be sad).

 

[Lauren Hynde]

BTW, I went to the original thread, then copied and pasted your quote (thereby making it impossible to misquote).

Oh, if you take out the words that come before and the words that come after, it's misquoted. Case in point...

People, of course, get hurt by words all the time. Words are blades. And if they throw themselves at the sharpest words without seeing what they're there for, they're even more likely to get hurt. It's not necessarily the words' fault, though.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I say it's tomorrow. I need an excuse to get drubnk.

Since when?

 

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[Liar]

Perceptions and perspectives is all this is.

Everone is the victim and everyone is the villain, all at the same time. Perceptions and perspectives.

Would be an interresting object for a study in p2p communications and clashing parallell decorums, if I wasn't so damn busy living.

Bleh.

 

[McKenna]

I love the smell of drama.