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Lonely and Confused in Maine: Madame TMFKA, will I ever find my soulmate?
The Madame: No.
Next question!
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Do you feel comfortable with yourself, if so why? Or do you feel uneasy with yourself, if so why?
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Madame TMFKA, I would like a small group of close friends.
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sophist! :hug:
hi, darlin', how're you? :-*
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Who are you?
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What if a duck?
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What if not?
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Do you feel comfortable with yourself, if so why? Or do you feel uneasy with yourself, if so why?
Hmmm... I think I am constantly in transition of feeling self-comfortable. I feel like I am changing (not sure if that's "maturing" or not; I'll leave it unlabeled). I suppose I'm in a metamorphosis of reinventing parts of myself; but also reawakening aspects of myself from younger days which I had lost for a time. I don't know whether I am comfortable, but I am striving for comfort. I don't know: is feeling fully self-comfortable actually attainable? I sort of doubt it; I think I will inevitably always have doubts, fears, be uneasy, and be an ever-changing person. Perhaps that is what it is supposed to be like and if one thinks they feel self-comfortable, they are deluding themselves. :LOL:
Madame TMFKA, I would like a small group of close friends.
Excellent goal. But was that a question?
sophist! :hug:
hi, darlin', how're you? :-*
Hiddee. :laugh: I'm doing very well at the moment.
--Am I allowed to ask questions back of the Askers? If so, How are you?
Who are you?
Depends on what you want to know. Normally, on most fora, I've been known as "Sophist"-- not "Soph" though, totally different person. Was on WP, then Neurolands, now Gestalt. F/almost 27/St. Louis/AS... Really into Neuroscience and Medicine... um...
Or were you wanting a CV? :eyebrows:
What if a duck?
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What if not?
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Are you still in touch with Prometheus? I dunno if you remember me - I was Tom with the Da Vinci diagram avatar.
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Madame TMFKA, I would like a small group of close friends.
Excellent goal. But was that a question?
Oh, I thought it was ask for something and you'd get it! damn.... misunderstood again.
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sophist! :hug:
hi, darlin', how're you? :-*
Hiddee. :laugh: I'm doing very well at the moment.
--Am I allowed to ask questions back of the Askers? If so, How are you?
me's about the same as usual, you know, F.I.N.E. ;)
fucked up, insecure, neurotic and eczematic. ::)
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Are you still in touch with Prometheus? I dunno if you remember me - I was Tom with the Da Vinci diagram avatar.
Ah! Hello! :green:
No, I haven't spoken to Prometheus for some time.
Oh, I thought it was ask for something and you'd get it! damn.... misunderstood again.
Ah, sorry. Maybe if I close my eyes tight enough and think hard enough, you will get a small group of close friends...
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Did it work?
sophist! :hug:
hi, darlin', how're you? :-*
Hiddee. :laugh: I'm doing very well at the moment.
--Am I allowed to ask questions back of the Askers? If so, How are you?
me's about the same as usual, you know, F.I.N.E. ;)
fucked up, insecure, neurotic and eczematic. ::)
LOL. Well then I am F.I.N.E. too (flippant, insane-- but in a good way--, narcissistic, and erotic) ;)
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Die Sophist.
I speak kraut too.
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Madame TMFKA, I would like a small group of close friends.
Excellent goal. But was that a question?
Oh, I thought it was ask for something and you'd get it! damn.... misunderstood again.
Hmmm, you read it the same as I did. It was only this particular sub-forum's precedent that saved me from "asking for" ... stuff.
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Madame TMFKA, I would like a small group of close friends.
Excellent goal. But was that a question?
Oh, I thought it was ask for something and you'd get it! damn.... misunderstood again.
Hmmm, you read it the same as I did. It was only this particular sub-forum's precedent that saved me from "asking for" ... stuff.
Ah too true, yes I can see my title was misleading.
So solly. :truce:
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sophist! :hug:
hi, darlin', how're you? :-*
Hiddee. :laugh: I'm doing very well at the moment.
--Am I allowed to ask questions back of the Askers? If so, How are you?
me's about the same as usual, you know, F.I.N.E. ;)
fucked up, insecure, neurotic and eczematic. ::)
LOL. Well then I am F.I.N.E. too (flippant, insane-- but in a good way--, narcissistic, and erotic) ;)
sounds good to me. :-*
completely fucked up the quotes, but i think i've remedied it.
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Oh, I thought it was ask for something and you'd get it! damn.... misunderstood again.
Ah, sorry. Maybe if I close my eyes tight enough and think hard enough, you will get a small group of close friends...
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Did it work?
Apparently the group is so small, I can't see them.... But they are a close bunch because I hear them talking. ;D
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ok, with that all cleared up, I will ask a question...
Can you tell when a guy is hitting on you?
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Apparently the group is so small, I can't see them.... But they are a close bunch because I hear them talking. ;D
Yay! It worked. :zoinks:
ok, with that all cleared up, I will ask a question...
Can you tell when a guy is hitting on you?
Hmmm... well, that depends. If I am looking for it (i.e., I'm in flirting mode), then yes, usually I can.
If I am not in flirting mode and my brain is somewhere else COMPLETELY, then I usually miss it, sometimes to the point that I don't get it until the person makes a very OBVIOUS move, like kissing me, lol. In which case, said "move" is usually unwelcome because if I'm interested in a person I'm usually ALWAYS in flirting mode. :eyebrows:
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Apparently the group is so small, I can't see them.... But they are a close bunch because I hear them talking. ;D
Yay! It worked. :zoinks:
ok, with that all cleared up, I will ask a question...
Can you tell when a guy is hitting on you?
Hmmm... well, that depends. If I am looking for it (i.e., I'm in flirting mode), then yes, usually I can.
If I am not in flirting mode and my brain is somewhere else COMPLETELY, then I usually miss it, sometimes to the point that I don't get it until the person makes a very OBVIOUS move, like kissing me, lol. In which case, said "move" is usually unwelcome because if I'm interested in a person I'm usually ALWAYS in flirting mode. :eyebrows:
OH GOD NO, DON'T TELL ME THERE HAS TO BE FOREPLAY BEFORE FOREPLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Apparently the group is so small, I can't see them.... But they are a close bunch because I hear them talking. ;D
Yay! It worked. :zoinks:
ok, with that all cleared up, I will ask a question...
Can you tell when a guy is hitting on you?
Hmmm... well, that depends. If I am looking for it (i.e., I'm in flirting mode), then yes, usually I can.
If I am not in flirting mode and my brain is somewhere else COMPLETELY, then I usually miss it, sometimes to the point that I don't get it until the person makes a very OBVIOUS move, like kissing me, lol. In which case, said "move" is usually unwelcome because if I'm interested in a person I'm usually ALWAYS in flirting mode. :eyebrows:
OH GOD NO, DON'T TELL ME THERE HAS TO BE FOREPLAY BEFORE FOREPLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That wasn't a question, but I'll answer it anyways:
Yes, there needs to be fore-foreplay. :laugh:
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OH GOD NO, DON'T TELL ME THERE HAS TO BE FOREPLAY BEFORE FOREPLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That wasn't a question, but I'll answer it anyways:
Yes, there needs to be fore-foreplay. :laugh:
Well, at least now I know, maybe that was one of my original problems..... Let the pre-flirting begin! (I guess that's why they call it "courtship". You need a "ship" because its a journey, and also like "court", one false move and you'll be found "In-contempt") !
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OH GOD NO, DON'T TELL ME THERE HAS TO BE FOREPLAY BEFORE FOREPLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That wasn't a question, but I'll answer it anyways:
Yes, there needs to be fore-foreplay. :laugh:
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Well, at least now I know, maybe that was one of my original problems..... Let the pre-flirting begin! (I guess that's why they call it "courtship". You need a "ship" because its a journey, and also like "court", one false move and you'll be found "In-contempt") !
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Stop thinking in terms of fore- and aft- play.
A constant, play must be.
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OH GOD NO, DON'T TELL ME THERE HAS TO BE FOREPLAY BEFORE FOREPLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That wasn't a question, but I'll answer it anyways:
Yes, there needs to be fore-foreplay. :laugh:
Well, at least now I know, maybe that was one of my original problems..... Let the pre-flirting begin! (I guess that's why they call it "courtship". You need a "ship" because its a journey, and also like "court", one false move and you'll be found "In-contempt") !
Stop thinking in terms of fore- and aft- play.
A constant play must be.
A "play"? Sounds more like a major production...
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms;
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." — Jaques (Act II, Scene VII, lines 139-166)
To sum it up, "'Life sucks, and then you die...." and.... curtain.
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Good point, it's a constant play.
--Unless of course either person's just not in the mood, and then it's just annoying as hell.
I.e., if she's PMSing, it's probably a good time to call a timeout to the "play". :thumbup:
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do yuo have any favourite psychology books you can recomend? I know you like Oliver Sacks. What do you think of N L P?
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do yuo have any favourite psychology books you can recomend? I know you like Oliver Sacks. What do you think of N L P?
Strict "psychology" books, hmm... not so much. I have tended to lean towards reading Neurology and Medicine if anything. I don't think I'm familiar with NLP; what/who is that?
Here's a short list of books I've really enjoyed (not in any particular order):
-Why We Get Sick by Randolph Nesse and George Williams
-Postcards from the Brain Museum by Brian Burrell
-A Body of Work by Christine Montross
-Phantoms in the Brain by VS Ramachandran
-Mutants by Armand Marie Leroi
-The Knife Man by Wendy Moore
-The Lobotomist by Jack El-Hai
-Descartes' Error by Antonio Damasio
-Oliver Sacks' case studies books
And I also have Plague Time by Paul Ewald and Synpatic Self by Joseph LeDoux still sitting on my shelf which I haven't gotten to yet. My personal uber-favorites from the above list are A Body of Work, Postcards from the Brain Museum, and The Knife Man.
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Can you give as a brief synopsis for those books? Some of those titles look very interesting.
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Can you give as a brief synopsis for those books? Some of those titles look very interesting.
Sure. :)
Why We Get Sick: It takes a look at current medicine and treatments through a Darwinian or Evolutionary perspective. It cautions that doctors should not always be so quick to treat what they assume to be an "illness" because oftentimes evolution has evolved it as part of the overall adaptive system. The authors also strongly believe that doctors should get more training in Darwinian Medical Theory and it should become a part of every day treatment approaches, as opposed to the just "patient comes in and we fix it" methods.
Postcards from the Brain Museum: This is a hodgepodge about the history of Neurology from Descartes onwards. It's a fascinating book and so difficult to sum up because it's such an interesting collecting of historical tidbits.
A Body of Work: This book is beautifully written. It is by and about Christine Montross and her time in medical school. She went through an MFA program in poetry and after finishing that, decided she wanted to become a doctor. It's a lovely narrative, particularly focusing on the Gross Anatomy course all med students take first semester and coming to terms with life, death, and basically defiling (for knowledge) what used to be a living human being.
Phantoms in the Brain: This book is another hodgepodge, chapter by chapter. Very interesting. It's title is based on the sections of the book that explore Phantom Limbs.
Mutants: Excellent book, the author uses physical mutations to illustrate embryogenesis and how amazing it is we come out of the womb alive at all!
The Knife Man: A biography about the life and mainly the work of John (Jack) Hunter, the Father of Surgery. He was a brilliant anatomist and was even one of the few men who thought of a concept similar to Evolution about a century before Darwin.
The Lobotomist: A biography of Walter Freeman, who was not the inventor of the lobotomy, but was the man to popularize it and bring it to America. It isn't the most well-written of books (a bit boring at times), but for the information itself I find it fascinating.
Descartes' Error: The first half of the book deals with Phineas Gage. I personally find this the best part of the book. The remainder of the book is different, chapter by chapter, and focuses on different aspects of neural systems.
And of course Oliver Sacks' case studies books are always brilliant and entertaining, particularly The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars. I haven't read his book, Musicophillia yet.
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Thanks Sophist :green:
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The only one of those books I've heard of is one already on my to-buy list - Phantoms. (Apart from Sacks of course.) I'd like to get into Carl Rogers too. Thanks Sophist.
NLP is neuro linguistic programming, a type of therapy based on hypnosis.
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Thanks Sophist :green:
You're welcome. :thumbup:
The only one of those books I've heard of is one already on my to-buy list - Phantoms. (Apart from Sacks of course.) I'd like to get into Carl Rogers too. Thanks Sophist.
Rogers is interesting, although I don't know a whole lot about him other than through classes and through my mother (who is a more classically trained psychologist). Though I do appreciate that his therapeutic methods have certainly affected psychotherapy in many ways for the better.
NLP is neuro linguistic programming, a type of therapy based on hypnosis.
I know this is my question thread, but would you mind describing it a bit? :LOL:
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It's all about changing your own feelings and thoughts, behaviors... creating a signal to make yourself feel good by remembering a time you were happy, breaking negative , limiting though patterns, etc. It's become a bit for a craze in recent years - the psychology section in my local borders has a whole shelf for it. They use the creating rapport techniques for salesmen and men who are out to pick up women. Theres a famous self help guru/hypnotherapist called Anthony Robbins who writes a lot of books on it - he was in the film Shallow Hall as himself.
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Hmm, interesting. :thumbup:
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Are you an early riser?
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Hmm, since I'm not male, I will take that to mean "Do I wake up early?" ;)
Um, if I can help it, no. But I also am not a late-riser either. Most typically (unless I end up staying up really late for some reason), I tend to go to sleep between 10pm-12pm and then wake up (aside from the aid of an alarm clock) between 8am and 9:30am.
I don't like waking up too early because that just feels too industrious :LOL: but then I hate waking up too late because I feel like I've wasted too much of the day away.
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Hmm, since I'm not male, I will take that to mean "Do I wake up early?" ;)
Um, if I can help it, no. But I also am not a late-riser either. Most typically (unless I end up staying up really late for some reason), I tend to go to sleep between 10pm-12pm and then wake up (aside from the aid of an alarm clock) between 8am and 9:30am.
I don't like waking up too early because that just feels too industrious :LOL: but then I hate waking up too late because I feel like I've wasted too much of the day away.
I like that, its a very down-to-earth answer!
I used to pride myself on always getting up early, but now I realize there are benefits to being able to sleep in sometimes too. Although like you, if I sleep too long, I feel like I've wasted a good part of the day.
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Hmm, since I'm not male, I will take that to mean "Do I wake up early?" ;)
Um, if I can help it, no. But I also am not a late-riser either. Most typically (unless I end up staying up really late for some reason), I tend to go to sleep between 10pm-12pm and then wake up (aside from the aid of an alarm clock) between 8am and 9:30am.
I don't like waking up too early because that just feels too industrious :LOL: but then I hate waking up too late because I feel like I've wasted too much of the day away.
I like that, its a very down-to-earth answer!
I used to pride myself on always getting up early, but now I realize there are benefits to being able to sleep in sometimes too. Although like you, if I sleep too long, I feel like I've wasted a good part of the day.
To me, what it means to wake up "early" means that I get less sleep and not usually that I've just gone to bed earlier. And if I don't get enough sleep, it definitely turns my entire day to shite.
On a related note, graduate school will be oh so interesting... ::)
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To me, what it means to wake up "early" means that I get less sleep and not usually that I've just gone to bed earlier. And if I don't get enough sleep, it definitely turns my entire day to shite.
On a related note, graduate school will be oh so interesting... ::)
Why, what time will your earliest class be?
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Sophist,
I want to tell you that I always meant to get back in touch with you. I joined your Gestalt forum but kept forgetting to post on it. I am glad to see you here.
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Sophist,
I want to tell you that I always meant to get back in touch with you. I joined your Gestalt forum but kept forgetting to post on it. I am glad to see you here.
Peaguy did NOT say that. :finger:
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No, peaGAY did.
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To me, what it means to wake up "early" means that I get less sleep and not usually that I've just gone to bed earlier. And if I don't get enough sleep, it definitely turns my entire day to shite.
On a related note, graduate school will be oh so interesting... ::)
Why, what time will your earliest class be?
No idea. But I'm sure I will spend most of my time "living" at the medschool... Aside from Gross Anatomy, the classes will be the easy part. It's the work outside of the classes (labs, etc.) that'll be grueling. 40 hour weeks + I'm sure... But not the 9-5 kind of 40-hour weeks...
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Sophist,
I want to tell you that I always meant to get back in touch with you. I joined your Gestalt forum but kept forgetting to post on it. I am glad to see you here.
No worries. :)
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Hmm, thought you would have said, "No wollies."
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Hmm, thought you would have said, "No wollies."
Those too. 8)
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Hmm, thought you would have said, "No wollies."
Those too. 8)
Those either?
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Hmm, thought you would have said, "No wollies."
Those too. 8)
Those either?
:hide:
Those neither?
Bah, let's call the whole thing off...
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Hmm, thought you would have said, "No wollies."
Those too. 8)
Those either?
:hide:
Those neither?
Bah, let's call the whole thing off...
OK!
You like potato and I like potahto
*stumbles over feet, nose bleeds*
(small drama: Oops!!~ fucking Ooops!)
Hey, I was right there with ya, for a second. *sniffs, chokes, smiles*
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Fealing the potatoes, too? :P
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Fealing the potatoes, too? :P
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Fealing the potatoes, too? :P
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What about the tomatoes?
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Sophist, there is a book I think you might like. It is called "from the edge of the couch" by Raj Persuard. It is a collection of some of the most lurid and bizzare psychiactric cases of all time. The writer is a TV celebrity here like Dr Phil is in the USA, and has just been disgraced for palagarism. Its a cool book though, and I might copy some of the strangest pages to this forum.
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Fealing the potatoes, too? :P
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What about the tomatoes?
You'd have to ask randy. He's the resident Mr Potato Head.
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Fealing the potatoes, too? :P
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What about the tomatoes?
Let my nose heal, first.
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Sophist, there is a book I think you might like. It is called "from the edge of the couch" by Raj Persuard. It is a collection of some of the most lurid and bizzare psychiactric cases of all time. The writer is a TV celebrity here like Dr Phil is in the USA, and has just been disgraced for palagarism. Its a cool book though, and I might copy some of the strangest pages to this forum.
Sounds interesting. I'll look that up. :) Thanks.
Fealing the potatoes, too? :P
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What about the tomatoes?
You'd have to ask randy. He's the resident Mr Potato Head.
Ah, but a potato, with very few exceptions, is not a tomato. **nods**
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Sophist, there is a book I think you might like. It is called "from the edge of the couch" by Raj Persuard. It is a collection of some of the most lurid and bizzare psychiactric cases of all time. The writer is a TV celebrity here like Dr Phil is in the USA, and has just been disgraced for palagarism. Its a cool book though, and I might copy some of the strangest pages to this forum.
Sounds interesting. I'll look that up. :) Thanks.
Fealing the potatoes, too? :P
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What about the tomatoes?
You'd have to ask randy. He's the resident Mr Potato Head.
Ah, but a potato, with very few exceptions, is not a tomato. **nods**
The classic "fealing the potatoes" phrase is his, though, so I assumed he'd be responsible for the tomatoes as well.
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Sophist, there is a book I think you might like. It is called "from the edge of the couch" by Raj Persuard. It is a collection of some of the most lurid and bizzare psychiactric cases of all time. The writer is a TV celebrity here like Dr Phil is in the USA, and has just been disgraced for palagarism. Its a cool book though, and I might copy some of the strangest pages to this forum.
Sounds interesting. I'll look that up. :) Thanks.
Fealing the potatoes, too? :P
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What about the tomatoes?
You'd have to ask randy. He's the resident Mr Potato Head.
Ah, but a potato, with very few exceptions, is not a tomato. **nods**
The classic "fealing the potatoes" phrase is his, though, so I assumed he'd be responsible for the tomatoes as well.
No no no, tomatoes are another subject entirely. Now, if you had sad sweet potatoes-- or maybe even onions, then perhaps...
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Fealing the onions?! :P
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Fealing the onions?! :P
Or the garlic...
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Sad sweet potatoes?
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:laugh:
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No, they're pretty saucy sweet potatoes.
Saucy wenches, ay...
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When all your dreams come true, what then will you dream of?
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My spam=Please, give this some thought. (http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,10019.msg429814.html#msg429814)
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Where did you go, Sophist?
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Where did you go, Sophist?
I'm right here. What are you on about? :P
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At the time you were anywhere but here.
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But that's the past, let's not dwell on it but live instead in the present.
:meditate:
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What is your cup size?
Are your areola large or small?
Are your areola pink or dark?
How do you shave your muff? (clean shaven, landing strip, triangle, heart, etc)