"Start spreading the news (dumdum-dee-dum dum) I'm leaving today (Dum dum-dee-dum-dum)..."

[Agent M]

[Sam]

Lissa, I have many of "fat" friends, they admit it. But most of them are the nicest people I know. Tommy is always there with his accent and goofy smile, arms spread wide, to hug you when you're sad. Kris calls herself fat all the time and she is an awesome person, so are you!!! OK, so you've never had a boyfriend, if they can't see you for who you are they need to be knocked out a couple of times. I've never had a boyfriend either.

Aurora, I have! I don't judge by looks, I'd never like a guy just because he was cute. I'd have to know a nice side of him first, which I did. But as we becamse friends I saw the REAL him, and it wasn't pretty. You eventually see them from the inside out. You know what I mean??

~Sam (Hifun55) and Dog~
CRAZY, WEIRD, AND PROUD!
Why are you trying so hard to fit in, when you were born to stand out?
Freedom is an illusion, it always comes at a price!

[Lee Enfield-Burke]

Originally posted by Devin Caster:
OK I was wrong on the language issue but I think that we should change our curancy so we don't get mixed up...

Um, Devin...about your former avatar...

You didn't happen to check the Forum avatar rules at http://www.youngwizards.net/YoungWiz...atarGuide.html before you posted it, did you? The link appears on the scrolling "news" ticker on the Forums' front page.

Our Forum avatar size limit is 68x68 pixels. The one you were using was 1024x768: "wallpaper" size. Additionally, because of bandwidth issues, we can no longer allow our users to link to outside websites for their avatars: these have to be hosted on our own web server. All of this is clearly set out on the rules page.

The avatar you were using not only completely screwed up the appearance of any page on which it appeared, but every time it showed, it made that page's bandwidth-cost about ten times what it normally would have been. And since it's DD and not her publisher who foots the bill for the forms, she's the one who gets to pay the overage at the end of the month. Please take note.

I've resized your avatar and installed the smaller version of it on our site.

Please don't do this again.

Lee / Forum Administrator

[Zgirl]

Yeah I agree with M, wow DD and Lee did a good thing with this forum!

The monkey made me do it!
~Z~

[Tanis]

I'm so so so so sry *bangs head on wall a couple dozen times* I was expementing with new adveatars that I was so surpised it worked I left it one. sry sry sry

*Many have gone and many have stayed but one thing stays the same: Love and Hate they never go away but they can be beaten- Devin
*Many have come to this place and most have left it but let not their life be a mystery- Devin
*Many have come and gone so we need to leave a ripple before this planet is washed away- Devin
*Many have come and gone but few are here to stay-Devin
*Life is a book, all thats good is when one is in suspense-Devin

[Aurora]

hey, I don't judge people by looks either.

I think they're cute, and then I talk to them. I don't randomly like people. Its more that they're cute, and I'd like to know them better, then I talk to them. I don't immeadiately like them. In fact, A-kun, when I met him, I didn't think twice of him. His looks were... and still are... at best... "eh." Brown hair, grey-green eyes, loose pants and a loose shirt. Glasses. he's not a person that strikes you as cute or anything. But the more you get to know him- the closer he lets you get, you start realizing what a... kindly evil person he is. ^^ Yeah, kindly evil. He is evil, but in a kind way. yeah. He was my friend. ^^ he's still a friend...

Kitsune Rei ~kisses taste nice~

[Sam]

Sorry, I didn't mean it like that! I was just stating that. That is how the guy I liked last year was... but then he started being mean and we becamse just firneds now he's nice again. *head spins* Life is confusing sometimes!

~Sam (Hifun55) and Dog~
CRAZY, WEIRD, AND PROUD!
Why are you trying so hard to fit in, when you were born to stand out?
Freedom is an illusion, it always comes at a price!

[Aurora]

Guys are confusing. So are girls. Everyone's confusing.

There was a guy I hung out with last year... He started avoiding me a lot this year, and finally I went up to him and saked why he was avoiding me. And this is our conversation as I best remember it.

Him: Well... You're different.
Me: And... How am I different? *dangerous undertone*
Him: You're just... Different. You're not somebody people want to associate with.

Then he walked off. And then afterwards, I said something along the lines of "What a waste if time" as well as "What a -bleep!-"

But THAT GUY, my friend... is the best example you're going to get of someone who tries too hard to be popular. He's got no friends, because everyone figured out... he's just a faker. He's... *shrug* He acts like he's a cut above the rest, but he isn't... tries too hard to be someone he's not.

Kitsune Rei ~kisses taste nice~

[Birdhead]

Eh. I guess people are like that: it's really hard to get away from the group, a fact which I'm re-learning this trip and finding applies even to the smartest of people (not me. various poeple on the trip.)

Anyway, today I saw/ skimmed some of the Smithsonians- Air&Space (*bounce bounce bounce* shuttle coolness!) and American History (Strads! Strads Strads Strads! STRADIVARIUS VIOLINS AND VIOLAS!!) (Actually,. that was yesterday or the day before but I didn't mention it so...) They were very cool. But I don't think they're a patch on the NY Metropolitan Museum of Art for sheer breathtaking OH MY factor. Monets! Actual, real, live, Monets and Degas' and Saurets (Sauret (sp?) has just become one of my new favourite painters. ) and Raphaels and Van Goghs and..... [insert awe here] yeah. Kind of... amazing.

I hope no-one minds a breif museum babble here. See, it's like this: I love my country very much, and I visit our galleries and museums reasonably frequently (though not as much as I used to.) However, I have to admit that while we're possibly the best place in the world for New Zealand art and natural history, apart from that we fall rather short. You won't find Monets in our galleries or Rodin, we haven't got any dioramas and very few dinosaur skeletons in our museums, and you may as well forget about seeing any work you're likely to study in Art History or Classical Studies. I take neither of those subjects, but I read, and Latin's not far off Classics. It's been a kind of epiphany for me, I suppose, because.... MONET. ACTUAL MONET. I've seen photos, I know about how he painted and that you have to go to the other side of the room to see the paintings properly, I know where the bridge he's famously painted was and a little bit about his life. But I had never seen one of his paintings and had never thought to. That's just the reality of life in NZ, and I guess in most parts of the world, even of America. So seeing them was like... I don't know, something amazing. >.< I haven't seen half of it either... i want to go back already.

Okay. End of babble. I'm going home tomorrow....

Really mixed feelings about that.

"We are philosophical geniuses [sic] who will one day rule the world!"
--Agent M
Ahahahaha, Ahahahaha, Ahahahaha!
Still the Typo Queen

[papercrane]

Yay for Tui! Am so glad you're enjoying yourself. *hugs* I'm sure you'll get to see loads more famous paintings and statues and the like.

The important thing about adventures, thought Mr Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes.
-- (Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents)

[Agent M]

[Wilf]

I was planning on **** summer camp work in the USA, but because the dollar's, it's finanically viable which I'm annoyed about...
Btw, I think we should set up a fund to allow cultrally deprived members to go and see decent art in the flesh,as it were. Or should I say 'in the canvas'?)

"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hadrin, in Isaac Asimov's Foundation

[FireWitch]

Tui-You sound just like I did when I got back from Britain and France. I was going crazy because I saw the Mona Lisa. I'm glad that you enjoyed the museums. Keep having fun!

BTW: Have any of you read The DaVinci Code. *braces to be pelted with angry messages*

[Agent M]

Angry messages?! That was an AWESOME book!!!!!!! Though I can understand if some ppl have issues with it.... I was talking about it to my grandparents..... Bad idea. They don't think kids should be reading books like that, I don't think they even want kids to "speak without being spoken to" a lot of the time........ It's always the men talking about politics and the women gossiping about stupid stuff. God, when I'm an adult I'm not going to visit them or else I'll purposfully talk to the men even though I'm not exactly interested in politics... *shrug*

[FireWitch]

Oh good...no one killed me...

I told some of my friends about the book. It is a BAD IDEA to walk into a school of mostly fundamentalist Christians and talk about DaVinci code. VERY BAD IDEA.

M, I'm surprised that you read it. You're awfully young. (I thought I read that you were only 13 or something) You must be a very good reader. More power to you!

I read DaVinci code while I was actually in Paris. Wonderful experience. I spent lots of time trying to find all of the places in the Lourve. As soon as I got back to the States, I looked up a photo of The Last Supper, and what do you know? Everything was there. My dad looked at a pict of DaVinci and the Mona Lisa next to eachother. They look like the same person. Ain't it amazing?