The Topic of Great Randomness

[skybluice]

Originally posted by Birdhead:
Hmm. halloween? what's that?
Kidding. We do know what halloween is here. But it's really not a big deal for most people... I wasn't allowed to trick or treat even when I was young enough too. The sugar is bad for my teeth and (direct quote) "It's just another atupid imported cusdtom from America, which is taking over the world, die America!" (OK, so maybe not a _direct_ quote. But that was the sentiment. I love my mother, not.)

Halloween is from All Hollows Eve and it's from the UK not the US. There is also a Day Of The Dead in Mexico as well as a few other I can't remember. I will admit that the US has comercialized the day more (they tend to do that with a lot of Holidays) but you can't blame the event only on America.

Sorry just had to put my 2 cents in here somewhere. I am still a fan of an old fashion Halloween and the Halloween parties which tend to be safer then Trick-or-Treating is nowadays.

**Deja Moo**
Dia
Dai Stihó

[papercrane]

ACK! I get net-grounded for ONE day, and what do I find? That I need to reply to everything but am chronologically broke. I'm going to have a nervous breakdown one of these days. At any rate:
re Duff: Sam, I think she's only big in America.
re Halloween: Did it start over here? For some reason I thought it started in Europe...

"That's right," he said. "We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am."
-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
*Look kindly upon the decaffienated one*
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[Birdhead]

db: Bookcrossing stuff? Cool... *nees to check to see if any have been left in Wngtn recently*

Emilie: MY MOTHER'S WORDS! Not mine! See what I have to put up with! (See, Dave? It's not wonder I'm sometimes a little rude... look at the upbringing I'm struggling against...)

Agent M: No, we have whiteboards. And yellow school buses are amazing because, well, we don't have them in NZ, and they're in all the movies so they're a bit of a cliche, you know? So it's funny. It's like, "My god, they actually _have_ yellow school buses in Nth America!" Moulin Rouge Soundtrack... *dies* I love that soundtrack. I was singing the Elephant Love Medley on the trampoline just this afternoon, actually....

Sam: Homecoming's a good book...

Bc: I loved her first CD, and I like the new one, but not as much... it just didn't have as many songs that really got to me they was Isabel, No Angel, and Don't Slide (for examples) did... White Flag is GREAT, though.

*laughs at skybluice* Yes, I know all of that. I weas kidding. I don't balme it all on America... but it has definitely been commercialised by America. I'm not sure if they trick or Treat in the UK or not...
On the Day of the dead
when the year too dies
must the youngest open the oldest hills...
*SIGH* Good books, them.

*hugs papercrane* Oh, man, I SO know how you feel.
T

Tuibird in Aotearoa
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[Agent M]

Ooh! Homecomings a REALLY good book!!! So's the Theif Lord. Birdhead: The Elephant Love Medley is my favorite!

ACK!!! GOTTA GO!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!



*Agent~M*
"Those who refuse the Powers, become the tools of the Powers, Those who agree to help the powers, Themselves become the Powers. Beware the Choice! Beware refusing it!"-Young Wizards books.
"Do what the night tells you, and read the fine print before you sign!" -Peach.

[Civi]

WHAT!!!!!!!!!! HOW????????? When did this happen?? Good Grief! Great scott!!! has any thing else this drastic happened in my eternal(and saddly unfinished) absence???
What a magnificent promotion... I am stunned to speechlessness...

-IV-
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Dai Stihò

[papercrane]

*hugs Tui back* I vote we make each day 48 hours long.
Also, Tui: I don't think I've ever seen a non-yellow school bus. Hm. Must be an American thing.

"That's right," he said. "We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am."
-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
*Look kindly upon the decaffienated one*
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[db_pr]

What are you talking about Civi? Are you talking about TTOGR being it's own forum? Well, we were all surprised really.

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." -Bilbo Baggins (The Fellowship of the Ring: J.R.R. Tolkien)
"Not all who wander are lost"- J.R.R. Tolkien
"Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself." - (Yogi Berra)after being told he looked cool

[Sam]

Papercrane: The 87-whatever# busses were made in 1987 and they were green, or mabey that was the 75's but anyway we used to have one of them.

M & Tui: Yeah I like HOmecomming so far we have a test one the first 6 chapters tomarrow.

~Sam (Hifun55) and Dog~
"It's hard enough to be what you are, Harder to be what you're not; It's hard to know what you need to get, harder to know what you've got" -Hilary Duff, Metamorphisis, Workin' It Out

[brokencello]

Birdhead, you are kidding. I love Moulin Rouge! It's a great movie and the soundtrack is great, and I really want to see "Romeo and Juliet" by Baz Lurhman SP. Tui, Isabel was a really good song. And No Angel was pretty good...Don't Slide was excellent! What was that one about her being safe in her own skin? That was weird but good. To see a yellow school bus is an everyday thing...hmmm...Tui...can you the rest of the forum what you have and they don't? like, lush green unpolluted countryside that america doesn't have because you dirty americans trash it! (just kidding)...or something like that. Does anyone like Enya...I know it's weird but her music has a good message and "pretty 'tunes"

brokencello
the crinkled paper bag
"Life isn't like the movies, Toto."
--Alfredo, Cinema Paradiso

[Aurora]

What's wrong with going to school in a yellow bus? Canada rocks, dudette.

because I feel random and need to get some emotion out, I'm going to randomly write.

Stuck.
No where to go.
No one to go to.
Where are you?
You're not there.
I'm sure you're busy.
But you promised.
You'd look out for me.
and be there when I needed you.
No
Wait
you told me to call.
but I never will
and you know it.
I'm a nothing
in the world
a pale shadow of the girl I used to be
What am I doing?
Spilling words on paper?
No one listens.
No one's there.

hmm... sorry... i do that sometime, make very little sense... Well, it makes perfect sense if you're me. but you're not. *sigh*

Kitsune Rei~In love and hating it~

[papercrane]

Sam: Wow. Did you know that the odds of me remembering that five minutes from now are one in 1.4 to 1.5 million?
Aurora: That's...eerie...that's sort of like something I wrote recently. Oh well.

"That's right," he said. "We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am."
-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
*Look kindly upon the decaffienated one*
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[Birdhead]

Papercrane: we so should do that.
As to yellow school buses: uh, yes, they are... see, in NZ actual school buses aren't really a big deal, and when they are (again, rarely) they're charter buses from Stagecoach so they're just the same as our ordinary ones... *shrugs* There are usually six or so school buses in the afternoon, but nobody really gets a school bus in the mornings... plus most people just get ordinary buses home. *shrugs* The only yellow bus I've ever seen is the city Circulars, and they ain't school.

bc: I think it's Luhrman, but I can't remember. Which is actually a real problem since I studied Strictly Ballroom last year... sometimes I like Enya, but I don't know her stuff very well. Uhm.... well, if I was to say what I have and you don't and vice versa, I'd start with candy, move rapidly through diapers, various foods, Mt Ruapehu, Yellowstone, hokey pokey, WELLINGTON, me, tomato sauce, the All Blacks, Parliament, Helen Clark, nuclear power and weapons, Lord of the Rings, Gollum, The Beehive, The White House... *pants* It's impossible.

Kit: Of course Canada rocks. It's a very cool country, except that my Chemistry teacher is from there and she's kinda a bad teacher..... <hums> Blame Canada! Blame Canada!</hums> no, I like Canada. Plus you have the coolest flag.

T

Tuibird in Aotearoa
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[db_pr]

Well, in the USA and New Zealand you got a bus that takes you from home to school sand from school to home right? Well in Puerto Rico we got yellow buses but you got to pay someone to come and take you. Like differents agencies who you pay to come to your home and your school. Is it like that in there?

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." -Bilbo Baggins (The Fellowship of the Ring: J.R.R. Tolkien)
"Not all who wander are lost"- J.R.R. Tolkien
"Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself." - (Yogi Berra)after being told he looked cool

[Civi]

Yes I was talking about this topic being promoted to a forum.
I agree, Canada is pretty cool. My family visited it and the Niagara Falls on vacation just last week. Pretty crazy that the first man to survive going over the falls unassisted went over right after we visited. Strange, no? The Niagara falls was one of those places I very much wanted to see before I died. I'm glad I got to see them so soon. It was worth every minute.

Pretty interesting Aurora.


-IV-
Ipha
Dai Stihò

[Selden]

db,

In the U.S. most school busses are free and each school district has their own. Well, they're free to ride. They're paid for by "school taxes". Most places people who own property (land and houses) have to pay taxes to support the local public school system depending on how much their property is worth.

I don't know what they do in NZ.

Selden