Confessional Shed - I'll keep a look-out

[fjafjan]

I'm magical, duh.

Oh fine, fine.

HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO MEEEEE

I MADE MY MISSTAAAAAAKES

GOT NOWHERE TO RUUUUUUUN

"Do me a favore ... "

[Grincement]

I'm overly suspicious of single magpies and so have to counteract the bad luck of seeing one by bowing, wishing it a good morning/afternoon/evening/night and then spitting....sad fact is at the moment, they haven't started nesting so there are LOTS of single magpies around

That is an absolutely wonderful superstition. I might just have to adopt it.

Nooo don't do it to yourself!! It kills me! I do like how two magpies are for joy, but I always seem to see two magpies and then not long after I see one, then I'm not sure whether the joy will become sorrow.

By the way, this superstition arose from this poem/song:

One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl, [as in someone you know who is pregnant will have a girl]
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret never to be told,
Eight's a wish,
Nine's a kiss,
Ten's a letter,
Eleven's something better!

[dragonfrog]

By the way, this superstition arose from this poem/song:

One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl, [as in someone you know who is pregnant will have a girl]
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret never to be told,
Eight's a wish,
Nine's a kiss,
Ten's a letter,
Eleven's something better!

Well that's sealed it - my Granny used to say that one.

There's an awful lot of magpies where I live, too. I'm more fond of crows though. And further to the West, in the mountains, ravens. I'm not sure if the North American ravens are the same species as the European ones, but the ones here are frickin huge! They amaze me whenever I see them.

[Grincement]

North American ravens are the same species as the European ones, but the ones here are frickin huge! They amaze me whenever I see them.

The ones that nest near us are GIGANTIC but I find them so beautiful in a weird kind of way

[Twasbrillig]

North American ravens are the same species as the European ones, but the ones here are frickin huge! They amaze me whenever I see them.

New Zealand is the only country in the world that doesn't have a species of crow or raven.

[Lani]

Another confession:
I cannot roll my tongue. I can, however, make noises like a guinea pig.

[Twasbrillig]

Another confession:
I cannot roll my tongue. I can, however, make noises like a guinea pig.

Who can't?

*ahem*...


Look a distraction!

*hides away in his post-spamming hole... I'll get you squeek*

[Grincement]

Another confession:
I cannot roll my tongue. I can, however, make noises like a guinea pig.

The british GCSE biology syllabus has a section abou tongue rolling, did you know that it is a recessive allele!

Confession: Once i ate an entire loaf of bread within 2hours, i was held back by the speed of my toaster!

[Twasbrillig]

Confession: This is a postcount post.

[Grincement]

Confession: Twasbrillig smells!

(yea, it's getting personal now!)

[Twasbrillig]

Confession: squeek is a big meany doo-doo head!

[edit]Confession: your mother.

[no-genius]

Confession: I post here too much

[Twasbrillig]

Confession: I post more.

[no-genius]

Confession: I don't like you

[LE4dGOLEM]

One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl, [as in someone you know who is pregnant will have a girl]
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret never to be told,
Eight's a wish,
Nine's a kiss,
Ten's a letter,
Eleven's something better!

I always heard

One for sorrow
Two for Mirth
Three for a Funeral
Four for a Birth

Although according to (I think) Pratchett, that's "not the one the magpies know"

[Grincement]

Confession: my fingers have gone cold from typing so much

[Twasbrillig]

Confession: my fingers have gone cold from typing so much

Confession: Me too.

[dragonfrog]

Once i ate an entire loaf of bread within 2hours, i was held back by the speed of my toaster!

A new metric!

The speed of toast = 0.5 loaves/hr

[ivnja]

Also, anyone that plays French Horn, that is one sexy instrument that is consistently played by sexy people. Ow-ow!

I play french horn!

Confession: Although I do play the incredibly sexy french horn, my real musical love is the harmonica, and I've even taken the time to get good at it. I get a lot of flak about that

Confession: Since hearing Guster's "Barrel of a Gun" performed by Cayuga's Waiters, one of my university's a capella groups, three days ago, I have listened to the song upwards of 90 times, about half of those the Guster version and half the Waiters version

Confession: I also decided that I'm going to audition for the Waiters this week, even though I've never been in any sort of singing group before and these guys are good. Wish me luck

Confession: I went outside at midnight last night with some friends and repeatedly threw myself headfirst down a hill (sans sled), then helped make a snowman, and it was the most fun I've had at school so far.

Confession: I have been called "socially retarded." More than once.

[The Sleeping Tyrant]

I have a minesweeper addiction.

Confession: I have been called "socially retarded." More than once.

As have I. Is it sad that I kind of revel in that fact?

[Verysillyman]

Confession: I'm one of the cool people. I'm not like you guys.

[Rat]

Confession: I'm one of the cool people. I'm not like you guys.

eskimo?

confession: aauuuggghhhuuuuuhhhhuuuuuuuauaammmmmmhhhuuuuuuuhhhhh.... i like muse T_T.. and modest mouse T_T... man im so queer...

*beats the shit out of self*

[Verysillyman]

I loves Modest Mouse!

[hermaj]

Awww, ivnja, I would hug you and tell you that you are not socially retarded. I would hug you too, Sleeping Tyrant, but it seems to make you happy.

Hmmm. Another confession? I nearly had a panic attack at work because I thought my co-worker called my ex-boyfriend over the pager. I do not know why I get panic attacks in relation to K, but it's extremely annoying/draining. I also am too afraid to tell my mother it might be a problem because I think she will just tell me to stop being so silly.

[Toeofdoom]

Another confession:
I cannot roll my tongue. I can, however, make noises like a guinea pig.

The british GCSE biology syllabus has a section abou tongue rolling, did you know that it is a recessive allele!

Confession: Once i ate an entire loaf of bread within 2hours, i was held back by the speed of my toaster!

I knew that! about the recessive thingie!

and uhmmm...

Confessiion: I cant think of anything interesting to confess

[Lani]

Yes, I was also aware of this fact. Bonus fact about genes and whatnot:
my earlobes are not attached.

[hermaj]

That's in our syllabus too, for year 12 Biology. (Breaking the Code, I believe, for any HSCers around.)

Unattached earlobes is a dominant trait, from memory. Widow's peaks were recessive, webbed fingers were recessive. I can't remember anything else but there was a whole chart and we surveyed the class to find out who had which traits.

[thefiddler]

Confession: I am utterly, hopelessly, forever and ever addicted to everything related to xkcd.

i like muse T_T.. and modest mouse T_T...

I like 'em both, too.

[lanicita]

Unattached earlobes is a dominant trait, from memory. Widow's peaks were recessive, webbed fingers were recessive. I can't remember anything else but there was a whole chart and we surveyed the class to find out who had which traits.

Yesss, I just took genetics and we did a whole lab on that stuff. Dimples, tongue-rolling and freckles were dominant... I have all three. Apparently I'm not very uncommon

ETA: I'm not a big fan of Muse, but I saw them in concert accidentally... when I went to see Good Charlotte. (I was only 14!)

[Narsil]

Confession:
I'm so egotistical and self centered, I will occasionally talk to myself. Not because I don't have friends, but because here isn't anyone cooler than me.

Confession:
I also have my own autograph. I bought it from myself on eBay.

Confession:
I am beginning to forget where the lies end.

[thefiddler]

Confession: I'm watching a movie with a person I don't particularly like because I hate watching movies by myself. Unfortunately, said person is my brother. Also, the movie is one I dislike ("What About Bob?). Does this make me a bad person?

Confession: I'd rather go to school forever than get a real job.

Confession: I keep switching my potential major because I know it upsets my family.

Confession: I like to keep things in threes, and I just realized this, so I had to say so, but this makes four... I might have to even it up with two more.

Confession: I am strange and compulsive about things like that.

Confession: I love poetry, specifically e.e. cummings, Sylvia Plath, and William Blake, but I can't stand sonnets, especially Shakespeare and Spenser.

EDIT: I lied about Donne writing sonnets, I just don't like him, either.

[Gordon]

Confession: I'm one of the cool people. I'm not like you guys.

Seconded.

Confession: The Twas/Squeak post war made me chuckle.

I have a minesweeper addiction.

Also Seconded.


Other confession: I just learned how to put titles on the quotes

[Toeofdoom]

Confession: I'd rather go to school forever than get a real job.

What a good idea.

[thefiddler]

Confession: I'd rather go to school forever than get a real job.

What a good idea.

Indeed it is.

[aldimond]

For all you minesweeper addicts: what's your best time on expert (in the version that comes with Windows)? Mine is 88 IIRC, but I haven't played it in a really long time so I couldn't come anywhere near that now.

Also, y'all should try xbomb. It also has hexagonal and triangular modes. The hexagonal one sucks, and the triangular one rocks. My best time on the top triangular level is 190.

[Gordon]

The lowest score on my home computer is 92. I had a time in the 80's on this computer (at work) once but for some reason minesweeper doesn't record highscores here. I got bored and emailed MS tech support once about it, half because I was bored and half because I was curious as to what kind of response I would get.

I'll post the content of the email when I get home, but I can tell you it was answered by a man named Babeesh.

[aldimond]

Hm. I would not be surprised at all if Minesweeper did not correctly save high scores if you weren't logged in as an admin. Just given how old that code must be.

[Toeofdoom]

YOU GUYS JUST MADE ME WASTE 2 HOURS PLAYING MINESWEEPER DAMN YOU.


Ahem.

and i sucked. i finished... once... in just over 6 minutes.

[no-genius]

Confession: I try to get my posts as close to an integer multiple of lines as possible. Hopefully like this? (yay!)

[thefiddler]

Confession: I'm not really very nerdy.