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by Drucilla
Mon Oct 28, 2002 12:24 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Charity
Replies: 31
Views: 415

Thorn: Actually I did, when I could afford to. And will start again, when I'm living more than hand to mouth and slightly better. Buy foods and candies from... shoot, I can't remember the name of the company, some homegrown company that uses all their profits to feed people... they make candy. Peanu...
by Drucilla
Mon Oct 28, 2002 12:20 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Charity
Replies: 31
Views: 415

I think .. hmm. Most of the places I've donated money to were fine arts places, in the form of buying tickets to their productions. I don't trust how money is handled in charitable organizations, so I don't give money. I do give time. When I still lived in DC I volunteered as a receptionist at a fre...
by Drucilla
Fri Oct 25, 2002 11:42 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Women, Sex Toys, and Taboos
Replies: 66
Views: 1186

I think the only time I'd be embarrassed to buy a sex toy is if it was something kooky like those Hello Kitty vibrators. Although come to think of it, I've never actually had to buy a sex toy. Usually other people do it... and then give 'em to me. I still need to get a 15" black dildo just so I...
by Drucilla
Fri Oct 25, 2002 11:37 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: What wrong with being average?
Replies: 40
Views: 574

I don't think I've ever asked if anything made me look fat. That's what mirrors are for. I *have* asked if something makes me look sleazy, but under the circumstances (trying to make my wardrobe work appropriate while maintaining my own individual style) it was appropriate... On the other hand, havi...
by Drucilla
Wed Oct 23, 2002 9:51 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Johnny Cash Sings Nine Inch Nails
Replies: 37
Views: 478

Wait wait wait... which musician was doing a musical with... Stephen King? Was it Johnny Cash or someone else? I remember it was someone really improbable....
by Drucilla
Wed Oct 23, 2002 11:14 am
Forum: Bulldrek
Topic: Bulldrekkian stuff that can go into a blender..
Replies: 154
Views: 1584

AAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh!!!!
by Drucilla
Wed Oct 23, 2002 10:25 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Johnny Cash Sings Nine Inch Nails
Replies: 37
Views: 478

I'm so disturbed by the concept of Johnny Cash covering Personal Jesus. That just... makes my head hurt. I'm trying to work my mind around the "reach out and touch faith" line. It's not working.
by Drucilla
Wed Oct 23, 2002 10:16 am
Forum: Bulldrek
Topic: Explains a lot.
Replies: 13
Views: 273

BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!

Oh yeah, that just made my morning.
by Drucilla
Wed Oct 23, 2002 10:13 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Accidental Archaeology
Replies: 149
Views: 2028

3278 wrote:
Drucilla wrote:Damn. Deev stole my retort. :p
It helps if you have more than one. Then maybe you wouldn't have to insult people in order to be funny, dumbass.
My ass is no dumber than your ass.
by Drucilla
Tue Oct 22, 2002 9:46 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Invader Zim
Replies: 15
Views: 362

Yeah, IIRC, Zim got canceled. I guess it was too scary for all the kids when it was on Nickelodeon, what with all the

DOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!

No, GIR, that's bad!
by Drucilla
Tue Oct 22, 2002 9:44 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Accidental Archaeology
Replies: 149
Views: 2028

Damn. Deev stole my retort. :p
by Drucilla
Tue Oct 22, 2002 4:01 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Accidental Archaeology
Replies: 149
Views: 2028

SO!

Anyway.

Deev, what's going on at the dig... er, house? :D
by Drucilla
Tue Oct 22, 2002 11:47 am
Forum: Bulldrek
Topic: Bulldrekkian stuff that can go into a blender..
Replies: 154
Views: 1584

I'm gonna get axe-murdered for this.. .if I'm lucky

*releases Machin Shin*

Machin Shin can be the blender!

*flees*
by Drucilla
Mon Oct 21, 2002 8:17 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: European Pride. Are you Proud?
Replies: 27
Views: 463

Double-post!

You can learn a lot about just about anything, in the right context and with the right training. The trick is keeping an open mind and learning how to extrapolate pages and pages of data from small pieces. Like little pieces of white clay pipestems. Gyah. Soooo many pipestems.
by Drucilla
Mon Oct 21, 2002 7:36 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: European Pride. Are you Proud?
Replies: 27
Views: 463

I have to admit... the idea of a crowbar mark made back in the early 1900s is a silly historical tidbit. *wry* You'd probably be surprised what you can learn from a crowbar mark made back in the early 1900s. Mind you, I'm constantly surprised at what you can learn from potsherds. That's right, the ...
by Drucilla
Mon Oct 21, 2002 6:01 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Guy walks into a uni lecture, blah blah blah, two dead!
Replies: 22
Views: 340

Actually, that thought occured to me right after I hit 'submit'

I didn't add it because that phrase now and forever makes me think of the serial killer convention in Sandman II: The Doll's House. But oh well.
by Drucilla
Mon Oct 21, 2002 5:42 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Cykospin: Total asshole? You tell me.
Replies: 49
Views: 907

Who's more foolish: The fool or the fool who baits him? :p
by Drucilla
Mon Oct 21, 2002 5:38 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Guy walks into a uni lecture, blah blah blah, two dead!
Replies: 22
Views: 340

I had a great experience at my college. I found a really nice group of friends, had a wonderful time. Yeah, at times, the drama got a little bit out of hand. In part, I think this was because we were a fairly insular, inbred group of friends... lots of friends dating each other and breaking up with ...
by Drucilla
Mon Oct 21, 2002 4:40 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Cykospin: Total asshole? You tell me.
Replies: 49
Views: 907

Y'all are nuts :D
by Drucilla
Mon Oct 21, 2002 7:45 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Accidental Archaeology
Replies: 149
Views: 2028

Damn, Deev. I wish I was working on the dig... er, renovations on your house. :D

Ahem. *tucks her inner archaeologist back into her box*
by Drucilla
Sun Oct 20, 2002 8:09 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Accidental Archaeology
Replies: 149
Views: 2028

DV8 wrote:...or everyone could just chill out and not be so damned sensitive when they know it's meant in jest.
*reads back over the thread*

Word.
by Drucilla
Sun Oct 20, 2002 7:55 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: OM
Replies: 18
Views: 307

I did it. I vaguely remember doing it, anyway. We did something that involved skits. My grandmother helped coach it, too. And yeah, I did the National Merit Scholarship thing... don't remember much of those, though. I did OM when I was in elementary school, and the NMS stuff was more like, ho hum, a...
by Drucilla
Sun Oct 20, 2002 3:53 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Cykospin: Total asshole? You tell me.
Replies: 49
Views: 907

I think the difference between Crazy Elf and Cyko, though, is that Crazy Elf goes out of his way to be bluntly, blatantly crazy. It's only offensive if you don't realize that he's playing a game, which by this point is fairly easy to do. Sorry, Elf, but it is. :D Cyko, on the other hand, is a whinin...
by Drucilla
Sun Oct 20, 2002 1:12 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Cykospin: Total asshole? You tell me.
Replies: 49
Views: 907

Aawww.. We all know the Elf shows a hard, prickly, exterior, but he's all soft and squishy inside. Kind of like that really weird fruit I keep seeing at that one international grocery store. Hmm. Think we should cut Elf open and see if he's also sweet and juicy and maybe a little tart inside?
by Drucilla
Fri Oct 18, 2002 4:21 pm
Forum: Bulldrek
Topic: Mutant X / Birds of Prey
Replies: 7
Views: 135

Mutant X / Birds of Prey

One horribly and grotesquely mutilates the X-Men comics The other horribly and grotesquely mutilates the Batman comics. One has but a single redeeming actor in the entire show, playing the villain, who was dead by the end of the season (Tom McCamus as Mason Eckhart) The other has but a single redeem...
by Drucilla
Fri Oct 18, 2002 4:05 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Since no one else has....
Replies: 55
Views: 744

hey, I have religious BS to deal with.

I'm going as either Jack the Ripper or a Jedi.

Jack, because... well, yeah. No one should be surprised. Or a Jedi because I spent 110$ on the damn lightsaber, so it's bloody well going to be my default costume whenever I don't feel like coming up with one :p
by Drucilla
Fri Oct 18, 2002 11:30 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Accidental Archaeology
Replies: 149
Views: 2028

Gyaaaaahhh... don't even talk to me about accidental archaeology. The politics involved... at least in the US... when someone accidentally finds a body in a construction site... gyargh! I mean, first there's determining whether or not it's a recent corpse, and then there's determining which of sever...
by Drucilla
Fri Oct 18, 2002 11:27 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Interesting figures...
Replies: 21
Views: 372

Dave, as far as not caring... I don't know what other people care about. And at the moment, after a shower and a long night's nightmares, I don't really give a damn either. I'm kind of annoyed that the US is taking the 'I told you so' stance, and I'm worried about what some friends of mine are sayin...
by Drucilla
Thu Oct 17, 2002 6:53 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Interesting figures...
Replies: 21
Views: 372

You know, I would have started a thread to discuss it, but... well, shit, I know absolutely nothing about the political climate in that part of the world. At least, nothing relevant to the last hundred years. So I'm going to keep my mouth shut on things I know nothing about. Which, incidentally, Dav...
by Drucilla
Thu Oct 17, 2002 6:46 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: It's about fucking time.
Replies: 43
Views: 564

Let me be the first to say


[glow]CON-GRATU-FUCKING-LATIONS![/glow]
by Drucilla
Wed Oct 16, 2002 4:08 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Sniper in Virginia
Replies: 78
Views: 1093

Interesting random tidbit: They've discovered a corrolation between three of the shootings. Apparently there was a Michaels in the mall complex where someone was shot/shot at, or it was actually in the parking lot of a Michaels (craft store) for 3 of the... what are we up to, 9? 12?
by Drucilla
Tue Oct 15, 2002 5:11 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: I don't care about the children... Am I bad?
Replies: 51
Views: 852

When I lived in DC I used to volunteer at a prenatal/post-partum free clinic for the people who couldn't afford medical care in the area... primarily a latino/black district, but there were hideously poor people of all kinds there. I worked the reception desk and did the filing, since I was bilingua...
by Drucilla
Tue Oct 15, 2002 12:42 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Sniper in Virginia
Replies: 78
Views: 1093

For all intents and purposes they're random. No similarity in age, sex, features, occupation, sexual orientation, religion...
by Drucilla
Mon Oct 14, 2002 11:33 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Sniper in Virginia
Replies: 78
Views: 1093

I give it another day or two, right till people are starting to get complacent.
by Drucilla
Mon Oct 14, 2002 8:17 pm
Forum: Bulldrek
Topic: Useless information for your everyday needs.
Replies: 1780
Views: 18523

What kind of dumb freak names his kids Ivan and Ivonna...

Or worse, what kind of stupid bint names her kid Mary Virgen?
by Drucilla
Fri Oct 11, 2002 4:37 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Sniper in Virginia
Replies: 78
Views: 1093

The killer is, according to latest theory, using a white panel van of some sort. And Pete's right, Fredericksburg, despite my earlier comments to Evan, is close enough that the sniper could very well ahve shifted base to there. It would be odd, considering that up till now he or she's mostly stayed ...
by Drucilla
Thu Oct 10, 2002 11:39 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Sniper in Virginia
Replies: 78
Views: 1093

Ouch...I know quite a few people in PW...hope they are all okay... I've been monitoring the news, checking in every couple hours, since this first hit. It doesn't look like there have been any more shootings for ... nearly a day and a half now, I think. Maybe just a day. Anyway, there hasn't been t...
by Drucilla
Thu Oct 10, 2002 9:07 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Star Wars Bulemia
Replies: 7
Views: 128

Yes. How sick is that?
by Drucilla
Thu Oct 10, 2002 8:27 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Shh, 9-11 Never Happened... Pass it On...
Replies: 30
Views: 358

Much as I dislike the man, yeah, Bush Sr was competent.

However, Bush Jr *is* an idiot.
by Drucilla
Thu Oct 10, 2002 8:27 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Shh, 9-11 Never Happened... Pass it On...
Replies: 30
Views: 358

Much as I dislike the man, yeah, Bush Sr was competent.

However, Bush Jr *is* an idiot.
by Drucilla
Thu Oct 10, 2002 8:16 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Sniper in Virginia
Replies: 78
Views: 1093

*imagines Dru as the Croc Hunter, meticulously chasing down Serial Killers* Blimy!! Look at that one! Ain't he a beaut?! I'm gonna try to sneak up on 'im now. 'e's very dangerous and 'e can smell me a mile a way with those powerful nostrils. Look at 'im flare! Gorgeous. ... ye gods. I can so very m...
by Drucilla
Thu Oct 10, 2002 8:11 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Sniper in Virginia
Replies: 78
Views: 1093

I like darkness. I was in a cave complex once, and someone turned off all the lights, and you couldn't see your hand an inch in front of your face. It was actually quite comforting.

Of course, it would make writing a stone bitch.
by Drucilla
Thu Oct 10, 2002 7:58 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Sniper in Virginia
Replies: 78
Views: 1093

* Dru writes these names down

I have such an unhealthy obsession with serial killers...
by Drucilla
Thu Oct 10, 2002 7:52 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Sniper in Virginia
Replies: 78
Views: 1093

True. I have absolutely no knowledge of serial killers outside the US and, occasionally, England. i.e. Jack the Ripper.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

* Dru wanders off to go look things up
by Drucilla
Thu Oct 10, 2002 7:44 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Sniper in Virginia
Replies: 78
Views: 1093

People who are standing at gas stations and little kids. I don't know from guns or ammo, I'm staying out of that part of this discussion. They might know what kind of ammo he's using, check the link I posted earlier or other news sites. Other than that... le shrug. I'm sticking with my original theo...
by Drucilla
Thu Oct 10, 2002 7:32 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Sniper in Virginia
Replies: 78
Views: 1093

That's because Robocop is der mann
by Drucilla
Thu Oct 10, 2002 7:16 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Sniper in Virginia
Replies: 78
Views: 1093

You need a life. :p :D
by Drucilla
Thu Oct 10, 2002 6:57 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Organized Religion and its Negative Effects on Society
Replies: 8
Views: 189

That actually sounds like a relatively coherent and feasible argument. Go to it.
by Drucilla
Thu Oct 10, 2002 6:50 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Sniper in Virginia
Replies: 78
Views: 1093

Evan, let me requote: Sources said police discovered the card and a spent shell casing near an area of matted grass in the woods where the sniper apparently had lain in wait. The spot is about 150 yards from where the boy was struck in the chest by a bullet, moments after being dropped off at the sc...
by Drucilla
Thu Oct 10, 2002 6:38 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Sniper in Virginia
Replies: 78
Views: 1093

That's really odd. It posted twice.