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« Reply #1800 on: October 27, 2009, 10:59:27 pm » |
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i've just gotta hear this. 6 double Bourbon's please. In a pint glass. This could be a long tale.
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« Reply #1801 on: October 27, 2009, 11:01:09 pm » |
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*gets up, pours the glass and hands it to Rockula*
Here.
*sitting back down in my chair*
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Didnt i tell you to call me Daniel not nightshade?
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« Reply #1802 on: October 28, 2009, 05:46:25 am » |
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well ladys and gentlemen i think i am goinng to take a long walk in the moon light.
please excuse me.
*stands up ,brushes cigar ash off pants and strolls out*
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« Reply #1803 on: October 28, 2009, 06:48:16 am » |
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*Door bursts open* Good evening, Good evening, Good evening, Gentlemen (And Awnrey ladies)  Gentlemens club eh? Capital idea.... I just happened to bring a long a hookah that I acquired from the deep far away lands of Araby, anyone care for a smoke? |
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« Reply #1804 on: October 28, 2009, 09:06:43 am » |
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An engaging tale, a nice long drink, and a hookah. I can't think of a better way to spend a long winter night (or a short winter day for that matter.)
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Persons intending to travel by open carriage should select a seat with their backs to the engine, by which means they will avoid the ashes emitted therefrom, that in travelling generally, but particularly through the tunnels, prove a great annoyance; the carriage farthest from the engine will in consequence be found the most desirable.
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« Reply #1805 on: October 28, 2009, 10:29:52 am » |
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Of course, so long and meandering a tale is it, that I fear I may have forgotten some parts of it. I do recall, however, that a few people around the fireplace here joined me on this journey, so should they wish to chip in...they may feel free  . Anyway, it was a dark day in September of last year. Dark, and cold. As I was sitting by the fire, much like today, I was suddenly and unexpectedly struck with one of the bouts of wanderlust that forces itself upon me ever more strongly with each passing year. Taking my hurricane lamp, I ventured into the attic, to find the atlas, but stumbled across a dusty diary. This was a commonplace occurrence, as my attic holds vast crates of dusty old diaries. They are among the best sources of adventuring inspiration. This particular diary belonged to an explorer by the unlikely title of Studley Spring, a scholar of some renown, and detailed his journey to the famed Shangri-La. I had heard much of the place. The "library of the ages", the repository of all wisdom and knowledge, the holy grail of learning. I really had nothing better to do, so I decided to plan an expedition. I had a few contacts in Nepal, so I already had people on the library's "home turf". Still, before me and my companions lay thousands of feet of climbing, the icy cold, and the predatory ravaging of the mey-goo. That is to say...the Abominable Snowman. I should be back by Christmas, thinks I. Well, I wasn't often wrong... |
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"You rampallian! You fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe!" Henry IV, Act II Scene I, WS.
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« Reply #1806 on: November 03, 2009, 07:53:48 pm » |
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Ooh, an expedition to a library? That's my kind of adventure, right there. How did you prepare for the cold? I spend a few months this winter in China along the Mongolian border(mostly in Urumqi, up in the Celestial Mountains, but I did spend a few weeks in a tiny village called Chikaertu out in the Gobi, lovely horses) and it was so cold my eyelashes were coated with ice the moment I stepped outside. In such conditions, the fall of night is a death sentance if you've not established camp.
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« Reply #1807 on: November 06, 2009, 05:55:38 pm » |
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oh bother...seems i leave for but a moment (or a month, whatever) and everything is a bit a mess again...
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In all reality, "steampunk" is anachronistic, innit? Otherwise it's just Victorian dress-up.
chain smokin', sleep needin', apparel designin', mohawk havin', tea drinkin', steady cursin', boy charmin', card readin' rabble-rouser and amusement park cleverly disguised as a woman
TS245
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« Reply #1808 on: November 08, 2009, 04:36:37 am » |
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I leave for a few months and they've been making the mess without me! Scandalous!
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« Reply #1809 on: November 08, 2009, 04:08:36 pm » |
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Hold on a moment, I'm not responsible for this! *waves hand over a scene of utter devastation*
Well, the broken chandalier, that was me. Sleepwalking, or maybe sleep safari hunting, I don't know. But as for the rest....
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Governor
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Herr Döktor, and friend.
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« Reply #1810 on: November 08, 2009, 05:35:32 pm » |
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Blame the builders, they don't work on sundays.
Or any day with a vowel in it, or so it seems...
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« Reply #1811 on: November 08, 2009, 08:00:02 pm » |
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Well, can you blame them? Odd things happen around here daily, and they have to work around those of us sleeping. Not to mention we seem to like yelling at them to get us drinks.
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« Reply #1812 on: November 08, 2009, 08:28:03 pm » |
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Perhaps we should get some clockwork automata in instead, how could that go wrong..?
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« Reply #1813 on: November 08, 2009, 08:32:34 pm » |
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Perhaps we should get some clockwork automata in instead, how could that go wrong..?
Customer ''Waiter, a bourbon if you please'' Waiter ''I'll be back.'' |
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« Reply #1814 on: November 08, 2009, 08:38:45 pm » |
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Hmm, perhaps the terminautomata should find work in a picture house or theatre,
"Where's my seat, my good robot?"
"Aisle B, Back."
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« Reply #1815 on: November 09, 2009, 05:24:26 pm » |
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I leave for a weekend and this is what I come back to.  Are they trough draining the pond yet? And I would like maybe some red in the garden as well....not just green. Gingko trees have a lovely golden color when they turn. ^_^ @Reni: *hugtackle* It's just not been the same without you here! What can I get you? @Tobias: Well, that's what you get for leaving. *sticking out tongue* Will you be having a drink? What broken chandelier!?!?!?!?!?!? I just put that one back up!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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« Reply #1816 on: November 09, 2009, 06:36:19 pm » |
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What broken chandelier!?!?!?!?!?!? I just put that one back up!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't worry, it wasn't the massive one that hangs in the clubroom. It was an old one someone was chucking out across the street. Found it, retrieved it from the skip (well, I had some good friends do that actually) and brought it here with a vague intent of hanging it in the hall. Or maybe the dining room. Or, heck, maybe even my own room here. Anyway, 'twas only held up by a rope and pulley, I started sleepwalking, tripped over rope from said pulley, chandalier fell down, big crash, much mess. But it's all cleaned up now. |
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« Reply #1817 on: November 10, 2009, 09:17:17 pm » |
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Terribly sorry, ladies and gents, but I won't be able to complete my story, as I am so deep in college work I fear my hat barely emerges from the very top. Dashed sorry to leave you hanging like that  . |
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« Reply #1818 on: November 10, 2009, 09:28:18 pm » |
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Terribly sorry, ladies and gents, but I won't be able to complete my story, as I am so deep in college work I fear my hat barely emerges from the very top. Dashed sorry to leave you hanging like that . We shall consider it 'to be continued' until your toil is done and look forward to further instalments at another juncture. Sweat it not. BARMAN! Another round, if you please. |
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« Reply #1819 on: November 10, 2009, 09:39:23 pm » |
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No need for the barman, I have a bottle or two of Sailor Jerry's around here somewhere... ah, here they are. Try it with lemonade. It tastes rather like lemon sherbert.
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« Reply #1820 on: November 10, 2009, 09:44:13 pm » |
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No need for the barman, I have a bottle or two of Sailor Jerry's around here somewhere... ah, here they are. Try it with lemonade. It tastes rather like lemon sherbert.
Lemons, Sir!!! If life gives you lemons...you squeeze them in your Vodka surely? |
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« Reply #1821 on: November 10, 2009, 09:45:48 pm » |
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Well, I take my lemon juice carbonated. Only then does it go into my Vodka.
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« Reply #1822 on: November 12, 2009, 02:12:18 am » |
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I'll take mine in LIIT. |
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« Reply #1823 on: November 12, 2009, 05:49:46 am » |
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As a Mountaineer, I feel it is my duty to bring in the Moonshine =D
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« Reply #1824 on: November 12, 2009, 09:07:19 am » |
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*side door opens and Darkshines runs through starkers, over the table, round the armchair, pats the stuffed polar bear on the head and exits out of the other door*
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