Archive through January 20, 2001

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Juju2bigdog

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 12:52 pm Click here to edit this post

guru, I would start with the first Harry potter book just in case you find you like them, although there is probably just as much enjoyment reading them out of order. they are sequential, and you go from where Harry Potter has no idea he is a wizard to where he is the only kid at Hogwarts wizard school who is strong enough to resist when an Imperius Curse is put on him. that's where I am now in the book. Your friend who pooh-poohed the books probably hasn't read them.

Ocean, I betcha gu, Merlin, az, and elit all have texas accents, and yes, there are different regional variations, although a non-texan probably could not distinguish between them. texans in san antonio have an accent all their own.

Moon? accent? I didn't think californians had accents, or maybe she is from texas too? Seems I might remember reading that.

when I lived in Illinois I could easily distinguish a chicago accent from a downstate Illinois accent. did you grow up in chicago? and wouldn't you now have a boston accent? I no longer have an accent after living in califronia for five years and twenty years in the deep south. It has been many years since anybody accused me of having a midwest twang.

Juju2bigdog

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 12:54 pm Click here to edit this post

spam, I was gonna say I bet you and I and MissLibra all have similar accents, which is probably more like people talk on tv.

Ocean_Islands

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 12:58 pm Click here to edit this post

Juju you lived in Illinois? Cool! Where?

I actually am picking up some weirdness from Massachusetts.

For instance they say, "Hey, did you have a good Thanksgivin'?" They actually have an 'n' sound at the end of the word, instead of the 'ing' sound. Thankfully I'm not that bad yet.

Juju2bigdog

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 01:21 pm Click here to edit this post

Ocean, I grew up in Illinois. Peoria, mid-america. You can ask me anything, and I can give you a typical american opinion. LOL.

Whereabouts in Illinois have you lived? How long you been in bahst'n? I went to boston once, quite an experience.

Ocean_Islands

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 01:28 pm Click here to edit this post

That's cool. I grew up west of Chicago about 23 miles.

I also lived in Evanston five years, and in Chicago.

I've only been in the Boston area two years, and my opinion is going downhill with each passing day.

I lived six years in europe before coming to Boston.

Spamgirl

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 01:30 pm Click here to edit this post

Nod ju, we're so uncool :) heh

Guruchaz

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 01:45 pm Click here to edit this post

I don't have a deep Texas twang but I'm sure I have an accent and I do say "yall" but that comes with the territory. If you look close, you can pickup on Elitist's and Merlin's Texas vocabulary and probably mine too every once in a while.

Guruchaz

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 01:48 pm Click here to edit this post

My parents grew up in Ft. Madison, Iowa but have lived in Texas the majority of their lives. All the kids were born in Texas.

Juju2bigdog

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 01:50 pm Click here to edit this post

are y'all aware we got TWO red rooms to do today?

Ocean, do you drive in boston? before I was going to go there, a guy on my team told me how terrible it is to try to drive in boston. He told me it is so bad that sometimes even people who have rental cars will hire a taxi and tell the taxi where they want to go. then they will follow the taxi in their rental car. I looked at the guy like he had just landed from outer space, and thought to myself, "wimp." And you know where this story is going, don't you? so three of us workmates went to boston. we had the name of the hotel, the address, and directions to the hotel. AND a map. we were about ten minutes from the hotel. Only thing was, directions did not jibe with map, and names of streets did not correspond to names of streets on map. Two hours later we finally found what was probably our agency field office and asked a security person there how to get to our hotel. My team mates could not understand what the man said even though he was speaking english. I finally figured out he was saying go to the Jordan Marsh department store and down the street from there. we left the rental car in the hotel the rest of the time we were there and walked everywhere. I had to go back to the airport by myself and return the rental car. got lost naturally, and ended up in back bay or somewhere.

what town in Illinois, O? being from Illinois, I probably know it, or know somebody from there.

Guruchaz

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 02:44 pm Click here to edit this post

Yes, I've answered one and still trying to figure out what my contribution to humanity should be.

I'm not a big Beck music fan but I just found a cool mix on Napster. It's a Beck vs AC DC mix. Pretty cool.

Ocean_Islands

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 03:01 pm Click here to edit this post

Juju that's exactly what I am talking about (in my local government corruption thread). Boston has some of the highest taxes in the nation. A parking ticket costs over thirty dollars, and parking for two hours can cost over thirty dollars (more than New York). So why don't the street signs match the streets? Because they just care about collecting the money, not actually doing anything constructive with it.

I drive in Boston now but it took a long time to understand what was going on.

I have an excellent sense of direction. But when I first got here, while walking around downtown, I would not be able to locate myself even with a street map. I had to walk outside of downtown to find out where I was.

Why? Because the government doesn't care to fix it.

Azriel

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 04:38 pm Click here to edit this post

I'm home. Is anyone around?

Spamgirl

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 04:44 pm Click here to edit this post

i am az

Azriel

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 04:44 pm Click here to edit this post

Hi Spam :) How's your day been?

Juju2bigdog

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 04:49 pm Click here to edit this post

I am here too, although I can no longer type or spell.

Spamgirl

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 04:54 pm Click here to edit this post

it's been busy... but I'm not at liberty to say why ROFL!

How was yours?

Azriel

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 04:55 pm Click here to edit this post

Lol, Juju. You've still got a month ahead of you! You can't poot out now :)

Azriel

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 04:57 pm Click here to edit this post

All I could think about was the board at work. The girl who was working with me, kept asking me what was wrong with me. She said you look like you aren't here today.

Spamgirl

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 04:57 pm Click here to edit this post

ROFL! Man, sucks to work on a saturday! :)

Azriel

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 04:59 pm Click here to edit this post

I work every Saturday. It's usually only 4 hours though. I just go in to check up the money and do the paperwork for the day.

Misslibra

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 05:01 pm Click here to edit this post

Well someone is home hi everybody ! How was everyones day ? Mine was pretty good. Spam, I tried to go into chat but was told I wasn't invited. What's going on ?

Spamgirl

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 05:02 pm Click here to edit this post

Nod az, that isn't that bad then...

ML - you can't go into chat until 8-9 board time

Misslibra

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 05:03 pm Click here to edit this post

Spam, it's been busy around here ?

Spamgirl

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 05:03 pm Click here to edit this post

Not that I noticed :)

Misslibra

Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 05:05 pm Click here to edit this post

Not that you notice ? You sure your not keeping something from us ... hmmmmmm ???