Naughty Vikings and Faking on the Webs
Dec. 1st, 2006 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misscamSo it's December. And still no snow. Woe. And I have a mad craving for marzipan. (Christmas and Easter are official marzipan-eating holidays in Norway. Mmm.)
Amusing historical fact I learned yesterday: There have been runes preserved from the Viking age about male-on-male shagging. Those kinky Vikings.
For instance, one bone from about the 1100s and found in Oslo has an inscription reading óli er óskeyndr auk stroðinn í rassinn followed by vel fór þat. If you can't read old Norse, that pretty much translates (bluntly) to "Ole is unprotected/unwiped fucked in the ass" and "that sounds good".
I do sometimes wonder where Norway would've gone if we hadn't been Christianised, but held onto the Norse beliefs. Of course, many of them were just absorbed into Christianity instead. (And four of the week's seven days are named after the Nordic gods in Norwegian.) The legacy still lingers. But still... Me does wonder.
Norway's Christmas tree for London is on its way
I have decided on titles for my mad Christmas fics-on-request. CSI is On a Day of Christmas, Doctor Who is A Lifetime of Fireflies. I've written a bit on both. Huzzah! To get all the Doctor Who requests in for the latter, I may have to tweak a few requests slightly. Just so you're warned. Because some of them so do create trouble for all the other ones.
Fake miscarriage wank?
Fake Ph.D wank?
*blinkblink* Two in one day? Mighty is the fake indeed.Though the first does seem a bit worse, in terms of screwing people over,
Which brings me to today's meme - if you could get away with it, what's the most totally unbelievable (and not actually terribly harmful) thing you would fake about yourself on LJ? Be creative.
Amusing historical fact I learned yesterday: There have been runes preserved from the Viking age about male-on-male shagging. Those kinky Vikings.
For instance, one bone from about the 1100s and found in Oslo has an inscription reading óli er óskeyndr auk stroðinn í rassinn followed by vel fór þat. If you can't read old Norse, that pretty much translates (bluntly) to "Ole is unprotected/unwiped fucked in the ass" and "that sounds good".
I do sometimes wonder where Norway would've gone if we hadn't been Christianised, but held onto the Norse beliefs. Of course, many of them were just absorbed into Christianity instead. (And four of the week's seven days are named after the Nordic gods in Norwegian.) The legacy still lingers. But still... Me does wonder.
Norway's Christmas tree for London is on its way
I have decided on titles for my mad Christmas fics-on-request. CSI is On a Day of Christmas, Doctor Who is A Lifetime of Fireflies. I've written a bit on both. Huzzah! To get all the Doctor Who requests in for the latter, I may have to tweak a few requests slightly. Just so you're warned. Because some of them so do create trouble for all the other ones.
Fake miscarriage wank?
Fake Ph.D wank?
*blinkblink* Two in one day? Mighty is the fake indeed.Though the first does seem a bit worse, in terms of screwing people over,
Which brings me to today's meme - if you could get away with it, what's the most totally unbelievable (and not actually terribly harmful) thing you would fake about yourself on LJ? Be creative.
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Date: 2006-12-01 01:46 pm (UTC)-I do too...and I've already eaten the yummy piggy you got me, mmmmm.
No snow? I would be jumping up and down with joy, heh;)
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Date: 2006-12-01 01:49 pm (UTC)I might have to go on a slight marzipan-expedition later on, yes.
You wouldn't. It looks so damn depressing and bleak. And unChristmassy.
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Date: 2006-12-01 01:53 pm (UTC)True, bleak is no good. 21*C here this morning, but we're awaiting a storm...great. Okay, I'm hoping for some snow over your way to brighten things up a bit and make them 'Blenda hvite';)
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Date: 2006-12-01 02:00 pm (UTC)8 degrees C here. So not right for the season. Having quite a bit of windy and half-stormy weather, in fact. Last week was particular foul.
Someone has really pissed off the weathergods.
Blenda-hvitt er ikke hvitest, så hah :P
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Date: 2006-12-01 02:14 pm (UTC)-And marzipan sucks, big time - yuck, tastes like smusslapper:P
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Date: 2006-12-01 02:21 pm (UTC)Lies! You've never eaten a smusslapp in your life, so you have no idea how it tastes.
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Date: 2006-12-01 02:22 pm (UTC)I'm delighted. Walkers do not mix well with snow and ice. And I need new boots.
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Date: 2006-12-01 02:36 pm (UTC)It does help me feel more Christmasy & since I have my first Christmas party tonight that helps.
if you could get away with it, what's the most totally unbelievable (and not actually terribly harmful) thing you would fake about yourself on LJ?
Winning the lotto, buying the rights to CSI, and giving my favorite fanfic writers a chance to make the show go the way it should. :)
You said be creative.
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Date: 2006-12-01 02:52 pm (UTC)Unseasonably warm here...I doubt we'll get a snowy white XMas...
ABS;)
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Date: 2006-12-01 02:52 pm (UTC)Anyway, if I could fake anything on the internet, I'd probably fake success in my real life job. I have no idea why, because no one online would likely care, but I guess it'd make me feel happy. Online is sort of a fantasy world so if I could make I was successful online, maybe I could be successful in the real world. Bah.
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Date: 2006-12-01 04:43 pm (UTC)I could put some marzipan in my Yule package for you, although you'd have to wait for it to arrive.
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Date: 2006-12-01 06:50 pm (UTC)But since I have all the credibility of Mick (very uncredibly guy who none of you know) I didn't bother.
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Date: 2006-12-01 07:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-01 07:12 pm (UTC)That is sloppy, sloppy work.
I feel like faking my own LJ death to show these kids how it should be done.
In reality, no matter how spectacular my death would be (I'm thinking saving the Queen from imminent death at the hands of rampaging wildebeest, tragically getting trampled, losing my baby fathered by either Superman or Batman, topped off by failed CPR by Sean Bean); three months later Online people would be like "Hey, where the hell did Smalldiver go?" "I dunno, probably changed fandoms"...
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Date: 2006-12-01 10:14 pm (UTC)And it's funny, I have a story that I don't tell, because it's improbable. One of my father's friends, who I met several times when I lived with him, is Lalla Ward's half-sister. I only realised it a few months ago, when I was
stalkingname-searching in a media database. Cue facepalming as I recognised all the lost stalking opportunities.no subject
Date: 2006-12-01 10:50 pm (UTC)I'm too sincere to lie for my flist ^__^
*puff! goes to f_w to read*
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Date: 2006-12-02 12:24 am (UTC)if you could get away with it, what's the most totally unbelievable (and not actually terribly harmful) thing you would fake about yourself on LJ?
That back in the mid Eighties I gave WP a blowjob.
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Date: 2006-12-02 12:55 am (UTC)If you decide to tell that lie, I'll swear I saw it all!...(I can easily be bribed with more Candy Shop fics)
ABS;)
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Date: 2006-12-02 06:04 am (UTC)and I wouldn't fake anything on LJ - no point, really.
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Date: 2006-12-02 10:37 pm (UTC)"Lifetime of Fireflies," hmm? Sounds shiny.