A Day With Adora

[misscam]

Been having the most insane long conversation with adoralyna, covering an equally insane range of topics. She also made me two me-icon-bases.



I look almost pretty and all :)

Woke up this morning to hangover, people on my flist fighting and general feeling cranky. But the day has improved. Norway won two golds and a silver, Bush has left Europe, I watched Whale Rider on DVD (so lovely), read exciting things about the CSI ep aired in the US (ah, flirts and dinners), read insane wank, chatted with lovely people, stayed out of fights, laughed at my own hideous badfic of the past and my exclamation mark fetish, pondered plot bunnies, found some pretty icons, ate popcorn, downloaded music vids (my newest addiction) and generally wasted time in a pleasurable manner. I should maybe feel guilty I didn't do any work. But bollocks to that.

Norwegian Heritage - Some lovely pictures.
Wary friends - US and Europe
Christopher Lee is a busy boy

And a meme, if you so want.
Give me a favourite quote from anywhere.

Give me your favourite not-intended-to-be-funny funny quote.

Give me the most truth-filled quote you know.

Give me your favourite quote about your country.

Give me your favourite quote from me.

(If you can't think of one for everyone, just do the ones you can think of one for.)

Comments

[undeadgoat.livejournal.com]

1. So if you see a strange glowy plant, first make sure it's not God, then eat it.

2. Eleanor's always on top. (refering to a racing video game)

(will finsih later)

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'm not sure I'd eat a glowly plant. It could make me start glowing and that'd be scary.

[meeta.livejournal.com]

1. "You should be able to catch a banana!" "I am not having this argument again!" --Frasier
2. "Don't use such big words like 'literal', okay?" -- my really dumb friend Arty
3. "Life is a cookie."
4. "Canada is a country full of prospects. It's just that no one cares."

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Ah, Fraiser. Source of many great quotes and general amusement.

[aervir.livejournal.com]

Sounds as if your day has been almost as productive as mine. Isn't procrastination a wonderful thing? :D

So, here's the meme:

1) Favourite quote from Lord of the Rings:

"My friend, you had horses, and deeds of arms, and the free fields; but she, born in the body of a maid, had a spirit and courage at least the
match of yours. [...] But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and
the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?"

2) Favourite not-intended-to-be-funny funny quote (from a recent RL conversation about Lord of the Rings):

"I do not think that any women in Tolkien ever menstruated."

3) My favourite (and very lengthy) most truth-filled quote can be found here. It is probably more than only a bit cheesy, but I love it nevertheless -- sentimentalism and all.

4) Hm, it's hard to find good, witty or funny quotes about Germany. If you should, however, be interested in bittersweet satirical 19-th century poetry on what it feels like to be German for someone who was driven into exile because of political views, just click here for the poem "Germany -- A Winter's Tale" It is very lengthy, but simply the first part would be enough for the beginning. :)

5) Favourite quote from you: "Hoo boy!"

After reading (and re-reading) OFUM, I caught myself using that particular phrase quite a lot.

P.S: I kind of like your new icon bases, and you do look pretty.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

It is, it is.

Can't be easy to be patriotic about Germany always, given that such a large part of modern history is more or less labelled "shame". But the poem was lovely.

:)

Quotes

[(Anonymous)]

1). "You're a girl - you're allowed to smell like weird tropical fruits!" ~My friend Toast

2). "We have enough toilet paper to feed a third world country!" ~Me, making a shopping list

Ummm...can't think of the others...just thought I'd broadcast these...

Re: Quotes

[misscam.livejournal.com]

But much toilet paper is eesential.

[nenya_kanadka]

Current favourite quote of all time:

"For myself," said Faramir, "I would see the White Tree in flower again in the courts of the kings, and the Silver Crown return, and Minas Tirith in peace: Minas Anor again as of old, full of light, high and fair, beautiful as a queen among other queens: not a mistress of many slaves, not even a kind mistress of willing slaves. War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend: the city of the Men of Numenor; and I would have her loved for her memory, her ancientry, her beauty, and her present wisdom. Not feared, save as men fear the dignity of a man, old and wise."

Aka, Why I Love Faramir, and Why Fandom Is Applicable To Current Events. (Let it be noted that I don't equate Arabs with Mordor.)

[aervir.livejournal.com]

Aka, Why I Love Faramir, and Why Fandom Is Applicable To Current Events. (Let it be noted that I don't equate Arabs with Mordor.)

WORD.

I might be mistaken, but wasn't it you who wrote a very angry e-mail to some woman called K.Parker, after she had written an incredibly stupid "I-bid-you-stand-men-of-the-West" online article trying to exploit Tolkien for Bush's warmongering? If that has been you, let me tell you that I loved you for it.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Or Faramir with Bush, I'd hope. But yeah, I also love that speech of Faramir's. I think that's why I started loving him in the first place, though I suspect there is a lot of Tolkien's own sentiment hidden in there.

[fondued-jicama.livejournal.com]

You ARE pretty. Like woah.

Give me a favourite quote from anywhere.
--I'm walking through a dream half the time, and sleeping through reality the other half.-- Laralanthalasa, from Dragonlance

Give me your favourite not-intended-to-be-funny funny quote.
--I didn't mean to tweak you so hard!-- Me, talking about who-knows-what

Give me the most truth-filled quote you know.
--Truth is a three-edged sword.-- Kosh

Give me your favourite quote from me.
-- I am what I will make myself to be.--

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Kosh was a speaker of many truths. I miss him.

The Dragonlance quote was quite apt.

[chem-nerd.livejournal.com]

Give me a favourite quote from anywhere.
"All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost"~J. R. R. Tolkien
Or, alternatively, "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."~Ernest Hemmingway
Give me your favourite not-intended-to-be-funny funny quote.
"I feel like a prostitute in this..."~Me
Give me the most truth-filled quote you know.
"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants."~Sir Isaac Newton
Give me your favourite quote about your country.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..."~Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence
Give me your favourite quote from me.
"Ow lite."

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[misscam.livejournal.com]

The Hemmingway quote cracked me up. Ah, Hemmingway. You spoke some truth inbetween your killing-bulls ogling.

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

Those are spunky icons, I wish I looked that good in photos... :P

1. Hmm... have lots of favourite quotes, but what I can think of now is:

"And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade on high, saying O Lord bless this Thy holy hand grenade, that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies into tiny bits, in Thy mercy. And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon lamb, and carp, and sloth, and orang-utang, and breakfast cereals..."

"Skip a bit, brother."

"And the Lord spake, saying first shalt thou count to three. Three shalt be the number of the counting, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four counst thou not, nor count thou two, excepting that thou then proceedest on to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, lobbest thou thy holy hand grenade towards thy foes, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."

Hoo. Long quote.

2. "Frolic naked on the grass!" - Tom Bombadil, FOTR

3. "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players..."

4. This is a really hard one, I don't really know any quotes about Australia, do you?

5. Your entry about getting flamed by sephiroth7 or whatever the hell he was called.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I was waiting for Python to appear... :)

Ah yes, the classic tale of sephiroth7, the flamer that was not. The latest update is that both seems to have been kicked off ff.net. Woe, wah, alas.

[git-the-goddess.livejournal.com]

Give me a favourite quote from anywhere.
"seen-my-keys?: If the moon was made of cheese, I would blow it up, and drop large chunks of it on third world countries. Not to feed them- I would stamp out poverty with a flaming hot mozerella death."

Give me your favourite not-intended-to-be-funny funny quote.

Give me the most truth-filled quote you know.
Three-edged sword. What else is there to say?

Give me your favourite quote about your country.
"The United States invented the space shuttle, the atomic bomb and Disneyland. We have 35 times more land than New Zealand, 80 times the population, 144 times the gross national product and 220 times as many people in jail.
Many of our big cities have more kilometres of freeway than all of New Zealand, our 10 biggest metropolises each have more people than all of New Zealand, and metropolitan Detroit has more cars on the road than all of New Zealand.
So how come a superpower of 270 million got routed in the America's Cup, the world's most technically oriented yacht race, by a country of 3.5 million that outproduces us only in sheep manure?" ....... Eric Sharp 1995

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Hee. New Zealand's proudest hour.

Mmm. Mozerella.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

I look almost pretty and all :)

*raises eyebrow* Almost? You are beautiful, and don't forget it. I need to get around to sending you that pic I took of you in Toowong in front of that house--it turned out really well. I actually have it on my fridge. ;)

For some reason, I cannot think of any quotes. Oh well.

time for shower and then see if I can expand on that one sentence I wrote last night...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Oh, shush :P

But a copy of that pic would be great. I need more good photos of myself.

Get online so I can show you the oddest wank!

[basilea.livejournal.com]

You look pretty and you ARE pretty! I'd do the quotes thing but my brain is lazy today and I can't think of anything good.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Sometimes the brain is mean like that. Really, we should have a better union so we could get better compensation when shoddy work was done by that lump of grey cells.

[ekwy.livejournal.com]

You is pretty! Not just ALMOST pretty, you is REALLY pretty! So there.

Hm...
1. "Do you KNOW there's other countries..?" -- Eddie Izzard, to an American audience.
2. "I own no socks that aren't un-whole." -- My friend Faye.
3. "Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken." -- Tyler Durden, in "Fight Club."
4. "Hell on Earth is said to be the country where the Germans are police officers, the English people are chefs, the Greeks politicians, the Dutch supply the language and the Swedes the entertainment." -- Unknown.
5. Can't think of anything. Sorry!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

:P

I've heard that quote about Sweden. Amuses me, particulary given that Sweden is who unleashed Survivor upon the world.

[sliven.livejournal.com]

1) Moralistic statement: One who sleeps doesn't commit a sin. But this is just as true; one who commits a sin doesn't sleep. How does one do it?
~Tage Danielsson (My translation)

2) I think -- therefore, I'm confused.
~Sliven. (I was drunk and thought I was very very interesting. Indeed. Oh, dear.)

3) Stupidity doesn't become idiotic 'til one stops asking. (Again, my translation)

4) Sweden? Oh, it's that beige country, the one we can't think of any quotes for, right? All right, so I made that one up. =p

5) You shall count to nine, nine is the number of your counting. You shall not count to ten, nor to eleven. Nine is the number of the Fellowship.
Muhaha.

[sliven.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I should probably be telling you that you're pretty.
You are.
So there.

[sweill.livejournal.com]

Give me a favourite quote from anywhere.
"If everything were made of shrimp except for bread and it were Passover, what would we eat?" -my 4 year old son (REALLY)

Give me your favourite not-intended-to-be-funny funny quote.
"I'm a compassionate conservative." George W. Bush

Give me the most truth-filled quote you know.
"Every government is a parlaiment of whores. In a democracy, the whores are us." PJ O'Rourke
OR
"Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not after you." attributed to Moshe Dyan, Israeli Defence Minister in the 70's

Give me your favourite quote about your country.


"O beautiful for heroes prov'd
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life.

America! America!
God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law."


Give me your favourite quote from me.

Sorry. It's like chips. One is not enough. Neither is the whole bag.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

No chips for you!

Ah, Bush, bringer of Teh Funneh.

[reenjalas.livejournal.com]

Give me your favourite quote about your country.

"You're so sadly neglected,
And often ignored.
A poor second to Belgium,
When going abroad."

- Monty Python, "Finland"

And what d'ye mean "almost pretty"? Your not ALMOST, you ARE pretty and all that other sparkly-adulty-stuff.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I like Finland. *pets it* You help us make Sweden jokes.

Suck-up. :P

[arabel.livejournal.com]

I've only the one at the moment...

I think my favourite quote will always be this:

"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling
something."

Of course from William Goldman's 'The Princess Bride'.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Classic movie, classic line.

[ericasj.livejournal.com]

Hi Cam, it's Erica from allaboutmarg forum. Can I add you to my f-list? *bats eyelashes*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Sure, friend away. Though beware I do actually ship Grissom and Sara, so you'll just have to discreetly avert your eyes if I ever ramble about that ;)