me again!

I thgouht i's post on here again.....I have nothing to do that's better because everyone else is busy doing revision but I've got 2 exams tomorrow so uit's OK for them 'cos they've only got 1 but I hafve french too.

Alli

endless, nameless wrote in message ...

Do you rate sleeping before exams in adition too the usual revising though?

Good luck with it

Paul gate wrote:

Sleeping is always important, more so than exams. How can you get good grades if you're tired? :) How many of those stupid messages did I post, anyway? I think there was only 2 or 3.....I hope....

Alli

endless, nameless wrote in message ...

Your clock has sudenly jumped??!!? Its sudenly eight in the morning! hey run or you`ll miss that exam!!

I wouldn`t worry there`s plenty of space ;-)

Paul gate wrote:

Hehehe. I've just had a History exam, I don't have an exam right now but I have to go back to school in the afternoon to do a French Listening.....those are always the worst, no matter how much you study it's impossible to know what the words sound like when a french person's saying them.....

It's still kinda embarrassing, though. It is, however, by no means the most embarrasssing thing I have done whilst drunk.

Alli

endless, nameless wrote in message ...

Yup..... How , "Est ce que vous �tes" can be pronounced "Es ka voosete", fair boggles the mind

Are you drunk now? :-) It could well be the best way to approach a french listening exam. ie let the right hemisphere do its work, unimpeaded by reason ;-)

I can`t talk about the most embarassing thing i did when drunk it causes me to much pain to visualise it. I am fighting bringing it to mind at this very moment. Those scars urghhh

Paul gate of UUNET writes:

I can never remember the French for "My postillion has been struck by lightning". Also, I had a german phrase book for use on holiday, but when I showed it to an actual German they fell about laughing reading the german phrases in it, so I guess that book wasn't much use either

-Shez.

Shez wrote in message ...

Or how about "My hovercraft is full of frogs" or "There is a cement mixer in my bath" ?

Do you remember Monty Pythons "The Hungarian-English phrasebook" in which the Hungarian phrase for "Please could you direct me to the nearest railway station" was translated too the english phrase "Please fondle my buttocks" The whole thing ended up in court.... very funny :-)

Paul gate wrote:

It's all very strange....Spanish is really easy, pronounciation-wise, the same letters always make the same sound. English is horrible to learn to speak. It took me 8 years to learn to pronounce 'j' and 'sh' because there's no sounds like that in Greek. And I find it very strange that 'cow' doesn't rhyme with 'tow'...There's several other examples of that sort of thing, but I can't think of any now.

Hehehe. No, not right now. My brother's home, and he'd tell my parents. Come to think of it, my dad would be much more annoyed about the fact I was drinking his booze than about the fact I was drinking; I'm pretty sure he wouldn't mind if I went round someone else's house and drank their dad's booze, which is something I have been known to do....

LOL! I did think about that, but I decided that if I went to school smelling of alcohol I'd probably be expelled.

Let's see.....I haven't done anything *really* embarassing, but probably the most embarrassing thing I did when drunk was.....ah yes. I decided it would be a good idea to go visit a friend of mine, so I went round her house and demanded that she let me in. There were a few of our other friends there, plus her brother, I think. Anyway, I spent some time searching her house for more alcohol, found some, drank it, and then decided to try out her mother's excercise bike. 30 seconds later, her mother arrived home to find her excercise bike in pieces on the floor, me having tipped it over.....I was politely asked to leave. My friend tried to convince her mother that I was actually sober, but I think I kinda gave it away by dropping my coat and then falling on the floor trying to pick it up.....

Alli

endless, nameless wrote in message ...

Yep i`ve heard the same gripe, from people, to whome english is a second language. it`s just about the most illogical language there is. I think most of the verbs are irregular, lots of words have several meanings that change with context, and lots of words that have different meanings and different spellings are pronounced in exactly the same way as each other "would" and "wood" for example

there are hundreds of examples...i think

I hasten to add that you cant use the same philososophy for a woodwork exam :-) imagine it; bang bang crack "Oh well ididn`t need that extra leg anyway, giggle." :-)

Oh boy! thankfully, no real damage to anything valuable though err like, say, a dear freind.

The exercise bike must have been of "flimsy insuperior construction" to break just cos some drunkard gave it a little nudge. machinery that ramshackle probably represents a safety hazard. Your neighbours mum is probably thankfull that you tested her bike properly and identified its weakneses.

I feel shure that she does not resent the missing alcohol A fair price, i`d say, for making her home a safer place for drunk people :-)

Falling over at the end probably lost you some "cool points" though Try to steady yourself on other people or take small steps. if you know anything about physics you`ll know that idealy you want to keep your centre of gravity above your base ;-) Its worth bearing in mind that these rules aren`t so obvious when you are drunk, so attention to them must be paid consciously ;-)

After a lot of wine, i remember once, suddenly deciding that it was time to get to know the girl next door a little better I think my parents were away and i was left "in charge" (ROFL) Funny how when we are socialy incapable, we suddenly decide that the moment is right to broaden our circle of contacts. So i staggered round and pressed the doorbell I remember the whole thing went appallingly with me virtualy forcing her poor family to watch Star Trek or something similar. They were polite, but i think this girl was given firm orders to avoid me in future... which she did :-)

Paul gate wrote:

No, but the dear friend's brother suffered a few bruises, if I remember correctly. I didn't mention that whilst over there, I made everyone do that 'levitation' thing, where you lift someone out of a chair, you know? Anyway, I decided we could use my friend's brother as the person who gets 'levitated', so we all lifted him out of the chair, and I let go of his arm and dropped him on the floor.....but at least I didn't puke on the carpet.

Well, it did have me sitting on it, and it did smash into the wall whenI fell off it. :)

I don't think there's usually any drunk people there....:)

Just a few, yeah.....

Yeah, but it is kinda hard to stand up straight when thestupid floor keeps moving....:)

Oh dear.....I can't say that's ever happened to me, but I know what you mean. :)

Alli

endless, nameless wrote in message ...

That reminds me ha ha A freind of mine once vomited entirely Into his bear glass in a pub, quite graceful, l thought ;-)

Also this levitating thing actualy works!! I along with two ladies, once lifted a 17 stone storeman six foot into the air just using two fingers each!! We made quite a bit of money in bets!!

I don`t know how it works ,,,but it does

You don`t weigh half a metric tonne though.... do you? ;-)

In my limited experience we often tend to overestimate the enourmity of the "asses" we make of ourselves in these situations. Other people hardly notice.

Sometimes we estimate correctly however :-(

Paul gate wrote:

Yeah. I don't usually vomit very easily, so I haven't doneanything like that, also, I'm not old enough to be served in a pub (I'm 15, neary 16) so I won't be faced with that situation for another year or so....

It's very strange, isn't it? I've found that it works, except when one of the participants is drunk.....

No, 90 pounds. So I don't know how I managed to break the thing! :)

Yeah, that's true I guess....

And that's when it's *really* embarassing, when you go to school the next day, and everyone knows about it!

Alli

endless, nameless wrote in message ...

It works even if you don`t believe in it, unlike "speaking in tounges" (Which i have tried, inadvertantly, but was judged a failure :-))

You have to layer your hands above the victims head In a particular way Pause for a second.....then whoooosh Under the armpits and knees with two fingers, and up goes your victim

We stood there with our arms above our heads, and this bemused 17 stone chap supported on our fingers, we could even wiggle our fingers about ,it was absurd!

You were probably showing a bit too much enthusiasm with the pedals and somhow got some momentum up, but all the same it seems a bit churlish for the thing to actualy break on you.

Its a real problem!!! When i worked for the DSS we had a group that regularly used to get drunk in the local pubs in the evenings, but it all broke up in the end. Everybody got too embarrassed to continue ! People would stop going to work because they could no longer face their collegues.... Then as a reaction, people would try to remain "sensible" throughout, and it kinda dribbled to an uninspiring halt after that.

Crikey, i`ve just realised that 90 pounds is about Six stone!

I don`t how people do it.

Not eating pizzas continuously probably helps though :-) (yum yum)

Paul gate wrote:

6 stone 4lbs, I think. 40 kilos.

I don't like pizza much. I don't like chips, either. Or ice cream. I don't like very much, really.....

Alli

endless, nameless wrote in message ...

What about tomatos?

Paul gate of UUNET writes:

Or chocolate gateaux.

Shez wrote:

Oh, I love chocolate gateaux. I only eat things with chocolate in, you see. But I'll complain if all my friends buy me galaxy bars for Christmas again.....

Alli

Paul gate wrote:

Ugh. I can't stand them. I don't mind ketchup and tomato soup and stuff, but actual tomatoes make me vomit.

Alli

endless, nameless wrote:

With me it's just the opposite. CHopped tomatoes in my food are fine, but ketchup is a vile substance. It gives me uncontrolled, violent nausea. Ditto tomato soup. Tomato sauce (as on pizza or in spaghetti) is OK, though.

MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")

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Shez wrote in message ...

There are millions to be made! Will somebody someday actualy come up with a tomato sauce that tastes like tomatos ??!!!???...... please!

I don`t know what they put in tomato sauce, but i suspect its mainly red vegetable dye or poster paint or something red, and about a kilo of sugar in each bottle, and if you`re lucky a bit of vinegar.

Has anybody in their right mind ever sprinkled sugar on a tomato?

Words fail me

Paul gate wrote:

Well, a tomato *is* a fruit. Actually, tomatoes are already kind of sweet...they probably have fructose in them.

MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")

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Progbear wrote:

*Good* tomatoes are sweet, but you don't find many of them in England. And I don't like tomatoes anyway, so I don't know why I'm complaining.....

Alli

Progbear wrote in message ...

Tomatos don`t taste sweet to me. Perhaps i have a "non standard" tounge I shall have to bow to popular opinion though.... that is if there is a popular opinion on this ;-)

Paul gate of UUNET writes:

Try mixing tomato puree with black pepper and vinegar, it's basically the recipe for ketchup, only without the sugar. Ideally you need some other seasoning too, like garlic etc, but such refinements are beyond my patience.

-Shez.

On 04 Dec 1998 22:10:14 GMT, [email] (Progbear) wrote:

As long as we are on the subject of food induced nausea... Does anyone know of a brand of spaghetti sauce that doesn't have onions in it?

the taste and texture of onions will cause me to do one or both of the following a)spit out the contents of my mouth and run (never walk) to the bathroom and rinse out my mouth or b) vomit almost immediately.

In fact the onion-eaters are continuously conspiring to dose me with onions: Fast food workers (they always slip that one stray bit of onion in a ketchup-only burger), all of the local pizza places (same thing), and manufacturers of spaghetti sauce.

Whenever I hear of someone else who also hates onions I feel an immediate sort of bond to that person. Only they know my pain. They are always scanning thier food for onions, they are my people. (National anthem plays in the background) We stand united....we will never be divided... we will vomit on those who feed them to us... we will make them crawl...CRAWL!

- I once shot a man just to watch him die. Then I got distracted, and I missed it. -Dave Foley, the Kids In the Hall.

Happydude wrote:

You have to make it yourself, OK, well, I get my dad to, because I am officially the world's worst cook. You can also buy normal onionny (that's not a word, is it?) sauce and put it in a blender, but if you don't like the taste that doesn't work so well.

Same here! Everyone thinks I'm mad, but I really hate them!

I don't bother with all that special ordering, it takes too long. Instead, I have to scrape out the onion, which is sad, but stops me puking while everyone else is trying to eat. Is it just me, or does anyone else do that?

It's OK for me, I'm not all that fond of pizza, except Domino's (which is actually the only type of pizza I can eat because no other place delivers far enough out of town) and I have yet to detect onion in their pizza.

See, that's why I get my dad to make it!

Scanning food for onions? I do that! Every time I eat something I'm not entirely familiar with, I have to check that there is no trace of anything resembling onion in it. If I find any, I'll either throw a hissy fit or put it in the blender, depending on my mood and whether anyone else wrongly informed me that it was onion-free.

Which national anthem? I have two, I guess, and I think they're both different to yours......and I don't remember any of them anyway.....

Alli

endless, nameless wrote in message ...

Perhaps we should have a competition to write a transnational anthem for atd? To the tune of the Daria theme? <g>

Martin (born in January).

On Fri, 04 Dec 1998 23:37:10 -0800, "endless, nameless" wrote:

I've thought about making my own but im too lazy to be bothered with it.

There is no point saying "I don't like onions" you might as well be speaking japanese backwards. people just tilt their head sideways and give you a funny look, right? I've been there.

I do if I forget to order no-onions (very rare). McDonalds is the worst because of those tiny little onions they use. They always end up imbedded into the bun so you have to either pick them out one by one or scrape off a layer of bread from the bun.

me too

especially then

It may sound very odd but if you weren't so young I would ask you to marry me. (Sorry, the anti-onion bond i was talking about compels me to say strange things)

"there is some onion in this but you can hardly tell it is there" The chant of the onion-eaters.

Whatever works. Try the Canadian one.

- I once shot a man just to watch him die. Then I got distracted, and I missed it. -Dave Foley, the Kids In the Hall.

Happydude wrote:

I usually just put it in the blender, because that involves very little effort and I am *really* bad at making my own food.

And if you refuse to eat food with onions in, they think you're really weird because they can't understand how a simple onion could make someone vomit.

Ugh. I hate that. Burger King don't put any in, do they? They didn't last time I went there, anyway, but that could have been a mistake. I don't go there often because it's a 5 min walk out of town, and it just isn't worth it, especially as they have this annoying habit of turning their burgers into charcoal in the hope that noone will notice they taste like crap.

Hehehe. I could get married in a week and a half, with my parents' permission, but I doubt they'd give me it!

They always say that!! It's so annoying!! And they are always, ALWAYS lying!!!!!

I don't know that one, either.....

Alli

On Sat, 05 Dec 1998 17:01:35 -0800, [email] wrote:

They know about a million different ways to say "please kill me, I'm an onion eater"

I do have a basic respect for the onion as a plant, as a plant the onion should live and die in the soil that it was grown in, like all good plants should. The onion evolved its taste and smell for one very specific purpose, to taste so bad that no animal would eat it, thus insuring its survival.

I don't even bother with fast-food anymore: there is too much fat, it's never fresh, the coke is always flat. It's hard to tell what that meat is really made from, I'm afraid I'll bite into a burger one day and have a cow eye staring back at me. Still, that wouldn't be as bad as biting into an onion.

Oh my god. You are the one who will someday defeat me. When you kill me you must pass on my story.

Whenever someone serves me a meal they say "please vomit and then kill me violently." I think the words they really said "this has no onions in it" but by the time the words reach my brain i hear it as "please kill me."

it goes: Oh Canada la la la la laaa land la la laa la la (second verse, same as the first)

- I once shot a man just to watch him die. Then I got distracted, and I missed it. -Dave Foley, the Kids In the Hall.

Happydude of MagicNet, Inc. writes:

I thought that was the Teletubbies anthem.

-Shez.

Shez wrote:

Heehehehe. I love the Teletubbies! Eh-oh! Again, again! Big hug! :)

I think my love of all things childish and silly has come from having little chance to enjoy such things as a child. My parents didn't like me watching hours and hours of television and instead encouraged my creative side, which is a good thing but has, along with other things unsuitable for this sort of discussion, caused me to end up rather immature when it comes to tastes in TV shows.

Alli

All i can say is... I need a shirt with Po on it.

Oh Canada, our home and native land True patriot love, in all thy sons commands With glowing hearts, we see thee rise The True North strong and free. Oh Canada, we stand on guard for thee

*blushes* What can I say, I watch a lot of hockey...

On Sat, 5 Dec 1998 21:23:24 +0000, Shez wrote:

___

Uh-oh, someone just put me in a position of responsibility! The day has suddenly turned sinister...

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On 6 Dec 1998 01:34:42 GMT, [email] (Kyle) wrote:

That's a good enough excuse. I would be very worried about you if you hadn't added that last line.

- I once shot a man just to watch him die. Then I got distracted, and I missed it. -Dave Foley, the Kids In the Hall.

You know I learned Canada's anthem in French once in sixth grade. Played it on the piano and everything. I don't know why, I'm not Canadian. I've been there quite a few times though since it's not real far from where I live. I live in Michigan. Last time I was there was when I went to Stratford.

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Happydude wrote:

Usually they just breath. That's enough to tell me if they have eaten the foul-smelling vegetables within the past 5 years.

LOL! I don't mind the taste so much as the texture, but I hate the smell. It is definitely the texture that makes me puke.

My dad keeps cooking sliced potatoes with onions in between the pieces, and I just scrape away the onions and eat the potatoes, but today a piece of onion found its way into my mouth, almost causing me to vomit onto my plate. I probably should have done so, as a revenge upon my onion-eating family, but stupidly, I didn't.

Umm, OK, but I really had no intention of killing you, unless your sadist side gets the better of you and you take it upon yourself to feed me onion....

I hear what they say alright, but then the voices in my head start telling me to eat their brains instead of the onion.....

Oh, OK. I can manage that. But I've never even been to Canada, do you think it matters?

Alli

I used to hate spaghetti for that reason, it was slimy, like eating worms. But then I discovered wholewheat pasta, it's much better as it's got some texture and colour to it, instead of being pallid and slippery. Similarly brown rice is much better than white, it has more flavour and doesn't look like a plateful of maggots.

-Shez.

On Sat, 05 Dec 1998 20:53:08 -0800, "endless, nameless" wrote:

True, the texture is the trigger for me too, it's that unexpected crunch. The flavor simply confirms my that it is onion and tells my brain to empty the contents of my stomach if it hasn't already.

He ruined a poor potato? that's a shame.

you must remember that the onion-eaters are constantly plotting against us. You will have the chance to vomit again, vomit on the plate of the person who prepared the meal and say "there is a little vomit in your food, just eat it, you can't even tell it's there"

Never, biting into an onoin is a fate worse than death.

not really, if all else fails the Beatles' Glass Onoin should do the trick.

- I once shot a man just to watch him die. Then I got distracted, and I missed it. -Dave Foley, the Kids In the Hall.

I decided to become really unpopular and shunned by the group and come and and say it:

I eat onions. I like onions.

Now, i think we can all live together peacefully. I won't try to make you eat onions if you dont write long, ranting posts on the evils of onions. Agrred?

On 6 Dec 1998 20:02:22 GMT, [email] (CrtoonDude) wrote:

Whole raw onions?

Fine, as long as this isn't some kind of onion-eater trick i'll agree. There isn't much more I can say about onions anyways, I'm tapped out.

- I once shot a man just to watch him die. Then I got distracted, and I missed it. -Dave Foley, the Kids In the Hall.

no, cooked only.

My uncle ate whole raw onions like apples before all his basketball games. I think this is so people wouldn't guard him. I myself have little opinion on onions, they're fine to eat, I just won't cut them. The only time I can think of onions ruining something is our soup my German class made, there were waaaaayy too many onions in there.

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Happydude wrote:

There's onion powder, though. Having said that, onion powder tastes so bad it'll make me puke anyway.....

Yes. He does it, like, every time he cooks potatoes and it is very irritating.

LOL! Yeah, then they'll know what it's like to be told that. Eating vomit, IMHO, is probably better than eating onion......

Absolutely. Cutting up onion is liable to kill you within 5 seconds anyway.

I remember, in year 7 in HE class, we had get into groups and each take a different sort of knife, and see which one would cut up best the type of vegetable our group had been given. I was last to colect a knife and got a pallete knife, and guess what our group's vegetable was: onion. I spent the entire hour-long lesson with this pallete knife, trying to chop a bloody onion, and by the end of the lesson I was practically blind from the hideous vapours given off by the onion. For this reason, I dropped HE as soon as I got the chance.

Alli

There's a weird poem someone once wrote which pretends to rhyme "bough" with "cough" and "though", along with other weird pronunciation inconsistencies.

-Shez.

Shez wrote:

Yeah, I saw that somewhere. It's all very strange..... Oh yeah, and did you know that 'ghoti' spells 'fish'? 'Gh' as in 'cough', 'o' as in 'women', 'ti' as in 'station', something like that.

Alli

I remember seeind something like this in a Gallager stand up routine. Don't judge me, it was on TV. Anyway, i sat ther and I thought "this is what people learning English have to put up with? Yikes."

In article , "endless, nameless" wrote:

Ok, try this one (title of a Dr. Suess book): "The tough coughs as he ploughs the dough".