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on: September 08, 2006, 12:49:45 AM
ahahahha.  the radio station my daughter listens to has a very wierd announcer who takes callers who tell randomly what they are doing at the moment.  at the moment, this girl had a cupcake in her pants.  with frosting.  what do these young people do with all their spare time?  i think my 42 day posting here is time much better spent.  but, i did have to laugh about the cupcake.

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Reply #1 on: September 08, 2006, 01:20:01 AM
Just be glad that that's all they do in their spare time. Be happy that that girl didn't have something else with frosting in her pants.

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Reply #2 on: September 08, 2006, 01:22:14 AM
or a foo-foo
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Reply #3 on: September 08, 2006, 01:27:57 AM
I think the said "foo-foos" aren't as dangerous as the things that I mentioned earlier, but still are quite inappropriate for the use of children. Can you imagine a child calling up the radio and claiming about her usage of the said material of "foo-foo" nature?

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Reply #4 on: September 08, 2006, 01:38:10 AM
I still don't actually know what a foo-foo is.

But I think I can make an educated guess.
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Reply #5 on: September 08, 2006, 01:50:50 AM
I was about to say that. I also don't have a clear undestanding of the said term, "foo-foo", but can make a conjecture, or a hypothesis for the least.

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Reply #6 on: September 08, 2006, 01:58:39 AM
so what are the "frosted things" you're talking about?  :o
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Reply #7 on: September 08, 2006, 02:00:35 AM
Those are usually found at the end of the pants stuffing session.

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Reply #8 on: September 08, 2006, 02:04:02 AM
Wouldn't you know Ada? :o

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Reply #9 on: September 08, 2006, 02:06:23 AM
"pants stuffing session"  :o :o ?

What tha?

come on debussy, spell it out.

No I don't know. I have led a very protected life  ;)
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Reply #10 on: September 08, 2006, 02:07:50 AM
Actually, the pants really play no role in the session, except that they no longer serve to purpose of clothing.

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Reply #11 on: September 08, 2006, 02:09:13 AM
 :-X

obviously some strange american custom
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Reply #12 on: September 08, 2006, 02:10:22 AM
I am not American. That is I wasn't born in America.

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Reply #13 on: September 08, 2006, 02:11:26 AM
You mentioned that you were married right? You aught to know. :-X

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Reply #14 on: September 08, 2006, 02:14:09 AM
I so did NOT mention I was married.
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Reply #15 on: September 08, 2006, 02:15:43 AM
You so DID!

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Reply #16 on: September 08, 2006, 02:16:55 AM
You mentioned youself being of around 20 years of age and being married.

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Reply #17 on: September 08, 2006, 02:18:43 AM
you have me confused with someone else possum  ;)
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Reply #18 on: September 08, 2006, 02:19:49 AM
What's a possum in the context that you are using right now?

On more serious terms, did you ever read Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare?

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Reply #19 on: September 08, 2006, 02:22:22 AM
What's a possum in the context that you are using right now?


It's an Australian term of endearment, poss
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Reply #20 on: September 08, 2006, 02:24:36 AM
Endearment of what, or whom?

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Reply #21 on: September 08, 2006, 02:30:16 AM
Oh don't get your frosted knickers in a knot.

It's like saying "sweetie", or "pet", or "blossom", or "love", or "mate" or "you old bugger".
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Reply #22 on: September 08, 2006, 02:31:30 AM
Oh don't get your frosted knickers in a knot.


What does that stand for?

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Reply #23 on: September 08, 2006, 02:37:18 AM
You started it with the pant stuffing reference!

Actually pianistimo started this with her cupcakes. Maybe she should stick to the bible after all.

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Reply #24 on: September 08, 2006, 02:38:15 AM
Did you ever read Titus? You avoided my question twice now. :(

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Reply #25 on: September 08, 2006, 02:43:27 AM
Sorry, no. Only Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar.


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Reply #26 on: September 08, 2006, 02:45:14 AM
You should read it definately!!! Kind of cruel though. The ending is brutal. True horror. I also recommend Othello the moor, a tragedy.

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Reply #27 on: September 08, 2006, 02:46:48 AM
Let's test you. Who said: "Ah, excellent well. You are a fishmonger." I think that's correct.

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Reply #28 on: September 08, 2006, 02:48:49 AM
uuuuh just wait till I google. It was a while back....

Ask me who said "when shall we three meet again" or "et tu Brute?"

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Reply #29 on: September 08, 2006, 02:50:45 AM
The first one I think is one of the 3 guards from Hamlet. The second one I don't know.

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Reply #30 on: September 08, 2006, 02:52:36 AM
are you answering your question? or mine? If you're answering mine you are wrong wrong wrong mr smarty pants debussy symbolism.

where's the fishmonger quote from?
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Reply #31 on: September 08, 2006, 02:55:39 AM
Darn, I thought it was when the 3 guards were startled because they had seen ghost of Hamlet's father. The fishmonger scene was when Hamlet began acting insane in order to have the king spill out information about the murder and not have to worry about Hamlet overhearing because of Hamlet's state, that is crazy. Polonious asked Hamlet who he was, and got that answer. Ironic because Polonious is of very high status and a fishmonger isn't a high status at all.

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Reply #32 on: September 08, 2006, 03:00:00 AM
It's the witch in Macbeth

When shall we three meet again
In thunder lightening or in rain
when the hurley burley's done
when the fighting's lost and won
where the place?
upon the heath
there to meet with Macbeth


Great stuff eh
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Reply #33 on: September 08, 2006, 03:04:28 AM
This is hilarious - between the two of you, you have 32 posts.  A complete monopolized conversation. 

The first one I think is one of the 3 guards from Hamlet. The second one I don't know.

The second one is from Julius Caesar.  "Et tu, Brute?" utters Caesar when Brutus, his protege and friend, stabs him in the back. 

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Reply #34 on: September 08, 2006, 03:06:19 AM
ha ha you got it
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Reply #35 on: September 08, 2006, 07:16:49 AM
how did we get from cupcakes to shakespeare?  oh well, nevermind.  i love shakespeare.  the timeless quality of it.  and, yes...after i posted i thought i should have stuck to the bible, too.  forgot about the secondary meanings temporarily of cupcakes in the pants.  or, rather, frosting.  when you have young children, all you think about is being rid of diapers.  now, having a teen with a diaper problem isn't exactly a dream made in heaven.  imagined it was a birthday joke or something.  usually with 1-2 year olds you have the head dead center in cake thing.  one of my sister-in-laws cousins was given their birthday cake with no silverware and videotaped.  obviously it is more fun to eat birthday cake this way.

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Reply #36 on: September 08, 2006, 07:33:23 AM
Who's hitting on the other one, Debussy Symbolism or Ada  ;D?
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Reply #37 on: September 08, 2006, 07:51:41 AM
one of them did ask the other if they were married and twenty years old.  suppose that could be an inidcation of curiousity.  but, i highly doubt that was debussy's intent - just making sure ada was telling the truth.  the 'frosted knickers in a knot' was a surprising turn. 

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Reply #38 on: September 08, 2006, 09:30:58 AM
  the 'frosted knickers in a knot' was a surprising turn. 

comes from "don't get your knickers in a twist" if I'm right.

Anyway, I didn't really get the "smooth" transition from cupcakes to Shakespeare.

Where is this one from?

"be not afeard, the isle is full of noises"

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Reply #39 on: September 08, 2006, 09:40:29 AM
the tempest?

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Reply #40 on: September 08, 2006, 09:50:25 AM
yep, the scene where caliban is reassuring the drunken stephano and trinculo not to worry about the tune Ariel is playing to scare them. It's one of the most beautiful speeches, even though it is paradoxically the "beast" of the island who says it.

"Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments                                 [140]
Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked,                                      [145]
I cried to dream again."

Interesting to have a bit about a "thousand twangling instruments"!
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