ha-ha!

we're not fat and ugly, we're voluptuous and stunning!

Tell me more about myself! *wink*

I vote with Wolf in response #102 :-) (see the new topic, btw)

That's cool, but not for real. I mean how many men think about short and fat as voluptuous and stunning. For myself I can count them on one hand: my husband (thank God!), George, Ray. That makes exactly THREE!! Know what I mean???

And don't forget the vicar boy!!!

Baah!

Hello neighbour! How are you? Just wanted to stop by and see how things are. Gotta go now, talk to you perhaps later?

Sure. Exactly how neigh are you - which city? And does this mean you're still talking to me?

Who, me? Always did. Though I get usually, huh, INTERESTING replies.

honest, you mean ...

...perhaps that, too. Now, would I know? (Noticed that this is the longest exchange we two had in ANY topic in which you didn't call me stuff or ridiculed me WITHIN 2 replies?)

Don't be so impatient - I'm just getting to that part! NO, sorry - I really am. I ridiculed you and called you stuff? WHEN???? Apart from the italian thing, when you patronized me?

Hoh! Hold it, Fury! You wouldn't guess it, but I had to look up that word. Well, I guess that it is what you read into it. I was trying to be friendly and help a fellow Springizen... (and for once not getting a log pulled over my head, which made me a bit, uh, CAREFUL and - one wouldn't guess - shy. For sure I got clobbered again...). You read so much into my mutterings - and you are so generous with the findings -, I was sometimes very much amazed about how things turned. Yeah. Don't know, I think we got off from a bad start.

But, Alexander, I do want you to know that I was just playing. Maybe I play too rough - I am sorry if I've hurt you by it. It really WAS just playing, not headgames. I just meant to tease you. You see, you do that thing, well, yes, you have a great sense of humour, but at the same time you are incredibly polite and careful, and then I thought ... well, then I just felt like teasing you. I'm sorry. Do you think maybe, instead of a BAD start, we could call it a 'frictious' start? Because friction is a misunderstood sort of thing. People think it's bad, when it's actually good. Because it creates warmth in the end, doesn't it?

Uh, heat, too... Right, I got extremely polite and careful, especially around certain Swiss residents, after I found out how mad I could get... and how easy... AND HOW HOT DAMMIT......!!!! AAAHHHH, a bucket o' water!!! Quickkkkkk!!!! Ahhhh! Yea, that's better. Sorry, my head was on fire. Happens sometimes (looks nice, smells bad). So you somehow do NOT see me as some genetically challenged, cyste-brained ogre from Outer Space come to bore the earth to death? Because that is how I felt you had me tagged...

I think if boils down to a difference in temperament perhaps. I live in Switzerland, but am African - and six years haven't taken the bush out yet; I have not grace, not elegance, not sophistication - I don't know how to do that. And I DO have you tagged already, so it's too late! But not the way you think at all!

I am doomed! It's even worse than I feared...

Fear what you will. All I know is that I invited you to come to Inner once - why do you think that was? Not that you'll believe the obvious answer, since you've now firmly established the notion in that head sitting on your shoulders, that we do and must despise one another. Such a pity - we could've lit a bonfire together!

Uh, watch that torch, willya, what do you think this bottle of spiritus is? Oh. You weren't teasing about that? Plus you remembered... Hmh.

I remembered. Maybe we should try again tomorrow. Sweet dreams.

Yes, I'm very tired, too. Sweet dreams to you, too. It'll be good for me to withdraw and cycle through some emotional states and see what comes out. Perhaps not tomorrow, but I'll be back, promised. But for now - the moon is up, and I'll be gone. Thank you...

and your all's start was nothing like Ree's and mine down in philosophy, huh, Miss Topic??

Oh, no! We two got on like a blazing house right from the start, didn't we? Flames of sweetness and light .....Right,, Mr. Roland - - - RIGHT???

Why, of course! You know I would NEVER disagree with you!!!

[thinks...] "KITCHEN-MAN"

Awe, but that was an AFFECTIONATE term, Mike! He was a guy, he worked in a kitchen, he called himself Kitchen Manager. I just did an abbreviation .... I could've called him Kitchen Hunka-Man - but that would be interpreted as being arrogant too. See? NO?

He's the man, the natural born kitchen man . . . (sung to BB King music).

YEAH! Just like that! Except he doesn't work in a kitchen anymore. Now we have to call him Cyber Man!

Does someone know something I do not know? He worked long hot killer hours in LI's kitchens last I heard...please let me know...!

I thought he quit months ago, and wanted to something to do with computers. Did he go back to LI?

a little 8-bar blues please... He got out of the kitchen Don't know how he stood the heat Steam from kettles a-boilin' Oven roastin' his meat... Went to work in an office Got a cursor that blips No more Kitchen Man toilin' Now that he's in the chips... No more slavin' over a smokin' stove Wer's a new man, praise the Lord He's the cookin' chef of cyberspace The Chairman of the Motherboard!

�hummin' along� Damn, if only I could reach C below middle C!

Then at least I'd be a tenor, and not merely a bad singer....

Great song, John! Surely becomes a number one hit - who's gone play with you?

We're all playing with him! This is the Spring - everybody's a player here! (Or did I get this wrong? Great lyrics, John! As refers to W., I'm afraid he's still at LI - at least I haven't heard of anything else...)

I don't know either...I just wrote the lyrics based on the posts I read...thanks!

The better the job you did, mate! I think he would feel honored.

No no, Wer is NOT at LI anymore! He quit, then had a jobless bit, then got a temporary computer-related job. Am I hallucinating all this??

No, you're right. Reread your line, says temporary there... I don't think something new came along since then (not that he hadn't tried).

WHAT??? Wer went BACK to that place? I thought he was still at the computer-job, and that he'd then be appointed on a permanent basis - like that trial period thing. How appalling that he is back at LI! He was miserable there!

He works 14 hours double shifts 2 days a week I read somewhere. Plus regular ones on the other days. He also works extra hours there when he can...as I understand it. Killer stuff!!!

That would make me miserable.

It makes me miserable just knowing someone has to do that... My empathy knows no bounds!

Lilitaly ain't that bad, it's good a nice mood and feel. I enjoy my sometimes repasts there.

But, whatzit like in Lilitaly's Kitchen?!

Probably hot and steamy.

You NEVER investigated?

Hot and steamy doesn't sound THAT bad....�smile�

She knows!

Yep! So, how would you describe YOUR work, Terry? Mine has adjectives like 'dirty' and 'sticky' - sounds remarkably like .... no, I won't be rude today.

Challenging and fascinating.

Give me challenging and fascinating over hot and sweaty or dirty and sticky any day...or night, for that matter...!

How do you describe yours, ree ree?

I already told you: dirty and sticky!! That's how I LIKE it. But challenging and fascinating sounds the healthier type of job to me. One that involves something a little cooler than co-ordination.

Where's ma neighboer these days?

Wondering the same thing myself... why don't ya run across the street(s) and knock on her door??

Uh, not sure that'll be smart... Loads of snow down yonder! Traffic jams on motorways inna post-christmas wonderland... Getting stuck fer HOURS... Thought askin' y'all be easier + faster.

HEy, but Terry shoulda kinda know! Terry?

I hear they're having extreme heavy weather in Switzerland and Europe, wave after wave. Hope our lil' Ree is ok. What did y'all want me to do now?

Investigate! Inquire! Report! Huh, what'd YOU think we'd say?

I'm a little worried, too! She's never been non-responsive for so long; I figured it was just college and Xmas keeping her busy, but now I'm not so sure.

Is this a mission for Miracle Terry, or what? I say: Yea!

On top of all that, we're having a nameserver crisis that makes y2k pale by comparison in our little world.

He rises to the occasion!!! Yea...Terry!!!

Yea Marci, she's back, and beautiful!

Yea Telnet! Thanks for the welcome. it is a lonely life outside of Spring. Thanks for the hoops you jumped through to get me in this far. Lots of Hugs and Kisses for that!

Now the next task, Mr Walhus... First find Miss R., then fix my post-Y2K-crashed notebook...

No joke, Ms. Ree Ree, come back little Ree Ree.

My dear Ree...Your gracious invite got me into the best conference here and we stumbled around under the same towel (while someone stood on the corner and caused a double exposure!)...I miss you! Bring that cute little self back here and let us fall all over ourselves welcoming you back - Pulllllease?!!!!

Just what I were about to say...

...minus the towel thing, of course. I don't know about any towels, but all the other stuff. You snowed in, Riette, and phone lines don't work?

Shall we string up tin can telephones? Send the St Bernards Squad complete with Brandy kegs to dig you out? Just send the word and we are on our way!!!