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Account with Permanent package of service Created on 12 June 2003 (#1113655) Last updated on 3 May 2017
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strange and charming
Schools:
- Blackstock College - Northfield, MN
- Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - Hogsmeade, Scotland - Highland, United Kingdom
- Starfleet Academy - San Francisco, CA
- Xavier Institute for Higher Learning - North Salem, NY
- Miskatonic University - Arkham, MA (1900 present)
- Coal Hill School - Hackney, England - Greater London, United Kingdom (1963 present)
So what's the big deal? Doesn't everyone
Have an alligator somewhere, somehow?
And maybe this one has always been here,
But I never noticed it till now. -Betsy and Katie Tinney
How many parsecs to Babylon? 3.129 × 10-12 parsecs and 5.216 × 10-13.
Can I get there by Orion's light? Yes, and back again.
If your heels are nimble and wings are quick,
You can get there by Orion's light. - I, me, mine
Thomas: You don't make an allowance for individuality. How do you know that
out there, in day or night according to latitude, the entire world isn't
wanting to be hanged? - Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not For Burning
Delirium: She called me a person, did you hear? - Neil Gaiman, Brief Lives
Protect me, and I will follow every pumpkin.
Honor me, and I will answer big mad monster. - author unknown
"I'm not sure they had penguins in England," I say,
With visions of the all-penguin Hamlet racing through my head,
Or Romeo and Juliet, restaged as the forbidden love
Between polar bear and arctic fox.
"Besides, large fish-eating birds respond poorly
To theatrical direction." -
cadhla, The Dubious Tragedy of Shakespeare's Missing Penguin
Hamlet: I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Better the illusions that exalt us than 10,000 truths. - Alexander Pushkin
Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Guildenstern: What a shambles! We're just not getting anywhere.
Rosencrantz: Not even England. I don't believe in it anyways.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, you mean?
- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Roumania.
- Dorothy Parker
To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due. - Neil Gaiman, Season of Mists
Hostes aliengeni me abduxerent. Qui annus est? (Aliens abducted me. What year is it?)
You have to break an omelette to make eggs. Emma Bull, Finder
Labyrinth mood theme created bygirlfromsouth
Additional Interests: 24: bridge, buffy the vampire slayer, celtic music, children's literature, dancing, david bowie, fantasy, perl, puns, rush, roger zelazny, sca, science fiction, solaris, system administration, u2, unix, urban fantasy, urban myth, user friendly, world domination, world music, ottawa, caldrithig
Have an alligator somewhere, somehow?
And maybe this one has always been here,
But I never noticed it till now. -Betsy and Katie Tinney
How many parsecs to Babylon? 3.129 × 10-12 parsecs and 5.216 × 10-13.
Can I get there by Orion's light? Yes, and back again.
If your heels are nimble and wings are quick,
You can get there by Orion's light. - I, me, mine
Thomas: You don't make an allowance for individuality. How do you know that
out there, in day or night according to latitude, the entire world isn't
wanting to be hanged? - Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not For Burning
Delirium: She called me a person, did you hear? - Neil Gaiman, Brief Lives
Protect me, and I will follow every pumpkin.
Honor me, and I will answer big mad monster. - author unknown
"I'm not sure they had penguins in England," I say,
With visions of the all-penguin Hamlet racing through my head,
Or Romeo and Juliet, restaged as the forbidden love
Between polar bear and arctic fox.
"Besides, large fish-eating birds respond poorly
To theatrical direction." -
cadhla, The Dubious Tragedy of Shakespeare's Missing PenguinHamlet: I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Better the illusions that exalt us than 10,000 truths. - Alexander Pushkin
Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Guildenstern: What a shambles! We're just not getting anywhere.
Rosencrantz: Not even England. I don't believe in it anyways.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, you mean?
- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Roumania.
- Dorothy Parker
To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due. - Neil Gaiman, Season of Mists
Hostes aliengeni me abduxerent. Qui annus est? (Aliens abducted me. What year is it?)
You have to break an omelette to make eggs. Emma Bull, Finder
Labyrinth mood theme created by
girlfromsouthAdditional Interests: 24: bridge, buffy the vampire slayer, celtic music, children's literature, dancing, david bowie, fantasy, perl, puns, rush, roger zelazny, sca, science fiction, solaris, system administration, u2, unix, urban fantasy, urban myth, user friendly, world domination, world music, ottawa, caldrithig
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