h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

B, after this thread, I *definitely* want a lunch date...

Agapanthus, guess who played Demetrius in the 'Dream' last year? So here goes:

O Agapanthus! Goddess! Nymph! Perfect! Divine!
To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne?
Crystal is muddy! O, how ripe in show,
Thy lips; those kissing cherries, tempting grow!
That pure congealed white, high Taurus' snow,
Fanned with the Eastern wind, turns to a crow,
When thou holdest up thy hand! O, let me kiss,
This princess of pure white, this seal of bliss!

There. OK, I might have changed one word. But was that better than 'You're fit '?

Blimey - I look in here last thing at w**k, drive home, have a bite and a bit of . And zap!, 42 posts of b'log...

Anyway, to catch up:



Welcome, hnicky

Mr Shakespeare: Like Macbeth and Hamlet, actually. An English theatre here, London Toast (B - the ones with the panto), also does serious stuff and have done both Midsummer Nights' as well as a transcription (word?) of Macbeth they called Mac 'n' Beth where they went rather deep into an analysis of Lady Macbeth's role and influence on her husband. Good it was, too.

And then I am a Dane - which has presented me with an option to see Hamlet played at Kronborg castle sometime back in the 80s. Think that it actually was the occasion when Kenneth Brannagh played Hamlet...

to Mr D - both for the Post-column (could such a late applause for this occasion be a post-applause? ) AND for the early scribe-offer!

'Atelier' - I tend to pronounce it very French-like. But then, I have cheated and lived in France for half a year-ish once, so I do speak the language...

Danish elections... Lil, I will - but I don't know if I can make it there this weekend.... Plan to go out getting rather t'morrow - party in 8's class, for parents - without the kids . And they tend to last 'til early morning.

Which is why I think new thread is fine after the weekend. Not that, with the time zones in mind, I reckon chances are high. I won't be in the States until the 31....

I surely won't look like my Mother in any mirror But my Dad on the other hand - first time quite a few friends over time saw my Dad, they said something like 'Oh, you're SG V's Dad..." In fact, when I was mere weeks old, a friend of the family said, 'Oh poor dear, you look like your Dad..."

Finally, glasses. After I wrecked the previous ones in Dec, I was asked a few times if I wanted to consider lenses. Actually not. 1) I don't do eg sports where the glasses are a hindrance; b) I actually feel that the glasses on that face in the mirror is a part of who and what I am. So there...



Now, up for more and family-Fridaying

I've been wearing glasses since the second or third grade (7 or 8).

20/20 vision here.

I wore glasses but did not need them when I was in the 2nd grade. Now I need them and have been wearing them since 2000.

I don't see my mum in the mirror. I sometimes *hear* my mum when I speak, which is really scary, and I occasionally see my dad, but mostly I see my paternal grandmother and one of my aunts. In fact, I have been known to wave at my reflection in shops thinking that it's my aunt . My hands are the same shape as my dad's but very small like my mum's.

I don't usually wear my specs but I have to when teaching so that I can see what the little s are up to at the back of the class . But I've noticed that I have to take my glasses off to read more than I used to. It makes taking the register tricky - I need glasses that work a bit like dolls' eyes with lenses that rise up when I look down and drop back in front of my eyes when I look up. I don't need reading glasses though, so it isn't quite bifocal time yet.

the optician i first saw ws clarivoyent a very good one,saw 40 years into the future,

perhaps the fact was in care was ,something to do with his diagnosis,?
sheakspeare ,did play puck in midsummers night ,schoolplay ,to may years ago to remember though ,holes in memory bigger than the hedge's

I've worn glasses since I was thirteen, well to be more precise I wore contact lenses from 13-21, and then switched to glasses after realising the horrible complications that came with contact lenses, (if you don't clean them properly, which I rarely did).

I have Television !

You'll get bored of it soon...

You haven't seen me, I am not here, I am cleaning and tidying for our guests tomorrow...

Watch as I hoover...

Marvel as I Mr Sheen all surfaces...

Boggle at the fact that I am doing all that while typing.

k - feeling like I ought to have an eye test

ltp, I can really see you as Puck!

Elderly anecdote:
daughter - Would you like to watch the television?
grandmother - No thanks, I've already seen it.

I had just typed a long and very entertaining post and the darn computer played silly bu**ers.

*scratches head and tries to recall what this was



Huh! Off I go to wo*k and find that in my absence you lot have been having fun to the tune of nearly 100 posts.

I am resigned to never being FTTF as the convo always seems to change when I'm at wo*k. But since I am the grateful and lucky recipient of quite a few of Lil's lovely awards I shall just and bear it.

*waves to hnicky

I hope Titania is beginning to feel much better.

All the talk of whipped cream earlier reminded me of my favourite Golden Girls moment...

Rose - I'll get the cheesecake
Sophia - I'll get the ice-cream
Tall one - I'll get the whipped cream
Blanche - Rights girls, let's pig out and talk dirty

Is it true that the Tall One, whose character's name I have forgotten, is really XY? Not that it matters but I've always been curious

On resembling our older relatives - I once caught sight of myself in a mirror, as I was sitting here typing, and thought I was looking at my paternal grandmother. I loved her dearly but don't think the poor woman ever smiled in her life.

I also thought ltp would make a perfect Puck.

Bea Arthur (Dorothy on The Golden Girls) is definitely a woman, albeit a large mannish one. However, MR has a theory that Sandra Bullock is really a guy. Maybe she'll share her reasons...

I have trouble seeing Sandra Bullock as a guy.

Ya, what GDZ said...

Is it to be deduced that both marv and GDZ ,could have a woman to woman
relationship with sandra but not as male female, interesting.

Is it to be deduced that both marv and GDZ ,could have a woman to woman
relationship with sandra but not as male female, interesting.

I remember being in a photobooth early one morning in 2000, and seeing my mother stare back from the photos at me. Once, when I was about 14 or so, I was working late in a classroom one winter, stood up, saw my reflection in the glass of the window, and thought 'who is that?' and then realised that it was me, and that I would be looking at variations of that face for the rest of my life. An odd moment. I wrote about it, but haven't still got my exercise books from school.

Worn glasses since I was a nipper, with forrays into contact lenses for decades at a time.

Ormy, lunch would be good - drop me an email to [email protected]. I can only access at w/e though.

B

Ormy, darling, I am ever so pink and flustered now... Must show your post to S. See if he sees what I mean, as it were, bless him, and bless you too... Ooooh, it's ever so much better than being told I'm fit...

*sigh*

I look uncannily like my cousin, more like her than I do any of my siblings. But I sound uncannily like my Mum, especially when I'm being unreasonable.

I like wearing specs. I recently got a nice new pair that make me feel Librarian Sexy (my last pair made me look like a baby owl - cute, but not sexy).

I have just watched "Spirited Away."

Wow!

I thought the level of observation that went into character movement and development was just extraordinary, and the detail in the drawing was just mind-blowing. The scene in which the heroine is on the train, well, the scenery was gorgeous -- that house and tree on an island bathed in late afternoon sun, and the melancholy of whooshing by people who are standing on the platform, and the way he made partial specters of the other passengers... I could go on like this about every single scene.

The witch/granny characters with their big heads were a straight cross of Sir John Tenniel and Winsor MacCay.

I am just home from watching our local semi-pro hockey team, the Utah Grizzlies, actually win a game. The highlight of the game, however, is that I was able to catch a hockey puck for only the second time in my life. I will add it to my collection while I put some ice on my rather bruised hand.