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Does anyone want to join me in some self denial?
Hathornefer (ACE) Near miss - isnt that what you'd call a hit Posted Mar 13, 2003
As lent has already started I find I cant give up anything worthy that you guys have given up cos its too late
-- I'd have failed before I start. So its a case of finding something that really is self denial rather than easily avoidable and that I havent already done.
Its tough!!!!!!
How about computer games? I have installed and set up games since lent started but not played them. As an avid games tester it should be tough -- but beneficial to my college output.
Hath 
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Ku'Reshtin (Bring the beat back!) Posted Mar 13, 2003
Sounds like a worthwhile thing to give up for lent. 
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Hathornefer (ACE) Near miss - isnt that what you'd call a hit Posted Mar 13, 2003
especially when you have as many games as I do sitting at the side of my PC
Hath
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Mu Beta Posted Mar 13, 2003
I certainly couldn't do it - not with Championship Manager 4 out on the 28th.
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Ku'Reshtin (Bring the beat back!) Posted Mar 13, 2003
I could, but that's probably only because I don't have a computer at all, hence no computer games.
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Hathornefer (ACE) Near miss - isnt that what you'd call a hit Posted Mar 13, 2003
Not having a pc wouldnt be an issue if you spent lots of time playing on someone elses PC 
.... afterall you surely have access to a PC somewhere.
Hath
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Titania (gone for lunch) Posted Mar 13, 2003
When I saw the subject I pictured something completely different - like those h2g2 researchers who insist that they are perfectly normal despite having spent a year or two around here!
Me? Oh, I'm not 
- oh no, not me!
Hey - maybe I ought to give up self-denial?
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Mu Beta Posted Mar 13, 2003
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I think Bebel Matman pre-empted you on that one.
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Titania (gone for lunch) Posted Mar 13, 2003
"Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest perspective of all is to see far, far behind you, the temptations you've passed up."
-- Robert A. Heinlein, from "Stranger in a Strange Land"
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Mu Beta Posted Mar 13, 2003
Well, you got me all contemplative for a minute there...
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Stephen Posted Mar 13, 2003
My own self deial is limited to trying to make sure idon't put on weight and to dieting when I fail!
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Mar 14, 2003
Hath, will I put you on the list for giving up computer games?
On a different topic, Hath, are you a clarinet player?
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Hathornefer (ACE) Near miss - isnt that what you'd call a hit Posted Mar 14, 2003
I used to play the oboe...... and my flute is still in the cupboard but I have never played the claranet. I am also a very curious creature that wonders what prompted the question.
I am already starting to struggle withthe games thing I have to confess as a tester for a couple of companies and tester of competition maps I am already beginning to feel I should be playing . Perhaps I should have said playing for pleasure -- but its done now. No games at all.
Hath
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Mar 14, 2003
OK, Hath. You're on the list as giving up Computer Games until Easter.
I dissected your user name as Hat-horn-efer. Horn is a common nickname for a jazz clarinet and efer is an E flat Soprano clarinet. The Hat combined with the jazz clarinet is just 
. No doubt, I'm completely wrong!
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Hathornefer (ACE) Near miss - isnt that what you'd call a hit Posted Mar 14, 2003
You are completely wrong -- but I like it I often get called Hat or Hathorn so I kind of expect people not to understand.
Hathor as in the Egyptian goddess
nefer as in the egyptian word for beauty (think Nefertiti)
It goes back to gaming again I am afraid, more specifically an Egyptian themed game called Pharaoh I got very hooked on 2 years ago.
Hath
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Mar 14, 2003
I should have spotted that one! My daughter loves playing Pharaoh! At one stage, I could have drawn out the hieroglyphics for Hathor and Nefer.
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Titania (gone for lunch) Posted Mar 14, 2003
I like playing Pharaoh too - when I have the patience for it...
Oh - and I wanted to say that I didn't mean to make fun of you who have decided to give up something - but I just couldn't resist being ...
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Vip Posted Mar 14, 2003
Wow, Gnomon, I couldn't have seen that in Hat's name! If you'd have been right- wow, what a name! It's still a good one, but the clarinettist in me is jealous.
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Hathornefer (ACE) Near miss - isnt that what you'd call a hit Posted Mar 14, 2003
I think Gnomon is far cleverer in naming than I was.... nothing that clever entered my brains
Off topic: Any of you or your offspring played 'Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom'? The newest one in the City Building Series.
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- 61: Hathornefer (ACE) Near miss - isnt that what you'd call a hit (Mar 13, 2003)
- 62: Ku'Reshtin (Bring the beat back!) (Mar 13, 2003)
- 63: Hathornefer (ACE) Near miss - isnt that what you'd call a hit (Mar 13, 2003)
- 64: Mu Beta (Mar 13, 2003)
- 65: Ku'Reshtin (Bring the beat back!) (Mar 13, 2003)
- 66: Hathornefer (ACE) Near miss - isnt that what you'd call a hit (Mar 13, 2003)
- 67: Titania (gone for lunch) (Mar 13, 2003)
- 68: Mu Beta (Mar 13, 2003)
- 69: Titania (gone for lunch) (Mar 13, 2003)
- 70: Mu Beta (Mar 13, 2003)
- 71: Stephen (Mar 13, 2003)
- 72: Gnomon - time to move on (Mar 14, 2003)
- 73: Hathornefer (ACE) Near miss - isnt that what you'd call a hit (Mar 14, 2003)
- 74: Gnomon - time to move on (Mar 14, 2003)
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- 76: Gnomon - time to move on (Mar 14, 2003)
- 77: Titania (gone for lunch) (Mar 14, 2003)
- 78: Gnomon - time to move on (Mar 14, 2003)
- 79: Vip (Mar 14, 2003)
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