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Opticalillusion- media mynx life would be boring without hiccups Posted Jul 20, 2003
sorry but have you only just realised this world is crazy?! I first found out the world was crazy when I saw myself in the mirror 
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jul 20, 2003
Do you really believe what your mirror
shows you, opticalillusion?
My mirror has been lying to me for years.
For one thing, it shows me something slightly
different every day. Over the decades, it has
added gray (and recently white) to my hair,
and inches to my waist. Now, how accurate
can that be? 
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Opticalillusion- media mynx life would be boring without hiccups Posted Jul 20, 2003
yes I am a spotty old teen (I say old cos I`m nearly 20)
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jul 20, 2003
I hope your spots aren't contagious.
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Opticalillusion- media mynx life would be boring without hiccups Posted Jul 20, 2003
lol definitely not
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Lady Scott Posted Jul 20, 2003
Reminds me of a story an old lady tells about this very rude intruder who has been hanging around her for the last several years... I don't remember all of it, but here's the gist of it:
This intruder is considerably older than the lady telling the story, and insists on standing in front of the mirror every time she tries to see herself in it. The rude intruder also has gray hair, weighs a lot more than the person telling the story, and has lots of wrinkles. (she knows all this because *she* certainly doesn't have any of those problems, but every time she looks in the mirror, there they are, so it must be the intruder standing in her way) The intruder has also been known to shrink all her clothes, blur all the writing in her books, newspapers and magazines, hide her glasses and other various items around the house, and turn the volume down way too low on the TV and radio.
I'm sure there was more to it, but I don't remember it now... She just wanted this rude intruder to leave her alone, quit getting in the way every time she tried to do anything and stop messing with her stuff.
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jul 22, 2003
Walter Jefferies 
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Lady Scott Posted Jul 22, 2003
Any chance you could provide a link? 
, I can't pull up anyone significant on google by that name. (
I live under a rock. I have no idea who anyone is anymore)
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jul 22, 2003
I didn't think you'd know who he was - I was being provocative by not providing the link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3086645.stm
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jul 22, 2003
Lady Scott, that was excellent! 
Some people call those intruders in the mirror
"Mirror Ghouls."
There's one that's started appearing in my mirror, too.
I guess it's hard to get rid of them? 
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Lady Scott Posted Jul 22, 2003
Gosho - as soon as I saw it was someone from Star Trek, I immediately thought of Jeffries Tubes.
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Lady Scott Posted Jul 22, 2003
Paul - I looked all over ForwardGarden.com trying to find the original version of that story to link here - it's considerably better than my shortened version... But alas, it doesn't seem to have hit Forward Garden yet...
I *used* to have a copy of it somewhere around here... if I can find it, *I'll* send it to Forward Garden, then provide a link
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jul 28, 2003
Bob Hope... but that one was hardly a surprise, was it.
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Lady Scott Posted Jul 29, 2003
No, at 100 years of age, it's pretty much inevitable. Still, I'll miss him.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jul 29, 2003
If it had been anybody else, I would
have told you not to lose Hope, Lady Scott. 
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jul 31, 2003
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Lady Scott Posted Jul 31, 2003
Saw that this morning.
Does it seem to you like an unusually large number of the living legends are dying this summer?
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jul 31, 2003
Oxymorons, Lady Scott.
If they're dying, i.e. now dead, then they
aren't *living* legends any more.
Gosho, it's a good thing you posted that link.
I was going to pick up my Phillips screwdriver
and try to console it so it didn't grieve too
much over its father's death. 
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Aug 3, 2003
Sing no more lovely boy 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3119865.stm
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GreyDesk Posted Aug 3, 2003
Quite right
What a strange show that was. I mean it could never be made in today's political climate, making fun of homosexuals and of Indians all in one go. Yet somehow it was all done with such love.
As for Don himself. Well I didn't realise he was so young, I thought he was about 15 years older than that. I remember reading somewhere - sorry I can't rememeber where - that he had been reduced to selling tapes of his songs on the concourse of Lewisham shopping mall. Him, a tape player, and a box of his tapes at a fiver a go whilst he mimes away to his old hits. All quite tragic
Don is one of these 'Dropping like flies' of yours that really did make an impression upon me as a youngster, and I'll miss him.
*bows head*
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