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Subject: What are you, really? From: Jim the Bart Date: 28 Mar 01 - 09:52 AM Everyone wears many hats in life. Some you take on, some are placed upon you. Very few of us get to fill the role in life which we consider to be our own. Many of us would prefer a life centered around the music; that's why we come here to the Mudcat. I would be willing to wager that very few of us actually work as musicians, composers, conductors, recording engineers or any of the myriad professions connected with music in this age. So my question is simple: Regardless of what you do for a living, in your heart of hearts, what do you consider yourself to be? I am a musician and philosopher (note that I didn't say you had to be good at the thing you consider yourself to be). I pay my way as a software trainer, but my passion lies in exploring how the world works, through music. When faced with a serious life choice, everything else must allow for that. There, I have confessed. I will never be as committed to software training as I am to the music. Now it's your turn. What are you, really? |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bagpuss Date: 28 Mar 01 - 10:06 AM Don't know about anybody else here, but I'm a human being (or a saggy old cloth cat....). Bagpuss |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: kendall Date: 28 Mar 01 - 10:12 AM I am whatever others make me out to be. Personally, I havn't a clue. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: LR Mole Date: 28 Mar 01 - 10:18 AM I am a hat. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Justa Picker Date: 28 Mar 01 - 10:35 AM A musician first and foremost. Everything else is secondary. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: annamill Date: 28 Mar 01 - 10:38 AM I an definitely a lady of leasure, woman of wealth, with no objective except to lay in the sun, next to the water, listening and learning to play music. Unfortunately, in reality..... Love, annamill |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bagpuss Date: 28 Mar 01 - 10:40 AM I'm a little teapot, short and stout. Bagpuss |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: MMario Date: 28 Mar 01 - 10:48 AM In the reality of my innermost? a wastrel. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Bruce o. Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:06 AM Just another trying to find my way out of a morass of ignorance. Maybe someday I'll see something on the other side that I can use for a beacon. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Dharmabum Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:08 AM Freelance Gynecologist |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Rick Fielding Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:17 AM Amateur psychologist. It wouldn't be fun if I had to make my living from it. Oh, and Vegematic demonstrator at a Carnival. Former perennial World Seies baseball star. Ahh, who's kiddin' who? Musician. Rick |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: JulieF Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:17 AM A wild child , a nymph of the wood, living wild and free , a precocious intellect and wit, the voice of an angel The demon analyst who can help any one overcome their problems ( Computer that is) in reality a 37 year old pragmitist who worries ( the family say overworries) and who has to practice spontenaity. Defined by the absolute horror that is the state of my house and the feeling that somewhere I'm letting someone down. The solo sing marred by a tendancy to shake from a place deep in the depth of me and an inability to remember all my own words ( Although I remember every one else). Actually sometimes the job's not far off and I have to admit , if it was just slightly more intellectually challenging just some of the time. I do have a fairly sharp wit - but why do you always come up with the brilliant comeback ten minutes after you needed it. Julie |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Kim C Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:17 AM A singer. All I ever wanted to do was sing, for as long as I can remember. I wanted to be a rock star but you see how that turned out! ;-) It's not how I make my living, and it's not quite how I imagined it... but I am a singer. Sometimes I get paid in money, but the appreciation is a much greater wealth. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:19 AM Dharmabum... can I be your apprentice?hehehe ..you're killing me |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,John Hill Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:22 AM I am the Eggman |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:22 AM Hackneyed: A Legend in my own mind. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Allan C. Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:26 AM I am a whole lot more like I am now than I was before. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:26 AM And I am the Walrus! Goo goo g'joob! |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bagpuss Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:27 AM I think we find out what are the most important roles in our life by thinking about whether we would be essentially the same person if that role were gone. I am a singer and a psychology researcher - both are equal parts of what makes me me. I couldnt stand it if I wasnt able to sing for some reason, but equally, I would hate to lose the academic and research side of me. If I couldn't do it as a job, I would do it as a hobby. Maybe one day I will swap and become a singer by profession and a hobbyist researcher. Then maybe I will find out if both those roles are the same to me. Bagpuss |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Big Mick Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:55 AM I am Rick Fielding, Dan Milner, Sandy Paton, Caroline Paton, Art Thieme, Jeannie Robertson, Odetta, Saul Alinsky, Cesar Chavez, Mother Jones, Dorothy Newman, Jeannie Cogan and Dick Greenhaus. Mick |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Jenny the T Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:05 PM >I'm a little teapot, short and stout. I never could get the hang of that game--I'd always end up with both fists on my hips. I guess I'm a sugarbowl. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Mrs.Duck Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:22 PM What time is it?6.20pm Right in that case I'm a Mummy trying to put two babies to bed and type at the same time. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: katlaughing Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:30 PM So that's really been you all this time, huh, Mick? Does Heather know? Sure was great talking to you the other day when I called Caroline and Sandy. Wish'd I'd known it was really you! **BG** I am a writer, have been ever since I can remember. I'd like to make more money at it, but lack the motivation to be aggressive enough for that. Besides which, one reader telling me how much they loved something I've written is worth more than any amount of money. ON the other hand, I would feel a lot less guilt if I were contributing more, financially, even though it is not asked of me. My words, then my music and animals. That is who I am.
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: mousethief Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:34 PM I love how Brits start sentences with "Right." It's so cute. I'm a dad, a stepdad, a husband, a tonsured Reader, a parishioner, a believer, a sinner, a jerk, a poet, a songwriter, a singer, a guitar player, a cross-stitcher, a reader of various types of books, a collector of various types of books, a computer programmer-analyst, an employee, a son, a step-brother, an uncle, a cousin, a philosopher, a college graduate, a tall, pudgy, bald guy, a listener to various kinds of music, a driver, a cow-orker, a handyman, a shopper, a "consumer" (how I hate that term!), a human organism, a depressive, an ADHDer, a patient, an ex-husband, a male, one hell of a nice guy, and if you're still reading this you're far more persistent than I am. Alex |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: catspaw49 Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:34 PM Having no idea, I'd say a lot of folks view me as a real dimbulb jerk with a bizarre sense of humor. To that end, assuming you are not humor impaired, I would urge you to visit and play some games at what has zoomed to the top of my website list. Had enough of Elian Gonzalez yet? Try the "Deportation Game." Fed up with your kids watching Blue's Clues or Pokemon? Need some Easter cheer? Watch the Bunny lay colored eggs or make your own Chocolate Bunny....go for the Nougat filling. So if indeed you are a real sick fuck like me, check out Killfrog.Com. Its a good question Bart, but at this stage of my life I'm simply a Dad...........and I embarass Michael a lot! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Mrs.Duck Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:36 PM Right they're in now but still shouting so for the next few moments I shall be me winding down on the 'puter close enought to become Mummy again if needed. All day long I have been nose wiper, a psychoanalyst, a physiotherapist, an actor, a surrogate parent, a social worker, an arbitrator, an occasional punchbag, an administrator, a clerk, a legal adviser, a counsellor, a voice in the wilderness, an artist, a politician, a total wreck and hopefully at some point an educator. Later on this evening I might manage a short trip to the pub and become a musician/singer for a while before coming home and being a wife, a friend, a lover(unless called upon to be Mummy again!) Then I will close my eyes and in my dreams be me! |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Art Thieme Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:37 PM I am a banana chasing a bagel through the Holland Tunnel. That's a dream I had once. Now----lemme see you make something freudian out o' that ?!? Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: kendall Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:41 PM Julie F, how does one practice being spontaneous? You did that on purpose to see if anyone was really listening, right? |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: wysiwyg Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:42 PM As flexible as possible. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Mrs.Duck Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:48 PM Art I just did and .................................. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: katlaughing Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:59 PM Art, is there a condom on the banana?**BG** Sorry, sorry, couldn't resist! Ya just kinda set it up real good there! luvyakat |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Kim C Date: 28 Mar 01 - 01:06 PM Alex, you like to cross-stitch? I used to do that a bunch before I discovered knitting. Still have all my stuff, though, and still buy cool new stuff because I Might Need It Someday. ;-) I too am a Needleworker/craftsperson/seamstress but that is something I started later on in life, long after Singing. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: hesperis Date: 28 Mar 01 - 01:17 PM I am that I am |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Big Mick Date: 28 Mar 01 - 01:20 PM Shit..........I forgot...........I am also Kendall Morse, Gordon Bok, Ed Trickett, Ann Mayo Muir and Kath Westra.................... All the best from all of us, Mick |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C Date: 28 Mar 01 - 01:24 PM Malvina Reynolds had a poem once. Ah, it's over here in THE MUSE OF PARKER STREET: You can't run away No matter where you go. The world isn't big enough For you and yourself, And everywhere, that YOU comes tagging along. You can't run away From the ones you love. For they are you, too, You are the sum of what they think of you, And if you run They wonder for a while, And then you grow less and less with every mile. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Bruce O. Date: 28 Mar 01 - 01:26 PM I think, therefore I am (I didn't invent that obviously), but after that it gets too complicated. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: mousethief Date: 28 Mar 01 - 01:27 PM Art Thieme: The banana is, of course, a penis, and the bagel is a faulty cervical cap. The tunnel is of course the tunnel of love. This has to do with your fear of birth control failing. No? Oh well, it was fun to type. KimC: Yeah, I do cross-stitch. I tried knitting once, and just couldn't keep the tension right. So I gave it up. And yeah, I'm a seamster or whatever the word is for a man who sews. Sewer? Whatever. I was doing that long before I took up singing, though. I was on the "sailmaking" team in my Sea Explorer Ship, which meant that at Regattas (competitions analagous to camporees in boy scouts) we competed against other teams using big ol' ugly needles, a "palm" (device for pushing needles through canvas), heavy "stuff" (thread) and canvas, making 2 kinds of stitches and a grommet. We always won. We was good. Kendall: spontaneously. Alex |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Amergin Date: 28 Mar 01 - 01:37 PM I'm Popeye the Sailor! either that or a sex god.... |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bardford Date: 28 Mar 01 - 02:07 PM There's only one thing that I know how to do well And I've often been told that you only can do What you know how to do well And that's be you, be what you're like, Be like yourself They Might Be Giants-"Whistling in the Dark." That being said, at the end of the day, for all intents and purposes, to wit: I am a rock. I am an island. I am a bold deciever. I am a jolly shanty boy, as you shall soon discover I am a bard of no regard. I am me mother's darling. I am a joker, a smoker, a midnight toker. I am slain by a cruel fair maid.
I am Ned of the Hill.
I am in sympathy with the miners.
I am a young lover and sorely oppressed.
I am a driver on a western highway. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 28 Mar 01 - 02:27 PM I am a whole lot more like I am now than I was before. Very elegantly phrased Allan!
Non sum qualis eram.
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Geoff the Duck Date: 28 Mar 01 - 02:30 PM I am pink, therefore I'm SPAM???? Nope - I am just out of the bath, and - as the saying goes - If it has got a wet bottom and goes "Quack" - It's a Duck!!!!! Quack! Geoff the Duck |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Geoff the Duck Date: 28 Mar 01 - 02:33 PM Right, that's that sorted out - What's "Cute" about us English? |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: mousethief Date: 28 Mar 01 - 02:38 PM The way y'all talk. It's so quaint! |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Mrs.Duck Date: 28 Mar 01 - 02:43 PM Right,I think it's so cute the way you find us so cute!! Si je suis que je suis je ne suis pas que je suis. Quesque je suis? Une canarde. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Nancy Date: 28 Mar 01 - 02:49 PM Recently retired potter, folkie since birth, tree hugger, dog lover, lover of mirth. Beach comber, time waster, sells short and buys long, writer, reader, singer of songs. Old folksong singer, emphasis not what it used to be.... nancy |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Joe Offer Date: 28 Mar 01 - 03:04 PM I am a voice crying in the desert. Why the hell don't you guys listen to me? -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: mousethief Date: 28 Mar 01 - 03:09 PM Joe -- We're afraid you're after our chickens. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: tiggerdooley Date: 28 Mar 01 - 03:24 PM A child |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Kim C Date: 28 Mar 01 - 03:35 PM I'm a good ole rebel. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Mr Red Date: 28 Mar 01 - 05:39 PM The Man that broke the bank at Monte Carlo. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: CarolC Date: 28 Mar 01 - 05:43 PM Bloody hell... I haven't a clue. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Naemanson Date: 28 Mar 01 - 05:47 PM I am a wand'ring minstrel. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: John Hardly Date: 28 Mar 01 - 05:56 PM a frustrated, middle-aged, musician wannabe, writer wannabe, who's not satisfied that I did alright in the field in which I make a living. another anonymous headstone when all is said and done. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Amos Date: 28 Mar 01 - 06:08 PM A HUGE spiritual being tangled up in endless miles of Lilliputian threads and constrained by the vectors of space and mass to stick to a second-rate body on the surface of a lovely quaint if primitive little planet on the limb of some third-rate galaxy about as far as possible from the center of a minor galaxy cluster, out on the borders of a two-bit supercluster, suspended part way down the backside of a low-class Filament in a Universe that keeps insisting in the dominance of trivial issues like mass, inertia, unidirectional time and general solidifcation. Please notice my thumb is out.... |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Ebbie Date: 28 Mar 01 - 06:19 PM Mousethief, I have to ask: What's an 'orker'? I assume it has something to do with green fields and red barns but I can't be sure. Ebbie |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: katlaughing Date: 28 Mar 01 - 06:44 PM Amos! Take a breath and carry on! Bravo!! LMAO!!! |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Cap't Bob Date: 28 Mar 01 - 08:00 PM I am the worlds largest leprechaun. Cap't Bob |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Brendy Date: 28 Mar 01 - 08:11 PM I'm five feet two, and I'm six feet four. B. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Big Mick Date: 28 Mar 01 - 08:14 PM Cap'n Bob, I used to t'ink I was the same............till I had the great pleasure of meeting you. Mick |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,PeteM at work Date: 28 Mar 01 - 08:24 PM confused. As to what I want to be when I grow up .........who knows???? |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 28 Mar 01 - 08:29 PM I've instructed my wife that on my gravestone is to be engraved, "A GENTLEMAN AND A SCHOLAR.....AND A LOVER." A gentleman: One who, in the words of Oscar Wilde, never hurts anyone else's feelings--unintentionally. A lover???? Not in the bedroom-athlete sense (only), and CERTAINLY not in the Don Juan sense, but in the sense of daily habitual tenderness and consideration and so forth. After thirty-seven years of marriage I think my Beautiful Wife will indeed put that third description on the stone. Being a folksong singer and banjo and guitar player are important to me, but those three things on the stone are really who I hope I am. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Little Neophyte Date: 28 Mar 01 - 08:35 PM I am someone on a relentless, never ending quest to remember who I am. Little Neo |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bill D Date: 28 Mar 01 - 09:40 PM I thought you'd never ask: I am, in my heart, a synthesist....one who is jack of many trades, and master of few. I studied Philosophy, but found even that to be not broad enough. In a sci-fi novel I read once, there was this giant ship, sent from earth to colonize the stars...designed to survive hundreds of generations if nesessary...(hydroponics, databases...the works)...but all the specialization necessary to make a big ship run eventually created a society in which most individuals had little idea what their history was or what the relationship was between their job and and others. So...this kid was born, who was a mis-fit...failed all the aptitude tests and seemed to be doomed to menial labor...but he explored, found secret places, discoved ancient texts,(you get the idea)..and LO! it was discovered that the 'planners' had forseen all this and planted stuff for just such a one to stumble onto so as to rekindle knowlege and forge lost bonds between the disciplines...a *synthesist*....... ...that's me.....in the meantime, until I'm called, I turn wood and kibitz. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Troll Date: 28 Mar 01 - 09:44 PM I am my wife's friend and my kid's dad. I'm a working musician when they will hire me. I'm a retired postal worker, a manic-depressive, bi-polar and arthritic. I give names to the different parts of my personality- Angie, Freddie, Chuck, Mr. Feebish and troll |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,John Dodd, d. 1620 Date: 28 Mar 01 - 09:51 PM Under this clod Lies John Dodd Dead by God.
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: SINSULL Date: 28 Mar 01 - 10:25 PM I am the sum of all my parts. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: hesperis Date: 28 Mar 01 - 10:25 PM Hey, Bill D, what was the book? |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Cap't Bob Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:16 PM Aye MICK ~ thar's still hope for you. Eat your praties three times a day and you will fill oot that wee frame of yours. At least that's what my blessed Grandmother used to tell me when I was but a lad. Cap't Bob |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,_gargoyle Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:36 PM I'm a gargoyle, always been a gargoyle, and proud to be a gargoyle, will always stay a gargoyle.
Upon my birthing day, my looks chased the doctor away.
Did mighty fine work for Dick and Sue, did all they ever asked me to do.
Let me raise my head and make a suggestion
At least have the courtesy of a laughing-cat and put B.S. at the front by your scat.
Damn! Will there EVER be order in this house? |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Anon2, etc. Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:44 PM Keep up the good work gargoyle. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,A. Nony Mouse Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:48 PM I figured that out BS's the BSers is the only way to go, and it's fun messing up the messes. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: CarolC Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:51 PM Hey gargoyle... Maybe it's not just a folksong group any more. Maybe it's more than that now. Maybe trying to keep it just to folksongs is like trying to keep a flower in a bud and not allowing it to open. That's what it looks like to me, anyway. Carol |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: mousethief Date: 29 Mar 01 - 12:35 AM Carol, ignore the flames, just like in Hell. Ignore the flames. Ignore the flames. I have to say it over and over sometimes (and sometimes it doesn't work, as witnessed over in that other thread...). Ebbie, cow-orker is a mispunctuated joke on co-worker. Lame one, I know, but it's become habit now. Alex |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Chip2447 Date: 29 Mar 01 - 12:37 AM A fulltime dreamer, a poet, a singer of song, and a teller of tales. A writer, a magician, a musician, a friend and a lover. A Shaman, a healer, a mentor and a student. A jester, a rogue, a scholar and commrade. A jack of all trades and a master of none, born 500 years too late in this lifetime... After all is said and done, "I think, I think I am, Therefore I am, I think" Thanks to the moody blues... |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: catspaw49 Date: 29 Mar 01 - 12:38 AM So garg......How's tricks? That one's not up to your usual standards although you seem to have gotten a better spell checker. I mean, what's with the rhymes? You just don't seem to have the old pizzazz man.......That post almost made sense and you are usually more cryptic. Well, times change I guess.............. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: CarolC Date: 29 Mar 01 - 12:53 AM Alex, ignoring the flames is a good philosophy in most instances, and I'm glad you want to live by that philosophy. I think sometimes it can be helpful to put one neutral post in after a post like gargoyle's. Sometimes that seems to preempt some of the more inflamatory responses that posts like that one seem to get. The key word here is neutral, containing no emotional content or inflamatory language of any kind. Not even sarcasm or irony. I've been flamed a lot in the last week or so. I have responded as graciously as possible to some of them, and I have ignored others. Thankfully, this one was not aimed at me. Having flames aimed at you hurts, doesn't it? I agree that in no instance is it constructive to respond to a flame with another flame or with any kind of emotional response. Thanks for your concern. Carol |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: katlaughing Date: 29 Mar 01 - 01:22 AM Damn, Spaw, you're right! "The courtesy of a laughing-cat" why I am almost misty-eyed! The rhyming was great, gargoyle! |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: JulieF Date: 29 Mar 01 - 04:29 AM Kendal - practising spontenaity - every time an opportunity comes up try to suppress the little voice in the back of your head that goes - not enough money in the kitty, haven't orgainsed anything so can't do anything, have to do something much more important but boring. The longer you can suppress that voice the better you are at spontinety - I could be completely spontenaious ( is that a real word ?) if I didn't have to think about so many other things. What I try and do - is organise days with nothing in - so I can go with the flow - usually nothing happens but occasionally it works All the best Julie |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Gervase Date: 29 Mar 01 - 04:29 AM Me? Right; I'm a pain in the arse, a chancer, a dreamer, an incurable romantic, a hopeless optimist, a manic depressive, a skater on life's thinnest ice, a piss-artist, a socialist, a humanist, an unreliable but lovable parent and partner and probably the sort of person your mother told you never to play with. Just like everyone else, really. All things considered, I'd rather be a saggy old cloth cat, though... |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Date: 29 Mar 01 - 06:39 AM I am a gatherer of information and trivia - mostly trivia, a reader of books, a crude-minded joker; I am interested in everything (I'm nosey!), I like listening to people and music, I am someone who believes this life is all we've got, so let's make the most of it, and I am in love. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Clifton53 Date: 29 Mar 01 - 07:08 AM I am a man of constant sorrow. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Grab Date: 29 Mar 01 - 07:11 AM I'm a picker, I'm a grinner... Grab. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: kendall Date: 29 Mar 01 - 08:21 AM Julie I have always thought that spontaneity was automatic. It just happens without thought. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 29 Mar 01 - 08:30 AM Just a fool without cap or bells (or talent). RtS |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: JulieF Date: 29 Mar 01 - 08:51 AM Kendall - I don't think that we do anything without thought, unless it's a purely physical reaction. I have similar views on the subject of intuition, which I know a lot of people disagree with me about. I do think that you can change how you react so that you do become more spontaneous. Its like knowing you can let yourself go in specific circumstances - so what looks like spontaneity to the outside is really the end of a considered thought process. Julie |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: mkebenn Date: 29 Mar 01 - 09:13 AM I've always been a dreamer without the will to waken an alcoholic not quite drunk enough A halfassed Davy Crockett with a prayer in his pocket with a road before me only I've made rough Mike |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 29 Mar 01 - 09:35 AM I am king King of the universe I am king King of the skies |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Dahlin Date: 29 Mar 01 - 09:44 AM I am a work in progress. Albeit an aging one at that. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: catspaw49 Date: 29 Mar 01 - 09:47 AM All jokes aside, I've loved this song for 30 years and it hits me where I live......a little more everyday. I'm a dreamer by nature and I've always been Tryin' to dream myself out of this world that I'm in. In my dreams I escape all the troubles around. And it ain't cost a penny for the pleasures I've found. CH: What is the part, that I play today? A beggar, a businessman, king for a day? I've played many the parts and I'm the first to agree, That I'm still looking round for the man that is me. I'm a dreamer by nature and I've always been, Looking for something not there. My financial condition don't bother my dreams, 'Cause in fairy tale money I'm my own millionaire. CH------ In my dreams I'm a rich man but in real life I've hid, From the fact that I got me a wife and a kid. If I lose what I got, well then they lose it too. Tell me what in this world's a poor dreamer to do? CH-----End. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 29 Mar 01 - 10:41 AM I am a music lover, but into so many kinds of music that I cannot be classed as a folkie, rocker, etc. I am an artist, but I am not really strong in any particular area. I am a friend, but am still too shy and reserved to be totally comfortable with people. I am a singer, but I have an annoying voice. I know multitudes of things, but they are mostly useless to anyone besides myself. I am a person, but largely ignored in real life. That's who I am. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: catspaw49 Date: 29 Mar 01 - 10:54 AM Except for that silly crack about your voice, you're getting more mature all the time Matt. Very well thought out and introspective. Glad to see it.........Its a long way back to Meebo. You may have made my day.....week, I think.....with that one post. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Date: 29 Mar 01 - 10:59 AM Ha! Matt! That shy bit doesn't work with me - you were perfectly happy scolding me for not liking the Beatles...*BG* |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Troll Date: 29 Mar 01 - 12:03 PM Matt, well said! Gargoyle, nice to see you are still around and tryin' to keep it honest. troll |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,guest brian Date: 29 Mar 01 - 12:05 PM green folk singer & guitar picker |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Chester Date: 29 Mar 01 - 02:36 PM Eye'm a ne'er due well. Eye ain't got a life, and eye doant keer, neither. Best diskripshun uv a fiddler eye kin think uv. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bill D Date: 29 Mar 01 - 03:35 PM hesperis...can't remember that book for the life of me right now....been 30 years |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Amergin Date: 29 Mar 01 - 03:48 PM I am the hill where poets walk..... |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bert Date: 29 Mar 01 - 03:50 PM I'm a singer first, then a designer. After that I guess I'm a dabbler, a jack of all trades (take too long to list 'em). Fortunately for you Mick, you didn't include me in your persona list. And fortunately for all of us, Gargbuddy I don't think there ever will be order here. And I'm glad I'm Matt's friend. Bert. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: gnu Date: 29 Mar 01 - 03:55 PM I am the only driver in New Brunswick that flicks the turn signal on when the foot comes off the accelerator pedal, @$#^#$%&* !!!!! Of course, I'm singing Irish Trad songs while I'm driving, or when stopped, or when slamming on my brakes, or.... gnu |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Greyeyes Date: 29 Mar 01 - 04:04 PM One who has sipped of the wine of life. One who tries to live his life the best that he can. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: CarolC Date: 29 Mar 01 - 04:17 PM Hey gnu... flattop told me that drivers in Bouctouche stop for you if you even just look across the road. Is that true? |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: gnu Date: 29 Mar 01 - 04:40 PM Well, I just got back from a tour through the rally course know as Moncton and I believe it was a 'Toucher in front of me for about eight intersections who was looking for the "right" street in a rather reckless manner. She NEVER used her signal light and I had to lock up all four the first time she decided to stop abruptly. As for your question, are you talking about drivers in front of you, pedestrians, or other ? BTW, is flattop from Bouctouche ? Maybe I should do a NB 'Cats thread to see who I can hook up with. Hranners are scarce around the Moncton area. Just located the only other one I know of in this area last week. We are jammin on the weekend and I can't wait. gnu |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: CarolC Date: 29 Mar 01 - 04:50 PM He was talking about drivers stopping for pedestrians. flattop is a Cape Bretoner. He spent some time living in New Brunswick while he was growing up. He lives in Ontario now. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: gnu Date: 29 Mar 01 - 05:18 PM Yes, I find the smaller the community, the more regard given to the pedestrian, and Bouctouche is no exception. Pedestrians are, for the most part, well regarded here in Southern NB, even on the race courses in Moncton, but if you ever visit Moncton, don't take any chances because the average driver's intelligence doesn't seem to match the manners. BTW, that moose you mentioned in the Spring thread was probably a cross-border shopper from NB. It seems so weird to me, being from the boglands, that some people have never seen moose or yotes or whatever. Guess I'm just lucky. Guess that's what I really am, just a good old backwoods boy. gnu |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: John Hardly Date: 29 Mar 01 - 07:20 PM "I've always been a dreamer without the will to waken an alcoholic not quite drunk enough A halfassed Davy Crockett with a prayer in his pocket with a road before me only I've made rough --Mike" Absolutely loved that, Mike! Like I was walking along peacefully minding everyone's business and that reached out and GRABBED me! --JH |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: mkebenn Date: 30 Mar 01 - 06:45 AM Thank you, John, maybe I'll finish it someday. Mike |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Patrish Date: 30 Mar 01 - 10:24 AM I'm living a baggy life, its all too loose My Alice band has slipped I'm wearing very odd socks And my shoes don't fit
But apart from that I'm fine! |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Blues Killer Date: 30 Mar 01 - 10:33 AM I'm drunk. Really! Blues Killer |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Lyrical Lady Date: 30 Mar 01 - 11:45 AM Everything we are - everything we dare to be We're prepared to play our part To create a fantasy
Sometimes we are parents
We are builders, and we're painters
Everything we are - everything we dare to be
Some of us - retired
But inspite of our vocations
Everything we are - everything we dare to be This song was written by Carole Mc Andrew for our up coming 20th anniversay 'Play' on our little island. Some of the words were changed, with permission to suit the 'Cat'. LL
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: CarolC Date: 30 Mar 01 - 05:03 PM Thanks gnu. I've always wondered why I didn't see any moose when I was in the wilderness parts of Canada. I'm guessing the one I saw was habituated to being around people since I saw it in the parking lot. Maybe moose in the wild are more shy? |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: guest(intruder-inactive) Date: 30 Mar 01 - 05:15 PM ...the last of the oldest ones ...the lightwielder ...a very tired old soul who is turning over the world to my idiot children |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,(jo) Date: 31 Mar 01 - 06:50 AM im a gelfling i practise random acts of kindness and senseless beauty and look for the wonder in the world |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Sarah the flute Date: 31 Mar 01 - 07:39 AM I am bored at work ! |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: gnu Date: 31 Mar 01 - 08:32 AM CarolC... moose in the TRUE wild are much LESS shy. But, it depends on many factors, age, sex, time of year, number of moose, time of day.... EG, Sally would visit at dusk every day last fall. Big guy only visited once in the middle of the night - saw his tracks in morning - close enough for him to look in the windows of the trailer. Perhaps the snoring from my trailer was misinterpreted. I had one HUGE bull who would come to me for sugar cubes when I called - to about ten feet away. Worst thing I ever did. He was summarily shot at dawn the first day of the following season. I've always felt responsible because I taught him to come to me. I really didn't think anyone would take him that far back in really rugged country, but I was wrong. I have had four or five moose running all around me, confused and scared by my presence, in the rut. I have had four or five watch/ignore me while I sat and had a smoke and talked to them, in the winter. I've watched four bulls square off and spar in what seemed like a round robin type training camp as if I was the audience. I've had cows with calves run at first sight and I've had cows with calves charge, which is the most dangerous situation in these woods, other than a hungry bear who doesn't understand why I am at the top of the food chain. Anyway, the days of walking past a moose or bear at tewnty feet or feeding moose birds on your shoulder are waning as access to the backwoods by ATV's and such increase. But, you can still find lots of wild places if you are willing to hoof it. gnu |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bat Goddess Date: 31 Mar 01 - 10:31 AM I'm a singer of traditional songs, thanatolithologist, closet natural historian (but the skulls are on the walls), and I used to be a typographer but now I'm a digital prepress production tech. Bat Goddess |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Amos Date: 31 Mar 01 - 11:03 AM Well... this is interesting, Bat Godlet...
The American Heritage instructs us that:than•a•tol•o•gy (th^n1ú-tÄl2ú-jT) n. 1. The study of death and dying, especially in their psychological and social aspects. [ Greek thanatos death] So I guess what you would do as a thanatolithologist would be...looking up really dead stones and getting them to share their feelings? If so, I can relate. I feel that way at work sometimes... Regards, A |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Jande Date: 31 Mar 01 - 11:33 AM I'm a "Jande of all trades", and have managed to master a few. The rest are intermediate and beginner. I am "the reach that exceeds the grasp or what's a heaven for?" I am . Indeed. ~ Jande |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: vindelis Date: 31 Mar 01 - 12:27 PM Unique |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bat Goddess Date: 31 Mar 01 - 06:32 PM Thanatolithologist -- sorry, just the study of gravestones and gravestone carvers. In my case, particularly New England slate markers between 1650 and 1815-ish (willows and urns make my eyes glaze over) and the carver John Just Geyer. Trip over some other pretty interesting stuff, tho' and just got back with a bunch of undeveloped pictures from Mountain View Cemetery (designed by Frederick Law Olmstead, c. 1863) in Oakland -- way out of my era & style, but what a great place!!! Bat Goddess |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST Date: 31 Mar 01 - 06:41 PM My calendar watch went dead. I'll have to go look in the mirror to find out what I am today. That's not always a pleasant sight. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Robo Date: 01 Apr 01 - 01:43 AM I am the Man from God Knows Where. Rob-o
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Dharmabum Date: 01 Apr 01 - 03:28 AM We are what we do. As St John Lennon put it "Life is what happens while we're making other plans.... |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: wdyat12 Date: 01 Apr 01 - 03:45 AM I am part BS, part real S, and mostly made of salt water, with a collection of musical instruments I wish I could play better. That's why I'm here on Mudcat. wdyat12 |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bernard Date: 01 Apr 01 - 08:56 AM It is a question I seem to ask myself more often as I grow older. I used to think I was a musician primarily, with a job as Sound Engineer which fitted in quite nicely to give me a reliable, steady income. These days I find that I am becoming less able to do my job, what with arthritis and tinnitus both combining to make the physical and acoustic demands moving out of my reach. The depression that this and another failed relationship have conspired to precipitate mean that I've also lost interest in music, and in the social activities associated with that. So what am I, really? Do tell me - I'm always the last to find out... |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: JohnB Date: 01 Apr 01 - 11:08 AM If I asked my wife, she would probably say something like "an absolutely wonderful, pain in the ass", she's still asleep so I wont risk becoming anything worse by asking her now. Seriously though if you want to know how you are percieved, ask others. There again there is a risk involved with that, they might tell you the truth. I am also tired after reading all of these postings on this thread. JohnB |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Amos Date: 01 Apr 01 - 11:24 AM Bernard: Don't be fooled by transient conditions and turns in the script -- what you REALLY are is a Great Author. Like all Great Authors, you know, of course, that the script has to set up some Great Obstacles for the Hero to overcome. As the Set Designer you also get to decide what the environment in which the Hero, Bernard yclept, overcomes these Barriers in the Pursuit of Happiness, a condition to be defined by the Chief Psychologist Consulting to the Great Author, who also happens to be Bernard... |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bernard Date: 01 Apr 01 - 02:50 PM Mmmm.... |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: gnu Date: 01 Apr 01 - 02:55 PM Mmmm.... ? I waited for a 127 post thread to load for, "Mmmm...." ? C'mon... some insight... some wisdom ... something. Rrrrgnu |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Amos Date: 01 Apr 01 - 03:27 PM Relax -- that's just the Chief Psychological Counsel practicing his post-doctoral psychotherapeutic techniques, such as Advanced Active Listening and Semi-acknowledgement. It's all in the Wrist. A |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST Date: 01 Apr 01 - 04:52 PM So psycho-babble came from the wrist. I didn't think it could have come from a real homo sapiens brain. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: gnu Date: 01 Apr 01 - 05:09 PM Thanks for finnaly killing the thread, GUEST. It needs a #2 anyway. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: CarolC Date: 01 Apr 01 - 06:00 PM Please go here for part two of this thread. |
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