Scribblings

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

You look awful sexy out of that android suit, Adrian.

Cheers,
Marc (seeing opportunity in missing the point)

mmmm!

[Taylor514ce]

Pshrynk got some good advice for how to start a new notebook. For me, I also anoint mine by scribbling absolute nonsense on the first page. Doodles, squares, weird "symbols". Then I'm free, free, free to use the notebook. That's ninja Marvin.

[zelda_pinwheel]

i think every notebook should say "don't panic" on the first page.

[badgoodDeb]

9 - 13 - 10 - 15 - 6 ????

(the binary code at the left)

[pshrynk]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i think every notebook should say "don't panic" on the first page.

Mine does, now.

[Taylor514ce]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

9 - 13 - 10 - 15 - 6 ????

(the binary code at the left)

Who said anything there made sense? Or that you read the binary in the proper direction and orientation?

On the other hand, I did make sure my home address was 2346, which is sequential, and is missing 1 and 5, but that's ok, since the numbers add up to "15".

[badgoodDeb]

Ahhh. I selected a phone number once, so it would spell TWO-TWO-2. -- 896-8962. Long gone now, but it was fun.

[NatCh]

Late to the party, so forgive my digging so deeply back to the beginning.

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

polly-wolly-doodle ? what ? now you're just making stuff up.

Nope, he's not. I think I had a record with this song on it at some point. A 33 1/3, as it happens. I still remember the tune.

Originally Posted by Patricia

I usually have several propelling pencils ....

What's a "propelling" pencil?

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

no no, forget i said anything. i wouldn't want to inhibit you. i actually quite like seeing all the nicknames people come up with around here. and some of them are bound to be better than "zippy."

"Zippy the Pinwheel?"

Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

On the other hand, I did make sure my home address was 2346, which is sequential, and is missing 1 and 5, but that's ok, since the numbers add up to "15".

Our house number is 42 -- that's what made me realize it was the house for us, but there were several other very obscure connections to my personal history that popped up when I thought about it more.

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Ahhh. I selected a phone number once, so it would spell TWO-TWO-2. -- 896-8962. Long gone now, but it was fun.

My phone numbers never spell anything interesting, it's like some cosmicological law. I did have some friends whose college dorm room number ended (quite appropriately) with "APES" though.

[Taylor514ce]

Late to the party, and that's what you bring? C'mon, out with the notebook scribblings!

[GeoffC]

For Zelda :

Oh, I went down South
For to see my Sal
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day
My Sal, she is A spunky gal
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day

Fare thee well, Fare thee well,
Fare thee well my fairy fay
For I'm going to Lou'siana For to see my Susyanna
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day

Oh, my Sal, she is A maiden fair
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day
With curly eyes And laughing hair
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day

Fare thee well, Fare thee well,
Fare thee well my fairy fay
For I'm going to Lou'siana For to see my Susyanna
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day

Behind the barn, Down on my knees
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day
I thought I heard A chicken sneeze
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day

Fare thee well, Fare thee well,
Fare thee well my fairy fay
For I'm going to Lou'siana For to see my Susyanna
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day

He sneezed so hard With the whooping cough
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day
He sneezed his head And the tail right off
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day

Fare thee well, Fare thee well,
Fare thee well my fairy fay
For I'm going to Lou'siana For to see my Susyanna
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day

Oh, a grasshopper sittin' On a railroad track
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day
A-pickin' his teethlink to a non-NIEHS site
With a carpet tack
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day

Fare thee well,
Fare thee well,
Fare thee well my fairy fay
For I'm going to Lou'siana For to see my Susyanna
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day

Oh, I went to bed But it wasn't any use
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day
My feet stuck out Like a chicken roost
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day

Fare thee well, Fare thee well,
Fare thee well my fairy fay
For I'm going to Lou'siana For to see my Susyanna
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day

[zelda_pinwheel]

i should have guessed it was a southernism. does it actually mean something ?

thanks for the lyrics ; my favorite part is this :
"A-pickin' his teethlink to a non-NIEHS site"
even though i don't know what a "teethlink" is.

[vivaldirules]

Originally Posted by NatCh

What's a "propelling" pencil?

Post #58 here.

And like PH said, out with the notebook scribbles, will ya? You think we're here for people's amusement or something?

[NatCh]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i should have guessed it was a southernism. does it actually mean something ?

Not that I've ever heard of, anyway. It's kind of in the same realm as "Zippity Doo Da"

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Post #58 here.

Ah yes, that would have been my guess, but I wasn't sure.

Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

Late to the party, and that's what you bring?

Well, I was going to bring chips, but I figured that all the dips would be gone. Silly me.

Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

C'mon, out with the notebook scribblings!

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

And like PH said, out with the notebook scribbles, will ya? You think we're here for people's amusement or something?

Sorry, guys, not a scribbler, I just collect colloquialisms and ... wait, I' also have a collection of "fun lines" I'll dig those out.

....

Here we go. These are things collected from various places that I found either fun or inspirational. They're attributed as appropriate.

The ships hung in the air in much the same way that bricks don't.
--The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

May I have my sledge-hammer back now, please?
--Bill Cosby

(in a church parking lot) Do you think we should put the chainsaw away, Honey?
--Dr. Sue Simpson

Just as she realized the device was never intended to withstand such treatment, it didn't.
--this one's mine

Why 42?--The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do' I typed it out. End of story.
--Douglas N. Adams

The problem with Democracy is that stupid people vastly outnumber intelligent ones. Giving everyone an equal voice only ensures that the stupid thing gets done.
--Mine again

"Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in."
-- Uncle Hub (Robert Duvall), from Secondhand Lions (a great movie, by the way)

"We have to be responsible for ourselves, our actions, and responsible to society. Usurping someone else's personal responsibility, though, denies them their sentience. It's right and good to help someone who cannot help himself, but forcfully shielding them from the consequences of their actions, no matter how foolish, is wrong."
-- Mara Jade Skywalker (don't remember which book, exactly, it was one of the "Vong" books)

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i should have guessed it was a southernism. does it actually mean something ?

thanks for the lyrics ; my favorite part is this :
"A-pickin' his teethlink to a non-NIEHS site"
even though i don't know what a "teethlink" is.

GeoffC is pulling your leg. I had just followed NatCh's link and read the original (with the proper tune humming in my head) and the original line is:
a pickin' his teeth with a carpet tack

Wonder if we can find a link to the tune, too.

[Taylor514ce]

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...220#post187220