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04-03-2007, 03:18 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 60
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whispertwist
*waves*
Answers to Questionnaire
1. What do you do? (Hobbies, job)
I've been a computer consultant/nerd for decades. My job recently was outsourced to India. Now I'm trying to sell my novel.
I garden obsessively and ride dressage.
2. Where are you from? Chicago area, Illinois, USA
3. Who is your favorite author? CJ Cherryh, Laurell Hamilton, George R R Martin, Jaqueline Carrey, and many, many more.
4. What are your favorite films? I'm not much of a movie goer. I enjoyed Matrix, LOTR, Pirates of the Caribbean, so i guess that means i like fantasy and swashbuckling action. But I loved Pride and Prejudice (ALL of the versions) too. So I'm not sure what that says about my movie tastes.
I despise Hugh Grant chick flicks. This is, I think, more defining, than a list of what I do like.
5. What music do you want played at your wedding? That happened so long ago, I don't remember what was played!
6. At your funeral? Something LOUD! Maybe with bagpipes.
7. This IS a gothic website, so... how do you want to die? Everytime depression hits, I imagine all sorts of bizarre, 'interesting' fates. But most of the time, I just want a sudden, painless end.
8. What kind of casket would you want? None. I want a funeral pyre. I was hopelessly twisted by the funeral scene in the movie, Ghandi.
9. What's your FAVORITE outfit? Dark blue corset and a huge black taffeta skirt. And big stompy boots underneath.
10. What's one thing you miss about being a little kid? Climbing the old willow tree in the back yard, and hiding up there with a book.
11. What's your favorite band? This changes. I've been revisiting 80s music: SoM, Bauhaus, Cure, Siouxsii ...
I went to a Cruxshadow's concert last month and really loved the show.
I just fell in love with Cinema Strange.
And I have been exploring German industrial groups, new and old.
12. What kind of education do you have? What is/was/will be your major? I have a Bachelor's degree in Physics.
13. Why did you join? To lose weight!!!!!!!! OMGWTFBBQ!!!!!!1!!!
I was browsing some of the threads and just about died laughing when i read that bit. I thought ... WELL, now. Here be some people with the same kind of twisted humor as I have.
Actually, I was looking for music recommendations. And I do have dark literary asperations/pretentions.
14. If the first 13 questions didn't give it away. What is your gender? Old Lady.
I'm not certain of my reception here. I am fairly new to the goth scene. My musical roots are much earlier than punk/goth/industrial. My high school/ college music was Beatles and Cream and Doors. Clapton IS god.
Oh, god, I never remember to use capitol letters!
*proofreads again*
*braces for onslaught*
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04-03-2007, 03:19 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posts: 1,688
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I think I like you, and I know I like your name.
May I ask how old, exactly, an "old lady" is?
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A SPIDER sewed at night
Without a light
Upon an arc of white.
If ruff it was of dame
Or shroud of gnome,
Himself, himself inform.
Of immortality
His strategy
Was physiognomy.
--Emily Dickinson
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04-03-2007, 03:21 PM
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#3
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 60
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56
*ducks and runs*
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04-03-2007, 03:24 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posts: 1,688
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Dude, we don't care... I was just curious.
I saw Clapton live this year. It was awesome. My current cell phone ring tone is "Wonderful Tonight".
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A SPIDER sewed at night
Without a light
Upon an arc of white.
If ruff it was of dame
Or shroud of gnome,
Himself, himself inform.
Of immortality
His strategy
Was physiognomy.
--Emily Dickinson
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04-03-2007, 03:29 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 60
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Nobody, but nobody, plays guitar like Clapton.
I love some of the stranger electronic music I have been playing .... but sometimes you just need to hear a good guitar riff.
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04-03-2007, 03:33 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posts: 1,688
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So, you're in my region, and you garden? What a coincidence... I've decided to learn how to garden this year. I'm totally using you as a resource, if you have no objections. By the way, by "region" I mean the Midwest, USA... Since Minneapolis & Chicago aren't exactly close, but are probably similar climates.
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A SPIDER sewed at night
Without a light
Upon an arc of white.
If ruff it was of dame
Or shroud of gnome,
Himself, himself inform.
Of immortality
His strategy
Was physiognomy.
--Emily Dickinson
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04-03-2007, 03:40 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 60
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Sure! I'd be happy to help as much as I can. What kind of gardening are you interested in?
I have a big organic vegetable garden, but my heart is in ornamental gardening. You name it, I probably have grown it! I specialize in native plants, rock gardens, and rhododendrons.
.... Er, did I mention that I am a tad bit obcessive?
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04-03-2007, 03:51 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posts: 1,688
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Well, I can't do a full overhaul of the gardens this year, so I'm going to start with a small herb garden. Next year, I'm re-landscaping the whole yard, though.
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A SPIDER sewed at night
Without a light
Upon an arc of white.
If ruff it was of dame
Or shroud of gnome,
Himself, himself inform.
Of immortality
His strategy
Was physiognomy.
--Emily Dickinson
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04-03-2007, 04:14 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Oslo, Norway
Posts: 1,830
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Hiya, and welcome! Don't be ashamed of your age - I mean, we do have a grandfather as a regular aswell. And 56 isn't really _that_ old - jus' a tad older than my own dear mum... 
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However far away I will always love you
However long I stay I will always love you
Whatever words I say I will always love you
I will always love you
- The Cure, "Love Song"
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04-03-2007, 04:20 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Nassau, Bahamas
Posts: 34
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Welcome!
I love Laurell K. Hamilton: The Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novels. They're the only books I read.
I would not categorize you as an old lady, you seem way too cool ... lol Right now, I'm hoping to be somewhat cool at the young age of thirty. Can you believe it, I'm already jaded?!
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04-03-2007, 04:54 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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New to the goth scene?
Well, you could be a babygoth but no one would question you if you said you're an eldergoth. XD
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I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
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People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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04-03-2007, 05:21 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 60
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Originally Posted by Minyaliel
And 56 isn't really _that_ old - jus' a tad older than my own dear mum... |
oooooooooooooooooooooo the knife strikes deep
j/k
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Originally Posted by gothgarl
Welcome!
I love Laurell K. Hamilton: The Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novels. They're the only books I read.
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i've met her several times ... can you say fangrrl??
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Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian
New to the goth scene?
Well, you could be a babygoth but no one would question you if you said you're an eldergoth. XD
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lol = i have FRIENDS who call themselves eldergoths (they are much younger). They finally talked me into going out with them .... and the scene was cool ... and the music was awesome. I just think I'd be presumptuous to call myself goth at this point. Maybe if I stick around until I could model for Whistler's Mother. Gotta EARN those goth points.
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04-03-2007, 06:01 PM
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#13
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Iowa
Posts: 511
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Originally Posted by whispertwist
56
*ducks and runs*
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Yeah! Now there are at least two "old" dames. *cheesy grin*
Welcome to the boards.
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04-03-2007, 08:19 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Back in Wisconsin(thinking about invading the south)
Posts: 3,693
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Yay another midwesterner, Wisconsin doesn't seem soo boring anymore. I don't mind age at all I like having conversations with the secretary where I work on how she has worked there since she entered it for co-op and that was decades ago, on that note I think I'll have somthing for the politcal section of the forums tomorrow.
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"Never overestimate the intellect of someone so foolish that they would exploit and perpetuate stupidity in the people around them, for they create their own damnation as they tear out and sell the pillars that support society as a whole, bringing it crashing down upon them."-me
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”- Einstein
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04-03-2007, 08:31 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Albany, NY
Posts: 922
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Welcome to the board. Hope you enjoy it!
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"I saw Judas Iscariot, carryin' John Wilkes Boothe." - Tom Waits
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04-03-2007, 08:39 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Earth...
Posts: 194
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Mmmm...bagpipes are heaven.
Don't hide. You've survived this long, be proud of it. Besides in my opinion age is better - I always feel so out of place around fellow teenagers.
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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed – they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo, Brunelleschi, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
- Orson Wells
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04-03-2007, 09:31 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: With the Zombies
Posts: 2,208
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You're 56 and you wear stompy boots and corsets?
Rock on!
Welcome aboard.
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It's not so much the pain
It's more the actual knife
Pretending the picture is perfect
I cut myself to sleep
I close my eyes for a second
And curse my fragile soul
I scream to hide that I'm lonely
The echo calls my name
*ANIMAL CRACKERS*
http://www.myspace.com/persephone_x
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04-03-2007, 10:55 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 60
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Originally Posted by PersephoneX
You're 56 and you wear stompy boots and corsets?
Rock on!
Welcome aboard.
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mmmmmmm I do sci-fi conventions and costume a bit.
I am nearsighted enough to not be able to see my wrinkles and i just pretend the rest of the world cant either.
And I loooooooooooooooove my boots
what's the board policy about putting pictures in posts?
Must all pictures go in the one picture thread i found or can i show my boots here?
And are there spoiler tags here so nobody has to see my beautiful boots if they dont want to (or if they have a dial up connection).
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