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bib
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Beautiful Beryl
-------------------- "My Lord, my Life, my Way, my End, accept the praise I bring"
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ElaineC
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Ceramic Carborundum
-------------------- Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. John Erskine
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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decorous dolomite
-------------------- “Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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elegant emerald
-------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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Fiery feldspar
-------------------- Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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grave garnet
-------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Banner Lady
Ship's Ensign
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heavy haematite
-------------------- Women in the church are not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be enjoyed.
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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Indigenous Igneous
-------------------- If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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quote: Originally posted by Lyda*Rose: grave garnet
What's so fecking serious about garnet? It happens to be my birthstone!
-------------------- If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Ariston
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jolly jasper
-------------------- “Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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[tangent] quote: Originally posted by Sir Kevin: quote: Originally posted by Lyda*Rose: grave garnet
What's so fecking serious about garnet? It happens to be my birthstone!
I was trying to think of an adjective close to "deep", and that was the best I could do. No aspersions meant for the lovely garnet.
Doh! I could have used "great"! [/tangent]
kirk's keystone
-------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Piglet
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lovely Labradorite
-------------------- I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander. alto n a soprano who can read music
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pjl
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miss my marbles
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Sir Kevin
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Numismatic Nuggets-of-gold
-------------------- If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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bib
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opulent opal
-------------------- "My Lord, my Life, my Way, my End, accept the praise I bring"
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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pretty petty pearls
-------------------- If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Pearl B4 Swine
Ship's Oyster-Shucker
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Did someone call me?
Questionable Quartz
-------------------- Oinkster
"I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job)
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Sir Kevin
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runcible rubies
-------------------- If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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pjl
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sultry sapphire
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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terrific topaz
-------------------- Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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ultramaroon ultramarine
-------------------- “Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Piglet
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very vivacious verdite (extra points! )
-------------------- I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander. alto n a soprano who can read music
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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woeful wollastonite
-------------------- “Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Pearl B4 Swine
Ship's Oyster-Shucker
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X-ray'd Xylonite
[well, can you do better? ]
-------------------- Oinkster
"I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job)
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agrgurich
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Young Youngite
-------------------- Life is a comedy to those who think & a tragedy to those who feel.-Horace Walpole
AJG
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Stetson
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zippy zircon
And now:
Famous quotations.
(Must be attributable to a known source, spoken or written. Not general proverbs or maxims. Prominent parts of longer quotes, eg. "Four score and seven years ago", are acceptable.)
Amoral "Am I my brother's keeper?"
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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beatific "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." (Plato)
-------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Stetson
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caustic "Call Me Ishmael"
-------------------- I have the power...Lucifer is lord!
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Lyda*Rose
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difficult "Do to others as you would have them do to you." Luke
-------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Taking the Peace
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enthusing, England expects every man to do his duty
-------------------- Bibo, ergo sum
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agrgurich
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Gruesome: Who would have thought the old man had so much blood in him.
-------------------- Life is a comedy to those who think & a tragedy to those who feel.-Horace Walpole
AJG
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Banner Lady
Ship's Ensign
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Gobsmacking: "Go, and do likewise".
-------------------- Women in the church are not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be enjoyed.
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Lyda*Rose
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heartless "He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals". Franklin [ 14. June 2012, 21:40: Message edited by: Lyda*Rose ]
-------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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bib
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Immortal - "I am the Way the Truth and the Life"
-------------------- "My Lord, my Life, my Way, my End, accept the praise I bring"
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Stetson
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joli "J'accuse"
(Not sure if that's rendered correctly) [ 15. June 2012, 05:30: Message edited by: Stetson ]
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Lyda*Rose
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keen "Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and blind can read." Twain
-------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Stetson
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lily-livered lenient liberal "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"
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pjl
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mad military mans..make love, not war
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Niminypiminy
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quote: Originally posted by Niminypiminy: Negative (perhaps nihilistic) 'never, never, never, never, never' (King Lear)
-------------------- Lives of the Saints: songs by The Unequal Struggle http://www.theunequalstruggle.com/
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Piglet
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obligatory O tempores! O mores!* (Cicero)
* alas! for the times and the manners
-------------------- I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander. alto n a soprano who can read music
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Banner Lady
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Quiescent: "Que sera, sera" (Whatever will be, will be)
-------------------- Women in the church are not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be enjoyed.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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reproachful 'Repent Ye and be Baptized!'
-------------------- Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change.
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pjl
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shortfellows..ships that pass in the night
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Lyda*Rose
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truly "Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance."
-------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Stetson
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underwhelming "Unexamined life is not worth living"
(To me, it sounds like something you'd hear at a motivational seminar)
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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victorious "Veni, vidi, vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered.)
-------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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