A Picture of Me - Page 11

Rána Eressëa · 03-05-2002, 12:20 AM

Me smile? Me smile?! Ahh! Noooooo!

*runs off screaming*

***anduin*** · 03-05-2002, 12:48 AM

Hell, try being a Tolkien fan before the age of the internet!

Arathorn · 03-05-2002, 12:57 AM

I can relate. The Internet didn't really touch down where I come from until '94.

Tanoliel · 03-05-2002, 01:18 AM

No Internet? NOOOOOO!

Actually, some of my best friends are Tolkien fans...so I think I could survive without said internet. Still...then i wouldn't have met all you guys, which would be a definete low. Of course, it couldn't be a low if I never knew about it, so--oh, CURSES! This is how I spend my free time not on here: random, sometimes even philosophical ramblings that make no sense. Hey, bropous, I think you see a hint of what goes on behind my eyes. Weirdness!

(what else is new...i'm like that all the time!)

I want a cow....
Although a horse would be nicer....
And a scanner that works would be awesome, too...
-tano

Rána Eressëa · 03-05-2002, 01:29 AM

Eh? No internet? No internet?! Dear Eru! Everyone is trying to warp my fragile little mind!

*blinks*

Okay, so it's not fragile. But I'm not sure about the little part...

Arathorn · 03-05-2002, 03:02 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Rogue Elf

*blinks*

You got me there, RE. I spent 8 secs. trying to see if your avatar will blink like Gerbil's

bropous · 03-05-2002, 11:34 AM

My mistake, O Spudly One. Hosting credits duly noted for future reference.

bropous · 03-05-2002, 12:01 PM

What, Rogue elf, is your smile like the Voice of Black Bolt of the Inhumans, in that when released it unleashes a wave of destruction? lol, you NEED to smile!

Whassamatter with the non-smiley girl? <brollum....brollum.....> She mussst be trickssssy......gots thingsssses on her mindsessss....

And O, Yes, Dear friends, there was a world before the Internet.....long, long, long ago it seems to those who still remember.......before the great Server Powers stretched across the globe.....a world of non-interconnectivity, single-tasking, 8 bytes of RAM and computers you had to assemble yourself....days when Tandy and Apple were kings....days when even Commodore and Amiga were not terms of derision....isolated days for tolkien fans, no reaching across the waters to Afroelf in Saudi or Arathorn in Manila to figure out whether Bombadil was really older or Balrogs had wings....days when a book was read and treasured and not discussed....days when the conference call was the only way to get a bunch of voices together across disatances.....days when cigarettes were good, DWI was a misdemeanor, and when newspapers and libraries were utilized in depth......days when Pong and digital watches were really cool.....days when cable TV, the microwave oven and the desktop calculator were all totally new and innovational concepts....days when music came with skips, hiss and pops or eternally looped on four separate channels.....days when astronauts' activity caused entire schools to shut down and crowd into libraries to watch on tiny black-and-white TVs......days when toy guns and GI Joe were commonplace for boys, girls played withtea sets and wore frills.....days when little boys were tough and rugged....days when anything marked "import" got the blood going....days when accidentally finding another Tolkien fan was like a Mason in a strange nation finding a temple of initiates...days when to be a Tolkien fan was to ask "Is there something really wrong with me?"........days when fantasy games were played with paper and dice, European football was never seen in the US, satellite TV was still a thing of the imagination, and books by Harold Robbins, Jacqueline Susann and William Peter Blatty sent shockwaves of revulsion and horror throughout the land.....and, yes, days when the bad guys were pretty darned bad, the good guys were pretty darn good but booed by their own side, and the entire planet was under the thumb of the Red Bear and its nasssssty missiles....

Ah, yes. them were the days. The sucky, rotten, boring, dull, ennui-laced old days. Still, I managed to watch the first moon landing on TV as it happened, watched Nixon resign, watched night after night of news coverage from the War Zone in Vietnam where my oldest brother was serving in the Marines, watched Cronkite say "the war is now over" when it really wasn't, watched Red Skelton, Ed Sullivan, Laugh-In and the original Star Trek in their first runs, saw the footage of Bobby Kennedy being shot, lived through nuclear alerts during the Arab Israeli wars of 1967 and 1973, saw the death train of Martin Luther King, experienced seven hurricanes, saw veterans of the US Army blanch as a succession of three Soviet Leaders died in a six month period and the spectre of World War Three loomed over Europe as I went through basic, drove one of the first XM-1 main battle tanks off the assembly line, waited in breathless anticipation for the release of the Bakshi Lord of the Rings, and graduted from high school on auto-pilot, all without the benefit of the much-touted Internet.

Oddly enough, we still managed to have fun. Go figure. Still, it would be interesting to see how life would have been different if old folks like me and sepulhrave had had the Internet when we were 9-15.....

Nibs · 03-05-2002, 06:13 PM

Wow, that's quite a soliloquy, bropous. My reminescences pale in comparison to yours, for I am but a lad. I'll probably be doing the same thing in about a decade.

LuthienTinuviel · 03-05-2002, 06:14 PM

and what are you going to say nibs?

"ya know we used to have to go to class, like physically be there, now with teleophone sand real time holograms....."

Nibs · 03-05-2002, 06:26 PM

Well, depending upon the existing technology, it may go something like this:

Me (as a decrepit, ancient geriatric): You know, kids, when I was your age I had to read books to know what was in them.

Kids (related, maybe; doesn't matter): [aghast] You mean you didn't have a neurotransmitron installed in your cranium?

Me: Nope. I had to read each and every word. None of this newfangled 'hook up to the neocomputer and download history tonight'... nosiree... each and every letter... I'll bet you kids haven't ever had a paper-cut, either.

Kids: What's paper?

LuthienTinuviel · 03-05-2002, 08:22 PM

whats paper..
haha

that is great!

but the neuro thingy sounds painful.

Rána Eressëa · 03-05-2002, 09:18 PM

Hmm...how's this for a smile? ------>

Starr Polish · 03-05-2002, 09:23 PM

It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty three to frown.

I like smiling

But I look better serious.

Wayfarer · 03-05-2002, 09:30 PM

I don't beleive you.

Nobody looks good serious.

Starr Polish · 03-05-2002, 09:33 PM

I do!

I have the dark, broody coloring.

I like smiles, but for good pictures you need to be serious once in a while. Not angry or bitter serious, just a relaxed face, no smile serious.

galadriel88 · 03-05-2002, 10:02 PM

But nobody can never smile and still look good. Ya gotta smile sometimes! I try to smile at everyone I meet (that I know at least). Like this

or this, if I'm really happy

.

Wayfarer · 03-05-2002, 10:22 PM

Sorry... but I don't enjoy somber faces.

I'm a

]: ) type of guy.

Starr Polish · 03-05-2002, 10:29 PM

Not somber, serious. Big difference. A serious face, on me, tends to be a pensive look

(and see, I do TOO smile!)

Smile!

Wayfarer · 03-05-2002, 10:32 PM

03-05-2002, 12:57 AM	#203
Arathorn Bard of Mangled Songs Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila Posts: 2,679	I can relate. The Internet didn't really touch down where I come from until '94. __________________ Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. -Missionaria Protectiva, Frank Herbert *Accio, Ash Nazg!* Elennuru s?la lúmenn' omentielvo* (The Death Star shines on the hour of our meeting) - Darth Arathorn Put aside the ranger... Start looking for Mumakil action figures...

03-05-2002, 01:18 AM	#204
Tanoliel Eccentric Chocolate Crow Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The Emerald City--Seattle, WA Posts: 1,861	No Internet? NOOOOOO! Actually, some of my best friends are Tolkien fans...so I think I could survive without said internet. Still...then i wouldn't have met all you guys, which would be a definete low. Of course, it couldn't be a low if I never knew about it, so--oh, CURSES! This is how I spend my free time not on here: random, sometimes even philosophical ramblings that make no sense. Hey, bropous, I think you see a hint of what goes on behind my eyes. Weirdness! (what else is new...i'm like that all the time!) I want a cow.... Although a horse would be nicer.... And a scanner that works would be awesome, too... -tano __________________ Wisdom for Short Attention Spans...Ozy and Millie. It rocks. Food Of The Gods: 3,7-dihydro-3,7-dimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione Feed Me.... Another Online Dwelling Place... "All right, I confess. It is my intention to comandeer a ship, pick up a crew in Tortuga, to rape, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out." -Captain Jack Sparrow "The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify." -Amelia Peabody Emerson "Most people obey the orders of someone who is pointing a gun at their head." -A.P. Emerson

03-05-2002, 11:34 AM	#207
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	My mistake, O Spudly One. Hosting credits duly noted for future reference. __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

03-05-2002, 12:01 PM	#208
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	What, Rogue elf, is your smile like the Voice of Black Bolt of the Inhumans, in that when released it unleashes a wave of destruction? lol, you NEED to smile! Whassamatter with the non-smiley girl? <brollum....brollum.....> She mussst be trickssssy......gots thingsssses on her mindsessss.... And O, Yes, Dear friends, there was a world before the Internet.....long, long, long ago it seems to those who still remember.......before the great Server Powers stretched across the globe.....a world of non-interconnectivity, single-tasking, 8 bytes of RAM and computers you had to assemble yourself....days when Tandy and Apple were kings....days when even Commodore and Amiga were not terms of derision....isolated days for tolkien fans, no reaching across the waters to Afroelf in Saudi or Arathorn in Manila to figure out whether Bombadil was really older or Balrogs had wings....days when a book was read and treasured and not discussed....days when the conference call was the only way to get a bunch of voices together across disatances.....days when cigarettes were good, DWI was a misdemeanor, and when newspapers and libraries were utilized in depth......days when Pong and digital watches were really cool.....days when cable TV, the microwave oven and the desktop calculator were all totally new and innovational concepts....days when music came with skips, hiss and pops or eternally looped on four separate channels.....days when astronauts' activity caused entire schools to shut down and crowd into libraries to watch on tiny black-and-white TVs......days when toy guns and GI Joe were commonplace for boys, girls played withtea sets and wore frills.....days when little boys were tough and rugged....days when anything marked "import" got the blood going....days when accidentally finding another Tolkien fan was like a Mason in a strange nation finding a temple of initiates...days when to be a Tolkien fan was to ask "Is there something really wrong with me?"........days when fantasy games were played with paper and dice, European football was never seen in the US, satellite TV was still a thing of the imagination, and books by Harold Robbins, Jacqueline Susann and William Peter Blatty sent shockwaves of revulsion and horror throughout the land.....and, yes, days when the bad guys were pretty darned bad, the good guys were pretty darn good but booed by their own side, and the entire planet was under the thumb of the Red Bear and its nasssssty missiles.... Ah, yes. them were the days. The sucky, rotten, boring, dull, ennui-laced old days. Still, I managed to watch the first moon landing on TV as it happened, watched Nixon resign, watched night after night of news coverage from the War Zone in Vietnam where my oldest brother was serving in the Marines, watched Cronkite say "the war is now over" when it really wasn't, watched Red Skelton, Ed Sullivan, Laugh-In and the original Star Trek in their first runs, saw the footage of Bobby Kennedy being shot, lived through nuclear alerts during the Arab Israeli wars of 1967 and 1973, saw the death train of Martin Luther King, experienced seven hurricanes, saw veterans of the US Army blanch as a succession of three Soviet Leaders died in a six month period and the spectre of World War Three loomed over Europe as I went through basic, drove one of the first XM-1 main battle tanks off the assembly line, waited in breathless anticipation for the release of the Bakshi Lord of the Rings, and graduted from high school on auto-pilot, all without the benefit of the much-touted Internet. Oddly enough, we still managed to have fun. Go figure. Still, it would be interesting to see how life would have been different if old folks like me and sepulhrave had had the Internet when we were 9-15..... __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

03-05-2002, 06:13 PM	#209
Nibs Head Hollara Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 751	Wow, that's quite a soliloquy, bropous. My reminescences pale in comparison to yours, for I am but a lad. I'll probably be doing the same thing in about a decade. __________________ "People used to ring up and say 'Don't quit your day job' or 'sell your synth', but the joke's on them: we were fired and the synth is broken!" -John Flansburgh from They Might Be Giants Ever heard of Mormons? I'm one. Click here to know more about us.

03-05-2002, 12:20 AM	#201
Rána Eressëa The Rogue Elf Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,722	Me smile? Me smile?! Ahh! Noooooo! runs off screaming

03-05-2002, 12:48 AM	#202
*anduin* Entwife Join Date: Oct 1999 Location: louisville Posts: 3,718	Hell, try being a Tolkien fan before the age of the internet!

03-05-2002, 01:29 AM	#205
Rána Eressëa The Rogue Elf Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,722	Eh? No internet? No internet?! Dear Eru! Everyone is trying to warp my fragile little mind! blinks Okay, so it's not fragile. But I'm not sure about the little part...

03-05-2002, 06:14 PM	#210
LuthienTinuviel protector of orphaned rabbits Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Kalamazoo... yes, its a real place! Posts: 1,236	and what are you going to say nibs? "ya know we used to have to go to class, like physically be there, now with teleophone sand real time holograms....." __________________

03-05-2002, 06:26 PM	#211
Nibs Head Hollara Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 751	Well, depending upon the existing technology, it may go something like this: Me (as a decrepit, ancient geriatric): You know, kids, when I was your age I had to read books to know what was in them. Kids (related, maybe; doesn't matter): [aghast] You mean you didn't have a neurotransmitron installed in your cranium? Me: Nope. I had to read each and every word. None of this newfangled 'hook up to the neocomputer and download history tonight'... nosiree... each and every letter... I'll bet you kids haven't ever had a paper-cut, either. Kids: What's paper? __________________ "People used to ring up and say 'Don't quit your day job' or 'sell your synth', but the joke's on them: we were fired and the synth is broken!" -John Flansburgh from They Might Be Giants Ever heard of Mormons? I'm one. Click here to know more about us.

03-05-2002, 08:22 PM	#212
LuthienTinuviel protector of orphaned rabbits Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Kalamazoo... yes, its a real place! Posts: 1,236	whats paper.. haha that is great! but the neuro thingy sounds painful. __________________

03-05-2002, 09:18 PM	#213
Rána Eressëa The Rogue Elf Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,722	Hmm...how's this for a smile? ------>

03-05-2002, 09:23 PM	#214
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty three to frown. I like smiling But I look better serious. __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

03-05-2002, 09:30 PM	#215
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	I don't beleive you. Nobody looks good serious. __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned

03-05-2002, 09:33 PM	#216
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	I do! I have the dark, broody coloring. I like smiles, but for good pictures you need to be serious once in a while. Not angry or bitter serious, just a relaxed face, no smile serious. __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

03-05-2002, 10:02 PM	#217
galadriel88 Halfwitted Queen of Lothlorien Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Far off in a dream Posts: 1,166	But nobody can never smile and still look good. Ya gotta smile sometimes! I try to smile at everyone I meet (that I know at least). Like this or this, if I'm really happy . __________________ The beuatiful mind/The beautiful heart/Doesn't deserve the pain/How can I stop the rain? -How Can I Stop the Rain? by Kessid, my new favorite band +Every good thing that comes into my life is only a reflection of the greatest gift of all; the offering of yourself, dear Son of God+ Always remember, you're uniqe, just like everybody else! "The one constant through all the years has been the Trombone. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. Its been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again, but the Trombone has marked the time. This field, this section, this band is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and could be again. Oh, people will come . . . people will most definitely come."

03-05-2002, 10:22 PM	#218
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	Sorry... but I don't enjoy somber faces. I'm a ]: ) type of guy. __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned Last edited by Wayfarer : 03-05-2002 at 10:32 PM.

03-05-2002, 10:29 PM	#219
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	Not somber, serious. Big difference. A serious face, on me, tends to be a pensive look (and see, I do TOO smile!) Smile! __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

03-05-2002, 10:32 PM	#220
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	Bah. __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned

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