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Elf Lady
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale
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All I can say is: >_< that sucks.
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#662 |
Entmoot Attorney-General,
Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003
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Tessar, listen to the sis, "better than never to have loved at all"!
And better to focus on the happy and nice aspects of your crush, than to ponder the negative sides that are out of your control. ![]()
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Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA
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Aw, Tess, that's mightily unfortunate. But, don't worry too much about it; I used to have a terrible, unreciprocated crush, but I'm pretty much over it, and very good friends with the former object. It's not the end of the world.
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Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001
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It just irritates me that the one guy that I really like is untouchable. All of the guys I -could- have are slutty, annoying, flamboyant jerks that I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. I mean, this guy and I just get along REALLY well.
Blech. Like you all say: at least I can have him as a good friend. That's the important thing. My life is better for knowing him at all, I shouldn't be petty just because it can't be as much as I wish. |
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Spammer of the Happy Thread
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Helsinki, Finland
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All I can say is: I wish people would accept the fact that everyone doesn't come to the office to babble and avoid work - some of us actually come there to get work done. It's a pity when that won't happen because a few don't only babble among themselves but force others to join the utterly boring conversations about how much work they have to do. I would love it if everyone understood the simple, yet powerful, signal: headphones on = don't disturb.
And the response to a simple, yet friendly NO, should not be puppy eyes or sobs - not in a university. Please. No wonder science isn't happening. Sorry, I'm just horribly annoyed and I'm not used to it. X)
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That would be the swirling vortex to another world. Cool. I want one. TMNT No, I'm not emo. I just have a really poor sense of direction. (Thanks to katya for this quote) This is the best news story EVER! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26087293/ “Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint.”...John McCain "I shall go back. And I shall find that therapist. And I shall whack her upside her head with my blanket full of rocks." ...Louisa May |
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Jan 2007
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lol. "Or what's a heaven for?"
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That would be the swirling vortex to another world. Cool. I want one. TMNT No, I'm not emo. I just have a really poor sense of direction. (Thanks to katya for this quote) This is the best news story EVER! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26087293/ “Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint.”...John McCain "I shall go back. And I shall find that therapist. And I shall whack her upside her head with my blanket full of rocks." ...Louisa May |
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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One of my top ten favorite movies. "You ever try to flick a fly? "No." "It's a waste of time." "Can you see it?" "No." "It's right there!" "Where? "There!" "What is it?" "A crab." "A crab? I dont see any crab." "How?! It's right there!!" "Where?" "There!!!!" "Oh." -Excerpts from A Tale of Two Morons |
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Spammer of the Happy Thread
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Kraken King
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Under the sea
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What is happening to the world.
![]() ![]() ![]() 7 Dead in N. Illinois U. Hall Shooting 2008-02-15 07:11:18 By CARYN ROUSSEAU and DEANNA BELLANDI Associated Press Writers DEKALB, Ill. (AP) — A coroner says another student shot at a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University has died, bringing the toll to seven, including the gunman. DeKalb County's coroner says four of the victims died in his county. He says two other victims died at hospitals in other counties. Authorities say the gunman was a former student at the university. They don't know why he fired on a geology class Thursday before committing suicide. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below. DEKALB, Ill. (AP) — The gunman who killed five students and wounded 16 others in a hail of bullets at a Northern Illinois University lecture hall knew the campus well: He was a former student. Investigators and school officials did not immediately know why the man fired on a geology class with a shotgun and two handguns Thursday before committing suicide. The shooter had been a graduate student in sociology at Northern Illinois as recently as spring 2007, but was not currently enrolled at the 25,000-student campus, University President John Peters said. "It appears he may have been a student somewhere else," University Police Chief Donald Grady said. "We have no motive and I have no way of knowing what the motive was." The Chicago Tribune, citing two unidentified law enforcement sources, reported on its Web site Friday that the gunman was a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Authorities did not release the gunman's name, but Peters said he had no record of police contact or an arrest record while attending Northern Illinois, about 65 miles west of Chicago. More than a hundred students cried and hugged as they gathered outside the Phi Kappa Alpha house early Friday to remember Dan Parmenter, a 20-year-old sophomore from Elmhurst, who was among those killed. "I'm not angry," his stepfather, Robert Greer, told the Chicago Tribune. "I'm just sad, and I know that right now what I need to do is comfort my wife." Witnesses said the gunman, dressed in black and wearing a stocking cap, emerged from behind a screen on the stage of 200-seat Cole Hall and opened fire just as the class was about to end around 3 p.m., sending panicked students fleeing for the exits. "I kept thinking, `Oh God, he's going to shoot me. Oh God, I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm dead,'" said Desiree Smith, a senior who dropped to the floor near the back of the auditorium. "People were crawling on each other, trampling each other." Four people died at the scene, including three students and the gunman, while the other two died at hospitals. A graduate student who was leading the class was wounded but was expected to recover. It was unclear if the gunman shot at random or if he targeted certain students. At least two of the wounded were hospitalized in critical condition. Lauren Carr said she was sitting in the third row when she saw the shooter walk through a door on the right-hand side of the stage, pointing a gun straight ahead. "I personally Army-crawled halfway up the aisle," said Carr, a 20-year-old sophomore. "I heard this girl scream, 'Run, he's reloading the gun!'" Senior Ashley Dallman said she was in an acting class in a neighboring building when several students from Cole Hall came running in. Her professors locked the doors and they listened to news reports on the radio for about an hour before school officials told them they could leave. "We all started crying," she said. "We didn't know what to do. It was a very intense moment." George Gaynor, a senior who was in Cole Hall, told the student newspaper the Northern Star that the shooter was "a skinny white guy with a stocking cap on." Officials said 162 students were registered for the class, but it was unknown how many were attending Thursday. Four of the dead were female and two, including the gunman, were male. Eighteen victims were brought to Kishwaukee Community Hospital, where one died, according to the hospital's Web site. One male was transferred in critical condition and died at OSF St. Anthony Medical Center in Rockford, an official said. Minutes after the shooting, students phoned each other and sent text messages even before school officials could warn them, many said. The school Web site announced a possible gunman on campus within 20 minutes of the shots and locked down the campus, part of a new security plan created after a student at Virginia Tech killed 32 people last year. "This is a tragedy, but from all indications we did everything we could when we found out," said Peters, the university president. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms sent 15 agents to the scene, spokesman Thomas Ahern said. The FBI also was assisting. Classes were canceled Friday. Students were urged to call their parents and were offered counseling, according to the school Web site. The university was closed for a day during final exam week in December after campus police found threats, including racial slurs and references to the Virginia Tech shootings, scrawled on a bathroom wall in a dormitory. Police determined there was no imminent threat and the campus was reopened. Peters said he knew of no connection between that incident and Thursday's attack. The Northern Illinois shooting was the fourth at a U.S. school within a week, following attacks in Baton Rouge, La.; Memphis, Tenn.; and Oxnard, Calif.
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#672 |
Elf Lord
Join Date: Jan 2007
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I really can't bear it.
People should be able to go about their business without being shot.
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That would be the swirling vortex to another world. Cool. I want one. TMNT No, I'm not emo. I just have a really poor sense of direction. (Thanks to katya for this quote) This is the best news story EVER! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26087293/ “Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint.”...John McCain "I shall go back. And I shall find that therapist. And I shall whack her upside her head with my blanket full of rocks." ...Louisa May |
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Elf Lady
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale
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Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply.
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Spammer of the Happy Thread
Join Date: Dec 2003
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Yeah, well.. People can't surprise me anymore. There's not much else to expect than total stupidity.
Street car race kills 8
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The Black Númenórean
Join Date: Feb 2003
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Whomever said that had his/her head wedged firmly up their ass.
I've lost anything that I ever dared love, and it does not make up for it.
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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. |
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Jan 2007
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That would be the swirling vortex to another world. Cool. I want one. TMNT No, I'm not emo. I just have a really poor sense of direction. (Thanks to katya for this quote) This is the best news story EVER! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26087293/ “Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint.”...John McCain "I shall go back. And I shall find that therapist. And I shall whack her upside her head with my blanket full of rocks." ...Louisa May |
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Elf Lady
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale
Posts: 8,588
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The battery of my dictionary went out.
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Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply.
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The Black Númenórean
Join Date: Feb 2003
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And our pain.
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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. |
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Elf Lady
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale
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As the Dutch saying goes: Gedeelde smart is halve smart. (When you share your pain, it becomes only half as painful)
Though obviously not everyone will experience this the same way and there are some pains that you can't share. Still, it's a nice saying.
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Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply.
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Kraken King
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Under the sea
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I can see that there is a continuous conversation going on here, but i wont get involved right now.
My vent: My tank is healthy, as are the animals that reside in it, but the algae and bacterial mats are running rampant. They are spreading almost as fast as I can clean them! ![]()
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