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Re: Global Party [message #10085 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sat, 17 January 2009 17:22

ssshunt
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I get Boardwalk and Park Place!

"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."

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Re: Global Party [message #10086 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sat, 17 January 2009 17:33

Melissa Mead
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I played Apples to Apples at a convention once. Good choice!

Here's my favorite game (because I can never keep my mouth shut): http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/1607

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Re: Global Party [message #10093 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sat, 17 January 2009 17:51

ssshunt
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Oh Blurt looks like fun!

"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."

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Re: Global Party [message #10094 is a reply to message #10084 ]

Sat, 17 January 2009 17:55

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So, what sort of party clothes do bears wear? Stripes in their fur, jewelled paw-bands, that sort of thing? Smile

Help yourself to the chilli - I think Scar left some for later. I'm going to have another cake, once I've tracked Miss Suzi and my earring down...

_{"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."}

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Re: Global Party [message #10097 is a reply to message #10084 ]

Sat, 17 January 2009 18:17

Robin
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Oh, gods, I'm totally photo challenged! I can do it for entries but I have no idea how to do it here! And furthermore I'm still at the mews and all my sparklies are back at the cottage!!

But here's a game at least, suitable for playing in the middle of a GALE--you other English, you should be having it too--and the middle of the NIGHT: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/15987
There are definitely Things Howling out there right now!!!!

And I have photos of McKinley's Famous Exploding Chocolate Cake masquerading as a kind of henge *somewhere*! But I have no idea WHERE! Good cake though, even when it explodes! And if this is all virtual you don't have to try and scrape it off the inside of YOUR oven! (Actually the exploded crunchy bits are the best part but it's not a system one really *wants* to repeat very often.)

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Sat, 17 January 2009 18:19

Robin
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And in the absence of sparkly, these are pretty good:

http://www.rubbersole.co.uk/converse_hi_ct_as_print_magenta_ pink

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Re: Global Party [message #10099 is a reply to message #10097 ]

Sat, 17 January 2009 18:20

AJLR
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Wow, I'm not sure that I'd be brave enough to play that game! I'm sure Black Bear would be though! Smile

I'm imagining the crunchy bits of the exploding cake...mmm!

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Re: Global Party [message #10101 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sat, 17 January 2009 19:26

Susan from Athens
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Exploding Chocolate Cake? Would that go with pink champagne? About time we opened the Champagne, don't you think? Even if AJLR is still wandering around trying to find where Miss Susie hid that earring? And strong ginger ale for those who prefer no alcohol? Definitely something with bubbles that tickle the back of your nose.

_{“I have always imagined heaven to be a kind of library.” –Jorge Luis Borges}

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Re: Global Party [message #10108 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sat, 17 January 2009 20:19

Melissa Mead
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:digs out some Dry Grape Ginger Ale of the sort we had at my wedding reception:

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Re: Global Party [message #10110 is a reply to message #10060 ]

Sat, 17 January 2009 21:14

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Susan from Athens wrote on Sat, 17 January 2009 13:10

I might be late, but I come bearing gifts: Have some ekmek kaimaki (don't worry if you have a dairy allergy it is buffalo cream on top and it is luscious!):

and some syropiasta. I went specially to get them from a special shop just for the party. Forgive me if I had a bit before getting here.

A glass of wine anyone? Some juice?

Oh, what merciless photos! Merciless!

"...the Renaissance was just something that happened to 'other people', wasn't it?" -- Lord Blackadder

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Re: Global Party [message #10111 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sat, 17 January 2009 21:23

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I'll be over here in the sedate old crone's section with an electric throw over my lap, a cat headrest, a Collie footrest, and a Baileys and cream, reading back issues of SciAm and listening to Stan Getz' Focus (best jazz album ever).

-- Karen 'party on down' Blogmom

"...the Renaissance was just something that happened to 'other people', wasn't it?" -- Lord Blackadder

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Re: Global Party [message #10114 is a reply to message #10097 ]

Sat, 17 January 2009 22:22

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Just poking my head in... running late as usual (and running off in a moment for some non-virtual food!).

I played Arkham Horror at a con once.... I think we actually managed to win, even! It's one of the more complicated board games I've encountered, but rather fun!

Apples to Apples is a party staple around here, and parties happen pretty regularly and randomly. Of course, we generally play so that it's the ones we like, or think the person choosing will like... having little to do withs similarity. ^_^

Another fun one is Set. The idea is that there are four variables - shape, color, fill pattern, and number. Each card has one choice for each variable (for example, three solid green diamonds), and you want to pick up three with everything from a given variable either the same or different. (so, one bordered purple squigly, two red hashed ovals, and the aforementioned three solid green diamonds). It's all about pattern recognition. Of course, not content with that, my boyfriend and I invented the brain-breaking variant - find sets where nothing matches. Anti-patterns, if you will. Great fun!

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Re: Global Party [message #10115 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sat, 17 January 2009 23:15

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hey girls, sounds like every one is shaking and moving [umm chocolate cake my favorite]i believe i'll have a piece of that and i brought some chocolate chip spice bars to share.tasha is snoring right now but she loves to dance.

Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get

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Re: Global Party [message #10120 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 02:20

L.R.K.
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Oh, I have been missing a lot of fun! But I had to sleep - and seeing that it's fairly quiet here just now I assume others are sleeping now, so I thought this would be appropriate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0SlEi5kboM

Aaj kal mein dhalgaya
Today has faded into tomorrow
din hua tamaam
the day is complete
tu bhi sojaa, sogayee
sleep you too, asleep
rang bhari shyam
is the colourful evening

Sorry about the awkward - possibly slightly erronous - translation. (Some of the other lyrics are nearly unbearably sad, but I love this song...)

[Updated on: Sun, 18 January 2009 02:26]

Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.

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Re: Global Party [message #10126 is a reply to message #10111 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 05:03

AJLR
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Blogmom wrote on Sun, 18 January 2009 02:23

My, I can see why you need the electric throw and the shared body warmth, Karen!

Baileys and cream, hmm, I've not tried that...

_{"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."}

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Re: Global Party [message #10127 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 05:57

Susan from Athens
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I haven't had Baileys and cream either (Bailey's already has cream in it - it was a product created to take advantage of EU subsidies on exporting dairy products that became massive success). I have had Bailey's on vanilla ice cream topped by a sprinkle of instant coffee (the only good use of instant coffee ever, imho), but I understand that would defeat the purpose. Now if you got up for a touch of latin dancing? Only something slow I'm sure that would warm you up! We can move on to something faster after that... You ride those horses, don't tell me you're not up for some dancing?

_{“I have always imagined heaven to be a kind of library.” –Jorge Luis Borges}

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Re: Global Party [message #10128 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 06:15

L.R.K.
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Nice!

I'll go and have a cup of tea - it'll wake me up properly - anyone else for tea?

Perhaps with some appropriate music from Nat King Cole?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7hbkQexqXs

[Updated on: Sun, 18 January 2009 06:29]

Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.

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Re: Global Party [message #10130 is a reply to message #10128 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 08:09

Susan from Athens
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A nice cup of tea will get me going very nicely indeed, thank you LRK. Maybe some shortbread biscuits to go with that?

_{“I have always imagined heaven to be a kind of library.” –Jorge Luis Borges}

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Re: Global Party [message #10131 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 08:38

holmes44
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i'll have some tea too and how about some french toast with real Canadian maple syrup on them,

Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get

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Re: Global Party [message #10133 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 08:48

L.R.K.
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Oh, that sounds delicious! I'll have both shortbread and french toast, please! The only bad thing about french toast is - no nothing health-connected (at a party? perish the thought!) - that they are so filling and I won't be able to eat as many as I would like...

Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.

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Re: Global Party [message #10134 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 08:48

Julia
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Morning everybody!
Sorry I wasn't about last night... I was at work in the morning, [except we had to close the library because we had no heat] and then last night we all went out to eat dinner with my grandmother,and didn't get back until quite late, and so my parents wouldn't let me near the computer... and I was rather exhausted anyway, so I just curled up with a book and read until I fell asleep [which, I hasten to add, happens very rarely. Usually if I am reading, I'll read until I finish, and THEN I can sleep. Maybe. I guess I really was tired yesterday!

ANyway, I'm here now! With some more music, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjzigjdfJ5o

Yay!
Smile

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Re: Global Party [message #10135 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 08:51

Julia
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Oh yes, some tea would be wonderful. I quite like this, even though my mother thinks that I only like it because of the dragon on the box... Not so! But it was what made me buy it in the first place, yes, I must admit. Smile

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Re: Global Party [message #10137 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 08:59

L.R.K.
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Catnip?!

And a dragon on the box is a perfectly good reason to buy anything! (Well, within reason & affordability, of course...)

[Updated on: Sun, 18 January 2009 09:00]

Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.

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Sun, 18 January 2009 09:08

Julia
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Quote:

Catnip?

At first I was like "What??" And then I went back to the ingredients page. There is catnip in my tea??????? What?!

Oh well.
It still tastes good.

Hmmm... Southdowner already said that maybe I am a "time traveller from another era"... now maybe that has changed and my new secret identity is... a cat? Hey, I'll take it! You all, well most of you, like cats. So I'm still good!

[p.s. I don't have my glasses on and only woke up a short while ago. Please pardon any typos or insanity. Smile

]

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Re: Global Party [message #10140 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 09:25

L.R.K.
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Yes, I know I ought to have clarified - I actually thought of doing it, but then thought "Nah!". Once in a while one likes to be mysterious...

And you know I adore cats! And the photos were lovely - a time-travelling cat - "Time Cat" (Lloyd Alexander)...

Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.

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Re: Global Party [message #10141 is a reply to message #10140 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 09:30

Julia
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Ooh! I love that book!

Yes!
oh, and thank you. [about the photos]

Smile

[Updated on: Sun, 18 January 2009 09:31]

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Sun, 18 January 2009 09:59

AJLR
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Susan from Athens wrote on Sun, 18 January 2009 13:09

A nice cup of tea will get me going very nicely indeed, thank you LRK. Maybe some shortbread biscuits to go with that?

I think a cup of my favourite Darjeeling would go down very well about now, perhaps with a chocolate digestive...? No, maybe I'll pass on the biscuit, after all that rich food last night. And I'm sure I've pulled a muscle, with all the dancing. Smile

Perhaps, L.R.K. and Julia, we could go for a slightly gentler pace today? Although I appreciate you young things are probably fitter than a middle-aged person like me...

Very Happy

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Re: Global Party [message #10145 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 10:20

Susan from Athens
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Well tea in the afternoon, for the time being - I'm sure you didn't pull a thing AJLR: it's just residual stiffness, so if you dance some more, it will all fade away!

I like Tension tamer too, although I also first bought it for the dragon on the box. I agree Julia and LRK, it is an entirely valid reason to buy a box of tea if you can afford it. I have recently been seduced by this, which is at the limit of what i should afford and although I have a very nice recipe for chai thanks to our recipe exchange here, I really enjoy this too!

Have a piece of lemon drip cake and enjoy the rather pretty sun setting right outside my window.

[Updated on: Sun, 18 January 2009 10:37]

_{“I have always imagined heaven to be a kind of library.” –Jorge Luis Borges}

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Re: Global Party [message #10146 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 10:46

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That's beautiful!

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Sun, 18 January 2009 10:54

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Thanks for the link, Susan. I can see I'm going to explore in among the teas now...

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Re: Global Party [message #10149 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 12:05

Susan from Athens
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Well you did want to do something a touch quieter Razz

_{“I have always imagined heaven to be a kind of library.” –Jorge Luis Borges}

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Re: Global Party [message #10150 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 12:06

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AJLR - is this a better pace?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTHxf5NT2f4

(Minoo Mumtaz is sitting for most of it...) This is from the same film - Jahan Ara.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWZKmBs6WgE

The first words are the same as in this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rj6cA3Ohrw

(I wouldn't mind some of that jewellery... Smile

)

[Updated on: Sun, 18 January 2009 12:21]

Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.

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Re: Global Party [message #10151 is a reply to message #10150 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 12:22

Julia
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Ooh, cool! Great video, L.R.K.!
and that photo is beautiful, Susan!

I've just been up in my room, reading Dogsbody. Whoever recommended it [and I'm sure there were many of you, actually, thank you! It was one of the few DWJ books I hadn't read. I'm glad I did. Okay, done sidetracking the conversation now] I'm all for taking the party at a slower pace, as I have to go clean my room now! And I just cleaned it, too, on Thursday morning, I folded all my clothes, and all my sister's clothes, and everything. But somehow, it is all a mess again! Sigh.

Carry on with the relaxed party, you all!

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Re: Global Party [message #10159 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 13:39

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I shall be locking this topic in about 90 minutes (2000 hours local) as it will by then have had its full 36 hours of life - but this is just to say how lovely it has been to 'party' with you all. A little silliness is a wondrous thing. Smile

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Re: Global Party [message #10160 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 13:44

L.R.K.
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It has been fun! Smile

Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.

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Re: Global Party [message #10161 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 14:02

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I enjoyed myself a lot - and a lot more than I expected! Thanks guys for the music, the games, the videos, the clothes and the virtual food, most of all the real, rather than virtual companionship and friendship!

_{“I have always imagined heaven to be a kind of library.” –Jorge Luis Borges}

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Re: Global Party [message #10162 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 14:10

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Susan from Athens--I first read "latin dances" as "lap dances." I thought, wooooooooooo, were letting our hair down now!

"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."

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Re: Global Party [message #10163 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 14:18

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*wanders folornly into the party aftermath*

Looks like I missed all the fun - sometimes working weekends sucks! Sounds like everyone had a good time though. But what IS that gooey stuff on the ceiling?? (and how did it get up there? Wink

)

Don't worry about the dust bunnies, they're just here to guard the treasure.....

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Re: Global Party [message #10165 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 14:28

Susan from Athens
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Now now, Shelley: we let our hair down, just not quite that much Wink

and Vicky: you had to be there to experience it all. A pity about missing it for work: I enjoyed it extra because I was by the computer for boring work so I took a lot of breaks!

_{“I have always imagined heaven to be a kind of library.” –Jorge Luis Borges}

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Re: Global Party [message #10166 is a reply to message #9966 ]

Sun, 18 January 2009 14:31

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Oops, I seem to have missed it, too. But then, I'd probably have broken something if I'd tried dancing!

*hunts around for leftovers from that tray from Athens*
*doesn't find any*

Fortunately last night I made gingerbread, almost like Robin's except for swapping out nutmeg for cloves. Smile

Would you like some, Vikki?

EDIT: Looks like we're not the only ones here! *offers gingerbread around*

[Updated on: Sun, 18 January 2009 14:32]

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