I should hang out here more oft.

[TrustingDog]

It's way funner than getting all knotted up in yahoo serious issues. it's way better bringing out the inner child and sending it to their rooms whenever appropriate. It's way better than being all Stuffy over Important Shit all of the fucking time (or pretending to).

It's like slumming with trusted friends, or am I (duck) wrong?

I'm stuck at home for New Year's Eve (like it's any bloody more important than any other time of year cepting for gown rentals and buyings and booze buying at 400% at a place you don't really wanna be anyway) cuz I have a cold, hubby just got that from me, (right now he's snoring like a buzzsaw) and a snowstorm added for effect.

so I wish you all not a Happy New Year (sounds so lame doesn't it, it's Not going to be a happy new year and you know it),

but I wish you all what you hoped for all these last 12 months.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

1. Cheers, TD...

May you enjoy your life more than before.

[TrustingDog]

4. thanks 'catch grapes'

[TrustingDog]

12. thanks again, tom. I needed that.

[jdj]

2. yahoo is for yahoos

Go to LBN and read the replies if you want real knowlege from people. Read anything Tinoire posts. There are others of course but this one pops into mind.

Gen discussion is next, but it is easy to get sidetracked into arguing about issues and lose a chance to learn something.

Repeat after me:

DU is the internet mecca.
Yahoo is slumming.

oops if you didn't mean yahoo the board, but yahoo the serious issues. Sorry if I misread, I'm allowed one mistake a year and I wanted to get it out of the way early on.

[TrustingDog]

5. I thot that may be misinterpreted. I don't do yahoo. I DU.

yahoo serious is waaaay before yahoo u know.

[dolo amber]

3. Release your Id

Stay with us here in the Lounge. :D

[TrustingDog]

6. release my ID? what, you a fed?

[TrustingDog]

7. ahahah, ego, id? see..... how paranoid I am. Thanks.

for tuning my forks. heh.

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[TrustingDog]

48. why were these things deleted?

don't mess with me, I can't remember what was said that was deleteable, but that makes no account to the factoids.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

50. WTF??

[TrustingDog]

9. I'm a bit nauseated by the times square ticker tape crap...

I hear on the TeeVee. I know it's tradition and all, but something Really Bugs me about it this year.

Happy New Year to Whom?

[Butterflies]

13. I'll be your friend. I'm a little drunk though.

:-)

[TrustingDog]

14. hehe. me too, kinda friendly, kinda drunk. Thanks for posting.

It's a big wild lonely world.

[TrustingDog]

15. so what's your PIN number and how many children do you want?

LOL!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

16. Um - who the hell are you?

:shrug:

[TrustingDog]

18. that's a very odd question.

you think I can give you an answer true in a few lines or what definition compared to decades?

I don't do synapses of my life well even for myself, why for, for you?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

29. You are huting me!

[TrustingDog]

34. is that a typo. huting? hooting? wah?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

36. I'm sorry - I meant to say "whuting me". It's Cromanian. Sorry!

[TrustingDog]

42. I see. I accept your Falopiean dialect and misunderstand, as is accepted.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

46. Crepulent?!?!?!?!

:)

[TrustingDog]

49. solivnesh, with wodka.

[Wat_Tyler]

17. Remember kids - Don't post drunk!

[BigMcLargehuge]

19. ROFLOL!!!

[TrustingDog]

21. remember, kids, don't post Stupid.

[TrustingDog]

20. are you saying my words are worthless because you Think I am drunk?

[Butterflies]

22. Aren't most of us drunk tonight?

Maybe it's fewer drunk posters than it seems to me. Thankyou mods for abstaining (if you have abstained, that is.)

[BigMcLargehuge]

23. I am the lounge designated driver

hand over those keys

[Butterflies]

24. you'll get no argument from me

you're the best :-)

[BigMcLargehuge]

25. aww shucks, you only say that

because it's true

:hi:

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

27. Hey, HAPPY NEW YEAR BigMcLargehuge!!!

:toast: :hi:

[BigMcLargehuge]

28. happy new year Cyndee_Lou_Who!

:toast:

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

32. Even though I am a few sheets to the wind....

Thanks!! Thanks to all you mods and admins! And especially to all of you who make me laugh so damn hard! Thanks for keeping me company on a holiday as my employer allows me to play with production servers while intoxicated....

OK, end of drunken rant.

[BigMcLargehuge]

33. keeping you company is my pleasure

:)

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

35. Yes the lounge is a life-saver this year!

I have to babysit system maintenance processes all f'ing nite. The Lounge is keeping me awake.

Oh, that and the Jagerbombs.

[BigMcLargehuge]

37. LOL never underestimate the power of a jagerbomb

me, I'm on th decaf coffee, Tommy (The Who), working on my book, playing in the lounge vibe.

[Wat_Tyler]

39. Your working on your book inspired me to work on mine.

Now I'm fifty pages down. I shall put you in the credits as an inspiration.

'though - in my book - no Chinese people die unnecessarily. It's all necessary deaths for the Asian characters in mine.

[BigMcLargehuge]

41. we'll balance each other out on the shelves then!

:)

[Wat_Tyler]

43. I dunno - I appear to be writing the Lord of the Rings for 80s indie bands

The project has gotten away from me.

[BigMcLargehuge]

53. focus man, focus!

step back and reread what you have.

[Wat_Tyler]

54. Yeah - I must focus.

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[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

47. I am in a blues-y kinda mood.... Susan Tedeschi/Etta James/Eva Cassidy...

Music to hopefully not blow up a bunch of data by. A book? What, prey tell, do you write?

[BigMcLargehuge]

52. here is an excerpt (since rewritten slightly)

and a description of the novel -

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=216x80

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

57. Nice work! How far into it are you? Have you written others?

Been published? Regardless, it must feel great to accompish - I once had a great interest in writing...

[BigMcLargehuge]

59. currently 266 pages

working towars 320 or so... currently 75000 words, working towards an even 100,000. I've only published a few shorts in the past, nothing more recently than 1995 (sheesh... that's SAD...) other than a weekly column I wrote for a couple of years.

This is the first historical fiction I've written.

[TrustingDog]

30. why the fuck are you people so mean?

[BigMcLargehuge]

31. huh?

no one is being mean that I can see... just a little good natured silliness.

on edit: Welcome to the lounge :)

[TrustingDog]

38. and i'm always suspicious. in a good way.

[TrustingDog]

26. I was kinda 'feeling good' until I came here....

I'm sick of angry defensive people-
even on a night like this is or isn't?

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[Tsiyu]

44. Peeps just having some fun tonight

You grow an ego-shaped callous after a while....

General Discussion is grim tonight as I just checked in. Stoked a few fires and said I'd best see what the Lounge is up to.

We drove away those 2004 demons with plenty of fireworks, Trustingdog, but don't do fireworks if you're drunk like freepers do.

A freeper's last words are "Hey y'all. Watch this."

Anyhoo, the horses are convinced the world's not coming to an end, the yard is littered with casings and pretty paper ( my favorite was the Tie Dye Flaming Balls. Ooooohhhh! Pretty!) but we chased those motherfuckin' bastards back to 2000 B.C. and they didn't get into 2005.


Drink a toast to hope....

[TrustingDog]

56. I thought I was just feeling good, is all, not drunk....

after all, it's the booze day of the year, ain't it?
but I guess you would know better than I.

[Tsiyu]

58. no, I don't drink often

and never on Amateur Night if I have to drive ( gotta pick up a kid at four). But aren't you charming this evening!

[TrustingDog]

60. is charming a good thing?

I always thought 'charming' as deceptive.
So I am glad if I'm not that.

[BrewerJohn]

45. It's only because no one remembered Yahoo Serious

little misunderstanding here, that's all...

[TrustingDog]

51. more than that. lots of mean people here...

I like challenging people, but not the mean ones.