great britain

upside down, north and south america look like great britain. sort of

from this, I have decided that it's to do with continental drift. all continents once looked like great britain, but some expanded and thinned into 2 separate continents (like the americas)

"grawr"

from a website, via an email:

1. grawr is a word made up one day when i became really angry. its is "rawr" with some oomph.

"GRAWR! that test was really hard"

2. a growl Rawr Hybrid. It is a sign of anger, frustration, or any other synonym of the two.
it could be used as an animal noise.

"grawr! I forgot to do my calculus homework!"
"grawr says the... liger... grawr.

3. grawr. the sound a bear makes when agitated. this word is used similarly to "rawr" except for the fact that one does not wish to sound like a dinosaur or a scene kid, one wishes to sound like a bear.

"grawr! I'm a bear! fear me... becuase I'm a bear. and bears are scarier than dinosaurs because bears are a real threat."

4. it is the combination of grrrr...and rawr. It shows anger or a sign of random talking.

friend: "GRAWR! I'm late!"
me: "GRAWR"
friend: random...

5. a sort of friendly, silly word whch may have many meanings. used mainly on the internet,

1. in disagreement.
2. a sort of stupid monster sound.
3. first person: "hahahaahahaha my domos eat you!!"
second person: "no you shant!! grawr!!!"

...I prefer 'grawrl', myself

nes

the geek in me says modifying a nes controller
to work as a phone is very, very cool...
what do you think?

new york to Ipswich

see the driving instructions on google maps, here

note step 24,
"swim across the atlantic ocean 3,463 mi"

turn your ipod into an ipod shuffle

1. get a Post-It note
2. get your iPod
3. put the Post-It note on the iPod

now you can enjoy the ipod shuffle’s cool new features without having to buy a new player

_{from clarista.org}

breakfast

watched breakfast club last night, it's great. I'd probably say it's better than empire records, although I did have a huge fry-up with it and missed the first few minutes... definitely would watch again. probably even in top 5, who knows...

also, the word of yesterday: blackanese

rosettes and ribbons

blue ribbon - 1st
red ribbon - 2nd
white ribbon - 3rd
yellow ribbon - 4th
green ribbon - 5th
orange ribbon - 6th
purple ribbon - 7th
brown ribbon - 8th

...because everyone ought to know this

bear and me as elton/rod

pickled peppers

philip brown purchased a jar of pickled peppers

magnificent Phil in a flying machine

I'm going to germany to visit lizi, hurrah!

"trannie"

from the face book of dave...

laptop

for the past 2 days (or more), I've thought of nothing but laptops. that's an exagguration, somewhat, but basically I got it into my head that I needed a laptop for uni now. I couldn't focus on work or anything. now I've realised I don't, and that I am in fact an impulse buyer who likes to shop. I'll get it into my head quick as a flash that I need something and it'll take over.

sounds crazy. I realised it when writing some stuff for a boys' weekend I'm helping plan. I wrote:
money’s great! so is having stuff
the trouble is, they don’t provide ‘meaning’ for life
the more stuff you own, the more stuff owns you
...
what you have doesn’t define who you are so what’s the point?
Solomon realised you can’t take it with you when you die!

if you're reading this, read "Ecclesiastes" in the bible
(click here)
it's the 'journal' of Solomon, a king of Israel, as he searched for the meaning of life

quotes

what men call the supernatural is actually the natural not yet understood or revealed

choose and judge your leaders... those who seek always to limit the power of government are of good heart and conscience. those who seek to expand the power of government are base tyrants

the simplest way to describe a democracy is this: three people form a government, each having one vote. then two of them vote to steal the wealth of the third

arm bears

"you have the right to bear arms, you have the right to arm bears, what ever the hell you want to do!"

Robin Williams - a night at the met

gameboy

whilst home for the weekend, Bozza (that's Ros, to you) gave me (back) her gameboy pocket and games. and a gameboy printer, rock on! I got well into pokemon, and played for at least 2 hours solid last night ('til 1am).

then (and this is where I raise my voice in anger), having seen charmander evolve into charmeleon, and having caught a pikachu, I got stuck in a battle that was both unwinnable and unloseable! I had a level 15 oddish, and my opponent's last pokemon was also an oddish. I'd taught mine 'poisonpowder', but that only took 1 health point from the oddish at a time, and I ran out of them. the only move we then had was one which withdrew health and healed our respective oddish. so it was a stalemate.

there's no way to run from a trainer battle, so that was it. I had to restart my gameboy, and lost 2 and a half hour's work. the worst part is, if I'd have taken the 15 minutes pressing 'a' to see what happened when I couldn't fight any more, it might have been ok... grr.

spiderman dream

last night I dreamt...

that I was spiderman! except I got 'posessed' by venom, but instead of that simply causing me to wear a black spiderman suit, it made me look like a children's cartoon. a bit of a cross between a pokemon, pacman and kirby (the eyes). I was a yellow blob, anyway...

in order to try and 'cure' myself, I headed over to the mansion in which the villain lived. as I made my way there, I saw a golf course. on it, many kirbys were being hit about with golf clubs (like in kirby golf, except they were person-sized). so were other cartoons, including a horse. he didn't look too happy about it...

I don't remember much else, except entering a jacuuzi, where there were little compartments at the side where sugar secretly flowed out and into the water. the dastardly villain! I also remember being there with 2 friends, and not being entirely sure if they were in a right state of mind, or were being controlled in order to lure me into some evil trap.the dream then fizzled out, the end.

whales

my 'little' sister is currently working on an r.e project on whaling... I offered to help her, saying:

Bozza, did you know - you know when they catch a whale, they have to find out how much meat is on it... they work out it's b.m.i (that's body mass index) to see how much it's worth. anyway, did you know, the place where they do that
- where they measure its weight -
is called a whale-weigh station...

she believed me for a second

competition time

here's the competition... dad bought these letters to name our boat:
i (x2)
p (x2)
f (x1)
l (x1)
any ideas? answers on a postcard to: blue peter, 2a crescent rd, ip1 2ex

the winner will recieve 12p, sent to me from "Sister Michaela", in terrible poverty in guatemala

also, do you remember those 'cool' kids who were always the ones to try "will you lend me 20p" on you..? one tried it to me today at felixstowe, so I shouted back "of course I don't have 20p! if I did, I'd have a zippy by now!" and walked off. the couple after me won zippy. *fuming*

dreams 6th April

last night's remembered dream:

there was a murder. we were all sat in a big hall, and 4 shots were fired. I saw the man who I presumed was the murdered with a colt 45 as the 4 shots were fired. for some reason, in the panic, no-one else realised it was him, so we had to go through the lengthy process of combing the building... starting with the row of seminar-aligned chairs at the back, one of us (I think it was me. or a woman) made our way to the front, section by section. well, I went 2 sections by two sections, but still... the floow was sectioned like a freshly mowed lawn, see. under the grand piano at the front left, I spotted a box of lego. that's it! I cried to the detectives - there's your evidence! It turned out, that in the box was a lego pirate ship, which - when you jumped onto it, came to life. but only to the person jumping onto it, not to everyone else watching. it was kind of like a video game, and the pirates on the ship were very violent. they threw me off the first time, but before I hit that water I was back in 'reality'. they also killed a lot of the people looking at the ship, presuming them to be villains, but actually, they accidentally killed a lot of innocent people. I remember thinking that the amount of blood I saw was not suitable for a child's computer game. the dream concluded as a group of people were discussing the ethics behind games in which reality was twisted. who could be blamed for the killing of all those innocent people? lego pirates? the person who jumped onto the lego pirate ship? surely not... maybe this was one of those areas in life where, in the words of sir Robert Winston, "our human curiosity should forever remain unsatisfied".

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jokes and dreams

jokes:

why is there no ibuprofen in the jungle?
because the parrots-eat-em-all

there was a snail, who wanted to buy a car. so he went to his local snail-car-dealership, picked out a nice cheap brown one to match his shell and asked the dealer "do you spray lettering?". "yes" the dealer replied, "we do. what would you like sprayed on the car?" "the letter 's'" replied the snail. "just the letter s, why would you want that?" asked the dealer. "simple" replied the snail, "so that when I speed past people, they'll say 'look at that s-car-go!'"

dreams:

in one dream I had recently, I was living in a slum. it wasn't a terrible slum, just the poor crowded flats in a run-down tower block where polish migrant workers are probably made to live. anyway, living there - there was a cat burglar. I met him at one point, and he told me he was the world's greatest cat burglar. I though that rather defeated the object. anyway, he really got my goat when I found he had been breaking and entering into people's apartments without asking. he even broke into one where there was this tree I was planning to build the best treehouse ever in, and proceeded to wrap it in barbed wire, which he stuffed into a plug and plugged into a socket in the wall. fortunately it didn't actually electrocute anyone, so he got away with it, but I was still mighty peeved. not only did he do that, but he also stole things. not big things, but things that people wouldn't notice, like cable adaptors etc. it wasn't so much that he'd inconvenienced me, just the morals of it all! shocker.

in another dream, I attended mcf (my old church). they were meeting back in a room that looked like mendlesham village hall, but actually was a whole complex and there were rooms elsewhere. I went with a friend and her family, but the main hall was full, so we had to go to the 'overflow room', which consisted of an empty room with a flatscreen telly showing what was going on. fortunately someone I already knew had saved me a seat in the main hall. anyway, there then proceeded to be a big performance in which steve and duncan spoke like they were announcing a wrestlemania contest, and gigantic (fake, fabric) flames raged behind them. there was a sermon, though, in which win fenning stood up in the congregation and preached. from what I remember, it was alright. my friend and her family were scared a bit by the rottweilers/german shepherds in the overflow section though. poor souls.

thus endeth probably the longest post I've written. couldn't be bothered to make two posts out of it, see. 'night!

wikipedia

"april 2007 is a common month and is the fourth month of that year. it began on a sunday and will end after thirty days on a monday"

anger

last week at the pub quiz:

_man:

"which children's novel featured the characters tweedledum and tweedledee?"

_team:

"alice in wonderland"

_me:

"no, it was alice through the looking glass"

_{[argument ensues, I give in]}

today I realised I was right all along. even the pub quiz man was wrong. I was so angry I thought I'd blog about it

imagine

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