ryyannon

The bidding history is coherent and in-line with the current bid....

17-year-old selling 'world's second unlocked' iphone on the 'Bay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=230164884672 Smart kid.

It's been said before, but not enough: you need to factor in the depreciation of the dollar over the last 18-24 months and the corresponding rise of everything else - including the price of shipping and movements. Not very long ago, I used to pay a little over $500.00 for a R/T ticket to Los Angeles; today the same ticket is over than one thousand dollars - and rising. It pisses me off, but so does the relentless march of time: what's for sure is that none of us are going to get any younger, and prices any cheaper.

Less from the standpoint of difformity or mutilation than from the atmosphere of the recording itself: definitely another time and place, way back there...Edwardian - even if the singer in question is Italian - and not terribly further removed in time than Merrick's own death in 1890. Whatever. Anyway, it's grossly unfair of you to expect me to make any sense!

Hasn't it always? I did like the recording of the Castrato: sort of like hearing Elephant Man, if he could have sung.... The Russian exorcism made me think of how little separates us from the terror and chaos of our own implosion as 'rational' beings...the fragility of civilization - and the jnpenetrable darknesss of the human soul...

So when was the last time your listened to a Russian exorcism or the world's only recording of a real Castrato? http://listverse.com/bizarre/top-10-incredible-recordings/

I will fear no Gunnar.

And where is JetMid?

I remain convinced that it was really her.... (shouldn't this be 'she'?) But then, I remain convinced about a lot of other nonsense as well....

I see what's purported to be jf's doppelganger all over this forum lately - and frankly, if Miss Barrett was indeed Mr. jf, I'd ask him to marry me. Luckily for the both of us, I remain convinced that the real jf has never crossed the gender-barrier - let alone the invisible gulf separating the two RWGs...

Miss Barrett prefers to be called Victoria, Vicky, Vic or various other permutations of her first name - as well as 'The Sixth Spice Girl' by those in the know. Also, I suspect she's on sterioids.

Looks like a winner!:

Who the [censored] are you?

I dunno....I find the very idea of supposedly free people accepting to be constantly rated by one another infinitely depressing. Must have something to do with the EU and Brussels. Or perhaps the ex-Soviet Union. It's not just because I know that I'm personally going to attract my share of lightening, since it would be the same if everyone was showing me total and constant love: it's all so damn predictable - and really, who cares? Is it supposed to matter if we have more or less gold stars on our report card than the next member? [censored], I thought this sort of thing went out with kintergarden. Bah. Humbug. Just unbelieveable.

No, but I assure you that if I could, I rate every one of my posts as pure garbage. The pure part is important.... For the rest, I give people I like great ratings no matter what they post, and give people who have given me negative ratings the same treatment. It reminds me a lot of high-school, only lots more anal-obsessive. Whatever. I hope you liked the Pet Shop Boys, though: I would have imagined that song would have brought back some nice memories. It's such a beauty, I think....

No I don't. But since you mentioned it, who do you have blow around here to get your rating changed?

Could we take it to another level? The idea would be to rate other people's rating of other people's posts....and so on. A successful forum means all of us keeping a critical eye on each other: too much freedom can be a dangerous thing. Limits are needed, and I believe that the community itself is best qualified to enforce them. Also, I think it's high time to put a lid on some of the confusing or just plain crazy posts I see around here - they are disturbing to me, and often keep me from sleeping properly. The result is that I spend more and more time on this board, sleep less, and feel terribly stupid since I often don't 'get' what some of our crazier members are talking about. We need more discipline on this forum, and I believe that a rating system, followed perhaps by a rating the rating system as I've proposed above will be an excellent start in getting things back on the rails. Also, I'm bothered by the idea that some of our members are smoking when on the forum. I'm not sure what can be done about this, but I find that these people are totally insensitive to the desires of those of us who prefer a smoke-free environment - even virtually. I've a good many other suggestions and observations to make, but honestly, the idea of all that smoke here is beginning to make me cough so hard that I can barely type. Keep up the good work: by all pulling together, we'll get this place back to normal in no time!

Ok, maybe just a mortar attack. Clean, efficient... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3a7_1187501259&p=1

I think we should rip their weenies off and roast them around a campfire.

A particle accelerator? Umm...a dial?

Can we agree with our own posts?

There's being bored... and being boring: http://files.ww.com/files/38084.html I could be bored like this all day....

With pleasure....send me a pm before you come and I'll give you my existentialist phone number....!

That's exactly it, Ryan! Countless years spent in my black turtleneck and beret, a Gauloise hanging from my downturned lips as I nursed a muddy espresso on the terrace of my local existentialist caf

Thanks, Ryan!