Post by Akbar Le Grey on Nov 28, 2005 5:36:34 GMT -5
The 667er.
Editor : Akbar/Le Grey.
Columnists: PJ, Linda, Sixteen, Sora, A., Robert and Jemima.
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SnicketFace's Rant.
Columnist's note: Ok, here's my first (last?) rant so bear with me.
So I've been thinking most of the day about what I want to rant about, and I have a few subjects to start out with, and maybe more will come to me.
First off. I have a digital camera that I got as an early Christmas present. This is all well and good, but there is one problem. Instead of the new handy rechargeable ones, it takes batteries. Now to make life more convenient my mother purchased rechargeable batteries and a charger for the batteries. But I don't know how to work the darned charger! Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I honestly don't have the patience to fiddle with it, so as a result, I haven't used my camera in a week, and have just built up the boredom to mess around with it and get it to work.
Next. An associate of my brother's is paying him to sell things on Ebay. Meaning that he has given a bunch of random things (i.e. be be guns, a helmet, a presumed guitar case) and having my brother sell it for him. Now it is all piled up right in the middle of a walkway in my family room. That in itself is utterly annoying. Are you so technologically incompetent that you can't sell things on Ebay? I know for a fact my brother's associate is always on Ebay looking around. So why can't he sell the crap himself? Sheer incompetence? A lack of time? Who knows. Also, one of the things that he is selling is this old clock. Now, clocks don't normally annoy me, and probably shouldn't as my grandfather was a clock/watch salesman/repairman, but this clock's ticking sound is so entirely annoying and loud that [cheesy]I might make time fly and throw it out a window[/cheesy]
Next is something that has been bothering me for the past 11 years of my life. School uniforms. Honestly, who would ever think of school uniforms? They say it is to create "equality" among the students, but this does nothing as people just judge you on other things. Such as shoes, hair, weight, general appearance, et cetera. Every day, I wake up and put on the so called 'skort' (it is definitely not a skort, they are shorts darnet!) and white polo with a bland generic monogram on it with the initials of our school. It's ridiculous. You think they'd at least let us all get a pair of jeans and a shirt to wear, but no! It has to be all formal and crap. School in itself is worse enough, without having to wear those ridiculous clothes. Why not grant us that one freedom? WHY!?
Ok, I'm "ranted out." I know it wasn’t as good as PJ, but he should be back next week to fill all of your ranting needs, so don’t be alarmed.
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aSoUE article
One of the newest and most intriguing mysteries, caused by The Penultimate Peril, (besides the taxi driver, which SHOULD be obvious at this point, but I won’t reveal that, there’s a whole thread about it) is regarding the Terrible Triptych before chapter four and after chapter six. The pictures are in two different orders, involving a woman drilling a hole in a wall, with assorted articles of clothing on the floor, the second has an eye looking through a hole, and the elevator rope is hanging literally by a thread, the third having a man getting on the elevator.
Now, I’m assuming two things: 1) that this pertains to TPP, and 2) that the elevator the man is on is the one with the slit rope, but that could be a red herring. The questions we ask ourselves are these…
-who cut the ropes? Was it the woman or was she just checking to see if they were intact?
-what is on the floor? She sounds an awful lot like the housekeeper in chapter 7, who removed a disguise.
-who is the man? He looks like Mr. Poe, but again, could be a red herring. Now if I’m not mistaken, Poe has only a mustache, and the man has only a beard. Of course, we have heard of shaving. This man, I don’t think we’ve seen before, but then, we have a lot of people yet to meet for instance, all the people on the cover of TPP.
-when did this happen in the series? Again, we’re assuming TPP, but when? Just prior to the Baudelaires coming? It has to be before, for obvious reasons, or perhaps during the Baudelaires’ stay.
Hoping to answer these questions and more. Signing off, Grace.
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Member Interview of the Week
Linda:This week, J agreed to be interviewed. Now, J, what is your real name?
J: My fake real name is Jenna Sottle. My real real name is...Well...It wouldn't be fun if i released that information to the public, would it?
Linda: Where are you from?
J: I'm from New York, Long Island, and I live in the town next to Songbird's.
Linda: How would you describe yourself in terms of physical appearance?
J: Not good. ): I have brown hair that's annoyingly long. I've taken it to wearing it up all the time. I used to wear it in a ribbon like Violet Baudelaire's but now I try to get it like Riza Hawkeye's. My mum always wants me to wear it down but it's annoying, and I put it up out of habit. I also wear glasses.
Linda: How would you describe yourself in terms of your personality?
J: Not good, either. I can be hyper, random and obsessive. Attention monkey. Can I say that here? ATTENTION monkey. *flails arms* I also talk a lot.
Linda: What do you like to do in your spare time, other than visit 667?
J: Sleep. Obsessing over people or things--This week, it's Roy Mustang and Full Metal Alchemist. I'm supposed to be doing 20 lbs of homework right now. I don't have free time--I make it. I should stop, but by the time I get home from school I'm too tired to do work.
Linda: How important is 667 to you?
J: Less important now, but still pretty important. I haven't had time and there haven't been many interesting things.
Linda: How did you find 667? Did you lurk, or join immediately?
J: Uh. I think I was looking up asoue one day and I came across a message board. And then, some amount of time (days, weeks, months, I don't know the difference) later, something compelled me to look for the message board again. I found 667 and made a thread about religion. Swans was the first person to respond, I think.
Linda: What are your favorite sections to visit?
J: I like MM and I used to love DD but I'm sort of existentialist now, so politics doesn't interest me as much as it used to when I was a die-hard liberal with no regard for the other side's opinion. Those were the days, instead of having to mull over every opinion. Instead of automatically dismissing an idea and calling it stupid, I actually think about it now, so D&D isn't as fun anymore.
Linda: Is there anything that you really really like about 667?
J: Yeah. Derikkun and Robertkun, and all the other people. You know who you are--or maybe you don't, since a lot of people have self esteem issues here.
Linda: Is there anything on 667 that really bugs you?
J: The fact that it changes. People leave, and I miss some members like Soi and Swans.
Linda: Is there anything you’d like to tell the members of 667 while you’re in the spotlight?
J: Heh. If I wanted to, I'd make a thread about it, but I can't think of anything right now.
Linda: Thanks J. Now, Dupin will probably be interviewed next week, and then Sam, and then Skeleton Key, but that’s not set in stone just yet.
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Missing
Kimia (xangelkimzx) disappeared on October 16th 2005. There have been a few reported sightings of her since and she was last seen near the ‘Let’s post in Foreign languages thread’ The possibility of kidnapping has not been dismissed, though she has attempted to explain her recent absence, telling one member that she ‘…has been busy with school and stuff’ Still, we can no longer put anything past e-nappers with many now known to force hostages to make appearances to persuade the general public that there’s nothing to worry about. This reporter, however, is convinced of no such thing and if I was to witness one of the increasingly rare Kimia sightings would report it to the right authorities with due speed. If anyone understands Spanish they may also like to translate her most recent post as it is believed to be a distress note and of vital importance to detectives. Police have been unable to put together a profile of the men alleged to have been involved, but if they had they would probably look like this.
Remember these e-nappers are extremely dangerous and should you see one, this newspaper advises that you quickly note down your location before making a run for it screaming as loud as you can.
-A.
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667 World News
Welcome to another action packed article of 667 World News. Yes ladies and gentlemen, ACTION PACKED! A Man actually cloned a DOG! And got accused of forgetting ethnical procedures, and was forced to quit! How absolutely pathetic is our society! GO EARTH!
Earlier this week, Britain finally put into act its new law, allowing all British pubs to be open later than 11 o’ clock at night. The new law is very popular in London. Blandford Pub owner Nigel Jones had this to say about the new law,
“I think its brilliant.” Jones said, “ It gives men an opportunity to have an all night binge, and its allowed me to even install a couple vibrating sofas, so wives can come along with their husbands and get something out of the night!” Jones later added though, “Well yes there is that possibility that more and more Britons will become alcoholics, but we already sound awful anyway, so why not give our accent a more slurry drawl?”
(For any possible Hedgehogphiliacs, please ignore last sentence of paragraph)
Bird Flu. Yes 667 World News is commentating on the international avian epidemic again, but well you have to admit, it’s becoming a bit of a worry, isn’t it? I mean it hit Aceh on Saturday and we’ve had like 3 deaths in the last month. NZ is frantically trying to prepare for the epidemic, but is really worth all of the trouble? I still say we are more at risk of hedgehog flu then anything else. BURN THE HEDGEHOGS! BURN THEM ALL!!!!!!
And NZ WON THE RIGHTS TO THE RUGBY WORLD CUP!
In your face JAPAN! Think you'r all that with your fancy Maglev trains and technology. WE HAVE SHEEP, so there!
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Jemima’s Unadvice Column.
Dear Jemima,
I like to spool knit, and so does everyone in my class. Does this make us geeks?
-Deanna.
Dear Deanna,
Geeks? Naw, you wouldn't be a geek. You'd really only be a geek if you were the only one doing it. There's something in each city, and it's called culture. So, your city's culture would be spool knitting! So don't worry.
However, when your class would say, go one a trip to a different city or country, you might be taken as geeks, because, well, no one else would really have seen a whole entire class sit around and knit. But that's okay! You guys are special. Everyone's special!
But there's also another word for geek. And that, my friend, is NERD.
Sincerely,
Jemmy
P.S. But everyone likes Nerds candy! However, you're not edible.
~
dear Jemima,
i have a secret that some people know, but i want to revel to the public members of 667 Dark Avenue. Should I tell them it or not?
sigend,
gigglepuss
Dear Gigglepuss,
Don't tell your secret yet. Keep the people hanging until, say, Christmas or New Year's Eve.
But will you tell me it?
Sincerely,
Jemima
~
Please send your problems to Jemima!
And this week's Jemima's How To: [/b]
How to draw!* [/b] Note: Use these directions at your own risk. The 667er takes no responsibility for the results of these actions.
Step 1: Buy paper, an eraser, and a pencil
Step 2: Put the paper on a drawing spot
Step 3: Place the pencil on the paper and star
Editor : Akbar/Le Grey.
Columnists: PJ, Linda, Sixteen, Sora, A., Robert and Jemima.
--------------------------------------------------
SnicketFace's Rant.
Columnist's note: Ok, here's my first (last?) rant so bear with me.
So I've been thinking most of the day about what I want to rant about, and I have a few subjects to start out with, and maybe more will come to me.
First off. I have a digital camera that I got as an early Christmas present. This is all well and good, but there is one problem. Instead of the new handy rechargeable ones, it takes batteries. Now to make life more convenient my mother purchased rechargeable batteries and a charger for the batteries. But I don't know how to work the darned charger! Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I honestly don't have the patience to fiddle with it, so as a result, I haven't used my camera in a week, and have just built up the boredom to mess around with it and get it to work.
Next. An associate of my brother's is paying him to sell things on Ebay. Meaning that he has given a bunch of random things (i.e. be be guns, a helmet, a presumed guitar case) and having my brother sell it for him. Now it is all piled up right in the middle of a walkway in my family room. That in itself is utterly annoying. Are you so technologically incompetent that you can't sell things on Ebay? I know for a fact my brother's associate is always on Ebay looking around. So why can't he sell the crap himself? Sheer incompetence? A lack of time? Who knows. Also, one of the things that he is selling is this old clock. Now, clocks don't normally annoy me, and probably shouldn't as my grandfather was a clock/watch salesman/repairman, but this clock's ticking sound is so entirely annoying and loud that [cheesy]I might make time fly and throw it out a window[/cheesy]
Next is something that has been bothering me for the past 11 years of my life. School uniforms. Honestly, who would ever think of school uniforms? They say it is to create "equality" among the students, but this does nothing as people just judge you on other things. Such as shoes, hair, weight, general appearance, et cetera. Every day, I wake up and put on the so called 'skort' (it is definitely not a skort, they are shorts darnet!) and white polo with a bland generic monogram on it with the initials of our school. It's ridiculous. You think they'd at least let us all get a pair of jeans and a shirt to wear, but no! It has to be all formal and crap. School in itself is worse enough, without having to wear those ridiculous clothes. Why not grant us that one freedom? WHY!?
Ok, I'm "ranted out." I know it wasn’t as good as PJ, but he should be back next week to fill all of your ranting needs, so don’t be alarmed.
-----------------------------------------
aSoUE article
One of the newest and most intriguing mysteries, caused by The Penultimate Peril, (besides the taxi driver, which SHOULD be obvious at this point, but I won’t reveal that, there’s a whole thread about it) is regarding the Terrible Triptych before chapter four and after chapter six. The pictures are in two different orders, involving a woman drilling a hole in a wall, with assorted articles of clothing on the floor, the second has an eye looking through a hole, and the elevator rope is hanging literally by a thread, the third having a man getting on the elevator.
Now, I’m assuming two things: 1) that this pertains to TPP, and 2) that the elevator the man is on is the one with the slit rope, but that could be a red herring. The questions we ask ourselves are these…
-who cut the ropes? Was it the woman or was she just checking to see if they were intact?
-what is on the floor? She sounds an awful lot like the housekeeper in chapter 7, who removed a disguise.
-who is the man? He looks like Mr. Poe, but again, could be a red herring. Now if I’m not mistaken, Poe has only a mustache, and the man has only a beard. Of course, we have heard of shaving. This man, I don’t think we’ve seen before, but then, we have a lot of people yet to meet for instance, all the people on the cover of TPP.
-when did this happen in the series? Again, we’re assuming TPP, but when? Just prior to the Baudelaires coming? It has to be before, for obvious reasons, or perhaps during the Baudelaires’ stay.
Hoping to answer these questions and more. Signing off, Grace.
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Member Interview of the Week
Linda:This week, J agreed to be interviewed. Now, J, what is your real name?
J: My fake real name is Jenna Sottle. My real real name is...Well...It wouldn't be fun if i released that information to the public, would it?
Linda: Where are you from?
J: I'm from New York, Long Island, and I live in the town next to Songbird's.
Linda: How would you describe yourself in terms of physical appearance?
J: Not good. ): I have brown hair that's annoyingly long. I've taken it to wearing it up all the time. I used to wear it in a ribbon like Violet Baudelaire's but now I try to get it like Riza Hawkeye's. My mum always wants me to wear it down but it's annoying, and I put it up out of habit. I also wear glasses.
Linda: How would you describe yourself in terms of your personality?
J: Not good, either. I can be hyper, random and obsessive. Attention monkey. Can I say that here? ATTENTION monkey. *flails arms* I also talk a lot.
Linda: What do you like to do in your spare time, other than visit 667?
J: Sleep. Obsessing over people or things--This week, it's Roy Mustang and Full Metal Alchemist. I'm supposed to be doing 20 lbs of homework right now. I don't have free time--I make it. I should stop, but by the time I get home from school I'm too tired to do work.
Linda: How important is 667 to you?
J: Less important now, but still pretty important. I haven't had time and there haven't been many interesting things.
Linda: How did you find 667? Did you lurk, or join immediately?
J: Uh. I think I was looking up asoue one day and I came across a message board. And then, some amount of time (days, weeks, months, I don't know the difference) later, something compelled me to look for the message board again. I found 667 and made a thread about religion. Swans was the first person to respond, I think.
Linda: What are your favorite sections to visit?
J: I like MM and I used to love DD but I'm sort of existentialist now, so politics doesn't interest me as much as it used to when I was a die-hard liberal with no regard for the other side's opinion. Those were the days, instead of having to mull over every opinion. Instead of automatically dismissing an idea and calling it stupid, I actually think about it now, so D&D isn't as fun anymore.
Linda: Is there anything that you really really like about 667?
J: Yeah. Derikkun and Robertkun, and all the other people. You know who you are--or maybe you don't, since a lot of people have self esteem issues here.
Linda: Is there anything on 667 that really bugs you?
J: The fact that it changes. People leave, and I miss some members like Soi and Swans.
Linda: Is there anything you’d like to tell the members of 667 while you’re in the spotlight?
J: Heh. If I wanted to, I'd make a thread about it, but I can't think of anything right now.
Linda: Thanks J. Now, Dupin will probably be interviewed next week, and then Sam, and then Skeleton Key, but that’s not set in stone just yet.
-----------------------------
Missing
Kimia (xangelkimzx) disappeared on October 16th 2005. There have been a few reported sightings of her since and she was last seen near the ‘Let’s post in Foreign languages thread’ The possibility of kidnapping has not been dismissed, though she has attempted to explain her recent absence, telling one member that she ‘…has been busy with school and stuff’ Still, we can no longer put anything past e-nappers with many now known to force hostages to make appearances to persuade the general public that there’s nothing to worry about. This reporter, however, is convinced of no such thing and if I was to witness one of the increasingly rare Kimia sightings would report it to the right authorities with due speed. If anyone understands Spanish they may also like to translate her most recent post as it is believed to be a distress note and of vital importance to detectives. Police have been unable to put together a profile of the men alleged to have been involved, but if they had they would probably look like this.
Remember these e-nappers are extremely dangerous and should you see one, this newspaper advises that you quickly note down your location before making a run for it screaming as loud as you can.
-A.
-------------------------------
667 World News
Welcome to another action packed article of 667 World News. Yes ladies and gentlemen, ACTION PACKED! A Man actually cloned a DOG! And got accused of forgetting ethnical procedures, and was forced to quit! How absolutely pathetic is our society! GO EARTH!
Earlier this week, Britain finally put into act its new law, allowing all British pubs to be open later than 11 o’ clock at night. The new law is very popular in London. Blandford Pub owner Nigel Jones had this to say about the new law,
“I think its brilliant.” Jones said, “ It gives men an opportunity to have an all night binge, and its allowed me to even install a couple vibrating sofas, so wives can come along with their husbands and get something out of the night!” Jones later added though, “Well yes there is that possibility that more and more Britons will become alcoholics, but we already sound awful anyway, so why not give our accent a more slurry drawl?”
(For any possible Hedgehogphiliacs, please ignore last sentence of paragraph)
Bird Flu. Yes 667 World News is commentating on the international avian epidemic again, but well you have to admit, it’s becoming a bit of a worry, isn’t it? I mean it hit Aceh on Saturday and we’ve had like 3 deaths in the last month. NZ is frantically trying to prepare for the epidemic, but is really worth all of the trouble? I still say we are more at risk of hedgehog flu then anything else. BURN THE HEDGEHOGS! BURN THEM ALL!!!!!!
And NZ WON THE RIGHTS TO THE RUGBY WORLD CUP!
In your face JAPAN! Think you'r all that with your fancy Maglev trains and technology. WE HAVE SHEEP, so there!
--------------------------------------
Jemima’s Unadvice Column.
Dear Jemima,
I like to spool knit, and so does everyone in my class. Does this make us geeks?
-Deanna.
Dear Deanna,
Geeks? Naw, you wouldn't be a geek. You'd really only be a geek if you were the only one doing it. There's something in each city, and it's called culture. So, your city's culture would be spool knitting! So don't worry.
However, when your class would say, go one a trip to a different city or country, you might be taken as geeks, because, well, no one else would really have seen a whole entire class sit around and knit. But that's okay! You guys are special. Everyone's special!
But there's also another word for geek. And that, my friend, is NERD.
Sincerely,
Jemmy
P.S. But everyone likes Nerds candy! However, you're not edible.
~
dear Jemima,
i have a secret that some people know, but i want to revel to the public members of 667 Dark Avenue. Should I tell them it or not?
sigend,
gigglepuss
Dear Gigglepuss,
Don't tell your secret yet. Keep the people hanging until, say, Christmas or New Year's Eve.
But will you tell me it?
Sincerely,
Jemima
~
Please send your problems to Jemima!
And this week's Jemima's How To: [/b]
How to draw!* [/b] Note: Use these directions at your own risk. The 667er takes no responsibility for the results of these actions.
Step 1: Buy paper, an eraser, and a pencil
Step 2: Put the paper on a drawing spot
Step 3: Place the pencil on the paper and star