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Post by Dante on Oct 28, 2004 6:20:26 GMT -5
Here's where you put all those little instances in your life where something out of the books has happened to you, or something. Dreams are included.
As a general rule, we do not reply to each other's posts in this thread, unless it is to state that "exactly the same thing happened to me."
I'll start. This morning, I was listening to a piece of classical music with my grandparents in the car. My grandfather asked the name of the composer.
It was J. Strauss. J. Strauss I, to be precise.
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Post by LargeManFeOrMale on Oct 28, 2004 7:29:11 GMT -5
Like I posted in the old thread I saw a woman with a tatoo of an eye on her ankle, that was months ago but I have seen her on several ocasions since (one time I followed her and she went into a house).
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Post by Antenora on Oct 28, 2004 7:44:51 GMT -5
I'm reading stories by Edgar Allan Poe and a poem called "On the Burning of our House" by Anne Bradstreet, in my lit class. More curiously still, both of these writers are mentioned in the adult novel by Daniel Handler that I'm reading, The Basic Eight. (Great book, by the way). Oh, and my town is full of crows.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Oct 28, 2004 19:36:27 GMT -5
The composer was probably johan strauss.
A hot air balloon flew over my neighborhood awhile ago. If only it had dozens of green balloons rather than one rainbow one.... Someone in my jazz band is named Genevieve. In the cold during marching band we wear black gloves and coats buttoned all the way up to our chins. I recently found out Lewis Caroll wrote alice in wonderland. We had an unexplained fire alarm go off today. No fire as usual, someone must have just pulled the fire alarm to get out of the building. <shrugs>
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Post by Antenora on Oct 28, 2004 20:49:42 GMT -5
I had two fascinating ones today:
-My history teacher was giving a lecture, and she wrote on the overhead "It was a victory for democracy". This is the same one who says she's a pyromaniac, and once wrote "various freedoms denied" on the lecture transparency thing, and has a sticker in her classroom that reads "Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Republican". I <# her.
-In a later class, the science teacher was talking about a court case for which she had jury duty. She said "They threw us a red herring. Does anyone know what a red herring is? Tell the class". So I did.
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Post by SpookyMeggie on Oct 28, 2004 22:04:20 GMT -5
I purchased a lonely, secondhand copy of The Retile Room at Valuevillage, and discovered several underlined passages. Later that day I found a violet hair ribbon on the grass outside of my building.
On the whole, though, I prefer to cause coincidences. I was at the library loading up, and saw alittle boy trying to do a booksearch for Unfortunate Events. he was having trouble, so I walked over to the children's section, found them, and then put them on the counter next to him. He never noticed me.
hee, wish I could have seen his face when he turned around...
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Oct 29, 2004 15:43:08 GMT -5
hehehehe. Today was festive band day so we all dressed up(some dressing like Mr. poe would) and there were balloons everywhere. Someone wrote on them in latin, one said "where is the fire?"
Friends don't let friends vote republican? AUGH. If our band director's son(trombone player like me) heard that.... I went to the bank today. There wasn't any coughing vice president of orphan affairs though. And yesterday a kid in math I know grabbed my eraser(which says VFD in green letterse) and asked all people around us what it meant. No one knew..
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Post by SnicketFires on Oct 29, 2004 19:42:07 GMT -5
We talked about Denouements today in English.
We also talked about the term "philistine", and one definition was "an uneducated person who doesn't want to be cultured" and I thought "Olaf!"
My friend and I are being Olaf and Esmé on Monday.
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Post by PJ on Oct 30, 2004 0:16:31 GMT -5
Today, I went to a party, and as I lay on the bottom part of a bunk bed, I saw, through the slots of the matress-less bed above me, a bag, on which a zipper was. Engraved on the zipper where the letters JS
that is all
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Post by Antenora on Oct 30, 2004 8:21:39 GMT -5
I purchased a lonely, secondhand copy of The Retile Room at Valuevillage, and discovered several underlined passages. Later that day I found a violet hair ribbon on the grass outside of my building. On the whole, though, I prefer to cause coincidences. I was at the library loading up, and saw alittle boy trying to do a booksearch for Unfortunate Events. he was having trouble, so I walked over to the children's section, found them, and then put them on the counter next to him. He never noticed me. hee, wish I could have seen his face when he turned around... Cool. Now if anyone posts about the books mysteriously turning up next to him on the counter, I'll know why. For Halloween, I'm going to be a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian, my outfit inspired by Carmelita's. Edit: A Japanese tote bag I saw online at Engrish.com:  |
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Post by champ103 on Oct 30, 2004 8:23:57 GMT -5
In the telly magazine that comes with the newspaper, it mentioned someone called Joe Prospero.
Not a coincidence, but when I went to Portugal a couple of years back, there was a tattooist, and I got a temporary (30 day) tattoo of an eye on my ankle.
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Post by Ashley on Oct 30, 2004 8:26:44 GMT -5
I dont know if this counts, but i pass by herman melvills (The dude on the uniforms) old house every thursday.
I'll probably have more later.
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Post by Amanda on Oct 31, 2004 11:34:44 GMT -5
Umm lets see, my teacher has a poem called the little elf and its so stupid!
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Post by Antenora on Oct 31, 2004 12:38:23 GMT -5
Is this the poem?
The Little Elf
by John Kendrick Bangs
I met a little Elf-man once
Down where the lilies blow.
I asked him why he was so small,
And why he didn't grow.
He slightly frowned, and with his eye
He looked me through and through.
"I'm quite as big for me," said he,
"As you are big for you."
www.mtcc.com/~mom/elf.htmlI dont know if this counts, but i pass by herman melvills (The dude on the uniforms) old house every thursday. I'll probably have more later. What does his house look like, and where is it? |
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Post by Amanda on Oct 31, 2004 13:17:32 GMT -5
No thats not the poem. Ill write it down on Monday.
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