Random Fact Thread

[Antenora]

-Looking back at a lot of my old posts, I realize I really sounded stupid a lot of the time.
-I think that same thing when rereading my old diaries and school essays.
-I don't recall being much of a lurker.
-I found 667 about a year before I ended up joining, and then lost track of it because of some problem with our computer, or something.
-And I can't remember just how I rediscovered it, but I think that happened about a month before I really decided to join.
-I've been lying in bed for most of this morning.
-It's a very good thing I don't have school today, because I'm so tired.
-I haven't been sleeping very well.
-Last year, I fell asleep in class, or came very close to falling asleep, at least once.
-I don't remember if the teacher caught me falling asleep.
-We just saw a bird we couldn't identify on the bird feeder.
-I looked it up in one of our bird guides, and it's apparently a red-winged blackbird.
-I'm pretty sure I've seen these birds before,but never in our patio.

[Dante]

-The red-winged blackbird looks pretty cool.
-I saw an odd-looking bird the other day which appeared to have some red feathers, but it might just have been the light.
-I've certainly been seeing a lot of pigeons recently which haven't looked like pigeons at first sight.
-Mother won't let me get up at six-thirty tomorrow morning to do the Nameless Novel task.
-Or rather, she won't wake me up at that time if I'm still asleep.
-I want to get up really early so I have loads of time on the computer before I have to go to school.
-Speaking of which, I have to phone N. and arrange how we're getting to school tomorrow.
-My parents can't give us a lift, certainly.
-We'll probably have to walk, although we'll have plenty of time.
-The phone just rang, and me and Father thought it might be N.
-As it happened, it was N., but it was the wrong one.
-This N. does some gardening work for us.
-The sky outside looks weird again.
-Maybe there's something wrong with my eyes, but the clouds on the horizon look like several different colours at once.
-That reminds me.
-While on holiday a few weeks ago, I saw a really clear double-rainbow.
-It was really very clear; you could make out all seven colours.
-It's a real pity I didn't have my camera with me.

[xangelkimzx]

-I can't wait until George's first chapter of 667Lost is posted.
-He says the first chapter is equal to five posts, so it should be pretty long.
-I'm kind of bored.

[Charles Vane]

Haven't posted here in along time.
So.. woohoo.
I lost everyones address.
talking to strangers is fun.

[Antenora]

-George seems to be writing several stories at once.
-I just had lunch, leftover fish and pasta.
-Outside, some people are playing wiffle golf on people's lawns.
-There are flags and plastic buckets on most of the lawns, including our own.
-And they're apparently giving a free puppy to the winner of the golf tournament, or something.
-I've seen rainbows in the clouds, and tried to photograph one once.
-Photographing the sky has never worked well for me.
-If I try to get a photo of an interesting cloud formation, it often looks all hazy.
-I'd need a special camera, I guess.
-Clever whales bait gulls with fish.

[Dante]

-When I try to photograph the sky, then it generally doesn't come out well.
-But mostly, I'm just trying to show the contrast between the light on the lawn and the darkness in the sky.
-It never seems to work.
-I can hear something buzzing around in here.
-I've been dipping into Catcher in the Rye.
-I don't particularly care for Holden, otherwise I'd have read more.
-I think of lots of stories at once, and then never write them.
-Although it's more that I think of tiny neat snippets, but can then never be bothered to build up a story around them.
-For lunch I had some pepperoni pizza with some chips and some cabbage.
-That was the best I could get.
-Oh, and I had a roast chicken and sweetcorn sandwich on the train.
-It was pretty good.
-It didn't have too much mayonnaise, for one thing.
-And I think I ate something else, but forgot about it.
-I did have a bottle of some weird-smelling apple and blueberry drink.
-Well, something-berry.
-Or possibly something-currant.
-I remember wondering why the drink was red, though, so whatever the berry or currant was, it isn't something which you'd expect to be reddish.

Edit:

-I read that whale story somewhere.
-I can't remember where.
-Actually, maybe I can...

[xangelkimzx]

-I'm listening to Placebo's "Nancy Boy".
-I generally don't photograph the sky too well either.
-Well, even on the sunniest of days it will look cloudy in my photos.
-Oh, well, I'm alright at photographing other stuff.

[Carma]

- I once tried to take a photo of Mars but it didn't work.
-The person at the developing place throw it out because it was all black.
-I've been making a book list for library books.
-I don't think i'll be going for awile but i never know where they books are
-Oprah is on.

[xangelkimzx]

-I have school on Wednesday.
-I think we're getting photos taken of us.
-These holidays sure went fast.

[Amber]

-My holidays went fast too.
-I was back at school today.
-It was interesting-ish.
-I got my planner.
-And some homework.
-Which I've done now.
-I had to wrap up a shoe box for textiles.
-I've already colour-coded my timetable.
-Laura started colouring hers in, but didn't finish.
-Probably because she was putting patterns on it.
-Mine's just solid colour.
-Tomorrow, I have- PE theory, ICT, English, French and Science.
-I have Science every day throughout my two week timetable.
-I can't remember the reason.
-But I have two teachers, and you swap between the two.
-My Week B is much better than Week A.
-Because I have loads more art and textiles.
-I can't be bothered to dry my hair.
-Blah.
-I'll make it go curly.
-That takes minimum effort.
-I woke up at around 6am today.
-So I'm really tired.
-'Night.

[xangelkimzx]

-Amber, I'm glad your day was interesting(-ish?).
-I hope my first day back is, too.
-I must go now, I think.
-Goodnight, everyone.

[Grace]

tocuna said:

-George seems to be writing several stories at once.

George writes aloooot of stories.
-I have skool tomorrow. *dies*
-I hate school.
-Doesn't everybody?
-Yeah, but it's really boring.
-So I hate it more.
-The gas is going wrong.
-*checks oven*
-And my baby brother is at the sink.
-OK, everything's good.
-*Phew*
-He's playing with a sponge.
-Oh good job, old boy.
-

[Antenora]

-I don't hate school.
-However, it's too early in the school year for me to be sure what I think of this year's classes.
-I've tried to take photos of the night sky, and not done very well.
-My camera won't photograph stars.
-When I've tried to photograph the moon, it always comes out as a bright blur.
-In most of the photos I've taken, the sky shows up as a uniform, hazy blur.
-I'm carrying a one-use camera to school.
-So far, I've only used about three exposures.
-Sometime last week I tried to photograph some kind of bird, which I can't remember what it was.
-I'd intended to use up the film in my mother's camera a while ago, but never got around to it.
-Maybe I'll go around photographing things later, so we can get that roll of film developed.
-My father's going to barbecue sausages for dinner.
-I think everyone on the street's going to be barbecuing, actually.

[PJ]

ffwf said:

-I got Ragwitch, because I quite like Garth Nix;

-Ooh, I've wanted to read that
-Actually, Shade' Children looks cooler, but I still want to read it
-So when you're done, tell me what you think

ffwf said:

-I was arrogant, though.
-But not as arrogant as PJ.
-And I think (hope) I was more contemptuous of others than full of myself.

-I'm glad I make people feel better, by having worse negative pesonality traits than them

-Back as a newb....
-I was a lot more humble
-But now I can act myself
-Heh, it's like a curse
-When I become your friend, I also become a whole lot more pretensious
-Mwahahahaha
-Curse of the PJ
-And I can imagine Dante as a lurker, hiding in the shadows, then finally appearing magically one day
-It's almost worth a story
-I should write a sequel to PJ's trial
-In which Linda discovers your evilness, and leads an uprising against you corrupt moderators!
-Maybe my ghost can come into the whole thing....
-Heh
-So, school
-Soon
-I finshed the Castle of Mirrors
-I now wanna read that Wheel of Time series, that Ling is lending me
-Wait, I'll go post the second part of The Highway
-And THEN go to school

[Charles Vane]

philipjucker said:

ffwf said:

-I was arrogant, though.
-But not as arrogant as PJ.
-And I think (hope) I was more contemptuous of others than full of myself.

-I'm glad I make people feel better, by having worse negative pesonality traits than them

I don't think you're that arrogant PJ, atleast Dante seems more arrogant than you.

The 10th Kingdom is so amazing.
I finally found it on the Hallmark channel again.
Amazing.