Random Fact Thread

[Carma]

-I like LOST too.
-I aready know what's going to happen.
-It makes me happy and doesn't make me not want to watch it.
-I saw the finalie of Big Brother yesterday.
-It was pretty good.
-Maggie won.
-I would have rather have Janelle win, be Maggie is better than Ivette.
-Oprah is on.

[Dante]

-My trip into town this evening took much longer than it should have done.
-We had to wait ages to see somebody about curtains, and I think we waited about an hour for our food to arrive at the restaurant.
-Fortunately, I'd purchased Miss Marple's Final Cases earlier, and managed to finish that.
-I feel tired.
-And extremely full.
-I probably shouldn't have eaten so much, but it was pretty much unavoidable.
-And there's another task to do over the next few days - put up the new curtains in my room.
-And I'll probably have to help put up the new curtains in the lounge, too.
-They had loads of neat stuff at the department store.
-They had crystal doorknobs, and sharp hooked curtain-rod ends.
-All my room needs now - after the boxes are removed, and the curtains are put up - is some more pictures on the walls.
-But I'm sure I can find stuff.
-Or make something myself, if I find the time.
-I also bought a few classics today, along with my A-Level set text.
-I'll take it into school tomorrow, although I'm pretty sure that we won't need it until next week.
-I keep on having 667 coincidences and then forget about them.
-That's pretty irritating.
-I can hear the TV on in the lounge.
-Oh, and we get another Nameless Novel task tomorrow.
-That's good.
-They really give the days some meaning, to a very bored person like me.

[Charles Vane]

My neck hates me.
Every St. Marys rocks.
If only there was one in New York.
Friends are weird.
I dont know if Im going to the homecomming I normally go to, which is sad, Im going to my own though.
But last years homecomming was so amazing we danced so much and we were so crazy people thought we were drunk.
One guy got a date and the other wont take us unless he actually wants to go with us which he doesntbut we can't get in without a guy just write our name down.
I like that my school allows us to take other girls.

[s]

-I'm not a fan of Miss Marple...
-I much prefer the Hercule Poirot novels.
-Anyway, that's all I wanted to say.

[Antenora]

-I love your sig, Setnick.
-Regarding image types, bmp's don't work on Proboards.
-And it's a bad idea to use them anyway, because they're huge files.
-My photography teacher showed us some really cool photos today.
-My favorite was one of a bullet going through an apple.
-I really should start working on that family tree project for that class.
-So far, I've just scanned in some old photos of my family and made general plans.
-I'm really clumsy.
-I had a can of soda on my desk in government class, and I spilled it all over the floor.
-Fortunately, we had some paper towels.
-I found that I have a C on that somewhat-hard quiz from last week.
-I have no idea what my overall grade in that class is, though.
-There are a lot of things we did that I don't think are even counted yet.
-It's been really hot today.
-Earlier, I thought I'd go for a walk, but it's just too hot out.

[s]

-Thanks, Antenora.
-The crows are somewhat disproportionally large, though.
-But I didn't feel like shrinking them even more.
-And the tree is hardly fitting to the description of Nevermore tree.
-I just googled "sunset," and this is the best thing I could find.
-I still quite like the general effect, though.
-I just made it in paint.
-I don't have any fancy stuff like Photoshop.
-(as much as I would like to...)
-I got a C on our U.S. History test.
-Which was unfortunate.
-But completely my fault, because I didn't read the 67 pages of assigned reading (Chapters 6 and 7.)
-I put off reading for forever, and then it was the day before the test and I didn't have time.
-So I just quickly skimmed my notes from class, assuming we had covered everything from the book.
-Sadly, we had not.
-Evidently, a lot of people did the same thing though...
-Because she reprimanded our class for doing just that.
-But she then proceeded to let us use our textbooks and correct what we got wrong for partial credit.
-Which was very nice of her.
-Nicer than I would have been, in any case.
-So I don't know if I still have a C on it or not.
-I got a 95 on my PreCalc test which was on the same day, though.
-Which was good, because I got a 95...
-But terribly annoying at the same time, because the two mistakes I made were terribly careless
-And I should have gotten them right.
-For one problem, I found f inverse of x when we were asked to find f(-x).
-
-Oh well.

[A. the Returned]

-I had a really pleasant day today.
-Nothing out of the ordianry.
-I was just in a good mood all day.
-Most of my classes were the last of the term so we're not doing particularly much and that might have something to do with it.
-Also, today at recess someone kicked a soccer ball through the boy's toilet window, the other day a basketball went through one of the girl's windows.
-It was really funny.
They got a repairer to come out really quickly though.
-I don't understand why, because it isn't the end of 3rd term, without the Year 12's damaging school property.
-I promised on of my Year 12 friends that we would keep in touch.
-I was pretty close with a lot of the Year 12's this year and will miss them.
-They'll still be around a bit next term.
-After Sport today, I couldn't be bothered retying my hair so I just left it how it was, half falling out.
-I was asked 2 times in the space of a period whether I had lightened my hair.
-It was rather funny seeing as I haven't lightened my hair for so long that the regrowth is halfway down my head.
-Last period, I also had fun with post-it stickers.
-My friend wrote 'I am... a post-it sticker' and stuck it on my face.
-I decided to leave it there and see who mentioned it.
-I got asked by several people whether I knew it was there, other people just rubbed their own faces, the student teacher we had looked at me wierdly while our real teacher was explaining something to the class, at which point my friends and I lost it and burst into a choked down laughter.
-After all the questions I added a 'I know I have a post-it sticker on my face' sticker on my face.
-That was a really weird sentence.
-I hate using repetition but I felt forced to in that sentence
-So, I'm eating mini-Jatz and I put the apple and custard things in the microwave, I'm already in holiday eating mood, and it hasn't even started yet.
-Tommorrow we have a whole school assembly so we don't have any classes after lunch, which is great.
-It's an awards assembly which means people expect me to get some, though I doubt I will.
-I got too many in first semester for them to allow me to get more.
-Oh well, L. did too, so she won't be able to do much better.
-Heh, sibling rivalry is fun.
-Sometimes I think I've instilled in her an inferiority complex though and that makes me fell bad until she does something good and then I congratulate her.
-I don't like to think I'm the cause of such things
-Oh well, time to go get my food.

[SF]

-So lately I have just been roaming around 667 and not posting much...
-I went to choir last night, then youth group, then to applebees
-We had to wait outside of applebees to get the happyhour half-price deal on the appetizers
-We were going to go to K-mart but nick wasn't allowed
-So I had to run across the parking lots and tell Kim and Lisa
-Which was very tiring, and I collapsed on Andrew when I got back to Applebees
-Lisa and Lindsay bought tinsel, and Lindsay bought a crown and fairy wings
-Seth was dressed up as a pirate, complete with fake earring
-Have I ever mentioned my friends are crazy?
-Well, they are.
-I was invited to a football game and party on Friday, but I don't know if I'm going
-After we ate, I waited w/ lisa for her soon to be sister-in-law to pick her up (she was about 45 minutes later )
-Well, I really must go...
-Stay classy 667!

[Rowan]

-On Monday my co-workers and I celebrated International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
-Not only did we talk like pirates but we dressed lie them as well.
-We had a small treasure hunt here in the library.
-We are trying to find other obscure holidays to celebrate.
-We're thinking of finding out Gene Roddenberry's birthday and celebrating it by dressing up like Star Trek characters.
-Yes, we are just a little geeky.
-But what do you expect from librarians.
-I've got a class in ten minutes.
-I should probably start moving in that general direction.

[Dante]

-I think crows look really neat.
-The ones around my school, anyway.
-I see them around fairly often, although it varies.
-Today I only saw a few fly over.
-I've started reading Waterland.
-I'm going to try and read it before we start covering it in class.
-That shouldn't be too difficult.
-I've read longer books recently.
-However, it remains to be seen whether this one will draw my interest.
-I had to answer some questions for Economics homework.
-I'm not at all sure if I got them all right, though.
-Some of them I'm pretty sure are wrong.
-But it was stuff we hadn't covered in class, or not in enough detail.
-And there's nowhere I can really check to confirm my answers.
-So I'll just hope that I've done alright.
-I saw a tarmac machine in the road, on the way home from school.
-I stayed quite a while watching it drive slowly up the road.
-...Followed by three cars and a bus.
-That bus must have been very late.
-And somebody in a smart car drove right through the centre of the tarmac line while it was still wet.
-He/she can't have been too pleased at themselves afterwards.
-Although really, it was a silly time to tarmac the road.
-Where's the sense in doing it when everyone's rushing up that road in their cars to pick up their kids?
-I couldn't walk across the road, as the workmen warned that the tarmac would never come off our shoes/clothes if we got some on us.
-So I ended up walking home a different way.
-I didn't actually need to - the tarmac strip ended not far down the road - but I felt like a change.
-I also had to finish reading a poem for homework.
-It was Isabella, or The Pot of Basil by John Keats.
-It was actually rather grotesque towards the end.

[Antenora]

-Crows are really cool.
-There are some at my school, as wel l as ravens.
-My school noted Talk Like a Pirate Day a couple years ago, but not this year.
-However, today is "Bring Your Own Banana" day.
-If you bring a banana, you can get free ice cream, or something.
-We didn't have any bananas, and I don't really like them.
-Someone mentioned California poppies in my Spanish class, and the teacher said "Isn't that where heroin comes from?"
-He meant opium, I guess.
-And opium comes from some other kind of poppy, I think.
-My photography quiz was easier than I thought it would be.
-Mr B told us we could use our notes for five minutes, in the middle of the test.
-Then he forgot he'd let us take our notes out for about ten minutes.
-In my Visual Basic class, I've been doing a lot of busy-work.
-However, we're also working on a fairly cool program.
-With this program, you click on a picture of a lightbulb to make it turn on(change to a picture of an "on" lightbulb).
-I hear some people across the room talking about vandalizing Wikipedia.
-They did something to the "Canada" page, apparently.
-I don't even want to know.

[Dante]

-I know they get opium from the poppies in Afghanistan.
-But I never took the time to learn much about poppies.
-All that I ever cared about them was that they looked really nice.
-I think we have some in our garden.
-Or we used to.
-Our not-entirely-competent gardener hacked down a load of stuff recently that most certainly weren't weeds, although they were pretty dead.
-I think the poppies were there...
-Near the frogs, for those of you who can remember FFWF Investigates II.
-I loved doing those.
-Now, where was I?
-I (well, me and Father and occasionally Mother, as it's a difficult job) have hung the curtains in my room.
-They look really good.
-And for some reason, I just remembered a book I read in school a few years ago, and my teacher at the time was my current Literature teacher (the good one).
-It was called Stone Cold, and was actually alright, if fairly unchallenging.
-My school never notes X days.
-Aside from Children In Need, Red Nose Day etc., but they're pretty much national institutions now.
-I never liked bananas.
-I don't like pears much either.
-I'm actually a pretty picky eater.
-And now I've got the theme tune to Animal Hospital stuck in my head.
-No, no, go away!
-I don't think that show's even been on for the last few years.
-I think there's something I'm forgetting, but I sure can't remember what it is.

[s]

-I'm taking a Visual Basic class as well...
-We've just done little stuff so far, though.
-We did a stoplight sort of thing, which was pretty cool...
-

ffwf said:

-Our not-entirely-competent gardener hacked down a load of stuff recently that most certainly weren't weeds, although they were pretty dead.

-That made me laugh out loud.

[SF]

-Right now I'm wearing my button-down white shirt from my school uniform, a pair of jeans, and a brown 1$ tie
-I love my tie
-*hugs tie*
-Today... was useless, and I wish I could just skip through it
-I had Marriage and the Family today *sigh*
-A lot of writing things down
-I have a small amount of English homework
-I have Girl Scouts tonight
-I might hang out with Andrew and Lisa tommorow... yessssssssss
-Earlier I picked up my jeans and a coin of some sort flew out of the pocket and into a vent...
-O well!

[Antenora]

-I'm always losing coins from my pockets.
-I put coins in the pockets of my coat, and forget about them, and then they fall out.
-I got home somewhat late today.
-The bus arrived on time, but the driver had to run off and do something that took about ten minutes.
-Then on the way home, someone's dog ran in front of the bus.
-We had to stop for a few minutes and get that sorted out.
-It's officially autumn now.
-Summer is dead, although it's still pretty hot here.

ffwf said:

-I know they get opium from the poppies in Afghanistan.
.

-Ah, I thought it was Chinese poppies because I'd heard of the Chinese opium trade and such.
-We studied it in a few of my past history classes.
-I recall one of my history teachers saying "You can't make opium from California poppies, so don't go getting any ideas".
-I don't remember just who said that, but it was probably Ms L.