Top Ten Signs You're Addicted to the Barrow-Downs

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Originally Posted by Lhunardawen

When reading a month-old issue of the Downer (for the first time) and seeing the words "Doctor Lhunardawen" in an article made your week.

Glad to be of service.
I think you were a scientist at some point in the very early ones... I may be mistaken, I can't keep track of all the lies... I mean facts... (I don't think anyone noticed).

Once again, I felt the niggling sense that I'm addicted to the Downs when my lecturer today said, "I knew someone who had a bone marrow transplant" and I thought he said, "I knew someone who had a mone BARROW transplant."

[Finduilas]

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

Once again, I felt the niggling sense that I'm addicted to the Downs when my lecturer today said, "I knew someone who had a bone marrow transplant" and I thought he said, "I knew someone who had a mone BARROW transplant."

Addiction: Your first thought on reading this was, "The lecturer's been reading the Downer. He doesn't know anyone who's had a marrow transplant..."

[Kath]

When you're listening to David Bowie's Jean Genie and the line 'poor little greenie' comes up and you immediately get a picture in your head of that photo of Greenie in the barrow with those hands!

EDIT: Huh, and when you then spend a few minutes wondering just why we collectively shorted Little Green to Greenie with an ie rather than a y like we did with Lommy.

[Gwathagor]

I think 'ie' is more of a diminutive suffix in English...and she IS younger than Lommy, right?

[Finduilas]

Originally Posted by Gwathagor

I think 'ie' is more of a diminutive suffix in English...and she IS younger than Lommy, right?

Yes.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

This is one for those who was around when we had our "survivor" threads going. . .

When I hear "Another Brick In The Wall" I sing:

"We don’t need no segregation. We don’t need no vote control.
No dark oppression on the Island.
Glirdan, leave those elves alone!"

[Kath]

I think 'ie' is more of a diminutive suffix in English...and she IS younger than Lommy, right?

I love the idea you think it was a conscious decision.

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Gwathagor

I think 'ie' is more of a diminutive suffix in English...and she IS younger than Lommy, right?

Hmmm... but why's our father called Noggie then?

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Hmmm... but why's our father called Noggie then?

It must be because I'm so small...

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Kath

When you're listening to David Bowie's Jean Genie and the line 'poor little greenie' comes up and you immediately get a picture in your head of that photo of Greenie in the barrow with those hands!

Actually, I used that in Greenie's death narration in the ww modded by me. I'm not sure if I quoted it also right when we were taking the photos, but I know for sure that I sang it earlier that day.

[Gwathagor]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Hmmm... but why's our father called Noggie then?

He's not...short, is he?

[Aganzir]

So... I'm reading the Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo, which I now find more amusing than the last time I read it.

"Then it is not the same one," said Gisquette, "that was given two years ago, on the day of the entrance of monsieur the legate, and where three handsome maids played the parts--"

"Of sirens," said Liénarde.

"And all naked," added the young man.

"That is a pity," resumed Gisquette. "That day, at the Ponceau Fountain, there were wild men and women, who fought and assumed many aspects, as they sang little motets and bergerettes."

"That which is suitable for a legate," returned the stranger, with a good deal of dryness, "is not suitable for a princess."

"How well I remember that!" exclaimed Gisquette; "God on the cross, and the two thieves on the right and the left." Here the young gossips, growing warm at the memory of the entrance of monsieur the legate, both began to talk at once.

"And when the legate passed, you remember, Gisquette? they made the assault, and the English all had their throats cut."

"And against the gate of the Châtelet, there were very fine personages!"

"And on the Port au Change, which was all draped above!"

"And when the legate passed, they let fly on the bridge more than two hundred sorts of birds; wasn't it beautiful, Liénarde?"