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 Started by Likely Guy , Jul 15 2012 07:58 AM

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#1    Likely Guy

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 07:58 AM

I'll start, of course.

I live in a small town called 'Likely' and I'm a 'Guy'. Pretty complicated, I know.

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 08:04 AM

Edward de Bono's "hats of cognition" (or as I've heard them referred by my colleagues "De Bono's bloody hats").

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 08:12 AM

*google search*

Ah! 'Six Thinking Hats'. I'll have to download a copy, sounds interesting.

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and then

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 08:17 AM

We adopted our daughter from China at the age of six.  As she was learning English she would listen very carefully to what we were saying and when we finished a thought she would pause and say:  an den?  :w00t:   So "and then" just seemed appropriate.
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Posted 15 July 2012 - 08:20 AM

I liked the sound of it, sort of fit my mind at the time.
Sot used to mean fool before it came to mean drunkard, so "ShadowFool."
It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
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Posted 15 July 2012 - 08:24 AM

View Postand then, on 15 July 2012 - 08:17 AM, said:

We adopted our daughter from China at the age of six.  As she was learning English she would listen very carefully to what we were saying and when we finished a thought she would pause and say:  an den?  :w00t:   So "and then" just seemed appropriate.
That's cool. Sometimes when I 'liked' someone's comment and so did you, it came out as "Likely Guy and and then likes this" or "and then and Likely Guy likes this". Neither of which makes any sense.

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 08:25 AM

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My name is Zara, and I like dressing up as a kitty.. as seen above.
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Posted 15 July 2012 - 08:27 AM

View Postand then, on 15 July 2012 - 08:17 AM, said:

We adopted our daughter from China at the age of six.  As she was learning English she would listen very carefully to what we were saying and when we finished a thought she would pause and say:  an den?  :w00t:   So "and then" just seemed appropriate.

That's so cute!
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Posted 15 July 2012 - 08:30 AM

View PostShadowSot, on 15 July 2012 - 08:20 AM, said:

I liked the sound of it, sort of fit my mind at the time.
Sot used to mean fool before it came to mean drunkard, so "ShadowFool."
ShadowSot meet LikelySot. *shakes hands*

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 08:39 AM

My daughters name is Viviana...named after Vivian Vance from the I Love Lucy show and shes my princess and half my heart(her brother makes up the other half)

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 08:51 AM

View PostViviana98, on 15 July 2012 - 08:39 AM, said:

My daughters name is Viviana...named after Vivian Vance from the I Love Lucy show and shes my princess and half my heart(her brother makes up the other half)
I have to say that I had to look up Vivian Vance. I remember her now, funny lady. Her and Lucy at the chocolate factory skit was a classic!

"Boss: All right girls… Now this is your last chance! If ONE piece of candy gets past you, and into the packing room UNWRAPPED…YOU'RE FIRED!"

Edited by Likely Guy, 15 July 2012 - 08:53 AM.

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 08:57 AM

View PostLikely Guy, on 15 July 2012 - 08:51 AM, said:

I have to say that I had to look up Vivian Vance. I remember her now, funny lady. Her and Lucy at the chocolate factory skit was a classic!

"Boss: All right girls… Now this is your last chance! If ONE piece of candy gets past you, and into the packing room UNWRAPPED…YOU'RE FIRED!"

That was a funny one!! The belt started going faster and they couldn't keep up so they started shoving them in their mouth and down their shirts ahaha I love that show!! But the name Vivian Vance just sounded so glamorous and classy and I always said since a young age that if I ever had a daughter her name would be Vivian...

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 08:58 AM

Im an Airbrusher. Name comes from two known brands of AB paint I used.
Now you know.

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 09:12 AM

My name is Ken and I live in South Carolina, hence: keninsc.

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 09:17 AM

View PostTridentAA, on 15 July 2012 - 08:58 AM, said:

Im an Airbrusher. Name comes from two known brands of AB paint I used.
Now you know.
Airbrushing is an art unto it's own. A friend of mine, a long time ago, had an airbrush. His use of friskets was amazing. Sometimes it was just his hand.
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