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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :

It's the one thing that mack and kat both agree on.

*checks self for pointy ears*

AJ

Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :

"The truth is that there is no truth; there is only perception, and even that is flawed."

"Pain tempers the mind, like a sword on an anvil, yet too much will snap a person's brain -- and that too is like a sword on an anvil."

"Hope fades along with your dreams, and soon you will be empty and the hollowness will eat you from inside out until you can take no more and you die."

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

I don't agree with them, but that's hardly news. Is this based on your other features, or due to lack of emotion. And if so, do you consider that a compliment?

Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :

Yes I considered it a compliment, and probably because I've been pretty coldly rational to both of them.

AJ

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

Okay. I didn't want to elaborate until I understood your feelings on the subject. [Wave]

If you look very close, this guy is actually holding his fingers straight with a space between the middle and ring fingers.

Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :

While AJ seems quite rational, she has never seemed cold to me. [Dont Know]

I am curious about the specific circumstances that led to their diagnosis.

Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :

I wonder what that makes me . . .

Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :

I was referring to her logic and ability to separate emotion.

Not that she's coldhearted. Jeez.

Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :

*grin* Or you could say I let them have it equally. And I'm not sure that it is a diagnosis. It could only be a fever induced state of mind due to the ear infection I have.

AJ

Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :

Mack, I try to do the same myself. I am probably not very good at it though. [Frown]

Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :

You know what it means when a Vulcan has a fever...

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

BWAHAHAHA!

Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :

Yeah, but it only happens every seven years...

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

Ivygirl was born with a pointy ear (she is going to kill me for telling that here). It was extremely pointy. It is not as much now that she's grown, but still noticeable. We always used to call it her "Spock ear" and tease her about it.

However, the other day, she informed me that was old news. "Now it is called an 'elf ear' Mom, and that is cool."

See what LOTR did? [ROFL]

Farmgirl

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

[Grumble]

elfs don't have pointy ears [Grumble]

Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :

It's true. Banna has some remarkable Vulcan-like qualities.

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

They don't, Dag?

FG

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

The movies are NOT canon.

Dagonee takes his Tolkien seriously. [Big Grin]

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

quote:
I wonder what that makes me . . .

Recent threads would suggest that you're a Covert Smartassian Ic.

Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :

I'm glad to see you posting AJ. I was getting worried that it wasn't just an ear infection you had.

Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :

Well the ear still hurts, but the fever is finally gone so I'm at work today. Don't feel the greatest but it is better than being stuck at home. I guess if its still clogged on Friday after repeated steamy showers, and antihistamines and antibiotics I'll go back in.

I've been thinking of trying Sara's sinus drainage irrigation method even though my nose is totally not congested. The doc said if worse absolutely comes to worse, they can do something where they get to the eustacian tube through your nose to manually drain it out. [Eek!]

Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :

I was wondering what someone was going to make of that opportunity, Noemon.

Not much, it turns out. [Razz]

Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :

lol, actually I'm not much of a Trekkie so the amount I actually know about Vulcans isn't much other than they are supposed to be absolutely logical.

AJ

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Fascinating.

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

Yeah. Covert you're not.

Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :

Apparently, Vulcans are logical because they are so deeply passionate that they have to turn off almost all emtion in order to not destroy themselves.

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The ear thing bites.I once had an outer ear infection, and it's some of the worst pain I've experienced. They had to put a wick in my ear in order to get the medicine in, and I lay on my bed for two days crying because of how much it hurt.

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

[Laugh]

Icarus

Yeah, yeah, I'll admit, it was fairly lame. What can I say?

I don't know Dag--there are an awful lot of people taking him at face value, including people that should know him well enough to know better.

Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :

It's a middle-inner ear infection Kat, on the other side of the eardrum. If we could get to it from the outside it would already be on its way to being gone by now.

AJ

Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :

The sucking-the-goobers-out-through-the-nose idea is fascinating.

[ September 15, 2004, 11:33 AM: Message edited by: katharina ]

Posted by Richard Gere (Member # 6534) on :

I think someone needs to be rubbed down with decontamination gel. [Eek!]

Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :

quote:
elfs don't have pointy ears

Yes they do... to quote Tolkien they have "leaf shaped ears". [Smile]

But of course, it's more the eyes than anything else...

Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :

AJ...kat...rubdown...

What was I going to say?

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

quote:
Yes they do... to quote Tolkien they have "leaf shaped ears".

Where does he say that? I've honestly never seen that description before.

Dagonee

Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :

Dag, there was a discussion about that recently, I know I've seen that as well...

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

OK, I found a reference to some unpublished work. Again, not cannon. Smacks of triclavianism to me. [Big Grin]

Dagonee

Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :

quote:
Again, not cannon.

Dagonee that would be *canon* right?
[Evil Laugh]

(how often do you actually catch him on something like that??)
[Evil]

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

I'm an atrocious speller, so probably often.

I spelled triclavianism right, though, thanks to the miracle of copy and paste.

Dagonee

Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :

*grin* I don't think you make many mistakes Dagonee. Normally you are so articulate, I always end up wishing I could be half as articulate as you, even when I disagree.
AJ