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*I am away from the computer right now*: Day 2 By: Dorothy Marie on 10/21/2001; 4:54 PM "Good morning, everyone. Did you all enjoy your breakfast? Very good... very good. I'm looking for 48 people... let's see, do we have the Johnsons? No? Are the Johnsons not here? Well, that would explain the two pieces of red luggage missing." Lyndon Oliver is our tour guide, and will be for the next five days. @Hello, everyone, my name is Lyndon Oliver, and I will be your Tour Director for the next five days. Ahh, I quite like that title, don't you? Yes, yes, I like that. When I go home, I'm nothing again. On the job, i'm the TOUR DIRECTOR. Well, here is our bus driver, Daron." He laughed at his next thought with a hearty chuckle. " There will be lots of long lines to wait in, won't there? But we are with Trafalgar tours, aren't we, and we have our badges, don't we?! We won't have to wait! There is a pen being passed around to write your name on those badges, which are of the highest quality plastic, you know." The group responds with genuine laughter. "Yes, we call these BYRO pens... BYROs... What is it that you call them again? I know it's something different... what's that? Ahh yes, ballpoints. i KNEW it was something different, and it is, isn't it?" Oh, and the name tags, ARE lovely, they are. Lydon Oliver is a very Brittish man. His eyes are a crystal blue, and droop down on the sides like those of a loveable hungry hound. He has a silver cannine tooth on the top row. "0-774-010-7343. Please write that number down. That's my phone. It's best to be able to always keep in touch. Let's look at the itenerary, now..." His skin is lightly tanned, showing that he's a bit of an outside man, always on teh move. His dark gray hair sprited with lighter gray hair sticks in all directions, as though he just woke up and fixing his hair was last on his list, which he was unable to complete before popping out for the day. His teeth are small, white, and straige (which is amazing for this country), and move just enough with his lips to speak "proper english." He is about 45, but has the vivacity of a 19 year old boy who has just experienced his first college frat party. I can tell he has been around this coutnry too many times; yet, it surprises me that he shares the joy and interest of the majority of people on this tour. I don't. This is where my interest lays. I believe I can hold out if I stay silent, and keep writing. I hope for a cyber cafe (WHICH I AM IN RIGHT NOW FINALLY!) "Well, I am a bit unsure about this part on the itenerary... I'm not sure whether I buy YOU a drink, or YOU buy ME one..." He looks up in genuine puzzlement as the bus screaks with lauhter. "You buy US a drink!" "Allright then... I shall buy you a drinK... only one drinK mind you because this is coming out of my own hospitality!" He smiles! Sign: The Fox and Duck. Good Quality Food. (This is a pub.) The food here is wonderful! Soy is the cheapest oil in America because it is so easy to farm. Here, and for most of Europe, it is rarely used. I'm having a blast. I can eat CHOCOLATE! Yes, darling, this is Hampton Court. Here are the royal gardens with the popular Frnech style. These ewe trees have been shaped specially as a part of the geometric goal, as they are perfectly lined about the walk paths. Ahh, yes. Here we have the Royal Tennis Court which is really the oldest tennis court where "real" or "royal" tennis was played, essentially beginning the sport. Stonehenge. I am in complete awe of this place. According to my mom, who does not share my enthusiasm, "they're just a bunch of rocks. What's so great about 'em?" Well, these "rocks" are all about 20 ft. tall, 3 ft. wide boulders which have either been carefulled searched for, or painstakingly shpaed. They wigh tons each, and today it would be no great feat to plop one atop the other and cement them to stay. Then, it was a much different story. The world has long wondered just how these people, centuries ago, managed to maneuver these stones into their current positions. And, as the sun rises in the east each morning, it shines through the circle. This is the only stone circle that has stones on top of the vertical stone pillars, making it so amazing. And the pattern... there is definitely a pattern present, yet I cannot grasp it, especially since I am being rushed by my mother. Some pillars have two stone pillars, others three, and then there are even single standing ones. All surround a sort of crude platform, upon which sacrifices have been made. A skeleton has ben found buried in the circle, and this person was strangled to death. There is great religious significance here, but I cannot grasp it... Tumulii surround the circle... great mounds that are just pimples on hills contain the remains of once "great figures," now equalized by their death and rest in the hills. *Old Salem- failed Celtic city on the hillside around 1100 a.d. *Clearing up the DRIVING mystery: They drive on the left side of the road here because, in the middle ages, most men carried their swords on the left side and fought or drew with the right arm. That way they would be able to fight oncoming danger. We drive on the right side in America, and the rest of continental Europe because Napoleon came with his cannons and cavalry and went on the right side of the road to give himself more room. Basically, MAKE WAY OR EAT CANNONBALL LEAD. "The rooms will have tea and coffee making facilities... but we have more coffee drinkers than tea drinkers, don't we? Well, coffee is good, because apparantly it gets the digestive juices going in the morning. But tea, tea is good for you, now, isn't it? It contains flavanoids, and flavanoids battle those free floating viruses in you, doesn't it? And as you get older, as you get older, you start to think about these things, don't you? For a few days, you might notice that you've been a bit warmer as of late, and you think... blood pressure. Then, tea is good for you isn't it? Very important, isn't it? And, and it's been proven that tea actually increases fertility! Oh, yes, they ran an experiment. One woman drank about six cups of tea a day, and another woman drank as much as humanly possible, and it made a difference. So, yes, it helps with fertility, doesn't it?" I would like to know who thought to run this experiment.
RE: *I am away from the computer right now*: Day 2 By: Evan on 6/20/2001; 10:44 PM Very interesting. So you guys popped off to the Pub for a quick one? I always wanted to say that. I just finished reading So Long and Thanks for All the Fish again, and am wondering if by any chance you are going to Islington at any point in your tour. Douglas Adams described Islington (which was his home by the way) in such a way to really make me interested in it. If I ever went to England, I would want to do only these things, visit Islington, make faces at the guards that stand stiffly (I think its at Buckingham palace but I don't remember.), visit Stonehenge and visit Loch Ness (okay that's in Scotland but its close by; I wonder if they would let me go diving with Nessie if there is a Nessie.). I bet there is a lot more that's interesting but that's all I can think about.
Okay Why not....RE * i am waay from my compputer ruight now* By: Kaju Sarkar on 6/20/2001; 11:15 PM Okay sure... By the way.. Think only you Americans drive on the left side of the road....Lol... Anyway.. Have a nice trip .. I always liked England ..Don't go to Oldham tough, Pretty Bad Situation.....Later Dorothy...Bye.
RE: Okay Why not....RE * i am waay from my compputer ruight now* By: Evan on 6/21/2001; 8:45 PM Uhh Kaju, Americans DO NOT drive on the left side of the road. Americans drive on the right side. I'm hoping that either you simply made a mistype and meant the British, or that you don't have a driver's liscense. Driving on the wrong side of the road causes problems. I almost did it once though, I've got to stop getting left and right confused.
RE: Okay Why not....RE * i am waay from my compputer ruight now* By: Kaju Sarkar on 6/22/2001; 7:51 PM sorry .. i meant the other side . sorry about the mostake..
RE: *I am away from the computer right now*: Day 2 By: Chie Theresa Fujioka on 6/26/2001; 2:00 AM very nice... captures the feeling just right, and i can imagine someone saying all of this... makes me wish i could just write something worth proofreading... im about to write aBOUt a dead bird. Thrilling
RE: *I am away from the computer right now*: Day 2 By: Evan on 6/26/2001; 7:36 PM There are people who will do experiments with anything Dorothy. In Port Allen there is something called a Pavement Research Facility, and I've always wandered what it is they do to pavement. Perhaps they find new things to make pavement out of? Of course scientists try random stuff because one never knows when a great discovery will just pop up out of nowhere. Who would have thought that one of the most prominent antibacterial agents would be found growing on bread? They just have to try completely random stuff to see what works.
RE: *I am away from the computer right now*: Day 2 By: PJ Caroon on 7/5/2001; 8:10 PM you liked british food???! I had two years to learn to like it and I still hated it... Well all except for cadbury's... now British chocolate IS good! and im back BTW, not that anyone noticed my absence
RE: *I am away from the computer right now*: Day 2 By: Kaju Sarkar on 7/5/2001; 10:56 PM um..really ..cool...anyway..what does BTw mean and where is kdotter
RE: *I am away from the computer right now*: Day 2 By: Chie Theresa Fujioka on 7/6/2001; 12:32 PM OOH Cadbury fingers!
RE: *I am away from the computer right now*: Day 2 By: PJ Caroon on 7/6/2001; 1:51 PM Well I was thinking more along hte lines of Cadbury's caramel. Oh and Skippy! (i think, I dont remember too well). They are these chips (crisps) that melt in your mouth... yummy!
RE: *I am away from the computer right now*: Day 2 By: LUKEY FITZOWICHY on 11/2/2006; 3:53 PM So did i! I was very sociable. Your sister was so annoying "I`m not drunk im socialable" SUPERDAVE! you were with him the whole night. She was with brandon. Jessica puked. Right beside su[perdave. Superdave anmanda, sarah brandon. No,YES,NO,YES. I was playing air hockey too! I called my mom to come pick me up.......hahahahaha. Brittany is typing everything im saying. you and brenda got mad at me. I was confused. WOW! YOUR STORY IS GAY! Luke is gay...shut up! ya, thats how it goes. Luke is gay...shut up! brittany is typing everything i say,...what is she tyoping? Hey learn how to h9old your liquor, Im sociable! hahaha. My antie says so. WHAT!? Im drunk! are you still typing? You wouldve thought that i wouldve puked but i am malking excuses. I can make them up. Watch out she might puke....she got some wicked spray! No i wasnt there, did you hear what philip did. He hit bryces car. someone was passd out in a room down stairs. Yup. was i good? last night? umm you were okay. a lil crazy! what did i do? NO...NO..OOO...NO!Someone was puking....we slept together! YAY! Is this on lukes thing? YA! It was on his thing. You could take that two different ways....keep a clean mind! I remember jessica puking and your mom came down and i sat down in a chair and jessica puked and i called brittanys mom and sat in a chair and woke up covered in blankets. IT was your mom going thgrough the closet. I remember coming out of the bathroom and dylan was like sit down and i sat down but not gracefully! Brittany hung out with bryce and sarah was with burger. YUMMY! we all have humiliation. parents!im gonna have one in the summertime but not in the winter time cause puke will be all over. Chopper is still in there. Inside parties are just not cool....thanks to jessiman! haha! At brittanys house. Hey i was good, ya you were good. There was only one person that beat brandon v in the game. YAY! after about the fifith game im sure someone had their hand on the table! WHOO! NO! err schreech! Philip hit bryces car. And it when schreech bang! and jannelle ran to the rescue. Tune in next week. Im just gonna shut my mouth, im not talking. Took the keys away, what the F*ck!. I dont remember going, You showed up drunk, I remember someone saying come to my house. To be continued!
RE: *I am away from the computer right now*: Day 2 By: LUKEY FITZOWICHY on 11/2/2006; 3:54 PM Screw you B*tch! Eat up the goodness!
RE: *I am away from the computer right now*: Day 2 By: LUKEY FITZOWICHY on 11/2/2006; 4:20 PM so what came first the chicken or the egg? The egg definetly cam first, cause chickedns come from eggs. The egg driopped from outer space. The only biological thing. What came first? If there wasnt an egg first where did the chicken come from? Only eggs only eggs. those eggs arent chicken eggs they are different. The ones at the supermarket have chemicals in them so they cant reproduce. Im pro at air hockey when im drunk, Thats what you think. Aliens through eggs at earth and it fell into the ocean and a big fat guy came and sat on it and the egg got laid! and cracked open! HAHA! Its how hutterites styarted. This took me an hour to think up when i was drunk. it was a long time ago, one of the nights when joel thought he was the pink panther. At least whenm im drunmk i dont think up the pink panther, no you just puke everywhere. So your grandma met this guy and the did it and had a kid and it was a boy. Than she did it with her sion and had a daughter. And than her dauightewr did it with her brother and had YOU! which was also her father and than had a son! And that is how your uncle is your father and grampa. I am at the computer right now. DAY 1! Wrong Luke! damn i stood up for the wring reason. Hey thats you, your screwed me up! What is yuour name! what do you look like big guy? wanna ccome to a party with me and have a good time, Belive me im good at having good times. ask my mom! Shes expert at this stuff! She taught me all i know, some good mostly the bad and exciting! WHOO! Do you like the pink panther? Why is he not purple....GAY! lol, i love you all! Shorthen the distance from imagintaion to reality! Own it now on DVD! You got served! If you wanna respect it you gotta ake it. Lyuke is a fag...just keep typing that. Brittany is HOT!! YAY! lol. If he thinks luke ius hot than joel is gay and so is luke. Typingwhat they say. its true! SHIT! its the second one, wow, what if we put all this effort into this, we will call it communications. Biological Warfare. WOW! coould you imagine if we put all thjis effort into our school work, we would get good marks! you type really fast! Thankyou! she like compliments herself and puts everyone else down. k, she's a fast typer too. thank you. soooooo.... What else ohappened when i was gone, The first time i went calmar with janelle and then i went with look and i think something happened. Do iu give hard high fuives? ya you do, Was i quiet? ya cause you were curled up on the couch wuith burger. THEY KISSED! awe....they got into it. OMG! can we rename these charatcers? no! no one will know who we are. excpet for me cause this is my name....lukey fitz man haha! i officially...love you brittany. i can't hate brittany.i did not say that.....you are right? lukey fitz man did! click here! why wont it go? his is gonna look soo bad! We should cover someone with pillows. Permament marker actually, people who pass out onnpother people who are not passed out. nod your head! I was gonna have a paryt at my house but i dont want puke everywhere. Jessica learned her lesson. Jessida all over brett. Dylan just grab bryce, and saved his life. Woke up early in the morning, Brett M wazs puking, I was passed out in the bathroom. Was he alone? DUH DUH DUH!! jonny b was in the bathroom on his 18 alone. AHHHH
RE: *I am away from the computer right now*: Day 2 By: ScottN on 11/19/2006; 1:45 PM [CURMUDGEON] Spelling, grammar, and formatting DO count. [/CURMUDGEON]
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