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by Cynth
Tue Nov 27, 2007 12:21 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: sewing frenzy 07 final results
Replies: 9
Views: 1086

cowtime, maybe you talked about this before, but what time period are those dresses from? I really don't seem to recognize much about them at all. Boy, those stripes sure match up on the other woman's dress---guess that wasn't an accident, eh?
by Cynth
Tue Nov 27, 2007 12:11 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: My Cat Is So Weird. (Part 7)
Replies: 21
Views: 1773

Our cat Lilly will scratch on the floor around her bowl of wet food if there is a fair amount left and she doesn't want to finish it right then. I always figured it was some sort of instinct to try to bury or hide extra food so it could be eaten later. But now she's started doing it before she has a...
by Cynth
Sun Nov 25, 2007 12:49 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: Black Friday
Replies: 34
Views: 2467

The best mall in Des Moines opened at midnight last night. The two department stores in the mall opened this morning at the regular time I guess--or maybe early, not sure. The newspaper said that 35,000 people were in line in cars to get into the parking lot at midnight. I guess it's sort of a "...
by Cynth
Mon Nov 05, 2007 4:17 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: The fifth taste...
Replies: 30
Views: 2597

Well, I guess if they say it's a taste, it's a taste. There must be something weird in my genetic make-up that doesn't allow me to discern the common taste shared by parmesan cheese and grapes and broccoli for heaven's sake. It's okay. I'll get over it.
by Cynth
Sat Nov 03, 2007 11:22 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: Time Rollback in U.S.A and Canada
Replies: 40
Views: 2982

You are lucky. I have a clock that automatically resets itself, but it was built to reset at the old Daylight Savings Time time. So it changed two weeks ago. Then some clocks drive me mad when I try to figure out how to change them so I give up and try to remember if they are ahead or behind. If I f...
by Cynth
Sat Nov 03, 2007 11:13 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: Brian Cant
Replies: 13
Views: 2182

I'm with you, Lamby :lol: . The "but his sister will" one was funny though.
by Cynth
Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:20 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: Corn snakes and kittens...a happy tale!
Replies: 65
Views: 4821

I also was thinking this was going to be some kind of warning about not letting corn snakes be around kittens :o . I'm glad it's a happy story. I can't wait to see the photos of the little furry ones----as long as that doesn't mean the frozen baby mice! (I suppose they don't have much fur.---Not sur...
by Cynth
Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:31 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: I've made a glow in the dark scarf :D
Replies: 24
Views: 6327

I need a scarf like that for our black kitty. She is just impossible to see at night. Rooms and hallways that are lit well enough to walk through, so that you don't really need to turn on the light, are terrible because I'll be walking and suddenly I'll hear a meow. I have to stop right where I am, ...
by Cynth
Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:02 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: Curiosity: who are your favorite detectives?
Replies: 58
Views: 5060

I like a lot of detectives but right now my favorites would be: Sherlock Holmes forever. Erast Petrovich Fandorin from the series of novels by Boris Akunin. They haven't all been translated, so I am eagerly awaiting the next one. I think these particlar novels should be read in the order they were w...
by Cynth
Sat Oct 13, 2007 9:29 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: Vile8
Replies: 41
Views: 3200

I think one of the biggest set backs to trying to eat healthy is when people feel they have to eat things they just hate. If you hate vegetable juice, then don't try to drink it. Maybe putting ice in it would help. I have drunk V-8 juice that way when it is hot and I also liked the spicy kind, but i...
by Cynth
Sat Oct 13, 2007 10:11 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: more than funny... :)
Replies: 5
Views: 936

That really was funny. The crazy way he was "bowing" at the end with his head feathers bobbing around :lol: . He looked like a mad genius, or something!
by Cynth
Sat Oct 13, 2007 10:05 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Find out if you are tone deaf
Replies: 35
Views: 5882

My memory is terrible. I could tell a lot of them were the same pitch but different rhythms and marked them as different. Was that the wrong thing to do? I auditioned for choir in high school and scored well above the curve by singing back combinations of notes. I know I'm not tone deaf. But I scor...
by Cynth
Sat Oct 13, 2007 9:43 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: which way?
Replies: 54
Views: 3707

The first time I looked it was clockwise. Then I read the text and it was counterclockwise. Sometimes she had stayed the same when I looked back and sometimes she had changed. I couldn't predict what it would be. I seem to be feeling too lazy to try to make her do the opposite of what she's doing. I...
by Cynth
Sat Oct 13, 2007 9:31 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: Gone for a few days
Replies: 9
Views: 1095

I sure hope the surgery goes well for your dad, and I'm so glad they have you to go up there and help out.
by Cynth
Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:48 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Find out if you are tone deaf
Replies: 35
Views: 5882

That was an interesting test, and people should allow enough time to take it since it is a little longer than some. I got 26/30 and 28/30. I like that you can push the button when you are ready for the next pair---that made me feel much less nervous. Although a person who could not distinguish tones...