I Spy

margaret · Post by **margaret** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 11:33 pm

Well Pete,
Today I woke up and it was indeed cold, it was dark and it was snowing, the wind was blowing wild in the trees. I even believe the river was starting to freeze. I said to my hubby, "my love I must be going" (to work ), now "whatever have you done with my keys?"

However, if you think there's going to be any kneeling at deltas, especially where the river(Dee) meets the (Irish)sea in these conditions

then think again!

These times are not so generous

Is Helven trying to claim points multiplied by 18 for these supposed birthmarks on her skin? I feel a bit suspicious of so many.

Are you sure these are not just freckles

When is a birthmark not a birthmark? Another tough decision for BC.

Cia · Post by **Cia** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 11:51 pm

Well, if Lizzy doesn't want the job - go look for Helven in some lost place you will have to find - cause I am going out with Jo and no keeping us back, it's almost closingtime. Okay Jo, got the gin and southern comfort - we are going a hunting

hicks from Cia

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:15 am

Ahhh, so the freckles were what you were getting at [as Margaret has mentioned], Cia? Well, just go get drunk, then ~ and enjoy yourself, you and Jo, knowing that I'm back here point-slaving

! I need a respite already, and respete hasn't even left yet!

witty_owl · Post by **witty_owl** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:24 am

Extract from Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary.
banjo \'ban-(,)jo\ n, pl banjos also banjoes [prob. of African origin; akin to Kimbundu mbanza, a similar instrument] : a musical instrument of the guitar class with a long narrow fretted neck and small drum shaped body --- banjoist \'ban-,jo-est\ n

Cheers, W.O.

Cia · Post by **Cia** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:26 am

There's room on the backseat of our brooms lizzy, but there will be no fighting against the bottle.

ooops a daisy Cia

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:57 am

did Witty Owl mention banjo there??? BC stirs a little more.

did Helven mention 18 birthmarks??? 18??? I think not.

and Jo and Cia are on the bottle but that don't make them drunk

and Linmag is looking for avalanches as the night comes on calmy (80 points by the way)

and Margaret diligently plays the game, quietly amassing points ( for which I award 130 for her recent offerings)

and Lizzytysh continues to be my tower of strength...but suggests 50 points extra for Linmag compared to my ordeal. The snow is deeper and whiter here..that deserves more..

Goodnight my friends goodnight

Pete

Cia · Post by **Cia** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 1:04 am

Yes it does!

me and my drunk friend

margaret · Post by **margaret** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 2:06 am

at this very moment I spy the naked truth on my tv

UK channel 5 is showing a program all about streakers!

linmag · Post by **linmag** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 3:28 am

Pete, what you deserve my friend after your ordeal is a nice big bottle of something that needs finishing, and a warm fire to drink it by

Jo · Post by Jo » Thu Jan 29, 2004 6:56 am

Don't give up maths teaching Pete - your Geography skills are not that hot - Vera city is down the road from Tena city, quite close to Auda city: follow the road signs to Pertina city but don't stray or you'll end up in far-away Menda city.

Helven · Post by **Helven** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:53 am

Elizabeth, Pete,

Oh! Those philosophical questions upon the theme of the absent mere were so difficult

! The only thing I can say right now. I looked into the mirrors in numberless places and never saw a mare there! So, it’d be quite logically to suppose that I lost myself. However, now my mirrors show no mare, as well. Hmmm, the search seems to be uncompleted yet

… Okay, I’ll ask no points for the fact of my existence since I’ve found myself only partially. I’ll go on looking for the mare in the mirrors

!

Margaret, Pete,

You made me doubt regarding my birthmarks… I’m thinking now over the question, are they birthmarks or not

?.. When I had a look at my dictionary, I found there only one translation for the “birthmark” and it was the word we used for those “things” I had on my skin. Those small brown spots which “embellish” skin and which aren’t freckles – I’ve never had freckles [and for the “freckles” I have the word in my dictionary which we use for those more light spots appearing under the influence of the sun and also in the old ages]… Do you call those spots “birthmarks” or anyhow else?
I really have 18 of them; one of them is on the face, 5 – on the left arm, 1 – on the right one, 2 – on the left shoulder, 2 – on the right, and all the others – in some other places (I wouldn’t like to write where, may I dissemble that

?). But, anyway, of course, I mentioned their number just for accuracy of an observation but not for increasing my points!

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 2:32 pm

Hi Helven ~

Oh dear

, if anyone should end up with absent-mare points, it surely should be you. No one has incurred such angst with the quest

.

Yes, it seemed more logical to me that you would have thrown the 18 in there, editorially commenting, just as an afterthought. Here, freckles tend to be a born-with situation, or a result of sun exposure. The older-age ones tend to be called age spots or liver spots. The birthmarks tend to be darker and redder or browner, some almost black. They tend to be irregularly shaped and much larger than any freckle.

Jo ~ Can you give a personal, guided tour sometime; or is there already a tour bus there covering the routes? These cities sound sooo interesting

. Are you well acquainted? Know their hidden, off-the-main-course, non-tourist spots of interest? Not the old age or liver spots, of course.

~ Elizabeth/Lizzy

Helven · Post by **Helven** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 3:56 pm

Mmm, then I have no birthmarks

!
Actually, we call here “birthmarks” all those spots that we have from the birth – both large and little ones. Oh, we don’t call them “birthmarks”, of course

, but we also have a word which contains the same root as our word for “birth”. And for those freckles which are a result of sun exposure we have a word with a root “spring” – as the sun becomes active just in spring here

.

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 10:53 pm

Margaret
Don't you go getting any ideas now about those streakers!.. it's a tad cold out there

30 points all the same for this I Spy

Linmag
Thankyou for your concern. I couldn't find a bottle (Jo and Cia have them all!) but I had my ovaltine to keep me warm.
20 points for the I Spy

Helven
Have you tried joining your 'marks' together as in dot-to-dot?? You might see an I Spy!!

I joined mine (I call them beauty spots but some refer them to moles) and got Lady Midnight and even had some marks left over so I joined those to make the letter O. Can I claim 40 points?

Witty Owl
BC wants to see you in his office...now!!

Lizzytysh
Can you escort Witty Owl to the office to make sure that he doesn't do a runner. You may, if you want, put him on the absent mare and tie his hands behind his back just like they do in the cowboy films

Jo
My geography is very good for I have travelled..
I have been to Multipli City (a very crowded place)

Pete

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 10:56 pm

Hi Helven ~

That's an interesting derivation.....for spring spots. I like that. I'm sorry to be the one to have to deliver such news, which results in no points at all on the issue

. Yeah, here, a birthmarks suggests something quite apart from "freckles". Many freckles [i.e. with redheads] are there from birth; whereas, some appear later [as a result of sun exposure]. It's still a matter of a freckle is a freckle is a freckle ~ particularly, if you're talking to the one who hates having them

.

~ Elizabeth