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I'm sure there's the odd poster who comes from Uranus, GG. At least, that's the location I'd like to suggest to them they appear to be speaking from occasionally....
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I'm guessing that the heavenly body we should associate with the fair ladies of the board is Venus.
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« Reply #2388 on: 16:27:06, 27-01-2008 » |
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The advantage of having slightly slippery soles on one's shoes is that one can glide effortlessly around one's flat and spin on the spot whilst engaged in boring telephone conversations (best avoided unless the telephone is cordless or mobile). That made me laugh a lot, hh, although it my susceptibility to humour may have been enhanced by the lack of human contact in the last 72 hours. (Well-wishers will I hope be reasonably pleased to know that I'm now two-thirds of the way through the second of the two overdue projects which I really need to finish this weekend.) |
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« Reply #2389 on: 16:42:58, 27-01-2008 » |
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I am so pleased that t-i-n is finishing his projects. After which I am sure he is going to mop the floor for free skating exercise. Personally I am from Venice. Would it be nice to go there for a reunion?  |
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« Reply #2390 on: 17:13:59, 27-01-2008 » |
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I used to have one of those Venetian cat masks, but I decided it was really sinister, and gave it away. It was the empty eyes, I think.  |
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« Reply #2391 on: 17:18:13, 27-01-2008 » |
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I have a total phobia about masks, I just freak out which made Hallow'een when it was practiced here unbearable. I certainly couldn't cope with the Venice Festival.
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #2392 on: 17:34:08, 27-01-2008 » |
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I like to look at masks. I admire skills and imagination that people have.   A friend brought one mask from Venice and we all admired it. |
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« Reply #2393 on: 17:44:30, 27-01-2008 » |
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I can't even look at masks, to me the undead or worse are hiding behind them.
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« Reply #2394 on: 17:51:03, 27-01-2008 » |
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I love those Venetian masks like the one in t-p's photo but my mother and one of my sons are totally freaked out by them. I was in Italy recently and saw one I'd have loved to have brought home. I had the idea of putting a couple of small torches behind the eyes and hanging it on the wall one night in his bedroom but decided against it. Just seemed too cruel.  My mother doesn't like clowns or mime artists either....just a few of her many phobias too numerous to list. I don't have any problems thank goodness. |
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« Reply #2395 on: 17:55:46, 27-01-2008 » |
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Mary and Ants, I know what you mean. I feel rather the same about these  It`s all in the eyes, or rather the absence of them (in the case of masks). Or rather a complete absence behind the eyes. Yes, I know they`re dolls but ... Brrr. Acutally now I come to think of it, they are rather reminiscent of the photographs that the Victorians used to take of family members that had died, which they would then keep in an album. Oh, that`s just reminded me of the film "The Others" by Alejandro Amenabar, which has spooked me even more. |
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« Reply #2396 on: 18:04:39, 27-01-2008 » |
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If there wasn't an episode of The Avengers featuring scary masks and / or dolls, then there should have been.
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« Reply #2397 on: 19:34:20, 27-01-2008 » |
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Oh no! I'm really on my own! I have a collection of 9 of those porcelain dolls some of which are on top of my filing cabinet here and one 2' high beauty who is a one-off collector's item that my husband bought for me. Most of them have black hair. I have another 2' long seated porcelain doll in an antique chair. I also have three very realistic baby dolls - one Jamaican and one caucasian in a moses crib. Also a very large porcelain baby doll in a Victorian-style pram. Nobody will be coming round to Milly's then.  |
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« Reply #2398 on: 19:59:39, 27-01-2008 » |
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The thing with the masks and empty eye-holes reminds me of a holiday spent in my uncle's cottage. Junior nephew had a downstairs bedroom which was rather dark to begin with, and as a natural science enthusiast, had a collection of various animal skulls dotted around. Just to make it more macabre, some of them had christmas baubles in the eye sockets.
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