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bryan mccarthy
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Man, i'm finding a new thing is occuring to me now. I'm starting to view you guys as my friends. That's so bizarre. I just saw "Finding Neverland" and it made me feel so good and the first thing I was thinking was, "Man, I gotta talk about this with the peeps on the site!" And if you look at my last 5 or 10 posts, there all like real gushy and passionate and stuff. So I have two questions:

1) Is this normal? Is one hundred posts about the time this starts happening to everyone? Or has it actually even happened to ANYONE?

and if so,

2) Does anyone want to talk about "Finding Neverland?"


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bryan mccarthy said...
Man, i'm finding a new thing is occuring to me now. I'm starting to view you guys as my friends. That's so bizarre. I just saw "Finding Neverland" and it made me feel so good and the first thing I was thinking was, "Man, I gotta talk about this with the peeps on the site!" And if you look at my last 5 or 10 posts, there all like real gushy and passionate and stuff. So I have two questions:

1) Is this normal? Is one hundred posts about the time this starts happening to everyone? Or has it actually even happened to ANYONE?
 
You've got to persevere through that, man, suppress the urge.  Around post 500, you'll hate us all and will be thinking of new and creative ways to ridicule us.
 
bryan mccarthy said...
 
2) Does anyone want to talk about "Finding Neverland?"
NO!  What are you, a twelve-year old girl?!?!?!       sheesh
 
 



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   Posted 5/8/2005 9:02 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Laika said...
 
bryan mccarthy said...
 
2) Does anyone want to talk about "Finding Neverland?"
NO!  What are you, a twelve-year old girl?!?!?!       sheesh

 

I just called over to Laika’s house.  His better half said he was locked up by himself and couldn’t be disturbed.  I asked her what in the world he was doing, and guess what her reply was, “every Sunday he watches Finding Neverland”. 

 

Hypocrites, go figure.  

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   Posted 5/8/2005 11:05 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

Yeah Laika... wasn't that you that I saw starting another thread on another board on another web system... (one of those mac-based ones or something) about Neverland??? turn   (Haha, ok, I'm really stretching it, aren't I?)  Besides, what's so bad about being 12 anyways??? nono 

Ok, on to being a bit more serious (sorry, I'm just a bit giddy now that I've finally finished my student-teaching on Friday.  Woo hoo!!! The semi-torture is over!)

With Finding Neverland my husband and I saw it about oh, a month or two ago.  Very interesting movie, especially the end.  What things about it did you want to discuss?

And yes, when I used to IRC (what, 10 years ago now or so?) and I joined the chat quite often; some of the "regulars" did become friends during that time.  Unfortunately things became a bit wierd on that board (don't want to really get into the details... but I learned that I can be severely misunderstood on the internet) so since then I've kind of kept a bit of an emotional distance in relation to chats and boards.  But the discussion part is still all good!


 

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bryan mccarthy
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   Posted 5/9/2005 8:34 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
violin,

i could see the validity of clamming up on boards if you were open in the past and it went badly. eek.

violin: Very interesting movie, especially the end. What things about it did you want to discuss?

bryan: i just wanted to know what peoples' favourite parts were, etc. i liked him bringing the kids in a lot. i was happy when the old rich people started laughing and enjoying it with the kids, becuz of the kids. also, does anybody know to what extent the depiction was true, i.e. how accurate was the movie as far as the whole "based on a true story" thing goes?

i'm glad your "free" and excited about the student teaching being completed.


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bryan mccarthy
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   Posted 5/9/2005 8:36 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Laika,

Laika: You've got to persevere through that, man, suppress the urge. Around post 500, you'll hate us all and will be thinking of new and creative ways to ridicule us.

bryan: i'll take your word for it, but this is quite a ways down the road, isn't it? how long does it take to get 500 posts?

Laika: NO! What are you, a twelve-year old girl?!?!?! sheesh

bryan: so this would be like an initiation ridicule, i guess then?


bryan


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   Posted 5/9/2005 8:46 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
bryan mccarthy said...
 
bryan: i'll take your word for it, but this is quite a ways down the road, isn't it? how long does it take to get 500 posts?
 
I think some have done it..... before lunch.
 
bryan mccarthy said...
 
bryan: so this would be like an initiation ridicule, i guess then?
Um, no.   Look at poor TGB, thousands of posts and I still tease him.
 

hmmm

I see James Bowman gave "Finding Neverland" two stars (out of two possible) and he almost NEVER gives movies a star or two.  I trust his judgment on films and read his reviews in lieu of spending the time and money to go to movies.

His review of "A Walk on the Moon" where he talks about SA was brilliant.  I'd read it in a magazine but it wasn't on his website so I e-mailed him and he sent it to me.

I think he might be catholic.  Best reviewer around, imho.


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   Posted 5/9/2005 8:51 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I haven't seen Finding Neverland, man. Hmmm...maybe I'll go check it out. I love Johnny Depp as an actor.


"I've been converted three times. The first was to traditional Christianity; the second to honesty and the third was to the Love of God and man (humanity) The third was the real conversion. The first two were preliminary."

--Nels Ferre, a theologian speaking of his spiritual journey with the Triune God

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   Posted 5/9/2005 5:04 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
well I'm about 100 posts now...but I don't post frequently and have other board loyalties so I'm not as close to the guys here as I'd like to be, I still feel a bit like an outsider
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   Posted 5/9/2005 10:44 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
markporter said...
well I'm about 100 posts now...but I don't post frequently and have other board loyalties so I'm not as close to the guys here as I'd like to be, I still feel a bit like an outsider
Did someone say something?
 
I tried to get some footie talk out of you but no, you wouldn't bite.
 
I watch some of the Premier League, they show quite a few matches here.
 
I'm pulling for Crystal Palace to avoid regulation.  Too late for Arsenal to catch Chelsea.
 

cheers  CAMRA!!!

 

 


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   Posted 5/10/2005 1:17 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
bryan mccarthy said...
bryan: i just wanted to know what peoples' favourite parts were, etc. i liked him bringing the kids in a lot. i was happy when the old rich people started laughing and enjoying it with the kids, becuz of the kids. also, does anybody know to what extent the depiction was true, i.e. how accurate was the movie as far as the whole "based on a true story" thing goes?

i'm glad your "free" and excited about the student teaching being completed.

bryan
Watching that part made me wish I could go to the theater at that moment to go and watch Peter Pan.  I found it interesting how he (in the movie... who knows about real life) had to continue living in an imaginary world to actually write the play.  Nobody else except the kids could really understand him because they couldn't see the world as he did.  But a great part in the movie was when the mother actually went IN to Neverland.  (Without trying to get morbid), I hope death for us will be just as painless.... although well... anyways... you hear about all those stories about tunnels and lights and stuff. 
 
Speaking of which, I wonder if anyone here has had a "near death experience"?  Now Laika, don't you go grabbing for those peanuts!!!shocked  We don't want anyone to turn blue around here!


 

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   Posted 5/10/2005 2:44 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Laika said...
markporter said...

well I'm about 100 posts now...but I don't post frequently and have other board loyalties so I'm not as close to the guys here as I'd like to be, I still feel a bit like an outsider
Did someone say something?


I tried to get some footie talk out of you but no, you wouldn't bite.



I watch some of the Premier League, they show quite a few matches here.



I'm pulling for Crystal Palace to avoid regulation. Too late for Arsenal to catch Chelsea.



cheers CAMRA!!!


Did you? I don't remember that. I guess I wouldn't bit that one anyway, football's really not my thing.
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   Posted 5/10/2005 6:40 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Violin for God said...
Speaking of which, I wonder if anyone here has had a "near death experience"?  Now Laika, don't you go grabbing for those peanuts!!!shocked  We don't want anyone to turn blue around here!
I haven't had an out of the body experience but a floating to the ceiling of the car experience.
 
I was driving back home from Chicago, left at 6 in the evening with a six pack of Moutain Dew, it was December 24, driving across southern Minnesota on I-90, snow everywhere and blowing across the freeway, mesmerizing.  My fatigue and the Dew combined to make me feel that I was floating up to the ceiling of the car and my arms and legs were really long.
 
I finally stopped in Albert Lea, took a nap (until the car got cold inside) and then ate a hot meal at a restaurant.
 
When I got back on the freeway, the sky was clear, the road was empty and the stars shone like another Christmas eve a couple thousand years ago.  (I know, I know, Jesus wasn't born on December 25 but don't ruin it for me)
 
 


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   Posted 5/12/2005 5:13 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
meph,

meph: I haven't seen Finding Neverland, man. Hmmm...maybe I'll go check it out. I love Johnny Depp as an actor.

bryan: me too. he's my favourite, i think. edward norton and marky mark are up there as well in my book.


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   Posted 5/12/2005 5:18 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Laika,

laika: I see James Bowman gave "Finding Neverland" two stars (out of two possible) and he almost NEVER gives movies a star or two.

bryan: who does he write for (or whatever)?

laika: I'm pulling for Crystal Palace to avoid regulation.

bryan: well they beat liverpool so...

laika: Too late for Arsenal to catch Chelsea.

bryan: yeah, didn't chelsea actually win the priemership like a week and a half ago or something? who's rip van winkle now? ;-) besides, event though the team was "bought," doesn't arsenal have enough wins?

laika: they show quite a few matches here.

bryan: where is "here?"


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   Posted 5/12/2005 5:19 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
laika,

p.s. happy 2000


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   Posted 5/12/2005 5:25 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
violin,

violin: I found it interesting how he (in the movie... who knows about real life) had to continue living in an imaginary world to actually write the play. Nobody else except the kids could really understand him because they couldn't see the world as he did.

bryan: yeah, you're right. i suppose i never thought of it that way. i just kinda saw it as being around them gave him creativity, but i hadn't thought of it as he was doing all those imaginative games, etc. with them becuz he was pretending his way through the writing of the play. hmm, weird. i guess the movie has more philosophical depth than i realized.

violin: But a great part in the movie was when the mother actually went IN to Neverland. (Without trying to get morbid), I hope death for us will be just as painless

bryan: kinda reminds me of that other movie, "what dreams may come," in a way. that was kind of a cool movie as well.


bryan


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   Posted 5/12/2005 5:34 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
bryan mccarthy said...

bryan: well they beat liverpool so...
Just recently?
 
I turned on the telly and Arsenal was beating Everton 7 - 0 in the 89th minute, CRAP!  I missed it all.
 
"Here" is my basement.  It's the hole in the ground underneath my house.
 
cheers  CAMRA!!!!
 
 

McCarty, that's like Irish or Scotch.  Or Canadian, eh.


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bryan mccarthy
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   Posted 5/12/2005 5:48 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
laika,

Laika: Just recently?

bryan: well, not SUPER recently, but kinda: April 23rd.

laika: "Here" is my basement. It's the hole in the ground underneath my house.

bryan: what i meant is, what country do you live in?

well, mccarthy is irish. my [technically step-] dad's [so i'm not actually irish] side is from cork. cool photo; cheers, mate.


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   Posted 5/13/2005 2:45 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Speaking of movies and Johnny Depp, has anyone seen the movie "Dead Man"? (Not "Dead Man Walking"... that was with Sean Penn) You probably wouldn't find it in your regular movie store.


 

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   Posted 5/13/2005 4:35 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
bryan mccarthy said...
 
bryan: what i meant is, what country do you live in?
 
the north coast of USA, Minnesota <sigh>
  
It's down to them beating Charlton and seeing how the others do, eh.
 
 
The Man.
 
 
 
 


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Mr McCarthy

"Mission, Art, Commuication"

It's COMMUNICATION !!!!

"Why can't the English
Teach their children how to speak
This verbal class distinction
By now should be antique"
 
--Professor Henry Higgins

hmmm

 

 
 


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hey, laika. 
 
sorry, don't follow crystal palace.  is "the man" andrew johnson?  just knew they beat liverpool cuz my buddy is a liverpool fan.  i support newcastle and i wanted chelsea to win the champions league. 
 
yeah, you found me.  cool, map, bro.  i live right there on the corner of the a5 and i suppose the a47, but if that is the right road, we don't call it that. 
 
i don't get the whole communication part of the post.  why the all caps and the quote?  i'm guessing the quote is designed to mock my englishness, which is what makes this a great time to mention that i'm not english, but american, studying in england.  how'd you get into football?  i'm guessing you played in school since it's not so popular as a spectator sport in the states. 
 
 
bryan


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Bryan,
I think that's Laika's way of lovingly pointing out to you that you spelled communication wrong in your profile.


Peace,
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Bryan,
I think that's Laika's way of lovingly pointing out to you that you spelled communication wrong in your profile.

Yes'ma'am, you got it right.
 
Bryan, why are you studying in England?
 
I got into watching futbol because the NHL is on strike this season and I quit watching American armored rugby and I tape games for a friend's futbol playing daughters and I like real ale.
 
I like watching the top teams, they have such talent, mostly Arsenal and Manchester United.
 
I don't watch that much but it's easy to turn on a game for a few minutes.
 
I only played ice hockey growing up, eh.
 
hmmm 
 
At the Well, is that a new login name for an veteran poster here?
 


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