You'd better ask the Head Librarian of Milton Keynes Library Services *that* question I am afraid.
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Argent Stonecutter
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03-06-2009 09:04
Milton Keynes? That's really a place? I thought Douglas Adams made it up. _____________________
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Jig Chippewa
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03-06-2009 09:09
"Young men will do`t, if they come to`t; By Cock they are to blame." Pie (Returning the thread to the original subject) LOL! I did smile. "I hope all will be well ... and so I thank you for your good counsel. Come my Coach!" Really, gotta dash. "Jig" _____________________
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Pie Serendipity
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03-06-2009 09:12
Milton Keynes? That's really a place? I thought Douglas Adams made it up. Pie (Doug was my next door neighbour in college long before they invented Milton Keynes; I was the inspiration for the Vogon Spaceship Captain) |
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Kyllie Wylie
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03-06-2009 09:36
Milton Keynes Pie (You don't think I'd waste money on that?) This explains a lot. _____________________
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Monalisa Robbiani
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03-06-2009 09:38
Merely by entering SL as an avatar you initiate a lie, and it grows Being an avatar is part of what SL is. Like using make-up is part of what being a woman is (and you can do a lot with make-up). An avatar is only a lie if you say that your RL self looks exactly like it. If you never make that assumption or leave the questions unanswered it's not lying. It's your privacy. _____________________
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Jig Chippewa
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03-06-2009 10:47
Charlie Stross based one of his stories there, so maybe it is a lie. Pie (Doug was my next door neighbour in college long before they invented Milton Keynes; I was the inspiration for the Vogon Spaceship Captain) You are a contemporary of the founding of Milton Keynes in 1967 if you were at St. John's Cambridge with Adams. "Hitchhiker" is so dated. Even "Python" is under-grad. If we're dropping names, Dud Moore was much, much funnier but then, "I knew him, Horatio." Admittedly, in my case, in his illness-ridden years (my parents knew him ever since his heyday). But, if you have interest in your peers (as I am sure you do) I can tell you that at Moore's terribly sad end when the illness truly began to invade his mind, he was still as charming as ever and a generous and gentle soul. And he never forgot how to play the piano. I just realize he was "Magdalen Man", Oxford and would be a couple of years your senior when you were at Cambridge. HE was a contemporary of the man who became my tutor - what a pity, SL demands such anonymity that you may, indeed, know the man who made me realize I wasn't as stupid as people told me. But to my poor P---'s consternation I turned my back on a university life. I realize now how many people I have stumbled across in SL who are/were Oxbridge grads. What is it with "you people", that you must always dress up as women the moment you can? Think of it - Beyond the Fringe and Monty Python, even, I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again. I am endlessly trying to explain the Oxbridge/University infatuation with men as women - even SL is rank with them. The concept of pantomime never transfers across the Big Pond. Now I must stop, else I'll mention a name and YOU will know that person and then ... well, teh "Jig is up"! _____________________
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Clarissa Lowell
Gone. G'bye.
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03-06-2009 12:32
Being an avatar is part of what SL is. Like using make-up is part of what being a woman is (and you can do a lot with make-up). An avatar is only a lie if you say that your RL self looks exactly like it. If you never make that assumption or leave the questions unanswered it's not lying. It's your privacy. You mean everyone online isn't a Sports Illustrated athlete or swimsuit model in real life? /me is crestfallen |
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Argent Stonecutter
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03-06-2009 12:42
I always look exactly like my avatar.
My player doesn't, unfortunately. _____________________
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Jig Chippewa
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03-06-2009 13:05
Actually my avatar always looks exacly like me - jeans, tee shirt, scruffed hair and grumpy. I'm just not thin enough and I wish I could just stop flying around and stop smacking into High Street shop windows every time I fly outside.
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Pie Serendipity
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03-07-2009 07:09
You are a contemporary of the founding of Milton Keynes in 1967 if you were at St. John's Cambridge with Adams. "Hitchhiker" is so dated. Even "Python" is under-grad. If we're dropping names, Dud Moore was much, much funnier but then, "I knew him, Horatio." Admittedly, in my case, in his illness-ridden years (my parents knew him ever since his heyday). But, if you have interest in your peers (as I am sure you do) I can tell you that at Moore's terribly sad end when the illness truly began to invade his mind, he was still as charming as ever and a generous and gentle soul. And he never forgot how to play the piano. I just realize he was "Magdalen Man", Oxford and would be a couple of years your senior when you were at Cambridge. HE was a contemporary of the man who became my tutor - what a pity, SL demands such anonymity that you may, indeed, know the man who made me realize I wasn't as stupid as people told me. But to my poor P---'s consternation I turned my back on a university life. I realize now how many people I have stumbled across in SL who are/were Oxbridge grads. What is it with "you people", that you must always dress up as women the moment you can? Think of it - Beyond the Fringe and Monty Python, even, I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again. I am endlessly trying to explain the Oxbridge/University infatuation with men as women - even SL is rank with them. The concept of pantomime never transfers across the Big Pond. Now I must stop, else I'll mention a name and YOU will know that person and then ... well, teh "Jig is up"! Pie (demonstrating a chip on both shoulders) |
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Paracelsus Schonberg
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03-07-2009 08:54
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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Conifer Dada
Hiya m'dooks!
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03-07-2009 09:30
Actually I'm just about to award myself a PhD from Oxbridge-Yaleprince University.
The subject I researched was the long-term health effects on avatars of teleporting, anti-gravity and levitation. _____________________
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Soap Clawtooth
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03-08-2009 03:24
Actually I'm just about to award myself a PhD from Oxbridge-Yaleprince University. The subject I researched was the long-term health effects on avatars of teleporting, anti-gravity and levitation. They have very severe effects in that it turns you into a Linden Bear. Oh noez! Everyone panic! |