OK I suppose the judges can accept that entry then. However I must confess my skating is more powerful than my slap-shot. I do have the "twisted writerrrr" though.
in order to speak publicly on this forum, i tend to imagine all the members [childish giggle] in their underwear. some of you, i imagine, are a bit too young to be parading about cyberspace in your underoos though. some of you wear pretty strange underwear. and not just leopard print kind of weird.
I have imagined what people on here might look like. Do you imagine them typing at the computer or just get a general feel/image for what they might look like?
I have imagined what people on here might look like. Do you imagine them typing at the computer or just get a general feel/image for what they might look like?
Nick
I imagine nothing. I was surprised by the AI community pictures. You cannot guess, who is small, big, tall, by his posts, except when he discribe himself.
It's good to judge people by what they write and not for their appearence, althought i never thinked that Fran was a girl.
My Anders looks a bit like a young Bjorn Borg with darker hair and no beard. His long hair is parted in the middle and he wears a v-necked t-shirt in the 70s style.
Harald is a gentle, dumpy girl of about 19, wearing the uniform of the Carphone Warehouse.
My Anders looks a bit like a young Bjorn Borg with darker hair and no beard. His long hair is parted in the middle and he wears a v-necked t-shirt in the 70s style.
Harald is a gentle, dumpy girl of about 19, wearing the uniform of the Carphone Warehouse.
I imagine Hassan as being a rather intimidating Middle Eastern man, with a red turban adorned with a large sapphire, a flaming scimitar, pencil thin mustache standing over a hand carved pipe in an English antique curio shop.
Wow, I come up with some crazy stuff when I haven't slept in 48 hrs. Another 16 to go til bedtime.
I believe that Scott has straight, black hair, which he wears with a side parting. I know he is substantial because he once said he weighed 300 pounds, and I imagine him in a blue pinstriped shirt flecked with spittle.
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My weight when I left high school (top shape) was ~175. I got up to 200 and right now I'm at 190.
Straight black hair? No. A lot of hair? No. It's light brown and curls A LOT when it gets too long.
I'm wearing a blue shirt today but not pinstriped. I never have spittle on it.
I envision Scott as a militant Alex P Keaton (Family Ties) with a Che Guevare-esque prescence and swagger, chewing on a cigar, surveying his backyard and BBQ with deep contemplation.
aquafire is a crazed albino bushman, with a memory stick stuck through the septum, 3D eyglasses, standing upon a pile of OEDs while reading the Jabberwocky and siping on tin of coffee.
Hassan is half-starved bum with blim burns in his threadbare grey T-shirt, fine black hair with Crunchy Nut Cornflakes stuck therein. He is jabbing away at his PowerBook 1400 (which is on top of the Koran, a well-thumbed bible and pretentious pop-anthropology books). He sits in a tiny room above a kebab shop in a cheap part of London, overlooking a filthy street which shakes profoundly as articulated trucks rumble past every 2 minutes.
Harald sits in the Sony Ericsson customer services hangar wearing an earpiece and microphone set, surrounded by browning fruit and amusing postcards. Come his thirty minutes lunch-break, he heads for the carpark outside his place of work in some grey corner of Acton or Croydon, where he smokes a couple of Raffles, coughs up some phlegm and decides whether or not he can afford the noodles in the Chinese take-away fifteen minutes up the dual carriageway.
Hassan i Sabbah is a tall blond nordic type man with blue eyes and a psuedo-artsy goatee (a "talking muff", as a Dutch acquaintance of mine once worded it), oftentimes found wearing a beret whilst reading the works of William S. Burroughs.
I can see that some of you are thrown off by the maghrebi sounding name, but a little cultural baggage, or an even littler amount of Googling could have told you, for instance:
Quote:
Hassan i Sabbah (or Hasan bin Sabah, or any number of transliterations from the Arabic) is a genuine historical figure. An Ishmaelite (or Ismali; this still-extant branch of Shiite Islam is headed by the Aga Khan) politcal intriguer of the late 11th century, Hassan i Sabbah became a major political force in Persia and the entire Islamic world by use of some surprisingly modern political techniques. Hassan i Sabbah's followers, based out of his mountain fortress of Alamut were possibly amongst the best spies in the region, working with Christian Crusaders and any of the varied sects & nations of Islam at the time. And, of course, his followers left at least one lasting legacy--the English word "assassin" (from the Arabic for "guardian"). Alamut fell to the Mongols in 1260.
[snip]
However, that isn't the reason Hassan i Sabbah is relevent to Bey (or William S. Burroughs, or Robert Anton Wilson, or people writing about chaos magick, or any of the other fringe-dwellers who have adopted him for their own). The reason lies in the oft-quoted maxim attributed to him:
Hassan i Sabbah is a library assistant at Stoke Newington public library. He posts to AI from one of the knackered Win98 machines on the chipped formica-topped tables as he puts off returning crap fiction books to their rightful places. He thinks about having a stab at a book himself but knows inside he'll never get round to it. He wears 3 year old 'white' trainers and his idea of fashion rarely rises above Gap. He drinks builders tea with one sugar.
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Originally posted by Anders
Aquafire and Powerdoc (if I hadn´t seen his picture) would be twins with a grin on their face. Actually they would look like Ford Prefect.
My description of Ai members for the
" Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe "
Anders..Mostly harmless
Hassan..Hot under pressure
der Kopf.. Happy depite himself
Harald.. Digestive biscuits
BR....plays with matches
Fellows..plays with BR
Moogs Organ grinder..but whose organ ?
Murbot Scary when asleep
Alcimedes..Don't bend over near him
DiscoCow....so apt a title
Powerdoc ...Modesty Blase
As for me, well I look like an older version of Adam Sadler and think like err ....Aquafire....
Apologies to anyone I have left out....
Originally posted by aquafire
My description of Ai members for the
" Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe "
Anders..Mostly harmless
Hassan..Hot under pressure
der Kopf.. Happy depite himself
Harald.. Digestive biscuits
BR....plays with matches
Fellows..plays with BR
Moogs Organ grinder..but whose organ ?
Murbot Scary when asleep
Alcimedes..Don't bend over near him
DiscoCow....so apt a title
Powerdoc ...Modesty Blase
As for me, well I look like an older version of Adam Sadler and think like err ....Aquafire....
Apologies to anyone I have left out....
I thought you were 14 or something.
Originally posted by Jonathan
I thought you were 14 or something.
Close...reverse the numbers ...
Nick
Originally posted by trumptman
I have imagined what people on here might look like. Do you imagine them typing at the computer or just get a general feel/image for what they might look like?
Nick
I imagine nothing. I was surprised by the AI community pictures. You cannot guess, who is small, big, tall, by his posts, except when he discribe himself.
It's good to judge people by what they write and not for their appearence, althought i never thinked that Fran was a girl.
Originally posted by Anders
He is?
Fanghorn was / is a girl.
But I completely thought Ena was too..fooled me..
with her.. "leaves thread...
And her moniker...
"There I touched my food "
That was such a girly thing to say...
Just goes to show..
Whodathunk?
Harald is a gentle, dumpy girl of about 19, wearing the uniform of the Carphone Warehouse.
Originally posted by Hassan i Sabbah
My Anders looks a bit like a young Bjorn Borg with darker hair and no beard. His long hair is parted in the middle and he wears a v-necked t-shirt in the 70s style.
Harald is a gentle, dumpy girl of about 19, wearing the uniform of the Carphone Warehouse.
Hassan & Harald ...a marriage made in heaven...
Wow, I come up with some crazy stuff when I haven't slept in 48 hrs. Another 16 to go til bedtime.
Originally posted by Hassan i Sabbah
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I believe that Scott has straight, black hair, which he wears with a side parting. I know he is substantial because he once said he weighed 300 pounds, and I imagine him in a blue pinstriped shirt flecked with spittle.
...
My weight when I left high school (top shape) was ~175. I got up to 200 and right now I'm at 190.
Straight black hair? No. A lot of hair? No. It's light brown and curls A LOT when it gets too long.
I'm wearing a blue shirt today but not pinstriped. I never have spittle on it.
aquafire is a crazed albino bushman, with a memory stick stuck through the septum, 3D eyglasses, standing upon a pile of OEDs while reading the Jabberwocky and siping on tin of coffee.
God, I'd hate to be Harald.
I can see that some of you are thrown off by the maghrebi sounding name, but a little cultural baggage, or an even littler amount of Googling could have told you, for instance:
Hassan i Sabbah (or Hasan bin Sabah, or any number of transliterations from the Arabic) is a genuine historical figure. An Ishmaelite (or Ismali; this still-extant branch of Shiite Islam is headed by the Aga Khan) politcal intriguer of the late 11th century, Hassan i Sabbah became a major political force in Persia and the entire Islamic world by use of some surprisingly modern political techniques. Hassan i Sabbah's followers, based out of his mountain fortress of Alamut were possibly amongst the best spies in the region, working with Christian Crusaders and any of the varied sects & nations of Islam at the time. And, of course, his followers left at least one lasting legacy--the English word "assassin" (from the Arabic for "guardian"). Alamut fell to the Mongols in 1260.
[snip]
However, that isn't the reason Hassan i Sabbah is relevent to Bey (or William S. Burroughs, or Robert Anton Wilson, or people writing about chaos magick, or any of the other fringe-dwellers who have adopted him for their own). The reason lies in the oft-quoted maxim attributed to him:
Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
etcetera. Or is that just me, Hassan?
He is an abject failure.