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Neat avatar! What's that cutiemark?

Anyway, after my short time here I can tell you I think we're gonna have a great time here. Looking forward to seeing you around the forums or on the chat--say 'allo when you see me!

Good stuff! The hot is really hot-- wow--but still has great flavor. The mild's savory, too. I'll be back for more. My compliments to the chef--and I think I will take that cider, to go.

Thanks. It's good to be here. Love the expression on your avatar, too.

I'm...failing to find references to that myself? Perhaps I totally misread a comic or had a brief hallucination. Let's chalk it up to akward! Huzzah!

Seriously, though, thanks for introducing me to Weesh. I'm really enjoying it.

Can I get a plate of each? And...maybe a Peppermint Twist's shake? I think some apple cider would be good, but maybe later.

Yes! I like my coffee death, just like my metal. I could really see using these, too.

Heya! Welcome. You and I both like the same weather! Brohoof!

Out of curiosity, did you ever find a surprising alternate use for laminated maps?

I'd urge you to avoid deus ex machina endings if you can. This really has the potential to be a story about character development and important lessons learned--with those lessons being shown in the development of the plot, not explained! That's a tough thing to do, and half the trick is in the premise.

Love the surf sound of this one. Man, there is some great music here! Clearly we are people who have thought about this sort of thing.

I'd never be able to remember the right...oh...those things, not numbers, made up of collections of letters, the building blocks of sentences?

And another:

Okay, this thread is awesome.

One answer:

I qualified for a special military unit! Ran out of mental fortitude before the final qualifications, but at least made it through the screening process and initial training.

I once saw some ladies wrestling in oatmeal. Not really edible. One of my favorite poems is about oatmeal:

"Oatmeal" by Galway Kinnell

I eat oatmeal for breakfast.

I make it on the hot plate and put skimmed milk on it.

I eat it alone.

I am aware it is not good to eat oatmeal alone.

Its consistency is such that is better for your mental health if somebody eats it with you.

That is why I often think up an imaginary companion to have breakfast with.

Possibly it is even worse to eat oatmeal with an imaginary companion.

Nevertheless, yesterday morning, I ate my oatmeal porridge, as he called it with John Keats.

Keats said I was absolutely right to invite him:

due to its glutinous texture, gluey lumpishness, hint of slime, and unsual willingness to disintigrate, oatmeal should not be eaten alone.

He said that in his opinion, however, it is perfectly OK to eat it with an imaginary companion, and that he himself had enjoyed memorable porridges with Edmund Spenser and John Milton.

Even if eating oatmeal with an imaginary companion is not as wholesome as Keats claims, still, you can learn something from it.

Yesterday morning, for instance, Keats told me about writing the "Ode to a Nightingale."

He had a heck of a time finishing it those were his words "Oi 'ad a 'eck of a toime," he said, more or less, speaking through his porridge.

He wrote it quickly, on scraps of paper, which he then stuck in his pocket,

but when he got home he couldn't figure out the order of the stanzas, and he and a friend spread the papers on a table, and they made some sense of them, but he isn't sure to this day if they got it right.

An entire stanza may have slipped into the lining of his jacket through a hole in his pocket.

He still wonders about the occasional sense of drift between stanzas, and the way here and there a line will go into the configuration of a Moslem at prayer, then raise itself up and peer about, and then lay \ itself down slightly off the mark, causing the poem to move forward with a reckless, shining wobble.

He said someone told him that later in life Wordsworth heard about the scraps of paper on the table, and tried shuffling some stanzas of his own, but only made matters worse.

I would not have known any of this but for my reluctance to eat oatmeal alone.

When breakfast was over, John recited "To Autumn."

He recited it slowly, with much feeling, and he articulated the words lovingly, and his odd accent sounded sweet.

He didn't offer the story of writing "To Autumn," I doubt if there is much of one.

But he did say the sight of a just-harvested oat field go thim started on it, and two of the lines, "For Summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cells" and "Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours," came to him while eating oatmeal alone.

I can see him drawing a spoon through the stuff, gazing into the glimmering furrows, muttering.

Maybe there is no sublime; only the shining of the amnion's tatters.

For supper tonight I am going to have a baked potato left over from lunch.

I am aware that a leftover baked potato is damp, slippery, and simultaneaously gummy and crumbly, and therefore I'm going to invite Patrick Kavanagh to join me.

Hey there! How hot are them buffalo wings?

Sturmmann, not only is that a great avatar, that's also good information that helps me get a feeling of the way things are done 'round these parts.

Think I'll offer this up to the gaze of Brother Eye to see what needs to be tweaked, changed, and improved. Thanks for the advice, you and Haserman both.

Love the mane! Is it just me, or did you do a bit of shading on that yourself?

Anyhoo, I'm a new feller too. So far the place seems good, as I'm sure you'll discover. Hopefully I'll see you in the RPs, and I'm looking forward to hearing how you earn your cutie mark!

Tate understands--why does no one else?

Thanks for the heads-up on this.

Thanks for the suggestions. Updated to answer some of those questions. I'm worried that I have a bit much in the character background. Comparing to other approved and in-progress applications, though, I seem to be on par. Anypony care to offer an opinion on that?

Hey there. Best bronification story? Located.

And that exhausts my Fancy. If you go the US, I strongly recommend you take a road trip (a quintessentially American experience which will before long be a thing of the past). At the very least, drive through Texas, or fly to Las Vegas and drive to San Francisco. Stop in small towns at small restaurants, and check out every roadside attraction you see.

Your Moonspeak is quite good, by the way. Looking forward to seeing you around here!

Oi! I'm new here too, but so far the place seems really cool. Let's find out together--with SCIENCE! Also, really like the avatar. Mind if I ask where it comes from and what it represents?

Weesh, gotta agree with you. Top to bottom, this place looks nice, is easy to use (even for me) and has a good tenor. That's a rare darn thing, and it ain't easy to do. That's why I'm here.

Also, totally gotta agree with your sig. X chromone or Y, it doesn't matter--it's about trying to be a better human being.

Will, thanks for the tip. The IRC is indeed active and fun! And Will looks like he'd be interesting to meet, just from the personality projected by his expression and the way his name is done in your signature.

Armin Van Buuren

Tiesto

Paul Van Dyk

Dash Berlin

Crazy Rockerz

Adele

Scooter

Italobrothers

Sneaky Sound System

Deadmau5

Just to name a few.

Those I'm aware of having listened to, I liked. I'll be putting the rest on my to-do list today. Thanks, and looking forward to seeing you 'round!