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Re: Off Topic: Something I found

From:Robert Hailman <robert@...>
Date:Monday, April 23, 2001, 22:44
D Tse wrote:
> > Would this be anyone on this list? > > http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=41543&pagenumber > =4 > > matt_mcl > Member > > Registered: Mar 1999 > Posts: 4503 > > I used to eat paper. > > I'm a total pyro. My ex bought me an aromatherapy candle and it's like > candy. I dip my fingers in the wax, break the wax off, and watch it melt. I > love fire, melting wax... anything like that. > > I try to step exactly twice (left-right or right-left) or exactly once in > every square on the sidewalk. Sometimes I have to jolt in order to get back > in synch. > > Or I'll be looking down as I walk along, with my finger pointed out like a > little phaser, and try to vaporize each square on the sidewalk before I get > to it, while walking normally.I can't vaporize a square I'm standing on or > the rapid nadion reaction will get me too. > > I sing along to my walkman out loud in metro stations (but never on the > train itself) and while walking along. When this is for some reason unsafe > or impossible, I'll mouth the words, or I'll fingerspell the initial letter > of each word in the song. > > I find myself using words from all of the languages I know when in > conversation. (French, Spanish, Esperanto, and a sprinkling of German, > Italian, and ASL.) > > I invent languages.
It's almost me. I don't have an ex that gave me an aromatherapy candle, I sing out loud on the train itself too, and I don't just fingerspell the initial letter, I fingerwrite the whole word in cursive - even though I rarely use cursive. Also, I don't know enough Spanish, Esperanto, Italian, or ASL to use them in conversation - although I do use the odd French or German words, and I often have conversations with other people in my German class using some ungodly German/English amalgam. Other than those few things, it's me. -- Robert

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