Hester

feeling rather jolly about

[Hey, how do you expect me to keep things clean with prompts like that? Ah well... I'll try!] together

Bugger! The photos disappeared before I saw them!

Roger Moore

^ Um... not yet, actually. Told you I'm taking the day really off. < Might brush 'em afore lunch, though. V What constitutes a day off for you?

[blunder -- how much rum have you had? Or did you fail typing class? (I did, btw.) So, I'm gonna assume you meant plunder.] ^ Silk scarf in brown, pink & turquoise, with a cartoonish scene of 15th century Paris. < Taking the day off. Well, more off than usual. V Ever get any plunder that was a message from Destiny?

Bruce Lee

Having you been peeking at our jammies, Blunder?

Screeching racoons. (No, that's not the name of a punk band -- but I did know a band called the Screaming Weasels in my youth.)

Maid Marian

At this time of night, Jacky? Don't you know I'm in the Eastern Time zone?

Bloody Mary

^ Took a beginner's drawing class a few years ago. ^^ 1891 house, but no ghosts. < Bedtime. V Passing Mats' Q along -- any ghost stories?

^Just lazing about on the back deck drinking rum while thinking about having a new well dug. ^^ Embroidery and decorative painting - though I haven't done much of either lately. < Hard to remember who I am at any given moment, not to mention what my password is. V Passing on the Q -- special summer projects?

I'm sorry... but how did I miss this topic the first time round? I love the fact that Jenny wrote an entire PhD thesis in her first response. I, however, will go for the first-grader picture book approach. [Or is this more of a Playgirl spread?] I second the leather pants: ... and the waistcoats: ... and the kilts: But for everyday: faded jeans & black leather jacket. Cheers, Hester

[ Jack, m'dear ... what page ye be on? Ah, well... ] ...resilient little pinkie still...

raw [Yes, I've read Levi-Strauss.]

"Something Else" is a song by the punk band Teenage Head -- have you heard it? http://www.myspace.com/teenageheadband

Ethiopian sampler platter, #38: http://www.lalibelaethiopianrestaurant.com...ily-special.htm ... and my wimpy stomach even survived the flavourful but not too hot spicing (with the help of a couple Rolaids). However, I was too timid to try the Ethopian beer and went with mango juice instead.

We can't get this stuff in America....because of the trade embargo against anything imported from Cuba into the US. Anything in the US called Havana Club is not from Cuba. Cross the northern border, Mats! Saw Havana Club on the shelf at the liquor store the other day. Hadn't realized it was real Cuban rum. Have to try it next time! [i've gone off Gosling's for the time being -- after a nasty case of overindulgence complicated by stomach flu over the St. Pat's day weekend. Besides, the performing seal on the label isn't exactly the coolest looking logo on earth (unlike the Bacardi bat).] Instead, this time I bought Captain Morgan Deluxe dark rum. It's in a textured, old-fashioned looking bottle -- but I miss the cartoon Cap'n. Several years ago, at a theatre festival, I saw a woman do the most hilarious solo one-act play about having an 'affair' with Captain Morgan. She spent the entire time talking to the picture on the label, and it was so funny, I actually had tears rolling down my face. Cheers, Hester

with his pinkie in...

^ Crowds, unfamiliar social situations... < Going out for Ethiopian food tonight with my Robin Hood group .... mmmm, injera! V Recycling a Q -- Hermit or social butterfly?

Yup. Face value doesn't equal the actual worth of the metal used. True of most coins -- althought the ones used as currency are generally worth less as metal than their face value. Besides, this one's not intended as "currency" so much as an art object or curio. The mint won't be selling it at face value (alas)! Even the lowly American penny has sometimes been 'worth' more than 1 cent, depending on fluctuating market prices for copper: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cent_(United_States_coin) And, of course, the days when a British pound sterling actually consisted of a pound weight of silver are long gone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_sterling Cheers, Hester

Homemade Egg anti-McMuffin The frustrating and tedious Ticketmaster website C. (who says to call her crazy) Jeff Tweedy

Robin Hood