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Z wrote:

"What's Morningstar High? I'm assuming it's some other joke of the forum, like the teabags ro eggmen."

Keravin wrote:

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Originally posted by TyphoidDave:
Welcome, Emma.

Gob has said, to his credit, at his board that he has defended his laissez faire moderation here to the powers that be on the basis that creator interaction should be encouraged, ie. Mike wants to talk teabags, let him.

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It's a shame we never got the same on the Authority board. It is curious to start a conversation with Mike about teabags at cons and have people around you think you are talking in some foreign language.

It really is the secret handshake for the School.



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TerriblySorry wrote:

"Will this thread never end?!?!?!?!?!?

btw, I'm out of my plaster casts. Still hurts though. And I can't do the twist any more. Shame! "

Z wrote:

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Originally posted by TerriblySorry:
Will this thread never end?!?!?!?!?!?

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Don't bet on it. It's amazing how long one thread that has nothing to do with Lucifer can get.

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Originally posted by Keravin:
It's a shame we never got the same on the Authority board. It is curious to start a conversation with Mike about teabags at cons and have people around you think you are talking in some foreign language.

It really is the secret handshake for the School.

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Actually, the Authority board is filled with off topic posts. There is more rein there than at, say, ODCUTMB.

Very nice dialogue on God and Lucifer, PF, but you left out the line where God says, ""Enh. Who needs you. I'll invent lightbulbs.""

ty for the Perpetuation of Independent Thought

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Z wrote:

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Originally posted by TyphoidDave:

Very nice dialogue on God and Lucifer, PF, but you left out the line where God says, ""Enh. Who needs you. I'll invent lightbulbs.""

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LMAO!

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Z wrote:

A thought just came to me...the only thing the Lucifer boards is missing is Word Association. Anybody ever heard of it?

Lord_Savaunt wrote:

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Originally posted by Z:
What's Morningstar High? I'm assuming it's some other joke of the forum, like the teabags ro eggmen.

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Yeah it all started with someone joking about Mike having once been a teacher. So Mike gave us all homework. So we started acting like a school full of evil psychos (y'know just being ourselves but in a school). Then we realized that we needed a name. So Mike came up with Morningstar High.

Hmmm.... Perhaps that's a bit much to be telling a newbie."

Z wrote:

"Newbie...I resent that! I'm a quick learner :) Sounds like a cool idea, Morningstar High. What was it someone called the Hellblazer boards in the other thread...Something like 'Constantine Lads,' or around that. I sense hostility."

Bevis wrote:

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Originally posted by Mike Carey:
Bevis, I think you must have been talking to Richard Bruning.

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Is it bad that the name still means nothing to me? Damn, I really should do my homework more fully rather than just trying to get by on waffling and general charm."

Alistair wrote:

Waffling and general charm have worked for us so far.

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Originally posted by Z:
A thought just came to me...the only thing the Lucifer boards is missing is Word Association. Anybody ever heard of it?

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You should start one.
ty for the Perpetuation of Independent Thought

www.robkamphausen.com"

Roxane wrote:

God what I wouldn't give for a nice hot cup of chocolate. Whoops. I meant peppermint tea.

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I want to go skinny dipping in the chocolate river in Wonka land.

Emma Pooka wrote:

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Originally posted by Bevis:
You haven't read it yet? Shame on you. I mean, there's even an intro from the Headmaster in it. Essential reading for anyone who is stalking Mike.... uh, a big fan of Mike.

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Sorry to keep butting in with replies to stuff from pages ago...damn this real life thing, I used to be able to keep up with message boards when I did nothing but sit in my room all day.
Anyway, I have read Oddcases Bevis and it was great, very much along the lines of what Paul and I are trying to do with Urban Shaman - the mystic in the mundane, weird stuff happening to ordinary people, lots of obscure mythological and folklore references transposed to a modern setting. Like it a lot, make sure you let me know when the next one's due :-)."

I forgot to get Alistair and Bevis to sign my copy. I'm going to regret that if and when they make the big time.

We've just run out of milk in my office and the usual routine of pretend-deafness, brooding, sulking, accusations and pleas of poverty are going on around me. But I only drink black coffee at work (to avoid this kind of nonsense) so it's not my problem. :)

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Alistair wrote:

"Thanks Emma, I really liked URBAN SHAMAN. I've actually tried divination by channel hopping, and I think it's really interesting how people are looking at all these new kinds of signs for their connection with the other things that are out there.

There seems to be a whole new generation of magically/shamanically attuned people who are both practicing this new magic, and also writing stories about it. I find it fascinating how comics are the primary medium that these new ideas are coming out in, and wonderful how two of the industries most successful figures (Beardy and Baldy) are very probably the two most important magicians in Britain at the moment.

There are kids out there who really are living the thing that you wrote about in URBAN SHAMAN - there's a fascinating article about kids who live on the streets in Miami and their experiences with a 'Blue Lady' who seems to be some kind of spirit guide.

ODDCASES is based on people I know, and stories I've heard. What I'm trying to do with it is to have Clarissa and Jani as having been the very first of a new breed of techno/magical types when in their prime, who've been doing their thing for a very long time, and are now very, very knowledgable and professional. They know that you can't just cast spells and make everything better - you have to sort the actual problems out.

I'm ten pages in to the next story, which will introduce their niece, drop some hints about their past - and turn into a big, big fight. And it's got Monkey in it. No, not 'a monkey'. Monkey. The best mythological character ever. Oh yes.

Anyway - I'm flattered people want stuff signed. Next Bristol we're hoping to have a trade paperback collection available.

Oh, and for those of you who don't know what we're talking about - you can read it online here:
http://www.opi8.com/sequence/oddcases/oddcases.php

Right - off to make a cup of tea. Why is it some people really don't like brown sugar in tea? I much prefer it."

Emma Pooka wrote:

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Originally posted by Alistair:

Right - off to make a cup of tea. Why is it some people really don't like brown sugar in tea? I much prefer it.

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Another thing we agree on! Brown sugar is much better and doesn't seem to gather in dusgusting coffee-flavoured clumps like white sugar.

I can't wait to see Monkey in oddcases - one of my favourites too, I have a real soft spot for trickster gods :-).

I never know how seriously to take Alan Moore when he talks about magic (or anything else, for that matter - you can hide a lot of irony under a beard like that), but Grant Morrison's web page has a great article on ""Pop Magic"". For anyone who's interested it's at http://www.grant-morrison.com/pop_magic!1.htm.

I was really disappointed not to meet ""baldy"" at Bristol - I was looking out for him and from what I heard he was hard to miss. He must have put some kind of selective blindness hex on people carrying round five unsigned Invisibles graphic novels.

Oh well, next time."

Sounds plausible, Emma. That chaos magick shjite must be good for something, so why not avoiding people?"

Lord_Savaunt wrote:

Hey Alistair great peice of work there I hope to see more.

Alistair wrote:

"There's another story going up on OPi8 in a week or so, but it's one that most people who were at Bristol will have already read in print form.

Now - how do we feel about herbal and fruit teas? There's very few of them that actually taste as good as they smell.

I'm quite partial to Jasmine, though."

Roxane wrote:

I only really like peppermint but with lots and lots and lots of sugar. The others are just to wishy washy for me.

Speaking of Morningstar High, didn't it once have a website? And if so does anyone remember the url?

Even if it is now defunct it migh be possible to find it in some of the web-archives.

It was a great site and I'd love to see it again.

Tenz."

Adrian Brown wrote:

"I don't think I've ever seen the tea thread so quiet.
http://www.lucifermorningstar.com/index.htm is the only website I know of. I think the idea was proposed for a Morningstar High page somewhere though.



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Mike Carey wrote:

"It's the World Cup, Ade - everyone's drinking beer."

Papercut Fun wrote:

"The best part about living in Canada and having a soccer (I know, I know, ""football"" but my mind doesn't work that way) team that's not very good means that the country breaks into several cultural pockets to celebrate their home countries during the world cup. This makes for a schizophrenic (sp?) nation where pockets of spontaneous elation and depression creep up all day every day depending on who wins each game.

Yesterday for example, I was on-set for a short film, when Korea beat Italy. The set happened to be in a heavily Korean influenced part of Toronto and the celebrating went on from the moment we started shooting to well after we had wrapped, 7 hours later. It pretty much ruined the sound for the shoot but it was amazing to watch groups of people (who should have been working) spontaneously form into parades. In hindsight, we should have been filming in the ""little Italy"" section of the city, but who knew????"

Bevis wrote:

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Originally posted by Mike Carey:
It's the World Cup, Ade - everyone's drinking beer.

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Ugh, two of the things I hate most in the world, football and beer.

But as consolation it's nearly Wimbledon, my birthday, strawberrys are in season and if we're lucky and the weather's good it's a perfect excuse to go and drink Pimms and lemonade. Yay! "

Invisigoth wrote:

"Ah, Wimbelton.

I don't follow tennis nearly as much as I used to, but I'm going to try to keep up with it this year.

Oh, and it's not tea, but close...Back when John McEnroe was the Top Dog of Tennis, this little lovely happened: he complained that the new balls were too colder than the 68 degrees F that they were supposed to be stored at and demanded they check the cooler that they were stored in waiting for the ball changes. It turned out that the ball boys were keeping their lemonade in the cooler and had turned down the termperature to keep their drinks cold.

Oh yeah, I was way too much of a tennis gumby.

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Adrian Brown wrote:

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Originally posted by Mike Carey:
It's the World Cup, Ade - everyone's drinking beer.

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There's a World Cup on ?
Damn !
I nearly missed it.

Incidentally, I'm going to Avebury on the day that Senegal play in the third place play off..."

Adrian Brown wrote:

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Originally posted by Papercut Fun:
The best part about living in Canada and having a soccer (I know, I know, ""football"" but my mind doesn't work that way) team that's not very good means that the country breaks into several cultural pockets to celebrate their home countries during the world cup. This makes for a schizophrenic (sp?) nation where pockets of spontaneous elation and depression creep up all day every day depending on who wins each game.

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You spelled schizophrenic correctly, but used it wrongly (as most people do). It doesn't really mean split personality in the sense you think. A more correct metaphor would have been ""multiple-personality"" (or, for Italians, ""agitated depression"".

Further notes on misused psychiatric terminology, ""manic-depressive"" does not mean ""very deeply depressed"" although people with that condition can be so. It's more about mood swings, sometimes very high (manic) to very low (depressed), but not always.

And don't get me started on ""alcoholic""."

Did you use that word to convoke me? I'm having strong coffee to wake up because I've been groggy this week (bored at work) and tea just isn't enough first thing in the morning.

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Cordel wrote:

"Ah. I was never in the time of John McEnroe, but I heard tennis used to be much more interesting when he was around. There's nothing I'd wanna be more than a ball-girl at the Wimbledons. Pity they pick those from nearby schools. Sigh.

On soccer. Football. I'm stuck in a country where the majority are supporting England. To make matters worse. It's not just England. It's David Beckham.

Meh.

Suddenly feel very out-of-league as a Spain supporter and anti-Beckhamer."

Bevis wrote:

"Tennis was a lot more interesting a few years back when it wasn't just a case of the players whacking the ball across the net at a million miles an hour. McEnroe was a great player but as good as a lot of the men were it was the women who were the most fun to watch. Martina and Stephi are the obvious names (and watching them play doubles was fantastic. No-one else had a ghost of a chance) but women like Virginia Wade were almost as good. They actually played interesting tennis with volleys and stuff rather than just going for the straight aces. That's what made them fun. There are a couple of female players like that still, but not many. Oh, and Anna Kournikova is the most over-rated tedious tennis player the world has ever seen. Yik.

I bet she doesn't even drink decent tea."

Bat-Mite wrote:

"Anna Kournikova is not overrated, everyone knows she sucks at tennis ... people just go and watch her games cause she is a babe. I believe she is the prototype of pop-sports or glamour-sports .. where the players suck, but they are pretty so nobody cares.

I don't mind, I may even start watching more sports that way. :D "

Adrian Brown wrote:

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Originally posted by Seahorse:
Did you use that word to convoke me? I'm having strong coffee to wake up because I've been groggy this week (bored at work) and tea just isn't enough first thing in the morning.

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Yes, tea is never enough.

Tennis ? Nah ? I used to like Jo Durie though."

Cordel wrote:

Kournikova ? Hah. She wasn't even seeded in the latest Roland Garros. And promptly got kicked out in the first round.

I prefer to watch Men's tennis. Quite fond of the younger up coming players like Ferrero. But still have a penchant for Agassi.

Murr. So glad the Wimbledons are coming.
I heard Navratilova got kicked out in the Eastbourne. Is she going to play in Wimbledons singles still then?

Bevis wrote:

"Did she? Blimey. Not heard about her playing singles at Wimbledon this year. doubt she will, although she did say she wasn't going to play at all last year and played in the mixed doubles. It'd be great to see her playing again though, just to show that just because she's not fifteen years old doesn't mean she can't play. In fact the fact she isn't fifteen means she plays much better than most of them. She may not have the speed any more but she still has more technique, flair and ability than almost any tennis player out there.

And I must admit some admiration for Agassi. When he plays well he's great. Same with Becker. And at least neither of them are that ghastly monkey-man Sampras.

(coo, look at me, talking about sports. I feel so.... heterosexual. )"

HG wrote:

"I did it.

After my first post here, I sort of felt obligated to read the entire Teabags-thread in one session.

I did it, and I *still* can't see auras!
What a disappointment.


Wait... The cats! The cats in the fridge, they're starting to bubble!


HG


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The brain does process all sensation, Crowley said. If the brain
is fully awake and conscious of what it is doing, why on earth
should it treat any sensation as a less than orgasmic experience?
- Robert Anton Wilson, ""Masks of the Illuminati"""

Congratulations, HG, and welcome.

Regarding Anna the K, remember that she sat out several tournaments last year due to an injured foot-a difficult injury to rehab when you're a tennis player. She's better than she's shown, but the window is rapidly closing."

Mike Carey wrote:

"Welcome to the Lucifer board, HG. Now you've got to sit down and talk to the cats before they sublime away into cat-vapour. Ask them anything you like: they have the answers.

Oh, and move the guacamole. The cats will drip a little."

Welcome HG! Try this trick to see if your mind's been affected: hold your hands in front of your face and move them from side to side. If you see coloured trails, then you're still mentally influenced by this thread. If this persists for more than a few days - don't worry, your mind will adjust and nobody will ever know.

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