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Mikey wrote:Does she cook? If she likes 'Trek, 'Wars, football, and cooking... go get a ring. :lol:

Ah... I wonder where the closest jewelry store is...

Dang, Reliant. Sorry to hear, dude.

When I worked at the Weathervane restaurant in 2000, I was lighting the stove. Note, this was the first time I had ever actually lit a gas stove. They showed me a bit, and the next day, I was lighting it. Thing is, last night someone left the gas on...

Fireball right to the face and up my left arm. Still have... something on my face from it, although my left arm's all better now.
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Hey good lick RK! Just remember, you don't have that handydandy backspace IRL! :happydevil:

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Because of my love of fire, and not wanting to burn down my neighborhood I've learned that burning myself is better than lighting dry grass on fire. So I've burned my hands about 10 times in total, and never burned down the neighborhood. :D
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So we've got another pyromaniac? Whenever we light fires round here, I'm always the one poking it with a stick, and burning smily faces into plastic bottles :twisted:
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I like lighting marshmallows on fire. Too bad I need to blow it out to eat them.
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No you don't, you could be like one of those fire eating people in Hawaii. That must hurt.

I like fire a lot, it's a great thing. The thing I love the most is that it's not really an object but it can still hurt/burn/kill you, in fact it's not even there, it's just photons. isn't that amazing.
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Upon returning from Tate modern, i must say it was quite dull. A load of random paintings. the only two that stand out was the room with Soviet era posters everywhere, and the room that had Viennese actionists that used body parts in their photos.
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Modern "art" sucks horribly, IMO.
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I tend to draw the line at around 1960, when we had the Pop Art movement. Thats the latest i tend to go, artistically. i prefer older works of Impressionist, surrealist and creationalist natures.
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I'm truthfully not much into art. But I especially hate modern art. It looks like metal glued together. Wait.. It is.
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I had to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the City for an art history class project once (individually and not as a class). I remember struggling to find my way around :lol: and a small Egyptian building they'd had moved in there, complete with hieroglyphs, most vividly. I've also been to the Museum of Natural History in NY, and the Hayden Planetarium. Haven't seen MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) that I recall. Have seen Radio City Music Hall, Rockefeller Center and the Christmas Tree (in the daytime, not lit) and a Broadway show, and been inside the Statue of Liberty (before they closed off the crown), have yet to to to one of the observation decks in one of the super skyscrapers. Boy, there's a lot to do in this place!

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I can get into a lttle modern art - Lichtenstein, Calder - but I also appreciate the impressionists as well as ancient archaeological art. Reliant - my fave is J. M. W. Turner, IMO the father of impressionism. His use of chiaroscuro and grades of color is second to none. If you're not familiar with him:

Turner gallery. My fave is The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834.
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That piece was very good.


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I'm more of a dogs playing pool or poker man myself. :mrgreen:

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I heard about Kawasaki's in one of those programs on Discovery Health. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki%27s_disease
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