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That was optimistic...

Mandala_jan10

Show us a celebrity you admire.

Now this is a question I can't resist ;)

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What old wives’ tale have you discovered to be totally untrue? 
Submitted by Jack Yan.

Giving birth to a child automatically makes you a good mother, even if you had hated children all your life.

Rammstein - Völkerball

Why not? it's not like I'm using this account for anything... so I can just drop some of my favourite piccies here... and it even allows hotlinking. Of course the interface is terribly cumbersome, but sometimes I have too much time on my hands.

(Of course I won't be catching up on several months of words I had (sadly) missed, but I've just noticed that there are these 5 words on the group banner, so I decided to give it a go :)

refuse, desert, tear, wound, minute

And now please pay attention to the left, where you can see one of our oldest areas - the Desert of Desire. It was built by the Big One himself, and so skillfully that it practically doesn't require any maintenance or supervision, which is a great advantage, as you know how much we're understaffed these days. You just make them an offer they can't refuse, then drop them here and they do everything by themselves - tear out the hair, burn the skin, break the limbs, scratch out the eyes, and much more - you know, humans actually have a lot of imagination. Here, look at this one over there, poking a knife into a bleeding wound in her chest - one of our permanent residents! Now the place is a bit empty, because it's not the season, but according to my calendar, the you-know-who will be releasing their new album next year, and the minute it hits the ether, we're going to get a surge of newcomers, so if you'll be around the area, you might want to drop by for some amusement!

Now as for our next stop...

- Parsnips? What the hell are parsnips?

- The parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) is a root vegetable related to the carrot. Parsnips resemble carrots, but are paler and have a stronger flavour. Like carrots, parsnips are native to Eurasia and have been eaten there since ancient times. Zohary and Hopf note that the archeological evidence for the cultivation of the parsnip is "still rather limited", and that Greek and Roman literary sources are a major source about its early use, but warn "there are some difficulties in distinguishing between parsnip and carrot (which, in Roman times, were white or purple) in classical writings since both vegetables seem to have been sometimes called pastinaca yet each vegetable appears to be well under cultivation in Roman times."

- So they're some kind of freaking carrots and that's more than I ever wanted to know about it, without you quoting the whole freaking Wikipedia! I regret I've ever asked.

- Mind you, it was 116 words.

- Dammit, we don't have to care about the word counter anymore - the Nano is finished and done with! The gig is over, the curtain was dropped, the lace masks and silk fans rot in the trash. In other words, I'm back to my mundane world, and you're back to your nonexistence.

- Right, the Nano is done - but I'm not done with you.

- Is that a threat?

- No - just stating the facts. But if you prefer, you can call it a promise.

- *throws a rotten egg*

- *dodges easily* Just wait when we're out of the spotlight. I'm the one who's not real - and the lack of the writing media is not really an obstacle anymore *g*

Back again... maybe. My Vox account has joined the pile of the Web 2.0 accounts which are collecting cyber-dust in the cyberspace. But I'm a packrat and hate to see good stuff going to waste, so I'll want to give it another try.