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notleyab
 14 Mar 2010, 21:13 #83712 Reply To Post
Quote: Lin Lee Liu, Sunday, 14 Mar 2010 10:40
Nah, you're okay Rent Boy.

But the frequency of your scatological analogies in relation to my home countries are borderline pathological.

Hey. You asked for a psychoanalysis! I just saved you years on the couch.


Hi 3l, Can you make tt Jap Rent Boy. My wife's Ok with that - she's Chinese, from the ex manchuria even, so ignores anything with a jap link.
What's yr oriental sounding connection?
Don't take tt couch away. I quite like being a couch potato.


Lin Lee Liu
 16 Mar 2010, 20:49 #83950 Reply To Post
Quote: notleyab, Sunday, 14 Mar 2010 21:13
Quote: Lin Lee Liu, Sunday, 14 Mar 2010 10:40
Nah, you're okay Rent Boy.

But the frequency of your scatological analogies in relation to my home countries are borderline pathological.

Hey. You asked for a psychoanalysis! I just saved you years on the couch.


Hi 3l, Can you make tt Jap Rent Boy. My wife's Ok with that - she's Chinese, from the ex manchuria even, so ignores anything with a jap link.
What's yr oriental sounding connection?
Don't take tt couch away. I quite like being a couch potato.




I'm afraid I have no oriental connection whatsoever, though I did live in Japan for a few years. And when I first came on here under this pseudonym I was writing something set in Asia.

For the record, I'm a white gal. I now regret the YWO pen name but I'm stuck with it, I figure.

My real name is very similar, and I've always had lots of Asian friends. I had a Cantonese friend at school who kept talking about me to her mother. When I finally met the mother, it turned out she'd always assumed I was Chinese.

I'd like to slap my parents for giving me a name with so many Ls. In Japan, I went by my (very unusual) last name, which has no Ls in it whatsoever.
notleyab
 17 Mar 2010, 10:28 #83973 Reply To Post
Quote: Lin Lee Liu, Tuesday, 16 Mar 2010 20:49
Quote: notleyab, Sunday, 14 Mar 2010 21:13
Quote: Lin Lee Liu, Sunday, 14 Mar 2010 10:40
Nah, you're okay Rent Boy.

But the frequency of your scatological analogies in relation to my home countries are borderline pathological.

Hey. You asked for a psychoanalysis! I just saved you years on the couch.


Hi 3l, Can you make tt Jap Rent Boy. My wife's Ok with that - she's Chinese, from the ex manchuria even, so ignores anything with a jap link.
What's yr oriental sounding connection?
Don't take tt couch away. I quite like being a couch potato.




I'm afraid I have no oriental connection whatsoever, though I did live in Japan for a few years. And when I first came on here under this pseudonym I was writing something set in Asia.

For the record, I'm a white gal. I now regret the YWO pen name but I'm stuck with it, I figure.

My real name is very similar, and I've always had lots of Asian friends. I had a Cantonese friend at school who kept talking about me to her mother. When I finally met the mother, it turned out she'd always assumed I was Chinese.

I'd like to slap my parents for giving me a name with so many Ls. In Japan, I went by my (very unusual) last name, which has no Ls in it whatsoever.


You are being super secretive abt names 3L.
What skeletons did you leave behind in NZ?
Now hiding out in the brownouts of OZ.
All sounds very suspicious.

papa stas
 28 Mar 2010, 14:05 #85025 Reply To Post
Why can't we be asked the Questions first -

then go on and write the review?

Seems like a damn shame and a lot a wasted effort -

Writin’ a review and then not bein’ able to post it -

'cause the questions were as vague as a glass a milk sittin' on a white table cloth somewhere in the fog.

papa
stas (who's just askin')


“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” - Albert Einstein
dancingsue
 28 Mar 2010, 14:09 #85028 Reply To Post
Quote: Nestat, Saturday, 13 Mar 2010 23:28
Dune had an excellent plot, but if it wasn't for the games and the film, I doubt I'd remember it.


Is the film any good? We've got it recorded, but have read mixed reviews.
the long and the short of it

Nestat
 28 Mar 2010, 17:25 #85049 Reply To Post
Quote: dancingsue, Sunday, 28 Mar 2010 14:09
Is the film any good? We've got it recorded, but have read mixed reviews.

Eeee... it really boils down to whether you like old sci fi films? Blade Runner is probably a good comparison in terms of pace and special effects. Dune is twice as long, though.
Writing for yourself is writing for others: "My book could very well end up being reconstituted as a trestle table in a home for battered women." - Alan Partridge
dancingsue
 28 Mar 2010, 17:36 #85051 Reply To Post
Quote: Nestat, Sunday, 28 Mar 2010 17:25
Quote: dancingsue, Sunday, 28 Mar 2010 14:09
Is the film any good? We've got it recorded, but have read mixed reviews.

Eeee... it really boils down to whether you like old sci fi films? Blade Runner is probably a good comparison in terms of pace and special effects. Dune is twice as long, though.


Blade Runner's one of my favourite films.
the long and the short of it

Nestat
 28 Mar 2010, 17:53 #85054 Reply To Post
Well, it's probably worth trying to watch it then. But if you don't like the first hour, you probably won't enjoy the second two.
Writing for yourself is writing for others: "My book could very well end up being reconstituted as a trestle table in a home for battered women." - Alan Partridge
gabriella
 28 Mar 2010, 19:31 #85057 Reply To Post
Quote: dancingsue, Sunday, 28 Mar 2010 14:09
Quote: Nestat, Saturday, 13 Mar 2010 23:28
Dune had an excellent plot, but if it wasn't for the games and the film, I doubt I'd remember it.


Is the film any good? We've got it recorded, but have read mixed reviews.


I liked Dune, especially Sting's part, though small. It is one of the few sci fi films that, I think, stays true to the book.
Jen

"Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled." William Blake

my blog
Lin Lee Liu
 28 Mar 2010, 23:37 #85069 Reply To Post
Quote: papa stas, Sunday, 28 Mar 2010 14:05
Why can't we be asked the Questions first -

then go on and write the review?

papa
stas (who's just askin')




I've thought this too. Anyone who's ever been involved in formal assessment will tell you that no one can reasonably ask an examination candidate to answer high-level questions without giving them the option of reading questions first, so they know what they're reading for.

Then I thought about the reason for the questions here on YWO. It's not to sort the dummies from the worthy readers. All readers are valuable in their way, provided they've read it, thought about it and offered an honest and specific opinion. No set of questions can ever check that.

The questions, surely, are simply an attempt to ensure a copy and pasting expert has a little more difficulty cheating the system. The other check is that we can only do so many reviews per day. Six is it? I'm not sure.

My point: Let's just make our questions straightforward. Nothing else makes much difference.
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