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Old 09-01-2007, 01:14 AM   #121
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I don't have much to add, but I'd be fairly useful if anyone needs help with grammar, spelling, sentence construction, etc...

I know basics of music, i.e., guitar, bass, drums, violin...

I know a lot about spirits: ghosts, hauntings, ouija boards, candles and inscense and all that jazz.

I know a great deal about Los Angeles: Downtown, Hollywood, Santa Monica, Venice, Westchester, Playa del Rey...

Other things include Disney, witchcraft, crocheting, dying hair, and prescription narcotics.
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Old 09-03-2007, 09:55 PM   #122
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Hi guys.

I'm quite good with spelling

I know the basics of spelling

I know a lot about anything to do with modern warfare

I know a great deal about Military aircraft, uniforms and medals

Other things include character profiles/descriptions
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Old 09-07-2007, 12:17 PM   #123
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I know a good deal about:

Big Cats

Computer Technology

The Military (USA mostly)


I know plenty of others things but those are the ones I have a specific interest in and thus know much about.
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Old 09-16-2007, 11:46 AM   #124
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I have lived long and worked and played in many sandboxes.

-DePauw University

-Tennessee Temple University (small southern Bible college)

-meat cutter

-the 60s (as a teenager)

-disco era

-homelessness (total immersion research for several months)

-women who go into hiding with their children because of abuse issues

-motorcycle gangs (outlaw)

-mafia

-cooking (former sous chef)

-dairy farms (raised on one)

-ancient office procedures like shorthand

-tatting

-German art of paper cutting

-grammar (fair hand at it and have lots of reference books)

-Living where the only evidence of neighbors is a far-distant light and only
that in the winter when the leaves are off the trees

-small country band in the 70s

-Record production companies (country)

-Living with a Great Dane

-homeschooling

Happy to answer any questions that I can. I have a good library of reference book and will be happy to look it up if I don't know.
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Old 10-04-2007, 01:42 PM   #125
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hmmmm.....
Psychology-always have found it fascinating. i know a LOT about abnormal psychology...different mood/personality disorders...things of that nature...i'm especially well-informed in the areas of Bipolar Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Sociopathy, Borderline Personality Disorder, OCD, and other Anxiety Disorders. i can give you a first hand view of life in a mental institution and what it's like to have Bipolar.

quantum theory (physics) (and other sciences too 'specially Biology)

ummm...english? i'm an english major (creative writing)

Trigonometry

Drawing...cartooning

Diabetes, Kidney Disease
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Old 10-06-2007, 12:09 AM   #126
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I know a fair bit about Greek and Celtic mythology, "Da Vinci Code" and Grail stuff, spells and magick. I also speak some French; I was fluent once, though I'm a bit rusty now. I'm told I have an intuitive knack for psychology and dream interpetation. I'm a life-long nut about monsters, vampires, ghosts - anything supernatural except Bigfoot and aliens. Should you for some bizarre reason need Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings info, I'm obsessed with both.
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Old 10-08-2007, 10:28 AM   #127
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Should you for some bizarre reason need Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings info, I'm obsessed with both.

if we're going in that direction too...i dont think there's anyone on the planet...besides joss himself who knows more about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. and i also know a hell of a lot of Harry Potter
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Old 10-18-2007, 12:39 AM   #128
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History - (I'm 6 months away from getting my degree in history) Renaissance and Reformation, especially in England and Italy; British history; Greek and Roman history; history of totalitarianism (Hitler, Stalin, etc.) and WWII; geological history (early organisms, dinosaurs, early mammals, etc.)

Art - Renaissance; Ancient (especially Greek and Roman)

Shakespeare - especially Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet

Mythology - mainly Greek

Sociology - I've taken courses in sociology of medicine and crime

Biology
- working understanding of most of the human body; deeper knowledge of Von Willebrand's Disease and sickle-sell anemia.

Canadian Culture/Life - especially Western Canada, which is where I live.

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Old 10-27-2007, 08:53 PM   #129
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Things I know a good amount about:
- Mormon religious history, culture, and beliefs
- Utah
- Arizona
- sexual addiction
- computer hardware
- being a hospital patient
- depression
- video games
- U.S. history
- the Bible
- music theory
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Old 10-27-2007, 09:11 PM   #130
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Well I like to think my Science (Physics, Biology, Chemistry) knowledge is above average.

I know quite a bit about warfare, mainly ancient/medieval/Age of Sail (Ancient Greeks, Egyptians, Carthaginian etc. and Saxon/Viking England, Feudal England. Then Age of Sail (1600's-late 1700's ish))

I am a fair hand at Computing. Hehehe need to know how to use MS Access? Im ur guy, damn school is all they teach ya

On the subject of books and things:
Harry Potter
LOTR
Old Kingdom series (Garth Nix)
Keys to the Kingdom series (Garth Nix)
Artemis Fowl series(Eoin Colfer,
story about genius kid (13) that steals gold from faries (Meaning collectively elves, trolls, pixies, dwarves, goblins and centaurs) and then deals with the repercussion throughout the four/five books.)

Darren Shan series



Not too much then ^^
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Old 10-27-2007, 11:15 PM   #131
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I know a little (or I can fabricate some plausible stories) about the following:

Asperger’s Syndrome
Australia generally
Australian bushrangers
Brisbane, Australia
Cab driving
Carpentry
Car sales – tricks of the trade
Citroen cars
Complex and clever schemes; sometimes with a dab of evil mixed in
Dairy Farming in the sixties - Queensland, Australia
Debt collection
East coast of Australia
Embedded Sentences
Family budgeting
Fiat cars
Ford Falcons
Fornication
Hadrian’s Wall
Hardware (as in Home Improvement/Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor, not computers)
Hookers
Horticulture
Income Tax avoidance
Letter writing – particularly getting things done by the authorities
Medieval times
Mendacity
Microsoft Vista Ultimate
Microsoft XP
MS Word 2003
Mt Panorama, Bathurst, car racing – NOT V8 Supercars
Peugeot cars
Rally driving
Real Estate Investment
Real Estate Sales - tricks of the trade
Running a small business
Schoolyard bullying
Spelling, punctuation, grammar
Sydney, Australia
The Legend of Robin Hood
The Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia
The three-toed sloth
Touring car racing - sixties/seventies, Australia
Unmasking journalistic sleight-of-hand
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Old 10-27-2007, 11:21 PM   #132
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I don't have much to add, but I'd be fairly useful if anyone needs help with spelling . . .



....inscense.



.... dying hair,
Yeah, sure.
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Old 10-28-2007, 10:24 AM   #133
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Ox, don't say shit (kindly) about Johnna, and thank you.

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Nothing.

That pays well?
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Old 10-28-2007, 03:11 PM   #134
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Hmmm..

Theatre, Stagecraft, Communications & Broadcasting, Film, Journalism, Sociology, General, Adolescent & Abnormal Psychology, Sociology, History, Computers & Electronics, Poker, Craps, Blackjack, and I'm a whiz at "Scene It."
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Old 11-07-2007, 04:47 AM   #135
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