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09-01-2007, 01:14 AM
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#121
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Los Angeles
Gender: Female
Posts: 462
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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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09-03-2007, 09:55 PM
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#122
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Anstead, North London (...or New Zealand)
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,694
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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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09-07-2007, 12:17 PM
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#123
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Addict
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: The Netherlands
Gender: Male
Posts: 115
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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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09-16-2007, 11:46 AM
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#124
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Addict
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Deep in the woods of Great Lakes farm country
Gender: Female
Posts: 181
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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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10-04-2007, 01:42 PM
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#125
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Writer
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: new york
Gender: Female
Posts: 39
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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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10-06-2007, 12:09 AM
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#126
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Scribe
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 63
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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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10-08-2007, 10:28 AM
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#127
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Writer
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: new york
Gender: Female
Posts: 39
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Originally Posted by Athlynne
Should you for some bizarre reason need Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings info, I'm obsessed with both.
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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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10-18-2007, 12:39 AM
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#128
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Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Calgary, Canada
Gender: Female
Posts: 5
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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.
Last edited by ~lola~ : 10-18-2007 at 01:05 AM.
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10-27-2007, 08:53 PM
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#129
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Utah
Gender: Male
Posts: 260
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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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10-27-2007, 09:11 PM
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#130
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Adept Writer
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Universe, Milky Way Galaxy, Sol system, Earth, Europe, England, Darlington
Gender: Male
Posts: 809
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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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Veni, Vedi, Vici - Julius Caesar
Who Dares Wins
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10-27-2007, 11:15 PM
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#131
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Out in the bush, Queensland, Australia, far from the madding crowd
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,468
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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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How Beautiful it is to Do Nothing, and then Rest Afterwards . . . . . Spanish proverb
Last edited by The Backward OX : 11-05-2007 at 03:46 AM.
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10-27-2007, 11:21 PM
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#132
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Out in the bush, Queensland, Australia, far from the madding crowd
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,468
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Johnna
I don't have much to add, but I'd be fairly useful if anyone needs help with spelling . . .
....inscense.
.... dying hair,
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Yeah, sure.
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How Beautiful it is to Do Nothing, and then Rest Afterwards . . . . . Spanish proverb
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10-28-2007, 10:24 AM
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#133
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Banned
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Nashville
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,711
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Ox, don't say shit (kindly) about Johnna, and thank you.
--Expertise
Nothing.
That pays well?
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10-28-2007, 03:11 PM
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#134
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Earth... for now.
Posts: 430
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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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"The writer you envy today will probably have reason to envy you tomorrow." - Orson Scott Card
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11-07-2007, 04:47 AM
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#135
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Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Gender: Male
Posts: 3
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I have a thorough understanding of Bogans.
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