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(Message started by: xanthe on Nov 15th, 2003, 1:21am)
Title: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 15th, 2003, 1:21am
Yippee!  My turn for a party!

*sends out beautifully painted illustrations to the entire board*

there is LOTS of yummy food (all of which is Xanthe-friendly!) and would everyone please wear their velveteens...
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 15th, 2003, 1:25am
Congratulations, Xanthe! But how boring that we don't get to dress up. And is this an exclusive party for you, or may all the other people who reach 2,000 consider it theirs, too?
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 15th, 2003, 1:26am
Everyone who reaches 2000 posts may consider it theirs as well...

I thought people might be running short of fancy-dress ideas/materials...

oh, and how about progressive games?  oh, and sliding the length of the hall on mats?
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 15th, 2003, 1:28am
*votes for the use of mats as boats, as this sounded sooo much fun*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 15th, 2003, 1:29am
yippee!  

*slides away down the hall*

probably time for me to slide away to my bed as well!

nighty-night  :-*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 15th, 2003, 1:33am
Sleep well!
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 15th, 2003, 1:35am
*pops in to congratulate Xanthe, and asks if she can have a mat please!!!*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 15th, 2003, 1:37am
*gives Vikki Xanthe's own mat*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 15th, 2003, 1:43am
*is unsure how Xanthe will feel about that!*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 15th, 2003, 1:53am
*reminds Vikki that Xanthe said she was going to bed*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Lisa_T on Nov 15th, 2003, 3:28pm
Can I come too since I'm nearly on 2000? Xanthe got there first! *scowls*
;D ;D
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Carolyn P on Nov 15th, 2003, 5:36pm
I've still got some way to go. My report will obviously read, 'must try harder'. I think I will probably be the next one after Lisa though, unless one of those who were about 200 behind me has suddenly started increased yibbling, must go and have a look.
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 15th, 2003, 7:45pm
Just yibble a little more, Lisa, and you'll get there! ;D
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Lisa_T on Nov 16th, 2003, 12:31am
I'm yibbling, I'm yibbling! ;D

*rather sorry the two bit thread was never revived. It was so useful for this kind of thing!*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 16th, 2003, 12:33am
You could always start up another one Lisa...... ;)
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 16th, 2003, 12:33am
*glad it wasn't, as people always wanted me to write out the full story, and trying to figure out what people meant (or tried to mean) was sometimes near-impossible*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 16th, 2003, 3:21pm
*pops back in to see how the party's going*

*gets another mat and slides the length of the hall at the sort of speed which would be highly dangerous if it wasn't virtual*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Emma_N on Nov 16th, 2003, 4:29pm
:) :) Congratulations on reaching 2000 posts Xanthe!! I've still got quite some time before I reach my 1000 posts but I'm getting there slowly. I think I need to learn the art of yibbling!!

Lisa - Not too many more posts before you reach 2000!!!
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 16th, 2003, 5:29pm
*wonders if her bruised knee is the result of a collision with something... like a member of staff*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Chloe on Nov 16th, 2003, 7:32pm
*pops in to congratulate sister, but isn't wearing her velveteen*

*wonders if xanthe's burised as was poked by someone ::)*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 16th, 2003, 7:38pm
*reminds Chloe that she's not allowed a slidy mat if she isn't wearing her velveteen.....*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Chloe on Nov 16th, 2003, 8:13pm
*points out that is excused wearing a velveteen*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 16th, 2003, 8:21pm
*asks why and by who!*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Chloe on Nov 16th, 2003, 8:50pm
By xanthe as she knows all to well i can't touch the velveteens for more than a few secondds let alone wear one as the material makes me feel really really sick  :-[
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 16th, 2003, 8:55pm
Aww Chloe!!
My mum used to work with someone who couldn't stand suede type fabrics, she used to go all shaky if she touched one by mistake!
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 16th, 2003, 9:00pm
*hadn't ever really considered that to be honest*

*passes Chloe a slidy mat*  :-*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Chloe on Nov 16th, 2003, 9:07pm
Yay sliddy fun

all i can say now is vroom vroom

:-* *big, big , big hug to sis who i've spotted (not about to put her down again for a little while )*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 16th, 2003, 9:11pm
*slips quietly from room, leaving Xanthe and Chloe to their sisterly reunion!!* ;)
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 16th, 2003, 9:11pm
*wonders about her wisdom in aiding and abetting her ickle sis's slidyness, and then decides to sit back and watch the ensuing madness*  ;)

hey, Vikki, don't leave on account of us!  you're most welcome to stay and eat yummy things and slide about on a mat... though please don't eat and slide as that might have disastrous consequences!
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 16th, 2003, 9:16pm
Well, I thought you two might like to be alone for a bit to catch up!
*challenges Xanthe and Chloe to a sliding race*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 16th, 2003, 9:21pm
*asks Miss Annersley to act as starter and Lady Russell to judge*

*takes her place in the line-up*

*astounds everyone by sliding to victory, and then sailing on to end up under the piano*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Chloe on Nov 16th, 2003, 9:22pm
Yay a race a race,
thinks xan may be happier closing her eyes than watching her little sis in a mat race due to normal excited state causing worryand concern from older sister,
question are there any sherbert sweets ;D ;D
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 16th, 2003, 9:25pm
Chloe, I have a large jar of sherbet strawberries, would you like some?
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 16th, 2003, 9:29pm
No!  No!  Chloe you KNOW you're not allowed sherbet!  

*scowls at little sis*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Chloe on Nov 16th, 2003, 9:30pm
Yay thank you very much Vikki

*takes some sherbert sweeties and then goes to sit on top of a cuboard away from xan's reach*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 16th, 2003, 9:36pm
Oh dear... *sighs and looks resigned* now she'll be bouncing round the board all night...
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 16th, 2003, 9:39pm
Sorry Xanthe! You should have warned me she wasn't allowed them!
*hides rest of the sweeties somewhere Chloe won't find them*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Chloe on Nov 16th, 2003, 9:42pm
not all night, first i need to work out how to get down from on top of the cupboard

*decides to jump off is the best answer so does so ;D*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 16th, 2003, 9:42pm
It's okay Vikki... maybe some castor oil would counterbalance the effects of the sherbet...  ;)
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 16th, 2003, 9:47pm
*stands back and watches Xanthe stalk a hyper Chloe with a bottle of castor oil and a sthingy*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Chloe on Nov 16th, 2003, 9:53pm
boucing and skipping around to avoid sister but i don't mind its normal for xan to have to chase me to take my medicine
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 16th, 2003, 9:56pm
if you make me run about so much I have an asthma attack you'll feel horribly horribly guilty, you boinging menace!
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Chloe on Nov 16th, 2003, 9:59pm
no last time i stayed under my duvey and that worked just as well as runnig away  :)
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 16th, 2003, 10:02pm
*scowls*

would have served you right if Bossy-Knickers had had to First Aid you when you were in Switzerland...
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Chloe on Nov 16th, 2003, 10:04pm
:P well she didn't so there  :P

*thinks soemone should suggest another party game*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 16th, 2003, 10:07pm
*mutters*

*hopes, in all seriousness, that Chloe won't require First Aiding at ice-skating*

*envisaging certain people on ice-skates and laughing very VERY hard*

please take your camera...  think of the hilarity...
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 16th, 2003, 10:14pm
Could this be a potential repeat of the swiss bum bruising incident? ;D
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Chloe on Nov 16th, 2003, 10:14pm
Oh don't worry i will take a camera would i miss an oppertunity like that  ???

For J if i have my way yes it will be simial to the lake Thun instident
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 16th, 2003, 10:18pm
*snickering in a quite evil fashion*

*wondering if she ought to be setting a good example and not talking like this*

*realises it is Bossy-Knickers and her sidekick who've been doing the spectacularly-bad-example-setting, and that therefore, I am totally vindicated*

and on a different note (not, perhaps, unlike the sound someone makes when they fall right on their bum while ice-skating) - who fancies a game of subject and object?
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Chloe on Nov 16th, 2003, 10:20pm
I would but i'm being sent to bed  :( :( :( imight come back and join in later though
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 16th, 2003, 10:22pm
night night mims, sleep well

*tucks Chloe into bed and gives her a kiss*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 16th, 2003, 10:23pm
Night Chloe! :(
Hope you make it back later! ;)
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 16th, 2003, 10:25pm
*thinks she ought to be heading bedwards before too long herself*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 16th, 2003, 10:30pm
*starts to feel lonely!* :'(
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 16th, 2003, 10:32pm
*apologises and gives Vikki a big hug*

I really don't think keyboard-face is a very me look though, so I'd best be heading bedwards...  :-*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 16th, 2003, 10:34pm
Night Xanthe! Sleep well! :-*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 16th, 2003, 11:11pm
*wonders idly why Chloe is clutching at her leg and crying with pain*

*wishes I hadn't missed the race* :(
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 16th, 2003, 11:15pm
We could always have another one tomorrow!! ;)
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 16th, 2003, 11:17pm
Or the two of us could have one now! I'm sure Xanthe won't mind. And as there's nobody else here (apparently) we could make our own rules!
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 16th, 2003, 11:26pm
Okay, let's go for it! On three.....
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Susan on Nov 16th, 2003, 11:27pm
I'm here now. May I join in? I know I don't have 2000 posts yet but I am trying - though RL is proving to be a bit of a trial at the moment.
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 16th, 2003, 11:28pm
I'm afraid that race just ended (Vikki won :() but you're free to join in the next one!
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 16th, 2003, 11:30pm
I won? But I never win anything!!!! ;D
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 16th, 2003, 11:34pm
Dear, let me point out that we decided the first person who got their mat under the table won, and you did!
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Susan on Nov 16th, 2003, 11:35pm
Sitting in anticipation - clutching mat
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 16th, 2003, 11:37pm
Ready, set, go.........
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 16th, 2003, 11:41pm
*cheers alternately for Vikki and Sue*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Susan on Nov 16th, 2003, 11:46pm
trying to keep in a straight line...... oops nearly went into the spectators then
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 17th, 2003, 12:14am
Well, I fell off my mat, so I guess you win Sue! Well done!!
Hip, hip, hooray!!
*wonders why no one else is cheering?*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 17th, 2003, 12:16am
Because there's only three of us here, if you read my earlier post - you, me and Sue. Hooray, Sue! ;D
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Susan on Nov 17th, 2003, 12:18am
Scuttles off clutching prize - trying not to show how pleased she is at winning something
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 17th, 2003, 12:20am
*runs after Sue to give her a hug*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 17th, 2003, 12:22am
*feels left out and asks if she can join the hug?*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 17th, 2003, 12:35am
*invites Vikki into the hug*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 17th, 2003, 12:39am
*gladly accepts KB's invitation*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 17th, 2003, 12:41am
*hugs Vikki until her eyes pop, which doesn't take long*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Susan on Nov 17th, 2003, 12:48am
Thanks KB and Vikki for the hugs
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 17th, 2003, 12:52am
You're welcome, Sue! Have you been to the hugs box over in the drabbles section yet?
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 17th, 2003, 1:00am
*worries that Sue will begin suffering from an overdose of hugs*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 17th, 2003, 1:04am
KB, there's no such thing as too many hugs!!! :o :o :o
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 17th, 2003, 1:07am
I can't help feeling that that many hugs at the same time might be a few too many!!!
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Susan on Nov 17th, 2003, 11:36am
Not for me at the moment
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 17th, 2003, 3:17pm
Sue, here's another hug for you  :-*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Chloe on Nov 17th, 2003, 5:25pm
I came back but everyone had gone  :( , but it took me ages to go to sleep as i wondered what i was missing at the party
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 17th, 2003, 7:47pm
Oh, I'm sorry, honey! *hugs Chloe again* It obviously wasn't a good yibbling day!
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 17th, 2003, 9:01pm
*reappears to propose another race if anyone's interested*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Chloe on Nov 17th, 2003, 9:27pm
*nods head in agreement*

I'm detremined to win the race at least once as i did in school today three times although the sliddy mats were at one point a plastic bag, and another time a tray and then pulled along by a friend  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 17th, 2003, 9:34pm
Where on Earth where you sliding!!!!!!!??!!!!!!!  :o
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Chloe on Nov 17th, 2003, 9:41pm
Err just a few places, the main hall, the dinning hall, T1, W1, the woods and the common room ;D
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 17th, 2003, 9:45pm
*LOOKS DEEPLY DEEPLY DISAPPROVING*

The floor in W1 isn't at all slidy though...  and are the woods no longer out of bounds then?  I trust you weren't anywhere daft like cliffhanger/deathtrap...
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Chloe on Nov 17th, 2003, 9:50pm
Yes soem of the woods are open again but they're put in wooden walkway, which are so slippy when covered with wet leaves and everyone except me slid down death drop, as they're going to fence it off so went down it one last time and we only slide down the last bit of cliffhanger ::)

nad i know W1's not sliddy i ddin't try and slide in there jess adn bubble tried when i was looknig for Mrs. Q and thats how it all got started  ::)
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 17th, 2003, 9:55pm
Oh dear *sighs in a suitably disapproving big-sisterly fashion* just be careful, won't you?
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Chloe on Nov 17th, 2003, 10:00pm
*looks around for soemone else for Xan to mean*

What do you mean i'm alwasy careful, just think of the ETS high ropes course  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 17th, 2003, 10:03pm
*would much rather not think about that as it makes her feel a bit peculiar even now*  :-X
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 17th, 2003, 10:13pm
*gives Xan a comforting hug and is glad Chloe is okay*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 17th, 2003, 10:15pm
*accepts and reciprocates the hug gratefully*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 18th, 2003, 12:56am

on 11/17/03 at 21:41:19, Chloe wrote:
Err just a few places, the main hall, the dinning hall, T1, W1, the woods and the common room ;D


Chloe!!! :o
Was there anywhere you didn't slide? :o :o
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 18th, 2003, 4:30am
I'd suggest she probably avoided any room with carpet... ;)
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Chloe on Nov 18th, 2003, 2:20pm

on 11/18/03 at 00:56:44, Vikki wrote:
Chloe!!!
Was there anywhere you didn't slide? :o :o


Yes i avioded at least 10 whole buildings in school as there were either too many people or as KB said carpeted rooms  ;D
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Lisa_T on Nov 19th, 2003, 1:51am
*g* I used to get in trouble for skating/sliding across our Hall floor when putting the chairs away after assembley!
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 19th, 2003, 2:07am
I seem to recall getting into trouble for that too Lisa!! ;)
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Lisa_T on Nov 19th, 2003, 2:20am
LOL. Well I didn't get in trouble for much else! I was a good girl! Apart from doing prep one night after lights out. hey, it was only quarter past ten! I'm a night owl!
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 19th, 2003, 2:23am
*confesses to also participating in the sliding*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Chloe on Nov 19th, 2003, 6:42am
But it's fun

*admits to running away when we heard teachers or simialr appraoching*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 19th, 2003, 8:00am
Yes, it is a lot of fun! ;D
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Chloe on Nov 19th, 2003, 11:43am
*decided this had to be posted*

As i logged onto the site i mentioned about slidding again and all my group have started again and one of my friends just went fying out of the door to land at a teachers feet  ::)

When asked what she was doing replied "Having fun!" but somehow my teacher didn't think that it was a proper way to behave and as not a fun activity :o
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 19th, 2003, 11:53am
*lol* Well, as long as she enjoyed herself...
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Emma_N on Nov 19th, 2003, 11:56am
*lol* at all these sliding stories!! We couldn't slide anywhere at our school, it was impossible, I'm beginning to feel that I missed out on an important activity when I was younger >:(.
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Chloe on Nov 19th, 2003, 12:41pm
Well we're not supposed too slide, but it is fun and an important part of growing-up, but a bit damaging to clothing

*a friend ripped her trousers today*

*wonders if there are any games we could play over the CBB*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 19th, 2003, 3:53pm
Chloe, has your friend recovered from her embarrassment over the trouser ripping yet?
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 19th, 2003, 4:40pm

on 11/19/03 at 12:41:38, Chloe wrote:
Well we're not supposed too slide, but it is fun and an important part of growing-up, but a bit damaging to clothing


*reminds Chloe that if she tears her clothes she'll have to mend them herself*  and I know JUST how much you'll like that!
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 19th, 2003, 4:51pm
*has visions of Xanthe receiving parcels containing ripped items of clothing belonging to Chloe, and addressed to 'Xanthe the Terrible'!!*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 19th, 2003, 4:59pm
*laughs*

we'll she'd've gone to some trouble and expense for nothing

*certainly does not have time for mending sister's clothes as is hard pressed to make time in which to wash her own!*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 19th, 2003, 5:14pm
*sends Xanthe a virtual washing machine and dryer!!*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 19th, 2003, 5:15pm
*wonders what she's meant to do with them*

thanks though  :-*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 19th, 2003, 5:23pm
::)Well the idea was that you use them to wash your clothes!!! ::)
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 19th, 2003, 7:58pm
*sends very detailed instructions and a man to help install the machines*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Emma_N on Nov 19th, 2003, 8:08pm

on 11/19/03 at 19:58:32, KB wrote:
*sends very detailed instructions and a man to help install the machines*


I suppose men are capable of installing them, but all the ones I know don't know how to actually turn them on!!  ;)
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 19th, 2003, 8:12pm
My dad does. He's quite good at it, actually, even though I'm the official clothes washer in the place.
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Emma_N on Nov 19th, 2003, 8:18pm
Wow!! my dad belongs to the 'how do you turn it on' school!!
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Chloe on Nov 19th, 2003, 8:25pm

on 11/19/03 at 16:40:14, xanthe wrote:
*reminds Chloe that if she tears her clothes she'll have to mend them herself*  and I know JUST how much you'll like that!


Actually i can mend clothes i mended my "I'm not wierd i'm gifted" t-shirt today which i ripped when i helped a year 7 down from the tree today  :P

Vikki- my friend didn't mind too much she'd already ripped the knee of the trousers last time we went out, she was more upset that it menat she needed to go shopping  :)
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 19th, 2003, 8:33pm
*suggests that Emma teaches her Dad how to do it*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Emma_N on Nov 19th, 2003, 11:23pm
I think several people have tried to teach my dad basic house keeping skills and have failed! He is an excellent cook though so at least he is not completely undomesticated!!
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 19th, 2003, 11:28pm
Most men are actually perfectly capable, but prefer to pretend that they aren't!! ::)
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Emma_N on Nov 19th, 2003, 11:54pm
I will never forget my dads one attempt at using the washing machine. Lets just say we had lots of clothes for my teddies!!
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Nicolette on Nov 19th, 2003, 11:58pm
This morning my flatmate walked in looking rather upset and asked my friend and I if we could pull on his sweator sleeves to stretch it as he'd shrunk it in the wash!
Men...pah.
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 20th, 2003, 12:09am
It's true that they cause more frustration that ten women combined, but on the other hand, what would we do without them? ;)
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 20th, 2003, 12:11am

on 11/19/03 at 23:54:00, Emma_N wrote:
I will never forget my dads one attempt at using the washing machine. Lets just say we had lots of clothes for my teddies!!



That reminds me of my best friend when I was about ten, her mum bought her a wool cardigan for school, and washed it on the hot cycle!!!
(luckily, she had a little brother, so he ended up wearing it!!)
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 20th, 2003, 12:13am
*admits to having done that once, and once only!*
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Vikki on Nov 20th, 2003, 2:17am
I can honestly say that I've never shrunk anything in the wash, but I do recall several occassions when I was about ten or so, where I tried ironing my dad's socks, and stuck them to the iron!! (Getting the goo off the bottom of the iron was not fun!!!) ::)
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by crashbb on Nov 20th, 2003, 2:43pm
I'm generally pretty good, but:

I once failed to notice a red sock mixed in amongst the whites - luckily they now make a really great product that takes the dye out of the clothes it shouldn't be in.

Tried to be really helpful and load and run the dishwasher.  Unfortunately, I used the sink washing liquid (I think you guys have Fairy?) instead of the dish washer liquid.  I was mopping up suds from the floor for HOURS.
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by xanthe on Nov 20th, 2003, 5:27pm
Wurgh - housekeepingy thingys, oh yuckitty yuck yuck...  

The vacuum cleaner on my floor actually has NO suction, I swear...  it's really annoying because a) it looks like I've not bothered to clean my room and b) dustiness is not Xanthe-friendly  :-/
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by Nicolette on Nov 20th, 2003, 8:07pm
The same friend that I mentioned before walked in this afternoon looking upset again. He'd left some badges on his jacket and put it in the tumbledryer. Only a man...
Title: Re: 2000 post party
Post by KB on Nov 20th, 2003, 8:15pm

on 11/20/03 at 14:43:17, crashbb wrote:
Tried to be really helpful and load and run the dishwasher.  Unfortunately, I used the sink washing liquid (I think you guys have Fairy?) instead of the dish washer liquid.  I was mopping up suds from the floor for HOURS.


Oh, Chelsea, that's awful! (Although the mental image was pretty funny...)

The worst thing I did (and it wasn't a washing incident) was to put an electric kettle onto the stove. We were visiting someone else's house and I'd never used an electric kettle before!!! (I was also only six...)
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Post by Vikki on Nov 20th, 2003, 8:20pm
Oh KB!!!!!! Did it melt? Or blow up? Or what?
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Post by Nicolette on Nov 20th, 2003, 8:22pm
Talking of kettles, when I was younger I tried to clean the kettle, using washing up liquid. Needless to say, I didn't rinse it out very well and I mum got a huge surprise when she tried to boil some water!
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Post by KB on Nov 20th, 2003, 8:24pm

on 11/20/03 at 20:20:04, Vikki wrote:
Oh KB!!!!!! Did it melt? Or blow up? Or what?


Oh, it melted, big time. Fortunately, the water it contained prevented it from catching on fire or anything exciting, but it was a lot of work to get the stovetop clean... :-[ :'(
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Post by Vikki on Nov 20th, 2003, 8:25pm
I'd have loved to see your mum's reaction!!! ;)
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Post by KB on Nov 20th, 2003, 8:28pm
You might have wanted to see her face, but believe me, you wouldn't have wanted to be on the receiving end of her comments! :o :o :o
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Post by Chloe on Nov 20th, 2003, 8:28pm
lol  :)

Thats why i stay away from most appliances
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Post by Vikki on Nov 20th, 2003, 8:36pm
I've had an iron and a toaster blow up when I've happened to be standing nearby!! (Not my fault, I was just an innocent bystander!!)
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Post by Nicolette on Nov 20th, 2003, 8:38pm
*laughs at thought of Vikki as just the innocent bystander*

You didn't happen to touch anything did you my dear?
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Post by Vikki on Nov 20th, 2003, 8:42pm
Actually I didn't on these occassions!!
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Post by crashbb on Nov 20th, 2003, 9:36pm
KBs kettle story reminded me of, arguably my biggest disaster - which my cousin and I will never live down.

One Christmas we decided to make a cake.  We were in our apartment in Florida which has a very small, not so well stocked kitchen and I had to use glass cake pans.  Everything went fine with the actual cake making.  But, we didn't have a cooling rack so I put the pan on the stove element (which was off) so it could get some air circulating under it.  My cousin put the (non-electric) kettle on to boil some water for tea.  Luckily we then went to the living room to watch TV.  A few minutes later we heard a - kaboom - and ran into the kitchen.  There was cake and glass everywhere and there was a fire on the stove top.  Threw water on the stove to stop the fire and drowned the elements.  Smoke detector goes off.  Neither of us are tall enough to turn it off.  By the time we got a chair, our next door neighbours have come over to see what the disaster was and one of them turned off the alarm.  My cousin and I went back to clean up the kitchen.  At that momment my grandmother decides to come over.  We were standing in the kitchen with cake and glass everwhere.  There is water all over the stove top and under the elements.  There is a chair in the middle of the living room.  My grandmother just looked at us.  The kicker is that my mum managed to sleep through the ENTIRE thing!
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Post by Vikki on Nov 20th, 2003, 9:43pm
Wow! Good job you weren't in the room when it went!! :o
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Post by KB on Nov 20th, 2003, 10:21pm
*amazed that Chelsea's mum sleeps that deeply*

I can just imagine the mess! Had your sister turned the wrong element on, or did the heat carry so much that the tin went up anyway? And have you got a normal cake tin now? ;D
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Post by Nicolette on Nov 20th, 2003, 10:22pm
Its like a modern-day Chaletian misadventure!  :D
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Post by Chloe on Nov 20th, 2003, 10:54pm
Very lucky no one was hurt.

As for sleeping through something like that it's possible  ::)
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Post by crashbb on Today at 12:00am
Yes, my cousin had turned on the wrong element.  And yes, we have proper cake pans now (well, the old one was rather destroyed)
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Post by KB on Today at 12:11am
I just thought you might like to keep experimenting. ;)
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Post by xanthe on Today at 12:12am
Our hairdryer blew up one morning when my mum was drying her hair...  luckily, amazingly, and happily, all that happened was she burnt her hand, and not too badly either...  we were late to school because we had to take her to casualty though...
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Post by Vikki on Today at 12:14am
That must have been scary! How old were you at the time?
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Post by xanthe on Today at 12:18am
I was probably about nine or so...  I was in my room, which is next door, and I heard the dryer make a couple of funny noises, and then explode!
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Post by KB on Today at 12:20am
That must have been awful, Xanthe! *huggles, and for Chloe, too*
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Post by Vikki on Today at 12:26am
*offers hugs too!*

I can remember being that age, and my mum dropping a milk bottle, and cutting between fer fingers really deeply, and having to be rushed off to casualty! Scary.
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Post by xanthe on Today at 12:28am
It wasn't, strangely, actually THAT scary - it happened really quickly, and she seemed so okay...  not like if she went hypo: that WAS scary!!!!!!!

*reciprocates the huggles with much gratitude*
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Post by Vikki on Today at 12:48am
Was your mum diabetic then?
(hope you don't mind me asking!)
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Post by xanthe on Today at 12:51am
Yes, she was, and no, I don't mind your asking  :-*
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Post by Vikki on Today at 12:58am
*gives Xanthe a big hug!* :-* :-* :-*
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Post by xanthe on Today at 1:03am
*huggles Vikki back*  :-* thank you
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Post by KB on Today at 3:10am
*joins in the hug, having fetched a super-sized one from the box*
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Post by Chloe on Today at 5:51pm
*snuggles up against big sis, as she remembers about mummy*

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Post by Vikki on Today at 6:08pm
*pops over to give Chloe and Xanthe a big big hug and lots of sympathy!*
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Post by Chloe on Today at 8:28pm
*acepts hug from Vikki*

has anyone heard form Xan recently  ???
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Post by KB on Today at 9:01pm
You're more likely to hear from her than we are, Chloe.
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Post by Chloe on Today at 10:59pm
You'd be surprised my dad's threating to become a member as he finds out more stuff as we've mentioned it on the CBB than from things we've said to him  ;)
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Post by KB on Today at 11:05pm
*lol* I hope he does! We don't have enough men on here!

Of course, then he will know how much you've spent on books, but that's your headache...
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Post by Susan on Today at 11:09pm
Right I'm going to archive this now.


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