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phrasemuffin ([personal profile] phrasemuffin) wrote2007-09-17 07:01 pm

cello answers itself like a plucked harp, like explosive drums, like birds, laughing Hyenas

Last night, I was insipired.

By RENT.

By The West Wing.

And by Douglas Adams.

Thanks to this, I now have a new pet: [livejournal.com profile] goblinpaladin. *waves*

And fear not; I will eventually get around to composing that interpretive dance, to be accompanied by a solo finger cymbal (yes yes, not a pair), in your honor. And it shall be magnificent.

In other news, I have been neglecting to tell you all of the Saga of the Television. Months ago, during that big big lightning storm, our television blew a fuse and had been on the fritz since. It would randomly switch itself off, and the AV ports were fried (so no DVDs!!). Last week, dad sent it in to get repaired. We got it back Friday, but the AV ports are still half dead (it's certainly not one of those more advanced forms of death, though) - DVDs will play, but with the previous channel's audio. And the little transmitter thingy that was to allow us to watch Foxtel on the other side of the room (the cords wouldn't reach after we re-arranger everything) wouldn't work at all. So we've sent it back in to get repaired, and properly this time.

I hope my laptop comes back before the television does. I would seriously appreciate using my OWN computer after a week of being a parasite on everyone else's. And swapping hard drives around is just painful. :(

Oh oh OH! And I think Hot Cute Guy, the Ashfield Hotel Bartender that Kurtis embarrassed me in front of... twice, goes to USYD. At least, I hope it was him... :S

;)

[identity profile] goblinpaladin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 09:43 am (UTC)(link)
*waves* I expect a YouTube video, dominus.

[identity profile] phrasemuffin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
that may take a little while longer... um, you know, what with the poor lighting in this place... ahem

[identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
hehe.

you two amuse me.

Dominus, huh? moved on to *12th century* flirting, have you?

[identity profile] goblinpaladin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Twelfth century, nothing. We're talking golden age flirting here. Three cheers for Classical Latin!

...no?

[identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
maybe late 11th... but it was definitely part of the complex codes of secrecy which surrounded early courtly love poetry. there were complex (and utterly pointless, since so well regularised) systems for pretending no one knew whom you were talking about.
one of them was to address the lady as "domina", or at times "dominus". "cousin" was also popular, but then everyone *was* everyone else's cousin at that time!

[identity profile] phrasemuffin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
heh, and here I was thinking that dominus meant owner/master/lord. I had no idea there was smut being generated on my journal. Whoopee!

[identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
well, it does :P

doesn't that sound suggestive to you?

[identity profile] phrasemuffin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
But I do own him!

*brandishes reciept*

[identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
we believe you, we believe you.

don't mind B, he's just FlirtMan.

[identity profile] phrasemuffin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
But... I thought I was FlirtMan!

My identity! It has shattered, like the brittle mask it was. Oh! Woe is me. *damsel-hand*

[identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
poor random david...

i will still flirt with you :)

[identity profile] phrasemuffin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh thank goodness. For a moment there, I thought all was lost *phew*

*hugs*

[identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
*possessive hugs*

not letting the nasty latinist have my flirting buddy!

[identity profile] goblinpaladin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Only with highly valuable people.

Er, you.

And, now, him.

This is out of character for me!

[identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
i don't belive it. i think you've always been like this, and the pretending you haven't is some kind of plot.

[identity profile] goblinpaladin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
It is a complex plan of seduction and betrayal I have afoot. Sssh. Don't tell anyone.

[identity profile] phrasemuffin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Me thinks the lolcats are somewhat out of the bag.

[identity profile] goblinpaladin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh no! I have been caught! I must escape, using only a swiss-army-knife and my wits. Also my good looks and charm.

[identity profile] phrasemuffin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
A Mcgiver In Training, are we?

Good looks and charm, in the right hands, will get you anything.

[identity profile] goblinpaladin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, that is why I'm talking to you and [livejournal.com profile] highlyeccentric.

[identity profile] phrasemuffin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
And just what exaclty is it that you're after, huh?

[identity profile] goblinpaladin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, you did say something about being in 'good hands.'

[identity profile] phrasemuffin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I am somewhat at a loss for words.

Perhaps I should just let my fingers do the walking talking...

[identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com 2007-09-18 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
...

o_0

ok, this is getting hot distubing.

introducing you two was clearly a bad idea

[identity profile] phrasemuffin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmmm, there is a certain dastardlyness to it all, isn't there?

I think this plot may also somehow involve world domination. Or just, you know, the regular kind.

[identity profile] goblinpaladin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I see no reason it cannot involve both.

[identity profile] phrasemuffin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmmm, this is true.

Carry on, then, good sir.

[identity profile] phrasemuffin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
If it's so out of character for you, how are you so good at it? :P

[identity profile] goblinpaladin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
That is a good question. You are not allowed to be insightful.

I suppose I am just naturally charming and witty.

[identity profile] phrasemuffin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
And humble, too :P

[identity profile] goblinpaladin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Ignore the filthy-minded Germanic savage, domine. She just doesn't understand.

[Yes, it does mean master/lord.]

[identity profile] phrasemuffin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
HAHA! I could have sworn you were about to say "She just doesn't understand our love."

:P

[identity profile] phrasemuffin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
!! I was right! That's what you secretly wanted to write, isn't it?!

[identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
and then you have all that 12th stuff i keep going on about, when people are writing highly suggestive latin poetry to each other all in the name of Christian friendship...

[identity profile] phrasemuffin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
you know, with what Amy said in mind, mingling with my original understanding of dominus, I can't help but think that my first reply just makes it sound like I live on a porn set.

[identity profile] goblinpaladin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
My grin, it is wide and cheesy.

[identity profile] phrasemuffin.livejournal.com 2007-09-17 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
How fitting :P