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Oak Kitten
06-06-2006, 06:44 PM
In honor of Hell Day, 6-6-06 I invite you to share what you would consider to be Hell for you. I read somewhere recently - I think it was on a quotations website, that "Hell is full of amateur musicians." Ouch.
My version of hell would be to be back in high school again, for eternity . . .
Oak
Gandalf
06-06-2006, 06:55 PM
Eternity in junior high school.
with all the time in the world to read them, but unable to because my vision is too blurry.......
after an eye exam I found myself sitting in a waiting room while the doc finished with Peggy. There I sat, book in hand, but because of the drops or whatever the heck they do, I couldn't make out a single word on the page.
THAT WAS PURE HELL FOR ME
AceOn6
06-06-2006, 07:38 PM
In honor of Hell Day, 6-6-06 I invite you to share what you would consider to be Hell for you.
Waiting anywhere without my iPod or something to read.
Listening to a particular relative describe her aches and pains.
And, the coup de grace, being stuck inside on a perfect day.
invsbl_wife
06-06-2006, 08:58 PM
Life without the ability to touch or be touched. And I don't mean just physical contact.
ponytail
06-06-2006, 11:06 PM
In the early 70s I worked at a place called American Record Sales in Philadelphia. We had a flood in the basement, and had to clean thousands of 45s up with wet cheesecloth. But that wasn't the bad part.
We had hundreds of copies of "Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak Tree," by Tony Orlando and Dawn, that had to be checked for damage by just playing the opening instrumental riff of each one at a loud volume. Which meant we had to hear it hundreds of times, all day long. For several days. If you don't remember how it goes, I envy you. Miraculously, no one had to be carted away to an insane asylum. If that wasn't hell, I shudder to think what might be....:eek:
Agnes
06-07-2006, 12:24 AM
Living without love. That'd be hell for me.
mixtymotions
06-07-2006, 02:51 AM
We had hundreds of copies of "Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak Tree," by Tony Orlando and Dawn, that had to be checked for damage by just playing the opening instrumental riff of each one at a loud volume.
That's just toooooooo funny! Perhaps the chorus to "Knock Three Times" could have been worse....
Rkitko
06-07-2006, 04:02 AM
What other than America's number one fear (even beating out death!) :
Public speaking! Absolutely terrified of it. My personal hell would be a room full of people that were waiting for me to effectively convey my point to and I was incapable of finding the right words.
Oh wait, that happened tonight. Guess I was in hell on 06/06/06!
AceOn6
06-07-2006, 07:42 AM
We had hundreds of copies of "Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak Tree," by Tony Orlando and Dawn, that had to be checked for damage by just playing the opening instrumental riff of each one at a loud volume.
That's just toooooooo funny! Perhaps the chorus to "Knock Three Times" could have been worse....
It's a small world, after all
It's a small world, after all
It's a small world, after all
It's a small, small world.
(sorry folks)
Amy in Vermont
06-07-2006, 07:56 AM
Right now my version of hell is 4 days of fire alarm testing in our building. :eek:
Denise
06-07-2006, 08:12 AM
:eek: ....the demise of the JIMB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RedjackRyan
06-07-2006, 08:19 AM
Trapped .. at a celine dion concert.. with no way out, and no bullets for my gun.
Agnes
06-07-2006, 01:08 PM
Trapped .. at a celine dion concert.. with no way out, and no bullets for my gun.
Teehee :D LOL
RedjackRyan
06-07-2006, 01:21 PM
Living without love. That'd be hell for me.
I somehow don't think you'll be in danger of that happening. :D
snakegrl
06-07-2006, 01:22 PM
No time or place to be alone, surrounded by red-necks blaring Ackey Breaky Heart over and over....
There are many versions...
One of them is being trapped among a lot of screaming children. Kindergarten or something. One of the reasons I don't have them. Can't... stand... the... screaming...! Aaaargh!
On a more seriousl note... The things that people do to eachother every day are hell. Compared to that I'll love having the toddlers around me anytime.
Eva
snakegrl
06-07-2006, 01:47 PM
There are many versions...
One of them is being trapped among a lot of screaming children. Kindergarten or something. One of the reasons I don't have them. Can't... stand... the... screaming...! Aaaargh!
On a more seriousl note... The things that people do to eachother every day are hell. Compared to that I'll love having the toddlers around me anytime.
Eva
I'll second that last bit.
GodSistah
06-07-2006, 01:52 PM
Being on-call or having to listen to my boss talk about himself.
~Andrea~
ponytail
06-07-2006, 02:00 PM
How about being stranded on a small desert island with Rush Limbaugh, a migraine, and no earplugs or Advil?:eek:
If my body or mind doesn't function as it 'should' sometimes. Depressions, migraines, headaches, bronchitis, absences, etc. And all the medication I have to take for this.
I never get used to it.
Eva
hoops
06-07-2006, 06:58 PM
redjack, i love the celine dion thing...yes that would be hellish. my mom used to say hell for her would be a very cold place stuck in traffic on a high bridge. She hated th cold and was scared to death of heights. I don't know that i've would know what hell would be like for me. I've been in a place where being alive was the worst thing i could do to the world...many many times. i live trying to keep the disease thatkeeps me from knowing what is really happening and what is just my voices telling me is happening, i would wish any of these whings on my worst enemy. tho i've had pain and a heck of a lot of it, physical stuff doesn;t really bug me much, except maybe losing the ability to do the things like standing up when i want to, or holding still. Bit u think the thing that was closest to hell was watching my beloved mother go thru her cancer, the illness, dying and death, and not knowing what to pray for for her, wheterh it would be better for her to suffer long and live long or to suffer and die relatively quickly. i guess hell for me is seeing others suffer and not being able to do anything to change it.
KarenSews2
06-09-2006, 04:31 PM
people who cannot speak properly! For example:
I seen...
he don't...
ain't
where's it at?
me and...
her and I
using "bring" when it should be "take"
using "I" when it should be "me"
mispronouncing "jewelry," "realtor," "nuclear"
DaveM
06-09-2006, 11:05 PM
Eternity spent in the Bush Administration, in poor health, with accordions. Zucchini and brussels sprouts three meals a day. Compulsory Fox Network or other Murdoch product with no volume control or on/off switch.
Alternately: no privacy, constant noise, and no books. Which isn't that much different, if you think about it a bit.
Rkitko
06-10-2006, 04:41 AM
Oooh, I thought of another one. I've actually lived through this one once:
Dinner at a restaurant called the Longhorn (A Texas-style wannabe restaurant in New Jersey suburban sprawl) : Nothing--and I mean Nothing!--on the menu but animals, animals on the wall, smokers to my left and right, and alcoholic beverages all around me. The conversation topic? "How awesome Mac computer systems are and how they're superior to PCs." I was more than uncomfortable, to say the least, but I didn't drive myself. So I sat still and didn't say a word. I survived hell!
ponytail
06-10-2006, 02:05 PM
I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the concept of eating accordions three times a day....I actually like zucchini, and the brussel sprouts I guess I could handle if I took Beano, but... accordions? :eek: I have lips that could dismantle a tractor (and have), but I don't think my teeth are that strong!
DaveM
06-10-2006, 03:05 PM
Some of you will recall the tale...
My trip home from Janismania.
The conversation topic? "How awesome Mac computer systems are and how they're superior to PCs."
Well... that isn't such a bad conversationtopic! But hey... it was your hell Rkitko... :D
Another one I just thought of:
Being very old, ill and lonely at the same time. Terrible.
The women in my family all get very old. My grandmother is 91. Her sister-in-law died when she was 90. My health isn't all that wonderful and I expect it to be a lot worse by then. I hope I won't be lonely. I am a peoples-person. I don't think I can have any happiness without people around me. Well, people I care about of course. I will not have children, which is fine with me. And having them wouldn't mean that they would visit me anyway. But still... Sometimes I think about these things and it scares me.
Eva
Rkitko
06-10-2006, 09:17 PM
Well... that isn't such a bad conversationtopic! But hey... it was your hell Rkitko... :D
Yep! Everyone's personal hell is different. Mine happened to involve bashing PCs and lauding Macs. I shudder every time I think of that dinner... Really was hard to just let it roll over me and not get into a argument ;)
Oak Kitten
06-11-2006, 05:07 PM
I took a friend of mine to see the immigration museum on Ellis Island in New York harbor. We took the ferry over from Liberty State Park in New Jersey. On the way back, we were on a boat with about fifty grammar school-age kids who were on a field trip and who all bought penny whistles at the gift shop before they boarded. Only time I ever seriously considered throwing myself overboard. . .
Oak
KarenSews2
06-11-2006, 07:14 PM
You POOR thing! That would have sent me over the edge!
ponytail
06-11-2006, 10:42 PM
At least it was pennywhistles and not kazoos.:eek:
Being stuck for eternity with people who cannot speak properly!
Being stuck with those, and the ones who pepper their conversations with "like."
So he was like, you know, and I'm like what do you mean? And it was like all mixed up.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! LOL
Rkitko
06-12-2006, 02:49 AM
Right on, Dee. Add to that people who use excessive netspeak.
"ttyl, k? r u goin 2 teh park? wtg, ppl. l8r."
Drives me nuts (nutz?). I feel like I need a decoder ring just to understand these people. Is there a netspeak lexicon?
Believe it or not Rkitko, there actually are several Netspeak resources. This is a good one:
NetLingo (http://www.netlingo.com/) The Internet Dictionary has thousands of definitions that easily explain the Internet and the online world of business, technology, and communication. Updated regularly with new terms.
If you look along the top of the home page there is an alphabetized index to any term you're looking for. Or you can access them all on a single page here (http://www.netlingo.com/lumenu2.cfm?category=Online+Jargon). There are plenty of cross-referenced links too. For example, I have just learned a few new terms myself:
lamer
A user who behaves in a stupid or uneducated manner that's often characteristic of newbies.
GALGAL
Give A Little Get A Little
and
RBTL
Read Between The Lines :D
ponytail
06-12-2006, 02:31 PM
Thanks for the new terms, Dee! I didn't know those either.
My favorite Internet term is "sock puppet," which I also learned here. I'm tempted sometimes as a goof to fill a post with made-up terms -- but I'm afraid they'd all turn out to be real ones I just don't know about, and I'd be saying God knows what...:rolleyes:
You're welcome. If you follow the link I left, you'll find hundreds more.
I scanned them briefly and felt completely overwhelmed ... not to mention old as the hills.
Don't know how the kiddies keep up on all this stuff. ;)
DaveM
06-12-2006, 11:02 PM
Accordions are far worse thatn pennywhistles. I won't even mention bagpipes. After all, to borrow from Douglas Adams, if you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
Yes, I think that would be my personal hell: Amazing Grace on a bagpipe.
ponytail
06-13-2006, 01:45 PM
I'm from Philadelphia, and there was a famous jazz bagpiper from Philly named Rufus Harley. He had an album on Atlantic Records back in the days of vinyl, including bagpipe instrumentals of "Eight Miles High" and "Windy." Putting it on at a party would stop all conversation.
As far as I know it's never been released as a CD. I wonder why...:rolleyes:
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