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Hug Trees much?
Posted by: Tari (129.62.120.---)
Date: April 22, 2006 04:19PM

So I'll get straight to the point...
Happy Earth Day!



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You kids with your long hair and Baroque music...

Re: Hug Trees much?
Posted by: Barefoot Andy (---.cable.ubr04.king.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: April 22, 2006 08:54PM

Personally, I haven't been hugging as many trees as I used to, mainly due to a lack of friendly trees in my area.
Happy Earth Day!

(Is it the Earth's Birthday, in which case the Earth is a Taurus)



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Re: Hug Trees much?
Posted by: Tari (129.62.120.---)
Date: April 22, 2006 09:00PM

Does that imply that the Earth needs to watch out for a Gemini (or other random zodiac sign), in case it finds its soul mate?



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Re: Hug Trees much?
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (---.frank1.vic.optusnet.com.au)
Date: April 23, 2006 04:01AM

A certain Mr Ussher set the earths birthday at October 23, 4004 BC.
Which makes earth a Libra.
Thankyou to mssrs Pratchett and Gaiman for this random trivia moment.

Re: Hug Trees much?
Posted by: robert (---.nsw.bigpond.net.au)
Date: April 23, 2006 05:18AM

"Which makes earth a libra."
Not necessarily. If October 23 was the first day of the first year, then it really should be called January 1 (and the current January 1 would be somewhere in March).


Re: Hug Trees much?
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (---.bur.dialup.dodo.com.au)
Date: April 23, 2006 08:40AM

Interesting.
But that really depends on when you think *time* started, which, might not have happened til people were around.
Personally I think the earth might be just a little older than that. Around four and a half billion years or so, at least. However, the month may be accurate.

Todays stars for the planet Earth (if a libra)

"Libra Sep 24-Oct 23

A WEEK of beginnings and endings for you and at this halfway point you should be seeing just what needs to be done to make it all happen. But for some it might be happening of its own volition. Let it, Go with the proverbial flow." [www.dailyrecord.co.uk]

Am I the only one who thinks this might be a problem if the end of the world is planned for this week? Armageddon would play merry hell with my schedule.



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Re: Hug Trees much?
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (---.bur.dialup.dodo.com.au)
Date: April 23, 2006 08:41AM

And yes, I probably *do* have too much time on my hands at the moment.

Re: Hug Trees much?
Posted by: robert (---.nsw.bigpond.net.au)
Date: April 23, 2006 08:59AM

Don't worry about Armageddon; it's not as if it's the end of the world or something.


Re: Hug Trees much?
Posted by: Barefoot Andy (---.cable.ubr04.king.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: April 23, 2006 11:09AM

The idea of planets having starsigns is interesting: what star sign is the moon, or Venus? And do the move so that they get good weeks? Could Mars go into Sagitarius, giving them a lack of success in the workplace, just to get back at Venus for messing up his love life by going into Aries?



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Re: Hug Trees much?
Posted by: splat21 (195.33.121.---)
Date: April 23, 2006 11:14AM

Yep, armageddon a bit tired of the End Times. Not to mention the Four Horsemen wiv the Poxy Lips. But everyone knows it won't all end till the Fat Lady Sings.

*goes off to shut down all the opera houses and ply the divas with strong drink*



No, hang on, that'll make them sing more...


Oops.



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Re: Hug Trees much?
Posted by: Tari (129.62.120.---)
Date: April 23, 2006 05:24PM

Can planets have horoscopes if you need to use their position to create a horoscope?



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Re: Hug Trees much?
Posted by: Lady Teaspoon (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: April 24, 2006 01:14AM

I think you'd just use their positions. I think the problem only arises when one spontaneously ceases to exist.

(pause)


Not that I'm planning to build a hyper-space bypass or anything.


wait for it....



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Re: Hug Trees much?
Posted by: Tari (129.62.120.---)
Date: April 24, 2006 01:32AM

Don't Panic?

But if you were on a different planet, would your horoscope be different? If so, would the planet's horoscope be different?

I'm really just procrastinating from homework. I suppose I need to stop thinking about planetary horoscopes and start reading my Augustine.



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Re: Hug Trees much?
Posted by: PrinzHilde (---.dip0.t-ipconnect.de)
Date: April 24, 2006 03:18AM

It is the other way round. Does it not say "As is up above, so is down below"? That means, it goes in both directions.

So, when a planet has consequences for the life of people, the actions of people will clearly affect planets. Think about it, if you tell off saturn convincingly enough, it might just blow his rings away...

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And here's a treehugger for you:

http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/7269/gleichwiederda3po.gif

"Feel the tree...feel like a tree..."
"Don't leave, you hear me? I'll be right back, okay?"

More: [www.taz.de]




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Re: Hug Trees much?
Posted by: robert (---.nsw.bigpond.net.au)
Date: April 24, 2006 02:24PM

As always Prinz you are a veritable mine of cross-cultural fertilisation (I forwarded the photo of your bicycle to the Walla Walla Pedalcycle Factory and their doors have been shut and the sounds of steam engines humming for some weeks).

I only beg to query the unattributed ejactulation "Hm" in the first panel. I am guessing that this comes from a wrist radio. Are there other explanations?


Re: Hug Trees much?
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (---.bur.dialup.dodo.com.au)
Date: April 24, 2006 04:11PM

"get back at Venus for messing up his love life by going into Aries"

I may never forget this line.

Well done!

Re: Hug Trees much?
Posted by: MartinB (---.cache.ru.ac.za)
Date: April 24, 2006 06:17PM

Dirty mind that cat....

*hands kitten bleach for brains

That's not right....

BRAINS?!




:P



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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Hug Trees much?
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (---.bur.dialup.dodo.com.au)
Date: April 24, 2006 06:21PM

*radiates innocence*

I have no idea what you are on about Martin. No really. And welcome back.
And I have plenty of brains. It's just they are all in the freezer.

Re: Hug Trees much?
Posted by: MartinB (---.cache.ru.ac.za)
Date: April 24, 2006 06:29PM

Thanks. It's nice to have a daily dose of madness....

I have to leave my sanity switched on outside my room.

Most distressing....



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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Hug Trees much?
Posted by: kaz (58.169.143.---)
Date: April 25, 2006 01:49AM

So that's why I never went to Uni. I couldn't do that.

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