I think they're cute. :)
Though, the Chaos Scepter will be difficult to match until they come up with more purple items. :3

Wow, I'll bet Turkey Burgers are hard to make.. I just see turkey as a difficult meat to work with. It's all slow cooking and stuff, and so gross if it's a little bit raw.

LOLOL Oh jeez... you guys gotta see this. I don't even know why, but compulsively after I wrote that I searched turkey burger on google.

Can you BELIEVE this recipe?????????? Ewwwwwwww... you should see the picture of it.http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Goat-Ch...rs/Detail.aspx

Goat Cheese and Spinach Turkey Burgers

SUBMITTED BY: Nicole
"This fast and easy recipe is perfect to make after a long day at work. The goat cheese adds a creamy flavor to sometimes bland turkey burgers. Served with a side salad, it makes a perfectly delicious meal."

INGREDIENTS

* 1 1/2 pounds ground turkey breast
* 1 cup frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained
* 2 tablespoons goat cheese, crumbled

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat the oven broiler.
2. In a medium bowl, mix ground turkey, spinach, and goat cheese. Form the mixture into 4 patties.
3. Arrange patties on a broiler pan, and place in the center of the preheated oven 15 minutes, or until done.

Wow, the donation items are purty. I might splurg 5 bucks I don't have on them. It is important to keep up on donation items especially since they're the first ones. Gosh, how sad, but I just don't have time for Gaia.. it's definitely one or the other for me. I really like Mene though...

And the RP is going to be fun I can already tell. I like the fact that there's a lot of newcomers... so no one feels intimidated like everyone else's an expert and they're all nooby mcnooberson.

Ugh.. I should really not be wasting time right now, but it's impossible to be productive hours and hours on end without some sort of nonsense! Right? Right. I guess that's why employers have to give their employees breaks...

So I have a question... on Thousand Gardens can you make your home ANYWHERE? Where do you think Ranger Ora would be happiest?

Ok, this is a golden bra. And it's totally smashing this chick's boobs.

http://www.bornrich.org/images/gold_brassiere.jpg

Why, for pete's sake... why?

Ok guys, I'm so close to making my next payment... neither you nor your silence is going to keep me from babbling in this thread. And true to it's name, I'd like to showcase the different types of spitoons used in the old west.

That way, when people ask us what the heck Spittin' Spitoon's has to do with anything, you can refer them to this excellent post.

A spittoon (or spitoon) is an article of furniture made for spitting into, especially by users of chewing tobacco. It is also known as a cuspidor, although that term is also used for a type of spitting sink used in dentistry. Cuspidors are still manufactured today, and commonly seen in gymnasia adjacent to drinking fountains.

"Spittoon" can also be slang American English for any receptacle (such as a tin can) used to hold spit, although the term "spitter" is more common.

Similar receptacles for spitting had been used in Southwest Asia for centuries. Spittoons appeared both in the United States and the United Kingdom under the same name about 1840. It has been suggested (perhaps humorously) that the name was in part onomatopoeia.


HOLY SHIT Guys, Spittoons aren't very midwestern at all... what are we gonna do?



Speaking of Spittoons, you guys don't know what you're missing not having researched this FASCINATING topic on google. You should search spittoon and see what comes up in the images section. They've got some pretty fancy pants spittoons, a little *too* fancy for a spit recepticle if you ask me. Some look all French Victorian and it's just like jeez... why can't they be English Elizabethean you know what I'm saying Sizzla??

Ok, I don't mean to stir the waters further, and when you guys come back from wherever you are you're going to have a lot of reading to catch up on, but I ASSURE you all that this is VITAL to our thread's credibility.

Not only am I having a Spittoon crisis, I'm also having a crisis over what exactly the Midwest is. I think we need to be more specific.

Midwestern United States (or Midwest) refers to the north-central states of the United States of America, specifically Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota. Both the geographic center of the contiguous U.S. (in Kansas) and the population center of the U.S. (now in Missouri) are in the Midwest. The United States Census Bureau divides this region into the East North Central States (essentially the Great Lakes States); and the West North Central States (essentially the Great Plains States).

The term Midwest has been in common use for over 100 years. Other designations for the region have fallen into disuse, such as the "Northwest" or "Old Northwest" (from Northwest Territory), "Mid-America," or "Heartland". Since the book Middletown appeared in 1929, sociologists have often used Midwestern cities, and the Midwest generally, as "typical" of the entire nation.[1] The Midwest region of the United States has a higher employment to population ratio (the number of people employed as a percent of the population) than the Northeast, the West, the South, or the Sun Belt states.

The term "Middle West" originated in the 19th century, followed by "Midwest." The heart of the Midwest is bounded by the Great Lakes and the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys, the "Old Northwest" (or the "West"), an area that comprised the original Northwest Territory. This area is now called the "East North Central States" by the United States Census Bureau and the "Great Lakes" region by its inhabitants.

The Northwest Territory was created out of the ceded English (formerly French and Native American) frontier lands under the Northwest Ordinance by the Continental Congress just before the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The Northwest Ordinance prohibited slavery and religious discrimination, and promoted public schools and private property, but did not apply after the territories became states. The Northwest Ordinance also specified that the land be surveyed and sold in the rectangular grids of the Public Land Survey System, which was first used in Ohio. The effect of this grid system can be seen throughout the Midwest in such things as county shapes and road networks.

In contrast, land in Kentucky and Tennessee was surveyed and sold using metes and bounds. As Revolutionary War soldiers were awarded lands in Ohio and migrated there and to other Midwestern states with other pioneers, the area became the first thoroughly "American" region. Frederick Jackson Turner celebrated its frontier for shaping the national character of individualism and democracy.

The Midwest region today sometimes refers not only to states created from the Northwest Ordinance, but also may include states between the Appalachian Mountains and the Rocky Mountains and north of the Ohio River. In all, 12 states are covered by The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia (2006).

The term West was applied to the region in the early years of the country. Later, the region west of the Appalachians was divided into the Far West (now just the West), and the Middle West. Some parts of the Midwest have also been referred to as Northwest for historical reasons (for instance, this explains the Minnesota-based Northwest Airlines as well as Northwestern University in Illinois), so the current Northwest region of the country is called the Pacific Northwest to make a clear distinction.

Hey guys, I thought you might like to peruse some of this as well. Did you know that the eastern part of Kansas has a humid continental climate??

Betcha didn't. Despite my rambling, I genuinely found this interesting.



The humid continental climate is a climate found over large areas of land masses in the temperate regions of the mid-latitudes where there is a zone of conflict between polar and tropical air masses. The humid continental climate is marked by variable weather patterns and a large seasonal temperature variance. The seasonal temperature variance can be as great as 30-39° Celsius (55-70° Fahrenheit). The temperature difference between the warmest and coldest months increases as one moves further inland and away from the moderating influence of the ocean.

The warm summer (Köppen: Dfa) subtype of the humid continental climate, marked by hot (the warmest month has an average temperature in excess of 22°C (71.6°F), rainy summers and snowy winters. Within North America it includes much of the eastern and midwestern portions of the United States and extreme southern Canada from the Atlantic to the 100th meridian west and from about 40°N to 44°N latitude

The cool summer subtype (Köppen: Dfb) lies north of the warm summer subtype; in North America, from about 44°N to 50°N in the east but places of adequate precipitation as far north as 54°N in the Canadian Prairie Provinces and below 40°N in the high Appalachians, separated by the 22°C isotherm for the warmest month from the Dfa climates (which passes near Minneapolis, Minnesota and Grand Rapids, Michigan).Summer temperatures in this zone are usually between 70 F and 85 F during the daytime.

Wow, that's almost too much information for my brain today. o_o

...But, I am in Indiana! So, that's in the Midwest. So I can be here? <_<?

Of COURSE you can... I was born in Valparaiso, Indiana myself.
Know where that is??

Wow. I think I'm blown away by all of this information coming at me so quickly!! :shock:

Damn Debs, bored much?! Shouldn't you be working or something? Instead of posting all the information you can from Wikipedia? LOLOLOLOLOLOL

Well shit, wasn't it your idea for Spittin' Spittoons? Do we need to be something else "Midwest"?

Btw, I'm going to post your midwest information in the first post, so that whoever comes here who doesn't live in those specific states can get the hell out. We're exclusionary like that, whut!

So, lets think...What are some symbols of the Midwest?

• corn
• wheat
• cows
• farms
• wide-open spaces
• covered wagons (I'm starting to think historical now...Like Oregon Trail!)
• um...pioneers?

Oh hell, I'm no good at this. XP

Spittin' Spitoon's Midwest Saloon just sounds SO RIGHT. Don't make me change it! T_T

Okay, let's go back and answer questions for you...But I'll have to post in another post, because I think I can earn substantially more gold that way. more posts = more money!

Yes Deb-e, I'm glad you realize the importance of getting the first donation items. :D I'm going to have to start hording them or something. I dunno. That was a mistake on Zantarni, and now I spent money on stuff I'll probably not get worth out of. T_T Ah well, I guess that's the breaks. We'll see. It may come back...

I like the fact that there are a lot of newcomers in our RP too. It makes me feel in control at least...for now. Plus, it's not nearly as intimidating as playing with some people on Gaia who are such AWESOME writers that I can't compare to their mad skillz.

Yes, you can make Ora's home ANYWHERE you please. Like I said, you can even make a garden of her very own...It can be big or small, and have whatever creatures and plants you want inside it.

I still need to work out details of the Center Garden, where Dalia lives. She's just been reborn, so there's a lot of sprucing up she needs to do with the place. XD I haven't quite decided what her style is going to be yet. We shall see!

Anyways, I totally encourage you to write up Ora's home garden. I think it'll give you a better sense of your character and what she likes to surround herself with. :D


Also, turkey burgers are kinda hard to make, simply because they have little fat to hold them together when you're cooking them. I use the george foreman grill, and they do okay there. I just try not to move them around when they're cooking, and they stay together pretty well.

Spinach and goat cheese? Uh, I dunno about all that...

Tornadoes!

Oh and those Turkey spinach burgers look awesome!

djoy: I've heard of Valparaiso, but never been. I live in Columbus, myself. =D

New ART!! xD

I really need to get on with the long winded posts... djoy.. I need your skills T_T


More new art xD

Originally Posted by Eroy

New ART!! xD

OMG, that's SO HOT.

XD

How much did that cost you? I got something from Rvaya, but it didn't look like that! *oogles*

She had a bribe slot so I bribed her. It was two donation items *nodnod*

Isn't it awesome? xDD

A tornado is a violently rotating column of air which is in contact with both a cumulonimbus (or, in rare cases, cumulus) cloud base and the surface of the earth. Tornadoes can come in many sizes, but are typically in the form of a visible condensation funnel, with the narrow end touching the earth. Often, a cloud of debris encircles the lower portion of the funnel.

Most tornadoes have winds of 110 mph (175 km/h) or less, are approximately 250 feet (75 meters) across, and travel a few miles (several kilometers) before dissipating. However, some tornadoes can have winds of more than 300 mph (480 km/h), be more than a mile (1.6 km) across, and stay on the ground for dozens of miles (more than 100 kilometers).

Tornadoes have been observed on every continent except Antarctica; however, most of the world's tornadoes occur in the United States. Other areas which commonly experience tornadoes include New Zealand, western and southeastern Australia, south-central Canada, northwestern and central Europe, Italy, south-central and eastern Asia, east-central South America, and Southern Africa.

A multiple vortex tornado is a type of tornado in which two or more columns of spinning air rotate around a common center. Multivortex structure can occur in almost any circulation, however it is very often observed in smaller, violent tornadoes. A satellite tornado is a term for a weaker tornado which forms very near a large, strong tornado contained within the same mesocyclone. The satellite tornado may appear to "orbit" the larger tornado (hence the name), giving the appearance of one, large multi-vortex tornado. However, a satellite tornado is a distinct funnel, and is much smaller than the main funnel. Occasionally a single storm may produce multiple tornadoes and mesocyclones. This process is known as cyclic tornadoegenesis. Tornadoes produced from the same storm are referred to as a tornado family.


You know why...

Did you know...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is a children's book written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow. It was originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago in 1900, and has since been reprinted countless times, sometimes under the name The Wizard of Oz. The story chronicles the adventures of a girl named Dorothy in the Land of Oz. It is one of the best-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely translated. Its initial success led to Baum's writing and having published thirteen more Oz books.

Baum dedicated the book "to my good friend & comrade, My Wife," Maud Gage Baum. In January 1901 the publisher, the George M. Hill Company, completed printing the first edition, which probably totaled around 35,000 copies. Records indicate that 21,000 copies were sold through 1900.

The book has been in public domain since 1956.

Historians, economists and literary scholars have examined and interpreted possible political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but the majority of readers and critics have likely enjoyed the novel on its own merits.

^I do know some of those things. XD

OMG, I got to rearrange my office, so now I can play online without people looking over my shoulder! It's THE SHIT.

LOL

I should post in the RP...I'll do it here soon. I need to equip a new donation item first though I think...:D

YAY FOR PAYDAY!!!

Originally Posted by Eroy

She had a bribe slot so I bribed her. It was two donation items *nodnod*

Isn't it awesome? xDD

IT IS SO AWESOME. NOW I WANT ONE!

Stop making me jealous. XP

Well she had another bribe slot open.. but yume bribed her with a v-day hairpin :roll:

ugh. Of COURSE she did.

Why am I not surprised...

*sobs*