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Ask purplehippieonthe1 (just about) anything! If you have a burning question or are just curious to know, just ask me.
This could be interesting. P.S. This was the first time I referred to myself in the third person. | |
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Hello, purplehippieonthe1! I do have a few questions for you.
1) What are your hobbies? 2) I'm not very familiar with Iceland (other than Bjork comes from there). What is a popular Icelandic dish? 3) How is your last name pronounced? Shake it til ya make it | |
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so did you go to the big fancy concert last weekend (or the weekend before, however ya wanna say it)? how was it??? | |
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JuliePurplehead said: Hello, purplehippieonthe1! I do have a few questions for you.
1) What are your hobbies? 2) I'm not very familiar with Iceland (other than Bjork comes from there). What is a popular Icelandic dish? 3) How is your last name pronounced? 1) I'm very much into everything music-related, listening to music, playing music (on electric guitar usually), going to gigs. I also follow politics very much, especially the US presidential race. Also somewhat related to music, I frequently go to clubs in the weekend with my friends. 2)It depends on what day of the week or the season I guess. On weekdays Icelanders tend to eat a lot of fish, especially haddock. In the weekend, lamb is always a popular dish, in the summer we like to grill either lamb or hot dogs. On Christmas, smoked lamb is a very popular dish. Other than that, we follow mostly the international cuisine. 3) Although I write it here as "Gudjonsson", my last name has some specific Icelandic characters.... the actual writing is in Icelandic: Guðjónsson. The "Guð" is pronounced like "Gvuth", "jónsson" is pronounced like "yo-nsson". | |
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Anxiety said: so did you go to the big fancy concert last weekend (or the weekend before, however ya wanna say it)? how was it???
The concert with Björk and Sigur Rós was GREAT. Björk complained about having a sore throat but it didn't affect her performance that much. Here's a thread I made about the concert last weekend (with pics): http://prince.org/msg/8/274845 | |
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When are you coming to a London Invasion? | |
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shanti0608 said: When are you coming to a London Invasion?
That's a good question. I would love to go to London next autumn for instance.... If there's some "invasion" going on then I might just be a part of it, we'll just have to see I guess. | |
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purplehippieonthe1 said: shanti0608 said: When are you coming to a London Invasion?
That's a good question. I would love to go to London next autumn for instance.... If there's some "invasion" going on then I might just be a part of it, we'll just have to see I guess. | |
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hey David, can I buy you a drink? What will you have! | |
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do you eat sheep faces? | |
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Is it really true that you guys have some kind of festival or tradition where you search the cities for baby puffins who are lost, take them home for the night and then take them to the coast the next morning to let them go?
If so, cutest tradition ever. | |
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ZombieKitten said: hey David, can I buy you a drink? What will you have!
Sure babe..... a nice lager would be very much appreciated right now. | |
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ZombieKitten said: do you eat sheep faces?
Well SOME do.... I'm not that much into the whole "traditional food" culture that evolves around the mid-winter feasts called Þorri... but you can read more about the other traditional foods (including sheep testicles) here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w...Eorramatur | |
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JustErin said: Is it really true that you guys have some kind of festival or tradition where you search the cities for baby puffins who are lost, take them home for the night and then take them to the coast the next morning to let them go?
If so, cutest tradition ever. Yes, it's true (sort of). There is a group of islands just off the southern shore of Iceland called the Westman Islands, with one inhabited island of 4000 people. This is where the puffins are in Iceland. In August, there seems be a lot of baby puffins that fly over to the Westman Islands town during the evening, intrigued by the town lights. Unfortunately, they have almost no chance of getting back to their home since the local cats tend to kill them. This is why the kids living in the Westman Islands often go and rescue them. Often a group of 2-3 kids gather dozens of puffins in cardboard boxes and then let them go in their natural habitat the next day. The usual restrictions about children staying out late are lifted for this tradition and the kids tend to be compete about getting to the puffins, sometimes with each other, other times with the cats! [Edited 7/7/08 12:05pm] | |
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Are you flattered that I think you're hot? 2010: Healing the Wounds of the Past.... http://prince.org/msg/8/325740 | |
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SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said: Are you flattered that I think you're hot?
ME being called HOT? this is a first! ... so yeah, I guess I'm pretty flattered. | |
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purplehippieonthe1 said: JustErin said: Is it really true that you guys have some kind of festival or tradition where you search the cities for baby puffins who are lost, take them home for the night and then take them to the coast the next morning to let them go?
If so, cutest tradition ever. Yes, it's true (sort of). There is a group of islands just off the southern shore of Iceland called the Westman Islands, with one inhabited island of 4000 people. This is where the puffins are in Iceland. In August, there seems be a lot of baby puffins that fly over to the Westman Islands town during the evening, intrigued by the town lights. Unfortunately, they have almost no chance of getting back to their home since the local cats tend to kill them. This is why the kids living in the Westman Islands often go and rescue them. Often a group of 2-3 kids gather dozens of puffins in cardboard boxes and then let them go in their natural habitat the next day. The usual restrictions about children staying out late are lifted for this tradition and the kids tend to be compete about getting to the puffins, sometimes with each other, other times with the cats! [Edited 7/7/08 12:05pm] Awwww...I learned about this on Global Grover this morning. | |
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purplehippieonthe1 said: JustErin said: Is it really true that you guys have some kind of festival or tradition where you search the cities for baby puffins who are lost, take them home for the night and then take them to the coast the next morning to let them go?
If so, cutest tradition ever. Yes, it's true (sort of). There is a group of islands just off the southern shore of Iceland called the Westman Islands, with one inhabited island of 4000 people. This is where the puffins are in Iceland. In August, there seems be a lot of baby puffins that fly over to the Westman Islands town during the evening, intrigued by the town lights. Unfortunately, they have almost no chance of getting back to their home since the local cats tend to kill them. This is why the kids living in the Westman Islands often go and rescue them. Often a group of 2-3 kids gather dozens of puffins in cardboard boxes and then let them go in their natural habitat the next day. The usual restrictions about children staying out late are lifted for this tradition and the kids tend to be compete about getting to the puffins, sometimes with each other, other times with the cats! [Edited 7/7/08 12:05pm] oh my god! i love you guys! baby puffin rescue! awww | |
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purplehippieonthe1 said: ZombieKitten said: hey David, can I buy you a drink? What will you have!
Sure babe..... a nice lager would be very much appreciated right now. I'll join you! | |
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can you remember: had we just detected a fart when this photo was taken? | |
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purplehippieonthe1 said: JustErin said: Is it really true that you guys have some kind of festival or tradition where you search the cities for baby puffins who are lost, take them home for the night and then take them to the coast the next morning to let them go?
If so, cutest tradition ever. Yes, it's true (sort of). There is a group of islands just off the southern shore of Iceland called the Westman Islands, with one inhabited island of 4000 people. This is where the puffins are in Iceland. In August, there seems be a lot of baby puffins that fly over to the Westman Islands town during the evening, intrigued by the town lights. Unfortunately, they have almost no chance of getting back to their home since the local cats tend to kill them. This is why the kids living in the Westman Islands often go and rescue them. Often a group of 2-3 kids gather dozens of puffins in cardboard boxes and then let them go in their natural habitat the next day. The usual restrictions about children staying out late are lifted for this tradition and the kids tend to be compete about getting to the puffins, sometimes with each other, other times with the cats! [Edited 7/7/08 12:05pm] | |
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Anxiety said: can you remember: had we just detected a fart when this photo was taken? I'm not sure, though it sure looks like it. | |
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purplehippieonthe1 said: ZombieKitten said: do you eat sheep faces?
Well SOME do.... I'm not that much into the whole "traditional food" culture that evolves around the mid-winter feasts called Þorri... but you can read more about the other traditional foods (including sheep testicles) here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w...Eorramatur yup this was what I meant http://bp1.blogger.com/_N...pungar.gif [Edited 7/8/08 3:42am] | |
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Are you joining the Samtök gegn skemmdum mat? | |
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ZombieKitten said: Are you joining the Samtök gegn skemmdum mat?
No... I don't mind OTHER people eating this kind of stuff, as long as I'm not forced to eat it and as long as my "Icelandic-ness" isn't questioned because of me not eating it. Anywho, I do eat SOME of the food served at these kind of Þorri buffets, not the gross stuff though.... just the dried fish and smoked lamb. | |
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purplehippieonthe1 said: ZombieKitten said: Are you joining the Samtök gegn skemmdum mat?
No... I don't mind OTHER people eating this kind of stuff, as long as I'm not forced to eat it and as long as my "Icelandic-ness" isn't questioned because of me not eating it. Anywho, I do eat SOME of the food served at these kind of Þorri buffets, not the gross stuff though.... just the dried fish and smoked lamb. I'd like to try the dried fish | |
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