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Downstrike's Coffee Table


Updated September 24, 2005

 

Hi! Take a load off, sit down by Downstrike's Coffee Table and rest a while. Check out the clutter that's collected here.

Every home I've had, had a, "stuff", problem because the place called, "away", where people put things when they tidy a room is a total mystery to Downstrike. When things are put away, that's the last Downstrike will see of them until they consent to be found.

Each room has had a, "clutter-catcher", which is some piece of furniture which is the foundation for a leaning tower of stuff, things, items, objects, belongings, possessions, acutrements, implements, paraphernalia, junk, debris, trash, valuables, flotsam, jetsam, gunk, truck, geegaws, doodads, do-funnies, thingamajigs, hinkty-bobbles, goobdads, knickknacks, paddy-whacks, dogs to give bones to, and, oh yes, clutter. That's so they can be found again when wanted, until they get buried too deeply.

That's what Downstrike's other web pages turned into. Since Downstrike's trying to accomplish a specific purpose with each of those, a clutter-catcher was needed for the extra links that didn't apply to those purposes: An appropriate piece of furniture!

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Quotes From Some Favorite Authors

Gloria Hartman in Race for Doroon
"Can I meet other teabors?"

"Teabors?" She queried with great puzzlement in her voice.

"Yes, that's the name the colonists gave your...uh...people."

"We are keeborn." She made it very clear that she did not like the name teabors.

"Can I meet other keeborn?"

Her great head turned, eyes piercing him. "Do you want dead, Race?"

Douglas Adams in Last Chance To See
Sleeping in Labuan Bajo, however, is something of an endurance test.

Being woken at dawn by the cockerels is not in itself a problem. The problem arises when the cockerels get confused as to when dawn actually is. They suddenly explode into life, squawking and screaming at about one o'clock in the morning. At about one-thirty they eventually realise their mistake and shut up, just as the major dogfights of the evening are getting under way. These usually start with a few minor bouts between the more enthusiastic youngsters, and then the full chorus of heavyweights weighs in with a fine impression of what it might be like to fall into the pit of hell with the London Symphony Orchestra.

It is then quite an education to learn that two cats fighting can make easily as much noise as forty dogs. It is a pity to have to learn this at two-fifteen in the morning, but then the cats have a lot to complain about in Labuan Bajo. They all have their tails docked at birth, which is supposed to bring good luck, though presumably not to the cats.

Once the cats have concluded their reflections on this, the cockerels suddenly get the idea that it's dawn again and let rip. It isn't of course. Dawn is still two hours away, and you still have the delivery-van horn-blowing competition to get through to the accompaniment of the major divorce proceedings that have suddenly erupted in the room next door.

At last things calm down and your eyelids begin to slide thankfully together in the blessed predawn hush, and then, about five minutes later, the cockerels finally get it right.

William Shatner in Star Trek: Avenger
"I assumed that after you two left, I would escort Admiral McCoy to a shuttlecraft."

"The hell you will," McCoy said, "I'm beaming out with my friends."

Data blinked in confusion. "My apologies, Admiral, but I recall that you do not like the transporter as a mode of transportation."

"Hell, son. At my age, if my molecules get scrambled, it can only be an improvement."

Janet Kagan in Star Trek #21: Uhura's Song
The captain had been right, Rushlight seemed to call just to hear him speak. Scotty was flattered by this-but there was something more: in Rushlight he saw a good man to have at your side for a drink or a brawl. He had to forcibly remind himself from time to time that he was speaking to an alien who might enjoy neither.

He hoped Rushlight would have news. "Aye, Rushlight," he said, "Scotty here. Have ye ennathing t'report about the children?" Sulu's head shot up, and Scotty realized he'd fallen into Rushlight's manner of speaking of the landing party. Wait t'l the captain hears about that! he thought.

Michael Jan Friedman in Star Trek The Next Generation: Relics
"Mr. Data," he'd said, his voice thick with what the android now recognized as irony, "have you never heard of something called initiative? Do you intend to check with me before breathing?"

Data's answer had been: "Of course not sir. Breathing is an involuntary part of my program. The process requires no conscious decisions. However, if it ever becomes preferable not to breathe..."

"You will make that decision on your own," the captain had finished, in a carefully measured tone.

Now that you're here, be friendly. Use links to get acquainted. Some links are about where I live, some about what I do, and some about life, the universe and everything - according to Douglas Adams, and other things important to me.

If you're here for babes, remember what that word really means.

Let's see now, I do have an Email link and Guest Book, don't I? Whoops, it looks like my Guest Book Disappeared without notice! Hey, GuestPage.com, what happened here?

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