Family Circle

Today the two groups have split up. One group consists of Julie, David, Cameron, and Tin, while the other had Kevin, Justin, and Sidudu.
The mini adventure of “Into the Darkness” are as follows:
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Julie’s group:

Level 4 & 5 Dummies
Poison Wasp
Malibu
Rock Snail
Spider
Smelly Rat
Snake
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Kevin’s Group:

Level 1 & 2 Dummies
Poison Wasp
Malibu
Snail
Spider
Rat
Snake
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This mini adventure is drawing to a close, as both groups are in the same position, each with two battles left, the kitten, and Yulgar. Comments are always welcome.

相思
红豆生南国,春来发几枝.愿君多采撷,此物最相思.

登幽州台歌
前不见古人,后不见来者.念天地之悠悠,独怆然而涕下.

早发白帝城
朝辞白帝彩云间,千里江陵一日还.两岸猿声啼不住,轻舟已过万重山.

绝句
两个黄鹂鸣翠柳,一行白鹭上青天.窗含西岭千秋雪,门泊东吴万里船.

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宋词:
清平乐
春归何处,寂寞无行路.若有人知春去处,唤取归来同住.春无踪迹谁知?除非问取黄鹂.百啭无人能解,因风飞过蔷薇.

浣溪沙
一曲新词酒一杯,去年天气旧亭台.夕阳西下几时回? 无可奈何花落去,似曾相识燕归来,小园香径独徘徊.

过年了,大家新年快乐!

今年,我家新添了一位成员,他-就是我那刚出生的小弟弟.
刚出生的小弟弟眼睛小小的,细细的,就像弯弯的月牙.而且,他两边小脸蛋也鼓鼓的,圆圆的,鸡蛋似的,大家都说他长的像舅舅.放假了,我从丽水回来,看到一个半月的小弟弟变了许多,越来越像我和爸爸了,额头大大的,几乎跟我一模一样,那眼睛也是单眼皮,我们的谢家人啊,全都是单眼皮,.上次,我跟着小弟弟去医院给他洗澡的时候,他是3.8千克,这次,去称的时候,已是4.1千克了呢!
这几天,小弟弟的食量也越来越大了,妈妈的奶水根本不够他吃,只得吃奶粉了.而小弟弟呢,白天吃足喝饱了,便像小猪一样,睡了又吃,吃了又睡,而且睡得挺香的.到了晚上,那奶粉好象成了兴奋剂似的,小弟弟时不时”恩恩”的叫个不停,睁大那双小眼睛,仿佛像个神仙,害得大家天天睡不醒.唉,他昼夜都分不清了,现在,爸爸妈妈都已经控制不住他啦!
我家的小弟弟正在逐渐成长!
毛毛1/26

I made a big decision a little while ago,
I don’t remember what it was, which prob’ly goes so slow
That many times a simple choice can prove to be essential
Even though it often might appear inconsequential.

I must have been distracted when I left my home because
Left or right I’m sure I went (I wonder which it was!)
Anyway, I never veered : I walked in that direction
Utterly absorbed, it seems , in quiet introspection.

For no reason I can think of , I’ve wandered far astray.
And that is how I got to where I find myself today.

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Explorers are we, interepid and bold,
Out in the wild, amongst wonders untold.
Equipped with our wits, a map and a snack,
We’re searchin’ for fun and we’re on the right track.

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My mother has eyes on the back of her head!!!
I don’t quite belive it but that’s what she said.
She explained that she’d been so uniquely endowed
To catch me when I do Things Not Allowed.
I think she must also have eyes on her rear.
I’ve noticed her hindsight is unusually clear.

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At night my mind does not much care
If what it thinks is here or there.
It tells me stories it invents
And makes up things that don’t make sense.
I don’t know why it does this stuff.
The world seems quite wierd enough.

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What if my bones were in a museum,
Where aliens paid good money to see ‘em?
And suppose they put me together all wrong,
Sticking bones onto bones where they don’t belong!

Imagine phalanges, pelvis and spine
Welded to mandibles that once had been mine!
With each misassemblage, error compounded,
The aliens would draw back in terror, astounded!

Their textbooks would show me in grim illustration,
The most hideous thing ever seen in creation!
The museum would commision a model in plaster
of ME, to be called “evolution’s disaster”!!

And patentologists there would debate
Dozens of treories to help posulate
How man survived for those thousands of years
With teeth covred arms growing out of his ears!

Oh I hope I’m never in such manner displayed,
No matter HOW much the aliens paid.

Now I’m in bed
The sheets pulled to my head
My tiger is makin’ the Z’s.
He’s furry and hot.
He takes up alot
Of the bed and he’s hogging the breeze.

There was an old woman named Tia Miseria. She had her BIG, FAT, chickens, she had her vegetable garden, and she had her beautiful, beautiful, pear tree. She had beloved her pear tree since birth. Every time she bit into a pear, she would say “O, how tasty!!!!”. But there was still one problemo, one problem. The next door kids, the people that had called her Tia Miseria, ran to her house every day. They would run through her garden, step on all her vegetables, and sit on the top of her pear trees, eatin’ them and throwin’ them at those poor chickens. She would be in such an outrage she swore that if they ever went up her pear tree again, she would kill them. She was joking, of course, ’cause she never wanted to kill a human bein’ since she was religos.

One day as she was cookin’ she heard a knock at the door. As she opened her door she saw a black man. He said that he was on a journey so he asked if he could spend the night. Tia cooked tortillas, rezzo, and nachos. As they were eatin’, the man told her that he is a retired magician. He could grant Tia one wish. ” Oh, I will wish for plato, for silver, oh, no, no, no. I will wish for oro for gold.” Then she had a great idea. “I know what I want. I wish that when anybody gets on my pear tree, they can never come down until I say my magic words ‘baje, baje, from my pear tree.’ ” Well then, ” He told a spell “Hocus Pocus, Marania Nerogious, Harabaladan Karamagazoo!!!!” A great gust of wind bleww and the magician dissapearred.

THE NEXT DAY…

Her little enimies, the children, came back. As the same manner as before, they ran through her garden, steped on all her vegetables, and sat on the top of her pear tree, eatin’ them and throwin’ them at those poor chickens. But instead of going out and “punishing” them, she went to her kitchen, got a cup of coffee, and sat at her front porch. The children knew that somethin’ was seriously wrong. she told them to get down but they said “Noo!! We are not ready!!!!!”. When they were “ready” they found out that they could not get down. The spell was on. They begged for Tia to let them down, but she said “No.” They asked her again, and she holled, or boomed, or bellowed “NO!!!!!”. She finally let them down and they ne’er came back again.

TWO YEARS LATER

she heard a loud KNOCK!! KNOCK!!!!! She opened the door to reveal death. She tricked him into the pear tree. Her friend came by. For some reason, she wanted to die. Tia promised death that he would absolutly, positively, never, ever, ever kill Tia. Now it is said that as long as death keeps his promise, there will be misery in this world.

‘Twas midnight in the ocean,
not a streetcar was in sight.
For the sun was shining brightly,
and it rained all day that night.
A summer day in winter,
as the snow was rainin’ fast.
And a barefoot boy with shoes on,
stood sitting on the grass.

RIDDLES
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1. Jack leaves at a steady speed of 60 mph. Jill leaves at a steady speed of 30 mph. Jack left the same time as Jill. In 10 minutes, they pass each other.

How far is the distance beween Jack and Jill when they started?
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2. One who makes it does not tell it,

One who uses it does not recognize it,

One who recogizes it wants it not.
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3. Little, Little, horsey runs so fast.

The more he runs, the smaller his tail.
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4. A bus driver goes past a stop sign without stopping,
left turns when there is a NO LEFT TURN sign,
and keeps on going on a red light.

He did not break a single law.

What is going on?
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5. The user does not see it,
The maker does not use it,
And the buyer does not want it.
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6. It always runs but NEVER walks, has a mouth but NEVER talks.

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7. What goes up and down but never moves?

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8. A man gives one of his sons 10 cents and the other, 15.

What time is it?

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9. What has four legs but only one foot?
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10. A woman shoots her husband,
Puts him under water for over five minutes,
Hangs him,
And in a few moments, She has a wonderful feast with her husband.

What is going on?
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11.What goes through a door without pinching itself?
What sits on fire and and does not hurt itself?
What sits on the table and is not ashamed?
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12. This is an unusual paragraph, You might think that this is plain, but is actually isn’t! Not that I am trying to trick you, but for 1 thing, this is 1 thing that you have to think about, You also might think that this is just a orinary paragraph, And it’s true! now you can think about it. .,
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13. There is 1 word in the english language that is always pronouced incorrectly. What is it??
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14. There are 2 buckets that someone left full of water. You drop a rock into 1 of the buckets of water, which is 45 degrees F. At the same time, I drop another rock, exactly the same, into another bucket which is 30 degrees F. Which would hit the bottom first?
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15. How long can a dog run into the woods?
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JOKES___________________________________________________________

J1. Why did the rubber chicken cross the basketball court?
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J2. How did the boy get egyptian flu?

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J3. why do ghosts don’t like water?
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J4. What is a scarecrow’s favourite fruit?
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J5. What can you catch, but cannot throw?
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J6.

Man #1: Did you hear about Frankenstien making the door that you can see through?
Man #2: What is it?
Man #1: A window!
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J7.

Gramdma: Do you know what the shortest sentence in the English language is? It’s “I am”. Impressed?
Boy: I’m.
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J8.

Car driving Instructor: When any bad thing happens, put on the brakes.
Teenager: I thought they were built-in!

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Do you know morse code???
( If not, go to the hints)
MORSE CODE
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do you know what any of these mean?
M1. - . - - .
M2. - - . -
M3. - . - . - .
M4. - .
M5. - . - -
M6. - . - . - - . - . - - . - . - . .- - . - . - - . . - . - . - . . . -
hint: -=consanent
.=vowel
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MARKAENIAN MORSE CODE IN SENTENCES OR PHASES

M1M =+~= ==+==
M2M =+=^ +==+==+=+==
M3M =+ ^+= ==+^ ==+==~
M4M =+===+ ==+=
hint: ==consanent
+=vowel
^=y
~=punctuation

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Please place your answers in the “Comments” section WITH THE NUMBER OR ELSE I WILL NOT KNOW WHICH IT IS!! (and mark it wrong )

There will be new Jokes , Riddles, -.–. -.-., and soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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On window panes, the icy frost
Leaves feathered patterns, crissed & crossed,
But in our house the Christmas Tree,
Is decorated festively,
With tiny dots of colored light,
That cozy up this winter night,
Christmas songs, familiar, slow,
Plays softly on the radio,
Pops & hisses from the fire,
Whistle with the bells and choir,
Emily’s now fast asleep,
On her back and dreamin’ deep,
When the fire makes her hot,
She turns to warm whatever’s not,
Propped agaist me on the rug,
I give her a gentle hug,
Tommorow’s what I’m waiting for,
But I can wait a little more.

As Kordrav was having a good time as leader, he was also very rich. His house had 11 full bathrooms, 12 bedrooms, a kitchen and servants.(No wonder so many bathrooms and bedrooms!) One day, while he was swimming, his messenger had worrying news. Juperipets were invading Markae and heading their way! Kordrav immediately sent his 9,876,543,210 soldiers and 321 mages. He sent paladins in moracopters(Dragish helicopters) for healing.

The next day the fight began. There were centaurs and lawmakers, men and women. There were spirits of crabs , trees, and birds. There was almost every imaginary creature you could think of . The war started just before sundown, and there was only 98,754,319 juperipets. Most were awkward looking, 3 legged, had really ovalish heads and no arms. They were all robots. To defeat the juperipets, they (The dragish army) had to hit a button on their backs to realease their life outlets; they also had to cut the veins connecting the robotic rover. In an hour, the juperipets’ population was 10,975,310. The Dragish population was 976,543,210.In the end, the juperipets surrendered and ran away. As then, the dragishs’ souls have risen into space and are considered constellations.

We visited the Exploratorium on New Year’s day. This is our second visit because David (and all of us) liked it so much - it has all types of hand-on experiments built to reveal the wonder of nature and the secret of human perception.

The Exploratorium website also has a lot of interesting information and scientific demonstrations.

Standing nearby is the magnificant structure of The Palace of Fine Arts.