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09/03/06 at 5:47pm

If anyone can make a better dolphin noise using a keyboard, you should show me how here.

Also, If no one gets that Venga Boys joke I will finally believe the world is a wonderful place.

Got me a new camera! A professional SLR I've been saving up for for the past 8 months. The second half of that comic was taken with the new camera. This is only exciting to me! Yay me!

The first half of the comic were pictures I took over a year ago with my Pops. It's amazing it took me this long to write it in! Three cheers for Poppa V, who, seriously is one of the most amazing and talented music guys you'll ever meet.

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Reply #1 - 09/03/06 at 5:54pm

I would try to make better dolphin noises using a keyboard, but if such a thing can be achieved (which I DOUBT), I do not want to be the one to oust your spectacular method. Leave that to the children of Mavis Beacon and Moog.

.. yeah, I don't get it.

Congratulations on the new camera! Also, your Pops seems like a pretty terrific fella'! Yay pretty terrific fella'!

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LaurenTK Offline Is that a cat or are you just glad to see me? Posts: 545 Seattle Gender:	Re: 162-Llama, Llama, Llama, Pigeon Reply #2 - 09/03/06 at 6:02pm colleen AF venable wrote on 09/03/06 at 5:47pm: Got me a new camera! A professional SLR I've been saving up for for the past 8 months. The second half of that comic was taken with the new camera. This is only exciting to me! Yay me! Oooooo! What kind? Make? Model? What lenses?
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Annie_Sanders Moderator Offline I'm watching you. Posts: 546 Upstairs from Secret Lair Gender:	Re: 162-Llama, Llama, Llama, Pigeon Reply #3 - 09/03/06 at 7:27pm weird, when i read the title of this post, i read it to the tune of the "money money money" song that is used as the theme song for the apprentice... llama-llama-llama-llama... PPIIIGGEEOOON!
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Reply #4 - 09/04/06 at 12:13am

I thought this title was making fun of that "duck, duck, completelydifferentanimal" game that most of you kids seem to remember.

As for the Venga Boys reference, I'm sorry but the world is indeed a terrible place. Now I have that Venga Bus song in my head and... *Karen's brain kicks in, automatically, with the Wallace & Gromit theme from "A Grand Day Out" that was used in "Curse of the Wererabbit", knocking anything else out of her head, including the rest of this sentence*

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Reply #6 - 09/04/06 at 12:42pm

Annie_Sanders wrote on 09/03/06 at 7:27pm:

weird, when i read the title of this post, i read it to the tune of the "money money money" song that is used as the theme song for the apprentice...

llama-llama-llama-llama... PPIIIGGEEOOON!

Aw now that song is stuck in my head! *singing*
If only I hadn't watched the American Apprentice the other night, I would be ignorant as to what you meant, shoot.

I love the dolphin noise, I've never seen it captured so well in punctuation marks.Congrats.

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Reply #7 - 09/04/06 at 2:45pm

Haha! Actually you are right. The title does sound like that Money song, but I was really thinking of THIS SONG when I wrote it.

As for the Venga Boys they were a 1 and a Half hit wonder. They had the song "We Like to Party" which was followed up by "Up and Down," one of my worst guilty pleasures in the realm of songs. I think it's particially because I saw this amazing trampoline routine by a modern dance troupe to that song.

Up and down starts out with a man speaking and then goes into an annoying repeative techno with just the words Up and Down. Stolen from some lyrics site:

We have already in the past produced records
These records were successful
And produced considerable results
But the funds have been spent
And very well spent
And for this reason we're
now producing
a new, unique record
called Up and Down

Up and down
Up and down
And up and down...etc.

It never fails to amuse me and it seems just the sort of song Trent would go for.

[begin camera geek talk]
I had a feeling if anyone would care about the camera it would be you, Lauren! It's a Nikon D50, not the top of the line by any means but it's a really good body. I'm a nikon girl so I have a good deal of lenses, including my 50mm 1.4 which one of the best lenses nikon ever made. My camera came with a 18-55 zoom which I'm surprised to find out is relatively decent performance wise, even if it's so light it feels like it's made of paper. I still need a good macro lens. I got macro adaptors to screw on like a skylight but they affect the overall focus a bit too much for my taste.

I'm actually not very happy with the way the shots came out for the close-up setting, since it relies too much on reds and greens and is more contrasty rather than getting sutble mid-tones. I have a feeling though in the next few weeks the quality of the photographs in the comic is going to vastly improve.
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Also, I have a feeling I'm going tostart to murder a giraffe. It's about time...

In all honesty, I can't take any credit for the keyboard-style dolphin call. It was my boyfriend Mikey's first contribution to the comic. Looking over my shoulder at the i's and o's covering the screen in an attempt to mimic a dolphin call, said matter-o-fact: "Dolphins speak in parentheses." Yeah, this boy's a keeper.

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Reply #9 - 09/04/06 at 9:44pm

colleen AF venable wrote on 09/04/06 at 2:45pm:

My camera came with a 18-55 zoom which I'm surprised to find out is relatively decent performance wise, even if it's so light it feels like it's made of paper. I still need a good macro lens. I got macro adaptors to screw on like a skylight but they affect the overall focus a bit too much for my taste.

I hear ya on the kit lens. Our D70s came with 18-70 zoom, and they're pretty flimsy. They work just fine, but won't last in the long run.

As far as macro lenses go, you could get extension tubes (which go between the lens and the body). They're cheap, but you loose some light, and they also screw with the focus.

I'm really happy with the Tamron SP AF DI 90mm macro. To start with it's an f2.8 lens. The focusing mechanism is very smooth, and the focus ring has a long "throw" to make it very easy to focus really up close and personal. The downside is that it's a sorta pricey lens. Not super pricey, but you'll definitely feel the purchase.

Anyway, very cool! It's a good camera, and I'm sure you'll enjoy it very much.

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Yanichka Offline I could do this all day. Posts: 623 Here, near the computer Gender:	Re: 162-Llama, Llama, Llama, Pigeon Reply #10 - 09/05/06 at 12:16am The title also works as the Batman theme: Llama-llama-llama-llama, llama-llama-llama-llama, pigeon! and another song which I have forgotten since watching the albinoblacksheep link.
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Reply #11 - 09/05/06 at 1:21am

I was going to ask where in the heck you got a stuffed pigeon, but then I had flashes of a Walter Sobchek-like deal going down for it:

Annie Sanders: You want a pigeon? I can get you a pigeon, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me.
CAFV: Yeah, but Walter...
Annie Sanders: Hell, I can get you a pigeon by 3 o'clock this afternoon... with nail polish. These fucking amateurs...

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Reply #12 - 09/05/06 at 5:51am

colleen AF venable wrote on 09/04/06 at 2:45pm:

As for the Venga Boys they were a 1 and a Half hit wonder. They had the song "We Like to Party" which was followed up by "Up and Down," one of my worst guilty pleasures in the realm of songs. I think it's particially because I saw this amazing trampoline routine by a modern dance troupe to that song.

Now "We Like to Perty" is in my head. But you forget what I feel is their *cough* best song "We're Going To Ibiza" [instead of Barbados]. Which at Primary school became "Woah, we're gunna bake a pizza!/ Yeah, put it in the oven..." you get the idea....

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Reply #13 - 09/07/06 at 9:22am

Going to Ibiza? I've never even heard of that one! Guess it didn't cross the waters (something we should all be grateful for) Let me guess, it's got one line to the lyrics that they just say over and over and over (and over) again.

Sekuin, just realized I didn't answer your question. I shall do so now in two parts:

-Yes, that is the pigeon that scared the cleaning lady every night before I took it home.

-No, that's not my only fake pigeon. You know the saying, "A girl can never have too many fake pigeons."

This is where I got um: http://www.thisplaceisazoo.com/site/505480/product/GHCK109

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Reply #14 - 09/07/06 at 9:43am

colleen AF venable wrote on 09/07/06 at 9:22am:

Going to Ibiza? I've never even heard of that one! Guess it didn't cross the waters (something we should all be grateful for) Let me guess, it's got one line to the lyrics that they just say over and over and over (and over) again.

It had many lyrics. Do you know the song Barbados? [Woh, we're going to Barbados/ Woh, back to the palm trees...] 'Cause it was that song but slightly altered.... Real origional.

Man what a great contribution to the world of music.

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