"Manky"
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When your food "goes off" it starts to get all manky.

"It'll go off"
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To me "It'll go off" is a warning to step away from the firearm, postman, or explosive. To my friends across the pond it means that your food is likely to spoil while you're away on holiday so be sure to eat the dairy, fruits and vegetables before you leave.

"Take the mickey out of"
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"Hire car"

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I certainly got a kick out of joking around that a hire car rose up above the rest. This one is a dead give away in my opinion. After returning from the trip I was checking into the hotel and the clerk asked me if I had a personal or a hire car. I asked him where he was from in England and got a wide eyed answer of Gloucester. Hahaa. Prior to my trip I would have completely missed the phrase I'm sure - I'd have just aswered the "personal car" part and been done with it.

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That thing is at it again. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA

It calls me an "evil fuck." HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAAHAHAA

Right back at you, dipshit.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAAAAAAAHAHAHAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA *deep breath* HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAHAHAHAAAAAAAA

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Beware the virtual roaches! They can be real. | Rezzable Greenies Roaches!

Speaking of Greenies - I saw these in a grocery store recently and could not help but snap a pic:

Melanie's accounts have been removed and someday hopefully they'll smarten up and remove the list of names from their announcement forum entry.

For those you of you staying on t61 - HAVE FUN! Good luck and I honestly hope that the worst of the drama is behind that community.

Here's the event notice:

"Three years ago, Ursula Cinquetti and Cher Harrington stumbled into SecondLife, after years of greening themselves in TSO.

And wow, what a journey it's been!

To celebrate these three amazing years, we have planned a day of LIVE music at Triumph Cove! Join us for the day or just pop in and say hi! We'd love to see you!

3:00 Johnny99 Gumshoe - born on the same day as Cher!
4:00 Charles Coleman
5:00 Frogg Marlowe and Jaycatt Nico
6:00 Komuso Tokugawa

Blaze Columbia of Blaze* Fine Fashions is providing a Blaze prize ball to shower our guests with free Blaze gift certificates!

We needed a theme, so in memory of The Sims Online, we picked GREEN! Wear your favorite green clothing, accessories, or avatars!"

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Triumph/167/128/22

"Car park"
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I have decided to bail on t61 as of today. I am sorry if this decision seems rash to some of you. I did not make it lightly, I assure you.

"Rabbiting"
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"The Tip"
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It's the 80th SRB! We'll change the name and have another huge party around the 100th (and thus start counting from 1 again! YAY) Suka Nishi has volunteered again to be the master of ceremonies and the one true organizer of this next event. We're looking to fill 6AM - 6PM SLT on July 13th. Artists interested in playing please contact Suka Nishi to get your time slot secured.

Next up is Toby Lancaster whose Divide By Zero is at 77 / 23

Sib song comes from Mimi - whiteout's cover of the followers at 30 / 16

HELP WANTED:
I'm looking to rename the Sibling Rivalry Bump with a name that sheds the antogonistic history. I think we've hopefully moved past that stage and the kids are now able to play the game without pulling on each other's hair. Any suggestions for a new name?
Suggestions so far:
1. friendly rivalry bump (not all that different, eh?)
2. what's an avatar among friends bump (I kinda like this one but it's a bit long?)
3. Spread the Love (Mallow's so sappy, so is Sally - 2 votes)
4. Bump Love
5. Love Bumps (3 votes)
6. Back Scratch Bump
7. Best of Both Worlds bumps (3 votes)

Also, there are now about 97 artists in rotation for our bump runs. At one bump a day that's a bump per artist once every 3 months or so. My latest thought goes like this: 2 SL artists, 1 Sib song per day. The group notice would contain a link to my blog entry with the links to the t61 songs. My t61 profile would have the three latest targets on the profile picks and a comment entry also simply pointing at my blog entry. I think this would save me time and effort while still remaining a fair way for everyone to get easy access to the links. I think I'll start this next week unless there are any objections - just IM me or leave a comment wall message on t61.

HOW WE CHOOSE THE ARTIST AND SONG (SUBJECT TO CHANGE):
From each artist in SL we choose the song that is closest to 100 points without going over and try to get it as many votes from as many unique voters as possible.

Our efforts are:
- Helping artists level up
- Keeping us engaged and active as a group
- Systematic and fair

Our in-world group is now at 135 group members and growing. We're tracking over 95 artists who have accounts in SL. It's nice to have you along for the ride :)

NEW ARTIST NOTE:
New artists will remain on the "todo" list until they join our in-world group. I am not putting them into rotation until they join. I realize that there is a limit to the number of groups that we can join and that is a big pain for all. However, I've had too many artists contact me to ask to get into rotation AFTER they've already been bumped by the group.

NOTE ON GROUP NOTICES:
Artists - please, please, please do NOT use the 61 group for live show announcements :) Use group chat for that. Notices should be for thanking fans, alerting us about new songs you've posted and other on-topic information about your web based 61 accounts. If you could also try to keep it to like one notice per week that would be swell :)

Chaos Noyes at Wishing Land 6-15-2008 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Dolmere Talamasca at Wishing Land 6-15-2008 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Dolmere Talamasca and Chaos Noyes Standing Far Apart 2 at Wishing Land 6-15-2008 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! Actually the answer to this tends to be yes. My band had a good show recently - a reporter came out and did an interview, took pictures and wrote up a nice article about it. Before the second set, after the interview, he asked if I could scoot over and stand closer together so that he could take pictures with the full band in it. It happens.

Sumar Morgan at Wishing Land 6-15-2008 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Chaos Noyes and Dolmere Talamasca playing Wishing Land 6-15-2008 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Hope Clary and TheDiva Rockin have started a new podcast. These two dynamic SL personalities join forces to co-hostess their own music flavored multimedia experience and music lovers are the better for it.

They have already posted an introduction snippet and an interview with Cylindrian featuring three of Cyl's songs.

Cyl blogged about it here: Cylindrian meets The Beat Chicks - Cylindrian’s Grace Notes

This past Sunday I attended the Paisley Beebe Tonight Live episode that saw both a brand new TV studio set AND a return performance from the wonderulf Jaycatt nico and Frogg Marlowe!

These guys are awesome and so very worthy of your time and attention! Check out the recorded video of the interview linked over at Jaycatt's blog: Jaycatt Nico's Ramblings: Effinjay on Tonight Live!

Here is a picture of the duo performing:
BlogHUD : DrFran Babcock on Northpoint says "The new studio is completed, and my favorite duo is playing. The venue is just perfect for live music."

JueL's looking for sponsorship of Living Room #13 (What Is This Crap?) JueL's been running her venue for quite a while indeed. I had a chance to play there when she first opened this latest rendition at an open mic night she threw together.

I'll certainly be donating back some of my tips to help out. My lindens tend to flow in from live shows and back out as artist and venue tips. Rinse. Repeat.

[Edit:] if you've been known to tip venues and want to support live music I ask you this one simple question - "Are you really going to let an avatar who chose to be known as CRAP out-donate you?"