Your character

May be a mistake but I'm stopping my coyness

I am delighted with the responses to my "silly" thread (thanks jeannine for that epithet :rolleyes:), and thought it about time to end my coyness and reveal all, or bore you with the details perhaps.

BTW I hope Aeron and Robusta can sort out their domestic arrangements too :D

So, very simply, as Falcon tumbled quite early on this description used to start the thread was written by a "professional" about my good self, about twenty years ago.

I used to be the "president" of Amesbury Round Table, in Wiltshire UK (Table No. 1091, now defunct), situated about two miles from Stonehenge. We were invited along to a meeting organised by a neighbouring Round Table in Hampshire, in "Area 1" but can't remember exactly where, although it was a lovely place on the south coast. As president of our "table" I was invited on to the "top table" (see what I've done there, oh never mind as Sir Bruce might have said :)), by our hosts, to enjoy the evening and especially our speaker for the evening, the aforementioned "professional" :eek:.

I am getting ahead of myself though, as prior to the meeting I'd been asked to supply a copy of a piece of my handwriting (why so? - do you think I'm enjoying hamming this all up :playful:).

So, the professional was only a handwriting expert or graphologist to use the correct term. My personality profile or "character" as devined from my handwriting was read out at the meeting by this dear lady, Donna Walker, after she'd explained her work, and told us that the local police, amongst many others, paid for her advice when particularly difficult crimes came up. Some say graphology has been discredited, and I'll let you make your minds up about that, but will just say for those who don't know, the content of the handwriting piece I'd donated is irrelevent, if you see what I mean, and simply the way I form the words, lay out the sentences on the page, and so on are all that mattered to her.

As far as her analysis of my character goes (and the host chairman whose handwriting was examined too) I dont think I took it too seriously at the time, though some aspects were uncannily accurate you could say, but didn't strike me as so then would you believe. I was probably more relieved than anything, although the megalomaniac comment did have me worried a bit :confused: (can see what she meant now however, :sentimental:).

I hope I haven't bored you all too much, and my turning up the handwriting analysis recently proves fruitful in the interest it generates as its done so far :cool:.
 

I though it was the one put out by Santa, I went to a business international business conference some years ago just before Chrismas and Santa turned up and did character analysis to find out who was naughty or nice/ Then we teamed with our table partner who filled one in for their partner, of course most people only admitted to the good things but the partner added in the not so good. It was a lot of fun and I ended up with a nice certificate.

It seemed so similar I though I had you figured out

XX Jeannine
 
Great explanation

Jeannine said:
I though it was the one put out by Santa, I went to a business international business conference some years ago just before Chrismas and Santa turned up and did character analysis to find out who was naughty or nice/ Then we teamed with our table partner who filled one in for their partner, of course most people only admitted to the good things but the partner added in the not so good. It was a lot of fun and I ended up with a nice certificate.

It seemed so similar I though I had you figured out

XX Jeannine
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No, I hadn't figured it out unfortunately but I loved your explanation anyway, and what an excellent though maybe fraught parlour game.

What would my ex. have said about me I wonder? Certainly nothing like my "professional" above that is for certain, and without hopefully taking the thread off topic she did once tell me how "surprisingly loyal" she had been towards me whilst at the same time having been serupticiously seeing the man she went off with for four months! How so you might ask - well I think she meant she could have been more disloyal if she'd chosen, maybe denigrating me more etc. though she didn't hold back too much after, she'd left believe me (and vice versa no doubt :eek:). Still, thats all to be ignored and maybe she would have thought I was intelligent as a positive and a dithering idiot or whimp as negatives, something like that, whilst she was intense, intelligent, spoilt and organised, something like that I'd say :eek:.
 
aeron said:
In the immortal words of Rabbi Burns, "Oy vot a power G-d vud gee is to see usselfs like others see us!"
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I am a fan of Robbie Burns, and once attempted to address the haggis, is that how its described, on Burns night, 25th January, by reciting lines from one of his poems, though Shalimar has a point too I suspect.
 
Hope you enjoy you're sleep......

Ralphy1 said:
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Enjoy your sleep, another benefit to this excellent thread which has Jeannine and I exchanging parlour games info, Aeron explanaing "Rabbi Burns" to me, and a few others less than ecstatic about it but nonetheless welcome to pass on their feelings :love_heart:
 
Jeannine said:
Now Rabbie Burns, there is a guy who I wouldn't want to know
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You know Aeron and I are trying to wean you on to "silly" aspects of life, so as part of that exercise (though not meaning to call Rabbi Burns "silly" although the effort to try to understand his deliberately obtuse and almost incomprehensive lyrics, takes a certain mind set).

On the other hand he produced some classic poems and song lyrics that are fairly simple to understand, but brilliant in their simplicity too.

A red, red rose
O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune.
So fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.
Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;
I will love thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.
And fare thee weel, my only luve!
And fare thee weel awhile!
And I will come again, my luve,
Though it were ten thousand mile.
 
grahamg said:
You know Aeron and I are trying to wean you on to "silly" aspects of life, so as part of that exercise (though not meaning to call Rabbi Burns "silly" although the effort to try to understand his deliberately obtuse and almost incomprehensive lyrics, takes a certain mind set).

On the other hand he produced some classic poems and song lyrics that are fairly simple to understand, but brilliant in their simplicity too.

A red, red rose
O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune.
So fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.
Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;
I will love thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.
And fare thee weel, my only luve!
And fare thee weel awhile!
And I will come again, my luve,
Though it were ten thousand mile.
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Lovely.
 
Oh my nose: ( A literary parody)

a poem by Nishu Mathur, India
With due apologies To Robert Burns ( Like a Red Red Rose)

Oh my nose is like a red red rose,

With drops of dew it blooms,

Oh my throat is like a broken flute

That hoarsely croaks a tune!

As I have a sneezing bout,

I think I have the flu,

How I got it my bonnie lass,

I havent the foggiest clue!

I havent the foggiest clue, my dear

But dear God I feel so ill,

Better nought come near me, I fear

You just might get those chills!

So fare thee well, while I do rest,

And recover from this aching flu,

'tis indeed worthy and best,

That I take a break from you.
- See more at: http://www.voicesnet.com/displayonepoem.aspx?poemid=207558#sthash.G5uVxF0M.dpuf
 
What does it say about your character?

Jeannine said:
Why would I not want to know Robbie Burns, I will pass on that one of you don't mind , but I have to admit I do like some of his verse
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Dear Jeannine,
as you know I quite like it when you choose to be coy on this thread :D and those on the forum who admire Rabbi/Robbie Burns will be relieved that you like his verse.

The crowd showing mild displeasure is growing, and apologies to them if it nonetheless keeps stimulating responses from other forum members (especially as their own posts kick the thread up the list inadvertently maintaining it :playful: )

Finally RadishRose,

what can I or anyone say to top that?
 
I would have to be judgmental if I was to answer the why question and I try not to do that, suffice to say as a man I would not be interested but as a poet he excels with the type of verse he does. I do by the way do a Burns dinner each year, although I don't toast him,, my husband and his family are all Scottish, I married in Scotland and we do have a Scottish room in the house, So in this case I am not being coy graham, I am being honest. Folks who know his history know what I mean anyway.
 
Burns was a lecherous drunkard but then so many truly great creative people led less than what we might consider decent lives. In addition the morality of the time was also some way removed from even the morality of today which is very far from perfect.

It's also worth keeping in mind that being a rake requires the availability of the female equivalent.

Lots of them.
 
I used to feel that way about.....

Jeannine said:
I would have to be judgmental if I was to answer the why question and I try not to do that, suffice to say as a man I would not be interested but as a poet he excels with the type of verse he does. I do by the way do a Burns dinner each year, although I don't toast him,, my husband and his family are all Scottish, I married in Scotland and we do have a Scottish room in the house, So in this case I am not being coy graham, I am being honest. Folks who know his history know what I mean anyway.
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Dear Jeannine,
no need to explain too much, as I'd suspected something like that (re Aeron's description), and I probably used to feel the same way about Germaine Greer, for her exploits with George Best and others reportedly, and also from some things one of her biographers said about her past (I'll be coy again there, to avoid boring the easily bored squad too much :p). Anyway, my opinion of Germaine changed somewhat when she appeared in a reality tv show called "I'm a celebrity get me out of here, where she coped well with those giving her a hard time, and then completely devastated the programme makers by demanding they open the doors to release her immediately, and they complied. What a tour de force she showed, you have to admire that kind of strength of will.

Its not easy to judge historical figures we'll never really know, or know their circumstances though fair enough you've decided against Burns. Recently in a local debating group I brought up the subject of a book called "Utopia" by Sir Thomas More, written in the Tudor age, to be told someone didn't like them because they firsrt published the book in Latin, to prevent the lower classes reading it they thought. Also they criticised the ideas in the book, but the criticisms they pretended they'd come up with were actually the ones More himself added at the end of the book in response to the narrator of the tale about the "Land of Utopia". The fact the book is reasonably described as a classic, written by a huge historical figure, who told his own daughter he would not lie to save his life, "because it is important to tell the truth" and his book was obviously written from his fertile imagination, none of this matters as they tried to condemn him and truncate any discusion.

Glad to hear about your Scots family, and have no doubt when the kilts come out prouder men you'll never see.
 

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