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What do you remember-session 2..

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the title is pretty self explanatory but i was feeling all nostalgic so i thought taht i'd start a thread about what our fave memories were(it may be cheesy, but you know what, i dreally don't care!!)

Ok...

I remember being told that i'd have no showers for a week...
I remember Mooglethorpe..thank you max!
I remember the slides at the zoo!
I remeber Brum!
I remeber being carried round the quad on the shoulders of two men! (for once i felt tall)
I remeber the 'Max Hug'
I remember the secret room! and all the various visits there...

Ok someone take the lead..

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hannahC

i remember being woken up to ana's really confused parents since I was sleeping at 4:00 pm on the first day
i remember the 10 minute long headbashing session (opeth!)
i remember the extreme dizziness and high feeling afterwards
i remember all of aoifes hats
i remember orgies
i remember leos 18 inch balloon "sword" that i popped (sry!)
i remember jessie juggling and eating a muffin at the same time
i remember ana and i singing lyrics to "yeah" by usher at random moments in the day
i remember doing the same thing with "hey ya"
i remember ali in her cat outfit stealing my husband (grrrr)
i remember nick's futile search for a mounty outfit
i remember jack breakdancing at the disco
i remember aoifes giraffe mask at the zoo
i remember leo hiding in the back of our IR class and freaking out our TA
i remember the chicken of darkness
i remember my naivity and ana and ali taking advantage of it (caves = convents ha!)
i remember matthew unhooking everyones bras
i remember dave trying to beat matthews record
i remember the hobos (brendan and dermo)
i remember the sportalian boys looking too pretty when they crossdressed
i remember slut solidarity day
i remember aisling saying she would eat to my strawberry center

i remember bill's jesus hair
i remember games of spin the bottle in the park
i remember dave tossing people
i remember trying to defend the USA in model UN even though I was Turkey
i remember nutella and biscuits while trying to finish my research paper w/ ana
i remember discovering that our shower had been fixed but we hadn't used it b/c we didn't know you were supposed to pull that string in the ceiling
i remember the wet trays
i remember crying on the last night to "leavin on a jet plane"
i remember putting a bucket on my head
i remember going to Spar everyday and buying a Snapple lemon iced tea
i remember having RA meetings in the hall 5 minutes before lights out
i remember all the fun i had and how i can't wait to go back next year
i remember that this list is getting long so i'll stop now

pinkpimp

I just read them both.
Go you two and your persistance and good memorys. Im doing this on a memory by memory basis.
Anyway, Awayindahills, I'm not sure if ive asked you this before but who are you? (is it hillary?, as in hils?)

mentalimplosion

hannahC wrote:

i remember being woken up to ana's really confused parents since I was sleeping at 4:00 pm on the first day

they weren't THAT confused. i was more confused tbh.

hannahC wrote:

i remember my naivity and ana and ali taking advantage of it (caves = convents ha!)

seriously, i had a pet sponge. and beat the slapper IS endorsed by the government

hannahC wrote:

i remember nutella and biscuits while trying to finish my research paper w/ ana

"hey, it tastes better if you dip the biscuit INTO the nutella and cram the whole thing in your mouth"

hannahC wrote:

i remember discovering that our shower had been fixed but we hadn't used it b/c we didn't know you were supposed to pull that string in the ceiling

it's not our fault we're not technominded!!!

hannahC wrote:

i remember putting a bucket on my head

i remember worrying that you couldn't get it off

It wasn't me!

To be honest, I tried to beat his record for all of five minutes, got a few, ran out of people I knew wouldn't slap me/people whose boyfriends wouldn't slap me, and got back to the more important task of shaving Gareth's head.

mentalimplosion

i also remember hannah's rock. i found said rock after she left her room on the last morning, put it in my pocket and walked off. later, i thought i lost it. but no, the rock remained in my pocket.

i still have the rock. i also have pictures of the rock.

Matthewthebig

Ah I remeber Gareths head wet shaving it was a brillaint idea. The funniest thing was that Katie was doin it while she was a bit "crazy" if you know what i mean

hannahC

mentalimplosion wrote:

i also remember hannah's rock. i found said rock after she left her room on the last morning, put it in my pocket and walked off. later, i thought i lost it. but no, the rock remained in my pocket.

i still have the rock. i also have pictures of the rock.

which rock? is it the shiny pebble? b/c i definitley still have the shiny pebble...

haha i remembered more things!

hat dave getting drinks for people from the vending machines w/o paying

me buying the "big one" mars bar almost everyday and trying to cut down, but failing miserably
"i've always been standing in your doorway"
my disbelief that a shower could have exploded
ana and ali knowing every word to "baby got back"
everyone lying on the floor during that one song at the disco
dave wearing holly's corset
dave breaking holly's corset
john champion on crossdressing day and his song
ana and i taking random photos of ourselves at 1 am

that's all i can remember at the moment.

It wasn't me!

Tim broke the corset damn it! "Let's see how tight this can go. Oh....."

Matthewthebig

ah to be fair you were wearing it at the time making it your responsability. mwhahaha. 100th Post go me

mentalimplosion

hannah, you have to remember your rock. it was big

hannahC

is it grey w/ sparkly flecks in it? b/c if it is then yay you have my rock!!!!!

i can't actually remember why i had that rock.....

freakydeadgirl

before ctyi started:
i remember.....
-being stuck in the paris ariport for 6 hours and teaching a nice irsh fellow how to play speed
-discovering that ali's fish is the reincarnation of hitler
-watching sponge bob in irish
-driving ali's mom crazy when were driving to ctyi because we had to keep changing cds to get all of the offical ctyi songs.....pulling up to the office playing "smells like teen spirt"
ctyi:
i remember.....
-scaring people when i knocked on their door to see if the grafittie was still there from when i was there
-frolicking in the quad
-"the boy blunder returns"
- coming out of the first day of philosophy doubting if i was real and if i could walk through walls
-getting drawn all over in the park
-tradeing food with john, cathal, and sean with a case shoelaces and a kimno belt insted of string
- creating the wounderful game of clevage ball with dee after the shower exploded
-being told that we'd have to stay in the new res. for a night
-jumping on the couches in the new res.
-haveing "the new res rocks" written across my sholuders
-kalliba and spoons
-watching the sunrise
-fiachara extream dependency on coffee
-godzilla
-capitan planet finalling making sense
-going halves on a pair of hand cuffs
-buying ducktape and 3 yards of rope without giving it a second thought
-fixing everything from riped pants, to note books to people who wouldn't shutup with duck tape
- guy honouring the fact that i have 110 boobs
-" i'll pierce your holly" with the reply "i'll holly your pierce"
-matthew and his bitches at the zoo
-trying to dress dermo in my corset
- finding out that dave fit into much better
- tim trying to tight lace dave in the spar which lead to the demise of my corset
-having random people start stroking me in the middle of the spar because my purple shirt is so strokeable
-watching dermo jump for pixie stixs
-lesbeian pixi stixs
-dermo's bed time story with b&d, melons, cucumbers, globtrobs and amsterdam
-staying up with ashling till 3 talking about everthing under the sun
-almost being undressed in the canteen and then the next days almost in the quad
-having various people appricate my asswhile being swung over dave's shoulder
-being carried around by various people
-squirrle hunting
-listening to the jam sessions in the common rooms
- waking up one morning to see that there were more hickies then neck on me
-asking ra.s if tooth paste really worked on hickies
-trying to play snap with the all mighty kama sutra cards
-folkdancing to mastadon
-opeth at the last disco
-aggrevating dave and matthew by taking off my bra so they couldn't undo it
-various origes
-wearing only my kimono down to the quad one day
- being pissed that i couldn't go to a fire drill only in a towel
-couch hurdles
-coming up with pornosophy
-having my foot get attacked by a fork
-not crying till 3am on the last day
-blowing bubbles
-a good-bye kiss in the quad entrence
after ctyi......
i remember......
-going to the right after reunion with jolt in hand
- dave hoping aroud tied up with belts and then geting jocked
-the one tear rolling down my cheek as dave, ali, john, matthis and i crossed the ha' penny bridge to my room

Awayindahils

pinkpimp wrote:

I just read them both.
Go you two and your persistance and good memorys. Im doing this on a memory by memory basis.
Anyway, Awayindahills, I'm not sure if ive asked you this before but who are you? (is it hillary?, as in hils?)

yeah its me. the one in your class, the one occasionaly known as hilarious.

JenLorigan

Okay, I'm sure I'll forget to put down loads of stuff, but neh.

I remember:

- Everyone else seeming to know what to do on the first day.
- The Presocratics (Empedocles lives!)
- Liz throwing a Coke can at John's head when he wouldn't shut up in study.
- Those damn logic puzzles.
- Katie getting annoyed at John for tapping, then for not wearing shoes.
- Katie staying annoyed at John for the rest of the course.
- Glob-trob
- Fiachra's slightly worrying coffee dependency
- Talking to the guys around us through the window.
- Trying to throw cookies to Maire and Tasha through the window
- The War of the Goat
- Pornosophy
- Matthew's eyebrowlessness
- Deirdre leaving
- Show and Tell
- Rames and Jaymond
- John coming up to me at the second disco to tell me he had forgotten my name.
- John forgetting my name again two days later at the Name Game
- Botanic Gardens
- Cat wearing all her rainbow clothes for the first time
- Eoin's annoyance at the idea that another guy was wearing a boa at the first disco
- the Talent Show
- being stalked for a day and a half
- Don the ses1er texting me advice ("Make sure you don't repel guys, because the second disco is the one where most people score.")
- Spraying the Karlstock tshirts
- Karl coming in early for the first time on Karlstock
- KARLSTOCK!
- Ian and Dave
- The second disco, and the costumes
- Ian giving me a themesong
- I'll DC YOUR U, I'll in YOUR endo, etc.
- Aah yeah...
- Freaking out Liz and Treasa with my Samara/Sadako impersonation.
- The first disco
- The shower exploding
- Godzilla
- The Quotebook
- Dermo's bedtime story
- Fiachra banning us from talking about The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, and other things I've forgotten
- The last disco
- The singalong in the Quad...
- The last morning
- *Almost* not crying when I was leaving
- some stuff too important to put down

JenLorigan

I also remember:

- The ceili (I can't get fadas. It is a source of great annoyance to me)
- Suzy telling Fiachra that she hated him every ten minutes (sometimes for a reason)
- Cat and Suzy teahing Fiachra how to hug
- "How many 'n's in wench?"
- Fabulo
- "What would Christopher Lee do?" (Be really tall)
- Show and Tell
- Jarge reading out the Declaration of Independence in the Quad
- Dave's hair being permanently greasy because we wouldn't stop rubbing it
- Fields of Athenry and Amhran na bhFiann on the way back to the Quad after the last disco
- Katie's forty-minute argument with Fiachra about language being necessary to define existence
- having a class outside
- preparing for the debate and getting distracted by the wheelie chairs.
- Holly and Orla playing chicken on the wheelie chairs
- Singing Conor the Paedophile in the Quad on the last day (if anyone has the tabs/lyrics, I'd appreciate them)
- Eoin's reaction when Ray asked of we were together at the disco
- Irwin jokes
- Suzy teaching the RAs to bellydance

Stephen Forde

hold down "alt and control(ctrl) and click the vowel u wish to place a fada over!! kk

gl in ur adventure to fada a vowel.

Piste

I remember......

-Me and Treasa thinking everyone was mad on the first day when they clapped at EVERYTHING
-Me and Treasa finding out we were right
-Me and Treasa standing in the Sportalian queue at dinner wondering why everyone
looked foreign/ Spoke Italian/ Had those cool red bags I was insanely jealous of
-Playing Trivia Pursuit- Ctyi style, I.e. pick random questiions out of the pack and answer them.
-The cup on the string (Grrrrrrrr Liam!)
-Me throwing the coke can at John
-The look on Treasa's face after seeing me peel of a banana sticker and stick it on my phone
-Maura's Handcuffs and having to go up to Liam at breakfast to ask for them back whenhe didn't know who we were
-Going up to random Americans and asking could we have some of their lucky charms

Lady penelopy

ok....so i remember, among other things.
being in penneys and deciding nothing was "appropriate" and cutting up a white t shirt
matthews ebrows...well, lack thereof.
andrew, our ta "thats probably about all the work youll be able to do, so.....debate about the americans/condoms/legalising drugs anyone?"
kanoodling
the declaration of COCK
colms pink hat
brona(how come no-ones mentioned her yet?)
the talent show
watching a bus load of airport bound folk drive away, silently crying
my giant sun glasses
wet trays
rosie
vickys panda
beat the slapper
nutella
eurospar
ok, thats it for now.

LiamD

Gummybearz!!! wrote:

-The cup on the string (Grrrrrrrr Liam!)

Hehe yeah that was fun shame it was taken from us so suddenly.

Gummybearz!!! wrote:

-Maura's Handcuffs and having to go up to Liam at breakfast to ask for them back whenhe didn't know who we were

Yeah dat was quite strange but hey what a way to start off the morning.Just fillin myself a cup of tea, minding my own business then having 2 complete randomers coming up to me demanding handcuffs.

JenLorigan

And, finally (hopefully), I remember:

- American Pie - at the discos, in the Quad, on the way back from the canteen...
- Oisin spending a good part of Dee's goodbye party gossiping in the corner with us...
- Freaking out Eamon the TA by knowing who he was when we had never spoken (He's a friend of my sister's. She told me he was TAing. I'm not some weirdo stalker, I'm Kate's sister. There's a difference... *shifty eyes*)
- the Sportalians (Vincento! Now he was cazzo...)

Dammit, I had more. Hopefully I'll remember them.

LiamD

I just remembered:

-The ****e fish film on the first day
-The squeaking noise that could be heard only in my room any time anyone in my part of the building turned on a tap
-Bohemian Snapsody, dat was such a gud game
-The shower fire (cheers Sean

)
-Aileen going mad when everyone was in the car park after the shower fire
-No showers for a week (agen cheers Sean

)
-Late night talks out the window, they wer kewl
-Sum1 robbin all of Conor's clothes
-My first visit to the zoo
-The hippo hop
-Badminton!!
-Ultimate everything
-The corporate business beotches - Lanlih, Clairey, Ruthy, Rebeccaee, Colmy
-Spar Lunches
-Finally seeing inside of Deloitte
-"There's a Bus" game
-Mean Girls
-Suzy and her bellydancing
-Hide and seek in the Bot Gardens
-Getting dirty looks in the Bot Gardens
-The mystery of the missing Irwinii plant sign
-The late night RA butter incident
-Pop tarts
-The day I bleached my hair
-The comments I got about my bleached hair and the black bit at the back that "looked like mange"
-The week after that when my hair was orange
-Maniac 2000 at the last disco after 2 weeks of begging the DJ
-The RAs
-All the really kewl ppl, too many to mention but ya know who yaz are
-A prity bitchin 3 weeks

Piste

LiamD wrote:

Hehe yeah that was fun shame it was taken from us so suddenly.
.

yes. I wonder what could have happened to it????????????

I remember Barry (I think) Putting a note on Liam's pillow sayin 'Liz was here' and totally frwaking out liam lol

the_only_Ali

Oh god, where to start...

before ctyi I remember...
sitting in dublin airport for 8 hours on those evil plastic chairs waiting for holly
going shopping waaaay too early and playing karma sutra cards on the green
liam snorting a whole packet of sugar in the bad ass cafe
rolling down those practically vertical hills in powerscourt in the rain with holly

at ctyi...
standing around in the quad hald awkwardly half ecstatically greeting people on the frst day
listening to jeff buckley with una
listening to frank sinatra while getting ready for discos
singing songs for deidre whenever she came to tell us to turn off our lights
bleaching liams hair
re-bleaching laims hair
being yelled at by liam for bleaching his hair...
international history innuendos
drawing "finger my pussy" on yanns face in permanant marker
drawing all over holly
duck taping people to things
holly's mysterious leprosy disease
sunshine, lollipops, rainbows... (una knows what I mean)
dressing as Una for a day
wearing my pyjamas all day
slut day
cross-dressing day
the time I locked me and una out of our room before we were properly dressed one morning
andrea, the coolest TA ever
the saddest saddest american pie where my darling deirdre had to leave for irish college
coffee!!!
snapple
just the "food" in general
liams first trip to the zoo
liam and oisin throwing my shoes onto the roof of the reptile house
orgies!!!!!
missing my friend aoife who couldnt go to ctyi this year
sofa hurdling
eoin singing the entire chicago soundtrack during study
playing charades with jamie through the windows of our classroom during study
spin the dave
dave from spar!!! he got promoted to supervisor since last year for all of you who didnt notice.
hilary and the flowers in her hair
the writing for life class' greek tragedy
Little Owen
karlstock
ultimate double fringeball with Brona!
deirdre, the lovliest RA ever
crying and crying on the last day, never wanting to leave

the day after ctyi...
reunionising, sitting on the ground by the arch of stephens green
sitting on the boardwalk with holly and dave and john and tias
knowing that it might be the last day in years and years that I see holly, my first ever roomate and one of my oldest and best ctyi friends...
(but then she came over for dinner the next day)

theres more but now Im depressed and nostalgic. bah humbug.

Awayindahils

Ali its all so sad

anywya yeha i totally forgot to put in ultimate double fringe ball and dying liams hair was class well gettings peoples reactions just afterwards was- remember the maintence guy?

LiamD

Oh god yeah how cud I forget that guy.How demeaning it was to have to turn around several times so he could judge my hair.He was prity nice bout it tho, reminded me of Santa in a way.

And Ultimate Double Fringeball TM was kewl created by me and Bronagh anyone who played it that day then go out now round up ur mates and play it.NOW!

Undergod

John going to ciara and saying "Bill, stop hugging people."

Dermo giving us (Me and Tim) Nick's CD player to hide because he wouldn't go to bed.

dermo running past us through the quad the after our psych experiment saying "Sportalians have my kids shoes!"

Dermo's fist words to me "Shut the f*** up."

Discussing the implications of Scooby-Doo.

The Ultimate Wake-Up (it failed)

Devising a better ultimate wake up

Writing Tim a letter while suffering from sleep deprivation... then reading said letter, realizing the true clarity possible only when half-asleep (or in a particular teacher's class, but that's a different kettle, filled with different fish)

Matthew's discussion topics... then, on "serious" discussion day, my gem of a reply to the "technology is fallible" motion...
"Magneto could do it!"

Keeping tim awake by shuffling around my room at midnight.

Giving people cake, and lots of it.

People (remaining nameless) pouring water out of windows onto other people (also nameless) and the hillarious ensuing results.

Death metal turning my brain to mush.

Using my back as a big "Change Please" sign.

Watching Spiderman with Holly (who better?)

the_only_Ali

freakydeadgirl wrote:

discovering that ali's fish is the reincarnation of hitler

My fish's pefect Hitler moustache has gradually disappeared!!! Its no longer a fascist dictator!!!! just a regular goldfish... but it was fun while it lasted... swimming around, giving little silent Nuremberg speeches... something interesting to watch while eating breakfast. I suppose I'll just rename it Wanda again.

Spraypaint

OK What do I remember? Well....
Laughing in my roommate's face the first time I met him 'coz his name was Lake
Being lost several times in the first 2 days
The horrific state of the food
My daily Rock Shandy
Calling my TA a hippy for being a member of the green party
Bish being a ginger sex God
Jarge impersonating him very VERY well
"OOOooohh YEEEEaaaahhh"
"Yeah, well at least my Ma doesn't have a cock"
Trying to sleep when my class watched a video in philosophy's room, but Conorea and Noah not letting me
The legal studies ARGUMENTS especially Islamic Law
Uni-hoc
Potato Wedges and Rod's disturbing love for them
Constantly pestering Aoibheann
Never getting enough sleep
My cleptomania when it came to Lake's food
Being scared sh*tless of Pierce
Hug Sluts
I-pods
Muireann's disturbing love for Polka-dot
Boobies the snail
The exploding shower
David Tierney directly after the evacuation
Capitolism and Catholicism
Jarge,Max and Pierce's room getting ransacked by a nameless trio
The leaning tower of TJ
TJ being the biggest bigot EVER and having a list of over 40 of his arguments from the first week put up in the canteen
Blinding Ruairì Doyle
Spending most of my time playing cards with people from Archaeology B
Being dubbed "the classroom lunch consumer" by Vinnie and "Scumbag" by his class
American Pie
Several people saying the stain on my T-shirt was semen when it was SPRAYPAINT
Bish being "Well-in" with ALL the laydeez
Hobos
And finally: Having the best 3 weeks ever

Katie-Bob

Right I remember:
American Pie-everywhere
the last night sitting in a massive huddled group while the RA's prolonged our agony
Cloudy's cup wall
japanese projects-especially the manga ones
random licking day
f*****g the sportalians out of it out our window
breaking the door handle
canoodlin
fighting caitlyn
being tickled mercilessly for bout 5 mins over a stupid game.....grrr
mocking the sportalians belts
the shower incident
constantly being hounded by ornith-evil
brendan as a hobo
being sick for WAY too long
ultimate everything
random high fives
FLYING CATS
Squishy banderas
being locked out of our room on the last day
the last disco
all the tears
blasting good charlotte and so scaring everyone
missing jolt (where was it this year!!?)
Caitlyn-"its not so good if I never notice!"
drawing on cups
brona C. titley-hell yeah she rocked!!!!
truth or dare in stephen's green on our field trip
the asian market.......pocky......
Cork snap and that weird other card game
s*** scary japanese anime-what was up with the cat?!!??!
coke and skittles!!!!!!!
the happy bracelet
all the very cool people I knew-you no who you are I can't mention you all

thats it if I've forgotten anything-which I probably did-tell me

bandana

I just spent the last TEN MINUTES trying to remember what I set as my password here

hell yeah a smiley that does my eyebrow thing!

Bob I think you've pretty much got them all, here's some of yours repeated and the only other ones I can think of on the spot:

playing beggar my neighbour throughout an entire discussion activity, and playing that other card game (bmn crossed with snap?) all over the place
that card deck which is now missing an ace and half of the nine of clubs :rolleyes:

walking into things (well that was just me)
performing amazingly acrobatic dive-tumbles into other people who didnt stop laughing until we had run away (see above

)

music on so loud nobody could hear sun in study
seeing TJ's tower for the first time, and knowing I had to beat it!
Spending 15 minutes sorting out all the cups I took down to get all the good drawings
Spending 5 seconds franticly sorting the cups that had terrible drawings into my bag instead wondering why I hadnt done that already
Spending 1 second in the car going aww craaa-
tickling you mercilessly for 5 minutes over a stupid game....lol!
"Thats such an alex thing to say" and "This is such an Alex back!"
"Just Kidding!"

The last disco,
All the candles,
The last morning,
Gearoid without his hat on.

And then afterwards, getting funny looks from about 50 people in a supermarket, and then later in a book store while on the phone talking too loud

and squishy banderas the second!