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You can ask me about ANYTHING, and I mean it. If I don't have an answer to give you, instead of making something up, I WILL find you somewhere to go where you will be able to find out what you need. My inbox is always open, and you are quite welcome to IM me on AIM. I think thats about all you need to know, but if you've got other questions...well...see above. =)

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Can anyone translate the line from 'Romeo and Juliet' for me?

Romeo, Romeo. Wherefore art thou, Romeo?

I'm not sure what you mean by "translate", but I can explain the play to you somewhat.

There are two families, the Montagues and the Capulets. The families do not get along, infact, they are enemies. The Capulets (Juliet's family) have a party, and plan for Juliet to find someone to marry at the ball. At parties back then, young suitors even if they were not invited would come, but with masks on. Romeo(From the Montague family) goes to the party, and dances with Juliet. They fall in love, and then find out that they are from enemy families. They get married in secret, by the Friar in his room. Later, Romeo gets in a fight, and kills someone. He is told that he either must get out of town, or stay in Verona and be executed. Juliet does not want her lover to leave, so her and the Friar have a plan for her to drink a potion that will make her appear dead, and she will only be sleeping, and Romeo will come to her and they will reveal the marriage. However, Romeo does not get the letter telling him that Juliet is NOT really dead - the day she is engaged to be married to the suitor her parents set her up with. Romeo thinks his lover is dead, finds an apothocary, and drinks a lethal potion. Juliet wakes up, to find her love dead, kisses Romeo, and then stabs herself and dies.

Romantic, eh? And if I totally just wasted my time and you were wondering what "Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore art thou, Romeo?" meant, its just Juliet wondering where Romeo is.

EDIT: Why are you rating so low on this? If you already looked it up yourself, don't ask. Troll ratings are not cool.

does anyone know how to play guitar? if so can someone please tell me somewhere i can go like online to show me what a D chord looks like cuz me and my dad are getting confused!!!! thank you so much!!!!

www.taborama.com has nice tutorials, articles, tabs, lessons, and soforth. But a "D" chord would be played with your ring finger on the Second fret of high E, your middle finger on the Third fret of B, and your pointer finger on the second fret of G.

The tab for the D chord would look like this:

e--2---
b--3---
g--2---
d------
a------
E------

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I really like this girl, but cant seem to get her to like me. What should i do?

You can't MAKE anybody like you. But you can help it along by complimenting her, joking around with her, and just being nice. Don't change yourself, because that sucks, and if she doesn't seem to like you, give up.

i'm going to a green day concert in december and i realise there'll be thousands of people there but my friend and i were wondering whether there is ANY CHANCE of getting our cd signed. like, could we leave it with security guards and pick it up later?? or wait around long enough afterwards and go ask the band ourselves?? i dunno, we're not too fussed but we're wondering whether to try or not. thanks.

You've got no chance. Security guards aren't going to go out of their way to get their CD signed. Green Day is so popular with so many people now, and they do shows in HUUUUUGE arenas and such, that they can't come out late at night/early morning outside the venue to meet with fans. They are usually whisked off hidden somehow, for either security reasons or they're too stuck up to care about the fans. (They'd be there for hours anyway, so many people.)

Sorry - keep your eyes open, bands do signings at record stores and such every once in a while, or sometimes at smaller venues or something they can walk around a bit.

I didn't know what category to put for this so ... Anyways, getting to the point. I have oily skin between my eyebrows so I was wondereing if anyone knew any home remedies or inexpenesive products to take care of this, not cover up tho! Thx, i rate high (that is... if u helped! LOL) By the way Im 15/f, if that matters.

Oxy pads/Stridex pads, or clearisil spot treatment is good if you only have a couple spots that are greasy and don't want to risk drying out the rest of your skin. They're all pretty inexpensive, and they work really well.

well I wanna download music so i got bear share i downloaded a couple of songs but then I heard that it gives viruses easy so i uninstalled it. Is that true?? Should I leave it that way or install it again. Or should I get limewire is that good?? or should I just not do either and get over it..??

5's for anything.

Any filesharing program has the ability to give you viruses. Most programs don't come with some sort of virus scanner, so you are getting files off of other people's computers, and they could possibly have viruses.

I'm not entirely sure, but I think Limewire PRO might have a virus checker to come with it. But you have to pay for it.

Either way, both programs contain mostly illegal downloads, because you cannot obtain the license for the song or video or whatever you are downloading, so its not that great anyways.

i need help i just got a laptop but when ever i liek close it like shut it it closes my aim!! and i doont wangt it to help me

Its supposed to do that, and its going to do that no matter what. Sorry.

ALL RATE 5's FOR ALL!!!!!!
Does anyone know any wired diets that worked pretty good like i heard if u drink cran berry juice of 72 hours its will take off a couple pounds thats probaly not true but anyone any wired diets like that
ill rate 5's for all!!!!!!

Cranberry Juice reduces toxins in your body..but I don't know about loosing weight. People do stupid stuff like drink watered down lemon juice or have nothing but purree'd carrots for three days.

Weird diets like this = total crap. Don't waste your time.

ok well for school we have to wright a persusive essay about something we feel strongly about adn i choose to wirght about abortion..well i was thinking that i dont really no that much about it but that it kills an innicoent child adn what it says on the internet..but i really need peoples opinions about why they are for or against it...i really need this nad its due tomorrow yes i no stupid to do things last min. but you no i forgot..

so whay would you be for or against or both on abortion?
please help!

I would never abort a child, personally. BUT - as you probably know, there are two sides to abortion, Pro Life, meaning that you think abortion is wrong for everyone, and Pro Choice in which you don't have such a problem with it. In going by definition, I'm for choices. I belive that it is up to the woman pregnant with the baby to decide what she is going to do with it. It is the womans body, and the womans child, and if the woman and the father are on good terms, the father should also have a say in it. I think killing an innocent child is wrong. Even if you don't have the financial means that you need to meet to raise a child or otherwise, I'd always choose something like adoption over killing the child. But like I said, I belive that it is up to the mother of the child to decide what they would like done if they are in a situation where abortion has to be considered.

I've got some questions on how to do a back walk-over. You start with the back bend, but I haven't been able to bring my legs up and over. Does anyone have any tips of exercises or anything that can just help me to do it?

Love Ya!
blue_bunny

Your stomach muscles need to be REALLY strong to be able to master a back walkover. Your legs need to be fairly strenthened, too.

A backbend kickover is where you actually land in a backbend, then kick your legs over. Two seperated motions.

A back walkover is where it is all one fluid motion. (Just FYI, =) )

Do whatever you need to do to strenthen your stomach and legs. Sit ups, crunches, scissorkicks, etc.

Why is it that it only takes a tender theme (a girl and her horse, etc.), some introverted "intelligent" young characters, and a couple of sweet lines to get people to see a movie and get approval from critics? I think of "Bee Season" and "Dreamer." They are all just dumb cliches.

Because the world is corrupt and thats just the way the cookie crumbles.

I determined to find some new bands to like, I don't really want any mainstream bands just like, got-to-their-shows bands. I don't really, like much emo and I don't like any skater/incucbus/audioslave type music. I am into punkish music and music with synthesizers but not techno. My favorite artists are Bjork, Polyphonic Spree, Aquabats, Me First and The Gimme Gimmes, Cranberries, Len, and Electric Light Orchestra. I am cool with Ska as well. Just give me a list of bands that I could listen to and I'll be satisfied.

Reggie and the Full Effect has synthesizers, and they..I mean...he...is freaking amazing. Its some techno, some punk, some metal, some...whatever the hell he made up, its great!

my lips are always CHAPPED and DRY and PEELY! I use vaseline, and I try everything, but it doesn't seem to work. Any tips to make them nice and soft?

Exfoliate your lips GENTLY with a toothbrush when you brush your teeth. Then use one of three things, but not TOO MUCH.

Carmex, Burts Bees Chapstick, or Soft Lips Chapstick.

Does anyone know of any sites where I can find sweat shirts or hoodies of bands besides their own sites? Some of the bands I want are:

Underoath
Fall Out Boy
From First to Last
Hawthorne Heights
All-American Rejects
Taking Back Sunday

Those are just some. But if you know of any websites that you can buy band clothing from besides their own sites id greatly appreciate it. Thank you so much you guys!

The only site you're probably going to be able to find their merchandise outside of links off their own sites, is maybe hottopic.com That's the only place (at least around me) that sells band tees.

It's a fairly simple question (I think) but I need some help! You could say I'm a pretty preppy girl... not like (omg I'm really flippin annoying and too perky and I'm stuck-up!) not that kind of preppy. But, I wear polos, jeans, cute shirts from like... american eagle, aeropostale, abercrombie and fitch etc., sweatpants all that stuff that's so called, "preppy". I also like chucks... converse, whatever you would like to call them! But... some people say that converse don't really go with the whole preppy look.

What do you think? Would it be okay if I got them?

Thanks always, Christine

Excuse my language.

Fuck labels. Wear what you wanna wear. If some people say "Converse don't really go with the preppy look" the truth? They don't. But WHY the hell do you need to fit into some stereotypical cookie cutter label. Break the goddamned mold and do somethng different. Its nice to have a change.

Anyone know any bands that are technoish, 'scene'ish?

Ex. Peachcake

Reggie and the Full Effect - MAYBE.

Maybe not so much but they're awesome anyway.

New London Fire
Dancetime Martyrs

sumtimes i get this feeling in mi lower stomach like im just ripping apart unless i hunch over. it hurts really bad for a few hours and then goes away. any ideas what it is? thanx

I'm not sure what it could be, because I'm not a doctor. There's a possibility it could be a very slow gas bubble moving around. Or maybe its just a cramp. If its to the point where its causing you almost unbearable pain, or its frequent, you should see a doctor.

ok i play basket ball and i have a game in a couple of days and i am on my period and i wear a white jersery with whight shorts and i am scrared that ill leak and it will show up all on my shhorts so how do let it dont leak out

I need to correct two of the answers that were given to you. #1, do NOT use a tampon of higher absorbancy than you need. It increases your risks of Toxic Shock Syndrome. (TSS - its super rare.) And #2, Tampons are not bad for you even if you are young. 3-4 hours isn't too long - thats right when you need to change - and tampons will not give you cancer.

Also, you won't be able to see a pad through shorts. Even if they are white.

Wear what you normally wear (Unless you normally leak? Otherwise you should be good..) change right before the game and right after. If you're really worried about it, you could do the pad and tampon thing - or better yet, buy some Spandex volleyball shorts and wear them underneath your basketball shorts.

Hey.. what does it mean in the song your so last summer by taking back sunday when they say: 'boys like you are dime a dozen' i was curious.. thanks

Heh - this is silly. This question doesn't really belong here, PLUS its random, and I've seen it twice. Oi.

Okay, lets think this through. If something is only a dime for a dozen, its cheap, correct? A dime is 10 cents. A dozen is 12 count of whatever. So that would make each thing less than one cent, which anything in this world that is less than a cent is worthless.

Now if we put 2 and 2 together, that would mean that its worthless. The "boys like him" are worthless.

Simple thought process, not that hard.

I am just 13 and I have this urge to smoke. I have never smoked before and I know it is bad for you. I have never did any kind of drugss including weed or coke. My mom would kill me if I did smoke. So I ask my sister how old she was when she started smoking and she said about 13 or 14. And that made it even worse for me! Even people at school smoke! What can I do? I have even thought of stealing them from my mom! I'm a good kid! HELP!

Smoking = Totally Gross.

It smells. It turns your teeth yellow. It turns your fingers yellow. It'll make it hard to breathe. Your lungs will get gross. It increases your risk of cancer. Its expensive. It might get to the point where it is a burden to your daily life. Its illegal. Your parents or POLICE could find out. You look like a flipping moron doing it.

Remember these reasons. That should make it so you don't want to smoke. If you still want to smoke, go ahead, ruin your life, babe.

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