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Habbaku

#10815
October 01, 2011, 11:19:18 PM
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Lettow77

#10816
October 02, 2011, 12:57:53 AM
 Was in a no-count small town on the Kentucky border this evening. In a room of about 18 people, there were, and I do not exaggerate, four wall-eyed characters who could not focus their eyes.

Furthermore, one of them had a..wrongness about his manner. There were many Kentucky characters there- including every wall eyed person. There is inbreeding in these wastes.

Returning to Martin felt like civilization, for the first time. I long for my beautiful river city.
It can't be helped...We'll have to use 'that'

Grinning_Colossus

#10817
October 02, 2011, 01:08:00 AM
Some sort of Sons of the South meeting?
Quis futuit ipsos fututores?

Lettow77

#10818
October 02, 2011, 01:13:20 AM
Hurr durr hurr, no, it was a magic the gathering tournament, of all things.


I wouldn't proscribe the people to the kind of event, though: such things are perfectly civilized in the likes of Jackson, TN. But in this troubled border town we got Kentuckians, which are several degrees worse even than the local rube.
It can't be helped...We'll have to use 'that'

Tamas

#10819
October 03, 2011, 08:46:33 AM
http://peterlbrandt.com/random-ramblings-of-a-mad-man/

Good post by this trader guy.

Skip to the "miscallenous" section for the non-technical analysis stuff. I find him making roughly the same ramblings I am prone to make.

Razgovory

#10820
October 04, 2011, 07:22:14 PM
I'm in the midst of developing a new form of Augury.  Take a shopping cart, roll it down a hill in the parking lot and decipher the future by which car it hits.  Hit say, a Red Nissan and perhaps there will be war in East Asia.  Or maybe you will fall in love with a Japanese chick.  I haven't worked out the details yet.  I think this has a lot of potential.  I think I'll call it carruspicy or something like that.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Caliga

#10821
October 04, 2011, 08:38:47 PM
Quote from: Lettow77 on October 02, 2011, 01:13:20 AM
Hurr durr hurr, no, it was a magic the gathering tournament, of all things.
:rolleyes: THAT was the problem... not the fact that it was in Kentucky.  My brother used to go to those and he said the same thing about ones in Philadelphia and New Jersey.
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Josquius

#10822
October 04, 2011, 09:33:03 PM
Grr, I hate magic the gathering and all those other silly card games. Half of the machines in the big arcade I found were bloody card game machines.
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Habbaku

#10823
October 04, 2011, 09:35:25 PM
Too much thinking involved for you, eh?
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Josquius

#10824
October 04, 2011, 09:38:47 PM
Too much buying cards.
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Lettow77

#10825
October 04, 2011, 09:52:42 PM
 The man's not wrong. It's why I quit playing. Of course, hustling rubes and selling the prizes won allowed me to leave that evening with more money than I walked in with.

Languish helped me, sort of, with my assignment: I just submitted the outline for the speech on katawa shoujo. we'll see how it goes- languish will be treated to the final version and its reception.
It can't be helped...We'll have to use 'that'

Neil

#10826
October 04, 2011, 09:54:20 PM
I had an awesome Magic deck in the early 90s.  Stasis-Kismet lock FTW.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

Neil

#10827
October 04, 2011, 09:54:59 PM
I don't know what katawa shoujo means.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

Ideologue

#10828
October 04, 2011, 10:16:25 PM
Katawa, no idea, but I do know what shoujo means, and I'd like to point out that I'm completely 100% right about our student loan program.
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Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Lettow77

#10829
October 04, 2011, 10:18:57 PM
 Neil, Katawa Shoujo is just crippled girls- you remember the speech about disabilities and how they can be appealing additions to a lady's character?

It's that one.
Katawa Shoujo is also the name of the most anticipated game of the year for me, coincidentally.
It can't be helped...We'll have to use 'that'
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