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mongers

#59265
November 26, 2016, 02:42:24 PM
Now I know what our Neil has been upto these last few months:

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Duque de Bragança

#59266
November 26, 2016, 03:07:36 PM
Quote from: Syt on November 26, 2016, 08:18:32 AM
Catching up on Cinema Snob reviews (I kinda tired out with his three part Heaven's Gate review):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJBMU25hpRk

"Black Is Beautiful - Africanus Sexualis"
:lol:

Nice Hell of the Living Dead poster in the background. :)

Admiral Yi

#59267
November 26, 2016, 07:42:09 PM
The young Leonard Cohen looked a lot like the young Al Pacino, at least based on the pic the Economist ran.

Ed Anger

#59268
November 26, 2016, 08:17:08 PM
Kids want a dog. If I wanted a retarded animal, I'd adopt Tim.

Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

The Brain

#59269
November 26, 2016, 09:08:18 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 26, 2016, 07:42:09 PM
The young Leonard Cohen looked a lot like the young Al Pacino, at least based on the pic the Economist ran.

I thought the same.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Syt

#59270
November 28, 2016, 03:33:36 AM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Josquius

#59271
November 28, 2016, 06:12:32 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on November 26, 2016, 08:17:08 PM
Kids want a dog. If I wanted a retarded animal, I'd adopt Tim.


I don't think you could stroke his belly though.
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Razgovory

#59272
November 28, 2016, 09:53:39 AM
Syt need a different avatar.
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

Eddie Teach

#59273
November 28, 2016, 09:55:04 AM
Agreed. I want to smush it.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Syt

#59274
November 28, 2016, 09:55:39 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 28, 2016, 09:53:39 AM
Syt need a different avatar.

What avatar? :unsure:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Razgovory

#59275
November 28, 2016, 10:00:55 AM
The bug one.
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

Josquius

#59276
November 28, 2016, 10:35:45 AM
I've just realised something.
The word emperor comes into English via French from the Latin imperator.
A word that was originally associated with military commanders, after a great victory they would be given the title as a prerequisite for a triumph.
Eventually the military commanders largely took over the empire from the senate and the word began to take its modern meaning.

Does this sound at all familiar to anyone with a bit of knowledge of Asian history?
Great barbarian subduing general....
Holy crap.
The emperor isn't the emperor. Shogun should be translated as emperor.
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Syt

#59277
November 28, 2016, 10:44:49 AM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Razgovory

#59278
November 28, 2016, 10:50:34 AM
Quote from: Tyr on November 28, 2016, 10:35:45 AM
I've just realised something.
The word emperor comes into English via French from the Latin imperator.
A word that was originally associated with military commanders, after a great victory they would be given the title as a prerequisite for a triumph.
Eventually the military commanders largely took over the empire from the senate and the word began to take its modern meaning.

Does this sound at all familiar to anyone with a bit of knowledge of Asian history?
Great barbarian subduing general....
Holy crap.
The emperor isn't the emperor. Shogun should be translated as emperor.

Did Tim just take over your account?  Lots of titles have military origins.  Baron, Count, and Duke all come military terms.  The word for "King" in Polish and Czech is essentially Charles, after Charlemagne.
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

11B4V

#59279
November 28, 2016, 07:18:47 PM
Quote from: Tyr on November 28, 2016, 10:35:45 AM
I've just realised something.
The word emperor comes into English via French from the Latin imperator.
A word that was originally associated with military commanders, after a great victory they would be given the title as a prerequisite for a triumph.
Eventually the military commanders largely took over the empire from the senate and the word began to take its modern meaning.

Does this sound at all familiar to anyone with a bit of knowledge of Asian history?
Great barbarian subduing general....
Holy crap.
The emperor isn't the emperor. Shogun should be translated as emperor.

You learn that from pictionary.
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".
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