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Grey Fox

#16605
May 23, 2012, 10:07:37 AM
Have. Sex. A. Lot. of. it.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Josephus

#16606
May 23, 2012, 10:52:28 AM
Can't get any work done today. Composing an epic prog rocker on Google's Moog Synth.
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Razgovory

#16607
May 23, 2012, 11:01:01 AM
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

garbon

#16608
May 23, 2012, 11:30:01 AM
What's the name of the court position that would have announced foreign diplomats/nobles back in the renaissance period? Best I can find so far is Master of Ceremonies but that seems strange.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

HVC

#16609
May 23, 2012, 11:33:13 AM
Herald?
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Razgovory

#16610
May 23, 2012, 11:35:35 AM
This is actually the origin of the office of the "Captain of the Obvious".
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

garbon

#16611
May 23, 2012, 11:39:11 AM
Quote from: HVC on May 23, 2012, 11:33:13 AM
Herald?

That was my first thought but then when I looked it up it seemed more to be slotted as a messenger/proclamation reader so not someone who'd be standing about announcing guests.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Admiral Yi

#16612
May 23, 2012, 11:47:47 AM
Majordomo I think.

garbon

#16613
May 23, 2012, 12:04:46 PM Last Edit: May 23, 2012, 12:07:48 PM by garbon
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 23, 2012, 11:47:47 AM
Majordomo I think.

Hmm.  Well never a good source of inspiration but Bravehard apparently used Steward. :lol:

Maybe I'll just go generic with courtier?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

PDH

#16614
May 23, 2012, 12:18:52 PM
In some places the title was "usher" though that was earlier I think.  Beadle was another court title sort of like this too - many different titles depending on place and time.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

sbr

#16615
May 23, 2012, 12:29:59 PM
Quote from: derspiess on May 23, 2012, 09:46:02 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 22, 2012, 09:36:00 PM
Which part?

Can't be around Iowa City cuz I don't see the moon bouncing off your giant forehead.  yuk yuk

Just out of reflection range:  Ottumwa.

Say 'Hi' to the O'Reillys.

MadImmortalMan

#16616
May 23, 2012, 06:00:27 PM
Apparently, we have to pay property tax on software. Who knew.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

MadImmortalMan

#16617
May 23, 2012, 06:24:31 PM
ZH is running a stunt called POMO for the Rest of Us where users send tweets to @federalreserve with suggestions on what to spend new QE money on. #POMOlist
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

MadImmortalMan

#16618
May 23, 2012, 06:25:10 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on May 23, 2012, 06:24:31 PM
ZH is running a stunt called POMO for the Rest of Us where users send tweets to @federalreserve with suggestions on what to spend new QE money on. #POMOlist


Maybe this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GPW8mXFOBA


It's the Lewis Black "build a big fucking thing" method.  :P
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Ideologue

#16619
May 23, 2012, 06:26:16 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on May 23, 2012, 06:24:31 PM
ZH is running a stunt called POMO for the Rest of Us where users send tweets to @federalreserve with suggestions on what to spend new QE money on. #POMOlist

Reactivate the XB-70. :)
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