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Sorry, I'm not N2 that kind of thing.

Yes, the toxicity has been brought under check, thanks to a firm hand at moderating by folks like my good friend @The Old Hack. If you run into any problems, talk to him and he will see that they are dealt with in a swift and fair manner.

@Thom Revor The previously missing emotes and older uploads/embeds are showing up fine now. You have my gratitude and congratulations for this.

Well, I might have visited the birth of the Earth more recently in my own personal timeline than I visited the forums, but I was specifically asking about things that happened since spring of 2012. (Seriously, though, it is nice to see some humor on the forums.) So what sort of things were you betting on? Nice to see you again, Professor. I remember The Old Hack as well; he always seemed quite reasonable and level headed, so I'm sure the forums are in good hands.

It also helps that we keep the hot button and sensitive issues, like politics and medicine, confined to a few threads. And there are limits to what is acceptable in the Politics thread. Unfortunately, there is no limit to what is acceptable in actual politics. But if you ever need to rant against the Danish Parliament, the Politics thread is the place to go.

12:04 a.m. CDT 20170627. Monday's energy managed to hang around long enough to get the music system backed up. I just hope I get sufficient energy and mental clarity to take care of the remaining music system tasks Tuesday, as there are plenty and not much time left to do them. I finally made it over to Quest Diagnostics for the GERD testing. They make you blow into a bag, then they give you some fizzy concoction to drink all of. Uh oh. Shades of my painful colonoscopy purge at first. I thought I was going to lose my lunch in the waiting room. Lots and lots and lots of gas. I asked a nurse if it was supposed to be making me sick. She said no, then warned me that if I did barf the test would be invalid. She reassured me that I only had a few more minutes left before the final part of the test. That kept me hanging in there. I had plenty of gas, but no barfage. The second half of the test was just like the first: blow in a bag. I guess they do a before/after comparison, for whatever good it'll do. Next stop was the compounding pharmacy. It wasn't much fun, since I forgot to bring my wallet. Had to write everything down before they'd mix up the prescription. Left that in their hands and moved on. Mrs. Prof decided that the next stop should involve Mexican food. I went along with it, although I did so carefully since my stomach wasn't 100% recovered yet. Still, I can highly recommend the Tacos al Carbon at Norma's TexMex in Garland. Mrs. Prof had tamales and an enchilada, but she wound up going for my leftover beans when we got home—you could tell that they'd been cooking all day long. Not quite as good as Cooper's Barbecue in Llano, TX, but a close second.

I now have Tubular Bells running through my head after watching "The Exorcist" with Mrs. Prof. We have both decided that our cat does not need an exorcism after all.

I agree. Especially IV was a whale of a movie.

Welcome back, Chronos. You've been missed. I am glad to see you again.

The problem with most of the Next Generation movies is that, as movies, they were OK. The kind of movies that are fine for cable, home video, and the discount second run cinema in the mall. They would have made good (maybe very good, or even great) TV episodes. But despite the inflated special effects budget, they never struck me as epic features. But to be fair, I think only II and IV have really hit that standard so far.

The figures that grabbed Jerry 2.0 certainly suggest Pandora since she had very similarly appeared before Magus. My theory is that Heka revealed that Elves can in fact have children, Pandora, having already sensed something odd about Susan and Diane before (though we never see it) goes to Susan's house to confirm it, she finds Jerry 2.0 there but doesn't know why and assumes he's meddling and confronts him. He tells her about his previous self's vow to Susan and Nanase to convince Pandora that he isn't there to harm Susan and also tells her about his intuition saying there's some sort of connection between Susan and Diane that strongly suggests them being related in some way that made him assume they were sisters. Pandora probably does some more memory recall to times when Adrian was with a woman, and realized that Susan and Diane are in some way related to Adrian, thus he sudden change of attitude and breakdown in front of Sarah.

Current version. With a new approach: built-in emote functionality is not touched, but it effectively adds extra functionality on top of it. (That's :angry:, :twemoji_angry:, ;), ;-), :demonicduck:, :demonic_duck:, :), :-), :D, :-D, :O, :-O, B), 8) )

Doritos are not from the Hovitos. They're from the Fritos. Leave Al's carbon tacos alone and get your own. Although I would recommend the oxygen tacos with a side of refried nitrogen.

What Star Trek V? Sorry. My brain won't process any Trek with the numeral V.

I was eating Tacos al Carbon last night. Does that count?

Well, let's see. First the Earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it- he took her best summer dress and he put it on and went to town...

The coloring alone would be enough for most, I feel. "Oh, you're going to rob me...darn...but ooo! I'll look sawheeeet while you do it!" Another thing is that Indiana Jones will just rob you, while Hellboy will also wake you up and ask questions.

I tell ya, he lurks here. Saw my comment of "more blonde Rhoda" and there we have it. More likely, someone on twitter/tumblr/patreon had same comment. Unless he really was interested in Susan. He was pretty devastated after she was done with him. IMHO he was devastated because 1) it never happened to him and it was therefore big blow to his ego 2) NOW when she's unobtainable he really IS interested in Susan.

I don't like this theory. It would mean Susan(and maybe Diane) is related to Voltaire, and that would be terrible, because Voltaire is a terrible individual that deserves to be punched in the face repeatedly (and maybe lit on fire if I let my pyromania do the talking, but fire is the answer to everything in that case) I much prefer the theories and such that lead to Susan(and maybe Diane) are distantly related to Adrian and Pandora, because Adrian and Pandora are awesome people.

Chicken Yaki Udon from the mostly-sushi place in our strip mall. Yummy, but too messy to try to eat noodles with a fairly runny sauce, while wearing the scrub top I'll be seeing clients and patients in the rest of the day. I finally just tucked a towel into my collar, telling the girls to laugh if they wanted to. Nobody did, they've all been in the same boat! Hmm, if only the empty restaurant next door would open up as....hmm, let's see....a place with a really good salad bar, healthy stir fries with lots of choices of sauce, and Japan-sized servings of ice cream. Yeah, that'd do it!

Well, you could always go do counts for the NP and Sketchbooks if you're bored.... :-)

The Egyptian god of magic who summons excellent scones for tea (Possibly a legacy of the long British occupation of Egypt.) It hasn't been officially debunked, quite. However, something Heka almost finished telling to Pandora strongly suggests that Fairies have lots of descendants. (Heka calls Pandora a "Fairy" because the former Fairies calling themselves "Immortals" now implies that they are the only Immortals, leaving out other immortal beings, such as Heka.) It certainly impiies that Tedd, a seer, and Edward and all other human wizards are descended from at least one Fairy/Immortal, which also means that they must have at least one elf ancestor. Adrian told Grace back during Death Sentence that "Half-Immortals cannot have children." But he didn't explain why Grace saw an image of Susan staring back at her from the mirror she'd just used in the previous panel. And Adrian's statement might not be true. He could have been lying (for a good reason, of course) or he might have believed he was telling the truth but was wrong. And since this comic is now over five years old, it is possible that Dan has decided on a different truth than was true when he made that comic. As I mentioned awhile ago, the next time we see Pandora is when she appears in Susan's bedroom where Jerry is puzzling over the relationship (or lack of it) between Susan and Diane. This kind of implies that whatever Heka said to Pandora suggested that Susan was suddenly important to her, even though Pandora had never been shown with or mentioned Susan in the ten-plus years since her introduction in Hidden Genesis. And on the next visit Pandora pays to EGS, she tells Sarah that she told a lie to her son something that wasn't true and ends the comic with the now-notorious statement "Of course they were his!" Now, none of this is absolute proof that half-immortals like Adrian can have children, but if Dan decides that they can't after all this, it proves that Dan is a big doofus.

Actually it was a buck-and-a-quarter quarterstaff but he didn't say so.

Ah... I feel almost embarrassed to interrupt, but Thom has restored regular Smiley function to the forums. Please let me know if you have any trouble.