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The Old Hack
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It is only for special occasions.
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Easy!
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Not the worst idea. Personally, I am watching A Certain Magical Index.
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Or witches. As Terry Pratchett clearly states, a witch should never position herself between two mirrors.
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At least that way the Prof will have suffered no worse than a close shave.
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PLAYTESTING!
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Ouch. I hope they will all recover okay. :/
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If so I hope they didn't get away with more than two bits.
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You have not missed much. But Pharaoh is correct; this is what was alluded to. It wasn't actual Latin.
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I wonder how much a natural or declared disaster costs since one was credited to your account.
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For me it captures the spirit of Christmas: peace, love and mutual acceptance, which was the entire point of the music of the Wyld Stallyns.
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There is that Christmas movie supreme, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
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A friend of mine who studied at Cambridge once told me this story. The choirmaster at the cathedral there amongst other things led Gregorian chants. But he was just a little depressed by the thought that probably no-one ever listened to the actual Latin so painstakingly performed. So one fine Sunday he replaced the chorus in one of the chants with "Barclayus Cardus Flexibus" repeated twice. When the choir started performing this at first no-one seemed to notice. But at the third repetition a distinguished professor in the audience broke down and howled with laughter. The choirmaster instantly stopped the performance and declared, "Thank God at least ONE of you were actually listening."
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The Old Hack replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
I hope she had him fed to the crocodiles. -
What do you mean, full shift? It is only visible for seven hours and barely peeks above the horison. It would not count as a full shift even if it stayed there for eight hours because even when it is there we hardly get any real light at all. Half the time or more it is overcast anyway. But to be fair to Ra, I don't blame him. It is a long way north for that barge of his. And not only does he have all those monsters of the night to deal with but Danish traffic cops are being particularly unreasonable these days. I bet they would get him for DWD (Driving While Divine) if they got the chance to. (Darn hypocrites never stop Thor. Something about thunderstorms being a good time to sit indoors and eat donuts. What is the world coming to.)
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On the other hand, we are still experiencing temperatures above freezing in Copenhagen and will likely continue to do so for at least a week. We did have some snow but it melted mere hours after falling.
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Someone needs to provide more food for the sacred alligators.
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The Old Hack replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
I hear you. I wouldn't want to break out in roofing tiles. -
On a somewhat more serious note, hair and fingernails have been considered potent symbols of life in some mythologies due to the mistaken impression that they continued to grow for a little while after death. (This was actually caused by the skin of the corpse contracting ever so slightly due to the onset of rigor mortis, causing hair still inside follicles to extrude and fingernails to seemingly lengthen.) Thus, hair and nail clippings from a still living person were believed to be connected to their life force, allowing the possessor to use them to magically harm the originator. If we were to stretch this premise a little, this might allow a vampire to steal life energy from a victim at a distance. I am not sure about the origin of this myth but I believe that Asia had vampires known as breath stealers. They would steal life energy from victims by inhaling their breath, usually while they were sleeping. Given time they would completely drain their prey of life.
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I was shamelessly stealing from an issue of What's New with Phil and Dixie in which the Foglios explored precisely what it was that makes vampires so scary. They submitted hair-stealing vampires as a good example of monsters of the night that would carry rather less gravitas and feelings of dread.
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AS MANY TIMES AS IT TAKES! As to Voltaire, HE PITYS THE FOOL.
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Yeah. And we already know what happened to the A Team.
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The Old Hack replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
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He was one of the dreaded Hair Stealers. He sucked the life out of his victims by eating their hair.
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It is also worth pointing out that the President didn't actually die.
