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The Old Hack
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Well, arguably they had ruins from still earlier ages that by now have sunk so far into ruination that they have either vanished, not been found yet or subsumed into the Danish Ministry of Education.
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Something within your specialty that is done badly in a movie or comic is always more annoying than other slips. I have the same experience myself. When someone uses language in a pretentious way in a story I read and does it badly, it sends me straight up a wall. (*grumble grumble* Bloody C.J. Cherryh's Morgaine who couldn't conjugate 'thou' and 'thee' properly and just used 'thee' all the time. Maybe Cherryh thought Morgaine sounded cool, but to me she sounded like frigging Jar-Jar Binks.)
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Moo mee mowr.
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http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=591 Mee moo?
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Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)
The Old Hack replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Get TREEFIXTM, the humane way to keep your arboreal friends from going into heat! -
My concordance, NSFW, primarily relies on Pratchett, Gaiman and to a lesser degree GRRM. Normally the pastor reads from the Buggre Alle This bible.
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The Old Hack replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
I'm sorry to hear. Somebody really ought to have a word with Treebeard about that sometime. -
Big talk from the Pharaoh whose kingdom STARTED the game several thousands of years ago. Did the Saqqara Mummies score even a single win back then?
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Well, there's the matter of motivation. If you inform the Kamikaze-pilot-to-be that if he doesn't perform, Bad Things might happen to his whole family and that his whole life will be ruined anyway, as well as other methods of 'persuasion', suddenly you have a certain increase in the percentage of missions carried out. Add to that the fact that the pilots were usually elite whereas the poor footschloggers in the mud would often be conscripts with an at times very questionable morale and, well, let's just say that the Emperor's glory was all well and good but that there were also things to be said for living another day. As to the slave soldiers, their overseers had kindly just armed them shortly before the elephants hove into view. I feel sure that at the very least this helped them to make a better accounting for themselves.
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This seems to have been going on through history. I once read about something that happened during the Succession Wars following the death of Alexander the Great. One general about to face off against a competitor was worried because the other side had a heavy advantage in war elephants. He came up with an amazing idea. He had a unit of slave soldiers equipped with armour covered in very sharp spikes and placed them directly in the path of the elephants. In theory this would indeed have stopped the elephants. In practice the slave soldiers took one look at the advancing elephants, worked out what the spikes on their armour were meant to do, and mutinied on the spot. They weren't having any of that crap, thank you.
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Thank goodness. To be perfectly honest, I prefer my weapons that way. I am reminded of a quote from the comic "The Travelers" in the old White Dwarf magazine. 'They finally invented an antimatter hand grenade. Now they just need to invent an infantryman that can throw it fifty miles.' Of course, RL (as always) often equals or outdoes the imagination. During WWII the Japanese came up with an antitank weapon that was essentially a high explosive attached to a ten foot long pole. The idea was that the soldier using it would run up to the enemy tank, jam the explosive charge into its tread and set it off. Needless to say, the survival rate of actually employing the weapon was not good. And for some astounding reason, its use never did become popular amongst the Japanese infantry.
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Maybe it isn't actually as sinister as we think. They might just be playing EVE Online together.
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Ah, my mistake. The 'mysteriously' bit was supposed to be humorous; perhaps I should have put it in quotation marks.
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There might have been another good reason. Gasoline shortages, and they certainly had these during WW2. If you have no gas for your own car it becomes REALLY tempting to, shall we say, 'borrow' some from a car that does have some. I suspect that it would very swiftly grow really old to leave your car with a nearly full tank and then upon returning to it find that more than half its gas was mysteriously gone...
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This makes me wonder what would happen if anyone broke the speed of sound underwater. Admittedly hard to do because 1) sound moves much faster underwater and 2) water resistance obviously makes it harder to accelerate to high speeds. But if it succeeded, the results ought to be spectacular.
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Oh, that's normal. Norwegians have a deep seated distrust and suspicion of anything not from Norway. Naturally, any products they sell resent being removed from Norway and tend to take this out on the purchasers.
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That you didn't have proper mummy bandages available?
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It was one of these things that happened in occupied Denmark during WW2, giving German vehicles a little sugar rush. They even encouraged children to do it. I would be astounded if this did not also happen in other occupied countries.
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They didn't land it to build you more pyramids? What sort of astronauts fly these things, anyway?
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Ahhh. I am reminded of the Bad Old Days on these forums. How I do not miss them.
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loving language The Grammar Thread
The Old Hack replied to CritterKeeper's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Once you get to several thousands like you, they do start to blur together. -
Nonsense. He needs a monocle for all three eyes. Taking the old monocle gag to eleven. Or at least three.
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Don't panic. Everything is okay, Barack Obama just got re-elected for a second term and I just got my top of the line iPhone 5. Time is completely okay in all ways. ...all right, why are there German troops in the streets outside and what are these old-fashioned propeller planes with swastikas doing overflying Copenhagen?
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loving language The Grammar Thread
The Old Hack replied to CritterKeeper's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Don Edwards did it correctly, with 'Happy Berated Birthday!" >.> -
*snicker*