The Old Hack

I have a friend who is Danish-Canadian. Her father was Denmark's ambassador to Canada for many years.

I can get behind that idea. The Demonic Duck is the Gooniverse's Demon Xanth, the Source of Magic.

I am so sorry. Losing a cat is so terribly hard. They grow close to you and become small members of the family. My condolences.

*wince* I hear you. I add my hopes to yours.

It's rarely a good idea to rely on hoaxes for your information.

This is a little sad. Rich wants to be rich, but Larry wants to not be Larry.

Says you. Pandora has shown surprise twists to her personality and has even been randomly nice. Maybe she likes furries. As to twisting words, maybe try to not phrase it so it sounds like anyone who wants anything to do with furries cannot be a good person.

Actually I thought about it. This was during the Peninsular War and at the time the rule of Spain was contested between Napoleon who wanted his brother on the Spanish throne and the rebelling Spaniards who received assistance from England and the Portuguese. I am not even sure a unified national government per se existed or if it was only a king in exile.

Wow! Then they were in a state of civil war all that time, too! Awesome!

So, if you happen to sympathise with or be a furry, you cannot be a good person. Thanks.

What? You mean, if you like furries you are automatically evil?

Gah. Suddenly I feel like taking up those plans to conquer Paris just out of sympathy for you. Maybe when I control the place, you could move into the Louvre.

Gimme that. /me snatches mlooney's list /me adds Vorlonagent to The List /me returns List to mlooney

There was a town in Spain that was so indignant at Denmark's support of Napoleon during the Napoleonic War that its municipal leadership decided to declare war on Denmark sometime back in 1812 or thereabouts. This state of hostilities lasted without cessation for more than a century and a half until a Danish newspaperman found a reference to it in the archives. He decided to go there and investigate, and lo and behold, the current mayor of the town found that yes, war had been declared and no, no peace treaty had ever been formally signed. He then took the newspaperman as a prisoner of war, cruelly treated him to a grand dinner with the finest wines he owned, and together with the other guests they debated the matter and finally decided that the time had come to bury the hatchet. And the newspaperman got to return home with a formal and signed declaration of cessation of hostilities. I do not know if an actual peace treaty has ever been agreed on but at least there has been no violations of the ceasefire so far.

The interesting thing is that if you can just convince an immortal that they have broken their laws, that would in and of itself make them guilty automatically. Hm.

Clearly, this kind.

What would you do if I sang out of tune, Would you stand up and walk out on me. Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song, And I'll try not to sing out of key...

Maybe the term 'brain dead' was meant derogatively. Sirleck is already a life-stealing horror that cares nothing about other human beings. I would not put it past him to be ableist, too.

I have often felt the need for more of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Well yes, but given what happened to a lot of these, I personally feel that combining it with weapons training and armor might increase survivability.

I suspect as much. In fact, I think that she created it the very moment she appeared on public TV. It would be a double whammy -- revealing the existence of magic on TV and setting up what she probably intended to be a snowballing effect of stronger and stronger magic.

That's ridiculous. Then whom do you have to make snarky remarks about you all day long?

I think you can safely count Samuel Vimes as a hammer. Or maybe an ax. What revised continuity? There's only this one. We've always been at war with Eastasia.

Oh come on. It wasn't his fault. He actually helped repair the Timestream. Well, for a given value of 'repair'. If 'pounding it senseless, making it beg for mercy and shoving it into the path he wanted through brute force' counts as 'repair', we're golden.

Baby, you can drive my car yes I'm gonna be a star baby, you can drive my car and baby, I love you