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  2. Posted

    The bottling spell of the Good Magician in Piers Anthony's Xanth series. I've loved that spell since I was a kid. You cast a spell at any object in touch range and not in the possession of another person and it gets magically stored in a bottle. To retrieve it, you just open the bottle. And the bottles could be really small, too.

    (In the series, it was also possible to trap demons in the bottles, but to do that, you needed pentagrams and an either cooperative or helpless target.)

  5. Posted

    4 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Forget Paris.
    Lead a Viking Raid to reclaim what was Danish Territory.

    The Danes sold the Danish West Indies to the US in 1916 and the US Virgin Island politicians have not yet agreed on a territorial constitution with the US Congress, so it remains an Unincorporated Territory.

    While on the surface a reasonable proposition, I plain don't dare to. Gomer Pyle might be stationed there, and then where would I and my Vikings be? :doom:

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    1 hour ago, mlooney said:

    On the old forum Durning the fall and winter I was checking the weather in Broken Arrow, Chicago and Copenhagen.  After a while I added Paris.  Turns out last fall it normally had better weather than the 3 other places.  I kept telling old hack to embrace his Viking heritage and invade France for the weather.  Became sort of a running joke.

    I reiterate, France is full of Frenchmen, and worse still, Paris is full of Parisians. And the closer you get to Paris, the more provincial the locals become. It's a nonstarter.

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    5 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    That's the way the law/regulation is written.  You can round the numbers, so 0.5g would round up to 1g, except since you're not *required* to round it, they usually list it as "0.5g" instead.  Anything under 0.5 can be rounded down to zero.  As long as you say (in very small lettering compared to the rest) that the "0g Trans Fat!" is "per serving" then there's nothing to sue over.

    I despise this sort of regulation. Not to mention the people who take advantage of it.

  11. Posted

    Just now, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Jetpacks?

    Darnitol, it is 2016.  We were supposed to have Jetpacks as well as flying cars, robot maids, commercial space travel, and every woman was supposed to look like a supermodel, sixteen years ago.

    When oh when will the Jetsons deliver on their promises?

    Last I heard they were busy working on a rocket powered pyramid. I understand installing the engines in the Cheops Pyramid is presenting a bit of a challenge.

  16. Posted

    5 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Grammar is an odd science.  The heart of the discipline is asking the question "how do people use this language?"  But for many people, the lesson of grammar is twelve years of teachers and books that tell you "this is how you must use this language!"

    A typical mistake. A grammar is ultimately a model of how a language works. And then some idiots enter and insist that the model takes precedence over the reality.

  18. Posted

    1 hour ago, mlooney said:

    There are a lot of species that do all look alike, nothing saying that not being able to tell them apart is in and of itself racist.

    The human eye is very good at pattern and facial recognition. However, it is easy to posit various alien species where we cannot readily tell individuals apart. Insectoids are one such category, protoplasmic blobs are another popular example, floating fields of energy that constantly shift in size, shape and colour would be a third. (And how about Vorlons who actually project specific appearances to individual species?)

  22. Posted

    9 minutes ago, SeriousJupiter said:

    Wow. For some reason, I was afraid that a Pokémon joke about evolution would have caused a religious argument, but instead you chose to talk about Star Wars and Lord of the Rings.

    I love you guys. :)

    I was just as happy that the forum did not devolve into a rage fest over the bloody midichlorians. (I hate that idea so much.) :doom:

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  25. Posted

    1 hour ago, mlooney said:
    1 hour ago, The Old Hack said:

    I have spent some time wondering why religious authorities would make such a ban. Then finally it came to me. Clearly these OOP language functions were created by the Uryuom equivalent of Microsoft, and accordingly the religious authorities pronounced anathema on them.

    AT&T Bell Labs on line two. Something about stolen credit. Borland Software one line one, something about first to market on non UNIX platform. Zortech Software on line three, something about first full ANSI compliance for non UNIX platform. Who do you want to talk to first?

    And along those lines, a similar event on the last panel of this comic.