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  4. Posted

    2 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    Or, like ... maybe Nanase Craft is teaching at university between adventures - Indiana Jones was. So Sarah was her assistant in that position (paid by university) and then took the offer to also assist her on dungeon crawl. And she wouldn't be first assistant doing that.

    Heh.  I imagine a university would get rather annoyed if a professor kept having teaching assistants who dropped out of school because they'd suddenly gotten rich.

    Then again, maybe a student who suddenly had millions, and didn't have to worry about tuition or student loans, would just decide to stay in college for as long as possible...

  7. Posted

    5 hours ago, Tom Sewell said:

    http://egscomics.com/comic/2006-05-31

    Hmmm, that "Girls who have kissed Sarah count" has been at 3 for far too long.  Ellen, Grace, and Elliot...would a friendly peck on the cheek and/or motherly kiss on the forehead from Pandora count?  Is there some way to arrange a kiss from Ashley without it being weird?  Ah, if only Tedd had been a girl in that "The Dangers Of Clone Form Pranking" sketchbook!

    (I'm only counting canon, on-screen kisses here, we all know the OT3 means the count is probably at least at four by now.... ;-)

  8. Posted

    14 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    He can travel in time. He has all the time he needs and far more time than he wants.

    "After a while, you just don't see it anymore.  Everything.  I look at a star and it's just a big ball of burning gas, and I know how it began and I know how it ends, and I was probably there both times.  After a while, everything is just stuff.  That's the problem, you make all of space and time your backyard, and what do you have?  A backyard.

    But you...you can see it.  And when you see it, I see it."     -The Doctor to Amy Pond, on why he brought her with him in his travels

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  9. Posted

    On 12/29/2018 at 6:56 AM, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Barry Manilow told us what to do back in the Old Kingdom
    (he's been alive forever, you know)

    Ah, yes, like a good neighbor, Barry Manilow deserves a break today, 'cos he's stuck on Band-Aid....

    (For those who don't know, Barry Manilow used to write jingles, including "I am stuck in Band-Aid, 'cos Band-Aid's stuck on me!")

  11. Posted

    On 12/28/2018 at 0:31 AM, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    1867 – United States claims Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.  Manifest Destiny was supposed to justify expanding from Sea to Shining Sea.  What is the explanation for taking something half way across said shining sea?

    "We need the guano."

    No, seriously.

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    1973 – The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.  Uryuoms are not listed as a protected species...

    They can hold their own against sharks with knives in outer space, they don't need our protection!  ;-)

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    2008 – The Detroit Lions crash in a 31-21 loss to Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field; first team in NFL history to go winless in a 16-game season.  Of all the records the Lions could have set, it had to be THIS one.

    My high school's basketball team had a record-long losing streak at one point.  They have a "sub-freshman" class which combines seventh and eighth grades into one year, so almost everyone is a year younger than the same grade at other high schools, meaning the guys were all a year shorter.  In high school basketball, apparently that makes a difference.  The school doesn't even *have* a football team.

    Perhaps equally important, perhaps moreso, it's a nerd school, so athleticism isn't exactly sought out or nurtured.  Our chess and math teams, on the other hand, always kick ass!

  12. Posted

    On 12/27/2018 at 9:59 PM, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    I suppose it is rather more difficult for you to have similar consultations with your patients.

    Well, we do make good use of feedback from clients.  "Last time Fluffy had his teeth cleaned, he wouldn't eat for three days!"  "Sammy did so much better after her spay than Chloe did!"  "We tried that doggie prozac, but Charlie was still crying for the whole storm, so then I gave him two more pills and he slept all night!"  (Note: do not do what that last person did.  Ask first!  Some meds are dangerous at higher doses.)  So maybe Fluffy needs better pain control, and Sammy needs a shorter-acting induction, and Charlie needs a different anxiolytic.

  14. Posted

    19 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    (Ellen the half-dragon definitely shouldn't call Griffins monsters unless she's ready to be called one as well. Again.)

     

    3 hours ago, Scotty said:

    It seems that Grace and Ellen have been having trouble communicating though, I hope it doesn't become too much of a problem.

     

    Okay, forget putting warnings on TV Tropes links, I'm spending way more time following a link to a past comic and then getting sucked into reading on from there!  That first one had me reading from there all the way through the Swedekea race and the Demon Ally bit.  I was only able to break away after the first page of Hammerchlorians when I realized how late it was getting.  And then the second link led to SQ part 2, and a commentary link lead to the Summer scene at the movie theater, and that looped back into Squirrel Prophet part one....

  15. Posted

    That waking up feeling great is reportedly what Michael Jackson liked about Propofol -- apparently, he had horrible insomnia, and a Propofol anesthesia was the first time he'd felt like he'd had a good sleep in months, if not years.  :-/

    Glad you had a good anesthesiologist, who talked it over with you and didn't just decide on their own what was "best" for you.  :-)

  17. Posted

    On 12/22/2018 at 8:14 AM, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    22 December

    1910 – US postal savings stamps 1st issued.  That's right, the big banks effectively refused to accommodate small savers and investors, so individuals putting away money a little at a time had to deal with very small banks, or the Post Office.  And a lot of Americans preferred the Post Office.

    Cool, another piece of almost-forgotten history!  Personally, I kinda wish this were still an option for those who can only save a little at a time.

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    1932 – "The Mummy" directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff is released in the US - 1st Mummy horror film.  A cinematic masterpiece and a perennial family favourite.

    I took a class in undergrad called "Novel Archaeology" which was all about archaeology as seen through the eyes of pop culture, mostly books but it also covered some films, including this one.  You can get a good sense of the attitudes towards antiquities and the natives who might have laid claim to them, by watching this film.

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    1958 – "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1.  So is this what happens when you give a songwriting comedian a variable speed tape player?

    Ooo eee ooo aah aah, ting tang walla-walla bing bang!

    On 12/23/2018 at 11:56 AM, Illjwamh said:

    679 - King Dagobert II

    The result of Dogbert going to Dagobah?

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    1954 - First successful kidney transplant. Ominously unknown: number of unsuccessful prior attempts.

    I'm sure they happened, and they have my undying gratitude for everything that was learned that eventually led to still having my sister with us almost twenty-five years after her successful one!

    On 12/24/2018 at 1:34 PM, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    1966 - A displaced Pharaoh reestablishes his royal presence in rural Michigan.  He would later relocate to Florida where the Manatees greet his reign with respectful indifference.

    Happy belated birthday!

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    1818 - A flood had damaged the organ of the St. Nikola parish church in Oberndorf bei Salzburg in Austria.  Father Joseph Mohr, a young priest, gave a poem he wrote to a local schoolmaster and organist, Franz Xaver Gruber.  Mohr asked Herr Gruber to arrange it for guitar...  OK, if you aren't already familiar with this story you probably aren't interested in Christmas Music in general.  This particular tale is told only slightly less often than the one about what happened when Quirinius was governor of Syria.  Suffice to say that "Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht" (in English "Silent Night") was performed publicly for the first time two hundred years ago today.

    The next they sang was Stille Nacht,

    "'Tis 'Silent Night'!" said I,

    And in two tongues one song filled up the sky!"

       - "Christmas in the Trenches" by John McCutcheon

    On 12/25/2018 at 9:39 PM, Illjwamh said:

    ~ INTERIM LIGHTING ROUND! CORONATIONS~
    (CUE BENNY HILL THEME)

    "Yakkity Sax" deployed!

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    820 - Emperor Leo V is assassinated in a church by a bunch of assassins disguised as monks. His successor, Michael II (who hired them), was imprisoned in the basement, but they couldn't get him out because the key was on the person of the recently deceased emperor, whose dismembered body they had unceremoniously tossed out into the snow. He was thus crowned while still clad in irons.There was no need for me to add any embellishments on this one.

    My compliments to the blacksmith for forging such durable, difficult to escape even with help, manacles!

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    1868 - In an unpopular move, President Andrew Johnson recognizes that it would be impractical and detrimental to society to try the entire workforce of half the country's land area for treason.

    They had already extended amnesty on condition of swearing loyalty to the United States, albeit with a number of exceptions that mainly covered ranking officers, higher-ups in Confederate government, and people who had deliberately left the government or military of the United States in order to go join the Confederacy.  In an unusual inversion of "treat officers in a gentlemanly manner but screw the little guy," one of the categories exempt from amnesty had been anyone with property exceeding $20,000.  So, it was hardly the entire workforce at stake, more like the rich and influential, plus those among the workforce who refused to promise not to do it again.  I suspect that's why it may not have been popular, because it may have been seen as letting ringleaders off scot-free.

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    1914 - Across the Western Front of World War I, a number of truces break out as impromptu football (soccer) matches spring up. The carnage that ensues from the riots that arise among the spectators is so horrible that this is not repeated for the remainder of the war.

     

  18. Posted

    Love that one!  It and the following were standards on The Midnight Special on WFMY when I was growing up.

    We weren't in range of WFMT broadcasts, but my Dad used to get cable radio (yes, that was a thing) just so he could hear The Midnight Special every Saturday.  Three hours of "Show tunes and satire, folk music and farce, odds and ends, madness and escape" on a station that played classical music the rest of the week.

  22. Posted

    On 12/24/2018 at 7:52 PM, hkmaly said:

    Ad the comic: hmmm ... actually, do anyone knows Pandora's motivation? Besides Adrian, who can't be counted as super chick, and even he may not be sure about the whole picture ... Disco Wizard likely already doesn't remember. And it's not like Pandora needed to tell her plan to anyone.

    Did she tell her motives to Sarah or to Tedd?  I'd have to go back and re-read bits that would doubtless suck me into far more re-reading than I should get sucked into right now....

    On 12/24/2018 at 0:26 PM, Tom Sewell said:

    You're assuming Camdin was marked by Pandora. There's certainly no clue for or against that in canon. But it's pretty clear that Voltaire knows of at least one person that Pandora did mark, which suggests he knows about others and may have marked some people himself.

    If Voltaire could mark people himself, wouldn't we have seen more evidence of him doing so?  He could have framed Pandora for a lot more than just manipulating Dex.

    On 12/24/2018 at 10:11 PM, Scotty said:

    It was assumed by Grace that it was the same Immortal marking everyone, I would imagine that was the general belief among the rest of them, and they haven't seen evidence that the marks were given by more than one Immortal. So if Luke or Camdin did press Justin into telling more after Justin eventually got told by Tedd and/or Susan, it'd likely be the "an Immortal who wanted her son to have more freedom to help people, marked people to increase awareness of magic" story.

    It does seem like Elliot is the only one who's even considered that other Immortals could mark people, and that was only to think of asking them to help transgender people, not to wonder if they've been marking others the way Pandora had.  However, Noah's reaction to the idea of an Immortal marking someone without asking or telling them makes it seem like such behavior is very much outside the norm.

    On 12/25/2018 at 8:37 PM, hkmaly said:

    Yes ; even if Voltaire marked someone, Justin has no way to know and no reason to suspect. (And same is true for rest of cast ... Including Adrian, actually. BTW Adrian doesn't even know yet that the attack on Noah was orchestrated by Voltaire and not Pandora.)

    Yeah, I'm still waiting for Voltaire to say or do something that lets slip to Adrian that he was behind that one.  I think the Main Characters know about that; didn't Voltaire take credit for it when he revealed himself and promised not to try to kill Elliot?

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    I don't think Justin would be so easy to convince to tell more, though. Even if he would reveal the "increase awareness of magic", given the obviousness of question "who's her son?", I would expect he would withhold that to protect Adrian.

    He could tell the first part without revealing the second.

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    Also, staying with "to increase awareness of magic" opens the possibility of suggesting that they should lay low to sabotage that plan. Not that it would help much ...

    Of course, we don't yet know what changes to their rules the Immortals may have made after their little conclave....

  23. Posted

    On 10/27/2018 at 11:17 PM, CritterKeeper said:

    Just to show how cutting-edge a gamer I am, I just started playing Pokemon GO.  I didn't have a cell that could handle it until recently.  Gives me a second reason to do more walking (see Happy thread for the first!) and I'm slowly learning how to play.

    I am perhaps more amused than I should be that I have just renamed a Cyndaquil "Justin".

    And this game is surprisingly addictive, but too easy to hit Pokestops and gyms in the car instead of walking.  Overall I'm walking more, though.  :-)