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In a concrete fortification, the purpose of the concrete is to hold the dirt up . . . Endicott-period fortifications (US) and their counterparts elsewhere in the world were normally covered with dry sand, frequently with burster plates (also concrete) bedded within the sand. Small shells would lodge...

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It's contagious! Phix had better watch out!

They are to be congratulated - they managed to dumbfound Phix!

. . .

Now to see if they survive the achievement!

--FreeFlier

…snippage… except that you want to fire on the DOWNROLL, as then a water hit will still bounce into the target- There's more room for error on an uproll shot. Firing on the downroll risks firing down into the sea if the gunner is slow or the gun itself hangs fire slightly. Firing on the uproll help...

I didn't even recognize Shelly... I had to look at the tags below the comic... Same here. Me three. :lol: :lol: :lol: . . . that IS a nice fuse pike she's working with, but I prefer friction primers on a front stuffer, more reliable. . . . I always heard it referred to as a linstock . . . and you d...

When did lying become conflated with pranking? . . . . As I've stated, a lie is not a prank. Children of that age don't really understand the difference . . . they're just learning about humor and it's a very blunt instrument. Yes, this is the sort of April Fool's joke that would send those two int...

. . . // slurp // Caffeine is wonderful stuff. I've worked with some guys who definitely had a drug problem... their bodies couldn't handle caffeine. I really don't know how they ever managed to get into programming in the first place. . . . Perhaps it was an acquired condition . . . too much Jolt ...

Catawampus wrote:

Dave wrote:And, whatever they might do on the island might be entirely outside the scope of any effective civil law...

Nope. The US is one country that also makes it illegal for its citizens to do such things outside of
the US.

Actually, that's more common than you think . . .

--FreeFlier

I will point out that seventeen-year-olds having sex is one thing. Portraying seventeen-year-olds in sexualised situations may well be another. we are talking about an imaginary girl and her *girlfriend* in an imaginary world... nothing to do with RL , that has 'rules' about 'doing stuff' in the wr...

Well, I think it's finny . . . as long as you keep your sense of scale.

/puts an Oncorhynchus mykiss irideus fingerling in the pun jar/

--FreeFlier

That would explain the pain . . .

--FreeFlier

Jabberwonky wrote:

Catawampus wrote:Then there are the Hattians, who seem to have been obsessed with horns but nobody can seem to agree on just what their whole deal with them was.

It's because of their penchance for wearing head coverings...

They're Jaegers?

/flrrd/

--FreeFlier

Sounds like over at The Whiteboard when Swampy tried to prank Doc with a fake severed arm, and Doc panicked . . .

--FreeFlier

So apparently horns and bat wings are more uncomfortable to produce than are bird wings. Perhaps the feathers help to cushion things. Or else she's just had all of those years to get used to the avian appendages, and she just hasn't worn in her new wings yet. Y'know, if she were to sprout all four ...

but there they wouldn't be seducing the innocent . . .

. . .

If you could find any innocents around here!

--FreeFlier

An anonymous ficcer wrote:Why do I fic? . . . To make the voices talk to somebody else!

So true.

--FreeFlier

Yeshua is a forgiving man.

--FreeFlier

Sgt. Howard wrote:She has far more flight time and capacity than that stupid Vespa...

Which is why it's Vespa Run, not Vespa Flight.



--FreeFlier

lake_wrangler wrote:. . . I speak and read three languages.

Time is not one of them.

Just as well . . . speaking time causes . . . eccentricities.

Eccentricities even by our standards.

And they're communicable.

--FreeFlier

Catawampus wrote:

FreeFlier wrote:And in any case, it could be an archaism Atsali acquired somewhere - maybe from a book. . .

Hmm, I wonder if anybody who Atsali sometimes socialises with would ever use such terminology?

Could be . . .

--FreeFlier

There's an entire north to south strip of states right down the middle of the country where people still say "gals". North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. You forgot a state or two. Most importantly, Minnesota. Let's not forget the gals of western New York sta...