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Timotheus wrote:Strangely enough, from some background work done back in college, I can say that skulls and bones are extremely difficult to make walls out of. They do not stack vertically well at all. We had to run guide posts up through them all to keep the wall even remotely flat and vertical and let the mortar dry for each course before setting the next one. We also had to fill the skull's interiors with cement to keep them from crushing under the weight (plastic skulls, but bone would have had the same problem as it would have been actually weaker.
Essentially, you're embedding the skulls and bones in the wall, not building the wall with them.
....I, uh. I don't know what to say about that. This was for a specific course, or just academic curiosity?
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." - Nim the chimp Animation courtesy of shadowinthelight (thanks again!)
Mark N wrote: In this case we may be looking at either filling with concrete or another form of petrification (maybe some of Medusa's work).
I don't think it was Medusa. Seems more like the work of her second cousin Pentacryl, or perhaps Pentacryl's daughter Margaret (everyone calls her Peg).
Timotheus wrote:Strangely enough, from some background work done back in college, I can say that skulls and bones are extremely difficult to make walls out of. They do not stack vertically well at all. We had to run guide posts up through them all to keep the wall even remotely flat and vertical and let the mortar dry for each course before setting the next one. We also had to fill the skull's interiors with cement to keep them from crushing under the weight (plastic skulls, but bone would have had the same problem as it would have been actually weaker.
Essentially, you're embedding the skulls and bones in the wall, not building the wall with them.
....I, uh. I don't know what to say about that. This was for a specific course, or just academic curiosity?
Performance area/lounge wall - Named the Catacombs, The student union wanted to cover- up the new walls that had been put in for the wash rooms and such to fit in with the field stone walls and arches in the basement under the old chapel in the former monastery wing of the college. So they called in the creatively demented people and we decided to keep with the catacomb theme and cover the plaster board walls with fake walls of skulls and bone. Looked real neat when we were done but it turned out to be a real pain to do.
If I Knew What I Was Doing I'd Be Dangerous.
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ActionKermit wrote:Was that Medea? I got the impression that it was just some random demon who picked the wrong moment to get on Phix's bad side, and Nudge asked whether it was Medea half-sarcastically because there wasn't enough left of the corpse to be identifiable.
It was another sphinx - not all are winged lion types.
Not even duct tape can fix stupid. But it can muffle the noise.
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Peace through superior firepower - ain't nothin' more peaceful than a dead troublemaker.
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mike weber
So does this conversation mean Castela speaks Icelandic? As far as I know, that's the only language in which "tanta" means "aunt."
(Always thought there was something paranormal about archaeo-Vikings who live near the Arctic circle...)
Not even duct tape can fix stupid. But it can muffle the noise.
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Peace through superior firepower - ain't nothin' more peaceful than a dead troublemaker.
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mike weber
I want to apologize for immediately jumping to the conclusion that something bad is impending. I've been reading Song of Ice and Fire, and I may be a bit more paranoid than usual.
I think when I finish this book I'm going to find something a bit less soul crushing.
Whoever coined the phrase "more fun than a barrel of monkeys" obviously never spent an afternoon cramming the little buggers into one.
Wdot wrote:Still, she's at that age where "Happily ever after" should be allowed and if anything threatens that, they will have to deal with Katherine who fits the "mama bear" trope to a "T"
Yup. The world can be grim (no pun intended), and the "lighter" versions of childhood tales are often far removed from reality...
... but they should be. Children deserve at least some happy, care-free time to imagine, wonder, fly kites and dragons, and have tea with frogs. That's how the world should be, damnit!
There's plenty of time for Castela to learn the less-wonderful truths about the world, and realize that many princesses end up being married off to flatulent second sons of minor march-kings down by the bay, there to spend their lives officiating over the annual Fermented Herring festival.
I kept thinking of Sir Lancelot's Tale in Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail, and the princess with the "vast . . . tracts of land," not to mention the castle built in the swamp.
Timotheus wrote:Performance area/lounge wall - Named the Catacombs, The student union wanted to cover- up the new walls that had been put in for the wash rooms and such to fit in with the field stone walls and arches in the basement under the old chapel in the former monastery wing of the college. So they called in the creatively demented people and we decided to keep with the catacomb theme and cover the plaster board walls with fake walls of skulls and bone. Looked real neat when we were done but it turned out to be a real pain to do.
Oooh, cool! I'd like to see that, assuming you have any pics to share.
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." - Nim the chimp Animation courtesy of shadowinthelight (thanks again!)
A thought I keep having when reading the page today--and then promptly forget when it comes to the comments:
Pickle was right when she said she would be "cognito" if she goes out like that. It's a word one rarely has an opportunity to use.
I think I first saw it in Jack Winter's 1994 article, "How I Met My Wife".
I hope Pickle's love will be requited, and those around her committal.
bmonk wrote:A thought I keep having when reading the page today--and then promptly forget when it comes to the comments:
Pickle was right when she said she would be "cognito" if she goes out like that. It's a word one rarely has an opportunity to use.
I think I first saw it in Jack Winter's 1994 article, "How I Met My Wife".
I hope Pickle's love will be requited, and those around her committal.
Well, with her amazing amount of adorable cuteness, and her unique appearance, she'd probably attract enough attention to be able to hitch rides wherever she wants to go. She'd do almost as well in that regard as the fabled Sissy Hankshaw.
Finally figured out what she could be since she part plant and has horns
paul since you said she new creature
why don't we call her race a satyr hybrid some of them are part plants{some have horns} and going by some myths that or she could be dryrid{ some of them wasn't evil, and wasn't a demon in some circles}
Punjar repair man, that recently up graded the pun jar to 2.0 now with self defense and and evil ai that will try to kill you, if you even try to hurt it for doing its job...
Aleister Crow wrote:I have a bad feeling about this...
On the plus side, castela shrubs are perennials rather than just annuals. They're also quite hardy and don't have much in the way of predators/grazers/whateverers.
They're also rather uncomfortable to parachute into, though that property of theirs is not too likely to figure into this storyline unless the plot takes a very odd turn.
Catawampus wrote:[Castela plants]'re also rather uncomfortable to parachute into, though that property of theirs is not too likely to figure into this storyline unless the plot takes a very odd turn.
But when she gets old enough to be thinking about a boyfriend...
Not even duct tape can fix stupid. But it can muffle the noise.
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Peace through superior firepower - ain't nothin' more peaceful than a dead troublemaker.
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mike weber
Catawampus wrote:[Castela plants]'re also rather uncomfortable to parachute into, though that property of theirs is not too likely to figure into this storyline unless the plot takes a very odd turn.
But when she gets old enough to be thinking about a boyfriend...
This was for a specific course, or just academic curiosity?
I'd like to see that, assuming you have any pics to share.
