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- Jabberwonky
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"The price of perfection is prohibitive." - Anonymous
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Thank you so much! Now my "tension has been exterminated!" 

- AnotherFairportfan
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Proof Positive the world is not flat: If it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
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Proof Positive the world is not flat: If it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
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Speaking of music, I might be going up to Cleveland in a few months to audition to play bass for a band I met Tuesday night. They were pretty cool people, and the singer is really pretty. Surprised I was able to speak to her.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D0y-RYc_Iy0
That video doesn't do her justice. Also, I'm really nervous, even though I may not get the call at all.
http://www.revolvermag.com/news/the-com ... -fate.html
That's much closer to how she looked in person. Only difference was that her hair wasn't dyed, and she had a different outfit.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D0y-RYc_Iy0
That video doesn't do her justice. Also, I'm really nervous, even though I may not get the call at all.
http://www.revolvermag.com/news/the-com ... -fate.html
That's much closer to how she looked in person. Only difference was that her hair wasn't dyed, and she had a different outfit.
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My anal sphincter right now is capable of holding 55psi of pressure- my bladder tried twice to run for cover- there is a four-way traffic jam in my right pre-frontal lobe and the brain stem is suffering something akin to a hangover- one tooth committed suicide- my fingernails are pealing themselves to distract the rest of the body with the pain produced... this so far has failed- my tongue crawled out and hasn't been seen in a while...
was that the desired result?
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- Jabberwonky
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YMMV?Sgt. Howard wrote:My anal sphincter right now is capable of holding 55psi of pressure- my bladder tried twice to run for cover- there is a four-way traffic jam in my right pre-frontal lobe and the brain stem is suffering something akin to a hangover- one tooth committed suicide- my fingernails are pealing themselves to distract the rest of the body with the pain produced... this so far has failed- my tongue crawled out and hasn't been seen in a while...
was that the desired result?
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- Jabberwonky
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I'm enjoying these fellows...thanks for the linkAnotherFairportfan wrote:I has some new Muzekil Heerows!
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I liked the song you linked, I hope things work out with the band. Gonna listen to more of their stuff later.Alkarii wrote:Speaking of music, I might be going up to Cleveland in a few months to audition to play bass for a band I met Tuesday night. They were pretty cool people, and the singer is really pretty. Surprised I was able to speak to her.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D0y-RYc_Iy0
That video doesn't do her justice. Also, I'm really nervous, even though I may not get the call at all.
http://www.revolvermag.com/news/the-com ... -fate.html
That's much closer to how she looked in person. Only difference was that her hair wasn't dyed, and she had a different outfit.
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- Jabberwonky
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Unrepentant silliness... There is three swear words in it, including the Queen Mother of dirty words...
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Yeah. She also contributed guest vocals for Mushroomhead's We Are The Truth, from the album The Righteous and the Butterfly. In fact, her band was one of the supporting acts for Mushroomhead that night.
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So after watching/listening to this, maybe I will go to Wurstfest in New Braunfels this year, get me some POLKA!AnotherFairportfan wrote:I has some new Muzekil Heerows!
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Wurstfest! I haven't even thought about it in years...Hansontoons wrote:So after watching/listening to this, maybe I will go to Wurstfest in New Braunfels this year, get me some POLKA!AnotherFairportfan wrote:I has some new Muzekil Heerows!

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You chose Polka, so polka it is!Hansontoons wrote:So after watching/listening to this, maybe I will go to Wurstfest in New Braunfels this year, get me some POLKA!AnotherFairportfan wrote:I has some new Muzekil Heerows!
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Something seen during my recent vacation trip to France.
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The name literally means "Home of the Royal." I have it that it's spelled with two R's and only one E, though.
VILLARREAL
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Depends if you're Spanish or French, i suppose.jwhouk wrote:The name literally means "Home of the Royal." I have it that it's spelled with two R's and only one E, though.
VILLARREAL
According to Google Translate, in Spanish, "villa real" means "royal villa", while in French, "ville réal" means "royal city".
Hmmm.
In Portugese, "villa real" is just "villa real", but "ville réal" comes out as "verdadeira cidade", which renders to English as "real city"...
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Bwaahahahaha! Good ol' Weird Al!DinkyInky wrote:You chose Polka, so polka it is!Hansontoons wrote:So after watching/listening to this, maybe I will go to Wurstfest in New Braunfels this year, get me some POLKA!AnotherFairportfan wrote:I has some new Muzekil Heerows!
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In this case, the latter meaning is probably the appropriate one. The sign I posted is for a bastide town: one of many carefully-planned towns set up by the French kings some centuries ago in their attempt to extend their power out into the countryside. Bastides were, literally, royal towns.AnotherFairportfan wrote:According to Google Translate, in Spanish, "villa real" means "royal villa", while in French, "ville réal" means "royal city".
Hmmm.
Unlike the earlier medieval towns (which grew up spontaneouly and irregularly) the bastide towns have a planned, regular layout... square blocks, streets and alleys at right angles, houses all the same size, and a big market square in the center. I rather suspect William Penn was inspired by the bastide towns when he laid out the street plan for Philadelphia.
Many of those which survive are beautiful, albeit small.

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Did you know that answering the question, "What are you doing?" with, "Admiring all of these giant spiders!" is an effective method of dispersing a crowd? I found that out today.
He still tried to keep lots of wide open spaces between buildings and blocks, filled with gardens and parks, for safety and health reasons (he remembered the Great Fire of London), and those don't tend to be a common feature of most Roman-inspired plans such as the bastides obviously are.
From what I've read on Penn's ideas, it's not considered very likely that he actually based the city layout on any particular example. Making it in squares and lines was just really easy to parcel and map out. Apparently, his original idea was to actually have it all be big country mansions on great big square estates, so he drew up the land in a big checkerboard pattern for that. That turned out to be a tad impractical for all of the working class folks, so the plan was revised and the big squares got divided up into smaller lots.Dave wrote:Unlike the earlier medieval towns (which grew up spontaneouly and irregularly) the bastide towns have a planned, regular layout... square blocks, streets and alleys at right angles, houses all the same size, and a big market square in the center. I rather suspect William Penn was inspired by the bastide towns when he laid out the street plan for Philadelphia.
He still tried to keep lots of wide open spaces between buildings and blocks, filled with gardens and parks, for safety and health reasons (he remembered the Great Fire of London), and those don't tend to be a common feature of most Roman-inspired plans such as the bastides obviously are.