Not Like I Was 2012-12-11
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"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." - Nim the chimp
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Not Like I Was 2012-12-11
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Like the double pupil Optical effect in and around the glasses.
Saw it once with a friend of a friend. So I know it can/does happen.
Good imagery idea to have float through a post.
Like the double pupil Optical effect in and around the glasses.
Saw it once with a friend of a friend. So I know it can/does happen.
Good imagery idea to have float through a post.
Is The Earth On A Diet?
With just one million people losing weight,
so after each one had lost 'one pound' ...
will the earth weigh 1,000,000 pounds less?
With just one million people losing weight,
so after each one had lost 'one pound' ...
will the earth weigh 1,000,000 pounds less?
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I had a quick flash of the human race in the middle future communicating with the images of LOL cats not unlike the 'Darmok' episode of some teevee show or another...
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One of the better episodes of ST:TNG, IMO. "Sokath, his eyes uncovered!"
I'd say that by the year 2100, all human communication will be cat pictures or text lines of 140 characters or less.
Eagerly anticipating the Pun Jar singularity event...
Forget the Plot Flour...we're into Plot Cornstarch, and the plot has gone non-newtonian...
"To the Journey!"
Forget the Plot Flour...we're into Plot Cornstarch, and the plot has gone non-newtonian...
"To the Journey!"
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Maru - her ears held high!Dave11 wrote:One of the better episodes of ST:TNG, IMO. "Sokath, his eyes uncovered!"
I'd say that by the year 2100, all human communication will be cat pictures or text lines of 140 characters or less.
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I would agree with you, except Paul then reveals it almost immediately here in the Forum. Why not just short circuit it a bit with a simple one line rather than reveal it in the Forum, where actually it feels as if Paul is saying, "BTW, that was a flashback." (paraphrase...) I've watched plenty of TV (the Mentalist, Leverage and NCIS come to mind) where you open up with desperate action or something very vivid and then, after the titles, you're back in the office with discreet little white letters saying, "Five days ago..." So, lazy? I don't know...maybe...Fairportfan wrote:That sort of thing is often a lazy way of getting the point across, rather than letting the viewer/reader figure it out herself.cmdrpowers wrote:Okay, I don't mean to be a pill, but would it be all that hard to use a typical TV sort of message at the bottom of panels- "24 hours ago" or "3 days ago" it would sure make things less confusing.
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Her ruminations on her state of existence made me think of the old headstone inscription: "Remember me as you pass by. As you are now, so once was I. As I am now, so you must be. Prepare for death and follow me." I hope she can give the young lady some final Peace when this is done.
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Bathorys Daughter wrote:Doesn't sound like a family I would like to meet, even in fiction.Wyvern wrote: I'm very glad I'm not the only one who remembers that story. For those who don't know, Greenberg the Vampire is a standalone graphic novel and long predates the Twilight books (1985) - which means it's able to have vampires and be a good story at the same time. Oscar Greenberg is convincingly portrayed as a normal Jewish New Yorker with some unusual lifestyle quirks, and the best part of the tale is the family interaction; the readers will have to meet the Greenberg clan for themselves.
The Greenbergs are the nice Jewish New Yorker side of Oscar's background; it's his shiksa girlfriend who bit when she should have nibbled. (Critical foreplay failure...) But you'd be okay meeting her, too; no vampire who knows a kosher butcher ever gets too desperate.
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He's presumably NOT going to include that in the dead-tree edition.cmdrpowers wrote:I would agree with you, except Paul then reveals it almost immediately here in the Forum. Why not just short circuit it a bit with a simple one line rather than reveal it in the Forum, where actually it feels as if Paul is saying, "BTW, that was a flashback." (paraphrase...) I've watched plenty of TV (the Mentalist, Leverage and NCIS come to mind) where you open up with desperate action or something very vivid and then, after the titles, you're back in the office with discreet little white letters saying, "Five days ago..." So, lazy? I don't know...maybe...Fairportfan wrote:That sort of thing is often a lazy way of getting the point across, rather than letting the viewer/reader figure it out herself.cmdrpowers wrote:Okay, I don't mean to be a pill, but would it be all that hard to use a typical TV sort of message at the bottom of panels- "24 hours ago" or "3 days ago" it would sure make things less confusing.
Where the sequence will be Rather Clearer.
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Peace through superior firepower - ain't nothin' more peaceful than a dead troublemaker.
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"Tu Fui, Ego Eris" has already been used in this comic.kingklash wrote:Her ruminations on her state of existence made me think of the old headstone inscription: "Remember me as you pass by. As you are now, so once was I. As I am now, so you must be. Prepare for death and follow me." I hope she can give the young lady some final Peace when this is done.
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Perhaps "More Mentos, Morey!" would be a safer thing to say?jwhouk wrote:"Tu Fui, Ego Eris" has already been used in this comic.kingklash wrote:Her ruminations on her state of existence made me think of the old headstone inscription: "Remember me as you pass by. As you are now, so once was I. As I am now, so you must be. Prepare for death and follow me." I hope she can give the young lady some final Peace when this is done.
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XKCDjwhouk wrote:"Tu Fui, Ego Eris" has already been used in this comic.kingklash wrote:Her ruminations on her state of existence made me think of the old headstone inscription: "Remember me as you pass by. As you are now, so once was I. As I am now, so you must be. Prepare for death and follow me." I hope she can give the young lady some final Peace when this is done.
And the current strip was oddly relevant...
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Well, What can I say? I'm not keen on meeting murders of any variety.Wyvern wrote:The Greenbergs are the nice Jewish New Yorker side of Oscar's background; it's his shiksa girlfriend who bit when she should have nibbled. (Critical foreplay failure...) But you'd be okay meeting her, too; no vampire who knows a kosher butcher ever gets too desperate.
A society should not be judged on how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals... ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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Actually, the first Corvette (the 1953 EX122 Motorama show car, with the V8 engine and downward-sweeping spears on the sides) was built in fiberglass, because it was a quick way to put together a show car. When Harley Earl pushed to get the 'Vette into production, the only way to get the vehicle into production within the deadline (6 months) was to do the car in fiberglass for the first year-- the plan was to do the car afterwards in steel. Because of the design of the first cars had a very complicated design, especially around the taillight/fin structure, building the 1953-55 vehicle in steel would have been cost prohibitive, even though the fiberglass production meant that each car was essentially hand-made.alj_ws wrote:Well the showroom model of 1953 (EX122) was a steel body, but it was never produced.Boxilar wrote:At the very least the Roman Empire likely would have stayed out of a frozen solid Great Britain. No Londinium. They probably wouldn't have made it into northern France.
And as far as a steel bodied Corvette the whole point of the fiberglass body is to keep the weight down. The 'Vette has stayed light (just over 3000 lbs ) throughout its production history. A steel bodied Corvette especially one using thick 50s steel would be way to heavy too be a viable sports car.
Sorry, pet peve rant off line.
Now, calling a Vette a light car is somewhat a novelty for me
Comparable european muscle cars of the same era were at least 800lbs lighter !
From that point forward, since they had worked out the "kinks" in building fiberglass cars, they kept the car in fiberglass after that.
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I read that one, but 2 other sites got that the very first prototype was steel. the following were fiber to avoid the cost of tooling.All-Purpose Guru wrote:Actually, the first Corvette (the 1953 EX122 Motorama show car, with the V8 engine and downward-sweeping spears on the sides) was built in fiberglass, because it was a quick way to put together a show car. When Harley Earl pushed to get the 'Vette into production, the only way to get the vehicle into production within the deadline (6 months) was to do the car in fiberglass for the first year-- the plan was to do the car afterwards in steel. Because of the design of the first cars had a very complicated design, especially around the taillight/fin structure, building the 1953-55 vehicle in steel would have been cost prohibitive, even though the fiberglass production meant that each car was essentially hand-made.alj_ws wrote:Well the showroom model of 1953 (EX122) was a steel body, but it was never produced.Boxilar wrote:At the very least the Roman Empire likely would have stayed out of a frozen solid Great Britain. No Londinium. They probably wouldn't have made it into northern France.
And as far as a steel bodied Corvette the whole point of the fiberglass body is to keep the weight down. The 'Vette has stayed light (just over 3000 lbs ) throughout its production history. A steel bodied Corvette especially one using thick 50s steel would be way to heavy too be a viable sports car.
Sorry, pet peve rant off line.
Now, calling a Vette a light car is somewhat a novelty for me
Comparable european muscle cars of the same era were at least 800lbs lighter !
From that point forward, since they had worked out the "kinks" in building fiberglass cars, they kept the car in fiberglass after that.
now, after a bit more research, there was another steel vette, again a show room model :
http://www.corvetteblogger.com/2012/07/ ... -49-years/
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Dang it all, Jabber! I just had to mouse-over to read the alt-text, and now I'll never be able to take that poem serious-like ever again!
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Eeeee-hee-hee-hee-hee!
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Heh. "My Darling Clementine" and the "Ode to Joy" are in the same meter. So you can sing either to either tune...kingklash wrote:Dang it all, Jabber! I just had to mouse-over to read the alt-text, and now I'll never be able to take that poem serious-like ever again!
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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Peace through superior firepower - ain't nothin' more peaceful than a dead troublemaker.
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Now I'm hungry for a recording of 'Death' with a banjo back-up...Fairportfan wrote:Heh. "My Darling Clementine" and the "Ode to Joy" are in the same meter. So you can sing either to either tune...kingklash wrote:Dang it all, Jabber! I just had to mouse-over to read the alt-text, and now I'll never be able to take that poem serious-like ever again!
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Well it does work with The Battle Hymn of the Republic. actually, most of her poems do.Jabberwonky wrote:Now I'm hungry for a recording of 'Death' with a banjo back-up...Fairportfan wrote:Heh. "My Darling Clementine" and the "Ode to Joy" are in the same meter. So you can sing either to either tune...kingklash wrote:Dang it all, Jabber! I just had to mouse-over to read the alt-text, and now I'll never be able to take that poem serious-like ever again!
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