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shadowinthelight wrote:

oldmanmickey wrote:The only good thing to come out of that era was olivia newton john and xanadu

What about disco balls? Those are pretty nifty.

Except that the "disco ball" dates from at least the 1920's and may even have been in Paris and/or Vienna in the 1890's.
"History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme."

We see the dialog say "non-paras", but they probably said something
equivalent to "muggles".

Do the paras plan on ever 'coming out'?
(Don't know how that would work. Was that mentioned in the
Harry Potter books as to why that would be unwise?)

shadowinthelight wrote:

oldmanmickey wrote:The only good thing to come out of that era was olivia newton john and xanadu

What about disco balls? Those are pretty nifty.

"Disco Balls" go back to the Roaring 20s, at least.

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SHould have read the whole thread before i posted...

Opus the Poet wrote:What about Donna Summer? Philistines...

Donna Summer, who said Bad Things about a major proportion of her audience and dynamited her career.

jayessell wrote:We see the dialog say "non-paras", but they probably said something
equivalent to "muggles".

Do the paras plan on ever 'coming out'?
(Don't know how that would work. Was that mentioned in the
Harry Potter books as to why that would be unwise?)

Humans have a pretty gnarly xenophobic streak. They also can breed like Weasley rabbits and have access to world-breaking bombs that eternally poison the surrounding countryside.

It is generally unwise to poke humans with a stick.

Oh, dear, did I forget to say "we" again?

When reading this page a second time, the thought that popped into my head was "And let us not forget about Shakespeare in the original Russian... or was it Klingon?".

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

shadowinthelight wrote:

oldmanmickey wrote:The only good thing to come out of that era was olivia newton john and xanadu

What about disco balls? Those are pretty nifty.

"Disco Balls" go back to the Roaring 20s, at least.

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SHould have read the whole thread before i posted...

Odd thought - given the synchronicity of the Wapsi-verse (nothing is ever a coincidence) are disco balls leakage across the Calendar repeats from one of Brandi's previous attempts?

GlytchMeister wrote:
Humans have a pretty gnarly xenophobic streak. They also can breed like Weasley rabbits and have access to world-breaking bombs that eternally poison the surrounding countryside.

It is generally unwise to poke humans with a stick.

a) Ahem. Chimera.
b) "It is generally unwise to poke humans with a stick." _really_ sounds like it should be part of the Hitchiker's Guide entries on both "Earth" and the more general one on "Humanity". See also the ALT text on http://xkcd.com/556/.

jayessell wrote:We see the dialog say "non-paras", but they probably said something
equivalent to "muggles".

Do the paras plan on ever 'coming out'?
(Don't know how that would work. Was that mentioned in the
Harry Potter books as to why that would be unwise?)

A general failure of the World Grid? Paras coming out to stand between the World and what it was being protected from?

Actually, IICR some of the family connections, that would be... fraught.

FreeFlier wrote:There are worse things than disco . . .


--FreeFlier

UK revival skiffle....most of it made the buskers in the Underground sound good.

Play the same six songs over and over and over again...andthe lack of musicianship is known as "authenticity"....

*twitch*

So Otter's just a nickname, not her last name? Too bad. Devyn Otter DOES have a certain ring to it...

michaelbirks wrote:

GlytchMeister wrote:
Humans have a pretty gnarly xenophobic streak. They also can breed like Weasley rabbits and have access to world-breaking bombs that eternally poison the surrounding countryside.

It is generally unwise to poke humans with a stick.

a) Ahem. Chimera.
b) "It is generally unwise to poke humans with a stick." _really_ sounds like it should be part of the Hitchiker's Guide entries on both "Earth" and the more general one on "Humanity". See also the ALT text on http://xkcd.com/556/.

A) With Jin's reboot, I don't think the original Chimera is an option anymore. Anyone trying to create a new Chimera, even if they could somehow find out how to do it, would have some of the most powerful beings on the planet after their blood the moment they learned about it.

And that 'most powerful beings on the planet' bit also points out that while humans have numbers and technology, the paras have power and magic. It is best that conflict be avoided...

B) The Guide would probably add "but can be very entertaining, in a destructive sort of way".

"New" Country isn't much better than Disco at times.

It doesn't surprise me that techno and tribal music is something that would come out of Lanthian culture.

jwhouk wrote:"New" Country isn't much better than Disco at times.

Which is why i listen to some old country, rather more alt.country and NO current Nashville stuff.

Well, there are these two ladies that I do listen to, but the one has distanced herself from country for some time now - and the other is for more... personal reasons.

This still doesn't explain why we're in Minneapolis and there's never been a Prince reference in the strip - besides the fact that Pablo is probably worried The Purple One would sue the pants off of him for referring to him in any way...

jwhouk wrote:This still doesn't explain why we're in Minneapolis and there's never been a Prince reference in the strip - besides the fact that Pablo is probably worried The Purple One would sue the pants off of him for referring to him in any way...

He just enjoys giving you the opportunity to sing the (obvious) wistful tune, Joe.

(grins, ducks, runs)

...Dave, your pun attempt went wide right.

jwhouk wrote:This still doesn't explain why we're in Minneapolis and there's never been a Prince reference in the strip - besides the fact that Pablo is probably worried The Purple One would sue the pants off of him for referring to him in any way...

Maybe he's missed this one..



(Art of Noise)

(And I have that Gary Numan ablum in vinyl...)

Dave wrote:

jwhouk wrote:This still doesn't explain why we're in Minneapolis and there's never been a Prince reference in the strip - besides the fact that Pablo is probably worried The Purple One would sue the pants off of him for referring to him in any way...

He just enjoys giving you the opportunity to sing the (obvious) wistful tune, Joe.

(grins, ducks, runs)

Or he feels about the artist formerly known as_____ like I feel about Kobain . . .

--FreeFlier

FreeFlier wrote:

Dave wrote:

jwhouk wrote:This still doesn't explain why we're in Minneapolis and there's never been a Prince reference in the strip - besides the fact that Pablo is probably worried The Purple One would sue the pants off of him for referring to him in any way...

He just enjoys giving you the opportunity to sing the (obvious) wistful tune, Joe.

(grins, ducks, runs)

Or he feels about the artist formerly known as_____ like I feel about Kobain . . .

--FreeFlier

Well, yeah, but while there’s no accounting for taste- Dude is both prolific enough and able to play at least 75% of all the common instruments (I don't think he blows brass or reeds...), so that all you gotta due is root around enough and you'll find something you like.

It might have to be covered by yourself or another artist to make it palatable to any given partaker of the musical arts, but dude is pretty cornucopia like...

Thing is, he is very very protective - to the point of severity - about his work. You can't even think about putting up a YT cover of one of his songs without him putting in a challenge of copyright infringement.