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I respectfully protest this immunity on the grounds that per definition:
Oh, great...anyone have a Spellchecker(tm)?zachariah wrote: Drop a hank of bone, and eye of newt, and a spare pigs knuckle in the pun jar. Hear's a strange bubbling sound from the jar and decide the better part of valor is required and I run away. Does anyone know what happened to the holy handgernade?
"Jamie wants BIG boom." -- Jamie HynemanSgt. Howard wrote:Holy hand grenade? Do you want the Mk II or Mk III? Or the M-58? We also have semi-holy grenades, agnostic grenades and satanic grenades. I personally prefer the Congressional Mk. IV (hot gas) as a crowd control... but it's not Sphinx rated. A Mk III flashbang can stun most sphinx sized creatures without (too much) permanent damage, but the classic M-58 (healthy dose of C-4) can and will disable said creature ... as well as any living thing withing 25 meters... and leave a BIG hole as well.
the Old Sgt.
to me, she looks more like MONICA than Shelly !!... the hair coloring, the facial shape... could she be a relative to BOTH of them?!TheDOCTOR wrote:Did anyone else happen to notice,in the 1st frame,that Phix without her glasses looks a lot like Shelly?
I guess now I know they're related I just notice it more.
nope... the one from Antioch... just make sure to count to three...Sgt. Howard wrote:Holy hand grenade? Do you want the Mk II or Mk III? Or the M-58?
You left out:Sgt. Howard wrote:Jabberwonkey-
I recomend the M-120. Big Boom.
Antioch grenades cannot be imported into this country since the Clinton grenade ban went into effect, holy or otherwise. What few are still in country have quadrupled in price, used or not... and nobody is selling.
We DO have a holy hand grenade of Pittsburgh that is popular among Catholic priests back east- and there is the well-behaved grenade of Seattle (moisture proof) that can level a house of cards... but we're dealing with sphinxes here, eh?
M-58. We have a buy five get one free deal going on this coming weekend, PLUS instructions on how to make a sticky bomb. Doug 'Crispy' Wilkins just brought in a fresh batch of his home-made napalm and "Shakes' Malloy is doing an inservice on making nitroglycerine in small batches Friday. I will be doing my usual 'demolition as a creative passtime' lecture with demonstrations on the use of the Climax detonation machine. Bring the kids. Bring somebody you can't stand. Or the neighbor's dog. Or your Mother-in-law. Junk cars welcome
see ya there!
the Old Sgt.
I had one back when I was a Union Witch, lemme see if I can still find it.Jabberwonky wrote:Oh, great...anyone have a Spellchecker(tm)?zachariah wrote: Drop a hank of bone, and eye of newt, and a spare pigs knuckle in the pun jar. Hear's a strange bubbling sound from the jar and decide the better part of valor is required and I run away. Does anyone know what happened to the holy handgernade?
well, um, O and F have it built-in...Opus the Poet wrote:Jabberwonky wrote:anyone have a Spellchecker(tm)?
"Beware, beware the Bight of Benin: one comes out, where fifty went in!"Dave wrote:Well, the answer to your question should be obvious - the situation could not possibly have worked out in any other fashion.Fairportfan wrote:* sigh *Fairportfan wrote:How did Nudge get enough slack to stick the bight of it into Phix's mouth for the bite if the Thagomizer™ was lodged in the wall?
I guess i'd better out myself if i want anyone to appreciate my brilliance.
"Bight"
When Nudge shoved Phix's tail into Phix's mouth, the tail was immediately chewed and partially swallowed. Phix ate bits of her own tail... and as any computer nerd could tell you, ate bits makes a bight.
(drops two old-fashioned core memory planes with gold-plated contacts into the Pun Jar. Jar replies "Thanks for the memories")
I thought they went from the Mark 2 straight to the Mark 4 and on to the Mark 5.Sgt. Howard wrote:Holy hand grenade? Do you want the Mk II or Mk III? Or the M-58? We also have semi-holy grenades, agnostic grenades and satanic grenades. I personally prefer the Congressional Mk. IV (hot gas) as a crowd control... but it's not Sphinx rated. A Mk III flashbang can stun most sphinx sized creatures without (too much) permanent damage, but the classic M-58 (healthy dose of C-4) can and will disable said creature ... as well as any living thing withing 25 meters... and leave a BIG hole as well.
the Old Sgt.
+1 for the pun, and +manycookies for the Brunner reference.bmonk wrote:"Beware, beware the Bight of Benin: one comes out, where fifty went in!"
So did Phix reverse it?
"Beware, beware the Bite of Phix-in: fifty come out where one went in?"
Truly a tail of woe.
Merry Maids? After all, Odysseus had the women servants clean up the bloody mess he and his companion left when he got home. Just goes to show what an asswipe he actually was, making women clean up such a horrific scene, even if they were slaves. A crappy "hero" at best.Dave wrote:+1 for the pun, and +manycookies for the Brunner reference.bmonk wrote:"Beware, beware the Bight of Benin: one comes out, where fifty went in!"
So did Phix reverse it?
"Beware, beware the Bite of Phix-in: fifty come out where one went in?"
Truly a tail of woe.
Which does bring up a point. There's been a lot of blood around the Library lately (Medeia's, possibly Phix's if she bit hard enough, and possibly Nudge's real soon now if Phix catches up). They're going to need something for cleanup, and they'll probably have to poit it in from elsewhere...
[drops a mouse tail into the pun jar for the convoluted puns]Bathorys Daughter wrote:Merry Maids? After all, Odysseus had the women servants clean up the bloody mess he and his companion left when he got home. Just goes to show what an asswipe he actually was, making women clean up such a horrific scene, even if they were slaves. A crappy "hero" at best.Dave wrote:+1 for the pun, and +manycookies for the Brunner reference.bmonk wrote:"Beware, beware the Bight of Benin: one comes out, where fifty went in!"
So did Phix reverse it?
"Beware, beware the Bite of Phix-in: fifty come out where one went in?"
Truly a tail of woe.
Which does bring up a point. There's been a lot of blood around the Library lately (Medeia's, possibly Phix's if she bit hard enough, and possibly Nudge's real soon now if Phix catches up). They're going to need something for cleanup, and they'll probably have to poit it in from elsewhere...
Yep - even when what they are doing is actually for a Good Purpose.bmonk wrote:Yes, well, remember that Odysseus was a trickster hero also--and one failing of the trickster is a lack of compassion for others. They are too busy being clever and getting things to come out more or less according to plan.
Well, you can justify the things he did all you want, but, as I read his story Odysseus was just as much of a heartless, pitiless, murderous monster as those he fought. Naturally I'm judging him from my perspective in the 21st century. Given the times it was written, it was all fine and proper I suppose. I just have nothing good to say about his character.Fairportfan wrote:Yep - even when what they are doing is actually for a Good Purpose.bmonk wrote:Yes, well, remember that Odysseus was a trickster hero also--and one failing of the trickster is a lack of compassion for others. They are too busy being clever and getting things to come out more or less according to plan.
Oh, i wasn't giving Odysseus a pass - i was speaking of tricksters generically...Bathorys Daughter wrote:Well, you can justify the things he did all you want, but, as I read his story Odysseus was just as much of a heartless, pitiless, murderous monster as those he fought. Naturally I'm judging him from my perspective in the 21st century. Given the times it was written, it was all fine and proper I suppose. I just have nothing good to say about his character.Fairportfan wrote:Yep - even when what they are doing is actually for a Good Purpose.bmonk wrote:Yes, well, remember that Odysseus was a trickster hero also--and one failing of the trickster is a lack of compassion for others. They are too busy being clever and getting things to come out more or less according to plan.
Me too. In fact, I thought that was the point of what I said: that tricksters don't have compassion. They are cruel in their tricks, focusing not on the means and what havoc they wreak, but on the end--which may or may not be worthwhile. Odysseus did have some good goals--and don't forget Penelope's long-suffering and fidelity that made them worthwhile--but I certainly don't approve of the means he used to reach them.Fairportfan wrote:Oh, i wasn't giving Odysseus a pass - i was speaking of tricksters generically...Bathorys Daughter wrote: bmonk: "Yes, well, remember that Odysseus was a trickster hero also--and one failing of the trickster is a lack of compassion for others. They are too busy being clever and getting things to come out more or less according to plan."
Fairportfan: "Yep - even when what they are doing is actually for a Good Purpose."
Well, you can justify the things he did all you want, but, as I read his story Odysseus was just as much of a heartless, pitiless, murderous monster as those he fought. Naturally I'm judging him from my perspective in the 21st century. Given the times it was written, it was all fine and proper I suppose. I just have nothing good to say about his character.
Okay. My original comment was pretty well agreeing with you.bmonk wrote:Me too. In fact, I thought that was the point of what I said: that tricksters don't have compassion. They are cruel in their tricks, focusing not on the means and what havoc they wreak, but on the end--which may or may not be worthwhile. Odysseus did have some good goals--and don't forget Penelope's long-suffering and fidelity that made them worthwhile--but I certainly don't approve of the means he used to reach them.Fairportfan wrote: Oh, i wasn't giving Odysseus a pass - i was speaking of tricksters generically...