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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Doublespeak: <B> ---------------- 10th level Barbarian Ravager, who with about 3 hp left and his legs crushed to a pulp by a Titans warhammer, still peed on the enemy in defiance. </B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Um... def...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Tom the Fanboy: <B> I will in time. I know that small bookshops have troubles and I didn't know that Arkhum House was a small publisher.<P></B>They're not down with Harold Publishing (never heard of 'em? That just...

Buy the books anyway. Small presses live hand to mouth. So do small bookshops.<P>Greg, who also works in a small bookshop that hasn't grossed $500 this month (and so may not be working there for much longer)<P>------------------ Risus est telum ultimum contra tyrranem. Nullus dictator exercitibus al...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Muttley: <B> You will be unsurprised to learn that this is called "Who's Next"<P></B>Figures. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/rolleyes.gif"><B><P>Then France got the bomb, but don't you grieve, 'Cause th...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Muttley: <B> Tom and Maccabbee: The Vikings in Wales. Quote from <A HREF="http://viking.no/e/england/wales/" TARGET=_blank>http://viking.no/e/england/wales/</A> <P>There were numerous Viking raids on the coast of ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Ebijin: <B><I>Ubi pacem faciunt, solitudinem appellant.</I><P>"Where they are making peace, they call (are calling) it loneliness (a state of want, desertion, etc.)."<P>That's a really weird paraphrase. Wouldn't i...

Damn, I'm lucky... my whole family's nuts!<P>------------------
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Update on that "may not be working there much longer" thing -- my manager just told me today that they'll be hauling off the books and locking the doors in mid-June.<P>A thoroughly bummed Greg<P>------------------ Risus est telum ultimum contra tyrranem. Nullus dictator exercitibus allibus ridiculem...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Tom the Fanboy: <B> <P>Thank you for letting me exercise my Christian College Skills. </B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>"If we have brought some pleasure into your humdrum little lives, then it ain't all been in vain fer nu...

Actually, we only got up through the first issue of the second storyline on processed wood-pulp. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/frown.gif"><P>For people who want to order the back issues, we still have some left (see our BUY OUR STUFF! page). Issues 1-5 are posted on Keenspace, but the <I...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Muttley: <B> Ok, I'll bite again. Just to make it clear I'm working from barely adequate schoolboy French (autres douze bieres, s'il-vous plait!) totally inadequate schoolboy German (auch zwolf bier bitte!) the tr...

If these "historical" movies discussed real atrocities instead of making up new ones I would be much more sympathetic.<P>Banastre Tarleton did indeed kill prisoners. He did not herd children into churches and set them on fire, however. He was ruthless, not sadistic -- there is a huge difference. The...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Muttley: <B> Could be "We Will All Go Together When We Go", as gwalla suggests, or maybe the "MLF Lullaby" - <P>MLF Will scare Brezhnev, I hope he is half as scared as I!<P>But I still like "The Vatican Rag" </B>{...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Muttley: <B> I think its a parahrase of Tacitus (Agricola, Chapter 30):<P> Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant.<P> They make a wilderness and call it peace.</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Very good, but you translated the...

This is starting to sound genuinely unpleasant. The board will be a shinier happier place if we direct all hostility to Mel Gibson.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Blondlot: <B> Wow. took the words right out of my mouth. Too bad you couldn't understand them.<P> Ex animo, m.d</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>"Smiley when you say that."<P>(quote from <I>The Virginian II: Internet Cowboy...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Muttley: <B> Not in the same vein as gwalla's, but I had a great Christmas present; "The Remains of Tom Lehrer" - a triple CD box-set containing everything he's ever recorded, with a fat book containing all the ly...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by isobelfox: (much snippage)<P><B> Think Braveheart, if you need an example. </B><P>(much more snippage) <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Let's not. <I>Braveheart</I> was one of the most historically inaccurate, sloppily done, i...

<I>Ubi pacem faciunt, solitudinem appellant.</I><P>Special prize for the first person to give the correct translation.<P>------------------
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by wish: <B> Ah-ah-ah, Fanboy... Being Death, Destroyer of Worlds is in my occupation list! Not only is Maccabee intruding on my cute-but-flimsy little gimick.. he's after my job as well! <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspa...