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by MikeVanPelt
Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:44 pm
Forum: NPC
Topic: Let's shake on it (Sep 8)
Replies: 92
Views: 6622

Nothing is actually 'bullet- proof ', yet there is no bullet that can't be stopped. S'aaruuk A more accurate term would be "Bullet-Resistant". And just because it stops the bullet doesn't mean it won't hurt . One of my favorite "TV Bloopers" clips was where an idiot reporter found that out the hard...
by MikeVanPelt
Sat Sep 16, 2006 8:36 pm
Forum: Under the Lemon Tree
Topic: Would you have your own little 'companions'?
Replies: 23
Views: 3124

Wolf: Quiet and unassuming, he just fades into the background as only a wolf can... unless he's Angry. My aggression, sometimes mistaken for Uncle. "I WAS sleeping, yes... so kindly tell me which of you pinheads I'm about to rip open, hm?" Like this strip? Imagine a drunk being put into a cell with...
by MikeVanPelt
Fri Sep 15, 2006 10:56 pm
Forum: Under the Lemon Tree
Topic: RETCON????
Replies: 56
Views: 6727

No. More retconish than that. There's some title for an Ah-nold Schwarzenegger movie that comes to mind... "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale". Er, whatever they called. The one with the memory implants, trip to Mars, etc... "Total Recall", that's it. The only theory that makes sense of that tra...
by MikeVanPelt
Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:43 pm
Forum: NPC
Topic: Very nice planning from the beginning
Replies: 19
Views: 1291

Rokas, your points are valid, but you forget one thing: such people were likely corrupt before they gained any power. As Aleksander Solzenhitzen said near the end of the Gulag books, the line between good and evil doesn't divide between people -- it is a line that goes straight through the center o...
by MikeVanPelt
Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:27 pm
Forum: Nip and Tuck
Topic: is everything really back to normal?
Replies: 11
Views: 1567

The JAM wrote:Define "normal". :D
Well... as normal as it gets for Nip and Tuck. :)
by MikeVanPelt
Fri Sep 15, 2006 1:34 pm
Forum: Under the Lemon Tree
Topic: Would you have your own little 'companions'?
Replies: 23
Views: 3124

SolidusRaccoon wrote:
StrangeWulf13 wrote: Handling mother is bad enough.
Promise me you will never run a roadside motel.
Cue "Shrieking violin" soundtrack.

reeeEEEEEEEEEEE reeeEEEEEEEEEE reeeEEEEEEEEEEE reeeEEEEEEEE
by MikeVanPelt
Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:25 pm
Forum: NPC
Topic: Snif snif?
Replies: 52
Views: 5588

Saw a raccoon scamper by in front of my car today. Naturally, I thought of Quentyn. Quentyn stuck in the land of the humans...if a raccoon-thing stood up and talked to me while using strange magic, I would be pretty freaked out. Maybe I'll find out when the CDs arrive, but... I've wondered whether ...
by MikeVanPelt
Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:46 pm
Forum: NPC
Topic: Let's shake on it (Sep 8)
Replies: 92
Views: 6622

Squeaky Bunny wrote:I'd hate to be around you when the snowbird invasion starts next month.
Well, as my cousin always says...

"If it's snowbird season, does that mean we kin shoot 'em?"
by MikeVanPelt
Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:56 am
Forum: Nip and Tuck
Topic: The Video Clinton Doesn't Want Shown
Replies: 13
Views: 1770

Attacked by the Wall Street Journal for his part in "Travelgate" (which consisted of looking into the alleged travel misappropriations of a few staffers) The jury threw all charges out in 30 minutes. That should be a clue as to how justified the charges ever were. Billy Dale served in the White Hou...
by MikeVanPelt
Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:37 am
Forum: NPC
Topic: Very nice planning from the beginning
Replies: 19
Views: 1291

StrangeWulf13 wrote: Just give this a quick peek.
Interesting.

This essay reminds me of Petey in the Schlock Mercenary strip. Massively powerful, with his own moral code, but also some blind spots. Generally a nice guy... I think. But maybe he's overreaching his very considerable reach...
by MikeVanPelt
Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:25 pm
Forum: NPC
Topic: Let's shake on it (Sep 8)
Replies: 92
Views: 6622

UncleMonty wrote: Anyway, we have Quentyn and the nameless half-elf in a tree, with a few wolves wandering around beneath...
Does anyone else suspect that there's more to these wolves than meets the eye?

1) Not afraid of fire. Indeed, they seem attracted to it.

2) Wurfle?
by MikeVanPelt
Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:17 am
Forum: Nip and Tuck
Topic: I'm really starting to dislike Michael Moore...
Replies: 57
Views: 6785

How could anyone be against recycling? Even from an engineering standpoint recycling makes sense. It's easier to reuse materials already pulled from the earth than to go get new stuff--not to mention cheaper and faster. Which do you think, for example, will yield more usable aluminum--five tons of ...
by MikeVanPelt
Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:55 pm
Forum: Nip and Tuck
Topic: Now THIS Oughta Be Interesting...
Replies: 44
Views: 7145

jwrebholz wrote:...maybe I'll buy one of the CDs instead.
I just bought the Uber CD and the 2005 and 2006 CDs.
by MikeVanPelt
Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:43 pm
Forum: NPC
Topic: Good Answer
Replies: 13
Views: 1474

The JAM wrote:Good points, but let's hope she doesn't try to sneak off with the loot again.
With any luck, she'd try to snatch WildCard.

<voice=SeanConnery007>

Shocking. Simply shocking.

</voice>
by MikeVanPelt
Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:20 am
Forum: NPC
Topic: Oil in the Rockies? Yeah Right!
Replies: 33
Views: 3126

It's dangerous in accidents, far more than gasoline. I don't think so. Hydrogen universally goes up, it goes up pretty fast, and any combustion doesn't stick around too long. That makes it less dangerous than gasoline. Gasoline hangs around, pools, catches fire and burns persistently. True. But hyd...
by MikeVanPelt
Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:46 pm
Forum: NPC
Topic: Good Answer
Replies: 13
Views: 1474

So he WANTS to stick with her, even after what she did and the fact that she's unrepentant and cannot be trusted? Quentyn, did you take a stupid pill or something? Well... He can set wards and stuff so she can't sneak up and take his things while he's sleeping -- and she won't likely know about tha...
by MikeVanPelt
Sat Sep 02, 2006 9:19 pm
Forum: Nip and Tuck
Topic: The best pro-gun argument I've ever heard
Replies: 51
Views: 6977

Statistics actually show that it's FOUR TIMES more likely for a policeman to shoot the wrong person than for a common citizen to do so. In all lethal shootings, citizens had a 3% friendly-fire rate compared to 12% for policemen. Their training really pays off, doesn't it? An example of how statisti...
by MikeVanPelt
Fri Sep 01, 2006 11:21 pm
Forum: NPC
Topic: Very nice planning from the beginning
Replies: 19
Views: 1291

Very nice planning from the beginning

I've been thinking since I started reading "Tales of the Questor" that we were seeing far too little lux use. Most of that was luxed artifacts, or by those specifically tagged as "wizards". There was an occasional exception, like Lady Milfolk doing an Emperor Palpatine all over those rat-wights. (No...
by MikeVanPelt
Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:51 pm
Forum: Under the Lemon Tree
Topic: Far out man...
Replies: 12
Views: 1014

Madmoonie wrote:What its gonna to Morty? Or Gunther?! *shudders*
Velvet is proably thinking he is The Lizard King again...
by MikeVanPelt
Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:48 pm
Forum: Nip and Tuck
Topic: The best pro-gun argument I've ever heard
Replies: 51
Views: 6977

One I heard a while back:
They want your guns because they have -- plans for you.

Plans that they know you would resist with every means at your disposal, including violence if necessary.
Perhaps it's a bit paranoid.


Perhaps not.