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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:02 pm
by JakeWasHere
shyal_malkes wrote:isn't that typical of a lot of sequels though, the first one's good but the sequesl's just a means of extending the story more for the sake of money then for the story.
he Sol, I got a bunch of old games for my psx the other day, lessee here, beat ocelot, beak 'the psycho' beat raven (once), beat wolf (twice), beat snake(once) now I forget where I left off but I like that game, every time I die the guys over the codec have to listen to the badgerbadgerbadger song again (inside joke you have to play the game and have listened to the song)
SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!!
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:06 pm
by JakeWasHere
Tbolt wrote:Hee, hee, nice word analysis, that makes far more sense than what I proposed! =^^=
I love etymology games.
Did you know that Dublin (IRE) and Blackpool (UK) have the same name? One's from Gaelic and the other's from English, but that's the only real difference.
Of course, that's not what Dublin is CALLED in Modern Irish. They call it what they called it long before it was named Dublin: Baile Atha Cliath. Which, of course, is pronounced Baalaclee. I'm convinced Gaelic spelling was invented by its speakers entirely to piss off the English.
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:21 pm
by Wanderwolf
Hairyshoe wrote:Watership Down is apparently a real place, in the English county of Hampshire. It's next to some town called Kingsclere, but since Lord Lloyd-Webber (yes, that Lloyd-Webber) owns much of it, nothing's been built on it. Still no idea why it's called "watership," though.
...I like research too.
Hm, good question. Checking,,, checking... checking... come on... oh, come on... hmm...
Okay! Nothing definite, but it's generally assumed that "Watership" is an altered version of "water sheep", due to the area of Watership Down being primarily grassy. (In fact, the area is still used to graze sheep.) It's the down where you water your sheep, so it's "water sheep down", "Watership Down". Not unbelieveable, when you consider such places as "Whitchurch" (white church).
Yours wolfishly,
The ever-reading,
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:22 pm
by Wanderwolf
Hairyshoe wrote:Watership Down is apparently a real place, in the English county of Hampshire. It's next to some town called Kingsclere, but since Lord Lloyd-Webber (yes, that Lloyd-Webber) owns much of it, nothing's been built on it. Still no idea why it's called "watership," though.
...I like research too.
Hm, good question. Checking,,, checking... checking... come on... oh, come on... hmm...
Okay! Nothing definite, but it's generally assumed that "Watership" is an altered version of "water sheep", due to the area of Watership Down being primarily grassy. (In fact, the area is still used to graze sheep.) It's the down where you water your sheep, so it's "water sheep down", "Watership Down". Not unbelieveable, when you consider such places as "Whitchurch" (white church).
Yours wolfishly,
The ever-reading,
Wanderer