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I have been. More times than I wanted. I have been consequently scarred and will endeavour to not go again. Even if I have to make furniture out of dead animals, instead.

You're right, Kafty! I vote that the UN get its own defence force. And we should all invest more in nanotech. And maybe let some notional terrorists release a plague, and blow up the Statue of Liberty, in order to secure the attention of world leaders ...

How about a post-apoc nanotech setting?

One might celebrate his legacy, too: per contra, he will live forever in the media which gave voice to.

linkie

Well, I have to get back into the sequel, first ... assuming I'll be able to do anything except Hearts of Iron II:Doomsday ... but let me know how it plays, because I might have to play it ... :D

The whole herd-people-through-the-corral shopping experience isn't a big plus, to begin with, ending with a wait in a queue that is always served by less people than would be expected. The furniture is seems to exist in a niche (at least in the UK), defined by the exorbitant floor price of furniture. Further, not all of the items are actually markedly cheaper, just key "loss leader" items that help build the buying frenzy atmosphere. (Sure a four foot glass vase for

Ask Erwin Schr

Live in a college town. Its a lot less expensive. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not in the UK. Students eat up all the cheap properties (they pay a lot but they take the cheap places). I was thinking of making my own, but doing that male bird nesting thing and trying to lay a trap for unsuspecting females. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I _hate_ Ikea furniture.

Yeah! I hope that is not real bearskin!

The squeaky wheel gets the oil ..?

Good (novel) made-up words are excellent and essential to the robust health of any prospering language, especially English.

The Bible Alien Abductions Creationism (You too, dear reader, can look up more of them craazy videos on GoogleVideo, where everyone is Craaazy! Man, my jokes suck tonight.) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This is brilliant. Just watched the Bible one. "Elvis didn't do no drugs!"

I threw up. IMO that movie sucked. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ah, you were just rebelling against your earlier dinosaur obsession. And never let it be said that the middle management of a content provider would let a good franchise cash cow go before she is milked within a pint of her life ... Well, as with all semantic explorations, what seperates the various words/phrases is the minute differences in context. For example, here, I would say that proto- is a more under-developed connotation, in that it had all the hallmarks (of the future concept of Marxism), but was somehow not completely formed, like the Invasion of the Body Snatchers' facsimile of Jeff Goldblum (with the bloody lip) on the table in the mud-bath sanatarium; whereas avant-la-lettre connotes a fully-formed Marxist, millennia before Marx was born. That's my take, anyway. I would (erroneously or not) use them in this way, because I see these as subtle but significant flavours for the words.

Please also, in the mode of the great philosophers of history, only take issue with the topics, not the person expressing them. Perhaps you may be aware of the Devil's Advocate principle, whereby someone uses a contrary argument to test a proposition? In any case, even if someone writes something that you consider egregiously incoorect, please concentrate on correcting the statement, and not demeaning yourself, and everyone reading, with argumentum ad hominem. Thanks for your continued support and patronage of the fine art of quodlibetarian exploration.

Did it have wings and a single horn in the middle of its head?

As a percussionist I would like to take umbrage at that last remark. Except it is not altogether incorrect.

The only good thing Pepsi has ever done was setting Jackson's hair on fire. I'd like to make a startlingly obvious observation about your even more obvious conclusion. No f

An unimpeachable source. It is turn-based and real-time (player-selectable, in the options screen). And it uses Special.

What's the game? try installing it anyway, this might all be just paranoia on your part. If the key is stored in the Registry, it should populate the appropriate field when you are walking through the instalation. You can always contact the developer / publisher via email, web or telephone to ask them for a solution (if the game is still being published).

They think it's all over ... it is now.

A beautiful film about a shallow little twerp's descend into madness|self-importance, or a blessed thinker's rise, fall, rise, repeat ad nauseam, or a tale of revolution, guts and proto-marxism, the people's darling dying on the cross. Suppose it all depends on one's perspective, bollocks, revolutionaries are (usually) boring. Judas' hanging is so much powerful and, in death, becomes a character one can relate to. Great scenery, great cast, great Jesus (Pasolini thought of Kerouac or Ginsberg for the role, imagine Jack wearing a crown of thorns and babbling them gospel lines), beautiful, at the same time faithful, at the same time empty, vapid and limp. The Last Temptation is indeed more interesting. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Good phrase! A sort of anachronistic ideaological item. Lovely. And my words for the day were turgid and tumid. This is much better.

For those of you who are interested, I got an IM from Roleplayer just last night, and he was pleased with this as an example of geekosity (he called it gamer culture) spilling over into the mainstream consumerism. PS He is well and hopes to be back soon.

Tombraider (Midas's Palace level (7)): man ths game is good. There is no instruction, one is just left to one's wits and knowledge of Lara's abilities, and peception to find the next clue to the next advance in the plot ... and it is just a huge bunch of puzzles, strung out in a long series with the occassional pixelated fight and FMV for reward. It is clear to see how they screwed up in the sequels (though that is hindsight, admittedly), I shall enjoy seeing if the developers have returned to this template in the latest one (when it turns up in a day or so).

Are these developers trying to kill geeks, or something? Do they realise how many people will starve to death in a pool of their own waste with this sort of ploy?