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I remember reading about that Countess ... she was trying to find eternal youth ... until she mixed up a deadly poison instead and killed herself.

... And it's in space! I'd almost be okay with extra-terrestrial elves and orcs ...

Not that there's anything wrong with that ...

The picture isn't the important part: grab a treasured item of his (wristwatch, spectacles, something personal) and make the speech.

Patience, young Jedi.

Um, what? The PS2 is a video game console that plays DVD's, the Xbox 360 is a video game console that plays DVDs. They're both billed as video game machines, it's not apples to oranges. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Exactly. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No. You are both oversimplifying the market. Wrong.

Quick, move back!

Normal netiquette, in a forum of your friends, one just adds a link to their signature. Hopefully you are not just joining loads of fora and posting adverts, because that is Not Cool

Never said that her performance was even credible. As for chatacters, in fact I think Mal has the most important and best character (Zoe and Jane's are terrific too; the Doctor is a wee bit clich

Powerful men often think it is their right to have a mistress in addition to "number one wife". I'm thinking particularly of one who had two complete families (wives and children) completely ignorant of each other. (Getty?)

Just keep exploring.

... And there was much rejoicing.

Not that I want to sully myself in this fanboi holy war, but I must interject to say that you are comparing apples and oranges (and I hope you know it). The latest gen consoles are NOT just games machines, so to compare them to a different consumer electronics item (like a DVD player) is pointless.

... And, for whatever reason(s), it was better than most Hollywood SF crap. :D

How many times have you now seen it? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Um, I haven't watched it for a few months, and this makes about half-a-dozen all up (although I stopped watching Firefly when I started quoting the dialogue in correspondence, a little earlier).

Serenity

And, as the cuffawkling echo gently subsides into the sunset, we close another thread, this one the the member formerly known as old bastard Eldar ...

I'm actually in Vegas in between the first two shows, dagnabbit.

Of course he wasn't on the Poseidon! He's not a film star ...

No news is good news ...

Hey, I didn't book the schedule: don't shoot the messenger!

Asimov was a dude.

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It's only a short story, and I read it in a great anthology that included The Lottery (which is another great piece of writing, not least because it uses the difficult-to-pull-off multiple-first-person-perspective writing, which was the main reason we were reading it).

Then you can be the technical team lead! )