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You look more pensive, than angry, Kid Joe. :D

It's the roman legionnaire armor, after the reforms of 109 BC. Or was it after 100 AD? Lorica hamata? Nevermind. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hee hee: one of the disadvantages to learning history from Rome: Total War, where they implement the 107BCE reforms of Gaius Marius, the Third Founder of Rome. :D Thanks Mus.?

Yah. try it, sometime, it's also a lot of fun. If you go to the gym now, you have the option of using a small blow-up foot cushion to stand on and provide an unstable platform. Why? So that your trunk (core muscles, including the abdominals) have to work hard to steady the body whilst you lift the weight. Charles Atlas noticed that the wild animals, e.g. lions and tigers, never needed to lift weights to keep strong. So he identified that they were performing similar isometric-type exercise (made famous since by various people reporting on the Shaolin monks exercise regime, too). And it helped a lot that it was an in-ground trampoline, so I could learn all sorts of tricks, like backward somersaults ... I remember the only other guy that wa near to my skill level had started a "challenge" when I got to school one morning, whereby he had treid to set a record of how many somersaults he could do in a row without pause. Very silly idea, in retrospect. But I managed to beat his total of about 24, I think.

So ... McDonalds are providing a good training environment, conducive to teaching essential life AND business skills ..?

... And it isn't often ol' calax can say that with 100% veracity, precision and sagacity. ^_^

Just before the Platinum Age of Apple ][ gaming, I played the first Star Trek (text-as-graphics) turn-based strategy adventure game. then I made it my job to experience every single game on the Apple ][. :D

That's actually pretty clever.

Is that an organism, some armour or an item of clothing?

Nah, he's evil and using faith as a smokescreen, relying on the good nature and benevolent assumptions of the Christian community ...

I like the way the guy with the tentacles has had them replaced with tusks. Or is that meant to be some sort of lame new race?

At least this form of wealth redistribution is going to a good cause ... "

Thanks and thanks.

Being enamoured with a person's vim and attitude to life is not a bad thing; approaching and talking to the above-mentioned girl with said opening line would have worked

Shinies?

Interesting prediction by the Architect ... there is no doubt that corruption plays a larger than commonly believed and largely undocumented role in our world. I wouldn't single out football / soccer as the worst culprit, either (that dubious honour goes to "the sport of Kings": Horse Racing). Still, because of two factors: that the average person isn't cognizant of the machinations nor results, and that the changes are within the realms of probability, there is no real harm to the society as a whole. After all, it's only a game. :D

What? But everyone knows about the sacred lineage of crates!

Kangaroo rat?

more than A4 and less than A3, odd-sized cloth map, that doesn't render a photocopy image, FTW!

... It was an encompassing figure for all the mascots. /killjoy

You aren't allowed to laugh!

Bok is a drug dealer!

Snow?

Jonathan Woss?

I guess if you share the view that this guy is a dangerous crackpot, probably using religion for his own selfish reasons, then the fight can be targeted on those of evil disposition (whatever religious persuasion) rather than one particular (poorly targeted) faith.