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Just finished Birdsong. I can recommend it: "...not a perfect novel, just an excellent one." Reading a NF one predominantly at the moment: Terrence Deacon's The Symbolic Species (about the co-evolutionary development of the capacity to speak with the rapid cerebellum expansion of the human brain that facilitated symbolic representation): turns all the established theories of language learning and special brain phenomena on its head. (I've had the book for ages, it was printed in 1997, but I only recently dug it out of my box of "books to read").

... When they first formed the Super Friends, they had a good time making office pools on how long it would take until they had to rescue Aquaman again. Now it's just part of the day's scheduled events. Their day goes breakfast, arts and crafts, Earth Science, Batman's Bat-Tips, Lunch, free time, rescue Aquaman, lecture Aquaman, crisis prevention, song practice, rescue Aquaman, punch Aquaman, dinner ... One of his other underwater "powers" was making water balls and throwing them at people. I probably don't have to explain how deadly it is to get somebody wet when they're at the bottom of the ocean. The only reason Aquaman even got a one on his SUPER RATING is because as pathetic as he is, he's still more useful than Marvin, Wendy, and that f***ing dog in the cape. ... ... One thing about Wonder Woman, is that whoever did her voice couldn't disguise it. When the Zimbabwean ambassador popped onto the Trouble Alert screen with a chef hat and a Turkish accent, you weren't quite sure if it was Batman's voice, but when Wonder Woman took a second job as the voice of the villain, there was no mistaking it. ... I'm rolling across the floor! Ah! Help! ...... It was all more confusing than one of Batman's lessons in physics. ... Superman didn't go to school, and neither did the runaway Malaysian children that animated him. They must have picked a few science words up in the cartoon sweatshop, though; because sometimes Superman tried to explain the insane **** he did. It was almost lovable how confident he would sound when he did things like rub his hands together to make a tractor fly and say, "Murmur blahblah mur... FRICTION will blah molecule mumble REVERSAL GRAVITY!" ... I haven't laughed this hard for years.

Only as long as her acting in the the scene is restricted to pouting.

Well, I think he said he wsa curious about the number of nipples, and by the time he had confirmed the total his cat was having such a good time he didn't want to disapoint him ...

I would expect that a little detail like the availability of DX10 Shader Model 4.0 capable graphics cards would be co-ordinated with the game ... certainly if the devs are designing an engine to take advantage of the tech then it must be nearly available for general gaming population ...

Floyd!:'(

Me too.

I've lived with my cat Sam for most of my life and I never knew. I'll give him a feel later. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The only reason I know is because Louis Theroux mentioned on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, I think, that he accidentally assisted his pet male cat ejaculate, so don't make his mistake (or I'll be forced to commit ritual suicide for giving this information to you ...).

Oh. That's alright then.

Why do male cats have six?

Aha! But now we all lknow your secret! It is an EX-secret! (Well done, Gutman, I knew we could depend on your investigations!)

Just pray your path never crosses a Sith Bunny, because there truly are fates worse than death ... :ph34r:

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Interesting. I wonder if that means it will be set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian universe ..!

Omphalos!

Only if the killing was over an important philosophical question of right versus wrong! Like who's round it was.

I have seen the future and it is this: user-customisable PC appearances! Want Lara to look like a pigeon-toed septuagenarian hunchback with severe halitosis? How about a gender-transfered Belgian accountant? A Khoikhoi with a lisp? ("Decency Controls" would prevent any immoral and illegal appearances, like pre-pubescent boys.)

Hey! I didn't do nothing! I only just got back to the boards! Take that back! Or I'm going to delete all my posts and leave.

I blame Denise Richards.

... If the Super Friends ONLY HAVE ONE CHANCE at something or have to do something JUST RIGHT, that's a drink. And before you do it, you should say, "ONLY TIME FOR ONE DRINK!"... Bonus: 1. Person on the Trouble Alert has a hat. ... ROFL GOLD

The 100,000 complaints about JJ's boob (pun intended) came from the same telephone exchange (an arch Neo-con organisation whose name escapes me for the moment).

(Steve just wants to plagerise it! )

... And happily living with her long-term female partner, as she has famously lesbian since before it was popular to be so. The last film I liked with JF in was Contact, but that was more because I liked Butt-head Astronomer Carl Sagan's novel. Really the last good film she was in was Silence of the Lambies.

I haven't done it for months on this forum so I can say I'm a recovering fixer. My avatar is metadigital and I am a fixer. Yesterday I was tempted and I edited someone else's post

"We are not amused."