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I had visions of punk slam-dancing ghasts ...

Eric Bana is an ex-comedian from the Australian "Not the Nine O'Clock News". Check him out in "The Castle", an Australian film about the "little Aussie battler" beating the system.

I think the word 'soccer' was coined in the UK, to differentiate between Rugby football and Association football. The only other country I know of that uses the word soccer is Japan - well, 'sakkaa' actually, but the same idea. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> US and Australia call it soccer, too. Both countries have different "football" games, even though Rugby is mostly NOT about kicking.

There was a secondary pupil died playing cricket in my state (fielding at "silly-mid-off", batsman hit him on the side of his head with the bat). Also, my first over in cricket and a teammate dropped a sitter at mid-on (okay, it hit him in the chest and he was winded for about twenty minutes, but he should still have caught it!) So all sports are dangerous. Sort of.

@Kalfear, I have another controversial thought for your consideration: I understand that it is neither fair nor morally acceptable to place young, innocent children in the exposed situation of a "different" upbringing. But, I also know that this may be the best and most effective way to bring about the changes needed in society. Out of the greatest evils must come some great good. Generally the people who have changed society have been victimized by it in some way earlier, and they are (over-) compensating for this initial scenario. So, although it would be difficult to prove, I propose the hypothesis that perhaps a child of a same-sex couple might actually help transform the society into a more tolerant one. Controversial, I know, but is it an unethical way to break the catch-22 deadlock? (Or at least speed it up ...)

I was hoping to mock and traduce the jackanape before a proper debriefing. :D

Yep, the players are rather proud of that, too. Rugby is the game they play in heaven, donchaknow? Of course Australian Rules Football is equally as dangerous, even though it is not considered a contact sport (much like basketball isn't a contact sport ... ), mainly because players run as fast as they can around the field trying to knock each others head off without appearing to be aiming for anything else but the ball ... also there's no acting, like in soccer, because injury time only gives the forwards more time to rest in between mauling (this is the actual technical term) the opposition ...

I ws being too subtle?

What's a "slam" attack? BoG: It's a common saying in the UK, even though most people are unaware of its origins. ) (It comes from the African colonisers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when they wanted a part for something they would ask for one of British or German (i.e. high) standard, hence "BoG standard".)

" (I know, I was being sarcastic.)

What do you mean by "other things"? Tolerance?

Of course there is: there were Vulcans of all ethnicities, why in Search for Spock there was a couple of asians (one even looked mongolian). I really don't know how you can make such a sweeping generalisation: there were precious few Vulcans shown in any of the television series. What's your sample space: one? But there certainly were in the films -- IIRC the first couple all had different ethnicities. The racial characteristics would not "homogenise" over such a short period of time, and certainly wouldn't be as uniform as you are implying. For example, there are indeed albino africans, people with all the racial characteristics of africans but with a melanin content far inferior to "white" people. Also, how do you know that the Vulcans haven't specifically kept some racial groupings as well as the "generic homogenisation" that you are assuming? I don't know if your asertion is correct. Even if we assume for the moment that the climate is constant, this doesn't mean that ethnicity would be "bred out"; there would always be localizations. Don't forget that the Romulans are some sort of relation to the Vulcans, too. And there was a specific villain (played by the same actress who was the original security officer on TNG, also known for her playboy centrefold) who was blonde with light eyes, even though all Romulans are normally swarthy with dark hair and eyes. Why does it matter, anyway? Why does it upset your worldview so much? Some people think that all swedes have blonde hair and blue eyes, too.

Yeah, I can just see the "conversation keypad template": 7 : 8 : 9 Short annecdote : witicism : sarcastic remark 4 : 5 : 6 defensive sulk : criticism : baseless flattery & fawning 1 : 2 : 3 teenage girlie scream of salutation : admiration : curt admonismemt 0 : . distracting request : blatant lie with Alt-possibilities mapped on top! Nightmare.

Zackery.

I think Hssiss is singular and plural, kind of like deer. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> and sheep. What's the plural of moose -- meese?

That is a sexist remark -- what about hetrosexual women, they certainly don't want the love of their life to have a vagina. Anyway, many men(!?) are amongst those sufing the new sexual revolution: Thailand's largest export, ladyboys ! Riiiight. Like foreplay without sex. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That implies that Valve will not deliver a plot in good time ... because the sex is necessary, but not the most important aspect of the sexual intercourse. Think instead that the foreplay lasts all night, and the copulation begins in the morning (assuming you don't have to disapear early in the morning, of course).

I understand the idea, and it has merit. I am curious to confirm the "loot" reward, would it be a complete list of what the target character knows, or believes to be true (like a list of facts, e.g. a password)? It would be a little cumbersome for blanket conversation replacement; I would only see it as useful for major encounters (even with hotkeys it would be exceedingly annoying after a while, to the point of banality). I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand, however.

Ahh, I was obviously having too much fun overwelmed whilst burning the little suckers poor enemy combatants. I'll have to test your recommendations next play-through -- purely for scientific research purposes, you understand. Haven't heard it before then? Good (I hate telling old jokes that people have heard before: much better to tell old jokes that the person hasn't heard before). :D

Sure, but the XP / level is static after about late 20s/early 30s, so you don't have to wait until after Dantooine. Also a few thousand XP are neither here nor there when you can kill a bunch of Hssises -- Hssissi?

I like the sound of that. Miniatures always lacked something to my mind ... but Lego! What a great idea -- I never had problems envisioning lego to do anything.

Yeah, screaming for more guards to come and help! (Being truthful, the only qualms I have with that tactic is the dang thing runs out of napalm too quickly ... ) the world may never know.... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm sensing that may be a good thing. (Unless this is a cover for the fact that some people in the world already know ... then again, that may still be a good thing.) Reminds me of a joke (stop me if you've heard it): Sadist and Masochist meet through a newspaper ad (old joke: let's modernise with chat room), and decide to take their meeting to the next level. Going back to the Masochists place, who undresses and stands quivering with anticipation, naked before the sadist, who stands swinging the cat-o'nine-tails jauntily. "Whip me!" says the masochist, breathlessly. "No." says the sadist.

It means you enjoy the inflicting of pain more than the efficiency of a quick, quiet kill ... ... you don't have pretensions to being a Dominatrix by any chance, do you? "

That's true, because your Golems look like BoG standard garden varieties ... until combat!

And some little boys on this forum think that females don't have the killer instinct ... :D