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The cat will (hopefully) return as soon as it gets too hungry to stay away. Hopefully. If he hasn't been spayed, then he might be having a load of fun with the locals. If he has, he might be living up to the worst fears of the environmental conservationists and eating rare birds.

I was under the impression that the Socttish character is not fictional, though it is an amalgam.

Oh, I bought it. I just haven't installed it yet (I fear it will not run well on my poor little laptop, so I thought I'd wait for a new PC.)

Thanks, it indeed looks interesting. (Even if he is a bizarro foreigner. *spit* ) Nearly finished Bertrand's ego trip.

I'm not sure if he even pays tax in ANY country; he's the closest I know of to an "international" person.

What colour is the sky in your world?

The worst of the series, but I still kind of enjoyed it. But then, during that time we were on a heavy TR kick, buying 2 copies of almost all the TR's so we could play at the same time etc. Maybe it's more fun when you can holler/laugh to your spouse about something in the game. I finally gave up when I had to attack the wolf with that guy (with the pizza-cutter weapon that I couldn't use for the fight). I've never had to stop a game due to the controls before. Or since. I *am* a Tombraider fan, too. I went out afterwards and bought a PSone and the original game.

I agree. Just put your fingers in your ears and sing "lalalalalalalala".

Humans would die without the aid of some of the 400 as yet unclassified microbes in our guts that (among other things) help break down nutrients in plant and animal tissues, and release chemicals like nitrogen. What was the question? Oh, yeah. It's entirely possible that there is an ecosystem built around the chemosynthetic organisms, such like the single-celled amino-loaded food eaten by the residents of Zion in the Matrix. /nerd

It was Rumsfeld's direct control of the Pentagon I was talking about.

I think a lot of the blame falls at Rumsfeld. He was left in charge of the "operation" (and he had some pretty impressive credentials); it was his decision to dismiss the Iraqi armed forces, for example, and keep the British forces at arms'-length (and not involved in any decision-making), etc.

Murdoch isn't Australian ... he renounced his Australian citizenship in favour of US citizenship, to purchase a US media empire, as they have more stringent media ownership laws than Australia (which allows foreigners to own significant fractions of their print and tv media).

You are assuming that the girl had a non-dysfunctional relationship with her parents. Which I don't.

And when you say "drop female friend home", you really mean have snugglebunnies with her, amiright?

They'll run at the lowest common speed.

Yes.

Yes, spearmint makes all the difference. A man can go from here 'til doomsday if he has enough spices.

Rupert Murdoch is feeling very sorry.

Glad to hear it.

If you mean what you just wrote, then I agree. Though I think you don't, in which case I disagree.

To stop people abusing it.

I want to change my vote to Tombraider: Angel of Darkness. I couldn't finish this game, despite gritting my teeth through some of the most atrocious game design EVER.

Your grip of reality is as loose as your grasp of world politics.

And in that, you are alone. But, fortunately, you may just pretend that there isn't any Fallout apart from the one(s) you like. See? Living in a pretend world can be advantageous, sometimes!

That's the latest, philological trend of philosophy (Bertrand Russell et alia). I recently finished a book by a prominent neurosurgeon, who has made some revolutionary insights into the development of language (his book is subtitled The Co-evolution of Language and the Human Brain.) First, he defined three different types of cognition; iconic, indexical and symbolic: But the really interesting stuff is at the end of the book: