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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
I could so do that!
Rewrite The Final Problem, mostly the last third; and then it'll necessitate a total rewrite of The Empty House. At least we know why Watson faints.
I think I could honestly do that.
Is it odd that I really think I could do that? And then post it.
From most people, yes that would be odd. From you? Par for the course really.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Dogmantra
Then I guess it did go well. :smallsmile:
Also hopefully Little Sister won't have the same problem with English Literature I had. They got my grade wrong, despite the fact it was obviously not the one they'd said (for serious, which exam is easy enough that dropping 4% of marks drops you the top grade?). Sometimes I wonder if we shouldn't be grading the exam boards.
But it's easy to grade exam boards. Straight Es.
But Little Sister is only in Y9, the school made all Y9s take HUmanities, Statistics, half the entire Triple Science exams, ummm, ICT - I think.
I think she's taking about four or five GCSEs.
She'll get them when they post out results in . . . a week?
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Originally Posted by
Thufir
From most people, yes that would be odd. From you? Par for the course really.
:smallsmile:
Give me a while. I'll see what I can do. Maybe.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
But it's easy to grade exam boards. Straight Es.
But Little Sister is only in Y9, the school made all Y9s take HUmanities, Statistics, half the entire Triple Science exams, ummm, ICT - I think.
I think she's taking about four or five GCSEs.
Oh wow. Despite being what's known in the biz as "quite clever", I really disapprove of that sort of thing.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
But it's easy to grade exam boards. Straight Es.
No no no. This is GCSE level, there are lower grades.
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
:smallsmile:
Give me a while. I'll see what I can do. Maybe.
I look forward to it, if you do do it.
I'm considering trying to draw something for it in Inkscape.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Thufir
No no no. This is GCSE level, there are lower grades.
All Gs. The report card will say "G (g)" because apparently we're not smart enough to know capital letters are sometimes the same as small letters.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Dogmantra
All Gs. The report card will say "G (g)" because apparently we're not smart enough to know capital letters are sometimes the same as small letters.
Hey, if you get a G(g), maybe you don't know that they're the same.
In Canadanadanada, we only go down to F's.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
They've just started building the Viking Village down at the promenade about two minutes from my place today.
It's for the annual Viking festival that lasts from the last weekend in August until the first weekend of September.
I'll try to actually make it into the village this time, something I haven't done before. I'll try to get a few pics of the vikings doing viking stuff.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll
Hey, if you get a G(g), maybe you don't know that they're the same.
In Canadanadanada, we only go down to F's.
Heh. Here in Sweden, in the upper elementary and the gymnasium, G stands for "Godkänd", which means that you've passed. VG (Väl Godkänd") is the next grade in line, and is slightly better. MVG ("Mycket Väl Godkänd") is the best grade you can get, but it isn't really that hard if you try. An IG ("Icke Godkänd") means that you didn't pass.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
Soemone said Jane Goodall was dead in Science today, Wikipedia says she's not. Who's right?
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll
Hey, if you get a G(g), maybe you don't know that they're the same.
Okay then, but how about the people who get A* (a*)? I mean, HALF OF THE CHARACTERS ARE EXACTLY THE SAME.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Thufir
No no no. This is GCSE level, there are lower grades.
G it is then.
@DoggyMan: I hate the way they did that too. G = g. G =/=d. Doi.
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Originally Posted by
Thufir
I look forward to it, if you do do it.
I'm considering trying to draw something for it in Inkscape.
The downside is that Miss Moriarty now goes to Cambridge. :smallfrown:
She probably did in canon anyway, but still.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
AtlanteanTroll
Soemone said Jane Goodall was dead in Science today, Wikipedia says she's not. Who's right?
I, for one, haven't heard anything about Jane Goodall dying...
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
:smallfrown:
That's not a funny sketch. It's sad, especially "I know Iohn."
:smallfrown:
I didn't say it was funny just that the Holmes talk made me think of it...
"... i can't get the fog to clear":smallfrown:
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Archonic Energy
I didn't say it was funny just that the Holmes talk made me think of it...
"... i can't get the fog to clear":smallfrown:
It's on a comedy sketch show, and it was a little amusing at first in that horribly dark fashion.
And then it went silent and :smallfrown: tears come to your eyes :smallfrown:.
Working on my Zombie Holmes story. Starting with Final Problem and ending with Empty House.
Professor James Moriarty is now a mere Miss Jane Moriarty, ex-alumni of Girton College, Cambridge.
I've even figured out her backstory. Frustrated over the refusal of the academic world to accept her papers, such as Dynamics of [fill this in later] she is forced into becoming a simple school teacher, and runs a crime ring on the side through a male front - Colonel Moran.
I know the paper is actually DYnamics of Asteroids, but that 'doesn't work' given gender politics and she would have been more likely to study the 'softer' academia.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
It's on a comedy sketch show, and it was a little amusing at first in that horribly dark fashion.
And then it went silent and :smallfrown: tears come to your eyes :smallfrown:.
Much like Blackadder Goes Forth.
someting which M&W comment on in the episode before.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Archonic Energy
Much like Blackadder Goes Forth.
someting which M&W comment on in the episode before.
I noticed that. I never liked the ending of Blackadder Goes Forth, either, even though Blackadder is one of my favourite shows of all time. It just didn't feel like a Blackadder episode. I know why they did it and why they had to do it, but still...
Talking of Blackadder, I was bored today and a certain line from an episode of Blackadder the Third inspired me to improvise this video. It's fairly easy to spot.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Archonic Energy
Much like Blackadder Goes Forth.
someting which M&W comment on in the episode before.
Aw MAN.
My internet cut out just before the end of that Old Folk Holmes sketch. Sounds like it was good. Better check if it's still on iPlayer.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
I've said it before, and I'll say it again...I love orange lava soap.
That is all.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
I told people that the star of House was from the UK, and no-one beleived me. Ha.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
On this side of the pond Hugh Laurie's famous for much more than House. Fry and Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster, Blackadder, the list goes on...
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Dragonrider
Heh. I have slightly the opposite issue - being quite short and quite curvy. They make special retail clothes titled "curvy" (aka You Have a Fat Butt) but they only come in plus sizes and I am too small for those. It's a proportion thing, not an overall size thing. :smallannoyed:
Hmm. I guess you're just too perfect to be a market demographic. :smallamused: Good thing you're developing these seamstress skills. And the tailoring ones too...
Also, these hippy pants you made from them. Pics. Please. They sound amazing and amuzzling. :smallbiggrin:
Koorly: Well, I'd have gone with the giggling, since I already made Thufir sigh the sigh of the thousand depressions. Also, make sure you share that re-write with the rest of us. Well, unless you make it too saucy. :smallwink: (then just share it via PM, pretty pweeze)
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Tasroth
So, I dropped the dish I was using to re-heat my dinner onto the plate and the plate broke. Having transferred the food to a different plate, I now find I'm trying to eat small bits of... well, whatever the plates are made of.
Hmm, either ceramic or plastic, neither of which is good for your innards if it's sharp fragments. :/
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Keld Denar
I've said it before, and I'll say it again...I love orange lava soap.
That is all.
It's rough on your hands and isn't sold everywhere, but boy does it clean. :smallbiggrin:
ION: I saw an owl yesterday. I was lying in my bed, and I saw something move in the ray of light coming from my window. I turned around, and there was some bird perched on the fire escape, looking around and being cool. I slowly got up and pressed my nose on the window, trying not to scare it. It was some kind of barn owl, and I watched him for about a minute. He either didn't notice or didn't care that I was watching him, so I turned on the light to get a better look. In the light I got a much better look, and could see his coloration (tan with brown wings). His big yellow eyes stared at me, and I stared back. I watched his pupils enlarge as he adjusted to the light. Not wanting to disturb him further (so that maybe he would come back), I turned off the light and got into bed. After a couple of minutes I felt a tiny tremor, and looked back to see he had taken off.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Rawhide
I would assume that vBulletin DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS 4.x has fixed this problem, but we don't currently have any intention to upgrade from 3.x.
Rawhide: greatest troll ever? I would argue "yes".
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Coidzor
Koorly: Well, I'd have gone with the giggling, since I already made Thufir sigh the sigh of the thousand depressions. Also, make sure you share that re-write with the rest of us. Well, unless you make it too saucy. :smallwink: (then just share it via PM, pretty pweeze)
I have a page of it done, but that's pretty much a minor rewriting of Final Problem as it is (good thing it's public domain now :smallsmile:), the bigger changes are going to happen later on.
The main issue with Final Problem is that it is written two years after the fact by Watson, so he doesn't know the full truth.
What I'm going to have to do is write out a fairly straight Final, and then when I get to Empty we have the Bigger Reveal.
Empty will be where I have to approach how the two 'survived', the issues with Miss Moriarty and Mr. Holmes now being highly reluctant allies - hence their iourney to Tibet and India - all the while dealing with issues stemming from zombification and their unwanted and growing attraction.
Plus how they're going to deal with Moran. By necessity it'll be slightly different than in the original, and almost certainly bloodier; perhaps ending in Bedlam.
I suppose I could post the one page preview, but it's really a pastiche of Holmsian style and nothing unique besides some changes in sentences.
The research behind Miss Moriarty has been remarkably interesting and fulfilling though. I can't wait to get to it. The downside being she may become a sympathetic character too easily, I don't want that. Not yet.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
Grrr. We have a Japanese exchange student, and I'm not in any of her classes. No one else (in my school) has even been to Asia, let alone Japan. I have a chance to impress her. But how :smallannoyed:
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
Woooo! Malfunctioned has succesfully dropped his evil biology course, plus tutor, for a Drama course for this year of college! Wooooo! Finally I can actually look forward to all of my lessons! :smallbiggrin:
Of course now I may be in the same class as my little sister who is also joining my college this year....
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
I have a page of it done, but that's pretty much a minor rewriting of Final Problem as it is (good thing it's public domain now :smallsmile:), the bigger changes are going to happen later on.
The main issue with Final Problem is that it is written two years after the fact by Watson, so he doesn't know the full truth.
What I'm going to have to do is write out a fairly straight Final, and then when I get to Empty we have the Bigger Reveal.
Empty will be where I have to approach how the two 'survived', the issues with Miss Moriarty and Mr. Holmes now being highly reluctant allies - hence their iourney to Tibet and India - all the while dealing with issues stemming from zombification and their unwanted and growing attraction.
Plus how they're going to deal with Moran. By necessity it'll be slightly different than in the original, and almost certainly bloodier; perhaps ending in Bedlam.
I suppose I could post the one page preview, but it's really a pastiche of Holmsian style and nothing unique besides some changes in sentences.
The research behind Miss Moriarty has been remarkably interesting and fulfilling though. I can't wait to get to it. The downside being she may become a sympathetic character too easily, I don't want that. Not yet.
I'll have to read the original so I know what you're talking about.
ION: Finished watching Avatar: The Last Airbender. Back to Classic Doctor Who!
Not right now though. 2am, not the best time to start a 6 episode serial, also I've done very little the past couple of days other than watch A:TLA. I should consider doing something vaguely productive.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
Yes. Exactly, Short and curvy do not mix. You can go petite, but end up with uncomfortable hips. If you go normal and get ones that fit in the hip you have inches to cut off and hem up.
Exactly! My pair I just made IS too long really, but if I wear a belt I can manage it. My dad came in while I was making the belt to go with (because all the belts I have are designed for wearing around the waist, not the hips - these are quite low-rise jeans) and we had the following conversation:
Him: "...So why are you doing this?"
Me: *explains, ending with* "Basically just for the heck of it."
Him: "You're gonna hate this, but . . . that sounds exactly like the kind of thing I did at your age."
Me: "Dad, go look in the mirror. You're a 42-year-old white man with dreadlocks. I don't think you ever STOPPED doing it."
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CurlyKitGirl
They sound amazing. Any pictures?
Aah, I'm bored, so I think I'll try and do that. I'll fail utterly as I only have a few needles and no expertise at all.
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Coidzor
Also, these hippy pants you made from them. Pics. Please. They sound amazing and amuzzling. :smallbiggrin:
Just cuz y'all asked . . . though I had to use Dad's terrible camera + no one to take pictures for me = crappy pictures.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Dragonrider
Just cuz y'all asked . . . though I had to use Dad's terrible camera + no one to take pictures for me = crappy pictures.
Damn you're a good seamstress ([insert obligatory snigger and :smallamused: from anyway who's read the Discworld series]), they look luvverly.
Nice contrast between the pale pink and the magenta. Very striking.
Christ-on-a-bike, it's quarter past four. I know why I'm still up, but I'm tired.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
^: Sounds like it's time to hit da showers dere, Kierarly.
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Dragonrider
Just cuz y'all asked . . . though I had to use Dad's terrible camera + no one to take pictures for me = crappy pictures.
See, this is what little brothers and Cycoris are for, getting roped/bribed into taking photos of you. Hmm, nice so far, but no real sense of the vibe...
How do you make a belt that goes round hips like yours anyway? :smallconfused: