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2010-09-03, 05:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
With my eight years of official French study and fluent parents, I'm agreeing with you. What other subjects you doing this year, Rai?
In other news, I hate haircuts. I love a good chat. I like being social, when I can be. I like fashion and beauty and all that stuff. They mix badly. It's hard to maintain a conversation when a guy has a buzzy thing floating near your head ready to turn you into Soylent Green, and the result of said "trim" is nearly always routinely brutal, and would be the one being up fashionable kids in the schoolyard, rather than being 'em.
Ah, well...
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2010-09-03, 05:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
2-3 hours is a hell of a lot better than my laptop.
It's battery lasts about 39 minutes on lowest screen brightness, with the WiFi radio turned off. To say that it's slightly limited is an understatement.
Then again, i've had it for about 4-5 years now, and it's hooked up to the AC adapter pretty much all the time. But it's more of an easily movable desktop, than it is a laptop.
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2010-09-03, 06:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
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2010-09-03, 06:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
My laptop has a battery life of about 20 mins, it's absurd. More technically minded people have told me it's because I always run it from the AC power and never let the battery run down. It just has to sit on my desk and work as a desktop. Eh, I have a netbook if I need to travel.
Also, reeeeeeeeeeally late, but:
We're allowed to shoot Scots in York - I've always heard it's with a longbow and so long as they're within the City walls, but not on Sundays. Also maybe only if they're in full battle dress, that requirement varies depending on who you ask.
I think it's Chester that you can shoot the Welsh. It would make more sense - the Welsh have invaded pretty far if they've got to York (but we're watching you, Welsh folks).
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2010-09-03, 06:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-09-03, 06:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
Clouddreamer Teddy by me, high above the world, far beyond its matters...
Spoiler: Banner by Vrythas
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2010-09-03, 07:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
Plus, Stephen Fry can bring in all the public school gay romp jokes. Who can't love it, indeed?
Speaking of which, I'm going to see Stephen Fry later this month. I am most excited. I have no idea what he'll be talking about, but he can talk about anything with an ease of wit and delightful eloquence, so I doubt that'll be an issue.
"Ah, Dr. Johnson! Damn cold day!"
"Indeed it is, sir, but a very fine one, for I celebrated last night the encyclopaedic implementation of my pre-meditated orchestration of demotic Anglo-Saxon."
"...Nope, didn't catch any of that."
"Well, I simply observed, sir, that I'm felicitous, since, during the course of the penultimate solar sojourn, I terminated my uninterrupted categorisation of the vocabulary of our post-Norman tongue."
"Well, I don't know what you're talking about, but it sounds damned saucy, you lucky thing! I know some fairly liberal-minded girls, but I've never penultimated any of them in their solar sojourn, or for that matter been given any Norman tongue!"
"I believe, sir, that the Doctor is trying to tell you that he is happy because he has finished his book. It has apparently taken him ten years."
"Yes, well, I'm a slow reader myself."
NOOOO
YAAAAY
I've used, bruised and abused Amazon muchly.
My reading list covers things from just about every period since the first thing I'm doing is Past and Present - pretty much the foundations of English Literature in context and the like. My other module for the moment I have to buy a lot less for, and it's Culture and Criticism - the theoretical stuff, literary criticism, movements, political and ideological influences - I'm looking forward to that a lot. I've got my fantastically big Literary Theory book in front of me right now and if I look at it any more I'll just end up reading all of it immediately.
I need to read more Discworld. I've probably read about 10 of them by now, but I need more!
The Watch books are my favourites from what I've read, but I haven't read any of the Witches books yet so that could change.
He's as happy as a Frenchman who's just invented a pair of self-removing trousers.
<3 Queen. And Flash Gordon.
It's truly beautiful. Someone should get Tommy Wiseau an Oscar.
"You betray me you not good you just a chicken CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP!"
And Baldrick is the last in God's great chain, unless there's an earwig he'd like to victimise.
I, too, have a strong constitution. It's in the blood - my Grandad managed to stave off a level of cancer that would've toppled an elephant for five years.
I consider myself health insured.
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2010-09-03, 08:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
And you claim to be innocent and naive.
Still affords much more opportunity for, as me and my high school friends would have put it, "admiring the 'scenery'"
Yeah, those first two sentences instantly caught my interest. I'd be curious about that even if it wasn't a Discworld book.
WAAAANT.
Meh. I'm comfortable up to a top D usually. Up to an F, or sometimes higher, is a bit more of a strain.
Mwahaha. What shall I get you to watch next, I wonder?
It's fun to charter an accountant,
And sail the wide accountancy...
Really, given that extensive and unnecessary use of sesquipedalian loquaciousness, Dr. Johnson somewhat deserves the ribbing he gets from Blackadder.
10? Pah! Pitiful. Get thee to a bookshop!"'But there's still such a lot to be done...'
YES. THERE ALWAYS IS."
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2010-09-03, 08:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
That particular ribbing is one of my favourites in the entire show.
"This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved language."
"Every single one, sir?"
"Every single one, sir!"
"In that case, sir, I hope you will not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic contrafibularities."
"What?"
"Contrafibularities, sir? It is a common word down our way."
"Damn!"
"Oh, I'm sorry sir. I'm anaspeptic, trasmotic, even capunctuous to have caused you such pericobobulations."
"What are you on about, Blackadder? This is all beginning to sound a bit like dago talk to me."
"I'm sorry, sir. I merely wished to congratulate the Doctor on not having left out a single word."
*Dr Johnson death glare*
Capital idea, but I'd never leave.
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2010-09-03, 08:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
Pfft, my laptop battery's the best one of all. It's completely dead. Pull out the cable and the thing shuts down.
Sounds like you get to do some pretty interesting stuff. A lot of the course descriptions on websites can be misleading; from what I read, it seemed very lit-focused. Maybe it was just me. I'm still not sure if I can get the grades though. In two subjects I was only one mark away from getting an A, so I had some papers re-marked in the hope of picking up one mark somewhere; today I picked up the results of the re-marks, and lo and behold, neither of the marks changed at all. Examiners.
Yeah, it seems a great course, especially for someone like me, who's very indecisive, and is also a bit of a jack of all trades and master of none... well, maybe master of one if you count English. I tend to somehow do well even if the course doesn't interest me or motivate me to study at all. I thought my AS exam had gone terribly, but I only dropped 5 marks. I'm mystified as to how.
I'm actually looking at doing creative writing at UEA as a postgraduate course, so if I see him I'll drop him a few questions. That course has a very good reputation for churning out good writers. I would be considering English there for an undergraduate course too, but they're only accepting people who've done Lit, and I do the combined course.
Just checked mine and it refuses to go any higher than a G. My throat's full of awful though, as usual, so I'm sure I could get it a tad higher on a better day...cool avatar by araveugnitsuga
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2010-09-03, 08:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
It's Phrasmotic/Frasmotic (Not sure about spelling), compunctuous, pericombobulations.
And of course later on, "Do not let me hinder your velocitous extramuralisation."
Time was my falsetto would go all the way to a soprano top A or B flat... Sometimes it still does, but only sometimes. Usually my falsetto doesn't really exist."'But there's still such a lot to be done...'
YES. THERE ALWAYS IS."
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2010-09-03, 08:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-09-03, 08:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-09-03, 08:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-09-03, 09:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
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"'But there's still such a lot to be done...'
YES. THERE ALWAYS IS."
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2010-09-03, 09:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
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2010-09-03, 10:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-09-03, 10:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
This was on a visit to a girlfriend who has trouble meeting new Cousins. Like, one or two of them at the same time. I think trying to introduce her to a Playgrounder would have blown her mind. Sorreh.
It sits below the Mason/Dixon line, so technically South, but even Marylanders can't really agree on whether or not it's a "southern" state.
To me, South is Maryland and anything past Maryland, as far West as the Mississippi, and then dipping down into Arkansas, and across through New Mexico, Arizona, and So. Cal. Everything above that but below the line that intersects with the bottom of the Great Lakes is Mid-territory, usually Mid-West, Mid-East, or just Mid. Everything North of that is North East, North West, or Minnesota.
Sort of like this:
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Note that I do not include NY State as part of New England, because to me, it really isn't. It's the part of the United States where New England ends and just becomes the Northeast.
Ah..I always forget that it's Anglais, with an A, not with an E. ^^;
Did you try playing your Ocarina at them? I hear if you play the right song, you can get a heart piece.
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2010-09-03, 11:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
Trobs, I can't believe that you didn't put the Pacific Northwest on that map of yours. For shame!
ION: Just had the uni I'm applying to call to verify that a) I really have "graduated" from "high school", and b) am really applying for Winter term.
WHY ELSE WOULD IT SAY SO ON THE FLIPPING FORM I JUST SENT YOU??!!
At least now I can be sure that they've received my application. And the lady who called did say that they would begin processing it immediately, so hopefully I won't have to be on tenterhooks for too long.
Edit: Trobsalob, that's a nifty avvie you've got there!Last edited by cycoris; 2010-09-03 at 12:31 PM.
My preferred pronouns: they, them, their
When I speak I'll cross my fingers
Will you know you've been deceived?
I find the need to be a demon
A demon cannot be hurt
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2010-09-03, 12:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
Eeep! D: I'm from the Northeast! The Pacific NorthWest is a foreign concept to me! Please don't devour me!
ION: Just had the uni I'm applying to call to verify that a) I really have "graduated" from "high school", and b) am really applying for Winter term.
WHY ELSE WOULD IT SAY SO ON THE FLIPPING FORM I JUST SENT YOU??!!
At least now I can be sure that they've received my application. And the lady who called did say that they would begin processing it immediately, so hopefully I won't have to be on tenterhooks for too long.
On the other hand, they will always at least TRY to help you out...<.<; Even if they are never actually helpful in any endeavor.
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2010-09-03, 12:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
I find it sad that you classify North and South Dakota as 'Minnesota'
And that's another thing that bugs me, not that you said, but in general... Midwest. Midwest supposedly is commonly thought to stretch from the dakotas over to Ohio. How is Ohio west? It's not even middle US. I mean, it's not East coast, but it's certainly on the eastern side. midwest sounds to me like it should mean states in the middle to western part of the US, but not the pacific coast. It doesn't come anywhere near 'west' stopping clearly at exact middle and some people don't even stretch it that far, ending at Minnesota or even further east. *end rant*
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2010-09-03, 12:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
So recently, my brother and I noticed that our (unjustly) capped internet speed was only resuming normal service at 1am, rather than at 12 midnight like it was supposed to.
I just realised why this is. Turns out, my ISP is so incompetent that they forgot to account for summertime. That's right, the cap runs from 6pm to midnight, GMT.BANG → !
OH LOOK AT HER/.../YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN/YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN/YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN MEAN/RICHARDS
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2010-09-03, 01:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
"'Intelligence' is really prolific in the world. So is stupidity. So often they occur in the same people." - Phaedra
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2010-09-03, 01:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
As a life-long Ohioan, I can answer this. The term Midwest in relation to Ohio dates to when Ohio WAS the western edge of the nation, way back in the olden days. Once a few states sprang up west of us, we were the "midwest". The term just stuck. Today, obviously, it doesn't really count.
Course, this is just what we learned in school back in like 5th grade here. It's very likely wrong.
All that I say applies only to myself. You author your own actions and choices. I cannot and will not be responsible for you, nor are you for me, regardless of situation or circumstance.
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2010-09-03, 01:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
"Yes, yes I am. 'Tis only right in this misogynistic world fer th' feminine pirates among us to obiectify th' menfolk.
"Now get your behind into the seat before I got to be misandynistic t'ward ye in an obvious fashion!"
Parlez-vous Francaise?
Non, ie ne parles pas Francais, ie parles anglais.
Or if you want to be really fancy: Non, ie ne la parles pas, ie parles anglais.
Not bad for only one year of French though.
My mistake. Oop North is Oop North. Sometimes it's Really Oop North and sometimes it's iust Oop North.
I find it funny though as they never bothered repealing so many of these laws. Like the one about pregnant women urinating in the traditional policeman's helmet.
o.O
Where? When? And does it really matter, it's Stephen Fry and that's all you need to know. :smallenvy:
One of the best parts of the episode.
'Tis true. I do love my Austen, but Mansfield Park is so dully depressing. After you've read it you really ought to turn to something Austen-y and happy that isn't Pride and Preiudice, don't get me wrong, I love that book; but it's a bit overrated.
Past and Present sounds interesting, how far back does it go? Either way, I suggest you read Paradise Lost - mainly because I'm a large nerd - but it's a good read.
As far as Culture and Criticism goes . . . you will hate and despise anything written by Stanley Fisher or about The Death of the Author and responses to it.
But plunge deep into your Literary Theory book, it's more interesting than it looks. I don't know which book it is, but literary theory is fun.
HERETIC!!!!!
There is never too much Discworld. Until you get to the point where you literally can't buy any more books. The Witches books are good, but not as good as the Death arc. Read Reaper Man and weep.
Un-HERETIC!!!!!
Oh no, earwigs get the best of Baldrick in an even fight. Especially if he has a cunning plan.
It's easy to make an innuendo. Knowing what it is your suggesting is a different thing entirely.
However, it is possible that my innocence and naivete is mildly exaggerated at time.
Lots of iiggling. *nodnod*
I'm going town tomorrow. I did well today - have done exactly one-third of the translating for my Wulfstan. Well, except for the opening three lines in Latin: SERMO LUPI AD ANGLOS QUANDO DANI MAXIME PERSECUTI SUNT EOS, QUOD FUIT ANNO MILLESIMO XIIII AB INCARNATIONE DOMINI NOSTRI IESU CRISTI. And there are so many fragments and chunks of untranslated Latin in the notes. Anger.
*whimper*
Curse you.
Classic. More classic.
I risk that every time I step into a place with books.
If you have any questions, feel free to PM me; or ask here for that matter. But yeah, the website is a little misleading; prolly because most people aren't interested in the intricacies of the language.
I won't lie to you, if you don't take specifically language orientated papers you'll have two compulsory pure language/language analysis papers in three years. The MdE and OE papers (all students have to do a compulsory MdE paper) are about 50/50 language and literature, so let's say a quarter of your papers will be language-y.
But that's why there's Course II - more older languages means more language study, and iust better options.
You can't miss him. He's the Cat-Muffin extraordinaire!
There is a cat-puddly on my lap.
I am a prisoner of the Demon-Cat.
Send help. Quick.
Bathatar!
Squid bones are lies.
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2010-09-03, 02:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
I just skimmed through this article on mass extincton, and it freaked me out. I though I'd share it with you.
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2010-09-03, 02:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
Note that my map is 100% subjective. <.<; I apologize for any rage it may cause in advance.
"Already be in a seat, luv. Got a bit of a problem with the menfolk in this world? I admit the majority of us types are crude, unabashed lechers.
I try to buck the status quo."
Parlez-vous Francaise?
Non, ie ne parles pas Francais, ie parles anglais.
Or if you want to be really fancy: Non, ie ne la parles pas, ie parles anglais.
Not bad for only one year of French though.
HERETIC!!!!!
There is never too much Discworld. Until you get to the point where you literally can't buy any more books. The Witches books are good, but not as good as the Death arc. Read Reaper Man and weep.
It's easy to make an innuendo. Knowing what it is your suggesting is a different thing entirely.
However, it is possible that my innocence and naivete is mildly exaggerated at time.
There is a cat-puddly on my lap.
I am a prisoner of the Demon-Cat.
Send help. Quick.
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2010-09-03, 03:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-09-03, 03:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-09-03, 03:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
"In tha' case I'll be takin' this seat here. But, you see, because yer real self were so cruwel to me own real self outside these tubey things, I be findin' meself obligated to gi' ye yer own puddle o' cat to put in yer lap.
"Her claws be an inch long, so don't be startlin' the dear Demon-Cat."
"And while I don't be mindin' the menfolk of piratical persuasion, they c'n be so foul o' times, 'tis only right fair to be foul right back a'em."
Ma. Girls are feminine so they're 'ma cherie'.
Pas de probleme.
Not as amazing as Reaper Man, but excellent nonetheless, as is the movie.
But . . . trudging?
Trudging implies a weary, disconsolate walk, facing the future with a downcast, unexpecting gaze. I tried to find the right clip from A Knight's Tale, but I couldn't. So have this showing the excellence that is Chaucer, and proof that thirteenth century peasants knew how to rock. The music starts around 3:08.
I have a filthy, filthy mind, and can apparently make anything dirty.
My legs are numb from the thighs down, and my hips are wailing in agony after enduring a full ninety-seven minutes of cross-legged cat cushioning.
You can have the Demon-Cat.
EDIT:
Yep. Oop North technically starts once you hit Plymouth. London is Oop North by virtue of being quite southerly. Anything above, say Northampton is Oop Oop North; technically once you get to York you're Oop Really Far North, and Scotland is so north it's practically the North Pole. Also known as Ultimate North.
And women wearing trousers or man-type clothing is still illegal too. Never got repealed. I got a whole book of CrAzY laws like that.
Somewhere.
In one of the many boxes and shelves that make up the expanded Koorly Library. It's the node which I use to enter and control all of L-Space you know.Last edited by CurlyKitGirl; 2010-09-03 at 03:27 PM.
Bathatar!
Squid bones are lies.