Bazza Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER history-believe it or not even if they were made up by adults, it was funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Yay! The hotel has internet access, and a computer station! More geek points for me: internet surfing on vacation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER . . . How's your score? How geeky are you? A good while ago, there was a test for nerdity and geekiness. I think I scored 24%. Bazza 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Eh. Haven't checked lately. I'm above the "average person" percentile, that's for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER As the other reading thread does not cover this, I have just finished reading Middlemarch. A marathon slog starting befor Christmas and ending today. Hurrah for me ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Was it any good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Yeah I liked it. It follows the characters in a couple of families and broadens out by the end to be a picture of the community. It is true to lifeas you can even today see people acting in the ways the people in the book do. But it certainly is not for everyone. If you want to read it get an annotated version so you know what some of the references are. They are quite specific staring in 1830 and waht was happening in Britain at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Ah, cool. I'll keep an eye out for it. In other news, if I can find 2 more players, I'll be running my first ever FtF campaign in about a year (or however long it takes me to get myself up to speed and prepare). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER OK, I'm a sick puppy, but the simple line "Learn more about anthrax ... more" here strikes me as humorous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Sick puppy . . . CDC . . . There's a bonus pun in there, somewhere. Out of curiosity, what were you doing on the CDC website? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Believe it or not, the CDC is (for me) work-related. Disease incidence data. EDIT: This is still valid for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Yikes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Do you have any simulation data for more interesting diseases, like lycanthropy or Alien-facehugger-chestbursters? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Cancer: How's the Horseradish? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Right tasty, Tim. We're going through it much faster than I thought. It's on the flavorful side, not the lachrimator-heat side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Do you have any simulation data for more interesting diseases' date=' like lycanthropy or Alien-facehugger-chestbursters?[/quote'] If I thought we could get grant funding for it, I'd look into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Well, let's see, I've got... um... $3.26 here. But you're going ot have to write a thirty-page grant application if you want it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Wouldn't be that hard to do, though. Both of those are messy but pretty slow-spreading It's not like you can infect a dozen people just by walking through a large meeting room in Hong Kong, then let the new infectees fly home to various places around the world, and start a pandemic that way. That is, almost literally, how the SARS outbreak of 2003 began. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted February 25, 2006 Report Share Posted February 25, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER That sounds like the plot for a movie... Oh yay, they did it in Transporter II. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted February 25, 2006 Report Share Posted February 25, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Wouldn't be that hard to do' date=' though. Both of those are messy but pretty slow-spreading It's not like you can infect a dozen people just by walking through a large meeting room in Hong Kong, then let the new infectees fly home to various places around the world, and start a pandemic that way. That is, almost literally, how the SARS outbreak of 2003 began.[/quote'] maybe you can point me in the right direction. i saw a statement either here or on another site I follow that basically blamed the 1918 Flu Pandemic on US troopships, implying that it spread from here to other places. Didn't it originally break out in Europe or Asia, then get spread among the immune weakened soldiers of the world? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 25, 2006 Report Share Posted February 25, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I read it began in Asia, spread along North Africa and then burst upon the Western World in Spain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER The 1918 pandemic started at Fort Riley, Kansas. ghost-angel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Fascinating. So, who has stories about projectile vomiting they want to share? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER . . . Nasal or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Oh, man, I HATE that! Anyway. Surely there have to be better things to talk about. We CAN'T have run out! This is the NGD! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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