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Re: "Neat" Pictures According to my dear old Dad (park ranger at Yellowstone), the colors are alge/bacteria mixes, and give a good idea of the temperature of the water. Dark Blue is near boiling, green is around 120 degrees, yellow around 90, and the brown in the 70s iirc. Don't jump in the water, death is not fast, but it is certain.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... More 4th edition goodness! Theren the Archer, Elven Ranger Goguin the Faithful, Dwarven Cleric Samm the Compensating, Human Fighter Sepheris the Scary, Shadow Rogue Darrek the Redundant, Dwarf Fighter Lucius the Pyro/Cyromaniac, Tiefling Elementalist And introducing Damacus the flighty, Tiefling Warlord Exploring the Underdark. Damacus: How much ambient light is there? Samm: None. Damacus: None? How is that possible? Goguin: We're underground. Damacus: So? GM: (Facepalm) Battling Derro, Alek is pinned in place... Alek: I need to move. Samm: I understand Del Mar is nice. Damacus is stunned... Damacus: Don't daze me, bro. Samm finds that his arms have been magically turned to tentacles. Samm: Look Ma, I'm a mutant! Lucius: I've seen enough Hentai to know where this is going. Alek: Del Mar? Damacus is unclear on the concept... Damacus: Is it still dark? GM: Yes. Damacus: Isn't it daylight yet? Samm: Not down here. Damacus: Why not? Goguin: It's underground. Damacus: Since when is the Underdark undergound? GM: (facepalm)

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat The World Famous Banana Skit.

Re: Answers & Questions Q:What did Wonder Woman say to her bra maker? A: Give Wolverine a manicure.

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Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... More 4th edition goodness! Theren the Archer, Elven Ranger Goguin the Faithful, Dwarven Cleric Toarn the Maniac, Human Barbarian Samm the Compensating, Human Fighter Sepheris the Scary, Shadow Rogue Darrek the Redundant, Dwarf Fighter And introducing Lucius the Pyro/Cyromaniac, Tiefling Elementalist Looking for new PCs GM: You enter The Bayview Tavern Samm: A wretched hive of scum and villiany. Goguin: We fit right in. Conversations with a new party member Lucius: A private chat, assuming we have privacy standing here in the middle of a very busy tavern in the world's largest city. Lucius describes himself Lucius: I carry a staff and rod. They comfort me. Samm: OK, I'll give you a point for the biblical reference. Fight! Samm knocks his opponent down... Goguin: Now kick him while he's down! Therin: From way over here? Goguin: Or shoot him full of arrows, that works. Samm ooc, to GM: Player Characters are so annoying, aren't they. GM: Player characters are fine. The players are annoying. Sepheris mis-identifies a monster... Sepheris: Gnomes! Therin: Gnomes don't have fangs and claws. Goguin: Were-Gnomes! Who invited a beholder? Goguin: Beuty is in the Eye of the Beholder! Therin: No, an arrow is in the eye of the Beholder! We find a portal. Therin: What is it? Samm: A question! Before your sun grew hot in space, before your race was born, I have awaited... a question! Therin: What was that from? Samm: Star Trek, the original series. Therin: Stop quoting things from television shows that were cancelled before I was born! Goguin: Before any of us were born. Samm: (Looks stricken.)

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Puss in Das Boot What's New, Puss? Puss on a Hot Tin Roof

Re: What Non-Fiction Book have you just finished? I just finished "Operation Crossroads". It's about the first two tests at Bikini Atoll. It's kind of revealing, how the scientists argued with the military, about the need for the tests at all; it wasn't about testing weapons so much as a navy vs. army air force. The navy wanted the tests to prove they could survive nukes, the air force didn't want the tests because they were afraid it would prove the navy right. The scientists didn't want the tests at Bikini because it was inconventient, and General Leslie Groves didn't want the tests at all because it would use up 3 of the 7 operational nukes the country had at the time! The first test used a B-29 to drop the bomb on the 'ghost fleet', and was so off target that it ruined a good fraction of the experiments. There are very few pictures of the first test, because the cameras were aimed at the wrong spot. The second test had more success, being rigged underneath a small ship to detonate underwater. It sank several ships outright, and badly contaminated the survivors with radioactive seawater. Which lead to tragedy: the navy tried to decontaminate the ships, ignoring the warnings of the scientists about the dangers of radiation. Many men died of radiation caused illnesses in the years that followed. Of course, the government denied that there were any radiation caused illnesses at all. The third test (deep underwater) was cancelled, due to a desire to not waste the limited supply of nuclear weapons AND because the Navy felt they had what they needed to 'prove' that ships weren't that vulnerable to atomics.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Cross of Iron Man The Blue Maximum Overdrive Spinal Taps Pinball Wizard of Oz On the Beach Blanket Bingo Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, and the end of the world.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Root canal surgery on himself, without anesthetic.

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. "The problem with the Navy is that by the time you're senior enough to be listened to you have nothing worthwhile to say." - random LTjg helo pilot.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Theren the Archer, Elven Ranger Goguin the Faithful, Dwarven Cleric Toarn the Maniac, Human Barbarian Alek the Evil, Human Blackguard Samm the Compensating, Human Fighter Sepheris the Scary, Shadow Rogue Darrek the Redundant, Dwarf Fighter Major boss fight this week, as we finished the adventure. Very serious, a near run thing, almost had two characters die, all healing (cleric, second wind, magic item, healing potions) expended. So, only two quotes survived... GM: Alek is restrained. Samm: And Samm is devil may care. Goguin: And I am Goguin, can we get on with this? Samm: I'm extremely battered here. Sepheris: You're supposed to get hit. Samm: I'd rather get hit on.

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster He used to disagree. Now he's dead. So, any plan which requires you to throw your hat away is a bad plan.

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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Beat his wife. What, that's what Henry Pym does, in every reality...

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares That's more like the "Alternate Reality" channel.

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster Roger Murdock: Flight 2-0-9'er, you are cleared for take-off. Captain Oveur: Roger! Roger Murdock: Huh? Tower voice: L.A. departure frequency, 123 point 9'er. Captain Oveur: Roger! Roger Murdock: Huh? Victor Basta: Request vector, over. Captain Oveur: What? Tower voice: Flight 2-0-9'er cleared for vector 324. Roger Murdock: We have clearance, Clarence. Captain Oveur: Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor? Tower voice: Tower's radio clearance, over! Captain Oveur: That's Clarence Oveur. Over. Tower voice: Over. Captain Oveur: Roger. Roger Murdock: Huh? Tower voice: Roger, over! Roger Murdock: What? Captain Oveur: Huh? Victor Basta: Who?

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster I was a Navy signalman, and had to memorize all the morse code shorthand. In addition, my instructors (and later the Chiefs and LPOs) would 'make training fun' by including trivia as part of the training. Distress calls are always simple, easy to memorize, easy to repeat, easy to recognize. Because there are few things worse than saying "I need assistance" and having the answer come back "What did you say?" So, SOS, Mayday, November Charlie, one red parachute flare, multiple (3+) red flares, visible flames, black square over black circle (orange backround optional), waved arms, orange smoke, single gunshots at one minute interval, continous sound of fog signal, emergency radio signal beacon, dye marker, white strobe light, a square flag over a ball... (oh, lord, I am a internet know it all, won't someone please help?)

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster SOS, a simple easy to memorize morse telegraph message, distinctive: ...---... Three short, three long, three short. Easy for even the untrained to signal. (Mayday is a American mispronunciation of a French phrase that means "help me!" Also distinctive, easily recognized, and memorize)

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster Like so many things, people read into it what they want to, it seems. In radio communications, all messages start and end with the letters "BT" (Bravo Tango, phonetically.) There were many theories of what it meant (Begin Transmission? No, the transmission began with the call up...). Turns out, that in morse code "BT" is very distinctive (_..._) and has no meaning beyond the letters themselves.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "Next stop, Emerald City! Emerald City, next stop!" "Próxima parada, Ciudad Esmeralda! Ciudad Esmeralda, próxima parada!"

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Theren the Archer, Elven Ranger Goguin the Faithful, Dwarven Cleric Toarn the Maniac, Human Barbarian Alek the Evil, Human Blackguard Samm the Compensating, Human Fighter Sepheris the Scary, Shadow Rogue Darrek the Redundant, Dwarf Fighter Looking over our path... Goguin: This is the perfect spot for a ambush. Sepheris: I'll go set one up for you. Someone needs to pay attention Toarn: How did the goblin get bloodied? Alek: Sepheris looked at him funny. "Crouching tiger, hidden Sepheris." GM describes... GM: The room is full of rubble. Samm: Barney? Preparing for the future. Samm: We should all have a ranged weapon. Alek: I have a Sepheris. Goguin does inventory... Alek: Why do we have a crocolisk skin? Samm: It wasn't nailed down. Therin: Laws of pillaging.* *1. Anything not nailed down is MINE! 2. If I can pry it loose, it's not nailed down.

Re: And now, for your daily dose of cute... "Brains! Nomnomnom!"