Michael Hopcroft

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "Nyah! Nyah! Bet you can't hnit Tokyo Tower from across the Pacific!" (Tokyo Tower is always getting destroyed in movies and TV shows, largely because many Japanese loathe the structure.)

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Teach every single employee in the building how to play the Mouseophone. NT: More pointless things to do with a Monday afternoon.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Whizzo Fine Chocolates R&D Department. What, there's a marketing problem? A: That's as may be, it's still a frog.

Re: Odd Swords -- Real or Fantasy? One word -- Goliath.

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Re: Answers & Questions Q: This Dell laptop costs two thousand dollars. Why do you say I should buy it? A: It's a boy, a girl, a puppy and several Orcs.

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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Extensions of our Hero Designer license periods. NT: Subtle signs that the IT guru at your office is out of her mind.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "Who's the strongest ally Wolverine will ever see? M-I-C K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!"

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Re: Odd Swords -- Real or Fantasy? Obviously one of the innumerable details that Cecil B. DeMille continuously got wrong.

Re: Odd Swords -- Real or Fantasy? That is great information. Thanks. One thing I wonder about the wars of the Old Testament era was what sort of weapons were used and how men actually fought. Obviously slings and bows were used, as were war chariots, but how were battles fought and decided? Anyway, have some rep.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Me. waa.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat The Joy of Dialysis

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Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I caught the second half of The Corsican Brothers on TCM recently. No, not the Cheech & Chong parody, but a genuine adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas novel starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as twin brothers who experience each other's pain and emotional stresses. As a result one of them hates the other passionately because he is not free to think his own thoughts. Complicating matters is that they are the last scions of a destroyed noble house, and the local baron is the one who is trying to wipe out their line. The half I saw was a darned good movie. I'm trying to find the whole thing, but Netflix doesn't have it (and if they don't have it it means there's no DVD release period). One of these days I'm going to seriously start keeping track in advance of what will be on TCM so I can DVR the more interesting movies. I've just missed a lot of movies I would have enjoyed seeing.

Re: Sword-Gloves For example there's the science fiction series Planetes, which presents a very realitsic exploration of living and working in space and the difficulties of clearing away a century of debris from Near-Earth Orbit (where it poses a severe hazard to manned spaceflight).

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Give a poetic description of jay Cutler's upcoming season. A: And sometimes the Lion eats you.

Re: Sword-Gloves All the cool villains are wielding Patas. Why won't you?

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Policemen. Become bad color commentators. NT: Signs that the play-by-play man for your favorite sports team's broadcasts is out of his mind.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: The Empire will be held together by Fear. Fear of this battle station, and -- why are you laughing? A: I wonder where all the Hunters are today.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat When Los Angeles is under water you can still get to work.

I forget the name of the weapon, but there is a sword that is fastened to a mail glove that I remember from another game. It cannot be dropped without losing the glove (which presumably goes up the forearm some length for stability), but can be broken like a normal sword. I thought it was called a Manopole, but I couldn't find the word anywhere so I don't know if it's accurate, or whether the weapon really existed. It's not common and is not of massive utility, but I was thinking of using it as a villain's signature weapon and want to know how to rate it.

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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Two words: Movie Props.