L. Marcus

Re: The Last Word . . . Always glad to hear that the customers are happy!

Re: The Last Word "Wake up! Time to die!" No thanks!

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? A Punchup At A Wedding (No No No No No No No No) -- Radiohead, Hail To The Thief

Re: The Last Word . . . Did you guys ever read Franquin's Gaston Lagaffe? Asleep on the job only covers half ov it.

Re: Norse Beastiary - a little help . . . Iron is a problem. Supernatural beings in later stories (late medieval and onwards) were very sensitive to it. As a gaming trope, it's not very handy, except maybe for flavour. I mean, how many characters don't carry around at least a knife? I advise to ignore this bit. On the other paw, different critters can be sensitive to different herbs and woods -- like rowan, and whatchamacallit, deadly nightshade. Since each critter has its own specific Achilles heel that the characters have to figure out, that can be a major task if up against some really big monster . . .

Re: Norse Beastiary - a little help

Re: The Last Word . . . In a tent, on a sleeping bag? What am a thermarest?

Re: The Last Word Sleep on your back, then!

Re: Norse Beastiary - a little help Yup. Has the legends survived at all, or just the name?

Re: The Last Word . . . I sleep at work. On my breaks, mostly, but hey . . .

Re: Norse Beastiary - a little help You go -- uhhm, person!

Re: The Last Word . . . Sleep! Slee-eep!!!

Re: The Last Word No, that's what your mind will be like if you can't get some sleep soon.

Re: The cranky thread Ai . . . I know that feeling. My boss is a complete computer illiterate, and who does he ask how to open up his email attachments . . . ? Not Keyser Söze.

Re: The Last Word . . . For me to chew on!

Re: The cranky thread It's a basic survival mechanism.

Re: The Last Word Yup.

Re: The Last Word Yup.

Re: The Last Word . . . And all of them were, at one point or another, a last word!

Re: The Last Word 5 Mreplies!

Re: Norse Beastiary - a little help . . . In more contemporary swedish stories, there is a creature called Maran -- "the Mare," maybe? She is an ordinary woman by day, but at night, a curse compells her to haunt men. She rides them chests and sucks their life out of them, making them experience dreadful dreams. A Mara can be cured from her curse, if someone knowing her being one, states so while touching her with iron. A legend tells of a wandering minister who got invited in over the night with a farmer. The house was cramped, so the minister had to sleep in the little living room. The maid of the house sat at her rocking wheel, spinning, while the minister made himself comfortable on a bench. He started to drift into sleep, when he noticed the girl becoming see-through and vanishing. As the wheel stopped turning, he sat up, realising what had just happened (for he was a man of education). He waked the rest of the night with a poker in his hand, and when daybreak neared, he saw the girl appearing again, and the rocking wheel statred spinning. When the maid was firm and solid, he touched her with the iron and called, "Mara!" The girl, shocked, began crying, and hugging the minister, she said, "That was most kind of you, and never again do I heve to go abroad stealing men's breaths. But, minister, could you not have waited until all of me was back?" And so, for the rest of her life, she had to go without her left pinkie.

Re: The Last Word Tastes better.

Re: The Last Word "Must is a must," as they say. "They," in this sense, being humourously challenged people. Think non-alcoholic ale, and you wouldn't be further off than you were before.

Re: Complicate the Person Above Cancer ghost-wrote The Ultimate Mystic -- he used many of his own experiences to really tighten up the writing.

Re: The Last Word . . . ! That was so close to home, it was eerie! Anyway, the sale of Coca-Cola goes down, because there's a traditional beverage that goes even better with fatty foods! Must . . .