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Re: Answers & Questions Q: Go down this street, turn left at the second traffic light, then right at the peanut butter, right again at the third stop sign, and it's on the left about a mile down. A: But the jelly ran off with the fisherman.

Re: A Game Of Questions Why do Psybolt and Pariah keep skipping people??? And is anyone else ticked off by it?

Re: My mostly hard sci-fi campaign

Re: Order of the Stick QFT. Would some kind person rep mayapuppies? I'm out.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Snopes. In fact, the next opposition isn't until 2010, Jan, 29. List of oppositions.

Re: The Puzzle of Astronomy's Unexplained Anomalies "www.technologyreview.com could not be found." Dang, what happened? Three days later, and it's gone!

Re: Jupiter Impact!!?! Perhaps they're communicating with Venus?

Now it's Venus, with a mysterious bright spot: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8179067.stm Perhaps they're communicating with Jupiter?

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat The Michael Jackson Memorial Pajama Party.

Re: Answers & Questions What do you have to say about Irish Cream Liqueur? (It does; yummy!!) A: And....liking it a little.

Re: Del Monte Hero - Reaping the Grapes of Wrath The Alligator Pair: These twins are danger with a capital Dentition. Fast, strong, and with a penchant for odd weapons (incl. their trademark "teeth-swords"), they have teamwork so good it's almost like their minds are linked. As well as their profession, they're known for their avocadotion; raising crocodiles. The Enig-Maw wonders if they'd be tasty. The Enig-Maw is a product of Basil's Twisted Imagination, Ick. All rites preserved

Re: Obscure Research Help Very, very early on, at least in some places, you didn't ask for an exchange, as there was only one place that had a patchboard; or, in other times/places, you asked for the town/neighborhood you wanted, by its common name. Oh, and I know of one area (the one I live in, in fact) that used to have a single digit as the exchange, and that followed the use of the first letter of the exchange name (which wasn't the town name). This is in an area 30-40 miles east of Seattle; it was originally covered by a telephone co-op, but that couldn't make ends meet so they sold it to a utility company. When the company went to the by-then standard 3&4 structure, they simply tripled the "original" single digit. So there's a 222, and a 333, and an 888 exchange around here. Yes, 888; confuses newbies at times. BTW, for those who don't know: it used to be there were 3 letters for each of the numbers 2 through 9; no letters for 1 or 0, and no Q nor Z. There used to be, 40+ years ago, advertisements than told you to call "Zenith 9-XXXX"; this meant call the operator and ask for that number; it was some kind of special hookup that gave businesses a decreased rate. That, or it was a forerunner of the WATS line system, which was the ancestor of the 1-800 (1-888, 1-8XX) system. I've never been clear on that. You're welcome! Glad I was of some help.

Space Flower? Is it a Space Flower? A blurry angel with a garish color sense? No, an aurora! The Mallard ponders its significance anent the Omicron Hypomagi while the supersonic telepathic mechanical penguins with laser eyes make crude suggests about what it "is." The Bacandforthtrian, however, worries it might be a sign of the alpacapla-lypse, and Dr. Infamous is grateful it isn't the Enig-Maw You know the drill by now, I'm sure

Re: A Game Of Questions Do you say something about Miracle Wax?

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Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Their hit song "Woolly Bully" was about how Sweetums pushed around the rest of the cast.

Re: your pcs might be OVERPOWERED IF... Too much detail work to keep track of. Just tell the sun it's going to turn on and off every twelve hours, and it'll obey.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Well, there are two related possibilities: #1 "There..is...no way...I'm...going to fit...in this three legged...costume!" #2 He'd have snagged the sexy gal, traded insults with a huge, dangerous alien, and hung out with a weird looking alien. And say, "It...lookslike...a...ribbon...in space!"

Re: Obscure Research Help http://july.fixedreference.org/en/20040724/wikipedia/Telephone has the first telephone exchange in Budapest being opened in 1881. If you go to http://www.archive.org/details/developmentoftel00webbuoft and d/l the PDF file (or one of the other formats if you prefer), you can get a British book from ~1910 that has a brief mention of the telephone situation in Hungary (esp. Budapest) at that time. I haven't found anything else about exchanges or what-have-you, but I found I reprint of a Scientific American article about the "telephone broadcast" (which actually considered itself a "telephone newspaper") http://earlyradiohistory.us/telenew5.htm BTW, the "exchange(s)" mentioned in the example daily schedule would be stock and commodity exchanges.

Re: A Game Of Questions Are you going to perform a miracle?

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "Four Minutes, Thirty-Three Seconds" by John Cage

Re: Seemingly Silly Things to Model That wasn't my hand!: Ranged, Indirect, and IPE for the sense of touch. You can grope someone from "out of range" and there's no sign of it. :eg:

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Just about any surgery.

Re: A Game Of Questions Is it anything like cliffing?

Sauron's big brother! Big, as in galaxy-sized! http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090727.html