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Re: Answers & Questions Q: Why are you so sure that's a fountain? A: OK, so maybe it is a waterfall.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Grab a notebook and pen, stand in front of him, and copy down the conversation. If he whines, tell him it's totally obvious he never intended the conversation to be private, so he has ZERO grounds for complaint. Oh, and copy down everything he says to you, too.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What do I need to clean up in this town? A: If they fall down, it'll be funnier.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What do priests wear under their cassocks? A: But his intentions are honorable!

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Re: Menton is up Straight from old issues of Adventurers Club to your computer screen, it's Mentalist Boy, from Stick Figure Theater! Somebody better tell Chris Avellone they stole his idea. Seriously, this is a marketing decision, and they're marketing to kids. (A) "Kids like gross and freaky stuff, let's make him look ugly-weird" ( Pull out USPD and turn to page 84, then page 158, then imagine the reaction of overprotective parents to a character who looks that sexy, and has "romantic adventures" like that --- "You can't show that to my precious little darling!" It's all marketing driven; the whole site is. Oh, and as for the others? Dr. D's helmet looks silly---metal molded to look like a bellydancer's veil, Ironclad looks like he's being humped by a couple of turtles, and Defender is wearing rigidified spandex. Oh, and those blue things on the side of his helmet look like stylized basset-hound ears. Ye gods, what a collection.

Re: Panzer VIII "Maus" Here is the complete etymology from the online OED: [special use of TANK n.1 adopted in Dec. 1915 for purposes of secrecy during manufacture.] "Tank-engine" is given merely as a compound word, at the end of "TANK n.1" So, if the OED and the Webster's New International, 2nd Edition say it's from war-time secrecy, I'm satisfied that's its origin.

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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat James Tiberius Kirk.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Should I take out insurance on my house, my car, or my life? A: In sewer ants.

Re: My Pre-Terran History Rough Outline "2143: First Spacer is created, and over the next few years becomes mass-produced." Err, "Spacer" meaning what, exactly?

Re: Oriental Planetary Romance Hmmm.... Shadowsoul, that sounds rather like Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny. Great book, highly recommended.

Re: Panzer VIII "Maus" Nope. According to my unabridged Webster's (copyright 1934): "The name tank as applied to these [vehicles] arose from the fact that the hull was called 'a water carrier for Mesopotamia' in the shop orders in England for those first made, in order to conceal their real purpose, and this was soon shortened to 'tank,' which came to be used for the completed [vehicles]."

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What did Mr. Stretcho say to Entangle Lass? A: Mind you, that's not an exact quote.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: We're in the headquarters of the National Badguys' Association, and I'm going to go stand in an uncomfortably cold air flow. A: Wrong acronym, if not worse.

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Re: Answers & Questions Q: What were doing with that suction pump and that book, Mustalid Anatomy? A: From the library.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Getting mistaken for Andy Gump For those who don't know, Andy Gump is one of the West's biggest "porta-potty" companies.

Re: Powers and Pulp "Dr. Jacoby and His Amazing Freezo-Ray-Gun." Make it Weird Science and it should work out. All the wrong feel for the pulps. Mystic Masters are quite different from high fantasy wizards. Why do they change? What sorts of powers? That's key to figuring out how to make it fit in a pulp campaign Now that's going to be tricky.

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Re: Genres HERO GAMES may want to avoid (intended to be humorous) Someone made a suggestion at HEROGames World HQ, Steve Long misheard it, and so we have: Kinkajou HERO. (Yes, it was an error for Kaiju HERO)

Re: Answers & Questions Q: OK, you've got Charlie Brown trimming your hair, Lucy styling it, and Linus drying it. Who else? A: Lack of forefingers doomed them all.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Why are you carrying three 2x4's, a hammer, and a bunch of nails, while dragging me to the linen cupboard? A: There wasn't any kind of sherry!

Re: Answers & Questions Q: I'm going to be teaching a class in 20 minutes, and I feel like drinking apple juice. What store would you recommend? A: It's an odd combination, but I can see how it might happen.