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  1. Re: Imperialize it! Take one middle-aged but handsome and dashing male human batchelor, one young, sexy female human widow (or is she?), and send them off through the Core Worlds, working for a shadowy govt. ministry. Have them deal with crimes involving the strangest cutting-edge (and beyond) technology. Make sure there's plenty of "chemistry" between them, but not even so much as a kiss actually happens. What do you have? The Avengers!
  2. Re: Best ever reason to NOT be a superhero... Two words: No. Powers.
  3. Re: Once more in English, please? I'm a bit dubious about any defaults the College of Arms uses beyond three, but yeah, a symetrical arrangement goes without saying. Modern advertising-copy style "dynamic" arrangements are not found in heraldry. There's no such thing!
  4. Re: Once more in English, please? "Celeste" and "brunatre" are from French heraldry (as I mentioned, those colors are not used in British heraldry, but are used elsewhere). "Murrey" is a term I've seen for sanguine. I have no idea if the word is used in heraldry outside of Britain, or is an artistic term. Quite possible, but I can't find any proof one way or the other. I'm not so sure there's a default/assumed arrangement for more than three objects, and I'm really doubtful about "in orbicular form": IME multiple objects are blazoned in rows. Now, in this instance I can see "a **** between six ****s in annulo"
  5. Re: (worst ever)...reasons to be a supervillain "Because 'absolute corruption' sounds so interesting."
  6. Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Stick your head in the oven and turn it on. IF it's an electric oven. NT: The most amusing way to kill someone else.
  7. Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... When Psychotic Psantas try to turn to the good....
  8. Re: (worst ever)...reasons to be a supervillain What can I say? Even my jokes are good ideas.
  9. Re: Best ever reason to NOT be a superhero... "My powers depend upon being fat. And upon wearing spandex."
  10. Re: (worst ever)...reasons to be a supervillain "It's the laugh. "You know, the old 'Mwahahaha!' thing. Thing is, I've always laughed like that. Ever since I wa a child--mind you, it was high pitched back then. But definitely *the* laugh. Couldn't help it. "Well, once my powers developed, I had only two choices, really. Either never laugh, or become a supervillain. Well, I could've never used my powers, but that wasn't really something I could see doing. And the thing is, I've got a pretty active sense of humor. So, ..."
  11. Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat You get to see your own heart, beating. And I don't mean via ultrasound, either. Not that you get to see it very long.... NT: Signs that the April Fool's prank you pulled on Seeker was a very good idea.
  12. Re: Once more in English, please? OK, here's the rest of the blazons. Sedrosa: ____, a dolphin XXXX ____. ("Leaping" is not only not a heraldic term, but I'm not positive what is intended. If it's a dolphin broaching, that is, leaping out of the water, it could be blazoned "...a dolphin embowed in bend ____ issuant from waves of water in base ____.") Temirec: ____, a hresha ____ statant. Velkara: Argent, a gauntlet XXXX azure. (NB: clenched is the default position for a gauntlet. The question is, is the orientation palewise [up and down] or fesswise [horizontal]?) Vashkhor: ____, a sun ____ between the Twin Birds respecting in orle ____. (I'm not sure "respecting in orle" is either correct or sufficient, but I can't come up with anything better.) Ashurna: ____, the Twisted Pine ____. (I suspect it's "proper".) Khepras: Gules, three crows XXXX ____. (The arrangement and color aren't given. I suspect it should be "...crows, two and one, sable.") Shar: Or, seven masks XXXX purpure. (The arrangement isn't given, and no arrangement occurs to me as assumable.) Sorinsarsoun: ____, an ironwood leaf ____. (I wonder if the ironwood leaf is so distinctive in shape that the blazon couldn't be reduced to "a leaf".) Vûran: ____, seven towers XXXX ____. (The arrangement isn't given. Note that the tincture might be gules, but there is a tincture [little used in British heraldry] called sanguine. It is a very dark red, perhaps slightly purplish; it is also known as mulberry. This might better fit the "crimson" of the original.) Devyldra: ___, a lion XXXX sable. (The usual position of lions is rampant, but I don't know if that's the case here.) Eltirian: ____, a heptagon purpure. Halathaloorm: ____, a jaruma fish ____. Kurum-Sathiri: ____, a tower sable amid flames of fire ____. (Flames of fire are highly stylized, and when blazoned proper are alternately or and gules, which I suspect is what's intended here.) Talarshand: (No idea. Does this mean they do not use a shield-like shape to display the arms, but only show them on a banner? Or is the object on the shield-like shape a picture of a flag? And "green and yellow" says nothing about the shape(s) in use, etc., etc. I can't blazon this one, sorry.) Zhor Cacimar: ____, a sword palewise, point to base, ____. ("silver-blue" might mean "steel-colored," in which case it can be blazoned proper.) Thûn: ____, flames of fire sable. Keshman: ____, a daho ____. (You might get away with a lymphad, the typical heraldic ship.) Korem-Var: Purpure, three serpents XXXX or. (While in British heraldry the serpent is usually met with tied in a loose figure-eight knot [blazoned "(k)nowed,"] I have no idea how to blazon serpents tied to each other. "...serpents nowed together or" is possible, but I am hesitant to suggest it.) Halore: ____, six pujana flowers, three two and one, ____. (BTW, this would be the usual arrangement of six objects, as it best fits the shape of the shield.) Malegyon: ____, a tiger's paw erased in pale ____, within a garland of halama leaves ____. (BTW, the heraldic tiger [more often spelled tyger] does not look anything like the zoological tiger. If that is what you want, it is blazoned "a Bengal tiger," and must be "proper," that is, in its natural orange-and-black coloration.) Neshara: ____, a sotal rampant gules. Orumbar: ____, two XXXX Drakine hands XXXX clasped ____. (Are the hands both right hands? If so, the first "XXXX" should be replaced with "dexter." The orientation of the hands isn't specified, but is probably "fesswise." I'm not sure clasped hands are blazoned quite this way. Are the hands, sans any part of the arm, intended? If not, "hands" should be replaced with [i assume] "cubit arms" and "clasped" with "the hands clasped.") Thon-Sa: ____, a Thona archway ____. (Unless truly distinctive, it could be blazoned simply as an archway. "In gold and brown" gives me no idea of how the colors are distributed, so I can't blazon the tinctures of the object.) Thrayshara: ____, a falcon volant _____ holding a crown in its beak ____. Vendiya: ____, a conch shell or. Brabantia: Or, a bear XXXX proper. (The zoological bear's way of standing upright does not quite conform to any heraldic position. In this case it could be blazoned as rampant, which is upright alright, but not the position I suspect is meant. I have seen "erect" in one place, but I'm not sure if that was intended as a blazon, or merely used descriptively.) Dragosani: ____, XXXX a wyvern XXXX vert and XXXX a tree ____, conjoined of a chain ____. (The wyvern is probably "in dexter" and the tree "in sinister," though they should be blazoned as such [or wherever they are located]. I'm not happy with "conjoined of a chain," but cannot suggest any other blazon. If the wyvern is depicted as having a collar [rather than having the chain wrapped directly around its neck], it should be blazoned as "collared" and the tincture of the collar specified.) Ostravia: ____, three foxes courant ____. Shularahaleen: ____, an elven bow and arrow in full draught XXXX ____. (It is necessary to say whether the bow is horizontal or vertical, and on which side the string is.) Sitheria: ____, three finches argent. OR ____, three silver-finches ____. (It's not clear if the original means finches, colored "silver," or if it refers to a creature called the "silver-finch." [Not to be confused with the silverfish.]) Vanerof: Tenne, a bend cotised purpure, in sinister chief an eagle displayed sable. Azarthond: ____, two dwarven axes in saltire ____. (Unless dwarven axes look very much unlike all other axes, it's not necessary to mention them in the blazon. They are probably "proper.") Eldrasan: ____, a calopus rampant ____. Heltica: Erminois, a bordure azure. Karellia: Vert, two stags counter-salient ____, the dexter(?) attired or, the sinister(?) attired argent. (I'm guessing which stag has which color of antlers.) Khrisulia: Per pale, barry gules and argent, and sable billety or. (I think this is what's meant: "Per pale and barry red and white..." might be mean "barry gules and argent, per pale counterchanged...", but the rest of the original then becomes meaningless. BTW, "a semy" is incorrect, the term is simply "semi"---which is not needed in this instance because "semi of billets" is called "billety". On a second reading, I'm not sure of the blazon after all: the part that goes "charged with" indicates some object in the arms should have the following object(s) placed upon it. This, however, makes no sense when followed by "a semy on billets gold on black." WHAT is colored black???) Rosskeld: Argent, on a fess azure, three XXXX gules. ("Shells," by itself, is not sufficient for heraldry. Shells of what should be specified; note, though, that if the typical "scallop shells" [such as used by Shell Oil] are intended, they're blazoned "escallops"---not "escallop shells," but "escallops.") Teretheim: ____, a wolf XXXX ____ holding a crown in its mouth ____. Turakia: (A) Sable a wolf's head XXXX ____. ( Gules a lantern sable. (The wolf's head may be either gules or sanguine. See Vûran for more on sanguine.)
  13. Re: Once more in English, please?
  14. Re: Answers & Questions {Pssst! Sundog! You forgot the "answer"!}
  15. Re: (worst ever)...reasons to be a supervillain "It started out as an April Fool's joke, but, well, it kinda got out of hand."
  16. Re: Once more in English, please?
  17. Re: Once more in English, please? More exactly: an emblazon is the "picture", the blazon is the verbal description. As verbs, to emblazon means to make the "picture," to blazon means to verbally describe. Thus, one might emblazon a blazon, or blazon an emblazon.
  18. Re: Answers & Questions Q: Why not let Barney and Kermit handle it? A: Well, alright. But don't ship it UPS!
  19. Re: (worst ever)...reasons to be a supervillain "If that blighter, Freddy Foswell, can make I go of it, I'm sure I can, eh what?"
  20. Re: (worst ever)...reasons to be a supervillain "To prove my megalomania is better than everyone else's!!"
  21. Re: Answers & Questions Q: What kind of the question is this? A: Actually, it isn't.
  22. Re: (worst ever)...reasons to be a supervillain There are deer hunters that think they're deer? That's some pretty potent stuff they're drinking!
  23. Re: Exoplanet detection news I'm afraid you misunderstood in what sense the hot Jupiters are "too big." It's not a matter of their masses, but of their radii. Given mass and temperature, the expected radius can be deduced. However, among such hot Jupiters as have had their radii "measured," almost half have radii larger than what the best current models predict. Thus, either the measurements are wrong, or the models are. But if the measurements are wrong, they are so in the same "direction" nearly half the time, which suggests something fairly fundemental is flawed in how the measurements are taken. In either case, interesting times are ahead.
  24. Re: (worst ever)...reasons to be a supervillain "Nobody expects the Psychotic Cow!" Nope, sorry, it doesn't work. How do you conceal being a cow? Wait, I know! It enters the world of Ancient Macintoshes, and is mistaken for a dog!
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