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Lifted from the Wikipedia article on William B Spong
 
Senator Spong
"was invited with the other freshman senators to address the National Press Club. Fearful that someone on radio or television would call him Senator Sponge, he used his brief five-minute introductory speech to that body to secure proper name identification. His first act as a senator, he announced in his southern drawl, would be to introduce a bill to protect the rights of songwriters in Hong Kong. He would be joined in this effort by the senior senator of Louisiana, Russell Long, and the senior senator from Hawaii, Hiram Fong, and together they would present the Long Fong Spong Hong Kong Song Bill. His name was never mispronounced by members of the media."
 
Lucius Alexander
 
Feeding it to a palindromedary

For what it’s worth, I put together some background info for Tyri's player on the telenovela that is Viking politics at the end of the 10th Century. I figured I might as well share it here for anyone who's interested. We don't have a lot of historical written records from that period, so this is mostly pulled from various Norse sagas. The last few years have been even more tumultuous than usual, partly because of the conflict between newly-converted Christians and die-hard pagans.
 
Thyri grew up on the borderland of Norway and Sweden, not far from Danish-held territory on the southern coast. It’s a remote, forested area claimed by all three powers, but in practice it’s said that “In the borderlands few men’s authority extends beyond the length of their right arm.” Tax collectors and missionaries alike tend to wind up captured and sold as slaves. It’s a rough place even by Viking standards is what I’m saying.
 
Sweden is currently ruled by King Olof Erickson, sometimes called Olof the Lap-King, because he was crowned King “while still in his nurse’s lap.” He’s now in his late teens and has recently converted to Christianity. His nickname should give you some idea of how much respect his subjects have for him, but overall he's doing okay.
 
Olof’s mother is Queen Sigrud, known as Sigrud the Strong-Minded or Sigrud the Haughty. The widow of Eric the Victorious, the first King of Sweden, she basically ran Sweden while Olof was a child, and still wields enormous influence. The most desirable bachelorette in Scandinavia, she once dealt with two over-zealous suitors by locking them in a barn to fight it out…and then burning the barn to the ground with them both inside. She’s kindof the achetype of Badass Viking Queen, and I’m guessing Tyri is a bit of a fangirl.
 
Until last year Norway was ruled by Olaf Tryvassen, the first Viking king to convert to Christianity. Olaf is another larger-than-life character, who led his first Viking raiding party at the ripe old age of 12 and is generally regarded as the strongest and fiercest warrior in Scandinavia. He’s spent the last several years forcibly converting Norway to Christianity one village at a time.
 
Two years ago (999), Olaf traveled to Sweden to meet with Queen Sigrud, and proposed a marriage that would unite Norway & Sweden. Things reportedly went well at first, but Sigrud pointedly refused to convert to Christianity, and in a rage Olaf slapped her in the face. Sigrud told him “This may well be the death of you” before departing.
 
Shortly thereafter, Sigrud married Olaf’s chief rival, the Danish King Sweyn Forkbeard, and began building a coalition against Olaf.
 
Meanwhile, King Sweyn had tried to marry his sister Thyri Haraldsdotter* off to the Wendish King Burislav. But Thyri wasn’t having any of it, and instead fled to Norway and married Olaf Tryvassen. Sweyn was pissed and refused to pay Thyri’s dowry, so now Olaf is pissed. Thyri is pushing Olaf to fight Sweyn to recover Danish territory she feels are hers by right. And Sigrud is urging Sweyn to attack Olaf to get payback for that slap. You know that’s all gonna end well.
 
Finally in September of 1000, Sweyn Forkbeard and Olof Lap-King put together a fleet of 70 ships, joined by Olaf’s enemies from Norway. They ambushed Olaf off the Oresund Straight when he only had 11 ships with him. Olaf’s men fought fiercely, but they were too badly outnumbered. After many hours of fighting only Olaf’s personal ship the Long Serpent was left – at 34 pairs of oars, the largest longship ever built. In the end, King Olaf stepped overboard before he could be captured, and let his heavy armor bear him down to the bottom of the Baltic Sea. (Tho his body was never recovered, and “Elvis sightings” persist for many years afterwards.)
 
So today Sweyn rules most of Norway – through various local puppets – in addition to Denmark, and is currently plotting his conquest of England. (Which in “real history” he accomplishes in 1013.) Swedish King Olof earned a bit more respect for his part in the battle and people call him Lap-King less often, tho Sweyn got the bulk of the land and the glory. 
 
And Sigrud's honor has been avenged.
 
 
* Not to be confused with the PC Thyri Thorvaldsdottir.

I'm STILL thrilled that we know of exactly one species that sent a flying saucer to another planet to disgorge a nuclear-powered robot to drive around shooting lasers at things . . . and it was us.

Write plays.

Add Record-Breaking Porn Viewership to the List of Things Happening During RNC
 

Things that rate a ...
 
Ancient gospel manuscript color based in urine and weeds

Had it, played with it, broke it.
 

Sgt Slaughter's Lonely Hearts Club Band
 
Or has that already been done?
 
Lucius Alexander
 
The palindromedary sings "It was thirty years ago today / Sgt Slaughter taught the band to slay"

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/27/politics/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-hack-hillary-clinton/index.html
 
I don't think that's ever happened before, a presidential candidate calling on a foreign power publicly to conduct espionage on their opponent. Whoa.

JabberRocky
 
`Twas brillig, and the slithy boxers
Did gyre and gimble in the ring;

It's not the brain that's Abby Normal.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Teen Champions ...
"Should we tell Rowan about this?"
"Why? Every time we do, she uses words like 'unauthorized' or 'no'."
"And then you go ahead and do it anyway."
"Exactly! It's just more efficient this way."
 
"Just to mention ... every time Vixen says she has an idea, we flee."
"You're all still alive, aren't you?"
"Yes ... because we flee."
 
Background: Dynamo, who hates having superpowers, hangs out regularly with a girl who has a power suppression field.
"I like her because she turns me off."

I can just hear the line now:
 
Kommunist Kobold: In UKSR*, you not have to worry about finding a party every night. In UKSR, the Party finds you ( ).
 
 
*UKSR: United Kobold Socialist Republics
 
 
 
Major Tom 2009

Just a thought here: if by some mischance (translation: evil GM scheming) His Holiness' supercomputer goes rogue,
the PC group can always introduce some destructive bugs into the system -- all they have to do is find a good-sized
termite nest ( ).
 
 
Major Tom 2009

Lucia-Marie is the biracial amazon a straight up martial brick she is superhumanly strong and tough more so than the other Amazons. she is a striking beauty with cafe au last skin and auburn hair. Only the other Amazons know her real power Lucia Marie isn't a her she is a them Lucia and Marie where a medical oddity twins born to a mixed race couple one with dark skin and curly black hair the other impossibly fair with red hair.
 
Individually they are minor bricks but their real use is as scouts they are different from their criminal alterego and they have a mental link that allows them to communicate over any distance.
 
When they combine into Lucia-Marie there abilities double their personality shifts into a gestalt of both of the girls and they have access to all the knowledge and skills of both sisters. Based on this news story.
 
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/black-white-twins-meet-sisters-5256945

BBC article discussing the issue of police deaths and deaths by police in the US. Part of it was even surprising to me.
 
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36826297
 
Soar.

Heh, I can't believe I didn't catch this before, but Prince Kor, Steve's version of the Antichrist in Post-Apoc Hero, is built on 666 points.

Yeah, some people call themselves heroes and heroines, but really they're just *&^$*ing *%$&^%$-heads.
 
Mages and gadgeteers are the worst of the lot.  They'll leave these little "surprises" behind for bad guys to find.  Usually they're made to either keep you from taking something or capture you, and hey, I can understand booby-traps.  I try to steal something, you try to make sure I don't.  That's cool.
 
But what Mystic Master did was *not* cool.  The cowled %$#&%#-weed set me up by putting a magical curse on a big-@^%$ diamond, then getting word out about it to the top thieves in town.  It was entrapment, pure and simple. 
 
The "Stone of Empathic Connection," he called it.  I call it a piece of ^&%*@.   Can't throw it away, can't give it away, can't sell it.  It just keeps coming back to me.  Only way to get rid of it is for someone to steal it, and after MM got the word out, nobody's dumb enough to take from me.  I had some dark sorcerer take a look at it; he says it causes a short-term connection between its owner and whomever he harms in any way, massively magnifying anything detrimental that they feel.  Basically, I get to feel violated, or whatever else a mark feels when I pass one over on him.  And heaven forbid I sap a guard to get past him, or I'll have a headache for a week.
 
Okay, so I get the whole "karma" idea.  But this really, REALLY sucks.
 
When I finally tracked MM down and confronted him (and he finally stopped laughing), he told me I could break the curse by doing good deeds.  Seems that when I help somebody, I also get to feel a massive relief from this whole doom-and-gloom I've been feeling ever since I stole the rock.  As a so-called "superhero," I've had to get creative to get past the whole shared-pain thing; using Aikido, I can redirect another person's attack so he's causing himself harm.  I tried joining the Stolen on the down-low, but MM outed me.  Told the media I was the Corsican, and the name stuck.
 
The *&^$*ing *%$&^%$-head.

To be fair, reality frequently forgets that it is not Satire.

I hear Overall Skill Levels are not compatible with Naked Advantages

I am building a castle. Well it is one way to earn your keep.....

Where did you get these four perfectly round circles?
 
I can prove to myself that they ARE four circles by forcing my eyes to follow them around each circumference, but I can't make myself SEE them that way.
 
Lucius Alexander
 
The amazed palindromedary says this image is so awesome we got a "like" just for REposting it

Avocado's number: 6.022E23 avocados  in a guacamole

I Was A Professional 911 Truther And I Gave It Up