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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Heh. Yeah, 60's are definitely too cool for a water park. 73 (which was a number I found at a different site) is marginal and depends on water temperature. IMO water-play doesn't work well (without heated or truly tropical water) until you're above 80. And on the Washington coast, I don't care what the air temperature is, you're nuts to spend much time in the water. The water is Quite Cool.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER MuORMu seems to have been catching up of late, though. Largely due to slack-off in this one.

Re: The Last Word Anyway, while I'm not unconcerned about such types now, with my kids at 10.5 and 12 there's a different sort of nightmare looming over my horizon.

Re: Is MultiForm Broken? As someone whose main Champions character is a multiform guy, I think is this the real truth. Of course, this can put a GM and a player in diametric opposition. But if you stay true to your roleplaying, and cooperate, then things will be cool.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER So ... a question for people who know something about Florida ... is it likely to be warm enough in Orlando or Cocoa Beach in the first half of December to make people want to go playing in a water park or in the surf at the beach?

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Classes start a week from tomorrow. Guess I'd better think about editing the syllabus.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Yes, no, largely yes. Two weeks, set by the official invitation to see the launch of STS-122, nominally Dec 6, but as they say, the launch date isn't set until the hold-down bolts rupture.

Re: The Last Word Mom occasionally hinted at the concept of child predators, but we were brought up so paranoid and suspicious that there was little chance of us accepting anything even from people we knew reasonably well. That doesn't stop by-force abduction of course, but that's rare.

Re: The Last Word Not times, place. At that time we were in a brand-new development (ours was the 5th or 6th house finished) on the edge of a college town. Just about everyone else in the neighborhood were families with kids, and more or less everyone was a first- or second-time home buyer. No trees, not much grass (I commented during the first winter in that house that (1) it was a wonderful experiment in alluvial deposits and (2) nice to have a recreation of the Hindenburg Line in a military history buff's back yard for no charge!), but a very narrow and selective slice of society. Now we live in a major city, four blocks off one of the main N-S arterial (and vice) strips, in an area where some of the houses are older than my parents (which, on the West Coast, is ... unusual ... that's an aspect of this part of America that is often lost on folks from the East Coast). Everything and everybody is here, good and bad.

Re: The Last Word At the time, there was no fear of that.

Re: The Last Word Nothing wrong with the back yard, or nude 3-year-olds.

Re: "Neat" Pictures Of all the things that I'd blame for my garbage being knocked over and scattered, a large crab is about the last. Must be relatively common event in some places, though.

Re: Complicate the Person Above Roter Baron has crimson luminescent buttocks, which explains both his name and certain aspects of his wardrobe.

Re: The Last Word We have some VERY incriminating pictures of my son, nude, after he'd been playing with colored sidewalk chalks on the back porch. We call them the "mandrill butt" pics.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "Martian Manhunter, can you get the priceless artifact that fell into the blast furnace?"

Re: The "Nice Happy" Thread Or even worse, a non-housebroken Godzilla. I mean, what good is a Godzilla if he can't break a house?

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Sigh. Gonna be an expensive trip, two weeks in Florida.

Re: The Last Word My kids sometimes eat like that.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Psst, Basil, NT.

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Re: The Last Word You people who remember your dreams. Yeesh.

Re: Musings on Random Musings If all you have in an article history are vandalization then reversion of the vandalization, then you're at 50% of the edits being reversions, and no valid content is being added. In that situation, at any given instant, you've got about a 50% chance of reading it in the vandalized state. Vandalization could be just injecting a few four-letter words into titles; it could be wholesale delete and replace with wanton gibberish. The "perilously close" is a value judgment by me, since a source that's being scribbled on about as fast as it could be improved is not particularly useful as a reference.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings A great moment in American Democracy recalled Make sure to read the platform statements from the old voter's pamphlet.

Re: The Last Word Aahh, the weekend arriveth. Pizza. A few glasses of wine. A Champions session. Sleeping in. More or less in that order, too.

Re: Favorite Tactics against High DCV? I agree. My favorite is a Maverick... a Ford Maverick (my first car, sniff). Though the explosive-warhead air-to-ground missile has laudable features in this context also.