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Re: The Last Word ... which requires no translation.

Re: The Last Word Well, my comment changed it from nonsense to merely vulgar.

Re: The Last Word :1,$s/z/p/g

Re: The "Nice Happy" Thread 15th wedding anniversary last night. Had a nice dinner. Hoping for rather in excess of 15 more.

Re: The Last Word I think they do, but I haven't noticed any of mine missing that could be easily explained by kittens. My wife, though, seems to have had some stuff go wandering. Now, she misplaces things MUCH more frequently than I do, for what that's worth. The things I've noticed the kittens carrying (or batting) off are things I would expect: small cloth things, shreds of feathers, balls and toys, etc.

Re: The Last Word That, and it opened new regimes in which to sow chaos. (I think I got all my ties picked up and put back on the hanger....)

Re: Superhero Images Offered for humor value

Re: The cranky thread A friend (he's on these boards) is IT support for a hospital system here. I bought him a lapel button that says, "Better multitasking skills through massive caffeine consumption."

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Fall Fecal Fest A drawing for the privilege of buying composted exotic manures. Is this a great country or what?

Re: The Last Word The hammock thing only lasted about three weeks. Part of that was the diffusion effect: during that time we opened more doors and allowed them more of the house to spread out in, so they spent less time in the bathroom.

Re: The Last Word That only lasted about three weeks, actually. Its major impact came from its unexpectedness.

Re: The Last Word "Re-up" is military slang for re-enlist. So my comment means: we may get another litter of kittens to foster.

Re: The Last Word Sounds like we're going to re-up on the foster kitten thing. Probably this week.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER The kitten's pretty vocal ordinarily, but did not make a sound while in the bath. The other half-dozen cats I've had to bathe in the last decade were quite loud while in the bath. In one case, woke up the entire household (it was about 1AM at the time). I think the kitten's being taken to her new owner (my sister-in-law) this evening.

Re: Need Perjoratives! Imps, as a contraction of "impossible". Do the characters refer to themselves with any consistent label? Taking such a thing, shortening and mangling it, and then using it as a pejorative would work.

Re: The Last Word No, Port Townsend.

Re: The Last Word I went away for a few days also.

Re: History's Most Overlooked Mysteries I might have put the Phaistos Disc on this list. As an undeciphered Bronze Age artifact that seems to be printing of some sort, it's a ticket for anything weird you might want.

Re: tech/campaign idea: bio-gel batteries Most likely: the bacteria die on contact with free oxygen. I'd expect anything that could do this would be obligate anaerobes. If you're looking for a nightmare scenario, then assert they can survive in sea water, and their electricity-producing effects stem from oxidizing iron. In their biogel cell, that iron is recycled by symbiosis with some iron-reducing bacteria (which use light) to recreate the elemental iron from the ferric oxide ... these iron-reducing guys die off when the cell wall is broken. The oxidizers get into the ocean, go nuts, and chew up all the iron & steel there. Their reservoir is old shipwrecks, but the thing they do that's apparent is dissolving ship hulls, drilling-rig platforms, etc. When multiple supertankers a week break apart and release their cargo into the ocean, I expect that'd get noticed....

Re: The Last Word More like Lawful Drooly.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER We had to give a kitten its first in-sink soap bath last night. It was shocked speechless.

Re: The Last Word Dogs tend to be lawful. They pay more attention to that stuff.

Re: Musings on Random Musings At one Former Employer, in the months before I was laid off, there was a big stink about trying to get our processes up to ISO something (I don't recall which) standard. I browsed what the standards were and what was needed to achieve them, and told the a couple of people high up that project that it'd never fly there. Because, in those standardized processes, people have to buy into things early, and that's the only opportunity they have to put the brakes on a project. It was very clear in the corporate culture that lots of people derived their importance from their ability to block just about anything from being finished just about any time in the process, so they had to be appeased continually to get anything done. Installing the standard process would remove lots of people's -- highly-placed people's -- only apparent reason for being in the command structure. They were not pleased by my analysis, which (I learned after my departure) was correct.

Re: The Last Word Of the two kittens still in our place, one is in the chasing-her-own-tail stage. The other has a stub pig-tail and will never do that, I expect.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I am reminded of an acquaintance named Daniel who practiced an empty-hand martial art (don't recall which one) on whom we pinned a nickname purely by accident after sorting a list of personnel by first name. He became known as "9th Dan". I think he was gravely concerned that his sensei might hear this nickname.