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Re: Answers & Questions Q: What are you doing in my wife's bed? With my wife? A: Wrathed.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Cross The Border - Icehouse

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Well, I'm tempted to say "of course" the war seems contrived - one of the main themes of the book is how Manpower, Inc. is manipulating Manticore and Haven into continuing a conflict they no longer have a rational reason to fight. But I understand what you mean - it stretches credulity that the previous Manticore government was that incompetent. Still, that was the previous book. Which, I think has been the absolute nadir of the series, I'll easily grant. As to Shadow of Saganami - I'm with you 100% that it's the best novel he's put out for the past five years at least.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: So, what's the most important reason for people to watch Kim Jong Il Conquers the World Singlehandedly, Director Ju? A: Wombats. All the way down.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What was the advertising tagline for Planet Bonk? A: Hound dogs on the moon!

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Street Cafe - Icehouse

Re: CHAMPIONS OF THE NORTH -- What Would You Like To See? I'd like to see a good, big history of Canada section, touching on how various historical events were seen from a Canadian perspective, like the race for the Columbia, 1812, US War of Independence etc.

Re: Wwycd: Doom!!!! Terminus: "I would presume we're just the first stop on a recruiting drive?" upon being told yes: "You go get the Champions. I'll get T.E.M.P.E.S.T., and try and get ahold of that bunch of dinosaur cyborgs. You want to contact the Sentinels, or should I do it?" There is the evil of supervillains - and there is the evil beyong humanity. First things first.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Just finished David Weber's latest Honor Harrington novel, At All Costs. Better than I had feared; his previous volume was something of a "time marker", and had far too much exposition. If anything, more happens here than should be in one volume, and Weber seems to rush some sections. All that said, this is a rip-roarer of a ride. Weber has a real knack for creating a world you can get immersed in, and the fact that this contains the single largest battle so far in the timeline - close to six hundred of the wall in a single engagement - is merely the cap on what would have been an excellent novel anyway.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? A View to A Kill - Duran Duran

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What's the worst thing about being a cleaner at The Abyss? A: Nietzsche.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: I heard your football team lost. Why are you acting like you won? A: Acid reflux.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The Reflex - Duran Duran (Cool - I just got her album Amarantine, makes me hungry for more!)

Re: Answers & Questions Q: So what gave you the first clue this was a parody porn tape? A: It's pseudo-Swahili. 'Cause I don't speak Swahili.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The One - Elton John

Re: [Campeign Creation Project] Pirates of the Naebbirac Astroid Belt Actually, it's not that lunatic, and it protects against a possible last ditch defense. If you destroy a ship's thrusters first, it can't do a last minute dodge to avoid the pirate swarm, and provided the pirates have maneuvering belts or guns, jumping between two ships with matched velocities wouldn't be too dangerous. And the target ship wouldn't want to blow their fusion plant just to take out some boarders - which would be a definite temptation if the pirate was docked. As for the hacking - if the airlocks aren't networked in (and there's no real reason for them to be) you could only hack them by reaching the hull anyway. Might well be easier, as well as quicker, to use a boarding charge.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: So, Mr Heinlein, would you rather go with Mr. White to heaven, Mr Black to hell, or have your soul eaten by the seasick crocodile we have left over from the Egyptian pantheon? A: You're angling for the precipitate.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: So, after you took her to a five-star dinner, in a limo, followed by a carriage ride with flowers and a troubadours, to a private session with her favourite band, followed by a moonlit late supper by the river, you suddenly realized you'd forgotten to tape her favourite soap opera? A: The Penguins...the Penguins!

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Final Theme to King Solomon's Mines - the Patrick Swayze version.

Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) Okay, judging time: Robyn, you made me laugh, and I'd love to give it to you, but I think the kudos this time have to go to Michael Hopcroft, for creating a nice, mythic background and a very strong motivation for heroism. All yours, Michael.

Re: WWYCD: <Your character>: The Clone Saga!! Well, Terminus is a genetically engineered supersoldier, so he came out of a tank himself. Further, he was part of an entire corps of Terminus Soldiers in his home dimension. So, as far as he's concerned, his clone is just a brother in the service. Yay, double the firepower! Mind you, they just might have a few problems re: his girlfriend...

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Sex Crime (1984) - Eurythmics

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Right by Your Side - Eurythmics

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Love is a Stranger - Eurythmics

Re: Van Damme does Pulp It's...possible. I could have sworn it was van Damme, though.