I've been reading the "Suzumiya Haruhi" novel translations at the Baka-Tsuki site. Recently, I noticed that they're also translating, among others, Zero no Tsukaima, and out of idle curiosity I took a look.
One thing that caught my attention was a reference to the familiar belonging to a fellow named Guiche. His familiar, a giant mole, is named for a figure from Norse mythology, and, although Wikipedia's entry uses the usual accepted transliteration of the name, Baka-Tsuki's version calls the mole ... you guessed it ... Belldandy.
I'm all but certain this is an error on their part, rather than a deliberate salute (or insult). Whatever, I thought it was funny.
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Gentlemen, it has long been my conviction that all citizens should provide services for which their talents best suit them in support of those who have been called to duty. In the case of politicians such as yourselves, that would be target practice.
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

Krohn was a criminal; focus on a chemical
Drug lab in his home.
Late nights all alone with a test tube.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Maximilian Edison, majoring in medicine,
Calls him on the phone.
"Can I come over and talk about your business,
Kro, oh, oh, ohn?"
But as he's getting ready to run,
A knock comes on the door.
Bang! Bang! Max's Silver Hammer
Came down on his head.
Bang! Bang! Max's Silver Hammer
The name that they all dread.--
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel
"Camaraderie, adventure, and steel on steel. The stuff of legend! Right, Boo?"

Photo from the teaser that will play before the Cloverfield movie
www.firstshowing.net/2008...nterprise/
Not bad... -Logan
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"Wake up! Time for SCIENCE!"
-Adam Savage
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After losing their appeal to get out of paying.
Details in this Register story
-Rob Kelk
"I heard there was a trial run of soylent blue, but they had to cease production when the George Carlin ran out..."
Mark Jones, 13 Jan 2008
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

I suppose this could have gone in OPF, but it's just a point of trivia.
Ten years ago tomorrow, I created a text file and wrote, "It began with a shooting star." Unusually, that first intro scene survived into the final-so-far revisions of my fic Bubblegum Disaster. I'd hoped to finish Ch 6 for posting to mark the occasion, since it includes the close of 215's introduction arc, but unless tonight's session is unprecedentedly huge it's not to be.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
For the next 72 hours, Itachi intoned, I will slap you with this trout. - Spying no Jutsu, chapter 3
"In the futuristic taco bell of the year 20XX, justice wears an aluminum sombrero!"hemlock-martini
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

I very wonderful site. The link (Here) goes to the Deep Thought of the day. Very thought provoking, I must say. Check it out.
The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."
-Analects Book V, Chaper XXVI
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."

>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI

Acyl? Ankhani? I'm sorry if Sharon Kov disappeared on you and you were still there. At least that mission was already completed when it happened!
I can't get back on right now. Keeps saying "DB Server Lost" or something. I'll try again later. But curious if you had the same problem? -Logan
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"Wake up! Time for SCIENCE!"
-Adam Savage
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Remember the scene in the last chapter of "Once More With Feeling" when sex-kitten Rei walked into that Games Workshop where Aida and his buddies were playing Warhammer 40k?
There was something in that vein in thread last night where other Flames of War players were discussing who is our nemesis in our little community.

Posted By CrazyIvan on 17 Jan 2008 8:46 AM
Alyssa freakin' Moore...
Posted By WarHighlander on 17 Jan 2008 10:54 AM
Hard to concentrate when playing her.
Speaking of which, where is our lovely tank girl these days? Still producing that sports show?

Posted By ordnance11 on 17 Jan 2008 11:05 AM
You have a female playing FOW with you folks? You are lucky men!
Posted By WarHighlander on 17 Jan 2008 11:12 AM
www.onemodelplace.com/mem...?ID=156973
100% not workplace safe...
Posted By ordnance11 on 17 Jan 2008 11:35 AM
I'm at a school, so I'm gonna have to look at it later.
Posted By Nightwolf on 17 Jan 2008 12:43 PM
You have got to be kidding me. This gorgeous chick plays FoW!!???
Wolf
Posted By ordnance11 on 17 Jan 2008 12:57 AM

Finally got curious enough to set-up phone as a modem..
*stares*
*stares*
*stares*
You know..losing to her on a repeated basis wouldn't be so bad....

We really need more people like her playing
*grin*
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

Does anyone know if anyone's ever written a Harry Potter fic where Harry is a mongoose animagus?

-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....

...where I go, "oh my god, I've been ignoring this forum again", then spend several days catching up on it.
So...
Oh my god, I've been ignoring this forum again.
It's made worse this time because I'm pretty sure that there are at least two new users whose first messages are somewhere in the threads I haven't read, and thus never received proper greetings from me when they showed up. Apologies in advance to whoever you are.

-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....