Fans of the Eyrie "Hopelessly Lost" Battletech pod scene may now rejoice:
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"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

...and I'm catching up on net traffic. Please be patient as I slowly get back on track. Thanks!-- Bob
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One of the primary differences between the Left and the Right is their attitude toward the Future. The Radical wants the Future to have gotten here yesterday. The Reactionary wants the Future quietly shot and the corpse buried where no one can find it.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Has anybody ever suggested "American Woman" as a song? If not, I assume that it is most likely to create some sort of aversion field that repels female U.S. citizens. I'm not sure if it would be a psychic barrier or a force field effect.
American Woman
Artist(Band):The Guess Who
(Bachman-Cummings-Kale-Peterson)
(Prologue)
American woman gonna mess your mind
American woman, she gonna mess your mind
American woman gonna mess your mind
American woman gonna mess your mind
Say A,
Say M,
Say E,
Say R,
Say I,
C,
Say A,
N,
American woman gonna mess your mind
American woman gonna mess your mind
American woman gonna mess your mind
American woman, stay away from me
American woman, mama let me be
Dont come hangin around my door
I dont wanna see your face no more
I got more important things to do
Than spend my time growin old with you
Now woman, I said stay away,
American woman, listen what I say.
American woman, get away from me
American woman, mama let me be
Dont come knockin around my door
Dont wanna see your shadow no more
Coloured lights can hypnotize
Sparkle someone elses eyes
Now woman, I said get away
American woman, listen what I say.
American woman, said get away
American woman, listen what I say
Dont come hangin around my door
Dont wanna see your face no more
I dont need your war machines
I dont need your ghetto scenes
Coloured lights can hypnotize
Sparkle someone elses eyes
Now woman, get away from me
American woman, mama let me be.
Go, gotta get away, gotta get away
Now go go go
Gonna leave you, woman
Gonna leave you, woman
Bye-bye
Bye-bye
Bye-bye
Bye-bye
Youre no good for me
Im no good for you
Gonna look you right in the eye.
Tell you what Im gonna do
You know Im gonna leave
You know Im gonna go
You know Im gonna leave
You know Im gonna go, woman
Im gonna leave, woman
Goodbye, American woman
Goodbye, American chick
Goodbye, American broad ...
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"Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV

Working on rewriting the Mars stub. Forgive the wiki markup. Still very much a WIP. Suggestions, comments etc. welcome.

www.newsweek.com/id/50787
Oh yeah, canon slashfic will fall from the heavens like rain.

COH Greatest American Hero
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

Starts Monday.
Ninja Trick-or-treat night?
DHH Tuesday? --
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

claims Dosier Internet Law, according to this article. This firm has been noted for their unusual theories on copyright.
--The Twisted One"Growing up means giving up everything that makes you happy"
--Marge Simpson
"If you
wish to converse with me, define your
terms."

--Voltaire

One of the funny things about Handwavium as a potential environmental disaster is that it grows. You add (mostly) organic material to handwavium, you get more handwavium. There's no particularly established way to turn handwavium into not-handwavium. The really scary thing about handwavium - the thing that I'm sure has the environmentalists terrified - is that if you flush enough of it down the toilet, you're pretty likely to wind up with a strain that runs on sewage. Shortly after that, you'll get a colony of the stuff that isn't possible to get rid of without *extreme* measures, and shortly after *that*, you'll see almost every critter that lives down there sprouting a biomod. Handwavium pollution is potentially very scary indeed - and since it can only be created, not destroyed, the degenerate endstate is with every lifeform on the planet sporting a biomod, and everything on the planet being modified to one degree or another, along with a sea or two of the goop itself.
Given that the original investment might well have been a small spore-bearing pod or something, that would be a *remarkably* efficient way to xenoform a world. A plausible theory for the Overfan, no?

By the same guy who created Haloid.
Really well done.
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Epsilon
I'm a fight scene whore.