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  A trio of possible gate songs
Posted by: Norgarth - 04-17-2006, 11:39 PM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play - Replies (5)

THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS LYRICS
"Move Along"
Go ahead as you waste your days with thinking
When you fall everyone stands
Another day and you've had your fill of sinking
With the life held in your
Hands are shaking cold
These hands are meant to hold
Speak to me, when all you got to keep is strong
Move along, move along like I know you do
And even when your hope is gone
Move along, move along just to make it through
Move along
Move along
So a day when you've lost yourself completely
Could be a night when your life ends
Such a heart that will lead you to deceiving
All the pain held in your
Hands are shaking cold
Your hands are mine to hold
Speak to me, when all you got to keep is strong
Move along, move along like I know you do
And even when your hope is gone
Move along, move along just to make it through
Move along
(Go on, go on, go on, go on)
When everything is wrong, we move along
(Go on, go on, go on, go on)
When everything is wrong, we move along
Along, along, along
When all you got to keep is strong
Move along, move along like I know you do
And even when your hope is gone
Move along, move along just to make it through
[x3]
(Go on, go on, go on, go on)
Right back what is wrong
We move along
[fade out]
********************
SImon and Garfunkle
Homeward Bound
I'm sitting in the railway station.
Got a ticket to my destination.
On a tour of one-night stands my suitcase and guitar in hand.
And ev'ry stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one-man band.
Homeward bound,
I wish I was,
Homeward bound,
Home where my thought's escaping,
Home where my music's playing,
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me.
Ev'ry day's an endless stream
Of cigarettes and magazines.
And each town looks the same to me, the movies and the factories
And ev'ry stranger's face I see reminds me that I long to be,
Homeward bound,
I wish I was,
Homeward bound,
Home where my thought's escaping,
Home where my music's playing,
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me.
Tonight I'll sing my songs again,
I'll play the game and pretend.
But all my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity
Like emptiness in harmony I need someone to comfort me.
Homeward bound,
I wish I was,
Homeward bound,
Home where my thought's escaping,
Home where my music's playing,
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me.
Silently for me.
********************
The Proclaimers
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
When I wake up, well I know I'm gonna be,
I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you
When I go out, yeah I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you
If I get drunk, well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you
And if I haver, hey I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's havering to you
But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles
To fall down at your door

When I'm working, yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's working hard for you
And when the money, comes in for the work I do
I'll pass almost every penny on to you
When I come home(When I come home), well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who comes back home to you
And if I grow old, well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's growing old with you
But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door
fa la la la (fa la la la)
fa la la la (fa la la la)
Da Da Da Dun Diddle Un Diddle Un Diddle Uh Da Da
fa la la la (fa la la la)
fa la la la (fa la la la)
Da Da Da Dun Diddle Un Diddle Un Diddle Uh Da Da
When I'm lonely, well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's lonely without you
And when I'm dreaming, well I know I'm gonna dream
I'm gonna Dream about the time when I'm with you
When I go out(When I go out), well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you
And when I come home(When I come home), yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who comes back home with you
I'm gonna be the man who's coming home with you
But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door
fa la la la (fa la la la)
fa la la la (fa la la la)
Da Da Da Dun Diddle Un Diddle Un Diddle Uh Da Da
fa la la la (fa la la la)
fa la la la (fa la la la)
Da Da Da Dun Diddle Un Diddle Un Diddle Uh Da Da
fa la la la (fa la la la)
fa la la la (fa la la la)
Da Da Da Dun Diddle Un Diddle Un Diddle Uh Da Da
fa la la la (fa la la la)
fa la la la (fa la la la)

Da Da Da Dun Diddle Un Diddle Un Diddle Uh Da Da
And I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door__________________
"I know when I'm not wanted. I usually don't listen, but I know." - Harper (Andromeda)
___________________________
"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin

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  1568: The Wildfire Ring
Posted by: Evil Midnight Lurker - 04-17-2006, 08:42 PM - Forum: Other People's Fanfiction - Replies (63)

So an Assiti Shard transposes a huge chunk of suburban Tokyo with its geographical equivalent in the 17th century. Fortunately for the inhabitants, they've got a JSDF base, natural gas tank farms, a passel of MADMs, and Mishima Heavy Industries on their side. That's the simple part.
The principal complication: the Higurashi Shrine came along for the ride on both ends, and the Bone-Eater's Well is now a dimensional bridge rather than a time tunnel -- the Sengoku Jidai end can now have its history messed with and they'll still have a (very small) link to the modern world.
And, oh yes, there's the matter of that youkai-ridden chunk of wilderness where modern Nerima should be.
And the sheer entertainment value of Cologne negotiating with the past-time Amazons, including her own younger self. (And Happousai's, too.)
All told, though, I don't really know what to do with this one...
--Sam
"Clown smash ALL!"

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  I just can't think of a power for...
Posted by: David Lewis - 04-17-2006, 08:17 PM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play - Replies (1)

Bleed For Me - Saliva

All I ever wanted
Was to be at your service
But now I'm alone
'cause you were here and you're gone
And all I ever wanted
Was to feel I had a purpose
But now that's all gone
But if you could give me
Just one love
Just one life
Just one chance to believe in (light?)
Just one love
Just one life
You'd bleed for me
And I didn't dare to notice you
Now i'm stuck out on a line
Yeah
Bleed for me
I didn't care to be with you
Now you're stuck in my mind
All I ever wanted
Was to be what you needed
'Cause something so strong
It could never be wrong
And all I can promise
Is too say what I'm feeling
We've made it so long
But if you could give me
Just one love
Just one life
Just one chance to believe in mine
Just one love
Just one life
You'd bleed for me
And didn't dare to notice you
Now I'm stuck out on a line
Yeah
Bleed for me
I didn't care to be with you
Now you're stuck in my mind
Just one love in my life
You'd bleed for me
And didn't dare to notice you
Now I'm stuck out on a line
Yeah
Bleed for me
I didn't care to be with you
Now you're stuck in my mind
(Bleed for me, Why won't you Bleed for me, Why won't you Bleed for me)
Just one love in My life
(Bleed for me, Why won't you Bleed for me, Why won't you Bleed for me)
Just one love in My life
Any thoughts?

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  Hollow, an example of bad writing.
Posted by: Necratoid - 04-17-2006, 06:38 AM - Forum: Other People's Fanfiction - Replies (7)

I'm writing this here to respond to happerry's suggestion of it being good without clogging the new fics thread. Continuing from what started there.
The fic in question is here: www.fanfiction.net/s/2864591/1/

Quote:
There! The cupboard under the stairs, where he'd been moved to, shortly before his body's destruction. The negative energy of a Hollows' transformation almost caked the tiny "room". Yamamoto had certainly not been joking when he had said that Voldemort had been unable to change for too long.
Hollow transformation energies are localized by where the Hollows are at the time... so he had to transform in Harry's old cupboard bedroom or this is a nonsense line. To believe anything else means that Harry walked around for years radiating high levels of Hollow transformation energies... inside an area monitored for exotic energies area, in an England, where all such energies are erased on general principle.
That should be first level charicter: and to be the captain of the 11th you have to be able to win against the last one in combat. Though looking again I can't see what squad he managed to get vice captainship of (with no explained experience)... the only ones mentioned were the 11th and the 1st and it isn't either of those, I think, details are missing on this... but 'Harry' is getting a captainship upgrade from his vice-captain current rank.
In otherwords the Bleach parts are non-sensical. The Harry Potter parts are about bashing of the Wizard World. 'Harry' is not recognizable... and he has to have an 'Aura of Smooth' to get away with saying he is wearing "These are the latest in military issue HUD glasses" then "Heaven, is what I believe you westerners call it." Providing no proof or doing anything a kid can't normally do, he is utterly believed.
Read/skimmed the 3rd chapter and found "Bankai Hyourinmaru", no reference to the second mode at all. Not that it matters considering its a bankai form so impressive its awesome form is to good too describe. The invisible form of a sword maybe? The fact its still a sword is mentioned... but not what that form is. I'm appartently suppose to become involved in a story with this level of detail bt baffled how.
Mentions the 10 division being his captainship... yeah.
Seriously, why do you think this was good, happerry?

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  Film noir...
Posted by: robkelk - 04-16-2006, 09:21 PM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play - Replies (4)

Frankie: Okay, this is the picture. Johnny's been hurt. He's been hurt bad.
Woman: Look, we can't leave him here, we can't. Look, he's in a pool of blood. He's gonna die, I know it.
Frankie: We've gotta leave him here, honey. We gotta. He won't talk, I promise you that! Will you Johnny?
Woman: Frankie, I don't care whether he talks or not, I just can't leave him like this.
Johnny: Listen. Leave me here I... I... I can ... I can ... handle it.
Woman: Oh, no, Johnny, no...
[interlude]
Frankie: The cops are outside. Luke's in the car. Come on, let's get the hell outta this joint.
Woman: Frankie, when they get here wer're gonna be dead, I know we are! We don't have agun!
Frankie: Listen. We got three million... Listen, [spud]. We got three million in the can, here. We can't look after him, I'll send a third to his mother. Come on, let's just get out of this place, we can do it!
Woman: Oh, no, Johnny, no...
[interlude]
Frankie: Okay now, just lean up against that door. When I give the word "Go" we just..., we just go through it and blast at the same time.

She came, as in the book, Mickey Spillane
That Saturday night dark masquerade
Had filled his friend with lead, the same, sweetheart
But then, as nothing happens quite the same
Investigation is the game
He had to check her story right away-he dead
Sam Spade his buddy Archer first to go he got it
She spelt it out, how could they know the 'Fatman' got it -he dead
Her sister didn't really live at all-confusion-he dead
His chase led to the Fatman, to face the friends of Mr. Cairo

[movie like speech:]
Woman: Hey, there's a really terrific dress shop. Can we stop this raid while I buy a new gown?
Frankie: I'll buy you the whole factory, sweetheart. Don't worry.

That night, the double crosser got it right
Pretending he was really dim
He slipped to Sam a double gin (Mickey Finn)
He woke, the boys had gone, but not his gun
They'd left a note to lead him on
The chase to find the Maltese Falcon-you bet-
Early thirties gangster movies
Set to spellbind population
From Chicago to Hong Kong
Via Istanbul the Talking Tong
Dirty rats thru' prohibition
Money flowed thru gangsterism
Acting out this fantasy
In Hollywoods vicinity
The best part for the best rendition
Al Capone he sent to prison
Citizen Kane came fast and quickly
Conquerin ol' New York City
Poking fun at superstition
Media became television Give me Cagney anyday
Or Jimmy Stewart for President
Or Edward 'G' and all those guys
Who always shoot between the eyes
Between the eyes
Between the eyes

[movie like speech:]
Kasper: ha, ha, well done Mr. Cairo, and what do you have to say about that, my friend?
Spade: Allright. So you've got me in it. What about her?
Brigid: Don't worry about me, I'm okay
Kasper: Very magnanimous, sir, very magnanimous indeed, ha, ha, ha
Mr. Cairo: You mean..., you won't make us an offer we... we can't refuse...

Father love do you work, do you work for Mother
Chances could call, and accept that, be no other
Science as it might, disappear correspond with colour
Chance is the fruit, will outlive, what is now the brother
Call for total wealth to distribute like a picture
In black and white, give it joy, give it, let it hit you
Spoil our existence by extreme gift to population
Father love do you work, do you work for Mother
Tell me straight be the Godfather be no other
Media Kings give us now give us total movie
Straight right now, give it clear, give us total movie
Now being here, being now, being here believing

[movie like speeches:]
Man: I don't know which words to put in there sweetheart, you know, I can't do it. Pretty kind of useless, though, don't you think so Mary?

Man: Come with me to the far lands of Baghdad.
Woman: Oh, if only I could. That's what I want more than anything in the world, but it could never be...
Man: Of course it can...
Woman: But my father would find us wherever we went. Yes, he has forbidden me to... to even speak to you, if he finds me now. I don't know what he'd do...
Man: But he doesn't know that I'm... I'm a prince. Before, I was the thief of Baghdad now...
Woman: It doesn't matter...
Man: Then follow me, darling, follow me now to the ends of the Earth

One on one to talk to you
Like film stars they get close to you
You've mirrored his appeal
He wants you so, he wants to be beside you
Then you pass by giving him the other side of you
Like the mystics do
So that every time he moves, he moves for you
Soul and light can always see
The meeting of true love and she
This silent night and I,
I guess a lonely mind might see
I've seen love on the screen
I've seen a screen goddesss and me-oh
How often this, how often, this the power of you
And so, I must confess
Whatever I see
I'm meant to be there with you
With you with you
Silent golden movies, talkies, technicolour, long ago
My younger ways stand clearer, clearer than my footprints
Stardom greats I've followed closely Closer than the nearest heartbeat
Longer that expected-ther were great-
Oh love oh love just to see them
Acting on the silver screen, oh my
Clark Gable, Fairbanks, Maureen O'Sullivan
Fantasy would fill my life and I
Love fantasy so much
Did you see in the morning light
I really talked, yes I did, to Gods early dawning light
And I was privileged to be as I am to this day
To be with you. To be with you

[movie actor like speech:]
Mr. Cairo: Listen. I have arranged this display for... for all of you people to... to come here this evening and I... I know you have been searched, but, what you... you don't realize is, is that in the back of the Maltese Falcon, I have it ...

Friends of Mr. Cairo, Jon and Vangelis
I'm thinking that this would give Doug a full set of "30's-movie gangster" skills, along with a zoot suit, trenchcoat, and Tommy-gun. On the flip side, he has to talk in film noir style for the duration, see?
-Rob Kelk
--
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

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  Sites pro&con, Republican&Democrat, Liberal&cons
Posted by: hmelton - 04-16-2006, 08:40 PM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun - No Replies

I'm going to ask that this thread not have any comments just the URL to a website and a short 3 or 5 line description of the site.
I'm sure the websites will generate messages, but please start a new thread to refute them or talk about them.
I'd like to see this thread become a easy to search list of Pro & Con, Republican & Democrat or Liberal & Conservative websites.
Here are a few web sites that I check regularly.
powerlineblog.com/
A conservative blog with Republican leanings.
www.tonguetied.us/
A site focused on listing sensorship of free speech world wide. At the moment it seems to be conservative, but I have seen it seem liberal. I believe it is run by a conservative Athiest that likes Israel.
brainterminal.com/
A Conservative web site listing material and articles from all over the web. I think it's less Republican focused than the powerline blog.
www.alternativescience.com/
This defies all one word catagories except possibly Fringe. It will make you think about science and help to understand that science isn't as sharply defined or cut and dried as the main stream text books and science magazines imply.
junkscience.com/
A conservative site focused on debunking the sources the liberals often reach for.
www.science-frontiers.com/sfonline.htm
A site for a magazine dedicated to listing the oddities and observations that fall outside accepted scientific theories.

I know these sites will generate comments, but please just list your anwsering websites in this thread and put any discussion in a different thread.

howard melton
God bless

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  Re: War Craft fics
Posted by: aeroprime - 04-16-2006, 05:02 AM - Forum: Other People's Fanfiction - No Replies

Here is something on Anime Addventure I think is pretty good. If anyone would care to add to it that would be great. Every time I try to add to it the end result looks like crap to me due to my extreme inexperience as a writer.
http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/eyes.gif[/img] ">addventure.bast-enterpris...s[Image: eyes.gif]

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  Annual Song of the Day 4-15-2006
Posted by: Foxboy - 04-15-2006, 05:31 PM - Forum: General DW Chatter - Replies (4)

One, two, three, four...
Hrmm!
One, two, (one, two, three, four!)
Let me tell you how it will be;
There's one for you, nineteen for me.
'Cause Im the taxman,
Yeah, Im the taxman.
Should five per cent appear too small,
Be thankful I don't take it all.
'Cause Im the taxman,
Yeah, Im the taxman.
(if you drive a car, carWink - Ill tax the street;
(if you try to sit, sitWink - Ill tax your seat;
(if you get too cold, coldWink - Ill tax the heat;
(if you take a walk, walkWink - I'll tax your feet.
Taxman!
'Cause Im the taxman,
Yeah, Im the taxman.
Don't ask me what I want it for, (ah-ah, mister Wilson)
If you don't want to pay some more. (ah-ah, mister heath)
'Cause Im the taxman,
Yeah, Im the taxman.
Now my advice for those who die, (taxman)
Declare the pennies on your eyes. (taxman)
'Cause Im the taxman,
Yeah, Im the taxman.
And you're working for no one but me.
Taxman!
Taxman, The Beatles
''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

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  Whatifs - NSFW: Language
Posted by: Kokuten - 04-14-2006, 09:24 AM - Forum: Other People's Fanfiction - Replies (19)

Reading Griever's work, and Drakensis' _Buffy_ offering, and I traipsed down a rather interesting line of thinking..
Whatif: Transfictionality. ok, accepted as a given.
Let's look at immoral behavior, found in such luminaries as Bill Gates, the CEO of Enron, etc, etc.. So, a corellation that immorality _can_ lead to power in this world.
So we've got a hypothetical immoral (amoral) person, with great financial resources in this world, which is transfictionally enabled. Add a T-fic jump device, and we're rolling..

Quote:
"So how did your day go, honey?"
"Oh, I hit the Buffyverse, met Angel."
"How'd that go?"
"Shot him in the fucking head. We got any ham left?"
"Yeah, it's in the freezer, sorry."
"You know, I wasn't expecting those holy-water hollowpoints to work on a Demon Lord."
"There's no reason why they shouldn't... can you grab me a glass of OJ while you're in there?"
"Sure, sure.. anyway, as that implied, I met the 'Master', and, well.."
"Shot him in the fucking head?"
"Heh. Tomorrow I think I'm gonna drop back in on the Evangelion universe. I should be able to land just in time to prep for that diamond-looking Angel"
"How are you going to handle that?"
"Audio gun. shake the ugly bastard to death."
"How are you going to get around the AT Field?"
"It's a religious artifact- shouldn't work on a nonbeliever. Failing that, I'll just let Shinji shoot it in the fucking head"
"That should take care of it.. where's my OJ?"
Picture Griever, with control over his jumps, his own body, less morals, and a bad case of the shooties.. there's quite a few characters and situations from anime and pop culture that could be improved by just shooting people in the head.
...it's also O-dark hundred, and I'm exhausted.Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

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  Assistance with Style
Posted by: SkyeFire - 04-14-2006, 04:56 AM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play - Replies (1)

Clean shirt, new shoes
and I don't know where I am goin' to.
Silk suit,black tie,
I don't need a reason why.
They come runnin' just as fast as they can
coz' every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man.
gold watch, diamond ring,
I ain' missin'not a single thing.
And cufflinks, stick pin
when I step out I'm gonna do you in.
They come runnin' just as fast as they can
coz' every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man.
Top coat, top hat,
I don't worry coz my wallet's fat.
Black shades, white gloves,
lookin' sharp and lookin' for love.
They come runnin' just as fast as they can
coz' every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man.
ZZ Top, "Sharp Dressed Man."
Effect: Aside from one, er, 'memorable' incident during the Sailor Moon step, summons a simulacrum of Tuxedo Mask, just like any of the other simulacra songs.

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