I wish I'd thought of this last week...
Just in case we're one of the 50% of gold boards that won't get all its data back, it occurs to me that the best thing we can do is raid the Google cache and Wayback Machine for everything we can find. Re-entering it all into the forums would be a pain and a half, but if we each volunteered for one thread at a time, it would be a bit easier.
Thoughts, opinions, brickbats?

-- Bob
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It's spelt "Frodo Baggins" but it's pronounced "Throat-wobbler Mangrove."

Test bloody test.
Edit -- great, so it's just lengthy posts that get screwed up. Marvy. Just freakin' marvy.
Chris Davies.

RELEASE THE KRAKEN
by Clutch
What's the matter brother, does the drought got you down?
(Open up the bomb shelter, sweep it on out)
Sing to the ocean in the afternoon haze,
Up the iron pillars, rise in the waves.
Andromeda is weeping. Inside one teardrop swims
Brave Useless in training less a millimeter thin.
RELEASE THE KRAKEN!
GET THE SACRIFICE ON!
RELEASE THE KRAKEN!
GOOD GD Y'ALL!
Useless the Younger we pray for you.
You know we got your back in whatever you do.
Bathysphere bobbing in Eyeball Bay,
Black lash crashes, forty foot waves.
Cepheus is holding Cassiopeia's free hand
As the Kraken breaks the surface making bee-line to the land.
(spoken) In Greek legend the son of Zeus and Danae
He and his mother was set adrift in a chest, but rescued by the intervention of Zeus. He was brought up by KING POLYDECTES,
Who, wishing to secure Danae, got rid of him by encouraging him
In the almost hopeless task of obtaining the head OF THE MEDUSA!
With the help of the gods he was successful, and with the head,
Which turned all that looked on it into stone, he rescued Andromeda
And later metamorphosed Polydectes and his guests to stone.
(various repetitions and effects on 'metamorphosed to stone')
(spoken section words in Release the Kraken are taken from Brewer's
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1995, Harper Collins, page 819)
Lyrics from this page. If you've never heard them, the best description I can give for Clutch is "What if Frank Zappa played heavy metal?"
- CDHow many times have you stared mournfully into the coleslaw and thought "Gee, I wish I was a cabbage."
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
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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

Oh ... this isn't the Betty Ford Clinic?
I got into the Drunkard's Walk by serendipity (see definition below). About a year ago, I was idly looking for the lyrics to a SCA song I'd seen in a songbook 16-17 years ago, and my Search picked up Doug using the title, "Freaking the Mundanes," as a description of the way he'd just messed with somebody's head. The citation I clicked on actually took me to the DWII Concordance. I scrolled up and down, trying to figure out what the Gehenna *this* was, and the bit where he used Bugs Bunny pins as a pledge of retribution caught my eye. That's when I started hunting for the way to get to the main story.
Until I started reading DW, I wasn't especially into manga or anime (I had the Dark Horse translation of Gunsmith Cats, an ADV Gunsmith Cats anime, and a few other odds and ends). DW caused me to buy BGC on DVD and start picking up the Dark Horse OMG. If you turn me into a Sailor Moon junkie, Mr. Schroeck, we will have to have *words*!
Biographically, I'm 47, spent 23 years as a US Army REMF, and was heavy into RPGs, mostly D&D, before I entered the service. I don't *write* so much as I dream up *backgrounds* for stories -- lists, for instance, of the "cast of characters."
I probably would've just kept on reading other people's postings (and snickering) without inflicting my own comments on anyone, but a 2- or 3-year-old post on the DW3 forum kept preying on my mind. There's a quote that I think just *has* to go there.
DHBirr
Oh, yes: "Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and finding a farmer's daughter." -- Julius H. Comroe, Jr.
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

Some of you may have had problems earlier today/last night trying to get into the boards. I just wanted to let you know that it wasn't a problem specifically with the DW fora, but all of ezBoard -- it was apparently undergoing some kind of cascading collapse. When I tried to get in this morning and got bounced with an error message, I went to their support page and found dozens of posts citing similar problems with other boards.
I was going to AOL with my specific error message, but as soon as I hit the "new thread" button, the support board itself crashed with the same error.
I'm glad to everything is back up and running now, and I hope no one was too concerned.

-- Bob
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It's spelt "Frodo Baggins" but it's pronounced "Throat-wobbler Mangrove."

and a possible gatesong too!
It's a rough and literal translation so pardon me for any inaccuracies.
Loop: Tsubasa Chronicles ED by Maaya Sakamoto

Nee kono machiga yuuyamini somaru dokiwa
Sekaino dokokade asahiga sasu
Kimino teno naka sono hanaga kareru tokiwa
Chiisana tanewo otosudaroo
Humikatamerareta tsuchiwo michidato yobuno naraba
Mewo tojiru kotodemo aikanaa
Kono hoshiga tairanara hutari deae tenakatta
Otagaiwo toozakeruyouni hashitteita
SUPI-DO wo yurumezuni imawa donnani hanaretemo
Meguru kisekino tochuuni mata mukaiauno darou
Nee kono machino yuuyamiga sariyuku tokini
Kono namida tsuretette
Katarikaketekuru mojiwo shousetsuto yobunonara
Todokanai kotobawa yumekanaa
Yodominaku nagareteku kawani ukabeta kono hade
Umiwo mezashite kumoni natte amede hurou
Tooi kimino chikakude ochita dane wo sodateyou
Chigau bashoude kimiga kizuitekureru toiindakedo
Kono hoshiga taemanaku mawaritsuzukete irukara
Chiisaku hiraketa madono soto keshikiwo kae
Watashino aishita hana sotto mebaeru kisetsude
Meguru kisekino sono hate mata mukaiaunodarou
Mukai aunodarou
Kururu mawaru kurukuruto
Kurukuru kimino mawariwo

You know, when the streets of the night is being covered by darkness
Somewhere in the world the morning sun shines
When the flower that's inside your hand wilts
It will probably drop a seed
If we call road the earth that's been step on and turned hard
Is it love if we close our eyes?
If this planet was flat we wouldn't be able to meet
Its meaning is for us to be far apart
Without lowering the speed, even if we are separated farther and farther
We will probably face each other while is going round and round miraculously
You know, in this street when the darkness that was covering this road leaves
Take these tears with you
If we call a novel the words that we speak
Are the words that are not sent called dreams?
Riding a leaf that's in floating in the river that's moving and not still
While facing the sea, let's be a cloud and fall down as rain
The seed that was dropped far away near you, let's grow it
It would be nice if you acknowledge it someplace else
This planet is moving constantly without stopping
Changing the scenery of the window that's been opened so slightly
In the season that the flower that I love grows ever so slightly
We will probably face each other while [is] going round and round miraculously
We will probably face each other
It goes round and round and round
Round and round, near you

Replace Syaoran and Sakura with Maggie and Doug in the ED scenes....*sniff*
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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

A couple years back, in a thread about a visit to the circus we made with Kat and Joe Avins and their daughter, I referred to the latter as "Nina 'I'm Only Three, I Don't Have A Codename Yet' Avins".
This no longer applies.
As many of you may already know (from the DW FAQ if nothing else), the Warriors run a school for young metahumans. When I became the GM for Warriors a couple years back, I made the request that the players each create a couple of students for the school, since I planned on bringing it into play every once in a while.
Joe and Kat Avins responded by essentially establishing the metahuman dominance of Kat's family's genes, by recruiting their nieces by her sister Heather into the school.
Now that Nina is almost six, she too has joined the cast of characters. Her code name is a tribute to her mother: "Katgirl". Her power set... is unstable -- she gets a new collection of powers every day.
She also wanted a classmate, so at the most recent gaming day we had, Nina asked Peggy if she could make up a daughter for Shadowwalker to be her best friend at the Academy. Peggy agreed. Since Nina's counterpart in Warriors' World is in real-time -- meaning she won't be six until 2005 -- that means Shadowwalker's daughter will also be about the same age -- which means, as of Doug's departure on the Walk, Shadowwalker is pregnant. And he doesn't know it.
I really don't know what I'm going to do with this yet, but it certainly makes for some interesting background data.
Plus I thought people would get a kick of hearing how this happened.

-- Bob
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It's spelt "Frodo Baggins" but it's pronounced "Throat-wobbler Mangrove."

Okay... so I was driving home yesterday after work, and WRIF ("The Riff ROCKS Detroit!") started playing an old, familiar tune by the Motor City Madman himself:
There I was back in the wild again.
I felt right at home, where I be-long.
I had the feeling, coming over me again.
Just like it happened so many times be-fore. eh.
The Spirit of the Woods is like an old good friend.
Makes me feel warm and good in-side.
I knew his name and it was good to see him again.
Cause in the wind he's still a-live.
Oh Fred Bear
Walk with me down the trails again.
Take me back, back where I be-long.
Fred Bear
I'm glad to have you at my side my friend
and I'll join you in the big hunt before too long
before too long.
It was kinda dark, another misty dusk
it came from a tangle down be-low.
I tried to re-mem-ber everything you taught me so well.
I had to de-cide which way to go.
Was I a-lone or in a hunter's dream.
Cause the moment of truth was here and now.
I felt his touch I felt his guiding hand.
The buck was mine forever more!!
(chorus repeats twice)
Power: Doug experiences a sudden sharpening of his senses and tracking skills, sort of "Wolverine Lite," Robin Hood-esque archery skills, and a bow with unlimited arrows a-la the shotgun from "White Wedding." Also develops a sudden strong craving for venison steak.
Whether any ghostly guides show up, or Doug's leathers suddenly grow buckskin fringes, is left as an exercise for Bob. (

1. K-1 can talk dirty to a girl, ^^.
2. Belle still have these jealousy attacks.
3. Never let Skuld into the following sites w/o supervision:
a. Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona
b. Bremerton Navy yard in Washington State..specifically the "boneyard"
c. The Army Armor Museum in Fort Knox, Kentucky.
Trust me...let Skuld into anyone of those 3 areas and who knows what will fly, steam or drive out of the front gates.
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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

Song, as sung by Dr. Scratchansniff and others:
DrSns : One Monday morning I got up late
And there were these monkeys outside the gate.
The guard tried to stop them but he had no luck
The monkeys got free and they ran amuck!
DrSns : I don't know what to say the monkeys won't do!
YW+D : Don't know what to say the monkeys won't do!
DrSns : I don't know what to say the monkeys won't do!
YW+D : Don't know what to say the monkeys won't do!
DrSns : My office was run by the studio nurse.
I came downstairs und what could be worse?
The monkeys was doing a crazy dance.
They put buggies in my underpants!
DrSns : I don't know what to say the monkeys won't do!
YW+D : Don't know what to say the monkeys won't do!
DrSns : Monkeys dance then I dance too!
YW+D : Don't know what to say the monkeys won't do!
DrSns : I ran outside to get a stick
But I'm telling you, friends, those monkeys was quick!
'Cause when I returned, much to my disgrace
Those monkeys had the nurse in a mad embrace!
Nurse : I don't know what to say the monkeys won't do.
Yakko : For a nickel I'll give you a clue!
Dot : I didn't know your eyes were blue!
DrSns : I don't know what to say the monkeys won't do!
Marita: Yessah, whoo!
Flavio: Ah, play that thing!
DrSns : I went to me bath for a shower and shave.
The monkeys goin' to put me into my grave!
The entire bathroom was laid to waste
And they shaved my head with minty toothpaste!
DrSns : I don't know what to say the monkeys won't do!
YW+D : Don't know what to say the monkeys won't do!
DrSns : They is crazy-nutzo, I'm telling you!
YW+D : Don't know what to say the monkeys won't do!
DrSns : Then by this time I was feeling dread
They was using a shoe brush to shine me head.
I asked them to leave but they stayed around.
They pulled the chain and yee! I went down!
DrSns : I don't know what to say the monkeys won't do!
YW+D : Don't know what to say the monkeys won't do!
DrSns : Call my lawyer; I'm ready to sue!
YW+D : Don't know what to say the monkeys won't do!
DrSns : Aaaaaaaaaa!
Marita: Yessah, brother!
Squit with the flute again, accidently jabs Pesto in the beak.
Pesto : Hey! That's it! Where do you think you're pointin' with that thing! ...
Squit : Ow! Come on! Knock it off! Ouch! ...
I'm losin' my tail feathers! I need those!
Pesto : Yeah, I'll give you one o' those! ...
DrSns : Well me patience ran out and I'm telling you sure
Tomorrow I show those monkeys the door!
And if they don't leave I'm inviting you
To my house for dumplings and monkey stew!
DrSns : I don't know what to say the monkeys won't do!
YW+D : Don't know what to say the monkeys won't do!
DrSns : Now I'm in the stew. -- Oh, poo.
YW+D : Don't know what to say the monkeys won't do!
DrSns : Watch out for monkeys, I'm telling you!
YWDF+M: Don't know what to say the monkeys won't do!
YW+D : We're not monkeys; we're just cuckoo!
YWDF+M: Don't know what to say the Warners won't do!
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I don't know...it just seems...so right.
Sirrocco