The next morning, Usagi glared at Luna while getting dressed.

"What?" Luna demanded.

"You snore," Usagi accused as she adjusted her skirt.

"I *what*?"  Luna tilted her head.

"You *snore*," Usagi repeated, reaching for her middy blouse.
"I woke up in the middle of the night last night and heard you."

"How can I snore?" Luna demanded.  "I'm a *cat*!"

Usagi rolled her eyes as she pulled the blouse on over her head.
"How can you snore?  How can you *talk*?"  She studied herself in 
the mirror as she adjusted her collar.  "Doesn't matter.  No more 
sleeping on my pillow right next to my ear."
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Since they're not really worth their own threads but are worth bringing to people's attention (for an elastic definition of "worth"), here's a thread for oddities from the news.

Please, actual stories only - no "hey, look at that silly person" pieces.

Here's how to make your own tractor beam:


Here's how it works (at the "50,000-foot-view" level):

--
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

My father's looking for a new computer monitor, and one of the features he wants is dual input displayed at the same time - either picture-in-picture or split-screen. Does such a monitor exist in the home or small-office/home-office market?
--
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

The GOP votes to remove it's independent oversight reverse course after public outcry
The only thing that stopped it from being voted on was Trump's criticism of it, though his adviser was defending it. And I wonder if Trump does not want the GOP members getting their hand on what the French used to call "little graft". That would be reserved for him and his cabinet.
So to the conservative members of the forum, still think crying wolf is a bad idea?
Edit: The link disappeared. My bad
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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 bit more than a year after he last reappeared to post a new chapter of Hell Is A Martial Artist, Ozzallos has returned and posted the beginnings of two new fics over at ff.net:  Saotome Art Online, a Ranma-Sword Art Online crossover (obviously), and Puella Magi Saotome Magica, a crossover which should be just as obvious from its title.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Just thought some folks might like to know that Yagami's limited-time freebies for ChibiBel are available again for her 10th anniversary - including the Strike Witches set. There's no telling how long they'll be available... or, there wouldn't be if I hadn't made sure they're all saved in the Wayback Machine (which some weren't the first time they were up).

http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~yagami/CB_10th/10th_top.htm
--
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

Bob Schroeck Wrote:New cursed thread to start with the next celebrity death.

And may 2017 be a better year all-around for everyone.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Thread 8, right on schedule...

Now that http://drunkardswalkforums.yuku.com/rep ... ply-140219]Geth has perma-banned "Saline", I've been reviewing his changes and reverting some (but not all) of them. I'd like some advice on http://allthetropes.org/w/index.php?ti ... id=1187112]the changes to "So You Want To/Write a Cyber Punk Story".

Obviously, the typo fixes can stay in.

Obviously, the changes to standard headers (e.g. "Suggested Themes and Aesops" -> "Suggested questions, themes and Aesop-to-Aesop conflicts") get reverted.

Obviously, the Suggested Plots that he cut get put back.

Obviously, we should take the real-world organization names out of the changes.

By preference, the changes from Commonwealth English to US English get reverted - this isn't a US-specific genre, our policy is that they're both okay, and the Commonwealth spellings were there first.

Some of the others, though, I'm not sure about. Are all of those Suggested Themes and Aesops applicable to the genre? Should the motif be obscure? Does everything added to the Props section make sense in-genre? Do costumes need to look like modern-day outfits? Does the "Sound" section belong in the article at all?
--
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