In the spirit of the Top Gear presenters, in the spirit of friendship I'm going to embarrass Foxboy. Feel free to return the favor anytime. ^_^

[Team] Rebecca Heisman: Big Spawn of Cocks can be creepy no?
[Team] Sassinak: O_o
[Team] Sassinak: Yeeees....
[Team] Rebecca Heisman: CLOCKS!
[Team] Rebecca Heisman: *REDFACED TYPO OF DOOM*
[Team] Sassinak: ((*Whooping in laughter*))

and got this. Alicia Seraph in her demon form... before she invested in strechy cloths

pic done by the very talented DrunkFu

Ok, it's that time of year again.

I will be at Gencon Indy (Wednesday - Sunday), and will probably be off line most of the time. If anyone else from the boards is going to be there and wants to get together for gaming of some sort let me know, something can be organized.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

Blackstone looked the space skimmer over with the jaded eye of someone who had seen far too many flying cars, flying buses, and flying Winnebagoes. It was small, but cunningly put together, with a base vehicle that looked like it might have started off as a roller coaster car. The second-hand nature of the fuselage was offset by the actual rockets that were mounted on the tail fins and the bubble canopy that appeared to be professionally shaped Plexiglas. The thing even had an internal electronic suite that the little brunette in the Girl Scouts uniform handled quite ably.
He turned to the two inventors and pilots and nodded. "Very nice, boys," he said. Then he frowned slightly, and added, "But aren't you two a little young to be working with handwavium?"
The first brother, a redhead with an impressive beak of a nose that he could only dream of growing into some day, looked at his more taciturn sibling, then back at Blackstone, and said, "Why, yes. Yes we are."
Blackstone grinned broadly. Fishing into coat pocket, he pulled out two Blue Blazer armbands and his business card. "You boys have a good day, and enjoy the rest of your summer vacation."
As the Cavalier returned to World Watch One, the redhead looked at the armbands and then held them up to his brother, saying excitedly, "Hey, Ferb, I think I figured out what else we're going to do today!"
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

But some form of crazy awesome. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interes ... star-in-ad]Dr. House vs Dr Blackjack, coming to Japanese TV soon. Youtube not too long after....

http://www.fanfiction.net...638/6/The_Hill_of_Swords
(Edit by Bob to put thread number in the title.  Sorry to step on your toes, Catty.)
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

Though not for the Fjords.
Rather, was off the grid last week to finalise our new apt in Los Angeles, and will be off the grid starting in the next day or two when I turn in my gear to my cable company till we get hooked up down there.,..
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

A little plotbunny that refused to leave my mind until I posted it. It's rough and could do with some editing. And reminds me of the engind of The Dish now that I think of it. An early visitor to the Moon comes back...

Quote:They called it a long trip, but in truth, the flight to Australia had taken longer than the trip to the Moon. A day around the planet, a half hour to the Moon. Funny that.

A converted bus had driven him up to the Space Station... Stellvia it was called. Far more comfortable and spacious than what they had in his day, that was for sure. Someone recognised him, despite him not using his more well known first name. That got him a free upgrade to first class, but he felt slightly awkward making a fuss. And the people...the strange cat-people.

He preferred to keep this trip quiet... a desire to which the stations staff gladly acceded. After a day or so in orbit, he joined a tour to Port Luna hiding amongst the throng of visitors heading to the Moon for the anniversary.

It was July.

As the tour bus landed he glanced out the window beside him. He could see the mottled greyscale landscape outside. It had a stark beauty all it's own.

Magnificent desolation.

Going through immigration on the Moon, was much the same as going through immigration at a small American airport back home. One made out of shipping containers. It was cramped, hot and not too comfortable. Now that was more like the space he remembered.

The gravity was wrong though. Of course, they'd installed some sort of plotanium gravity enhancer or something to keep the tourists comfy. Lunar gravity had been reduced to a theme ride for the comfort of every random tourist who thought he was pushing the frontier.

A few more knowledgeable people recognised him. Most respected him enough to give him his privacy... which he appreciated. A few said hello, or asked to shake his hand. The girl in the Sailor suit had been kind when she asked for his autograph, even if her skirt had been more of a belt. He asked them all to keep it quiet and not tell to many people. He didn't want to be mobbed, this was a private visit.

The actual commemoration ceremony was nice... a few speeches about how many of the fen had been inspired by the landings... how the sheer 'awesomeness' of flying to the Moon in a tin can, propelled by a barely controlled bomb dwarfed any of their achievements with handwavium. The idea that man could leave the Earth and stand on that big white thing in the sky that had for so long seemed impossible to reach. Anything was possible if we tried.

They then replayed the Moon landings in real time on a specially set up screen.

“That's one small step for a man, but one giant leap for mankind,”

The same TV pictures that had been sent back and recorded in 1969. They all watched in wonder at the grainy pictures of two space-suited men bouncing across the surface, even though many of them had probably done the same thing themselves at some stage or another. There were even excursion tours run to some of the Apollo sites.

The ceremony ended and the crowd started to thin, fen and mundane alike returning to their lives. He waited until it had thinned enough to let him get close to the glass.

At the heart of Port Luna was the original Apollo 11 landing site. It was kept safe by a ten meter high wall of modified glass. Even though the actual lander itself was nearly two miles away from him, he could still see the decent stage clearly. He could see the flag standing beside it. He could see the footprints preserved in the lunar soil.

“Excuse me sir,” a Coast Guard interrupted him, “Do I know you?” The guard looked to be barely twenty years old.

“No, no... probably not,”

“Well... uh Sir... forgive me for asking but can you tell me? What was it like to watch?”

“I didn't see it on TV.”

The guard raised an eyebrow.

“Oh...Well. Radio then?”

“No, I didn't hear it on the radio either,”

“Too bad,” the guard frowned, “My father told me how lucky I was to be up here for the anniversary. He wouldn't stop going on about how amazing it was.”

A smile crept across the traveler's lips.

“It was, wasn't it?”

The guard nodded. “ This your first time on the Moon?”

He shook his head with a smirk “No,”

“Well, have a good day sir,” the guard left him.

The man chuckled to himself. Poor boy will kick himself when he figures it out. For long minutes, he stared out at the landing site beyond. And the plaque on the landers leg.

“Here men from the planet Earth, first set foot upon the Moon July 1969 A.D., we came in peace for all mankind.”

He could remember Neil reading it aloud a half century ago. For an hour, Buzz Aldrin stared out across the landing site, losing himself to the memory of that momentous day. It had taken billions of dollars and thousands of people to get himself and Armstrong to the Moon.

And now... anyone could go.

For roughly the price of a second hand car.

Sure the Saturn V had been awesome... but something about the ordinary person being able to reach for the stars in his Winnebago was far more exciting.

"Remember, you must unload this cargo inside of twelve hours .. or you, your ship, and all the other ships and people will become very, very dead."
CMDF Services ... for when you absolutely need to fit over-large cargoes in a ship.
Can you imagine the results of someone waving up a miniaturizer ala Fantastic Voyage as done in the 1968-1970 cartoon?

A Russian photographer has photoshopped together WWII-vintage pictures with modern shots taken from the same positions and angles.  http://gizmodo.com/5600272/photoshop-ti ... rld-war-ii]The results are almost like a ghost story...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.