http://buildingthefortress.blogspot.com/]The Cubicle of Solitude - I don't know where this guy works, but either he's indispensible or management's remarkably laid-back...
--
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

Here's a website for the language created for Avatar:

Learn Navi dot org

And a radio interview with
the Linguist.
''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

I'm going to spend more text on what I _gave_ vs. what I got, and that's fine!

http://www.maverickarms.com/pages/88security.htm

showed up under the tree for me, I'm VERY pleased.

I gave a Craftsman 3-piece toolbox (rolly bit, intermediate box, top bit), 200 rds. of .380 acp, various gift cards ($500@lowes, 2ea @$100 @ Game Stop, 2ea @
$75 @ best buy), a 7.1 channel surround processor (bastard got me a PS3. I'll show him!)

But the happiest thing I'm on the giving end of is..

http://www.amazon.com/Eco...IG-2-BLADE/dp/B0012MD796

_awesome_.

So what did you folks give and get?
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

OK, I've watched part one.

You will NOT guess the unexpected cliffhanger until you have watched it about half way through part one. After I can only say/type/whatever in respect...

Figures.

Apparently, Disney drove a dump truck full of money up to Tim Powers' house.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

Yeahbuhwha? o.O;

--Sam

"Sarsaparilla and fresh horses for all my men!"

...so it behooves me to wish those that celebrate it a Merry Christmas.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I seem to recall once hearing a parody of REM's "Losing My Religion" that went along the lines of

Quote:That's me at the corner
That's me at the stoplight
Losing my transmission...

For anyone whose Christmakwanzakkah dinner plans include duck... try this. Made it on Thanksgiving (we're not turkey
lovers) and... wow.

--Sam

"It's a YULE TIDE!"

Since I'm going to be away from internets due to being with family in the back end of nowhere:



Like the beloved Liverpudlians have stated. Merry Christmas, folks!
''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

How it probably started

edit: Bob, can you place this in the General section?
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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