Fabius Maximus on Spacebattles Wrote:Just as one comment. I was watching [Monty Python and the Holy Grail] with a lot of people who had never seen it before. So the last gerat event was a surprise. And then one teenaged girl, looked at her family with wide eyes and said: "That really wasn't Arthur--it was just a bunch of SCA players who got high and were rampaging around Great Britain."

Quote:"I brought yer sommat," the huge green man told him, before digging about in the pockets of his greatcoat for a bit. "Little humie like yer 'aven't got the muscle to handle much dakka yet, but a bit o' hackin' and sawin' and I fink I got 'un that'll see ya right 'till ya get on a bit in yer wierdboy trainin'... Ah, 'ere we go!"

The... weapon... Hagrid produced bore some faint resemblance to Uncle Vernon's shotgun, before it had been tied into a knot, but only just. It seemed to be about three times bigger around in the part were the bullets would come out, and clearly bore the marks of some vigorous tinkering in dents, gouges, patches wrapped with silvery tape, and featured unevenly sawed surfaces on both ends. It was just barely light and small enough with those modifications that he could keep it relatively stable when he tried holding it in a similar ready position as he'd seen people do on the telly.

It was hardly the first thing he'd have thought of when someone mentioned wizards, but Harry had to admit that it was bloody wicked.

Quote:"Well…" Ranma finally spoke up. "We… uhh… I tried something different while we were stuck in our hospital room. To… make Ryo feel better. I tried ki sharing with him."

Doctor Hirano raised an eyebrow, confused a moment, then blinked and nodded. "Ah, yes. That's a… hmmm… Shinto thing? Yes, well…" He took off his glasses and started polishing them. "While I respect your beliefs, and I realize they are quite real to you, I'm afraid that in the interests of your medical well-being I must insist we pursue all scientific avenues of explanation. I have seen many so called 'miracles' attributed to faith-healing, only for said effect to merely be…"

Ranma sighed, held up her left hand and concentrated for a moment, summoning a small but bright ball of ki.

Doctor Hirano's glasses dropped from suddenly nerveless fingers.

"Look! Science!" Ranma said brightly.