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#26 2006-08-30 15:24:00

Miiru
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

Fissssh! /inside Trinity joke

Ted Kennedy in a speedo is just another sign of the coming apocalypse.
-wiked

 

#27 2006-08-30 18:37:00

Jaime
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

Speaking of which, did you notice that we did NOT nearly aspirate our food in a gut-aching outburst of hysterical laughter this time around?  We're losing our touch.

Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again.

-- Heinlein

 

#28 2006-08-31 01:51:00

Miiru
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

You're right. It wasn't food. It was *wine*. Damnit, Tad! ~shakes fist~ Could the meat locker not have waited till I'd swallowed? I mean, honestly.

Ted Kennedy in a speedo is just another sign of the coming apocalypse.
-wiked

 

#29 2006-08-31 11:58:00

Tad
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

NOBODY expects the Meat Locker.

Or was that the Spanish Inquisition...?

Hi.  I'm still swamped.  Miiru, I haven't forgotten your query, and will reply soon.  Had an emergency call from publishers saying, "Need Jacket Copy Soonest", so everything else had to get dropped.

(To be honest, was more than partly my fault because they'd called me days earlier and I'd missed the call.)

Okay, back to SHADOWPLAY final rewrite.  I've been so slow it would be easier simply to send everyone a synopsis of what happens and get to work on book three, methinks...

"God bless your crooked little heart."

- Tom Waits

 

#30 2006-08-31 15:13:00

Miiru
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

The Inquisitorial Meat Locker: like an Iron Maiden, only colder.

Pls to be not hurrying on my account, Tad. :) Am patient and also still recovering from the Con.

Ted Kennedy in a speedo is just another sign of the coming apocalypse.
-wiked

 

#31 2006-08-31 15:33:00

fangler
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

Tad wrote:

So is fangler a past tense of "to fing"?

Alright, i might be late to the party, but I am no person's past tense. I'm all present baby! Yeeeeeee-ha!

 

#32 2006-08-31 15:37:00

Em
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

Is that simple present or perfect present?

Someday will find you.

 

#33 2006-08-31 16:55:00

fangler
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

I'd say simply perfect. :)

 

#34 2006-08-31 17:18:00

Em
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

fangler wrote:

I'd say simply perfect. :)

Or, as Mary Poppins would say, "practically perfect"?

Someday will find you.

 

#35 2006-09-01 03:11:00

Sahi
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

You people are silly, but then I already knew that. ;)

Yalahii.

"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#36 2006-09-01 06:51:00

Genisis X
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

That's why we are here isn't it?

-X

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#37 2006-09-01 06:55:00

Magpie
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

Not silly, just MAD!

I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

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#38 2006-09-01 07:03:00

Genisis X
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

I'm both.

;)

-X

Cyan on the merits of Dubstep: "That's not music. That's a patchwork quilt made by a blind iron worker."

My new webcomic of sarcasm and profanity!

 

#39 2006-09-01 11:20:00

Tad
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

As I always tell my children, I am always serious, never silly, and I never, ever tell lies.

"God bless your crooked little heart."

- Tom Waits

 

#40 2006-09-01 11:48:00

Sahi
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

Sorry Tad! *hangs head in shame to have implied the Dogly One to be silly* ;)

Yalahii.

"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#41 2006-09-01 12:08:00

Miiru
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

And I bet they *believe*  you too, Tad.

Ted Kennedy in a speedo is just another sign of the coming apocalypse.
-wiked

 

#42 2006-09-01 12:59:00

fangler
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

Tad wrote:

As I always tell my children, I am always serious, never silly, and I never, ever tell lies.

Do they bust out laughing when you say that? I know my kids would if I ever said that. At least the first part. I don't ever tell lies. well, not to peoples faces. and especially not when they'd know I was lying.

 

#43 2006-09-01 14:24:00

The Microphone
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

To fangler:

I fangle
You fangler
S/he fanglers
We fangle
You(se) fangler
They fanglers

Past tense:

I fangled
You fanglered
S/he fanglersed

And I have no idea about other tenses.

For a dollar you could find a girl of every possible design,
But you couldn't find a decent man, or a word spoken kind.
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#44 2006-09-01 15:09:00

Miiru
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

I know that the future perfect has been abandoned, since it has been rather conclusively proven not to be.

Ted Kennedy in a speedo is just another sign of the coming apocalypse.
-wiked

 

#45 2006-09-01 15:57:00

fangler
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

what ever happened to picture perfect?

 

#46 2006-09-01 15:59:00

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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

future perfect? is that the stuuf they taught us at school (in German, in English and in Latin) and then told us, "and now forget it, you'll never need it anyway."?

I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#47 2006-09-01 16:43:00

Miiru
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

Pretty much, yeah. :D

Ted Kennedy in a speedo is just another sign of the coming apocalypse.
-wiked

 

#48 2006-09-01 19:43:00

Genisis X
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

*doesn't even know what future perfect is*

-X

Cyan on the merits of Dubstep: "That's not music. That's a patchwork quilt made by a blind iron worker."

My new webcomic of sarcasm and profanity!

 

#49 2006-09-01 20:39:00

bandit
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

Genisis X wrote:

*doesn't even know what future perfect is*

-X

????? perhaps?

[ September 01, 2006: Message edited by: bandit ]

Crow: I think Ray Liotta would make an okay werewolf.
Tom Servo: No, he smells like apples.
- MST3K

 

#50 2006-09-02 04:18:00

Miiru
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Re: The Man, the Myth, the Dog

BUAHA

God, you are not right. :D ~love~

Ted Kennedy in a speedo is just another sign of the coming apocalypse.
-wiked

 

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