Post #278,071
3/12/07 3:25:56 PM
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IreadLRPD
Thor's hammer was named Mjoelnir
lincoln
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
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Post #278,078
3/12/07 5:57:23 PM
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Huh? What's LRPD-worthy about that?
It's like "Jason's ship was named Argos", or any other such factoid from ancient myth. "Alexander's horse was named Bucefalos", hooray, make it an LRPD!
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Post #278,080
3/12/07 7:58:46 PM
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informative lrpds can be acceptable
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Post #278,084
3/12/07 9:04:04 PM
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Here are a few more:
"The sky is blue."
"Grass is green."
I mean, maybe you didn't know that either?
Sheesh.
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Post #278,086
3/12/07 9:09:15 PM
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knowledge of Norse mythology is not common
lincoln
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem.
I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the United States.
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Post #278,093
3/12/07 9:58:28 PM
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just because ya'all
grab yer gnads and say I hafta let borkinspeil out for a spin doesnt mean the rest of the world grocks that.
"time to swallow some champaiegn out of the shoe" is a common phrase around here, are you familiar with it?
thanx,
bill
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Post #278,123
3/13/07 9:40:02 AM
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...For rather expansive values of "blue" and "green"...
jb4
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Post #278,097
3/12/07 10:50:21 PM
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Oh, for ...... sake - since effing when?
The whole "informative lrpds" line is pure bullshit. (Sorry, my bad for not spelling that out in terms simple enough for you two in the first place.)
You just made that up to cover for Linc's ignorance. Since fucking when are LRPDisms pointless factoids?!? If there are any that are no more, then they're probably LRPDisms by mistake, having been nominated in the same fucking ignorance that Linc's displaying here.
Anyway, stupidity is not exactly the greatest of covers for ignorance.
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Ah, the Germans: Masters of Convoluted Simplification. — [link|http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=1603|Jehovah]
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Post #278,101
3/12/07 11:03:13 PM
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...
There are no standards for acceptance, nor for denial.
Purely factual LRPDs may be accepted if they become sufficiently amusing when taken out of context, for example.
I don't wish to discourage *any* kind of quote from being suggested, as I never know which ones will receive the blessing of the great GRR.
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #278,102
3/12/07 11:38:15 PM
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Redundancy Violation!
Great GRR
Smile,
Amy
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Post #278,105
3/12/07 11:44:14 PM
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Redundancy is in the eye of the beholden.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #278,111
3/13/07 2:39:05 AM
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I wondered what was in my eye!
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Post #278,103
3/12/07 11:38:45 PM
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I say it's a keeper
If only for the amount of sputtering it causes from CRC.
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Post #278,104
3/12/07 11:41:30 PM
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Well, sha, at this point that's a given.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #278,114
3/13/07 3:39:29 AM
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Yeah, I suspected as much. :-(
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Post #278,107
3/13/07 12:49:18 AM
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ICLRPD (new thread)
Created as new thread #278106 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=278106|ICLRPD]
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Post #278,227
3/14/07 1:16:55 PM
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Beefs.
Peter
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Post #278,130
3/13/07 10:25:52 AM
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So now I'm "ignorant"?
because I'm not well-versed in Norse mythology?
Are you knowledgeable in American Indian Cherokee mythology, or are you just "ignorant"?
I thought that it was an interesting thing to learn, something that I never knew before, and figured that a majority of the members here also didn't know it.
Boxley is correct in that we have factual LRPDs, and Admin will make the final decision whether this joins the other LRPDs.
lincoln
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem.
I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the United States.
[link|mailto:golf_lover44@yahoo.com|contact me]
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Post #278,135
3/13/07 11:41:20 AM
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"Now"?
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Post #278,148
3/13/07 2:13:40 PM
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Have you always been
a jerk, or did you recently convert?
lincoln
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem.
I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the United States.
[link|mailto:golf_lover44@yahoo.com|contact me]
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Post #278,228
3/14/07 1:18:15 PM
3/14/07 1:20:15 PM
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Mjoellnir, actually.
And yes, that's not actually uncommon knowledge here in Northern Europe. I'd hazard a suggestion that it's not actually all that uncommon in the American-speaking land known as Turtle Island, either.
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March 14, 2007, 01:20:15 PM EDT
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Post #278,237
3/14/07 3:23:25 PM
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Well, *actually* "actually"...
...it's usually more like "Mjölner", "Mjølnir", "Mjolnr", or something like that -- for one thing, the old Norse were likely to have many ways to skin a spelling cat; for another, there's probably no absolute consensus on how to transcribe their runes into our Latin alphabet.
But anyway, two observations: Your variant with two l's, while I've probably seen it before, is rare; and the whole "oe" thing is of course strictly for poor Southlanders who haven't upgraded to the Extended (Umlaut) Edition of the Roman alphabet.
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Post #278,244
3/14/07 3:55:35 PM
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Who cares?
No matter how you spell it, it's still going to sound like a Technicolor yawn when you say it.
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Post #278,271
3/14/07 6:00:09 PM
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ICanotherLRPD (new thread)
Created as new thread #278270 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=278270|ICanotherLRPD]
jb4
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— George W. Bush, when asked if he believed Iraq was in a state of civil war (Newsweek, 26 Feb 07)
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Post #278,611
3/17/07 4:36:31 PM
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Oddly enough
On certain other sites frequented by my American brethren, it's not uncommon to read "I'd hit it with my mighty Mjolnir!" --\r\nYou cooin' with my bird?
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Post #280,373
4/2/07 5:44:03 PM
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ICLRPD.
So sayeth the Red One: Thor's hammer was named Mojo Jojo. Cheers, Scott.
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