Cancer Posted April 7, 2014 Report Share Posted April 7, 2014 Well, I haven't actually seen the sites where the kids were supposedly, so I cannot attest with first-person certainty the no-fires part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 7, 2014 Report Share Posted April 7, 2014 As long as you don't hear of it, it's all good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 7, 2014 Report Share Posted April 7, 2014 I would strengthen that to "never hear of it". Hearing about it after long delay is the worst. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 Like the time I almost broke my neck while doing my national service -- mom and dad only ever heard about that one last year, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 Yeah, that's the kind of thing I meant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 And the time my bro almost fell off a mountain that we were climbing. Well, "almost" ... he did fall off, but kicked out with a leg at the right moment, and got caught in a tree with his head dangling half a meter over rocks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 ... and then there's the secrets we carry to the grave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 ... I have no idea what you're talking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 9, 2014 Report Share Posted April 9, 2014 Me too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 9, 2014 Report Share Posted April 9, 2014 Great! No secrets here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 9, 2014 Report Share Posted April 9, 2014 You mean aside from your encounter with that sheep? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 9, 2014 Report Share Posted April 9, 2014 I'm sure the farmer was able to catch them all, eventually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 9, 2014 Report Share Posted April 9, 2014 May have been posted before, for those chemically inclined. Organic mega flow battery promises breakthrough for renewable energy -- Harvard Technology Could Economically Store Energy For Use When The Wind Doesn’t Blow And The Sun Doesn’t Shine http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2014/01/organic-mega-flow-battery-promises-breakthrough-for-renewable-energy Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 9, 2014 Report Share Posted April 9, 2014 A pity it doesn't say "where the sun doesn't shine." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 9, 2014 Report Share Posted April 9, 2014 En Al-Sams La Laisa -- "The place where the suns shineth not." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 9, 2014 Report Share Posted April 9, 2014 Hmm. Interesting concept. Hmmmmmm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Stolen from Pratchett's Jingo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 I recognized that, but certain ramifications of the idea are interesting for fantasy RPG worlds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Deep overhangs, and so on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 I was thinking about something I have done, characterizing a particular place as "the anus of Earth". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 I once described an industrial neighborhood as "the armpit of Piteå." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 That's the spirit of what I was meaning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 I was thinking about something I have done, characterizing a particular place as "the anus of Earth". Alamosa, Colorado. My dad grew up near there. Moving away was widely regarded as the smartest thing he ever did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Alamosa, Colorado. My dad grew up near there. Moving away was widely regarded as the smartest thing he ever did. full of donkeys? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Alamosa, Colorado. My dad grew up near there. Moving away was widely regarded as the smartest thing he ever did.Wow. I may have been there (back when I was 10 or 11). For a while my grandfather lived in Royal Gorge, and there's a branch of the family that lives in southern CO ... Rocky Ford, Pueblo, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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