Recent content by cichlid221

Here's how it's done: To type in special characters at practically any prompt, hold down "Alt" while typing in these ASCII codes, and release it when you're done. The character will appear. Here are a few common ones: 128 = Ç 130 = é 131 = â 133 = à 135 = ç 136 = ê 137 = ë 138 = è 140 = î (more...

Absolument! My ancestors, the Demers (Have any of you heard of them?), were the ones that originally split Québec into three parts for trading, way back when. My French teacher was from Québec, and most of my extended family still lives in Québec. If it is not made a separate nation, at least...

I still remember that time many years ago when I discovered that even 20 cruise missles couldn't take out an AEGIS cruiser. Those missles were my key to domination, and I decided to send them on a test-run. I had an island airbase loaded up with missles, and several stealth planes to escort...

Here's another bad verbal pun: Q:"As-tu diné?" A:"Non, pas du tout, j'ai seulement un nez!" Sans blague! Non, avec blague! Tu me rendras fou! Oui, si tu veux! Je vais te tuer en riant! Ah, mon oeil! Ta mère était un hamster, et ton père se sentait de baie! ------------------ It's simply too...

I think that may be "yes." As for a short poem, this isn't the shortest, but it's not long. It's by e.e.cummings, and I can't remember where the line breaks go, so I'll try the best I can. Lonliness l(a le af fa l l s) onli ness ------------------ It's simply too complicated. <u>I DON'T LIKE...

My pearl of wisdom: <u><FONT face="15"> GO HANG A SALAMI I'M A LASAGNA HOG! </FONT f></u> ------------------ It's simply too complicated. <u>I DON'T LIKE RAW FOOD! </u> I am not liable for any silly mistakes I make here. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions.

I remember many, many months ago when this happened: There was a 4-square lake, surrounded by mountains, on my western frontier, in which a barbarian trireme appeared and unloaded two legions. I killed the legions when they came close, and proceeded to explore. I found two funny things: 1)...

Have any of you played TOT? If you haven't, there's a concept known as "invisible until concept," where the unit's icon appears invisible to any civ but that which owns it, until it attacks, when you see it perfectly well destroying your units. It's very similar to the submarine effect. The...

Thanks, I've been working on it for two years. Here's a better response to a previous joke: Combien ça prend d'avocat pour viser une ampoule? Seulement un avocat, car un avocat peut viser quelque chose! [This message has been edited by cichlid221 (edited July 07, 2001).]

Yes, I have, and I've noticed that certain units get certain prizes. This may not be true, but with one type of unit (I can't remember which one) I only get tech, settlers and new cities. With another, I think it's a diplomat, I mostly get enemies.

I have the same dilema in some games where the engineer-type units are exceedingly tough to get, like the Midgard scenario in TOT. When I get one, I have to be very careful not to build a city with them, because they're irreplacable. In your case, if your civ is small, you should build a city...

Actually, my little brother discovered that for me. I find it takes too long to use on a regular basis, so I only use it when I feel it's the game's fault.

I know for a fact that that has never happened to you, and, besides, the computer would never start you off in such bad terrain, unless it is told to do so, or if your map is entirely mountains!

merci! My dictionary is locked in the basement, and I couldn't remember the word for "run over." As you can tell, in the true French style, I made up the jokes as I went along, and they make no sense in either language.

Il y a un éleve qui étudie l'anglais. Il est embêté. La prof parle en anglais. L'étudiant parle en français. Il y avait trois gens qui traversait la rue dehors. Une personne était une poule. La deuxième personne était une vache. La troisième personne était un avocat. La question posée est, qui...