joespaniel
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Im "stuka" with this one until we get custom avatars. 
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You know what they all say - Great minds think alike. :crazyeyesOriginally posted by Ohwell
Damn you! I put that myself on the first page
Well I still haven't changed my avatar, I guess I am too attached to this one. I love it!
Speaking of which, it's your turn in our Chinese SG.
Simon Darkshade
Mysterious City of Gold
Very interesting, gentlemen, and not so gentlemen, and downright scoundrels. Good to see I am not the only one who chose on more grounds than visuals.
As to the winner of the two hundred and seventy six megatons of enriched uranium, there is not yet one! The guesses have been of a fair standard, but only delve into the immediately noticable permutations of the crusading notion
'Tis not Excalibur, nor a work of Monty Python.
It is from a British film of the 1960s. Its director did do a film about rugby with Professor Dumbeldore in the early part of the decade, but the one in question is regarded as perhaps his masterpiece, and featured the debut of a man who would go on to play a very naughty role, and appear in a flick about police in the south of Africa.
Given these clues, it should be easy, but if there is no progress by tommorrow morning, I shall have to reveal the answer, and thus keep all that uranium for myself
As to the winner of the two hundred and seventy six megatons of enriched uranium, there is not yet one!
The guesses have been of a fair standard, but only delve into the immediately noticable permutations of the crusading notion 'Tis not Excalibur, nor a work of Monty Python.
It is from a British film of the 1960s. Its director did do a film about rugby with Professor Dumbeldore in the early part of the decade, but the one in question is regarded as perhaps his masterpiece, and featured the debut of a man who would go on to play a very naughty role, and appear in a flick about police in the south of Africa.
Given these clues, it should be easy, but if there is no progress by tommorrow morning, I shall have to reveal the answer, and thus keep all that uranium for myself
duke o' york
It don't mean a thing....
I'm not really sure that I want your uranium, but your film is If... (not sure about the number of dots ) which was directed by Lindsay Anderson who also directed This Sporting Life. There are the answers to your clues. 
Do what you like with the uranium, but blackmailing world governments is the traditional activity.
) which was directed by Lindsay Anderson who also directed This Sporting Life. There are the answers to your clues. Do what you like with the uranium, but blackmailing world governments is the traditional activity.
Simon Darkshade
Mysterious City of Gold
CORRECT!!!! Well done, your grace, but I did make it rather easy for you with my final hints.
How is "if..." associated with the use of a crusader?
The schoolboy heroes of the film, Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell), Johnny(David Wood), Wallace (Richard Warwick), and the luscious little Bobby Phillips*[see note below]* (Rupert Webster, sadly deceased several years ago
) are the "crusaders" (that having been the original title of the script), who oppose and fight the oppressive elements in College House, the school at large, and indeed wider society itself (mainly metaphorically in this final case).
The various rebellions they conduct increase in tempo and violence, culminating in the rather famous footage of the gun battle atop the chapel roof.
The film is one of my great favourites,(it influenced much that came after it, such as the name of the main character in Taxi Driver) and one was a bit of a rebel without a cause in an old, private (public in the British sense) school that was quite the bastion of privilege. I never went so far as to bayonet the chaplain, set fire to the school, shoot the headmaster, steal motorcycles, and bed younger boys, but it is the thought that counts. 
Despite being the title of the original script there is only one reference to the crusaders in the film. Travis tells his friends that:"the crusaders flayed their victims and sent the neatly folded skins home to the victim's families."
Thus, I thought to myself, "Simon, why not put a little history into your choice of avatar, rather than simply select one at random."
And the rest did follow.
As to the fate of the uranium, I will put it to work on some of my own ...projects...
* = One labels him as such as it seems at stages that the whole school is trying to seduce him in some way shape or form.
How is "if..." associated with the use of a crusader?
The schoolboy heroes of the film, Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell), Johnny(David Wood), Wallace (Richard Warwick), and the luscious little Bobby Phillips
*[see note below]* (Rupert Webster, sadly deceased several years ago ) are the "crusaders" (that having been the original title of the script), who oppose and fight the oppressive elements in College House, the school at large, and indeed wider society itself (mainly metaphorically in this final case).The various rebellions they conduct increase in tempo and violence, culminating in the rather famous footage of the gun battle atop the chapel roof.
The film is one of my great favourites,(it influenced much that came after it, such as the name of the main character in Taxi Driver) and one was a bit of a rebel without a cause in an old, private (public in the British sense) school that was quite the bastion of privilege. I never went so far as to bayonet the chaplain, set fire to the school, shoot the headmaster, steal motorcycles, and bed younger boys, but it is the thought that counts.
Despite being the title of the original script there is only one reference to the crusaders in the film. Travis tells his friends that:"the crusaders flayed their victims and sent the neatly folded skins home to the victim's families."
Thus, I thought to myself, "Simon, why not put a little history into your choice of avatar, rather than simply select one at random."
And the rest did follow.
As to the fate of the uranium, I will put it to work on some of my own ...projects...
* = One labels him as such as it seems at stages that the whole school is trying to seduce him in some way shape or form.
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Originally posted by Simon Darkshade
Given these clues, it should be easy, but if there is no progress by tommorrow morning, I shall have to reveal the answer, and thus keep all that uranium for myself
Is the Uranium left over from that Japanese Cult that (supposedly) reportedly let a nuke off in the outback a few years back?
I don't have an avatar because:
1.) I'm too busy (read "lazy") to trawl through the 100's available.
2.) I want a custom one.
.:KNAS:.
Civfanatic
i noticed there was a lack of "Chebacca" in the avatar section, so the millenuim falcon will have to do, i changed avatar cuz i saw someone in the civ3 forums having the hoplite aswell
knowltok2
Deity
I used to have the knight for no particular reason. I stopped because I have to keep getting new accounts when my computer eats the cookies and refuses to cooperate. I'd compare post count too, but every 200 or so I get reset to zero by this same occurance.
It was the only cyborg unit in the standard avatars.
TrailblazingScot
I was kittenOFchaos
I remember a certain little thread I started a long, long time ago!
It was rated "the most stupid thread I have ever seen" by SunTzu and boy oh boy...it dealt with: putting avatars to poster personalities!
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4622
As for this thread:
I am a French Musketeer mainly as I am France in a diplomacy game and I was tired of being a Cannon.
Why was I a cannon??? As my arguements are indefensible
It was rated "the most stupid thread I have ever seen" by SunTzu and boy oh boy...it dealt with: putting avatars to poster personalities!
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4622
As for this thread:
I am a French Musketeer mainly as I am France in a diplomacy game and I was tired of being a Cannon.
Why was I a cannon??? As my arguements are indefensible
Simon Darkshade
Mysterious City of Gold
No, it was delivered to me as a reward for subscribing to TIME magazine
duke o' york
It don't mean a thing....
Originally posted by kittenOFchaos
Why was I a cannon??? As my arguements are indefensible
Yeah, there's no way anyone would bother defending the kind of arguments you make!
And Simon, I was offered some Uranium for my subscription to HALF-LIFE magazine, but it never arrived. Maybe you got it instead?
I seem to vaguely recall having explained why I chose the dip elsewhere, but will do it again to keep the masses quiet. I have to wear a suit for work, and so it looks like me (apart from the topper!), but I also like to engage in discussion on this site so it is quite appropriate. But by that measure, ACM should be the king of flaming....
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