Random Thoughts XIII - Radioenergopithecocracy

[Kyriakos]

Anyway, some not very significant article of mine got accepted somewhere. It's based on a story about Demosthenes.

 

[r16]

"It's very mediocre blank verse"

can't comment , it is too much English for me .

 

[Gori the Grey]

Maybe I'll run a thread, r16, and see if I can communicate to non-native speakers what can be done with the poetic medium of blank verse, in the hands of a Shakespeare, vs what these blank-verse-Star-Warses settle for.

Congrats, Kyr. The pebbles story?

 

[Kyriakos]

Maybe I'll run a thread, r16, and see if I can communicate to non-native speakers what can be done with the poetic medium of blank verse, in the hands of a Shakespeare, vs what these blank-verse-Star-Warses settle for.

Congrats, Kyr. The pebbles story?

No, the one about the donkey's shadow.

 

[amadeus]

I solved an uncle rebus puzzle and the answer was kinda racist

 

[Takhisis]

I've actually read one of those: The Phantom of Menace.

It's very mediocre blank verse.

Have you read The Phantasmal Malevolence?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I solved an uncle rebus puzzle and the answer was kinda racist

Was it an old one?

I still have word puzzle books from as long ago as 1979. I'd take them to school with me to do a puzzle or two during breaks. Some of them are still in such good shape that unless you opened it, you couldn't tell I bought them over 40 years ago, rather than yesterday.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Have you read The Phantasmal Malevolence?

No. I had Phantom of Menace gifted to me by someone who knows I like Star Wars and Shakespeare.

Unfortunately, it is neither.

 

[Takhisis]

Have you read The Phantasmal Malevolence?

No.

Well then, here's where to start. It's distributed freely online.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Looks like it could be amusing. I'm a big fan of Knights of the Dinner Table. Which isn't quite the same concept, but a little along the same lines.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Looks like it could be amusing. I'm a big fan of Knights of the Dinner Table. Which isn't quite the same concept, but a little along the same lines.

I was a fan... until things got ugly on the forum and multiple breakaway forums were created by people who wanted no part of that. I stopped my subscription back in 2006, after

Spoiler :

Jolly Blackburn allowed some of his forum favorites to post a photo of someone they thought was me (a high school student from Red Deer; she had the same name as my forum name and they'd found her blog). They said something to the tune of wouldn't it be amusing to "pay me a visit"? Whereupon Jolly promptly doxxed me, posting everything he could find of my RL information.

I contacted the forum admin and told her she had 30 minutes to delete that - all of it - or I would be contacting the RCMP and informing them that Kenzerco was advocating stalking me and had posted the photo of a minor on their website - a girl who was completely uninvolved in any of this. She complied.

Needless to say, I have no warm thoughts toward that company anymore, though I'm still friends with the guy who created Fuzzy Knights. Noah Chinn is a cool guy, who created an adorable parody of KODT using stuffed animals. I've got my own Mossfoot and Violet (though not Mossfoot's costume; my version doesn't wear clothes), and have been scouring the internet for over 15 years to find Target and Ben.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I didn't know there was a forum. I just read it in The Dragon.

I'm sorry to learn that you went through such an experience.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I didn't know there was a forum. I just read it in The Dragon.

I'm sorry to learn that you went through such an experience.

Thanks.

It wasn't all bad. The first couple of years (2004 and 2005) were fun. It was in 2006 that stuff blew up. Some things happened there that had a profound effect on my life. I would never have gotten into things like forum management if not for that place (I was a mod there for awhile and they created a writing forum - making me the moderator, without telling me, so I logged in one morning to find a few dozen messages about something that was a total surprise).

One of the guys there said one day, "You like writing, so maybe you'd enjoy NaNoWriMo"... which got me started on years' worth of trying to write a 50,000-word story in 30 days and taking 9 years to actually accomplish it. Now I've succeeded at what the NaNo creator wanted, which was to get people in the habit of writing every day.

I also never would have come here to CFC. One day I mentioned being a bit frustrated with trying to figure out a good strategy for winning Civ II, and someone told me, "Check out Civilization Fanatics, you'll find lots of information there". So I did, and here I am.

 

[EgonSpengler]

The traffic on the street below my office window is insane. An ambulance with its siren going took 2-3 minutes to get a couple-hundred feet. And that was with people trying to get out of its way. I am so glad I don't (have to) drive.

 

[Kyriakos]

The traffic on the street below my office window is insane. An ambulance with its siren going took 2-3 minutes to get a couple-hundred feet. And that was with people trying to get out of its way. I am so glad I don't (have to) drive.

Minimum doppler effect.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I was listening to an American radio journalist talking to a German Army officer about the Leopard tank. The German offered to take the American for a little spin around the training ground, and BOY HOWDY, WAS THAT THING LOUD. THE TWO MEN HAD TO SHOUT TO HEAR EACH OTHER. I BET THE ENGINE WASN'T EVEN AT FULL POWER. AND THEY DIDN'T FIRE THE GUN. I've never been on a battlefield, modern or otherwise, but I expect being able to hear around you must come in handy. Not while you're in (or near) a tank, I guess. A Mariachi band could sneak up on one of those things.

 

[Broken_Erika]

I was listening to an American radio journalist talking to a German Army officer about the Leopard tank. The German offered to take the American for a little spin around the training ground, and BOY HOWDY, WAS THAT THING LOUD. THE TWO MEN HAD TO SHOUT TO HEAR EACH OTHER. I BET THE ENGINE WASN'T EVEN AT FULL POWER. AND THEY DIDN'T FIRE THE GUN. I've never been on a battlefield, modern or otherwise, but I expect being able to hear around you must come in handy. Not while you're in (or near) a tank, I guess. A Mariachi band could sneak up on one of those things.

The Germans did call the Abrams "Whispering Death" or something 'cause of how quiet it was compared to the Leopard 2. Of course all crew members would have headsets so they could hear each other over the diesel engine of the Leopard 2.

 

[amadeus]

Spike Lee? Not Asian.

 

[Takhisis]

I was listening to an American radio journalist talking to a German Army officer about the Leopard tank. The German offered to take the American for a little spin around the training ground, and BOY HOWDY, WAS THAT THING LOUD. THE TWO MEN HAD TO SHOUT TO HEAR EACH OTHER. I BET THE ENGINE WASN'T EVEN AT FULL POWER. AND THEY DIDN'T FIRE THE GUN. I've never been on a battlefield, modern or otherwise, but I expect being able to hear around you must come in handy. Not while you're in (or near) a tank, I guess. A Mariachi band could sneak up on one of those things.

Historically, tanks were really loud. My great-great-uncle was in a British Army tank against ze Germans, and he lost quite a bit of his hearing by the end of it.

 

[Plains-Cow]

Spike Lee? Not Asian.

Neither is Steven Segal. He has a Mongolian wife and Mongolian kids though, which is unexpected.