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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Going to be Away?

« on: September 15, 2018, 08:33:33 PM »

Oddly enough, the political event seems to involve a lot of sitting in pubs and drinking beer

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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Going to be Away?

« on: September 14, 2018, 08:16:04 PM »

Indeed, much Internet

I too am doing things political for the next four days, by no coincidence at all at the same event as Jubal.

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Questions and Suggestions - The High Court / Re: Citizenship Applications Thread

« on: September 10, 2018, 09:16:17 PM »

Many thanks, Nic - the vote is now under way.

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

« on: August 28, 2018, 09:16:52 PM »

alarming

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

« on: August 28, 2018, 01:40:10 PM »

altitude

(and also: Yay! 1,500 pages of Word Association! And also, a little way back, 125,000 individual posts in the forum.)

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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Going to be Away?

« on: August 19, 2018, 11:58:20 AM »

Forthcoming awayness: today to Monday 27th inclusive. In fact I'm already 'away', as I'm typing this at Gatwick Airport. It's going to be a ramble through the erstwhile Holy Roman Empire by train: Vienna tonight, then Innsbruck, Verona, Switzerland, Frankfurt am Main, and finally Antwerp.

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

« on: August 17, 2018, 10:54:50 PM »

article

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

« on: August 15, 2018, 03:19:52 PM »

rope

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

« on: August 12, 2018, 03:39:48 PM »

corporation

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Arts, Crafts, Music & Drama - The Artisans' Guilds / Re: Mountain Leopards: An Adventuring Story

« on: August 11, 2018, 11:52:40 PM »

I'm so glad I'm not jaundiced about this series

Though I note that the toastmaster first appears as an odd grey-green colour, rather than the expected yellow?

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Arts, Crafts, Music & Drama - The Artisans' Guilds / Re: Mountain Leopards: An Adventuring Story

« on: August 09, 2018, 01:00:52 AM »

because I thought the joke could get lost for people who don't know that an Ordinary is a clerical role

This reminded me of a quote from SF and fantasy author Mary Gentle, in her introduction to her White Crow series:

This is why, when I say that there are jokes in Rats & Gargoyles that only three people in the world will understand, and one of them is dead, this is not an apology.

Please don't be afraid of obscure jokes and subtle references. Maybe some people won't get them, but others will - they'll connect what you've written with what they know, and a certain joyful smile will cross their face: "Oh, yes, that's what he means." Or maybe they won't understand at first, but will be motivated to do some research, and then that moment of discovery and connection will come a little later.

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Arts, Crafts, Music & Drama - The Artisans' Guilds / Re: In which Jubal decides to find out how hard writing comics is

« on: August 05, 2018, 10:28:45 PM »

I like this very much, and would enjoy more of it.

Also I feel the comic deserves a name of its own, not just "In which Jubal...", but I'm not sure what it should be.

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

« on: August 02, 2018, 06:42:55 PM »

Diet

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

« on: July 31, 2018, 09:52:21 PM »

shriven

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History, Science, and Interesting Information - The Great Library / Re: Nature yays

« on: July 31, 2018, 09:51:40 PM »

I just got lucky it didn't fly away from me. Also finally figured out the proper settings for my phone camera. Huehue

And this is how great photos are made: luck in catching the moment, and knowledge of how to handle the camera - plus an artist's eye for a picture. Well done: I think they're amazing!