297 pts · September 16, 2013
This is great! Thanks very much for sharing!
Wait, hold on a second! « Trompeuse » means “deceptive”? I thought the heading was like “Trump-ish behavior”...
“Kids’ book” makes the situation even worse, if anything. A good kids’ book works in a very well-structured world with all its consequential effects. That’s one of the reasons why Michael Ende’s books are so fascinating (Neverending Story the most famous one, but the other ones are equally great). The worlds he devised are extremely surreal but their inner workings are highly logical.
Well, maybe it’s time then to direct some of their $2bn yearly revenue to quality control? https://newsroom.wiley.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2023/Wiley-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Fiscal-Year-2023-Results/default.aspx
Given that he’s almost certainly a descendant of Charlemagne, he’s got a claim almost as good as anyone else: https://www.theguardian.com/science/commentisfree/2015/may/24/business-genetic-ancestry-charlemagne-adam-rutherford
Wait... are you singing Myxolydian scales or something?
Well, it _was_ true: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phillip_Island&diff=1139720555&oldid=1139696493&diffmode=source (for, like, 3 hours)
Who made the photo in the second image? His hair seems too unperturbed for a close helicopter. CIA satellite? 800m long selfie stick?
Ah, OK. Good point!
You forgot Goonies Chieftain, Sallah from Indiana Jones and Eddard Stark ;-)
You mean the guy who changed a theocracy to a democratic government while in exile? Hm, sounds like we’re not talking about the same person.
In German, it’s a so-called “Wiegemesser”, in English “Mezzaluna”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezzaluna. It’s used to chop herbs.
Unfortunately, I can’t tell you anything about the provenience of the knife, but at least I can tell you what it is used for.
A Haribo museum?!? Cool!
What? Of course you stack a +4 on a +2, that’s just natural. The real question is, can you stack a +2 on a +4, if the color matches.
I’ve searched Youtube right now for the same reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GioEH34fhxE
Google says https://books.google.de/books?id=dPig9bm268sC&lpg=PA145&ots=MaapiX1RSS&pg=PA145
Agreed on the missing milligram, but decigram and decagram are two different units. And decigram is the correct one here.
Who took a bite off the sun?
The Internet Archive has it in a browser-playable state: https://archive.org/details/DescentIi
I am a firefighter and a married man. Her speaking up on this topic is as brave as the firefighters work.
They have this as plain text on their website, too: http://www.coventrycathedral.org.uk/wpsite/blog/2017/01/31/coventry-cathedrals-welcome/
Nope, true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan. Actually, quite good SciFi. 70M relates to copies of the whole series, though.
I just found out, too, that Imgur converts a thumbs-up to four questionmarks :sadface:
monastery at sunset and wondering whether that last bus on the schedule back to Sienna will ever arrive. (It did, by the way.)
???? Thanks for posting! One of my fondest memories of my youth is 21yo me standing at the bus station in the small village close to the ...
Nice composition, but you missed the part with the sword in the stone ;-)
See what? Is there something behind that sandworm?
Btw, if you enjoy RPGs and want to play them with your kids, try Hero Kids http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/106605/Hero-Kids--Fantasy-RPG
Very peculiar, that Batman looks deceptively like Adam West, while the Joker is a Heath Ledger look-alike.
This is great! Thanks very much for sharing!
Wait, hold on a second! « Trompeuse » means “deceptive”? I thought the heading was like “Trump-ish behavior”...
“Kids’ book” makes the situation even worse, if anything. A good kids’ book works in a very well-structured world with all its consequential effects. That’s one of the reasons why Michael Ende’s books are so fascinating (Neverending Story the most famous one, but the other ones are equally great). The worlds he devised are extremely surreal but their inner workings are highly logical.
Well, maybe it’s time then to direct some of their $2bn yearly revenue to quality control? https://newsroom.wiley.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2023/Wiley-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Fiscal-Year-2023-Results/default.aspx
Given that he’s almost certainly a descendant of Charlemagne, he’s got a claim almost as good as anyone else: https://www.theguardian.com/science/commentisfree/2015/may/24/business-genetic-ancestry-charlemagne-adam-rutherford
Wait... are you singing Myxolydian scales or something?
Well, it _was_ true: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phillip_Island&diff=1139720555&oldid=1139696493&diffmode=source (for, like, 3 hours)
Who made the photo in the second image? His hair seems too unperturbed for a close helicopter. CIA satellite? 800m long selfie stick?
Ah, OK. Good point!
You forgot Goonies Chieftain, Sallah from Indiana Jones and Eddard Stark ;-)
You mean the guy who changed a theocracy to a democratic government while in exile? Hm, sounds like we’re not talking about the same person.
In German, it’s a so-called “Wiegemesser”, in English “Mezzaluna”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezzaluna. It’s used to chop herbs.
Unfortunately, I can’t tell you anything about the provenience of the knife, but at least I can tell you what it is used for.
A Haribo museum?!? Cool!
What? Of course you stack a +4 on a +2, that’s just natural. The real question is, can you stack a +2 on a +4, if the color matches.
I’ve searched Youtube right now for the same reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GioEH34fhxE
Google says https://books.google.de/books?id=dPig9bm268sC&lpg=PA145&ots=MaapiX1RSS&pg=PA145
Agreed on the missing milligram, but decigram and decagram are two different units. And decigram is the correct one here.
Who took a bite off the sun?
The Internet Archive has it in a browser-playable state: https://archive.org/details/DescentIi
I am a firefighter and a married man. Her speaking up on this topic is as brave as the firefighters work.
They have this as plain text on their website, too: http://www.coventrycathedral.org.uk/wpsite/blog/2017/01/31/coventry-cathedrals-welcome/
Nope, true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan. Actually, quite good SciFi. 70M relates to copies of the whole series, though.
I just found out, too, that Imgur converts a thumbs-up to four questionmarks :sadface:
monastery at sunset and wondering whether that last bus on the schedule back to Sienna will ever arrive. (It did, by the way.)
???? Thanks for posting! One of my fondest memories of my youth is 21yo me standing at the bus station in the small village close to the ...
Nice composition, but you missed the part with the sword in the stone ;-)
See what? Is there something behind that sandworm?
Btw, if you enjoy RPGs and want to play them with your kids, try Hero Kids http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/106605/Hero-Kids--Fantasy-RPG
Very peculiar, that Batman looks deceptively like Adam West, while the Joker is a Heath Ledger look-alike.