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Posted: Apr 5, 2009 - 12:52pm

 manbirdexperiment wrote:

I thought a craven was a cross between a cranberry and raisin. 
 
No, you're thinking of a treavle.

A craven is part cranberry, part ventricle. The Noldor had a taboo about eating ventricles.


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Posted: Apr 5, 2009 - 12:52pm

 manbirdexperiment wrote:

I thought a craven was a cross between a cranberry and raisin. 

 
That's a rastbega.

phineas

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Posted: Apr 5, 2009 - 12:52pm

 oldslabsides wrote:
We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.

~ Fëanor, from The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

good lord that man could write
 
As could Mr. Slugg, below...


Manbird

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Posted: Apr 5, 2009 - 12:51pm

 oldslabsides wrote:
We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.

~ Fëanor, from The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

good lord that man could write
 
I thought a craven was a cross between a cranberry and raisin. 
Red_Dragon

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Location: Dumbf*ckistan


Posted: Apr 5, 2009 - 12:42pm

We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.

~ Fëanor, from The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

good lord that man could write

phineas

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Posted: Apr 2, 2009 - 1:13pm

Speak softly and carry a big lunch.

Bub Slugg
triskele

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Location: The Dragons' Roost


Posted: Apr 1, 2009 - 7:09pm

oldslabsides wrote:

happy now?

{#Arrowd}

no, but at least you fixed your typo....

Red_Dragon

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Posted: Apr 1, 2009 - 7:04pm

 triskele wrote:


 
happy now?

{#Arrowd}

triskele

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Posted: Apr 1, 2009 - 7:02pm

oldslabsides wrote:
Most people don't know what they're doing, and a lot of them are really god at it.

~ Carlin




Red_Dragon

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Location: Dumbf*ckistan


Posted: Apr 1, 2009 - 6:29pm

Most people don't know what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

~ Carlin


hobiejoe

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Posted: Mar 30, 2009 - 4:31pm

 phineas wrote:
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

Bert Leston Taylor
, The So-Called Human Race (1922)

 
I will get the hang of social interaction. Starting here.
 
 
Did I ever tell you about that time..... {#Hand}


phineas

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Posted: Mar 30, 2009 - 4:25pm

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

Bert Leston Taylor
, The So-Called Human Race (1922)
Proclivities

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Posted: Mar 27, 2009 - 1:03pm

"When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane."

-Hermann Hesse

 


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Location: Auckland, New Zealand (former Boston native and Atlanta transplant)
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Posted: Mar 27, 2009 - 9:54am

"You can't get there from here." 

Some guy way up in down Maine.
oldviolin

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Location: esse quam videri
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Posted: Mar 27, 2009 - 9:05am

"You will live with each note that you have composed."

Basil Poledouris
oldviolin

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Location: esse quam videri
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Posted: Mar 5, 2009 - 9:51am

Space...the final frontier...

Trekhead
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Posted: Feb 25, 2009 - 1:29pm

"Englebert Humperdinck, when you drive, does your bumper clink?"
fidget

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Location: The dreaming spires
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Posted: Feb 25, 2009 - 8:27am

They may have improved it..... but it doesn't mean it's any better

Tom Sharpe 
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Location: Dumbf*ckistan


Posted: Feb 12, 2009 - 7:45pm

 Lazy8 wrote:

you hurt my feelings

 
there, there - have some rye.

Lazy8

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Posted: Feb 12, 2009 - 7:39pm

 phineas wrote:
Maybe "existential angst" is just an intellectual term for pouting.
 
you hurt my feelings


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