Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread
Edit: With some exceptions. Inga is a 7-yr-old but she narrates like 18 (at least, that's the goal)
1,402 2016-06-14 11:50:40
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Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread
So what is the age of the person writing on this thread? Hmmm. Maybe three...
1,403 2016-06-15 01:29:38
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amy s wrote:
So what is the age of the person writing on this thread? Hmmm. Maybe three...
If you keep picking on Norm, there will be another Dr Ess
1,404 2016-06-15 02:58:49
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No, Amy's is done. Professor Hinkley, too. You, however, get a recurring role as Caligula's highly inappropriate mother. I can't wait to put her together with Apollo in Mama's bar. Apollo: Um, ugh, er, Lady Kay, I mean, we shouldn't, oh dear Lord, don't stop!
1,405 2016-06-15 05:53:36
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Hmm. 'Hinkley' should be 'Hinkles' or 'Hinklettes'.
1,406 2016-06-15 11:42:10
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Kdot wrote:
amy s wrote:So what is the age of the person writing on this thread? Hmmm. Maybe three...
If you keep picking on Norm, there will be another Dr Ess
K,
You need to stop trying to threaten me about what other people (who you clearly don't control) are going to do to defame me. Put up your dukes, mister. BATTER UP!
1,407 2016-06-15 17:40:12 (edited by Elisheva Free 2016-06-15 17:40:28)
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You wrote 'defame'. I read 'dethrone'. 
1,408 2016-06-15 18:26:34
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njc wrote:
Hmm. 'Hinkley' should be 'Hinkles' or 'Hinklettes'.
Professor R. Hinkley is from Gilligan's Island but with Roy abbreviated. It's intended as an homage. Too similar?
1,409 2016-06-15 20:47:40
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If it's an homage keep it. I thought it could be made a bit campier or sillier.
Sorry. I'm under the influence of that Dave Freer book, which includes a demon named Hariseldon. (Yes. Snicker) Once addicted to pickles, the demon goes full psychedelic sixties in a chamber pot. Valuable resource, that.
1,410 2016-06-15 23:30:28
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njc wrote:
a chamber pot. Valuable resource, that.
I'm old enough to remember those. And who can forget an indoor outhouse? Vented, but not heated.
1,411 2016-06-16 00:16:54
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Actually, it's Hariseldon who becomes the valuable resource. What happens when he's given pickled chilies ... well, that's the play.
1,412 2016-06-16 16:35:37
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Talk about indoor privies on my thread. How appropriate. I approve.
1,413 2016-06-16 17:03:53
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What, you're the privy councillor?
1,414 2016-06-19 14:08:41
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I'm slacking off ... by going over the old Darwin Awards. The site's less busy than it used to be, but if Amy hasn't read it, she should. There are a lot of interesting ER stories.
1,415 2016-06-20 02:09:44
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njc wrote:
What, you're the privy councillor?
Nay, 'tis the Groom of the Stool that's a most coveted position.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groom_of_the_Stool
View yourselves educated as from now. 
1,416 2016-06-20 02:11:23
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njc wrote:
I'm slacking off ... by going over the old Darwin Awards. The site's less busy than it used to be, but if Amy hasn't read it, she should. There are a lot of interesting ER stories.
There are some golden awards from days gone by. But it has been quiet recently ... Maybe all these rules and regulations are working after all?
1,417 2016-06-20 02:50:33
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Janet (AJ) Reid wrote:
njc wrote:What, you're the privy councillor?
Nay, 'tis the Groom of the Stool that's a most coveted position.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groom_of_the_Stool
View yourselves educated as from now.
What a crappy job. Imagine having that role with the 300+ lbs. King Henry VIII. Yikes!
1,418 2016-06-20 04:20:49
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Hey, I think I was the first to mention it here.
1,419 2016-06-20 04:46:54
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njc wrote:
Hey, I think I was the first to mention it here.
You did! But you underplayed the importance and glamour of the post though!
1,420 2016-06-21 10:01:44
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Don't worry if the site has been quiet. I just have to find enough energy to pick on K again and then BOOM, whaka whaka
(My friend's answering machine..."If you want to hit Todd, then press pound pound, pound pound pound."
1,421 2016-06-23 09:41:08
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Once again, I'm going to the Chicago Writer's Conference Sept 22,23,24. To any and all interested, feel free to photobomb me without my knowledge. Should you choose to reveal yourself, a cup of java (or tea) and a frozen yogurt bigger than your head will be purchased in your honor. Tickets are cheaper now than later, so come on down to Chicagoland!
(FYI, this is not a sci-fi conference, but I figure WTF, it's close to me and I like the shopping!)
1,422 2016-06-25 02:56:31
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So what does everybody think about the EU and Britain?
Janet? I'm curious about an Aussie perspective.
Me: Britain's promise to its homebound citizens was to spend the money that was draining out of their country on its own citizens. We'll see if that comes to pass. Greece is sweating bullets right now. Mainland Europe is deciding if they want to bail. What a mess.
The horror of it all is all the google hits wondering what the 'EU' was. Americans. Sheesh.
1,423 2016-06-25 03:14:27
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I said it on the other thread:
The EU has fundamental problems in a currency union that is effectively run by the least responsible states and a system of laws growing at the behest of the most prolific bureaucrats. If they fix those problems, they still have their self-defense problems: what to defend, against whom, who is to do it, and who is to pay?
It's worth fixing the problems, but is it worth trying to fix them? John Bull seems to say not.
1,424 2016-06-25 11:29:25
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Thanks for sticking your toe into that mud puddle.
1,425 2016-06-25 15:16:56
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Belaboring the obvious is one of my favorite pastimes. 
