[quote who="Draakjacht" reply="39479" id="3044336"]banned because the human brain typically continues to develop until the average age of 25. There is still potential to change afterward, but most core traits remain intact.[/quote] Banned for confusing roughly complete neuroanatomy with a fully grown mind, and for forgetting that odd bits of us like noses and ears keep growing slowly larger. What, you never read the Ringworld stories?
No, we should take a break to insult you for this vacuum bidness. And for assuming everyone's trying to insult MK. I have no idea what's going on amongst you kids and am just doing a typing version of throwing monkey wrenches in the works. And now I really wish I still had my compact Oxford English Dictionary. Whatever crappy free dictionary PoSmedley found claims a first known use, but doesn't show it. The OED is such an uber-nerd thing--it has usage examples from across
Banned because he might be a bit humble, but he also seems to be the center of his universe. What the shrinks might call that, I could care less; especially 'cause he already shows signs he might grow out of it.
Minx is a (mostly early) 20th century slang term for saucy young ladies, similar to vixen. Except that it is either a misspelling of the name of Manx cats, which oddly enough are not a very saucy breed of cat, or an old spelling of mink.
[quote who="Grizzyloins" reply="52" id="3044251"]When I was a teenager, my buddy showed me some of his dads veitnam 'trophies', one of which was a necklace of HUMAN ears he obtained during his stay over seas (had at least 12 I remember)[/quote] I was typing about a fantasy game. That creepy story sounds like your buddy's dad was a war criminal or stole a 'trophy' from one. U.S. forces have been forbidden that sort of perverse behavior since WW II. 'Ick' doe
[quote who="AlLanMandragoran" reply="20" id="3036787"]Awesome, and shout out to Heavenfall for being the first to recommend this awhile back. And holy crap, it got put in fast. Well done.[/quote] It's hard to root through the oldest threads, but I'm pretty sure this maiming idea came up long before the first beta--it was around the time several of us were talking about related things like wanting to have the maps reflect the game history with things like labels (Field of a Tho
Banned because the only pies I've actually disliked had pinkish fillings. Mostly, you can put a pastry shell around anything edible and it's OK--curried cabbage and peas could be part of a fine samosa filling. But that strange Southron pink stuff, it's icky.
[quote who="Leauki" reply="723" id="3043785"]How is Bibi responsible for any of this? What did he do? And why is Israel a "radical project"? Where should middle-eastern Jews live? And what "cycle of violence" are you talking about? There is no cycle. Nobody believes that Jews would ever attack Arabs. Do you even know any of Bibi's policies?[/quote] Netanyahu is perpetuating the settlement problem and his party are perpetual saber rattlers. Likud po
Banned for living somewhere outside of New England that's silly enough to name itself Upper Anything. Banned again for an unclear pronoun reference. In demi-Yankee terms, they's several youses around here.
Banned because my father was a white boy born outside of Seoul before WW II, and because not having an avatar is apparently some kind of bad manners on these newfangled BBSs that use colors and support HTTP links and whatnot.
Banned because your primitive perception centers fail to evangelize the Latest IT Thing, ubiquitous computing. Perception is about to become highly distributed, at least if you're one of those folks who believes it isn't quite real if it ain't on the net.
[quote who="bigdave13" reply="712" id="3043202"]One problem with word peace is that it can't happen because the radical Muslims won't stop at nothing to destroy us and that the radicals will also never make peace with Israel.[/quote] Radicals won't make peace with Israel? Israel is a radical project in its own right, and the right-wing nutbars there (yes, I mean Bebe's crowd) are just as much to blame for the endless cycle of violence as the Hezbollah or PLO militants
Banned because I keep trying to tell you that you're an ignerant young'un and you jess won' lissen. Swag is, like, really old British slang for stolen goods, and like modern U.S. marketing jargon for all the brand-laden crap that orgs buy to give away to folks they want to impress. Oh, and I hear it also refers to the goodie bags that famous/important people get for attending things like Hollywood press junkets.
Banned because you don't need to brand-name-search for it, just hit the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi_bim_bap . I promise, it's wholesome, nutritious, and has nothing directly to do with sex.
[quote who="Ryat" reply="39344" id="3043062"]banned for the Koran was based upon Arabian myths[/quote] Banned for gross (in all sense of the word) oversimplification. [quote who="Scoutdog" reply="39346" id="3043073"]Banned because how else are you going to prop up the table? That squeaking is driving me nuts![/quote] Banned because sometimes a matchbook will do the job for small wobbles, or a bit of folded up pasteboard from something like a cereal box.
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