a part of his being. I almost expect to see him go on an
anti-evolution rant any day now.
...
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Wide World Of Whatchamacallit Maru
rob
It might be amusing to compile a list of such authors. I nominate
Orson Scott Card and Terry Goodkind to follow Wright!
~maru
/Library_of_alexandria#Destruction_of_the_Library
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. massive smugness! ;)
.
Debbi
I wonder if Consider Philebas is where Banks got his Consider Phlebas
from? It's an interesting title which didn't really seem to be
explained by the book. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_Phlebas
~maru
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On 11/22/06, Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
maru dubshinki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/20/06, Deborah Harrell wrote:
snip
...Also found: _Consider Philebas_
(?sp?), several Tony Hillerman Southwestern
mysteries I was looking for...
I wonder if Consider Philebas is where
business with and somewhere
buried in their terms of service or privacy statement will be the clause
allowing them to share you information.
The irony here is that Gmail tagged your email as spam.
~maru
I have plenty of spam, along with some spam (on spam), spammy spam
On 11/4/06, Gary Nunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The box said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed LINUX.
- Unknown
I remember that quote... Used to be Unix though.
~maru
Remember, GNU's Not Unix
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from
the Department of Operations at the Ministry of Health and use our
contacts to see what measure of verification may be possible.
~maru
Is any comment really needed?
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And this reasoning stands for all N equal to or greater than 3?
~maru
Mmm... sicilian...
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ignorant of their status.
With this forcing of belief, the induction argument becomes operative.
~maru
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the picture the whole thing breaks down in the case where
N = 2. What is the use of the useless stranger?
~maru
We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel;
But it is on the space where there is nothing
That the usefulness of the wheel depends.
We turn clay to make a vessel
On 9/23/06, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maru wrote:
The Wikipedia entry for R is under GNU-S :-)
I hate to play the pedantic resident Wikipedia expert here,
marudubinski, I presume :-)
You forgot the Dr.! ...(Nah, I'm kidding.)
Ok, but if we want to use
roughage in their daily diet.
~maru
the least intrusive methods are best...
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at those names...
~maru
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by the opportunity costs.
~maru
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sorts of novel ways (since otherwise there would seem to be
little point to the new OS)? Chicken and egg problem.
In the short-term, that rats nest is utterly rational. Unfortunately,
the short term turns into the long term.
~maru
notice I'm typing this with a Qwerty keyboard
names.
The boy ate the monster that went west.
Even though he now had a name
There was no one left to call him by his name.
Johan.
It is a wonderful name.
xponent
Monster Maru
rob
I *knew* another Brin-eller would discover Monster one day!
Now we can have semi-involved discussions of whether
it to a pollster),
atheists were not much above 10%, if that.
~maru
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and a PC only $1 over the course of
ten years the Mac would work out cheaper! Still only $100,000 whereas
you'd need over $500,000 worth of PCs!
Comparisons Maru
--
William T Goodall
Oh, how I wish PCs cost only $1... I'd buy a couple dozen and stick
Linux on them; even accounting for the time
Rod
(http://arstechnica.com/guides/buyer/system-guide-200608.ars/3),
although I'd probably wait for a decent AMD replacement for the Core 2
Duo processors they reccomend - I just plain don't like Intel.
Something about them bugs me.)
~maru
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On 9/2/06, Andrew Crystall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's just the best link again: http://www.xenu.net
And you know who fights them? Not your precious atheists, it's
Christians and Jews.
AndrewC
Really. So Keith Henson is not an atheist? I'd be surprised to learn that.
~maru
http
an
indeterminate number of them are performing a gavotte on the head of
a pin?
After all, nobody can prove a negative and it's all just a theory
anyway...
Third Policeman Maru
--
William T Goodall
Clearly that the pink unicorn is actually an Invisible Pink Unicorn,
as no one can see it.
ph34r t3h
, and
he seemed like a neat guy (quite aside from his accomplishments).
~maru
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both a strong economy and a clean
environment?
Fascinating! Read on.
--
Doug
Me and the pygmy pony over by the dental floss bush, maru
This is a long-standing and fascinating (IMO) objection to market economies.
After all, economic activities driven by market economics seem to
inevitably
.
You know you can find it online pretty easily, right? For example, a
quick search turned up an audio version of all things:
http://www.isohunt.com/torrents.php?ihq=collapse+diamond
~maru
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is down for me.
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On 7/24/06, David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
maru dubshinki wrote:
I think having them cancel out would be a better idea. We could
formalize each god as really being a infinite series of ethical
axioms (covering every possible action), each of which says to do or
do not a specific
-gods set could themselves be infinite?
~maru
we can clearly through a simple diagonal argument along the lines of
cantor that the number of angels is uncountable, and thus the number
of angels that can dance on the head of a pin is the same number as
the number of real numbers
. Keyword searching is not currently
supported.
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
One of the things that saddens me most about the current state of
Wikipedia is that we don't use the Internet Archive all that much. So
many dead links just get removed. It's heart-breaking.
~maru
on the cool side
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion
~maru
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On 5/31/06, Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Behalf Of Damon Agretto
You guys and your swords. I'll take a pollaxe...
Never bring a sword, batleth or a poleaxe to a gunfight!
- jmh
I think you meant never bring the weapon of public opinion (a pollaxe)
to a knife fight.
~maru
ground you both and end
these horribly punny jokes!
~maru
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,
don't click the link. :)
Julia
If I didn't know better, I'd say that's just a bunch of Discordians having fun.
~maru
hail eris!
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work- nothing downloads.
~maru
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Mac lacks BASIC too. Can this be an
anti-M$ Conpiracy? :-)
Alberto Monteiro
Then you're not really trying. I found an article with overviews of
Purebasic, Realbasic, HBasic, Gambas, XBasic, KBasic, and Phoenix
Object Basic. (all for linux, apparently) in 10 or so seconds of
Googling.
~maru
On 4/28/06, Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
maru dubshinki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That anime girl-hero one... *apprehensively*...
wouldn't happen to be Man-Faye, would it?
Ah, yes -- that was it! Do I need to know something
else about that one? One now gets the feeling
not Hanbali theologians; they and quite a
few of the other schools accepted multiple non-literal exoteric and
esoteric readings of the scriptures, and indeed, even allegory.
~maru
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articles) took a position that the
Creator was unbounded in ability and attributes, and that to even
describe him in remotely earthly (or comprehensible for that metter)
terms was to commit a falsity.
~maru
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On 4/25/06, Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Behalf Of Keith Henson
I have not been posting here much for a while...
How goes the war against the Cult?
- jmh
Well, the last I or Wikipedia have heard was that he had quietly
decamped Canada for somewhere in the US.
~maru
On 4/23/06, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.angelfire.com/alt/c4ts2101/tract.html
Three points to the first person to post my favorite text from it. :)
Julia
When all you powers are combine... I AM GOD-JESUS!
~maru
well, if it isn't, it should
crack like a whip
(I'll pass on the expulsion of grass fermention
products... evil smirk)
That anime girl-hero one... *apprehensively*... wouldn't happen to be
Man-Faye, would it?
~maru
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On 4/14/06, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maru Dubshinki wrote:
...
an apt-get away. But I see you are a KDE man. You
deserve what you get, you and the GNOME partisans both. Perdition on
both your houses!
If you hate both KDE and GNOME, what else do you like
On 4/13/06, Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
maru dubshinki wrote:
...
Shouldn't it be used on a partition?
Both uses are possible. But _after_ I have installed the
system, there's no safe way to create a partition.
Well, not easily. I'm pretty sure the Reisers and Ext2 and up
Seconded. I remember reading the 9/11 report and interestedly looking
at the wealth statistics- predominately middle and upper class (bin
Laden himself being a good example).
~maru
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, of the dilemma it
poses, I think he would accept the incompleteness choice.
~maru
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partition set
to be a swap partition?
If all that doesn't work, just use Debian or Ubuntu. :)
~maru
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! AAAIGH! AAAIGH! AAAIGH! AAAIGH! AAAIGH!
Julia
If you think that annoys you, a mere reader/dilettante editor, what do
you think it does to adminstrators like me?
~maru
On the positive side, it is back up, though slowly. Stupid Florida
colos and crappy power supplies
or Graendal. (Lanfear, alas,
while almost perfect in everyway as a suspect, was trapped at the time
of his death.)
What *I* want to know is what Herid Fel discovered about how to refix
the Dark One's prison as well as the Creator made it, just before the
gholam made hamburger out of'im.
~maru
guidance would be great.
Nick
RTFW?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobweb_plot
~Maru
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we'll get from the Robots of Dawn.
~M. Maru
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, but fortunately, it
is not a problem I will face anytime soon.
~Maru
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On 3/23/06, Steve Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
maru dubshinki wrote:
Actually Linux can read NTFS, and fairly well. I once helped
a friend set it up so he could listen to his music collection -
but the real problem is that you have to go in via the command
line (AFAIK
On 3/18/06, The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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From: Maru Dubshinki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 3/17/06, Robert G. Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dr Who is on Sci-Fi tonight
The final episode of FullMetal Alchemist is on tomorrow on Cartoon
Network.
I suggest y'all watch
On 3/14/06, Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
This thread is going down the crapper.
G
xponent
Thomas Maru
rob
I'll thank you to can that toilet talk! Won't someone think of the children?
~Maru
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On 2/17/06, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.timecube.com/
I'll explain where I found the link after a suitable number of people
have expressed their bogglement.
Julia
Did you find it here? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube
~Maru
Until Emails are CUBIC in all
to the source, thank you every much. Totally spoiled the
series for me.
~Maru
One was just plain awesome though.
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didn't have that sort of firepower.
Endymion still made me fairly happy because it included a decent quota
of new and interesting and farout ideas, but there were far more in
the Hyperions.
Jim
Listening to the living Maru
~Maru
Listening to the music of the spheres
://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/revocation.asp
~Maru
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ostensibly SF literature list? :)
Jim
Silly Optimist Maru
I'll take you up on that challenge.
How many different timelines do you think were interacting in the
first two books? (IMO, this is one of the fundamental questions for
the Hyperion Cantos).
Incidentally, if any of you are interested
On 2/13/06, Jim Sharkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maru Dubshinki wrote:
Jim Sharkey wrote:
Anyone feel like having, I dunno, and actual book discussion on
this here ostensibly SF literature list? :)
I'll take you up on that challenge.
Uh-oh! :)
How many different timelines do you think
*another* shrike to
fetch Weintraub's daughter (which I suspect to have been the Reaper
faction). At least, three timelines made the most sense to me. I'd be
interested to hear your thinking on it.
~Maru
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Operations.
I gues that's something...
~Maru
What? no mention on Wikipedia? Unpossible!
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have given up something. And I don't think
this exact method of protection has actually made us safer than some
less rigorous method would or could... Unless one considers Mrs.
Smith from Peoria to be a serious threat.
xponent
Fragile Maru
rob
I would argue that what they've won
. The panel backed Hwang's claim that he cloned
the world's first dog.
I would have been crushed if it were all vile damnable lies.
~Maru
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emacspeak
however.
~Maru
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On 1/8/06, Robert G. Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
The worldwide popularity of the FSM puts a whole new spin on If god
did not exist we would need to create him (where is that quote from?)
http://urlx.org/google.com/19ef
xponent
Hee Haw! Maru
rob
Voltaire.
~Maru
The ways
and Knight of the Pentagon.
So there.
~Maru
I see dead fnords.
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The Cat Thinks The Tree Is For His Pleasure Maru
What? No Nice Newtonmas? Or what about
our Flying Spaghetti Monsterism brethren?
And as always, those poor Discordian people
are totally neglected. I expected better of you.
~Maru
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(or vice versa),
and all one had to do was mouse-click in the right location, and your vote
would be registered.
~Maru
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thing, watch that
bit, very near the end.
Dave
Dare I hope there is a copy of the speech floating around online, and it
was that you watched?
~Maru
Mmm, that's good demagoguery!
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On 11/10/05, Robert G. Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
These are pictures of a project I have been working on, off and on,
over the last few months.
xponent
Lots Of Pipe Maru
rob
Nitrous Oxide supply in The Womens Building
http
started way back when *Reagan* was president AFAIK. How many fans
have died, to never see WoT finished? How many readers has WoT
outlasted?
~Maru
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On 10/15/05, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Fool wrote:
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From: Maru Dubshinki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to a satisfactory conclusion; no, I think of the human costs. WoT
started way back when *Reagan* was president AFAIK. How many fans
have died, to never see WoT
* complications?
~Maru
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demonstrate correlation, but rather *causation*, and we'll be
interested.
~Maru
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Anyone know of any Free (as in software and speech) pictures for our
beloved G. David Brin?
I ask because the Wikipedia article is shockingly devoid of his visage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brin
~Maru
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On 10/2/05, Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maru wrote:
Anyone know of any Free (as in software and speech) pictures for our
beloved G. David Brin?
I ask because the Wikipedia article is shockingly devoid of his visage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brin
http://david
of the Creative Commons licenses (but
not one of the ones that forbid commercial usage or commercial use),
well that would go just swimmingly with your article.
~Maru
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all the guns
they want, but make bullets illegal.
Bullets don't kill people. Pinpoint momentum trauma kills people.
Julia
Pinpoint momentum trauma don't kill people; loss of blood, changes in the
chemical balance of cells,
and bacterial infection kill people.
~Maru
outlaw chemicals
:
web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~norman/book.htmhttp://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~norman/book.htm
xponent
Wonders How This Will Affect Power Factor Correction Maru
rob
Doesn't this scheme make it really hard to calculate distances?
From the looks of it, it involves a lot of square-rooting.
~Maru
unparalleled comprehensive package management, which is also the most
up-to-date. My personal experience is that it's somewhat unstable (one
particular program, ncurses, particularly fubars things up), though as
always YMMV.
~Maru
is a universe of possibilities. We haven't even *begun
?
~Maru
Now me, my opinion of Mac OS X is that adherents of it are merely attempting
to raise a prettier monopoly in place of Microsoft. MS learned from the
best.
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of the items themselves, if they were
purchased in an area with electricity. And the value
of those items are still enough to make the effort of looting worthwhile
even after a few months of non-use.
~Maru
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what you made of Hybrid Rainbow, or Blues Drive
Monster.
On a side note, have you heard any of their other stuff, like Skeleton
Liar (a personal favorite)
or Backseat Dog, or Funny Bunny for that matter?
~Maru
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On 8/23/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Aug 22, 2005, at 10:31 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
Didja like how I threw in some legitimate scholarship like Freud's
anal fixation theories of sexual maturation, and the Great mother
religious motif, and Jung's shadow, just
going it alone.
It is unfortunate that the MSM chooses to elide discussion of the source.
~Maru
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of the Great Mother that the patriarchal Western
scientific society has repressed and demonized than by into the
embodiment of its enemy, waste, and permament waste at that?
~Maru
I promise I won't do that again.
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relationships? Is this
potential to mix up ordering of A and B what allows reverse time
travel?
~Maru
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On 8/23/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Aug 22, 2005, at 10:02 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
Thusly, we must change the role
which toilet paper plays to clean other areas, such as the nostrils,
or the mouth, other bodily orifices.
Oh, I see, so its proper role, according
On 8/23/05, Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Maru Dubshinki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Clearly what we have here is a rather progressive
youngster, a shining
example of the further march of liberty: this
wimmin, or persun, is
advocating that toilet paper be liberated from its
#fb39a89903eddc0e
or
http://tinyurl.com/8gccq ,
http://www.modarchive.com/
~Maru
I have millions of gathas
instant sures for every trouble
if you need a friend
try the Tientai Mountains
join me deep in the cliffs
we'll talk about truth and mystery
you won't see me though
you'll just see the mountains
-pick
of time is the opposite: all possible acceleration, that
is, light speed.Intuitively, this should make time stand still,
and it does. And faster still would be going backwards in time
(tachyons, anyone?).
~Maru
deaf leading the blind. Or is it blind leading the blind
? No; the Big Bang happened everywhere, to paraphrase
one physicist. It was space expanding, not stuff expanding outwhere
from one point.
~Maru
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to our ownl; entropy would still proceed forward as usual. Now,
what entropy going backwards consistently would look like, or whether
we could even be meaningfully said to live, is a whole different
kettle of worms.
~Maru
IANAP; I only play one on the radio
://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:DKPRjOn9YOoJ:www.gmu.edu/jbc/Tyler/deceive.pdf+hl=en
http://tinyurl.com/akr4d
~Maru
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most was the acute resemblance to Stanislaw Ulam's
prime number spiral.
http://www.numberspiral.com/
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeSpiral.html
The strange coincidences in this world sometimes are pretty impressive.
~Maru
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in there for Johnny, Timmy and Spike, which is good.
Jim
I believe in the heart of the cards Maru
Wait a sec- That's Yu-Gi-Oh! You traitor!
~Maru
anyone understand the rest of it?
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On 7/20/05, Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
About 3-1/2 hours ago:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/20/obit.doohan.ap/index.html
--Ronn! :)
He's dead, Jim.
~Maru
/teh obvious
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Perhaps I've missed something rather obvious, but...
Why don't you guys just ask Brin about all these niggling lil'
details? This is his list, and it's not like he's dead.
~Maru
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.
But, and this is the Gawds honest truth, we know more about the dating than
he does.
Vilyehm
/boggles.
~Maru
heh, 'boggles'. Wonder if that's actually a word.
Later... Hmm. Did you know that the OED says that Boggle was
originally derived from a wraith that a horse sees and is spooked by,
and the use
or two. Correct me
here if I'm wrong please.) And I felt very annoyed when the Prince
turned out to be Snape rather than Voldemort. I feel a little cheated
at such dishonesty- one expected the Prince to be actually a prince,
no?
~Maru
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