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Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid

dadoc...@spamcop.net (R H Draney) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 09:21:57 UT

David DeLaney filted:
We had "stink bugs" when I was a kid, but I don't remember any of them that
actually *did* stink...eventually I worked out that the name came from their
habit of stopping dead still when threatened and lowering their heads to the
ground, leaving their rear ends sticking up in the air like someone about to let

Re: The Simplest Methods Which Break The Will: 31 Methods Of Torture Used By Stalin's Atheist Executioners

ostap_bender_1...@hotmail.com (Ostap S. B. M. Bender Jr.) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 09:22:02 UT

On Nov 23, 11:01 am, Vladimir Makarenko <vmak...@nospamgmail.com>
wrote:
Yes, but don't forget that the apple pie is Eurasian. It is a
national dish in France, Russia and many other countries. The first
apple pie was baked in Kazakhstan: the birthplace of apples. People
also say "as American as motherhood". But that is also not quite

Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid

dadoc...@spamcop.net (R H Draney) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 09:19:21 UT

Walter Bushell filted:
Sounds a bit like Ogden Nash...or Piet Hein....r

Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid

dadoc...@spamcop.net (R H Draney) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 09:18:32 UT

David Goldfarb filted:
Owls eat bats...I've even watched one capture a meal in midair....r

Re: The Simplest Methods Which Break The Will: 31 Methods Of Torture Used By Stalin's Atheist Executioners

ostap_bender_1...@hotmail.com (Ostap S. B. M. Bender Jr.) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 09:08:16 UT

A wonderful job of playing a shrink without a license, BM. I assure
you that of all my psychological hangups, Solzhenitsyn is not in the
top 10 000. In fact, I was one of the very few in the audience that
day who actually kinda enjoyed his speech. Right after it, we went to
see Amarcord for the first time and then had a great party. So, it was

Re: The Books That Founded D&D

cl...@columbia-center.org (Dan Clore) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 08:37:09 UT

Spaniards: And we roll another natural 20!
DM: Wow! You guys are really kicking ass. Okay, Aztecs?
Aztecs: Huitzilopochtli help us now! -- Shit! Another natural 1!!!
DM: Uh, maybe you guys should trade dice?
Spaniars: Noooo!!!!!!

Re: The Books That Founded D&D

cl...@columbia-center.org (Dan Clore) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 08:28:54 UT

Which reminds one that Cyrano also wrote some of the greatest SF/satire
in the history of mankind. Check it out, readers.

Re: The Books That Founded D&D

cl...@columbia-center.org (Dan Clore) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 08:23:01 UT

Conan generally wears a helmet in Howard's stories. Howard is sometimes
criticized for calling the same helmet by the names of different types
of helmet. This contradiction supposedly lessens the verisimilitude of
the stories -- but forgets that Conan lived thousands of years before
any of those types of helmet were invented.

Re: Trolling the Goss.

go...@gossg.org (Greg Goss) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 07:21:42 UT

Grin. And I've bound Terry to be eternally my dance partner.

Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid

rober...@drizzle.com (Robert A. Woodward) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 07:11:23 UT

In article <MPG.2574ba6faaf7191e989...@ne ws.octanews.com>,
<SNIP>
That would be before various German crusading orders brought German
civilization to the Baltics? It might had been a nation that wasn't
ruled by foreigners, but I suspect that the various chieftains
didn't recognize even a first amongst equals.

Re: Exploring my ignorance: the systems of uploaded people

nebu...@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 06:46:11 UT

Oh, it's a little nagging thing. When it's used to produce
web pages that take the input of a form into a fresh page, which it is
rather good at, ASP.NET stores information about the page it came from
in a little tag given the id name '__VIEWSTATE', which doesn't appear
when the page renders but can be used by the server to gather data.

Re: conscious ships - yasid

rober...@drizzle.com (Robert A. Woodward) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 06:45:11 UT

In article <MPG.2575d3ecb96036d5989...@ne ws.individual.net>,
And here is what I assume is the cover from the 3rd artist
(actually the 1st, because I think this is the 1st edition):
<[link]
4402651>, but this isn't what Mark Zenier was thinking of either.

Re: Genesis 1 & 2: Is There A Contradiction?

leila...@hotmail.com (Suzanne) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 06:40:58 UT

No, I am saying that God can reach someone
no matter what place in life they are in.
I think that God knows how to reach people no matter
what circumstances people find themselves to be in.
Suzanne

Re: conscious ships

nebu...@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 06:27:37 UT

Sorry to be slow following up; I got a bit buried beneath the
rush of everything the past week.
Anyway, in 'Solar Plexus', and I admit I might have some of this
a bit garbled because it's been ages since I did read it last, one of the
noble members of the Space Patrol is kidnapped by a mysterious spaceship

Re: Where do you go to hear about new books?

ahasue...@email.com (Ahasuerus) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 06:24:50 UT

[snip]
[snip]
Yes, a very good list. There are also useful subgenre-specific lists
elsewhere, e.g. [link]
lists upcoming urban fantasy/paranormal romance/etc by month.
This is clearly an area that ISFDB should improve. <wanders off
pensively>