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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2017 11:30:41 GMT -5
From Jeff Smith's facebook feed, here's a power trio of comics' creators... That's Paul Pope, Jeff Smith and John Cassaday from Comic-Con 2017. I wonder what kind of craziness the three of them could come up with collaborating together... -M
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 8, 2017 14:17:25 GMT -5
The density waves in Saturn's rings are magnificent! For all that I frequently find our species loathsome, its managing to build machines that explore other planets goes a long way to buy back some respect.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2017 8:23:00 GMT -5
12 F***ing Rules for F***ing Success There's so much truth there it's staggering. -M
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2017 9:25:51 GMT -5
Fourteen years ago today the married life with mrp started. It's been a long strange wonderful trip so far.
-M
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 9, 2017 9:31:28 GMT -5
Fourteen years ago today the married life with mrp started. It's been a long strange wonderful trip so far. -M That's one trip where no one asks "are we there yet?" Congratulations!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2017 22:57:53 GMT -5
Looking at doing my first comic con in 6 months this Sunday. It's a fairly small show and I have no real budget for it, but it will be good to get out and see some of the local creators and dealers I know and catch up since I have been out of the loop for a bit. Some of the local creators have put out new issues of their self-published books I need to catch up on, but I don't expect to pick up too much (or carry it around with the restrictions I still have).
-M
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Aug 10, 2017 9:55:54 GMT -5
I just finished my yearly concentrated blackcurrant syrap batch, and it's much tastier than last year's!
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Post by LovesGilKane on Aug 10, 2017 11:06:18 GMT -5
Looking at doing my first comic con in 6 months this Sunday. It's a fairly small show and I have no real budget for it, but it will be good to get out and see some of the local creators and dealers I know and catch up since I have been out of the loop for a bit. Some of the local creators have put out new issues of their self-published books I need to catch up on, but I don't expect to pick up too much (or carry it around with the restrictions I still have). -M cool. many smaller shows are more enjoyable; the creators/vendors are more relaxed.
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Post by shaxper on Aug 10, 2017 22:44:28 GMT -5
Shopping for furniture for the new house (I get the keys in a week and a half), and a bookcase I'm considering is named "South Shore Chocolate Axess 5 book shelf," which I inadvertently read as "South Shore Chocolate Axis 5 book shelf," leaving me to wonder how evil an Axis power could possibly be if they have "chocolate" in the name...
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Post by The Captain on Aug 11, 2017 4:44:39 GMT -5
Shopping for furniture for the new house (I get the keys in a week and a half), and a bookcase I'm considering is named "South Shore Chocolate Axess 5 book shelf," which I inadvertently read as "South Shore Chocolate Axis 5 book shelf," leaving me to wonder how evil an Axis power could possibly be if they have "chocolate" in the name... Maybe it's dark chocolate...
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 11, 2017 5:30:43 GMT -5
12 F***ing Rules for F***ing Success There's so much truth there it's staggering. -M Awesome, but it works even without the F word. * or maybe I'm wrong, the F word adds the emphasis.*
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Post by impulse on Aug 11, 2017 15:33:54 GMT -5
12 F***ing Rules for F***ing Success There's so much truth there it's staggering. -M Awesome, but it works even without the F word. * or maybe I'm wrong, the F word adds the emphasis.* I mean, yeah, you COULD do it without it, but why would you want to?
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 11, 2017 18:00:57 GMT -5
Here's an interesting website: www.merriam-webster.com/words-by-first-known-date"When was a word first used in print? You may be surprised! Enter a date below to see the words first recorded in that year." The year I was born saw the first recorded uses of "all-terrain vehicle", "barf", "byte", "decaf", "felt-tip", "fiber optics", "green card", "liftoff", "megabit", "nitpick", "psychedelic", "quantum leap", "rockabilly", "snooze button", "Turing test", "white flight", and many other words & phrases.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Aug 11, 2017 18:56:30 GMT -5
Here's an interesting website: www.merriam-webster.com/words-by-first-known-date"When was a word first used in print? You may be surprised! Enter a date below to see the words first recorded in that year." The year I was born saw the first recorded uses of "all-terrain vehicle", "barf", "byte", "decaf", "felt-tip", "fiber optics", "green card", "liftoff", "megabit", "nitpick", "psychedelic", "quantum leap", "rockabilly", "snooze button", "Turing test", "white flight", and many other words & phrases. That IS interesting. Just for a lark, I plugged in the year of Prince Hal 's birth and found it featured the first recorded use of "a," "the," "it," and (oddly) "obstreperous." That was quite a year!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 19:19:03 GMT -5
Hmmm the year of my birth features the first uses of ageism, Bollywood, bubblegum, crystal meth, decriminalize, delete key, DUI, event horizon, fuzzy logic, gangbanger, general admission, Hare Krishna, headhunt, high tech, ho-hum, homophobia, immunodeficiency, Jersey Barrier, laid back, local area network, megastar, microchip, microprocessor, peer review, plate tectonics, point guard, power forward, quadraphonic, rip-off, roadie, sport-utility vehicle, sticker price, studly, tip of the iceberg, videocassette, videocassette recorder, among others. Looks like it was a transformational year for technological terms. And for basketball.
-M
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