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    Plot ideas, pick your favorite.

    The Great Race #2 would be the choice for me, and like KB, above, I loved that movie... "Please, it is simply Leslie, and I am at your service..." (One of Barsoomcore's Swashbuckling Cards is "Twinkly Teeth," I think-- how appropriate!) And don't forget the largest pie fight ever filmed...
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    Looking to Learn More about Buddhism

    A quick Amazon search gave me Buddhism Plain and Simple and The Art of Happiness as the first two items... Years ago I took a seminar in college on Buddhism-- while I didn't learn a lot about the current religion, I did get a greater understanding of the tenets of the philosophy... check the...
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    Help - What's the name of this '70s toy?!?

    I just saw one in my brother's basement this morning, and my nephew informs me that it's a Crazy Car... Or more accurately, a "Krazy Kar"-- http://nh.craigslist.org/bab/197286928.html
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    [August] What are you reading?

    The Blood Books by Tanya Huff, for a last fix of modern-day fantasy before entering the hallowed halls of academia and having no time for reading-for-fun for a while...
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    Possible new job would have pay cut -update! I got the job!

    And who doesn't need one of those? Everyone should have one! Another "FBI Raids Steve Jackson Games" thing? Seriously, though, congrats on the gainful employment...
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    Oots #339

    I really, REALLY need me a roll of that...
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    Movies, books, shows set in during the Stone or Iron Age

    It may not be exactly what you're looking for, but selected chapters of Stephen Baxter's Evolution might work too...
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    D&D 4E 4E indications - Has it slowed your purchases alreadY?

    "Not Really"-- its the upcoming first semester of graduate school that has done more to curb my RPG spending (and reading, and playing, &c &c) than anything else...
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    Movies, books, shows set in during the Stone or Iron Age

    Stirling's Island in the Sea of Time and its sequels transport the Island of Nantucket back to the European Bronze Age era, and has some interesting takes on the various cultures there... Turtledove, & al, compiled some short stories of Bronze Age heroes (The First Heroes)... There was an...
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    What D&D scenario would make the best D&D movie?

    White Plume Mountain, following the novel by Paul Kidd... And follow up with the rest of the trilogy...
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    How many teachers on the boards?

    Not a teacher, but this semester I'll be serving as a Teaching Assistant for the "History of China to 1600" course at my university... Aside from good food and wuxia, it's all new to me, too-- any advice on being "one step ahead with the book in my hands" from folks who've been there?
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    York University

    You should take this with a grain of salt, since I know nothing about York specifically, but... The only way you'll know if you, a "Liberal-minded poet/musician English/ Creative writing major" will fit in there is to investigate the English Department, Music Department, and the campus itself--...
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    College Woes

    If your college is anything like my undergrad, Freshman Orientation will keep you very busy for a few days, and throw you together with a bunch of folks who are going through the exact same thing you are... so in some respects there's a social group provided for you right off the bat... and with...
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    FLGS in Philadephia, PA?

    There's Fat Jack's Comics on Sansom and 20th Streets or Out of Time Comics on Chestnut by City Hall. For either of these you can get there on the Septa Blue Line Subway or the Green Line Trolley... For a bigger selection, there's The Compleat Strategist out in King of Prussia, but you'd need...
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    PotC: Dead Man's Chest spoiler thread

    Warning-- a long, rambling, spoiler-filled entry follows... Saw the late night early preview Thursday, but haven't had a chance to post 'til now... I concur with the "Empire Strikes Back" feel to the movie-- it seemed to be mostly about character development and setting up the third movie...
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    You might look like Larry, Moe, or Curly if a stranger cuts your hair

    I just ask for the number 4 clippers, then clean it up around the ears and collar, no sideburns... Then I wear a hat to cover up my odd lumpy head...
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    When Urban Wildlife Attacks...

    Maybe it thought you were Tippy Hedren...
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    great names in movies, books & tv

    Alacrity Fitzhugh Hobart Floyt Softcogyne Dincrist Aloysius Pendergast Leroy Jethro Gibbs Donald Mallard Karl Kolchak Cragwitch Waxflatter Master Snelgrove Mr. Croup Mr. Vandemaar Iliaster Sir Marmaduke Pointdextre John Wellington Wells Reginald Bunthorne Sir Rupert Murgatroyd Guiseppe Palmieri...
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    Fiction in Dragon magazine

    I'm not opposed, but make sure you bring back the Monster Hunters! The encyclopedia-style ecologies don't do as much for me...
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    What do Enworlders do in real life?

    Since '95 I've been a theater technician/ student performing arts liason for a the performing arts center at the U of PA... As of Friday, I'll be a student archaeologist at the Jamestown Colony site in Virginia... In September, I turn into a full-time grad student/ teaching assistant...
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