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One of those days when seeing the things people will rush to defend around here has me like...
I'm having so much fun poking fun in that thread. Some are getting so bent out of shape in there over what should be a total nothing.Now I want all iconic D&D characters to start having their pronouns listed in all future appearances.
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We haven't had one of theses in a while so:
Welcome to Bob's Big Boy
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Order what you want, i'm paying.
One of the local diners was built in the early 1970s and has its original menus hung in a few spots around the place. Not quite as cheap, but close. They're still pretty inexpensive to keep their senior citizen customer base, but I think it's slowly killing them - they've massively curtailed their hours lately and the place is starting to look rather shabby.We haven't had one of theses in a while so:
Welcome to Bob's Big Boy
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Order what you want, i'm paying.
I was reading a nearly Ron Goulart novel the other day that had a brief side scene involving a Big Boy statue that had fallen into the surf following an earthquake. One of his odd semi-dystopian pieces where the US basically falls apart and balkanizes into micro-states somewhere in around 2000AD, mostly as a setup for his sardonic protags to run around encountering weirdness while playing gumshoe detective/secret agent. His early scifi has the strangest tone, never been able to define why it appeals to me.I assume there is a Big Boy statue up front? If so, I'll go in and order. If not, I don't trust it.
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I knew artiodactyl already, but that's a new on me. Pretty widely useful word too, it passes the "can I use it in relation to a Kamandi cover?" test with flying colors.Totally not here.
Whippomorpha is my favorite recently discovered word.
That is an alarming prospect on many levels, and is arguably even worse in coastal areas than riverine Africa. Were-hippos are scary but I wouldn't bet on one against a were-orca at all.So, would the construction be "whippothropes," then, for beefy, do-not-mess-with-them, most-deadly-shapechanger-in-fantasy-Africa?