Recent content by Rath Darkblade

***Warning: longish and serious post, but worth reading - I hope*** :) The first "serious" short I wrote featured Geryon, and I have read Inferno, first for pleasure and then in astonishment. We don't exactly know when Dante wrote Inferno, but our best guess between approximately 1308 and 1314...

Fidos Award (Sounds a bit rough, rough to me).

Not sure why the double-quote marks around Hugh Laurie's accent, but Hugh is as British as anyone born in Oxford and educated in Eton and Cambridge. ;) I haven't watched House, but I remember Hugh from three seasons of Blackadder and three seasons of Jeeves and Wooster, where he plays a rather...

Yes. And that is why, like the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, the people who came up with that are best defined as "a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes." :devilish: Um ... *points up* Not quite the same...

February's ice and sleet freeze the toes right off your feet. :)

I clicked upon this thread, and so I now must post here -- though I've nothing to add except, perhaps, a roast deer. That rhyme was somewhat forced, so I'll bid you a good night before I am unhorsed-- unlike a rather lewd knight. (Apologies for that double-alternating hexa/heptasyllabic...

Interesting. What are "morlocks" in WoW? I only know them from "The Time Machine". Yep, the radio announcer flubbed it. If you want to be authentically Aussie, you'd have to call it the Steakback Dunny. (Redback optional). ;-P

There's an ORBIS for that. (And another one too). ;) It's only the Roman Empire ... but then the Greeks didn't have an empire in the sense that we know the word, and I haven't found a similar resource for the British and Mongol Empires. (Wikipedia and YouTube are fine, within reason, but they...

Yeah, just because the entire world's gone to shit and there are radioactive zombies running rampant and eating people's brains doesn't mean that now's not the time to start a cozy little tea-house! With fine bone china, and doilies, and lace curtains at the windows, and damask wallpaper, and...

Legal Beagle (It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown!) :)

This is what happens when people don't take the trouble to proof-read. *nod* I'm guessing disciplinary action might be on the cards? Or at least a stern talking-to? Yes, he is entitled to make a complaint, but not with other countries' laws.

You mean, it needs to be framed and hung up on the wall? ;) But yes, it's a very good-looking keyboard ... except that I noticed the numpad is missing. :confused: Unless there's a bit that's not being shown?

I wouldn't try solving any mathematical ones after a few glasses. Except maybe Ardbeg Uigeadail + Ardnamurchan Oloroso Single Cask = Hic.

Yes, I've heard of PICNIC too. But let's not speak of "stupid" users, please, because most users will have brain farts from time to time (or will be uninformed). It's the stubborn users (i.e. the ones that insist they are right, or who keep doing the wrong thing despite being told that it's...

Yes, and yes. I've had the same experience, and I'm not Christian either. (To be specific, the Mozart, Verdi, Dvořák, and Faure Requiems, as well as the Mozart Great Mass in C Minor, the Beethoven Mass in C Major and Missa Solemnis etc... and also Brahms's Die Deutsches Requiem, in German). I...