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Painting of the Day

I've saved the original thread, and I'll transfer the posts across as time permits. Painting of the Day (original series): Winter by Nicolas Poussin, a French painter of the 17th century who worked for most of his career in Rome. This is one of hi

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Good Thoughts and Bad Thoughts I Have Had

I saw this story, and my first thought was, "Yeah, those greecefires can be hard to put out."

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Pro Wrestling

I was watching the Savage/Warrior "retirement" match on disk last night, and it came to the ending where Elizabeth threw Sherri out of the ring, and the thought came to me, "Both of these women are dead now, it's depressing."

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Weepy Day.

Baby Bean started Kindergarten this morning. I am having hourly panic attacks.

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Football (Real Football, I Mean, Not Gridiron)

Burnley Beats Manchester United I can't say as I know much about the sport - I couldn't even say that I had a favorite side that I supported (Celtic, maybe? Do they still exist?), but I love a good upset, so, roll on, Burnley!

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Question About British English

Got the DVD for Doctor Who "The Next Doctor". The extra was "Doctor Who at the Proms", a sort of mini-concert of Doctor Who music hosted by Freema Agyeman. (Well worth a look, by the way.) Anyway, my first thought was, "I gues 'proms' means somethin

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What's your avatar?

Today, it's Solomon Kane from the 80s Marvel mini-series.

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Daily Work of Art That Isn't a Painting

Not meaning to steal Luke's gimmick - and he is, of course, welcome to steal it back, but here's today's "Woodblock Print of the Day": Kabuki actors Nakamura Shichisaburō and Sanogawa Ichimatsu, by Ishikawa Toyonobu.

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Baseball

Going to see the Sox play the Yanks at the Stadium tomorrow. That oughta be interesting

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Who Do You Think Would Win?

Since we can't do polls, as such, I figured that instead of creating umpty-zillion threads for individual battles, I'd create one thread for all such - silly, serious, or otherwise. To start: If the Thing (James Arness from The Thing From Another Wo

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To Re-Post the Timeline or Not to Re-post the Timeline...

Those of you who remember it will recall the Earth-44 timeline from the old site and may well - if you didn't have alot going on - have stopped and thought, "Gee, I wonder if what's-his-monkey will be re-posting that timeline of his on the new board?

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A Conversation Using Song Titles/Lyrics

Who put the bomp (in the bomp bomp, bomp)?

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Top Ten Posters - The Final List from the Old Board

Baron Bizarre: 26,700 Chris Fluit: 20,961 Randy Jackson: 19,657 Rich Lane: 18,796 Jeff of Earth J: 18,698 PowerBook Pete: 15,415 Alan M.: 15,378 Cavalier: 15,219 Mark Sullivan: 14,236 Doc Beechler: 12,893 Although, I still have the sneaking suspicio

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Stuff That Would Upset You When You Was A Real Little Kid

For some reason, the memory just came back to me that when I was a real little kid, I never had any problem with eating bread crusts, but I knew plenty of kids that did - they would eat bread OK, but would be horrified at eating the crusts. As for m

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Pirates!

Euro-Pirates?

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Lines That Are Funny, But Only In Context

"I got a rock."

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Football (Real Football, I Mean, Not Soccer)

Brett Favre Unretires For some reason, this story makes me think of this, from Monty Python and the Holy Grail: "CUSTOMER: Here's one. CART-MASTER: Ninepence. DEAD PERSON: I'm not dead! CART-MASTER: What? CUSTOMER: Nothing. Here's your ninepence.

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So Gen-Con Indy 2009 has started...

...I know because I saw V (the Alan Moore character) walking with his wife and baby last night downtown...

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Cecil Turtle vs. Reed Richards

As we all know, the one true nemesis of Dr. Doom has been the Fantastic Four, and most notably Reed Richards. As many of you also know, the one true nemesis of Bugs Bunny has been Cecil Turtle. So, if we either switched nemeses (Doom vs. Cecil, Reed

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A Parody Thread: Conversation Using Words That You Chose To Convey A Certain Mood or Effect

Sorry: The "Conversation Using Song Titles/Lyrics" prompted this. Anyway, to get the ball rolling: "Hey, buddy, how you doing? Geez, I haven't seen you in a long time! How are things going with you, these days, anyhow?"

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