So, Saturday night I noticed that all the Christmas lights on our bushes had gone out. Friday had been torrential rain all day, and I figured something shorted out and I'd have to dig into our decorations box and find the necessary fuse for the relevant string. Didn't think much more about it, because we were hosting friends over the weekend. I meant to go out yesterday and take a look, but after our guests left I was too wiped to deal with it.

So, this morning, before I left to drop off packages at UPS and mail the last couple cards (we'd ordered some fancy ones from Amazon and they hadn't arrived until yesterday), I went to see if I could do a quick diagnosis of the problem.

I could, and did. After a careful inspection I determined that at some point between Friday and Saturday night, some bastard had walked right into our front yard and stolen all the net lights we had draped on the bushes. One bush was decorated with a string run back-and-forth, and he thoughtfully left that one behind, but everything else... gone.

The guy had chutzpah, too, because we were home when he did it.

... to any and all forum members who celebrate it.

Hello all, good to meet everyone (and re-meet some of you though I seriously doubt anyone here would remember a teen thread-lurker with a different username from over a decade ago). I don't know if I'll be all that active this time around either, but I'm glad to be back regardless, this time as a Real Adult with a job and what all ^^

This probably doesn't matter to anyone here anymore.

All the Anime have been purchased by Toho.

Exactly what this will do for things I don't know. But Andrew Partridge is still sticking with it, at least. And Toho are bound to be less shit than embracer.

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effect: must be used after the song to be extended, and Doug must dance to the music. As long as he continues to dance, the effect of the previous song will continue. This is usually unneccessary in combat situations, but for support and utility effects it can be quite handy as long as he has the space and endurance to keep on shakin' his booty.

Despite the title and only being a single music file, the song changes style to fit the one it's extending and duration to end perfectly when he decides (or is forced) to stop dancing.

If ab additional limitation is needed for game balance, perhaps it only adapts once per world, the first time he uses it there, or once per musical genre? The lyrics do mention that this is the only time it sounds like a cha-cha-cha after all.

Thousands of works from 1930 and sound recordings from 1925 enter the public domain in two weeks:



(Details from Duke Law School.)

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Chapter 1 (of 2) is available on AO3.

... is, apparently, different in the UK than it is in the USA.

Cambridge Dictionary definition of mugwump:

Quote:US informal (also Mugwump)

a person who likes to be politically independent and does not support or remain loyal to any political group:
As a reporter, I've met with political groups large and small, Democratic and Republican, Green Party, mugwumps, you name it.

UK informal old-fashioned

a stupid person:
To make a fresh milk cheese at home is the simplest of processes; any mugwump can do it.

From the same AMV creator


Don't Start a Band (various shows)




Pink F#$%ing Unicorns (everybody's favourite "feel good" anime, Evangelion)