It's been awhile, so I thought I'd ask. Not pushing; just curious.Ebony the Black Dragon
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"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

I come across a mention of this on the Tongue Tied site.
www.peaktalk.com/archives/002165.php
I've known and taught 4 or 5 women born into the moslem faith and what they mentioned and hinted at when thier keeper was otherwise occupied has convinced me that any American woman that marries a moslem man is badly fooled and in for a very rough and many times lethal marriage.
Like the mafia once your in the Moslem religion getting out is very hard to do and often results in your death. There are religous enforcers present in every Mosque
If you have a daughter, sister or even know someone thinking about marrying a moslem man especially one from a country that has been under Moslem control for at least two generations beg them not to marry the man.

howard melton
God bless

We've all seen them - AMVs with a song that has a decent beat, and footage of characters dancing to the music. Which ones do people think are good?
I only have one nomination right now: this video by AbsoluteDestiny, with footage from a bunch of shows (but primarily "Super GALS!") and music from the Blues Brothers. I'd like more...
-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Hi everyone,
I'm popping over from Ed and Soots Writers Guild to say hello.
Your forum looks fantastic...
Nice to meet you all. Drop by and say hi to me if you get the chance. I'd love to see you.
p105.ezboard.com/bedandsootswritersguild
Sootie. XO

I said they were mad; they threw me OUT! But now... now, I'LL SHOW THEM! I'LL SHOW THE WORLD!!
- CD because someone had to say itSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
A kung-fu nun in a leather thong was no less extreme than anything else he had seen that day. - Rev. Dark's IST: Holy Sea World
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

...when Congress gives it to the telecomm companies.

-- Bob
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For Jor-El so loved the Earth, he sent his only begotten son...

A mutant in the marvelverse with powers VERY similar to doug? Codenamed DJ, he was on one of the junior x-men squads, apparently de-powered during the house of M crossover, and then died in the school bombing... but still!
Here's some info
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_%28comics%29
uncannyxmen.net/db/articl...229&page=7
(scroll down)
Thoughts?

www.independentmail.com/a...68,00.html

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COLUMBIA Lucys Love Shop employee Wanda Gillespie said she was flabbergasted that South Carolinas Legislature is considering outlawing sex toys.
But banning the sale of sex toys is actually quite common in some Southern states.
The South Carolina bill, proposed by Republican Rep. Ralph Davenport, would make it a felony to sell devices used primarily for sexual stimulation and allow law enforcement to seize sex toys from raided businesses.
"That would be the most terrible thing in the world," said Ms. Gillespie, an employee the Anderson shop. "That is just flabbergasting to me. We are supposed to be in a free country, and were supposed to be adults who can decide what want to do and dont want to do in the privacy of our own homes."
Ms. Gillespie, 49, said she has worked in the store for nearly 20 years and has seen people from every walk of life, including "every Sunday churchgoers."
"I know of multiple marriages that sex toys have sold because some people need that. The people who are riding us (the adult novelty industry) so hard are probably at home buying it (sex toys and novelties) on the Internet. Its ridiculous."
The measure would add sex toys to the states obscenity laws, which already prohibit the dissemination and advertisement of obscene materials.
People convicted under obscenity laws face up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
South Carolina law borrows from a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling to define obscene as something "contemporary community standards" determine as "patently offensive" sexual conduct, which "lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value."

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I was struck by a bit of a plot bunny earlier, and am trying to write it out. Here's some of what I have so far; don't worry if you don't understand some of the references -- I don't expect you to, and knowing most of the series involved won't be important to following the story, as I fully plan to have Harry try to explain his new "family" once he gets to Hogwarts.

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Harry Potter and the Screwed-Up Life
Prologue One
by
Aleh
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"What the $@%# is going on?"
I looked around in shock; the last minute, I had been trying to work out the details of a psychology internship, and the next, I found myself in the middle of what appeared to be London. Don't get me wrong; I like traveling, but this was ridiculous. Considering my state, the baby that fell from the sky and proceeded to bounce off the ground and into my arms just drove me further into shock. Looking around and spotting a police officer, I tried to explain myself, only to be laughed off. While I considered approaching one of the idiots dancing around in a dress, none of them looked like they'd know anything, either, so I just continued looking for some sort of an explanation while trying to calm the baby, who looked like he had some sort of nasty, half-healed cut on his forehead.
Two hours later, I was short twenty dollars, but the baby's head had been bandaged and I had calmed down enough to look more closely at him. At a closer look, "baby" wasn't entirely accurate; I guessed him to be around a year old, although someone had wrapped him like an infant. What really got me was the note that was tucked under his arm. Stopping to read it, I paused in shock.
"You've got to be kidding me."
In comparison to that note, the fact that I suddenly found myself in Tokyo, Harry Potter in tow, wasn't much of a surprise. The fact that a swirling purple vortex suddenly dropped an infant at my feet was only a minor surprise at that point, but I was too deeply in shock to really care about the fact that I recognized the kid beyond the fact that it was yet another instance of some god deciding to screw with my life. Turning towards the Heavens, I decided to vent a little.
"What's next? Uzumaki Naruto? Ueki Kousuke? Ikari Shinji? Maybe Kuchiki Byakuya?"
Another swirling vortex promptly discharged four more infants, each wearing clothes that conveniently included name tags.
"That's not exactly a whole lot better, you know!"
I sighed, paused and decided to make another appeal to the Heavens.
"What the Hell am I supposed to do with them, anyway?"
Considering that I promptly found myself in front of a house bearing the sign "Okashii Orphanage for Extraordinary Children", I think that my reaction was justified.
"Okay, I get the hint already!"
I sighed and started on the task of trying to raise Harry Potter, Rekka Hanabishi, Robert Haydn, Gaara of the Desert, Rei Ayanami and Toushirou Hitsugaya.
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Two months later, things had settled down somewhat. My impromptu orphanage was, judging by where the front door lead, apparently in a Japanese town named "Nekomi", less than a block from a Buddhist temple. The "orphanage" apparently had all of the appropriate papers filed and a reasonably large bank account, I was apparently registered as a citizen of Japan, my parents apparently didn't exist, Gaara and Toushirou apparently disappeared for several hours each day, my Japanese was a lot better than it should have been, there were doors in the orphanage apparently leading to various places throughout the world, and my eye still twitched whenever I thought about the fact that my orphanage's sponsor was apparently the "Ueki Haruko Memorial Fund", but I got along reasonably well and the kids had started to grow on me. The fact that the house had a decent computer and internet access didn't hurt, either, but the six of them had started to grow on me. In fact, I would have suspected that divine forces were trying to make things easier on me had I not known better. As I did know better, I didn't have any suspicions of the sort; the name of the fund providing for the orphanage was more than enough of a hint for things to go well beyond mere suspicion.
I had tried to get help or to find a way back to my life several times, but I couldn't just abandon the children, and that limited my options. More, I had discovered, shortly after the one-year anniversary of my "acquisition" of the six children, that Gaara and Toushirou were "disappearing" back to Sunagakure and Rukongai, respectively. I had hired help, but there was no way that I would trust my assistant, an Atsuko Natsume, although she insisted I call her "Nuku-Nuku", alone with kids for very long and no one else was responding to my ads. Every now and then, Harry would do something weird, like turning Nuku-Nuku's hair green or covering my skin in green polka dots, but overall, he was a pleasant and helpful child.
Of course, few things last long, and the same went for my comfortable ideas as to just who had been playing around with my life. Shortly after Harry's fourth birthday, I was approached by another potential assistant, a woman who introduced herself as Athena Kohasei. Given her first name, I probably should have realized who and what she was, but I was both desperate and stressed. To make a rather long story short, the conversation proceeded until I mentioned that I was afraid that my "children" -- I truly had taken them as my own by this point -- all had long and difficult roads to walk, would probably face obstacles that I couldn't even begin to help them with, and that I wished that I had the power to stand by their sides and lend them assistance when they faced their destinies without becoming a burden.
As her face began to glow and a beam of light shot through the ceiling, I just sighed, palmed my face, and once again turned towards the heavens.
"Why me?" I asked, palming my face before turning to Athena. "You know," I stated flatly, "I'd have said something else if I'd known you were here to grant me a wish."

Edit: The idea, BTW, is to follow Harry as he goes to Hogwarts, not the "family", although other stories, following the others, might be an idea.
Edit2: Replaced the above text with a more proofread version.
Edit3: Replaced the above with the full first prologue.-- This message brought to you by Ely Lilly, makers of SeraFem: Happy Pills for PMS.

Bob, you've got at least two dead links in the DW II Concordance...
Chapter Eleven, the infamous "Kodomo no Ginzuisho" parody - both of the links in the description came up 404 when I tried to follow them today.
(Which is a pain, because I want the footage. I've got crappy RealMedia versions, but my movie editor can't do anything with them even with the Real Alternative codec installed...)

-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012