Ooh, I think so Brain! Oh, wait, but no - if Xander had dressed as an ex-SOLDIER instead of a soldier that halloween, where would he get a sword that size when things turned back into costumes? Narf!
- CDThat which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
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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

Just me from the EPU forums... I'd be using Black Aeronaut here instead of NeoRavenk7, but eZboard makes getting rid of an old account a pain in the ass if you ever had your own board. Blargh.-NeoRaven

"I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity." -Edgar Allen Poe

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There's a skeleton in everybody's closet
I can think of one or two in my own room
But I would like to introduce them both to you
You'd shake their bony hands and so dispell the gloom
'Cause you're so kind
I know you would not mind
You'd send away the ghosts that haunt me now
And the things I fear
Just wouldn't seem so near
And when I stroll out late at night
There would be nothing rattling at my hells
There are nights when all my aching bones won't let me sleep
And demons come to plague me as I lie in bed
But I know if you were sleeping there beside me then
That you could fend them off and they would let me rest
There are nights
When the wind comes howling through my old place
I have dreams
And I wake up with the sweat pouring down my face
And I wait till the morning comes
There will come a time I fear when all my days are done
And they will come collect my corpse and bury me
And then I hope you'll come over to the Other Side
To join me in our new life, keep me company
- The Ghosts That Haunt Me, Crash Test Dummies, from their 1991 album The Ghosts That Haunt Me
The possible power: Once the song is playing, and Doug has told one of his deep, dark secrets to someone else, that other person gains the ability to perform an effective exorcism if the ghosts being exorcised are affecting Doug.
In a sufficiently-mystical reality, this song might also set up a link between Doug and the person, ensuring they'll reach the same Final Reward. This side-effect is unlikely to have any in-game effect...
- Rob Kelk

(Edit to fix a typo)
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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

I turn my back to the wind
To catch my breath
Before I start off again.
Driven on without a moment to spend
To pass an evening with a drink and a friend
I let my skin get too thin
I'd like to pause
No matter what I pretend
Like some pilgrim
Who learns to transcend
Learns to live as if each step was the end
(Time stand still)
I'm not looking back
But I want to look around me now
(Time stand still)
See more of the people and the places that surround me now
Freeze this moment a little bit longer
Make each sensation a little bit stronger
Experience slips away
Experience slips away
I turn my face to the sun
Close my eyes
Let my defences down
All those wounds that I can't get unwound
I let my past go too fast
No time to pause
If I could slow it all down
Like some captain, whose ship runs aground
I can wait until the tide comes around
(Time stand still)
I'm not looking back
But I want to look around me now
(Time stand still)
See more of the people and the places that surround me now
Freeze this moment a little bit longer
Make each impression a little bit stronger
Freeze this motion a little bit longer
The innocence slips away
The innocence slips away...
Summer's going fast, nights growing colder
Children growing up, old friends growing older
Freeze this moment a little bit longer
Make each impression a little bit stronger
Experience slips away
Experience slips away...
The innocence slips away
Rush, Time Stand Still--
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel

Habeus Corpses looks like it might be interesting - but I'm not into vampires enoguh to buy a copy to find out. What's here free is of the nifty, however.
- CDThat which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
--
"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

I'm searching for an old Ranma/Star Wars crossover with the title "Ranma's rebellion". I't been ages since I've last seen it. (on Sofaspud's couch IIRC, but the site is down) And googleing gave me nothing usefull.
The story takes place after the original SW Trilogy. One of the surviving splinter groups of the Imperial Navy has taken over Earth. The Nerima Wrecking Crew has joined/started a resistance movement. In the few chapters that were available the last time I've read this story Ranma and someone else (I think Ryoga and Shampoo but I'm not shure) hooked up with some smugglers to contact the Rebel Alliance. We also learn that there was another group of Wrecking Crew members who tried to contact the alliance before that, but they got screwed over the smugglers who were supposed to get them out of the Sol system and thus were sold as slaves. That way Nabiki ended up as the aprentice of a Sith and Ukyo somehow managed to escape slavery and become a frighter captain.
Oh and Ranmas Group only managed to get out of the system beause Kodachi sabotaged the interdictog guarding Earth.
Does anybody of you by any chance know where to find a copy of this?
And the other Story I'm searching for is a Ranma fanfiction called "Cherry Blossoms" I'ts about a war between China and Japan, where Shampoo meets Akane and Ryoga on the battlefield and finds out that the three of them are probably the last members of the Wrecking Crew left alive.
What if: Chibi Usa, Veteran Speznas Ninja Commando From Hell(tm)?What if: Chibi Usa, Veteran Speznas Ninja Commando From Hell(tm)?

Just a note: A spammer dumped a message in the "Marketplace" board, the same one who put the "walking stick" ad in General. I've deleted the Marketplace message and reported him for the General post. Even with the message gone, though, most of you will be seeing a bogus "new" flag for the board -- ignore it and just mark the board as read.

-- Bob
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It's a "magical" land. I think "magical" is ancient Greek for "pain in the butt". -- Bun-Bun, Sluggy Freelance, 11/9/03

I rediscovered this one in my archives, reread it over the weekend, and rediscovered that I don't have the ending.
Does anyone know if "Ranma-Chan" by Luigi Mattera ever got past chapter 8?
Google has two hits for the story -- both archives of FFML posts, but they're both too huge for me download here at work -- they just take too long.

-- Bob
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It's a "magical" land. I think "magical" is ancient Greek for "pain in the butt". -- Bun-Bun, Sluggy Freelance, 11/9/03

So I'm busily catching up on the issues of OMG that came out before I discovered the series. Just the other day I came across the introduction of Chihiro. She went to the Motor Club's old clubhouse, and found a sign on the door saying they'd moved, with a little map showing the new location.
The map took the form of a disc , supported by four elephants standing on the back of a turtle .
Yes, I know Pterry didn't invent the idea; he's said as much in at least two interviews I've read, plus I remember learning of it at least a decade before he began writing. I still think it's funny as all get out.
DHBirr
"Up, lad, up! We've villages to pillage, maidens to slay, and dragons to rescue!"
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

You know... those songs that have strong power effects, but really aren't *good* for anything?
Weird Al: "Like a Surgeon." Gives Doug M4d 5ur61c4L 5k1LLz for the duration of the song, theoretically including the ability to do things normally considered impossibly by medical science. Unfortunately, even with the assistance of combat-hyping, Dr Doug just can't finish a major operation before the song runs out (even though this song power, unusually, doesn't cut off when the song ends, but sort of 'bleeds off' quickly -- sort of like Doctor ma'Qoy in the "SpoQ's Brain" episode of "may'Duj bortaS."
OTOH, it *does* let him be absolutely unbeatable at "Operation," or "Medical Trivial Pursuit"....
Def Leppard: "Pour Some Sugar on Me." Allows Doug to fire jets of hot (but not harmfully so) liquid-sugar icing at fire-hose intensity from his hands. Sort of like Peter Parker's webbing, but harder on the teeth. Would come in handy if Doug were a Marvel Comics character (ref all those Hostess Cake/Pie ads in 70s and 80s Marvel issues).
3 Dog Night: "Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog." The only reason Doug doesn't know what this song does is b/c he's never played it within AOE of anyone named Jeremiah. Lucky for *them,* since the effect is *permanent,* barring corrective action from someone else.
Sammy Hagar: "Marching to Mars." Sort of like a slow-mo version of Thunder Road, except it only leads to the local plane's Mars (or equivalent), at walking speed... and doesn't do anything to protect you once you're there. Also, stopping the song partway through leaves Doug at a proportional straight-line distance between his starting point and Mars's current position -- watch out for that hard vacuum, Doug. Or that suntan, if you started out at opposition. But perhaps the worst part is that it doesn't provide any way to get *back.*
"Werewolves of London." Fortunately, Thibor's not *from* London. Of course, if he's *in* London (England, Ontario, Illinois...)
The "Major General" song from "Pirates of Penzance": "The part of Doug will be played by Danny Kaye with all behavioral limitations removed." (actually, I could see Doug as a big DK fan -- he comes the closest I can think of to a live-action Bugs Bunny in a lot of ways).
Twisted Sister: "I Wanna Rock." For the next three minutes, Doug Sangnoir will be the Beethoven of Rock&Roll -- literally, since he can't hear what he's playing. But once it's over, *boy* will his arms be tired....
(plus, there's all these *rocks* teleported in randomly from God-knows-where all over the stage....)
Sir Mix-a-Lot: "Baby Got Back." Let's... all just be *very* thankful he didn't use *this* on the Knight Sabers in DWII, shall we?
C&C Music Factory: "Everybody Dance Now." And we mean *everybody.* Could be handy for stopping small riots, but that's about it, since no one in the AOE can do *anything* else until the song's over. And *this* one, Doug can't even shut off early!