The Talking Heads' (Nothing but) Flowers. (lyrics)
At first glance, the song looks like it could be useful. However, Doug's smart enough to see the problem with it... (It's in the FAQ.)
So, somebody plays the song where Doug hears it, and suddenly everyone's standing around buck-naked, covered in flowers, in a field of flowers. Silverbolt wouldn't care, but everyone else would be at least annoyed. And Doug would need a replacement helmet - hope he had the entire memory backed up somewhere.
Of course, there's the question of how the song's going to be played back, since (unless it's a really loud sound system off in the distance) the first thing to be transmuted is likely to be the playback mechanism...
Hmmmmm... Maybe we'd better not show this post to any of Warrior's World wealthier villains.
-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

Repost -- the Great Forum Hack ate it last time.
So, I was driving home from work recently, listening to 101.1 WRIF (The RIFF rocks DETROIT! BABY!), and they happened to put on an oldie, but a goodie, one of the Motor City Madman's better-known tunes:
Artist: Ted Nugent
Song: Fred Bear
Album: Spirit Of The Wild
[" Spirit Of The Wild " CD]
There I was back in the wild again.
I felt right at home, where I be-long.
I had the feeling, coming over me again.
Just like it happened so many times be-fore. eh.
The Spirit of the Woods is like an old good friend.
Makes me feel warm and good in-side.
I knew his name and it was good to see him again.
Cause in the wind he's still a-live.
Oh Fred Bear
Walk with me down the trails again.
Take me back, back where I be-long.
Fred Bear
I'm glad to have you at my side my friend
and I'll join you in the big hunt before too long
before too long.
It was kinda dark, another misty dusk
it came from a tangle down be-low.
I tried to re-mem-ber everything you taught me so well.
I had to de-cide which way to go.
Was I a-lone or in a hunter's dream.
Cause the moment of truth was here and now.
I felt his touch I felt his guiding hand.
The buck was mine forever more!!
Oh Fred Bear
Walk with me down the trails again.
Take me back, back where I be-long.
Fred Bear
I'm glad to have you at my side my friend
and I'll join you in the big hunt before too long
before too long.
We're not alone when we're in the great outdoors
We got his spirit We got his soul
He will guide our steps and our arrows home
The restless spirit still roams
Oh Fred Bear
Walk with me down the trails again.
Take me back, back where I be-long.
Fred Bear
I'm glad to have you at my side my friend
and I'll join you in the big hunt before too long
before too long.
(Fred Bear was real, BTW)
Power: Doug gets Mad Tracking Skillz, a infinite-arrow bow a-la "White Wedding"'s shotgun (anyone ever see the old "Dungeons and Dragons cartoon? something like that, but more Wild West-y), unerring marksmanship against anything edible, and a hankering for fresh venison. Whether he gets ghostly Native American assistance, or his leathers grow buckskin fringes, is up to Bob.
Mmmm... come to think, this might actually be handy for Rob's "Nadia" Stagger -- Doug doing the Mighty Hunter thing when Nadia is around could lead to some... interesting... arguments.

The Power of Imagination
by Pyramaze
Words & music by M. Kammeyer
Look into my eyes
they're the windows of my mind
a dreamspace filled with power
growing stronger by the hour
A realm of thought and dreams with no end
a stairway to a galaxy - ya
A galaxy of images sounds and words
it's liquid metal flowing through my veins
power of imagination has put a spell on me
realities Chains won't set me free
A thought can move mountains
an idea can make the day
fantasy is a firestorm
that guides me on my way
A realm of thoughts and dreams with no end
a stairway to a galaxy - ya
A galaxy of images sounds and words
it's liquid metal flowing through my veins
power of imagination has put a spell on me
realities Chains won't set me free
And at the end of the day
when there are no more words to say
a new story emerges in my mind
(outro)
And at the end of the day
when there are no more words to say
a new story grows emerges in my mind........emerges in my mind.....
emerges in my mind.......ohhhh..............................
I have a couple of ideas for this song. A) Doug can can change the physical world around him as he wishes simply by thinking about it, or B) he can break whatever laws of physics he wants to.
Thoughts?
For those interested, Pyramaze can be found on iTunes. They sound like a combination between prog, power, and epic metal, though The Power of Imagination is more balladesque than most of their songs.*********
I am a very sensitive person! I can go from laughing to crying with just a kick to the face.
- Dave Attell

The song "Fixing a Hole", from the Sgt. Pepper's album. (On the off-chance that you need the lyrics...)
For the duration, whatever structure Doug is in becomes weathertight - not even a hurricane can damage the building. However, Doug is about as able to concentrate as is Azumanga Daioh's Osaka...
-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

I wish I'd thought of this last week...
Just in case we're one of the 50% of gold boards that won't get all its data back, it occurs to me that the best thing we can do is raid the Google cache and Wayback Machine for everything we can find. Re-entering it all into the forums would be a pain and a half, but if we each volunteered for one thread at a time, it would be a bit easier.
Thoughts, opinions, brickbats?

-- Bob
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It's spelt "Frodo Baggins" but it's pronounced "Throat-wobbler Mangrove."

Test bloody test.
Edit -- great, so it's just lengthy posts that get screwed up. Marvy. Just freakin' marvy.
Chris Davies.

RELEASE THE KRAKEN
by Clutch
What's the matter brother, does the drought got you down?
(Open up the bomb shelter, sweep it on out)
Sing to the ocean in the afternoon haze,
Up the iron pillars, rise in the waves.
Andromeda is weeping. Inside one teardrop swims
Brave Useless in training less a millimeter thin.
RELEASE THE KRAKEN!
GET THE SACRIFICE ON!
RELEASE THE KRAKEN!
GOOD GD Y'ALL!
Useless the Younger we pray for you.
You know we got your back in whatever you do.
Bathysphere bobbing in Eyeball Bay,
Black lash crashes, forty foot waves.
Cepheus is holding Cassiopeia's free hand
As the Kraken breaks the surface making bee-line to the land.
(spoken) In Greek legend the son of Zeus and Danae
He and his mother was set adrift in a chest, but rescued by the intervention of Zeus. He was brought up by KING POLYDECTES,
Who, wishing to secure Danae, got rid of him by encouraging him
In the almost hopeless task of obtaining the head OF THE MEDUSA!
With the help of the gods he was successful, and with the head,
Which turned all that looked on it into stone, he rescued Andromeda
And later metamorphosed Polydectes and his guests to stone.
(various repetitions and effects on 'metamorphosed to stone')
(spoken section words in Release the Kraken are taken from Brewer's
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1995, Harper Collins, page 819)
Lyrics from this page. If you've never heard them, the best description I can give for Clutch is "What if Frank Zappa played heavy metal?"
- CDHow many times have you stared mournfully into the coleslaw and thought "Gee, I wish I was a cabbage."
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.
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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

Oh ... this isn't the Betty Ford Clinic?
I got into the Drunkard's Walk by serendipity (see definition below). About a year ago, I was idly looking for the lyrics to a SCA song I'd seen in a songbook 16-17 years ago, and my Search picked up Doug using the title, "Freaking the Mundanes," as a description of the way he'd just messed with somebody's head. The citation I clicked on actually took me to the DWII Concordance. I scrolled up and down, trying to figure out what the Gehenna *this* was, and the bit where he used Bugs Bunny pins as a pledge of retribution caught my eye. That's when I started hunting for the way to get to the main story.
Until I started reading DW, I wasn't especially into manga or anime (I had the Dark Horse translation of Gunsmith Cats, an ADV Gunsmith Cats anime, and a few other odds and ends). DW caused me to buy BGC on DVD and start picking up the Dark Horse OMG. If you turn me into a Sailor Moon junkie, Mr. Schroeck, we will have to have *words*!
Biographically, I'm 47, spent 23 years as a US Army REMF, and was heavy into RPGs, mostly D&D, before I entered the service. I don't *write* so much as I dream up *backgrounds* for stories -- lists, for instance, of the "cast of characters."
I probably would've just kept on reading other people's postings (and snickering) without inflicting my own comments on anyone, but a 2- or 3-year-old post on the DW3 forum kept preying on my mind. There's a quote that I think just *has* to go there.
DHBirr
Oh, yes: "Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and finding a farmer's daughter." -- Julius H. Comroe, Jr.
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

Some of you may have had problems earlier today/last night trying to get into the boards. I just wanted to let you know that it wasn't a problem specifically with the DW fora, but all of ezBoard -- it was apparently undergoing some kind of cascading collapse. When I tried to get in this morning and got bounced with an error message, I went to their support page and found dozens of posts citing similar problems with other boards.
I was going to AOL with my specific error message, but as soon as I hit the "new thread" button, the support board itself crashed with the same error.
I'm glad to everything is back up and running now, and I hope no one was too concerned.

-- Bob
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It's spelt "Frodo Baggins" but it's pronounced "Throat-wobbler Mangrove."

and a possible gatesong too!
It's a rough and literal translation so pardon me for any inaccuracies.
Loop: Tsubasa Chronicles ED by Maaya Sakamoto

Nee kono machiga yuuyamini somaru dokiwa
Sekaino dokokade asahiga sasu
Kimino teno naka sono hanaga kareru tokiwa
Chiisana tanewo otosudaroo
Humikatamerareta tsuchiwo michidato yobuno naraba
Mewo tojiru kotodemo aikanaa
Kono hoshiga tairanara hutari deae tenakatta
Otagaiwo toozakeruyouni hashitteita
SUPI-DO wo yurumezuni imawa donnani hanaretemo
Meguru kisekino tochuuni mata mukaiauno darou
Nee kono machino yuuyamiga sariyuku tokini
Kono namida tsuretette
Katarikaketekuru mojiwo shousetsuto yobunonara
Todokanai kotobawa yumekanaa
Yodominaku nagareteku kawani ukabeta kono hade
Umiwo mezashite kumoni natte amede hurou
Tooi kimino chikakude ochita dane wo sodateyou
Chigau bashoude kimiga kizuitekureru toiindakedo
Kono hoshiga taemanaku mawaritsuzukete irukara
Chiisaku hiraketa madono soto keshikiwo kae
Watashino aishita hana sotto mebaeru kisetsude
Meguru kisekino sono hate mata mukaiaunodarou
Mukai aunodarou
Kururu mawaru kurukuruto
Kurukuru kimino mawariwo

You know, when the streets of the night is being covered by darkness
Somewhere in the world the morning sun shines
When the flower that's inside your hand wilts
It will probably drop a seed
If we call road the earth that's been step on and turned hard
Is it love if we close our eyes?
If this planet was flat we wouldn't be able to meet
Its meaning is for us to be far apart
Without lowering the speed, even if we are separated farther and farther
We will probably face each other while is going round and round miraculously
You know, in this street when the darkness that was covering this road leaves
Take these tears with you
If we call a novel the words that we speak
Are the words that are not sent called dreams?
Riding a leaf that's in floating in the river that's moving and not still
While facing the sea, let's be a cloud and fall down as rain
The seed that was dropped far away near you, let's grow it
It would be nice if you acknowledge it someplace else
This planet is moving constantly without stopping
Changing the scenery of the window that's been opened so slightly
In the season that the flower that I love grows ever so slightly
We will probably face each other while [is] going round and round miraculously
We will probably face each other
It goes round and round and round
Round and round, near you

Replace Syaoran and Sakura with Maggie and Doug in the ED scenes....*sniff*
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell