Comments on: A scarecrow

By: psi

psi — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:57:17 +0000

The Fertile Crescent runs from Iraq through to the Nile Delta in Egypt.

It’s nowhere near Afghanistan.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:50:10 +0000

Wow. For once, the first comment is a giant WIN! Congratulations to megalodon for awesomeness!

By: mabsba

mabsba — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:20:18 +0000

Godwin!

By: Danbala

Danbala — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:14:32 +0000

Those damned cats always are. :/

By: Green Beard the Canuck, Pirate of the Mighty Bow River

Green Beard the Canuck, Pirate of the Mighty Bow River — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:14:13 +0000

Exactly, and the Cat is a Nazi

By: mabsba

mabsba — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:12:52 +0000

The dog is socialist!

By: Green Beard the Canuck, Pirate of the Mighty Bow River

Green Beard the Canuck, Pirate of the Mighty Bow River — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:11:28 +0000

No the BOY is Belgian the SOLDIER is Israeli!1!elebenty11!1!!

By: Danbala

Danbala — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:07:36 +0000

(And ACTUALLY, he's Belgian.)

By: Danbala

Danbala — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:06:11 +0000

Actually, sentences beginning with “actually” are the best thing ever!

By: Australian

Australian — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:03:37 +0000

Actually he is an Australian soldier. Also the ‘gun’ he has is a Steyr Aug used by the Austrians, Irish, and Australians (also a few others..)

By: marriedmiko

marriedmiko — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:29:59 +0000

While I thoroughly enjoyed the conversations on alchohol, English Majors (yay, me too!) and old books, I thought I’d point out the SIGNIFICANCE of the poppies since it’s not up there already.
One of the major problems faced by those involved with the conflict in Afghanistan, is while the land USED to be the best in the world (remember the Fertile Crescent from ancient history? It’s there), due to Millenia of mildly salinated irrigation water, pretty much the ONLY thing you can grow there anymore is poppies. Hard to create a western-style goody-two-shoes democracy when the main export is opiates….
Anyway, just thought I’d throw that out there!

By: ozma914

ozma914 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:52:10 +0000

Baum was pretty good at putting little asides into his books that adults could appreciate, so a rereading might be fun for all of us. The writers who took up the “Royal Historian of Oz” mantel after he passed were more straight-up kid’s books authors, and sometimes a bit too cutesy for my taste.

By: ozma914

ozma914 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:45:33 +0000

I actually saw a female Tin Woods — ah, person costume around Halloween time. Not the way I’d ever pictured the character, believe me!

By: ozma914

ozma914 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:40:41 +0000

In the original book the Wizard required everyone in the city to wear green colored glasses, fooling them into thinking everything in the entire city was really green. In later Oz books the city was said to have a primarily green color scheme and was encrusted with emeralds all around; but over time that changed so that the city itself really was tinted green.

By: Default User

Default User — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:51:08 +0000

Well okay, but why is he looking for a scarecrow, tin woodsman, lion and a little girl with a dog? Also, what is link doing in Afghanistan? Shouldn’t he be in Hyrule?

By: Bricky

Bricky — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:48:59 +0000

Hes an Australian soldier on patrol in the green zone in Afghanistan

By: slaggingham

slaggingham — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:23:48 +0000

Come here, boy, and me and this broomhandle will show you what it really MEANS to be butthurt.

By: slaggingham

slaggingham — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:20:36 +0000

The first. They pop up every so often and act all butthurt if anyone implies that any military (or police) are anything but a bunch of savage bloodthirsty fast zombies.

Those folks are in dire need of a good stabbing.

The ones opposed to the current war (In Afghanistan) aren’t so much anti-military as they are anti-thinking-things-through. (Being opposed to the Iraq war is… optional. I won’t argue with that one.)

The third group, I’m for, as long as the LOLs they are against are actually unfunny.

By: Brak the Zappaist

Brak the Zappaist — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:03:22 +0000

Thank you for not taking advantage of my suckage, And I love the image…kinda what I actually had in mind. *sees BT not looking and gives charro a thank you smooch..and a slips in a friendly pat on the tail*

By: BWian

BWian — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:59:44 +0000

amazing story bro =)

By: Default User

Default User — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:49:37 +0000

Actually I believe the soldier is Israeli, you can tell by the um, green of the uniform and the type of gun.

By: ipv6freely

ipv6freely — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:46:01 +0000

And with him being a dumbass american soldier, he’d probably believe them.

By: viking gal

viking gal — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:18:41 +0000

Can’t say, since I’m only in touch with 2. One is a prof, and the other works for a health insurance company.

By: Basara549

Basara549 — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:59:33 +0000

Isn’t the most common phrase quoted by English majors, post graduation -

“Do you want just the sandwich, or the combo meal?”

By: cazz

cazz — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:38:05 +0000

Homer was probably referring to the egyptian blue lotus which is a mild sedative/psychoactive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphaea_caerulea

By: suicide_the_blonde

suicide_the_blonde — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:07:35 +0000

OXY CLEAN WILL CLEAN THE SINUSES RIGHT OUT OF YOUR FACE!!!!11!!!

- the late Billy Mays

By: suicide_the_blonde

suicide_the_blonde — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:05:07 +0000

They should have gone for cubic zirconias.

By: suicide_the_blonde

suicide_the_blonde — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:54:59 +0000

I have a soft spot for Lucifer too, Jane.

A great way to get to know Shakespeare is to go to live performances or even watch a movie version, or several movie versions. There’s a scene in The Libertine with Johnny Depp in which an actress rehearses for Ophelia (Samantha Morton is awesome). Gives me chills.

{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq5-wZ8Yj5U&feature=PlayList&p=C8A1F5696FDAB3ED&index=21}

By: Rando the Randorian

Rando the Randorian — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:17:32 +0000

What the hell is this thing? A warp whistle? I don’t know how to play a goddamned warp whistle? I’m going to go hang out with that chick from Metroid.

By: mabsba

mabsba — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:52:19 +0000

It’s okay. My son doesn’t like Shakespeare, and I still love him. *gives Rando cake*

You know, I always think “Randy” instead of “Rando.” Is this intentional? (Aiming for the English meaning of the word, I mean?)

By: Default User

Default User — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:33:23 +0000

*sets down her club* We’re sorry Rando, it was for your own good.

By: Rando the Randorian

Rando the Randorian — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:27:48 +0000

I hate Shakespeare.
*is beaten to death*

By: froofrou the faerie princess

froofrou the faerie princess — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:13:11 +0000

That, and I’m a geek

By: numerobis

numerobis — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:11:17 +0000

Anything with numbers causes my brain to shut down too. That’s why I’m a mathematician.

By: froofrou the faerie princess

froofrou the faerie princess — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:59:43 +0000

The girl was about 5, and she wasn’t getting much off her hands

By: keithybabes

keithybabes — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:58:55 +0000

That would beer correct assumption.

By: keshet

keshet — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:57:17 +0000

If the hand sanitizer is alcohol based, I can understand the buzz, but it’s a dangerous buzz!

By: Default User

Default User — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:54:45 +0000

Are we distill talking about mead?

By: keithybabes

keithybabes — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:53:49 +0000

I’d like to get in cider.

By: mabsba

mabsba — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:45:27 +0000

Please, I wasn’t judging or anything like that. I am just always amazed that anyone would pick anything over the original.

God, I am an English geek.

By: mabsba

mabsba — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:43:51 +0000

Okay, every time you put ENG, I think of engineers, which makes me ROFL because scientists and mathematicians are always making fun of engineers. Hee hee hee.

By: Default User

Default User — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:42:25 +0000

Poultry science? So that’s how you know more about chickens than I do!

By: mabsba

mabsba — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:42:19 +0000

See, you should have just skipped to graduate school. Very few numbers involved.

By: Jane St.Clair Glamorous First Lady of PK

Jane St.Clair Glamorous First Lady of PK — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:37:22 +0000

Well I was an Elementary Ed major. I had already taken all my lit classes and then found out that when I had to make the transfer to a satellite school they required this course and I was already neck deep in child psych and educational theory and not in the mood. I did end up liking most of Paradise Lost, however, especially the bits with Lucifer in them. I had some sympathy is what I'm saying.

By: froofrou the faerie princess

froofrou the faerie princess — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:33:29 +0000

I was an English major for a few semesters, but the lure of having money after graduating drove me to Poultry Science

I tended toward Lit more than the structure part of English. The only Lit class I got less than an A in was an American Lit class that I only went to half the time. The professor and I reached a deal. By policy she was supposed to fail me for not coming to class enough, but since my grades were through the roof, she compromised and gave me a C. I loved that class.

Math, on the other hand, can kiss my ass. Anything with numbers causes my brain to shut down.

By: Brak the Zappaist

Brak the Zappaist — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:29:09 +0000

It’s becoming everclear that she’s a real brut!

By: ElbieSee the quasi-lurker (but I'm getting better at it)

ElbieSee the quasi-lurker (but I'm getting better at it) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:20:03 +0000

And boy, can she wine. I’d lager to just chill out sometimes.

By: Default User

Default User — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:00:36 +0000

Thanks! *sneaks out of the bog using the compass while Froo is distracted with telling Rando/Mario that he’s in the wrong castle*

By: viking gal

viking gal — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:57:44 +0000

Shh! Quiet!
*reaches the edge of the bog, and tosses the compass underhand, back to DU*

By: viking gal

viking gal — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:56:41 +0000

Cool! I was mistaken for an ENG major in college, but can’t say that I ever mistook an ENG major for a science major. So there IS hope for cross discipline communication!