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2024-05-22, 07:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXXIII: Plotting, ranting, and menacing the countryside
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2024-05-22, 08:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXXIII: Plotting, ranting, and menacing the countryside
WOW that was a good burn on bang. I swear those two have such serious sibling energy and I love it.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2024-05-22, 09:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXXIII: Plotting, ranting, and menacing the countryside
Not only that, Bohrlaika is almost certainly rational, which doesn't necessarily apply to Bang. Now, she's rational based upon the information supplied to her by Klaus, and that's what needs to be corrected. If you asked me which of the two is redeemable, I'm going with the Clank.
This ... is my signature finishing move!
"It's never good when you make a fiend cringe" - MadGrady
According to some online quiz, I'm a 6th level TN Wizard. They didn't give me full XP for all the monsters I've defeated while daydreaming.
http://easydamus.com/character.html
I am a Ranger Archetype: Gleaming Warden (thx to Ninja Prawn)
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2024-05-22, 09:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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- In my library
Re: Girl Genius XXXIII: Plotting, ranting, and menacing the countryside
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2024-05-22, 01:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXXIII: Plotting, ranting, and menacing the countryside
Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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2024-05-23, 12:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXXIII: Plotting, ranting, and menacing the countryside
You would? I'd be rather weary of getting some deadly weapons instead of office supplies as regular paperclips would bore her to death. Pastry production on the other hand? Any time - Bang understands and appreciates cake. Also, she has a personal aversion to poisoning it.
In a war it doesn't matter who's right, only who's left.
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2024-05-23, 05:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-23, 07:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-23, 08:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXXIII: Plotting, ranting, and menacing the countryside
I was going to put up some wikipedia page links, but Duckduckgo is having a problem today.
Cakes are confections and almost always sweet, pastries are made of pastry and include most pies, which may be savory, and tarts and other things like eclaires which may be counted as cakes. Basically, it's complicated.Last edited by halfeye; 2024-05-23 at 08:35 AM.
The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2024-05-23, 11:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXXIII: Plotting, ranting, and menacing the countryside
Terminology varies around the world, even within what is called the English language. In the US, I'd never think of Kendal Mint Cake as being cake.
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2024-05-23, 12:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXXIII: Plotting, ranting, and menacing the countryside
Sure, there are some big anomalies, for instance:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake
The links I would have wanted to find include:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PieLast edited by halfeye; 2024-05-24 at 07:58 AM.
The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2024-05-23, 02:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXXIII: Plotting, ranting, and menacing the countryside
And the famous Marie Antoinette "Let them eat cake" referred to the substance found on the interior of baker's ovens - it was "caked" onto the side, therefore, cake. One of those cases where an English word has two different meanings as a noun and a verb; a cake you eat, but something can cake onto the side of something else. You can have a ship caked in barnacles.
This ... is my signature finishing move!
"It's never good when you make a fiend cringe" - MadGrady
According to some online quiz, I'm a 6th level TN Wizard. They didn't give me full XP for all the monsters I've defeated while daydreaming.
http://easydamus.com/character.html
I am a Ranger Archetype: Gleaming Warden (thx to Ninja Prawn)
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2024-05-24, 07:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXXIII: Plotting, ranting, and menacing the countryside
Not sccording to Wikipedia, and I've not heard that version anywhere else either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake
One of those cases where an English word has two different meanings as a noun and a verb; a cake you eat, but something can cake onto the side of something else. You can have a ship caked in barnacles.The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2024-05-24, 08:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXXIII: Plotting, ranting, and menacing the countryside
Sanity is nice to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
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2024-05-24, 11:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXXIII: Plotting, ranting, and menacing the countryside
You can also have cakes of something (like soap, for example) - I thought that's were the cake in Mint Cake came from, but apparantly it isn't.
The "let them eat cake" is a bit of a mistranslation - the actual work is brioche, which is essentially a luxuary form of bread.Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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2024-05-24, 07:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXXIII: Plotting, ranting, and menacing the countryside
I have heard a similar version only with cake being the crust left in bread pans (which may not have even been a thing in the 1780s). I don't have any source for that though.
It is interesting that in Mr Peabody and Sherman they rip apart the Washington and the cherry tree myth, but promulgate the cake fallacy.
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2024-05-25, 01:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXXIII: Plotting, ranting, and menacing the countryside
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2024-05-26, 12:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Reading the linked wiki article, it seems to have been created by a french writer when Marie Antoinette was 8 and applied to her a half-century after her death. Basically, any time someone tries to tell you how things went with a historical figure, it is best to actually check the history books before repeating it.
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2024-05-26, 06:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXXIII: Plotting, ranting, and menacing the countryside
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2024-05-26, 09:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXXIII: Plotting, ranting, and menacing the countryside
I just want it to be true so all the jokes work.
Marie Antoinette: Let them eat cake!
French person #1: Cake, like pastry?
French person #2: No, she clearly means brioche!
French person #3: No, she means the stuff in ovens!
*Civil War ensues*
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2024-05-27, 03:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-27, 11:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXXIII: Plotting, ranting, and menacing the countryside
I quite like the composition on this page. But perhaps this is an indication that this was a bad plan?
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2024-05-28, 09:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-28, 10:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-28, 06:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXXIII: Plotting, ranting, and menacing the countryside
Sanity is nice to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
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2024-05-29, 12:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Borlaika's rampage has spread beyond the confines of Mechanicsburg - the webcomic server is down. Damn her!
Post, post, post, post an amusing and insightful comment!
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2024-05-29, 03:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXXIII: Plotting, ranting, and menacing the countryside
Hark! An avatar drawn by Kate Beaton!
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2024-05-29, 11:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXXIII: Plotting, ranting, and menacing the countryside
Oops.
Let's hope that thingy that just got aged to dust wasn't zoo important.
Also, what kinda trouble did they run into this time?
The giant time-monster? Something the Castle caused?"If it lives it can be killed.
If it is dead it can be eaten."
Ronkong Coma "the way of the bookhunter" III Catacombium
(Walter Moers "Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher")
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2024-05-29, 10:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXXIII: Plotting, ranting, and menacing the countryside
So did mini-Kestle just get trapped in the time field?
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2024-05-30, 07:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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