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Mazarine
00:20 / 20.06.03
I've heard of a new thing they're doing now with contact lenses that you wear overnight, then take out in the day time. The day after you wear them, your vision is back, not sure if it's 20/20, but it's close. It's not permenant, and I think it only works for nearsightedness, but I'm fair certain that the FDA's approved it. However, I have no useful links or a specific as to the "they" that is carrying it out. But if you're interested, waxy dan, I could endeavor to find out more. "No" being a perfectly acceptable answer.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
00:33 / 20.06.03
Of course, near where I used to live, a laser-eye-surgery place and a laser-hair-removal place shared the same building. This made me feel... somewhat unholy.
 
 
Cavatina
00:54 / 20.06.03
(waves a hand) Haus, thanks for the tips re ze weather. :-)

I'd thought to take my light raincoat & brolly anyway for Wales, but it's good to have advice from someone in London atm.
 
 
The local Goth prototype has become a run-of-the-mill example of the apocalypse.
01:28 / 20.06.03
Sorry to cut in, ignore this thread if this has offended you....

The song goes : How many miles must a man walk by, before he can call himself a man? The answer my friend, is blowing in the winds, the answer is blowing in the wind.....

And if I wanna travel or doing a mission : like going for wedding at a most unforgiving time, disappearing, etc and I have a bicycle, 2 lodgings, a car, a handphone, a PC, a good bus transport system and some cash, how do I make use the fullest use of them? Say like taking a bus with my bicycle, puting the bicycle in my car, etc.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
02:59 / 20.06.03
The song goes : How many miles must a man walk by, before he can call himself a man? The answer my friend, is blowing in the winds, the answer is blowing in the wind.....

It means that Bob had calculated exactly how many miles you'd have to walk before autochange of nomenclature fits in. But as he finished his work, it blew away. Hence the song. It's like the famous mathematical proof that was too big for the margin; lost for a while.

Dylan and Fermat. They fight crime.
 
 
waxy dan
07:53 / 20.06.03
Mazarine the Plush If you could find any information on that it'd be fantastic, thanks!

Rothkoid Scariest thing I've seen is Boots doing laser-eye surgery and 'lunch time botox'. Pop in during your lunch break and one floppy sandwich, firm cheeks and eye-patch later and you're back in work in time for coffee. Yeek.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
12:34 / 20.06.03
I wanna know if it counts towards my Boots card, though...
 
 
that
16:10 / 22.06.03
An LotR question: in the fanfic, Aragorn is referred to often as Estel. The impression I get is that it is an Elvish name for him. However, it does not appear in the index of LotR, which seems weird when all his five hundred and fifty-three other aliases do appear. So - Estel - fanon or canon? I'm assuming canon, but where exactly in canon?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
18:18 / 22.06.03
Canon, I think - one of the appendices to the Lord of the Rings. Gilraen calls Aragorn Estel, which means hope, because he is the hope of men, when they arrive in Rivendell after the death of Arathorn. Presumably, although I do not recall, this was to conceal the young Aragorn from the bad guys. So, lots of fic in which Arwen and Aragorn first meet will presumably involve him being called Estel.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
18:23 / 22.06.03
Yes. She said 'I have given Hope to the Dunedain; I have kept no hope for myself.'
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
18:26 / 22.06.03
I think it comes up in the account of the history of the Kings of Gondor/Arnor, or the tale of Aragorn and Arwen or whatever it's called. When he finally dies, Arwen addresses him as Estel, I think.
 
 
that
18:27 / 22.06.03
Thank you muchly, both of you. Am not particularly an LotR fan, and thus have not read the appendices - just found it a little weird that it was not in the index... thanks for clearing that up.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
18:48 / 22.06.03
It's the tale of Aragorn and Arwen, yes.

Also, I bet he used the name when he embarked on a second career as a drag artiste in the lower circles of Gondor...
 
 
that
10:09 / 23.06.03
If I wanted kind of a sexual psychology perspective on slash, or, more likely, on the appeal of 'same sex' relations to members of the 'opposite sex'...what would I read?
 
 
Cat Chant
15:54 / 23.06.03
Joanna Russ 'Pornography For Women, By Women, With Love', in her collection with lots of 'Ms' in the title (Monsters, Maenads & Mommas, or something). Not actually sexual psychology, I note as I reread your question, but it talks about women identifying with gay men as a way of imagining a more equal form of heterosexuality and I think has some references to other articles about feminists reclaiming the position of fag-hag.
 
 
that
20:03 / 23.06.03
Mm, I knew about that... have thus far been unable to get hold of it, but I will have access to the college library soon... thank you...
 
 
paw
01:02 / 27.06.03
websites and books that identify and name shades of colour, a colour chart i suppose, please
 
 
Jackie Susann
06:17 / 27.06.03
What's the difference between a herb and a spice?
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
09:00 / 27.06.03
Seanmcglinchey - that'll depend on where you're getting the colours from. Paints? Inks? Whuh?

Herb: leafy bit of the plant.
Spice: other bit of the plant, usually processed.
See here for more.

Now, me:
I'm crossposting this in the games thread, too. Just got a request for hay-ulp.

I just bought a secondhand copy of Devil May Cry. (Yes, the game buying is FUCKING OUT OF HAND.) But it's got no manual. So, can someone hook me up with scans of it, or at least post controls and other info I'm gonna need? That would indeed rock and save me being apelike and try to figure it out... I'd like to know what I'm dealing with before I start...

Thanks!
 
 
William Sack
09:23 / 27.06.03
seanmcglinchey, this is probably not what you are looking for, but someone sent me the link yesterday and I have been fascinated by this site. http://webexhibits.org/pigments/ If anyone has the urge to make some Carmine Red by boiling up 2 lbs. of powdered cochineal beetles in 6 buckets of rainwater and 4 oz. binoxalate of potash, please do tell me how you get on.
 
 
unheimlich manoeuvre
11:39 / 27.06.03
Seanmcglinchey how about this book?
 
 
Ethan Hawke
12:23 / 27.06.03
Gosh, this thread has gotten HUGE. I admit I haven't read even close to all of it.

Q: How long can I keep freshly brewed coffee in the fridge, for morning iced-coffee purposes? I guess it's a two part question - will it, any point, go "bad" (ie, dangerous or merely uncomfortable to drink), and at one point will it taste too disgusting to drink? You see, I am too lazy to make coffee any morning, but can't stomach paying for it any longer.
 
 
Baz Auckland
13:08 / 27.06.03
Coffee in the fridge will stay good for awhile. Evil Sbux has.....a 24 hour limit on theirs, so I would say that it would still be decent to drink after 3 days... maybe even longer if you keep it cold, black, and bottled up...

As I recently found out after leaving my travel mug at work for 5 days, black coffee doesn't go moldy or bad very fast. White coffee, and coffee grounds do....
 
 
that
16:35 / 27.06.03
Wtf does MWPP stand for in relation to Harry Potter? In reference to the parents' generation...
 
 
pomegranate
16:55 / 27.06.03
cholister (and other fans of slash)-- bitchmagazine.com has a li'l article on slash on their front page you might want to check out. i'm sure it's not as in-depth as you desire, but bitch magazine rules, for those who haven't heard of it; it's subtitled 'feminist response to pop culture.'
 
 
that
17:03 / 27.06.03
Thanks - always good to see what the press is saying about slash...
 
 
Maygan
02:50 / 28.06.03
There's this song "people said, that 2 of us are from different world, how do I know...." May I know what's the title of this song? The prize is I'll tell you about how much is that doggie in the windows95.

How do I install windows98?
 
 
grant
14:39 / 28.06.03
Wtf does MWPP stand for in relation to Harry Potter? In reference to the parents' generation...

It seems like that'd be the mapmakers - Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot & Prongs. Sound right?
 
 
that
14:44 / 28.06.03
Dear fuck. I really am slow. It's getting worse, really starting to worry me.

Sigh. I always forget they have those ludicrous nicknames...thanks, grant.
 
 
Trijhaos
00:08 / 29.06.03
Why are unidentified corpses called John/Jane Doe? Why not other fairly common names like Tom, Dick, and Mary?
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
04:16 / 29.06.03
John Doe is a name from an old English law case - it's the name of a hypothetical landowner.

See here.
 
 
pomegranate
02:25 / 01.07.03
i answered my own question by screwing up the courage to google "dookie rope," and mordant, you were right.
 
 
that
08:01 / 01.07.03
This is just me being really fucking lazy... but, you know, that's hardly unusual. Can anyone recommend me some resources (on the web or in book form) about medieval warfare (strategy and all that) and...sort of swordplay techniques and such?
 
 
Baz Auckland
14:12 / 01.07.03
Let me go ask Helmschmied... he's an expert on that sort of thing...
 
 
grant
14:39 / 01.07.03
At home, I have a great book (vividly illustrated) called Arms Through the Ages.

The first couple of pages have an atatl on 'em, the last few feature missiles & tanks.

I think it's by Kurt Halbritter.

I also came across stuff when looking up quarterstaffs for some other thread on here. If you can dig up that thread (was it a weapons thread you started, Cholister?), then you should be able to follow links to all kinds of old armory sites.

Therion Arms might also be useful.
 
  

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