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I'm not planning on seeing it until early June or so. There's never been a movie made that I'll stand in line for or pay full price for, and to be frank, about the only thing in ROTJ I'm really keen on seeing anyway is General Grievous. Even him, I can wait on...

They're a cult in my book. The local ones tried hard to recruit me for a long time, probably because I didn't mind talking to them as long as they were willing to walk about with me while I was doing chores outside and they were wacky enough to amuse me. Used to leave their two zines for me in the m...

Nooooooo, not Chef!!! :lol: I was initially going to suggest that surely it would only take seconds to kill him, not moments, but only because I tend to think of a moment being similar to a minute...but it isn't, is it? (So English isn't my first language. So sue me.) As long as Chef got killed quic...

I'd give this ep a C+, the + added just for trying hard, which for me means an utterly average time-waster, the sort of thing you watch once and then start forgetting about as soon as it's over. The only thing that grabbed me in any way whatsoever was the one line about temporal stealth technology o...

You know, whenever the subject of proto-feathers comes up, I'm invariably disappointed that the closest analogy we have today to what these things might have looked like--feathering affected by the recessive 'silkie' gene--never seems to get mentioned. This is a very old feather mutation most common...

All of you reading this are surely aware that Mount St Helens has been clearing its throat a bit lately and providing some news fodder thereby. About a week ago, some Mount St Helens stuff was on TV at work when my relief came in to take over the shift and we started talking about the volcano's 1980...

Darth Wong: Sadly, I will be trying exactly nothing to improve matters because I'm still using the computer at work which has mega-security features and restrictions on it. It wasn't that long ago that I didn't have Internet access, period, so I'm not planning on complaining, either. But hey, this i...

I wouldn't want to live anywhere that doesn't experience the four seasons, let alone live where the weather's invariably 'good'--that kind of climate would just bore me to tears. Of course I may change my mind about this in another 20 or 30 years, when I'm truly ancient and getting a little too crea...

How, exactly, that weather control/modification is supposed to work is what I'd like to know. To make rain, for example, you need clouds. And to make clouds you'd need a lifting agency (ie. daytime heating), lots of water vapour, and lots of nuclei for that water vapour to condense onto. The amount...

Okay, thanks for that info. I'll certainly buy that this vessel was always called the 'Tantive IV' (the one in SW: ANH, that is), but have honestly never heard anyone refer to it by name before. Too bad its proper monicker didn't catch on when Star Wars first came out. We'd likely have fanfics about...

Hey all, long time no chat. This is a question for you Lego experts. The rebel blockade runner is selling now in Canada ($300 at Toys R Us, by the way), but for some bizarre reason all the boxes I've seen have been marketing it as the 'Tantive IV'. This is apparently the French name for this vessel ...

Okay, thanks, aerius. That confirms my suspicions. My own bafflement came mainly from having a hard time believing that most people don't know what a snipe is--always thought it was at least as familiar a bird as a tern, nighthawk, woodcock, etc. Not robin and pigeon-familiar, but pretty familiar. G...

I have never really understood the joke in sending someone on a snipe hunt. The thing is, people do hunt snipe where I live, just a kilometer or so from my house, in fact--I sometimes meet hunters down near the marsh that have gotten one or two when they hunt them in season during the fall, usually ...

If you had an admin forum, the following would rightly belong there. But you don't. So here goes: General Note to Fellow Members: Since the software update back in February, this site has been partially filtered for security reasons on the computer which I normally use at work. Basically, it's becom...

Whew, done! My apologies again for the story interruption. I should really know better than to NOT have my backup files handy when I post stuff like this. Stravo: You bring up some very good points, however, I am exactly opposite to you in my own attitude towards multi-parters and won't even read on...

continued from above… It had been easier than he’d anticipated. Gossip about unknown friends in high places probably helped. Perhaps the other Archdukes also saw the problems, but lacked the initiative to do anything about them. Once Poggle had tempted or bullied the first dozen hive leaders into se...

Okay. Let's try this again, from a backup file this time... CREAM RISES (OR, HOW POGGLE CAME TO POWER) -Part Four- Brilliant bronze sunshine spilled into the bowl of Stalgasin’s coliseum. It was still early, just after high noon, yet the sand of the arena floor had already been leveled and raked for...

Tech Note: Argh! This library computer I'm using refuses to open the last file of the story! Will have to go home and get the backup disc and will try to post the last part later today or tomorrow. Sorry, folks. Looks like a genuine glitch for once. (The damn file works fine on the machine at work, ...

continued from above… A great clatter of hard feet on even harder stone rattled through the corridor. The acklay shot up the passageway in full charge, followed by running Geonosians. For one dreadful second it looked as if the creature might be too large for the entrance, but then it ducked down, c...

CREAM RISES (OR, HOW POGGLE CAME TO POWER) -Part Three- Poggle slapped a pile of notes on the grooming table in front of Tau Lee’s muzzle. “There,” he exclaimed. “As requested.” For a long moment, nobody moved. What Poggle had done was incredibly rude. The three service drones that had been working ...

CREAM RISES (OR, HOW POGGLE CAME TO POWER) -Part Two- Poggle lay almost unmoving for two days after the petrana-ki. The service drones assigned to his residential cell did their best for him and managed to get him clean, and trimmed off the bits of shredded skin and otherwise tended his wounds as we...

Okay, Geonosian fans, here ya go, a long four-parter all about how Archduke Poggle the Lesser and his pals got to where they’re at by the time of AOTC. I mostly based it on the Poggle character’s official background information. It is also my interpretation and loving exploration of Geonosian societ...

Hey, Coyote, what's this? 'Female soldiers...'? Navy and air force gals not good enough for you or something?

I admit I'm grasping with the mammal bit. Thought it might apply here because, let's face it, a kiwi is such an odd-looking bird with hairy-appearing plumage...I've had a person think one of my white Silky chickens was a rabbit, so I can sort of see the confusion...a little...tiny bit...maybe... (Ok...

The only link I can provide is on TV right now...the GEO channel, a show called 'Living Wild', about nocturnal animals in New Zealand. A talking head guy giving some background on kiwis distinctly said "...(the kiwi) was neither bird nor animal..." While I admire his grammatical accuracy, ...