By nature I tend to be a pretty mild-mannered guy and it takes alot to get me steamed…but this disgusting silence has GOT TO STOP!!! :mad: :mad:
So, without further ado:
DS: sticks tongue out Take that, evil dogs of Sauron!! Your lackeys will be pulled kicking and shrieking from underneath their rocks and their nasty little heads will be liberated from their nasty little bodies. The pyres of their stinking corpses will light up the landscape like lighters at a rock concert! The ashes of your pop centers will be collected and distributed to all Free People for fertilizer in our little gardens.
And your women! Well, um, they will remain unmolested because we’re good guys (plus it’s not their fault they’re completely unfortunate looking).
Watchwood Wardens and Stonecasters! Throw down your arms and come blinking into the light of justice! Your torture and servitude are nearly over. We offer you a…recall vote! Just say NAY to the Lidless Eye of Mordor.
Newts: What can I say? Those DS guys are perma-wankers.
Join the winning side! Riding the fence all the time must be soooo exhausting! Come have tea and crumpets with us in relaxing glades and elegant dining halls.
Be all that you can be. Let freedom ring and be your watchword. Just say no to balrogs…
Gnomadic
Vice-President of Propaganda
Monastic Facade
Guess the age limit for this game must have been lowered considerably or perhaps just the IQ level
Newt:
Pronunciation: 'nüt, 'nyüt
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, alteration (resulting from misdivision of an ewte) of ewte – more at EFT
Date: 15th century
: any of various small semiaquatic salamanders (as of the genus Triturus)
Wanker: From Oxford English Dictionary - An objectionable or contemptible person.
Perma: The etymology of perma was more interesting than I expected. My initial theory was that “perma-” originated as a Latin prefix, but I was wrong.
A wee bit of research led me to the conclusion that the prefix “perma-” (meaning: unchanging, year-round) was first used in a 1943 paper by a paleontology professor from Stanford named S. W. Muller who, during work for the U.S. military, abbreviated permanently frozen ground to “permafrost.”
In recent years trendy people and marketing gurus have contrived new idioms and product names by adding words to the prefix “perma-”. E.g., “perma-culture,” “Perma-Cool,” “Perma-Guard,” and “Perma-Grip.”
I make no claim, however, to trendiness or marketing savvy–I was just trying to drum up conversation.
Daehir, please, ease up on the insults and semantic quibbles. Newts is a long-standing linguistic shortcut in this game for the neutral nations (much as the non-word ‘Freeps’ is often used for Free Peoples). Would you prefer we refer to them as neuters? Or maybe go politically correct and call them decision-impaired? Maybe you should save up your allowance and buy a sense of humor…
Archus, thanks for inspiring Monastic to define perma-wanker. I did find that one rather amusing.
Nice thread so far boys (and neuters), let’s keep it rolling!
Toe wrote: “Maybe somebody can teach me why the Romans are so bad.”
Apart from sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, peace, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever really done for us?
(FYI to the readers: To fully enjoy this whole Roman exchange be sure to see Monty Python’s “The Life of Brian”)
Toe wrote: “Considering going wanker (would I automatically be “perma-” at that point, too???)”
Criminy! Monastic Façade began this Game 48 forum page and here it is, three weeks later and the page has been relegated to the Obituaries. Page Three!!
Too many of us ‘wall flowers’ are failing the challenge of actually making a post & leaving the effort to a bunch of fat friar’s. Well, to get the Game 48 Forum off of the Classified Adds Page, I’ll post an unusual encounter one of MY characters had this past turn.
"Malik - after innocently being ‘given’ bag of gold by an Ice Drake - came across the Glowing Gelatinous Mass called Higado Gallina. Quaking with fear, Malik tried to run from the cave but was tackled by the Ice Drake and forced to take artifact Higado Gallina before being contemptuously thrown out of the cave like Luke Skwalker in ‘The Empire Strike Back’. It was unclear what advantage (if any) the artifact will give in combat but it does seem to allow the casting of Spell #212 ‘Paralysis of Words’ - causing opponents to stutter like John Cusak in ‘Say Anything’.
