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I’m sorry if I offend you. But I don’t swear just for the hell of it. You see, I figure that language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we ought to use all the words we’ve got. Besides, there are damned few words that everybody understands. — From Inherit the Wind, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. |
Blood and Roses was a trading game, along the lines of Monopoly. The Blood side played with human atrocities for the counters, atrocities on a large scale: individual rapes and murders didn't count, there had to have been a large number of people wiped out. Massacres, genocides, that sort of thing. The Roses side played with human achievements. Artworks, scientific breakthroughs, stellar works of architecture, helpful inventions. Monuments to the soul's magnificence, they were called in the game. There were sidebar buttons, so that if you didn't know what Crime and Punishment was, or the Theory of Relativity, or the Trail of Tears, or Madame Bovary, or the Hundred Years' War, or The Flight into Egypt, you could double-click and get an illustrated rundown, in two choices: R for children, PON for Profanity, Obscenity, and Nudity. That was the thing about history, said Crake: it had lots of all three. The exchange rates — one Mona Lisa equalled Bergen-Belsen, one Armenian genocide equalled the Ninth Symphony plus three Great Pyramids — were suggested, but there was room for haggling. To do this you needed to know the numbers — the total number of corpses for the atrocities, the latest open-market price for the artworks; or, if the artworks had been stolen, the amount paid out by the insurance policy. It was a wicked game. The sack of Troy, says a voice in his ear. The destruction of Carthage. The Vikings. The Crusades. Ghenghis Kahn. Attila the Hun. The massacre of the Cathars. The witch burnings. The destruction of the Aztec. Ditto the Maya. Ditto the Inca. The Inquisition. Vlad the Impaler. The massacre of the Huguenots. Cromwell in Ireland. The French Revolution. The Napoleonic Wars. The Irish Famine. Slavery in the American South. King Léopold in the Congo. The Russian Revolution. Stalin. Hitler. Hiroshima. Mao. Pol Pot. Idi Amin. Sri Lanka. East Timor. Saddam Hussein. "Stop it," says Snowman. Sorry, honey. Only trying to help. That was the trouble with Blood and Roses: it was easier to remember the Blood stuff. The other trouble was that the Blood player usually won, but winning meant you inherited a wasteland. This was the point of the game, said Crake, when Jimmy complained. Jimmy said that if that was the point, it was pretty pointless. He didn't want to tell Crake that he was having some severe nightmares: the one where the Parthenon was decorated with cut-off heads was, for some reason, the worst. — From Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood Template-y thingI was going to do this myself but got intimidated by lots of scarey words on editing templates — I would so much like this: If you look at this template: {{BirdTalk}} it lacks a direct link to the discussion page of the birds wikiproject: like this one: does for wikiproject fungi. Only a minor thing but can be an arse when I have a slow connection. I'd be grateful verily. Casliber (talk · contribs) 07:00, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
User:Daedalus969Jack... Just some advice. While you may well be within policy to remove things from your talk page, it's not really a very friendly way to handle messages... you may find it better to neutrally say "thanks for the input, I will consider it carefully" and leave the message, instead of sparring with others with snarky removal summaries as you've been doing with Dae. Try not to let people get your goat. In some cases that is exactly what they want. Don't give them the satisfaction (or the ammo to use later). I've suggested to Dae that their approach isn't likely to be effective. Hope that helps. ++Lar: t/c 16:20, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
Template:Namibia-geo-stub
Hi, Actually, it wasn't a good edit. You took the template and incorrectly changed the category from a more precise one (Category:Namibia geography stubs to a less precise one (Category:Namibia stubs). If you disagree, feel free to discuss it at wp:WSS/P. As for other edits, I will go back through your contributions now and look for similar edits to correct. Thanks for the heads up.--TM 15:41, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Articles for deletion nomination of Bacon, Egg and Cheese sandwich I have nominated Bacon, Egg and Cheese sandwich, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Misplaced Pages's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Bacon, Egg and Cheese sandwich. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. ~fl 10:06, 4 June 2009 (UTC) WP:BRCThanks for cleaning it up! لennavecia 14:22, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
thanks for fixing my userpage!Thanks, I didn't notice that. I thought it was free, but I won't again. ⊕Assasin Joe 18:03, 8 June 2009 (UTC) sighCould you knock that off, please? It's really not helping. I know I'm hardly one to criticize being snarky, but it's well past time to de-escalate. Give me a cuff upside the head if I'm being a hypocrite, but do save the snark for the appreciative and not the hostile. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire - past ops) 09:26, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
Notability (fiction) flowchartDo you have the means at your disposal to convert File:090427 Fiction Flowchart.jpg into a linked flow chart based on Wiki markup along the lines of Template:Pantheon of Dragonlance? I might be able to manage it myself, but I suspect it would take me a long time. --Gavin Collins (talk|contribs) 10:23, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
Telepathy and war editsHi, thanks for showing interest in the article. I've left a note on the article discussion page re the "prune" banner. The article has already been severely pruned and at this stage is in a state of rebuild with more citation and referencing preferred. More input is great but I would rather discourage pruning right now. Frei Hans (talk) 11:38, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
At Play in the Fields of the LordBefore you do too many more of these: The correct disambiguator would be (novel). The clarifier (book) is usually used for nonfiction books. Cheers --ShelfSkewed Talk 13:51, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
webkit finanglingTa (once again) for tweakage - I tend to use Firefox all the time nowadays, hadn't noticed that the rounded rects didn't work in Safari. pablohablo. 22:38, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Template:CquoteHi, thank you for your message. Unfortunately I don't have much time to dedicate to resolving this issue, I hope it will be repaired soon. :) Regards, Delhovlyn (talk) 20:06, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
You have been nominated for membership of the Established Editors AssociationThe Established editors association will be a kind of union of who have made substantial and enduring contributions to the encyclopedia for a period of time (say, two years or more). The proposed articles of association are here
If you wish to be elected, please notify me here If you know of someone else who may be eligible, please nominate them here Please put all discussion here Peter Damian (talk) 10:28, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
I may have cleared up a misunderstandingIn our discussion on my talk page I may have cleared up some misunderstands. So you can very easily see it I will post a copy a copy here. "I think I misunderstood what you meant by "You are on my watchlist now, which is not necessarily wise". I think I understand what you meant now, you meant my talk page is on you're watchlist. Correct me if I am wrong and confirm if I am correct. Please disregard the messages abbot you're comment being a little harsh of sounding like a threat, they were based on my incorrect interpretation of what you said. Sorry for misunderstanding what you meant.--Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 17:17, 29 May 2009 (UTC) Jack Merridew, now I see why you suspect I am acting in bad faith. It sounded like I calling you harsh, just for putting my talk page on you're watchlist. Amazing what 1 little misunderstanding can lead to. Like I said above, I misunderstood what you said, and responded to what I thought you said, not what you said. I apologize." Please confirm that you have seen this apology on my talk page, As I would feel better if I knew you had read the apology. I really really hope this clears our biggest issues up. Please respond on my talk page and feel free to remove or archive this post at any time, and I am NOT saying you need my permission to remove or archive this post.--Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 03:38, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
You confuse noobsYour not blocked, but you say you are. Many noobs will not see unblocked indefinitely and will think you are blocked. Just saying, Programmer13What I do 16:47, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Request for article improvement.Thanks again for your improvement to Colgate Clock (New Jersey). I have added sources for 3 previously un-sourced articles, Boo Boo (Yogi Bear), Ranger Smith, and Cindy Bear, but probably not that good of a job. They could probably use a template similar to the one you put on Colgate Clock (New Jersey) so someone will turn my not that good of a job into a good job. I would do it myself, but I do not know which one would be appropriate, and it appears you do. Of course you are not obligated to do this.--Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 11:02, 17 June 2009 (UTC) |
Done — You were gonna be up for six more hours? Cheers, 