Love Zhaoying Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 34 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said: Given that my goal is to sow confusion, I suppose I can't fail by failing, can I? Depends on what you hope to reap.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Rhiadra Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 2 hours ago, Fionalein said: Blame the British and their Great_Vowel_Shift - they messed it all up - ever since they stumbled over their own pronounciation no Anglophone had any idea how to pronounce Latin scripture... Reverse the great vowel shift and read it as an Anglo Saxon would have and you will be pretty near (darn Anglo saxons knew no "ei" diptong though, because we invented that later -and ie is German way of writing a long ī ) I have a friend and colleague whose specialization is history of the English language. He never fails to refer to this to his students as "The Great Vowel Movement." Apparently much hilarity ensues as a result. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanova Shostakovich Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 2 hours ago, Fionalein said: Bruce Springsteen: I’m on fire Increase the playback speed by 200% and this sounds like a Dolly Parton cover. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Gregoire Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 /me is thankful she missed out on Maddy's Greek Fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madelaine McMasters Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Selene Gregoire said: /me is thankful she missed out on Maddy's Greek Fire. ...hurls burning pianos at you via trebuchet. Edited November 17, 2018 by Madelaine McMasters 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Gregoire Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said: ...hurls burning pianos at you via trebuchet. /me ducks, then tucks and rolls, and rolls and rolls and rolls and rolls, right into the base of the trebuchet setting it and Maddy on fire Burn baby! Burn! Edited November 17, 2018 by Selene Gregoire 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callum Meriman Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 1 hour ago, Ivanova Shostakovich said: Increase the playback speed by 200% and this sounds like a Dolly Parton cover. Heh. Works the other way too, although she ends up more like Cher. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 7 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said: ...hurls burning pianos at you via trebuchet. They did that in an episode of Northern Exposure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Gregoire Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 They didn't chunk punkins though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 2 hours ago, Selene Gregoire said: They didn't chunk punkins though. Yeah, that was an annual competition, shown on TV. Maybe still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Gregoire Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 1 hour ago, Love Zhaoying said: Yeah, that was an annual competition, shown on TV. Maybe still. Every year just before Halloween/Thanksgiving. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 58 minutes ago, Selene Gregoire said: Every year just before Halloween/Thanksgiving. Then I didn’t miss anything since I ditched cable TV. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madelaine McMasters Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 1 hour ago, Love Zhaoying said: Yeah, that was an annual competition, shown on TV. Maybe still. The competition is on hiatus since 2016, when a reporter was seriously injured by a launcher malfunction. It's not clear if the organization will survive the lawsuit, nor whether anyone else will take on the risk of starting something up again. The weekend competition was held in Morton, IL for years. I attended several of them. They were great fun, particularly the silliness on Sunday. There was target practice, with an old car parked in the field, being blown to smithereens, pumpkin by pumpkin. One year, a car was flipped up on its side by one shot, flipped over on its back by another, flipped up again by a third, and set back down by the fourth. There wasn't much left of the car at the end. The driver's door was blown through the car into the field on the passenger side. After the event, spectators combed the farm field to remove debris. And then there was "skeet shooting", in which the catapults tossed things like washing machines (full of water and laundry!), commodes, and garden tractors into the air while the cannons hurled pumpkins at them. No pumpkin ever hit a target, but we didn't care. In my childhood, we built several small trebuchets, from desktop pea hurlers, to one made of 2x4s that tossed squishy tomatoes into the woods, or on to our neighbor's roof. In my SL inventory, I have a catapult and a cannon. It's important to maintain traditions. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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