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- Wed May 22, 2024 3:19 pm
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Books we read in 2024
- Replies: 28
- Views: 506
Re: Books we read in 2024
Five Broken Blades - Mai Corland. Five killers- all of which who found themselves as killers for a multitude of different reasons- are brought together for the ultimate job: to kill the God-King of the land. Set in a fantastic feudal/low-magic/South Korean-like setting, the five characters are cons...
- Wed May 22, 2024 12:42 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: [CYOA] Space and Beyond
- Replies: 14
- Views: 48
- Wed May 22, 2024 6:34 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
- Tue May 21, 2024 10:37 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
Good heavens, my dear! You have a most peculiar effect on my heart, old bean. You inject a certain... je ne sais quoi, a certain boom boom, if you will, that sends my very soul soaring to unprecedented heights! When you deign to bestow your affections upon me, my thoughts become a jolly old jitterb...
- Tue May 21, 2024 10:35 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
- Tue May 21, 2024 9:32 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
Not hard, but holy shit this made me laugh: Good heavens, old chap! I'm afraid I'm too devilishly dashing for my own love, too ravishingly handsome, if I do say so myself. Fearfully, love is on the verge of abandoning me, for I'm simply too irresistibly charming for my own love. And, dash it all, I'...
- Tue May 21, 2024 9:28 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
Oh duh. Fly by Sugar Ray.
- Tue May 21, 2024 9:27 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
The first one is definitely Walk this Way by Aerosmith. Let me cook on the second one.
- Mon May 20, 2024 10:08 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: [CYOA] Space and Beyond
- Replies: 14
- Views: 48
- Sat May 18, 2024 3:56 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
I don’t know any of the lyrics to that song. That explains my confusion.
- Fri May 17, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
Still nothing. Anyone?
- Fri May 17, 2024 2:36 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: [CYOA] The Lost Jewels of Nabooti
- Replies: 22
- Views: 58
Re: [CYOA] The Lost Jewels of Nabooti
I agree. I'd let y'all make a different choice, but I didn't leave my finger on the page of the last choice, so under CYOA official rules- this is the ending we have to accept.
- Fri May 17, 2024 1:53 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: [CYOA] The Lost Jewels of Nabooti
- Replies: 22
- Views: 58
Re: [CYOA] The Lost Jewels of Nabooti
I'll start another book next week.
- Fri May 17, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: [CYOA] The Lost Jewels of Nabooti
- Replies: 22
- Views: 58
- Fri May 17, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: [CYOA] The Lost Jewels of Nabooti
- Replies: 22
- Views: 58
Re: [CYOA] The Lost Jewels of Nabooti
Whelp. I was hoping Eli would come along and talk you out of this clearly dangerous choice. But no. Obviously, this was going to happen:
- Fri May 17, 2024 10:14 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
- Thu May 16, 2024 4:51 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
It is! You go!
By the way, I tried doing it with a "Rootin Tootin Cowboy from the Wild West" and a "1920s Gangster" but both of those options yielded dialogue that was way to close to the lyrics, often using the key words verbatim from the lyrics.
By the way, I tried doing it with a "Rootin Tootin Cowboy from the Wild West" and a "1920s Gangster" but both of those options yielded dialogue that was way to close to the lyrics, often using the key words verbatim from the lyrics.
- Thu May 16, 2024 1:10 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
I emerge from slumber, somewhat disheveled, I confess, and make my way to the kitchen in a state of slight disorientation. Upon arrival, I pour myself a cup of...ahem...enthusiasm, a stimulating brew, if I do say so myself. Following this, I indulge in a gentle yawn, rather like a refined stretch, ...
- Thu May 16, 2024 1:06 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
Nevermind- all that homework made me get it. Intergalactic by the Beastie Boys:
Well, now, don't you tell me to smile
You stick around, I'll make it worth your while
Got numbers beyond what you can dial
Maybe it's because I'm so versatile
Well, now, don't you tell me to smile
You stick around, I'll make it worth your while
Got numbers beyond what you can dial
Maybe it's because I'm so versatile
- Thu May 16, 2024 1:04 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
I'm stumped. It's clearly more than a single rapper- but it could be credited to a single rapper with featured rappers on it. Here's what I've got: We're the OG rappers Take off your shoes and socks [a BB King call out?] Our rhymes are sick and our beats [?] like lightning. Don't make me laugh If yo...
- Wed May 15, 2024 10:19 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
- Wed May 15, 2024 5:38 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
Okay, I think this is a hard one without another verse- but it's doable: I managed to navigate the uncharted territories, old chap. Miraculously, I emerged unscathed, having traversed the wilderness, as it were. I must confess, I was utterly bewildered and lost, until, fortuitously, I chanced upon y...
- Wed May 15, 2024 3:36 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
Goddammit. I thought it was Insane in the Membrane, but I couldn't remember the band. But now I do. Cypress Hill. Is that right?
- Wed May 15, 2024 3:11 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
Do you know that I know the song? That will narrow it down a bunch.
- Wed May 15, 2024 3:10 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
No clue. I don't know rap.
- Wed May 15, 2024 3:06 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
So I'm guessing rap...
- Wed May 15, 2024 10:48 am
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Present Tense Literature
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7
Present Tense Literature
Is it just me or has there been a concerted movement in fiction to write in the present tense. It seems to me that when I was a kid that almost all fiction I read, whether in the first or third person, was almost always written in the past tense. And that was a give-away when you were reading a shor...
- Wed May 15, 2024 10:44 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: [CYOA] The Lost Jewels of Nabooti
- Replies: 22
- Views: 58
Re: [CYOA] The Lost Jewels of Nabooti
I get it- this might be one of those "Nabooti Prince" scams that I keep reading about on the internets.
- Wed May 15, 2024 10:00 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
AHA! Pour Some Sugar on Me by Def Leppard. I got it from "living akin to an ardent admirer equipped with communication apparatus" and suddenly I could hear the melody in my head as I was translating it. Love is like a bomb, baby, come on, get it on Livin' like a lover with a radar phone Lo...
- Wed May 15, 2024 9:55 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
I was convinced this was Jet with Are You Gonna Be My Girl, but that doesn't fit. And Google just tells me it's an Oasis song I've never heard called Love Like a Bomb- both of those are wrong.
Don't give me the other lyric yet. Let me cook here.
Don't give me the other lyric yet. Let me cook here.
- Wed May 15, 2024 7:29 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
Try this: The venerable artworks adorning the sepulcher, I dare say, execute a most intriguing sand-inspired choreography, if you will. Indeed, should they hasten their movements excessively (oh dear me!), they risk tumbling to the ground in a manner reminiscent of a row of dominoes, if you catch my...
- Wed May 15, 2024 7:26 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
Damn it! I looked up the lyrics to Dirty Laundry and only checked out the first verse and said, "Nope. Not it."
- Wed May 15, 2024 6:47 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: [CYOA] The Lost Jewels of Nabooti
- Replies: 22
- Views: 58
- Wed May 15, 2024 6:44 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
I think we cross-posted.
- Wed May 15, 2024 6:25 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
Again an easy one just for fun: "I must confess, I never intended to bring you any distress or anguish. My sole desire, on one occasion, was to behold you experiencing joy and merriment, surrounded by the majestic beauty of a purple-hued precipitation, if you will." (Note: I've rephrased i...
- Tue May 14, 2024 2:05 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
Okay, while I wait for an answer on my potential cheating, I'll offer two- the first is easy but here because the last line killed me. What I possess, you ought to bestow upon your mother. What I have, you must present to your father. What I possess, you ought to give to your daughter. Then, one per...
- Tue May 14, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
Got it: Electric Avenue by Eddy Grant. Now in the street, there is violence And, and a lots of work to be done No place to hang out our washing And, and I can't blame all on the sun Question- I need to know if I cheated. I searched Duck Duck Go for “now in the street there’s work to be done.” I feel...
- Tue May 14, 2024 5:55 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: [CYOA] The Lost Jewels of Nabooti
- Replies: 22
- Views: 58
- Mon May 13, 2024 1:55 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
Too easy- I'll let you do another one. I don't want to hog all the fun.
- Mon May 13, 2024 1:01 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
It is! Here's another- and look, I know this is easy, but it made me laugh so much: Good gracious, those individuals, I daresay, possess physical attributes that are, shall we say, somewhat diminutive in nature. They have tiny hands, tiny peepers, and a propensity for propagating falsehoods of a mos...
- Mon May 13, 2024 5:48 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: [CYOA] The Lost Jewels of Nabooti
- Replies: 22
- Views: 58
- Mon May 13, 2024 5:43 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
Oh that's good. Down with the Sickness by Disturbed. "Descend into the grip of ailment" finally clicked for me: Drowning deep in my sea of loathing Broken your servant, I kneel (will you give it to me?) It seems what's left of my human side Is slowly changing in me (will you give it to me?...
- Sun May 12, 2024 8:17 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
I'm at a loss. I'm going to guess Lightning Crashes by Live, but I know that's wrong. I'm guessing the parenthesis are in the original lyrics. But I'm stumped. I need help from the others or another line.
- Sun May 12, 2024 5:26 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order? I know that's not right.
- Sun May 12, 2024 5:24 pm
- Forum: The Gaming Table
- Topic: [GtGPL/S1E32] Watch Your Step
- Replies: 5
- Views: 34
Re: [GtGPL/S1E32] Watch Your Step
Points for everyone! And this is the end of Season 1! Stay tuned for Season 2 real soon!
- Sun May 12, 2024 5:07 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
Sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn't.
Torn by Natalie Imbruglia?
Torn by Natalie Imbruglia?
- Sun May 12, 2024 1:34 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
Exactly! Okay, I know this one is super easy, but it made me laugh so hard: "Good heavens, my dear chap! If you were afforded a single chance, a solitary opportunity, to grasp everything you've ever desired in one fleeting instant, would you, indeed, seize the day, as it were, and take hold of ...
- Sun May 12, 2024 11:19 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
- Replies: 103
- Views: 277
Re: Guess the Proper English Gentleman Lyric
Yes! I thought that would be tougher. Let's try this: Dear fellow, I daresay it must have been a decidedly chilly existence, dwelling in the shadow of my presence, as it were. To never have had the warmth and radiance of the sun's gentle rays upon one's countenance... well, it's a thought that fills...
- Sun May 12, 2024 5:46 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: [CYOA] The Lost Jewels of Nabooti
- Replies: 22
- Views: 58
- Sun May 12, 2024 5:31 am
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Books we read in 2024
- Replies: 28
- Views: 506
Re: Books we read in 2024
Don't Fear the Reaper - Stephen Graham Jones. This is the sequel to one of my favorite books from a couple of years ago, My Heart is a Chainsaw. And while I loved that book, this one... not so much. I just can't figure out who this book is for. Quick premise: we're back in Proof Rock, Idaho where t...