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Old 05-07-2003, 07:00 PM
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[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]And everytime someone does 'ENT' the first thing that pops into mind are giant, walking, talking tree-beings.

may I ask how?[/quoteost_uid0]

Hrrrmmmm, hasty, so hasty, hoom hoom.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]Isn't it obvious?

It's from Macbeth.

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[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0="Nan"]Isn't it obvious?

It's from Macbeth.

Ten points and a cookie for those who know the connection between Macbeth and the Ents.

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It's when Dawotsit Wood comes to Whatever-the-Castle-is-Called! :bigsmile:

And drat you, cursed Internet connection! Trying to make me miss out on a cookie! :madder:[/colorost_uid0]
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Old 05-08-2003, 05:30 AM
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]Saruman, your reign shall last until Fangorn Forest comes to Isengard.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]Very close.

As a boy in school, a young J.R.R. did not enjoy studying Shakespeare. He felt that the Dunsinane-traveling-forest thing was a cheap letdown (I'm paraphrasing) and preferred that the trees be able to march to war.

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[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]I'll give out the cookies anyway. [/quoteost_uid0]

Chocolate chips for whoever can tell me what [iost_uid0]kelvar[/iost_uid0] and [iost_uid0]olvar[/iost_uid0] mean.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]Animals and plants, respectively.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"]Chocolate chips for whoever can tell me what [iost_uid0]kelvar[/iost_uid0] and [iost_uid0]olvar[/iost_uid0] mean.[/quoteost_uid0]
Kelvar is some kind of metal alloy, and olvar is... olvar is... a javascript variable that's grown kinda mouldy. (Ol' var, geddit?)

Okay, laaaame.... it just goes to show i will do anything for chocolate chips. [/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]Animals and plants, respectively.[/quoteost_uid0]
[quoteost_uid0]Kelvar is some kind of metal alloy, and olvar is... olvar is... a javascript variable that's grown kinda mouldy. (Ol' var, geddit?)
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*pelts Nan with chocolate chips (technically, they're the spirits inhabiting the animal and plant bodies, I think), and pelts taya17 with consolation butterscotch chips for being punny*[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]Chocolate... easing... urge... to kill!



~Nan, who had a bad day at school as is feeling a little homicidal.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"]*pelts Nan with chocolate chips (technically, they're the spirits inhabiting the animal and plant bodies, I think), and pelts taya17 with consolation butterscotch chips for being punny*[/quoteost_uid0]
mmmmMMMm butterscotch....

*looks at fingers*

Now I really do have butterfingers.

*drops priceless Ming vase*

Oops!

*priceless Ming vase explodes and destroys unsuspecting starship*

Double oops!

(orange flavored cookie to the person who can identify the obscure reference) [/colorost_uid0]
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Old 05-09-2003, 01:39 AM
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[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]orange flavored cookie to the person who can identify the obscure reference[/quoteost_uid0]

Or can tell me why it's called a Ming vase. Obvious guess doesn't count.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]IIRC, the Ming vase is called a Ming vase because the art style came ot prominence during their authoritarian 17th century administration. Dynasty. Whatever.

Or something. Just a guess.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]IIRC, the Ming vase is called a Ming vase because the art style came ot prominence during their authoritarian 17th century administration. Dynasty. Whatever.
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That was the obvious guess.
I too am looking for a reference. PHJ might get it.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]This isn't a Flash Gordon reference, is it? [/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]It wouldn't happen to be referring to [iost_uid0]The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy[/iost_uid0], would it? That was the first thing that occurred to me. Well, actually the second thing; the first was a Clouseau-esque scene where the bumbling hero bumbles and unwittingly KO's a hidden attacker by doing so.[/colorost_uid0]

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Old 05-09-2003, 02:24 AM
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]No and no, although they're good guesses.

Think Discworld.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]That... narrows it down considerably.

[quoteost_uid0]'Why's it called Ming?' said the Archchancellor, on cue. The Bursar tapped the pot. It went [iost_uid0]ming[/iost_uid0].

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[color=#000000ost_uid0]Well done! Now what was I giving you again?[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]Ooo - I don't think I would've got that one.

My first thought was 'I didn't do it!'. Kinda sad, I know.[/colorost_uid0]
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