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I've been reading all the Wizard of Oz books. I'm on 12 of 14. Overall, the general plot is crazy stuff goes down and life lessons are learned. I really love the Oz books. I only read the first seven, I believe. My favourite of them was The Marvelous Land of Oz. On which note, one of my favourite c...

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I really can't get past the art-style of it. It's just not to my taste, which always makes it a lot harder for me to bother trying to watch it.

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I really loved how Ror's dad was played.

I was a tad dismayed that the dinosaurs which looked to be velociraptors were far closer to the Jurassic Park height than to reality.

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Blackberry bushes are immortal. There ain't nothing that can kill brambles.

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Congratulations, Kelly! You survived!

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That's quite the story! As a side-note, I'm sure I've been past their shop when I was living in North York.

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I am so glad that I have crocheting as a distraction right now. It's helping to keep me sane.

I hear this.

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After some years of good intentions, I've started reading The Wind-Up Bird Chromicle. So far I'm really enjoying it.

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And I'm saying that I don't know what value we get out a discussion if all we're doing is throwing out competing gut-reaction hypotheses. Forgive me if I think it's a bad idea to make new laws based only on gut reactions and assumptions. Syphon, please recognise that this next statement is not a gu...

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I went with the smitten kitchen one in the end as I started making it before seeing yours, Jan. That and we don't have lard but we do have butter. I adapted the sk one for a savoury pie, but I think I will try Jan's next time for it. And then I will have one for sweet pies and one for savoury. Right...

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I'm planning on making a root veg pie today. Any suggestions for a pie crust recipe to save me from the roulette of google?

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Heee, yes

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Galileo gets a bit too much credit for the idea as there were several notable figures before him who promoted the heliocentric model, not the least being Copernicus and Kepler, and going back to the Ancient Greeks with (as I learned this evening from Alison and a friend) Aristarchus. Also, I'm reaso...

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However, in nearly 400 years have we still learned nothing from Galileo when it comes to consulting the Bible on scientific matters?

Oh neo... I was so with you all the way up until here...

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Yay for free haircuts! Do you have any friends who can help even it out? That's how I got my last haircut (with embroidery scissors at that!) and it's probably how I'll get my next one

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These are my reading glasses. I kind of love them in their slightly antiquated design. As for things getting popular, I think I just get a bit worried when I see historically geeky things being merchandised in major stores like Urban Outfitters and the like. Some part of me worries that by making g...

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EL were talking about "geekiness" today, and noticing that it sometimes feels like it has become popular and companies are responding to that somewhat (an offhand example being Prada doing steampunk). Some part of me wonders if this doesn't mean the death of being geeky as we used to under...

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That sounds brilliantly positive!

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For myself, I'm waiting indefinitely. In my situation it isn't worth the strain on my relationship with my parents, whom I've already put considerable strain on in the past decade. That said, I'm sure our Naomi will accidentally make it notably more pressing once she learns to speak, but for now I p...

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Many animals are self-aware. Whales and apes play jokes on each other. I don't mean that whales play jokes on apes, or that apes play jokes on whales, but... Actually, whales and apes DO play jokes on each other. The Orcas at Sea-World, on their own volition, will squirt water on their trainers (an...

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There is definitely something to be said for waiting at least for a time to be more comfortable with yourself. That time may be a year, may be less, may be more, and you may not ever hit a state of being perfectly comfortable with yourself. So long as you are not currently dating a boy, the subject ...

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I'm definitely with JL here. For myself, I have found it to be very important to know and understand the various arguments concerning theology, but no amount of debating it with my family would be helpful. I know that the thing my own parents are most concerned with is that I still am a practicing C...

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*snrk*

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I wonder what it is with people named Brian being astrophysicists and musicians.

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I'm definitely in support of hunting, as it is both useful and fun. That and game tastes really good.

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More than gun control, I wonder how the ability to effectively print your own working gun out of plastic will affect security checks in places like airports. Part of the gun is still metal, plus I imagine bullets come up in such screenings, but it seems like such a device could make it more difficul...

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A reprimand, sure, but yeah, sending her home does seem a bit overkill.

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Pedantry is enjoyable sometimes, but the geek one in particular is always annoying to me because, no, these are distinct words with different modern usage and people use them in different contexts. It's just difficult to figure out which ones. Like how "quite" can mean such different thin...

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Geek: A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.

To put it very gently. I don't know that they even ever made it into the main carnival instead of just the dodgy sideshows.

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(Just in case my usage of the term "long guns" is not something used South of the line (I wasn't sure because of your quotes, elf), I just wanted to say that this is a standard term in Canada and that the registry is actually called, at least everywhere I've seen it mentioned, the "Lo...

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Because a tool for defence against another human requires the will to kill another human, quite possibly in error (supposing you miss and hit a bystander or misunderstand a situation). It may even result in your own self-destruction if the other person who is threatening also has a gun (quite possib...

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Syphon, by gun crazy I mean this adamant insistence upon the right of every individual to bear arms wherever they may be. And this is why I am speaking about the States in specific, because the socio-political situation and the general social mindset varies wildly from country to country. (It varies...

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I am focusing on the States because it is the States which is so gun crazy. And by and large, we don't have nearly so much in the way of wanton acts of violence in Canada. I am okay with self-defence, but I fail to see why a gun is so necessary for that. It is a mark of either a wildly dangerous soc...

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Ad hominem for the win! Stickin' it to the man! Syphon, I'm not suggesting the American government should disarm politically weak groups. I'm not saying the government has never done used gun control to suppress minorities it fears. I am saying that gun control should apply to everyone. Yes, there a...

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