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Displayed name	Custer
Member number	3151
Title	Bob's Big Date
Postcount	2367
Homepage	http://desperance.net
Registered	Friday, June 27 2003 07:00

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How to Say Rakshasa in General
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Saturday, July 31 2004 18:34 Profile Homepage #41 quote: Originally written by Wholly Halfhearted: quote: Originally written by Lady Davida: Rawk-SHAW-suh EDIT: Or maybe you're right, Kel. But the accent is definitely in the middle. Incorrect. The accent is on the first syllable. I should know- the term rakshasa applies to demons in Hindu mythology. How does 'Rakshasa' sound in its native language, then? I imagine the accent being on the second syllable because it's just more potent that way in english. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
How to Say Rakshasa in General
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Friday, July 30 2004 15:14 Profile Homepage #31 quote: Originally written by Kelandon: While we're talking about pronunciations of strange Exile/Avernum words, I was wondering where people put the stress on "slithzerikai." I put it on the second syllable, personally, sounding like slith-ZER-ih-kye. I'm writing slith poems in iambic pentameter (don't ask), which is why it matters. Slith -- like 'sith' only with an extra L ZAIR -- like 'hair' only with a Z ih -- like 'gibbon' only without all of the other letters kai -- 'k' as in 'kill' and 'ai' as in 'ai yay yay', not as in 'hey' or 'eva' Before you ask: NEHF -- like 'left', only without the T and substitute N for L ill -- like sickness im -- like 'him' only without the h VAH nuh -- like 'vannah', the name, and NOT like 'ivana' or 'Vons' tie -- like the thing you wear around your neck which is not a noose or a seabird [ Friday, July 30, 2004 15:21: Message edited by: Ultimate Weapon Custer ] -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
How to Say Rakshasa in General
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Thursday, July 29 2004 16:02 Profile Homepage #3 Rawk-shaw-sah. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Post Your Desktop in General
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Thursday, July 29 2004 15:59 Profile Homepage #44 That cat looks like one of mine, but different. Tabbies tend to do that, though :) Usually, I use an image I find and like on the Internet as a desktop. Previous examples have been power-armor-in-front-of-thirteen-star-flag from Fallout, I Am Ten Ninjas from Diesel Sweeties, the Cardboard Tube Samurai desktop, and the current one is PA's 'Tea With The Moon'. I used one of Bowie Poag's desktops once: the one involving money. It was sexy, but I can't locate it now. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Think you can make towns? in Blades of Avernum Editor
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Thursday, July 29 2004 14:35 Profile Homepage #8 How the hell can someone be this retarded? I mean, I'm being earnest here: did someone drop you as a child? Into lead paint? -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Think you can make towns? in Blades of Avernum
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Thursday, July 29 2004 14:35 Profile Homepage #8 How the hell can someone be this retarded? I mean, I'm being earnest here: did someone drop you as a child? Into lead paint? -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
What did you last eat? in General
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Thursday, July 29 2004 05:15 Profile Homepage #53 Completely unflavored tea. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
What did you last eat? in General
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Tuesday, July 27 2004 19:37 Profile Homepage #40 Plantains are delicious, especially fried. Fried plantains are like potato chips, only sweeter and less depressingly greasy. To say they're like bananas doesn't do 'em justice, I don't think. Pizza. Good food all around. [ Tuesday, July 27, 2004 19:38: Message edited by: Ultimate Weapon Custer ] -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
A Millenial Victory Tour... in General
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Tuesday, July 27 2004 19:14 Profile Homepage #8 Forget this post. [ Tuesday, July 27, 2004 19:17: Message edited by: Ultimate Weapon Custer ] -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Karma in General
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Tuesday, July 27 2004 14:59 Profile Homepage #61 Or so you think. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Erika's old quarters.... in Blades of Avernum
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Tuesday, July 27 2004 13:27 Profile Homepage #27 Doubt it. Erika is NOT 400 years old -- A1 establishes her age as 80 or so, doesn't it? Count on medieval kings ruling for an average of 1 generation -- or 20 years. Some rule longer, some rule shorter, but that means that if Stewart was Emperor 100 years ago and Prazac is Empress now, you could fit three Hawthornes in the interim, easy -- as well as an interregnum in which Garzahd wielded imperial power. [ Tuesday, July 27, 2004 13:37: Message edited by: Ultimate Weapon Custer ] -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
What did you last eat? in General
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Tuesday, July 27 2004 12:58 Profile Homepage #30 Crack cocaine. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
When was the last time... in General
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Tuesday, July 27 2004 12:56 Profile Homepage #1 Your mother hates you because you're ugly. That said, about two seconds ago. [ Tuesday, July 27, 2004 12:57: Message edited by: Ultimate Weapon Custer ] -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Blades of Avernum Center in General
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Tuesday, July 27 2004 10:21 Profile Homepage #39 I predict it being the divisive factor of the SW community. Also, Morgan, it's 'cul'. 'Ane' is a pack animal. And a great site does not exist because it wants people. A great site exists because people want it, because it fills some kind of vital niche. This site will be, even at best, a poor substitute for the Lyceum, to say nothing of SW satellite sites with individual character. Now Overwhelming, rest of community, stop hectoring each other. Thank you. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Post Your Desktop in General
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Tuesday, July 27 2004 10:05 Profile Homepage #19 http://alec.desperance.net/desktop072704.PNG It's big, though. Real big. 1.2 megs, 1200x. I have a big desktop, what can I say. Red is what I use on a regular basis, and black obviously what I don't want the man to see. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
What did you last eat? in General
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Monday, July 26 2004 20:20 Profile Homepage #18 Potato. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Poetry in General
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Monday, July 26 2004 13:15 Profile Homepage #23 quote: Originally written by Pandolfo the Pugilist of Ooze: Alec, did you see "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"? What did you think? Afraid not -- I was making reference to the beat poem by a man whose name I forget. It makes a semi-valid point and was unique at the time. Unfortunately, that time was thirty years ago, and now every upper-middle-class Starbucks-swilling soi-disant poet thinks it'd be a neat idea to copy it. Disaster, to be certain, results. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Poetry in General
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Monday, July 26 2004 01:28 Profile Homepage #16 TS Eliot's poem is about death, death on an eschatonic scale. It was written in the 1920s, so this makes perfect sense. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Blades of Avernum Center in General
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Sunday, July 25 2004 14:21 Profile Homepage #1 Lemme guess: It's better because it's yours. :rolleyes: -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Poetry in General
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Sunday, July 25 2004 14:08 Profile Homepage #9 Peace, peace, peace indeed. The only reason Eliot gets away with The Waste Land is because it was very new. Trying anything of the sort today just makes you look like a tool. Avoid foreign languages, Eastern philosophy, and assumed foreknowledge of Greek mythology. Please. The only thing more anathema is yet another 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised' knockoff. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
The trouble with democracy is every idiot gets a vote. in General
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Saturday, July 24 2004 12:22 Profile Homepage #43 It actually did happen, once: Jefferson v. Burr, I forget what year. Jefferson won the vote in the House, and Burr thus became vice-President. One can only imagine how things would be today if Gore were VP and Bush were President... -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
The trouble with democracy is every idiot gets a vote. in General
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Saturday, July 24 2004 11:35 Profile Homepage #41 Custer was a Union general in the Civil War. The name's an obscure injoke, but you're not missing much. :P And by 'rather French', I mean that the word order, a few spelling things, and a few word choice issues indicate French as a first language. I happen to study French myself, which is why I ask. As for how the US government works, in regards to an earlier statement: you have three branches of government. You have the judicial branch, which is the Supreme Court: they decide whether or not laws are constitutional, and the Supreme Court consists of nine (or is it seven? I forget) judges appointed for life. Whenever one dies or retires, another is appointed by the President. Then you have the legislative branch, who make laws. This is Congress: the House of Representatives gives each state a number of representatives proportionate to its population, and the Senate gives each state two representatives. Odd as it might seem to people raised in more strictly unitarian (big government without a lot of internal divisions) system, people tend to take 'the power of states' pretty seriously here, and there are some people who will think of themselves as Alabaman or Californian before thinking of themselves as American! Congress is usually controlled by either the Republicans or the Democrats, but there's not strict party loyalty -- sometimes individual Republican representatives will side with a Democratic bill, sometimes individual Democratic representatives will side with a Republican bill. I think you need a simple majority vote to turn most bills into laws. The President can veto this, and if he does, it takes 2/3 of Congress's vote to pass the law over his veto. Then there's the executive branch: the President. He's nominally in charge of executing the laws (thus the name), but his role in American affairs of late has become more of a spokesman: he proposes reforms, conducts foreign diplomacy, and generally serves as a symbol of the country. The President enjoys all manner of special priveleges, and when elected, serves a term of four years. He might be re-elected, or might not, but in any event he can't serve more than two terms. (Franklin D. Roosevelt served four, but that was before the two-term limit was made law in the late 1940s.) The President is elected by the electoral college, which works like this: each state has a number of delegates related to its population. Every four years, there is a Presidential election in the states. In most states, whoever wins the most votes carries all of the electoral votes of that state. Since there are many minor candidates, sometimes the President-elect doesn't even get a majority -- so in some cases, winning 31% of the state's votes is as good as winning 100%! Whoever gets the most electoral votes wins the election, and the current President continues to rule for another few months. The Electoral College system is considered old and buggy by quite a few Americans -- mostly because it's completely legal for a President to win with a minority vote, and it's happened some times before. But will we do anything about it? Probably not -- with regards to our government institutions, we're pretty resistant to rapid change. Hope that answers any questions. [ Saturday, July 24, 2004 11:50: Message edited by: Ultimate Weapon Custer ] -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
The trouble with democracy is every idiot gets a vote. in General
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Friday, July 23 2004 19:57 Profile Homepage #39 Blaspheme: You're Chinese, but your name and post style are rather French: immigration? Diplomatic family, or what? Is there a lot of immigration to China, and what's the Chinese opinion on it? -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Free games, courtesy of Jeff in General
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Friday, July 23 2004 19:40 Profile Homepage #1 Probably not; he's still making money off of them, and until there are no longer any active OSes which support his early programs (unlikely, being as how Windows is big on reverse-compatibility), it's very unlikely he'll even consider it. There's a move towards getting him to release the BoE source code, though. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Una ballena bañandose con un pez esponja in General
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Friday, July 23 2004 02:27 Profile Homepage #2 Is using the diminuitive of the esteemed Mr. Neruda's name truly wise? -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00

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