09-13-2014, 01:41 PM | #771 |
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That would change the tone of the bio-pic, wouldn't it? Rom-com? Nope, stalker-horror.
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Location: Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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09-13-2014, 05:41 PM | #773 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
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09-14-2014, 07:12 AM | #774 |
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
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I've always made wonderful use of a National Geographic subscription. The images of the most staggering geography, from beaches to forests to mountain tops inspired many a Random Encounter Trek.
The players would call shenanigans at my description. I'd pull out the issue and show them Reality. They'd look as forlorn as a defendant when a lawyer produces the smoking gun and psych themselves for the situation. (Physically unlikely, if not impossible, to read thru 78 pages of comments. So, sorry if mentioned.)
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09-14-2014, 07:14 AM | #775 |
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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I was speaking specifically of her nun-to-be.
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09-14-2014, 06:58 PM | #776 |
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With all what? De Maupin's first girlfriend returned to her family after three months on the road with her. The escapade was presented publicly as a kidnapping (by a man) and De Maupin's imaginary male self was sentenced to death, a sentence later commuted by the king after she made some of the right connections.
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09-15-2014, 02:18 AM | #777 |
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Location: Kyïv, Ukraine
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09-15-2014, 06:02 AM | #778 | |
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Meanwhile, there's a museum in London that started with an 18th-century collection of anatomical curiosities. If your ritual magician needs a thylacine spleen, a cod gall-bladder or a porpoise aorta, this is clearly his first stop. They also have half of Charles Babbage's brain; the other half is a few miles away in the Science Museum. Clearly the two must never be allowed to meet again! The mid-point between the two is in a hotel in Mayfair...
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09-15-2014, 02:14 PM | #779 |
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09-23-2014, 07:35 AM | #780 |
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http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29245289
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