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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,099
    edited December 1969

    Woolyloach said:
    De-cloaking for...

    Olaf and the Giant Chicken - Part 4


    Olaf looked into shield-maidens face
    Screwed his courage to the sticking-place
    "I've sought you near and sought you far
    From cities of legends to mead-filled bar
    I've a question to ask of you
    And tell me honestly and true
    Do you know the village that took a lickin'
    From a deadly giant chicken?
    This chicken I seek to find and fight
    And rid the world of his hideous might!"


    Shield-maiden frowned, a face so sad
    Poor Olaf started to feel quite bad
    "Oh warrior great", the shield-maiden said
    "I know this beast, towards it I head
    To take revenge on the monster great
    The thing has filled me with mighty hate
    Southward soon I will go turn
    When next I find it, to kill it I yearn
    I'll rid the world of it's awful clucking
    And administer it a serious plucking!"


    Olaf said "Well, with this horrible weather
    We'd be better off if we traveled together
    When we find the thing, then we can decide
    Who gets to fight and who has to hide
    It's true you're strong, with swwrd sharp
    But on this point please let me harp
    If you're fighting off one attack
    It's god to have someone that's watching your back"
    Shield-maiden thought, then nodded away
    "You have a point, so sure, it's OK."


    So off the two did march and tramp
    Till setting Sun make the pair make camp
    Olaf brought wood, enough for a pyre
    Shield-maiden drew flint and sparked a fire
    Soon the air was bright and camp-fire warm
    Olaf felt that they were safe from harm
    Olaf said "Mighty shield-maiden may I ask your name"?
    She then tuned to Olaf, and proudly declaimed
    "Vibeke I am, and a warrior bred
    I live with my sword, and the ground for my bed."


    "I come from the Dane-Mark, a land far and fair
    Our peoples are happy, without any care
    The Summers and green, but the Winter is cold
    And we've many warriors quite brave and bold."
    Olaf he nodded, "Of the Danes I do know
    A hearty pole with no fear of snow
    Many proud warriors, so brave and true
    Amazing the deeds I've heard they can do."
    Vibeke then nodded. "We Danes never fail
    Come sit for a bit, and I'll tell you my tale".


    (to be continued...)


    Yay! Thanks for the drive-by poetry drop, Wooly. The plot thickens (or chickens). : )
  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,099
    edited July 2013

    Perhaps one of the best-known circus posters of all time.

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,208
    edited December 1969

    tjohn said:
    ps1borg said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    twinkl twinkl leetl star


    who has the leetl dipper in their hemisphere? or was it the big dipper? Orion's belt is out there somewhere

    There is a little dipper?


    Ursa Minor.
    If you can see the big dipper in Australia, here's how to locate the little dipper.

    I don't think they can see these in the Southern Hemisphere.

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,208
    edited December 1969

    Rezca said:
    All this talk about the big and little dipper constellations reminded me of an excerpt from a story/comic I read that involved them (Just one chapter, not the whole comic)

    'The one written with the largest characters is the Celestial Dragon constellation. This is the so-called Big Dipper. The celestial dragon always stares at one point, and looks as if it might take flight at any time. The star at the point is Polaris, the north star.

    Polaris is the unmoving star. Basically, it is the face of the unmoving lord of night, Acala, an embodiment of Mahavairocana. Though it goes without saying, Mahavairocana is an avatar of the sun that renders youkai powers ineffective. It is said that the celestial dragon is plotting to eat Acala to control the sky day and night. According to the records, it is prophesied that after a few thousand years the celestial dragon will move.”


    Also interesting is one character was trying to explain what shooting stars were to the other two characters, and because of the world they live in he had to explain them as scales shed by the 'Celestial Dragon' that fell to the Earth. (He knows they're not, but they wouldn't have understood the real explanation ^^; )

    Whoever wrote that didn't do his research well enough. Polaris is in the Little Dipper, not the Big Dipper.

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,208
    edited December 1969

    Paradigm67 said:
    Ugh, that sucks. That's really where almost all of my resentment for G2F comes from. I have to rebuy stuff.

    I seem to remember them proudly saying that you don't have to rebuy all your stuff to use it with Genesis. I guess everyone has forgotten about that one. Now I've seen things recreated for G2 Female. So actually, you have to buy the stuff over and over again.

    Dana

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,099
    edited December 1969

    DanaTA said:
    Rezca said:
    All this talk about the big and little dipper constellations reminded me of an excerpt from a story/comic I read that involved them (Just one chapter, not the whole comic)

    'The one written with the largest characters is the Celestial Dragon constellation. This is the so-called Big Dipper. The celestial dragon always stares at one point, and looks as if it might take flight at any time. The star at the point is Polaris, the north star.

    Polaris is the unmoving star. Basically, it is the face of the unmoving lord of night, Acala, an embodiment of Mahavairocana. Though it goes without saying, Mahavairocana is an avatar of the sun that renders youkai powers ineffective. It is said that the celestial dragon is plotting to eat Acala to control the sky day and night. According to the records, it is prophesied that after a few thousand years the celestial dragon will move.”


    Also interesting is one character was trying to explain what shooting stars were to the other two characters, and because of the world they live in he had to explain them as scales shed by the 'Celestial Dragon' that fell to the Earth. (He knows they're not, but they wouldn't have understood the real explanation ^^; )

    Whoever wrote that didn't do his research well enough. Polaris is in the Little Dipper, not the Big Dipper.

    Dana
    You might want to read that again, Dana. : )

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,208
    edited December 1969

    Woolyloach said:
    De-cloaking for...

    Olaf and the Giant Chicken - Part 4


    Olaf looked into shield-maidens face
    Screwed his courage to the sticking-place
    "I've sought you near and sought you far
    From cities of legends to mead-filled bar
    I've a question to ask of you
    And tell me honestly and true
    Do you know the village that took a lickin'
    From a deadly giant chicken?
    This chicken I seek to find and fight
    And rid the world of his hideous might!"


    Shield-maiden frowned, a face so sad
    Poor Olaf started to feel quite bad
    "Oh warrior great", the shield-maiden said
    "I know this beast, towards it I head
    To take revenge on the monster great
    The thing has filled me with mighty hate
    Southward soon I will go turn
    When next I find it, to kill it I yearn
    I'll rid the world of it's awful clucking
    And administer it a serious plucking!"


    Olaf said "Well, with this horrible weather
    We'd be better off if we traveled together
    When we find the thing, then we can decide
    Who gets to fight and who has to hide
    It's true you're strong, with swwrd sharp
    But on this point please let me harp
    If you're fighting off one attack
    It's god to have someone that's watching your back"
    Shield-maiden thought, then nodded away
    "You have a point, so sure, it's OK."


    So off the two did march and tramp
    Till setting Sun make the pair make camp
    Olaf brought wood, enough for a pyre
    Shield-maiden drew flint and sparked a fire
    Soon the air was bright and camp-fire warm
    Olaf felt that they were safe from harm
    Olaf said "Mighty shield-maiden may I ask your name"?
    She then tuned to Olaf, and proudly declaimed
    "Vibeke I am, and a warrior bred
    I live with my sword, and the ground for my bed."


    "I come from the Dane-Mark, a land far and fair
    Our peoples are happy, without any care
    The Summers and green, but the Winter is cold
    And we've many warriors quite brave and bold."
    Olaf he nodded, "Of the Danes I do know
    A hearty pole with no fear of snow
    Many proud warriors, so brave and true
    Amazing the deeds I've heard they can do."
    Vibeke then nodded. "We Danes never fail
    Come sit for a bit, and I'll tell you my tale".


    (to be continued...)

    I missed the earlier stuff and just don't have the time to go looking. But I enjoyed this little bit. Maybe some time you can pull them all together. Even if you make a PDF that we have to download to read. It's fun.

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,208
    edited December 1969

    tjohn said:
    DanaTA said:
    Rezca said:
    All this talk about the big and little dipper constellations reminded me of an excerpt from a story/comic I read that involved them (Just one chapter, not the whole comic)

    'The one written with the largest characters is the Celestial Dragon constellation. This is the so-called Big Dipper. The celestial dragon always stares at one point, and looks as if it might take flight at any time. The star at the point is Polaris, the north star.

    Polaris is the unmoving star. Basically, it is the face of the unmoving lord of night, Acala, an embodiment of Mahavairocana. Though it goes without saying, Mahavairocana is an avatar of the sun that renders youkai powers ineffective. It is said that the celestial dragon is plotting to eat Acala to control the sky day and night. According to the records, it is prophesied that after a few thousand years the celestial dragon will move.”


    Also interesting is one character was trying to explain what shooting stars were to the other two characters, and because of the world they live in he had to explain them as scales shed by the 'Celestial Dragon' that fell to the Earth. (He knows they're not, but they wouldn't have understood the real explanation ^^; )

    Whoever wrote that didn't do his research well enough. Polaris is in the Little Dipper, not the Big Dipper.

    Dana


    You might want to read that again, Dana. : )

    OK, that's it...I'm going to have something to eat. First meal has been delayed because of forum activity being high at a certain other place...and here.

    Dana

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,099
    edited December 1969

    DanaTA said:
    Woolyloach said:
    De-cloaking for...

    Olaf and the Giant Chicken - Part 4


    Olaf looked into shield-maidens face
    Screwed his courage to the sticking-place
    "I've sought you near and sought you far
    From cities of legends to mead-filled bar
    I've a question to ask of you
    And tell me honestly and true
    Do you know the village that took a lickin'
    From a deadly giant chicken?
    This chicken I seek to find and fight
    And rid the world of his hideous might!"


    Shield-maiden frowned, a face so sad
    Poor Olaf started to feel quite bad
    "Oh warrior great", the shield-maiden said
    "I know this beast, towards it I head
    To take revenge on the monster great
    The thing has filled me with mighty hate
    Southward soon I will go turn
    When next I find it, to kill it I yearn
    I'll rid the world of it's awful clucking
    And administer it a serious plucking!"


    Olaf said "Well, with this horrible weather
    We'd be better off if we traveled together
    When we find the thing, then we can decide
    Who gets to fight and who has to hide
    It's true you're strong, with swwrd sharp
    But on this point please let me harp
    If you're fighting off one attack
    It's god to have someone that's watching your back"
    Shield-maiden thought, then nodded away
    "You have a point, so sure, it's OK."


    So off the two did march and tramp
    Till setting Sun make the pair make camp
    Olaf brought wood, enough for a pyre
    Shield-maiden drew flint and sparked a fire
    Soon the air was bright and camp-fire warm
    Olaf felt that they were safe from harm
    Olaf said "Mighty shield-maiden may I ask your name"?
    She then tuned to Olaf, and proudly declaimed
    "Vibeke I am, and a warrior bred
    I live with my sword, and the ground for my bed."


    "I come from the Dane-Mark, a land far and fair
    Our peoples are happy, without any care
    The Summers and green, but the Winter is cold
    And we've many warriors quite brave and bold."
    Olaf he nodded, "Of the Danes I do know
    A hearty pole with no fear of snow
    Many proud warriors, so brave and true
    Amazing the deeds I've heard they can do."
    Vibeke then nodded. "We Danes never fail
    Come sit for a bit, and I'll tell you my tale".


    (to be continued...)

    I missed the earlier stuff and just don't have the time to go looking. But I enjoyed this little bit. Maybe some time you can pull them all together. Even if you make a PDF that we have to download to read. It's fun.

    Dana
    Wooly posted the entire "Olaf and the Kilometer-Long Pike" to his blog (link in his sig). I'm pretty sure he'll do the same with this one. : )

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited July 2013

    don't know if i can walk home in current heat and humidity and not get sick. if it's worth the risk of trying. ugha ugha ick

    i'm pushing the big 5-0 this year. :D

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,099
    edited July 2013

    Misty Whisky said:
    don't know if i can walk home in current heat and humidity and not get sick. if it's worth the risk of trying. ugha ugha ick

    Is couplet!
    "don't know if i can walk home in current heat and humidity and not get sick.
    if it's worth the risk of trying. ugha ugha ick"

    ETA: Shakespeare would be proud. : )

    Post edited by TJohn on
  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,099
    edited December 1969

    Big 6-0 for me next month.

  • WoolyloachWoolyloach Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    TJohn, DanaTA - thanks! There's plenty more to come!

    Once it's done I'll post the whole thing here. no worries! Eventually I may collect the whole mess and make a PDF eBook, with pictures, just for the heck o fit! (evil grin)

    Ugh, feel awful - the doc says I have a lower GI infection, so I'm on antibiotics right now.and I feel flay. I have to work, too, can't afford the time off.

    Back to drinking LOTS of water... (meh face)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040
    edited December 1969

    Misty Whisky said:
    don't know if i can walk home in current heat and humidity and not get sick. if it's worth the risk of trying. ugha ugha ick

    i'm pushing the big 5-0 this year. :D


    ...well cloudy out today (rather odd as forecast called for sun and 90s) Still warm, already in the 80s, Just usually used to it being cool and damp when seeing clouds here.
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040
    edited December 1969

    Woolyloach said:
    TJohn, DanaTA - thanks! There's plenty more to come!

    Once it's done I'll post the whole thing here. no worries! Eventually I may collect the whole mess and make a PDF eBook, with pictures, just for the heck o fit! (evil grin)

    Ugh, feel awful - the doc says I have a lower GI infection, so I'm on antibiotics right now.and I feel flay. I have to work, too, can't afford the time off.

    Back to drinking LOTS of water... (meh face)


    ...again excellent tale unfolding.

    Ugh GI difficulties, not fun at all. Hope they end soon (not Daz soon either).

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    Shakespeare in the Park :D


    Ironman to Thor; Doth mother know you weareth her drapes.


    heat advises; ouchie ickie poo

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  • M F MM F M Posts: 1,388
    edited December 1969

    Woolyloach said:
    De-cloaking for...

    Olaf and the Giant Chicken - Part 4...


    Not yet a de-clucking (^_-)... waiting eagerly for back-story (^_^)
  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,208
    edited December 1969

    Wooly, get well soon! And I'd download that PDF for sure!

    Dana

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,260
    edited December 1969

    please get well soon

  • WoolyloachWoolyloach Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    M F M said:
    Woolyloach said:
    De-cloaking for...

    Olaf and the Giant Chicken - Part 4...


    Not yet a de-clucking (^_-)... waiting eagerly for back-story (^_^)

    ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!! (big grin)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Morning. Grey sky and not too cold start to a Goldilocks kind of day outside my window :o)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040
    edited December 1969

    ...been grey here all day too but about 12° (39°F) warmer than where you are right now. Currently 32° (89°F) and were it not for the cloud cover we probably would be near 100° (F).

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Woolyloach said:
    De-cloaking for...

    Olaf and the Giant Chicken - Part 4


    Olaf looked into shield-maidens face
    Screwed his courage to the sticking-place
    "I've sought you near and sought you far
    From cities of legends to mead-filled bar
    I've a question to ask of you
    And tell me honestly and true
    Do you know the village that took a lickin'
    From a deadly giant chicken?
    This chicken I seek to find and fight
    And rid the world of his hideous might!"


    Shield-maiden frowned, a face so sad
    Poor Olaf started to feel quite bad
    "Oh warrior great", the shield-maiden said
    "I know this beast, towards it I head
    To take revenge on the monster great
    The thing has filled me with mighty hate
    Southward soon I will go turn
    When next I find it, to kill it I yearn
    I'll rid the world of it's awful clucking
    And administer it a serious plucking!"


    Olaf said "Well, with this horrible weather
    We'd be better off if we traveled together
    When we find the thing, then we can decide
    Who gets to fight and who has to hide
    It's true you're strong, with swwrd sharp
    But on this point please let me harp
    If you're fighting off one attack
    It's god to have someone that's watching your back"
    Shield-maiden thought, then nodded away
    "You have a point, so sure, it's OK."


    So off the two did march and tramp
    Till setting Sun make the pair make camp
    Olaf brought wood, enough for a pyre
    Shield-maiden drew flint and sparked a fire
    Soon the air was bright and camp-fire warm
    Olaf felt that they were safe from harm
    Olaf said "Mighty shield-maiden may I ask your name"?
    She then tuned to Olaf, and proudly declaimed
    "Vibeke I am, and a warrior bred
    I live with my sword, and the ground for my bed."


    "I come from the Dane-Mark, a land far and fair
    Our peoples are happy, without any care
    The Summers and green, but the Winter is cold
    And we've many warriors quite brave and bold."
    Olaf he nodded, "Of the Danes I do know
    A hearty pole with no fear of snow
    Many proud warriors, so brave and true
    Amazing the deeds I've heard they can do."
    Vibeke then nodded. "We Danes never fail
    Come sit for a bit, and I'll tell you my tale".


    (to be continued...)

    hehe fabulous, travelling together sounds exciting for them :o)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Misty Whisky said:
    ps1borg said:
    ps1borg said:
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Wouldn't know a Magellanic cloud if one rained on me :>D WE live right in the city centre here, lots of lights on everywhere you look at night.

    That's too bad. Do you ever get out to the open spaces?

    Dana

    More likely to be out on the water somewhere than outback in the deep bush, we have an awesome bay here :o)

    How did I double post that? *headdesk* Anyhow, the halftones look OK even if the colours are a bit naff


    sometimes world needs a bit of naff
    looks good.

    tee hee if it was blue could be called Circus Smurfus
    or green could be called Cirkus Hulkus
    greco/roman letters ?

    Maroon, blue and gold might be a good combo :o)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    don't know if i can walk home in current heat and humidity and not get sick. if it's worth the risk of trying. ugha ugha ick

    i'm pushing the big 5-0 this year. :D


    ...well cloudy out today (rather odd as forecast called for sun and 90s) Still warm, already in the 80s, Just usually used to it being cool and damp when seeing clouds here.

    The radio is saying more cold is on way from Antarctica brrrr :o)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...been grey here all day too but about 12° (39°F) warmer than where you are right now. Currently 32° (89°F) and were it not for the cloud cover we probably would be near 100° (F).

    Only about forty-five sleeps until Spring :o)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Don't very often buy intp ye olde worlde renderes but this seems to want to come up well

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Misty Whisky said:
    Shakespeare in the Park :D


    Ironman to Thor; Doth mother know you weareth her drapes.


    heat advises; ouchie ickie poo

    wants Oscar Wilde in the Park :>D

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    Shakespeare in the Park :D


    Ironman to Thor; Doth mother know you weareth her drapes.


    heat advises; ouchie ickie poo

    wants Oscar Wilde in the Park :>D


    and Voltaire in the park?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    i haz no idea what a quim is, except that it mewls.


    egads iz only Toosday. i carried water and wet down my face and neck on the way home.

    wifi is flaking. wireless doesn't like hot?

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