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Post by Tegid on Jan 17, 2006 21:44:27 GMT -5
(Uh, sorry, but there is no $200 involved. Unless you can sell your point for that. But that might not be taken too well by your fellow house members.)
Photogen
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Post by kg00ds on Jan 17, 2006 21:54:19 GMT -5
Of course you are right on all three accounts and by the way I wouldn't dream of selling the point. But if you ever need a lil cash give me a call. ;D
Ok, your turn
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Post by Tegid on Jan 17, 2006 23:50:02 GMT -5
When the king was in his counting house, what comparison between the gold sovereigns and his daughter occurred to him?
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Post by kg00ds on Jan 18, 2006 2:14:01 GMT -5
The comparison of their weight.
To be more specific:
"To think," he said to himself, "that every one of these gold coins (sovereigns) weighs a quarter and an ounce, and my real, live, flesh-and-blood daughter (princess) weighs nothing at all!"
--(The Light Princess)
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Post by Tegid on Jan 18, 2006 2:43:48 GMT -5
That's it! And now, over to you --
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Post by kg00ds on Jan 18, 2006 3:10:37 GMT -5
What do shadows never do?
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Post by Tegid on Jan 18, 2006 8:05:31 GMT -5
They never make up their minds all at once.
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Post by kg00ds on Jan 18, 2006 18:14:59 GMT -5
Yep, your turn.
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Post by Tegid on Jan 18, 2006 18:18:48 GMT -5
When the heads of the college of Metaphysics learned that the effects of gravity were restored to the princess whenever she was in the lake outside her bedroom window, what experiment did they recommend?
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Post by kg00ds on Jan 18, 2006 19:04:49 GMT -5
And so remarkable were its effects upon her, especially in restoring her for the time to the ordinary human gravity, that Hum-Drum and Kopy-Keck agreed in recommending the king to bury her alive for three years; in the hope that, as the water did her so much good, the earth would do her yet more. But the king had some vulgar prejudices against the experiment, and would not give his consent. Foiled in this, they yet agreed in another recommendation; which, seeing that one imported his opinions from China and the other from Thibet, was very remarkable indeed. They argued that, if water of external origin and application could be so efficacious, water from a deeper source might work a perfect cure; in short, that if the poor afflicted princess could by any means be made to cry, she might recover her lost gravity.
But how was this to be brought about? Therein lay all the difficulty--to meet which the philosophers were not wise enough. To make the princess cry was as impossible as to make her weigh. They sent for a professional beggar; commanded him to prepare his most touching oracle of woe; helped him out of the court charade box, to whatever he wanted for dressing up, and promised great rewards in the event of his success. But it was all in vain. She listened to the mendicant artist's story, and gazed at his marvellous make up, till she could contain herself no longer, and went into the most undignified contortions for relief, shrieking, positively screeching with laughter.
When she had a little recovered herself, she ordered her attendants to drive him away, and not give him a single copper; whereupon his look of mortified discomfiture wrought her punishment and his revenge, for it sent her into violent hysterics, from which she was with difficulty recovered.
But so anxious was the king that the suggestion should have a fair trial, that he put himself in a rage one day, and, rushing up to her room, gave her an awful whipping. Yet not a tear would flow. She looked grave, and her laughing sounded uncommonly like screaming--that was all. The good old tyrant, though he put on his best gold spectacles to look, could not discover the smallest cloud in the serene blue of her eyes.
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Post by Tegid on Jan 18, 2006 19:56:52 GMT -5
(Didn't you say something to me a few days ago about "All you really needed was ..."?)
Okay, the first thing you underlined was what I was looking for. Being in this lake restores the effect of gravity, so hey, let's bury her alive for three years and see how much that helps her! I love this tongue-in-cheek story. It's so different from the rest of Macdonald's stuff that I've read, and I try to imagine reading it aloud with a straight face; I couldn't do it! It's hilarious!
Ask your next question, Keith!
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Post by kg00ds on Jan 19, 2006 16:04:46 GMT -5
What does GM say is an inexaustible fountain of love?
(don't forget about his sermons and poetry on this one)
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Post by Tegid on Jan 19, 2006 16:24:15 GMT -5
This is said of Nycteris' heart, and of every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away.
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Post by kg00ds on Jan 19, 2006 16:29:40 GMT -5
Amen and praise the Lord! I am glad to see you read that sermon too. ;DYour Turn! ;D
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Post by Tegid on Jan 19, 2006 18:36:03 GMT -5
What had to happen to save the lake that was disappearing?
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