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Continued from its blockbuster beginning in Part 1.

Things that we’re embarrassed about liking, or embarrassed to admit that we like, but like anyway.

(We don’t know where this thread came from. It just seemed like a good idea.)

This thread is a place for careful, clear, respectful discussions of difficult topics. It is not a place for having two-fisted no-holds-barred discussions.

MBers should be able to express their opinions without attacking others personally, and be able to listen to people who disagree with them without feeling personally attacked.

Easier said than done, of course. But MuseBlog is a good place to practice trying.

Continued from version 2009.4.

By overwhelming request. Here are those already listed on the Suggestion Box thread:

Good Eats: Food network
Food Network Challenge: Food network (duh!)
Iron Chef America: Food network
Modern Marvels: History Channel
Nova: PBS
How It’s Made: Discovery
Cats 101: Animal Planet
Andromeda
Doctor Who and Torchwood
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Firefly

The author of Little, Big was born on this day (December 1) in 1942.

Our December random threads commemorate all things flopped, folded, reflected, reversed, and kaleidoscoped.
   
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Ahoy, matey! Be ye new around here? Then come on in for pies and directions!

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Known Muser birthdays this month*:

12-01 I-Man’s birthday (1995)
12-09 TNÖ is 6,000 days old
12-17 Юпитера’s (Karin Tay’s) birthday (1992 – color?)
12-24 IBCF turns 6,000 days old
12-26 SudoRandom’s birthday (1996)
12-28 nolagirl7’s birthday (year? – light blue and lime green)
12-30 Purplefinch’s birthday (purple?)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between March 25 and April 24, 1996.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between June 29 and July 9, 1993.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between October 3 and November 2, 1990.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

*Role-Playing Game.

Note: This RPG is of or pertaining to magic, though not necessarily magical in its own right. It’s also continued.

An RPG, continued from Part 2. If you haven’t been following it, however, you’ll never catch up now.

Has it really been a whole year since the last time we said that? It seems impossible, but logic tells us it must be so. Have a wonderful holiday, everybody*!
 
 
 

*Those living in countries that don’t celebrate American-style Thanksgiving should give it a try; it’s very nice. And Canadians have our permission (and wholehearted encouragement) to celebrate it again. It’s party time!

Ready when you are! Keiffer, as White, moves first.
 
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Here you go!
 
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Rainbow*Star asked:

Can we have a demigod RPG, where we all find out we’re demigods, and slay monsters and get prophecies and stuff?

Answer: Yes, you can, may, will, and now do have the requested thread.

As requested. RoseQuartz moves first.
 
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Continued from Part 3.

The year is 2020. The heroes: a few dozen young men and women, most in their late 20s. Fifteen years earlier, four friendly-seeming but mysterious people gathered them on what was then known as the World Wide Web, dropped hints about an important destiny or mission they were to fulfill, and then vanished. Over the years, some of the group kept in touch; others drifted apart. Now a great danger has brought them all back together again…

The famous astronomer and most Muserly explainer of science would have turned 75 on Monday, November 9. Happy birthday, Carl! Sixty-two revolutions on your home planet weren’t nearly enough. Our corner of the cosmos salutes you.

At your command. Go to it!

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If you’re ever in a hopeless position and want to resign a game rather than continue playing, just hit the skull-and-crossbones button on the control bar. That’s what it’s for. It’s more polite than simply abandoning the game.

Food, that is. And when better than November to celebrate it, in all its many-splendored savory glory? And what could be more appropriate than to begin than with tea time at the H&H? Read more »

New on the blog? Come on in! Ballistic pastry and good counsel await you on this thread.
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Known Muser birthdays this month*:

11-14 Mango’s birthday (1998 – green and blue and goldish-yellow)
11-16 Kiwimuncher’s birthday (1992 – green)
11-18 Cello-Playing Mathematician’s birthday (1993 – violet)
11-18 Enceladus’s birthday (1996 – purple, blue, and black)
11-24 peary moppins’s birthday (1997 – blue)
11-26 soccer starr’s birthday (1996 – purple, pink, and silver)
11-27 Purple Panda’s birthday (1991 – purple)
11-27 Birthday of Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon (1992 – ruby red)
11-27 Dodecahedron’s birthday (1993 – green)
11-27 Cinnamoon’s birthday (1994 – yellow)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between February 24 and March 24, 1996.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between May 30 and June 28, 1993.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between September 3 and October 2, 1990.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

How are you celebrating?

As requested. Go to it, lads!

Piggy prevails!
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The Chess Eterna-ment deserves its name, but once in a while a game does end.

So far, six games of normal chess (as opposed to Capablanca or Turbo chess) have been played to completion on the blog. The results so far:

Regular Chess
bookgirl_me > mason
Ducky > Kiga
Purple Panda > TMFA
Piggy > RoseQuartz
Jakob Wonkychair > Tesseract

Capablanca Chess
bookgirl_me > POSOC
cromwell > Enceladus

Turbo Chess
bookgirl > Jakob Wonkychair