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Years later, the children of the MuseBloggers band together to fight a renewed lagomorphic menace. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

Planning for the new characters and storyline started on Bunny Apocalypse, Part 6.

Continued from Part 1, where you can figure out what this genre is all about. Or not.

Something everybody likes to talk about.

Continued from version 2008.2.

School or no school, the blog’s monthly Random Thread keeps rolling along regardless. It’s the place to talk about anything or nothing at all.

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Talking about talking.

Requested by giminator and Zinc.

John Calvin (1509-1564) was a 16th-century French Protestant theologian. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a 17th-century English political philosopher. Some MuseBloggers have become interested in their ideas and have requested a thread on which to discuss them.

Just kidding! We know about Bill Watterson’s comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes” and love it as much as you do. Here’s a place for you to talk about Snow Goons, propellor beanies, G.R.O.S.S., and other memorable parts of Calvin’s world.

For topics that need to be handled with extra care. NO FLAMING.

Continued from version 2007.8.

WARNING! Will definitely contain spoilers!

To spare MBers reading the “Recent Comments” column, please paste the following message in at the beginning of your posts:

SPOILER SEPTEMBER MUSE SPOILER.

(That’s long enough. Remember to include the period, though, for the benefit of the sidebar.)

Let us know when your issue arrives. NO SPOILERS, please. There’s another thread for discussing the issue.

It’s big, it’s important, and, thanks to the Olympics, it’s on our minds. A discussion has already begun at the Hare & Hedgepig; it will continue here.

MuseBlog’s preeminent contribution to world culture.

Continued from version 2008.2.

As Part 5 drew to a close, new characters entered the fray, and the anti-leporine resistance seemed to have encountered a cabal of Sith Lords. Or something. It’s all terribly hard to swallow, um, follow.

Your family and friends might know you pretty well, but how many of them have seen the interior of your gastro-intestinal tract? Pan has graciously provided us with photographs of hers, which she’ll explain on this thread.

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So, what do you think? Is beauty only skin-deep?

Being GAPAs of Very Little Brain, we’re not sure how much more there is to be said about Pooh & Co. But they are clogging up the Words and Names thread, so we’re relocating the discussion here.

(Requested by Kokonilly.)

Editor Elizabeth Preston writes:

Could you make one more announcement on the MuseBlog about the “Muserology” (readers’) page? We need to have one more in, for November/December, before the first one gets published (September). I only got a few submissions earlier, and then they stopped coming. But various bloggers were talking about ideas they had for articles, which they never sent in. So…they have another chance! (Also, if someone sent something and didn’t get a response, they can send it again–I think some things got unnecessarily deleted from the Muse email.)

A thread devoted to the United Kingdom (England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland).

Americans have long since forgiven them for trying to stop our Revolution. Now we think they’re flamablamablous. We devour their books, and we like their accents almost as much as Australian ones. Here’s a place to talk about them.

(Requested by The Man for Aeiou.)

In the second installment of this month’s random thread, we keep laying on the ice. Cool enough for you?

Continued from Part One.

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Perhaps not the pleasantest thing to think about, or maybe not so bad. Either way, talking is bound to help.

Factoid: In China this date is considered incredibly auspicious, because the Mandarin word for “eight” rhymes with the word for “luck.” Lucky, lucky, lucky us.

Purple Panda and Robert are playing a game, with Robert annotating (talking about positions) as they go.

Purple Panda (White) vs. Robert (Black)
###pgn###
1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nf6
3. Nc3 Nc6
4. Bc4 Nxe4
5. Nxe4 d5
6. d3 d5xc4
7. d3xc4 d8xd1+
8. Kxd1 Bf5
9. Ng3 0-0-0+
10. Bd2 Bg4
11. Re1 Nd4
12. Re3 Bc5
13. Ne4 Nxf3
14. Nxc5 Nxd2+
15. Kc1 Nb3+
16. c2xb3 Rd1+
17. Kc2 Rxa1
18. f3 Bf5+
19. Ne4 Rd8
%%%pgn%%%

Previously, Robert and Purple Panda analyzed Pan’s recent game with The Man for Aeiou (below). TMFA played White; Pan, Black. (The diagram shows a variation starting at White’s 16th move.)
###pgn###
1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. d4 e5xd4
4. Bb5 Qf6
5. O-O Bd6
6. Na3 a6
7. Bd3 Ne5
8. Re1 Nh6
9. Nxd4 Bc5
10. Na3b5 a6xb5
11. Nxb5 O-O
12. Re3 Bxe3
13. f2xe3 c6
14. Nd6 Qxd6
15. Bd2 Ne5g4
16. g3 Qf6
%%%pgn%%%

(For reference, the squares are coded like this:)

BLACK
a8 b8 c8 d8 e8 f8 g8 h8
a7 b7 c7 d7 e7 f7 g7 h7
a6 b6 c6 c6 e6 f6 g6 h6
a5 b5 c5 d5 e5 f5 g5 h5
a4 b4 c4 d4 e4 f4 g4 h4
a3 b3 c3 d3 e3 f3 g3 h3
a2 b2 c2 d2 e2 f2 g2 h2
a1 b1 c1 d1 e1 f1 g1 h1
WHITE

Rosanne is going to be in the Washington (D.C.) area soon, and she and Robert are thinking of getting together for some pie on the 16th. Unlike last August, this time they’d like to eat the pie. Would anyone else (and ens parents) like to come along?

They might have a picnic in a park, or might go to one of the area’s pie-renowned restaurants. The plans will depend partly on which option is better for any local MBers who might show up. Any thoughts?

Maybe these games will move faster than the ones on v. 2.

(For reference, the squares are coded like this:)


BLACK

WHITE

We don’t understand why these threads are the most popular ones on the blog, but so it goes. The Big Idea: Post under a false name, and try to guess who other posters are.

Continued from v. 2008.5.

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In which we see what MBers really do with all their excess brain capacity.

Continued above.

This month’s random thread continues the theme of July’s: thinking cool amid what for many of us continues to be decidedly uncool weather. Think cool, act cool, be cool!

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