Sunday, 4 May 2025
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
That’s the code name for Musers’ secret plan for world domination. It’s so super-ultra-hyper-secret that it doesn’t have to be secret. As you can see from the previous “Mostly Harmless” thread, it is also, like everything else on the blog, more than a bit muddled.
A forum for practicing archaic English, foreign languages, and other off-the-beaten-track forms of communication. The original Coy Woodnesse thread may be worth a look.
(Coy woodnesse means “quiet madness” in Middle English, the version of our language spoken about 600 years ago.)
Useful resources (additions welcome!):
Accents to paste in:
à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì à î ï ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ù ú û ü ¿ ¡
“Chaucer’s Middle English” site at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Librarius has another Middle English glossary and a load of information about Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales
Welcome, visitor from planet Bmralrale — or any other aliens out there. Here’s a place to impart your wisdom. (KitKat’s idea.)
Otzi wants to go to law school and then on to the White House, where she’ll kick back in the Red Room after a hard day of being president. She wonders what your plans are. (As does Planet of the APEricot’s villager.) So, the topic here is careers: Your goals, dreams and nightmares.
Continued in Version 2006.2.
Rosanne and Robert are in the question-and-answer business, after all. So go ahead–fling your questions their way. They promise to answer honestly and/or entertainingly, or not at all.
(Thanks to Em for this brilliant idea for a thread.)
(And to randomrohanfreak, who proposed the idea back before R&R were ready to step into the spotlight.)