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Ask questions; find out about one another; repeat ad infinitum.

Continued from v. 2008.2.

Continued from the plain-vanilla Computer and Video Games thread, and probably self-explanatory.

Unlike the random thread, this discussion thread stays on topic until the topic changes or the month ends.

Newcomers should read The Rules and The Guide before plunging in.

Current topic: Factoids
Children’s TV shows

Impress your fellow MBers by showing how much you know about something that doesn’t matter very much.

(NOTE: This is thread number 1492 — and coincidentally, 1492 is the year in which something significant happened to a prominent denizen of Hogwarts. Who was en, and what was the event?)

Continued from Part One.

Continued from Books and Reading, 2008, Part 3.

Bilbo and Frodo were both born on September 22, on different years of the Third Age of Middle-earth. All hail the heroic hobbits (even if Merry and Pippin were funnier)!

The autumnal equinox occurs at 1544 Universal time on Monday, September 22. That’s 10:44 a.m. blog time (U. S. Central Daylight Time). Have a lovely fall, everybody!

This year ’tis on Friday, September 19, me buckos! Let’s hear yer plans and yARRRns!

Something everybody likes to talk about.

Continued from version 2008.2.

Unlike the random thread, this discussion thread stays on topic until the topic changes.

Newcomers should read The Rules and The Guide before plunging in.

Current topic: Travel
Gardens

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.

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.

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.)

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.)

Before the discussion takes over the Romance and Relationships thread, we should move our little idyll to its own thread.

We started with oxlin’s comment:

Bah. I’m sick of society. I want to go live in a shack somewhere with Teal and not pollute and eat mushrooms and herbs we gather and carrots we grow and draw and write and be happy.

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

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

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


BLACK

WHITE

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

Continued above.

Unlike the random thread, this discussion thread stays on topic until the topic changes.

Newcomers should read The Rules and The Guide before plunging in.

Current topic: The Olympics
Computer programming / Web design and graphics

Words & names you ♥ or just want to talk about. Hey, is ♥ a word?

Continued from version 2007.3.

(This includes the “What’s in a Name?” thread that several MBers have recently requested.)

We celebrate his birthday every year, but clearly he deserves much more.

Requested by The Man for Aeiou.