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[BilliardBall10]

This is good! But what is best in life?

THE OPEN STEPPE
FLEET HORSE
FALCONS AT YOUR WRIST
AND THE WIND IN YOUR HAIR

WRONG!
its:

CRUSH ENEMIES
SEE THEM DRIVEN BEFORE YOU,
AND HEAR THE LAMENTATION OF THEIR WOMEN.



PS: also free porn+flash movies

[NintendrCkolc]

I wonder what wind going through your pubic hair would be like.

[GreyClock]

in terms of completely arbitrary magic powers, completely arbitrary weaknesses, and an unhealthy view of women, it's right up there with "aha you ate a pomegranate, now you have to stay with me in hell for half the year" and "poseidon raped you? have snakes for hair!"

well, the story of the ''aha you ate a pomegranate, now you have to stay with me in hell for half the year'', is actually the story of how persephone(daughter of demeter) got tricked by hades(god of the underworld).
one day, while she was gathering flowers on a field, hades popped out of a nearby hole in the ground, and abducted persephone, taking her with him on the underworld. (because she was beautiful+he fell in love* with her)
demeter tried to find her daughter, and her despair was so great, that nothing grew from the earth(since demeter was the godess of the earth/plants/of harvest).
eventually, helios helps her to find persephone, but hades won't give her back; so, other gods+people ask from zeus to help demeter, and zeus forces hades to give percephone back.
but hades is a cunning bastard and gives to persephone seeds of pomegranate to eat before he releases her; thus, she have done a grave error (because, according to ancient greek lore, if you ate food in the underworld you would be forced to spend 1/3 of the year in there).

so! persephone was free to live above, with the other gods during the 2/3rd's of the year (spring-summer+in start of autumn), and she then had to spend the 1/3rd of the year in the underworld, (autumn-winter), which according to the myth, was obvious, due demeters sadness that made the land cold+without flowers.

in later versions of the myth, persephone stays half a year above, with the other gods, and the other half below, in the underworld. still, the good half (spring-summer) and the ''bad'' half (autumn-winter) of the year are identical elements in all of the versions of the myth.(both old and new).

tl;tr its a symbolism for the best seasons(spring-summer) and the coldest/harshest ones(autumn-winter) and the contrast between growth(blooming nature,fruits, harvest) and decay(cold, no fruits, empty fields).

also:

and ''poseidon raped you? have snakes for hair!''!"

thats the myth of medusa.

well, in some versions of the myth, medusa was one of the most beautiful gorgons, and other women were jealous of her, so they cursed her to become ugly+with snakes for hair.
in an other version, she sleeps with poseidon, and one of his wives curses her to become ugly+with snakes for hair.

however, in one of the most ''organised'' versions of the myth, medusa is one of the most beautiful gorgons, and poseidon rapes her in the temple of athena.
athena then gets angry and thinks that medusa did this on purpose, so she transforms her into a monster, with a hideous face and with snakes-for-hair.
(in other versions tho, athena does that in order to protect medusa from future suitors/rapists).

eventually, king porydectes steals perseus throne and wants to marry his mother, so he blackmails perseus to do some ''tasks'' for him, one of them being the (impossible) task of killing the medusa.
thankfully for perseus tho, the gods help him with some cool gadgets: (hades invisibility helmet,
(one of)athena's shield(s), herme's flying sandals, and a great sword forged by hephaestus).
last but not least, when perseus beheads medusa, two creatures are born from her blood:
the winged horse pegasus, and the giant chrysaor.

to be fair tho, in most stories of the ancient greek mythology, virtue+bravery is rewarded, while bad actions such as rape+malice are punished, in most cases with gods sending ppl in tartarus. (tartarus=ancient greek hell).

*true love is never like this, ofcourse. hades was a dark, dark dude.

[FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK]

I wonder what wind going through your pubic hair would be like.

It's even more refreshing than pointing a fan at your crotch after a hot shower.

[Slurpee]

I wonder what wind going through your pubic hair would be like.

feels like victory

[RobClock]

This is good! But what is best in life?

THE OPEN STEPPE
FLEET HORSE
FALCONS AT YOUR WRIST
AND THE WIND IN YOUR HAIR

WRONG!


BB10, what is best in life?

[PhantomCatClock]

in the next champter [sic] of my fanfic, the sandcrawler will scootch into the Death Star trench and blow it up, Disney will probably make it canon soon tho so +fav it before it's cool

[PhantomCatClock]

go fund dot me slash bb10's emergency brain stebanonamy, $0/$15

[GreyClock]

Because I don't believe in jinxing shit: I might be getting a small apartment. It's ticking a lot of the boxes I talked about earlier. First of all, it's cheap as hell. It's on a green, seemingly quiet street in a small (semi-/pseudo-?)historical town. The town is wedged between a river and a large forest. I could piss out of my window and hit the train station. Friends and family are close, but not too close. I still have to figure out if I even qualify, information is sparse and the fact that I don't have an income could potentially ruin my chances. Luckily it's social housing, not privately owned, so there are no strangulating, factor-four-or-five income requirements. This has a lot of potential, fingers at ease.

[BilliardBall10]

This is good! But what is best in life?

THE OPEN STEPPE
FLEET HORSE
FALCONS AT YOUR WRIST
AND THE WIND IN YOUR HAIR

WRONG!


BB10, what is best in life?

CRUSH ENEMIES,
SEE THEM DRIVEN BEFORE YOU,
AND HEAR THE LAMENTATION OF THEIR WOMEN.


PS: also free porn+flash movies

[RobClock]

This is good! But what is best in life?

THE OPEN STEPPE
FLEET HORSE
FALCONS AT YOUR WRIST
AND THE WIND IN YOUR HAIR

WRONG!


BB10, what is best in life?

CRUSH ENEMIES,
SEE THEM DRIVEN BEFORE YOU,
AND HEAR THE LAMENTATION OF THEIR WOMEN.


PS: also free porn+flash movies

WRONG!


Phantomcat, what is best in life?

[BilliardBall10]

in the next champter [sic] of my fanfic, the sandcrawler will scootch into the Death Star trench and blow it up, Disney will probably make it canon soon tho so +fav it before it's cool

considering that disney WILL do this (eventually), since they (now) own the rights to make star-wars movies...
this is a correct prediction.

i assume that in the near future, mickey mouse will join the jedi forces, goofy will punch jar jar binks in order to restore the balance in the S.W. universe, and donald will begin training new jedis in tatuin. either way, it cant be much worse than the prequels of star wars, so what can i say?

Hello, I might be getting a small apartment. It's awesome. First of all, it's cheap as hell. It's on a green, seemingly quiet street in a small (semi-/pseudo-?)historical town.[...]
This has a lot of potential, fingers at ease.

thats great! good luck dude.
also: sorry if ask, but whats the name of his semi-historical town? does it have cool statues/museums and stuff?
i like castle-towns, to be honest. (towns with many old walls/castles+museums).

and: why you have christopher lambert as your avatar? its so strange. highlander was a great movie tho.
(only the highlander movie of 1986 is the best one of the whole ''highlander'' movie(s) collection.
the rest are... inferior imitations.)

[GreyClock]

Hello, I might be getting a small apartment. It's awesome. First of all, it's cheap as hell. It's on a green, seemingly quiet street in a small (semi-/pseudo-?)historical town.[...]
This has a lot of potential, fingers at ease.

thats great! good luck dude.
also: sorry if ask, but whats the name of his semi-historical town? does it have cool statues/museums and stuff?
i like castle-towns, to be honest. (towns with many old walls/castles+museums).

and: why you have christopher lambert as your avatar? its so strange. highlander was a great movie tho.
(only the highlander movie of 1986 is the best one of the whole ''highlander'' movie(s) collection.
the rest are... inferior imitations.)

The town is called Poepershoek.

Why do I have this avatar? I was checking the profile options and noticed a "Choose avatar from gallery" option. There's two categories: actors & musicians. Judging by the selection of people and the quality of the pictures this function/database hasn't been updated since the early 2000s. I thought this one was particularly funny.

[BilliardBall10]

@grey.

interesting.

does your town have any castles/museums/art exhibitions?
if its a historical town, it will probably have many of those things.(and thats awesome).

also thanks for your reply+for explaining your motivation behind this new cool avatar.
it IS funny.

say, wanna collab on a short flash movie, one of those days? Y/N

[Slurpee]

Why do I have this avatar? I was checking the profile options and noticed a "Choose avatar from gallery" option. There's two categories: actors & musicians. Judging by the selection of people and the quality of the pictures this function/database hasn't been updated since the early 2000s. I thought this one was particularly funny.

lol

and here I was thinking the answer would be both obvious and uninteresting, like "I like Christopher Lambert"

[Slurpee]

didn't... shit, this was like 13 years ago now, but I'm pretty sure it was the Clock Crew and I want to say Will Stamper?
Stamper did the then-new BBS layout, and when it went live the default avatar selection was like 200 pictures of Jean-Claude Van Dam lmao

and iirc he didn't do it on purpose? he somehow accidentally initialized the avatar bank with hundreds of pictures of JCVD, which he just had for another reason

[GreyClock]

does your town have any castles/museums/art exhibitions?
if its a historical town, it will probably have many of those things.(and thats awesome).

say, wanna collab on a short flash movie, one of those days? Y/N

Well like I said it's a very small town, so there's only a manor of sorts. From what I gather it was built in the 17th century by Earl Rembrandt II (no relation), member of a rather obscure noble family called Van Paardenkuth tot Poepershoek. The last living heir died childless in the trenches of World War I, after a freak accident involving a leaky cannister of mustard gas and a German spy, after which ownership of the estate transferred to the State. These days the manor houses the family's (rather limited) art treasures and library, ranging from a number of rather unconvincing trompe-l'oeils, a cycle of obscene etchings with considerable water damage and the collected works of Emily Brontë. The jewel in the crown of the museum is a (regionally) famous collection of nuts. I'm talking chestnuts, acorns, walnuts and hazelnuts (no beechnut), which one of the granddaughters of the Earl, a Lady Nell, gathered from the nearby forest. She shaped these nuts into tiny figurines of owls. On Wednesday afternoons there are workshops, where you can bring your own nuts and give it a whack. If I get to live there, I'll sign up.

And no.

didn't... shit, this was like 13 years ago now, but I'm pretty sure it was the Clock Crew and I want to say Will Stamper?
Stamper did the then-new BBS layout, and when it went live the default avatar selection was like 200 pictures of Jean-Claude Van Dam lmao

and iirc he didn't do it on purpose? he somehow accidentally initialized the avatar bank with hundreds of pictures of JCVD, which he just had for another reason

Yeah, I vaguely remember that. Was it our BBS or his own? He had a short-lived forum called (I think) Bomb the Harbor or something, I was banned from there. Maybe both? This kinda makes me want to go down the rabbit hole of memory. Like does Stamper even remember that? And how weird it is we're talking about it thirteen years later. I was thinking about a similar thing earlier when I mentioned this forty-something boss of mine from fifteen years ago. I can see him clearly in my mind, and I only knew him for about a month or two, so that's a very specific snapshot of the guy. Does anyone remember him (more or less) in the same way? If he's still alive, does he himself remember? Does his wife? Is there a photo of him from that period? And how accurately would it line up with my memory? I'm too tired for this...

[PhantomCatClock]

This is good! But what is best in life?

THE OPEN STEPPE
FLEET HORSE
FALCONS AT YOUR WRIST
AND THE WIND IN YOUR HAIR

WRONG!


BB10, what is best in life?

CRUSH ENEMIES,
SEE THEM DRIVEN BEFORE YOU,
AND HEAR THE LAMENTATION OF THEIR WOMEN.


PS: also free porn+flash movies

WRONG!


Phantomcat, what is best in life?

Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels, doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles, wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings, these are a few of our life's bestest things

[Kodiakclock]

  what's happening cool dudes.

[miracle fruit]