I read this as “It wouldn’t hurt to nibble a virgin…”
I gotta start reading more carefully.
[sub]Right after a cold shower…
I’ll bring the beer.
Hands out luke-warm cans of Natural Ice
He will be missed… sniff
O.K: I just cast a resurrection spell and rolled my handy dandy spell die and viola! Fenris is brought back to life! But for some reason he now looks like Pierce Brosnan ;).
BTW: since I’m the defender of all creatures cute and furry, I rescued all the groundhogs and their now living happy fulfiling lives.
i.e., digging up Scylla’s fields.
Oh, fine, bring him back the easy way. I still want a nubile virgin. C’mon, the weekend is almost here, the board will be down… a girl has to have a hobby.
I’ll see what I can do. 
Persephone - Oh, all right. You do the circle. I’ll take the East and warden for you.
I’d volunteer for the part, but nubile as I might be, I’m disqualified as a virgin. 
I’ll try to get you those clippings, though. You don’t mind if I get you hair, as opposed to toenails, do you?
Scylla, kitten, pet…
Now I know why I adore you, oh supreme leader.
Let it be known, the power of the Happy Fun Squad grows every day. In fact, we’ve converted a number of sad young men into groveling minions.
Now… about that trip to the imperial palace…
snaps fingers
Odieman, my clothes, please.
snaps fingers again
Turbo Dog, fetch the car. We’re paying Emperor Scylla a visit.
Elly
Okay, the circle is cast, the energy is raised, yadda yadda yadda blah blah blah.
Here goes…
Gimme an F!
Gimme an E!
Gimme an N!
Gimme an R!
Gimme an I!
Gimme an S!
Fenris! Fenris! He’s our dead man! If he can’t resurrect, no one can!
BOOMshakalakalakaBOOMshakalakalakaBOOM!
:::crossing fingers & hoping that works…:::
[sub]well, what did you expect from a self-taught solitary?[/sub]
Ahhhhh,
I’ve spent the day away, commiting evil deeds (took my daughter to Sesame Place in Philly,) and I return to find the cage submerged, and two of my questions unanswered.
At last my revenge is complete. Fenris is defeated. In a few short hours the board will be down. This will activate my global currency thingymadoober, and the world will be mine!
All too easy.
(bolding mine)
Excuse me your Proeminence, but if you have reach your ultimate power, doesn’t it mean that you can’t defeat Fenris, since you can’t be more powerful than what you are now ?
Really? That’s contrary to everything I’ve ever heard or been taught about the quadratic equation. And I roomed with a math major last year:) Do you happen to have a citation for that so I can explain this to Brendan and embarass him in front of all our friends?
I’m having trouble parsing this bolded part. Do you mean here:
“if the output depends on, at most, the X^2 bit.”?
Because otherwise I’m confused by your explanation.
That would be for all values of A less than 0. I’m having trouble coming up with a good example for values greater than 0.
Dunno if this helps, but to memorize the formula for solving quadratic equations, I put it to the tune from “Have you Ever seen a Lassie?” and 16 years later I still remember it!
Doh! Just raised the page views and posting count to share useless trivia about myself! Sorry, Fenris!
Don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but, um, er, Fenris hasn’t posted anywhere since shortly after his last post in this thread, where he mentions the dire circumstances he’s in.
Now, I’ve looked all over the place (in ATMB, in CCC, even in CSR), and haven’t found a trace of him. I’m ready to send out the search teams.
Feeeeeeeeeeeeenris
Feeeeeeeeeeeeeenris
Nope, nothing.
Dammit Scylla you bring him back ** NOW** or I’ll , I’ll I’ll give those Amish kids your posting schedule !
[NarratorVoice]
*Could this be the end of **Fenrisman[sup]*TM[/sup]?
Has the diabolic Scylla put the bite on our hero?
Can Scylla control the world’s currency markets?
Can the Amish stop him?
Will the incantations work?
Could there still be a way out for Fenrisman[sup]TM[/sup]?
Can groundhogs actually consume peanut butter?
To find out the answers to these, and other questions, tune in next week…
[/NarratorVoice]
"They asked each other countless riddles, such as who played the Cisco Kid and what was Krypton. In the end Dildo won the game. Stumped at last for a riddle to ask, he cried out, as his hand fell on his snub-nosed .38, “What have I got in my pocket?”
– Bored of the Rings, of course.
I know I should start this off with a quote, but, frankly, this puppy is loading so slowly that I don’t have the heart to go back to the previous page to get it.
At any rate, Fenris, if you are still alive, I must quibble with your answer to #15. As I recall, there were “Nazgul Equivalents” in Bored of the Rings – the Pig Riders. They rode, well, PIGS!
Ah 'punha - if you want to call it the quadratic equation then be my guest. Just don’t then say that ‘the quadratic equation solves the quadratic equation’!
But personally I still say that the quadratic equation is
A + BX + CX[sup]2[/sup] = 0
whilst the quadratic formula, or solution to the quadratic eqation is
X = (-B +/- sqrt(B[sup]2[/sup] - 4AC)) / 2A
You quoted the solution, not the equation itself.
And yes, my lack of commas in the sentence you identified was a problem. You parsed it correctly.
And the ball in flight bit was just an attempt to describe an algebraic expression in terms a layman would understand. Don’t like it? Feh. You do better 
pan - a maths graduate, trumping your roommate who presumably doesn’t actually have his degree yet