(Said in, you know, the style of that Soup Nazi guy on Seinfeld.)
Fenris my dear! how fiendishly clever. One small thing, however, you coulda consulted w/me on some of this. Cause, for example, the chair I would have selected to replace his chair of ultimate power [sup]tm[/sup] is one (damn I wish I had a link) that we saw in a store window (hey, UncleBeer/ Strainger remember when I drove you by the hooker district??? these chairs weren’t out then, but it was near there ya understand). Imagine, if you will, Tall back chairs - one in lime green, one in day-glo orange, one in leopard spots, all perfect replicas (larger of course, so it’s adult chair size) of the quintessential "F***-Me’ Pumps (ie very high heeled shoes) you sit on the part that would cover the toe. They were equistite in their horrifying tackiness. The only thing preventing me from having them grace my beloved yuppie brother’s living room is that I don’t have $300 to spare. (damn social worker type salaries)
(not to mention you forgot the gopher reference)
I summarise from here regards Hanns Hoerbiger’s Welteislehre, originally referred to as Glazial-Kosmogonie (Glacial Cosmogony):
Universal Ice Doctrine:
A supergiant star had a smaller, water-soaked star(!?!) fall into it. This had the net effect of throwing a wet rag into a giant microwave oven and the smaller star then super heated and the fragments were flung into cosmos. The water then froze and formed blocks of ice which became the Milky Way. This gets wackier and involves things like Atlantis, Hollow Earth Theory, etc. It eventually was adopted by Hitler’s Nazi party. At least one article attributes the failed Winter campaign against Russia in 1941-2 as based on Hoerbiger’s weather forecasts.
Where’s that? Besides in Jarbabyland?
More on Starship Troopers. I just read it a month or two back. I do believe the Tagalog comment is just about the only clue that’s given in the whole book. In the movie, Rico is from Buenos Aires, which is why he’s so bummed when it gets wiped out. But in the book, he happens to hear that his mom was visiting BA when it was wiped out. His dad was elsewhere, lived, and met up with Johnny later in the book.
Whoop! Gotta go finish Master Scylla’s next batch of Ebola-Pox[sup]TM[/sup]
Um. well, ya see, um, I’ve lived in the Lansing area for more than 20 years, and have worked with ex offenders there for more than 20 years, and um. well, um specifically I um , helped run a correction center for women for a long time, so, we’d like, um, get these phone calls about some of our ladies, um, well.
hell. Many big and not so big cities have an area where street trade is likely. The above is why I know where they are locally. And, there was a recent dopefest nearby, and UB & S arrived during the work day, I was the closest local who could arrange time off to 'show ‘em around’, so, it just so happened that the best route to take them from point a (their hotel) to point b (an odd little store I thought they’d like - and they did), was through this area known for it’s traffic. So, being the good hostess I was taught to be, I pointed out sights along the way, this being one of them.
(and, thanks for asking, this way I got to reasonably post yet another item to this thread w/o answering any of the challenges - and Scylla next time you’re mentioning ‘honest debaters you frequently disagree with’ ya better not forget ‘chopped liver’ again! )
Four animals from the outside world? As in animals that exist here, as well as there? or from outside of The Deadly Desert?
four animals listed from this world:
Lions
Tigers
Bears
Monkeys
too easy though, I’ll assume you mean from the Great Outside World, so lets see:
Unicorns
Griffins
Mules
Wogglebug (Eh, only other one I can think of, or find)
Only two more to go (three if I am wrong in my answer to number 15)
These two alone remain unanswered, surely somebody can figure them out:
The jarbabyj one should be long and tedious work to provide links for, but doable.
#6 will be a bit more difficult.
saepiroth: If the questions AREN’T answered correctly before the 1000 views, 100 posts, he’ll suffer the fate listed. If you want him to suffer, you’ll have to not answer the questions but view and post a lot. <sigh> As the good guy, I have to note that “stuffing the ballot box” like that would be cheating.
Everyone else:
Epimetheus was the first one to get #13
Chaim: #4: incomplete, #9: correct,
detop: #3: Correct, #12: Correct, but I wish you hadn’t posted proof yet. I was hoping for a bitter, multi-post argument :D.
Epimetheus has also gotten
#2: (you bum! I thought that would be the impossible one! 
),
#1: almost, but not quite, even considering the incomplete name,
#11: the 175mm barrel part is unnecessary, but another part of the rest of the answer is incorrect.
#5: Correct (the movie part)
#8: Correct
Typo in #15 It should read: Name four animal CHARACTERS that came from the outside world to live in Oz.
and please, no need to be reasonable on my account! Flame wars have started over the Juan Rico question on alt.fan.heinlein (I’m not sure why). Feel free to debate to your heart’s content! (Note that Juan also said his hero was Ramon Magsaysay) but if anyone wants a long involved debate on the topic, I’m be happy to entertain it…here! :D)
Fenris
I’m confused.
Do the bad things happen if the questions are answered, or if they are not within the alloted time?
Should I be trying to answer your questions, or hoping they don’t get answered?
#16 is 42.
[sub]Sorry about that Chief[/sub]
The bad things happen if the questions aren’t answered correctly by the time the post count or view deadline is reached. If you don’t want the bad things to happen, answer the questions.
Fenris
(Never underestimate the power of an ambiguous OP for driving up post numbers!)
And here I was thinking that #15 referred to the land down under - figuring that the answer would be something like
Rabbits
Humans
Sheep
[Not sure about number 4 - but Rats got imported darn near everywhere. Any real Aussies want to take a stab?]
since these all evolved elsewhere, unlike the interesting marsupial fauna of Oz.
Oh, look. I just wasted another post. Sorry about that Scylla.
Camden Hills? In Maine?
this is my take on the question:
eureka: dorothy’s white kitten
billina: yellow hen
toto: dorothy’s dog
hank: mule (betsy bobbin)
Wring, I stayed up way too late last night reading through the really long GD thread on this topic. I am through about the first 4 or 5 pages, hope to finish the rest maybe late today and toss in my own 0.02 dollars. I will definitely land somewhere between the two polar opposites on the issue.
Anyway this has but nothing to do with the exciting Celebrity Death Match[sup]TM[/sup], Round II, between Fenris and Scylla. Its just fun to watch them duke it out and the counters increment.
Answering 7:
snatchcombs
clitbag
cockawl
pindick
titwrench
assbone, cuntdropping, titburger
pissladle
cuntwhisker
snatchbrisket, shankmeat
jerksauce
dicksatchel
shitsteak
twatrakes
assknob, cocksocket, pussyshovel
titsack, cockwrench
#14 - is this chorus the French “Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir?”
If it indeed is, I know! It means “Would you like to sleep with me tonight?” [sub]Although I doubt it’s good grammar.[/sub]
Boy, I’ve always hated that song, yet enjoyed it at the same time. Thanks for dredging that one up.
On with the fight!
Snicks