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Join Date: Mar 2003
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Colds viruses - all strains and mutations of them - without a doubt belong to Mordor.
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Umbar, but before the corsairs took over. (Ave Maria University, FL, USA)
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British TV mini-series of the '70's and '80's (often shown on the PBS show Mystery in the US) that switch back and forth between film and video, depending on if the shot is indoors or out. It really annoys me, and has a way of detracting from otherwise lovely series (such as the Lord Peter Wimsey and Rumpole ones.) I wish they would just pick one medium and stay with it!
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My friend Autumn. You have to hate, but love someone as assuming as Mordor's landscape.
Tisk, tissssk... Let's see. What else... Oh! Unpredictable kilns! They are as greedy as Mt. Doom, if one thing about the clay is slightly valuable to you,*BOOM!* Another has to be Wednesdays... Who likes something that keeps you in a suspense between Tuesday and Thursday? I can't think of anymore right now. I will get back with more when they attack me again, or I remember... ~ Ka
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Is anybody up for a new Gondor rpg featuring spoofy characters trapped with all the things we've assigned to Mordor? Lots of descriptions of places like "Nurnia" and what not? The goal being to escape from Mordor by getting "unassigned" by those who have assigned?
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If we could do it, LMP, I think it would be a blast, not to mention hilarious. The only problem is that I can't play in Gondor.
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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I would like to assign the way some people speak. Not the people themselves, I simply want to get rid of they way they say things. Out here in the western part of the US in a lot of rural communities (in cities as well but more prevelant in rural areas) people use double negatives all of the time. It makes me cringe everytime I hear it. Also when they use the wrong combination of words...one of the worst ones is "we was" honestly people say it just like that. "We was driving down from the cabin..."
Again I do not assign the people just the incorrectness of their speech.
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Join Date: May 2005
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Ah, lmp, what an intriguing idea. I read through the Entish Bow RPGs the other day and was in stitches. But I've never been in an RPG before and can't play in Gondor either.
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Itinerant Songster
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Wandering through Middle-Earth (Sadly in Alberta and not ME)
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I think country music should be sent to Mordor. I can't stand it and every song seems the same to me.
*Hides behind a chair because there might be some country fans here*
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Another thing I'd like to send to Mordor are news reports, when they interview someone but only provide a snippet of what they're saying. You can see the interviewee's mouth continuing to move (if they keep him in shot long enough), but the newscaster talks over them. How do you know what the person's saying? How do you know they're not taking a quote out of context? |
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The RPG sounds like a great idea, but never having been in one before, I can't play in Gondor either.
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Itinerant Songster
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I'll ask some mod or other what can be done about an "I Was Assigned to Mordor" rpg (IWAM?).
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lmp why don't you shorten the name to Assigned To Mordor - ATM and then we can send those damned machines there as well. Those card-stealing, money-grabbing, continually broken minions of hell!
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As for where I am taking up residence, I have still to grasp the confusing vocabulary of the many coffee houses... ![]() Another thing that can nace off to mordor for good would have to be diamonds. Dreadfully bland things, there is absolutely no 'wow!' effect. Yes, they may sparkle, have the power to corrupt whole countires and world markets, cut glass, but not much else can be said for color. There are some varieties, but that color doesn't pack much of a punch. Okay, that's about it for now. I'll try to find more soon. ~ Ka
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![]() Ah reck'n we can put this hyar game inta Middle Arth Marth. I think I'll assign rap (I can't call it music) to Mordor. Horrid stuff.
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Here's an RP forum Mod stepping in with some comments about this hyah projikct ahbut Mordah.
Your questions are all answered (or just about) in the threads with the rules for gaming on the Barrow Downs. "Ecthelion's Tower" in Gondor explains how littlemanpoet can game in Gondor even though he cannot start games there--he was invited by a Gondorian to join her game, with the expectation that she was responsible for keeping his posts up to snuff. ![]() The "Golden Hall" thread in Gondor and "The Redbook of Westmarch" in The Shire explain the other rules governing who can game where and who can start games where. My understanding is that RPGs are allowed only in the forums devoted to them. They cannot be started elsewhere on the Barrow Downs. I suppose you could always petition Barrow Wight and Mithadan about this, though, at least to clarify. They's da bosses in this hyah place. I would say I smell a game, but I wouldn't want anyone to take that as a criticism that this is a rank idea. ![]() |
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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Tax collectors
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2003
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I assign to Mordor....
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Gasp!!! I LOVE white chocolate! People who don't like it should be sent to Mordor. So Holbytlass due to your dislike of white chocolate you are in Mordor but I am in Mordor as well since you think people who do like white chocolate should be send to Mordor.
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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In contrast to everyone else I am going to send Standard English to Mordor. I don't mean written English, but spoken English, as I love all the differences in pronunciation and accent. I especially love differences in dialect where people use double negatives, dropped aitches and peculiar words. The South Yorkshire term for 'sweets' is 'spice', which fascinates me; how can the opposite word become the common word for something? What I do not like is the spread of Estuary English, as sadly it seems to have wiped out much dialect use in England, thus reducing the colour of our language. And nuclear is pronounced
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Lathriel, I said white chocolate is to be sent to Mordor not the people who (are not in their right minds
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As for the language contravercy, it reminds me of a routine Gallagher (the watermelon busting comedian) did on words, for example why doesn't foot sound the same as boot .
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Yes I do like oreos. I will bring a few boxes of them, and you bring a few. Thus our confinement in Mordor should be much more pleasant. Although I hope it will be brief.
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I checked it out Lhunardawen thanks for redirect
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Dangling prepositions. Sentences (at the very least in written English, Lal) should never end with any of the following: at, of, to, with, for, under. Or any preposition not previously mentioned. Dogs which won't housebreak properly. I am not in good-spirits while shoveling poopies off the floor. Poopie wherever you like in Mordor canine friends. Watered down beverages. There's nothing worse than drinking something that tastes halfway like juice (coffee, tea, milk, beer, etc.) but half like water.
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To Mordor I will send...
People who look at me with a horrified look as they see the habit I've developed of dipping Troops' curly fries into chocolate ice cream. I blame my brother for introducing me to that fantastic taste combination. And I'll send my own inability to turn down food-dares. "Hey Fea, I dare you to eat cheese doodles and marshmallows at the same time." *thinks* "Eeeew.... okay." (for common knowledge, the combined taste is somewhat like Lucky Charms). Also heading off to Mordor is this blessed hot weather that makes me not want to eat. Me! Not hungry. ![]()
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I hereby send...
The improper switching of "your" and "you're". *twitch* Can't handle...must...
I condemn thee to the side of the smokers and to the sheafs of standardized tests, foul grammar error of Sauron! And a game of sorts might be fun. Hush, Italex. Though I've not been sent to Mordor yet, I think...does purposeful misuse of Jamesian English count? Though there's alot of stuff I'd like to get out of Mordor.
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Oddwen, I'm afraid you have been sent to Mordor. I remember somebody assigning humanity in general to the Curséd realm.
Myself, I will now send all language to Mordor, for the divisions it causes amongst the people of the 'Downs. Henceforth, this midget will communicate only in gestures*. *bows and leaves* *Don't hold me to that, by the way. |
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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I assign native English speakes who misuse apostrophes. I can understand how people who normally speak another language might have trouble, but I'm going to get violent if I see one more person write "I bought some new book's."
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Whenever I tell people I like black licorice they make a weird face and tell me it is really gross. I would really like to send those looks and comments to Mordor
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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But black licorice is so good and there are so many different flavours. Shall I describe them?
There is salty black licorice, there is sweet black licorice. There is licorice that tastes like honey...
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Churchill as inspiration for Yoda? Fight them on the beaches we will. I can just see him now with his lightsaber cunningly hidden in his walking stick, or maybe it was in the cigar?
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