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Don't worry Knott, I was only joshing you and I knew where you were coming from. After reading my post back, it does sound a bit like chastising, it really wasn't meant that way!
 
Knott said:
Well, on my attempt on the fly to create a last name for Jon, in keeping with the flavor of Westeros, I seem to have a "maybe", and a "no, doesn't work at all"................(Snow----White + 1/2 Targaryen= not so good a sounding combination). Ah well.
Maybe I'll retire while I'm ahead of the game. I'll just stick to cheering on the death of most of the Freys, (Perwyn and Olyvar excluded), and waiting to see what happens to FAegon once his auntie arrives to seize their throne!
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Relax, we understood. No need to get yourself in a knott
 
Koopa said:
Relax, we understood. No need to get yourself in a knott
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Lol, thanks, now does this count as my ritual hazing?
Still a good reminder to re-read posts. I've seen some doozies on here in the past!
 
lol, well I got this habit of forgetting letters and misplacing the words of a sentence.
I want to eat bread basically becomes I bred ant to eat and stuff.
 
Describing the rest of the world as "less geographically fortunate" than Kansas has got to be a first. I'll be heading to Kansas and Missouri in August... By the way, the con is in Missouri.
 
Boaz said:
Describing the rest of the world as "less geographically fortunate" than Kansas has got to be a first. I'll be heading to Kansas and Missouri in August... By the way, the con is in Missouri.
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ahahaha It happens to be within driving distance. Compared to me in Europe, rather fortunate in this regard. XD
 
Hey, I grew up in Kansas. Have you ever been on the open plain without a tree, hill, mountain, or building in sight? The sky gets reeeeally biiiiiig. Also, your money goes a looooong waaaaay. You can get four times the house for half the price compared to Denver. And, there is a Kansas City, Kansas, but it's much smaller than Kansas City, Missouri. They're right across the Missouri River from each other.
 
Boaz said:
Hey, I grew up in Kansas. Have you ever been on the open plain without a tree, hill, mountain, or building in sight? The sky gets reeeeally biiiiiig. Also, your money goes a looooong waaaaay. You can get four times the house for half the price compared to Denver. And, there is a Kansas City, Kansas, but it's much smaller than Kansas City, Missouri. They're right across the Missouri River from each other.
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I saw it once when I was visiting some relatives in another part of the country. Since I grew up among mountains, it was disturbing a bit. XD Nothing to use for orientation. XD
 
Boaz said:
Hey, I grew up in Kansas. Have you ever been on the open plain without a tree, hill, mountain, or building in sight? The sky gets reeeeally biiiiiig. Also, your money goes a looooong waaaaay. You can get four times the house for half the price compared to Denver. And, there is a Kansas City, Kansas, but it's much smaller than Kansas City, Missouri. They're right across the Missouri River from each other.
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yes, but it wasn't in america. Still need to go there.
 
Narky, two different cities. The Kansas Territory and the State of Missouri basically fought a guerilla war for the seven years prior to the beginning of the American Civil War. It was ugly and brutal. We call it Bleeding Kansas. The names... John Brown and William Quantrill still affect us to this day.

I guess you could liken these outlaws/militia to the Brotherhood Without Banners. The Border Ruffians (Missouri supported "states rights", pro-slavery raiders) and the Jayhawkers (Kansas backed free-soiler and free-stater mobs) both claimed the moral high ground and political legitimacy. Both saw themselves in the tradition of Robin Hood and his Merry Men defending their way of life from evil and oppression. Both called themselves heroes and reviled the others as terrorists and blackguards. Both sides committed murder. Both sides were responsible for the deaths of women and children. Both sides destroyed property.

The Clint Eastwood movie, The Outlaw Josey Wales, tells the story of a man who rode with "Bloody" Bill Anderson. Anderson learned how to fight by serving under Quantrill, the most notorious/heroic leader of the Missouri men.

It's a big deal here, but then we've never fought a couple of hundred years wars nor world wars along the Kansas-Missouri border. One of the elves of Rivendell told Bilbo something like, "To sheep, all other sheep look different."

Sry, orientation is by the sun and wind. The wind blows from the south quite a bit.

Kiwi, if you come to Denver, I'll buy you a beer. Local stuff. None of your time honored, trappist monk made, air borne yeast, sediment filled, high alcohol content, room temperature beers and ales. Here we drink German/Czech inspired American lagers with a low alcohol content and served ice cold.

Yeah, so... we're noobs... but since noobism is honored here, it's okay.

And since going completely off topic is not okay.... I'll stop typing until I have something appropriate to post.
 
Boaz said:
Narky, two different cities. The Kansas Territory and the State of Missouri basically fought a guerilla war for the seven years prior to the beginning of the American Civil War. It was ugly and brutal. We call it Bleeding Kansas. The names... John Brown and William Quantrill still affect us to this day.

I guess you could liken these outlaws/militia to the Brotherhood Without Banners. The Border Ruffians (Missouri supported "states rights", pro-slavery raiders) and the Jayhawkers (Kansas backed free-soiler and free-stater mobs) both claimed the moral high ground and political legitimacy. Both saw themselves in the tradition of Robin Hood and his Merry Men defending their way of life from evil and oppression. Both called themselves heroes and reviled the others as terrorists and blackguards. Both sides committed murder. Both sides were responsible for the deaths of women and children. Both sides destroyed property.

The Clint Eastwood movie, The Outlaw Josey Wales, tells the story of a man who rode with "Bloody" Bill Anderson. Anderson learned how to fight by serving under Quantrill, the most notorious/heroic leader of the Missouri men.

It's a big deal here, but then we've never fought a couple of hundred years wars nor world wars along the Kansas-Missouri border. One of the elves of Rivendell told Bilbo something like, "To sheep, all other sheep look different."
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Wow, I never knew that, I shall have to look it up! Sounds a bit like Berwick Upon Tweed but ending in stale mate? Probably not, I'll know more when I've had a read...
 
Boaz said:
Kiwi, if you come to Denver, I'll buy you a beer. Local stuff. None of your time honored, trappist monk made, air borne yeast, sediment filled, high alcohol content, room temperature beers and ales. Here we drink German/Czech inspired American lagers with a low alcohol content and served ice cold.
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Might take me a couple of years to take you up on that. No definite plans to go to america just yet.
 
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