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Thursday, 2 February, 2006 by L
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@ "So here we are, at Dudley's Dungeon's second anniversary." 
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@ "Two short years... gone in the blink of an eye..." 
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@ "Waahh! I'm old!!"
d "What about me? That's about 14 dogA domestic animal, the _tame dog_ (_Canis familiaris_), of
which numerous breeds exist. The male is called a dog,
while the female is called a bitch. Because of its known
loyalty to man and gentleness with children, it is the
world's most popular domestic animal. It can easily be
trained to perform various tasks.

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@ "Sob - but I can still fit in my prom dress! Sure I can!" 
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d "Okay... I'm not touching that one with a ten-foot pole." 
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@ "Hey! What's not to touch? I'm a valkyrieThe Valkyries were the thirteen choosers of the slain, the
beautiful warrior-maids of Odin who rode through the air and
over the sea. They watched the progress of the battle and
selected the heroes who were to fall fighting. After they
were dead, the maidens rewarded the heroes by kissing them
and then led their souls to Valhalla, where the warriors
lived happily in an ideal existence, drinking and eating
without restraint and fighting over again the battles in
which they died and in which they had won their deathless
fame.
        [ The Encyclopaedia of Myths and Legends of All
                Nations, by Herbert Robinson and Knox
                Wilson ]

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d "I was referring to the idea that anybody would invite you to the high school formal." 
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@ "Oh, well -sniff- there was this one boy, Agragog or Aragorg or something..." 
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@ "An orcOrcs, bipeds with a humanoid appearance, are related to the
goblins, but much bigger and more dangerous. The average orc
is only moderately intelligent, has broad, muscled shoulders,
a short neck, a sloping forehead and a thick, dark fur.
Their lower eye-teeth are pointing forward, like a boar's.
Female orcs are more lightly built and bare-chested. Not
needing any clothing, they do like to dress in variegated
apparels. Suspicious by nature, orcs live in tribes or
hordes. They tend to live underground as well as above
ground (but they dislike sunlight). Orcs can use all weapons,
tools and armours that are used by men. Since they don't have
the talent to fashion these themselves, they are constantly
hunting for them. There is nothing a horde of orcs cannot
use.
        [ het Boek van de Regels; Het Oog des Meesters ]

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NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. ranger"Lonely men are we, Rangers of the wild, hunters -- but hunters
ever of the servants of the Enemy; for they are found in many
places, not in Mordor only.
If Gondor, Boromir, has been a stalwart tower, we have played
another part. Many evil things there are that your strong walls
and bright swords do not stay. You know little of the lands
beyond your bounds. Peace and freedom, do you say? The North
would have known them little but for us. Fear would have
destroyed them. But when dark things come from the houseless
hills, or creep from sunless woods, they fly from us. What
roads would any dare to tread, what safety would there be in
quiet lands, or in the homes of simple men at night, if the
Dunedain were asleep, or were all gone into the grave?"
        [ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]

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NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. (I think he signed my WarriorThese strange creatures live mostly on the surface of the
earth, gathering together in societies of various forms, but
occasionally a stray will descend into the depths and commit
mayhem among the dungeon residents who, naturally, often
resent the intrusion of such beasts. They are capable of
using weapons and magic, and it is even rumored that the
Wizard of Yendor is a member of this species.

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: "Moop?"
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shel February 2, 2006 00:10
First comment: 19 August, 2005 107 comments written
I had a happy feeling for a moment, but it passed
Daverd February 2, 2006 02:48
First comment: 18 August, 2004 26 comments written
shel's comment saved this one
Janos February 2, 2006 08:52
First comment: 18 August, 2005 40 comments written
Huh?
  February 2, 2006 19:38
First comment: 1 April, 2004 431 comments written
Moop? indeed
Moatilliatta February 2, 2006 22:31
First comment: 25 January, 2006 2 comments written
congrats
shel February 2, 2006 23:05
First comment: 19 August, 2005 107 comments written
It's a nice walking into the sunset ending of the Dudley's Dungeon year, only with yellow y for the sun
shel February 3, 2006 00:45
First comment: 19 August, 2005 107 comments written
Oh dear, are we being left out in the cold again?
Nameless February 3, 2006 04:18
First comment: 29 December, 2004 281 comments written
(doesn't get it)
L February 3, 2006 07:00
First comment: 10 February, 2005 285 comments written
By the way, "Moop" is a very obscure reference to the now-defunct webcomic "A Modest Destiny."
Mantar February 3, 2006 07:26
First comment: 17 June, 2004 197 comments written
Err.... What's the point of a reference if it's so obscure that nobody gets it?
Eskimo February 3, 2006 08:32
First comment: 14 April, 2004 166 comments written
I hope Shel's Feb 3 comment isn't what I read it as... I'm so used to starting the day with this now lol.
Mr. DOS February 3, 2006 18:17
First comment: 10 January, 2006 40 comments written
Oh dear... please, don't let this be a second end to DD... please?

--- Mr. DOS
Fathead July 19, 2006 22:41
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
Daverd:
>shel's comment saved this one
Ah, uh, how's that?
Fathead July 19, 2006 23:44
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
The Newt(kinds of) small animal, like a lizard, which spends most of
its time in the water.
        [ Oxford's Student's Dictionary of Current English ]

"Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble."
        [ Macbeth, by William Shakespeare ]

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That could be a lizardLizards, snakes and the burrowing amphisbaenids make up the
order Squamata, meaning the scaly ones. The elongate, slim,
long-tailed bodies of lizards have become modified to enable
them to live in a wide range of habitats. Lizards can be
expert burrowers, runners, swimmers and climbers, and a few
can manage crude, short-distance gliding on rib-supported
"wings". Most are carnivores, feeding on invertebrate and
small vertebrate prey, but others feed on vegetation.
        [ Macmillan Illustrated Animal Encyclopedia ]

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NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details., chameleonName of a family (_Chameleonidae_) and race (_Chameleo_) of
scaly lizards, especially the _Chameleo vulgaris_ species,
with a short neck, claws, a grasping tail, a long, extendible
tongue and mutually independent moving eyes. When it is
scared or angry, it inflates itself and its transparent skin
shows its blood: the skin first appears greenish, then
gradually changes color until it is a spotted red. The final
color depends on the background color as well, hence the
(figurative) implication of unreliability. [Capitalized:]
a constellation of the southern hemisphere (Chameleo).
[ Van Dale's Groot Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal ]

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NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details., crocodileA big animal with the appearance of a lizard, constituting
an order of the reptiles (_Loricata_ or _Crocodylia_), the
crocodile is a large, dangerous predator native to tropical
and subtropical climes. It spends most of its time in large
bodies of water.

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Er, what's a moop?
irCuBiC August 14, 2006 17:00
First comment: 13 August, 2006 5 comments written
I didn't catch that AMD reference, and I was a long-time reader... =P
Oh well, seems I have forgotten about the slimeThese giant amoeboid creatures look like nothing more than
puddles of slime, but they both live and move, feeding on
metal or wood as well as the occasional dungeon explorer to
supplement their diet.

But we were not on a station platform. We were on the track ahead
as the nightmare, plastic column of fetid black iridescence oozed
tightly onward through its fifteen-foot sinus, gathering unholy
speed and driving before it a spiral, re-thickening cloud of the
pallid abyss vapor. It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster
than any subway train -- a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic
bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes
forming and unforming as pustules of greenish light all over the
tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic
penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its
kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.
        [ At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft ]

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(on a second note, AMD is back, hoorah hoorah)
Grognor April 17, 2007 08:15
First comment: 4 April, 2007 1161 comments written
No? Or... Yes?
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