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  • posted a message on Hokori
    Also, you can untap the same land twice. So if you have a land that produces mucho-mana, like Gaea's Cradle, you can untap it to the first Hokori, tap it for mana, untap it again, tap it again, to get mucho-manax2 on your upkeep.
    Posted in: Magic Rulings Archives
  • posted a message on School Cancels Halloween
    Maybe hundreds of years ago, Halloween was a religious holiday. As of now, however, it has no religious connotations whatsoever. Whoever sees a religious connotation and chooses to be offended by it, needs to have their head examined.
    Posted in: Talk and Entertainment
  • posted a message on Lottery ticket bought with stolen credit card
    According to US law, criminals are not allowed to profit from their crimes (which is why Scott Peterson was denied his wife's insurance money). Regardless of the moral arguments to and fro, the thief is not legally entitled to the money and will not get it.
    Posted in: Talk and Entertainment
  • posted a message on The Mechanics Workshop
    While I may be dense, I really can't see what the big debate is. We want to make an ability that "ignores" one tapping per turn. Why oh why can't it just be:

    <cost>: untap this permanent. Play this ability only once each turn.
    (the cost may or may not be :0mana:)

    No intervening-if issues, no brokenness, no headaches, and does exactly what is intended. Please tell me why this can't work.
    Posted in: Custom Card Rulings
  • posted a message on The Need for Nothing
    I must say I didn't get a good feel of the world. Is it contemporary, futuristic, historic? Hard to tell. I'd definitely read more though, and reserve my opinions till I do so.
    Posted in: Personal Writing
  • posted a message on RIP Rosa Parks
    It's not the end of anything; she's dead, but her actions and beliefs live on. RIP.
    Posted in: Talk and Entertainment
  • posted a message on The 2006 FIFA World Cup - Germany
    That would require a subtle, yet definite change of the World map, seeing that Mexico is actually a North/Central American country ...

    By the way, in the 1990s (not 30s, not 50s, 90s), Uruguay won the American continental championship ahead of both Argentina and Brazil. Not saying they're as good as those two right now, but they have tradition, so don't diss 'em.
    Posted in: Entertainment Archive
  • posted a message on Terrorists are gay!!!
    Quote from Annorax »
    I'm not qualified to have an opinion on this, but it seems to me that the title of this thread would be a serious insult to gay people.


    As it might be to some terrorists. Anyway, let's just rename the thread to "Some, but not all, terrorists are gay, and some, but not all, gays are terrorists." and continue.
    Posted in: Debate
  • posted a message on Best Damn Book Ever
    I would like also to nominate The Standard Bearer, by Efraim Sevela ISBN: 0896517039
    Telling the story of one soldier's misadventures in World War II, this book is humorous, tragic and inspiring at the same time.
    Posted in: Entertainment Archive
  • posted a message on Offbeat news of the day - 20 fined for using letters W and Q
    Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "I'd like to by a vowel", doesn't it?

    Quote from RickCorgan »
    That's just stupid. So, if a Turkish man wants to name his son Walter, after his English grand-grandfather, he can't?


    He'll have to settle for Valter, I'm afraid. The law is the law!
    Posted in: Debate
  • posted a message on Offbeat news of the day - 20 fined for using letters W and Q
    http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/10/25/turk.letters.reut/index.html
    20 fined for using letters W and Q.

    Just imagine what you can get for a Z....
    Posted in: Debate
  • posted a message on The 2006 FIFA World Cup - Germany
    Quote from Quilt »

    World Cup = European Cup + Brazil & Argentina


    Why are you forgetting about Uruguay, who won the whole thing twice, and about Peru and Chile, each made it as far as the semis?

    But anyway, yes, the most dominant teams have traditionally been from Europe and SouAm. It's a rare spectacle to observe an Asian/African/North-Am team among the top 8.

    I would say that the equation "European #10 = Asian #1" is about right.
    Posted in: Entertainment Archive
  • posted a message on PurpleD's 2 word story game
    Once, there were three thousand misguided saprolings that attempted to eat bacon. Suddenly, one saproling forgot cheese and decided that hamburgers were gross so when everyone had gone fishing, it tried to commit indecent acts on top of your average
    Posted in: Other Forum Games
  • posted a message on The Logic of Suicide Terrorism
    Quote from Tanthalas »
    Christianity is also several hundred years older than Islam. Shouldn't Islam therefore be considered as being at roughly the same stage in its development that Christianity was during the period of the Crusades and the Inquisition?


    Exactly! The Islam in now undergoing the same puberty-age rebellious stage that the Christianity went through six centuries ago. However one significant difference exists:

    This time around, the rebellious religion has access to nukes.

    Which means that we cannot just sit and wait for 600 years to let them sort it out themselves and undergo the same growth as Christianity underwent. Something must be done. What? Darn me if I know, but the two extremes:

    a. "Let's be nice to them and they won't blow us up"
    b. "Let's blow them up and they won't blow us up in return"

    Seem to be not working.
    Posted in: Debate
  • posted a message on What would this do?
    Quote from bertrand »
    what else does this do?


    About the same as this one:
    http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=19594

    Actually, exactly the same.
    Posted in: Custom Card Rulings
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