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Random Babbling Post #40

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Taluntain, Jul 7, 2005.

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  1. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Taluntain, Jul 23, 2005
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    Kitrax Pantaloons are supposed to go where!?!?

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    Why do they call it the 'Philosopher's Stone'? It's the 'Sorcerer's Stone'! Do they call this website, 'Philosopher's Place'?!?!

    F***ing idiots. :rolling:
     
    Kitrax, Jul 23, 2005
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    bla
     
    Sarevok•, Jul 23, 2005
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    That party last night was off the hook! I ddin't get totally wasted until the end and a lot of my friends that I haven't gone out with in a while were there and some of them showed how HOT they could be outside of school :eek:

    man, that was definitely a nominee for best party of the year.
     
    Enagonios, Jul 23, 2005
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    Gnarfflinger Wiseguy in Training

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    We've only got about 120 people coming for supper tomorrow night. They start arriving any time after 11 am and usually leave between 6:30 and 10 pm...
     
    Gnarfflinger, Jul 23, 2005
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    Kitrax - just because they decided that the American public was too thick to know what a 'philosopher' is doesn't mean that they were wrong in calling it that originally :p
     
    Aikanaro, Jul 23, 2005
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    "Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis" Latin Edition?
    Apparently latin isn't as dead a language as I thought. I extend an apology to all the latin speakers on the site.
     
    Zurga, Jul 23, 2005
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    Kitrax Pantaloons are supposed to go where!?!?

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    phi·los·o·pher - N.
    1. somebody who studies philosophy: somebody who seeks to understand and explain the principles of existence and reality
    2. thinking person: a thinker who deeply and seriously considers human affairs and life in general

    (i.e. some boring old fart that studies the bible and other meaningless crap - or the dude in BG2 that gets sliced in two in Trademeet)

    sor·cer·er - N.
    1. wizard: somebody who is believed or claims to have magical powers

    (i.e. the little twerp that needs a twig to cast magic.)

    Just thought I'd share that with you. :rolling:
     
    Kitrax, Jul 23, 2005
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  9. Felinoid

    Felinoid Who did the what now? ★ SPS Account Holder

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    Hey! I consider myself to be a philosopher, and I resent the implication. I am an interesting young fart who couldn't give a 'meaningless crap' about the bible. :D

    EDIT: And with my 484th post, I have broken into the top 200 posters! Yay me! :banana:
     
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    Eloquently put.
     
    Zurga, Jul 23, 2005
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    gotta get dressed soon. :/
     
    Enagonios, Jul 23, 2005
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    Actually, it tends to be theologians who study the Bible. Philosophers like to work from first principles, and explain things by pure reason.

    Also, the Philosopher's Stone has been a semi-mythological object of alchemy long before Rowling wrote a book about it. No magic necessarily involved in its creation, as far as we know; there's no reason for the American publishers to suddenly dumb down the name to the Sorcerer's Stone. Besides, the topic of everlasting mortal life is a fairly philosophical one, don't you think? ;)
     
    Arifirh, Jul 23, 2005
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    yerg, just bought my gf her bday present, a new pair of shoes. now i'm broke again :/
     
    Enagonios, Jul 23, 2005
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    I have company down from NYC this weekend. Don't have much time to check the boards. Today we are off to the beach.
     
    Nakia, Jul 23, 2005
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  15. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the original British title of the book. However, the publishers felt that the majority of the American public wouldn't understand the reference to the philosopher's stone ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher%27s_stone ), so the title for the American edition of the book was changed. Justifiably?
     
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    Lamely. They should have tried to educate those ignorant Americans, not dumbed it down :p
     
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    ...well that was a bad idea, didnt leave the club till 4:30 in the morning, got to a house party stayed till 7:30 (the sun is shinning again at this point and Im quite off my t*ts!), somone decides the night aint over and we all go to this club on the quiet until 10:00 in the morning, now I have to find my way home and I dont even remember my name... *sigh* I walk a bit till I find some sort of rails on the road, my brain explodes "TRAM LINES" I find a stop and get into town...

    ...11:00 I pass out after being up for 28 hours... or somthing like that...

    ...I woke up an hour ago... where has my beloved saturday gone? Im never drinking, smoking or dropping ever again...
     
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    Well, we had to change *something*. American television has stolen all the good (?) Brit programming and simply changed the title. It probably was some schmo in marketing who thought 'sorcerer' sounded '2 kewl' and 'philosopher' boooooring! Or, 'philosopher' doesn't look right on the posters. Try 'sorcerer' instead. :cool:
     
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    I'm guessing it was alliteration: Sorcerer's Stone -> SS. (SS -> Sorcerous Sundries :hmm: )

    [rant]
    I am sick and tired of those despicable Meow Mix commercials. :mad Don't they know the kind of filth they're spewing over the airwaves? Me*w *eow m*ow meo* indeed! I can only hope that they pasted together the various sounds, because if one cat deliberately spewed such a string of profanity, he ought to be banned from television.
    [/rant]

    EDIT: I know, Tal; I sell all of my extra stuff there once I hit Chapter 5. I just thought it was an odd coincidence. :D

    [ July 24, 2005, 04:33: Message edited by: Felinoid ]
     
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