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by Taranaki Snapper
Tue Apr 30, 2013 12:11 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Entertaining Pics Thread (definitely with NSFW content)
Replies: 55702
Views: 9445880

Re: The Entertaining Pics Thread (definitely with NSFW conte

Finnish Wartime Photograph Archive
The Finnish Defence Forces have put their archive of 170,000 WWII photographs online.
http://sa-kuva.fi/
by Taranaki Snapper
Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:50 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: U like Blues? Listen this.
Replies: 55
Views: 3725

Re: U like Blues? Listen this.

Jack Owens W/ Bud Spires - Jack Ain't Had No Water

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg_6Zi1jtws
by Taranaki Snapper
Sun Apr 28, 2013 4:25 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Unusual Maps Thread
Replies: 1835
Views: 405963

Re: The Unusual Maps Thread

In 1960 or so, Professor Perry C. Van Arsdale was helping his 7-year-old granddaughter researching the Santa Fe trail. He found his granddaughter's textbook to have some number of errors. He set off to create a map of pioneer history (prior to the 1900's), using his own knowledge and information fr...
by Taranaki Snapper
Sat Apr 27, 2013 12:34 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Game of Thrones - TV series (mark your spoilers)
Replies: 5129
Views: 392016

Re: Game of Thrones - TV series (mark your spoilers)

Jeffrey Bleich, U.S. Ambassador, Urges Australians To Stop Stealing 'Game Of Thrones' SYDNEY (Reuters) - Taking to Facebook, the U.S. ambassador to Australia is urging Australians to cease their illegal downloads of "Game of Thrones," saying that they are among the world's worst pirates of the wild...
by Taranaki Snapper
Fri Apr 26, 2013 1:45 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The PR Book Thread
Replies: 1528
Views: 223794

Re: The PR Book Thread

Floppykid wrote:Melville and Conrad are fairly heavy going, not something I'd hop onto for a re-read on the spur of the moment personally.
just think I'd appreciate them more as an adult...
by Taranaki Snapper
Fri Apr 26, 2013 1:38 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The PR Book Thread
Replies: 1528
Views: 223794

Re: The PR Book Thread

I'm reading Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies at the moment, love how Mantel writes...also re-reading Treasure Island, which makes me want to re-read Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Moby Dick and maybe some Joseph Conrad and Jack London...
by Taranaki Snapper
Fri Apr 26, 2013 1:28 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Entertaining Pics Thread (definitely with NSFW content)
Replies: 55702
Views: 9445880

Re: The Entertaining Pics Thread (definitely with NSFW conte

MrJonno wrote:Oh yeah, I forgot

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Just because I think sea otters are farking cool.
http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/quest ... s-to-death

can we take the Kiwias parks debate to another thread?
by Taranaki Snapper
Thu Apr 25, 2013 12:14 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Calling on the power of PR!
Replies: 69
Views: 8095

Re: Calling on the power of PR!

I tied to vote for Al Gore but ended up voting for Olivia Bush...
by Taranaki Snapper
Wed Apr 24, 2013 11:40 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Game of Thrones - TV series (mark your spoilers)
Replies: 5129
Views: 392016

Re: Game of Thrones - TV series (mark your spoilers)

The problem is more that on at least one version of the rip doing the rounds, the Bear and the Maiden Fair kicks in while Locke is still talking to Jaime, rather than after, meaning that a lot of Locke's dialogue explaining what his issue with Jaime is gets lost has there been any discussion as to ...
by Taranaki Snapper
Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:16 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Game of Thrones - TV series (mark your spoilers)
Replies: 5129
Views: 392016

Re: Game of Thrones - TV series (mark your spoilers)

great ep! Dunno if the imprisonment and freedom theme was deliberate but certainly made for a visually dark episode, apart from the (possibly symbolic) opening of the Great Sept doors and the sun-baked scenes in Astapor...
by Taranaki Snapper
Tue Apr 23, 2013 5:49 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Game of Thrones - TV series (mark your spoilers)
Replies: 5129
Views: 392016

Re: Game of Thrones - TV series (mark your spoilers)

Our roundtable on "And Now His Watch Is Ended," the fourth episode of the HBO show's third season http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/04/on-i-game-of-thrones-i-two-savage-spectacular-game-changers/274976/ I'm more of an AV Club recapper myself: http://www.avclub.com/articles/and-n...
by Taranaki Snapper
Tue Apr 23, 2013 12:13 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Game of Thrones - TV series (mark your spoilers)
Replies: 5129
Views: 392016

Re: Game of Thrones - TV series (mark your spoilers)

Our roundtable on "And Now His Watch Is Ended," the fourth episode of the HBO show's third season
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen ... rs/274976/
by Taranaki Snapper
Sun Apr 21, 2013 1:13 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: I post a picture from the Simpsons, you say I loved that bit
Replies: 245
Views: 30914

Re: I post a picture from the Simpsons, you say I loved that

Waratah wrote:Is there a word in Klingon for loneliness?
"ah yes…gardak!"

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(it's also a street in Maroochydore...)
by Taranaki Snapper
Sun Apr 21, 2013 12:24 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: I post a picture from the Simpsons, you say I loved that bit
Replies: 245
Views: 30914

Re: I post a picture from the Simpsons, you say I loved that

Before he took over Late Night in the fall of 1993, Conan O’Brien spent two years as a writer and producer on The Simpsons. And for the latest episode of his Web series “Serious Jibber-Jabber,” O’Brien reunited with four of the original writers of the show—Al Jean, Jeff Martin, Jay Kogen, and Mike ...