Forgot the footnote again! It was supposed to be*Yes, I do listen to "Car Talk." Why do you ask?
albatross 341: This thread is making me realize that I don't read nearly enough. Would you believe I've never read N Sver Hcba gur Qrrc, for example?
So I think maybe I just don't know the ones you're doing there, unless you've obfuscated* them more than you think you have. 262 sounds at first like gur napvrag tbq jub rngf Serq'f fbhy va Natry, ohg gur erfg qbrfa'g svg. Ubool? Cebsrffvba? Shgher jvsr?
Or maybe I'm just being thick, and I'll feel really stupid when the answer is revealed.
Yeah spoonfork, stick around. Making a minor error on your very first post means you're, like, DESTINED to be a regular poster!
Congratulations to Rivka too!
And abi, I have no help to offer, and only moral support, but FWIW she has that. Hope she finds a place and that the miscreant is punished!
David, so I found out when I was looking up details about Thetis (I remembered her name, but wanted to be sure). I believed it was in Homer when I posted it, which is my excuse for violating in fact, though not in intention, the "published fiction" rule.
But some people try to solve these even after others have; could you ROT-13 puzzle answers (or, as in this case, spoilers) please? Especially since abi did ask us to.
No one has solved my 317, which surprises me. Hint: Va gur abg-dhvgr-bevtvany irefvba, vg tbrf yvxr guvf:V fubhyq arire unir tbar gb gur gurnger;
Gura V'q arire unir pbzr gb gur pbhagel.
Vs V arire unq pbzr gb gur pbhagel,
Znggref zvtug unir fgnlrq nf gurl jrer.
AlyxL 321: Correct! (I didn't even have to ROT13 your quote to check it.)
Wrong style. PRV was (and is, where "Sub-Odeon" is still tolerated) lengthy and thoughtful, albeit misguidedly so. He also punctuated and capitalized and stuff.
If it IS PRV, he's doing a good job of pretending to be someone else, but I think he's just a random troll who decided to pick on this thread.
Caroline 318: Close enough. Vg'f npghnyyl uvf zbgure Gurgvf, jub (va gur irefvba V xabj orfg) gevrq gb znxr uvz vzzbegny ol qvccvat uvz va gur qnex jngref bs gur Fglk, ohg sbetbg gb qvc uvf urry. Gur erfhyg jnf gung juvyr ur yrq gur Terrxf gb ivpgbel ng Gebl ("fhpprffshy"), ur jnf fubg va gur urry ol Cnevf naq qvrq ("n pbzcyrgr qvfnfgre," sebz n zbgure'f cbvag bs ivrj).
Heavens, I missed a bunch of action in here. Never even saw dogga red's reply to me until today.
dogga red...I do not believe that you are who you say you are. If you were, you would have described those events in less clichéd terms. (I mean, a guy named "Snake" and another named "Gunny"? You've watched too many movies, methinks.)
I think you came here to be derisive of this thread and its intent, which is to discuss how very minor decisions or events can cast long shadows through a life. What you described, even if true, was not a very minor event at all; I concluded that you were here to sneer at us, and indeed you've done nothing else since.
As for being in a foxhole with you, I certainly hope that will never come to pass, as I'm reasonably certain the stench would drive me out into the line of fire! And that, again, would not be a butterfly moment.
Now for the reason I came back to this I-thought-long-dead thread: I forgot my most important butterfly moment of all: deciding to sleep a little longer on my 42nd birthday. That tiny breeze expanded into an enormous, pounding storm within a couple of hours; without it, nothing I've done since would have been possible at all.
It was my decision to go to the theatre that night that led to the destruction of my marriage and family, but also, oddly, to my finding what I really wanted all along.
If only I'd helped my son get his feet wet in the first place, his later enterprise might have been more successful. Others have said it WAS successful, but from my point of view it was a complete disaster.
What I found when I opened the door to that outbuilding enabled me to take over absolute control of my family over the years that followed. (HINT: gur bhgohvyqvat jnf n furq sbe fgbevat jbbq.)
Btw, only one of the things on my list is true of me. Several others are partially true (like I have a cheapass good-luck token I got years ago, but that's not what it says and I didn't just find it on the ground).
Am I the only one who thought we were supposed to make up our own lists, in response to being spraypainted by Patrick? (That St. John of the Cross isn't very cooperative on his best day, so I didn't expect it from him.)
heresiarch 61: Yep! "V arire fnj gehr ornhgl gvy guvf avtug."
Bruce 104: Pnrfne va gur snyy, Terra Tbqqrff va gur fcevat!
I loved CSI:Atlantis! What's not to love?
Joel 604: It isn't, and they did. Some kind of medical-equipment factory that went bust or something.
This awful episode is fading rapidly from my mind.
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