Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


sumi - Nov 19, 2006 5:56:13 pm PST #1353 of 10007
Art Crawl!!!

ita -- could it be the type of act they have? I'm guessing that the second word is "act" but I don't know enough about magicians to figure out what the first word might be.


§ ita § - Nov 19, 2006 5:56:15 pm PST #1354 of 10007
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Aha! Maglev trains are the trains that are levitated off the track by magnetic interaction. I want to try one out.

dcp, by "their" you mean Penn & Teller? I'm still confused, since their video game is called "Smoke & Mirrors" which doesn't fit.


Nicole - Nov 19, 2006 5:57:41 pm PST #1355 of 10007
I'm getting the pig!

I want to try one out.

That's one less thing to keep me awake at nights. Cool!


sumi - Nov 19, 2006 5:57:43 pm PST #1356 of 10007
Art Crawl!!!

Weren't maglev trains mentioned in Numb3rs?


Nicole - Nov 19, 2006 6:00:07 pm PST #1357 of 10007
I'm getting the pig!

Ok, connected to maglev trains is shanghai but then what's to the right of that?


Hil R. - Nov 19, 2006 6:00:53 pm PST #1358 of 10007
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Anyone have the three-letter word connected to president ?


§ ita § - Nov 19, 2006 6:02:46 pm PST #1359 of 10007
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Hill, that's JFK.


Hil R. - Nov 19, 2006 6:04:10 pm PST #1360 of 10007
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Thanks. I keep missing the initials .


dcp - Nov 19, 2006 6:06:43 pm PST #1361 of 10007
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

ita, yes to Penn & Teller, but it's not the title of the game, it's a "feature," a game-within-the-game.

Or so I was told. It sounds more like a prank, of the "Are people really dumb enough to do this?" variety.


Nicole - Nov 19, 2006 6:12:32 pm PST #1362 of 10007
I'm getting the pig!

This Bronco game is going to give me a heart attack! So close!

dcp, can you give me a clue for one in the magazines cube? It's the one that's between magazines and forest .