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GracieMae
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posted November 14, 2003 08:23 PM |
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oxymorons
There must be hundreds if not thousands of oxymorons, we've all heard of 'tight slacks', 'pretty ugly', the 'living dead' and the most famous one of all must be 'Microsoft Works'.
Samuel Goldwyn was master of unwittingly making oxymorons, such as his famous 'include me out', 'A bachelor's life is no life for a single man' and 'Let's have some new cliches' and I'm not sure if it was he or was Mark Twain who said 'the future is not what it used to be.'
I love Terry Pratchett's 'Carrot the giant dwarf', this was echoed in Baldur's Gate with Boo (go for the eyes!)the 'miniature giant space hamster', friend and companion of Minsc, the Schwarzenegger clone Ranger.
I was trying to think of more which occur in the world of literature, particularly 'fantasy/science fiction', there must be loads of them, but I can't think of any....let's hear any you lot know of!
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Lord_Woock
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posted November 15, 2003 08:08 AM |
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Actually, Carrot thinks he's a Dwarf, but it ends there. He never sings songs about gold or participates in bar brawls. If I claimed to be a radioactive bottle of wine, it doesn't make me one.
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GracieMae
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posted November 15, 2003 04:28 PM |
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nah...it goes a little deeper than that, as he was indeed a dwarf by adoption. His family and all he knew as a youngster were dwarves, he has a dwarven outlook on life whether you can see it or not. Singing about gold isn't the only talent dwarves have, you know. I mean, look at the way he twirls and tosses that battleaxe!
Anyway, who am I to dispute your claims to be something? Whether it be a bottle of wine or a stain on the tablecloth. If that's what you want to be, it's fine by me, my dear.
P.S. Did I ever tell you I was a cheese sandwich by birth?
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Lord_Woock
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posted November 17, 2003 05:29 PM |
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Well, I know all that about him being raised by Dwarves et cetera, but technically he is still human, no matter who he was raised by. He may be called a Dwarven human though.
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bjorn190
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posted November 17, 2003 05:31 PM |
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Unless there was a spelling error in the book and he was indeed a dwarf.. who knows?
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IYY
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posted November 19, 2003 01:41 AM |
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Quote:
Unless there was a spelling error in the book and he was indeed a dwarf.. who knows?
They talk quite a bit about his past, but it's obvious that he is still just a human biologically. Of course, in spirit he is still a dwarf because this is just how he was raised.
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Lord_Woock
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posted November 19, 2003 03:55 PM |
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I am currently reading The Fifth Elephant and there is quite a bit about Dwarves there. And I didn't read that much of it yet. So it seems like as Guards! Guards! is mostly about dragons and Feet of Clay is mostly about golems, it seems that this one is a Dwarf book, and I like Dwarves, so I think I'm gonna like this one more than others  . (Don't ask why I posted this, I just did lol)
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GracieMae
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posted November 20, 2003 04:04 AM |
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strange thing about dwarves...you don't see many of them around. I go to a mud (Aetolia) where in two years of playing, I have met exactly two dwarves! Maybe it's all that feminine facial hair that turns people off or perhaps they ain't got the constitution for all that beer swigging and stuff.
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Lord_Woock
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posted November 20, 2003 08:26 AM |
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No, no, no! Dwarves don't drink beer! They don't swig! They quaff!
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GracieMae
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posted November 20, 2003 08:53 AM |
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Quaffing is MUCH too refined a word to be applied to what dwarves do with beer!
Swig: To drink (liquid) or engage in drinking liquid in great gulps
swig: To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off.
You see, dwarves do the former and when they've swigged enough alcohol, they do the latter for a bit of light relaxation
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Lord_Woock
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posted November 20, 2003 12:39 PM |
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Actually, in Wyrd Sisters, it is said that they quaff. Quaffing is defined there as a form of consuming liquid where only a small part of it ends up in the mouth.
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