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Dynamite or black powder mortar bomb?

No, but I had that toy (sort of). I had the tiger toy from the Big Jim toyline (kind of like original-era GI Joe, but more focus on the adventurer/spy stuff than the military gear) that was the original mold both the Masters of the Universe riding cats used. By the time MotU came out, my...

It's a one-man's-trash situation, plus you need a critical mass of buyers to make it worthwhile to prepare your butchery fat that way (otherwise yeah if gets rendered into pure lard, tallow, etc.). We consider suet worthy of bird food (where you can get it readily and cheaply, but obviously not...

I really have got to learn not to start reading those massive (less than a week old and already with hundreds of posts and thousands of views) contention threads. It really skews my positivity about this place. :cry:

Conan is regularly defeated, even if he can't die for plot reasons. Sometimes even just he's sneaking down the corridor and some mook guard sneaks up on him and knocks him out -- so he can wake up in a prison cell and romance the evil king/warlord/necromancer's beautiful daughter/assistant/etc...

Not grown, worn. Santa's beard is actually a collection he has harvested from his side mission of hunting the most deadly of game -- dwarves.

According to Mornard, the prevailing logic was that, (for example) there were no coup de grâce rules in oD&D because 'no one thought that it had to be mentioned that a knife to the throat of a sleeping PC was fatal no matter their level' and that HP were for combat (and dungeon traps...

At least historically, there was perhaps a notion that people that hadn't tried anything except D&D might be in that position because they had never heard of the other options out there (either any at all, or the one that would appeal to them). When the game was brand-spanking new, and then when...

C'mon now, I'm an American and I forbid warmongering. We all have to make sacrifices for my arbitrary w-based -ing verb paradigm.

I share the frustration with the constant deluge of third party gaming marketing, which included framing that you are not gaming right without their product or that their product will cure all your gaming ills (many of which you didn't know you had/were problems until their ad made it clear)...

You are free to include any wailing, wallowing, warbling, wising, wrying, wishing, waring (but not warmongering), weeping, wondering, whining (but not whinging), or waluiging you choose to.

They checked in at the turn of the century, but all they reported was that they never backed down (which doesn't really answer the question).

Assuming you are a anthropomorphic hero in 1980s NYC calling from a payphone, this is typically SDC (Short Duration Calls). However, if your hero has one of those giant brick cell phones of the era (automatic for human sidekick characters with the 'yuppie' quality), then it would be MDC (Mobile...

Plot device and bludgeoning weapon.

See, English majors needing to pay the bills. It fits. If you want to play Mage: the Ascension, just say so. You don't need to sell me on the idea.

It's Friday, I was being cheeky (see next comment about the Young Turks reference). I'm definitely old enough* to remember pre-internet house-hunting and the write-ups they included (although, to be fair, there's still a Homes section in the newspaper and much of their articles still resemble...

Is that the one with the real estate novelist? I never could figure out what that career entailed. Did he make up stories about various properties? Not sure of that business model. Strange, if they have a daughter, you'd think they would be familiar with the process.

It depends on if Rick Springfield is talking about a when he was actually growing up (say 1962-70), or speaking to the teenagers who were buying his records in 1981. Either way, Jessie's girl is presumably childless in 1981*. Stacy is a teenager in 2003. I think it works better than she be...

I've effectively done that. Bands just completely don't come up somehow, and then don't come up in my mind. For some indeterminant time between 5-6 years ago and 6 months ago when I realized it, the band Heart effectively disappeared for me. Had discussions about 'bands of the 70s that saw...