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Where did my post go?!
on February 28, 2012 - 13:57.
If you're trying to find your post, we feel you. There's a few things at work that can be affecting your missing post.
1) There is a 15 minute site cache. If you start a new topic, you may notice it says at the top:
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This means that the topic list won't update for that time, minimum, sometimes a little more.
2) Your post got buried. This is the busiest forum on the site, so you may want to page page several pages and make sure it didn't fall off.
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Drunk people...how far is too far?
This isn't a technical thing so much as a social thing, but is there a limit as to what can be explained by someone being drunk?
For instance, suppose someone is hosting a party at his house. He and his girlfriend go upstairs to...well...and afterward, she tells him she's not feeling so well and that he should go downstairs to his party. After all, it would be pretty rude for the host of a party to completely 'check out'.
Would it be too much to think that the drunken girlfriend might kiss or mess around with another man while her boyfriend is downstairs? Or in a car on the way home?
__________________________How does a PI investigate Fraud
I am new to these forums, however I thought it would be an excllent way to get to know you guys via questioning. So yeah!
I want to make sure I have it right. I have been doing a tad bit a reasearch. But was wondering if anybody has had experince as a PI or has done research regaruding that.
Thank you
__________________________Macbeth and Macduff
I have 3 questions about the play Macbeth. My script is based somewhat off of it (set during the same time, MC is lady Macbeth) and I've re-read the play, but I'm no Shakespeare scholar and I'm a bit confused about two or three historical things.
•Where is Macduff's 'base' is England? And how long would it take two semi-experienced rider on horseback to get there?
•Macbeth starts the play at Inverness but ends at Dunsinane. When does the change take plea? And I know it's because the walls are better fortified (at least I think so!) but how far is it between them (ish)
NaNoWriMo '11: Games of Deception (WON!)
looking for a specific eskimo legend
I am writing a stage play about the franklin expedition. In TERROR (which has a lot of factual background) they write about a legend to do with shaymen- actually female though...that can spiritually connect with the bear and other beings.....they cut off the woman's tongue as part of the ritual to be able to do these things.....have you ever come across any of these legends. If so can you tell me the source, i have hunted and cannot find any legends about female shaymens at all in the eskimo culture.
__________________________Flesh wounds and sea water
My MC is wounded at the "All is Lost" beat in act 2. A bullet grazes his right thigh, making a bit of a gash. The wound is sewn – I think such a wound would be, but I'm no expert – and redressed once or twice.
__________________________Alternative word for "brotherhood"
on April 28, 2012 - 11:35.
This has been nagging at me for a while, but in my script there's an organization currently referred to as a brotherhood.
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Camp 2011 - Quiver
Script Frenzy 2012 - The Hunter's Apprentice
Spanish formal and informal names for a stranger
Hi
In my story, a black British man visits Mexico briefly. I was just wondering what the formal and informal Spanish equivalents of the following british terms might be:
mate (as in friend - informal and friendly)
Sir (as in formal or respectful)
and any other equivalents, whether formal, informal, respectful and friendly or not. Obviously there may not be direct equivalents, in which case whatever would be naturally used would be fine.
Many thanks!
Kit
__________________________Obscure Electrical Questions
Some of my characters are raiding an asylum, and they want to take out the power, but I don't know how they would go about doing this. The asylum is located a few miles outside the limits of a city; how is power probably getting to it? Power lines, underground wires...? (It needs a LOT of power; electricity and magic don't always get along in this world, and most of the inmates are magic.) Neither of the characters involved knows much about electricity; they're looking more to just smash something than to skillfully disconnect the main power. What is it they'd be smashing?
__________________________Cursing in ancient languages
I'm looking for something, in maybe Hebrew or Aramaic, that could serve as a mild curse. It doesn't need to be very strong, maybe the equivalent of "Oh dear!" or some such thing.
A character wakes up, sort of startled, and I just need something for him to yell. And as he's a several thousand year old fallen angel, it seems to me he should say it in a biblical sort of language.
Any help would be appreciated.
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