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American English isn't your native language, is it? That metaphor has been around a good long while.


It is, I've just been living under a rock for the past twenty years.


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American English isn't your native language, is it? That metaphor has been around a good long while.


It is, I've just been living under a rock for the past twenty years.


Then again, it might be from before your time. I first learned it over 40 years ago.

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I, also, have never heard of tracking being used with a town.


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It's really hard to take one word ("tracking") literally in American English with the way we keep shifting meanings and finding new ways to use a word all the time.

Anyway.

Now that I think about it, I think Ian is probably better capable of healing these type of "deformities" than I first thought. I'm sure the start of his "curing" quest started with looking up and practicing any possible ways to help a half-elf. Before finding the god-husk, he just had the knowledge without the capability. The scary thing is that Ian also had the knowledge to beat an elven army captain in a magic duel. That's a scary and cool thought.


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Has it ever been clarified that no one here has horses because Poe imagined the world that way, or because he doesn't like drawing horses and other animals? Other than cats, that is.

I thought we didn't see many horses because Jon hates them and most of the other characters don't have any use for them.

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I, also, have never heard of tracking being used with a town.

Neither had I, but I knew what he was talking about.


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So Ian's going to vaporize the clothing off of every female in town.

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Has it ever been clarified that no one here has horses because Poe imagined the world that way, or because he doesn't like drawing horses and other animals? Other than cats, that is.

I thought we didn't see many horses because Jon hates them and most of the other characters don't have any use for them.

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I, also, have never heard of tracking being used with a town.

Neither had I, but I knew what he was talking about.


Regarding horses http://www.errantstory.com/archive.php?date=2004-09-01.

As for the metaphor, maybe it's only west of the Rockies. It definitely exists though. I think there is an internet site out there that tacks down colloqialisms.
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So Ian's going to vaporize the clothing off of every female in town.


And males too I guess.

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And males too I guess.


Yes, however, I omitted that particular mental image for aesthetic reasons.

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Slamlander wrote:
Errr ... who is Ethan?



..................Good question.................

I think I've been reading too much Shortpacked.

Fixed the above post.

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As for the metaphor, maybe it's only west of the Rockies. It definitely exists though. I think there is an internet site out there that tacks down colloqialisms.


Huh?

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that tacks down


Damnit!

You did that on purpose. You fucker.


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So Ian's going to vaporize the clothing off of every female in town.


And males too I guess.

Impy would demand it. And both shoonra and myself wouldn't exactly be displeased either.

Edit: Perhaps Poe just sucks, or is too damn slow, at drawing equines. He wouldn't be the first artist with that problem.

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I thought he had dray horses pulling Riley and Leah's cart?

http://www.errantstory.com/archive.php?date=2006-12-06


I also recall that Jon left Sarine standing in a nice cloud of horse-dust as he rode his rent-a-wagon off into the sunset. Though the comic doesn't actually show the horses (except perhaps the ass of one <A HREF="http://www.errantstory.com/archive.php?date=2006-03-20">here</A>), I don't imagine that old man got down and pulled the cart off with Jon in tow.

Then again, there are rickshaws...

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I thought he had dray horses pulling Riley and Leah's cart?

http://www.errantstory.com/archive.php?date=2006-12-06


I also recall that Jon left Sarine standing in a nice cloud of horse-dust as he rode his rent-a-wagon off into the sunset. Though the comic doesn't actually show the horses (except perhaps the ass of one <A HREF="http://www.errantstory.com/archive.php?date=2006-03-20">here</A>), I don't imagine that old man got down and pulled the cart off with Jon in tow.

Then again, there are rickshaws...

Bits and pieces of those dray animals appear in frames scattered amongst the narrative. That's pretty much it for any kind of animal except for Ellis and Rape-kun. I'm not complaining, just making an observation. After all, the empress is a big enough horse's ass to sustain the comic for twenty or thirty chapters. Personnally, I'm perfectly happy looking at Sarine page after page, possibly with an occasional appearance by Leah wearing those lace-collared blouses and caressing her rifle.

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... Leah wearing those lace-collared blouses and caressing her rifle.


What an oddly pleasant mental image. Something rare on these forums...


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I may have two X chromosomes, but even I think seeing Sarine and Leah swaddled in bedsheets together is erotic.

What? No one mentioned them like that? Oh...maybe that's just me...

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I may have two X chromosomes, but even I think seeing Sarine and Leah swaddled in bedsheets together is erotic.

What? No one mentioned them like that? Oh...maybe that's just me...


Believe me, we were all thinking it. Screw Sarine and Meji, Sarine and Leah are the new hot couple.

*drools* Glasses...............

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I may have two X chromosomes, but even I think seeing Sarine and Leah swaddled in bedsheets together is erotic.

What? No one mentioned them like that? Oh...maybe that's just me...


Believe me, we were all thinking it. Screw Sarine and Meji, Sarine and Leah are the new hot couple.

*drools* Glasses...............


While I'll agree Leah has more raw aesthetic appeal to her (a more mature, demure demeanor, and some sexy librarian thing going there with the glasses, too), I'd like to see some penis involved in this hypothetical tit-mashing, so I'm gonna say Sarine and Riley FTW. Though Leah and Meji can join in too. Heck, throw some Ian in for good measure... maybe get him to go all tentacle-monster on everyone involved. (What? He could do it, he's a freakin' goddess now).

What? Oh, yes, right... it's called *internal* monologue for a reason... sorry.

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All of you are fucked up. I love it.


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... Leah wearing those lace-collared blouses and caressing her rifle.

Sir, I believe I like the way you think.


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